Episode 5: Fractal Dreams | Overlight: Fractured Paradox

(upbeat music) (upbeat music) - Hello there, welcome to episode five of Overlight Fractured Paradox. - Yeah! (audience applauding) - We did it unpromptu this time. - Yes! - You're learning Grasshopper. I have one quick announcement before we jump right in. We want to thank Renegade Games Studios again. Go to RenegadeGameSudios.com to check out Overlight and all the other awesome stuff they have going on there. And also to see what exciting things they have coming soon. Thank you again, Renegade. And now, since we've had on the recap, you've seen the intro. Let's start episode five, Fractal Dreams. So the five of you are in the Skyborne Order Palace. And you have been ushered in here after watching the leader, Rohana, speak to hundreds of other Skyborne who are part of the order. You've learned now that there are some things that you can do as a member of the order. You can go on missions. You can stay together as a conclave, but you're still, seems like you were still discussing. Some of you want to join, some of you are still considering it. And in walks Rohana, the leader herself of the Skyborne. And just before she walked in, someone whispered to her that you were the ones having the Fractal Dreams. So now she stands before you and looks at you. And as is appropriate, is it appropriate etiquette to, you know, a kneel or show-- well, whatever, I kneel. I bow very awkwardly. Is that right? Did it make his copy spin off? I'll just spread my wings up and out as far as possible and pretend like that's normal. And then talk when he does that. I actually just take a knee. Yeah, me too. OK, then I do that. Am I supposed to-- We're just saying hello, and we're trying to be respectful. Yes, we're showing honor to, obviously, the leader of the Skyborne. I order. I've never experienced that before. Oh, shoot. No, that was wonderful. I thought we were doing some type of stretching routine. It was a pretty good stretch. There's a sunset-ish. Yeah, it voids. I don't know what that means. Yes, it was that. Your customs weren't explained to us. So we just figured we'd try them all. We're very awkward. Oh, we can keep trying, if you want. Yeah, oh, no. But if I just bow down, talk my lies face down on the ground. With your eyes wide open. It's a straight plane face on the ground. A full frustration. Oh, yeah. Is this a good-- oh, I don't know. Rohan gets down and lies down on her face, too. I want you all to know, as the leader-- and she says this with her face on the ground. As the leader of the Skyborne, I am no different from you all. Think of me more as the CEO or the president. I'm not a king or a queen or anything. That's so pretty cool. Don't sell yourself short. Thank you. Yes, there is still much honor to be served to you. But yes, I don't withdraw my knee. I just stand right back up. Yes, you all can have a seat, actually. Whatever's more comfortable for you if you want to stand or sit, I came because I heard something very intriguing about you all. And-- Is it about me not? It's probably about you. No, it is not about you're not. It's a lovely, lovely, hearth wood nut. I've never seen one as beautiful as that before. We may as well come clean. It's probably about the fact that we worship the void. Oh, man. Was it that? It was not that, but that is also very nice. Is it about his book? Because his book is full of a lot of things. Yeah, I keep documentation of all of our adventures in here. Did you-- He's got ships and a lot of times. He did about Uri's ships. He has a lot of ships. You have a lot of information that is very intriguing. All of you. But no, it's not about any of those things. Well, it depends, maybe. If your book has any drawings of those fractal temple that visions that you saw. I doodle the couple in the back. I'm sorry. When did you do that? When you were sleeping. I couldn't sleep and I woke up, but I wanted to draw. So I grabbed a couple crayons and you open up the back. And it's just like these kid drawings of all of us like stick figures and the fractals coming off of us. It's really beautiful. Now I'm going to have to do that in the back of the book just so we can get in the cannon. OK? Yes. I drew a couple of them. I drew a small image of the cave where we found the fractals. This is exactly as we had seen or not seen in person. But let me-- Have there been dreams of the light on your end as well? Not dreams. And she signals to one of the attendants. And you notice that this attendant has been holding a very thick looking book that also looks kind of old and dusty. She hands it over to Rohana. And she says, Rohana says, this is an ancient text of the Skyborne Order. When the very first Skyborne were known to exist and channel their first chroma, they started taking notes and gathering their observations altogether. And as they met each other throughout the different shards, they soon realized that this was the beginning of the Skyborne Order. And so we have many dedicated Skyborne scholars in this order who are tasked with studying this huge tone. As you can see, it's very, very long. And for many cycles, people have debated what certain interpretations of certain passages mean. Some of them are more poetic and metaphoric. Some of them seem more straightforward. But there is this one passage, in particular, that no scholar has ever been able to understand the meaning of until recently. She opens up to a page in the middle of the book. Oh, I forgot about the meaning. What's in the middle of the book? I was like, what's wrong with you? I don't know why. I don't know why. I don't know why. I don't know why. I'm not going to admit anymore. That's right. I'm leaving it. I'm leaving it. I'm leaving it. I'm leaving it. And she opens up the book. And-- To the middle. Yes, to the middle. And she turns it out in front of you all onto the table. This passage recently was discovered to have more literal meaning than we realized. We suspect that the fractal temple that you saw is one of several, possibly one on each shard. And similar to the palace unseen, we think that this passage is telling us that the fractal temple can give us skyboard and some immense power and peace and help us channel our chroma even further. But no one else has been able to find other fractal temples. No one has seen it with their own eyes before. I'm wondering if you all would be willing to look for one here on zenith. Yes. I want to go find one. It felt so nice standing in it was like warm soup. Do you like it sitting soup? No, but it was like, OK, maybe not soup. It was like a hot tub. It was very nice and warm and delightful. And it just makes you feel good. Guys, look at the beautiful hands of the hot tub. Oh, do you want to talk to me? What's the other thing about hot tub? Yeah, don't jimble, hot tub. Yes, we owe jimble hot tub. We do. I'm going to go make-- I also want to hot tub now. Oh, right. Well, if we're just handing them out willy nilly. And I think zenith needs one of all please. Oh, agree. That is cool. What has you? Do you have any idea where we might start looking? Because we kind of just happened upon this one by accident. Well, that is why I'm so thrilled that you all walked into the palace unseen today. Because the passage says a few things that seem impossible without people like you to help make this happen. It says that the first skyborne order conclave, the very first chroma channelers, they had a moment of community and connection. And in that pure moment, that essence of union, the fractal temple appeared before them. And no other conclave has been able to achieve this. No other conclave has seen or conjured a fractal temple. However, it works. We're still not sure. But you already have. One has appeared for you all. And so maybe you can do so again. We can get lost in a cave again, I guess. We're not actually-- - Are there any good things on Tina? - Oh, plenty. In fact, part of Zenith is underground, and that is where the terrible monstrous. What are they? They're really awful. They hear what they look like. They've got a big old gash down the middle of their body, and that is their mouth, and they open it up like an envelope and make you the content. You've told me about this. Yes, I forgot what they're called. The Amari. The Amari. I think I need it. No, I don't want it. But anyway, they live in the tunnels, in fact. But, yes, plenty of caves that you see are actually pathways into Amari's tunnels. Quite dangerous. It doesn't have to be a cave. If it's all about Union, maybe we just. I don't know. All we know is that we strongly believe, based on this new interpretation of the passage, that the next fractal temple opportunity will be here on Zenith. We don't know where, and we don't know how, but does the passage maybe think about collecting them all? In a way where maybe they communicate together or is there only one at a time? Or is that one on Banyan still actually there? From what we have seen, the fractal temple is a momentary existence. It doesn't exist forever. It seems that it's possible for it to come back to a location, but I'm not sure. Then how do you plan on harvesting its power for use of the skyborne order? Well, if you are able to find it and have it activate while you are there, then you two are telepathically linked. Maybe you can send us a message. Well, sure, we can show a try. We have some skyborne who would be able to hopefully connect with you all. It doesn't feel good. So wait, if this. It still doesn't feel good? If we are trying to connect with someone else, that's fine. If this thing is, you're calling it a temple, right? Yes, the fractal temple. Enter it? I believe so. I believe it will be a location, a place that you can enter. We stood in the fractal, and we didn't. We don't have like extra. You felt a little more robust, but that's about it. It didn't change us, sir. It regenerated us. But maybe we didn't go into it, you know what I mean? Because it was a light that was streaming down from the top of a cabin. We didn't go up into the light. Maybe that's it. Yeah, the structure of the cave was such that there was a mouth at the top. And the light, the fractal light, was bending around the lip of that opening at the top. So maybe there was something above where we were. What does the passage say anything about what the light would do? I mean, beyond that it simply exists. Well, similar to what you said, you used the word rejuvenate. It rejuvenated you. Yeah, we felt refreshed. I like flying, so I flew around in it for a while, and it was almost as if my spear was being refelt. Yes, that sounds very similar to part of the passage. It says something about renewing the till, or something like that. It's also said that the original skyborne order were able to channel chroma in a way they had never experienced before. Sounds amazing. But only while standing in the lighters, is there a way we can collect it, or-- I don't know. Yes, sir. And we can bring back those answers to us. Oh, maybe. Well, it sounds like a dangerous journey, but-- It does. And I can equip you with resources and supplies. We probably need jars. Oh, for the light? Yeah, that's absolutely right. jars. You capture light like that in a jar. You can capture water and creatures. Yeah, but light is different. It's-- what's the word? Blessed. Intangible. Oh, impressive, final. Thank you. I've been learning. I just heard someone use the word, and I was hoping that I used it correctly. You nailed it. Thank you. I'm so proud of you, but never would-- never touch my book again, please. Thank you. OK. I also wouldn't mind building a more reliable source of communication, because as talk might did say, it doesn't feel wonderful to communicate without someone that you actually are bonded with, in fact. Wait. I mean, even before we were bonded, we were still connected in a way, and that was difficult. As communicating with a stranger over possibly the entire chart is, I don't know how plausible that is. It sounds like a lot. I might die. I hope not. We both might. Even though you like death, I kind of like you being a light. Because then I can talk to you. And when you're dead, I can't really talk to you, because you're elsewhere. Rihanna. Yeah, I think I prefer being alive this moment. It's not really my choice. Do you have any sense of how we could find out approximately where this might be, or how to connect to it? Zenith is a large chart, and some of us simply aren't built for this kind of weather. All I know is that they set communion connection. So if there's any way that you can commune or connect together, maybe all of your focus can point you towards the way. Do the monks have anything like that? They're all rituals. Yes, there's a ritual for everything. Of course, there's a ritual, right? I mean, we could try a group bonding ceremony. Works the same, because we're already bonded, but it might work to some sort of-- I suggest we do some sort of group bonding and have the light come to us. But one ritual that is actually used among the children is that it's not in ritual. It has not been planned. It is improvised, and we do the same preparations, standing in a circle, getting an audience, and then each child adds something to the ritual that everyone mimics, and then that is the ritual. It's something very fun for the children, but also very effective, and builds upon bond, really, yes. Does it have to be in a specific location, or can we do it in a room here? I mean, I prefer to be able to decorate, but it could be anywhere. It's much warmer in here. Do you have a theme room or a garden anywhere? We do have a salarium. Yeah, let's do that. Let's go to the air. Maybe they have a salarium there. Like a sunroom. Oh, like a salarium. Oh, it's a salarium. I was thinking salarium. Come on, salarium. It's a salarium. Oh, that sounds lovely. Let's do it there. Let's go to our bonding room. All right. I just have one more idea to pitch. What if we all lie in the snow together holding hands until we're almost dead, and then we're on the brink of death, and we see the gate before us. Ah. We all pull ourselves back together. I love it. I love it. I don't want to be able to move back. Yeah, I don't want to be darkness. Together we go. I submit my vote. No. We're partial to not dying. Just like not even getting close to it. I don't want to be on the verge of death. I like being alive. I don't want to go lay in the snow. It makes me feel like I can make you stronger than knowing the darkness. No. I can know the darkness from a distance. I thought we were just pitching ideas. Wait. It was a lovely idea. It wasn't an idea, but not for us. Okay. Cool. I'll note taken. Mm-hmm. I can show you to this velarium. Please. Please. So she exits the meeting room and takes you up a couple of floors in the palace and takes you into another room that sure enough does have a glass section ceiling. And there are cushions all around for you to sit and there's also a big open space in the middle. Is there like a little tree for a bird to rest on? Well, I guess there is. Oh. So comfortable. So comfortable. Then I was going to start pushing all of the cushions together to make one giant cushion that she can sit on. I want a cushion. You have room. Yeah. This one, she hands you this small one to take like a heart. It's like fuzzy and pink. Yeah, you can have this one. Thanks. Well, maybe we've already begun. Maybe that's what you're adding to the ritual. A pile of pillows. And maybe we can all help and jump at all of it. Yes. I like that idea. All right. I got a heart one. Yeah. Don't pile. How do you do that? I'm so awful. This is my favorite ritual. Talk my climbs like digs into the bottom of it and just gets in the center and just. It's curled. It's in the middle. Don't suffocate. Don't suffocate. Don't suffocate. Don't look at it. Don't look at it. Look at an errant limb and just kind of perch on it. Like the legs or arms sticking out from the pile of people. Your foot sticking out. Yeah. All right. That's fun. Okay. So you all are assembled here finding your comfortable places. Mm-hmm. What is this ritual? Well, yes. It's what I said. Everyone contribute. I mean, it's basically like organized play, really. So everyone contributes something and the rest of us mimic it until it's the next person. turn. So if you contribute a pile of jumpy pillows, why then that's your turn? And we all mimic you and have a grand old time. Yes. And so