The Glass Cannon Podcast - Gatewalkers Episode 98 – The Fissure Queen

Episode Date: August 15, 2025

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You are listening to the Glass Cannon Network, the premier source for role-playing game entertainment. Last week on the Glass Cannon podcast. Zephyr started her turn and became paralyzed. Buggles, paralyzed. Very bad. It's time for the queen. She looks at Gick.

Give me a will save against Dominate. Oh, no. No. She wants you to move right to the edge of the pit. Oh. Oh. Huh. Where are you going?

Ah, ma'am. She wants you to hurt Brother Rameas with one of your spells. Come to me. You need to make a fortitude save. Oh, fortitude? Sorry! You critically failed. You're all so deafened.

For one minute. The zombie peels off, comes towards you, and attempts to shove you into the pit. But I'm doing what she wanted. So you get pushed in and you are hanging from the edge. Zephyr, you're back. She's back! Bursting at the fucking seam. Letics check against your fortitude, D.C.

Into the john. I put you into the ditch. Grab the edge. I stomp on your fingers. Stop fall. She yells at this other one. I am going to attempt to shove Zephyr in. Natural 20.

The adventure continues now. The last time you had a milkshake. Ooh, I love milkshakes. Like a milkshake? Love them. What flavor? Like a black and white? Chocolate.

Jumoka. They used to have Jemoka when I was a kid at McDonald's. Jemoka. Which was coffee and chocolate. I think it was like coffee and chocolate. I do love a coffee ice cream. So that as a milkshake is delicious. Coffee.

Wait, a Jamoka, is that just the McDonald's version of like an affigato? I guess. I don't know. Interesting. Jamoka, like it's a, I think it's a play on Jamaican. They were big in the 80s. Jamaicans? There were a, I do remember.

They were all over the place. That's true. John Candy was in a movie movie? Yeah, that's true. I feel like they were really big. No, they were in the Olympics and. Francis is losing his mind back there was a country on everyone's lips They're like let's call it a Jomoka sounds like Jamaica and they'll buy it

This was actually pre I think it was at Arbys I'm looking at Jumoka and it's an Arby's thing Oh you know what you're right I that sounded familiar to me yeah no it is Arbiz coffee and chocolate My dad worked for Arbys where he didn't work for Arbys but he was a restaurant supplier and one of his his biggest client was Arby's. That was actually, you know, they have to have those like orange chairs in Arby's, those like orange chairs that they have at the tables. Those were our kitchen chairs.

They got them free from Arby's. So we had Arby's chairs. Somebody hacked the recipe, three cups of vanilla ice cream, a cup of cold coffee, cup of milk, three tablespoons of sugar, three table spoons,

three table spoons. You don't get me in such a twos. No wonder was delicious. Three table spoons. spoons of chocolate syrup. I mean, you can't beat that. Sounds delicious. I could order one for pickup on Route 22 in New Jersey. Oh, my God. They still sell the Jemoka shake? Chimoka shakes are at every RBC. Wow.

Let's go. We all have to try. Wow. McDonald's shakes were always good. I mean, you look now, and it's like, oh, that's, that's pig intestines. But, like, they're delicious. Not dairy, gum-based beverage? Yeah, it's not dairy gum-based. But I still, I'm a giant milkshake guy. I love milkshakes. Well, here's the thing. You go off for ice cream. Like, we go off for ice cream.

Like, we go off for ice cream, you know, once every week and a half in the summer. Once the ice cream place near our home open, you take the kids every time. No one's a bigger ice cream person than me. I'm the ice cream guy. You took us off for ice cream that one time. Love ice cream. And the, you sit down, you're like, all right, I'm going to get, you never get a frap or a milkshake. You always want to get ice cream.

But I'm always tempted when I see the flavors because they can make a milkshake out of any other flavors. I'm in the same position. I never eat. I never get milkshakes. You always get ice cream. Yeah, because whenever I'm at an ice cream place, I get ice cream. I'd rather have a milkshake. You'd go get a milkshake.

I just love the continuous act of, like, drinking it. Yeah. Frap, you guys say Frap or milkshake? Do you know the difference? I don't have never heard that before. Yeah, I knew when I said it. I was like, I don't think they know what I thought you were saying something short for Frappuccino. To me, a Frap is like with blended ice and a milkshake is like hard ice cream with milk.

It's definitely a Massachusetts thing. It's a Massachusetts thing. But the way we distinguished it was like a milkshake. is with milk and syrup, and a frap is with ice cream and milk and syrup. Oh. So a milkshake you could make with just milk and fucking, and here's your milkshake, whereas a frap had ice cream in it. I want the ice cream.

Friendlies, everybody's, they do fraps. Yeah, yeah. Friendlies, yeah. I had in the 90s growing up, we had these things at home where we could make our own milkshakes. It was like a plastic cup. You were alive in the 90s? Yep.

And it's like a plastic cup. 99? A little bit. A little bit alive. December in 1999? It caught the tail end of the Clinton presidency. I remember. I remember these cups.

They were like these, they almost looked like the shape of old milk bottles with like a little bottleneck. And they came apart in the middle. So you would take the top half off. You would scoop the ice cream in, push it back together, pour the milk in. And then it had like a cap on it, like an old milk bottle. You would like shake it up like a margarita shaker. and then when you opened it, it had like holes so you could like slurp the ice cream milkshake through it. Interesting.

And they were, I don't know, it was like, were milkshakes really popular in the 90s? I don't know. They were popular like when our parents were children. Yeah, that was the thing. We would make them at home, though. Maltors, egg creams. Yeah, we had Ovaltine in the cabinet. My dad was a big fan of like Olvelteen malted chocolate milk mix.

But I would make milkshakes at home all the time. And I preferred it over just eating ice cream. I was going to say, did you put ice cream in there? Yeah, yeah, yeah, ice cream and milk and you would just, like, shake it. Milkshake. I'm from New York. This is a milkshake. Delicious sounding fraps.

But I love milksh. I agree with food. The convenience and just, it's nice to. It's a guilty pleasure. You know, it's always funny to me that everyone's so fit and thin in Los Angeles, and they're all eating cheeseburgers and milkshicks. I imagine they just all throw it up. From in and out?

Yeah, they go home. They throw it out of it. Because, like, there's all diner culture is big in L.A. And in and out, it's like you get your double cheeseburger. and a milkshake. And then you force yourself to throw up. Well, they all have gyms in their garages and stuff. That's true.

That's different. And they don't drink 100 beers. I feel like you're poop-pulling milkshakes altogether. Yeah, they're way too thick. Too thick. They need out with more milk. T-H-I-C-C-C-C. Gross.

I don't want to drink my ice cream. I like a sonic blast or like a McFlurry. Like at that point, it's just ice cream. You're not sipping that through a straw. You're using like a soft serve with chunky stuff and it's a, I, ice cream. What's the Wendy's one? The only time I like liquid ice cream.

Frosty. The only time, no, it's still kind of like a milkshake. Well, that's thicker than even a normal. It can't just be ice cream. But the only time it's okay is if you have ice cream in a bowl and you mash it up and you make ice cream soup. Ice cream soup. Yeah.

It can't be melty though. It needs to be just soft. Yeah. Okay. Once it melts, it's no good. So, no, I don't like milkshakes. I like ice cream soup. Okay.

And I like. How about soft serve ice cream? What about soft serve? the devil's ice cream. Yeah, but only for a second because it melts. It does melt quickly, yeah. It needs to have, like, sprinkles on it. You know what you need?

The fucking dip. Diep. Dip. The hard shell. Oh, I love the hard shell. Again, though, I go to Dairy Queen. I'm getting a blizzard, even though I know. Every time. Their cherry dips are fucking lights out.

