-E85 - Elevator Going Up

Escaping 1st Level of Hell and Purgatory the Shadows Seekers fall on more good luck of planning from the Croy family. A direct route set in place straight to the top to face Ashuma.

Episode Transcript

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Tara through the campaign. Manny Polos.

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Hey, O Lord. Fucking Craig.
The Hand of Fate tosses the dicerolls, spins, turns.
A campaign starts and ends, leaving memories that become
stories. Stories flow out into the
Infinity, painting it with legends.

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Legends wash up on the shores throughout the Infinite sea,
fading to myth until myths are forgotten.
And again the Hand of Fate, tossing nice roll spins, turns
to the two. We left our adventures known as
the Shadow Seekers after they escaped the second level of hell
into the first, Whereupon they meet the Kroy family head

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Porter, who sits upon a request and I note to them and is
prepared to guide them through the first level, which he
proceeds to do through lava and demon filled caverns.
They find as well in in that midst A teleportation circle

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that seems to be guarded by someBulgara demons specifically.
The headquarter, however, meets his untimely demise near the the
exit at the first level of hell in a pool of lava where he
becomes like a drop of water on a hot pan and even with the

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shadows a temper, Shadow Seekersattempts to save him.
Failing, they managed to make itto the other side of the rickety
bridge where they see. And bargain with a gatekeeper

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for 600 soul coins, which they found in the Dead Head Porter's
stash he'd alluded to before hisdeath.
Once on the other side of the gate the Shadow Seekers find
themselves in the in Between or Purgatory and begin exploring

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the cold reaches or the somewhatwarm to a very cold room.
That seems to be the end of the line in this where the as well
as they find some tiny goblin folk that had been keeping track
of maintaining this place and was unalived by the Shadow

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Seekers before they ran into this dead end and are now trying
to discover what what this puzzle is.
And last we'd had Faust, Ezra and Franklin as well as the
newly arrived Lycus. Lycus disappears into non

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existence and Ash and Mommy poofinto existence in the pocket
Rocket. Let's find out what's happened
this time. So I figured.
Get. Looks like I'm still.

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Wait a second, are we back in the labyrinth?
Our minutes are running. Around where we started.
You 2 know what's going on. The other other group has never
been here. God damn it.
We're back. A long detour.
A four year detour? Who?

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Who would have thought? You know, $1,000,000 Tour,
something like that. I desperately need you to mute
your. Bike when?
When the DM said maybe we shouldn't go through that door,
maybe we should have listened. Wait, what's the fun enough?

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Does Ezra see Mama Ash? Are we on a map?
I don't have any computer in front of me.
Yes, there you got you, Ash and Mommy should be in the pocket,
Rocket specifically. I have your guys's tokens there
and the bookmarks for you guys there and I figured we could

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start there. We're in the same place.
Is it clear that it's like just me and Ash?
Yes, it is very clear that it's just you and Ash, because you
guys get the sudden rush of coming back into existence that

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little hetty high and see the goblin at the bar poke his nose
over the counter and go oh, they're all outside.
So. So Mama's going to look over at
Ash and be like fuck, they're left of shenanigans again,
aren't they? Yeah, we left them unattended.
I guess we should probably go check on them.

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Yeah, OK, so mommy's going to get up and walk.
You don't exit through the door.I even forget.
It's been a really long time. It's been in the pocket, Rocket
I. Don't know how to get out.
Willing. We'll look at the will comes out
with our little emoji token. I do believe in fairies.

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I do believe in fairies. Fairy tales.
You're in one. Touch the poop symbol on your
torques and will yourselves out of the pocket rocket to be
standing in a very chilly room with Franklin, Faust and Ezra.

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As soon as Ezra sees, she is pouncing for pets and hugs.
And I just open up my arms and Iaccept it.
It is so odd I'll be like this. Where were you?
I missed you. Why'd you go away?

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Where were you? Where were you?
Oh, your friend died. I feel like getting confused.
You said we're in a cold room. Yes, so.
This room is icy. Besides, you were friends around
you. You see, the room itself is well
feel rather that it is very cold.

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You know, your breath is kind ofmisting out.
There are crystals forming on the floors around the perimeter
of the room, and at the center there's a statue of a goddess
you presume, who has a urn of water that was at one point you

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presume trick pouring out of it,but now is frozen in place.
Yes I remember this is Persephone and one of our other
party members tried to take a shower in her water and had
summoned a bunch of baddies to come to us.
Since I remember she her talkingto me.

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I don't remember what the conversation was.
I am going through my notes. Maybe I wrote it down but I was
trying to find. Family resources right now, but.
Yes, we, we, we, we regret to inform you that the head port of
your family is deceased. Yeah, OK, good news.

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We're almost out of hell. We've left level 2, we have left
level 1 and now we're somewhere else.
We are we. I know where we are and there
should be a door where the goddess statue is facing.
There is. Or I walk up to it and I say

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open sesame, open, open. In common, right?
Yeah, I just say it in common. Nothing happens.
Yeah. He had to be.
He had to ask for specifics. Makes me, the player, very

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suspicious. I'm Ash, you need me break door?
You know what? I cast Knock on the door.
Is there is that? Is that a first level spell?
It's a third level spell. Oh, wow, yeah.

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Then at that, the door, like it,it's looks like the whole wall
actually slides back, slides up into the ceiling, and you were
looking up not at a passageway, but looks like a giant hole that

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slopes at a very dramatic angle up.
I honestly did not expect that would work.
They got running, spending the third little spell slot.
There we go. Sprinting.
Ezra nudges Mama asked to jump on his back and right, right

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out. See steep incline that goes on
for miles, so as soon as you stop at any one point to catch
your breath, you slide back down.
I am currently for the next hourthat spider me.

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Ezra's just a brute force Sprintrun.
Have you ever seen like have youever seen like the the, the, the
spider that gets on like the edge of a bucket?
That's what it looks like you'redoing.
These walls are extremely smooth, like they are

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intentionally resisting even your spiders ability to hold on.
All right, does anyone know how to fly?
Can anyone fly? Everyone can get into the pocket
rocket if we can get one person here to fly.
I'm in luck. Oh no, gang, I don't trust it.
Should we really go? Yes, we need to give.

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Up. Wait, isn't this where the the
Porter LED you guys to this door?
Well, this is how we got in there originally, so the way out
must be on the other side that we should have taken years ago.

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I'm guessing this is just guessing with the context that
we have. I have a fine familiar if we
really need and I can create an owl that well I have my.
I have my familiar that can fly,so I could do that if we really
need. Yeah, I do not have live water

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walk. I will indicate for everyone to
get into the pocket rocket and explain my plan.
My familiar to fly. We all get into the pocket
rocket. We can basically steer our way
out of here. We also have our flying
spaceship now, but it likely will grow too large for this

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space so we can't use it yet. But we will, and as we see Sky.
So you summoned Amos? Yeah, if everyone agrees.
Yeah, if he can fly, I definitely think just getting in
the pocket rocket and letting him carry us up this slope will

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be best. And if it's bad up there, I
suppose we could just slide backdown the slope.
If it's bad up there we we get out as quickly as possible.
Does anyone have any link superior movement abilities or
spells? But like we're going to we're
going to cut out of the out of that pit.

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So it's probably going to be a war zone.
So we need to. And wolf form Ezra moves 50 feet
per turn if haste, if he moves 100.
I have long stride. I have a Thunder step which will

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get me 90 feet. The the the tunnel, the the tube
seems to be easily, like I said,miles long so.
Yeah, I'm thinking when when we exit the tube, we're probably
going to my. My assumption is we're going to
be coming out the rift. Well.

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I'm trying to think of what to. Prep for ask protection from
good and evil on you're familiarso that he can fly us around and
hopefully not get assaulted. So are you summoned in Amos
then? Yeah.
Amos up, Piers. Hey boss, how's it going?
What's? What's going on?

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How about one second? What's up fast?
How big is the tube? Really wide?
No, the two of the tube. How?
Can. We get like. 1015 feet in
diameter. OK.
OK. 15 foot diameter, not that wide then.

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Do you have? How big is the How big is the
folding boat that we enchanted to be a flying floating boat?
And it's been large enough to bea spaceship, but.
Yeah, that one was that one was reworked inside of the chest
desire, if I recall correctly, into the the, the it's from the

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OR the Astral Sea edition. It's the the tortoise ship.
It was big as fuck. OK, Yeah.
Yeah, we can use it as soon as we get out, but.
I'm you go ahead, go ahead with your thing.

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Looking around, do you have to engage with the puzzle?
But. Do you do you want to try to?
Solve it right because they had.Already.
Yeah, I mean, please do. I see a statue of a spider over
here. What's its deal?
So you see the statue of the spider, one of its legs ripped,

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is ripped off. I didn't do it.
Those are mine. I did that.
Mom, Mommy says proudly, presumably proffering the ripped
off legs from before because mommy tried to do stuff with it.
Though you do recall. Like that.

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I just wanted to move it. His legs came.
Oh yeah. Not like that, sorry.
Yeah, I didn't mean to say it like that.
I was trying to be vague becauseI partially couldn't remember.
For her pleasure. But.
You do recall somewhere in thesehalls was a secret door that you
guys had actually used to circumvent the first level of

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hell by going into the shadow realm.
Yeah, and that was the door we said open sesame on, right?
No, this this is the door you said open sesame on.
But now that is open. I can be fairly blunt.
It was Thea who said it in Infernal specifically thinking
it wasn't going to work. So and and it opened into this

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slide that yeah, went for miles that everybody decided to jump
into, even though it was obviously a gate to hell.
So I had to come up with this fucking like, interstitial space
so I wasn't just dumping you guys into the fucking bowels of
the first level of hell, which is like straight violence.
Anyways, so the spider is missing its legs.

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Yes would be that. That's like the spider can climb
it if it's like enchanted in some way, has to take magic on
it. You, you, you may absolutely.
I want cast to spell to take magic in general.
OK, in in general, as you're kind of just doing a sweep, you

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get the sense the cold area is suffused with a slight tinge of
magic, all with varying degrees,not uncommon for the area the
statue itself seems to be. Not at all.
It seems mundane. It seems almost like a red

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herring. Cool, just keep on walking.
Just continuing holding concentration on the spell going
through the maze. And when you were at the last
port where you're where you're at now, where this big stone is
you, you find that the area there is a little bit more

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infused with magic. There are some bones on the
ground indicating that somethinghad lived here and or died here,
perhaps several of them because there's multiple bones.
This is where maybe Ash and. And does this go somewhere or is
that intentionally like? Isn't.
It's more of an accident than anything, but if you're

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searching for hidden doors, that'd be another check.
Oh, so that's supposed to be a door there?
If you're searching for hidden things, that would be a
different check because you're searching right now looking at
magic wise and in that last room, I was going to lastly say
like I was taught starting to build up that the magic in this

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room slightly more dense and especially around that giant
stone that's seems to be there the this.
And it's not coming from the stone.
It's almost as if it's coming from under the giant boulder.
I was just going to poke his head around the corner and let
out a shrill whistle. Ezra.

