Hi Wanna punch anxiety in the face, kick depression to the curb, galavan through a magical, sparkle rainbow world where friendship saves the day. Quick, take my hand. Well, hello darlings, and welcome to Squee hi. Squee is a tabletop roleplaying game, or TTRPG, about the emotional world of being in community and we are playtesting for you live. My name is Ketch and I will be your chronicler today. That means I'm in charge of hurting these weirdos. Let's meet our players today. First up, we have Greg.
Greg (Repot):Hello, I'm Greg and I am playing Repot. Greeting complete.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Uh, doug is totally here. Hi, I'm Doug, doug, but doug's not here today, uh and dan, hi, I'm dan.
Ray (Dazzle):I'm playing everyone's favorite uh stupid roller, derby jellyfish girl, uh zipper nice and ray hello, I'm ray and I play dazzazzle Bright only the most beautiful Malabar giant squirrel in all the realm.
Kitsch (Chronicler):And that's spelled B-R-I-T-E.
Ray (Dazzle):No, I'm kidding that is how it's spelled Alright.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So grab a snack and maybe some tissues and come be our neighbor as we find joy in the journey and celebrate our authentic selves, Because life is hard but we can have fun in the meantime. Cheese Previously on Squee, and Ray is going to read that for us, so true.
Ray (Dazzle):After a brief detour to investigate mysterious music coming from Charles' garage, where they glimpsed Nico, the missing nephew they've been told about playing with his band. Our travelers set off with high spirits. However, their journey to course quickly transformed into a test of resourcefulness, where they encountered their first miasmic challenge a road covered in increasingly sticky substance that eventually forced them to abandon their wagon and horses, only later to retrieve the horses, so sticky. The party's dynamics again shined through crisis when rescuing Shelby, a mushroom person caught in quicksand within a miasmic swamp, dazzle maintained their pristine appearance. Despite chaos.
Ray (Dazzle):Repot analyzed a myriad of situations with methodical precision. Zipper rushed headlong. Thank you, thank you. I thought I was a goner. The episode culminated with our heroes encountering a mysterious stone wall. While traversing through dense fog, reapot discovered an opening that revealed nothing but blinding light and a blaring siren, leaving us wondering what new challenge awaits. What began as a simple delivery quest McGuffin sorry transformed into a profound exploration of how we face fear. Together, will they find what they seek in Chorus and, more importantly, will they discover strength in their unusual fellowship?
Dan (Zipper):Dun-dun-dun.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Dun-dun-dun, all right. A thick, oppressive fog obscures your vision, filling your lungs with a buzzing chill. Your hearts or engines beat loudly within your chest and your body feels heavy Repot. As you peer around the corner of this break in the wall, you are hit with a blinding red light. An alarm begins to blare, your body tensing up. What do you do?
Greg (Repot):I think I'm my, what do you do? Um, I'm thinking my, well, okay, so I guess the the red light. I'm gonna say that, well, I can't see per se with, like my camera, I imagine it's, it's I'm gonna say, take blinding light, literally and be like oh I can't see um.
Greg (Repot):I think repot tries to um, better understand one first, like if, if it can identify like using like sound, if there's any thing or person like actually present there or or what the source of that kind of like alarm is, um, and I think it's it's probably first reaction is going to be like like back away, because if there's a big alarm blaring, repot's first reaction is, oh, this is a dangerous place oh, I should not be here.
Greg (Repot):This is there's a hazard right like especially from a construction site, like it's obvious, right I should, I should back up. You know I've I've obviously tripped into something where I shouldn't be. So I think Repot, like, as it kind of backs away from the door and maybe tries to like find its way back to where the wall opening is and like peer from the side, I think it's gonna try and first back up and then second try and use some of its like kind of radar satellite dishes so you can see it kind of peeking out past the side of this door and there's a little satellite dish spinning around that's trying to understand, see if there's anything that the radar can see, that it can't see because the camera's basically been blinded by red light.
Ray (Dazzle):Just like an instruction truck backing up. You hear beep, beep.
Greg (Repot):Exactly, exactly.
Kitsch (Chronicler):All right, I would like you to roll me a body roll, exactly alright, I would like you to roll me a body roll, body roll, yeah that's just two dice, okay oh, wow that's 11 plus 2, so 13 that is a success.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So, as you are trying to sense your surroundings while backing up out of this red light, after hearing this alarm going off, a couple things happen. One you do feel this burning sensation on your body, as if the red light itself was causing, causing a little bit of uh, heat, um, but you are able to, you're able to back up, um, and kind of peek back around the wall, uh, quickly enough that it does not do any sustained damage on your body.
Kitsch (Chronicler):But as you're doing this, you do get a little bit of a sense of your surroundings and you notice that this light is coming from a tower that was directly down a corridor that you were looking down, so maybe about 50 feet in front of you at the time there was a giant tower that you can kind of make out through the fog because of how intensely the light is being pushed out. You also noticed that there were a couple hallways to either side, so you made out two hallways, one to the left and to the right. About halfway before you reach the tower, you also notice that beyond the tower there does seem to be a couple other hallways as well.
Greg (Repot):Okay, repod says hazard identified Temperature increased as a sort of a way to try and warn anybody who's still around here. I mean, are you, are y'all within earshot? I don't know how far I I got trying to get into this door, but I I imagine that, like I'm, I'm trying to report back my status, um, to let y'all know, because I don't think I want to handle this heat thing alone. I am kind of curious because I do want to see, like, because I am currently behind the wall, there's like red light shining through this doorway, right, yes, so I'm kind of curious if I can start trying to pull open like a thermometer, like from Moopods. I just want to know, like, how hot it is. I just want to know, like, how hot it is. I just want to know, um, to see if that, if it is actually like a temperature thing, or if it's something else that feels like temperature to my sensors. Yeah, but that might take a little bit of time.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I don't really use a thermometer very often okay, uh, so you start futzing about pulling out random bits of yourself, trying to figure out exactly how to pull this thermometer out wherever it is hidden within your compartments. Anything that Dazzle or Zipper is doing with this information?
Ray (Dazzle):Well, we were listening for those blips that Repot was giving off last time and now not hearing them. I don't know if we should proceed. How loud is the alarm?
Kitsch (Chronicler):Oh, the alarm is very loud, you all hear it go off. It is blaringly loud, blaringly loud and you all kind of see this red haze in the fog over to where Repot had headed when that alarm was going off. And then the red light turns off.
Ray (Dazzle):Oh, okay, I guess we'll scurry over, we'll skate over, I'll stay here, but you're faster than me, so maybe you can let me know what's going on over there.
Dan (Zipper):Maybe we should all just be together, right, okay? I'll see you in a second.
Ray (Dazzle):And then I begin trotting on over with Veronica S and Cherry, I suppose.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Alright, so you, you tried on over with uh, veronica s and cherry um trinket is also just going to follow uh along. Okay, you're being awfully quiet. Uh, I'm not gonna voice trinket much, we're just gonna establish things that trinket is doing. Um, but I'm not gonna be doing too much voicing uh in doug's absence today. Um, but trinket will also fall on over uh with the horses, and the four of you are now right outside this opening in the wall. What do you do?
Greg (Repot):I'm going to repeat Hazard identified Temperature increased, and I don't know, have I gotten this thermometer out yet? I kind of want at the very least to communicate with it, like, hey, this is what we're dealing with.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, so yeah, by this time you can get the thermometer out and you have it accessible to you, and would you like to do anything with it in this moment?
Greg (Repot):Well, I kind of want to, I want to kind of hold out this thermometer in. Oh, the red light turned off, didn't it?
Kitsch (Chronicler):hold out this thermometer in. Oh, the red light turned off, didn't it? Yeah, the red light turned off after you. Uh, hid back behind the wall um, I'm I.
Greg (Repot):Well, I think repot's first uh instinct is to try and start testing what will set off this alarm, right, so first it like waves the thermometer hand like in front of the door to see if, if that turns it on, uh, and if that doesn't work, he's gonna like, or it's gonna like, start moving more of itself but not cross the threshold of the door. And then it's going to try and like add, you know, push, push the thermometer a little bit past the threshold of the door just to see what exactly sets it off so as you do that and the thermometer passes the threshold of the door, the alarm goes off again, blaringly loud, as the red light turns on.
Greg (Repot):I think Repot was prepared for this. I think it did what it could to try and be already out of the way and it kind of like leaps back. And then with the thermometer, the red light is still on, though, right, and I'm hoping, I'm trying to angle it so that the reading on the thermometer is still visible from our side of the door. Yeah, uh, and I kind of like, basically what?
Kitsch (Chronicler):does it say? I assume it's it getting hotter and hotter and hotter yes, so as this light blasts through the doorway, you see, the thermometer temperature begins to rise uh, 98.6, 102, 107, 115, 125, 130, 135 is the whole doorway covered in this light?
Dan (Zipper):yeah, okay. So it's not like a spotlight, it's like the whole hallway lights up the whole hallway lights up.
Greg (Repot):Yeah and, and I think, repot maybe, uh like, maybe I don't know if I have a mirror or anything but like I think that I have, like cameras. I feel like I would be able to show some kind of like. This is what I saw previously.
Kitsch (Chronicler):It just like takes a photograph, basically, and and displays it somehow yeah, and it is just like a a looming tower of this blinding red light.
Greg (Repot):It looks quite, uh, sinister yeah, um, and I think rupat says navigation analysis, path identified, and it points on the photo to where it saw the two paths that would branch out that we could theoretically like try and make a dash for and then hide behind out of the sight of this blinding light. But again it like repeats, for emphasis hazard identified and points several times at in points several times at the light, at the very end. So it seems like we're probably going to have to find either some way to not trigger it although it seems like anything that crosses the threshold turns it on or we're going to have to have something to hide behind that can withstand heat if we're trying to get through, or we could try and find a different way around, but I suspect that this might be what we have to do is the light from the watchtower kind of like spotlight that like sweeps back and forth, like does it seem like something locks on anytime?
Ray (Dazzle):uh repot attempts to um stick a limb out, it is fully lit up area.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Okay, so any ground that the light of the tower can reach seems to be affected by this.
Dan (Zipper):It's Sauron, I know it, there's no spotlight.
Ray (Dazzle):It's just like a blast of light in all directions. That seems terrible, does it Well, I don't know. Know, you guys want to go back home?
Dan (Zipper):that's it for me do we have anything that could block the light? Like a sheet like a, like a something to like.
Greg (Repot):It's got to be heat resistant, right um repot.
Ray (Dazzle):How many mirrors do you have?
Greg (Repot):huh um, I don't know if repot necessarily has. I feel like if repot had mirrors on, they would have broken a long time ago just with the way that repot moves, I don't think anything glass is going to be particularly safe. Um, but I do think that repot moves.
Greg (Repot):I don't think anything glass is going to be particularly safe, um, but I do think that repot may have like some kind of like reflective surface, like maybe, like probably, like just for patching things up, just like a, like a small sheet of metal. I don't know how much it has in the way of mirrors. I don't know if repot has anything like that would like reflect or even concentrate anything, no convenient glass spheres or anything like that, or prisms, but it might have some kind of like a sheet of metal or something we could also look around. I'm curious, because it's not. I guess Repo wants to know Is it burning the sides of the hallway or is the material that the hallway is made of resistant to this heat?
Dan (Zipper):I'm going to reach around and touch the side of the wall Very briefly to see if it heated up.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Am I going to put my foot in my mouth with this answer? Oh, boy. So you, as you're like feeling the stone, you can feel it's the same stone on the inside as the outside. Um, so it's all like a smooth stone. Um, is it hot? It's, the wall is hot where the light was hitting. Um, but it's cooling down like it's. It cools down after a while. It does heat up, but it does heat up yeah.
Ray (Dazzle):Acknowledge.
Kitsch (Chronicler):It is just stone. So stone just doesn't melt until you get really really, really, really really hot, how far away is the first break off?
Greg (Repot):Yeah, could super make it.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Right away is the first break off. Yeah good, the first break off is 25 feet, that's not far. And your temperature reading cut off at 150. So it's technically doable, it's just painful.
Dan (Zipper):Zipper cracks her non-existent joints. She does the cracking of the joints thing but nothing happens because she's jelly oh wait, is scalding 140?
Kitsch (Chronicler):is that when you can scald your skin? I don't know.
Greg (Repot):I don't think repot would want zipper to do this without any kind of protection. I think we would want to try and think of some kind of thing to at least give you more of a chance.
Dan (Zipper):Um I think it should be fine. I mean, what if I get a running start essentially, or a skating start doesn't turn on until you cross a threshold.
Greg (Repot):You could start at speed.
Dan (Zipper):Oh, does it not turn on Like if I back up and stand in the threshold but like farther back? Does it turn on, or is it only when I cross?
Kitsch (Chronicler):between the walls. It's only when you cross the threshold.
Dan (Zipper):Oh I could totally take that. But, I'm thinking I might like if I could use one of you to like, like the way I held onto the tree in episode one and did like a whip around, something to like get me going at like a slight angle. Or I could just dash at a slight angle.
Greg (Repot):So I hit the corner of the A pole we can do, we can put. So Reapot says, reapot basically goes and tries to I don't know if there's like a tree or anything but Repot has like poles, I imagine Like just like a stick that you can like hold onto and just like spikes it into the ground. Oh.
Greg (Repot):And then does its best to like clear out sort of like a you know a place for you to spin up as fast as possible, and gain yeah, right and it's kind of thing like just make sure to try and make it as flat as possible. So you can like really try and and and spin yourself around to give yourself the greatest kind of like immediate speed as you cross this threshold, to see if you can get to that place. Although I'm not, what are you gonna do when you get there? I don't know, are you gonna take anything?
Greg (Repot):with you to help. Oh no, um, but that's what refog does, at least I think in terms of that's the first problem. It's like okay, well, let's get Zipper up to proper speed.
Ray (Dazzle):If Zipper can get there maybe they can deactivate the device and then maybe we can get through.
Greg (Repot):Right. Well in that case, are you aiming for that hallway or are you trying to get all the way to the beacon?
