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Bonus Episode - Into the Abyss
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Abyss the Umbreon finds himself in a dark void surrounded by his three friends, Iris the Oricorio, Neon the Noibat, Arcsin, Baizer, and Aisnen the multi-personality Deino. How did he get there, and why can't he remember anything?
The crew is taking a break between arcs, so enjoy this one-shot that was recorded with some of our audience members. Our upload schedule will resume two weeks after this release. There are no requirements, I'm usually just like hey, wanna do a one-shot anyone? and anyone who wants to be there is accepted.
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Dakota as the PM, DM, GM
Kurdoss Blackhart as Abyss the Umbreon
Fennec as Iris the Oricorio
Lord Toffee as Neon the Noibat
Spirit as Arcsin, Baizer, and Aisnen the Deino
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Transcript
Introduction to 'Into the Abyss'
00:00:00
Speaker
you
00:00:16
Speaker
Welcome to A Path Through Time. I am Dakota, your PM, your DM, your GM, and this is Into the Abyss, starring Lord Tophias, Neon the Noibat, Kirdos Blackheart as Abyss the Umbreon, Fennec as Iris the Oricorio, and Spirit as Arxim, Bazer, and Eismann as Dino.
Awakening in the Void
00:00:50
Speaker
You wake up in a dark void. At least what you think is a void. The sky around you is black. The ground is black and you can't, there is no horizon. You stand up and you look around at yourself and find out that you are an Umbreon. You do not remember your name. You do not know who you are. But you look around at yourself and you see an abyss. You figure that's a good enough name for you.
00:01:21
Speaker
The ceiling looks no different than any of the surroundings around you. It is black, and you can see no visible light coming from anywhere. Can I use moonlight to try and see if I can find something? Yeah, roll accuracy. All right. OK, accuracy is d20, right? Yes, it is a d20, and you have to be whatever your accuracy says.
00:01:51
Speaker
Right, that's a... Oh wait, it's none. I have no accuracy. Haha. Oh, nevermind. Uh, Spirit, what's your Tyno's name? Uh, Dino is... This'll make more sense later, but his name for now is Arkson. Arkson, okay. Trust me, it will make more sense later.
00:02:20
Speaker
OK, it might not even come up, I guess we'll see. So you use moonlight. Is that the move name moonlight? Yeah, moonlight. OK, you use moonlight and from you emanates. What you feel to be a loss of energy, but it does nothing.
Abyss's Dual Emotions and Path Discovery
00:02:38
Speaker
The sky is black as ever. Wow. Well, that was useless. Hmm. Loss of.
00:02:50
Speaker
energy. Can I make a perception to see if there's something in the area? Absolutely. Roll a G20 for that. Which is beauty in this case. It is beauty. Add your beauty modifier. I don't believe you changed the things for the stats on the sheet, but
00:03:11
Speaker
If you, well, I could just help them here. Each type has their own ability differences. So like your beauty for a dark type is minus one. So whatever roles, subtract one from that. Oh, so it's add modifier and then subtract. Okay. Yeah. So, yeah. So 18 minus one is 17. Okay.
00:03:35
Speaker
The void around you gives you a strange sense of happiness, relief, and hollowness, almost like your heart is empty. As you turn around, you see some shimmering shapes.
00:03:50
Speaker
And after some time, they slowly materialize, and you recognize these as what you... These shimmering shapes give off a feeling of happiness to you. You don't know why, but what you see in front of you almost makes you think of friends. What you think are probably friends. They give you that sense of closeness, friendship, and you see the shimmering shapes of a noi baton or a koryu and a dino.
Exploring Translucency and the Town
00:04:18
Speaker
Oh, I have friends. This feels weird. They are seemingly ethereal, as if you can see slightly through them, but do not quite exist. Before you, and between all your friends, is a dark, very dark, slightly gray path that leads into the distance. Can I, by chance, talk to these things? You can certainly try. And that? Anyone that? And that?
00:04:49
Speaker
Hello? Anyone there? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hi! Where the heck are we and who the heck are you? I don't know. You have a better idea than I do. It looks like a void. That's not good.
00:05:17
Speaker
Huh. Well, I see this path. You wanna go on that? I mean, there's nothing really else around here.
