Wilder. Where's Xen?
Oh, bog. I, I think she might be dead in the castle. Um,
we, we, we need to go. I, I.
Dead in the castle.
Zay, I'm a little dizzy. Zao did something to her.
I saw a collapse and she didn't get up. Just,
we should go follow Callum. Maybe that's where Callum's going.
Okay. He'll, he'll, he'll give one quick look back towards Embr and,
and just follow Wilder.
No
playing games with,
with strangers,
with ssss.
Let's go to Emron cuz I wanna see how this resolves.
Me too. How fast is your movement? Speed.
Cute little blonde girl.
a hundred feet now .
Yes. In one turn.
It's 30.
You're gonna have to run faster.
. Well,
there's a bunch of other people I'm hiding in the crowd.
Uhhuh. .
Yeah.
Okay, I'd like to follow the feeling of Rhoda.
Well, as you start to, as you start to follow the feeling of Rhoda,
you hear Rhoda's voice shouting out behind you saying, m m what's going on?
Why are this tentacles coming from the sky?
Doesn't even stop. Sorry, that's not my sister.
you weird, little creepy child.
All right. As you run into the tower and you,
you, you, you follow the feeling of Rhoda,
you encounter this blonde lady in, in the,
who is in the tower. I'm, what are you,
what are you doing once you reach the tower? Mayor, let me ask you that.
I was trying to get to the safest place I could find.
So maybe down the stairs to the basement.
Okay. You, you, you watch as this blonde lady is looking around
for something. You, you, you don't know her, her intentions,
but, uh,
she seems to know what she's doing as far as trying to get
safe.
Yeah. I'd just like to catch up.
And then the closest wall is where I would like her to be.
Thank you.
So you're gonna push her into a wall?
Yes. Politely.
I'm being friendly right now.
Should, should this So like a grapple.
Yeah. That sounds like what I would be doing.
I would like you both roll athletic, uh,
Mayra roll an athletic save and go ahead and roll an
athletic check. Uh, Emron.
Ugh, 24.
Well, I, I rolled in at 20 and then I have a plus one.
So you rolled a 21.
Ye well, yes.
. Well, yeah, John, that's how Matt works.
Na twenties. Na. Okay, so for everybody out there in listener land,
Nat twenties are not guaranteed successes when it comes to, uh,
attributes.
No. But it might be. So I thought I'd give that to you so you knew.
Technically they're not a guaranteed success for anything ,
depending on acs.
So anyway, uh, so yeah, as you are trying to find the stairs,
all of a sudden you feel this palm into your shoulder and you slam into a wall
and you're looking into the face of a font tar.
She's very friendly looking. Mm.
Is she?
Well, maybe not. What's your name?
Who wants to know.
Me?
You don't look like someone I know.
I will just push my grave slightly into her back.
My back's Wait, is my back against flaw or is my front dance?
I know you said shoulder blades. So , whatever part is closest to me.
It's Mera. But you didn't tell me your name.
You didn't ask. I've been looking for you.
Why?
And apparently something that you have.
I don't have anything of value.
I beg to differ.
Okay. I'm gonna try to get out of this.
Contested athletics.
This Friday situation.
Yeah, I'd like to try to, to sidestep out and under.
So roll an athletics check.
27.
I didn't like that.
Uh, six.
So she, she squirms under your hand, but you gotta firm hold on her.
As Smokey Robinson once said, you really gotta hold down.
May.
Let me leave.
Has implicated you in.
What I would like to think is a relatively personal attack on me and
my family.
I have no idea what you're talking about.
I don't care. I do.
I'm gonna start patting you down, like searching you.
. Okay.
Uh, make an investigation check. Are you resisting this? Pat down?
Yes. Make it with weird. Can't imagine. Why.
Make it with disadvantage.
Oh, geez, Louise. Hang on. My days just went halfway across the room.
That's why you always have spares.
Uh, investigation.
Uh, yeah. Make an investigation. Check at disadvantage please.
At disadvantaged. It's a 10.
Uh, you just, you're unable to find what you're looking for.
Can I,
can I cast misty step while grappled out of this situation?