Dan (Zipper):Let's start with the hallway. Let's start with the hallway.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, um, okay, so I pulled up science while we were all talking. That's what I love um and we're gonna say that it maxed out at 140, because 140 you can get first degree burn in two seconds um, and you can get permanent burns after five seconds probably faster.
Ray (Dazzle):If you're a jellyfish out of water, true Well, we're just gonna yeah. We're gonna.
Kitsch (Chronicler):That's the extent of sciencing, we're doing Dazzle. Can we get?
Greg (Repot):some of that condensation and like try and get you all like moist or something, so that you have even more. Well, I don't know.
Dan (Zipper):Well, here's what I'm gonna do when I let go. I'm gonna squat down, I'm gonna compress my jelly body and I'm gonna hold my helmet in front of me oh okay, that's a little bit of a block gorgeous, okay?
Kitsch (Chronicler):um, all right, so we're gonna do the shot put method yep, I'm gonna tetherball myself to this pole.
Dan (Zipper):Oh my gosh. And then I let go. Beautiful.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yay, all right, give me a body roll.
Dan (Zipper):Can I use? Catch Me, if you Can. Yes, you can or can't catch me yes, you can Slay. Slay oh that's fine.
Kitsch (Chronicler):That's an 11. An 11? Yep, that's a success. So you zoom off and you're going to the left or the right hall Left All right, gorgeous. So you are going to have a success. And you want to zoom left or the right hall, Left All right, gorgeous. So you are going to have a success. And you're going to zoom off towards the left wall where there is a hallway, and as you are zooming down, you reach this hallway and you make it into the section that is protected behind another wall from the light.
Dan (Zipper):You hear, once I make it to the hallway, you hear like a. As I like, probably make contact with the wall and bounce a little bit.
Kitsch (Chronicler):And the rest of you all see, the light goes off as soon as Zipper is out of the light area.
Dan (Zipper):I'm okay.
Kitsch (Chronicler):And as Zipper you regain your bearings, you start to notice a glow off further down the hall, a blue light, just faint warm glow. As you look further down you notice that there is a crystal floating at the end of a hallway. If you were to look the other direction you can see that the other option of hallway does continue on as well into a T intersection.
Dan (Zipper):I'm going to check out this crystal.
Kitsch (Chronicler):All right. So you begin to approach the crystal and you feel this warmth, and not like warm as in cozy, but warm as in agitated and like a buzzy heat. You come up to the crystal and what do you do? How big is it? Uh, it's about your size. Oh, is it like floating? Yep, just floating at the end of the hall.
Dan (Zipper):No pedestal or anything that it's on. Nope, Can I tap it with a tentacle? Just briefly boop.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, so you tap it with a tentacle and you get a brief vision.
Dan (Zipper):Insert that so Raven into the eyeball.
Kitsch (Chronicler):It's so quick because you're just tapping it, that you can't quite make out anything more than just blurry shapes and color.
Dan (Zipper):I will tap it for a longer second this time.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Alright, so you tap it and you get the vision again, this time slightly clearer. You see, nico, it's zoomed in really close, it's like panned really close to his face, but you can hear music playing.
Dan (Zipper):Wow, his skin is immaculate.
Kitsch (Chronicler):It sounds similar to what you heard at band practice. It's kind of like a punk metal guitar riff. You hear the percussion going in the background and then the vision fades away as you lift your tentacle off the crystal again.
Dan (Zipper):If I touch it with my helmet, like try and push at it while holding my helmet, do I still see the vision?
Kitsch (Chronicler):No, Can I try and knock it out of place? You try as you can and it will not budge. Hmm, and this is just the end of the hallway, right? Yeah, this is just the end of the hallway right.
Ray (Dazzle):Yeah, this is just the end of the hallway. Oh fine, what do you see?
Dan (Zipper):down there there's like a crystal and then I touch it and I see nico and he's playing. It's like a little vision. I like see it in my mind's eye. That doesn't seem very helpful, I know.
Greg (Repot):Processing Reaper has no idea what like visions.
Dan (Zipper):Okay, hold on a second, and this time I'm just gonna touch it and I'm gonna leave my hand on it until I feel uncomfortable, gorgeous or a heart.
Kitsch (Chronicler):You touch the crystal and, as a vision returns to you, you hear the music, the guitar riff, the percussion and actually I have sounds for this, so I can do that and it's quite loud, it's like blasting in your ears, it's like taking over your entire body and you start to get a sense of this scene. You start to feel something, something welling up inside you. Can you pick between heart voice and mind Voice? Alright, so give me a voice roll.
Dan (Zipper):Okay, oh, that's two sixes.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Two sixes Critical success, oh my gosh. Wow.
Kitsch (Chronicler):All right. So I'm going to describe what happens. So this music is blasting, it's filling your body with this emotion pouring through the music and you start to hear the words fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, oh boy. And then the vision fades I have to cough because of me tearing through my vocal cords and the vision fades and as it does, you see the glow of the crystal dims and you start to hear a rumble, and you feel the floor begin to rumble a little bit.
Kitsch (Chronicler):As you see, the stone wall to the right of the crystal begins to part.
Dan (Zipper):Oh, what's beyond it?
Kitsch (Chronicler):Close enough, wrong sound effect, but it is what happens, and so the ground rumbles, the door parts and as you peer beyond, you see a hallway leading on further into into what is now evident as a maze.
Dan (Zipper):I'm going to skate back over to that first hallway and stick a tentacle out. See if I can trigger the lamp.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, the light triggers yet again. Damn it. In a moment. Yeah, nothing turns off the light. It is still there. How far am I from the tower. So the tower was another 25 feet if you were to continue beyond the hallway that you turned off into.
Greg (Repot):But now you don't have the speed up.
Dan (Zipper):I don't, but I still could like I still could get like a skating start true yeah, well yeah, is there something that would help us?
Greg (Repot):just if you just crossed the the hallway and went to the other side, I could is there like another way around? There might be another crystal or something, or you know because I feel like getting to the tower would be difficult, but getting just across the thing where the light turns on, you probably could do that pretty easily with how fast you are.
Dan (Zipper):Wait, okay. So I started. I'm drawing a little map for myself.
Greg (Repot):There we go yeah.
Dan (Zipper):So I went forward and then there's a path to the right and to the left. I went left, there was the crystal and then to the right of the crystal it opened up. So, hypothetically, if I followed the right-hand side of the crystal window I might be able to turn right. Wait, if I look down that hallway, can I turn right towards the tower?
Greg (Repot):Well, we'd have to go down that hallway?
Kitsch (Chronicler):No, not immediately. So when you do look down that hallway you do see that there is a little pocket off to the right, but it ends in a dead end, pretty quickly um, but at the other end of the hallway you do see that it opens up into a t intersection, and there's also, midway down the hallway to the left, a hall that you could turn into but that's going to take me away from the tower correct, you're basically gonna go beyond the tower yeah, but I want to get my party in there before I move any farther forward.
Dan (Zipper):I could just go for the tower does it seem like when, when the light triggers, I'm gonna trigger the light and I'm to poke my head out really quick just to see, but not get burned like it was really again the light blasts, the alarm blares right, right, right but at the base of the tower, can I see if there's like is it like a wall that has the light on it and I'm just going to be like stuck there against the light, or can I see that I can go like beyond, where the light ends?
Dan (Zipper):does that make sense?
Kitsch (Chronicler):beyond, where the light ends um starts so the tower is in the middle of a chamber, um, you do see, or you do remember seeing, that there were other hallways behind the tower, um, one off to the left and then even further on, two more left and right. So the tower itself does have a small base, that is stone, where the light would be blocked from you. So, like the, very like, a small perimeter around the tower is kind of concealed from the the light itself. But then the rest of the tower is what's lighting up?
Kitsch (Chronicler):and it lights up the whole room the whole room, yeah and down every single hallway that it would be, and I'd have the same problem if I were in a different hallway approaching the land, the light uh, theoretically yes I think we can do it.
Dan (Zipper):I think I can make it. I'll get like a running start.
Greg (Repot):Let's see I'll have something well, I think in the meantime, repot hasn't just been like twiddling its thumbs. I think repot has been trying to assemble some kind of barrier that it could hide behind as it tries to make its way, like just something to absorb the heat, I think, because that seems to be the primary kind of problem. It's like, yeah, it's light, but it's that light, fine Right. Like there's an alarm, but it's not like there's people coming after us. It's just, the problem is heat and you know, maybe anger fueled or whatever. But like the idea is well, okay, can we just assemble, using materials that are around us, some kind of thing that we could carry in front of us? Um, so, I don't know exactly what, what is around the this wall? Um, repots, first thing to just just to use pieces of it, uh, if it can kind of chip away at it or something, or trying to steal a brick.
Greg (Repot):That would probably be the first thing it tried to see is like okay, well, there's clearly this structure that I can use, um, right, and it seems to be surviving the heat. Okay enough, at least you know enough to like try and walk for a minute towards this, this, uh, this hallway intersection, um, but I don't know, um what else there is around. I think that would be kind of what repot's been trying to do is see if it can like start trying to take apart pieces of this wall. Like how structurally sound is it? You know? So it's, it's tapping on it and and, and it's taken out like a little, a little hammer and a little chisel tool. It's kind of like trying to see if it can like uh, remove pieces of this wall. See what, what happens.
Ray (Dazzle):Deso has a better idea. Oh yeah, um, hey, tinker, you got any like large cloths or blankets, or you know something that you'd put down when you're painting a towel, um so make a body roll.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Trinket's not here to make a body roll, um, but yeah, I will say that trinket has like some claws, but nothing particularly large. It's not like the claws that have sentimental values, tend not to be like a drop cloth made of canvas.
Dan (Zipper):The overalls is probably the largest piece of fabric it has.
Ray (Dazzle):It's grandma's favorite blanket.
Greg (Repot):Yeah, let's have it burn up in the eye of Sauron. Anything for me.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, there's just that. That's all the trinket can seem to find, or just little things like a handkerchief, maybe like a swatch of a um wedding dress all right, that's fine.
Ray (Dazzle):Get back to me when you're done, being useless not even here to rebuttal.
Dan (Zipper):That's so rude so rude.
Kitsch (Chronicler):At this point, Trinket's just like so I'm just going to wait here with the horses, because I'm just really worried that they're not going to do farewell in this. So I think it might be best that you all go on without me and I stay with Terry and Veronica S, and this is totally Trinket's voice. I am Doug.
Ray (Dazzle):This is how it works and this is totally. Well. I was thinking of how to get the horses to the roof, but I guess's decision is, we're gonna horses in tight, compact spaces with traps.
Greg (Repot):Probably better to leave them out here. Yeah well, how's this wall feel? Is this? Is this disassemblable or is it rock solid in a way that would take too long to actually try and so?
Kitsch (Chronicler):it's pretty rock solid. However, you have chipped off a couple small chunks of it. What you notice, though, is, as the chunks of wool fall out of the bounds of this maze, they dissipate. They turn to the miasma. They return to the miasma.
Dan (Zipper):The walls are made of miasma Solid solid.
Ray (Dazzle):My ass it's all in my mind, yeah simply don't think about any of this and you won't get hurt.
Greg (Repot):Exactly I'm just gonna close my sensors and just walk forward and you can try uh testing hypothesis repot close, turns off all its sensors and just walks straight into the wall, correct, yeah?
Kitsch (Chronicler):you're an r2d2 which you don't know, because you've turned off your sensors so dazzle. You watch as repot just starts walking into the wall, very much like a character in a video game that's just glitching into the wall, just walking forward, and walking forward, and walking forward and going nowhere. Any ideas out there?
Greg (Repot):Well, we're surrounded by fog, so it's kind of hard for us to understand, like, what's in the environment that we could use to try. Well, I'm just gonna respond. Negative Is what I'm gonna say.
Dan (Zipper):I'm gonna try and go for the tower and see what happens.
Ray (Dazzle):I think that's a good idea.
Dan (Zipper):Okay.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Alright, so you wanna head to the tower.
Dan (Zipper):Yeah, I'm gonna skate back to the crystal and get a running start or a sliding start.
Greg (Repot):Can Reapot take that pole and throw it to you?
Kitsch (Chronicler):I mean, yeah, However you want to accomplish that, you can. It's going to still be the roll Fair yeah, it's going to be 386. Fair enough, so however you want to flavor it.
Dan (Zipper):Can't catch me. Can I use? Can't catch me again?
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yes, you can use that. This is somehow a thing that you're going to just be good at, because you're running quickly through a maze.
Ray (Dazzle):Oh no, I dropped one. One fell on the floor.
Dan (Zipper):Oh, that's two sixes if we count the floor six, the two six. Do we count the floor six or do we have a re-roll?
Kitsch (Chronicler):No, I think we have to Rule it that no floor sixes.
Dan (Zipper):Okay, let me go grab my floor six.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Just because we're not going to remember the next time what our decision was. And we needed to be clear that if something bad is on the floor and y'all just don't tell me what it is that's okay.
Dan (Zipper):I re-rolled it and I got a two, and that's a total of ten.
Dan (Zipper):A total of ten, that's still a success.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, so you zoom back down the hallway towards the tower. You feel the heat on your skin I don't think it's called skin, I don't know, but whatever.
Dan (Zipper):But I as I like hit that corner.
Dan (Zipper):I'm gonna drag a tentacle along the corner to help me like turn quickly and then I put one skate on the wall, and so I like 90 degrees. Skate that way nice and then I just want to fly directly into the tower I just want to body slam the tower, so you body slam the tower just so I stop
Dan (Zipper):crash just so I stop.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I'm not trying to do any damage to the tower the alarm goes off, the light blasts uh you're oh. Blasts, you hear a ooh and you slam into the wall. Now, once you're here, the room is all lit up. Still You're still in this area.
Dan (Zipper):That's triggering the alarm and the light, and so the alarm just keeps going off. Oh boy, I like to shimmy around the tower staying out of the and look for anything. Is there like a button turn it off? So you?
Kitsch (Chronicler):start shimmering, shimmering, shimmering no, that's me I shimmy you start shimmying around the tower, um, and as you're doing so, I'll give you a little bit more of a lay of the land. So it's a square room off to the west. We'll use cardinal directions to make all of this easier. Off to the west there is a hallway that turns up north, and then up to the north is the T intersection that goes east and west. So that's what you can see around the room, and you shimmy around this tower and you find it all to be a smooth stone no buttons, no mechanisms, no levers, nothing, nada, zilch, how how?
