Timothy (DM)  
Welcome to Shadows of Prophecy, a D&D real play podcast. Found the ill omen DWeb of lives whispered by the void. Their names repeated in the darkness. Shadows of Prophecy is a Dungeons And Dragons podcast with violent themes And adult language. Listener discretion is advised. With us today to traverse through Adventures of tea time And Alice in Well, certainly not Wonderland. This places fact. We have myself Timothy as our ambivalent keeper of cats.

Speaker 2  
I'm Danna, I will be playing the human mostly And a little bit elf scholar And Rogue And tantalizing tendril taker Ren Cuz I stole the tentacle from the you get it? Yeah,

Timothy (DM)  
we got it. We got it.

Unknown Speaker  
I appreciate the explanation.

Chris (Sal S)  
I'm Chris I'm playing tiefling cleric who's a pink cute dude in queue to interview Vladlan Purdue Salvador Saltrose.

Speaker 4  
Russell, filling the half work for free. And Just like my brain is hers is Just a swarm of bees, all of them with ADHD.

Speaker 5  
And I am Kendrick And I'm playing the half elf Warlock Yonce Bey whose zodiac sign is Aries with the rising moon of Leo. And something something cancer. Thank you.

Timothy (DM)  
Wonderful everyone. Last time on Shadows of Prophecy. We made our way into the belly of the beast. The tangled sinew spun tunnels of pestilent parasite pets, carefully Upri blazed our way forward before encountering more demonstrations of What is to come of our heroic alien populace, now equipped with Siamak beans, But the true horror was their mother. The battle quickly became dire as the beast overwhelmed our party, charming Upri And demolishing hitpoints. But a fancy fancy trick of our resident physician rendered its healing ability mood socket, And a clever trick by Yonsei freed Upri of her enthralling grasp.

Unknown Speaker  
What did I do?

Timothy (DM)  
Slaying the queen with a goopy head But they saved Vladlan But also Alice, who now greets them This morning with an offer of tea. Join us as we enter the Shadows of Prophecy. Act One in the shadows. Chapter 13. Broken Glass get ready for a finale baby.

Upri Would you like some tea?

Speaker 4  
What? Sure el Well, What kinds do you have? Also, was it on you when you were stuck to That wall? Then about pay us

Timothy (DM)  
And new Akela showed me where it was.

Unknown Speaker  
Oh wonderful. I trust they

Timothy (DM)  
I am afraid It's only green tea.

Unknown Speaker  
Oh, I Love some green tea actually.

Timothy (DM)  
Hi move. Black tea person myself, But you have to do the

Unknown Speaker  
hard strong personality kind of gives That away

Timothy (DM)  
he's a charmer. Upri Should I wake your compatriots?

Speaker 4  
Yeah, let's go rouse them I'm Sure. At least yawn would like some green tea.

Timothy (DM)  
She walks over to Yonsei And shakes Yonce's shoulder

Unknown Speaker  
Who the Fuck are you

Timothy (DM)  
Oh, I'm Alice Brooke. You rescued me last evening from the monsters lair

Kendrick (Yonce)  
I didn't notice say without all the yucky stuff on your face.

Timothy (DM)  
Yes, I think for the a killer has quite the setup back here And I was able to clean up

Kendrick (Yonce)  
Just in the future Don't wake me up like That. I could have I could have Spanish you to another dimension. Don't do That.

Timothy (DM)  
No did um, for the other two. Are there any special precautions?

Speaker 4  
You know What I haven't known them long enough. So Nothing like the present to learn

Timothy (DM)  
All Right. So Alice is going to go over to Wren Salvador.

Unknown Speaker  
Oh Wait, Wren might have enough you know why Don't why Wait all Right oh god oh It's

Timothy (DM)  
really early we should probably be quiet they Don't We Don't want them know where we are. What we Can hiding? Yeah, we're striding.

Unknown Speaker  
I mean, there we fighting something they might not even need to

Timothy (DM)  
do. But Pleasure to meet you too. Three

Speaker 2  
red has sat up And is like has their arms like like his hand like he's holding a sword And is like, kind of like flailing around being like I heard I heard the battle cry. And I guess we're Okay. What Well, hi, good morning.

Timothy (DM)  
Okay is a strong term for it. But we are here And we're still alive.

Chris (Sal S)  
So we Can hope for I guess in This terrible town

Speaker 4  
ran you get a PLOS sow. We're gonna need to work on your instinctual getting up And stay haven't.

Chris (Sal S)  
Yeah, I yeah, I tend not to want to stab folks

Timothy (DM)  
keeping the circumstances. You're not wrong. Upri

Unknown Speaker  
Oh, Al.

Timothy (DM)  
I myself. I'm quite alert nowadays. It's been so long since I've seen you. What have you been up to?

Unknown Speaker  
Oh, no, It's kind of a long story.

Timothy (DM)  
I'm Sure it is. Been long story for me, as Well. Yeah.

Chris (Sal S)  
What's the last thing That you remember? Were you in Harrow? Or did you Just wake up here?

Timothy (DM)  
Oh, Yes. I've been in here for a while now.

Chris (Sal S)  
Interesting. Because we found a note of yours in the library That said That you'd be in the Pelican mountains?

Timothy (DM)  
Why Yes, I did spend some time in the Pelican mountains. It unfortunately did not turn up What I had hoped to find. And therefore I figured I would try my hand at the Vael again, hopefully they had more answers than the divulged previously. Did they? When I haven't made it in yet. Oh, I've Just arrived actually. Yesterday morning. Just in time a guess?

Chris (Sal S)  
For the party. Yeah, Yes.

Timothy (DM)  
Well, What brings you all to hair? Harrow?

Unknown Speaker  
You're Don't look at me like That. Yeah, interesting.

Timothy (DM)  
Crew. @shadows_of_prophecy. Have you hired Upri for some service?

Kendrick (Yonce)  
I'm still trying to figure out what's going on here. As I continue to look at Upri

Unknown Speaker  
she Just starts whistling

Timothy (DM)  
Well, Upri And I knew each other from years back. Oh, my goodness. It's been like, almost a decade now.

Unknown Speaker  
Yeah, That was a long time ago.

Timothy (DM)  
Wow. You really grown up? much taller, more muscular for Sure.

Unknown Speaker  
I will start off flex a little.

Timothy (DM)  
I had hired her for a job. I was tracking a certain temple. I am a historian by trade.

Unknown Speaker  
Interesting.

Chris (Sal S)  
Yes. Well, as a matter of fact, at least Ron And I were here in pursuit of Vladlan Purdue But also you by way of your notes That you left around And Valaria Oh,

Timothy (DM)  
man. Flat Vladlan should be easy enough to talk to now That you've saved his life And all.

Speaker 1  
You look around the room And you Don't see Vladlan You also Don't see Bran Akela is still there. She is sleeping. And the here is with you Salvador.

Chris (Sal S)  
Yeah. Hey, welcome. Yeah, Okay.

Unknown Speaker  
The AMA gills it sounds Leeper

Timothy (DM)  
she was up all night. Tending to wrestle. Oh, I have heard to think for my speedy recovery. You are aware That she's a cleric, Right. Oh, no, I had no idea. Oh, Yes. Of Volupte. Yeah,

Unknown Speaker  
our sounds very voluptuous.

Timothy (DM)  
I do you suppose That is where her namesake comes from. In fact, She's The Goddess of Love And pleasure. Oh, she teaches That we are all here. To experience This grand life That we all have share. But enough of my mindless babbling. I am a historian, of course. But Yes. Why are you Looking for Vladlan? Might I ask?

Chris (Sal S)  
We've had a series of eerie supernatural encounters That we're trying to figure out And they all revolve around This icon And I pull out the medallion That I have That has a i with the three lines on it.

Timothy (DM)  
Oh, into interesting. This is the symbol of the Vael. How did you come across This?

Chris (Sal S)  
It was given to me in a prison by a friend. A very close friend. And brand new got it. You have a picture?

Speaker 2  
i Oh, yeah. I'm someone That I knew from the war. Had one. And so That's What drew me to valerian, where we found your notes And journals in the castle And Which led us here.

Chris (Sal S)  
Oh, we found This big old airport, the box with the prophecy in it. Oh, yeah. The prophecy.

Timothy (DM)  
Oh, dear. You found This in the castle.

Kendrick (Yonce)  
Even carrying That the whole time And didn't think to show us? I think they did once yawn. Oh, That may have been so many days slash episodes ago.

Unknown Speaker  
That was like last year.

Unknown Speaker  
It was like three days ago, But It's been a long

Unknown Speaker  
feels like a year. A year

Timothy (DM)  
day for me Just when? Wow, I can't believe I missed This when I was there. good sleuthing, you too.

Chris (Sal S)  
You didn't happen to run into any talking doors Did you

Timothy (DM)  
can't say That I did. After my time holed up in the throne room. I spent most of the rest of my experience there in the library. chose not to go down into the basement after What I learned. Figured it was more trouble than it was worth

Speaker 2  
Can confirm. was more trouble than it was worth.

Timothy (DM)  
Oh, Okay. But also

Chris (Sal S)  
on the plus side, That whole problem is fixed. The town's no longer trapped in a time loop. Oh, really? That's

Timothy (DM)  
Great news. Wow, This is an impressive crew you've put together Upri?

Speaker 4  
You know, I Just have such a keen eye for good people.

Timothy (DM)  
Well, I think I could probably use then, Which I guess is also helping myself. I was also on my way to the Vael And would Love to tag along.

Chris (Sal S)  
Is it still in operation? I know the whole order is cracking down on.

Timothy (DM)  
Oh, of course. They're very, very good at hiding. Plus the quite a track out of the city.

Chris (Sal S)  
Oh, Gotcha.

Speaker 2  
What is the status of the city? Since we've killed the queen? Well,

Timothy (DM)  
not entirely Sure. But from What I Can tell It's not good. And those monsters are still roaming around And it appears That even though you did kill the queen, the hive has not died off. It's Just rebuild.

Speaker 4  
Will they anything like bees, they probably have a way of making another queen.

Chris (Sal S)  
I guess That's true. Yeah.

Timothy (DM)  
That does seem to be how they behave. So I would not. Yes. Well, best not to dwell on it. Did you do want tea?

Chris (Sal S)  
Sure. I'm a fan of green tea.

Speaker 2  
I will take a tea. We should get going though. I think post haste. That's What people say. And find Vlad Vladlan?

Timothy (DM)  
Yes, we could probably follow his tracks. He has special routes out of the city. I suspect That those are where he's taken.

Unknown Speaker  
He Just left without saying Thank you.

Unknown Speaker  
Yeah, What a Fuck face.

Unknown Speaker  
We also need to talk to him. A killer

Timothy (DM)  
says That he was adamant to get back to the Vael hoping That they had some sort of resources That they could use to quell This invasion. They're quite powerful. So I suspect That That is something they could do.

Chris (Sal S)  
What Exactly is like, we know That the Vael is purportedly monastery, But are they also spellcasters? Are they cultists?

Unknown Speaker  
What do they do? What's their mission?

Timothy (DM)  
spell casting to them is like throwing jello at a tree And then trying to jab it with a nail? Or is That how the phrase goes really nailing jello to a tree? That's the phrase

Unknown Speaker  
real gel? For them.

Timothy (DM)  
Simple spell casting is a channeling of chaos. But What they seek to do is a bit more precise. And with broader impact.

Chris (Sal S)  
Thanks for clarifying. Yeah,

Unknown Speaker  
That was very helpful.

Unknown Speaker  
I Don't understand What You're saying.

Timothy (DM)  
That's all Right. It's very complicated, like a special form. probably not something anybody here is accustomed to. Although you did come across it in the castle.

Chris (Sal S)  
In regards to the abominations That we found,

Timothy (DM)  
Yes, That type of ceremonial magic. It's, It's very different from What is common in these lands? Did you not notice it?

Chris (Sal S)  
It was definitely frightening. And more of like a, like a cookbook, there was a lot of things we had to gather.

Timothy (DM)  
Yes. For my understanding the cookbook component is like the key the coordinates. The actual magic, however, comes from elsewhere. Think of it like folding a piece of paper. After you done so you've completely changed the shape. What You're probably accustomed to giving your cleric status. Salvador is more like following strings, And Just guiding them in the direction. It doesn't have any impact on the overall shape of things. We're talking reality bending magics. Here. I hope You're aware.

Chris (Sal S)  
Yeah, these things are definitely unconceivable. So

Speaker 2  
What is their goal? So Sure they Can, you know, bring weird brain monsters into This world. But What do they want? Did they do This didn't seem like it if Vladlan was headed back there to see if he could solve it.

Timothy (DM)  
to be entirely honest, I'm not Sure. They were quite cloistered And protective of their objectives while I was staying with them. And I must admit, I've realized by now That my time there. Well, I Don't remember it all. It seems That something was taken. And That's why I'm so keen on going back. What knowledge could I have learned That they refuse to let me leave with it?

Chris (Sal S)  
Yeah, I know That you said in your journal That journaling was the only way to keep track of things. So

Timothy (DM)  
Yes. I didn't even have That when I was in there. confiscated all of my possessions.

Speaker 2  
While Shall we head there, if Akila or if we know the way. See what's stopping us?

