Chos3n - Rule Six: Choose to be Chosen

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign. Okay. [00:00:21] Speaker B: Welcome back, everybody, to our final episode of Chosen A Tunnel Goons Adventure. What a ride it has been so far. Like, kind of sad about it being almost over, but luckily you have a whole nother hour of content before you have to truly say goodbye. For now to Tunnel Goons. Teehee. Lucky you. Lucky us. We're all lucky here. Yeah, smiley face emoji. [00:00:48] Speaker C: We all float down here. [00:00:52] Speaker B: Hey, that's up to you guys. [00:00:54] Speaker D: I don't know about you. [00:00:54] Speaker B: You don't swim, apparently. [00:00:57] Speaker C: Maybe I can float, though. [00:00:59] Speaker A: Lant has so little body mass. [00:01:02] Speaker C: No, he's screwed. [00:01:03] Speaker A: But he just panics, and all of the tension makes him weigh 50 pounds. [00:01:10] Speaker B: Rough. Previously on Tunnel Goons. Our heroes found themselves an elevator of sorts and watched an interesting story unfold before them of two individuals, one who, upon seeing the not so good things that the world has to offer, turned to attempt to get a clean slate and start things over. It seems as their little story wrapped up, they met a woman made entirely out of water, who tried to sow seeds of doubt and fear into them, calling out lines from the prophecy directly telling them that she's trying to keep them safe. All kinds of mixed signals happening here before she lunged for Bud, their flower shattering its pot and its lantern casing and leaving our heroes with a faltering light as they reach the top of Mount Winet. And that is where we will pick up. Right here, right now, before you. There is this stony, bare expanse before you. You see maybe about 30 yards out before it just seems to drop into nothing but storm clouds. You are seemingly right in the middle of this. This tempest, as it were. All around you, there is pelting rain coming down almost sideways with the force of these gales blowing all around you. Lightning flickering across the sky, roaring winds, just the whole nine yards. This is the storm to end all storms. And you are all sort of tucked in this elevator spot for a moment. Ant cradling Bud in his cloak. What would you all like to do? [00:03:09] Speaker A: Oh, boy. [00:03:11] Speaker D: Anyone got a plan? [00:03:14] Speaker C: So we. We, like, probably can't stay in here, right? [00:03:17] Speaker A: No, no, we gotta go. [00:03:18] Speaker D: No. [00:03:19] Speaker C: Cool. All right. Yeah, just. Just checking. [00:03:22] Speaker A: Sorry about your lantern, Finn. [00:03:25] Speaker D: Oh, it's fine. We can replace it. It's all good. Just be careful of the broken glass, you guys, as he sort of is like, making sure that there's none near anyone's feet. I mean, if we want, maybe whoever wants to plant the plant can come out after the other two, just so that way we can try and hold some stuff off or Distract whatever is out there. And then do we. [00:03:51] Speaker C: Do we even know, like, where exactly is there a big, like, X marks. [00:03:55] Speaker D: A spot, I'm assuming in dirt. [00:03:59] Speaker A: I was thinking, like, the highest point. [00:04:02] Speaker C: We're not at the highest point. [00:04:04] Speaker A: No, I mean, like, tip top of the mountain. [00:04:10] Speaker C: I think we probably all have to go then if we're not there yet. [00:04:14] Speaker B: How far is it rough from where you are? Looking outside ahead of you, it doesn't seem like there is anything higher to go to. There could be something kind of behind where you are or climbing on top of the structure that you're on now. That could be something as well. But in the immediate area, you are not seeing any higher ground. [00:04:41] Speaker D: Before we sort of start heading out, I think Finn is going to look at them both and say, I. Y'all are gonna have to go with me on this right here. I think she was right. I think that this prophecy could have been about anybody, but. And I don't know if this is how it works. I think I am going to choose to be chosen, and I think it would be really cool if you guys chose to be chosen too. You don't have to, but if you want to. [00:05:22] Speaker A: I think I kind of chose a long time ago, in a way, accepted it. It's kind of choosing. Yeah, I mean, choose to be chosen. [00:05:33] Speaker C: We all showed up, right? So that's making a choice. And we took the plant and ran. That's another choice. I feel like all we've kind of done is made choices in the direction of this mountain. So one last choice, huh? Go, plant bud. [00:05:57] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:05:58] Speaker A: And who says it's fate or prophecy that chose us and not us? [00:06:04] Speaker C: Now that I am thinking about, though, there was a giant rainstorm, and I would really hate if it was like that lady, that water lady who, like, wrote out the prophecy for me. That would really suck. That would really kind of bring a damper down on it, on everything about how I feel. [00:06:23] Speaker A: So you think she would write a prophecy to bring you here and then stop you? [00:06:28] Speaker C: That sounds like a prophecy kind of thing. I don't know. You two are more in the. The prophecy world than I am. I was out in the desert, in the room. In the dunes of Ruin. All right. [00:06:38] Speaker D: In the dunes of Ruhn. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we got it. You're a dune rune dude. [00:06:45] Speaker C: Mm. [00:06:46] Speaker D: Cool. All right, well, let's make sure our island maybe doesn't flood and wipe out our civilization. [00:06:53] Speaker A: Sounds great. [00:06:54] Speaker C: Yeah. No desert wouldn't be a desert anymore, and I'd really hate that it would. [00:06:58] Speaker D: Not no, it would very much not be. It'd be like an underwater desert, which I guess is just sand, an ocean. [00:07:06] Speaker C: I think I saw one of those. It looked an awful lot like a desert, but it wasn't. It was a lie. [00:07:13] Speaker D: Oh, so that's where it looked familiar. Okay. [00:07:16] Speaker C: Yeah. Gotcha. Gotcha. All right. Okay, well, I guess I'm gonna try to, like, really tie. Should I. Should I really cover up Bud? Like, he seemed to really not like the water, so, yeah, he's gonna have to get wet eventually when we plant him in the ground. But for now, maybe not. [00:07:38] Speaker D: I think we just need to be nice to each other and be nice to Bud and not to be all, like, like, cheesy about it, but it's like the hero's light, whose. Whose light has shown. And, like, maybe the light is like the friends we made along the way. [00:07:59] Speaker A: You know, I think that makes sense. [00:08:02] Speaker B: Episode