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Beer boy Ezra. What, Mama Ash, you cold What?
Ezra Bones. Bones for Ezra.
Bones bolts over where? Where, where?

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Where about where About what about?
What about? I I will have collected the
bones and I'm holding them hostage until he moves the rock.
Can you move or do you need me to measure you still there?
Yeah, I'm gonna need you. Move me?
Is that still holding on to Ezrawhen he takes off I.

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Don't know, are you? Well, if I was holding on to him
while he was trying to climb up that incline, I would say yeah.
OK, he runs off in this direction.
Where's Bob, by the way? In the pocket rocket, I believe.

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Was he just fitting? Oh, or babysitting and drunk.
Babysitting, probably. While I'm I'm going to like just
press the digitation to like make the bone not smell old and
musty and be like get over the rock and get the bone.

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Ezra's going to sniff the air and and smell for tasty bones.
Once we get to the point where he stops, I'm going to hop off
and we're like, I people remember this is this is this
where we got Bob's troll body from?
Yes, you're you're old and that Tony on that history check this.

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Is exactly where. This is exactly where Bob went
from. Josh 2027 Josh 27 Do I smell
tasty bones? Oh yeah, 100%.
There are bones like that. You're certain that Faust has?

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Nice moving, moving the rock. Which moving rock Crystal?
Oh, totally moving the rock. Now let's let's freaking go 19
for the first try. Does it move?
It you it's taking all of your strength and still not budging.

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The thing is 4 times your size. Oh, we gonna have to walk again.
Massage your shoulders and be like you got this bud task guy
down here. Task and guidance I mean.
I've got. OK.
Plus one D4 for guidance. What's your what's your carry

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capacity? Again, by the way, currently
just for that's, that's like my passive way to tell whether or
not you can lift some. Let's see, let's see, it's 25 *
15. If to if to look up lift
capacity, that's. What he Yeah, it's your
strength, it's your strength modifier.
It's your strength modifier. Time here times 15. 300.

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And 75. Yeah.
So no, this thing is easily because that's like you're in
addition to your weight, which you're close to at least at
least a 300 mark. So this thing is, it got to be
at least a ton. Ezra's not going to Ezra's not

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going to bash this thing into submission.
This. Matt could have got.
Mad. Ezra's not mad.
He had not. He's not mad.
The I'm going to, I'm going to pause him a second and then pull
out the the two items that I hadmithriled the other day, which
is a mithril crowbar and a mithril hand battering ram, and

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hand them to Ezra. Oh, adamantine.
Sorry. Even.
Better get get them boy that that battering ram will do
pretty good. So let's see, 25, this is Oh,
and 30, Ezra's beating. Yeah, he's he.

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If at first you don't want to move, Ezra's just going to
break. You.
I'm going to ask big old mommy for some help to move it.
Oh. Yeah, that.
Would make sense. Tim the Boulder.
The Boulder The boulder has madeEzra angry.
The Boulder is getting the Ezra treatment.
If I cast grease can they just slide it?

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Genuine question. I there's always one way to find
out the. Quickest way How round is this
boulder? It's pretty, it's, it's pretty
nice round Boulder. I have grease prepared.
Perfect. Not in.
How do I say it's not round anymore, Josh?
I cracked. I cracked.

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Some of it before you. Before you put grease on it, I'm
going to try to use the like spider leg.
I'm going to like jam it in the bottom and try to use it like
like a crowbar for leverage and see if that that can help me
move it. Ioffer the adamantine crowbar as
well. Unless you wanted to keep the

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matic, do the. If I say you gave them to S, Ray
started hitting things. Strength.
Check. I mean, I gave, I gave you the
battering ram. That's the one that destroys.

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That's a silly description for Greece.
Got a 17. On my strength.
You were probably able to lift one side of it with the leg
before the leg just snaps. You realize the inside of the

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leg is hollow? I'm going to turn around and
look at Franklin and like, hold my hand out.
I wave, I hand you. We had a man time Crowbar.
Yeah, I'm going to try again with that.
Thumbs up I I give you a back rub and I guide you.

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I got a 22. A back slant.
You're able to lift it completely off of the the sides
closest to you guys. So there's still the back half
of the boulder touching the ground, though, like, and you're
struggling like this is all youreffort just to hold this thing

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up at this. Level Wait, it's not rolling,
it's round. It should roll it's.
It's in the it's do you you can't see the map, can you?
Better description for you. Then the boulder sits in this
little niche in the wall. Not little.
I I exaggerate when I say little.
Actually, it's it's a big niche in the wall, so only one side of

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it is exposed to Oh. Josh.
Buried. I'm going to use that.
I'm going to use acid on the boulder primal SAP very quickly.
The boulders going to be like whoa, I exist.
Man, go. Oh, sorry, wrong acid.

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Yeah, so every time I hit this thing, it's going to take 3D10
acid damage. How long is it going to take me
to find the center of the Tootsie Pop Josh?
You know, this is a question that I've not had to ask too
many times, so I'm going to just.

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In conjunction with your battering ram, use the battering
ram to make cracks acid into thecracks battering ram.
What if there's nothing under this fucking rock?
I'm going to have to. Yeah, who does?

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Mr. DM, How many licks does it take to get to the center of a
rock? As he's getting, as he's about
to finish breaking the rock, I cast mending on the rock.
That's not a rock, it's a boulder.

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Sorry if that's the solution. We just had to drive it this
whole time. It drives up the ramp.
I'll be so mad at you, Josh. You happen to have like enlarge,
reduce, do you fast? It is not a spell I even know,
let alone have prepared. I try and I try and get as many

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of those as I can. You know what fairpoint I go
into the pocket rocket. I want to buy a scroll of
enlarge and reduce and I want tolearn the spell.
I wonder. Now, and I'll buy one to buy,
and I'll buy one to learn it from.
I'm going to answer the questionthat I've been holding on to
Dow. What was the damage again?

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Let's see, it'll be 3D10 acid damage per strike that I make.
So how many licks does it take for Ezra to get to the center of
the Tootsie Pop? You said 3D 10 so average like
15 right? Yep.

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That depend on how well. Ezra rolls.
Yeah, that's why I said average.Of 15.
Also no. Every hit is a crit, so double
that. Oh right, so it would be every,
every hit is is 3030. So OK that that does
significantly increase your chances of doing this in a
timely manner, but I don't have a lot of hope considering it's a

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boulder anyways. 30 to 150 strikes.
Let's go, baby. Oh my, you're you're not.
Ezra's is not daunted by this. Time times 6 seconds is 10
minutes, right? You can maintain for 10 minutes,

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right? We believe in USA.
No, that's not. Yet.
Oh yeah, Ezra's got this all day.
Ezra's, Ezra's. He's got this.
Let's go. It's. 8 is Wheaties this
morning. Times.
Yep. 50. During this 10 minutes, sorry
1515 minutes I had. To say he's got this, he's got
the stamina. Math wrong.

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We're going to do a costume change while this is all
happening. OK.
Oh yeah, Ezra's got the stamina.Oh yeah.
If you're changing into that onethat you sent me, I tried to
bring it in, but it has that back brownish background to it.
So if you, I was trying to get into it, but I haven't gotten to
taking that out to drop it in again.

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Brownish background. Yeah, the image you sent me has
like a background to it. So there's like a yeah brown
background. Oh, I see.
It is. So for the next 15 minutes,
Josh, for the next 15 minutes, Josh, I will fast and furiously

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be beating this rock. Yep, has been declared.
Thank you. OK, so sets a second level
spell. We have the power.

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So you're going to the Chest of Desire then there Voust sounds
like. Yeah, while he's working on
that, if this isn't functioning up there, I'm going to go do
that. And getting as many as you can,

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no. Just two.
Just two. Oh, OK, that that makes life a
little bit easier. And we'll say there it is level.
2:00 to 3:00. There.
OK, yeah, 1000 gold is what thatis. 1000 for two two level
second level spells. I paid less money for the two

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seventh level spells. Is the Max like I've been using
the Max? Just as a finicky pitch I spare,
yeah. I can, I can, I can roll for
you. It'll definitely be below 500A.
1000. OK, Yep, I'll put one of those

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away and come out. How's Ezra's progress going?
I'm going hardcore 15 minutes straight to break this, yeah.
I was going to say it's probablybeen 5-5 minutes.
So he's probably got he's probably got a good lather on
him and he's got a hem size holein the boulder.
He's. Making good time with that,
Ezra. I'm just going to start copying
the spell down into my spell book.

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Don't worry, it only takes. We're just watching.
I just got this. I'm gonna I'm gonna magic up
some sandwiches for everyone. As many times as I have like
used the utility spell to spare some bullshit, Faust is going to
take 5 and copy this fucking spell.
Yeah, I'm gonna magic up some sandwiches for everyone as we

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take the moment. Sandwich, sandwich, sandwich.
You got to finish the job there.You get sandwiches.
That's how it works, I say. Eating a sandwich, it falls to
the ground. Hazard.
Hazard double tops himself. Like what?