I wouldn't get anything other than a Butterfinger Blizzard given the opportunity. It's insane. You must go to Dairy Queen every day of the week if you go to Dairy Queen once and don't get a blizzard. You must be sick of Dairy Queen You must be so disgustingly sick Of the greatest ice cream treat of all time Which is insane because of Dilly bar

Delicious Yeah But when are you getting you get him to go? Because you're not going to knock Get a Blizzard immediately My wife doesn't understand my love Of Dairy Creek We drove by one yesterday

I'm like We gotta go She's like You just keep driving I'm like I'm not gonna pass two We see another one I'm stopping This is God telling us Kids are like

Dad we don't want ice cream I'm like It's up for you! And we don't have any in the city. No, there's one in Union Square. Oh, not Union Square, but 14th Street on the west side. It was a big deal when it opened up. Is it still there?

What? Let me go to Maps.com. Is it still there? Because I thought we lost all of them. We are all on Maps. We lost all of them. I think we lost them. There were no survivors.

The Great Dairy Queen War. Oh, my God. Did they get rid of it? I'm almost convinced that they all... Oh, my God. The worst casualty of COVID. When I search. for Dairy Queen in Manhattan.

I get two hits. McDonald's and five guys. Well, that's not the same thing at all. I'm sorry, Wendy's. It's gone. And five guys. Yeah, it's not showing it. It was on 14.

I remember the day it opened. I was living in Queens. I sat on a train for 45 minutes to go there. Anytime I had an audition in the area, middle of summer, I'm like, I guess I could walk a couple blocks. What's going on? There's none in any of the boroughs here. No, there was only one in Manhattan.

There's one in Staten Island. That doesn't count. That's basically New Jersey. I think it's like at the, station, from what I heard. It's disgusting. My brother used to go there. It's right there.

But they have them in New York. They're in like, yeah, yeah. You know, there's one in Wappager Falls. I got to drive 45 minutes to go to a Derry Queen. Wow. I'll do it. I'll do it. I have a Dairy Queen.

For us this summer. Oh, I know. On the interchange of my town. Right when you go on highway. So every time you go anywhere and every time you come home, you greeted by a dairy queen. That's incredible. Very hard to not. I would be five hundred times.

Yeah. I'll tell you what will keep you away, though. pretty decently. It's like coming off the highway on a summer evening at like 8 o'clock and there's just 50 people in line. Oh, yeah, I'm good. That's no good.

Yeah, it gets very crowded. Growing up, did you have like a mom and pop ice cream place in your town? Carter's. That you would go to? And then I worked at the... Oh, you worked at the... I worked at J.C., which was John Cena's parents.

But Carter's in Haverill, Massachusetts. Well, it's really in Bradford. That's like people come from all over. But ice cream, I don't know. I guess it's big everywhere. But growing up, I always felt like you go down to like, because we're close to the beach. So like if you start driving towards the beach, there's other places like Hodgis

where you get like, can I just get a quarter kitty and it's nine scoops? That's their whole thing. But the closer you get to the beach is ice cream sand, ice cream stand, ice cream stand, and everybody's got their own. But growing up for me, it was Carter's. We had the dugout and it was like shaped like a baseball dugout and it had all this baseball logo on it. It was very cute.

It's, I think it's out of business now. What was yours? Rocky Mountain Creamery? Lickety Split. Oh, great names. It was right downtown. It was right downtown. Another like big family.

I knew a lot of people who worked there. Sure. That was a big, like, great job for high schoolers, yeah. Okay, what was yours? I'm looking up right now to see if it still exists, but it was Elkins. I don't know, like, how, um, that's the name of the proprietor. I don't know how local it was, if it wasn't, like, a franchise or not, but that was the one that we went to. Did it feel local?

I don't think I knew what local was then. Fair. It's what I remember going to. Did they have two flavors? L-dash-Kens. Oh, that's a little bit fun. Yeah. L-Kens.

L-dash-Kens. I thought it was like elk-like. Elkins? Elkins. That doesn't sound American. What about like stewards? You had like stewards, though. Stuarts is.

Oh, no. The Times Union demolition takes last bit of Elkins' restaurant. Yeah. Oh, no. I thought it went down. Oh, my God. What'd they do with all the ice cream? Joe, what was yours called?

Well, I had, so the main one by, that was closest to me, I think, was Jack Frost. Oh, that's fine. Another good name. than L. Kens. And then, but then we considered it, the Kins. But then we considered it local, like when I was in high school and stuff, was Ritas. Oh. But now that's everywhere.

Ritas? The Italian Isis? Yeah. I didn't have Ritas. And I was like, I feel like Ritas is a Philly thing. I feel like it. Long Island thing. It's a Pennsylvania thing.

And I just looked it up. And it's, and it was created in 1984 by a former Philadelphia firefighter on, who used to do an Italian ice business. on his front porch in a suburb of Philly. Oh, that's adorable. Yeah, it was a Philly thing. So, yeah, that was like where you'd hang out in high school and stuff. We got to read as near us.

And I didn't have it until I was 30. My wife grew up in Hershey, Pennsylvania, said they had it all the time. And you get the gelati, which is half slush, half soft serve. Yeah. So it's like water ice with soft serve on top of it. It's Italian ice with soft ice. I mispronounced it. Water ice.

Water ice. Water ice. Water ice. Water ice. Water ice. Water ice. Water ice. Dollop on top.

It sounds like. Puppies? I remember Slusch puppies. I remember going to Italy and having slush puppies. And people being like, we got to get gelato.

Yeah. And me being like, this isn't water ice with a scoop of soft serve on it. Wait, how old were you when you had the SNAFOO? In my 30s. Jolato?

You didn't know a gelato? No, I had never had like gelato. No. Wow. A food. It's a culinary buff food. Dude. I didn't have Mexican food

until I was in college. And it was Taco Bell Tell me Tell me when someone recommended gilato You went Is it weird? What is it? Is it like water ice?

Is it weird? What is it? Oh, it sounds terrible. I got gelato Probably eight places on this block That have pretty decent gelato Anyway, I had it And it was very good

It's very good Yeah Yeah. Slush puppies though I've never had a slush puppy I've never had a slush puppy No we used to drink He's got slurpees a lot

Slurpees all the time with McDee. Oh, I remember my first slurpee feeling high. Oh, yeah. Someone told me like something happens. Yeah.

They get the all, all syrup squishy. There's so much sugar in it. I stayed at my buddy's house in high school, uh, and we watched a wrestling pay-per-view, and his dad had the spice channel. Oh.

So we watched the wrestling paper view, and then he would be like, check this out. Divorced parents. So, dad, who knows what he was doing? It's like, check this out. There was no bigger jackpot than having a friend with divorced parents. Yep.

Yep. Man, you get to clean up. My friend, Steve. He lived with his dad and divorced. I mean, his place was insane. He had like four video game consoles. Oh, yeah. Which was like crazy in 1992 or whatever it was.

You get one of them. I mean, just, I mean, the walls of video games, just like bookshelves filled with Nintendo cartridges. It was like, this must be heaven. Yeah. Having divorced. Yeah. Loaded with it's not your fault gifts

And the dude like Had to work And so and so he just like leave him Leave us alone all the time and he would just like You eat whatever you want There was only junk food in the house and then like watch No mom there to police you dude Rated our movies

Yeah dude Yeah it's very very strange But we drove to school the next day I wish my parents would get divorced Then I get two Christmases That's where we had the The story wasn't as good Yeah slurpees

Slurpees are good Slush puppies We had a slush puppy machine At my high school So if you had like a lunch thing You could go Like cherry slush puppy They were really good

You know, speaking to Dairy Queen Mr. Misty So good It's like a slush drink I never heard of that Oh my God Mr. Misty They might not even make it anymore

Isn't that what a slush he is Anyway, it's a slush drink Mr. Misty is a nostalgic name For a frozen treat specifically a slushy-like drink offered by Dairy Queen. Oh. I never knew that. It's not either.

