Ep. 5: Enter the Drift (The Neverthere: Archie and the Android)

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Bruce (00:00):
Nother realm is real play Dungeons and Dragons podcast

(00:02):
where in Bruce that's me Tannerand we'll try to make dumb jokes
and a compelling story. Some ofthe content within will not be
for children. But if thatdoesn't bother you, then here's
what happened on the lastepisode of Nother realm.

Tanner (00:15):
I will offer you a bit of a boon, if you will, magical
browsers, but in return for afavor.

Will (00:24):
I don't have much experience but I do know that
favors can be kind of a bigdeal.

Bruce (00:30):
Like I said, I don't like it, but I'll go along with it.

Tanner (00:33):
Luckily nearby right off the road you do you see a cabin.

Bruce (00:37):
I punched the door.

Tanner (00:41):
You come in and doors does What does not does not
knock. Doors work.

Bruce (00:47):
Alright. Let's go then.

Will (00:50):
We're specifically looking for the Leylen Ruins

Tanner (00:53):
of a soccer. sprinter runs. You are currently getting
closer to who you now cancertainly tell are the black
hold collective. The Onyxcompany is out here.

Bruce (01:04):
What kind of signal would you like to use?

Will (01:06):
Just say alcohol.

Bruce (01:08):
Nice. I got a bit of alcohol and we'll share it

Will (01:13):
dark.

Tanner (01:15):
You can see there are some jars that seem to have some
organic looking material insidethem. They're relatively small
inside this kind of blue goop,which looks familiar to you six
Professor Malko

Bruce (01:28):
I presume? Right? Well, you

Tanner (01:30):
see that is a need to know basis and you

Will (01:33):
think we need to know.

Bruce (01:34):
So here's how far from me

Tanner (01:36):
he's probably cleared another 10 feet. Go alright, and
swing. Alright,

Bruce (01:43):
and as I do so I say well, six it looks like he's all
guy.

Tanner (02:25):
USA inside the tower, you went up to a couple fights.
And now you found a guy workingon some stuff. You got his name.
It was Professor Argo malcaught. And he's like, the hell.
And you're like, We're the newguards. And he's like, cool. Why
do you sound familiar? And nowhe's walking forward and I need

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you to roll initiative.

Will (02:49):
Nice. Let's go.

Bruce (02:52):
Already swung?

Tanner (02:53):
You did you're gonna get a surprise round. Okay, yeah.
Yeah, it's still gotta rollinitiative. But like, surprise.

Will (03:03):
He wrote in that 20 surprise. Yeah. All right. I
wrote a tin

Bruce (03:12):
I wrote, I wrote an 18.
Okay.

Tanner (03:16):
So, Archie, you've taken your great axe and you're taking
just a straight swing at thisdude. This middle aged guy.
Scholarly don't act like he'sdefenseless. Yeah, you're you're
swinging at him and he realizesit but not quickly enough to
stop you from doing anything. Sogo ahead and roll that attack.

(03:38):
Please sir.

Bruce (03:41):
There's a 17 hit. Yeah, okay.

Will (03:46):
He's just a dude look this guy.

Bruce (03:53):
I hope he is just a dude cuz then he's gonna be a dead
dude. Alright, five damage

Tanner (04:01):
damage. Okay. You take your great axe and Argo realizes
it's coming just too late andyou slice him across his fine
scholarly robes causing it tobreach and showing some skin
you've made contact and done alittle bit damage to this middle
aged scholar who's just tryingto research it tower man

Will (04:27):
is thinking he's not just a Middle East scholar trying to
research

Bruce (04:32):
of course he's always he's a bad guy from I know
because I'm a bad guy.

Tanner (04:35):
Okay, you know, he's bloodied Lee has he has

Will (04:39):
blood I can't got more than do this dude is okay, we'll
see. Let's go.

Bruce (04:46):
I have more intense HP. I have five times that and I'm
only allowed to say

Will (04:50):
this. crazily. You do not have 50 HP.

Bruce (04:54):
I have no five times the damage

Will (05:00):
I cheated Bruce.

Bruce (05:03):
Now if I max my I mean, I'm pretty close to Max, I would
actually be

Tanner (05:08):
as bad. Like, stealthily start adding HP to this guy.

Bruce (05:13):
No, no, no, my. Yeah, my Yeah, I wouldn't do that 2828
would be my max level 209

Tanner (05:21):
So you're just three off. That's cool. Okay, so Argo
will stop his approach towardssix. And you can see him start
muttering and moving his handsabout and this magic begins to
manifest around him this sort ofCrystaline magic shield appears

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and he readies himself tocontrol I

Bruce (05:46):
raged. So technically he took seven damage Sorry.

Tanner (05:50):
Okay, that that happens and then the thing that I just
described happens he cast Mm hmmright let's go.

Bruce (05:54):
Not much for getting killed by somebody's
experiments. I hear a smirk.

Tanner (06:00):
Sideways smirk appears on his face. Right. It's now
Archie's turn.

Bruce (06:07):
Oh, he just put up a magic shield. Is he still within
melee range?

Tanner (06:11):
Yeah, he did not leave.
Okay, cool.

Bruce (06:13):
I reserve my turn to attack if it appears as if he
is. He is doing somethingoffensive

Tanner (06:18):
as in a hurt that will hurt your sports or something. I
agree. Yeah, exactly.

Bruce (06:22):
I can't take that kind of.

Tanner (06:24):
I don't want that

Will (06:24):
on my nah, whatever. Six has to smell. I don't think it's
a nose.

Tanner (06:29):
olfactory sensory.

Will (06:32):
Chip. Yep, that one. Go.

Tanner (06:35):
Alright, so you've reserved your action?

Bruce (06:37):
Yeah, he's uh, yeah, he's got some whimsical bullshit
surrounding him. I'm not I mean,I'm a bad guy. But I'm gonna
stupid bad. It's

Will (06:43):
good article that six can tell what you ate for the last
three days from your farts. So

Tanner (06:47):
it's not. So Archie, Archie reserved is now you've
reserved an attack action towhen he does something offensive
to either of you. Okay, cool.
Then now we move on to six six.
What do so

Will (07:02):
am I an experiment?

Tanner (07:06):
He'll look over to you and raise an eyebrow and cocked
his head and say, well, we couldhave it's too late for
conversation now.

Bruce (07:19):
I'm offended I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm
just kidding. I'm kidding.
Totally kidding. But I had I hadto say it's great.

Will (07:30):
To be fair to my partner, Archie, and I know this is
probably I'm just gonna usetoilet second. I'm gonna use my
talking as my action. I don'tknow if I want to swing on this
guy. So I'm just gonna I willuse a bonus I will talk as an
action is that okay?

Tanner (07:44):
Good say concisely say what you want to say all

Will (07:50):
my friend Archie knows that the we know that the people
came from this place now becauseyour guards released robots into
okay this is more than sixseconds.

Tanner (08:04):
It really is I just I can't he's keeps letting you
keep going and that was youcalled it that was your action
so go and finish what you wantto say.

Will (08:16):
We know that the robots released in the in Leylen came
from here because of

Tanner (08:22):
Yeah, and as you finish that statement A blast of cold
air erupts from his raised handsas he whispers another spell and
you are smashed by a cone ofcold while these things happen
simultaneously go ahead and giveme the attack roll

Bruce (08:39):
Oh and another total of 17 Yeah let 10 damage go okay,

Tanner (08:50):
so I need both of you to make a constitution saving throw

Will (08:54):
the constitutional good at okay,

Tanner (08:57):
what is your what are your rules?

Bruce (09:02):
I got a 16 Oh, very nice.

Will (09:04):
I haven't rolled yet hold on constitution save to 1515

Tanner (09:10):
Very nice both of you save so you will take 17 damage

Will (09:17):
what Oh, some team baby.

Bruce (09:24):
Now seems about right spells hit hard. Hit hard bro.
Even even like level two likeKona cold hits pretty fucking
hard and five years. All right.

Tanner (09:34):
And then he will look over two of you and say oh, that
was I woke me right up. How areyou feeling?

Bruce (09:46):
I swing okay,

Will (09:47):
it is her not

Bruce (09:50):
natural 29 out of 26 damage.

Tanner (09:57):
Oh that's nice. Nice.
Nice. Nice. Oh So

Bruce (10:02):
I feel just fine mate.

Tanner (10:05):
You bring back your axe, and you sweep it across the
floor making sparks come off it.
As it scrapes against the stone,you come up and cut into his
side, you can see that it does avery deep gash in his left side
and he is he's looking bloodied.

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At this point, he is a bitwinded, kind of looking at the
damage that you've done, andtries to re bolster himself to
regain some of his confidence.
But that is where that stands.
Can you do anything else?

Bruce (10:37):
I six it'd be good if we could use a little bit of your
assistance right about now.

Will (10:41):
Don't worry, I've got it.
Alright. So six is going tothis. This did not go the way
I'd planned. kind of wanted totalk to you. But I understand
the situation we're in. Ichanneled divinity and give 10
hit points to Archie. And I'malso going to use healing we're
on Archie. Okay, and then I'mgoing to run away. Because I

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have very little influence. So10 points goes to Archie, that's
how much your max HP is 25.
Right? So I can give you all1024 24 Okay, well I can I can
give you all 10. So Healing Wordis one of the four plus one plus
my spell casting modifier plusfive. So you get up another

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910 10 hit points I just showedyou 20 hit points. Cool. So and
then six is gonna get us the allof his movement to get let's
just say 30 feet away from thatguy.

Tanner (11:43):
30 feet away. So this room, I never got the chance to
describe this room. So I'll giveyou a little bit more imagery of
what you can do in here. Theroom is 40 by 40. With two
shuttered windows that areclosed, one exit down the
stairs. There's the Bunsenburner setup with various
powders and liquids on the tablebehind Argo and two are and
quite a few large unlit lampshanging on the walls between

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various they kind of seem likethey could be war forged parts,
but not fully constructed atthis point. But yeah, that's
what you're working with. So ifyou're going to try and go down
the exit, or get farthest away,you can go into an opposite
corner. But right now everyone'skind of in the center of the
room. The best way to getfarther away is going to be down
the stairs.