Um.
It's.
A teleport.
It is a teleport, but if it has, if you're grappled,
you won't be able to do somatic movements.
So does it have a somatic element to it, is the question?
No, it's instantaneous verbal.
So it's only verbal. Okay. Uh, yeah, you can missy.
Stuff Goodbye.
.
So yeah, this person bas out of your grip.
As far as possible. And then I am also going to turn invisible and run.
Oh, invisible people. I'm gonna continue to follow the feeling of Rhoda.
.
Okay. Uh, make a perception check.
19 Plus 6, 25.
Okay? Yeah. You, you can feel this feeling, uh,
and you are following it throughout the castle.
We're gonna leave you in this chase.
The tower, not the castle.
Whatever. Uh, we're going to,
we're gonna leave you in this chase as we are going to go to Wilder and or bog
and Callum as you head to Castle. Man. Lagar.
I'm gonna use the stone of I.
How far would you say Callum got before we took off?
I dashing, so.
Okay. I would.
Yeah. But how fast do you're moving?
All my speed. Yeah, I was gonna say,
which is not as fast as Emirates speeds in pursuit of this place.
We, we know AAM is dashing. I mean, you don't have to, it's.
Screw.
Uh, so yeah,
we probably would've been able to catch up with Callum pretty quick.
I would assume.
What's, what's Callum's speed to every speed? 30. All right. Yeah.
Halfway there. If you guys are dashing unless, uh, Callum's dashing too. Yeah.
Yes. I I'm not taking any either actions. I'm just,
but Wilder will catch up before anyone else will.
Why? You're both at 30.
He's, he's a rope. Okay. He can dash his a bonus.
All right. He, he has that. All right. So yeah, Wilder.
Wilder does catch up with you. Leaves or bog a little bit behind.
Okay.
But I can throw a Javelin accountant, right?
? Yes you can. From that distance, correct?
Uh, Callum. Um, my brain's a little fuzzy. What happened?
Aileen?
Well, uh, so they also looked at her and then killed her.
That's what I thought.
How are you feeling? You feeling better? Her, uh, dizzy? Oh yeah. What he,
what he, where would he come from?
Yeah, that was definitely my fault. And I apologize. Um,
I panicked a little. Uh, I really messed things.
Up. I mean, that's, you know, given, you know, the, everything that makes sense.
Panic is a logical way to go about it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
So where did he come from? Maybe we should circle back to that, I guess.
Yeah. He didn't really like to answer any of my questions, so.
Um, that's fair. He's not very, he's not one for answers as much as he is for.
Questions. Indeed. Uh, can you do anything about a lean?
I should probably slow down for obo. We'll meet you there. Oh.
Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Sounds good. Great.
Orba, as you're ro running along, you see, uh,
Wilder just standing there waiting for you.
I'm gonna cast javelin. No, sorry.
I, I'm, I'm sorry. I.
Uh, that's.
Great. Callum's gonna go check on Aen. Um,
I think he said he can do something. Uh, and I wanna apologize.
The Zao thing, that's entirely my fault. Uh,
panicked.
It's okay. I kind of enjoyed hitting him.
Oh, good. At least somebody enjoyed something involving him. Uh, okay.
Hey, what.
Got are you break in this new body? Yeah.
What are you and Emron doing? Was there a thing? What?
What do you mean? What, what.
Thing? I don't know. You were together. I didn't know what was going on.
Uh.
I don't think we were ever together.
No, I mean, like, in the same location. Not like, right.
Not like that. We were fighting tentacles from the sky.
Right?
Not from the sky.
Tentacles. From a really gross room.
There you go. .
Okay. Seems to be a lot of that. Um, sorry,
I'm just trying to gather my bearings and all.
So what if maybe we make sure the people inside get to some kind of
safety, kind of pick up where Alien and Callum were before?
I totally mess things up.
Okay. Yes. No hacky, slashy run in. I.
Mean, if we.
Have cower in fear.
Sure. But if we have to fight, we will fight.
Well, we, yeah, we can try to save people. Cause we're like heroes and stuff.
