Thresher: 2-Part Underwater Epic | Episode 2, Power Rises Part 2

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Greetings again, crew.

It's Game Master Jasper William Cartwright, and you're listening to part two of this episode of Thresher.

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In this epic underwater miniseries, miniseries, we're following a motley Thresher crew to explore the abandoned Rambior station, resting in the ocean's dark abyss, where ancient creatures lurk.

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That room where you've just destroyed you can see now through into this room these flickering lights all of this stuff like strewn across the floor this whole lab itself looks like it's been sort of ransacked and destroyed.

You use there is a that door behind you would take a while to decompress.

You have essentially a door back towards the Dover well, or to the left, you have a door to the Crimson Strand.

And where's the hatch?

The hatch is currently this creature is crawling.

Oh,

this is the hatch that we are trying to close.

This is the hatch that we found

down.

Yeah.

As this one emerges, you see

the eyes are much smaller in its head.

This one,

its mouth filled with

sort of more like

rounded teeth.

There's even a more kind of flesh-like colour to its skin.

Does it have both hands?

It does.

Betty,

I can see the gun you've created.

She is very eye-catching.

What I'll say is: go ahead,

you two.

You roll me a survey roll, actually.

You roll me a survey roll.

Or actually, or I will allow this to be read.

Sorry, if you would.

This can be read.

Yeah, okay.

Okay.

Five.

Five.

As you're looking at this creature, something jumped out to you as you stand there with this

homemade gun.

Something very curious.

That you notice that every...

seemingly everything that you know

that has happened to these creatures before

this creature has a strange seam

down its head.

You see that there is a slight discoloration to its hand.

And I think that intuitively,

you realize that you have not been seeing multiple creatures.

This is the same creature, and every time you see it, it's that little bit more evolved, that little bit more human.

I'm s I stand in front of everyone, this knife ready, kind of anticipating, not, you know,

just looking at his movements.

I'm going to relay this idea that

this is going to sound very strange.

I think every time this creature dies, it evolves.

It is becoming more and more advanced

every time we kill it.

So we do not kill it again.

What are you talking about, Mon?

That sounds crazy.

Let's just get the fuck out of here.

Just get the fuck out of here.

Fuck.

Um, does anything it's doing make me think it is now trying to communicate versus

versus just trying to?

It's doing the same kind of like skittery, fast, aggressive movement, but it's absolutely sort of stalking towards you, kind of placing a hand, sort of crawling across the the the ground i think even now as it's starting to come closer you can even see like where perhaps a collarbone has broken where maybe it tackled something a little too hard and you see how it's fused in a slightly strange angle

um i'm going to

essentially

see the hatch

and it's like yeah so it's

right in between you and the hatch

I mean, I mean, that was the objective, right?

To go through this hatch.

Well, we can also go through the tunnel to the crimson.

Alright,

someone's got to make a decision because I'm watching this piece.

I'm going to the crimson.

Go.

Go.

Go.

Go.

Don't kill it.

Okay, fine.

Then that's.

Then I'll be behind watching this thing as everyone.

Okay, let's make some move rolls.

Okay.

Okay.

I'm going to walk towards the creature.

What?

You walk towards the creature?

I'm looking for something in it, something.

I recognize an effort on its part to do more than just be an animal.

Make me a sway check

as you approach this creature and try not to

threaten it in some way.

I'm going to give you one of my drives

by sheathing my blade

to not look like as if we're attacking so you've got an extra

appreciated

four.

I think

it reaches out towards you,

grabs you by the shoulder, pulls you in,

and you hear

as it sinks.

I shoot it.

Okay.

As soon as it makes the attack.

Well, let's resolve the attack.

Reality bending.

You miss.

What?

What?

Okay.

What are you...

What's your current scar?

What?

Wait, what?

Excuse me.

In reality!

You can't heal me!

What just happened?

A scar of Titan.

You

all watch as you fire.

This was a dead-on shot.

