S148 Recap: For Whom The Bell Tolls | Ep91: Into The Labyrinth

General Summary

Serenas collects his fiancé from #ChangelingBondingTime, gets slapped with the news that he doesn't have to become a cat, and after taking the brief moment he needs to process this new information, gathers with everyone who just woke up for a meeting > #AtDawnNoonWePlan > We come to a general plan but the distractions are REAL (There is a snowball fight happening outside and Serenas is being so strong about not leaving the meeting to join immediatedly) > #TagTwoSnowballBoogaloo #HerdingCats #YouGetFifteenMinutes! > (listen the actual planning was mostly just us recapping the info we had from last sessions dream and me being thankful that Isati picked up on the fact that the bell tolling was more about the time than the place. After that it was me shooting down every NPC Kirin wanted to ask to cast the divination spell (y'know, divination)) > #SomeRealVriska(Vriska)ShitHappeningHere #TheConsequencesOfStayingUpTooLate > Anysnowflake, with plans & preparations in place and 15 minutes of snowball fighting enjoyed we leave the house because literally nobody here can cast the spell Kirin wants casted lmao > #OffTo♪WorkWorkWorkWorkWork♪(AUGMENT) > We then pay a dude 15gp to cast a spell, ask a question, he tells us some cryptic shit that he just has to trust we'll understand (we do), and we go to that… Y'know. > The Clearing. > The Clearing From Kirin's Childhood. > The Clearing I've Been Repeatedly Implying Kirin Needs To Go To. > #Kirin'sClearing. > #WeGoThere > Once there, we start setting up defenses (and setting off psychic resonance effects lmao) > With alarms set up and a protective magic circle cast the prophesied time approaches... > … > ASK NOT FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS!! IT TOLLS FOR 3:17!!! > Anyringing, I do this whole thing about the bell toll kicking up a mini snow storm that clears out The Clearing™ before forming intoooooo~ (drum roll please) > A DOORWAY TO DAEDALOS!!! :D > #Surprise!!! #FuckHereWeGoAgain > Step 1: Kirin makes sure there aren't any albatrosses in close proximity (There isn't) > Step 2: Nova Inspects the door (It's disorienting) > Step 3: Isati #VibeChecks the door (It's Vibes Are Inconclusive) > Step 4: Kirin Approaches The Door (Curiousity Killed The Cat) > Step 5: Do Not Hide (An Old Love Awaits) > Step 6: Take A Big Swing (GETTIN THESE BITCHES TO A SECONDARY LOCATION!!!) > Step 7: Yell At The DM (☻) > #IntoTheMazeToCaspa'sGrave #Who'sAfraidOfTheBigBadWolf? #I'mSorryToKirinAndOnlyKirin > Anywoofs, we're right back where they were 10 & a half years ago and we are Staying on Track > And we're walking and we're walking and weee're walkinnngggg > And there's an Aravin here what the fuck???? (Also we're at the spot Caspadin first fought the troll ☻) > Isati hugs Aravin and this throws the Albatross off so much that it doesn't end badly despite the emotionally volatile noblewoman being very unused to hugs > #IsatiHasValidationProficiency > We then further destablize Aravin's emotional state by telling her we think Caspadin might be alive > #TemporaryTruce > Aravin then makes an open ended threat about what she'll do if Caspadin isn't actually still alive and she's been given false hope but for now we're more concerned with following the blood trail through the maze > And we're walking and we're walking and we're noticing that there's a weird spacial distortion around flying above the walls of the maze > Isati: “Actually I'd like to try something, would you all mind waiting for me one second?” > #WeDoThat > Isati than #GoodCrits her Strength (Navigation) check to fly straight up. This is maybe not the greatest thing to Nat20 but the Nat20 is probably better than a nat19 because I'll carry a crit forward lmao. > #CritCount1 > So anyways Isati get's rocketed hundreds of feet up by the distorted space into the new labyrinthe of incredibly turbulent wind currents! > #OhThisIsVeryNotGood > Please Stand By While We Take A Moment To Panic > #StandingBy > Another successful check means Isati manages to regain control of her flying and begin her descent but on the way she makes another #GoodCrit perception check allowing her to make eye contact with The Aenoagape (and also the face of (a) god) > #ThisIsJustaLilTreatForMeSpecifically #CritCount2 > Aaaaaannnnddd Isati is back and nobody will be attempting to go that particular direction again while we are here lmao > #HugTheMothAndNeverLetHerGo > Also there's half an hour till session time so we're entering #SpeedrunStrats2k24 mode lmao > we resume following the blood trail, Kirin does the #GoodCrit thing when seeking out truth and notices that the space is being fucky again and there's actually a secret path that nobody else can see and we gotta go that way (♪WeGottaGo♪WeGottaGo♪WeGottaGo♪.mp3) > #CritCount3 #SeeTheUnseeableBeTheUnbeable > Aravin casts pass without trace on the party and I miss the golden opportunity to have her be petty by not including Kirin in the effects > #FUCK > So anyways we're following a decade old trail of blood into an ominous secret cave on the #PlaneOfGetLost and Romad is taking his turn to Nat20 #StealthOuttaReality while Aravin is Nat1 struggling to stealth in cramped caverns with her dummy long wings, the flapping of which keeps alerting the bards > #CuzItNeededToRhymeLmao #CritCount5, #GoodCrits4, #BadCrits1, #FinalCritCount > AND WITH ALL THEM STEALTH ROLLS ROLLED WE ARE CALLING IT THERE!! > SEE Y'ALL IN LITERALLY LIKE 15 MINUTES LMAO
S148 Crit Count: Isati Nat20 Strength (Navigation), Isati Nat20 Perception, Kirin Nat20 Perception (Truth Seeking), Romad Nat20 Stealth, Aravin Nat1 Stealth