00:05:25
Speaker
That's the only way to go, I guess. Okay. As you guys head down the path, even though you can't really see any distance, you can feel the ground underfoot. It is very crunchy and soft, almost nostalgic in a sense, as you move forward. You can tell distances being created, even though you can see nothing going by. You walk for what feels like hours, and yet you find nothing.
00:05:54
Speaker
And after some time, you do find something. You come across what you think is a semblance of a town. You see a group of buildings with broken down windows and boarded up doors. You see strange shimmering shapes meandering about. I don't know. Let me pinch myself real quick.
00:06:19
Speaker
Um, is it real? Uh, as you pinch yourself, I'll take one damage. I was going to roll a d7. Is it real? Well, um... It certainly seems that way. Are you real? I mean, you're kind of translucent. Uh, I'll be. I'm sorry, I'm not able to tell. Can you pinch yourself? Can anyone really pinch himself? I don't think I'd die no good.
00:06:50
Speaker
I could. I pitch myself. If you pitch yourself, take one point or two. Is everybody translucent for everyone else? Like, is Abyss translucent? Abyss is not translucent. Okay, Abyss is the only one that is solid. Yes. Okay, but you're not translucent? Wait, what? I looked down at myself. You are not translucent. What? The... hair?
00:07:20
Speaker
are we translucent for ourselves yes yes you are if you look at yourselves you will see that you are slightly see through oh oh oh oh oh um and uh with uh are we dead uh i don't know well clearly you pinch yourself and you hurt yourself uh with that uh you kind of see arcs in time started to have like nervous ticks and
00:07:46
Speaker
kind of snap immediately as uh...
Understanding Ghost-like Existence
00:07:50
Speaker
although uh... how this happened how where did uh... where they come from work where am i well on the uh... well boy uh... i don't know if you really know your name you know okay and i think i'm sure that this is probably fine okay okay okay i'm just meeting him i would like to go up to okay
00:08:14
Speaker
sparks and put my... I tried to put my hand on them to calm them down. As he do so, your hand passes through him or her. Is Arxun a male or female? Arxun is a male, but this is Bizer. Oh, right, you're... Yes, let me explain. Because Hydreigon, which is what I was going off of, has three different heads, I decided three different personalities, so this dino has multiple personality disorder.
00:08:42
Speaker
Right. Oh, no. Okay. We can go through each other. Oh, boy. And I can't. That is very worrying. Can we go through ourselves? Yes. Yes, you can. Is anyone around besides us for?
00:09:10
Speaker
Around you, you see meandering shapes. These shapes seem to flicker in and out of focus, almost as if you can't quite see them. You lose your focus as soon as you try and focus on them. They seem like you almost remember them somehow, but yet the names just let past you. They don't...
00:09:32
Speaker
quite can't grasp anything the houses around you seeing the same way you can focus on them and see them as dark shapes but they don't quite materialize into anything you remember house looking like but yet they all seem somewhat familiar and give you a little bit sense of happiness and as soon as you look away from them you look you feel lonely does anyone else remember this building
00:09:57
Speaker
Oh boy, it's... It's all different, I know. I don't know, not this makes any sense. I just... I don't understand what the hell is going on. Can I roll to see if there's a Pokémon doing something with illusions? Sure, that would be investigation.
Confronting Memories and Emotions
00:10:20
Speaker
Which is a smart roll, I think.
00:10:25
Speaker
I guess Bizer tried to find a solution to this, would try that as well, if that's all right. What are you trying to do? Yeah, trying to figure out what the heck is going on. Maybe find a solution to this as soon as possible. Yeah, cool. Okay, yeah, you can roll history for that, which is smart. So minus one, 18. Okay, with an 18, around it, you cannot detect any sort of foolery. What you see in front of you is what is happening.
00:10:56
Speaker
Hmm, Bella, I don't like this. Alright, and for history, Bizor got a smart roll of 18. Okay, and what are you rolling this for again? You said a roll of history, because Bizor is trying to frantically figure out what he is doing here, what the situation is, try to figure out a solution as soon as possible.
00:11:23
Speaker
Okay, what you see around you is basically what I described. Everything you see around you, you can't quite remember. As soon as you look at anything, it slips past your mind. And you can't recognize any of the buildings or what they might be either because as soon as you focus on them, they fall out of focus and you forget what it was supposed to be.
00:11:43
Speaker
Okay, everybody, close your eyes and breathe, okay? Let's see if anybody remembers anything. What did you do before we got here?