Supposedly. I don't know who got that in our heads, but, okay. Um,
let's,
let's go catch up with Callum and help hold people and keep 'em safe
at.
That moment.
You hear a familiar ban from behind you, Wilder.
I'm gonna turn around.
And you turn around and see Leona. And she goes, I'm sorry.
I came as fast as I could. I was busy getting ll to safety.
Oh, well, uh, yeah.
I I might have messed things up a lot. . You don't have to. Well,
if you, you can stay. I don't care. Nevermind. I'm gonna mess things up, Leona,
like, in a bad way.
Okay, well that's not important right now.
Right now we need to worry about everybody else and getting them to safety.
Um, what's the plan?
Uh,
the only plan I have right now is to help people inside and catch up with
Callum, because, uh, supposedly Eileen's dead. Uh,
I talked to XOs.
You, you did what? Now?
I told you I messed things up. I'm not good at, at fixing things.
I continue to mess things up. I don't wanna get into that.
But Eileen might be dead.
I don't know if he can do anything about that or if Callum needs to or.
Okay. I can't.
I'm sure she could do something about.
That. Okay. I'm going to, I'm gonna try to help out with this. Uh, you,
you may or may not understand, uh, if Alene is dead,
she's in a bad place right now. I need to make sure she is not consumed.
Um, I'll be back and you watch her. Bam. Away.
Okay. A bog. Let's go find Callum. Yes.
Yes.
Bring Callum.
Slow down.
See what the long legs do. You're not used to 'em.
I know, I know. Check.
This out.
You're actually being able to move faster and further than he used to on your
little stubby legs.
I think if I shaved him, I could move even faster.
Probably wore Speedo, all that stuff.
Mm-hmm. .
Yeah. Probably great swimming now.
Yeah. It's new character art. But you know.
Alene,
where you are is a darkened field where
a bunch of people are standing with terrified looks on their face,
and you're watching as one by one.
A tentacle will come down and pluck them up and throw them into the,
one of the mini MAs of this creature that you are seeing at the center of this
realm.
Yay.
As you are standing there, all of a sudden you,
there's this bright light that flashes next to you,
and suddenly there's Leona standing next to you.
Okay.
Okay. So, um, hi.
Hi.
You're, uh, do you know where you're at? Do you know what's going on?
No.
Uh, you're dead. Um, this is where people have been going lately.
Like I said, they're not crossing over. Uh,
I am here to make sure that,
and she points out one of the tentacles snapping down isn't gonna happen to you.
Oh, okay.
Okay. Are you, are you okay?
I mean, I'm dead, so I don't really have a choice in that matter, do I?
Fair enough. Um, I have a feeling some somebody's trying to rectify that,
but, uh, we need to hang tight here. And as,
as she says,
and you watch as this chemical comes down and wraps around Leona's
waist, and she grabs onto your shoulders and she goes, oh,
oh God. There's something there already. Uh, do, uh,
Elaine, yes. The realm, the realm can't have,
the realm can't go on. It'll fall apart if it doesn't have,
and she's struck fighting against this, this tentacle. She goes,
if they don't have an aspect of death,
but your spot is being taken,
do you renounce tona renounce telo right now?
Yes. Yes. Yes.
As, as you renounce tona, um,
go ahead and cross off those abilities you got from, from Raghu,
having rahoo,
and you feel something some other power enter into you.
And at, and she goes, and, and before she,
before she lets go, she goes, tell Wilder I loved him,
and then she flies off.
I'm not emotionally prepared for this.
Uh, Callum. Uh, you make it to the,
you make it to man lagar.
People are still ushering themselves down into the under dark, um,
a's body has been shuffled to the side.
No respect, I tell ya. Alright, cool.
You, you make it there. There's, there's a lot of people dying. I, it's, it's.
Fair.
It's, it's a thing.
Uh, yeah. You know, that happens. I can only do so much. Ah, great.
Gonna take it that it took me a few more than a couple seconds to get back here.
Yeah.
Okay. Well, neat. Nato, big fan. Well, I guess I'll,
uh, oh Lord. Literally,
I'm gonna look at stumble foot and say This is a mess. Uh,
who will be here for the next eight hours as an aside? . Great. Well.
