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Wish Hunter #21: Time · DiceSized

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Welcome to Die sized and welcome to Wish Hunter.
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This is D&D audio adventure podcast where we tell bite sized
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dice roll twice told stories. This is me, your DM and friend
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Robert Whitehead. And with me, as always is my
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lovely table of friends and family.
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Here we of course have my brother George.
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Hey, it's G and I, I'm a pirate. No, you're not.
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Parable is, but I am. Also a pirate by vicinity to.
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This is. Parable.
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Proxy pirate. Proxy Pirate another PP.
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See. Pirate Captain PP.
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You can also call me Captain PPG.
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Well, Captain PPG, welcome to the table.
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And before I go further into that bit, Next up, Maya.
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Hey, it's Maya. You can call me Maya.
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I today am wearing a shirt that says Satan is my daddy and I
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think that is because I am fully behind Zinn in her recent
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discoveries. Hell yeah, hell yeah thinking
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about the full lineage now it it is fun to think about AT fling
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because it's it there's always a question with the T fling is is
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it direct or was at one point the the family line corrupted.
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You're just like hoping when the family reunion comes, it's in
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hell. And.
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Like, you know, one thing about Satan is he'd be fucking so
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like. Who?
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Knows. Really.
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Is that one thing about Satan? Yeah.
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One thing I'll say. Yeah, it's built a little
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religion. I'm telling you not to.
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Fuck yeah. Why else be Satan he be.
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Fucking. And who's to say he isn't my
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daddy? Yeah.
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Well, no comment. Transition with that boy and.
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Next up, of course my lovely beautiful wife who I have many
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comments about but we have not the time.
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Savannah Sav here. That derailed my train of
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thought thoroughly. However, I will say Cassie is
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setting some of her daddy issues aside for the greater daddy
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issues at play. Satan.
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Yes. Precisely diamonds.
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Diamonds, Matt. Diamonds are my daddy.
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Something about daddy issues. On to a recap.
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Last time and Callum's Crossing accelerated to spell jamming
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speed and our heroes saw light, space and time stretching around
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the floating domain as a tore through the void of the
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Underverse. Wishbeard congratulated the
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party on their first encounter with Eldari demons, praising
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Cassie's natural talent for spell jamming.
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When asked how the demons had gotten in, Wishbeard suggested
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it was likely due to the weakening of the Greater Domain,
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the protective boundary surrounding the scattered
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fragments of the land apart and held together by the God that
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was once the wizard Wish. He admitted, however, that the
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Bottle Breakers passage and arrival may have played a part
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as well. In the entrance and arrival of
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those demons. Zinn discerned that while both
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had contributed, the Greater Domain was truly fading, and it
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would not protect them for much longer.
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Wish we spoke of the old gods, then those who came before.
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Wish, time and luck, the gods of fortune, fate, and favor.
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Drawing upon his deep knowledge of fable and story, Parable
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recognized a familiar pattern, the world broken many times
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before, now facing its ninth term in possible breaking.
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Generations of heroes had struggled for this very moment,
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one even the Wizards 3 had failed to seize.
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Now the fate of everything rested with them.
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Overwhelmed by the weight of it all, Zinn withdrew and reached
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out to her true patron. Shadows like liquid smoke
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spilled to the floor, forming A smoldering portal pulled in by
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smoky chains of her own creation.
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Into another realm and suspended by an endless chain above a
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burning city of brass. There, Zinn met Zariel, a fallen
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Angel, arch devil, and her blood ancestor, Akuma's true master.
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Zariel revealed that she'd been the one to spark the Blood War,
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linking 9 Hells and the Abyss with a bridge through the
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Underverse. From Zariel, Zen learned that
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the bridge of Beckoning cannot be unmade.
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Zariel obviously wishes to be freed.
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Her chains cannot be broken. Akuma was allowed to leave with
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her. What must Zen do?
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Change. Do we fight the gods?
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Yes, kill the new gods with the old.
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Meanwhile, Cassie thanked Parable for protecting her
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mother's song. Parable spoke of the song that
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had been stolen from him long ago, a lullaby Count Chance had
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taken for his own. He sang and remembered the
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stories his mother had once told.
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We walked down through. The Misty myth.
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Tales of clever heroes hiding precious treasures in clever
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places, for example, a secret compartment within a ship's
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mast. His Good Book flipped open,
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revealing a map of the two wells marked with an X.
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Though Parable hesitated when the Good Book gave him a paper
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cut, Parable knew that he must go, and turning to Wish Beard,
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asked him to lend him his ship. And in that moment, Parable took
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command as Captain PP. As Parable headed out, Cassie
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then spoke with her father, and though their grief was deep,
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they both found understanding. They had both missed her mother
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dearly, and both had lived their lives.
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Responding to that loss, Claude revealed his life's work, A
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device powered by the Grand Armillary, designed to transport
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one to the stars. He'd hoped to use it to reach
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Soraya one day. He'd only ever used it once, to
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knock on Cassie's door. With this telescopic teleporter,
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the heroes could travel to the Violet sliver of star that was
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the wizard Wish now God without alerting the mad God to their
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coming. With Zinn returned from Hell,
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Cassie found her and the two exchanged what they had learned.
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Zinn told of Zario and Cassie realized that her advice, kill
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the new gods with the old resonated with parables and
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newly begun quest. She could feel it within the
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song of the Universe itself. Realizing Parable had left Brick
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behind, Cassie used the worrying of the stone to amplify her
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telepathic Star Song and reached out to him.
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Sharing their plan together, she and Zen would travel to Star
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Watch and gain access to this device that would let them
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strike at the mad God once known as the Wizard Wish before he
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ever saw them coming. With Igor to serve in Parable
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stead, Raya to serve in Cassie's place, and Dabble to act as
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proxy for Zen, these three were made bordens of Callum's
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Crossing, allowing for our heroes to divide and conquer.
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So we rejoin not our heroes, but just our hero parable.
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Where we last left you was wish jamming, as Wishbeard
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manipulated the core of the helm of this vessel to somehow get
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you to the two wells even faster than spell jamming.
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You're instantaneous, and the experience is intense.
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The air stills, every sound folds inward.
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The hum of the atmosphere, the whisper of the stars, even the
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beat of your own heart quiets. And then suddenly space bends
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inwards, Not stretching like spell jamming as you were
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experiencing with the domain, but truly collapsing in upon you
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with a rash of sound and sudden silence.
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The wish jam ends and you reappear, not with the calm of
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peace, but with what feels like a held breath.
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The bottle breaker tears back into existence above the green
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of the two wells. It's a whole creaking as reality
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itself catches up. Then sound returns all in a rush
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and the air is alive with chaos. The sky burns with contrails of
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light and smoke as both stone drones down below that seem and
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appear similar to brick, dive and wheel through the air.
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They're polished stone and brash, glinting with the fire
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battle. They clash with dozens of what
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appeared to be small craft, barely ships at all.
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You wouldn't even call them ships, more slender boards of
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wood with scraps of sail. You see each one ridden by a
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warrior dressed in white to the robes trimmed with Crimson and
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gold, a color scheme that you know well from your time in the
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Land of Favor. The air is alive.
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The clash is brutal and immediate.
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As you see down below you drones, you burst with light
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like shattered constellations and the white clad riders fall
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in streaks of gold when they get hit and swaths of blood that
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just kind of ripple. And with anti gravity, they're
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above the bubble of the domain. Beneath them is what looks like
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a shattering domain beneath them.
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But you see just an insane chaotic battle below you.
