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The four of you find yourselves at the bottom of the stairs and behind you extending down

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the hallway that seemingly never ended there is a golden window that opens and it glows and you

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feel a cool breeze come from it and then on the other side the front door to the house

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crashes open and the banjo man staggers in cords fracturing and splintering light coming off of

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his banjo and he drops to one knee and you hear this cracking his bone crunching sinew pulling

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emanating through the space wings sprout from his back and his legs and arms extend into these

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long hideous claws and he looks up at you with these dark sunken black eyes

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i can't remember what he said fuck you guys i thought for sure when you said he dropped to

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one knee we're gonna say like busted out a crazy guitar solo or a banjo solo i mean he's

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proposing oh my god this is so unexpected it was all set up he was gonna propose to that

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piano to the piano no oh no oh well he's gonna kill us for sure then definitely in his heart he

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is the piano man um he's a fanfic uh side story banjo man and piano banjo man is just Billy Joel

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this isn't the narration part it's fine oh oh god i mean in my defense you stopped

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to do something else so i felt like i could yeah that's why i can't jump in

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he looks up at you and with this raspy voice that it sounds nothing like the person that had

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come before you says no the song's not over yet and he strums with his hideously long

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fingers and the walls begin to peel and fall to the ground and everything beneath you begins

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to shake what do you do Alydin immediately grabs on to bazaar and is like all the all the bravado

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all the facade of the like i'm a grown up like like i'm 14 like you guys come on i've been

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living by myself taking care of kids for like i don't know how many years because time means

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nothing to me because i'm a child all that has been dropped and she is just a scared kid like

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the fuck is happening right now yeah bazaar's just like standing there like ready for whatever

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the fuck's gonna happen as Alydin's climbing up and just kind of like i don't know what

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happens like he's like protector feels emboldened he's ready to go he's spent on

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spell slots you get an inspiration point he's got nothing in the tank wait a minute he's

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ready remember when we used to do that guys i've got two first level spell slots

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everything else was spent oh my god should we just jump in the portal is this gonna be my origin

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story is my father figure gonna die don't you die on me i'm not gonna try but i make no promises

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don't kill my fake dad i asked what you do

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with me today is amy more as Alydin she her because obviously i should be the one to go

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hope to see you over there and now fuck it let's play still just scrolling through as if

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there's going to be more on my character sheet like no dog you're level two there's

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nothing else on there that's all you got it's real short sheet it's really short sheet as

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you're all hesitating like what am i gonna do ready in action with a dagger like come on

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yeah like i'll grip my shield i guess yeah my weapons are ready can we see the banjo man yes

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yeah sorry yeah he's like him in the front door morphing into this fae creature in front

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of the portals behind us right like we're those are the two ends of the hallway the

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portal yeah everything else is crumbling and collapsing down how far away from us is he

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uh i 20 feet 25 feet tops beautiful i just every time i imagine stairs and an entryway they're

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always very close together so like if we're just clumped to the bottom of the stairs like we're

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very close well then as Alydin stands like hops on my shoulders i'm gonna just cast bane

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i would like to just clarify you like clamored up on top of me like god on my back or something

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no i clung to you like oh i don't know that's not the way that bazaar's telling it like a protect

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me fake daddy i know that i would just be slowing you down you'd be i'd be dead weight on you

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well i want you to actually protect me as as you come to me i fucking cast bane at this so i

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need a charisma savings throw dc13 a disadvantage because he's gross now yeah he's disgusting

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okay he doesn't have a nice voice anymore he's yucky so that's a 26 sure like enough

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even in this form he doesn't lose any of his charisma even with the disadvantage carla called

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for what about just the display of pure love that's happening right now what about that

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that's nothing what about that all right disadvantage that's uh 92 that's a 92 no that's

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a 22 damn i guess all right then hey i appreciate you all trying so what uh what happens oh nothing

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because as you passed uh so as what does it look like as you pass as i cast the spell uh three

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rays go out uh two of them disperse into nothing one focuses on him and creates a swirling

