Worlds Beyond Number - World Turner: Episode 3 - Bayview House

Episode Date: September 29, 2026

Everything comes crashing down. Across the bay, something unthinkable emerges from the fog. What it is, what it means, none of that matters now. There are only these next few seconds.Content Warning: This episode contains depictions of violence and gore.We are:Brennan Lee MulliganErika IshiiAlly BeardsleyLou WilsonWorld Turner was produced by Worlds Beyond NumberEdit and Sound Design by Jino Jang-Hansen at Big Giant HeadScore by Will Savinohttps://wsavino.com/Director of Operations: Melanie BowmanSocial Media Manager: Shannon HLorekeeper and Transcriptionist: Jack Morgan E.F. Lavandowska Recording Engineer: Rainie TollCharacter Art by Elisabeth MkheidzeCover Art by Lu TomkiewiczAdditional Game Design by Mazey VeselakYou can find transcripts of all our episodes on our Patreon. Just navigate to the post for the episode and the transcript will be attached. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This is the sound. This is the sound. This is the sound. This is the sound of Worlds Beyond Number. The Ackabor Broadcast Network. We are interrupting our summer sundown. Cut it with reports of a major disaster at the harbor. We do not know what caused it.

We do not know where it came from. We are seeing a fire at the refinery and vessels thrown from the water and severe damage along the baby. If you're in Ackabor, get indoors. If you are headed into the city, turn around. We will bring you updates as we have them. But in the meantime, stay safe. For one breath, there is no sound. Only the thin ringing inside your skull.

Dust hangs in the air, white bloom turns slowly through it. The world comes rushing back, screaming fire, twisting metal. The long-dying groan of the fairy lodged inside the building beneath you. The roof bucks under your feet. Heat pours through the split tar paper as flames catch somewhere below, carrying the smells of burning wood and spilled. fuel. A section of the parapet breaks loose and vanishes over the edge. Across the widening crack, Tev is gone. The darkness where he fell spits black dust, sparks, and the sound of collapsing

floors. You hear something straight deep inside the building. Then the whole structure shifts toward the harbor. People slide, bottles roll, the roof tilts sharply enough that everyone reaches for anything that might hold. The ferry has cut through the upper floors, fire is is spreading beneath you, the building is folding around the impact, one support at a time. There is no time to understand what you saw in the bay. There are only the next few seconds. Everyone please roll initiative. 16. 10. 9. Here's what I will tell you. This building collapses in eight turns. If you're still in the building after eight turns, you're dead. Cullen, you are first to act. It is chaos up here. The drunk

person who you took the whisper from is clutching desperately onto the side of the roof, just staring at horror. You see your friends, Yaxel and the woman he was with Sarah. Harley is a few feet from you. People who are moving are starting to move back toward the entrance from which you came on top of the building. What do you do? Okay.

Fire escape. Is the fire escape on the side that is caving in or the other side? Opposite side. Okay. I'm going to. rush to the fire escape, look down and see if it still gets to the street. Even amongst the smoke and flames here, you can see that it does reach the street. Fire escape, fire escape, fire escape, this way, this way, and just wave my hat over my head

until I know that I got everybody's attention on the roof and I'm pointing at the fire escape down. Go ahead and give me a persuasion check with disadvantage. Eight, I'm going to use one of my second wins to use tactical minds. So I'm going to roll a D-10 and add it. 15. There is too much chaos. Your screaming just joins the drone of the fairy horn, the fire, the flames. So many people are now distracted either by the pushing and shoving to get through the door from what you came,

that I would say maybe two or three people grab someone and head the way you're headed. Don't go in the building. Don't go in the building! At this point, I just look for Harls and Yaks and go, Guys! Outside fire escape! I check to see if I can see my friends. Go ahead and give me a perception check. You see black smoke is now emerging from the edge,

fully blocking your view of the Banshell and the harbor. Eight. You scan the roof looking desperately for your friends. You hear Cullen's voice and can see Cullen. Cullen is waving his hat desperately on the other side of the roof. roof kind of across from where you are. You can't make out what he is saying, but you can see his gesticulation and his movement. Gax is to your right, maybe about 20 feet to your right, kind of in between you and Cullen.

I feel like this is a dream, but I know that I have to get to my friends. and so I am going to sprint towards Cullen and yank Yaxil as I pass. As a bonus action for cunning action, I am really going to hightail it and dash. Shouting as I go, I don't know where we're going, but I shout this way, this way. Go ahead and give me a persuasion check with disadvantage.