00:12:01
Speaker
I would like to, uh, see if I remember anything, anything that got us into this situation. Also, um, real quick, I don't know if I did not mention it, but the path continues through the town just halfway on. Oh, yeah. I would like to see any of that happen. Oh, sorry. You go ahead first.
00:12:23
Speaker
Oh, I was gonna say, I was saying I would like to try and direct my memory if I could remember if anything happened before. Okay, yeah. Um, you don't have to roll for that. You absolutely cannot remember anything that happened before. Is that anything in general or just? Anything in general period. You have zero memory of anything that came prior.
00:12:49
Speaker
I don't think if I just not seem to help right now I maybe this path of summer has some explanation ends as soon as he says that visor starts like darting down the path okay hope you define the answer I will also follow I'll follow because I don't want to get split up
00:13:10
Speaker
Alright, as you pass by these houses, every building or any person, or what you assume is a person, pass by. This gives you this strange sense of happiness, only to be followed with sadness and call on us as soon as they turn away or you pass them. And eventually you reach a cliff, a cliff face, and below you, you can see a large ocean of black inky liquid.
00:13:39
Speaker
Which gives you a sense of nostalgia, happiness, but also sadness. As if something is coming to an end that will never come back. I won't be the daring one, can I touch this liquid? You're on a cliff face, it's like 200 feet below you.
00:14:02
Speaker
Oh, okay. Feel free to jump off if that's what you want to do and go catch them that way. Would I be able to fly down and try and get a closer look? As you look below you, you can see that the cliff ends in the ocean. There is nowhere for you to land. Actually, for those who want to, roll perception.
00:14:32
Speaker
Oh, yeah sure. Which is beauty. Visor has no question about it. So, what is the beauty modifier for a Noi bat? I got a 7 without modifiers. Okay, so anyone else want to- I would like to- Alright, thank- go ahead, go on the head.
00:14:56
Speaker
Yep, that is a 19 plus 2 is 21. And you said beauty correct? Yes. Yes. It's bazer. I keep saying that's bazer, I don't know why. But bazer got a 5. Okay, so Iris and Iris alone notices to the left that there is a path leading down the cliff face towards a beach full of pebbles and stones.
00:15:27
Speaker
I'm going to motion to the others to motion to notice the path and start walking down it. Oh, okay. There is some way down. Let's go guys. That's the plan.
00:15:47
Speaker
you guys head down towards the beach and as you guys walk along the beach some shimmering shapes some big some small run along enjoying the black inky darkness of the waves as but they fade out of existence as they run further along and you get a sense of longing wishfulness and you feel like you're grasping onto something that isn't there this place is
00:16:15
Speaker
Very strange. Am I cold at all? Yes, you guys do. You feel physically chilly, both physically and mentally.
00:16:30
Speaker
uh this uh being out here not none of this making sense i have to worry about black and inky why are we why am i getting so cold my mind is freezing do you do you think this is just some cruel joke like a hunter messing with us well if it's if it's a cruel joke it's not a very funny one
00:16:57
Speaker
I'm glad I got the Cheer Spirit and just go absolutely insane. Well, at this point, it's... This isn't Visor anymore. It gained to this point. Okay. Yeah, this place is very strange. Yes, I went full-fledged into the multiple personality disorder crap. I was hoping for a situation like this. Can I touch the Blackwater? You can certainly try.
00:17:27
Speaker
I'm gonna stick my hands straight in it. As you do so, it feels cold and refreshing. Again, giving you that strange sense of happiness. Even though it's very cold. Can I drink it? Sure, you can drink it. Cool. It feels cold and refreshing. It's water. I wouldn't do that.
00:17:58
Speaker
I don't see any better idea maybe as something that will help my opposite our current situation yet you never know in these scenarios you just watch a best run into the water and just dive straight into it I thought you said just die
00:18:17
Speaker
Wait, you said there's types of situations? You've been in one like this before? Eisner has stopped listening and has his head like falling gulped in water, just drinking, hoping to fix the situation. Fun fact, the water does not in fact fix your situation. Well, I tried.
00:18:46
Speaker
What can you do, I guess? I would like to look around if there is another path to follow. Because it seems like this place is wanting us to go somewhere. Yes, I'm not going to have you rule for that. Behind you, you see a cave opening. Guys, there's a cave. Oh, good. Oh, okay.
