[UNKNOWN]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_11]: Welcome back to Dark Nexus.
[SPEAKER_11]: Tonight, it's act three, chapter one, hundred, forty, seven.
[SPEAKER_11]: We are at the forsaken, caravancer eye, standing in the bitterly cold air beneath the massive moon, taking up way too much of the night sky.
[SPEAKER_11]: Watching as the remaining yethhounds soar away into the desert sky after that last denizen of laying vanished,
[SPEAKER_11]: Gripper looking like his waking self, door and dabs, and their layered desert garb straight out of doom, vicking his wild west palm show, and Barnabas.
[SPEAKER_11]: This is Barnabas's first time in the dream lands, and I have to imagine that he's having a very different experience than the other four did upon your arrival.
[SPEAKER_11]: Back in chapter ninety five, I had about ten minutes worth of description about what the place looked like, what it felt like to arrive here, how deep and immersive the concurrent memories of both walking down the staircase and spending months and months of preparation and weeks and weeks of travel were, and though all of that is old hat,
[SPEAKER_11]: to the rest of you now from Barnabas.
[SPEAKER_11]: Barnabas is experiencing something pretty intense right now.
[SPEAKER_11]: So we've cleared the courtyard of the caravance right of all of the unexpected guests.
[SPEAKER_11]: We realize allies.
[SPEAKER_11]: All except for one, there's still a single shuntock remaining up on the second floor and that exposed hallway looking down at you.
[SPEAKER_11]: Huge, slimy, scaly, purple, two-legged dragon wearing a houda on its back.
[SPEAKER_11]: Still shuffling around, looking very nervous.
[SPEAKER_11]: But unlike that other one that was here, it hasn't flown away and it keeps casting glances back at the door to the yellow king's room.
[SPEAKER_11]: But as those yethhounds fly away and we stand in the mess of and around the giant stone wall that times summoned out into the desert here, Barnabas has appeared.
[SPEAKER_11]: He's freaked out.
[SPEAKER_02]: How is he dressed?
[SPEAKER_04]: So I think he has heard you all talk about kind of how you can affect and it all happened very last minute but we can get into that in character if you want but what you see his Garb is
[SPEAKER_04]: He is dressed as his Kitsunei pack would have been during the battles against the Baylor.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, like whatever in his mind as the quintessential combat adventuring skulld.
[SPEAKER_04]: So I think combat ready but with a slight bit of Panash to it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Crusade gorilla fighter.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, sweet.
[SPEAKER_11]: Cool.
[SPEAKER_11]: Uh, way in the back.
[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, Dora is still team up.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, and team up.
[SPEAKER_11]: So as, as Bartibus is getting his, his dream legs underneath him, let's resolve it's going on with team up.
[SPEAKER_11]: Thank you for remembering.
[SPEAKER_07]: He says inwardly.
[SPEAKER_07]: Don't waste this, although I want to be here right now.
[SPEAKER_07]: And she casts placebo effect on herself.
[SPEAKER_07]: Or Dora.
[SPEAKER_11]: And because once she goes away, Dora will still be panicked from the deaths, from the death hounds, yep.
[SPEAKER_07]: So her, she, she has cast this spell on herself to convince herself that she is not afraid.
[SPEAKER_07]: The thought component is a blindfold being wrapped around someone's head.
[SPEAKER_07]: Cool.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's, this is not a great thing to do, but I, here's where I think anathmas out right now.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Dora is going to the mad poet, which in Athens she has already been and this whole thing happened.
[SPEAKER_07]: This whole thing instigated there.
[SPEAKER_07]: So she's uncomfortable being here when we're not fighting.
[SPEAKER_07]: And Dora vowed to her to figure this out.
[SPEAKER_07]: So it's in her best interest for Dora to be on her game.
[SPEAKER_07]: So while there's nothing loving in the thought component of tying this button fell around Dora's neck, or Dora's neck, or Dora's neck, or Dora's neck, or Dora's neck, or Dora's neck, or Dora's neck, or Dora's neck, or Dora's neck, or Dora's neck, or Dora's neck, or Dora's neck, or Dora's neck, or Dora's neck, or Dora's neck, or Dora's neck, or Dora's neck, or Dora's neck, or Dora's neck, or Dora's neck, or Dora's neck, or Dora's neck, or Dora's neck, or Dora's neck, or Dora's neck, or Dora's neck, or Dora's neck, or Dora's neck, or Dora's neck, or Dora's neck, or Dora's neck, or Dora's neck, or Dora's neck, or Dora's neck, or Dora's neck
[SPEAKER_11]: Because I'm imagining probably, while this is happening, Vic is soaring down to join.
[SPEAKER_11]: Well, I got to put Barnabas token on this map.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I'm going to guess that haste is run out pretty close, but maybe not fly.
[SPEAKER_07]: Fly still going for sure.
[SPEAKER_07]: And after that, Darrell will cast me to our runner.
[SPEAKER_11]: I'll still down in the courtyard there.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, as she's walking up to join the other.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Watching the Yathounds fly away.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you are walking up to join the others.
[SPEAKER_02]: If we are, if we are loosely no longer in rounds, then the critic would also be drinking a shield and applying a gravity gun.
[SPEAKER_02]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_12]: Debuk dismisses the remaining leperts with a wave and looks up at Barnabas.
[SPEAKER_12]: Oh, how did you get here?
[SPEAKER_04]: It's the last minute after the ritual completed and you had condense his stales.
[SPEAKER_04]: I jumped down his stales after you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, welcome to the party.
[SPEAKER_04]: We are connected through all this, I think.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes?
[SPEAKER_04]: and the work you have been doing ultimately it is for your reasons but it will benefit me and I am taking none of the risk so I had to come.
[SPEAKER_07]: Dora will fly back to the rest of the group.
[SPEAKER_11]: as you hit this point right here.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_11]: As you sail past the open doors to the west that lead into the caravans right down towards the sundry shop and eventually around the corner towards the dining room.
[SPEAKER_11]: On this wall right here, see what I'm paying in?
[SPEAKER_11]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_11]: There is a wall in the corner that is easily visible both from the east where Dora is and from the south because it's cut out of forty five degree angle.
[SPEAKER_11]: covering almost the entirety of that five foot wide stretch of wall is a massive, magical sigil.
[SPEAKER_11]: And as soon as you catch the side of it out of the corner of your eye, there is a bath flash of light.
[SPEAKER_11]: I need you to make a fortitude save, Katie.
[SPEAKER_07]: A cast burst of adrenaline for sure.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm gonna use an action point.
[SPEAKER_07]: Her sixteen.
[SPEAKER_11]: It all happened so fast.
[SPEAKER_11]: You see her turn her head, there is a flash of light, and Dora you take seven points of strength damage.
[SPEAKER_11]: What is your strength?
[SPEAKER_11]: It is eight.
[SPEAKER_11]: Just like that, she's done to one point of strength.
[SPEAKER_11]: She cannot hold up her belongings anymore.
[SPEAKER_11]: She cannot move.
[SPEAKER_11]: She could fly though, right?
[SPEAKER_11]: She can't lift anything.
[SPEAKER_11]: But she can still fly like a sort of limp.
[SPEAKER_11]: Strength one, morbidly weak, has significant trouble lifting on limbs.
[SPEAKER_11]: and that's strength zero that is too weak to move in any way and falls unconscious.
[SPEAKER_11]: So she is hovering on on the edge of consciousness barely able to
[SPEAKER_02]: Move herself.
[SPEAKER_02]: The subject of a fly spell can charge but not run and it cannot carry a loft more weight than its maximum load.
[SPEAKER_02]: Maximum load.
[SPEAKER_11]: Ten.
[SPEAKER_11]: So she cannot move.
[SPEAKER_11]: So she literally is flying and then flip.