Timothy (DM)  
I suppose so. Akela gave me a map of the routes That Vladlan would take. Much of it is underground, Which is hopefully beneficial for us. Unless It's been overrun. like the other tunnels here. You Can only hope.

Chris (Sal S)  
Well, I think the five of us are more than capable of traveling underground.

Timothy (DM)  
I do believe you serve And she turns to the here. You might be best suited staying here with a killer Just from the looks of your Yes. Yeah, I mean, I was Just supposed to do Hang tight here will aid be sent. I Don't want to be trapped down here And

Chris (Sal S)  
I think if anything, Okay, it was probably the most suited for figuring out how to get things or how to go places. So fare better to stick close to her before you head out again. And I Don't I Don't know This town could rebuild.

Timothy (DM)  
Ah, Well I suppose You're Right. But it will be very sad Just to see go Salvador please Don't forget me.

Chris (Sal S)  
Oh, I Don't I Don't think that'd be possible.

Timothy (DM)  
And he leans in for a kiss. Oh,

Chris (Sal S)  
yeah. It's a oh my god, blue here, But It's a very Nice because, Yes.

Unknown Speaker  
Something's blue

Timothy (DM)  
after giving a little kiss, he grabs your hand And gives a little squeeze And then lets you go. As you turn around, you see That Alice is waiting by a newly revealed door from behind a dresser. When in we go. It looks clear from This side. Ollie. Alright, after you. And you step into a dark tunnel.

Kendrick (Yonce)  
Way before we go. So we're not going to have green tea.

Timothy (DM)  
Oh, I assume You're all drinking tea. We'll get conversation to viewing. Oh, Okay.

Chris (Sal S)  
Here's a chat And

Timothy (DM)  
say Hello chat And said she poured you out the And you chatted some tea without tea. If you would like to stay And finish your tea. You Can do so. But

Kendrick (Yonce)  
now I want to grab it. I want to go back And toss it in the air. Well,

Timothy (DM)  
do you catch it? Yes. like an ark? No, I throw the couple away. Oh, Gotcha. Yeah, Just crash to the ground. Yeah. All Right. crashes to the ground.

Unknown Speaker  
I mean, Akela was already a little.

Chris (Sal S)  
She's asleep. So she doesn't. Yeah, Sure. No, What?

Timothy (DM)  
And Upri steps into the dark tunnel.

Unknown Speaker  
Season Finale.

Speaker 4  
All Right, And I'll Just use the map And figure it out. Navigate?

Timothy (DM)  
Yeah. Are there any torches being That?

Unknown Speaker  
I mean, I'll always lead torch in the dark. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker  
I Don't need one. Neither do I did Okay.

Unknown Speaker  
All Right. Well, now we have one.

Timothy (DM)  
Yes. Alice also does not need one. She is elfin. And you step into the dark, the five of you now, Alice Right behind Upri. And she holds the map in order to guide you the Correct ways. And you make your way on for 20 minutes or so. Before you come to a section of the map, Which does require you to climb up through a manhole onto the street above.

Unknown Speaker  
I'll check to see if It's clear.

Timothy (DM)  
We should be near the wall. But we'll have to make our way through the warehouses.

Unknown Speaker  
What time of day is it?

Timothy (DM)  
It is early morning. So still Don't. Yeah. So there'll be it'll be a little dark. The sun hasn't fully risen yet.

Speaker 4  
All Right, climb up. And he's the main man cover Whoa, man cover hole. And What do I say do is a clue. When you peek

Speaker 1  
out onto the street. And you see, Otter, Carnage And waste laid the city. There is rubble. There are smoldering embers, there are bodies strewn across the streets. But as you look around, you Don't notice any movement.

Speaker 4  
Can I Just pause for a moment? Take a deep breath And hold it And then listen. All Right,

Timothy (DM)  
give me a perception check.

Unknown Speaker  
That's natural wound. All Right, six total.

Speaker 1  
You hear the sizzling of the embers nearby. From the building to your left That has collapsed. scorch marks And char are all That's left of it

Speaker 4  
goes clear And I'll throw the cover off And Hop up. All Right, your next No. hold my hand down to help her out

Timothy (DM)  
you lift her up out of the manhole

Speaker 4  
And then I want to like treat linger holding her wrist or hand whatever I use Just gonna stare at it for a moment.

Timothy (DM)  
She gives you a smile.

Unknown Speaker  
And I'm gonna move my head around.

Chris (Sal S)  
What's up?

Timothy (DM)  
Priya? Is everything Okay?

Speaker 4  
Yeah. Why do you ask? Oh, sorry.

Unknown Speaker  
I'll go next.

Speaker 1  
So one by one, you hoist your party members out of manhole onto the street. You all now see the carnage from the night before. There are so many dead bodies, And they are Just viscerally ripped apart. There is blood there are limbs torn from bodies thrown hanging in the rubble.

Unknown Speaker  
The him these things are ferocious

Timothy (DM)  
blood splattered across the streets. But most of What you hear Right now is the sizzling of a little pitter patter of rain, hitting the embers in the rubble.

Unknown Speaker  
That is Just going to really amplify the smell of someone who lives in a city RLS

Unknown Speaker  
Rennes pulled a handkerchief over

Chris (Sal S)  
his nose. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker  
Opera is Just like, oh, no, my to

Chris (Sal S)  
barely wear any clothing. Take a drink.

Unknown Speaker  
All Right. Where do you next? What warehouse?

Timothy (DM)  
Well, it looks like we have two blocks until we reach the wall. And then we'll have to zigzags through the warehouses

Unknown Speaker  
That are inside of the wall. Yes.

Timothy (DM)  
I'm long ago, Hero decided. I will save you the history lecture. Thank you. There are warehouses in the walls, residential as Well. But we will zigzag through there And make our way outside the city

Speaker 2  
built into the walls as we're walking or masking or built into the walls.

Timothy (DM)  
Yes, when they were defenses And when the defenses were no longer needed. They Just repurposed to

Chris (Sal S)  
interesting. Yeah, I guess good shade. It's already built. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker  
Yeah, totally. Are you have any weird dreams lately?

Timothy (DM)  
I always have we had dreams Upri. Particular

Speaker 4  
her eyes get merged. Oh, I Don't know. Anything with some strange weather events?

Timothy (DM)  
Well, That could mean lots of things. Tornado. Have you been having dreams with Which weather events? Maybe it could be an omen,

Unknown Speaker  
perhaps as a

Timothy (DM)  
bird, But What have you been the circumstances That seems to over to have passed?

Kendrick (Yonce)  
Yonsei looks @shadows_of_prophecy Upri What the Fuck are you doing?

Unknown Speaker  
Oh, I think It's Grunty. I'm Just Jay is. Alright, let's go.

Timothy (DM)  
And you make your way down to blocks towards the wall And I'm going to do a roll.

Unknown Speaker  
Oh, we Love That.

Unknown Speaker  
Do you think your cat's still alive?

Chris (Sal S)  
Fingers crossed?

Unknown Speaker  
I'm trying not to think about it. Yeah,

Unknown Speaker  
I think they are. Trial is pretty scrappy.

Chris (Sal S)  
Yeah. It's like how pets Can detect. Yeah, bad things before they happen. Yeah, he

Speaker 2  
was a street cat before I found him. So

Speaker 4  
we Don't know if they go after animals to either. I mean, That truce was very aggressive.

Speaker 2  
And to Navy was i She seemed very capable. So if anywhere we were to get make it out of the city.

Speaker 4  
I mean, she's the one That got us into the upper rain. Exactly.

Unknown Speaker  
So I wouldn't be surprised if she made it down.

Speaker 4  
Twilight Adam, what's her name is? And she definitely did not make it. not even like the spirits to guide her. Maybe? No, It's

Unknown Speaker  
hard to say the spirits to guide her to her death.

Timothy (DM)  
So you make your way into the first warehouse And Alice pushes herself up against the wall Right inside the door And stops you. overhearing your conversation. She turns to you And goes Ren is This somebody would like to retrieve?

Speaker 2  
I mean, Yes, I left my cat, Twilight @shadows_of_prophecy Today Bayes. I Don't know you probably Don't know who to know. It was an in What was the name of the end?

Chris (Sal S)  
I forget.

Unknown Speaker  
Oh, boo. Oh, the broken thing in a tavern?

Timothy (DM)  
That's not the white flask. Okay, no, the broken Fang, broken thing? I Don't think I stayed there

Unknown Speaker  
Is it far,

Unknown Speaker  
But on the other side of the city, I think Oh, the other side of the zoo.

Timothy (DM)  
When I do suppose That could potentially be easier for us to get out to the Vael. If we do head up That direction,

Unknown Speaker  
one across the entire city

Timothy (DM)  
fail if we stay along the outsides of the wall. We could make our way to the transportation depot, And they would get us out to the Vael faster. Otherwise, It's quite long walk. Oh, these are the five miles south of the city. And the trains? Transportation.

Unknown Speaker  
I mean, how do we know the trains are still intact?

Timothy (DM)  
That's a good point.

Speaker 4  
Are you still there? That's where people would have gone first. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker  
I've already That might be a hub of bad news.

Unknown Speaker  
Or there could be still people there.

Timothy (DM)  
We have to walk sound. Regardless,

Chris (Sal S)  
I could probably try to send a message to Twilight. Because I do have some What

Unknown Speaker  
is the What does That mean? Yeah, What do you mean send a message to a cat? I Don't know.

Speaker 4  
Oh, my God, because the spell would work. Yeah, you would talk to it, And then it could reply with me.

Chris (Sal S)  
So yeah, I could at least tell them escape the city. And I Don't know how good is your cat? Well, my cat doesn't speak. Common. It doesn't have to be Oh, What do you talk to your cat? And

Speaker 2  
I mean, I talked to my cat in common, But it doesn't mean it understands What I'm saying.

Chris (Sal S)  
Okay. Well, I Don't know. He's a cab. cleric spell That I Don't use very often, But I do have. But uh,

Unknown Speaker  
I mean, could you contact a neighbor?

Chris (Sal S)  
I couldn't contact it.

Speaker 5  
Let me contact the cat or the person in charge of the cat.

Chris (Sal S)  
That's That's why hold listen, I

Speaker 2  
hold Twilight in high regard. I Don't think I Don't think That he understands common speech

Unknown Speaker  
response will be like you

Chris (Sal S)  
how smart is your cat because it is a cat. So yeah, they're they're moderately there. They have a high intelligence higher than one. So they probably would understand the meaning of it. But I'll contact Tenebe Shit. This

Kendrick (Yonce)  
you really want to contact with cat.

Speaker 2  
I mean, you Can you Can go big or go home. You Can cast whatever spells you want. And if you could somehow get my cat back to me That would be greatly appreciated. Okay,

Chris (Sal S)  
I'm gonna pull out the copper wire That I have in my pocket. I'm gonna send a message to tonight he says

I'm gonna let Tenebe know That. US for Wren. So Upri And Yonce are alive.

Unknown Speaker  
I wasn't trying to word

Timothy (DM)  
What is the range on sending

Chris (Sal S)  
It's unlimited. Basically anything That's on This plane. You Just have to know the person Yeah, I It's a 25 word message with a creature I'm familiar with. It hears the message in his mind recognizes us me as the sender And Can answer immediately, in a like manner. And preachers That are more intelligent than one Can understand it. Oh, yeah. Remember? unlimited range? And I Can even send it across planes.

Speaker 2  
Wow, I didn't realize I was wrong. Have you been like chatting with your dad This whole time?

Chris (Sal S)  
Yeah. Whenever he's like, I need to have constant correspondences like yeah, I've been sending him

Unknown Speaker  
does he respond with either didn't send a sending yesterday

Timothy (DM)  
This invitation to your brother's wedding? Making Sure you saw This message if

Chris (Sal S)  
there's a council meeting. I had a Great there's a Great deal on coupon.

Unknown Speaker  
Discount discounts. Coupons via sending?

Chris (Sal S)  
Yeah, let me let me count the words. Tonight. It's us for our safe. Wren. So Yonce I'm not

Timothy (DM)  
gonna make you count the words Which is dope.

Chris (Sal S)  
If you And Twilight are Okay, let us know. And possibly send the cat to

Timothy (DM)  
Okay, so I Can respond But also has to be short like That.

Chris (Sal S)  
There's not a limit But I imagine it'd be short.

Kendrick (Yonce)  
I like how you said send the cat But you Fuck you to neighbor.

Chris (Sal S)  
Why Don't you want to leave town? That's true.

Timothy (DM)  
Do not remember to Nabis voice said This This is gonna be Salvador Salvador You're still alive. Shut up Do not be fucking in feces. You're tired. Your your poor brain you still live I'm here with Twilight rich now.

Chris (Sal S)  
Are you at? I can't answer back.

Timothy (DM)  
Can you use sending again?

Chris (Sal S)  
I can't. It's a third level spell slot. So hopefully we Don't run into anything burning your spells? Yes,

Unknown Speaker  
a task about my cat.

Chris (Sal S)  
I need another quarter. Give me another quarter. Where are you at? Still at the end. We are in the Warrens or the east side of town. Tell her where we're go. We're going to the Vael the monastery. Okay.

