The Glass Cannon Podcast - Gatewalkers Episode 91 – Yurty Rotten Scoundrels

Episode Date: June 27, 2025

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I was once Ilkani, but I have become so much more now. It is time, begin stretching. Uh oh. To open you to the Black Frost Whale. We will join him as the vanguard for the new world to come. And I suppose we shall see who will eat who. Oh, let's roll for initiative. Oh no. Ah. Tentacles go wide. Who will eat who? Oh! Let's roll for initiative.

Oh no! Ah! Tentacles go wide. Ah! Black spores come out of his mouth. Steps up to give. Oh shit, where are you sick fuck? Black is coming out.

Oh no! No, no, no, no, no, no! An anti-abomination! Holy light. Ah! Pshh! 23 points, it's blazing! And the creature falls. Yes! No, no, no, no, no, no! An anti-abomination? Holy light. 23 points. It's blazing.

And the creature falls. Yes! The tentacles start to shrivel off of its body. And the creature is perhaps Gokhani once more. But he is dying. The adventure continues now. No This is episode 91 of the Glass Cannon podcast. And unless something crazy happens between the time of this recording and the time of this episode airing, this will be the last and final episode that Sydney records as

a single woman. Whoa! Wait. I didn't even realize. Yes. This is your last airing episode as a single lady. Actually, your Bachelorette episode. My Bachelorette episode. Bring in the strippers.

Come on in, Francis. Francis. Somebody order a pizza cup. Pizza cup. Excuse me, it's me. Pizza cup. It's me, pizza cup. It's me, pizza cop. Sausage.

That's so fun. I should make an announcement to future me. Do it. Give yourself a little bit of advice here on this. Sid, you're going to be seeing this as a married lady, cuffed, ball and chain. But don't forget where you came from, you know? Don't forget who you are outside of your marriage. Um.

You're more than just your marriage. Thank you. You're already talking about outside your marriage. How about? You want to take it back? How about, no. How about. How are you?

You all give me advice. I know you're miserable, with this awful man that you've married, but just dig deep down and find the joy in life still. Some of you are married and in long-term relationships. Why don't you guys give me advice? Advice? Yeah, or like what you get. Never go to bed angry.

That's what everybody says. What the hell? Never go to bed. Come on, pizza cop. Never go to bed. Never go to bed. Never go to bed. Come on, pizza guy. Never go to bed. Never go to bed. Never go to bed, yeah.

No, it's funny. It's like not much is gonna change. In this modern time. So you think. I don't know. We already live together. We share expenses. You'll be in an apron cleaning in no time.

Well, you know what? I bet you watching this is pregnant. Yeah, probably. Wow. That's your bet. And that'll happen in Vegas. If you're in Vegas. Where my husband will not be.

Yeah, fans had to pay extra to baby you up. OK, so not a mystery. You know what? That is some advice. I'm not sure where you land on that whole thing. And I'm not even asking. But if kids are in the picture, I say... That's very rude.

That's very cheating. Hey, so you guys plan on having kids any time soon? You're not supposed to ask that. No, I just said I'm not asking that. You're basically just asking that. I'm just saying if that's in the realm of possibility, I'd say just get after it. Because you've been together for a long time.

You've had a great time together. Not getting any younger. Exactly. And like, as I have my kids and at my age where they are, I just am so jealous of people who were younger than me when they had their kids, like so jealous. Cause it's just, if they're a little bit older

and you're a little bit younger than I am, it's just such a great spot to be in, you know? It's good you're saying this now. I have to mentally prepare for that because when we got engaged immediately, when's the wedding? Then as soon as the wedding's over as a woman. So. How's your uterus? How's the egg count?

Are you going to give us some grandchildren? Yeah. So I have to mentally prepare. I think that is the most helpful advice. Mentally prepare. Mentally prepare, yeah. You're going to be looked at differently, spoken to differently. You're going to be looked at like a womb. Yes, you're just a womb with legs. Now, but now I can own property since my husband's name will be on it. You can get your credit card.

I can get credit. Yes. Yeah. It's about time. I'm making my way in the world. The time you ruin somebody else's credit. I swear. Don't come for my score.

My score is incredible. I think your score is probably pretty good. Thank you. Okay. We're on the horn. Let's do some score. So what else? Are you excited? Are you excited?

This is your last app as a single woman. Yeah. Also- Next app, you have to pretend you're married when we record. Yeah, I will. I didn't even bring my ring. Oh, shit. I don't even wear my engagement ring.

I'm excited and I'm excited for our Vegas retreat. This will be post Vegas as well. Yeah. We just got back from Vegas. Hopefully. Hopefully we all made it. Yeah. Vegas could be a lot. Yeah, it will be a lot, but I'm really excited for both.

It's cool. It's funny that we're going to Vegas the weekend before my wedding. You couldn't have planned it better, but it's nice that it's like a fun thing. I actually don't have to worry about doing Bachelorette stuff. It's like I'm there for a reason. Yeah. Yeah, I'm excited for the wedding. It's going a fun thing. I actually don't have to worry about doing bachelorette stuff. It's like I'm there for a reason. But yeah, I'm excited for the wedding. It's going to be fun. My biggest thing, it's a party.

And I'm hosting a good party. That's how I look at it. I fucking hate weddings, but I'm looking forward to yours. Thanks, buddy. I was hoping your biggest thing was like, I don't even care if you come. You don't have to. You don't have to.

I mean, send a gift. And yeah, you don't have to. I'm so psyched. But no, it's a party. It's going to be a don't have to I'm so psyched, but no it's so psyched It's a party. It's a it's gonna be a really fun time. I'm not gonna dance You don't have to okay. There's can you dancing? No, it's karaoke. There's karaoke later You later, I only carry your here on friends Don't carry around strangers anymore

I want to know contest back. You'll be there. You'll be there. And you only karaoke. I'm not dancing and I'm not singing. I'm not the entertainment. Kate will do it for all of us. What is, how does the karaoke work? Kate, you dance? I can't imagine.

What's the vibe? Oh, yeah. You dance? I cannot imagine. I think you're sulking in the corner with a trench coat. Certain music is playing. I'm on that dance floor. OK.

There will be music and dancing during the reception and then the after party skit, we go to a bar where they have proper karaoke set. So it'll be at a bar amongst your friends. Super fun. I have to get up at 6 a.m. the next day. So. You know what?

Are you serious? So don't sleep. Because I actually do. Yeah. I gotta go to Arches Hockey and then I gotta coach a baseball team. So don't sleep. Let me ask you this.

Do an open bar or cash bar? It's open for a, well, it's open at the wedding. And then it's open for a time at the after party. OK, good. That's going to get dangerous. It's a 15 minute open bar. Can I get seven eggnogs? They told us.

A Jewish one. Eggnogs in the summer? I got seven eggnogs. I got seven eggnogs. You got eggnog mix still? I don't know if this is a blue book thing, like a Jersey or a blue law thing like in Jersey, but when we booked the bar for later, we said we're doing a wedding,

then we're gonna come here later. The wedding ends at like 8 p.m. It's not crazy late, that's why we're doing the bar after. They were like, oh, you're coming from another event. That means legally, we can't do an open bar for longer than two hours because it's a liability. And I was like, are people in Jersey really fucked up? In what world is that a weird thing?

Those laws are so arcane and fascinating to me. Is that common though? I've never- Pilgrims created these laws and never changed it. Well, it just makes sense. You're trying to- Mitigate problems. Yeah.

You're in a heavy populated region of the world where a lot of times people abuse alcohol and then they do stupid shit. Totally, and I get that it's open, so it's like, it's hard to not over-serve people, you know, like who's who and whatever, it's busy. So I understand, but it was always surprised. I was like, oh, oh, okay.

I know like Massachusetts, I don't know if, I think it's still like that. It's changed, you used to be able to not get in on booze on Sunday. After 11. After 11, like you can't buy booze anywhere. And then on Sunday, like you couldn't buy it at all. And I know like in college, like we'd have like a show and like want to go get like at Beersford after party,

whatever, it's like, hurry, that's a 10.45, like we got to run to the packy, like whatever. And then my uncle owned a liquor store and he was just like, he didn't want them to change the blue lights because it's just like everyone's closed on Sunday. So it's just like, I have no reason to go in. Yeah. Yeah, that's nice. It's like it's-

Yeah, right. My senior year at Boston College, we had a Super Bowl party in my dorm and for some, well, for many reasons, a bunch of us, not call heads, forgot to get boots. And so it's the day of the Super Bowl and I was like, okay, if you drive – if someone drives to my hometown – I'm not going. We live close enough to New Hampshire. If you're within a certain radius of New Hampshire, you can buy on Sunday after a certain time.

So a couple of guys got in the one guy who had a car on campus, drove an hour, got a ton of beer, drove back and we had beer and liquor at the Super Party. Anything for a party. I had to drive over state lines. an hour, got a ton of beer, drove back and we had beer and liquor at the Super Party. Anything for a party. I had to drive over state lines. Doesn't New Hampshire have the most lax liquor laws? It's super cheap. They're for a dime, man.

