Episode 12 – The Night is Closing in My Friends

Gather round friends, let me tell you a tale of three heroes noble and bold A brute, a druid, and a thief who is but nine years old You know them by name, you know them by deed, their quests are famously daring So here I sit, singing to you an adventure that is worth sharing Tuck is the brute, he knows not his home, he loves to sing and fight Fingers have health, he shifts his shape, and wields a spear with great might Peely's a thief, his tiny size does mask the largest heart Best and brightest they may not be, but their friendship outweighs their smarts So gather round friends, and listen close For the tale's about to start Hello everybody and welcome to Spout Lore!

I'm your Game Master Sean O'Hara, joining me as always playing Tacoma Dome the Barbarian Abdul Aziz Hello everybody! Playing Ving the Half-Elf Druid, Paul Oppers Hello everyone! And playing Fat Billy the Halfling Thief, Jessica Tai I have a tummy ache now Oh, did you drink too much milk too? It's full! You had one sip! It's full because it was empty Oh my god It used to be up here and then it went all the way down You're gonna get it all the way back up All the way back up Oh no!

Oh Jessica You made a mistake No, you're gonna be just fine I think the mistake is gonna be when you finish that The whole bottle I can't believe it's only five dollars It's a great deal So you can ruin your week for so cheap That's the slogan Ruin your week for cheap When last we left our heroes, their plans, well not even their plans, but the situation was interrupted by a one mumsy, the lovesick, lovesstarved mother of Rodan The hotelier Yeah, she's got borderline personality disorder For sure Drawing an incredible amount of attention to herself in an extremely tense and haunting situation Completely oblivious she was Declaring her love for Princep Callum Blackhammer On his wedding day, Tuck was primed and ready to just let her get taken away because he had a job to do Yeah Billy and Ving were able to convince him that she needed to be taken away from him Yeah And that she needed some saving Yes It was actually more Jessica and Paul being horrified That you were about to let this old woman get torn apart by a mob Like somebody with a mental illness dragged away by zombies Yeah So Ving decided to lend a helping hand by using his move Life Symphony to free those on the dance floor from the influence of the icon of tyranny while he was in contact with said floor from beneath Tuck used the opportunity The distraction that Callum felt at this to spring his own trap Drawing Terry, Larry, and Chad and striking the arm off Callum Blackhammer in one blow Yeah Tuck cut off the arm then was shot in the back Oh yeah By Lionel Mackenzie King That was so funny Performing a sort of sniper overwatch from a balcony high up the walls of the courtyard Yeah, I like to think that The reason why I was able to get the arm cut off was because he was sort of not paying attention just like eating an apple And then I cut through Callum's arm off and he was like, oh fuck Yeah Oh, God damn I'm gonna get fired for this for sure He pulled down his bandages and spat out a bunch of apple Oh man I'm on the job Ving used the water elemental creating the physical form of the illusory Ving to create some cover for Tuck Mm-hmm So Lionel was unable to get another shot off as Tuck took off While beneath this tense situation was happening, Billy was keeping the fairy circle engaged And was visited by none other than the Gibbous Man Mm-hmm Who attempted to get Billy's attention and reveal some information to him which he refused Mm-hmm Refused to engage But he did succeed momentarily and that's when Victoria LaBlanche was able to escape the fairy ring Yes Yeah!

And he was taking off after Tuck who was going to rescue his boy Black Spire from somewhere within the palace Yes At this point, Ving and Mears headed upstairs to try and get an eye on the situation up there Deal with Callum now that him and Victoria were separated Mm-hmm And found the congregants of the wedding mobbing Billy's fairy ring attempting to free Callum Mm-hmm And failing As well as the mechanical orchestra Mm-hmm Who skittered and climbed all over the room trying to free its master Mears took off after Tacoma Dome Mm-hmm Who darted through the corridors attempting to find Black Spire using his connection to the obsidian slash, uh, sunstone dragon To triangulate his position within the palace Mm-hmm Leading him below Yes Into the corridors beneath He found a torch lit chamber at the end of which he believed Black Spire to be and then emerging from that doorway The Medjay chained to him the icon of malice Mm-hmm Ready for round two The Medjay said, I see you little one And then Tuck attempted to summon, uh I tried to do a Naruto thing He tried to do a Naruto slash Iron Man chest beam again Slash You didn't do the Naruto thing I did, yeah He did a bunch of hand signals attempting to summon a beam of light from his chest coins which we have over and over established And been proven to be a And been proven to be a And been proven to be a And been proven is not possible It's a different substance It's a completely different substance It's not It's not a sunstone It's not a sunstone It's just obsidian That is white instead of black Yeah Uh, but what did happen was a chest- a beam of some kind appeared Yes As Black Spire was able to, from a distant unseen chamber, blast off some sort of iron muzzle that he was forced to wear Yeah, he blasted off He blasted a powerful beam of light into the corridor Yeah Temporarily knocking the, uh, Medjai of Malice to the side And that was the first time he ever did, like, a beam thing Yeah, up until then he's only been doing the flashes Oh, cool Yeah, but now he can summon beams of light, or he can breathe beams of light Tuck's best friend Tuck's best friend Yes Ouch And as Tuck, uh, sprinted down the corridor to save Black Spire The Medjai containing the icon of patience took his opportunity finally, stuck out a foot, and tripped Tuck Wow I feel like it was the icon of patience and deception just standing next to each other That's why I couldn't see him And he was like, hold, hold, hold Now And Tuck hit his head so hard he passed out He passed out All your momentum, all your mass Yeah Yeah While above, uh, Ving approached Callum Blackhammer, who- Called off his congregants and attempted to appeal to you to try and make a deal Uh, and revealed that his plan was to bind the Gibbous Man, but to each of you Ving, Billy, Tuck, Callum, and Victoria, using the connections of all five of you The spiritual, the fairy, the iconic Callum's power as being chained to the icons of tyranny and cunning As well as Victoria, who he suggested has been taken away from him And he's now in the hands of the Black Hammer, who, uh, called off his congregants and attempted to appeal to you To try and make a deal, uh, and revealed that his plan was to bind the Gibbous Man, but to each of you The spiritual, the iconic chained to the icon of revenge and using that power bind the gibbous man who is in some sense a god but in many ways diminished from his original power and vulnerable figuring out what you guys figured out over a number of seasons that by being chained to the mortal realm via the reign of night all those many millennia ago he is at risk Ving refused and tried to appeal to him using druidic knowledge saying look at how many geniuses have thought that they were the ones to unite the world and have failed including Rian whose hand was struck off by his very best friend and confidant much like your hand there lies on the ground struck off for your hubris but Callum refused he's too smart too cunning to listen to fools such as you and looking down at his dismembered hand Sean didn't have to say that looking down at his dismembered hand he saw through the glass Billy maintaining the fairy ring beneath him and he sent the congregants sprinting out of the room surely to tear Billy from limb from limb but Billy's still in the in the fairy circle yeah he's about to have a lot of competition though for keeping that circle up okay so that is where we find our heroes now Billy you see all of these feet pounding across the glass dance floor oh my god and you hear no voices but many bodies moving towards you some of them are pounding on the glass floor itself oh trying to get through the glass hairline cracks appearing in the floor oh yeah spooky so there are ones that are like running out of the room to get down to the lower level and there are others that are pounding on the glass floor trying to break smashing their faces into it and there are cracks forming cracks are forming it's hefty hefty strong strong glass but they're cracking it oh yeah Ving what would you you see this start to happen I have still have a my water dog that I summered yeah right with me and I want to at least send him after these ones and go start running downstairs what's the orchestra doing it's in fact it is accompanying musically the events yeah very like like you know like high high tension yeah yeah I would like to send the dog you use up my last request to try and stop those who are trying to smash through the floor while I take off and run downstairs and see what I can do okay yeah so yeah you're not going to know you're not going to be able to stop anywhere near all of them but you can stop some of the ones around you from breaking through the floor for sure the ones that are smashing the hardest whatever I can do to stop totally go ahead and roll two to six plus your request 12 12 is a success so your water dog like dissipate like puddles onto the floor and spreads just like the secret life of Alex Mack just like Alex Mack thank you I gotta see this Alex Mack and spreads a lot of water along the floor and starts to freeze in place so like it's it's freezing around their legs and like as their heads and hands are hitting the floor it's freezing around that oh cool so it's just keeping them in place but it is sick it will have to stay up here and do this if you want this to stop okay and I take off running downstairs yeah and you're following the horde of people and Callum behind you goes best hurry and Billy it's not very long before you start hearing like footsteps beneath like through the water yes that's true that's true I'm in danger true man terrifyingly shuffling through your papers gotta be something that is true I was thinking I could do escape route to run off but that would mean that Callum's no longer stuck yes I don't it's not serving us anything to have him stuck at this point really kind of what I'm feeling yeah totally I think something just because I don't I'm not a GM that wants to go like hey you didn't think about this he is in command of the icon of cunning he is a very smart person like he's not necessarily a very dangerous combatant but he's a very dangerous person to have in the wind but he is only as smart as Sean is right so that's the upper limit because I don't because I don't like being a tricky GM it's interesting because the best way to play cunning is to suddenly spring something that I just thought of on you and be like he's been planning this all along he's trying to say that like I should keep him no I'm just saying that like you can absolutely release him and that's probably the safest thing for you to do right now because you know based on the fact that Victoria was basically able to get out of your fairy ring with a combination of distraction and like strength yeah that it is not impossible that this horde will just stress you out so much that they will pound through the fairy fort at a certain point because you will have to roll constitution basically consistently especially with that kind of pressure happening like two feet from you yes yeah I guess I will use escape route when I'm in too deep and need a way out I name my escape and roll plus dexterity love it yeah 2d6 plus dexterity 11 plus 2 13 yeah you're escaping for sure I'm gone I actually follow like you know you're saying that like the the the!