we found out places now. And another person may volunteer. I don't want to die. That's right. I don't want to die. Is that why? I don't want to die. What are we talking about? I don't want to die. I don't want to die. I don't want to die. I don't want to die. I don't want to die. I don't want to die. I don't want to die. It's a very interesting thing. I don't want to die. What are you going to add? Oh, I don't know. Oh, we should do something together. Oh, right. What do you want to do? Well, I like things that involve blood. Do you want to cut me? No. You guys not hear my last statement. I don't want it now. I don't want it. No. Maybe something we can all do without hurting each other. I have a lot of flirting written down here. I have not flirting on the back, but it's empty. It's empty. That would be a nice seal. That's right. What about you, Mike? Maybe. I never learned how to listen. I tried it before it. Surprisingly, I can really whistle really well through this mask. It's like a moral question. It's just echoes in the mask. What if there was a kazoo built in? Oh, I want to actually. It's a chroma, but I would like to translate it differently. It's called "shooters of gold" and it really is like a healing thing, but I would like for it to kind of grow like light vines, vines made of light, and tickle everyone. Oh, lovely. Okay. Including myself. Okay. So, go ahead and roll for that. Okay, sweet. It's logic and vigor. So, d-sixes and d-hins. Would I be able to use root to help her at all? Because they have a fine structure. Here's the thing. You can only challenge this once per story, but since you're flavoring it. Yeah. This is not during combat, which is another use of it. I'm going to say, roll it as a chroma and do you want to spend a spirit point or do you want to? Oh, yes. I'm ready to shout out. My body is ready. I want it. Then spend the spirit point and, yes, you can put that way. Oh, wow. So, really, only one success and one spirit point, but. Or wait. That was a one. But I do. I can't. No, I can't. Yeah, that was a one, not a four. That was a one, not a four, yeah, sadly. Okay. Don't much for a magical tickle party. Well, uh. I'm officially not saying the weirdest thing on this show. Even if you don't roll a four, aren't you, if you have an uneven number of successes, aren't you? You can use a spirit point? Oh, yes. Then I would like to do that. Let's shout out babies. So, you just meant two, yes? Yes, so now we're seven out of 19. Okay. That's not bad. I'm a five, man. So, you are doing the "I Can't Whistle" either, but the. The Trixie and Dary offered this beautiful whistle. You all are doing that when suddenly, "Chainu, you excitedly get to your to a crouching position." And you start to channel your chroma, your logic and your vigor. So, your blue and your yellow orange? Oh, yes, orange. Yes, blue, you see blue and orange lights start to course through "Chainu's" body and tickle down, tick, trickle down, her fur. Yes, tied. I can't remember the last time we all laughed together! So, this is joy, it's time for me to throw the chroma in, like, 10 minutes. No, got under the mask. Yeah, chill. As the chroma drips off of her fur, it goes out into these gold intangels and is tickling you off. Oh, that means, you can't imagine. This is the best chroma I've ever seen in my life. It's just things I'm more like you would do. You're brushing up on each other. On curved tickles, there. We went from blood to tickles. I'm calling my inner baby, baby eight. My inner baby, Hamanu. I'm a child now. Perfect. That's my contribute. Yes, so many kids. Many of you have contributed. Is there anyone else? Katma. All right, for mine, I'm also going to do a chroma. But for mine, I think what we need to do is we all need to jump into the ear at the same time. Yes. Okay, quick question before you do that. Fennel, have you contributed anything yet? I made the mountain and we were jumping on it. That's right. Okay, so this is the last one. Okay, great. So, let's see, what would you like to do? This is Mount Fennel. It's lodging and lodging. I can't do that twice. So, one, okay, so just one and two. So, I'll use an exponent on the burst. How much do we have left, Amy? We have seven out of nine teams. So, it costs two and you want to use another one, that's three. We're going to, no, no, no, it costs two. Oh, right, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. So, you're at four? So, you're at four. Actually, it costs, um, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, is it precious? I think it costs an XP. Oh. Ew. It does say, well, it says cannot be channeled with zero XP. So, I think I have, you can burn XP for certain chroma. I think it just means if you're, if you're out of X, but you can't use it, but it does say, can I use it just for flavor? 69. Sure. Um, but let's expend the two points then instead of the XP, I guess. Uh, so we're done with five. Is that what we're down to? Unless you spend a spirit point to get to make it a success. Two. Yes. Okay, then we're down to four. Did you roll it? Did you roll it? Yes. Oh, I missed it. You got one. I got one and now I'm sure it was one. You're so ready to shatter. So, um, so talk, mate, you are inspired by this tickle party. Um, surprisingly, you, you didn't think you'd be into a tickle party. Um, and what do you do? You jump up? Um, so, okay, and everybody grab some pillows. Right. Um, we jump into the air and you throw them. Okay, on the count of three, you ready? Okay. Wait, okay, okay, okay. One, two, three. And then you all jump up and I, I whip out my spirit or my, uh, my black meditation sphere as we do it. And, uh, sorry, do you want to do it or do you want me to? We can both do it. Talk to the thing, sorry. One, two, okay. Um, as you jump up, I'll say the next thing and then you see the rest. As you jump up, um, and you pull out your meditation sphere, um, time around you stops. You all pause and mid air. Record scratch. I bet you're wanting how we fun. Yeah. Um, and, and sort of, uh, talk may has control of the span of time within. It's a, it's about a 20 foot radius of a sphere where in the middle of it time has just stopped moving. But she can kind of control it in ways. So, uh, everybody is sort of falling as slowly as possible. And the, and the pillows that have gone thrown through the air, sort of moving through this sphere, like a really slow, like, river. And sort of circling around everybody as we're trapped in the air, stopped in time for this. Yeah. I feel like we were tricked. What's happening? Yeah, the end of breakfast club. Yeah. And so, uh, you see these, um, objects floating through the air slowly and you see that talk, um, um, is seems to be controlling them with her black meditation sphere. You all also feel, um, a deeper kinship than you've ever felt before. Like you are in a pocket of time, of void time that talk may has created together. And it starts to sink in that you're, you're a party. You're together here. We're a family. Um, I want to have you guys all roll right now. Um, roll your core virtue and figure. And perception into intuition, perception or intuition. And let me know which of those you choose. I'm gonna do a perception. So we'll do perception. Do we need to roll a-- - Spirited? - Yes. - We're going to roll six of our virtue. - No, you're going to do your core virtue, three of your core virtue, and then choose action to fruition, or proceed. - Oh, I'm sorry. - I'm sorry. - Oh, I can't see. - One, two, what's over here? - Seven. - Three successes. - That was a nice percentage. - We're doing really well. Okay, there we go. - You said we're all going to roll now. It's like as a party, yeah. - Yeah, yeah. - Time for the overlight, Ray. - Overlight, Ray. - Oh, that's the 10. - Yeah. - Okay. - This is two. - You got two. - Nope. - All right. - So? - No, it's-- - Did you put it in the hat? How dare you? I don't like your hat. - How would you feel if someone punched your hat? Fashion, police? - Yeah. - You're ready, Billy. - Did I do? - I got it. I actually had a four on the spirit die. - Can that-- - Okay, yeah. - Anything. - You can either use it if you have, you know. You can use it as a spirit flare if you have a odd number. - Okay. - You can bump it up or you can put it in your pool. - Nope, I don't want to put it in my pool. I'm ready to shot her, so I will bump it to four. - All right. Okay, so tell me what everyone rolled, whether intuition or perception? - Perception. - World perception and-- - I got a four. - Will, right? - Yes. - And you got four. - Wow, you guys all rolled really well. - Yeah, we did. - I am untrained in both intuition and perception, but my compassion led me to three successes. - Oh my! - Yeah. - I made it as successful every time. - And then the detens were all-- - Oh my gosh. - Wow, that's incredible. - That is so lucky. - Okay. - I am light and I have no skills in intuition or perception, so, but I got two successes. - Everyone's like, you're in the zone. - I got vigor and perception and I got four successes. - Really? - What? - I got one. (laughing) - I thought you made the fear, though, so-- - That's your country week. - Oh, I got two. - Yeah, I got two. - Oh, but I thought that meant one success in this situation. - No. - What do you mean? - I rolled two. - Oh, you got two successes. - You got two successes. - Oh, okay. - So you were just so much better. - Sixer higher? - Yes, yes. - Yes, yes, yes, yes. - Yes, you got two. - Wow, guys, that's like a very successful round of rolls. - It's because of our bonds. - Yes, we'll never roll below that. - Ever again. - Ever again, you hear me? Ever again. - That's a promise. - Yeah, that's a threat. - So you all are now your trap, you're not trapped. You're in a trap? - In a trap? - 20 foot radius spear. And you all look into each other's eyes, look around at each other, and you start to see something together. (laughing) - Oh, no. (laughing) - You're a decent color in your eyes. - In the middle of-- - Just mellow. - In the middle of the circle. The middle, yes, the middle. (laughing) - Oh, wait. - In the middle of where you all are standing in this circle, you start to see what can only be described as an iridescent map. It looks like a piece of land is forming out of nothing. This iridescent light starts to take form and shape, and it looks like the hills of zenith. (gasping) - It's a topographic map. - Oh, come on, what have you done? (gasping) - You cannot talk. - Quit. - Very slow. (laughing) - Oh, yeah, that's right. (laughing) - You're so stupid. (laughing) - I can't stop pretending. - And I try to reach for my satchel to get my book out, but I'm just-- - It's too slow. (laughing) - Also, it's a consensual groma, so if you're really not into it, you can bow out at any time. (laughing) - I like time. - I mean, a good time. - I like time. - I'm born to laugh. - I'm born to laugh. (laughing) - You all are still slow motion, and you reach into your bag for your sketchbook. And as you, this is happening, in what looks like real time for you, because your slow down, this is probably very fast or something. You see the map start to split open, as if the hills are being carved apart. And then underneath, you see this, it looks like a, I wanna say a womb that's kind of, it's not literally like a womb, but it's a dark, red, warm looking cave underneath these hills. And you see that there is an occurrence of these overlight fractals appearing in this cave. - Do we recognize where it is on scene? Like, that particular mountain peak or something? - Mm-hmm. - Yes, with that success, yes. Yes, you do. - You recognize trading, so. - Oh, right. - You recognize this as being, in the middle of the start. - Oh, at least the middle pearl. (laughing) I don't know, I don't need it. (laughing) - I don't need it. - Amp. I love that. - Okay. - So yes, you do recognize these hills as the, the, Hoarval hills. Hoarval. - So these hills are in a section of the shard that miraculously, when you reach it, the winds are not quite as strong. There is a little bit of peace and more overlight is able to get through, which is likely why this is the place at the temple. It seems to be telling you this is, you know, where the temple could be. - Well, I'm ready to unfreeze. - Yeah, I'm gonna drop out of it. - Okay. I'll sort of, I'll talk my, I'll sort of twist our hands around the orb, and it'll be sort of like the larger orb pulsating with this dark energy, sort of sucks back into the smaller circle. - You guys can't believe that worked. - That was crazy. - I thought it was just gonna be fun. I didn't think it was gonna work, but it totally did. - Did it seem as though the void connected us? - Well, the void in the light are always connected, because you can't have one without the other, so it makes perfect sense. Don't question me. - Talk my cries a single. (laughing) - A single void is here. - It's a black deer. (laughing) - That's terrifying. - Why are you really listened? - Yes, but also I just let everyone and I want everybody to be happy, and everything is connected. That's how we got together. - Mushroom. We know where that is, Rohana. - Rohana has been outside the door. She was living out. - Yeah, she wanted to be here. - Exactly. She wanted to give you some privacy. - Oh well, yeah. - That would have been so awkward. - We know where it is, Rohana. We do. - Oh, we should go. - But we should get-- - It's coming. - It is a classroom, all right? - Oh, you're in the middle. - Oh, do you know something? - Wait, wait. - I'm gonna go open the door and be like, I need a very fluffy coat, because I'm going to freeze to death out there, and we know where it is, by the way. - Oh. Sorry, that's not how you're supposed to be. - Oh, no, it's all right. I yelled it. - Oh, yes, we know where it is, but it's true. You have to teach me how to project. - You should see her when she does her death scream. - Well, you teach me how to yodel. - Oh. - On the mountain top? - Of course, I know how to yodel. - Or death scream. Or death scream. Either way, I will take either. Anyways, we will need some heavy coats, because we're about to go and bark on a journey into snow. - Brilliant that you know where it is. Of course, we'll equip you with everything you need. And now, we're going to do a montage. - M montage. - So she takes you all down to the coat room, and-- (all laughing) - Oh my god, I wanted nothing more. - That's exactly what's happening. - Did someone please, you fan art of this? - I want a ugly Christmas sweater. - Yes, I don't know. (all laughing) - I don't want to put on just a ton of coats, but I have to cut the backs of them, so my branches can fit out. - So good. - So good. - I'm just going to throw this. - I'm going to borrow all of these snip snip. (all laughing) - So cute and soft setting. - Just like sweaters and coats. Just stretch over the bridge. - She's like, yeah, they're kind of like hanging on her bridges like ornaments. She's got some tiny mittens on some mittens. - I take off my natural fur coat, and then it's like a cartoon where it's like-- - You took off her skin? - Yeah, but it's like a cartoon. - We're like, you know when you see a chicken, like he's-- - Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. - Yeah, he has the little-- - I hate that. - Yeah, the wrinkly skin. - Oh my god. - Oh my god. - It happens. - I want to try on new stuff. - Everyone else gets to. Look. (all laughing) - That's inappropriate. - It is, it's just skin. - You're naked. - Oh well. - I mean, some of my-- - I'm just more naked than usual. I'm always naked. I'm never wearing clothes. But today, why I shall wear clothes. - Is that hat also, that's Chinese actual hat, yes? - It's gonna be, yeah. - That she just has that hat on her face. - I'm not naked. (all laughing) - No, you're right. I guess I need to think about, you know, the literal translation of my-- (all laughing) - You're not naked. You're not naked. - So there's a montage of you all trying on your coats and now-- - Chinno and I. Everybody's in dressing rooms, but Chinno and I are just in the middle of the room, just naked, like trying things off. (all laughing) - Throwing things off, sort of holding up to each other, flaunting our-- - Just a nice color on your skin. I would like to hear from each of you what you decide what it looks like, the coat or whatever it is that you chose. You've got your favorite blanket, a freshly poured drink, and a cold case burning a hole in your streaming queue. You're not just watching True Crime, you're running the investigation from the comfort of your couch. Welcome to Murder She Watched, the podcast where we recap, dissect, and slightly overanalyze some of the best and craziest true crime documentaries on our favorite streamers. 