Yeah. You get off on the highway, it's like Liquor Depot. But then you go up to Maine and it's like all of the liquor stores are owned by the state. Yeah. Same thing in Pennsylvania. Same thing in Pennsylvania. And so it's so bizarre.

Anyone coming from outside the country, I pity them if they're trying to figure out. Pennsylvania is a really freaky country. People didn't really understand that didn't grow up in Pennsylvania. Like to me, I thought it was so weird to see beer in a supermarket or in like a deli. Like, cause it was just,

and you couldn't even get beer with liquor. It was there was liquor stores, which was liquor and wine. And then there were beer distributors. Right. And basically, you can only buy cases. Yeah. You have six packs. Or you could like buy a 12 pack from a bar. From a bar. From like an active bar. People sitting there during happy hour. Yeah. You'd be like, can I get a six pack and then walk out of the bar, which is crazy. Yeah. It's just so bizarre. So much of that has been changed by money, big money, big, big companies coming in and saying, you

know, we want to move this legislation around so that we can sell six packs and stuff in Walmart and whatever. And they get these little concessions. And so now there's more of it than there used to be. But I know like Colorado, you could get beer in a supermarket, but only 3,2 beers. So 3.2% alcohol and less. Yeah. Near beer. Yeah. Make sure you eat your dinner because most people don. Beer. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Make sure you eat your dinner because most people don't eat. Oh, I will. The couple don't eat and then they forget and you end up drinking. Yeah, that's the other thing. Wedding stuff is like eat and drink water. Yes. Water especially because it's an outdoor wedding in the summer. Going to be hydrated.

But I'm going to eat. We're going to have- Is there a tree anywhere I can stand? Yes, yes, yes. It's guarded. Is there conditioning anywhere? Is there like an outhouse? Fans. Fans. Fans. But the food is gonna be great. I'm excited for the food.

You invited fans? It's paella and lechon, a big roast pig. So it's gonna be really yummy. Matt, you'll enjoy that. And salad. And salad. A little leaf. Joe doesn't like something.

A seafood. Did you just say paella and salad? Seafood paella. I'm just gonna suck it in. I'm gonna make sure to load up on paella and salad. Now no longer excited. And a roast. Was excited, now not excited.

Seafood paella, veggie paella, pig salad. Oh, pig. That's veggie paella. It's gonna be pig. Just vegetables with rice. As soon as she said paella, I just got tinnitus for like 10 seconds. It's like.

Charcuterie. All I can eat is fucking seafood. Charcuterie. Charcuterie appetizer. Some charcut? Nice. Yeah. Some lumpia. Love a good charcut. Some charcoot. Nice. Yeah. Some lumpia. Love a good charcoot.

Leave it right on the sculptures. No. No, it'll melt. Fountain, chocolate fountain, cheese fountain. No, we're keeping it chill. Trapeze artists. Again, fun party. Does the after party have air conditioning?

Yes. Okay, good. I'll be at that. Okay. I'll see you at the after party. That's so funny. Some people all skip the ceremony, just show up at the reception. Troy skips the reception, shows up at the after party. That's so funny. Some people skip the ceremony, just show up at the reception. Troy skips the reception, shows up at the after party.

Hey guys, where you been? I've been waiting for you. Not even wearing a suit? Shirts off. Make sure you stick around for the after party after today's episode. I'll be there for that. Hold on. Get to Toronto's main venues like Budweiser Stage and the new Roger Stegar. Hold on.

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It was just so fun. So much fun. Yeah, it's great. Real hot streak. Yeah. Bounces back. It just feels great. Can I say, I think the failure, the fact that there's the, you know, failure just normally means miss. It's a word I'm trying to use here. It like, I'm kind of tired of it. You know what I mean? Like in other games you fail forward.

In Pathfinder, you normally don't. You can come up with ways to sort of narrate fail forward, but it's pretty much- Mechanically, it's not really supported or encouraged. Yeah, it's like your turn ends kind of. In 2E, having different degrees of failure certainly lends itself to a little more interesting stuff that happens.

I mean, that's certainly true. I will say, one thing I love about that mechanic is I will seriously feel like a failure role is a success in some situations because it's not a critical failure. When you're so scared of a critical failure and you just get a failure, you're like, I can take this. I can take regular damage. Yeah, that they took away that kind of just a little bit of the pain of the saver sucks stuff.

Yes. Whereas just like this is a coin flip. It's either nothing's going to happen or everything I want to happen is going to happen. Right. And just instead have degrees. Like, I like that. Yeah, it is tricky, I think, talking

about the mechanics of the game in general, the vibe that it gives you. Just talking about combat and missing, right? Whether it's spell attacks or melee attacks, right, where you're not rolling a saving throw, we're rolling an attack. A miss generally does not come with any additional effects that move the story forward in interesting ways. Yes, you could narrate stuff, but I think the real problem with it is like, I think it represents the fight very well. Like, you can't hit every attack. Yeah.

It has got to be, and you know, even in a great fight in a movie, there's like misses constantly, you know what I mean? And then good hits make a difference, whatever. But the problem with the mechanics of a game like this is a lot of times, especially when you're making a show out of it, everything is sort of exaggerated. Your miss is like all you do for 25 minutes. Then you're waiting 20 minutes. Just sitting there feeling like a failure or like Like, oh, I can't do it. The problem isn't missing. The problem is that like you don't get another chance again for so long. That's the thing.

You know, it's like... Yeah, I got failure burnout. And on my side of the table, if you're fighting a creature that... Like that thing had 195 hit points, right? And you guys really went after it and got at it. But we've had a lot of combats both in this show and Ascension and other shows where you're six rounds in and you just can't whittle it down.

And so I'm forced to do one of two things. Keep grinding until you get it close or it gets to a point where you finally start hitting and it still has 30, 40 hit points left, but I don't want to do this any longer. So like, you got it. You know, and it's just like, oh, that you really didn't. You know what I mean? I'm giving it to you because I don't want to do this any longer." So like, you got it. You know, and it's just like, wow, you really didn't. You know what I mean? I'm giving it to you because I don't want to do this encounter anymore. So yeah, a little bit of burnout from that.

But that, I love when we do have a combat like that where it felt balanced, dangerous, and you guys did the damage to overcome it quickly before it really started to fuck you up. You got some good hits in, some good abilities, but also some huge failures that really helped us. So, yeah, yeah, yeah. Balanced out pretty well. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Balanced out pretty well. However, you were tasked in a way by these crumbling bodies downstairs to save – to do what little you can after all the horrible stuff that you perhaps did out of your own control to at least save one of them. You have effectively killed this character, but I'm giving him the dying condition. And so as the tentacles fall off and the tendrils kind of, he vomits them out of his mouth, you have a chance to do something here. We should help him.

Absolutely. Yeah. Ramius will just jump, you know, right on it. You have an action left because you landed the killing blow. I should help him. Absolutely. Yeah. Ramias will just jump right on it. Do you have an action left because you landed the killing blow. I moved him the initiative order. Okay. You are 10 feet away. My problem is I'm too far away in the action economy.

I can take out a healing potion and give it to him on my turn. Yeah. All right. I'm going to use... I mean, it's not flavor. It's pure mechanics. He's going to use his final action to move up to him, recognizing there's that moment, right? I'm trying to think of a good, what's in my mind, Skid? There's a movie or something where there's,

where like the possession leaves in the moment before like the person dies and you kind of see. Them again. Them, who they really were right before they pass. What am I thinking of? I can picture it in my mind. What happens in werewolf movies, vampire movies? Maybe I'm thinking of Mystique maybe.

There was a Mystique situation where she was in a different form. And then she gets hurt. And right before she goes out, you see who she really is. X-Men. Yeah, United or something like that. Anyway, he's going to move toward the elf and attempt to do battle medicine, but he's

out of action. So he just moves up to it in that moment. Okay, and now it is Zephyr's turn. Yeah, so I feel like I see you getting ready to do it, but he's going to like fall in a second. So I quickly- Just got pale scars where those tentacles were already starting to form. Like as you're getting ready with your hands, I'm like reaching in to my bag, taking out a potion. Of course feeding him the potion. He loses the dying condition and starts to like, come to and he looks at you and maybe there's still a remnant there of that fatal attraction that he felt.

Oh right, I forgot about you. I'm gonna have a Earth boyfriend. I'm not gonna be, I'm not gonna be ignored, Dan. Or I mean, Galarian boyfriend. Oh yeah, you got a Castorville boyfriend, a Galarian boyfriend. And he's just like, oh, who are you? Welcome back.

You don't remember anything? What's the last thing you remember? Ramias has blood running down his face and his eyes. He's hurt, was not healed much, so he's looking down at this guy and he sees this injured human in front of him, an injured elf in front of him, half elf. I think he's a full elf. He's a full elf. No, you, I'm saying you're a half elf. Oh, I'm not injured. Oh, you got healed up.

Yeah. Gic wipes her mouth off. Who are you? She says rudely to the tentacled man. Sorry, one of your guys went in my mouth. Oh boy. Okay. Leave it in, leave it in. All right.

Your guys went in my mouth. Francis, just. You know what, leave it in. Clip that and repeat it for a minute. Oh no. One of your guys went in my mouth. One of your guys went in my mouth. One of your guys went in my mouth.