Damn right. It's nostalgic. It's because you just order a blizzard when you go there. I know. That's the thing. Well, we would, after baseball, like our coach once in a while, I'd be like, going to Dairy Queen if you win, so we'd get the bag of his pickup truck all unbuckled, just like driving to Dairy Cree, different in the 80s.

These three beers deep. Two, three kids fly out of the flatbed, like on the highway. And we'd get there and he'd be like, whatever you want. And at that point, you would be going to Derry Queen sometimes three times a week. You'd be like, you know, I'll get the Mr. Misty this time. But, yeah, otherwise, why not just get there? Derry Queen, if you're watching, we're accepting sponsor. We'll be back right after this week.

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The Dairy Queen of Dice Manufacturers. That's what they call them. Well, like we said, all those options, right? All those crazy options you don't know about, the hydrascale dice we talked about recently, the bouncy scented dice. Which I were recording this so far in advance, but they must be out now. And I'm sure they smell great. I'm sure they smell amazing.

Collectible cans and such. The hydrodice come in eggs, unique egg cases. Oh, that's fun. I know. It's just so they're very clever with their offerings. They have a Butterfinger Blizzard flavored dice. Oh, that's a great idea. Fiamer Feltzerd-scented dye.

It's so hard to not eat it. I know. I just want to start chewing it. I just start eating. I couldn't get mad at it. I couldn't get mad at it. And of course, Foundry Virtual Tabletop. Everyone.

But Kate will enjoy that this week. her pawn. It's no longer on the map. I don't know what you're talking about. I'm going to live forever. Where did you guys put my character? Oh, three, we haven't had a three-ep comboni in a while. It's been a minute.

Yeah, the comment's not even over. Yeah, two weeks ago. It was like two hours long. I tried. I tried, but there's just a lot going on here. You've whittled these enemy forces down to just, what, three? Two, two. Just the queen and the killer.

One boss of one little bodyguard, yeah. Oh, my God, that's crazy. You left one, and you haven't even really dealt with the queen yet. She's just flying around, buzzing, having her minions do all her dirty work for you, and it's working. Dominated Gick is still dominated, by the way, made her walk towards the edge so one of her Black Frost zombies could push you over, and then it's just stomping, stomping on you trying to get down, miss, miss, miss.

What a well-timed miss. And then I feel as if this has been Zephyr's story since day one. You come in and do something heroic to save your friend and then you take the brunt of the damage because when you go up to the edge to kill the zombie that were his harassing gick that would have almost certainly got you this next round while the queen is just holding you at bay. You push that one in and then the last remaining zombie comes up and quits you. you fly 10 feet and into the pit you fall 150 feet oh my god take 75 points of damage

oh that's it well I also minus 10 feet because a cat fall and I get rolling landing so I'm on my feet oh are you conscious are you okay wait a minute yeah I'm still alive wait a minute wait a minute Wait a minute There's no rule on catfall

That's over a certain point Allows you to cushion Treat falls is 10 feet shorter If you're, Are you an expert yet in acrobatics? Trained Trained, all right If you're an expert

It'd be 25 feet shorter 50 feet if you're a master You're legendary You always land on your feet Might be something you want to work towards If we continue this campaign All right so that's going to be 140 feet

And then what's the other thing called? I have a rolling landing Rolling landing And that works for 140 foot drops Land with quick rolls That help you keep momentum If you fall and don't take damage Oh

Let's just skip that part Let's just skip that part Yeah Also so catfall you just take less damage It doesn't say anything about not going prone Right? No if she was legendary Then she would land on her feet

Is what he said But she has to go prone Oh yeah now I'm going to be Yeah So you take 70 points of damage I'm fine How are you though? Are you?

Let me just... Because you got healed. I've been worse. I've been much worse. Sheesh. Gick thinks you're fucking dead. It's like, ah... Darkness.

Jeff, no! And you hear. Boof. I'm okay. I'm okay. Echoing up the canyon. I'm okay. I'm very badly burned.

Zephyra is down. She's taking 70 points of damage. She's lying on her back at the bottom of this pit. There is a black-for-a-zombie. next to you in this pit. Oh, boy. It is. I don't even know what's going on in terms of the actual combat itself.

It is the, oh, wait, that zombie, that was first action was go over there. Second action was push you. Third action, it closes on kick. Would it even know I'm there? I mean, how smart is this zombie? I'm hanging on the edge. Hey, it's just closing on that area. And now it's easy.

I just want you to be honest. How convenient. I want you to be honest so you can sleep at night. I sleep comfortably. Okay. One and a half hours at night. Hmm. Sounds nice.

And I toss a turn the other seven. It is the Queen's turn. She still gets turns. I know. It's the third week she's had a turn. So dumb. It's the third week she's had a turn. Man.

Man. Man. Man. Don't. I do two of the targets. You two of the Targeses. Don't. Don't.

Don't. Okay. Well, I should be honest here. So she... Yes, please. She delayed Gick's turn. I don't think I can just delay you indefinitely. No, you have to...

No. This is what I would say. During a round, I'll have to eventually take my turn. Well, it's interesting. It's interesting. You take and forcing if you are... What? You can delay and never take your turn.

Really? Yeah. Which would be great for us. But for Dominate. Include or even delay. It says that. It does specifically mention that. Or even delay.

And then delay, I just want to make sure you wait for, I just want to make sure you wait for everyone and act. The rest of your turn doesn't happen yet. Instead, you're removed from initiative order. You can return to that as a free action triggered by the end of any other creature's turn. I, of course, control that. This permanently changes your initiative. You can't use reactions until you return to the initiative order.

If you delay an entire round without returning, the action. the actions from the delayed turn are lost and your initiative doesn't change and your next turn occurs at your original position in the initiative order. Okay. So I can, yeah, just have you delay

rate, permanent land. Okay, dokey. Maybe I won't. Maybe I won't. Maybe I won't. I'm hanging, literally. Um, I do wonder, though, like,

yeah, it's an interesting conundrum you bring up. Professor Eric. Way in. Yeah, it's interesting, because, like... Because she would get a will save every round. You get the will serve at the end of your turn. Like, if you have a dying roll, you can't delay.

It does seem a little O.P. To never let me roll out, even though I... But it makes sense in that, like, you're dominated. It's also not hurting us either. It's true. You're dominated, you're not making any, like, opposing, uh, psychic, like, moves that would make you roll that save. Well, it's...

Except making her delay is... I guess. Is a move. Yeah. So... That's interesting. That's interesting. It's a bit of a conund.

I am. If I'm curious if there's a ruling about it, because from the wording, it seems like you can just do it. Yeah. But that seems a little. Is there otherwise a time, a time limit on how long? A duration, yeah. Is it sustained? Oh, that's a good question.

That would be an important detail. That is a very important thing. You would have had to sustain that. The duration is until next time you make your daily preparations. Oh, so it's a whole day. Is it sustained, though? No, probably not. No, the duration is.

Wow, that's a hugely powerful That's how it is in 1E That's like Yeah, I mean, it's a sixth ranked spell It's meant to be a game changer But it does seem like you can game the system By making you delay indefinitely It almost makes it worse than critical failure

Yeah, well, for now it's going to have you delay And then Oh boy, this is This is real tough position to be in. Hate to see her friends hurting. I hate to see it. I know I hate to see it.

But I have to play her the way she's meant to be played. The question is if I want to really drop some ham here or just yeah, I'm going to do one, two, three, Rameas,

four, five, six buckles. Two, Rameas. Okay. Good news is I have to fly. No, I can get to you one. All right, so she flies down to you, and she lands next to you. And she just goes to punch you. Natural 20.

