Episode 10 – Phoenix Rising

Hi Speltlorians, Abdul here with a short announcement. As you've probably noticed, our release cadence has slowed quite a bit. The reason for this is that one of our cast members is unfortunately dealing with some serious health issues at the moment. So we have made the decision to slow down our release schedule to monthly releases, so that we can give them the time that they need to recover without having to stop releasing the show altogether.

Right now, we have a healthy backlog which will give us enough runway for everyone to get back to 100%, at which point we will go back to our regular bi-weekly releases. In the meantime, we are not going to be leaving you high and dry, neither on the public feed nor on the Patreon side. Public feed-wise, in addition to the monthly Speltlore releases, we are bringing back Mall Brats from its summertime hiatus.

This is the fully scored public feed version of Mall Brats that we've been releasing over on the Pickaxe network. We are also going to be doing some crossovers with other TTRPG shows, and depending on how the schedule works out, we might start releasing in the main feed the fully scored Up All Night playtests that so far we've only released on Patreon.

On the Patreon side, we have some new Mall Brats and Up All Night in the can, and we are going to be doing monthly and eventually bi-monthly streams. And there's also a massive backlog of outtakes and level-ups that we're going to be bringing out in the coming weeks. Ultimately, we want to end this campaign with the care and the effort that it deserves, and slowing down the release means that we can do that with the full cast without having to put the show on hiatus.

And one added bonus to slowing down is that it gives us time to put more work and production value into the final episodes of the campaign. For example, we've been working with a very talented artist on battle sets for our final episodes, and we've also been experimenting with adding a soundtrack to the bigger boss fight type episodes. Actually, this episode that you're about to listen to is the first episode that we've done that for, and we would love to hear what you think about it.

So if you're listening on Spotify or YouTube, drop a comment letting us know what you think about it, and if we should keep doing it. It likely won't be in every episode, just the big set pieces and the boss fights, and if it turns out that it's not your cup of tea, then I've also included a link in the description to a public, totally free episode on Patreon that doesn't have any music in it. So thanks for listening, thanks for understanding, and please enjoy the episode.

Daring so here I sit singing to you an adventure that is with sharing Tucker's the prude he knows not his home he loves to sing and fight Vigors half elf he shifts his shape and wields his spear with great mind Billy'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 our 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 Tacoma Dome of the Barbarian Abdul Aziz. Hello everybody. Ving the half elf druid Paul Oppers. Hi, how you doing? And fat Billy the halfling thief Jessica Tai. Hi everyone. When last we left our heroes, they were deep beneath the surface of the island of Hibernia. Deep and delicious. Deep and delicious. They were deep beneath deep and delicious beneath the island of Hibernia in a flooded tunnel ancient and dark in a submarine of sorts created by spiritual vines.

Deep and delicious submarine and keep going. Traveling to the lair of the lunar bear discovered by the party or intimated by the party to be the mother of spirits and the protector of the island of Hibernia and the druids that dwell with on it that dwell with on the island of Hibernia.

They found themselves following a perilous journey in an ancient temple complex of sorts containing druidic carvings old stone caverns one cavern adorned massive vaulted adorned with images of the ancient giant empires and the muses that they held in veneration as well as a viewing port of sorts for the bear spirit herself. The lunar bear slumbered deep within a nightmare thanks to some things that were perhaps dropped into the cavern many seasons ago.

Deliciously dropped deeply and deliciously into the cavern below. Do you want to live deliciously? Do you want to live deeply and deliciously? If the devil offered me a deep and delicious in like 1540 or whatever, no problem. I'm signing that book. Oh my god. Holy shit. What the fuck? Where did you get this? Bring me McCain. I must know his secrets. Oh yeah, I would accept it too. And then I would I would try to barter with the king.

I would like display and be like, Oh, I have a deep and delicious. I have a deep, delicious. You surely have never had one. I sold my soul for this. I would trade it for the throne for the throne. You can have my throne for just the tinfoil dish. Yeah, for suit. I could take a fork and scrape the bottom and then yeah. Oh yeah. Park and then I would sit on the throne. Indeed. Forever. I feel bad for our listeners that don't have access to McCain's deep and delicious. Me too.

Yeah, I'll lick the lid with me. Join me in licking the lid. Just the center of the lid where a little bit of the frosting don't get on it. When it doth dryeth out. Old icing doth feel good in my kinky belt. What a gummy delicacy. For our American listeners, there is a chain of convenience stores called MaxMilk here. And you could go into one of those MaxMilks, go to the freezer section and pull out a full three and a half foot by two and a half foot, six inch deep, pre-packaged. In 2002 maybe.

They're much smaller now. They're one and a half foot by one foot. That's crazy. It's a crime for sure, but still as deep and delicious as you can get in modern times. And they're like eight bucks now. Yeah. Which is not that bad for a whole cake. It's a tinfoil bottom. It looks like a frozen lasagna, but it's cake. It looks like a lasagna, but it's cake. Yeah. Yeah. And it's called McCain's deep and delicious. Yeah. It's a part of our heritage.

And it's made by one of the companies that is fixing the price of bread. Yes. Really? In our nation. Oh yeah. Oh no. And listener, you should know deep and delicious is one of Jessica's favorite treats. Yes. Oh no. Should we tell her that they also make frozen hash brown patties? I know they do. I have to choose between them. They're honestly mostly famous for making french fries and other potato products. Yeah. And then they also make a cake. Yeah. I can't have it anymore.

Well, I know that's not true. They control our food. You just can't have anyone to see you eat it anymore. Grocery prices in Canada are controlled by three old men. Three families. And that's just how it is. Oh, grocery in Canada. Yeah, exactly. We still deal with cartels. You're right. Yeah. She just laughed so hard. She got hot. Where were we? Lunar bear. Yes.

In the throes of a nightmare, the lunar bear in the throes of a nightmare, the party using tools available to them, let's be honest, listener, you heard the episode, so you know what? Discovered that the bear's nightmare had been invaded by some sort of energetic aspect of the gibbous man in the form of the spider with an unbreakable spear-like leg.

Using some other tools, Tuck forced Billy through the barrier between the material and the dream, uh, arriving to scale in the dream and having some sort of mini kaiju fight with the spider. Having, like, we set him with the waiting knife so he could kill the gibbous man. And then, yeah, you slipped through, then the waiting knife went clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, and we're like, oh, oh, no. Don't forget your backpack. Oh, no.

Billy was wounded seriously and narrowly avoided a mortal blow on this failure, having those fangs pierce deep into the bear and wake her from her slumber, which was described to you as a potential catastrophic happening if the bear woke. The party was able to get Billy out of the dream as it was destroyed in the bear's frenzy, and Billy kept the spider dream nightmare creature in place. As it said, the end is coming. I'll see you at the tomb. It could not escape and was destroyed.

Bing saved the bear from dying and rampaging its way out of its cavern, uh, to absolutely devastating effect by kind of blowing every spiritual and healing item you had left. Whoops. That you had gathered through kind of the course of the show and fired it into a deadly outer dark infected wound in the bear's chest and the spirit or the icon of despoilment hovering around the outside.

You were able to eliminate that wound and at least cause the bear to remain in the cavern and tend to her wounds, thereby avoiding the destruction of Hivernia, but also eliminating a potential ally in your fight against Thronebreaker and his flock. The party returned to the surface and saw the storm had reached a fever pitch and the battle was well, well underway. Thronebreaker in the distance.