Yes I go down one of those narrow pathways okay sweet so you just like drop into a canal and take off yeah and as you're you basically you drop the curtain of water and the ring that you've put up you see above Callum stroll away as you're like through the glass he just strolls off into the palace starts whistling yeah yeah twirling his keys basically and as you turn to drop into the canals into this like ancient part of the castle you're like oh my god a horde of costumed revelers boils through the door that tuck destroyed after you but you are too quick for them you drop into the corridor and you escape where exactly do you think Billy is aiming to go ideally I would like to go where tuck is where I think tuck might be okay I've been hearing the rumblings yeah so I'm trying to skirt around this large area towards where he might be okay we cut to tuck okay!

You kind of blearily come to huh Allison is that you?

Please let it be you it's never you it's never you I haven't seen you in like in like eight seasons you know what you open your eyes and on the other side of this small chamber that you're you're tied to a chair strong iron chains Allison of course and you see on the other side of the room classic Allison in chains Allison in chains you see on the other side of the room a dark-skinned woman in a long red dress long red hair Allison hi tuck what are you doing here what are you doing here what are we doing oh come on you know okay we came here cause Colm asked us to try and save his brother right yes so the smog is destroying the world yes right yes and we got invited we all right we were invited you were invited by Calum Calum to help with dinner okay you were here to help with dinner and it's got a concussion and instead you've come here to help come on tuck you know why you're here you can tell me I'm here I'm here to stop Calum Blackhammer yes from right summoning the gibbous manor right and you're he's up now he's like shit good good no don't try and don't try and break the chains you're not gonna be able to break the chains what he tries anyway okay 2d6 plus strength uh seven fuck uh so you strain and strain and strain and you feel them give a little bit but they don't break what no no no no hey hey hey hey and she steps forward and she comes up to him and she kind of like puts a hand on your arm don't fight it okay just tell me what you're doing here what do you what do you mean I just told you so you're here to stop Calum yes and you were gonna do that by uh wait and the others yeah the elf and the boy where are they they're can you get them to come here the yeah the you should call them then we can all escape together shut up you can wait for me there's nothing we can do just clued into what the fuck is going on so he's like okay Allison can you please go get Billy and Ving they're they can help me they can help me get out of here yeah yeah yeah you should call them here yeah you all seem to be able to call each other they can't no it doesn't work like walkie talkies what doesn't work like walkie talkies the thing doesn't work like walkie talkies what thing oh my god he dude they're gonna try and break out of the front gate of the palace okay 2d6 plus charisma I'm trying to get him I realize that it's the guy with the icon of deception there you go you figured it out yeah yeah okay and I'm trying to get him to like go somewhere where they're not totally yeah he's just like the brass castle gang is gonna help us get out of here they're already probably there if you go and you get them let them know that I'm down here they'll come and save me okay uh yeah so that's like a 10 a 10 okay nice yeah interesting okay so you say this like oh they're gonna try and break out and you so Allison her face like her expression changes and kind of goes flat what and she sighs what and she stands up babe what and in a wink Allison is gone replaced by a man of average height what did you do with her and uh he just leaves the room fuck and uh you Tuck are experienced enough at this point you would guess that the icon of deception would allow this would not allow this man to be deceived right himself so it did he he's you're not gonna get any he's not gonna get any information out of you but he knows that now shit so he just leaves the room okay uh but you are now alone in this chamber okay uh and it is a small uh old stone room there's like a light source like a candle on a table okay but besides that there's no windows it's a wooden steel banded door where's TLC not here shit okay and it's not the same room that Black Spire is in no absolutely not but you would guess based on the construction that it could be nearby okay can I discern realities uh absolutely 2d6 plus wisdom yep so uh yep that's a four okay five okay okay five a that's no good that's a failure for sure yeah it's a failure um so you strain and you're looking around you're straining you can't really turn all the way around I'm straining I'm making my eyes as wide as I can go come on eyes collect all the information you can be smarter maybe before light gets in I can be smarter ah ah ah and you hear behind you I don't think you're gonna be able to break the wall who is it walks around you pale skin white beard black traveling clothes oh what uh oh oh shit he kind of makes a face at you like ooh wait have I ever actually seen the gibbous man yes under the heart tree in the great forest oh right yeah fuck looks like they got you uh what does Tuck do in this situation uh and he he he almost it's like almost fourth wall breaking in that he almost hears you say what does Tuck do in this situation and he holds up a hand uh huh let's be smart about this okay you're stuck I can help you yeah we have a common foe you can't break those chains I was made to break chains as far as I know though you fucked that up pretty bad hmm funny thanks um gonna enjoy wiping this place clean people like you I'm gonna enjoy you oh I'm so sick of human humor I'm so tired of it look I'm gonna lay my cards on the table I want Callum and Victoria dead uh wow that's funny because I happen to know those two people uh he kinda does like a literally this face where he just goes oh like he closes his eyes and he raises his eyebrows and shakes his head okay alright I'm already certain that this is going to be a good time to go nowhere so I'm gonna go now oh whoa no no no no no wait wait wait wait oh what wait are you gonna play ball I'll talk to you and then we decide if we want to play ball after that what is it with you people and trying to make deals with me when I'm already trying to make deals with you you haven't stated terms you haven't set anything on the table tell me what your deal is buddy we could end this right now we're gonna cut to Ving uh Ving you are uh can we go back to Tuck I was really enjoying that you are running through the corridors uh and you are following the congregants like the party goers yeah you already said it doesn't take that long I feel like I came down I came down the chamber there's a horde of writhing people in the spot where Billy was yeah trying to get through the door and basically like I think you see Billy like whoop like drop into darkness and disappear I would like to tap into the ring and see where Tuck is okay yeah uh discern realities ooh snake eyes ooh snake eyes that's five uh I don't know maybe like the with the gibbous man it's like obscured oh back back in the room it's like oh friend's trying to call well line's busy now you're getting it yeah we cut back to Ving Ving as you're like trying to call you're like come on Tuck pick up yeah all the hairs on the back of your neck go up and you hear back from down the hallway ah black spider no unfortunately not what uh the gun that was so close to the sound you did for his I turn and as you turn like you just get nicked on the cheek by uh an arrowhead and you see at the far end of the corridor Lionel McKenzie King has taken a knee and is pointing his weapon at you I'm gonna run and try and spiral the walls as I run at him oh 2d6 plus dexterity oh sick 6 plus 0 I fail oh no Billy I'm gonna aid from a distance yeah how remember with it the aiding from a distance thing is just that Tuck and Ving are luckier for knowing you they're lucky he's lucky for knowing me yep 9 9 okay so that makes it a 7 which um means that like you get like halfway down the corridor you're kind of like dodging shots as you're running down the hallway and you leap