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Tanner:There is there is something making its way here and the purple lights on the walls get brighter and brighter until the glass around them breaks. And as the three of you look out in that direction, you can see this smoke, everything that's in it doesn't seem to be obscured by the smoke, but just seems to not exist.
Will:This should be interesting.
Tanner:Professor Argo malerkotla is also caught in this thing crashes into him instantly, Archie, you have no recollection of Professor Argo, malcode or six.
Bruce:I'm not a hero should apply to here and I should have left fucking cleric to die in his workshop.
Tanner:This thing rushes into you. And then it's nothing. You didn't do Lobos in the drift. You should not be here yet. Argo shouts a spell are holding back as long as I can find Cantelli
Bruce:spent my whole life running from you. You're gonna get me you're gonna get me and he turns and he just starts walking away
Tanner:is building is before you that really wasn't there before. My name is Navarre.
Will:I looked for Archibald Theodore Cromwell.
Bruce:Archie takes the picture off the wall and he stares at it.
Tanner:Never taken the pain and off the two of you find yourselves in the gallery of a courtroom and you're about to be convicted of murder. You find yourselves in the gallery of a courtroom and Portway worth. Archie everything is exactly how you remember it. Even from this point of view. There are many people gathered to watch the trial but less than a handful our friendly faces. you've wronged a lot of these folks, but you'd rather have gone down for those crimes. Instead of this. You see yourself handcuffed to a podium facing Judge glyos Felek a high mage from Castor Haven appointed by the Crown to oversee justice in Portway worth. His white dreadlocks are pulled back into a small ponytail and his piercing blue eyes look down his nose at the past version of you. You remember the pain you felt and the bile rising in your stomach when you learn that your crew the family you built? Were savagely murdered. Even worse, you only found out about it as you're being arrested for the crime. You then feel all that pain turn into burning anger when you hear the voice of a nice Oliver Hadley, the man who wants called brother days no punishment too hard for this man. Because of his uncontrollable rage. Three sons and five daughters will grow up without the protection of a father for wives or need to work their fingers to the bone to provide for their families. And I will have to live on with the burden of thinking that maybe I could have prevented it by turning in this monster sooner. I'm sorry for all the things I've done. But I am most sorry for that.
Will:Oh, rough
Tanner:Archie what's going through your mind as you look down at your own trial
Bruce:I don't know if there is anything going through his mind.
Will:Just instant rage. Yeah, well, no, it's
Bruce:not instant rage. It's more like cold sweaty feeling of like pure fear running down your spine.
Will:Six is kind of looking between Archie and the scene and then Archie and then Archie and then Archie and then Archie again just trying to say then he looks at anus Hadley and
Bruce:let's let's not make this right and everybody always called him anus
Will:well let's just go into levity All right, great. Thanks guys.
Bruce:Not Know cut that shit. I just thought it would be funny. Instead
Tanner:that's what that's what will actually said was anus.
Bruce:Knee Yes, Oliver. Correct. Yes.
Tanner:Um, Yeah, like as you're looking between past Archie and present, Archie, you also catch a glimpse of Nevada, the child who is also here in this scene. And he's just looking on can not confused but like, very interested in the whole situation.
Bruce:Also, the only clear indicator of abou Archerfield right now is tightly clenched hands that are basically like, white. They've been to clenching. So, yeah, white
Tanner:knuckling. Okay. All right. So yeah, you guys are looking over this court scene. Are there are there any other faces or anyone, like in the painting? And yes, was was clearly painted in this sort of outline that kind of defined him as the the villain, this this particular scene, you do have the judge there, which, just to kind of describe court cases in this magical realm. They don't work. Like our type of court cases, you don't have really prosecutors or people that are trying to defend. People can be accused of a crime, because we have magic. They just use spells to get people to tell the truth, but you really just have defendants to make sure people have a fair trial. Now, in this particular case, Archie, you were not allowed to present your side. They had witnesses brought in and spells were cast, and they told their story. But the story is wrong that they told you don't know how they got around the spells or what was done. But you do know that there's a fair amount of injustice in the justice system and Portway worth, and a lot of these people wanted your head on a pike anyway. So I would
Bruce:imagine there's probably like other gang members members of the guard like people like that that are ran into again and had had squabbles with they're probably at present but I don't really there's no one of us have. Really note because everyone that was of note to Archie is now lying in a ditch somewhere probably except this fucker in front of me.
Tanner:Yeah, you're fixated? Yeah, I mean, dotted about six. You could see people of all types. There's a lot of different folks in here. A few of them. With these wicked grins on their faces, a few of them visibly distraught, obviously the family of of Archie's crew members. The judge seems to hold a special amount of disdain for you Archie, and after his Eneas you know gave his little pieces personal testimony does pass do you say anything or do anything?
Bruce:Yeah, past are just gonna burst out and say I never killed nobody. I didn't deserve Kellen. Okay, and I sure as hell and kill me brother.