One of those spells.
Before I do this, I guess I need to go find a diamond somewhere.
You, you can always try to crowdsource it.
Does anybody have a diamond? Just any,
we're gonna put it on your star not using currently.
Anyone, anyone? Hold on This.
I will say there are a couple, there are a couple bodies.
Yeah, I'm just, I mean, yeah, I'm just, I mean, I'm just gonna start,
if I can't find 'em on a person, I'm just gonna search the castle for one.
I've got some time now as I have to use a different spell. So.
All right. Uh, roll an investigation check.
You, you should investigate Elaine's possessions. Okay? I mean, I, I,
you're one of the bodies . That makes sense. Hey, guess what?
It's gonna take me a little while.
If we use this investigation check as like a timeline of how long it takes me,
it's gonna take me a while.
, what did you roll?
Uh, seven.
Okay. Um, yeah. By the time you,
you finally find, what, what kind of diamond do you have?
Um, I have on here that it's worth 300.
Gold. Is that gonna be enough?
I need to find a second one. Great. So I found one diamond.
I need to find another diamond .
Okay. So you find the first one fairly easily, but, uh, by the,
by the time you find the next one, uh, or bog and wilder are there,
uh.
Great.
I'm assuming you let them know what you're looking for.
Oh yeah. If y'all want to help find another diamond,
we can take care of this situation cuz it's not going great.
And I don't have locate object prepared.
Supposedly. I'm good at that.
So I'm gonna investigate to find a diamond as well.
Okay. Uh, being as, uh, you are being helped,
go ahead and roll Investigation with Advantage.
I gave you some thumbs up.
Dunno that I need it, but, uh, it was a 25.
Yeah, you easily fined one.
Got it. Callum? Uh, i, I take it.
This is to like bring Aen back.
No, I just thought I'd really like a diamond room. .
Yeah. Okay. My, but that's fine.
Yeah. It's to bring Aen.
Back. I'm dead. I'm, I'm dead. And you killed me.
No. Eileen's dead. No, that's me. I'll be here for the next hour.
So if y'all don't want to do anything else, Hey, where's Poo?
Uh, he went north.
Why did he go north? That's a stupid question. What is he doing North?
I know the why.
That's also a dumb question cuz we never know why Poo does anything.
Well.
I know why he's doing it. I just wanna know like where, nevermind,
I'll be here for an hour and then we'll figure it out.
Again. Poo doesn't tell us things. He just kind of goes and does.
Okay. Um,
can I loot just a couple more bodies just in case I
don't know, more diamonds.
Just in case he wants to try being a rogue before he dies.
Dave actually wants to do rogue things.
I am not gonna insult him for this because, uh.
I will.
I I want to encourage this, all of this.
Hey, you know,
how many episodes have I not done this when I should have over
the course of nearly a hundred total episodes?
Um, okay. Yeah.
Go ahead and roll an investigation check to loot and otherwise
pillage this castle under the apocalyptic settings.
That was a 16.
All right. Uh,
were you looking for something specific or just whatever you can get your hands
on.
Let's just go with more diamonds,
just because I assume Callum needs them and they're powerful.
Okay. Um, as far as diamonds are concerned,
you probably find about two more.
One that's worth 150 and another one that's worth about seven 50.
Okay. I'm gonna go check on people. Okay. Inside the castle,
be heroic. And I'll.
Callum in a spell that should have taken longer.
After about only 20 minutes of casting it,
a lean pops back.
Oh, goodie. Oh,
and she's just gonna continue to screen.
Oh. Uh, he just, he just pats her shoulder a few times.
Just there, there I know. Being, yeah. Me and dads a lot.
I understand. Do you need a hug.
Honey? A therapist?
Well, you know, I don't have that, but I spread my arms out.
. Elaine is going to to hug Callum.
They're there. It's all right. It's all right.
No, no, it's.
Not okay. No, I mean, I know it's not, but it will be eventually.
That's why we have each other.
I appreciate the bull crap that you're spewing right now,
because I understand the thought process behind it.
