Episode 3 – Beautiful and Terrible as the Dawn

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 find. 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 host, Spout. I'm your game master, Sean O'Hara. And joining me as always, playing Tacoma Dome, the Barbarian, Abdul Aziz. Hello everybody. Playing Ving, the half-elf druid, Paul Oppers. Hello. And playing Fat Billy, the halfling thief, Jessica Tai. Hello.

When last we left our heroes, they had encountered, at the threshold of hither and yon, the Gibbous Man. God of the night sky, twin of, ugh I got no more titles, uh, God of the night sky and their foe, their current foe. One in a long line of men. You guys have had a lot of foes. Yeah. A lot of enemies. Yeah. He's our CFO. Mm-hmm. Current foe, uh, operating right now. Current foe of the… Opposition. Yeah. Outer dark. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Current foe of the outer dark.

CFO as current, but foe spelled F-O is really funny. He's a current foe. Uh, there was a bit of a standoff, uh, in which the Gibbous Man said that he was going to kill Cal and Black Hammer. Right. And that Ving putting on the ring was, in fact, a signal from Callum that he was, oh, there's the ring. Oh, cool. I've been looking at that ring all day. That's why I wore it. It's so cool. It is really cool. Cool signet ring. I also have a signet ring with a black stone on it. Ooh. Yeah, yeah.

It's got a gold S on it, too. For Sean. Oh. Sinister snake. Uh. Like the snakes that were driven from Ireland. Ho-chi-cho. Wow, yeah. It's like I'm there. It's like I'm there again. St. Petersburg. Yeah. Yeah. St. Petersburg. You know what the patron saint of Ireland is, right? St. Petersburg. All right, moving on. Villain to all snakes in Ireland. The Earl of Notre Dame. Yeah. The Earl of Notre Dame. Defeater of Napoleon. Assassin who finally ended the life of Hannibal as he crossed the Alps.

The Gibbous Man said, I'm going to go kill a cow on Blackhammer, so give me the ring, or better yet, give me Victoria LeBlanc. Mm-hmm. Which she desperately, desperately signaled do not do. So after a bit of a back and forth, the door was slammed in his face, and you all decided, after Hither and Yon took you to the sewer near the hideout of the Brass Castle gang, to whom which you were about to hand over LeBlanc in exchange for 1,000 gold coins. Mm-hmm. Should have done it.

She was able to convince you to let her stay in Hither and Yon, because if she stepped foot outside, the Gibbous Man, unable to enter Hither and Yon as he is most places of power, would kill her surely. Mm-hmm. She had information about Callum and his plans, and she was willing to give that information up in exchange for her safety, which you all agreed to, and then interrogated her a bit, asking about what Callum's ultimate plans were, including his plan for the ballroom, the gala, the wedding.

What she explained was to lure the Gibbous Man in, using his understanding of the behaviors of the three of you, as well as your individual, it would seem, at her suggestion, alignments with different metaphysical forces, the spiritual, the fairy, and the iconic, she gestured at Tuck. Mm. Tuck believes because of the coins in his chest. And she said that Tuck was unremarkable. Yeah. She said that she assumed it had to be the coin, because Tuck seems wholly unremarkable. Uh-huh. So harsh.

So brutal. So mean. And his plan, once the Gibbous Man was bound, he would then use Black Spire to blast the Gibbous Man with his new Lightstone breath weapon to destroy the Gibbous Man's mortal form. Mm-hmm. As well as his connection to the Outer Dark. Yeah. That's so cool. Mm. Which, as the vessel of the Icon of Cunning, you realize Callum knew a lot. Yeah. Yeah. He knew that Black Spire was probably in the library, was being fed Sunstone, knew that he was coming over here. Right.

Knew where to find him. Which means he has spies everywhere. Mm-hmm. Oh, we also learned that he has an agent in the mayoral office of Highspear. Yes. That Lee Master Lee, Sr. Has been paying spies in the mayor's office of Highspear. Oh, an oath was sworn by which- Oh, yeah. By Billy to Victoria LeBlanc, saying that if she betrayed the crew in any way, she would be killed. Oh, yeah.

She betrayed the crew in any way, or attempted to hurt them in any way, that she would be trapped someplace only Billy could get her out of. Mm-hmm. Following this, the party transported Hither and Yon to Highspear, all the way back across the continent- Mm-hmm. To meet up with Morris and Perel, finding Perel mid-shit in a bathroom stall. That's what he was doing in there? To the absolute pinpoint accuracy of Billy's ability to steer Hither and Yon- And interrupt a ship. Billy's so good at that.

How many times have we told you? So many times. So many times. But that's where I find, it's the easiest place to find you. Yes. I just follow my nose. He's holding a book and knocking on the door, and he's just like, I'm bored, can you read to me? Every time, it's like, he knows. We keep locking the door and he keeps picking the lock. So there's nothing we can do. Yeah, we have gotten to the point of where we take shits in the same room as one another. It's just easier. Not okay.

It's so boring. I'm sinking up. But Perel explained that while they were able to receive word back from Waleed the speaker through the Wi-Fi hotspot, an unprecedented event, the magical energy released through the transportation of that note overloaded some sort of mechanism in the High Spear Tower, locking them out of the room with the Wi-Fi hotspot. And they weren't sure how to get back in.

They tried lots of little magic-y tricks, but they have found that the power of the Wi-Fi hotspot is not working. They have found, in the very top of the tower, an override switch that shuts the tower down. Basically a hard reboot, they believe. And everybody agreed, maybe not the time to touch it. Too many unknowns. Too juicy of a lever. Too juicy of a button to just keep in front of you. So everybody left the room. Too obvious a narrative offer to engage with.

Which was completely denied in the moment. The party had, Perel and Morris said that they did have one more chance to get back in the room. And they did. The party had, Perel and Morris said that they did have one person they could speak to and revealed that they have completed a sort of brass armature body to give the magical perceptions of Aquaria, the moss wizard, in her tower far, far away, an ability to interact with and contact their party on a more regular basis.

And though they were concerned that it perhaps wasn't ready and the magical transfer of energy would be too much for the wounded Aquaria. Ving used his ability to connect with the monster. There's a, I think maybe like the kind of uncomfortable situation where you're like, you're in the beginnings of a couple fight that you're like in the same room as you're just like, Oh, we should, like, I think I maybe should go.

There's a, I think maybe like the kind of uncomfortable situation where you're like, you're in the beginnings of a couple fight that you're like in the same room as, and you're just like, Oh, we should, like, I think I maybe should go. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. If I'm here, so I'm going to go. We got to get out of this room. But Aquaria used her connection to Ving and Ving's control over magical plant matter to construct a moss body over the framework, creating a simulacrum of Aquaria's own form.

While this conversation was happening and everyone was talking to Aquaria about what could be done about the High Spear, everybody then realized that Billy wasn't in the room anymore. And then immediately knew where he was. And we cut to Billy in the hidden in the armoire in which the override switch was hidden. As the party raced to the elevator to try and stop him, he flipped the switch, turning the High Spear off.