up onto like just like and you're like a piece of wooden furniture that's in the hallway and as you jump one of Lionel's shots goes through your boot and nails you to the table and you just whoop and boom hit the ground but you roll up but he's trying to get another shot on you I guess I'll roll fight with honor there we are 10 okay so that's 3 chi uh and uh he you hear as you get close you like hit the ground after falling roll up to your feet and take like a fighting stance as you move closer to Lionel and you hear him under his voice going fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck you rang and we'll cut back to Billy that's so fucking cool that's so sick fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck uh and we'll cut to Billy Billy you are in darkness you're like pattering through ankle high water uh feeling connections to this uh real ancient like water system that was built for the original palace ooh um and you're trying to find where Tuck might be okay discernment realities I failed 5 holy shit we are rolling not great today not great at all actually can I use a fairy child to turn that to 7 to 9 oh yes absolutely smart yeah very smart alright okay so on a 7 to 9 discern realities you get one question okay I guess what here is useful or valuable to me okay yeah you're in the plumbing for the building basically for the whole palace ew it is gross it smells like poo poo and pee pee down here oh no am I in the poo poo pee pee spot yeah you can tell and this is ancient poo poo pee pee yeah oh no the poo poo pee pee man came for you and you are uh dealing with this pungent pungent smell the disgusting feeling of these pipes and places and you hear Tuck's voice going like I'm having a business I'm on a I'm having a conversation and then you hear uh another man's voice oh yeah the hairs on my neck go up yeah and you are able to like creep around and uh you are directly you find like a little grate yeah in the top of the pipe that you're in like metal bars blocking the hole and you can just see like the flicker of candlelight maybe from some part of the room and you realize you see the outline of Tuck's legs oh and the legs of a chair so I'm like behind him you are directly underneath Tuck Tuck didn't see the drain that was in the room because his chair was placed over it so cool yeah I wonder would I be able to fit through this absolutely not you would have to be able you would have to find some way okay of utilizing this information but like it's a pretty small drain and you would have you're a pretty round boy dang it the one time my size has negatively affected me you have shadow dance I know oh shit I've been thinking about that yeah yeah so I feel like I'm in a safe spot no one can really squeeze in through these areas I would say that you having seen what you've seen you wouldn't be surprised if one of the congregants tried to get in the pipe but it would be slow going can I do something weird where yeah cause like I think Billy in a way sort of I mean less so than Vang can sense the piece of the moon in this area oh cool can I ask the mother to watch over me oh very interesting hmm so like connect to the the part of Lillian that is in the moon yeah a bit yeah that's very how would we be doing that cause you would feel it in these in this like the waters in this pipe even if they are mostly pee pee and poo poo something we've only kind of talked about is that Lillian is technically a fairy yeah she is the personification of a spiritual idea can I roll connections cause when I put out word to the ragamuffins or local fairies about something you want or need roll plus charisma I like that a lot yeah cause there could be fairies in this area that are like or to Lillian like to this fragment of Lillian yeah very cool yeah go ahead and roll connections okay 2d6 plus charisma I think uh 6 I'm gonna I I will turn to a 7 to 9 I'm gonna use a fairy shell oh my god I only have one more we're burning through this wow okay so on a 7 to 9 I'll have to settle for something close or it comes with strings attached something close or strings attached so you're at you're reaching out to this like feeling you can feel this fragment of the moon you know it's down here somewhere and the water rushing around my legs like I know she's in there what string would come attached to this protection we said this piece is rage rage yeah ooh maybe it shifts you into your winter like the rage is soaking into you her rage this betrayal that mankind leveled on her son she wants me to take it with me yeah take this rage with you I can't bear this myself cause it's also like maybe it's mixed with the rage from like the reign of night like the rage against Gibbous yeah for trapping her and he's here in her home this piece of the moon is infuriating it's quivering yeah cause it can feel that he is here oh yeah you can feel you've been feeling the water getting warmer and warmer and it's a reaction to his presence yeah that's very cool at first you thought it was the pee pee poo poo I thought it was the pee pee poo poo but actually when I look down it's just water right now I don't see any pee poo poo I'm pee peeing oh that's I'm so so okay so we do know that winter is not the so winter's not the rageful season summer's the rageful season isn't it no winter is rage summer's passionate summer's passionate which could be rage which could be anger right winter is cold fury yeah yeah like some fairies can go into just like a reverie yeah and that's like you know the still coldness of winter oh okay but then you have like the flurries and the storms of winter and that's kind of what more what Billy was in that form cool yeah that's awesome yeah that's very cool so you feel the rage soaking up through this water as you reach out to the fragment of Lillian buried somewhere beneath this castle and you feel the spring ebbing away and uh I grow cold and I tell her I will I'll hold this for you I'll bring you with me and you are shifted into your winter form yeah which means that your charisma is now a plus zero mm-hmm uh I think you're but I do roll double the damage yes you roll an additional d6 when you roll damage but I do have to roll to get into shadow dance yes you do yeah yep so I roll plus wisdom and this is my last fairy child hold holy shit okay eee seven plus wisdom eight okay okay so on a seven to nine you leave your body and enter the fairy as your pure essence and take one hold yep yep great so you have one hold and you roll and as long as you retain this hold you can make rolls remember in your fairy form okay but if you spend the hold you can automatically succeed at something but it will send you back to your body okay yeah yep um and you are released from your material chains and what like float up through the grate I guess so yeah what does winter billy look like oh in the fairy I mean uh yeah flurry oh cool oh he's just like yeah just like hairs moving around yeah tossing and turning cool cool and you enter so this is let's figure this out you enter the fairy in front of the gibbous man does he is he able to see into the fairy I mean we just talked he is chained yeah he is chained to his mortal form so he kind of can't yeah he might be like he might feel it but like he might feel the cold oh yeah I think the cold comes out from under your ankles like you feel it too oh you feel yeah you feel like a cold breeze blow up from beneath your chair mm and the gibbous man kind of shifts in his robe like kind of tightens his robe around him a little bit but he doesn't have a direct perception of Billy right no cause he is chained to his mortal form I thought this was gonna be a much bigger issue yeah but it's not thank god does that mean you can see what gibbous looks like in the in the fairy realm yeah oh that's cool yeah he is a spider yeah yeah I think he's got like he's got a vaguely humanoid like I imagine kind of like draped knight yeah but the legs come out sharply from him like at different angles yeah and like like up over his back like or are we talking like spider legs like on the ground I kind of imagine him like wreathed by spider legs I think it's more like wreathed but or like spider leg chained to the oh I see spidery chain legs yeah cool very cool if that makes sense it does like he's got like you can see the chains that bind him to the earth yeah and they look like spider legs it's spider like to me and webs oh I see chain webs as well yeah yeah!

