Expedition Untold Ch. 12 - "Sewers & Saviors" - Talltale Tavern

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Welcome back to the TOO. Creamy.
Too much cream, Too much cream in the mouth.
All right, take it off. Great.
Amazing. Laugh while you can.
We keep that in the intro. This is all part of the intro.

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Welcome back to the Tall Tale Tavern, the monthly one shot
adventure TTRPG podcast. I'm your Tavern master and host
Kyle. And we are back for chapter 12
of Expedition Untold. Joining me back at the bar
tonight, recovering joke wire kid, current school psychologist
and aspiring magical girl. It's Brooke.

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Thank you, Kyle. Thank you.
Happy to be here. That was not L 10, that was just
a mechanical robot voice. It was clearly very different,
yeah. Yeah, anybody who thought it was
the same as a fool, of course. Yeah.
Obviously, but Scott, you've created the the way we talk in
robot now I'm I had to. Know and I'm sorry for anyone

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who has to do it because it hurts.
It doesn't feel good. It really doesn't.
Also, here, on his knees worshipping the Holy Ghost in
the machine, we have the cleric lad played by Landy.
Welcome Landy. Hey.
Thank you, glad to be here. Also here a guy who forgot to
cut his hair before this episodeso he instead cut this intro

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short. It's Mav.
Welcome back, Mav. Glad to be here, I guess he.
Was doing a visual thing. Oh, right, I don't have the
visual up because my next guest likes to spend send me things in
spoiler form so I have his text up ready to go so I can just
click on it. Welcome back.
Welcome, Mav. Sorry, I didn't see your visual

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effect. I'll have to eventually see that
on YouTube, I suppose. Also here.
Oh, is Scott's go? Scott's still here?
Yeah, he is. You nailed it.
Yeah, I. Keep the the the text
inflection. I started one way and then
realized that's not the way it was written.

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It's O Scott's still here. That's fine.
Yes, thank you. I am still here and I'm loving
every minute of it. I tried to.
We took it a few places actuallyin a little bit slower on.
The wrong, yeah. Scott's still here.
What about in the robot voice? Like does that work?
Scott's still here. That one, for some reason, makes

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me feel like you're cheating on me.
Yeah, it. Was a.
Oh, Scott's still. Here also here.
I can't tell who was more stunned after last session,
Viper or her player. Shaking off the shook now
ballistic Kitty. Welcome back, ballistic Kitty.
I'm scared, help me. It's great to have you back.

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I don't know if you're feeling great to be back, but it's great
to have you back. I'm excited to be back.
I'm worried what's to come. And last but not least, I need
him, Tiro. I'm holding up for him Tiro till
the end of the night. He's gotta be suave and he's
gotta be kind and he's gotta be safe from the fight.

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I need Namby. I'm holding up for Namby till
the morning light. She's gotta be cute and it's
gotta be soon and she's gotta shine.
Brighter than life. Brighter than Life.
Brooke, Rebecca. Love, Rebecca.
He was singing about my character, so I.
Was singing about your character?

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Yeah. You know you're not the first
one to conflate us together, so it's fine.
Great. That was my first time
practicing. That was it so good guys it.
Was so. Good, I did my first.
Should we do another couple of? Records.
Did you send me like 4 recordings?
Have you seen that earlier todaythen like asking me which one
was best? Completely unrelated.

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OK, completely unrelated. Well, let's let's reopen the
book, turn to chapter 12 and continue the story of Expedition
Untold. Roll the intro.

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Everything is so broken. Yesterday I stepped out of
another Reduce portal into crowning AI achievement alone.
But Ben Biofuel was there and offered me friendship and safety
in this overwhelming world, and I took it without questioning.
Together with Ben, Viper, Ladd, Apollo, we made our way to New

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Lisbon City to try to meet up with a group of resistance
fighters and take down the Red Ooze corrupted AI.
We fought mutants and bots alongthe way, but then everything
broke. Kihachi revealed all of this has
been a lie. This group, these book
characters, they aren't my friends, they're just robots
too, and they led me like a lambto slaughter to the AII mean.

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I know they didn't know, but still.
The real Paulo Viper, Ben and lad dead and now AI.
Viper's sister and Paulo's gang?Probably dead end AI.
The mutants we fought through, those are the remaining
organics. Had my myself convinced I was
just killing monsters, but who was I actually killing?

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The crew fought the AIA 175 years ago.
Not six weeks, but something wascorrupted all the way back then.
L10 from the mothership was somehow with them and the AI
absorbed him. Why was he here?
Have you read Mothership? It's really good.
It's about no, no, we don't. We don't have time for that.

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Everything is broken. I need to find my real friends.
We start this chapter off with Mtero and Namby Namby.
You stand outside the Temple of Seoul, say goodbye to Hughes,
Sister River, and the rest of the Bone Guard, and activate a
page from Crowning AI Achievement.

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A golden portal of swirling spectral pages opens in front of
you, and you step inside Mtero in the fuzzy fur.
You hold a similar page in your hand, activate the portal, say
goodbye to your father and Zaz, and step into the portal.
As you both step into the portal, you feel the story
resetting, just as it had for Zoonopia and Maleficent 7 M

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Tiro. You see your younger self never
asking your mother if she meant that your father was a genie,
and you grow up believing it, your mother holding on to that
secret until she wanted to tell you on her deathbed but never
had the chance. Your stories never gain much
traction and you didn't travel the world performing and selling
your stories. Namby you never meet M Tiro at

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the university at one of his performances and never buy his
book and never gain that extra inspiration from hearing his
story. You don't join the expedition to
the Temple of Seoul. M Tiro, You see your father
fighting the bullywugs and beingcaptured but being kept as a
slave and not presented to the queen.

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Namby you see the Bone Guard approaching the Temple of Seoul
and quickly being swarmed by undead.
You see River Navrog, Krunderg, and Thurter all falling to the
skeletal army of Theoxophilian the Necromancer.
Namby and Mtero you find yourselves swirling through this
tunnel of swirling golden pages.Mtero you sense the presence of

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someone on your left, and Namby you sense the presence of
someone on your right. You both look and realize your
stories have converged and you are once again together.
Are we like? Yeah.
Are we standing like are we, arewe in like a weird?
Floating in this tunnel as the pages are swirling around you

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and you are traveling together, able to see.
Each other I reach out to take. Nathan's hand and hold.
Hands on this. Yeah, yeah.
That did not work. I.
That was crazy. What happened?
Oh my God, you wrote a book and I bought it and then, Oh my,
that was weird. Yes, I I, I I I fear I made a

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horrible mistake and it is my fault that reality was
rewritten. Although I have no way of
knowing at the time, I learned that.
No, we didn't know what we were supposed to do.
I mean, Oh my gosh, we're just clasping his hand so hard.
I know, I know what we need to do.
Now though, We have to find Huguenard.

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I promised Huguenard that we would get through this together,
and we must. Why isn't he here?
I have no idea, but I do know that I think when I talked to
when I talked to Thwick they mentioned that he was like
needed help or was in Crown. Did they tell me specifically
that he was in Crown achievement?

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I don't know as you're trying toremember as you say I'm.
Going to jump in here. Yes, Thwick told you that it was
crowning AI achievement and he said that he was in big danger.
Same thing for Victoria towards Namby.
All right, that's that's just a little note from the editors.
Great. I mean, I know he's in danger,

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but like, why is he not here? Like why are we meeting up And
he isn't like that's what's. I don't understand why only you
and I would be affected by the decision that I made.
Sounds and images from the pagesaround you.
You start to hear them and see and and see images from crowning
AI achievement, and it starts tosurround you.

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You hear parts of the story thatyou've heard before, and other
parts that are new. You hear Elton's voice as he was
with Paulo. You see him and Paulo joining
the crew with Ben, Ladd, Viper and Dasher, and the events of
the original story happening just as it happened before.
Except this time at the end, thecrew decided to let L 10 become

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a vessel for Hihachi AI for him to use the power for good in
order to help heal the corporateowned world.
You see that plan failing hard and Hihachi taking control of
L10's body, the red slime Oblx coming out of nowhere and
attacking Dasher, then Hihachi becoming L10's celestial form,
then uttering a word, Dasher's head exploding and everything

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descending into chaos. So then you see your friend Hugh
standing in the rain alone. You see him taken in by friends,
racing through a mutant infestedsubway tunnel fighting AI
constructs, only to find out that the characters of crowning
AI achievement have long since passed and have been replaced by

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AI versions of themselves, as has the entire world.
The AI crew resist a direct order from Hihachi, escape his
clutches, are beckoned in by themutants, and disappear into the
darkness. As you continue through this
portal, you look to each other and you notice that your body
start to change, to mutate, to adjust to the story, just as you

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have experienced before in the others.
Scott, will you please describe how M Tiro is looking as he is
changing? Yeah, first of all, his clothes
go from like nice barred clothesto looking like kind of burnt
tattered remains of clothes. I think and believe I picked
that he his hands start to web. He gets webbed fingers and toes

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and grows gills and his skin starts to take on the appearance
of like a waxy melting candle that's just kind of like almost
dripping off of him. And his stomach grows a crease
in the middle of it, like a gigantic mouth sticking out.

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I must have absorbed some sort of element of the bullywog queen
and I look over it namby and I'mprobably horrified at what I see
over there too. Namby tell us how your body is
changing as you are adjusting tothe new setting.
Yeah, so you know, Namby is a small creature.

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She comes in at like 2 1/2 feet.Her ears have always been big
for her head, but now they are sprouting like bones.
So she has bones coming up out of her head and then they come
at like an angle like wings havelike bones to structure them.

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So she now has these massive ears that have this bone
structure and her ears kind of flare out to the side and become
more like wings. And, and on top of that, at the
very, very tip of her right ear,just an extra eye pops out that

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can be kind of like a Periscope to see even further than she
normally can. This is a terrible story.
Oh, and her her usually like soft fluffy clothes that she
wears over her armor are now just like sludgy and slimy and

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like there's no soft fluffiness to them anymore and they're just
like kind of riffed and torn andnot looking good.
Horrific. Beautiful.
I love it. That's so great.
Yeah. So you look at each other as
your bodies are changing to thismutant form as you go through

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this tunnel and a bright light at the end of the tunnel starts
to shine and you see yourself getting to the end of this
tunnel. Entering into the story.
This bright light shines brighter and brighter until the
portal dissolves around you. You're both standing on a white
floor in front of a massive curved glass window staring into

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space. A large star hangs in the
distance, and floating before you is a planet, the third
planet from that star, made of mostly water.
The planet is dark on this side,with lots of beautiful twinkling
lights, but dense smog covering most of the land masses behind

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you. You hear a voice.
Yep, she's a beauty. Absolutely gorgeous planet.
I do love it when it's night andall the lights are on.
The smog is a bit of bit bit of a shame though.
And you turn around and see a middle-aged man with a
moustache, slightly overweight, wearing jeans with a belt tied
just a little too tight. Oh, pardon my manners.

(15:34):
My name's Bob. Welcome to our home.
I, I, I bought these, brought these chairs out.
Thought maybe you might feel weak in the knees.
I I was told you haven't been inspace before Empiro.
Gasps at the sight, but it's hisgills.
They go. He does it.

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Space. I'm not.
No, I'm sorry. What is?
Is that a plant where we're from?
What do you mean what? Oh, right, Yeah.
Why don't you just go ahead and take a rest there?
You can sit down there and well,that planet there, down there,

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they call it Earth and differentplanet than where you're from,
I'm sure. Well, I'm not quite sure.
You do look like some of the locals down there.
But anyways, yeah, so above. The planet.
I do not want to go anywhere where the people look like us,
right? Now that sounds bad.
I don't like that. Yeah, well, so we're in a, a

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ship, you know, like a like a boat, You know about boats right
where you're from. Yeah, boats.
Of course. Right.
This is like a boat that that's up in the sky, up really high in
the up in the stars that that goes really fast and all over
the place. This is, you know, this is our
spaceship that we call it our home.

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I mean, I've suppose I've heard of such things before in in
stories, but I could not imagineit in person.
Being it is really different. This isn't how I imagined it at
all. Well, he starts to explain a
little bit more about the ships and more about ships and space

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and tries to explain it a littlebit more.
And in the hallway behind Bob, you see a mass of red slime
creep around the corner and movesilently and slowly behind him.
That's. Right.
Fucking shoot a flame man. I.
Don't. Like, yeah, you ready, Attack.

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As this slime is moving forward,it raises up behind Bob, and
this big cartoonish face appearson it, on this massive slime and
goes right. And Bob turns around.
Oh, my heavens. And he and he, like, puts his
arms out and like, falls into you.
Oh, my goodness, Junior. Oh, my goodness.
That was a good one. You really got me.

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All right, huh? All right, these this year is
Bob Junior. He's he's my son, and sorry
about that. He's he's learning his colors.
You see? Well, we're plasmoids and he
shows. He drops his visage and you can
see he's got his blue color. And then he brings back his

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human looking. Form.
And this is my son, Bob Junior, and you know, he's he, he, he
got the trait from me. I can make myself look however I
want. So I I thought maybe this would
be a little bit more friendly for you to see, you know,
humanoid looking form, but. Could you, could you ask him not

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to be red, please? That's kind of oh.
Sure. Yeah, Yeah, Bob, our.
Junior, I guess I don't want to speak like you're not here, but
yeah. Oh, sure.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bobby, why don't you see if you
can do purple? See if you got purple there and
you see, like Bobby, Bob Junior is just this little BLOB and he

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turns into this beautiful purplecolor.
Rolled A-17 on that check. So he does.
Great job. Great job, Bob.
Truly a beautiful regal color myboy, and I'm so sorry that I
almost attacked you. It's, I don't mean to be
prejudice, but we have been having some unfortunate
involvement with a red ooze currently and I'm so sorry.

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Also, you said your name was Bob.
Allow me to introduce myself. I am M Tiero Berstero.
This is my friend Namby Pembleton.
We are looking for our friend Huguenard Rockbridge, who I
believe must be on that planet down there.
Oh yeah, we've got, we actually got some good information for
you. So I I we'll talk about it more
at dinner. I hope you all came hungry.

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The missus has prepared an absolute feast for dinner.
She is a fantastic cook and I amjust glad that you all are here
to help me eat it because Lord knows I do not need the extra
calories so. Wait, but if we have
information, shouldn't we? Shouldn't we go now?
I mean not to be rude, but. Oh, right, yeah.
We need to wait for cover though.

(20:17):
You see how it's night time downthere?
We're going to wait till the planet rotates a little bit and
then we're going to go on down. How?
Can you tell if it's night time down OK if you say.
So, well, it's dark, you see howit's, see how the sun's on the
other side and on this side it's, it's, it's dark there.
So the other side of the planetslight when this side's dark.

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You know, we we could really go into a whole lot of this, but we
don't really unfortunately don'thave a not much time.
You guys will be heading out here soon, but but you want to
get a good, good dinner in your belly out soon and and I don't
want to go down there my. Mouth stomach opens up.
Namby almost pierced, she's like.

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Bob Junior, he's on the ground. He like mimics you like he's he
like stands up and like tries tomake a mouth out of his like
belly and like a little like tongue that reaches out and
Bob's like Bobby, Hey, how aboutyou try, let's try to do the
the, you know, the humanoid formlike we talked about, you know,
head and arms and, and he's likecoaching him through and, and

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you see Bob Junior like like stand up and he like sprouts out
a couple arms and then a, a headlike comes out of his chest and
like flops down. He's like, Oh honestly, just
whatever is comfortable. Yeah, as long as it's not red
then it's fine. Did we accidentally, instead of
getting the mothership, end up in Lament of the Void right now?

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So he says, all right, well, let's that's a good try there,
Bob, remember head on top of thebody.
But anyways, well, let's head on.
Let's head on over and I think dinner's about ready.
So come on this way. Feel free to leave your shoes on
or take them off. We're not that kind of family
that makes you take your shoes off or anything like that.

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So we have. Shoes.
I guess I have to. When I do, I don't.
I don't think family. Wear shoes.
I think I normally wear sandals,but if I'm like mutant MTRO like
sewer mutant, I don't think he has shoes on.
Especially if I got the webbed toes I need to be ready to.
I wear like a thonged sandal normally and.

