What's on the other side of the doorway?
. I'm so glad you asked that question on the opposite side,
where that red room once was and where
that depression was in the middle of the room. Now when you look in there,
there is a massive flesh pit and there is a
very pungent aroma similar to that of
body odor and bile. And.
I'm gonna cast burning hands.
You blast this fire out at this flesh pit and you watch as
it begins to blister
as it's doing that a shadow escapes.
If we want to step out, I can close this room often.
We never have to see it again.
That would be wonderful.
I think we close it off.
Yeah, we should close this off. I'm gonna get sick.
Uh, I'm going to cast stone shape and make a wall.
You have successfully walled off this room.
The door is closed. We did.
It. All right. So we win.
Play games, strangers, you know,
there's no danger.
Playing games with,
with strangers.
With strangers.
Um, once we are out of this room,
that looks like a completely ambiguous thing.
I would like to cast locate creature and see if I can
find Lars. So let's get this show on the road. All right.
Here we go. Word. Let's go kill some Mars. Big money. Big money.
Can you read the definition of locate creature.
For me, please? Uh, same plane, I believe.
And a thousand feet are the two important ones.
We're not on a plane, we're just standing here.
What if he's in that room? Job taken care of?
You throw off, locate creature
and you do not get a ping back.
Alright, well I got this for an hour.
So it's time for us to start scouring water deep na mean
TowerFall water deep would be a long trip. Mm-hmm.
.
I would, I don't know where we start. What, what are you looking for.
Lot? Uh,
I just need to get within a thousand feet of him and then I'll know which
direction he is. And I have an hour,
so we gotta gotta start cruising.
Timey. Why me?
Okay. All bog.
Where would your brother go in in times like this where he's maybe in a panic?
I have no idea because I mean, we can check his house, but aside from that,
I mean, I never expected him to open a word up.
Well, hey, I have a different idea real quick. One moment. Uh,
I'm gonna cast sending to large Lars.
Okay.
Hi. Hi. Hi. It's me, Callum.
Don't know if you remember me,
but I mostly just need to know your life
and on this plane. Thanks. Bye.
You cast that,
but it doesn't feel like that spell made a connection to anybody.
Great. I'll drop concentration on locate creature. .
I don't think I'll be needing that. Um, guys, I don't know if he exists.
Oh, so he is dead.
Um, he's either dead or never existed, or he's in the space between the spaces.
Actually, I'm gonna try something everyone please do. Okay, don't move. Okay.
And I'm gonna freeze time , I'm just gonna.
All right.
And I'm gonna try to cast sending from the place between the places
and see if that makes a difference.
Okay?
Because I don't know if it'll,
but we're just going to throw spell slots out there. Like, they grow on trees.
They're never important later in the game.
Okay. Hi.
Hi. Hi. It's me. I tried this before.
Didn't hear back. Kind. Uh,
how are you feeling? Good about your choices?
I'm not, not.
Again, it doesn't feel like it connected.
All right.
Although from behind the newly installed wall, you hear a,
is that you,
have you come to visit me?
Non detection is celeb. Does that make a difference? ?
I still hear him anyway. Great. I'm just, okay. Uh.
Let's, what did just Callum hear.
That everyone else is frozen, so.
Okay. Just making sure.
Uh, hello.
So it is you, you dropped out of my,
you hitting a couple minutes ago.
Oh, you're not sounding like yourself. Feeling okay.
You could see
I'm feeling like
bejo somebody.
Have you considered not.
It doesn't sound like a good look.
Why don't you open this door? Find out what the.
Wait, don't you.
Now no response.
Oh, not fun being trapped. Is it?
Count second guesses himself. .
You notice, you notice underneath,
underneath the wall there's a yellow rag that's starting to push itself through.
That seems.
Fine. Very, very fine.
Um, is it it's just the cloth that's pushing through. Yeah.
Yeah.
Interesting.
But it's perpetually getting longer.
Yeah.
And longer.
Mm-hmm.
like a roll of.
Toilet paper, .
And it's crawling towards you.
I'll just take a little step back, just a bit.
Have a step. Um, and I can't cast another spell because I casted one.
So, well, this has been fun.
I'm going to
take one of my arrows and kind of like push it through the cloth.
Mm-hmm. to the ground. See if I can keep it in place.
And I'm gonna start time again.
Okay. After you start time, you see your arrow in the ground, but,
uh, there's no cloth there.
All right. Just making sure. How was it? And there's no, like,
when I pull it out, there's no like fibers or anything,
so it doesn't look like it ripped away. Okay? Mm-hmm.
, any answers? Callum?
No. I'm pretty sure that Lars is currently not a problem,
which is technically a problem for us, I suppose,
but not a problem for TowerFall anymore. Um,
also talked to Sayos briefly. That was interesting.
Oh, really?
You don't say.
Did he try to like Yeah. Get you to play on his team and all that?
Um, no. He sounded rough, actually. Uh, absolutely.
And said something about joining with another person and a little bit like, uh,
he had lost control of most of the muscles in his body.
I knew a master of disguise who was like,
something about become another person or something, but, um,
maybe not the same thing. Other person? Yeah. Yeah. I.
Home.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Like,
like XOs and somebody else are becoming like one.
Phil. Yeah. I mean, it can't be good. Whatever it is.
I'm gonna roll a history check to see if I remember that.