title right there. [00:08:07] Speaker C: I I. Yeah, we can say that. I did think it was the actual light coming from Bud, but it's also very possible. It's so. [00:08:17] Speaker A: I mean, I always kind of thought that part was about me. Not to, like, sound conceited. I was literally named after that part of the prophecy. [00:08:26] Speaker D: Oh, that can be your part. [00:08:29] Speaker A: No, no, no, no, no, no, no. [00:08:31] Speaker D: It's fine. It's fine. I'm gonna take out silver lining and have my sheet pan in my other hand. Just sort of be ready to go. [00:08:46] Speaker C: Yeah. I'm gonna get. Get a good grip on my plant that's in a cloak and get ready to step out into the storm. Very exciting. [00:09:01] Speaker A: I'm gonna take my ore out of sport mode and make it an intel. [00:09:06] Speaker B: Or mode, so it's wider, so it's ordinary mode. [00:09:11] Speaker D: Whoa. [00:09:13] Speaker B: Oh, thank you. [00:09:15] Speaker A: Thank you. [00:09:15] Speaker B: I'll be here all week. [00:09:17] Speaker A: And that's the section. [00:09:21] Speaker B: We can wrap. Any other final preparations before you find yourselves out in this storm? [00:09:31] Speaker C: I got a weather vane. I could see where the wind is blowing. [00:09:37] Speaker A: It is blowing from. [00:09:39] Speaker C: It is. It is going. I don't think it's gonna. Antleg thinks about it and then is like, no, it is not gonna tell me anything. I don't know. It's stormy out there, so, yeah, I guess we're just going for it. [00:09:53] Speaker B: Okay. You step out, and I don't think any of you have ever felt a wind quite as strong as this before. It takes a moment for you to find your footing. Slippering against something slippery. [00:10:08] Speaker C: Slippery. [00:10:09] Speaker B: Yay. Awesome. It takes a minute to find your footing as you kind of slip across these Wet rocks that have just been pounded by this onslaught of rain and precipitation. It takes you a moment, but you're able to kind of steel yourselves as you kind of step out and away from this little mound where the elevator sort of popped up and into. As you kind of look around, it's a very kind of bleak sight. The limited glow of Bud can only illuminate so much. And most of what you see is from these flashes of lightning. You see a ruined building with logs and stone sort of strewn about. Various sort of pipes and like cylinders, discarded bits of broken glass strewn about. Strewn and room. As you're kind of staring out and looking at all of this, one of the things that really catches your eye is like a faded golden yellow painted door that seems to be not in perfect condition but has stood from much of the weather. Could I have. Actually, can I have everybody make me an erudite check, please? A difficulty of 10. [00:11:40] Speaker A: That's not gonna do it. [00:11:45] Speaker B: Six. [00:11:46] Speaker D: I also die. Eight. [00:11:50] Speaker B: An eight. [00:11:51] Speaker C: Nine. [00:11:52] Speaker B: A nine. Okay, that's a. Okay. This is just to give you some additional information. So I will let you come to whatever conclusions you come to on your own. Oogie booga. Ooga booga. You sort of look around at this sort of top area. There is like one spot that seems to be just a little bit higher from the rest of sort of this top of the mountain. Sort of in the center of the ruins of this building, there's a steeply mounded pile of what was dirt but is now just slick thick mud sort of oozing and dripping small rivers kind of starting to run down it as this torrential downpour just continues pelting down upon this mountaintop. [00:12:42] Speaker A: I was gonna ask the sky reader's door was also yellow, right? It was. [00:12:47] Speaker B: Is there a connection? Seems an odd coincidence. Okay, awesome. [00:12:55] Speaker A: That's it. [00:12:57] Speaker B: Right? [00:12:59] Speaker A: That's what's on my brain. [00:13:01] Speaker C: Do we see any creatures? Any of them little stormlands around? [00:13:07] Speaker B: Yeah. Kind of taking a moment to take stock of the movement around you. You do see not necessarily any that are landed on the mountaintop, but you do see kind of those bright beam like eyes sort of blinking From a little farther down some of the other peaks, you can see those flashing lamp like eyes and you hear that kind of chittering thunder sound that they seem to make as well. While there aren't any immediately in the area though. [00:13:41] Speaker C: And yeah, I think Ant's just gonna hunker down against the wind and try to find the direction to the top of the peak because that's where you suggested we go. [00:13:55] Speaker B: Yeah. So the highest point. Point does seem to be this, like, mud mound in the center of the ruins of this house. The house is kind of like up a little ways. Well, quote, quote, house up a little ways. And then there's this sort of heaped up dirt pile in the middle there. It's higher even than the elevator dome that you rose out of. So that seems like that's where you want to be. [00:14:20] Speaker A: That seems pretty perfect. I've played video games. [00:14:24] Speaker C: Is it glowing? No. [00:14:28] Speaker B: But there is like a nice yellow kind of paint mark to indicate that it's. [00:14:33] Speaker C: That it's. You can interact with it. Yeah, it's interacting. [00:14:39] Speaker B: Where you need, like the yellow guiding lines to let you know. [00:14:42] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:14:44] Speaker C: I think Ant's gonna kind of look at everyone, be like, we plant Bud. Okay, great. It's gonna kind of carefully unfold the cloak because it's also yellow. Isn't that cool? Coincidence. And slowly try to move as much dirt. Trying not to cut himself on the glass that he probably also scooped up when he grabbed Bud and put them kind of on top of this dome of dirt and tuck them in. How you tuck in plants, you know, Ant infamously is really good with dirt and plants. Yeah, exactly. [00:15:34] Speaker B: Yeah. As you. Oh, please. [00:15:37] Speaker A: I was just gonna ask if Bud has lost any lights that should be right replenished or is Bud at full brightness? [00:15:47] Speaker B: A wonderful question. Bud has seen better days. The two leaves that kind of branch out from the stem, one is just kind of hanging on by a couple of fibers. There are some like gouges and divots and sort of missing pieces from some of the petals, which have mostly closed up in protection at this point in time. It has a faint kind of pulsing orange glow to it, but it's not looking very, very good. And Ant, as you kind of dig your hands into this wet soil, this mud caking, your hands getting caught up under your fingernails. And as you sort of move Bud into this dirt, you hear, hear and feel