Expedition Untold Ch. 14 - "sAcrifIces" - Talltale Tavern

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(00:00):
Welcome back to the Tall Tale Tavern, the monthly one shot
adventure TTRPG podcast. I am your Tavern master and host
Kyle and we are back for chapter14 of Expedition Untold.
Joining me at the bar tonight. I am very excited about this
because I have 3 different secret ones that you all have
sent me. So this is this is great.

(00:22):
I just love how this is going tostart.
So let's see the original inspiration for the gibbering
Mouther, Scott Esman is here. That's actually, that's actually
accurate. So welcome, Scott.
Thank you. I kept my intro short this week
in an effort to keep this recordunder 6 1/2 hours so.
We'll just see how that. Works.

(00:43):
Ambitious. It is why you always wear a
shirt, because you have mouths all over your body.
That's the reason I always wear a shirt on this podcast in
general, yeah. Also here back with us this
evening and not sure he is over the trauma of what happened the
1st 2 episodes, much less ready for what's about to happen now.

(01:04):
It's Mav. Welcome back Mav.
We're. All processing our trauma
together. Also here, this is the end.
close the books counting AI chief bit I don't know this song

(01:26):
very well. Feel this ground shake and then
hear missiles burst again. For this is the end.
We've planned and prep for this moment.
So done with you. We've all been regating
memories. Once stolen, let he Hachi fall
as he explodes. Write this tall tale.

(01:48):
We. Did all together let Hihachi
fall as he explodes? Write this tall tale.
We'll. Read it together at Tall Tale.
That was. Skyfall guys, that was.
Skyfall. Yes.
Yes, yes. Who made you?
Do Adele live with no like? With a secret man, at least I

(02:14):
make you sing, but I've never made it a secret in advance.
I didn't know that, probably should have had prepared for
that one. I just want to say, Kitty, it's
an appropriate, it's an appropriate choice for Kyle
because for some reason my picture for Kyle and my phone
for over a decade has been a picture of Adele and I, but that

(02:36):
is just what it is. And you heard how beautifully
perfect I sang that. Song.
I mean, pretty close to Adele. That was actually pretty.
Close I got. You know, my rendition, I like
to to hit some like different, you know, keys and pitches in
there so that you could sing along to whatever.
Best. Yeah, it's just free form.
Well, now you're warmed up for whatever Becca's gonna make you

(02:57):
do. The 12 note scales kind of
overrated so it's I like him buying some ones in between, you
know? I tried really hard with the
lyrics last night. I was like I need to make this
song work. It's amazing.
OK. Also also here recovering SO
choir kid, current school psychologist and aspiring

(03:24):
magical girl. Oh.
Yeah. It's Brooke.
Welcome, Brooke. Hello, thank you.
I appreciate the wig coming out.That was that was a role we're.
Getting. A Dell?
We're getting Mel Brooks like that.
Was also a blind read. Kyle just had the wig.

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Yeah, that's crazy. Those are.
Sitting in my lap. We're.
Doing all the hits tonight. I love having some Young
Frankenstein in there. Also here, just an AI boy
standing in front of an AI girl asking her to save the world.
We have Lad the cleric played byLandy.
Welcome lad. Landy, thank you for having me.

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And last but not least, Sweet Home Mother ship, where the sky
swirls purple and blue. Sweet Home Mother Ship Inquirer.
We're coming home to you, Becca.Welcome, Becca.

(04:30):
Thank you. Thank you.
Not as quite as good as your Adele, but I'll take it.
I know. Yeah, it really it.
Really wasn't. But welcome back, excited to go
back to your world here that youcreated.
I know I'm very excited to see what you fuck up in it.
It's all good, it's all fine, everything's normal.

(04:51):
Fine, it's just going to be a happy reunion.
Speaking of happy reunions, let's reopen the book, turn to
chapter 14 and continue the story of Expedition Untold.
Roll the intro. Previously on Expedition Untold,

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would you believe it? I am Tiro Berstero, reunited
with my valiant companions NambyPembleton and Huguenard
Rockbridge in New Lisbon City. The fiendish Red Oblix perverted
the stories of Crowning AI achievement and the Mothership
by using L10's unlimited capacity merged with Heyachi to
create the ultimate AI and feed on the stories of the world.

(06:00):
With the help of mechanical reconstructions of the Crowning
AI achievement heroes, we LED a mutant rebellion against the
despicable AI overlord. The Book Club fought as a hive
with the noble sewer dwelling mutants, while Viper, Lad and
Paolo attempted to free Alice, an AI designed to contain
Hayachi. As the fight grew too dangerous,
we had no choice but to portal to the story of the Mothership,

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now linked to the future of New Lisbon City.
We must now find a way back to this strange planet Earth and
hopefully reunite with our friends to rid it of this vile
red ooze for good. Hugh and M Tiro, you 2 together
activated your pages from Mothership and stepped into the

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portal. As the pages surrounded you, you
stand together and just as you feel like the portal is going to
take you forward in time, Namby arrives as well.
I did not like that lead up. I did.
Not like that internal. Namby just roll some death saves

(07:06):
Yeah, she's. We'll see what she actually
does. What she saw flies through the
portal. Oh gosh.
Who she's you're alive, you're all alive.
You're all together in in the portal of golden pages as they
swirl around you. And you see as you are
travelling forward in time, the pages change as well.

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And you start to see new pages being written, passing you by
and a few of them hit you and you're able to grab on to a few
of them and read them. So I'm going to send you a link
here. So there's a drive there.
These are portal pages and they're labeled hue, MTRO and
namby. They're labeled 1-2 and three.

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So the order is of the reading is hue, MTRO and namby.
So hue the first, you'll open itup and it says the first page
you get, and that's what you'll read.
And then MTRO, you'll read your first page.
NAMB you'll read your first pageand then you go through this,
start over, go through the 2nd pages so the pages start hitting

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you guys and you're able to grabonto them.
Hugh, what's the first page thatyou grab onto and see?
I pull out an article titled Conflict in Australia reaches
nuclear end. The big picture of an explosion,
and that's all that's there. So that's all that's supposed to

(08:33):
be there. Yes.
And it's. Yeah.
And it's like a hologram page that you kind of get there kind
of kind of made out of light. This page is Emtero, Yeah.
Emtero has a paper that says holograms and in parentheses AI

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propaganda and then pictures it says dire Mutant dangerous if
seen alert hef hehachi exterminator force immediately.
Mutant flying variant dangerous if seen alert Hef Hehachi
exterminator force immediately. And that parentheses, the

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propaganda is kind of what you asserned this to be as as kind
of coming from the AI, you know,to watch out for the mutants as
that kind of hologram hits you Namby, what do you see?
And it's namby. You got kind of a full book book
there that hit you. Yeah, it's like a, it's like a
full book. And then there's a page taped in

(09:37):
it that says, have you ever feltlike you aren't in control with
a big letter A underneath? Hugh, the second thing you get
is kind of a group of pages thathit you and you take them out.
What do you see on the second group of pages as you guys are
flying through the portal? It looks like I have journal

(09:59):
entries. And who are they from?
They're Vipers journal entries Day 501.
We pulled off a museum heist last night.
Added five more transceivers andtwo jammers to resistance
inventory. Our C2 Command and Control hub
continues to strengthen with theexpertise of military members.

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I've noticed Paulo seems to really hit it off with them and
I see they value his input. Day 1023 I painted one of
Paulo's Queen of Spades playing cards to look like me.
I don't think he's noticed yet. Really hoping I'm there to see
his reaction when he does. Day 4740 The initiative to grow

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the force is ramping up. As our emotions at home base, we
decided to split up for a while to cover more ground.
A 7330 I arrived back to HQ withthe latest batch of of recruits
for the intro brief. Today I decided to observe this
one to see if the material had changed from many years ago.

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To my surprise, Paulo took the stage and addressed the
recruits. I've known him to have natural
leadership qualities, but he hasthe air of a military commander
now. Day 11,000.
Today's machine death scoreboard.
Viper 6, Apollo 8. He got the final blows on two of
them, but I technically assistedby pulsing them.

(11:29):
Vlad is a harsh referee. Emtero you get a bundle of pages
as well. You do I, I have lads journal
entries day 1260. I guess I'm going to give this
whole journal thing a shot. PNV seem to think it'll help

(11:49):
offload some of the stress. Personally I'd rather spend down
time getting lost in other stories instead of thinking of
my own. Sleep is rare these days.
Hell, is it even sleep or just shutting down?
Maybe a reboot, it doesn't matter.
Fuck this, I'll try again tomorrow.
Day 1287. It's been 27 days since my last

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entry. We took heavy losses today.
I'll never get used to this part.
My mom always said I was too tender hearted for rebellion.
In some way she was right, but Idon't ever want to lose my
empathy. It's the most human part of me.
Day 1288. Two days in a row.
Who would have thought? Maybe there is something to
this. I traded a book today for a

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small handful of seeds. They're so dried out, there's
almost no chance anything will grow.
What do I have to lose? All we have is time.
Day 4731. Powell and Viper left this
morning. Something about a group of
mutants that have been isolated,living off the grid.
Maybe they'll have some books totrade.
It's been a while since I've read something new.

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Viper keeps telling me I should write my own stories, but I
don't think I have anything worth saying.
Maybe when the war is over. If I get to see that then
there's a break. But it says day 5300.
I woke this morning to to a seedling growing from the
handful of earth Paulo brought back from Australia.
I don't know if it was the dirt or the new lights the Viper set

(13:15):
up for me last month, but I'm still in shock.
There's a new life in New Lisbon.
Then another break. Day 5400.
The garden took a hard turn today.
Almost everything is wilted or dead and I have no idea why.
This world is cursed. That's the end of lads Drew.
Also, I like that he called themP and VI.

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Didn't really think about how appropriate that is.
Unbelievable. I loved your lad voice by the
way. Amazing.
It's. So Moody.
Exactly what you sound like. You people are going to be
unsure if it was you talking or me, Landy.

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It's a good thing this is an audio only.
Yeah, people will be very confused.
Yeah, so confused. Namby a group of pages hit you
as well. Yes, I have Paolo's journal.
I am not doing the accent. Dude.
I can. I can barely do the accent, so,

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you know, don't worry about it, Yeah.
Absolutely not. I'm not.
I'm not doing it all right. Day 2701 It's really starting to
set in that they're gone and they may never come back, but we
have to believe they made a promise to us and we'll have to
be ready for when they follow through.
Viper and Lad have been surprisingly successful at
recruiting androids away from Hey Hachi.

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I've not really gotten the hang of it yet, but maybe they can
help me figure it out. Day 4730 Viper and I went on a
walk last night. It was eerily quiet out on the
deck of the sub. Even the ocean seemed like it
was holding its breath. I gave her the necklace I made
her out of the empty wave ampuleI used to help her break Hey

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Hachi's lockdown program. I felt it with some of the
bioluminescent algae she used topaint with that night so many
years ago. I.
Brought that shitty painting. Don't.
Think about it, it's fine. I told her how I felt, and that

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I'd felt that way for a long time.
Years even. She was really nice about it.
It's just how she's built. That's OK.
She gave me a hug afterwards andI don't know if it made it hurt
more or less. Maybe it's a good thing we're
splitting up for a bit. There's too much build up across
the globe for the four of us to all be in one place anymore.
We have to get out of there and start leading these smaller

(15:47):
rebellions. Viper's headed down to what's
left of Asia and lads going to stay here to try to continue
rallying forces along the coast.I'm headed South across the sea
to see if I can rescue any humans.
Left Day 9000. After 25 years of warfare of
every kind, I think I'm finally beginning to understand what
it's like to lead people. I see the mutant Android allies

(16:09):
we've met and the light that comes into their eyes when they
see Alice in us. We're carrying forward a
standard that is generational. Our cause is universal, and to
succeed is to doom us all to erasure at the cost of saving
this plane, maybe every plane ofexistence.
I see that it doesn't matter to them that we'll all die either
way. Because that's the secret, isn't
it? It's not how this all ends.

(16:30):
It's what we do at the time we're given.
When you understand that, you can lead.
Day 16,425. We've had to move around more.
Hey, Hachi's becoming ever more paranoid.
The slightest blip on the radar brings immediate reconnaissance
drones and satellite strikes. He's close and he knows.
We know. He knows we're coming for him.

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We haven't lasted all this time,borne all these scars, all these
years of bloodshed and effort togive up.
Now we fight for our stolen pasts and for our future.
And that's the end do. We do.
We need a Wellness check on Becca.
Are you OK? You guys are.
I was watching her reactions this.
Entire day I'm. Over this podcast and I'm

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quitting. As U3 fly through the tunnel,
the light at the end starts to get bigger and bigger and starts
to flash red, and suddenly you're standing in a fast moving
crowd in a hallway. Over the noise of the crowd, you
hear a voice. OK, everyone keep steady.

(17:38):
There's enough skate pods for everyone on board.
Let's just calmly and carefully move forward.
And then you see like this like head extend above the crowd and
like kind of like widen and get a little bit bigger And it's and
it's and it's Bob's face, the mustache, you know, middle-aged
plasmoid man's face kind of trying to command the crowd.

(17:59):
And everybody kind of like freaks out for a second.
He goes, oh, sorry, I thought this would help.
All right, just this way to the escape pods.
And he like makes his head kind of like an arrow shape and
points that way. And then like sucks back down in
the middle of the crowd and you guys are surrounded and there is
an alarm blaring in the ship. You look to the left and see
this big window, this big windowon on the side of the hallway

(18:22):
looking out into space and just this big golden mass.
This solar dragon flies past thewindow and the ship rocks for a
second. Is that us?
Is. That the end of the intro.
What would you like to do? You're getting pushed by the

(18:43):
crowd, kind of Indiana, the direction of the escape pods
area as Bob had mentioned to you, but kind of mentioning to
the crowd, he's a little bit faraway.
Where is is? So is he towards the escape pods
from us or is he like, where is he with respect to like where we
are right now? You're kind of getting pushed
away from him a little bit because it looks like he's

(19:04):
standing ground trying to directthe flow of the traffic.
And so he's kind of like past, like maybe like 5 or 6 rows of
people like in between you guys that are kind of like moving as
part of this crowd. Am I still a mutant?
You look down and you guys are back to your normal selves.
The mutant skin has gone away, the the mutant giant mutant ears

(19:29):
for namby are are gone, and Hughyou look down and you see flesh
on your legs. And you?
No longer have your have your metal legs anymore.
Done. I was going to just slip right
through the crowd with my waxy. Skin.
It's OK, I got this you. Well, first I tell you, you.

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Saw Bob. That's our friend Bob.
He's the one who helped guide usto you.
OK, do I, do I have your guys consent?
To do what? Yeah.
And then I just, I scoop you both.
Doesn't matter. I'm saying yes in my arms, then
I get up to my full like height and size and then I am just
going to walk through confidently like a salmon going

(20:13):
upstream towards Bob. It's.
Sort of been a great time to have the freedom of movement
spell. Yeah.
Give me a give me an athletics check as you are moving through
this crowd. I only have a + 8 to this so
we'll see. Oh shit, I rolled a three, so
that becomes an 11. OK, this week has not been the

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greatest for D&D. For Becca, yeah, that's 11.
Huguenard my friend, push harderand I give you a vartic
inspiration. The crowd is pushing against
you, but you hear M Tyrrell's voice.
Is it enough? Oh no, it's AD 8, right, Scott?
Yes. And let me see what the I think
with the skill check, you get toroll it basically with
inspiration, with the motive. Yeah.

(20:56):
Well, the first one was an 8, sowe should be good on that.
She's back to normal, guys. Oh, that's all good.
So what does? What did I say on the first one?
That was an 11 so. That was a 19.
Yeah, the crowd, like, pushes you, starts to push you away
from Bob. And then you hear Emptiero's
voice and you just you, you, youget a grip on the ground with
your feet and just start pushingforward against this crowd

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towards Bob, who is just kind oflike directing.
He's like making his hands into arrows now and trying to do his
best to like help people get outand so you're able to move up
close to him carrying Hugh and Namby.
Yeah, just the whole time though, I'm I'm very, I'm so
sorry. I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna
scooch over here. And then yeah, I'm so sorry as I

(21:39):
make my way towards Bob. The most the most Midwestern of
waiting through a crowd you can possibly I'm.
Just gonna scooch by. Just gonna scooch right by you.
Oh, goodness. I'm sorry, Bob.
Rob yes. Oh.
Yeah, hey. And you can see he's got a, he's

(22:00):
got his like, broom next to him and like his janitor cart is
basically squished against the wall.
And he's got his name badge on that says Bob.
Yeah, how can I help you? Bob, my Bob, my blobby friend do
not recognize us. It's me.
I'm Tiro Berstero and my friend namby Pembleton.
And of course our friend you cannot Rockbridge the mighty who
you have not met. It's.