Can't wait to see this on my free you page. You didn't even know you were doing it. Was I wrong? One of the guys did go in my mouth. Oh wait, no. He's like holding his hand. It's like, wait. No, you look familiar. I remember a sound like lightning. My people followed the sound to the gateway and we watched you walk through and others we were there to welcome you yes but yes you chose we did not we captured you yes and we enslaved you but it was all you're here to finish the job no no we we've just broken you from a spell that we were under ourselves

We were under a deep spell That's your memory. You won't remember it won't let you this this black ice You you were not affected by it We don't know we're trying to figure that out now. What does it do? I? Do not know but I I felt it inside of me, like a curse, controlling my thoughts. My thoughts were not my own. My memories are mixed up in the before time and the during. Is your name Ilkani?

Yes. You told us that, so we know your name. Yes, my... my family, my tribe, my sister... they've all perished. Yes, I'm so sorry. So sorry, but your...

the spirits of your friends led us to you. They... they were... restless. They were not given proper. They were not carried over properly to their afterlife. And with their final words, they said that we needed to free you from this spell that this evil man put you under. And we have done so. You fought us. You tried to stop us. That is where my injuries come from and he decided like gently gently sits back like on his bottom on the ground Just like leans back Rest for a moment heavily breathing, but we freed you from it. Just as we have been freed

We're no longer under his control Riddleson his name is Wilson Fused you came through the gate, you captured us. You brought us here and now you've returned. And what of this Riddleson? Why are you here again? We have been following Riddleson's trail. Trying to uncover the memories to understand what he was doing. We didn't even know we came here until we came here again.

We had flashbacks and memories just like you're having now. And Riddleson is um... Well, he's dead because we killed him. Scary. Big bald head, purple veins. Yes. Probably had some thug looking folk with him. Yes, I remember.

Bodyguards. He used this ice to kill the inhabitants of this place. And the others, yes, it's kind of coming back to me. So where will you go? What will you do? Well? We are headed to the Crown of the World. Apparently there was a great beast there that first helped to empower us or... Enslave us?

Helped to make us thralls to this... Riddleson. What manner of beast? A Soyo. Soyo. A Black Frost Whale. He's like... You see him, like, starting to see...

Yes, yes. Yes, yes, yes. Yes, I... Search your memories. I saw a whale, but not a whale like those that roam in the ocean, something far more aberrant. Tentacles like these that came from my body. Was this being in me? Perhaps. We are trying to understand how this aberration operates. It's hard for us to wrap our minds around, but it seems that it can

produce fractures of itself in other beings, or through other beings. And they all contain the same trait. These black tentacles, these writhing forms. It seemed to be, yes, possessing you in some way. You spoke to us, you told us of our mission, that we must go to the crown of the world, that we must be fully awakened. That was not me, that was this being or something else.

I don't have, sorry, I don't... Perhaps in time the memories will return. Let me ask you. Yes? Do you remember of your life before we came through the gate? Yes. We are the Ilverani. We have been in this area for many, many years.

In this temple, did you live in this temple? Some of our people lived here, but the rest lived closer to the gate that you presumably walked through again. Yes. As of late, we have inhabited this part of the world for a long, long time. And we were a peaceful people. Those gates were not active for a long time, so we were surprised to see them act of once war when you stepped through.

We did not know if you were from other worlds or other parts of this world. We meant to feast you and praise you. Instead, I am all that is left. I have no home, no people. Ian, this widows had enslaved so many of us. And sorceress made us thralls. So many of us, ensorcelled us, made us thralls. We don't understand yet why he would have us slay your people. Why he wouldn't simply use his rituals

to bring you under his control as well. Or just move on, if he just wanted to go to the crown of the world. Or just move on. I mean, I guess he experimented on some of you, but. Yes, what experiments he performed, we do not know. There's this more to this area here. I remember other rooms. Perhaps those answers lie deeper within or some. Am I boring you?

Yes. You keep yawning. I just had lunch. While I'm... with lunch before we battled? Just before I entered the temple I had a great deal of cheese. Why would you do that in the middle of a battle? Do I have your attention? Yes. I forgot what I was going to say. You said we need to explore other rooms in this place. Yes, perhaps. Perhaps the answers lie somewhere within here or elsewhere on your journey. For me, I must cleanse this place.

Is there more to this tower? Yes. I think there are other rooms. You can see there's one there and I think it wraps around. Everything's coming back piecemeal to me. We're on like the top level, right? Yeah, from the outside you saw like what looked like some sort of bridge that led from this top level out to the high ice. But you can see like around the corner when you step back there and became stupefied,

you see there's another like little chamber similar to the chambers downstairs, looks like a snowflake the way it's shaped up here. But it also wraps around all this black ices. Do you know anything about the Salmon Car? Salmon Car? They're a Yeti people? Yes, they lived closer to the crown of the world long ago, but I believe they are extinct.

Yeah. Someone did extinction. Dick is tearing up. Yeah, somebody did extinction, someone. Do you know of the Arataki people? Arataki. They're near E Iminwit. I hope I wrote that down right.

I don't know. Iminwit. Iminwit. What was that? Iminwit. Iminwit. I second guessed my spelling. Iminwit, Iminwit.

Iminwit. Iminwit sounds more familiar. Iminwit. Imanuit. They come from. Stop saying it wrong. If you keep trying. You have to stop saying it wrong. Sometimes I try to spell the stuff phonetically

and it really comes back to haunt me. It is hard because like we deal with a lot of made up words and we don't know how they're meant to be spelled. We never ask. I never ask how it's spelled. So then we read back our own writing and it sounds completely different than what we heard originally. Sakowachi is the Arataki tribe and they come from Iminuit.

I don't know if that's a place. Iminuit? Yeah, that sounds... Peter Iminuit? Is it Peter Iminuit? Peter Iminuit. Yes, Iminuit is a village, I believe, far, far to the south, although probably northern by most people's standards,

but certainly not near the Crown of the World. Why do you ask? We knew somebody from the Arataki tribe, and they were also trying to get to the Crown of the World near the S'kor scar, trying to kill a living god. I don't know anything about that. I guess we're all kind of in the dark. Yes. Or find a living god. I don't think Sackawatch wanted to kill it.

He wanted to kill it. He said he wanted to sacrifice. Sacrifice a living god. When he first brought it up, Ramius was high. He was like, mayberifice a living god. When he first brought it up, Ramius was high. He was like, maybe I'm a living god. We have to sacrifice. He goes, no, not me. Not me. Strike them.

Ramius is going to be treating wounds as we have these conversations. Thank you, my scos. I'm aching. Who's hurt? Yik is hurt, and Buggles and Zephyr are good, right? I'm hurt. You are hurt?

Yeah. Bad. Really? Okay. Nine points. Really? Oh. You're down nine?

Yeah. All right. Oh, you're down nine. All right, so you're full with one, Oh, thank you. with one treat wounds. 46, please. 46? All right, I'm gonna try with one, oh, thank you, with one treat wounds. 46, please. 46?

All right, I'm gonna try a higher level, John, here. Fail. Ow! It's not working yet, stay still. Fail. You're cutting me. Ow! It's getting to be not worth it, fail.

Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow. Unbelievable. I don't think you should. You're here first, fail. Ow, my leg, it's not even my leg, it was my arm. Is this how your people heal? Just like four in a row on ten. Let me drop some bones.

Boom! Did I heal her? My nose! She'll feel better. Sometimes the wound is just a little... There we go. There we go. All right, 36 points.

Cool. And then I'll do one more with assurance. Okay. And you get. Just need 10. Minimum, 12. Oh, I'm good, I just need 10. What are you gonna do here?

As I am most likely the last of my people, I should cleanse this temple to find a Ludd-Lara. This will take some time. Why the looks of this damage and then... I don't know. I have no one to return to. No home. Could he go to to Castorville through the gate? Like y'all did? Oh, a gig we don't exactly. Turn a dial to decide where the gates take us. Or when they turn on. This amulet, I don't know where it would take him.

They went to Castorville. They met other elves. I don't know if I'm really ready to meet anyone. Perhaps let's start with seeing what else is in this tower. Making sure there's nothing else to clear out. Have you seen a yurt? A yurt? Yes. Yes, I don't know where. But this man that you described, he- Middleson.

He used it, yes. I'm sorry. I wish I knew more. Can I accompany you as you look at the rest of this floor? Of course. Please, yeah. We'd appreciate your guidance. Okay, I do not know if there are other dangers within, so just know that I will be useless

should something over. Shocking. I always assume that. I have like four head points. You can stick with me, I'll keep you safe. And she winks at him. Oh, he's gonna treat his words twice. He's into me.

You're giving him really mixed signals though. He's into me. Yeah, because of like a spell. You're freaking him out. No, it's cause I was so powerful and cool Oh, right you punch those my crit you punch so hard in the bulge. I remember you grazed my bowl Gigg is thinking that you would just do really well. You know, I get everyone like me. Oh, yeah get my guys went in her mouth Yeah, that was a weird

I'm good Wiping her tongue scraping her tongue off. All right. I'm uncomfortable He's going to treat wounds on this guy until he's hit points. Thank you. Don't roll. It's going to take a while, but we'll get it done. Alright, let's go and then... Let's go deal with this later. Let me remove the skull and crossbows off my body. Oh goodness, I don't have a normal picture of me, so come.

