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Letting Go · Rotgrind - Narrative Declaration

• The Tannerlings? What is this, Full House? They are taking it all back to the Tan House. Baldrick is contemplating assassinating Tan Housers. Can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs. Can't make a campfire without taking your skin off. You must give so this place may thrive again. You must give so this place may thrive again. You must give so this place may thrive again. You must give so this place may thrive again. You must give so this place may thrive again. You must give so this place may thrive again. You must give so this place may thrive again. You must give so this place may thrive again. You must give so this place may thrive again. You must give so this place may thrive again. You must give so this place may thrive again. You must give so this place may thrive again. You must give so this place may thrive again. You must give so this place may thrive again. You must give so this place may thrive again. You must give so this place may thrive again. You must give so this place may thrive again. You must give so this place may thrive again. You must give so this place may thrive again. You must give so this place may thrive again. You must give so this place may thrive again. You must give so this place may thrive again. You must give so this place may thrive again. You must give so this place may thrive again. the wavelength. No, no, no. Nobody's there. Nobody's between you, Veena, and me. However, Rahua makes a beeline for Orin, thundering through the snow, and then just shoves Veena out of the way anyway because she's right next to him. I don't know how close you are to the edge of the cliff, Orin, so you might have to resolve that one, too. Yeah, I fall off the cliff. How many points of damage do I take? Let's say that. I'm not off it. Oh, perfect. Kirsten, I think I have to make an attack roll against Veena to shove her. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Please set me on fire before I hit the ground. Oh, it's an athletics check? I'll give you an athletics check. Hold on. Awesome. Waiting. Waiting? Any second now. Okay, I believe. I believe Veena can fly. Okay. Oh, my god. Access unauthorized. Oh, yeah, you're gonna have to re-log in. Thanks, Froundry. Fuck! Thanks, Foundry. Cool! I got into the game fine, but when I attempted to act... Nah, it's a login. It's just not allowed. It's fine. I'm signing back in right now. Your credentials are not accurate, Hulky. Oh, my god. I'm getting fired by the feds. You gotta get the fuck out of here, dude. Hulky Crow. I should have deleted the entire repository for this game before I got fired. Fuck. Sorry. Chad, do you play your things online? Tell us in the comments below. And in the live chat. I do. I do. But you're gonna hear an unpopular thing, which is... I use roll 20. As long as it works for you. I'm sorry to hear that. Yeah. Why would you apologize? Wow. It works spectacularly. Eh. All right. Now I can roll acrobatics. Athletics. That's... Yeah. That's the... Athletics check. So that's a 40. Okay, man! Okay. What's your fortitude DC, Veena? Uh, my fortitude? Uh, my... DC. DC. So that's 10 plus your fortitude. 10 plus my fortitude. Um... Uh, that'll be a 29. Okay. Um, so that will be a critical success on the shove. Okay. Okay. Um, so... So on a critical success, uh, you push the target 10 feet away, um, and you can follow up, but you don't have to because you push Veena over the cliff. All right. All right. Make sure to set me on fire for good measure. Uh, I'll go ahead and make my, my willpower check, uh, to see, to see if, if I, if I can act this turn. Veena, there are two important things, there are two important things you need to do right now. First of which, survive. Second of which, become Mormon. That way you can become Joshua Graham. Uh, Joshua Graham. You can't expect a cliff and get set on fire? He got set on fire and thrown off the Hoover Dam. That's like a cliff. Oh, I didn't know he was in, he was in the battle for Minas Tirith. I thought I saw that. At least there was water at the bottom to put him out. Poor guy. No, there isn't. That's the problem. Oh, no. That's a rough one. That's a rough one, buddy. Well, that explains how I did it. Honest Hearts is the worst. Let me, one sec, I have to find out how many meters you fall. Um, let's continue on as I grab the reins. Um, It's okay. I can, I can save both of you. I can save everybody. To grab the reins back onto the adventure, uh, Oren sees Ruhua rush up to him and then all of a sudden the paralyzation is like, I'm good. I'm good. Thanks, Mr. Ruhua. Ruhua just drops to his knees, is grinding through the snow to you, his arms laden like a forklift to scoop you up. Oh, that's, oh, thanks, Mr. Ruhua. The fear you instilled in me got me better. Oh. I guess I'm a, a faith healer now, I suppose. Looks at your character. Are you sure you're not paralyzed? See, see, see, see, see, see, see, see, see, see, see, see, see, see, see, see, see, see, see, see, see, see, see, see, see, see, see, see, see, see, see, see, see, see, see, see, see, see, see, see, see, see, see, see, see, see, honking sound uh you all hear the the horrific uh sound of the baron whitworth that was the specific one that ran you down um i'm glad it has a name oh it has a name i have notes really cool vehicle crashed into a mountain wonder what it does oh no all right be awesome if this mountain had like a giant time dilation bubble and then we get back to the village and it's just a five lane highway starfinder 2e at that point that's the segway that's the segway we're just for the surprise all right that's how they get us in there is anyone grievously injured i'll be all right i i feel like i've slingshotted around a little bit health-wise but i'm on my feet so uh i can make it up the mountain probably excellent excellent you let us not forget our duty is not done with the dragon yeah we gotta get to the the summit to that cave she mentioned correct come on guys let's hurry up is everyone good to walk do we need support do you need a cane need uppies every good or in purchase on your shoulder oh yeah forward that way and he points out who was walking like a hunchback at this point gets just a whole ass boy on him yeah but he's got hollow bones he's a little guy yeah i'm light okay he's three apples tall and weighs just as much he's three apples tall how does orin keep getting smaller he's just a little incredible shrinking boy he uh he has benjamin button disease he just gets smaller and his head gets larger that's what happened to benjamin button we'll keep walking we'll walk with a limp with orin on his shoulder benjamin button curse to turn into a funko pop the air here is becoming incredibly thin um you can see the sort of baseline of a path the snow um having some some some treads in it you see the the hobgoblin treads from those who are sort of like waiting on the mountain many of them have now run uh in fact over the course of your trip you see at least three hobgoblins um sliding down to to lower uh sections of the mountaintop in order to escape uh having seen the demise of the the liege that their lineage has been bound to you know something has occurred to me here what's that yeah hobgoblins tended to the dragon not lizard folk that's a fair point so where are the lizard folk well and what have they got to do with this we did find some on the way there's no way that could be all of them give me a nature check yeah recall knowledge with a nature check nature check recall that orin got a 40. oh uh for who i got a 40 as well high five ah yeah high five myself as you as you speak the words with hobgoblins and the lizards you realize the the lizards were primarily like in in the middle of the game and they're not in the middle of the game they're not in the middle of the game they're not in the middle of the game they're not in the middle of the game in the the foothills of the mountain closer to some of the water the water um the body's water like the lakes and the streams that you were passing by um hobgoblins here would make sense mostly because um lizards would probably fucking die up here oh yeah it is very cold up in the mountains but i think you're the one who didn't make the check and like you're the one who's just like of course that makes perfect sense that makes perfect sense i take both of your nature rolls and i put them into my giant brain they're mine just sitting here with his college education about anatomy and physiology of things just waiting for the two nature boys to figure out why the cold-blooded creatures don't like gold mountains and i also noticed there aren't any palm trees yes there are indeed there are no palm trees up here tan house house it would make a terrible vacation spot yeah how the hell are we supposed to get to margaritaville from here well like they say it's five o'clock somewhere and maybe at the top of the mountains please don't sue us oh he's dead it's fine no you carry a thing to say yeah you carry it you carry it up this way everybody or and uh hops off for who and begins to bird hop on top of the snow leaving little bird footprints as he uh helps lead everybody oh awesome can i get everyone to give me a fortitude save please you got it sure is this against the cold uh yeah it's cold in altitude but i'll say cold factor i will say this if it gets the who here is the most fucked up uh i'm at 46 hp anyone lower than 46 no nope i have taken no damage all right while shit's going really bad um oh this only lasts for a minute so i don't know if it would matter i was gonna cast fire shield but it only lasts for a minute um i thought you were gonna say fireball for a second i'm like all right that's one solution i guess fireball like cause the snow caps to melt all right let me give you my fortitude then it's a 14 on the die we're at 36 from time how is that and uh balder got a i got a 42 for who is that 27 vena got 28 and oren got a 29 we're counting okay so the target number here was a 31 so that will mean rahua vena and oren will fail um you are all fatigued as you carry on up the mountain the the sort of like high altitude the cold the trudging is really taking a toll on you as you're walking up this path through snow in an altitude that you you're really like not acclimatized to i miss the sea it's much colder than the