Will (12:24):
And just for the people listening just so we're all on
the same boat. We're saying thatwe took a short rest even though
we never officially announced itbecause

Tanner (12:34):
when you leveled up I mean Sade. Subash the aura of
St. Sebastian.

Will (12:38):
Doc got

Tanner (12:39):
it filled you with health.

Will (12:42):
We never announced the service. I just don't want
people to be confused because Iuse my channel divinity in the
last battle, but I get it backin short wrist so we're good.
Yeah. Okay. Yep. All right,sister. I guess I moved to where
the stairs are I move out intothe stairs.

Tanner (12:58):
So that's only about 15 feet away from you. If you want
to get if you want to go downthe stairs you can

Will (13:02):
I'm gonna go down the stairs and I'm gonna play look
out and I say, Archie, I got youback. I swear I'm not running
away. But I'm also I also knowthere's people coming down from
down here. So I'm watching out

Bruce (13:12):
I think

Will (13:15):
what? What people okay, we know there's people behind us,
like Strickland in them.

Tanner (13:20):
Oh, right. Yeah. All right. Yeah, fuck. Okay. Yeah.
Thanks. Okay. Then we are backto the top of the order with
Argo. He will look over himself.
And look back up at you, Archieand ask. So it seems as if we

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have both proven a little bit ofpoise in this situation. What do
you say we do talk him downthere. But you seem to make the
decisions.

Bruce (14:01):
Well, Mike, here's the problem. I'm perfectly fine now
and you're not. So here's whatwe're going to do. You're not
going to do any funny wagglingwith your fingers, or any funny
whispering or I'm going to clearyour head clean off your
shoulders. You can agree tothat. Yeah, sure. We can have a
bit of a discussion.

Tanner (14:22):
What are what's your immunities during rage?

Will (14:28):
Slashing bludgeoning is not immune Jesus just
resistances just yet justbasically to the physical stuff.

Bruce (14:36):
He's trying to figure out how I can fuck my world. So

Will (14:41):
he is 100% Look at his face. Right look at his stupid
face. He's doing he's doing it.

Bruce (14:47):
How will strike to egg the DM on to kill me. Hear that?
He's trying to Okay. Let's go.
Alright. Um,

Unknown (14:56):
so Argo will do

Tanner (15:01):
We'll look at you you can see this this glow coming
start to come from his eyes ashe begins whispering smack

Will (15:08):
it's not your turn

Bruce (15:11):
his head off. Hey, Tom.
Oh taught.

Tanner (15:14):
We've I was very lenient with the coaching so far. Okay,
this is what happens. He doestalk and you do listen, as he
says, sit and wait. And I needyou to roll. Give me a wisdom
saving throw. I said, Okay. Yousit, and you wait, and he looks

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down at you. And he nods withoutmaking any sort of dickish
comments like at first poppedinto my head. That's not him.
And he will begin walkingtowards the stairs. His hands,
he will bring down to a side andhe says hello, sixth. Hello. Now
you see,

Will (16:00):
how do you know my name?

Bruce (16:02):
I

Tanner (16:03):
know great many things about you six. And you seem to
have found yourself in someinteresting company and adjust
your back over to Archie

Will (16:12):
or He's very nice. He's my friend. Good.

Tanner (16:16):
It's good to find friends when you're different.

Will (16:22):
I'm different. Oh, wait.
It was the last

Tanner (16:27):
eight hours. We're good.

Bruce (16:33):
Well, I was I was I was really lucky. That's eight
hours. That's all I gotta say.

Will (16:39):
Yeah, that was funny to watch. Bruce was sitting county
with his fingers. Okay, let's goahead.

Bruce (16:46):
Archie was also doing that. He's still doing actually
doesn't know how long it'slasting.

Tanner (16:54):
Yeah, you said it's good to make friends. You responded
with some stuff? Look, I'mcertain that you have a fair
number of questions, but I'm notcertain that now is the time to
answer them. Because you see,you've sort of put me in a bit
of a predicament that I'mguessing the guards down at the
bottom floor are dispatched of

Will (17:15):
a barbed one on the head.
With my mace

Tanner (17:19):
Does he still breathe?
Yes. Oh, that's nice. Very good.
Is it? Is my life all

Will (17:26):
human? Yes. I try not to kill them. But when I try to
interrupt them, yes. What am Isaying? What was going on?

Tanner (17:35):
What? Okay, right.
Listen,

Will (17:40):
that.

Tanner (17:42):
Do you think we can trust your friend to keep a cool
hand in this matter?

Will (17:46):
Oh, absolutely not. Nope.

Tanner (17:49):
You could certainly you could certainly talk. He didn't
say

Bruce (17:52):
no fucking chance. Yeah, old bastard. Yeah, no, I guess
God. No fucking old bastard.

Will (18:00):
He's definitely my favorite human that I've met so
far. But not cool headed is notone of his traits.

Tanner (18:07):
Right. So listen, there are a fair number of things that
could be done at this juncture.
I could completely in both ofyou very.

Will (18:18):
I'd rather you not do that.

Tanner (18:20):
I'd rather I'd not do that at this point, too. You're
too precious to me six. Huh?

Bruce (18:27):
Here's the question. If you were precious to him, was
your head in a fucking bag? Thatdoesn't make any sense.

Will (18:33):
Yeah, and do you know brother cancel trying to find
him? He brought my head

Tanner (18:41):
Alright, so which question Do you want me to
answer first brother Ganzel?
Brother Ganzel brother ganzes afucking thief. Oh, next
question.

Bruce (18:52):
Sounds likely for the man over here make an explosive
robots to kill town people. Theydon't explode. Notice how he
didn't avoid to killtownspeople? Oh shit. I

Tanner (19:03):
wasn't I fixated on the one part. No, they also weren't
did they did not kill anyone,did they?

Bruce (19:10):
They sure as hell tried.

Tanner (19:11):
They did not to because they also didn't injure any
townsfolk. Now if anyone triedto stop them from doing what
they were doing, then bothered

Will (19:20):
storehouse folk.

Bruce (19:21):
And they definitely injured him. Definitely. Ah, and
they definitely destroyed hisforge that I had to save him
from.

Will (19:29):
Absolutely. Ah. All right,

Tanner (19:31):
well, that was a little unplanned. I haven't really
gotten the soul fusioncorrectly. It's sent it out in
the Utica.

Will (19:39):
Well, what were those? You use two words in conjunction?
That doesn't make sense soul andfusion.

Tanner (19:48):
Yes, it's when you fuse a soul to with you have
forgotten so much. Oh. Know whatelse to say there?

Will (19:59):
Why But I guess I'm explain.

Tanner (20:06):
I would honestly love to explain more, but I'm certain
that there is something to besaid about information overload
six. And based on what we'vedone in the past. I, we, you and

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I,

Will (20:28):
whoa, do I get any memories from that?

Tanner (20:31):
You get a flashback.
You're a baby.

Will (20:34):
I can assure you this is my first time meeting you.

Tanner (20:37):
I can assure you it's not. There are a fair number of
things that I would like us todiscuss and figure out, listen,
I am. He snaps his fingers andyou can feel you're freed from
the suggestion, Archie. I'mgoing to trust that you're not
going to come up and fuckingwhack me again with an axe. Owl

(20:57):
by the way. Because we have alot of pressing, things to
discuss

Bruce (21:03):
depends on what you do next.

Tanner (21:06):
I'm going to calmly walk over to my desk and take a look
at some things.

Bruce (21:18):
All right, then the x stays for now. Great.

Will (21:22):
I'm watching you.

Tanner (21:24):
Well, I wouldn't. We've been talking I don't expect you
to actually look in any otherdirection.

Will (21:29):
I looked down the stairs.

Tanner (21:32):
That also hasn't changed. ADHD is just a fucking
thing across all spectrums, Isuppose. And he begins walking
over to the desk and unravelinga few scrolls. You can see him
looking through some parchmentsand some of these scrolls, catch
your eyes as you're looking atit. And both of you can see
these. They're like maps withlines of multi colors, like

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these magical lines streakingacross them. And what looks like
to be glowing runes on thesesame things. There's like a few
scrolls that have these scriptsthat you don't recognize. And
then he ends up coming to oneparticular scroll that he pushes
aside for a moment and then doesa double take as he's looking at

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it. And he looks back at both ofyou and says I have are there
have you noticed anything oddvery odd on your way here?

Bruce (22:34):
You know my I got out of the clinic about five days ago
and everything I've seen is odd,

Tanner (22:39):
right but I mean like it's dreadful. Ooh, rangy What's
up Rangi Reggie says

Bruce (22:45):
a goblin who can guide you through the split Anlin Oh
no, not

Tanner (22:48):
so not not not the No, no, it's

Bruce (22:50):
not your robots getting they're not robots, your
whatever getting brutalized byguardsmen in a town because they
are tacking townsfolk

Tanner (23:01):
with those didn't have souls.

Will (23:03):
I've never seen the earth quite move like it did in the
splinterlands I've but that's myfirst time to the splinterlands

Tanner (23:09):
That was quite a quake but wait, he begins flipping
very quickly through some ofthese other scrolls he lands on
a map and you can see thispurple line coming down that's
arcing across it but you aren'tclose enough to see what it's
doing and he is tracing thisline with his eyes and you can
begin to see beads of sweatappear on his brow

Bruce (23:31):
while we're waiting live

Will (23:34):
well your heartbeat is increased and your your you got
water coming from your forehead

Tanner (23:40):
All right you're correct on both accounts you don't have
a heart rate monitor Idefinitely have God's fucking
kids not It's not you don't

Will (23:48):
also have soiled yourself.
What's what's happening

Bruce (23:52):
being that was me oxide nothing to do what is already in
right now.

Tanner (23:55):
I'm really being I have not replicated or urinated
inside my clothing. I am quiteand you drink vodka

Bruce (24:07):
that's me. You smell alcohols?

Tanner (24:10):
I am I'm 15 years sober.

Will (24:14):
Oh, it must be Archie Archie gross. I

Bruce (24:16):
just said it was me and him. Can we move forward now?

Tanner (24:20):
There is there is something making its way here. i
i And you can see like, colorstarts to pour from his face as
he seems to get more worried.

Bruce (24:36):
I know that's not my fault. You're not losing that
much blood.