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And far, far below that, the once serene forest of two wells
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rise with movement, the green canopy crawling with these
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clockwork beasts that are like these drones flying through the
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air, but more so beast down below that prowl and tear
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through the trees, their metal joints glinting like knives in
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the light of the Burning Sky. And where the domain barrier
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once shimmered, there is now just broken air and shards of
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lingering magic drifting like glass dust in the wind. 2 wells
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has fallen. What do you do?
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I cough up blood, I think. Parable takes a moment,
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realizing this environment below him, and takes a deep breath,
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turns to the crew and says, I don't think we can take this
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whole ship through all that. I don't know what's going on.
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This is my home and it's falling apart.
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I boy through it is around us. You see the battle, you're in
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it. At this point, drones have
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noticed you and are veering towards you.
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The other group, these individuals dressed in white,
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are less interested in the ship, but bursts of energy are
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shooting from each drone at the ship at every opportunity.
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We're getting targeted by the drones, yes.
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Can I first roll insight on who I might want to aid?
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Yeah, give me perception or insights.
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Perception. I think I'm going to go for just
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trying to look at these robes and these drones that look like
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brick and try to see what I'm analyze the battle on whose
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seems to be fighting for good. Awesome.
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It's 23. The individuals in the robe you
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recognize, those are wishbound robes, but different somehow.
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When you first see them, they appear to be like an out of date
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fashion, but then you realize the elegant cut of them.
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They're wishbound uniforms and cut in color, but that you can't
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quite place in your mind how they're different.
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You can give me insights or history.
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The Net 20. Damn.
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OK cool. I'm going to describe the entire
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battlefield and then I will give you what the net 20 does so I.
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Think I did generally look to wish beard, but wish beard get
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your men to draw their weapons, arm the cannons, and who the
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hell are those people that I know those robes and I'm just
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going to run to the edge of the ship and look over the edge.
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Awesome. You run into the edge of the
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ship, you look over and the crews already in motion.
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You see Wish Beard himself. Wish missiles 2 drones out of
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the air that zoom right towards you.
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You're able to walk and just take in the battlefield, and you
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do. Men in the robes.
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One of the rumors that Count Chance was going to do was to
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create a line of Wishbound that we're going to serve as spies.
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He playfully called them map makers because they would draw
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new lines on the map with every footstep.
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They would be the ones describe new areas of their domain.
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He promised he'd never create them, not unless the world
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ended. I guess The world has ended, but
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he's made them. Apparently when he talked to you
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about them, he had this startling, almost disturbing
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grin on his face as you talk about They would be assassins,
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they would be spies, they would be able to insurrect, they would
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be warriors On top of that, they would bear if they were bound to
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be. And here you see them down
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below, fighting with more energy than ever before.
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The drones appear at first to be like Brick, but then you see are
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actually just working with the same mechanism.
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They use the same pieces. They are nowhere near as complex
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as Brick, they are more drones. They Brick has like a a great
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amount of sentience to him, to the point that he is much more
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artificial intelligent than these things which seem to be
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operating in a swarm. Status, perhaps hivemind.
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They all seem to be hostilely focused on taking out anything
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that's in front of them or otherwise diving into the domain
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and invading. The ones down below seem like a
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different model but of the same make from the same creator and
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just a different version 1. And they're they're, I see them
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fighting the white roped individuals.
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Yes, yeah. And you see with your perception
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check and combine that insight the white roped individuals are
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not invading with that Nat 20 you can tell they are defending.
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They're defending 2 wells. They.
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Are defending 2 wells as best they can.
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They are outnumbered and there's hundreds of drones where there
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are dozens of them, which at first seems like oh they're it's
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an even battlefield, but they are just like doing their best
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to slow this wave that is all flying straight down into the
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domain trying to just batter it and with the net 20.
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You see the important thing here.
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The domain still exists at the the very base of the Willow,
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which you notice the great Willow, two else just working
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its branches left and right to ward off the massive wave of
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drones. Below that you just spot the
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glint of a domain. It's smaller, it's been brought
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down to probably just the Warrens, but if you can get down
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there, you'll be safe from all this.
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It's a question of can you get through this, get to your shop,
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recover what you need to recover and get out of here.
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It is a gauntlet you can trust. Wish beards out your back as he
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slaps you on the back. He says, boy, whatever you see,
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follow through with it. I can tell the wind is with you
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and the flames within it's burning bright.
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I think Barreville's still looking over the edge and he
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pulls out the good book to check the map.
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And can I, with that net 20 roll to see if anything stays to a
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good book if I'm thinking to do something a little crazy here?
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You know, I think with your Nat 20 and given the fact that
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that's the only one left, I. Did roll 2 Nat 20s.
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You did roll 2 Nat 20s I think I'm going to give it to you.
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The X on the map stays and that last spell, let me know what it
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is fills the page. It's in line with what I wanted
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to do. He's going to look around for a
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scrap of wood and he's going to look at Wishbeard and he says
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this is something I've been doing a lot of lately.
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Keep the ship safe and I'll be back.
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You'll be back glad he's. Going to fall backwards off the
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ship. All right, well, that's quite a
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Fall boy. Yeah, and he's going to fall and
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I'm going to try to use the board like windsurfing just to
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kind of skate the air a little bit faster, like a skateboard.
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I'm literally putting it under my feet and trying to skate the
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wind a little bit faster than my shoes could carry me going
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straight, straight down. Damn.
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OK, yeah, give me a acrobatics or athletics track to just ride
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the wind. That is a 12 No 11 for
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athletics. 11 is actually going to fail.
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You get bashed by a drone that zipped by for seven damage, and
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as you get bashed again for the other part of that seven damage.
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I think honestly, this is what triggers the last spell in the
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good book. Oh, cool.
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He has his plan. He's going to, you know, try to
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just surf the wind the other way down and do something purple.
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He gets knocked right away. He's spinning.
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He loses the bull and the good book glows and Parable turns to
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the wind, and then he uses win walk.
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Oh sick. OK read off for Win Walk for our
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listeners. I love that one.
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You and up to 10 willing creatures of your choice, which
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I'm keeping in mind as I pass any of these white cloaked
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figures assume gaseous forms for the duration, appearing as
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whisks of cloud. While in this cloud form, a
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target has a family speed of 300 feet, it has immunity to the
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prone condition, and it has resistance to bludgeoning,
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piercing, slashing damage. The only action the target can
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take in this form are dash action or Magic action to begin
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reverting to its normal form. Reverting takes one minute,
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during which the target has the stunned condition.
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Until the spell ends, the target can revert to cloud form, which
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requires magic action followed by one minute transformation.
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The target is in the cloud form and flying when the effect ends.
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The target descends 60 feet per round for one minute until it
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lands, which does safely. If it can't land after one
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minute, it falls the remaining distance.
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Damn. OK cool.
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So you have a safe descent and on top of that you have a really
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fantastic way to get through this battle.
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So I this was going to be a series of tracks and I think
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you're still going to be experience.
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Then give me 4 rolls on the D20. All these are going to be deck
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saves. Shit, that first one is an 8.
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OK, you're going to take a little bit more damage here, but
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it is going to be halved. 3 halved to one, that's another
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11. Oh, all right.
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Oh a little bit more of that is just two damage.
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Damn, rolling like shit here. But all these are drones or
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lasers that are. That is a 10.
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Jesus Christ dude, nice. That's what we're talking about.
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That is 12 damage, but again have to six.
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And last one that is a 21. You dodged really the only thing
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that was going you need to do major damage.