Speaker 2  
That's not a place That she would know. to tell her. We're

Unknown Speaker  
coming to her.

Unknown Speaker  
Oh, we're coming to something outside of the city.

Chris (Sal S)  
Yeah, Maybe there's a place. Yeah, I put up the receiver to run And let him run.

Speaker 2  
Just dictate What I'm saying. Yeah, You're going to the south side of the outside of the wall. If you could meet us there. That would be Great.

Timothy (DM)  
That's wonderful. A couple of our survivors have set up a camp outside the wall. We've kept the gates bod. Oh,

Speaker 2  
That's good news work. So to the camp. Hey, Sal,

Unknown Speaker  
come here. Sick.

Chris (Sal S)  
Okay, yeah, go over a punch in the arm. good job. Oh,

Speaker 4  
you get back up to a level to spell slot. Doesn't help. But I tried.

Chris (Sal S)  
Thank you. I appreciate it.

Unknown Speaker  
If it was a five, it'd be a level three.

Timothy (DM)  
Yeah, I'm absolutely Okay with using That as like a point by system. So It's like up to two. So if later on, you Can stockpile those for like 2211

Unknown Speaker  
And the languages once per day. Oh, god. Yeah. Once

Timothy (DM)  
per day. So you've stockpiled two points That you Can use for twos first level spells or a second level spell. Cool. After you've burned one later, you

Unknown Speaker  
know, Arcane sore like

Chris (Sal S)  
overcharge. Yeah, like a hot battery. Now,

Unknown Speaker  
What happens if you do it to me? Do I Just get spells? No,

Unknown Speaker  
you Just get one d3 on ability check. Oh?

Timothy (DM)  
Yeah. Oh, Nice. very Nice. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker  
But could you give me spells?

Speaker 4  
I Don't know. I mean, I could try holding you while I rage And see What happens.

Chris (Sal S)  
Yeah, you Just whack rent with friends, like get mad?

Timothy (DM)  
Well, That's Great news. We Can find your pet trade aid And meet up with This Tenebe person And hopefully see What the state of their survivors are. If they've set up camp outside, they may have some resources for us to use

Unknown Speaker  
for transportation. That's true.

Unknown Speaker  
And horses And such.

Speaker 4  
So we're leaving And circumnavigating the city outside the wall.

Speaker 2  
I think That's the best I Don't think traveling through the city is going to be the safest option. Seems like it seems like the survivors have like boxed in the creatures into the city. So seemed at least based on What she said the outside of the city seems like the safer bet. All Right.

Timothy (DM)  
So Can you all give me a stealth check? No.

Unknown Speaker  
Just in case anybody forgot at home? Oh, even

Unknown Speaker  
for whatever reason 14 also 1403

Unknown Speaker  
Well, Thank after wanting to Yes.

Timothy (DM)  
Alright, so as You're all talking in a room Sure. laughs You hear the sound of bare feet. Hitting concrete.

Unknown Speaker  
Bow is immediately drawn. A noop

Unknown Speaker  
sheet definitely survived. Yeah,

Unknown Speaker  
she's still my closet. Yeah.

Timothy (DM)  
All Right. So you draw your bone

Are you all ready for whatever is to come through That door

Speaker 1  
And you hear the footsteps approaching closer And closer And closer. And then the door is bashed open. Everybody roll initiative.

Unknown Speaker  
I was hoping it was like a survivor.

Chris (Sal S)  
I was hoping it was like a small child turns into a hawk.

Unknown Speaker  
I got a 22

Timothy (DM)  
for

Unknown Speaker  
15

Unknown Speaker  
not me reading my bow And then going last.

Speaker 4  
Maybe you go first And I'm Just like, hits the ground running you. Oh no, I have to get another arrow. Salvador 19

Unknown Speaker  
The burst scares me to shoot up in blue sky.

Speaker 1  
Alright, so is it bursts through the door, you see its purplish face And its tendrils hanging down from its Markie. And they flail out shaking And sending them selves towards you, it begins to dart at you all Yonce's first to act.

Speaker 5  
So What I'm going to do is I am going to hold out my fist And kiss the ring of the ram And then pointed at the monster And where does it nine hit?

Timothy (DM)  
Nine does not

Kendrick (Yonce)  
so the spectrum of a ram runs And then find some grass to eat. Yeah,

Speaker 1  
so you Just shoot out the RAM And it Just like fizzles before it hits This creature. So it is going to charge at you when it gets about 50 feet away because you are in a big warehouse room. So it gets about 50 feet away And it shoots his tendrils at you all It's gonna make for a tank so I'm going to do That on each of you What

Unknown Speaker  
why not Alice? Yeah,

Timothy (DM)  
the first attack you notice Alice is using all of you as cover like she's kind of crouched trying to stay out of sight of This creature a little bitch

Unknown Speaker  
listen like a smart MBC

Timothy (DM)  
A 14 does not hit Upri A 26 does hit young say though

Unknown Speaker  
That's pathetic.

Timothy (DM)  
So Yonsei you are going to feel This temporal wrap around your body pulling you towards That ran a 25 hits you so ran as Well as grounded by the ankle And pulled off his feet prone. And a 26 is Salvador. Oh my gosh, What baying to start off with damn Y'all not

Speaker 1  
more know everybody except for Upri And Alice are now grappled by these tendrils as they begin to be pulled towards This creature. Salvador. What do you do?

Chris (Sal S)  
I'm gonna do Sacred Flame.

Timothy (DM)  
Alright, are you doing it at the creature on the tendril on the tangible All Right, give me an attack roll.

Chris (Sal S)  
dexterity saving throw

Timothy (DM)  
dexterity saving throw. Does a seven pass? No. All Right, so it fails And takes the damage. roll those babies.

Chris (Sal S)  
That's a total of 12 points of flame damage. 12

Timothy (DM)  
points of flame damage is enough to shrivel That tendril. It snaps off And lets go have Salvatore Upri

Unknown Speaker  
How you grabbed This yarn And I'm gonna run It's 50 feet away.

Timothy (DM)  
Yeah, take the heat away.

Unknown Speaker  
I'm gonna run 40 feet to be within 10 feet of it. All Right, And I'm going to whip up my trusty axe give it a spin

Unknown Speaker  
trusty is not the word

Speaker 4  
And I'm going to reckless attack And throw it with my threads sorry with advantage

Timothy (DM)  
me get attack roll And What the Fuck does That axe do This time?

Unknown Speaker  
All Right is 26 a hit?

Timothy (DM)  
26 We'll hit

Unknown Speaker  
Oh, But before I rage I get the

Timothy (DM)  
roll for your rage roll for your

Speaker 4  
sounds so much chaos magic to is Oh Shit. I teleport next to it.

Timothy (DM)  
All Right, so you teleport next to it. And now now? Yeah, within five feet

Unknown Speaker  
Perfect.

Timothy (DM)  
26 We'll hear I'll use That 2x

Speaker 4  
Seven slash And damn And pay seven Yeah 60 I Don't think That's a good one. I think This might be the rhinoceros again.

Unknown Speaker  
How big is This table?

Speaker 4  
No, This is the fucking grass. Oh really? Bunch of grass grows around me now within 15 feet of me is difficult terrain.

Timothy (DM)  
This thing does not give a Shit about

Unknown Speaker  
a second hit with a Perfect That's like a 10

Timothy (DM)  
I tend to not do it. That will see you miss your second attack after zip anon over making some grass

Unknown Speaker  
walks away slightly

Unknown Speaker  
slower because the grass is really springing

Timothy (DM)  
This thing has spider climb with its tendrils, so Maybe it hasn't

ran What do you do it?

Speaker 2  
Um, so I do have a question really quick. So as part of my Melde form ability, Yes, I get advantage on creatures That I have previously used meld form on And technically you sit on like, Queen Mother.

Timothy (DM)  
You didn't use it on Queen Mother.

Speaker 2  
Does That translate to the little bitty guys? Yeah, so I say does Yes. Then I'm going to slice at This tempo with my artists same

Timothy (DM)  
species Just as different stages of its lifecycle.

Speaker 2  
Gotcha. Cool. Who then I will roll with advantage. The tentacle as I'm being pulled, so I'm going to take on my sword And slash at it. All Right, the tendril Oh, That was a 19 And a nat 1. So I'll take the 19 making it. What are numbers 26 to hit?

Timothy (DM)  
Well, numbers you see are these sort of shapes we give to constant values

Speaker 2  
to actually the 28 to 28? Well, Sure.

Timothy (DM)  
Yeah, I'm Sure all Right, so

Speaker 2  
sorry. I've enrolled a bunch of dice now. Oh, when I use my bonus action to critically analyze it all Right. If you Can Right kind of rage Alright, calm And oh, Wait.

Timothy (DM)  
They're doing What they're doing. I'm gonna let you do That if you forget to say it. So easy to forget these things. Yes.

Speaker 2  
hold on. Sorry, I have to pull out a bunch of dice. So make Sure That's very kind of Well known says sneak attack

Timothy (DM)  
is the same as if I give you clarifying information That changes the decision like I Don't care. So a

Speaker 2  
lot of ones I Just rolled so That is see 911 plus nine is 20 piercing damage And one necrotic damage all Right. Store That one two.

Timothy (DM)  
So you see That arrow fly And you It's a sword?

Unknown Speaker  
I'm cutting it. Oh,

Timothy (DM)  
You're cutting the potential kendrell Sorry, you had an arrow drawn And put it away. T's attend drop or your

Unknown Speaker  
pull off my feet I imagined it like John

Speaker 1  
see you Just chop straight through That And you you see That it like the force of your sword sends This like rippling vibration up the 10 roll And it snaps in three places. very anime style

Timothy (DM)  
All Right Yonsei

Speaker 2  
Well, I was going to use my movement to stand up And get closer to it. All Right, so I'm like there

Timothy (DM)  
were 30 feet away. Cool Yonsei here up

Kendrick (Yonce)  
eldritch blast time since my ringer the RAM sucks. All Right.

Speaker 5  
Oh does a nine plus eight is 17 Does it 2018

Timothy (DM)  
A 20 What

Unknown Speaker  
I have a 27 And a 17

Timothy (DM)  
both of those will hit Yes.

Unknown Speaker  
Yay me. So six plus seven. So bonus exit before

Timothy (DM)  
you ever bonus hacks wink wink

Speaker 5  
Oh yeah, I hacks it my red glasses shooting my eyes turn purple I'm like oh shoot I forgot to ask so I Just when I went back sat them you wink a hex so It's going to be I lost my number it was Yonsei

Timothy (DM)  
Oh ALLAH long

Speaker 5  
Well, Lord Jesus, I mean your Lord Philippians whatever. Say the last 21 plus 21 plus Where is oh my god there's so many words here.

Kendrick (Yonce)  
So That's 23 damage

Timothy (DM)  
23 damage as you pull us

Kendrick (Yonce)  
the maddening hex That goes along with it.

Speaker 1  
Which does for psychic damage for psychic damage Okay. So as you hex it And send both of your eldritch blasts humbling towards it, they Just in packed with such force you see That It's jumbles And its face like in prints. And you see the like, goopy ooze Just like spray out of these like side gills type formations. And it Just goop sprays out across the room.

Unknown Speaker  
Am I out of my grapple?

Timothy (DM)  
No because you didn't target the tentacle

Unknown Speaker  
Well I thought That was What I was doing.

Timothy (DM)  
Oh, if you want to target the tentacle, it will be a disadvantage.

Unknown Speaker  
Oh no, I won't I mean You're

Speaker 1  
Fine creature is now going to pull you in I'm Just gonna answer are real towards That 25 feet. And then you feel your skin begin to burn. Can you make a constitution saving throw?

Speaker 4  
Never listen to me. I get bad advice.

Speaker 5  
Constitution Alright, That's Fine. Oh, no, It's not It's a five.

Timothy (DM)  
All Right, so you are going to become poisoned for one minute until the poison ends you are paralyzed. You Can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of your turns.

Unknown Speaker  
Can I do hellish desert damage me?

Timothy (DM)  
You are paralyzed? No. You cannot hellish rebuke it.

Kendrick (Yonce)  
I have not lost hitpoints But I have can't do she-she

Timothy (DM)  
What it is also going to do is use it cyanic blast on you. So as you are paralyzed. It has an advantage. hellish rebuke? No.

All Right. A 12 does not hit plus seven is 919. We'll hit And That is going to be four to 10 plus three.

Unknown Speaker  
I knew That I was trying to kill me.

Chris (Sal S)  
It could sense That you've been unscathed.

Unknown Speaker  
This is why we Don't talk the DM

Timothy (DM)  
What is 18 plus 1634 Now 34 plus three. Oh my god. Seven psychic damage.

Unknown Speaker  
So much damage.

Timothy (DM)  
All Right, Salvador.

Chris (Sal S)  
So is there anybody in within five feet of the body of This thing? Currently? Yonce's Just Oh, You're? Yeah. How good are your dexterity?

Unknown Speaker  
advantage on things I Can see.

Chris (Sal S)  
Okay, good. Since the fireball the rain is still coming down. It's still cloudy day. So I was gonna cast a level for call lightning.

Unknown Speaker  
Are we in a warehouse?

Chris (Sal S)  
Oh, are we in a warehouse?