Stop! Same dye. I just can't take it. Same dye as last week. week. You knew it was going to come back around. You knew what was going to come back around.

Oh, my gracious, she is a named character, of course. Oh, shit. Let me get something from Boston, Massachusetts. Give me a real asshole. A real mass, holio.

God, I can't believe you just roll fucking crits on me every single time. This one's from Shocker. Tom in Boston. Shocker. Up to 70 Toms that submitted crits from Boston. I wonder if he knows who he is.

He's that Mount Tom in Hampshire Valley is named after him. This one is called Your Turn to Suffer. Pain is just weakness leaving the body. Scratch that. Their pain is weakness leaving your body. Double damage. And you become immune to one of the following conditions. Your choice.

Me or you? You. For 1D4 rounds. Clumsy, drained, enfeebled, stupefied. Thank you, Tom. Thanks, Tom. That's a good one. Yeah. That's interesting. Yeah. I'll take drained. Okay. Take drained.

So you're drained one. It's not that bad. It could be worse. All right. Many, many things are about to happen. Let's start with the damage. I can't even say a couple things. It's a lot. In terms of damage, you're going to take... Oh, man. 52 points of bludgeoning damage? Just make sure I got that right.

No, no, excuse me. 46. 46 points of bludgeoning damage. And 12 cold. That was nice. six on cold for me? I did. Jesus Christ!

Stop! 58 points of damage. Stop! Stop! With this critical hit, this can only happen on a critical hit, she hits you in such a way that the wound

that is created by her fist creates this unnerving, blackened appearance on your skin that begins to spread. It's almost like an advanced form of frostbite or charring that starts to like rapidly spread across your body and you have this moment of dizziness presuming you're still standing up i shouldn't presume that yeah i'm still

standing up you have this moment where all of this blackness around you all of this black frost that didn't bother you at all as you walked through this now it almost feels like it's itching at your skin, and I need you to roll a fortitude save. 27. It's a fail. You're lucky that wasn't a critical failure. However, you will take 12 more points of cold damage

as you have been inflicted with black frost rot. Oh, God. Boy. What is this? It is. A curse, a disease, a killer. And she is then, with her final action, going to close on buckles. It is brother Rameas' turn.

It's already sick enough I barely get by without having a horrible frostrod disease It's the last thing he needed Talk about a bad day For real Someone has a case of the Mondays I mean

The amount of roles That have to go exactly in that order. I just hate them. I hate dice. It's almost like you have bad luck or something. Unbelievable. Let's see if we can have it continue.

It would be great. I am going to... I don't know if I can watch this. She just moved up to Buggles. Yep. Stayed on the ground. All right. He's just like...

And he looks up and he sees her going over to Buggles and he knows he's going to die. This is it for him. You imagine that whatever has happened to you, she's going to do to Buggles. Yeah, so he doesn't want it happening to Buggles. And just if it can be the last thing I do, may save him.

And he will fire a two-action heel at her. Okay. So I need a fortitude save. All right. It looks like she's frightened. I don't know why. She is frightened. From the, uh, demoralized.

Demoralized. Oh, right, right. Okay. That's why I wanted to get a spell off on her this round, so I was like, please don't hit me. At least I was up. Fortitude save, 30. Come on, come on.

It wasn't a great role. I know, but it just sucks. I just really need like a big turn. You know what I mean? And I just can't fucking get it. uh all right so that is uh half half damage

is 33 points uh okay and then he will and then he will use an interact action on himself to draw from his vital beef. Okay.

We'll heal him myself 4D10. I can't believe you stood up after the crit. Yeah, he's standing there. He's just like, Heva, save this off as long as you can. And his divine healing is going to bring his hip points up. It's not going to do much about this disease right now. So, yeah, let's see if I can get some decent healing. Nope.

16 on 4D10. Fuggles is no longer paralyzed. He is so frightened by being in her order, aura here. He's standing next to the queen. What do you do? So he sees her closing on him. He's like, yes. And he invites the Kulukon.

Yes. It's like, boom, like the minute she gets up to him. Just boom, this explosion of this aura. And as a matter of fact, I think, no, I can't do it. So, yeah, he just says, aura emerges and it's going to attempt an ignition, an amped ignition. Amped ignition. Okay. That is a 35 to hit.

That is a hit. Okay. And she seems to be, if I remember, she's weak to fire. I think so. So this is 47 points of fire damage. Actually, 48 points of fire damage. 48 points of fire damage. And two points of cold damage.

48 points of fire. She is immune to the cold. She takes the 48 points of fire damage. And the 10 from being weak to fire. And she falls. Yeah. Wow, I had no idea she was that close. Yeah.

We've been chip, chip, chipping. The Kuala John. Away. Oh, fuck yeah. That's awesome. Oh, huge. that was only your first action there is one more enemy

Gick is hanging from a ledge Zephyr is at the bottom of the pick Giff is also Dominate although I don't know I imagine that goes away now that the Dominator is gone and Rameas is like got black crawling up his neck

Okay and with his last action he is going to whip around like look at the last zombie and do a cyberstance Head it. Oh, sideburst. I'm going to need a fortitude save, please. Fortitude save from the zombie, uh, 24.

Okay, that is a fail. Okay, and that's not mental energy, right? It is meant, well, no, I'm going to do bludgeoning. I'm going to do bludgeoning. Okay. And it takes 19 points of bludgeoning down. It had 17 hit points. Yes.

Oh, my God. Yes. If we weren't paralyzed, it would have been different. Yeah. Wow. Buggles, one man wrecking through. And, like, he lifts his little hands up to the, up to the sky. And this, like, fire just, like, erupts from his body consuming the remains of this queen.

It's like, this vortex of fire. And eventually, it's like he's suppressed. And Buggles comes back to himself, looking down at the smoking corpse of this. Amazing. All right. Let's, I'm going to take you. out of initiative here. The reason I'm being

cagey about it is this affliction that you have is about to move on to a new stage. That fast? Yes. You need to start working on yourself. What is it? Disease. They all work differently. They all have different times between stages. So I just want to see what if anything... How long between stages?

You have a minute before it's going to go to the next stage. So start working on yourself. There's nothing you can do. No. You can't do anything. I mean, I can just heal myself. Remove disease. You don't have that? I do.

And it takes 10 minutes. Oh, shit. I am. It's a rank 4 spell. I also want to just point out because I'm, we might get, I'm missing something. We might get some write-ins from Professor Eric. With the delay, there's no way that Dominate would be that O.P. In the wording of delay, when you delay, any persistent damage or other negative effects that normally occur at the start of end of your turn, occur immediately when you use the delay action.

Oh, so I should have... That's fair. I should have gotten a save the minute you forced me to delay. Oh, that's interesting. Interesting. Which is an interesting take, but it makes sense, because if I'm taking actions... That's an order. Yeah.

It's an order. Give me the save. I'm just curious if I would have made it. If I would have made it. Same. Ooh, natural 13. Might not have. My will is in 18.

Oh, yeah. 31? 31 is DC30. Oh, so it would have been a crit success. So you would have had a chance to close. Climb up, you're climbed up. Which might, yeah, now I'm climbed up. You are.

And everyone's dead. It was your turn next. So, you found that within time had Buggles not finish the fight. But she looks at Ramius after climbing up. What's, what happened? I'm coming. Where's Zephyr? Hold on him.

I'm on my way. Rameas, give me another save. Rameas. Hold on a second. Give me right now. Bugles. Shut your mouth and you're talking to Steve. Dick runs over to Rameas.

Bugles. She's dying. Help him. Oh, man. I'm, like, reaching in my pack. I have a healing potion lesser. You need this? I don't think I have anything.

