Actual Play - Dresden Accelerated - Morehead Mysteries EP 17 - I Want To Break Free

[00:00:00] Eve. Hello, my children above and below. Welcome to Arcane Dark Radio. I am your shepherd on the moonlit airwaves. Reverend Cultisto, here to bring you the words and warnings of things that go bump in the night.

[00:00:28] And tonight, we have the following. There seems to be some strange goings-on out there. Some thick as fog mysteries over Moorhead, Kentucky Better lock your doors, check your wards And stay behind those thresholds For now, sleep well

[00:00:51] Welcome to the Roleplaying Exchange This is GM Crazon, or One Less Dies Chris And we are continuing our Dresden Files Accelerated game More head mysteries And why don't you guys introduce your characters

[00:01:19] As you find yourselves in Ickor Falls Like deep in Ickor Falls With a skid steer Which I am now actually licensed to drive Yep Congratulations Thanks I think Oh yeah, I'm playing Kalem, that's what I do Hey, this is Adam, and I'm playing Kalem He is a practitioner raised by his mamaw With the idea of becoming a Knight of the Cross

[00:01:48] But I don't even know what that is in character So I'm just out here with my blood sword Whooping up on some baddies Because why, Chris? Uh, why? Yeah, why? Um Well, you guys were I know, I know Oh, Aaron, Aaron Yeah, Aaron, go for it Yeah Because you're a soldier of God Oh, right, yeah I'm a warrior of God Thank you, thank you Warrior of God Yeah, that's the one God damn Ooh, I know, I know Aaron

[00:02:18] Speaking of Aaron What, what, you didn't see But I like I even put my hand in the air for that I felt it My teacher says I was like I was quite worried about the kid Who wasn't paying attention Yes, Aaron You Anyway Yeah, and I am playing Liam McNeil I am the great white wizard That's a wizard from Canada Not actually part of the The white council Because, you know

[00:02:47] We're largely ignored in most media Yep Yeah That's probably all you need to know What are you driving, sir? Besides the skids here You have like a really amazing car I do I have a 1986 Toyota Tercel hatchback That we've actually used a chop saw To cut the hatch off of To make it into a really tiny pickup truck And we raised it on its suspension And it has a manual transmission And four-wheel drive

[00:03:17] We're really excited for that Yeah To be fair The 1986 Tercelle I've been watching Classic Concentration With Alex Trebek Rest his soul And that was the prize In one of the episodes That somebody was Super excited to win And it turns out That he was from Quebec Yay! Nice I mean, do you even a Canadian If he's a Quebecer? Okay, hang on

[00:03:46] Let's not Let's not start Anything Oh, they give it right back They're fine I mean, you're not wrong Jeremy I don't know if I can match That level of enthusiasm But Hey, it's your boy, Jeremy Oh no It's your boy As we played Lester Gibson He At the end of last episode He turned into the song and dance man And Tried to Kick off a zombie apocalypse Apparently

[00:04:16] We'll see what happens today Maybe more of that I don't know I don't have the level of enthusiasm That Aaron did So I'm just gonna move on to Trash now But I mean There's trouble Right here in River City With a capital T And that rhymes with P And that stands for pool What? The music band Come on Classic Opening songs I'm familiar with a lot of A lot of musicals And I mean A lot of musicals And that is not one of them Josh, you're up

[00:04:45] Okay While people were talking I'm Josh I'm playing Lizzie Skarsgård And Funny enough Chris said I am A Quebecer At this point So Fuck Are you Wait, what? I said you're a Quebecer? Yeah, you have said She's like Yeah, it's a Quebec wall woman She's like Fuck I You did say that From when? What? Like Sessions ago Mind you But Oh, you're You meant like today Your character

[00:05:15] I said your character Yeah Okay You said Elizabeth was a Quebec wall woman I I'm glad you know that stuff By the way, Josh You're now One Less Dice Honorary Loremaster I've got a good memory For shit I care about Yeah We actually have some questions For you about our Shadowrun game Yeah, because we Yeah We were actually What Shadowrun are we talking? DTS or Rec Search? DTS DTS Okay I might have an answer for you

[00:05:44] It's been a while Off recording It's been a while It's been like three years But yeah Yeah, I know But anyway Okay, so I gotta make one addition I apologize I would like to apologize To the six people In Quebec That have listened to RPX last month For those Disparaging comments About your country Last month As of this recording Not being posted Recording

[00:06:14] Way to date us Adam We're doing a blank Quebec's a separate country Chris You were The people Come back I'd like to apologize About your country Yeah, I was running a game Yeah Josh, do you have anything else To say about your character? I Not really David It's a wizard and a warden Okay Yes Hey everybody This is David I am playing Everybody's Favorite Werehuman Manther Baron Uruk

[00:06:44] Von Karkov Began life as a panther I'm sorry Every time We say the full name I have this urge It's like the It's been a while Oh, it's fair You've been Pavlov Yeah I still remember First looking at the book And Ross pitching the idea We're sitting at the table Caleb Says How are we going to find

[00:07:14] Anything Anything worthwhile In any of these books And I immediately read aloud Baron Urk Von Karkov Began life as a panther And he goes Stop digging You fit gold Yep And so we're just going to Keep mining that gold I hope you guys don't mind I have Basically through our Through the descriptions Of these episodes I have basically just started Referring to you guys As the barony That's fine Since you kind of all Have been falling Since technically Moorhead is under the Under the barony Of Of Ulrich

[00:07:45] So To be fair Nobody else wanted it I claimed it It's mine And then it turned into The most magical place On earth Yeah you turned it into A conjunction Of the spheres For the resident universe Alright here come the Fucking witchers Yeah So yeah What can you guys What do you guys Remember from last time Like where did we Leave off We helped a postman And a man not be an asshole We taught him the meaning

[00:08:15] Of friendship So I would have loved This last session Yeah No you did We have a We were I think we were Heading towards A radio station Yes to find our Good friend Reverend Cultisto We were heading To the radio shack Which is on the North end Of Ickor Falls According to the Map that you guys have I guess I'll I'll give you Adam I guess I'll send you A PDF or

[00:08:44] JPEG of this map So you can like Post this Or like have this I'd love to I mean our website Our website would be Great for that We need to have Like a like an image Like a gallery Thing for all For process I'm surprised that you Didn't plug your Website right at the Beginning Oh yeah Yeah the The podcast network Website Crit in the night Yeah Where you can find Such podcasts as One less die Al dente rigor mortis And the role playing Exchange

[00:09:15] And more coming soon Yes Perhaps even a Dresden book club At some point Hashtag Goes for 2025 Yeah But So I remember Also that Everybody in the town Seems to be kind of In a Like various Different states Of disarray From The The man at the Grocery store Who looked like a Cadaver To

[00:09:45] You know People who Interpret Everything Not as we see it But as like Their idealistic Little town And all that Like the The The smoke wolves Were Or dire wolves Or whatever they were Are not wolves Or something else And you know Like hooligans Yeah Yeah it seems like This is sort of Like a limbo space Which was cool And we decided Last week That we didn't want This to end Therefore we went

[00:10:15] After all the Subquests Yeah Um But yeah You guys are I think in the Southern part Where you guys Have just dealt With the Song and dance man Uh And his Uh His tent Uh You dealt With all the The zombies Or all the Um The dancing dead As it were And I think You were heading Back north Uh Through town Toward Uh Where you can see Like kind of The The silhouette Of the Of the Of the radio tower Off in the distance

[00:10:45] Like up in the hills From the distance Yeah From the distance Um I don't I have no idea If uh If discord Even like would uh Didn't stamp down On that like High pitched sound I made It did Yeah I mean we heard it Okay fair Um That's all that matters But yeah So you guys are Traveling north Um Through Again A sort of Anach A sort of Anachronistic Uh Hogwash

[00:11:14] Of uh Of architecture Um Like you're You're Leaving an area That looked like It was like The The earliest Parts of the town Like from Maybe the The 19th century Or 18th century Uh Going into like The 1950s Through to like The 1990s Once you had Uh Go from Aletheia To Olympus And uh As you uh You you pass It continues into Like some 90s Sort of architecture And uh And styled Um

[00:11:44] Uh Infrastructure Of a town Um Though again Everything has This sort of Like Dampness From the fog And the Mists And the Uh Uh A A sense Of decay Um Or somewhere A place Forgotten And uh Then you come Across uh You're continuing Down the main Road Uh North To Uh And you can See like there Is like According to your The map That you have There is a Uh

[00:12:13] A road That looks Like it Goes up To like A high Point Where that Tower is Um But just As you're About to Like approach That area Um You do see A fairly New looking Building Uh Like a Small Like Single Story Building Uh Office Uh Kind of Like a Almost like A temporary Kind of Building Um For like Realtors Uh And it's The um Uh And it's The Icker Falls Realty So Uh It does Seem that There are Some Lights On it And In fact Probably The only

[00:12:43] Lights That you've Seen In a Building Aside From like The one That uh That convenience Store That you came Across And I Really Don't Want To buy Another Timeshare They Suckered Me Once I Was Just About To Ask Who Wants To Buy A Timeshare Damn It You Can Also Hesitate On A Joke It

[00:13:24] And Lizzie Just Went Into The Into The Office Fuck It Sure Why Not Friendship Is Important Let's Fucking Do All Right Um Yeah You You Walk Up The Ramp To The Door It's Sort Of Like A Trailer Home Kind Of The Paints Like Chipped And Like

[00:13:54] Peeling But It Looks Like It Says Like Um Uh Uh Oneros Uh Homes Coming Soon Uh By Now Um Sort Of Thing Uh But You Uh You Open The Door Uh And Uh You Get On The Floor And Everybody Walks The Dinosaur No Um You You Open The Door And There's A Like Um Like Kind of Chime Goes Off Uh Like Ding Ding Ding Uh And Uh

[00:14:23] It's Very Bright In Here And Cheerful Welcome To The Hall Of Violet Yeah Uh And You See Uh This This Uh Kind Of Uh Business Woman Uh Behind A Behind A Counter Uh Doing Doing Some Kind Of Paperwork Or Or something Or Maybe Even Just Using A Maybe Using The Computer That's Uh This Large Like Bulky Computer That's Uh That's There It Looks Like A lot Of Like 90s Technology Or

[00:14:53] 90s Aesthetic I don't Understand What Is Off White Yeah It's Off White Box Yeah What Um And The What You hear Some Clicking And Clacking Um And Kind Kind Kind Melting Like She Looks A little Cadaverous

[00:15:23] In Like A Waterlogged Way Um Uh She Just But She's Like Putting On This This This Smile As If Like Everything's Fine As Like Ah Like Perhaps Uh Hello How Can I Help You Welcome To Welcome To Are You Are Interested In One Of Our In One Of Our Uh Developments Up North In The

[00:15:53] In The In The Oneros Neighborhoods Yes What Do You Pulls Up Pulls Over To The Side Of The The Office Where There's A

[00:16:23] Pull Down Screen And She Pulls It Down And There's Like A Map Laid Out Similar To The One That You Have But It Has More Of Different Buildings Or Different Properties Um Yeah So You Have We Have Fine Selection And She Pulls Down Another Another Layer Of It And There's Some some Uh Um Uh Depictions Of Of Some Of The Homes And Uh Why don't You Go And Roll Me A Uh A Focus Sure I'll Fail

[00:16:53] Three Uh What are We Rolling Again I'm Sorry Oh Did You Guys Follow Her In Or Do You Let Do You Think We're Going To Let Anybody Go Anywhere Alone We All

[00:17:42] William You Guys Are Hosted On My Own Batards Okay Uh Yeah She's Going On About The Um Uh The Different Homes And Like How It's Uh Great For Families Or Or People Or Single People Who Are Just Looking To Get

[00:18:13] The More She She Begins Talking The More You Guys Get A Sense That Like There's Something Off About This Like There's Some Kind Of There's Something In The Air That's Like Not Smelling Right Um And You Guys Kind Of Get The Urge That You Need To Leave This This Building Well I'll Tell you What Uh Do You Have Any Keys To The Things You've Got Built Up There We Can Run Up There Real Quick And Take Look And See What We Like Oh We Don't Have Any Of The The The Properties Are Still In In In In Development You See

[00:18:44] This Is Sort Going To Be Happening Next Season We'll Have Actually Like The Buildings Set Up And Such But Please Do You Need Do Want Some Coffee To One Of The Doors Next To The Counter And Goes Into The Back And You Guys Hear Something Odd You're Not Sure What It Is

[00:19:14] Roll Me An Intellect Oh I'm Real Smart I Got One So Did I I Got It It It Sounded It Sounds Ulrich When You Haven't Had A Had A Decent Like When You Haven't Done A Decent Hunt For A While Or You Get The Grumbling In Your Stomach It Kind Of Sounds Like That That That's

[00:19:44] Coming From Beyond That That Door But It's Like It's Like A Deeper Thrumming Sound That's Like Kind Of You're Kind Of Feeling Around The Building Um And You Look You Look Over To Your Friends And Like There's A Little Like There's Like A Little Bit Of Like Some Kind Of Viscous Material Just Drooping Off The Ceiling And Like And Hits Um Uh Kalem's Kalem's Shoulder And Then Like It Kind of Like It Kind Of Like Slides Down And Like Begins Uh

[00:20:13] Almost Like It Bounces It Splashes Off His Shoulder And Begins Like Sticking To The Nearby Wall Like A Webbing And It's Almost Like It's Like Leaping From That Wall Onto Him To Try And Grab Onto Him And Get More Purchase Um I'm Just Going To Push Him Towards The Door Just Very Gently But Firmly We Leave Now Um Uh You Try To Uh Um Uh Make Make A

[00:20:50] On My Hand By The Way I Know This Isn't For You Okay Uh You Try To Nothing In The Human Form Just Yeah Yeah You You Try To Nudge Him Like Just Toward The

[00:21:20] I'm Sorry We're Gonna Do It A Little Bit Harder This Time Take A More With Yeah Cat Form Okay So You Maul Caleb For Your Own Good Yeah Um All Right So You Go To Try And Uh To Do This And You Realize Also Baron That You're Also Starting To Get Stuck But You Manage Like A Leap Uh Sufficiently And Uh

[00:21:50] You You Push Um Calum Toward The Door But The Door Is Is Shut Uh And It Doesn't Open Like Uh It You When You Came Inside You Opened And It

[00:22:20] And When When Calum Tries To Get Off The Wall Uh There's This More Like Viscous Material Like Like Some Kind of Like Resin Or Saliva That's Just Like Sticking Uh Like Webbing To His Uh To

[00:22:50] The Door Like Could I Actually Reach It With My Hand Like You'd You'd Have To No You were Closer To The You were Probably At The Forefront So You were Actually Closer To The Reception Uh Like Uh Consoles Or Yeah The The Counter So Um You'd Have To You

[00:23:29] Could Large Tentacle Like Vine Like Tentacles That Are Behind Her That Are Puppeting Her As She Comes As Like Oh Please You You Must Stay You Must Stay And Check Out These Models That We Have And You See Little Uh Little Model Uh Like Houses On Spider Legs And Little Custacean Like Claws Crawling Around Behind Like At Her Feet Like Toward You Guys Just Snapping You Must Stay

[00:23:59] And Then Her Voice Begins Like Kind Of Like Echoing With Like A Deeper Voice Um Like Interlaced With It So Liam And Uh And Uh Lester What Are You Doing Outside As This Is Going On That Cloud Looks Like A Basically I'm Just Having A Quick Dart He's Fucking Belmont You Enjoy That Shit

[00:24:30] They've Been In There For A Minute I Know This Place Is All Relative But It Seemed Like A Bit A Bit I Mean It Might Have Been A While Wasn't There A Door Whenever They Walked In Is There Not Now No You A Focus Or Intellect

[00:25:00] As You're As You're Looking At The Windows Of The Or Of The Building And Such Damn Yeah Lester You You See That Like Oh Yeah There's Some Movement Like You Can See Some Silhouettes In The Frosted Glass And Stuff That Like They're Obviously Like There Liam You See Like For A Moment You See That Like Those Silhouettes But Then Those Silhouettes Like They Kind Of Like Melt Away And You Start Seeing Like Almost Like

[00:25:31] Grotesque Blobs Of Flesh Kind Of Like Pressing Against The Windows And Like Vine And There's Like You're Noticing Around This Building There's This Kudzu Like Kind Of Vine Work That's Just Around The Base Of It And Is That Throbbing That's Kind Of Weird Kind Yucky And Something Kind Kind Of Something Kind Of Clicks To You It's Like They're Like An Appalachian

[00:26:01] Cryptid Or Folklore Thing Called A Garden L That's Like A House Trap Okay Take a Long Drag Off My Cigarette Ask Lester If He's Ever Heard Of One Uh I About About About Those Kind Of Creatures Uh They're Sort Of Like Uh A Mix Between A Chlorofiend And Um

[00:26:31] Uh And A House Mimic So They're Basically Like A Venus House Trap Yeah You You've Had A couple Of Times Where Like They've Uh People Have Told You To Like Oh You Can't Use This Uh You Can't Use That Uh That Safe House Anymore For Uh For Taking People It Got Taken Over By Uh By Garden Oh Yeah It's A Little House That Kind Of Like Trying To Eat People You Think That's What This Is Getting That Impression Uh Well We've Got A Giant Trencher On The Front You Want To Make A Door For him

[00:27:02] Sure Yeah Do That All And Also An Augur If You Want To Make A Big Hole Yeah The Augur Is In The Back Of The Uh Of It All Right Here's Your Episode Title Chris Trencher In The Front Augur In The Back Yeah Yeah I'm Just Gonna Put That In There Now Oh God All Right Yeah We're Gonna We're Gonna Use This Trencher Like A Big Old

[00:27:31] Chainsaw We're Gonna Try To Cut Our Way And Make A Front Door That Sounds Good We're Used To Cutting Through Vines And Vines And Heavy Roots With This Thing So It Should Do A Pretty Good Job All Right All Right So Then I'll

[00:28:03] So Big Steel Big Steel Chain Going Through The Door I'm Not thinking That Adam Do You Want A Fate Point Chris I Love Fate Points Uh And Actually Baron Karkov Do You Also Want A Fate Point David Oh I'll Take It Okay Uh So Now That When As I'm Running I'm Now Liam Whenever You

[00:28:33] To Attack Oh Yeah Uh Oh God Okay Um That's Precise Yeah So Um That's A Six For Anybody At Home That Want Uh Caleb And And Uh Leo Or Caleb And Um Uh And Baron Um Take Three Stress As Uh Hmm What Did my Stress Recept From Last Game

[00:29:03] Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah It all Reset Um As Uh The Uh The The Trencher Comes Right Through The Build Like The Wall That You're Stuck Partially To And And And Kind Of Gets At You A Little Bit Um And This Sends The Uh The Woman The Cadaverous Woman Who's Being Puppeted By Something Uh And

[00:30:02] Um To Sure No I Will Well I Keep Doing Through The Gauntlet Otherwise I'll I'll Have Uh Like Croker Let Me Know If He Doesn't Well Croker Could Tell You What A Good Boy I've Been Oh In 2026 How do You make Notes Oh I Don't Know I Was Trying To

[00:30:39] Adam Interpose Deeper Voice Yeah Adam And Overlay Deeper Voice I

[00:31:09] Just Like It's Burning You Can See Like Steam Coming Off Of Like Where You're Where Liam Is Cutting Into It And Such And You See Like Gouts Of Sap And Kind Of Icker Kind Of Bleeding Out Of

[00:31:40] Retaliate And Attack The People Inside So Liam You That's Not Good Yeah You You Dumb You But Liam Has Managed To Clear The Way For You To Try And Escape As Well If You Want To Try And Get Out Of Here We Just Poke Our Heads In And Be Like Y'all Buy Time Share Yet We Gotta Go Like One Of The Pockets On My Belt

[00:32:10] And Pull Out My Pocket Sand Except Instead Of Pocket Sand In This Case It's Pocket Iron Filings I'm Just Going To Look At The Little Houses And Go And Blow The Filings All Over The Room Nice I'm Going To Huff And Puff And I'm Going To Blow Their Houses Down God Damn It Okay Yeah You Oh That Wasn't You Okay I Thought Somebody Was Rolling For That Yeah So Yeah If You Want To Roll An Attack Then Baron With

[00:32:40] That Jesus Okay Yeah You You The The The Chaff Just Goes Into The Air Of These Of These Iron Filings And Such And You Just See These Things Shrivel Up Like Slugs And And Leeches To Salt These Little Like Houses Just Begin Like Kind Of Just Imploding In On Themselves Or Just Like Shriveling Into Themselves As The More Like Crustaceous Bits Of Them

[00:33:10] Fall Off And Melt Away We Started Out Being Nice But Y'all Didn't Like Nice So Now We Gotta Get Rude Yeah The So A few More Tentacles Begin Surging From The Door That Goes Out To The Back And You See More And More Like Bits Of The The The The Bits Of The Illusion Of The Glamour Of This Building Kind Of Give Way To See Like More Of

[00:34:24] Hey, Chris, am I bleeding? Oh, yeah. You got hit by the trencher. Can I double dip? And by double dip, I mean there's a lot of blood here, so I don't really have to cut myself. Yeah, you can double dip on that. All right. I am going to, I guess, it looks kind of weird. I have a feeling the thing caught me at my side.

[00:34:54] Probably. Probably, yeah. So I just kind of take the handle of the blade, and I just rake it not blade side, but flat side, along the bleeding side that I have. Along the gashes in your side. Yeah. Yeah. And with that, can I slash and detach the marionette?

[00:35:23] You can try. Okay. Is that, I guess that's a force, or is that a force? It'll probably be a force. Yeah, it'll probably be a force, I'd say. Yeah, CS is not my good skill, so I'm probably going to roll. Oh, well, I wrote a four. That's great, because this thing apparently is very sluggish with the intrusive, with the, with the... I can't have a big hunk of metal stuck through its veins right now. I can't come up with words today, Jesus.