Yeah. I don't, you know, I don't have a lot else to spew, so,
but I can, I can give you some cure wounds, so I'll do that.
Does that deal with, with psychic and emotional wounds?
No. Nope. Just physical. Sorry.
Okay. Well.
But I have, let's see, some more numbers. 24 plus nine.
33 plus one moment.
42 points of healing. Ah, for you.
I appreciate that.
Callum, you also notice as you're performing this healing,
her body is not warming up. Like she still feels like a corpse.
I'm just going to casually use my little hunter sense.
[inaudible].
Okay.
.
And that does what?
Uh, oh, no, that's not the one I want to use Premeal awareness.
That's the one I wanna use.
And that does what?
Uh, that's the one Let's me know if there's like celestials, Faine on dead,
yada, yada, yada.
I'll, I'll, I'll I'll let you do this. Just because of what you are,
you don't pick up Sure.
You don't pick up any of the normal pings that you would get off of that
awareness,
but you do pick up a familiar ping that you normally would get off of
yourself.
That's weird. How you feeling Eileen? But,
but in less of the, like, emotionally more just like in the, in general.
I mean, other than having a very extreme panic attack,
I think I'm okay. Uh, adrenaline with.
Adrenaline. Yeah, that's fair. That happens when you come back to life.
Familiar. I've.
Done or bog. You are here for this whole conversation. By the way.
Elaine's gonna start rummaging through her, her bag.
Yeah. Well, or bog is a little, he, he,
he feels like Wilder is enjoying, uh,
checking out the bodies. She's a little tomb box. She cinnamons.
That's her. Uh, also, just in case you go looking for a diamond, uh,
I'm very sorry. It's not there anymore. I needed to use it to save your life.
Um, I'm, I'm okay with that. Thank you.
Oh yeah.
I just wanted Jude to be sure in case that's what you were looking for right
when you woke up.
Oh, no. Would you like, uh, would you like a,
a cinnamon roll or.
Brownie? Uh, I would like a nap actually, but.
I don't have one of.
Those. Yes. I will take that instead.
So do we still, we still need diamonds or no? Uh.
No. Well, I mean, eventually it may be given our propensity for a Diane,
but at current, no. However, I would say maybe somewhere safer.
And once I rest, maybe I can make this place even safer again.
But I have no ability at the moment. I'm kind of tapped out.
As you say that the roof in certain parts of the castle starts to cave in
as being struck by tentacles.
We should probably move.
What? Is that still happening?
Yeah, it never really stopped. Uh, so we should probably head down, uh,
also find poo. Yeah. So this has been a good day.
Hey, uh, I, I found, I found two diamonds, um, oh,
good.
Found if, I think, found isn't the right word. Were.
You using them? Were they using them? We are gonna use them probably, yes.
Well, Aileen came back from the dead. Maybe they would too.
Did see that. I'm gonna go up and I'm gonna hug. Aileen. Are you okay?
Maybe. Hey. Oh, I dunno. Direction.
I'm so sorry.
No, you, you're kind of cold. It's, it's okay. We can, we could warm you up.
You want my jacket?
Oh, Leon.
What about her? I mean, she's.
Yeah. What, what the heck? She's.
She's gone.
Gone like not here. No.
She.
No, I mean she, there,
there was this thing with TAFE and it was trying to get me,
and, and she put herself in the way.
She, she said to tell you that she loved you.
Okay. Okay. So she's, she's, she's gone.
Gone.
Yeah, I think so. She said something about their,
there has to be an aspect of death,
but I don't know who would've gotten that job.
Uh, well in.
Yes.
Hi.
Welcome.
I can't, no, no. I don't have the emotional bandwidth for this.
And do you think I do?
Oh, he definitely doesn't.
You need a I don't cup of coffee.
Maybe something stronger than coffee. I don't know. But welcome to the club.
It's a good club to be in. Uh, very sorry for your loss and your gain.
Okay, well let's, oh, oh,
Leland's just gonna like put her head between her.
Knees. There, there.
More of the castle starts to crumble.
Yeah, we should move.
We're running, moving, moving. We're moving. I'll just.
I'll just get Aen up to her feet.
. And we're going.