Magical shards hanging in the air, crashing to the ground for the first time in centuries. I didn't know that would happen. I didn't think that far ahead. From the elevator shaft, he could hear voices calling in words. He could not understand. Oh no. And that is where we find our heroes now. You know what? Let's cut inside the elevator. Tuck and Ving, you are there with Morris Perel and the moss form of Aquaria. And everyone is talking all at once. Yeah. Screaming at the top of our lungs.

A lot of noise is happening because it is very quickly apparent no one is speaking the same language. Morris and Perel actually can probably, they can talk to each other. Yeah. They're speaking the same language. Okay. And maybe Aquaria. Aquaria is speaking a totally different language. Oh, she's from Turvor. She's from so far north that she speaks a totally different language. And the High Spear predates all of these, all of them as wizards. Yeah. Okay.

And then, so that means you and I can't speak the same language. We cannot talk to Morris Perel or Aquaria. Morris Perel can talk to each other. Okay. Can we read the signs? Like, does it work on written? You know what? Tuck can read the signs. Why? Because Walid is Macaulay. Oh, that's sick. So, Tuck, you can read all the signs and all the written language in the tower. Is there a panel that, like an emergency panel that I can open? Yeah, there's a button that says emergency power. Okay.

I hit that. And you hear like a k-koom-koom-koom. And there is a small light that was not on before, a smaller dimmer light that comes on in the elevator. And everything goes k-koom-koom. And then starts moving up. And Morris and Perel are like, what, what? Oh. What? Oh. Yeah. Yeah. And Bing's just like, how did he know that? What is happening here? How is, we can't understand anything. And all of a sudden he's a genius. Oh my God. The tower shut off and everyone got stupider than Tuck.

We're fucked. Perel is waving his hands in front of your face. He's going, wah, wah, wah, wah, pointing at his ears. Wah, wah, wah, wah. Oh my. My God. Everyone's deaf but me. And Aquaria is just standing there like with her hand on her like mossy chin. Just like, oh, it's just that kind of shit. And Morris is like, ah, just like hands in his hair. Such a good eye. Scottish gibberish. It's going to be a lot of this. I'm so sorry. It's so great. It was so good. But the boonk.

And then the elevator starts moving. So we're going to cut inside the armoire. Yeah. Billy's panicking because he heard the shatter of the glass and, or of the crystal. And he's like, I is, I guess I broke everything. And so he ran in back to the lever and he's trying to push it back up. And he's piling stuff. Like he's pulling things. He's pulling things from the coat hangers. Yeah. To give himself some leverage to pull, to push up the lever. I roll a defy danger. Let's say dexterity.

Or it might be strength because you're trying to pull this lever back up. Yeah. So I got six. Okay. So mark a point of experience. Oh, fuck. And you. Is that McCollin? And you run, you're like reaching up. The switch is just too stuck. Okay. But you, as you are like leaving the armoire trying to find other stuff, you hear. Whoa. Oh. View of Highspear and you hear a lot of commotion. You're not sure exactly what it is.

You assume from where you are that the shards of the Highspear fell and have like boomed into the earth. Okay. And a couple probably rolled down and hit some stuff. I see trails of where the crystals fell down. And you see like giant shards kind of sticking up out of the ground in the city. Okay. Back to the elevator. The emergency power has come on and you are climbing to the top. The door opens and you see the room. You see the armoire is wide open.

There's a pile of clothes and stuff underneath it and the switch has been pulled down. What do they see Billy doing when the door is open? Billy has pulled one of like the like the those like curtain ties, you know, the like frilly ones. Yeah. And he's tied it around the lever and now and then looped it around the like, you know, the clothing bar. Yeah. Totally. Even like jump Oh my God.

He made a simple machine swinging like trying to like roll himself up thinking like, well, the higher off the ground I am, the heavier I am. The further I am the center of the earth. So Tuck walks out of the elevator and he looks at Billy and you hear him go. Yes. Come on. My wife. No. I know, you know, another language. So you are fluent in Borat. I am. Yeah. There we go.

Perel and Morris come out of the tower and Perel's just like, ah, ah, and like walks up to the switch and almost looks like he doesn't want to touch it and is just looking to all of you gesturing towards it. Yeah. And I gesture to him like pull down. Two D six plus charisma to try and explain what you're saying. We're rolling. So shit. We're rolling shit. I got six. Okay. I'll, I'll. I feel like you're good at charades. Yes. Yeah.

And so Ving walks up like Leitha Lathola Nikalothitha Arrowsmith Thamola Kinalathimobili That's 13. Wow. And Tuck hears like Ving speak Elvish for the first time. And then in his mind you hear, he hears May it be the evening light And it's like the, it's whatever fucking Arwen scene. They're like, Oh, it is like with the hair blowing. Exactly. Yeah. The one with the guy from the flight of the concords. Yeah.

The one of the windows like has like creaked open a bit and like wind nights, this wind is swirling in the four poster bed. Oh yeah. Like sheer sheets of silk are like dancing. Dancing around Ving's form. The moonlight is catching his skin and he looks like sailor moon kind of. Oh my gosh. The skin is glistening in that moonlight. I'm wearing all silver earrings and necklaces. I'm almost blinded by your beauty. No.

Look not away child Leitha Moolikala Lavaringa Vinga I try to give you something, something precious of mine. What is it? Wurrenanikola Thathimo Bukta for a terrible as the dark. Thathimo Thathimo Thathimo Thathimo Thathimo I shall retire to thou hast. We are, we are playing this for laughs 100%. Yeah. But that is a very cool thing. I think that is kind of what's happening. Yes. I like that. So Billy like, he comes down, he like hands you the pulley.

I take the pulley and I want to try and put the lever back up. It is for someone that is nearly seven feet tall and several hundred pounds of weight. It is an easy enough switch to flip. And. And then I see a little boy, a little meatball hanging on a spaghetti noodle trying to pull a full size switch. It was further away from the center of the earth, Sean. Yeah, I know right. That is pretty far away. That's true.

I do like the idea that the towers translation actually makes people like less terrifying to one another. It makes people meet in the middle. Yes. Like elves maybe have a natural aspect that is sort of scary and like kind of predatory to other. Dark elves. Yes. Yeah. Which is why the tower doesn't translate their shit because they're so alien now. Oh.

I also like that the language thing might be a secondary or tertiary effect of the tower that it was supposed to calm everybody down to get together. And it's like also it allows you to communicate, but it's to make people on an even keel. It takes the world that is a world that is kind of dangerous where it's like, like the elves have like an intrinsic like siren ability and it cartoonifies everything. It shaves off the edges. It makes human like sentient interaction. It's like abilified.

It's like abilify for the planet. Yeah. It abilifies the entire planet. Yeah. Great. Wow. Yeah. Man. So that means you look really scary. Big and muscly. Yeah. Their veins popping. Is cut. Yes. Oh my gosh. The tower was putting me in the bulk phase this whole time. The tower was making me fat. The bulk phase is less threatening for sure. Yeah. Tuck looks like the version of him. Remember that early piece of character art that a fan did where he's just got like a thorax? Yeah.