Timothy (DM)  
Can you call lightning through And go

Unknown Speaker  
horizontal?

Chris (Sal S)  
I have to. But yeah. Oh man. That's a bummer. I Can only call it when I'm outdoors.

Timothy (DM)  
Sorry. Yeah, You're in warehouse.

Unknown Speaker  
Is it an old crinkly warehouse That has holes in the

Timothy (DM)  
first floor of a giant defensive tower That has been repurposed into warehouses.

Unknown Speaker  
You could have Just said no.

Chris (Sal S)  
Anyway, Well, now I have to rethink it.

Kendrick (Yonce)  
You tell the tentacle monitor skip me. I'll come back.

Timothy (DM)  
Yeah. My action And so you Can hold an action.

Chris (Sal S)  
You And me take we're taking This outside. Yeah, I'll hold it until after registering so I Can figure out What to do. Okay, I'll break out.

Unknown Speaker  
I'm gonna reckless attack with a firm That is 23 to hit

Timothy (DM)  
23 will hit for

Speaker 4  
14 bludgeoned in second attack who 18 to hit

Timothy (DM)  
18 will also hit for 12

Unknown Speaker  
bleh didn't finish it And

Timothy (DM)  
finish it I still have more still more than do more.

Speaker 4  
So it goes down And then I pull up my trusty handy

Timothy (DM)  
Yeah, why? Resist

Speaker 4  
the deadline additional And I do an additional 13 slashing damage.

Timothy (DM)  
All Right, you were Just like hacking And slicing And dicing And bashing And This thing Just goes down in a slop of goop.

Speaker 4  
Wait, I Don't get an intimate moment. I can't bash bash slash And then like it stays still And then Just collapses when I put my weapons away.

Speaker 1  
Fine. Yes. So You're Just like swinging You're moving so quickly That like after It's dead. It Just hasn't yet hit the floor. And then you see That final slice cut thriller

Speaker 4  
newer said a turn around put my weapons away start walking away Looking Oh, Cool. And then it crumbles behind me Oh,

Timothy (DM)  
Early And stickily slides off using as it drops the floor And then the legs collapse on top.

Unknown Speaker  
twitching Right

Speaker 2  
Okay, You're gonna run over to Yonce's looks Okay And I'm gonna use remove toxins, Which allows me to heal And remove a poison effect. So you get healed for 10 And then are no longer poisoned.

Timothy (DM)  
beautiful.

Speaker 2  
I like put some like smelling salts sort of things under your nose to like, jump your nervous system. Oh Volupte Yeah. Oh gosh.

Timothy (DM)  
You know, these have been the deities in This world since the star of like two years ago.

Speaker 2  
Yonce's hermits, someone who already has a god And Ren who Just like doesn't die.

Unknown Speaker  
I Can be Jhansi could be a Christian.

Unknown Speaker  
She Can good old fashioned pleasure, Chris.

Timothy (DM)  
That in This world would be prayer. Oh, And you've met them?

Kendrick (Yonce)  
Okay, so when I say God, I mean, prayer is my little nickname for them. Yeah. It's Can And now I'm retconning it choices while D&D is about choices, choose

Timothy (DM)  
That it is. So as you all stand in This warehouse having ended This creatures life,

Unknown Speaker  
I guess false life.

Timothy (DM)  
It falls back into silence. And Alice stands up, gives you all a very happy thumbs up.

Unknown Speaker  
I finger guns back at her

Timothy (DM)  
And Just signals on towards the back of the warehouse.

Chris (Sal S)  
Where did it come from? They Just burst through the door.

Timothy (DM)  
Yeah, burst through a door to the north of the room That You're in. You're in like a big warehouse chamber. There's lots of like shelves. And there was like another room. You Don't really know what's on the other side. It's quite far away And the door closed again.

Unknown Speaker  
probably someone That would Just hit And then turned.

Timothy (DM)  
So What do you do? Just follow after That she's

Speaker 4  
I'll go in front of Alice, And let her direct me.

Speaker 1  
Alright, so she directs you on into This maze of warehouse systems. This wall is thick, is a massive warehouse. And there are all sorts of different chambers That have been repurposed. So there's tons of things on shelves in the first room. Then there's like barrels of things in the next room. And you Just keep making your way through This mes

Timothy (DM)  
until you've reached the back wall of the wall.

Chris (Sal S)  
The penultimate law, the penultimate Hall

Timothy (DM)  
And there is a door That leads out. Opera do you open it?

Unknown Speaker  
Or listen first?

Timothy (DM)  
You listen And you hear the sound of rain, hitting the ground outside

Speaker 4  
over. Open it gently. Just a

Timothy (DM)  
crack. you peek through a crack in the door And you now see is it raining in overcast sky as opposed to other things That are overcast. You see an overcast sky And a vast desert. This is the outer wall.

Chris (Sal S)  
You're What made it so good sign That's raining. Yeah.

Speaker 4  
But doesn't rain do weird Shit And desert doesn't go on the ground.

Speaker 2  
It's kind of Can flood really? Yeah. But we could be on the higher ground. I imagine the city was built on higher ground to avoid. All Right, let's go. We'll Just have the

Speaker 4  
wall sort of navigate find the camp survivor camp as it goes south.

Unknown Speaker  
Yeah, Well, I think Well, It's south.

Speaker 1  
All Right. So you spend about half an hour circumnavigating the quarter of the city wall That it takes to get to

Timothy (DM)  
the camp, FS southern gate. When you arrive you see the makeshift

Speaker 1  
shacks. they had collected along the outer walls of the city. Over time, people who were not within the city walls could not afford to live there had set up makeshift housing along the outer wall. And now you see, it is overcrowded with people, people from within the walls That had escaped the terrors.

Timothy (DM)  
Just before barricading the gates now it seems That nobody is allowed in or out. You sift through the crowd? People are panicked. Lots of tears are shed. screams in Wales Can be heard punctuating the crowd until eventually you find Tenebe She's holding Twily You're she runs on over to you all. And gives Wren a hug fogger back. She's crying.

Unknown Speaker  
How are you? Well, What happened

Unknown Speaker  
was it always a good shoes? Jennifer Tilly,

Unknown Speaker  
I want a hot dog real fast. Jennifer tell you whatever.

Timothy (DM)  
Ran close. I Fuck What is going on This day? You all are safe. You seem. Okay.

Unknown Speaker  
Yeah.

Unknown Speaker  
Yeah, relatively relatively. Okay, physically,

Unknown Speaker  
we're all

Unknown Speaker  
speak for yourself.

Timothy (DM)  
In the city?

Speaker 2  
We're not Sure But or the city is obviously under some kind of assault. But it seems like you And the other survivors are safe here seems like the gates are holding.

Timothy (DM)  
For now. Although, who knows? With how quickly And Miss mysteriously This all happened. Several of us have been trying to figure out a way to get further from the city. But aside Just stranding ourselves in the middle of the desert. we're unsure What to do.

Speaker 4  
Do you know if the trains have already left out of the depot?

Timothy (DM)  
She lets out a sigh And looks at you very solemnly. That was the last thing they tried to do before we had to buy the gates. So the trends drill in there. Yes. Stuck on the other side. Okay, as

Speaker 4  
they go through the gate? Yes. They Don't have their own train gate.

Timothy (DM)  
Well, That's the gate What they're kidding.

Unknown Speaker  
Oh, I overstayed. We'll,

Speaker 5  
we Can try to get the train out of here. How we Can figure out how to destroy This hive once And for

Speaker 4  
all. We still Don't know how it spreads yawn. If these people are safer now we open That gate And it spreads like wildfire And all those things start bursting into their heads.

Speaker 2  
Yeah, I kind of huddle us all together. It seemed like Alice, You're here to I guess you said That you said That. You said That the Vael might have something to put a stop to This. I think That's our best bet. I Don't know how we Can do with Just the five of us.

Timothy (DM)  
Yes, I would hope That the D didn't Akela did say That Vladlan had fallen off in order to find something to combat all of This. Yeah.

Chris (Sal S)  
How far away is the nearest settlement to here? I asked another day

Timothy (DM)  
where That would be the quarries with the The monastery is located. There is a small settlement That oversees the quarries. And It's five miles south of here. Oh, That's not That's a long walk. But It's not That bad. Yeah, I think if at least we follow the tracks, we won't get lost in the city. We could try shifting the survivors there as Well. But I Don't suspect they have enough resources to sustain them long term.

Unknown Speaker  
Going to keep some from dying should the gates fall?

Timothy (DM)  
That is true.

Unknown Speaker  
I think the gates will proudly hold

Speaker 2  
Well Maybe we go on ahead And warn them of the survivors That will be on the way. Maybe send some resources back This way for injured. That's

Speaker 4  
What we do. We say, we'll go up on the shantytown roofs we shout, take 24 hours to prepare, we're gonna go on ahead. We'll get there before you And have people meet you halfway in the desert with food And supplies to take you the rest of the way. And if we Don't do That, then they'll bow their

Timothy (DM)  
specs, they have trained cuts at the quarry as Well. Perfect. They'd be sent down. Hopefully they Don't attract too much attention with the noise. I

Speaker 2  
mean, no more attention That you already had probably trying to get the trains up And running from inside the city. Yeah. Yes. All Right, That sounds like a plan. Tenebe. Can you let everyone here know That help is on the way.

Unknown Speaker  
Yeah, give them hope.

Timothy (DM)  
She turns to you all. And nods.

Speaker 1  
Before you see her going back into the crowd, we will read Twilight, no Twilight, Twilight her shoulder onto the ground And walks between your legs. During the figure eight. There,

Speaker 2  
I give him a little scratch And then pick him up And put them on my pack because That's where he sits when we travel.

Speaker 1  
You see Tenebe step up onto some sort of box of sorts, deep into the crowd And she begins to project out. At This point, she is quite far away so you Don't make out much of What she says. But she is trying to rally the crowd And organize people.

Unknown Speaker  
Well, I'm as rested as ever. I'll Just hit the road

Speaker 2  
follow the tracks. Well, Can we get like as we're walking? Can we get a short rest for those who have used things?

Speaker 1  
Yeah, so five miles is plenty of time to do a short rest or, or as long as you are not running. But if you are going at a slow pace, Which is going to take you probably three hours.

Chris (Sal S)  
Five miles. Yeah. Then we're walking in the desert.

Timothy (DM)  
Yeah, so yeah, You're walking through the desert.

Unknown Speaker  
Plenty of water.

Timothy (DM)  
Plenty in the rain, Which is now picking up.

Speaker 2  
Oh, put on my cloak. Give me dry.

Unknown Speaker  
I let the rain fall down.

Unknown Speaker  
Does it wash away.

Speaker 1  
As you walk along the tracks, you see several areas of wash out That you have to fork over in order to avoid about an hour in however the rain does stop. So it was a flash rain And then by the time you reach the quarry has all cleared up. The sun has come out And starts to beat down on you.

Unknown Speaker  
And the wrist still on.

Chris (Sal S)  
Your inhibitions.

Timothy (DM)  
It's a sing-songy kind of day.

Unknown Speaker  
Yeah, That's how we pass the time.

Speaker 1  
Alice joins in although most of her singing is more akin to prose than anything. She does the spoken word type word.

Unknown Speaker  
She's flat slam poet.

Timothy (DM)  
I'm not even going to attempt to tell you What she says during That time because I'm not going to be very good at it. Actually a bard of the lore college so she's actually really good. That is her stick. She is a historian That goes around And tell stories. She's pitchy But Okay, yeah, no, she's not a singer.

Speaker 1  
After five hours of trekking alongside the train tracks, you finally arrive at a small settlement. Besides the quarry, most of the houses are fairly quiet. You see a couple people working in their homes. You see a couple children running around, But it is midday on a work day. So you suspect everybody else is currently in the quarry.

Speaker 2  
I would like to go to a building That looks more official And the less home like yeah Can find somebody to talk to.

Speaker 1  
So at the entrance of the quarry the area in Which the train track approaches This like sandstone wall. There is kind of This depot Looking building. So you go there And enter in And you see a man wearing a visor Maggie loves to go. He's wearing a visor. And It's one of those like white visors with the like, semi transparent green plastic. Yeah. And he's wearing like a white button up with kind of poofy sleeves. He is a best. And you see

Unknown Speaker  
a weather wind pump.

Timothy (DM)  
Stuck in his breast pocket.

Unknown Speaker  
We're all thinking it.

Speaker 2  
Excuse me, sir. When I wave him down, we'll run over. Yeah, Yes. Are you in charge here? Why did you do This? I

Unknown Speaker  
am.

Speaker 2  
Oh, so there was there was an incident in the city And they need you to send train cars to the gates of the city to pick up survivors And bring them here. There's an active emergency going on in the city That was sitting there city was attacked by monsters. It's been like overthrown by monsters And others.

Unknown Speaker  
The city has fallen. The city has fallen. What

Timothy (DM)  
are you talking about

Speaker 2  
This city? A hero That It's fallen And there are survivors sitting outside of the city. It's fallen who has attacked these weird tentacle doodads? Yeah. Inside your monsters explode

Unknown Speaker  
on your face? Yes.

Timothy (DM)  
You want me to believe monsters? attack the city of Harrow.