this low sort of wind rushing sound. Again. You turn behind you. And similar to the way that the woman in the elevator appeared and coalesced from water, the rain begins to fall in a spiral, a swirl of some kind, like a vertical river sort of forming and building from the ground up. This huge hulking figure, more creature than humanoid. It's got broad, wide shoulders and is sort of hunched forward on all fours like the stormlings you fought when you first met each other. Sort of jagged spikes of sort of ice tips as it is. Freezing cold on this mountain and these big luminous eyes sort of blinking at you. It opens its mouth and lets out a terrible roar. A mix of thunder and that same haunting scream from the woman in the elevator. What do you all do? [00:17:41] Speaker C: I think Ant kind of like stands up and tries to get in front of the plant and is like choking, goes in. Now would be a great time to take this thing out before it gets closer on it. Call to action. [00:17:58] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:18:00] Speaker B: The call to adventure. [00:18:01] Speaker C: The call to adventure. [00:18:03] Speaker D: Whoa. [00:18:04] Speaker C: The call to become chosen to choose action. Wow. Crazy. But yeah, I think Ant's just gonna kind of get ready with my. My board in. In shield mode in front of the plant and let the other two with some range weaponry do their thing. [00:18:24] Speaker A: Yeah, I've got my ore at the ready. It's not quite range, but, hey, you. [00:18:32] Speaker B: Know, at some point it'll be. [00:18:33] Speaker C: It's more. It's more range. It's more range than a sandboard to smack someone with. You've got a little more range. [00:18:40] Speaker A: I can figure out how to make a crossbow out of my parasol, but I don't have the time. [00:18:44] Speaker C: Just chuck the oar like a spear. [00:18:49] Speaker D: I think Finn is also preparing himself, and I think he's gonna just call out and be like, I don't want to fight you, but if you come for this flower, we have to fight you. There's a way we can all exist. Just please don't be mean about it. [00:19:13] Speaker B: The creature kind of stomps its way, moving toward to face you, Finn. And you hear this voice saying, it has to be done. This is the only way. A blank slate, a reset Ruhn can be beautiful and wonderful again. [00:19:33] Speaker D: Ruhn is already beautiful, and I'm sorry that you can't see that. [00:19:41] Speaker B: Think of that. There's another roar. This thing begins to make its way. Four large, heavy feet stomping the ground as it begins to pick up pace, running for the ruins of this house and toward. [00:19:58] Speaker D: But I'm going to try and come down with it and intercept with silver lining. [00:20:03] Speaker B: Okay. Please make me a Brute attack roll. Are you Difficulty score on this is a 14. [00:20:11] Speaker D: Are you sure we didn't level up since the last time? [00:20:17] Speaker C: You got that brute, right? Come on. [00:20:18] Speaker D: I got. I got that brute. [00:20:20] Speaker C: You got that brute in me? [00:20:21] Speaker B: Got that brute. Got that brute in me. [00:20:25] Speaker D: Okay, you get like plus four to. [00:20:29] Speaker C: Brute or something crazy, right? [00:20:31] Speaker D: I rolled it. [00:20:32] Speaker B: Plus three, plus your silver lining. [00:20:34] Speaker D: Okay, I can't do math. There's too many. There's too many numbers. [00:20:38] Speaker C: There's too many syllables. [00:20:42] Speaker D: Okay. Four plus four is eight, plus three is 11, plus one is 12. [00:20:51] Speaker B: 12. That is not enough. [00:20:53] Speaker C: Damn. [00:20:54] Speaker B: So as you come down and intercept, since you are off by two, Finn, you are going to take two damage as you. Your arm kind of slices through this wall of water. Silver lining leading the way. And you feel this ice cold water kind of seize up around you. You are frozen and stuck inside of the arm of this thing. Your arm inside of the arm of this monstrosity in front of you. You're able to tear yourself free. Silver lining goes flying and sort of rolls off a little ways. And your fingers are completely like blue and cold and frigid as you take two points of damage. [00:21:36] Speaker D: Ow. It's bad. It's bad and cold and mean. Yeah. As I'm like clapping my hands, trying to get the circulation back into them, rub them together. Yeah, yeah. [00:21:50] Speaker A: Is this happening inside of the house or did he run out to meet? [00:21:57] Speaker B: Sounded like he went out to meet it and intercept it. Is that what I am hearing correctly? [00:22:01] Speaker A: Okay, and how far is it? [00:22:05] Speaker B: It's probably like 20. [00:22:12] Speaker A: I think. [00:22:12] Speaker B: I have no idea how long that is. [00:22:16] Speaker A: Like the bonus action. [00:22:19] Speaker B: We'll be loosey goosey about it. If you tell me what you want to do. We'll find a way to make it happen. You said don't want to think about Pythagoras. [00:22:26] Speaker A: You said this house was like dilapidated and there were ruins about, right? [00:22:31] Speaker D: Yes. [00:22:32] Speaker A: So are there ruins that are sturdy like rock, brick, whatever that will hurt, but also not hurt my ore that I can toss up baseball to make. [00:22:45] Speaker C: You're playing golf. What do we rename baseball? Golf? [00:22:48] Speaker B: Yes, golf. [00:22:49] Speaker C: It's golf. [00:22:52] Speaker B: Absolutely. Yeah. I think you can find some like detritus and rubble and whatever that you're eating easily able to end. [00:23:01] Speaker A: My ore is not strong enough to handle, being that you also said ice, so either way I want to swing them. [00:23:12] Speaker B: I think if you're finding bits of stone, I'm more inclined to say like the metal pipes rather than a wooden ore just for sake of structure, but that counts as a tool that you're using, so. So whatever you're rolling, you'll get the plus one for having a tool to aid you. [00:23:30] Speaker A: Cool. What roll do you think would be best? I can argue erudite because I'm being smart about it. [00:23:40] Speaker B: I'll let you argue erudite. Sure. [00:23:43] Speaker A: Oh, God, that's fun forever. So that's a plus three. 