You took stock of your physical status and your willingness to fight, thinking that you could either head towards the well to continue the defense or head out over the Sea of Graves to fight Thronebreaker face to face. Being summoned to Phoenix from the burning remains of the Hibernian forests, the party climbed a stride and took off into the skies to face down Thronebreaker once and for all. Hold on. Oh, you didn't have it lined up. We were listening to music for like 30 minutes before.

This is gonna be cool. There we go. There we go. Yeah. Another not royalty free song. That is where we find our heroes now. A stride the back of a mighty phoenix mech made of burning wood and beach detritus. Wind whipping through your hair. Thronebreaker in the distance. You are on approach. You are gaining on each other as you're heading face to face. You see in the clouds lightning flashing, thunder cracking through the skies.

Thunderbirds, both ally and foe, wheeling, diving and killing in the clouds above. What is the party feeling? What are you guys saying to each other as you head out over the sea? I feel like we gotta head straight for Thronebreaker, right? Absolutely. He's the weakest right now. Yeah. Yeah. His bezoar is the red eye of the storm. We head for that. Yes. Are we all on top of the phoenix? No, just you. Okay. Tuck's screaming this. Zing and I are very sat comfortably inside. Okay.

Shielded from the wind. So you're nestled in like a cabin cockpit inside the chest of the phoenix. Frozen hail is marking his skin. Oh, I think it's raining out there. You can tell from his screams. I'm sure he's glad we're in here. I mean, are you, are we basically saying that Tuck has to roll something to stay on top of this bird? I don't think we want to do that right now. No, I think we gotta do it. He made this call. You made this stupid. Hold on a second. Hold on.

You said he made this call? Yes. Like Tuck made this call? Yeah. You don't get to say Tuck did this out of your control. You chose this. He did it. Okay. 2d6 plus strength seems like it makes the most sense. Here we go. I'll stay on this fucking thing. I look so cool. So yeah, I rolled a three plus strength is three. I have a debility. So what do we see? What do we do here? Why did you did this?

You said, well, you guys keep, you keep, you know, you keep, no, you say, dude, you're already at level 10. Yeah. Offer Abdul to roll. He's going to roll. So the failure won't necessarily be that you're falling off. Yeah. Okay. What if he goes blind? What if he looks really cringe, you know, what if, like, he's just sat in a really embarrassing position and then Victoria is far away on the, on the shores of hibernia looking through binoculars and she sees his legs. He's facing the wrong way.

His loincloth is flapping around really like attractively. Um, his beard is, is, uh, looking patchy blowing around and there's like, you can see all the patches inside. Yeah. Yeah. You know, he's got, he's got one really solid layer of beard high up on the cheeks. It's like a curtain underneath his just chin. Yes. Yeah. And where we hear sabotage from his perspective, writing and she hears it's there's it's, it's bumping me around a lot. What is he doing up there?

His beard split down the middle and it's flapping behind him. He chose to ride on the outside of the barrel. Okay. I think what we're going to do here, you can either, uh, something bad can happen to you or something bad can happen in general and you will hang onto the bird. Something bad happened to me. Something bad happened to you. Yeah. Okay. So obviously you're going to fall off. No, this is what you guys, we take off and then I meet you see immediately the bird takes off.

It's like he, it gets halfway out and then you see a tiny figure. We're standing like clutch fist, looking at the eyes of the bird, like in a cockpit or just like, yeah, this is it. So you are, you are a stride this Mac because you're, you've made a choice that you thought was really cool. You can feel your hand starting to slip on this, like jutting out piece of driftwood. And you feel it starts to, you feel the ax start to slip out of your hand. You know, you can only hold onto one.

You can hold onto the ax or you can hold onto the bird. I let you guys go once before it will not happen again. So you're letting go of the bird. I guess I, yeah, I guess I hold onto the ax. Yeah. And then can I roll deathless as I lose control and fall? What is that? Don't roll. What is deathless do? When you know, you know, your end, this knowledge echoes through time. Your enemies can see death on you. When you enter a fight, knowing your death will not come. Roll plus wisdom on a hit.

Your foes are dismayed. Take plus one on going against them until the fight is over. I can only die beneath a burning tree. I'll say we're on a giant burning tree right now. This is not a great idea. I also will tell you this. Can you read? Can you read the the second line? Out of 10 plus, you're sure to read the first line. Oh, when you enter a fight, know your death will not come. Start again. When you enter a fight. First three words. No, wait, four words. Where do you enter her?

So you are falling off a bird. You're not entering a fight. This move doesn't apply. I want to open up the back hatches, trying to talk into the quake club of the bird. So you definitely like Tuckby Irving because you're so connected to the spirit of this phoenix, I suppose, that has inhabited this mech for you. You feel the weight of it drastically change. And you go, Tuck fell off. And you look back through the little back port, the little cloaca window, and you see him just sail out of sight.

What do you do? Can I send a call of nature, a call of aid of the spirit, and send off a little separate bird to try and aid him? You could try and catch him with this bird, but I don't think you can have two at the same time. You got a 10 plus. You do have a shitload of hold with this bird. A shitload of requests. So you roll with your request. Okay, I'm going to use one of my requests to go pick up Tuck. What you're going to do is you're going to roll 2d6 plus request. Oh, plus my two.

I think it's three because of eager beaver. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I got six. I aid. Okay. My God. Why does Billy aid? I ate by asking if he can do a cool like spin. Can we make the bird spin around? I've seen birds do that. We can try and do a barrel roll. Four. Oh, my God. I use. I'm going to use a fairy shop. We're wasting reasons. Might kill one of us. I have 10 hit points. Oh, no. I might have needed that. Fuck. Anyway, turn it to seven and nine. Okay. I really want it to spin.

Play it through the thing so I can edit it separately. So that is absolutely what you're hearing. Audience is Tuck falls off. The axe gripped tightly in his hands. This reaches up and turns the left turn signal on. Yeah, that's what I imagine with the seven to nine with Billy is he's got little like copilot goggles on and you're both piloting this bird trying to catch him and you just. I have the fake steering wheel. It doesn't do anything. I think it is a little kid.

What do you suck to the front of the dashboard? Faster, faster, Billy, faster. Oh, whoa. And you turn the Phoenix around. It goes, Roger. And it flips around, dives. Tuck is spinning through the air and he Tuck is spinning and falling and the bird is diving beside Tuck and it just tucks in his wings a little bit farther and dives in front of him and then goes in front of him and then puts his wings out. So then Tuck just goes straight into his butthole. Catch him gently into the quake.

The cloaca opens. The top of a Millennium Falcon. I put that little hook in it and then he opens up. And it seems Tuck slides right into this bird's butt.

and all of a sudden you're now you're all crammed in the cockpit of this thing the butthole closes and you level back off Sabotage plays again We head off into the clouds, back on track Good flight partner That'll be worth it when somebody drives that Tugging sucked into a bird's butthole That'll be worth it when somebody drives it It's like being born again Wind is whipping into the beach glass windscreen that Ving created on the front of this bird and you hear the Phoenix voice speaking Bogey's dead ahead, 12 o'clock You see a bunch of Thunderbirds far ahead basically the vanguard of Thronebreaker Imagine Thronebreaker like a huge bomber carrier and then he's got fighter wings of Thunderbirds that are running interference because you know and you can see it in the way that he's moving and how he's been creating this supercell around the island and has regrouped now his goal is get the stone you're gonna have to do some serious work to get him to want to fight you otherwise he's just gonna barrel right past you if he can I think we use the advantage that he's focused on something else and try and take him down while he's not gonna fight us back Oh that's actually a good point I was gonna use what are you waiting for but that's a better idea I feel like he's already doing that Yeah Um I would like to fight with uh roll my fight with honor just because we're heading into a fight Okay I just want you to keep in mind that fight with honor is mostly hand-to-hand fighting That's fine So to really utilize this you're gonna have to get out of the Phoenix I'll take over I'd really imagine Billy's got a little leather flight cap on He looks like Anakin Skywalker Yeah exactly Aye aye gold leader Yeah Okay uh yeah so you can go ahead and roll that and have those ready to go Oh nine Nine?