swamps or the the humidity of the city it's much colder than the swamps or the humidity of the city it's much colder than the swamps or the humidity of the city i can't say i'm really cold but for some reason all of my sinews are seizing up probably from the cold thurston yes due to oran's um sort of memory of this place and like he would assume that like to help traverse up this mountain that his people probably put like checkpoints or like hey we put some markers that can help lead you through this and maybe here's like your pit stop of a cave if you need something real quick and like there's an avalanche or like a snowstorm or something uh can roll a survival to see if i can potentially identify spots where we can kind of leapfrog to cover to cover yeah absolutely give me a survival check all righty i'm going to have a point gap so i rolled a four come on baby oh well it's an eight no no there's it's higher uh with the plus 10 pity bonus uh it is a 39. okay um so that's enough for you to to find some areas um or and i'll say that that that is going to protect you um vina and who are still going to get exhausted from this this is just not built for them but a survival check on your part is enough to kind of give you the shelter again this is made for sort of your people and some of the guardians who would come up here uh it's not great for tree people or um you know self so you would assume that a self would be better at this yes but apparently not over here guys and or will kind of bird hop over in and i would assume it would be like a small kind of like like a small little chunk basically like a small cave or like maybe a couple yeah like it's barely enough to hold all of you just to take a little break it's not the cave you're looking for but it's definitely like a little side area to take a breather in uh is orange uh leads everyone over uh he will basically be like here guys you can your reason's too bad you guys can fit in here real quick the covers help warm me up a little bit try to keep the cold off of you i'm holding up pretty fine i'm gonna go wherever and point it out thanks bud yeah thank you all for reading hmm oh my god can i have some of those here to give me another piece of wood we can set a fire on some bark of mine should we be peeling should we be setting fire to pieces of you that we peel off i'm not gonna question it oh i'm sure it's fine here grab that stick right there yes that one right there right there yeah let me let me get a piece of king here we go this will work work well i don't want to set that on fire now i already tore it off it can't go back on okay i don't believe myself don't you love me don't you love to live i do yeah i do and live okay can you do damage to rahua please yeah can i do that how do i make an attack on myself for flensing perfect for flip yeah do i do i have to make a particular check to like tear off part of my part is this just a strike i want to see you fail to do that and miss yourself miss i don't happen to be misses i don't like any of that i do think i should take damage though if i'm sacrificing part of myself to keep us warm i mean Sure, roll 2d6. Okay, 2d6. The first time in his life that Thurston does not want to damage you. Well, this just seems like cheap. You know? I understand. As he rips a chunk of himself off, Baldrick will come over. Ah, I got a flint and steel, hang on. And I can throw these on, too. Baldrick will dump five torches out of his inventory onto the part that Rahua just tore off of himself. And is going to start lighting it on fire. Did you tear that off of Rahua, too? No, I just had these. Oh. But okay. For how long? It's almost like you have several campfires just right there. Almost like a defeat of the purpose. You kind of were already tearing that part of yourself off before I could stop you. Well, like they say, you... If you can't make it... You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs. You can't make a campfire without taking your skin off. Thank you, Baldrick. I don't know if any of that works. You must realize that if you check the icebox for eggs, you don't have to pull them out of yourself. Does that make any sense? Does that analogy work, Rahua? Hold on. One second. Humor me here. Okay. I'm going to say this is going to be a two. It's a two. Okay. Oh. Sorry, the thought of eggs had me a little crazy. But yes, that makes sense. What? Ugh. Ever since I ate those bad eggs, I've just really not been enthused by the concept of them. You need to have a doubt. A doctor's egg. When we get back to Outset, you can have one, provided the place hasn't burnt to the ground yet. Yeah, but I coughed one of those up, remember? Yeah, you coughed it up because you didn't actually eat it. Oh, yeah. I don't eat food. Can we move on? You start seeing, like, snow shaking outside as the whole mountain seems to vibrate. Ugh. Yep. Don't have to tell me twice. Unless you want to get spilled over the side of the mountain. I do not want to get spilled over the side of the mountain. I do not want to get spilled over the side of the mountain. Yes, Oren. Do you still have that spell that makes the cabin? Yes, but it will take a minute to prepare. Well, I think we're going to need that minute, Mr. Tannhauser. I'll try to save you some time. And Oren rushes off. Very well. As he kind of, like, assume, like, the snow has been picking up at this point and it's becoming, like, is it, like, more of a snowstorm or is it just, like, still empty but just we're hearing something might be causing an avalanche? It's empty but the mountain itself is shaking so snow is falling from further up. Gotcha. As Oren kind of, like, he'll run off a bit further away from it and he'll turn around as he sees the snow coming down and he'll look down and he'll grab Gorgomungr's claw. Uh, one that he kind of... held on to after the first time they slayed him. And as he's kind of looked down and he begins to kind of talk to himself as if he's still trying to speak to Gorgomungr who's... he still has the link to him and everything. He's still with him but he's not been summoned. Irvid, he's like, like, Gorgomungr? Look, I... Look, they're really going to need help here. They're going to freeze up here and... I'm just asking for a little bit of help, Gorgomungr, and... I'm just asking for a little bit of help, Gorgomungr, and... And I'm sorry. And I'm sorry. The mountain shakes a bit more violently The mountain shakes a bit more violently in response to that. Give me a perception check. Sure thing. Three on the die for 24. Um, maybe about... 200 feet up at an angle. You're starting to see the snow has fallen off of a section of the mountain that reveals a large open face. Like a cave face that goes inside that probably was obscured by the snow. And just to make sure my reading of the situation is right, like, if the snow falls down on us, it's pretty bad, right? Um, yeah, but it seems like where you are now, it's actually parting. Like, the mountain shook, but this area seems relatively safe because of your survival check. You've got a good place where you're not really in danger of, like, being trapped or anything. It more looks like whatever this vibration is has just shaken loose some of the snow up top and sort of revealed this larger cavernous area. Well, looking up at it, Oren looks at his friend as he's still holding uh, holding the claw. And he goes like... And he goes like, Thank you, Gorgomonger. And he'll walk over to his friend and go like, I see the entrance up there. It's not that far off, just a little bit more. And it'll be a lot warmer in there than out here. I just assume at that exact moment as you walk in, Tannhauser's finished summoning the cabin. Actually, uh, can I spend a hero point real quick? Oh, fuck, okay. When Oren comes back, everybody else frozen icicles. I'd like to narratively declare I would like to narratively declare the rest of the party is dead. No, hold on, you might be hooking right there. Are we talking like the Shining kind of levels here, like you just come in and it's like Jack Torrens right at the end when he's like fucking trapped there, you know. Well, I was originally planning on, since I noticed Tannhauser hadn't been speaking a lot during the Rahua sets himself on fire arc, that I was thinking about having when it came time to, if anyone ever addressed me, about being frozen in a giant block of ice, and it just seems like a more comedically apt bit for us all to be frozen, like the caveman. The way you were framing that to me was you saying well, I wasn't talking a whole lot during the bit where Rahua was setting himself on fire, so I figured everyone else gets to be frozen and I get to talk with Aurath. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Can that be erased? Is that possible? Spend the hero point. Do you have his hero point back? I don't want to be frozen. Spend the hero point. It's mildly blustery in the cave. Oh, fuck you! I'm getting my hero point back! I'm giving it back! Remember to give yourself a hero point, everyone, for the start of the session. I will give myself a Libra Boimb. I got one. If what you say is true, Auron, we must move quickly. We don't have much time. Do you have any idea how cold metal gets in the mountains? Or as Tannhauser is yelling at him, he'll kind of grab onto the claw again and Thurston, I would like to propose to you, take control of Gorgomungr for me if you don't mind. You free-filled inevitably do whatever you want with him at this point. Auron internally is asking for Gorgomungr's help. Basically, because I have the spell Dragonform, but I haven't narratively used it again, because he usually imbues himself with Gorgomungr to take that form, and he's like, I need to help my friends. I need to help clear the way and get up to this cavern, you know, and and I'm just for anything that we've had, you know, and Auron's like eternally apologizing for his mistakes, and things like that, and for what he's done, and he recognizes his anger at him. He's like, at least for them, not for me. Please, allow me to help them. Alright. The mountain shakes again in response. This time, the sound is slightly more audible as you all hear this, like, almost shaking um it's just this shaking breaking um kind of distortion that has this, like, rhythmic backdrop to it, and you hear and all of your companions can actually hear this now, too, just from where you are. Um What was that? Oh, no. No, I'm sorry to interrupt you. Just, my upstart neighbor just to fuck this up, upstart neighbors like to drag their furniture across their hardwood floor, make a noise. Oh, that's perfect. Yeah, that's exactly what you're hearing. Okay, cool. Awesome. Thanks, neighbors. Fuck you. Alright. Keep going. Yeah, yeah, except this has, like, an undertone in all of the rest of you here. It's, like, this I'm fine with the web. You're free to take this as whatever time you want. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, it seems as though the mountain has sort of taken on that gorgomonger way as it's shaking off. all of the snow it actually made a a fine path leading up to this cabin um should we just go ahead and push through yeah come on everybody get any better or it'll start helping anybody who feels way too cold to move on and we're going to use his wings to kind of cover uh veena and as much of her as he can uh they kind of like make his make his wings kind of like very comforting jackets for them as much as he can with his wingspan and uh buddy you don't have to worry about me it's like like but i always do miss veena and for you mr rahua and mr tannhauser mr baldrick like you help help me get this far and i'm here to help you guys get all the way let's go and ornamental help push everyone along the path yeah you make your way i'm traveling further up this time the path much easier to send to until you find yourselves at the entrance vast cave i gotta zoom out that cave is so vast it's really yellow in there yeah there is kind of like a warm glow inside quickly follow the glow yep all right uh baldrick stepping in and he's got equipment at the ready in case he has to go attack something again should baldrick give me a perception check okay i will give you a perception there you go that'll be a 24. yeah as you enter here one thing you notice is they're tiny not tiny they're like fist-sized globules of black rotten ichor on the ground they look to have been shaken off from something that was exiting from deeper inside the cave to outside watch your step it definitely looks like the exact same um substance you saw on the dragon you recently thought baldrick's gonna point out the uh the globules that are on the ground seems like this is definitely the spot where it came from looks kind of like the gunk that was all over it when it well it's closer don't step in it i'm guessing that's the problem i can't get it out of the way That's the thing when you're just trekking rot anywhere. You've got to tell me twice. How miserable. Let me see if I have a spell that could perhaps clear a path. Or wait, Mr. Tannhauser. Here, let's do this. Ornambul enchants his staff with mossy weapon, and he'll kind of stab the bit of the rot with the staff. Yeah, it sizzles as you do, kind of receding, and you can kind of use it, you know, in sort of the pattern that, like, a blind man might walk with a stick, sort of pacing it in front of you as it kind of causes the bubbles and whatnot to recede behind you. Here, everybody. Orn, well, make sure to enchant mossy weapon on everyone's stuff, except for Tannhauser, because you have no weapon. You're not allowed. That's true. I'm not allowed. That's true. I need my skeleton hand. Thurston, is the rot, like, coming back in after Orin bats away at it? No, this really just looks like it was shaken off by something exiting here. Hey, Orin? Yes, Mr. Ruhua? I've already got moss on my pick here. Would you be so kind as to enchant my hand? Can I enchant unarmed? Is that how that works? Is that how that works? Do fists count as weapons? Well, yeah, sure. I'll say in this case. Why not? Because you're made of wood. And it would be whatever weapon that you're using as a fist thing. If we cut off his hands, they would count as a weapon. You'd need, like, hand wraps, and then we'd enchant the wraps, yeah. That's true. But if Thurston says it's okay, you enchant your hands. Why did that take persistent damage? Why did you take persistent damage? Are you still persistent damage from last time? Apparently? I didn't touch anything, though. It just did that. It is the rod. Neither did I. One sec. Let me just poop. Hey, I've still got persistent damage on me. Get this off me. There you go. It's off. Excellent. Thank you. That was funny. Sorry about that. I don't know why the fuck that happened. Regardless, Orin will help mossy weapon Ruhua's hands. Be like, here you go, Mr. Ruhua. Oh. I can do shit. I can do shit. I can do so much with these now. Thank you, Orin. What is Ruhua doing with this newfound power? Nothing yet, but I fear that we'll soon find out. Oh, no. Okay. Orin, you lead the way deeper in, and you feel that there's, there's, like, a warmth. Not a heat, but, like, just a warmth within. Not something like a furnace or anything, but just, you're out of the, out of the frigid air. Um. There's, there's definitely something deeper in that's causing the cold not to be anywhere near as stinging. Um. And then you, you make a turn, and you see some of where this, this golden light from deeper within has been coming from. Because what you see before you is a small mountain of coins and gold. Gold? Oh. Um. Gold? You see what must be close to several thousand, uh, chunks of gold with a majority silver, um, base. And then items strewn about, um, various items that you can see. Uh, some vials, some, uh, some equipment, uh, books. All, all manner of objects. All manner of objects. All manner of objects. Oren would like to perception check it. As he points to it, he's like, look, everyone. Right where the dragon's been keeping. And as he, uh, wants to look. I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna. He'd also be like, hm. Just make sure nothing's fishy about this. Mhm. Sure. 13. Ritual of 34. It looks like a dragon's treasure hoard. Yippee! I screwed McDuck and son. Yeah, you hop into this pile of coins. As the family guy Skit does, you break all of your bird bones. No! They're all at odd angles now. Happy, happy day! Oh, buddy! Everybody makes that mistake at least once. All right. There's a lot of stuff in here. There's only one responsible thing to do. Everyone, take anything that isn't nailed down. You got it. I love stealing from the dead. It's awesome. And it's free. Baldrick, who has no intention of getting involved in treasure hunting, is going to turn and watch the entrance very carefully. He's going to keep his eyes on a swivel, thirsting preemptively. Yeah, and to give a sense, this is like a large sort of cavernous chamber within with stalactites and stalagmites around. This sort of big pile in an open area, enough to probably accommodate the dragon you previously fought. And then a snaking path that seems to go further into it. Well, what we can probably do, because I don't think we can carry all this, everyone, but I'm sure we can bring the airship back. Well, that's true enough. You think we could lower down a pulley or something? I've got a better idea. And then Tenhouser says that, and then he stands there silently for fifty nine seconds. Oh, OK, I was going to say, do you want to make a do you want to make a willpower test to see if you can tell them your idea, Speaker? Are you going to put all the gold in the cabin and then make the cabin go away so that all the gold's in the cabin next time? That would be really funny. I got I'll I'll do you one better. Tenhouser stands there for fifty nine seconds like this, and then he snaps his fingers and I'm going to cast Planar Palace. OK, and and there is going to be a steel door just that descends from nowhere inside of the cave. It's the vault unlocks. And then I'm walking out of the vault is going to be a fleet of up to twenty five revolutionaries, let's say servants of the revolution that will begin hauling and transporting all of the gold and valuables into the manner and sorting the. OK. Damn. Orrin's all wide eyed and star eyes like. You are a wizard. Everybody gets one. I'm sorry, speaker. There's something you have to do. Yeah. Okay. What kind of song are the revolutionaries? Like, what kind of oompa loompa bullshit are they doing as this is going on? Because it needs a musical bit. And I'll be remiss if we don't have something. Sure, yeah. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Yeah, there's something in the international. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Do-do-do-do-do. Are they all just, like, mini Tannhausers? No. They're Tannlings. That term is cursed, and it's not allowed at my table ever again. They are taking it all back to the Tannhaus. Sir. Sir. Sir. Now we just need Tannhauser on a royalty chair that's slowly rotating like it's a hand on a clock. You could say this is a story all about how. Oh, no. Oren's like, why didn't you ever use this whenever we moved into Baldrick's house? What? well that wasn't I was our house young man that's the people's slum that was our house the people's house hey don't call it a slum okay the people's tenement thank you if you're going to abscond with my own damn house at least be nice to it I'm counting that as a personal victory because you took umbrage with me calling it the people's tenement before so that's a win he's now acknowledged as our house that's right hulky I got slightly less annoyed because you went from the shit heap to the scum house I think scum house is a great name that's back top I like that once we are done in here we can take refuge within my tan house they like to sing it we taught them how to sing it they're like humming this in the background as you're giving your speech and like tossing gold and satchels and like sorting up all the coins collecting all of the objects I assume that one of them is like got a got a monocle and is clearly identifying every you know item that's coming through because at this point I have no fucking interest in making you sit there and identify every magic item understandable yeah there's there's the one sorting through them there's the few that are carrying them in there's one that's sorting through gems one that's sorting through books there's another that's the political commissar here to make sure that no one lapses in their ideological education um as necessary in the vanguardist planar palace I'm really surprised that panhauser's palace takes the form of an actual palace and not like a vast unreasonable commune it is no that's