You're also tilted. You're really tilted. Let's go into each pointy and Perception What a weird pointy room Each pointy room. There's nothing in here of note. It's continuous for the south or to the north Whatever you know the north seems blocked. Oh, what do we have here? How do you not know you don't remember? Why are you coming with us? I'm just sorry, I'm just here for the ride.

What's in this room? You look into that first spire and it just kind of like goes out and ends, but this room... It's like a window. It's like a strange, yet again, hexagonal chamber. But several of the walls depict beautiful scenes in what initially looks like stained glass, but as you as you stare at it you realize that it's just colored ice. With all of these images of elves building astonishing structures, breathtaking works of art. It inspires a sensation of peace and relaxation in the room. And he says, yes,

these were the meditation spires. The priests of the temple here would come and meditate meditate in this room and seek peace. We need that now. Some of the windows are like broken, but it's still very beautiful. Okay, can I do a knowledge check on this? See if it's just, you know, meant to be peaceful in a mundane way or if there is any magical effect That could happen here if you meditate. Mm-hmm So check to identify magic. Yeah, arcana There kind of works or about religion I mean yeah, well it's

That's your religion. That's 31 31. Yeah, you Do believe that if you each took the time to meditate in these spires, you could be imbued with some sort of blessing from the gods. Oh, cool. Let's get blessed. We shall have to. Let's get blessed. Take advantage of this. But for now, let's move on and make sure there's nothing else. No other

dangers in this tower. And I'll follow him along. Okay. Um, so you walk around to the next one and um... Pointy. This is only a stupid point again. Oh look, I found another one though. A dumb room.

Look at this. I walked into a wall. This... Ooh. Oh look, I found another one though. Dumb room. Look at this. I walked into a wall. Oh. Ooh. Ooh. Whoa. It's like the other stained-

Yeah. Yeah, do you see how your view goes out the window? Yep. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's cool. How far above the ground are we? So if you look at, well, this room, you can really tell how far down you are

because just like the other room had a couple of breaks, this one, there's a large chunk of the stained glass window which has been either blown in or blown out, probably blown out because you don't see any glass on the floor. Well, I do on the map. Oh, you do see the map. Yeah. Okay.

Well, that's perfect. What has blown in, there's like huge snow drifts that have come blowing in and they have collected in such a way that they form a bridge out to the high ice. Oh, cool. This is our way. This is our path out. That looks like the path out. Wow. This is our way.

Cool. And you look down off the bridge and it's like a 400-foot drop. Oh my God. And there's no like – it's not like a real bridge so there's no handholds or anything. It's just like a makeshift snow drift bridge. Oh my God. It's a little queasy. It's like the snow. So it's like a 400 foot high snow drift?

Yeah. That's like frozen. I was picturing like an Iceman Bobby Drake like ice bridge. Well, you know, it's more like that. Like the snow has come in in such a way that it's created an ice bridge I don't think the snow drift is 400 feet high it like came and froze So this like starts as a snow drift and then turns into a nice bridge. That's so cool. Oh Looks like your way further north Yes

We don't have to go yet though. We'll continue helping you. Yeah, no, let's continue looking around. Gotta find that yurt. What's this over in yaw? Oh. You walk into the next room and there is like a tunnel

that sort of goes through this unsettling black ice opens up into this area where an abandoned research camp has been set up. Yep, catching. And there is shit everywhere. Including a yurt. Oh! We found it!

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You found the yurt. It's been ten episodes ago. Did I leave the year to hear? It's right here. Like yeah, you left you left it here It's right here. Yeah. You left it at the top of the largest landmark. Where could it be? All of your other shit. It would be buried in the snow outside. It's right here with all the stuff that you also left.

Yeah. There is a ton of information here. It's kind of reminiscent of that part in his basement, just stacks of journals and paper. As you start to look at them, the one good thing is that it seems like most of it is in common. But still, stuff that would take hours and hours to dig through to try and figure out what he was up to. But you also have a yurt, which is radiating magical energy. Oh, magical yurt. Careful, careful. It is radiating some sort of magic. I don't know if it has ill will.

I'll do a detector sort of magic. I don't know if it has ill will I'll do a detector identify magic okay in this one. We're arcana. Thanks. Can I do religion no? Can I can? 24 24 what do you get there skit? 24 as well. Oh And I got I'm aiding him. We'll make it a 48 25 Oh 20 40 okay what did you get 25 25 okay close I'm aiding her okay good is DC 27 so perfect it is an item known as an explorers yurt oh the yurt itself is an item. Yes the yurt itself is an item.

This is the remastered version. Before activation this item appears to be nothing more than a simple rolled up tent. Barely large enough to fit four medium creatures. Despite attempts to clean it the tent is perpetually smudged with dirt in various places. Activate. Takes 10 minutes to unroll it. It's a manipulate action. Once per day, the effect, the rolled up tent, expands into a spacious yurt, complete with a fire pit, 10 bed rolls, various cooking utensils,

and basic food and water. This is awesome. Hell yeah. The yurt can house and feed you and up to nine other medium creatures that eat roughly as much as a human does. They do not need to attempt a survival check to subsist when you use the yurt. Let's get in the yurt!

Fires and light inside the yurt do not extend illumination into the area surrounding the yurt, making it harder to spot. Oh my god, we're taking this with us. So does this... So I misspoke, it looks like a tent. Magical. It's sort of like Baba Yaga's hut. It's like a similar kind of thing.

But does it create an extra-dimensional space that's bigger inside than it appears to be outside or does it just turn into a bigger one? I think, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I wonder. My feeling is that it just looks like a shitty old tent. And then you step inside. Inside.

It's like palatial. Yeah. It's a 10 bedrolls. It's a cozy cabin. But it looks like it would only fit four. Yeah. I was wondering how we're going to get to the top of the world. It's like palatial. Yeah. That's what I like about that. It's a 10 bedrolls. It's a cozy cabin. But it looks like it would only fit four. Yeah. I was wondering how we're gonna get. It's a your tardis.

To the top of the world. Yeah. Yeah. It's kind of like, you had something like this in Giant Slayer. I think at every adventure at a certain point, you get an item like this. What was the, the steak?

Steak. Oh yeah. We had it in Strange. We were talking about the steak last night. Strange Aeons 2, we had cozy cabin. My cozy cabin. Which we turned into a sex dungeon. Well yeah. We had it in Strange. We were talking about the steak last night. Strange Aeons too, we had Cozy Cabin, which we turned into a sex dungeon. Well you guys did that. Well, you guys did that.

You guys did that. I didn't do that. We put a sex swing in the middle immediately. And I'm the smut one. That doesn't sound like us. No, no, no, no, no. You did, you did. You set it up, we were like were like wow this place is great or something

Yeah, and Matthew was like yeah, I've been here before it's all like that we were like Scandal started to lean into it. Yeah So you want to take some time here yeah, let's open up the yurt clearly Yeah, you can hope you don't have to open it. No, we're gonna break down the yurt. Break down the yurt, you have it. And we'll put it in our pouch of Jonski. Remember, you only need to use it once a day, so if you do decide to set out today at a certain point, you'll want to use the yurt at the end of the day. That's true. Right now, you're, it's, I mean, it's cold. Obviously, it's been cold. It's getting colder, but inside here, it wasn't as bitter cold from the walls. I'll light the little fire pit near the research area.

I'll light the fire pit up. I see on the map there's a little fire pit. I want to go through the research area to see if there was anything left behind. And any log books, anything like that? Okay, there's a lot. There's a lot. I think we all start doing that.

Yeah, I think you should all start doing it. Okay. Let's say you all take two hours. Okay. Everybody roll a D four. Whoa. Okay. Wasn't expecting you to say roll a D four. I so rarely get that instruction from a GM. These are all the D1. Oh, damn it. I got a two. Yeah. I got a four. One.

One crew. One crew over here. Two, four and one. One, one, two, four. Okay. One, one, two, followed by a four. Okay.