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That's not going to work. With.
The there's there's not the others.
I just feel like for dexterity'ssake, Namby is probably usually
barefoot to get the nice, like rabbit hop, you know?
Yeah. Oh, yeah, you've yeah.
Shoes are no, yeah, just we're, we're good.
So we'll head on in there. So you follow Bob to the dining

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room and go through this ship and, and turn into this dining
room area. And it's this like cozy room in
the center of the ship with a large wooden dining table in the
middle. There's carpet flooring on the
ground and pictures hung up around the room of Bob and his
family. Some pictures of older plasmoids

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that they're plasmoids, but you can tell they're older.
They're like a bit stooped over the colors not as vibrant.
They've, you know, got like a cane that that they have in some
of their pictures. So there's a big picture on the
wall of Bob and his family standing outside their teardrop
shaped ship with lots of other ships kind of in the background
and tons of plasmoids around. This is a very large like family

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picture and you can pick out Bobby Little family there and
then you see the table is just covered in food.
You see mashed potatoes, corn onthe cobs, seasoned green beans,
a crown roast, big jugs of iced tea and lemonade, and a blue
plasmoid white set woman walks in carrying a plate of baked

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potatoes. Oh honey, you didn't tell us our
guests had arrived. How rude of me.
Hi, my name is Mary. You must be Namby and M Tiro.
Am I saying that right? Yes, correct.
I am in Tiro Berstero. This is my friend Namby
Pambleton. It is wonderful to meet you,
Mary. Oh, great.
Well, welcome to our home. I've been, you know, working
hard in the kitchen. I I, I didn't know what you guys

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would would like to eat, so I just tried to make everything so
I don't. Do you have any restrictions?
Dietary restrictions? Can you is there something on
the table that you can eat? I hope.
I'm sure whatever you've made iswonderful.
Thank you so much. That's very sweet.
As long as there's no fish rightnow I'm just feeling like fish

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would not agree. With.
Me. Okay, well, you all can find
your seats at the table. I put some cards out so everyone
knows their spot. Of course, if you do need to sit
somewhere specific, just say something.
We'll switch things around and she you can see that she's
looking at like Namby your card and there's it's like kind of

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close to the corner where there's like a cabinet behind
it. She's like, oh, maybe we should
switch. She switches it so that you'll
have room for your giant earwings.
Let's we'll switch these M Tiro and namby there.
I I think that'll work. All look look good.
Everything looks fantastic except for perhaps me and Namby.

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No offense Namby, it's wonderfulto see you, but.
You guys look great. You guys look fine.
Absolutely no. It's kind of, yeah, I'm happy to
see you, but that mouth thing iskind of breaking me out.
No, it's worse. It's worse.

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Bob, would you mind blessing thefood?
Oh of course, dear, a dear Lord of all oozes, creatures, friends
and family, Lord of love and of light, Lord of all that is good.
And we may not know who you are or where you are, if you're a
plasmoid, something else, or something we can't even
comprehend. We may not know the plans you
have for us. But we know if we stick together

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as one in love and in friendship, that everything will
be OK. I pray your divine cosmic
blessing over this food, over this family and over our new
friends as they try to reach oneof their own.
Grant us the wisdom to help themon their journey.
And all plasmoids and non plasmoids say Amen.
Amen. OK, you can all dig in.

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I've done all the cooking. But Bob always says there's one
more ingredient you have to add yourself.
That's right. You got to add your teeth.
All right, Who wants the mashed potatoes?
Yeah, please. I suppose I would love some
mashed potatoes. Mentioning adding teeth made me
think of a friend we recently met Tawad as well.

(26:53):
Just there's not actually teeth in this, correct?
Oh no, he's just saying you got to sink your teeth into this.
Good. Food.
And now, excuse me if this is rude, but do plasmoids have
teeth? Oh, well, I do and and like
opens his mouth and like just forms some of his his gum, his
like gums. It's blue and then it turns like

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white like teeth. I just got normal teeth.
I can make him like this. He like makes him like vampire
looking. You know, he could just change
his his his thing and junior. He has not he has not mastered
the teeth thing. I'm not going to ask him to try
and do the teeth. It's that's going to end up
poorly, especially at the dinnertable.
No, us plasmoids do not have teeth.

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You see, you see Junior's at, atthe table and, and he's got like
this, this chicken leg on his plate already.
And he slaps his hand on it. And you can see the, the chicken
leg like moving up his arm through his like translucent
blue skin, like into his body. And he's like, he's like, and

(27:58):
Mary's like junior Bobby. Remember when we said we got we
have guests. We try to eat with our mouth
open up like your mouth on your head.
And he and he like like throws it like oozes back onto his
plate. And then he tries to pick it up
and like stick it into just his like where his head is just into
his face as it like sinks and hedoesn't really make a mouth.

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It's. Really.
OK, You don't have to change things on our account.
I mean, just you've already doneso much, it's OK.
Well, a lot of a lot of plasmoids don't even have, you
know, taste buds. And so we're we're some of the
lucky kinds that do us and most of our pod.
And so it's how Mary got to be such a good cook and partly

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because a lot of the other, you know, it's kind of a necessity
when a lot of the other cooks, plasmoid cooks say, well,
they're not as good as Mary. I'd say hard to be a good cook
without good taste buds. Yeah, that makes sense.
OK. And she just starts taking like
a little bit of everything because she doesn't want to be
rude. So she definitely makes her to

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take like a little bit of every single thing that's on the
table. I also do, although I think it's
weird to have mashed potatoes and baked potatoes at the table.
Just the Scott. You've never been to A, You've
never been to my family. She takes like 1/4 of a mashed
or of a of a baked potato and a little bit of Mashed potato.
We absolutely have at least three types of potatoes.

(29:26):
Like at every gathering with my grandparents, there's mashed
potatoes and and baked potatoes for sure.
On major holidays it would be sweet potatoes.
But then there's sometimes be ones that are like the little,
like, I don't know, like cheesy,like sliced, I don't even know.
Oh yeah, yeah, Like toast, bakedpotatoes or whatever.
There were, there was. I feel like there's always three
types, always 2. Lots of cheese on them, kind of

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like. Yes.
Like it was like an accordion looking, not accordion.
I don't know. Like it's like I don't know.
I don't know how to express Slinky only.
Becca were here, she would know what it was.
Only here who knew stuff about? Cooking.
It's a baked potato but cut likethis and then she's on top.

(30:09):
That's just Kyle. I got to tell you as an audio
format saying cut like this. And just your.
Hand is going to work well. I just got a text that Becca
just put in the chat. This is killing me it's so
funny. And we just will ignore that and
keep going. But you sure will.

(30:30):
So everyone's eating dinner at at this point.
Just eat eating away. After I finish eating, my
stomach mouth burps. So we don't.
Are you feeding your stomach? Mouth.
No, I'm eating this mouth. Because I think that would be
really rude to feed it, but somehow it still burps down

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there. Kyle, clear clarification real
quick. Did do I know what happened to M
Tiro and Vice? Versa, Yes, you were able.
To we saw everything. Those stories, so you are
familiar with it? You know, you haven't, yeah,
really talked with him about it.But you are familiar with what
happened. OK, but.

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I mean, it's just not because itfeels weird for us to, like,
talk about it at this family's dinner table, but.
Also like. Sitting here like, is it dark
yet? I mean this is lovely but I
don't want to be rude but I do want to save our friend who is
in some barrel. You see, like Bob, excuse, oh, I
got to hit the restroom. I'll be right back.
And he steps up and and, and Mary says, oh, let me refill

(31:38):
some of your drinks. And she steps out of the room.
Bob Junior's in there just just sucking food up there.
Sucking. Food up, his parents leave.
He like like makes an indent in his hand and pours liquid into
it and like watches as it drainslike a cup through his like

(31:59):
indent. Mechanical.
Yeah, I like that one. That one was good.
Mamby, I'm so sorry for causing these things to happen to us
and. No, I mean, you didn't know what
was going to happen. None of us know what's what's

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going on. I know, but I can't.
I still can't help but feel responsible.
But I, I will say that I, I can't believe you met, River
met. I know, yeah, he was going to
freak. And I, I met my father.

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I know you're you have a father.Apparently.
Like here. And now I can do this and my
face stuff to the other side of the.
Table. That's pretty cool.
That is pretty cool, yeah. I can't wait to tell Huguenard

(33:05):
everything we've been through and hopefully you'll be fine
when we are able to get to it. Yeah, I want to get to him as
soon as we can. I think he probably hates it
down there. I mean, I know he's with nice
people, but I don't think that'sa place that he will feel be
comfortable at all. There isn't the Huguenard that

(33:26):
we know. There's no way that he being
abandoned down there and such sights.
If it's anything like what we'reseeing here, it's just a far
stretch from our home. Why do you also, what do you
think is going on here? Because in mothership they're
dead right? Like.

(33:47):
They no it's like I like cover up the blobs.
You. Know they shouldn't be here.
I'm confused about going. On that makes me feel nervous
that we're not like in the rightplace now like what's going on
I. Don't even understand because I
didn't even know that those two stories overlapped in any way.
I didn't. No, I, I just, I don't know

(34:09):
what's going on ever, ever, ever.
It's so confusing. I don't, I don't know.
All I know is that I need to, weneed to get to Hugh right away.
I know they say we have to wait for safety and like I don't want
to go in and then mess everything up because we went
too early, but like we as soon as we can go, we got to go.
Absolutely I agree, but yes, I don't want to rush things.

(34:31):
I certainly don't want to endanger this family that
shouldn't even be alive in the first place.
Yeah. I mean, I've been thinking about
this. Do you think the things that we
do, I mean, like, I know we feelthings reset when we leave, but
like do they remember some stuff?
Like maybe the things we do havesome impact, Like maybe we can
help them. I mean, whether or not they

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last. I know that I cannot.
I can't not help while I'm here at least.
Yeah, yeah, definitely. I hope it does something.
I don't know. It's been it's getting really
hard to figure out what the right thing to do is.
Absolutely. Bob Junior, you feel him tapping

(35:17):
your. Your.
Shoulder MTRO. Yeah, my.
Skin's like indenting when he taps it because it's like gross
and waxy. He's he's like pointing to your
plate with like his hands out your empty plate.
With his hands I see like they all hand it to him.
He takes it and and like puts itinside him and like a plate goes

(35:41):
inside and then grabs his plate and like puts it inside him.
You see the plates like floatingaround and the the extra food
like dissolving off the plate. He walks over to you and.
They washed the plates before wehad them.
And she just really slowly handsit to him as well and just looks
at him tear like. And collects it and walks out.

(36:01):
Is. That how they carry stuff.
Or is he eating our leftovers? Or both.
He walks out and and out of the into like the kitchen where the
door like closes and you hear, you hear Mary like shriek like,
whoa, thank you, thank you. OK.
And she walks in. He's like, he was just trying to
clear the table. So thank you Junior for that and

(36:25):
she like. Thank you.
Well truly Mary, the food was sodelicious, who could blame him
for wanting to to ingest every last morsel on from it?
Yes, everything was delicious. Thank you, Mary.
Thank you. Yeah, thank you.
I'm, I'm just so happy to to cook for, for other people that
aren't, you know, plasmoids. It's great.
We don't get a lot of visitors out here.

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So Bob walks in and sits down atthe table and she clears a few
dishes and then sits back down. You refills your drinks.
Speaking of, I suppose visitors out here, what what brings you
to this planet and how did you know we would be coming?
We even asked that. Well, two, we freaked out to ask

(37:10):
that question. I suppose we should.
Well, we can start from the fromthe beginning.
I think it's probably the best place to start.
So about a year ago, our pod wasdocked at the station, that
station in the paralysis system.What was that station called?
The Radiant Docks. Oh, that's right.
The Radiant Docks. Well, so our pod.
Yeah. So right now we're separated

(37:31):
from our pod. We're we, we travel together, us
and the family. And he points that big like
family portrait with some other spaceships in the back.
We kind of travel throughout thestars in a in a big caravan.
And so we were all at the Radiant Docks and well, my
grandma, or not my grandma, Junior's grandma, came over to
watch Junior. So Mary and I can go out on a

(37:52):
little date night and we plan togo at a few places, but end up
spending most of the night at this quaint little place called
the Tall Tale Tavern. And that's where we met William,
a very nice man. From where was he from again?
I always forget the name of his planet, Alaria.
That's right, Alaria. And we've been missing meaning
to visit that planet, but it is way out there.

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Anyways, we ended up chatting with them for a while and made
his acquaintance. And well, the next day we left
the station with the rest of ourpod to go travel the open stars.
Well, about two weeks ago he reached out to us and asked us
if be if we'd be willing to helpsome folks in need.
And well, we couldn't refuse. So we came here and the rest of

(38:37):
our clan is out visiting a casino on the planet Pluto.
It's probably a blessing. I didn't get mixed up in that
scene. So that's kind of how we made
contact with him. And so we have some information
for you. Your friend Hugh is down there
right now on that planet with some mutants, as we understand
it. I don't want to, you know, make

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any assumptions, but are you toofamiliar with the mutants?
Believe it or not, no, we are not familiar with mutations.
This is a relatively recent affectation we have taken on to
our appearance. I see.
Well what we can do on this shipis with the tech on this ship is

(39:21):
teleport you down to the caves. I know the coordinates to enter,
so you need to so you can get towhere you need to go.
Once you're down there, you'll meet up with your friend and
William wants to talk to you then, along with Ohio.
Honey, can you grab that notepad?
I wrote the names down, I knew I'd forget.
And she goes and grabs a notepad.
There it is. Hugh, Paolo, Ladd, Viper, Ben

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Namby and Memtiro must all be present there, and he hands you
a small circular device with a glass Dome on top.
Now that this device here is a hologram device, so you should
be able to talk to him directly through it.
It only works once a day though.Also, here's some shorter range
communication devices called comms.
They'll allow you to talk to each other if you get separated.

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We got a whole box of them. So here you go.
And he hands you these comms devices that loop into the ear.
He also wanted me to give you this.
And he hands you an envelope. He said, he said, wait to use
these until you talk to him, butthey can be used in an
emergency. And he hands the envelope to you

(40:29):
and you open it up and there arethree pages in there with words
from the mothership on them. Then that pretty much covers it.
So in a few hours, what we'll dois fly down into the clouds.
I'll activate the cloaking device and we'll teleport you
down there and where you need togo.
Clear as mud. Yeah, I guess I think I get it.

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This seems to follow the logic that from past conversations
I've had with William. So yes I think I understand.
And Tyra tries to put his calm thing on and then his like,
melty wax ear like falls off andhe just picks it back up, sticks
it back. I don't.

(41:17):
Know that they will fit over Andy's mutineers.
You might have to fasten some extra wire on that compa.
Device there. Yeah, I think I need a little
help with that one. It should work OK.
It stands for a communication over mostly metal.
You'll just loop it in there. You can, you know, once per
short rest, whatever that means,but you can send like a message

(41:40):
to your friends if they're within a certain range.
It works pretty good, Mary says.All right, who's ready for
dessert? And she goes out and she brings
in a big cake and a big tub of ice cream and starts scooping up
cake and ice cream for you guys and starts passing it out.
And any, any questions, any morequestions you got?

(42:02):
So, so, so this one about the one that works once a day that
we can talk to Hugh with this orwho?
Who do we talk to with this? Oh, right, no, the the hologram
can device that'll connect directly to to William and so
you'll be able to talk to him. Yeah, that the bartender.
Globe thing is for William and the ear ones can talk to each

(42:23):
other but Hugh doesn't have one yet.
Gotcha. Can't talk to Hugh right now.
He's like, it's a pretty this, these hologram devices are
pretty nifty. He, he shows you look inside the
glass tube and you can see in there, there's a couple runes in
there that are ruins of the sending spell and it looks like
they're connected in like a wire.

(42:45):
He says. It gets activated, they go round
and round and round and it worksfor a while until you're done.
You can just turn it off, but itonly works once a day OK.
I mean, I mean, I guess it doesn't hurt to talk to William,
right? Well, he said.
We have to wait till we're all together to call William though,

(43:05):
right? Yeah, yeah.
He wants to talk to you when you're all together there, down
there. Sorry, it's just a lot to
process. Who could blame you for not
quite following right now? Well, Bob did kind of rush
through it all. I'm sorry, Mirror.
I had to get it out there. I didn't know.
I didn't want to forget any details.
No, you, you did. A good.
Job I can tell you are you have the natural instincts of a

(43:26):
storyteller. I was.
I was. Fully captivated by.
You oh, thank you and. Mr. I'm sorry, that's my fault.
No namby of course is nothing. Is your fault the only?
Person The. Only thing that is at blame for
anything right now is that disgusting.
No offence red ooze out there. No offence to any oozes in the
room. Although part of them too is

(43:48):
like am I in a fucking trap for the red?
I think it's a yeah, no, I agreethat that's yeah, they're
they're the ones at fault, but and they're not like, plus, I
don't know what they are, but yeah, OK.
He said it was. We are ooze creatures but.
Ublix, do you know anything about an Obex?

(44:11):
Oh no, of the they're creatures like us, but I don't know much
about them. They're I've I've heard about
other ooze creatures out there. I've never encountered an Obex.
I don't think they're nice because I don't think they're
generally friendly. Not in our experience.
Much the opposite of you and your lovely family.