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Do you have all these drones that are attacking but the
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barrier, the collapsing boundary that was of this domain is still
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like magic glass hanging in the air and at the last moment
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you've. Parable went to do the surf, got
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hit and as he tries to cast windwalk but it it's almost slow
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as he tries to catch it. So he's like slowly disappearing
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and turning in the wind, but he's getting hit well.
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It takes a minute, doesn't it, too?
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So like, as you're shifting, you're getting hit by stuff.
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Kind of how I imagined it, yeah. So basically as I'm casting the
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spell and trying to turn to the wind, I'm getting knocked left
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and right through this chaotic battle with lasers, and just as
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I'm about to crash through the shards of glass, I think I
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turned to the wind. Yeah, absolutely.
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As you fall through the shards of the remaining bits of the
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domain, you plummet to the forest below and make your way
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for your shop of curiosities, knowing that something secret
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and precious lay there. And we will cut back to our good
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girls trip. Weeping.
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Cassie Sin As you approach Star Watchtower and Wish Jam, the air
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stills. Every sound folds inward, the
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hum of atmosphere and the whisper of stars, even the beat
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of your own hearts. Stephandra's wings unfurl, vast
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veils of Starlight that shimmer like liquid glass.
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The space around you bends inwards, not stretching as in
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spell jamming, but collapsing, every point of light rushing
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toward a single brilliant moment.
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The dragon scales ripple like a living constellation as her
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power gathers beneath you, and the shimmering heartbeat of the
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cosmos thrums through every nerve, and the scent of ozone
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and the strange pole of weight and weightlessness all at once
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hits you. Then sound returns, like the
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exhale after creation. The stars rearrange themselves
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around you, and astral waters tinged with violets swell and
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crash with your sudden appearance.
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Savandra hovers in the otherworldly silence.
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Below, astral waters drift apart, a dark sea of mountains
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and the proud Spire of Star Watchtower gleaming like silver.
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What do you do? How was that for you all?
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Wild. Yeah, kind of tickled.
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Yeah, it's the. First first time for me
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actually. I've never This is wild.
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What we're doing is. This your first time?
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First time travelling through the under astral, Yeah, or
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whatever we're calling it. You did great.
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You did really good. I guess I got us here you.
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Kept us safe, pretty OK alive. We're right where we need to be.
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Whatever happens next will probably be our fault.
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So good job, good job. Oh well, when you put it that
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way, I guess, I guess I did do a good job.
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You did a really good job. What's coming is the
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consequences of our actions, and we should be quick.
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That's fair little in and out. Stealth mission.
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Stealth mission. It's just.
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Nice to be away from the kids, you know you.
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Deserve a weekend here. And again, girl, we could take
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this, the scenic ground on the way back, yes.
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But for now, do you want to just scoot us up to that big pointy,
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pointy building up there? And I think we'll just, I don't
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know, jump in and yeah, we can break some windows for good.
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We're good in the name of goodness and.
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In the name of. Goodness, you should break and
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enter. OK, Andrea, the illustrious
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breaking and entry. Well, we'll break.
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We'll break and we'll enter. Once we do, you can maybe hang
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back and and look, you're just the getaway car.
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Respectfully, Oh my God, it's just the getaway car to a
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fucking whip dragon. This whole this whole czarial
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thing has. Gone to Zen's head, I think.
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Like, oh, they're, they're a pet.
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You, you see her kind of like like a jerk to the side and and
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has to like really hold on for a moment.
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I'm so sorry, you know, I didn't mean it just fine between girls.
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We're just we're the gal, that's what.
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This is I see. Yeah, girls trip.
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As you descend, give me perception checks, both of you.
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Sure, that makes sense. OK, 7:23.
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Nice. Fantastic.
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More than enough to notice that Cassie, the Star Watchtower,
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looks very different than the one that you remember.
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Then bring your kid to work day. Yes.
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And one time, seven years ago, yeah.
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This star watchtower looks decrepit.
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The telescopes that peek out, you see cracked lenses uncared
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for equipment. You see stonework overgrown with
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Ivy to the point where that shuttered window wouldn't even
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be able to slot open so equipment could pop out.
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This is. Tragic.
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Something happened here. Long ago, it looks like.
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Yeah. How long ago?
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You can give me an intelligence check if you want sure. 19. 19
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is enough to realize it's it's more than 10:15, maybe even 20
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years of lack of use that you're seeing within the equipment.
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And like the wear and tear, the growth of the Ivy, everything
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down below. It's it would be hard to see for
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most people. But with your telescoping eyes
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and you're like zeroing in on all these details that from a
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distance are kind of impossible to see from how high up you are.
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But you notice all the signs this place has fallen out of
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use. You do see moving shapes down
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there that all most people, yeah, there are people moving
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dressed in blue robes. Give me an inside check on top
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of this if you want to unravel this mystery slightly without
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investigating. 1522. 15 gets a hint of it because you notice
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that they all these individuals down below, they wear robes,
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they walk. At first it appears they all
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have the same color of hair, and then you realize that no, it's
24:09
it's like they all have the same amount of rot on their head.
24:13
They're walking corpses down there with the 22 you put
24:18
together. The fact that I think you just
24:21
saw some of these shapes down in hell.
24:23
Time, time. We do.
24:24
We time. Time, job time.
24:28
It's weird. Huh.
24:29
Uh huh. This can't be real.
24:30
Yeah. Not if my dad was just working
24:32
on on projects here. So I don't mean to alarm you,
24:35
but you know, when I went to hell?
24:37
No. Oh, earlier.
24:38
When you found me in the hallway I just got back from.
24:42
So you were doing? I came back from hell.
24:44
Oh dear. Yeah, I saw the reiters that
24:49
look really similar to what's on the ground right now.
24:52
OK, so is this hell? Licks finger holds it up.
24:59
No, this seems to be the top side.
25:02
Seems to be top side. Amiss.
25:03
Something's wrong because your dad.
25:05
I mean that. That was like a day.
25:06
Yeah. This doesn't make sense.
25:07
This doesn't make any sense. So time, time is wrong.
25:10
What do the stars tell you? Can I take out my star map?
25:14
Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is your domain girl.
25:17
You can give me intelligence plus proficiency.
25:20
OK, well. Stephandra offers you the help
25:25
action I think. 18. I think Stephandra's help comes
25:30
in the form of Star song and you realize that the constellations
25:35
that would have been once above Star Watch around the time that
25:39
the Great Wishing kicked off, you have it in your mind just
25:42
like you're you've memorized the night sky.
25:45
The moment that it broke apart and those the suggestions of
25:48
stars started to disappear. Above them were constellations
25:52
that have always been associated with ambition, search for
25:57
knowledge. And one unfortunately was like
26:02
in a cult constellation. It was one that was associated
26:05
with Elder evil worship. OK.
26:09
Those 3 signs and the the star song that they emanated you feel
26:13
coming off from the individuals in the area down below you.
26:17
You can essentially tell that all these monks were corrupted
26:19
by the sky and have been corrupted by the sky so badly to
26:23
the point that they have been turned into monstrosity.
26:25
Are they? Worshipping now the sky.
26:27
Some of them might be worshipping something that took
26:30
advantage of a weakening domain and individuals who are fool
26:34
enough to reach out for answers. But we're picking up that this
26:38
is not the rapid passage of time, it is that we have moved
26:42
through time. Yes, yes, it's like a.
26:44
Self fulfilling prophecy of like don't look.
26:46
Up, don't look up, don't look up.
26:48
World ends, they look up, they're all going to call.
26:50
Yes, cute. Ain't that just how it goes?
26:54
OK, so sneaky, sneak, sneaky, sneak, sneaky.
