The Glass Cannon Podcast - Strange Aeons Episode 73 – Unwholesome Prison Blues

Episode Date: May 2, 2023

Links to some of the heroes' pasts prove confounding as they attempt to gain entry to the west side of the prison. Join Troy Lavallee, Joe O'Brien, Skid Maher, Matthew Capodicasa, Sydney Amanuel and Kate Stamas as they tour the country playing the Lovecraftian Horror Strange Aeons Pathfinder Adventure Path. Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/lQ4HGZfB12Y For more podcasts and livestreams, visit glasscannonnetwork.com and for exclusive content and benefits, subscribe today at patreon.com/glasscannon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We were all there. What? This is an audio format as well we're all raising our hands i lost count oh man i was uh i forgot to raise my hand and then i saw everyone else raised there so i was like oh i was there everyone else told you to jump off if you saw everyone else jumping off a bridge joe would you also jump off a bridge? If I heard your voice sound like that, I would. There's like seven Matthews coming at us. Are you in Discord unmuted or something? Yeah. Yes, he is.

Your first rodeo. Tonight's everyone's first rodeo. Tonight's Matthew's first rodeo. If it's your first rodeo, raise your hand. Matthew. You know what? No one heard that. No one heard that except for you.

That's true. That's true. You just made it weird for everyone. Well, if you're listening, it's the kind of voice that would make you want to jump off a bridge. It was like surrounded by seven judgmental Matthews. I regret nothing. It was like a panel of Matthews. It was like a deity.

Just like looking down upon you. You know what? You could do worse. Go ahead. Do you think, Matthew, do you think you would be a fair and benevolent God to all or just people that are ideologically like in the same line as you? Am I omnipotent and omniscient? Obviously. I mean, i don't know do we do i respond to this from like a judeo-christian christian background do i approach it as kind

of like my own weird deity like pantheon that sounds like a lot of double talk saying that you would kill half the planet that's what i'm saying i have literally no idea because I am but one human being and fallible. You know, I think, Joe. What? Not about Matthew. About myself, obviously. What would you do if you were God, Sydney? Well, I told you guys I was listening to Lord of the Rings, all of the series on audiobook.

And it's fantastic and narrated by Andy Serkis. And it's so good. But I think i would lean towards galadriel i think i am like oh yeah if you gave me a lot of power i would be terrifying and beautiful yeah well i think that goes without saying yeah obviously but matthew i feel like to me you read as uh like you would lean towards an el know, very knowledgeable, but maybe thinks, like, very highly of yourself because you're very knowledgeable. So I was like, oh, maybe Matthew would be a little Galadriel, too. A little wicked if you got so much power. Would you be a little Galadriel, Matthew? Did you guys just hear Sydney call me, like, a little, like, high horsey?

She did slip that in there. It was very subtle. I think she called you a wicked beautiful woman. Which in Boston is the highest of praise. You're wicked beautiful. I would take that for sure. You're wicked beautiful, Matthew. Skid,

seems like the question of the day is, what would you do if you were God? I didn't choose this topic, but here we are. Oh, man. If I were God, man, I'd have a lot of work to do. I'll tell you that much. Wait, about what, though? I've got a lot of problems with you people.

I think I would go the Dr. Manhattan route. I would hang out on Mars for a little while. No, I would hang out on Earth until it became clear to me that I could no longer relate to mortal people. Then I would retreat to Mars, build myself a castle made out of glass, hang out there for a little bit. And then I would just abandon the human race altogether after about like 60 years yeah just go to europe just go to europa yeah europa or even further you can do anything you want exactly even further imagine that why let me yourself to europa that is one thing that I would change because... What's the guy like,

I want to get away, I want to fly away, that song? Lenny Kravitz. Alright, so if I were God, that would be one thing I'd change because there's one line in that song that's really stupid. We can go away up to the stars, theky way or even mars oh yeah so it's like

oh well we could go to like this entire galaxy filled with billions of stars and planets or even now don't limit yourself we could go to the planet that's right next door to the one we live on see i always have rationalized that lyric it's that he's talking to someone talking to this girl talking to a dumb person no no he's talking to a girl and he's he's like he's coming in a little too hot and he's like we're gonna go like galaxies untold and she like she makes a face like whoa this guy's coming on a little too strong and he like panics he backs off yeah yeah to yeah and he says even as a mistake and then says mars okay we'll see that's the thing because it seems like they had choreographed that whole video

in advance and uh that doesn't really fit in with that notion but don't forget that you want to be super generous sure don't forget that lenny kravitz is jewish which means that joe thinks his god is different than lenny kravitz's god i'm not sure where that came from i don't know give you that to chew on tonight roman catholics don't share their god with the jews look it up roman catholics don't share a lot with anybody, really. Google it. We don't share gods. They're very selfish with their god. Kate, are you Googling it?

What? She didn't believe Lenny Kravitz was Jewish, I think. I think that's what she said. Is Lenny Kravitz Jewish? Is Troy making a joke? I don't know. Gotta Google it. There he is. At least half.

I just received the most alarming text in the world. From Lenny Kravitz? Yeah. Is it Lenny Kravitz adjacent? No. It's related to my immediate. I just have to share because I'm coming down from my panic. My wife texted me. I just saved your life from a water bug that was creeping your way.

I just got chills, dude. Now I want to like look all around. Now I'm on heightened alert. Dude, you freaked me out. They can be anywhere. They can be anywhere. They're the ones with like the bajillion legs, right? They're silverfish.

Is that what they are? No, no. They're kind of like roaches. But they're big. They're like big roaches. Like palmet, no. They're kind of like roaches. They're just – but they're big. They're like big roaches. Like palmetto bugs. They're just like gigantic roaches. For something the size of Frisbees, they're remarkably stealthy.

They really are. They can get up on you so fast. They're just kind of like roaches that when you step on them, it's like you have a half hour of cleanup. You know what I mean? It's like stepping on a kid. Oh, I got rid of that bug. It's like – How do you tell the different,

how do you tell? They look like roaches. They're roaches. They're called Oriental cockroaches. According to Google. Um, apparently they have no relation to roaches. I was always told,

don't step on a cockroach because then millions of their babies will explode into the world. I heard that too. What? So you always want to scoop it up and eat it or throw it in a toilet. Right. Definitely eat it. But don't stamp on it because their babies come out and then within a month.