It's pretty still pretty good I aid by taking over the play Oh yeah Thank you Billy Yeah no problem I had lots of practice in the last five minutes I got a ten There you go Billy Billy's taking to this like a fish to water Sick Okay So Billy takes over the controls Just sick moves Yeah Yeah Billy's doing barrel rolls and he's stalling and then writing the plan He's got like a little piece of paper stuck into the dash you know with all the moves written down on it Oh cool Like a little card just a bird like eating Yeah I'm gonna make some little bees in the air Yeah yeah Quarter circle forward B Quarter circle forward A Get bread for later Uh okay so you you get up and you're kind of well you know as much as you can get up in this cockpit with Tuck crammed in here too Yeah and try and kind of center yourself Ving goes out on the outside of the bird Like looks at Tuck as he's heading outside The wind is not touching you Yeah We'll talk later You stay inside or do whatever you want Okay That is you know no offense Tuck that is a really cool look that Ving like gets up and walks out like the back of the bird and is like hanging on to the back Yeah Hops up onto the top Yeah I bet you that looks almost as cool as the thing that I did It's looking so elegant out there It's like he was meant to be up here you know He's effortless All of us effortless You seem very effortful you know Hey It's great I appreciate people who put effort into it Hey I don't put effort into anything Uh okay so yeah the three of you in the Phoenix Bogies ahead says the Phoenix prepare to engage You have one of the wings of Thunderbirds breaking off flying right at you While uh Ving is on top of the bird doing qigong or whatever I turned I turned to Billy and I go go up gain gain some altitude and then I'll drop on them from above You'll drop on them?

Yeah I can do it Okay You say so Yeah I reef on the on the stick Yeah the stick yeah And the bird goes starts rising up Yeah Billowing smoke everywhere It's actually just a cool stick that Billy found on the ground earlier But it is controlling the birds Yeah I do like that it's that the bird of the Phoenix is trailing smoke So as you pull up it leaves this trail behind You don't have to roll for this you're just going up a little bit Can I tell you what I pictured its talons are when lightning strikes a beach It makes glass lightning Like the lightning glass?

That's sick Uh okay yeah so you you start pulling up and this wing that is approaching you is Unless you're trying to deceive them they're going to start pulling up to follow you Let him follow us Let him follow You got this Tuck It gives me less distance to travel So wait sorry actually just to clarify No not you I go I go shh Billy I didn't say anything I got this So wait sorry That's what I said Billy shut your husband up So you're pulling up into the storm Yeah Yes Okay so Ving you're on top of the phoenix He was handling it so well Just immediately Tuck was like go up He's like no no no no no no no no And you raise yourself into and the rain is just lashing thunder is is booming in your ears Yes But you're a creature of the spiritual world of the natural things I tune it out You tune it out It's really hard The lightning is flashing right before my face With my light sight I can see through it And uh you see the the lightning flashing leaving the after image of the the wing of thunderbirds that are approaching what do you do?

I would like to use weaponized association to predict their moves in the sky And then uh communicate with Billy to direct our phoenix into them to crash Great Using its fiery bow So you spend a point to predict the next move of these thunderbirds what do they do?

You tell me that Um they are traveling in a V A roughened and uh a haggard V Purple unlight shining from their their corrupted bezoars Corrupted bezoars Really cool Yeah you see like like black veins kind of crawling through the stones in their foreheads Gale is at the head Oh Gale Yeah You see Gale there she looks as evil and as beautiful as ever Her perm is fully back She's got a big bird style like fro with feathers on her head Just permed Just permed She got permed for battle I can smell it from here Oh she totally did You're not supposed to get a perm wet I learned that from an eagerly blonde You told me that so hard Thank you They're kind of they're trying to break off and and get at the cockpit I think So you think they're going right for dead center mass I just want to like just and they can just slam into the belly of this bird firebird Oh fucking sick Straight up into the air And as it's climbing there's like giant timbers flaming just like peeling off and falling down Yeah like a rain of embers behind it Yeah It pulls up Yeah It's getting in the bird's eyes Yeah Yeah Just singeing their feathers Yeah Above the storm clouds it goes in front of the moon like the bat wing Yeah totally But it's a big bird Silhouette burning bird Yeah Bat bird I am the bird man So do we break the top of the cloud cover to like where there isn't We'll see how this roll goes that's for sure Fuck sick Okay so yeah Billy you're either rolling defy danger dexterity or you're rolling with the request of the bird I mean what if I rolled with instead of dexterity With something like wisdom Could you could you pitch me on either of those Wisdom because I have to be very wise All right you're gonna have to do a little bit better than saying the word wisdom Okay okay hold on let me go uh like wisdom like you know the wisdom that I learned from Vang that he imparted on me To also the inane connection between all of us because I'm outside and we have this connection Inane connection Inane connection God damn it I am not leaping into danger without a plan I'm being very planned out which is very smart And wise beyond my years Oldest member of the party by far Very cool very cool thing that I'm doing Yes Yeah All right okay Very cool and collected Yeah wisdom wisdom is fair So I won't be spending one of my No no The failure will be Billy's alone Yeah if he fails Which I won't because I got a 10 Oh 10 Okay great so you you tap into the connection between you and Tuck and Vang and the bird And you uh you yank up on the stick on this driftwood that you've been using as a pilot stick And the and the phoenix goes roger roger climbing And then when you do that Tuck is caught by surprise and he's like whoa Whoa whoa whoa you're going really high Whoa whoa whoa And you just hear clang Yeah the cloaca is kind of like opening a little bit just with the movement of the wing Jesus Christ Oh my gosh Tuck is trying to keep it close And you uh you Billy you pull the bird vertical And you do feel like it thump as uh Gale who is attacking this thing like it is a real bird Not expecting the resistance of the materials it's constructed of Kind of slams in you all you see like her beak poke through The bottom of the cabin for a second and then pull back and she goes oh and Uh, flaps away.

That's hot! And you pull up through the clouds, the embers falling away in a sheet below you, uh, getting in the eyes and scattering the fighter wing for a moment. And Ving, you've like, as it climbed, I imagine you took this so well, because this was your plan. This is what you told him to do. You kind of just like, bend your knees as it's climbing up and then you grip onto the outer edge until you're like, crouched on the top of the bird.

I kind of want to like, walk up to the tip of his head, the tip of his beak and just kind of like, take a moment up here and survey and see around and discern the realities. As you, poof, break the cloud cover of the storm, wind, rain, wind, rain, lightning, thunder, silence. The night sky above you, the moon and the coronet in the distance, deep gray clouds roiling with lightning beneath you.

Every, uh, few seconds you see the tips of, uh, Thronebreaker's vast wings break the ceiling of the clouds and then dip back below. Whoa. You see, it's like a, it's forming a donut around the island of storm. Yeah, you see the wake of him kind of creating this massive supercell tornado. What do you do? I like to discern realities from up here. Okay. 2D6 plus wisdom. Oh, ooh, uh, ooh, 10. 10. Three questions off the list. What should I be on the lookout for? What should you be on the lookout for?

Um, what you see is you're looking at the, the wake that Thronebreaker is leaving in the, in the, in the winds and you see that his path is taking him now, before he was concerned with creating this hurricane above the island, uh, but it would appear that after Billy's tussle with him, uh, he has understood the full threat of what is at risk and is beelining straight for Hibernia. Oh. He is large.