26:57
We get in, we get out. I've been practicing this thing
27:00
that I realized I could do the other day when I sneezed really
27:02
hard. Dennis going to go invisible and
27:07
then she's also going to cast invisibility on the cast.
27:12
Oh my. God.
27:14
Oh my God. So sick.
27:15
This happened when you sneezed. Yeah.
27:17
It was so weird. Thankfully, I was in the
27:19
bathroom, so I like, I knew it was happening.
27:20
I was right in the mirror. But it's scary.
27:22
Yeah. New things every day.
27:24
This is cool. One day, sneezing invisible.
27:26
Next day, Hell yeah. I mean, you're doing a lot in a
27:28
little. That's awesome.
27:30
And these people, they're doing a little and a lot, a lot.
27:34
But the brains falling out and everything.
27:36
So we're in. It is.
27:37
Yeah, I think so. What?
27:39
What are you casting out these days?
27:41
I want to cast invisibility using a pack slot so I can get
27:43
both of us in Viz. Absolutely, yeah.
27:47
With fifth level pack slot, you're definitely able to use
27:49
invisibility on more than one person.
27:51
You sneeze and both of you disappear.
27:53
A very loud sneeze. Lovely, so you invisible have a
27:58
situation down below. What do you guys do?
28:01
With this, could I also make sefi invisible?
28:05
Fuck yeah. I'm going to go ahead and do
28:10
that. So Zen sneezes and you all just
28:13
go invis, Invisive whiz? Yeah, I mean.
28:17
That happened in the bathroom, but I don't know if I have to
28:20
sneeze every time. But until I figure it out, I
28:23
think I'm just going to stick with what I know.
28:27
I. Just I, I like to think that
28:29
it's just a Kuma for a moment until, until it's just like,
28:31
what? Guys?
28:31
Guys, what I told I didn't. Invisible hand reaches out and
28:36
covers him. Just dissipate a little bit I.
28:40
Just snatched out of the invisible air.
28:42
I love that so much a little bit.
28:45
Of glimmer, Shimmer shimmer, that he's just gone.
28:47
Cool. Do you guys want to head
28:48
straight for the tower? I think so.
28:50
I can I roll maybe a history or an intelligence check to see if
28:54
I could make a really educated guess for where the Grand
28:57
Armillary would be located? Yeah, absolutely.
28:59
I'd imagine it's toward the top of this horsepire, but yes.
29:03
Your dad did give you confirmation that was at a top
29:05
of the main tower. Give me a check here to see if
29:07
you're able to identify it physically.
29:09
We'll say perception. 26. Yeah, you can see from your
29:15
sketches that you took from your dad, you guessed most of it
29:18
right, except for one specific thing.
29:20
He was kind of vague about the directions to get to the tower.
29:24
And you noticed that to get there, there is landings at the
29:29
other two minor towers and bridges over.
29:32
But if you want to go to the main tower that is the tallest
29:34
one with the grand arm, Larry you Stephane, you would have to
29:37
drop you off probably. One of those lower bridges.
29:40
Yeah, either time, yes, either at one of the lower bridges.
29:42
There's not really anywhere with this like sleek tower to like
29:46
find purchase. Dump us in a window.
29:48
She could. She totally could.
29:49
She just wouldn't be able to join you.
29:50
She'd have to like, make flight out and about.
29:53
I think that's fine. Yeah, I think we should hover
29:55
nearby. OK, cool.
29:58
Awesome. That's what she does.
29:59
Instead of joining you on the bridge, she drops you off, flies
30:02
in and give me athletics or acrobatics checks to jump and
30:07
grab on to what is again a very sleek tower and grab the only
30:11
bit of purchase which is this window.
30:12
And slide down the winger tail, of course.
30:16
I cast guidance. Wait, don't.
30:18
It's a can trip. OK, that's fine.
30:20
You can do that because it won't be invisible.
30:23
Well, because it's brilliant. Yes, Attack roll, deal damage,
30:27
or cast a spell and you won't be invisible.
30:28
Anymore. Guidance is technically a spell.
30:30
OK, never mind. No, it's fine.
30:32
We'll just run on it. Plus zero for me.
30:34
What strength I'm? Going to say DC-12. 15 that's a
30:39
solid 3. I imagine sending like tries to
30:44
jump off the tail and just gets like full like rib shot just
30:48
like. We'll see if the rib shot is
30:49
actually meant to be helpful as you do because it's a help
30:52
action as Saphandria. Oh yes.
31:00
More than enough not to plummet to your death as you loop to.
31:04
Do a whole loop around the tail or I.
31:06
Like shoot out a kuma, like a chain and like swing off of her.
31:10
Ears, yes, you want to done that one that's.
31:12
Gorgeous. Absolutely.
31:14
We love using some flavor to get back in there.
31:17
And as you alight upon this window sill with Cassie, both of
31:21
you invisible, just a wisp of smoke and a sparkle of
31:27
Starlight, you were at this window and ready to enter.
31:30
And I think we will cut there as we have the Grand Armillary just
31:35
on the other side. Knuckles basically did it.
31:39
Come on, what could go wrong? And we got back to parable, the
31:45
wind itself falling and descending towards the two
31:49
wells, the great Willow of the two wells.
31:53
As I said. Whoops, fighting against this
31:55
rush of constant drones as you sweep through the forest in your
32:01
wind like state. Give me a stealth check with
32:04
advantage here to not come across any of these other drones
32:08
that are crawling along the ground rather than flying
32:10
through the air. Parable hits the ground less
32:14
viciously than a full fall, but he's still learning.
32:16
The spell hits the ground and then starts to cloud step
32:20
towards the space and well, that's a 24.
32:26
Nice. OK, so we got a couple rolls
32:29
here. Yeah, nothing catches you as you
32:34
zip through the forest and make your way towards the shop.
32:39
As you do so, you pass a number of drones that are moving with
32:44
an odd amount of scanning energy.
32:49
These ones down here seem to be focused on finding something
32:53
they seem to be built in a way to contain and capture.
32:57
You notice that even as like a little critter hop hop hop hops
33:02
by the drone which was slowly scanning.
33:08
It moves so quickly, putting both of its drone hands on
33:13
either side of the thing, and a spherical ball of energy pops up
33:16
to contain it and it shrinks in. You see the critters like stasis
33:21
captured. You avoid all these things that
33:23
could have got you immediately locked in stasis.
33:27
They're evil pokey balls. Something like that.
33:30
You go to your shop, you see it has been ransacked.
33:35
The. Broken shipwreck that you had
33:38
made a home out of is more broken than ever, but the mast
33:42
still stands tall. What do you do?
33:45
I walk up and slow and I imagine I'm at a 300 feet movement right
33:51
now and I slide to a stop almost 100 feet back and I'm sliding,
33:54
sliding and I skip to a halt and I think the spell drops.
33:59
Oh cool. And I look at the panel where
34:02
I'd written home and I think it's just a skew and maybe a
34:06
little burnt. Terrible writes it before he
34:09
goes in, yeah. Absolutely.
34:11
Just a little skew. It's been there.
34:13
And I, I want to go in cautiously with all the changes
34:16
and things Parable is going to. He's going to open the door and
34:20
ease it open with his pen blade from the bottom.
34:23
Cool. And just kind of wait a moment
34:26
before he passes in and roll like a perception check on the
34:30
room he peers into. A good question to ask.
34:33
Give me a perception check. Perception 10.
34:37
You barely miss this as. Parables going to spend a luck
34:40
point. The new feed states that you got
34:43
to state it beforehand. Okay, so next time I would have
34:47
to say I'm this is. Going to be a lucky role.
34:50
Okay, so that if I don't okay, okay, fine.