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Oh, Chanel. Um, I feel like Fennel has just put on layers, and because she doesn't actually wear clothes, she doesn't know how to put on half of the things. So she's got a hat, and she's just kind of like shoved it on top of a root, and she's like, that's where that goes. And like a shoe or a boot on a bunch of her different roots. She's put some mittens on some of her branches up top, just so she can avoid losing more leaves than she's already lost in the cold. And she has cut open the backs of a couple of things so that she can just layer up. And she's, she kind of looks like when an overprotective parent dresses up their child to go out on a snow day, and they're like this, and they kind of waddle around. That's what it looks like. It's ridiculous. All right. It's absolutely ridiculous. Okay. Dog sweaters. That's what it is. They're dog sweaters. Um, fortunately, uh, the skyborne palace comes equipped with warm clothes for all of the creatures. Yeah. Yeah. So an inclusive palace. Imagine to find like a hilarious rainbow, uh, non-denominational holiday themed sweater that has holes for my wings, um, it's like awful, like big fluffy cuffs, like everything. It's like the too much wool sweaters you see, just like everything is puffy than you want it to be. Um, and then I found a scarf that I could wrap all the way from like my waist up to my head. So only my eyes are now visible. Yeah. It's very cool. Oh, that is. That's happening. Yeah. So if I'm standing for my, at my maximum height of four feet tall, then you basically just see like my wings behind me, and I'm just, I look very homeless with just my. Yeah. Very cool. Okay. Okay. Good, ready? Great. Um, I think I found, uh, a trench coat of some sort because I am very tall, six, eight, but there was, you know, one that actually fits, but what makes this trench coat actually really cool is that it has like all these like Michael Jackson zippers all over it, but not trying to reference like Michael Jackson from Eat It, but it does have all this kind of like somewhat in a sense like jewelry because my people's, we love having, we like flunting. We like, you know, showing a little bit of now, yeah, it has a little bit of flash. So it might not be functional in terms of keeping me warm, but at least I look. I feel like I want to find my final problem. We like popped out of a pile of clothes and was like, yes, I found you something to wear, but no. It was like Hawaiian shirt pattern, super puffy, disgusting trash bin clothing. And she was like, this one looks very attractive and it would look nice on you wear it. And I just make an excuse and I'm like, it doesn't fit. Oh, no. It's right over my neck. Oh, no. I can't put it on. Oh, god. Oh, whoops, it's ripped in half. Weird. I, the warmest thing that I found is my own skin, so I keep my fur, I keep everything on, but I have found a, one of those Russian muffs. Ooh. Oh. Yes. Like, yes. Oh, catch for your hands. Yeah. Yeah, can wield it, I guess, but really it's-- We wield it. I don't know. It's like when-- I got soft and buffer. Like this. It looks very much like something like-- Yeah. Yeah. Sure. Just the crap that is the one. Uh-huh. Muff attack. Okay. That's not like-- What? Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Who called buffs? Yeah. All right. Well, say it again. Let's slow it this time. Or this time. So what a time of the fight. The method. Um. So what happens to talk me is sort of like the montage you see where you try on everything in your closet, and then you just end up wearing the thing you started with. Mm-hmm. So she tries on everything, and she's like super slender, very like, like, sinewy muscles. And so she tries on some things that like look really good on her. And like, maybe you guys are like, oh my gosh, like Kate Blanche and a suit. You know what I mean? It looks good. And talk to me. It looks in the mirror. And maybe everybody's like, oh. And then she's like, ah. And she does a bunch of like outfits like that. And she's just like, whatever. And puts back on her. Her heap of like, uh, of like dark charcoal rags and her giant scarf. And it's just like, okay. Anytime Fennel comes across something black, she's like, eh. This one. This one is like black. Your two's. Everything she finds. Two twos. I don't know, man. Who knows? Maybe they put on place. Like two twos. Never know. Never know. All right. So you all are suited up. You have your warm clothes, um, and a montage. And, uh, so Rohan's assistants and attendants have assembled some packs for you that are very wearable and have lots of, you know, water and things for you to eat and things for you to sustain yourself. So you are equipped for this trip. Um, so now you both know where this is and it is in the center of the shot, um, which is far. And so it's, it is like a week's long journey and you will likely have to, you know, stop here in there. Rohana gives you a couple of things before you leave. Um, looks like you were all ready to leave. And, um, she had to do a piece of paper that's rolled up in like a two. Me? You. Yeah. This is a list of, of places that you can stop. It's a long journey and, um, they all will be able to take you in when you need to rest. And we'll wait to hear back from you. Perfect. Thank you so much. Always nice to know where to find a friendly face. And if you can make sure to take as many notes and doodles when you see it, if you see it, that would be very helpful to us. I won't really have much of a choice. It's a bit of a compulsion, so I'll try to bring back as much as I can. Perfect. Well then, I'll see you when, when you're back. Oh, wait. How are we going to get a message to you? I, we haven't quite nailed that down. Yes, I've thought of this and if you are willing, one of my attendants can follow along with you. Of course. Your bond mate will stay here so that they can, they can communicate back to, are we getting the homonu or the muck? We were thinking the homonu, but it's whatever you prefer. Oh, is it a boy homonu? Uh, you were just bonded. I have an open bonding situation. Oh, I didn't realize you guys got married in Utah. Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Well, in which start is Utah? I don't know. I am in Utah. I am in Utah. That's okay. Oh, I still got a care. No, you didn't. That was perfect. Okay, it's a bond. It just happened to be a homonu. It is a homonu. It is a homonu. Huh? It's a boy homonu. Oh, is it a homonu? Oh, is it a homonu? It is a homonu. It is a homonu. It is a homonu. Is it? Oh, please, real hot. Oh, hopefully. Yeah. All right. So, can I break into your brain? You don't even have, yeah, ask first. What? Ask first. Okay. May I please? Yes. We should have a signal, what should it be? Um. Oh. Oh. Okay. Okay. What is out with that boy homonu? Well, I suppose we'll find out when he joins us. I can't wait. I've been like. I've been like. I'm wanting this, I know, there's no way you would have known this. It's not like I've said it, but I'm ready. - I've heard it. - Oh yeah? - From your brain. - Well, I just-- - How thirsty you are. - Oh my god, can you imagine, do you know what color he's gonna be? - No, why would I know that? - Oh, what if he is like brown with white spots? - A deer? (laughing) - Oh. - As you're having this conversation, you see a-- - George Clooney as-- (laughing) - No! - You see a-- - I'm doing a slow motion time stopping. - You see a tall, like, slenderly muscular harmonious shrine in. And she's wearing his pack like it weighs nothing. It's just, like, looks really cool. He has a beautiful black fur that is so clean and fluffy that it looks like the overlight is shining through it. - Oh my god. - Oh, he's got a sheen. - He's got a sheen. - He's got that glow. - All right. - Yeah. - And his-- - Oh, sorry. - We could all horn it for you. (laughing) - We could all horn it for you. (laughing) - He also has a Hamanu facial here that's not too manicured, but it's just manicured enough that it's like, he cares about himself. He probably uses beard oil. But he's not, like, so meticulous that it's a line and it's like, oh, you know? Oh, yeah. - This is really reminding me-- - It's not too crispy. - Not too crispy. - Yeah. - Gorilla that all of these Japanese schoolgirls are like-- - Yes. - He's the most handsome gorilla I've ever seen. - Yes. - Oh my god. - You don't know this reference. It's very important reference. - Oh, what was it? - Oh, wait. I killed it. - Uh-huh. - Yeah, yes. - Yes, this is the real thing. - We have top screen. - Yeah, we have. - He's coming up. - Was it in the group? - This is him. (laughing) - He just looks at all of us. - Oh, wow. - Yeah, he tries and he's like, I'm here to accompany you. - Oh, no, no, no, no. I'm in. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not going to screen this up. - Is he taller than Udo's end? - He is a, he's six-five. So he's just a little bit shorter than Udo's. And then-- - Oh, yeah, I'm seven, two. - Yes, I'm seven, two. - Yeah, I'm seven, two. I'm a very large and I'm very curvy, so we'll see. - Can he handle it? - Can he do it? - You're going to crush him. (laughing) Well, only if I do something, Joe. I'm not gonna, like, immediately. - Do you know I have access to your mind? - Oh, yeah. (laughing) - We're talking in our minds. - Yeah. - No, no, no, no. All right, well, I'm gonna play it cool. - I'm gonna play it cool, all right? - No, he's gonna happen. - Right. - My big, womanly body isn't gonna hurt him at all. - Okay, great. - Hanging out now. No, you can't. (laughing) - Are you hanging out? - Bang! - Bang! (laughing) - So you noticed that his bond mate, another Zenith monk is standing nearby and they're also having a conversation. Where are their eyes? 'Cause our eyes are definitely on, you know, whatever his life is. (laughing) They're not shallantly kind of soft looking at the group. Just, you know, like, kind of looking towards, but not trying not to be, like, blatantly looking at you. - It was the monk like. (laughing) - Oh! (laughing) - That's amazing. - This is gonna be a seven brides for a seven brother. - Oh my god. (laughing) - The monk is super cute, I don't know, what are you? (laughing) - What's your type? - Describe your ideal monk. - Oh my ideal monk. - No, whatever you, whatever you come up with, that's what I'm gonna do. (laughing) - Okay. The monk is. - Steve, what's your name? - Steve Bushman. (laughing) - I think I know Steve Bushman yet. - The male, how about this? - Wow! - Who's Steve Bushman? - The male is kind of like, you're not sure what their gender is and it's because they are non-binary. - And they are, they have this golden caramel skin and high cheekbones and really nice lips. - God, this is a horny grove. (laughing) - Oh no. - A short curly hair that's really adorable. - Okay. - Fennel's just gonna walk right on up while they're having their conversation. They're like, "Oh, my name is Fennel. Welcome to our party. You're gonna be our friends now." - Well, I wish I, I almost wish I could come on the journey with you, but my, my bond mate will, I'm sure be a good addition to your party. - Yeah. - We'll be friends later. (laughing) - It's okay, what the hell? - Evo's, make sure to help them out of it when you can, all right? - Evo's? - Yeah, so the monk, jabs, evos, the hamanu, and evos, of course, of course I'll do my best to keep up with you all. - I like your accent. How do you spell your name? - Evo's, it's E-V-O-S. - Evo. - She's like writing it on her hands so she can remember, and it's just the worst handwriting in her. She barely understands written word, bitterly. - She says that! - If you know how to pronounce it, then yeah, that works. - Evo's. - Evo's. - It is a pleasure for us to have you join us. - Same. - Likewise. - It's so cool. - Oh, 100 percent. - When you're flirting with someone, should you immediately tell them that you're horny or should you wait? - You usually want to wait until you receive signs that they're also horny. - Are these four, SIG? No, wink. - And we're talking about a general vibe or a sense from a person, not actual horns, just to be clear. - The horns are not a deal breaker. - That would be really cool. - Well, you point out the vibe when you see it because I don't know what it looks like. I don't know what a vibe looks like. - Absolutely. - Okay. - Yeah. - It's a vibe question mark. - It is different for every person. - Yeah, this is my vibe. - So, Evo's. - Totally horny. (laughing) - I couldn't tell. I got a knee there. (laughing) - Oh, I couldn't tell. - I guess Moss aren't just looking at you all (laughing) - Sorry, my name is Sennel and I'm learning how to flirt. - Oh yeah, no, it's fine. It's just very shocking to hear people talk so openly. I mean, no. - I'm kind of young and I have no filter. - That's great, that's great. - Maybe I can learn some things too. - I've written a lot about flirting. - Oh, shaving your void. - Showing. - That's just showing. - But also I guess that. - I have no way to do something like that. - No, no. - No, it's showing you. - Never. (laughing) - The void is all natural. - It's my handwriting is really bad because I don't really know how to read. So, I understand what you've been saying. - I see it's W-A. - It is a W-E-S. - We can go back from this. - It looks like she can do it. (laughing) - We're doing great. - We're doing great. - We're doing great. - We're getting to the fractals. - Oh god. - And don't do that, don't do that. - Let me make it a little more like a W there. - Showing your void, taking off your mask, waiting for signals, blindfolds, exclamation mark, flattery, sky dancing, saucy question mark. I don't know what that one says. Long wing? I don't know. - As she goes, I chandelup to evos. And I'm like, it seems like we have a really long journey. Should we get going? - Yes. - Yeah. - It's also scary for me to ride on the shoulder of the coolest person in the group. - Excuse me. - Udos. - I have so many shoulders for you too. I am a walking tree. - Well, your shoulders must be really tired. So I can take over, it's no problem. - Yeah, all of the shoulders are so tired from being so cool. - I know. - Yeah. (laughing) - So don't worry about it. - I am a friend. You can ride on my shoulders, but I think you're all cool so far. You all seem pretty cool. - I don't know. - Whatever. - You're like still, you're doing that out loud. (laughing) - All right, I flap up on your shoulder and just kind of like settle trying to be as cool about as possible. - I thought we were friends. - We are friends, final? - But I smell his hair back. - It smells like beard oil. - Sorry, my brain should smell like pine needles. So there, does he smell like pine needles? - You found, do you wanna hang out with me? - Yes! - She waddles over and holds your hand immediately. - Let's walk in the front. - Okay. - All right. - Let's leave. - Okay. - There you go. - You are equipped and ready to go. You walk out the front door of the palace unseen and you find yourselves back in the snowy winds of Xenith, right, where you had entered. Now, Rohana would have told you all this, but the palace unseen appears and disappears at intervals and no one is outside of the skyborne orders like smallest council, including Rohana, really has any idea when and where it appears. So they knew it would appear on Xenith, but they didn't know where and they will, they are sure that it's not gonna just disappear on you all while you're out here. So, and that's what she tells you all. So you can come back to the palace. this location, find the palcing scene once your mission is complete. Hey, O'Hanna, are you guys in charge of where it shows up? No. No. Again, we have many scholars who study many different things, and we have some who have studied the cycles, and they have fairly accurate predictions of when it will move and appear again. So you're just like along for the ride? Basically. That's cool. There are many mysteries of the original skyborne we are uncovering more and more each day. If you see, well, we're gone. If you see anything about, uh, a hearth would nut from a specific tribe called