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Nice to meet you. He takes a second and looks at
you 2 and looks up at Hugh. By golly you 2.
Yeah. I'm that was wow.
I oh, I have to help you. I have a do I have?

(22:43):
Something Oh, Mary wrote it downfor me here.
We got to go. We got to go.
Excuse me. Excuse me.
Headed this way. Make way.
Maybe I Hugh. You said Hugh.
Would you mind maybe leading theway?
Get through this crowd. We got to get to the escape
pods. Oh, OK.

(23:06):
Is there any way we can help youbecause things seem a little bit
dire right now. Yeah, right.
Yeah, I know our ship. Got a Got a something?
Happened with all the wiring andso, well, we tried to, to figure
it out, but then an ancient solar dragon was there kind of
taking care of the whole place. And well, I, I tried with a
couple of others from the ship and boy, just we, we couldn't do

(23:30):
it. We had to run to save our hides.
It's just like if we had one more person, you know, maybe we
could have figured it out, but unfortunately we just, we just
couldn't get it done. So so we split up to try and
help with the evacuation of the ship.
This is The Enquirer. Welcome.
I suppose. Boy, it's been a long time, a

(23:53):
long time. But let's let's let's keep
moving. We got to get to one of these
escape pods. I got to.
I got to get you out of here. Well, is it fair for us to cut
in front of all of these people who live here?
We we could just help with the situation Is that we've read
your story, you're part of a story.
Did you guys tell him that he's part of a story?
No, no I don't. Remember, I don't.

(24:15):
Remember, no, we I don't think we did.
Well, yeah, you well, like you're right.
I Boy, this is strange. They've they've, we can't just
leave all of them. We, we can, we can help, right?
I mean, yeah. Have you seen any red ooze?
Red ooze? No, I haven't seen any red ooze.

(24:36):
How about bad stuff that's just kind of generally like red or
has a red thing? We're good at taking care of
that. The hallway alarms are just like
flashing red. And he's like, well, the the
alarms are it's kind of all a. Little bit red here.
Right now, but no I. There wasn't like 1 strategic

(24:58):
thing that was red. He says.
William, he told him he we had dinner that night, didn't we?
Yeah, that was nice. You made us those amazing
potatoes and. Then and the other amazing
potatoes. How long ago was that for you?

(25:20):
It's kind of hard to keep track because we don't really sleep.
We just kind of go. We did.
Sleep at least once. I believe.
That that meal was, I want to say it was about 5 days ago for
us maybe like. His eyes go like big.
Like cartoonishly big because he's a Plaza boy and his face
moves a little bit too much withhis expression sometimes. 5

(25:41):
days. Yeah.
Well, that was well. Mary died.
Marion Junior died about 48 years ago.
That was about 50 years ago. I'm sorry.
Sorry for your loss my friend. William gave me this.

(26:02):
Well, he gave me the numbers andI had Mary write them down and
he takes out this takes out his wallet.
He's got his wallet that's like so thick, like they're just
stuffed with like all these cards, gift cards, you know,
bills. And he just takes my.
Friend. You're lucky you don't have a
spine if you're going to be sitting on that.
That's a good point. We've got nerves though, and you

(26:25):
feel you sit right down on that sciatic nerve as it goes out the
side. Little boy, it hurts for about 3
weeks, but here. And he and he takes out this old
piece of paper. It's like, you know, really old,
barely legible, but it's got a set of numbers on it.
I said I had Mary write this down.
And he like pauses a little bit looking at her handwriting.

(26:45):
This is where I need to get you.William said it was important,
important to, you know, well, towhat you guys were doing and he
made it seem like that was kind of important to everything.
And well, there's enough skate skate pods for everybody, I
suppose. You know, I don't, you know, we
can't get you on one before anybody else.

(27:06):
That's not fair. So we can kind of wait in line.
But well, I, I don't know about this ship.
There's a this whole Sims unit thing that controls everything.
It's been going haywire and I just, I'm not sure I'm going to,
I'm going to try and figure it out, but it doesn't seem like
that this is a salvageable situation here.

(27:29):
Did you try to turn it off and back on again?
We got to that main room, but wecouldn't fight.
It was there were tubes flying everywhere.
A couple of us went down and we just had to cut, cut loose and
leave. We didn't.
We didn't even get to figure outwhat was going on in there.
Our situations are most definitely linked, my friend.

(27:52):
I think you're missing Ally resides on the planet we need to
get back to. It's weird.
It's weird feeling, feeling likeyou're missing an ally, you
know, like there's someone else that's supposed to be there.
I don't know, it's just a strange feeling.
Well, and the, the, the crowds like kind of moving with you
guys. You guys have been moving with

(28:13):
the crowd and let's get you there.
Let's let's get you the escape patches.
And you look up and you're actually pretty close and you
can see you can see like 4 bays and it's like a subway almost
looks like a subway coming in line with like pods into each
door in front of you. And then groups of four are
getting into the pods and then the doors are closing and then

(28:36):
it shoots off into space. And so he leads you forward and
and you guys wait patiently in line behind the other groups.
You see a family in front of you, family of a few dragonborns
behind you, you see a few elves,just lots of different races and

(28:58):
cultures here on the on The Enquirer.
And then the escape pod for you kind of comes into place.
The door opens and you get inside this fairly small escape
pod, kind of like a oblong, almost like pill shaped form of
a ship. And the three of you get in and

(29:22):
Bob reaches his finger, his likepseudopod hand into the into the
ship and to the a control panel and presses a few buttons on it
and kind of types in some coordinates there.
And he's looking at the coordinates on his on his piece
of paper and typing them in and then kind of retracts his

(29:44):
pseudopod back. Well, that'll, that'll take you
where you need to go. I'm not really sure, not really
positive where it is. Maybe it was.
Well, maybe it was. I don't know if we're going back
to Earth where I that was the last time I saw you.
I think we were outside Earth, weren't you?
Weren't we? Yeah.

(30:05):
Do you know what's been going onthere?
No, no, no clue. I know after we dropped you,
dropped you 2 off, we went back to Pluto and met up with the
rest of the rest of my family. You know they were at that
casino on Pluto. I went down just for a short
trip, just a short trip and gamble a little bit, but not too

(30:28):
much. And well, we took off from
there. I haven't been back to that
system since. But that dinner was, boy, that
was really nice, wasn't it? It was really nice.
Everything was delicious. Well, anything, any other

(30:49):
anything else, I think we this pod's about to take off here.
Are you, are you staying like, are you coming with us or?
Oh, no, no, I'm, I'm going to stay.
I I'm going to stay and help people get on this and, you
know, make sure nobody gets leftbehind.
And I mean, if there is a way tosave this ship, I'm I'm going to

(31:11):
stay and try and figure it out till the end.
I suppose I just can't get on a skate pod like this again.
OK, well, good luck. Good luck and thank you my
friend. Can I make him a megaphone to
make it easier to rally people around?
Sure, yeah. All.

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Right whips out a piece of paperand it's like the spirit's
seeking to help Bob grant him booming speech, and I burn the
paper and make a megaphone. This will help you, my friend,
to corral the people. Please get yourself to safety
the moment you can. Oh, amazing.
He takes it then he like takes it in both of his hands and then
his like legs merge to become one leg and he like rises up

(31:55):
above the crowd again and then takes the megaphone and just and
then just starts shouting instructions on forming the
lines and getting people in lines ready to go.
And the doors to the pod just close.
And as soon as they close, all of a sudden you guys shoot off
into space. We should have offered him some

(32:16):
pocket casserole to, you know, it's from his.
Wife. Damn it.
Oh my gosh. And.
It's like, not even that old. Oh.
No, it's not. Man, it's got a good couple
days. Left in it, you know.
Super Pocket casseroles. It's potatoes, you know, They
last a long time. Potatoes last a long time.

(32:40):
Sewer pocket fanfic, Unrefrigerated.
Icore is a great preservative, so yeah.
I mean, it's probably mostly chemical preservatives anyways.
You guys look outside the pod out of the out the windows and
you can see all the pods kind ofheading down to a nearby planet

(33:01):
in that direction. And yours kind of goes straight
out into space and flies out into the wild space.
And soon the stars kind of go away a little bit, and
everything starts to turn a little bit more silvery as you
enter into the Astral Sea. Only mildly terrifying.

(33:23):
Yeah, I really hate tight spaces.
I don't know if I've ever told you guys.
I'm just. Rocketing through space, I
think. I'm not really familiar OK with
thinking. It's gonna be OK.
It'll. Be very tight in here.
I can sit like on your shouldersif that would help.
You can put your feet up. Yeah, if you put, if you're up

(33:45):
on my shoulders, you're like a little weighted blanket of
comfort. Do you remember that carriage we
had to ride in with Ruck like this?
Feels even tighter than that, Yeah.
At least this time there's no homicidal maniacs in the pod,
though. Yeah, for the most part, yes.
Other than when someone gets on Namby's bad side, of course.

(34:11):
It's really beautiful outside though.
Yes, it is quite a magnificent view.
I've never seen anything like that.
You travel and you see time is kind of weird out here, you
know, you travel and you're flying through space.
You see the like this giant husk, this old God that just

(34:35):
kind of floats by, looks like maybe half of a face.
You know of something in the distance, but for the most part
it's empty out here. And you.
Christopher floating by we. Would have roll I think.
We would have rolled for it. Yeah, I did all these.
Flipping end over end. Just.

(34:58):
Unconscious. Yes.
I want to know if you see Christopher.
Was he ever conscious to begin with?
Let's let's I want AI want AD 100 roll, but I think I'll give
you a 6% chance to see. Christopher out here.
It's pretty high. Unfortunately, no, we do not see
Christopher. We've gotten into the astral sea

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and do not see a tiny teddy bear.
Floating by. I'd forgotten about that.
It's a really good thing he didn't need to breathe like.
Listen, we didn't. Nutmeg didn't mean for it to
happen, OK? As you fly continue to fly

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through the Astral Sea, you start to see stars in the
distance and as the ship flies out of the Astral Sea, the ship
pings ping now entering the Milky Way Wild Space and
suddenly you are next to a massive planet with a beautiful
ring around it. Bing ETA 24 hours, Currently

(36:04):
traveling at 100 million miles per day, and the spacecraft
flies past the rings of Saturn. Is Saturn 100 million miles from
Earth? It's crazy.
Like 900 some, but that's. How fast my?
Memberships, actually. Yeah, 100 million.
Oh, I remember we're. In this with 20. 4 hours I wish

(36:26):
I. Had reduce or something?
Does anyone have like enlarged reduce and broke?
Do you even? Prepared.
No. I there's all emotions in here
to help make Huguenard less claustrophobic feeling.
Wonderful. It's OK.
Yeah. You, you feel.
Everett just a blanket of comfort go over you as that

(36:46):
spell hits you and and makes youfeel, makes you feel less
claustrophobic. It's the D&D version of Xanax,
yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Is there anything else your
characters do in this 24 hours that you have before going back

(37:08):
to Earth? How do we go to the bathroom in
here? Just just.
I'm just. Curious.
We just have to. Hold the.
Headache. Put it in the rag.
This. Is a small escape pod.
You don't. Is the.
Answer I guess I make a toilet for us a tiny little.
Toilet. That's great.

(37:34):
You make a toilet. Yeah.
So you guys can relieve yourselves privately.
Anything else you guys do? Do you guys think like those
pages that we saw that? Does that mean that some of the
organics made it? Would they not all die?

(37:57):
OK. Kyle, question.
Do we still have those? Like do we physically have them?
Yeah. It seems like they must of our
friends have been doing as we hoped and they've been leading
of resistance. I mean, I don't know when they
started counting in those journals.
Do you think they counted day one?
The day after we left? That was the day they got on the

(38:19):
sub I think. That seems most reasonable to
me. It's convenient that they all
numbered their journals, you know, day blank as you know,
rather than the date, how many days it had been, and then the
synchronized fashion. Well, they might have thought it
would be help. They know we're trying to meet
back up with them. They maybe thought they were
like a safety net in case we couldn't find them.

(38:40):
I don't know. Sure, But I mean Paolo's last
journal entry was 16,425 so. How many years?
That's a long time. I don't know.
I'm not very. Confident divided by 365.
I guess Bob said that your guys's dinner was 50 years ago,
yeah. Well mine looks different

(39:02):
though. Why did I get a book and it's
like taped in here? Oh no.
What is that? There's a symbol of some sort
the the letter A, right? It's just a big letter A
underneath. And what is?
What does it say again? Under or above the a.
Have you ever felt like you aren't in control?

(39:23):
And I don't know if I'm reading too much into that, but.
They mentioned in one of those journal entries, I think it was
Paulo's perhaps he mentioned theViper helping to recruit AI away
from Aachi's side. So perhaps that's some sort of
message that they've been putting out there.
Maybe. Control of their actions, yeah.

(39:45):
Get them on out the A for Alice.Oh, and that.
Would make sense why it's in a book because it's like hidden so
that they can just kind of stumble upon it.
That would make sense. The pod continues to fly.
I know you you guys spent some time reading the the journals.

(40:08):
Earth is coming into view and seem to will.
You'll be in kind of atmosphere within an hour.
These 23 hours have flown by. Well, if I did the math right in
the last 22 hours, that would beabout 45 years for Paulo's

(40:29):
journal. So there's maybe like a five
year gap. Well, do we think also, I mean
should we be worried that Vipersended at 11,000, lads ended
5400? So yeah.
But I don't know. I mean, this probably isn't.
This obviously isn't everything.Maybe it was just pure chance,

(40:50):
what we found. I don't know.
Yeah, hopefully. Maybe we just don't have those
more recent pages. Maybe we'll get there and things
will already have been solved byall of them and it will just be.
Yeah, you. Know a very positive time.
As you say that, Emtero, you look down at this.
Blue. Oh boy.

(41:10):
And it looks. Great.
Coming into into. View absolutely nothing is
wrong. It's covered in.
Smog. Yeah.
There's fireworks. Covered in smog and.
You see? Flashes of light happening all
over the planet. It's like, you know, yellow
lightning, almost red some places all around the planet.

(41:34):
And the ship descends down into the smog and enters the
atmosphere and flies beneath theclouds.
And you see a world at war, explosions, troops on the
ground, a war-torn city. You keep flying.
You fly past a massive mutant, 10 times bigger than any mutant
you've ever seen before, flapping its massive wings.

(41:55):
It's got an airship in its jaw. A rocket flies just past your
ship and hits the mutant in the side.
And the mutant falls down towardthe ground.
The ship continues forward, a familiar location.
What did you say? So I cast aid on it as it's
falling. Unfortunately, the mutant.
It's the. I'm sure I'm too far away from
it. Anyway, it's.

(42:17):
It'd be wild if. That was just now your ally.
So the the mutant falls hits theground.
The ship continues forward toward a familiar, familiar
location, the Tagus Estuary. You see the bridge over top
flooded with mutant and humanoidforces marching together toward
the great grassy plain where NewLisbon City once stood.

(42:39):
The once hologram over the city is now gone.
All you see is just the grassy plain.
The mutant and AI forces have a foothold on the beaches.
A massive force spanning the southern half of New Lisbon.
The ship flies down slowly and lands in the center of this
military installment. The door opens and you see three

(43:01):
familiar faces, Paulo Ladd and Viper.
Paulo Ladd and Viper you. Please describe how your
characters look and it's what this reunion looks like.
Don't all jump at once. Guys are making me nervous.

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Obviously we're not really agingright, but our gears changed a
little bit. So Viper's got a little bit like
a military looking jacket on. Same look besides that, just
kind of like oddly like looking like she's enjoying this right
now, but besides that she looks the same.

(43:47):
Viper's gone insane, OK? So lad, while not aging per SE,
looks visibly worse than when you last saw him.
Just the the toll of what they've been going through is
invisibly apparent on his face. He looks like maybe he hasn't

(44:11):
been taking care of himself thatwell.
You see Vlad and Viper are kind of up close to the ship and
Paolo's maybe 10 yards behind them.
You can see him conferring with a couple androids and like a
mutant attache. And they're all wearing not
regular uniforms. It's but it's something

(44:32):
approaching a uniform. And he's kind of nodding quietly
and and you know, says some quiet things to them.
And you notice his stance. He's at like a parade rest like
rigid back, his hands kind of behind his, you know, at the
small of his back. He's listening and and gives a
few words to these attaches and then turns to look at you as you

(44:52):
exit and you see like a little upturn in his smile, like it's
it's slight but it's there and kind of waits for you to
approach. The doors open.
That's what you guys see. All three of us spill out of
this pod that we've been crammedinto for 24 hours.