[00:35:55] Yeah, it's not doing... It's very sluggish with the trencher, like, embedded in it and creating a giant opening for you guys. Uh, so, yeah, you manage to just, like, get there and just slice it, like, clean off of the, uh, the back of this woman. And you do see that it's, like, it was just embedded into, like, the, where the nape of her neck, basically. Um, and that's how it was, like, lifting her up and puppeting her. Mm-hmm. And she just, like, ragdolls to the ground. Tell her like a titan.

[00:36:25] Yeah. Why did we need to buy a trencher, they said? Who knew that we was going to run into a house made of vines, they said? Go to, go to Moorhead, Kentucky. Have a couple of laughs. Also, Adam has put himself directly in front of me as I was prepping to just light the place on fire because it's a plant. Well, you... Do you want a pay point? Yes, I do. I always knew them. I don't know.

[00:36:51] Um, I will, uh, so, yeah, you, you just, like, uh, so, yeah, you, you go to do that as he jumps in front of you. So, uh, uh, Adam, I will allow you to try and go out of the way in time as you notice that, like, oh, shit, she's not stopping. Would you like me to roll four? Yes. All right. You can roll haste. I did roll. By the way, I wrote a four.

[00:37:18] I rolled a four and Lizzie got a force, so... Is there anything added to that or is that just, uh, is that it? That's just what I rolled. Yeah, so you, you cut, you cut the, uh, so what happens is, like, you, you, you jump in there, cut, uh, cut the woman off the vine, feel something warm behind you, look over, ah, fuck, and you, like, leap out of the way. Like, like, just in the nick of time as, uh, as, um, Lizzie, uh, does what she, she's doing with the, with her fire.

[00:37:51] So. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Nice shooting, Ted. Yeah. Uh, wow, I'm just rolling like shit for the, for the gardenel. Keep it tight on. Yeah. Yeah, so you, uh, so what are you doing there, Lizzie, with your fire? Burning everything. Okay, well, yeah, then there's just, like, a jet stream of fire, uh, gouting away, like, into, like, the interior of this, of this building.

[00:38:19] Uh, and you guys start seeing, like, suddenly, like, the, the ground beneath you, and even, like, the, the ceiling begin warping horribly as you start seeing, like, this thing start acting a little bit more, like, gelatinous and a little bit more, like, organic. Um, it, it's, like, it's as if the, uh, the building itself is, like, warping unnaturally. And, uh, uh, you guys need to find a way to get out of there, because you get the feeling it's going to collapse in on you or try to chomp down, uh, if you stay in here long, too long.

[00:38:48] I have a hard time chomping down with a big-ass skid steer that's made of steel in the way. Well, it's going to try. Um, Liam, you can also, uh, try and, uh, if you would like to try and do another attack on it, like, you're, you could probably just, like, go right through this thing. Hell yeah, brother. Let's rip it a brand new hole. Beat, beat, motherfucker. I guess I'm doing this one with force, because it's not really lairish. Uh, yeah, it's more of just, like, brute forces.

[00:39:19] Um. If you spun a donut the whole way through, that'd be fun. Ooh. Um, it's getting, it's, it's getting stuck. It's got a thing specially designed to cut through roots. And yet, uh, it's, well, no, that's not what's, like, it's, it's, the, the problem is, like, the, the trench is working. But it's not, the, the vehicle's not moving.

[00:39:41] And you look down, and you, you, both of you, uh, like, Liam and Lester look down, and you can see that the treads are being grabbed by the kudzu-like vineage that is, um, that is around the, uh, the building. So it's, like, it's gunking up into the, uh, into the, uh, the, the treads themselves. Ew. Well. Yeah. Can I, uh, kind of, try and vibrate them off of it? Uh, sure.

[00:40:08] Yeah, see if I can just kind of repel them back with, with kind of pressure force. Sure. Literally shaking them loose. That's seven. Uh, yeah. Um. They hold on, but, uh, they, they prevent, um, uh, Liam's second attack, but, uh, you manage to cut them, or, like, basically repel them off, uh, and, uh, Liam will be able to get another shot off, uh, shot on it, um, uh, soon. So, um.

[00:40:39] Okay. Basically keeping all the vines off of us. Yeah. So he can just keep doing the stuff. Yeah. And in fact, actually, I will give Liam a plus two, uh, moving forward for, um, if you want to try again, uh, after, uh, Calum and the others have tried to escape. Okay. So, uh, but yeah, speaking of, Calum, uh, Lizzie and the Baron, um, you guys are inside this thing. It's all getting kind of wonky and sarlacc-y, uh, on the inside.

[00:41:08] Um, how are you guys escaping? Yeah. Uh, or are you escaping? Yeah. Can I scoop up the puppet? Uh, sure. You can, you can do that. Uh, I'll, I'll let you do, you can just, like, pick her up, but it will, uh, inside a, uh, a minus two on your, uh, um, on your escape roll. Which is going to be haste, which means I'll be rolling, um, one. Okay. Well, okay.

[00:41:39] So I'm going to go ahead, grab her. You can also spend a fate point to negate the, um, the, uh, the minus. But he just got there. I know. That's, that's the, that's the ebb and flow of, of fate points. Yeah. Well, you know what? I'm hoping that we can make, we're making this world a better place when. Screwed up resident at a time. So, yeah, I'll spend a fate point to negate. Okay. And, uh, hold on. I might need to.

[00:42:08] I guess I take. Okay. I'm doing the math. I still have my four key on my keyboard. I just have a number pad left, guys. Uh, and I am going to row. So I wrote a five. Okay. Dashing out like a hero. Yep. Just got her, uh, it's like kind of. On over your shoulder, like fireman style. Just, and just like running.

[00:42:34] You're just like charging through the, the, the large gap that technically you paid for in blood, uh, from the trencher. Um, and you see that like, yeah, basically they're, they're, uh, you can see Liam's basically just gunning to just like ram this thing again with the trencher. Um, what is, uh, Lizzie and, uh, how are Lizzie and the Baron going? I'm going to go last. Okay. All right. Uh, through the hole, the trencher made. Yeah. Yeah. Following suit with, uh, Caleb. Yep.

[00:43:04] Case. All right. Four. Yeah. You, uh, you just dive through as well. Uh, and, uh, the Baron. Um, yeah, I guess I'm just gonna take that same hole. Yes. Why not? It's bad luck if you go in, go out a door you didn't go in. You know what? You're right. Why don't I just go out the front door then? The door that was there. I'm just gonna defenestrate myself right through it.

[00:43:34] Kool-Aid through where the original door was. With force. Yes. Okay. Oh, yeah. Damn. And by force, you meant intellect because you're a panther. Yes. Yeah. Uh, yeah, you, you get through. Um, it looks like some of the, the tentacular vines, um, that were deeper within that aren't like horribly charred, uh, did try to like lash out and grab you, but you managed to, uh, to evade them in time.

[00:44:02] Um, and, uh, Liam, you can, uh, try again to, uh, just like, mow down this, uh, this RV from hell. Yeah. Let's gun at full throttle. I'll say, how about we, uh, we extend out the, the trencher and spin in a circle. That's probably not a terrible idea since you are so adept at hand signs. That's exactly what I'll do.

[00:44:30] You guys have a, you guys have formed a, a very strong friendship over the last, like couple of weeks. It was just that time that we switched bodies. Yeah. I was going to say there was that time that we switched bodies. That was a good day. Yeah. I know what makes you after that. Literally walked a mile in my shoes. Uh, uh, did you account for the, uh, the plus two that you got as well for that or? I did not. I don't know how to actually add that in. That's okay. It's your, the, your, your role is technically a four then here. Yeah.

[00:45:00] So, um, however, Lester, are you staying on the top of the room? I'm holding onto the side. Okay. Cause you're going in like, cause he's like, like basically just like bulldozing through this thing and just like shredding inside. Uh, like keeping, keeping the vibrations up to keep the, the kudzu off. Well, I'm going to need you to roll then for that. Cause, uh, again, cause, uh, there are larger, uh, tentacle like vines. They're going to try and grab you from within. I got a seven, man. That was epic.

[00:45:28] I know that was for the outside. You're going in. Well, that's a six then. That's a, that's fantastic. Fine. Cause I rolled a minus one. They're going deeper in. We might need to give them cover fire. Does anybody here have shotgun or some kind of ranged weapon that fires something steel? We have chainsaws. I also just like the thing that like, uh, Lizzie's just like fireball. I have a raised weapon.

[00:45:59] Just, just, just staring at the Baron. And then like with one hand, just like pointing toward like, you're not even looking at the, at the thing. You're just like, you just put your hand out toward the, the building and start firing fireballs. Fireball. Now I'm an American wizard. I have a gun. And I'm not a wizard, but I, guys, I, time to use American magic. I did not kill with my gun. He was killed with his guns. Forgot the face of his father.

[00:46:28] Fucking Christ. I was just listening to Frontiersman. You guys spend like five minutes on that. It's so good. Except you couldn't remember it. So you're just like, how did it go again? Shut up. So the fucking three of you are sitting there going like, no, it's this. What? It's this. Anyway. Yeah. But yeah, so you, you, you've gotten outside. You've, you've probably dropped the body or, or placed it down. Just yeeted the body.

[00:47:02] Why am I thinking that you just like, you're like, when you yeeted, you just go to the sky. There's a twinkle. Single tear. God damn it. That's why we can't get these games done fast enough. Yeah. This is the right. Yeah. Dammit, Jeremy. No. Not that one. All right. Caleb, just shoot. Shoot your gun.

[00:47:32] Shoot the damn house. What do you want me to use for my gun as I take aim? That would probably be a focus or force. Focus. I assume you're aiming to not hit your friends. Yeah. Yeah. That's kind of. There's more house than us. Yeah. I'm not trying to kill my friends. Yeah. You, you're, you're just blasting. Basically, you're shooting the, um, uh, the, the vines and stuff that, that are trying to, uh, get past, uh, Lester's, um, repelling force.

[00:48:02] And Liam, you just drive right through this thing, like a goddamn tank in, and just like, uh, there's a, there's a, the shot suddenly changes from like to the backside of the, of the building. And you just like burst through the other side of the, uh, uh, of the garden L, uh, with its heart, just grinding through the trencher. It blows its back out, Aaron. Oh yeah. Um, and, and the, the building, as soon as you like break through the, uh, the other side,

[00:48:30] the entire thing just kind of collapses in on itself. And this really funky, um, stench kind of wafts out from the body. Um, you're, it kind of reminds you of like, uh, Petrichor, but like on steroids. Yeah. Ew. Yeah. Just like wiping my coat. Ugh. Yeah. Uh, you're, you're, sorry. Sorry. Liam, you're completely fine.

[00:48:56] Uh, like, cause you're not like, you're like the windshield wipers, like the, the green ichor and the purple ichor. That's like, and meanwhile, Liam is just like coded. Uh, sorry. Lester is just coded. Like his, his, your, your brand new, uh, like red and white striped suit. Like, like, like, um, like song and dance man suit is just coded in green and purple blood. What happened to my, what happened to my, where did I get this damn?

[00:49:26] I was wearing a Carhartt covered in chicken wire last time I saw. Why didn't you tell me I was wearing a red and white suit? Yeah. You suddenly, also you're wearing a flat, one of those like flat, like, uh, showman hats. You gave me a flat cap. Yeah. Oh, fuck, bud. That's a real Canadian suit you got there. Oh, fuck, bud. Well, it was a good thing I had a dart. Let's go for a rip. Going for a rip, are you, bud? You got it, bud.

[00:49:56] And with that, we will proceed to go for a rip. All right. Well, there's just forest behind the place. So yeah, they're just like, start carving through. Just ripping around, bombing through the trees and shit. Actually, I will say you can see the, uh, uh, you, you guys technically could just try and go through the woods to get to that, that radio tower. Cause you can see it up on the hill behind this place. All right. Can I interrupt a little bit? Sure. Yeah. Sorry. Sorry, Adam. Yeah.

[00:50:24] No, I was just, uh, like, how is the, is the person actually dead? Did I pull it out of there? Yeah. Okay. Okay. Uh, yeah. Uh, Caleb, you, you go to check. Um, you're not getting any kind of a pulse. Uh, the person's not responding at all. Like they're not, it doesn't seem like they're even breathing. Uh, it does appear that they were just a, a flesh husk. I'm saying, or was it even ever a person? Yeah. Basically.

[00:50:55] Which you all just reverse squinted that thing. We're like, what? We can't hear you. As we're bombing through the trees. It's like, you just look over and think that they, they heard you and you just see like this, like them disappearing off into the distance and you see trees like falling in the, in the woods behind the place. One day I hope I find somebody that loves me like they love each other. Okay.

[00:51:23] Well, uh, so yeah, uh, we'll, we'll wait till Aaron's back. Just some good old boys. Never made it no harm. Um, keyboard is very clean right now. Just in case you guys were wondering. Oh, I was very concerned. Like, yeah. My God, it's clean. Uh, democracy guys. Oh, democracy. Democracy. Democracy.

[00:51:53] That's my go for tomorrow evening. Democracy. Democracy. God damn it. That stupid Lion King eating. I love that. We give so much. It's so ridiculous. Hey. Oh, stay on. Hey. I'll say. Yeah. Oh, I'm out of mana. Better use American magic.

[00:52:20] See, I, I love, I've seen, I keep seeing the one where it's like, it's a wizard with a shotgun. It's like, I may be out of spell slots, but I'm not out of shock. I'm not out of spell shots. Personally, my favorite one with the wizard is. Oh, well. It looks like I'm out of, uh, spell shots or I mean, spell slots. So it takes off the, uh, outer robe, but he's just fucking ripped. He's like, guess I'm going to have to cast fist now. Yeah.

[00:52:50] Yeah. I cast fist. I cast iron. Nice. Actually, I kind of want to make a magic missile. I kind of want to, I kind of want to cross like cross play a character or like a cross, um, cross class. That's the word. Cross class, a barbarian and a, and a, and a wizard or a sorcerer so I can become a rage mage.

[00:53:18] They have those kind of basically, um, in fifth ed. Sweet. You know what you must do now. Yeah. I know. I was playing one in, I was actually playing, uh, we were going to play one, uh, in a Pathfinder campaign on our Saturday night crew, but, um, then pandemic happened. I'm pretty sure there's one of them where if you, when you rage does wild magic. Sweet. Oh God. I think it's in Tasha's maybe Tasha's.

[00:53:48] Hey Barron, come over here. Let me check out your injuries. Yeah. Somebody may want to like heal. Yeah. Like, and then also like help out, uh, um, uh, you there, Caleb, cause you're also not doing very good. No, I'm not. He's the healer. How about the hell am the rest of us supposed to do? I don't know. I have wounds. That's about all I can do. I can make you a nice pack. All right. So I want to heal. That's focus, right? Do I have to spend anything or?

[00:54:18] Um, no, it's your, it's just your magic. Yeah. All right. So Barron, I'm going to try to heal you. I wrote a two, unfortunately, not as high as I could have rode. And, uh, how much does that heal on him? That'll heal too. Oh, okay. Sorry about that. That's good enough. I might heal myself. Yeah. Five. I say the best for me. Sorry. Unfortunately, because you were selfishly healing yourself, you no longer have access to your blood magic. No, I'm kidding.

[00:54:49] Well, I'm standing close to the Baron, did my extra three or two points row over on the healer? No, no. It has to cost you. Here's the thing. I'm just going to shift to full cat and then lick the wound and then shift right back and it's gone. Uh-huh. Nice. Nice. I guess we better go after those chuckle fucks in the woods. Yeah. So you guys could try following them through the woods or there, you do see that on the

[00:55:17] map, there is a road that goes up to where you guys, where it looks like they're heading up to. So. I'm pretty sure they'll be fine. I mean, if we're down the path. If it's rude, not. Yeah. Let's just follow that path they so conveniently made for us. Well, you know what's going to happen. We're going to make a real bad roll. Something stupid is going to happen and it's going to be really funny. Exactly. Speaking of. More than likely, we're going to get it stuck. We're going to need the help. Yeah.

[00:55:45] Uh, Liam and, uh, and Lester, uh, as you're, as you're bulldozing and trenching through, uh, up a hill, up a, um, uh, up a West Virginia style hill. Um, um, a mountain as it were. Uh, and like toward that, that large, uh, radio tower, um, through a bunch of thick foot forest. Why don't you guys make me a focus or an intellect to, uh, to pick up on some things? Uh huh.

[00:56:15] That's not terrible. No, I'm, I'm just, I'm still covered in shit. Uh, Lester, you. I'm trying to figure out why I'm wearing a shirt that I wasn't wearing before. Uh, Lester, you get grabbed. I'm sure I do. Um, Liam, you, uh, you, you hear like something. Yeah. You hear like, what? And you look, uh, you look back and you see that the trees, that the tree limbs, uh,

[00:56:41] from the, from the forest that isn't being bulldozed by your, by your, um, by your skid steer have grabbed onto Lester and are pulling him into the, into the woods. And then you realize, oh no, no, it's not just the tree limbs. It's the human hands that are growing from the ends of the tree limbs that are grabbing onto him. This is almost as gross as that house we just broke through. So yeah, these, the four, this forest. And then that's when you start realizing this forest.

[00:57:11] It has trees, um, that have human hands grasping from the ends of the, uh, of the, of the branches. Sort of fractaling like, uh, that one scene from, uh, from Dr. Strange. Where it's like her, his, like his hand and then it's his hands on the fingers and then those hands have fingers or those fingers have hands. Oh God. Yeah. It's, it's kind of like that. Like some of the, uh, like, cause there's hands on each branch, uh, each stemming branch.

[00:57:41] On some, a lot of these trees. Hands on hands on hands. Uh, and you don't, and then you start hearing like, uh, like you start seeing some of them like as you're like carving through this forest, some of these trees that aren't being hit by you are trying to grab onto your, your skid steer. So, but yeah, uh, Lester has been grabbed and is being taken deeper into the woods. Oh, fuck no. Not my buddy. Oh, fuck buddy. All right.

[00:58:12] Uh, uh, how far away? Um, I guess. Uh, well, I'm going to turn this bitch up to rabbit and we're going to go full throttle. Oh no. You just hurt little rabbit. Oh no. And then the skid steer drifts. That wasn't even my final form. And then you drift to the skid steer to turn around to get him to go to follow it.

[00:58:40] Yes, that is exactly what I do. All right. Um, then, uh, yeah. Uh, how, what, how would you like to, uh, to try and like chase after him or how you would like to, uh, retrieve your friend with style and panache, obviously with style and panache clearly. Um, I don't do anything, but, uh, so he's being carried like above the ground. Yeah. It's like, he's kind of being, he's being picked.

[00:59:06] He was picked up and is now like being kind of like somewhere in the, in the canopy, not like at the top, but like somewhere in the, inside the canopy. Oh, okay. I'm way up there. Hmm. Like how high are we talking? Like about 30, 40 feet up in the air. Shit. My boom reaches only like nine feet. Damn. Yeah. Which means cut the tree from there and he'll fall the other 20. It's fine. He'll survive. Is, is he being carried away or is he just being carried up?

[00:59:35] Uh, he's being carried away. So he's being moved from tree to tree. So cutting one tree isn't going to do the job. No. Okay. Okay. All right. I'm, uh, I'm chasing after until I can come up with a brilliant idea like this. Okay. All right. I'm going to grab my hockey stick and stick it out the window. Well, the front. Yeah. Pick the door open. Hockey stick out the front.

[01:00:04] And I'm going to try to crystallize the liquid in the, um, appendages that are grabbing him. Okay. Frostbite. Epic, epic frostbite. And, uh, we're going to burn a stress for this to give me a plus one. Uh, and I guess we'll burn a point of winter power too.

[01:00:30] Um, and this counts as, uh, uh, where is it? Come on. I have notes on this stuff. A flare ice attack. Yes. Uh, yeah. All right. So that'll get me plus four to this role. Thank God. All right. So that's a six. Yep. Uh, let's see if these guys even do it. Okay. Okay. It's not too bad.

[01:00:53] Um, yeah, they, they begin, the frost begins like shattering branches, um, and encrusting other ones with, uh, with ice and frost. And then the, the hands as they begin, they begin, uh, you, you, you manage to basically catch up right up to them. Uh, as, um, some of them are, are, are like just like split. Like, it's just like the skin you think it might be skin or it might just bark.

[01:01:20] Hopefully it's just bark, but it splits around seams of the fingers and such, um, of these, of these different hands and some of the, and they definitely need to be slowing, uh, their, uh, their progress of, of getting him away and getting deeper into the woods. So, um, uh, Lester, you, you're like, Oh, what the fuck? Like it all happened really fast. And now it's like kind of slowed down. So you have a chance to like try and break free of some of these things are just like

[01:01:48] splitting, uh, as they grab you and try to like move their joints. Uh, well, I'm going to make myself heavier or I'm actually, I'm going to make them and me heavier. So, uh, I'm going to do a little gravity and a cannonball straight through some, straight through some ice. All right. That's a six. Okay. Yeah. No, you, uh, uh, the, the weight that you're adding on basically just like is the final crux.

[01:02:17] And as I'm on the way down, it snaps. I kind of want to try and slow myself down so I don't plummet 30 feet to my death. I was going to say, cause like, uh, cause, um, Liam's been going through like trying to like catch up to you. So like Liam Lester, do you guys want fate points? Uh, you can say no Lester, you land on the trencher. You are cut now. Well, that's an outcome. That could be an outcome.

[01:02:45] So I'm going to burn one to stop that from happening. Okay. Do you want to burn a fate point? Um, uh, well, so you burn it so that you don't, so that it doesn't happen like automatically. Yeah. Um, to want that fate point. Yeah, I'll take it. Yeah. So you don't realize he's falling toward the trencher. So Lester, you do still need to roll to avoid the trencher. All right. Okay. Yeah. Three.

[01:03:15] Yeah. You basically just like, how do you, how do you like deflect as you're coming, as you're plummeting back to the ground and you see, oh shit, he's not stopping. As I'm falling, I basically just like reverse this, like kind of reverse it and kind of kick myself off to the side. Okay. Like I slow myself down and then just kind of bump myself off to the side and slowly float to the side. Oh, Missy Elliot did. Missy Elliot did it. Yeah. Sorry.