Okay. So, yeah. So, sorry, I was speaking in pre-remaster. So remaster is cleanse affliction heightened to fourth level. So it's cleanse affliction. And, uh, it's just two actions. Okay.

So it's fine. Yeah, this is crazy. So you're basically going to get two saves. I could be wrong on this. Choose an affliction on a target such as a curse, disease, or poison. In this case, it is a curse and a disease. But I think for all intents and purposes, you're trying to cleanse this thing. So you're going to get this save and then you're going to get the end of one minute save should you fail this one.

So we're saying an initiative? Because I'll harmonize myself. oh yeah you're down at the bottom of the thing just in case something happens yeah okay um let's talk this through because there's a chance cleanse affliction if you biff this does it advance the stage i don't think so i don't see anything here that says it's just a it's just a counteract check you're just trying to counteract so yeah counteract checks i think the worst thing you could do is just fail fail critical fail i don't see anything here that says you would uh Go further, but on the second check, should you not cleanse this affliction,

you would go to stage two on a failure, stage three on a critical failure, and cured with a success. But maybe you could just cleanse it. Okay. Okay. Here we go. Attempt to cleanse affliction.

I'm trying to think. if I'm missing anything it is a what is the this is what I'm trying to figure out is what is the counteract check What do you mean the DC? No, like what do I roll?

I was just assuming I'd roll medicine Add a relevant skill modifier Or other appropriate Oh so that would be relevant skill modifier Right? I mean Edison. Yeah.

The other one. would probably be my spell attack, like bonus, the power of my spells. For spells, the counteract check modifier is your spellcasting attribute modifier, plus your spell casting proficiency bonus, plus any bonuses and penalties that specifically apply to counteract checks. Yeah, so that would be my spell attack roll number. Okay. So what do you want me to do?

Give a roll for that. What, my spell attack number, whatever that is, my counteract number? Yep. And if you succeed, you're cured. If you fail, then we're going to roll a regular fortitude set. And I'm, okay, and I'm no longer frightened. Nope. Although, probably am. Right. Trigger to your boots. Okay. Sorry, just checking multiple things here to make sure everything is correct.

I'm going to do. Okay. Okay. It's interesting here now, for counteracting, there is degrees of success. Yeah. So success, counteract the target, if it's counteract rank, is no more than one higher than your effects counteract rank. Roll my eyes. Failure, counteract the target. If it's counteract rank is lower than your effects counteract rank, I feel like this stuff.

Basically, it's her level divided by two, I think, rounded up. But in cleanse affliction, the success condition is, if it's advanced past stage one, reduced by, stage reduced by one stage. If it's past, you know, if it's stage one, you cure it. Okay, so I think the DC is the DC of the spell. Okay. Or the effect. The effect. Yeah. The counteract

there's more nitty-gritty for counteract, but that's what it's spell versus spell. I'm just stall. Yeah, I know. But yeah, he feels... You got two chances here. He feels like, this black frost is coming over him. He thinks of the elf that was at the top of the temple, Fendladlara.

He saw himself becoming this, this, you know, weapon for a Soyo to weaponize against his friends. And he's like, Keepa, take me if that's going to happen. And he will cast Cleans Affliction. 36. Oh. Yeah. It came.

It came. Oh, I've been waiting for that role for so long. And as he prays and says, like, take me instead of making me be. become something that, because, I mean, he feels like, he feels like Gandalf right now, right? Not to put him on too high of a pedestal, but like, but threw me. I think he's better than Gandalf, but through me, it would work a powerful, too great and terrible to imagine, right? He imagines himself unleashed on his allies as a pawn of a soil.

Yeah, yeah. How powerful he's become, I dare not take it. I dare not take it. And he just, and the blackness just starts to see back into where the initial punch was. slowly dissipates until he and then he just collapses on one knee and one hand on the ground and then on an elbow and then finally to his side and then I'll call out with what energy he has

Zephyr! She's 25 feet up the wall. I'm caught in. Oh, thank you to keep her. I'm not going to make you roll all the checks to climb. I can climb really fast because I have 40 feet of movement. What if she critically fails five feet from me? Look up, Joe. Not interesting. Not interesting.

I don't want to play that game. Throw a rope. We have all that rope. We have all that rope. God. As Brother Rameas falls, all of the creatures are on the ground. Aquendia is down. That eerie wind that was infusing the spire starts to dissipate.

Everything, all of those corpses that were just living a minute ago or revivivis. they start to like freeze instantly just like ice forms around them ice starts to form around Aquendia's like partially mummified body and then as the wind around the spire stops the fissure nearest you and all of the fissures around like erupt the whispering sound just becomes thunderous all of these voices overlapping just like boom starts to shake you Everybody give me a will save from all of these voices like, you feel it behind you, Zephyr, like pushing you up. Are we still frightened?

Is there still an aura? No, the aura is gone. Now it's a full, like, full fetal position, holding his hands over his ears. Like, no, make it stop. No. What did you get? 31. 31, Seth?

28. 28. Also 31? 19. 19. All right. So you're stupid. Superified one for a minute.

Critical failure would have been stupefied one for 24 hours. Oh, that would have been horrible. So that would go away. I wouldn't have to unleash my psyche. Yeah. You'd have to, like, stop. Although you may still have to. At the same time as that happens,

cracks start radiating out along the spire's length, just like, and while they look ominous at first, moments later it becomes obvious that there are layers of black frost that are hardening into flakes that just, and it starts. raining black snow. It's like Chernobyl. It really is.

You're just looking up. Now, Rameas, you, thus far, along with your allies, have been immune to this black frost. But something in that critical hit from Aquendia has made you unimmune for a certain period of time. You see this starting to fall down. What do you do? You have a chance to try and get away from this. Is there any shelter in visible range anywhere, anything to duck into? Yeah, there's some, like, hollowed out buildings that the doors have been ripped off of.

Where? Probably about 50 feet away. Okay. Yeah, he's going to, like, stand up. He doesn't say anything to anybody, but he just feels it, and he's so low on HP. In fact, I'm going to take an action to suck another thing of Vital Beacon from myself. That's 48 healing as it slowly decreases in power in potency, and he'll attempt to just, like, start running the 50s. feet to wherever he sees cover to get out of this snow quote unquote right you can you dive into

there as the snow just begins to fall all around you it's pulling his feet in pulling his legs in and it keeps going it looks like it is constant with no end in sight um give me an occult or even a religion check uh religion's good uh 33 yeah you feel like uh the power of her hit that force this on you as you look down at your skin, you see it like ever so slowly retreating as you cleanse the

affliction. So you feel like whatever she did that made you unimmune to this black frost will eventually go away, but it's going to take 24 hours. Oh my God. Otherwise, the second you step out there or come in contact with black frost, you're going to have to roll to get cursed again.

Roll against the curse. Oh my God. Your allies are standing on there, The black frost snow falling. It's just like Chernobyl. And you're looking out the window. We'll be back right after this quick break. Hi, we're Meg Bashminer. And Joseph Fink.

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My God. Yeah, I mean, I was thinking of Chernobyl going into the break and I was just like, The idea It's just amazing in the HBO show. Have you seen it? Have you watched Chernobyl? No. Oh, wait, wait, wait.

Yes. With Jesse Buckley. She's in it, except she's got really curly hair. Right? I don't know who Jesse Buckley is. I don't think of it. The blonde with the curly hair.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's Jesse Buckley. She's a great actress. She's a great actress. She's in it. Oh, yeah. She's like unrecognizable in it, though,

because she's got. that crazy wig on. Oh, she's so devastating. Very sad story. Devastating. Like, I think about that show. Kate, you love it? I didn't watch it.