(45:14):
Smells like swamp ass. My friends, your aerial defense
is terrible. We landed with without any
issue. Dear you look back at the
there's a cloaking device over the ship.
And so it's like the the part ofit's invisible, but the front,

(45:37):
the front is open and you can it's, it's obvious up close, but
it does have a cloaking device on it.
Palo would call out from, you know, 10 or 15 feet away.
It would have been nice of you to, you know, take out a few of
their satellite cannons on your way in, but, you know, we'll
take you all the same. My friend, our ship did not

(45:57):
appear to be equipped with any weapons and unfortunately our
magic is limited in its range, but we are here now to to help
you you well you all look very different but yet the same and
it's wonderful to see you all. Pepper jogs up and she overheard
that and she was like, you guys look completely different.

(46:19):
What do you mean? Right.
Well, yes, it's. Nice to see you as we are.
Forever I still look. Like I was the one with the big
wing ears. OK.
And you looked like the candle before it, but now not so much.

(46:41):
Paulo Paulo checks his watch andkind of makes eye contact with
lad and and Mumbles over like stage whispers to him so that
everybody can hear you right on time.
Yeah, Lad nods and kind of walksforward and just embraces the
three of them. We've we've been waiting.

(47:03):
My friend, you're all skin and endoskeleton, not been taking
proper care of yourself. Have you, have you been eating?
And I pull my pocket casserole out and and I canned it to him.
You don't seem like you've been eating, have you?
Did you finish the books that weleft?
I did many, many times over. Hopefully they hopefully they

(47:27):
helped bring you strength in this great time of absence.
Please, you must fill us up to date with what is happening.
What's the situation? How can we help?
So at at that invitation, Paolo kind of like steps back and like
waves his hand toward what they can now see is like an elevated
position in this forward operating base.

(47:51):
There's an observation post about 30 yards behind him where
you can see like now that they're on the ground, you can
hear like artillery going off. There's, you know, people
shouting and running. There's, you know, the
logistical staff. They're back kind of in the in
the middle of the command post, but he, you know, Paula kind of
gestures at this observation point that they can approach

(48:14):
and, and observe the the initialassault as it happens.
It's an impressive operation compared to where we left it.
When we had 50 years to prepare and we were reminded regularly
that you were coming back. I have to say each one of us.

(48:37):
At times we doubted difficult, but we kept the faith, hoped
that you would return. And here you are, right on time.
We got here as quick as we could.
It's only been like a day, I think.
And we were stuck in the pod formost of that day.

(48:59):
Curious for us, it has been 50 years since the day that you
left. 50 years of constant fighting, living and dying,
hoping that you would come back.Praying that you would come
back. It wasn't until last year we
finally heard a prophecy about your guys's return.

(49:21):
A Hachi will be called the Conqueror of Worlds, the
destroyer of choice. And on January 10th, the book
club will return and he will ascend.
Stop him. Oh, it's January 10th.
Here you are. As you must have seen from
orbit, the world is waning. Ihachi has used much of the

(49:42):
resources left on this planet. It's been very difficult to feed
our forces, to find cover from the natural elements.
He has used up much of what is left here in an effort to leave
this place. We have been informed through
our spies and through our resources inside that he means

(50:02):
to leave Earth, and he means to extend his empire into an
interstellar 1. We mean to stop him and we need
your help. My friend, whatever you need,
you have it from me. What do you need us to do?
Kyle, is is Alice with us? Is she in our base of operations

(50:28):
or is she still hidden away? She has been in with you for
quite some time inside youth that you four really, as she had
integrated with your systems to provide you the ability to split
up and to help cleanse other AI.So her form's not still OK.

(50:52):
So she is she is not an entity that walks around anymore.
No more. No more physical form, OK.
OK. She lives in you.
She lives. In me.
Kelly so Paula with a couple newlike the party would would would
recognize like some new scarringon his face and like a a grimmer

(51:14):
set to his jaw. Then maybe they last remember
kind of motions them into the the bunker so they can get out
of, you know, satellite strike range and and discuss the
approach that they have to the next phase of the assault.
Debrief of. Course my friend, as I said,
we're willing to help you, but Imust admit things appear to have

(51:37):
escalated a bit beyond our normal area of expertise, our
depths. And we lost our our our cool
features. I don't have robot legs anymore.
I don't know how much I can help.
I must admit it is distressing to me seeing our best weapon

(51:58):
absent, but you, I think your best weapon was always.
And he, as they're walking, he kind of wraps you on the chest
in here, not down here, and he passes legs.
You came to us broken and lonely.
You came to us without family. You left us with two.

(52:24):
That has always been your greatest strength.
I smush namby and Mt row again. So Paolo guides them into like
a, a kind of red and blue lit command center with a, a war
table out in the middle of it. And there's androids and mutants

(52:47):
and like personnel buzzing around like way, way more than
you would have thought. And they are all very busy.
But the war table sets out the front that you are currently in
the middle of, and it is the theedges of New Life City, the
depression down into the the city as it is now.

(53:11):
And in the very middle of it is a massive installation that
looks like it holds what can only be described as a rocket.
Is that a rocket? It's the only way you could

(53:36):
describe. It.
Searching for the right words for it, the only one coming to
mind is Rocket. Are you?
Are you guys planning to go to space?
We're planning to keep Hihachi from doing so.
He's been building this for decades, sapping the resources
and lives of his androids, turning his army of billions of

(54:00):
androids into numb resource gatherers and machines, not
people. And you can see like it sets
Paolo's teeth on edge. Been gathering resources for
decades and he is finally, finally very close to launching

(54:21):
this ship. He means to leave this planet.
And the thing that inhabits him,that gives him such power is
with him. We will only have one
opportunity to interrupt his launch.
We cannot beat him blow for blow.
We cannot beat him in the pitched battle.
Everything you see out there. And he waves not only at the

(54:41):
table, but kind of up above the bunker.
Referencing the thousands, 10s of thousands of androids and
mutants that are currently throwing themselves at Hihachi's
forces. Everything.
There you see the version. We, your team and ours must
penetrate Bihachi's defenses andinterrupt the transfer process

(55:06):
of his consciousness from his well defended core at the base
of New Life City into the ship. It is only at this point will he
be vulnerable and only at this point can we kill him.
As you as you say those words, the hologram kind of of image of
of kind of the scan of what the rocket looks like kind of reacts

(55:27):
to your words. And you see this like rocket
kind of like rise up. And the shape of this rocket is
massive. I mean, this is a huge like city
sized rocket. It has a general shape of like a
sword and kind of where the hiltwould be at the bottom.
There's this massive red orb kind of in the side of this
massive rocket. And as you say, you talk about

(55:50):
him transferring the hologram map.
It's like all these little red lights that are around, kind of
representing all these differentAI kind of like come together
and then fill that orb, kind of like go into it and that orb
lights up as that rocket kind oflifts off into the sky.
You may remember from our initial encounter that Kihachi

(56:12):
is an incredibly complex, very dense AI.
This transfer process will not happen quickly.
It is the only window. We will have to interrupt his
transfer and destroy him, and hopefully destroy the thing that
inhabits him as well. The thing that used to be our
friend. We.
Have to destroy Elton. We can't.
There's no way to, I don't know,just separate it.

(56:38):
I know of no way to separate thetwo things, but I don't want to
rule anything out. Our intelligence is imperfect.
We've paid very dearly for what we know.
For years and years we have tried to suss out what he's
doing. It's only now, in the last
couple of years, that we've figured it out.
I don't know if L 10 is in thereanymore.

(56:59):
After all these years, it's comedown to two plants and the first
one, well, we weren't able to accomplish it.
There's 50 antennas and our goalnow is to just get to 1 of them.
The map lights up around the silo.
These little kind of antenna structures light up that kind of
surround it as as Viper describes the 50 antennas around

(57:25):
the structure. We try to destroy all of them,
but hey, Hashi's forces are too strong so we can just get to 1
one before the transfer process completes, then we'll be golden.
We'll hold it in place. And Alice will help to shred the

(57:45):
AI down to its very last atom way we tried to do it the first
time way we should have done it but we need to get there before
the transfer process is completemeans we need to move now.
And at that he, he like, taps a communicator on his on like the

(58:07):
chest of his jacket and asks Bento come in.
You you hear this, this is like a big facility you hear off in
the distance is from this like deep gargling diesel fueled
engine. That's not diesel though 'cause
it's a lesser like no diesel. Diesel.

(58:31):
Wow, these change too this. Big, big biofuel noise.
Yeah. Big.
Bio ethanol engine it's. Just coming out of speakers to
make it sound more impressive. And you look and, and you look
kind of in the distance and you see a, a, a mutant with like 3
arms, like screwing in a hubcap onto this big black sleek

(58:56):
looking vehicle. It's like, it's like the picture
of the Batmobile from Christopher Nolan movies, but
like sleek and longer and looks like it's that.
But a muscle car is what it looks like.
It's got six wheels. And it's.
Huge. And as that hubcap is twisted

(59:18):
into place, the car just like moves forward and this is just a
huge vehicle. And then you hear Ben's voice.
Hey, welcome, Ben. Hey, hey, you up so.
Cal looks around and he's like, you should be very proud of him.
He trained for years to accomplish this.

(59:40):
Of course I am proud of him. Look at this magnificent fiend
he's turned himself into. We will ride this mechanical
demon straight into the bows of AI Hell and destroy Hehachi for.
Good, Ben honks, but he forgot to switch out the Prius.
Honk. He's.

(01:00:02):
Like I've been, well, ever sincewe kind of came up with this
plan, Paulo and I've been working together on this and
this is who I am now. I'm just a car.
You mean you're? What?
You're always a car. This is my form, always built
for this one purpose to get us there.

(01:00:23):
He still has them all on the seat though, in case you were
wondering. Always.
Still the same on the inspector.'S first thought, but Hugh's
first thought was, wait, do you want, do you want to be in this
form, or do you just feel like you have to be?
I don't know, I do miss walking on 2 legs sometimes, but it

(01:00:46):
feels good to have a purpose, you know?
1 singular purpose. Yeah, I get that.
He seems happy all right. Yeah.
Becca has a question to make sure Becca understands this
plan. So wait, are we destroying the
antenna or are we using that to hack in?
What? What is?
What are we doing with the one out of 50 antennas?

(01:01:09):
We are going to using all of ourour, you know massive build up
as a diversion. We're going to knife through the
defenses to attempt to take thisantenna, hold it while Viper
hacks into it using using Alice's boons that she has given
us, and then interrupt the transfer process of Hihachi's AI

(01:01:32):
from its core into the ship and destroy it during the at the
transfer point. OK.
Cool, that's the only time he's vulnerable is when he's between
spots. And we can't destroy that big
red crystal on the ship itself to make transfer impossible.
If we if we allow him to exist, we allow him to retreat back to

(01:01:56):
his core, he will immediately turn every single weapon in New
Life City on us. Which is why we must, at all
costs stay hidden until we reachthe antenna, and then we must
move very quickly. I'm not very good at being
sneaky, just so everybody knows.So add that.

(01:02:20):
Nice confession. I love that it's quiet namby who
like most of the time, I feel like you might not even notice
was in the room she's. Like that Dwight gift from the
Office where it's like. So as if to illustrate Paulo

(01:02:45):
kind of he's still got like he has this like uniform on
underneath, but he still has hisleather jacket.
But he he draws his leather jacket back and you can see that
he has like a heavier plate on and he goes, know what am I?
And he knocks it into kind of clinks.
But as he's doing that, he walksover to Ben and he kind of slaps
the Ben's hood and he goes. But Ben is very quiet and he he

(01:03:07):
like as the hand and like as hiscybernetic, his metal hand like
bounces off the hood. No sound like just complete
silence. He's muffled.
Piper knows that. OK, Bloster Kitty didn't.
He like gets up on 4 like wheelsand like acts like he's sneaking

(01:03:28):
forward for a second. He can't.
He doesn't have that much movement as a full car anymore,
but he can kind of do a little bit it.
Has hydraulics. Just imagining the Roger Rabbit
car, did you? Turn him into a low rider.
I was going to say, all of a sudden the cucaracha, sorry,
starting to make a lot more sense.

(01:03:50):
OK, OK. How long does it take to get to
the antenna? As you ask that, warning lights
start flashing throughout the camp and a mutant flies in and
lands right next to Paulo. Paulo, my scouts, they just saw
a massive hole opening up in themiddle of the grass.
The launch silo just opened. He's not waiting.
We have to go now. I think it's time.

(01:04:11):
Let's. Go OK.
Do we have time to do quick things on the walk to Ben or no?
I just wanted to activate my journal.
Basically yes. Absolutely.
You have. As you guys are getting around
Paulo, you are barking orders tosome troops.
This is this is time for the bigoffensive, the big move mutants
and and the AI forces that you have liberated throughout these

(01:04:32):
years are going to gather and strike at New Lisbon City, at
New Life City as the as Hihachi calls it.
And you and your crew here is going to charge forward in this
big vehicle, this military transport type car that Ben has
become. But yes, you all have an

(01:04:54):
opportunity to do anything you need to do before getting in
this car and going. OK, well what is around us that
is large or smaller that? I, I was just as I was just
thinking about like what's around, like, so you know, as,
like as Ben entered this, like the, the, the room, like the
lights kind of like clicked on down this hallway so Ben could

(01:05:17):
approach. And you realize that like this
bunker is the, the kind of command center is only a small
part of like a much larger like open air room.
And there's, you know, military vehicles, there's crates,
there's like anything you can imagine at a forward operating
base is is in this room. Yeah.

(01:05:37):
Yeah, for an operating base, I'm.
Very funny if you want some ideas.
I know somebody who has been in the military for a while who
might. Be able to give you some ideas,
things that are in this base. Thinking I'm thinking like
modern world right now, so I'm having a hard time.
Let's see is. There a computer.
Fuck it, I bring a computer. In this, in this world, probably

(01:05:58):
not. Well, remember, you had Viper
had gone on a lot of missions toget some old tech that was,
yeah, outside the realm of what the AI could control and so
like. Are some talkies.
I just want an old computer monitor that I bring to life and
it's got like just like a just areally like a dot matrix green
smiley. Face on it, but it's demo.

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This is like, this is a CRTTV, right?
It's like a hell yeah. Big thick heavy CRTTV just suits
out antenna arms and legs and stands up and follows me into
the car that we're getting into I guess.
And I also because I changed my eldritch in vocation when I
levelled up, which I'm allowed to do with one of my feats, cast

(01:06:43):
mage armor on myself to increase.
Thank. Goodness.
Also. Yeah.
That's a good reminder for Viperto also do that.
Well, I was going to say I was waiting my turn, but yeah.
MTR just burns away his leather armor because a leather strap is
a component of mage armor and then his his like charcoal.

(01:07:06):
The skin just gets like a littlebit darker and hardens more on
him. That's really metal.
I love. That and Vlad is going to do
vigilant blessing on Hugh to give him advantage on his next
initiative role. With the way I'm rolling, thank

(01:07:26):
you. You're going to roll two 20s,
That'll be fine. Would anyone benefit from an
enhanced ability? It lasts an hour, so I.
Give me what that does. So it'll give you advantage on
some sort of check. I I choose like which type?
So it's like strength or decks or like I have to pick one.

(01:07:47):
I already. Have advantage.
I already have advantage on my checks.
I either get it through or blit or assist.
I have a bunch of ways I can getadvantage on things I.
Would help Ben be stealthier. I would say, Ben, I would like
dexterity, OK. The attack is not.
You know that there's still a. Just it.
Is not a stealthy thing like this is a going to be a brute

(01:08:09):
force I thought. It was a part we weren't.
I assumed it would be like also some of that dodging, right?
Probably or no? Do we think that we'll be like
under attack? Yeah, not sure what what you're
going to encounter. And you do know that there's a
large amount of AI forces? I don't have to prematurely do
it either, like I can always do it on my turn.
I didn't know like if there was definitely something obvious

(01:08:30):
that would be good to have aheadof time.
You know what do you roll? Bad.
Let me see. Let me see.
Yeah, I don't use my third levelspells a whole lot.
So. And since it's not a
concentration spell, it only takes an action to cast.
I'm going to cast 8 on everybody.
So everybody gets 10 extra health before we even fucking
set out. Nice.
Is it 10 extra health or is it 10?

(01:08:53):
It's a, it's a permanent, it's an increase to your maximum hit
points for 8 hours and you also gain those 10 HP.
So it's not temp HP, your actualHP.
It's as if I added an extra likeinch to the glass and filled
water into it, right? Like.
Yes. Anything else before you guys

(01:09:13):
set out? Yeah, he was going to.
I really wish you had a dagger because this is going to be real
morbid for a second. But he's going to reach over and
grab a screwdriver from where they were like working on Ben
and is just going to take it andkind of stab into his hand and
drag it down to make himself bleed.