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All right, so everyone, I think we once we get out, if we can,
we need to put a bunch of distance.
If it's not safe, we need to puta bunch of distance between US
and that location. And then maybe everyone get into
our spaceship ship now base and then we'll have to meet up and

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decide what we want to do from there.
Is are these the plans we're making in the 15 minutes it
takes to get through at Boulder?Yeah, I'm just saying we got a
plan to plan. Eventually everyone's going to

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be free to do what they want, right, 'cause like our entire
goal is been to escape. Hell, we're about to do that.
I don't know. You hear from inside the
boulder, we go to Mama Ash's house.
So that's the thing. Let me just let me pitch
something to you there, Ash. All right, So we have a

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teleportation signal for the inside of hell that we passed
all the way here, as well as a rock from that location.
If we were to go say, tell, you know, the Queen of Socrates that
we could send her and a contingent of her soldiers
carrying Dragon's Breath as wellas their holy water weapons that

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I'm pretty sure they have, we could send them off to assist
the other team. In the meantime, we'll have to
decide what to do. But I think it's going to be
very important that we're going to have to sit down and like
take a grand look at like what'sall going on 'cause there's a,

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there's a whole diplomacy thing going on with like the prime
deities that we have to start paying attention to now that
we're high level. So I've got a, I've got a grip
on what, on what all is going onwith potential is.
But right now, I think we just need to focus on getting away,

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get to safety and then have thatdiscussion.
Yeah, I think that's a good idea.
Get ourselves to safety, plan our next move.
So the the Porter that escorted you to the door there, did he

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say anything else? Is is my family on standby or
armies on standby? Armies I doubt we will have to
reach out to them and get them ready, but I believe last we

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know is they had set up this escape route for us so that we
could more easily get out. Sorry, fast.
No, you are quite all right. It may be prudent to.
I do not believe we are the onesthat are best suited for

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gathering allies. That said, our counterparts are
likely otherwise indisposed. I mean, we have Ash here.
She's a noble. She could, she could be our

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front man. And don't forget.
And I hold up my finger and I also say, oh, yeah.
And I pull out from the from theoh, you have them.
We have these rings on. No one will see us any
differently. We'll just be individuals and
the only one here who looks insane is me and maybe Ezra, and

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I am in the middle of fixing that for myself.
I'll withhold my existential horror at the thought of what is
involved in fixing it. I'm not Ezra.
Ezra. Yes, my biggest issue is that I

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frankly don't know what powers that be we could could attempt
to consolidate how we know of Absalom or not Absalom.
That's a completely different universe.
Having having too many universesin my head now, King is
irritating. Yeah.

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What is the I am perfect. I would happily go and represent
our cell, our organization and our efforts to a civilization of
other well spoken orcs, which isso tiring me.

(40:27):
Great. So here's my thinking, and I
know it's going to be a little extreme, but once you guys know
everything that's going on, oh. God.
I guess we should just do it nowbecause otherwise it's going to,
let's say half of it. And then you're gonna be like
what? OK, Like really slowly as this
is happening, I'm gonna, I'm gonna pull out some chalk, an

(40:50):
attempt to make like a little chalkboard on the ground.
She can't defend herself, but what she can do is if you're.
Kind of. Close to the monster, all right,
as far as everyone knows at thispoint.
Can I draw on here? I guess we got through.

(41:12):
There are several layers of deities in this world.
OK, there's three prime deities.Micropolis, Alleyopolis and
Minneapolis. Oh, no, wait.
Micropolis, Minneapolis. Alley.
Yeah, that's right. So chaos, order and neutrality,

(41:35):
chaos and order. And I draw a little circle line
in it. Eleopolis, the God of Chaos
bound, sacrificed herself and her power to bind Minneapolis in
the center of hell, which is where we're coming from.

(41:59):
And they are currently in a losing stalemate.
Eventually, Minneapolis will escape.
Now, did we help do that? Yeah.
Did we do it on purpose? No.
So they are locked in a losing stalemate.

(42:20):
And then way down here, there's nothing.
There's no individual God of like neutral evil, chaotic good,
blah blah blah. The further below them is a line
of deities that are like individuals.
So like the these are these are players or adventurers such as
ourselves who have acquired so much power that they have

(42:42):
ascended to godhood and so far they are mortal deities.
So they have all, all the individual problems of like
mankind and like mental trauma and like living forever and like
what's the effect of that of thehuman condition?
All that shit applies. They have a deal with the God of

(43:06):
neutrality, Micropolis, to not do anything against them and
they won't go too far. But in exchange, they get to do
kind of whatever they want to. So right now the three primary
deities are locked into kind of a stalemate, right?

(43:27):
And all of these minor deities are going crazy and they're, you
know, they're like experimentingon people, kidnapping them and
running worlds and stuff like that.
Look to Faust and then kind of give it look for like a note of
understanding because I think you're I think you're against
the gods. Oh oh.

(43:51):
Fundamentally. Fundamentally.
Yeah. So that's the set up as I
understand it, what we could do.What you guys don't know, and I
know because I sat at a table one time, is that the other team
has the seed, right? The seed that came with this
other guy that a version of me and that seed is a Mac Guffin.

(44:14):
It's a new God. If it gets planted, it'll be a
mid tier God. So the God of neutral good and
it'll act as a plug to fix the the unstable, the unstable
stalemate between the two side deities, right.
And then after that it'll, it'llfundamentally change how things

(44:41):
are because it's going to give everyone, I, I don't know
exactly what's going to happen, but I'm pretty sure it's going
to give everyone access to the system.
Meeting everyone becomes level 1of something.
Every peasant, every child, every old person, every person
everywhere is going to be empowered.

(45:01):
And I assume there's going to bechaos across the planet because
if there's we don't do this, thePNC will get out and they'll be
chaos across the planet anyway. So yeah.
What about snacks? Yeah.
There's going to be a lot of snacks.
So that's the situation. That's the situation as we see

(45:24):
it. I think that we should take one
route, but I want to let less information seek in, see what
you guys think about it and go from there.
All the answers. Haven't made it to the rock,
Josh. Yes.

(45:44):
Can you guys see when I do this?I see all the doodles explain
what's? For.
That was me. What am I looking for?
Can you see when I do this? Yeah, so that my vision suddenly
vanished. You took the way outside of the
room. Yeah, you.

(46:04):
Can't see all around, I just. Had vision on.
Yeah, I the you guys's vision ison.
All I'm doing is turning dynamiclighting on and.
So you're turning the walls on? You probably have to.
And when I turn and when I turn the walls on, 'cause.
You probably have like 15 minutes.

(46:24):
For some reason I'm noticing that you guys can't fucking see,
which is annoying. There's another setting
somewhere that says like maintain or like it's like fog
of war where you just Gray out the area that like you've
already walked through the we could see what we've seen
before, but like our vision doesn't see it.

(46:49):
No, it's not that. Either one to the side, that's
out of help. Job done.
Where are my bones? Job done the.
House After violently causes thebone to Ezra.
It got smoky in on my screen. We're surrounded by mist.

(47:14):
Anyways. Yeah.
So that's that's how the order of how the gods power system and
struggle is currently situated and the risk that will err, it's
kind of outcomes that might occur that we have to discuss

(47:36):
and plan around what. Does it?
Mean oh. I look around.
God, can you stop flucking with the lights?
Oh, I just feel a nice little pipe in the back of your hand.

(48:02):
It's the only way you can have walls in this shit hole.
I don't believe in walls. I close my eyes.
I have really really don't believe in walls as hard as I
can. I do good, Mama.
Actually I do good. Freida bucket.

(48:22):
For now, anyways. Yeah, Under this boulder you
find what looks to be a chest that has been previously
empowered to be a chest of desire but has been somehow
nullified of that power. Although there is seem to be a

(48:45):
residual fee left in the chest. The the top of the trunk has
been busted off from the boulderthat has been had been placed on
top of it. But it is clear that this was a
chest of desire because of the markings it has denoting it as
such, which is a tree of life symbol.

(49:08):
You know the the dual, dual dualsided of the tree one of white
one is black Mama. Asks.
What happens if you put a chest of?
Desire inside a chest of desire?Is it like printing another
printer? I feel like.
I feel like, I feel like that this would be a destructive

(49:30):
thing in that maybe we shouldn'tput a chest of desire in a chest
of desire. Listen, only ways can do that.
Chest desires can't do that. Ezra's just looking down and and
and I I didn't break it. I feel like mathematically and
geometrically it's an impossibility.

(49:52):
It depends on the size. Anyways.
That's what Bob says. You're telling that the
so-called good team are about tocreate a separate God, a new
one. Yeah, that's the plan.

(50:12):
And it'll be and I point to the middle tier, one step above.
I draw kind of a grid, you know,the like the good evil alignment
grid. I'll draw this.
Yes, objective nonsense, but carry on.

(50:33):
Sure. I mean, it's as a, it's as
objective as it is real, right? So.
They they say Ezra easy because Ezra eat people.
I'm not evil, I'm just hungry. What happened to you?
Did you get a haircut? Me, yeah, Different clothing.
Yeah, yeah. I I cast disguised self on

(50:56):
myself so I look like a turtle again and then I used my glimmer
or glamour cloak to change it into all white so that I now
appear good. I also wear a ring of mine
shielding so you can no longer sense that I'm evil or undead.

(51:16):
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition, OK?
Anyway, you were growing a sorry, thank you.
You were. You were drawn a grad.
Sorry, no, it's a good question.Thanks for noticing.
I show off a little bit. So Manyopolis is the God of

(51:37):
deceit or order, which is can I differ to color?
Yeah, this section, Aliopolis, the God of chaos is this
section. And then Michael Polis, the God

(51:58):
of neutrality is this section. So the God of chaos control is
both like the God of like good chaos and bad chaos and neutral
chaos. There's all chaos and so on and
so forth. My goal, or their goal is to
create. Is that OK?
One got another one one level down and fills one of these

(52:23):
roles and in doing so, it adds another player to the game and
it blocks it blocks off the the losing stalemate between chaos
and the order because there's a losing stalemate.

(52:44):
Eventually Manneapolis will get out and unfortunately, that
doesn't mean Alleyopolis will beable to like match him.
She used all of her energy. It's like gone gone to get him
into that spot as it is. So once he's out like he's of
the three gods, he's going to beuncontested.

(53:09):
So the other team or wizard on the other team created a Mac
guffin item to siphon off power from the three gods to create
basically a giant plug version of a tree God that will sit in
the in the rift and you know, stop everything from blowing up.

(53:35):
Sit down. It is.
And. You're so smart, Franklin.
Ezra Patchy. Just just solid collapse.
And this tree is. That was very concise.
Going I have no idea what you say.