I've actually heard that because I don't know if it's Dave or if it's Wilder.
That's a dirty 20.
Heck yeah.
You remember Callum at one point did mention while
he was in the possession of
XOs and Christopher and Damien measles,
uh,
that XOs had been conducting rituals
to soul merge with Kerik.
This would be something that Callum should know about.
Yeah. It doesn't sound good. I mean,
it doesn't sound good for XOs, actually.
I don't know if it's good for the other side, but sounding bad.
Right? Right.
Well, one less person to take care of, I.
Guess. Or one bigger person to take care.
Of. Yeah, I was gonna say that. But you know what.
Bigger they are.
The more I'm afraid of them.
Yes. Right. Um.
Understandable. Um.
Yeah. Okay. So what do we wanna do now? So we want to,
we'll go pick up Aileen, do we,
do we not go back to the drought because they were pretty clear that we needed
to bring a dead Lars,
or do you want me to go back and talk to them?
Um, I'm.
Can I just let them know? Can.
I just ask someone if they've heard of la.
You can ask us, but we've, we're all here. So, I.
Mean, like, did he get disappeared?
I don't know. But also, I haven't seen a lot of people in Terra Hall lately,
cuz they're all getting disappeared.
So Yeah, like the little weird, like, um, I don't know,
timing Wmi is all we can think of, but like, like.
I think that's copyrighted.
Maybe perk, but I said it.
Way me, Tommy.
That's.
Too, there you go. Reverse.
It.
Um.
Like time.
For like, the whole Kai Alan thing, right?
We're all on the same page here. That's what you're thinking, right? Mm-hmm.
. Yeah. Yeah. Let's, let's do that first.
I don't know if it's gonna solve anything,
but at least it puts things into perspective.
Maybe like LA was never really here. Or maybe he was, or maybe never. We.
Never were. Which could make a, oh.
Wouldn't one of us forget that he was here? If, if he wasn't here.
Maybe. I don't know. I, you know what? Time's weird. Couldn't tell you.
Not a clue. Okay.
I gotta find someone.
Let's go do a shop or something where there's door shop.
Why are we, let's just find the first person we see. Okay.
Maybe we look for the first person we see.
In a dungeon.
As go up as we leave.
I, I, I mean, there could with my eyes closed. .
Down Bones down, bones.
Down. I put your band down. Your, um, oh, thank you. Your, yeah. Back on.
Let's.
Not.
Forget the deal.
Don't, okay. Um, la la, la. .
La la la.
La la. Oh, no.
You've got that song stuck in my head. Callum.
Great. We just hum it. The hallway.
.
All right, so you guys are, it's a bustling day outside.
Um, you stopped somebody. Yeah.
.
Oh, hello. We're taking a poll. What do you think of Larz?
Well, I gotta say, um, I'm not really a fan of his family politics,
but to be quite honest, I would be, uh,
I'm fine with pretty much whatever gets us back to some sort of sense of normal.
Have you considered, uh, the other one?
Which one? There's like, those, those Tower falls.
They're a lot like, uh, the Osmonds, you know, they're just,
no one's certain of how many there actually are. Um,
you know.
I was talking about , but, but, um, you, you,
you know who LA is though, right?
Well, yeah. He's fast tracking himself to become King.
Oh, yes. Yes. And, uh, where, where, uh, good, good, good talking to you.
Um, have you, uh,
yep. I don't have no further Thank you for filling out our survey.
Um, oh, okay.
Any other questions from you guys?
I wonder was the last time you saw Lars?
Oh, I don't know. Um,
I just imagined he lives in that castle up there.
What, what, what was your yesterday evening like?
Just trying to get a feel for fine for, you know, okay.
The feel of the perfect city and, and all that.
So thank you Citizen Ffl.
Dirty.
Here's a five coin discount for the food court.
Uh.
What I'd, I'd buy now, .
Maybe we should ask one more person to be sure. Yep.
Yep. Uh, this, this lady over here. She looks like a Okay. Wilder. You got this.
You got this. Go get him.
All right. Um, excuse me. Um, did I have a second of your time?
Yes.
. Yes. . Well,
um, .
It's funny, I was going to say I was having a slight familiar feeling,
but that's not the voice I expected, so Carry on.
Um, oh, bog, uh,
could you ask this kind, um,
citizen the question that you had for them? I.
My name, my name's Vicki.
Vicky, uh,
[inaudible] Def Vicky's definitely your type of person to interact with.
So I am,
I'm going to go behind Poo and laugh as
quietly as I can.
, I'm sorry. He gets nervous around attractive people.
It happens a lot. Trust me. How can I help?
Um, yeah, we were just, um, taking a survey, seeing, uh,
what you think of, of, uh,
Lars and his leadership.
Us ORs, we tend to rally behind the tower,
fall children, so I can't complain.
What do you think of O Bog?
I mean, he's like the special one amongst them.
That that's what I would you that I would say that too. Yes.
Yes. We all think you're special. Yes.
He's named after O Bog, actually, so.
I'm fact, well, I, I'm hoping that you,
that's the only thing that you have that takes after Orach. That guy's an idiot.
Y i that's rude. Just, I totally, I totally agree.
I mean, to be fair not to interrupt, sorry, ovo, um, he,
he does ha he does have the, um,
tendency to just kind of speak before thinking,
and I'm hoping he has a good counsel around him.
Should he take the throne? Or, or, or whatever. Maybe a council.