Eight again. With your cunning action, I'll say that Yax, you will not have to roll for where Harley and Cullen are going. You get turned around by Harley as she runs by you toward Cullen. I would also say that Harley, with your cunning action, you can begin to descend the fire escape, if you would like. I have that sheepdog instincts from my siblings, and I physically grab and call her as many people as I can on my way there if they allow it. Everybody stay together. Everybody stay together. Everybody stay together. Everybody stay together. Go ahead and give me an athletic check with disadvantage.

13. In this chaos, you grab somebody and they push you hard and what the fuck, man, and turn and run for the door. They don't know what you're doing, why you're grabbing them, they're scared, they're terrified, and they just want to get out of here. Okay, all right. I keep moving with the axle. I see there's a fire escape. Great. And I, I'm just going to be there. Are you climbing? I am holding until I can see that you two are not going to do something insane. You know what I mean? Like, we're not going to do the, in Orpheus where I'm walking and not looking behind me and wondering if you're there. I'm going down the fire escape. But you can see that my body is turned. Like, I'm not doing anything stupid either.

All three of us are going down this together. Okay. Yaxel, you feel Harley is physically pushing your body in the direction of the fire escape where you see Cullen is waving, desperately trying to get people's attention. Sarah is beside you. You see, as Harley moves you, Sarah is frozen, staring at where Tateau. have just fell. What are you doing on your turn?

Put out my hand to try to grab Sarah's hand and bring her with me. She shaken, unspoken, allows you to pull her. Great. I say, grab your girls. She looks around and goes, I don't know where, uh, you see that she does a quick scan. They're not next to her? I don't see them. Okay.

Yeah, we get to the fire escape. Has anyone gone down the fire escape yet? No, Colin has been waiting. You see that Harley is trying to grab anyone who is. We're here. Let's try to go down. I'll go down first. Is there some kind of like,

Maybe I'm holding on to something as I first try, but let's just see if the bolts hold. Yeah, there's the iron of the... Yeah, is this just like a ladder inside the building? Or is it the full scaffolding where it's like platform stairs? It's the classic platform ladder, platform platform. Let's try it. Let's make sure it's okay. I go down. You begin descending for order.

It's going to be Yaxel, then Sarah. I mean, up to you guys. Would you send her down? I'll be the caboose. Yeah. Sarah. Harles and then Cullen. Is there anything on the roof that looks like I can hold it in my hand,

whether it's a spar of wood, a club, a bottle, someone's umbrella, anything that is like a small, blunt object tool? Give me an investigation chair. I'm going to do this with disadvantage because I'm doing it so fast. Right? Both dog shit rolls, it's a three and a four plus five for eight. There are bottles around. Great.

All right. I'm just going to grab something, like a bottle or whatever. In my head, I'm like, how is it's so sturdier? But I'm going down and I want to start looking and just open windows as I go down. And if I can't open them, I want to use that bottle to smash one that won't open. Smart. You climb down over the parapet. As you guys make your way down, you can feel bricks shifting beneath you and heat pours off these exterior walls.

You guys begin climbing down this five-story fire escape, still attached at. the moment. Okay, now comes the other chaos of this moment. We're going to roll a dice at the beginning now of each of the rounds to see how the building integrity is standing up. Whether that helps or hurts you, we'll also roll a D4 for chaos just to see if things get better, worse, or stay the same. Erica, will you please do me the honors of rolling the first collapse roll? Just don't do. Dude, just do good. Is this a D20? A D20, yes.

It's a seven on the die. You guys make your way down off of the roof onto the first landing. Cullen, you are still on the ladder. When you feel the anchors begin to tear free. The fire escape begins to lean off of the building. The floor that Sarah Yaxel, you guys are standing on, begins to pitch toward the alley.

The stairway leading down, still intact, still possible. But the top anchor, for this fire escape, pull away. The fire escape is now leaning, maybe about five to ten feet away from the roof. Cullen, you are suspended in me of air, holding onto this ladder. Allie, will you please roll a D4 for me?