(44:32):
Yeah. Well, thank you.
And so they, they, they start clearing the table and you guys
have a moment of you've you've had a full rest since that the
portal took you in. So you are at, you know, you had
a long rest through that experience, but you do relax a
little bit. He shows you a couple of places

(44:53):
on the ship that you can sit fora moment if you want to look out
the massive window. I don't think I'm observation, I
think. I'm probably anxious to.
Pacing. It's been kind of if I'm tracing
like my own mental timeline, it's like I was in the Wild West
namby killed someone. We got into a portal, then I

(45:14):
accidentally erased reality and then got my memories back
immediately went to a wed like to the Fay wild party with Zaz
for a day. Now I'm ready to get back on
track. I've got my memories back on me
again. Really want to help you.
So I think I'm just kind of maybe looking out the window,

(45:34):
sort of tapping my foot anxiously if anything.
I think the envy would. She's definitely sticking close
to MTRO. There is no way we are getting
separated like that's not happening.
It's being slightly clingy rightnow because who knows at what
point reality will RIP us apart.Trying to do some of her

(46:00):
grounding exercises because she is similarly just going over
everything that has happened andeverything she could have done
differently. And especially lingering on what
happened with 10 and mom and feeling terrible about it.
Like he tried to comfort her andTaro definitely didn't like it.

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And she's just like, should I, should we talk about it?
Should I bring it up? I don't know how to bring it up.
Oh my God, what? What if he's really mad at me
and he doesn't even want to be with me right now?
Oh my gosh. And so she's just like,
obviously very visibly nervous, although she's kind of always
visibly nervous, but a little more than usual maybe.
I guess sensing that, Namby feels a little nervous.

(46:48):
When Namby gets nervous, her foot does start to.
Yeah, her foot's tapping. A lot.
Fairly happy with it, yeah. I guess I would.
How would I? What would I say to Namby while
she's nervous right now? It's a namby.
When we, when we were last together, I know that things

(47:09):
were things were very crazy and they've only gotten crazier
since. And I just want you to know that
I am truly thrilled to see you again.
And I felt terrible that we wereseparated, even for a moment in
this dark time. I'm really, really happy to see
you, too. I don't, I know, I know, I know.

(47:30):
The Tenenbaum thing went bad. OK.
Like, I didn't, I didn't mean todo that.
I, I got a little overwhelmed, Iguess.
And I really just wanted to teach him a lesson and that he
was so mean to everybody. And I just wanted to teach him
that he couldn't just pick on small people and get away with
it. But I didn't want to do that.

(47:53):
And then you want to do that? In the moment, I will admit that
it was quite startling to me, quite shocking.
But I think you should not blameyourself and I don't blame you
for anything either. The only lesson that you need to
learn from that endeavor, that encounter, is that you are more
powerful than you give yourself credit for, my friend.

(48:16):
And you should not feel any shame because frankly, in any
other situation, if it had not been the day that we had had
before, Tenenbaum probably deserved what happened to him.
Yeah, I mean, it's kind of scarythat I don't.
I don't want to be. I don't know.
It's like I want to be able to protect people and I want to,

(48:39):
you need power to do that. But I guess I just need to.
I guess I need to figure out a balance between standing up for
myself and not doing anything. Just maintain a little bit of
control on that. Yeah, You know, it was like my
first time doing that. So that also really had my

(49:03):
adrenaline up. I was really, I don't usually
talk to people like that. So yeah.
The fire inside of you, it was, and it is fierce, But you did
you even even as soon as you didit, You, your miraculous gifts,
you brought him back. Well I just want to say it felt

(49:27):
really bad to maybe disappoint you, but I it's nice to have a
friend that can be honest with you like that.
So thanks I guess. I'll give you a hug.
Let's have a nice hug right now.Although my big giant yeah wing

(49:49):
ears. Just kind of.
When it's such a nice moment andthen my mouth stomach does like
a happy oh. That's like probably right by my
face. It's.
Great. Good, Bob says.
All right, it's about time to head up in the cockpit.

(50:10):
We'll get it all situated up there while we're flying in.
So don't you know, flop all overthe place inside the ship in
case we have to do any fancy maneuvers.
And so you all head up to the cockpit.
And in this cockpit, it's like the top of the ship.
Bob is in the spell jamming helmthe seat at the kind of the
front left driver's seat and Mary is sitting next to him in

(50:33):
her seat and you 2 are in the back seat buckled in with Bob
Junior in between you. It's definitely very cramped
with with Namby's massive ears and you start to descend down
into the planet and Namby, you just feel feel Bob Junior's hand
just like poking at your big massive ears and just like

(50:54):
enamored just like totally invading your space a little.
She's not used to like taking upspace either.
Like she's so small. She's not used to like people
even realizing she's there, so this is very weird for her.
But she's too nervous to say anything.
She's like, well, I can't correct him.
I can't like, tell him not to dothat.
So she's just letting it happen.If I, I mean if I can tell if

(51:17):
it's bothering me, I'm like Bob Junior is perhaps a little rude
to poke at somebody. He like elongates his head and
like rests it on your shoulder and then and Mary's like Bob
keep your hands in your head to yourself there.
And he, like, writes himself andsits and, and yeah, cross your

(51:39):
arms. And he takes his like, 2
pseudopod hands and like, twiststhem around each other like a
spiral and like, puts them in his lap and, and you guys
descend down and yeah, you hear?Bob says.
OK, we're going down now. Turn on the cloaking device.
We'll want to find a spot down here somewhere in between the
clouds to avoid suspicion. Keep your eyes peeled for an

(52:01):
open spot there. Everyone roll for perception.
Do I get anything with my new eye, Kyle?
Oh, do I get advantage sight? Yes, you do all.
Right, you know Namby needs. It on these on these rolls.
OK, hold on and before namby reads hers, let's just I just
would like throw and tear got a three.

(52:22):
So that's pretty good. You know, respectable,
respectable. I rolled a 19 and a 24 a 27.
A natural 20? Yeah, great.
You see a spot open up in the clouds.
Well, I guess I pointed out Tim Tyro at least.

(52:46):
I mean everybody. It's a small thing, you know.
I say a Tim Tyro, but everyone can hear.
Oh, good eye and Amby. Oh, there it is.
Whoa. Darn it.
I just passed it. OK, I'll swing around, get right
back to it. Into the spaceship.
Like lurches forward and like swerves around and Mary's like
Bob, be careful. I don't hurry.
It'll be taken. It's OK if it's taken another

(53:07):
one, another one will open up. He rushes back around to the
original spot, which is still there.
Oh, thank goodness it's still there.
I don't know. It's kind of a tight fit.
Oh, don't worry now, Junior. Your old man may never have been
a racer, but if there was a trophy for parallel parking, I'd
win every single year. And he puts his hand on the back

(53:27):
of Mary's seat and like, looks back behind through you guys
where there's this big screen onthe wall.
And it's just like the rear view, the camera on this giant
spaceship. And he whips the wheel around in
front of him and and backs up and swerves in perfectly in
between these clouds. OK, there we go.
Perfect. And he puts it in park.

(53:48):
All right, I should have known that Kyle would make the
plasmoid family just the Griswolds.
Like, yes, let me tell you, thisspaceship was almost the shape
of an RV, but guess what? I didn't go that far, all right?
It couldn't go that far. OK, well, let's head back in the

(54:08):
teleport Bay and get you on yourway.
And so you walk to the teleport Bay, a circular room with a
large diode pointed downward. Bob and his family stand just
outside the ring. All right, The coordinates are
already dialed in. I want to thank you all for
being such kind guests. I do hope our paths cross in the
future. Mary steps forward.

(54:29):
One more thing. I took a look at the forecast
and I know that you're going to be teleported into a cave, but
outside it does seem like it rains a lot on this planet.
So here's a couple of rain jackets in case you do go
outside. And there's these like clear
blue like rain jackets that she hands you to.
Nice and. Thank you both for your

(54:50):
hospitality and your generosity in helping us to save our
friend. And please, all of you, take
care of yourselves. We will.
We we, we stick together, us andthis family and our big pod.
We travel the stars together andwe just hope you know one day

(55:11):
our paths will cross again and we'll be able to see you again
and share another meal because that was just a delight that.
Would be really nice. And so he goes over and Revs it
up. All right, here we go.
Hold on. And he shoves it forward.
This big lever on the wall shrunk.
And then you look at your hands and they start to become

(55:31):
transparent. And they, you start to feel your
body like just kind of moving, but it's not moving yet.
And then you look at each other and then disappear Into
Darkness. We were holding hands when we
disappeared. Just yes.
Great. You reach out and grab your
hands and disappear together Into Darkness.

(55:53):
We finally returned back to Hue,Paulo, Ladd and Viper.
You all sit inside the electric Hummer that has been biofuel
after just escaping the direct orders of Hihachi and heading
out of the tunnel. As you exited the tunnel you saw
legions of mutants coming up from a hole in the ground where
you had first fought the multi armed, multi faced massive

(56:14):
mutant. You see that the mutants in the
sunlight all have a greenish hueto their skin, and they all have
at least one thing abnormal about them, whether it be an
extra arm, extra head, wings, ortails.
As Ben drives forward, one larger mutant wearing a tattered
sash near the entrance of the hole beckons you in and Ben

(56:35):
drives forward into the darkness.
Ben smashes down on the wet bottom of a large sewer and his
headlights turn on and mutants all around you spread out to the
sides of the sewer, making a path forward for you, and on
either side of you the mutants are marching outward into the
sun. The radio comes on and it's

(56:59):
Ben's voice. Oh, what the hell do I do?
Drive man, just get us away fromthe Hihachi as far as you can.
OK, going further and Ben startsto cautiously drive through the
the thin liquid on the bottom ofthe sewer and then and starts to

(57:21):
inch forward as the mutants are continuing to move on either
side of the car. And then in front of him, you
see one of the massive mutants, very similar to the ones that
you one that you fought earlier.Multiple arms, multiple heads,
faces coming out of different spots on the body, marching
forward toward the car. And it reaches out with its hand

(57:46):
and with its hand that is actually two hands, like kind of
connected at the wrist, reaches out and grabs the front of the
of the vehicle and brings its head all the way toward the
front of the vehicle toward the the windshield.
And just peers at you with with two large eyes, just looking

(58:08):
inside the vehicle. And it starts to, oh, go ahead.
Let's say Hugh gets out of the car, he gets out and goes and
walks forward and make sure thatBone Crusher is away and kind of
just like holds a hand out. He feels safer with them.

(58:34):
All the mutants stop in the sewer and stop and stare at you
and you start to hear murmurs. There's they're communicating.
You hear them kind of humming lowly among each other, El
Salvador, El Salvador. You start to hear this word El
Salvador. And then and the large mutant

(58:57):
puts his hand out, takes his hand off of the off of the car
and puts it out toward you and says, come speak to my Shama.
I go. You start walking and following
this, this massive mutant. Then you can see him kind of

(59:25):
cautiously moving forward behindyou in the group, and then you
hear his voice just going to follow.
Yeah, I don't know what's going through Hugh's head right now,
but he saved our asses back there.
He's got good instincts for this.
I don't know where you found them, but wherever he came from,

(59:47):
he's clearly approached something like this before.
So just stick with him. Stay close though in case
something jumps off. You continue forward through the
sewer, walking with this massivemutant.
The headlights behind you of Bend, Biofuel and the rest of
the crew through the tunnel and the sewer, and you're walking by

(01:00:11):
all of these mutants that have stopped and are staring at you,
Hugh just intently staring at you as you walk past.
It's seems strange and uncomfortable.
And then you enter into a portion of the sewers where the
pipes to meet this big confluence of sewers, you see

(01:00:33):
lots of pipes kind of heading out in different directions.
And this is kind of a big, large, tall cylinder room.
You can see some of the pipes. There's water that is kind of
spilling out and going into the bottom.
There's just a thin layer of of of water at the bottom of this
pipe. You see parts of this where it's

(01:00:54):
been. It's open.
It opens up into caves and so you could see where it descends
down further, a couple caves on the wall that seemed to go in
deeper. The large mutant stops in here
and looks down at you, Hugh, andbends down and says waits for my
Shama. And then he kind of walks out
back the way he came. And now you all are alone in

(01:01:20):
this confluence of sewers. Everyone in the car is behind
you, standing in the middle. You is standing very rigidly,
very pointedly, with his back tothe car facing forward into the
rest of the room. And he'll wait.

(01:01:44):
Yeah, Viper and Paulo and and Lad sitting in the car, what are
you feeling? How?
What are you doing in this moment?
Majority of her life, Viper has maintained a hard and exterior
to protect herself and her sister.
Now that that reality as they'veknown it has been proven false,

(01:02:04):
she wants to know if the bond between her and Paolo is
organic. Without a sister to protect and
Paolo without his boys, they fill a void for one another in a
way unexpected even to them. After finally breaking free from
Hey Hachi's stunt effect, Viper was tucked deeper into Paulo,
tears of oil running down her face as the weight of

(01:02:26):
devastation fully sets in. Seeing as how they've arrived to
a new destination, she begins toget up a little bit and look to
the rest of the group. And as Viper curled into him,
Paulo kind of cradling her gently as she woke up out of the

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programming lock, the feeling ofher in his arms was familiar.
And like that, familiarity kind of surged up out of his chest
like a forgotten memory. But he's unsure what to do.
Because they've, they've been here before, you know?
They've they've come to the point of being near each other,

(01:03:09):
but never together, consoling each other in the dim dark
hours, but for some reason or another never acting on it,
never moving forward. And so as she starts to
straighten up, he's he lets her,but she sure feels familiar in
his arms. But as she does, he kind of

(01:03:32):
turns over to look at Ladd and check on Ladd to make sure that
he's waking up as well. And I think Ladd kind of starts
to rub his head and eyes and kind of in shock as to what he's
feeling. He kind of is starting to
remember El 10 and the conversations with El 10 about,

(01:03:59):
you know, the abilities that he had to kind of help people to
remind them of their happier times, like times before
addiction and kind of the process that they went through
to, you know, help the people that were in the camp, Paolo
included. And he's still just kind of

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holding his head in his hands inshock as all the memories start
to flood back. You guys wait there for minute 5
minutes. You hear distant sounds of
battle happening above you on the streets, sounds that
eventually do start to quiet, and you wait, in this moment and

(01:04:52):
in some of you in the car, one of you outside the car.
Does anybody approach Hugh at this point or just want to give
him his space as you continue towait?
Yeah, I think Paulo would want to go check on him once he was,
he was sure that Viper and Lad had kind of recovered their

(01:05:14):
faculties and were able to support themselves.
He would kind of, you know, let Viper slide off of his lap and
and find her own seat. And, you know, he'd give Lad a
like a squeeze on the shoulder and then, you know, lock eyes
with Viper, maybe a little too long and then hop out of the car

(01:05:36):
to go walk up next to Paolo or walk up next to Hugh.
Not too close, like giving him clearly Hugh wants distance, but
he would, you know, tuck his hands in his pockets and stroll
up like even with Hugh so that Hugh can see him in his, in his
peripheral vision. But you know, giving him 5 or 6

(01:05:58):
feet of space to just kind of tip his head over and see if he
can get an idea of how he was feeling right now.
Viper would also follow, see what's going on, but on the back
of her head she's thinking aboutwhat's happening on the inside

(01:06:19):
of them. If there's any way she can I
guess interface with her herselfto see if she can remove any
inhibitors placed on her by hey hot chi or commands, I don't

(01:06:40):
know, kind of like hack herself if that makes sense.
Just see, like what's in her system?
Yeah, do an investigation roll. You don't believe what I rolled?
It's a four. That's going to be a 10.
We're all emotionally, we're allemotionally compromised.
Right now you don't see anythingyou know, abnormal on your body.

(01:07:03):
You don't feel anything abnormal.
You don't feel the presence of Hihachi.
You don't feel like you are being inhibited in any way at
this point. Still fresh.
I'm still stunned. Yeah, yeah.
But you, you're not, Yeah, you're not stunned anymore.
You feel pretty away from his presence.
Emotionally stunned, right? Yes.

(01:07:26):
Yeah. Can we, can we feel any, like
any connection to anything larger than ourselves?
Like obviously we've, we're all familiar with connecting to the
Ley lines from our human memories of, of being able to
access, you know, what was out there.
Is there anything similar to that that we feel at any level?

(01:07:47):
You you feel completely removed just at a baseline of any
technology down here. You know, you can sense the
world above through noises, sounds, if your character has
abilities to just to be able to sense Ley lines and technology,
the flow of technology in this world.

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You, you don't really sense thatanywhere around you down here in
this sewer cave. So Palo would kind of walk up a
little further so that he's likenow in Hughes View and kind of
look up at the ceiling of this, you know, or if it's I don't
know how high up this cylinder goes, but somewhat to himself.

