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You open the store and you see several civilian looking people standing
within the vicinity,
and they look startled as this man with a sword comes
out of this doorway and they have a look of panic on their face as they look
upon you.
Sorry to, to interrupt. Um, and, and no need for alarm.
I'm gonna sheath my sword.
Can you kind of gimme a good whereabout of where we're at?
They all look shaken.
Like there's gonna be a lot of PTs d in tower fall going
forward. The one who seems the most composed is like, um, uh,
maybe the tower. This
staircase opened and we're down
here, so possibly it's hard to say.
Okay. Okay. Um, so I just, I just came from a group of people.
Uh.
There was a bug bear at selling everybody to get underground,
but he was waving his arms and screaming and a.
Bug bear. Okay. Um, that's good. Good. And he's actually a friend of mine.
Could you tell me which? There.
Was this dear lady walking around with a head and a knife
on a stick.
Huh? Oh, interesting. Uh, I believe that was my friend as well.
Probably not good. First impressions of Eva? Them, um, uh,
could you tell me where the bug bear went?
I, I don't, we, we ran from him. He was terrifying.
He was wearing the uniform of the new guard.
Although it didn't leave much to the imagination, it was quite tight on him.
Uh, yeah, he's, he's a big boy. Are you, are you currently safe?
Uh, do you, do you need anything?
Another person looks up and in a grizzled voice of just,
she abandon. Just goes, is anybody, is anybody safe?
That is a very good question, and I wish I could answer that. Um,
now I will say, I believe the people that I just came from.
If, if you would like to come down here, if you follow this, this tunnel back,
you'll, you'll encounter them. Uh, my friend Eileen's there and,
and she's trying to assist and, and get everybody taken care of.
So if you are, I I, if you're comfortable, you could go down there. Um,
I do need to find my Bbe friend though. Wilder.
What's your passive perception?
20.
Oh, geez. Yeah. You smell food like a home cooked meal.
Food.
Okay. Can I roll for Hung ?
Uh, I mean, I'll, I'll say this.
It's been a long day and a lot of things.
I don't recall you eating it all.
So I'll let you decide how hungry you are and how per,
how responsive you want to be to that. But you smell something cooking.
Could you, could you point me in the direction of this? Um, I,
I'm smelling a meal being cooked. Is someone providing services?
They all just kind of look at each other confused and they're like, no.
Okay. All right. Well,
I'm gonna leave you to decide whatever you'd like to do. That's, that's,
that's your call. I just know that Alene could probably help you down there,
but just be safe, be careful.
Underground may be the be best place at this point, but, uh,
okay, I'm gonna like slide past them and head toward the smell of food.
You keep telling people to go underground. Dave, do you want Morelocks?
Because this is how you get Morelocks.
I don't know.
Nobody.
I got it. I got it. All right.
Um, all right.
So you two canned salmon around the, uh,
corridors here.
Because weather is food. There is poo.
Yeah, but that's usually like eight hours later.
Depends on your metabolism. My friend .
I have a feeling Josiah was about to make a very similar joke before he backed
off the mic. .
I don't know what you were, what you mean by that.
I never . Uh, you do come across a door that is partly open.
Go in there and, and,
and the sound of some slightly miffed dishes
being placed.
Uh, I'm going to carefully open the door.
Uh, hello. Is anyone in here?
You walk in on a room that has three font tires in
it, one of which you have met before.
You know it as Emin's little brother nicu.
The older female font tire looks, turns,
and looks at you a gas. And do you often walk into people's homes?
Uh, only in times of emergency, generally. Uh, I apologize.
Emergency. What are you talking about?
Yeah, there's a big old ruckus going on upstairs with tentacles. And, um.
She looks, uh, she looks over at Nacu and she goes,
Emin was just talking about that and I feel like we should help.
But Emin says, and she looks at you. She looks at you and goes,
is there anything that can be done upstairs?
I honestly think you're probably safer here.
I would love as many people to help as possible,
but I don't think that you or the children
should go anywhere. Uh, if,
if you've been safe here and you have no idea what's going on,
it's probably best. Also, um, I'm Iran's friend,
Felix Tinsdale. I take care of the, the, the Thieves Guild in town.
Um, have you seen em in there recently?
She was just here.
She came in and was happy and then decided that she wanted to
judge my decisions and stormed off.
This sounds about right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. How was she.
Self righteous.
Okay. Um, well enough about Emran. Uh,
which way did she go?
I don't know.
She left and didn't even decide to stay
for dinner or.
Like you, she just disappeared out of the room. Like,
which door did she go out of?
The same one you're standing in, sir.
Okay. Is there anything I could do for you?
As you said, apparently we didn't even know what was going on top side, so.
Sorry. This, this thing is kind of new,
helping people and whatnot. Alright, well,
I'm gonna go try and find Emin. Thanks for conversation.
Food smells wonderful.
Would you like some? It's, it's, it's not much, but it's, it,
it's what we have. We have some, I I I call it, uh,
chili Pot Pie.
You know, I have a friend loves Chili popcorn
and I've never had it, or at least I don't remember having it. Yes, I,
if you wouldn't mind, um, I think I would like to sit and have some
good use of break.
You break bread with Emin's mother and over dinner conversation.
You know, it,
it stays very light and you can definitely tell that they are completely unaware
of what's going on top side. And the food is fantastic.