[SPEAKER_11]: And she like crashes face down into the sand where you see her writhing on the ground between those sets of open doors, unable to move herself.
[SPEAKER_02]: Run to clock this and then fly down there to grab her and seeing that that bright explosion came from the doorway be trying to
[SPEAKER_00]: the wall, the wall, there was a sigil on the wall.
[SPEAKER_02]: And as soon as he hears that, he's like immediately averting his gaze from the doorway so that if he gets sniped, that's better than what just happened.
[SPEAKER_11]: All right, that will give you a fifty percent chance to avoid having to make the save when you come within range of this active symbol.
[SPEAKER_11]: Once you go ahead and roll, a percentile, one through fifty is good for you.
[SPEAKER_11]: So you managed to avoid catching sight of whatever is going down down there to the west and you close with Dora Grab her and then pull it right back out if I'm able to You can.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yes, I will do that all right, so you're able to drag her form up to the north joining Barnabas grip and Dabwick
[SPEAKER_11]: And she is just literally writhing on the ground, the weight of just her clothing, the few little bits she carries in her filthy sack, et cetera.
[SPEAKER_11]: Art, it's painful on her body because she can't even withstand the weight of them leaning against her severely atrophy muscles.
[SPEAKER_02]: Barnabas, can you read this?
[SPEAKER_02]: And I pull out a scroll of restoration.
[SPEAKER_04]: Restoration is fourth level, and I can only cast third level.
[SPEAKER_07]: Is it on your list though?
[SPEAKER_11]: No.
[SPEAKER_11]: So I think you might be down to a use magic device check, which is pretty good.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, he's a plus fourteen on his UMD.
[SPEAKER_11]: All right, this is gonna, it's a cascade of checks that have to happen here, Robert.
[SPEAKER_11]: Right.
[SPEAKER_11]: So first of all, do you have the read magic cantrip that will help you avoid one of them?
[SPEAKER_04]: No.
[SPEAKER_11]: All right.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I mean, if, so instead of going that route, can a patient receive two lesser restorations if they come from, in a day, if they come from two different casters?
[SPEAKER_11]: Well, we're not worrying about sanity.
[SPEAKER_11]: You can cast as many lesser restorations as you want.
[SPEAKER_04]: So it's only sanity.
[SPEAKER_04]: So I'm excited.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, so I could, I could spell can a lesser restoration in get at least another one of those.
[SPEAKER_12]: And I can cast lesser restoration plus we have two potions of lesser restoration.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, so that we're getting that's getting that's that's one to two each right one to two or one to four.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh Yeah, it's only one to do for something All right, so of course rip is still Dex damaged as well no trained and dab look as Dex trained.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, they may just be dexterant for it.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, it's only one on the case of grip, so I'm like, I'm not as bad a factor.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_04]: That feeds, but AC.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, I'll take them all in.
[SPEAKER_07]: We'll take all the lesser resources.
[SPEAKER_11]: We're going to start with a couple of lesser restaurants from Dabs and see where that takes us.
[SPEAKER_11]: Is that what you're in?
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_11]: All right.
[SPEAKER_12]: All right.
[SPEAKER_12]: This is Debra casting lesser restoration.
[SPEAKER_12]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_11]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_12]: For one point.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, boy.
[SPEAKER_12]: Hey, you just doubled your strength.
[SPEAKER_12]: That's pretty good.
[SPEAKER_12]: That's not the right side here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Come on.
[SPEAKER_12]: Dabwick uses the Pearl of Power.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_12]: It's first recasting that second level spell.
[SPEAKER_12]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_12]: For three more points.
[SPEAKER_11]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_11]: I'm gonna put a potion in her.
[SPEAKER_12]: So, Dabwick hands you a potion.
[SPEAKER_11]: probably gonna have to pour it down or throw.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yes, yeah at this point.
[SPEAKER_11]: You're like, you can lift a potion now, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: She's five, five.
[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, at four, you are knocked off balance by swinging something dense.
[SPEAKER_11]: She's just above that.
[SPEAKER_11]: She's just like, that potions come in your way.
[SPEAKER_11]: You'll reach for it and form it.
[SPEAKER_11]: It topples you over.
[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, such a dire situation, but that's a little fun.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm gonna roll it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Three, I am back up to my normal eight strength guy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Grip.
[SPEAKER_02]: Grip, how badly are you injured?
[SPEAKER_04]: Quite a bit, as I'm not there if I'm down about sixty.
[SPEAKER_04]: I've got three cure-mod potions and I've got seven cure-light potions.
[SPEAKER_04]: Let's hold off on all the potions.
[SPEAKER_12]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_12]: I've got cure-light wounds, um, wands.
[SPEAKER_12]: Just check going into town.
[SPEAKER_12]: I can start going into town.
[SPEAKER_04]: What about Barnabas?
[SPEAKER_04]: Did Barnabas arrive with his full codeery of spells?
[SPEAKER_04]: One hundred percent.
[SPEAKER_04]: So Barnabas can also do some, I've got cure-mod.
[SPEAKER_04]: He's got cure-mods.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, too.
[SPEAKER_07]: Those are renewable so let's start with those.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's a good idea.
[SPEAKER_07]: We don't know how long we're going to be.
[SPEAKER_04]: We don't.
[SPEAKER_04]: We really, really don't.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, so we'll do.
[SPEAKER_11]: We're now worried if it's less than fifty thirty days.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_11]: We're on that clock now.
[SPEAKER_07]: But really, anywhere between two and thirty days is a dreamland.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is a problem.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yep, it is.
[SPEAKER_07]: Resource.
[SPEAKER_02]: And also, we didn't bring enough food and water for six people.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is till later.
[SPEAKER_04]: Two-D-A, it plus one per caster level, is that right?
[SPEAKER_07]: Can't, why can't it make it sound food?
[SPEAKER_11]: It would be two-D-A plus, uh, yep, nine.
[SPEAKER_11]: That's nice though, but.
[SPEAKER_11]: Why K is able to manufacture food for himself?
[SPEAKER_11]: It's nineteen.
[SPEAKER_07]: Because he's dream stuff.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, he doesn't really exist.
[SPEAKER_11]: He is as real as he is.
[SPEAKER_11]: All right, so would you get there?
[SPEAKER_04]: I got nineteen.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: He will do another one of those.
[SPEAKER_04]: thirteen plus nine, that's twenty two.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm gonna go ahead and do one more of those.
[SPEAKER_07]: How bad is dad's hurt?
[SPEAKER_07]: Not at all.
[SPEAKER_07]: Just trying to stick to damage.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, that gets me to one oh three out of one oh six, so I feel good about that.
[SPEAKER_08]: You don't feel good about that.
[SPEAKER_02]: As well you should.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, so at this point, any buffs like haste or round the level of your gun are all gone.
[SPEAKER_07]: We're still flying.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_07]: There is that Sean Talk back there and it seems uncertain what to do it keeps glancing back at the yellow kings chamber.
[SPEAKER_02]: Can I fly up to the rubble entrance and get in without getting close to the shantok?
[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_11]: You can all head around to the northeast corner of the building and go around to the side, which is probably the way that you would typically approach when you made your walk up to climb the pile up to the yellow king's room.
[SPEAKER_02]: As you make a way around the building before we do that, that is going to say.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, let me check to kind of make sure that there's no other sigils like that first.
[SPEAKER_07]: Great.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he's going to be trying to check for traps as we are going up to try to make sure that.
[SPEAKER_07]: We quickly just discuss whether or not I should do a telepathic bond with the five of us or we should wait for why I care if there's reasons to believe maybe it won't work on dream creature.
[SPEAKER_07]: Like, you would think it would work.
[SPEAKER_11]: Because while you are here, he is real to you.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, okay.