I don't think that's science. Millions of cockroaches. Google it. I think you're wrong. Ask my buddy Lenny Kravitz. I'm not Googling anything about cockroaches. Google it right now. No.

No one knows more about science than Lenny Kravitz. It's true. Evidently. No one in the world knows more about science. I'm just thinking of Lenny Kravitz on The Simps. Evidently. No one in the world knows more about science. I'm just thinking of Lenny Kravitz on The Simpsons when he's up there at Rockstar Camp. Oh, yeah. This is strange.

So I Google water bug, oriental cockroach comes up, and there's a little circle with a megaphone. And so I'm like, what is this? I click on it, thinking it'll pronounce oriental cockroach. Nope, it's the sound they make. Oh no! And it just goes, tsss.

Yep. Tsss. Oh no! Tsss. And it was horrible. You know, Matthew, there's never just one. That's the thing. Stop it. There's never just one. Ask anyone if you see there's a thousand more that you don't. Oh my god. Matthew's going to be on high alert this entire episode now.

One time I came home. I was coming home from the US Open with Joe. And we got off the train and it was really hot. It was like the dog days of August. We were playing doubles and we had qualified for the next day. We were just heading home for some rest. We got pretty close to being contended. Yeah, that was a tough year.

Tough year. Anyway, it was really, really hot and really, really sweaty. And I needed a haircut. And I just felt like what felt like a trickle of sweat go down the back of my neck. And then I got into the apartment and then the sweat moved back up. It was a water bug. Oh, my God. I think that's the thing is touching.

It's the unknown. It's the, as soon as you see it, you're like, you place it in your mind and you're like, there it is. I will get rid of it. But that's happened to me too.

I've talked to everybody. I've like, Oh, a brush on my neck, hair on my neck. And I have gone to, to brush it away. And in my hand, I have felt a solid object on the back of my neck and you just go

ahhh like I don't even care about bugs I'm not bothered by them but your immediate primal reaction is to just scream at the top of your lungs and fling it as far away from you as possible lizard brain it's embarrassing it's lizard brain it is full lizard brain it's so embarrassing

it does go to lizard brain full on lizard brain a lizard would eat it. That's where we differentiate. Yeah. Listen, wait, I know you're itching to start this episode, but I've been waiting patiently for you to ask me

what I would do if I was a god. Oh, what would you do if you were a god? I want to know. Well, I had an answer, then Skid went, and he mentioned going to outer space. I thought I would be judgmental and scary, but then I was like, maybe I'll go to Jupiter. I want to go to the planets, too. And I wouldn't take on any followers because they're needy.

They ask for stuff all the time, and I just don't want to deal with any of that. So I would just kind of like be chilling and alone, but also judging everyone and everyone would be scared of me. You're missing out if you're not judging. Would you mess with people?

Yeah. Yeah. I'd be like a mischievous. Like a trickster god. Yeah. Like a Loki. You'd be like a little Loki. There she is. Oh no. We a trickster god. Yeah. Like a Loki. You'd be like a little Loki. There she is.

Oh, no. We better leave her offerings so she'll go away. No more wedgies from that god. I like deities that have day jobs, like the Hermes of the world, where they're like, yeah, I got to go ferry some people to the other world. Oh, yeah. I'm sorry. I'm busy. Or you could just be like the god of

wine. Yeah. Sounds sick. Dionysus. Dionysus. God of wine. Or. Bacchus. Yeah, Bacchus. Oh, to be a Bacchus. Jim Bacchus. Oh, I'd kill to be a Bacchus. Are you kidding me? Have a Bacchanal? You guys serious? They're wild. Yeah.

She's been to one. Clearly. Clearly. You guys gotta come. Next one, I'll get you the invite. Don't worry. Yeah, they're been to one. Clearly. Clearly. You guys got to come. Next one, I'll get you the invite. Don't worry. Yeah, they're a good time. A little subdued tonight, Lidali. It's actually about a buck and all. Yeah, they're a good time.

Ty, you got a bolder hangover? I got a little bolder hangover. Not of the alcohol variety. Of the just tired. i'm just i'm just tired and uh it seems like uh there's no end in sight but that's okay because boulder was fucking awesome yeah and i mean i have a boulder hangover too it's like that that sadness like from leaving a con riding that high yeah there's nothing worse than leaving the car yeah it's like it was so much fun and then you come back and you're like, and now I'm alone in my room again.

And it happened so quickly. Kate and I were talking about this at 430 in the morning the next day when we took our flight about how it just was like, what happened to this weekend? You know, I don't know if it's because we're out of practice from traveling or what, but it was just like went by like that. And it's a whirlwind, you know, also because we only did one show. We usually do two, but it was just like, went by like that. It was a whirlwind. And also because we only did one show, we usually do two, but it was so much fun. So if you were at the show, have low expectations for tonight. We can't beat it. We can't beat it.

That was the best episode we've ever done. That was a great episode. All the more reason, though, for you to come out next month to st paul minnesota and ashville north carolina that st paul show is almost sold out it's getting there i think it's going to sell out uh ashville new location we're already over half sold uh which is great i know there's some people traveling out there you know people get like airbnbs for 10 people and people just travel like the nation rents an airbnb meets each other for the first time. More people need to do that. Yeah.

Do you realize, do any of you that are doing that and you on this call with me realize how much more fun those people have than we have? Oh, yeah. They get to have, all I want to do is just go and stay at Airbnb with 10 people and play board games and drink beers and hang out and then like go to the show and then go back, keep playing board games. Like that is the best. I'm so jealous of that crew. Yeah, it's a good time. I mean, I know there was a big crew in Boulder and people are getting together in Asheville. I'd love to be a fly on the wall of these Airbnbs.

But if you can come out, come on out. It is a great time. And if The Boulder Show is any indication of what the 2023 tour is going to be like, you don't want to miss it because you can watch a video. You can listen to the pod. Be there live like you are tonight. Yes. As we jump back into this story.

I'll give a quick little recap of The Boulder Show. If you haven't caught it yet, hopefully by now the video's out. Fingers crossed. They take a long time to put together, but the podcast is certainly out. Hopefully you've had a chance to listen. You know, a lot happened and also not a lot happened. But basically, before we started, you had just beaten or killed a few denizens of Leng who were the guards of this place. You're not quite sure.

It seems like this lunar prison is almost abandoned. You went and looked at the pantry, the kitchen, the mess hall. Looks like people haven't used it in a while. It's very empty. And even outside, there's one guard. Now, the guard was a badass, but only one guard. Seems very strange. So you start exploring a little bit more.