Dan (Zipper):what is the circumference, what is the girth?
Kitsch (Chronicler):of the tower. It is 20 feet in diameter.
Dan (Zipper):Okay 20 feet, okay, and it's just smooth stone.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Just smooth stone.
Ray (Dazzle):What did you find?
Dan (Zipper):It's just a smooth tower. It's just a smooth tower. It's about 20 feet in diameter. It's really loud. Still how tall is the tower?
Kitsch (Chronicler):The tower is 30 feet tall.
Dan (Zipper):It's about 30 feet up.
Ray (Dazzle):Do you think you can make it up there? I can try.
Kitsch (Chronicler):You want to climb the tower.
Dan (Zipper):I'm going to try.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Okay, this is the source of the heat.
Dan (Zipper):But is the stone warm, or is it the light that heats it up?
Kitsch (Chronicler):It's the stone of the tower warm, so the sides of the tower are probably so warm Once you get up there, it's going to be warm, oh sure, and if it gets too hot I slide back down. Ten feet. That's where the stone stops and the light begins. Oh. So it's a column of glass sitting on top of a stone pedestal. Oh, yeah.
Dan (Zipper):Can I see if there's a light bulb inside Like what's the Um?
Kitsch (Chronicler):It's really bright. It's so bright you can't see. It's really bright and hurts to look at because it burns your skin.
Greg (Repot):It's a fucking light and it's really bright question query query repot, I imagine, has a solar panel somewhere on it. Can repot. Test to see if the light from this will actually charge repot. Will the pain be worth it? Will the pain be worth it? Test to see if the light from this will actually charge Repod.
Ray (Dazzle):Will the pain be worth it? Will the pain be?
Kitsch (Chronicler):worth it. So I have a question for you how functional is your solar panel? I did have to shock you away your battery.
Greg (Repot):We did say that anything that's glass is probably shattered by now.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, Because otherwise I'd be like, why is repel struggling with battery levels? I mean, it's you. It probably still works a little bit, probably still like like it is light, so it probably would right. Um, maybe not as well as the sun, because the sun has a full spectrum of light right.
Greg (Repot):Well, in my head I'm thinking like, even if it's non-functional, it is made of some kind of light absorbing material that I could probably try and sneak my way down this hallway with it, like held in front of me to the best of my ability, and try and use that as my kind of.
Greg (Repot):The thing that's blocking the light from hurting me too much is this thing that's technically supposed to be absorbing light, even if it's not necessarily functional on a charging capacity. But like, could I just kind of hide behind it? And it's like sort of like it's an adjustable thing where, like, I have the ability to like rotate it a little bit in theory, although the rotation isn't particularly good, but I can kind of like, because repot is sort of cylindrical, repot is going to try and like get down, so the so it's the long side of the cylinder is is facing the light, and then the solar panel it would make sense for it to be on top Right, so to see, like I kind of want to do a test where we pause like, ok, well, can I, you know, last through this light if I, if I hide behind this what used to be a solar panel but isn't particularly functional anymore, but it's still made of stuff that is supposed to be able to absorb light.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, I mean I could say that it offers you some protection, right, being that it has to be something that fits inside your body, right?
Greg (Repot):Well, it's kind of on the top, I would imagine. Okay, I'm sort of along with the sensors sort of deal, but yeah, I wouldn't say it covers my entire body for sure, yeah, yeah, that's kind of so I would say that offers some protection.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Story-wise, yeah, I don't know if it's uh, add an extra, die fair, but rp wise it does offer you that sense of protection that would encourage I want to try and make it to that, at least to the first it could.
Greg (Repot):I mean I'm curious because, like dazzle could just hide behind repot, I think repot is willing to just be the shadow, aren't?
Ray (Dazzle):you kind of small?
Greg (Repot):that's well. I mean I'm, I'm crawling on the ground with like a cylinder, so that would make me small, but I feel like you could crawl behind me and still sort of fit and be on the ground okay, so repot says follow and then tries to like, gets down on the ground and tries to see what it can do, whatever it can try and cover with this little panel.
Greg (Repot):It tries I'm not saying it's gonna work, but and starts trying to crawl along the ground basically just like brute, forcing it basically through this light, with the hope that the shadow that it casts behind it is kind of enough for dazzle bright, to to sort of sneak in as well. And if repot doesn't make it, then you still have that shadow, because repot is just going to be laying on the ground melting, which repot's kind of okay with it's not melting temperature no, it's not but.
Dan (Zipper):But like you know, in a you're gonna fry some wires yeah, exactly, exactly right.
Kitsch (Chronicler):It's bad for electronics, for sure.
Greg (Repot):It's not great, but not the end of the world in theory.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, okay, so you can do a body roll and then Dazzle. I'll let you decide if you're hiding behind Repot or you want to do that body roll on your own.
Ray (Dazzle):I don't know. I think I'll go on my own. I mean, tbh, I don't really know what to do. Yeah, but we gotta progress. And Dazzle, like Dazzle's intellect is at maximum and so Dazzle would know, like the statistics that you stated earlier, yeah, and Dazzle would not want like permanent burn scars, like that would be the worst thing ever for them.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, so you have a little over five seconds because the temperature takes time to reach the 140. So you probably have about 15 seconds to make it 25 feet. That's plenty of time. It's just potentially going to hurt.
Ray (Dazzle):Do you plan to go for the tower or for the left or right tunnels?
Greg (Repot):Navigating Tunnels.
Ray (Dazzle):Left or right? Uh, I think uh, just because it's where um Zipper came from, probably left Left, just because it's where we know things have been kind of resolved okay and then I guess it would be easy for zipper to get back there, and I wouldn't want to split the party, but I do want to find out what's on the right. Okay, I'll tag along. You can convince me to go right. I'm just saying it's true. It's very easy to convince.
Greg (Repot):Report yeah, thanks right um, doesn't your curiosity?
Ray (Dazzle):want to find out what's on the right?
Kitsch (Chronicler):navigate right, all right such a difficult conversation sure I thought it would be harder than that.
Greg (Repot):Reports down cares more about finding shade than which side.
Kitsch (Chronicler):All right.
Ray (Dazzle):Okay.
Kitsch (Chronicler):All right, do those body rolls?
Ray (Dazzle):Hey, is this my first time attempting to escape? The burning lights of a radiant star? I don't know.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I'm asking if I can use beginners luck I will let you decide if that constitutes beginner's luck for you um, or if you're just gonna say that that's running okay, we're gonna say no because the sun exists, right, all right.
Ray (Dazzle):What are those body?
Dan (Zipper):rolls four seven well, hold it.
Greg (Repot):I guess it's not four from it's, it's a body roll, so it's six. It's six still.
Kitsch (Chronicler):It's six, not great I think that's just a straight failure.
Dan (Zipper):Yeah, um great yeah, failure that is a straight failure the straights are always failing.
Kitsch (Chronicler):What, as Repot, is?
Greg (Repot):crawling towards the goal the light fries the wires in one of its limbs and it just kind of slips. It's like trying to drag itself, but it can't go fast enough. I hear a glass shatter and it's your thermometer.
Ray (Dazzle):It just caught on fire. It's like trying to drag itself, but it can't go fast enough. I hear a glass shatter and it's your thermometer that's broken off. Oh yeah, the thermometer. It just caught on fire. The thermometer's on fire. I feel like construction robots would deal with like temperatures in the middle and stuff, you hear clank clank, clank clank.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, but we're like in an anime, right now, in an anime, oh yeah, the fire externa tries to come out and fails, um, all right, so, yeah, so that's just a straight up failure. So I'll let you narrate how you fail making it to the right hallway, um, and then, with dazzle, that is a sacrifice. Um, so you're gonna still take that one damage to body, but you are going to make it into the right hallway. So, repot, yeah, narrate how that happens.
Greg (Repot):Repot tries, but the solar panel is not much help, as we kind of figured. It does not absorb, it doesn't really do the job and it leaves most of the robot exposed, especially the limbs that are trying to actually actually move the robot around. And of course, repot is not fast, as we've kind of already established. It's not particularly great at like traversing things at speed.
Greg (Repot):Uh, so the limbs which are kind of exposed as it's trying to drag itself around the the heat basically starts like frying some of the wires and they just stop responding right like like the wires just kind of are not, uh, kind of up to snuff for for this kind of movement, especially because the limbs just start like they do more of the limbs than usual, are non-responsive basically, and so it's. It's still maybe, like you know, at the last second it protects, like one of them, so it can like you know, like still retain some kind of range of motion when necessary, but it is kind of just like sitting there now baking in light.
Greg (Repot):I think maybe one last thing it tries to do perhaps is like cause it does have rope it tries to fling this rope as far as it can ahead of itself to the best of its ability just to get somebody else's help in order to just come please drag me, you know, you know, and it come, please drag me, you know, and it says assistance, you know, and it's kind of like.
Greg (Repot):But you can kind of hear assistance as it kind of starts like baking a little bit and things start frying a little bit past what its body is intended to handle, but it's trying to like trying to wheel this rope out as much as possible with one limb, you know, and just trying to throw it as far as it can. But I don't think that rope necessarily makes it to the hallway per se, but I hope that it's reachable in a way that somebody could take it and then they don't have to carry repot while holding the rope. There's still like slack in the wheel. They just have to carry Repot while holding the rope. There's still slack in the wheel. They just have to grab the rope and get back to a place that's safe and then start pulling. Is the kind of idea that Repot has to solve the situation.
Ray (Dazzle):Rope is very fun.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, oh yeah. I'll just say that the rope does go far enough. We're talking distances of 25 feet is where you're trying to get. So if you're crashing down halfway through, you're only throwing a rope 10 feet, and so we'll say that that is reachable for Dazzle. So Dazzle, how do you want?
Ray (Dazzle):to do this Is rope very flammable under this light kitch.
Kitsch (Chronicler):We're not at flame temperatures.
Ray (Dazzle):Okay, then I suppose I grab the rope. I take off my leather gloves and I quickly shove them into my boot, because I've got these squirrely claws. That'll help me have a better grip on the rope and I tug on them and I say you're going to owe me quite a few after this one and start backing up into the tunnel pulling.
Kitsch (Chronicler):All right, give me a body roll.
Ray (Dazzle):Oh yeah, with my plus zero now, oh God, that's a four A four.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, all right. So we are failing big time right now. Um so, what? What goes wrong?
Ray (Dazzle):uh, one of my claws gets caught in the rope and pulling it back, and I like put one hand in front of the other and try to switch around, but then my nail breaks. I'm just really disappointed in myself, god, at a time like now. I'm just staring at my hand and drop the rope. I'm just kind of pretty pissed off at myself.
Kitsch (Chronicler):You're going to take a point of damage. I'm injured, you're injured, broken mail Claw, no Zipper. You can see this happening. Is there anything that you'd like to do to react?
Dan (Zipper):Can I try and smash the glass with my helmet, like climb up a little bit Using all of my tentacles to wrap myself around this tower and shimmy up and try and break the glass? Yeah, give me a body roll.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Oh my god.
Dan (Zipper):Oh, 11? Jeez your luck.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I love it. So you clamber up the side of the stone you make your way onto the metal. It's burning, searing your skin. Ow ow, ow, ow. You mash into it. This is just a regular success. The glass shatters Ow Revealing a light bulb at the top of a, at the top of a, at the top of the tower that was illuminating the glass pane.
Dan (Zipper):Is there metal that travels up to the top of the tower? Or is it? Like metal, all glass and then metal at the top.
Kitsch (Chronicler):As in, like the frame of the glass.
Dan (Zipper):Yeah.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, there was a metal frame.
Dan (Zipper):Okay, I'm going to shock that metal frame. I'm going to try and over so it doesn't touch the light bulb. It's like the outer frame of the glass, but the outer frame doesn't touch another part that holds the light bulb, Like if I electrocute it from where I am, it doesn't electrocute all the way up to the top. You see what I'm trying to get at.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean you can touch the base of the light filament and do that.
Dan (Zipper):But how far up is it? You said it was at the top of the tower.
Kitsch (Chronicler):The light bulb is up at the top, but it's screwed into the base.
Dan (Zipper):You know how light bulbs plug into a socket a bulb socket there is a socket.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Oh, the socket isn't at the top of the tower. I'm confused. We'll just put it at the bottom.
Dan (Zipper):Oh yeah, then I'm gonna shock the bejesus out of it. Give me that roll dude. Can I use zip zap?
Kitsch (Chronicler):yes, you can. Yeah, 10 a 10 is a regular success. And with that the light bulb shatters. I think I did it um the light goes out zippers surrounded by broken glass ow ow, I do have shoes on, so I think we're okay.
Greg (Repot):I don't know if Repot is close to the glass, but I think Repot is definitely like smoking, like there's definitely like some stuff that's going wrong with Repot.
Greg (Repot):I don't know how about I have to move my body down one at least. I took an injury right. Yes, you did take that damage, that real quick, um, but I think I mean well, I think the thing that was bothering repot is now solved at the very least. So repot is not an imminent danger, uh, and I think it tries to, like with the, with the limb that it has remaining, like push itself at least up against the, the wall or something, as it tries to sort of figure out what what it can do to kind of repair itself. I think it, with the heat off, I think it's able to take a look at one of the other limbs and start trying to adjust it or solder things back so that at least it has it's taking a look at its limbs. Basically it's trying to see what it can do to put itself back in working order so it can at least move around.
Ray (Dazzle):Yeah, an umbrella. That's what we should have asked him for An umbrella, not a cloth.
Dan (Zipper):I can go ask him now. I think we're good.
Ray (Dazzle):Oh, that's fair. Right.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, so the light is off, the heat has dissipated, the alarm is still blasting, so the alarm still keeps going off, but there's just like no repercussions.
Greg (Repot):I think Reefot turns on like a headlamp. That it's got in order to try and help illuminate the area, to try and help us find our way around.
Ray (Dazzle):You want to check out the other tunnel?