The axe is wicked sharp. Sharp features. Eyebrows. Yeah. And the switch flips very easily. Thunk. And you hear like deep in the base of the tower like a clunk and a humming. Weird. And Morris looks at everybody and goes, Hot eyes. Oh fuck. Oh no. Yes, come out. Oh no. He's a moly. He has heart. He's a moly. And Morris, Perel's just walking around with his hands on his head going, Uh, uh. No words necessary. And I gesture to bring everyone to the window. Follow me. To see. Outside.

Pick up the binoculars. And then Tuck looks outside and he sees the devastation and you hear him go, Fuck. And I go, I'm so sorry. Oh, no. Points in Ving's face and he's trying to say, this is because you're bad at setting boundaries. But what he says is, yes, come on. Ving walks into his finger with his hair blowing up in the wind. And boundaries are a two way street.

And Aquaria kneels down to where Billy is freaking out on the floor and kind of like lifts your chin and looks you in the face and, and wipes away the tears on your cheeks and just kind of shakes her head. No, but like in a, in a don't. So she is trying to roll a, roll a defy danger wisdom. Yeah. Rolling like shit. Another six. Another six. Can we help him? Oh yeah. You can try and help him. Yeah. Yeah. I want to help. Yeah. I roll a box. Guys. I roll a 13. What is the eight plus one? Yeah. 13.

Great. Yeah. So you're watching Aquaria. Aids are awesome. You're watching Aquaria interact with Billy in this way. And you see that she is acting towards him very calmly and very like, um, soothingly. And you're able to see like, this softens, like how tuck is acting and how everyone in the room is sort of freaking out. But Aquaria is acting with like calm, quiet. And you realize she's trying to tell you, this isn't your fault. You did the right thing. This is a problem to solve.

It is my fault. I pulled on it. I didn't think about it. And I, and then it fell from the sky and then it broke. And I can't put it back together. Cause I don't have any tape or glue. I ruined a poof. It landed on a poof. And she, she shakes her head again and she kind of smooths your hair and she lifts you up and puts you on your feet. And then she stands her, her moss countenance kind of rising. You hear inside the moss, the like click, click, click of like the brass body aligning. Cool.

And then she gestures towards the elevator and looks at everybody. She moves towards the elevator and ding, it opens. She ushers everyone in. I go in. Yep. Yep. And she kind of looks at everyone and goes, like, can I roll to try and understand what the fuck she's doing? Yes, totally. Yeah. 26 plus wisdom. Maybe you should roll to try and understand. Sorry. You said, can I? Okay. Uh, seven, seven. Hey, she, don't cut that out.

Hey, and, uh, the vibe, the, you're not getting her perfect message here, but you get the idea that she is asking what next. Okay. Tuck wants to first, you try and use the rings to try and get a communication to these guys. Okay. Yeah. Like that. Ooh, can I go to the, my, the pizza hut? Mine palace. Oh, can I roll demon of servitude to get to the demon of loyalty to get, uh, into the mind palace and to take these guys with me? Uh, yeah, sure. Yeah. That's a pretty good idea.

That would be the, that would be the boon that I would be asking for. Yeah, that's a good idea. Two D six plus. Let me find it. Uh, Oh, it's called full service now. Um, Oh, I was thinking the demon of broil tea. Oh, that's way better. Char broiled burger. Please guys pray for these dice. Oh, cause we have been rolling like ass. Oh, Bob, a little bone. I'm an Alvin prayer. Whoa. Holy shit. Oh, 15. Oh my God. Wait, this is 11 plus three, 14, 14. My Lord. Yeah.

So you hear the jingle jangle of walking through the door of the, uh, all sit down pizza hut in your mind, but it's not a sit down pizza. What is it? It's a husk. It's the Husky from nine, the Husky diner, the, all you can eat breakfast. So you're met by a talk at the front door. Who's got an apron around his waist and a tray in his hand, black guy and a bandaid on his face. Yeah. What's going on? Shug. We need a table for, I think for his loyalty around. Uh, Oh yeah, I know he's in the back.

Let me go grab them. Okay. And Billy and Ving with a 14, you are also in the Husky and you also understand tuck. Oh, Oh, so we can hear each other in here. Yes. Oh man. That's what I was hoping for. Guys. I'm really sorry. I messed up really bad. Tuck leans over and he notices that he has a gut again. He goes, fuck. He picks Billy up and he's like, you probably should have talked to us before he did this, but it was a good instinct and it is good for you to take risks.

And I appreciate you apologizing. You're sat down in the booth and there are menus handed out. I would like everything please. And you look down at the menu and you realize there's only one item on the menu and it says everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll be back. Three. Everything's loyalty comes out of the back in the form of a BB. Hi, what's going on? We, we have a problem out in the real world. We might need your advice. Yeah.

You remember how everyone used to talk to each other and send letters back and forth and sure. It's kind of worked. Yeah. It's not like that anymore for now. Yeah. And then tuck puts his hand on Billy's a little hand and he goes, some one made a choice. Yes. And we're happy for them to feel strong in themselves to be able to make choices. Yeah.