(53:57):
Give him some jerky. And this tree.
All right, what were you saying Fast?
Sapient. Can we use the tree for potty?
No, it'll probably kill you. They have been a bunch of side
effects too, but I figured that's too minutia detail to
like deal with right now. But the reason I say this is

(54:21):
this city, this location, assuming this tree gets planted
and we defeat the PNC or as a team is going to become
incredibly important. So what we need to do and what I
think we should do is supplant the government of Socrates so

(54:45):
that we can ensure peace and prosperity around this item.
Because like, what happens if, like, it falls into the wrong
hands, You know, we got to. Protect.
Against that. We've got to keep everybody
safe, guys. Yeah.
I thought the. It was better to keep this item

(55:08):
safe and make sure it's not abused than us.
I thought the original idea was to eliminate deities from this
world. The idea is to remove the mortal
deities from this world. We can't remove the prime
deities. Minneapolis OR is literally the

(55:29):
planet. Or Alleyopolis is literally the
planet. We can't get rid of them.
My idea is you create this one major NPCDD that was never
immortal and then they have the power to expel all the little
ones that ruin everyone's lives.Yeah, 'cause we're going to make

(55:52):
it all better. I suppose every change must have
flavors, though I do not like it, but of course so.
The nice thing about it at leastis it's not a mortal with mortal

(56:12):
problems. Ascending to immortality.
As far as I understand, it is a aspect of divinity given
sentience, so it'll be uncorruptible as I think.
And if we can get the rest of the gods out of our bubble of

(56:35):
space, it's only going to be temporary because they're going
to try to get back in. This is where all the power of
the universe flows from. It's where the prime deities
reside. So we need to not just like be
like, oh cool, great, we saved the day and now everyone divides
up. We need to prepare one day, one

(56:56):
day they're going to come back and they're going to kill
everyone if we're not ready. So that's why I think we need to
like create a global either alliance of countries like Aun
or something. In order to do that, we need to

(57:17):
be players on the table. So we.
Should Yeah, we need to make ourselves known and present.
Yeah, if we take over Socrates, we'll be players on the table
and we'll have access and control over the most important
resource in the new world. All I.

(57:38):
Think taking over a single country is a poor start.
What would you suggest? We would if, should we take
over, we would be perceived as usurpers.
Probably solved. For supper.
Supper. I cast banishment on Ezra.

(58:01):
Because we're doing it for theirown.
Good. He goes back to the pocket
rocket. No, it does go to addition.
Yeah. I do not actually have
banishment, I was just scared. You're right, We could.
We could simply create a puppet system, but if we were to want

(58:24):
to take it over, the way we could do it is we know that
teleportation circle on level 1 of Hell.
We've seen it. We have this rock from that
location. We go back, we convince the
Queen that she needs to send herentire army, along with Dragon's
Breath and holy water, through that portal to defend or to

(58:46):
attack them from the center, because that leads right to
their heart. Then Ash's family's military
comes in and replaces all the guards of the city.
And then we just talk to the Queen and we say, hey, we're,
we're going to be right on the show now.
You're going to be our puppet. Think they're taking over as you

(59:12):
serve. This needs to go beyond.
We need to fundamentally alter the very way people think.
We need. Here's the thing.
That don't need the gods. It's going to happen regardless,
because as soon as that seed gets planted, remember how I

(59:34):
said every single person on thisplanet is going to suddenly
become a level 1 in something? Every single person on this
planet is going to gain power. Every slave, every man who's
oppressed, every man who's been wronged.
Oh wait, no, I believe it's alsolimited to like, good people.

(59:56):
Because the God is good. It's a new power.
God, so good is subjective, entire in its entirety.
Sure, but that will be up to whatever entity.
And that is precisely why I lovegods.
Right. In either case, that's what

(01:00:16):
they're doing right now. If we want to oppose them, we
certainly could. And suddenly being granted A
substantial amount of power is not necessarily going to it will
lend itself in our favor in the long run.
Absolutely, having competency onour side is always helpful.

(01:00:38):
But we need to culturally, systemically rebuild things in
such a way that this is going torequire an entire need.
Yeah, taking them to supper Spread.
And they do. Yep.

(01:00:58):
That's why we need a power base,right?
We're going to have to do this culturally.
We're going to have to be ready so that when it happens, we
don't send out maybe a message that we don't talk to everyone.
That's the wrong kind of power we need.
We need an. Institution.
Right. And and if we control the tree,

(01:01:21):
then we will control most of itsits access and power.
That's how we create an institution, an institution
around the gifts that the thing gives.
We act as the gatekeeper as a stopgap.
This will require us to require other cells to prove successful.

(01:01:46):
Yeah. What is can we help ensure that
that happens I. Don't know, but we have a things
are happening now and we need tomake moves.
Yeah, now's the time for action.We've done enough plotting get.

(01:02:08):
The hell out of here. 1st then we can figure it out, but I just
want everyone to have it in the back of their mind is to we're
now playing on a different game and a different sphere of
influence. We we don't play small games
anymore. Now we have to think on a big

(01:02:29):
scale. Get late.
With the. Pokémon was where where we gonna
find scale, you know? Did anyone collect the stuff
from the chest? Local.
Sure. Oh yeah.
No, Ezra. Ezra picked it up and I brought
the over to Mama Ash. I didn't break it, I promise.

(01:02:49):
Yeah, I'm going to start going through the stuff in the chest.
There seems to be a ton of gems,jewels and golden goods like
coin coinage. That's what I mean a very.
Should we do this up amongst ourselves and put another chest
of desire in the pocket? Rocket A.
Broken one one of the. Oldest ones, so we'll have to

(01:03:12):
see if we can fix it somehow. Fix.
It. I didn't break it.
I'm going to grab a couple of handfuls or whatever and just
add it to my sack, my bag, some gems, some toys.
Is anyone here very sneaky TB? Pocket.

(01:03:35):
That's right. That's right.
Roll roll AD 100 for each one ofthe different ones you're
adding. Ezra's got a + 10 to stealth.
I think we should, we should stealth through the portal and
then maybe like have an action ready to like dash, but it kind

(01:03:55):
of sucks. We we just need to get as far
away as possible as quickly as possible.
Ezra could put y'all in the pocket rocket and carry y'all
out in wolf form and then just have mad dash Mad dashness.
Are you calling out the 2 copiesof the same?

(01:04:15):
Thing. Turn to the others that had been
here before. What was up top because you guys
went down this tunnel that we were this incline, right?
Up top is I guess the labyrinth that leads to a thieves Guild,

(01:04:38):
dwarves making specific weaponrywhich my family has contact with
in the above world and and Oni, who I became very well
acquainted with, and a poop shoot that I never want to see
again I got. To touch.
It down, so we're not going to see sky immediately and it

(01:05:03):
probably doesn't matter that we're all in the pocket rocket.
If the if if the other side was a benign safe error location,
then we're not coming out in thewar zone.
I don't think this door didn't open up to a war zone from what
I remember. I do know that like after

(01:05:24):
opening a gate to hell and us being lost in the dark we had to
moonwalk our way through anotherdoor but I think landed us at
the in between. It was all very confusing.
That this door? Do we have to moonwalk through
this door? No, it wasn't this door.
It was a door in the darkness that you could barely see.

(01:05:50):
Mama Ash, how'd you walk on the moon?
After I'm done stuffing my bag. Also I rolled AD 103 times but
you said it was just jewels and coins in there like a couple.
Months, yeah. So I, I, I, I didn't say three
times. I said for each of the ones that
you were grabbing, like if you were adding, because I think

(01:06:16):
there's going to be, it's, it's literally the same chest that
you grabbed from before to make yourself so wealthy in the first
place. This is the chest.
This is the very first chest to desire that existed in the game,
but it had been broken because reasons.
And that's. Kind.
Of it I guess Mama Ash wants yetEzra carry it and stuff but.

(01:06:41):
Yeah, so I'm going to pull out some gemstones, like 3 different
gemstones, and then I will pull out a hand of gold coins and I'm
going to be like, all right, youguys, you should probably take
as much as you can out of this and we should put this in the
pocket rocket and then we shouldmake our way out of here.
And then after I'm done filling my bag I stand up and I and I

(01:07:01):
show as her how to moonwalk. Which is a really neat concept.
Ezra will try to performance hisway into Moonwalk.
Let's see how well he goes. So you're going to try and run
up the slide there, Ezra? Yep, you are going to. 7 to

(01:07:24):
moonwalk. 27 to moonwalk. You're.
You're. Are you both trying to go up the
slide then I'm confused. Or are you just trying to teach
him how to move walk? Yeah, I'm just trying to.
With the 27 performance wise andthe seven, you're failing

(01:07:46):
miserably there Ezra, but you are inspired by Ash's ability
there and have advantage on yournext attempt.
Ezra will try to. Moonwalk again.

(01:08:07):
It's sounding like the Chattanooga area because I go.
To the and then let's see one more time.
Because of Vantage, Ezra will moonwalk for 11.
Advantage you are able to slide your feet and move backwards,

(01:08:29):
but you can't get like the arch right.
And then like, sometimes you kind of like, you still kind of
trip up moonwalking you're you're realizing is harder than
it looks. Walking on moon is dumb.
Why we walk on moon? I'm not sure where this term

(01:08:49):
originated from but just called that because you are able to
slip and slide your walk backwards.
Maybe this is how they walk soon.
I've never been there. Very ineffective way to walk.
Know it would it be possible forFaust to cast press the
digitation to attempt to melt oruse like fire spell to melt the

(01:09:11):
ice in this room, especially theice in association with the
statue? Dissertation I'm not so SH does
that. How's the fire bolt if it comes
down to it? Fire bolt for sure.
I mean with like. Dissertation let you start a

(01:09:32):
fire. That's what I was just trying to
remember that part, that aspect of it, because I haven't.
It's such a long spell. I don't remember every.
Aspect. Generally what it's supposed to
do is just fill in the blank. Like just general magical
effect. Like like anything that can't do
damage or cause major drastic changes.

(01:09:53):
Right, all right, right. I understand.
It's the vibes spell. Exactly.
It's the one that makes you feellike the wizard, like makes your
hair blow in the wind or. I mean it's best use is that it
cleans. Oh the third one down you you
chill, warm or flavour up to 1 cubic foot of non living

(01:10:14):
material for one hour so you could warm it quite
proficiently. Are you doing?
That yeah, I'm going to. Do that.
What are, where are you doing it, and how are you doing it
though specifically? Water that looks like supposed
to be pouring out of the urn. OK, you warm the water enough

(01:10:37):
that it no longer it slowly becomes begins to trickle again.
And as it as it starts to trickle and you're still, what's
your verbal and semantic by the way, just out of curiosity.
I think you're just trying to play into it a little bit.
Think that there's he's probablylike quoting, like what

(01:11:02):
alchemical elements he knows it's like over and over and over
again in a mantra. OK, while you're humming to
yourself, you kind of see out ofthe corner of your eye some more
motion than you expect from the water.
And you look up and you see the statue coming to life above you

(01:11:23):
as you're kind of probably hovering your hands around the
water to try and warm that particular area.
And you, you, you see the water as you take kind of a tripping
step back, probably gush forth from the urn down to her feet
and it flow down and stop seeming to disappear under her

(01:11:46):
feet. But the statue comes to life and
she yells. This is spring already.
Should take the stand. Religion check what the OR it

(01:12:07):
would have arcana or religion. What am I rolling here so I can
figure out what the fuck. Like I was expecting something.
This was not it. I think you could.
I think you could do a religion.Let the fucking go, 17.
You're quite certain that this is the the goddess Persephone

(01:12:32):
who had been drug unwillingly tohell to though, though yes,
still probably only an aspect ofher.
Has to keep it together and not be like a deityist.