Who rolled the ones? All right, so you two, followed by a four. Okay. Who rolled the ones? All right. So you two, you start seeing notes about Black Frost. Your eyes start to go, what the fuck is going on with this Black Frost? Clearly he wasn't as careful about hiding these notes with multiple languages like he was the ones found in his lab. Almost everything is in common, like 95% of it. So it starts to make a lot more sense. These seem very similar to the notes on Black Frost that you read in his lab, but this goes into a little more detail about how he was researching a method

to make Black Frost more transmissible so it could spread more swiftly beyond the high ice. so it could spread more swiftly beyond the high ice. It seems like this compulsion to want to expand or enhance Black Frost in this way was perhaps inflicted upon him by a soil because there's like little things that he writes to himself like thanking the Black Frost Whale for this inspiration. So he'll be like doing scientific notes and be like thank you again Black Frost Whale, thank you again Asoyo for teaching me this. So it seems like Asoyo was implanting these. It was like manipulating him to spread this effect that it wants to have over a larger area. Yeah, okay

Interesting but anything about the black frost. Yeah, like what it does. What the fuck is it? Where does it come from? What does it do right? These are the two main things? Yeah, obviously we think it comes from a soya But does it it helps him in some way like amplifies his power? Does it come from some extra dimensionals? Not dimensional but extra planar Space where a soy comes from or something like that. Mm-hmm This aberration comes from and what color is it? Most importantly what color and temperature is it? Is it hot red hot frost?

you Soy with Red hot frost. You uh... Hot soil the hot frost whale. Things would have been a lot different. Let's say you, I wanna give you some more information about what they discovered, but if you spend another couple hours like, alright let's focus on Black Frost, the two of you. You find notes describing the physical effects of Black Frost, Edward boasting his immunity to Black Frost, sort of intimating that all Gatewalkers are immune to Black Frost, and and mentioning how he wants to use this curse to create black frost zombies. What is it like we saw downstairs?

Cause they had black skin across the skin. Yeah, maybe he was using it and it didn't work. So he discarded them. This guy is so evil. He thinks that like a Soyos dreams may be the source of this ash-like substance. The fact that Black Frost seems to progress more quickly when an inflicted creature dreams seems to have further intrigued him, but he's not sure what to make of this observation. So something about like a Soyos dreams somehow create this ash-like substance.

It transmits more readily when people are asleep. So you think like, okay, that's what he was doing. He was like putting people to sleep, experimenting on them, trying to get them to dream so that he could use this curse to turn them into zombies. Was he making an army for a Soyo of Black Frost zombies? It's unclear. But the pieces are starting to add up a little bit more. What it is, is some otherworldly curse that can affect your dreams into the waking world.

That's what you've got so far. So it can infect you through dreams and then have a physical effect on your body in real life and turn you into a zombie subject that fact yeah So huh what he wanted zombies for it's always good to have an army of zombies. I wish I could murder him again Yeah, I almost feel bad that he's already dead because I do feel the same I think we should keep yeah We should be able to dig a turn into zombie him to a zombie, then kill him that way. Right, and then keep bringing him to all the people he fucked over and let them kill him,

then bring him back, walk him to the next area of people that he screwed over and let them kill him. Yeah, obviously, his mind has been poisoned, just as yours, in a way, was by this experience. But it seems like his potential for evil predates the missing moment seeing what he did with his family. So it just sort of unlocked it even further. You see sort of these notes in chronological order where Edward seems to be getting increasingly frustrated that he wasn't granted the greater powers that you were granted.

The Game Blockers were granted. There's a little bit of jealousy there. He feels like he wasn't chosen by Asoyo for the glorious duty of tracking and capturing the last Salmon car. You were chosen. He feels like that's that's a job that should have belonged to him. So he feels doubly jealous that Asoyo bestowed that. We were favored by the Black Frost well in a way that he wasn't. That sounds like it. And when we say we, we're talking about Lucky, Talitha, Gic, Buggles, Ramius. In your vision you saw several people.

There was this platoon that he chose and Riddleson wasn't part of it. He mentions Aenomoron, the name of the last Simon car. This is a name that you heard. From Sakawatchi's grandmother. From Sakawatchachi's grandmother. Sakawachi's grandmother, Sesshu, had spoken to Einamoren. You had taken Einamoren, transported him to the Nameless Spires. The notes go on to detail all of your deviant abilities and talks about how they can be further unlocked or his hypotheses on how they could develop over time.

It makes it apparent that these abilities were granted to you by a soil. You were given these powers by a soil, but hinting that like, you know, more powers could – even greater powers could manifest over time and some of you have started to unlock those greater powers. The notes also indicate that you returned here very suddenly without the sled that you left with and so it seems like Riddleson's Riddleson stayed here you went and did your thing and then you came back and so he's trying to come back sledless and he's trying to figure out what happened, he doesn't know.

So we didn't tell him. Apparently not, it's like he's hypothesizing, he thinks- What did we do with the Samucar? Maybe we didn't do- Maybe we didn't make extinction. Did we not do it? Did we not make an extinction? Maybe we didn't do extinction.

Do an extinction? Maybe we didn't do extinction. Maybe- extinction? Maybe we didn't do extinction. Maybe, oh, this is great. This is very interesting. There's no body. There's no, well, the hand. There's a hand. The hand, but who's to say that that was us

that even brought that? Maybe he had that. This is, yeah. It was mummified. It was mummified. Interesting. Yeah, this is like, you come, oh man. We're sent on a mission, we're supposed to get.

It's like the mob hit, right? It's like go take out so and so. You take them to the docks, you know, you're just like, just get the fuck out of here and never come back. So you don't have to do the kill, then you go back and tell the boss, job's done. Yeah.

We could have done that. He's writing about like, where's the sled writing about like where's where's the sled? How did they come back with this? I did a soil teleport them back here Like he's he's really frantically like nervous like why all this stuff fun stuff happened without him All this fun stuff. Well, we do have a memory I'll give you a little bit more because I'm looking for this sled like citizen Kane I'll give you a little bit more because I'm looking for this sled like Citizen Kane Vittles and Kane Wow, he's he's frustrated that you wouldn't tell him what you did at the nameless spires

and And all of this sort of interesting it implies a interesting. It implies a certain amount of- Free will that we have. Free will that we have. Yeah. Yeah. Or that Osoyo said, Don't let Riddle said no. You have no memory of it. That memory has not resurfaced, but he's upset at it. We do have a memory of dragging the sled with something on it covered in a tarp.

At a time, yeah. It could have been like a Wookiee Prisoner trick though. Could have been like, this is the dead Salman car. And he's just under there like,'m ready to murder I don't know the I mean these notes go on and on and on but at a certain point it seems like you were all collectively dismissed by a Soyo and like our platoon or like all of Riddleson and his whole it's unclear it seems like at least Riddleson and the group of you, you returned either

via teleport or magic or maybe you left the sled behind. Yeah, because we returned so fast, we couldn't have been there and back. He didn't understand that. He was jealous about it. And at a certain point, Osoyo dismissed all of you and you were told to go to the nearest Ayodhara and await your rewards. And you're reading this and you have no recollection of this. This all is like an out-of-body experience. But everything he writes, it seems like this definitely happened. But even he doesn't know what you were tasked with and was jealous about it.

Oh, wait, your rewards. Wait, your rewards. Maybe those are what the powers were. Maybe there are other rewards. But Asoyo chose you and gifted you. I'm going to say something and it's going to seem a little bit strange. Just stay with me for a second. I'm confused. That doesn't seem strange at all. Okay. I'm having a problem. I'm mixing the time beyond the gates versus the time after coming back from the gates. All of this stuff that we're reading is the missing moment. That's what it appears to be. Yes. This all happened during the missing moment. When did we meet Riddle-son? Like I thought we met Riddle-son

after we came back from the gate. You did. And then all of the, now I'm thinking like, he dominated us. Well technically it seems like. And then took us on some sort of expedition. Well here's the thing, technically you met, it seems that you met Riddle-son during the missing moment.

But then we met him again. But that moment is not described or captured, right? Like I see my brother. I walk through the gate What's the first thing that happened to me? It seems like you walked through and there was ice gate ice gate And a bunch of gate walkers rolled through right and Riddleson just started murdering them off. Maybe you were involved Oh that thing what when they were greeting them warmly when the elves came out was that was the first thing first? Was your that was the first thing. That was the first thing. That was the video. That was the video. And we were immediately enthralled. I originally felt that I thought that we came through into Icegate already enthralled as

a group. Now I'm putting it together. It appears. Yeah, you know, it could be wrong. I'm giving you what you know so far. That you walked through and you ended up at Icegate. Were part of this genocide here. And then you dragged some people up there, started getting involved in experiments and then he continued with experiments while you went to the high

ice, kidnapped a Salman car and did something and then magically returned and then a Soyo dismissed you, you went back to the gate, you went away. You came back into the world and then you know time passes, everyone's talking about the missing moment, you receive a missive from Riddleson. At some point Riddleson in his obsession to learn about the missing moment, perhaps became more cognizant of what happened than you ever did. He returned here or talked about returning here,

was planning to return here to continue doing things. He had the hand of the guest. So he was meant to lose his memories the same way we did. Yeah, he lost his memories, but his research and his intensity and by stealing the minds of Gatewalkers, he was able to recover memories that you didn't have access to. And then at a certain point, he recruited you, warped your minds like that you're okay, let's go out on the mission and you lost all this time because he did stuff to you, tried to

extract things from you to either power the gate or give him the knowledge that he possessed. Okay. All right. So does that make a lot more sense? It does. And it makes me think that we were not enthralled by Riddleson when we were killing these elves or doing this shit in the tower. Like we were enthralled by a Sawyo at that time. Yeah. Like you were chosen. Chosen, right.

Gifted. But they blame Riddleson. I feel like there's levels. Well, he seemed like a leader. Like, how did he become a leader if we all walked through it the same time? Right. Was he here earlier? Was he like...

