S134 Recap: Well That Happened 0.0 | Ep.77: The Burden™

General Summary

Hey Talos! Long time no irritate! > #Let'sWalkAndTalk > Introductions & Infrastructure are discussed as we're #♪MakingOurWay♪ to Talos' temporary workshop > Talo: “Alright, this is a private room.” > #WaitsExpectantlyInSilence #WhereDoWeEvenBegin??? > We take this expectant silence to ask Talos if he knows “why the fir darrigs are entertaining themselves with him”, roll an insight check to see if he reacts to the phrasing (he doesn't), take a small sidebar to note that Talos has been temporarily added to the harem for logistical reasons, and then actually explain everything that's happened up to this point (semi in-character despite us all having been there for all of it lol) > #ExpositionExtravaganza > Talos Patiently Waits In Silence For The Next Topic > “I am —on most sessions now— mentally prepared for the possiblity of having to be a god.” > #NormalThingsYouSayWhileDMing > Anywobots, during all this expostion The Burden™ comes up but before we get into that I need you to know that Serenas & Romad showed off their engagement rings and Talos was just like “???” “These are very beautiful rings but they do not appear to be magical so I am confused as to why you are showing me.” > #LiterallyKING #HeDoesRollNat20IntelligenceToKnowWhatMarriageIsBTW #CritCount1> Romad then makes a comment about how “the fir darrigs shoved it in their face” (it being their feelings for each other) only to feel this surge of annoyance that he can't place the source of for the life of him > ||It was Aphrodite|| > Serenas (Rolling His Eyes): “I would not give the fir darrigs credit for this.” > Romad: “Well it's more flattering than the truth.” > This Was The Wrong Thing To Say. (AKA: You Fucked Up Now. You Done Fucked Up Now.) > “Make another Wisdom save please.” > It was at this moment Romad Realized™— He'd Fucked Up.> #RoseThornsForRomad #PleaseUseYourHeadbandForSpellsAndNotOffendingYourGoddess #SorryICouldn'tGetThatBelow32Characters #I–Tried > “When you’re a giant beaver, it’s really difficult to climb stairs.” > #OuttaContextQuoteOfTheWeek > Anywackos, the exposition excontinues leading to three nat20 insights and the beautiful beautiful phrase “It's not the robot you understand— it's the autism.” (Kermit nodding gif was sent in the sidebar chat and this is so important actually.) > #CritCount4 > OKAY IDENTIFY TIME!!!! > (Talos then identifies every magic item in the party's possession one by one as they are provided to him, 10 minutes at a time.) > Scribius is also there. > “They are two very different kinds of autism, just autisming at each other.” > “Kirin, you have a choice.” “You can either take off the gloam veil for the first time since receiving it—“ “—Or you can let Talos fucking one-hand grip your head like a basketball for 10 minutes.” > #UltimatumIssued > “The Gloamveil Stays On (||During Sex||).” > #OfFuckingCourseYou'dSayThat! #YouFuckingAssignedAestheticWHORE!!! #♡♡♡ > Also the fact that I have not drawn Kirin's head getting #BasketballGripped yet will be rectified post haste! (Once I finish writing this recap lol) > Nova's turn to get #BasketballGripped!!! :D > #GetHeadGripped > Serenas takes the silence as an opportunity to infodump about his horse only for a third of the party to notice Talos just… turn off his hearing xD > #AutomateInnovateOvercome #LiterallyTuningYouOut > Now. We start this lil “lets identify Nova” session with some light expositition before we kick of with..... (drumroll please) BURDEN CHECKS!!!!! :D > #IdkWhyY'allDidn'tExpectThis > Needless to say we succeed on all the saves we wanted to fail and fail all the ones we needed to save against!! :D > #TheBurdenBeBurdening > “What you hear… Is not the true name of Talos– or yourself– or any object within the room.” “No.” “What you hear, is the True Name of… The Burden™ Itself.” > #RuhRohShaggy0.o > “The full onomancic magic that contains the full essence of what this Burden is.” > “Everybody make an Intelligence save at disadvantage with an additional –2 penalty.” > Just about everybody fails oops (also Isati Nat20'd hers so #Critcount5) > Serenas continues infodumping about Horse-Faelyn > These others however… experience the Beginning Of The End For The God Of Identity & The First Splintering Of He Who Would Become The Shattered God.” “The splinter full of Pain, Grief, & Lost Desperation— but not Cursed.” “You watch as this first splinter is set adrift on the worldly flow— passed largely between not kin, beast, nor monstrous brood— but spirits of nature & craft. Bore upon anima that cannot know its weight & thus carries it in ease.” “And you watch as the single pine needle that then bore The Burden floats down a river only to be drawn into a bowl & fall down upon the core of a young woman heavy with child.” “And you see a small child. You watch them grow old, heavy with That Which Weighs Upon Them, until at last the weight proved too much…” “They bore the weight far longer than one would expect however— saved in that of never doing more than repeat the Truth That Was Spoken to them day in & day out.” “And it passes through through yet more spirits unburdened by thought until once more it falls to bear upon its sixth bearer— the second of which to be Kin.” “And once more you see a small child. A young kenku woman, seemingly some cloistered sage or hermit, rendered in far more detail than the imperceptible first child… Which is what truly fells upon you the knowledge of the Fate that befalls those unable to bear The Burden's weight…” "To Be Shattered.” "The Bearer Both Sixth & Second Studies. Knows Things. Things the Third & First did not. Where the Shattered Bearer possessed Ability and Potency, this woman understands Comprehension. She has a base of knowledge but It is not... attuned to her, in the same way…” “You Comprehend that she —over time— intentionally destroyed —Shattered— parts of her Identity until all that was left of he was True Words. A Name.” “And then…”