the World Things, from Banyan, will you let me know? Yes. Okay, I'm looking for one. All right. Okay. Do you know what it looks like, Finals? Well, they've been gone for a really long time, the last time I saw one was a drawing. The drawing doesn't exist anymore. I got destroyed, but it was like a small, brown circle, and it had a little tip on it, and it looked like it could peel back. That's all I know. All right. Yeah. I'll, I'll, I'll let our scholars know to keep an eye out for it. Thank you. So you all walk out the door of the palace and scene and into the windy, icy, snowy, zenith atmosphere again. And uh, you, you all, the three of you, so the Hamanu, Chenu, and Takmei, did I give you the Hamanu's name? Yes, evos. So the three of you know the way, so you're, um, uh, the party is, you know, trusting for you guys to lead the way and off you go. Um, uh, now, so it's, it's the equivalent of weeks, which of course we know. There aren't actual weeks, it's just a bunch of different cycles on this world. I'm not going to have you roll a million hazard tests. I'm just going to have you roll three. Okay. Three hazards. I know. Yeah. Okay. One for each week. Yeah. Um, what was it? What was the hazard? Yeah. Okay. So the hazard is going to be, um, boop, boop, boop. Let's say, it's going to be a couple of different, oh, you. You all are rolling. Oh, no, I forgot. It's, I think it was, so it's an open test, um, survival. If you have survival or resistance, um, does everyone have, oh, I think I did will and resolve us. Will and resolve. Mmm. Would I be? Yes. Because some of you, yes, the two will where people, um, I remember that you did roll will. And then my resolve, survival and resistance are all the same. Okay. Um, and then so I would say, um, do you remember what you rolled last time? Um, we can also just decide a new, if you don't remember, I did level up my might D8. And resistance is a subset of that. So, uh, the survival skill D6 and then might D8. Survival. Yeah. Sounds great. So, for my or bigger and I do have, uh, I've both resistance and resolve, actually, they're the same. Okay. They're the same. Okay. Um, three, uh, D8 for resistance and 3D 10 for my. Okay. Great. Oh, all right. Ready? I think so. Rolls. Nice. Three. Success. Success. And fire. Ooh. Wow. Nice. Nice. Yeah. I remember those because I'm going to have everyone roll and then. Okay. So, that was a lot of. Oh. Oh. Oh. I just remembered. Oh, wait. Is it the highest number one? Is that what we know? Oh, shoot. I forgot. Maybe you did a horrible. That has a rule. How did you have anything above a six? Because you had a lot of success. I forgot. I had, no, I had a 10. I had a 10. So 10 is broke. That's the highest. But it was one of them. Yeah. One of them had a third. I'm just kidding. We rolling against the storm right now. Well, no. I have three successes, which are odd in one spirit flare. Well, we're doing highest number. Yeah. Highest number. Oh. Which one is it? Seven. Plus the flare, though. So that's eight. So eight. Okay. Okay. So eight. Bam. And then do it too much. Yeah. I got two more times. Okay. That one isn't eight. Nine. What is this? One. Seven. Eight. Seven. Yeah. Seven. Eight. Eight. Seven. Eight. Eight. We're nine. but a flare on that one. - Oh, 7-9, 8-7-9, 8-7-9, 6-5-3-2-2. - That's my favorite song. - I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it. - Do not crease it. - That was a good time call. - Highest roll, okay. To stop that, or I'm gonna sing a whole song, you're fired. (laughing) - No straights, no straights. - Sorry! - The line number is, sorry. - Yes, the line. - Just one line bleep. - Oh, remember to know what your result to. - 8-9-8, 8-9-10, baby, let's go for it 10. - Oh, I got it, 8-9-8, 8-9-8. - It's nice. - Cheers! - You got a sense? - The chin-u, I don't know, like, theme dice this time. I'm like, in love, in love, in love, in love. - Oh my God. - The rainbow flare. - 9. - 9. - 9-9, gee. - Wow, I think you can smell the water. - Now, you all look very well, watch me. (laughing) - And I'm leaving you. - I know, body fat, so. (laughing) - I'm set of flores to seven. - Good of been worth 10. - Ten and a florets of 11. - Seven, 11. My favorite restaurant. (laughing) - You're a fan. - You're a great pizza. - The fancy. - I'm the mayor of 7-11. - And nine. - So seven, 11 and nine. - You did really good. - Thank you. - Yeah, 11 is bomb. - Yeah. - I'm ready. - The oven's in pasta. - Oh my God. - Ooh, ooh, ooh. - Seven and a florets. That's eight. - The first result? - Nice. - Yeah, so does everyone remember which roll got, which high is, okay, great. And then, oh, I think it's the second highest. I'm the worst. - Eight and a florets, so annoying. - Do you know what in German? Do you know what I say nine? - Nine. - Nine even kidding. - Oh, nine. - I thought it was nine means nine. - Nine means nine. - Nine means nine means nine. - That's going to be confusing. - Nine. - Nine. - Eight. - All right. - I can't reach that in this community. - That's really good. We actually did a really good job. - We really did. - Great job. - Well, these are kind of chilling. - Oh yeah. - That's okay, right? - Blush and white. - All right. So, in that first role, who got higher than a six? - First role. - You all did. - Yeah. Brilliant. - I think we all did. - All right. - You're so tough. - But what about evos? - Evos is fine. - Evos is internal, like a heating blanket. - I don't know. - Like a hot water bottle. - Yeah. - As a chemical. - Just to grow for evos. - Yes, I will take care of that. - Um. - That sounds very ominous. - Um. - So, on this second. - Well, I'll take care of them. - Uh-huh. - On this second role. - Yeah. - The hot character. - On the second role. Who got higher than a six? - You all did. - Beautiful. Okay. And on the third role, who got higher than a nine? - Oh, I got a nine. - I got a nine. - Okay. - I think it. - So you two. - I got a eight. - Okay. - So you three did get higher than a nine. - I got nine. - I got a nine. - I got a nine. - All right, then. So you two just take, um. Take one health. - Okay. - Away. - And we were at top health when we left, right? - Yes. - Yes. - Top health. - Top health. - All right. So, um. So the storm. These three weeks, you, by the way, during the three weeks, you did stop off at some of these villages. And contact that Rohana gave you. These are people who are affiliated with the Skyborne Order. They themselves, some of them are Skyborne, some of them are not. Similar to the monks that you met on the edge of this shard. They're people who are there to help and meet travelers and help, you know, give them a place to stay. So you stopped at several of these different places throughout your journey. And thankfully, you were warm enough that most of you took no, you rested between, so you ended up fine. Udos and Mat, however, there was just one point on the third week of your journey that, um, Mat, you, you were riding on Udos' shoulders, because you were probably taking turns between your friends. You know how they feel about that. So you were being a good friend and you were riding on a shoulder, but you two did not see a snow-covered brand. that was like across the way, and so you both kind of popped into it. - Oh, we got bonked? - Yeah, you got a little bonked. - Oh, I got bonked. - But otherwise, you've made it through this journey. - I make the best snow angels. - Oh, that's true. You just have to fall down. (all laughing) - Yes, that's true, yeah. (all laughing) - So now you all have started, you start to recognize that this is where these hills are, the center of the shard, you've reached this point. - That's the shard. - And that's the shard, that's the shard. - Right, new mixtape, middle of the shard. Remix of middle of the shard. - Oh yeah, look at that shard. - That's the shard. - Um, my soul. (all laughing) - My soul. - Okay, oh, goodness, so many ideas. So, yes, you notice that the land starts to dip down, and basically you're entering a valley. So the hills that are surrounding the valley start to break, and as you like, go over one of the hills, you start to recognize, all of you start to recognize that map that you all saw in the sphere, in the void sphere, that talk about a summit. And so just at the place where the hill range split apart in your vision, you see that there is, there is an entrance of some sorts in the snow. - Let's go in, is this the place? - This is it? - Yeah. - There she blows. - Oh. - What's going on? - And we're not concerned at all about the Amari. - We're definitely worried about them. - Yes, there's a very deep eye. - I'm ready to fight. - High likelihood that Amari will be here, but have we ever let fear rule our lives before? - Yes. - Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, all the time. - Well, maybe, let's just go anyway. - Amari is not the absence of fear, it is moving forward, despite it. - I don't know. - You were dropping jewels, I'm so scared. - Who's giving her a book, Sky? - You know who I'm gonna use that on. - I'm learning to read. They read it out loud to me, and I got to follow along, and I just remembered 'cause he said it like five times. - All right, well, you're smarter than you look. - Thank you. - Maybe. - I'll take it. - I'm not sure that's so comfortable, it's all right. - Well, I'll bring up the rear for documentarian purposes. - Oh, I'm good. - I'm in the lead, and I am swishing my hips. (laughing) And evokes this walking behind you, and noticing. That's it. Noticing. - Notice in this way. - I notice him, notice. (laughing) And then final documents, at all. - Okay. So chain, you're going in first. - Okay. - So you walk down into this entrance, and at first, it does seem just like a regular cave. And it slopes downward towards, you know, lower in the ground. And it starts to, it's wet, and there's snow dripping. Snow melting in the entrance way. And then finally you get to a place where it's stone and it's warm, and it probably takes about half an hour before you get there. And so you all are just filtering into this cave, and you look around, and it looks like any other cave. But you all are here, and I'm going to have you all roll perception. - All right, dang. - Perception and what virtue? - Perception and this is going to be, okay, this is going to be different for all of you. So for final, mat and udos, it will be, I'll let you choose between will and might. - Oh, definitely not. - Might it is, right? - For you to, it's going to be your compassion, both of you compassion. - Okay. - Okay. - Well, fine. And this is perception. - Okay. - Got it flair there. - Really? - Nice flared. - Okay, so you've got two. - Nice. - None. - Seven. - I'm just compassionate about the wrong things as all. - Success. - Two successes. - Dang. - Two, three. - Oh. - Yeah, three. - Wow, okay, great. So two, two, two, two, six, six. - And three. - So there's a flared, a one. So I'll just pop it up to two at the flared. - Great, okay. - And sorry, did you roll? - Nothing. - Okay. - You're supposed to stand flirting. - Yeah, so changing it, you still can take a lot. - And also you're in the front, so you're just wishing town. Evo is behind you. And then, yeah, well, model walking is real hard. - It takes a lot of focus. - Yes, it does. - You seem really bummed by that too. - Your body is not supposed to move like that. - Yeah. - She rolled for that. - Yeah. - You rolled for the model. - I can't. - Are you on my heart, I'm now. - Are you on my cheek? - Roll the Braillean's success. - Yeah. - On model walking. - That's the one time we're gonna use. - Yeah. (laughing) - That's great, it's all I am. - Yes, perfect. - So you don't notice anything. Evo doesn't notice anything. Are you in the back? Where exactly are you? - I will you third with. - Okay, Chennai. - So you're like third there. I'm not trying to cover up her butt though, so you know. - So you start to-- - Cover up my butt, but I'm not. - The four of you, you see this and they feel it. Which ones did you roll? - What was your virtue that you chose? - Well, well, might and probably might. Okay, so you, final start to feel what you normally feel when you are summoning your chroma, channeling your chroma. You start to feel that and you didn't initiate it. You didn't do anything. So you're a little confused about why. And you lift up some of your hands and your branches and you see this yellow energy of your will coursing through you and pulsating. You both notice the same except it's your might that it's as if you were channeling just your might and it's just, it feels like as humans, the equivalent is probably like adrenaline. Sometimes if you get anxiety, sorry to even bring this up, I hope it doesn't. - You've been bringing it up sometimes for me. But when you feel anxiety and it's like, I'm doing nothing right now and I feel like I'm about to fight a bear. - Yeah, your body's like, I mean, it's boss battle time. - Right. - Like, we're a music plan. - Yeah, exactly. - You're like, oh yeah, but it's not fun. Doesn't feel fun. So yeah, this is not a pleasant feeling. This reminds you strangely of those dreams that you had. When you were, if you remember right after the bonding ceremony, the three of you had dreams of your fractal, those fractal light manifestations that you saw in the fractal tempo and banion. You also were dreaming that you were using particular chroma over and over. If you was mind strike for you, I think it was the process of feathers. If you was either a visage of terror. - Wrathful strike. - Wrathful strike. I think it was Wrathful strike. So you, it's something's coming together now that you're in this place and you know that this is the right place. And so you see this in them. You see them glowing. Are you guys okay? - I don't feel okay. - I feel like I'm about to get enough fight. I don't know why. - This is if the, the red light is coursing through me and there's something nearby, I think. I don't know. - Yeah, I don't like this. - Should we stop? What should we do? - Oh wait, so this is not what we all felt before then. - No, this is, it reminds me of the dream. - But you were uncomfortable in last time. It was not discomfort. - I think it was because we were in a dream. This feels. I mean in the cave. - Oh no, this is not like in the cave. - Right. - Also just a note. So when you were on Banyan and you were saved by the shovel task in Lungano, you saw that cave, but it didn't happen. You didn't see the fractal dreams that they all saw, not dreams, but the fractal light. - Okay. - They also. - Awesome. - But you did see that cave. So you knew what they were talking about, but you were like, "Oh, that's great." - Yeah, I never. - Just the fact, that was from a few sessions. - Perfect. - But yes, they probably told you everything about that experience though. - Oh god. Well, it seems to be. - We've gone this far. - We have come this far. But I mean, what if someone has altered the light somehow? - I'll trade it, what do you mean? - I don't know, but it feels poisoned or something. If it's similar, but different in a bad way, it's. - It feels like we're just getting ready for a fight. That's what it feels like. Like I feel like something is gonna happen. - I just feel like I can't control it. - Yeah. - It's my fear. - Well, it doesn't feel very Juvenating, does it? - No, no. - But we're not standing in the light right now. I've been waiting. - I can see it. - Eva takes out a bottle of water and just says, "Maybe you're tired and just gives you a little water out of your packs for you too." So. - That's very nice, but. - It's like something my mom would say. - I know. - Just drink some water. - It was fine. - It was a orange slice of the hands of my mom. - It was some yoga. - Just sit on a pot. - It was fun. - You're going to be a good dad one day. - Well. - I got my accent. - Thanks. - Rohana did say that we do something that's some in the light. Maybe this is part of the process. We don't know. - Are we in a passage right now or are we in a room? - Yeah. - You're in a passage. You're pretty far down. It's pretty straight down. So you can see the entrance. So you can see the tiny light of the entrance. And there is more up ahead. And you can tell that there's some other place, similar to when you were in the cave before, the fractal temple on Banyan. You can tell that there's like some light coming in from another opening elsewhere, but just in one direction, a clearer direction. - I think we should keep pressing forward. - Let's just keep going even if it is here, my formed light, which doesn't make much sense, but we have to be sure. - It could be that since you all were in the light before and touched by it, that now it's a part of you. And when you're closer to it, - Like a beacon. - Yeah. - It's sensitive. You're connected to. - Triggers a response of some kind. - Right. - Or something. - Go. - That's cool. - Everybody be on your guard though. - Yeah, Fennell's gonna take out her little stone knife. - All right. - 'Cause she's ready for some chid action. - All right, we all have her staff at the ready. - Oh yeah, great. - My blinging tool. - All right. So you're all prepared to throw down if need be. So you press on, you keep going towards that place where you feel like there's probably another opening of the overlight. And I'm gonna have you three, the pulsating ones, each roll a D10. - Mm. - Mm. - Nice. - Oh nice. - We're bad. - We're bad, we're bad. - Oh no. - Is that a nine or no? - Two? - Two? - Okay. (laughs) - 'Cause it goes to me. - It was a light. - It was a light. - No, great. - It's okay. - Is it a picture of her? - Super dark in the case. - Four. - Four, okay. - So two, four, and nine. So, Fennell, you stop in your tracks. 