Dan (Zipper):Yeah, so the crystal, I saw the memory Remember. I said I touched it. But then, when I saw the whole memory, then this door opened. What?
Ray (Dazzle):was the memory.
Dan (Zipper):It was Nico. He was playing the guitar. He was like fuck you.
Ray (Dazzle):Like in a hardcore rock and roll way yeah, like part of the song is like, not like he was like pissed off at someone while playing I mean, it kind of felt like both oh, to be honest interesting, but very emotionally involved yeah, you got that sense that that was like his internal monologue. Wow, yeah, so profound I think he's mad at somebody oh yeah, do you know who?
Dan (Zipper):no, I know, didn't really get that it wasn't anyone else in the memory no, it was really just.
Ray (Dazzle):It was really just like a vibe that I saw, uh, I stepped back into the center and I kicked the robot and say, hey, you okay the kick turns out to be just the percussive maintenance that repot needed and like actually fixes one of the other limbs that it was like trying to figure out.
Greg (Repot):I was like whoa, and then I guess it says acknowledge, uh, and then I think it gets up. I think it maybe doesn't have necessarily, I mean, it's still damaged, right, I still have a uh, I'm not at full capacity with the body, but I think it does still have the ability now to move around, um, and, and it's, I think it starts basically dragging itself over to, um, the, where the crystal was, I guess, to, to, to hearing that that zipper was like well, the door opened, and, and, uh, and reapod was like oh, a door opened. Well, obviously that's a, a place that was previously hidden, that we've now passed. We should probably go there and see what's down that that path, at the very least. Yeah, um, so that's.
Greg (Repot):I think that's the direction that repos going, probably still slowly, but repos was always slow, um, but it is able to kind of um, kind of drag its way over and I think, as it's trying to do, it's trying to do its own version of diagnostics. Unfortunately, it's internal, internal diagnostics is not particularly well-maintained ever, yeah, but it is trying to do like using the camera and using kind of its own sensors that do work, trying to see, like what's wrong with it and what can be fixed. But it's going to take a little bit of time, I suspect, but the kick definitely helped.
Ray (Dazzle):You're covered in swamp gunk and you're slightly singed.
Greg (Repot):Yes, I thought he was ugly before there's scorch marks, especially on the top of the robot where the heat was like the strongest. You can see that what basically was the solar panel has basically just been burned away the thing that it was trying to hide behind, and especially the radar scanner and the top of the camera. There's noticeable burn marks on them and maybe it's not melting per se. It's like a little bit warped.
Greg (Repot):Uh, anything that was made of plastic is like a little bit bent out of shape, um, but it still runs, so it's gonna keep going yeah, this was a crystal.
Dan (Zipper):See, it used to glow. It was glowing a lot more than this. I don't think it works anymore and I'm gonna tap it a.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, you tap it a couple of times and it seems completely inert.
Dan (Zipper):But it did open this door, so I think I did something.
Ray (Dazzle):That's cool. I guess we can get a move on.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, dazzle, because you had gone to the other hallway and you had asked me about it that I will describe that. You did see down the other hallway, it went into a T intersection and to the left or north end of the T intersection you did see another blue glow hey, was this blue, glowing blue, by chance?
Ray (Dazzle):yeah, oh, I forgot to mention when I was trying to pull repot. By the way, you broke my nail when I was trying to get. Repot out of the center. I noticed a blue glow coming from the other end as well.
Dan (Zipper):If we want, to check that out, okay.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah. So before we proceed, I did want to call out a couple options that Dazzle does have right now, given that Dazzle is injured, so one somebody could attempt healing on dazzle, which will just be a role, just like touch on any others. There is also the option of spending rapport or harmony to recover ability or attribute points. So it's one point of rapport and harmony or harmony for one point of an attribute or an ability. So it's not a great conversion rate because rapport and harmony can be used for much more powerful things, but in a pinch it will do a thing.
Ray (Dazzle):Yeah, I think I'll just wait until we get to town. We can camp.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Okay, if there's a body roll, you will just automatically feel it. Oh sweet, so that's just how that will go until you are no longer injured. Mm-hmm, all right, so you're going up to the other crystal, is that what I heard? Yeah, cool.
Ray (Dazzle):I'm not going to touch it though.
Kitsch (Chronicler):You're not going to touch it.
Ray (Dazzle):No no.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Okay, so you walk up to the crystal. That warmth, that kind of buzzy heat that zipper had felt previously with the other crystal, so it's just like not a pleasant feeling zipper.
Ray (Dazzle):Do you want to do the honors for this one, oh?
Dan (Zipper):it wasn't pleasant per se, I'd rather not do it again. Okay, repot.
Greg (Repot):Repot like drags itself. It's been lagging behind. Of course, I think Repot just goes ahead and maybe just I think yeah it does it uses one of its limbs to like kind of reach out and try and touch the crystal and see what happens.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Cool. So a vision begins to appear in your mind's eye um give me a sensor heart voice or mind um.
Greg (Repot):Well, I think my, my best is voice still um so I'd like to use voice if I have the option wow, do we all that's me too. Everybody has best voices.
Ray (Dazzle):We're all better at speaking Interesting coming from a robot with limited voice lines.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Right. So the reason I'm giving you all a decision is because, just like any other time where you're given a decision on roles, it just determines what information is provided. So heart is feeling and empathizing with emotions, voice is communication around an emotion and mind is putting the pieces together for how the emotion is functioning.
Greg (Repot):Well, okay, then maybe I'm going to go for mind. It's not my best one, but we've already done a voice. I think I'm going. I think I'm gonna yeah all right.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So as the vision uh comes into your mind's eye, what is that? Mind roll?
Kitsch (Chronicler):oh, 10 plus 2 nice that is a 12 success, gorgeous, all right. So now you see the image of Cleffa. You see, on her face she looks a little frustrated, her brow is furrowed as she hunches over a stack of papers at a low table a low table. You see that she is scribbling in a ledger and she looks at several receipts. The image pans in on one of the receipts in particular, where you see a logo at the top. It is. I forgot how stupid this looks. I'm looking at my own drawings, all right. So it is a tomato with a face. Its left eye is covered with a monocle and it has kind of a side grin. It's also wearing a farmer's hat that covers up kind of the green stem area of the tomato. You just see a little bit of the leaves poking out from underneath the hat like hair, and along the perimeter of this logo you see the following words A one-stop shop, big grocer. And then the image fades.
Kitsch (Chronicler):The light dims and again you hear the rumbling of the floor as the door behind begins to slide open.
Greg (Repot):Door behind.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So up to the north.
Greg (Repot):Okay, I think Reapot was expecting to be able to record this, but whatever sensor input it got was not actually the camera. So it is now going to try and describe basically what it saw. Um, and I think, especially with the kind of damage that it took, it's gonna maybe try and use the voice box a little bit more to describe it. Um, and it's going Cleffa, receipt, logo tomato, what was it called? It was monocle with a monocle. There was the and then, and that's gonna try to say one stop shop, big grocer. And that's basically what it's gonna try and communicate to to the team about what it saw in terms of, like you know, and maybe it'll also say Cleffa, angry at receipt, and that's kind of, I think, how it's going to try and describe what it saw to the teammates.
Dan (Zipper):Do we know the One Stop Shop Big Grocer? Is that a common grocery store in the region Is?
Kitsch (Chronicler):that a common grocery store in the region. You've heard it mentioned once or twice. It's a grocery store in one of the larger cities. Let's see it's in a place called uh, mezzo, mezzo. Yeah, so it's on your way to Largo um but yeah, it is, oh no, you're right, no, it is in Largo, uh, so it's in Largo, uh, and it's in Largo, and it's, yeah, a major grocery store chain that can be found in larger cities but hasn't really made its way out to any of the rural towns like Tyne.
Ray (Dazzle):So if anyone knows about this, it would more likely be Repot being a construction bot who works in From the city.
Greg (Repot):Yeah, I guess Repot does say yeah, it's like. Well, do I know the name of this grocer?
Greg (Repot):yeah, it's just called big grocer it's just called big grocer oh yeah, it's just called big grocer um, I think repot says receipt from big grocer. Big grocer equals chain grocery store. Um, and, and I think it, it maybe like pulls up on a screen that it might have, like like, because this is, it doesn't have to use the vision for this, this is just a logo that it's seen. So it pulls up that image of the logo that it recognizes from, separate from the vision. It just knows what that grocery store was and it just pulls that up for the team to see.
Dan (Zipper):Zipper leans into Dazzle and does he mean they sell chains at this grocery store? I'm honestly not too sure myself. It'd be weird for a grocery store to only sell chains yeah, it's not really a grocery store then right. No, it's more like a a chain store. Yeah, okay, weird, that's a weird store. Sometimes he just says things and we just have to agree, okay yeah, anyways she's. I guess she bought a lot of chains and has a big receipt maybe she was making chain mail maybe?
Dan (Zipper):yeah, but she's got a. She apparently is mad at the price. Yeah, it seems she's real po'd about it.
Greg (Repot):She's probably in debt from all those chains I don't think we probably even bothers to correct y'all. I have a feeling.
Ray (Dazzle):That's why the orchard oh, it's going out of business. Remember, like they're not doing so well she bought too many.
Dan (Zipper):I didn't see any chains when we were on.
Ray (Dazzle):Maybe they're just out of her house.
Dan (Zipper):Maybe, Okay, that's fair.
Ray (Dazzle):Weird. The chain mail is like a weekend thing she wears.
Dan (Zipper):Oh, okay, wow.
Dan (Zipper):That's an expensive chain mail that's gonna put your entire orchard out of business. Anyways, um shall we kitchen's gonna clip this.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I don't do the clipping that's for the audience um, all right, yeah, what do you?
Kitsch (Chronicler):the door is opened, um, so you can see, on the other side of the door there is a hallway One. The hallway kind of loops back around to the room with the tower. So you can see that, like this is kind of where that would have led if you had traversed through the tower room, traversed through the tower room. It went left and right. Right would have brought you right behind this door, but it also wraps north and then west around a wall that was beyond that room.
Ray (Dazzle):So theoretically, if we take a left here and keep going straight, we would make it to the other side of the tower where you were. I would think so.
Dan (Zipper):She like holds up both fingers behind me.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, it's only like 25 feet.
Dan (Zipper):Right, yeah, but I think we should go keep going farther, yeah, so go past this left and go to the next left.
Ray (Dazzle):And eventually we'll get it to the other side of this wall, maze Bang.
Dan (Zipper):Alright, navigating.
Greg (Repot):I think we're just gonna go north, yeah, navigating north hey does Repot have a GPS built in?
Greg (Repot):I think not a GPS, but I think Repot has a really good memory for where it has been. So I think it has, wherever it's been, it has mapped out really good memory for where it has been. So I think it has, like, wherever it's been it has mapped out, so it knows where it's been. It's not. It's not unless things change, like doors close or whatever it's not really gonna. It's always gonna be able to find its way back, right, Finding its way forward. It's not really got a map of everything per se, but it has, you know, I think, in in my head. It's sort of like the kind of mini map kind of functionality you get where, like you, you remove the fog of war as you kind of get from place to place. So it has that kind of image in its head of where it has been per se. Um, but that won't update automatically if something changes it's a literal photographic memory.
Greg (Repot):It's a literal photographic memory exactly right, like it knows where it's been. It could find its way back, for example, but I think it understands, like, the orientation of things. It has a really good understanding of, like, angles and distances, um, and it can verify that it was in fact, exactly 25 feet, you know, um, like it knows, it can estimate distances very well, but it's you know uh, so I think it understands. Like, well, okay, let's go, let's go north, because it knows that the you know, we can, you know, look left and see that, uh, the, the shattered remains of the beacon of heat, um, it's like, well, I don't really want to go there, let's keep going north and and then turn left and see what, what's in that direction yeah, um, and so it's not too far.
Kitsch (Chronicler):It's 20 to 30 feet before it leaps over to the left. And as you look now towards the west, you can see that the hallway continues on past where the tower would have been off to the right and the left. And piecing this all together in your head, you realize that this section that was north of the tower is just one big loop with a divider running down from east to west, and in theory, you realize that it would have protected the people traversing through the northern hallway from the light of the tower. So by opening up this secret door, you're just preventing yourself from hitting the light for a second time.
Dan (Zipper):Yeah, okay, okay.
Ray (Dazzle):Get it.
Dan (Zipper):Well, go down to the end and turn right, since that seems farther.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, because left basically takes you back into the room with the tower.
Dan (Zipper):No, thank you.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So you do take a right. At the end of this hall where you see a couple things Up north, there is a dead end of this hallway where you see another glowing blue crystal just before it. Um, you see that a hallway opens to the right, um, but you cannot see exactly where quite yet let's go peer down that hallway.
Ray (Dazzle):Okay, yeah, I'm down.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Alright.
Greg (Repot):We're not going to touch this glowing blue orb yet.
Dan (Zipper):Let's see what's down the hallway. The hallway comes first, anyway.
Ray (Dazzle):Yeah, because I assume we touched a crystal. It's going to open another path forward anyways. Right.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, so you make your way up towards the hallway and you peer down it. As you look in you see another chamber, so it is an open chamber. You can see a section of the room. The chamber kind of continues on north, beyond your field of vision at this point, um, but it is like an open room.
Ray (Dazzle):I pick up a stone on the ground and I toss it into the room to see if oh, yeah, if another light turns on, yeah.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Um, so I'm gonna have you do an intelligence roll, okay. To determine the outcome of that.
Ray (Dazzle):Okay, twelve Nice.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Alright, so that's a success. It's going to. You put all the pieces of how this puzzle is working together in your head and you're like, yeah, this is gonna work. So sure enough. As you toss the pebble into the center of the room, um, you hear the blaring of the alarm yet again, and a red light flashes filling the room no, yeah, let's just go back to the crystal.
Dan (Zipper):We're not doing that, we're good.
Greg (Repot):No, no re re-pot has an involuntary like shudder as it remembers what just happened. And immediately backpedals towards the room with the crystal in it.
Ray (Dazzle):Yeah, dazzle's good out here.