You find a room covered in blood one guard. Seems very strange. So you start exploring a little bit more. You find a room covered in blood, and also a couple scrolls. A scroll of Cloudkill, and then another scroll. I don't think you figured out what the other one was. Oh, that's right. Cloudkill. You go around a hallway, and you find

it ends in just a wall, but there's something weird about the wall. It looks almost like a natural rock, like it shouldn't be there. It doesn't seem passable, but Aldo notices with his keen perception scrape marks along the floor, almost like maybe the wall shifts,

but there's seemingly no mechanism for that to happen. So you continue exploring. You find another guard room, again, empty, and then stairs leading up. You go upstairs, and as you go up there, a voice enters Ethel's head, telepathically, asking about the upstart piper sending his men or something. And you're like, what? You eventually go upstairs and you see this creature that you soon determine is known as a moon beast. It's this

inside-out frog, the fucking thing that plays in Jabba's Palace. What's his name? Ponda Baba? I can't remember. Yeah, Ponda Baba. Or is it one of those guys, the blue one with the big nose? Kind of looks like him, but skin color. Cy Snoodles was the guy on the keyboard.

Cy Snoodles, thank you. I think Ponda Baba was the woodwind guy, yeah. Okay. Anyways, he or they think that you're in league with someone named Arknar, but there's no time to ask questions. Boom, dominates Ethel. Ethel starts attacking you guys. You can't get an attack in edgewise.

He's coming over, hitting you with tentacles from his face, doing horrible things to you. Eventually, he listens to reason. You're able to realize, like, he thinks that you're someone that you're not. And so you stop the fight. And he releases Ethel's domination and explains to you that the current prison is in the midst of a civil war

his protege another moon beast by the name of Arknar decided that he wanted to do things a little bit differently

he favored torture over this creature whose name is Yathkef over Yathkef's more humane

means of incarceration trying to rehabilitate prisoners here on the Dreamlands Moon Prison. But it caused a bit of a schism between the two of them. And that wall that you saw that looks like it's shift evidently is a mechanism that the prison has in place for in the only to be used in the event of lockdowns and the mechanism can only be done on the other side of the prison and Arknar has sealed off that side of the prison and it seems like they're both just biding their time trying to

take the other one out and take over the prison so you strike a deal with Yathkev give us the Yellow King, who we understand is imprisoned here, perhaps, and we'll be on our way. He says, okay, I'll give you the Yellow King if you go kill Arknar.

Come back, you can have anything you want. And you say, okay, great. You're pretty beat up from the fight, and so you go into the records room to the south of where this battle took place. And Atticus is like, we need eight hours. And it's good because you're going to want some time to explore this room, which is wall-to-wall cubbyholes. And almost all of the cubbyholes, as you start to explore, they all have names or little descriptions written in Aklo on them.

Almost all of them have perfectly clean jawbones inside. Perhaps past prisoners who are no longer with us, why are they preserving the jawbones? Or is that what happens? You come in, they take your jawbone and then send you down to the cell. You don't know.

They spoke out of turn. Oh, an eye for an eye. Prisoners should be seen and not heard Jawbones out But you do find like a little over a dozen Cubicles that still have Personal possessions inside Some just a couple coins

Some like a tunic And we end the episode With two of these Really jumping out at you You do see one for the yellow King I should mention, but there is one that says, uh, a lyric on it.

And inside is a locket with a, uh, like a small, very, very small painting of Suki inside. Suki finds this, her eyes. Why did that name mean something to Suki?

And then Eris finds one and the description just says a female flesh warp witch and Eris looks inside and finds a puppet that looks exactly like Egg

and that is where we pick up today's session. Ladies, you have the floor. Yeah, exactly. I was like, I got nothing to say, because you need to tell me what the F is going on here! I imagine you guys,

Ethel and Aldo and Atticus, you see this look of maybe shock on their faces, but what happens next? I think as soon as Suki sees the name Alaric, I mean, she opens the cubby. They're just looking through everything, and she takes out this locket, and as she opens it and sees that it's her inside this locket, I think she closes it very quickly. And puts it down and kind of looks to see if anybody

noticed that it was her. And she turns around and Atticus is directly behind her. Scrape. That's a very evil... He had tilted down looking over his bushy rat eyebrows at you like, Suki, something wrong?

No. No. What is it? A clue? A clue? The Yellow King. Have you found something? No.

No, it has nothing to do with that. It's, um... I don't even... I don't even know what it is. And she holds out the locket to Atticus and opens it and shows him. He looks at the locket, eyes dart back up to you, back down. He looks at the locket, eyes dart back up to you, back down. Well, it is a dream. A nightmare. What about this name? Do you recognize this name?

I do. Actually, it's... He... he died. So it's someone you knew, someone close to you? Yes. Someone who would have had a locket of you in our waking life? He had this exact locket, actually. And she tears up a little. Sorry.

What happened to him? Is he gone? Yes, he died. He died a long time ago. I'm... I know it's a dream. I'm just... It feels so real, and if he's here... I don't know. Suki, I truly... I don't mean. Suki, I truly... I don't mean to pry into your personal affairs, but it is very important to understand these questions,

and if they are too difficult, just let me know. Do you... You saw him die? Yes, I... And you saw his body? Yes, as far as I... I... Yes, yes.

I cared for him very deeply, and... As far as I know, he... Yes, he died, he... I don't... Now I'm confused, now I don't understand. Was he like you? Had he studied the law of dreams? No. No, he was human.

Okay. It's alright. It could just be something placed here deliberately to manipulate you and to throw you off. It doesn't make any sense. How would they know that I would be here? We were never supposed to come here. We don't quite know the powers that the Count had at his whim, or the powers he unlocked by coming here in the first place. Here in Morway, Raleigh, we don't know if they know each other. There is so much that we don't know that we cannot suppose anything particularly that they wouldn't know you

or that we were coming alright well I'm going to take this and well just a moment does it have any magical powers don't be so hasty she takes it off her neck. Just a moment.

Are you really wearing a locket of yourself around your neck? He died! I loved him! It's not that weird. For a while after my divorce, I had to carry around just a replica, like a little painting of my face just in case I lost myself and had to remember who I was. A painting of my face.