[SPEAKER_11]: I mean, do the dream button now.
[SPEAKER_11]: Looking up all five in?
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, great.
[SPEAKER_11]: Everyone is connected telepathically, but that's so exciting.
[SPEAKER_02]: Because then we can just be quiet.
[SPEAKER_11]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can silence.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can know what's going on in my brain as I find things.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't.
[SPEAKER_11]: All right, so give me a perception check and a stealth check for Vic as he's sneaking around the pile of rubble and checking out the situation.
[SPEAKER_11]: Oh, the gym of seeing.
[SPEAKER_04]: That takes me back to when we used to use it.
[SPEAKER_07]: He's going to remember that it existed.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's going to crack one more extract and drink an extract of tears to wine.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: symbol of pain.
[SPEAKER_11]: No.
[SPEAKER_07]: No.
[SPEAKER_11]: But it's, uh, it's the first time to make a check on it.
[SPEAKER_11]: No, no, you could do spellcraft.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, that's shitty rolls.
[SPEAKER_07]: I rolled a three.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, stealth is a thirty one.
[SPEAKER_02]: and then perception is a twenty-eight for traps.
[SPEAKER_11]: Okay, making a way around the corner of the building, start in low, making sure there's nothing in the rubble all seems clear as you are sneaking up towards that second floor.
[SPEAKER_11]: The shuntock has, it's begin to kind of pace, nervously back and forth, up and down the length of that like fifty foot hallway, and it's bigger than an elephant, remember?
[SPEAKER_11]: So it's, it's, it's nervous pacing, it's boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
[SPEAKER_11]: The whole thing is shaking, and it seems to be trying to do this gingerly and delicately, and it is just making a colossal fucking noise of itself.
[SPEAKER_11]: As you're making way around, you don't spot any traps.
[SPEAKER_11]: sort of soaring up to get a look down that hallway?
[SPEAKER_03]: I want, is there any chance that friend of yours arranged a conveyance for us across the desert?
[SPEAKER_07]: That's what I was thinking.
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought about that, but if so, you might not be happy with what we do with those medicines alone.
[SPEAKER_11]: Wasn't talking about them.
[SPEAKER_02]: I know.
[SPEAKER_11]: What else do we know about?
[SPEAKER_11]: We know about a journey for shantucks.
[SPEAKER_11]: We know about a journey to collect more denizens of Lang.
[SPEAKER_11]: What else do we know from Vadrax, Journal, and Degrobathas headband about who else they collected on their journeys?
[SPEAKER_11]: Oh God, I don't remember.
[SPEAKER_11]: Degrobathas headband.
[SPEAKER_11]: Remember where he was when that vision was taking place?
[SPEAKER_07]: On a moon, on a moon.
[SPEAKER_07]: On the moon.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Of the dream life.
[SPEAKER_07]: Skip dried to the second to last line of the wiki entry which is she has no idea what's coming for her digger about the cackled with fishy gleam Mr. wanderlust it is it's Mr. wanderlust
[SPEAKER_11]: as you're refreshing yourselves down in front of the caravan's drywall, Vic is doing some exploring.
[SPEAKER_11]: Anyone who's able to make a knowledge nature check now that we are another level up, I think it was bifed last time around because we knew nothing at the time.
[SPEAKER_11]: Based on what Doris saw in that vision, I can take a knowledge nature check to see if anybody recognized his what the fuck Mr. Wanderlust was.
[SPEAKER_11]: Twenty-two.
[SPEAKER_12]: That beats my sixteen rolled a two on the die.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh wait, this is a knowledge check?
[SPEAKER_04]: No, it is.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_11]: So we're like telepathically thinking about these things and sharing this information.
[SPEAKER_11]: Vicks making his way around is like, okay, we read about, we read about these shantaks.
[SPEAKER_11]: We read about extra denizens and like we also read about Mr. Wanderlust and then do read describes that tall, gone kind of purple, figure, dressed kind of like an Edwardian, butler.
[SPEAKER_11]: Cross between Jack Skellington and the joke.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_11]: There's sort of a communal ha, and Vic comes in with, are we talking about a boogie man?
[SPEAKER_11]: And part of us is like, yes, we are talking about a boogie man.
[SPEAKER_11]: Hey, truly terrifying creature of fairy.
[SPEAKER_11]: Terrifying mischievous fay creatures who feed on the fear of mortals.
[SPEAKER_11]: Many who travel to the material plane will often take up the role of a mass murderer or a serial killer in a city, so as to not only feed on the fear of their victims, but to feed on the fear of a populace.
[SPEAKER_07]: So is this like a step up from a bag man?
[SPEAKER_11]: They can transfer, you know, sort of like some demons can become other demons after going down a certain path long enough.
[SPEAKER_11]: Certain fairy creatures can do the same as well.
[SPEAKER_11]: So maybe some bag men start out that way and become boogie men as they go along.
[SPEAKER_11]: The boogie men are not not great.
[SPEAKER_11]: I think Barnabas's reaction would be like
[SPEAKER_11]: Oh holy shit, please tell me we don't have to fight one.
[SPEAKER_11]: So you know that they are cloaked?
[SPEAKER_11]: in an aura, a thirty foot aura of fear.
[SPEAKER_11]: That will manifest as anyone inside of it seeing the thing they fear the most.
[SPEAKER_11]: Very difficult will save to avoid becoming shaken while within it.
[SPEAKER_11]: If a bookie man confirms a critical hit or a sneak attack against any target currently suffering from a fear effect, that fear effect automatically becomes one more step severe, so shaken becomes frightened, frightened becomes panicked, etc.
[SPEAKER_11]: In addition, any critical hit from their claws can force any target that has successfully saved against the fear aura to have to save again.
[SPEAKER_11]: Even if they've, even if twenty-four hours have not yet passed since they made their save.
[SPEAKER_07]: What instigates that?
[SPEAKER_11]: Critical hit or a sneak attack with one of its claws.
[SPEAKER_11]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_11]: Anyone with a thirty feet is subject to its fear aura.
[SPEAKER_11]: You know the attack like rogues, six d-six sneak attack.
[SPEAKER_11]: And then, you know they can cast fentasmal killer as a swift action.
[SPEAKER_07]: They're probably immune to mind-effecting effects.
[SPEAKER_11]: Probably not.
[SPEAKER_11]: That's not the way most fay are.
[SPEAKER_11]: You would just assume sky-high spell resistance and you would also assume some sort of DR based on cold iron is typical, but that wasn't in what bottom is new for certain, but those are fair guesses.
[SPEAKER_11]: Vic then is hearing all this bubbling inside his head as he's looking down that sixty foot open exposed to the night sky hallway there you see the shantok stomping back and forth nervously does seems completely unaware of you and down at the end of the hallway the door into the
[SPEAKER_11]: Yellow King's room is just cracked open a little bit.
[SPEAKER_11]: So it's not all the way close, it's not all the way open, but it's just like kind of hanging slightly as skew.
[SPEAKER_11]: And it looks a little like, got broken.
[SPEAKER_11]: Wow, like, yeah, canted off its hinges slightly.
[SPEAKER_11]: Like maybe it can't quite close anymore.
[SPEAKER_11]: And the air within like ten feet of that doorway is rude.
[SPEAKER_11]: I would have made you think that that's what was happening.
[SPEAKER_02]: But knowing what Barnabas just told you, you would guess that that's probably a boogie man's fear or up.
[SPEAKER_11]: because it looks just a little bit different.
[SPEAKER_11]: It doesn't seem to be warping distance inside of it.
[SPEAKER_11]: It seems to be just twisting the air a little bit like shadow shapes are trying to manifest at the edge of your vision.
[SPEAKER_02]: I will relay that information that the boogie man is here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Mr. Wanda Lust is here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do we want to try to take out the shantok first or invite it to, because it's in the way, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: It's not above this on the thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's blocking the way to the doorway.