Speaker 5  
Okay. Yonce goes up And grabs. Listen, you little bitch. By all of prayer, if you do not send those cards, to those trains to those people who need help, I will banish you to another dimension.

Timothy (DM)  
Give me an Intimidation check.

Unknown Speaker  
Can I help? So he'll do it? Yes. Give

Timothy (DM)  
me an assist action. So add your modifier.

Unknown Speaker  
My intimidation modifier. Yep, plus forward.

Timothy (DM)  
All Right. Yonsei ad plus Ford or whatever you get.

Unknown Speaker  
They'll stand there crossing our arms to Looking menacing.

Speaker 5  
intimidation is also Okay. Eight plus four plus four. So That's 16.

Timothy (DM)  
Alright, let's go have me

Unknown Speaker  
And take This damn hat off. It looks stupid. I mean, I give it to you. Upri. Why?

Chris (Sal S)  
Put it on? You're the conductor now.

Timothy (DM)  
Okay. Well, we will have to pull them from the quarries there. They're currently docked there.

Unknown Speaker  
Then What are you waiting for go. Now,

Timothy (DM)  
he runs off by himself towards the quarries.

Speaker 4  
This is Nancy has hated But I'm not gonna steal it. I'll put it back on his desk.

Unknown Speaker  
I take it And throw it in the closest bin.

Timothy (DM)  
All Right. So you see him running off And now the Depo is empty.

Speaker 2  
We do need to go to the quarries too, Right? Because That's where the monastery is like in the quarries?

Timothy (DM)  
Precisely.

Unknown Speaker  
Oh, Allah. Alice, You're still here.

Timothy (DM)  
Yes, I didn't want to stop you. You seemed very adamant about your actions. But That's the sort of person we're supposed to show our amulets to. Oh,

Unknown Speaker  
Well, let's go after him. let's go And I.

Unknown Speaker  
both things need to happen anyway. So let's go.

Timothy (DM)  
You're the only one with one. Yes. So You're gonna have to use yours as the key to get in. Sounds good to me. Right. Nobody else has an amulet. Nope. You could have told me That was the technically we're all supposed to have one. But we'll try our best to conceal That information And use Salvador's cover.

Speaker 5  
Yeah, Alice, You're letting us know a lot of things That we need to know very

Timothy (DM)  
Well. You are moving quite quickly, And yelling quite loudly.

Chris (Sal S)  
I wonder I Can try to duplicate it. I'm sorry.

Timothy (DM)  
I Can do That.

Chris (Sal S)  
I Can try to duplicate a non magical physical object.

Unknown Speaker  
How many times I

Chris (Sal S)  
think only once. Okay.

Kendrick (Yonce)  
Can you send a message to the person I Just intimidated being like, whoo, whoo, whoo. It's Okay.

Chris (Sal S)  
Third Level spell slots. I mean, we Can shout to me is probably not That.

Unknown Speaker  
I'm faster than him. I Can catch up.

Unknown Speaker  
I Can miss the step if I need to.

Unknown Speaker  
We'll Just chase after him. I'm Sure he's not going far.

Timothy (DM)  
Alright, so you run after That man, catching up to him quite quickly.

Chris (Sal S)  
Hello, there. I'm sorry. I didn't get your name. Whenever you we met?

Timothy (DM)  
Don't do anything.

Chris (Sal S)  
I will not.

Timothy (DM)  
i What do you want?

Chris (Sal S)  
We're actually here to see gain access to the monastery And I pull up my my amulet.

Timothy (DM)  
How? Well, why didn't you stay so

Chris (Sal S)  
sorry. It seemed like the town was more of a pressing matter. This is sort of a secondary.

Unknown Speaker  
The town has an emergency. Yeah.

Timothy (DM)  
He reaches into his bed As pocket And pulls out a little metal desk, it has a spot like a little divot in it about the same size as the amulet. And he hands it to you.

Chris (Sal S)  
Or put it into the recess.

Timothy (DM)  
Those were formed the key. You had 20 pieces, South 30 pieces West, And the entrance will be obscured there.

Chris (Sal S)  
And That's from the train depot.

Timothy (DM)  
Or from This point Right now from the train depot.

Chris (Sal S)  
Gotcha. Okay. Well, Thank you, friend.

Unknown Speaker  
No, keep going. Yeah, they

Speaker 2  
do need those trains. All Right back to the depot.

Timothy (DM)  
And he takes off running from giving you a bow wilderness luck

Unknown Speaker  
type Looking at me keep going.

Timothy (DM)  
And you make your way back to the train depot. Do your 30 paces.

Chris (Sal S)  
And then 20 paces it pays out. 30 paces West.

Speaker 1  
And as you finish walking, You're standing at a place Right up against the wall of the quarry. So You're facing This wall, And it looks like a plains sandstone wall. chunks of it have been carved out in blocks. But Nothing else. out of the ordinary.

Speaker 2  
Is it the last light of the day And as the thrush knock-knock Sorry, That was a hobbit reference.

Unknown Speaker  
I've never seen the Hobbit.

Speaker 2  
I mean, nor there. Okay. That's tragedy.

Timothy (DM)  
So What do you do?

Chris (Sal S)  
I put the key, I put my amulet into the disk That I received from our named conductor friend. All Right. And I imagine has something to do with This wall. I investigate the wall.

Timothy (DM)  
Yeah, give me an investigation.

Unknown Speaker  
Geraldo nat 1, But That's a 13 Jesus

Speaker 1  
13 So as you are inspecting the wall, you are feeling the area around where your 50 pieces have taken you.

Timothy (DM)  
And you Don't see anything. But as you run your hand over This space about at your chest height, you feel a divot.

Unknown Speaker  
Oh, so I think This is the one

Chris (Sal S)  
Yeah, I moved my hand over to the divot.

Speaker 1  
Alright, you stick the metal disc in the divot hole on the wall. And That's when everything begins to shake the floor beneath you begins to rumble as you see This wall, slide across, revealing a long tunnel.

Timothy (DM)  
It is lit with torches when it looks like we are here

Chris (Sal S)  
all Right. Anything we should know before going in else like they have certain customs. Should we announce ourselves?

Timothy (DM)  
I do suppose you should announce yourself. If you Don't mind. I might part ways with you on spot in. Why? Why settle down? We'll get you some almonds soon. I explained before my memories were stolen now. I'd like them back. This would be a good opportunity for me to find them when they are distracted by you.

Unknown Speaker  
All Right. I mean, let us know if you need help L

Speaker 2  
Yeah, we have got some words for Vladlan Anyways, so there

Chris (Sal S)  
is a good chance That none of you will remember This interaction as Well. Do you remember whenever we went to glasses cottage?

Speaker 2  
Yeah, I still Don't have those memories back. Yeah. So That's What I'm thinking those short, like a day's worth of memories.

Timothy (DM)  
Really quite brutal, isn't it? And I fear That I'm quite a few more days than half

Chris (Sal S)  
Yeah. It's something connected to the magic That they they cast This magic on a town. And if you didn't have This amulet you forgot What happened during That day.

Speaker 4  
All Right. So you remember everything's the habit. Yeah. All Right.

Unknown Speaker  
Why Don't we Just hold it

Chris (Sal S)  
will only works

Unknown Speaker  
for one person. Yeah, I've

Timothy (DM)  
tried one. One to one theater situation And of

Unknown Speaker  
all of us. I think sales the one That should break.

Chris (Sal S)  
Okay, Well,

Unknown Speaker  
Well go get a mail.

Timothy (DM)  
After you slip away once you get into the

Unknown Speaker  
round of distraction. Yeah.

Speaker 2  
All Right. We head into the dark tunnel there if It's done fluid flow And I Don't like to torch

Speaker 1  
yep, there are torches And all along means like or neat brass sconces. The hall itself is a smooth marble And it goes on for about 100 feet for opens up into a vestibule. The vestibule has sofas around it. And doorways leaning to left, Right And forward. You see Alice slips into the door to the left.

Unknown Speaker  
Is there anyone else here?

Timothy (DM)  
Nobody in the vestibule

Speaker 4  
honey we're home. I'll show

Timothy (DM)  
you call out in the vestibule And after a couple seconds you hear the door forward open And before your eyes is Vladlan

Speaker 1  
He is balding with curly white sideburns. He has these tiny round spectacles And This buttoned embroidered dusty cream. tunic long Tunic And a worn leather satchel it on his left

Unknown Speaker  
eye look at sow keep it in your plants

Chris (Sal S)  
Vladdy This is you miss misspeak one time

Unknown Speaker  
Well, This

Timothy (DM)  
is my saviours.

Unknown Speaker  
Oh, so you do remember?

Timothy (DM)  
What brings you here?

Unknown Speaker  
We were hoping to speak with you.

Chris (Sal S)  
We have a lot of questions. Yes.

Timothy (DM)  
I suspect so. Well follow me. And he waves you on through the doorway. Yeah, This doorway leads into another hall. This one you see multiple doors on either side of the hall as you continue on. Most of them are closed But the occasional one is left open And inside you see other members of the Vael going about various activities. Some seem to Just be reading in rooms. Others seem to be working on experiments in laboratories. And further on you see ceremony circles being used to perform complex magics

Chris (Sal S)  
Nice place you got here. Glad.

Timothy (DM)  
I suppose That is true.

Chris (Sal S)  
What's going on? Why are these monstrosities attacking hero now?

Timothy (DM)  
Well, let's the silence of course. We've done our best to hold them back. But it Just seems That their ways are. Trixie

Chris (Sal S)  
has glad It's been helping you

Timothy (DM)  
Gladys haven't seen her in quite some time. No. Seems That she's gone off to pursue other things.

Chris (Sal S)  
We found your little town in valerian a time loop. Was That put in there for a particular reason?

Timothy (DM)  
Where you saw What we were attempting to do, did you not

Chris (Sal S)  
the giant brain

Speaker 2  
spoiler alerts kill the giant brain

Timothy (DM)  
That was a very particular fringe group of the organization. We tried to stop them But the time loop was for other reasons.

Chris (Sal S)  
And those came up today.

Unknown Speaker  
I Don't remember them coming up. No.

Timothy (DM)  
Apologies. I should have seen This. You all are still thinking quite small. Rude.

Unknown Speaker  
let's hear him out. Continue.

Timothy (DM)  
You have seen What the Cylons are capable of.

Chris (Sal S)  
Have you not multiple times? Yes.

Timothy (DM)  
But do you know why they do What they do?

Chris (Sal S)  
I think It's a pursuit for knowledge. We've seen the giant tome where they add their streams of consciousness.

Timothy (DM)  
Nobody does This for knowledge,

Unknown Speaker  
power. Our

Timothy (DM)  
powers still too small control. No, they do This to transform reality as you And I know it.

Unknown Speaker  
Is That What the void is?

Timothy (DM)  
No, the void is very clearly ingrained in our reality it is part And parcel of it. But it has been quite a useful tool for them.

Speaker 4  
Where do the Titans? Are they the silence?

Timothy (DM)  
Ah, Yes, you would be familiar with them about to now, wouldn't you? And they have spoken to each of you.

Unknown Speaker  
Maybe, Maybe we Just read about him in a book I read,

Timothy (DM)  
you should do your best to disregard their temptation.

Speaker 4  
And now, your magic doesn't have anything to do with control And tornadoes. On a side,

Timothy (DM)  
I suppose the practical applications of certain magics could be used to do That, But for What purposes I wouldn't be.

Speaker 4  
And then I have another follow up. We found you with a That lady we Don't we Don't really know her That Well. Her name was Al we left her back in Harrow. She is a colleague of yours,

Timothy (DM)  
Alice. Yes. I had hoped That we would not have to talk about her today. What a disappointment. That

Unknown Speaker  
was some history though.

Timothy (DM)  
All I will say is That her And visions led her down. perilous path is ones That the Vael did not stand for. Oh,

Chris (Sal S)  
Okay. Renegade of sorts.

Timothy (DM)  
One could use That term.

Unknown Speaker  
like Yes. sighs silenced aligned Renegade.

Timothy (DM)  
I do think she is now. More or less aligned though not of her volition But they see her as a herald.

Unknown Speaker  
Upri will panic

Speaker 2  
when gives like a small shake of his head? Nope.

Timothy (DM)  
A Harbinger

Chris (Sal S)  
That came up. We had found some notes That spoke at the Harbinger.

Speaker 4  
Now harbingers do they get weird veiny eyes when they are doing stuff.

Timothy (DM)  
He blinks a couple times Looking at you a bit perplexed Harbinger my idea, a sign of something That is to come. Ah, like an omen. They are not anything in particular.

Speaker 4  
I'm gonna hold up my hand to play loon. Can I shake your hand?

Timothy (DM)  
He looks at you very differently. Before he reaches out his hand as Well And grabs it very lightly And gives you a Just a very slight shake.

Unknown Speaker  
I'm gonna stare at him uncomfortably while she does anything.

Timothy (DM)  
As he touched his hand

Speaker 4  
Yeah, no. Oh, Okay. Thank you. Nice to meet you. Sail

Chris (Sal S)  
sounds flipping through the notes. I I pulled a lot of This stuff from Valeria. So What Exactly is your plan here now to combat This?