(01:12:55):
Like just straight up Persephonefrom Greek mythology Persephone.
Yes, her back story is Persephone's back story.
Who's Hades in this situation? Yeah, I'm going to say I thought
we didn't run into Hades, but hesaid he was here.
This. I would guess would be Ashima in
this scenario. He.

(01:13:17):
Just has multiple names. No, I'm afraid it is not spring,
but we do need to go up the slide.
I was trying to solve the puzzle.
Oh well, it appears you have. I can send you right up that
slide, but you have to promise that you'll bring these seeds.

(01:13:41):
With you and she presents you with a plethora.
Food. OK, I've another version of me
is read mythology before. I'm hesitant.
What do the seeds do? Oh, so you're asking Persephone
straight up. We're all roll religion.

(01:14:01):
OK. Straight up ask.
Yeah, we'll do a religion check first.
Don't eat them. 21 on religion. Oh, very nice.
You're quite certain these seedswill provide a lot of food for a

(01:14:23):
lot of people because they seem to be all food oriented and they
also are very Hardy types of plants growing in some of the
harshest conditions and providing some of the biggest
bounties as well. That you know that those who you

(01:14:45):
you'd probably know from the thelore and mythology of
Persephone, those that eat of her fruit will know who it is,
who is it, who it is it that brought it to them, and will
generally be thankful for that and thus proliferating her
influence. I'll take the sea, my lady.

(01:15:11):
That is, that is good to hear. I hope only to feed the world.
Yes. Yes, we can eat them.
Franklin staring like off to theside directly at this lady just

(01:15:33):
breathing in and out. See, it's awkward because the
very deity that I had planned killing first was the goddess of
agriculture. There she is.
We'll just keep that to ourselves as she gets us out of
hell. Called.
She would turn to you and specifically stay.

(01:15:56):
Are you ready to leave? Yes, we won't go Mama Ash house.
I'm going to step forward to herand be like, yes, we are so
ready to leave this place as I kind of like give her a little
bow and hopefully she remembers me.
Ezra mimics Ezra. Ezra mimics in Bob's head.

(01:16:20):
She doesn't seem to specificallyremember you, but she seems to
be aware that you were all returning to this location as
opposed to just arriving from the levels above.

(01:16:41):
Yes, we. She she looks at you.
Making more eye contact than normal though probably and goes
I I'm sorry have we met before? I I apologize There are many
that come through my door here in the in between the purgatory.
And I wouldn't think this is a high traffic area, but yeah, we
met. It feels like a lifetime ago.

(01:17:02):
I'm do. You want to go to the Ash Mama
hash house? I cannot leave unfortunately in
spring. I may visit though.
You said it's not spring, so I guess I'll be going back to
sleep here shortly so but I can still provide a the trip to

(01:17:25):
above it is generally against my.
Trying to think of like a derogatory term for for husband
but I can't my husband's wishes.Fuck what?
No, that's not it. That's a better derogatory word.

(01:17:50):
Old man. Worst half.
Worst half? Yeah, there we go.
Yeah, it's against my worst half's wishes to keep this gate
met tended, but I do find it to be fruitful.

(01:18:10):
What half are you as fat? You may yet meet that half.
When we met that half, like justtrying to remember the shadow
secret. OK, before we get out of here,

(01:18:39):
in these hallways around me, arethere any loose stones?
Oh my. God in the hallways.
Yeah, like any loose stones specifically or?
Just. In general, just around, nowhere
specific. I just have to keep my promise
to Ogrimah to give him stones from all the places I've been

(01:18:59):
and I feel like from this place would be really cool for him.
OK, OK. You you would definitely find
one or two that you could probably while while Persephone
is speaking to everyone too, that's a little loose in the
wall and you just kind of sitting there wiggling it back
and forth until it comes out. Yes, I'm going to take this

(01:19:23):
loose stone from purgatory. Purgatory.
That's epic. That's going to be an excellent
bookend one day. All right, let's do this.

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Let's make the the step from underworld to overworld.
Are you all ready? Then I suppose will.
Take the seat and not. All right.

(01:20:10):
Already in action to kill someone.
So since you guys aren't trying to run up the slide and we need
any real checks or anything, butI'm moving some of the
characters over here, Mommy included, who I haven't heard

(01:20:30):
from, though I don't know if youremember this particular
character, Persephone, or this particular area.
Did she post it all? No, I don't.
Remember Persephone at all? What's the area?
Yes. Not Persephone though.
Yep, she was here. She she was in the statue as

(01:20:57):
well as those frozen things. Since you guys are escaping the
puzzle to some degree, are methytes ice Methytes
specifically so. All right.
They tried to attack us last time and I managed to talk us
out of that situation too. By talking to Yeah, Persephone
and while everyone else was fighting.

(01:21:19):
Height swirling is going down the second space like I'm I'm
admiring the the artistry. Here sounds like though mommy
doesn't have anything else to add to the plan before we jump,
like. Nike really, Franklin said.
He was running in action in casewe run into somebody.
I think that's a good idea. Ezra takes up a defensive

(01:21:47):
position around Ash. What was that, Mommy?
You said we were going to jump, so I said Geronimo.
Well, it's pretty accurate because as you got it, she
Persephone asks everyone to lineup in front of the porthole.

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And you guys? Does so and then plugs his nose.
I have a suspicion of where thisis going.
Oh no, I'm going to have a spellready.
You guys all line up in front ofthe slide is what it appears.
And Persephone. Persephone tilts her urn even

(01:22:39):
farther forward, producing a stream at you can see for .5
seconds turns into almost a geyser the size of the entire
hole, forcing everyone up the miles of tube almost feels like
instantaneously with just water just and you all land on a Stony

(01:23:04):
kind of metal, almost ground metal forward stone ground,
catching your breath as the water washes over you and spills
out over the coals of magma that's turning to lava and into
a murky pool at the top of the slide.

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As you're sitting there too, yousee the door close behind you
and the text above it in Infernal.
I believe Franklin knows Infernal ash.
I think you do too. I do too.
I was. Going to say I think Faust does
so all three of you recognize the portal to hell written above

(01:23:46):
it. No, wrong character, can't know.
Infernal. Barely labeled.
How did they get down here? Stupid words.
As well, you guys all see well, more specifically might be of

(01:24:08):
note to Ash and mommy, a tunnel to the South that you kind of
remember many shenanigans havinghappened in in a.
Lab That's where the Muslims are.
Yeah. Is that the way to Mama Ash's
house? But inside of that tunnel
specifically now is what looks like to be a small, very

(01:24:33):
pristine, newly constructed room.
Just. Changed.
With a few buttons and a light on the outside of it. 2 buttons.

(01:24:55):
I'm going to go investigate the room.
Ezra wants to go touch the button.
Let's avoid touching the button,I just want to inspect it real
quick. Touching the button or does Ezra
touch the button? I if she doesn't, I do.

(01:25:18):
No, I will do what I can to keephim from touching the button.
I'm like, hold on. Ezra, you might be rolling
something to to avoid not being allowed to touch a button.
It sounds like I. Don't want to touch a button?
That's right. Remember this is a high stress
situation. We don't just push the big red

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button. Push the big red button.
I think they're going to be real.
I. Think they're going to need a
Dexterity saving or whichever uses your higher Athletics or
Acrobatics versus Ezra's the strength because I know he's
going to try and muscle his way in there to touch the button.
I don't know about you, Ezra. That's my thought.

(01:26:02):
You can tell me otherwise. You can tell me if.
You Oh yeah, I did not doing good.
You can throw out the like mom arm to hold that holds kids
back. Like no, I didn't told you not
to run into the gorilla pen. I'm using command. 29 Athletics.

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He's what you need to also apparently make a Wisdom saving
throw because Franklin is commanding you I'm.
Still just walking with the a look of like the most tired
acceptance. Like he's just he, he
understands. Sexy How you fail, I say heel.

(01:27:01):
You don't just push the big red fucking button.
I mean, are we, are we outside? Are we?
I look up. Is there sky?
There is not, no. We're in a cavern.
There seems to be a very tall ceiling above you in a large
cavern, one that is very naturalin in state.

(01:27:25):
Also, while you're reprimanding Ezra, your investigation yields
ash. The buttons that are on the side
of this doorway into this room, which you only recognize to be a
doorway because there's overlapping panels.
And as Ezra comes near to try and tap one of the buttons, it

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opens up and things and you can see inside of it is a square
room and the buttons you see on the side of it seem to be an
arrow facing up. And that's it.

(01:28:08):
Guys, I think it's going to be an elevator, which seems
incredibly suspicious because this was not here the last time
I was here. For Faust, you have legend lore,
right? Requires the thing that I'm
forming the spell on to be somewhat in the realm of legend.
I point at the mythical elevator.

(01:28:30):
Maybe this thing just like to. Upload their first.
Photos. Or do you have identify?
If you haven't, sorry non legendary identification I.
Don't have identified prepared. You don't.
I do not. I would like cats or cats.
You're a wizard. And.

(01:28:52):
That's fine. They're blasty Wizards, too.
When a half giant comes in off to the side and says you're a
wizard, Harriet. No, I'm just kidding.
Sorry. Also, can we see all this?
We don't see any people in this room with us.
No, there are no people currently make it.

(01:29:17):
Really exaggerated. There was some other question.
Go ahead. Faust is so beyond fucking
caring right now. He's going in the elevator.
You get it makes sense anymore. You get into the elevator and

(01:29:38):
you see a singular button that says says that the oh.
God, I guess let's get in the elevator.
Fuck it. 100. All right, well, the DMS laying
a path. DMS laying a path.