Like you,
you can tell this lady knows what she's doing with some humble ingredients. So.
Yeah, like, you know, like I said, it's, it's a mess up there. And you,
you're better off here.
And it does sound like you and your family have gone through a lot, but I, uh,
thank you for the meal. I really do appreciate it.
And I will go find em and hopefully, well,
I don't think anybody's gonna change her mind. She's pretty stubborn,
but I think that's a good thing in this situation.
Unless you need anything else, I'll be off. Um,
but it was great meeting you Wilder.
Yes. If you find, if you find Emron, keep her safe.
She's prone to making rash decisions.
I know a lot of people like that, but yes, I, I get where you're coming from.
Um, I'll do my best.
All right.
Well.
Thank you dear. And she pats you on the side of your face and she goes, well,
you're welcome here. Anytime, should we
survive Whatever's happening up there top side, but, uh,
you're welcome in my home.
Well, thank you sweet lady. Remind me of my own mom.
Um, but okay, I can't, I can't get emotional right now. I need to go.
I'm gonna go find Emin and keep the kids safe. Nickis,
you're the man of the house. Act like it.
He just with a stern look, he nods towards you.
I'm going to give him one of my daggers just cause.
Which one are you giving him?
Um, not the good one. just a standard dagger.
He takes it and thanks you for it. And he sheaths it in his belt.
I'm gonna head out the door and well, I'm not a ranger,
so I,
there's no way I'm gonna just be able to go follow your nose and find the font.
Tar are the people that were out there still out in the way.
You kind of find your way back to where you came in at.
There seems to be slowly a trickle of more and more people entering into these
hallways.
Has any of you seen a, a fta, uh, a female fta?
Dunno how to describe this. Caught up front legs in the back.
sounds like the weirdest pickup line. .
Right?
Uh, they all as, as soon as you say that,
everybody just turns and points at these stairs that go up.
All right, wonderful. Uh, you've been, you know, I don't have time for this.
I'm gonna run upstairs. .
That was the most wilder thing I've heard you say all night. Uh,
you go upstairs. Uh, Amin, what are you doing?
Uh, if everyone has gotten mostly situated,
I think Emin has found displaced to sit down
and has not moved since.
Uh, you make your way up there, you, you find Emin looking a little.
I'm, I'm making a guess here. Feel free to correct me. Uh, squid if I'm wrong,
but you find em, uh.
Despondent.
I was gonna say, looking a little bit shell shocked.
That too. Yeah,
I think she's probably like sitting at the door to the tower just in case
anything should get close.
Right.
But she ain't looking, you know, she.
She, she's got a, she's got the thousand yard stare going on right now.
Like she's seen a bit. And as you look outside, uh,
the city is pretty much destroyed at this point.
And the tentacles have stopped at this juncture cuz at some
point they would have to emin's just,
you see her just staring out there, gazing upon the destruction and carnage.
Uh, Hey, M.
Oh, Wilder.
Hey God, I'm having a meal with your mom.
Oh, I'm sure that was wonderful.
Sweet lady. She cares a lot about you.
Uhhuh. . Yeah.
It's just first glance Chili. Bye. Pop Pie.
Everything seemed okay. I mean, your relationship with her is not great,
but there's a lot to deal with.
It is very easy for things to look okay when you're only looking
once.
Very true.
She has been down there for a while.
Mm-hmm. .
Did, was wilder there when em mentioned that all of her siblings are dead? Oh.
Did he hear this?
I don't remember. I don't think so.
Because I think it might have just been to Abog. I.
Don't think so.
Is uh, everyone else safe?
Uh, olive TowerFall? I don't know. But the people you and I know,
um, I still don't know Alien's good.
I think you and I are okay. I can't find Poo.
And then Callum and Abog ran off to be heroes.
Well, those are not the two people from that group that I would expect that of,
but.
Surprises all the time.
I see. Wonderful. I'm glad they're good.
Yeah. Um, Leona's gone.
Oh.
Yeah.
That.
Sucks. Stir. She points at the outside.
Um, I I think it's a little bit more
magical than that, I guess. Very much. Uh.
I was under the impression that this is very magical.
Yeah. Yeah. I, I mean, use magic. Not great at magic.
Um, don't quite understand magic myself, but,
um, yeah. But I guess, uh, yeah,
Aileen's kind of taken over for, I guess,
I don't know. I'm going to sit down next to.
I know that this will be a stupid question. Um,
so feel free to not answer it. Um,
how are you?
I would like to tell you I'm fine.
I would be concerned if you did.
Yeah. Uh, not,
not good. I haven't been good for a long time.
Well, that seems to be the case of many of us here
is.
Yeah.
Elle. Okay.
I dunno.
That's part of the reason I'm not good because Leona knew where she was at and
she didn't talk to me. So she didn't tell me anything.
Uh, I think,
and we'll just silently get the YouTube out of her bag
and put it into Wilder's lab. It can't be used today,
but tomorrow to find her.
I don't think I will be needing it anymore. So.
I mean, what about like Rhoda and, and Ethan and old them?
They went with your mom?
No. No, they were not, uh,
they are not anywhere.
Are you caught up in this? No.
No. No. They did not. Beste had them killed.
Hmm.
And then.
Is it a bad time to tell you that? I already had like,
bad feelings about that guy.