00:19:14
Speaker
Oh please, I mean there's, I hope this leads to somewhere. If not, then I know, I don't know. I mean this, it definitely wants us, wants to lead us somewhere. I hope you're right.
00:19:31
Speaker
uh i think you can get out of the water just fine unless you went like 100 feet out into the ocean there's you're you're like maybe hip height at most oh yeah then i'm getting out i i mean if you went out that far do you want to drown no you're not yet cat and um breed on actually swim
00:19:56
Speaker
I definitely can, because they're more like dogs. They're probably doggy paddles. As opposed to a dino, who'd probably be diving... All these ice men would be diving face-first into the water. I don't think... I don't think a dino could... I don't think ice men can swim. I think we need a pickup boat. As you guys head into this cave...
The Cave of Colorful Mushrooms
00:20:21
Speaker
You see a faint blue light emanating from the cave. And as you enter, you see there are blue mushrooms, which is also the first color you've seen in this entire world. Everything has been monochrome and gray and black. These blue mushrooms glow and light up the cave. Drugs. I would like to see if I recognize these mushrooms. Uh, sure. Romy history with disadvantage. History is...
00:20:51
Speaker
smart and that's no modifier correct uh whatever your smart modifier is if it's zero then no modifier uh is that on the sheet yes and that is minus one so with disadvantage that's a five okay you have no idea where these mushrooms came from hey he's gone
00:21:20
Speaker
okay uh maybe i don't know maybe trying the mushrooms might be something different it's it's it's worth the shots you guys can see the cave leads further down i think i would rather progress in this cave before we try anything that potentially dangerous well well yeah i guess you're right there this is just going to ignore it and just eat a mushroom
00:21:51
Speaker
I would highly do that. Okay. We'll meet Constitution, which is a tough modifier. Nice. Oh, this should be perfectly fine. Oh, yeah, that's a nat 20. Okay, yeah, nothing happens. They taste very delicious. Cool. I snagged a couple of them and I run off. The rings you do have blow slightly brighter. Ooh.
00:22:20
Speaker
Wait, you have to share it with the rest of us? Okay, fine, have one. Okay, for everyone who's having mushrooms, we're only going to teach them. Great, I'm the cake dealer now. I do not want one of those. Yes, I think I'm going to define there. Okay. The cake dealer is perfectly fine. Did you not want?
00:22:51
Speaker
I says I was definitely losing it Not once did she you yeah, I can't not make this up. Oh Okay, yeah you vomit on the spot I Think I was like doing like throwing up and at the same time like completely hysterical after Just sitting there like
00:23:16
Speaker
Well, I guess I have an iron stomach, too. This guy really is mad. I did say... I did say it was a bad idea. Yes. Oh, that... Arx is gonna hate me later.
00:23:44
Speaker
You can't blame me, I didn't need it. I would like to pick some of the mushrooms.
00:23:59
Speaker
Sure, there's mushrooms on the other side of the cave wall that you can pick and take with you. And I'm going to use them as a light source because I don't want to be stuck in a black void. I want to have some colour. There you go. I will say Abyss is providing some light with his rings. Oh yeah, I forgot. I would like to explain something about Abyss though.
00:24:25
Speaker
that's why i said the rings he did have because i know abyss is yeah go ahead yeah yeah so abyss is a bit different he has no ring head at all so his the ring on his on a normal Umbreon's head is gone and the uh bands on his front legs are also non-existent so he has a single band on his tail and two bands on his ear that is it ooh
00:24:53
Speaker
Can I ask if he's a shiny? He is. Ooh, nice. Yep.
Nostalgic Meadows and Abyss's Memories
00:25:01
Speaker
You guys inexplicably reach another opening of the cave, which leads into what seems to be a large clearing. Almost meadow-like with sparse trees here and there. And butterflies flitting around, except that these butterflies look very black and shadowy.
00:25:20
Speaker
I would like to say, as we're going, neon would definitely be muttering, talking about, geeking out about how the mushrooms are glowing, like, explaining every single bit of it. Like, it is glow because of bioluminescence.
00:25:44
Speaker
And he would be explaining and everything, basically nerding out about it. Okay, yeah. You guys reach this cave entrance and you stop abruptly as you behold what is seemingly open skies again, even though you guys should be underground. Yeah, why are you talking about Noibagya? You're making my brain hurt even more.