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mass of purple clouds around him in the shape of a skull they just kind of like little

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skull pieces floating around them uh you know but they just they dissipate very quickly yeah no he

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like swats them away and then digs his long claws into the wooden floor beneath you and it's

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like it's pulling the floor that you're standing on closer to him can i shoot a flaming arrow at

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that floor oh fire has been my solution and it's been working i love it it's literally all i have

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sure i'm not gonna i'm not gonna try and dagger him up in close combat i want to stay further away

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so arrow and he's like pulling us closer like like he's turning the floor into kindling so i

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feel like yeah sure uh yeah you shoot you light an arrow everything's on fire and falling

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apart besides you so you yeah you shoot an arrow um you don't have to roll to hit the floor

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you you hit the floor uh what are you hoping happens when you hit that it lights on fire and

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slows him down oh yeah okay well you shoot an arrow into the floor and it definitely lights on

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fire um and he continues to pull you so now he's pulling us into the fire i just lit

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i'm sure you were gonna say and it makes him stronger yeah i mean basically but he's made us

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low low low that's correct yeah yeah exactly and as that happens Alydin you're uh you're

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you're clung to bizarre but you feel that cool breeze on the back of your neck again

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uh i i tug on bizarre cloak i say we should go that way okay if we can back out let's back out

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uh i'll start backing up okay disengage uh well yeah you're you're you're like 20 feet away

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right so we're not quite engaged yet okay and if we're like walking backwards yeah on this

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he did drop to a knee though yeah true yeah i'm happy to back up you're backing up towards the

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glowing window behind you and uh you see him stand up now and like he's like getting ready

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to launch himself towards you you're within 10 15 feet tops of this window i mean i guess

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i'm going through it because i what am i gonna do i know that thing's gonna kill me y'all go out

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the window i'm gonna pull out a bag and i'm gonna loose a string on it and when he lunges

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at me i'm gonna throw it in his face i'm so excited just you let me know when he lunges

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i'm throwing that little baggy i'll tell you what it is uh okay so bizarre's giving you uh the

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cover ask to go do the three of you go i'm going going okay so the three of you oh no

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okay so she's scared she's not gonna leave the one person who she relies on rude one person

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came here to save you plan uh bond went in there cav you turn and you start running for

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this window and the closer you get to it the clearer uh the picture beyond looks and it is

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of the clearing uh where you first encountered the the pathway through to the fate to where

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you are right now um like that is clear to you and then as you're as you get to it you turn

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and you look and Bonwyn is still at bizarre and bizarre you see this this the banjo man now he

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digs his claws in and like launches himself and these wings extend which cut through the walls

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all around him um and he's flying towards you now cool yeah i'm gonna throw that bag

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i'm saying magical flying pocket sand and i'm throwing a bag of sand in his face

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so you're throwing uh is it it's a literal bag of sand or it's a literal it's a literal bag of sand

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okay uh yeah just a small bag of sand typically found in a scholar's pack okay um well uh roll

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to hit deck stick but you know well it probably hurts his eyes i would assume yeah

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uh all right come on come on uh the arranged attack yeah oh that's going to be an 18 okay non-proficient

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i assume so i'm not adding my proficiency proficiency excellent well i don't know how much

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you practice the dance kind of move i mean you went to a school of fighting and dance

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well if that's the case then let's make it a 22 all right let's make it a 22 all right

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let's make it a 22 all right let's make it a 22 let's make it a 22 all right let's make it a

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well if that's the case then let's make it a 22 all right um the the pocket sand flies out and

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like disperses in the air and gets caught on these waves of wind that you see hit into his

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face and give enough that he like has to shake his head um and like veers into the wall

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crashing into it wood splintering and shooting out towards you that's when you look down and

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see that well Bonwyn and cav are gone but Alydin is stuck beside you was that magic sand

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no run like uh and i'm going to just like move my way out like take advantage of it

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now that this guy's like veered into the freaking wall uh and be like let's go and

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help Alydin out the window yeah you run the two of you run and uh Bonwyn and cav