[01:03:43] Brief aside, Adam, when, when you asked me at the beginning of the game, what I drive, were you referring to my character's car or this glorious beast that I'm driving right now? I was, I, you know, I was really thinking about the car, but this beast here is really eclipsing it. Yeah. No, that's, that's fair. I just, I wanted to make sure I answered the right question.

[01:04:14] Yeah. Sorry. Appreciate your thoroughness. We may continue now. Okay. Yeah. So you, you realize like, uh, Liam, you're like, you see, you see him like, like jump up to the side. You're like, oh yeah, shit. I should slow down. Cause yeah, you, you see him like narrowly miss your, uh, the trencher as you're just speeding ahead toward him. I'll put it back to turtle. Nice.

[01:04:42] Um, and yeah, strangely enough, the trees decide they don't want to mess with you. So they no longer, uh, try to like grab onto you guys. It's like, is that all you've got? You see some, sorry. What was that Aaron? Chainsaws. We ought to operate them. Fucking A, right? We do, bud. We cut our weight in firewood every 20 minutes or so. Smoke break. I was going to say, he probably has a cigarette hanging out of his mouth at this point, reaching for the chainsaw.

[01:05:12] I'm like, two, two of them. Um, so we, we cut back to the other, the crew still on the road, I think. Um, did you guys take the road? It's a major walk. Yeah. You guys, do you guys take the road or did you guys follow the, uh, the, um, the trail of destruction? Yeah. Trail of destruction. Or, or it could be a trail of construction. Eh? Very true. Very true. Is that where you guys are going? You guys are walking through the, uh, the woods with, uh, the path they've made?

[01:05:42] Yes. Okay. It's going down. Yeah. So you, so you, you see that up ahead, like him just like, like, uh, you, you see all that kind of happen. And then he just like, like, he just diver, uh, the, the, the skitcher just diverts and goes into the woods. Uh, and you hear a bunch of commotion and sound, uh, as you're, as you're walking up this hill, uh, through this like mulched terrain.

[01:06:08] Um, but ahead of you beyond like the, the path that has been carved so far, uh, there is still the, uh, the top of the hill where there is the, uh, the radio tower. Um, you guys can probably get there in fairly short order. Okay. Should we go check on them or just head straight to the tower? I'm sure. I'm sure they've got whatever the hell. I'm sure. I'm sure it's fine. All right. Radio tower is. They're driving a tank. How could they be in any trouble at all? Exactly.

[01:06:36] It's like, they're driving a tank and you're, are you motherfuckers? Come here. He's there. He put it back on rap on turtle. I think it's okay now. Hey, you just hear like for Liam is like, Oh fuck bud. Not my boy. All right. So you guys get up to the, uh, the radio tower and you find, uh, like you, you basically like get through some of the trees. You see that there are, the trees do seem to have like hands at the end of the branches though.

[01:07:05] They seem to be kind of cowering from anything that's like entering, like passing by that, that path. Move along, sir. Yeah. Some of them even like, kind of like they, they gesture like this way. Yeah. The trees are afraid. What did they do? Um, yeah. Uh, and you guys come to a, uh, uh, a clearing. Um, I do that in quotes.

[01:07:34] Uh, because it looks like this place has seen, hasn't, hasn't been like, it's clearly like a man-made clearing with a, with the radio tower constructed and also like, uh, a, uh, cabin like shack, uh, at the base of the, of the tower, but it doesn't look like anybody's been here for a while. Like the, the lawns and, and even the driveway or the, the driveway that goes like next to the road hasn't been like kept up for maybe many years.

[01:08:03] Um, though that's kind of relative because this is the never, never. Um, but yeah, you see, uh, the remnants of the radio tower. It like, it looks like it's been overgrown by some kudzu. Um, and it's, it's rusting metal. Uh, the cabin itself looks like it's, it's burned out. Like there was a fire from with just sort of a burned shell.

[01:08:26] Um, but you do see words scratched into the walls on the outside of the, of the, uh, radio station. Um, they're just etched off, uh, or etched in, in large gouges of, of, of claw marks like, uh, traitor or, um, uh, not, not our, uh, like, or, uh, not your shepherd or not, sorry, okay. Yeah. No, not your flock sort of thing.

[01:08:56] Um, and even one that says, it makes me think that, uh, the Reverend Coltista is not as popular around here as we thought he was. Um, and then you see one or two more, um, uh, claw, like almost like spray paint in blue. Um, uh, no mercy question mark. Um, and, uh, well, roll, uh, roll a focus or, or intellect as you are looking on at this

[01:09:25] and looking around. Intellect it is. God damn. You said intellect or what? Intellect or focus. Jesus. It seems that the never, never keeps forgetting that the Baron is a schmalt guy. All right. Um, so actually Ulrich, you're, uh, uh, the one that sees them, uh, or hears them as they, you hear the flapping of, of wings in the distance.

[01:09:51] And then you look up into this, like kind of close to the canopy, but in the sky, there is these, these large bat like creatures, um, flying to, uh, heading towards you guys. And, um, and, uh, you, you think you hear them like shouting something. Um, uh, sounds something like, uh, mercy. I'm your biggest fan.

[01:10:17] Um, uh, as they, as they get approach, uh, you guys all see them now. Um, and they get, they get bigger and bigger as they get, uh, they get, they come closer and you realize they're probably about the size of like, uh, two or three people, like fully grown adults. Um, and their wingspans pretty like, like fits that size for their body. Um, and these, there are these horrible, like demonic looking bat creatures. Uh, and they're, they're calling out mercy.

[01:10:48] Where's mercy? No mercy. Uh, and Calum, you realize they are, one of them is die bombing for you. Uh, as it shouts mercy. It wants you to kill it. Do it. I cast nine millimeter. I cast bullets. I cast God. Fair to meet God.

[01:11:16] Hey, look, my focus is five and my haste is like three. So I picked the higher number and I wrote a four to shoot it in the head. Okay. Let's see. They just want their baby back. Ribs. See, I can't say that I was going to, but I can't. Well, I mean, I did. I knew I had to, uh, give me a second here as I flip something. Um, okay. Yeah. No, they, uh, so you rolled a four. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

[01:11:46] You, uh, you nail it in the head. Um, uh, and, uh, it doesn't die from the, from the shot. It's fine. I don't want it to die. But it does kind of like veer off and like land heavy, uh, on the ground and kind of does that like in that kind of move in, in sort of that posture that like bets do when they're when they land, they've got that, uh, their wings folded and they're using those like elbow claws they've got on their, uh, on their wings.

[01:12:16] Uh, and it's just like looking at you. Where's mercy? Honey, she ain't here. I ain't laid eyes on her. You smell. I have no idea what any of this is about. Why is mercy missing? Did you like that honey part by the way? That was a little bit of sudden flare. That blatch. I didn't catch you. I'm sorry. Oh, baby. I tell you where she. There's no mercy here.

[01:12:43] The other ones are there's two others that are like flapping around in the cabin, like a hovering motion. And they're, they're kind of just like calling down. It's like, um, you smell of mercy. Where's mercy? Be safe. She was safe here. Why did he, why'd she take, why is she gone? And what we're, that's what we're here to figure out. You know, the fact that she showed up on our doorstep started this whole thing.

[01:13:15] We kind of wish she hadn't. Um, you guys could roll a focus, uh, to notice something about these creatures as well. Now that you're, now that they're closer. If she hadn't shown up, we would still be living our lives normally. But this threw us onto a quest that led us all the way into the never, never. We've been fighting for Icar Falls.

[01:13:43] And now you're attacking us simply because you don't have the baby. Uh, do you think any of us want to be here? Do you want to be confronting us with a missing baby? Uh, Lizzie, did you roll for as well or the focus? Focus? Yeah. I got the same as Calum. Oh, did you? Okay. Yeah. Actually. Yeah, you did, Josh. Nevermind. Okay. Yeah. I was like, why did Calum roll twice? No, no.

[01:14:12] I, um, so I wrote a four to shoot. I think you wrote, you wrote that before Josh. Cause my second, my three is what I just wrote. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We rolled the same on the focus. Then Calum rolled focus again for a shooting. Yeah. And now I'm asking for another focus. Just, uh, good. Now they're closer. Okay. So yeah. My bad. Great. Now it's a three. So I can only roll three today. Apparently.

[01:14:40] Um, all of you guys notice that like, as they're like talking, like they're, they're looking rather ravenous. Um, and they are kind of every time they, they begin speaking with their, with through their jaws. Um, they do expel some coal, like fall, like smoke or, uh, embers. Uh, so it does appear that they might be under the influence of, um, uh, of, uh, uh, straw and worm. Yeah. Yeah. The devil's lettuce. Yeah.

[01:15:09] Uh, of, of straw and worm, uh, shining one, but they aren't like, they aren't like the, the still wolves where like, those things are like made of like soot and, and coal dust and smoke and embers. Like these, the, the, they're, they're simply, um, uh, they're simply expelling some of it. Like it's in, it's in them, but they're not like comprised of it. They're powered by it. They're not made of it. Yeah. Uh, but yeah, they are kind of inching to work closer to you guys and like kind of getting a little bit more aggressive.

[01:15:38] It's like, you take us to mercy. You show us mercy. Be careful what you ask for. Which normal warrior God. Why the hell would you say that? And the one, the one of the ones above you, uh, just dive bombs for you. All right. Yeah. All right. Time to roll force. Mm. As it rolls against you. Yeah. Of course.

[01:16:07] This is where I roll. Well, sorry. Yep. Somebody who hates the red court so much. These do kind of look like red court. They aren't red court as far as I'm talking about a red court. Yeah. They're talking about a red court. They do kind of look like red court, but as far as you can tell, they aren't straight up red court vampires. Well, roll the three. And I burned a stress to give me a plus one. So four.

[01:16:37] Four. That is not enough as it comes. You know what? I'll burn a fade point. Let's add the plus two. Six. Six. Oh, shit. Okay. What do we do on a tie? I can't remember what we do. What does fate do on a tie? Or fate accelerated? Hold on. We have the technology. Yeah. Dresden fate accelerated? I think it might just gobble, but. All right.

[01:17:05] The AI that Google uses says, in fate accelerated, when you tie a row, it generally means the action is considered to make success. Yes. You achieve part of what you wanted, but not to full go. And the narrative is usually left open for further interpretation. So you slap for it, guys. Yeah. So it comes down on you. And what are you? It was fire. Yeah. But you're also. But yeah, it's set on fire, but now it's on you. And so you're kind of partially on fire yourself.

[01:17:34] Or you're in danger of being on fire. That's. As it kind of just slams down on you and tries as you cast fire on it. And it's going to try and grapple you and take you up into the sky. All right. But what do the others do? Since that was your go. I'm just going to grab that bat by the back of the neck and throw it into the sky at the other bat. I get. I did say that they were like the size of like, like their bodies are about the size of like two or three adults. Yeah.

[01:18:03] But they're also flying, which means that their bones are hollow. Also, have I mentioned that werecat panther is strong? That that is true. You do have supernatural strength. Fucking fastball special. Right. Let's see if it resists. It won't. It's the fucking Baron. Well, you never know. It's the what's the Baron's role? Oh, OK. Think you can roll. Think you can beat a six again? No. Exactly. Got a four.

[01:18:32] I'm actually going to spend my free floating fate point to tag. I don't give a damn about my bad reputation to make that an eight. Just to hammer home the point. OK. OK. Then, yeah, you you just like you grab it as it's like trying to like mangle or or grapple on to to Lizzie. And then you just huck it at its buddy up in the sky and you take them both down.

[01:19:00] They both go kind of like just sort of like like like like helicopter going down into the into the woods somewhere. One of them. The third one. I'm going to say if you don't want to taste, you stand down now. I just flex claws. It begins to kind of back off like in a in a fear or in an intimidated posture.

[01:19:25] But then it begins hacking more of that that coal dust and that those embers and its eyes begin changing to the same color as the embers. And it kind of you get the impression that it's no it's it's no longer it that's piloting its body. And you're hang on. And you hear you hear a voice that is not what I was saying earlier.

[01:19:50] It's just sort of a booming thrumming voice that kind of permeates your souls. It's just like you have tampered in my domain long enough. And then it is going to try attack. Caleb looks like we're going to need some healing here. It does look like it. Don't you know? Didn't he know you're a warrior God?

[01:20:16] No, well, you know, I'm fine. So while this is going on, I'm ready. Okay, whatever. Go ahead, Chris. I was just saying. Well, while this was going on, I do like to think that like the others like that Liam and Lester are also like back on their on their way back. So maybe after Caleb does something, you guys can have a nice big entrance.

[01:20:45] So yeah, Caleb, what are you doing? Chris, are there trees nearby? Yeah, you're surrounded by trees. All right. So I'm going to give you what you want. And I'm going to do what I want here and see if you agree with it. Caleb says for us, there's a reason that mercy is not here. It's because you've all been corrupted and you're in a corrupt world. And she was saved. We are saving her.

[01:21:13] And in Mark 1, 23 verses 23 through 26, just then a man in the synagogue who was possessed by an impure spirit cried out, what do you want of us, Jesus of Mather? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are. The Holy One of God. Well, and then he pauses. I'm a warrior of God. Be quiet, said Jesus sternly. Come out of him.

[01:21:36] And the impure spirit took the man violently and came out of him with a shriek. I'm wanting to cast all of the... I mean, if I need to spend big magic, if I need to take myself out of this fight or whatever, however you want to do this, but I am going to reopen my wounds. Like, if I cut my hand and just... You know what? Would you call it big wounds?

[01:22:03] If I actually cut real deep and real bad? I would say, yeah. Like, if you want to take yourself out of this scene... I've got a specific place where you should probably cut. Yeah. Yeah. And that would be the center of the palms of each hand. Ooh, I do like that. So... Yeah. Yeah. I was going to take the... Well, I guess I deactivated the sword anyway, but I'd have a knife.

[01:22:32] I'd have to stab both my hands, kind of put them together, and... I do have a question. Yeah. Because you know that this thing is an outer entity that's controlling them. Do I know what? You guys do know that the... Like, if this... It's obviously Stralin Worm that's controlling them. Yeah. Um... Which is an outer aspect of Dragon. Yeah.

[01:22:57] You do need Starborn Blood to basically deal with that kind of shit. Yeah. Um... You wouldn't be able to exercise it straight out. Like, straight away. I'm trying to actually save those creatures, if that makes sense. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. Like, if you want to, like, actually, like, save these things and, like... And, like, get rid of the taint that's in them, you're gonna need the Starborn Blood. We've got War Chardless. Oh, God.

[01:23:26] Three doses of it left. Three left. Yeah. It's like, do you sacrifice some of your vial right now, or do you... Or wait till the big fight? I'm almost... Probably wait till the big fight. Like, these guys ain't worth it. Yeah, but they could be an ally against it. I think big... All right, let's talk about... Yeah, we'll have to wait till... We'll also have to wait till Aaron gets back, because he went on a bio break. Okay. But do you... Yeah, I'll be able to...

[01:23:55] Like, putting the control into the tree so everybody's gotta fight a giant tree? Like, I'm wanting to, like, jerk everything completely out of those creatures. Oh, and put it into a giant tree to fight? Yeah. Yeah, no, yeah. I mean, you guys can do that. But you'll need the Starborn Blood, because... It's not like... Like, there's normal exorcism. Like, if you're dealing with a regular demon or an infernal entity from the Never Never,

[01:24:22] that would be your wheelhouse right now, with the holy magic that you're delivering. But this thing is outer power. So... I mean, if you're just gonna yank it out and not destroy it and throw it into a tree, it's not... It wouldn't be worth burning it. If it's gonna kill it outright, maybe. Yeah, I would say, like, this... Like, if you're trying to, like, actually, like, expel it, like, and use the Starborn Blood, it will outright remove the taint and, like, so that it can't be used again on this... Like, it can't corrupt them again.

[01:24:52] Would it just be on the one or it would be all of them? Um, I would say that you could probably grab... You could probably, like, if this is kind of like a on-the-fly ritual, uh, the other ones are somewhere in the woods nearby that you would be able to, like, expel it from them as well. Like, they're in an open enough state from Baron and his attack that you'd be able to do that. I actually think that aren't we also, every time we disconnect some of it, we're basically debuffing it anyway?

[01:25:21] Yeah, you're harming its control of the domain, so... So hopefully that makes it weaker to fight. So, I don't know, I think, Josh, this is about the same benefit, man, to be honest with you. Like, we can get some allies to help fight it. Yeah, but we don't need to burn the Starborn Blood. I mean... He's saying that's what we have to do. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you're using, if you're dealing with these kind of things, like, if you want to actually, like...

[01:25:50] Yeah, you need Starborn Blood. I'm sorry. I don't honestly see them as worth it. We have so little of it. If anything goes wrong now, like, during the Big Bad, we're fucked. That is... I'd rather hedge my bets on the Big Bad. Okay. Well... I mean, if you get rid of the Big Bad, chances are the things that were being corrupted by it will lose their... We'll lose the influence they have. This is true. We don't have to do anything. We can literally just, like, tie them up and leave them there.

[01:26:20] Yeah. That's kind of what I was kind of getting at. Like, this is sort of a... Like, what you're trying to do right now is a short-term solution that might benefit you when you fight the boss. Like, you might have reinforcements. But the long-term... Like, a long-term solution would be to just get rid of Strahlen Worm entirely. Or we could just kill the Bat-Things and then it's a problem to move. Yeah. Because you can still kill them, it's just you can't save them. If you fight them. Hmm. Okay.

[01:26:47] I mean, you get the impression that they were probably taking care of Mercy until it got corrupted. So... Yeah. We're basically taking on the Bat-Nannies. Yep. Bat-Nanny! And then Mercy may need to come back to them whenever this is fixed. Because Mercy can't stay where we're at. All right. Then we can tie them up and leave them here until we deal with Strahlen Worm. So... Now, if you were to exercise the spirits the temporary way, you know, pop them out of

[01:27:17] Strahlen Worm. Or pop Strahlen Worm out of them and, you know, we fight the big tree, that's one thing. Right? Yep. That doesn't require the blood. The blood would be just excise Strahlen Worm from them permanently and they're saved and all of that. And you don't have... Yeah. The Starborn blood basically will help you stop this, like, from becoming another fight that you have to, like, fight a... Then you have to fight an Ent from Hell. Yeah.

[01:27:46] I'm okay with fighting an Ent from Hell. I was saying that earlier and Chris was like, nope, still need the Starborn blood. Sorry. My bad. Yeah. Yeah, that's why I got confused. So, just to make sure that I understand this right. Yeah. Um, we use the Starborn blood on the bats, Sunshine Lollipops Rainbows. Yeah. And you may have allies when... And possible allies later. Yeah. We don't use the Starborn blood, but we still lose Kalem for this fight because Kalem does the exorcism.

[01:28:16] Yeah. And the stigmata stuff, we get to fight the Ebont. Yeah. You know, the black Ent. Yeah, you have to fight the Eldritch Ent. I would like to find that. You're literally fighting a Darkspawn. Yeah, I was just thinking that, yeah. I can take a fucking tree. Can you, though? I am fire. It is wood. Fucking bring it. It's going to be on the Redbubble shop one day in our dream world. Yeah. It's very wet. This entire region is very wet and damp.

[01:28:47] Okay. Here's my thought. Do you know what grass-type Pokémon are weak against? Fire and Ice. Gee, wouldn't it be great if we had another wizard handy that used the other element? I don't know if it's here, but it would be like, Da-na-na! Da-na! As the skidster comes crashing through the trees. Hey, right! This tree is a product of fairy. Yeah. Which is weak to steal.

[01:29:17] Can't you fuckers have a bad time? We can take a fucking tree. All right. So, what do I need to do to make this magic work? So, again, I am going to do Sigmata. I have did my Bible verse. I looked it up on Google. It gave me one where Jesus is casting the demons out of somebody. Well, if you're just pulling yourself out of... If you're going to pull yourself out of the scene, you don't have to do anything, lay any roll.

[01:29:48] So, it's epic. So, you know, as I said, I was wanting to do, as he Sigmata's his hands, he does like a blood Hadouken. Yeah. Which is a great name of band, as David pointed out. And, yeah. I say that it's just super... You wonder about Cale and Blood Pressure? Yeah. It's super so good. It's almost like...

[01:30:17] I think he came from a Kurosawa movie. The blast does split into three separate hits. Because it hits one of them, and then two of the shots go into the woods somewhere. Mm-hmm. To hit the other two crashed bats. And, yeah, he just collapses, I guess, on the ground. Yeah. You're just like feeling kind of woozy. And just drop to the ground.

[01:30:44] And just as, like, these three jet streams of smoke, like smoke demons from Supernatural, with, like, strange alien-esque light kind of piercing through the smoke. They all kind of just converge in on one tree in this clearing near the radio station. And it just, like, it just kind of, like, bloats this tree up unnaturally.

[01:31:09] And it, like, begins fissuring from the amount of power that's being funneled into it. And then it begins mutating into this horrible tentacular thing that hurts to look at. It's... If any of you are... If any of your characters are Lovecraft readers, or are familiar with the Cthulhu mythos, it does resemble one of the thousand young of Shub-Nigguroth,

[01:31:40] the black goat in the woods. Dark young? Yeah, the dark young. Yeah. Just this horrible, like, tree monster with several eyes and several mouths, and goat, or, uh, or, um, not goat, but, like, um, reptilian-like, uh, appendages that, uh, that are constructed from the roots.

[01:32:03] Uh, and just the, the tree, the limbs themselves are just these, like, tentacular, uh, tentacular forms that end with human hands. Um, and, uh, yeah, it begins kind of just, like, uprooting from where it was and goes into a frenzy toward you guys. But then, from, from, like, a nearby, like, tree line... From Hell's Heart. Yeah, from a nearby tree line, comes crashing through a skid steer. How do you make your entrance? How, how does the entrance look out there?

[01:32:33] Darn, narn, darn, darn. Are you fuckers at a bad time? You just hear echoing across the hills, Oh! Fuck, bud! Going for a rip, are ya, bud? Also, uh, the radio in the city, the skid steer is blasting BTO's taking care of business. Yeah, exactly. At 11, because I can do that. Yeah, you're amplifying the... I turned it to 10, and you

[01:33:02] cranked it right up to 11. That's right. We only go to 11 in the skid steer. I just imagine, like, roads, where we're going, we don't need roads. Roads. As you just crash through and make your appearance, and you see this horrible eldritch thing, and you hear a whisper in your ear, Liam, a raspy, familiar, cold voice. Kill.