Point the high spirit tower no longer works the translation spell that was translating everything in the world and if you didn't know that now you do wow okay I'll come clean it was me I didn't I take responsibility for my actions wow billy that's really great yeah and I and then I tried to fix it by pulling the lever down and then when we did get it down nothing happened that's not true there was a click and then a rumbling in the basement I think that we're on track okay so it wasn't not nothing but we still can't hear each other we can't understand each other the crystal shards on the high spirit tower they all fell down and I feel like that's maybe why it's not working oh yeah it also might be part of the mechanism this is talked talking to you guys now it also might be kind of part of the mechanism where like a reboot requires some kind of like something in the control room where the the wi-fi hotspot is to like happen you can Spout Lore on this I want to Spout Lore on uh crystal powers and see if there's anything I know in the druidic ancient lore like the material that the tower is made out of wow I got 14 holy shit okay so how do druids interact with crystals in their experiences in their practices and how do you think that would apply here how do you think that would take you a step because crystals is we know in this form are like solidified magical energy that like gathers in water right they grow in the medium of water yes and how druids use this in their own aquifer under the mountain that's what the mechanism is is like a giant electromagnet right there's like there is like a natural power source at this location yeah and the tower was built to focus and then transform that energy into the effect of the spell essentially it's a yes and it's like and then the tower went even higher so it could transmit as far as possible oh yeah so I like that how druids would interact with crystals is that's what the wells are you would think that the wells are to get to the water but they would put wells in near crystal deposits at the bottom of every druidic well is a giant crystal deposit to like connect the crystals to the water table that then like it's like they drink the water they use it in their cooking and then it imbues them with like some latent magical ability that allows them to be druids yeah that's just sick yeah okay so we have to get to the water at the bottom of the tower yes so that is telling you that a component of this is definitely some sort of pump that is used to like filter or pull magical water through the tower probably to help keep the crystals charged up so that feels like step one go down and then try and find a door to this place and just before you go I should let you know that once you leave this place I can't actually help you like speak to each other but I can or can't cannot okay the that the power of the high spirit translation that's beyond what I'm able to help with did you say r or r I'm I'm just a demon of loyalty I'm not a demon of translation or communication okay that's fine but I can allow you through the rings that you guys have to transmit images to each other's minds oh okay and try and communicate like that okay okay yeah I hope that helps that will yes okay well you guys eat this food or right yeah we say we finish the food and you you leave with a mind full of full bellies only a moment having passed as the wizards stare at you expectantly you've all just been like you are now back in the elevator with at least a step that you can follow I hit the lowest number great nice and you head down to the sub basement where you um found the original containing the room with the wi-fi hotspot okay and as the door opens you hear through the walls and floor like a rumbling that is much much louder down here okay uh and as you and exit the elevator into the chamber you see on your right a service door that you are certain was not there before is it locked uh it's not locked but all of the doors in this place are like powered and the power being off and not like fully back on means that you have to force the door open or find some sort of way to get in and out of the room and then you have to force the door open and then you have to force the door open and then you have to force the door open and then you have to force the sort of mechanism to get it to open without power would would tricks of the trade work on this door one million percent this is exactly the kind of thing that you use this for pick whatever locker mechanism is making it difficult to open plus dexterity I got 10 excellent I just what do you call it like you take the hinges apart oh yeah yeah yeah the door just falls down great and and you hear the once the door falls down the grinding sounds are much louder oh yeah it's like and there's stairs that go down into darkness I take a little bit of moss off of quarry and give it to billy for his use great uh and you lead the way down morris perel and aquaria stay uh up here near the door ready to interact with the wi-fi hotspot if necessary I try to mime to them what's going on I go I go us three I talk to them like an ass whole talks to foreigners yeah us three are going down and then I go there's what and then I try and mime water by by being all wavy in my body water you know and I drink I go water and I go yum yum water in my belly water you know and then I go and it's getting sucked he almost does a blowjob pushes my hand down that's not helping I'm my mestra I go sucked sucked you sucked they kind of gesture you to move on and then I go water gets sucked up and then I and then I go and then I kind of try and do like a a hand like and it powers I try and make a power side this shit and I go shit and I point at my butt I go shit and they're like the thing goes we're going you stay okay thumbs up and you head down into the darkness and you head down into the loud loud darkness uh the tower down here is much less finely wrought than the rest of it and then you head down into the loud loud darkness and then you head down into the loud loud darkness and then you head down into the loud loud darkness and then you head down into the loud loud darkness this is clearly some sort of service corridor uh and you travel down maybe like two floors of spiral staircase like a metal grate kind of stairway yeah clang clang clang into the dark and uh yeah it's just like almost raw stone on the walls like it was just hacked out and then that's it uh and then the sound grows to a powerful crescendo as you reach um a you have some sort of light source presumably yeah billy oh yeah I've got my billow the wisp great I've got the I've got the axe yeah one million light sources everything is my jewelry so there's so many shadows down here they're all being cast in different directions it's kind of making us scared it's the picture again and somebody was scared of our own shadows so many times this season and you illuminate you hear before you see it the sound of moving water and you illuminate a great cavern that is a cavern of water been carved out and found.

But yeah, you throw something out over to the water and the light travels out and illuminates this almost small subterranean lake. And on the other side, there's water rushing in from like subterranean rivers that then rush out another way. Cool. And in the very middle, hanging over it, almost like a metal stalactites, there's pipes and machinery hanging from the cavern ceiling, dipping into the water. It's almost like a whirlpool. A vortex. It's like a natural whirlpool. That's really cool.

And there's a system of like water wheels that go through it. Oh, I love that. Yeah. That's awesome. Yeah. So that's a very unfortunate thing that you wouldn't want to go in it because you can see that there's like a bunch of buttons and gears and stuff that are on the machinery that is far out in the water. On this side, there's nothing that seems like it's connected to that. To reset this machine, you have to go out there. That's wild. Come on. They wouldn't have done that.

They wouldn't have done that. You know the way of wizards? Wizards? Wizards could fly probably. Man. Will Lee the Speaker fly? There's no way to know. Will Lee the Speaker never thought his machine would have to be turned off. And no one will ever turn this off again. No need for off switch. Just the one in my closet, which no one will look into because I am asexual, a confirmed bachelor. I live alone. I live alone and so I will forever. Rifle through my clothes. Rifle through my clothes.

Steal that special ring I kept under my bed. Write that down on your sheet. Whoa, hold on. Oh my God, does that work like that? She's writing down special ring. No! Net what happened. Anyway, I and no one living will ever see this cavern again. We'll eat away. And then he flies away. He flies away. Dun-dun-dun. Okay. Sorry. No, that's great. That's so good. So, yeah, that is what you're guessing. Is to reset this machinery, you have to either go out into the lake or get to the machine somehow.

I want to… Please cry. Can I commune with the whispers of this lake and this area and talk to the spirits of the water, the magical waters? Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally. 2d6 plus wisdom, I think, for communion of whispers. Ooh, I will help you. Yes. Okay. I think my tears are adding to the power of the water. Seven. Great. Thank you. So that makes it a 10, which means you have a clear vision that would help you in this situation. Mm-hmm. Okay. Okay. So you flashback.

You sit down on the edge and you're reaching out to the waters of this place, these magically potent waters, for some sort of boon or vision that will help you. And you receive an image in your mind, which is transmitted to the two of you. Oh, sick. Via the rings. Stop crying. A movie. You see a time long ago where there was some sort of difficulty with the machine. It started malfunctioning or some such. And we'll lead the speaker.

A sort of perpetually 55-year-old man, salt and pepper beard, long scholar's robes, very beautifully embroidered, and a hat, a little hat. Bald. You can see that he's just got the hair on the side. And then on the back, there's just no hair on his head. Mm-hmm. He comes down and he stands at the edge of the water and he looks, hmm, thinking at the machinery. And then he flies from the edge across the water very gently, just kind of- Walking on the air. Gliding across.

Yes, walking across the water. And then walking as if on a staircase up towards the machine. Oh. Oh. And then you see the exact sequence he's using. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. And then there's a button and gear and switch that he's pulling and turning. Button, gear, switch, button, gear, switch. And then just a final punch. He kind of gives it a hmm, and then thumps it. And it goes, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

And the waters start flowing and the wheels start turning again. And he nods, satisfied, and glides back to the edge and walks up the stairs. Then Ving rises and says, I think I know what to do. And I want to take a step out onto the water. Okay. The leap of faith from Indiana Jones. Uh-huh.