Timothy (DM)  
As I said, You're thinking too small Salvador. My idea. This battle has been lost. But we still have much to do in the war. But

Chris (Sal S)  
there's This prophecy. What does This prophecy mean? I pull out the box with the prophecy And

Unknown Speaker  
It's like a 20 foot long scroll.

Timothy (DM)  
Yes, the prophecy. Well, are any of you familiar with prophetic magics? Maybe?

Chris (Sal S)  
They're usually cryptic And Can be interpreted in multiple ways. No, I'm

Unknown Speaker  
not. No,

Timothy (DM)  
This is one potential outcome. One we seek to prevent here at the Vael.

Speaker 4  
Oh, so It's not set in stone. They'll win like, so. Hypothetically, if I knew What Oracle told me to go places And do things, That those are Just potentialities.

Timothy (DM)  
Precisely Don't say looks no fates are set.

Speaker 4  
I know we're still with Do you have any almonds? My brother? Yeah.

Timothy (DM)  
No, we do not

Unknown Speaker  
very tiny. Keep asking for all hands. I'm Fine. I'm Fine.

Unknown Speaker  
Yeah, Okay. I mean, I'm happy piggish.

Timothy (DM)  
Well, if you are all here now, That means we have crept closer to This potentiality Which I had deeply feared.

Speaker 5  
I have a question. Why did the queen bee capture you? Why were you in the city? And why were you with Alice? We thought to have you.

Timothy (DM)  
Well, I was saving my people. Of course. Wouldn't you do the same?

Speaker 5  
I mean, Yes, But still, something's not adding up here.

Timothy (DM)  
Everyone else I suspect That the silence would like to use me. It drew you to them did not.

Speaker 2  
That doesn't make sense. With everybody else being killed, But only hours And you being captured in the way you were.

Timothy (DM)  
Yes, Alice. All we Can do now is help prepare you for What is to come. The end of the world all play a part. And it will be up to you to decide Which path to take. You must resist I cannot express the dire ness of That. You must resist

Chris (Sal S)  
for fear That will turn as others have turned

Timothy (DM)  
No, my dear boy. trials That away to you are much more grand.

Speaker 2  
Would you like to explain to us what's going to happen instead of Just talking cryptic

Unknown Speaker  
verse That would be Nice. Thank you. Yeah.

Timothy (DM)  
We have been through This conversation many times And II each time I fear the information I have revealed has led down to less than spectacular path as those of complete And utter destruction of reality as we know it.

Speaker 4  
Are you implying That You're not from This timeline That we've met before?

Unknown Speaker  
Because This is our first time meeting? Ever

Timothy (DM)  
fool you? Yes. Follow me I hold many memories of This conversation each competing for my attention.

Unknown Speaker  
Oh my god prayer

Timothy (DM)  
I do not think you should pray to That God anymore. Yonce. No, you to Tao Salvador.

Unknown Speaker  
Where are you? They're

Unknown Speaker  
Just casually stealing powers on the side.

Chris (Sal S)  
Well, I Don't really pray to him much anyway.

Timothy (DM)  
And have you wondered why the power still flow?

Chris (Sal S)  
There's a certain amount of my subscription doesn't end until next year.

Unknown Speaker  
You paid your dues for because he wants to

Timothy (DM)  
see That you do not revere continues to supply you with magic. That seems suspicious to me. I'm Sure not to you my son.

Chris (Sal S)  
Oh terior motives, we were reading about the cycle where gods have different games That they play. So,

Timothy (DM)  
yeah, Yes, But the cycle speaks of the true gods.

Chris (Sal S)  
The bigger gods. Yeah.

Kendrick (Yonce)  
I'm still not wrapping my head around That You're saying That we've met multiple times. Yes. So You're saying This horrible And This whatever has happened has happened before? Or will it happen? I'm so confused

Timothy (DM)  
precisely. What is there? What is not making sense? May Don't get

Kendrick (Yonce)  
slick with me. Vladlan. This has a lot of information to take in.

Timothy (DM)  
Yes, you are Right. For me, it has been a conversation I've had many times. And I fear My patience has grown quite Wayne

Unknown Speaker  
will eat some almonds. Because

Timothy (DM)  
What is This about almond?

Kendrick (Yonce)  
They're delightful. really tastes good, especially if you turn them into butter. But That's besides the point. How are we going to remember This conversation?

Timothy (DM)  
You won't, But should we take the Correct path you won't need to

Speaker 4  
enlarge? Can you tell us all the wrong paths we already took. So we Can rule those out in This timeline.

Timothy (DM)  
I have tried That.

Unknown Speaker  
And it Just fucks you to

Timothy (DM)  
unfortunately, some of you have proven to have ulterior motives.

Unknown Speaker  
By Looking at me

Speaker 2  
to check you, if you had to give us a number of how many times you've had This conversation. What is the approximate number?

Timothy (DM)  
It is complicated to enumerate.

Unknown Speaker  
So more than once,

Speaker 2  
But how many times more than once we'll have time like an interminable amount of time more than once.

Unknown Speaker  
It might not be from

Timothy (DM)  
my perspective, they are all happening simultaneously.

Unknown Speaker  
Oh my God, these people

Speaker 4  
so his mind is in multiple instances of reality

Unknown Speaker  
101 might say every wing

Unknown Speaker  
to fucking watch you have watched you I know It's the best movie

Speaker 2  
ever. Officially a everything everywhere all at once Stan podcast. Sorry, D&D. Goodbye.

Timothy (DM)  
thing go.

Unknown Speaker  
How do you know?

Unknown Speaker  
I mean, you saw his lackeys. Hey.

Speaker 2  
So What are next steps? Again, You're talking about a lot of things That You're currently doing simultaneously, I guess with Right now. But without any sort of guide forward. We Don't know What we're supposed to do.

Speaker 4  
But we're probably not, we're not supposed to do. But knowing And not knowing is irrelevant. Because

Chris (Sal S)  
the conclusions I get the

Timothy (DM)  
advice That I Can give you is to be Sure of yourselves. And Don't give in no matter What.

Chris (Sal S)  
Even these gifts That we

Timothy (DM)  
so perhaps have you already partaken

Chris (Sal S)  
mal Just told us about it. Give me

Timothy (DM)  
a deception roll. Okay,

Unknown Speaker  
so y'all grimace?

Unknown Speaker  
I was gonna be honest,

Chris (Sal S)  
I got 15 Oh, all Right.

Timothy (DM)  
very good then Salvador. You are on the Correct path. Whatever Which there are few.

Kendrick (Yonce)  
Why are you Looking at glisten? Vladlan This is the last time I'm going to say

Timothy (DM)  
your anger does Nothing to help you Yonce I couldn't help you direct it That to me, But I do not care for I have other things to be concerned with.

Speaker 5  
You act like I had a choice. It was either That or die in a metal frickin doll.

Timothy (DM)  
Oh no, you did not have a choice. None of you had a choice even myself was put through This against my will. But That does not change the fact That we must act That is our decisions.

Speaker 2  
You're not giving us enough information to act on, You're telling us to steal ourselves against temptation. But What do we do beyond That? Do we Just go home,

Unknown Speaker  
That when we travel,

Speaker 2  
we traveled all This way to meet you. Because we were under the assumption That you might have some answers for us. But instead, you wave us along, like, we walked all This way for Nothing.

Timothy (DM)  
Well, I Don't suspect going home will give you the outcomes That You're Looking for.

Speaker 2  
That was Just an example. But we need more information on What the Fuck is going on,

Timothy (DM)  
it is going to follow you. And it is going to try over And over And over again. I am so so so sorry for What is to come, I Can do Nothing to shield you from it.

Unknown Speaker  
So we can't go home.

Speaker 2  
Or you could prepare us for it. Give us any information, I

Timothy (DM)  
will try my best to prepare you with the skills That I have learned. But at the end of the day, it will be raw power. That saves you from What from then the silence

Unknown Speaker  
Yonce looks @shadows_of_prophecy Upri. We're not going home anytime soon our way.

Unknown Speaker  
I have no idea.

Timothy (DM)  
In many instances of This conversation you have already resolved to do so by now. I'm not Sure of the outcome. But in those instances, Alice was present. And it seems That you have miraculously put yourselves on the Correct path And left her behind This time.

Chris (Sal S)  
Yeah. Why is it That we've read That people lose their memories coming to This place?

Timothy (DM)  
That has been only a select few out is a prime example of That. What she learned he would have destroyed everything That we have worked for. She opened the door. And we now fight to hold it closed.

Unknown Speaker  
Yonsei looks @shadows_of_prophecy Upri And whispers This year. Yeah. good

Unknown Speaker  
talk Vlad. Real good pep talk.

Unknown Speaker  
So What now?

Timothy (DM)  
Well, I would like to take the four of you into training Oh. So as we Can mentally, physically And spiritually prepare you bolster your defenses.

Speaker 4  
That's why he's not telling us What to do next. Because we have to do That first. Oh, Well, he's dangling the proverbial carrot in front of our face.

Speaker 2  
You could have led with That I think would have been helpful. Oh, Maria, people like That. Don't speak.

Timothy (DM)  
Jeez, it is quite difficult to be in This state.

Unknown Speaker  
Yeah, he has Fuck being everywhere.

Unknown Speaker  
Okay, so do we start now?

Timothy (DM)  
If you are ready,

Speaker 2  
Can I send messages from here? like, do you have like a messaging? like could I send a bird or something to another city? Just go write a letter back home.

Timothy (DM)  
The order would like to monitor any activity exiting This monastery, But I think That may be permissible given That you do not provide reasons to suspect foul play. Oh, It's

Speaker 2  
Just like a I'm Okay. Here's some gold That I found. In a castle use it for business. It's Fine. team huddle. I look at everybody else.

Chris (Sal S)  
Yeah, yeah, it seems. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker  
So he likes scooch off away from Vladlan to

Unknown Speaker  
be Fuck And trust This guy. I Don't

Speaker 2  
know if I do But the only lead we have.

Chris (Sal S)  
Yeah, he seems kind of shifty.

Speaker 5  
He does have a extreme disdain for Alice, who we have willingly let loose in This facility.

Speaker 4  
But I think I trust it more. So Don't buy it. But I may have had some sort of vision when we first scooped Alice in That cave about her going all cray cray And veiny in the face And their tornadoes And the wearables. And in That she jumped off a cliff

Speaker 2  
was it it was on a cliff. Yeah, he was on it. I'm gonna sift through Sal's bag Just like going Just go into the bag. And I'll pull out Alice's journal, Which does talk about a dream of her standing on the edge of a cliff. My eyes bleed with the visions of so many abominations. As I lose track of where I end And where they begin. All Things become me And I them as I myself cease to be. And my mind is flooded with experiences to many to comprehend What they feel.

Unknown Speaker  
And then she jumps.

Speaker 2  
It doesn't say anything about jumping, But it does talk about her losing her brains at the end of a trip the edge of a cliff.

Speaker 4  
I mean, how do we know It's the same cliff? Just very Well could be different clips. But That's the similarities are

Unknown Speaker  
striking.

Chris (Sal S)  
You didn't think That This would be important to know before?

Unknown Speaker  
It was a dream? Yeah, it

Chris (Sal S)  
was Just I mean, I won't I won't. Dreams are never dreams. Yeah, I have plenty of dreams That are Just dreams. Really? Yeah. You Don't Just have dreams sometimes? Well, I feel like now we're in the state of a world where everything has meaning.

Speaker 2  
I mean, like, Well, I mean, like, a couple nights ago, Twilight was talking to me And my dream And That was Just What they say. He Just wanted snacks. For Twilight always want.

Unknown Speaker  
Focus.

Unknown Speaker  
Basically, we need to pick a basket to put our eggs in.

Timothy (DM)  
And I Don't know when you hear a door down the hall creak open. And as you look up towards the sound, you see Alice leaning against the wall smiling at all of you, And she beckons you before flipping out of sight.

Chris (Sal S)  
What's Vladlan

Timothy (DM)  
Behind you see Vladlan has taken a seat on the bench in This hallway. He holds a cane That he rests both his hands on And he slumped over to put his weight on it.

Speaker 4  
Distract him with What? Your face

Unknown Speaker  
I'm not gonna give him Twilight.

Unknown Speaker  
Let them pet toilet.

Unknown Speaker  
No, Don't trust That old man.

Chris (Sal S)  
Can I sit down with lead? I'm gonna pull out the scroll of the 25th I'm gonna go line through line with him And try to get him to explain like, unlike Oh, whatever happened to the Hodges? Are they still alive? Are they still in charge of the silence? Is Victor valerian dead? We were in This castle. We saw all these dead bodies. I'm Sure he probably got caught up in it or But how did the silence still survive? I imagine a lot of them were consumed, creating That giant brain.

Speaker 4  
And then I'll sneak off. Go to chat with our you guys are distracted.

Unknown Speaker  
I will go with you.

Speaker 2  
I was going to go with you until you brought up the Hodges And then I was like, Well, I'll be Right there.

Speaker 4  
I think he's better if I go alone, the more of us That are gone, the more likely you are to notice. All Right.

Timothy (DM)  
So Upri Yonce's, do you still want to go even though Upri says That?