(01:08:30):
But like let you know, loud enough so that Hugh can hear.
He says, I don't think he can reach down here.
I mean, I don't feel anything. I feel the same as I felt four
hours ago, although I don't knowwhat that means anymore.

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I should have known better. I I trusted you guys because you
looked like I should trust you and I I assumed they were
monsters. I believed they were monsters
because they looked like they should be monsters.

(01:09:18):
And I, I should have known better.
My whole life people have assumed that me and my sister
and my mom, that we were monsters just because we're us.

(01:09:47):
But it was you guys. You were the ones that I should
have feared all along. Hey.
Hey Ben, could could you call mehere for a SEC?
He transforms into his form, gently setting Lad down who is

(01:10:07):
inside him. He steps forward and stands next
to you. You remember when I stepped
through that portal and you justmagically happened to be right
there and you, you told me I wasn't safe there?

(01:10:34):
Was that because I was there with you, Ben is is that why I
wasn't safe there? And then Hugh loses all control
and punches Ben in the face. Go ahead, roll and attack an
armed attack. And he's actually going to take

(01:10:54):
both attacks because I don't think he's going to be able to
stop himself anytime soon. You just crit on Ben's face of.
Course. Because of course.
He did. Other attack is a A22.
He's just unchanged. Because he's not going to to
back away, he's going to let youhit him.

(01:11:19):
So that would be 28 damage, Hughjust punching.
And then for the first time in Hugh's life, he just bellows and
he shows his troll fangs that his body just kind of curls and

(01:11:47):
it reverts back to a sense of this natural protection and self
protection instinct. And he, this world has the last
five days has broken him and he's kind of become the monster
that everyone always kind of claimed he was.

(01:12:13):
Ben spits out oil front from hismouth.
We didn't know. You're right, but we didn't
know. I didn't know.
None of us could. Yeah, as those punches landed,
Paolo would have. As those punches landed, Paolo
would have tried to dive betweenhim and and like, push Ben back,

(01:12:38):
like out of range, you know, yelling like shoo.
We had no idea. Like we, we went there looking
for my boys, for Viper's sister.It was genuine.
We didn't know until you knew. And I, I know you.

(01:12:58):
I know you can't trust us right now.
I I get that. And I know you think everything
we did was part of some program.And you know what?
Maybe it was. But he can't reach us down here.
And we want to do everything we can to help you.

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If that means staying back and letting you make decisions on
your own, then that's what we'lldo.
Viper walks up to Hugh and pullsout of her bag 2 devices one is
an EMP grenade Tier 2 and the other is a plastic explosive

(01:13:44):
Tier 1 and she says to Hugh. I don't know if any of us will
be able to use these if we encounter him again, but I think
you can at least resist any stuneffects from Hey Hachi so hands

(01:14:05):
them to you He. Kind of takes them and like
looks down. I I want to believe the stuff
you guys say so badly but like it's just going to be always
there wondering like I believed the stuff before.

(01:14:27):
As he talks, Lad walks over and kind of kneels down next to Ben
and puts his hand on him and grabs his Talisman around his
neck and does a prayer of healing for everyone around us
just to kind of bolster us from the previous fight and from the

(01:14:50):
punches that just landed. Mechanically, that's a A2D8 and
the short rest mechanic. If anyone wants to do hit dice
or anything like that, it's a. Oh my God, yes is.
It a short rest or is it? Yes, this is.
This would count as a short restlike this.
Yeah, I mean. It counts as a short rest if

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there's combat in the middle of it.
Point. It's count.
It's a very good point. There were, yeah, it's a 10.
Minute, there wasn't any combat.There was a lot of times, there
was a lot of time that happened.Before.
That was a lot of 10 minute casting time.
So there is that. But I assume that we're all kind

(01:15:32):
of like. The benefits of the short rest
were happening as you guys were moving forward and going into
the sewer and waiting it's and so it was before this fight
stuff we'll say to for you to take a short rest.
Lad, do you roll the 2D8 for hitpoints or health or?

(01:15:55):
So for short rest you do as manyhead ties as you want.
For the ones that I give you, I'm not.
Well, if you're giving them to everybody, then you possibly
roll it, right? I probably.
Would roll it. Where you, the person casting
it, rolls it and everyone gets the same OK.
Cool, I will do that. I want to add that before I do
my short rest just to see where I'm at.
That's gonna be 4 HP. What?

(01:16:17):
OK, not too great. That's so low.
Is it this? Part was more.
Beautiful. Did it?
Does it do you? Add your spell casting modifier
or anything. No, it's literally just two D 8.
So it could be 16, but it's 4. It could have been 2.
So I mean twice as good as. The worst?
Twice as good as that's true. Hey, what did but?

(01:16:40):
You could also use your head dice so.
What did Viper give you again that you said?
An EMP. Yeah, let me let me tell you
exactly what these are. So EMP Grenade Tier 2.
It is a black metal globe crisscrossed by gently glowing
blue lines. This EMP device works on all AI

(01:17:04):
devices and enemies. So as an action, you throw the
grenade to a point within 60 feet of you.
Machines cease to function for one minute.
Constructs with the electronics feature within a 30 foot radius
must succeed on a Con Save DC-16or they are stunned until the

(01:17:25):
end of your next turn. All right, what was the other
one? Plastic explosives.
Yeah, plastic explosive Tier 1. It's a Dex save.
I probably got it from Dasher tobe honest.
It is a. Say, where do you think that
came from? Hey, those are mine, how dare
you give those to you. You won't be needing them.

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Dex Save DC-14 Eight D6 Thunder Damage 44 if.
We were trying to kill you. That's what you would.
Have done. Evidently, you were just
sacrificing me. As Viper hands that over, Paolo
kind of juts Shin at it and is like, I understand if you don't

(01:18:09):
want to trust us right now. I probably wouldn't either.
But if we're all as he has, she says we are.
And he kind of holds his arm up.It's metal, like he's got
cybernetic arms. So like he's always been kind of
part Android. But now he's he's looking at
himself again like, is it? Is this all?
Am I all like this? If we're all all four of us are

(01:18:31):
like this, then we died 175 years ago.
You need to protect yourself. We get swarmed or the Haji AI
shows up and we lock up. You use that.
Don't think twice about it. I want to trust you guys.
It's not that I don't want to. I know, but I don't know that we

(01:18:53):
can trust ourselves right now. We got to trust in you.
OK? OK.
If if we do anything that isn't in your interest, use it.
I really want to go home, you guys.

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We'll get you there. If it's the last thing we do.
You start to see some mutated forms kind of peeking in around
in the tubes and caves around this kind of cylindrical room,
and more and more start to show up and you start to get

(01:19:36):
uncomfortable as they really arefilling the area.
Mutants all around this entire confluence from behind you, from
every tube seem filled with these mutants of all different
shapes and sizes, all with this kind of fairly green skin.

(01:19:58):
And about 10 more minutes pass 15 more minutes.
And then a few more show up thatare a little bit taller.
Most of them you see and look around.
Most of them are fairly tall, like like 7-8, nine feet.

(01:20:18):
And then there's others that aremuch larger.
But soon it is full of mutants and a large mutant with three
legs and two heads steps out from a tunnel and speaks with
two voices Say they sell vehicular.
My shama speaks and from a largecentral pipe in front of you

(01:20:43):
about 20 feet up, a female mutant form with large carapace
growing on top of her head forming a crown like appearance
steps into view. The crowd starts to hum and the
confluence feels like it's vibrating with the amount of
noise bouncing off the walls. My Shama lifts her hand and the
humming stops, and she begins tospeak.

(01:21:03):
There is one who will arrive, one born of both worlds, who
brings enlightened ones with him, One who will bring everyone
to the light. Every day for the past 100
years, one of us hears these words.
The great prophecy of El Salvador.

(01:21:25):
Today, on the great day of our great attack upon the Makinas,
You, one of mutant and metal, came across the bridge.
You crested the clouds above andsmashed down upon us.
We went into the city and defiedthe great Makinas, and you went

(01:21:47):
into the city and defied them aswell, and came back this way.
Oh, Salvador, we await your direction.
She points her hand out to you, Hugh, and you are intently aware
of how you look at yourself and look around.
You have the same tone skin as everybody around you, that green

(01:22:07):
skin. You look down at your legs,
these big massive metal legs andrealize that they are directing
all of their attention to you. I.
Think instinctually, just not even processing what he's doing.
Hugh reaches out and scoops Viper and Lad behind him just to

(01:22:28):
like basically shield them with his body.
Paulo's I think massive too, right?
Like he's huge size isn't Paulo basically.
He's not as big as you, but he'she's relatively ripped.
As I say, because like, I think he basically would scoop the
entire party just behind his body a little bit, maybe not

(01:22:51):
even processing that he's doing it and reverting back to that
habit. I'm, I'm sorry, my name, my name
is Huguenard Rockbridge. I think you have me confused for
someone else. You start to hear like murmurs

(01:23:13):
go out around through the tunnel, everyone, all these
mutants are starting to speak and you hear kind of this like
mixed language that they're speaking with each other.
And there's a lot of like discourse as they clearly we're
not expecting you to to not claim that role.
You can see my Shama kind of puther hands up and try to calm the

(01:23:34):
crowd, but but the mutants are kind of going a little bit crazy
at this point. So so Paula would like step up
next to Hugh and just kind of ina stage whisper be like
Salvador. It means savior.
They. Clearly think you're some kind
of deliverer from abroad. I mean, you're not from here,

(01:23:55):
that's for sure, right? A saviour.
I don't. I can't be a saviour.
I I can't even really talk in front of big groups like this
that well. Man, I wish I'm Tyra was here.
He's so much better at speeches than I am.
I think from the from the crowd,you just hear you.
I'd start yelling space, space, give some space back up
everybody from my stomach, mouth.

(01:24:18):
I'm yelling it so it's extra loud by the way.
From your stomach. Mouth.
Yeah, from my stomach. Mouth to make it louder.
This is going to sound weird, but half trolls have like
amazing senses of smell. What are their innate abilities?
And you cannot see where this these voices are coming.

(01:24:42):
He knows the voices but he also has a lot of trust issues right
now and so I would like to do a a smell based perception check
to see if I can find my friends.Smell check might be helpful
given how namby and emtero look.Yes, yes.
So is that a with advantage you get to do that?
Is that? Yeah.
I get to do. I'm not good at perception, but

(01:25:05):
I have half trolls have keen smell so they get advantage on
it and I just imagine it just almost, yeah.
It's like it's part of his like beast heritage essentially.
You've. Heard of sculptures?
His smell. Yeah, that's a dirty 20.

(01:25:26):
You flare your nostrils up and consume all of the smells in
this sewer. The sewer smells mutants.
Legitimately the bravest thing that Hugh has ever done.
Yeah, like. 3 Then all of this smells, and then you get this
faint smell of burning flesh andyou think burning and you look

(01:25:50):
that direction and in the crowd you see coming forward a mutant
that looks a little bit different than all the other
ones. And and Scott, go ahead and
describe how you look. I know that you've.
Yes, Emtero is weaving his way through this crowd of people,
sort of slipping through them easier than he normally would

(01:26:14):
because his skin is that of melted, melted candle wax at
this point, giving making him extra slippery.
So he's sort of like squishing through.
He's wearing tattered clothing and on his stomach now he's got
a giant mouth on his stomach as well as his normal mouth.
And you'll notice his neck, if you're looking closely, also has

(01:26:34):
gills and yes, webbed, A webbed hand that he's holding up and
shouting. Stand back, everybody, Everyone
make space, Huguenard. Immediately runs forward and
this squishes your weird candle waxy body.
It's so slippery. It's so slippery here.

(01:26:55):
You're trying to, but he's like slick now.
It's like when you try to grab one of those squishy things
that's like a tube. You know, and it.
Slips out of your hands. And I I think Namby is too
polite to like, push through thecrowd.
So she's she uses her new wings to fly kind of above the crowd.

(01:27:21):
Her her ears are now even biggerthan they were before and they
have like that bone structure and wider, you know, surface
area to give her, give her flight.
So she is a weirdly awkwardly ear flap flying toward you and
probably just like pummels into you awkwardly, like doesn't know

(01:27:42):
how to land. Yeah 100% just takes it full to
the namby to the face willingly and just engulfs her trying to
engulf gross candle waxy and deer routine.
Is. Is it you?
Why are you so gross? Did you drink?

(01:28:05):
You're not supposed to drink theliquid.
Well, we did, but that was afterwe got here and we looked like
this. I tried to purify the the goo,
but the they actually didn't like that.
They yeah, they they wanted it the regular way.
A. Few of them did like the

(01:28:26):
addition of sugar that I made tothe to the icord, but most of
them could not stomach it. Tears are just streaming down
Hugh's face as he's just trying to encouragingly nod.
Namby's just hugging Hugh the whole time we're talking, just
like not letting go. It is so wonderful to see you my

(01:28:46):
friend. I am so sorry for everything
that has happened and I hope that you have not been missing
us too much in in your journeys.I.
Didn't feel you guys are OK. You start to hear a, a sound
that is a like a sound. And soon the entire cavern is
all the mutants are making this sound, this sound.

(01:29:07):
You look up at my Shamo has her hand lifted and you can tell
she's controlling the crowd by making the sound and everybody
repeating it. And then she stops it and she
looks looking, staring down at Yuhu.
Every day for the past 100 yearswe hear the words.

(01:29:27):
There is one who will arrive, one born of both worlds, who
brings enlightened ones with him, One who will bring everyone
to the light. You are of mutant and of
machine, of the machinas. If it is not you, then who?
A mutant. To them you might, I mean to it,
look at them, you kind of no offence, but you match their

(01:29:49):
skin tone. So I think they think you're a
mutant, just so naturally broad and strong.
It could not be natural. It's impossible that somebody
could be born as fierce as you. He just reaches out with his big
beefy, which I actually did the math on this and he would have
like 13 inch big like catcher MIT hands with his proportions.

(01:30:12):
This is what I did after one episode recording when I
couldn't sleep in time and I just like like palm empty rose
both sides of his head. And I was like, I have missed
you so much. You both bring light wherever
you are. I don't know if I can be a a

(01:30:35):
saviour. Oh, I have people that I need to
introduce you to. Yes, you can already introduce
us to your friends. Meanwhile, my Shama. 1 moment,
one moment. 1 moment. I don't even know where to
start. So this is Paulo.
Do you guys remember the story crowning AI achievement?

(01:30:58):
We're in it right now, except it's like way worse and scarier
than the first time around. And it was already pretty way
worse and scarier the first timearound.
Yeah, I don't remember even anything looking quite like me
and Namby in the original story.No, I guess it's 175 years after
that original story. And this is Paulo.
Do you guys remember? He had to get his like body like

(01:31:19):
worked on after the prison prison break.
Do you remember? And then this is lat.
Green 1 You hear the shouting ofmy Shama Green one of mutant and
metal. If you are not El Salvador, then
what are you here for? I can try to be they're they're

(01:31:41):
very enlightened. My Shama, I too, as one of the
mutants have heard the prophecy and I can tell you that this is
El Salvador, but the prophecy has been received incorrectly.
Huguenard here stands as a beacon for all life, his fierce

(01:32:05):
determination and also the sparkof creativity that burns bright
within him and his amazing artwork that he creates.
This is not one person meant to lead you all through their
choices, but to inspire us all to rise up together and reclaim

(01:32:26):
the light as one. Jared, I don't think I can do an
inspiration speech. I I, I don't think that can be
very inspiring. Your mere presence is the
inspiration so. While Paula's while while Emtero
is is saying this, Paulo realizing that like they're just

(01:32:47):
standing there kind of like gestures to lad and to Viper to
array themselves behind, get behind Hugh Bernard and be look
strong just like part. Of the squad.
Yeah, that's like we're all partof the squad, we're all here.
That sounds like an advantage, that squabble.
I actually don't know if you aretrying to be persuasive or

(01:33:10):
trying to be deceptive with thatspeech.
I think it's kind of what is it?I mean, I know that him Tiro
knows that he's not really learned this prophecy his whole
life, but he also knows whatevertheir prophecy is, he was not
really like the leading type butcan serve as an icon to inspire

(01:33:31):
others. So it's like I am lying about.
Like a. Persuade.
Yes, I am trying to persuade. Them that's that's what I was
going to ask for, but. I like that, please.
Can this also be anterior persuading Hugh?
Yes. Oh wait, I wanted to.
Enroll while I while I said. All that I cast the spell

(01:33:52):
motivational speech at the same time.
Cool that I can. I can address allies, staff, or
innocent bystanders and inspire them to greatness whether they
have anything to get excited about or not.
And I can choose up to five preachers within range and they
all get 5 temporary hit points and have advantage on wisdom
saving throws for the next hour.So and just choose Kim.