[01:33:32] So, how would you guys like to proceed? This thing is going to come thrashing at any of you. How close are we to the radio tower? Is it close enough to where I could run inside? Yeah, you can probably run inside. Okay. It's just kind of a gutted building. Like, there's no... Like, there's not even a roof to it anymore. Is there an antenna still? It does have, like... It would have its antenna, and so it is still connected to the tower. Oh, fuck yeah, bud.

[01:34:02] Fucking here, right there, bud. I was like, I'll be right back! And I slap the top of the thing, and I run inside. Okay. Okay. Then, yeah, you go running in, and, um... Uh... What is, uh... Uh... I guess, so Calum's out. Um... Baron, what are you doing? I'm gonna grab the, uh... Jerry can full of gasoline off of the... back of the skid steer. Okay. I'm gonna rip my shirt sleeve off

[01:34:30] and just stick it into the spout. Just make an overkill Molotov cocktail. World's largest Molotov. Yeah. Uh... Alright, um... Lizzie, what do you plan on doing? Uh... Waiting for the Baron to throw that fucking Molotov. Okay. Um... Is somebody gonna try and, like, maybe move Calum away from... Oh, yeah. He's fine. He's just, like... He's just face first into the gravel and weeds.

[01:35:00] He's in gravel. Nothing will catch. He's fine. I guess if I catch on fire, I've already stopped and dropped. He'll just roll me around. Except for 60. We're just not gonna roll him at that point. He's already been most of the way there. Oh, God. He set him out on fire to be warm for the rest of his life. Exactly. Uh... And, Liam, what are you doing? I will say, don't do... Chris, don't do... You want a fate point into my unconscious corpse thing. Yeah, no.

[01:35:30] Uh... And, Liam, what are you planning on doing for this fight? Oh, God. Uh... I want to see how everybody else's shit goes first. Okay. Uh... Then I guess in that case, uh... Uh... So... Is anybody gonna go to Calum or is Calum just, like... In the... Because you're... Calum is kind of in the way of things. Like, between... He's on the ground. He's fine. Between you guys and the monster. When I was running inside, could I, like, grab him and hucked him over my shoulder and ran inside? You just grab on him

[01:36:02] like... Yeah. Grab him on the way and, I'll be right back. Good idea. Take Calum with you. Got it! He opens the door and goes back out and gets Cable. Just, like, slowly inches him in. It was a movie you just see him, like, the door open and you just slow... See his body just slowly inched its way inside the building. Josh, why would you... Why would you put that gift back in there? God damn it. Jeremy, I love how you go after you like Adam now. Also, so I just imagine... Sorry, I just... For...

[01:36:31] I just had to imagine this. Liam, like, runs past Calum's body, goes into the radio and then backtracks, like, runs backwards. Oh shit, he's on the ground. Yep, yep, yep. Yeah. Whoop, whoop, whoop. Yeah, I'm not even going to make you roll for that. You just... You just run back... You run back and pick him up and get him inside away from the fight. Um, so, yeah, Liam, what do you... After you put him down... Put Calum down...

[01:37:00] Sorry, Lester, after you put Calum down, what are you doing with... What are you doing in the tower? Or in the radio station? Alright, so if we get a radio tower, I'm gonna try and funnel my magic through that antenna and make a giant microwave and shoot down into that guy. Ah, the Godzilla... The Japanese mobile infantry against Godzilla. You're damn right. It's made of wood and it's made of wet. So I'm gonna vibrate its water molecules. Oh, God. Yeah, it's a microwave machine. It'll burn much better now.

[01:37:29] That's how microwaves work. They vibrate water molecules until they just burn out. It'll burn now. Alright, uh... Yeah, man. Do I get any pluses for funneling through the radio tower? I'll give you a fate point for how creative that is. Alright, cool. I'll take that. Right as soon as you said radio tower, I was like, oh, fuck yeah, bud. Oh, fuck bud. Oh, fuck everybody. I'm gonna re-roll that.

[01:38:00] That's almost literally the worst I could roll. So I'm gonna burn that fate point you got because for magical cube maker things, I'm plugging myself into that. Yeah. You realize you can't do it from the actual station so you actually have to run out to the actual tower to the box that's there and just like plug yourself in basically. Basically. That's a four. Not bad, but it's a situational aspect as it is. Yeah, you'll be able to like you're revving it up basically. You can try again like to actually

[01:38:29] like get a full burst. Like you're charging it up basically. Yep. It's on my nipples! God damn it! Everybody looks like looks over and sees like he just like got like these freaking clamps on your timbers like it gets really awkward really fast. Don't judge me! He's just like, you know what? I'm done. Like leaves. Fuck this shit out. Strallonworm is like, you know what?

[01:38:59] Just gasp at surprise like then it's then it's going to eat a cocktail. Yeah. I have the vapors. Anyway. So Baron, you have your mega ultra Molotov cocktail. So what are you doing with it? The second that it opens its mouth it's going to eat

[01:39:29] this thing. Okay. Well, there are several mouths that are opening up and like kind of clamping down. It's going to try and it is it is opening its mouth because it's about to or it's going to kind of lunge toward you and try and grab you in one of its mouths. So good. Even better. Got to wait till the last possible second and throw this just just light and toss. Okay. Um, so I guess they I'll roll to attack you. Oh,

[01:39:58] there we go. There we are. And I'm back to rolling like shit. Um, so yeah, you, it tries to, uh, like a classic legend of Zelda boss, like King Dodongo or, or what have you. Uh, it goes to Yeah, it goes to open its mouth to like chomp down on you and you just huck that thing straight into its gullet. Lizzie, now! Yeah. Uh, yeah. Uh, let me, let me guess. We're bringing it,

[01:40:28] we're bringing it, we're bringing it back. Yeah. Fireball! And I'm going to mark an exhausted because that allows me to add a plus four to a roll. Fuck this shit, I'm out! I rolled a four, so eight. Jesus. Uh, okay. Um, yeah, you blow a giant chunk out of this thing. Um, it's, the fire's not exactly catching the way you guys would want, but you have blown a chunk out of this thing from, uh,

[01:40:58] from one side of it. Uh, and it then begins to turn around and you see two fresh mouths and, uh, and a bunch of eyes, uh, on the other side that are just as angry. It says, oh no, you didn't. Um, so, uh, Liam. Yes. Yeah, it has just moved into a second phase apparently. Okay. Uh, so I was out of commission that got kicked off the internet. Um,

[01:41:29] so what happened with, uh, with Callum? Uh, Callum has been moved to the, uh, the rate inside the radio station by Leo, uh, by Lester. Um, and then Lester is trying to charge up the radio tower to microwave the creature. Um, and then the Baron and Lizzie just blew a chunk out of the side of this thing with, uh, the Moltof cocktail. Okay. Okay. Um, fuck yeah. All right. So it's got roots in the ground. Yeah. Um,

[01:41:59] yeah, for the most part, like they're kind of uprooting and sinking back in. All right. Well, once they've sunk back in, I'm going to freeze the ground solid. Okay. Have some permafrost. It's the Arctic Circle. Now I'm just imagining a Canadian version of the like independence. Fourth of July. Fourth of July. Arctic Circle. First of July. First of July. Arctic Circle. Canada Day.

[01:42:28] Canada Day. Oh, God. For the audience at home and the other players who are not really familiar with the joke that you're making, I worked at a call center for a while and we passed the time talking about really stupid shit. And the guys and I came up with this really awesome idea for a video game. It's a historical figures fighting game. So you've got characters like George Washington doing uppercuts screaming

[01:42:58] independence and then doing Hadoukens yelling Fourth of July. And there was a whole big long list of historical figures and their crazy attacks that they would yell random things for. Who was Canada? There weren't too many Canadian ones in there, but I believe Louis Rial was in the list. Nice. Yeah, I'd actually forgotten that that was a made up one. I thought it was like a legit game. No, no, that was me

[01:43:27] and Tyler Burke spitballing at work one day. Oh my God. Yeah, I had forgotten that I had it's we've used it so many times in other games and other things that like I just assumed like I think I just canonized it as being a real thing. Well, none of us have any talent with computers that way. I mean, okay, I do it ourselves. Yeah, we'll make it ourselves. Yes. But yeah, you're going to permafrost the ground as it's bringing to us. Okay.

[01:43:58] And I'm going to spend a point of winter power and I'm going to take a stress and my invocation specialist they'll give me plus four. Sweet. Don't forget to mark exhaust. I'm not marking exhausted. But you said invocation that's part of it. Plus force if you mark exhausted. exhausted. No, no. He's got a plus four total from the things I get a plus four total from the things I just paid. Yep.

[01:44:28] Okay. So five plus four is nine. Yeah, that thing it tries to move. It's tries to get closer to like Lizzie and the Baron and then it realizes that it is it is stuck similar to how you guys were stuck in that our the ground by by permafrost that just kind of creeps in from Liam's from Liam's direction.

[01:44:58] So you have it stationary now. So Lester yes you want to try and like deploy your your I sure do. I sure do. I'm still trying to figure it out. I guess that's a four points. Uh yeah I'll burn one. Fuck it. I got one left. Okay. I'll do a magical key maker of things again. Fair.

[01:45:28] Yeah you're just like kind of like wait nope. Like oh I needed to turn it to the right. Yeah. Yeah you had to adjust you had to

[01:46:18] wave the pressure is just breaking through. Um so it's not doing very good. It's not thrilled about its life right now. No. Uh Baron and Lizzie what do you guys want to do? Well at this point I think I'm going to use that thing like a scratching post. Just more fire. Just unleash hell. Mark another exhaust and give me another plus four.

[01:46:48] Okay. How many exhausts can you burn? Uh well there's it's got five on the track. Hang on. Exhausted's only a one and done. There's five. That's five on the stress tracker. Uh give me a second on that. I think exhausted's only one box. Yeah. And that like basically takes you out of the scene. There's two. Actually no. If I hit it I Chris just

[01:47:18] gains a bonus against me. Okay. I think wizards get more because they're wizards. I don't know. Maybe wizards get more. Yeah. There are five stress tracks. Yeah. Aaron. Um, cause I'm looking at the little information thing next to exhausted here too. Yeah. But can you invoke exhausted more than once? Uh, no. Yeah. What's the page number?

[01:47:48] Uh, give me a second. I'm assuming this will be under condition somewhere. Uh, yeah. Cause I know most time it's like if you get exhausted, you have to rest before you can do anything. You're not burnt out. But bell casters. Here we go. Hold on. Yeah. Uh, magical practitioner clearing exhausted requires an active effort to rest. GM may allow this recovery to occur between any two scenes involving a sufficient

[01:48:17] time jump. Yeah. But that's not what we're asking. Cause we're asking if it's more than one stress box. Yeah. It's only one stress box. One stress box. Yeah. okay. Yeah. That's weird that I have five here. Cause I didn't make this. Yeah. No, this is it. Yeah. The, uh, the character sheet for, um, uh, like on the, on the roll 20 has like five circles for, Oh yeah. If you add, if you add anything in, it just gives you five. Cause like my combat wizard also

[01:48:47] gives me five, uh, winter power also gives me five. Though. And doom actually do have one stress box. That's weird. I don't understand why. Okay. Then that's sorry. That was misleading. Oh, that's right. Yeah. No worries. Yeah. Like really like these ones should actually be like over the similar to like imperil and stuff. Yeah. burn, you could use burnout. I think, uh, Mark burned out. Yes. I could use burnout, but that would actually take me out.

[01:49:16] Yeah. Burn out. Like you don't have magic anymore until something, until you clear it basically. Yeah. So you may not want to do that. It's just, you may want to hold that. The final fight. That's a last stand kind of thing. Yeah. Okay. So you don't have that plus four to it's not a nine. Yeah. A five is not bad though for this. as you're

[01:49:46] getting any pluses off of me microwaving the thing. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You should technically be getting a plus two as well. So you'd be, that'd be more of a seven. Yeah. And, um, uh, Baron, what do you got? Um, let's see, we got a seven to claw the shit out of the tree. So let's see here. How's this thing? Uh, Liam, what do you want to do? Or sorry. Yeah. Liam. Yeah.

[01:50:16] As they, this thing is looking pretty, pretty badly haggard by all the assaults. I'm just all the attacks. It realized it had, it made a mistake. Funny enough, I actually do have red magic. I forgot. Okay. I could have used the head and gotten a plus two. Nice. So I've, I've, uh, I've got it by its feet, right? Yeah. Yeah. It can't, it can't move. And because of that, basically it's a pin cushion for all the attacks. Okay. Well then I'm

[01:50:46] going to, um, gesture very dramatically, reaching up from, you know, down low, making a fist, and I'm going to, um, spread that frost up through its roots, up through the xylem and phloem that are transferring the water through that wood, and, uh, crystallize it. Let's see if we can shatter this fish. So I'm going to, uh, mark another two winter power. Nice.

[01:51:16] And then, uh, this is, um, flare ice. So another plus two. So we got plus four and roll seven, four, it's 11. Yeah. Okay. So narrate how this thing is, wouldn't that be a 13 considering it's a plus two off me too. Uh, so narrate how this thing is just, you guys just own this thing. Okay. Okay.

[01:51:46] Uh, well, you, it just kind of starts shuddering for a moment and you start to see all these little cracks forming up through the, uh, up through the bark and then these ice crystals forming out through the cracks and then you hear this, this ear rending crack as it splits straight down the middle and a slow groan as the one side just

[01:52:15] keels off to the side and crashes to the forest floor. Yeah. And shatters. The other one strangely stands upright. Yeah. Yeah. That, that side has the mouths and they basically just like exhale once, uh, like there's just like some exhaust, some like kind of exhaust, uh, as if like the air, like the, the, the air is very cold at the basically like exhale, exhales their, their last breath. Um,

[01:52:45] and, uh, there is suddenly a quiet, a silence. Why are we all suddenly wearing flannel? Oh, lumberjacks. That's okay. Fucking here, Yeah, bud. here, right there. Uh, that's okay. Somebody want to check on, uh, Caleb? You're the one who had him. Oh, he's inside. He's fine. Actually,

[01:53:16] here's the point, Caleb. Do you want a fate point? I thought you said you were going to mess with his corpse. I said nothing. Sure, Chris, give me another fate point. Yeah. All right. You guys go to check on Caleb. Caleb is gone. Of course he is. Great. He's dead. You do see, um, where he was. There is a little like, uh, a little piece of like a, like a card sized piece of paper. Um,

[01:53:46] and, uh, who, who picks it up? I will. All right. The Baron picks it up. Uh, it appears to be an old, uh, old timey, um, the, uh, you know, like old mining companies that have like, um, uh, like their own kind of, yeah, company script. Yeah. It appears to be an old company script for the old West or for the West Falls company mine for a whole 50 cents. hopefully.

[01:54:16] So, so get the impression that perhaps, perhaps Strelinworm has captured, has taken, uh, uh, taken, um, Calum. Well, at least he didn't shoot himself in the ass this time. Yeah. Calum did some like, uh, stigmata blood ritual thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Is some of his blood still on the ground? Uh, roll of focus. I mean, it's gotta be

[01:54:46] another compass guys. And this time Google's not an option. Uh, yeah, with the two, you can, you can find, uh, some dried blood. Um, it was kind of in the middle of like that fight. And so like the, the microwaving effect may have like microwaved it a little bit, dried it up a little bit, but you can find some. my side bag there and pull out this strange looking compass.

[01:55:16] Oh, God damn it. And then just, uh, it's just until, until, until I smear a little of that blood on it. And then the North arrow just points in a random direction. Uh, and it does indeed point, uh, it points toward the river, um, on the other side of town. uh, Caleb's that away guys. All right. Which way was the dragon? Uh, that direction

[01:55:46] across the river from where you guys. This place is pretty well, like, I don't know, full of fear and everything else, right? Yeah, pretty well. It's pretty bad. Oppressive, like, like depressive and like fear, sorrow, like a, a sense of helplessness. All right. Well, there's a thing that I want to do while we're here at this radio station, considering it's broadcasting now. Yeah, it's currently broadcasting microwaves, but yeah. Well,

[01:56:16] I'm going to stop broadcasting microwaves because that's no good for anybody. free dinners. That's right. Everybody's popcorn just popped. Meanwhile, over at that, uh, that small, like, cul-de-sac, um, uh, the grumpy old man has his, uh, has that girl, uh, that woman that, uh, he, uh, a dinner date and they, they, he was like planning on getting some popcorn and suddenly it just pops right out of the bag. It's like, oh, perfect. Yeah. A little sign in there pops up and says,

[01:56:46] you're welcome. Cause I helped set that up. He rolls sand. He fails. He doesn't sit out. All part of the plan. All part of the plan. But no, uh, I want to set this, uh, this here thing to 396 Hertz, which is the root chakra, which also helps rid trauma, fear, and guilt. Oh, okay. I will blast the fear out of you. Yeah, damn right. I will sound magic, baby. You do also like,

[01:57:15] you also implement a bit of that, that tune from earlier. Yeah, exactly. I'm playing a whistle. Nice. As soon as I find where there it went, let's see if I can roll better. Yeah. Yeah, let's go. Uh, well, it's four, but I'm amplified by the antenna if that helps. So plus two. So six. So six. So it's playing on every radio dial blasting through the airwaves. Yeah. Okay. So, uh, check this off guys or put it, make a note. Um, you guys will have a plus two moving

[01:57:44] forward as long as this, uh, radio station, this radio tower is emanating this, uh, this signal. Mm-hmm. Binaural beats, man. They help you sleep, make you feel nice. Yeah. Uh, but yeah, you have your heading and you've got some good vibes or some, uh, good vibrations. Excitations. Um, who's, is anybody injured aside from, from, uh, poor Caleb, who is also AFK right

[01:58:13] now or am I? Nope. I don't think anybody is. Yeah, no, that monster. Yeah. That monster went down. That tree was a bitch. I told you I could take it. I could punch the shit out of that tree. Yeah, it tried and it just, I could not roll well. Yeah. At the end of, uh, at the end of the scene, doesn't, doesn't Liam get his winter power back? I was just reading that. Um, fully recover, recover fully at the end of any scene in which winter power summer

[01:58:42] or summer winter power was used. Yeah. Um, the scene, yeah, this scene is done. Um, cause a scene is like a story beat kind of thing in the, in the, in the session. So, um, yeah, no, you can, uh, you can get your winter power recharged, uh, cause it's going to take you guys a little bit to get over to the, uh, or to follow the compass. Yeah. Basically anytime you're going with your drive, which is like winter cold, predatory,

[01:59:12] domineering. So it's like, yeah, you just literally ripped free. Yeah. You, you showed the out, the outer darkness. Uh, what's what you got a taste of what you're about to fight. And so you what, bud, you found it wanting. Guys, I think we got this. I think we could take a fucking drag. We cut away to the mind to a dark space. Uh, and, uh, Calum, you are, you're coming to

[01:59:42] bro. Goddammit, Josh, uh, Calum, you are, uh, you are, uh, chained to a, uh, uh, you're chained kind of in midair, uh, over a dark yawning pit, uh, in the earth. Kanky? Um, I'm just suspended. Yeah. You think of like Thor, uh, from, uh, Thor Ragnarok, like, Oh, when he's like chained up, yeah. When he's chained up at the very beginning, not like, uh, let me spin around. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Uh,

[02:00:12] and you see, um, on a, on the ledge, uh, it looks like, like there's like on, on the side of this large yawning pit. Um, there is a, a tunnel that kind of like that protrude, that comes through the wall and at the edge of the, uh, the, the ledge of this tunnel, uh, you see, um, it looks like, like, uh, like Miss Worm. Um, like maybe darker hair, a little bit more youthful. Um, but it, it,

[02:00:41] it's a spitting image of, of Miss Worm. Uh, and she's just kind of smiling there. It's like, comfortable. Not really. I mean, I really could use a chew right now, but I can't reach my back pocket. I'm sorry. That's, uh, sorry to hear that. Unfortunately, uh, your, uh, you and your friends are meddling with my affairs and I can't have that. Um, why, why are you doing all this?

[02:01:11] Because I was imprisoned and I want to be free. I want to break free. Damn it. Maybe do it. Cause I don't, you fuck. And that is why you fail. I'm laughing at his head. I'm not Kayla. Yeah. I figured that. Yeah. That's the song. It's playing over the radio. Yeah. As you guys,

[02:01:38] as you guys are driving down the actual mountain road back into like the, back to the main strip of town, you guys have that playing. Um, but yeah, better to like rain and hell than serve in heaven. That Milton fell wrote down. Oh, those times are past. That's what I wanted originally,

[02:02:02] but my other half and that bastard trickster didn't like that. Didn't think that was enough for me. So they made me a deal, tried to try to trick me. And when I outsmarted them, they cut me out and buried me.

[02:02:26] And it has taken a long time for me to pull myself out from that pit. Gee points to the yawning deep chasm. You're above. He whistles when he looks up, looks down at it or up at it, whichever way you're, you're, you're kind of like slightly like on angle. So you're like kind of, uh, you're, you're, you're fit. Your head is like closer to the ground or closer to the, the pit. Yeah. You, you whistle and just like,

[02:02:54] it goes on and echoes and echoes and echoes and echoes. Feel free, Adam to, uh, edit that in a, an echo there for the whistling. I gotta screw up. I just like being a real dick to you. Like the future you. Chris, could you draw a picture of me editing that too? Absolutely. I would absolutely try. Just like bent over, bent, just bent over a computer, slaving away. Maybe even like a little like chain and like a ball and chain.

[02:03:24] And just caption. God damn it, Chris. Past. Yeah. The, the ball on the chain just has like, just has etched in it. Past Chris. Edit and echo for Chris and croaker. Boom. I do know that croaker does appreciate when we have little sound effects and little sound. I know. Jeremy raised the bar so fucking high. I did. All right.