And I think I told you that earlier on in our meeting and all that.
Mm-hmm. .
He's seriously, I'm sorry. He's.
Dead now. So I suppose that is not an issue either.
Still. Sorry.
Thank you. And my mother is alive and here
safe.
That's a good thing, right?
She left them all behind
if she had taken them with her.
Nothing has come in here. If you haven't noticed
none of the tentacles or anything else.
John, can I do? Can I roll a history check to kind of,
I guess refresh myself on what the tower was for considering I'm from
here?
Um, yeah, go ahead.
17.
You know that the candlelight heep, which is tower that you're in now,
is a place of worship for the both sides of TowerFall.
It's considered a holy sight. Uh, given that you rolled a 17,
I will say you vaguely remember when you were in school in
history classes that prior to the fall of the tower,
when the kingdom was unified,
there used to be a central
castle that lied in the middle of tower fall,
which the tower had landed on. Um,
and this is where the initial royalty would live.
Do you think things can't get in here because it's a holy
space, holy ground?
Maybe I don't.
I I I look at a lot of the things that Callum can do and, um,
since hanging out with Stumble foot, uh,
it seems like stumble foot in Callum with like the best
two people to come up against this, at least in our group. Uh,
there's something about there,
there's studies as clerics that have helped ward off
things. I do not want to go to school to be a cleric. That's not,
that's not what I'm saying.
Hmm. What are you saying?
I'm just, I'm trying to put all the puzzle pieces together.
It, I don't know it, maybe it's because it's a holy place or
700 other reasons. I don't know.
Okay. I mean, we, we don't have to talk.
I can leave you alone.
I don't think I want to be alone right now.
Okay.
She will hold Wilder's hand and just pat it. Give it a little pat.
Have you seen Poo?
Not for a while. No.
Wilder. Make an insight check.
Uh, that's a six.
Okay.
I ran into some people when I was coming through this way, and,
uh, they said they saw him, but they had no clue. I think you just,
frankly just scared them too much.
Yes. I've done that a lot today as well.
Really?
Um, yes. I don't look particularly kind when I'm fighting things.
Oh, that's true. That is very true. That's okay though. Like,
I don't think anything's supposed to be normal or kind or anything like that
right now. Where would poo go? Wait, why,
why was Poo here?
What do you mean?
The last time I knew like Poo was running off to be Poo
and now he's here.
I mean,
is my basic understanding that Poo doesn't have the greatest understanding of
Tower Falls layout.
I always forget too. It's true. Okay.
Perhaps he was rounding people up to help.
True. I just,
I feel like everything would be better if everybody was together.
Hmm.
Who, once you get underground, what direction are you heading?
Well, I've never been down here before. Right? I mean, like, not.
That I'm aware of this.
Area. This is, yeah,
this looks so there's people around and stuff. No.
Trying to bunker down. No, but this is just undergrad.
You are in, you are in a tunnel system, sir.
Okay.
Like, do you want to, what, what side,
what direction on the island are you gonna want to try to focus your efforts in
traveling? Because this is gonna determine what you encounter.
I'm gonna move away from the tentacles at this point.
Okay. So you're heading s I'm gonna say you're heading south. Yeah. All right.
You walk for a while. How are you attempting to navigate?
What are you searching for?
I'm not, I'm just walking. You're just.
You're just walking. Uh, it what,
what then would dictate your decision making as far as
where you go when you come to.
I'll see if I can smell the anyone coming,
you know, see signs of anyone coming down here before,
try to kind of see where people might be headed. If there are people down here.
Let me, let me ask a more direct question. What is Poo hoping to find?
He's hoping to find, well, I mean, he, he is looking for his friends. Okay.
He doesn't have a purpose right now. He's looking for purpose. Meaning,
uh, like if he could, he,
he's looking for some way he can help up above
wasn't doing anything. No. Was listening to him. So now down below, okay.
He's looking for that.
As Poo is walking and he is feeling
directionless and purposeless,
and he begins to feel the same feelings he felt,
but for different reasons after the incident in the tower in
water deep mm-hmm. where you were forced to kill Callum,
and you just turned your back on your barbarian ways. And,
but you don't, you don't feel like you're in control anymore. You,
you start to try to think back to the ways of panned, uh mm-hmm. .
And you start to center your mind a bit.
You remember a time walking into the fallen tower in tower fall
mm-hmm. after the coronation in red.
You had encountered that spectral old man in the tower.
And then there's the lost time from when you woke up.
And as you start trying to, you know, figure out what happened during that last,
last time, as you're just thinking about all these things, and when you woke up,
you had a new skillsets that you didn't have prior.
Suddenly you hear a shuffling coming from a branch of the tunnel off to the
left.
Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa.
And you see the visage of the backside of a
black and white bug bear that seems to be self illuminated in these dark
tunnels nonetheless,
as it walks much further down the tunnel and then takes a, uh,
fork in the tunnel.
Brother, brother pan. Duh. Is, is that you.
You don't get a response.
I kind of scurry down after, after him.
B brother pan. Duh.
And as you get to that fork and you make the turn,
you see him impossibly further down the tunnel. Oh.
And he makes another turn.
Okay. Playing hard to get, um, I.
I, I look it after him.
Hey, brother Pan. What, what, what are you doing down here?