Kitsch (Chronicler):All right, yeah, you could assume that there's another tower in the middle of the room. That's just out of vision right now. But yeah, so you back paddle and you make your way up towards the crystal.
Greg (Repot):Everyone looks at Dazzlebrite.
Ray (Dazzle):Alright. They take off their glove once more and put their hand with their chipped nail on it onto the crystal. Beautiful, Beautiful, All right Heart voice or mind I'm probably going to do a voice.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Voice. All right, give me that roll.
Ray (Dazzle):Okay, it's a six plus three which is a nine.
Kitsch (Chronicler):A nine, so that is a sacrifice. Yep, so you are going to take a point of damage to your voice for now, not my voice which is just your openness to communicating about emotions, which is already All right. So the vision begins to appear in your mind's eye and you see Mishka and you also see Nico as they are hugging, and you hear Mishka's voice in your mind. This is his internal monologue, because their mouths are not moving in this image. Ugh, I'm gonna miss ya. And the vision fades.
Ray (Dazzle):I relay that to the rest of the party.
Dan (Zipper):Oh, but who's gonna miss who?
Ray (Dazzle):I believe it was mishka the one speaking oh, missing his brother. Where'd it go? I don't know. Maybe nico is going somewhere, oh, somewhere, oh, because he wasn't around at the orchard when we were there. Right right right and they were saying that he hadn't been seen in a while. But he disappears a lot. Maybe he's making a permanent disappearance this time. Hmm, Joining his traveling band, perhaps?
Dan (Zipper):Maybe, Maybe, Agreement.
Greg (Repot):I think Repatches agrees with that assessment. I think.
Kitsch (Chronicler):And with that the floor begins to rumble as the stone slides in its socket, revealing the hallway behind. What's down the hallway? You see, the hallway goes off to the right and the left feeling the lights on the right side yeah me too.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I'm gonna peek right, uh, you peek your head down the hallway, um, and you can check both directions. You see that it continues on in either direction To the right it would loop back down south, and to the left you see that there is a hallway down towards the south, down towards the south as well as, if you continued on further, the glowing blue light of yet another crystal.
Dan (Zipper):Crystal, it is.
Ray (Dazzle):Think it's back to you, Zipper.
Dan (Zipper):Alright, slapped Zipper's there before you can catch up.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So, zipper, you skate down the hallway beelining for the crystal and you slap your tentacle on it. And now give me another roll.
Dan (Zipper):We're going to do heart this time. Oh sorry, that's Dan speaking. We're going to do heart this time.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Six, six. So six is a failure. So what you are going to get is you start to see this vision. You see cleffa and you see she is in the orchard and she has a cart of apples, and you start to feel this panic that begins to wash over you and it kind of overwhelms you, like something is building this emotion and it is taking control of your body.
Dan (Zipper):I'll quickly let go of the crystal. Nope, nope, nope, nope. That was weird.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I didn't like that feeling and so you will take one point of damage heart damage yeah, repot says status report uh, the the ha ha set a cart, uh, and then that was it.
Dan (Zipper):I don't know, I found that bit big, that didn't feel good.
Ray (Dazzle):Probably at the chain store yeah.
Dan (Zipper):Well, it's the apples. Ah she had a cart full of apples. Cart full of apples. Yeah, no, chains, no.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah.
Dan (Zipper):That's odd, isn't it? Yeah, I think so. I would expect there to be chains. Seems to be the center point of this conflict. It's the chains. Correction Apples no, yeah, she had apples, it's true, I don't think anything opened. I didn't hear anything.
Kitsch (Chronicler):No, the light dims but does not go out. I don't think. Anything opened, I didn't hear anything. No, the light dims, but does not go out.
Greg (Repot):Well, there was a way you said south from here.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yes, so there was a way south. Zipper, you can, I guess you would have passed this. So if you looked down south, that hallway continues to where the first crystal was. So there was a hallway that continued down all the way to the first crystal. There was another opening on the western side of that hallway.
Dan (Zipper):It seems to go backwards, though I think this one's supposed to open something, and I'm gonna start tapping on the walls the laugh from the chronicler makes me think differently yeah, I don't think I got the whole image Because nothing really happened. It was just her with some apples and a car, but none else.
Greg (Repot):So, basically, if we were to go south now no, I thought we were a little past where if we went south we would go to. But if we turn south now, that's where the first crystal was basically.
Dan (Zipper):Well, if we went south back a little bit further, we're at the crystal now, yeah, is there a south?
Greg (Repot):from the crystal, though.
Dan (Zipper):No.
Greg (Repot):No.
Dan (Zipper):It's just like its own little thing. It's just its own little dead end. Yeah, okay, okay, okay, should I try it again? It's still glowing louder, louder. It's still glowing brighter than the other crystals when they open the doors. Yeah, it just dimmed a little bit, unless somebody else wants to try it again. That one didn't feel good.
Greg (Repot):Repot tries. Something tells me it's not going to work, but Repot tries it anyway just to see what happens, testing hypothesis, and sticks out a limb and tries to touch the crystal.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Alright, give me a roll and tell me what it is.
Greg (Repot):Well, I think I'm going to make it voice this time, just because that's my best one. Yeah all right I don't have heart. Heart is not repot strength well, I don't really handle emotions particularly well. So, uh, let's see what this is. Oh, 11 plus 3 so that's 14 yeah pretty good success then.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Alright, so the same image appears to you. It's Cleffa with a cart of apples. And instead of being overwhelmed by the emotion this time, and getting shunted out of the vision, you start to hear Cleffa's internal monologue. We're never going to make it at this rate. This isn't enough and the image fades. The light dims of the crystal and you hear the rumbling of the ground as the door shifts out of the way, revealing the hallway behind.
Greg (Repot):Cleffa selling apples, not enough.
Ray (Dazzle):Not enough to pay off the chain debt. Yep, not enough.
Greg (Repot):And then I think, navigating north and we're just gonna head through the door that just opened. The door was open north right uh west west never mind, that's all right.
Kitsch (Chronicler):West, um yeah. So basically it continues on west and turns down south once it hits the far wall we don't like south.
Ray (Dazzle):Well, I guess that's um.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I mean you basically from, from the map that you've been formulating in your head, uh, repot, you do feel like you've been going around in a bit of a circle, in terms of you reached the upper wall, um, and then you went left, and now you're kind of continuing down towards, um, the south, as it turns around I feel like we're.
Greg (Repot):We've gotten to a point where we're like beyond.
Kitsch (Chronicler):We're further west than we have been yes, it feels like they're west than you've ever been, that's what Repod's instincts are.
Greg (Repot):It's like, well, this is still unexplored territory, right? This doesn't feel like us retracing our steps. This is still new to us. So Repod is perfectly happy with going south. Repod is not going back to where that light is until that is the only place remaining left to go.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Basically, I think it's going to be the play from repot yeah, and the three of you traverse south for about a hundred yards before it turns to the left. No choices, just the hallway turns to the left, and this is when things start to open up. You start to see a couple more options, the first being that as you look east down the hallway, you see one opening to the right.
Greg (Repot):We went hundreds of yards. We might have even passed where we entered.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So you've gone in a big old circle at this point.
Greg (Repot):Repos like dragging itself down the hallway to the best of its ability. Zippers like all the way. At the end already Right, hurry up.
Ray (Dazzle):Hurry up everyone, come on, come on, I'm a little confused, as Dan is, because you said we went south and then we went through an entrance west and then we went east.
Kitsch (Chronicler):No, I think you went west, south, east.
Ray (Dazzle):Oh West south.
Dan (Zipper):As in, we turned left. As in, we're facing south turning left. Yeah, okay, got it.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, yeah. So at this point you can see that there is to the south or on the right, there is a hall or an opening, but further on you see a T-intersection with a blue glow to the right.
Ray (Dazzle):This map is no longer making sense.
Kitsch (Chronicler):That's all right, it's just three choices Okay.
Dan (Zipper):Three? Well, we only have two.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, no, I'm just kidding, I got it yeah it's a T intersection, which means there's a left and a right.
Dan (Zipper):Well, we go through and we'll go towards the light, of course. So we'll check the first south passage.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Aye, aye, all right. So you're going to traverse to the first passage. You see that it does open up into a hallway to the south. You can see, basically it immediately hits a dead end to the left or east, but then continues on and wraps back down south if you look to the right or west. So that is that hallway. It's basically one real decision. If you want to go down here, it will take you further south. If you continue on, you can see the blue glow is getting brighter towards that T intersection.
Dan (Zipper):Okay, well, let's go to the T intersection. What's north first?
Kitsch (Chronicler):All right To the north. You can see that it wraps around a wall to the left, but you can't see what goes on at the end of that hallway, just that it wraps back up in the north. Because you've basically circumnavigated this area. You can imagine that it is just a room that you've been walking around this whole time. Huh, so you've walked around the space that this hallway would lead towards.
Ray (Dazzle):So we've been here before. Is what you're saying.
Kitsch (Chronicler):No, you've not been there.
Ray (Dazzle):You've been around the space.
Greg (Repot):We basically made a big old square around it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So this is that space and the crystal.
Kitsch (Chronicler):And then the crystal is to the south at the T intersection.
Ray (Dazzle):Okay, so many choices.
Greg (Repot):I still want to get crystal every time, basically.
Ray (Dazzle):Crystal. Every time, the crystal will guide us forward, and we know that's.
Greg (Repot):Crystal gives a story I just want to know what's going on with Nico?
Ray (Dazzle):Don't you play video games by doing everything else first, and then the main objective.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I mean, with that logic, you would have gone and broken the second tower.
Dan (Zipper):Right, but y'all said nope. Oh my god, no but y'all said nope.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So yeah, who's going to touch the crystal this time, and what would you like to use?
Dan (Zipper):Dazzle.
Ray (Dazzle):It's your turn okay, I will touch the crystal and I will use heart actually.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I will use mind give me that roll and let me know what it is.
Ray (Dazzle):Okay, it's a 12. Nice.
Kitsch (Chronicler):A 12. Okay, so that is a success. So you're going to get a similar image, as I forget who I think Reapot experienced before the Hugging Brothers Mishka and Nico, before the hugging brothers Mishka's feet, and you can see that he's wearing overalls, um, versus Nico's, uh, kind of goth punk apparel, um. And then that is when the image fades away. Uh, the crystal dims, the ground rumbles and the door opens, revealing the space behind.
Ray (Dazzle):Okay, um, I got the same vision as I got last time it's Nico and Mishka hugging, but this time Nico has his guitar in packed bags, so I guess I was right about him going somewhere, moving away, and Mishka seems to be staying behind at the farm. Oh, away, and Mishka seems to be staying behind at the farm. None of their wardrobes have improved, though.
Greg (Repot):Analysis confirmed. I think it's just Rippon's way of agreeing.
Ray (Dazzle):I'm glad you agree.
Kitsch (Chronicler):And behind this door is an open chamber, one that reveals the exit to the maze you can see the grass on the other side of the threshold.
Ray (Dazzle):This goes south, right it does what the that's where we entered from. Let's find out. You don't want to go to the squares?
Dan (Zipper):We can always come back. If we come back out to where we started, we can just turn back around.
Greg (Repot):Unless the door closes as soon as we exit.
Dan (Zipper):Well, one of you stay here, get trapped behind forever.
Greg (Repot):I am curious what's in that room. But honestly, reprod's probably ready to get out of this.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yes, um, all right. So that is it decided. You make your way across towards the exit yeah, yeah, I think so and then we see veronica s and cherry.
Ray (Dazzle):Yeah, it's been waiting it the whole time.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So as you make your way across the room it's quite uneventful, it's an open room you do see that there is a dead-end hallway off to the left. It doesn't really go anywhere. If you have a really nice map in your head, you can imagine that this basically juts up against the entrance that you came in at, and then there is a path up that kind of swings back to the northwest, towards the corner of an unexplored area.
Dan (Zipper):We have to have a side-by side of your map and dan's map on social media after this yes, we really really do um I'm not gonna write so good.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I mean you all could have been watching the stream and then seen it there um that's cheating. We're not supposed to um but yes, you do exit to the south and you are correct, you did come from the south and you were hoping to go north because you re-enter that thick, oppressive fog that you were in at the beginning of the session, dag labbit.
Kitsch (Chronicler):And you hear the faint mutterings of Trinket talking to Veronica S and Cherry Aww. And he goes oh, hey guys, just when I thought we lost you. And so, with our hearts full and our friends reunited, the scene drifts off into an afternoon of frustrating turnabouts, and we too will drift off for a short intermission. In our absence, please take care of yourselves. Grab a snack, drink some water and have a little stretch. We will be back in 15 minutes. A timer will count us down. Kitsch, what it's too late. All right, it's too late.
Dan (Zipper):To. It's too late to turn back now. Sorry, all right, we're back. I can't sing real songs um, all right.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So you have just exited the maze, uh, and stepped back out into the thick, oppressive fog, once again obscuring your vision. Yay, you did amaze. You went from start to finish. Complete Task, complete Path complete.
Dan (Zipper):But this is where we started.
Kitsch (Chronicler):You are exactly back where you have started, Rejoined with Veronica S, Cherry and Trinketinket yeah, knowing that repot has a little bit of a geographic memory.
Greg (Repot):Uh, dazzle is pretty po'd at you, like you know you knew we were coming well, we can theoretically just turn around and go back in and see what we haven't gotten to yet, right?
Kitsch (Chronicler):You can.
Greg (Repot):There was like the path. I feel like there was a path that was mentioned that we didn't go down To. To Well, there's yes, that's true.
Dan (Zipper):Can we just go around it, do you think?
Greg (Repot):Yeah, I mean like how long does this wall go right?
Dan (Zipper):So I think Wall please do you think yeah, we I mean like, how long does this wall go, right?
Kitsch (Chronicler):so I I think oh please all right, so I'm gonna epilogue us through this. Uh, okay, so you spend some time trying to traverse around the maze? Go back through it again, um. Try going the opposite direction, trying to the left to the go back through it again. Try going the opposite direction, trying to the left, to the right, going south and then maybe spinning around five times until maybe, if we trick all of our senses. But alas, nothing seems to work. Whatever you try, you seem to find yourselves back where you started.