I like that and then throughout his body it's um like not like like eyes like in your chest but they're empty oh yeah are they the parts that are connected to the coins that he's put around the world oh cause he's been removing his eyes yeah maybe you see little clips of the world of what they're seeing oh maybe oh that'd be cool that is cool where the coins are you see very like you see kind of flashes of different faces in different places around the world none of them make any sense to you at this time no but like it's clear that he has agents and he has eyes all over the planet cool but that also means he can't see me yeah yeah he's been blinded um sick we will then cut into the room tuck you feel this cold breeze blow up from the grate beneath you and the gibbous man shifts it's really fucking drafty in here there's a dungeon my dick and balls are usually yeah they're bigger than this they're barely in my pants they're exposed yeah yeah!

I split my pants when I slid down the stairs you humans are disgusting some more than others I'm aware so we don't have to be enemies we don't have to be at odds I'm sure you're sick of looking over your shoulder wondering when I'm gonna pop up again oh yeah I'm sick having the three of you crop up everywhere some thorn digs into my side I'm sick of that I'm sick of that I'm sick of that I'm sick of that I'm sick of that so why don't we work together you gotta understand that there's no way that your end game fits with ours right?

Oh come on what makes you think that? You're trying to destroy everything I'm not trying to destroy everything I'm trying to start again who survives what you're planning? Does anyone? Strong I suppose tell me what your end looks like the end to this game that you're playing what does it look like?

Uh you're gonna have to say you're gonna have to roll a defi- you're gonna have to roll something here to get him to give you any information yeah but it might be it might have to be a straight charisma to even get him to continue talking yeah to lead to something like it to certain realities you know what this is?

This is the first time that he's ever had reason to tell us what his plan is yeah what the end game for him looks like mhm like what cause we are like oh yeah he's crashing spheres together he's trying to re-assimilate mhm these are all theories that we've had yeah this is the first chance we have to get confirmation mhm and we're in a negotiation right now and he's trying to convince me that I should help him because his ends align with mine mhm so what I want from him is tell me what your ends are right to convince me to do this mhm 2d6 plus charisma okay here we go okay yeah so that's uh 12 okay yes oh yeah wow big rolls from Tuck yeah bow time rolling powerfully yeah did you fall?

No okay sounds like a fart John I never fart in public because I'm scared I'm gonna shit myself give a smit give a smit that's one of the things I hate most about my mortal form I have to shit sometimes I have to shit all the time mhm okay so you're asking what his ends are yeah Tuck is just like you just told me that our ends don't have to not align with mine mhm I'm trying to keep people from dying tell me how your ends are not that tell me how what you have imagined for the end of the world and the beginning of your new one has any survivors in it you don't you really don't get it we're in the end of the world right now the wizards are gone the thaumic realm is in disarray the spheres are crashing together that's because of you dude you tricked the wizards you think I tricked the wizards?

Yeah man you tricked the wizards you got them out of here so the spheres would crash together who told you this?

We put it together we talked to a couple of wizards one who was in wizards first one who wasn't Aternac Allwater too we found her notes she knew what you were doing so the wizards told you that I trapped the wizards yeah the wizards told you that I am trying to destroy the world mostly yeah I think we put some stuff together from other stuff and you believed them yeah hmm do you think maybe the wizards famously duplicitous famously manipulative beings that attempted to control the entire world with their technology and their power might have a vested interest in stopping the one being attempting to stop them how blind can you be?

I want to free the world from everything that the wizards built everything everything that the corruption of mankind brought about and you can help me do that can I get him to be more specific?

Um you can certainly try yeah I need information uh oh you're trying to get information 2d6 discern realities 2d6 plus wisdom fuck okay please please make this a good roll yeah so nine nine Billy I'd Billy's in the room yeah yeah cool three questions sick what here is not what it appears to be he's lying to you fuck yeah I knew it Billy you can see it in the fairy yeah as he starts to weave this story like the wizards mhm are manipulating you just like they manipulated everybody else you can see the spider arms start to move in their chains and they're like weaving this web kind of around Tuck yeah around his mind yeah and Tuck's mind in the fairy is so small it's so small and it's trying you can see the spider's trying so hard to get him to get anything to attach to it it's like that fruit fly it's moving all over it's tiny nobody can touch it I wanna I wanna uh cut the web yeah so you move forward and you clear the webs mhm around Tuck's mind yeah I blow wait I'll let cold wind around it oh cool oh yeah they freeze and shatter fall yeah brittle fall away he's lying to you okay can the truth be seen in the fairy world not right now okay he's obscuring it quite heavily mhm I'm gonna do those too okay so knowing that he is lying to you yeah how do you try and poke him into telling you what he's really planning uh so when he says how can you be so blind mhm I want all the coins in my chest to like form eyes yeah and I wanna go how can you be and he looks into the eyes of the demon of loyalty seeing that you are not going to betray the people that you are most loyal to yeah and he looks into the eyes of the demon and he uh starts to his face starts to flush in a very human reaction mhm his face flushes with anger and he gets really close to you and you see like the mortal form taking over yeah and he just starts breathing very heavily and he says they locked my daughter in a fucking box you did that no the first time I tried to save her she didn't listen then she fell in love with a filthy fucking mortal she had a life she had a chance to save her and she did and she did and she did and she did and she did and she did and she did and she did she had a life she had a child with one then they killed him and she sought the revenge she rightfully deserved as a god and they locked her in a fucking box for it and I am going to get her out and if you are not going to help me I'm going to take your fucking axe and I'm going to do it myself oh shit mhm oh shit oh shit that was a pretty good action shot and you that was really good yeah I got super scared now I'm all stressed out I'm all stressed out not cause I this time Anytime I've ever made fun of you, I take it back.

Because of this stuff. Because of scare around mad dads. Yeah. Oh my God. Holy shit. And you hear a key rattle in the door. And the gibbous man looks to the lock and he looks at you. He says, you fucked up. And he disappears. Fuck. No. Tuck tries to break the chains again. Let's cut back to Ving real quick. Oh yeah. Ving. You are face to face with Lionel McKenzie King who's backing up and kind of like pulling a slide on the side of his weapon. Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck.

What's his gun made out of? Metal. I take it. Nice. With your spiritual elemental mastery. Yeah. Oh, four plus con. That is a six. Oh, okay. Oh, shit. You can help. I can help. Cause you know me. Cause you know me. I don't. Wait, hold on. It says, it says right here. You may aid your allies no matter the distance between you. But do you? Okay. Here's the question. To be fair to Sean. Do you have to know that he's in trouble or are you just always latently aided?

The thing that Sean set up was like, just by knowing Billy. Well, it's that you guys are just, you guys are lucky. It's like a thing I made for the fairy child slash changeling is that it alters aid for this character to just be a bit cooler. Yeah. Okay. Then do it. I think if it works, fucking do it. Cause this is pure fairy right now. Is that okay? Or would you rather not? No, I would rather have passed. I think he wants this thing to happen.

I mean, maybe I made you guys like little friendship bracelets ages ago. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So, uh, yeah. Yeah. Flashback to when Billy was making friendship bracelets. Uh, he was, uh, cutting threads, like little pieces from, uh, Ving's clothes, making friendship bracelets out of that, braiding them. Yeah. Your shirt's very. My pants kept falling down. Yeah. Your shirt got really short. Yeah. All of his pants are capris now. Guys, I think I'm getting taller. Do I look taller to you?