Why would he be, why would he be taking the throne?
Uh, no.
Mars is gonna do that.
Oh, yes.
Because have you seen that guy? And.
Maybe he could,
maybe Lars can deliver us from the Drow scourge,
he says as he's.
Well, that's pretty rough to see.
As he looks at, or bog.
Callum is speaking firmly in a direction that Vicky is not
. Yeah. Cuz I can't see that's quite rude.
Um, no.
This way. And I'd take you.
An attorney towards Vicky. Perfect. They pointed Vicky ,
DAU have done a lot of good, you know.
Yeah.
What have.
You done? They got, they got rid of Calista and he made way for, uh.
Unified or government.
I don't know who that is, but that sounds rough honestly, in general, just,
that's okay. Okay. Okay.
I don't think we should trust the opinion of this person.
Well, thank you very much for the, uh, input citizen. Um,
we will take note of it. And you Wittled, uh, uh, thank you.
For doing it. Your check's in the mail.
Your civic duty.
Oh, okay. I guess. Um, all right.
See you later, Vicky.
Kyle gives a rude direct gesture and a direction that Vicki is not .
It turns out the direction you made that root gesture in.
Was that a lady pushing a stroller?
Nah, children rose. Alright. 12 Uhk.
So what do you wanna do now?
Na is definitely alive.
I mean, well, he's real.
Not ex nonexistent.
I mean, he's just not here. Well.
I could probably bring them Vicky's head.
.
I don't know that they'd really appreciate that. The.
Same, Hey, maybe that could be like a,
a a a thing we do later after the important things.
No, no.
We should not take off people's heads and that's not a thing that
we, that's, that's no way to start building a government or bog.
Okay. So that's, here's our question. What we should probably sort out,
and it feels really weird for me to be having this conversation,
not being able to see any of you, but I'm gonna do it anyway. You're.
Talking to a tree right now?
I'm sorry. I'll turn in a different direction. Uh, if now.
That's my face, Josh.
Okay. Well, I, uh, do we, are we,
are we staying to set up a government or are we just kind of leaving tower fall
to figure it out?
No, we're,
we're the number one plan is to defeat special K.
Okay. So we're, so, okay. If we can't find Lars and we don't know where Lars is,
and I can't even send a message to Lars,
are we just gonna get hailing in and go find hell then?
Or are we going to search all of tower fall?
Or what's our idea?
Searching TowerFall doesn't seem productive.
It's not larger than a thousand feet. Right?
A.
Little bit depends on how big the feet.
Are. That's true.
I don't really know too many other places. Like,
not TowerFall and not water deep. But should, should,
like we have you or different people try to find out,
uh, how many places other than TowerFall still exist.
Sure.
Like, I don't,
I don't know if we should be like preparing like defense rather than
offense right now.
Well, I know that, uh,
the other continent looked pretty rough,
but if we wanted to go back that way, you know, we,
I mean at least we have a,
a clear goal of where a door to hell is and we could do a little check-in
right. On our way through. There's a big path up in that mountain,
which is a very big thing that I don't particularly want to walk towards.
But in two days I'll be fine.
We can take you to a doctor.
I don't have good experience with doctors.
Right. Okay, then. Um,
I think that's, ah, let's do it.
Let's head towards that doorway that we know.
Well, let's grab a lane first and then.
Yes. Oh, oh, do you think we should like,
say goodbye to anyone? Let 'em know where we're going.
I mean, I don't know anyone here but you guys, so.
All right. Well, uh, um, I'll just, you know, Iran, um, what might.
Oh, well, eh.
Eh, I just, you know, she might want to know that we're, um,
okay.
I don't think she's particularly interested knowing about if I'm okay,
but whatever.
Well, you know, it seem would seem like, you know,
she was with us for a long time and I know she's dealing with some stuff, but,
uh, it would, it would be good just to, uh, let her know where we're going.
I think.
I should, if we're actually gonna do this, if we're gonna, if we're gonna leave.
Oh yeah. We should get, you know, your daughter.
Yeah, that'd be a good idea.
She should definitely come with us and not stay here.
That I was kind of thinking the same thing.
She may have the ability take your daughter to hell day. Awesome.
Well, maybe we won't take her to hell, but.
Like, at this point, I feel like a real crap dad. So,
you know, do.
You know what I could take a hell? I have, I have a lot of experience with that.
Well, maybe you could coach her through it and, um,
help her understand that I'm doing what I can when I can and it's.
Oh, I don't think you want my.
Help then. Not entirely my fault.
I'll do my best.
Okay.
So I'm going to tell Iran that we're going away
if, um, she hears about LA anytime soon to let us know.
Um, and then, um, yes, uh, that,
that will give us at least some sort of foot fold.
So we'll get, we'll get Eileen, we'll all meet at Wilder's house. Yep. We'll,
no aliens at Wild's house, so we'll just, we the wild's house, I guess. Yes.
Right, right.
So are you going by yourself, P or.
Uh, yeah, I was just going to her. Yes. Um.
Do, do you know where she is?
Um.
We've been to her house before.
Yeah, I know where her house is. I, I'll just stop by there real quick.
Right. I would come, but I don't want to.
.
Oh no, that's okay.
I, I guess I'll go with him.
I don't think we should kind of go.
Buddy, buddy. System. My order. I need your hand. My order. I can't see. Oh yes.