what it is it's a giant industrial commune it's made out of metal so it's a brutalist cube yeah it's a giant brutalist like uh you know it's like how um it's like basically the kremlin you know how it goes all right the kremlin is actually beautiful never mind what am I thinking of oh what's the uh well anyway it looks like uh how all that harkonnen shit looks like in the old uh live action um like uh strategy games all those sets and interiors oh I was hoping it was a fucking goo world like it is in the modern dune hey welcome to goo world hey dude you know what you know what I'll just let goo world pass because it's not the the tandlings or whatever the fuck curse term was earlier earlier thank you thank you I always win by uh by process of illumination yeah it's good it's a good strategy it's a good strategy it works out it works out um all right so the entire um dragon's horde is collected and catalogued into your personal space dimension 10. yeah what oh the tandlings I don't know if we can get this saying it again I just can we get the tandlings they all look like this and they all look at you like this like this what are you linking this is just what away all the whimsy of this spell yeah it's it's like yeah hell march is playing why give me a second why have you done this why there you go because because tan has his revolutions but they're all like they're all like small versions of this oh my god the worst part is worst part the worst part is I don't even know need to go to the the fucking wiki to remember the siblings in that game were like Gunsing and Kopec I think yes it's Gunsing and Kopec you got it yeah yeah yeah that and I hate myself more for knowing that thank you very much and Gunsing kills the Baron by just pouring a vial over his shitty fucking like his fish bait or whatever it's a good thing I don't know what you're using for noodle oh and it kind of does look like an oompa-loompa which makes my prior comment way fucking worse and I like the idea you go in and like all the interiors of a like bolted in steel everywhere and like there's there's like one scary book guy like the guy in the back with the gas mask that's like watching everyone he's the one I did and he's the one that's like identifying the magic items I thought wizards were supposed to be whimsical it is whimsical these guys they love it what just looks at you and gives you that that's the whole eye commie stare I like that context this is great this is the world you you're all helping me man I really I want to be that person who like is going through twitch and like it's like I'll check out what we're doing you know what live ttrp she said they just get that still that fucking background the dune fucking like baron harkin it over our luscious and gorgeous avatars they're just just that they're just scrolling through they see the vagina cave then all the sudden the dune movies this is the white king of the dark now I've ruined it for you all yeah you've made this this adventure you're canceled get out of here I think you killed thurston okay I'm good I'm good I'm good um like I assumed the door fucking cuts to like I don't know the toto end theme from the glitch masterpiece of dune and it and it lists everyone that tanhauser knows in alphabetical order in alphabetical order there's a whole closing montage for tanhauser's planner palace yes and it's not like they're not all like by their name sometimes they're like the guy who closed the door tea yeah it's a lot of teas um yeah all right all right that was uh that was the the bit of speaker d cast a spell we collect I'm not allowed to do that anymore I hope we collect that helped everyone it helped me that that helped me understand some things dude outset's gonna be so much better when we get to set those giant oil slicks on fire uh-huh baldrick is uh contemplating assassinating tan hauser so his revelation fails uh-huh yeah but if you assassinate tanhauser you'll never be able to access the tanhauser palace you'll get rid of your loot I think I think tanhauser's brutalist harkonnen barracks can uh subside into the dustbin of history along with tanhauser after I'm done with him now listen all right we're just gonna make like outset look like that we're just gonna make we're just listen you just need to calm down we're just gonna make outset worse it's okay we're making it better we're making it better scary guy comes in decides he doesn't like how a city looks decides he's gonna change it it's better now okay is purely architectural no problem that's what he meant the whole time just talking about architecture he he just thinks that communism is a style of art he wants to replace the architecture with harkitecture baldrick finally seeing tanhauser's inner thoughts made manifest as a giant gray slab populated by miserable looking servants he's thinking I should think about this a bit more go away baby your committee you're part of this conspiracy I don't you're in the politburo now I don't think that's gonna I don't think that's as glowing a recommendation as you think it is there were lots of people in the politburo who did not like how it operated why that can't be I listen I watched death of stalin they all were really funny anyway we get the gold one spell cast later yeah I know ten houses are screaming about why they stopped the trains like uh the 1500 guy guys I don't know how that happened huh crazy hard's like wow that was really cool mr tanhauser thank you oren don't worry we'll make sure we can get a uniform like that for you with little slits for your wings oh really we can probably afford it now oh my god I didn't even think about that what are you thinking about me did you uh-oh where's mine we've got to kill you everyone will get that evil share I really should plan on killing him at some point huh it's in that pan house sir oren kind of looks further on at the in other side of the cave and he sees the yeah I think we need to save the world guys let's go and then now that we're done polluting which is not the way arm will begin clearing the way like batting away rot and trying to clear a path further down the cave you can see that further in past this chamber there is none of the rot uh leftovers this seems a far older less trodden path we don't want to begin to get floods of memories when he was much younger I'm like oh I remembered it and as you kind of you know travel around oh well you do have a bunch of memories but as you're traveling through it or um one thing you notice very very clearly is there are steps coming from behind you now and as you you hear them and sort of slowly move to look you see that coming in behind your companions is gorgamunker taking like very very like with with a lot of trepidation taking steps into this uh into this space you may not be able to see it but you may remember this place gorgamunger like I think you were barred up ahead at least I remember it was one of these chambers I remember orin I'm sorry remember this place the only thing I'm thinking now is orin's going way-way-way-way-way-way-way-way-way and gorgomunger's going way-way-way-way-way and gorgomunger's going way-way-way-way-way-way but that's not it That's what he's sounding like. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, you all hear, like, Gorgomonger has that same kind of deep voice that you really hadn't heard since the departure from the Blazing City. When he kind of turned around to stop the things pursuing you. Yeah. Ornambul. Walked by Gorgomonger and be like, You want to visit it together? Yes. Let us go further in. And, like, kind of comes up beside you, and you carry further into this area. There's, like, a light glow on some of the walls here. As you see this sort of greenish light emanating from rocks, suffusing everything with this sort of ambient color. You've all seen these types of rocks before. If you remember in the first session of, well, second session, you fell into that temple underneath Outset, and there were these types of glowing green crystalline formations. These are the same types. These are the same types of rocks in the elephant's foot. So these crystals, they were from the very beginning of our adventure. Yeah, the from that from that initial temple that you entered a long, long time ago. I'm going to take a closer look at them. Can I examine them potentially to understand more about their history? I'm going to take a closer look at them. Can I examine them potentially to understand more about their history? I'm going to take a closer look at them. Can I examine them potentially to understand more about their history? Yeah, give me a nature check. Ooh. You can't even argue it because you said you wanted to investigate their nature. I want to understand their nature, but you can understand something's nature through perhaps, Arcannar cultism. What those were? Not in this check, buddy. Alright, fuck me, then. Let's go! Plus three. That's a natural one. Well, fuck! you know this this fits okay i choose uncle spark some echo of uncle blaze's power lingering within the world spontaneously flares up a small ball of fire suddenly appears and explodes causing a loud noise something to catch on fire or something gets some minor damage this was uh submitted by caker thank you that's perfect thank you caker uh yeah so you're you're investigating like it's almost as though your your brain is is trying to process this like you're staring at it so intently trying to solve the nature problem with arcana and occultism so much that it causes some of the circuits in your your head to overheat briefly um and then there is like a crackle pop as like a little spark flares out but that spark is is augmented by the sort of lingering touch of old powers that remains in this space and actually ignite it's enough to i don't know i don't know it sets vena on fire uh vena give me a willpower check to see if you can make this turn come on man yeah that makes sense all right all right all right you know let me roll this let me roll this uh uh um willpower yeah i got this it's only fair watch this we'll say right oh why does it why do i succeed this one that's 37 yeah you you i am not have absolutely um no issues here um like in fact like anyone who like gets temporarily caught on fire and can't like handle their shit what kind of person would that be uh you're no that's crazy yeah yeah you're you're you're at high level character