Tanner:All right. Judge Felek continues to look at you with the with with the stain his his eyes are fixated on USU you have this outburst and also
Bruce:Archie upon the upon the girl who goes was a real stupid AMITA say.
Will:I agree. Your sentence might have been lessened had you not spoken up there?
Bruce:Now highly doubtful. They were out to get me from the start.
Tanner:That sentiment is echoed when the judge speaks. I have looked at the case I believe that the maximum sentence is well deserved. And I believe you should suffer for more than you have been accused of here. Your past crimes have been brought to my desk so many times. So many in fact, that the crown knows of your transgressions. If that were not so disturbing, it would be impressive. But, alas, we only have the darkest pits to throw you into. Because I think you should suffer for this. Death is too easy and escape.
Will:This hardly seems fair. I say that a little too loud.
Tanner:A few people in the crowd turn to you. So at this point you you can see that they
Will:Oh, they actually know that you're here. Yes. Oh, yeah. They could actually see us. Yep, people can hear
Bruce:you. Look, it's a spitting image of the person on trial.
Tanner:Ah, you know, they they don't seem to register that. Gotcha. Okay,
Will:what are you still wearing the suit back then?
Bruce:Now he's probably in rags right now. Okay, so that you
Will:look like a dapper bully. Maybe you're maybe you're his dad.
Tanner:Yeah, your your past self is dressed in, you know, basically prisoner garb that they would have thrown a new rags just to keep you covered. When you came into the courtroom Yeah, so the contract trial will continue on if you guys, you can, you could stay to watch it or you could you could do something.
Bruce:Well, no, I was gonna say arch is gonna have another outburst when he says that about the crown. I never done nothing but save the pyboard a crown left in the pits. So why don't you blame me or patronize me that the crown knows who I am?
Tanner:The Crown does not show your concerns.
Bruce:So he's You said he's tied to a pillar, you're basically
Tanner:behind a podium, you know, it kind of goes around you in a in a U shape or behind past you.
Bruce:Okay, I didn't know what situation like what his physical situation was. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, at this point. Anybody watching the scene would see the younger Archie assume the same kind of cold vengeful anger that he is presented already, since you met the older Archie. And he's going to say through gritted teeth. One of these days, I'll be free. And when I am, you're both going to pay. It's going to be the most excruciating feeling you've ever felt in your life. It's going to be slow.
Tanner:As you say this, you can look over to me Yes. And through his sort of performance, the the welling of the tears in his eyes and the grin on his face, you can see a slight smirk and the judge basically waves your comment off, as to bailiffs start to approach on either side, then I suppose we will continue with sentencing, the maximum sentences, eternity. I mean, if you were immortal, that wouldn't matter. So life, the rest of it with no chance of escape, you will be put to work every day. And you will be given the bare means to survive. And that is more than you deserve.
Bruce:The only thing I'll need to get the two of you is my rage.
Tanner:I would caution you for threatening a judge during sentencing, but it no longer matters. bailiffs, take them away, aren't you just
Bruce:smiles of like bleeding the evil smile through clenched teeth as he's grabbed by the Bayless. All he says is in a very monotone voice. I will haunt the both of you to the ends of the earth.
Tanner:And they take you away out of the scene, your vision blurs you and six the present versions, this sort of wave effect begins to happen. And then you find yourselves in the gallery of a courtroom in Port way worth. Archie everything is exactly how you remember it. Even from this different point of view. There are many people gathered to watch the trial, but less than a handful are friendly faces. you've wronged a lot of these folks, but you'd rather have gone down for those crimes instead of this.
Bruce:Yeah, older adult, older older Archie is going to turn to six and he's going to say, Well, I've seen enough of this. We both know how this story ends. Let's figure out a way to get out of here.
Will:I was going to ask if you were having a sense of what is it called? Deja vu. Hot dosha cat know that deja vu? Deja vu. Thank you Oh, yeah. I wonder. Is Navarro there? Navarro still here? Yeah. I look at guess I looked in Navarro. And so how do we get back?
Tanner:I don't know. I've never gone into a painting before. I haven't tried to remove them from the walls. He's got a fair point.
Will:That's fair. I guess we could try something new. I stayed up a cast guiding bolt that the
Tanner:Okay, roll the hit. Do that.
Will:This is this is probably a terrible idea.
Bruce:I'm gonna assume probably that any any determinant from the memory will cause it to reset, but we'll see.
Will:Okay, well, I'm hoping that's kind of what happens just as
Bruce:Archie begins bleeding out of his head.
Will:I wrote an ID. Okay.