34:56
Parable just eases open the door and tries to do this kind of
34:59
trick with his sword of looking into the blade and the
35:02
reflection as he does, and I think he trips forward into the
35:05
space. Even as you do, nothing
35:07
startles, there's no motion to see, there's no there's such a
35:10
clutter that it's hard to tell like what was where at any
35:14
point. And it's just debris and
35:17
detritus everywhere. OK.
35:19
Until suddenly beneath a massive pile of that debris in the
35:25
trius, a giant drone shifts towards you and you see a
35:29
version of brick with a massively built powerful chest
35:34
for crushing and capturing and tearing.
35:37
This one is much more offensively driven as it sees
35:41
you roof initiative. Stop this buddy.
35:46
Then then the eye focus and zeros in and irises in on you.
35:50
I've seen the movie moment of Parable stumbling in, being like
35:53
taken aback. He's back in the shop looking
35:55
around at all the items that might the debris and pieces of
35:58
items like maybe the charm of a broken lamp that you remind
36:01
reminded him of something. And you see just rising up from
36:04
behind him an unbeknownst to Parable, this big fucking drone.
36:08
Yes, and this this one seems to be a more unique of make and was
36:12
difficult to tell from Detroit because it is partially built of
36:15
Detroitus. That is an 18 for an initiative.
36:18
18 for initiative. Let's see what it's got.
36:21
That is you up first, Sir. Okay, how big is this drone it?
36:26
Towers over you and barely has space to fit.
36:30
Oh geez, how did I miss this I. Think that's what I was trying
36:33
to get across before is that it's so still.
36:36
It just looks like a bookcase that has collapsed upon itself.
36:39
It looks like a whole pile itself until the pile moves.
36:42
I don't like that. No, it's big enough and slow
36:45
enough and lumbering enough that you just feel the atmosphere in
36:49
the room change. Parable is going to make a lucky
36:55
attack roll. He's going to immediately pull
36:57
out his blade of the last breath as soon as he notices and he's
37:01
going to, without turning around, just look at that like
37:03
into the future. OK, that is a 2040 hit that will
37:08
hit right? And I am going to use the blade
37:13
of the last breath, stability by my last breath and use two of my
37:18
unspent hit die to increase the is a 2D8. 2D10 Awesome.
37:23
OK. 19 damage. 19 damage hurts and is a good first strike
37:28
against this thing. And I'm going to attack a second
37:30
time. Let's see it.
37:32
F links don't get enough ones. Thank God the. 19 on the die to
37:37
hit +6 that what some three damage?
37:42
What does this? Look like as you just slash
37:43
slash upon this thing. I think I first clicked the
37:46
blade and invoke the breath out of the pencil flash behind me
37:51
and then I I sink down and I scoot backwards my my button
37:56
like on a slide on my back and I roll up onto my feet and I slash
38:00
from behind using like a piercing and a slashing for vex
38:03
and SAP and I think I'm going to bonus action smite.
38:07
Oh sick. Awesome.
38:09
All right, that is an additional 14 damage of shining radiant
38:13
damage. Nice, you are putting this thing
38:16
on the defensive. The Next up is going to be the
38:19
combat robot detention drone that you see across from you as
38:23
it lumbers towards you. It is going to make three
38:27
attacks, the first being a natural 20.
38:32
Who could? I don't have brick.
38:33
You don't have bricks to turn that to.
38:35
Not a grit. Oh wait, no, it has disadvantage
38:39
on its attack. Oh.
38:40
Because of. Awesome, the vaccine SAP for my
38:44
blade. You're right.
38:45
So 17 to hit. That is my AC exact so that will
38:49
just. Hit.
38:52
There's going to be an 8 and A7 on the next two attacks, so two
38:58
of those lasers miss, but the third hits home and you're able
39:02
to partially deflect it with the blade, turning the crit to just
39:06
a normal hit. But that 17 will still hit and I
39:08
got to roll some damage die here.
39:11
That's not a decent amount of dice, yeah.
39:13
It was rolled kind of low there. 17 damage, all tolls.
39:18
Dang, how? You looking?
39:19
We'll say half HB. I cussed.
39:27
A lip parable's OK, I think. He takes the beam and he laughs.
39:32
Brick and I practice this all the time.
39:33
He's ready for this. You.
39:34
Did a very long ago do the laser blocking with brick bit.
39:39
OK, Yes you have practiced as many a time and more than that
39:43
you seem to have allies in this fight.
39:46
As a shadow moves into the room with length of two blades
39:51
slicing down into the machine from behind.
39:53
You see these two blades cut hard, hopefully literally just
39:59
enough but still enough to activate his sneak attack.
40:05
I got to do weapon damage though.
40:06
I got. The suspense speak.
40:12
That is going to be 34 damage to the robot from a hooded figure
40:17
that has harengon ears poking out from a green cloak.
40:23
Unbearable. That is Next up to you.
40:26
I I look to the cloaked figure, do I?
40:29
Do I think this robot has noticed the cloak figure yet?
40:32
It moves to, but with a stealth check high enough for this
40:36
figure to disappear with his bonus action.
40:38
The robot shifts and looks to see the thing that just struck
40:43
it. It's like sparking, and bits of
40:45
stonework and metalwork are falling out of it like a clock
40:49
broken open. Its gears are tumbling out of it
40:52
as it looks for the creature that just eviscerated it so.
40:55
I am going to dodge roll under it and place by hand underneath
41:02
it and cast heat metal. Cool.
41:06
Bye bye. But I am going to give like a
41:08
glance to the hood and figure like I acknowledge them you.
41:11
See what appears to be a young adult, a rangon, disappear into
41:16
the shadows. Give me a perception check.
41:19
It says 16. 16 is enough to recognize five, yeah.
41:24
I do it man, he's so cool now. Hell yeah.
41:29
But a bit older. I'm scared for a bit.
41:31
Cooler you. Mean.
41:33
He's grown in his as a teen angst.
41:37
You just see him put a single digit to his lips as he
41:41
disappears into the shadows. Yeah, that's you with the heat
41:44
metal. Yeah, it's a conceive of 15.
41:47
The combat unit will save here with the 23.
41:50
Oh really? Oh Dang, can I use the lucky
41:53
point? Give him a disadvantage?
41:54
Oh yeah. Totally, that will fail with the
41:56
10 nights. Amazing.
41:59
If you use a manufactured metal objects, you cause the object to
42:02
grow, Let red hot any creature in physical contact with the
42:05
object. Pigs. 2D8 fire damage when you
42:07
cast the spell. Until the spell ends, you can
42:09
take a bonus action on each of your later turns to deal this
42:11
damage again if the objects is within range.
42:13
Is it still OK to do this on this thing?
42:15
Like oh, plates of armor or something like that?
42:17
Yeah. Absolutely SO2D8 damage happens.
42:19
Right now it's. Actually 3D eight, so this level
42:23
I'm casting awesome grow. That up for me.
42:26
Cool. OK, that is 14 damage that.
42:28
It hurts badly, and even with its resistance, you're putting
42:32
this thing on its last leg. Amazing.
42:35
Melting metal, you soften it's outsides for another strike, but
42:39
it does have an opportunity to unleash its attack here.
42:42
I heat the metal above me and before it starts like dripping
42:46
on me, I roll to the side and I'm on the opposite side of
42:50
where I saw five disappear. Awesome.
42:52
Absolutely. As you roll to the opposite side
42:55
of the room, it is going to, yeah, it's going to pull out
42:58
literally the big guns as it fires what is in all rights a
43:08
rocket launcher or a grenade launcher.