a little fire stop nobody you pat it out immediately oh jesus tanny you still have no idea what these in fact no no you know what these rocks are they're archiminium or it's a very precious or that you could make tens of thousands of gold off of if you harvest it these are archiminium or he's untied oren yeah how long has this place been so full and lush of archiminium uh for for as long as all of us could remember really many many years and you're not gaslighting me as a bit no all right hold on i gotta go i gotta one second then i'm just gonna slink back to the tanhouser okay all right laborers and comrades you guys got pickaxes okay the tantaloupas emerge again to like begin harvesting no don't call them that i'm not calling them tanlings i will die on that ill um and they just start coming out and like using little pickaxes that the planner was working them into palace presents all in the line with heck axes hi ho hi ho off the loot we go like gorgomonger pauses it's just just sighs like let's out of her what is the matter gorgomonger i have been away from you so long uh have you truly been reduced to this what do you mean they are simply crystals of illumination nothing more aaron yeah are you sure sure that's our comedian i don't know you're the one who figured it out okay you i asked you and you said with confidence you said oh it's been here for generations no well the context of that situation was you figured it out then you asked me if this has been here that that rock stuff been here for a long time and i confirmed your answer implied it implied that you had called it mr tannhauser could you stop being wrong in front of me or one of these days one of these days i'm not going to be kidding around anymore one of these days i'm going to use the gun one of these days listen here you know what you know what can i roll a nature check to see his sorry as you make that nature check i'm gonna can i just gonna write down today's date orim has wronged me yet again exclamation point exclamation point exclamation point he's gonna call off the tannerlings if uh gorgomonger's prognostication no no no no the tannerlings what is this full house i'm gonna get you you can't be pleased that's 11 for total of 34. yeah they're glow rocks they they make a glow that's all they do yeah we just use these for our lanterns and you know help illuminate a lot of our dwellings that's all it's used for scream all right back every comrades back to the tent house oh man that one's that one's deviating from the ideology the political officer closes the door staring at you as he does so with a with a deep nod please master please don't destroy me he's not gonna hurt him there's a single gunshot as soon as the door closes i didn't think you'd put down a revolutionary like that tanny i didn't i i didn't put a i'm sure they were just shooting guns recreationally i'll do a head count when i get back and if there's only 23 i'm gonna have i'm gonna take care of that political he was there to teach you guys didn't read we've got this part of the adventure and none of you have read my book we need someone to make sure they're reading orin raises a hand yes orin when you meant consume the knowledge of this book would be eating some of the pages count so so Does anyone want to read the book today's date orin has wrong me yet again i'm gonna grab tan hauser by the shoulders i'm gonna turn him around and i'm going to walk him further by down the cave so orin can finish his moment with gorgubuck you're gonna read the theory sh sh sh sh it's okay tan is sh sh sh he's yelling up the distance he's like go my hand mr gorgomar Mr. Gorgomonger he just he just had greed in his eyes you'll need to keep them in line make sure they don't stray you need strong friends I mean that's why I have you Mr. Gorgomonger lets out this kind of like just sort of dismissive little snarl and then keeps walking deeper in Oren follows all right eventually you come to a new chamber this one is far larger than what you've seen and what's impressive about it perhaps most impressive it's the immense stone face upon the wall as a looming stone face with with two lower mouths like noses mouth come out of the wall at dis disordered angles and then there's just a large engraved stone face on the wall you recognize this as the rookery area Oren where the eggs used to be kept instead now there is only some small batch as well as the immense face staring down see Gorgomonger this is where this is where you hatched but it seems others haven't hatched yet here in a good while this is born looking around uh I assume Oren will look as he looks around he just sees like old remnants basically of shells and other yeah there's some there's some tattered remnants um there are some tattered remnants that are kind of scattered about uh here destroyed egg shells um and essentially uh then the the sort of the the mouths themselves and then some like thatch and hay there's a couple like objects discarded here like you know some some sticks and walking like walking implements that were left here at some point in the in the distant past Oren will walk further in into the chamber itself and uh he'll kneel down at a spot that's kind of closer to the center of it and he'll kind of like brush his hand over onto the floor itself and he'll notice very old but very dry blood spots and he'll go here Margaret here yeah you were right here I remember and and Tina was there and Carl was there and I remember as well But you're right it's true And it's so long ago Gorgomonger and with that um you see the mouth begin to slowly most glacially the large face on the wall the lower mouth begins to descend and open um You have come here, why? Well, the jolt, Orin turns to the stone face and like, I don't think I've ever seen him talk before. I didn't even know he could talk. I have rested long. Orin looks at Gorgomonger, then back to him. He also looks back at his friends for kind of confirmation. I'm just like, are we good? As Orin then was like, we're looking to try to stop the rock corruption as much as we can here. And I'm told that there's something here that we need to help with the old gods. They've currently been imprisoned and we need to find ways to help. We need to free them. You seek a key? Yeah. The key leads to below. But if you take it, there is a... And the two other mouths kind of chirp open. Sacrifice. But what kind of sacrifice? You must give so this place may thrive again. Orin looks back at Tannhauser. Can you get one of those little guys back here? Yeah. Come on now. Listen to what it has to say. But I don't want to lose any of you. Orin, the writing has been on the wall here. Surely you understand what it is that this thing wants. Orin, like, looks around and then he looks at Gorgomonger and goes, but we worked so hard to save him. And we did save him. And now, I think even Gorgomonger would agree that he's ready to let go. He's been ready. But the question is, if you are. Orin looks at Gorgomonger and goes, but we went so far and we found you and you were rotten. And I traveled so long to try to find you. So it's like, all right. Are you not happy here, Gorgomonger? Orin, I am not supposed to exist like this. But it brought you back and... Yes. And I'm bound to you to endure your suffering and live your existence. Orin kind of looks down. Not wanting the quiet part to be said out loud. But I didn't want to lose you, Gorgomonger. Orin, everything has a time that comes. And goes, you have extended mine. And I do appreciate that. But can I be kept like this forever? I do not think so. Orin looks down and frowns. But he kind of looks at his friends. As if looking for validation. Fina's just going to give him a smile and a nod. She's the wreck. You can tell him thank you. And you'll see him again. Thank you. Orin will look back at Gorgomonger and... And he'll basically, he'll walk up to him and, you know, give him, give him a hug. As he begins to hold back, hold back his tears as he's basically going. Well, he tries and he's at a loss for words. As he's pretty much just letting the emotions go. And as he begins to just repeat, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. And he continues to just say that to kind of let the tears go. Orin, do not be sorry for me. It will be fine. My essence will depart. But I will always be with you, my friend. When you found me as a young dragon. And then, after the horrors inflicted upon me, you brought me back so we could have some time together. But I cannot exist like this. You know that, as do I. You should not experience my pain. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. Instead, we should look towards tomorrow. You, though aren't destined any longer, I know you and your companions will go on to do great things. But as I said, you have to keep them focused. You have to keep your companions together. No. They rely on you. Just like I relied on you, gorgomonger. Oren will then stand over to his side. His wooden hand on the back of Gorgomonger's neck, and he'll kind of look at him and go like, okay... He'll look up at the stone facing him, and he'll be like, I'm ready to fight you. face and go where's the path and like in response to the big stone face the sort of section jaw immediately drops down and it just has this wide gaping mouth that's open with like a path that leads inside with a flaming little light in the distance Orin will look back at his friends as he kind of like extends a hand out and like goes like could you guys come with me of course alright I'll take his little hand Baldrick will go with but he's not gonna hold Orin's hand he's only got so many yeah he extends a foot can you hold this we just carry him like a starfish and with that Orin will begin to with him and his friends he'll begin to walk into the chamber yeah absolutely so as this sort of mouth you know closes you find yourself momentarily in darkness as all of you have sort of entered in I assume that Rahua and Tannhaus are joining in unless they want to stay in the chamber of course we're gonna help now fuck you dude he didn't read my book I'm gonna go back to my Tannhaus I'm out of here for this sad shit and get out of here ain't nobody out here killing the bourgeoisie yeah um you make your way in and as you do what you find is this dark chamber and you start stepping further and further into it and the walls take on this appearance kind