“A Compulsion.”

“A turn to the side of the head while walking down a road next to a field of corn.” “–they Stop, as a caravan of adventurers appear…” “The power in the phrase:“

“Do You Need Help?”

“And the Supreme Truth and Weight of the question:

“Will You Carry My Burden?”

“And The Contract Is Formed As You Agree.” “The Seventh & Third.”  “The First Bearer Among Kin had the Potency to repeat and speak these Words with ease.”  “The Second the Comprehension —the Control— to speak them only when needed.” “And now The Third Kin Of Seven Bearers whom you know to possess Body, Mind, & Soul capable of intuiting and of Bearing of the True Weight of those Words.” “Of enduring Words far Heavier than the previous two could ever have hoped to withstand.” “To see the Truth —The Name— of the Curse of Medusa, and to comprehend that meaning.” “To see the Truth of People.” “And finally— Grasp the True Name of an ancient Olympian goddess. To Speak it True in perfect Resonance. And then again— To See The Truth of Gods. To Crack under that Weight but not Shatter even as the ichor of this Splinter flows into your veins.” “To look once more upon the Name you Spoke. Written peferctly rendered in air before you in Wild Ink of Dreams Divine— And the Power that comes with that word.” “And finally…” “You feel the Core of The Burden directly Touched.” >

WELL THAT SURE DID HAPPEN 0_o

So anywelp, y'all bitches that failed your INT save are just watching that on loop. > It wasn't stated in session but I like to think Serenas was still infodumping for at least 30 seconds before he realized shit had hit the whirlyblade > “Hey Nova! You don't have to carry The Burden™ alone! We can take turns!” > #Communism #OurBurdenNow > We spend the next 20 minutes decompressing during which we also bring up The Sightless as a very good candidate to bear The Burden™ (Assuming y'all can even get in touch with/meet her that is) (Also Serenas rolls a #GoodCrit History check) > #CritCount6 #GoodCrits6 #FinalCritCount > MORE EXPOSITION!!!! > (This time about the Remnants of De'Saal) > Exposition done we then stared into the void for the rest of the summer ruminating on all that shit that sure did happen! > BUT NOW THE SUMMER IS OVER SO I'LL SEE YA SOON YA FILTHY FUCKING PUNKS!!!
S133 Crit Count: Talos: Nat20 marriage knowledge check, Kirin/Nova/Serenas Nat20 insight each, Isati Nat20 INT save, Serenas Nat20 history check