[SPEAKER_11]: It is blocking the way to the doorway.
[SPEAKER_11]: So it, it does not, it does not seem hostile, it seems nervous.
[SPEAKER_04]: And we're thinking that that Boogie Man is in YK's chamber.
[SPEAKER_04]: That is what it's looking like.
[SPEAKER_11]: That is what it's looking like.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_12]: Do we have to parlay with Mr. Wanda less to know to find the YK?
[SPEAKER_02]: Mr. Wanda less is not here to parlay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Mr. Wanda less is here to take us out.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, then if we can fight, if we can fight, if we can fight a beast not surrounded by an aura, a fear that would be great.
[SPEAKER_07]: We have the scroll, can protect group at least for ten minutes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but once we use that scroll, it's gone.
[SPEAKER_07]: I know.
[SPEAKER_02]: So do we want to gear up and go in?
[SPEAKER_07]: Unless we can draw it out.
[SPEAKER_07]: But I don't know that there's any benefits to that.
[SPEAKER_02]: We know that Shantok's are intelligent, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: Correct.
[SPEAKER_07]: If anyone has any ability to truck with animals, we might be able to convince it to leave.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, you know they speak, they have language.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you could, you could certainly message it and just be like, we suggest you leave.
[SPEAKER_02]: Or why are you here?
[SPEAKER_11]: Why are you here?
[SPEAKER_11]: As a Denizan of the Dreamlands, your first bet would probably be Aklok, but you don't know for sure this specific talk, so I'm talking.
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, I'm definitely trying to convince it to.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: Leave.
[SPEAKER_02]: Although, maybe we want it to stick around, because to death is quite a part.
[SPEAKER_02]: So maybe if we can convince it to stay, we've got work for it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, let's just talk to it and see what it says.
[SPEAKER_11]: I love that these things are described as, even though they're scaled creatures, they're described as slimy.
[SPEAKER_11]: And it's iridescent purple.
[SPEAKER_11]: Let me show you that art again.
[SPEAKER_11]: Let me show that art again because it's so fun.
[SPEAKER_11]: Ah, Sean talk with Houda.
[SPEAKER_07]: What kind of outfit?
[SPEAKER_11]: You have to go up.
[SPEAKER_07]: I have to go up, but it's pretty big.
[SPEAKER_07]: I just need to see it.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's medium range.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, beautiful.
[SPEAKER_07]: There.
[SPEAKER_04]: Much rather work for us than for this bogey man.
[SPEAKER_11]: Are you going to hide behind some rubble?
[SPEAKER_11]: Are you going to go invisibly or what do you want to do?
[SPEAKER_07]: I hide behind some rubble.
[SPEAKER_11]: Alright, give me a stealth check.
[SPEAKER_07]: Ah, thirteen!
[SPEAKER_07]: I got a four.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, you are not spotted.
[SPEAKER_07]: I cast message.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh-huh.
[SPEAKER_07]: And say, in Ecclo.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: You see one certain friend.
[SPEAKER_11]: It goes stock still.
[SPEAKER_11]: It kind of squads a little bit.
[SPEAKER_11]: Like maybe if I just get low, nobody will see me.
[SPEAKER_11]: It's a fucking elephant-sized dragon.
[SPEAKER_11]: It says an outlaw.
[SPEAKER_11]: My name is Dora.
[SPEAKER_11]: Where are you?
[SPEAKER_11]: It's voice in your head sounds like broken glass.
[SPEAKER_07]: I've loaded the ground.
[SPEAKER_11]: Why?
[SPEAKER_10]: Are you here?
[SPEAKER_07]: We need to see our friend, man, notice the yellow king.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think y'all.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know him by that name, but then y'all stand out on us.
[SPEAKER_08]: Is Nathaniel a tall purple creature?
[SPEAKER_11]: You see it, it tremble.
[SPEAKER_11]: Kind of quake in the knees.
[SPEAKER_10]: Do you work with the manual?
[SPEAKER_10]: The manual?
[SPEAKER_10]: Well, kill me.
[SPEAKER_10]: If I live, I am too taken as manual when the manual wants to go.
[SPEAKER_07]: What do you rather work for someone less frightening than the manual?
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh yeah.
[SPEAKER_10]: But Nathaniel won't kill me.
[SPEAKER_10]: Nathaniel won't kill you.
[SPEAKER_10]: I'm not alone.
[SPEAKER_10]: True against Nathaniel.
[SPEAKER_10]: Oh no, not two.
[SPEAKER_10]: Eighteen against Nathaniel is here.
[SPEAKER_10]: It would be better, but we have fine.
[SPEAKER_10]: Well, he's been very quiet for a long time.
[SPEAKER_10]: Papers!
[SPEAKER_10]: Riding!
[SPEAKER_10]: He's doing work!
[SPEAKER_10]: He likes numbers!
[SPEAKER_10]: Scratch, Scratch, Scratch, Scratch!
[SPEAKER_10]: Humber's numbers, numbers, numbers!
[SPEAKER_07]: You could help us fight him?
[SPEAKER_07]: Perhaps?
[SPEAKER_10]: I'm not stupid.
[SPEAKER_10]: I didn't think he would.
[SPEAKER_07]: But six against one.
[SPEAKER_07]: He's better than five against one.
[SPEAKER_10]: I would you fight him.
[SPEAKER_10]: Well, he's a very dangerous creature, isn't he?
[SPEAKER_08]: But not if you draw what he says.
[SPEAKER_08]: What if I don't want to do what he says?
[SPEAKER_08]: This may be deeply uncomfortable.
[SPEAKER_08]: But you don't want to do what he says, right?
[SPEAKER_08]: So you can't stand out how someone else might not want to do what he said.
[SPEAKER_08]: But when you're making worry, what's your call that I'm done?
[SPEAKER_07]: Are you done?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: But what if he wants to go somewhere else?
[SPEAKER_09]: No!
[SPEAKER_09]: That's not how it works!
[SPEAKER_09]: See the others, they were released, exactly, as promised, breech and behark and oopalk.
[SPEAKER_07]: The one that just ran away, breech, breech.
[SPEAKER_07]: It was really free to go.
[SPEAKER_10]: Hmm.
[SPEAKER_10]: Are you the only one left?
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, I would like if you worked with us, be a partner on our team.
[SPEAKER_07]: Is that something you could consider?
[SPEAKER_07]: I thought in my threes out of the way, so I'd love to make a diplomacy check at any time.
[SPEAKER_11]: I met you one.
[SPEAKER_02]: Roll it up.
[SPEAKER_02]: Are you relaying like the fact that this thing's name is Nathaniel and stuff to us.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's one T-three.
[SPEAKER_02]: Action point.
[SPEAKER_07]: It is the first day.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just asking.
[SPEAKER_07]: Why do you seven?
[SPEAKER_09]: I'll just go over there.
[SPEAKER_07]: Why are you talking to the fan, y'all?
[SPEAKER_09]: And then?
[SPEAKER_09]: I won't do you, I want to go.
[SPEAKER_09]: What do you want to go?
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm not sure yet.
[SPEAKER_07]: See, I need to speak to the person, the other person in the room.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh no, he's gone.
[SPEAKER_07]: My figure.
[SPEAKER_08]: To the moon.
[SPEAKER_08]: Doors says using the message spell.
[SPEAKER_08]: To simply say that.
[SPEAKER_02]: We may want to go to the moon now.
[SPEAKER_08]: They're talking to the moon in the ship.
[SPEAKER_08]: The blood wind?
[SPEAKER_08]: Red sales black ship.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yes, I know that ship.
[SPEAKER_07]: When was that?
[SPEAKER_07]: If you're horse-a-girl?