of like starlight these little um flecks of light though upon inspection they're just very very tiny crystals that give this sort of appearance here just little little little flecks of light all along and Gorgomonger's silhouette sort of leads the way Orin you behind Veena holding your hand I do not know where this will take me friends but I do know that I have appreciated our time together I do know that there is much that you will accomplish in the days ahead and I am glad to have met you in my time as agonized as I was I am glad to have met you in my time as agonized as I was thank you for your camaraderie aged one aged one aged one rest now rest now I am not quite as old but I suppose one may one may assume that I have known Orin since I was young since I was young but regardless soon soon you shall have to look after Orin as well as I have asked him to look after all of you can you do that for me can you do that for me but of course we're in this together we're in this together we can count on us we can count on us and to the end we will sail and to the end we will sail Horin Horin yeah tell me a story tell me a story I guess as they are walking through the cavern and then Elyta going through uh One's forming in my head, sorry As he's going through, he'll say Have I told you about the tiny straw man? Or straw boy? No, tell me of that one Well, once upon a time There was a toy maker for the village And he'd make toys of straw He made representations of everyone in town Old and all But then one day, he made me one That represented a life that was not there yet It was a boy that he created To be one for himself And he made me one for him And he made me one for him But the creator was old And so was his wife One day, that creator fell With his wife no longer in sight So the boy had to run And gather all the people around Begging and pleading for someone to come around And the only way that people could believe that It was truly from the old man And not an evil spirit come to steal all that they had He brought them all the toys the man has made And gave them all joy And remembered all that he gave But then all the people prowled around Found the old man and the wife near their town And so They were able to save the old man Finding that he was ill All thanks to the little straw boy That he created with his will Hm Do you know what happened to that boy? Why? I like to think he made a lot of friends, Gorgomonger. And he was able to go on adventures and live happy lives. Good. That is something you will now need to do. Make more friends, Orin. Have adventures. Remember me. Remember the good times. Sorry, I got... And the bad. Oh, fuck. What are you doing? Oh, no. Remember me. Sorry. Oh, my god. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm sorry. I'm fucked up. Hello, I'm Orin. I remember Gorgomonger, so... I'm sorry. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm sorry. I'm fucked up. Hello, I'm Orin. I remember Gorgomonger. I remember Gorgomonger, so... I'm so sorry. It's what happened. All right. I know. I know. It's just... It overtook me. I apologize. You're good. You're good. But Orin will nod. And say, like, I'll do my best, Gorgomonger. Well, from the adventures I've had so far, he'll kind of look back at his friends. He'll be like... Yeah. I think I did a pretty good job. I think you've done a great job, and will do many more. Great job. And his voice seems, like, very, very distant. ... ... ... Oren will will squeeze uh kind of like the leaves and branch part of Gorgomunga on his back uh just a little bit harder as he also squeezes Veena's hand and reflex of him just tensing up like preparing for what's going to happen and like through this like star lit cavern again the stars the tiny pinpricks of crystal on the wall that each of you are seeing there is a light ahead and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and and you carry on and and as you get closer and closer to the light you realize it's an aperture and when you emerge from the aperture you find yourself back in the room with the faces on the walls the mouths closed and you're like I'm not going to do this and you're going to keep going and in here the jaw set of this being grinding shut as the last of you emerge Gorgamunga nowhere to be seen but instead a clutch several dozen eggs scattered about the but instead a clutch several dozen eggs scattered about the room box box box and and Auron just kind of let his hands fall as he looks down and just just frowning and as the jaw fully sets in the crumbling crush of stone on stone there's just this last gasp of perhaps air coming from the tunnel you just emerged from a brief way way Auron looks up and the impassive stone face no longer animate looks down but Auron you do feel something something tight in your chest um you feel a purpose now like something has truly unlocked in you from this experience your friend maybe go on but somehow you know inside yourself you've gained something yeah a key of sorts Auron looks down and he he tries to feel on his chest does he still have the old claw that Gorgomonger had but he had one around his neck yes the claw is still there he'll kind of grab it and hold on to it and then he'll look to his friends and go wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow I think we got it Tannhauser will put a metal hand on Auron's shoulder I am so proud of you Auron I know this very well may have been one of the most difficult things you've ever had to do but you have handled this with such marvelous grace you as he looks up at Tannhauser you'll see his eyes begin to well up and tears begin to stream down again ago didn't want to give him up mr. Tannhauser I didn't want to let go I didn't want to give him up mr. Tannhauser I didn't want to let go I didn't want to let go I didn't want to let go I didn't want to let go the cold metal communist will embrace Auron in a hug to try and reassure him Auron will hug Tannhauser back as he begins to cry Auron will hug Tannhauser back as he begins to cry and look on the bright side and look on the bright side and look on the bright side and look on the bright side Tannhauser will reach down and grab one Tannhauser will reach down and grab one Tannhauser will reach down and grab one of the eggs we can eat these we can eat these we can eat these thank you thank you thank you I knew it I knew you I knew it I knew you I knew it I knew you I was trying to find any way possible I was trying to find any way possible I was trying to find any way possible any way possible any way possible any way possible your jurors market zero your jurors market zero your jurors market zero your jurors market zero Or we'll just gingerly just take the egg away and put it in his poncho, like, like, It's okay. I'll get my ten of these. I can't do it. I can't do it. He can't. He can't. He can't. The moment. I'll fucking kill you. I'll fucking kill you. Orin will break the embrace and go over to the clutch of eggs. How big are these eggs for context? I don't know, like, probably just over a foot tall. They got size. I would like to do a nature check on them. They're like facehugger adjacent, you know? Yeah. I'll only do a nature check on them to see. To see what eggs they are and to see if there's actually anything in them. Please, please roll me a one. Please. Almost. Seven for a total of 30. Okay. There, there's certainly some kind of, some kind of dragon. You're not sure exactly which variety. It's hard to tell. Certainly they aren't. If you got a one, the grizzly bears that you would have thought they were eggs. Yeah. But yeah, they're definitely dragon eggs. Orin will sit in the middle of the eggs, obviously securing the one that Tannhauser wanted to eat. And he'll range them in a circle around him. He'll sort of crouch down or kind of sit or sit down in the middle of them all. And he'll. He'll. He'll. He'll. He'll begin to cast cloak of light. Pretty much is emanating from him. Like a warm naturey, just pretty much like radiant, like just warmness begins to come from him. As B as he begins to just kind of like, like even holding one of them and rocking or so. And he'll just begin to hum at them all. Just doing his song. Okay. Looking, looking at you all. It's like, and he's like, I think. Remember when my mom. Tongue to me. And then I sung the Gorgomongers. So hopefully it'll help them out. And he begins to sing his old misty eye song. So misty. It's a whole. It's a whole new day. When will you come out and play tomorrow? And just petting him on the eggs as he begins to sing it softer and softer more to himself. As he just kind of takes care of the eggs a little bit. Just give them a little bit of a chance. There's like the briefest little shake of the egg. To show that there is life inside and it's doing well, but certainly not ready to hatch anytime soon. Why don't we take a rest here for the night? Yeah. I'll wait here, Miss Bina. Yeah. Yeah. I'll wait right here with you. We still got the camping supplies, right? Not too spoiled by the cabin? Yeah, we should definitely wait here. You're going to head back to your fucking communist paradise, aren't you? You're just going to step away because I know that fucking door lasts for the whole day. So you're just... You're just going to walk back to that, aren't you? You're just going to let your friends stay in this little chamber. And you're going to like back out slowly. That's what a oligarch would do. All right? This is a revolutionary. Tannhauser is a man of the peepo. The peepo? But he is really sad. Because he's been looking forward to show everyone the inside of his cool communist Tannhauser. And he was like, oh, they're going to love it. They're going to love it so much. Oh, God. Then we cut. Get over it. I'm going to show you my house. We cut to the inside. They've got like party streamers and like a big like Captain Picard day. Ready for everybody to come in. I was hoping it would be that really low quality picture. That really low quality painting of Captain Picard that shows up. That is exactly what's happening right now. It's it's your words to God's eyes. Resident evil, evil streamers just welcome my friends. Arne will look at Tannhauser and be like, you have a warm place for him. You suppose it's warm enough in here? This is where Gorgomonger hatched. Or do you think that we'll need to take him with us? We are kind of flying right into danger. Arne looks at you as if communicating the answer. OK, then what about the cabin? I mean, it's got a little hearth and. You know, I figure it's pretty warm in there. Well. Mr. Tannhauser has all those helpers and stuff. So if something does happen, at least they'll have someone to take care of them. That's right. We're just going to think about the like cold brutalism and the like. Yeah, just inside, just fucking hell marches. We want to die! Die! Ah! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! So, um, let's try the cabin first. OK. I was thinking practical, but we want to put him in the cozy cabin. I suppose we can't. Well, Pigturn's there in the cozy cabin. I ain't doing shit. The spirit of Pigturn can babysit the eggs. Oh, my God. The spirit of Pigturn raises the dragon babies. Oh, my. now gather round little cats it's fucked up I think they'd turn out beautiful Pink Turd is going to reincarnate as one of them yeah let's have the ghost of the dude who we mistreated bullied and fucking murdered we didn't bully him whoa no stop the tape stop the fucking tape rewind two and a half fucking god damn seasons or whatever fucking like I want a montage someone out there go through rewatch all of season two and montage the clip of speaker going we didn't bully him with literally every time you bullied that poor little bastard can we cut that clip to it's a hard knock life from please please are you listening I have your next assignment it's gonna be a long one you're gonna have to rewatch rewatch rewatch rewatch all of season two easy but I believe you all of it it's all gonna be worth it mmhmm excellent Oren will agree and ask Tannhauser could you bring the cabin the fuck you want the cabin fuck but it's so it's really nice in the house Tannhauser you know we can put the eggs in the Tannhaus if there is is there a singular blanket in the Tannhaus of course there is there is only one blanket it's shared it's a really comfy blanket the people's blanket is it is one bed you have to share it with your inspector is there just a wide tannling that just sleeps over everybody else I think so oh what like a very wide one he's built very wrong it's all they can afford because of you know redistribution of wealth and all that I'm gonna get that one with a big head why don't you start casting the cabin Tanni god damn you all god damn you all god damn you all well you know what I don't have it prepared I don't have it prepared oh I thought you were like a wizard I'm gonna beat you I thought you could sit down for 10 minutes and prepare spells who told you that that sounds like something a wizard can do you explained to us when you remembered you were a wizard haha people didn't read my literature fuck you but I hate it you didn't you hate it I consume the knowledge like you don't I mean do I didn't tell you to read the book you little chicken wing Danny be nice to him Danny be nice to him right now I'll kill you go sit and meditate go sit and meditate right now Thurston you leave this boy alone what is the hardness of a speaker's mind palace I want to see if I can take it out with a coring charge oh my god 40 feet wide 40 I think I can get this to you by scrolling up hold on 40 feet wide 40 feet deep 30 feet tall it'll also be in your spellbook you can just click the thing in it I don't think it has a hardness actually no no it's it's it's a spacious dwelling with a single entrance would you allow coring charges to be strong enough to collapse a small demiplane please wait before we blow it up what about the loot no it's gone illicit gains speaker didn't speaker didn't report on his capital gains tax so now that belongs to the government fuck I'm more interested that it's like eight squares eight squares wide by eight like eight eight by eight squares um with 24 servants okay okay so there's a little bit of maneuvering room in here okay that's pretty good eight by eight is 64 yeah no it's really good it's really good that's okay yeah the the the tanlings have to sleep standing up I guess okay it's a magnificent foyer and numerous opulent chambers they sleep sarcophagus style speaker it's the part of the room it's the part of the room it's the part of the room it's the part of the room it's the part of the room it's the part of the matrix where everyone's in the pond that's how they grow I want you to understand this as written it says it must fit within a space 40 feet wide and 40 feet deep and 30 feet tall so it could be a magnificent foyer with all kinds of little rooms but the little rooms are going to be like two by two yep I think I think this is a flavor failure from Paizo and I very much look forward no it's just the it's just the people sarcophagi to the okay the palace should be maybe able to fit two large creatures it can fit two large creatures it's 40 by 40 that's 64 total squares nah this just looks like one of those how would you know he's not been inside it i know how big it is because it says it in the rules i point at my screen you haven't been there you don't know anyway i cast cozy cabin and i have the tan tan touser minionlings uh go ahead and just make a nine course banquet for everybody orin raises a hand watch this ain't orin you could you could cast the cozy cabin with the back door that goes to the door you could you could cast the cozy cabin with the back door your utopia thing, and that means we can visit it while we're in the cabin. Couldn't we just cast the cabin inside of the mansion? Why don't we just go into the mansion? It's bad. It's not bad! You're bad! Fuck you! I prefer the quaint cabin with pick, turn, over, whatever the fuck harkening bullshit you got going on. There's a giant state! You know what? Everyone follow me! Alright, I'll show you how cozy... Everyone, come into my... We're going into my tent house! All right, great, welcome. Okay, great. Tent house opens up the metal vault door. Alright, okay, welcome to the tent house. Industrial spot. All the gold spills out over top of it. It looks like a fucking storm drain in here. One sec, one sec, one sec. Harkening music one hour in into... Yeah, okay, perfect, thank you. Yeah, excellent, carry on. Can I find the Harkonnen Dune music real quick? Oh, please, go ahead. I'll find that and put it on for us. Here, hold up. Very good, very good, very good. Hold on, I need an image to have on my screen to get me into it. Geedy, Prime, Prime, Harkonnen, base, music. Let me see. Okay, that's a movie, that's a movie. Where's the video game? Oh, come on, well. This is for the Attorney General. Oh, that's an ad. Attorney General! Attorney General! That's for the Attorney General. Here, here, here, I'll help you. I'll help you. Here's from Emperor Battle for Dune. Okay? Here it is, here it is. Okay, awesome, thank you. Thank you. I'll take this link and I shall put it in here and hope to God it works. It does. There you go. I'm having a stroke. There you go. Cheers, me too. Here's, here's your fucking- How was Oren's emotional final arc? Great, we learned a lot about the Harkonnen Palace. Yeah, I call it Whiplash, no one else calls it Whiplash. We're fucking suck at this show. Oh, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Our tonal whiplash is, I think, a part of our charm. That's why it works, right? This is a solid, solid copper statue. There's one of your guys up there with a guitar going... We made out of solid, solid copper statue of pig-turned-squelchfoot right here in the foyer at this giant industrial, like, fucking palace. Just like, bolted on metal and, like, like, there's nice, stylish artwork but it's, it's also, it's rather utilitarian, uh, military. Like, they're expecting it to begin to get bombed at any second. Let's go to the cabin. We, we take a look at the statue and it looks like, uh, the one that I'm putting in general right now. Oh. Ah. Yes! Yes! A really, a really scary, a really scary bronze statue of Piktor! Hold on, chat. It's really, really fucked up. What the fuck is that? Why do you have this? Why? Wait, wait, wait, wait. Oh, I got it. I got it. I got it. As it turns out, statues made of bronze for modern athletes tend to be really bad. Yeah. Oh my god. Hold on. Oh my god. Oh my god. What? And look! Look, Auryn! I've even got this statue. Veena, you'll appreciate this, Veena. Veena, you'll appreciate this. This statue of the toy cat. Captain! And it looks like this. No! Not the Nathan Bedford Forrest statue from hell. I'm getting it, chat. Don't worry. It takes me a minute. Not only are you depicting Captain Sharktooth as Nathan Bedford Forrest, it's one of the worst statues of him. Oh wait, I have Nemo for that one. Bad forrest. You have a Nemo? Bad forrest. I worked on these. I am conjured them from my imagination. The total uplash has me crying for multiple reasons this session. To grab the reins, Auryn will look around Tannhauser's lovely utopia that he refers to. And he will go... He turns around and leaves the door into the cabin. Without saying a single word. Veena's gonna help carry the eggs into the cabin. She's gonna start setting up a little nest of pillows and blankets and such. Oi. Okay. ... All Baldrick has to say is... Oi. And he's going to enter the cozy cabin. Hi there, Mr. Baldrick. How's it going? Been a long time. As the spectral image of Picturn Squelchfoot appears as you walk into the cozy cabin. ... Baldrick stands at the door like an eerie haunt, like a fucking handless sleeve pointing out of the entryway of the cabin towards the grotesque bronze edifice that is made in Picturn's image. And he just points at it while looking at Picturn. And he's going to continue heading in. Oh! Picturn takes up the spot you were standing in, staring through into the other planar realm. Seeing, I'm assuming Tannhauser's still in the palace, probably still by the statue. Waving his arms furiously. You know, that is a piece of art that exists. I'm very glad that there's all sorts of art out there. For everybody. Everybody's so creative. To enjoy in their own ways. Wow. You really shouldn't have. This... This is, uh... This is how we know that Tannhauser didn't go to college, because as you know, any communist that came from college got an art degree. Fuck! That's true! Wow. Damn. Damn. All right, I'm done beating up the speaker now. I look forlornly at my art degree. You wouldn't understand. Okay, well, we're going to close this door because the machinery in there is