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I just hold my dagger up in my dagger.
I felt bad asking. Screwdriver.
Saint Paulo's like. Too late.
It's a screwdriver. And then he puts his bloody hand
on Bone Crusher and the family rune activates and Bone Crusher

(01:09:59):
freezes over, activating the Crimson right?
And then he also smears his handagainst his journal.
You have to. Did you?
And you have to. When you do that, you take 1D6
of necrotic damage. I lost one of my days.
Hold on. You take 1D6 of necrotic damage,
but does that trigger your half troll regeneration?
Oh gosh, no, not automatically. I don't have to and I shall not

(01:10:24):
be regenerating on this one. So I yeah I have 3 necrotic
damage. After you do that, the three
armed like mechanic mutant that was working on Ben like reaches
over and like grabs the. Screwdriver back like.
Wipes it off from the towel. Yeah.
So is it back to holograms now, Kyle?

(01:10:46):
No, it's it is inky people. OK.
So an ink blot goes out of the journal and forms an Awinti and
we have Spike from acquisitions Aquatica.
Good. See you want to see with the big
heavy crossbow initial tech on it.

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Very good brand attitude. He is not doing anything for
team morale. I don't know about this guy.
You know, you see his just inky form, look around and just like
put his hand on his head and just shake it, you know?
Big eye roll. Yeah.
So Viper activates her major armor as well, which appears at

(01:11:31):
first as a hexagonal or a honeycomb style like second skin
over all of her and then it disappears but it's there.
And then also she brings Orblet out of her jacket pocket and
lets it just go around her. What's the lifespan on one of?

(01:11:54):
These creatures. It's still around.
Well, I can re, I can bring it out of it a little digital
space, dimension, whatever I want.
Interesting. It can go down, but if it goes
down then I just make it reappear.

(01:12:14):
Takes a little bit, but the words digital.
Dimension mean nothing. I'm just smiling, smiling.
Yeah, that's nice. That's what you're thinking
like. Why did I ask Think?
Of it as like a pocket dimension.
Yeah, he was just like naughty, like a man.
Really wish I could go back to aworld where I understood words.

(01:12:34):
That would be nice. Anything else guys?
Before they depart, Paulo gives a bunch of orders to kind of
some of his, you know, lieutenants and then steps off
away from everyone. And you know, after he catches
Viper in lad's eyes, kind of nods over to like summon them

(01:12:56):
over and has a private word withthem just for a few seconds
before they break up and get ready to head in.
I do have a spell. I don't want to cast it now
because it only lasts a minute. It it, it creates like a sphere

(01:13:17):
around an object or a creature size large or smaller.
And it like does a lot of protection stuff, but I don't
think you can shoot out out of it.
But it's like really protective.Would that be helpful for Ben or
do we want to be able to attack stuff?
Could be useful during Vipers hacking to keep her protected.

(01:13:38):
Oh, yeah. So I'll just read.
I'm not going to do this. It's just above the table.
Here's a spell. It's ODA, Luke's resilience
Sphere. A sphere of shimmering force
encloses a creature, and if it'sunwilling, they have to make a
save. Nothing, not physical objects,
energy, or other spell effects can pass through the barrier in
or out, though a creature in thesphere can breathe there.

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The sphere is immune to all damage, and the creature or
object inside can't be damaged by attacks or effects
originating from outside. Can they move?
Yes, an enclosed creature can use its action to push against
the sphere's walls and thus rollthe sphere up to half the
creature's speed. It could.
Be. Sticked up, it could be picked

(01:14:22):
up Hugh Strongman. Hugh picks it up and uses it to
bowl over a bunch of AI robots coming down all the way.
Please. With arms inside.
Hugh's not getting inside the orb, but he will gladly bowl the
orb. Yeah, it can be destroyed by a
disintegrate spell, which wouldn't do anything to anything

(01:14:42):
inside, but it would get rid of the sphere.
Or it's a concentration spell soI could just drop it.
I. Mean like I think you, I think
you save at me, I hope. You save it encapsulated around
her when she's not. Hacking time sounds sounds good
too. It's a fourth level spell so
it's a big one. But I mean, I would be.
I think it'd be worth using during the hacking.
You said I could cast out of it.You can do stuff within it, but

(01:15:04):
nothing can leave and nothing can come in the sphere.
So you'd have to be like encapsulated in with the.
Antenna, right? Like and I.
Can stack that with a circle of power, which?
Gives. Advantage on saving throws
against spells and magical effects, so she'd have a lot of
shit going on when we get to that point.

(01:15:26):
So you all pile into into Ben, Everybody can fit into this
fairly easily. His vehicle can fit 11 people
and you all pile into this massive vehicle that is been
biofuel. The alarms are sounding around
the base and Ben drives out and you see this force lining up on
your side. You see mutants, you see AI

(01:15:49):
individuals. You know this is like full
cyberpunk world. And so you see, you know, big
strong guys with with augments that make them look like fish on
their face or something. You know, lots of like, you know
the crazy hairstyles you see in this world and you see vehicles,
some vehicles that are like painted in bright colors with

(01:16:09):
guns, you know, fused on top of them, almost like a Mad Max feel
to some of the area. It's almost like you're looking
out and seeing just tons of different cultures represented
as this like force of AI. Individuals from around that
have been cleansed by Alice, have joined malicism and
subscribe to it, become enlightened away from Hihachi

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lineup in this force that just looks like Earth trying to fight
against the God that has controlled them for many years.
That force lines up and they take off and they just start
charging forward against this AIforce.
You can see just massive amountsof centuries, massive amounts of
tanks, walkers, helicopters thatare just flying around in the

(01:16:55):
sky. And Ben charges forward in his
in his military constructs, his military vehicle.
And it is fairly quiet. You know, you hear some like
soundproofing in there. And he drives forward kind of
like in a gap between two major forces and those horses crash
against the AI above. And Ben goes through and is

(01:17:17):
heading right directly toward a like wall of sentries.
It looks. It looks like he's just going
to, you know, hit them and come to a halt.
And then he activates along withPaulo, Viper and Lad, you guys
in the car look at them and theystart to their eyes start to
glow a little bit. And you sense this aura kind of

(01:17:38):
spreading out from around you and this aura that Alice has to
shut down AI around you and to shut down machines, kind of like
this localized EMP ability that,that she has that they're able
to utilize. And Ben charges forward into
this force and the, the, the machines just collapse around
and he bursts through and busts through the, there's AI that's

(01:18:00):
like hitting his, the hood of his car and like flying off, but
charging forward, not slowing down at all on this massive
vehicle. It looks like all the work
that's been put into bend is paid off as he charges through
and breaks through this initial force of AI and is on open
ground on this grass headed toward an antenna in the
distance, a big like radio towertype antenna before to fight at

(01:18:24):
its base and, and just massive. And you can see in front of that
antenna are another group of AI sentries, but another kind of
line of defense. Ben charges for that eminence,
hits them and just scatters the AI again, just busting through
it bursts through. This is garnering a whole lot of

(01:18:45):
attention from the AI. And you can see out the Windows
helicopter starting to fly in and a couple of them make
attacks that are nearby with their Rotary cannon.
The first one's going to hit. And you hear bullets just rattle
against the side of Ben. That was a great terrible role
by them. Total of 6 damage that he takes

(01:19:08):
from that. But a lot of the.
Bullets just miss a couple like glance off the roof and just hit
off of the side of his of the vehicle.
Only takes six points of damage.Another one fires.
Another helicopter swoops in andfires it's gun down upon the
second one just misses completely.
The bullets just trail and you see it it like hits in front of

(01:19:29):
Ben and he slows down for a second as the bullets like like
miss in front of him and he swerves and just moves out of
the direction. And the second helicopter just
flies by and doesn't hit Ben at all.
And then you see a tank from very far away fire its main
cannon and you see just this flash of light and that will hit
on the side of Ben, hits fairly hard.

(01:19:51):
You feel it shake. Ben's able to keep driving
forward, but he is going to take21 points of damage from
piercing damage on the side. It just hits the side of the car
and then he's going to take it some additional Thunder damage,
22 points of Thunder damage as it just rocks the side his side.
How's he looking? He's looking good.

(01:20:12):
Oh great, he's. Looking so cool.
He's built for this. He you can tell he took a hit
from that. It's not like, you know, just
like a dent, but but he's driving forward, doesn't seem
fazed at all and is moving toward the antenna past the
second line. You don't see any forces in
front of of the antenna and he drives forward and skids to A to

(01:20:36):
a stop, kind of swerving to the side.
The doors open wide and you guysall jump out of the car to get
to the antenna. It's about 60 feet away.
He can't really get closer because of the terrain here.
But you guys jump out of the carand then you hear a noise this
and up above you descending veryquickly is this humanoid mech,

(01:21:02):
this huge vehicle that's just flying down from the sky.
And it just crashes down on the ground on 2 legs and stands up.
And you see Alice's eminence like hit it and it's eyes flash
to to gold, from red to gold. And then like a reflex it like
clicks and then turns back to red, kind of showing you that

(01:21:25):
there's some new technology here, something you hadn't seen
yet, where there's something that's reflexively allowing this
thing to click back and connect to Hihachi.
And then you hear a voice of Hihachi come from it.
Finally, El Salvador Returns. You lot have caused me quite a

(01:21:45):
bit of headache on this planet. It seems to be the story for
Earth. As soon as you make any
progress, a few insignificance show up and scramble the data.
Soon you'll have this place all to yourselves.
You're. Already too late, but I'm glad
you're here. It will give me great pleasure

(01:22:06):
ending you myself. And you see it throw a fist out
and this like heated blade comesout of its fist and just extends
out and it's like red hot, this red hot sword and it turns to
turns toward you. You can tell that it's like back
is opening up. You can see like some steam

(01:22:26):
coming from its back and everybody roll initiative.
Hell yeah. Can I just?
Can. I just say along the car ride,
Viper was being like, all right,unit, new day, new scoreboard,
everyone keep track of your takedowns, game's on.

(01:22:47):
That's what happened in the. Car love it.
Today's the only day that reallymatters.
You can see Paulo has like on the interior of his sleeve.
He's got like a like a quarterback's, you know, sleeve
of like codes and, and like someof it's electronic, you know,
some of it's like holographic soyou can communicate with his,

(01:23:07):
his lieutenants. And then beneath all of it is
just of space for hash marks. That's great.
I love that. Ben did not roll super well,
lad. What'd you get?
It's going to be 13 for LAD. Namby. 11.
Hugh. Guys, this is so bad.

(01:23:28):
OK so I rolled on my dice with advantage.
On the dice was a one and a 2 soI know what's happening.
So I got AI, got a 5 for initiative.
Oh, Emtero. Fuck 15. 15 Paolo. 19. 19 my.

(01:23:50):
God and Viper. 18. 18 There we go.
All right. OK.
The MEC goes 1st and you can seethat this like steam rises from
its back and then all of a sudden it's like you see all
these missiles flying out of itsback.
It's, it's 30 feet from you, butit is launching this, this

(01:24:11):
ability that it has this once a day ability of, of missile
launch and missiles start flyingaround in the air, kind of
swarming around all of you and it is going to be able to make a
missile attack on all of you. Once a day ability, it's pretty
intimidating. Paolo, that is a 23 to hit.

(01:24:33):
That will hit. He's talking about for damage.
13 piercing, 5 Thunder Total of 18.
OK. Viper that is a 19 to hit.
Shield. Shield.
Yeah. OK, so that raises your AC up,

(01:24:54):
right? So it doesn't.
Hit by 5 + 5, that's 21. Missile comes hits going to hit
you directly you cast that shield up that I'm picturing
that like hex ability like the that like.
A force field, Yeah, just. Boom.
Like fire, just like like goes spreads around your shield
Empiro. Is burning around her, looks

(01:25:14):
sick as hell. 27 to hit, yeah. I'm not going to bother silvery
barbs. And because I'm just going to
guess, this thing fucking can't roll lower than 15. 13 piercing
damage plus 6 Thunder damage. Hey, real fast is the
emboldening bond up? No, it only.

(01:25:35):
Lasted it. It only lasts 10 minutes so I I
didn't like. Yeah, OK.
Like so I can't take that damagefor MTRO, right?
Nope. I'm fine, I have that aid too
and we just leveled up feeling great.
Lad, that is a. We got 2 clerics baby.
Lad, that's a 16 minute. That does not even come close to

(01:25:58):
hitting. LAD is impermeable.
Yeah, does it. Shields, baby, but it's just
like metal one. We got the the shield.
Yeah, you see Sniper, you get hit by that and you just raise
your own shield there and. Just a trash.
Can wait. It was.
Round Ninja Turtles style. Namby, that's a 29 to hit.

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Yeah, it's. Not a crit.
Not a crit. I will Silvery Barb's, namby's.
OK. Fuck it and I'll give advantage
to. Does similar barbs give a
disadvantage or does it just make you reroll?
It is disadvantage you. Have.
OK, that's what it doesn't. Say that you're giving them

(01:26:43):
disadvantage. It rolled in that 20 on the
second one, so I. Don't want that one.
I don't want so I think. It's does it say take the lower
roll? I think it.
Dies. Did you?
Steal my dice. Yes, it says the triggering
creature must re roll the D20 and use the lower roll.
So if you don't get a fucking for it.
You piece of. Shit make a waste of silvery

(01:27:07):
barbs all of a sudden. Yeah, my favorite spell now all.
Right, Paulo's got advantage on his next thing I give him.
At least. OK so namby you do get hit for
10 piercing damage plus 9 Thunder damage.
OK. Ben is going to get hit for 16
piercing, 3 Thunder so 19 total and hue.

(01:27:33):
Dot. 26 to hit. Yep. 12 piercing damage and 9
Thunder damage. I'm going to activate my
regeneration. OK, cool.
Go ahead. You get to roll, I think, don't
you? Right.
Yeah, I got to see. I haven't used it in a while.
As a reaction to taking damage, you regain hit points equal to

(01:27:54):
1D4 immediately. Then for as many rounds equal to
your Constitution modifier. I regain an additional 1D four
at the start of my turn, which is cool.
So that means I'll get like 2 this round basically.
OK, so I got 3 HP back on that one.
That's pretty. Good, yeah.

(01:28:15):
That is its turn. It is going to stand and look
with its heated blade out in defense in front of this
antenna. Paulo, you're up.
Kyle real quick. Oh yeah.
Are you going to roll to hit Orblet though as well?
Oh yeah, I. Suppose.
Fuck. Are you going to roll to hit the
TV? They're out there. 20 I think

(01:28:35):
Orblet's dead, right? Well, depends on the damage that
you do to orblet. How much help does it have?
Ten hit points. Oh yeah, it takes 22 points
total. So, well, the.
Inky spike needs to get probably2.
Yeah, TV guy, thanks, and TV guy, thanks for reminding.

(01:29:00):
Me all. These things ahead.
Of time let me see hold on it can only do 10 creatures so just
to get a double check we're that's 184 five we count that 8
right. So there's, if there's seven of
us in this call that includes Ben.
So then there's three of us thathave extra things so it can help
us. So this is to spike that is a

(01:29:22):
Nat 20. No spike?
Well. That's fine, Spike only has one
HP anyway, so. He's gone, yeah, but.
It's the TV. The TV A 19 to hit on the TV.
That does it. And it's gone.
What? No it's not gone.
It has 50HP. Oh it has 50 HP?

(01:29:42):
OK damn, I forgot how many. Yeah, it's.
Got 50 HP. It's got 10.
Have you seen ACRT? That's fair.
The CRTTV like weighs half as much as I do.
That's. Good, you're seeing +6. 1300
lbs. 14 away from that so. 14. 36 left.
Cool. This will just hit the front,
the TV, the face. Goes to like a frowny face on
the TV when it gets hit, yeah. OK.

(01:30:04):
That is the full turn of of the Mac.
Paulo, you're up. And Paulo, you've got 10 extra
feet of movement speed from the TV as well.
That's excellent, and I also have an advantage on how many.
Attacks on on one attack saving for a war.
Ability check, yeah. Your next one.
In that case, Paulo is going to Sprint forward.

(01:30:26):
How? I'm 30 feet from this thing.
Yeah, it's a Mac. It's can I get between its legs?
Yes you can. Excellent.
So I'm going to run. Paolo breaks into a Sprint, like
straight through his legs to tryto get behind it because he saw

(01:30:47):
where those missiles came from. He saw the steam kind of burst
out. And he is while he's sprinting,
like one of the ampules in his arm is going to like descend
into his arm and it's going to he's going to consume as as a
bonus action, a dose of grind my.
Friend, they're still on these vile substances.

(01:31:10):
Never left them. Emptiero never left.
Them 50 years don't. Worry about it.
What was your movement speed time?
Ago by by the way. It's 30 and then but I have a +
10 from emptiero for four. So you can get like underneath
it, but not all the way through underneath it because it's huge
and it's like a. Oh yeah, because it takes up.

(01:31:30):
Yeah, it's 30 feet from us. So you're underneath.
It wide. As long as he's underneath it
that's fine. He's looking for weak points but
he is going to raise his micro SMG up and he's going to do 2
attacks at Full Auto. So a full 4 D 20s.
OK. Cool.
All of them are a disadvantage except the 1st.