Tanner (24:40):
Can No, no wait. He starts flinging some of his
vials and stuff around and hepulls out a red vial pops the
cork up and knocks it back andyou can see like his wounds
beginning to coagulate some.
That's a bit better look.
Alright, so there is somethingcoming And I should it might not

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be coming here we we could beokay. And then you can see the
lanterns on the wall begin toglow with this faint purple
light. And he says, oh fuck, no,that's the vicinity alarm and
they begin to get brighter andbrighter. And you said, that's,
that's not right. Something withthat power shouldn't unless he

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begins to trace his finger backacross the parchment that he's
looking at. And if you two gotcloser you can see it's a map
and you can see that there's afaint line trailing from his
finger but the brightest pointis getting ever closer to that
looks like the location of theLeylen Ruins and he traces his
finger all the way back to theend of the faint line, which

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begins at the closest mountainrange. And he says something
comes from the jailbreak withgreat haste.

Will (25:59):
Huawei the jailbreak mountains that's not where we
were, is it the opposite

Tanner (26:02):
outbreaks mountains are to the or to the east,

Will (26:05):
to the further east. Okay, it's like further into the
continent. Okay, so where wecame from was wound hole which
is on the west. Yeah, that's

Tanner (26:13):
a canyon. There's the mountains got.

Bruce (26:15):
Alright, so you've got a fancy colorful map that lights
up and says things are coming.
What does that mean?

Tanner (26:21):
It means two things.
One, something that I'muncertain of what it is, which
is wild is on its way here. Itcould have been the massive
trimmers that have traced acrossthe splinter lens that we
haven't had in decades. But Idon't know how that could have

(26:44):
gotten something calledsomething from the veil break
that makes no sense.

Will (26:52):
And in the veil break

Tanner (26:55):
I've mountain dwarves I don't know it's right on the
edge of of basically no man'sland and then to farther east is
Eema vest the land of the desertelves so there's there's there's
not much that I know of in thein the jailbreak mountains other
than mountains.

Will (27:14):
Should we run

Tanner (27:17):
at the speed that it's going? I don't believe that
running is an option. I believewe must prepare to defend
ourselves.

Will (27:26):
While using my canonical heartbreak heart rate meter, I
can tell that you are serious.

Tanner (27:31):
roll roll for heart, a heart beat my heart monitor

Will (27:39):
that's the 69 days. What do I add to it?

Tanner (27:41):
Nothing. You certainly think you have a heart rate
monitor. Okay.

Will (27:51):
Maybe we should go out to greet it. That

Tanner (27:58):
Well, I suppose there's no better thing to do.

Will (28:02):
I can tell you that there's also the Do you are you
aware of the black holecollective?

Tanner (28:08):
Yeah, they're fucking assholes.

Will (28:11):
They're almost here. Oh,

Bruce (28:13):
you know what? Just for that. I'm sorry. I hit you in my
axe because they are so

Tanner (28:17):
like, Everyone Everyone knows that. But okay. Ah,

Will (28:21):
heal him. I use I use a Cure Wounds. Okay,

Tanner (28:24):
you heal up the last bits of them. You can see his
wounds. Basically, the bloodcoagulating and not continue to
drip. He looks better.

Will (28:31):
That's two of my spell slots. But I think that I want
to see I'm hoping this guy's onour side. It seems like,

Tanner (28:39):
Look, I I think we abandon all things here and make
our way down. If you'd like togreet this. How powerful is it
and the purple lights on thewalls get brighter and brighter
until the glass around thembreaks. That's, that's not

(29:01):
normal. That's a very that's notnormal. And he begins to
hurriedly walk down the stairs.

Will (29:08):
Can I look at the line on the map again, before I will see

Tanner (29:11):
a lot of faint traces of lines. As a matter of fact, you
can see a very, very faint linecoming from the direction that
you came in across the splinterlens beneath the wound.

Will (29:24):
Well, I know how close is that one is it looked like
they're going to arrive at aboutthe same time.

Tanner (29:28):
No, it looks like that's already here.

Will (29:32):
Oh, oh, was that our line?
Are you saying that's our line?
Or is it

Tanner (29:37):
it's a single line like okay, all right. Well, that's
fine. I roll it roll our cannon.
You can roll Okay.

Will (29:43):
That's a 10 on dice was to 12.

Tanner (29:47):
I mean, across this map, you do see a lot of faint lines
kind of moving. Most of them arejust dots really? In little
sections. But yeah. Okay,

Bruce (29:59):
I'm gonna I'm gonna look around the area before going on
stage and see if there'sanything I can use as a
improvised explosive device.

Tanner (30:06):
There's a lot of liquids and powders on the table he was
working on next to the Bunsenburner setup.

Will (30:11):
Okay, well, while he's looking for that I do before I
get off this map, is there anyother really bright lines? Or is
this the like, biggest brightestlight bullshit love

Tanner (30:20):
this, this, the purple line is the absolute brightest
thing on the map, and you cantell where it is. And it's
getting really close at thispoint. By the edge of it being
the brightest, the point of it,that is near Leylen ruins,
there's a few other bright, notnearly as bright but brighter

(30:42):
than most other things off inthe region of EMA VAs between
the two mountain ranges on themap. And a few larger but not
brighter lights off far to theeast.

Bruce (30:58):
I just I begin to collect random things.

Tanner (31:01):
Okay, go ahead and roll.
What would you roll for justtrying to put together some
things? Oh, I was

Bruce (31:08):
gonna say I assume that we just wait until I use them
and just roll it and see ifsomething. Yeah,

Tanner (31:13):
you start you start just pouring stuff in a single glass
container. And like all thisstuff begins to swirl together
these powders and liquids andyou just have you have this one
nice, large cork bubble vial ofliquids.

Bruce (31:31):
Yeah. All right. Cool. So something has got to explode.
Yeah. Well, Randy's

Tanner (31:37):
got explosive downstairs.

Will (31:39):
That's right. So

Tanner (31:42):
yeah, that's what you're able to put together. That's
what able to see on the map.
Professor Malik hot has gonedownstairs, you can hear him his
issues clicking in stairs as hecontinues to descend? Yeah,

Bruce (31:52):
I'm gonna follow. Okay.
Come on six. Let's get out ofhere.

Will (31:55):
I don't see a better course of action. Follow as
well.

Tanner (32:00):
Okay. All right, the two of you, with your improvised
liquid bomb head downstairs, andyou meet up, you individually
catch up to Professor mount cut.
Down at the bottom next to theentrance, he is looking around
frantically and trying to see ifanything's on the horizon to the
east. And as the three of youlook out in that direction, you

(32:21):
can see this, it almost lookslike smoke. But it's strange, in
that everything that's in itdoesn't seem to be obscured by
the smoke, but just seems to notexist when it's engulfed by this
sort of inky moving substance.

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And it's, it stretches across adecent distance, you probably
think the better part of 100yards wide off in the distance.
And it sort of undulates, andit's approaching at a rapid
speed, which is kind of hard totell based on its mass, but you
can just see it getting largerand larger. And you're thinking

(33:07):
it's because it's getting closerand wider.

Bruce (33:10):
Olga, is that is that the thing? That is

Tanner (33:13):
something I have never seen. But it must it must be
well,

Will (33:20):
what before whatever that is gets here. On a scale of one
to 10 How would you rate ourinteraction today?

Tanner (33:30):
You've taken forms and done it into this for your
person. I think God I guess putwe know now that personality
doesn't change between thetransference. Fantastic.

Will (33:42):
Oh, you knew me before this. Was I a fan of forms?
Because I'll do like forms.

Tanner (33:49):
Yes, it's it was incredibly annoying. Everything
was a checklist off form of thisis not the time. That thing
which is now kind of formed intothis much smaller but pinpointed
mass that is just coming at youincredibly quickly. And Argo

(34:10):
begins like weaving his handstogether, you see forming like a
fireball in between his fingers.
We must throw. Here's theproblem with incredible,
incredibly powerful entities. Itcould be good. It really could
be. But why is it coming herethis quickly?

Bruce (34:32):
What is it? What was it after?

Tanner (34:35):
That's a good question.
I've got no clue.

Bruce (34:38):
So hold on. Let me quick summary. There's a large
powerful entity, blisteringtortoise and you are researching
it but you have no idea what itactually does.

Tanner (34:47):
I'm researching things like him. I'm building this and
he pointed six.

Bruce (34:53):
All right, then why do you know what this thing is? Or
had a map for it?

Tanner (34:56):
I've just got an icon From the I've come from the
college. And I Yes, there arethere are there are spells that
have been cast on that map foryears and years to be able to
trace particular powerfulentities. It's a sign of
warning, and it's attached tothose lights to go. Ding ding,
get the hell out of here beforesomething comes in, kills you.

Bruce (35:21):
All right, then. One second. Hold on. I gotta look
for Ranji.

Tanner (35:27):
Okay, you go look. Yeah, Randy is on the remember, he's
on the edge of town, you couldtrace your way back to him, it's
gonna take you 10 minutes to getthere and back.

Bruce (35:37):
Out didn't realize it was that far. It will

Tanner (35:40):
10 minutes total, so wouldn't be 20 minutes total.
But yeah, it'll take you forlike five minutes to get on the
edge of town.

Bruce (35:45):
What if I run.

Tanner (35:48):
If you're going at breakneck speed trying to get to
the edge of it. You couldprobably cut it down and half
the time. So you could probablymake it in five minutes there
and back.

Will (35:56):
But that thing is going to be here within five minutes more
than likely this way, the way itlooks if we can already see it.
And it's coming that fast.
That's my guess.

Bruce (36:04):
No idea what we're going to try it because I need
something that goes boom. And Idon't know if this does.

Tanner (36:08):
Okay. Go ahead. You you take off. And

Bruce (36:15):
I don't even explain myself.

Tanner (36:16):
Mathcad goes what?
That's so much for character, Isuppose.

Will (36:21):
I'm sure he has a plan. He would not abandon me. We're best
friends.

Tanner (36:26):
You've haven't even known him for more than a day.

Will (36:28):
Best friends.

Tanner (36:31):
Alright, so another check off the list. The concept
of friendship apparently isrewritable.