, we're gonna start a support group. Aen, don't you worry about it.
Okay.
It'll be me and you in a room talking about our lives. It'll be great.
Wilder, what aspect do you think you are?
Um, I don't know. O bug.
Um, sorry, I'm, I am sorry for your loss.
The honor was pretty hot. I mean, nice.
Yeah, you you go ahead. I'll, I'll bring up the rear and uh.
Hey Don, to get lost again cuz I don't want to confine anyone else.
No, no, no, no. I'll be right here. Just,
I'll just bring up to rear just a couple paces behind.
Well, I'm gonna be keeping an eye on you.
Got eyes in your head, not the back of them.
All right. And now we're gonna go to Emron and Mara.
Wonderful. I just want to talk. That's it.
I just wanna talk.
Okay. So Mira uh, go ahead.
Roll an investigation check cuz you,
I you said you were trying to find your way downstairs.
Uh, eight.
. Uh, yeah,
there's a lot of people moving around you g You got yourself turned around a few
times and whatnot and in the process of getting
turned around, you accidentally bump into the font tar that uh,
you tried to get away from, uh, a,
an invisible force bumps right into you.
And you have that overwhelming Rhoda sensation.
I'd like to smack it with the back end of my grave.
Uh, roll an attack with disadvantage cuz you are attacking something invisible.
Well, let's see. I rolled a three. Oof, but I get plus 13.
All right. You make contact. What's the damage?
Uh, I'm gonna use the backside of it. No, so just like the staff portion.
Uhhuh , which is one moment.
5, 6, 7, 8 bludgeoning damage.
And your speed is now zero.
So yeah,
you got smacked and you're a little bit dazed.
Ow. I may, I'm no longer invisible cuz I was attacked. Right.
Um, it's only, you're only invisible if you talk or attack yourself.
So the ow Well.
Yeah. , what you it hurt.
Yeah.
When you said ow that would make you not invisible but not the attack itself.
Cool.
I'm gonna give the font Tara a quick side-eye.
Whatever you have of my sister that has her in it,
I would like it. Please. Thank you.
You can't have it. It's mine.
No, it's my sister.
It's mine. I'm not giving you the child.
Why?
I found her. I'm keeping her.
Why.
You don't understand.
Then help me to understand because right now I will just take it
if you don't give it to me and I'd prefer not to.
They want her dead. She is mine.
Who?
One who looks like you.
One that looks like me wants her dead.
One of your kind.
Who?
I couldn't tell you that.
Because you don't know her because you're not going to tell me.
I only met her once.
You met her once. Older.
Younger.
Why? Why are we playing 20 questions? Don't you know them?
Yes. There's a lot of them though. So I'm trying to narrow it down.
Did she look kind of insulin and like bratty?
Yes, of course.
Hmm. Yes.
So what you currently have in that stone is her,
but it's not in her, which is my dilemma.
And also I will let nothing happen to her. So.
You're telling me they're the same, they're clearly two separate people.
They're, well,
I don't understand how magic works and I prefer not to understand how magic
works, but that's her soul from what I understand.
Based on things I've experienced as of late when it comes to people losing their
souls. Um, and that's her body,
which currently has something in it that isn't her.
But it was covered in blood and it killed my other siblings.
So I'd kind of like to take care of it. Thanks.
That sounded very violent. I don't think you should have her at all.
I don't think I care.
So I think you should give me my sister soul so I can help take care of it.
I would like my sister to be alive because currently most of my siblings aren't.
And it's been a really rough day for me. Okay.
I'm Emron by the way. I know you didn't ask my name.
You just made a comment about not knowing what it was,
but I figured I'd introduce myself in the sake of being a friend.
Mayra.
Uhhuh.
,
you are starting to put two and two together and you are beginning to realize
that this might be the sibling of the two other individuals that you helped
murder.
Yeah. Fun stuff.
We're trying not to discuss that part, John.
Yeah, we don't need to worry about that. That's fine. .
She doesn't need to know what she doesn't need to know.
I know. I'm just trying to play. Nice. Okay. .
You know.
Tom told me, okay, Tom told me.
fine, but you know.