He is, it's weird because at his size, he's both slow and extremely fast because he's just covering more ground. Uh, you do have some time before he makes landfall, which is why the Thunderbirds are fighting so hard to stop you, but he is, he is gunning for Hibernia, which is not what it appears to be.

Uh, you are watching, um, from below this like moment of relative peace and you see near Thronebreaker, kind of on the other side between him or between Thronebreaker, past Thronebreaker to the island where you know it to be, um, you see a wing of Thunderbirds kind of break the cloud cover and start barreling towards you and at the very front you see Cloudpiercer. What? Your allies have arrived. Oh! Oh no! No, Chuck is like looking at a portal and this is how he's reacting to everything. Oh!

What? Wow! What? Whoa! It's our, and then he turns to Billy and goes, it's our friends! And, uh, you hear Cloudpiercer in your mind, Ving, go, Ving, we have arrived. Thronebreaker makes for the, for the island and Gale is at the head of his forces. What would you have us do? It is time. Then we will fight with valor. Join the tip of my wing. And his forces kind of like start to wheel in the empty sky, uh, and take up a formation around you. Cool. One more. What, what haven't you asked?

What's about to happen? Yeah, I think that's a really good one. Jess, are you drinking coffee? This is decaf. Oh, yeah. And also dairy-free. Nice. Soy. Smart. Yeah. Good. You're doing a great job, John. Well, yeah, I don't want you to. I, you're banned. This also is just water. Nice. Yeah. You're doing a great job controlling your wife. Thanks, man. I actually really closely watch what she eats and drinks. That's true. It's, but, but only because I love her and she has food sensitivities.

That's the only reason, guys, I swear. She's making me do it. He knows all my favorite kinds of muffins. I do. All my favorite drinks. I get her whatever she wants. That's great. But not caffeine. Not caffeine. That's one of the, I'm not a, I'm really, as you could guess, not a full-fledged caffeine lover. But when it comes to like caffeine and stuff like that, I'm like, you can't have that. We're not doing that. Three sips max. She's got a three sip max on caffeinated drinks. I'm drinking.

I love that it is the foot down thing that you willingly agree to. Yeah. Oh, here we go. She knows that's the rule. She gets three sips. I respect it. Yeah. When you said foot down husband, I was like, it's like a sex thing. No, no, no. Do you know those guys who are like, I don't want to do this. I don't want to do this. I don't want to do this. I don't want to do this. I don't want to do this. I don't want to do this. And like, almost a singular bolt.

Like a bunch of different lightning bolts could like reach out. Yeah, and the silence above the stars, a huge is here. Bing say to himself dive. And then just and the bird begins to tip. Okay. To get there quickly. This is going to be a request. Your, you are asking it, making a direct request of the Phoenix. So you're gonna roll a two d six plus your plus your request. Plus one. Oh no six. Oh shit. Oh, no, you're good. No, no, you do it because you're piloting it. Okay. Eight. I got 11.

Yeah, I just in that I push the stick forward as hard as I can. Great. Cool. And it like pulls its wings in. Yeah. And just it does the like, like, as its wings as it's going up, it pulls them up and kind of work. Yeah. Yeah. You see being like running on the outside, like staying on the upside. Oh, that's sick. And then like grabs on to the bird dives just as cloud piercer and Gale's forces meet in the sky. You're diving through this fight. Oh, sick. And at that time, I knock an arrow.

Oh, you're gonna take a shot. Hell yeah. Okay. Fuck yes. This is volley. Two d six plus dexterity. Is the duck still watching through the porthole? Oh my God. I got 10. That's 10. That's 10. So on a 10 plus you deal your damage. Six. Oh, okay. So you. Oh man. That's fucking cool. That's so cool. I get so excited. And I shoot it through because now the fire, when he like stalled out at the top, the fire ate up the bird and engulfed Ving. And then as it tipped down, he walked out of the fire.

Oh yeah. I shoot an arrow through the remaining fire on fire. Burning arrow. Yeah. And slams right into one of the, one of the Thunderbirds like, yeah, I'm going for Gale. Oh my God. Okay. You see cloud person, piercer and her like diving towards each other, having some sort of a dramatic conversation that amounts to like, how could you portray a scale? It's like, you can either stand against the darkness or join it. And then he's like, yes, those are the two options. Yeah.

I'm asking why you chose the bad one. She's so fucking stupid. Oh my God. Cloud piercer is on the spectrum. I just realized that. He is. That's why he speaks so clearly mechanically. And you sight down your bow, burning arrow. It spirals through the air, leaving licks of flame behind it and slams kind of in between her shoulder or her wing and her neck. And she goes, oh, and like falls away and cloud piercer presses the advantage and they disappear into the storm. That's so sick.

Just as the Phoenix wolf whips past them. I think the embers like the flame slow down as we had reached the top and as it starts to dive, the fire reignites. Yeah. Yeah. It's the oxygen. It ran out of oxygen. This blue white flame at the back of its tail is a light. So fucking sick. I can't believe this show's ending soon. Keep going. Keep going. Yeah. It's like looking at the window. It's like the stuff you guys are doing is so cool. Just sits there, keeps watching. Fuck yeah.

A little followed its butt again. And you drop back beneath the storm cover, back into like the area above the sea, but below the clouds. And you see Thronebreaker on his approach to Hibernia. His remaining wing of Thunderbirds has headed towards the island. They're breaking off and flying a bit quicker to engage the defenders. And something that you would all, well, maybe, something seems off. Something seems off right now. Yeah. Tuck wants to use Deathless. What? What? Again?

I didn't use it before. So this, remember, when you enter a fight. Yes. Okay, so we're trying to get closer to Cloudpiercer first. I think we're diving. That was my request. We're trying to get closer to Thronebreaker. Because he said dive, I assumed it was towards Thronebreaker. Okay, great. Yeah, we're pulling up on Thronebreaker. Yeah, yeah. Thronebreaker is now trying to jump out the butthole. Because we're going face first. Are we going ass first at this part? No, we're going beak first.

It's cool that he opens his beak. Yes. Yeah, the beak. Yeah. Yeah, I tell Billy, I'm like, open the beak. As you say, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank. It's just another stick you picked up earlier. It's the same stick. All of Billy's limbs are like working sticks right now. I love that Billy chose like a roll-down window in an old sedan. Crank, crank, crank. Okay, one sec. Crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank. And smoke starts filling the cabin from the burning beak.

And then Tuck goes, as soon as I'm gone. And he clamps the axe on his back, close it. And then he puts his hands on the edges of the beak. Yeah. And he does the thing he did in the bathroom stall. Where he like, he goes one, two, three. And he rips himself like through it. And like shoots himself out like a fucking bullet. Yeah. That's really cool. Just like Sylvester Stallone in the movie Cliffhanger. He does this in Cliffhanger? He does it in Cliffhanger. That's how he climbs.

And it's not the right way to climb. Ow. He does this thing. It's so dangerous. They're like, we can't get over this overhang. And instead of climbing the overhang, like most climbers do. He does this thing where he grabs a rock. He goes, and then he whips himself up. It's crazy. Oh, that's so good. That's so cool. Oh, man. Remember what Ace Ventura did with a raccoon? Oh, that was really funny. Man, I love Ace Ventura. That's what Tuck does. Here, I'll pull it up for you. You don't have to.