Speaker 5  
I still want to go But I look at Upri And I Just say be safe? Always am I? No You're not. So

Unknown Speaker  
today is day one of making better decisions.

Speaker 1  
So Upri is going to go down the hallway. Well, Salvador plops a seat next to Vladlan And begins to ask him a series of questions. What is Yonce And Wren doing?

Speaker 2  
Wren will post about the door That Upri went through Just to like be an earshot be able to look into the door if I need to. It's

Timothy (DM)  
down the hallway. So you would have to part the conversation And go down the hallway with Upri

Speaker 2  
How far Can I listen to the conversation while Maybe 30 feet? I Can listen from 30 feet? Alright, I've got observant I Can also read lips

Timothy (DM)  
already she was leaning

Speaker 2  
normally I want to read Vladlan Oh Gotcha. Oh, Okay. So read their lips while I like having here like close to the door.

Timothy (DM)  
You know we are going down the hallway. Yes. All Right. Upri is going down the hallway. I'm going to pretend like I'm Looking at to go into the room like Just like Oh, Salvador is sitting down. What is Yonce? Doing? I'm also

Speaker 5  
gonna pretend like I'm Looking at things, But also Just keep my eye on the door.

Timothy (DM)  
Are you staying close to Vladlan? Making me down the hallway. Okay. So you stay close to Vladlan Salvador, you start rambling? asking you a series of questions. Now now now, my dear boy, you are kind And I understand all of your desires to help And fix And patch from a novices, I would be you who's the one That stands up? But unfortunately, my dear, I fear it is your compassion That will be your own undoing. Do you really wish to pursue these paths?

Chris (Sal S)  
to understand why the world is the way it is? Yes.

Timothy (DM)  
But you focus so much on the people And the personal connections.

Chris (Sal S)  
Seems like the most important part to me

Timothy (DM)  
very Well. What was it That you wish to know?

Chris (Sal S)  
First off what's up with That weird dungeon underneath the town? That connects glasses cottage to the castle?

Timothy (DM)  
Dungeon? I Don't remember there being a dungeon underneath the Calderos cottage.

Chris (Sal S)  
Interesting, where the hostages are they still alive?

Timothy (DM)  
That's complicated, But

Chris (Sal S)  
are they still humans?

Timothy (DM)  
Also complicated. The harsh parents unfortunately, have left the corporeal forms. But the one you are asking about for Renwick sake was That is more or less human though we have lost track of him. So he's What once was dead is no longer But only in a slight sense.

Chris (Sal S)  
I also got This weird prophetic dream about a friend of mine who had been captured And possibly turned. No, I think about a Desmon called ARIS.

Timothy (DM)  
That's where it becomes complicated. And you finding out What happens to Desmond is nine times out of 10 the wrong path. I understand your feelings for him. I truly do. But for the sake of all of reality, stay away from it

Chris (Sal S)  
seems like everything is so complicated here. I had a friend That used to tell me everything was inconsequential. But now It's complicated.

Timothy (DM)  
May have I heard That before. Were you lying before?

Chris (Sal S)  
No.

Timothy (DM)  
Give me another deception.

Chris (Sal S)  
I wasn't a wasn't lying. Well, I in regards to lying about What? I said That they talked to us. So That wasn't a lie. That's a 13.

Timothy (DM)  
All Right. I suppose I'm being a bit paranoid. I not.

Speaker 1  
Alright, so we are going to now jump on over to Upri So Upri You use This conversation as an opportunity to sneak off down the hallway. Wren slowly follows trying to mask What he's doing. And as you approach the store, it opens into a gallery

Timothy (DM)  
oil paintings throughout the room.

Speaker 1  
Each is on a pedestal where you see class orbs set around it in a almost miniature ceremony sir All

Timothy (DM)  
And the paintings are on stems within these circles as you look around the room you see

Speaker 1  
horrific landscapes, portraits, all oil paintings That seem to follow a central theme. They depict a world That has been laid to waste.

Timothy (DM)  
Destruction, death, despair are all words That come to mind. As you feel these paintings projecting onto you, your drum drawn first to a fiery sky, a mass of clouds And smoke, a landscape That has been flattened, rendered bear of all life. Next, you notice a painting of a figures standing amongst corpses. And as you look at This single painting more Fuck, it feels as if It's moving the landscape slowly shifts the ground, swirling as the paint strokes themselves seem to move like waves across the canvas, And the figures robe slowly shifts in a faint wind. You see another painting of a city it reminds you of Harrow But it has been crumbled, crashed to the ground, everything ablaze And seeping with This fear. And then you see them

Unknown Speaker  
Ah,

Timothy (DM)  
you Don't recognize their form. But you do recognize the feeling of their presence. The one That held you captive for those five years in the void the director they called themselves you continue to look around the room And you see Alice standing besides one of these paintings And then you hear a voice

good Upri found them. It is the familiar voice of the Oracle the one That visited you sporadically during your time in the void.

Unknown Speaker  
She's cute.

Timothy (DM)  
You must destroy them. Upri And then you see Alice a twisted smile pulled across her face. And she begins to speak aloud to the room. Glad to see you again, Daphne. Now That You're here.

Speaker 1  
And she picks up an orb from the ceremony circle on the pedestal And she crashes it to the ground. The moment it crashes you see the painting begin to move as if it starts to press out of its frame reaching forward into the room. Do

Timothy (DM)  
you hear Daphne shout in your mind? Stop her.

Unknown Speaker  
I lunge it l I rage And then I lunge

Timothy (DM)  
everybody roll initiative.

Unknown Speaker  
Fucking God do I hear

Unknown Speaker  
Yonce's

Unknown Speaker  
We Love we feel like Wren And Yonce look at each other And dash And

Unknown Speaker  
do the exercise earlier Right? Yeah,

Chris (Sal S)  
now I know

Speaker 5  
17 517

Timothy (DM)  
So Upri you lunge at Alice Alice as she blips out of view Fuck a bitch. And she missed the steps to another painting grabs the orb throws it down

Unknown Speaker  
Well I didn't do my rage effect because there happened before combat Fuck you've cursed me today.

Chris (Sal S)  
I more flowers girl.

Timothy (DM)  
Entrance of This room is now difficult terrain covered in flowers And grass.

Unknown Speaker  
But it follows me so if I move it like Well

Timothy (DM)  
so you see she missed the steps to another section room grabs an orb throws it down Misty steps again grabs an orb throws it down. Now there are three paintings reaching out into the room. Which brings us to Upri

Unknown Speaker  
How far away from me is she?

Timothy (DM)  
She's in the other corner. So This is probably a 30 by 30 foot room so you have a speed of 40 the speed of 40

Speaker 4  
I wonder I charge lunge. grasses And vines And flowers growing all around me And dine as I move. I'm going to reckless attack with Fern And one hand. That is a 23 to hit

Timothy (DM)  
23

Speaker 4  
will hit What is it? Da look like? That is 15 points of bludgeoning damage. Second swing 16 to hit

Timothy (DM)  
16 will not hit Shit

Unknown Speaker  
And then I'll follow my offhand weapon. Oh 25

Timothy (DM)  
to hit I 25

Speaker 4  
And That is 12 slashing. All Right, And then use a charge of my Wanda. Oh, no, no, no,

Unknown Speaker  
they shrink.

Speaker 4  
I think This is the stun one. Oh, no, It's no. It's Just below. Oh, I was one point away from turning blue. A burst of colorful shambling light extends from you know, in a 30 foot radius, myself And each creature That enters This must make a DC 15 Constitution save or become blinded.

Timothy (DM)  
Alright, Right. So here's What happens in That flurry of blows. So you swing into her with your hammer first, Right?

Unknown Speaker  
Yes, I hit it twice. Okay,

Timothy (DM)  
so you, you swing at her with a hammer. You see a rift open up in space in front of you. But your hammer Just misses it passes to the side of it, And whacks her in the shoulder, shoving her to the ground. Oh, your next attack slices through her shoulder, And then the flash of light. You see she covers her eyes And is now like, rubbing her eyes blinded by your attack.

Speaker 4  
She's blinded for one minute, she Can repeat the Save at the end of each of her terms.

Timothy (DM)  
All Right, That takes us to Yonsei

Unknown Speaker  
And I'm not blinded. I passed.

Speaker 5  
All Right. I hear This a week. And I Just book it. I book it And What do I see?

Timothy (DM)  
So you see This room of paintings. And you see the three paintings one in the center back of the room. And the Right And left corners are like reaching out. They are horrific creatures, including one That You're familiar with.

Unknown Speaker  
Jog my memory.

Timothy (DM)  
It pulls you in mentally. It's like your eyes are drawn to it. And you feel This like tingling sensation running through your bodies. You feel all the rage inside of you. All the fear, the pain And then you feel the pain pleasures, all of the things in life you enjoy. And you get This like flurry of emotions That Just welled up inside of you. As you see This painting, it has This grin. That is like pure pleasure, But also in a sadistic, twisted way, as if it wants you to give in. It wants you to let it in. What do you do? Yonsei?

Unknown Speaker  
I'm not gonna let it in. Because

Timothy (DM)  
we'll see about That.

Speaker 5  
No, no Clang, Clang, my body is a temple. What I'm going to do is cast my two beams of elders blasts on tie cast them on the paintings. You may. Alright, so I'm going to cast them on the paintings.

Timothy (DM)  
Are you targeting a specific painting? I'm targeting mine And the eyeball. Right? So those are not the two That are moving Right now.

Unknown Speaker  
Oh, Which ones are moving.

Timothy (DM)  
So there are two in the corners And they are Just like landscapes. And those are the ones That are moving, But there's like a creature building out of it. like coming into focus, reaching through the painting itself.

Speaker 5  
Before I do That, Can I hex? What's her name? Alice? Okay. hexar.

Timothy (DM)  
Yes, you Can.

Speaker 5  
So I hex her. Do I have to do something with That? Nope. Alright, It's

Timothy (DM)  
automatic, it will add a 1d6 to any damage That you do to her.

Kendrick (Yonce)  
Alright, Perfect. So Just so I'm ready for when I would harass someone I shoot at the two landscapes. I'm assuming That 22 hits. Does does a 16 hit? Yes. All Right. Perfect. Where are these? D 10s. Right. All Right. Google, so 10. Oops. 10 plus four is 14. Six plus four is 1010. Plus 410. plus 14 is 24.

Timothy (DM)  
All Right, so you see your eldritch blasts shoot off one to the Right in the left corner of the room. They hit the canvas of the paintings. And then you see them into the painting crashing down into the landscape of the painting in Which you see bodies And corpses thrown in the air. Sorry. Great. There now portals are so fucked. With airport. Wait, I did That. You sent Your eldritch blast into the painting.

Speaker 4  
Fell didn't hit it. It went And went like basically went through portal. Knock something

Unknown Speaker  
down.

Kendrick (Yonce)  
Okay. And That's all I Can do. I want to look at the planes would be like, Well, Fuck.

Timothy (DM)  
Wren, yeah, You're up.

Speaker 2  
Wren, we'll go into the room. let's see what's going on. Upri What the hell? And

Timothy (DM)  
you see it. You see This amalgam of flesh, appendages, teeth.

Speaker 1  
Arms, heads, eyes. Creatures of various forms slapped together shoved into one body.

Timothy (DM)  
You know who This is? Ren And you hear It's a whisper building in the back of your head. Join us. We'll do Great things with you.

Speaker 2  
Fuck, Gotcha. @shadows_of_prophecy That's not a thing climbing out of a painting at This point. Now.

Timothy (DM)  
Just when you see it, you Just you hear That boys?

Speaker 2  
So the ones That Yonce's Shot eldritch blasts into. Are those still stretching out?

Timothy (DM)  
Yes, they are. They seem unbothered by the attacks. Which you did not get to wit?

Unknown Speaker  
Al's bad. Okay, got it.

Timothy (DM)  
But you see Alice on the floor. How far away? She's near the center of the room with Upri she's rubbing her eyes blinded.

Unknown Speaker  
How far away though?

Timothy (DM)  
15 feet.

Speaker 2  
Okay, I Can make it too easily. Then. I'm gonna run up to her And stab her

Unknown Speaker  
I guess. All Right,

Timothy (DM)  
make an attack crawl.

Speaker 2  
I analyzed her And then Can I flank her to get advantage?

Timothy (DM)  
You Can with Upri I think you also Just had advantage because she's blinded.

Speaker 2  
Oh, That's fair. Um, does a 20 year dirty 20 Hen

Timothy (DM)  
you think You're about to land a hit on her. When a tear opens up in the space Right in front of her, And your sword slips in, it snaps shut. And as you pull your sword back, the tip of it is missing. A cut in half cleanly,

Unknown Speaker  
so I have a dagger now.

Timothy (DM)  
You have a blunted dagger.

Unknown Speaker  
My fancy new sword rip.

Chris (Sal S)  
Um,

Unknown Speaker  
That's it. That's I've done all my things actually.

Timothy (DM)  
So, all Right, Salvador

Chris (Sal S)  
was Just like in. You remember the one where you had Robyn And goldfinch? The slip the riffs That close? Yeah. I heard appraisal wheat. And how did you react to That?

Timothy (DM)  
So You're sitting with Flatland. He gets up And he starts running down the hall away from the round And where are you

Chris (Sal S)  
going? Okay, Well, I'll be here. I'm gonna go check out What That means.