(01:34:16):
Glad seeing Kim, glad seeing what's going on, kind of give a
guidance also to interior as he.Speaks.
Heck yeah. Any kind of whispers into
interiors here? If you're if you're a friend of
Hugh, you're a friend of ours. You're a good lad and then I'll
go ahead and let you know. I got a 30 on that Persuasion

(01:34:38):
30. Amazing.
Incredible was no natural 20. No 17 + 10 + 3 from the guy
that's so. Amazing.
Yeah, as as that as you like saythat speech you just hear like
this hum like go around the the entire cavern.
They just start humming this like deep, deep tone and you

(01:35:01):
just feel the agreement in the room and you finish those words
and it goes quiet and my shama looks down and says tomorrow O
Salvador will lead us forward into our great battle that we
have planned. Today was just the beginning.
Tomorrow we retake the city. Tomorrow we see the light.

(01:35:25):
Tomorrow El Salvador leads us and the entire the entire
cylinder of mutants erupts into this just mass chaos of
shrieking, of cheering and excitement.
Hugh being so like I mean a 30 from his one of his best friends

(01:35:47):
that just appeared is going to jazz him up beyond reason.
So I want to summon my echo so that I can send it up to next to
the shaman and then I'm going toswitch places and hold up Bone
Crusher like triumphantly. Hell yeah.
So let's see. So that is going to be Oh my

(01:36:08):
gosh, that's ironic. Bob appears from mothership.
So this blue BLOB, kind of just a hologram appears, then I
immediately send him up to be right next to the shaman so I
can switch places, and then I hold up Bone Crusher.
Great. It's just like a second that

(01:36:28):
Bobby there and just stands there and looks at his watch or
something like what happened andthen switches with you.
You're standing next to the shaman, to my Shama.
And she steps. She steps back and puts her
hands up and you lift Bone Crusher in the air and the the
crowd just goes. Roo.
And you just keep pumping it. It's just like Roo Roo like

(01:36:50):
you're feeling the energy as this.
This entire cylinder is just noise.
So we're doing The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, the Zion City
rave scene right now. I was gonna say.
This. I was like, that's exactly
what's happening. Right now.
And a lad uses thaumatergy to make it even louder.

(01:37:12):
Compound the sound, baby. Yeah, and so you feel the energy
of the crowd. And my Shama commands everyone
to prepare, prepare for the great, the great battle
tomorrow. And the crowd starts to leave
and disperse. I immediately switched back with

(01:37:32):
Bob so I could be back to my friends.
Why would you switch back when you could superhero landing from
100 feet up with your cyber legs?
Just leaped out. I didn't even think what I'm
saying. I don't know how I should.
It doesn't matter how high up she is, you always drop.

(01:37:52):
Like, I don't know, 20 feet awayand like 5 feet up.
Save it for like the the total Thor moves, man.
Yeah. Right.
So you, so you guys are standingin the middle of this confluence
and everyone's just kind of going their way.
I really expected them to give us some sort of room of honor
for their savior, but I I suppose everyone is just

(01:38:15):
leaving. Yeah, at least a place to, you
know, park Ben and take a rest. Oh my goodness, I'm so sorry.
Where are my manners? We got interrupted by my shamma.
Hugh Bernard finished introducing us to your friends.
I apologize. So this is Paulo and then this
is Lad. He's in our book club now.
I gave him the two books. Do you remember on when we were
proposing books? I I had mine with me still.

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So now he's got the copies of it.
So he's going to read those and get back to us.
This is Viper and Dash. Dash Dash exploded, and there's
a lot actually going to have to tell.
Oh, and then Ben, Ben biofuel. Yeah.

(01:38:57):
So the AI Adel 10. Hello.
Paulo, my name is Mtero Verstero, lad.
I'm Mtero Verstero. Viper I am Intero Verstero.
And Ben Biofuel I am Intero Verstero.
It's lovely to meet you. Oh.
And this is namby. Namby introduce yourself.
Yes, yes, yes. Hi, I'm namby Pambleton, nice to

(01:39:18):
meet you all. And she like kind of like
awkwardly like bows or somethingbecause she's just feeling very
weird. Hi.
I give her a thumbs. Up.
Yeah, just like my ears. So Paula looks at at Viper and
Lad and then back at Hugh and islike I understand that these are

(01:39:39):
your friends but they don't looklike you and you said you came
here by yourself so how? And turns to Imperial and and
Namby I understand you are who you claim to be, you trust you
so we do. But how did you come to be here?
Of course. Yeah, we don't normally look
like like this, but sometimes I guess when we get.

(01:40:04):
When we go through those red portal things you did, you tell
them about the red portal things.
Mm, hmm. They didn't see it though.
But when I stepped out, Ben couldn't see the portal.
I just kind of appeared, but I told them about it.
Yeah. So sometimes when we go through
those, we like look different when we come out.
This one is the most drastic change though.
Yeah, I got cool robot legs. Why are you guys so gross?

(01:40:27):
I don't know. Tallow, it is a long story on
how we came to be here, but thatreminds me namby don't we have?
Aren't we supposed to call William when we're all together?
Oh yeah, we have that that globething.
So Hugh Gennard, the bartender, we spoke to him.
I have a father who apparently is in an Aladron.
I'm not. He's not a genie.

(01:40:49):
He helped us to get back to you.Him with some friends.
That bug that spoke into my brain helped me.
And then a man said his. I said I am BIC.
His name is BIC. Pentameter spoke to you?
Yeah, I talked. To him, yeah.
I need to talk to you, Hugh, about I don't want to do it now
'cause it's, I feel like there are other things going on, but

(01:41:14):
yeah. And then we met Bob and his not
dead family. Yes, Bob, what are you doing
here? You're supposed to get out of
here. Why are you back?
Oh sorry, I tested the journal and kind of the hologram Bob go
away. But turns into a BLOB and then
like goes into the journal. I don't, I mean, Paul, I don't.

(01:41:35):
We don't really have a lot of answers.
We're kind of just like going with what happens.
It's really kind of disorienting.
So I don't have any answers for you other than this is how we
got here. It's because the bartender is is
helpful and he he sent us here originally and he gave us a way

(01:41:55):
to communicate with him. So I don't know if maybe he can
give us more answers. Yes, I think it would be best to
speak to him, but we were separated because of a decision
I made and he helped us come back together in these
unfortunate forms is the short answer to your question.
Well, it the foreigners do not see so unfortunate when it seems

(01:42:17):
that you would have helped us torecruit an army, no.
Sometimes the. Fates.
The stomach, the stomach thing, the face stomach is pretty
unfortunate. I have an eyeball.
I have an eyeball at the top. Is one of my wings also OK?
Antero's Antero's mouth stomach opens and the tongue like goes

(01:42:38):
down to the ground and scoops upsome like icore and just pulls
it into his body he. Tells it also isn't.
Please. Icore, I've always think icker.
I always icker. I've heard it pronounced I.
See. So never said it out loud
before, I just always said icor I guess.
I don't know. He turns to the others and it's

(01:43:01):
just like, I, I need you guys toknow that this is they're
usually not like their personalities usually match
their appearance, so. Paula, when he was like
apologizing for them, Palace slaps a hand on his shoulder and
is like, listen, I have been. I have appeared to myself to be
kind of like this. The drugs are really good.
You haven't gotten that far yet.We take our time, OK?

(01:43:24):
But like, there's stuff out there make you think you look
like that. I did drugs.
He was great. He did really good.
This your friend. He, he, he can stay anytime
because he can take on like a whole army by himself.
He's incredible. Yeah, he is.

(01:43:45):
He's really strong. I would never disagree with you
that Huguenard is remarkable, but unfortunately he cannot be
staying here because we must getback to our own time, our own
world. And on that note, perhaps we
should call William. Yeah, yeah.
So you stand in this in this area.

(01:44:06):
So MTRO and NAMB, you have been here for three days now.
You have a fairly good understanding that these sewers
and caves that go under are veryexpansive.
There are lots of different caves.
The mutants live in and around the caves.

(01:44:27):
The society down here is not very formed.
The mutants, some of them have intelligence, some don't.
And it doesn't really seem like there's a whole lot of
individuality as far as their identities.
And so a lot of the mutants are spread out lot don't really have

(01:44:48):
places that are that they call their own.
They live amongst each other, they sleep amongst each other.
And, and so, you know, there area lot of different kind of
caverns that you could find an open cavern, like an open like
area or, or small cave that you could really just collectively

(01:45:09):
be in and be alone versus be outin the middle if that's where
you would want to go. Or you could activate this right
in the middle of the of the areathat you're in, with mutants
kind of coming and going. Do we know could we potentially
could you do MTRL you know that spell where you encase us in the
ash castle the the pod? Do you think that the that the

(01:45:34):
thing you guys have to to call William would work like from
inside there or do you think that that that barrier would
block him as well? I don't know because he.
Spells and magical effects cannot extend through the Dome
or be cast. OK, so if this is a.
Magical effect should probably just find a a quiet like place

(01:45:55):
off to the side to talk to him. Also, the phonetic spelling of
it is icor, so I'm just letting everyone know it's pronounced
icor kihachi kihachi. OK.
It's so icky. So it's Icker.
Sure. Yeah, I think I, I, we can only

(01:46:16):
use it once a day. Like we can talk to him multiple
times, but just once a day for the magic of that globe thing.
We haven't used it yet though. Did were you guys told, is there
like a, a time limit that we have to be aware of?
Like isn't there 1A spell somewhere where you only have
like a handful of words or maybelike 25 words or something that

(01:46:36):
are we limited there? I don't think so.
He didn't say anything. That reminds me.
I tried to, I tried to contact my sister, but it didn't.
It didn't work. I don't know.
I don't know. I'm getting worried that she
might be worried about me. I usually talk to her most days,
but yeah, I. Perhaps namby though, for all we

(01:46:58):
know. But when we return home, it
might be as if no time has passed at all, so she might not
even know that you're gone. I hope so, otherwise it's going
to be really confusing to explain.
When Namby says that, Hugh, without kind of even saying or
turning or anything, just kind of puts a hand on Viper's
shoulder. I've.

(01:47:20):
Got Sisters? She was.
In this fucking group. A bunch of sister.
Sisters, man. Leper definitely thought of
Lorelai when she said that I. Watched, I watched to the face
and I'm like, yeah, I just like you would not want to draw
attention because he doesn't want to embarrass her own, but
just would like put a hand on her shoulder and give like a
gentle squeeze. It does appear that this device,

(01:47:41):
the ruins in it are of the sending spell.
I remember Bob saying something like that, but he did not
mention any limitations. I don't know if he asked, but he
didn't say. You look like you look at in
there and you see like 2 runes in there that are like sending
spell runes that you would recognize.
There's wires that are like connecting it.
Part of it is made of wires. It looks like technology, but

(01:48:04):
there's two that look like they're kind of connected in a
loop almost. All right, Brandon Sanderson
over here trying to make some magic science devices, some
little. Fabriels no Fabriel magic.
He's got a Sprint inside. I want to talk to this Sprint.
I want to bond to it. OK.

(01:48:24):
Should we, should we talk beforewe call him about what we want
to ask him about just in case there's any kind of
communication issue? I mean, what do we need to know?
My main question is what the hell?
But I don't know. I feel like I should be asking
that to some sort of a higher being, but I don't.
I don't know if I really believethat.
Yeah, I don't know, like something that maybe.

(01:48:45):
Spy, but somehow. Far, yeah, I don't know.
Always with me, but yet just puppeting from above, I don't
know. Anyways, what do we?
Well, I mean, the biggest thing is we need to we how do we reset
this world? We need to reset it for them.
And mothership is evidently involved too.

(01:49:06):
Did you find any red stuff? Well, the only reference I
looked when I first got here, oh, they're all robots, by the
way. And then when I like looked
here, I didn't see any red. And then we went to the AI and
he was wearing a red tie. So I think it's the AI guy, but

(01:49:26):
I don't, he doesn't have a body.He just kind of is inside
everything that he wants to be inside.
So Paulo, to kind of illustrate,steps up and like hands up.
She's like, I'm not going to do anything.
But then takes, you know, one ofhis cybernetic hands and pulls
down his his like tank top and ared glow starts to like rise

(01:49:48):
from his chest. And he kind of nods that he
looks at Viper and and Lad and kind of like nods at them, like
we're going to show them what weare and now is the time.
I go like this and then my stomach mouth also like goes
like for a gasp, double gasp. Do you have one hand down there
and one hand up here? So are we able to like make a

(01:50:15):
brighter red or was that only when?
The red glow had gone away, but you on your own can kind of
create that red light effect. And so it's not there at a
baseline unless you want it to be there, But yeah.
I don't know if I trust. It you have some control.
Like making it happen for myself.

(01:50:37):
On the connection. Well, Paolo, infamously
reckless, decides to evoke it like for, for, you know,
theater. But you know, let's it rise in
his chest as a as a demonstrative and then and then,
you know, proffers, there was a time not so long ago that

(01:51:00):
apparently we were well under Hiachi's control.
We don't feel him now, but he's out there and I know he wants to
reclaim us and he certainly wants to claim you.
Hugh told us when he arrived here.
I thought it was a drug induced haze because I've been in many
myself. But he told me that you had
fixed other worlds. You had fixed other stories like

(01:51:20):
ours. I don't know how you fix 175
years of genocide, but if there's a way, if there's any
way, any kind of nods back at LAD and Viper, we want to help.
I'll tell you, my friend, how wefix it.
I look over you. Can I say together?

(01:51:44):
Yeah. I scrap his hand.
I'm sorry I didn't hold on tighter last time, you guys.
I don't believe it had anything to do with how firm you are able
to hold you canard. Trust me, my hand is crippled by
your grip quite often, in a goodway.

(01:52:06):
Well, it sounds like maybe like last time it was Ella, Maybe now
we need to go after this Hihachiguy.
But. The thing I keep thinking about.
Sorry. Maybe you go.
I was just going to say, at least if we find him and it's
not like him, maybe it's like, Idon't know, computer stuff

(01:52:30):
nearby or whatever. I don't really understand that
part, but. I feel a little out of my depth
here trying to even guess how tocorrect some of these problems.
Like the wires and stuff but we I don't I don't know.
And and Paula steps again, the steps up again to like kind of
put himself in the conversation.We do.

(01:52:50):
And we know the source and we have a way.
We have someone uniquely qualified to get to the center
of it. And he kind of turns and waves
the Viper as as they're like resident hacker, but he turns
back to Hugh and and looks around and says, but we have, I

(01:53:16):
have memories now of when Paolo was alive, not me.
His memories are in my head. But Kihachi revealed something
to us, a party member. It is not here that was with us
at the time, someone that was not Alice, but someone named
L10. And that L10 we hoped would

(01:53:37):
somehow contain the Hihachi AI and attempted and failed or
turned on us. We don't know how we don't know.
Why? But his, he is the core of this.
He will be at the core of this. And when we faced off with
Hihachi, he told us that he had tunnelled underground, that he

(01:53:57):
had taken the city deep beneath the earth.
It is down. We must go, not up.
I just keep thinking about why. I mean, do you guys remember
Mothership when you read it thatwhy was he here and can we

(01:54:19):
actually reset it in this world?Because if he's the linchpin
that changed it all, he shouldn't have been here in the
1st place. So really is the thing that
changed it all actually in Mothership and it spiraled out
of control and we're not going to be able to fix it until we
fix that. You hear Ben speak.
He just kind of was here and he was lad.

(01:54:44):
You knew him first. Right, I did.
He helped people. He had this ability to remind
people of what they had experienced previously.

(01:55:06):
It helps people get off the drugs because they remembered
what they used to be before the drugs.
We just use that as a as a way to get people's heads clear.
I trusted him completely. Perhaps there's there's some way

(01:55:28):
we could harness that ability toremind people of who they are,
to reawaken the true self, to impact the story itself.
That's why all of this is so hard.
Because we were never mind the people who they are.
And now Paulo and Viper and myself.

(01:55:50):
Who are we? Remember, he's at this point.
No Viper. We can grow and change.
We've seen things, done things these last 175 years.
If we were things, could we haverejected Hihachi?
No, no, we are different. We are something more than

(01:56:12):
simple machines. We even reverse what has been
done to this world, though at this point can humanity bounce
back from what they are now? Don't know.
In the other worlds, you know, things started to reset.
We, we felt it. We didn't get to see it because

(01:56:33):
we had to leave, but we felt it starting.
And maybe that'll happen here. I I don't know.
When you say reset but but everything we said is it, is it
a as if nothing ever happened? Well, I mean, yeah, I don't

(01:56:56):
know. I don't know if if those
people's, I know they feel that their old memories coming in,
but I don't know if eventually they lose those fake new ones
that they created. I I don't know.
So at that, Paulo looks at Ed, Viper and Lad and you can see
he's like the idea of of losing what they've experienced

(01:57:20):
together has really hit him hardthat it might be, it might just
be gone if they succeed and he starts to kind of walk off on
his own, just like 1015 feet in a random direction.
I don't know that we can change what has happened between us,
but we can change what's happening for you.