Ace Ventura 2, I've seen it. No, we're in it. Yeah. Let us stay in it. No, we're in it. We're in it. We don't need to watch movie clips. Sorry. Do you want to see a video of this guy doing Chrysler? Not right now. All right, here we go. That's what I imagine Tuck does. He goes, he's moving faster than a bird. Yes. With the axe? Yeah. I do the Chrysler with the axe. Okay. Look. So this sounds like a 2d6 plus strength. Yes. To make this. Okay, that's a six. No, that doesn't count.

If that was a one, would you have re-rolled it? Yes. Then you're re-rolling it now. Oh, no. I mean, no. Son of a bitch. God, you tricked me. You piece of shit. How many Elanis has he had? I had none. Four and three. Okay. Well, that's my strength. That's just two. Nine. Nine. Billy, help. Hold on. No. Let's take it down a second. Billy, help. I wasn't paying attention. My eyes were so itchy. Okay. Yeah. I will help by, uh, kicking you out. Go.

You're doing the thing where you're like, one, two, and then. Tuck does a couple of false starts. He's like, oh, okay. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You're like that meme where he's like, let me tell you something. Let me tell you something. Yeah. Go, go, go. Okay. I stopped that one. I'll re-roll it. Seven. Seven. Seven plus bond. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's, uh, that's great. That's a seven to eight, which is a success. And that makes that a 10. And, uh, you, yeah, you rocket out of the bird.

Directly towards Thronebreaker. Directly towards Thronebreaker's enormous back. You've seen this bird a few times. Yes. Something about his corruption, the connection to the outer dark. He has grown enormous. As I, as I'm like flying, like pencil straight. Yeah. Just like I'm some kind of special forces army guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, I, my, like my vision starts to fill with Thronebreaker and I'm still falling. I'm like, huh? Uh oh. He's really big. He's bigger than I remember.

And then Tuck takes the axe off his back and then he goes, and he tries to like, yeah, like he spreads himself out to slow himself down. Time to break his fall. Flying squirrel. Yeah. Flying squirrel style. Except with my buddy. And now you're rolling Deathless. Deathless. Yeah. Which is cause you, you're not afraid of this. You know, you're not meant to die here. I know I'm not meant to die here. And then he looks up at the burning tree. Probably not. Hold on. Directly beneath.

Does this move even work? If you have thoughts of the prophecy. Okay. Cause the point of Deathless is that. Yeah, Warcry works a little bit. I, this is a question I'm asking. I like it. Because the whole point of Deathless is that, you know, you have a prophecy death. Yes. If you are thinking of your prophecy death, I think it doesn't work. Yes. I think because Ving pointed out that the tree is on fire. I want it on the table just so we all know. President said.

This might be where Tuck, this could be where Tuck dies because the prophecy is being fulfilled. It will end for you beneath the burning tree. I love it. The last thing you say will be a lie. Yeah. Yeah. He turns to Billy. He says, I love you. I just knew I should never trust. Yes, it's plot armor. Billy is full winter, Billy. You cannot say that. He's like, it's plot armor, Billy. Yeah. Cause now he's telling the truth, which means he can't die. I can't die. I won't know until you live or die.

Or fucking die. Or die. Billy hears that, hits the button in the mouth, closes. He's just like, fucking piece of shit. He's just wiping his tears. He's like, cold air coming out of the bird's nostrils. Uh, okay. So yeah. Do we, what do you think? Okay. Does deathless not apply? Deathless doesn't apply. Oh, dang it. Wait, does that mean this was useless? No, because that was his, uh, that was his defied danger to get onto the bird. That was my defied danger. No, that was my, yeah.

Defied danger strike. Yeah. Okay. So that means I'm rolling war cry. All right. Okay. Please. God, let this work. I have looked like such a stupid dick this whole time. Seven, seven, seven. So on a seven to nine of only a few, the weakest or most foolhardy among them fall prey to your taunting. So you land on throne breaker and you feel like this absolute enormous creature underneath you. The power of him is, is breathtaking. It's so big. You can almost not perceive him as a creature. Exactly.

It's you, you feel like you are standing on the land. Like this is a, this creature is terrain now. And, uh, you start, you know, trudging up to his head section, trying to get to the bees or you hear crack thunder and you hear Tacoma dome. And then I turn around flapping above you, smoldering wound in the shoulder arrow sticking out. Foolhardy brain. Foolhardy brain. Now comes our prophecy confrontation. We all knew it was coming to this Tacoma dome. I'm evil now.

I've never been scarier or sexier. You see, she's got evil looking eyeliner. She put a beauty mark with a beauty mark. Her previously blue. Yeah. Her previously blue feathers have been darkened by soot and smoke. Her perm is brand new. She flaps above you. We stand here in this frozen moment. The storm like crackles in slow motion. The raindrops are slowed in the sky. Yeah. As you feel the tension between the two of you suggesting what could have been. Yeah.

And I, I, I stand here looking so fucking anime. Yeah. Your ax is like behind you. Yeah. Dripping with, with water from the storm. That is that it surrounds and is part of throne breaker. My ultimate enemy. Huh? But before me stands a woman scorned. A bird whom I once shared a nest with. A bird whom once held the power of my heart. And then, and then Tuck goes, girl, I love you. You see her eyes widen. He's like, you said that to me once. Yeah. What is this? What are you doing? Uh, okay.

I'm like, well, yeah, of course you're lying. Can I use the lie? Well, what does the lie do? You leverage your fundamental lack of truth to overcome a medical, magical or metaphysical danger. Role plus con out of 10. Plus you ignore the effect completely out of seven and I do ignore the immediate danger, but choose one from the following minus one. I'm going until the threat is dealt with. Suffer D 10 damage. The threat endangers an ally.

What if you, what you are overcoming is Gail's corruption? Yeah. Using the lie to break her free of this enchantment really has been obsessively in love with him the entire time. Yeah. And then Tuck turns to Gail and he goes, Gail, I love you. And he, it is my, he conjures a, uh, like a, an image of the, of them. May it be an evening arms thrown wide. Yeah. Just like in how to train your dragon. Oh, he's riding on her back through a moonlit sky. Yeah.

And there's like kind of like implications that yeah. Riding cross phase into them, like laughing, sitting on the nest and then cross phase again. And the nest is full of eggs. Yeah. Yeah. And then it cross fades again and the eggs are like monstrous. It looks like Tuck's cradling a half-bird, half-Macaulay monster, and he's popping up a worm into his mouth. Yeah, he wipes the puke off his mouth and looks up at her and goes, And Gale's blushing and hearts are floating around her head.

She still has the perm. Of course she's got a perm. Yeah, and he's trying to overcome the corruption with the power of emotional manipulation. The power of gaslighting a bird. I guess this is what he's doing. So you're 2D6+. God, here we go. Okay, yeah, ten. Amazing. So you see her eyes widen. She goes, what? Yeah, and you see her bezoar, the black veins through the stone of her bezoar start to spread. And she's waving her head back and forth like, No, you don't love me.

There will be nothing to love after the darkness comes. And I go, Gale, there is a life for us after this. We just have to kill Thronebreaker. And so he drops the axe. And she flaps down and lands on Thronebreaker's back. And then Tuck unties his loincloth. And he looks down and goes, what is that? It's like, I come to you, bear. And she holds up her wing. Whoa, whoa, whoa. What? What is that? She's never seen anything like it. Some sort of worm. What? No, it's big. Well, I'm a big bird.

That worm looks normal size to me. It's big compared to other worms. I just don't know what I'm looking at. Well, okay, it's big compared to other worms. I have no frame of reference for what's going on right here. Like, mine is bigger than Vig's. Hey, look, Vig's got one of those too? Yeah, all humans do. All humans have one? Yeah. Well, kind of. All of you have one of those things. Yeah.