Tanner:You send out this guiding bolt. You might have the words for it and did it I don't know if it's verbal, but
Will:yeah, it is verbal, verbal and smell. Okay. Yeah. As
Tanner:you as you might have the words for the people around you turn and you can see some Like arcane symbols trigger around you. Most likely preventative magic runes. But you send this out and it's so it goes straight to the judge and smacks him right in the chest. And as you cast this underneath this green energy comes up and restrains you and you cannot move but when when the guiding bolt hits the judge go ahead and roll damage for me please
Will:Oh my god, I hit this shit out of it. I did. Oh, it's not plus anything 18 damage.
Tanner:Okay, as you hit him red paint starts to come out and like streak across the scene and stay as if it's this kind of staccato is sort of chiseled on paint. And then this seems like fracturing of reality reverberates in this tear off of the judge and comes out and once again, all these waves come in your perception even as you're frozen there. And then your vision returns and you find yourself in the gallery of a courtroom and
Bruce:I've done a lot of drugs in your life and that that has never happened. So don't do that again. Please six
Will:it was kind of
Tanner:trippy what you do notice in this particular iteration, however, is that the judge has streaks of red paint across his chest
Bruce:you know you might be given me a lobotomy here.
Will:I am sorry for that. That wasn't I thought maybe we would break the loop.
Bruce:Archie begins feeling feeling his face. Make sure he's not bleeding. Yeah, aren't
Will:you? You look fine don't worry.
Bruce:I'm gonna look around for doors.
Tanner:Yeah, they're the number of doors that you remember there being in here there's the main double doors that come in at the back of the room that you can enter from and then there's a door on the if you're facing the judge on the left side that likely goes to his chambers and then another on the right where they take you out at the end of the scene. And you know from experiences it just takes you back into like the temporary holding cells that they would then take you to jail
Will:so we try something new maybe you give it a go
Bruce:or she looks around
Will:like Bruce is actually looking man that's getting into the That's That's commitment right there.
Tanner:As you're as you're looking around you here in ES once again say there is no punishment too harsh for this man. He said because of his uncontrollable rage
Bruce:stay here for a moment. I'm gonna do something I've always wanted to do.
Will:Yes, yes.
Bruce:Archie gets up and he just fucking sprints it in the US and hits him with his great axe
Tanner:All right, I need you to go ahead and roll athletics for me.
Bruce:Okay, I'm good at that. And for my for the for the listeners. He knows full well this is not going to do anything but it'll feel good. Athletics 70
Tanner:Nice. Okay, you are sprinting forward towards the knees. And it takes it doesn't take you long to get pretty close to where he's giving his statement. However, by the time just right before you get there past you looks over and sees present you and you feel this pounding splitting headache Come on, that starts at your temples and moves behind your eyes. I need you to go ahead and roll a constitution saving throw for
Bruce:me. All right, I'm also good at that too. A 17
Tanner:Oh, 17 Very nice. Okay, as you as you feel this headache, the rage it's building up inside of you. You're able to push it back and ignore the pain and you vault over and dive with your great axe towards the knees. And should you stick this directly where do you where do you slice him? Right? Right in his neck. Okay,
Bruce:I just bury it like straight down and in between his neck and his shoulder.
Tanner:Your great axe which is embellished with the the wolf that is representative of the of the company of of men that you used to lead slams down into the side of a nice his neck with a thick funk. And you can feel it and all this hatred that you've held up for so long in your swing your muscles straining to try and force this thing through him And as you do, you can see red paint come outwards and white paint as it cuts through bone and presses forward and moves out into the room and begins to cover the scenery. And then once again, your vision begins to turn into waves as things fade out and back in. And once again, you find yourself at the beginning of the scene. But if you look over at Eneas, you can see these white and red markings, this sort of crimson scarf that traces across in front of him where you wanted him.
Bruce:Alright, that was fucking worth it. Let's get out of here. It used to he just Archie stands up and goes towards the double doors.
Tanner:Navarro says, you think we could just I mean it's worth a shot.
Will:That's a better idea than these two doesn't seem that we've accomplished much besides making it a little bit more colorful.
Bruce:I excuse me what I did was very cathartic. It's a good word.
Will:I did something
Bruce:I almost said lethargic.
Tanner:very lethargic. Alright, so the three of you had to the the double doors. Yeah. Okay. You go towards the double doors and people do turn to see you but only regard you
Bruce:know, I'm kidding.
Tanner:I don't know. They only regard you in so much as you're someone who's leaving a trial before the sentence is passed. And and I like the fuck this is a bad deal. You don't want to see this happen. And as you swing open the doors in the back. What you look out to is all these swirling paint colors. This sort of impressionistic mix of oil paintings moving and undulating in front of you. What are other like clays doing
Will:here?
Tanner:Haha. That an Alice in Wonderland reference? No, is the painting
Will:is a dolly referenced
Bruce:here a bomb ticking must be must be set must be six as hard tick
Tanner:tock. Tick tock on the clock. And when trying to do a nursery rhyme So yeah, that's what you see in front of you.
Will:One small
Bruce:step for me i Six. I'm gonna share a bit little bit of advice for you. Yeah, don't do drugs.