(01:29:59):
Let's go. Follow the bread crumbs, guys.
All aboard the railroad. This is this is, this is the
sidetrack. There are definitely things you
could go around and see. Sidetrack, this is the most
obvious thing in the room. Very much you.

(01:30:20):
Walk out and directly in front of you is an elevator.
Let's go. I have never been in this
situation in DNB game before. I'm taking the elevator.
Every time that there wasn't a situation like this, I've been
asked why isn't there an elevator so.

(01:30:41):
As we put the button. And I ready to spell in case we
go into in case this is a trap. Can I push the button?
How he is activating his force cube so that when the door
opens, there's like a barrier between US, OK the outside and
also it holds the air. So if it's like just like it's a

(01:31:03):
barrier, it, it keeps everythingin and out.
Alright, I've been pushing. This fucking thing forever.
Can I push the button? Is everyone else filtering in
there? Yep, I I'm pulling laundry right
now, but I'm golf clapping Faust.

(01:31:26):
It's nice. I don't have any.
Mommy, Ezra. Oh, Ezra's in there.
I'm. Imagining like the Portal 2
elevator music is playing in here.
Like Ezra is literally asking ifhe can push the button.

(01:31:51):
Oh, he's in there, he's in there.
He's waiting for you outside. He can push the button.
Must have lost a mommy. She's gone.
Poof, out of existence, I guess.And we're dead. 1 by 1.

(01:32:16):
By what? Is everybody in?
Yeah, I mean. All. 4.
Of. You I am definitely in.
Ezra totally pushed the button. You press the button and the
elevator the the room's door closes and you you hear a soft
gentle music playing while you feel the Slowly the force of

(01:32:41):
gravity increases on you and youget you.
You keep going for quite a while.
The force of gravity increases. Is that what they said?
OK, like like the sense of? Move the sense of movement
upward, like. OK.
OK, you're crazy. Like the one.
Point. Being in an elevator.

(01:33:05):
Yeah, it wasn't like, I'm not talking like like 2G.
I'm just talking like, yeah, the1.1 G that would be in the
elevator. Could could Ezra survive 2 GS?
Probably he's strong I think. I think I mean pilots like jet

(01:33:27):
like super fast jet pilots go upto like 5 or and the really good
ones I think make 6. I was studying that out at one
point for some reason. Don't ask me why.
Yeah, you guys go up this elevator.
Oh, this room continues on. Sorry.

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And you see at the top, actually, some other numbers
appear and some other buttons that only after you've ascended
them appear all the way up to the 100th floor.
And the doors open on a scene before you that is, in no other

(01:34:15):
words, astounding. There is a giant figure that's
in the middle of a some sort of ritually circled device.
Projecting some sort of light out from it is the main thing
you notice All around you thoughthere is an an excess of light

(01:34:39):
coming from what you can only perceive as magical sources, and
a large skeletal figure that is presiding over all of the it's
still not the. The large figure in the middle,
just to to give you some idea, is easily a 121 feet or 125 feet

(01:35:02):
in height, but it's not really afigure any as the light that's
filtering in around it is providing its bodies bodily
shape as well. So as you come walking out of
the room, the doors Ding and youwalk out of the elevator.

(01:35:26):
You hear a booming voice from the skeleton over here.
Who is easily 10 foot high as well.
And he goes, ah, looks like the interview's right on time.
And you get one second from him before another Porter, very

(01:35:48):
similarly dressed from the one before in the red attire of
House Kroy, walks up. Ah.
Well, that is good that you've made it.
Where's the head Porter? You telling lava?
Step forward and I'm like, I'm starting to inform you that are.
You are you familiar with? Made an untimely Made an

(01:36:11):
untimely end. Are you familiar with the
concept of the? Are you familiar with the
concept of the ROST effect? I think above my pay grade.
I see. But suffice to say, he no longer

(01:36:32):
exists. So he turns to ash.
I get head. Porter role now.
Congratulations on your promotion.
Hi. I give him a little nod and I'm
like, yes, you do. I'm so glad you're here to meet
us. Well, I am also glad then to let
you know that I've secured an interview with Ashima to join

(01:36:55):
the factions of the PNC and secure funding for your next
ventures, providing that you pass the interview, He says and
bows his head and kind of steps to the side and puts his hand
off. Towards Ashima.
I thank him, and then I just start walking toward Ashima.

(01:37:17):
Who is over here and intent on his work?
It seems like he's typing into what looks like or pounding into
keys of different varying languages and reading a digital
a visual display in front of himand looking back at this giant
125 foot figure behind him. Wait, wait wait wait, wait, wait

(01:37:41):
wait wait wait. Has this motherfucker been
Wizard of Ozzing us this entire time?
We might. We might just find out.
I look at, I look at Franklin, Idon't know about you, but I

(01:38:06):
didn't have this on my bingo card.
A religion check looking at thislarge being for the guidance.

(01:38:31):
Wait, who are we passing guidance on?
May I did a 26 religion check todetermine what this is?
See in the image some small intricacies that are a form of

(01:38:53):
the primal languages and the heavenly languages, celestial
written in this projected image,almost all relating back to the
God of Protection, the second moon of Tareth, Elmar, or by

(01:39:18):
another name. The God Helm HELM.
He appears bound Did. You say helm or helm?
Helm with an M like mother. And it does appear to be bound,

(01:39:45):
and it it does also appear to bea larger aspect.
And at the center of the head, there seems to be a visual
representation of an eclipse of that moon, the second moon of

(01:40:09):
Taurus. Do we know of any eclipses?
Oh, we wouldn't. We're in hell.
You know, yeah, we haven't seen the sky in years.
You know with a 27 though and your researches as well as your
connection to the table and yourmeta knowledge that this is most

(01:40:32):
likely an anathema that Ashima has discovered for the God Helm
or Elmar. Oh, OK.
Which, you know, an anathema is basically the the kryptonite of

(01:40:58):
a God. And he's using it to create an
Eclipse. I think the eclipse is an
anathema. He's waiting on one.
Do we want an eclipse of moon? OK, so science isn't a role I

(01:41:24):
typically I have to do it. I either, depending on the
science, lump it into history orarcana.
Yes, that's exactly how I would do it too.
Oust is a fucking. Nature.
Can I or nature? Yeah.
Can I but I? But science is typically not a
wisdom thing. I mean if it's bio like biochem,

(01:41:45):
very. Loathe the separation of wisdom
and intelligence they but that'sbesides the point.
It's like wizard literally just means wise one.
Can I roll to know if there are any upcoming celestial events

(01:42:13):
akin to a eclipse do? You have any time keeping device
on you? I have a talking head that knows
everything about the universe. Oh yeah, I forgot about that
guy. Where are you storing that guy?
He's floating around behind me right now, like over my shirt,
like a turbo sculpt and 40K. Very similar to Bob Ash you you

(01:42:38):
missed this development. It was summoned last time.
I didn't get it in the recap, but is it ethereal to in nature?
No, it's very. It is.
It is mechanical. OK, so it has material to it.
I just was clarifying that aspect of it.
So yeah, it's constantly floating over your shoulder.

(01:43:01):
Whichever 1 you choose, I guess you turn.
Upcoming celestial events. You turn to it, ask it of that,
and it goes kind of tilts its head off to one side, looks and
even though it has no eyes, you can feel the sockets that once
have eyes looking up at a ceiling that has no moons or

(01:43:25):
stars above it in it currently. And it go.
I'm fairly certain there is. One quite impending, actually.
How soon? Well, judging by the distance

(01:43:46):
between the azimuth of the sun, the moon and the stars, we've
got approximately 1 day. Well, shit.
That's the next session, by the way, of the evil campaign.

(01:44:12):
So we need to get our interview started over with, get accepted,
and then go to sorcery. Speaking of which.
We've. Also, we've also agreed to like
resist the PNC from leaving. This is what he's waiting for.
We need to fight well, we need to.

(01:44:35):
We need to buy 2 if. We're if we're.
Internal we could. If we're internal, we could
sabotage their efforts dramatically.
We definitely could. Where do we buy time?
Let's find store. That's true.

(01:44:56):
Part of the plan was to open up the the water on the ship.
OK, I think. It's a ship.
I think it's a space elevator, but there's a ship.
It's up here, I guess like spaceelevator.
Speaking of which, as you guys are taking in your surroundings

(01:45:19):
and being overwhelmed in generalfrom all everything around you,
you see? Faust knows Faust has my
memories. He knows what sci-fi is.
As well then from a visual larger screen that is on the
north side of the map or the right side where you guys

(01:45:41):
currently stand, a large visualization of a rocket that
seems to be priming and doing its tests and running through
those tests. You some of you only know what
rocket means, but it's kind of giving some of the others a
Nosebleed. And on the side of the rocket

(01:46:02):
you see Q4 Michael Ripper or 1/4for Mycopolis.

(01:46:23):
RIP. It's gotta be so.
Cute, you said. Q4 Micropolis.
Yep. Q4 What does Q4 mean?
Animation is. Like Q4 Micropolis, what was it

(01:46:44):
ROP? RIP.
The last time I hand animated anything.
Q4 Micropolis, Wait for Micropolis.
Rest in peace, I. Feel like that kind?
Of doesn't count 'cause I'm likeyeah, but.

(01:47:04):
But like actually like hand drawing animation and.
As you guys are pondering what that could mean I guess.
And like. A little walk cycle of you get
from Ashima A. You're here for an interview
then? Yes, Sir, we are.

(01:47:26):
Well, what is your pitch? I'm going to need your elevator
pitch. I apologize to do this to you,
but did you ever make my my glasses?
I did. They should be in your
inventory. Right, I haven't.