It's a two. You guys are now pitched back about five feet. Cullen, you are on the ladder. As you feel the anchors tear-free, you feel the ladder slowly begin to gently lean away from the wall. Okay, as it leans away from the wall, am I feeling that this is just going to keep banana peeling off to the side,

or is it like a lurch and a stop? I think it's a lurch and a stop. These two anchors pop off, you feel yourself lurch. The lower parts of the firescape seem to still be anchored in place, which is the only reason the whole thing's not tearing away from the building. Cool. I'm just racing back behind my friends as fast as I can. I guess I might not be able to reach the windows anymore if the top has pulled away.

I think down, when you get down to the next level, you might be able to. But I think, yes, you can see through the windows, you see bodies just rushing down the curve stairwell that you guys ascended to get up to where you were hanging out. Go ahead and give me an athletics check as you hold on and begin to make your way down. DC is 13. 19. 19. Easy. You're holding on making your way down. Run, run, run, run, run. We have to go back for the team. We have to go back to the team.

I'm looking at you as you say go back. I'm coming from stairs that have just detached from the roof. I'm just holding you going, run, run, run. No, but I agree. I don't really know what to do, but Shang is, I mean, there are tons of people that we care about that we don't know where they are. I think as you, like, you're talking, I see you freaking out by the team. Do I see you looking back up at the roof? Yeah, I'm thinking about, like, I look like I'm ready to climb back up. I am going to physically grab Harley to prevent you from going up the stairs.

And there's no judgment. There's no, like, what are you thinking? It's literally just a, I know, I know. as an animal that the top is not connected to the roof and that I don't believe you can make a five foot jump to a brick roof where our friends are. And I also know that they weren't listening to us eight seconds ago. And our best shot to get them to do something different was before the ladder pulled off the building. This is all lizard brain in this moment. And I'm just going to grab you and continue to manhandle you down the stairs. Or even just, I'm widening out my body like a

gorilla coming down the stairs towards you being like not giving you any space to get around me. You're going to go, go, go, go. Okay, all right. I'll keep going back down then. Go ahead and give me an athletics or acrobatics chick as you descend. 13. You are able to make it down there. Yaxel.

You are holding Sarah's hand. You can make your roles with disadvantage to help her. If you make your roles with disadvantage, your roles will be her roles. If you make your rolls flat, I will roll for her separate. Okay. A pretty good athletic, so I think I'll actually do the disadvantage, and I'm going to try to skip rungs, jump down stuff, be a little bit more reckless. Like, I mean, well, does it look like she's struggling, or like, can she just get down these the same? I think it's more, the disadvantage would be that you are moving slower to ensure that she... Oh, I'm not, like, leaving her behind, like, to where she's out of focus. I think if you're moving independently, she will make her own way down. Instinctively, I think he's not waiting until she gets to the next rung. In a similar kind of lizard brain thing, he's like straight up like pulling her, helping her get down because we need to get through this as fast as possible. Yes.

Okay, that is a 10. You are gingerly trying to help her move down. You watch as the top of the building buckles. The glass on the fifth floor shatters. We're going to take five points of damage. However, you are able to use your body to protect her. Do I just say that Yaxil got hurt? Yeah.

Okay. It's my turn. I'm looking at you providing no cord for you to go back up to the thing, but I think I see what you want to do, and I go, give them a way out on the lower window. And I hand you the bottle. Give them a way out on the lower window. Gotcha. I'm going to continue to move down. That bottle is passed.

We're not going to roll another collapse roll. Ali, if you would. Five. You are on your way to the fourth floor facade. Here the damage is becoming more visible. Bricks are cracked around the fire escape's anchor points. Windows gate open beside you. There are frames bent outward.

Inside rooms have split apart, exposing furniture, wallpaper, and broken pipes to the night air. You are now also starting to feel the sway now that the larger upper part of the fire escape has come down. As you guys are looking at this, something deep and structural, you hear it crack. as the building begins to lean forward further towards the harbor. The windows and brick and interior walls tilt buckling as the building is leaning forward, exposing parts of the apartment directly beside the fire escape. You guys are now able to see into the rooms. You talked about opening a window.

You are now seeing the bricks are splitting. You can see into the different apartments to the left and the right of the fire escape from the sheer pull of the building leaning forward. with the walls are splitting apart in seams along the mortar. Yes. Jesus Christ. And this is leaning away from where the fire escape is. Leaning away.

It will not collapse down on top of you. But there's also a fear that the entire fire scape will go into the collapse of the building. Yes. The platform that you are on, you feel start to push and kind of buckle with the building. The anchor points aren't giving away. So the whole thing is leaning while the top is leaning out where you are standing now leaning in, making the approach down a little bit tight. and more difficult to make it through.