So stop holding my hand poo.
Oh, yep. Sorry.
Off to.
Um, Iran's house. We'll see you in just a few.
Okay.
Rewinding time a little bit.
We're gonna go back to the start of the day with Emin as she has some people she
has to meet up with.
And what do you know it, she has to meet them at her house.
What a good setup that is.
It's a little bit later in the morning for the.
Other. Oh, well actually, how's, how's Rhoda doing this morning?
That's what we should check in on. How's Rhoda this morning?
How's my little Demonn sister.
When you wake up? Uh, she's not there.
Hmm? I will use the YouTube to see where she is this morning.
You see her going towards Castle Starker?
That's probably fine.
Fine. I'll go check on her first.
You said you wanted to meet up with the other two at dawn at your house though.
So I just said tomorrow morning. I didn't say.
Dawn. Ah.
Having responsibility is so difficult.
I will go meet them first. All.
Right.
Uh,
you get there and they are standing in the general vicinity of where you told
them to be.
Have they brought others?
Uh, you have a crew of probably about 15.
Wonderful. Hello everybody. Um,
I know I asked you all to be here right now.
I'm taking care of a few things real quick this morning. Um,
would it be okay if we all reconvened in about
an hour?
Uh, Gallier looks at equals. Um, now wait a minute.
We uhhuh we cut out time in our morning to come here to hear out what
the deal was. You're just gonna be like, Hey,
your time's not important enough for me to finish what I said I was gonna do,
cuz I've got personal stuff to take care of.
Three of my siblings were slaughtered yesterday. Oh yes.
What.
Was, so it's a little personal for me, I would say. Was.
That by Lars? Is that why we're doing what we're doing? Or.
It was an unintended consequence
of what has happened the last few weeks? Yes.
Well, maybe we should all just go raid the castle then. I mean, just right now,
I mean, we, I heard about,
I heard about two women who made their way into the castle by face tanking it
a couple weeks ago.
Ah, yes. I wouldn't suggest it as someone that was one of those two. Oh, oh.
That was you.
Yes.
Well, why didn't you take care of business then?
What do you see when it is two people face taking an entire army?
It is not exactly the most, um, appropriate route. Um,
I think that it would be better suited for us if we were to
systematically attempt to remove potential leaders
as opposed to perhaps a sweeping movement through a castle.
If that makes.
Sense.
So are you suggesting that we convert tower fall into an anarchy and have no
leaders?
I think we should establish a people's court that perhaps
in the absence of said leaders, we'll be able to establish a council.
Hmm.
And who should we put on this council?
They say as they start to look amongst themselves.
I think we should put forward representatives from Southern Tower Fall.
We should find those from Northern Tower fall to do the same.
And I think we should include the drought.
Yeah, that's kind of a stretch, including the drought.
It, I think would be far more dangerous to exclude them.
We may even put forward some of the refugees from waterfall,
from water deep as they'll be living here as well.
Well, we, we can discuss this later. Uh, in the meantime, indeed,
what would you have us, uh, take care of?
Does everyone look like they're like outfitted and capable of fighting.
.
Brita and, uh, the other guy whose name I just.
Have Gallier. Yeah.
They.
It's like the LA reel, but.
Not gotcha. Uh, they look like they're.
Right.
But, um, you know,
the other people look like torches and pitchforks.
Make it a point perhaps to find armor
and maybe suitable weapons this morning. Whatever you can scrounge up.
It's something that might keep people alive. Mm-hmm.
or that might keep people hidden.
Fair enough.
And I will meet you back here in,
in hour and I will go attempt to not add one more of my siblings
to the numbers that I have lost in the last 24 hours.
Okay. Then, uh, good luck with your sibling.
Yeah. And thank you two, both of you,
all of you, for coming for a better tower fall.
I'm going to head off towards the castle, I suppose.
Can't imagine who else might be there.
Obviously road is not in front of the castle anymore,
so.
Naturally.
What would you care to do?
Are there guards and stuff here?
There are not.
Hmm. Well, it would be real nice if this YouTube worked more than once.
Wouldn't it though?
Yeah. What's it like to have magic, magic stupid?
Uh, here's a question for Js .
Do you still have the armor we got
or did we put that somewhere?
I, I, I think I do.
And that cash,
I'm going to leave my current goal since I have an hour before
I need to be back and I'm gonna go to the tower.
Okay.
Just gonna give it a little look around inside.
Lots of rooms. Look around the tower spans the entire.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm gonna look for anything that looks lived in.
And then if nothing is popping out as generally having been
recently messed with, I will consider it. My, uh.
It is, consider it. The whole thing is considered to be a cathedral. So it,
a lot of the rooms have been used recently.
But how many people are really religious and powerful, you know what I mean?
Quite a few actually.
Yeah. It seems fake. ,
you don't have religion during the middle of an apocalypse.
No. I wish you're having a really religion in the middle of an apocalypse.
Anyway, she's, she's not gonna look for too long. She'll give it a good,
you know, 30 minutes. Quick peek through, see if she, uh,
finds anything of note.
Uh, make an investigation check for me please.
Sure. Uh, that's, uh, 11.
In the process of searching what you have searched,
you have found a longtime unused
secret doorway. Oh. Uh,
which may give you reason to believe there may be other unknown about
secret doorways.
Naturally.
However,
this one has not been used for at least cen a century.
So probably not the one you're looking for. Okay.