Suki holds both Ethel's shoulders and she goes, You understand so deeply how I feel. I do. She's going to do an Arcana check. On Ethel? On Ethel. She's like, Ethelel We know you're magical Please That's gonna be a 30

Yeah no it doesn't appear To have any magical properties You can detect Magic on it as well, nothing Look it's just a plain Simple locket that If you did in fact see it in Galarian, looks identical. She puts it back on.

She goes, there's nothing special about it except that it's special to me. Let's move on. The door opens and it's just your face again. She closes it. She closed it. Eris yells out and goes, Hey guys, look. There was another flush warp witch who stayed here who also had a poppet as her minion,

but it looks just like Egg. Isn't that crazy? Where is Egg? Ethel drives his hatchet into the chest of the new Egg. Egg's right here. She holds up Egg, my Egg, Ethel drives his hatchet into the chest of the new egg. Egg's right here. So there's two of them? She holds up egg, my egg, and then she holds up the poppet that she found in the thing.

Right next to each other. They look exactly the same. She's like, isn't this crazy? Oh, no, there's two. Eris. I mean, this one's not the real one. I don't know. This is the other flesh warp witches.

I mean, this one's not the real one. I don't know. This is the other flesh warp witches. How many flesh warp witches do you know off the top of your head? Well, I haven't met a lot of witches in general, but I'm the only one that I know of. Right. So this is going to be great to meet this other one. Right.

Very exciting. It doesn't just look similar. It actually looks identical. I know. We have similar tastes in dolls. I make mine, so this person must also make theirs. Identical tastes. Yeah, it's nuts. You may eat egg.

I make egg, yes, every time I need to make egg. This isn't the first egg I've made. Sometimes I lose them. Sometimes I light on fire. And I make another one. I'm hungry. She whispers to Aldo and Atticus and Ethel. Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

Is something wrong with her? Almost certainly not. What are you thinking what I'm thinking? Is something wrong with her? Almost certainly not. What are you thinking? Let's say, this is fun, let's say what we're thinking on the count of three. All right. One. Oh, two. Two.

Three. Three. We haven't heard anything. Thanks, Benedict. See, none of us were thinking what each other was thinking. Galerous. That's why it's important to talk these things out we wouldn't have known uh so he says while you're doing this she's like holding the dolls up together and like playing with them

like talking to each other making them kiss it's not helping how freaked out i am that uh one of your hands has reddish nail polish and the other hand has green nail polish. Like, perfectly timed for this poppet conversation. Oh, wow. It's freaking me out. Joe, look it up. I did look something up, though. I looked up poppet for the hell of it, and there's a Wikipedia post about poppets and how witches use them.

So I've added the image to the chat. I can't imagine or to roll 20. I can't imagine this is what you guys were coming for. Oh, no. That's just an example of one kind of puppet. That's just one kind of puppet. Mine looks like a doll that a child would want to play with, but is very simple looking at the same time.

This is so terrible. There's like a nail right through its face. It looks like someone pulled it out of their nose. No, I think it is literally nailed to a wall. God, that is scary. That's some Blair Witch shit. Yeah, it is. Drew, I'm ashamed of you.

As someone from Massachusetts who is also a theater person, the puppets are all over The Crucible. I don't like that play. You know, fair enough. Fair enough. I don't remember words from. I don't like that play. You know, fair enough. Fair enough. I don't remember words from things I don't like either. Because it is my name!

I never liked the Crucible. Anyway. I think that possibly... Oh, what's that? Is that another puppet? This kid's got a puppet. That's terrifying. Eris, let's that? Is that another puppet? This kid's got a puppet. That's terrifying. Eris, let's get to the bottom of this.

Where did you find it? I found it in this little cubby labeled Flesh Whip Warp Lady, and it was inside. What does it say, Troy? What is the cubby labeled? Is it a name? Flesh Warp Witch. Flesh Warp, let me just see. Female Flesh Warp Witch. It a name? Flesh Warp Witch. Flesh Warp, let me just see. Female Flesh Warp Witch.

It just says Female Flesh Warp Witch. Eris, try to talk to the puppet. Perhaps you can communicate with it and find out who its owner is. Oh, yeah, maybe it still has all of it. So I do, like, I guess an occult check on the puppet. Mm-hmm. Ooh, natural 11 4 21

wait 30 30 I have a plus 19 it was hard math it is you just kind of hold your hand and it ragdolls it's inert and unresponsive but it has

all the exact same features as egg. Just kinda. Yeah, this one's not being used anymore. Well, I don't think it is merely a coincidence that there is a cubby here for a

Fleshwarp Witch and also Suki's former acquaintance is found in here as well. I don't like it. This place has a history that is connected to us in some way. Keep your eyes open. It's bad omens. Oh, wait.

There's another cubby. It's, oh, it's for the Yellow King. Now we're getting somewhere. We dig into that cubby that says the Yellow King Just two things A magical dagger A dagger that's emanating magic And a yellow cloak

Which again is really just a piece of the old curtains Stitched together from the caravanserai Maybe bleached yellow from the sun. I realize I already had that in my notes. We did that the last time. Okay, we found those two things. Did we do an identifying magic on the dagger? Yeah.

I can just tell you it's a plus one striking dagger. Right. That's cool. You also found one that said human woman that had a magical armor, a magical composite longbow. Magical shirt. Yeah, magical composite longbow, a thin dagger wrapped in cheetah hide,

and a sack of trophies of animals. Do we want to go through that? Yes. Sure. Yeah. Just again, rolling over the checks that you didn't make uh it is a plush one chain magical shirt uh a plus

one striking uh magical composite longbow and the dagger that's wrapped in cheetah hide um is not magical nor are the uh gruesome trophies in the little sack um

if no one else has any interest, I'd really like to take the composite longbow. Certainly, by all means. I have no interest. I take it, and then I also take the magical arrows that was in the male elven wizard's cubby. Ah, yes, a quiver with three green penetrating arrows. And I will tell you that the javelin

is a javelin of lightning. Oh. Oh, I always loved a javelin of lightning. That's such a cool item. Yeah, they're cool. Who wants that? I'll take it. I'll go to Aldo, right?

Why not? Yeah, no. Yeah. I'll take that. This is it. Sure. I put the bow on my back and the quiver on my back. I'll take a moon animal trophy.

Yeah, so there's three trophies. There's a claw, a weird claw, an unidentifiable set of fangs, like really long incisors, and a snout. And the snout looks very familiar to Atticus and Aldo. Snout. But we can't place it? snout. Hmm. Um, but we can't place it.