10. [00:23:56] Speaker C: 10? [00:23:56] Speaker B: 10, unfortunately is not enough to hit since you're not up in its grill. I don't think you're gonna take damage for it, necessarily. But as you're swinging this metal pipe, it kind of telescopes out, and there's a spray of shards of glass that kind of make the terrain a little more dangerous. You kind of dance out of the way of the middle majority of this, and the beast kind of turns its attention toward you. Tesla. [00:24:23] Speaker A: I'm gonna realize, oh, that didn't work. That's fine. Sometimes things don't work, and you learn from it, and you learn what does work and take my OR and go charging at it. [00:24:34] Speaker B: Okay, while that's happening, Ant, what are you up to? Are you focused on the plant? Are you running interference here? What's the vibe? [00:24:43] Speaker C: Yeah, I think I still have, like. I'm still kind of near the plant, but I have a mirror and, like, a little mirror shard. I think I'm gonna try to get the mirror shard out and angle the light. So I could almost, like, get the light in the eyes of the creature as it charges at Tesla. [00:25:06] Speaker B: I like that a lot. [00:25:07] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:25:08] Speaker B: I think you could argue you're being smart about it, so that could be erudite, but also, it's kind of sneaky. [00:25:14] Speaker C: I would love to think that it. [00:25:15] Speaker B: Could also be skulker. [00:25:16] Speaker C: I would love to be a little skulker right now. [00:25:19] Speaker B: Go ahead and roll Skulker. [00:25:20] Speaker C: Okay. And I get a plus one for the mirror as well. [00:25:24] Speaker B: Correct. Difficulty is still 14. [00:25:28] Speaker C: Hold on. Yeah, math is hard. There's a lot of syllables. It's still 14. [00:25:36] Speaker B: Yes. [00:25:36] Speaker C: I got a 13. [00:25:38] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:25:40] Speaker B: Okay. As you're reflecting the light, you notice something that as the light is going, bud is kind of pulsing. This inconsistent, steady, sort of bright and then dim and then bright, and then dim and then bright. You know, just kind of. It's almost like it's Bud is putting up a fight too. And you just can't quite get the timing of the brightness casting on this creature. But as you do, you get it for just a split second. And this light that kind of shines off of it and reflects against this watery, cloudy, mega stormling. You hear this kind of, like, hissing sound, and it almost looks as if bits of the cloud is starting to evaporate ever so slightly. So while it hasn't taken any damage, you get the sense that if you can bump up the light and try again, that might make it a little easier to hit or it might even, like, give it damage, if that makes sense. [00:26:49] Speaker C: Yeah, I think Ant is going to kind of shout over the whirling wind and be like, I think it's time to compliment each other again to everyone. [00:27:01] Speaker B: Awesome. That is everybody's pseudo turn before we get back. I know Tesley has something on deck ready to go. We can go in really whatever order we feel like. But as we kind of get to the end of everyone's first sort of round of combat, that same roaring, rumbling voice calls out from the stormling. She left me. I thought that she was going to make it better, but she was content to watch and to wait. This is something I have to do. I have to take action. She swings this huge fist hoof paw thing, cutting through the stone and dipping and detritus all around. This spray of stone and wood just goes flying everywhere. You all duck for cover and you hear that chittering sound of smaller stormlings. She seems pretty. Pretty bent out of shape about whatever is happening here. Tesley, you are going in with the or. Or the. Would you please make me a brute? Yeah. Difficulty is still 14. [00:28:16] Speaker A: I have to get double sixes. [00:28:18] Speaker B: It's a high DC, but I believe in you guys. [00:28:21] Speaker A: I don't know why I'm rolling the second die, because the first die was a four and the second one's a one. So five plus two is seven. It's half. Does that. Does that do anything? [00:28:30] Speaker B: That is exactly half means that you're gonna take seven points of damage as you sort of collide with this thing. And again, similar to Finn, there's this kind of flash of cold, and then you smell, like, this scent of, like, ozone, and you feel yourself being flung backwards as this thing seems to have discharged a huge electric shock. You kind of smell your hair burning ever so slightly, and your body is just kind of screaming and pain as you kind of come back to your senses, like, what just happened? You're not feeling very good. [00:29:08] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm not feeling very good at all. [00:29:11] Speaker D: I guess. [00:29:13] Speaker A: Take a scatterback whenever you're kind of, like, holding up. [00:29:22] Speaker B: Scatter back, I guess. [00:29:24] Speaker A: Scatter scramble. [00:29:26] Speaker B: There we go. Everyone's like, I know what you're going for. Yeah. Awesome. [00:29:33] Speaker A: Oh. Use the ore to kind of, like, pick myself up and keep at it. Finn, you're doing great. [00:29:42] Speaker D: Okay. [00:29:44] Speaker A: Compliments. [00:29:47] Speaker D: Oh, thank you, bud. [00:29:48] Speaker B: Begins to pulse a little bit stronger. Stronger. Ant or Finn, it's your go. [00:29:55] Speaker C: And Ant's also gonna try to be like, let's. Let's hype Finn up this and be like, you're our strong man. You got this. Take him out. You're easily, like, just as strong as that creature. But stronger, probably. I've seen it. [00:30:18] Speaker B: Lucas, would you please just roll me A flat D6 2. Finn, bolstered by your allies and seeing the brightness of the plant begin to spark a little brighter you that wave of sadness that kind of overcame you in the elevator. When speaking to this tempest in the elevator, you kind of feel the opposite. You've journeyed a long, long way and you've found yourself companions that are kind and persevering and very similar to you. Their belief in you, your family's belief, belief in you, the flowers belief in you. You feel this sense of elation and you are able to add a plus two to your next roll. [00:31:22] Speaker D: I think that Finn is going to run over, grab silver lining, and is going to try. I think what he's going to do is I, I, I want, I try and sprint back from, like, behind where silver lining went. And I think he's going to try and like, leap on the side of this thing and just try to, like, rein it in and hold it back and try and make it an easier target. [00:31:54] Speaker B: Okay, cool. Go ahead and roll me a root. Check. [00:32:01] Speaker D: Okay, now we're cooking with fire. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 plus 2 is 13, 14. [00:32:12] Speaker B: Perfect. Yeah. You're able to launch yourself up and you. Yeah. [00:32:17] Speaker D: What? [00:32:17] Speaker B: Tell me what that looks like. You're wrangling this thing. [00:32:21] Speaker D: I think that Finn is taking in these. He's like, oh, you can do it, you can do it. Blah, blah, like, and he. And he's listening to it and he's appreciating it, and he feels that bolster. And I think that in that moment, because he feels so empowered by the people around him, he sees tesselly sort of like pick chucking these things and golf hitting them across. And he sees ant trying to do this thing with the light. And it's almost like. And I. And I think that, you know, when you have something ebbing and waning just like the plant, in addition to a monster that's constantly moving and shifting, it's almost like you have to, like, not only do you have to time your light perfectly, but you have to time where the thing is going to be. And so he thinks, like, if, if I can help with that, maybe it'll be better for everyone in the long run to sort of like, do this. So he's going to grab silver lining, is just going to do a running leap, and it's gonna look like he's about to, like, come down, but I think he's gonna leap almost like a hurdle over its back and is just going to sort of like, like, arm bar it across its, like, neck area and is going to say, and what you were doing with that live was really, really smart. Let's try again. I know you could do it, bud. Tesley, you got. You've got it, girl. You go. And he's gonna just hold on and try and, like, plant his feet and basically be a wall. [00:34:02] Speaker B: Okay. You kind of arm bar lock in against this thing, and that same kind of cold, piercing sensation of just wet and frigid kind of shocks you for a minute, but you kind of grit your teeth and you hang on for dear life as this thing begins thrashing for a minute before it just stops for a moment. You feel it take a deep, shuddering breath in an attempt to. To send you flying off of its back. Tesley getting this kind of guidance, and Ant getting this guidance. Finn and S.L. j, will you please roll a D6 for me? [00:34:48] Speaker A: Absolutely. [00:34:51] Speaker D: A. A6. [00:34:53] Speaker B: A6. Okay, this is. So on your next rolls, you guys each get to add six. Okay, Lucas, we haven't heard from you this. This run yet, so we'll get to you the beast, and then back to Tesla. Does that sound okay? [00:35:10] Speaker C: Yeah, I think Ant hearing Finn's, you know, kind of charge to. To go and. And do that again with the light. It's gonna kind of lean down next to Bud, who's glowing a bit brighter now, and be like, all right, let's do this. And it's gonna angle the. The mirror again. Really kind of trying to focus on, like, the. Between the eyes or eyes. I don't know if this thing has eyes where Ant thinks the eyes would be on this thing. And, yeah, going. Going to try to blind it, burn it. I don't know. All right, so let's math. Roll 2D6 and add plus 9. Because I have 6 plus 2 plus 1. So 2D6 plus 9. All right, let's get this. Okay. All right. It was fine. 15. [00:36:20] Speaker B: 15. Excellent. What? Like, do you say or do anything as you kind of lock on to this? Or is it, like, just the sheer concentration? Like, what is Ant. What's going through his mind right now? [00:36:35] Speaker C: Yeah, I think hoping that this will. Will help because he's seen both Tesley and Finn get hurt by this creature and feels a little guilty that he's standing near Bud, but he's gonna be the last line defense, all right. Not letting anything happen to Bud. So I think as he kind of angles the mirror, he's gonna. He's gonna be like, all right, Tesley, batter up. [00:37:10] Speaker B: Amazing. Yeah, Great. Tesley, you are up. The DC has moved down since Ant's role was above the 14, so it is now a 13. You have a plus 6. What you. What you gonna do? [00:37:28] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm gonna call out. Keep going. Doing great, both of you. And. Oh, B school. [00:37:40] Speaker B: Oh, I didn't have the beast. Sorry. It is going to. [00:37:44] Speaker C: Yeah, it gets real mad. You're calling out to. For people to do good, and it's gonna attack you. Attack someone. [00:37:53] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't think it's going to attempt. I mean, it's gonna kind of try and, like, rear back and claw for Finn, but he is, like, behind and unreachable at this moment. So I think you just hear this same kind of thunderous voice saying, please, please. You don't understand. This is what needs to be done. Please. Like, just begging and, like, screaming and wailing. Anyway, carry on. [00:38:25] Speaker A: Europe breakup is not our problem. [00:38:33] Speaker C: Tesla's like, write a book about it. [00:38:36] Speaker A: Honestly. [00:38:37] Speaker B: Have you ever heard of poetry journal? [00:38:40] Speaker D: Oh, my gosh. [00:38:42] Speaker C: This could have all been prevented with journaling. [00:38:45] Speaker D: Honestly, go to therapy. [00:38:49] Speaker C: Does the plant like us here heckling the creature or just being nice to each other? [00:38:56] Speaker B: That was a question. It doesn't seem to respond to the heckling. If anything, he gets dimmer. [00:39:02] Speaker C: No, no, that was not in character. [00:39:06] Speaker D: Out of character. Out of character. Plant. [00:39:08] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Meta. Meta. It's meta. [00:39:09] Speaker D: It's okay. [00:39:10] Speaker B: It's okay. [00:39:10] Speaker A: It's okay, Plant. [00:39:11] Speaker C: We meant it in a nice way. Therapy is good for everyone. [00:39:16] Speaker A: I wanna try to. So I went for a baton ranged that didn't quite work. Went for a nice melee swing that didn't. That hurt me a lot. I am under half, and I'm gonna do a new thing and try to stab it with, like, the thicker handle part. [00:39:37] Speaker B: Okay, go ahead and make me a roll that you see. Okay. Suitable. [00:39:43] Speaker A: All right, I'm gonna brute it. So the brute is. It's. What's 12 plus 6? 18. [00:39:51] Speaker B: 18. [00:39:54] Speaker A: I got 5 and a 6. [00:39:55] Speaker B: Majors plus 1 plus 6. [00:39:58] Speaker D: Whoa. [00:39:59] Speaker A: I know. [00:39:59] Speaker B: Okay, looks like I'm choking math on my end here. Yeah, get math, Kesley, as you kind of ram this sort of stabbing thing into this creature. You see this, like, kind of shelf of water just kind of, you know, just kind of splash to the ground, wetting the. Already just, you know, flooding kind of rocks up and around as this beast again, just kind of, like, howls in, like, anger. You able to solidly connect. Well done. [00:40:39] Speaker A: Okay, awesome. I thought after the fact, maybe I should aim towards where Ant's light is, see if that's like, a soft spot, but I'll do that. [00:40:51] Speaker B: It works great. Ant, as you are kind of, you know, split attention between shining the light and tending to the flower. You see that it is. Bud is hanging on as much as it can, but unfortunately, the light is seeming to grow a little bit dimmer. It seems that the damage that Bud has taken