[02:03:54] Well, no. So, you know, I don't know if you heard about this or not, but honey, I'm a warrior. God, you probably ought to put me on the ledge. You know, you could be a warrior for me. Calum. Calum. Blackstone. Or what's your reaction? Out of game. Calum. Blackburn. I'm sorry. I don't two time anybody.

[02:04:23] My heart belongs to another. That's a shame. Well, maybe, maybe a little time here over the, the yawning darkness that was by prison will change your opinion. And she goes to turn around and begins leaving. It leaves you to the darkness. Um, as you're, as you're here, like in like, not like the talking has kind of stopped or subsided. Um,

[02:04:50] you do hear the sound of like picks off in the distance, like echoing as she, as she walks away. Okay. Seems like some kind of like operation is still going on down in these tunnels. But, uh, yeah. So I got something in mind, but I want everybody else to be there. Okay. So we, we cut away to, uh, and actually, actually as, uh, as she, she walks away, um, you still see her like, like you don't, you don't, she doesn't like disappear into the darkness, but she just kind of vanishes. Like she,

[02:05:19] like her image fades away like a ghost. Um, and you hear, uh, on top, on top of the, uh, the, the, the, the picking of axes or the, uh, the, the, the, uh, clinking and, and, uh, and picks of axes. Uh, you do hear a sort of a, a heartbeat thrum, um, from deep within this tunnel. Okay. So, um, so we cut away back to you guys, uh, the, the rest of the team,

[02:05:49] the rest of Barony, uh, you've, you've come off that mountain road, uh, toward, uh, and are on the main path, uh, heading north, uh, following the, the compass, uh, unless you want to just charge through the, the, the forest again, like just go off road again, scare the shit out of some trees again. I mean, we have scared the forest. That is true. So, has anybody ever noticed how, uh, how easily he gets kidnapped? Yeah. This is like the third time.

[02:06:19] Yeah. I mean, and like the third time we've had to go and save him. You know, you're all rather kidnap prone. I mean, we've had to say, and yet it hasn't happened to anybody but him yet. Well, we have had to save Lizzie once. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I saved myself. And then there was the, who was it that got lost in the mall? That was me. Yeah. That was Lizzie. Lizzie. And Lizzie. Yeah. But I saved myself from that one.

[02:06:48] I didn't need any help. Duly noted. We'll remember that next time. I'd spoken past tense there, sir. So I assume you guys are following the road or are you guys going to the woods? Oh yeah. Yeah. I was following the woods. Wherever the hell the tank's rolling. Yeah. Liam, are you taking the road or the, or the woods? Lee, Aaron, you awake there, buddy? To be fair, I think Liam is the only one that hasn't been rescued yet at some point.

[02:07:18] Yeah. Aaron, you with us? Can you hear me now? Yep. Now we can. Okay. Okay. All right. Cool. All right. Sorry. What was the question? I just want to know. So as Liam, as the, as the driver, do you want to take the roads following the compass or are you just going to follow it directly and just go right through all the, the, the other wooded Hills on the opposite side of the road from where you guys are coming in from. I mean, skid steers are kind of, are somewhat rough terrain,

[02:07:47] but they do not have a lot of ground clearance. So I'm going to go back to the road. Okay. So you're, you guys are following the road up to, uh, Crack this pitch back up to rabbit. Let's go. Yeah. Uh, and you see up in Alicia, it's a lot nicer homes. Um, there's, uh, like apartment, even some like apartment complexes and some, uh, what look like even some industrial parks that are being established in these, uh,

[02:08:18] you kind of, you see like just, you just see shades, uh, sort of like shades of human, of, of, of human like forms kind of just going from building to building, like kind of like, uh, like just like pedestrian, like, um, shadow people, um, going from place to place. Uh, and you see even like a few, like smaller, like child sized, uh, shadow people just kind of like playing in a, in a park near the, uh, near the more residential buildings and such. Um, but then you, you have a turnoff that goes toward,

[02:08:48] uh, you see a sign that says, uh, Oneros, uh, district. And then another sign that says, uh, old West falls, uh, old West, yeah, old West falls company mine, uh, historical site. Yeah. Uh, and there appears to be a fork in the road, uh, up ahead. Uh, that one goes to the, um, uh, the Oneros district and one goes to the, the mine. Well, I'm going to assume we need to go towards the mine.

[02:09:19] But is there any prep we need to do before I, we go punch a dragon? What else is there to prep? That's a good question. Yeah. The, uh, the area around you is mostly, mostly forested, like heavy forest and Hills. Um, the road going toward Oneros, uh, looks like it's like a lot of the proper, all the land, uh, up there is like being cleared. And like, there's like some, some old, some, um, uh, some like not old, but like not modern, not super modern, like, um,

[02:09:49] land moving, uh, vehicles and tools and such. Oh, we should go check out our timeshare. Last time, tried to eat you. You feel free to go look at it if you want. Are you guys just heading toward the, uh, the old, the West falls company mine? Unless somebody tells me otherwise. Yeah. Seems like time is but the essence. Yeah. He's been fine every other time. Lizzie's musing about the owner. Oh yeah. We should go there. Meanwhile, like you guys are already like halfway down that road toward the,

[02:10:19] though, the mine. Yeah. I mean, we could take a nap first. He is a warrior. God. I mean, I'm half, I'm half sleeping on the trip. Uh, yeah. The comfortable bed of one of the, of the back, uh, like digging. Uh, that, that comforting hard metal. That's right. Josh, really? You're concerned for me. Just, it just warms my heart. That's right.

[02:10:48] I'm on the way to save you. Aren't I? First, the Sasquatch. Now, the Sasquatch is. I still saved you. Uh, uh, uh, as you guys, as you guys, uh, you guys continue, uh, following the, uh, this road, it winds, or it seems to be like kind of going up and down a couple of these larger mound amounts, uh, these mountains, um, or these, these larger hills. And, uh,

[02:11:18] there is a bridge up ahead, similar to the one that you guys saw, the, the, similar to the one you guys, uh, crossed, uh, over at the, uh, um, but it's much older and it's made of, uh, uh, well, it looks like it's, it's, it's sort of, it's been, it's been seen better days. It's made more of wood and metal than just iron and metal or just regular metal. Uh, and you see, um, a bunch of mining, mining operation going on, on the other side of the river. Uh,

[02:11:48] you, you can tell that this is basically at the top of the falls. Um, like you can, you can see the edge of the falls as you're getting approaching the bridge, um, off to the South. Uh, we're in the, we're in the never, never, right? Yeah. Hey, we should, you know, just maybe get off the road just a little bit and take a peek under the bridge, go around to the other side, take a peek under the bridge. You want to just board it with the tank?

[02:12:18] I just don't want a troll to jump out of a sunset. I understand that. That's why I'm just recording the river. Well, you look at the river, the river is like it, it, it juts down. Like there is no like way to get down to the river. Like you, you'd be falling off the edge and into, into the river. Is that, who is that? Is that your, is that your dog? That's my dog in my lap. Okay. Okay. I was like, that's like, it's like, is that, that can't be Lucy. No, she's sleeping.

[02:12:48] Yeah. Um, but yeah, so you, you can, you can pull off to the side and check the, uh, underneath the, uh, the bridge if you'd like. Aren't you supposed to be friends with trolls? Like you are winter now. I mean, I'm loosely affiliated. Yeah. Friends with winter is not the same thing as, as being friends with anyone here. In the same way that I'm affiliated with the white council. Oh, fair enough. Hi, yeah. Kind of, kind of on a,

[02:13:18] uh, a merch, uh, a mercenary basis. Yeah. Yeah. I guess you could say that. I believe, I get you. I enjoy it. I, I believe it. I like it. So, so, so who's going to get up, get off the skid steer and go check the, uh, under the bridge. Uh, if you don't mind me checking in a way that I would know how to check with Guile, cause I walk out and go boogie boogie. Yeah. You can, you can like sneak over there and like,

[02:13:45] you're used to like sneaking around and not, not getting noticed. Do it with sonar. Fair enough. That's Guile right there. That's true. Yeah. I'm sorry. If I was going to ambush somebody, how would I do it? Yeah. Hey, you, you, uh, approach the, the regular, the, the, your, what you think is like the usual spots for like an ambush. Um, and you,

[02:14:12] you do certainly see some very old claw marks, uh, like almost like grabbing marks on the rock, uh, as if someone is used to like climbing there. Uh, but when you, when you take a look underneath the bridge, you do find a troll or at least it's skeleton. Oh, I'm sure it's enjoying that with, uh, with, uh, with a great many, um, bladed implements, uh, through the rib cage and one through the forehead. Well, all right then there's a,

[02:14:42] do I recognize any of the, uh, weapons that they used? Uh, most of them are like, uh, pickaxes or like, uh, mining, mining implements. Um, the creature, or the, the troll does seem to have some kind of like, uh, like it's, it's mostly skeleton, like it's decayed. Um, but there is sort of like a girdle, like a, like a, a met like kind of a, the rags of a girdle and a, uh, you can see kind of a glint of some kind of a medallion or like a belt buckle,

[02:15:12] maybe that has some kind of insignia on it or some kind of like rune. I recognize this rune. Uh, you'd have to get, you'd have to like climb down and actually like investigate it. This thing's like down by the river itself. And like the river is down by the river. Is it living in a van? There is also a van next to it. A very, a very tight eyed color. It's got mystery machine written across the side. Well, it would, it actually, it's actually says the misery machine. Um,

[02:15:42] and it, it would, it's basically a troll sized, um, like hippie van. My God, it's fucking mad. Um, it's Matt Foley. also this is like, it's down a ways. Like the river itself is like probably about like 30 or 40 feet down. No, I think I'm good. Okay. Oh, that'd be a bit of a climb. Yeah. I'm going to sneak back and be like, well, there was a troll down there. Now it's a troll skeleton with a, uh, with a, uh,

[02:16:10] what looks like a rodeo trophy back or a belt buckle on. I don't know what it says. Would you like for me to take a look? Uh, if you don't mind, I don't know. It's, uh, it's got, uh, it's got a bunch of pickaxes and stuff in it. So be careful. Apparently the natives don't like trolls. Trolls explains why I know they don't have the internet here. It's a bridge. Nobody likes a troll bridge. Hold on. I got to take a call. Do you know how many billy goats you have to pay to cross these things? You got to pay the troll. The troll.

[02:16:42] So I'll go down there. You said it's a 30 foot climb. Yeah. About 30, 40 foot climb. Yeah. Uh, yeah. So you find, um, yeah, you find, uh, the, the, the skeleton, uh, and you see the belt buckles actually like, it looks like it's some kind of like a, like a medallion. Um, that's basically hanging from like what, what belt leather there is left. It hasn't like decayed. Um, it's a silver medallion. Um, and the, the runes and,

[02:17:12] and symbols that are on it, um, uh, look to be, um, some kind of rank within the, uh, uh, well actually roll an intelligence to see if you, you know, you, you know, which, uh, what, what faction it's from and such. Well, that's still a four. Four. Okay. Um, yeah, you, you're not sure about all the details on it, but it does seem like denote some kind of a high, uh, some kind of a, uh, within, uh, winter court.

[02:17:40] So it does appear to have some kind of, uh, power behind it, but you're not exactly sure. It's, it's sort of dwindling. Um, like it's, it's sort of like, there's a little bit of juice left in it, but not a lot. Well, I will take it with. Okay. Uh, yeah, you slash it off the belt or off the, what rags of leather there are left. Um, and actually by doing so, the, the lower half of this troll skeleton just kind of slips into the water and

[02:18:10] goes over the falls. Um, but yeah, that's, uh, that's what you find down there. That's of worth. Um, and, uh, you, uh, climb back up, uh, to the, uh, to the others. Oh, he had a belt buckle. No billy goats. It's, is it like a Texas big belt buckle? Uh, something like that. Looks like an ultimate Frisbee trophy. Um, Aaron, uh,

[02:18:38] do you want to roll a intellect to see if you recognize some of the, the markings since it is of winter? You can, it's, you can tell it's winter. It has some, it has winter court leanings. That's pretty good for, okay. Um, yeah, it looks like he, uh, it, it denotes a high rank, uh, within winter's, uh, army. Um, there are some market, some, some not newer markings, like not like they aren't newer markings, but they're newer in the sense that like they were,

[02:19:07] they were, uh, stamped in or like put, like put in place on the, uh, on this medallion after it was initially created. Um, okay. You're not a hundred percent sure. Maybe it denotes with, with your, with, with some of your knowledge about winter and stuff of that, it might denote like a, um, uh, like some kind of a, uh, like a veteran sort of, like the equivalent of like veteran. So like not retired,

[02:19:37] but like they served and, uh, they, this is like sort of an honorable, like honorable discharge sort of thing. It's a service record thing. Yeah. So yeah, this play. And again, like with, based on what you guys understand of the, the history of this place, it makes sense that like winter might've had some, um, uh, might've had some, some veterans, um, here dealing with like, kind of like hold, keeping things at bay and then things got bad. So when,

[02:20:05] might not winter might even want to know about like this fallen soldier. Okay. Okay. Well, that is something that we can look at then. How big is this belt buckle? Uh, it's like the size of like, um, maybe a little bit bigger than your field, a little bit bigger than your palm or the, with the, with fingers. Oh, okay. I was waiting for you to say like dinner plate. Yeah. It's, it's not, it's, it's, it's like a small dinner plate, like maybe like, uh, um,

[02:20:36] smaller than a dinner plate, bigger than a teacup plate or than a, than a, than a, than a saucer, a tea plat. Yeah. Tea saucer. Yeah. Somewhere in between there. Smaller than a bread bra, a bread box. All right. Well then I guess we'll stuff it in the bag. Okay. Well, assuming that, uh, uh, Black Panther wants to give it up. Of course.

[02:21:05] What need do I have for it? I don't know. Maybe really classy coaster. Coaster. Coaster. Really bitching necklace. I just imagine. Coaster. I'm just going to take this. Yeah. Bat it around a little bit. We're just going to, we're just going to hear. I don't know. Maybe you'd hang it on a string in your bedroom so that you could like sit on the floor and bat at it a bunch. Bedroom? Oh, come on. Cats know what bedrooms are.

[02:21:35] It's their favorite place to go at three o'clock in the morning and yowl. I don't think you understand. I sleep wherever I want because the entire house is mine. Technically, every room is a bedroom. Bedroom. Yes, exactly. So you could hang it in any room in your house. God. If every room is your bedroom, then you know what a bedroom is. It's every room. Meanwhile, in the bowels of the West Falls mind, my friend,

[02:22:05] my friend, my friend, I bet those chuckle fucks are talking about what a bedroom is. I bet somebody's being pedantic and dragging this shit out. It's like any day now. And for once, the pedantic one isn't Lizzie. Truly, these are the end of days. All right. Um,

[02:22:35] so you guys do see over across from the, uh, the bridge. Um, yeah, there are just, just me some kind of like commotion or you can hear like the, the sounds of, of picks, um, kind of muffled and, um, and, and clear. Um, you can hear the sounds of people moving around and like machines moving and such and operating. So how do you, uh, want to tackle this? I don't know.

[02:23:03] We're bailed to the point where they can't hear us. So that helps. That is true. Oh, also remember guys, you have plus two because of that, uh, radio tower. That's right. It's just, uh, Chris, uh, Queen's greatest hits. Here we are. Born to be Kings. Oh fuck. That's Queen. Oh God. How's I never realized that? Yeah. It's the, uh, it's a kind of magic album. Yeah. I, I, yeah,

[02:23:33] I, I only, I really know it from like Highlander. That whole album was just full of bangers. Yeah. Now we're going with Queen as well. It's just like having a good time. Having a good time. That's when we bust in. Yeah, exactly. That's when you're fighting, uh, when you're fighting the, uh, fighting a straw and worm. I'm just like all like around her. Just like one flesh, one bone, one true religion. Uh,

[02:24:04] I'm sorry. All I hear is radio Gaga. Yeah. Um, I'm trying to, I'm trying to think of the words for Bohemian Rhapsody. It's just failing. See the little silhouette of a man. No, you guys do see the silhouette of a, see the little silhouette of a man. There's tons of silhouettes of men, uh, over the model. Scarabush, Scarabush. Anytime,

[02:24:34] man. Why do I have the urge to start whistling? Bohemian Rhapsody. Oh yeah. Bohemian Rhapsody. Yeah. Or queen or any of the queen songs. All right, fellas. Uh, we need to get across here so we can get to our buddy. There's a lot of people in the way. Uh, it's almost like we have an iron tank. Yeah, we have an iron tank. We have a bunch of what look like dwarves with some pickaxes or people. I'm not sure what they are. Yeah, sure.

[02:25:04] We just got to climb on top. We're fine. So you guys go across the bridge. There's no issue with the bridge. The bridge is actually pretty stable. Uh, and you get closer to the, to the operations. You see the mine opening and you see a couple of like buildings and some, uh, some large mining structure, like, like, uh, digging, uh, materials. You also see a shit ton of explosives. Well, that's, um, also, um, you see that these people like the working, the mines, uh, they're coming in and out of the cave, like with,

[02:25:34] with barrel, with some of these, uh, like loads of, of, of explosives of, of mining explosives by looks of it. Um, uh, they are both, uh, shadow people in like hue in, in regular outfits. So like, you just see like these shades, these like kind of wispy, dark shades with like helmets on and clothing, but you also see spectral forms like the beat, like ghosts, like full blown ectoplasmic entities, um, of,

[02:26:02] of old and former, um, miners, uh, probably from the, uh, 19, early 1900s. If you had to guess. Oh, Oh, as we're rolling along, I want to try and like just veil us out. Like they can't hear us. I want to see if we can try and get it to where we can't, see us. Okay. Um, make a roll for that. We'll see how it goes. That's a six. Yeah. Yeah. No, you're pretty well, it's an eight because of, yeah, Yeah. You're pretty well,

[02:26:32] you guys are pretty well like shielded or like concealed and, and, um, like quieted. So you actually get pretty close to the, uh, some of these people that are like, some of them are formed a few, like, they seem to be like in little, like groups talking about something. Um, you see some people working with a, with wires, uh, going to a certain, uh, to a, to a certain spot on the other side of the, the, uh, the opening from you guys, um, to where there are a bunch of,

[02:27:03] where there is a, a very hefty looking plunger. Like what? Like, I mean, like large plunger. Yeah. Like, like it's, it's, well, it's, it's big because it has so many wires plugged into it or like being plugged into it and such. Um, but you, you overhear as you, as you guys approach, uh, quietly and stealthily, um, some of these spectral forms is like, yes, the, uh, the operations are nearly complete. According to the, according to our, our mistress, the, we simply have to,

[02:27:33] we simply have to clear the last vestiges of her bonds and we, and she shall be free to roam this region. Yes. All will be better. All will be right. And they just kind of like seem to be in like sort of a hip, the hypnotized style, like hypnotized, like, um, course of each other, like of agreement and such. So, uh, how far away are these wires running? Um, they're on the other side of,

[02:28:02] so you guys are on one side of the, uh, of the operations and then they're between you and them is the actual, like opening to the, to the mine. Um, so you have to get pat, you'd have to like cross a pretty busy low air, a pretty, pretty busy, uh, stretch of, of the operations to get over there. Hmm. Cause I mean, you can't blow something up if the wires are snipped. True. What do you guys think? What are you guys thinking? Hello? Well,

[02:28:32] I'm depleting. Okay. Yeah. Processing. Processing. So that takes the bullet out of the gun. If they can't actually pull the plunger and blow the thing up. I kind of feel like step one is. Obtain out underpants. I kind of feel like our first priority, our big priority here is rescue Calum because we can't take on the worm without Calum easily. Calum is the one who manipulates blood. And since blood is our weapon,

[02:29:01] we kind of need our blood mage. I mean, we can just chuck, chuck the blood vials out the way. Shove it down. It's through. We could probably do this without him. I don't want to, but we probably could. It'd be a lot harder. Oh, explosives just laying around, right? Making a river run uphill. Some person always trying to ice skate uphill. Did you say that there was some explosives just kind of laying around? You said there are a little bit everywhere. Yeah. There's like, there's like, um, closer to you guys.

[02:29:32] There is like kind of a stockpile that, uh, looks like they're, they're, they're pulling from to bring deeper into the mine. Uh, how far is it between us and that plunger? About halfway. Uh, do you, does someone want to huck it? And then the other people pull and then don't, and they just don't have a plunger to push anymore. You can't, as a man can't push a button. If you disable his hand. Yeah. That's accurate. It is.

[02:30:01] I do feel like if we were able to destroy the plunger, it'd probably be easier to just cut the wires, the plunger. What if they have spare wires? They don't have spare hands. There's a lot more of them with hands than there are wires. We, we cut the wires and then we take the plunger with us. Then they have to have a spare plunger. What are the odds they have a spare set of wires and a spare plunger? Who brings a spare plunger?

[02:30:31] I'm all about a little sabotage, but, so what are we doing? Are we going after Kalem first? Are we cutting the, we cutting the wires first? We divine conquer. What are we doing? Uh, I'd rather disarm the explosives first before we get Kalem. Yeah. You never know where those explosives are. Exactly. I'd hit the, you know, in the mine and get buried. Yeah. We need to disarm the explosives so that we have options. That, that buys us the time. Well,

[02:31:01] as you say that, that buys us the time. A siren goes off like, like a kind of a, like a warning siren goes off. Oh, all right. Sorry. I could have lost it for those. And then you hear, and like they all, everybody, all the, all the workers kind of stop for a moment and look, look, look to the, uh, the, the, the speed, these very older, these very old speakers that are there. And over like a tinny sound, it's like, I want to break free. God. Um,

[02:31:31] uh, phase one, complete. So, uh, move, uh, move back to initiate phase two. We will free the mistress. So like, that's good. So, uh, now we're never, eh? That sounds about right. Yeah. Yeah. All right, Lizzie, you're with me. Lizzie, you're with me. We're disarming bomb. Uh, the rest of you find Calum.

[02:32:01] Now, Liam, this is very, you may need to leave the skid steer. It's a big cave. All right. Yeah. Take the skid steer into the, into the ferry, sir. That is fair rock. It'll go through. Yes. It's also, we are veiled both sound and light. All right. Fine. Okay.