2d6 plus wisdom the penitent man will pass the penitent man will pass 10 holy shit that's so sick so you step out you see the vision in your head and you step out onto the open air and you see ving walk out over this water where it presses like the water almost stills beneath it oh yeah that's cool to support them and you make a look back at them I do a pad beret and then he takes a step and he's gone too far off path he almost falls I climb back on the invisible pathway you see a bunch of laughing emojis in the group chat the mental group chat meanwhile this one thing puts to this one hiding you you and uh you make your way to the machine stepping up very cautiously I imagine on these invisible stairs oh I'm picking up uh water as I walk to dripping it in front of me to see the invisible that's very cool yeah and you're here in front of this huge machine hanging over this lake and you hit the button turn the gear pull the lever punch it you punch it and the wheels start turning and the water starts pumping and you're like oh my god I'm so scared I'm so scared I'm so scared I'm so scared I'm so scared and everything in this lake starts moving the way that it should like it's using the natural like whirlpool form like and it's opening ducks that like siphon water off into different areas that's rad yeah and now there's less of a discordant grinding and more of like a harmonious humming and ving you can walk back the path you came you still see your water dripping off the invisible steps leading the way you go back up the stairs and the wizards are standing there and they're none of them are talking they now know but they just kind of like put their hands up by their hands and they're like oh my god I'm so scared I'm so scared I'm so scared I'm so scared and they're not talking they now know but they just kind of like put their hands up by their shoulders and shrug I give them a thumbs up like it worked it worked and they all sigh and they're like oh and then they look at each other morrison perel kind of jabber back and forth and then they look back at the three of you and then shrug again and point at the door to the wi-fi room yeah and I go that shit it needs to turn turn on turn on and then sexy dance just sexy rub my rub my tits dance right amazing uh things like no go on yeah no go on you have agency here uh and billy you are faced with another door similar to the one that you just cracked open this is the one that we did the password reset on right yes but!

Now there this is another thing to willied's construction now billy as an experienced thief yeah um you would think the power is off which means the security reset is off so you might just be able to force this open somehow unfortunately there are no hinges so you'll have to sort out some other method um and I look at you guys and I go we have to look for a uh a hole a hole he pointed himself a round hole or a long hole or um a small hole or we or we break it down and I start like slamming on the door and in my head I'm trying to show you like beat up the door yeah you transmit an image of tuck punching the door yes yeah all right billy we'll discern realities to see how you might be able to crack the door and we'll see what happens so we're gonna go ahead and crack this thing what is it wisdom five five yeah and uh as part of this failure the camera cuts outside the tower to the city of high spear and in the distance rolling over the horizon dark clouds thunder lightning the storm has arrived oh maybe we hear a4 like going oh yeah oh just reverberating through the walls of the tower like the air raid sirens in uh england oh yeah and you know that the clock is ticking on this it would seem some some sort of danger approacheth bing's hair is like oh oh yeah as this dorm gets closer my hair is getting puffy yeah my wool sweater is getting static tux loincloth flips up whoa everything else is sticking straight out and you see it all oh my god he's forced us to see it all again you can see the seam from here the seam what is he cut oh cause everything's up cause he's cut everything's up my dick raises in the air for the embryo touching a vandercraft machine it reconnects uh yeah so for strengthening forcing your way jess if we're doing too many dick jokes please feel free to tell us that is fine fully unfazed forcing your way through this door is the only way okay okay so should I try to beat up the door yes yeah and then I send an emoji of my face and I I send a strong uh bicep emoji I flex so hard my muscles grow so big in the in my vision oh yeah and then I'm just looking at a picture like it's this little like oil portrait it's like kid drawing so like the muscles are huge yeah yeah yeah yeah but his arms are sticks yeah his arms are sticks huge muscles and then billy drew himself round but put out the door and then he's like oh my god oh my god I'm gonna have to do this I'm gonna have to do this I'm gonna have to do this I'm gonna have to do this yeah I love that great vince sends a hundred percent 100 percent underlined underlined 100 100 yeah I I I copy and paste it yeah and put it on the on the wall yeah I send a fridge emoji yeah excellent uh yes so can I take the axe off and try and like crack through the door uh yeah you can definitely try and destroy the door oh shit can I do tlc I haven't done that in a long time I go tlc I haven't done that in a long time tlc yo what's up man where's the move what's it called it's called taylor and chet it's right I can see it from here oh can you point it yes right okay yeah that's it and it says roll it only says roll plus con it's fine it's fine so what does it do so what it does is tell me yes so now how we have used it is basically like you roll plus constitution you destroy something mm-hmm and they give you a boon in return because they love wrecking stuff okay yeah I pull I pull the axe off my back and I do a couple of you know uh ragnarok style like ragnarok oh I see cool cool cool yeah you're spinning the axe around and I'm trying to wake him up I'm like tlc little little buds wake up hey we're ready man what's going on I need you to fuck up some shit bro oh you know we're always ready for that buddy there's a nerd who's trying to fuck up some shit bro he's trying to keep us out of a place we need to go absolutely fucking not dude fuck this nerd let's let her rip and I go this nerd fucking thinks he's better than us you should definitely roll before you hype us up anymore and I pop uh uh sabotage yeah you're running out of sabotage bottles bro you gotta pick another song what does it sound like to us that's so funny they can't understand it I love it oh sounds like the muslim cult yes the muslim cult this whole time fans muslim cult I'm into it I'm into it all right roll it 2d6 plus con okay here we go the offering will be the destruction of the door the permanent destruction of the door that's fine that's fine it's a consequence we need he can build himself a new door uh-huh we just gotta fucking get in there and turn this shit on oh monster holy shit oh my god oh my god what did you roll I just rolled fucking 50 there we go oh my god dlc are on goddamn sins and steroids they just woof they they're you can see them and the time freezes for a moment this must register on an emotional level and terry larry and chad are looking at each other they're each gripping each other's cheeks they do they do the uh three-way three-way three-way three-way three-way four-way four-way four-way four-way four-way anything this tougher is this cool before you're right but there's a nerd on the other side that wants us not to get into his stuff and you know what we've never let that stop us before you know what Terry Larry and me Chad being the third one I think it's time we fuck this nerd shit up what do you say Bryce and they he said broys but he meant to say Bryce because it means bro and boys at the same time and they look at each other they nod quick little peck and then cut back to present drive safe and the axe slams into the door yes cuts deep slams into the door boom metal screeching it's like a flash of light every time yes like what's that what's that magnesium no what's that stuff oh magnesium yeah yeah yeah sparks it's like every that when it when I pull away there's this like white like shining like light yeah Morris Perel and Aquaria have their hands on the door off and they're like no I'm holding them back like don't stop him yeah we're holding them back and then in the group chat what shows up is a bomb emoji and the door is rent asunder sorry it's been so much oh my god it's probably like such bright light coming out oh yeah it is the power from the wifi hotspot this is my white my light sight yes yes Ving uses his light sight which dims this to an appreciable level what do I see you see the control room that you've seen before you can roll you're grabbing dice what do you want to roll I discern realities alright 2d6 plus wisdom nice 12 3 questions um what here's not what it appears to be okay so you in the initial flash you uh close your eyes and then you open them up using your light sight to kind of dim the powerful light from the wifi hotspot and you see that it's not as bright as you the brightness had to have been partially from Tuck's axe absolutely destroying the door because it looks like some sort of shielding some sort of clear shielding has dropped down around the wifi hotspot uh um like Walid perhaps built in a failsafe when he left knowing that if this got through it would be destructive so it is currently safe for you all to be in this room oh okay uh it's just oh nice you know just put on some sunglasses or something what you're describing is like a cylinder of like shielding thick dropped down from the ceiling and created like a chamber around within the room just specifically only around like the rip in reality that is the wifi hotspot I like that it's like angled crystals held together with lead like a stained glass and it's pointing all the light up so it's giving us like it's almost like a disco ball but it's illuminating the room but drawing it away from the eye beautiful thing yeah great what's useful or valuable to us uh you see the machinery is thankfully undamaged though off uh but you see around the base of the containment cylinder uh and then also gathered inside the cylinder is a number of crumpled paper notes um uh um what should I be on the lookout for so I think while you're looking at the glass you see in the wifi hotspot the diffused light behind the shielding you see another note wiggle through and drop onto the ground yeah so if you get this shielding up you might be able to communicate with him directly okay cool okay okay how do we do that can I try and find useful information yes totally yeah in the notes 2d6 is it discern realities uh yeah this would be discern realities okay here we go plus wisdom wisdom yes okay so that's nine plus one is ten there you go three questions three questions holy shit what here is useful or valuable to me what here is useful or valuable you are uh looking around in the letters you see that one drop through and you're like oh maybe these notes they tell me how to get this open yeah and you see around the base of the little cylinder that's dropped down is like handles okay tuck does a deep squat whoa his glutes are popping oh my god and the look on that's still up so it's just the deepest squat you hear the crackle of tuck's ass hair separating electricity like runs down his hands as he grabs the handles so cool uh huh so cool so cool yeah yeah oh arcs arcs off the axe on my back oh cool so sick and you grab hold yes and you lit and it slides right up and he's like oh so you whip it into the ceiling before he says it he goes somebody draw this and then he goes and it's like you hear like a in his back yeah he like throws his back out he stumbles back totally falls out of his back out of the room whoa whoa whoa whoa still holding the the metal handles that he ripped off the thing I shocked myself the metal handles did it work clear he's lying on the ground in the other room is it did it work white light fills the room does it dissipate at all I think it does it is contained more so than it was when you first opened this door to the room this door to the room the first time you saw it there is some sort of thing that has fallen like that has engaged above the little drop down thing which means that the power is being siphoned away and you actually think Ving having taken a look at downstairs you think that the emergency power that Tuck turned on is siphoning some of the strength of the hot spot away to activate the emergency power okay to to access be able to access the machine exactly yeah cool yeah but you see a number of other notes on the ground here and then Tuck from the other room goes guys I still have two questions use my questions I can't get up for totally normal reasons I go help Tuck no use my questions don't touch me or look at me right now unfortunately they can't read the notes but that's I bring the notes to Tuck yeah and I hold up your glasses for you you fucking you loser I put them on upside down I threw my back out and I'm wearing glasses you're turning into your dad Tuck oh yeah your dad's dad was in a cut face uh yeah so what is your next question what I want you guys to pick the questions oh I asked what's useful or valuable what is about to happen what is about to happen so you actually see so one of the notes that you hold up the one that just came through uh that's it says please confirm presence and direct communication will be established confirm presence how do we do that it's a great question what should I be on the lookout for there you go uh so what you should be on the lookout for is you think about the fact that Tuck did this impossible thing where he screamed through the hotspot making connection with Waleed and then Waleed sent something back through the hotspot that suggests that you could also send something through the hotspot and he wants us to confirm our identities just that you're here okay Billy just grabs he just swipes his fingers on like the dusty corners and writes a B on it and slips it through oh okay uh 2d6 plus dexterity I guess to like work it through you are getting a plus one from the discern realities fuck you okay so nine okay okay there you go 2d6 plus bond to aid I turn his B the right way around so there's two B's now uh yeah eight eight which makes it a ten which means that this works you walk up you hold Billy up you're kind of still squinting because it's like staring into a weld spot it's just so bright I'm I'm I'm!