And this, this, this situation, Al seems to be repeating itself. You,
you seem to be following this visage,
and you eventually see him going up this staircase,
and he walks through a door that is high up on this staircase and closes
the door behind him.
Aha.
I've got you. No.
I run up the stairs and before opening the door, I,
I knock on the door and then put my ear to it to see if I can hear.
You knock on the door and you hear confused voices on the opposite side of it.
And nobody, nobody answers it.
It almost seems like they're worried about answering a knock at the store.
Uh, I'll knock.
Knock, knock.
Still, still, no one answers it.
A poos. There is the correct response. I get it.
I knock, knock poos there. It's a little, okay.
I see if I can open up the door.
You open up the door.
As this giant bug bear creature emerges from a
darkened door that has danger. Do not open on the opposite side of it.
People begin to shriek in terror, uh,
wilder and Amin, you hear screaming coming from down below.
That sounds like something that Emin would reply to.
Gotta have a purpose in life. I need to throw myself at danger.
We should probably go check on that.
She's like already up. She's.
.
I'm right behind you.
All right. So while, while that's happening, whooo,
how do you respond to these people screaming and running?
Everyone calm down. Calm down. This is, um,
I am a very nice bug bear. I, uh,
you see friends? I'm, I'm, I'm here to.
Help make a persuasion. Will.
That would be a natural one.
I'm so happy. All right. So .
Mi minus two. So it's a negative one.
Nice. . Uh, so who is down there?
And he is shouting at the top of his lungs.
So ev so he can be heard over everybody. And you just.
Calm down, calm.
Down. And as he's saying, calm down.
He's flailing his arms up and down to gesticulate to bring the volume down.
He's got his fingers out, like claws and just,
just screaming at the top of his lungs. You guys come down,
the two of you come down and see poo menacing the survivors in
this sub-basement.
I think, and we're just kind of stares for a second,
just dumbfounded on how to handle this situation.
Yeah.
I get to walk past Emran and you said
he's waving the dynamite?
No, I don't have just no.
It's just, it's just his claw. Just like calm.
Okay. Down Yuha. Yuha. Be quiet. I'm trying to talk here. I'm,
I I'm looking for my friends. I'm trying to be helpful.
Why is everyone screaming and yelling? You got to stop it. Stop it Right.
Now.
I cast mage hand to kinda like grab his hand to like stop what he's doing until
I can catch up. Oh.
Hey, Wilder.
Hey. Hey, hey. Hey. Easy, easy, bud.
That's easy. I was being easy. You're.
You're freaking people out.
I'm being, yes. They are freaking out. Yeah. I just can't prove that door.
Just take a breath.
I point through the door behind me.
Was following Brother Pan. He was, he was here just a second ago. Mm-hmm. And,
uh, you know.
I'm gonna say probably not feeling all right.
Well, not particularly, but you know,
it's not like a feel good type of day, you know what I mean?
Yeah. It's going around Iran's here.
Hi. Oh.
Hello there. Emran. Uh, good,
good seeing you again.
Yes.
Is there a reason that we're yelling quite so loudly at all of these people?
He started it and I point out one of.
The .
Survivors.
Yeah. I'm gonna say probably not.
Oh, probably so. Oh, let's, let's take the tape back.
It was definitely them. Did we ever a replay on that?
Okay. Um.
I know I'm sounding like right now.
Yeah. What, what were you doing?
Well, I was in the tunnels. Um,
first I was chasing after the giant tentacles to see where they might
be coming from. Mm-hmm. .
Figure that out.
Well, um, you know, those flesh pit groom sort of things.
Couldn't forget 'em.
We've seen Yeah. Um, there
more or less. That's what I'm thinking. Wonderful.
Um, yeah. So, uh, funny thing you miss aos.
Oh, but I, I, that sounds wonderful.
I would've liked to take a nice bite out of him.
I wish he would've been here to do that. Uh, it was my fault. But, um.
We, we, um, what are we doing?
That is the question. Always m made a good point. Uh,
it seems like the towers kind of like off limits to the
tentacles or whatever.
Oh, I did think of something important that I should probably tell you all.
Mm-hmm. seems like this is going on, um,
elsewhere, if that makes sense. Not just here.
I, uh, I did a little magic. They'll all be very proud of me.
And I ended up in a land full of lots of farm house and, uh,
they said that this was going on all over the world happened happening there
too. Really? And then I came back.
Isn't that also what your little friend said?
Which little friend?
You know, the one with the, I don't remember his name.
How little.
Um, well, not Aileen size.
Bigger than that.
I would say sli slightly shorter than Orach. Now.
Um, you.
Don't have many little friends anymore. They seem to have all changed or died.
Yes. So, which little, what, what was the question again?
I got lost.
Keith, are you talking about Kee?
No, I know who Keef is. The the other, the other one.
Let's.
See. The one that showed up.
Stumble foot.
No, he disappeared.
No, he died.
Oh yes.
I hate guess who Cause you're not playing it right?
I'm.
Sorry? Is he wearing a hat?
No.
I'm not.
No, he's not. Little.
Friend.
You the one that likes you.
I thought you liked me. I mean,
the one that likes me, Callum.
Sure. Yes, that one.
Oh, I don't call him little.
He's not that little.
He's a tall boy I can never.
Make fun of. He's.
Tall. Maybe scrawny, but.
Tall boy.
Yeah.
He doesn't have very many muscles on him.