Will:Understood. Dive in. Okay, bye.
Tanner:Okay. So it is just six that dives into the paint. Navarro looks up at you Archie and he takes a little step back at six as you dive into this paint. A you can feel this sort of you ever you ever finger painted. You remember finger painting? Yeah, it's roiling. Yeah. All night.
Will:Oh, you're asking Will. Your painting, will you? Just kidding.
Bruce:Six. You're painted with people's organs. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know if that's a joke. Joke. Not
Tanner:yet. Not yet. Let's go. Yeah, it's it. I mean, it's like you submerged your whole body in oil paints. It's it's goopy. You're swimming forward. It seems fine to try and move through. You don't need to breathe so you don't know if that's an issue.
Will:Well, I figured it was better for me to try than anyone else says I do not need to breathe.
Bruce:Glad you can take one for the same 6am I floating
Tanner:there's no way I know you've you've you're completely submerged in this so it's more likely would not have heard that we're all three the viscosity of paint No
Will:it's more like okay, all right. We're done with that.
Bruce:No, but that sound effect was pretty good. Like I was not if I was not watching you I would definitely think you stuck your head underwater or something
Will:that just for the listeners that was not all with me. That was no fix.
Bruce:And that was all his mouth. All right,
Will:I guess I'm gonna climb back out if there's nothing happening.
Tanner:Yeah, you start to swim back towards the the vertical surface that is the door and as he comes out, Archie six is covered in multicolored stripes and splotches of paint it looks like this paint isn't mixing together it's just all these colorful streaks all over him as he steps out
Bruce:guess you're going through your rebellious phase I
Will:I looked down oh, I guess so. This did nothing. Oh, I got I got one more thing to try.
Bruce:All right, you go ahead. I'll wait here a whole lot.
Will:That was like if I could do I get the feeling that if I continued going out into the paint that I would escape somehow ah What's what's out there? Is it just blackness?
Tanner:I mean, it's it's paint, you know, like, you could still kind of see colors because you can have your eyes open and not be full of paint, but like, you're just looking into paint
Will:Okay, all right. Here's what I want to try it. So
Tanner:if you're trying to to try and roll to see if you know if something's out there, I will let you do like this is clearly magical. So if you want to roll our Kana
Will:Okay, sure. I'll try that first. Before I do what I'm about to do. That's a turn on dice is like plus two or five or something. What is Archana?
Tanner:You think that if you jumped into this endless number of possibilities could happen. You could swim out of the painting, or you could end up turning into a cuckoo clock. You don't know.
Bruce:I gotta check one of the other doors. All right,
Tanner:Archie, you walk towards one of the other doors and as you do, past you, cease you walk by and you once again get that splitting headache. I need you to go ahead and roll a constitution safe.
Bruce:Okay. 1313. All right.
Tanner:This time around the headache begins to overcome you. Your rage is in fueling you and your momentum bring you forward and objective you're not desire but your need to do an action isn't keeping you from from succumbing to this headache and you fall to your knees as it splits through your brain. And once again, everything begins to wave and reset itself and go back at the beginning of the scene.
Bruce:I don't really fuck that wasn't fun.
Tanner:The headaches certainly does dissipate. New Rule
Bruce:sticks. Don't let me see me.
Will:Understood. That's probably a good rule. There's something in there some sort of logical fallacy there anyway. Okay. Anyways, let me try this. I want to cast command. It does have a verbal component, but I'm gonna cast command on anus.
Tanner:It's going to automatically fail unless you see it really
Will:nice. Alright, fine.
Tanner:Get correct. It's you've got you've got to have a target of a magical spell and no one here is named anus,
Will:okay, and as Oliver Hadley, I'm going to cast command on as Oliver Hadley are going to one more command if he fails my DC 13 Seven throat so
Tanner:a few notes before you do that. A few notes. You guys are all seated back in the same positions in the gallery. Again, you're not standing in different places. However, six is still covered in paint.
Will:So I should have asked that first. Actually, that's
Bruce:is a new Yes. And the judge also still governance.
Tanner:Yeah, they're paint you can still see the swats of paint from when you entered them. Just the just the streaks of red on the judge and the streaks of red and bone white on Aeneas.
Will:Duly noted. Now I do the command thing.
Tanner:Okay. Go ahead and tell me what that command is. Oh, he fails. Ha I will not tell me what the code
Will:is. Truth is the one word I say.
Tanner:The one word command is truth. What's your save 30 wisdom. This is verbal correct.
Will:It is verbal.
Tanner:Okay. Any other components of it? Do it verbal semantic material, just verbal?
Will:Just verbal. Okay,
Tanner:so you let fourth one word.
Will:Truth.