Brennan, if you'll please roll a D4. Four. That's right. Okay. Maybe. Let's assume that's good. Maybe. It's good.

You watch as several of the metal grates that are falling into the building crack open. The DC to get down will be lower this turn. Hi, good. Colin, you were at the back pushing forward. Unless there's anything else you're doing, you can go ahead and give me an athletics or acrobatics chair. Harley has the bottle. Yaxil's going down with Sarah. What floor is Yaxel at right now?

We have all landed on the fourth now, right? Yes, you are like two steps behind standing on the fourth. Okay. You know what? I think I'm going to do something crazy. I think that Colin is looking at everything that's happening, and it feels so dangerous. And also, we're on the fourth floor.

There's only, I'm also looking because it's like there's the fourth floor, but we're about to go down to the third. The only place where there's a window left to even try to get, but the building's pulling apart. And I think in Cullen's head, it's pretty cut and dry that the people who went into that building should not have done that. And it's not a kind thought, but it's just what it is. And instead, he knows that he wants to save his friends,

and his friends may have a harder time getting out. Cullen knows he's pretty athletic. I am going to jump to the outside of the fire escape and having traveled down a fire escape in New York in real life. It's a tough little hard thing to do, and Cullen's very tall, so he can just hop. over, hold the outside of the railing, hold the bottom, feet touch the next floor, like, and literally just shimmy down like a monkey on the outside of the fire escape,

which is a more dangerous but much faster and easier way to get down if you're tall. And I would like to do that to get down to potentially catch people if they have to jump. Got it. So you're essentially going to do a thing where you're going on the balcony, you're going to go to the railing and essentially shimmy down until your feet are on the railing beneath you. It's straight up like, we're on the fourth floor. he's going to hop over the railing, kneel hanging off the bars, drop feet down to be on the third floor,

drop it down again, you know, it's that shoo-s-shoo-s, looks like how you would sort of scale down a palm tree, basically. Just get down. And if he gets down to the third or second floor, he's just going to drop. He's just going to go and he'll take a 10-foot drop if he needs to. Okay. And I'll go ahead.

DC's 13. 18 plus 5 is 23. You guys watch as Cullen swings to the other side, does this thing, you know, like climbing down a palm tree and shimmies down and now gets to the floor before you Yaxil. Action surge. I'm going to get

to the next floor. Great. 15 plus 5 is dirty 20. You watch as Cullen immediately hops down two floors beneath you. Awesome. If that puts me on the second floor of the building, I'm just going to drop and take 10 feet of falling. Great. We will resolve that on the next turn. Harley. Are there any windows on the way down? There are. The windows on yours have split and you, like you are now...

So they are already open? Yes. Oh, God. All right. So I tossed the bottle and whereas Cullen was able to muscle down using height advantage, I think I want to drop and go double or triple rungs. Okay. And hightail it down there and shout into any windows as I go. You're telling me you want to do the same thing that Cullen has done.

I think yes. And I swing as opposed to just dropping, dropping down and using height. Got it. To my advantage, it's, I think I swing in and grab the different bars as I go. Great. Go ahead and give me an acrobatics check. DC's 13. Dirty 20.

Yaxil, you were watching as your friends, Cullen First dropping down. Harley 2nd swings down to the place you are climbing down to now with Sarah. And as I pass the different windows, if I see people are on that level, I just shout out, Exit this way. Exit this way. Go ahead and give me a perception check. Yeah, let me know if you get above a 10. I do not, no. As you swing down onto the third level, land, three-point stance, you shout that.

You hear yells, screams, physical bodies moving through the interior of the space. This floor has not so split yet. But yes, you can hear people moving inside, though. They do not respond to your calls. Are Yaxel and Sarah already on this level? No, they are coming down. Okay, I'm going to wait and catch if need be. Okay, great.

Yaxel, please roll. Let me know if you're rolling with disadvantage for Sarah. We're on the fourth. Fourth coming down to the third. Sarah's there. How did she look? She's shell-shocked, but, you know, she's making it. Cool.

Okay, I'm going to stay with her and, yeah, I'll just do our rolls together, I guess. If that seemed like that was fine with her, she wasn't like, get off me. No, she's glad to be glad. Okay, great, great. Okay, that's a Nat 20, and. The seven, so it's with disadvantage. So that is a 14. You guys are able to make it down onto the third floor landing.