Emotionally, perhaps.
He's emotionally small. Yes.
Yes. Is it?
But didn't he say something about this happening other places as well?
Probably. That sounds like something Callum would say.
Okay.
Yeah, it's confirmed the of the fun people.
What do font. Font
What what, what, what's the place where all the fonts come from?
Not all of them.
Well, we're not all from the same place. Po I was born here in TowerFall.
Oh yeah. That's not, I meant like mm-hmm. ,
where there's a large correlation of fonts.
My family's house here is what my answer would usually be.
I don't know. Okay.
Font rvia. That sounds good. Yeah, that.
Sounds sure.
Yes. And the land of font rvia. Yes. Right. There's someone who,
um, a group of fonts are.
Sylvania.
Pennsylvania.
We're getting off track.
On the point of this. Yes. I don't know.
See what happens when who shows up. Everything was fine.
Well that's debatable.
Yes.
Most of degrees. I'm.
Sorry. I did, I didn't mean to.
So anyway.
Um, no, it's, it's alright. I didn't, I'll just uh,
stand here I guess.
No, I believe you were saying something about the land of the fonts in Fon
Sylvania.
Right? Yeah.
Um, they're under attack too.
Oh, I see.
This is a, this is a worldwide thing.
Okay. How did you get there? Cause you're here.
Magic.
I see.
I mean like specific notice.
The fingers. Well,
I went into this bar that looked a lot like, um, the Yaning portal.
That's usually a different kind of magic.
Yeah.
I was looking and I found like the room just like in Darin's room.
Remember Dar?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
No. And there's one of those circles on the ground with.
Teleportation circle.
Yep. Yep. And I'd got in the middle of it and I went with my fingers.
And.
That's not how they want.
Emin. You know that the only authorized teleportation circles
were the one that was in I am.
Well aware. .
The one that was destroyed in Castle Man Lagar. There.
Was Wonder Water Deep. There was one to the town where lift .
And, and there there may have been one inr,
but we'll never know mm-hmm. . So the, what, whichever,
whichever one he's talking about was an unauthorized circle of teleportation.
50 50 On, if I even know that there is unauthorized ation circles.
Um, but all of this sounds okay. Not like, okay, but like,
okay. I'm understanding what you're saying.
Processing. Got it. Mm-hmm.
.
Yeah. So this is a, I mean, we knew this was a big problem.
This is a, a really big problem that can't be solved with just, I.
Pull out my explosives.
You know. Oh, explosives.
A party.
You know how they use those, right?
Yes, of course. You just rub 'em together and then throw 'em. Yeah.
How about I could hold on to them for you just so they don't accidentally rub
together.
Em and, uh, wilder.
I would like you both to make a perception check
or a survival check, whichever you would choose.
20 Plus six.
26.
I also got A2 six.
Oh, it's so perceptive. trauma. Hyper aware.
You both noticed that the explosives,
the dynamite that poo is holding is sweating.
It's what now? Pardon?
.
Okay. How,
how dynamite is made is it's basically nitroglycerin
that's been gly with other compounds. Mm-hmm. .
And if it sets over time, it will sweat the nitroglycerin,
which mm-hmm. is very combustible to.
Bet we don't have any nitroglycerine. A myelo. Hmm. That's it.
That's my quote of the day. .
Um, can we stop everything that's happening right now? Nobody.
Put these back in my bag.
Yeah, I have them please.
Sure. I suppose.
I'll just hold my hands out.
I hand them to you.
There you.
Go. I I just toss 'em. Oh my.
Them to you. Oh my goodness.
Uh, em, I'm gonna need you to make a dexterity saving roll please.
We're all gonna die right now.
Can I make one as well?
Yes.
Can I make one? Because this is awesome.
Actually, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. The two who and Wilder,
whether or not you need to make one is gonna be highly dependent on what Emin
rolls.
I bet you're gonna have to. I got in 11.
Oh.
Hey. Well that's okay cuz I didn't take any damage in any of our fights,
so I'll survive this .
Uh, I need everybody to make a dexterity saving roll.
Okay. One P three.
I made one already before you said I couldn't, so I'm gonna roll again. No.
I.
Rolled a 26.
A 26. Who? What did you get?
23.
Okay.
I rolled a one and I'm gonna go ahead and add my zero to
that.
Do you have money? Does anybody have any.
Final last words?
No Evasion, damage,
evasion sort of skills that they want to add to this as well because.
Uh, yeah, I mean I can take half damage.
Okay.
This is why I came into this campaign with two characters, so I'm fine.
.
Also took no damage, so I'm also probably still fun.
.
I two sticks of explosive .
Oh no, no. There it wasn't two sticks. It was two bundles, sir. I mean two.
Like two bundles. Yes.
How much does each one of those bundles do?
How much does each one of those sticks to? Let me do some quick, uh,
averaging math out here.
I was hoping to save these, but.
Whoops.
Aim for the back legs. I don't need those ones.
Dave, you said you're using evasion?
Yeah.
Okay, so between your save and evasion,
you're taking one quarter damage. Mm-hmm.
.
Who you said you had a, a skill you were using.
I would be taking, I'd be taking half damage.
With their skill.
My, yeah, it's my, uh, what evasion You also.
Uh, you also, uh, saved. So you're taking one quarter damage.
So only squid's taking full damage.