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you're looking back seeing them coming which gives you the the enough to start walking through

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or climbing through this window um oh we haven't gone through yet they're like we're actually like

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this is all happening in that case i'd like to like field i'd like to hold like my hand up

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against the top of it like i'm holding it open and i'm like frantically waving them to

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come through okay you don't know if it'll close i think that's a great idea it might slice

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me in half i have no idea we're new like we don't know anything about magic

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uh i gotta hold the window open bizarre you look back over your shoulder and you see

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the banjo man now like climbing across the walls and up on the roof gaining on you as you

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and Alydin launch through the window cav your last through you're holding the window open as

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you see he's within 10 feet now like he's closing fast um anything you do obviously aside

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from jump through the window uh no i'm gonna like jump through the window and like roll

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to the side as soon as i get through there because like if he's coming through after me

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i don't want to be in the path okay um as you go through you're the last one to go

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through everybody tumbles out into this clearing and the window behind you slams shut

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yes i knew i was holding it open

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and it like sucks into the air and poofs away

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and you all are listening for a moment and it's quiet there's a cool breeze and you all stand

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up and as you do you look around and it is the clearing where the children first were

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thought to have gone missing and then after a quick moment before you have a chance really to

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to collect yourself completely the clearing shudders before you the trees begin to wilt

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and twist their branches form gnarled hands grasping at the sky

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and across the clearing you see the large tree that well um Alydin and Bonwyn you didn't really

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get a chance to see this tree but Bizard and cav you ran through it of your own free will

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and volition you see this tree and you see the gnarled hands of the banjo man pulling

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the banjo man pulling himself through and into the space he's doubled over and clutching his

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head and his banjo is slipping from his fingers the world around you tears apart like paper

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revealing a void of endless music notes suspended in blackness you hear faint whispers

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and sorrowful hums that fill the air as the banjo man lifts his head his grin or anything of

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it is gone his face hollow and carved with endless cracks in his eyes those same black

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voids filled with flickering burning music notes his voice is no longer mocking no longer

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playing a game it's raw broken and deeply terribly human i didn't want this i only

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wanted to fix what was lost to play it back note by note until it all made sense again

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Alydin the music box that you held in your hand suddenly stops playing for the first

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time since you've been in this place

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but you and he looks at you you ruined the song you brought back the silence

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the moment he says that you're all hit with a wave of a memory but it's not your own

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it's a memory of his here comes the narration i hadn't begun already

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well wait you've been talking i'm ready you've been muted sorry sorry my nash came through

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wrong game kyle yeah i know it's hard to keep most of the world around you flickers

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not with light but sound you see a dim tavern a young man alone plucking a banjo with trembling

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fingers this is the face of calder bramble no crowd no applause just a desperate song

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echoing off empty walls begging to be heard then you feel a presence shadows in this space

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stretch a voice unseen whispers let your music never end all i ask is you never stop playing

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me there's a long moment and calder hesitates but then nods and suddenly the song changes

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notes spill like black water twisting the room and staining the air laughter children's laughter

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faint and layered trapped beneath the melody calder's hands move without him

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you see him try to stop but he can't his name fades and his body warps flesh into strings

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voice into chorus where calder once knelt the banjo man as you have seen him rises

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yes if i stop playing he says we all vanish then the vision ends

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and the silence that follows feels wrong and cold like something is missing

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and as the final notes of the memory reverberate through your minds this crushing

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silence falls over the space you see images of the false house the bedroom the picket fence

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the comforting illusion it shatters like glass around you breaking away into glimmering shards

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that vanish into an endless void the world around you begins to fall apart you stand

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now in a fractured dreamscape suspended in nothingness floating islands of memories drift

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around you see the stables and everbanes the magic closet each fragment hangs weightless and

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disconnected and fading and then you hear a single banjo note cuts through the void

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so the banjo man stands at the center of this unraveling reality his form splintering like

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an overplayed chord his limbs twitch with unnatural rhythm his smile forced wide by invisible

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strings i gave them joy i gave them peace i gave them forever he growls voice hollow