'Cause this feeling of the overlight has now spiked up and it's undeniable. You strike out. You do mind strike. You didn't mean to, but it just comes out. And luckily you did it from a random branch so it wasn't directed towards anyone, but it was directed towards a wall. And when you do that, the you all would probably notice the sound and the energy of that. You all look to that direction and you see a yellow, what looks like a spectral yellow light version of Fennell. - I don't like it. - Is it still air? Is it temporary? - Whoa, Fennell. - It's there. So it stands there and it's, the light is swirling and it's becoming more and more kind of like, it looks like it reverse dissipates. It becomes formed by the light. The more you look at it. Almost immediately, you had the four. Almost immediately, you had the two. Udo's, you also feel that same thing. There's not even time for you to describe this to your companions. It just overtakes you and you wrathful strike out with the red light just pulsating out of you. And in that direction that you did it, an Udo stands there being formed by dissipated light. And then like, just right after, this is all within seconds of each other. Same thing happens with you. Paroxysm of feathers just leeches out of your body and in that direction, another mod is formed. - I am going to use paroxysm feathers against it. - Okay, so as you start to channel that Chroma, it's like your kid, man. - Each of these, it's an experiment talk mode. - Before you even get a chance to fully channel it, each of your doubles now splits into two. And at that point, we are gonna take a break. - Oh, no! - Oh my god, no! - You can mute your breath as it deserves it. - Oh, I run away, I run away. We'll be back in 10 minutes. Come back here and say, what is going on? - And we are back to Overlight Fractured Paradox Episode Five. - Woo! - Oh my god. - Picking right back up where we left off, we just saw what first was one and then turned into three light doubles of mat, fennel and udos appear in this cavernous place. - I don't like that. - Now, no, no. - No, no. - So someone was about to, I believe you said you were about to use paroxysm feathers. - Try and kill myself. - My devil, yes. - My son, okay, so I'm the first one that appeared, guessing. - All right. - My Chroma child. - Your Chroma child, okay. - So, I'm going to get on. - Go ahead and roll that. - All right. - You're going to, you're going to be chatter. - We'll mite. - Penel's literally going to do the odds. - That's the plan. - Penel's fully out of flower. - Okay. - Okay. - The shatters are one of the coolest mechanics of the game. - All right. - All right, all right, all right. - I've done it again. - I've been trying real hard. - Might be eight. - Almost it. - Ready. - We're almost there. - Are we done? - Well, are you going to get some spirit rewards? Don't get spirit rewards. - Ooh, I got a flare. That's not the end of this situation. - Shatter than over there. - Two successes. - That was a seven. - And a flare, but that means it costs four. - Okay. - And that means-- - That's my first shatter. - Oh my goodness! - Oh my goodness! - What happened? - What happened? - Shatter, shatter, shatter. - You're going to do what you're mad at me. - Oh no, no, it's fine. - Let's do this in-story, because it's very exciting. - Blood, blood, blood. - Okay. - We're all going to shatter at this point. Oh no. - Mm-hmm. - So, Marty-- - Don't threaten me. - How many successes have you been trying? - Two successes. - Two successes. So I'll start this off. So you see this red version of yourself. And then two more appear. And you just go into peroxism. If others you feel the yellow of the will and the red of the might course through you and through the tips of your wings, you just flutter at it. Now, you notice, too, in this that it's not just pure light. It's also fractals. You see these small geometric shapes that are repeating and ever, ever smaller and larger within the light. So it's not just a pure light. It really does look a lot like what you saw in the fractal temple. So now, you got two successes. So this says that's a luminous success. This double is now distracted and must attack you with their next action and must reduce their physical dice by one. So that was successful. - Cool, OK. Now, this also means that we-- Oh, we just skipped over. I'll have you roll initiative, too. - Well, we're at it. - Which dice is that? - So the initiative roll, you're going to do an open test against these doubles. So this will be the skill most applicable to the situation. - Panic. - Which one is panic? Usually perception or intuition. But this is-- you're seeing a reflection of yourself. So I'm going to let you let me know which one do you like to potentially roll. And we'll see if that fits. - I'm going to roll logic. Because the intent was to-- my feeling was that seeing the chroma-- - Oh, right. You did say-- - You separated from us. - Yeah. - Was like I have lost-- Is that chroma separate from me now? Can I still actually use this? - Yes, and you did say that before you accident. You're testing a theory, basically. So go ahead and roll logic. And you don't have intuition perception, yeah? - Folklore, no. - Do it-- - Well, what about wind science? - That's in logic. - Yeah, OK. - And that is-- that's one of your basic trainings that you're experiencing. - And I did get some air on this one so that checks out. - I got some air. - Oh, you're just like the tidy hawk of our people. - Oh, man. - Who do you want? - Love that. - Hold on. - You got 100? - Yes, and then-- - Well, we win the game. - I get something for the one on the open test. - Oh, yes. Yes. Born to fly. So in place of the EGM subscription result of one on spirit tie as one point to spirit pool, you still shattered, though. - I still shattered. - So far. - We have one on spirit points, so I can do it again. - Right. - And talked about the shatter. - It's not as exciting as I want it to be. - Well, that's something about the shatter. I go to sleep. - Any opponent struck by a brilliant success of proxism of feathers is left with bright turquoise colored talons scars upon their face. They remember this encounter in great detail. So from now on, with a brilliant success, I leave people with really cool tattoos on their face. - Oh, not me. - Wow. - Oh, you don't have the tattoo? - Wait, you don't have the tattoo? - That was a-- - Radiance. - So on your corner of your scalp, you've given them, like, wore-- - With a brilliant success. From now on, when it attacks somebody, they will be left with blue talons face tattoos. - Nick! - Oh, that's awesome. - Do you think that's such a simple shatter? - Do you believe? - No, do you. - All right, so, this-- [BLANK_AUDIO] - I also want that. - Yeah, this is your first shatter month as a dinosaur man, a bird man. And you notice that too. You feel there's something, not broken, but there's something very, it feels kind of wrong, but it also feels like there's more rage coursing through your peroxism now. And you do notice that as you very violently hit your feathers across the visage, it breaks apart and you see those fractals kind of fly away. And they're immediately replaced with blue ones. - Cool. - Okay, and so you rolled. - Two successes. - Right, and then, oh, I was gonna have you roll initiative as well. - Oh, yes. - And that's an open tier. - We were doing logic and win-low. - Yes, logic and lore. - You didn't do that yet, right? - I might have. - You did, I'm sorry, that was the two, so it's an open test that we need to do. Remember what the highest. - Oh, seven, I think. - Yeah, it's seven. - Yeah, it's seven, and then the one. - Okay, cool. So, and now I will roll. - Okay. - That's the thing I like about this game. You're always rolling just a ton of dice. - Yeah. - It's so fast. - So fast. - Shatterrun. - Breathe it. - Good one. - Good one. - I get that reference. - Good one. - Yeah, is it Shatterrun? - Shatterrun, dang. - I'm, I'm catching up now. - Okay. - So, so after being paroxysmed in the face. - Wow. - This double looks deep into your eyes. - Oh. - And it lashes out at you. Now, you're going to do a, you're going to do a mental defense. - A mental defense. - Mm-hmm. - So, go with logic and I guess wisdom. - Where is there? - Oh, you're going to do a skill in a virtue. So, since it's mental, you're going to choose one, yeah, you can use logic as the virtue. - And then for skill, resolve. - Resolve, yeah. - Mm-hmm. - Okay, I need to roll multiple T8s, then. - Mental. - One, two. - Dang. - Dang, so it's two successes and one of these. - Oh. - For the highest. Oh, that's good. This is an open T8 was the highest. Okay, so your double, so it's not. - And you got a flare. - So it's nine, right? - Yes, you can add that to your result. Okay, so nine. So your double tries to do the same to you. Try to do the same paroxysmed defense. - You can feel it, you can feel it. - And you can feel it. And because you are, no, you are very grounded right now. And you're scared, but you're like right in its face. And you have the resolve in the face of this weird, scary thing, and you don't move. You just, and you both keep looking at each other as if looking in the mirror. - Like Jurassic Park. (laughing) - So now, because they won initiative, a funnel, one of your doubles. - I was going at them with a flower. What the heck, guys? - Okay, so you held out a flower to this other little funnel. And this other funnel is a yellow geometric light shaped version of you, and it's looking at you inquisitively and kind of smiling. And then. - It's so creepy, but I still want to be its friend. Just like me. Do a mental role. - No. - I'm good at brain stuff. Yeah, I have some brain stuff. I got the brains. I'm going to do resolve as well with compassion, because I'm trying to be their friend. (laughing) - I just want a friend. - A 10. - Yeah. All right, beautiful. Okay. - So you're your funnel. You're welcome. - Double looks at you. - No. - No, no, no. - I'd watch that show. - It looks at you, and it looks down at the flower, and it's just keeps looking between you and the flower, and it doesn't do anything for a while. It just does that. Eudos. (laughing) - Oh God. - Oh no. - You're going to do a physical. - Physical row. - Okay. - So you're going to choose, I know you have might and vigor there the same, right? - Well, no. Might is my D10, vigor is D8, so. - All right, so I'll do might and. - Resistance? - Yeah, resistance. - Resistance? - All right. - Okay. - Okay. - All right. - Nice. - Resist that light to cool. - D8. - Okay, let's go. - Here we go, and then one flare. - Nice. - Got a flare. - No, remember, you're looking for the highest. - Oh, I got a 9. - For no, is this the 10? - Zero zero? - Yeah. - That's zero zero, it's the end. - It's the 10th, yeah. - End of flare, so. - 11. - For yall's lives. - All right. - It's really harsh. - So you're, you're double. And by the way, it's dressed the same way as you, it has the same detail of the mask, but all in this red, fractured, geometrical, tiny detail. And it pulls out its battering. - Bludging tool. - Bludging tool. - Yeah. - Pulls out its bludging tool and raises it towards you. And it misses. - That's right. - It doesn't quite judge the distance very well. (laughing) - I'm bad at depth for something. - Just sat it back. - All right, so now, you all, it's your turn. So you can tell me who wants to go in what order. - You in first. - I did go first. What does evos look like he's gonna do anything? - Yeah, evos is standing there watching. He has a, kind of a staff out and is just like, so far, no one seems damaged, but he's, he'll jump into action. - I mean, they're made of fractals, are they? Is this the light we're looking for? Just in a different form? And then the final is gonna start digging into our pockets and just start throwing flowers at them and dabbling. - Just your action. - Dabbling the whole time. My name is Fennell, and we're gonna be friends 'cause we look a lot alike and you have tributaries. - Okay, you're doing that towards your double, right? - Yeah. - So roll all three of your doubles, yeah? - Are there three of each? - Oh, then yes. - Oh, the split again? - Yeah, at the very, right before the break, that one split into two, so there's three. - Oh, I see what you mean, sorry. Two split off of that one, main one. I didn't say it very well, but that's what happened. - Yeah. - Okay, so roll, resolve, compassion. - Okay, dokey, I can do that. That's an okay, resolve, it's a deal, yeah. - Is this open test or success? - Open test, so highest. - That's a 10, again. - All right. - That's two tens, and a late in the six. - Nice, beautiful. - 10, 10, great 10. - Much 10. - 10 out of 10. - 10 out of 10. - So you 10, you said? - Yes. - Okay, so you are flinging out these flowers, and all three of the doubles are looking at you and just start grabbing for the flowers. (laughs) - Oh, they've been saved. - And they start ripping into the very violently in front of me. - Oh God! - Oh no! - Oh man. - No? Well, as long as it's not my friends, I guess. - Who goes next? - I'll go. - All right, who goes? - I don't want to fight them. I don't think that they're threatening, but I do want to use my Chroma. I want to use visage of terror. - Okay. - This way they'll kind of like maybe chill. - Okay. (laughs) - That's my sweet char. - Chill out, homie. (laughs) - When I see something super terrifying, I'm a really chill. - I would get so relaxed. - Hot bath. - So tell me, what virtues is vigils of visage of terror? Yellow and, I'm sorry, might. - Will and might. - Okay, that's what I thought. - Will and might, I believe. So 3D6, and-- - So that's a-- - 3D10. - 1, 2, 3. - I want to do beast tether, but I don't think this thing is alive. - Okay. - Go for all of them. - Have a 90, yeah. - Yeah, I'll just get the top to rock. - Okay. - You got a 10. - Is that a 10? - Is that a 0, 0? - No, it's just a 1, 0. So that's a 0, right? - Oh, that's a 90. - Oh, that's a 90. - Yeah. - This is a 6, so that's a 9. - 3, 4. - Oh, is that a-- - That's a 9. - That's a 9, too. - Okay. - Okay, how many is that? - Oh. - 4, yeah. - What did you do? Once again, you did this once before in the field, right? - Mm-hmm. - And so-- - In the middle of the field. - The middle of the field. - Where we were in the field. - I almost forgot. I know. - I know. - So you, Crouch, you hunt your shoulders. and your arms kind of fly out from your body. And from beneath your mask, your mask lifts in this terrible, dark, scary shadow monster emerges from it, and it flows towards these three visages. And they look spooked, they stumble back, but then they seem to, they're just, they'd seem pretty frightened. What are the results of your-- Yes, visage of terror. That's number two, the second deer. Because you got four, right? Yes, during combat. No, that's your shadow. Oh, that's not shadow. Sorry, pages your list. 166. I have two, I can look up real quick. Fennel's terrified of you, by the way. Absolutely terrified. It's warranted, I think. Yeah, it's good from-- Man, I really-- Mine was a brilliant, right? It was a brilliant, right? The target is