Doesn't, well with evasion you take no damage If you succeed.
Well then two.
You don't says you wouldn't take half damage.
Okay.
Don't wait. And when sees it fall.
And I feel like narratively what happens is she just jumps on the grenade.
I feel like this is the don't.
Really see that.
Fumbles it and goes, oh no.
I am sincerely sorry. Squid.
Uh.
Listen,
I will be honestly gonna be really thoroughly impressed if I go down right now.
I'm sorry too. Emran. , I'm glad.
Haven't had trauma yet. Was great Recently. He said.
Plenty of trauma.
Recently. He trauma?
Yeah. Not in the last two. A Yeah.
You already killed one friend.
Oh, okay. It didn't roll super high. Uh, Emron. You.
Fumble.
IK for you.
Uh, yeah, you're gonna, um,
you fumble the dynamite as it slips through your fingers.
You just throw your body on top of it as it goes off.
And you take 47 points of force damage as this
explodes underneath the mass of your body.
Boy.
Oh, hello Iran.
Um.
I wasn't supposed to do that. Are you? You okay?
Just a minute.
Oh.
Do you need to hit me?
Nope. I'm going to stay laying right here for a moment or two or several.
Yep.
Nothing to see here. Everyone move away. Give us some space.
How close was your pack emron to you when this happened?
Oh, not like it was sitting over in a corner somewhere.
Okay. Uh, fortunately you have some very good armor.
I do.
I will say that, uh, it felt like getting hit by a Mac truck.
Not that great. I will also say, Emron, I need you.
I'm gonna have you roll a luck check as well.
Sure.
What's your c charisma score? 16. Okay.
I'm gonna give you 16%,
not 16 60% to make this luck roll.
So you have to roll under a 60 please.
57. Woohoo. Ho ho.
Uh,
your combat wheelchair that you have got pretty dinged
up. It's still serviceable, but it's gonna, until you get it repaired,
your speed is gonna be halved.
Now I have to move it. Normal people's speeds. Oh, .
If you would've failed the role, it would've been destroyed entirely. So.
Checks out seeing us. How that was the lower part of my body.
I'm so, so sorry. Yep.
She's just gonna lay there for a few minutes.
I'm so sorry, Iman. I, oh, that was,
that was not a very smart thing to do. Oh.
It's, it's, you know what?
I feel like this really centered me in the moment.
So that's something.
No, you should, you should be angry at me. I went,
I came here to help and I, people were yelling at me.
I cause panic. I exploded a friend.
You know what I, I I'm I'm gonna go.
You're gonna go where?
Back down that door. It says danger.
Very fitting.
I I wrote that. Did you go in that? You came out of that door? Where does it go?
I'm sorry. Could you help me up?
I help you up.
Thank you.
There's a bunch of tunnels down there, Cameron.
One of them led to the middle of town.
Leads back to a Eileen. I.
Came down that one that.
Goes back to ai.
Yes. That's where I came from as well.
Well, oh no. There were so many tunnels here. Mm-hmm.
Wilder. You did mention that, um,
Callum and Orach went to be heroes. What exactly were they doing?
If I remember correctly, they were going to find pool.
A pool. That that's me.
Yes. That would be you.
We found I didn't see them anywhere.
Instead You didn't see them.
No. That's probably for the best. I probably would've blown them up too.
No, stop. Stop. Accidents happen. You didn't intentionally light it,
you didn't throw it aggressively for beating yourself up.
We're all doing a lot of that lately and it doesn't help anything. Yes.
Um, better to eat, beat other people up is what I always say.
Exactly.
I don't always say that.
Take it out on someone else.
Yes. What you did. Good job.
No, that wasn't a good job.
Um, it's . Um, it, it seems silly.
Laughing right now.
I'm seeing things. It's a new thing that I'm trying here in the tower.
Have you seen a man that makes you feel very cold when he touches you?
Have you been drinking.
Yet?
No.
Have you seen a man that looks like a panda as I have.
No.
Real quick. While we're, uh, discussing this, um,
I'm going to grab my, uh,
stone of Fire speech and I'm gonna call Callum real quick.
Uh, hey Callum, I just, I know you and are like running, running,
trying to find p um,
he's here with me and em and hello.
We're pretty close to where you left us,
so you could probably come back now and.
Just Oh yeah. Take one down and pass it around. 12 bottles a bit. Oh. Hello.
Aor. Hello. Hey. You found who?
Yes, we found him. Not he found it. I mean, we kind of found each other,
but anyway. Yes. Uh, touching.
That sounds great.
It's probably best that you make your way back. Oh.
Unless you have other plans.
Well, I, no, I mean,
walking all the way across tower fall to this mountain
was the plan. I suppose so. I'm glad we got that exercise in,
uh, orach. He wants us to turn around. Oh.
For the love.
Of, yeah. He says that Poo is there and we've walked all this way for nothing.
Well yeah, that's what I would've told him too. I know. I'm.
Sorry. Tell him I'm sorry. Why? Tell him I'm sorry.
Uh, uh, poo says he's sorry but he's been meeting himself up. Ah.
I won't repeat what Orach says.
But probably better not.
No. Okay. Well I guess we'll be back in. How long did this take us? Three hours.
Uh, so we'll be back in a few more hours I suppose. In fact, actually,
you know what? I'm very tired. We might rest here. Meet you in the morning.