I think about it. Not a movie. It's a TV show. It's a long movie. Anyway, in, six episode movie. In part of that show, just being near it, obviously, like a nuclear, you know, meltdown, there's just these moments where, like, someone has to tell someone else, you know, basically, no, I mean, now we're going to die.

Like, yeah. It might not be. for 10 years, but we're going to die, you know, just from being within miles of it. So he kind of has this feeling, like, just even being near the snow as it's like hitting the ground is, he's like, it's going to kill me. Well, that's that literal scene where it's like, it's falling the ash from the fire is falling. And everyone is just like standing out of the bridge, not realizing what is.

And they're laughing. They're like, they're laughing. It's just, ah, yeah. And it's like, and it's like, you know exactly what's going to happen to all of people. And you see some of those characters. later, like, you know, you see that it happens to them. Like, you see a couple on the bridge and, like, they're dead. Like, they straight up are dead. Yeah. Well, you can only imagine in this moment, seeing, you know, having experienced actually being affected by this curse, this

disease, this rot, if a soy-o were able to return and spread this throughout the world, that the world would have no chance. When you think of these Lovecraftian-Cathian-Type Benetys, you know, we all have our own idea of what that would be like. Do they just eat the world like Galactus? Or do they just start raining down pain? No, you realize here that in this case, it's something much more insidious. They can put this out there and turn the world into Ilvarez or Ilvani's, you know, turn the world into these. Poison the world with this effect. With ease. Yeah. Yeah, so he's in there. We also have the yurt.

Do you want us to... We should have wrecked the yurt. Yeah, we can... Does we have to erect the yurt for you? Um, so you come to the cave? I mean, we shouldn't just leave you. Salmon car house. It's been a giant bed.

You come to the cave and he's bloodied, he's beat up, his skin is frost burnt, like all over his face and his neck. And he's just like sliding slowly, like, away from the opening. What does happen? He's just like, come in? Stay out. of the snow. Stay out of the snow. It's going to kill you.

This doesn't do anything. Ramies, it's okay. Are you still frightened or something? She did something to me. We made an angel. Don't do that. Get out of that. Feel sick.

I'm playing that, you nitwit. It's going to kill you. Ramesis, if you think it's going to hurt you, we can put the tent up. I don't think it's going to hurt me, Gick. I know it is. She did something to me. Something that. She undid something

Her soil He He did something to us When we were here before He blessed us Or cursed us in his way With his own protections Against

That black snow She took it away She took it away from me If I step into it I know it's going to come back I can feel it It's just like rubbing his forearm Okay you don't have to

We won't We think we could all use a rest for a second and figure out what we do next. Here, I'll put the tent up. I'll put the tent up. It's okay. I have to wreck the earth near the cave. Can we erect the earth in the cave? Is it that big or is it just a small opening? You keep saying the opening.

It's a house. I'm sorry. Oh. Sort of like an airlock. Just like put the door like right up against. The door. So you can. Yes, put it up there.

I'll come to the earth. I need the fire. I'm so cold. I'm so cold. Starts pulling up the ropes. He took a lot of cold damage. She ties it all up. And, yeah, the entrance is right near the door to this house.

Um, all right, he'll, uh, he'll, like, walk up near the edge of the house and then just, like, run into the earth. Try to not get a flake on him. And, uh, I'll run in after him, start the fire in the center. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I couldn't take them down faster. I was calling for... the keeper's blessing and he felt I don't know far away

as if something about these spires is keeping out all that is good in the world this is a strange place an evil place we've won the day here and I let's like grab some furs and like put them over him

on the kettle on the fire I'll bless you Buckles thank you I don't feel well you see a blackness going up Hubert's neck Oh no

crawling from his exposed neck Hubert you were not here before He was not here before This is what I'm saying He cannot be exposed to the snow Why did you go in the snow? Why he told you not to? Stupid mouse, sit down

Don't touch anything Ramies can you help him? So cold Is he going to turn to a thrall? I will try I can't cast that again And today, so... Convenient.

I can... I can treat affliction, perhaps. Is that a thing? Keep that butcher away. Treat disease. Rather die. Let me die, peace. Die from this curse.

Cursed by your hands. Is he like losing hit points? He lost a bunch from stage one and went straight to stage two a minute later, which makes him weak to cold five and drained one. in a day he will roll again to see if he gets to stage 3 All right, come near the fire I would presume you will not let me

treat his disease You could I wonder where it's a curse Right, so that's the question This is under the medicine action I feel like cleanse affliction is meant to do that But I feel like you can You'd be treating the disease

But not removing the underlying curse I think the curse supersedes the disease you need to remove curse. It ameliorated some of his symptoms maybe without abolishing it. Yeah, so there's really nothing. That won't do anything. It's really just, oh, actually, a success that grants him a bonus to his saving throw against the next stage of the disease. So you could either allow that or not allow that and have to wait for cleanse affliction. I think he'll wait for cleanse of friction.

He's not going to die. He's just... He very well might. I mean, I still have to pass the role the next day on the spell. Yeah. And if I fail it, he could die that day. You know, anyway. I think words of curse, I'm not going to let you do it.

It's more interesting with the story to have him be like, no, no. I've made it this far. I'm sure I can. This one is. Keep going. This one is beefy. Treat disease. You spend eight hours treating the disease creature.

Treat disease is no joke. But yeah, this is a curse. All right. It's all right, Hubert. It's okay. I'm going to pray, prepare, and... Actually, I can prepare multiple castings of it. I would take away some of my offensive capability of the next day,

but I could attempt it a couple times. And, uh, yeah. Uh, Gick will also go up to Hubert, um, and kind of touch his face and look at him. Oh, don't curse me again. Stupid mouse. Uh, and she's going to say, sing.

In the Hobbit curse. No, I'm not a fucking halfling. She's going to kind of pinch his little ear she's going to say Come this way Soothe your pains

Let hope take its place See your face Take it away And she kind of rips this head And she's going to soothe your face. him back some hit points. Nice.

And like a cat, he's kind of like rubbing his little spot by his ear. And you'll get... What will you get? You'll get 11 hit points back. And a plus two status bonus. Oh, to mental effects.

But, yeah. Thank you. Don't eat the snow. No. I want. and get kind of peers out the flap. So what do we do? First we rest.

I need sleep. And this is, he's saying this after a couple hours of working on everybody with, treating wounds, including himself. So, well, I'm just going to hand-wave it and use assurance to just sort of slowly but surely get everybody healed up. But I want to sleep here and wait 24 hours. prepare spells to heal Hubert and wait to see if this diminishes. Or no, I'm saying after 24 hours, I will be immune again.

You'll be immune again. That's your what you feel. That's your what you feel. Gotcha. She did something to like trigger this. To temporarily diffuse the, or, yeah. Okay. Of course.

Hubert does not have that protection. Yeah, I don't know what to do. He would just have to stay in the yurt or stay in the house. We'd have to leave the yurt here with him while we went and did whatever we were going to do. But that's good though. We're not trying to travel over land anymore. We could always just come back to the yurt. Yeah.

Having spous lots to heal him is like a waste. It is. Wow. What did she say? He's an asshole from all of us. Hicking sky. You helped him. He's so mean to you.

He was mean to you while you helped him just now. I know, but I can't let him die. I'm saying let him die. If we do nothing, he's going to die. I must try. I must try. I think I see my mother. He's hallucinating.

Tired. This is typical of the second stage of Black Frost Ratt. Parental hallucination. You've been watching a lot of the pit. Yes. Fucking love the pit. Also known as the best show on Turner.

That's so fucking amazing. It's so got me playing Project Hospital. I'm so yeah. All right. So you wait. You wait. You look outside, constantly watching. What happened?