(01:47:47):
I kind of, I'm hoping that Franklin is standing next to me
and I will put a hand on Franklin's shoulder and I was
like, we will help you. I hate people and maintain a
seat in Sorber. Piece we don't have anything
that stands out let. Me chance with.
You duplicitous manuscript. Tridecahedron Puzzle, Hellfire

(01:48:10):
Brick, Astral Diamond, Cuba Force, Little Bag of Sand.
Talking about looking for your glasses Glasses.
Yeah, it may be important. I I know where he's coming from.
Considering the lady that enchanted my glasses hates this

(01:48:33):
guy's guts, I just want to know what they do.
That's got it. Oh, I'm so hesitant to sign

(01:48:56):
anything with these guys becauseit's going to put us in double
jeopardy. Just like the other team.
We need to be independent contractors here.
Do you see Faust's HUD? HUD.
Is that an item? I don't see that in my inventory
now. I see it, it's under dagger, it

(01:49:20):
goes Ring of Man, shielding dagger, Faust's HUD, it's even
equipped on my screen. OK, wondrous item.
While wearing these lenses with a lipstick stain, you gain
access to the following abilities when warned, where

(01:49:42):
occasionally sees faint overlaysof data and colored text when
you wear the oh asexual focus. While you wear these lenses, you
had advantage on saving throws against being charmed.
Fair enough action you can activate the lenses any analysis
mode for one minute. During this time the lenses

(01:50:02):
projected constant stream of information.
When you interact with a creature with the 30 feet of
you, you can use your reaction to analyze the creatures current
disposition. The name provides with two
pieces of information. Again +2 bonus to your next
charisma check or wisdom check made against that creature.
OK. You likey?

(01:50:26):
I likey Oh my God, what do we do?
Provide an estimate of the creatures remaining.
Good points. I thought you might like that
last one. Yeah.
And display any active magical effects.
OK, yeah, we're going to activate those just so I can get
a beat on this guy. Current disposition.

(01:50:52):
Trying to get his current disposition and his current hit
points. There's an HP bar just appear
above his head while you're wearing it.
Worse, it's just a skull. Like it's fucking wow.
Is, you see, as a singular portion of it.

(01:51:19):
Did that work? Oh, that came through the other
way. Sitting at a cool 258.
However, you know that this is only one with some of the other
information that is laid overlaid 1.
I'm repeating again specificallyof his.

(01:51:46):
Effects. Yeah. 258 Puny God.
He's not a God. Better for Ezra.
Holding my hands behind my back,suddenly pointing a finger at
Franklin to cast message. Oh, but it gives.

(01:52:08):
Me that information. So just to repeat, it was 258 HP
1 of what was it? One of his.
It's only one of his aspects. Yeah, one, this isn't him, and

(01:52:29):
Franklin would actually know approximately from reading the
contract multiple times about how many he has, if you recall.
I'm trying to remember what you when you say aspects if you're
talking about lives. Yes, we're talking about.

(01:52:51):
I was like. It's not just him.
He's got like he's. Got like Super Mario lives
stacked up. Yeah, my understanding is he had
Super Mario Lives a lot stacked up and it was 20 of them, so 20
* 258. I just I assume that he has

(01:53:14):
multiple versions and spread out.
That's true. If we kill him here, I mean, I
guess it depends on how many of them are around.
We we can't sign any contracts with him.

(01:53:35):
I'm going to step forward a second looking super innocent
like I do now. Say, I had a real quick question
about, we had, we got a draft oflike a cut of a, like a
deployment contract with you guys just to make sure we do our
due diligence. Really.
That's great. That is, that is really good to

(01:53:56):
hear. Yeah, yeah, very focused.
There's this thing here that says like you're looking for
something called a vile Book of Blackness, Dark, darkness.
Why? It doesn't say why?
What are you going to use? What's it for?
Oh. Well, yeah, you might not.

(01:54:16):
Need to really worry about that as it's rather quite a rare
thing in in amongst the stars ofthe galaxies.
However, if you did. Stumble.
Upon something like that, the reason we'd be interested in it
specifically, I guess. Is that we could prolong our

(01:54:39):
agenda and pro and expand our horizons.
I'm sure you you know it has. He I don't think he would.
How? How would he know that I would
know? Narrow my eyes.
You don't you, You don't know that he knows that he you know.

(01:55:01):
But he just said that. He's trying to probe and if you
narrow your eyes, he's going to roll an insight.
My roll the deception. I have.

(01:55:21):
Oh my God, good luck. Oh my God, roll that deception.
OK, I'm just looking to see whatelse I might have to fix that.

(01:55:44):
Yeah, if I'm correct, let me read this again.
Levi have advantage against 'cause I have the book, but it's

(01:56:10):
also hidden so I guess I wouldn't.
So straight roll. Nope.
You you have guidance. Oh yeah, and guidance.
I don't think it's going to saveyou today though, quite like.
Specifically, the summer. Because he got a 34.

(01:56:31):
Holy fuck this dude. Like in my head.
And he just, he doesn't say anything.
He doesn't do anything. He plays it off for a second and
he goes but. No.
Well. If you did find it, I mean there
is a sizable reward for it depending upon your fancy.

(01:56:58):
Cool. And seeing that that doesn't
trigger anything for you. So you know, if those that are
bound to it were to sign on to the PNC, there is a very large
signing bonus because we don't, we don't necessarily need

(01:57:20):
complete control of this object.We would just need to make sure
that it is in our interests and not working against it like.
I feel. Like I just opened up like a.
Camera seems dangerous this is Imean.
I'll keep my eyes out for sure. So do does do my does my hood

(01:57:46):
hood show me that his disposition went to suspicious
and then like some level of certainty?
Yes. Fuck he.
Didn't really answer the question at all either.
Anyways, so yeah, you were saying, Madam, I apologize.

(01:58:08):
There was some interruptions your elevator pitch for joining
the PNC and he's looking at you,Ash, I will like to add while
you're just maybe going through your notes on what that elevator
pitch was, we are a multiversal gold standard 500 organization

(01:58:32):
here and we absolutely accept freelance opportunities.
I believe that we can help you gain control and maintain
control over Socrates. That would be a very
advantageous thing for us to have, I think at this time.

(01:58:53):
And he kind of looks at like something after the side and he
goes yes, Orcrates, yes, they. Would be yeah yeah, some of
their technologies are of interest to us.
I do see here though that there is some instigators in rum

(01:59:14):
rollers wish faction. I've got to get under control.
Apparently we already own that area by this and he's looking
through the the the his own system there.
Yes, yes, yes. They the the rum rollers known
as the wish. Faction in the PNC.
That might may not be knowns to you, but they apparently have

(01:59:37):
claimed it in the name of the PNC, although those those
dealings are in not a pun intended here, but in limbo of
sorts as they are facing trial. Currently in the depth.

(01:59:58):
So you need someone else to headthat up since they seem to be
failing at their job. I don't I I it could be.
It could be a quicker way to a solution I guess, if you could
make your way there and subvert I mean.

(02:00:18):
Cool word. Nope, I got to look for better.
Words on this planet. And then?
There we go. Yes, yes, sorry.
I'm still getting used to the softer nature of this planet.
What is your goal? What is your goal?

(02:00:42):
Any rumors? But I would hear it from your
own mouth. You it is.
It is Admiral. That you pluck the courage to
ask. I find myself at the tippy top
of this pyramid known as the PNConly by luck, guile and
happenstance. But with that I hope to create a

(02:01:06):
viable balance for this system of Micropolis.
See, the problem we have here iswe have too many galactic
influences, and one of those I think that I could I could get
along with a little bit better than the others.
Manipulus, we need a little bit more order, don't you think?

(02:01:29):
He looks to you. I'm whispering here.
It's also the God of deception that we are like very quietly,
oh, you know this I'm. Told he's lying.
So you seek to align yourself with the God of deception, and
you think it was to trust such an entity?

(02:01:52):
I don't. Well, you might be referring to
Loki. That is, he is the God of
defection and he is most definitely an ally of ours.
However, I don't trust him but. And he points to the giant
figure in the middle of the room.

(02:02:13):
You see that there, that is an aspect in the next day of which
I will be able to hold of Elmar,the second moon in this system,
The first moon he pulls his handback from pointing under his
chin, is Igtras. If you don't know.

(02:02:37):
Who was green but is now blue Once you, my friends had changed
it and released Loki from the fifth level of hell who now
inhabits that moon. So I think our interests align.
With the deceiver being releasedfrom your own hands and the

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protector a portion of them, at least in my chambers.
I think that we could subvert, I'm sorry, convince the entire
populace of Tariff that they would be better off.
With a. Strong hand at the stone.

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Can I, can I glance between him and the avatar and then I'll can
I do a check? I'm trying to remember if any of
the players here have any of theGod tier items from the table

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because I believe that I know and I'm trying to verify that
that those are potent weapons against gods.
Them specific. Very tempted to try to kill.
There's a giant thing before he becomes the moon.

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It's a depiction of the moon on the on the eclipse.
It can be he's taking control ofit.
But he, he's going to inhabit this God that's tied up.
But I, I don't think it's tied up.
I think it's just a depiction ofit.
Depiction of it tied up somewhere, but not tied up here.

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Am I mistaken? Is there an entity in the room
with us that he is planning on taking over?
I think this would be a very astute observation that you guys
would potentially all a line on.Wait, you said table item Ezra

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has. There are there are two table
items that I know of that I was going to state that you know 2
of Faust has one more than likely anyways, and Ezra had
given one I thought to Ash I think a giant coin.

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But the giant coin, was it stillgiant?
Hello ma'am, I see you. No, no, did not stay giant you.
You look like. You'd be the side character in
like but filling in the gaps. Ashima would also turn back to
Faust and go. Did I answer your question about

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my? Motivations is the thing in the
room or is it elsewhere? Is this a depiction of it or is
the is this, is that a God or isthat a depiction?
Is that just like a hologram of a God that he's using for
illustrative purposes? Very good question.

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Oh sorry, no, not just ask him, just ask him.
I'm asking you, I'm looking at it.
Could you manage? It.
It looks like a. It looks like a giant
representation of the God. OK, like my my assumption here

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is that he says tomorrow I will be able to inhabit this, you
know, giant deity level being and then be on the planet and be
the moon the. Idea of freelance work?
What form of contract would thattake?
Well that is a very good good direction to take.

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It has no pool on an individual's soul.
Although I will be remiss to miss your souls as they look
quite. Usable, however beautiful, A
freelance. Contractor will only be required

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to pay the appropriate ties in silcoins, of course, to a tune
of a singular well, I mean. He looks back up on the system.
Ah, sorry, I apologize. I'm still working off of old

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times. I, I guess I meant to say a
solid 12% interest on the loan. Walking in a circle around the
area, yeah, wherever we are. What area?
Wherever we are currently standing, which I I'm trying to

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see where we are versus him. And you, OK, so you guys are
here, you came in through a sidedoor and he is here if you can.
See him OK that the same way in so I'm just trying to I'm I'm

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acting like I'm like I'm admiring looking around. 5. 50
feet. Yeah, OK.
I'm just walking kind of like generally around him, staying in
the conversation but walking around for a minute.
But like, hand to your chin, head bowed, thinking.