Just whatever you do. Find safety. Be safe the whole way here.
I don't really wanna lose anyone else. Yeah. Don't.
Play. Might.
Not to play with explosives.
We're the last ones now.
Sorry, boo was talking. Uh, say that one more time, Kelly.
Well, I was just saying that now we're the last ones,
I suppose if we're talking in the context of people.
Yeah, I that seems to be what we do. Uh, okay. Uh,
well you do your thing and we'll figure out what we're gonna do.
Right. We'll meet back at
I feel like Alene is very safe meeting point. She's very stable individual.
Oddly enough at this point. Yes.
Aside from, you know, the whole current,
she might be a very unstable individual given her current state of being.
But you know what, we'll figure that out.
Yeah. Wilder as this conversation is happening,
you hear a slight shifting and tinkle.
A what? You feel a tinkle. Oh, sorry. You saw yourself .
Sorry, I just.
I said here not feel. Um,
and you look over and you notice that Emin's pack had kind of tipped over
and a purple crystal is slowly rolling away
from the bag almost on as if it's under its own volition. Hey.
Uh, Callum, I gotta go. Um, Emin,
what is that and why is it moving?
That is my sister.
Handy. Pick it up. Your sister.
Yes.
Okay. Um, do.
You know, you know, um, you know how, remember how the king was in one of these?
Yes.
What do I do with it? How do I fix it?
If I remember right, there's a soul inside and the soul has to go in the body.
In her body. Yep.
Um, a willing body I think.
Yeah. We tried dead bodies once we got in trouble for that.
You don't do that.
Oh.
Um.
I see. Okay. How do you find a body that is willing?
Can you put another one in a body that has one in it?
Uh.
I think so, maybe.
Yes.
Well, cause like there's a whole thing with Callum. Yeah.
There seems to be a lot of things with him.
Yet Callum and his dad, they kind of share. That's weird.
They share a body together.
That sounds confusing.
It is confusing.
There's like 90 some story as I could tell you about it, but I won't.
You could to go find 'em yourself.
Okay.
So I have to find a body that is willing to have rotor soul in it that is not a
dead body.
I think that's the way it works.
Yeah, that makes sense.
And it would probably help if you do this with your fingers.
Who's probably right about that?
Why would that help?
I don't know. Stumble foot had all the answers about that stuff and um,
he left without like leaving a, oh no,
he did leave a book, but I don't think it was that kind of book.
I left that book Tom Bolts anyway,
so I don't know the answer.
You could just try saying.
Um, do you rub it on your face or something? Yeah.
I think you swallow.
It. I do. So.
Is it okay.
Well is now if it goes into a body of someone that is willing,
but then also they have their own their own soul. Yes.
Right. And, and leave the body later if it finds a different one.
Good question.
Well, it, if it got in there, it should be able to get out. Right.
Is the soul safer in a stone or in a body?
Because I'm not really sure either is safe at this point, but what.
Do we think is, I mean, if it's that point, they're probably similar but.
It's harder to lose a body than a stone. I think. Yes.
The last few hours have not necessarily agreed with that thought,
but generally speaking I would also agree with you.
Okay. So why, why are you asking that? Where's your sister?
Her body?
All of her. Generally.
Some of her is upstairs.
And the other, some of her.
Yes. Um,
some of it is upstairs and the rest of it I assume was eaten by whatever those
tentacle things came from. But the last time I spoke to her,
her soul was not in her body anyway.
And she was some kind of little demonn child that I'm pretty sure
to basti limb from limb.
Well, I, that's just awful. Just horrible.
Just wow. Wow. Poor bestie.
.
Poo and poo and wilder. I'd like you guys to make a perception check, please.
This is.
14.
So I got a nat one, but I have a plus 10. So however you wanna play that.
Actually you, you can go ahead and roll this now too. Uh, please.
A perception check.
Um, there's not enough unless my passive counts. .
Nope. This is not a passive, this is a, Hey. Do you,
could you possibly notice something about this?
I could not. How do we get it from the stone into,
I will like, take it from the Mae hand.
I think you just go like, you know,
you in here with me.
Have you tried wi wiggling your fingers over it?
I wiggle my fingers. .
Okay, so normally I would ask, uh, stomper foot.
He's not here. I could ask Callum. He's not here. Um,
I would ask Leona. She's definitely not here.
And a lien is now
Leona kind of.
I have questions, but this is probably not the time.
Yes. I also have questions about that. I think maybe you told me. Let's,
maybe I was not listening.
Yeah. Um, I'll catch you up on the way, but we should go see Alene.
She might know something about the soul stone.
Wonderful. I have to go upstairs and get the rest of Rhoda.
The rest of Rhoda .
Everyone will collect her pack and her head,
her little soul stone. It follow after these individuals.
All right. Uh, wilder.
You vaguely remember how to get to where you came from.
Uh, just make a quick survival check for me please.
Soly. Cuz I'm so good at ths 10.
It, it takes, uh,
it takes a couple hours longer than it probably should have. But you finally
make it back to.
So we all arrive back at the same time.
You hear the sound of Barbo and Callum singing more shanties in the
distance.
Oh no. Orba and Callum, they're, they're taking a rest. I You said it,
it's a thing.
There you go. Listen, I'm just saying that they're singing loudly.
You can hear 'em .
.
They're singing.