I'm not even going to peek my head out. Okay. I asked my question. All right. But the others are, Gick has always mentioned, she's looking at the flap. You're resting. You're taking turns resting. The next morning you look out, and the snow.

has stopped, you know, and by the next morning, I mean, 24 hours, whatever, has stopped. And the wind that was whipping around the temple, that shell is gone. The temple is open. So now we can approach. Now we can approach. And odds are, if Astoyo is, you know, conscious or approaching that level, that they are very, very mad at us. Yeah. Yeah, it's understandable.

Yeah. All right. With the night's rest, I will prepare one additional for Hubert. Before setting out or anything, I'm going to try to use the cleanse affliction that is housed within the prayer beads. Oh, you're kind, brother remiss. You don't want to save those spells for the horrors that will face inside. temple no

Hubert no don't focus on that now focus on fighting this thing I know I'm not easy to get along with but you've always shown me kindness

and for that I thank you and my mother thanks you as well and she was about to pass. She was most worried about me not having anyone

to look over me and keep me safe. At the time I didn't understand what was happening with her. Then when she didn't wake up I soon realized why she was so fearful I've done pretty good for myself

I'd say how travelled your world and mine are the planets I guess what I'm trying to say is if perhaps it comes down to saving yourself or keeping old humid around I'll understand if you need to let me go

sure I'll find a way I always do It's not going to happen Hubert You need not concern yourself The keeper is on your side now And he will see you through it And even if he doesn't even if this doesn't work

for some reason or another just know we will not let it come to you being a creature a pawn of this soil I will make sure that you visit the halls of the keeper that you are praised there for the hero you are

the sacrifice you've made in behalf of all of the souls of our planet and others and he will attempt to cleanse affliction Oh

Hubert You son of a bitch I can't you're well natural one on 38 Oh my gosh crazy 38 is almost a critical Oh I was so close Nettie 19 So it moves him from stage two to stage one

Stage one immediately takes 46 cold damage And so he's He feels himself no longer weak to the cold but gets this like icy cold blast through his heart and he said, oh, I think I think it's better, but I feel so cold. So cold. He's no longer drained, no longer weak to cold five,

but he did just take more damage. We throw the furze over him. It's like make sure he's getting by the fire. It took a little, the kettle, like pour him some tea. Yes. drink up So what's the plan? So wait

My knowledge of this curse Does he have now another day Before he would have to roll again? He also hasn't rolled his save Yeah So now he's at stage one And now he'll roll against it To see if he goes cure

Or falls back to stage two But if he's stage two It won't tick again until 24 hours So it's going to be hard for him um to to kind of kind of like putting a band-aid on uh yeah he's gonna have to roll out of it it's yeah he's gonna have to roll out of it natural five so he just boom goes right back uh what is happening to me i feel as if we've bought you time but i know it's very painful so old may take some time but soon soon the healing will work

you must trust that What is the plan? What are we going to go? Um. So your it only works what today. So you can't like... Stay here all the head. I didn't chill in the yurt.

I like, I pull, Buggles pulls, get Mark aside and says, he's not strong enough of this. I think it can survive the disease. Human? Yes. We can at least get him

into the tower with us. I mean, maybe it'll be better in there It's better than out here The yurt's not going to be able to stay through the morning And then I mean, what do you think? Take him with us It's no choice

Whether that or leave him Somewhere here to die Perhaps there's something Find within Could help him Take the chance on that As it is I don't see him living another day,

day. I'd rather give him a chance than just leave him. Even though he's so fucking annoying and so mean sometimes. Nothing but to bed and horrible, horrible person.

It doesn't help us and just eats the rations. But I... But he is still one of us. He's all right. I mean, we've done so much wrong. It wouldn't hurt us to do a little a little right thing.

we're in agreement then we won't leave him to die take him okay and we just i'm looking at hubert who's just like sweating and shivering by the fire what does zephyr look like she's watching you two talk over there and she's like rolls her eyes looks at hubert we're nodding at zephyr It's like, I don't know, mindlessly wrapping her hand wraps around her hands over and over again. She's taking them off, wrapping them again, waiting to leave. We can't leave him here? The yurt only works once a day, so we would have to leave him, like, outside. Or in the house.

Or in the abandoned house. The ruin. Yeah, in the ruin. In the cold. The doorless cold. Oh, no, it's not stowing anymore, so he can come with us. Right, but I'm just saying it's just dangerous. Yeah, it's always dangerous, but he always comes with us anyway.

The affliction doesn't affect that as well, I'm saying. Mm-hmm. All right, sorry, Hubert, but if you can walk, we have to go now. He must come with us. Maybe I could ride on one of your backs. The snow is pretty thick here. I don't want to get it on my toes. Whatever is happening to me could get worse.

And could I just sit my... wrap my legs and parts around your neck. Of course, yes, you can climb on my shoulders. You seem very light. Yes, let's give it a try. Sorry about that. I get your little roused on a mill. Oh, Hubert.

I apologize. What is that? I'm sorry. Oh, Hubert. Your hair is moving. It's mostly peeve. Oh, it's warm down my back. So sorry.

It's hard being me. Zephyr smuggles and gick. Nods. Nice up here. At least he's not on your back. Yeah. I don't know what you want. Great.

Great. It's mostly urine. Mostly, just urine. Oh, that's it? Mostly. It's just urine, Rameas. Don't worry. They said it was just urine.

Mostly. Mostly. Mostly. Mostly. Don't touch it. Uh, all right. Wash your hands, Rameas. It's mosa urine, but anything else, I don't know.

Let's go. All right. I'll see the wizard. All right, let's go. All right, we head out toward the central John's. So before you, just trudging through this black ash, up to your, like, ankles, Hubert on Rameas's neck. It is cool. It's just like this horrible, deadly substance that we all, all of us happen to be immune to.

Yeah. Just kind of, yeah, just wading through. Through it. Just waiting through it, it would destroy populations. Yeah. It's crazy. Scoop of this, you just go, destroy a village. You now see what Queen Aquendia became.

It made Riddleston so jealous. You approach the first and last temple of Akakaru. It is a solid mass of stone blocks stacked high and covered. covered with these plates of black basalt. There is a short, like, foyer hallway at the base of this hexagonal pyramid that ends at an immense set of stone double doors. You see handles have been carved directly into the doors

and positioned at a height of about six feet. These are doors for, Salman Carr to use you know at least beings twice the size of most of you and much larger than Hubert and Gick

the entrance to the temple let's go to the map oh yes don't cheer don't you mean it's bad let's go I want to see it so bad

I never wanted to just roleplay more imagine we all died and we never got to see the inside I know think about that Think about that. That. Oh, boy, it looks so ominous. Geez. Oh, I hate it already.

Oh, no. Defer, wait. Defer, come back. I want to see what's on this side. No! Where are you guys? I'm split in the fucking party. Always have to look around.

Oh, is it a giant hexagon? You're so tiny compared to this. Oh, my God. We're, like, slipping across the ice. Woo, wow, wow, wow, wow, whew. Bo, wow, wow, wow, whew. Whoa. Woo-hoo.

Woo-hoo. Woo-hoo. All right. All right, enough. Not falling around. So just walk on the front door? Yeah, just through the door, I guess. Should we knock?

We open the door. Wait. Someone's got to do what Matthew does. Do I get it for trap? Fuck that. No one's got to do. So boring. So open the door.

So open the door. All right, open the door. All right, open the door. I could open the door. whoa yeah dude you're like boom we're here it's rock the fuck is a soyo oh so yo oh so yo we should start like yeah disrespecting the pronunciations respecting oh so yo the elder's god uh you walk up to open the doorway and you hear your own voices enter your minds like you're like an inner monologue that you are not in control of. You hear your own voices talking back to you.