[02:32:31] So, uh, I guess we will, uh, yeah. And also, um, from inside the, on the tunnels, uh, Calum, you hear that as well. Kind of echoing. I'm sorry. I couldn't hear that over the sound of the concern that I feel radiating and busy over my health. Yeah. Uh, you also, um, Liam, you, you, you, you also hear beat again. Uh, it begins beating a couple more, uh,

[02:33:00] it beats a couple more times quick and, uh, and thunderous, uh, where you are. Uh, it appears to be coming from down inside the pit that you're dangling over. Um, and you, as you look down in the darkness and like deep in the darkness there, you do see like more like, like sparks of, of that strange light that like was coming through the, uh, the smoke and such. Um, you get the impression you're basically dangling over. Stra, a strong worm.

[02:33:31] Um, or where, or where she's imprisoned. Um, and as, as your, as your, yeah. Dr. Chewbago. Uh, and as your vision starts to like, kind of like acclimatize to the light or to the, the, the darkness, um, there's like, you start noticing things that are like kind of just placed or like around the walls by the, where that, uh, where, where she was like standing on the ledge. Um, those look like explosives wired.

[02:34:01] Of course they are. Yeah. Any minute now. They're going to come in right on their white horse. Yeah. Uh, so, uh, let's start with the people going into the tunnels. All right. Um, so you guys are, are just like, all right, let's go. And there would be sound of, of, of, of movement, but it is just the silent, uh, invisible. If this was a movie, if this was a comedic movie, it'd just be a scene of just,

[02:34:31] um, uh, a mind opening and there'd be nothing there. Hey man, I'm good at my job. Yeah. A dotted line where your character, where, where the, where the, uh, the skid steer is. Um, but you guys are traveling, you guys, you guys start descending into the tunnel. Um, I do want Liam to roll to navigate because you're having to like deal with darkness and also navigate around people that are now evacuating the tunnel. I don't deal with darkness, sir.

[02:35:03] Okay. Okay. Darkness doesn't affect me. I can, I can steer him. Okay. You can roll something to like roll focus to like, to, to navigate. Sure. To, to aid him kind of thing. Whoops. What did I just roll? Nothing. That's a five. Okay. Um, Liam, you will get a plus five or a plus five. You'll get a plus two. Um, uh,

[02:35:29] to try and navigate around evacuating miners and such. Yeah. Okay. And what did you want me to roll for this? Um, this is probably just be, um, a focus or yeah, probably a focus itself. Uh, maybe even a haste to try and like, kind of like to move out of the way quick enough. Okay. So, actually if, if I, if, you know, we still got that ongoing plus two, so that'd be a plus seven for me. It'd be a, yeah, I just realized that. Yeah. Be a plus seven for, for whatever he,

[02:36:00] for haste as well. Well, I know it would be a plus two added on. So it'd be like, uh, cause I gave him a plus two because of your role. So yeah, it's a plus two for my, plus my role. Plus the, plus four. Plus four. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah. Yeah. No, you, uh, you managed to navigate around, um, the, uh, uh, the different, all the, the, the swath of miners that come out or coming out of cave and, uh, kind of marching away from the, uh, the exit. Um,

[02:36:29] I make a sport bar. I make a sport bar. Yeah. Uh, you do see like this, this coal like material, like veined through the, the, the tunnels, uh, as well as this kind of like strange sparkling metal. Um, it gives off that same kind of eerie light that, uh, that you've seen from the embers of the, the still wolves and the infection from, uh, that was in those bats. Um, and it seems to get, uh, it seems to almost generate a low light, uh,

[02:36:59] deeper within the, the deeper you go into these tunnels. Um, and so even to the point where like, uh, Liam, uh, can actually, it doesn't require as much of your, your guidance, um, as he can actually start seeing things, uh, with this kind of low light. Um, and yeah, there, uh, there's a couple of, uh, uh, twists and turns. Um, how are you going to navigate some of these forks in the road or forks in the tunnel? Wait, I just realized you have the fucking compass. God damn it. Yep.

[02:37:29] All right. Um, as we're going by, like is our people, people are gone, right? Like they're leaving. Yeah. They're basically like, they're, they're checking, they're checking the wires. A couple of them are still, are, are like lagging behind just to check the wires and stuff like that. But ultimately they're all basically like leaving the opposite way. I feel like as soon as they start checking the wires and they leave, I'm going to start snipping the wires as we go by. Like they've checked them and they're on their way out. Okay. Uh, roll, um, guile to try and,

[02:37:59] or to, to cut the wires without being, that'd be a six. All right. Let me see. Oh, um, so you start cutting the wires and you go, you get, you guys keep going down deeper and then like you're waiting for other ones. You start cutting some more wires and then you start hearing a sound go through some speakers that are clearly like built into these, into the mind, uh, sort of like a, an alarm goes off. Um, yeah, no, I rolled a, I rolled really well. I don't blame you.

[02:38:29] It's my first really good role in tonight. Um, and, uh, so you guys do start hearing some, uh, like kind of calls to action and, uh, uh, you see, you can hear the, the kind of pitter patter of boots, uh, coming back from the, uh, from the entrance, uh, backup, uh, you guys are making your way to the, uh, to the other side to where the plunger is. Um, so why don't Lizzie and, um,

[02:39:00] roll me a guile to try and avoid, uh, being spotted. Cause you are not under the same veil as, uh, uh, as, uh, Liam. Do we still have the plus two from, you do? Yes. Yeah. Oh, thank God. Yeah. That's, that's going to be a, a, a scene, uh, aspect basically. That's on, I am quieter than a Panther. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. That's a two for me. Yeah. That's a five for me.

[02:39:30] Yep. Uh, let's see. I wish I had it done. Baron. Yeah. You, you, yeah. Baron, you actually like, you're like, it's like, all right now it's like you, you, you, you start sneaking around and then you look back. Cause he's going to be behind you following you. And then she's not there. And then you turn around and she's by the plunger already. Wizards and their teleports. Yeah. But you, you can,

[02:39:59] you can also like stealth over there without anybody noticing. Cause they appear to be preoccupied. Uh, but as you guys get over there, um, that's when you hear the alarm go off. Uh, and you see a few people start running into the, uh, into the tunnel. Secret tunnel. Secret tunnel. Yeah. But, uh, everybody else is going to grab the plunger. And then we'll follow those guys. Well, um, so you guys are at the area where the plunger is,

[02:40:28] but there are a couple of people by the plunger, like basically a guy stationed there, ready to, to do it. So you've got to deal with them first. All right. I, I will do flying tackle on the guy that's about to push the plunger. Okay. And I guess I'll run up to the plunger with my sword and just start packing wires. Okay. Uh, I guess it'll be a guile or haste, uh, for, uh, for you, Baron. I was just going to go with straight up force. Okay. You're just like,

[02:41:00] get them. Plus two. Yep. So a five and a, and a seven. God damn. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You just assassins creed that spec, that, that spectral minor ready, the writing to, I have our next to him. Yeah. Yeah. No, you just, yeah. Into, into, into a, uh, Into a, uh, into a hay barrel or into, into a hay pile in the bushes, in the haystack,

[02:41:29] in your mother's laundry, laundry. That's old. I, it is old, but it's a good, it's an oldie, but it is a good one. I love that. I have a gif of it where it's just like that scene where it just like cuts to him, keep popping out of the spot of the things. Uh, it's a smosh video, a music video about, Old school smosh. Um, yeah. So Ulrich, uh, you just like, you're, you're, you're a stealthy attack Panther. Yes.

[02:41:59] Um, and you just, uh, yeah, you just, uh, grab this guy, maul him and then, uh, maul him stealthily and throw his body back. And he just kind of splatters into ectoplasm. Grab the next one. Like I'm going to clear Lizzie a nice solid path to where she can just walk up and very carefully separate this plunger. Like, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You begin, you begin cutting the wires, uh, uh, Lizzie. Um, you're noticing it's not as easy as you thought it would be.

[02:42:29] There is definitely some resistance. Um, almost as if there's like a power still thrumming through these, these, uh, cables. It's fine. It's a silver sword. Mm. Uh, so we're going to take some time. Yeah. Um, but we, uh, we cut back to the, uh, into the tunnel. Um, you guys are following, uh, are you going to try, are you going to wait to hear the, like, uh, try and stop the people that are going to like try and repair the cables that you've detached? Or are you just going to like,

[02:43:00] try it like, fuck Caleb and get the hell out of here. I mean, at the very least we made a nice, we made a nice diversion, uh, so they can cut the ones at the source. True. Yeah. So you guys are going deeper into the, into the tunnels. Um, it's a fair way. Uh, it's up, it's up to Liam. He's driving, but same time. Like I am following your directions. Cause I can't see very well. Okay. I was like, Hey man, we got them pulled back in here. That means they're not blowing us up currently. That means that they're doing their thing.

[02:43:30] So I say we just, on till mid, you know, on till morning till we find Caleb. All right. To Neverland. All right. And so you descend down to Neverland. Um, Neverland being, uh, Neverland. Yeah. The never, never, the darkest pits of the never, never. Um, and you, uh, you descend further down. Um, uh, I need you guys to roll me a focus as you guys are progressing through these tunnels.

[02:43:59] I got a two. Okay. Uh, I got a one. Uh, actually you got three. Cause you had that plus two. Oh, but, um, yeah, you guys both like, there's a moment, there's like a split second where like, you guys both like, think you see somebody who's like watching you, but then you like turn around and the, there, there's nothing there. So they're going to do a real damn good job to watch this, but it's very possible. You're like, it didn't look like any, any of the,

[02:44:27] the minors or like anything that you've seen so far. It just like looked there. It looked like somebody was watching you. Like you just got that impression and then they were gone. So it hairs on the back of your neck stand up type thing. Yeah. Something like that. Um, but you, you guys continue down, uh, the tunnel. Uh, and eventually you see like up ahead, there is, uh, uh, through the low light, you see that there's an end at the, of this tunnel. Like it opens up into like some kind of a chamber. And then as you guys approach the, uh, the, the,

[02:45:00] uh, Liam, you realize, uh, or Lester, you kind of tell Liam like, Oh, stop, stop, stop. As you, as you realize it does end the, the, the, uh, the path does end at the exit or at the entrance into this, this chamber chamber doesn't have a floor. Oh. Uh, and you just see this large yawning chasm, uh, that goes down to a deep, deep dark. And, uh, there is, this appears to also be where the mines are where the, uh,

[02:45:30] where all the explosives have been like wired up to. Hmm. Um, and the, uh, compass is, is just pointing directly ahead. And there's Calum just chained, uh, chained like a, uh, like a worm on a, on a, on a dangling over this abyss. I slap the top of him and be like, Hey, we found our boy. Uh, Calum, you, you see, uh, Oh no, I guess you wouldn't see the skid steer because they are invisible.

[02:46:00] And quiet would not see, would not hear. Yep. So Calum, you're just like, I'm sure now. Any minute now. Sure. I want to break free. Hey, Liam, you have any way of getting him? Is he like right in the middle? Like how far? So this, this, this yawning chasms, like probably about like 50, 60 feet across. Um, and he's smack dab in the middle. So like 25 feet out. Yeah.

[02:46:29] 25 to 30 feet in the middle there. Okay. Okay. Uh, how moist is it in here? Um, it's, it's pretty moist. It's pretty damp. Um, like it's, it, there's a bit of a chill in the air. All right. I think I got one, one trick pony left in me here. I'm going to make a sub zero ice bridge. Nice. Fucking ice man over here. Well,

[02:46:59] I was picturing a more like mortal combat annihilation, but I do like your reference better. Ice man. All right. Uh, are you going to roll? not an attack. Yeah, this is just a, all right, well, let's do this for the player. Oh, so you should, Jesus, that would be a nine. Yeah, that's a nine with that. Yep. I'm guessing that it's got the nice, pretty handrails on it. Yeah. You,

[02:47:28] you Elsa it up. I start singing, let it go. Let it go. Let it go. I am one with the ice and snow. Uh, and yeah, um, for, for Caleb, you just see suddenly out of the, I don't like, like you don't see who's doing it, but a, an ice bridge of, of very fine detail, like an ice sculpture of a bridge just forms directly. Across to you from the, uh, from the,

[02:47:58] the tunnel. Josh. So Adam, you here? Yeah, I'm here. I'm just staring at it. And I'm used as I've been hanging here for a while. Yeah. You, you don't know how long it felt. It felt like a fucking eternity. It's like, but you, you see that happening and you're at first, you're kind of like panic, but then he was like, wait, I know that. I know that, uh, uh, that craftsmanship, that spell craftsmanship.

[02:48:27] I know that filigree. Yeah. Do you reveal yourselves guys at all? Or just leave him like, like just the invisible. He, he, he can come towards us. It'd be all right. He can't, he's bound in chains. Oh, well, that's true. So you guys have to, one of you guys either take the sit steer over onto the ice pit over the yacht. Nah, I think a bit to go over there. I'm like, hold on. I'll go check her out. If there's a lock on it, I'll be able to get it.

[02:48:57] Cause I'm assuming there's something keeping him in there. Yeah. It's, uh, you, you, uh, you walk across the ice bridge, uh, and you see these metal. Yeah. These thick metal chains. Um, they seem to be made of some kind of like blackened metal, not iron, obviously, but, um, you also have that same kind of, um, uh, mineral that giving off the eerie light. Mm. Um, and, uh, yeah, yeah, there is a style, um,

[02:49:27] thick lock on the, uh, that's keeping him bound. I'm going to take my knife and I'm going to jam it into the lock. All right. And I'm going to try and pick the lock with my knife. Cause I feel like it, if it's made of something fairy, it's going to melt. And it's also going to be picking the lock. So that's seven, seven. Yeah. Um, it doesn't, there's a, but there is some sparks, uh, but you do manage to, uh, yeah,

[02:49:56] you managed to basically get the, the mechanism, um, more than anything. And, uh, yeah, Caelan, you just kind of like, as soon as it dropped, as soon as the lock is on, is, uh, is, um, uh, you just kind of, uh, drop to the, uh, the, to the bridge. I'd say I probably just collapsed really. I mean, I probably can't even support my own weight at the moment. Yeah. No, what, with being like, with how much you had to deal with like earlier and then just being dangled here.

[02:50:27] Yeah. You're, you're, some of your limbs might be asleep. I want to, it's a bridge. Is it like kind of curvy? We can slide down it like a slide. Sure. Yeah. Yeah, that works. Cause it was like, kind of grab ahold of him, and be like, Hey man, we got you. It took us a little minute. It took us a minute, but we're here. She, below us. Oh, I figured I'm right here.

[02:50:55] And you see behind the skid steer, kind of blocking your way back through the tunnel, uh, is what looks like to you, the, to, to the new people, it looks like miss, miss, miss worm. Um, but like a younger version. Uh, and she's just got this like nasty sneer on her, on her face. That wasn't very nice. What you did earlier, which part trying to stop my release.

[02:51:23] I didn't want to get blown up while we were down here, trying to rescue our buddy. So, well, there's more than one way to skin a cat. Yeah. And there's also one more than one way of hitting with an auger fire up. It's the augers in the back. She, she actually vanishes. Like, like before, like, as you try to do that, like she actually vanishes like an illusion. Um, and then you start hearing a thrumming sound from deep beneath in the, in the bow in the abyss. Um, do you, anybody look down over the edge?

[02:51:54] I mean, kind of busy trying to rescue somebody at the moment. What? So kind of try, kind of busy trying to get somebody off of an ice bridge at the moment. So, okay. Well, you, you do hear something. Um, it, it sounds like wings flapping heavy and something like crashing against the walls of the, of the, of the chasm, uh, coming up fast. Uh, you also hear heavy chains, um,

[02:52:23] kind of just like, uh, clanking and clinking, um, approaching you guys very quickly. Well, we can hope that those chains hold. Let's go. Okay. Caleb, you, you got any legs underneath you? Can we, can you help us run? Uh, Caleb, you're probably suffering like a minus two. So, but with the plus two, that's probably like a net net. Uh, cause we're having a good time. You having a good time. Am I bro in haste? Uh, yeah, this would be a haste. If you want to try and like help,

[02:52:53] try and get over to the, to the skids deer so that you guys can get the hell out of there. Row to three. Row. That's all you get. So that's a four for me. All right. So you guys like just get over there as you see like billowing, sparking fumes coming up from the chasm. Uh, and you start seeing a, like a strange light emanating from, from below. Um, Liam, would you like to, uh, kick that thing into, uh, into rabbit? Yeah.

[02:53:23] Get the hell out of here. I gotta, I'm going to crank it to rabbit, hit the floor pedal, and, uh, pivot this thing and get the hell out. Okay. Um, so you, you, yeah, roll a, uh, roll a, feel like this would be like, it would be haste. Cause you're, or, um, flat. I love, I love, I love flair. I'll say if he's Tokyo drifting. Yeah. Okay. I'll take flair every time.

[02:53:54] So that's seven. Yeah. Okay. Hang on a second. I am in desperate need of water. My voice is getting so raspy. I actually had a, I actually sprung a nosebleed, uh, yesterday from how dry it is here. Yeah. I'm in the same boat. Like I've, I don't generally have nosebleeds and I popped a couple of them the other day. No, I thought it was very weird. Cause I never get nosebleeds and I was like, Oh God, what's going on? Wait, I'm not dizzy. No, I feel fine.

[02:54:23] It might just be because the heater has been like blasting at me. The, the, the entire, my entire work. Um, but yeah, so, uh, yeah, you're, you're just racing through the tunnels and you actually hear a couple of go off. Um, but you, uh, but then you also hear this horrible, guttural roar, um, and trouncing behind you, uh, along with the sound of the chains. Uh,

[02:54:53] and does anybody look back as they're dangling for dear life on the, uh, on the skid steer? No, I'm driving a skid steer. I'm, I'm paying attention to the, the walls. Yeah. I assumed you were, you were basically trying to make sure that, uh, Calum doesn't fall off. Does Calum look back? Do you want a fate point? She didn't even need to offer me that, but I'll take it. I would have taken. Yeah. All right. Well, take a stress then, Caleb. Already have, uh, let's see.

[02:55:22] This one's more of an emotional stress. Uh, as you see the thing that you guys are planning on, we're planning on vanquishing, um, crawling and like, and just kind of smashing against the walls, trying to get at you guys through, through blasts of dust and fire and cinder and, and black smoke, um, out of this roiling blasts that are happening from behind you guys, you see this draconic form. Um,

[02:55:50] but it's got tentacles busting through its, uh, through its, its neck and through around its, around its, uh, around its face where the horns were, where the horns are. Um, it's glistening with this, that same kind of metal, uh, that they're made from, um, its eyes glow with that, like the most vibrant of that eerie light that you guys have seen from all the other, uh, creatures. Here kind of outer color. And, uh,

[02:56:20] it is just racing. It is catching up to you guys, um, through the tunnels. Um, it is sort of between you guys and the explosions that are happening behind it. So rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, must go faster. Oh, what was that? What was off the goonies? Oh, they're really pissed off now. Yeah. Um, Aaron. Yes. Get a fate point. If you can describe the crazy, um,

[02:56:50] uh, escape out of the tunnel. Okay. All right. So it's, we're barreling down this tunnel. Yeah. It's, it's how wide? Uh, it's probably like 30 or 40 feet across and on and up. It's like pretty uniform. So yeah, about 30, 40 feet. Oh, it's a big tunnel. Yeah. Okay. I'm careening up and down the, uh, just, just back and forth along this tunnel, avoiding boulders,

[02:57:20] getting along. People barely holding on. It is, it is nightmarish. My, uh, it's, it's, we're, we're, we're bouncing so much. It's such a wild ride that even my work lights are starting to flicker. Come to, uh, uh, particularly large boulder in the middle and we have to like get around it. Um, um, but it's all on an upward slope. It's, uh, it's, it's rough ride.

[02:57:48] We're coming along and I can just hear the sound of her behind us. I don't know whether it's real or not. If it's all in my head, I I'm just jamming to the, to the tunes of BTO blasting out of the radio. Nice. Because we're taking care of business. Yeah. Um, so back on the surface, um, the Baron and, uh, and Lizzie, you,

[02:58:17] Lizzie, you, you got a couple of them cut and then you started hearing the booms downstairs. I was like, what? And you look over the plunger hasn't been activated. Oh, it's been pulled, the plunger. What the fuck? Um, and, uh, you see like people are racing out. Uh, you seeing things like, like stuff is starting to like, like there's some small landslides along the, uh, the hills around and like the, the cliff sides around the, the tunnel entrance. And out there's just a, a blast of dust and earth and, and smoke,

[02:58:47] uh, comes blasting out of the, uh, the tunnel. And then like the millennium Falcon out of the death star in return of the Jedi, a skid steer launches out, uh, of the, uh, of the smoke. And then it freeze frames and you hear probably wonder what these Duke boys are going to do in this situation. Just some good old boys. Duke boys are in a heap of trouble. Um, and so they,

[02:59:17] you just come go, uh, like just hit the ground hard with the skid steer. Um, uh, you, you run over a couple of spectral miners in the process. Uh, you should have been there. Yeah. You drift like with the fucking skid steer, um, away from the tunnel entrance and out of the smoke as well. Um,

[02:59:42] head neck and part of the body of this giant obsidian dragon with tentacles pouring from its, its arm from its, from its neck and from its body and from its limbs. And then it just kind of stops hard as a massive chain. That's right. That's wrapped around its neck, um, keeps it bound, uh, and, and prevents it from getting completely out of the cave. And you just hear this guttural thrumming pry both in real space and in your heads.

[03:00:12] No, I was almost free. Um, so she is, she is, um, scrambling, trying to break free of the bonds. Uh, you see, are, you see that the chains are, are, are starting to strain. Um, and as you see some of the, the, the spectral miners, uh, mostly, mostly the shadow ones, uh,

[03:00:41] begin running toward her, uh, with pickaxes. Um, it looks like they're going to try and go for those chains themselves. Um, but, and, uh, she looks to you guys, uh, she over by the plunger, uh, and it's like, you die. And she lets out a torrent of that eldritch flame, um, from her, uh, from her gullet. So Baron and Lizzie get the fuck out of there.