Tanner:Okay. As as this comes out, have you used the command spell before? Nope. Okay. Basically, you can kind of see these sort of sort of audio shockwaves moving slowly towards NES. And, boy, that's nifty. It blows over him no one else seems to notice the smell. But in this sort of thing, you can kind of see flickers of colors of paint as it moves through. As instant as the smell comes out. The light once again, comes up around you and you are frozen in place and locked down. But then in the US is expression begins to change his his features. soften a bit his expression not so fake. And he trembles as, as if he's trying to hold back. Something that's building up inside of him. And then he says what is that? What is the truth, Archie? What is the truth? Have this scenario did he kill all of them? Or did he conspire and have other people do it?
Bruce:Yeah, it's just like a bait. It's a conspiracy more or less okay? Because because there's no way he'd be able to I mean it. Yeah, he's a pretty decent sized crew like I mean, one person couldn't have done it but
Tanner:it could have been like a poisoned all of them. That is that is something right. And the biggest
Will:thing is like Archie didn't do it is the biggest thing that I would expect. Because he's about to say he's about to say the same thing. You said every time which is this man. I
Tanner:bet he did all this. Bye. Bye. Bye. So I do want to point out one thing that this is kind of a different use of of the command spell because there is the zone of truth. But I'm for it.
Will:Oh, it's definitely not conventional. Typically, it's like an action that they make. But I figured maybe why not?
Bruce:Yeah, yeah. But if you read the description, it can be an it can be other things besides, well, yeah,
Tanner:I'm fine. I'm fine with it.
Will:Or follow a one word command that makes sense to them. To me. This makes sense.
Tanner:And that's certainly so Eneas says struggling to hold these words words in like he's trying to hold back from vomiting. And he says Ay, ay. Ay orchestrated the whole fucking thing. And the people in the courtroom look both shocked, but some of them look completely appalled. You can pick out the ones, Archie, the the other gang members and leaders, you can look at their faces and see that this is not what they were expecting, especially since in the past then begins to start pointing people out and accusing them of being a part of it in audit and do it alone. Everyone from the top gangs in the area helped me and none of this. None of this is on him. And he points down to you, your past you behind the pulpit pulpit behind the podium. The judge in this case looks shocked and you can see from the injuries that you've made to both the judge and to a nice, all these other colors pouring forth and their eyes washed to this stark white before tears of paint begin pouring out and it begins filling the room and everything quickly from the doors that you had open before all the paint begins to fill in in this multicolored tapestry fills everything of your vision. This time there is no waves that bring you back out. But your vision clears and you can see that you are back in the gallery. The actual gallery in drift realm with the painting that you are just in on the floor drained of all color except for tiny patches of multi colors on you in the center of the painting. No longer do you see the aura surrounding India's Hadley but just a speck of what it feels like to have had someone tell the truth about your scenario no matter if it was real or not. But you're back in the gallery
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Bruce:Well, that was a fucking wild ride.
Will:Oh, absolutely a question. Do you still remember going to jail?
Bruce:I'll never forget that hellhole.
Will:Ah, so we didn't change the past. It was kind of interesting, though.
Bruce:Like I said, done a lot of drugs. Never seen nothing like that before.
Will:We've got to talk about these drugs. Things
Bruce:that I was not down to drugs. Pair.
Will:They would work on me anyways.
Bruce:Probably not. Well, you got some organic pieces, don't you? Oh, you're right.
Will:Do you think All kids should do drugs? I'm only four.
Bruce:Oh, absolutely not. You're way too young to do drugs. Gotta be at least seven.
Tanner:Navarro perks up and says I'm 1011 I
Bruce:shouldn't have drugs.
Will:Oh, 11 fairly certain you said seven at first.
Bruce:Let's talk to me all these weird paint things going on.
Will:Okay, this job.
Bruce:Now, I do have quite a few more faces. And Ed's they'll be taken. So that's gonna.
Tanner:Yeah, if you're, if you're wanting you can remember specifics on this. And we can kind of there were three other people that in the acid pointed out.
Bruce:Okay, cool. Yeah,
Will:I agree with you. Our CI gli m and n Es seemed like they were in cahoots. If you asked me, that was a setup. And bullshit.
Bruce:I wouldn't be surprised the entire crowd was a part of that set up. Fucking bastards.
Will:You're right, fuck them. I said my
Bruce:first four year olds really shouldn't talk like that.
Will:I have. I'm fairly certain I'm much older than that. But I don't know much about my past. You think we could. I've got an idea. Pull out the book again and pull up. The doctor boy that we saw pictures of me in?
Tanner:Oh, our Gmail cut? Yeah, you flip through to look for our Gmail account and you see his name there. I think it was in silver. And as you you know, fixate on that name. The halls of the gallery begin to shift and all of the paintings on the wall, on the walls change and show the lifespan of Argo malcode. Oddly enough, there are more paintings at the end of this then you might expect you can see the sort of really messed up paintings that you saw when you looked at your own timeline. And right at the end before you were taken here, how it was just this these scratches of paintings this chaotic sort of mess. But in Argos case, there is there are there is one more painting afterwards. And he is in drift realm. You can see walking across the waves. But often the distance he's walking towards this gray tower.