Please give me a perception check. And in this moment, Sarah will help you and give you advantage. Oh, great. Oh, 20, not 20. That's so. 21. You hear Tev's voice. Help!

Where is he? Inside the building. Tev! We will resolve this on the next turn as we return to the top of initiative order. Brennan, please roll our D20 collaboration. Stop stop. 13. God.

You guys here on the third floor, Cullen, you down on the second. You watch as the iron holding the top of the ladder begins to fold, twist, and falls crashing to the ground. As the buckling of the building is intensifying, the anchor points are now falling away. The fourth and fifth floors are now completely detached from the building, and the free ladder at the top has hit the building on the opposite side. and it has spun and fallen to the ground. Erica, will you please roll a D4 for me?

No whammies, no whamies, no whamies. Four! This part of the building still feels quite stable for now. Cullen, you were first tack. Okay, I see everyone's now on the third floor. Yes, everyone is one floor above you. What are you hearing them yell through? Are you hearing them yell through?

Are you guys looking into a window right now? Yes, this busted window that I heard to ever crack. You are looking into a window. There are so many things that in a more heroic moment, Colin would like to do, that I would like to do, of like yelling for them through the window to get up there. My friends have a better opportunity of doing that than I do.

And ultimately, I think Colin, I think I just am looking at horror and just doing animal things. And I think that you can't count past a certain number when your heart is beating, in your chest and you can hear your own blood in your ears. You can't think of 30 or 50 or however many partygoers there were. He's just looking at Harley and Yax, and some part of him is thinking about Abigail.

But fundamentally right now, he's like, you've got to survive to get out of here with your pals. So as much as he loves so many people in the building, I think he's going to drop to the bottom and literally put his hands on the base of the fire escape in an act of true lunacy. to hold it if the building starts to pull it away. Like, I'll fight the building to save my friends. Holding on to... Feet on the ground. Feet on the ground.

I'm going to drop to the ground, take the falling damage for the last floor, and then just hold onto the base of the fire escape as hard as I can. Go ahead and give me an athletics try. That ends up being a 10, but I'm going to roll my other tactical mind. 17. 17 total.

You will only take the 2D10 of falling damage for falling about 20 feet, it is 16 points of damage. I fall. Roll my foot bad. I'm bloody. Half your foot leans on the fallen ladder. It's not a comfortable fall. You can stand, you can walk, but I think there is, the adrenaline is the reason you haven't, like, collapsed in pain. And in fact, there's something securing about holding on to something, and honestly, taking some of the weight off your foot. I grab it, and the direction the building is falling in, I put my,

foot against the wall to push like a spring the other way and let my hurt foot tangle as I'm just like feet off the ground pushing against the building holding on to the base of the fire escape Harals that is your turn Tev Tev where are you oh god I'm gonna move to move past the axle to try and can I get inside great Cullen as you are attempting in your monkey brain to hold the building up super Superman style. You watch as Harles disappears into the building. I'm frozen here. I'll hold this. I'll hold it till the end of time. I'm just holding it. Harles, you disappear into the building. You are in a child's bedroom, blue mural of a teddy bear and a clown and a large ball painted on the wall.

Beyond, you see that walls have broken and you can feel the heat and the fire of the fairy that has fallen through. As you enter the kind of like destructive area of the ferry Go ahead and give me an investigation check or perception check 13 You enter the hallway of this apartment Come to where might have been once a bedroom Or a bathroom

Instead it is cut sheer And you see roiling flames And the smokestack of the fairy Billowing deep dark black smoke About 10 feet down Trapped under steel you see Teff I'm going to do An inside check

and see if there's any way that I feel I can get down to him. Great. Go ahead and give me an inside check. Or make a perception. Okay. 14. You could get down. You could get down.

You're pretty agile. You see the thing that is trapping him. I'll tell you above game, you'd have to roll a very high athletics role to lift him out, like based on that thing. But you could amble down. You see that there are like embers and sparks everywhere. This place is incredibly dangerous.

but you get the sense maybe you could get down. Okay, okay. I'm going to move down towards him with my dash. Go ahead and give me an acrobatics roll. Fifteen. You are able to make it down. Kind of sitting on your butt, shimming your weight off the edge. You're then able to find a foothold and then jump land.