Well, I will commit that to the back of my brain.
And having not located people I'm looking for,
I will go back home to start a revolution.
You get back to your old house about this time,
there is a familiar bug bear standing outside of your house with a few of
your, uh, refugees and a drow. Correct?
Uh, so, uh, for any of you seeing Iran, I just wanted to, uh,
oh, just, uh, chat real quick. We're going to be.
Oh.
Uh, oh, Iran. Hello dear.
Hello. Um, oh, could I potentially speak to both of you over here quickly?
Oh, sure, sure, sure, sure.
Yes.
Just this way and I'm gonna move out of earshot of the other people.
Okay.
What are you doing here?
What are we doing? Oh, well see, a lot of things have been happening.
Weird shadow people as you know, um,
this and that. And well, we're trying to find, um,
we're trying to find laws right now and also mm-hmm. ,
we're trying to go, um, rescue Elaine's parents.
So we're going out of town, um,
for a few days to achieve that objective.
We also, we think VARs might be dead.
Or not here.
He's already dead.
Possibly.
A lot of people are dead.
And you know that he's dead.
Well, Callum was trying to reach out to him, but, uh,
I couldn't feel him anywhere. Didn't get any reception.
Pardon?
He, he has like magical powers where he can tell like if people are here,
like physically, like in this world or whatever,
and he couldn't feel him anywhere.
I see. So you guys are leaving town now.
Then? Yes. Uh, at least, um, for until,
until we can rescue alien's,
parents and maybe get some information on Kerick.
We, we also closed a portal that was like to a bad
place.
I Iran, you, you seem a little, um, off.
Yes. Uh, I think it should be more than a few days.
Okay. Like, uh, how long?
I don't think you should come back.
Not, not come, not come back to Tower four.
Either of you.
What, what? Why not.
Everyone is distinctly looking only at or bog when she says that.
. What?
But we're not even sure how much of the rest of the world still
exists with what's been happening.
I'm sure somewhere is safer for you.
Uh, I did you hear the whole tentacles out of the sky destroying everything
that I, um, I don't know that that's.
I don't think I did.
Yeah, that's what's been happening on the other continents and places.
But, uh, why, why do you want us to leave him? And we we're friends, right?
We want to stay, stay in contact. Uh,
come visit every now and then at least. I mean.
I have appreciated meeting you p indeed. Um,
this is Les about you,
so to speak.
Uh, who who is this about then? Is this about about you?
This is about you. And I will look it or about.
It's about me. Poo.
If you don't leave,
you are going to die.
Well, that's a little dramatic, don't you think?
No.
Not, I mean, just a little bit.
Well, even if I do leave, I might die.
Yes. But I won't have to help.
You won't have to help You won't have afternoon.
What now.
Have to help. What?
Amen. Are you saying what? I think you're saying?
What do you think I'm saying?
P Um, are you,
are you threatening or bug right now?
Yes, I am saying what you think? I'm saying.
Why.
I don't even want to be king. What threat am I?
It doesn't really matter what you want,
which is true I think of many people.
But I'm, I'm a drought now too. I mean.
Which will endear you to some and not to others.
And I think it's time that TowerFall goes through a change that they cannot go
through if your family is here.
Um, and I don't want to have to be a part of that when it comes to you.
So this is the only warning I will give.
Well, I mean,
I can't even just renounce my name and take on another name
or something. And I mean, I'm a draw now.
If you want to risk that I can't stop you,
but I don't suggest it.
My problem is I feel like this is the end of the world.
And even though a lot of the people here think I'm an idiot,
I
would would still rather be here than somewhere else. And.
For what it's worth, I don't think you're an idiot.
Which I don't realize it probably doesn't help much for me to say that given
that it is coming on the back of something a little
less friendly. But I don't see it going well if you stay.
I don't see it going well if I leave, I, I don't like their plan.
They're talking about going to hell and seeing demons
and things. And I didn't like it the first time we went.
Right. For Aileen's parents.
And, and information. Hopefully.
Right. We're trying to,
it sounds like a lot of really powerful duly, people are joining forces.
So.
I see. And you don't want to help with that.
And you want to stay here in risk being murdered. And by risk,
I mean it seems very likely.
Well,
can I request the person that kills me.
Such as.
You?
Well, that's bold. Um,
I would prefer not to have to kill you or bug, if I'm being honest.
I have thought of you as a friend for the most part most of the time kind of.
And I, I think no matter what, you know,
it's better if you die
to do it around people that are still your friends.
I don't know. I feel like if I'm going to die,
I'd rather do it in my home than in some far away place.
I don't think this is your home
and I don't think you think this is your home either.
Well, it's all I've known as a home.
I did have good memories with my mother.
Do you not have good memories with your friends?
They're mixed. Half the times they're possessed by demons and things.
He looks at poo.
. He's not wrong.
A as this conversation is going,
you become increasingly more aware of a whispering in the
background.
Of like the group.
No. Oh,
it's coming out of the it's coming out of shadowy corners and
obscure places that you can't quite discern.
I mean, oh.
I, yes.
I just, I mean,
you can't decide what all bugs thinks his home is.
Um, no. It's,
it does seem rather forward of you to try to
kill him, push him out of his, his home. And, uh,
I understand that you feel like there needs to be a change
and I think that you are a great person to,
to bring about that change. But does starting the change with,
uh, killing a bunch of people, is that,
is that the the right way to to to do do it?