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overlapping with laughter and the cries of stolen children but you you wouldn't let it end

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let them be forgotten with a screeching strum he pulls twisted echoes from his strings

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shadowy figures begin to step into view distorted echoes of toys and instruments

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born not of delight but of desperation they crawl fly and skitter across the floating islands

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towards you snarling through melodies that pierce your thoughts like daggers beneath it all

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a music box rests atop a floating stone dais its lid closed humming faintly you feel it

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calling Alydin you look down and the music box in your hand is gone

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it pulses in rhythm with the banjo man's playing a counterpoint a way to end the song

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but the ground beneath your feet is vanishing every few heartbeats another memory island

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trembles and crumbles into the void dragging whatever stands upon it down with you

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the final verse has begun everything begins to move and shift in the space around you

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what do you do i mean i think we have to smash that box bizarre what do we do should i send a

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flaming arrow at it seems seems to be the the right thought uh you know if that music box

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played such an element to have disappeared from your grasp Alydin then i'd say let's make that

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stop playing i tried to break this thing so many times well we're going to try again we're

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going to fail forward and this time we are going to break it welcome to the middle everybody

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thanks for being here uh in this epic climactic battle with the banjo man

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so much battling so much banjo a lot of battling it's not even this is like

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the beginning of what is going to be a triumphant conclusion to this arc that's

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maybe maybe tbd tbd yeah it's good times all around though that's what it is all hope

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yeah everything is just usually on fire so if it's not on fire it could be that's our new

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kids yeah get out of here get out of here love you bye

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these horrors that have come out of the darkness their hands grasp onto the

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the platform that you are on and pull themselves up and let out this scream at you

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you that's roll for initiative

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also just an fyi if you're ever like doing a project and you hear a disembodied voice offer

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you some sort of deal that's too good to be true just turn it down yeah yeah yeah like

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what the fuck i feel like we all learned a valuable lesson here today i think so i feel

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like this was a him problem that he's making it an us problem

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didn't ask for this i didn't ask for this he did he could have said no i got an 11 15

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numero tenno

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18 hell yeah because obviously i should be the one you have the most experience with

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not destroying the music box yes i could show you all the things not all the things that

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do not work you tell us all the things not okay so i did this and then i did that smash it

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we tell him to hold on we pull out a little like you know chalkboard like okay this

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okay and you pulled it apart you did okay um can't throw it at the window smashing it on

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the ground did you try that i tried smashing it against a window did you try winding it up so

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much that the that it broke the coil yeah and i tried riding it backwards because now you like

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to do your thing you know how you can do it like and then unscrew the little pin actually i don't

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know if i tried that what if i took the pin there are creepy things around it we just got

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to make them eat it shut down it's fucked up kyle i love it yeah i said that just for you

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i appreciate it

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okay Alydin you are up first before you take your turn though

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the banjo man strums a chord and the space around you as as all of these memories are

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moving like they're moving through the space and you're moving on them so they um this is

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i was like i tried to put together a map but like everything's fucking moving around you so

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wasn't gonna happen um the dais itself is on its own like stone pedestal

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that is moving through space so well so we're all like on separate asteroids

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you're all on separate asteroids that are like moving in three dimensions like

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around exactly cool are the four of us on separate are we on one together you are all

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on one and the music box is on one it's on one there and then there are like memories there's

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places so you see all of these places from Vintersmouth and from the the uh the experience

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that you've all just collectively been through together yeah now universal between it is this

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black void and as he lets out this strum this black void begins to fill with these um glowing

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music notes that as like they bump into things they make a musical note like anybody who has any

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musicality to them is able to tell like these are you know c goes over here g and sharp you

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know all of that's happening around you so like this dissonant echoing vibration begins to fill

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the space and they're like they appear there's a lot of them and then they kind of tone back

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and they just begin floating around take that for what it's worth put that in your pipe and

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smoke it take this dreamscape that i've made your decision amy you okay so in moving through

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this space it's probably going to be very difficult for us to like put a location to

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things so is everything a disadvantage everything is moving every everything is awesome when