Dan (Zipper):I hate this one. Me too.
Kitsch (Chronicler):By far my least favorite miasma the thought of Chorus, the prospect of Chorus getting further and further away. Will you ever reach that town? The answer seems like no, as I gave a long pause.
Dan (Zipper):But I never make my delivery.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So what do you do with this information?
Greg (Repot):Make camp um so what do you do? With this information we go make camp, just sit down and just hang out for a little bit and recover may as well wait.
Dan (Zipper):So we so. Even if we head back down the road that which we came, we still end up. We still end up back at the front of the maze.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Oh, you haven't tried, just heading home oh, I thought you said heading south, which is well, I was just saying like, maybe if we head south and we turn around 20 times and then we get really confused and then we try to walk forward and then you just cannot progress towards chorus okay, so chorus seems like a done deal for us.
Ray (Dazzle):We can't go through there, but I I've got this letter we could deliver. Well, we have to stop at three places. Right, we could do it on the way back.
Dan (Zipper):Yeah, but we can't get to the roads that go north to the other places until we get to Chorus. I mean, we could go off-roading, but I didn't bring my off-roading. I've got my all-terrain, I've got my off-roading and I've got my speedster wheels.
Ray (Dazzle):I don't know. Maybe we should just go back to time. Maybe there's something we can do with the information that we learned today.
Dan (Zipper):Maybe if we speak to the others about what we saw, Maybe, yeah, maybe we could just tell her to return the chains.
Ray (Dazzle):Yeah, I mean, I guess that would solve a lot of our problems and her problems, to be honest.
Dan (Zipper):Yeah, if she's out of debt, then they don't need to sell as many apples, I think.
Ray (Dazzle):Yeah.
Dan (Zipper):Is that how economics works? I would ask Repot, repot.
Greg (Repot):Repot has been entertaining this chains idea just for its for its own kind of like weird sense of humor and repose like not chains, just money he's been buying money. Does reba have to explain to the business? Owner that sometimes you need to use money to buy goods and services um, I have an intellect of three.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I'm just playing with you, so something that we haven't really gotten into in the like super vast lore of this world is that the concept of currency isn't really a thing, um, so there's bartering and then there's also prosperity, because prosperity is like used as a resource to build things, um, but there isn't like a standard currency. You've heard of certain types of materials and items being used in trade at rates, but it's pretty. We're pretty much in the barter system.
Dan (Zipper):She must have traded not enough apples for too many chains. That's my understanding of the problem. And also, her son wants to skadoosh, so do you think we should head back? I mean, I feel bad about not delivering this letter.
Greg (Repot):Navigating forward is not possible.
Dan (Zipper):Okay, fine, I'll deliver it later. I'll have to return my long distance fee then.
Ray (Dazzle):What if we camp here for the night and if the miasma is still there, then we head back. If the miasma is gone, we can continue on to Chorus.
Dan (Zipper):Okay, fine, let's get out of this fog first. It's hard to breathe.
Greg (Repot):I agree yeah it's been a long day. We've been trying everything right, so I'm okay with camping at some point. But yeah, maybe getting out of the fog first would help. Retreat, it's okay.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Retreat is a really important thing to keep in mind. In this system, retreat is always an option, but with that you can escape the fog. You came into it from the south, so you can always go back south until you're out of it and set up camp.
Greg (Repot):Repot hops on a horse.
Kitsch (Chronicler):It's tired of using its limbs and so you're able to set up a small camp on the side of the road. Uh, the night spurs and the crickets uh come out. As the sun sets. Uh, you're able to make a small campfire and have a small meal. Um, what are you all doing?
Ray (Dazzle):uh, you can heal up to two without doing anything, right?
Kitsch (Chronicler):yeah, so there's two that automatically happen mechanically.
Greg (Repot):Um, you're allowed to like role play that if you would like, or we can just gloss over it well, I definitely think repot is fixing its body like it's this is not new to it per se, but like it's fried it's and it's like trying to figure out.
Greg (Repot):It's trying to get its limbs back and it has to rewire some things. It has to do some really fiddly stuff that it wasn't able to do while while we were kind of trying to move around and going. It really takes, I think, a like a couple hours to really sit down and try and do some kind of diagnostic. It tries, it takes a look at the deformed stuff on the top and it's like eh, that's good enough, whatever. So all the the sensors mostly still work like on top it, it, it scrubs at the dish that that needs scrubbing so it can actually see properly, um and whatever, whatever there's a dent in, just kind of like tries to pop it back out. But that's what repot does is heal its body because it did take some damage from the hideous light of the beacon Not hideous, but very strong and hot light of the beacon.
Dan (Zipper):And is it two ability points and two attribute points, or is it?
Kitsch (Chronicler):two combined, it's two ability and two attribute points oh easy. Yeah, I mean you saw how unforgiving the challenges can be. Yeah, I quickly. Dazzle got injured um, so the recovery is um much more forgiving.
Ray (Dazzle):Dazzle is sitting under a tree and holds their hand up to the sunlight and holds it out so that it's within the sparkles that surround their body, and just starts humming a little ditty and their nail begins to heal back on its own. And as they're doing so, the plants around them also begin to grow and they're little like daffodils and roses that begin to bloom under this tree. What the heck? It's called gleam, what. What's that mean? I've got this gift the power of music. Some might say I call it gleam, but it just allows me to heal things and mostly helps along with what I grow in the shop, because everything at Supernova is grown in store. Everything at Supernova is grown in-store and all the items there, from the coffee beans to the tea leaves are all potted, planted and grown each day with the power of gleam.
Dan (Zipper):Do you practice that at home?
Ray (Dazzle):Felt like an ad. No, of course not. It was a good pitch.
Greg (Repot):Oh, thank you, Greg. The person is impressed. I think that's so cool.
Greg (Repot):I mean, yeah, I imagine Repot is probably like see some of the kind of longer grasses that grew around you and it's like, oh, I could use that to tie pieces back together leave the flowers acknowledge you can have the grass, but be careful but yeah, I mean, this could be really useful just to for rope, rope making capabilities, just being able to grow things real fast that's nice um, we should I think repot wants to talk about, because repot is frustrated from the last, from the navigational capabilities not working, because repot is used to being able to, like, figure out its way to places, yeah, uh, and I think repot is is, I would imagine repot is quite frustrated that they were not able to find a way forward, uh, and it says, like in a frustrated was, like, uh, navigation impossible, uh, and that's kind of how it starts the conversation about the fact that we weren't able to get, get past that.
Greg (Repot):Uh, navigation, uh, not within expected parameters. Um, but we also learned about um, people. So I think it because the miasma is an emotional thing and repot knows this. Um, I think because the ones that repot saw were, um, like the logo of, of the grocery store.
Greg (Repot):The grocery store and what was the other one that he saw? I think he it was. Yeah, the, the cart of apples, um, and her not being able to afford.
Greg (Repot):So so that the stuff that repot saw was mostly about the failure of the orchard. Yeah, yeah. So repots is orchard, repot says Orchard Failure, query. Right, something's wrong with the Orchard and Nico doesn't want to be there anymore, I guess. And I guess it also says Nico Gone Query, because we saw Nico. We saw him at the band practice, so he's not that far away. We saw him at the band practice, he's not that far away.
Dan (Zipper):We have visions of the future, that's what I'm thinking.
Ray (Dazzle):Wow, maybe visions of the now. Tim, how long has it been that we've been out?
Kitsch (Chronicler):I think just a day. Yeah, you've barely left time, right.
Greg (Repot):Like Miko's, not far from the orchard per se.
Kitsch (Chronicler):The miasma's tricky. It's consciousness, it's the mix of all of the emotions and subconscious thoughts of the populace, and so it's not necessarily all true. At least a different kind of truth the emotional truth it's not gonna give you history like that's. That's not what you. You're diving into the emotional world of these characters. You're not getting a recounting of history. You're not spying in on their lives.
Dan (Zipper):So maybe Mishka knows that Niko is leaving, or plans on leaving, or thinks he's gonna leave, I don't know. There's a lot of options.
Ray (Dazzle):That seems plausible.
Greg (Repot):Cleffa Navigation impossible query.
Dan (Zipper):No, I think she can walk.
Greg (Repot):Well, I think the idea is like. I think what Repod's trying to do is like tie our inability to move forward with, like Cleffa feeling stuck.
Dan (Zipper):Oh Right.
Greg (Repot):Like navigation impossible, kleffa. Feeling stuck, oh right, like navigation impossible, kleffa. Or navigation impossible, nico. Right, like how, how are they? Like? Because they feel stuck, I think, in the in, in, in, because the visions we got stuck in the maze, like clearly this has something to do with them, right, that's where we saw the visions. I guess we don't even know whose it is. Is this Niko's, or is this Cleffa's, or is this?
Ray (Dazzle):Mishka's I don't even know all three because, like not all of them were present, in some of the others yeah, like some of them were, like just clefa and miasma is usually just like a combination of everyone's feelings, right? Yeah, just one person is accumulating like this because, like, yeah, the ones that I saw that repot saw were all clefa oh huh, the ones that the both of the ones I saw were Nico and Mishka Interesting.
Dan (Zipper):And I saw one of just Nico.
Greg (Repot):The taco Right, that's true. So it's like all of them. It would be worth returning and having a proper chat with them. Well, now we're pretty. I think we can be pretty certain that Nico wants to do music instead of being an orchard orchard person yeah, are you guys good to go?
Ray (Dazzle):yeah, I am, yeah, acknowledge affirmative, I guess I should say. Then I think the plan is just to head back to time and maybe help people with the information that we have now. Oh wait, camp is over, is the fog gone?
Dan (Zipper):That's true.
Kitsch (Chronicler):No.
Ray (Dazzle):No, fair enough.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Dad nabbit, but I figured I'd give.
Ray (Dazzle):Zipper the opportunity Well fine.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So, as you're ending camp mechanically, was there any harmony rapport scenes that you wanted to do?
Greg (Repot):because that's your downtime, it's true right I mean other than repot trying to scrub itself. That feels like it would be like, um, what would it be? Harmony just trying to fix itself. But I don't know if there's a scene specifically around that yeah, I mean, I think it's um.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So I know that you've done this in previous sessions where you tied back your physical self-care back to your internal world. So it's just making that connection of like, how is this um bringing about harmony within repot, how is he learning to cope with this need to care for himself and like what that journey is like yeah um, I would say that repot well, one is like it's.
Greg (Repot):it did kind of get incapacitated and it's sort of like one of the things that it's realizing it has to dobright just by not being careful, basically, and not properly like by throwing itself into a situation it really couldn't resolve. I think it's it's as it tries to repair itself. It's trying to make sure that doesn't happen because, again, it's like finding that it's it's its own failures are impacting other people negatively as well. Right, like even just to get him out of the situations that it puts itself in. Right. So I think that's that's something. That's it's it starts to be like it should not try to do a thing without a plan, just thinking it can just like tough it out like the the whole solar panel thing was.
Greg (Repot):I think repot hubris a little bit.
Greg (Repot):It's like oh well, maybe I could just like, you know, use this thing, which is supposed to work, and, and the solar panel is not functioning at this point, or like and and it wasn't even at that point, but it was trying to see what it could do with it. I think the fact that it like had no chance of working, like this thing really should not have been attempted, is something that repot is maybe, uh, coming to terms with. Like, well, okay, if the thing isn't working, don't try to use it. Right, try and uh, you should try and fix it first. At least, if that's going to be what you're going to try and do, I think, is what repot is going to learn from this.
Ray (Dazzle):So what are we seeing?
Greg (Repot):Well, repot, I think, in particular with the, with the, the thing that I was trying to use, I was like, well, this solar panel hasn't worked in years and and repot still tried to use it. I think repot is is maybe like taking an analysis I think it's scorched. I think it's scorched. I think it's not even functioning at this point. I don't think the solar panel is even repairable. I think part of it might be Repot just physically removing it just because he's going to need to get a new one. This is not a thing that can be fixed anymore. It's sort of made more of a resolution, I think, to actually try and source like replacement parts and stuff that actually work, instead of just trying to keep using this thing, the thing that's broken that it really shouldn't be trying to keep using. So it might be just like actually discarding the things that's broken instead of just dragging them around.
Ray (Dazzle):perhaps finally, the bot's not hoarding anymore which one that's not a bot.
Dan (Zipper):It's funny right it was pretty funny.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Not a robot. You hear?
Dan (Zipper):Trinket, you get it, it was funny.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yes, yes, yes, all right, anything else that anybody wants to do.
Ray (Dazzle):Yeah, give yourself a harmony for that. Hey, if we're going to be relying on you, you might want to do a better job than that. How about, when we get back to town, you speak to the owl, speak to Dahlia, because, like, she's done a lot for us and she seems to be really quick with the tinkering Much quicker than you are, of course, and maybe she'll be able to fix you up a little better.
Greg (Repot):Acknowledge, I think under normal circumstances Repot would bristle with it. It was like Repot's like no, no, no, I'm going to fix myself. I don't trust anybody else with it. I think at this point, though with kind of obvious, I think the obviousness of failure, makes it not immediately respond hostily to that idea just because it's holding the burnt out solar panel in its hands, like acknowledge as it tosses it to the side, basically.
Ray (Dazzle):How about you Zip? Are you doing alright?
Dan (Zipper):Yeah, I'm good. Just got a little touch of the crystal and it was weird, but I'm fine. Yeah, I'm good.
Ray (Dazzle):Okay.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Generally unhurt fair all right, and with that um, you pack up camp and it is a new day. Blankets, though, no, we don't have blankets though.
Ray (Dazzle):No, we don't.
Dan (Zipper):We just slept on the ground, slept on the ground it was a nice.
Ray (Dazzle):Why would you say that?
Kitsch (Chronicler):It was a nice day. It was warm, slight breeze.
Ray (Dazzle):I slept in the tree.
Kitsch (Chronicler):There we go, yeah, there was a tree that you found and you camped around Just a little bit of an anchor point and some protection.
Dan (Zipper):Let's head back.