Looking into it and then projecting what's happening in the with the rings so they can kind of like wink blink yeah so Billy sees where the hole in reality is and pokes the note through and it does pass through like almost a solid thing and then uh 30 seconds later you see impossibly as Tuck established uh the cracks start to like lengthen and shift and cramming through and then clanking onto the ground is a can attached to a sling to a string that goes into the crack into the Wi-Fi hotspot oh my god I speak it here I go and I speak my call and yeah but I say we'll eat is that you what do we think will leads voice sounds like do your best Arabic like it is doing Arabic accent Sean I don't think I reasonably can do it Sean I mean we have done Dracula basically from a college who the fuck is these and and tacos is I a fellow son of the nation of McCall I am though I am not a wizard unfortunately unremarkable as my ex-wife told me the other day I do not need this many details please continue I am here with some of your brethren Aquaria of the green tower Morris of the infinite passages and Perel and after you hear all this names all these names he says Aquarius there is a!

There's a Can he not come through? Sending a can on a string is one thing. He will hopefully be able to get his body through at some point. I mean, what if Morris forces it open? Morris grabs the fanny pack and he just shoves it in. Oh, yeah. Shoves it through. If a can can get through, we could get a fanny pack through a can-sized hole. Jump in here and then we'll yank you back. We put a half in. Okay. All right. I like this idea. So how… Okay. This is… Somebody has this idea. Yes.

It's Morris. It's Morris. Oh, yeah. I think Morris is practical and mad. Yeah. Tuck has started trying to speak to Aquaria to explain the stuff that Walid is saying, but he keeps doing the shit emoji or the shit actor too many times and Morris just gets enraged. Totally, yeah.

So he's looking at the can and the string and he's covering his eyes to look at the crack where the Wi-Fi hotspot comes through and goes, and he runs upstairs and Perel goes, and runs after him and he comes back, you know, a few minutes later with the fanny pack in his hands. I think we need to roll something to see how well this works. Yeah, for sure. What the outcome of it is. What do we think it is? I mean, there's breaking the law. Yeah. Breaking the law is a good option.

Yeah, that's a good one. Yeah. Take an ability to one stat to make an impossible thing possible. Yeah. But I still have to roll if I am the one doing it. Yes. Yes. So Morris is doing this. So you'd be taking an ability to kind of be so psyched up about this event that you are kind of breaking the law of reality a little bit. He walks up to the hole and he like grabs the sides of it and starts like pushing it apart. Whoa.

Like trying to force the gap in reality bigger so that the tent can get through. Great. Yeah. So I think this is, this sounds like a debility to strength. Yes. Oh, it's burning your fingers. Yeah. And it's just so draining. Yeah. It is. You have to put every ounce of your strength into pulling apart reality. And I've already thrown out my back. We just see like muscles straining and veins popping. Tuck starts crying. He's farting all over the place. He's forcing all of the energy out of him.

And you see this rent in reality start to widen. And you see on the other side of it, an eye against the hole. And Morris pushes everybody to the side and shoves the fanny pack through. And he like pulls the tab that, you know, unfolds the fanny pack and starts gesturing. Tuck's still holding it open. Yeah. Straining, straining. I'm holding the can up to Tuck so he can tell Willie to get in. Yeah. Yeah. He good. That's my aid. Get inside. What? What is this thing? Just get inside.