Did Asoyo put him in charge? Like a middle manager? Yeah. But then he got crazy and then Asoyo was like, actually, you take a back seat. If he had that penchant for evil, maybe it sparked something in Asoyo something in so I get you don't even know what a soio is yeah He's like you do with your this so wonder it We still don't know why the gates all lit up in the first place right we don't know what made that happen

Yeah, right. Yeah, I mean I guess it was probably a soio's doing but I mean right But like he's been or it's been imprisoned. Yeah. For however many millennia. Like why now? Why now was he able to like open the gates and start enthralling again? And also just like still, like why us?

Like why we, this specific group of people? I think it would have been anyone who walked through. I think the gate showed you like exactly what would make you want to walk through it. And he's like, I just need bodies. If you're weak what would make you want to walk through it, and he's like I just need bodies If you're weak willed enough you just walked through. There's a lot of connections to dreams desires Preying upon your your hidden wants needs made you

Perhaps easy marks Yeah Okay, great Awesome awesome, so that's what I learned Perhaps easy marks? Yeah. Okay. Great. Awesome. Awesome. So that's what I learned. And, uh, Puggles, you... discover some information about a

Soyo. It's very... It's very strange, and it doesn't really elucidate anything to you other than the way Eppard talks about a Soyo. The stuff he writes feels more like a prayer to a Soyo than a theory about what a Soyo is.

He praises him, he thanks him. It feels like at a certain point his obsession with the soil grew to the point where his soil was the most important thing in his life. Um, and he felt, uh, like many cult leaders do, that the rewards he would gain from finding a way to release the Black Frost Whale from its prison below the nameless spires would be the greatest gift bestowed upon mankind. It's the typical Lovecraftian like, if we just get Cthulhu to come here, Cthulhu's going to save me and he's going to make me the king of the ashes.

Like a Renfield for a soil. Yeah. It's the same thing. He just, he praised him. He became obsessed with him. Now, is it because a soil infected his mind so much or was he already leaning that way? I mean, probably a little bit of both, but he was obsessed with him and it seems like every – you as his assistants at some point were helping to bring about the return of

Osoyo unwittingly. Yeah, still a lot of questions to answer. Yeah. Because if he wasn't freed, how did he manipulate this? How did he do this? How did he do any of this? And what does he need? Is he partially freed just enough to get... How did he get the initial power?

Yeah. If the Soyo dismissed you, it seems like you're no longer needed. Right. So is he already, you know, I keep saying he, it's just a default, but are they already freed? Right? Like? Bet you a sakawatchi. Have you ever seen Gekmak and Asoyo in the same room? Or that.

Well, here's what I'm thinking too. Gnome Bard. Gnome Bard. Gnome Bard. She's been lying about her name. Hell of a cover. Sides are all there. All along.

Uh, this, this is still, I'm having that same like, was it always a Soyos plan to have us kill Riddleson, come back here, deal with the tower stuff, and keep going back to the Soyos. Yeah, are we still being lured? Like we're still on the same exact track. Yeah. Yeah, we are.

What do we do? We have to keep going along with it until the moment we break from it, basically. Like, the only way to get to it is to go to it and act like we're, you know, being led forward. I mean, Ramius has been of this opinion ever since the conversation with Agumon Zorius The you know you need to free the

Guest that's a guest the blessed one. You need to free the blessed one and it will get you to a Soyo faster It's like okay, so I'll do it fucking lied and Agumon Zorius like buffed us up big time So it's kind like, we need to keep acting like we're on mission, right? Until the last moment when we hopefully zig when they think we're gonna zag. Like, that's how I'm assuming it's gonna be right now. Yeah, I'm notorious. I told you to go that way, you'll be saved, and you almost were killed. So like, very unreliable source. But to paraphrase Cassian Andor or even if it is a trap that changes nothing Changes nothing Star Trek. That's right nailed it

All right Is there anything in here? This is another thing a little needle in my mind That's been bothering me. Is there anything in these so these notes? needle in my mind that's been bothering me. Is there anything in these? So these notes, so these notes all pre-exist the returning from the missing moment. So it seems like post-missing moment, Riddleson never returned here. No, he wanted to get back here. His notes were like, I need to hear it here. We caught him right before he was going back there. When he was at the gate, he was like, using those, uh, what were they again?

Fucking, not crystals, but uh... Moonstones. Moonstones, thank you. Using the moonstones infused with whatever to try and power the gateway so he could return. Right. Okay. And continue his research. After Osoyo dismissed him, he was like, I gotta get back there. Okay. Do the notes. I think I left my keys. So it teleported him away from here like without warning

Yeah, it seems like you all went back to ice gate And you stepped through and all went back to your worlds with no memory of what had happened memory now He looks at his pack. I know we saw a fight hand starts piecing together became obsessed with it brought you people together I think we gave him Not I think we gave him not. I think we gave him a fucked up fake mummified hand. That would be pretty cool. I think we did that. It would also be interesting if we did something like you're saying.

Without even knowing. The will of Asoyo and that's why we were dismissed. Maybe. Oh. Maybe. I don't know if Asoyo can just kill you with the snap of a finger, but maybe they were like, oh, you are not worthy to serve me or something. We had like a burst of freedom that we were able to.

Or like when you're charmed and they have you do something that is so against your nature that you get a save out of it maybe. Right. Something like that. So these, we found post-Missing Moment notes in his house, in his hidden rooms, that spoke of the Queen of Skywatch. Queen Aquendia.

Queen Aquendia. Is there anything about Queen Aquendia in any of these notes? Was she a Gatewalker? Was she here at all? You don't see anything about that. And if you remember the notes, said he admired her. He admired her. So like she be for what she became. What she became. But this was all post missing moment it seems. There's no mention of her during the missing moment. No, you don't see anything. Anything about that. She a Gatewalker? This was all post-Missing Moment, it seems. There's no mention of her during the Missing Moment. No, you don't see anything... Anything about that. Was she a Gatewalker?

Yep. Maybe. Yep. She become. Yeah, she was on a list of Gatewalkers, right? Wasn't she? I don't remember. Is there any mention- Is there mention by name of other Gatewalkers in these logs that are not people we've met before? Mm-hmm. Okay, so I want to keep those and find these people

and thrall them and then bring them back. No. Kill them. Kill them all. Find them all and kill them. Yeah. Gatewalkers part two. Reckoning.

I think, are we gonna, did we find what we're gonna find here? Yeah, there's some other rooms you can search and I'm not gonna have you roll perception checks. I will just tell you there are some items in some of these rooms. Don't forget, you can meditate. I'm good, yeah, that's what I was asking.

And get some sort of. I'm psyched to get to meditate. Blessing. But in terms of one of the one of these alcoves you find Two scrolls in a scrimshaw scroll tube nice to scroll a scroll a strand of magical beads These I Don't even know what some of these things are a magical jar Bees? Trans-magical bees? Um...

I don't even know what some of these things are. A magical jar? And... A magic jar? A magic jar... With the soul of a soil! Shhh! That was funny, that was one of Drew's big spells,

was magic jar. And two, like, star talismans. What was that? Usually a consumable of some kind that does some dope shit one time, one time only. What were the scrolls of? Scrolls of? We don't know.

Nice try, I said. Love it. Classic. What were those, am I level? What was the level? I'm sorry, you said what the scrolls were, but I didn't write it down. What are they?

Really? I'm gonna just write that down real quick so you don't have to worry about it later. Classic cop interrogation trick. And those scrolls. And what time was that again? Oh. And those were what?

No, you fucked up, right? I'm not seeing Star Talisman on a quick lookup, so I don't know if that's a name. Shouldn't be a goglem. I know, I know I shouldn't, but. All right. Identify magic on the scrolls., I know I shouldn't, but all right. Identify magic on the scrolls. Can I do religion?

Are they divine by any chance? Oh, they are. They are? Okay. I love a good divine scroll. 36. Oh, baby, he knows. You unfurl the scrimshaw tube

and find two scrolls of raised dead Oh baby! You'll be alright, Sid Yeah We're gonna live forever Still a few minutes left Guys, if I die, don't bring me back Those are super scrolls

So that was in the two So scrolls of raised dead there's two more scrolls. Can I do an arcana on the, unless that counts for everything, but on magic jar or the star? Can I just say the remastered, I'm sure the original was like this, but it's so cool. The raised dad is phenomenal. Yeah, I mean the creature must have died within the last three days, the body has to be present. And then this line is great. If Phyrasma has decided that the creature's time has come at the GM's discretion, or if

the creature doesn't wish to return to life, the spell automatically fails, but the cost isn't consumed in the casting. Because you need the gemstone as well, I believe, unless that's burnt into the scroll. I think in the scroll, you don't need that. It comes with a little packet of gems stapled to it. You can use. It goes on. Gemstones included.

Typically you use those components in the creation of the scroll. And they are used up and then fused into the scroll. I have to keep reading because a lot of people don't know where they're going to get a kick out of this. If the spell is successful, the creature returns to life with one hit point, no spells prepared or spell slots available, no points in any pools or any other daily resources, and still with any long-term debilitations of the old body. The time spent in the Boneyard leaves the target temporarily debilitated, making it

clumsy to, drained to, and enfeebled to for one week. These conditions can't be removed or reduced by any means until the week has passed. This is the best part. The creature is also permanently changed by the time in the afterlife, such as a slight personality shift, a streak of white in the hair, or a strange new birthmark. Oh, I love that. That's so cool. Actually, I changed my mind.