(01:57:42):
Now there's anything that we cando.
You have us. Our story may be over, but we
can at least try to get you guysback into your own.
You know, even if your story's over, everyone loves a good

(01:58:03):
sequel. Well, that's the confusing part
too, is there's L 10 here and sowe didn't really talk about it
much. But Emtero and I, Bob is the one
who got us here. Like we came into this story,
but we met Bob and his family. I don't know if that means that

(01:58:27):
mothership story is also different here.
I don't. I don't really know what that
means, but it sounded like maybeWilliam.
I don't. The bartender's name is William.
He sent Bob to get us, which maybe made the his family avoid

(01:58:49):
that fate. I don't really know what's going
on, but it's definitely different.
Maybe we should just give William a call and see.
Maybe we don't even have to worry about asking questions
because he'll just know so much more.
We don't even know what to ask because we don't know what we
don't know. Yeah, OK.
Yeah. You want to OK, let's I guess

(01:59:11):
let's just call him I'm. Going to go over.
I don't remember who has the globe, but we.
Give Pablo a heads up that, you know, just kind of softly put a
hand on his shoulder. Actually, no, I think it would
be between two guys of their size.
I think it would be that Bros shoulder smack that all the guys
do to each other. Whereas it has to hurt or it's
not like not OK. So he does like one of those

(01:59:34):
smack things on the shoulder andit kind of just does like the
head nod back over to the group.So as few would come even and
kind of smack Palo Palla would kind of like try to chuckle
like, huh, you know, thanks. But she would notice that
there's his face is wet with oiltracks and he kind of wipes his

(02:00:00):
face and takes a deep breath or what what an Android would
approximate for a breath and gets himself together and comes
back to the group. You can we'll reach into he's, I
don't know if I've ever actually, well, actually I don't
know. He's not wearing it in this
world. I was going to say he's going to
reach into his baking apron and pull out a little kitchen rag

(02:00:23):
from work that he had never gotten a chance to get rid of.
But he's all cyberpunked in thisworld, so I don't even think he
has. So I guess he would reach into
one of his many pockets on his leather cargo pants and pull out
just one of those utility rags. I guess that would be the
equivalent in this world and a. Drop cloth.
Yeah, just. One of those little guys.

(02:00:44):
It's like the little painters rags.
That's right. Microfiber drop cloth.
Perfect. Yeah.
Wordlessly handed over not not trying to draw attention to it
out of respect, but yeah. OK, you guys all move and and
find a small cavern unoccupied and and gather in together and

(02:01:06):
sit or stand around this device.Set it down in the middle and
activate it. It activates and life-size
images of William the bartender and Thwick the thrycreen appear
in front of you and you see Thwick, this thrycreen, you
know, bug creature he's got, he's got this like blue uniform

(02:01:27):
on and you just all here in yourminds.
Oh wow, you all made it. They made it.
I, I can't believe it separated in your own stories.
Now back to this one after resetting.
I'm going to need more thread for my board.
This is getting very messy. Oh, I'm sorry, I'm talking too
much. I forgot to say my thing, this
is all with consent. Hello, I am Officer Thwick, I am

(02:01:47):
a Thri Cream and I communicate primarily through telepathy.
This is a one way communication.Be reassured that I cannot enter
your mind or thoughts. If you wish to speak to me you
must do so audibly, unless of course you have the ability to
communicate telepathically back.I can communicate through any
language but I only understand Common, Dorvish, Elvish and
Nomes so please use one of the listed languages.
Thank you and it is a pleasure to make your acquaintance.

(02:02:08):
OK, sorry. Hello everyone.
Hello Thwick killing time, right?
Right. Yes, that was my that was my
original story. Yes, I I remember that book a
little bit. It's been a little while since I
read it though. OK.
Wait, have you read your original story?

(02:02:28):
Oh yes, I actually have very strange experience looks over at
William. But but yes, I was able to read
my original story. Very odd.
Wait, do we have a story? Oh no, Oh no.
The the like a like of what's happening now.
Yeah, like me and Hugh and him tyro.

(02:02:50):
I don't think the Tavern exists to have a story to be created
because they all they manifest into that book thing right?
Well, I was just checking. I mean, they didn't know they
had a story, I would think. I don't think so.
He. Looks over William and and
William shakes his head. Judges, judges saying that OK.
Judges say that, yeah. It's a no.
It's a no for me, Doug. Welcome, everybody.

(02:03:15):
I'm very glad to see that you all have made it and made it
through to be back together again.
And of course, Paulo Ladd, Viperand Ben, it's good to meet you.
I am. My name is William, and we have
a lot to talk about for those who are, you know, new, I guess,

(02:03:39):
or old to this story. Paulo, Viper, Ladd and Ben, some
of this won't make perfect senseto you, but we can explain it as
we go when needed. Hey, wait a second.
I mean, I know I've been on the net for years and so was Ben and
Ladd because we didn't hide anything.
But there's no way you know Viper from the ad, the ad chain,

(02:04:00):
she hit herself like a a fuckingghost on the web.
How do you know who we are? This is the most.
This is the craziest hologram I've ever seen.
I remember I, I mentioned that II had read your story.
He's he's he keeps he keeps all the stories in his Tavern.
I that's where I was with with them Tiro and Namby the night

(02:04:23):
that the red who was originally attacked, someone came and told
your story. I don't, I don't know who I
don't remember. I, I mean, I wasn't there when
they told it, but I don't, I don't remember who wrote it, but
someone came and told your storyand this Tavern, it, it keeps
them and that's why we know. So you're saying there's a,

(02:04:46):
there's a record of us, There's,there's our story is told
somewhere? There will be my friend, as long
as we can correct it and then that way you will live on.
That's why I trusted you guys sofast.
You guys felt like friends already because I'd read the
books so many times. So Palette kind of nods.

(02:05:08):
I'm not entirely understanding, but like enough to let William
continue. I can try to explain a little
bit further. So on every planet there is a
Shard of cosmic power called theShard of Reality.
Around these shards, people feelled to tell stories.

(02:05:30):
Many times these stories magically form into books that
line the walls of Taverns that Ihad built and other structures
that precede my time. These stories represent real
occurrences, true things that actually happened or will
happen, and I have served as keeper of these stories for a

(02:05:51):
long time. Ultimately, I have failed to
protect them. I unknowingly allowed a red
slime ooze type creature called an Oblex to infect the Tavern
and subsequently the Shard of reality, giving the Oblx the
ability to change the stories asthey occurred, changing reality
itself. An Oblx feeds on memories, so

(02:06:14):
each time a story is changed, new memories are formed by the
people in them, allowing the Oblx to continue to feast and
grow more and more powerful. Paulo Ladd Viper Ben, your
journey to destroy the AI Hihachi was one of these stories
where you were successful. The Oblx changed your story so

(02:06:35):
that wasn't the case and we are currently living out that
reality. Man, if you told me we needed
to, we needed to get rid of memories, I got drugs for that.
We can, we can erase everybody'smemory right now.
But if you're really if that's what we need.
But it sounds like it's maybe a bigger problem than that.

(02:06:56):
The way the Oblix kind of does this is it is a very intelligent
creature. It usually tries to make a small
change in someone's own history so that it alters the current
story. If it can make one change to
affect multiple stories, it willprioritize those changes.
The less it needs to do to change the story, the more it
can consume. It is very crafty in how it

(02:07:19):
achieves this. In this story, it saw something
unexpected, an autonom travelingthe stars called L10A character
from another story in the futuremaking a pit stop on this planet
earth. The Albex tried and failed to
have L10 change a memory from his past, so instead offered him
the chance to utilize its power to read memories, inserting

(02:07:40):
itself as a data card into L10L10 began using this ability
to help people relive their happiest memories.
Eventually lad, you've heard about this autonom and his
ability and met with him about the possibility of helping
people through their past traumas, so should be invaluable
in helping with issues like addiction.

(02:08:03):
L10 agreed. And together you helped many
people and you were together through the events of Crowning
AI achievement. That's the name of the story.
Don't ask, Kuntai made the title, but he doesn't say that.
Through the events of crowning AI achievement, we're at the end

(02:08:25):
of the new reality of the story.The desire to continue to help
others with the enhanced power through the AI and subtle
promises and directions from theOblx data card convinced you and
the others to try to contain theAI within L10 instead of Alice.
Once the AI was transferred over, the combined force of
Hihachi and the Oblx turning against L10 was too much.

(02:08:48):
He had no chance after that. He, Hachi and the Oblx took over
everything attempted to enslave the humans to quote live with
them. Eventually all all out war broke
out and the AI one humans were captured.
The Oblix would consume their memories and feed them into new
AI duplicate bodies, eventually turning the entire world into

(02:09:11):
AIAI that is under complete control of Hihachi.
Not complete control. That is a good point.
Not completely. And while you are here right
now, do you feel his presence atall?
Any any effect on you right now?Just sensing it.

(02:09:35):
I haven't felt anything since weleft the surface.
Viper Land, how about you? Leads me to question I actually
want to try something. If you guys could, you know, do
that below I want to tea. I can sense anything from that.

(02:09:56):
OK. So if we all just like the three
of us, lad, Paolo and I, if we get close together and if we
like. And bend biofuel and biofuel.
And. Then and.
Then I'm so sorry. Ben, I'm here too.
Those four both come together and we just kind of like
resonate our red energy. Can I pick anything up from

(02:10:19):
that? What are are you?
What are you, I guess what are you trying to?
Is there something specific you're trying to sense just
that? For one, it's not something it's
not, it's not something that we've really looked into before,
so it's a new aspect of us. We haven't reached out to try to
find connection. We tried to sever it when it

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last happened, but we haven't tried to reach out and see if
there's anything out there. Perhaps OK use your connection
against it, yes. But be very careful.
This is. This is.
Also bad. I think this.
I think this is an insight role on yourself.
OK, dude, OK. Can I can I give her the help

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action? Sure.
Yeah, well, yeah. Or or.
I don't know if it's like technical stuff that maybe I
wouldn't be able to help with, but.
Yeah, that's why, that's why I paused for a second.
Just a guidance also, but. Namby's an expert in knowing
oneself. Regardless.
If they're mechanical or not. So what does that help and

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guidance? What does that give me?
Is that an advantage? And I add.
Advantage and then plus. AD4D4.
OK. Come on, Viper.
I'm glad it is an advantage because I had a one-on-one of
them. Let's see, 12 + 4 insight plus.
OK, so 16 + 2 it's 18. 18 You guys step together and and do

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this glow and kind of you feel like that is just something that
is a light inside of you that you're able to activate.
You don't feel like you are any closer to Hihachi.
You sit there and think about how you felt when Hihachi took
control of you and it was this oppressive force.
It was something that you felt like was taking over your body.

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It feels like that would be easyto easy to sense in the future.
Like you feel like this. You feel like yourself right
now. I have a question, William, I
think is your name. We went to the car.
We we invaded the Hihachi HQ, infiltrated their systems with

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the help of two different people.
There was an insider, an organicas they would call him today, 10
Hauser. I have to assume that he died
many years ago. But there was also another Her
name was Alice. She was, well, like us.

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She was originally designed to contain the Hihachi AI and did
for years. Do we know if she's still out
there? She's still alive and, and
Thwick starts like flipping through his notes and he and
he's like, she's alive and she'snearby and, and William's like
he's like, well, it's like, well, it's like, hold on.
Thwick. We I Thwick and I have come up

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with a plan, but it's kind of a lot to take in.
But yes, Alice, the AI who was originally in charge of keeping
Kihachi and other AI at Bay, is still alive.
Kihachi tried to kill her and was unable to.
I don't I it seems that you've read our story, so you have to

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know that a lot is our specialty.
So tell us the plan. OK, so here's the plan.
Kihachi is unreachable, so we assume he has some sort of
central core somewhere that can be reached or destroyed.
But he also has L10's celestial form, which seems he can.

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It seems he can fully integrate with the Internet systems here.
So Long story short, we have no idea how to stop Pihachi.
So far your plan is not impressing me, I must say.
Yes, I understand that. That makes a lot of sense.
We also don't know where to start looking for Hiachi.

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He has control of this entire planet, which he can turn on us
with a single command. He doesn't fear us.
The Oblx doesn't fear us. With the way this story has
turned out, it is a total victory for the Oblx.
It essentially consumed an entire planet's worth of
memories. Because of that, It seems that

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he's in complete control and this this planet has been very
valuable to the Oblix. Because of that, it seems to
treat this planet as its main hub.
It has remained here since it originally took the overtook the
Shard of reality. Well, a portion of it has been
here, I should say, because if we think it can be in three
places at once. Well, if it if it is strongest

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here or somewhat strongest here,then it has No Fear of us.
And if it has No Fear of us, then it underestimates us.
And perhaps we can use this? It has grown complacent.
It does not expect what we will bring to it.
I love this man. It does seem to underestimate

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people it underestimated. Underestimated Mtero.
Mtero, you were actually able tokill it or a portion of it in
your story. Mtero spits out of both mouths
when he thinks about it. Yes, I select.
Keep forgetting about that extramouth.
Namby looks very ashamed when that is said.
Namby, what's wrong? What's wrong?

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I yeah, I couldn't do it. I but I think I have a theory on
why it it can be in three placesat once and I think it all had
to do with the killing Time story.
I met it in Killing time. It was impersonating my friend
Hooks. After we found out what it was,
it fled into a time sphere and we couldn't track it.
I have a theory it it sort of goes something like this.

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Let's say one of you could go back in the past and meet a
version of yourself. You could talk to that person,
shake their hand, and they wouldremain a totally separate
entity. Now you would think like them,
perhaps do the same things at the same time, but would you be
the same person, know you'd still be separate?
Now what if your creature type, that he's flipping through his
pages was instead an ooze? Could you, upon meeting

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yourself, combine with yourself,creating something bigger and
stronger? My theory is that the Oblx we've
been dealing with went back and forth in time, sought itself
out, and combined with itself tobecome more powerful.
If this theory is correct interior, you have killed 1
portion of it in your story. The other two portions have
regrouped and are both here on earth to defend its most

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precious prize. If we can defeat the other two
portions here at the same time, we may have a shot at defeating
it completely. So you're saying to me that
here, in our place, in our time,is the place that we can kill
this thing? Well, yes, that would be a step
in the right direction. You like kind of glances at

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William and William says there'sthere's risks to you knowing the
whole plan in case you do get incontact with the Oblex as it
does eat memories and consume them.
And so we have been keeping partof this close to our chest.
But you are correct, Paulo, thatthe IT is imperative that this

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part of the plan would work if we could manage it.
LS no more, but use us as you would.
I can hack it. Oh.
My giggity. Lad always weirdly like hornily.

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Vagalistic. Well, yeah, Pala turns the
vibrant is like, are you up for this?
That's all we can do. You did it once before.
I have so many regrets from before.
It should have been me on the mainframe, not L10.

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If we had an organic body, maybenone of this would have
happened. But maybe we get a second chance
now. Viper, my friend, I do not know
you well, but regrets are merelylessons in what we can correct
in the future. And now is your chance to
correct any mistakes of the pastand help set this world right.

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And I believe you can do it because you exude intellect and
brilliance and I can tell that you are power more powerful than
this AI could ever dream. I.
Haven't been feeling very powerful lately interior, but I
appreciate that. I understand if you cannot

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believe in yourself at this time, but know that I will
always believe in you. It's so good to have you back.
An important part of this is to to let you all know that the
Oblix, when it is in control of a world or present in a world,

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its goal is to change things. The realities that are lived out
are not permanent. This reality has given it a lot
of memories, a lot of strength. But if it could turn it, turn
back time and change the story again to have it be able to eat
more memories, it would do that in a second.
So the realities that you live in now unfortunately aren't

(02:20:14):
permanent themselves because theOblex will change them and has
no respect for for. Anything.
Continuity. Yeah.
Anyone. Agency, though, even as we know
ourselves now. We could be gone tomorrow.

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OK. And then I just want to say that
me, the fan, Becca just keeps wanting to emphasize to you two
kids, second chances could be gone tomorrow.
That guy needs a win. You mean Paolo and Lad, right?
Yeah, of. Course, I kind of got the vibe

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from Lad that it's LAD or anyonewho wants to do anything to his
body, sort of the body. LAD is the ultimate sub.
Lad is like a synabite. Help.
Lad is like a synabite. He's been to the extent the
reaches of the universe. He's experienced everything.