Did Morris make it? Yes. I don't know if I want to get inside. We've lived in it for months. It's safe. Oh, no. Okay. Here we go. And he rustles around and you see Morris strain as he pulls the fanny pack through. You're all sweating, staring at the rent. I go over on top of Morris's arms and help him pull it back. And Ving is pulling with all his might, but he can't quite make it. Billy grabs onto his ankles and he's pulling with all his might.

And you're pulling and Perel goes behind Billy and starts pulling on Billy's ankles and starts pulling with all his might. I'm stretching out as far as I can. And my back is popping. It feels so good. Ving's on his front pushing his chest. Pop. And Aquaria did not get involved. No. She's just watching like, hmm. And the fanny pack flops onto the ground. And the fanny pack on the ground starts to move and then begins unfolding and stepping out from the flap is Waleed, the speaker. Tuck, you hear.

Okay. I have to do this right now. Tell him to calm down. I'm going to do this. And I send a dancing lady emergency to the group chat. And outside you guys hear thunder. Boom. Run rumbling through the sky and through the reverberations of the tower. Throne breaker. You can almost feel like wind start pouring down the stairs. Oh, wow. Towards you through the elevator shaft. There's the thunder cracks, but then there's like gales of wind that like slam the tower. Yeah. Repeated.

Talk, are you in there? Is it you? Yeah. You can hear that. You can feel the tower moving with the force of the wind that's hitting it. And you hear like. As distress is heard in the voice of A4. And Waleed is rushing around the corridor. He's like, I need a few more minutes. Is there anything you could do to stop the tower from falling down? And he's pushing buttons and pulling switches.

I wonder if I can elementor the mastery, the water that's been gathered up the magical water and just try and make it steadfast. Yeah, that might help. Yeah. A fairy ring would certainly help as well. If you want to risk going out in the storm. I do have to roll a fairy child for the day. Okay. Yeah, let's roll it. Wait on a 10 plus. Okay. Plus charisma. 11. Holy shit. I get five hold. Fuck yes. Shit. All right. Which I will use one immediately.

I tearfully send you like a little kid drawing of me sacrificing myself. What? What? Like I draw in scary thunder and sad rain and Billy like a circle around Billy in the tower. And Billy like a beautiful angel. A martyr with a lightning bolt struck through him. Okay. Tuck. Billy will starts walking towards the elevator. I wave goodbye. Okay. Tuck sends back a picture real quick. Yeah.

That is the same picture, but just Tuck is standing next to you holding an umbrella over you and a question mark. And then he sends a smiley face. Okay. So Tuck comes with me. Bing is also going, but he's going up in front to the top of the tower. So the three of you are heading out. Yes. To see what is happening. Yeah. To see what is happening. Okay. So it's just us. Yes. You go to the top of the tower. We'll go outside. We'll see if I can gather anything and pick up the piece of the crystal.

If I can affect anything magic from up here and see the storm because I can interact with it. Yeah. I don't know. Great. That's sick. Yeah. And I tell Waleed real quick. I was like, okay, we'll go protect the tower. You fix this. Yeah. And you just see him like sweating buckets. Also pressing a bunch of switches and buttons. But you hear the tower start coming to life. It's like when you download malware on your work computer and then the IT guy shows up. And then you go to the top of the tower.

And the IT guy shows up and you're like, yeah, I don't know what happened. Could have been anything. It just started open browsers, browsers. But yeah, I go out with Billy outside. Great. Yeah. So Billy and Tuck, you get off at the ground floor and Tuck, Irving, you continue to the top. Yes. Right. And Billy and Tuck, you emerge onto the hillside and you see A4 has stood up completely. There's wind just battering the tower and the surrounding hills and the town. Yeah.

He's the pounding machine calls of A4 are going out. There's like a light over his head that's like spinning. Oh, it's a little alarm. Yeah. To let everyone know to be careful. Billy, through your binoculars, you see people running around the streets, like going to cover, hiding inside. Bumping into each other because they don't speak the language. There's no excuse me now. But like shingles are coming off roofs and even smaller buildings are being like torn away. Can A4 see us? He has not.

He is kind of protecting the town right now. He's trying to. And he's looking up at the storm, which gathers dark clouds are moving in, in a massive ring closing around Highspear, swirling, swirling, swirling, lightning and thunder. The top of the tower, you see Ving and you see in the clouds, you see movement. You see figures, large winged beings. Lightning is slashing at Ving and he's trying to get away. Yeah. Ving and he's trying to like fight it off. Yeah, totally.

And you think for a moment, oh, perhaps my sweet boy Cloudpiercer has returned Gale and the flock. And then you see the immensity of one of the Thunderbirds and you know that these are not your friends. But we cut back down to the tower. I believe, Billy, you wanted to get a ring going. I do. I'm going to spend some time creating a fairy ring. Okay, great. Roll 2d6 plus dexterity. You can do it. Yes. Well, that's huge. Eight to ten. Eight, ten. Yeah. Eight plus two is ten. Perfect.

Which means the ring can be left and will remain up till the next sunrise. Yeah. And I'm dancing around, kind of like almost like bringing up the rock and the crystal to spike up from where I was dancing. Like pulling it out of the ground? Yeah. That's sick. That's pretty cool. Awesome. Tuck, you see the power of the wind has blown like a outcropping of stone off a high peak and is tumbling down towards Billy as he creates this ring. Yeah.

I'm going to take the hit for Billy as he creates this fort. I roll defend. Yeah, defend works. Yeah. Yeah, that is 12. Okay. With defend, you get a hold, remember. It is a hold-based move. Okay, defend. Redirect an attack from the thing you defend to yourself. Have the attack's effect or damage. Open up the attacker to an ally, giving that ally plus one forward. Deal damage to the attacker equal to your level. I'm going to take the hit for Billy. I'm sorry. Oh, my God.

You're rolling a D12 and then you're cutting it in half. No. Okay. No, but I have three armor. I can. No, I'm good. I can take this. I'm so strong and brave. No. No, Billy. I'm so big and strong. I know you're brave. I just need you to focus. Billy's drawing muscles on himself as he dances around. Harping the abs. Billy. I see in your hand there are two D6s. Yes. That's not the dice you're rolling right now. Of course. Okay. No, these. Is it? It's a D12. That is a D12 that Jessica's holding.

Okay. Here we go. Okay. That's gone. That one's gone forever. We can't do it anymore. Pick it up. That one's gone forever. All right. Give me another D12. Here we go. And then Tuck, after getting like basically 700 pictures of you with bigger and bigger muscles, he's just like, fine, Billy. Okay. This teaches you some kind of important lesson. Okay. I want to have the effects or damage. Roll a D12. So this is a D12 that's going to hit Billy. Yes. Okay. Please, God, help my boy. 12.

It's cool, though, because you know what? Okay. What happens is a lightning bolt comes down, cuts the boulder in half. Yeah. It generally hurts. Half of the boulder hits you. It's a small boulder. It creates like a, it turns it into gravel, and gravel just shotguns Billy. I get a bunch of little bruises. Who cares? I want to use throw me a bone, because I upgraded my thing that I can give to a friend, and I had a one on my throw me a bone. Wait. Does that work for damage?