Greg (Repot):Okay, navigate.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Tyne. All right, and you make your way back to Tyne, we'll say you can circumnavigate the swamp and the sticky area of the road pretty easily, or just apply the same lessons that you learned last time arrive um, it's about late morning, um into midday, uh, it's a clear sky day. The birds are chirping, the uh chattering of townsfolk can be heard all along the hillside. Um, in the distance you hear the bleating of goats, the moose from the cows, a dog bark, and as you re-enter time you come up through the south of the town, or the southern section of town, just past the orchard. So that's kind of where your entrance into Tain is. Are you going anywhere in particular?
Ray (Dazzle):That's a good question.
Greg (Repot):Wouldn't we go to the orchard first, since that's who we saw in the visions?
Ray (Dazzle):Yeah, and I guess it's on the way.
Greg (Repot):Right, I mean, I think I'll repair myself after, okay.
Ray (Dazzle):Is there anyone we see just out and about on the orchard while we're walking?
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah. So as you are passing the orchard, you do see the farmhouse that the Mechams live in, and outside you do see Cleffa and Mishka loading up a wagon.
Ray (Dazzle):With apples.
Dan (Zipper):With apples, not trains.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So as you approach them, you can see the two of them are lifting baskets of apples up into the wagon. They had another smaller cart that they are unloading and loading up into the larger cart cart. As you see Cleffa kind of bend over a little bit with her hands on her knees you can see that she's panting and she wipes the sweat from her brow as she stands back up, grabbing her lower back, just slightly grimacing, and then reaching down to lift up another basket of apples, placing it into the cart. As you're approaching, mishka notices you and waves on over. Well, howdy Y'all back real soon. That's great, right back real soon.
Dan (Zipper):That's great, right. Um, there was a little bit of an issue getting to uh chorus, so we came back to see what uh, what maybe a little issue.
Kitsch (Chronicler):What kind of issue are you talking about?
Dan (Zipper):oh, there's just a miasma that was like oh, you can't get through here like a whole thing yeah, we got through like two large clouds, but the third one was simply too much oh no, that's not great.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Um goodness, uh, uh well, uh well, thank you for trying. Um, I guess we'll have to find something else.
Dan (Zipper):Well, what is the real problem? Are not enough apples growing? I can help with that. Too much debt chain debt.
Kitsch (Chronicler):And you notice, as you are having this conversation with Mishka, as you are having this conversation with Mishka, that Cleffa kind of glances over, lets out a sigh, and then you see that she almost goes double time. She starts lifting more apples faster and you can see that she is huffing and puffing as she is throwing these apples into the cart whoa whoa take a chill pill um repot.
Ray (Dazzle):How about you help with that?
Greg (Repot):acknowledge repot has been like waiting for a chance to do this anyways. Basically since since since report met, this team, like report, has been doing nothing but asking to assist them Basically. Yeah. Report is like yes, please, and and especially with the like lifting and stuff like repos. Like you know, it's already trying to calculate like a pulley system that it can use, like using one of the branches on the on the branches on the, on the, on the trees or something, in order to make at the very least, lifting and moving these baskets around.
Greg (Repot):Is because kleppa seems to be doing as much of this as possible by hand uh in a way that that repot is like as somebody on a construction zone who's like used to cranes and stuff. Uh, you know it's. It's not the only way, and there are definitely ways for somebody who is weaker to basically figure out this, this, this, this sort of weight transfer problem, like even like just picking things up and raising them, like that that could be done with like just like a little elevator, like, just like put the basket or you know, or a forklift or something. Right, I don't, I know they don't, probably probably don't have a forklift, obviously, but I do at least think that there's the possibility of using some kind of a pulley system or something to help transfer this stuff in a way that isn't like pick up the basket, get off the cart, then step up onto the other cart and drop it off. Right, I think RuPaul is trying to.
Greg (Repot):I think RuPaul is going to try and analyze the kind of system that they're using in order to try and make it at least easier so there's less vertical motion for the heavyweights. If not just putting the carts next to each other so you can just do a direct pass, then maybe some kind of system for actually picking them up. I think RuPaul is also going to just help with picking things up and and putting them down as well, but I think I think in my head it's something to do with pulleys and like using rope and something to to make it easier to move this stuff around all right, um, yeah, so you, you start to be, uh, start to help kleffa and mishka load up the cart with these apples with all of you.
Kitsch (Chronicler):It does speed up the process of this activity quite a bit. You're able to fashion a couple different things together that help make it more efficient and quicker than they would have finished on their own. The task is completed, the cart is all loaded up and you can see that it's about half full. Um, as you are now all kind of like resting, um, everybody's able to kind of like sit down for a little bit. You catch that cleffa. It keeps looking over at the cart, um, and she sits down on a stump um twiddles her thumbs a bit. You can tell that her uh composure is a bit more like agitated. Um, yeah, and this is also where, like like y'all can start asking me for roles to get clarifying information. So if you want to start like diving into the heart, voice and mind that's kind of where those are going to come into play in the social situations is I'll be able to clarify things based on the success of those roles. Well, uh, what do y'all say to some lemonade? Uh, I can whip us up a fresh batch.
Greg (Repot):Thank you for uh helping us out the least I can do ripa's trying to figure out why the assistance was rejected the first time, because I was like hey, it went so much better this time when you had to help, so you didn't really ask no time, they're not just that, we just did it yeah but I am.
Greg (Repot):But repot is kind of curious what, what the deal is with like no, no, please don't have the way. I don't like the, the kind of um. So repot says take assistance, uh, and then says uh, objective complete, acknowledge query well, yeah, that was, that was wonderful help.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Uh, as I said, did you want some lemonade? I can whip up a batch.
Greg (Repot):And then Repos says Query why no assistance before?
Kitsch (Chronicler):Oh well, I figured it'd be too much of a bother. Really. You're not really employed by the Orchard. It'd be a shame to just keep you here forever.
Greg (Repot):There just is always work to be done um, and I think one of the questions that the report had before was, like, you know what like was where? Basically where nico is, and well, because we, we now know that nico has other things that he wants to do. Um, and it kind of seems like they're just missing manpower. Well, I guess the question is like uh, where, why don't they just find other employees? Right like, why wouldn't they just like get extra help? Right like. So I guess the question so she mentioned right, like you know there's always work to be done and you know there's, we would need some help. Um, and repot asks uh, query request, assistance, right like, basically sounds like why can't you just like hire someone?
Kitsch (Chronicler):well, I am part, I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go get that lemonade.
Ray (Dazzle):Y'all wait here, take a little breather um, and mishka, is mishka into the house, um, and I say, uh, coming in. I was told to help and so I will help oh great, that sounds wonderful.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So I haven't made a proper introduction with you, I don't think.
Ray (Dazzle):Uh, it's okay, dazzle's the name dazzle is the name that's dazzle bright b-r-i-t-e perfect, now I know how to spell it if I write it down.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Um, anyways, uh, I've got some lemons over in the kitchen. Um, do you want to help me cut them up? Squeeze them?
Ray (Dazzle):yeah, I can do that you I mean I could take care of all of this in a jiffy.
Kitsch (Chronicler):You could go back outside and chat with the others oh, don't worry about it, I do this all the time of course I would love to sit in here and speak with you while cutting lemons oh, that's very sweet thing to say how kind. Well, right this way. This is the kitchen over here on the left. Beautiful and if you need to use the bathroom, it's down the hall on the right.
Ray (Dazzle):Uh-huh, we can work in silence, can't we?
Dan (Zipper):Zipper has been eavesdropping as she does. And she's gonna sneak a tentacle into the room and zap you in the foot a little bit nice.
Ray (Dazzle):Why are your lemons electrified nice?
Kitsch (Chronicler):I mean, I knew they were a little citrusy, but I don't know nothing about electricity, so how have you been doing? Oh, just fine. Just fine, it's a beautiful day out, don't you think?
Ray (Dazzle):right, okay, so I hate to be the well, I'm neutral about being the bearer of bad news. Well, that's a weird thing to say, sure, um, the miasma we ran into it's because of you, well more so because of your brother and your aunt.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Now I oh wow, you're quite forward. Yes, what makes you think that I think we're just doing dandy right here. I'm having a nice time.
Ray (Dazzle):One of my aspects is the truth hurts mulchety. It says for the most part, I'm always true to my word, even if that means coming across as blunt.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, so would you like to do a voice with your invoked aspect? Is that how you would like to roll that?
Ray (Dazzle):Sure, it is an outer vibe aspect. Am I allowed to use that?
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, we're just in conversation, we're not in a chaos. State A challenge.
Ray (Dazzle):Okay, let me ask my question first. Yeah.
Ray (Dazzle):So I know about things that are going on here. We know about Nico and how he hasn't been around lately and you and your aunt keep trying to play it off. But we know that this is why the orchard is hurting. He seems to want to go do his own thing and I guess that's okay. But you have to realize that sometimes you can get help from other sources. Sometimes you can just ask others for help. Doesn't always have to be me, but you can get help from other sources. Sometimes you can just ask others for help. Doesn't always have to be me, but you can do that and I guess I'll roll.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, give me a roll.
Ray (Dazzle):It's a 9 plus 3, 12.
Kitsch (Chronicler):12? Alright, that's a success. So, with a success, you're delivering this information successfully and it is getting through to him. Oh shucks. Um, well, and uh, he leans up against a shelf that you, you notice, in this moment is a bit bare. Um, there's like a couple things on the shelf. You do see like a small bag of lemons on it, because, well, I mean, yeah, things aren't great around here, but but it's not nico's fault. I love him and I he's just doing what he needs to be doing, you know.
Ray (Dazzle):Yeah, I'm not. We're not blaming anyone here. People gotta do their own thing sometimes, but that doesn't mean that you shouldn't ask others to lend a hand on the farm.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, you're right about that, but In all honesty I doubt it'd matter anyways. I mean, even if Nico was here busting his ass on the farm, it's not like the trees are going to produce any more apples. They're capped out. What's the deal then? We're just not producing enough.
Ray (Dazzle):I mean, this hasn't always been the case, so why is it different now?
Kitsch (Chronicler):Well, don't tell my aunt that I was talking about this, but Don't plan to talk to her.
Kitsch (Chronicler):From what I can tell, that seems pretty true. But yeah, it's on account of the big grocer. They just keep raising all their prices. We thought it was a little odd when they introduced their big bucks a couple months back. Thought it was kind of gimmicky, if you ask me. But then the prices started going up and then what they were paying us for the apples wasn't even nearly enough to buy the supplies we were getting from them. It was such a nice deal when we were just trading back and forth A bushel of apples gets you a bag of flour. It was great. Now it's like five bushels just to be able to afford a bag of flour. It ain't right. But isn't anybody else we can get all these supplies from so easily? We have a couple relationships with uh farmers from other towns that have producing other items, but it's hard to find everything. The grocery store was just so convenient dazzles not what you were expecting, it's not a game with shit.
Ray (Dazzle):If you're not taking down like capital, what? Yeah, uh, okay, that is a slightly larger problem than I thought it would be and is not something that I guess the three of us could solve.
Dan (Zipper):So see ya, I've just attached a tentacle to your legacy. I'm peering in through a window in it.
Kitsch (Chronicler):That is just a damn shame it is a shame.
Ray (Dazzle):Okay, we I promise that we will try our best to get to chorus and the other neighboring towns to complete our quests and hopefully be able to help you out. I don't know if it'll help you in the long run, but it'll help at the very least. I still do think you should get one more worker, because you know you're missing one already and having another set of hands couldn't hurt at the very least.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, I think you're right. Only problem is what do we pay him? When it was the family business it was, we were all just helping each other out. We all got by together.
Ray (Dazzle):That I can't help you with, but you could always ask around. Uh, I don't know. There are nice people that live here in Tyne, much nicer than me. There are people that'll help. And I mean, you saw the robot. It didn't even ask for anything and I've been with it all day and it's just like this. It just wants to help.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I don't really understand why, but I'm sure there are others like it. I reckon you're right. I just kind of feel bad about it, I'm sure it doesn't.
Greg (Repot):You peer out the window and Repot has got a pulley system set up on one of the branches. It's continuing toward trying to figure out a better way maybe, perhaps, showing cleffa how to like, maintain it and service it there's no more apples.
Kitsch (Chronicler):The trees are bare next year. So, yeah, you, you set up some efficiencies, um, but yeah, there is kind of like there you're putting the pieces together. There's this looming problem of like there is a threshold, there is an upper limit to the production that could be done on the farm, and you start to notice that a lot of the work that cleffa is doing is busy work. It's not even productive at this point. She's just busying herself to be like, maybe if I do this and this and this, and then I like have all of this stuff that I deliver to each of the trees individually to try to get them more nutrients than like, we'll get more apples faster. And I mean, you don't just dump fertilizer on a tree and pop, pop, pop, there's magical apples on it.
Greg (Repot):I mean I can, but yeah, can you gleam more apples?
Kitsch (Chronicler):I mean yes at a small scale you can, yeah, okay.
Ray (Dazzle):So while we finish up the lemonade, we can jump cut back. I mean, yes, at a small scale. You can, yeah, okay, so while we finish up the lemonade we can jump cut back to the others and see what they're talking about?
Kitsch (Chronicler):I mean anything that I think it was repot. And since Doug's not here, trinket's just kind of being cute and lovely. But yeah, cleffa is just bizzing herself now. She's like looking at all of your little contraptions that you're putting together, repot, um. And she's like repot the. The tree is barren. Uh, what are you doing here?
Greg (Repot):um, I think repot just turns on the same, the same way that it showed um showed the team the logo. I think repot is just gonna like turn around and turn on the same logo and ask query yeah, that's a big grocer.
Kitsch (Chronicler):What about it?
Greg (Repot):um, and I think it's going to, I guess one question the big grocer is that in Corus, the place that we tried to get to?
Kitsch (Chronicler):No, it's in Largo, which is a larger city, which is where they buy things from.
Greg (Repot):Yeah, like they order it, which we're also trying to get to.
Ray (Dazzle):Yeah.
Greg (Repot):So they produce fuel, because it's a larger city that has machines, so they would also be selling fuel there right, uh, I guess the question is like I mean, I haven't actually been a part of the conversation that they've had, but it sounds like they've basically raised their prices you get a sim, I mean like through that's who the well, that's who they're selling to right?