43:10
Give me a Dexterity saving throw as an explosion appears out of
43:15
this thing and something is coming towards you.
43:18
OK, athletes don't get out on thank God, dexterity save.
43:25
Yes, that is a 16. A-16 will literally just save.
43:30
She'll still be taking some damage here, but it's.
43:34
Would have been worse. That is 16 damage.
43:38
OK, Variable gets blown back into a bookshelf and is lifted
43:44
up onto the shelves and I think break some things behind him.
43:47
It's like a full on explosion. Yeah, full on explosion.
43:49
The last time you saw something like this was the fire spirit
43:51
inside you break out a wall of flame that is going to be Next
43:56
up five who you have given the perfect opportunity to end this
44:00
thing. As he has slipped back to the
44:02
shadows, he's rolling once more with advantage.
44:05
This roguish little guy that we love so much that is definitely
44:07
going to hit with 22 there robbing the sneak attack dice
44:13
one more time will be enough to end this thing as five in his
44:21
signature move A5 fold slash. You see this thing coming out in
44:29
five pieces and five says, hey, parable, that's been waiting for
44:34
you. Is that you 5?
44:37
It's been a while. How did you know I would be
44:41
here? What?
44:41
How did? I'll fill you in on the way and
44:44
we'll cut there as we cut back to Star Watchtower.
44:47
And. He's a whole.
44:49
Ass adult, now young adult. I'm worried.
44:52
Me. Too, time dilation is dilating.
44:56
Cutting back to Star Watchtower, we have Cassie and Zin on a
45:00
very, very high window sill which does not have very many
45:04
inches to be standing upon. We're in.
45:06
I give me a slight of hand check or otherwise a means to open
45:11
this window. Oh, it's not open.
45:13
No, it's not. I imagine Zen is like one hand
45:16
each side of the window sill, like caging cast.
45:19
And I mean, like, OK, just, you know, just try to see if there's
45:22
like a latch or something. I'm really trying to just push.
45:27
You guys will be totally fine. You said the fun girl, she
45:31
disappears into the wind. Stay close.
45:34
OK, I won't. I'll try.
45:37
Cassie told Zin to push, insinuating that let's just
45:40
break into the window, OK? Cool, give me an athletics or.
45:45
The Athletics. Give me an athletic.
45:48
Nature We are women in STEM OK 97.
45:56
Like trying. To like thrust forward like I
45:59
don't have much leverage here. So that doesn't work as as Zen
46:07
shoves, Cassie gets the window. Slide of hand.
46:10
Yeah, slide of hand. 22. As Zen shoves you against the
46:15
window, you're able to loosen enough of the rust on the window
46:19
for the latch to actually work, and you're Cassie with your
46:22
knowledge of. Windows.
46:26
Windows. Well, I do send.
46:27
Those bars I know windows. I do.
46:30
I do imagine this to be a specifically well kept and
46:33
maintained window you remember as a child.
46:36
Like very specifically getting like locked outside of one of
46:39
these. You find, launch and are able to
46:42
open it. Opening the latch you see what
46:46
the caked over window could not show you in detail?
46:51
A massive room below you if you are opening this window that's
46:55
much more so at the ceiling of the room rather than the floor
47:00
and ECU is what you might call like a ballroom.
47:04
A large chamber with a beautiful bit of mechanism at the middle
47:09
at the center of the ceiling. Concentric circles that were and
47:13
wind around one another with mirrors and lights that point
47:18
from the energy of this mechanism outward into the rest
47:23
of the room to display the cosmos.
47:25
It is a mind numbing the complex and large bit of mechanism.
47:32
Below that you see a number of Star Watchtower hands dressed in
47:38
blue robes, looking up as if contemplating What do you?
47:44
Do looking up at us or looking up at the whirring?
47:47
At the burn as a machine and the the patchwork of sky that it
47:51
produces above it. Do they look similarly ragged as
47:56
the ones below? They are the exact same, fully
47:59
corrupt, somehow apparently corrupted by an elder *.
48:04
They got to go, so I don't know. How many did you say there I'm.
48:12
Going to put that to a roll. And we're in blue robes, but I
48:16
don't think they have. Well, we're also invisible.
48:18
And you're coming through the window above them.
48:21
But we can still sneak for the most part.
48:23
How many are there? There are five of these guys
48:26
down there. I have an idea.
48:29
This thing's moving a lot, right?
48:31
This machine in front of them. OK.
48:33
I just like, yeah. Wearing and winding and moving
48:36
in in centric ways as to adjust a number of different bits of
48:41
data along the circles to project outward and upward onto
48:45
the ceiling. Making like a starlit sky, yeah.
48:48
It's pretty intricate to the point where it looks like you're
48:51
looking at a night sky. That's awesome.
48:53
That is very like in a planetarium.
48:55
Yes, it is stuck on the moment of the great wishing.
48:58
Good. Good, good, good.
49:00
Cassie sees that immediately, having memorized that night sky.
49:04
Yeah. The great wishing from 100 years
49:07
ago. No, from very recently, but who
49:11
knows. How recently?
49:13
From your 20. Years ago. 20 years ago, it
49:16
sounds like yes. Wait, what?
49:19
Yeah, yeah. The first great wishing or the
49:21
great wishing that we just witnessed and just or are
49:25
witnessing. Technically for these from star
49:27
watches perspective happened 20 years ago.
49:29
Are you happy to drive you? Sort of traveled in time.
49:33
Good. Solid.
49:34
OK, Yeah, OK. At least we know the whole
49:38
brainwashing thing doesn't happen too quickly if they're
49:40
staring at that thing. I'm following you cast.
49:43
This kind of seems like Zen like gestures to the whole room.
49:46
Your type of thing. Jeez.
49:50
You let me know if he needs flames.
49:51
They do. Seem like demons but like.
49:56
Something's fucked up, yeah. There's, if they're demons,
49:59
they're a weird fucking flavor of it.
50:01
Can we roll Perception or investigation to make sure that
50:05
wherever creatures like this could enter or exit the room is
50:09
sealed off? Literally the best question you
50:12
could ask in the scenario. That's why she's Cassie and Zen
50:16
is in. Give me a investigation or
50:20
perception check. You can do so with Advantage.
50:23
I'd give you a I'd. Give.
50:26
You okay? No, you're invisible.
50:29
You good advantage as well. 17 perception for Cassie.
50:33
Well, it is like so caught up in this conversation with the Kuma
50:38
about the fucking. But I just saw them in hell and
50:40
now they're here. But it's been 20 years.
50:42
Like, oh, this is happening. Well, there's a giant, like,
50:45
mechanically built solar system, Yeah.
50:48
But that's orbiting around I'm here for.
50:50
Moral support just giving Yas Queen.
50:53
She's like, that's not my business.
50:56
None of my business. I'm here for you to fire, babe.
50:58
I got you. You see that down below?
51:02
As your father said, the Grand Armillary is a grand chamber
51:06
that leads off to many side chambers.
51:08
All of them appear to be sealed. The one that he describes
51:13
appears to be just closed, nothing wrong seemingly with the
51:16
door. The one that he told you was the
51:20
one that holds the device generating the bounded field has
51:25
massive dents coming out. Oh, coming into this room.
51:31
Into this room and outward from that side chamber, as if
51:34
something is trying to pounder to get out.
51:37
Yes, you see around that door a number of corpses, mutilated,
51:45
blood splattered across the wall.
51:48
It seems that someone sealed off all these chambers in a moment
51:52
to potentially and likely get away from that thing.
51:55
You can put the picture in your mind as you see the moment of
51:59
the great wishing and the temptation to look up like an
52:02
eclipse that will burn your retina for life.