Bruce:And so the gunslinger goes I always I
Tanner:almost said the black tower.
Bruce:Alright, sorry. I had to make a Stephen King reference there.
Tanner:Yeah, I figured I figured I look
Will:at Navarre. And where's that? We're, it's in this realm.
Tanner:Did you guys say fuck in front of Nevada? Yes, lots. Fuck if I know.
Bruce:Hey, remember I said you know you'll be loved to do drugs. You gotta be loving to use words like that, too.
Tanner:Oh, what can I use instead?
Bruce:Well, I guess you could say, I don't know. fragen
Tanner:fragen if i Is that not a that's not a curse word. No. All right, frog in a fight now.
Bruce:I guess technically would be frag be frog if I know not fraggin
Tanner:I don't know, may either? Well,
Will:I would like to Oh, actually, how did we get here? I'm pretty sure.
Bruce:We walked into that door over there.
Will:Yeah, but I'm fairly certain that I just kind of willed it into existence. I was looking for a
Bruce:way out. Well, why didn't you say you could do that before six, we could have avoided this whole problem.
Will:That's too. But there's one more thing I want to do. And I gotta go find a picture of what I presume is me and the doctor doing some stuff. In a crowd
Tanner:in a crowd, okay.
Will:Was there anything were there together with a crowd of people
Bruce:and other robotic entities that no
Tanner:role investigation? For me? There's, I'm gonna say there's a lot of paintings.
Will:I think that's just the 1313 on dice. I'm pretty sure I got a zero. Yep. 13.
Tanner:Okay, um, as you're looking through, you don't see anything that meets those exact standards. I mean, you do find a couple of the person you assumed to be you. The tall, wiry, mustachioed, man. The closest thing you can find is what looks to be the two of you in a, in a laboratory setting, with a few more people around.
Will:I'll tell you what, I find a painting with just us to it.
Tanner:Okay, you could certainly find that. Okay.
Will:Just follow my lead here. I pull it off the wall.
Tanner:Okay. As you pull it off the wall, you feel the same sort of tearing fabric of reality. And you are when your vision sort of clears from all these paints and everything obscuring it, you do find yourself in the scene, kind of watching from a darker corner of the of a laboratory. Watching the two of you pour over books. Well, the two men are gonna Alcott and this other gentleman again, you assumed to be you pour over these books looking at schematics, you can see different mechanical parts lying around the beginnings of what could have been the experiment that created what you are.
Bruce:I say is we're getting sucked into the painting. I six, I must ask you a question.
Will:It looks like I've gained my mustache back. Alright, so I'm going to sneak up behind them.
Tanner:Okay, roll stealth.
Bruce:Archie just standing there watching. He's super confused as to what this what he's about to do.
Tanner:It's a 1212 All right. Okay. So you're, you're walking up behind them. Don't turn around. They both turn around. And as as of the version of you with the moustache sees you. The whole world goes wibbly wobbly. And
Will:we go again. Okay, okay. New new approach. So I'm in a dark corner. They can't hear me or they can't see me right.
Tanner:They're not currently looking at you. Okay, all right.
Will:I'm gonna I'm gonna kind of hide behind something and say I say Archie find out his name. I presumably my name
Bruce:I walk up to the not our group male college guy and I smack him on the back of the head and I say hey, what's your name?
Tanner:He grabs the back of his head and both of them whip around neither of them seem to be afraid and how does all right well, how does mustachioed man react Yeah, fuck you.
Bruce:Yeah, that was that was that was my thing. My panning I was like I really didn't mean for this to happen because now I gotta make a lot of decisions really quickly
Will:said I would give you this option. We can totally abort this. No, we're hitting it baby.
Bruce:He says you're going to suffer will
Will:my name you want my name? What's your name?
Bruce:I backhand him. Tell me your name.
Will:Do I have a chance to dodge it?
Unknown:Um
Bruce:it's not it's not you. Technically technically.
Tanner:It's not you but like, old you like this So that would be a push over. Yeah, go ahead and roll the roll the hit, Archie. We're not gonna I mean, it's not like lethal damage. You're not actually trying to hurt him hurt him, so
Bruce:I got like a 10 Okay,
Tanner:um, he can see this one coming and puts his arm up to block your slap.
Bruce:Saying we wouldn't have to do that if you just tell me your name.
Will:Fuck me. All right. Fuck me. I thought Tanner was gonna play this guy.
Tanner:No.
Bruce:You deserve all of this.
Tanner:You deserve all this dude.