Tev is moaning in pain. This large kind of piece of steel railing from the ferry has trapped both of his legs underneath. And he goes, Ah! Harles! Hors! Oh shit, help, help! I can't get it off!

I can't get it off! Okay, calm down, calm down. Okay, is there... And I don't know if there's time, but I want to look around to see if there's any sort of spar around or anything that I can use is of leather. Go ahead and give me an investigation check. We will resolve that on your next turn.

21. Yaxel, you are on the third floor landing. You have watched Harles enter the building. Sarah is behind you. She is looking at Harles. What do we do? I grab Sarah's hand. with my hands and I go, go down one more flight and jump to Colin.

And I yell down, Colin, catch Sarah! Great, I'm ready. I dashed in after Harles. Fantastic. You run through. You can immediately see where Harles is about 10 feet below on the next floor down. Great. I'd love to use athletics and try to get them both up as fast as possible. Go ahead and give me an athletics check to get down to the bottom. That one. You put your foot where you're hoping you think it will hold your weight.

It cracks underneath you. You take seven points of damage. Carl's, you watch as the Axel lands hard next to you. We come back to the top of initiative. Erica, will you please roll a collapse roll for me? Roll it twice. What? For the interior and for the exterior.

11. Okay. Is that an out one? Five, it's five. It's five. Okay, it's not an out one. It's not an out one. It has five already.

Okay, everyone's fucking chill out. Cullen, I think on that 11, you just, feel the building start to come apart on you. The buckling is shooting pieces of steel and brick down into the area where you are standing. I would say if you continue to wait here, maybe after another turn, we'll start rolling attack rolls for the building as detritus is falling off of it and maybe has the potential to strike or hit you as long as you're down and in this space. On the interior for the five, Yaxil and Harlan, as you are both. inside the building, you watch as the ferry begins to roll. This is separate from the parts that

are pinning tab, but you watch as the ferry begins to roll deeper into the building to the opposite end of the building from where it was struck. You watch as the walls behind you that might have offered escape back through the apartment floor that you have landed on. Those walls collapse as whatever parts of the building the ferry was holding up, it no longer does. So that entrance that might have served as egress on the second floor that no longer exists. Colin, you see Sarah, who I will roll for now, she gets a 10.

You see that she is slowly shimming down. She looks out over the second floor landing and goes, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump. You see that she swings both of her legs over the thing and trepidiously is going to drop. Go ahead and give me an athletics check to catch her. I got no more second win. So whatever it is,

whatever it is, brother, that's what it is. That's what it is. 24. Yes! Straight up Prince ship. Yeah! She lands in your arms and goes,

I'm plopping her on her feet and grabbing the ladder. Okay. She gets on her feet and go. Should we run? Stay right here. Yaks! Holes! From inside, you guys hear those voices.

Yax, you are on the floor recovering from your fall. Harles, on a 20, there's a, what feels like a firm piece of wood from the interior of the building that you can grab onto that feels like of a weight that you can hold. Okay, great. Yax, are you okay? Yeah, yeah, I'm fine. Go. Okay, I use a piece of debris right next to Tev as a fulcrum, and I am going to shove it in there and push. Great.

What kind of role would you like this to be? I guess that makes, it makes sense for it to be an athletics check. All right. Then please give me athletic. Dirty 20. Yaxil, you watch your much smaller manager of the team. Wedge this piece of wood and then put her entire body. You watch her come up on one leg as she puts her full weight in.

Yaxel, it is now your turn if you would like to pull a free Tev. Yes, I grab Tev and I yell for Tev to grab Harley as I grab and run back towards the window that is still available, right? perception or a medicine check as you pull Tav. I'm going to do medicine and it's a 10. It's a 10. Tav's legs are crushed. He cannot walk. Okay, cool.

With his other hand, I hope he grabs and I'm going to be pulling him. Great. You kind of put him on your back. You see that he puts an arm around your neck. The way back through is gone. Go ahead and give me a perception check for ways out. Let's see. It's 18 on the die.

Yeah, that's 19. You could try and move what has fallen to kind of get through. There's also down. Yeah, we'll go down. We return back to the top. Let's roll for the interior and the exterior. Brendan, you can roll for the exterior, Allie, if you will roll for the interior. That's a net one.