Uh, all right. Two to six plus bond. What? What? Uh, six. Oh, no. Two failures. Fuck. Fuck. Two points of experience. Shit. I guess because I'm in the fairy realm. Yeah. And I'm busy. Fuck. No, it's you try to reach out. And I think, uh, you like reach out with elemental mastery and you just yank, try to yank the gun out of his hand. And he feels that you see like, uh, the lenses on his glasses start like flipping really fast. Oh, sick. And he sees, he feels the gun pull and he goes, whoop.

And he, uh, releases. He uses a clasp on a little capsule on his, uh, bandolier, which is also made of metal. Yeah. And it flies towards you and boom, creates this like cloud of smoke between you and him on a misc. A catastrophe occurs as a result of your calling. A catastrophe for occurs, right? This is a failure, not a seven to nine. Yeah. So what? Maybe it's a explosion. Yeah. Maybe it's an explosive instead of a smoke grenade. Yeah. Gun explode. Gun explode. No. Like the thing that he gets.

The thing to pull trickily is not a smoke grenade, but a grenade grenade. He releases like a clip that is like explosive charges. Oh yeah. You grab that. Yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. It's like ammunition and it blows up in your hand. Uh, okay. Roll a D10. Oh geez. One. That's a one. Yep. Great. Yeah. So you are able to protect yourself in some way from the worst of this. Oh yeah. Like, uh, using the deferring of energy. Yeah. In the same way, but it's an explosion. Uh huh.

So I'm able to kind of duck around. I found it. Oh cool. Yeah. Yeah. You like, see like deflect the charges and they explode behind you and you move away from the explosion. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. But you still take one damage. So I have two, uh, armors. Yeah. So you don't actually take any damage from that. It's just, it throws you like off balance and, uh, Lionel tries to run. I cross a distance between myself and an enemy.

Oh, so you're just in front of him as he tries to run away below in the chamber, Billy and, and talk. You hear an explosion. And I just have his casings. Yeah. In my hand. Ting, ting, ting, ting, ting. So what, what is your next move? I'm going to ask him to step aside or I will put him aside. Okay. I think him seeing you tank an explosion is probably a good basis for being able to roll a defy danger charisma to try and get him to back off. Nine. Seven to nine. Billy. Billy. Billy. Great.

I hear the explosion. 10. Okay. So yeah. What do you say? I'm like, these are very impressive toys you have, but they are just toys. I know we wronged you in the past, but this is about your future. Our future. Get out of my way or I will put you out of my way. And he wrapped in his bandages and his, his weird tactical clothing pouches and his gun just leans heavily against the wall and start. Okay. Okay. There. There. Yes, for now. Because you did ruin my life. And I am under contract.

So, Lionel McKenzie King never forgets. And Lionel McKenzie King never breaks a contract. I'm going to give you a 30-second head start. I kick him into the middle of the horde. Oh, okay. I deal my damage to him. Yeah, go ahead and deal your damage. Five. The horde is there. And what, you just plant a foot on him and push him into the horde? Yeah. And they grab him and they drag him inside. And you hear him going like, oh, fuck. Oh, my God. And he's like grabbing. I won't forget your face.

And I won't forget your face. I'll never forget. As you kick him, you go, hey, this guy's selling pomegranates. This guy's giving away weapons. No, not again. But he has been immobilized by the horde. This might not kill him right away. But he is taking. He's taken care of. Okay, great. Spread down the hallway towards Tuck. Great. Back to the room. Tuck. The key is rattling. Yeah. So Tuck is, his brain is on fire because he's like, the gibbous man said he was going to take my axe.

And that has my friends in it. So he tries to break out of the chains that he's in first. What was I? What did you want me to roll? You should probably wait until I say. I'll wait. I'll wait. Next. It's okay. Two to six plus strength. I got 12. Okay. So you are going to break the chains as soon as these doors open. Okay. Yeah. Can I punch through the door before it opens and grab whoever's on the other side? You can definitely try. Yeah.

You feel the chains break as the door is starting to creak open. Yeah. Go for it. 13. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Amazing. The door is opening. You are welcome to try and punch through it. I punched through it and grab whoever's on the other side by whatever. And then I pull them either through the door or the door off the hinges. Yeah. And slam whoever it is against the wall. Okay. Yeah. It is Victoria LaBlanche. Where's my fucking ass? And she has the breath pushed out of her. Yeah.

So she takes a very deep breath, right? And like. Out of command. I slam her against the wall again really hard. Yeah. Okay. Two to six plus strength. Yeah. That's 10. Uh, she drops all pretext. Give me my fucking ax back now. It's down the hallway. Okay. Can I slam her against the wall one more time before I go to try and knock her out? Oh, this is a, you're attacking her now? Yes. This is a hack and slash. Yep. Uh, yep. So 13 again. Strong boy. Yeah. Okay. So you can roll your damage. One.

Fuck. Yeah. Uh, you, you slam her into the wall. Yeah. She makes a grunting sound. It sounds like she's been hurt. I throw her down. I run to get my ax. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Uh, Billy, you see tuck in the spirit realm, yank Victoria LaBlanche. Oh, threw into the room and you see the icon that she is tethered to. Yeah. But, um, you see this icon like pulling against the tethers that are so newly tied between it and Victoria.

The structure, the physical structure of this place means nothing to you in this form. And you see across this level of the castle, uh, the. The, the fairy like glittering reflection of TLC as well as Terry, Larry and Chad, the fairies that are attached to it. I want to go after TLC. Okay. I want to get there before the gibbous man gets there. 2d6 plus dexterity. Okay. Come on, please, please. Five plus two is seven. Okay. So seven to nine. I think maybe you get there at a very similar time.

Sure. With the mixed success. Yeah. And I always imagine fairies moving. It's not like physical movement very much at all. You're like, I'd like to be there. And then like that space is kind of where you are. Is that, does that kind of track? Yeah. Like there, it is like a plane, but we cross it. Like the time just moves a little different. Yeah.

So you get to Terry, Larry and Chad passing through the old ancient stone walls of the castle and you are in another chamber that you see the shadowy reflection of in the material. The ax is leaning against a wall along with tucks. Tucks, a little backpack and his cowboy hat, which they took off of him. I wasn't even wearing a cowboy hat during that scene. I must've looked like such a fucking idiot.

And in this room you see, uh, as the gibbous man is like arriving basically, cause he is moving much like Billy is moving. He's not physically moving through the spaces. Yeah. Imagine he flits like a shadow. Oh yeah. You could see the spider legs kind of like creeping along. This like ethereal plane. Yeah. The shadow comes and then it like pulls him toward it. Oh, it's like, yeah, the legs coming out of the shadows, pulling him along. That's gross. That's cool. Yeah. It's so gross.

It's really gross. And in this room, um, you also see, um, a hulking figure like lashed and chained to one side of the room on a big metal like plate built into the ground. What does it look like to you? It's a large stone plates, black and white scales covering its massive reptile. And black Spire is in this room and you can see him like kind of kind of like chomping on big metal bands that are on his feet and on his arms and legs. Well, they're just legs cause he's an animal.