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Yeah, looking at stuff, sprinkling bits of salt on the
ground. I am well.
He is distracted, attempting to very subtly instigate like a
magic circle. Shit, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm

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gonna keep his attention as muchas possible while Franklin is
doing this. Like hold, hold on above table
like are what are we? What are we thinking of doing?
Because I don't want to like force.
Oh, oh oh, if we're I'm, I am 10out of 10 ready to throw hands.
'Cause like my, my thinking is if, if this entity here is is

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him, he is saying he is going tophysically inhabit the thing
that's in the room with us and then use it as his trump card.
And then kill it with a God item.
I'm on board. Yeah, that's my plan, but I want
to check with the rest of you, 'cause.
So by two things like I want to ask Mimir first is that the God

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or is that a depiction of the God?
Second thing I'm going to ask Mamir is if 12% is an outrageous
like so interest rate for soul coins.
Who is that? Your little skull guy, Mamir.
Yeah, that's Mamir. Yes, that's right, that's right.
So you you turn to him, you ask him that and he just states kind

(02:10:23):
of whispering and not wanting tooffend the dealings that are
going on. He he he's he's very aware and
he just basically goes highway robbery Hwy. robbery and
Franklin. I'm going to need a deception
again with advantage for Ash. Who?

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You need to tell me what Ash youwere doing to distract him.
His raboon walks. I I'm, I'm going to keep talking
like I wanted to keep talking about Socrates, like, oh, we
could totally manage that for you.
And he said, as freelancers, we only had to pay a tithe.
So I'm going to try to ask a lotof questions about freelancing,

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what kind of contracts they expect, all that kind of stuff.
I'm really going to ask a lot ofquestions to keep his attention
and make it seem like we are desperately interested in being
of help to him. He goes over and pulls something
up data wise and basically whilehe's doing that he turns back

(02:11:30):
over to you Franklin, and goes. That's you needs.
You to pick it up. And pretends like he's sneezing,
but actually there is a giant gust of air that blows all of

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everything away that you're doing.
And he goes back to his screen and he goes, well, those
dealings that you're talking about, he rubs his nose and
goes, yeah, that or where there should be a nose.
And he goes just a little. Frame yeah, that we could we

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could probably do some improvement on that 12% if you
could guarantee a certain level of returns on that investment
because. And he goes, pulls up another
screen. It looks like here that your
family is requesting an investment for yourselves,
specifically A to the tune of like, yeah, gold and soul coins.

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Like he does like a quick translation.
He goes something like 20,000 gold a day for 100 days.
Oh my. God, the spiral.
That sounds right. So there's 2,000,000 per year

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with an interest on soul coins. And he just, he keeps typing and
he goes like. The fast to see if he's got any.
Any ideas? Were you successful on your
circle walk? No, he blew it away because I
failed my deception check because you said I needed to

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step it up and I. Right.
Yeah, I was just like I assumed you did, but hey.
I was going to cast magic circleon him but the other option is
we need to put down this God as quickly as possible but.

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I. Will because he says until
tomorrow so. Agreement then.
We just need a, we, we need a setup move.
If if everyone else that was listening, I don't know if Ash
or whichever has has anything they want to say in terms of

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planning. Somebody said Ezra go hurt.
Town Punch. It sounds like he's been talking
to my family to get things set up for us to get paid for the
way that they're setting things up.
So. Well, so I guess that's my
question to you, Ash, are you doyou Jesse want to ally with

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these guys or you plan or is is your plan on double crossing
them? Because it seems like attacking
them now is smarter than later if that's the plan.
But I want your take on it before we force.
It it's of an absurd rate. I don't think that that is an

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agree. I say like nodding along and
like acting like I'm reaching into my bag of holding to pull
out like a Ledger, plot my spellbook and also pull out the
it's and I can describe the skies the spellbook to look like
anything. It'll look like a Ledger and.

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As you're doing so, he kind of finishes off trailing off, which
is what he was doing last of explaining that you would get 2
million gold per year, or 400 inthe value of 400 soul coins, or
2 million gold per year. He says as I open up the Ledger

(02:15:50):
and begin to flip through it andon why I unroll the scroll of
earthquake and the Demon Queen promised me one.
I'm going to stand with you guys.
Like, Ash is very much about making money and stuff, and she
was set out to be a politician, but so that she could rule the

(02:16:10):
world and protect it in her mind.
So yeah, that's still our plan. That's what she's going to
continue to do. Ash is on board with that.
Fuck these guys. I'm casting quick.
Ezra Smash in. The room seeing him ready to
cast I'm I'm also going to oh all have been prepared to jump

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this dude. With that I will state that it
is 957. Next time.
Yeah, we're going to have to do it next time, so.
Next time I'm talking about the.You guys, is that before or
after Eurythmic? That is the last session before
Eurythmic, the 28th. That's going to be a.

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Sex session We got to come up with some good opening styles.
If we can't kill him, we kill the God.
Yeah, the creature he's got projecting above him.
Very. Least I'm praying that me
casting earthquake in this room is going to disrupt things
enough that like it takes them like another 100 years for this

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next conjunction or some shit. Like it buys time.
Ezer just wants to punch the guyin the face.
Nope. Yeah, now I just need to
convince everyone to make an appearance to to make your your
fight more effective. Right.

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Oh man. Couple minor guards in the room.
I have yet to mention them because they're not that big of
a deal. They just seem to be like little
minions of undead know but. I have AI have a question about
how how like based on what I know from the the book how the

(02:18:02):
extra lives he has works becauselike the mechanics of it because
I have the the blood spear whichas soon as I kill someone their
soul gets teleported to hell. Yeah, yeah.
How does that? How does that interact with the?

(02:18:24):
With with a creature of hell. With a, well, not just a
creature of hell, but like a creature that essentially has
like a Horcrux, right? 20 Horcruxes.
So what if we don't kill him? What if we capture him like a
Pokémon? Yeah, I mean, I wish we'll use.

(02:18:45):
I haven't. Used it.
We have those extra rings of we have rings of mind shielding.
If we can capture him, force himto wear it for an hour, and then
kill him to capture a soul into a ring.
OK. Then his soul will be captured

(02:19:05):
in a ring and then. Tells me that that doesn't
typically work on entities like him.
Yeah, probably not. And you would know from your
studies with the book. That's why I was kind of going
back towards it. You know that your soul is
fractured with a phalactery, right?

(02:19:27):
And he's a lich, which is what you're, you're aspiring to be.
And when you split your soul, split your soul like that, you
are basically a fraction. You're fracturing yourself into
separate entities. So those different different

(02:19:49):
entities no longer are the same entity.
It's kind of the same the the the.
I am Legion. I am Bob.
Yeah, Yep. If anyone has ever read that or
hasn't read that and enjoys comedy sci-fi, I am legion.
I am Bob 10 out of 10. Do you recommend?

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Also, if anyone else is planningto become a lich, me and Matt
have worked out how it works outon terrace you need.
I will talk to you about that. There is the maximum of 20
phylacteries that you're allowedto have though.
Yeah, on that subject, how many soul coins did we pick up in the
last session? Because you didn't.

(02:20:36):
You didn't put it down. 600 is what?
You paid? Yeah, but we picked up stores
and stores more. I will have to re listen to the
thing because. Those are pretty pricey.
I don't. Feel like I've got enough sold

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coins. To they're basically, just so
you know, 55000 GP per personal coin.
Yeah. To everyone.
There'll be liches and think about being lich.

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Being a lich would give me the immortality I need to kill the
gods. All the time.
That's my thinking too. The Faust is a little like
despite being an arrogant prick,he's not so like he doesn't
think anybody deserves immortality or that level of
power, so that's also why he doesn't want to be a God, so.

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Now you have both. In order to fight them though,
you're going to have to have that much power.
Eventually it it's going to haveto come down to someone who's
got the willpower to put the sword down after conquering the
world. A Lelouch, sort of, if you've

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ever seen that anime. Cenatus.
Kogios Kigas Kogios is awesome. Yeah, What was the anime?
Kogiosk. 10 out of 10. Oh yeah.
Heard a lot about it. I still have not watched it.
Really good anyway. Any any anime with Johnny Bosh

(02:22:28):
is good. We'll have to figure out what
our opening moves for this combat are going to be, but
yeah, we want, I wanted to just make sure everyone was chill
with fighting and it was a little unsure.
Yeah, Ash is here to protect theworld because she thinks she

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knows better and can save it, sothat's what she's going to do.
We're all on the same page. Awesome.
Yeah. It's like long term.
It's great. We'll.
Just keep giving Ezra snacks andhe will just keep helping us.
That's that's Ash's whole thing.She doesn't have any muscle, but
she has snacks. The best villains are the ones

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that think they're the good guys.
It's great. We are the good guys.
We are the good guys. Listen, nobody else understands
the problem. We understand the problem.
We need to be in control of all of the resources on the planet
to direct them towards the problem.
And in order to do that, everybody has to fall in line,

(02:23:37):
you know, and that requires us to conquer the planet.
And that's, you know. The problem with what you're
saying is that I'm imagining your hands out in front of you,
back, waving back and forth in the very Trump likes fashion.

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Not that, not that that's not what you guys shouldn't do.
I mean do what you do. I'm I'm never going to tell you
not what to do as DM. Franklin and as Trump is the
funniest thing I can picture in my mind.
Wait, what is it? Franklin wearing a little big
Tereth grade again hat like this, kind of hunched.

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Yes, yes. All right, so next people
session we're either killing someone or we're breaking all of
their shit. Oh, we're breaking all of their
shit that's happening. I'm casting an earthquake in a

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room with the area of less than 100 square feet.
Well, I'm sorry, it's 100. It's a circle with 100 foot
radius. Everything in this room is
getting fucked. Yeah, center it on that
hologram. That's the game plan.
Somebody have counterspell ratings for the Counterspell

(02:25:10):
war? There's 100 foot, so yeah,
that's just the the edge of the giant.
Oh, this room. Is huge as fuck OK.
It is. It is very big, man.

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I've not been in a room so big that I couldn't cast an
earthquake and it take up everything in a long time.
It is a very big room. I mean like I told you, it had
to be very big just to fit this fucking entity in it, which is
100 and fucking 20 feet in height.
And with my. Canned responses to.

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The cats, Ma'am, stop. All right, guys, I'm going to
hop off here. My cats won't leave me alone.
They probably need bed. Good night, Good night.
Have a good night. A grand and wonderful thank you

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