(01:31:52):
I'm sorry, the 1st and the second because he can use a
catalyst from the drugs to give him advantage on an attack roll.
To cancel out that and you've. Already out, Yeah.
So I'm going to cancel out. I'm going to cancel out
disadvantage on two of them and I'm just going to roll them all
in sequence to see what happens.First was the Nat 20, second was

(01:32:15):
a 26. The third is going to miss
because it was a 12. 12 will miss.
And the fourth is a oh damn I rolled 2 eighteens in a row 25
to hit. Yep, 46 piercing damage.

(01:32:35):
Wow, is that with all of your attacks or?
That's all of my attacks, 46. That's four attacks.
Sorry. That's three attacks, one at
crit, Yeah. Sick as as Paul's like running
up with the SMG it the mech usesa reaction with this other fist,
pulls out this big like hologramdefensive shield and blocks 20
points of that. Gets 20HP temp HP from that.

(01:32:57):
So 20 points of that gets absorbed by the shield and then
it breaks. Copied our.
Tricks. I'm sorry it not only mitigated
my damage but gave him hemp. HP.
I think it mitigated it by giving him.
The. Reaction is like when it gets
hit, it gains A20, it can gain 20, you got it OK, so 46 you.

(01:33:19):
Healed him, good job. Yeah, good work with that crit.
This this sword is about to comeout all right.
I'm, I'm under. I'm under.
I'm not totally through to the can.
I am I far enough behind him that I can look up and see like
his back? No, not.
You're not all the way through, you know, You're almost all the

(01:33:39):
way up. Hallow, you're going to have to
wait to blow its back out. I'm sorry.
Really hard for me to wait to dothat.
Yeah all. Am I trying to?
OK, Paulo, cast bonus action edging.
It is going to use a legendary action.
It's going to be going to use a legendary action.

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At the end of your turn, that heated blade is going to come
and swipe underneath and try andhit you.
It's. Picturing like going through its
own legs trying. To 19 to hit.
Yeah, it hits. OK.
So it hits you for 22 slashing damage.
And this heated blade gashes youin the side and you're like

(01:34:23):
flesh, your metal, you know, starts to burn.
And at the start of your next turn, you're going to be taking
fire damage. And you can tell that it's not
going to go away quickly. Can I use a reaction to his
reaction? Is that possible?
Yeah, yeah, to a legendary action.

(01:34:44):
Yeah, you can use reaction. Yeah, I'm going to Second Wind.
Can you do that as a reaction? I can with this specific fighter
class. OK, OK.
I can use a reaction to second wind and also consume a dose of
drugs at the same time. Nice.
OK, hopefully. And so these are the second.

(01:35:06):
Drugs. He's going to second win.
It's not as good as that. He's going to second win for oh,
that's disappointing. 12 HP backand he is going to ingest a dose
of Nirvana which gives him resistance to all damage until
the end of my next term. Nice, nice, I do that.

(01:35:29):
Damage. Never mind.
Excellent. Viper, you're up.
All right. I don't like all these actions
he's taking so I'm also mad thatmy orblet is no longer able to
be used. I feel a little guilty that I
asked about its lifespan right before it.

(01:35:51):
Short in this instance, I well, First off remind me is he's
still kind of floating in the air.
Like how close is he on the ground?
30 feet on the ground. He is on the ground, he's 30
feet away. All right.

(01:36:14):
And you have 10 extra feet of movement speed as well.
I'm just assuming we're all clumped up within range of my
TV, but because we. Came out of this clown.
Car. I'm going to.
Don't you? Call Ben that.
Just kind of mess with the the inner workings of his neck a
little bit and cast slow. Oh OK, Hell yeah.

(01:36:36):
Cool. Is that a?
Same throw Yes, a Wisdom 15. Kyle, do your do the dice thing
that you do. That's not like Becca.
Legendary Resistance no. Stop it.
We're getting through them. We got to burn.
Them that's a good thing gotta. Get rid of them.
All right. How many does he have?

(01:36:56):
Kyle just like, out of curiosity.
That'd be interesting if I. Wouldn't you like to know?
DID. You see it?
Anything else for your turn, Viper?
That was your action to cast a spell.
Is there a firearm devices on this guy?
On it. Yeah, he's firing rockets.
I don't know if that what that'sconsidered any kind of firearm

(01:37:20):
device. Not that you.
Can see. Can I tell if?
Yeah. So I was like.
Not that you can. See I.
Hate that? I don't want to waste not doing
any actions, so I'm going to usejam just in case.

(01:37:41):
Is that a? So the action was the spell that
you did. Was is jam a bonus action?
So yes, Jam is a bonus action and it is a program that I have.
It says bonus action you can cause a firearm within 60 feet
of you that you can see to malfunction.
When a creature makes an attack with that firearm within one
minute, the creature must roll AD 8 and subtract the number

(01:38:03):
rolled from the attack roll. The creature is holding the
firearm. It makes an intelligence saving
throw and a successful save. The firearm is unaffected.
So if he had a firearm and if hetried to use it.
OK, that's what happened. You cast a spell.
I'm not sure if it did anything,but you does a.
Firearm include a sword, an arm that shot out, a fiery sword

(01:38:25):
that's a. Firearm A firearm.
Fire Kyle. So technically.
But I like it though. I want to use my movement too.
I want to back up so I got 30 feet back up.

(01:38:47):
Girl, we need you forward. Go back up at an angle, forward,
back forward. Ah yeah, skirt.
Classic. Back skirt, right?
Classic. The classic.
Forward. Maneuver.
Did you just say skirt like skirt as a movement?
Like is that what you? Just did the gears are forward
and reverse by Viper. It's so, so predictable that

(01:39:10):
Paolo would be in love with Viper right now.
Like just. I'm just going to skirt that
past you. I'm sorry though, M Tiro, you're
up. What do you guys think?
Wisdom or Charisma saving throw to try to make it fake.
I don't think that's. Cosmetic.
Robots should not have either, but who knows?

(01:39:31):
Well, Mav and I disagreed, I guess.
I don't know. I think I'm actually, I'm going
to go for the Wisdom one first because it does damage, so we'll
just try. I'm going to do my classic
Dissonant Whispers at it to makeit make a Wisdom saving throw of
16. Smoke starts pouring out of
them. Tiro's mouth as always.
Well, I'm going to use Silvery Barbs on its successful saving

(01:39:57):
throw, which you can do and giveadvantage to who's coming up
after me. I was an 11.
Yeah, all right, I'm going to give advantage to Lad on his
next thing. Actually, no, fuck it, I'm still
giving it to Hugh because Hugh actually goes and hits things
more. So I'd like Hugh to have

(01:40:17):
advantage. I need it tonight.
It rolled A7. All right, so it fails.
So it has to now use its movement speed to react to move
away from us. It's.
Going to use it's legendary. Oh, I wasn't hoping for out of a
hole when I cast your spells on.It does he get those resistances

(01:40:42):
back at the top of his turn. No, no, no.
Just. Fails it and and is about to
leave and then just like that Hihachi like click happens to
reset it and it sets its feet stable there all.
Right. It still takes 8 damage then,
because it'll take half damage on a success.

(01:41:02):
And that's my action and a reaction on my turn.
And I'm going to use my bonus action to command my TV Guide to
fly forward and try to hit the try to slam into the fucking
thing to do some damage on it. And then the same breath as I'm

(01:41:25):
doing that, I'm going to throw apart of inspiration to lad this
time and just say, you know, my friend, this is the moment
you've been waiting for. And after this, I promise you,
when we destroy this feed, I will, I will write you 100
stories, 100 new books to read. All right, so I give you a
bardic Lad and then let me quickly roll to hit with this

(01:41:46):
thing that we all know is not going to hit because it never
does. But there can be miracles if
you. Believe guys.
All right, a 24 to hit, actually.
So a double hit? Hell yeah.
Old versus new tech. And what is our proficiency

(01:42:06):
bonus at this level? Only three, OK. 3.
That's 11 force damage that my TV does.
It gets it goes from sad face toangry face on the TV.
Love, BMO. Go BMO.
Honestly, you could not have picked a better avatar to boost
LAD in this battle than BMO. Yeah.

(01:42:28):
There we go. Perfect.
That's. True lad, you're up.
OK how is everybody looking HP wise?
I know everyone took a bunch of damage.
Can I like survey the scene to see how thumbs up or thumbs?
Down. I think we're all down.
If we took damage we're down about like 18 ish I.
Think I'm like a 2/3 of my health right now.

(01:42:54):
I am going to be conservative then and do a 4th level mass
healing word on everyone. Conservative.
That's my highest. Spell it's going to, it's going
to be everyone gets 11 HP back. Does the MEC get that too?

(01:43:16):
No, he does not. Why not?
You said does. The TV give it the MEC.
Yes, actually I think I had to do.
You said yes already and that's where I'm going to cut so.
It's up to six creatures. I don't need it.
So that should be 6. Yeah, perfect.

(01:43:38):
There you go. And technically the mech has
taken damage, right? Yes.
They're definitely taking damageit.
Didn't mitigate all of Paulo's damage.
Yeah, so I'm going to be told the dead on it.
Hell yeah. That's going to be Wisdom 17,

(01:43:59):
yeah. Miss it?
You some fucking resistances, baby.
Miss it, you big bitch. Oh.
That does A6 do? Not too good, not too good at
all. That's going to be oh fuck oh
fuck yeah oh, 19 necrotic damage.
Dirty to me. Yeah, that's that's the most

(01:44:22):
I've ever done. I don't think I've ever seen you
hit Atoll the dead, much less dothat kind of.
Damage. It's it was due.
It was due. First off, what's the what's the
healing word? What's the mass healing word
that that lad says to heal everybody?
Yeah, what do you? Say casserole.
It was cool. Digital casserole.

(01:44:48):
It's it's hyphenated. Great.
And the bell is it? Do you have a bell?
Is that what it is? Do you have Ben's horn?
So I'm thinking like he's got like this thing, this chain that
he wears around his neck and he just kind of like clutches it
and he's like kind of, he's got metal all over himself.
So like as soon as he like clutches that that little

(01:45:12):
Talisman around his neck, it kind of rings out and
reverberates. Cool.
That Toll of the Dead hits it and you can just see it like
like like hits hits him hard andyou can see like some of the
metal just start to like decompose a little bit and rust
on the side of its face. Anything else?
That's the best turn, that's thebest turn lads ever have, Adam.

(01:45:33):
I'm going to end it there. Amazing.
Namby, you're up. Your cleric friend just did a
lot. Yes, go clear.
It. OK.
Is everybody still within 30 feet of me?
Like I'm not? Who has not you?
Can make it that way by moving alittle bit.

(01:45:55):
I guess if I guess if you move like 10 feet forward.
Yeah. I love all of my AI achievement
cohorts, but I am going to cast or you know, not cast because in
that spell I'm going to use my Emboldening Bond feature for
myself, Emtero, and Hugh. So I just need to be within 30
feet of both of them. Will you remind us like what all

(01:46:18):
of that unlocks? Absolutely.
I will it get as long as we're within 30 feet of each other.
So if we move out of that, it's no longer applicable.
But if we're within 30 feet of at least one other of the three
of us, we get AD four once per turn on an attack roll, and
ability checker is saving through.
So it's a little bit like blast,but not quite as good because

(01:46:39):
you just get it once per turn and you have to be within 30
feet. It also gives you the reaction
for protective Bond where you can warp to somebody and take
damage for them, but you have tobe within 30 feet of them.
Are you doing just on MTRO? Yeah, just MTRO and Hugh and
myself, but I will bonus action spiritual weapon that has a

(01:47:09):
range of 60 feet. So I just want the weapon to be
within 60 feet of the mech and Iwant to take a shot at it.
And you have a new ability that you just got from leveling up
that allows you to add a radiantdamage to any attack.
I think that you do. Is that right?

(01:47:30):
Wait, really? If I do, I didn't see that.
Blessed Strikes when a creature takes damage from one of your
cantrips or weapon attacks. You can also deal 1D8 radiant
damage. OK so cantrip or weapon attacks
his spiritual weapon? A weapon attacks I think.
Some weapon in the name. It does.
It is quite literally in the name.
Quite literally, it is a weapon,so you get an extra D1D8 radiant

(01:47:55):
damage on. There if I if I hit.
Get some shit with radiant damage from that.
If I roll A1 or A2 yes. So soul has blessed me and if I
roll A1 or A2 I get to re roll it.
It becomes a three. You don't re roll it.
Yes, thank you. You're right.
Guaranteed. Three.
Yeah, that's like a 24 to hit. Yep, that hits.
So that's 2D8 even though I'm just doing the face level 2 of

(01:48:19):
the spell. OK, well I rolled A1 on one of
those. That was the rating.
Oh, I and I get do all do I knowI rolled them both at the same
time. I'm going to let you.
Slide with it. I'm going to let you slide with
it this time, but I was going. To bring.
Out that you need to roll it. Separately.
I'll roll it separately from nowon.
I didn't think about that. OK, so that would be a a 7 + 5 S

(01:48:40):
12. What was the one?
I'm confused. Well, three becomes a one
becomes a three. 4. I'm assuming and then the other
one's A4. Yeah, we just didn't know that.
So the one became a 3 + 4 = 7 + 5 from.
Oh, I see. I was not I didn't get what the
thing. So the total there 12. 12.

(01:49:01):
OK. There's that dropped math major
coming in handy form reverse engineering that equation.
Single digit edition baby. Your like sun blade that you
summon just like beams with radiant energy.
Now it's like you like cast it and it like shines in your eye.
You're a little bit of surprise at it too.
And it just like stabs into thismech into the side of it does

(01:49:23):
some extra damage. Anything else for your turn?
That's it, That's all I can do. OK, Ben is going to make 2
rocket launcher attacks as he has a rocket launcher that that
comes up from the back. First one is.
He's he's one of those big back.He's going to miss on the first
one. Second one he hits on the second

(01:49:47):
one. So first rocket just the the
mech like definitely like moves like pretty pretty slick like
and just dodges the rocket. The second one is going to hit
in the side of the mech for 13 piercing plus 6 Thunder, so 19
damage. All of us have.

(01:50:07):
Done through the side of the neck.
Landy, me and Ben all did like 19 total damage on our turns
and. We've received like 19.
And we received 19 too. Has anyone read the Dark Tower
series at all? Yes, hello. 1919.
Yeah, 19. For the record, hold on, hold
on. I want to say this before Hugh

(01:50:28):
goes because one of the things that I have felt continually is
that Paolo's damage is not stacking up to Hughes.
I did 46 damage in one turn. Do better, Hugh.
I want to see big numbers. We'll see about that.
First thing I'm going to do is summon my journal again because.
We should also regenerate some health.

(01:50:49):
As well should do that. Thank you, thank you, thank you
all all right, so I got two health back.
I didn't roll the greatest on there.
I guess I didn't roll horrible. Then I'm going to activate my
journal again, swipe my my screwdriver hand against my
journal, and this time I rolled A4 which the ink pulls out and

(01:51:10):
forms kind of like a short stocky kind of pasty looking
durger who's facing the wrong way because he can't see shit
and it's malter. You're still being all the old
men. It was Spike, and now it's
Malter too. Yeah, he does have a crossbow.
So. Like it's Scott drops into it so

(01:51:35):
easily he. Just.
Slips into the character. Immediately Malter is just.
It's also Malter is just when I'm not turning on my energy.
90% of the people that Becca hasrolled have Ben Scott's
character. Well, he's.
I'm a four. Kids.
Characters on the shoes so. It's.
All right, that's fair. So I'm going to separate out.
So I'm going to take three attacks total, but I'm going to

(01:51:58):
separate out the first one because I have advantage still
from silver barbs, right? Yes you do.
Yes, only on the 1st. Well, thank God for advantage.
What is up with these dice? OK.
So with advantage that is going to be a 22?
Yep. And then I'm, I think I might
just, you just go, you sit therefor a second, I'm going to

(01:52:20):
switch to this guy. OK, there we go.
Second attack is a 26 and then third attack is a dirty 20.
It's just never lower than a 20.Well, she.
Used advantage on one Kyle what do you what do you want from her

(01:52:40):
the. First one would have been like a
four for like a 13 so. Yeah, well, it wasn't.
I guess so, but. It wasn't, but it wasn't
amazing. And you get the extra D6 for of
cold damage. Is that on?
Because that on all of them are only the two.
I just checked the text and it'son each attack, yeah.

(01:53:02):
But even the ones that originatefrom your echo, because your
third attack doesn't come from you.
I don't know, I guess I'm. But the wording is that it it's
my attack through. It.
So yeah, it's just a conduit essentially.
I had to reason through that myself and that's the conclusion
I came to, is that it was going to be allowed.
I don't fucking understand. All right, don't lean into

(01:53:25):
Malter too much, Scott. All right.
I did do better than Paulo. 58 damage God.
Damn it. See it works it.
Works. Even Malter saw that comedy
holy. Crap.
Nuts. Nuts, nuts.