Will (36:39):
So does that mean that Archie and myself are not
powerful enough to show up onyour map? You would have been
warned of our presence.

Tanner (36:47):
I would have been. I am wandering the lights warn me to
look at the map to try and seethe things that are powerful
coming in my direction.

Will (36:56):
So we don't set up the lights dim? No.

Tanner (37:00):
I'm sorry. One day I will set off the light. Like I
Yes. I mean, I know. I knewwhere you were. You are on the
map. Really? Well, I don't Ihave to have a tracker on you.
It would have only made sense toGanzel came in. It's fine.

Will (37:18):
Look, I have so many questions.

Tanner (37:21):
I will and I will answer them after we take care of this
entry points off in the distanceand this thing is now probably a
quarter of a mile away as it isbarreling towards you. It seems
to be like a wave undulatingover itself crashing down. You
can't see anything behind it soyou don't know what effect it's
taken on the land. And now we'llgo to Archie who has gotten to

(37:44):
the end of town and you can seethere Rangi is winding up in a
cartoonish fashion. His arm witha bomb as the black hold
Collective is now using the timeof stillness across a splitter
lens to make their way closerand closer.

Bruce (38:04):
raunchy don't throw that disregard don't do it. I'm still
running. Disregard. Don't do it.
Okay.

Tanner (38:14):
You make your way up to him. And he's like, You look so
disappointed.

Bruce (38:18):
This Dory will throw something bigger. I just grabbed
him. I just like like, like asmall child under the arm and
not fit on. The big block thing.
That's what we're gonna hit.

Tanner (38:34):
Go ahead and give me contested strength contest.

Bruce (38:36):
Okay, isn't it so strength save.

Tanner (38:41):
You can give me athletics. Let's just drink
contest, just real strength andadd your proficiency.

Bruce (38:45):
Okay, I got a 19 on the bass. So Oh, yeah,

Tanner (38:48):
no, you pick it. You pick up with these ends, like,
I'm just I'm trying to breakinto his voice while still
talking with mine. He instantlygoes limp. Like, like a cat
does, but it doesn't want to bepicked up. And he's like, Oh,
I'll shut up. each other canburn well, okay, the area around

(39:09):
him could have gotten burnedbecause it just dawned on him
directly just melted southernfall to their death.

Bruce (39:16):
Well, you added that last part on there, but sure, it'd be
okay. Trust me. Just just justjust hold on to the promise.

Tanner (39:22):
I've done this. I've done it up. Bam.

Bruce (39:24):
I absolutely do that.

Tanner (39:28):
We'll go back over to six. Look, if there is anything
you want to know, I can explainonce we're free of whatever this
is now with as bright as theline was and what it was doing
to the lights. It's going totake all of us to try and stop
it. If we were to flee. I don'twait. They could be attracted to

(39:51):
something I've been Why would anentity have that power and wants
something that I've been workingon? It makes no sense. I'm the
is only there's only a fewpeople that know that I'm doing
this and none of them that Iknow of could have control of a
something like that. Especiallynot coming from that location.

Will (40:09):
Honestly, I am more confused now than I've ever
been. And I was ahead in a bag.

Tanner (40:18):
I had had a whole body for you. It was

Will (40:22):
really? Yes. Is it here?
Yes. Well, can I have

Tanner (40:25):
it? No, it isn't. It's not sadly, it's actually still
back at the colleges back inCasta Haven. I wish I had it. It
would have come in handy.

Will (40:38):
By go to Castor Haven, I get a nice body.

Tanner (40:41):
Yes, if we make it out of this I you guess Yes. You
must come back with me to CastorHaven. If we make it out of
this. It will we'll be able to,we'll be able to go back to the
way things were and solveeverything and figure it out.

Will (40:55):
Only if my best friend Archie can come as well.

Tanner (40:58):
Fine. I don't care, the more protection we have while
moving across the better and hedoes kind of seem the criminal
sort. Is he going to make itthrough guard checkpoints?

Will (41:09):
Oh, probably not.

Tanner (41:12):
Right? Well, I can I can handle that. That's fine. And
then you look off in thehorizon, this thing is very
close. At this distance, onceagain, you cannot see anything
the trees and the ridges in thehills that it passes by, you
cannot see into but it doesn'tlook like it's smoke obscuring

(41:34):
these things. It just looks likethese things just aren't there
anymore. And by this point,Archie is is almost back to

Will (41:43):
you. From your perspective, is the whole thing.
The entity or is somethingcreating this smoke. I can't
tell.

Tanner (41:57):
That's a that's a very astute question. I'll go ahead
and roll.

Will (42:06):
It's a 14 on dice plus five perception baby knighting.

Tanner (42:10):
Okay. As you look into this thing, it moves
organically. The parts of itthat seem to be moving like
organic looking,

Will (42:24):
smoke is moving or get like it looks like it's not
really smoking or something.

Tanner (42:29):
Well, it seems to like be moving as one entity, right?
Like it's not like smoke movingoff it it seems to be this one
thing. Moving over the hillsorganically like, you know. Like
it has a mind and a movement andemotion to it. It has weight
behind it and intent. It issentient. Seems that bikes are

Bruce (42:56):
sentient.

Will (42:57):
Yeah. I explained that to Argo. And I said, you know, at
this moment, I would suggestthat we ran. But I don't think
that's going to help.

Tanner (43:08):
Oh, we probably would have run 100%. But if we do
happen to make it out of it. Wecan pick up where we left off.
It would be a beautiful thingsix.

Will (43:20):
Huh? You never answered my question on a scale of one to
10.

Tanner (43:25):
And now you start to hear it. This thing moving is
this. This the End of soundsilence washes over from that
direction. And it's just thiseerie lack of wind or anything
as it moves in this direction.
And Archie you make it back withthe little goblin in your arm.

(43:50):
And Rangi is still he's he'sholding his bomb in his hands
and he looks off to the east andsees this thing and his eyes go
wide and you can feel him tenseup. And all of you are standing
there facing this thing that isbarreling towards you. I'm not

(44:10):
going to ask you for any sort ofinitiative. I just want to know
what you're going to do.

Bruce (44:19):
I set Ranjit down and I say see these big vile I'm gonna
throw it you start you bombafterwards

Tanner (44:28):
Hassan bomb looser but you survived my throat bomb.

Bruce (44:32):
Exactly. Ron G

Tanner (44:34):
thought we're in this flow to probably

Will (44:43):
right? Oh God, what can I do? Alright, I'm just going to
cast guiding bolt on it at thesame time to do on this. I'm
going to I'm just going to useguiding bolt.

Tanner (44:59):
So you're preparing guiding bolt you can see that
Argo is forming a fireball inhis hands. You think it's going
to be this bell? Fireball?
You're welcome.

Bruce (45:10):
Because it's a fireball.

Will (45:11):
I specifically would like to cast guiding bolt before they
throw the bomb actually, becauseit gives them advantage on
attack rows.

Tanner (45:19):
Okay? You'll have to let them know that.

Will (45:22):
Let me go first. That's what I said. How

Bruce (45:23):
about all right go

Tanner (45:27):
as this thing approaches because you were you were
looking so intently at it beforesix. You can see almost a
humanoid figure for a split,brief moment. appear right at
the the front of it, and thenit's engulfed by the rest of

Will (45:46):
it. Okay.

Tanner (45:48):
Okay. All right. So go ahead and roll your guiding bolt
attacks, because I'm assumingthat's an integral.

Will (45:57):
It is. And that's a 1414

Tanner (46:00):
All right. Yeah, this thing is pretty big. So you send
a guiding bolt straight down atit, it pierces about where you
saw the figure in it and you cansee the guiding bolt become
swallowed by by the entity as hestarts to slow a little bit on
its approach. But you releasethat and it hits

Will (46:26):
do they Does it get any effect? Do I need a roll damage?

Tanner (46:30):
You don't? You don't know. But go ahead with it.

Will (46:33):
Okay, I will roll damage.

Bruce (46:36):
When we say silence Are we talking like like a silent
room? Are we talking like? Yeah,like kind of silent?

Tanner (46:43):
Oh, well, okay. No, it's like the absence so like, yeah,
like sound doesn't project fromit. So yeah, like a like a
completely enclosed soundproofroom.

Will (46:53):
So I actually did 18 damage to it and and if it has
any effect on anything, thenthey then Bruce would get
advantage on his throw here tohit it.

Tanner (47:05):
Okay. It did go into it.
It did. Air quotes hit it. Soyeah, everyone else can old
stuff at the bench.

Bruce (47:14):
Cool, because otherwise I would have loved one. Okay.

Will (47:19):
In the Bob lads, he whips

Bruce (47:22):
I guess like a 19 hit.

Tanner (47:24):
So you just you hurl your modified liquid bomb,
explosive. Hopefully, as youthrow it. arco looks up and
goes. What the fuck was that? Inits sales towards this thing.
And then right after you throwRangi hurls his little bomb off

(47:46):
at it. And Argo is sittingthere. He continues to form his
fireball as it gets larger andlarger preparing to launch it
out. As you throw this, you cansee that it's a perfect arch
towards it. And Randy's bomb isflying closer and closer right
behind it. And Rangi Rangi saysthis big berm and it explodes

(48:15):
right behind yours. And yoursshatters. And you can see this
multicolored mist fly out andthat ignite forward. As soon as
it does. Argo sends out hisfireball. And all of this
multicolored flame is split, andthen gets pulled in behind the
fireball in towards this thing.
And you don't see any indicationof the light from it after it

(48:38):
reaches. This thing continuestowards you. And before it's
about 30 feet from in front ofyou. You hear off to the side.
The yells of Strickland, who isjust pissed. You can see he's
got some pieces of his armoroff. still picking a few spiders

(48:58):
off of him. And he says, Youpieces of shit caused us to
almost fall in Skinner is morepissed than I am and what the
fuck are you doing?

Bruce (49:19):
Not to be rude, but it's not really the time.

Will (49:24):
I completely ignore it.
I'm just watching these thingseven helped. Okay?

Tanner (49:30):
Once all these things went in, you can see it starts
to kind of shift and changesdirections. It's going back and
forth, kind of like the head ofa snake slowly moving forward.
It's engulfing parts of theruins now and is very close. You
feel as it stops that it sensesyou and somehow rears back this.