It's a 13. Brennan, what's your armor class? Armor class is 13. Sarah's armor class is 9. Mm-hmm. That's a 10? Oh, motherfucker. Sarah gets clipped by a piece of wood, and you see she collapses to the ground.

see that there is a big gash kind of along her forehead now. She goes, oh, are you okay? Are you okay? Okay, just stand under the, under the platform, and I'm going to pull her, at least under the like steel platform of the fire escape where I'm trying to hold it. As you hold it, you hear the top of the building giveaway, and you watch as bricks and to try to rain down as the top two floors collapse into the street ahead. The other way. The other way, not on top of you.

You just are watching the building lose shape. Doors jam and are folding inside their frames. You see water shooting out of the walls from pipes that have burst. Plaster is raining down from you as you now begin to see the sky through what is above you. This place will not last much longer. Colin, is there anything you are doing on your turn other than waiting for your friends? No. Will you roll a D4 for me?

Honestly, just in case you will have won. Come on, man. God damn it! God damn it! Ship is raining down on you guys inside of the building. You will have disadvantage on any sort of skill checks this turn. It's chaos in here. Harles.

Tev has grabbed you and turned you around. The three of you are in a little trio standing here on the second floor of the building. Below you, the pole having rolled, you can see the first floor. What would you like to do? We're on the second floor. You're on the second floor. I'm going to jump with Tev to the ground floor. If I can go outside and jump, that'd be awesome, like through a crack or a window.

Yeah, is there any, can we see? Go ahead and give me an investigation check. 18. 18. Harles, there is a small ledge, kind of really thin strip of flooring that was exposed when the hole rolled over. You could shimmy along that to a window. Glass completely gone. You can see the brick of.

the building across the alley. And this is towards Cullen? This is... That side? Yes, it will be on the alley side, but you have to cross this kind of very thin, narrow strip, and I will require some kind of athletics or acrobatics to get across.

Okay. I point that away, and we start moving. Got it. Charles, we will have you roll first. Please do so with disadvantage. 11. You are able to shimmy across. You can see the window.

Cole, you're looking up at the fire escape. Two windows over. You see Harles poke out her head. I run underneath it and just go jump, and I'm running to catch you. Okay. Here we go. Athletics check from Cullen to catch you. 24 again.

Yes! Pure Prince shit. You see me running? I do an insane skip because one of my feet is bad, but it's as fast as running. I'm like, boom, like one leg bounding towards the window to get you. You catch Harles. You feel pain in your bad foot, but you have gotten. Got your friend secured.

You let her slip out. Carl's, you were standing there. Your face is covered in soot. Your throat hurts from the smoke within the building, but you are outside and alive. Yaxel, if you would like to make an athletics. Eight. Oh, God.

You make your way across this thin strip of landing that still exists. You guys see Yaxel in the window. Yaxel, you place your foot wrong. Feel yourself slide. Go ahead and give me a strength saving throw to grab the window. You can do this flat. 11.

And I have Tev on my back, I think. I think with all that weight, you feel something pop in your shoulder. However, I will allow you to hold on. You are holding on to the window sill. You can kind of get like a knee up on this landing, but the space underneath you is no longer solid. You feel Tev go,

you want me to climb out? fling out the window. Okay. We got another one. Cullen, you're ready? Ready. You watch as Tav, their teammate from the flyball team, shoves his body out with these two loose legs that fly behind him.

Go ahead and give me an athletics check. Lou? Can I take disadvantage on this role to get advantage when Yax jumps? Yes, you may. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. I, Colin sees Tav coming out, and in this moment, he wants to catch him, but he is literally looking at the building.

He's more focused on seeing Yax's body than getting Tep. It was actually same role both ways. It was eight, so it's a 13. You are able to catch Teth. You get your hands around him. Not as beautiful as the other catches, but you got him. Yeah. How do you put him down?

His legs are destroyed. You look at them, it's fucking, it's bad. It's not appropriately slow for an injured person. I'm not dropping him, but I am getting him down to the ground quickly to be ready for yaks. Can I ask you a question? Is Sarah the type of person who's like proactive in this moment? Like could she find like a cart or some sort of thing that's like in this alley to like put him in? She is not a proactive person.

God damn it. This is my soulmate. Where's your nameless friend? God damn it. Where's three? Three is the most misogynist nickname I've ever heard. Three is literally inside directing traffic and has saved countless lives. Three is a first responder.