Greg (Repot):uh, yeah, query consumer uh or I guess the quote like it would be like who like this is your only person you're selling to and you can't get a better price from someone else, is basically what I'm trying to get to I mean, we do uh, yeah, we, we, uh.
Kitsch (Chronicler):We have other uh farmers in the area that we have trade agreements with, but kick everything from them.
Greg (Repot):But yeah, this problem is bigger than something that we can solve in one afternoon.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Basically, yeah, Right in one afternoon, basically, uh, yeah, right, I did not present this as a challenge to overcome with a couple roles.
Greg (Repot):yeah, well, but but the thing is, we're the thing that we can't even get to largo. I mean, we can't even get to chorus, yeah, until we resolve something between them that is causing this miasma.
Greg (Repot):Yeah, um like we can't, we're, there's not even a way we can even get to big grocery like this is literally impassable. There's the road is blocked. Um, so I guess we have to kind of figure out like what the emotional miasmas, like they feel stuck, but how do we get them to feel less stuck? Right, and in my head, or in Repot's head, that's like having alternatives of like other places you can Like.
Greg (Repot):You quite literally cannot get to big grocer from here right now yeah, right which means that, even if you were to get these apples onto the cart, where are you going? Where are you? Where are you taking these apples? You can't even get up there right now because of your own miasma. Have you thought of selling it someplace else?
Kitsch (Chronicler):have you thought about not feeling bad? Well as in like.
Greg (Repot):I mean like more from a like geographic perspective yeah, try to sell it somewhere else where they're not gonna rip you off?
Kitsch (Chronicler):well, because they're walmart, you know just don't feel anxious about this was I mean the miasma cropped up, like yesterday. Right, okay, so they don't even know that this, yeah, these are all these events are happening right, like in succession Right, and they've just been presented with this information about the miasma, so Right.
Greg (Repot):Okay, so they didn't know about it, but also like, quite literally, they can't even get up there. Where are they going to sell these apples, except to either? The community around them directly or some other place that is not north, which they can't even get to now. Anyways, yeah, there's a blockage here.
Kitsch (Chronicler):There's a blockage. There's a mental and emotional blockage that is preventing them from something preventing them from something.
Greg (Repot):In my head, the solution is present them with alternatives they hadn't thought about. I don't know exactly what they thought about, admittedly, or what they feel stuck in, but I mean like.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, you can give me an intelligence role for that.
Greg (Repot):Yeah, like what are they actually feeling stuck in? Are they feeling stuck in like they only have one place to sell this and that deal is going bad, or is there some other thing that they're trying to? What are they actually stuck about?
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, yeah. So give me an intelligence role to offer up some alternative solutions to see if that helps resolve the issue. So six plus three, so nine nine, so that's a sacrifice sure you're gonna take a damage to your intellect as you start like really going through all of these options calculating yeah, processing analyzing.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Please stand by. Um, and like cleffa is kind of like bouncing and rallying back with like a rebuttal, with a lot of the things that you're throwing out there, like well, we thought about that. Uh, we, we do have an agreement there. Um, there's just certain things that like we're really really struggling to find elsewhere, or we'd have to get to Chorus and try to negotiate something with a smaller vendor there, and so there are a lot of options. They just all kind of Every option seems to put them still in a position where they're struggling to keep up with what they did.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Previously. They had a good deal and they were able to like get all the things they needed. They were able to have a surplus of apples and keep some for time, and now they're like not even doing that. They're like selling off everything that they could possibly produce in order to try to get the supplies that they need. Um, and all of them just have their drawbacks and so, like they can explore this and like the whole idea that, uh, the path to chorus is like not traversable right now is another wrench in in everything, and then, if it does get resolved, then they're like, well, let's try to do that. We can pivot, like maybe you're right, not working with big grocer will probably be better in the long run. Um, so that's a lot of what you get out of it, so like yes, the conclusion is that there are alternative options and they are willing to explore them okay sure but that doesn't it.
Greg (Repot):So there are alternative options, are willing to explore them, but that doesn't sound like it would cause a miasma. Admittedly, I'm cute like I'm still unsure if that's what's actually I guess, the. I thought the intellect was like what? What is causing? Right, like what is the thing that's so it's not.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So, it's not that.
Greg (Repot):I'm okay with that being the answer. It's not that intellect is going to be like solutioning solutioning the material world right you're going to have to dive into emotional stuff is going to be like solutioning solutioning the material world right you're going to have to dive into emotional stuff in order to understand like what the actual block is okay yeah, and so you can sit there and you can like have like a more frank conversation with them.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So, like that was dazzle was like actually addressing the emotional concerns that mishka was presenting and giving like voice to it. So that's why, like dazzle got to do that, that voice role right, um, and so you can do similar things with the conversation of cleffa, um to like kind of get to the heart of it, um, yeah I mean I would like to.
Greg (Repot):Yeah, I'm trying to think of how repot would try and be as direct. I'm not even sure repot would be able to be as direct as dazzle farm.
Greg (Repot):Dazzle was pretty direct uh about trying literally has an aspect about right but I think repot, I'm trying to think how, how would repot communicate? Um, I mean, repot just has to say, uh, navigation impossible. Query miasma. Uh is, I think it's. It's gonna be like like what? Because because the things that, like, the things that repot saw in the visions was mostly just like frustration about like the orchard and what else was it, and big and big grocer, that's kind of what it saw. So if it's not that, I guess it's just, I think that's. It's just going to say query my asthma question mark.
Greg (Repot):I don't know if that'll work for for it, but I guess I would like to try and roll a voice for that.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, give me a voice roll.
Greg (Repot):What's your deal, lady? Five plus three, so eight.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Eight, that's going to be a sacrifice. Sure, so you're going to take a point of damage to voice.
Greg (Repot):It wasn't exactly the most tactful way to ask that question, so I get that.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Yeah, I suppose it's pretty obvious something was wrong. It's just really tough lately Keeping up with everything here on the farm. The boys have their own things. I mean they're grown up Hard to expect much out of them in terms of holding to the family business. Yeah, I don't know.
Greg (Repot):So I guess what Repock gets from this is that it's maybe more about losing. It's less about the actual like orchard per se, as much as it is about like feeling like the boys are losing interest or something. That's kind of what. What repot is is understanding from this. I think that the she feels like she's going to be disconnected from from, from Nico in particular when he tries to go along this other path that he's looking for it seems to all tie back to Nico.
Greg (Repot):Yeah, I guess maybe we should talk to Nico Query Navigate Nico.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Well, I guess at this point there's no reason to beat around the bush anymore. Yeah, he's probably a band practice again. Uh, you know, charles, the more. Yeah, he's probably a band practice again. You know, charles, the attendant junkyard.
Greg (Repot):Affirmative Refod loves Charles.
Kitsch (Chronicler):He has a garage and I'm pretty sure they practice in the afternoons there. Haven't gone myself and kind of avoiding it, but If I had to guess, that's where he's at. I've noticed he's been doing work at night after practice, but Just not the same when we're not all together okay, what should work?
Greg (Repot):okay, um, acknowledge, uh, I think that that's probably going to be like repot's next thing that he would want to look into is just like finding nico and having a chat with nico about this. Well, like we're still trying to find the source of my asthma, I think. I think that, at least from clath's perspective, it would be like feeling like she's losing nico a little bit which I don't think we can really adequately resolve without actually talking to nico about how he feels about it and, but it's also nico wanting to not be right stuck at the orchard anymore, right
Dan (Zipper):so I think it's a culmination of all of them.
Greg (Repot):Yeah, so we should definitely talk to nico if we can go back to band to practice, go back up. I mean, I'm we're probably heading up that way anyway, right?
Ray (Dazzle):isn't the junkyard all the way in the back, or something?
Kitsch (Chronicler):yeah, yeah, we can fast travel up there, let's go to the junkyard. So cool you spend a little bit more time talking with the Mechams that are here on the orchard. Yeah, kind of. They have the lemonade like you help Mishka make lemonade and you serve it to everybody. You have a lovely time.
Ray (Dazzle):It's the best lemonade you've ever had.
Kitsch (Chronicler):It's the best lemonade that you've ever had so good.
Greg (Repot):Can I give a report to Dazzle Wife for it being genuinely the best lemonade I've ever had.
Kitsch (Chronicler):So we're not in downtime. Yeah, I know it's a little. The downtime is like kind of fluid seeming from a story perspective, but like it's like whether or not you're an active problem solving state versus because we are outside yeah fair, okay, sure um let me was. I mean, y'all could like stop and go camp again and then do that let's just go to yeah camp is a vague term given to like we're we're stopping problem solving, we're gonna go sit, we're gonna recover, relax, and so that's just what we're calling it for now.
Greg (Repot):But that's um when we go get repot fixed. Yes, yeah that, yeah, that's later I think Exactly so.
Kitsch (Chronicler):You are going to make your way up to Charles' garage and as you approach you do start to hear the sound of band practice yet again.
Ray (Dazzle):Now I know the sign on the door says do not interrupt, but we are going to interrupt. Got it Acknowledge? Okay, Not me though.
Kitsch (Chronicler):And we have already established canonically it's not going to be Trinket, so it's true um well, I mean, the things that repot tried last time didn't work either.
Greg (Repot):It almost feels like we have to wait for them to be done in order for anything, that they're not even gonna hear us unless we literally kick down the door, which I kind of feel like would be a bit of a rude way to enter this environment we can wait to the end of band practice I mean yeah, right, just sit here, yeah it's good music.
Kitsch (Chronicler):I can't remember if we canonically established that the side door with the sign on it was locked or if y'all just saw okay you did, we tried, we tried all the doors, every method of entry. That just didn't work um, I mean today's a new day, who knows try the side door.
Greg (Repot):Anyways, let's do it repot, just for thoroughness. Checks the side door again, see if it turns oh my gosh.
Kitsch (Chronicler):It's like I'm a chronicler and I could control when and where things happen, because as you turn the door handle, it is not locked.
Ray (Dazzle):Oh my gosh imagine if there was all that build up, just for it to be locked oh, I've gotten better at storytelling than that.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Um, so it is unlocked um, and as you throw open the door, I don't know how you do it what is, what is the the how, how, how, how do you open door? Are you like, uh, timidly, gingerly, like creaking it open and peeking in? I think?
Greg (Repot):we're just opening. Well, if Repot's the one opening the door, Repot's just opening the door. I don't think it's loud or anything, but Repot is going to not try to damage the door, it's just here's this, it's the door it opens. I think Repot isn't going to be timid or scared about it. Repot is just going to peek in and then maybe wave and say acknowledge.
Kitsch (Chronicler):All right, basically Say hi. As you throw open the door, the sound of the band practice swells as you are now being blasted directly with the music. You see Nico is on his guitar, just like riffing. The drum is going just smashing the cymbals and all the percussion instruments. I don't know what they're all called, I should do more research. And then there's somebody on a uh mic, uh, just like shredding their voice. You hear the gravel in it. It's like super, just like grungy.
Greg (Repot):What's charles doing? Is charles the singer?
Kitsch (Chronicler):um. Charles is not actually part of the band.
Greg (Repot):Charles is just letting them use his guitar.
Kitsch (Chronicler):And then there's like the bassist and like maybe I don't know there's somebody else on other instruments. Who knows?
Kitsch (Chronicler):But they are just like, they are just going at it. But as the light from outside you see, the beam of light hit Nico and they all stop. He's like. You hear the like he unplugs the guitar. You hear that like the sound of the speakers with the like feedback, all of a sudden, as it crashes out and all the music dies down pretty quickly and he goes. Hey, what the fuck is that about? And that's where we're gonna end the session, alright.
Kitsch (Chronicler):so I don't know if I could say our hearts are full but our friends are at our side, so we're gonna figure out what happens uh next week with this scene, as, since we just interrupted band practice, uh yeah maybe we should have just waited um, but we too are gonna drift off for today.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Uh, we are going to see you all next week, so thank you for being our neighbor today. I also want to thank our writers, who have kept me going and have made this possible. So first off, we have Jacqueline Lewis. They are a writer and a parent. You can find them on social medias, at Wrangler of Chaos, and they also wrote a book called Rolling with the Youth, which you can buy on itchio.
Kitsch (Chronicler):We also have John Pax Crum, who's a writer and intervention trained medically, retired police veteran, game designer and historical fencer, and you actually could go visit Gettysburg, pa, from August 8th to 10th to see them talking about jamming swords and runes at Key City Steampunk. So that's very exciting. I also want to thank our composers, who help me realize my vision and immerse us in the story. So we have Ray, who's also a player, a pianist, a game composer and a professional GM. They're a pianist, a game composer and a professional GM. You can find them on all streaming platforms to hear their TTRPG stuff, and I am quoting that from a message they sent me On streaming platforms.
Ray (Dazzle):it's just music.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Just music. Okay, cool, rayd99, and that is D-E e, e you do need to spell it correctly. Just like bright, just like bright, um. You can also find, uh, my brother, steven uh, who is the producer of lusk. That is, l-u-s-q, which is a chill electronic vapor soul, not a group, just him. I also want to thank our artists who have started working. You can kind of see a little bit of a sketch for Trinket today and that is from Leanne of Chai Studio, which you can find on Instagram at chai underscore studios. They also have a website where you can see their portfolio. It's beautiful. I recommend you check it out. Um, and then we also are going to be working with kaz uh, which you can find on twitch at kaz the dm uh, twitchtv slash kaz the dm, or Instagram at Kaz the DM.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Next, I want to thank our Patreon subscribers who literally keep the lights on. Y'all are helping me pay my bills. We have JCH, crispy, maggie Z, russell B, missy G and Dan S. That's me. And, lastly, our players. I would like to thank you for having fun today. I hope you had fun yes, you did and inviting me into your worlds, ray. Anything else you would like to plug? No, I'm good, thank you.
Ray (Dazzle):Thanks for coming.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Doug is not here, but thank you, you, doug, for being wonderful.
Ray (Dazzle):Thank you doug and dan hi.
Kitsch (Chronicler):Anything you would like to plug, all right, and greg hello, um.
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