Over the soul stone. You just left or the, the, not the soul stone. The.
The sending left the channel open the sending got his finger on the button.
.
Yep.
So you,
you guys make it back to where the cer where the survivors are camped out at and
em not Lene, well probably EMD too.
Looks incredibly overworked and slightly overwhelmed.
But she's there helping. She's, oh good. You're here. Uh,
why don't you help out and we can start trying to figure out what the next plan
is with these survivors and possibly help ration out, uh,
whatever goods that we do currently have.
Um, poo and I can do that. Um, em needs to talk to you about a thing.
Yes.
It involves soul stones.
How do I put this in me?
Be pardon.
Um, so Rhoda's soul isn't here and I would like it not to be in there anymore.
And also her body is gone except for this head,
which I will now take out as well.
Oh, oh, oh.
So I feel as though the safest place for it currently would be
me, as I can apparently stay on my feet for a while.
Um, you are aware that, uh,
your body is currently occupied by a soul?
Yes. I've heard that It can be kind of a dual enrollment situation.
Oh no.
I don't know why you listen to me anymore. I'm always wrong anyway, I,
I'll go help.
Is that now what is happening with your friend?
Oh no. He had a part of his soul taken away.
His his father is kind of functioning as
part of his soul. It's not a,
it's not like a two for one sort of deal. His,
his father has no sentience nor, uh, because he,
he was a, uh, a, uh, divine, uh,
being of divine creation.
I see. So, so it needs a body without a soul in it.
Uh, correct. Uh, something like a vessel.
How do we make that happen?
Well, I don't know. Um,
can I see this please?
She reaches out for the soul stone.
She'll slowly hand it over.
She hangs onto it and her eyes go white and then her eyes come back and
she goes, oh, um, she wants to talk to you.
Okay. When I was holding it,
did I get like that essence offer like the same as when I held the King's one?
Yeah. You you, like I said, when you first got it,
you kind of got an em a feeling of like Rhoda and
you got like an em You felt like an embrace.
Emma's face is like,
why are you not already telling me what she wants to be saying without her
saying that out loud?
Yeah. Let me,
she reaches up like she wants to put her hand on your head.
I will crouch a lot. I'll do the little like kneeling horse thing.
She reaches up as soon as her fingers make contact with your forehead. Uh,
your consciousness is swept away and you are in,
it almost looks like just a room with some chairs in it
within like a, but it's like made up of amethyst,
like faceted amethyst.
I like what you've done with the place.
Well, I, you know, didn't,
this is just kind of what these look like on the inside I suppose.
Hello.
Hi. Why are you trying so hard? Em.
I keep being asked this question
and I think my answer currently is that because it is what I would like to do
and I'm not going to stop.
What if I told you that this is what this was by my choice?
Pardon?
What do you mean this was your choice?
I, I don't know what happened to
the other lady.
What other lady?
The one whom I gave my body to,
but the deal was she was going to deliver me to the grimsley and
she could have my body in this world.
And you don't know who she was.
Does it matter?
Kind of.
She didn't take my body by force. It, it was
she was going to save Nickis
in exchange and quite frankly, she was
going to take my place so nobody would
miss me rather than what my other options were.
Are you stupid?
I know you're not,
but I feel like I need to ask the question because what you're saying right now
sounds very, very stupid. That girl wasn't you.
Even if she was in your body.
Well.
She.
At least wanted to be there.
Then let's work on that instead.
Not replacing you who you are,
this right here with someone else in your body that frankly was slightly
terrifying and not my favorite.
And even if you are not always my favorite either, I much prefer you.
Why.
Won't you just let me go?
I don't know how to give up. Call it a flaw.
It's easy if you try.
I don't think I wanna start trying.
If I've learned anything over this last year,
last few years,
it's losing all hope is freedom.
Hope is a fool's gambit, amron I've given up.
You may think that you're saving your family, but you're just,
you're just prolonging the inevitable at the end of it all is death
and pain. And there are so few people who get to choose
how they see the end of it
and get to make their exit on their own terms.
But it's not just you.
Really
because it's been just me ever since you went to southern fall.
It has not. And if you actually think that, then you,
maybe I take back what I said and I'm not gonna call you out again, but
you have NICU and Ida and.
NICU left us for the castle.
Nickis went to get a job.
Ida is too young to know any better.
And with examples like this, I guess you'll never learn.
Quite frankly,
I was the one who took the brunt of dad after you left,
after mom left.
Do you know what it's like having to take the abuse
and then fill your mother's shoes?
Yes, I do.
I don't want that.
I don't want to live in a tar paper
house anymore.
I don't want to constantly have to wonder what dumpster my
dinner's coming out of.
I don't want to wonder if I'm even going to eat
that day. I don't want basset's hands on me anymore.
I don't want the people who love me to continue to hurt me.
I don't want the people who have taken oath to protect me to
constantly extort us in the streets anymore.
This is not a life I want to live Emron.
We live in a world of excrement and then we die.
And if I choose to die,
rather than spend my life wallowing in this
land's crap, I find myself better off for it.
And if somebody else can make better use of my body than the life that I've
lived, then they can have it.
Do you think that it only affects you?
I think that the people who think it affects them aren't around enough for to be
affected
because everybody I love either leaves or is dead.
Well lucky for you. I'm still here
and I'm not going anywhere
and I'm not giving up.
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