The whisperings getting louder.
Wasn't that your goal with Lars as well?
Yeah.
That was one person, not a whole family.
Well, that's been going around lately.
Well, so that makes it okay then, right?
I don't mean to cut this short or try to deflect,
but do you guys see those shadows?
Uh, we've been seeing a lot of shadows lately.
Oh yes. Don't touch them.
Do it. Are they, can we see them? If we look.
Now that she pointed them out, you.
Don't see them. Um, she doesn't see them either.
It's just shadows here in general is where the whispering is coming from.
It's not coming from a person.
Rather.
Do you hear said shadows whispering.
Now that she points it out?
You guys do hear a vague whispering sound coming from the
shadows and obscured places.
Yes. There, there does seem to be some sort of mumbling or murmuring.
Uh, but, um, I can't, uh, I don't know what that is.
I don't think that this is going to be stopped. I don't mean the whispering,
but what's been set in motion?
Oh, bug. I can't speak for you. Um,
I want to see the best foot powerful and I, uh,
well, I don't know what that is. This isn't my,
this is in my home. This is your home.
This is Iran's home.
So I can't make a decision for you there. But if we, um,
need to leave, give, give some time,
maybe that would be better thing to do.
And maybe there will be a time where it's not dangerous for you.
Yeah. When the tentacles come from the sky and destroy everything.
If anyone has the wherewithal to face whatever that is,
I think it might be you guys,
or maybe just the lack of risk management to say no.
Well, from what we've been experiencing today and recently,
I think they're coming here.
I, I'm making, uh, um, I don't know.
Does a as above, so below,
does that mean anything to anyone?
As he says this, that forward phrase,
a sign appears in the sky as one hand with two fingers
pointing up and another hand with two fingers pointing
down.
And you hear a loud explosion from the northern part of northern
tower fall.
And I will look that way.
Uh, as you look that way, you see a flood of shadows
spewing from the ground,
like exploded oil rig and a series of tentacles like you
have never seen before.
This seems fine.
Uh,
it might just be the time that we have to do
the thing you were talking about Emron and.
Wow, I'm so worried about being assassinated now.
Emron is already going back towards her friends.
Oh. About. This is not the time to, for snide remarks.
That's, that's how I deal with things.
Well, in that case, be as sni as you want.
To. Actually, I need to make a correction. Emin,
you have seen these tentacles before.
Boy have I Yum, yum. Souls.
Where, where, what is everybody doing?
I need to know what the three of you are doing right now.
I'm running.
Emin is going back towards Brita and Gallier to make sure,
I don't know they're moving.
Who is heading towards the tentacle explosion thing?
Um, geez. I hate for us all to go different directions.
Uh, or bug's running towards the tower.
The fallen tower.
The fallen tower. Oh.
Oh, okay. So not only did.
We split, man really did say all three directions.
. Yeah. For real. Um, okay. Yeah. Well,
let's go ahead and resolve the easiest one first. Uh,
emron your friends,
they're scattering like they were on board for some espionage.
And.
I'm gonna make this easier.
And she will also yell that they should all go towards the tower,
cuz that's probably the safest plate.
Yeah. So they are running towards the tower, uh,
based off of your command and want of any other ideas at,
at juncture. Uh.
Fair. Same Bud .
Um, so yeah. Orach,
you're following them into the tower poo as you go,
as you start running towards the tentacles,
you are going against the flow of individuals who are running Yep.
Also to the south.
So you are having a hard time making your way north as you are making your way
north. You see something very familiar to you as well as these are
similar to the tentacles that came from the sky in water deep as
they are snatching people up. Mm-hmm.
and pulling them into the ground.
Um, well, I will, uh, I'm gonna keep running forward and Okay.
Keeping, trying to keep people away from the tentacles as much as they can.
Get outta here. Stay.
Away with, with that, I'm gonna head over, I'm gonna switch over to, uh,
Callum and Felix.
And we shouldn't have used that spell on or bog today.
really should have taken care of. Number one first .
Choices. Uh, so as you guys.
I'm happy, I love you or bog.
As Callum and Felix are approaching Felix's house,
you guys also hear a massive explosion come from northern,
northern tower fall.
What was that?
Yeah, I don't, I'm gonna look in the direction of that explosion.
You see large tentacles flying out from under the
ground. And again, a geyser of oil,
except these are shadows and your fixation starts
to kick in as you recognize these tentacles.
Okay.
I'm going to take off my blindfold.
Oh no. Uh, make a wisdom save Callum.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
What is a 16?
But I'm also going to add a D six because he
is most definitely my prey. .
I is a dirty 20. Okay.
You feel like you should be afraid of this, but you, uh,
steal your resolve. You know what this is.
Uh, I'm, how far are we from Wilder's house?
You're in front of it.
Oh, we are already at his house. Yeah. Is uh,
your daughter here? We should go. I should, we should go.
We should go away from that Wilder.
Yeah. Um, I actually don't know why we came this way. She's not here.
She's she's at the castle.
She she was safe.
Which, which castle?
Which the.
The she? Where is she? She's.
She's, she's in Southern Tower Hall. She's, she's fine.
Okay. That's where we need to go, right? No, I think.
Uh, yeah.
Uh, I'm gonna grab Wilder
and I'm gonna attempt to fly us rapidly in the other direction.
Okay.