[SPEAKER_11]: Okay, right.
[SPEAKER_11]: But, full back at every that means, right?
[SPEAKER_11]: Never mind.
[SPEAKER_11]: Because when did he arrive here?
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: So you'll step aside.
[SPEAKER_07]: What were you deal with in the venue?
[SPEAKER_07]: I can be so sneaky.
[SPEAKER_11]: Trump's dance to the end of the this like almost He's taking up almost this entire room He's this barely enough room for his wings to expand He hops down to the rubble and then hops down to the courtyard.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, and I was kind of pacing back and forth around on the courtyard So Doris shares that at least the Shantok is out of the way
[SPEAKER_07]: And perhaps willing to work with us.
[SPEAKER_02]: We should go quickly.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's get up and get going.
[SPEAKER_02]: So fine.
[SPEAKER_02]: Anybody who can buff their will.
[SPEAKER_02]: Nine minutes.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, for sure.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think we should use the room of fear scroll on grip.
[SPEAKER_07]: All right.
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, it's so rare that we know we're gonna need it.
[SPEAKER_04]: What is that?
[SPEAKER_04]: What's the mechanic of that again?
[SPEAKER_07]: You get ten minutes and you get a plus four bonus on your will saves against fear effects.
[SPEAKER_07]: You can't use your pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool pool
[SPEAKER_11]: If he wants to use it that way, yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Because once this scroll is used in the stream land's experiment, it's gone and can't be used again.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean...
[SPEAKER_04]: It's the one for the day.
[SPEAKER_04]: You know, we want them to be able to cast a fireball or a lightning bolt right now.
[SPEAKER_07]: We think we're fighting one thing.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: So a fireball or a lightning bolt is less.
[SPEAKER_04]: No, I think I think I think given grip a plus four on a will save is probably a valid use of his ability and actually if you cast it, you can get two more people.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, because you would just cast it as yourself.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: So this is actually an, I think it's an excellent use of spell.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, I think it's supposed to, let's do that.
[SPEAKER_02]: So who should we give that to?
[SPEAKER_02]: I've, I've already got it still going.
[SPEAKER_07]: I can be team up for a while.
[SPEAKER_02]: You have the thing, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: The locket.
[SPEAKER_07]: I have the locket, yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: So I'm good.
[SPEAKER_07]: Although maybe the lock would be better for.
[SPEAKER_07]: It depends on what else he's got.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: He's wearing.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm, what's Barnabas' will say?
[SPEAKER_07]: Mine's plus eight.
[SPEAKER_04]: Plus ten.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Dabs is probably pretty high.
[SPEAKER_02]: Dabs is going to be the highest period.
[SPEAKER_02]: Usually.
[SPEAKER_07]: You just might as well give it to somebody because you can.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, then if you can get three people, then Barnabas, Grip, and Dabwick.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: We'll do that.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_04]: Alright.
[SPEAKER_04]: We're running right into the action, right?
[SPEAKER_04]: That's the plan.
[SPEAKER_07]: I can invisibility's Ferris.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: So approach.
[SPEAKER_07]: But let's gather and do it now.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, we still got shit.
[SPEAKER_07]: Going.
[SPEAKER_02]: Agreed.
[SPEAKER_02]: That can trick his own invisibility thing so he can be further away.
[SPEAKER_07]: Great.
[SPEAKER_07]: So let's all gather.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_07]: Do we have to make climb checks to get up this rubble?
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't have to am flying, but we all have to be together for them.
[SPEAKER_07]: Where do we want to be to do the invisibility sphere?
[SPEAKER_07]: Once you leave the sphere, you're seen.
[SPEAKER_12]: Can we get up onto the second level first?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, second level first.
[SPEAKER_07]: I was thinking.
[SPEAKER_11]: Easily done.
[SPEAKER_11]: Great.
[SPEAKER_11]: As long as not in the middle of the fight, you can scramble up that rubble without any concern.
[SPEAKER_07]: So gather rounduro, ten-foot radius emanation from me.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, all this is going on.
[SPEAKER_02]: Vic is popping numerous extracts.
[SPEAKER_02]: Same out loud.
[SPEAKER_02]: Seeing visibility.
[SPEAKER_02]: Fox is cunning.
[SPEAKER_02]: In visibility.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then right before we go in, he will pop channel vigor as well.
[SPEAKER_04]: Are we at a time when a three-minute spell would make sense?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm downing Bill's strength.
[SPEAKER_07]: Two good hope.
[SPEAKER_04]: Uh, yes.
[SPEAKER_04]: So, a crippled drink, a bull's strength, and Barnabas will cast good hope.
[SPEAKER_07]: I hope it's not not a fight.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, they'll find out.
[SPEAKER_07]: Look at those beautiful numbers.
[SPEAKER_07]: God, I love good hope.
[SPEAKER_04]: You know, am I just one of that that does?
[SPEAKER_04]: It's like plus two to everything or something?
[SPEAKER_04]: The spell instills powerful hope in the subjects.
[SPEAKER_04]: Each affected creature gains a plus two morale bonus on saving throws, attack rolls, ability checks, skill checks, and weapon damage rolls.
[SPEAKER_04]: Awesome.
[SPEAKER_11]: As the whole gang gets up on top of the rebel pile at the end of the hallway, they're leading down to the doorway into what had been the yellow king's room.
[SPEAKER_11]: All of you see the same thing that Vicksaw, which is this ten-foot deep area in the air there, which is just
[SPEAKER_11]: It's pulsing and there's little shadows forming at the edge of your vision.
[SPEAKER_11]: Like every time you cast your gaze over it, you feel like you're seeing something between your head.
[SPEAKER_11]: It's not there.
[SPEAKER_11]: It was never there, but everything over there feels
[SPEAKER_11]: a little darker, a little thinner and a little more creepy.
[SPEAKER_07]: Is it the aura of the creature?
[SPEAKER_07]: Do we think or is there a spell effect happening?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you're pretty sure that's the aura of the creature.
[SPEAKER_02]: Vic is going to be moving ahead.
[SPEAKER_07]: Do you want to haste first?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: Bam, haste down everybody.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh man.
[SPEAKER_07]: Again, I hope it's a fight and we're not just throwing all these
[SPEAKER_07]: And feel free to make fun of me later after saying, I hope it's fight.
[SPEAKER_02]: When I... When I inevitably almost die.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thick moves forward up to the thing and then through the field making his way to the door.
[SPEAKER_02]: He sure doesn't.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't.
[SPEAKER_11]: thick steps forward and is just reaching the edge of Doris invisibility sphere when you hear a voice call out from the office.
[SPEAKER_11]: Do you know anything about mathematics?
[SPEAKER_11]: Is still moving?
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_11]: It's very implied to not answer my question.
[SPEAKER_07]: Do you have invisibility separate from me?
[SPEAKER_02]: I do.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm also, like, hiding.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's don't thing up.
[SPEAKER_11]: It's a simple question.
[SPEAKER_11]: Mathematics or, or, no morality, anybody know anything about mathematics.
[SPEAKER_11]: They're coming very close.
[SPEAKER_11]: Should I, friend?
[SPEAKER_08]: Should I, let's say him, door asks.
[SPEAKER_08]: Still, don't think that.
[SPEAKER_08]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's not polite.
[SPEAKER_08]: to not apply.
[SPEAKER_07]: Do I know anything about mathematics like what is that?
[SPEAKER_07]: Intelligence just basically.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, intelligence.
[SPEAKER_07]: Try might know a little bit about mathematics.
[SPEAKER_11]: Hmm.
[SPEAKER_11]: Have you studied advanced physics?
[SPEAKER_11]: What's specifically?
[SPEAKER_11]: Tell me what you know.
[SPEAKER_11]: At great length, please go now.