And she kind of shakes her head, and you see the veins in her bezoar starting to recede back towards the center. And then he's like, the knowledge of human peni ruins her corruption. And he goes, baby, what? And she shakes her head, and her perm jiggles in the wind. Yeah. Tuck, I don't know where I am. I don't know what I've been doing all this time. But I do know that I'm beginning to find myself again. And she places a wing on your shoulder. Pulls his shorts up with her other wing. Yeah.

Puts the loincloth back up and goes, I think we should just be friends. And then Tuck is like, oh my god, I think I love Gale. And kaboom! There's a huge thunder strike. Back up above, Ving and Billy, you are still on the bird. Billy, you're piloting, hands tight on the stick. You see Gale. Turbulence. Yeah, there's turbulence. You hear the ding, like seatbelt sign go on. She can't take much more of this. She's shaking apart!

And you see on the back of Thronebreaker, Tuck and Gale, face to face, approaching one another. I yell out to Ving, what should we do? Nothing! Just leave him? I think he's got it. All right, I'm going to try to keep this bird together. So I start tying string, like attaching string to the pieces of wood and tying them around myself. Oh, shit. And then I start acting like the bird, you know? Whoa, cool. Okay, I kind of want you to roll for this. 2d6 plus wisdom? Yes. Yeah. Wisely do this. Eight.

Okay, eight. You are feeling yourself, like, tied into… Yeah, I kind of look like a ham, you know? Where it's, like, the string is digging a little too deep. You're sticking through. Your chub's kind of pushing through. Like a raw ham. Yeah, raw ham. And I think what I'm going to say is this will help you the next time on, like, a 7-9 with Call of Nature. You won't lose a request. So you kind of got, like, an armor against a request lost. That's fun.

Billy is tying himself in, but Billy will face a consequence instead. That's fun. And you feel that, yeah, you started to feel the phoenix break apart underneath you. And the bird is, like, the phoenix spirit that is inside this is going, Sustaining damage. We must engage. Hold. I'm holding as much as I can, sir. And Billy starts to pull it back together underneath you and you feel it stabilize. Soon you will be free of this. Please. All systems nominal, Captain. Ready for attack run.

Like, what is your goal now? Tuck is on the back of Thronebreaker. I mean, the bezoar is there. I want to slam into the head of Thronebreaker with this giant thing. I mean, we have to be safe, so Billy and you and I need to get off and we can abandon ship. It's just a bunch of logs. The spirit will be okay. Tuck is where on? You look back down and his pants are down at this point. You see his dick flapping in the wind? It's so long and skinny. You hear him? This is when he goes, it's really big!

He's in a cut phase. It's bigger than figs! Look, dude, it's hard to have a big-looking penis when you're seven feet tall and five feet wide. It's also, like, because of the wind, it's stuck up. It could be a foot and a half long, dude, and it would look small compared to Tuck's body size. Somebody's not born of frost. Looks a little cold up there, huh? What does that fucking mean? Tuck is busy. He's doing something.

Yeah, okay, then what you're going to need to do is avoid or evade the Thunderbirds that are approaching to get into a position where you can make a suicide run on the Bzorks. I'd like to use a request to try and evade the bird to try and slam into the head of the Thronebreaker. Great, 2d6 plus 2. Ooh, 6. Oh, yeah, I will aid. Okay, I'm going to try to do a little fake move kind of thing. I don't know what you call it. A feint? Yeah, that thing. Sick. So we're all on the same page field-wise.

One of the wings has gone to attack the druids. This is the other one that Cloudpiercer is fighting. Right. So yeah, those ones are breaking off, and some are dive-bombing the phoenix, ripping past, trying to buffet you off the top of the bird wing as they fly past. They're using their massive gusts of flapping wings to try and knock you off. But you and Billy together are kind of steering it away from them. Billy's doing cool little feints, deking one side and then diving the other way.

And I want to do something where the bird kind of hovers and lapses the smoke. Oh, sick! And it's just like a wall of smoke that flies towards them. Curling off. Curling, yeah, in a pillar. And you're able to break away, and you start wheeling up and around Thronebreaker. And if you were to look down as you're spinning by, you see Tuck and Gale on the back. And we're going to go back down to there. And I go, Gale, Thronebreaker's about to destroy the island of Hibernia. What? I need your help.

How can I help? And she reaches up and there's an arrow sticking out of one of her wings. What the fuck is that? Oh my god! Holy shit, okay! Oh my god, did you do this? I don't have a bow! None of you have bows! I know, none of us do! Here, let me get that out for you. He's like, one, two, three! And she's got a… Gale is fucked up. As you're pulling this arrow out… She's a hardy bird, so you just yank it out, you know that that's not really going to do it.

But the extent of the wound is shown. She was seriously, mortally wounded. Oh, fuck! Oh, does blood start bubbling out? Blood is pouring out, singeing off the kind of spiritual fire that is… Yeah, so it's cauterizing around the edges, because she's kind of smoldering with the spirit fire. Um, but she is seriously wounded. Um, fuck. Okay, Gale, you gotta get out of here, you're gonna fucking die. No, I can't! You have to! I… I did this! I'm the reason the Thronebreaker's here!

It wasn't you, Gale. It was something else. Uh, fuck. I do need her help, I think. Yeah. Uh, we're here, we're in the endgame. Allies are going to be throwing themselves at problems. Okay, I need you to do one thing, okay? I'm gonna try and go for Thronebreaker's bezoar. Do you think you have enough, like, stamina left to distract him while I attack him? Because the axe can break anything stone. So if he's distracted by you, then I can maybe fuck him up.

And she, like, uh, you know, like, rolls her wings. And, um, you even feel, as she's doing this, kind of the wind buffeting around her. Um, Gale is an exceptionally fast Thunderbird. Uh, and she's like, I think I got it in me. But I don't know how long I can keep it up, I'm pretty injured, Tuck. You might only have one shot at this. But you get yourself somewhere safe afterwards, okay? I'll do what I can. But the mission is the most important thing. Thronebreaker must die, Tuck.

And she spreads her wings boom takes off into the air turns a tear from her eye Maddie watches you as she takes off Her mascara is running down her eyes like tears are floating off. Yeah, I'm holding off into this into the winds. Yeah She left thinking that you love her Yeah, right. That's true. I don't love her It really crushes you inside when you learn that you don't actually you aren't actually love No one actually loves you Billy's just been absolutely devastated. He's like Billy.

Are you fishing? Yeah, tuck turns that he starts running for the bees or across the massive like Continent size back of the fucking bird is a big big friggin bird And he is like he's huge and it's not the most stable ground to run on cuz he's like moving every time he flaps his Wings. Yeah, so you're just what thumping across? Yeah, I just want to kind of like push through cuz there's like fucking wind and shit Yeah, this feels like a 2d6 plus strength. Okay, here we go. Defy danger.

I wish I didn't have so many fucking debilities 10 Yeah, okay, right and you yeah you axe gripped in hand Yeah, you see Gail streak off into the sky Yeah, you can see the burning trail left by the Phoenix as it wheels above you. It looks like they're lining themselves up Yeah, I think they're everyone's kind of converging on and like every time kind of tuck loses his like footing He like buries the axe into like throne breakers back. Yeah, and he doesn't even read does it feel it?

Yeah, and we yeah We see the part like the Ving and Billy above in the Phoenix Angling towards of the bees or we see tuck running across the back you guys can kind of see each other because you're in a burning bird and tuck has a glowing axe and Gail as you're Riding in the Phoenix Rips past you going absolutely blistering speeds and she is like far up Yeah, almost breaking the speed of sound with her flight and she is also lining herself up for something in the Phoenix What are you doing up here?