(49:55):
This inky blackness and lurchesto Ward's Oliver Strickland
amidst his yelling finally looksover and sees this mass coming
and his eyes go wide and hestops himself. I need all of you
as this thing barrels towardsyou to roll me a dexterity saved

(50:19):
to try and dive out of the way.

Bruce (50:21):
Thank heavens I get to manage on that nice

Will (50:27):
is it does it happen to be poisoned?

Tanner (50:31):
Know what you got

Bruce (50:36):
not natural, Tony. Nice.

Will (50:38):
I'm pretty sure I'm dead

Tanner (50:40):
for four. Okay. As this thing is barreling towards you.
You can see the bit of it upfront come to a point at this
point you can kind of see thetrail behind it. You can see
that it is it does come to anend it's not just this endless
black mass. What's happened tothis stuff behind it as you dive

(51:02):
over arching you can see thatthe landscape is untouched there
is the hills and the trees andeverything off in the distance
still remaining. So whateversort of silence effect has
happened seems to be locatedonly in it. You are able to move

(51:24):
out of the way as is ranginghowever, six as you attempt to
move something inside yousomething catches it's
relatively nuisance to you atthis moment. It is fear. And

(51:45):
this thing crashes into

Will (51:49):
before it does I look to I look at Archie says this should
be interesting.

Tanner (51:55):
And then

Bruce (51:56):
I'm trying to like figure out I'm trying to I'm really
trying to figure out this wouldbe because like Archie is a
criminal but he's not a coward.
I don't know if he would diveout of the way that's the only
thing.

Tanner (52:06):
I mean, it's it's it's a barreling black mass coming
towards you. It's just no Yeah,absolutely. It's like
instinctive. It's like a white

Bruce (52:12):
flag. That's what I thought but I just I'm just
like,

Tanner (52:16):
and in that same moment.
Professor Argo mascot is alsocaught in this thing crashes
into him. And then instantly,Archie thought crosses your mind
and says, Why did I come herealone? What was I supposed to
find in the tower? And why am Ilooking at this thing? You look

(52:40):
over to your side at the goblinthinking this is the I came by
myself across the splinterlandsto find something that some guy
in a town is like I'll give yousome money for and now you're
just here with a goblin was thisa smart move?

Bruce (53:03):
i What was your name again?

Tanner (53:08):
You know you remember arranging? Okay. You just you
have no recollection ofProfessor Argo Malka or six what
are the only things that you'relooking at right now? Are the
goblin besides you? Who is yourbomb throwing buddy Strickland
and the onyx company and theirguide across this module and so

(53:30):
you hate and this entity infront of you that is undulating
and twisting and seems to be itsmass turning to face knew what
thought goes through you're

Bruce (53:45):
not a hero should play to here and I should have left
fucking Claire to die in thisworkshop.

Tanner (53:51):
And as you say that this thing comes barreling towards
you. The only thing that you cando as it why he's off in front
of you. You think maybe in thismoment you can save the goblin
next year.

Bruce (54:08):
Kick Rangi out of the way.

Tanner (54:12):
You basically rear back your foot and through Spartan
kick Rangi out of the waybasically back beyond one of the
the rubble walls in thedirection of the Onyx company.

Bruce (54:26):
I just I just my coat afterward as I stare this thing
in the face,

Tanner (54:30):
okay. Without any fear.
This thing rushes into you andthen it's nothing. Wait it got
Archie to got Archie to

Will (54:44):
Oh, nice campaign guys.
I'll see y'all next.

Bruce (54:48):
We're level two and it's a massive entity. What makes you
think I'm gonna get away fromit?

Will (54:51):
Yeah, luckily Hold on.
Luckily I rolled anothercharacter. I'm happy to
introduce Sasha Grey. Wait, waitblocking Forestar Nother Why are
you doing? Nother Thank you,man. Yeah, dude probably is.
That sounds like such a pornstarto Jesus Christ. That's cut.

Tanner (55:13):
No it's not no it's not

Will (55:17):
suck it's important your wife to listen to.

Bruce (55:22):
Right kid,

Tanner (55:23):
but they then are of all fucking

Will (55:26):
names I could have done it. Yeah,

Tanner (55:28):
but it was certainly de related like, like Johnny sins
or something.

Will (55:34):
Yeah. Because there's so many names like, I can't think
of any other pornstar name rightnow.

Tanner (55:41):
Like it was quite a few years ago. Let's go. Okay. Yeah,
so you to feel this cold rushthis sort of dread as everything
you know is ripped away fromyou. You can't feel the ground

(56:01):
beneath your feet. You cannotfeel your extremities your heart
rate seems to not exist you feelunnatural. And your senses are
tossed around in this sort ofundulating motion ebbing and

(56:22):
flowing like like the waves asyou're in this. It's not
darkness. It is nothingness. Itis the expanse of the universe
where things forgotten, tend tojust drift away into
nothingness. And then you canhear something off in the
distance something that maybe ifyou tried hard enough you could

(56:45):
get closer to it's the sound ofwaves gently washing along the
shore. Just a slow motion ofsmall whitecaps as they crest
across sand. You can follow itor you can drift away

Bruce (57:10):
yeah, I guess I'll go towards the sound

Will (57:15):
I mean, I'd like to follow it I'm curious it's very curious

(57:55):
Hello, dear listener, it's meagain will aka the voice of six
and I'm here to thank you forlistening to episode five of our
very first campaign than everthere. If you want to find out
more about the world of your setand the continent of Lear, you
can find a bunch of nerdy worldbuilding info at Nother
realm.com Our next episode willbe released on Monday, September

(58:18):
the 26th. I'd like to take thisopportunity to tell you to

Bruce (58:23):
think you're doing you're doing it without me. I told you
not to do this without me. Oh,

Will (58:28):
Archie, I thought you were away.

Bruce (58:32):
Oh, you think I'm stupid.
I'll show you the differencebetween dogs and wolves don't
get out of my face. Now, for mybrother's loves and dogs out
there. This is it. We all knowswho you came here. And if you
could go to the review sectionof the streaming service in
which you are listening to andrate my wonderful performance
that would be perfect. And ifyou don't, I'll be doling out

(58:55):
another lesson about wolves anddogs.

Tanner (59:40):
The two of you. Do your best to pull some semblance of
movement together without anysense other than the sound this
emotion that you feel trying tofind something and you edge
closer and closer to the soundof the way moves. And
eventually, as the as thenothingness begins to dissipate,

(01:00:04):
it turns into this sort ofdreary Gray. The sky is this
looks like it's about to rain,that sort of feeling where the
clouds are slowly rolling in,and you eventually can't see the
sunlight anymore. And you caneventually see the source of the

(01:00:25):
waves. And then you realize thatyour bodies are here standing on
top of water. The waves are justthe the slow motion of the
water. There is no wind here.
But there was just anyone

Will (01:00:43):
else. No,

Tanner (01:00:44):
it is just this gray that we can't even see each
other. Oh, you can you can seeeach other. And you can see,
Professor Melkite actually ishere as well. He got caught.
You're just in this endlessexpanse of waves and gray sky,
and water and gray sky.

Bruce (01:01:03):
Can we see ourselves as well? Like I like yeah, you're

Tanner (01:01:05):
aware of your body? You can you can see you feel that
you don't feel normal justbecause of the place that you're
in. But like you, you can dowhat

Bruce (01:01:13):
Yeah, I just want it because you were saying it was
like nothing. I just wanted tomake sure like, we're not just
some floating cocktail. And

Tanner (01:01:19):
as you as you reach the waves, and you know this area,
have you you've basically cometo consciousness in this area
after being

Bruce (01:01:28):
my check I just my my coat again.

Tanner (01:01:32):
It's completely fine.
And actually, any damage thatyou might have taken recently is
not there.

Bruce (01:01:39):
Okay, cool. So the things that the glyphs or the Greeks
did to my coat is also fixed.
Yeah.

Tanner (01:01:45):
You not only do nice, not feel like exhausted or
tired, you don't really feel anysense of tiredness, or you could
almost spell slots, but youdon't you don't know.

Bruce (01:01:58):
I looked down at that golden symbol or whatever that

Tanner (01:02:02):
that is still there.
That is still there. Yeah, asyou try and get a sense of like
your spell slots and stuff, youryour spells, your magical
abilities. Six, you don't reallyfeel like there's any sort of
connection to magic, you justfeel like you're just here.
You're just here, you don'treally feel like any connection
to any sort of energy. Like ifyou were hungry before you're

(01:02:25):
not now if you were out ofbreath or exhausted before you
certainly aren't now youactually, you know, just are.
Are here, you're just here

Bruce (01:02:37):
is my x also just here, your x is everything that you
were carrying is also listed.
Don't take that out, becausethis is fucking weird.

Tanner (01:02:45):
Yeah, you take it out.
All right, I

Will (01:02:47):
guess I try to talk to everybody then. Can I talk? What
do you say? Okay. I told youthat would be interesting.

Bruce (01:02:57):
I mean, it's actually a little bit blind if you truly
wish to describe it.

Tanner (01:03:01):
This is very bland. I mean, if you're into the kind of
endless ocean gray skylandscape, then I suppose it's
not so bad.

Will (01:03:12):
Some times bland can be interesting.

Bruce (01:03:16):
When? Right, I suppose.

Tanner (01:03:19):
Oh, okay. Yeah. All right. No, you you got me there.
Through all of my knowledge. Ihave no knowledge of this. So
we're standing on water. You'restanding on water.

Bruce (01:03:33):
I bend down and I tried to put my hand through the
water.

Tanner (01:03:36):
Yeah, it goes down into it. And as you're looking down
into the water, you can see whatlooks to be figures of people.
Elves, Orcs. halflings. Dwarvesjust floating beneath the waves
unaware of your presence.

Bruce (01:03:56):
Gentlemen, have you tried looking down recently?

Tanner (01:04:01):
Yeah. Okay. See the same thing?

Will (01:04:06):
Question outside of game.
Bruce completely forgot who wewere. And now he's seemingly
knows who we are. Correct. Okay,I did not.