[SPEAKER_11]: And Vic is as made as way invisibly up to the door.
[SPEAKER_11]: The instant you hit that field in the air, Johnny give me a will save for Vic.
[SPEAKER_11]: Does this save against fear?
[SPEAKER_11]: Thirty-five.
[SPEAKER_07]: Does that massive will save like, dispel it?
[SPEAKER_07]: Just gone!
[SPEAKER_07]: Just beat it by fifteen!
[SPEAKER_05]: Fuck it!
[SPEAKER_07]: It's gone!
[SPEAKER_11]: So Vick steps forward into that hazy air and for a brief little second there is a gug towering over him and then his shakes his head moves it to the side.
[SPEAKER_11]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_11]: Death is not coming for him.
[SPEAKER_11]: Please expand at length.
[SPEAKER_11]: What's you know about mathematics?
[SPEAKER_11]: Dora does.
[SPEAKER_11]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_11]: So Dora is now babbling about math.
[SPEAKER_11]: You hear, as Dora's going, you hear very contented subverbles of.
[SPEAKER_11]: Hmm.
[SPEAKER_11]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_09]: I can not know that.
[SPEAKER_11]: I can't really, so that there's just a constant babble coming from Dora, and a constant babble of pleased, ooze, and Oz, from someone who fucking loves math behind that door.
[SPEAKER_11]: So, Vic, you're gonna try to peer through that door, I imagine?
[SPEAKER_11]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_11]: Look through that doorway, and you see the yellow kings room.
[SPEAKER_11]: Once tidy office with the paintings of landscapes from over the dreamlands hanging on the walls,
[SPEAKER_11]: filled with books and gorgeous mahogany, desk, curtains draped over the walls.
[SPEAKER_11]: Everything has been ransacked.
[SPEAKER_11]: There are books and ledgers and papers all over the place.
[SPEAKER_11]: Hengings have been torn down.
[SPEAKER_11]: The rug has been kicked off to the side.
[SPEAKER_11]: And you see.
[SPEAKER_11]: an incredibly tall, incredibly gaunt, humanoid creature with sort of purple skin, and it looks like it's a whole face looks like it's just a grinning mouth filled with teeth.
[SPEAKER_11]: Dressed like an Edwardian dandy, here is a picture of the fan you'll wander bust.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that's about what I was picturing.
[SPEAKER_11]: Red vest black coat gray sort of striped flannel trousers matching matching top hat long fingers with long claws and Johnny he has a whole bunch of
[SPEAKER_11]: the cursed bookkeeper's journals specifically open on the desk long fingers like pointing down he's reading through pages that looks to be like lightning speed he kind of he kind of moves a little like stop motion animation
[SPEAKER_02]: Like he's almost glitching a little bit.
[SPEAKER_11]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_11]: And he looks very contentedly reading through these pages here, his red eyes glowing with excitement.
[SPEAKER_11]: Does not seem to see you looking through that crack in the doorway.
[SPEAKER_02]: When you're talking about the doors, the door actually a jar like I could move through it.
[SPEAKER_11]: No, it's cracked about a couple of inches.
[SPEAKER_11]: You'd have to move it.
[SPEAKER_11]: And it's broken.
[SPEAKER_02]: What I'd be able to take shots on him.
[SPEAKER_11]: Through the doorway.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's Barrel again.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, we're currently talking to Dora.
[SPEAKER_02]: We didn't come here not to fight Mr. Wanderlust.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Or did we?
[SPEAKER_02]: What do you guys want to do?
[SPEAKER_02]: So the gun, the invisible gun is poking through the crack in that doorway.
[SPEAKER_07]: What the alternative.
[SPEAKER_07]: Why case in here?
[SPEAKER_07]: We don't know where he is.
[SPEAKER_02]: They took him to the moon.
[SPEAKER_07]: All right.
[SPEAKER_07]: We don't have to get there.
[SPEAKER_07]: We do.
[SPEAKER_07]: We have the chantak.
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, we could go try to just leave with it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, it's not going to leave without us taking care of Mr. Wunderlust.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, we're not getting to the moon any other way.
[SPEAKER_02]: So what do we want to do?
[SPEAKER_02]: Are we fighting this thing?
[SPEAKER_02]: Are we going to?
[SPEAKER_02]: Or are we going to try to... Throw fireball in there.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, what's the other, just try to see if the shantuck will take us without killing him?
[SPEAKER_07]: I think the impression I got is that until he's discharged from Nathaniel, he's not going to do anything.
[SPEAKER_07]: Is that a fair impression?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, maybe if you try to mention the yellow king to him and see how he reacts, see if he's willing to talk or before we just shoot.
[SPEAKER_07]: He's here to kill Tema, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: Like, that's, but we got from Deckerbathas, this is, we realized, one of we realized, like, go get all these things and leave them at the, no, the end of that psychology vision was.
[SPEAKER_11]: And now Deckerbathas gonna go back and kill Tema.
[SPEAKER_11]: Now that all the we realized work is done, I, I'm gonna go to the club or Tema, the idiot.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yes, do this.
[UNKNOWN]: I mean,
[SPEAKER_02]: Happily try talking to you have any thoughts on this matter you're you're really silenced over there.
[SPEAKER_07]: What are we doing here then like what are what are we doing here?
[SPEAKER_02]: This is this is what I I thought that we were coming up here to fight Mr. Wanderland.
[SPEAKER_07]: We were but I was confused because I thought yeah I was confused because I thought that Mr. Wanderland less was left here to kill team and that we weren't getting out of here until it was dealt with but that's not the case then
[SPEAKER_11]: You would not have reason to believe that Mr. Wanderless was left here to do anything even related to Tema.
[SPEAKER_11]: Mr. Wanderless was brought here to do something as part of where lies plans, so that may of course be terrible for you.
[SPEAKER_11]: But the specific thing that you were thinking is not necessarily what's going on here.
[SPEAKER_08]: Uh-huh.
[SPEAKER_11]: That makes sense.
[SPEAKER_11]: This is one of those weird parts.
[SPEAKER_07]: I can try talking to him about something else.
[SPEAKER_07]: Those things.
[SPEAKER_07]: Those haste.
[SPEAKER_07]: Take a stab.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_11]: I'm not going to overly screw you.
[SPEAKER_11]: You're all talking in your minds.
[SPEAKER_11]: It's happening quickly.
[SPEAKER_12]: Would you ask him if he knows anything about yellow king and where we might find him and if not, may we use his his mount to go find him?
[SPEAKER_07]: So in the middle of the physics bubble.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: Dorses.
[SPEAKER_07]: Mearing choir about the original density of that office.
[SPEAKER_07]: Being very polite.
[SPEAKER_07]: Sorry, not original.
[SPEAKER_07]: Former.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you know about him then.
[SPEAKER_07]: We've met.
[SPEAKER_01]: Be polite.
[SPEAKER_07]: We've met.
[SPEAKER_07]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_01]: We've met.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sir.
[SPEAKER_01]: I am, I to believe, your spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: I will stop using that man's voice since you know him.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know about the man in yellow.
[SPEAKER_01]: What do you know?
[SPEAKER_01]: Stay on topic, please.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, sir, we know that he's been in there some time.
[SPEAKER_07]: He arrived after.
[SPEAKER_07]: Someone else visited another dentist in the treatments.
[SPEAKER_01]: You have spoken with him at length.
[SPEAKER_08]: Not as much as some, sir.
[SPEAKER_01]: Have you spoken with him?
[SPEAKER_08]: Madam.
[SPEAKER_08]: About these log box.
[SPEAKER_07]: Not specifically, sir.
[SPEAKER_11]: Would I have spoken to him about those log box?
[SPEAKER_11]: Great, Mike.