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Oh man. I'm just here to help you, man.
Oh man. Well, let's figure out how to.
Let's see if we can get that win.
Wick has Wick. You want to run us through the
rest of the plan? Absolutely.
So in this world where the Albexhas total control, our outlook

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is bleak. But we have two things going for
us. Some possible advantages.
Paolo Ladd Viper and Ben Hihachistill maintain some control of
your bodies. You are able to resist him now,
but it's only a matter of time before your resolve fails you
and he takes control of you again.
Right now he's allowing you to be separate from his control.
We think partly because he seemsto enjoy the game of all this.

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For us to have a chance, we haveto find a way to cleanse you
from his control permanently. And we have believed we have
found that way. You see there wasn't the the AI
you referenced Alice. She was too powerful for Hihachi
defeat and she is nearby and shehas the power to cleanse you to
keep you separate from his control.

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Hihachi imprisoned her and separate separated her from all
other systems when he couldn't defeat her.
During the time of the Human Revolution, she was placed in a
submarine prison that travelled the world in the depths of the
ocean, avoiding all contact. Now he keeps the submarine close
on the bottom of the Tagus estuary.
If you can rescue her, she can cleanse you, and she can begin

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to cleanse other AI under Hihachi's control. 92% of the AI
on this planet do not know the truth.
They do not know that they are mechanical, that they are AI,
and that they have no true free will.
You can grant them the ability to choose.
The other advantage we have is time.

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Paulo, Ladd, Viper, Ben, your mechanical bodies are built to
last. Most AI humanoids on this planet
can last 200 to 300 years beforea replica needs to be made.
If you can free Alice, you can start to work with her to
cleanse the influence of Hihachion this planet.
You also have the mutants. Under careful guidance, mutants
and the AI can live together. In the beginning of the war,

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humans went underground to protect themselves from the AI
threat. Hihati responded by flooding the
Earth with toxic Icker or I core, depending on how you
pronounce it. He did not expect the side
effect of the I Core changing their DNA slowly mutating them
into what they are now. The mutants have grown, evolved,
and reproduced under each city in this on this planet is a

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colony of mutants. We estimate millions of mutants
exist under most large cities, including this one.
The ones here under New Lisbon seem to be agreeable to living
with AI and humans, partly because of this prophecy that
they believe in Hewitt, Nabby and Emtero.

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You do not have the luxury of time.
However, we have planned for a way to you for you to rejoin the
story in the future. Do you have the pages that Bob
gave you? Yeah, the mothership pages.
Yes, the story of mothership takes place sometime in the
future. It's hard to judge exactly how
far you see around each planet is is wild space.

(02:24:35):
To get from one wild space to another wild space, you have to
travel through the astral sea. Travel through the astral seas
is strange. Time sometimes gets hard to
track. And even even though the travel
through the astral plane is stagnant and he he kind of keeps
going. And William says it's it's OK.
You don't need to describe everything.
Explain everything. Sorry.

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By my estimate, the events of Mothership takes place between
25 and 150 Earth years in the future.
So once Alice is freed or when you're about to die, you three,
you must activate the page to betaken in the future so you can
regroup with your AI allies. I'm sorry I said that kind of

(02:25:18):
weird. Is that a hypothetical when
we're about to die, or are you saying we are about to die on
this mission? Yeah, woof.
So what? That response?
He's like. Bumbling.
He's getting really nervous and he's like looking at William to
try and save. I don't know how someone try and
save mumble psychically. I'm sorry, I'm right.

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Out there, for a minute you saida lot of words that didn't make
a lot of sense, and I glazed over.
And then you said something about dying, right?
William says he like puts his hand like puts his hand on Twik
and he speaks to you. The mutants have been staging
battles for years. Today was the largest that
they've had in a while, a test for a major battle.

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Tomorrow, they are ready to go with a large force to show in
what they believe will be a fight for their freedom, a fight
that they believe they can win. They do not understand how
outmatched they are. There are millions of them down
here, but against modern technology, they will be
decimated. With you all here, there's a
chance that this battle is not fought in vain, that this

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provides the spark needed to light this world ablaze.
Your goal as part of Flix and I's plan will be to fight
alongside the mutants while exposing the submarine,
infiltrating it and rescuing Alice, then issuing a retreat
for the mutants, which is currently not part of their

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plans. You mean to use these millions,
you say, of rebels, freedom fighters, as a diversion for us
to find Alice? Yes, and Hihachi combined with

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the Oblex who is present as well.
It's focus has very slowly turned to Hugh, Mtero and Namby.
They are the highest threats. They've reversed a few of of of
the stories that the Oblx has changed.
The Oblx very much wants them dead.
How will we reach how will we reach a submarine when it is

(02:27:26):
submerged? I mean I can see.
Oh and it kind of all clicks. You mean to have Hugh and our
new friends in Thiero and Namby raise an army before the AI
while Vlad and Viper and I descend through the water to the

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submarine? That's right, the submarine sits
on the bottom of the estuary andHihachi believes it to be
totally hidden and unknown. But with Hihachi's focus on MTRO
Nambi and Hugh U3 fighting alongside the mutants, well,
that will hopefully keep the focus on U3 while the others
here can work to infiltrate the submarine.

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What happens if? What happens if they fail?
What happens if we fail? If you fail, then the Oblix will
remain in control of this planet.
And my my new friend, my new family member, Hugh, he dies on
the front lines of a diversion instead of surviving and leaving

(02:28:29):
for his own world. No, yeah, we having Hugh and
Namby and Emtero die is would would destroy the plan.
There is no plan without them. And So what they have with them,
you have the pages from the bookthat if you think about those
pages, think about them as portals to a specific time and

(02:28:51):
place in the universe. And so they have a way out to
use them. Hopefully there's not a a time
or an event that would happen that would cause them to not be
able to use that and fail and die in this endeavor.
That is a possibility. My friend, death is certainly

(02:29:11):
not an outcome, an ending to this story that I desire.
However, it is clear to me that this story cannot continue as
is, and so if that is the endingthat awaits me, it is the one
that I will walk toward. And I do not believe it is a
fate that will befall us becauselook at these two brilliant
companions of mine. We will raise hell on that

(02:29:33):
battlefield, and I will burn this planet to the ground before
I allow anything to happen to either of them.
And I can assure you, though, I also feel horrible about the
mutants that will meet their fate during this battle, that
there is not one of them living their lives down here in this

(02:29:54):
disgusting hellhole. Who wouldn't willingly make that
sacrifice for a chance to changethe world back to how it should
be? They're going to die because
they falsely believe that I'm their savior.
Huguenard no, they are going to die fighting for the thing that
they want most. You are just the spark that

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starts the fire. And I mean, if we get the job
done, it all resets. And they're they're never that
way to begin with. They're just their previous
selves, the way they were meant to be.
You've given us hope. Hugh, earlier today, I didn't

(02:30:38):
think there's any way to fix this, but it seems slight
chance, small percentage. It's all we've ever had, Vipers.
The Silver Needle. She'll Pierce it.
She'll get through the shield. She'll find a way to free Alice.

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We'll get her there. We'll protect her while she does
it. We did it once before, we can do
it again. Before she started talking
though, she was holding her breath for a long time trying to
see if she got lightheaded at all because she was thinking,
OK, if we dive down in water, can we breathe like are we, do

(02:31:19):
androids need air? So she was testing that out so.
Do androids fall in love? Do androids get addicted to
drugs or some? Questions.
Questions are answering. Tonight.
You're turning blue and Williamslike Viper are are you OK?
Yes. She's been stunned again.
I'm doing. A little experiment.

(02:31:41):
Do medicine. No.
And so you voice what you were questioning about and so it
goes. Oh well then for my
understanding of your abilities and he's flipping through pages.
You may have the ability to transform into a small submarine
that can take 3 passengers. He goes yeah, I can.
OK, excellent. So the caves that you are

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connected in to connect to the estuary and you then you'll take
Paulo Lad and Viper with you underwater and approach the
submarine. Will you have an you will have
an attempt to disable the buoyance sensors.
Here are the schematics. And he like brings them up and
it's this massive, huge submarine.
This is the prison submarine that that houses Alice and it,

(02:32:25):
you know, hones in on one specific spot where the the
buoyancy sensors are. Once the sensors are destroyed,
the sub will have to rise to thesurface where you can attempt to
board it. This will be the optimal time
for the mutants to initiate their attack, led by MTRO Namby
and most importantly, Hugh. Namby you can fly with the
mutants with wings, Hugh you cango with those who fight on foot,

(02:32:48):
and Mtero you can go with those who could swim.
Mtero you could probably go along with the submarine as
well. Then keep a close eye on that to
make sure that that portion of the plan goes well because
that's kind of like the main part of the plan.
So you should probably go with them.
Oh yeah, and Hugh, we have thesethings that will help us keep in

(02:33:09):
communication, I think. And she holds up those little
OK. Yes, the com devices, yes,
communication over mostly metal that will allow you to send a
message, but just once a day andit will work in the range with
the technology in this on this planet just being everywhere.
It will work in the range of this battlefield.
Once the battle happens, you'll get on the submarine rescue

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Alice. Once Alice is rescued, Hue,
Nambi and Mtero, you will need to activate the pages in your
possession to travel to the future, and this is very
important. If you are near death, you need
to activate the page to take youto the future because we cannot
afford you to risk your lives. They are imperative to the plan.
Without you, none of the storieswill reset.
The Oblex will continue to change them and may remain in

(02:33:53):
control forever. Dwik.
I I I'm sorry to poke holes in your plan, but I just want to
verify you said that the Oblex was most interested in US.
Do you think it's wise for me tosplit its focus?
I don't think it will have any focus on you down in the depths

(02:34:14):
of the water. You know, they have submarines
that patrol the waters. But if you remain out of sight,
then, yeah. So yeah, that, that is a good
point, though. You would not want to get
noticed around the submarine. Our goal, my friend, I think,
and he kind of slaps a hand on Antero's.
What remains A sloping shoulder.It leaves an imprint.

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Our goal, my friend, I think, isto slip in before anybody knows
we were there. We're splitting up again.
No, I do not relish the thought of it at all, Huguenard.
It's cruel. Whatever cruel God would design
this plan and ask us to split upagain.
Curse him. You will be.
Close by, the area that the mutants want to pour out of the

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ground is right by the water andnamby.
You'll be with Hugh just above Hugh, flying with your beautiful
wings of ears. Wings of ears, yes.
Kind of both. OK, That at least will be by
each other. I have that.
I have that locate creature spell so we can find him.

(02:35:24):
Tyrone no matter what, I'll justmake sure I keep keep the
ability to to find him. Just make sure that you
prioritize your pages before me.Yeah, well, I guess we can
communicate if we need to use the pages.
Maybe that's what we save it forif we can.
Only save it for letting us eachother know that we're using our.

(02:35:45):
Page. If one of us uses it, should all
of us use it? I don't want to get split up
again. They're designed to take them
right to the end, Williams. Like yes, they these pages when
they activate should take you tothe exact same spot in
mothership. Story should be right at the end
of mothership, the story that you've read.

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Paolo walks over to Hugh and like, slaps like pounds of fists
into his chest for a second. And he's like, we might not be
in the same place, we might not be shoulder to shoulder, but
we're in here. He pokes his chest.
And you are in here. We're going to be in two
different fronts on this. We're working together, right?

(02:36:30):
When you poke your chest, do youaccidentally light up red like
at night? Light it's.
Like where's my light? It opens up a panel.
All of a sudden I'm shit. You know what I just thought of
Namby if you No, never mind, youcan't carry me.
There was some way if you could carry my echo up and we could

(02:36:54):
just constantly switch places and I could drop on people from
up where you're flying. I mean, I'm pretty strong.
I know I'm little, but I'm not. You know, I can hold more than
it looks like I can hold. And I also have that spell that
can make me stronger. Wait y'all don't even you you
don't even know what you did. You guys haven't heard this

(02:37:15):
right? Like he literally divided a a a
mutant that was two stories tallwith his legs.
It was crazy. I'm not surprised.
I'm not saying that at all. Actually, I'm.
Remotely surprised. It was incredible.
He he literally put a crater in the pavement.
It was my. Friend Paulo, that's nothing.
You should have seen the time heblew a dragon to pieces in one

(02:37:38):
attack. Smithereens in one.
Shot Yeah, I almost heard God scream out my name during.
Cursed your name and then I wrote the rest of this campaign
specifically. As revenge.

(02:38:00):
Yeah, maybe, maybe. I know you can sometimes change
what what spells you can do, butif we can figure out a way, if
you so my legs, I I don't take fall damage anymore.
And I've said I can translate itinto things, other things.
So yeah, we should think of something with Ariel.

(02:38:20):
OK, I'm not the best like strategist in the moment, but if
you guys help me come up with a plan beforehand, I'll do it.
I'll do whatever you guys think is the best.
Yeah, we can do it tonight before bed.
I'm very tired so we should probably sleep before the fight
at some point. There's so much to talk about
too. Oh my.
Gosh. OK.

(02:38:40):
There is one last thing that youall should know, one more piece
of this that we need to discuss right now.
I am in my past, my personal past, which is how Flick is able
to talk to me. Being in the position I am, I
have the ability to see stories as they are happening and as

(02:39:02):
they have already happened. I am also connected to the Oblix
in this way. It doesn't know that I have the
ability to see some of the things I do.
My insight is limited and will soon run out.
In my future, when you three arefighting the Oblix and I step in
to send you to the story of Zoonopia, The Oblix and I

(02:39:25):
continue to fight and the Oblix kills me.
When you travel to the future toMothership, I will have died and
the Oblix will be impersonating me in the Taverns across the
universe. After today, Click will be
leaving me to go to the final stage of our plan that we've

(02:39:45):
made together to hopefully kill the Oblix once and for all.
That means that this will be thelast time that we talk.
If you have questions, now wouldbe the time to ask them.
Wait, so when this is all done and we go, when we go back to
the Tavern, you won't be there? Things will reset, right?

(02:40:09):
What if everything's all said and done?
It'll we can we can reset it. The events of this, the Oblacs
taking out the Tavern of infecting the Shard of reality,
those events can't be changed. That's what happened.
As much as I would be tempted togo back in my own story to

(02:40:29):
change something, to Alert me tothe presence of the Oblacs so
that I could stop it from happening, would just be another
person changing the story that already happened, and it would
likely outmaneuver me on that aswell.
And so to answer your question, will everything reset?
No. This is the nature of being a

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story keeper. As I am, as other story keepers
were before me. We help protect what happened
because sometimes what happened is the most important thing.
Are there are there other story keepers that we in have help us?

(02:41:19):
To my knowledge, no. The world, the universe is vast.
I've been to many of these worlds and built Taverns.
I grew up on a planet called Ellaria.
It was a planet much like your planet, much like Fey Rune.
At a young age, I started hanging out at a place called
the Fablemore Playhouse, an openair theater where people would

(02:41:39):
tell stories that came to life on stage.
It was a truly magical experience.
I hung around that theater, grewup in it, and learned how to be
a storyteller under the directorGriselda Schoonhart.
She was the story keeper at the time and had created multiple
theaters throughout the universe.

(02:41:59):
Eventually she shared all this with me, and as much as I wanted
to be an actor, it just wasn't cut out for me.
So we started building Taverns. Eventually she retired and gave
me the keys to the Tavern and I've been doing it alone for for
a long time. You a wizard?

(02:42:22):
No, I'm OK, not a wizard, I can cast spells, but now I'm someone
who swore an oath to protect thestories and somehow that grants
me the abilities that I have. We have to be able to reset it
to at least before you die. I mean, that wasn't supposed to

(02:42:44):
happen. It, it, it, it, it ruined what
was supposed to happen. Whatever is supposed to happen
in our future, it. I think we all wish we could be
in charge of what was supposed to happen.
Yeah. You know, everyone deserves to
tell their own story. I heard that from someone wise.

(02:43:05):
We make this vow, but in your honor, we will, at least this
one time, protect these stories and save them.
Thank you Mtero, your words are always encouraging.
Well, I guess, I guess my only question left is if we defeat

(02:43:27):
the Oblix, does it? Do we have to do anything to get
back to the Tavern or will it all reset itself on its own?
That I do not know. And he looks at the Wick and I
won't, unfortunately won't be around to find that out as as

(02:43:53):
little chance. This all seems to be able to
work out. You know, sometimes with stories
you feel like you can see the end coming.
And I feel good about this one. I think, I think you have a real
chance to reset this. And I don't know, sometimes it's
nice to not know the end of a story.