Will:Okay, all right. My name is Jason What is your record my name okay
Bruce:six his name's Jason and my name is Jack kickham Let's go oh, let me say my name
Tanner:you then My name
Bruce:is David the last
Tanner:I should have played this. Just keep him the hardest said that I could pick up just to screw you over even more. But no, you got this buddy. No, go ahead with this. This is all staying in here. Man. If you remove us a second of this
Will:we're good. Oh. The names Jason. Now tell me yours
Bruce:Jason Horner Sutton. I six old here is a real fucking douchebag
Tanner:Oh, they both look over to where you turn to yellow that the waves happened again. The seed reset
Will:wow, I see very cool. Cool it.
Tanner:Can do God
Bruce:Okay. All right. On the voice I might call you Jason are six now. Are you Jason six, six. Jason.
Will:You know, I I I think I prefer six at this point.
Bruce:I'm not make you do I call you douche.
Will:I hope that's not well, actually. Like
Bruce:Well, the bright side is is you can be whoever you want to be now.
Will:That's very true. Thank you for you know, I don't know my past life. I'm hoping I turned over a new leaf Well, there's only there's only one thing left to do now. And I just start destroying the room as fast as I can.
Tanner:Oh my god, yeah. You destroy you destroy the room. And like, every time the loop resets when they notice you you keep destroying things over and over and over again. The real question was okay, so I kind of had an idea of what Archie would get out of a scene like this. If any it was it was meaningful progression of like trying to release some sort of of long hurt
Bruce:basically shadow work.
Tanner:Yeah. So what what exactly like were you did you just want your name out of this white what I just
Will:wanted. Literally six just wanted to know the name.
Tanner:Okay. As soon as Archie yells back and tells you what the man has said his name is you could feel reality shifting and you are covered in the massive colors again. And when your vision clears, you are back in the gallery staring at the painting which is now drained of color altogether.
Will:That may not seem like much to you, but it is. I still don't remember much from my previous life, but it meant a lot to at least know that that's me. I guess that's where I get Jason from. Maybe I do remember more than I think.
Bruce:To be fair, I did start conversations smacking you in the back of the head so it can be while you're a little bit petty.
Will:I guess we'll see. With time. I have a lot of questions. But for now I'll, though, I guess will remain unanswered. Maybe we should go find the gray tower.
Tanner:As you two are discussing next steps. You see Novar walk over to the book and begin flipping through it. And he says, Come on, come on. It's got to be in here somewhere. Why didn't I think to look before? And he's just flipping very quickly through all the pages.
Bruce:I look over. What do you think he's doing? I say to six,
Will:I was still talking about the gray tower. thing that I think we need to find us. Oh, I don't, I don't know. Hey, what are you doing?
Tanner:I'm trying to find my name. And you just flipping through?
Will:What's your surname?
Tanner:Ah, ha, I think it's I don't know if I have one. I just was here, I just remember here and this place, and being here and looking at the paintings. And, and that's it. So there's got to be something before this. And he is still just feverishly flipping through the pages.
Will:I guess I'm going to try to help him. Okay, you've got to be in there somewhere, buddy.
Tanner:You walk over to the book. And again, this book is in any sort of alphabetical order any sort of order that you can tell. And as you're swiping through all of the pages, eventually, you see it and it's not in the same color lettering as everything else. It is in this bold, black font. And it seems that there is a surname there but it is smudged out this this. This actually looks to be like a very hurriedly handwritten piece from a quill that was dipped in too much ink.
Will:Well, that's interesting. Let's, I guess pull you up. So let's say the bar point to his name, I guess.
Tanner:As you think it the gallery begins to shift. And like before the paintings begin to fluttered the sound of paper running past each other, the ends to pick up but the sound of it keeps growing louder and louder and the paintings keep flipping by and all of these things start to shake on the wall, all the many picture frames, and you can feel the ground begin to shake as well. And Navarro grabs on to the podium that the book is sitting on and these paintings are not settling as debris begins falling from the ceiling. Not not enough to hurt or maim yet but the the ground do be shaken.
Bruce:What do you do six? I told you not to touch things you didn't understand.
Will:I mean I don't understand much to be honest.
Bruce:With you shouldn't touch much.
Will:It looks like this place is crumbling Navara think we need to leave.
Tanner:I I can't leave until where did I come from? I've just been here. And he looks incredibly distraught this 10 year old boy who is not old enough to curse.
Will:I look for my own name in the book while the stuff is crumbling.
Tanner:You look back down to the book and all the names are gone. Oh,
Will:well, I thought maybe if I switched it off of you. This would stop but I think we need to leave. I don't think you're going to find anything out today. And I started heading to running towards the door.
Tanner:Navarro runs in the opposite direction towards one of the picture frames and tries to take it off the wall. Oh, I
Will:don't know about this running faster away from whatever I'm doing.
Bruce:Archie is the soldiers is the the degradation of where we are just getting like worse and worse.
Tanner:Yeah, it's it's not like exponentially but it is getting worse as time goes on. Enough to be concerning concerning.
Will:I think we should leave Archie.