Um, give me a nature or a cult. Okay. Do you want a cult? I'll do a cult, yeah. 28 on a cult for Eldai. Um,

it almost looks like the snout is like vomiting spaghetti. It is in fact a zoog snout. Zoog? Like the king of the zoogs? Another one of the pretender's subjects.

One of his grace's subjects. I wish I would have to return this to His Majesty. You ran afoul of them when you were in the trees, where you fought the tigers and Nestor Bentley and whatnot. And then, yes, there was the Battle of the Kings. The Pretender King. Battle of the Kings. One of the kings the pretender king battle of the kings one of the best monsters from last year yeah is that indianapolis that was yeah indy night one

um that was awesome uh charlie right it was uh was there was uh there was the uh the loser of the battle of the kings was char Kings, was Charlie? Charlie. I can't remember what his name. Charlie Thumbbottom or something? Can we just go roll ourselves up in the P-Rug and get some rest? He has made it clear that the P-Rug is not to be touched. And he's really creepy, so I think you might want to just shut the door and hang out in here. Rest your eight hours, which will have

no mechanical consequences for the game. Unrelated, I'm just going to roll a few d100s. A few d100s? It's definitely not creepy in here with all the jawbones looking at us, right? All the polished and clean jawbones.

A terrible place to rest. Okay. But you've reached an accord with Yathkev. Eight hours pass. Get some healing. Let's take a quick break and get after it. Sweet. Cool.

How many hit points do you have exactly, Joe? I have exactly... I was in the middle of preparing my spells for the day. 78. 78, okay. Great. Out of? 78.

Perfect. You're the one most concerned about the healing, so now you're back to full. Does everybody have 78 hit points? Yeah. Wait, if we... Yeah. You're the one most concerned about the healing. So now you're back to full. Is everybody full? You only have 78 hit points? Yeah. Wait, if we're taking literally eight, we keep saying we're taking literally eight hours.

Is this a full rest? Yes, it's a full rest. Oh, okay. Full night's rest. First time you've rested in the dreamlands, in fact. Not true. Second time we've rested. When was the first time?

On the flight to the moon. Oh, yeah. That's true. We slept in the car. We time we've rested. When was the first time? On the flight to the moon. Oh, yeah. That's true. We slept in the car. We slept in the car. We got a snooze. Hello, hello, hello. Is there anybody in there?

All right, let's rock. What are we doing? We're going to the other side of the prison, right? We picked a side in this civil war now. We're conscripted into the East Side Army. You may not remember. Towards the end of the show, you find the model of this prison. You see the little switch that opens up the drawbridge.

That's actually in the room where Yath Kef is right now. If you remember, there was an alcove with a big lever. Okay. On the other side of the prison, you see the thing that moves the rocks. Right now, you don't have access to that. But you do see, leading from the lake to the north, where you guys came in on the Shantag, there's

like a, looks like some sort of drainage pipe that leads to the western side of the prison. That might be a real pain in the ass. And then there is that grate with the like funnel in it, where it looked like liquid was being passed from the pantry into the kitchen where Suki turned into a lizard and snuck through. And that led right to the hallway that connects to the other side, that shifting hallway.

So that would be your best bet. You just need a way of everyone passing through that small grate. If you can figure out that, that would be the easiest way. when passing through that small grate. If you can figure out that, that would be the easiest way. As it stands, that appears to be the only two ways as you stare at this perfect little replica. Think Beetlejuice. That's where my head is at.

Troy, could you show us the map again? I never showed it to you. No, the map that we were on when we were down downstairs. All right, I thought you were trying to catch me. Sure, let me show you the... were trying to catch me. Sure. Let me show you the... Wait a minute. Okay.

Boom. Saucington. So if you see where I'm pinging, pretty much center, little south of center of this building, that was that mess hall. Yes. Yeah. And Suki went up to those doors, and they were locked, and she was alone.

And so she came back to you. You guys came over. Let's go in the front door. That's when Ethel just... Oh, the portcullis! And you almost died. I do remember that. So now we have keys.

Do we have a key to that door? No. You have keys, and we have a key to that door? No. You have keys, and they have unlocked all the doors that you've gone through. So we can unlock the doors. Only I can get in through the grate as of right now, but we also have the two-dimension door spells, and we have, metagaming-wise, an unknown scroll, because Kate stole a scroll, and we don't know what

it is. Yeah, while we're westing, can I like sneakily try to figure out what that is? Uh, sure. You jerk. Yeah, absolute jerk. Yeah, and? You jerk. Yes, and? Yeah, give me a

uh, arcana. Recall knowledge, arcana, or identify magic. How do you figure out what a scroll is? I don't really care about these kind of rolls. Okay, I got a 17. Total? I rolled a natural 2. Oh.

Yeah, it's just identify magic, I believe. That seems low. I don't have my DCs around. This is not something that I can do? Like it's not being passed around? What's going on? Sydney, what's this shit-eating grin for? What am I missing?

Maybe she's... So you said that we don't even know the scroll exists. That's why. I'm saying we don't know it exists, yes. Okay, that's what I thought. I'm staying true to the story, and I'm saying, Kate has a scroll that we don't even know the scroll exists that's why i'm saying we don't know it exists yes okay that's what i thought i'm staying true to the story and i'm saying kate has a scroll that we don't know about eris has a scroll that you don't know about kate would share everything with you oh i got i got okay i thought uh suki had the scroll that's why i was confused i thought you were like sneaking

up to suki while she was sleeping and trying to look at it. I have cloud kill. You have cloud kill. Cloud kill. Okay, cool. So then we can't help you because you're not sharing. Okay. I think it's probably a spell that's on your spell list and it says if you find a scroll, you can try to figure out what spell it contains. If the spell is a common spell from your

spell list or a spell you know, you can spend a single recall knowledge action and automatically succeed at identifying the scroll spell. If it you know, you can spend a single recall knowledge action and automatically succeed at identifying the scroll spell. If it's not, you must use identify magic to learn what the spell scroll holds. I have a feeling it's on your spell list. It's the spell

confusion. Oh, that's a good one. We were just talking about this, the confusion in 2E. Very different. What level is that? It is a fourth level, John. I don't have that. You don't have that.