[SPEAKER_11]: So this is the books, remember he spent Eons investigating them trying to parse out the puzzle of their code and they discovered, oh no, the guy that just wrote on them was literally insane.
[SPEAKER_11]: There is no code.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Regrettably, I have to suggest that they very well may be nonsense.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I should not.
[SPEAKER_01]: There are deep truths buried in these numbers, calculations, timing, the movement of the planets, the movement of the stars, coordinations, locations, instructions, madam, yes, perhaps, perhaps, instructions are buried deep inside here to you know of octurn.
[SPEAKER_09]: We were gonna say that!
[SPEAKER_07]: I have heard of it, sir.
[SPEAKER_07]: But I do not believe the man in yellow understood that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I remain unconvinced.
[SPEAKER_01]: He has much value.
[SPEAKER_01]: But you have intrigued me where you come in and take a tea madam.
[SPEAKER_11]: You can speak to me of mathematics of the movements of the stars and what you know.
[SPEAKER_11]: yellow and perhaps madam I will speak to you of what I know this whole time Johnny he's still reading these books fingers like he's getting down the pages twitching and glitching and Vic is looking at him and the entire time he's playing over the six months that he was in this room we as yellow king
[SPEAKER_02]: And he's like, he is sitting in YK's chair and right over there to the right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the corner are the little places where I made the little hash marks.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Every single day and right over there is where I slept and right over there is where I like concocted formulas for six months.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: As this little tiny room was my entire life, aside from the few times that I went out of it, caught in this invisible reverie.
[SPEAKER_11]: Well, Dora is speaking across the way through the door with Mr. Wanderlust.
[SPEAKER_07]: Will you come in madam?
[SPEAKER_07]: She says telepathically to everyone else.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think I should.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do it quick.
[SPEAKER_02]: My fingers get itchy.
[SPEAKER_07]: Will you come with me, friends?
[SPEAKER_12]: No.
[SPEAKER_12]: Yes, of course.
[SPEAKER_07]: Then invisibly.
[SPEAKER_12]: Do you need to change into Tima before you get closer?
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't think that would be a good thing.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm going to have to depend on the Talisman and my plus ten will save.
[SPEAKER_07]: Um, so, uh, door enters the room.
[SPEAKER_07]: Hopefully your friends come up there.
[SPEAKER_02]: As she comes up and bumps into me from behind.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I pushed the door open.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: And move into the room pastor.
[SPEAKER_02]: As if you were never there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hundred percent.
[SPEAKER_07]: We're all still invisible, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: Because no one has done anything.
[SPEAKER_07]: Correct.
[SPEAKER_07]: To break it.
[SPEAKER_11]: Correct.
[SPEAKER_11]: So as everyone enters this shifting field in the air, I do need will saves from the lot of years.
[SPEAKER_11]: Let's start out with Dora.
[SPEAKER_07]: twenty one.
[SPEAKER_07]: Gripper.
[SPEAKER_04]: So I'm gonna get an extra plus four so that's a plus thirteen all day.
[SPEAKER_04]: For a thirty three.
[SPEAKER_04]: Natural twenty.
[SPEAKER_04]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_11]: Cool gripper.
[SPEAKER_11]: Dabwick.
[SPEAKER_12]: That's a thirty seven.
[SPEAKER_04]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_04]: Barnabas.
[SPEAKER_04]: So that's gonna be a plus sixteen of
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, it was almost a thirteen and it toggled onto a one.
[SPEAKER_11]: So as you make your way with Dora staying, you know, within, and make sure to stay within ten feet of Earth.
[SPEAKER_11]: And you'll see that aura that I have around her.
[SPEAKER_11]: So you have to be inside that if you want to stay invisible.
[SPEAKER_11]: Everybody staying within ten feet of Dora, you make her way into the room.
[SPEAKER_11]: The instant you hit the edge of that aura, Dora, you see Tima.
[SPEAKER_11]: looking back at you, pointing behind you, you turn back, you see yourself pointing across the way at Tima.
[SPEAKER_11]: The air is just filled with a fun house mirror of you and Tima all pointing at each other and seeming like on the edge of leaping at each other to cherry each other's throat so you are shaken.
[SPEAKER_11]: Barnabas?
[SPEAKER_07]: I think does the talisman go off?
[SPEAKER_11]: I think only goes off your paddock.
[SPEAKER_11]: Double check that.
[SPEAKER_07]: What is it for frightened or panicked?
[SPEAKER_11]: For Barnum, I think Barnabas, you got an idea for Barnabas, what do you see?
[SPEAKER_04]: I think he sees the Jaman fungus just pouring out of every orifice of his body.
[SPEAKER_11]: He's like looking down and he's just coated in it and it's pouring out.
[SPEAKER_04]: He's like, Stephen King and Crichow, except it's, he's shaking.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, both of you are shaking.
[SPEAKER_01]: You will not show yourself.
[SPEAKER_01]: It would be polite.
[SPEAKER_07]: I hope you are not offended, sir.
[SPEAKER_07]: We did not know what to expect.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'll dismiss it on myself.
[SPEAKER_11]: after you cast it on.
[SPEAKER_07]: And after I cast it on, uh, part of us.
[SPEAKER_11]: Great.
[SPEAKER_11]: So the rest of you are still invisible as Dora becomes visible.
[SPEAKER_01]: Will hello, madam.
[SPEAKER_01]: The name is Wanderlust Nathaniel.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wanderlust.
[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to my lair.
[SPEAKER_01]: Would you please take a seat?
[SPEAKER_11]: Yes, I can broken.
[SPEAKER_11]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_11]: I got it for.
[SPEAKER_07]: Uh, I cast mending on it and then set.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_11]: It's fascinating now.
[SPEAKER_01]: Tell me, fourth, three minutes.
[SPEAKER_09]: Everything you know about the movement of the stars.
[SPEAKER_11]: I do.
[SPEAKER_11]: You do.
[SPEAKER_11]: Hey, he's just come out of time.
[SPEAKER_11]: It sure is and he's so he continues to read while she's doing this and he's like looking up at her looking down.
[SPEAKER_11]: Looking up and sometimes you didn't even see the little glitch where his head was went from looking up to looking down and his fingers are moving.
[SPEAKER_11]: Pages are turning.
[SPEAKER_11]: Like it's only fifteen pages of turn.
[SPEAKER_11]: His fingers are
[SPEAKER_07]: studying him.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well that is a very fascinating young woman.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now why are you hee?
[SPEAKER_07]: We came to see Man and Yellow.
[SPEAKER_07]: He was planning an expedition for us.
[SPEAKER_11]: The little young man, of course, seafood.
[SPEAKER_11]: He fled downstairs.
[SPEAKER_01]: Where we realized soldiers had to cut through some
[SPEAKER_01]: to get him, but killed four of her companions.
[SPEAKER_08]: And then it was over.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they took him to the moon.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yes, yes.
[SPEAKER_11]: There was a prison there that I know of you see.
[SPEAKER_11]: Run by two moon-beast brothers, Yacht Camp and Ark Nar.
[SPEAKER_11]: They will hold anyone for the proper payment, or under the proper dress, or just
[SPEAKER_01]: because they feel like it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Which one of they holding him for if I might ask her?
[SPEAKER_01]: That is between we are lie and the earth kept an arc.
[SPEAKER_01]: Are you the one she calls team?
[SPEAKER_07]: It's a very complicated question to answer.
[SPEAKER_11]: He closes the log book and suddenly he's leaning forward staring deeply into your eyes.
[SPEAKER_11]: Like his entire posture just changed in a snap.
[SPEAKER_01]: Tell me more, madam.
[SPEAKER_07]: I know, Tima Antea.
[SPEAKER_07]: I can speak with her, but I'm not her.
[SPEAKER_07]: I look like her.
[SPEAKER_07]: But again, I am not her.