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you're part of a team in order to you have to like call where you want to go

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if you're trying to move location or if you're trying to affect the the platform that you are

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on in some way um so then there's going to be a role to succeed on getting to a place and

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then whatever action you want to do once you get there it will likely take based on your

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position now like three move actions to be able to get to the stone die so you'd have to like

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get to another location and like propel yourself or cause something to move you forward

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just say you want to do something we'll figure it out i want to get to the music

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well i'm probably not going to move away from the adults i have i have a 13 ac

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d and only five more hit points than that so you're talking riddles

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oh i think uh Alydin knows what she's good at and it's talking so uh she's gonna like

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i don't know so open up some dialogue here she's never had the opportunity to talk to

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anyone except for the non-parent parents who didn't really give her much so she's she's gonna

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she's gonna go ahead with her with her background of solving conflict and problems between

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uh the children that she was caring for on the streets uh

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uh your name is calder right your voice echoes out into the space and like you

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you see it materialize before you and it like slams into these music notes with

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which push these different platforms further away from you it makes its way towards him

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and he turns his head he doesn't doesn't respond except for that that small acknowledgement

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my name is Alydin you're colder right you know you don't have to do this you know

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he lets out another strum on his banjo and this

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this stone chair begins to like come up from underneath him and these strings come down from

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this ethereal place above him and attach themselves to his arms and legs and they begin

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strumming the song and his smile gets wider and is pulled up by these strings

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i don't think you're like this we can help you is this landing at all

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anything else you'd like to do uh i saw the notes from my voice push

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the other floaty thingies right this is really hard to talk about my child brain is just going

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to because we are so we we're on our floating situation yeah um is there anything in the path

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between us and the box or is it just like black void except for yeah like occasionally

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a memory passes by kind of thing um just my child brain uh also amy's brain i i see well i see that

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my voice does something so i i turn around to look like toward the back of like behind us

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and i just i let out a yell and i want to see if it propels us forward okay you know maybe

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it's like water uh seems reasonable okay yeah see thank you seems reasonable aren't trying to

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you're just trying to test the theory that this yeah i'm wondering if i'm trying to direct

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yourself somewhere but i'm just trying to see like can i use sound to push us on our platform

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uh yeah then you do that and as you're like shaking your head back and forth the platform

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beneath you and everybody else feels it like you are you are quickly moved through this space

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and you crash into another one of these memories which shatters and falls and disperses into the

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black void whoa i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry and i just like kind of like whoop

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like like when you break something out of story just kind of wait what the

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fuck did i have for breakfast that's the memory

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it's been so long uh pop tarts bonway well i think i'm just going to do what i said and

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try to light an arrow on fire and shoot it at the music love it let's do it 19 shoots off and uh 19

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you you see it like hit right beside the box which causes the whole platform to like shift

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backwards and rock in space and the arrow skids and it gets lost into the darkness behind it

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we just see it falling yeah falling till it well i mean that's all i got guys i don't know

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i don't know what else to do in front of you these horrific creatures pull themselves up

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and there's these two marionettes that uh that rush over to oh god are they kids

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she shrug yep i mean aren't all yeah i did isn't every marionette someone's child carla

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well but earlier they were kids right yeah yeah okay those were mannequins these are marionettes

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yeah those were mannequins okay i'm gonna tell myself these aren't yeah so they are hollow

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wooden dolls with violin bows for arms and they come swinging and slashing so there's two of

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them at this point one's going to come at Bonwyn and one is going to come at bizarre

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uh Bonwyn that's going to be a 14 to hit do it bizarre that's going to be a 16 to hit

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a 16 will hit okay this dice uh that's going to be four slashing damage okay cool you feel it

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cut into your leg as these two things look up at you and just let out this like hideous laugh

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and then like into the darkness yeah bizarre your turn cool um

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all right then this box needs to get fucked so i'm going to use my fei touched ability

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as a varying human to do misty step over to the box uh okay hold on i gotta find my magic

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oh shit oh no you said it it's good i didn't say it hey you know what it's worth it's worth