It brings me back. Does it say what rank it is? It's the basic. So, I changed my mind. It's bringing me back. What rank it is? It's the basic, so 13th level or lower. You need heightened ones to raise higher level characters. This is quite sick. Very cool. What are the other ones? Yeah, does that carry over to the other magical items?

Yeah, fuck it. The jar is something known as a rhyme jar. R-I-M-E. Magical reagents slosh inside this rhyme frosted pottery jar the size of a human head. Despite appearing to be rhymed in whore frost, the jar is warm to the touch. Ilverani wizards create rhyme jars to sustain themselves during the coldest winter nights. So it'd be Ilkani is telling you about this. Oh yeah, the Ilverani wizards would create these dumb jaws. It's a three action, you can interact with it to activate. If you have the fatigued condition caused by exposure to environmental cold, it removes the condition. For eight hours after applying

the rhyme, you treat extreme cold as severe cold, which, you know, going forward in your journey across the high ice, you will be facing extreme cold. So that's important. That's awesome. S1 05.05 And the stars, the rhyme jar is a Gatewalkers exclusive thing, and these stars are as well. They're called Stars of Cineshore, C-Y-N-O-S-U-R-E. Found throughout Galarian, these star-shaped talismans of whalebone scrimshaw are carved by Erutaki from the Crown of the World. Oh, Erutaki, that's Sakawatche's clan. They are popular with adherents to the cult of Desna who believe the talismans protect their dreams.

When you activate this talisman, you get a plus two status bonus to saves against enchantment magic with the mental trait for one minute. On the triggering save, if the outcome of the roll is a failure, you get a success in said, or a crit failure becomes a failure. And you have two of those talismans.

Again, dreams. Oh, interesting. Oh, my stars of Shinnoshir. I was wondering if those were still around. Could I... I used to wear them on my wrists. Yeah, but are you gonna use them? I mean, they are mine. One was my sister's. But I guess you're gonna have them.

Thank you so much. Thank you, we have to go a really far while. Remius Roxxon. Thanks. Can I have my Reimja? I believe this is our Reimja now. Thank you, we have to go a really far while. Yeah. Remember Rheimdra? I believe this is our Rheimdra now. It's very cold. Oh, and there's the beads.

Oh yeah. There's a good treasure dump here. A strand of Greater Holy Prayer Beads. Whoa. That's for you. Greater Holy Prayer Beads. They increase healing, right? So we're gonna cast a effect.

Cast Blessed or Heal each once per day. For Greater, you recover 1d4 hit points instead of one hit point when casting Divine spells from your spell slots. Change the Beads list of spells to the fourth level version of Bless Divine Wrath, Heal, Neutralize Poison, and Remove Disease. You can cast each each of these once per day. That's pretty fucking awesome. Wow that's amazing. That is a 1,400 gold piece item. Yeah. Sheepers. Greater Holy Prayer Beads. Greater Holy Prayer Beads, yeah. Can I have one of the

star whale ribs then if you're gonna take the beads, please take my sisters. Oh, thanks Yes, you remind me. Um, so just a little doing them with her eye My god, this is such a huge dump. This is amazing Stinky dumb guys. I hate to tell you Looks like a minor detail on the star of Sinishore Can't use it unless you're a master of will saves Might just be two of us No, I'm in- fuck

I have very strong will, I was like, can I give it a will? I'm so willful My sister and I were very willful Willful Can I see that, Zephyr? Well, can I have one of the scrolls then? Can you cast? Can I have something?

What are you gonna do with it? It's a scroll. I'm going to use it to raise you. It's raised dead. It's a scroll. You're never gonna use it. You can't even read. I don't have anything.

I can read. The elf says that. Here, here, you know what? I guess he doesn't like her anymore. You can't read. You can't even read. You're anything like my sister, you're illiterate. You flirt really weirdly.

I hold out the rhyme jar and I say, look, it looks cold, but touch it. It's kind of nice and warm. Here, take that. And I take the star. Yeah. Huh, so cool. Now she's playing Asta again.

I miss Asta so much. That dirt is a gift. And she hands the other star to Remius. I guess we'll put them on, yeah? Just wear them. What, the star? No, the star has to be infused into your armor. Oh.

It becomes like a buff to your armor and then it's used once and it breaks off. Oh, does anyone have crafty and craft it? I wonder if it worked for me. I wore them around my wrist. I don't think so. I don't know, we'll look it up, but I think magically you can just

infuse it into your armor, I think. I don't think you have to craft it, but I don't know. It's cool though. we'll look it up, but I think magically, you can just infuse it into your armor, I think. I don't think you have to craft it, but I don't know. It's cool though. We'll look it up. Would you like to meditate before you leave forever? Yes. Yes. Yes, we would. Would you lead us in the meditation?

We don't really know what to do. Yes, I- I know how to meditate. I assume you are not- Oh. Yeah, I meditate all the time. You are not followers of Fyndalad Lara, I assume. Unless, Ramis, I meditate all the time. You are not followers of Fendilad Lara, I assume. Unless, Ramius, do you know about Fendilad Lara? Yeah. Do you meditate to her?

I never have before, but you're in her holy house. Try it. Well, you guys lead it then, because I've never done any meditation of any sort. Oh, that's hard to believe. Okay, yes, come this way. And we'll go into the meditation chamber. Ramius will try to attempt to lead a meditation,

which really just requires prayer, focus, silence, shutting out all of the, you know, your shallow and pathetic desires for fame, that kind of garbage. Get rid of that. What's he saying? He says, shh, shh, that kind of garbage. Get rid of that. What's he saying? He says, shh, shh, shh. Yeah.

How do you think we're leaving? Oh my god. Like, I feel like I'm with my actual kids. I have to go to the bathroom. Ramious is just like. I feel like my right arm's getting numb and tired. It's been less than a minute. Yeah, it's been like less than a minute.

How much longer? Can I wear a swimsuit instead of underwear? Oh my god. How much longer can I wear a swimsuit instead of underwear? All right, technically you can have breakfast for dinner and it's still dinner stop touching me technically you can have breakfast Touching me. All right. It takes an hour of uninterrupted meditation. So it never happens to receive any boom,on, right? No, we meditate. This takes a long time. We meditate. Okay. You sit in deep meditation for some time, and it's almost as if you can feel that presence

of the soil slowly start to fade, and perhaps the presence of Findalad Lara returning. Obviously there's a lot of cleansing that needs to be done here. Ilkani needs to clean off the black frost and sanctify this place. But at some point during this introspective meditation, you feel Findelad Lara bless you with a boon. You get to choose between one of five different boons. So sweet! Love a boon. Boomy.

What are they? Once this boon is chosen, you cannot receive another boon for 24 hours. You can gain insight into the mysteries of the Twilight Speakers, capital T, capital S. This would unlock the Twilight Speaker archetype. Feel free to look that up. What? I was gonna say, have we ever heard of this? No, the Twilight Speaker archetype. Feel free to look that up. What?

I was gonna say, have we ever heard of this? No, the Twilight Speakers. You can purge afflictions of the mind. If you have the stupefied condition, it is reduced by two. I think you are stupefied one. But that will go away when I wake up the next day, right? No.

No, stupefied. He only bugles stupefied. but you guys should you guys shouldn't use it for that Yeah, it goes it goes away after two rounds right whereas regular stupefied lasts until it's room until it says otherwise So but I can treat that condition like we just forgot that in the whole healing thing I can treat There's another one the character becomes invigorated, removing the effects of fatigue and regaining hit points as if they had rested for eight hours. I'm assuming you're going to rest anyway.

The character bolsters their mind against the influence of a Soyo. For the remainder of this adventure, they get a plus two status bonus on all saving throws against the effect of anything dream or nightmare related. Oh, yes please. That one, I'll take one of those. And the last option is that you enter a translate state during which you can send a message to the dreams of another person.

Oh, that's forever? As if you've cast dream message, yeah. You should send a dream message to your brother. Yes. Oh my. Shocker. You'll have to do that instead of taking the Twilight Speaker archetype or that plus two

permanent bone. The archetype doesn't seem to be remastered. That's okay, for the effects of this, we can home remaster it if need be But yeah, I think I want to take the resistance to a Soyuz mind bullshit That sounds good I'm nervous that like when we do do a boss fight or the boss fight that that will be a thing where you know

He thralls so I don't want to be thralled. I want to resist it. Yeah. Yeah, I think that that's smart. I think I'm going to take the dream message. One, just because like that's a great idea that I didn't think of amazing idea, but also like I always think it's so cool to be able to send a message over. Like I could literally send a message to like elves of Castravel. It's so cool. It's not tied down to mere distances of the material plane.

I think one of us has to take it, so I'm happy to do it. I also feel like I'm of sound mind. I can handle the Soya now. What was the last boon? That was the last boon. Dream. The dream one, okay. Yeah, Twilight Speaker.