paralyzed with overwhelming terror. Sorry, yours is radiant, actually. Oh, the target will flee the scene if possible. Only returning in your absence. Oh, wow, OK. Oh, I love that. All right, get rid of that problem. Hi, Jennifer. So these three doubles, they start to-- they do, you know, brace themselves, and then two of them just like run into walls. And you can see a little bit of the light fracturing as they bump into the walls. And one of them makes it out the other end of the cape, but the other two are still there, kind of like, very spooked by you. Nice. OK. Us, too. Do you want to shout out at the same time? I don't think we can do that at the same time. Can we shout out at the same time? Well, when you shout out-- One of us-- One of us should shout out to the other person's effecting. Yeah, that's how-- Yeah, whoever shout out to her is so short of use. But they are attacking. They look kind of evil. I'll do a bronze resilience, which I've done before. Compassion and Vigor basically lets me step in front of an ally at any point in the combat for free, depending on how I roll. It'll be that many times. So Compassion and Vigor is D6 and D10. And I've done well on this. All right. All right. Which one is this? I'm sorry. It is bronze resilience page 159. Bronze resilience. I do-- I have three successes, and it costs me two. So Havana, we're down to two. [LAUGHTER] So close-- so close to Shatter. OK, so bronze resilience-- so you start to glow orange. The Vigor starts to course through you. And who do you step in front of? I don't. This is a preparatory thing that for free, at any point in the combat, I can just kind of-- it's like a reaction. Like I can just kind of stand in front of them. So no one yet. OK. It's a preparatory act. Got it. So how many did you succeed with? Three. Three. Three success-- OK. Wait, can I spend one and get four? And that'll be radiant. Yeah. Yeah. OK, we're down to one. [LAUGHTER] So you've got her time. We prepared-- We prepared-- We prepared-- It's more of a free to just spend their spirit. Oh. It says, you can make a single attempt to protect your ally at any point during this combat. Once-- well, it'll be two, because you got radiant. When you do perform skill tests as normal to reduce the damage that you suffer on behalf of your ally, and you may add one to the spirit die results-- two to the spirit die result, because it's radiant. Awesome. In addition, you may roll-- this is really good. You may re-roll failed dice during those skill tests. Cool. Wow. That's a really good-- That's a really good chroma, especially to succeed on. Yeah. That's amazing. OK, so you remember all that? Yeah. Cool. Yeah, if anyone's in trouble, I'll be there. Great. OK. So your homani was glowing orange this whole time. Yeah, and the nice lady, chain-new, turns into-- I mean, this is a spiked teeth beast. Nice. Glowing orange and just like-- I wish I had you. So like a pomegranate in kind of something? All right. Matt or Tuckney, who would like to go next? I'll go. I'm sorry. OK. What happens to all your spirit pool once you've shattered it? Well, you regained one. I regained one during the action. But after you shatter, it's nothing. You don't gain any back. So you could-- oh, what's that? You can always earn them in your roles if you get on the go. Yeah. Yeah. Or you can award them randomly. Wink, wink. Wink, wink. They do have the ability to turn fury points in the spirit points, but we have it in a crewing now. That's also very good for the shatter. I'm going to continue to do experiments. OK. And I'm going to reach out for the thing and try to cast beast tether. I want to see what they see. I want to see how they see us. OK. All right. Give my shatter again. Wait, I'm going to shatter. I have one point. Oh, no. And then the least thing if you got a one on that spirit tether. Does this count as a shatter one for that? Yes. This is a different chromosome now, still a shatter one. It's a shatter. And only one success. So did it, guys. You shatter's in a role. Wow. Holy cow. Swinging for the fences. What is a shatter? Oh, also, they have turquoise on their face. Oh, no, that's only for you. Right. So the team is-- I want them just to-- I just have dope dreams now. Yeah. Oh, really? So your mind and memories will be muddled confused. You will have a fear of this. That's shatter, too. This is my first shatter on vision tether. And they're mine. My nights become filled with visions and dreams of bestial reveries. You're living the experiences you had or might have if you were to live your life as that beast. Yes. So I'm going to have dreams forever. That's frightening. Being a weird chroma creature. Yeah. That's so weird. Because how many successes did you have? Oh, one. OK. Oh. So you didn't-- that actually-- Sorry. You shatter, but you didn't succeed. But I'll still have that. Yes. Yeah. You'll still have that, but you didn't succeed. OK, that's OK. So you try to connect with this beast and you overshoot it, hence the shatter. So you go so far past being able to just see what they see. You now have them in your head. So it's like the dreams you had before, just on constant. You're always having those red, fractal dreams in your brain. Cool. Yeah. All right, so-- Overlight. Talk to me. You look lost and fucked. I'm just so confused as if I've learned danger or not. I'm listening to the money on your shoulder. I just have one Christmas wish. That's all we have. That's all we have. And it's there to shatter. Was that an original composition? OK, good. Is that good as for you? Don't-- Oh, dear. Give me a spirit, darling. Yeah, I'll take it on that. I get a fury point. Oh, OK. You do? You do? Yeah. I remember. Come back. Yeah, you're-- Oh, OK, then we-- Can we share our fury pool? You can have it. I want to shatter. Oh, hell, the void. I think you can share your fury pool. But if you-- I mean, you're still really the one. Right. All right, it's-- We have two total. And also, there is in the book from what I remember, even if you cast the chroma and you have fury points, if you don't have enough spirit points, you still shatter. So the number of fury points will not keep you from shattering. You can use the fury points instead of spirit. It's the little little poll. But yes, you still get your shatter from it. Man, I don't know what to do here. You can pass, or you know, you can-- Well, I feel like what I want to do is to try to communicate with one of them. OK. But I'm also worried about it because they're not my doubles. I guess maybe I could try to communicate with Finals because we're of the same virtue. Oh, great. Right. Because they're will oriented. So great. Can I do something like that? Absolutely. OK. I don't know what you want me to roll for that. But I guess what talk me wants to do is sort of just like slowly approach, maybe like the one in the center. 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New episodes every Friday. Could it be persuasion, then I'm trying to get it to communicate with me here. Persuasion? Persuasion. Oh, I see. Oh, that one. Yeah. Cool. Thank you. Persuasion, wisdom, but if he's telepathically trying to link with someone who isn't me, maybe maybe that's a- Well, last time when we were doing that before it hurt, so I'm okay to take the damage if that's what I need to do. Amy, I don't live by your rule. I don't live by your rules. You're about to shatter mornings. Shatter thirst. Shatter thirst. I've got shatter thirst. No, no, no. Let's be toe that one. And what would this be? Would this be an open test? This is just a- Yes, this is an open test. So my- Sorry, and it's mental because wisdom, right? Yeah. You did persuasion wisdom, so mental. What's your highest? My highest is seven. All right. And no, no flare. Seven, you said? Okay. So you walk over to fennel's counterpart. And you put your hands where in the light place, where their temples are the size of your picture and like sort of trying to gently hold its face and then maybe trying to touch my forehead to its forehead. Okay. And so you're the first person, I think, to really touch. I mean, you sort of touched them, but it was very quick. You're the first person to have like a steady touch on one of these and you feel that it is solid. It has, you know, physicality to it, even though it's light. So as your hands make contact and you put your your forehead towards it, it takes its branches and just latches on to you and pulls. Okay. And what happens? Make a physical role. Oh, okay. And this is another open test again. Don't just touch it. Maybe it's a hug that's what you would do. Yeah. So this is going to be, were you crying my face? Were you crying my face? This is going to be, um, can I do might or vigor and resistance? Because this is purely just right unexpected defense. They might have vigor. This is the same for me. So if you take damage, you know, you don't. And then I'm looking for my top number. Six. Okay. Just the max I could roll. All right. Okay. So you, um, you feel pain as this thing rips into your, your skin and it's basically scratching you the way that if you were to run through a bush, it would scratch you up. It's what this feels like except it's up close and it's a sentient being doing it. Right. Um, so you're going to take one health away. Take it. I'm sorry. My final five. I did it. Should I, should I do my thing and stand on one point? I mean, I don't know how long this battle is going to last. Yeah. Is it automatic if someone gets attacked or something you choose? I choose to do it. I can make an attempt to protect you. And then I perform a skill test this normal to reduce the damage that you suffer. Let's, I don't think so. So that already, yeah, since it already happened and you didn't do it before, let's, we'll make sure next round. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Um, it's not worth it. Kid. It's not worth it. I'm holding her back. All right. No, you take the pain. You should enjoy it anyway. Yeah. Evo was in the front of the party. And so he's probably close to you all and close to, there's one of your guys left. Um, oh, wait, wait. Um, George Clooney didn't go. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's for your time. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. Mm hmm. So Evo said that. George Clooney. How could I say his name wrong to? Um, I called him Evo's, but it's George Clooney. Well, it's called Evo. Say Evo now and say George Clooney. So Evo stepped up towards, um, yeah. Sorry. Brain. Evo steps up towards, uh, one of Fennel's counter part, not the one that you, uh, that attacked you, that you're hugging me a little too. And he has his bludging tool out and he's kind of like hits it at this small, but weirdly ravenous, it's still kind of like eating the flowers. Badger. Yeah. Yeah. And it looked, it's like tearing the flowers apart very violently. Um, and so Evo's bats at it and it does the following. Do you feel a little bit schizophrenic right now rolling? Yeah, I love it. Um, so, uh, Evo's bats at it and sure enough, the, the bludgeoning, the staff just like makes contact. And this thing, um, goes on its side briefly, and then it bounces back up and it says, and it bears it's, it's like claws and it's teeth at Evo's and at you as well. Do we get the sense that we're actually doing any damage to them? This one you definitely now notice that it, it, it like got knocked, it got the wind knocked out of it and it gets back up and it's like, it's mad because of that. So yes, yeah. This is the first one though that you noticed that way. Okay. So now it is their turn again. It's better than the other option. It's our version of the jeopardy music. Yeah. Yeah. Just blood slurping. Oh, you know, blood splurping, mott, fennel and talk me. Hello. Hello. Hello. What are we doing? You're going to make a roll a bit bit, but whatever you, you just rolled for, oh, right. We've done a lot of different rolls. So, um, you're going to do, see you, you and you. You're going to do a physical, mental, and mental, and you want me to roll the same dice I did last time. Yes. Um, can I argue or actually, sorry, I'm sorry, real quick. Instead of resistance though. Yes, resistance. I'm sorry. DM shield. Can I argue for science because I'm trying to piece together how these things are working? Okay. It's about someone argued for science. Is this an open test or? This is an open test. Yes. Seven. Okay. And you're doing a 10. I'm very science. I'm a six. I stopped in front of you. I'm going to do it. I'm a seven friend. I'm a seven friend of talk me. Oh, okay. Um, I'm a little just six. I might not lose. Yeah. Actually, yes. Okay. Since this is, this is their turn. So you do, well, you would only matter if I lost the roll. Okay. Yes. They wouldn't be heading me. Okay. So you what did what did you get? I rolled a six. Okay. Well, I'm ready to do it. Well, well, it does say I make an attempt at any point during the combat. Then I'll let you step in front because it's a waste if I don't get hit. I just want to do it though because I know that for free. Uh, this, this thing now that it's scratched you and has drawn some blood inside me. What? Is that inside me? It's not inside you. Oh, I pin it, too. No, you did not have a reaction. That was the right reaction. I treated it like to picture the little like. The glass? - No, it's not. - The yellow bracelet, it could grow out of new. - It'd be pulled down as if it were like, "Oh, cat!" Like that, do you know what I mean? It didn't dig into you. It just like, and it rakes your shoulders. - Sure, yes. Yes. Okay, so you do have these scratches, and it scratched through some, a couple of those branches did go deep enough to like scratch through your clothes and get you and draw some blood. - No, it's okay. - Now it's not, it's mean, it's accepted. - No! - It's growing inside you don't? - Just think. - I'm pregnant with Will. - So, I'm pregnant with Will. - So, where you can tell your baby he did? - Yeah. - Oh my goodness. - So good. - You've just gotten scratched. Chain new steps in front, and this good thing because this thing again just like reaches out and wants to do the same thing. But chain new steps in front really quickly. - I'd get a nine, but I also get to add two to this, so that's a 10. - Who's that? - It's a two, why? - 'Cause I got a luminous. - All right. - I'm sorry, I got a radiant. I get to add two to my spirit by result. - Wow. - I also get to do this another time, sometime during this combat. - Great. - Anybody got a 10? - So your highest dye result was a 10? - Yeah. - Okay. So, this was very good, very good timing on your part, Chainu, because this mini final counterpart was going with even more force than the first time. And you can feel that force, but your hide, your fur is just, it's strong enough to defend against this attack. - I knew I made the right fashion choice. (laughing) Okay, so we are back to you guys, so final. - Seeing it attack, my friends, I'm immediately going to. - I'm going to go after it, and I'm going to mind strike it. - Okay. - The thing we created it, hopefully we won't find it. - That's the thing, flare. - What did you just roll? - Mind strike? - Oh, okay, sorry, yes. You were talking about science before? - Yeah. - When we were doing our opening role. - Got it, okay. - 'Cause I was trying to figure out what was going on. - Did you tell me what to do more about science? - Tell me about science. - Cool, cool, cool. - Did you wait, did we get the results of that science role? - Yeah, I had 10, or yeah, 10 was my highest number. - Oh, I don't think I told you the result of that. Did I? - Oh, cool. - Tell us what happened to science. - Yeah, so I did not tell you the results of that. - Oh. - Okay, I think it's a good thing. Why are we all scared? - I'm all in the science, I'm all in the science. - Oh my god, what'd you do? - You said result and I got scared. (laughing) - Okay, 'cause I didn't roll for that. I know I didn't roll against you on that. Okay, you got a 10. All right, so. Fennel, you are preparing to do mind strike and looking at these doubles of yourself and seeing the other doubles as well, you have a moment of inspiration and you, something connects for you. You realize that these are really terrible versions of yourself and it sounds kind of simplistic, but it's not, you realize very deep down. This is whatever small fears or doubts or malice that you each have in you. This is as if it was channeled