isn't really something that can be cared for or addressed in the current circumstances. At the very least, bite. I. What. What. How does that make you feel? First of all. [00:41:30] Speaker C: I think Ant is kind of feeling like, final stand. Like, we gotta. We gotta end this so Bud has a chance. Because, like, we're. We're. I think Ant's feeling like we're not the chosen ones in. In some sort of way, but, like, this plant is. Because this plant can change things and need. Like, without this plant, we would just be running around getting our butt kicked by a cloud. So I think Ant. Yeah, it's feeling stressed. [00:42:08] Speaker B: Are you continuing to kind of shine that light and move on, trying to, like, eliminate this giant stormling in front of you? [00:42:17] Speaker C: I don't think I'm. I don't think Ant is kind of. I think Ant puts the mirror down and kind of takes the. The. Yeah. Puts the mirror down and is like, we'll take it from here. Good job. And then to the plant. And then it's gonna, like, grab run up towards the creature, kind of swimming, looping down and grabbing any piece of, like, metal or whatever. Still have my shield board, quite literally, and it's gonna do a little sword and shield action or with a bat and shield action with the metal he picked up and just go for it. It's good that. I feel like that's Brute, but, I mean, that's kind of the vibes he's feeling right now. [00:43:02] Speaker B: Yeah, I think brute plus two, since you've got a sword and a shield. [00:43:05] Speaker C: Oh, beautiful. [00:43:06] Speaker B: Go ahead and make that. That roll. The difficulty score is now only an eight. [00:43:10] Speaker C: Okay. [00:43:12] Speaker B: You've whittled it down quite a bit. [00:43:14] Speaker C: Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:43:17] Speaker B: 11 and 11. Incredible. That's gonna decrease it again by another 3. [00:43:25] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, yeah. So just running straight up and kind of doing a jump and smack as much as I can as Finn's holding. Holding on to this thing. Be like, Finn, did you do wrestling? [00:43:41] Speaker A: It was. [00:43:42] Speaker D: It was one of those summer camp things, you know? Wouldn't your parents just want to, like, have you try something out? [00:43:49] Speaker C: No, I think it's your Thing. [00:43:51] Speaker D: Oh, okay. I could get into that. Is he sort of like, like, still holding on to this thing? [00:44:00] Speaker B: Tesley, as you're kind of, you know, stabbing into this thing, and Finn, as you're hanging on, as Ant comes running. Sword and shield. Makeshift sword and shield at the ready. You see him say something to Bud before running. And you see that kind of light, that pulse sort of wash over him for a moment as he starts to run. You see a very faint glow and pulse coming from it. [00:44:32] Speaker C: I turned into a plant. [00:44:37] Speaker D: Now you have five letters in your name. [00:44:38] Speaker B: You're just two letters off. [00:44:42] Speaker C: That's what it was all along. [00:44:45] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:44:46] Speaker B: It's like a plant. I think it's fins. Go. Yeah. [00:44:57] Speaker D: Just a random question. Does it seem like whenever we're doing damage or we're hitting this thing that that's when the plant is, like, drooping, or is it just drooping because it's rough and tumble? [00:45:09] Speaker B: Like, it seems like it could be a little bit of both. It doesn't seem like the plant's happy about it, but also pretty rough conditions either way. You think maybe if it was in full and perfect health, it would maybe be able to, like, be fine with the battery happening in front of it, but given its already weakened state, it seems to be causing distress almost. [00:45:40] Speaker C: The plants are passive fist. Who would have thought? [00:45:45] Speaker D: Before I, like, make an attack or anything, I just sort of want to, like, as I'm, like, holding on to this beast, I just sort of want to say, like. I just want to say to it, just be like, why do you feel like you have to do this? I don't understand. You can choose to do it or not. [00:46:05] Speaker B: This creature kind of lets out, like, another sad wailing and says, if things could get better without it, then why haven't they? [00:46:21] Speaker D: Finn is going to shake his head for a second and say, because they didn't know. We didn't know this story until just now, until we went on our chosen journey, which we all chose to do, but by erasing things consistently, no one can learn from the times before. It will keep happening unless people stop it from happening. And if that's what being chosen is, I'll sign up for it. [00:46:56] Speaker B: Please make me an erudite roll. Difficulty 5. [00:47:02] Speaker D: It's an. It's an 8 total. [00:47:05] Speaker B: More water begins to kind of slough off of this form. Not because you're hitting it or wounding. Seems to be coming off as this creature seems to be, like, shaking. And it takes you a minute to. To realize that this thing is Crying. [00:47:30] Speaker D: I think Finn is actually gonna, like, go around and hop off of it and is going to just hold out a hand, not in, like a. Like an aggressive way, but just like a. Like a can we meet in the middle? Sort of way. And is just going to say, there will always be people who make poor decisions, but we can't make good decisions without making those first. And I'm sorry that that hurt you. [00:48:04] Speaker B: Tesley, an Ant. What is going through your mind as you're watching Finn, who's holding this thing back, sort of climb off and open himself up in that way? [00:48:23] Speaker A: I mean, I think that whenever. Is it apparent just to Finn that they're crying, or is it, like, obvious to everyone? [00:48:33] Speaker B: I think you've probably picked up on it as well. [00:48:36] Speaker A: Okay, then picking up on that. I think she drops her ore or it kind of, like, takes it and it's not trying to wedge it into the ice body of this person anymore. And totally agreeing with everything that Finn's saying. I don't have anything very smart to say right now, but it. Yeah, absolutely letting this happen because he's right. And let's see where this goes, because this is a learning experience for everyone. [00:49:23] Speaker B: And Ant. [00:49:25] Speaker C: Yeah, I. I think Ant, who had just smacked this thing real hard with. [00:49:29] Speaker D: A pipe. [00:49:32] Speaker C: Is going to. To kind of, like, slowly drop the. The pipe and kind of get close to Finn and like, clap him on the shoulder, which requires Ant to, like, lift his hand up high because ant is only 5:3. And it's gonna be like, look, he says some smart stuff. He's the chosen, after