It's very diplomatic. Yes. You get feats, you know, once you take the dedication, there's other stuff you can have access to that's interesting, but it's like all diplomacy. Yeah. Yeah. I have pretty high diplomacy. I wonder if this would be good for me, but I also wonder all diplomacy. Yeah. Yeah. I have pretty high diplomacy. I wonder if this would be good for me.

But I also wonder, is this even useful? But it lets you replace diplomacy with your society skill, I guess. For example, disarming smile as a reaction, an enemy ceases their attack on a critical success or they pause their attack. Some of the stuff is useful. Yeah, disarming smile is interesting. But this is very similar to our prophecy one, the sky watch. Sky sage.

Sky sage. Dedication. I would have to take the dedication and I can't take any feats until we then have access to feats. And it would replace any other feats. A class feat. A class feat. Yeah. A class feat. So I'm like, I don't know. I don't know if it's really worth it for me.

Yeah, maybe not. Maybe not. Maybe you want to send a message to someone too? You could also look ahead at some of your bard feats. I mean, haven't some of your bard feats been pretty disappointing? I mean, the Dirge of Doom was a bard feat and that's pretty dope. Yeah. Yeah, it all depends. I thought I remembered you reading some of them and be bard feat and that's pretty dope but yeah, yeah it don't it all depends

I thought I remembered you reading some of them be like these all suck sometimes they do. Yeah, sometimes they actually do You can look at like seventh level or you know, nine whatever it is the even levels the sixth level or eighth level Class feat and be like I'm kind of disappointed and you know what I mean that that happens Yeah, I might look I do a little look see if not. I'm kind of disappointed and you know what I mean that that happens. Yeah, I might look I do a little look-see if not I'm gonna pick the Plus two to stuff. Yeah Yeah, also, I mean if we're gonna metagame which is not your jam I don't have to metagame what we're gonna say though I don't think we're here. We have a whole lot of diplomacy left in this adventure. Well, that's what I'm also thinking

If you want a metagame, I think we're pretty much on a course here. Now the one diplomacy that comes to mind from a meta sense is like, if we meet Sakuachi again, and he doesn't trust us and he doesn't whatever, maybe. Skid was saying also, it's like you replace your diplomacy with society. And I don't have any society. I have diplomacy already. So I'm like, I'll just do diplomacy roles. This gives you society that's what it does like it automatically gives you just take the dedication. It would give you the

society. But you really you're not really getting the full benefit from it anyway because I think your diplomacy would still be higher. It's already high. I have like a plus 14 diplomacy. Yeah so this automatically, I think just taking the dedication, yeah, taking the dedication would automatically make you a master in society. Because you're ninth level, but you would like, you're, you're getting your buff on that from intelligence, not from charisma. And so not from charisma and so my intelligence is yeah so yeah maybe from a mechanic standpoint it isn't that much I mean it might it might be worthwhile just to get that master in society just yeah for some things that can only only a master in society could do X Y or Z but let me think about I'm gonna look at my barred

feats for the future and think about it Yeah, what is buckles gonna take? I don't know. I'm thinking like role-playing wise He might might be tempted to like take the dream message stuff so he can contacts the his fellow Goblins back in Arcadia. Yeah, cuz that's like otherwise. He has no idea how to do that right now So even though mechanically, I don't think that would help us at all What will a con try to override him and what to take? Um... Yeah, maybe. I mean, actually maybe the Kulakan wanting revenge against the oppressors might want him to take that too. Or the saves. I'm not sure. I don't know. Think about it as well.

Um, can I, I want to ask you a question, uh, player to player. You said something in a couple episodes ago in character where you didn't want us to talk to you as if you were two people. Yeah. And I'm curious how that, like, how you want us to play that as other players. Like, should we stop sort of, like, are you trying to create a Buggles that is a fusion of the two personalities that is what they are? I think that was something you said in the moment. So yeah, that might be the impression that you're getting is that there's these two entities.

He is Kuala Khan. Kuala Khan is Buggles. That's starting to happen. is that there's these two entities. He is Ku'ulakan. That's starting to happen. That seems what's starting to happen. Yeah. So that's why I feel like Buggles might have more control than we think because he seemed so sharp in that moment and kind of intimidating. To me, it seems like you were frustrated. Like, oh, stop referring to me like I'm two people.

Like, is it like a frustrating thing? Maybe but the way that he said it was like the cool guy. Yeah. You know, like he's, it was Buggles, but you knew he was like intimidating, right? It wasn't like, please stop. Stop. Yeah.

Guys. So, but I think it's a really interesting character choice as we come close to the end. Yeah. Yeah. That he's getting control, and he actually is the prophesized savior of the gob. Yeah. Yeah. That he's getting control and he actually is the prophesized savior of the goblin people. Right. Somehow this is happening. So are you guys gonna stay

here for a while or? Yes. We must rest. Many days. Where are you going, Gic? I thought we were gonna go to the crown of the world. Careful on that icy bridge. What? Careful, oh, and a strong wind picks up. Yeah! Yuck. Ah! And then I land right back where it picked me up. I'm like, that was terrifying. What are the odds?

And I quickly come back inside. You really should be careful out there. Are we moving on? I thought we were going, Ramius, we're staying? I want to boon too. Are you coming with us? Did I forget about Hubert? Did he definitely not come?

I thought he came. I was just thinking that about 20 minutes ago. I don't think he came. I'll bring this up later. About 20 minutes ago too. Wait, did he come? He did, he's got his little goggles on and everything. He said, I don't want to go right at the last moment.

And I think we convinced him to go. I think he's been here the whole time. He was there when we went through the gate and saw the dead people he was being weird about it That's right right. He's here. He's here. He is here. I think he's downstairs when we first walked in I think he probably was like let's do a quick rewind and see what he says it We just cut we just cut to human What oh no my friends and he walks over to these crumpled bodies of the elves. And he just starts cradling them.

He's like, oh no! Brother Amius! I hardly knew he... He's downstairs. Oh my god. We hear him echoing. No! No!

Hubert! Hubert! Oh, I can still hear their voices. Hubert, where my head? I will look up to the heavens. Hubert! And, I can still hear their voices. Hubert, work my head. I will look up to the heavens. Hubert! And praise your names. Hubert, we're alive. I can still hear her stupid, stupid voice.

A melodic voice. Hubert! Still haunts me. Hubert! A melodic voice. The way it whistles so off key through this temple. It's off key whistling. He hates you even in death. I scoop up a snowball and I just fucking lob it at him or Ted. All the ones that I wish- oh! Oh!

Geek! Oi! What's going on there? We're all up here. Oh, everyone! Brother Amos, Z and bottles yep, and still you there you are His head out there. I was just cradling your arm um quick upstairs I should I fainted during this and you just haven't you moved on without me to keep me safe We were just about yes. Yes. We want to make sure we cleared the tower so to speak Oh, we had you come up here. I feel refreshed from that fainting. Let's become

These instances. Oh Who's your new friend? Oh? My name is ill Connie Your friends saved me from a horrible fate. Oh, very good, very good. So are you part of the crew now? Is he coming with us? Yes, I believe he is.

No, no, I'm not. He said specifically he was not gonna. I'm sure you'd like to join us. No, look, I don't even have a shirt. Yeah, he's wearing red. I was just, nothing but tentacles moments ago. I'm going to stay here. No shoes.

And rebuild the temple, and this could take weeks. Why don't you sleep on it, and perhaps going on a mission of certain death is what you need. No, no, I don't wanna be a part of that. I feel like my journey is to do this, and perhaps one day repopulate my people. Well, you're an endling.

I learned that word recently, endling. What did you call me? An endling. It's the last of an extinct species. Oy, I guess that makes me an endling as well. Actually. I need to repopulate. Like this guy, this fellow over here.

Are you flirting with him? No, I don't really know what I'm doing For two episodes But I'm glad to be back. Are we going out this window here? Well? He gets blown away Thanks quite a window. I do wind out there. Yes That is it's a tricky I think I think we're gonna rest definitely the rest Yes. It's tricky. I think we're gonna rest. Definitely gonna rest. Eight hours, a new day,

because I'm gonna fully prepare spells and stuff like that before we set out. Okay, so you head down, try to get comfortable. Maybe you set up the yurt. I don't know, you tell me. Actually, we should. At least practice. Take it for a spin.

Yeah. Oh, this is quite nice. Like before a big camping trip, you set up the tent in your own backyard. Yes. There's no practice. Take it take it take it for a spin. Yeah. Oh, this is quite nice Like before a big camping trip you set up the tent in your own backyard. Yeah, just like Yeah, as you go inside it's just way larger on the inside There's the outside because it's beautiful fireplace food just food magically appears to provide you with sustenance You're just you're eating of it and we we pan out and we just see a shitty old dirty tent right there of it and we pan out and we just see a shitty old dirty tent right there amongst Edward's research supplies and we keep panning outwards and to see this bridge and then we just see the high ice, just a wide open expanse of white and we'll see you next week.

Oh man, this is going to be awesome. I was going to say awful. This is going to be awesome. Well, a bit of both. Big, large, barren landscape to stop in. Yeah, big, polar expedition. Polar Express. With Hubert.

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