Bruce (01:04:17):
Remember, yeah,

Tanner (01:04:19):
I guess I should say this. Aren't you? You remember,
both six and Professor Argomalcode. Once you see them
again. You You remember themoments before you were taken or
engulfed or whatever hashappened. And you can remember

(01:04:40):
like the split second of of notremembering them.

Bruce (01:04:44):
You guys know who I am, right?

Will (01:04:47):
You're my best friend Archie Archibald Theodore
Cromwell.

Bruce (01:04:51):
So apparently the effect only happens on the outside or
whatever the hell this is. Whateffect? Well, when you two were
taken for split second I forgotyour complete existence.

Will (01:05:04):
Oh, that is interesting.

Tanner (01:05:06):
Was there? Was there any bit like what did what? What
happened?

Bruce (01:05:12):
You were taken for whatever. And I sort of had an
existential moment about why Iwas sitting in dirt next to a
goblin with a giant, black, Inkymass about to consume me, it's

(01:05:35):
kind of odd. Don't much thinkabout things like that. Argo,

Tanner (01:05:40):
he, his face is stuck as he appears off into the
distance. Clearly thinkingtrying to piece together what's
happened here. As you do lookdown beneath the waves. Again,
these figures don't take any,there's no indication that they
see you. And you can even seesome of their eyes are open

(01:06:00):
peering upwards. But they kindof are just just floating seems
there's some currents downthere, there are some that are
drifting lower than the others.
Just people beneath the waves,and you can you can reach down,
but if you tried to reach itdoesn't seem like you could ever
reach any of them.

Bruce (01:06:21):
Gotcha. So my handle will go under the water, but it seems
like they are just very, veryfar.

Tanner (01:06:26):
I mean, they're not.
They both they just seemunreachable. Right. Like, it's
this weird feeling of, you know,they could be close, based on
you know, proximity and size.
But like, they just seemunreachable.

Bruce (01:06:41):
Gotcha. Okay, so they're always like they're always just
out of reach. Yes. Okay, gotcha.
Yeah.

Tanner (01:06:49):
So yeah, Professor mal Cox looking off into the
distance and then you hear thisvoice, and it sounds like stones
rubbing across each other. It'snot really like a human voice or

(01:07:11):
a humanoid voice like somethingorganic. Just like just this you
scraping noises that seemed tobe deep and still making words
understandable words

Will (01:07:24):
sound familiar?

Tanner (01:07:26):
It does not sound familiar. Um, you know what? Let
me let me say what it's gonnasay and then I'll let you know
how that feels. You hear thevoice say
interlopers in the drift. Youshould not be here yet.

(01:07:50):
And you see a shadow begin totake form nearby. This one
unlike the thing that engulfedyou outside does seem to be
purely shadow. Something thatyou can see it's partially
transparent. Something aboutthis humanoid finger figure.
Something about this humanoidfigure fills you with this

(01:08:12):
existential dread and yet youfeel as if you know them like
their dear friend that you justhaven't met yet.

Bruce (01:08:25):
We weren't supposed to be here yet. And why did you drag
us in here?

Unknown (01:08:31):
Was not me.

Will (01:08:34):
What is your name?

Tanner (01:08:38):
It laughs in this this again. That's the grading of
this sort of stone sound it isvery unnatural. It says

Unknown (01:08:52):
all show going to know me in their tie. I am then
charged with the final tasks.
When the last life across alluniverses sinks beneath the
drift. My task will be complete.

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And I shall rest.

Will (01:09:17):
Nice to meet you there.

Bruce (01:09:19):
I know what you are. Oh, yes. Yeah. No death, Archie.

Unknown (01:09:25):
I am known by that and quite a few universities. Yes.

Bruce (01:09:32):
That explains why we're not supposed to be here.

Tanner (01:09:35):
You can feel this. Like you can sense this figure is
nodding. And it begins to walkcloser.

Will (01:09:43):
So how did the three of us leave?

Unknown (01:09:47):
No one has ever escaped the drift. Why should you be any
different?

Will (01:09:55):
That's a good point. I don't know that I'm special. But
I will like to leave. I stillhaven't found out my whole story
yet.

Unknown (01:10:05):
Every one is special.
You are special. And most peopledon't know the end of their own
story.

Will (01:10:15):
Wait, if everyone is special, how am I then special?
It

Tanner (01:10:23):
chuckles again

Unknown (01:10:28):
is a question that I think you must answer for
yourself in time if you are toodrift off to another plane of
existence.

Tanner (01:10:43):
And it continues to get closer to we hit him

Bruce (01:10:48):
where I'm just waiting to see what Argo does too, because
he's here.

Tanner (01:10:52):
Argo does finally, after staring at this being for a
minute listening. If it is notyet our time, then why can't we
go? And death will respond.

Unknown (01:11:17):
That is a good question. But if I were to let
you go, or if there would to bea way out, that could be the end
of the mortal realm. It coulddestroy the balance of
everything.

Bruce (01:11:39):
Okay, Archie's gonna squint at death, and he's just
gonna be like, you know, makeI've been living my entire life
on borrowed time. I think I'llkeep doing that. I think I'll go
find a way out there.

Will (01:11:51):
If there were to be a way out, where would you begin
looking?

Tanner (01:12:00):
This laugh echoes throughout the area.

Unknown (01:12:05):
I wouldn't begin looking inside yourself. Or I
suppose myself where I have tobe in your shoes.

Will (01:12:16):
I opened up my panels.
Didn't get around if

Tanner (01:12:21):
you open your panels and a few chess pieces fall out.

Unknown (01:12:25):
Oh, I have heard those stories in other universities. I
do not play games.

Will (01:12:33):
If I when you let me out.
It's worth a shot.

Bruce (01:12:39):
He said he's walking towards us, right? Yep. slowly
walking

Tanner (01:12:42):
towards you. He's probably about 20 feet away.

Will (01:12:47):
Alright, six sits down and starts thinking

Bruce (01:12:50):
okay. It starts walking towards death. Okay as
embodiment of death.

Tanner (01:12:54):
As you walk forward.
You're currently Argo iscurrently between you and death.
And you can see his handsflicking behind him and the
sparks of something flutteringup in his hands behind his back.

Bruce (01:13:11):
Oh, he can do whatever you want, son. Yeah, that's
fine. I just said, as I'mwalking towards death, I just
say Archie just says, I was inmy entire life not knowing if I
see my next meal and the nextday, it's not going to change
now. I'm not afraid of you. Inever was.

Unknown (01:13:30):
You shouldn't be. I don't know where this thing came
from that you should be afraidof death. I am a friend
escorting you to the next plane.
That is all. I don't take life.
I just asked one life to anotherform.

Will (01:13:55):
Can I roll an insight and see if I could understand you
know what he meant by lookinginside myself?

Tanner (01:14:02):
Yeah, go ahead roll inside.

Will (01:14:06):
nonplussed to know what that means. 514 14

Tanner (01:14:10):
what you gather from that is, you know, he wasn't
talking about escape he wastalking about leaving and
leaving this place doesn'tnecessarily have to mean going
back to where you came from. Itcould be to go on to whatever
the the next thing is.

Will (01:14:31):
So Resistance is futile.
We can't escape. There is nopoint in fighting you I would
assume.

Unknown (01:14:46):
There is never a point in fighting the end.

Tanner (01:14:52):
And as death says this Argo shouts a spell and he was
spreading fingers out in frontof them. You can just see this
these arcs of playing goingtowards death as Argo runs at
it, and he passes by you Archieand looks back and says I'll

(01:15:15):
hold him back as long as I canescape and find Cantelli but
Ganzel find Cantelli and deathwill raise its arms and grasp.
With Argo seemingly in some sortof struggle with him as much as

(01:15:36):
you think death might strugglewith a living being well,

Will (01:15:39):
it's clear direction I just I take off running in the
opposite direction of Archie

Bruce (01:15:48):
we're not done he just kind of turns around with his
hands and his hands up like hedidn't know what the fuck is
going on? Because it's justendless glass any direction

Will (01:15:58):
and is there a wall that I can see?

Bruce (01:16:04):
Right it's just endless glass. It's just water
reflecting clouds. Yeah, justendless glass.

Tanner (01:16:10):
Yep, you could you could stay that is a choice that you
can make if there is an

Will (01:16:16):
end I'm going to find it thank you for this kindness
argue.

Tanner (01:16:20):
Why are you still talking fucking run?

Will (01:16:23):
I'm saying that as I'm running. Okay. I speak perfectly
because I'm not winded. Robot.

Tanner (01:16:29):
Yeah, well and you don't feel winded? Even if you could
in here

Bruce (01:16:34):
to get I'm trying to figure it out why? Like I'm
trying to figure out why Archiewould feel like in any way shape
or form worried right nowbecause he literally has lived
his entire life on borrowedtime. So it's like okay, I don't
know. I don't know that he wouldrun that.

Will (01:16:49):
I can't do this alone.
Archie. Come up like 60 feetaway at this point. Yeah,

Tanner (01:16:55):
this is this is entirely a decision to make you could
stay and and see what happensand you could try and fight
death you can do whatever youwant to do. Whatever you want to
do. You're gonna bruise

Bruce (01:17:08):
dude, I'm sorry. I got my character was

Will (01:17:12):
just waiting to see all taters keeps you Okay?

Bruce (01:17:15):
Wait, how do I just see oh Tanner flings me out of this
world I don't want to make ithard but like you know,

Will (01:17:23):
you're not sorry I'm not trying to dissuade you

Bruce (01:17:30):
Okay, I gotta think for a second

Tanner (01:17:31):
if I from our first time actually playing when I started
DMing and you just completelyfucking sacrificing a character
because of the primeval that wasattached to it. I don't expect
you to run from jack shit bydude.

Bruce (01:17:44):
Okay, cool. Cool. Cool. I just wanna make sure I'm not
like screwing No,

Tanner (01:17:48):
no. Like if you if you feel if if six saying that to
you, makes you think makesArchie want to try and escape
then that's fine if you want totry and fight that that's fine
if you want to just watch theinevitable happen as Argo tries
to hold off fucking theuniversal form of death, then

(01:18:09):
that's fine too. But again,fucking fighting off.

Will (01:18:14):
You said the way you say biting off fucking the worst.
Like

Bruce (01:18:24):
he's gonna give it to death.