You've you've kind of evaded the flock Cloud piercer has swooped back in and led his forces to kind of Harry them again. So they're all kind of Swarming around throne breaker, but not able to get very close to you right now. Yeah, great so we're gonna try and pull the Phoenix in front of the throne breaker to try and shield him and Distract him with burning embers. Okay, great and Give Gail and tuck a chance. Yeah and be there ready for anything going wrong.

So I guess that's the one request Yes, so something to consider is that if you fail you are out of request and this this body breaks up Okay, can I go back inside and steer it and use my totally wisdom? Okay, I'm gonna get back inside and use my wisdom to steer this thing. Okay, let's take over the stick and thank you Billy You did a bang Wow, this thing's pretty tight, huh? You did all that like this Okay.

Yeah, so we're using we're piloting using defy danger to kind of get into a place where you can start getting Yeah, obscuring throne breakers vision.

Mm-hmm Okay, and communicating with cloud piercer to kind of get us out here and clear the way totally and I said 11 11 beautiful you you wheel and maneuver the the Phoenix in front of throne breaker and Communicating with cloud piercer who's like we'll clear the way and you see in your like mind's eye cloud piercer just full-on like flies at a Thunderbird and pulls his pulls his wings in and just head butts it with his with his bone helmet fuck Yeah knocks it out of the sky.

Oh and Gail is high up above you just like Like you can hear her flying but you can barely see her we get other Thunderbirds to fly in and fan the flames of the Phoenix. Yeah, really billow smoke. Excellent. And This is working. You can see that like throne breakers massive eyes are like blinking and kind of shaking his huge head Casting off embers, but he's being distracted for sure.

That's pretty cool Yeah, you can feel the energy crackling in the air as he's trying to direct it But it isn't able to get it in any one place right because he's trying to like pull in another like thunder strike Yeah, yeah, you could that's kind of what you can see is like the the bolts are like crack crack crack crack crack They're trying to coalesce, but he's not able to get any of them into like coherent bolts right now Mm-hmm, but you're coming up on the island You've been you've been moving all this has taken place in classic fantasy RPG fight fashion all of this has been like the last five minutes like it is taken not that much time But you're coming up on landfall Billy.

You've been released from your bonds You see Tuck you see the glow of the axe on the back of Thronebreaker as Tuck is clamoring his way across his back What do you what do you do? What is your role in this next this next part? Can I disorient him further or the other birds even? Oh, yeah, you could try and deal with the other birds I'm not for sure. Yeah, could I use? Could I use billow the wisp slash the ultimate one who goes there?

Oh, yeah, I haven't done in a while When I am allowed to perform minor magical effects, so I'd roll plus wisdom to lure tricked or distract Oh, yeah lights or oh cool things like that. Yeah, totally. Yeah, like a flashbang. Yeah. Yeah, pretty much Yeah, I might go for those like lightning. Oh in the shape of lightning Yeah Five plus wisdom is six. Oh, I'll aid how how's that?

I think he's gonna aid with like a world echo and a bit of the the thing talker talker to like convince some of the some of the lightning that Thronebreakers using do and use it against him. So he's Gather some of the lightning from outside and give it to Billy. Excellent. So to you. Yeah, cool 2d6 was bond Wait, that's awesome. So you pull together sort of a combination of this illusory fairy lightning. I'm squatted by the cloaca Yeah, Chloe cuz oh opening and closing.

I'm just a ball lightning It like slides out of the back and then boom like detonates yeah, it hits evil sidekick bird I'm asserting you loyally all this time. Whoa, and my name is Sky streak sky streak and I will not stand for this. I will not be Disrespected anymore. I've worked so much over time. You keep rejecting my PTO. Yeah, today's literally my flex day His name is Skylar Skylar I'm Skylar. I'm Skylar. This is a bird.

We should have introduced a long time ago cuz that's hilarious His name is Skylar. I'm out of here Skylar is Skylar.

Oh Holds his wings in drops out of the fight And that has given is surprisingly that's given some space in the fight No, this is perfect because it is the birds there are there are a good number of them But there's two specific wings and this this war has Dwindled the numbers quite a bit So even one Thunderbird leaving Skylar taken off is a blow to Thronebreakers forces And enough that you're able to then keep the keep this the Phoenix steady in front of Thronebreaker for a bit longer Tuck yes, you're on the back running.

You're reaching the base of his neck. Oh my god It's so fucking birds so fucking big you're breathing so hard You're running across like Quadra Island or whatever. Yeah, pretty much directly to the wind Fuck and as you're running up his back, you can feel like the the hair on your arms start to like rot or raise up Oh, there's just so much static electricity in the air. Yeah, it is like flashing Yeah, your beard starting to have like little arcs of electricity. There's is there how close am I?

You're quite close Yeah, you're like climbing up the back of his neck now. Okay. Yeah Yeah, I wanna should I do I have to do anything to get to the to the stone or am I at the stone? I think that like you're close to the stone But I think that like once you're on his neck slash head He's probably gonna be aware of the fact that you're there and start trying to throw you off Okay.

All right What I'm gonna do is the exact same thing I did in the bird where I'm gonna try it like Do it like a super jump and like land on top of the thing to not even touch his head. I try clear his head That's quite a distance to go. It's like he's like I'm gonna try it fucking clear his head And then and pulling myself with my arms and my legs. I'm gonna do I'm gonna do legs like a cricket So get into a deep squat. Yeah Cuz then I don't have to touch the head the head is shaking a lot.

I'm gonna get into a cricket squat You know, hold on the fucking feathers and then I'm gonna go Yeah, and then fly and then it that'll look cool and maybe someone will drive. Okay, we can't keep asking It's not as cool if you ask Yeah, we have to start commissioning people yeah We have so many we have so many talented artists listeners out there. I'll spell or for a commission draw this Email us email us Fiona. Don't we have you're listening draw this.

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Please. Talk. God. Talk. God of the flame. Save. Me. Okay, that's good. Four plus five plus two is eleven. Eleven. Awesome! So you cricket, you, or what, holding the axe in one hand, or you stow it? As I've stowed the axe, I will, I will grab it in the air. Yeah. Yeah. Grab, there's, I'm in a forest of feathers. A dark forest. Yeah. And you… He grabs the, the, like, two of the thick feathers on either side of him. Gets into cricket stance. Uh-huh. Then he goes, Gale, if you're out there, now.

Whoa! Gale comes from behind him and… Whoa! Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Gets him up by the loincloth. He didn't even see you there, I love that. Yeah. You are the wind beneath my wings. Does this thing. You feel Gale grip into your loincloth, pulling you up. What? Oh. Yanking it up your crack a bit. Sending you sailing through the sky. She goes, I've got you. And flies up Thronebreaker's, like, a hundred foot long neck. That's why I wanted to know.

You reach back and you grab the axe off your head, off your back. And Gale releases you. And then, two-handed, as I drop, I open my eyes. And fix my gaze on the purple un-light of the outer dark. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And I am gonna smash the fuck out of this. What you're doing is, this is a hack and slash and you're getting your bonus. Okay. From, uh, fuck-off demon. Right. So you're rolling a d10 plus d6. Holy shit. Because you are fighting a creature of the outer dark. Here we go.

Fuck you, Thronebreaker. Yeah, that's ten. Oh, thank god. Yeah, oh my god. I was gonna say, remember, on a seven to nine with hack and slash, they deal damage to you. Well, it's a good thing I didn't think about that at all. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So just keep that in mind. D10 plus a d6. Yeah. Here we go. Get ready. Fuck you. So that's a six plus a three is… Nine. Nine damage. That's a significant amount of damage. Yes.