And then I will complain that Wilder is heavier than alien. .
I'm gonna hoist this. Uh, fixated man. .
All right, so you guys are heading back to man Lagar. Yeah.
And I'll cast, uh, sending to p say, uh,
hi. [inaudible]. Uh, things are bad.
We're going to the castle down in the south. How are you? Exo?
Um, hey. Yep. Yep.
Big tentacles not good
or bug headed. That way.
You might be able to see calm fly. Exo hangs and kisses.
. Now this, now this is where it gets difficult.
Cause I don't know which partition I want to go with.
I've got three to work with. We'll start with poo.
You get to the front stairs of circler as you watch these tentacles
at, for as many as are pulling people down into the ground,
the ca the castle, by the way. Mm-hmm. is completely exploded.
There's nothing left of it except for rubble all over. Oh, okay.
And for as many tentacles as our pulling people down into the ground,
another shoots up. There's never an absence of tentacles.
And the ground in front of you opens up.
But what protrudes from it is not a tentacle,
but it is a familiar looking bug bear.
Is that, is that your Christopher?
Yes, it is. I.
Why are you in the ground?
One might say, I'm utilizing the tunnels that are underneath.
People use them,
but they never seem to question where they originally came from.
It's an excellent resource. I brought a visitor to the party,
by the way.
I wouldn't call this a party necessarily, but yet what,
what do you have?
What do I have?
I mean, who's the visitor? What's, I assume you've got something going on here.
Oh.
.
This my friend is our Lord and master
kerik.
Now wait a minute. I think I thought we fixed. You.
Fixed. How would you define fixed?
You take the bug bear to the vet.
The last, the last time we were, we, we were together.
You were like,
you always were a little younger and
more naive and.
And happy a tool in the hands of my master.
Submit yourself to this fate. P and join me.
Join us in our glorious appearance as
the supreme consciousness on this waste of a plane.
Is this it? The end then Christopher?
Is this the last place you haven't touched?
Well, that would be telling on myself now, would it?
Well, what's, what's the harm? And it's, Christopher, you want me to join you?
What would be the fun in giving you options?
Well, it just means that you'd have more of an uphill battle.
Poo join us.
You don't need to be the,
like the rest and fodder and
feed for the master bow down to something that is greater than
yourself for the first time.
And understand what it means to actually be on a winning side.
I'm not like the rest. I'm going to fight against this Christopher.
And I'll have, you know,
I have bowed down to something greater than myself.
I'm not a monk for no reason.
And you have chosen the way of pain.
No, not, not actually. It's the way of the opened fist,
I believe is what I chose. But.
As you, as you say this, uh,
you br for a brief moment,
you see that there is a tentacle coming down directly at you.
I will jump into the hole that, uh,
Christopher is kind of in.
Macon, uh, athletics.
Check please or acrobatics all, all allow acrobatics for it as well.
21.
Okay. As you dive towards this hole, this other bug,
bear swipe goes barely grazes past
you. You do make your way down into the tunnel system below.
What direction are you gonna go? North or south?
I'll head south now. Okay. Way from, yeah.
Okay. With that, uh,
we will now go to the emin or bog combo.
I like the sound of that.
I bet you do. Weirdo.
Hey, no hard feelings about threatening your life, right? .
Oops.
Actually, it's amazing how much a cataclysm can change someone's outlook on a
relationship.
No, .
I mean, literally. And this is what, this is why I said that was, um,
Orba was thinking that he was gonna go, uh,
to the tower and just wait for his assassins to come there.
And that's basically where he was gonna make his last stand.
Okay.
What do you know we're.
Following him? So he was already thinking about like heading there and,
but now he will be running there and,
and yelling to anybody that's over there.
Light it up, pop light it up.
I think that's also copyright.
.
Okay, so yeah, you're in,
I'm you're in the lead going towards the tower.
This is what it's like to have long legs.
She's gonna bring up the rear. Make sure everyone gets there.
Okay. Uh, well, as you're bringing up the rear,
you see a tentacle come down from the come down and it
picks up Bria.
Can I attempt to slash said tentacle.
? You can always certainly try.
I sure would like to do that.
If it makes holes in her, she could be a red of filter.
. She's Bria Bria 26.
Does that hit this tentacle?
Yes, it does. It hits, go ahead and roll. Damage.
17. Damage.
This blade barely cuts into this tentacle,
but it does react as it grabs hold of Bria and it
swings her around by the head and slams her into you like
using her as a club. Uh, you take 25, uh,
bludgeoning damage as this, as Brita hits you. And,
and it it lets go of Brita after it hits you with her as the tentacle
retracts itself.
Brita looks up at you with terror on her face and she goes, um,
am I, I can't move.
I will put her upon my back and
book it.
Okay? So you do, uh,
you make it into the cathedral and or bog is there with you as well as
a, a massive influx of a bunch of people from Northern Tower fall.
And Emma's gonna stay outside the door once she drops.
Bri off. Okay. Uh, you put Brita in there.
I'll leave her in the faithful hands of her husband.
Okay? He's holding her and you go back outside.
What are you doing as you are outside?
Making sure people get inside. Okay. Yeah.
There're I'm ready to more tentacles. Let's go. .
.
I got a lot of pent up rage.
All right. Orach,
you make your way into the tower and there's a lot of people in there.