00:26:10
Speaker
I'm sorry That's it's fine. It's it's a lot better than what that idiot idiot. I'm soon was doing I Turn around It's a Iceman I keep I keep mispronouncing the names wrong I'm not normally a people person I
00:26:38
Speaker
Oh no, it's... it's alright. It's, uh... Believe me, it's much better to deal with these idiots. Who are you calling an idiot? You want to talk to them again? For my Sandy, which is already very, uh... which is already got it's almost breaking point, I'd rather not do that. The path leads out of the cave and through the meadow. It passes some trees, and you see a single solitary house.
00:27:07
Speaker
in the middle of the meadow and the path laid straight to the house. What is a house doing all the way down here? Can we see this house clearly or is it like what the buildings before where it's? Here's what the buildings before were. You can see that it's a building which is most likely a house but you cannot pinpoint exactly what the house looks like. It is shimmering in and out of focus. Oh great so I can't tell what it's made of darn it.
00:27:37
Speaker
Can anyone actually see that house properly? It's really hard to tell. It's just flashing in and out? It looks familiar, but I've not seen it before. I suppose at this point we may as well go in.
00:28:07
Speaker
Right, so this path leads straight up to the house, and as you guys reach the house, the door opens of its own accord. Or what you think is the door, you see a black shadowy rectangle open, and it leads inside. And you guys can smell the smell of a freshly made breakfast, although you can't quite put down exactly what it is.
00:28:28
Speaker
that is being made. You see lovely figures walking around and none of them seem to notice you as they do not change their movements as you enter the house. Oh finally, actual food! It's bagels! No, beans! No! I can't really tell! It's food! Oh my god!
00:28:59
Speaker
Think after the mushrooms, I'm not very inclined to try whatever food this place seems to have. You see on what should be the table is just a pile of shadows. You cannot quite see what food it is. To you, it just looks like a shimmering pile of shadows.
00:29:24
Speaker
It smells nice, but I still wouldn't eat it. Are you kidding me? Are you, you guys like based on the table with the slow nubs? Are you kidding me? I wouldn't really get my hopes up in here. I am starving after that idiot baby throw up.
00:29:54
Speaker
I don't know what to vote for that, just roll me a luck roll on d20
00:30:12
Speaker
Okay, yeah, you cannot quite physically touch this food, or what you think is food. You try and bite it and you just phase straight through it. Alright, you... You can't even be. And with that, he's just gonna use Dragon Breath on the food. He's really ticked off at this point. This food is an enemy now! Okay, roll accuracy.
00:30:41
Speaker
Okay. That's a crit. Oh, my God. The house burst into flames. Oh, boy. Which the flames are very much orange. They are not shadowy. These are real flames, and you can feel the dangerous heat coming off of them. Oh, boy. What?
00:31:13
Speaker
Yes, question? Uh, you look around, they are not reacting. In fact, even though the fire is flaming around, we're not physically changing anything. What? Why? Why? Why could you... I think we had better get out of here.
00:31:41
Speaker
The fire seems to be real for us at least. Yeah. Again, why? You guys are exiting the building?
00:31:55
Speaker
It's much better I deal with my anger than like this then let those two try to figure this out Quick attack to get out of the building As you guys exit the building You guys are once again inexplicably in a place. You should not that should not be physically possible You hear the whoosh of a gentle flame and you look around you when you find yourself in a hot air balloon What
00:32:25
Speaker
I don't like this. How far are we off the ground? If you look down at the ground and you see that you are at least a thousand feet above the ground, trees and metals fall on the ground.
00:32:40
Speaker
Yup, to be honest, definitely freaking out. Oh no. I have to hit the couch, we should not be this high, how to seem happy, we just walked out of the house. How are we in an air balloon, this doesn't make any sense. Well you guys should be on your coast.
00:32:56
Speaker
Yeah, I don't think that works like that. Did you see what Arxie just did to the house back there? I don't think we're ghosts. I pitched myself and it still hurt. So falling would hurt. Are you pitching yourself again? No. OK. Yes. And how good to know half of a party has a fear of heights. Abyss. Sorry, not Abyss, hurt us. Whatever your name is.