Speaker 5  
Don't like This Looking at the book be like, Well,

Timothy (DM)  
I look to my Right. Alright, so you get on up And you run down

Chris (Sal S)  
the hallway. Yeah. And I get to This carnage. Okay, so

Timothy (DM)  
30 feet down the hallway, you reach the door, You're standing in the doorway, you see all of the same paintings as before, But you are drawn to one in particular. It is best described as an eye. Or at least That's What it looks like. But it is so much more than That. It is all eyes. What do you do?

Chris (Sal S)  
I'm gonna cast guardian of faith around him. All Right. So prayer. I do I do small prayer. And Daegu to Tao. Oh,

Timothy (DM)  
so I say to Tao Yeah. Wow. Well,

Chris (Sal S)  
I say town I know It's been Well, we haven't talked in a while. But how you doing? We saw it raining And I thought about you I Don't want to say anything because I know some people in my group aren't really religious, But I need some help. So I cast a spiritual garden And a big cloud appears in the in the room.

Timothy (DM)  
Alright, What does spirit Guardian do its range of Yeah, It's

Chris (Sal S)  
a 10 foot radius around me That whenever something hostile comes in st Jacques saving throw.

Timothy (DM)  
Alright, Cool. Back up to the top of the order you see Alice a bullet out of the room where she fucking bitch operate What do you do?

Speaker 4  
I cast magical awareness. All Right. So I Can use my action to open my awareness. You'll see Fern kind of grow And like expand a little bit And then I Can sense any spell or magic item within 60 feet of me That isn't behind total cover. So she's behind the wall again sensor.

Timothy (DM)  
Can you give me a Constitution save

Unknown Speaker  
you perceive the void

Speaker 4  
plus nine Come on. Come on new pair of shoes. 16

Timothy (DM)  
All Right. So This is What happened. You perceive the magic in This room And you were blinded by This brilliance lights. But it starts to Just warble And warp. It's like swirling chaos of energy. It's as if you stuck your head directly in a flame torch pointed straight at you. And your vision is Just blasted with This energy. You immediately shut it down. You are Fine. But it hurt.

Unknown Speaker  
And This is why bleh dumb characters All Right, I

Timothy (DM)  
still have a boat. All Right, What do you do with your bonus action?

Unknown Speaker  
Is there a painting nearby because I have to hit something.

Timothy (DM)  
Today I have plenty of paintings And I hit it with my axe,

Unknown Speaker  
But not in a special fun way.

Timothy (DM)  
So as you smack the painting your axe hits an immovable object to the blade is probably blunted by the impact That it makes

Speaker 4  
Cool. You know in That case, I will roll the dice

Speaker 4  
gonna roll the dice And Fuck up everything for everyone else because That's my go to a as soon as I hit it I turn invisible. And then I blinked out of existence.

Timothy (DM)  
Do you disappear? Yonsei What are you doing? You no longer see Alice. You see the paintings moving? You watched as your eldritch blasts? were projected into the painting themselves.

Speaker 5  
I am going to cache banishment on two of them the two That I hit.

Timothy (DM)  
Okay. Do you have to do banishment on creatures? Or What are the rules for items?

Unknown Speaker  
Oh, This creature sorry. Okay.

Timothy (DM)  
It doesn't sound it will not have effects on the painting.

Kendrick (Yonce)  
Oh, then I will not catch banishment I almost do it. I'm like wow, I wish I Just never remember when we Can do it on our creatures. Wow. Say even at the end of the world You're still a little crazy

Unknown Speaker  
But you wish had those almonds now?

Kendrick (Yonce)  
And I can't find home girl Can I? Nope. I'm gonna summon aberration. Cool. Does because I can't fucks with This.

Unknown Speaker  
There's so much going on in This time.

Kendrick (Yonce)  
I know. And I'm going to is going to be because there's three I Can cast. I think I'm gonna cast a slad Alright,

Timothy (DM)  
so a slad manifests in the room. Where would you like to place them?

Speaker 5  
Right where Upri disappeared.

Timothy (DM)  
All Right. So This reptilian like, giant creatures. They're quite large. like What eight nine feet? Although It's towering above you all in the room. It's long claws dragging on the floor. What do you direct it to do

Speaker 5  
to swipe in use their claws Just swipe to see if I hit anything. Just swipe

Timothy (DM)  
Right where Upri disappeared. All Right, make an attack roll with disadvantage.

Speaker 5  
I mean swipe towards where Alice was

Timothy (DM)  
make an attack roll with disadvantage.

Unknown Speaker  
I got an eight team

Timothy (DM)  
roll for damage.

Kendrick (Yonce)  
You're saying This very

Unknown Speaker  
You're really aggressive Right now.

Kendrick (Yonce)  
So It's one of the three so seven plus three plus five to 15 Move team flashing

Unknown Speaker  
Yes

Timothy (DM)  
Upri You take 15 slashing damage

Unknown Speaker  
to seven Oh my God listen to the Greek

Kendrick (Yonce)  
That was me I'm sorry. I been my bad my bad. Run. Yeah. What are you doing? But now my my slag goes after me.

Speaker 2  
Um, I wanna I mean like how noises I guess I want to like listen And see if I Can find where hidden person is That isn't operating.

Timothy (DM)  
What types of skills do you have to do That I have perception? check give me a perception check. I do

Speaker 2  
have observing the feet so That makes me like That puts up my passive perception up to like 21 So I Don't know if That helps But I have Nothing literally Nothing.

Timothy (DM)  
passive perception you have 21 You have not sensed anything in the room That would suggest where

Speaker 2  
Alice is my act of perception was also 21

Timothy (DM)  
Okay. Do do not perceive Alice in the room.

Speaker 2  
Then I'm gonna see so the the paintings That are growing out of the paintings. When Upri Hit one, like That was the frame And the frame Just like the whole thing didn't move Right. So like I couldn't run ups. Correct. Cuz I'm Just going to try it anyways, try And pick up a paid thing.

Timothy (DM)  
Alright, you grab a painting by the frame And you try to lift it is stuck stead fast.

Unknown Speaker  
Just stick my hand And more than That one.

Timothy (DM)  
You feel the canvas on your hand,

Speaker 2  
trying to gather information. I Don't know What to do. I guess I'll if I have an action left, I Don't know if any of That probably all counts as an action. So That's it. That's it.

Timothy (DM)  
All Right, Salvador.

Chris (Sal S)  
Okay. So the painting of the AI is it doing anything I've seen?

Timothy (DM)  
No gives you the heebie jeebies, But It's not doing anything.

Chris (Sal S)  
And is there in its move.

Timothy (DM)  
All the paintings seem to be moving, although you can't. You Don't notice them moving. But they never quite the same when you look at them.

Chris (Sal S)  
And there's no enemies in This room That the slide But That's the only other thing That's in This room That You're aware of. I want to get up close to some of these paintings away from from Wren, And I want to cast Thunder Wave. All Right. So they have to do a constitution saving throw,

Timothy (DM)  
Right everybody? What is the source? Yes, It's

Chris (Sal S)  
a 15 foot cube centered on me. So anything That's more than eight feet away is Fine. So I stood away from run. So I'm in the corner.

Timothy (DM)  
Okay, so you run to one of the corners of the room And you cast it Right? There are not gonna be any rolls because there's nobody in That cube. However the orbs shatter in That orange do paintings begin to push their way out.

Chris (Sal S)  
Is there an orb in front of every painting? There are

Timothy (DM)  
series of orbs around every painting in This like Just miniature ceremony circle. That's on the pillar. Okay,

Unknown Speaker  
men, men damn, You're disappointed voice sounds.

Chris (Sal S)  
Anyway, Well, That should make everything more interesting.

Timothy (DM)  
Which is beautiful because That's when Alice Springs herself to the other corner of the room And claps I need everybody to make a dexterity saving throw against something I

Unknown Speaker  
Can see.

Timothy (DM)  
It is against something you Can see

Chris (Sal S)  
natural Tony

Unknown Speaker  
Robbins 1917

Speaker 5  
I got a 1414

Timothy (DM)  
so

Speaker 1  
as Alice claps you see a rift open up in the center of the room, And it quickly expands into a black hole And it starts to pull everything towards it.

Timothy (DM)  
Upri Salvador

Speaker 1  
Wren you quickly grab on to something the first pillar That you Can, as you feel your body lifted up into the air being pulled into This black hole. You see all of the orbs from the pillars ripped off their pedestals flying into the black hole Yonsei you clambered to grab something But it is Just out of grasp. Do you do

Timothy (DM)  
start flying towards This black hole being pulled in?

Kendrick (Yonce)  
Is there anything around me That I Can grab on to

Timothy (DM)  
there are pillars throughout the room if you act quickly?

Kendrick (Yonce)  
Oh I quickly Oh, yeah, Okay. Oh no, I want to grab on a pillar. Okay.

Timothy (DM)  
So give me another Dexterity save to try to push the extreme.

Speaker 1  
With a 16th you manage to grasp the outer ledge of one of the pillars you are now like five feet away from This black hole your feet dangling flapping behind you as you are gripping. Holding on to This pillar for dear life. Give me a strength Fave

Kendrick (Yonce)  
also do I need to roll it austerity for my slide?

Timothy (DM)  
Yes

Unknown Speaker  
I'll do That for This lad. That is a 10

Timothy (DM)  
Cool is poured into the black hole gone string save

Unknown Speaker  
from the What slad sound like in my mind 2019

Timothy (DM)  
You'll feel the whites of your knuckle I gotta be white as you grip onto the pillar And you I feel your forearms, tensing And straining. They're beginning to feel sore. Wren, What are you doing?

Speaker 2  
I read a holding on I got a killer, Right? Yes. Okay. Can I like pull myself up to the pillar so I Can like full body wrap myself around it or like, get on the other side of it. So I Can be like,

Timothy (DM)  
give me leaning on a strength based skill. So athletics.

Unknown Speaker  
It's all zeros. It's all negative ones. So seven.

Speaker 1  
All Right. Try to pull yourself on to the pillar to get a better grasp. But you cannot combat the force of the pool. You feel yourself starting to lose your grip. good. Okay,

Timothy (DM)  
Salvador. What are you doing?

Chris (Sal S)  
Well, It's my turn already. I'm going to try to cast hold person on Alice. Oh,

Timothy (DM)  
It's yesterday. Wisdom.

Chris (Sal S)  
Yeah. Wisdom of seven.

Timothy (DM)  
Shield to 21

Chris (Sal S)  
So she passes WAMP fucking bitch. Does it look like she's controlling the the thing or is it Just she cashed And now she's doing something different.

Timothy (DM)  
She casts And she is standing steadfast on the ground. I'm affected.

Chris (Sal S)  
She must be really dense.

Unknown Speaker  
Is their hair affected with their hair being like pulled in now? Oh, It's

Timothy (DM)  
like the eye of This storm.

Chris (Sal S)  
That's terrifying. She's inside of it. Or she's she's

Timothy (DM)  
still in the corner But she begins to walk towards it in the center of the room. She places her hand on it. And you all feel a ripple through the air.

Unknown Speaker  
This pitch is crazy. Everybody

Timothy (DM)  
gives me a strength.

Unknown Speaker  
Oh no.

Timothy (DM)  
As you were holding on with all the mic That you Can Guster up

Unknown Speaker  
roll the two.

Chris (Sal S)  
I got 717 26

Unknown Speaker  
Are we still

Timothy (DM)  
Yes. This is Alice turn. Ren. Salvatore you lose your grip. And in That ripple you are Just sucked into the black hole. All Right. Welcome. By green Yonsei you manage to maintain your grip. But you watch Salvador And Wren disappear

Unknown Speaker  
And Twilight

Timothy (DM)  
highlight was long gone Okay, y'all y'all are in the black hole doesn't matter

Unknown Speaker  
so I'm still invisible. I would like to know the answer

Timothy (DM)  
you Don't see appraised still Don't know the status or hear her. Okay, you Can see now you know the status of Upri

Speaker 4  
I would like to stop yelling not Just let go But launch myself off of What I'm hanging on to @shadows_of_prophecy Owl And try to slam it al Knock her into the black hole with me.

Timothy (DM)  
Give me And Acrobatics check

Unknown Speaker  
Acrobatics. check from Roland good. I think This is the This is the DI o dirty 20

Speaker 1  
Alright, you launch yourself an owl grappling her And as you wrap your arms around her you feel yourself pulled into That black hole And she is coming with you.

Timothy (DM)  
into the black hole you go with Alice. Now ya know You're the last one left in This room. You're still feeling the pool of the black hole But now you feel That pool starting to subside. It is probably 10 feet in diameter Right now. And you watch as it starts to slowly shrink. What do you do

Unknown Speaker  
stay tuned for

Timothy (DM)  
eight feet seven feet

Unknown Speaker  
jump in like a panic.

Speaker 1  
You let go And you let it take you into the black hole you go. You all are thrown On to cold stone.

Timothy (DM)  
You look up, And you see a dining table set with a feast one person sits at the head of the table, one singular person sits at the head of the table. Wren, you see lark, oh, Salvador, you see Desmond And That is where we will end the season

Speaker 1  
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