You said the, um, shadows were pouring out too, right? Mm-hmm. ,
are they behind the tentacles or are they kind of in front of them or
what.
Around, I mean, they're not connected to the tentacles.
Just because,
because he was thinking one of the reasons to go to the tower
was because of all the lanterns and everything there. Mm-hmm.
to help have light to drive them away. Mm-hmm.
. That makes sense.
He was gonna tell whatever, uh, people were in there to start.
I, I mean, that's why I was saying light it up, up because Okay, gotcha.
He, he really did want them to light it up.
Okay. So yeah, you get in, you get in, uh,
you get in there and you talk to the highest ranking Abbott that you can find in
there and let him know what you know about what's going on.
And word begins to go throughout the, uh,
tower there to light the.
Lanterns. I mean, he's gonna be looking for Emin after he does that.
And if he doesn't find her inside, he is gonna head outside. Although, yeah,
there's a lot of people in here. So there's.
A lot of people in there and outside. Uh,
make an investigation check at disadvantage please.
Uh, 16.
Okay. After a long time of searching, I'd say probably about, well,
what feels like a long time of searching.
You do see Emron outside ushering people in and it should, uh,
stray, tentacle come down.
She's attacking it viciously with this new grave of hers.
Well, he'll, he'll help, he'll try to help attack the tentacle too.
So that's how you guys are spending your time. Let's go ahead and go to,
uh,
Felix and Callum as you arrive
in ca to Castle. Man. Lagar.
They probably went through right before we , right before we got there.
Well, they were flying so they went up and over.
They were cheating. Yeah.
I definitely couldn't make it all the way flying, but as far as I could. Mm-hmm.
And also you're heavy, very sorry, but you're very heavy.
Sorry.
Starts running.
. Yeah. So we're just on foot at this point.
And as you're on foot running, um, on occasion they're,
they don't seem to want to really come so far south as they are
restrained a bit from the ground,
but some of the longer tentacles as you've been running and flying, they,
you see them pulling people off the ground and pulling them back to wherever the
tentacles originate at. As you see them pull away,
these bodies turn to Ash as they're being pulled away from the ground.
And now that you've gotten a closer look at that, so,
um, but you eventually do make your way to Castle man Lagar.
So it is just pandemonium chaos in the castle. Um,
are there people still trying to get in?
You notice that, that, uh,
people are trying to take the tunnel back down to the
under dark to get away from these things.
So there's a lot of people who are jamming up that terminal. Um,
you do see some people get trampled in the process as well.
Uh,
I'm going to try and squeeze through people in order to help people that have
fallen over. Mm-hmm. basically try and make more room.
Guys need to just, I know you're scared. I know you're panicked. You just,
you have to slow down. Just try and keep a little bit of order.
It will also help in the same way.
Do you have something of your daughters or just, you know, a general,
very quick description so that you can jog my memory of what she looks like?
Oh yeah, of course.
I know exactly what she looks like and I describe that Callum.
Whether or not I saw her before. I don't know. I'll cats locate creature on her.
Okay. Um, yeah, you don't, you don't pick anything up.
It's probably fine.
What, what do you mean? It's probably fine.
I wouldn't find her.
Callum.
Mm-hmm.
. I don't like this.
I don't either.
Okay. Um, okay, fine.
We need to help the people. That's important. Um,
but eventually we're gonna have to shut these doors.
They can't stay open forever. Uh, have you seen anyone else?
I know that this might not be the right time for it, but perhaps you could,
you know, talk to Leona. I, you know, I don't know.
I feel like maybe, you know, she, you said that she helped with your daughter,
so, um, you know.
Okay. I'm.
Glad you can. It's probably important. It's.
That's.
Amazing. I'm trained really hard not to think about certain things,
so I'm focusing on other things.
Okay. Good, good. Um, . Okay. Leona,
I dunno if you're busy right now or not, but we definitely need to talk.
You should, you should mention your daughter.
You definitely need to talk and we need to talk about ll like now. Please.
There's no response.
Okay. I don't,
I don't know if I did something to like really upset you so that you are not
talking to me. But I would really appreciate right now if,
if you just kind of put that down and th this is important to both
of us. Please.
Callum, she's not answering me.
I don't understand women. Um, okay,
well we can, uh, where did you last leave her?
Because I can go check the castle real fast to me. Everyone downstairs and then,
you know, we, if we split up.
I mean, I,
I could head back to the room that we set up for but you're not picking anything
up.
No. Uh, but if Alien goes that way and I go this way and you go that way,
we'll cover this no time.
Ah.
Just a quick run around, we'll all yell her name. It'd be great.
And at that I'm going to use
Misty step and speed myself up a little bit.
I'm just gonna run down a hall to where I know she's at and use Misty step just
to pick my speed up.
You get to the room, it is super disheveled. Like it's been ransacked,
but no sign of her.
I mean, to use my,
my little walkie-talkie and call Callum. Hey,
she's not here and the room's a mess. She,
somebody took her and I, I don't know what to do.
I we can't.
You and Alene take care of everybody else. I will look for her.
Okay. Okay. Will it be safe? Uh,
if you're not back down there in like 10 minutes, I will come back up.
Okay.
Hey Sayo, so you're busy right now. We could have a chat.
I'm that, nope,
this is where we're gonna shut it down for the evening because Wow.
Okay. Um, , thank you everybody. I,
I'm speechless. I, sorry. Just okay. We'll see you next time .
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