Bruce:Well, yeah, I think you're right. Sorry, brother, who's gonna noise mean you Navarro. Remember don't cause to do drugs until you're 11 I'm out of here.
Tanner:Okay, the two of you begin running towards the way that you came in. And as you get to the threshold, I need you to make a dexterity save. Can I see it? Can you see He,
Bruce:whatever is making me do a dexterity said you're diving
Tanner:out of the way of collapsing. collapsing.
Will:So the answer is yes, you can take advantage. Oh 13 plus zero.
Bruce:Non natural toy.
Tanner:Okay. As the two of you dive forward, Archie, you're able to tuck yourself in with your pick, pick your coattails up as you roll and tumble down the stairs, trying to minimize the damage to your suit jacket. Six you are caught by the arches out in front of the building that are holding up the front. it tumbles and hits you in the back. For eight damage, rough, okay, you collapse and you roll down the stairs, eventually splashing down at the bottom into the drift. Not so much as to where you're you're like in the drift you can still walk on top of it both of you can. And then behind you. The gallery crumbles in upon itself. And this hole appears is almost black hole and sparkling on the outside that swallows itself inward. Everything that's there. And all of the water from the drift realm is sort of pulling and undulating towards it. Not flowing into it. But just there with this dark open portal.
Will:We know it's a portal. Do we know where it goes?
Bruce:Probably you know anything about it. Be honest.
Tanner:Oh, yeah. Okay, don't roll out. You can roll our camera if you'd like no, no.
Bruce:Well, I don't know.
Will:I guess Mark can and we'll see what happens. I mean, 70 plus two less than 18. So whatever. I guess we'll find out what we can know about it.
Tanner:That's the portal.
Will:Go Cool. Yep. Well, that's definitely a portal.
Bruce:I'm glad you know, because I don't
Tanner:I mean, best best you could think of like you search back and remember banks in you know, of like black holes and things being swallowed upon each other and think, Oh, well, if a bunch of maths is taken in there, it has to have gone somewhere because the laws of universal
Bruce:physics physics. I think it's a law of physics, for that matter. CASS cannot matter.
Tanner:cannot be created or destroyed. Only altered. Yeah, this sounds actually the law. It had to go somewhere.
Bruce:Do any to any to any physicists out there.
Will:That's the law of conservation of energy energy. I don't know if it's the second first or whatever.
Bruce:Alright, I'm going to look around and see if there's anything else besides this thing. Alright, I'm gonna walk around it.
Tanner:Oh, yeah, you walk around it, you can feel the pull of it. But it's not like actually pulling you in. But all around you in this place is just the waves of the drift and the souls beneath it. And this black portal.
Bruce:Alright, six. I'm gonna do something really stupid.
Will:I think we should do it together. Because I have an idea of what you're thinking. We dive into the portal.
Bruce:All right, let's do it.
Will:All right, let's rose strap for strap I'm gonna keep pace with the old boy here, we're gonna jump into the portal.
Tanner:Alright, the two of you break towards the portal and dive in. And you are taken back into the same sort of blackness that you found when you came in here. And as soon as your vision clears, you find yourselves in the gallery of a courtroom in Portland. You know, you, the two of you find yourself sort of drifting, drifting in this place. Again, this sort of feeling of nothingness and forgetting everything. And you can kind of begin to feel at ease in the nothingness here, this sort of comfort of not knowing your own troubles. As your troubles are washed away, you forget every bad memory, recent or old, everything that's ever transpired in your life, even the good times, but in this moment, you really only feel still. And if this moment could go on forever, that might be okay. It would never be bad. It would never be good. But you could just be here. And what I need to know is what in the back of your mind what small bit could kind of either push you forward or keep you Do you want to stay?
Bruce:Archie, here's in his head, three more names.
Will:Six, just remembers what Argo said and says out loud, can Telly
Tanner:okay? So the two of you have feelings of seeking, seeking people finding reason to push forward something to find out more about yourself or, and the long suffering and avenge those you cared for. And as you attach to these things, you can feel all the feelings flood back instantaneously. It is almost overwhelming. The emotions that you feel in this moment, anger, aggression, happiness, sadness, longing, want everything all at once. And these things propel you forward through this darkness you can feel that rippling all around you, and then you can find yourself facing a light in front of you. And at breakneck speed you are barreling towards it and you both finally feel each other's presence. And as you look towards each other and look back at the light, the darkness dissipates. And in front of you, you see this monstrous, undulating wave of darkness and this thing screeches as it realizes you're in front of it. Once again, it is the giant thing that touched you the waves of blackness that brought you into drift realm. Besides you you can see the goblin who you pushed out earlier Archie pushed out of the way of this thing. And you can see the black hole collective group Onyx company looking on in fear of this, this incomprehensible being and this awful screeching rings out across the land as it says form seems to begin to turn and move back towards the east from whence it came.
Will:I like to look at Archie said is that drugs
Bruce:splayed in fucking clothes