(02:44:15):
A spoiler alert, we win. So the plan is that all clear as
day for everyone. The plan is good and set forth
and everybody knows what what their part is and and how to
achieve victory correct. Yeah.
Paolo checks with his crew to like, checks around a bend and

(02:44:37):
Viper and Lad to like. Make sure he gets nods from
everybody and then nods too. Hey William, thanks for thanks
for sharing all that cinnamon bread with me.

(02:44:57):
I wouldn't have been able to alleat it all by myself, so thank
you. Cinnamon bread was very good.
You it was easy to eat. I made some wet dumplings
earlier, but I don't think we have any of those.
Sounds so delicious they were. Really good, man.

(02:45:19):
They were, really. Good.
And William, thank you for for giving my tab at the Tavern.
I assume it's all find that. No, yes, your your tab is
destroyed. There's there's no way of of
knowing what the what the what the total was.
No, I no way of knowing. You.
That was probably the first thing I ate in 175 years.

(02:45:41):
Yeah, super good. I'll make something tonight.
I don't recommend using icore asan ingredient.
It does not cook well. I mean, I, I guess if we're
never going to see you again, thank you for the Tavern and

(02:46:02):
thank you for all the stories. I, I think I speak for, for M
Taro and Hugh and saying that it's meant a lot to be a part of
it and I wouldn't have met them without it.
And the brief part in time whereI went back into a different

(02:46:28):
memory and I hadn't met them, I didn't, I didn't like that one
bit. So thank you.
It was my pleasure. You're welcome.
The I like to say the most part important part of the story is
the the one who tells it and seeing you all interact with the

(02:46:53):
Tavern, read the stories, listento the stories.
The tavern's a magical place. The Playhouse was a magical
place. Stories traverse time and space
and mean things to people and change who they are and how it
make them believe them in themselves and and and give them
insight. I guess I could talk about this

(02:47:13):
forever and maybe I have already.
We'll do our best to keep it going after everything's figure
it out. I appreciate that.
How do you hang this thing up? I don't.

(02:47:35):
Know it's a globe there's. No.
Buttons. OK, Do I do have to ask?
Are there any any other any other questions?
I would hate to turn this off and just not be able to speak to
any of anybody ever again about this.
If not, I will see you on the other side hopefully, and we
will continue on from there. I would hate to ask this as

(02:47:58):
Viper if you already answered it, so I'm asking this as Kitty.
Did you already mention what time we're going to start this
mission? Is it tomorrow or we get a long
rest first or? The the mutants seem very eager
to get going, like right in the morning.
And so they will be. I assume they will start

(02:48:22):
collectively gathering and it really seems like they are
looking at you, Hugh to make allof the directive moves.
But they do all plan on leaving in the morning.
That's kind of the the vibe. Is that the right word?
Vibe Vibe, yes. Yeah, you're using it
beautifully, Yeah. Thank you.
OK, good luck in your mission. And William says good luck.

(02:48:48):
Hi, William. Goodbye.
Bye holograms goes back into theglobe.
What? Do you guys think his skin care
routine is because he looks fantastic for somebody who says
that he's? I thought it's a lot of Icarus.
For a long time. Oh wow.
Something creamy for sure. I don't know, it's not doing

(02:49:09):
much for my skin this icar and just drift, it's going down.
You are rather Icarus, I will say.
But yeah, the the the night is approaching, you all gather and
or or gather together in this cave.

(02:49:32):
Looks like a pretty decent cave to maybe settle down in.
And I'm assuming nobody really wants to split up at this point,
but is there anything that your characters would like to do with
the rest of this evening? And kind of as you settle down
in preparation for tomorrow. First off Viper looks up to Hugh

(02:49:56):
and says Hugh I'm glad you foundyour family again.
Really am glad goes over and stands by a low.
Lad inserts himself in between the two of them.

(02:50:17):
If if Viper is if Viper is standing next to Paulo, then
kind of the back of Paulo's hand, just like gently brushes
against the back of Viper's hand.
And Lad's hand goes into the back of Paulo's pocket.
It just goes a step further. Lad comes in.

(02:50:39):
But Paulo looks at you and and says, you know, I, I don't know
if anything I've made over the last not 175 years is any good.
But if you're going to make foodtonight, I'll help you.
I would love that. Yeah.
I don't really have much with me.
Well, yeah, let's do it. Fuck, we got to have got some

(02:51:01):
food from Bob Shipp. You could have cooked this.
It would have been incredible. Leftovers.
There's so much food. I.
Throw up a whole. Potato.
Out of my stomach. Box wipe denominators do have
leftovers. There's no way the most
Midwestern BLOB family in the world.
There's no fucking way you didn't live.
Without like tuber with. Food.

(02:51:25):
Like like foil. I know I didn't.
Put enough Midwest in there. There's no way you didn't have
to say it, because it's just so implied that you have something
wrapped in tinfoil handed to youat the end of the.
And Emtero? Emtero vomits up a bag of
holding with just like a bunch of food in it.
Like a tons of leftovers. What?

(02:51:45):
Are what are the potatoes called?
Those special. Hassleback the hassleback
potatoes. Can we have some hassleback
potatoes and tinfoil Kyle please?
Yeah, we do. No matter what he says, we all
agree, because I added it, that we all have some Hassleback
potatoes we got from Bob, so we're eating those after you.

(02:52:08):
Loud cast aura vitality, which includes tupperwares potatoes,
yeah. So we're going rogue and not
listening to the DM, So what youguys brought?
With me? What else you guys do you wanna
learn? The pizza I don't.
Care what the DM says. We're having a nice family meal
before we all go off to die. Damn it, we're.
Studying on the Last Supper right now.

(02:52:29):
OK, this is Last Supper. We get to the cyber.
Sky, can you mute Kyle real quick?
He's. Not even in the I took his video
out of the episode. Okay.
Kyle. Can you, Kyle?
Leave the table. So I'm take, I'm going rogue.
I don't even care. I'm going to take.

(02:52:51):
I'm not going to make a childhood dish from Becca's
childhood of the one of those like in hindsight, super
Midwestern. And I'm going to take the
Hasselbeck potatoes and I'm going to cut them fully and I'm
going to lay them like a gratin style in the casserole dish and
take because obviously. There's that.
We also have. Yeah, obviously.
In The Cave. I made one obviously using my

(02:53:15):
performance of creation. Just let this casserole happen.
So there's diced potatoes laid out and then little like
leftover chunks of ham that we would always have the leftover
from like Easter meal usually. And we put that in there and
then cover it in cheese and likesome sort of and I don't know
what it was in Hinds. So I'll have to ask my mom some
sort of like a cream of fill in the blank probably like, I don't

(02:53:39):
know, celery or something. Yeah.
Cream of Icker. And this is the potato cream
dream. Oh no.
It's not advertising anymore. You really did.
And that's what I'm cooking overa little a little campfire.

(02:54:01):
Yeah. I'll make you a big fire.
Fuck little fire. Potatoes we're just rewarming
with this dish. We don't have to like cooking
from scratch here we're. Going to get like some really
hot ember. Big fire like we're this is,
this is the last time any of us might be alive.
Big fire. Big fire and ham and cheesy

(02:54:23):
potato casserole, which we only stopped eating once Dad started
having heart. Things.
Go figure that that dish would be cut.
But yeah, that's what Hugh makesis pulls from some, from some
inspiration that he can't even understand some part of his past
and makes this casserole for us all.

(02:54:43):
But we can't eat it till tomorrow morning, otherwise our
temporary HP will go away. So it takes all night to.
Make it the breakfast casserole.Both mouths are watering,
staring at it. Yeah.
I'm not commenting on all this this.
Is not cannon. This is the.

(02:55:03):
This is. Happening.
Look, if you wanted a Gen. con then you you need to just go
with. That Oh my gosh, I totally will
make it a Gen. Con.
Oh. Yeah.
Yeah, at some point though too, maybe like when things are kind
of just calming down and like people are kind of getting their

(02:55:24):
place of where they want to lay down for the night.
You as 1000% smashing Emterio upagainst one side of him like on
their little bed rolls and nambyon the other and will not take
his arms off of both of them. Like refuses to.
And like, after a moment of quiet, kind of like turns his
head and looks at Emterio and he's like, so your dad's an

(02:55:47):
Aladron, not a genie. Yes, my mother is not my mother.
She adopted me. My my, my real parents were
forced to leave me behind. And you, you met him.
I did. I was able to meet him and the
Faye Wilde I took. Oh my goodness, Huguenard, you
would have loved it. I was inside of wild Love.

(02:56:08):
I almost met Diandra in person, but.
I, I mean, you know, I've heard good things about the Faye
Wilde. There is a lot of Gila.
Person there. What it's like your dad.
Yes, my yes, I did not get to meet Tiandra.

(02:56:29):
Instead of all people I met Zaz the Bard.
And let me tell you, your ink did not do him justice because
he performed amazingly. When I was there.
Wow, are you OK? It's been a lot, I will say, but

(02:56:49):
I have not had much time to dwell on my new life, even
though it feels very real to me.In one sense.
It also, I've lived a whole lifetime not believing that.
And frankly, I've been so concerned, Yoganard, with
getting back to you. I haven't had time to worry
about that. And I don't think that right now
I'll have the time either, giventhe circumstances that are ahead

(02:57:13):
of us. Why?
Why didn't he? Why didn't he find you?
I don't know. He, he, he, he, he is blind.
So he did face some adversity inthat way.
And I'm not sure of the nature of traversing the fair wild.
And all I can say is things havehappened the way that they have

(02:57:37):
happened. And I loved my mother very much
who raised me. And that's enough for me right
now. Yeah.
I don't. I want to stress you out more
maybe, Hugh, do you feel like you can talk about something
that's maybe kind of hard to talk about?

(02:58:00):
I don't know if there's been many easy to talk about topics
recently. So.
Might as well. You're OK, right?
I'm OK. Yeah.
So when Antero was meeting his dad, I met River.

(02:58:23):
What? Yeah, so apparently Emtero
choosing to do something different affected me too.
I kind of took a different path and I went on this like mission

(02:58:43):
with my school. And she, the Bone Guard was I
was there, yeah. I I met, I met River.
Wow, do you like her? She was awesome, I see why you

(02:59:06):
talk about her all the time. Yeah, yeah, she was pretty
great. Yeah, she was really brave and
really, really funny and really strong and really encouraging.
I told her how much you loved her and how much you would miss

(02:59:30):
her. Glad you got to meet her.
He was at. Is that a temple?
Yeah. I don't know this for sure, but
I think, I think I met her maybewhere she might have, you know,

(03:00:00):
without my help, I think it might have gone bad.
Oh yeah, I mean, that kind of makes sense.
I we didn't really know anything.
They didn't really know anythingof what happened.

(03:00:21):
It was a. School trip.
Yeah, the other people from the school left because it was too
dangerous. But I stayed and there was a
necromancer. His name was the Ox of the
Oxophilian. I don't.
I don't know if maybe after. For what it's worth, I don't

(03:00:44):
he's the one that I know would have been at fault.
Was there a professor on this trip?
A professor. Yeah, on the school trip was
there. Yeah, yeah, my professor.

(03:01:05):
I So the change was that you were there and that's what saved
her. Yeah, I went and I went and I
helped. The professor wouldn't let them
go in because it was too dangerous, but I went anyway.

(03:01:26):
And the professor did nothing. Someone who is supposedly
qualified to teach clerics to heal did nothing.
Yeah, well, I'm glad that you'reOK.

(03:01:46):
Glad you're both OK. When we are all done with this,
you'll have to show me where theschool is.
I'd enjoy visiting this professor.
I'll do whatever. I'll do whatever you need.
I'm Terry, for the record. I would never would have stopped
looking for you, for you both. You cannot.

(03:02:14):
You don't need to turn subtext into text in this instance time.
I know you would never, because you are much like Namby
described river to be. You are brave, you are valiant,
you are kind, you are a great friend.
It runs in the family. And my ooze a little closer.

(03:02:35):
And my gross little ooze. Force Slimy.
Floor. You all find that sleep finds
you, The tiredness of the day settles in, anticipation for
tomorrow sets in, and you doze off to sleep to get a long rest

(03:02:56):
tonight before the battle tomorrow.
You all are woken up early in the morning by the mutants.
They enter into the room and a larger mutant puts his hand out
and beckons you forward. Thing come.
I quickly dole out the casseroleand the little pieces of tinfoil

(03:03:16):
so that everyone can have like that and a coffee.
Walk me down as we as we walk. So everyone eat it now so that
you have the three temp HP and you don't have to use your bonus
action. Everyone make sure you're
fueling up. We're about to have a big day.
I'm about to have a big day. Does everyone use the restroom
before we start? OK, OK.

(03:03:40):
Just to be clear here, Kyle, that was a long rest, yeah.
Long worse. Oh my.
Gosh, thank you. Thank.
I almost didn't but. That's that feels good, man.
Will a will a night of real human like regular sleep ever
feel as good as getting a long rest in D&D?
You know. Paulo is very feeling, very out

(03:04:02):
of his groove. He was missing a lot of of tools
and he's feeling very good now. Yeah, you all start moving
forward and following the mutants as they are leading you
down further down into the caves.
Viper strides up to Paulo and says, Hey, how you feeling about

(03:04:31):
possible reset? I noticed the other day, I don't
know, you kind of didn't seem too happy about it.
I don't know how to feel about it.
You know, we've, we wake up hereand we think we're alive and

(03:04:52):
then we're told we lived our lives over 100 years ago.
But the feelings that I feel andthe experiences we've had, we're
real, right? We aren't simply amalgams of
memories. We're ourselves.
We've made lives here. We made lives together.

(03:05:13):
Lad got me out of addiction for as long as it lasted.
We looked for your sister, trying to find her.
We tried to rescue my boys. We thought we lived right.
Yeah. I just Just because all of this
changes someday doesn't mean it didn't happen.

(03:05:39):
At the end of all this, if we can't defeat Pihachi, worst case
scenario I don't want to become his pawn again.
Me either if it comes to that I want to be decommissioned.

(03:06:02):
Because of that, we do as much damage as we can on our way out.
OK. OK.
You all continue further down into the into the caves until
you enter into a massive cavern,extremely large and there are a
lot of lot of mutants in here standing around.

(03:06:23):
And you walk in and see that thefloor of this cavern has lots of
small pools of icor throughout and all the mutants are standing
in there and looking at you as you walk in.
And the mutants kind of separatethe the people who look like
mutants. So the M Tiro, Namby and Hugh,
those who are made of, you know,organic material, bring U3

(03:06:48):
forward and the large mutant in front of you says we fight
Juntos together and a lot of themutants put their hands into the
icker down below them and it looks like they are expecting
you to do the same. You does it.

(03:07:12):
Yeah, if if my friends are doingit.
Uh huh. I'll do whatever my friends are
doing. My friends are doing it, I'm
doing it. They jump off a bridge, Bring
that brass, I'm jumping off thatbridge.
Namby's going to fucking fly andcatch us if we jump off the
bridge. You all three put your hands
into the icker and you start to sense the presence of the other

(03:07:34):
mutants around you. You feel like your minds start
to meld and you look up and emtero a whole you know squadron
of mutants next to You see theirbody start to change and they
start to morph. Their skin starts to look more
slick and and more like this candle wax appearance.
They start to have webbed hands and webbed feet.

(03:07:57):
Hugh you look at your squadron of mutants.
They, you could see their legs start to change and get larger
in size and they just grow a few, you know, some a few feet,
some a few inches to match your height.
And namby you see your squadron of of mutants change their ears,
growing larger and getting thesebig massive wings.

(03:08:20):
Some they're just getting normalwings or their wings are growing
larger. But you all three start to sense
their presence and all three of you are now swarm creatures.
You have 100 inch teeth. You have resistance to
bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage at A at full

(03:08:40):
health, all of your damage that you do is tripled at half
health. When you get down to 50 health,
it'll be doubled. When you drop to 0 HP, you will
drop out of the swarm form back to your own form at full health,
but you can take extra damage. How the 2014 Wild Shape works.

(03:09:01):
Essentially, you look around andyou realize that you are
connected to this swarm and you have immense power yourselves.
You get into your formations as the mutants are getting ready
namby. You get together with a lot more
winged creatures. You're not connected to all of

(03:09:21):
them, but a lot more of the winged mutants and Tira.
You gather with a lot of the ones who can swim and breathe
underwater. They all have gills just like
you do and Hugh. You gather with the ones that
are the ground troops, submarinecrew.
You go down deep into the into the caverns where the water kind
of meets the cavern. And the mutants bet say that

(03:09:43):
this is the way to the open water.
And you prepare for the great mutant battle of New Lisbon
City. And that is where we're going to
end this episode. Sure was like looking at all the
guys. Not a bad looking fellow.

(03:10:04):
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Becca Ballistic, Kitty, Mav and Landy.
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(03:10:25):
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