[03:01:11] This is going to be bad. So, uh, haste. Yep. Yep. I'm, uh, go the forceful route. I'm just going to go straight up. Okay. Like power leap over it. Grab a hold of a stalactite if I need to. Okay. Uh, something up here. Got it. Uh, you wouldn't be a stalactite cause you're actually up. You're, you guys are out on the surface. So there, you're there. There, there is no tunnel where you guys are. Okay. With a 10.

[03:01:41] Could he have just basically hooked her up with him? Yeah, you could, um, sorry, hang on. What'd you grab Lizzie by the back of the belt and just fly? I like the thing that like Lizzie went to dive away and you just grabbed her before like midair. It's like, and just dove away. Like, yeah, just dove for like one of the cliff sides around, like by the, by the tunnel entrance or something. Oh yeah. So you got an eight and this creature is a legendary,

[03:02:11] legendary status. So he had a plus two, you had a plus two. Yeah. So 10, uh, let's see how this thing is going to go. So what's your, what's your scale? Um, uh, Baron, like what's your, what's your level? It's supernatural. Okay. So it would be an extra plus two for that to do with that kind of stuff. Oh, right. Yeah. What's she legendary or godlike?

[03:02:41] Uh, she's, uh, I have her scaled at legendary. Okay. So she's two above us. Yeah. Um, and she is going to tap an action aspect. Um, we might need to. So, cause I get, uh, aspect or I get fate points equal to you guys. So equal to the number of you. So, um, so hang on one. You got 10. You said,

[03:03:11] uh, so far, do you want to tap? Uh, do you want to, tag another aspect? Do I need to tag another aspect? You may need to. So then I'm going to tag panthers. Okay. Just panthers. Yes. It's my high concept. Okay. Um, so you get, that would give you a 12. That'll make it a 12. Yes. You just leap out of the way.

[03:03:39] Like a cat who has just seen a pickle or a, uh, a, a, a, a cucumber. Oh no. We lost Aaron again. Damn it. Curse his, his, my curse, my tablets, internet access. I hope that's not screwing up. Or his. I don't think it should. I think it's fine. Okay. While we are in the air, I am just going to say, all right, Lizzie, I need you to listen carefully. Take this blood to Caleb. I will keep the dragon busy.

[03:04:09] Uh, you guys do see that like the, where the flame, the gouts of flame just like blasted. Um, it's gone. It's gone. McCready. There's nothing there. It's just, it burns away the, the, the trees, the rock, anything that was, was there. It wiped away. and there's just this glass. Yeah. Yeah. There's just this glassed, like, um, cleared spot where the, where the flames struck, uh, the ground. Um,

[03:04:39] Aaron, you're with us again, right? Yes. Okay. So yeah, uh, they attempted to, um, they, they, uh, they dodged narrowly out of the way of the eldritch flames of this outer being. Um, and. basically just like avoided being erased from reality by the flames and did an 80s freeze frame. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, so yeah, as you guys are like a curious, a curious sliding with the skid steer, uh, you see that happen.

[03:05:09] Um, so Lizzie, you're going to try and like get over to the, uh, to Caleb Brown yet. That's true. Yeah. You guys are up, yeah. You're still up in the air. Yeah. Um, so what, what, what are the rest of you guys doing? Cause that's going on right now. Rethinking all my life choices. Yeah. I'm trying to figure out how I got here. Shit, I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. Lester, what do you, what do you want to do? Uh, basically, um,

[03:05:39] I want to basically, I want to take the whistle and I want to blast it and give this, try and give this dragon a nice case of vertigo. Okay. I want to vibrate it. It's ears have got to be enormous and it's got ear canals and it's got, I'm going to, so I'm going to try and give it some vertigo to fuck with it. Make it harder for us to try and get hit situational aspect. Basically. Yeah. And that's a five.

[03:06:10] Probably not good enough. No. Well, it's a, it's a, well, it's an aspect that affects the surrounding. So yeah, I will say it is affecting the, the minors. Like the minors have all stopped moving toward her. That works. Grabbing their ears. Um, that works. Yeah. But she wandered around like drunken sailors. Yeah. Like they've dropped their, their picks and stuff like that. And, um, but she appears to be unaffected by it. But, um, so you've actually negated an aspect. Of hers, which is town ghosts with that. Hey man,

[03:06:39] I'll take it. Yeah. Um, so Liam, what do you want? Um, you're, you're coming face to face with an, with an outer entity. Yep. Yep. What's everybody else doing? Um, um, well, uh, the Baron and, and, uh, Lizzie are both in the air. Um, and you know, the Baron and Lizzie are probably the ones that have the starborn blood. Okay. They had the blood.

[03:07:09] They had that blood last. Uh, Calum, I think is weekly holding onto the, the skid steer himself. And, uh, Liam is doing, or Lester is doing, uh, some of his, his sound magic that appears to be affecting the, the, the, the miners that we're going to try and break the chains. Okay. All right. Uh, are there clouds? Uh, yeah, there's, it's been perpetually cloudy and like dim. Um, there's been a couple of rays of light coming through,

[03:07:39] but it's mostly cloudy in a car fall. Okay. I'm going to start to make it real cold up in one of the clouds. Okay. And, uh, try to, try to pull in a whole lot of water into a very tight spot. And, uh, we're, we're gonna, we're gonna drop a, well, the largest piece of hail, the largest piece of hail that I can possibly manage.

[03:08:08] To, to partially quote, um, a James Cameron film, iceberg overhead. Yes. Something like that. Um, so, I'm going to use my last point of winter power. Okay. I'm going to take a point of stress. Um, hang on. You, does, you said, uh, your winter power would, uh, wouldn't that have refreshed from between scenes? Yeah. Uh,

[03:08:38] I have to go an entire scene without using it. Oh, okay. Yeah, you did. Which I guess, I guess I did. Yeah, I guess. Yeah. You tend to be a whole, yeah, there's a whole thing. I do fight and, uh, in here and getting, even getting down to the tunnel. Like, yeah. So like that, like the tunnel thing was actually, you guys like, was like, it was a scene itself. So like this, like, and you guys had a whole scene between that. So yeah, you're actually, you can refresh your, uh, your, your magic, your ice magic. Great.

[03:09:06] So then I'm going to spend three winter power and not end any stress. Uh, and then I get, uh, two from evocation specialist. And, um, I want to, uh, to, uh, spend a fate point and call on, uh, the great white wizard. Okay. Yeah. Uh, that's another plus two. Yep. Okay. So that's, seven. Okay. Um,

[03:09:35] and we're, uh, we're gonna, we're gonna do this with some flare 14, 14. That'd be a 16. Oh, with, yeah. Yep. All right. Um, I'm going to spend an ass, uh, spend a, uh, gonna tag an aspect. Um, she is going to try and tackle it. So, so it doesn't, so it doesn't do so as much damage as she can, but let's see how that goes. Uh, I like,

[03:10:07] I condense that cloud and I, I made it into an ice chunk. The size of a school bus. Yeah. And she's going to try. Yeah. Someone tried to drop a house on your sister. God. I got to check to see if scaling, if I'm understanding scaling properly here, uh, you can have one of the following benefits. Plus one. Do you roll for an action? Take an additional two shifts. Okay. Yeah, no. All right. All right.

[03:10:36] I'm just rolling like fucking shit. Um, so she rides. Yeah. So she looks up at the, uh, at the, at the shadow that suddenly she, as she sees a shadow, uh, around her, she looks up and sees the, what's, the, the iceberg that's coming down on her. Uh, and she attempts to blast it with her, with her eldritch flames. Um, and for a moment you think, Oh fuck. Like it, she's just going to engulf it with her flight. Yeah. Ah,

[03:11:06] fuck bud. Uh, cause the flames engulf it, but then something starts parting the flames and you see that it's still coming down on her. Um, despite her best efforts with her reality rending eldritch fire. Um, and she just gets just punct, punch, uh, punctured partially with it. Um, she, she manages it to like, so it doesn't go right on her fit on her head,

[03:11:34] but it goes like somewhere on her back. Um, and just kind of punt, punctures through. Um, and she just lets out this horrible, again, she lets out this horrible cry that like causes all of you guys to kind of wince. Um, uh, and, uh, yeah, she is not doing good. Jesus Christ. Uh, she is going to do about the second one. Uh, no key. Uh,

[03:12:04] she's thrashing around. Um, but, uh, that ice has got her even more like on top of the, the chains that are keeping her bound. She's now got a, a spike of ice, the size of a bus, um, basically impaled through her back. I'm running. Okay. He's a warrior guy. Okay. I mean, I'm hoping. While I am up here in the air, um, I am gonna, this is going to be fun.

[03:12:33] I'm going to spike Livy down at Caleb. Oh, I'm just imagining like, use the impact of that to propel myself into the dragon. Oh, nice. Yeah. I'm also imagining like you guys, like you, you huck Lizzie and it becomes that like motion blur. So that'll affect that. You see like Adam Warlock from the guardians, the galaxy volume three, like, as he's like, like, like flying, like trying to get to his mom. It's just that,

[03:13:01] like that kind of like effect that like Lizzie suddenly has. God damn. The yeet three times tonight. The yeet. Oh, it's been more than three, sir. Okay. We're on like five. But yeah, so yeah, Lizzie is, is hurled towards, uh, uh, in the direction of, uh, of Caleb. And then, yeah, you, you basically descend down upon the dragon. Um, so, uh, yeah, Lizzie,

[03:13:29] I guess rolled a tuck and roll to not get hurt from that. What do I roll? Uh, this would probably be, um, haste. In my defense, I did warn you first. Yeah. So you can act. So she can, she can actually roll to avoid this. Yeah. But I'm also holding files of blood. So I have to protect those. Yeah. Uh, this would be a plus two as well, because you still have that, uh, the radio.

[03:13:56] Or if you want to do a focus possibly to make sure you. Yeah. Okay. Okay. You tried. You could just, I was going to say, you could do a, uh, superhero landing and use force. Uh, I can completely blow my knees. Yeah. Yeah. Well, with a five, you do manage to like basically. You're a wizard. You can heal. Eventually. I'm going to the healing wizard. Right. Yeah. Uh, yeah. You tuck and roll, um, uh,

[03:14:26] a few feet ahead of, or in front of, uh, Calum as he's kind of meekly running over again, Calum, you're, you're feeling a little woozy or a little like you're still, your, your limbs are still trying to like get brush off that, uh, that the sleep, the, the sleepiness. Yeah. I'm just imagining you running like ace for sure. It's like three darts is too much. Um, all right. So you, uh, yeah, you,

[03:14:56] you can get over to, uh, Lizzie and Calum, uh, basically arrive, or like kind of like intersect. Um, uh, Liam, are you, what are you, or, uh, yeah, Lester, what are you doing? Uh, with everybody going to straight attack it, I am going to, is the situational aspect that I got where they're still got the spin, like all the things got the spins still going, or do I have to keep that up? Uh, that you, yeah, uh, no, that's, uh, let's,

[03:15:25] that's a now like an aspect on the scene. So like, that's, that's still active. Yeah. All right, cool. Um, let's see. I'm going to switch my tone to four 17 Hertz, which is the single sacral chakra. Uh, that allows people to free up tightness, tight joints, muscles in turn, increase physical mobility and also alleviates tension and stress. Oh, good. The dragon's getting better. Good. No, I'm making you guys better. All right. Cause, uh, I know that, uh,

[03:15:55] our warrior God is currently being currently sluggish and feeling rather drained from stigmata. So I'm going to try and give everybody a plus to get up there and stab the shit out of this thing. Okay. That'd be a seven. All right. Yeah. Um, yeah, you guys, uh, are all feeling pretty, pretty good. you get another plus two. So you're welcome. You get the plus four for me. Yeah. Yeah. So now you're getting an overall plus four for that. Okay.

[03:16:25] Um, so, um, uh, yeah. Caleb, uh, what do you, uh, yeah. Uh, so, uh, you arrive over at a Lizzie, uh, and suddenly you feel a lot better. Weird. You never feel this nice when you're, as you approach, uh, Lizzie. Yeah. It's kind of like that big trouble in little China scene. It's like, yeah, kind of invincible. Yep. All right. Um, so what do you, what do you do? I'm gonna reach,

[03:16:54] I'm gonna extend my hand for the, uh, star blood. I don't know if I'm getting one or multiples, but yeah, Lizzie, you can, you can, uh, you can give them as you want. Do you give him the blood? Yes, I said I did. Okay. Sorry. I didn't hear you. Sorry. Um, yeah, you're given the blood. All right. Well, um, I guess I'm going to attack now. Well, as, as you get the blood, um,

[03:17:23] and the Baron is still about, is, is still in the process of, of getting at the, uh, the dragon, the dragon does see that exchange and she, just unleashes another torrent of flame. Um, as she cries out, uh, no, uh, so you and, uh, Lizzie may need to get out of the way and maybe even Liam, because, uh, Liam's probably in that trajectory as well. I don't know. I thought we were still back with the skid steer. Well, that, yeah, the skid steer is in,

[03:17:53] still in the trajectory of this blast. Oh, well, there's that. She wipes out a direction. Yeah. Basically. Yeah. So, uh, yeah, Liam, um, Lizzie and, and, uh, I'm just going to close the door on the skid steer. I will give you this. That might not be enough. You're just like, bye. Bye Lester. It's been fun, buddy.

[03:18:22] How'd you become Iron Man? Yeah. And I'm going to, uh, in case the, uh, well, and anybody close enough to the skid steer, I'm going to, um, put a big old bubble of ice around us. Okay. So Lester, you're, you should be fine unless this utterly fails. Yeah. Well, I also want to do like, basically make mirror images of us. Oh God. Okay. Last two points of winter power. Uh, you do get a plus four. Remember?

[03:18:53] Uh, if, if it's a plus four, I got a 10 on mirror imaging us. Gotcha. And six of two is eight. Eight plus four. No, no, that is with the plus four. Okay. Um, it's not an attack, so I don't get a lot of my bonuses to it. Yeah. It's a defense. Yeah. Uh, and then also I need that from, uh, I need some kind of a dodge or defense to get from, uh, Liam and case, uh, or case, yeah, words, Caleb and Lizzie.

[03:19:24] I dodge or defense. You said? Yeah. Hmm. I guess that's haste then. Okay. Four. That'd be an eight. Yeah. Cause you have a plus four. I'll be trying to say whether I want to try and tank this. I'm cause I said, I made a support. I give myself another plus four. Well, well, my plan was to give whoever is attacking the dragon next, an additional plus by basically going death wing on this bitch.

[03:19:54] I'm going to start ripping armor plates off of the neck. Nice. Yeah. Start ripping off the tentacles, the tentacles scales, anything I can do to open up some blood. Yeah. Well, those, those tentacle like tumors are probably a good way to pop some things. Um, yeah, like I'm kind of picturing like this creature as kind of like one of the blighted dragons from dragon age, the veil guard. Um,

[03:20:21] if anybody has played that game or seen that stuff, no, not yet. I know it. I know it out of inquisition and origin. Okay. Uh, basically eldritch dragons with tentacles. Um, I should not be able to show one. If you guys are cool with that, where is this thing? Wow. There's not really a good picture of one. All right. Anyway, sorry. My bad. Um, yeah, so, um,

[03:20:52] so the eldritch fire goes down, uh, Liz. So Calum, you got a four or is that? Yeah. I got an eight with, uh, and Lizzie, what are you doing? I'm trying to decide whether I want to dodge it or I want to try and kind of tank this. Cause I have, I can use my silver sword for active defense. I can use rune magic to give another plus two. I can give myself another plus four. Yeah. So no matter what I roll, I already have a plus eight. True. And you saw this, that flame does. Yeah.

[03:21:21] But I've got a plus eight. Yeah. All right. I'm going to use, I'm going to use force to try and like use my silver sword to almost like fucking part it. Nice. Part the blast with a single swipe. Okay. I'm going to use the moon magic and, and use this as an active defense on the sword. Plus eight total. And I rolled a fucking eight. Jesus. So 16, Chris. Yeah. So, um, you guys all like ready to like,

[03:21:50] like dodge out of the way and create like a giant ice bubble and such. Um, and meanwhile, Lizzie just like, it's like, fuck this shit. And just like slice through this eldritch fire. Um, Lizzie, do you want a fate point? Yes, I do. All right, guys. It's a nice new one. Yeah. No, not entirely. Uh, so you, you are like beating you, you're cleaving this flame.

[03:22:20] Some supernaturally in half. It is parting. You are parting the red sea as it were. Um, they, it creates a V you create a V like two torrents of fire that go around you and your friends, like, like away from everybody's like from harm's way. Uh, it does take out like whole swaths of, and even some of the miners and their operations and stuff like that. Um, in the process. I'm gone anyway. Yeah. Uh, but then you start like seeing that you're like, it's, you're,

[03:22:48] you're still cutting through and she's still like sending this gout, these gouts of flame at you and you see your sword starts melting. Yeah, there it is. Um, and you actually need to like, that was pretty dope. That's pretty worth it. Yeah. And when, when the fire finally is extinguished, um, you had to, you have to let go of the hilt because it is red hot. Um, and it is basically down to the hilt. Uh, but you're, yeah.

[03:23:19] Um, and your hands are just kind of like blistered from the, the heat. Yeah. So. Oh, take one straight. Damn it. Uh, that was pretty dope though. Yeah. Have they figured out how to make those yet? Again? Uh, in the books they haven't put, but let's face it, we're like 10 years past it. Yeah. Yeah. They surely got, they figured it out. Um, so, uh, I guess Baron, uh, like after that, uh,

[03:23:48] like she was preoccupied, basically trying to eliminate your friends. Uh, so you're, you're now on her back and neck. Um, so you're trying to, uh, basically remove bits of, of her, of her hide. Yes. Those weak points. I'm going to make a hole. I'm going to make a big hole. All right. yeah, you see a bunch of like the, again, those like writhing tentacles. Um, they look pretty, uh, pretty squash, uh,

[03:24:17] pretty squishy and like easily accessible to like her innards or her, her fleshy bits. So, you know, I'm going to spend a fate point to reroll that. Okay. Fair. Well, slightly better. That's going to give me, yeah, that's still an eight. Uh, yeah. Uh, let's see how she does for defending against that. God damn it. I am just, um, yeah, you begin like basically just like tearing apart, uh,

[03:24:45] some of these writhing polyps, um, that are in her, her flesh, um, around you, uh, around the, uh, the length of her neck, basically. Uh, and she tries to said about skinning cats. Uh, she begins trying to thrash around, try and get you off of her, her neck, which, uh, basically keeps her preoccupied enough, uh, to give your, your friends an advantage as well. So you guys get a plus two on.

[03:25:14] So you guys are now working with a plus six to attack her. Yup. Chris is just like, all right, guys, you're going to need this. Yup. Yeah. So, um, Leah, or not Liam, Calum, um, uh, you, you see like, like behind in front of you, like Lizzie just like deflect, split that flame in half, um, at a great cost. Um, this might be one of your moments. So she's giving you an opening. The great,

[03:25:44] the great dragon was hurled down the ancient serpent called the devil or Satan who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth with his hands. His, uh, and his angels with him. Hold on. And I just get to, to the next fucking book. Uh, pardon my, I just using cuss words right in the middle of trying to say Bible verses, but it's from revelation to the fuck actually fits. Yeah. It's rather heretical of, you know?

[03:26:14] Yes. And the great dragon. Yeah. Well, that works. And, um, I'm going to dip the, I may open the, pop the vial and I just put it on the heel to the sword, which the ironic part was they never took the sword from me. It was more of a torture that my weapon was right beside me as I helplessly dangled. But, um, another quote. No, that's not a quote. That sounds like a, that sounds like a Bible verse. Yeah. That sounds like a goddamn Bible verse. Jesus.

[03:26:44] Actually, maybe I'm writing the book of cable. Uh, I'm becoming a prophet. Yeah. And the great dragon was cast out. The serpent called the devil, the Satan does it see with the whole world. He was cast earth and his angels cast out with him. And I'll tell you what, screw it. I just smash. I'm not in a, I'm in a hurry. I just smash the vial on top of it with my hands. I mean, little piece of the glass, but it's not enough to take a stress. You know what I mean? Yeah. No, it's fine.

[03:27:13] And as I pull my hand away from the blade, I mean, my palm, uh, the blade appears and I'm going to tack, uh, spend a fate point to use the aspect night of the hour. And I'm going to, I guess, uh, I guess I have to attack with, with like force, don't I? Or, or, or I could say, yeah, like, uh, if you can make a case, this would be a flare.

[03:27:43] Cause you're being very flashy. Uh, this could be a force focus. Well, I mean, I'm always going to take focus if you offer me. Cause this is, I feel like you're focusing on like the scripture and also on, on this intent to end this. Yeah. You're going to smite one of God's or one of the abomination. It's a force to God. Indeed. And let's see what happens. So I, I spent the aspect. The base row was three,

[03:28:14] but there was a plus what to it all now? Plus six, plus what, uh, plus your night of the holler. So that'd be an eight. So you got an 11. Jesus Christ. With its bane. If that is anything. Yeah, no, that, well, that's basically, yeah. Um, it actually drops down her, the scale. She's mundane now. She's just a person. No, not mundane, but it, it definitely drops it. Uh, it, it, it helps a lot.

[03:28:44] Yeah. Um, and again, I fucking can't roll today. Uh, man, I'm spending another aspect. Uh, not that it's probably not going to do much. Uh, yeah. Uh, so where are you striking at her? Well, can I tag an aspect? Uh, yeah. Cause I am, I'm going to counter yours. So hold on. That takes me down to three.

[03:29:14] I'm going to tag vet. I have nowhere. I know where the karate artery is basically on a snake. I'm just using that as an example. And I know it's karate, but I like calling it. I've worked on bearded dragons. This is just a bigger one. Yeah. So I have, I have an idea of where, uh, the main vein is and that's where I went. Um, so you go to do that. Like you're about to strike and things start slowing down.