00:33:25
Speaker
Abyss feels happy about this, although everyone else is freaking out and however you are reacting, overall you just feel a strange sense of joy and nostalgia for this.
Unraveling Abyss's Past
00:33:40
Speaker
As you guys look slowly on, the plane starts descending.
00:33:48
Speaker
and it eventually take lands on the ground with a big thump. And the little door opens up and you see you are in a children's playground. Oh, thank god, yes. Oh god. Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you. I don't like that. I don't know if this is any better, to be honest, but safe ground, safe ground. If anyone looks at me, you'll notice Umbreon or a biscuit visibly angry. What's your problem?
00:34:21
Speaker
It's nothing. Please don't set fire to this balloon, okay? I'm talking to the person who set fire to the house. Nothing will explode.
00:34:42
Speaker
Oh, oh, no, that was Isaac then. No, I wouldn't do anything like that. I'm too scared to hate them at the moment. But if Dan's gonna hand over to that guy, then I can't promise anything. I think it would be best if we avoided burning anything at the mortgage. Yeah, I believe I, Arx and I would agree on that. Yeah.
00:35:09
Speaker
You guys look around it. You see the swings are swinging by themselves. Although one of them does have a shadow Pokemon on it. Flicking in and out of existence like all the others. You hear what should be people going down slides. You can hear the friction of it, but nobody goes down them. And you just feel, once again, happiness, nostalgia. But you don't know why. I would look at a base.
00:35:38
Speaker
it is this your your memories that's what i was thinking as well yes it's some memory i have with kittens oh it's much better than the air balloon i could say that much and you'll see abyss this does not this place does not fill things with happiness at all that could explain why why your
00:36:09
Speaker
Uh, whole, but we're not. Yes, the rest of us seem to be... really here, partially, but... And all of these places seem to be filled tied to, like, a specific emotion. It feels like we're travelling through memories. Hmm... It could be. Also, does it this, or anyone notice any wind around here since you said everything, the, uh, swings are swinging?
00:36:39
Speaker
There is no wind. I hate this even more. So is this memory a good one? About what is not? I will say, as angry as Abyss is, you do feel radiating within you, a small sense of joy and nostalgia.
00:37:03
Speaker
It seems to be completely disconnected from your emotions as a person, as a Pokémon, but it is inevitable you do feel a small bit of joy and nostalgia. You remember something outside of this, don't you? This does not answer. What's on your mind, big guy? It's... D'ah, forget about it. It's nothing.
00:37:32
Speaker
Well, we're all here going through your memories anyway. Or at least I can assume so. Might as well try to explain what's happening. Very well. I had a son at one point. He's no longer here. Well, that's a shame. I assume this is his favorite place.
00:38:02
Speaker
Yeah, you guys can see yet another path leading out of the park into a Pinewood Forest. Can I ask a personal question? Is this Internet character? Because of the stuttering, it's in character. I'm looking at a base right now. Okay.
00:38:31
Speaker
Did you feel regret for all of this? Because that could be kind of a link why this is happening. I don't know, what did this feel regretting this?
00:38:54
Speaker
Your character man You feel a sense of longing and what I was also asking your character around the whole the thing not just in the abyss Like your character does your character feel regret From these memories if they were in the abyss oh Yes
00:39:23
Speaker
So maybe it's something trying to help you. It's hard to explain. Yeah, I really get that. But if that is the case, then why are there three other strangers to me here? That's what I'm still trying to figure out. Yes, I was wondering that as well.
00:39:54
Speaker
You see a bit of start muttering to himself, he's like, could this mean this, this mean that? This makes no sense. It looks like a new path is up and up. Maybe they'll have more answers to the questions we seek. Maybe. Or it might be Vicerissa. Who knows with this rigid hellscape. Maybe. Can you see him chuckle a little bit and he's like, yeah, let's go.
00:40:25
Speaker
As you guys head down the path into the pinewood forest, you see the pine trees starting to get bigger and bigger until all around you are giant sequoias. The path moves onwards, a red dirt trail. And of this, you suddenly feel an electric shock and a stabbing pain in your heart. And it is gone as soon as it comes back. You take no damage, but you are stunned. Oh great, so I can't move? So basically I'm petrified?
00:40:55
Speaker
Uh, no, you can move. It just stopped you in your tracks because it felt like someone temporarily stabbed you in the heart. Hmm. I guess of this, like Umbreon would do that. You know how black cats can curl back up and it's like the standard Halloween thing? Yeah.