52:06
But it's something that you must look at.
52:09
The Great wishing was something that drew all their attention
52:13
up, but perhaps there were a few that held on for just a little
52:16
bit longer, to the point where they weren't turned into
52:19
whatever these creatures or things are right away.
52:23
Someone who held on just a little bit longer sealed these
52:26
chambers off and sealed something dangerous in the side
52:30
chamber that holds the bounded field.
52:32
So you have two side chambers that you care about, the
52:35
telescopic transporter which is sealed and just looks like it
52:38
needs an access code, and the one that you need to turn off
52:41
before you can leave, which looks like it has something
52:44
dangerous inside. OK, here's what I'm thinking.
52:46
Zen, we go get the telescopic transporter, OK?
52:51
The telescopic teleporter. Some of that would require
52:53
calibration. It's not something like move,
52:55
yank and reset and do cool. I think.
52:59
The dented door, just the dented door.
53:00
And I think straight there, we just let these guys keep fucking
53:03
around. Maybe eat bread.
53:06
Bread. Can you unlock doors?
53:14
Can you try? OK, Can you do it quietly?
53:21
OK, let's get this sitting on this thing.
53:27
Silent mode. He's pouting.
53:28
Because he. Doesn't.
53:30
Have pair brick can go do something about the access code
53:34
doors. Oh sure, Cassie, give me a
53:35
history check before. OK, 21.
53:38
As Brick in Brick Talk asks for the access code, Cassie, you
53:43
recall it. Wow, 164380.
53:50
The door above it holds an inscription which reads Bright
53:55
is the Dawn. And that reminds you of a little
54:00
thing that your dad would always say in the morning, bright as
54:03
the dawn. And sometimes he would say
54:05
bright as the dawn, switching it so that it would be for you
54:08
waking up with your bleary eyes as a kid and the perfect time to
54:12
appreciate a sunrise. And then he would say, under his
54:15
breath to you, but brighter, the jewels of dusk.
54:21
And he would go into some sort of story about the stars that
54:25
you guys had both looked at last night.
54:26
Or maybe he did and you didn't. Or maybe he asked what what
54:29
stars did, what constellations passed by.
54:31
This was during a time when everything was really good.
54:34
It was specifically bright is the dawn and in response, but
54:38
brighter, the jewels of dusk. And you know that to enter that
54:42
door, you would just need to say that phrase.
54:44
Say it. Yeah, and Brick record the
54:47
experience. Can we like, whisper it to him?
54:50
Totally. Yeah, absolutely.
54:51
Brick, That door needs a code. It needs you to say in my voice.
54:55
But brighter. The jewels of dusk.
55:00
Great. Flies over to the door.
55:06
Be quiet. I love the image of this little
55:10
stone like floating down to the door when?
55:12
They're all just like, yeah, like up at the ceiling.
55:15
It's just one of the stars. It's, oh, a shooting star.
55:18
Yeah. You actually see something that
55:19
Bricks never done. He rotates a little bit and a
55:22
little thin membrane there, like almost like a speaker opens up
55:26
and you hear. But brighter the jewels of
55:30
death. You see a little arcane symbol
55:36
flash for a moment and then go dark again.
55:40
The door opens and then closes. That does seem to be the pass
55:45
phrase, but it's not going to stay open.
55:46
It seems like some the person who set something off in the
55:50
system put like the tower in the shutdown, so that will provide
55:54
temporary access. And we just have to say that
55:55
pass phrase in an open again. Yeah, that break come back.
55:59
You proved so that that that it will work.
56:02
Cool. You floats up back to you guys.
56:04
Yeah, OK, cool. OK, that was good.
56:06
So let's go demon behind a door. Let's go try.
56:08
I'm going to bring my constellation shield up, which I
56:11
think I can also make invisible with us.
56:13
And then yeah, Yeah. OK.
56:16
I imagine Cass has her shield in front of her.
56:18
We're invisible, but like, what? We can see Cass has her shield
56:21
in front of her, and it's like behind her back.
56:23
And they're like, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean.
56:26
Like to the door, right? Behind you.
56:32
He's just bouncing on her shoulder.
56:35
I'm not afraid. I'm not afraid.
56:37
I'm not afraid. We got it.
56:38
Do you guys drop into the room it?
56:40
Descends. It descends from the window, so
56:42
you guys are going to have to figure out a way to get down
56:44
there, yeah. We drop into the room.
56:45
You have your feather fall? Yep, cloak.
56:47
So you have a couple ways to get down.
56:49
There, and it's just holding on to Cassie.
56:52
As you get down there and get to the door, which door do you go
56:55
to? The one that.
56:56
Was pounded in was. Pounded in as you approach it
57:00
too. Has a terminal to open the door.
57:02
Do you say the passphrase? Does it look like it's prompting
57:05
the passphrase? What's over this door?
57:07
The. Same.
57:07
Yeah, the same interview. We know what, Rick.
57:11
Do you remember what Claude's voice sounded like?
57:14
Rick would definitely be able to remember Rick.
57:15
Claude's voice can. You try and say that password,
57:18
but in his voice, upright at the jewels of dust.
57:23
Upright at the Jewels of Dust, the arcane symbol above the door
57:28
lights with much more stone and grinding.
57:34
The doors slide apart and kind of shudder to the point where
57:38
they don't open fully, but they do open roll furniture.
57:42
Yeah, that makes sense. 1312 all.
57:47
Right Cassie, that is you up first, but comes out is a
57:53
hulking monster that you've heard its voice before because
57:58
this is a creature of the stars. Sometimes when you would listen
58:04
the songs turned ugly, violent, wanting, corrupted.
58:09
Somehow, whoever this was at one point is no longer a human
58:14
being. They are now given to an elder
58:17
evil star entity, A hulking creature and slams towards you,
58:24
leaping across the room and slamming against the door once
58:27
more. It has just enough space to make
58:32
its way through, but can't yet. It's still your turn, Cassie,
58:36
OK. Cassie is going to cast Blight
58:39
which will make me visible. Wait, how can it see us?
58:44
It it it can't, but mechanically it's still going to attack you
58:48
and have disadvantage it it wouldn't.
58:49
Attack the repeat visible ugly guys in the room first.
58:55
It is going to go and rampage through this room, but you are,
58:59
I assume in its way as you open this door that has opened just
59:02
wide enough for a single individual to.
59:05
All right, well, I'm going to cast Blight and become visible.
59:08
But this creature, the strange creature, has to make a
59:11
Constitution saving throw of 16. OK, that is a 13 all told, even
59:18
with a good con modifier. That's wonderful news.
59:22
So this creature is going to take 40 damage.
59:27
Oh damn, what? What?
59:29
Girl 8D8 686822. Something, something.
59:36
Wow. OK, A.
59:39
Bye guys. It's about time.
59:42
You don't know what? It is time damn with. 40 damage.
59:46
You take away more than half of this thing's essence.
59:49
What does it look like as this? This thing is essentially like a
59:54
Star Song zombie. How does Cassie do this damage?
59:59
The spell is necrotic damage, and I would imagine that it
1:00:03
reminds me of what might happen if you use fire damage against
1:00:06
something that was already charred.
1:00:08
Like it's going to get more rotten and ugly, right?
1:00:11
Like it's going to. Wither.
1:00:13
Yeah, disintegrate. It feels like fighting fire with
1:00:17
fire, for lack of a better metaphor, and giving this astral
1:00:22
energy, directing it towards something that once had a spark
1:00:25
of space to it, and now it's just sort of darkness and decay.