No. I feed it to my poppet. Yeah, I'm saying it might be on your spell list. You may have just not learned it. Yes, yeah, exactly. I feed it to Egg while you guys aren't looking overnight, and now Egg knows confusion. And I also know, didn't we

dimension door? Yeah, dimension door. We have two dimension door scrolls. How many people can you take with the 2e dimension door? None. Zero. If you try to take a person even held in an extra dimensional container, the spell is lost. You cannot take anybody else with you.

It's just for one. It's table for one sort of spell, but I have been confused about the wizard learning it because the wizard basically... Like, you need gold to learn it. And so I don't know what our party gold is. I'm sure we have enough, but either we have to just do it

or he just has to use it and expend it but I don't know it's a weird situation yeah it's weird how consumables like you can't take stuff from the dreamlands back with you but how do consumables work right but if you read it and memorize it you know does that go

travel back to the real world does it come back in your mind yeah that's what I was saying I would make the case that you would be able to do that because it's basically just it's like a memory. Yeah. We are, we do remember

what happens to us here. Yeah. So. Yeah, I would too. I would do the same way. Okay, great. You could get in, so let's just,

we have two dimension doors. Is the target of dimension door personal or can you cast it on somebody else? It says cast range 120 feet. I feel like you can cast it and then one person can go through. You can instantly transport yourself and any items you're wearing.

It doesn't say like a willing target. I think the range is personal. I think the range is referring to how far you can travel, right? Yeah. Oh, copy. You instantly transport yourself and any items. So if this would bring another creature with you, even if you're carrying it, the spell is lost.

Yeah. Wow. So, Cid, you have a way to get in without the spell. Eris, do you have a way to get in without the spell? I also have Gaseous Form. Oh, perfect. Again, it's another level 4 spell. Other than that, I could send Egg in

there, but if I lose Egg, I can't cast spells. Send Egg in solo to see what's up. So it sounds like we've got... Sydney can turn into a small creature. Joe's got Dimension Door. Kate can go gaseous. So how does Haldor and Ethel get through?

And we can't, I guess, is there a way to use magic? Is there a use magic device equivalent in 2E that Ethel could try to use the scroll himself? I'm asking Joe. Why are we doing this? We can't get through the metal grate I thought that we found like a lever that opened something On the other side of the prison that we can't get to Yeah, the only lever you have access to is the portcullis

But you said something about pipes, right? And the map? Yes, so the other option is It appears there is some sort of ductwork from the lake a mile north of the prison leading to a sewer grate on the western wall. So that

appears to be an option. You just don't know what's... I'm amazed at all of your collective restraint at not quoting the Shawshank Redemption about crawling through a mile of shit to get there, but whatever. We were waiting for you. I can't do Morgan Freeman justice.

Oh, I thought you were doing it. I thought, I was like, is that Morgan Freeman? The other handle. We're under the impression this is, we know where it is? You can see the room, yeah. It's on the other side of the prison, on the second floor. And we know what it opens? Yeah, so this model prison, everything

works. Oh. Everything works the way it works. So the little lever that's right near where Yathkeph is, you can press it and you see the portcullis on the model go. Yeah. Same thing on the other side of the prison, second floor, there's a little lever, you move it and the rock wall goes and opens up

another passageway. In fact, it opens up the passageway that you guys walked up against a wall. When it moves, that allows you to access the other side of the prison. But right now, you can get to the other side as well. So all we have to do is one person just needs a dimension door there and flip the

switch, and then everybody can walk in. No. Dimension door, you must be able to see where you're going in Tubi. And? So it's useless. And it and it's full we can get into the prisoners we can get from the were you listening to any of our conversations no because i was preparing spells so the the room with all the tables is has a locked door and we have keys now that's what we're saying yes the only problem is you've got to get through a tiny little grate. Yeah. So we were discussing ways to get through the gate. Sydney can turn into a lizard or other small animal. Kate has gaseous form.

You have dimension door. That leaves two scrolls of dimension door. And Aldo probably has the ability to use them. I don't have dimension door. I have a scroll of dimension door. I fed my scroll to my partner. And her scroll's gone. So she knows dimension door.

Can gaseous form be cast on another person? I'm pretty sure. Let me open it again. Because if it could, then you can Dimension Door yourself and Gash's form somebody else. Yeah, target. One willing creature. So now you just need one more person. Because you could cast Dimension Door

on yourself. Joe could cast Dimension Door from the scroll. Sydney Asuki can lizard, mouse, whatever you want. Then Eris can cast Gash's form on either Aldo or Ethel, so you just need one more person. It's kind of fun. This kind of shit, I could do this for hours. Do it on Aldo.

I'll go crawl through the mile of shit. I know that's what you were all thinking. I know. I really don't want to have to do that. That's what we're paying you for, isn't it? I really don't want to get to do that. That's what we're paying you for, isn't it? I really don't want to get eaten by a shit monster on the way in. Yeah, what if you face a shit monster and you're all alone? Well, that wouldn't be the first time, huh?

Is that the plan, then? Is that what we're actually doing? Well, I am going to retcon, learn this scroll, and prepare Dimension Door then, during that rest. Yes, we would have done that. So I will learn it. I will spend the gold for it. We'll figure it out. But I haven't bought anything in this campaign.

I know that I have the gold for it. I'm sure. But I'll make a note of it. And then I will... So I'll cast that on myself. And the other thing that I was thinking of preparing is that i haven't prepared in a few days i actually did prepare it is invisibility sphere uh it's something that hasn't been useful to us lately because troy's rgm because it's mostly just like anytime you

go anywhere the enemy immediately gets the jump on you but um i think in this case where we're specifically we know where we're going we know what we're looking for in some way and we could all move huddled very close together and be invisible it might give us the jump on somebody well the reality is yeah you know obviously i've been in the past um stringent versus invisibility but the rules are very clear into it well actually they actually, they're not very clear, but it's not like you're completely undetectable. You all have to use hide actions to avoid being detected, to change yourself from hidden to undetected, to conceal.

So there's a whole slew of things. Invisible just means they kinda can't see you, but you're very detectable. If you don't have stealth, you're gonna be heard. But it just means a DC 11 check or a DC 5 check for them to attack you. So, you know, 50% chance, 50% mischance, 25% mischance. Troy.

Yes. I looked at the grate. Oh, great. I looked at the grate when I passed through it, and we did check it out and stuff. Would I know if its hardness is 4 or less? Jeepers. We wouldn't know that. I wouldn't know that?