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the gamble roll a uh so you're doing misty step which doesn't require a roll right like

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no no it you do uh okay so roll a d100 please okay come on unicorn 33 oh my god please not

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another unicorn it's a random uh generator right yeah okay great uh so you go to cast misty step

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uh do you like take a running jump at it or is it just like no no it's just like a

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okay great uh so instead of that um where you were intending to go which was like right

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essentially right beside or as close to as you can get um instead of you just just

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just apparating and uh reappearing over there uh you see this tiny squirrel like creature that

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appears beside the box um it's got these long like super long sharp teeth and these huge ears

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with tufts on the end and this massively bushy tail um and it it's tough to see from this

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distance exactly but it looks um like it's stuffing um what appears to be pockets full

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of acorns and then it looks around at the space and like zips off the edge and falls

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into the blackness i thought it might chew up the box i thought maybe we had a good ally

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over there yeah okay i don't well Alydin is like this is upsetting this is upsetting

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why didn't that work damn it i wouldn't name it in buster

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fuck it that's my bonus action so i'll take my action to i'm just gonna cast frost

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nope it's not an object so i can't do a con save has to be against a creature so

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so can the box do a con save box cannot do a con save no the shadowy creatures moving

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through the space could uh banjo man obviously could yeah yeah we'll do it i'll keep banjo man's

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actually no like Alydin's trying to do something so i'm gonna stick with the box and i'm gonna

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cast i'm gonna cast magic missile on the box

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so three 1d4s you said you had nothing left this is the last thing oh shit oh and all

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fours hell yeah let's go so that's 15 force damage to the box okay rest looks happy i

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don't like that yeah that's magic missiles fly through the air and all of them strike

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with precision on top of the box and you hear just this resonant echoing laughter come from

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the banjo man and he looks down at you and says you haven't figured it out yet you're going to

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fall and perish here and the silence will take control of you and as the dust clears over the

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the box it's been knocked off the dais but it's still spinning and you can hear

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the sound of the song um Alydin make a um death saving throw

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a perception or an insight check you know what i don't want to do either of those Alydin just

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starts singing this little light of mine i'm gonna let it shine i'm sorry a perception or

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insight oh jesus let's see perception insight what about an inception how about a 19 with plus

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zero okay we'll take it amazing roll thank you very much so as this strikes and you hear more

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of these music notes like slamming into things and you hear him laugh you um you remember

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something it is the music box you remember it from my bedroom your bedroom you know

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your bedroom that's what i think of it now is it's my bedroom but something about it

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strikes you the banjo man's power he wants this song to continue and you've listened to this

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song every moment that you've spent awake asleep it's resonated for you this song doesn't end

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but all songs must end unless it's the song that never ends does it just go on and on doesn't

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end don't get me started yeah something about the music notes in the space as they

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they clink into and the sound of the song playing and echoing throughout this endless void

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triggers something that maybe the two are connected

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cab it's your turn all right i get out my bluetooth speaker we've got it hooked up to

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spot nice um and what do you put on starts playing this little

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i get out the lighter um so we're like as you said three turns away from this thing essentially

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by whatever means it takes to get us there yeah yeah have we figured out how to like

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propel ourselves forward uh Alydin has shown i've crashed like the screen did a thing

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has shown sound has moved you through the space okay um has propelled you um like things are

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floating in space nobody's tried like leaping or jumping yet so they think that is an unknown

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but there is you know Alydins move you into something else but uh did shatter the mammary

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memory

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i thought it was don't kill my fake daddy but it's going to be don't kill my fake daddy

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parentheses nip slip yes if that doesn't draw listeners in i don't know what are we even doing

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here

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Dumbgeons and Dragons season four episode 23 starring Amy More as Alydin carla max dead as

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Bonwyn everbane tom laird as Kavlar in gold weave kyle Claset as bizarred the wizard

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and Russ More as your dungeon master dialogue editing and sound design of today's episode is

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by Russ More our community manager is jessica babyuk music is from epidemic sound and sound

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