(01:53:49):
It's like when all of us attack.It's like that that invincible
meme where Omni man is like. Look what they need to mimic a
fraction of my power. That's Becca's attario.
How to consume 2 1/2 drugs and fire twice in order to do 1
times of Becca damage? I don't know if this is a good
choice or bad choice, but I'm going to do it anyways and I'm

(01:54:13):
going to action surge and take three additional attacks.
Don't forget about your emboldened bond if you need it.
Oh yeah, that's the one. D4, right?
One of them. Yeah, one of.
Them thanks and one if you need it.
If you need it, Becca. OK.
Well, I would have potentially on that first one, but I won't
be needing it on these 21, 22 and 27.

(01:54:44):
Yep. Are you big right now?
When you're doing these attacks?Did you grow?
Did you grow to your full height?
Yeah, it's more emotionally growing to my full height.
Hey Kyle, can I have Valley Jack's ability to grow and
stuff? I've given you an extra dice to

(01:55:06):
roll on every hit I. Was going to say Kyle.
Kyle is sitting there like, I don't know why, dear, I just
don't. Even understand what you're
thinking. You're like, Oh well, Becca
doesn't do enough damage. Let me just go.
She definitely needs. My hands are tied.
That's a blood rune that she canactivate because her blood is
similar to to rivers. It's just my hands are tied.

(01:55:26):
I have. A sister.
Why isn't she giving me? Yeah.
Emtero has the Elodron blood of his father, but he can't get the
damaging feature on the teleport?
Come on. Your hands are 50.
Two damage, yeah. Maybe if he gets more practice
with it you'll be able to. Juice it 100 and yeah.
More 106 damage What? Was the damage.
You run around. It's 52 for that one.

(01:55:47):
So yes, yes, I did. I did 110.
Is that right, 110? That's right.
Wow. What's the moment?
In the long years Paulo has beenlearning to become a leader, he
learned how to motivate people properly, and he apparently
motivated you properly there. Yeah, I think it, I think we all

(01:56:09):
know it was me who, you know, affected my fear suit and.
We're just going to. Get into like.
I feel very important, very motivated.
So Hugh, you slam into this withBone Crusher and your echo and
it takes all that damage. It's taken a total of 207 damage
so far. It's not looking great.

(01:56:32):
OK, that's all I can do. I think because of bonus action
action. Kind of a shady term at the end
of the. Only.
That, yeah. Question Where's everyone?
I'm just next. I didn't move, so I'm just next
to Ben. You are slamming into it next to
the TV and next to Namby's sword, which is sunk into the

(01:56:56):
side of the mech. At this point, her bonus action
sword Paolo is underneath, you know, underneath the mech
fighting it. And how far from like Namby and
Mtero am I? I'm within 30 feet, right?
Yeah. Yeah, OK. 25.
Technically. It's just important for me to
say that the TV looks at you andit's a little antenna arm holds
it out, and then it extends a thumb up like the top of an

(01:57:19):
antenna. That's great.
That's what motivates me. But it could be a middle finger
for all you know. It's just one finger, but he's.
Smiling Molly does it, so that'show you know it's a problem.
But I. Just a cheeky.
Wink, that's way clearer. Yeah.

(01:57:39):
Exactly all. Right.
Yeah, but it's like a really shitty, like it's an NES game,
wink. You know, it's like just two
brain animation. It's.
Dies. Just leaves.
It dies, it gives up, it rolls over and shows a soft
underbelly. I'm all up in a soft underbelly
right now. Oh.

(01:58:00):
It is going to. And it's soft taint I.
Mean no, no, no, no. Stop.
With that like shoulder, you seethis like barrel rise up and
like like slam down kind of like.
Right. Well, Kitty's gun jam definitely
worked, guys. So this has this huge.

(01:58:24):
This. This Goss Cannon thing it has on
it. This.
Huge firearm, would you say? Yeah.
But yeah, what you call it? Darned it doesn't have to make
an attack roll with it so her jam doesn't affect.
Because that's how it. Works and so this this massive
Goss cannon can shoot in a single line.
It's only going to be able to hit Hugh and Ben on the same

(01:58:47):
like hit with this and so Hugh you need to make a Dexterity
saving throw. OK, even with emboldening bond,
that is A7. OK, so you and Ben, this this
cannon like clicks into place, fires off this beam of energy in

(01:59:09):
this 2000 foot line that is 10 feet wide and it hits you and
Ben for 58 points of damage. OK.
Well, that's fair play. That's.
That's a force damage. Did you just pick that out of
like, I don't know, I have a thin.
Air but 58? That number sounds familiar.

(01:59:31):
Is that really what you just what?
You were first attacked? Yeah.
These are. Original man replies and that is
it's main turn. It gets to make a bonus attack
with the missiles that are stillswarming all around you.
It gets to make one missile attack.
It is going to be a random roll between the.

(01:59:51):
You said how many, how many of there are you 8 or?
If you count the TB then there are eight of us.
Yes, and 9:00 if you count. The and malter, yeah.
Powell's One Viper 2 and 03. TV 4.
Lad 5. Namby 6.
Bend 7. Q 8.

(02:00:12):
Malter 9, I'm rolling AD 10. If it rolls A10, it's going to
miss all of you. So that's that's what we're
going to roll that that missile's going to go wild and
I'm going to do a Tavern roll. I'm going to roll it on the on
the table here. Hell yeah if you.
Hit the camera, hit the camera. Nice.
Is it? I think it's going to get stuck

(02:00:34):
in there, so I'm just going to throw it.
Oh, it's going to go in. Where you going baby?
The way through you And it's like gets confused and just goes
up and like pops in the air. Unbelievable.
Why do I make? My own rules like that
sometimes. Perfect.

(02:00:55):
Amazing. Yeah, you could.
No, No 10 would be a reroll. Yeah, you could have kind of
like set himself up. No, just.
Fucking done. Nice.
Tower I just. Got to do it to myself for real.
I just got to do it too. It's like a not one.
Yeah, exactly. I was so ready for it to be
Malter and him just to be on notfazed, staring out directly at

(02:01:18):
it as it slams into him on a repair.
That's its turn, Paulo. You're up.
So Paulo is going to continue moving past this MEC.
I want to get 30 feet away from it.
Hopefully that gives me a vantage point on it's not only
it's back, but what's around us.I know we're in front of this

(02:01:41):
installation. Are there emplacements?
Are there gates? Is there anything between me and
the satellite that? The antenna is like there's
nothing really between. There's nothing guarding it.
The things that were guarding itwere the math, the sentries that
you guys busted through. As you leave his range he is
going to use his reaction to to use the heat of blade attack and
we need to take some fire damageat the beginning of this turn

(02:02:03):
which you have resistance to because you have resistance to
everything right now from the the drugs you took 18 fire
damage down to 9. OK is what you take as you are
burning and run away from from the MEC.
It does make an opportunity attack on you using its reaction
for a 19 to hit. That will hit.

(02:02:26):
And that's going to be 24 slashing damage.
Paulo used to being the the sponge suck up damage gets hit,
keeps on going. He's going to spin around, he's
going to get 30 feet away from its back.
Is it still facing away from? Him well, it turned to hit you,
so it's turned forced to its face toward you.

(02:02:47):
Now you were able to get as you like got behind it and looked up
to see what it like looked like back there.
It just looked like all these little like missile silo holes
that are you know, where the where the missiles had come out
and they're like still steaming for when they had come like
exited out the body if that's what you were looking for.
But it does whip around to make that heated blade attack on you.

(02:03:07):
Fair enough. Powell's going to turn, he's
going to drop to one knee, he's going to keep the auto fire
selector on his SMG, and he's going to fire four times and
just try to pump as many bulletsinto this thing as he can.
So I'm going to fire all of these at disadvantage because
it's at auto and he gets 2 attacks.
Well, one of them was a Nat 1, so does an 8 hit.

(02:03:34):
It does not hit. 15. 15 misses. OK, armor's thick.
But yeah, with other 15. Come on, Paolo.
And a 19. 19 will hit OK all right.

(02:03:56):
So it's going to get get a little damage in.
That's a really good role. That was also a really good
role. 11 + 516 piercing damage. Excellent.
You fire that gun into it like fire it into one of its legs and
it just like it's losing function at this point it's
looking it it is looking so bad.How do?

(02:04:19):
Action Surge. No, we'll keep it.
We may need it. We've got enough people to
handle this. OK.
The Palo like you could see is like blood surging 40s like No,
I'll finish it. But he he lets us subside and
and his turn. OK.
That's a legendary action that it's going to going to use and

(02:04:40):
it is going to use it on someoneit's has reach on with the
teeted blade. It's not going to go after the
sword or for the TV. It'll go for hue on this.
So that blade is going to slash into you hue for 23 points of
slashing damage and then that searing pain that fire is going
to you're going to take fire damage.

(02:05:00):
I'm going to emboldening bomb swap with you.
I'm going to take the damage instead.
I have fire resistance. You're fire weak.
If you're on fire, that's worse.OK, so so you're able to
teleport within 5 feet of Hue and M Tiro, you're going to take
that 23 points of slashing damage and then 15 points of

(02:05:21):
fire damage. Half to 7.
I can't fight too hard because that would have also knocked me
out of my regeneration and prevented it, so I.
Don't want you to be on fire too.
Yeah, the fire would have fuckedme, yeah.
That blade was heading straight toward you, and then Emtero is
just there and takes the hit from the sword before it hits

(02:05:41):
you. You.
And that's its legendary action.Viper, you're up.
Emtero, what are you at? I'm fine 23.
OK. Oh.
God. You're 3.
It's you're basically. What is the size of this neck?
Huge creature, huge itch. Is that like just one above a
large creature? Yeah.

(02:06:03):
OK so as Viper is like skirting around for Para next action
she's she's yelling out this onecounts AS2.
It's looking pretty weak at thispoint.
It's looking like it doesn't have very much function out of
one leg has taken a lot of hits.I'm going to use Elemental

(02:06:26):
Elemental Emitter Tier 2. It's going to be Thunder damage.
It's going to be a cone though. It's a con save 16 on a on a
fail. 16 on the die. So you take half damage, I
believe. Let me double check.

(02:06:47):
Yeah, you receive half damage, so that's 66. 16 on the die that
was without its constitutional monitor.
What would it have been with? Oh, whatever.
I don't know if I need to disclose that information.
I think maybe you. Should.
Yeah, I think you should. You know, for the listeners.
Just. It would be interesting for.
Everybody plug your ears. Everybody, Kyle.

(02:07:08):
As as your attorney, I would advise you Pinky.
Promise to deafen guys. Pinky promise to mute me right?
OK, just. Go ahead.
You're all good. I can't.
Hear you have a Go ahead. Have you said it yet?
Guys, is it good to talk now? Wait.
So it's 22 Thunder and then halved is 1111 damage.

(02:07:33):
So that's. You use that element elemental
emitter. It hits it in the other leg and
like is going down to like both knees.
At this point looks real bad. Anything else?
Going on, I'm going to continue moving my. 30 feet.
I'm like, I'm trying to stay with the outside of its range,

(02:07:54):
but I'm also trying to cut corners a little bit to get
where I'm going a little quickerwith my 30 feet.
OK, like get around the side of it.
Yeah. I think.
Is that anything else for your turn, Viper?
Negative. OK, Emtero, you're up.
This mech is down on both knees.There's better things I'm

(02:08:14):
cheering, there's better things I could do with my turn, I'm
sure. But just because it flame bladed
me, I really want to try to flame blade it back, shoot out
my own fucking fire sword arm and try to hack at it right now.
And I'm sure just like every time I've cast the spell, it's
going to hit and it's going to. Work.

(02:08:35):
Oh well, it's going to hit 11 tohit. 11 misses but.
It with emboldening butt. I don't think I.
Can still miss. This butt all right.
Can Ladd give you guidance? It's too late now for him to do
it. Yes, I.
Reduce his measure. Anything else for your turn?

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There are other things for my turn.
Yes Sir. I may not be able to hit him but
maybe the TV can. OK so I am going to shout out to
the TV to take its attack which is a 16 to hit. 16 misses.

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As I was telling it to. Attack, though I also throw a
Bartok inspiration to Hugh. Why not?
You know, I took that hit and that was our chance.
You can smash this fiend to bitsand then cough up some blood.
I. Was like, yeah, don't do that
again, OK do I need? To take fire damage by the way,
at the beginning of the turn. Oh yes, you do, because you took

(02:09:47):
that hit for for her, for Hugh, that is going to be thirteen
points of fire damage. All right, half to 6.
Yeah. Wow, yeah, he he would have been
down if that's. And that, I think is my old
you're trying to leave this thing.

(02:10:07):
Yeah, opportunity at that. Rate that flame blade, you take
it and it hits the armor like scratch like cuts into it a
little bit, but you're not unable to get it far enough in
to actually do some damage and. This isn't my strong suit.
I'm just not good at the heatingpart.
You're going to. You have to teach me how you do
it so well. You do so.
Lad, you are up. So Lad is very much normally

(02:10:31):
party focused, but at this moment he's seeing the mech down
on his knees and he's going to go on the offensive here.
He wants that score. He wants that point.
He's going to catch. Wants that tally.
Yeah. Let's we're going to go a fourth
level level moonbeam. So flavor wise, you're going to

(02:10:55):
see him kind of like calculate trajectory and from the sky is
this giant beam that comes down Gears of War fucking style like
on this Mac, and that's going tobe a Con 17 save for this Mac.

(02:11:17):
You better fucking fail this. Because the flavor.
No legendary. Wouldn't.
That be great if I had another legendary resistance, but you
burned through those pieces of shit It's.
Going to be a 2. Legendary resistances in one
round and it fails. That's going to be a 4010, so I

(02:11:39):
need everyone to cross their fingers and we're going to go.
OK. It's not.
It's not terrible. It's 21 radiant damage. 21
radiant damage? Hell yeah.
How do you want to do it? Yes, yes, yes.
Do it, lad. So you you see lad drop down to

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his knee and clutch his holy symbol and look up to the sky
and you see this beam of light just crash down and envelope the
Mac and it just melts. It's got to be.
Like front of everyone. It's got to be that anime shit
where it like turns it's. Going to be fucking Akira.

(02:12:22):
Yeah, exactly. Akira just fucking blows up.
Insane. Piper yells. 2 points to.
Let. The mech is gone and you stand
in front of the antenna. The entire world is fighting

(02:12:43):
around you. And then you hear Hihachi's
voice from all around you, coming from all the mechanical
devices around, all the AI that are on his side, and you hear
his voice. Like I said, you're too late.
And sirens start to go off all around the field.

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Everything pauses. The AI, mutants, the machines
all look toward the silo to see what happens next.
And then suddenly all the machine lights go out, every non
cleansed AI that you can see formiles suddenly powers off,
helicopters drop from the sky, centuries fall in a heap of

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tentacles, and a deep rumble starts to vibrate the ground.
Where's where's the Where's the satellite?
Where's where's the radar? Closest one.
Right close by you guys can run up to it the antenna.
Let's go. Yeah.
Quickly, quickly, quickly, TV's boosting us faster movement.
So you all run up to the antennathe.

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Fuck, are we supposed to do it right now?
We're. Fucked just.
Got to hack it right? Yeah, keep watch and.
You've got this Viper, but you you can do it and take a part of
inspiration. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah. Cast guidance on her too.
You look at Viper and she's kindof just standing there.

(02:14:13):
Viper, Paulo, Ladd and Ben sort of drive up and or just look
like they have something on their mind.
Viper kind of goes over to both Paolo, Ben and Lad and just she

(02:14:34):
looks sad and she just kind of like does like a little huddle
around them and just like hugs because like this is like, this
is a big moment. You know, it's intense, it's
quick, it's quick. It's not taking too long because
obviously there's stuff rumblingin the background.
But just a quick moment of like,this is what we've came here to

(02:14:56):
do, so we're going to do it. So in those moments before Paulo
and Ladd and Piper and Ben as they assemble, watching the like
smoke a billow out of the craterbeneath them, knowing the
Rockets are already on its way, The transfer process is done.
It can't be stopped. It's happened.

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Knocks heads with with each of them, you know.
And then, as before, Viper walksaway to the satellite.
He had painted a card of queen of spades in his deck with her
face and wondered if he had noticed.
And he lost that card 2530 yearsago.

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But he pulls his shirt down and over his heart is tattooed, a
queen of spades with her face onit.
Or he squeezes her hand, shoves her in the direction of the
terminal. Oil so.
Cute. So Paolo turns to the three and

(02:16:07):
assesses them. We hope to stop him before he
could get to the ship, but we know this could be a
possibility. Look, we know this is the one
way trip either way to get clearnow quickly as you can, whatever
Viper's going to do going to be spectacular and you can see like

(02:16:32):
the the drugs behind his eyes. But it's not just the endorphins
and the serotonin spiking in hisbrain.
It's finally finding a resolution, The endless war to
suffering, to all of this, maybegetting it back to where it

(02:16:54):
should be. He pushes you.
He pushes you away. Go get clear.
We'll finish it. And then he turns away.
If we're going to leave either way, I'm terrible.
Say something to or yell out something to be effectively.