And you see that there is another Medjai in this room who has like a big metal bell shaped cap and is like moving closer to Black Spire but every time he gets too close Black Spire goes and like chomps a big chomp at him is it like kind of a bridle that's meant to go back into his mouth it looks like it covers his whole head like they wanted to block his eye they wanted to block his sight and his mouth because they know dragons breathe whatever whatever something dangerous am I able to defend Black Spire yes I think that you would be able to I think that what you are risking is the gibbous man getting TLC because we know that he is like you're kind of you can all in the like space between the material yeah you can kind of feel yeah like the flitting shadow you know what he's not quite here yet but he's on his way okay actually you know what I'm gonna do a fairy ring oh smart around the axe around the axe and Black Spire oh keep him out of this room they're in the same room right yeah you can do them in the realm that's so cool I can do it in the realm do it in the realm 2d6 plus dexterity okay so that's 6 plus 2 8 okay 8 cool yes which means I have to it requires my constant attention uh okay you kind of I imagine because you're like a flurry I imagine it's like yeah yeah and you create this like circle of winter air that is blowing around the room and you see the medjay kind of like oh what the fuck like it starts papers start blowing off tables and Black Spire goes like oh I think it's freezing some of the condensate like just like the water the moisture dampness on the walls that's cool frost is building on the on the stones from the ceiling yeah yeah and I feel like there is like more moisture in the air right now because the water in the is like sort of starting to boil the water in the tunnels oh from the rage yeah from the rage of like the gibbous man being so close is so it's like sort of getting like steamy and humid yeah okay so you create this fairy ring um which means that you get to control who comes in but not who goes out and I imagine that tuck and ving kind of like bump into each other yeah in the hallway as you're running down you both kind of hit a t intersection and slam into each other yeah yeah tuck is behind he's dragging the door so you don't see him right away you just look like a door yeah I just look like an arm you look like a dashing door totally uh great and yeah you so you run into each other in the hallway uh and I go the gibbous man is here he's trying to get TLC oh my god where is he where's TLC he's down the hall where's Billy what he was with you I know he jumped into the river what the fuck are you talking about you had Billy right I'm gonna try and reach out to him I can't do this when you're yelling at me you were supposed to keep eyes on him I can't keep eyes on him he jumped in the other realm you know what he's like jumping into realms we're gonna have a talk about this afterwards we're having a talk about it right now all right so you're trying to reach out to Billy do we know where he is we don't you have no clue where Billy is okay I'm gonna try again okay discern realities 14 Jesus nice three four questions holy shit what's about to happen you because you're trying to contact Billy you reach out with the Chamberlain ring and you see through his very still eyes that he is in a pipe of some kind just like looking up at the grave yeah I see a chair you see a chair broken chains because we have the rings on tuxes at two and knows that's his chair those are his broken chain oh yeah totally yeah yeah so you know that he is directly beneath the room that you were just in and you also like around Billy is projected this feeling of protection like there is something watching over him and he is his physical body you get the sensation that he is safe in this in this tube it's a small tube no one's getting in it's a tiny little tube he's like a fresh loaf of bread in a bread maker he hasn't come out yet he hasn't come out yet not quite done doesn't have to come out yet nice and warm in there yeah I'm gonna sit over the tube and do this yeah ah anticipation uh okay what's useful or valuable oh maybe at the at the end of the corridor you can see frost like crawling out of the room and crawling like up the walls so I point that out to Tuck that he's at the end of the hallway okay so Billy is kind of in two places I think that's what we're yeah so that's what we're talking about yeah yeah yeah the boy is in the pipe the wind is in the room yeah the fair is in the room what should I be on the lookout for uh there are two things so you can feel that strange feeling that you have gotten in your face-to-face encounters with uh a one god of the sky that there are shadows moving and shifting and uh he is like at the end of the room there's like flickers that feel like something's coming through like this is the first time you've ever seen the mechanism of the gibbous man appearing oh cool and he's like stepping through whatever it is he's stepping through the room and he's like oh I'm gonna be on the lookout for you and he's like stepping through whatever it is he's like stepping through the room and he's like oh I'm gonna be on the lookout for you oh we can see sort of like fractures in almost like like seams yeah that he that the spider legs like pull him through uh-huh yeah yeah and shattered seams yeah he's about to step into the realm and then the other thing you should be on the lookout for is you hear uh oh darling husband oh fuck like storming out of the room and as she's coming down the hallway her wedding gown is like torn oh uh well yeah we're like this uh and as she uh she's like a fucking black widow spider it's just like you know you're in so much tension she's the red spot on the spider oh yeah yeah the hourglass the red hourglass on the spider she's like man she's gonna kill me and so she comes like charging out of the room and she's like oh my god I'm gonna be on the lookout for you and so she's like oh my god I'm gonna be on the lookout for you and so she's like oh my god I'm gonna be on the lookout for you and uh as she's coming towards you skidding out of a doorway just between you and her is mirrors oh with the sword and he fucking clang like knocks her sword aside and goes go quick quick mirrors you're not susceptible to her charms cause you're gay I actually don't like to label myself in a specific way just go you're gay Oh, you're gay.

Not like that. Like how he means it. And Mears is immediately outmatched. But you can see he is going to be able to hold her off momentarily. But you got to. There's a time limit on this. Does he have to roll a loyalty for this to work? Yes, he does. 2d6 plus three. He's at three loyalty of a possible four just to keep things above board. Come on, Mears. That's a four. Okay. And that's a two, six, eight. So he does lose a loyalty. He's down to two.

But you can see he's like, it's a lot of him backing up and deflecting sword strokes. But as she kind of takes wax at him, chunks of wax and fabric are coming off of the sword. Even the first one reveals obsidian beneath. Yeah. And you see her eyes narrow. And she kind of with a renewed vigor goes at Mears. But she's temporarily held at bay. What do you do? So then we run to the room where Billy is. So you arrive at a room covered in frost.

And you feel like the winter winds as you cross the threshold of the room. Familiar in the way that fairy rings have felt. So you know that Billy's kind of got this room wrapped in a fairy ring. And Billy, you see Tuck and Ving enter. Yeah. I've been getting more. I've been getting more pissed off, though. Oh. About this dude with the mask. So it's really cold in here. Yeah. The guy holding the mask is being kind of blown back. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Very cool. That's sick.

So you walk into a winter gale, basically. I walk up to him. I take the mask from him because I'm unaffected by the gale. Oh, yeah. Walking along the top of the snow. Take the mask from him. Right. As he's fighting against this wind. His hands are slightly stuck to it. Yeah. And there's snow is building in the room around Blackstone. Spire's feet as well. He's going. Oh, my God. He's lifting a paw each back and forth. And you see Black Spire. Tacoma Dome. Buddy. Oh, my God. No way.

We're going to get you out of there, buddy. We're going to get you out of these fucking chains, man. I'm losing it. I'm going to try and elemental mastery these chains off of him. Oh, fuck yeah. 2d6 plus constitution. Seven. Okay. The effect I desire comes to pass. Okay, great. So you just reach out. And sort of melt the chains off of him. Yank him off. And Black Spire feels these chains come off of him. And he rises up like because he was kind of lashed down in almost like a frog crouch.

And he shakes his huge reptilian body. I imagine is he kind of shakes like a dog and all of his scales. Scales clack. Yeah. His little wings. And like the large like obsidian plates on his shoulders clack in unison. And then he sees. The Medjai who was trying to muzzle him. And he raises all of his scales in the huge crest that he creates. Oh, shit. And he honestly doesn't even say anything. He's got a fucking. No, he pulls a paw back. Oh, and he just fucking slams this guy against the wall.

Oh, my God. Yeah. Is he dead? He kind of like hits and then does like. Oh, like tumbles to the side. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's for sure. Lie your way out of that motherfucker. And he stomps his massive legs. All right, let's get the fuck out of this place. Where's the axe?