[SPEAKER_09]: Tell me everything you know.
[SPEAKER_09]: In less than three minutes about how you found yourself in a situation.
[SPEAKER_07]: I can tell you in much less than three minutes because I don't know how I found myself in that situation.
[SPEAKER_07]: One day, I did not appear to exist in the next.
[SPEAKER_07]: I did.
[SPEAKER_08]: Aware of her.
[SPEAKER_08]: But you are immortal.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_08]: Do you intend to kill me, sir?
[SPEAKER_11]: If you know nothing more about the mathematics, the maths, then you may not be
[SPEAKER_11]: As you spoke to me as I thought, I am working on the conjunction of the spheres you see.
[SPEAKER_11]: It is all contained and suddenly, he's got the book open again.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's all contained within these books.
[SPEAKER_01]: And if this is not something you can assist me with them, I'm fancy, I will get very bored of you.
[SPEAKER_02]: teeth just fucking teeth just teeth coming out from the bottom of that top hat well friends tell if he doesn't tell us what we want to know those books are gonna go by by any touches one of the necklace that's a fireballs it would be a shame if anything happened to the information in this room wouldn't it
[SPEAKER_09]: You have threatened me.
[SPEAKER_09]: What is it you want from me?
[SPEAKER_09]: Or else you will destroy all my knowledge?
[SPEAKER_07]: What do we want from him?
[SPEAKER_07]: Is Shantaq?
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know where YK went and where the Shantaq.
[SPEAKER_02]: He went to the moon?
[SPEAKER_02]: Where?
[SPEAKER_02]: Where at the moon?
[SPEAKER_02]: The prison?
[SPEAKER_02]: The moon beasts.
[SPEAKER_02]: And tell him we want their Shantaq.
[SPEAKER_08]: I want your shantaksa and then how do you propose?
[SPEAKER_08]: I cross the eastern desert.
[SPEAKER_08]: Could wait for us to return?
[SPEAKER_08]: You would return.
[SPEAKER_11]: Do you promise the dream of saliva comes out of the corner of his mouth from between his giant shark teeth?
[SPEAKER_07]: I can't believe a being such as you would put any weight in the promise of someone so insignificant as myself.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, madam.
[SPEAKER_01]: Words have power amongst your kind and my humans know this.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know about maths and things.
[SPEAKER_01]: Speak a promise to me and it will bind you, madam.
[SPEAKER_11]: Well?
[SPEAKER_11]: You don't have any reason to think so.
[SPEAKER_08]: Very well then I promise.
[SPEAKER_08]: You will fly.
[SPEAKER_11]: Very vast to the moon and return him to me.
[SPEAKER_07]: Of course.
[SPEAKER_11]: Suddenly, he's like sitting back in a contemptive posture.
[SPEAKER_11]: Like he had been leaning forward, fingers reading the pages, and then like, something he's back, legs crossed, he's got his hand stroking his chin.
[SPEAKER_01]: This would give me time to do my work.
[SPEAKER_01]: Very well.
[SPEAKER_08]: It is yours.
[SPEAKER_08]: Thank you, sir.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's going to kill you, you know.
[SPEAKER_07]: It would only be fair as I killed her before.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, God, that's wonderful.
[SPEAKER_09]: I see it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Even though I can't see the rest of you, I know one, two, three, four are here.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can taste your minds.
[SPEAKER_01]: You are perhaps as formidable as she fears.
[SPEAKER_11]: She was uncertain about facing you in the real world before she had time.
[SPEAKER_11]: and regiments.
[SPEAKER_11]: But she has done so, she has stopped you from locating, no Roosevelt.
[SPEAKER_11]: If you can't go there, you can't stop him.
[SPEAKER_01]: But perhaps, she's wrong.
[SPEAKER_09]: She doesn't even know where it lies.
[SPEAKER_11]: He suddenly standing up, and he's pacing back and forth, visibly relishing the taste of weeralized fear in describing you all, and how it tastes to him.
[SPEAKER_11]: For her to not even have estimated you at the level that she thought she was, he's practically panting, and then suddenly he's sitting again.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't let him die.
[SPEAKER_01]: Whatever you do.
[SPEAKER_08]: I won't.
[SPEAKER_01]: He is your ace, Sinol, just as she has hers.
[SPEAKER_01]: A little flea.
[SPEAKER_01]: Have fun on the moon.
[SPEAKER_07]: Good day, sir.
[SPEAKER_11]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_11]: We all do our hats to the fucking moss.
[SPEAKER_07]: Thank you, Dr. Lecter.
[SPEAKER_11]: And then he's suddenly neck deep in both and research again.
[SPEAKER_08]: We should go.
[SPEAKER_11]: It's Vic, we're gonna shoot him.
[SPEAKER_02]: They'll look on Johnny's face.
[SPEAKER_02]: Vic is, Vic is contemplating it very strongly because this was like YK's home.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And this is YK's stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: His fingers are neck deep in his books and his papers.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it is just wrong.
[SPEAKER_11]: The reason we came here Johnny was to make choices.
[SPEAKER_11]: What choice do you make?
[SPEAKER_02]: Vic slowly backs out of the room.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_02]: But he is so close to just slipping the leash.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's so close.
[SPEAKER_11]: And then you're back out under the midnight sky under the
[SPEAKER_11]: outrageously huge bright white moon casting light all over this courtyard freezing cold and what a relief it is to get outside of this creature's fear aura and even though those of you that made that save you know you're just constantly you know you feel your skin crawling just being close to this thing but uh yeah seems like he's uh he's very interested in reading and it's gonna let you take his shuntok my god
[SPEAKER_07]: And we're going to the moon.
[SPEAKER_07]: Do we great?
[SPEAKER_02]: How do we breathe on some moon?
[SPEAKER_12]: About the hell that takes care of it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_12]: just way to handle it diplomatic way instead of making it a fight.
[SPEAKER_07]: Even I wanted it to be a fight.
[SPEAKER_07]: I still not made that face.
[SPEAKER_02]: I still want to make it be a fight, but actually it will be a little higher level maybe.
[SPEAKER_02]: I also have like, practising the whole.
[SPEAKER_02]: The flea.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's the flea.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm looking at you, Paulie.
[SPEAKER_11]: So we get out of the courtyard and hop into the houda.
[SPEAKER_11]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_11]: There is space comfortably, really, for only four medium-sized creatures.
[SPEAKER_11]: So the solution is probably for someone to take the size of a small fox.
[SPEAKER_11]: Grip will do it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Grip will do it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Grip will do it.
[UNKNOWN]: Grip will do it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Grip will do it.
[SPEAKER_11]: Grip will do it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Grip will do it.
[SPEAKER_11]: Grip will do it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Grip will do it.
[UNKNOWN]: G
[SPEAKER_04]: It's getting very confusing if she will allow it.
[SPEAKER_04]: I would like it.
[SPEAKER_11]: The next six months of your life, but you inform vervas.
[SPEAKER_11]: What's going on?
[SPEAKER_11]: Vervas knows exactly where they went.
[SPEAKER_11]: The giant purple dragon leaps into the air and starts flying upwards.
[SPEAKER_11]: And just as Johnny suspected, the higher and higher you get, it's probably getting
[SPEAKER_11]: colder and colder and colder.
[SPEAKER_11]: The atmosphere would start thinning, but inside this howda it feels like a comfortable spring afternoon.
[SPEAKER_11]: You can breathe perfectly.
[SPEAKER_11]: You don't even feel the atmosphere going past you.
[SPEAKER_11]: It starts going faster and faster and faster and this thing is within minutes flying at supernatural speeds as you begin your flight And that's the end of chapter one forty seven.
[SPEAKER_11]: We'll pick up on the dragon in outer space next time.
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[SPEAKER_08]: That plans?
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