But you wouldn't think it would be. It's an iron grate. Oh, okay. Yeah. Why? You got something that can obliterate something? Yeah. I was thinking if I, I I'm just like if we're preparing

spells like if I prepare shatter you know if I could just cast a spell on the grate and explode it then we don't have shatters meant to be used on iron if it was a glass grate you'd probably be fine yeah if it was made out of

like stew band crystal. Okay. Rock candy. Maybe this is a dumb question, but can you prepare more than one gaseous form? Oh, wait. So I've got three level four spell slots. One for dimension door, one for gaseous form,

one for, hmm? So if I prepare one more gaseous form, that's all my level four spell slots. One for Dimension Door, one for Gaseous Form, one for... Hmm? So if I prepare one more Gaseous Form, that's all my level fours. But I can. Sounds a little greedy if you ask me.

How bad do you want to be in there? I just worry that if I go up by myself, if I trek a mile on the moon, then crawl a mile back, I'm going to get eaten or you guys are just

going to be left alone. It might be worth it just because my only other level four spells are Countless Eyes, Phantasmal Killer, which Atticus has. Yeah, and that's it. So I can use two slots of Gaseous Form. I would appreciate it. I will crawl for

shit for money. I've done it before. But if I don't have to... I can't give you eyes, though. I do like it when you give me the eyes. It's weird. It's not sensation, but it does help me in combat. I was very uncomfortable before. I think Suki

had something to say, or Sydney. I'm just trying to bypass his wall. What if I cast Passwall? Now that is a spell that is perfect for this situation. It's a spell called Passwall? It's Passwall. It's a visible tunnel through a wall in a chosen area,

replacing the area with empty space. If the wall is thicker than 10 feet, the tunnel ends at 10 feet. Even a small layer of metal in the wall... Fuck! Sorry, guys, I got to that last line. That wasn't even the last line. There was two more lines after that.

That wasn't even close to the last line. This part of the wall right here didn't have any metal in it. Even a small layer of metal in the wall prevents the spell from functioning. I'm saying this part of the wall right here in the pantry probably does not have metal inside of it Don't forget

Troy decides what does and does not have metal in it I don't I look at the features of the Lunar Prison And it tells me Oh interesting Every wall has a spin Plate of metal in the middle It's funny that they thought that far ahead to include that line.

I'm not doing it. No, hold on. Well, maybe you can. This might be the solution for one spell slot. Troy's going to put metal in the wall and make me waste a fifth level spell slot and then have to do all our stupid spells anyway. You guys are so close.

Ethel pulls a magnet out of his pocket, which he carries everywhere because it's something one of his children gave him. He tests to see if there's any iron in the stone wall in the pantry. Wait, you're down? So you guys left? Yeah, we go downstairs. Okay, let's go to the map.

Enough of this goofing around here. I'm going to quote you from like seven minutes ago. I could do this all day. Are we... All right, so you guys are here, right? All shoved into this pantry. Crammed into the pantry.

Dumb snake. Does the snake need to be on the floor? Sadly. All right, so you hold your magnet up to the wall, and it just on the floor? Sadly. Alright, so you hold your magnet up to the wall and it just hits the floor. It's science. It's not, doesn't have metal in it.

There's no iron in there. Or the magnet's not very strong. Should I compare it? This is an ideal situation for that spell. It really is. It's perfect. This goes back to first edition D&D,

by the way, the spell. This is the old magic. The old magic. Okay, let me just... I'm preparing that spell now, definitely. Just getting rid of this other thing. Alright. Okay. now definitely just getting rid of this other thing alright okay I'm allowing all this because I would imagine you guys would have talked

through eight hours like what should we do how do we figure this out instead of doing it here while sitting at the pantry alright so what should we have prepared what's the plan what are we gonna do again all right walk me through how what Suki does

what does this look like so I think we go in we're all in that tiny weird pantry area with the funnel now and I think Suki is with Ethel as he's like you know knocking on the wall and holding the magnet up and he's like this is the perfect area

to do it. Anyone got a stud finder? Maybe there's metal lashings. And she goes up and she also like feels the wall and she's trying to do her nature thing of like, is there earth and rock in this wall? And she casts Passwall next to the gate, not on the gate, away from the metal.

And she just, I guess it's like, I don't know, Earthbender style. Like she puts her hands up against it and she like plants her feet very solidly. And then it's like, it just, it's almost like illusion magic. Like it just opens the wall into like a straight tunnel as if it just sheared the wall through. It's so cool. Your fingers touch the wall and it's smooth and a little bit greasy as well. And as your fingers touch it, it just parts open and you see through to the other side. Yes.

Yes. Pass. Wall. Pass. Wall. Amazing work, Sydney. Incredible. How about give yourself a bottle cap? That's a bottle cap. Thanks. Pass. Wall. Amazing work, Sydney. Incredible. How about I give you

some bottle cap? That's a bottle cap. Cap pretty. Thanks, Troy. Nice. All right, slip. We all slip in. Atticus is in.

Yeah, we go. We're in. Ethel's in. He starts scrambling some eggs. I also, I'm going to pass out moderate elixirs of life, one each to each of you, and I'm keeping two for myself.

Okay. Thank you. Nice. Thank you. Thanks, buddy. Not all of you have been in here. This is obviously a kitchen, oven, mixing pots, tools. What few utens like, utensils

are in here are all dull. Obviously, they weren't leaving weapons out for the prisoners who were on kitchen duty to use. But again, it doesn't look like it's been used in a while. And now you know why. Or do you? Let's go.

Suki tells them quietly It's through this door And then the double doors In the mess hall I think is where we're trying to go Okay She leads them to the double doors And she'll go on one side of them

Walking through the mess hall Three long tables of strange dark wood with matching bencers, all scarred from years of use. Also, unused. And you approach the double doors. Ethel, let's go.

You need me? Ethel, in here. I was eating eggs. Okay. Here are the keys. Open the door. Is this the door right here in the center that you were leaving a space for me for? I can't see the wall.

Where Sookie is is the door. Okay, Ethel will... Atticus is standing on the table. Sookie, you want to back off there? Sook? You want me to? Okay. Yeah, we'll send Ethel in there first, right?