Three was with the Freedom Flotilla. Three is going to get a medal at the end of this campaign. Three is my current bestie. Three is my current bestie. Three! Yaxel, you are going to clamber out of the window. Yes, please. I'd love to launch myself out.

You launch yourself out, call in one last athletics protect with advantage. Thank God for the advantage. That's a 12. Again, not as pretty, but you got it. Anyone else? No, go, go, go. I'll grab half of Teth and begin to get as far, not knowing what's going to happen to the ground.

Yeah, yeah. Just get far away from the collapsing building. Yes. You guys bank around an alley. You come out onto the street that faces the harbor where you can see the top two floors have landed as the building is beginning to buckle in on itself. You see a large crowd of people all moving west. You guys are moving as fast you can running?

Yeah, I'm going to run. I mean, we're moving with Tev. I think as people are running, does it seem like people are running in a, loose panic, or are they running like they can see something? As you come out onto the street and there's maybe a second or two of the panic of you feel like the building is now not going to fall on top of you, I think as this moment is coming into focus, you are hearing shouting, and I think among the shouting, you are able to start distinguishing to the bridge, Vicks Bridge, move, move!

And as you come out, you are seeing there are civic wardens who have like are lining the streets, and keeping people moving down this harborized road towards the bridge. I will follow what the responders and civic servants are saying and just rush towards the bridge. If I see any light of an ambulance or medical staff, I will instead detour to that with Tev. You do not see that. This is a mass of bodies moving in the direction of Vicks Bridge. Is anyone bleeding? Are you bleeding from somewhere?

Shock. Is there any of just check? and blood coming off. I just would give us quick check to see if anyone is running under the adrenaline, but like losing blood rapidly. I think the only person who has like obvious, like yaks and Harls and Tev are covered head to toe in soot. But I don't think you see anything intense. I just want to look at Tev's feet or wherever is dragging and just see if there's a blood trail behind him. Going to give me a perception check. Not one. Where there might be a blood trail, you see people. You see people footsteps. I'm running. I'm running. Okay. I see that everybody's still running. I check and I'm

Okay, yax? I think I'm okay, right? There's on some huge gas. Okay. Okay. Is there blood gushing out of her head? Not gushing, but I think you see, I'm going to, Sarah says my head and I just wave at her like a go away way.

Like, in my head, I know how easily head wounds bleed. If she's not even bleed, I'm like, okay, keep running, keep running. Just go. You guys, keep moving. This is because we threw those suitcases in the pay. Oh, God, it really is, though. It was the last thing that went into the bay before something terrible came out. You guys, get on.

to this street, which you know to be called harbor rise and you run, joining the crowd of people and bodies moving in accordance with what they have been told. Behind you, you watch or hear as Bayview House comes down. The street jumps beneath your feet as the facade collapses into itself, swallowing brick, the fire escape, furniture, entire rooms in a rolling wall of dust. The impact drives hot air down the block and since glass skittering across the pavement behind you. People are pouring out of the area around the Bayview Banshell and the surrounding buildings. Some of them are bleeding. Some are carrying strangers, much like yourself. Others move with arms hanging uselessly at their sides. Clothing burned, black along the edges. You see musicians

stumbling through the crowd with bloodied brass instruments still clutching them to their chest. No one is stopping. Those who fall are pulled back on their feet and carried forward. Through the dust, you guys see Shang. walking head-blooded but moving forward she does not slow she does not look back you guys see that she is just moving forward civic wardens lie in the street waving people south with lanterns and batons bare hands Vicks Bridge keep moving get across the bridge ahead of you Vicks Bridge rises above the rooftops its lamps glowing through the smoke

you are swept south with everyone else workers students families musicians children, thousands of people pressed into the same street moving with the same desperate purpose. There is no time to stop. There is no time to understand. You disappear into the herd moving towards Vicks Bridge, and behind you, somewhere beyond the smoke, the thing again roars. Windows tremble, the bridge lamp sway. For half a heartbeat, the entire crowd hears it. Then everyone surges forward.

Now, with even more purpose towards Vicks Bridge. and no one looks back. That was Erica Ishii E as Harley Mori, Brennan Lee Mulligan as Cullen Tup, Ali Beardsley as Yaxil Larson, and Lou Wilson as everyone and everything else. World Turner is produced by Worlds Beyond Number, edit and sound designed by Gino Jang Hansen at Big Giant Head,

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