Will (01:18:27):
Give a death about it. Get

Tanner (01:18:28):
it all speaking of Sasha Grey. Jesus Christ.

Will (01:18:34):
I'm so bad that I said that name of all names. I was
just trying to think of a name Icame up with Sasha I was like
what goes up Sasha? Oh, great.
Book be right.

Bruce (01:18:46):
Okay, yeah, here we go. I got it. I know. He points is
he's gonna kind of point his axeout at death and he's just gonna
say sweat me whole life runningfrom you. Every day, every
second. Not knowing if you wereclosing my yields are far away

(01:19:07):
by dialing the warmth of a nicehome in front of a nice hot or
cold goddess or the street.
Don't run. You're gonna get meyou're gonna get me. So so be
it. And he turns and he juststarts walking away.

Tanner (01:19:22):
Okay, yeah, you start walking across the waters and
you don't look back. You canfeel the presence of death and
the struggle that another livingbeing or maybe living being is
having. But you feel no Chase.
And you walk in the samedirection as six, six as you're

(01:19:43):
running away. You You don't feelany sort of cowardice or
anything by doing this. It isthe natural course of life to
try and escape death to continueliving and it will What What are
your thoughts like? What? Whatin your mind? Would you seek? In
a place like this? Would youseek refuge? Would you seek some

(01:20:09):
sort of door a portal a gate?
Would you seek someone who mightknow something here? There's
plenty of people or beingsfloating beneath the waves. What
would you seek here to help you?

Will (01:20:26):
I think I think that he has a pretty one track mind, the
only thing on his mind isCantelli. To tell you something,
or somehow in here, he wouldlook at he would just do that,
but really what he's searchingfor, and the way he thinks he's
gonna find his way out is he'sjust going to find the edge of
this thing. First through it.
That's what he's that's whatkind of like, the glass is just

(01:20:47):
gonna appear in front of him, hejust rams into it. That's why
he's running full speed.

Tanner (01:20:53):
Okay, give me a straight D 20 rule. Nothing added just to
D 2013. All right. You continuerunning and as you have the
thought of finding the edge,your foot connects with a step.

(01:21:13):
And you find that after a fewmore steps of your own, you are
ascending and is building isbefore you that really wasn't
there before it didn't justappear, it just seems as if it
was and now you are climbing thestairs. And now you can take a
moment. You can either stop andtry and take in what it is or
you can continue ascending.

Will (01:21:34):
Stop and look to see if Archie's following me because I
haven't you know, felt himrunning beside me or anything.

Tanner (01:21:41):
Yeah, as you look back.
Archie is actually not that farbehind. Even though it was quite
a few moments for him to makehis decision and slowly walk in
you were running it at a sprint.
He's not that far behind at all.
And in the distance you don'tsee either the entity of death
or professor Argo Malka. Soyeah, that's what you see of our

(01:22:06):
gene. As you take in that momentto look back, you turn back in
front of you. It's this largewhite stone building with
massive columns holding up theroof up front. It seems to be
made of this marble. Everythingis polished and smooth. And it
doesn't seem to be on any land.

(01:22:27):
Nor does it really seem to befloating the waves slowly and
gently crash against its sides.
No sign of erosion. On thisthing that seems to probably
have been here for a long time.
The stairs lead up into an opendoorway, that it does seem a
little dim inside. You reallycan't tell what's inside though.

Will (01:22:49):
Oh, well. Hey, Archie, I'm very glad you decided to come
start walking up the steps.

Bruce (01:22:58):
Okay. All right. He didn't really say anything. He
just kind of shrugs and just ascode as he's walking, okay.

Tanner (01:23:07):
You adjust your coat and follow six up the stairs. And
six as you reach the top of thestairs, and your eyes sort of
adjust to this, this darker areayou can see inside is lit by
sconces along the walls, and allover even without going through

(01:23:28):
the doorway in front of you. Youcan see paintings inside along
the walls. And Archie, you endup walking up besides six and
you can see the same thing. Itseems to be you're on the
outside of some sort of gallery.

Will (01:23:47):
What are all the pictures?

Tanner (01:23:50):
Okay, you go inside and do you look at pictures. There
seems to be like these sort ofclassical style paintings. They
depict a great number of things.
But in this section right at theentrance seems to be the same
person or people in each ofthese paintings, and it seems to
kind of trace a lifetime throughall of these. It's a winding

(01:24:15):
gallery here and you couldfollow it back and in the
middle. As you trace throughthese areas, you can see there's
a Dyess in the center and inthis Dyess there is a closed
book underneath a glass dome.

(01:24:35):
And all around are just thesepaintings of this one life. And
if you follow them and whatseems to be the order from the
entrance to towards the back ofthis building, it seems to trace
the life of this man. This thiself as he ages and goes through
life experiences and at the end,he dies and you can see in the

(01:24:56):
last painting the shadow ofdeath Reaching out it's hand
towards this elf. And that's thelast painting in the gallery.

Bruce (01:25:07):
Was the book have anything written on it?

Tanner (01:25:09):
There is nothing written on the cover. What is there is
just this big circle. So thisbook is this large, leather
bound tome. It's this blackleather and in the center is
just this large silver circle.

Bruce (01:25:27):
It's got a glass cover over it

Tanner (01:25:29):
as a glass cover over.

Will (01:25:31):
Do we recognize the elf in the paintings?

Tanner (01:25:34):
You have no idea who it is. The glass cover seems like
you could just

Bruce (01:25:40):
say that. Archie walks right up to it. And he basically
just got almost with disdainkind of just push it off of
being around this book. Yeah,no, no, no care for it at all.
Like he's his impatience. Andhis his impatience is beginning

(01:26:01):
to show through, okay.

Tanner (01:26:03):
You basically take your hand on it, and you feel like it
rotates over and sinks back intothe Dyess and you see the book
there. And then you hear a voiceoff kind of coming from one of
the shadows up nearby. And thevoice says I wasn't done with

(01:26:24):
these yet.

Bruce (01:26:25):
I picked the book up.

Tanner (01:26:29):
I'm like, you could you could you can flip through the I
wasn't done looking at theseyet.

Bruce (01:26:38):
Looking at what, okay, I look for where the voice is
coming from.

Tanner (01:26:42):
You look up in the direction that it's coming from
an on top of one of theDecorative columns nearby. You
just see a child sitting upthere seems to be a human child
and common clothing. He has aclean cut black hair. And he's
just sitting up there kickinghis legs, like children do when
they're sitting on a chairthat's too tall for them and

(01:27:04):
touches the ground.

Bruce (01:27:06):
Well, I mean, you weren't done with it yet.

Tanner (01:27:08):
Well, this is this is the first elf and I just thought
this was a cool one. And youknow, like I'm I like these of
all the ones that I've lookedthrough. I like these the the
best so far. I mean, there'stons apparently but these these
somehow comfort me a little abit I think.

Will (01:27:31):
Who are you?

Tanner (01:27:34):
Oh, I'm, I'm My name is Navarre. Who are you?

Will (01:27:41):
I am six.

Bruce (01:27:43):
I'm just kind of glancing around the room seeing what I
see.

Tanner (01:27:47):
Yeah. Again, it's just these these paintings depicting
apparently the first elves life.
Like if you trace back from someof it, it's got magical events,
it's got all these thingshappening. A lot of the
paintings are filled with theseamazing colors. A lot of them
are large moments in thisperson's life. But some of them
are just dull and dreary andnothing happening. Some he's
reading a book in front of afire and just, you know, doing

(01:28:09):
benign normal stuff.

Bruce (01:28:15):
I still don't understand what you mean by you're not done
with it?

Tanner (01:28:18):
Well, if you if you open the book up, and you select the
name, you get to see theirpaintings.

Will (01:28:27):
My name is six. And this is my friend, Archie. I open the
book.

Tanner (01:28:32):
Okay. The child jumps down and lands on the stone
floor and says it's nice to meetyou. I mean, I've been here for
a long time. So yeah, it's up toyou can have a turn. That's
okay. I'm sorry. For trying totell you that I can always find

(01:28:53):
the name again. It's fine. Youopen the book. What do you flip
to? You see, this just lists ofnames upon names. There seems to
be no order to them. They're notalphabetical or anything. It's
just names.

Bruce (01:29:04):
Okay. Yeah. All right.
Yeah. They're just names and

Tanner (01:29:09):
are you searching for one in particular?

Bruce (01:29:15):
Well, so Okay, so, I think what Archie probably would
do here is he'd probably lookfor like some of the old people
who used to run with okay, thenpour it way worse, but we
haven't really set that tone. Soplease do.

Tanner (01:29:28):
Let's set that tone.

Bruce (01:29:29):
I think I'm gonna look at Argos name because he went in an
interesting way. Okay. It'sgonna make more sense. You

Tanner (01:29:36):
flip a couple of pages.
And there you see the name. Mostof the names are in black ink on
this paper. Argos name iswritten there in silver. And as
you see it, you both here thisshifting. It sounds like paper
flying across each other. Andall these paintings, rearrange

(01:29:57):
the numbers of them The way thatthe walls were were formatted
before with the painting of theElves, or the paintings of the
elf. They kind of seemed toshift against each other. And
now you can see back from theentrance, the life of Argo
malerkotla, it starts off withhim being born in his parents,
arms. A few events of him as achild, you know, studying things

(01:30:21):
you can see at a young age, hewas very astute as he observed
animals and, you know, was alittle too brave on a few
experiments and hurt himself. Ashe got older, you can see him
going to Castro Haven, the magecollege that's on an island
nearby, the capital city ofVelia. He's getting on a boat,

(01:30:45):
you recognize port waivers to goout to cast your haven. And then
a few paintings later back inCastor Haven on a boat,
traveling the world andeventually making his way with a
few people, you recognize thesame people in each painting. So

(01:31:05):
he kind of has this group offriends that he's traveling
with. And he makes his way off,exploring and studying things
and he gets older. And as heapproaches sort of middle age,
you can see him in this oneperson working together in these
labs. There's one person that'skind of appeared since since
Castor Haven. And then paintingsof him meeting the two guards

(01:31:28):
that that were outside andworking in the tower right
before. Right before the end.
And unlike the painting of theelf before, the painting at the
end of this is this wild mix ofpaints and colors. It seems to

(01:31:49):
be like you can almost makesomething out of it very
impressionist. But like there'sthese these forms and figures
that it just it doesn't lookright. It doesn't look like if
there was a painter of thesethings that they were in their
right mind at that moment whenthey were trying to paint this
final one

Bruce (01:32:06):
got. Is the person who's working with him clearly
depicted? Yeah,

Tanner (01:32:12):
yeah, the person that's working with him is clearly
depicted.

