We Begin (again)

Book Vibes and Scrying Eyes

It's early evening with overcast skies and thunderstorms for the foreseeable future

We see that the Book of Eyes starts to vibrate
and sense that someone is scrying for the book

Arc builds a faraday cage extra dimensional space... it's super heavy

Cloudy with a Chance of Hangover

We see streams of liquid coming from discrete points in the sky where the tower was

Arc finds out it smells boozy up here

• 6 streams
  • 3 browns
  • 3 clear

Magical booze falling from the sky

1/2 diameter holes about a foot apart
Arc infuses a stopper tap, but no... and no... and no...
but then no...
and also no...
(Bad rolls abound!)

and then somehow (palpatine returned and) Arc did it

Arc got one of those bartender faucet guns

• Clears - vodka, gin, silver tequila
• Browns - bourbon, scotch, gold tequila
  80-100 feet up in the air

Slip-and-slide business opportunity?

Next Steps?

Should we stakeout the dorm?
Or check in with the cafeteria which has 30-40 students and Swiggins?

Answer? Split the party!

• Myles will go the cafeteria
  • Myles wants nothing to do with Jerry... but takes Sven with him to the cafeteria
• Arc and Maude (and Jerry) will stakeout the dorm

Myles and Sven head to cafeteria

Golden Geeses food order

• 2 uncrustables
• egg and cheese burrito, pepper jack
• chulula packets

Myles finds out we have food, but magical food delivery is cut off

• 2-3 days of full diet
• 2 weeks of hard tack

School has Issues

• teleportation circles are no longer operable (food but also...?)
• barrier is still up, but it is at ~40% efficiency
• also scrambling comms so communications outside is a problem
  • re-calibrating the transmission (not sure what this meant?)

We should find a place that has functioning food replenishment
Castco?

Wendigo your Own Way

Pissboy Pete "I sees em!"
humanoid shapes in the trees

Wendigo out there!

• origin of Wendigo: people went crazy from canabalism and can't stop hungering from people

Arc and Maude (and Jerry) in a Rope Trick

Jerry can't climb the rope, accidentally cuts the rope
Arc flies Jerry up
Jerry and Arc weirdly bond over Elden Ring

Maude (Nat20 perception!) senses something slithering below
she sees something moving like a snake

snake crustacean segmented, legless, big jaws, thicc
smelling around

notices a dark circle (portal) it is coming out of

Maude is gonna start blastin
Arc is going to throw a "tile" tag (like airtag) through the portal

hole goes first - shutters and closes severing the snake, which dies

Arc checks the location
it is on him and then far away/nowhere
either protected or in another dimension

it is a magically created life form to server a purpose

the "countdown" is saying 10.xxx (numbers) percentage of orbit
~10% of earths orbit
~5 weeks and change

Jerry can see what's in the Book of Eyes but how to know what he sees?
sends vision to Maude

each page has a sigil
lots of eyes, all kinds
a hand goes in and out of the frame
veins on the hand put energy into the book -- but that was reversed

touch the sigil, something runs up their veins
in reality it was shooting energy into the book
Jerry sees the past from his perspective

older and older
sucking the energy out so there's no eyes left

last hand?
tan
rough
not old

every page was different. different seals and different eyes

Maude got added to a group chat
with Bree, Hanna, and UNKNOWN

"we think we need to move Mackayleigh"
UNKNOWN is Mackayleigh

Maude adds Arc and Myles to the group text
Taylor jumps in to the group chat

We head to Castco

Maude sees something... but then doesn't

Hank is at the mechanic shop
with the other folks

can't go back to his house
"the shadow people"

Grusty is Hank's cousin-brother

Maude is driving, Arc is in the passenger seat, Myles in the back

On the road

Maude NAT20 her drive check!
no power, street lights out, cars crashed

Myles sees

we ain't stoppin

we make it record time

At Castco

parking lot is a mess, cars flipped over, smoke
barricaded door way
talking to Jeremy at Castco

There's about 20 folks inside

there's packs that roam around

A pack of Baddies

Mud and bubbles attack Arc

4 baddies (2 and 2)
1 melee one is floating
1 melee
1 spitter worst off (only a move, action, or bonus action next turn)
1 spitter

shield = AC 21