all. Also, whatever he's doing, I'm in. He wants to make the world a better place. Why not? [00:50:07] Speaker B: As you clap Finn on the shoulder, that warmth and that orange glow that is beginning to emanate from you, so too, does it begin to emanate from Finn and hand outstretched to this thing. Tesley, as you watch on this large, stormy paw, kind of reaches out and comes into contact with Finn's hand, and there's this brilliant flash of orange light and the monster is gone. And in its place is a woman with long dark hair falling around her as she sort of collapses forward into Finn's arms, crying, Sh. [00:50:57] Speaker D: It's okay. It's okay. We got. We got you. [00:51:04] Speaker C: Yeah. I think Ant is going to kind of, like, gesture to Tesley to come over. [00:51:11] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:51:12] Speaker C: And when you come over, it's going to kind of also be like. Put your hand and be like. What did you say, Finn? Like, four's an adventure. [00:51:23] Speaker D: Four's an adventure. [00:51:25] Speaker C: Maybe it's time for an adventure to make the world a better place, make Rune better. [00:51:31] Speaker D: Oh, I like that. [00:51:34] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:51:35] Speaker B: Tessely, as you are kind of guided over by Ant, you realize the rain is not pelting quite as hard. The storm clouds that surround are still dark. But you see the tiniest bit of maybe a silver lining as you come and gather with your companions, your friends. And as you kind of approach, yeah, you put a hand in. What's the vibe here? [00:52:04] Speaker A: Yeah, definitely putting in a hand says only way to learn is Spiritin. And if you keep erasing everything, then what is there? There can't be good without bad, right? [00:52:19] Speaker B: As you kind of bring your hand in to kind of clasp onto your companions or this figure in front of you, that same orange light from Ant, from Finn, begins to spread to you, that feeling of warmth. And after a moment, it spreads to this woman as well and grows brighter and brighter until you have to cover and shield your eyes. And by the time it has adjusted, the dark clouds around you have begun to disperse. There's the tiniest peak of a blue sky, the lightest rays of sunshine hitting your face, warming it from the cold rain that was pelting you before. And as you sit there and you hold each other and you look around, you can see Ruhn. You see her sandy beaches in the distance, the way that the grass leads to the hills, leads to the mountains, these glorious rivers and lakes bringing life to civilizations that have been around for centuries. This world has always been. And the people will continue to be, to change, to grow, to learn. [00:53:36] Speaker A: Is there, like, a moment that, like, the light kind of fades and we're able to, like, regain a bit of vision and, like, say a little bit more to each other, to her? Then as it kind of, like, comes back to. And Tesley, like, looks at this woman and says, my name's Tesley. And if you'd like, if you're willing, can I tell your story? [00:54:02] Speaker B: What's your name? For so long, I've been the Tempest. Don't want to be that anymore. [00:54:08] Speaker A: The good thing is that you can always choose. So you choose to be. [00:54:13] Speaker B: Think she gives you a hug. Oh, gonna hug her back. Would anybody in particular like to go first? Everyone roll a D6 and we'll see who rolls highest. [00:54:25] Speaker C: I was like, I feel like Finn has to go first because I said I'd follow that man because he's the chosen. [00:54:30] Speaker D: So I rolled a five. [00:54:34] Speaker C: I rolled a three. [00:54:35] Speaker A: I rolled a two. [00:54:36] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. Destiny Cinema. [00:54:41] Speaker D: I think in the recent end of this story, Finn goes back to the sky reader and says everything that happened. I think that he is a little bit lost for what he wants to do. He was going to, you know, keep training to be the chosen until he got the letter. And I think what ends up happening a little longer term is he takes, quote, unquote, a gap year. And I think if Ant's along for the ride, he would love to take a handful of people who sign up for it on small, like excursions and hikes to take them on the path that we took to, to find the peak of Mount Winnet and show them the pictures on the walls and the runes down below, show them the massive elevator with the story. And I think that he'll probably. First group will be a bit experimental. He's not great at talking, but I think after a while he'll start kind of traveling around, like going around and stopping in a city and basically, like, taking whoever wants to go on this path, on this journey to see the ocean if they haven't already, and to climb the peak and see the eastern dunes of Ruhn if they haven't yet, and the peaks of the mountains and the rivers and the. The plains, and end with this beautiful house encasing a flower that has a large book next to it that has the prophecy emblazoned on the COVID where whoever completes the hike and feels connected to the story can sign their names and basically sign saying that they would like to try and uphold the lessons and the morals of the story. And I think that that is a great life for Finn Jasper. [00:57:10] Speaker C: So I think, you know, Ant was totally on board kind of going along this. This path with Finn. And I think the first couple times it was very much that, like, yeah, like, we should do this. We should gather people. And Ant wasn't entirely sure, like, what his part to play was going to be in this, but he kept hearing kind of what Tesley had said about, like, learning and changing and growing. And he started to think that, like, you know, maybe rain isn't that bad. Like, maybe water isn't that bad. And so, as you know, we. We traveled and we saw more places. I think Ant started to really kind of lean into this concept of, you know, every place has its weather and the type of things that made it what it was. In Ruhn, taking his weathervane and kind of learning more about each location. Having only really seen what rain can do to a desert and how devastating that can actually be, not realizing that some of the areas that Are more jungle or kind of plains need that amount of rain. And so I think with every kind of group that they brought on this pilgrimage of sorts, Ant learned more and more from the people as well, and. And started to have a more open mind. And I think eventually did ask Finn to teach him how to swim, so. Yeah. [00:59:03] Speaker D: Oh, yeah, man. It's, like, super easy. [00:59:06] Speaker C: In that same lake that we almost drowning. [00:59:12] Speaker B: There are more