Will (01:32:16):
Yes,

Bruce (01:32:19):
I do. I let I'm waiting.
I wait for six to make

Will (01:32:22):
us see

Tanner (01:32:23):
all these paintings. And the child Navarro will say, Hmm,
well, this is is a pretty normalone. That into painting is
really I've never seen thatbefore. I've looked through a
lot of names and I've never seenthat one before.

Will (01:32:40):
Your to the pictures of the person he's working with and
just look at them. Okay, what doI get from that?

Tanner (01:32:48):
You don't recognize the other person in this. The only
real standout feature here thatI will describe to you is a
moustache. But I would like foryou to describe everything else.

Will (01:33:05):
What did we say I was

Tanner (01:33:07):
my ELF you can be whatever you want to be.

Will (01:33:10):
Okay. So well do you

Tanner (01:33:12):
want that? Do you want the mustache?

Will (01:33:14):
Oh, yeah. Okay, the mustache is great. Okay, let's
let's keep the mustache so it'sa it's a very dorky looking dude
with glasses. But he does have anice like, straight up. Bert
mustache going on. Oh, BurtReynolds mustache going on. It
looks I mean, it's not quitewhat's on his face right now.

(01:33:36):
But he's about six footsomething six foot one. Just
normal looking dude, veryskinny, very pale. And just a
just a overall dork, disheveledhair. Like a darkish, brown
colored, disheveled hair goingon there and just kind of like

(01:33:56):
has that. absent mindedProfessor look.

Tanner (01:33:59):
Okay. As you take in this image of this person here,
it's these weird synapses beginfiring in your brain unit.

Will (01:34:10):
That's these are you human, by the way, here's a
human okay.

Tanner (01:34:14):
There are these sparks of recognition, these these
things these something in you istrying to tell you something,
some some emotion, some feeling.
You, you know, you know thisperson, you know you. You saw
them a lot. You know, you sawthem? Maybe every day, you know,
maybe maybe you knew them. Maybeyou knew someone that that

(01:34:40):
didn't know them. Maybe you sawthem all the time in the mirror.
Maybe it is. Maybe it's yourreflection, maybe. Maybe this is
you. And all these things areflooding your mind and then the
cacophony have voices that spoketo you before sing out again.

(01:35:01):
And this time Archie, you canalso hear them and they say seek
truth above all else so you cankind of express what you what

(01:35:22):
you feel they don't say anythingelse.

Will (01:35:26):
I've certainly learned a lot about myself today. Can I
see that book?

Bruce (01:35:32):
Sure, friend, Archie hands it passes it off to him.

Will (01:35:37):
I look for Archibald Theodore Cromwell.

Tanner (01:35:41):
All right, you flip a couple pages. And they're in
silver is Archibald TheodoreCromwell. And as you look at the
name, the walls once again kindof begin to shift to to best
display these paintings. Youhear the fluttering of paper
against each other and all thepaintings rearranged to show the

(01:36:02):
life of Archie. You can see hischildhood in the slums of
Portway worth some incidents ofhim running into the law as he
got older, finding a group ofpeople that he seemingly became
close to and the incidences thathave led him to here. Would you

(01:36:25):
like to describe a couple ofcouple of paintings?

Bruce (01:36:29):
Yeah, okay. And so first and foremost, when he flips to
Archie's name, and Archierecognizes the events of his
life. He pays no attention tothe paintings, purposely
avoiding them. And he'll say tosix, feel free to get a good

(01:36:49):
look. I know what happened in mypast, I don't need to see it
again. So the big you'll see twodefining moments. One is the
beginning of what appears to bea very large scale mansion
heist, between him and hisfellow street gang members. You

(01:37:13):
will see that it appears to goswimmingly. And then you will
see in another painting, Archie,surrounded by guardsmen, and the
following one, you'll see him injail. And the following one,
you'll see all the members ofhis gang murdered, brutally
slaughtered, and then you willsee a betrayer who is speaking

(01:37:37):
with the men who had handcuffs,the painting with the betrayer
in it Archie's gonna walk up toand he's going to try to he's
just going to try to lift it.

Tanner (01:37:47):
Okay. As you walk up to a painting, Navarro says, I
wouldn't mess with them. I don'tknow how the gallery really
works. But it just seems to bekind of not the greatest. Well,
I don't know how to do it, thismight be cool. So you walk up to

(01:38:11):
the painting, and you attempt tolift it.

Will (01:38:15):
While he's doing that his six had a pretty specific reason
for doing this. He he walks overto later in the life obviously,
before we got here, and wants tosee if he sees himself in there,
and what he is depicted at is inthese pictures.

Tanner (01:38:33):
Oh, you can see the the ladder points. Once again, you
can see the last image and it isjust this messed up form of
color and mashed together. It'slike, you know, some messed up
finger painting or deal thatsomeone's just haphazardly
spread across the paper. But youcan see the moment that he met

(01:38:56):
you in a couple of paintingsfrom your travels and where you
fought the Greeks. A lot of

Will (01:39:02):
but it's six it's not it is his old form.

Tanner (01:39:05):
It is okay it is not as old form.

Will (01:39:06):
I was just I was curious about that. But also curious
about Archie's life. So well,Archie's doing that. You just
here's, I guess six is kind ofreflecting on all this. And Hmm,
I guess this truly is me now.

Bruce (01:39:27):
Basically, and the other thing is for our readers, it
seems like the paintings withthe paintings in the slums are
very, they're very dark and kindof tragic. And then there's one
particular member of the gangthat is in every single
painting. The like when the gangis present, this person is much

(01:39:48):
more detailed than other membersof the gang showing some kind of
importance like a very goodstrong friendship in. That
person's details are also themost explicit in the paintings.
of the deaths of this of thosegang members. So it's clearly
there's clearly some kind ofrelationship to this person
there. And the image of theperson who is interacting with

(01:40:14):
the guardsman or the other thepeople who, quote unquote, you
know, cause Archie to get caughtcause this all to happen seems
like almost devilish, like,like, you can tell that Archie,
like, you can tell from thepainting that there is the utter

(01:40:36):
there's the highest amount ofloathing for this person, okay,
there is no like there is nopotential for recompense it is
it is that like you can feel itfrom the painting.

Tanner (01:40:50):
Yeah, there's there's this aura around this this
person it's not it's not thissort of tangible way of painting
it but like it is this sort of,you know, the, the way that it's
done whoever the artist is, hasmade some sort of emphasis on
there that just makes it thisthis man is the focus of this
and it is not kind the thebrushstrokes that are made to

(01:41:13):
paint him. Yeah.

Will (01:41:15):
So now that Well, now that I've looked at that one painting
to see what I wanted to see, Icome back and start looking at
the rest of it. And as he'swalking up to that painting,
I'll ask Archie, so who is that

Bruce (01:41:30):
this is the bad painting the one was

Will (01:41:32):
clearly like when you were going to take off the wall and
stuff.

Bruce (01:41:36):
Okay, so it kind of walks by he's not not in a rude way
like he's not trying to brushyou off or anything. He's just
focused. And we all know thatArchie Archie can be quick to
act but generally he's pretty apretty calm person as far as
that goes. But you definitelyknow he is not calm looking at
this painting. Like it's almostlike his entire body is shaking

(01:41:59):
with it with just pure you'veseen him rage This is put this
pales in comparison to his rageand battle pales in comparison
to the his rage currently.

Tanner (01:42:09):
Just describe this painting for me.

Bruce (01:42:13):
So it's, I guess we'll say it so it's like an Archie in
cuffs on his kind of like, onhis knees in front of like a
panel of what appear to beGuardsmen. And then the person
is also in this area where theGuardsmen are and he's kind of
pointing at Archie. And it'slike just a devilish grin on his

(01:42:36):
face, like, just under betrayallike he just betrayed betrayed
is nothing but betrayal. And inthe picture, Archie's portrait
is very dejected. So it's likehe's not he's, he's, you tell us
like the lowest point in hislife, basically.

Tanner (01:42:50):
And are you like in a, in a jailhouse courtroom?

Bruce (01:42:54):
Like just yeah, like a courtroom, okay. And it's
immediately succeeding thepicture of all the other gang
members who appear to be dead insome way, shape, or form. Okay.
Now, I was gonna say So successis that question, Archie takes
the picture off the wall, and hekind of stares at it

Tanner (01:43:14):
as you so you go to you go to reach, and you put your
hands on either side of the thepretty plain wooden picture
frame, and you try to pull itoff the wall. It does offer some
resistance. Do you still justtry and yank it off?

Bruce (01:43:32):
Yeah, I mean, it's just kind of nice. Yeah. Okay.

Tanner (01:43:35):
As you as you pull, you put some effort into it. And you
hear Navarre from behind, say,never taken a painting off disk.
I mean, it's just a painting,right. And as soon as he says
that you hear. And it's thebacking of this painting,
tearing off the wall fromwhatever hook it was on. But

(01:43:56):
then the tear kind of continues.
It's like this. This allowedtear that emanates outward from
the painting, and you can seethis crack begin to form behind
where it was on the wall. Andthe paints in this particular
scene start to sort of glow andthe tear of this becomes
deafening. And then light poursfrom the crack and colored

(01:44:21):
spills from the painting as thepaints turn into water and
liquid and this multicoloredpaint flies towards you and
engulfs all of you here as itfills the room and then you no
longer hear this crack. And nowthis as your as the color

(01:44:44):
dissipates. The two of you findyourselves in the gallery of a
courtroom, Archie, youimmediately recognize the
surroundings. You know the room,you know the people in it, you
know I have the judge that isstanding at the head of this
trial. And the thing thatstrikes you the most is you know

(01:45:05):
the person who is currentlystanding trial. And you know,
the judgment that's about to bepassed upon them. Because the
person standing there is you andyou're about to be convicted of
murder.

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