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Episode 79: To Hurt is to Heal

So last we left off: Bells Hells, after traversing the odds and ends of Exandria, finishing in the Shattered Teeth to seek some answers and finding an artifact that is somewhat involved in the elemental primordial history of Ashton and the Hishari people that his parents created and destroyed. You returned to Whitestone to prepare for a journey as a recon operation to the moon Ruidus, to discover what is transpiring there to prepare for the eventual assault that the forces of Exandria are preparing for.
On the eve of your journey, a ritual was attempted and hijacked in secret by Ashton to pursue what was understood to be his destiny.
However, it proved to be too powerful and nearly destroying him twice, through the will of his strength, his constitution, and a couple of well-placed magical items and spells, survived, losing an arm, gaining an arm and coughed up the Spark of Rau’shan. While seemingly something has stirred within him since this.
However, in doing this, it broke much of the trust and the calm within the group of Bells Hells and in this tumultuous period of time, this fracture has caused you all to take a pause on your journey towards the red moon. Deciding that one, Fearne, who was at the epicenter of confusion and hurt in the midst of this, wanted to visit her Nana and consider the Fey Realm might be a decent place to try and take a rest to recover and rekindle this trust of the troop.
Arriving back in the familiar space of the Ligament Manor in the Fey Realm, your Nana Morri, Morrigan herself, the Fatestitcher, the grand, terrifying hag that exists in this shadowed region of the Fey Realm, welcomed you all back. As well as realizing that your parents have come here as well, absconding from the Hellcatch Valley and looking for a place of peace and/or safety in the midst of all the chaos that is surrounding the Hellcatch.
Upon arrival and some comfort, some interesting conversations transpired in which FCG decided to offer the idea of team building exercises of some sort of a good, a mental health retreat for all of you to work together and try and figure out ways to resolidify these binds, which excited Nana Morri, who eagerly agreed to aid you in this endeavor. As her cackles echoed through the reaches of the tree itself, that is the skeletal structure of Ligament Manor, you all, those of you who took them, sip upon your tiki drinks and consider what lies in the days ahead of you here where time seems to slow to a crawl under Nana Morri.

Previous Episode “Fractures”

  • UltragrampsOPMEnglish
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    11 months ago

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    Highlights

    • 00:10:54 The best smelling coffee appears to be Yasha’s Lightning Elixir - Vanilla Infused according to Laura’s face.
    • 00:28:22 Fan Art Moment Nana Morri palms FCG’s head and slowly drags him off for a chat.
    • 00:35:35 Fearne is established as the group’s “lie detector” with an insight bonus of 13.
    • 00:37:43 Mr. Nesbitt the owl (reference to Buzz Lightyear’s alter ego, Mrs Nesbitt, in Toy Story)
    • 00:45:54 Fearne’s biological father revealed to be Zathuda!
    • 00:56:24 B.D.E. Orym:“Hey. You wanna take a walk?”
      Ashton:“You’re not gonna quietly kill me in the wild lands, are you? I mean, I’m fine either way. I might be able to take you. It would be interesting to see.” Orym:“Take a walk with me, Ashton.”
    • 01:14:53 Tummy:“No!”
    • 01:15:20 Matt and Sam at once:“Communication, trust and honesty.” (people freak out)
    • 01:17:08 Matt:“…her neck is craning a little bit back and to the left.”
    • 01:17:34 Fearne:“…Then she told me that it’s somebody named Zapruder.”
    • 01:17:51 Fearne:“So, like, I thought, I am royalty.”
      Marisha:“Wait, that was your takeaway?”
      Ashley:“That was my takeaway.”
    • 01:35:25 Fan Art Moment Nana Morri examining the Shard of Rau’shan.
    • 01:47:32 “Whenever I tongue someone’s ear, it’s just (small shock).” (callback to the First Whisper when Travis starts the tonguing rumor)
    • 02:33:11 Laudna:“You know, we could all “ripcord” out of this at any moment. And I don’t mean this scavenger hunt, I mean saving the world, right? And sometimes I fantasize about it all the time.”
    • 02:44:09 Orym:“I have all the faith in the world in you guys, all of you. And I have also spent time thinking how to neutralize each of you.”
    • 02:49:27 Laura:“It’s so big!”
      Travis:“Somebody tame this bush!”
    • 02:49:50 Travis:“Ride the mushroom over to the bush.”
      Laura:“Can they all fit…”
      Sam:“I’m going to steer the head of the mushroom right at the bush.”
      Matt:“You motherfuckers!”
      Travis:“This mushroom keeps rising and falling.”
      Liam:“Is there anything coming out of the mushroom?”
      Laura:“Yeah, spores!”
      Marisha and Sam:“Little spores.”
      Matt:“Suddenly, everything falls from within the chasm and you all plummet to your deaths. Jesus Christ.”
    • 02:51:10 Sam:“Mine’s curving left a little.”
      Matt’s head thuds against the table.
      Liam:“Hold on! I love it when we pervert Matt’s narrative!”
    • 02:52:57 Taliesin:“I feel fucking worse that I just fucked up Fearne’s life way more than mine and I should’ve died instead of that happening.”
    • 03:05:01 Chetney:“Age before beauty.”
    • 03:08:08 Sam:“Ahh! The bees!”
    • 03:22:12 Travis drops the Chetney voice to guide Laura.
    • 03:32:42 Sam:“Is this okay with ToS?” (wondering if Laura and Ashley’s instructions are NSFW)
    • 03:36:00 Ashton:“This is the weirdest thing I’ve ever done in my life.”
      Sam:“I don’t think that’s true.”
      Taliesin:“Ashton, not me.”
    • 03:39:22 Laura:“You got this.”
      (laughter)
      Taliesin:“You fuckers.”
    • 03:45:11 Ashley:“Meowmeow!” (nickname for Mjolnir)
    • 03:50:27 Marisha upgrades from 1 plushie to two.
    • 03:51:33 Laura:“You are there, honey.”
    • 03:54:36 Laura and Ashley:“Canape.” (unknown reference)
    • 03:58:15 Matt:“All of you secretly look at your cards next time. It’ll tell you if you’re a doppleganger, what your objectives are and where some of the traps are in the map.”
    • UltragrampsOPMEnglish
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      11 months ago

      My prompt to Dall-E to show Nana Morri examining the Shard of Rau’shon came up with this as one of the results.

      “Hang gliding mushrooms towards a reptile skeleton” turned out a little better.