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The gang gears up for The Crying Lands on a nearby island.
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Melvin eats a coconut. Yummers!
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Melvin, Meowfi, Boechi, and Georgie G all head out into the ocean to meet a siren for an extra protective suit.
- Melvin plays an epic song and gets the suit for free instead of 2,000g
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They all head back to the island and catch up.
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On the way to The Crying Lands, Thraine tries to teach himself to patch up the suits in case we run into trouble.
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We’re taking Mackulkin with.
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We board the bubble and launch ourselves thousands of feet into the sky, soaring above The Crying Lands.
- We land square in the crater.
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Surrounded by bones. A horde of skeletons form and charge at us.
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The group spots a pit up ahead, but they have to beat the skeletons there.
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Meowfi snags Melvin and Orion, and Thraine teleports in. Mackulkin makes the run.
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Thraine shuts the hatch.
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As the group makes it to the bottom, they meet a friendly robot named HB-457.
- He claims it is against protocol to speak about his creator.
- Unknown age.
- Doesn’t know how long ago he was created.
- The name of the area is “The Creator’s World”
- One person lives here. Hundreds of mechadroids.
- Hasn’t had visitors in a hundred years.
- Sections VK, CR, and GL are restricted.
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HB-457 takes us to the dining room.
- We meet HB-C1-13F, the Chef robot.
- He serves us a turkey made of rats.
- Meowfi and Orion eat it, sick fucks.
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Melvin tries to create the sound of a turkey gobble in the restricted area to lead the chef away, but fails.
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HB-C1-13F pulls one of Orion’s cards.
- Justice
- He says he will join us for the rest of our tour.
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We head into the restricted area, and the Chef bot follows us.
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The group decides whether or not to head to area VK, CR, or GL.
- Orion divines that CR would be the best.
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We head into CR. 7 Guard bots are in there and tell us we need “credentials”.
- None of us do.
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The group heads into GL instead, and the doors shut behind them.
- The room is decayed, toxic looking.
- A skeletal hand reaches through the ground. It looks like it’s hostile, and infused with a glowing green substance.
- Meowfi shoots the skeleton.
- Two more hands appear.
- Thraine attacks one.
- Melvin inspects one of the doors. It’s solid steel, can’t be broken through. Nothing appears to be able to open it.
- Melvin conjures a cloud of daggers, killing the skeletons but sending toxic goo across the room. All are able to dodge.
- We decide we have to melt the door. Melvin disables his cloud of daggers, leading the skeletons into the room towards the southern door.
- Thraine unleashes his Big Bag of Balls so the skeletons might trip into the door. Meowfi explodes one of the skeletons, melting the door.
- They all make it through.
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The group pushes on. They make it to a room with a big eyeball chained in the center.
- Orion kills it, but before dying, the eyeball imparts a bit of wisdom.
- The Creator apparently wants us to find something in the dungeon before he lets us through.
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Afterward, we make it into another death trap.
- The ceiling beings to slowly fall, and will eventually crush the room.
- We almost get smushed but the chef bot saves us, flinging the doors open.
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In the next room, VK-829 informs the group that in 15 minutes, the entire VK section will freeze over, killing us all.
- We check some more rooms, finding a laser room and a chest with some fun stuff in it (Mechanoid Ice Core & Vial of Absolute Zero)
- Orion presses a button, disabling the freeze. Yippee!
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Further along, the group comes along a VK-001, the original VK droid.
- He warns of a dangerous item ahead.
- The group chooses to ignore it. At the end of the following hallway, Orion sees a chest covered in ice, glowing blue.
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Inside the chest is a group of spirits
- The Pure Spirits of Preservation
- Peering inside, Melvin knows for certain that NO ONE ELSE can look directly at these things.
- It seems we have succeeded yahoo yahoo yahooooooooO!!!!
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Making our way back to the guard bots, the group is allowed to proceed.
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They meet The Creator
- Linden Kruslav
- Thinks the Empire is after him.
- Tried to save his father Victor Kruslav (The Ice King), but kablooey!
- Mackulkin gets pissed and tries to kill The Creator, but gets his head chopped off.
- Tells us the great secret of the Queen:
- The Creator witnessed the King of Autumngrove was from Cattivu’s Will. The Creator was sent away to live in secret under Lunaris Point.
- After the King dies, his daughter, now Queen, takes his place.
- She is secretly a Tiefling working for Cattivu’s Will and Headmaster Grail
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Orion pulls a card
- Judgement
- Orion immediately hands over the jar.
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The Creator opens the jar
- The spirits flow into Orion.
- The Creator pushes the Code Red button. The entire facility is going to self destruct.
- Everyone heads into the safety cage except Melvin, who gets scared and chooses to escape on foot.
- He gets terrified and BOOKS IT.
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Orion gets the feeling Melvin is about to die. The group starts pulling a bunch of cards.
- The Star
- A bizarre event occurs.
- The Devil
- Devil’s Lettuce appears.
- The High Priestess
- Fire might effect Orion differently now.
- The High Priestess
- Nothing noticeable happens.
- The World
- Balance of the Forces
- The Star
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The explosion goes off.
- The box launches into the air.
- The fruit of the world tree explodes, consuming Melvin with branches stretching everywhere.
- Icicles consume a now blue-skinned and white-haried Orion.
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Melvin and Orion see one another in a void with the Ice King, who is surrounded by the preservation spirits.
- Orion sees blue spirits.
- Melvin sees greenish yellow spirits.
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They awake once again, both impaled but alive.
- They feel different, born anew.