I have, I have other things to take care of. So if you would just give me that,
I won't kill you.
Cuz it seems like the world is doing a good job of taking care of those things
on their own. So.
So mayor slowly reach into her hidden pocket,
slowly pull out her prize possession,
the soul stone and just hold it.
Not sure she wants to let it go just yet.
I'm just hold a handout for it. .
Fine.
She'll set it very slowly into your hand and still hold onto it.
, I'll do the, like, try to pull it away kind of.
Fist .
It's just that, just let, just.
Let go, let go, let go of it. Okay.
Thank.
You. A as you take possession of this,
you feel this embrace
that you only know from your sister.
I just hold it to my body. Um,
did I learn how they return to said bodies?
Great. We'll figure this out later. Thank you. Am I free to go now?
Yes. And if I ever see you again, I will kill you for killing my siblings.
So.
Ah, technically I didn't do the killing blow.
. Nope. I think that maybe we don't explain that. No,
it's been a pleasure.
. Sure.
I'm going to take this stuff stone. You.
Ever, you ever watch two cats circle each other right before they fight?
I feel like that's what I'm watching right now.
.
This fight would not go well for one of us if it took.
Place. Yeah, cuz one of us doesn't know what all she has.
just like to leave.
I just wanna go home. Um, great.
I'm gonna go find some family.
All right. So Mayra, I'm assuming you're gonna let her walk away.
Should I.
Just let like No,
I'm not going to do anything else to the nice lady who didn't kill me. Okay.
I'm just, I'm giving you the option.
I've been accused of railroading before so I I like to ask before.
No.
I'm okay. Okay. Little sad, but it's okay I guess.
Me too. Mara, me too.
Okay, so Emron, what are you,
you're gonna go looking for a receptacle for that?
No. Cuz I don't know how that works. Okay.
So I'm just gonna keep that okay with me.
And I'm gonna go look for the other family that I know is in the tower
somewhere.
Oh, that family. Okay. I sorry.
I know there's so many of us, so it's hard to a.
Little slow. Uh, make an investigation check for me please.
10.
No, you, you, you, uh, you know,
tower's a big place and it's kind of chaotic at the moment.
We'll come back to her in a few hours as she goes. Room to room.
. All right. Ah, meanwhile back at Castle man.
Lagar or underneath it at this point.
Yeah. How is the underside looking? You know,
seeing as how these tentacles are coming from the ground?
Surprisingly, uh, it's just a bunch of people down in the,
because they're all just down in the under dark.
Like they're not y y'all aren't in the drought city.
This doesn't go directly down in the Dr City, like below Castleman, Lagar,
there's a big, vast open area. Mm-hmm . Uh,
some people are holding torches,
so it's a little bit more illuminated than normal. Uh, but yeah,
it's just a bunch of people standing around. It's, it's almost like, uh,
it's almost like you,
you know that part in the battle of Helms Deep where all the civilians are hole
up in that room. It's kind of like that.
That doesn't, that doesn't end well for them. John,
I'm just why would you of all the comparisons.
Oh no. It was just the first thing that went through my mind.
So who's up for a nap? No, me.
Definitely me.
I have one use of sending left so I'm gonna use it.
Who are you talking to? Oh, what P went somewhere.
So I'm gonna use sending and then we'll find out in about two weeks what Poo
says when he replied right away.
No, I can answer for Poo.
I don't like the way you said that John ,
the way that you said that sounded a lot like I wouldn't get an answer from Poo.
What? Go ahead. Send you, go do ascending to Poo.
Hi, it's me, Callum,
your friend. You know. Uh,
so where are you at Buddy? How's it going?
Everything's good. Do you need help?
We're all mostly safe. Tata.
Uh, you get a response back? Uh, basically saying.
Oh Calvin, it's good to hear from you.
I'm on my way to Castle Stoker cuz that's where the tentacles are coming from.
I'm doing okay. But uh, you know, tentacles.
Poo sounds a little funny. I think we should check on it. .
Oh well , he seems fine. We'll take care of that.
Well is that where they were coming from before or where all the shadow things
were coming from? Mm-hmm. . Isn't that where we were?