It does not work for damage. Cool idea, though. Right, guys? That was sick. That is a very cool idea. But Billy, as you're making this thing, Tuck like steps in front of this boulder that is struck by lightning, and you get slammed with a bunch of pieces of rock and dirt that kind of just like cut your face and bruise you up. But you know what? Then he thinks like your chest. Yeah. Yeah. Like Billy has little bruises on his tummy now, too. We match. Just like Tuck. Yeah.

He tries to shoot light out of his chest. Yeah. Eh. But it is actually working. It's how you're making the fairy ring. And you continue making your ring around the tower. At the top of the tower, Ving, you see the below, far, far below, Tuck and Billy running around the tower. You just watch Tuck not take it for Billy. Billy goes flying. Shrapnel. And from the top of the tower, the wind is particularly powerful.

You basically come out on the roof of an apartment building, like of a skyscraper, the very top of the elevator lets you out here. And like Gandalf in that part of Lord of the Rings, you're on the very top in the open air and the wind whips around you and the clouds are dark and storming. You have a moth that you wake from. Yeah, totally. Yeah. I do want to like call out, reach out to A4 and get his attention. Yeah. How do you do this? I want to use my magic. Yeah.

I want to use my life symphony to try and calm the storm above me to be able to quiet the moment and reach him. So 2d6 plus con. Great. Ooh, 12. Okay. Excellent. Yeah. So you reach out and the winds around you, Billy and Tuck, you feel this as well. The winds stop whipping you as violently. Ving's hair kind of like calms and settles. A4 looks to, yeah, huge like creak as his head turns and you see him. Yeah. You see him as his head turns in your direction.

A single beam of light falls upon this silvery form of Elryd. The lights, the clouds part a finger as from the heavens touches the top of the tower finding me. Ving reaches a hand out towards A4. Keep going. A4 reaches back. Mm-hmm. Takes a big breath and you see a fours body also take a breath and it shows that we are, um, paired again. Yeah. Like Ving and a four have been bonded. Ving is responsible for a fours, uh, creation basically.

So we see this connection has reestablished in the quiet of the storm. Yeah. And then Ving, uh, looks up to the storm and so does a four and then reaches, just thrusts a hand up into the clouds above as a four does. And, and it's like a swirling, crazy windy mess. And I want to use elemental mastery to try and attack the birds who are encroaching on the city with the lightning of the storm. Awesome. Yeah, that's sick. 2d6 plus constitution, six plus two. I got eight, eight. Okay.

So on eight, you choose a couple, I think you choose one option. Uh, the effect I desire comes to pass. So I don't pay. I, I, I don't avoid paying nature's price and I don't retain control. Okay, cool. So I think nature's price in this case is straight up damage, much like Billy feeling the, the fury of the storm. You're going to be rolling a D 12 five. Uh, and you take five damage as you, uh, see a bolt of lightning from the storm descending towards you and catch it in a hand.

Oh, channel it through your body and redirect it into a, a Thunderbird that dives out of the clouds. That looks sick. That's fucking rad. And it spirals through the, and I think this is what, uh, the, the lack of control is it spirals through the sky and like slams into a building on the ground. Oh my God. The rib palace. And you can see a sign that says all you can eat ribs arcing through the air to smash on a rock. Oh, delicious smelling destruction.

And in a thousand languages, the people of high spear scream in agony as they see the rib place destroyed and the Thunderbirds see one of their own brought low by this powerful figure on top of this tower. And they turn their attention to you. He flexes his lighting bolts. No control. And down on the bottom floor, Billy, you are running, completing your circle and you see like a Thunderbird crash down in the city below you. And, uh, tuck, you see a spray of debris.

It's flying through the air towards Billy. His, his fairy rings almost complete, but he is in danger. So slow. It's a big tower. It's a big tower. Yeah. It's very rocky. It's rocky terrain. It's not even. It's rocky terrain. It's rocky terrain. It's rocky. And cardio's not the best. It's not great. Like Ireland. Yeah. At the end, you're just walking slow. Like, fuck, this looked great at the start. I have cramps and pain on the back and front. Billy's 200 meters from completing the circle.

He's like, you know what? I can't do it. All right. Here we go. Here we go. I guess I will. How many fucking hit points do you have, Billy? Oh, I have 15. I'm good. Fucking fuck, Billy. Shit. You still have defend. Yes. You got two more hold, which means you can have it and redirect it to yourself. I, wait. Oh, shit. You can do both. I did not know that. I didn't know that. You can choose as many as you want. You still don't have to do that. I want fucking, fuck, Billy.

Fine, fine, fine, fine, whatever. I just want you to get all fucking shriveled up. Don't make me fucking do that again. I just want to be a warrior for once in my life. Fine. I have the damage and I do not tank it for Billy. Roll it. D12. Fuck. You're holding the umbrella. Three. There you go. One and a half damage. 1.5 damage. But it, does that round up or down? Uh, I think it's up, unfortunately. So it is two damage. Uh, but yeah, talk. You smack a toilet out of the air.

At least you don't get hit by the toilet. I, I take the ax, slice through the, the, the toilet and it is from the rib place. Slices in half and then like the two halves separate perfectly and a ball, of shit. Billy. Cause I do damage. I do have the umbrella. So it doesn't hit me. And so Billy gets hammered by this ball of shit for two damage. But as he skids to a stop, much like a little league player going for home, he reaches out his hand, slides, and completes the circle. Safe.

And you feel the protection, uh, fall into place around the tower. And as you do so, the rumbling and mo and groaning in the tower that you've heard to this point hits a more harmonious state as will leads work below is completed. And you see, this is true because the crystals in the city, you almost see like, Oh, like almost invisible trails of ozone reaching out to the crystals. They've fallen, grabbing them and bringing them back into place. Immense.

These, these immense crystals floating back into position around the high speed. And they continue their gentle arc. There's a guy on one. Oh my God. And as you see this guy arcing through the sky, you hear what the fuck is going on. Language. But that is where we're going to end the episode for this week. I'm your game master, Sean O'Hara joining me as always Tacoma dome, the barbarian, a dual Aziz. You're going higher. Jump, jump before you get too high. I'm not jumping. What if I hurt myself?

Oh, I've heard that plenty of times before. Just look straight down. Just look straight down. I mean, they're going to have felt drew and Paul offers. It's a trust fall here. I'll throw you a lightning. Billy, the Appling thief. Jessica tie. I stretch out my body. Like just land on me, bro. Okay, here we go. Oh no, I missed. I overshot it. May it be the evening. Splat. I'm going to go. There's a woman. You'll find it. Thank you finally, and most of all, to all of you for listening.

We'll see you next time. And so ends the tale of Adventures 3 Who tried the best they can Though dumb and scared and lost they be For time's abreast in revelry And though our journey may be like a conclusion We will not leave you without a resolution Return next week to hear some more Whilst you commute or do your chores And for you I'd gladly spell dawn