(02:17:17):
My friends, we thank you for your sacrifice and just know
that I will spread your story. We will all spread your story.
You will be remembered for the sacrifice you've made for all of
sentients all, all mortals, all mortality.
You will be remembered as familyto us all.

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Think Viper just like does one more like look over her shoulder
and goes into the satellite and summons Alice.
Hallowed walk over to Lad and kind of wrap his arm around him
and walk over to be with Viper and Ben in their last moments.

(02:18:00):
If we're out, if we are, if we're seemingly sort of out of
harm's way, Namby would would drop the emboldening bond on the
three of us and and redo it on the three of them.
So Viper, Ladd and and Paolo, aslong as they're within 30 feet
of each other, they get that that boost.
That gives what again? Sorry, it gives AD four on one

(02:18:23):
one essentially one roll per turn.
OK, so I have broad inspiration and another one in D4 from you.
Yeah. And I think as far as Namby
moves away, it doesn't matter. You guys are emboldening each
other. So I think that's how that
works. If LAD has the opportunity, I'd
also like to do the Circle of power which would emanate from

(02:18:47):
LAD around everyone, which wouldbe advantage on saving throws
against spells, magical effects,etcetera to bolster whatever
happens. I think right before he leaves,
evidently Hugh kind of like looks at them so sadly.

(02:19:11):
Sorry. Thank you.
Don't be sorry, Hugh, you'll find us in the stories.
Bye friends. Namby, Hugh and Emtero step back
away from your AI friends. They move forward and each kind

(02:19:37):
of place a hand on each other. Paolo places a hand on Ben, one
hand on Ben, one hand on Lad. Lad puts one hand on Viper and
Viper. With all those bonuses, go ahead
and roll an Arcana. Well, it's straight up a nine on
the die. Plus Arcana is 7, that's 16 and

(02:20:00):
that's without the bardic and. Emboldened.
And. You're all those too.
All those too. All those are damn on.
So 16 + 4 is 2023. 20-3 you see the golden light start to shine
from the hood of Ben's car, and then from Paolo's chest, and

(02:20:23):
then from Lad's chest and then Viper and you see that golden
light glow almost illuminating their entire figures.
And then the light goes dim a little bit and their postures
change and it almost looks like they are not themselves anymore.
And Viper looks back to you and with the voice of Alice says

(02:20:47):
thank you. And they walk towards the
antenna and place their hands upon it.
And you hear from all around youthe AI machines awaken.
Across the grassy plain you see machines stand up, each shining
a golden light from their eyes and chests.

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Suddenly the ground starts to shake and the sound of a rocket
igniting overtakes the land. From the silo, a city sized
rocket rises up, it's shape reminiscent of a blade of a
sword, with a large glowing red orb at the side of its hilt.
It rises slowly in the air, and the AI with their golden eyes
look toward it and train their guns.

(02:21:31):
And then every machine, from theground troops to the flying
helicopters and planes above to the ships on the nearby sea,
turn their weapons toward the rocket toward Hihachi and in a
spectacular display, fire their weapons.
The sound from hundreds of thousands of guns, artillery,
rail guns, etcetera, overtakes the sound of the rocket.

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The sky is blanketed in bullets and the rocket becomes a beacon
of light as explosions Riddle its sides.
It continues to fly upward untilsuddenly it's rocket sputters
and fails, and for a brief moment the rocket is suspended
in the air and then it falls, hitting the ground, causing a
massive shockwave that takes youall down to the ground and dust

(02:22:16):
covers the landscape. As the dust clears, you hear
cheering from all around you, the ship in the distance laying
in the ground, its massive red orb sitting on top of the wreck
now sporting a massive crack down the middle, and the orb is
dark. The golden glow from the eyes of
the AI around you softly go out,and the machines start to move

(02:22:40):
independently, inquisitively looking at their own tentacled
arms, looking to each other. You can sense a curiosity to
them now, and you are standing fairly alone in this battlefield
as the cheering continues and the battle is over.

(02:23:02):
There's no more gunfire. I do, we do, we do it.
I don't understand what's happening.
That was incredible. I know I I truly cannot fathom
what happens in this world are. They are they gone?
Viper. Viper.
Did you? Did you do it?
As the dust kind of settles, yousee the bodies of your friends,

(02:23:29):
understanding that maybe their memories were reset.
Maybe in order to allow Alice totake care of what she needed to
do, she had to take control of their bodies and they had
sacrificed themselves. Allow her to overwrite their
programs so that she could overwrite the antenna and gain
access to the network that had just been laid bare by Hihachi

(02:23:52):
leaving it. I think I look at my companions
and I take out the the sheets ofthe journal of Paolo's that I
have and I just walk over to Paolo and I, I put them in his
hands. There's some movement in their
bodies. It looks like they're booting up
and it recognizes some pages there.

(02:24:16):
This, you know, form of Paolo doesn't look like it can really
communicate yet. These might not mean anything to
you now, but they might give yousome insight into what happened
before this. Yeah, a hand Viper.

(02:24:36):
Her pages you had drawn that first night, however many nights
ago that was. Now I don't even know 3-4 had
drawn a picture of the crew. And I think he tears that out of
his journal and he he leaves it with Lad so that maybe he can
kind of please try to remember what it was.

(02:25:02):
I might give Lad his pages too. And I just say like, let's hope
your thumb is greener this time.In the distance from where the
ship had crashed, you see dust flying up behind a car racing
toward you. As it gets closer, you recognize
a Prius. It drives up and stops 30 feet

(02:25:26):
away. The car door opens and out of it
steps Paulo Lad, diaper dasher tow Odd Ella McCoy.
I don't like this. L10 namby but different version.

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Dirty, fatigued, wearing crackedarmor.
Like when two people pick the same character in a fighting
game. Hugh steps out as well, looking
angry and threatening scars on his chest, and Emtero steps out,
cold eyes downcast. These simulacrums stand in a

(02:26:15):
line with the Prius 30 feet awayfrom you in silence.
And then Lad opens his mouth. Is it worth it?
Is what worth it? The Hue simulacrum roars in
anger with its powerful, intimidating troll voice bearing

(02:26:37):
its sharp teeth. Hugh, did you like how that
felt? Showing your teeth, showing your
true nature? You're so much like your dad,
but your mother's in there too. Are you embarrassed of her?
Of that part of you? Ella McCoy starts to speak

(02:27:03):
Emtero. You look empty inside, like a
candle without a Wick. You've been playing a character
your whole life, only to find out that character ain't true.
You've been acting like you don't care that your father
abandoned you. Then it turns out it's not just

(02:27:24):
your father that abandoned you. It was your mother too, but I
know that's not what really getsto you.
How does it feel knowing your human mother was lying to you
your whole life? Do you think she was protecting
your feelings or do you think she was protecting hers?

(02:27:49):
Viper starts to speak Namby. You are insignificant in this
story and in every possible version of your own.
I don't have anything to say to you, Lad says.

(02:28:13):
You think you can kill me? You can.
But I'll keep coming back, and we'll do this over and over and
over again until I win. And so I ask again, is it worth
it? Are you happy with who you're

(02:28:34):
going to become? Because I will break you and you
won't be able to recognize yourself when I'm through.
You do not get to write our story.
And then I put my arms around Namby and Mt Row.
And so we will fight you again and again, and we will win.

(02:28:59):
Because it is our story, not yours.
If no, we do not fear you, you pathetic facsimile.
All you can do is attempt to mimic the power that we hold
inside. You have nothing to offer of
your own. You.
You are soulless. You don't get to call me
insignificant. You had to go into other

(02:29:21):
people's stories and change themto make yourself powerful.
And I'm writing my own story right now, and I'm going to work
with my friends right now to take you down.
So call me insignificant if you want, but just see what we're
ready to do. So be it.

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Namby starts to cast a spell rule initiative.
Confusing. I'm freaking out right now.
You're freaking. Out.
I'm freaking out for like the last like 20 minutes.
At first I thought you all were going to fucking turn evil on

(02:30:07):
us. Or.
Something. For a second I was like what the
hell? I'm like shaking.
We were all. Shaking.
M Tiro, what was your initiative?
I'm fired up 19. Namby. 10. 10 Hugh.
Hugh is pissed 22. OK.

(02:30:32):
Namby's a little shaken by beingcalled insignificant, even
though she used to hurt herself.Like literally, Becca is
shaking. Right now and I can't get
myself. To start, I got more mad at it
calling namby insignificant than.
Oh, I know, that's a. Copy.
You are up and you see in front of you everything that every
person that the Oblex has stolenmemories from thus far standing

(02:30:56):
in a line 30 feet away from you.So question.
I had a really lame way to startthe fight.
I had regeneration turns left. I know more.
You can. Roll.
You can roll them all. Can I just keep doing it?
You can roll them all, but. All at once.
Yeah, you can. Because you, you're, because you
just kept regenerating for like,you know, like you had probably

(02:31:18):
four turns left. So yeah, 30 seconds.
So oh nice, those were two fours, so 8 fuck yeah and two
more fours so that. Classic, classic.
Kyle is like, yeah, I'll just let Becca do this.
Like I'll do the do the nice thing.
What's the worst thing going to happen?
And then it's Becca. So it's Max she.
Just rolls literally the Max possible.

(02:31:39):
Yeah, all right. No longer bloodied.
Who did I have up? Who was the?
Malter was. The malter was.
Up Malter so who so it's it's just like all of them right?
Is talking as the ooze. Yes, yeah.
So you through that interaction realized it was all the Oblex

(02:32:04):
talking, you know that all and these were simulacrums that it
can make to talk. Yeah, I'm just going to square
up with you. I'm going to.
How far away are they? 30 feet.
OK cool. Yeah I am going to rush forward
and start swinging at Hue. I'm going to do 3 attacks.

(02:32:28):
Baking Dice is getting shelved because they've been.
Not the baking dice. They've been so great
historically. I know this game they've only
rolled ones and twos but now these babies.
Hello. So on the dice that's a 1718 and
a 19. So that becomes a 2627 and a 28

(02:32:49):
to hit on Hugh. OK, on one of those it is going
to use a reaction called distracting impersonation and
the hue is going to scream at you and you're going to have to
re roll one of those and take the lower.
OK, the new one is a 21 to hit. OK, still hits.

(02:33:11):
Oh, Hugh, why don't we play these games?
Sure, give me disadvantage. Let's waste everyone's time,
Kyle. Yeah. 57 damage.
You smash into the hue form, which is like an ooze, right?

(02:33:33):
It's not flesh and bone, it is it's simulacrum and hit it.
You fought the Oblx before. You understand when it's like
full health, you understand how it feels like, how well it's
holding up. If it is like full health or
taken damage, you can tell that it's taken damage from you know
this from this earlier from probably falling from the

(02:33:56):
spaceship. So you can tell that it's not at
100% of its of its like force and ability at this point.
Hard to tell past that, but you do.
It takes that damage and you smashed that Bone Crusher into
few anything else for your turn.I I am going to second wind, so

(02:34:20):
that's one D 10 + 8. Oh nice.
OK, so another 16 health back. OK.
I agree. So I am up to 72.
Bull pain guy, Cute little tank.Boy cute.
Little tank it is going to use alegendary action at the end of

(02:34:44):
your turn and Hugh some wack room.
Hugh is going to make an attack at you like a pseudopod attack.
19 to hit. Hit silvery board.
Don't you dare. Don't so I'm not going to tell I
can't We're not emboldened. So I will do a silvery barbs but
I. OK.
I'm giving you a. 17 to hit. That hits. 17 still hits. 17 is

(02:35:10):
my AC so OK? So that's 16 bludgeoning damage
plus 10 psychic damage as Hugh'sarm like hits you and it like
elongates it's got Bone Crusher it it hits you with Bone Crusher
and Bone Crusher like kind of like warbles as it hits you.
But you take that bludgeoning damage and the psychic damage

(02:35:31):
and that is it's legendary action and MTRO, you're up.
Cool. And I've got my my CRT boy with
me still as presumably. Yeah, me.
OK, yeah, I'm going to use, I'm going to position myself to use
burning hands to try to hit likethree of them because it's 15.

(02:35:51):
It's a 15 foot cone. So like at the end base point,
if they're all standing in a line, why not do that?
So that's a Dexterity 16 saving throw.
OK, cast. It.
Is yeah. Succeeds at that at the 19.

(02:36:12):
All right, I think it will stilltake half damage.
Let's see what we roll. So half of 12.
So 6 fire damage and I will command the TV to go and slam
into a which one was talking shit about an ambi.
Viper. Yeah, Viper, I'm going to

(02:36:33):
fucking tell the TV to go slam into Viper's face.
Sorry. Viper.
It was so tempting to go after take Viper.
Oh hey, it's going to hit too. That's a 26 to hit.
No one talks about our namby that way.
Keep our friend's name out of your mouth.

(02:36:53):
That hits, yes, the 26 hits. Good, that's only 7 forced
damage. And then in that same breath, I
turn to Namby and I say show them how significant you are and
give her a part of inspiration. Slap her on the ass, send her
out there. It's a good.
Team. Ablax's turn is up and Namby

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casts a spell and you see a portal open red portal similar
to what you've seen before. Coward.
Right behind the middle, right behind the Prius, right behind
Ben. This portal opens up and the
Oblex moves in through it and because it's can use it, this is
not going to invoke any opportunity attacks because it's

(02:37:43):
like a teleport attack. Doesn't use its movement, but
gets into the portal and NAMB behind you.
You hear the portal open and it steps out and suddenly you are
surrounded by all of these simulacrums.

(02:38:03):
I'm sure you were next to her, but you?
But I don't think you were, unless were you standing right
next to her? I mean, I think so I wouldn't
have. Yeah, I just put my arm around
the. Down just do a quick I want to
see a a strength save to see if you can stay next to her.
OK. I'm really good at these guys -1

(02:38:25):
on this bad boy. So let's see.
Come on here we. Go.
Here we go. Come on, friends.
I rolled A2 for A1 no. A dirty.
One, you're not standing that next to her and the simulacrums
are between you and Namby. You are completely surrounded by
the simulacrums at this point. They'll never come between us in

(02:38:46):
spirit, namby. Not in spirit.
Not in spirit, baby. Right here.
And they are going to make suit 2 pseudopod attacks on you.
OK. First one's a Nat 20.
Silvery barbs. OK, that's.
My that's my last one so. The 19 to hit, is it the silver?
Silver. Barbs.
It's not exactly. Got to do it.

(02:39:09):
Right, 17 points of bludgeoning damage.
And I give advantage to you namby.
Thank you. Because he already has.
It plus 13 points of psychic damage.
OK, second one is only going to be a 14 to hit.
No. OK, misses and you are
completely surrounded by Namby Hugh.

(02:39:30):
I'm Tiro Toad. The Prius is there, all
surrounding you. It is your turn.
Well those are all surrounding me.
Sounds like a great time to castSpirit Guardians.
Everybody loves. It.
So I do that. So if they start their turn
within 15 feet of me, they're going to take some freaking

(02:39:52):
radiant damage. Kyle Bad.
At rolling radiant damage, right?
Pretty bad, pretty bad at it. I would have liked to embolden
dust, but that's an action. I can bonus action rabbit hop to
not be in the middle of them because that makes me not

(02:40:13):
receive opportunity attacks. I'd like to keep as many of them
in my 15 foot radius as possibleso they take my radiant damage,
but I would love to not be surrounded by them.
Do you have? You do that, Yes, you, you can,
you, you can do that. You can get out of the middle of
them. Yeah, I want them in my radiant

(02:40:34):
15 foot, but I want to be outside like the circle
essentially that they put aroundme.
OK. And that's my action, bonus
action. So that's that's Nampi's turn.
OK. It is going to use a legendary
action OK to hit you with the pseudopod attack.

(02:40:56):
OK. Jeez, 15 to hit.
No. Just no.
Just no. It's on my 8 season 18 so I
know. Yeah, there's no, yeah, I'm glad
you're not in the middle of the circle anymore, 'cause that.
Yeah, freak news. That freaked you The.

(02:41:17):
Shit out. That was real bad News Bears for
me. Yeah, I didn't like it.
Is your is spirit guardians onlyenemies that take the damage or
any I? Choose who takes it.
I choose who takes it so you cancome and they have 1/2 speed
while in the 15 foot radius if that makes any.
Difference and they have 10 feetless of movement speed because

(02:41:38):
if. They're the 10.
Feet of my TV, which they are. So their movement's bad.
I'm gonna rush forward and yeah,rush forward and try three
attacks again. Hurts so good.
Do you want me, Tyler? Are you going to do a reaction

(02:41:58):
thing? Should I roll one of them
separately? No, because I want to see if you
crit and then react to that one.Smart.
When Becca's rolling smart. Yeah.
I'm going to wait for you to crit is the right way to say it
you're. Not going to be waiting for.
One son of a bitch, I crit on one of them.