Mm-hmm. .
We're in Manl car. No, we move around a lot.
Not that much. Dave literally talked about that foot map and uh.
Foot map.
We move, we move back and forth a lot.
Yeah, but we don't go a lot of other places.
Exactly. But we do move between those places in awful lot.
. Indeed. Sometimes multiple times per session.
. Yeah. So we went and did that door thing and then Oh that's right.
Cause then I remember now it all tracks. Great.
Okay,
well poos go into the other castle cuz that's where all the tentacles are by
himself,
which seems less safe but also I'm real tapped out so,
uh, I don't know what should we do?
Those who need to Rust can stay here.
And you are going where.
To help, help Poo.
Good idea. We could all just split up and then everybody dies. That's,
that's great.
So you're okay with Poo dying because your girlfriend died?
What if no one dies?
Oh, that'd be a miracle.
Yeah. Uh, yes it would. Uh.
Didn't you just raise somebody from the death.
? Yeah, but I can't do that again until tomorrow. So I mean,
if we keep bodies close, I could do it tomorrow. Still it'd just be less fresh.
So we just.
That's that's the plan for poo.
Well, no, I'd like to get Poo and bring him back. So, I mean, to be fair,
I could get there probably without getting noticed and see if we couldn't get to
come back here.
But I don't know that everyone should go and die to the
tentacles out there. You know.
That, that's, that's actually not a bad.
I would like to.
I would like to submit. I have met my quota for Dan.
For the day. Yeah, you should rest.
And I have the sending stone so we could talk to each other cuz I can't cast
send no more.
Okay.
And I suppose Orba, if you want to come,
I can also make you pretty stealthy as well and we, we could just go find pool,
come back, regroup.
I don't, I don't like leaving him alone.
Well, me neither.
That's why we would be going to get him to come back here and regroup.
All in favor?
Aye. Oh good.
Wonderful. All right.
And the minority. Ah.
Ooi.
Well none of those are actually the answers except for Wilder.
So I guess we'll do this then. Let's go .
Everyone here. Stay safe, please.
Will do. I would like to rest.
Good plan. Good plan. Uh, well if anything happens,
there's still that stumble foot up above the stairs that'll hopefully stop
anything from getting too close. So.
Stumble.
Foot, did you bring him back? No. It, I, you I'm sure you all saw it.
It was just kind of that big spectral.
I thought that's what that was, but I was like, no,
I was probably still recovering but it was uh, yep. Uh,
okay. Interesting.
I need to learn some cool magic cuz I suck right now.
Well, I could teach you a few things.
It just requires kind of giving your entire life to Jesus. So.
I've given my life to a lot of people lately. I think I need a break.
That's fair. Sorry. You know, you think about it and we'll go find poo.
Okay.
We'll take off.
Okay. Uh,
you start heading back up the stairs and as you're heading
up the stairs, you hear a loud smashing sound.
You get to the top of the stairs but the door won't open.
It's almost as if there might be a several tons of rubble on top of it.
Okay, well I guess we go the long way . Uh,
it might take us a few minutes,
but we just have to go to the north side of the island from down here and then
we'll get back up that way that I found that one time.
And then we'll go to the castle. Bob's your uncle. Life's good.
Okay. I didn't understand half of that.
That okay. That's fine. I don't understand half of what I say either.
I was gonna say let's get ready to rubble, but.
You know, that's a pretty good one. It was funny.
. Oh, or Bo you're the or Bogies.
.
Um, okay. Uh, back to Emron. So yeah,
with that 10, you, you don't find them.
Oh, great. I'm gonna look around for the Demonn child.
Are you talking about Rhoda?
Yeah.
Uh, you head back to where you had last seen her, uh,
roll an investigation check.
I'm again so good at these A 12.
Mm-hmm. . Okay. Um, after searching around the general area,
you find her head.
Oh.
And the AED out bottom chunk of it.
Interesting. Today's been a lot.
I see. Okay. Okay. This is fine. This is fine.
Everything is fine.
It's fine. Okay. I'm gonna sit down.
And on that note, we're gonna go ahead and
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