[03:29:44] Um, you guys are all aware of the slowdown. Um, and you see a figure kind of race, uh, uh, race toward like kind of to intercept. Um, uh, it, at first you think it's a coyote. Um, and then you think it's, and then you think it's a rabbit or a hair. Um, and then it appears to be a native American man, um, in, in older garb,

[03:30:14] uh, just kind of stop. It like, kind of like puts his hands out. It's like, stop, wait, engine Joe. No, um, um, um, I will say, um, uh, Baron, Liam, and Lester. You could, and, and probably, uh, Lizzie, you can roll an intellect to know who this is. Uh, sorry, Calum, you probably wouldn't know because you're not really in the, no, I, and such.

[03:30:44] So you could, you could roll, but minus two. So, yeah, I don't even want to roll. It's on plus four. Yeah. Uh, well, that means I've got a, with everything that we've got boosted up, I've got a nine. I've got a 10 plus six. Oh, then I've got 11. Well, yeah. Liam, did you get, we know everything about this, man? Yeah. I know his shoe size and what he likes. I know what he had for breakfast. Uh, Aaron, could you roll, uh, intellect?

[03:31:14] No. Okay. Yeah. Cool. Guys don't roll. Oh, Jesus. No, he's like, we're going to plus six. Okay. That's fair. Yeah. Everybody else is like, Oh, you're just like, yeah, I kind of know this thing. It's by the way, uh, Chris, I'm going to get my hand. Uh, Kayla Murray knows who it is because she mentioned a trickster before and I've never met a trickster yet. Oh, that's true. Okay. Yeah, that's fair. Yeah. Uh, yeah, you,

[03:31:47] of, of trickster, um, from, uh, from that lore. Uh, she's like, stop. Don't do this. I know if you do, if you strike her down, you're, if you strike her down, you will kill. She will only become more powerful. No, no, the, the opposite. Uh, you killing, killing Strahlen Worm, killing Shining One,

[03:32:16] kills, kills Adelinda. This is why we couldn't, this is why we didn't, this is why we couldn't kill, we, we didn't kill Shining One to begin with. This is why we imprisoned her. I mean, this worm sent us on this. She specifically told me, she has helped. She specifically told me trickster. that if we had to, we must. What? What?

[03:32:45] Unless you got a way of pulling this thing out so we can stab it. No, the only, and stab it, Callum. She's, she's, she's ready to go. She's ready to, she's ready to, to move on. I think she's tired of carrying this burden and always keeping the world in danger by having this on the other side. If you, he looks to, to you guys, it's like, after like kind of a moment, if you wish to do this, I will step aside.

[03:33:15] What are all the, what other alternative do you have? We could try and trap her back down, stamp her back down, keep her imprisoned. It, and, and then people are just going to do this again at some point. Nope. The biggest thing you just said right there was try. Damn it. Very well. If, if this is what you, if this is what, what has to be done, then I, then I guess this is how it has to go.

[03:33:45] Not necessarily. I'm from up here on the back of the neck. Shining one. Shining one is, yeah. Yes. Uh, that's the, yeah, strawland worm. Yeah. Strawland worm. Do you surrender? Never. Not until I am free or dead. Do it, Callum.

[03:34:15] Yes. Strike me down. We can finish this now. Well, kill the dragon that spawned me. That's what you humans are good at. Aren't you? Isn't it? Pretty good at it. Laying dragons. Two for one deal. Following the stuff of St. George. I'm not Protestant.

[03:34:45] He's still a Christian. I'm a vet. I spent points on. Chris, I spent points on. I got a loophole. Okay. I spent points on vet. Yeah. Right. What happens if I lobotomize it? Oh God. It's not dead. Is that any better? What if you exercise her? Cast the evil out. Um, trickster, trickster to that. Um, it's like, we did.

[03:35:15] This is the demon that we exercised. We couldn't. You're the one that put her in there. We cut her out. Uh, I cut her out of, of Adelinda. The Strahlen worm is the outer half that was corrupting Adelinda. Like there is no exercising shining one. Shining one is the, uh, is the, is, is the, is the source of this, this, this corruption, this evil. Then sad to say, we got to cut it out, root and stem.

[03:35:44] Otherwise it's going to keep happening. It's a bigger than was one person. Adelinda knows this. Yeah. You hear again from, from Strahlen worm. It's just like enough prattling. If you're going to do it, just do it. Would you shut this, would you shut this big bastard up, Caleb? So I can, you don't think I should try the lobotomy. I mean, that doesn't sound any better than what we're doing right now. Um, I will say,

[03:36:12] I will give you this. That would basically be the effect of, of, uh, of resealing her, but that's not going to stop the evil. Um, like you guys will be able to like basically stop her intent, but then that just means that you have this corruptive outer force, uh, un, uh, unbound by, by an intelligence, um, being sealed away. And what if that gets out? Then basically reset in the doomsday clock.

[03:36:42] If we do anything other than kill them. Yeah. And there's no guarantee we'll be able to like, we'll be around. I'm not saying you, I'm not saying you can't do it, but like, I'm saying like doing that, you're basically just kind of, um, pushing it over to a future. Yeah. You're passing the buck to a future generation to deal with. If, if, and when she ever breaks out, like, you're not sure if she will, but it might be a, when you're, you're not certain. Okay. Yeah. So yeah, but doing,

[03:37:11] but killing, killing, killing shining one will kill Adalinda worm. Um, I also like to point out, or I also like to bring up that, um, uh, yeah, it appears Adalinda did tell the Baron about that. Mm. So yeah, do it. I'm finding the purple for sure. Uh, yeah, like trickster will, will move aside and, and reef and re, uh, restart time. Um,

[03:37:41] but he had to intervene. Uh, also, Liam and Lester, you, you get the impression. Oh, you rec, you kind of recognize him. That's the guy that, this is the figure that was like watching you in the tunnel. Oh, okay. Like he kind of looks vaguely the same. God damn it, Josh. All right. But yeah, so this is a big cinematic choice. I mean, there's not really a choice. No, I mean, there is, but it's, it's sort of, yeah,

[03:38:10] I get it. It's a morally dubious. It's a moral, moral choice kind of thing. So it's mostly, uh, mostly finding the right verse to go with it. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, the most beautiful thing that I, I think that I can say, uh, you know, I'm kind of, I'm kind of going to, uh, I mean, like I do have a, a background in this kind of stuff raised in a church and all that. So, I mean, I kind of know where to look on some of these things, but I very like Luke 22 or seven,

[03:38:40] which is, uh, Jesus in a garden. And, uh, you know, it's, father, if you are willing to take this cup from me yet, not my will, but your to be done. Uh, Caleb thinks about that for a moment. Yeah. Oh, you keep going. Sorry. No, I would say he, he thinks about that for a moment, how he doesn't want to kill Adelinda and how, you know,

[03:39:10] everything is, but, you know, I guess he searches deep in his soul and, uh, knows that, uh, you know, it's sometimes you got to do bad things or sometimes, uh, a sacrifice has to be made. So it's almost like, and he, he'll never, even if you ask him years later about this, if he lives, you know, he would, um, he doesn't,

[03:39:40] you know, for moments, he thinks he feels like a divine kind of, um, like an understanding of, uh, not really as much Christ as it is, um, the need for a sacrifice, uh, the sacrifice and the greater good. And, you know, all that. So he goes for the, goes for it. Yep. Uh, trickster kind of bows his head, um,

[03:40:09] solemnly and just kind of, uh, uh, vanishes like you blink and he's gone and time reverts back to normal. Unless anybody wants to stop this. If I was going to do anything, I'd boost it. Liam, do you want to do anything or? No, I'm good. Okay. Um, and I think I know the answer from the Baron and Lizzie. So, uh, yeah, you, uh, you strike the, uh, strike the, the artery or the, uh, the carotid artery.

[03:40:40] Um, and with that, uh, with the starborn blood. And, um, there is this sort of, sort of any matter reaction. Um, there is just this white flash, uh, that encompasses all of you, all of, um, for a moment. Uh, and you hear this, this horrible retching scream that is snuffed out, uh, by echo. Um,

[03:41:09] and, uh, for a moment you guys are thinking, well, this is it. We're dead. Um, this is how I die. Yeah. It was a good run. Um, but I thought I'd die, but beside you, I'm a different. Yeah. I could live with that. All right. I could, I could die that way. I could die with that. Yeah. Um, but, uh, then, um, uh, you kind of come to the,

[03:41:39] the light begins to kind of fade, uh, and you start seeing features and such. And you're, you're at a diner at like a sixties or fifties style diner. Um, and there are, there are normal looking people just walking around or like eating at different booths. And you guys are all just in the booths and, uh, um, a, a woman comes up to your, uh, to your table. Just like, uh,

[03:42:09] can I get you guys some coffee? Uh, what can I get? Yeah. You, you see that it's, uh, like, uh, you, you take a look at the, there's menus in front of you. Uh, and you see, um, on it, there's, uh, a, uh, the brute hollow diner, uh, at, uh, uh, from in Icker falls. Um, and you, you guys look out the window and there's your skid steer parked, parked in the, uh, in the, in the, uh, in the, on the side of the road, in the handicap spot. Yeah. A bunch of assholes.

[03:42:39] Yeah. Uh, there are, uh, what handicap spot? Cause it's a 1960, it looks like it's a 1960s era. You're seeing people walking around, uh, normally. Um, there, there is sort of a, the more you look, the more you see people that are from different eras walking around, but they all have like smiles on their faces. Um, they're all, they're all like going, kind of just going about their day. The town doesn't look as like you, you passed, you real, you recognize the street. It's the one you, you pass through on your way over to the, uh, the reality,

[03:43:09] uh, um, offices. Um, it's, it's downtown Icker falls and, uh, in Olympus. And it looks almost normal. It, you could, this could be in the mundane world. Um, it still feels like you're in the never, never. Um, to, to those of you that are sensitive to that, uh, to the veil and such, but it, it looks better. It doesn't look as oppressive as foggy is silent. Hillish. Um,

[03:43:38] it looks like any old town Americana. Um, it, it appears that killing, uh, shining one had, uh, uh, reset Icker falls back to its proper, uh, Dimesni status. It is still a, a pocket dimension within the never, never, uh, full of lost souls or souls of, of entities and such, but it is now more harmonized. So yeah,

[03:44:06] she's kind of just waiting at the end of your table. Uh, like, like ask, like, did you guys okay? I guess I would like bacon and eggs, please. Uh, same here. Uh, coffee, blonde and sweet steak and eggs, please. Liam. I'll take the bacon and eggs for the side order of bacon and an extra hash. I'll also need an ashtray and a pack of Belmont's, uh, and, uh, three fresh cups of coffee. Uh, do you want maple syrup with that?

[03:44:36] Real maple syrup or like table syrup? Uh, well, it's fresh from Vermont. So fresh from Quebec. Yeah, I'll take that. Uh, she looks a little quizzically, but kind of nods down and jots it down. Uh, and you honey, it looks to, you'll have to excuse my friend. He's Canadian. Oh, okay. Foreigner. Burner. Ignore the Norwegian sitting at the table. Yeah. Uh, yeah. Caleb, uh, as you're kind of, are you just like looking, drifting off,

[03:45:05] like looking outside or just staring out the window and he just, just kind of, kind of, uh, you ever, you know, at moment when you're talking and like your mind somewhere else and they get like, like a flippant answer from you. Cause you're not really thinking about something or whatnot. He's just kind of, he's like, uh, I like my coffee. Like my women bitter. I was going to say ground up into the freezer, but I didn't think. Wow.

[03:45:39] I'm a serial killer. But I mean, he just black boys. All right. Coming up. Um, and as you guys are, as she goes by, uh, she, by the counter, like to the back to put the order in, um, a radio that's on the, uh, on the counter, just like one of those old little, uh, 50s, 60s radios. Cause I'm having a good time. Having a good time. Yeah. It's playing music. Yeah. It's, it's playing, uh, it's playing, Mr.

[03:46:09] Sandman. Bring me a dream. Um, and it, and it played, it finishes up playing. And then you hear, it's like, well, it looks like the dragon is gone. The shadow of Ricker falls is no more, but what, what cost? What it cost indeed. My friends. And what will they find when they go back to look to the little barony of Moorhead? We'll have to see until next time, children sleep. Well,

[03:46:39] and then another song begins playing. So yeah, you guys, uh, spend some time eating at the diner. Uh, it's great food. Like it's, um, fantastic. Uh, and eventually you guys leave or like get out and, um, they don't, they, they, uh, they don't even ask for like a bill. They don't give you a bill or anything like that. Um, uh, you, uh, you get on the skid steer and ride off into the sunset.

[03:47:09] And by that, I mean, you kind of cut a swath through the veil with, uh, with one, uh, your, your various means, uh, you probably head back to the, uh, the mall to, uh, to properly, uh, escape, uh, escape back to the real world. The mall itself is actually, since we've left. Yeah. Um, the mall itself, like 30 seconds, the, yeah, the, the candle cove mall. Um, it's like at, in its prime. Um, uh, it's as you, you see,

[03:47:38] it feels like it's all the, uh, the people there are like, they're from the eighties or nineties. Um, there's a couple, there's like a bunch of kids like hanging out, like, uh, in the food court. Um, there are puppets still serving food. Uh, and there are, uh, the various vendors, uh, then like those, uh, kiosks in the center of the hallways and stuff are all run by, by Holdra. Um, uh, there is a one spot that is, uh, that seems darker and it's that, uh,

[03:48:07] the dollar general, um, that's at the back of the, uh, the mall. It doesn't seem to be in the best repair. Like it actually has like some, uh, signs that thing, uh, closed for, uh, renovations. I mean, I put iron filings all in front of it. Yeah. Yeah. So it's, yeah. Uh, you, you meet, um, a, uh, as you're traveling through the mall with your, with your kids. No one seems to bad night. No one seems to bad night. Uh,

[03:48:39] and in fact, uh, there is a, a very tall like gentleman kind of in a, uh, like, I guess like the equivalent of a mall manager or supervisor kind of, um, smiling at you guys. It's like, well, uh, put in a good word for us, uh, with the queen, uh, looks over to Liam. Uh, we'll see if we can make some, uh, reconnections, uh, and bring some, some, uh, sentiments to the front. Uh, and, uh,

[03:49:06] he then lets you guys go on to where you, uh, into the side. And, uh, yeah, you, uh, you come back out to the Monday mall. Uh, and you, you say like, how's he going to stop us? Yeah, no, he's not. Yeah. He's just going to like, he's just letting you eat. Let's us through. Oh, we'll fuck him up. We want to go. He's being curtie. Like, we just killed a fucking drag. Yeah. Congrats. You, you basically, you king, you made it, you made him like proper king of, of, uh,

[03:49:35] this Dimesni. He's now the stillwood king of, all of Vicar Falls. So, Well, you know, you live some, you win some, you lose some. Um, and yeah, you get back to the mall within the real world. Um, I can't, what mall was that that you guys went to? Uh, Barberville mall. Barberville. Yeah. Yes. Um, uh, you guys check your phones or like any kind of like time pieces to see like what time it is. Um,

[03:50:06] only 30 minutes have passed. Am I still wearing that dumb ass outfit? Oh no, you're, you're wearing your normal outfit. Okay. You were wearing normal. Yeah. My car heart covering chicken wire. Got it. Yeah. Um, and yeah, like only 30 minutes have passed, uh, from what you can tell in the real, in the mundane world, the mortal plane on the mortal plane. Um, and I needed a nap. Yeah. Um, do you guys want me to just like kind of fast,

[03:50:35] like just shock the more head or. Yeah. I mean, I think that would be best. Like, I mean, oddly enough, we've had security guards and stuff that were worried about us in, but like we disappeared. Well, you also like dealt, you dealt with the, the, the, the security guard that was here. So yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The, the, the bar, the, the, the mall, when they get there in the morning, that's going to be like, what the fuck happened here? Yeah. And the truck's still parked out front. We can just load the skid steer up and take off. Yeah,

[03:51:05] no, that's, that's what you guys do. You guys, uh, you guys get back to Moorhead. Uh, you get back to the bell booking candle. Um, uh, and, uh, you see, um, uh, Adalinda worm is there. Uh, she is past, uh, sleeping or past, uh, sitting on one of her comfy, uh, of the, uh, the bell booking candle. You passed away. Yeah.

[03:51:36] Um, so, uh, Halo, I've seen you pull miracles before. Uh, but if I bring her back here, does it bring it back there? That's a good question. I would also like to point out you are talking about necromancy in front of a board. Hang on. Yeah. Hang on. Actually, I'm going to double check selling my notes. It's not necromancy.

[03:52:05] It's a revitalization. If she's dead, it's resurrection, sir. Maybe she's just in stasis. Yeah. Again, I will, I will, I will spare you, uh, this, uh, you try to do something like even like small, you, you can't, um, um, she is, uh, in fact, actually, as she, as you, as you start like kind of like approaching her and trying to like, like try like, well, maybe I can like try and heal her. Uh, she begins kind of, uh, Jedi, uh, Jedi, uh,

[03:52:36] death sort of like force ghosts. Yeah. Force ghosting away. Like she, she, uh, her body just starts e-comporalizing as the ectoplasm and, uh, never, never material that she's made of, uh, begins finally evaporating. Um, she was always in there the hotel. That was going to be my next statement. She was what, sorry? If we, if we can't bring her back, we were going to have to destroy the corpse because. Yeah. We can't let her material,

[03:53:04] her genetic material fall into the wrong hands. Yeah. But considering she's a creature of the never, never, it will take her back. Um, uh, there is, is a piece of paper or an envelope on the, um, on the counter of the book, the bell book. And it is addressed to the Baron. Let me crack it open. Uh, yeah, you crack it open. Um, it's, I don't have, unfortunately I didn't have this plan to like actually write, write down. Otherwise I totally would. But, um,

[03:53:34] it has long lines of, uh, uh, an apology for like forcing you, uh, and your, your, and your friends to, um, uh, to deal with my, with her problems. And, uh, if this is the outcome that has to happen, then she bequeaths her holdings and property of the bell, book and candle to the Baron to do with as he sees fit. Um,

[03:54:03] also take care of mercy. Uh, if things are better in, at the falls, uh, perhaps take her back, um, for she will stay, uh, it, it will keep her in a stasis and not, and not have her, um, not run the chance of, of, of, uh, her causing harm or people causing harm to her. Um, and, uh,

[03:54:33] turn off the equipment downstairs. Right. Did we ever see what was down there? You did not. Okay. Yeah. Oh, Chris, uh, as I tell Miss Worm, as she disappears, and I'm sorry. Uh, let's see what's behind door number one. Okay. Uh, yes. I hated her the most. I'm going to share the contents of the letter with everyone. And, it's like confession time. Yes,

[03:55:02] I knew that she wanted this done. No, I didn't tell any of you because these were her wishes. I didn't want the consequences of her actions, her choices to affect you. I figured it was best if you didn't know until it was too late to stop it. And for that, I apologize. But this letter does explain that she truly understood the risks.

[03:55:32] I hope given time you will understand and forgive. There's no forgiveness needed. There's no forgiveness needed, Baron. Yeah. She, uh, she knew what was up. She knew what had to happen. She wouldn't have sent us on this question. She didn't think she, we were going to follow through. It was what needed to be done. And I don't know if I could have done it this way or at all, if I'd known that I was going in to do just that.

[03:56:03] So it was the right call. And I thank you for sure. Saving me that grief and indecision for as long as it, you know, it was possible. So. I do suggest that since we did manage to save the bats, it might be a good idea to give mercy back to them. Oh fuck. Yeah, we did. Please. Hey, Chris. Yeah.

[03:56:32] It gets the vampire off this plane. I'm for it. If you do me one favor. Sure. The, the geese or whatever it's on Josh's character. So again, her death. Yeah. So it never, I don't want to taper. It's still on her. Yeah. It's still on there. Yeah. How the hell is it? She has to, she had to really, she had to relinquish it. She's dead. She's got nothing left holding it. Yeah. But she never, uh, excused it.

[03:57:02] Either way. We're here. Actually. Yeah. Does that make the bear in the holder of it? Uh, technically. Yeah. Baron. I have a favor to ask. No. Baron. We're about to send her back. After that, it's a null point. I understand. The answer is no. Thank you, Chris. You're welcome. Uh,

[03:57:32] so you go to the last thing and then we're going to call it for tonight. Cause it got damn, it's almost one o'clock or it is one o'clock Jesus. And we've been running for five hours. Yeah. you stairs. Um, uh, it's, it is unlocked. Um, uh, in fact, there was actually even like a lock on it, but it has been unlocked, uh, purposely and, and shown there purposely. And, uh, you go down into a, basically the cellar of this, this building. And. In a corner, uh, with a light, uh,

[03:58:03] shining over top of it. It. Is. like there's a bunch of analog technology, like of radio technology, TV technology, like just analog tech down here stored. And. In the corner is a spotlighted desk with what looks like a makeshift radio, uh, station, uh, or like radio, like broadcasting set up. Um, and a seat that is, uh, been pulled out from the, uh, the desk. Uh,

[03:58:32] and there is a simple little, uh, uh, letter or like a folded piece of paper, um, on it, uh, like on the, uh, on the equipment, um, that simply says sleep. Well, RC, uh, it smells vaguely of brimstone. And that's where I'm going to call the game. So adding, we, we started with the mystery and we're going to send this off with a mystery. Sounds good.

[03:59:03] We'll probably do one more like epilogue session to deal with the, uh, to have, see where you guys all go and how your, um, your mate, your magical moonshine business takes off. And I got to start a band. Yeah. And start a band. So yeah, we'll, we'll do an epilogue session just to see where like everybody like ends up and such and stuff. But I think that's going to, we're going to call a more head mysteries there. Okay. So, uh, comments, questions, suggestions. I totally wanted to tell you to stop two hours ago so we could drag this out.

[03:59:33] I did too. I'm surprised we did keep going after we took that in the tree. I thought we were going to stop. I was, I was, it was a good place to stop. Oh fuck. Yeah. I was helping. It's like, no, we're getting this done. No more dilly dally. Yeah. When the tree got taken down, I figured that was going to be like Caleb. So, or Caleb suspended over the, over the pit and we're racing to go get him. And that was going to be. And.