lakes on this island. [00:59:15] Speaker C: Maybe we can plan, like, a shallower one that doesn't lead into a fence. [00:59:19] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's, like, a little, like, offset pond this way. It's got some algae in it, but I think it'll be fine. [00:59:25] Speaker C: No, I love it. Yeah. And so I think while Ant loves spending time back in. In the ruins of Dune with the dune dwellers, he also enjoys when he gets to go on the pilgrimage. [00:59:47] Speaker A: You guys said my things. Those are my things. [00:59:51] Speaker D: You're doing it, too. [00:59:52] Speaker C: Join us. Yeah, I was. [00:59:53] Speaker D: Join us. [00:59:54] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:59:54] Speaker D: We're the chosen. The chose three. [00:59:58] Speaker A: I mean, whenever. Just toss the friend whenever Finn, like, brings up the idea of maybe we should have, like, a trial run for this first group. Have it be, like, testing. I think Tesla, like, gets a group of some of the caravanners together because that's, like, their whole deal. They would love to go on this. They would love to be the beta testers, the control group. And so I think that that's something that she, like, suggests and makes kind of happen. And if the woman formerly known as the Tempest does want her story told and does come to a new identity, then Tesley's there to kind of help that happen and move along. But if she doesn't, that's okay. Like, what's like her? Like, what's the situation with that? Like, is she willing? [01:01:08] Speaker B: Let me give you a little sort of play by play of what happens. The woman previously known as the Tempest decides to call herself instead Gale. She reconnects with Ruhn in a very different way than before. Though there still is darkness and fear, she instead looks to the light and looks how to remedy it, how to make it brighter and better. She finds the person that you know as the Sky Seer, the person that Gale knows as her sister. Long separated by different ideals in how they perceived the world, some choosing to see it head on for all it was, and others choosing to turn to the sky instead. It's not an easy road for the two of them, but before long, the two sisters find themselves in the places that they used to be together again. Older and wiser, but still Sisters. It's after a few years, I think, Tessly, that Gale comes to find you and comes to ask you to tell their story. Not to sugarcoat it, not to make it anything that it wasn't, but to share with you and with the rest of the people of Ruhn what she saw and what she did and what she learned. [01:02:45] Speaker A: Tesley is absolutely going to, like, share that as honestly and rawly as possible. Because, like, why hide any bits of any kind of, like, knowledge like, or information like you want? If you want it, you're gonna want it exactly how it is. [01:03:07] Speaker B: After you finish chronicling her story, you wave her off, you say goodbye, assuming you'll see her another day. But you don't see Gale again. You don't see the Sky Reader again either. And it seems that their time on Ruhn has come to an end. But the stories that they created and the stories that they shared and the stories that they became lived on. Rune continued to develop, to grow, to change. And as there was darkness, so too was there light. A final gift from me to you. The chosen are not a select few Steel yourself and answer the call For a hero can be any at all not limited to just one of power or choke just to bear a flower for those that notice the dimming light Grit your teeth, put up a fight the chosen is not a title bestowed from the stars It's a choice anyone can make it's ours to decide to be the light and glow Let others see what seeds you sow of kindness, love and hope abound A hero inside Anyone can be found thank you all for joining me in Tunnel Goons. I hope you had a good time because I super, super did. [01:04:38] Speaker A: I'm gonna cry. [01:04:39] Speaker D: I had such a good time. [01:04:41] Speaker C: Oh, die. [01:04:44] Speaker B: Aw. [01:04:45] Speaker A: I'm emotionally fragile this week. [01:04:47] Speaker B: My friends cry if I'm a doll every time. I was like, oh, Tunnel Goons is a fun, light hearted game. And ended with people crying. I would have $2. I don't know why. I think I end up making it upsetting. [01:05:04] Speaker C: Mega. I'm sensing something about you. [01:05:06] Speaker A: It's not upsetting. It's like, good. [01:05:10] Speaker B: I had so much fun. I want to give a super huge shout out to both Lucas and Morgan for joining us as our special guest. Could not have done it without you guys. You are stars to me. [01:05:23] Speaker A: As we bump our fan gestures on audio. [01:05:26] Speaker C: We're really good at audio only media. [01:05:30] Speaker D: We're so spoiled. You guys are amazing. [01:05:34] Speaker B: So thank you for coming along. I also want to give a major shout out to Nate Treem, the writer of Tunnel Goons. This is an awesome, awesome game. I seriously cannot plug it enough. It is so simple to pick up and it is so easy to play. So if you're looking for a either like a filler arc, kind of like what we did here or even just like a one shot your own campaign, whatever, Tunnel Goons is great for it. I highly would recommend it's free on itch or pay what you want. I would encourage you to pay if you have the means to because we love to support indie game creators. But before we send you off and out into the big world, listeners, I want to give Lucas and Morgan one more chance to plug any fun projects, any social media, whatever they may have for us. So take it away. [01:06:23] Speaker C: Morgan, your turn. I always I've said it for like. [01:06:26] Speaker A: The past few times but I said it one time. Is that not enough for you? Okay, awesome. You can find Lucas and I and sometimes meg on YouTube. It our channel name is party of Gremlins. We have uh, homebrew game there volunteers planer guide and we also have we're playing Descent to Avernus sometimes and it's. [01:06:52] Speaker B: There and find us there. [01:06:54] Speaker A: And you can find me on Instagram at M O r G H O S T Y more Ghosty. [01:07:01] Speaker D: That's my name. [01:07:02] Speaker B: Ghosty with Y. [01:07:04] Speaker A: It's probably a different tune than the last time I said it. [01:07:07] Speaker B: It's cute. [01:07:08] Speaker A: I love it that you're cute. [01:07:11] Speaker B: Yeah. Thank you all again for listening. I hope you enjoyed and I hope that you know that you can choose to be a light also. So thanks for listening. We'll see you next week on spells and whistles in some capacity or another. Take care. Have a good week. We'll catch you next time. Bye bye. Farewell.