I'm telling you to turn back. Go back. What are you doing? Go home. Let it go. Wind seems to blow the ash around you, leaving a clearing here in front of the door. That is my, that is my former self. That is he who went beyond the gate. I'm different now. I've changed. I always have an inner monologue screaming at me in my head. This is no different. I know what I must do. And I know not to listen to my inner monologue, so let's kick that door open.

Shagunk. You open the door. Oh, an anticlimactic door open. It's a vestibule. You open it. I'm in 10 feet of another door. 10 feet away, another door. And I'm running through.

Small little hallway, pitch dark inside. the only light coming in from the open doorway. Rameas is going to hold on. One moment. He's going to close the door behind us. Wait, let me. Sealing us in the darkness. Oh.

And he's going to cast light. And he'll cast three balls of light, one that hovers over Zephyr, one that hovers over buckles, or over Gick, and one that hovers over him. of a rameas. Gick, Buggles, and Rameas. And what is that, 10 dim, 10 bright? 40 dim, 20 bright.

40 dim, 20 bright on Ramius, Gick, and Zephyr. Yes? Yes. Sorry, I can have up to four, but I think three is good for right now, just in case Buggles wants to be in the darkness. the choice.

You can see in the dark. Oh, this looks so cool. Just like the shade. Yeah. It looks like art. It looks like an incandescent light. Yes. It's so perfect.

Incandescent is, that's one of those words that like, uh, it's not like I've never heard it before by any stretch. We've talked about this recently. It's not like I've never heard it before. Certainly no incandescent bulbs, right? Incandescent light from a candle or whatever, but for whatever reason, that term incandescent, incandescent, I've heard it used like 50 times in the last two or three weeks.

I keep here, yeah. It was when I was doing the science project with Gwen where she was doing like gem color stuff, there was all the stuff about incandescent light versus off stones versus whatever. And then like, I was at Home Depot and it's all something. I was just like, I keep getting

this word. It is weird. A word will follow you for a while. Yeah. When you said it, you're like, it's like it's incandescent. I was like this word is following me. God, I still love this Brother Ramius art going back to the child John. It is really bad. It's just so good. Yes. Almost as good as Gixart. Yep, that's exactly what she looked like when I described her.

I changed them all to ghostly light. The anime is a little too active, but that's pretty cool. That's pretty cool of the animation. I can slow the animation. Super slow. Let's see if I go down a little bit just as a little flavor. just a little bit of the ghost dog I mean this is the stuff

that now that we don't play with you know minis and maps anymore just being able to screw around on founder VTT and like have a little bit of fun so now if you look it is really cool just thinking back to having the Chessix mats yeah and like being able to do effects like this is very cool

if you zoom in close you'll see there is a little bit of movement that's cool this ghost lately that's awesome perfect another door standing ahead of you. What do you do? Zephyr reaches out.

Actually, I'm going to do a quick perception. Just before she opens it. Rameas puts his hand on your arm. Yeah, natural 20. Natural 20, a little perception. Just for any immediate traps on the door, basically. I'm all looking over her shoulder. You do not detect any traps whatsoever.

Zephyr reaches out, opens the door. Your life. spills out into the next chamber and so awesomely like it doesn't light the whole room even the dim light only goes to the extent of your vision so but i can see i could see past it because of my dark she slowly walks you have to tell us so she can see stuff at the end but she can't i can't tell quite what it is so she's like slowly walking into the room all right so pause there and i'll give you a little flavor see how far you want to go in there are two rows of stone pillars supporting a 60 foot high ceiling in this chamber. It is a large hall. There is a stone door set into the wall to the west. While further down sits a large abandoned sledge.

And the top of it is heaped with ropes. That's what we brought. That's what we did. That's our sledge. Ropes, canvas sheets. Salmon car. That's how we were transporting it, right? You recognize it immediately. there are there's additional pieces of Arctic travel and exploration gear lying in discarded heaps around the sledge

canvases and ropes on top it looks pretty well used and it's clear you see like bits of white fur clinging to some of the ropes you tied up Heine Morin put him on this sledge covered him in canvas dragged him here I feel like when Zephyr first walked into the room she saw like like, a bit of what was up there, but then once she realizes what it is, like the memories come back and she walks, like, right up to the sled. You walk right up.

Oh, shit. To the sled. This is the sled that we used. Oh, my. Are there, is there anything here that we, like, left? You look around, and the sledge is not the only familiar object. you find near it are several discarded

items that you remember being gifted by by people beings that were working with the Soyo at the temple of Findalad Lara

you are given these magical items as part of the process of abducting Inamoran and bringing him here and these treasures were left behind when you were transported back

to the temple of Fendalara after the deed was done there are four items one for each of you they are tenth level of magical items and I'm going to let you choose

what they are But you see them, and they're yours to use. Wow. Oh, you mean we can pick from... I'm going to let you pick, yeah. The books? The books? Tenth level permanent items.

Wow. Wow. I can't possibly pick now. No, no, you have some time. Okay. Oh, M.G. Think about what 10th level item, you know, they mention, you know, good choice for a spellcaster is like any of the greater school-based staves or a wand of widening that lets you widen fourth-level spells. Good choices for non-spellcasters include worn magic items, things like rings of greater cold resistance, although you pretty much have your cold covered.

Tenth-level magic items, you pick. Wow. Amazing. However, as you start examining the room, in addition to that door to the west, there is a swath of black frost caking a 15-foot archway in the furthest part of the room. I would call it the northern part of the room for safety's sake, although you can feel from this sort of magnetic energy around you that you are as north as north can be. but the northern part of this room Mapoli speaking is this archway

that has strands of what look like black frozen spider webs stretching across the opening partially obscuring the view of a trapezoidal shaped alcove beyond

wow do we want to go in that room to the southwest? Yeah. Yeah, there's a door on the south, on the western wall, the room, the entry room. Then, of course, to the left and the right of this alcove that looks like there's something beyond the spider webs there. There are stairs leading up, like two passageways to the left and right.

But you approach the door to the southwest. Yes, just inside where we came in. Okay. Go ahead, Ziva. Well, quick perception. That's 27 on the door for traps. You don't see any traps. You don't hear anything.

She opens the door. Oh, gosh. There's a lot more doors in here, you guys. Oh, boy. The door, again, your light spills in. The dim light spills all the way to the end of this hallway. There are doors. doors to the north and the south of this hallway, which about 50, 60 feet towards the end, turns and goes up to the right.

They remind you sort of what it was like under Riddleson's manner, that room with all the cells. Are the doors opaque, closed room doors, or they cells? They're cells, but they're not like, they're meant for larger creatures. So they're like the bars themselves are very, very thick. Let me see inside. Yeah, you can see inside the ones nearest you here to the north and south, and then there are two more up ahead. Zephyra walks up to the south one in looks or the north.

You look up to the southernmost one and the northmost one, and inside, they're identical. They're like, they have an ancient looking bed of furs and a frame, the bed frame itself is made out of bones that have been

like lashed together with sinew. It's very blood of the wild. Oh, boy. Should we keep going? Does it look like there's anything in these? It's funny you should mention that, because as Gick steps forward away from the pack, Gick looks into the northernmost cell

and sees a being lost in meditation, a being that looks hell like this. Oh, oh, no. What the hell? Oh, no. It is a Salman car in name only because rotting from its body, is exposed flesh, muscle, rib gauge, huge horns

coming out of its head, muscles dripping down bits of fur exposed with exposed skin underneath, and it's in this like meditative pose, and you look to the south, and there is another one of these creatures to the south, and they both open their eyes and look at you. Think about those 10th level items,

and we'll see you next week. Oh, my goodness. I love this. Kick just alone seeing these two. Okay, it's like, uh, guys, guys, good, good, good, good, good. Looking to the north, like, that's not good. And then to the south, another one immediately like, That's even worse, that's not good.

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