awful loud. You have a great day. What the hell is that? Why aren't you talking to me? What? It turns around just in time to see the closed door. If only Picton were here. . All right, so gather round these eggs. We'll have ourselves a good old-fashioned omelet. That's a joke. No. I'm guessing these are important, aren't they? Oh, this one, he's a little shaky. This one? This one's the hardest rock could be anything in there. These are so beautiful. Could you help look after them, Mr. Picton? As Oren's like sitting in the pile of pillows with them all. You want me to look after them? Me? If that's okay. i'm just a spirit that's part of a magical spell that's in an interdimensional uh pocket dimension that you know is not really pick turn squelch but i am just more of the spirit of him embodied in this cabin but i can i can do my best i'd appreciate mr pick turn all right you're this one hard as a rock you're called rocky all right we're gonna need some chalk we're gonna need to rat these down so now we gotta come up with names for every single baby go go go i'll make i'll let the audience do it tell me in the comments below when the youtube version comes out just just say what the things or should be called right in the comments below what socialist themed name you want to give to each of the dragons come on you i'm attacking you oh i can't wait till you grow up lennon you're gonna do great things gives you that one and tweakers there that one sentence you just said thirst and you immediately caused my energy to bottom out instantaneously i feel like i just ran a marathon beautiful wait a second i'm here for picture and you're supposed to be dead but i just i was just explaining i i kind of am uh but i'm more of a manifestation of the spirit of picture and squelch foot who is definitely long and deceased but that that essence that you you use to to conjure forth this little little pocket dimension little bit of me lives here so i guess you could say you got a little bit of pick turn in your cabin pick turn don't worry i'll deal with this where who would distract yourself and baldrick will toss him the wayfinder that's been in his inventory since day one that does nothing but will distract him but we're the one d4 okay on the four he's distracted damn it's a two what am i supposed to do with this interesting i you know that's an atom that's used by the pathfinder society but they don't exist in the world of time very strange that we got one of them their wayfinder sir but that's fine that's fine it's just like in my inventory since the start i have genuinely i was never prompted to talk about it it was just for who it just shoves it into an empty space in his armor god knows where i've how long i've been holding on to that this isn't your home plane is it that's why he wants to that's why he wants to blow up so we can go home you're not from around here are you he wants to be isekai so i can fix that i don't want you fixing anything about me hold my finger i'm gonna pull you into a bad situation we're already there great news you must be a wizard too i throw chalk at him i'm just looking through my inventory now i've got too much crap in here he's just throwing things what he doesn't need during uh during their fun altercations uh orange he's just babying the eggs at this point but he's he he's gone at this point his head is down he just for his entire adventure was to save his friend uh and he had to let him go he's fucking depressed he's not having a good time so he's just trying to put whatever energy he can into just like taking care of these eggs like holding one and just kind of you know rocking one egg for a bit and then kind of rotating for another one you know using his wings he's gonna keep some of them as warm even though they're all smothered in pillows and blankets he's just doing his best and and as he kind of looks over at whoever will be nearest to him uh he goes like after we rest i think i need we need to keep these here but i think i should leave these with my mom i think that'd be a great idea she raised you oran i think she did a pretty good job thank you miss rahul pick up the piece of chalk that oran threw at him and walk over to oran just plop down next to him hmm wait did i say you threw it at me yeah oh damn damn my stupid brain yes well oran also threw a chalk piece of chalk i think that'd be a great idea i think that'd be a great idea piece of chalk i think that was more to eat either way for who will sit down next to oran with the chalk in hand and take a little munch off of it and offer it to him as if to suggest that maybe he should have a little bit more calcium in his diet too he takes a little bite out of it all right of course buddy letting go is one of the hardest things you know for all the briefness of my little existence looking back on how far we've come has been full of no shortage of loss now has it remember who it looks at his party members it's never easy one day something's here and then it's gone or somebody's gone and then it's gone and then it's gone and then it's gone and then it's gone or somebody or somewhere but if there's any small solace for as much of a fool as the world and fate may make of us sometimes all that one can do is simply smile along because for as many things go away as many buildings crumble to dust from that same pile from that same puddle of mud and Rahua will extend his hand crackling with a little bit of anarchic energy and he's going to cast soothing spring as some dirt parts way and a little bubbling spring of just warm enough water begins to flow forth from the earth sometimes good things can come back around and even lives in some strange cosmic way will once again find their way together maybe not in the same form as they were but they will meet again and that fate is one of those few things that even anarchy dare not touch this spring should be just warm enough to keep those little eggs warm at least out here on the mountain they shouldn't boil and I dare not say they're going to be poached but it'll be a little bit easier than sleeping over them or around them I'm not sure if it's just me or the others but it's not I'm not sure if it's just me or the others but it's not I'm not sure if it's just me or the others I'm not sure if it's just me or the others I think they'll be okay and he'll put the eggs in and have them kind of like float and bob and as you do so the spirit of Pictern's squelch foot kind of not holds one egg but sort of points one egg oh and this one this one here I don't think it's going to hatch for a while this one it's named Gorgon Gorgon Gorgon like his mouth is open like he's so smiling like he's so clever Arn will pat that egg and go like I think that's a great name Mr. Pictern and he'll pat it and go like good luck Gorgon it's two of the coolest people I know that Arn will that Arn will will stand up feeling safe or feeling confident that the uh they are safe and he will look to everybody else and he'll be like I think I think you need to go to sleep I think you need to go to sleep yeah and you will go upstairs of the cabin i assume this is a two-story or something no it is not you all share a communal room in here but you can go to bed in here yeah he'll he'll find a secluded corner and basically make like a blanket and pillow pile and just sob in there it's just little sounds of crying as he eventually cries himself to sleep do we have dirt and worms in the fridge some for dinner um all of you rustic and tannhauser who sleeps in the people's like factory um you dream you dream of a faraway place a city a vast vast city ringed with a great wall that looms over everything nearby everything nearby in this case being a fetid swamp and as you as you see the city in your mind's eye the center of it explodes as a geezer of water bursts out and begins to fill the entirety of the city in water drowning the people trapped in the walls that are meant to protect them and now instead fill essentially drown everyone and as you see this you you have a brief semblance of a kick and falling deep deep into darkness and then you wake up back in the cabin the next morning with everyone else oh you you is oh something's not quite right and as you you were looking around the cabin kind of getting getting a sense of things one thing is is is immediate on the tip of your finger is a single moth that flutters slightly. You're This is no dream. You're back. You're back. Friends! Friends, wake up! We must move! Wake up! Let's go! Let's go! We have not We have not time to waste. We must get those eggs back to Auron's mother. We must return. What happened? You, uh, you dream something? What is it now? No, not a dream. I thought that, no, but no. Something, someone far more is coming. And I'm so, so very excited. You've all shared me with your families. It's time. It's time for you to meet mine. The king has come back. My father, my creator, my sister. Holy shit. Um, you got a being a, like, tap to the side of her head, like, you got a vision? Yes. Apportant. Although not, not a good one. I feel, I feel he's trying to to reach out to me, that some immaterial bond. Surely we are still connected from when he rent me forth from the firmament, from the primordial chaos. Okay. From the crucible. Do you know where he is? I do. Where is he? They're not going to like it. Try me. The city. Outset, it's not, it's not growing taller to extend. Span where I couldn't have known. It's, I think it's a vast cauldron. One which every single soul within is being cast into. Uh. Then. Let's go meet your dad. Damn it. No lollygagging then. Come on, come on. Ah, Baldrick is going to get up and shake him off, shake himself more. Awake and he's going to get his stuff together. Come on. Pick turn. Yep. Could you watch over the eggs until we can bring them back? Yeah, they'll be here waiting for you. No worries, friend. And as you say that, Oren, you realize as you've woken up and spoken to your friends and now spoke to Pickturn, your wooden hand has been holding on to something. He looks down at it. And in your hand, you see. A stone, soapstone sculpture of a small dragon held in your hands. Awwww. Widow. He holds it to his chest. Very close. He looks at Tannhauser. And he kind of like, with two hands, kind of opens it and presents it to him and goes. Could you please, Mr. Tannhauser? 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