00:41:14
Speaker
Yeah, and the hair frizzes up. I feel like that's what Umbreon would do. Are you alright? I don't know. I feel like it just had a minor heart attack. Do you alright? I don't know if I have other B.S. going on. I'm not sure if that's our biggest concern, but I guess it is something we're worried about. Didn't you just have a heart attack? Don't worry about it.
00:41:44
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I'm fine, I'm sure I'll be fine. Do you remember this place? Is this, like, special to you or something? I don't think so. Can I roll a perception just to see if this place strikes any memories? Uh, don't be history, so yeah, roll smart. Okay. That is a 16.
00:42:12
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Okay, even with the Sixteen, you get the... As you start focusing in on this forest, you get an overwhelming sense of, once again, joy and nostalgia. Happiness, but yes, sadness and longingness. Like, you want it more than anything else. As you focus in, these ghosts overwhelm you. Eh, I wouldn't really say I recognize this place. I'm just getting the same feelings from every other place.
00:42:41
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Looks like this forest goes off for miles. As you guys continue on, you eventually come to what looks like a stone pedestal.
Emotional Climax at the Gazebo
00:42:50
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Almost like a Cassiebo, or somewhere someone would get married. And you can see the path ends up on the pedestal. I'm gonna say it's a stone Cassiebo. Interesting. Well... Um...
00:43:11
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I don't know what to do. This is where it's been leading us. Is this the end of the path? It looks like it. So maybe I'll provide some insight into this. Yes, do you recognize this place? Let me make another history check. Okay.
00:43:40
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uh that's a 14 okay basically the same things as before except even stronger what you feel is just longing wanting more than joy or nostalgia you want something that is long past something that you can never have again you almost feel like as if something is coming to an end as if time itself is coming to a stop
00:44:11
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It looks like if I were to guess, I assume it's like a marriage proposal, marriage, a wedding, a place for a wedding. Are you guys standing in the gazebo or outside of it?
00:44:31
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I think I think he would have gotten into it. Yeah, at least, uh, Arxom went in to explore and investigate. Oh, okay. Okay. I guess this would speak up. He's like, it feels stronger here. Whatever it is.
00:44:52
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so abyss is inside the abyss i mean not the abyss sorry we have all died we're all dead in the casino uh yeah i guess he would he has a curious spirit so yeah he'd probably go inside
00:45:13
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Okay, as you step into this gazebo, you stand in the center of it, and all of a sudden, you just feel sad, miserable, and you start to feel panicky, like, you don't know why, but all of a sudden, you start feeling panicked, and then, here? You don't know why you feel fear, but you do. And all of a sudden, you fall to your knees, and as you look up, your three friends are fading away.
00:45:40
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Wait, wait, wait, wait, don't go, don't go, don't go! I don't know where to go! Oh, Dan. Okay, I... And as they are fading away, Abyss gets another static cessation in his heart, and an electrical jolt goes through his body. Oh. Uh, uh, okay. Don't freak out. Don't, don't freak out.
00:46:09
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Abyss, you are laying on the ground in very much pain as another stab of pain goes through your heart and an electrical shock racks your body. And after some time, you get an utter sense of panic and fear. And then you fall to the ground and you don't wake up.
00:46:37
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We got to two tancies, leaning over an Umbreon on a stretcher. Clear. Dr. Red, it's not working. I think it's time to finally let him go. He's been here for two months already. No, he will come back. He must come back. Clear. Dr. Red, even if he did come back, his life would be forfeit anyway. The dementia destroyed his life, and any life he has left has gone from this world. Let him be in peace, my only.
00:47:07
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The heart rate monitor in the corner of the room starts beeping frantically and then flat brings.
00:47:29
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All the music in this episode comes from the album Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Time and Darkness Remastered by Sion Arco, Arco VGM. The music used was Welcome to the World of Pokémon, Time Gear Remix, On the Beachhead Dusk, Into the Pit, Hidden Land, Temporal Pinnacle, Memories Returned, Have to Get Home,
00:47:53
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in the hands of fate. Good night, a grand tale of time and darkness, and don't ever forget. If you want to be a part of other bonus content like this, be sure to join our Discord linked below to be notified of future opportunities. Thank you for listening to my story.
00:48:16
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