1:00:30
Fantastic. To knowing that this thing
1:00:33
belongs to the void, you intensify the void within it,
1:00:38
and it collapses upon itself just more and more with every
1:00:43
touch of your magic. That is going to be Zen up next.
1:00:47
What did Cantrip make me visible?
1:00:49
Yes. All right.
1:00:51
Well, what the hell else am I going to do?
1:00:52
I think Zen is going to Aldridge blast this thing.
1:00:55
Awesome. Well, 18 and a 22.
1:01:02
Nice. 18 and 22 will both hit Telia. 13 force damage. 13 force
1:01:08
damage hurts badly as this thing gets hits and it's like almost
1:01:13
out of the door and you're able to it's about two shots that
1:01:17
blast it back just enough for Cassie to get off the spell.
1:01:20
I think too, I want to like if I can like pull Cassie out of the
1:01:24
door but like into the armillary room.
1:01:29
Like into the armillary? Room no into the room that the
1:01:31
creature was in. Oh, you want?
1:01:33
To tuck inside, like tuck inside and then I want to tell Akuma
1:01:36
Kuma, can you go make noise or like direct try to like create
1:01:42
some sort of like. This way, stupid idiot.
1:01:46
So he goes out into the big area and we can.
1:01:50
Knowing that this thing is low of intelligence, the beast has
1:01:54
not moved on initiative and is right before the door.
1:01:57
You guys are right outside the door so.
1:01:59
He's he hasn't come into the room.
1:02:01
He. Hasn't come into the grand.
1:02:02
So we can't swing into the hallway yet.
1:02:04
That's. It you're playing, you're
1:02:05
playing Chamber. Yet not to say that you're
1:02:07
playing can't work. It's just logistics, Yeah.
1:02:09
Maybe then I'll just, I'll pull Cassie.
1:02:11
He's still out of the doorway, but we're on the armillary side,
1:02:14
hoping that the master will just continue its trajectory forward
1:02:18
and we can then. OK, cool.
1:02:20
So I just pulled Cass out of the way, 'cause I'm like, Cass, why
1:02:23
are you staring at it? It's so ugly.
1:02:25
Also, what did you just do? You pull Cass out of the way of
1:02:31
this thing that is just like a bowl charging but just wants to
1:02:36
destroy and wreak havoc. Give me a couple of stealth
1:02:41
checks versus its perception here. 1515.
1:02:47
That is going to be a 17. Wait, I'm.
1:02:51
Going to use my cosmic omen of woe as a reaction.
1:02:55
OK. Whenever a creature you can see
1:02:57
within 30 feet of you is about to make AD 20 test, you can take
1:03:00
a reaction to roll 1D6 and subtract it from the total.
1:03:04
OK, you'll need to roll A3 or higher. 4.
1:03:10
Nice. Just.
1:03:12
It was so fast. 3 or 4. Like a predator, this thing
1:03:17
lumbers past you and you can hear just.
1:03:20
The. Vibrance of its organs and
1:03:23
musculature as it passes. You can feel the strength of it
1:03:28
as it just steps within feet of you and it browse looking past
1:03:34
you just a single breath away from attacking and then turns
1:03:40
and sees A room full of creatures to destroy and it will
1:03:46
use its slam attack on the creatures that it can see, which
1:03:49
in this case it doesn't. See you guys for now.
1:03:54
For now. Worse, skinny just, I mean,
1:03:58
pressed up against the wall, like.
1:04:00
And then whoop, yeah, close that door until you need it again.
1:04:03
And then maybe sound effects. Then maybe grab Sephy out the
1:04:07
window. That's obviously.
1:04:08
And then she can take us to the other window.
1:04:11
Something else. I love that window to window.
1:04:14
All right, we have, we have 5 tower hand zombies in this room,
1:04:18
Star Zombies. One of them will save against
1:04:22
this damage that is about to occur against them as this thing
1:04:26
wreaks havoc, slamming into everything that it can see.
1:04:31
Does it have limbs? Can I get a little bit more
1:04:33
about like what it what this thing resembles?
1:04:37
It resembles similar to the other monks, appears to be like
1:04:42
a decrepit deteriorated humanoid, but this thing seems
1:04:46
to have grown and expanded to a point where it's skin sloughs
1:04:52
off and beneath has revealed like a Violet glowing skin that
1:04:57
isn't really skin, more so plasmoid membrane as it's organs
1:05:03
pulse from within and bioluminescence lights it from
1:05:11
within. Two months dead.
1:05:16
Three months dead. Oh my God.
1:05:20
All right, so there's still 1. 1 One star zombie is left
1:05:27
remaining as that is Next up Cassie's turn.
1:05:30
I, sensing Zen's earlier plan, would like to use some movement
1:05:36
to tuck us all sort of inside that door and command the door
1:05:42
to close. OK, can I do all of that?
1:05:45
Yeah, absolutely. Grabs in.
1:05:47
Pull her. In we've got a Kuma.
1:05:49
Come on, break away. And much grinding, but the door
1:05:55
closes and we're out of initiative.
1:06:00
You can investigate the rest of the room.
1:06:01
What? Was that thing it doesn't
1:06:03
matter? Oh my God, no idea.
1:06:05
It killed all of them all at once.
1:06:09
So what are we looking for in here?
1:06:11
OK, so in this hallway, based on what my dad was saying, this
1:06:15
should lead us to the room or the device that will allow us to
1:06:19
take down the the bounded field, the thing that's protecting star
1:06:24
watch, the thing that would otherwise prevent us from taking
1:06:27
the transporter. OK, so if we want to leave, we
1:06:31
got to find the thing, destroy the thing.
1:06:33
Yeah. OK.
1:06:34
I think Brick is going to be instrumental because, I don't
1:06:37
know, I work with, like, you know, vintage equipment.
1:06:39
This is all modern technology that's also been sitting here
1:06:42
for what seems like half a century.
1:06:44
Yeah. So really, it's kind of vintage
1:06:46
in its own way. And you've got this.
1:06:48
That's really nice of you. You'll figure, Cassie, I have
1:06:51
seen you figure out way harder things than where a thing is in
1:06:55
a room. We got this.
1:06:56
You're so right. One separate time.
1:06:59
Here we go. Yeah, Brick.
1:07:03
All right, Perception. Just let's take us in there.
1:07:05
Yeah, hallway, stairwell. Are we just in the room?
1:07:09
As you enter the side chamber you find something curious.
1:07:14
Not machinery or metal work, but a well of stone and room of
1:07:23
steel built around it, but a well nonetheless, Just like one
1:07:28
that you know well. Back at 2 Wells.
1:07:31
It seems that you have found the center of the power at Star
1:07:34
Watchtower, and it's not based on all of the science that they
1:07:38
love. It's based on the power of a
1:07:41
third well. I'm so pissed.
1:07:45
And that is where we will end our session now.
1:07:49
Well, well, well, well, damn. But does that mean we could jump
1:07:56
into that well and pop out in the other well?
1:07:58
Don't answer that. Let's try.
1:08:00
We'll have to find out next time.
1:08:01
Maybe I'll talk about that. Shortly see nothing with
1:08:03
parable. Might be more efficient than we
1:08:05
expected. Can we fit the telescope thing
1:08:08
into the now we just want to shove it and the kitten get in
1:08:12
there. Stuffy comes in just like, like
1:08:14
flies down at it. Yeah.
1:08:15
Closes the suitcase, Yeah. Akuma can swallow it.
1:08:21
Fantastic stuff y'all. We leave Cassie ends in on the
1:08:24
Precipice of something Awesome and Parable on the Precipice of
1:08:29
Something awesome. A great place to end an episode
1:08:31
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