I thought the door was in the middle. Oh, sorry. Yeah, that's what I thought too. I was confused. All right, Ethel will listen at the door real fast. Cracked eye. Okay, 31 perception. 32 perception. Don't hear i will use this is going to

detect magic through the door and through the wall see if there's any presence of magic just on the other side of the door for whatever 30 feet 60 feet i never remember no magic okay uh ethel will use the keys we'll go through the keys until he finds one that fits the lock and open the door you see a small 10 foot wide hallway um to the north and the south um there are scrape marks all along the floor obviously the way that the hall can shift from this mechanism that you know exists upstairs is you see those scrape marks on the floor. Obviously, the way that the hall can shift from this mechanism that you know exists upstairs, you see those scrape marks on the floor, and then there's another set of double doors

in front of you, leading further west. I approach the doors, and then I listen at these doors as well. That would be a 29. Very silent. I use the ring of keys to open the door. You open the door. Uh, that would be a 29. Very silent. I use the ring of keys to open the door.

You open the door. You see a, um, what looks like a large room that spreads out to the north and the south. In fact, a little ways to the north, there seems to be a little hallway between several cells. Looks like there's two long lines of cells crowding this oppressive stone room that lies before you. There are stone walls separating the cells, it appears. There are stone walls separating the cells, it appears. But beyond that, the cells themselves seem to be divided from the corridor with floor-to-ceiling walls of iron bars that don't provide any privacy. Just looking ahead, you don't see anyone in the cells. You see leather pallets, metal buckets, suspicious-looking stains.

There's a sour smell filling the hall. And that's what you see. Atticus, I think Atticus is seeing this open up a little bit. He's going to say, Come close. I will make us vanish. Move quietly

and watch your footfalls. We can still be heard, but if we can't be seen, perhaps we can pass unnoticed. And he will cast Invisibility Sphere. So as long as you're next to Atticus, we are

all invisible for ten minutes. Can we see each other and you? We can all see each other within the sphere. It's like a wall around us. It's a 10-foot aura around Atticus. So cool. Cool. Okay.

What's everybody's stealth score? I have a 15. 14. Plus 11. 11 for me, too. Okay. Great. All right, so you're invisible. Pepsi slid, too. Okay. Great. All right, so you're invisible.

Pepsi slid out there. Pepsi, get back. She calls him back. You can see that it looks like the room only goes another 10 feet to the south before it ends in the wall that leads outside. And another corridor there. So two corridors. If you look to the north

I'll give you a little bit more here. It thins out a little bit to the north. Yeah. Well from our knowledge of the model of the prison where how would we get to the second floor for the mechanism? Yeah, so if the model looks exactly like this room, then there would be rows of cells extending all the way to the west,

and just up here would be to the north is where the stairwell is leading up. To the stairwell. Go. Aren't we all sticking together? Yes, but you're leading the way. We gotta wait for you to move your pawn. And, uh, we will, uh, stay close behind you. Atticus in the center so everybody can be invisible.

Alright. You start sliding up there, um, when you get to the can be invisible. All right. You start sliding up there. When you get to the middle, you can look down, and in fact, you're able to see into all these cells to the north and south.

You can't see into the cells way to the north and way to the south because you haven't gone to that corridor corridor but you do see way down the end of that middle row the sewer grate that presumably uh led to the lake amazing uh okay the cells now that you look, the ten cells that you can see here, all empty, apparently. It looks like you could house multiple prisoners in each cell. Or at one time you did, because there are no signs of life. The iron bars of each cell are about an inch thick and set every three inches apart. And there's a lock on the outside of every single cell still attached, as far as you can see.

Is the sour smell getting worse? Yes, and it appears to be coming from the grape. Okay. Good thing we didn't do that. Should we check the entire area before we go up to the second floor? Well, there's nothing to see here. It's empty. There's like a lump of something, a pile, like a blanket or a cloak in that central cell.

Maybe the flesh warp witch is still here. We also didn't check the south. It's true. Oh yeah, let's all... There's many more cells. Let's all back up. This is so funny. Just take a quick peek. You're stepping on me.

Did someone drag all of you together? Did you all just move? That's just impressive. Okay. You look down the lower cells, and three cells in, you see a woman. Oh. She is dressed rather nicely, actually, although her clothes are soiled probably from her

incarceration. She has dark features. Give me a history or nobility, I don't know what the... Society? Society, thank you. I was going to say nobility.

It's a 25 for Ethel. She appears to be Osiriani. Alright, well let's move on. No, I'm kidding. She of course doesn't see you. Let's see if... But as you come down there,

two of you are loud enough for her to at least look over, but she doesn't see anything. And she's just, like, looks scared. Keep pushing to the north. Wait, we should let her out. The spell will be over. We lose our element of surprise. We can save her later. Let's go.

I wanted to ask her a question. Keep it fast. Don't get into a seven and a half minute role play. So I run down there. We keep going up and down. Up and down. This is like a clue.

That's exactly what it is. It is a clue. That's exactly what it is. It is a clue. I emerge from the invisibility sphere. So you walk out and you just become visible again. And she could probably hear me jangling with my chainmail. She's like, hello, madam. Hello. Where did you come from?

Just over there Down the hall Who are you? My name's Aldo I've got some friends as well What's your name? My name is Diani

Diani Kateri Are you Are you prisoners here too? No, no, we're... We're here to rescue you. Maybe. She just looks like... Very oddly at you when you say that, and she steps back.

It's not like a smile hits her face, but there's this very strange look where she's gone from like fear to very serious. And she says, no. I cannot be rescued. I

have reaped the faith. Faith that I have sown in life. Destruction at the hands of these inhuman monsters is inevitable. It is what I deserve for the life I have led. Please, please do not try and rescue me, for I must die by torture at their hands. And it is a small price to pay for the darkness that I have let loose in our world.

You see, I, I was an academic. Yes, I followed in the footsteps of my parents to study. They always told me to study and study I did. But my studies, they took a turn that theirs did not. Do you know, she grabs the bars, do you know what it is to finally see? To peer beyond the stars and see into the void. The great old ones. They are rising in our world.

And I once thought, like a fool, that when they rose, they would exalt me as their herald. But I am nothing. We are nothing. We are like ants to them. No, no, I will not be rescued. And you will not be rescued. Because it is much better to die here than to live in that world when they they come, and they will come, so you'd best die here too. Yoga, Roshotata,

Manustare, Kuntan, Fritanga, I am yours! And we'll see you next week. Oh my god! Oh man! That was intense.

That was very, that was like a Glimpse into the campaign We're just gonna go down that hallway Freaked me out We get the same speech later after the boss was dead I should say that took nine and a half minutes I knew it would

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