through Chroma and manifested in actual Chroma light. - Oh, this is an anxiety attack. - It really is. (laughing) - Oh my God. - Then do I get the sense that if I attacked my own fears, it wouldn't do anything, but if I helped a friend by attacking their fears, it would do more to alleviate the situation, you know what I mean? Do you need to conquer the fears within yourself? They are inside you! - Gl-I-No! - You get, so you're saying, you're saying, yeah. Like how can I apply that information to this situation? - You realize that the only way to take these out is to take them out. Like there's no, it's not gonna be, you can't, you can't, what's the word? You can't bargain with these. You can't reason, thank you. You can't reason with them. You just have to take these out. - Okay, fight. - And whether it's, you don't really, you know that it just has to be a physical and/or mental, like, you know, your wrathful strike attack against these things. - Just a combat. - Yeah. - Okay, then I, huh? - Do you tell 'em? - Absolutely, yeah, I would tell you guys what it is. - I'm on the ground about your feet, just like, I'll ask. - What? I'm going to, I'm going to use my, my mind strike. - Okay. - Against the one that is on talkma, and it was a success. I'm applying this immediately to the roll. - All right. - I applied my flat. - My flat. - My flat? - My flat. - Does that mind strike a comma? - Yeah. - Isn't that just cost for? - That's how. - I had a, oh. So it costs for, oh yes, I do get a spirit point. - Yeah, so I'm gonna use it immediately. - So I guess it. - Yeah, you can still get an extra success, but it also still costs for. - Oh, I don't, are you sure? - No. (laughing) - Absolutely no, yeah. - I can't concentrate, you are so. - No, it's not using it immediately. - I'm just like, if I'm using a comma, and I roll a flare, it still costs for. - It costs for. - But I can use that flare to bump it up if I have an uneven number, right? - I don't remember that, but do you remember that? - Yes. - I don't think that's your cost. - Okay, then I will cost for, I'm going to, here's this. How about this? - Yeah. - Because you had a very successful science role. - No. - And got a leg up. Who wants a spirit point? - I'm actually, I'm just gonna have a lot of, I'm just gonna have a lot of, I guess. (laughing) - Okay, I'm just gonna let myself shatter. - All right, so you gave that information to the group, you get a spirit point. - Hold her back to one baby. - I wanna say, you can bank your spirit point and still shatter. Just save it, it's like a, we've been in parentheses yet. - We all get one? - Yes. - But don't use it until after you shatter. - Thank you, I would know. - I know, I know, I really like my shatter. - Game studios. - We just really wanna shatter. - We like your flavor text and we run it. - We do, we like your flavor text. - Give me the flavor text in my eye hole. - So what? (laughing) - Okay, my eye hole. - Oh. - So sweet eye hole. - I have so many questions. - Our pupils are literally, they're just like tunnels in our eyes, it's technically eye hole. (laughing) - What the heck? - Sorry guys. - Sorry. (laughing) - Just so, I don't believe you. - She's trying to mind strike this thing and she does successfully, but she burns herself out and the mind strike itself does damage to her a little bit and she gets a permanent scorch mark right in the middle of her forehead. - Oh, it's not eye yet? - Not yet, it's only an eye on three. - What? - We got three. - All right, let's get to the next one. - It becomes a weeping scar, and it just oozes blood. - I can't wait to wear back. - Yeah. (laughing) - Because it's gonna have friendship right there. - Yeah, so if he has a permanent scorch mark right there. - And it happens like it's a spark, right? When the lightning of your mind strike is directed towards this other funnel, it's you all kind of hear a pop and those of you who are looking in that direction, you see like what looks like a small explosion and then that the burn mark is revealed. And then was that a success? - Yes. - How many stood you get? - Not two. - Okay. - It was just what's the first level luminous? - Luminous. - Yeah. - Yeah. - So I believe I do two dim. - Okay. - And you were after the one that was on Takme, right? - And chin. - Oh, I'm sorry. It's a well versus mental open test. - Oh, good, good. - Yeah. - So you do or do not shatter? - I believe it's still the camera. - Yeah, because the cost was, yeah. - Muff. - The roll against. - Good. - I hate her and I hate her. - Oh no. - Shattering. - Okay. - What's that? - I mean, I hope so. - I hope so, I know. - So when I'm rolling this am I only rolling will or can I add like resolve? - Oh, yes, you'll add, you'll roll six dice like a full, or yes. - Am I doing will will? Because it says will versus mental. So specifically for me it is a will. - As part of the chroma, I mean? - Yeah. - I would say six will then. - Okay, dokey. I will take that because that's all 10. - Like, so 10. - Oh wow. - It's just 10. I've done a while. - Yes. - Just in case. - Okay, it's number I could possibly get on the list. - Okay, so you, you're rightful, rightful strikes shoots out. - Mine strikes. - Mine strikes, sorry. - I'm rightful. - Mine strikes shoots out and it hits. - Nice. - And this is the one that was on Tuckmate and Shenu. - It's gonna do two damage. - Oh great, okay. - So you definitely see it weaken. And then you also notice with that success, you notice that the other two versions of it also kind of bristle. - Ooh. - As if they've been damaged as well. - Yeah. - Go after just one! Is there something on my face? - Okay, so you all heard that. All right, don't go after a final. - Yeah, I can go. - Who does? - Yes, I was successful in taking care of two of them. They can just get out of there. - Oh no, sorry, one of them ran off to them. Kind of were butting their heads against the door. They couldn't leave so they didn't, but they, yeah. - So they're still there. - So you still have two Udos is there. - Are they still afraid of me? - Well, what do you do? - I feel like I'm gonna be able to do it. I'm gonna have to use my Chroma. I'll have to use a Raffle Strike to kind of like, I'm sorry, that's my stomach not me farting. - You always say that. - I know, and then, and then, three minutes later. (laughing) - Real suspicious man. - I'm gonna use Raffle Strike. - Striking time. - We're calling it now. (laughing) - Oudus and Sennel are gonna be in the team and it's gonna be called Strike Team. - Strike team. - Strike team. - Strike force. (laughing) - So it's Will and Mike, let's do this. - May a channel of simultaneously roll it before the attack rolls, so you're gonna roll your Chroma first and then your attack. - Okay. - And then the. - And yes, you're rolling Will and Mike's. - What? - What are you doing with my success mate? - You did thisage of terror before, right? - Yeah, that's the one I just did that helped us. Maybe the other one kind of disappear. - Great. - Five, four, four, two, three, four, that's sucks. - So no? - That's pretty bad. - Nothing? - Yeah. - All right. So now do your attack roll. - But what about your reroll? - Do you have a reroll? - I don't think I have a reroll. - No, I don't believe you. (laughing) No for real, just give a reroll. - What do you mean? What do you mean? - Never given us a reroll. - Just selling disk cards. - Wait, wait, wait, wait. Well, she has rerolls for certain. - Oh yeah. - Oh yeah. - I can't. - Wait, what do you remember? (laughing) - Truly an agent, definitely. - I can't wait with a lot of stuff. - Yes you can. (laughing) - I'm sorry, I mean, I'll stop lying. - That's amazing. - That's the one. - It probably is. I mean, - Now I'm not gonna believe anything. - That's the way. - Whatever. - You can trust the rest of us. It's just, what do I do now? - You're just doing an attack roll. You're from fail, you're not able to, I think you're just booked now. So, you see what's happening with fennels, doubles, and you're just a little spooch. So, you just make an attack. What kind of attack would you like to make? You can hit them with your, - Yeah, I'm gonna hit them with that. - You can punch them with that. - Kick them, whatever. - Blungening, cool. - All right. - You shouldn't let me go for it. - Yes. - Go ahead and roll for that. So, I'm gonna guess, you're gonna. - My D10, right? My mic. - My D10. - And, resistent, no bra. - Yeah, bra, yeah. - Very good. - Brawl in the day, one, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. - My in, bro. I don't think it has blood. - Oh, that's what I'm talking about. - Oh! - You can re-roll that. - It's a fractal overlay, yeah. - Good, let's see. - All right. - I see a six and a seven. - Six and a seven and an eight. - And that one's a seven as well. - Oh, that's a two and a seven. - That's a two and a seven. - I'm sorry, I can't believe any of you. - It's just poison the well. - That was three, right? - It wasn't a well, that sounds like fun. - No, it's not me. No, it's a boy talking to me. - Oh, no. - All right, that was three, right? - Yes. - Okay, so you're not able to channel your chroma in this chaos, but you do lash out again at the closest Udo's double with your bludgeoning tool. It makes contact and you had three, so that's three points of damage. - Okay. - So on your Udo's. - And that is the first bit of damage that one has taken. - Okay. - There's two of them, right? - There's two of them total, right? - That's right. - Mm-hmm. - All right, Chanoo. - Yes, I am hooting my turn. I'm ready to cough something, but we'll see what it is. - All right, off to-- - Well, I'm not gonna cause damage. I'm just gonna have it. - All right, you do what you do. - Okay, so Mott is next. - Oh, Mott's next. - Technically, yeah. - Oh, okay. - In the order that we went last time. - All right, then I am going to attempt to take to the air and leave my double alone and head for the one that Udo's just took us to the end. - Okay. - And so I'm gonna roll wind-lower and might. - Okay. - One's success. Just one success. All right. - Should I add her again? - That is a damage. - Oh, this is just a regular combat role, right? - Yeah. - So I need to roll against her. Udo's, right? - Yeah, well, I'm going up against the Udo's double. - Yes. - No, you're talking Udo. - You're talking Udo. - I couldn't tell you what to do for this. - Oh, it's the highest die though. - If it's verse, yeah. - Just in combat, just making attacks is not doing anything special. It's just you justify the role and then the successes are equal to the damage. And if you get a four. - So it was not an open test type of combat role? - No. - There was just literally hitting it with the whip while flying, so. - Great. - Did I have a spirit point? - Yeah. - I'm such a pushover. Take one. - Yes. - I have stop it. - Stop it. - Can I have that? - Havana. - Can I roll? - Can I roll? - I'm getting it. - She shatter. - You're going to. - You're going to have to go past this. - No. - Okay. - Just setting it up. - What are you setting up? - Thank you. - Yeah. - Just skill test. Great. Thank you. My brain. All right. - If you roll with where you can add, you get an automatic spirit point. - Yes. That's right. - The spirit dice roll that matters. - So you were, what was your number of? Did you roll already? - One success. - One success. So. - Oh, damage. - It's probably like a 12 foot ceiling. So you can get some air up here, but not much. And you go after this Udo parallel, one of them, and your whip kind of like wraps around its neck, but then it just like pulls it off. - Okay. - Okay. - Talk about it. - Thanks. Okay. Talk about is going to use her Chroma crushing emptiness. - Nice. - Oh. - We've got the final target we've been working with. - That's compassionate, nice. - So let's see how it goes, folks. - Yeah, it's a full. - Great for me. - What if these finals are already empty inside? - They are. - Zero hearts. - How much did it cost them? - Two. - That's a shattered. - Yeah, huh. So now you're at zero though? - We're at zero. That's sort of shattered. - All right. You're on the right where? - You're hurting me so much. - This is for that, no, never mind. Just kidding. Don't listen to me. - There's no shattered. - Okay, I mean, just don't listen to that last thing. - Okay, never listen to you again. - Okay. - Okay, now it's my turn. Are any of them three of the points are lower? - Wait, you already had your turn. - No, I held her out. - Oh, you did? Sorry, yes, we were good. - Righto. - Righto. - I should have. Yes. Now are any of them? - Can I make it easy for you? - Thank you. I'm about to shatter, and I got worried. - How many health-- - How many health-- - Yeah, you did. How many healthy points do these, baby's health? - Yeah, so are any of them three healthy points or fewer? - So, Mott's doubles are at full health, just FYI, 'cause there hasn't been a good connect yet with them. - That's why I flew away like a real brave boy. (all laughing) - Full of waves of Mott, we really flew away. - Bennel's doubles have taken some damage, as well as Buddhosis have taken some damage. - I would say, in terms of their whole health scale, fennels are the lowest. - Well, at three. - And they're not at three successes. - They're not quite at three yet. (both laughing) - Okay. - At the-- - It's beta. - Okay, fine, but I want to-- - Smack 'em around. - No, I want to come on, and I want to shatter. - You still have Mott that haven't been touched yet. - Okay. - If you want to just, you know, yeah, beat 'em up. - All right, well, I do. I also really want to shatter, but I don't know that I have anything else. I can heal, I can defend, and I can see the unseen, and I can cough some blood, but I can only cough blood if they get through your fever. So I guess-- - You can actually-- - Oh, you want to shatter, right? - Yeah. - You know, but it will make me shatter. - Mono punches. - Is anyone hurt, real bad? - No. (both laughing) - Just put me killed. - Okay, I'll blow up what's happening. - No, no, if you're, I could shatter if I tried to heal you. - I know that ultimately shattering is bad in game, however. - Yeah, it's so fucking cool. - Do you know what a shatter is like in game if it's never happened to us before? - You've heard that it happens to people. - But also, I need you to decide soon or we can come back to you next. - No, I'll just attack 'cause I can't do anything else. - How'd you put it? - Yeah, I'll brawl, I'll brawl me, I'll brawl in my-- - All right. - I guess I'll do the one that I blocked. - I blocked, um, talk me in front of them. - Okay, cool. So that's the final double. - Yes, the final double. - All right. Is this, sorry again, is this open VU? - So if this is just a straight attack, then it's like a skill test and we'll see how many successes you do. - Two, you have two successes, all right. So you are able to connect, you brawl, right? I brawl with my, well, yeah, with my ornamented staff. - Okay, so you take a whack out of this fennel counterpart and it like, gleefully and creepily chuckles at you, but it, yeah, you can tell it's like a blast. - It's like the kind of, it's like when in an action movie the villain gets hit and it's like, there's some blood and it's like, ooh! - I don't like that, it doesn't, okay. - But you did knock some, some, uh, juice af. (laughing) - Some probably juice, that was two successes, right? - See, that's what I look. - That's what I look. in my mouth. - All right, so now it's their turn. - Graeme juice. - Braising. - Braising. - There's no good way to say anything in the next two. - Braising? - There's no good way to say it. - Yep. - That's not really sad. - You have her face. (laughing) - You should get tested. - No! - It's no good way to say things. - You should get tested, which camera is mine. - It's important. - How many times should you wake? - Okay. So Evos has noticed that the flying things have not been touched and he's tall. So he reaches up and whacks at one of the months. - One of the months. - One of the Chroma doubles. - We're gonna have to grab the like one and swipe it into the ground. - Boom. - He knocks it into a wall and it takes some damage by being knocked into the wall. But then it recovers a little bit. If they only have my abilities, they're very harmless. So we shouldn't be worried about them. - I will give you, well, nevermind. (laughing) - Some girls really well next time I'll give you some info about them. - Okay, so they're gonna go real quick and p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p. - You're talking? - Yes. I don't want them to come at me. I want them to leave me alone. - I'm trying to tell Aliza a tack and she's a little big. - Okay, so Fennel, who's facing against them? The Fennel? - Yeah, you all have them near you, right? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Okay, so Fennel and Mott, and sorry, Fennel and Mott and you two all take one health because the ones, there are Fennel ones near you three and then Mott, you had, you're near the Udo's. - So you two, sorry, I'm sorry, you take two then if you're near the Udo's one. - Dang, I don't follow bones. This is not her character. - Boy, so these doubles, they just, now you see them. This is the first time any of them has really damaged you, right? Is it? - Well, you've been damaged by them, yeah. - I've been raped. - You were raped by them. - Raked, raked, raked all. - Make sure. - Yes, scratched, raked. - But now they all kind of, like, lash out at all of you, the Fennels do that same, like, bush, rake, mall thing to all of you. - That's the deal with that. - And then the Udo's pull out their bludgeoning and they just bat at the both of you. You see it coming a little bit, so you would have taken more damage, but you saw it coming a little bit. - Okay, so wing me and I'm very sad about that. - Yeah, it hurts your wing a little bit. Okay, so now we're back to Fennel. So I'm going to just use my small stone knife to come at one of them. Can I argue for Will because she's so scared but she's trying to push past her fear to help her friends? - Yeah. - Because she's seeing, like, very scary versions of herself attacking her friends and Fennel's a delicate little baby. - Oh, that's a beautiful bean. - That's a beautiful one success. I got one. - Okay, so you were lashing, what were you doing? I'm sorry. - I had my little stone knife and I was just going at one of them. - Okay, so you were going, so in this moment, Fennel, you, yeah, you realize this is kind of trippy. You're seeing a version of yourself that represents all of the bad things that you don't like about yourself and that are, like, not good and dangerous to you and to others. You're seeing it last out against your friends and your family or party members. That doesn't feel good and it doesn't quite drive you as much as you would have wanted because you reach for it with your knife and you just don't. It catches your arm even in a, like, bathed away. - I actually use my one spirit point to bump it up to a success. - Yes. - Okay. - Okay. - You only have one left. - Yeah, I only have one so now I'm at zero. - So then, and this is, so this is, in this moment, it baths away your hand and then you're, you, you, it was trippy for a second and now you're like, I'm mad. My friends are in danger. - So you transfer that knife to another brand and then you make another swipe at it with your knife. - Yeah. - And how many, oh, you didn't have any? - So it would have been, it would have been one and then I added one with a spirit. - Okay. - So you do two damage and I am informing a certain homonium. - You're informing me? - Oh, yeah. - I'm not in a hero, am I shattering? You didn't do a Chrome. - I can do a Chrome. - The no. - Okay. - Next time you do a Chrome I, you will likely shatter. - It's okay. - Well, I don't have any spirit points so I can't do it. - Yes. - All right. So let's move through. Try to get the us, Udos. - Yes. - What would you like to do? - Oh, man, I think I have to do another raffle strike because, um, 'cause she won't be shatter. We all shatter even further because we all shatter. - Yeah. - Yeah. Shatter is really cool. I just have to go. - We're all dreams now. - I have a little scorch mark on my face. - Emi's is not cool. Mine's too much. - Mine's too much. - Mine's too much. - Mine's too much. - Mine's too much. - Mine's too much. That's very exciting. - See you. - Okay, so I'm gonna do, uh, will and might. - Awesome. - Will and might. - All right, so yeah, again, you're gonna do the Kermarol and then the attack roll depending on your success. - Okay. - Got this. - I hope so. - And so you are facing off against, go ahead, um, you're facing off against the other Udos. - One? - Yeah. - The other Udos is, I should say. - That's four. - No. - Did you say nine? - Two. - Two successes. - All right. - And then this is two years. - Now I do a comment for us. - Yeah. - Mm-hmm. - Um. - That is a luminous, two successes. - Can I do? - You will, okay. - Oh, go ahead. - Oh, yeah. It's just gonna be an attack roll. So I would say might and brawl. - Okay. - Um, nice. - Let's do it. - Might and brawl. - 3d8. - You and I are beefy. - We are, dude. - We're like, you know what I'm saying? - Boys and girls. - Yeah. - I'll be a beefy boy. - It doesn't matter. - It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. - It's a good alliteration. - The alliteration is very satisfying, dude. - 8, 7, 9, 7, 9, 7. - Oh. - Oh. - All right. So now, because you had a luminous success on that raffle strike, you're gonna deal one extra. - You can bump it up. - So you're just saying. - 3d8. - 3d8. - You can bump it up before. - You got. - Nice. - Okay. So basically, take one spirit and then bump it up to four. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Yeah. - I got six in the pool. - Oh my god. - Oh my god. - Oh my god. - Oh my god. - That was enough. - I had two there, right? - Wait, what was that? - I got one, so now I'm at two. Right? - Three. - Three, it sounds like. - Well, no, because I'm going to use that one spirit point to bump it up to another. - So no. - You were at six before. - The cost. - Five, four for the two. - Yeah. So at three, if you want to bump it up to four. - Yeah, right. I want to bump it up to four. - So you can light it up. - So now I'm at three. - Okay, okay, okay. I'm on bad. I was taking away two. - So now he's doing four to four. - Four to four. - Okay. - Four to four. - You went from five to four, basically. - Okay. - So you're Udo's, right? - Yeah. - Yeah. - Yeah. - So you also, in a moment, similar to what Fennel just went through, you're looking, you're staring into your own face and you feel this, um, acrid thing that it's the things that, as you were growing up, unveil the things that any teenager would, you know, feel self-conscious about. Um, it's the things that you brought into adulthood that maybe aren't helpful or healthy for yourself or other people in light physical form. And you just whip out at it with everything you got, you deal four damage, you said? It connects. And this thing is you tear it shoulder, light shoulder off. So it's like-- - Whoa! - It scatters? - Yes, it does. - So the shoulder, like scatters in the fractal light and you see it floating away towards the pathway. Um, and by the way, you would notice this, it's kind of, I'll give you like an instant perception right now. You notice as you watch the light shoulder float away, you notice the same fractal that you saw in the temple. This is the temple you realize. - Yeah. - You're in it right now. - Oh, we're in it. - So we are in it. - We are in it. - We are in it. - Okay, so. - Chenu. - Yes! - Okay. - Oh, come on. - I got it! - I got it! - I got it! - I got it! - I got it! - I got it! - I smell this animal or this being is near death, and I will go off. It's juicy, chroma essence. - You're had some, I smell it! - Yes! - Yes! - Three successes so far! - And then another one, four successes! Successful and it cost me for what I've already had zero it's a it's a a flare so you get to bank it if you want not during not very old. Oh my cost Just the cost to hear it comes, but like what if she just like that? Don't really I got for that is radiant. I can raise my brawler might rating by one level until the end of combat also if I'm successful the opponent. No, I immediately perform a brawler. Blades test, that's okay, but Ray, I can immediately raise it. I can raise it. I may raise my brawler, mate. One level, that's under 12. Oh my god. All right, D12. I'm pulling the D12. D12s and D8s, and there's no way, there's no way dice that I can't beat this. Okay, one, two, three, four, four successes on my brawler check, because I grab the yellow fennel, and I take it into my mouth. It is everything I wanted it to be, and I take it by the shoulders too, and I jump down, and immediately as I shatter my teeth, as I suck its blood, finally they slowly fall out, and in replacing them, grows in rows, upon rows, upon rows, of needle-like fangs. My mouth has turned into the Yomari, the Yomari cavity. Oh my god. No, just your mouth. You have to turn into a shark. No, no, no. Oh my god, that's terrifying. How do you make this happen? But try and scare, you're giving it a shark. Get a shark in your mouth. It dies. You guys dang, dang shark mouth. It is no. It's going to shark mouth, because it's not teeth, it's just needles. You feel this shatter, and this is some, again, this is your first shatter, and now your bond made, so you feel it as well, and you notice there's one very sharp pointy needle tooth in your mouth. Oh, and your mouth. Oh no, Haviana. I'm so mad at you. It's normal. You take a normal, like, one stable tooth. Super sharp. What are you going to do? I like to roll wind lorin logic, and just dip out down the passageway, and try to get farther in, farther in, into the temple. Okay. It's back, so just so you know, the, you are in the temple. This, this entranceway was, you're in the temple, you're here. You see the fractals, you're going, you want to go towards the fractals, you mean? Yeah, I want to go deeper in. So back towards the entrance. We're still like a 12 foot. Leaving us. Yeah. What's up with that? So the fractals are coming from the entrance, the way you came in. So you want to go that way, right? Is that what you're saying? We're the fractals floated off, too. Yeah. That's, that's the, well, I want to go to war, like, I want to go deeper into the tunnel where, like, I want to go farther in, and see what's going on. So you can, you don't have to use that as an action. You can just go, you don't have to roll for that. You just go deeper into the tunnel. Okay. And you're looking for, I want to see what's going on. Like, I, I want to see what's around and be, I want more space to fly. Okay. So you go deeper in. I know this is a bad idea. You go deeper into the tunnel. And you do feel like, you yourself feel more distant from the chroma energy in this direction. And that's pretty much it. You don't see anything different or, okay. So, more cave, more tunnel. So as I like, fly further in, I don't get any sense of anything. I can't see anything. It's still just more tunnel. Yeah. There's no fractals or anything over here. Keep going because I screw this. Right. Okay. Then I am going to, like, I fly off in the hopes of, like, discovering some sense of something, like, further into the tunnels or exploring, like, maybe this is just to block our path. When I realize it's not the case, I turn around and, um, I'd like to use might and win lore and just, like, body tackle. All right. One of the, the chroma doubles in front of who does. Okay. So the Udo's one. Okay. Yeah. It's another straight attack. We'll see what we get. Heart of the dice. Do you say heart of the dice? That's a door. How'd it go? Two successes. All right. All right. Just a one. That's not a seven. I see an eight and a six from here. Yeah. And what is that? A one over there? Yeah. Okay. All right. See? So two successes. That's a luminous. Um, so you fly back in and you, uh, have gained, you're now gaining, um, momentum because you had a longer track to fly. I wanted to think that I did the charm purpose. I wasn't thinking about leaving. So you, you kind of, yeah, you dive bomb into this right at one of the Udo's this head. And I'm gonna, uh, you, oh, yeah, you succeeded. So, uh, you had two. Yeah. So then, yeah, you, this is the one that already had its shoulder removed. So you whack it in the head and it just kind of stumbles. And now it's really discombobulated. It's head even like, oh, it's almost backwards head now. And it's just like real, it's real messed up. Okay. When I write myself, I go, sorry. This does look like your friend. So it's a little weird. Okay. Talk about, uh, I'm just going to perform a regular combat test. I'm hoping to use my virtue and my bra to use my staff as sort of trying to charge it with my chroma without expending. You're doing, sorry, you're doing a chroma test or no? No, a combat. Got it. Go ahead. Uh, did it, and so since we shattered, are we back at zero now? Oh, great. Okay, cool. But you're just doing a combat test. Yes. Okay. But that was going to say if I had one, I guess I could risk it. You don't have any points. You did have one. Oh, wait, hold on. Before you roll, you did, then never mind. Go ahead. Yeah, we did. Okay. Okay. One, two, two points of damage. All right. And you're going after, uh, uh, uh, the one advancing the final copy. So that one was cost. Okay. Oh, you know what? Thank you. You reminded me, um, I didn't describe that to you because this is important. Um, you once you coughed and your needle, needle teeth came in, um, that final light version just dissipated away in fractals, and it filled the cave and then dissipated and the other two sank into just dissipated and fell apart. So those are gone. Final is gone. The not this panel. The bad panel. So you, so you can go after one of the mods or one of the Udo's just, uh, I know that one of the Udo's is taking a hit. So yeah, oh, I should actually, sorry, let you know that Udo's one of the Udo's is at three. The shoulder wreck and the, uh, it's at three. Oh, thank you. Never mind. Yeah. I'll just hit the Udo's. Okay. The Udo's is at three. Yeah. I mean, you can't do it again. We don't have any skill points. No, we don't. Um, so I'll go ahead and just flip around and try and talk me a little swing down her staff on, uh, trying to kind of cut through the center of that Udo's. Okay. By the way, you can do it again. You'll just shatter again. Oh, go for it. And you can, well, he'll start with a hit point off. So I'm only hitting it for two and she said it's okay. Oh, okay. Okay. Um, so you, or, or we can shatter and I can bump the score? No. If I use extended to skill points, skill to XB, you mean, or what's good points? Spirit points. To up the, um, damage on the roll. Can I do that? Spirit points. Yeah. What did I say? Skill points. But you're out of spirit points, right? Right. But you said if we used them, it would just shatter again, right? Right. So if you do another chroma, then, and you have no spear points, and you will, you'll shatter in whichever chroma that you do. Oh, but also combat maneuvers to experience points. So I think you would shatter again. That's a good question. Let's say that you would not shatter, but you, I think you can't do it. I'll make this easy and I'll just whack him for the two points we've previously decided. Alright. Cool. So did you, did you already roll on that? Sorry. Two points. Yeah. Two points. Okay. So then, um, two heavy points. Ten points. And then, I made a point. So this is, this is, um, this is the Udo's that you're hitting, right? So two points. Fake Udo's. Not real Udo's. Yes. This one. So this Udo's is like real destroyed. And the other Udo's is just kind of watching confused. And you can see it's sort of taken the damage mentally in a way. It has, it doesn't physically do the same thing, but it's, it's, you know, they're both pretty bad in bad shape. So now, unfortunately, we have to stop. Oh my god. But we will pick back up next time for episode six. Um, thank you all for watching. Check us out next week. Our final episode, we're going to finish up this combat. And then what will happen? I don't know. We'll see you next week for Overlight Fractured Paradox. Bye. Bye. It's the love of the game. The call of glory that drives us to build fantastic worlds, yet some grow darker than others. Dark Dice is the horror D&D podcast diving into the depths of madness and the corrupt divine. We share a world of terrors with wayward souls who dare risk their characters at our table. Enhanced with narrative editing and immersive soundscapes, each season travelers embark to dark corners of our world. And they will never be the same again. Find Dark Dice, Rev. 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