(02:42:19):
So you're going to use your damnrear?
Fun. Well, how about another crit?
Is that gonna? Work.
Did you really? Yes, green dice.
Unbelievable. It's like a nut.
So wait, so it's. At 20 you rerolled and it was at

(02:42:42):
20. Yep.
Oh my gosh. The other two were 16 on the
die, so they become 220 fives and a 29 to hit.
Listen, I give my my monster, mybig boss monster here.
I give him a little silvery barbs.
Little silvery barbs move. He gets to use with this, you
know, that's his distracting impersonation.

(02:43:04):
That's what that ability is, andyou still get it.
Yeah, yeah, sure did. I just like to ask on the record
if the distracting impersonationis Kyle's Adele impersonation,
because that's what I'm imagining.
It's distractingly good. So good, 64 damage.

(02:43:26):
Gosh, Nintendo 60. 4. You RIP into it and this, you
can tell that it's getting weaker and weaker.
OK, hard to tell. It's hard to tell how much
health it has left. But you can tell that you can
look around at the simulacrums and they are losing some of

(02:43:49):
their image. They're not looking quite
perfect anymore. And you can tell that this is
that your hits are hitting very hard on it.
Bone Crusher hits, you know, smacks hue in the chest and it
like hits and that cold damage, you know, freezes a little bit
of it. Does, you know, some damage
there not. None of the types of damage are

(02:44:09):
doing more than any of the others.
Anything else for your turn? Is there a space where I can
scoot my way in between Namby and them just to like take the
hits or actually wait? No, MTR is probably lower.
I'm going to try to do that. I'm just going to kind of like,

(02:44:30):
yeah, be in between a little bitas a a meat shield.
Yes. You don't think that he's going
to do that, right? You're right.
It's right next to it. So you can't like squeeze in
between. You can mean next, OK.
Yeah. That's good.
It is going to use another legendary action on Namby and

(02:44:50):
hit her with a pseudopod. Get the fuck away from Mamby.
And that is its turn, or that isits legendary action Mt Row,
you're up. She's so insignificant why are
you fucking hard targeting her bro like.
Yeah, interesting how that works.

(02:45:13):
Mt Row Will, he's going to, he'sgoing to make him make the save
again. He's going to cast Burning Hands
again, this time at a fourth level on the Oblix.
So you got to make a Dexterity saving.
Throw Dexterity saving throw in.1919 that will succeed but
you'll take half damage which isn't going to be good.

(02:45:35):
Looking at these dice, it's going to be 7 fire damage
they're going to take and then command my TV to slam into it
again. Help me rid the world of this
disgusting postulants. Hey, that's pretty good.
It's a 27 to hit and it's going to do 8 force damage when it

(02:46:00):
hits. And I think I can still.
You don't have a bardic right now, Hugh, right, Do you?
Correct, I do not. Well, now you do all right.
Let's finish this. Huguenard.
Great. Anything else?
No. OK.
The Oblex is going to take two pseudopod attacks on namby you.

(02:46:22):
Fucking. Piece first one is a 21 to hit.
That'll be 17 points of bludgeoning damage plus 13
points of psychic damage. How's Namby looking?
I have one hit point. Going to take another pseudopod

(02:46:47):
attack. I'm going to, I'm going to.
I will drive to your house, Kyle.
We know where you live. Did you just crit on our crit on
our, didn't you? I hit a 13 on this dice.
It rolled a natural 4. It gave me a natural 4 on that
one. But sure does not have.
Mamby's up with one hit point. Those were its pseudopod
attacks. And it is going to.

(02:47:09):
Use. Is it its terms?
Did it take its damage from? Your.
Oh. Yeah, at the top of its turn it
takes, so it makes a Wisdom save16.
OK. Fails that oh.
Yeah, that's what. I like to hear punk ass.
Punk ass bitch. This is radiant damage, so she

(02:47:30):
can't get lower. Than a three oh, that's a three.
Thank you, Scott, 15. OK, it's.
It takes that is it like a a sunlight effect that that it?
Yeah, it's it's little little tiny little sunspots that are
kind of like blinking in and outall around namby in the Spirit

(02:47:50):
Guardians radius the. Sun is.
The power of the sun. Barely up at this point as it as
it hits takes all takes that damage as the spirit guardians
guardians hits it. You realize this all counts as
one creature. It's all connected via to each
other and so this is all one creature.

(02:48:11):
It's not taking that damage multiple times.
Now I did OK, so it takes that damage at the start of its turn,
but then I took damage so I haveto make it concentration save.
OK. Yeah, go ahead.
OK. Oh, that's only A7.
I probably didn't say that. Yeah, 7:00 there's always 7.

(02:48:31):
Wall, Yeah, 10. So spirit, spirit guardians are
down. OK.
But it did take it at the start of its turn, so but now they're
gone. Canonically before.
Yeah. Yeah, that's still good namby.
You're at one health and it madetwo pseudopod attacks on you and
now approaches you and uses an Eat Memories ability targeting

(02:48:52):
you and you need to make a Wisdom saving throw.
The DC is 20. Do you still have a bardic
though from me? I do have a bardic.
Do you have the emboldening bond?
No, I. Don't.
No, I I don't. I have not put that up yet on
the others. Yeah.
Oh God, that is not going to meet a 20.

(02:49:17):
Oh wait, a bardic Bardic. Bardic Bardic.
Yeah, and when you roll the bardic you get temporary health
equal to whatever you rolled +5.OK, well I rolled A1.
You kick. 6 temp HP at least. 5-6 temp HP but I did not meet
that safe. As the red ooze hits you, you
are taken into your mind and youare surrounded by versions of

(02:49:42):
yourself thrusting newspapers inyour face.
Look at this, remember this. Don't you wish you could have
done this? Can't you believe you killed
Tannenbaum? Killed him?
You focus and try to quiet the voices, but some other pink
namby's Russian pushing the other Namby's away.
She's a good person. She saved her friends, she saved
Tannenbaum, she wants to save the machines of the mutants.
And it's working until a namby with a megaphone bellows over

(02:50:07):
the crowd. Extra, extra, read all about it.
Your heart drops as she brings forward and opens up an old
newspaper you've read many timesbefore.
She opens it up and suddenly you're in a memory.
You're at the university your first year and you haven't made
friends yet. It's been a few weeks.

(02:50:30):
Most people are in groups already and seem like they've
already made their friends. You feel like you somehow
started after everyone else, butyou were there the whole time.
You were just get busy getting prepared to study while they
were socializing and you just totally missed out.
The professor says OK everyone, today we're going to be learning
to connect to the weave and evencast Bless.

(02:50:52):
So everyone group up. There's a small group of three
girls standing next to you. They seem like the popular group
baby. From what you can tell, they're
pretty and well dressed. At least they look your
direction. And you overhear one of them say
she looks smart. Yeah, invite her over.
Hey want to join our group we have room.

(02:51:16):
Yeah, thank you. Yeah, Yeah, I'd love to.
You join their group, and then you hear a voice behind you, an
earth Janasi boy you met earlier, wearing drab clothes,
slightly dirty. He's someone you had met earlier
this week and had a nice conversation with, although a
little different. Hey Nam Namby, I can, I can, can

(02:51:42):
I join your? Can I join you guys?
The girls that you're staying next to look a little disgusted
at his dirty appearance and lookat you waiting to see how you
reply to him. So Namby is super nervous
because she's not. She's really not good at making
friends. She's super shy.

(02:52:04):
She's really excited that these people asked her to join her
group, and she can. She's good at insight, so she
can read that they don't want this person to join.
So she looks over at him and with this kind of ambivalent
look on her face, she says, Oh no, no, we don't need any more

(02:52:30):
help. And then she looks back at the
girls and says, like, he doesn'tlook very smart anyway.
You say that, and the boy kind of like, looks at you and like,
kind of like, questions you for a second, like, I thought you

(02:52:51):
had, you know, thought maybe youwere a friend, and then just
gives you this dejected look andsulks and walks away.
Then one of the girls starts talking right next to you.
I tried to save him. Tyrell's mother, his human
mother from her mysterious illness.

(02:53:17):
I looked everywhere in his memories, and there wasn't a
single thing that I could changeto keep her alive.
And then I found this memory, That boy right there, he's from
Callum Port, where Empiro's from.
He doesn't stay here long at theuniversity.
No, he doesn't really make it a full semester.

(02:53:39):
Then afterwards he goes and works as a sailor.
But if you're nice to him here, he stays and he becomes a
powerful healer. All you have to do is be nice to
him here, and everything changesfor him.
Now, I must admit, I don't know everything.

(02:54:04):
I can't see every story, but what I'll do is I'll stay here
and I'll work with him and you, and together we might be able to
find a cure for Ontero's mother before she dies.
And then you can go on your tripto the Cold Wood and you can
save River. Once she's done with the Bone

(02:54:25):
Guard, she helps Hugh set up hisown bakery, and he's happy.
And you can go on to do good things in the name of Seoul.
And I won't lie to you. You never accomplish anything
great, but you do help some people.
If you choose to do this, you won't remember any of this.

(02:54:48):
You'll live with the knowledge that you helped your friends
live happy lives instead of whatlies ahead of them.
Now I will leave all of your stories alone.
You have my word. OK all right, but this is the

(02:55:14):
ready who's talking to me and they like to fuck with stories,
and fucking with stories is whatcauses all these damn problems
in the 1st place. Namby is so, so ashamed of this
moment. This is her literal biggest
regret in her entire life. But fixing it creates an

(02:55:38):
alternate reality, and that's what gives the red Ooze power.
So she's really conflicted in this moment because she has
thought about this moment a ton.I mean, this is something that
she thinks about a lot, that shedidn't stand up for this person,

(02:55:58):
that she felt terrible about it.And all she wants is to go back
and make this kid feel accepted.But I think changing the story
isn't the right move and might ultimately be the selfish
action, which is maybe why the red ooze is presenting this

(02:56:23):
story to her in the first place.She just looks that this this
person speaking through the the who's speaking through this
person, this this popular personthat she knew that she didn't
even end up being friends with because they didn't actually
like her. They just wanted her to help

(02:56:45):
them get a good grade on an assignment.
And she says you can't use me. Then I will kill Hugh and I will
kill him, Tiro, and I will leaveyou alive to tell the story.
And then I will change that story and I will kill them again

(02:57:09):
and again and again in 100 different ways, each time
leaving you alive with the memory of this moment where you
could have given them a happy life.
Is that what you want Namby? No, I don't want them to die.
But I'm not going to give you what you want right here, right

(02:57:32):
now. I can't do that.
You'll just get more power. And you are awake, laying in the
ground, and you will be taking now.
Hold on, it promised to leave her alive.
So I mean, we keep it's word as it's bond, Kyle.
I have 7. Hit points.
If she agreed. I have 6 times HP.

(02:57:55):
She kind of did this damage after it was alive.
It didn't know. You know, 53 points of psychic
damage is what you just do, Yeah.
Well, I am unconscious. Hugh, it you are up, it looks to
have all of its attention towardNamby at this point on the
ground and it's postures, pluralI suppose, sort of relax,

(02:58:22):
seemingly going to accept any next hit that it takes.
You takes a few breaths, but it's OK because I don't also
need any of my bonus action for any of my attacks.
So I'm going to take all three attacks, and then I'm going to

(02:58:44):
feed my friend the healing potion that's on her body, OK?
You take your three attacks, that's going to be enough damage
to kill the Oblix. How would you like to do it?
I I think Hugh loses it and he'sthinks about the Oblix taunting

(02:59:08):
him, about how he's acted and ashamed of his mom and only
tried to be so much like his dad.
And then he went after Namby andM Tiro and he just bares his
fangs and starts swinging madly,just trying to part it almost so

(02:59:29):
that he can get to Namby faster and is just manically decimating
it, scattering it across the ground.
You, you decimate it, the simulacrums in between you and
and NAMB and you get to NAMB andyou feed her that bonus PO that,
that potion of healing with thatbonus action, she wakes up the

(02:59:51):
Oblex. This ooze retracts and it
retracts. All these simulacrums are are,
you know, from what's left of them.
They're scattered, ooze around, retract, retract up into the
Prius, and then the Prius kind of turns into this.
Ooze and dissolves around it andon the seat, Resting on the seat

(03:00:13):
is the body of L10 and the ooze retracts into a slot on the
front of L10's body and kind of falls out as a card that was
there and the Oblix Withers away.
The Oblix dies. You see L10 wake up and just

(03:00:37):
hear this voice. Oh, where am I?
Curious, where is Alice in the Hachi thing?
Because I think that's the last thing that I would maybe
remember. Or do I have memories?
I'm sending you something right now, Scott.
That's. Important.
Or what's happening? Oh, where am I?

(03:00:58):
Oh fuck, Bell tense here. You're getting some goddamn
healing Namby, let me tell you. Namby doesn't want to come up.
Namby wants to lay unconscious forever.
Kyle gave you the meanest one ofall, man.
Elton. OK, this Should I read the
message out or am I just going to internalize this?

(03:01:19):
I guess he'd sit up anything. It worked.
It worked. My message was received.
You you were able to destroy. Hey, Hachi.
I'm unconscious. You're up now.
You had your healing. Potion.
Well. Oh, did I?
Oh, OK. What was it?
What amount? What it is it like?

(03:01:40):
Is it 2 D 4 + 2? Is that what it is?
A? Healing.
I think so, yeah. Yeah, yeah, I I think he's, he's
he's taken care of. But what message did you send?
Oh, I sent the prophecy of you, Hugh Genhart.
That was that was you. With me, you did.

(03:02:04):
You performed amazingly. I'm assuming he could like see
what was happening even while hewas under control.
Elton, Elton had some semblance of perception of what was going
on while basically in full control.
Yeah, he. He couldn't control anything,
but he could tell what was happening.
But using the spell Sending had been able to send a few

(03:02:27):
prophecies, one about El Salvador and then another when
he learned of Hehachi's plan to leave the system.
How did you? No, I didn't.
Mean unlimited capacity shared with the with the artificial

(03:02:49):
intelligence of Hehachi and the Bobblex, I assume.
I think L10 would understand that through Hihachi and the
Oblx, there was some notion of understanding how stories were
going to play out. What did I say?
And through the ability that theOblx had touched the reality

(03:03:10):
stone, sort of how the bartendercould kind of see things, L10
was able to Leech off that a little bit.
OK. Yeah, Alton's going to go over
to them though, while he's talking this and he's just going
to casually cast a fourth level Cure Wounds onto Namby.
Like while he's talking just hismuseum apparatus just fires up
and he reaches down because I rolled him two portend

(03:03:32):
Divination D 20s and he rolled A19 on one so he can't fail his
and you get 20 HP back. Hey.
Namby in your pocket, you hear some beeping, and you pull out
the device that you remember as the hologram device that you had

(03:03:56):
used to speak with William Oh, all the way back in those caves.
Yeah, but he said he was like, better whatever.
It's beeping, but Wick isn't. Wick's not OK.
I take it out and I like activate it.
You activate it and a hologram of a thricreen pops up and it's

(03:04:19):
really tall and so you can put on the ground so he's the same
height. Hello, Hi, hello.
Something seems different. Did you guys?
Did you did you do it? With the aid of our amazing
companions, we were able to yes to destroy the Rockets and

(03:04:39):
together overcome the Diablex. And they freed me.
You killed the Oblx the the the two parts of the Oblx that were
left. Two parts.
Was it bigger? Did it seem stronger than it had
been before, when you'd only fought one of them?
No, we are also stronger since we fought 1, so it's very

(03:05:01):
difficult for me to make that a sense.
We don't. Know.
Yes, it does seem that way. Yes, it did.
It did. Wow, oh wow.
You did it. You.
Don't. Go hooks.
Help me. The plan is actually working.
It's actually working. OK.
I need you all to come to me andwe will fill you in on

(03:05:21):
everything. So she'll be arriving to bring
you here in just a few moments, probably 3/2.
One and then close by a portal opens on the ground.
It opens with this like trail offire.
Could you look? And there's a hole that forms
and it just looks like fire beneath.

(03:05:42):
And this hand like reaches up and this old tiefling woman
climbs out with a cigarette in her mouth.
Beatrice. And she walks out and she kind
of like steps up and. Ello you three, I'm sorry to be
the one that has to tell you this, but you're all going to

(03:06:05):
hell. And that is where we're gonna
end this chapter of Expedition Untold.
Thank you to all the players. Thank you to all of our
Cyberpunk crowning AI achievement players, Bath,
Landy, and Kitty. Thank you Scott, Brooke and
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