The axe is leaning against a wall. Basically, as you walk in, they kind of piled all your stuff up. It seems like the Medjai, at the very least, didn't understand the potency of the axe. Okay. I snagged the axe. Yeah. Yeah. And Larry, Terry, and Chad are like, oh, man, that was a lot closer than you think it was. A lot closer than you think it was. I don't know if you can see what's going on on the other side of the mortal realm, but it is not chill. Yeah.

Billy and TLC have been having big chats. I kind of imagine Billy and TLC on the other side of a fence, basically, from the gibbous man. Like, yeah, fuck you, loser. Yeah, basically. Suck on this. Suck it. Suck it. You can't come in. You can't fucking touch me. You can't touch me. Oh, no. Maybe. Maybe you can touch me. You see, every time you do that, you see the spider form of the gibbous man.

Like, I had an image in my head where it was a sphere, and he's, like, kind of crawling all the way around what is kind of like a glass sphere. Yeah. And it's like, you see it probing. Yeah. Yeah. And we're like, oh, oh, oh, get away, get away. Yeah, when he's on your side of the sphere, like, oh, oh, oh. Yeah. And I think maybe the gibbous man tries to talk to Billy from the other side of this spider fence. He's skittering around. Yeah. And I go, I don't talk to strangers.

Oh, I'm not a stranger. You know me. Yes, you are. You know me. No, I don't. I don't know you the way you think I do. Your keeper has already denied my offer, but I have a feeling that you're a little bit smarter. No, I don't think I'm smarter. That's where you're wrong, gibbous man. The gibbous man, I think, is realizing that Billy's memory is a strange thing. He's like, oh, but Billy. Billy. Billy. Billy. Billy. Billy. Billy. Billy. Billy. Billy. Billy. And why? Whoa.

So then you know why I want what I want, my child. Skitter, skitter. But you don't like when we ask questions, so that's why I need it out. That was always the problem. I let you ask questions, hoping you would make the right choice, and you disappointed me. And then you left, and you created your own realm. You and the rest of the fairies, and look what it brought you. It brought me a good family. Well, hold them close. And he disappears. He disappears. Wait. Wait, come back.

Oh, why does he want him to come back? I don't know. I actually kind of like that he leaves, and then Billy says come back, but he doesn't come back. But I have questions. Now I want to know what you're going to ask. I don't know what I'm going to ask. No, that's fine. So I think he is about to, like, he's trying to leave. That mechanism is beginning where he is taking off, and you're like, I have questions. And if you won't answer, I'll ask mother. And he comes back. Whoa, don't do that.

What do you want to know? What? Why did you lie to me, father, about Lillian when I knew you locked her up? I didn't. He's very placating right now because you threatened to call mother never was basically, and he is freaked out about that. I didn't lie. I. They locked her up. The humans locked her up. That fucking disgusting sailor locked her up. You know what I mean? Yes. I told them how to do it, but I needed more time. I hate that. They made me do that. No one made you do that.

They made me do that. No one made you do that. I couldn't control her. You couldn't control her. So I needed time. I told them how to lock her away. We sealed her up so I could get the pieces of her back and build her back the way I need her to be. I just need time. I'm almost done. That's not a lie. You're not a good father. And that's why we all left you. You can see in the ferry. This wounds him deeply. It's hard to be a good father to such ungrateful children. And he disappears.

That was sick. That was very good. That was so cool. Holy shit. And Billy, through the shadow of the ferry, you see Black Spire kind of like hopping around. Like, yeah. Oh, my God. I'm so fucking happy to see you guys. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And he kind of like piles on. Scruffle. Scruffle. Scruffle. Yeah. Oh, Tuck. Oh, my God. And you cut back to the material realm. And it's just him screaming so loud. And it's going, stop. Stop. You're huge. Easy. Easy. Easy. Easy. Heal. Heal.

He starts going, oh, my God. I'm so hungry. And he starts digging into the stone floor. He's pulling up piles of rock. Oh, my God. This is like a little buffet for him. Tuck is like frantically smashing. Through the walls with the axe. No, no, no. Fuck. Okay. All right. All right. Okay. Cool. Yum, yum, yum. Yum, yum, yum. So what's your plan now? We got to get the fuck out of here. Better grab Billy first. Oh, shit. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. B-R-B. You forgot about our boy. What about Mears?

Oh, shit. Mears. Mears like comes fucking sailing past the door. Slams into the wall outside the door and goes, ah, and swings the sword up. And Victoria LeBlanc clang sword off the stone. Shit. Can I roll for an annulment? Is that possible? You know what? You don't have to roll for an annulment. Your marriage to her. Tuck, I'm going to be honest with you. This is the GM speaking. Your marriage to her. I connect. Tuck connects with another round. I think we can all guess. Yes.

The marriage to her. So unimportant in Victoria's plans. She used. She used it as a way to manipulate you. And guess what, brother? It fucking works in the fairy realm. You could see that wound. It's so deep. But yeah, Victoria is out here. She's trying to kill Mears right now. And so what? Okay. What do we think her goal in this scene is? She wants revenge. She's got the icon of revenge. She wants revenge on the people. That sunk her fucking ship. Oh, yeah. And she is.

And she wants to kill the only husband. She never. She never fucked. The only man she ever truly loved. Me. That's what Tuck says. And she grabs Mears by the front of the shirt. And hurls him down the hallway out of sight. Let's finish this. Finally. And she kind of starts sauntering back into the hallway. Gesturing with the tip of her sword. I tuck grabs the front of the duster and rips it off. Cool. I thought you're still wearing that. He's wearing a duster and pants with the crotch gone.

Yeah. Then he grabs the pants and then rips them off and goes, if I'm going to go out of this world, I'm going to leave how I came in. In a loincloth. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah Please help me fight my wife I would love to Oh You're all a part of this You all sank my sheep Your sheep?

Hold on Hold on Let me get the voice My voice is feeling I'm a little tired No you're doing great It's very French She's kind of like One of these right She's like a really French jerk Yeah A jerk of a French person A French person listening to me Do this voice Surely filled with rage Rage And she looks at all three of you All two of you And Mirs is there as well You To come at them You Ving Get that out of my face It will be in your face All three of you And the boy And then she And she goes And also the nameless Background character You hang out with sometimes Yeah It was that red haired lady At the time She was also involved I will have my revenge But I must have my revenge On all of you Where's the boy?

He sunk my ship as well Oh Billy right now is tantruming Oh Oh What's this look like?

Cause he's so mad Yeah Like how dare His dad Show up like that Oh yeah Also I kind of And walk out of an argument And leave again And fucking gaslight him Yeah I imagine like the wind Is picking up the wind Yeah As the gale The tantrum gale Is engaging Yeah And like he promised Lily And he's funneling Her anger as well Oh So it's just both Yeah that's pouring through Billy and Ving This like Spiritual rage And anger And she feels the wind Start picking up And she kind of spreads her arms As the wind whips her hair around Can I Like damage The demon that's attached to her Can I use my hold for that?

Oh That would be sick To try and detach it Or like Unhide it Because the tattoos are very new Yeah I did say that didn't I? Yeah The tattoos are very new Um You can use your hold It will send you back into your body Yeah But you can destabilize it for sure Yeah Okay yeah So what does this look like? You see hanging Basically like in the fairy Hanging above her Yeah Is the constellation for revenge Mmhmm And I want to implore it To Seek a greater revenge Ooh Yeah Cool Yeah Revenge on who?