And you, uh, you come down, axe overhead, swing straight down like you're chopping firewood. Yeah. And you land, like, two feet, boom boom, like, on Thronebreaker's forehead. Yes. Bring the axe down, bang, you feel it bite deep into the stone. Yeah. It parts beneath the blade. And I see, like, a black goo spurts out of it. Totally, yeah. Black goo, like, spurts out of this, uh, this wound in the stone, which is not completely shattered, but you see the fissures that Billy left here earlier?

Yeah. And you're hacking deep into those, and, like, a big chunk of it kind of breaks off and flies off into the sky. Fuck yeah. And, uh, this black goo comes behind it, and you can almost see, like, starry sky underneath the stone. Oh! It's like, you know in oil, when it, like, has, like, that sheen of rainbow on it, except it's stars? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And even as, like, the, like, the goo gets on other parts, it's like, you can see more and more of, like, the outer dark. Yeah.

That's sick. There's all this depth beneath his ears. Yeah. Depth. Tuck Light kind of, like, gets a moment of vertigo as he, like, feels like he's falling into the sky. It's scary. Yeah. And as you deal this blow to Thunder, uh, to Thronebreaker's bezoar, shattering a piece of this, like, eldritch demonic stone from his head, he lets loose a shrieking, thunderous scream. Fuck! What do you all do? Cover my ears. Okay. 2d6 plus constitution. Seven.

On a seven to nine, you feel your vision start to blacken. Ooh. Oh, fuck. And you are, like, being basically, like, you throw your hands over your ears. Yeah, I, I stumble into the side of the phoenix. Really? And the phoenix kind of, like, jolts to the side a little bit, uh, as Billy's, like, co-piloting power is diverted momentarily. Ving, what do you do?

Um, I see what it did to Billy, and I want to use, um, life symphony to kind of calm it while I'm just holding this, holding the stick and trying to keep this thing upright. Yeah. It's a 2d6 plus. Con. Con. So I got eight. Eight. So seven to nine on life symphony is, oh, only while you're touching it. Yeah. And you, um, you feel the phoenix start to, cause the, the shrieking of the, of Thronebreaker buffets the phoenix itself, and you can feel the phoenix spirit trying to flee from this screen.

Ooh. Ugh. But you grab on tight, you kind of pour this life energy, uh, and spiritual energy into it, and you, it is calmed, but this phoenix is, like, request to disengage. It is trying to get away, but as you're holding it, it will stay. Okay. Uh, Tuck, what do you do? Uh, what do you guys think of me using dragon breath to, like, pour a bunch of, like, sunstone light into the… Sure. That's so sick. That's really cool. It doesn't deal with the scream. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

This is a physical sound. You have to put up with the scream. Right. Exactly, yeah. Well, I mean, he's mostly deaf from all those years he worked at the… Oh, yeah. …rock club. His eardrums have already been ruptured hundreds of times. All right. Tuck, what are you doing here? Uh, Tuck is going to take the hit, uh, using Unbound Unbent Unbroken. Okay. And then he's going to try to use his chest beam, which is now a real move called Dragon Breath. Uh, okay.

So you're going to be rolling Unbound Unbent Unbroken to just tank this hit. Yes. So roll plus Constitution. Absolutely, Constitution. Here we go. Uh, two plus… Oh, I got a nine. I could aim. Yes. Yep. Okay. Eight. Nice. Check. That makes it a ten. And you're taking half damage? Yes. That's what it is? Yeah. So eleven. Take six or five? Uh, five. Round down. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Wait, does my armor count? I would think it's physical damage, so it is like his natural toughness would help.

Fuck yes. I only take two points. Uh, and it's funny because as we've discussed with Tuck, it's not necessarily that he is like turning aside blades, it's that he doesn't really care about the damage that's being dealt. Yeah. So you feel, Tuck, like blood start to run down from your ears. Yeah. Down into your beard. That probably looks pretty cool. That looks pretty cool. Someone draw this. Yes. Totally. Yeah. It looks fucking sick. Especially in the wind, it's like blowing off. Yes. Yeah.

Oh, it's just a little splatter pattern? Yeah. Yeah. Totally. Yeah. It looks like racing strength. Yeah. Totally cool. So Tuck is like standing there with the ass looking so fucking vascular. Yeah. Blood metal. Just having like smashed a piece of this fucking obsidian off. Ooze coming out. And like this sky that he knows is the outer dark is reflected in its oily surface. And then he feels like blood gush out of his ears. Yeah. But he's standing there, looks so fucking sick. Blood's coming down.

And he goes pretty fucking loud, how do you like this? No, hold on. His ears are bleeding. And he can't hear his own words. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then he goes, now it's my turn.

And you see, Tuck, on the back, the island of Hibernia in the distance, through the rain and the cloud, you see like, through the trees where you know Hibernia Village to be, and you see like the thunderbirds that have been converging on the druids, you see like, brank, like a beam of light kind of like rip through the sky. Like, brank. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. unless you want to know.

I gonna reveal everything to Gaine and everything to play for. And so, Tuck is gonna roll Dragon's Breath, which is like a real move that is the version of my chest beam. Tuck's level ten. Between sessions, Tuck leveled up. Yes. Yeah. And I took the chest beam. And it works a lot like elemental mastering. Yeah. And then it's this all, border, a borderline, uncontrollable beam of sunstone light. Yes. Like Cyclops gets hit in the head with a volleyball at the beach. Yeah.

And his glasses go flying off. When, in every Cyclops story, when he eventually takes his visor off and goes, Ah! Yeah. Yeah. Totally. I am Cyclops. 2d6 plus. Plus constitution. Constitution. I close my eyes. I connect with Black Spire. And I go, lend me your flame, my little bro. Say hello to my little friend. Yeah. So I got 12. Oh my god. Yes. First time on the board. Yes. Yes. All right. Yeah. This is great. Yeah. Two from, it happens. It hurts. And it goes nuts. Yeah. I guess.

I feel like I want to see what goes nuts happens. So you're rolling a d10 plus a d8. Yes. Okay. Here we go. I look into the distance. I see the beam of my boy and I close my eyes and I go, please, Black Spire. Holy shit. Nine plus five. Oh my god. 14. 14 damage. Yeah. Holy shit. 14 damage. So you, uh.

You reach either side of the bees or, and like clenches and it's like the same thing as before where you see like this, like bright light emanate from his chest and it's also like in his eyes and his mouth. Yeah. He wants to pour it into the wound in the bees or. Absolutely. Yeah. and you feel this like heat start to grow in your chest. You see the light reflecting off the bezoar, you feel the pain starting to build in your chest. You smell eleven spices and herbs. And, brrrr.

This huge beam of light just pours into the bezoar's, in the wound in the bezoar, the cracks in the stone, and you see light start to fill the fissures. And, uh, the Thronebreaker opens his beak in like a soundless cry of pain, as the stone- Light comes out of his mouth. Light coming out of his mouth. Sick! And the stone begins to crack, and fracture, and shatters. Oh! Shrapnel flying all over, plinking off your body, digging into your flesh. Oh!

And as it digs into your flesh, the pain of the shrapnel throws your chest back, like you let go involuntarily. And the beam cuts up, vroom, cuts through a couple other birds, a couple other thunderbirds. Fuck! And you see it slice through the wing of the phoenix. Oh! And it just, shirk, shears it right off. And, Ving, inside, you hear the like, bang, bang, bang, bang, as you start to lose control, and the phoenix begins to spiral out of the sky.

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