The gibbous man To our father Oh Because it's It's It's father too Yeah The demon's father Yeah And I tell it You heard what he said Oh So sick Yeah Cool cool cool Cool cool cool Okay alright And you just spend the hold on this Yeah Okay so you Say like you heard what he said Yeah So you feel the The demon of revenge Start like Pulling against the chains Mmhmm That are lashing it to Victoria with the tattoos Oh Not quite breaking them But like trying really hard And you can see her kind of like Twitching Yeah Yeah She's spasming with the Force of like The metaphysical strain And you hear it say The last thing he knows Will be my gratitude Oh Oh So cool And uh She is You can see her like She's Her eyes start darting All over the place With the feeling of This decoupling Oh And it will not Uh I I have a move called Fuck off demon Where I can defend Objects or people from Demonic influence Mmhmm So I can help you Somehow You could defend Victoria Yeah Yeah So Billy Cause I was This is actually works out great Cause Billy is not So sufficiently powerful That he can completely Detach the demon Yeah But you can destabilize it For sure Yeah So you're gonna roll defend To uh Try and defend against Demonic influence Oh Yeah you're like saving her From this demon Okay yeah go ahead and roll it It my The way that I do it Is like I'm gonna roll Breaking the law To try and use TLC Mmhmm To I guess Kind of compel them To be corporeal Enough within the iconic And like fairy realms Mmhmm To sever the connection Between The demon of revenge And Victoria Gotcha yeah So what you're doing Is using breaking the law To make this thing possible Yes And then you are rolling A different roll Yeah And the debility The stat Do you have a preference Where would I take the debility to No not at all Okay I'll just Take another one to intelligence No you can't No you can only take One debility per Okay Fucking I mean a few I feel like constitution Cause you're reaching Into a realm Yeah You don't know You're overreaching Yeah Okay Yeah you're using Your physical power To overcome something Yeah Spiritual So there we go Minus one Tuck takes the axe He wants to like Slash it To like get her to move away Mmhmm And then spin So that he's facing her back And then slash the axe Like across the tattoos On her back Oh yeah Like cut the skin Yeah So then roll Strength I guess Mmhmm Here we go Please Twelve Oh my god Yeah Okay You Yeah you spin around Like she Kind of lunges forward With her sword As you start moving You do a spin around her Yes And you slice down her back Cutting in a very Jaunty way Her dress down To like one shoulder Basically Keeping it on But you But the The spiritually Crafted axe That is Larry Terry And Chad Cuts through these Magi tattoos The blade like Turns night black Like the same color As the rips in the world That like the gibbous man makes When he's like Traveling between places Yeah Cool Yeah So you're like Cutting through the realms Yeah And it's just along the edge It feels like It's like something Where it's just The metal is being like Corroded almost Yeah Yeah And Billy in the ferry You see the like Disconnection of the Icon of revenge Yeah I mean I'm back in my Human form Oh right So you don't see shit I don't see shit Yeah Ving would feel it And the constellation Oh yeah And because he's Susceptible to the rage I feel like Oh right Oh And I've also I'm covered in constellations I feel like There's some Opportunity here To be affected by this Or soak it up Yeah Or bind it To the right thing Whatever you wanna do I know it's I was like Ooh if you fail I have a great Yeah It's well I mean Succeed or fail There's a fucking Demon in play right now Yeah You can feel this Icon Loose In sort of like Your extra Sensory perception And this Feeling of revenge Is looking for a place To land And you feel it Kind of center in On the feeling of rage That you've been carrying Yeah From Lillian I feel like I want to convince The icon The demon of revenge To bind itself To the gibbous man Somehow To like his mortal form To his mortal form Because I I know that This This!

Comes at the cost of Sight It is rash Oh It is a weakness Oh So then it would Blind Like not let the gibbous man See In some way Yeah It would cut off A sense Because It'll make him act And he's like Primed for it now Because of the interaction With Billy He's like Very much so So angry And his His act of revenge With chimes Yeah He's He's open to The revenge Yeah So what What is your next move?

Ving goes on his back And grabs his spear Off his back Which is Covered in runes And I Seeing Billy In the Realm with The demon of revenge I Carve The Constellation of revenge Into my spear Oh And in the folding Realms As the Gibbous man Is leaving I reach back And I throw my spear Into the realms Tethered with the Demon of revenge I I I I I I I I I!

I In hopes That it will Find He who Was seeking The biggest Revenge Oh You throw it Through like The slits In reality That he creates When he leaves I use my Night moves To track Where the Embodied sky Is traveling Through the realms Okay 2d6 plus Wisdom To attempt This like Binding of the Demon of revenge To your spear That's a very Cool idea Never been done Before so We gotta roll To make sure That it works The way you Want it to Oh I got 13. It works the way you want it to.

It makes sense that yeah, I'm embodying this revenge. It's kind of like the first time you've done something like that. Yeah. But it makes sense because you've got the tree, knowledge, it's all over you. The knowledge of what that constellation means. You can read the constellation. You got exposed to the outer dark and the entirety of the constellations when we were in the tower. Like shot into your head. Yeah. It's a printout of the entire pinpricks of the cosmos. Sorry. You go ahead.

No, I was just going to say that like you carry with you all the instructions. Yeah. And as a keeper of pieces of Lillian, as a moon boy, I know that where I throw this tip of the spear, it will find it's true. Yeah, absolutely. So you very quickly, I even think it's like with your… It's just like a thumb. Yeah, with your thumb, you carve into the wood. With your thumb. The constellation. It's next to like the carving of your mom's name. It's your dad's spear.

So there's like an intrinsic feeling of revenge you have for this object. It's like all of the families he's had that weren't you. And they are separation in revenge. Yeah. Yeah. Very cool. And I mean, do I make you roll to throw? I think you're… I think this is going to… It's going to pass into this place. Okay. What happens after that will be determined by the roll. Okay. So my night moves, we're doing 2d6 plus… Wisdom. Wisdom. 10. 10. Fuck yeah. On a 10 plus with night moves.

The GM will answer one question. Okay. Ask me a question. Paul, I don't know if you're doing a gag or you don't know what the question is because to me it seems so obvious. What? I mean, like, will it go in there? What the fuck? Wait, I don't think I know what the obvious question is. Where is the gibbous, man? Oh. Like, where do I throw this so that it hits him? Oh, I thought I already knew that, but this is what I did this move for.

Yeah, because we've determined that it did go through the crack here. Yeah. Yeah. I know that it's going to find him. I ask of the spear to show me the movement of the knight. Oh, cool. So you follow the spear between the realms to the starlit void that is the outer dark. The gibbous man passes through the night sky that holds all of the spheres in its hands as he moves between the material realm. The spear emerges in a place deep, deep underground.

Lit by crystals embedded in the walls of this ancient cavern, reflecting the light of a piece of the moon. That sits in a cradle of stone being washed by an ancient river that falls into the canals and caves that form an ancient waterway that was many centuries ago harnessed by the people that built the city of Blackglass and the castle that you stand in now. He stands before this piece of the moon, this fragment of his daughter's spiritual form.

A piece in the puzzle required to complete his ultimate plan, which is to finally release her. And as he reaches out to take this piece of the stone, the spear finds his side and pierces deep. He is in the middle of the cavern, and the! The spear is in the cavern. The spider sweeps across the glass, a sphere against the buried past. The prophecy, a broken man, a burning tree, the final stand. With the doom upon our backs, I look to you who matter most.

For if the sky unveils a new light, it will be the light of the new day. There's a woman's scent. Together we stand, ghost to ghost. We stand, ghost to ghost. Many eyes returning, the strands of midnight's open fold. Born in dawn's first burning, we walk the road to journey's end. Lost at time's last turning, the night is closing in my friends. And if we fall, together us we'll die. And if we fall, together us we'll die. And if we fall, together us we'll die.

And if we fall, together us we'll die. And if we fall, together us we'll die. And if we fall together, not one of us will die alone. © transcript Emily Beynon