And you watch as the two creatures seem to almost like...

The two of you seem to almost phase together for a split second as that happens the bullet goes straight past and then they back out and you see the creature then

lifts its head up viscera dripping down as you take a body scar what the fuck

I am what's everyone doing high tide or low tide first of all

high tide high tide high tide high tide yeah hang

I think maturity rules

maturity rules.

I'll say you are definitely closest to the door by the Crimson Strand.

Absolutely.

Okay.

I am going to...

I'm going to go for the creature I'm gonna go kill it okay yeah go for the creature get me a strike all right

and I'm gonna

spend three three drives here because I'm not gonna fucking miss

um

okay two successes two successes four yeah

uh then would you Damon like to use your ability yep absolutely Rendering flesh.

Render flesh.

What are you doing with this?

So I think

I see it kind of

pull out.

And my aim is essentially to do the same thing.

It's

come in for the head or the neck and drive forward.

But this time I think it's that it's again it's pulling as well as moving this creature away from

actuarial.

Does he have to pass within reach of me?

He would do, yeah.

Is Is there anything I can do to try to interfere?

With him doing this?

I'm gonna say

you

move at such a speed that even like for all of you watching it's like

it's unlike anything you've ever seen.

He moves so fast and is so strong.

And you see him grab this thing and easily overpower it.

And you know how quick and strong and powerful powerful this creature is.

As this knife drives into the side of this creature's head,

you pull it round.

And it's almost like a shell being cracked open

as you hear...

Thank you.

And you see as this skin and flesh gets pulled, the knife digging round the side of the face, you just see...

Part of a face kind of peeking through almost like a shell and you recognize the eyes that now sit behind it.

Marcus!

No!

What?

And this creature falls to the floor.

And I'm just going to just...

I'm going to need you to take a break, Mark, please.

Oh, fuck.

I'm going to keep hacking at this thing just absolutely like almost like...

Can you make me a focus roll tonight?

Yes.

Like literally just crushing this beast's head.

Six.

Six?

Yeah.

yeah

uh then i think it's up to you whether you resist

that you no yeah sorry because i know because i don't i haven't got any so it's three three yeah i think you feel an overwhelming urge in this moment as you see raw flesh right so in front of you all you see me and i i yeah see what you guys are

you see me just hacking at this thing and going crazy then suddenly

You thought that it was with my knife, but it's actually my hands.

And my face gets closer and closer to this thing as I start devouring its face.

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and here we are returning to thrasher

i shoot him

get away from my fucking brother

uh i'm gonna burn my resistance to re-roll that

uh two fives two fives yeah

uh you shoot him you take two body marks.

Okay.

As you feel this unbelievable, like white-hot pain in your shoulder that kind of snaps you out of it for a second, as you all hear a sickening,

as you see that door that you sealed up is suddenly struggling under the pressure, and you see the door itself begins to crack and buckle and bend.

What do you all do?

Where are you going?

It's time to fucking go.

I'm going through the door.

I throw it open and I start running down the hallway.

So you run into the Crimson Strand?

You all heading in the same direction?

Um, yeah,

I think taking that.

I think the hit probably does snap you out of it for a second, and you feel great now.

Yeah, so I'm like,

and I start running

towards the Crimson Strand.

Covered in blood.

I don't think I run.

I roll to see if, like, but seeing, like, it's Marcus's face, right?

I don't, like, I'm just

in tears just looking at this body, like, like maybe fall to my knees and I I just am too locked in to run am I allowed to use sacrifice more than once or is it something that only happens

it's only to take a mark or a scarf right yeah

so

I will

kneel in front of Betty

Nashari

we have killed this thing he has killed this thing at least once and it came back

Perhaps for

your

friend here, death is not eternal.

Okay, but you will only die once here.

We have to go.

Okay.

And I'll take that brain.

Okay.

Take that brain mark so you can mark that brick.

You can take that brain mark away.

Okay.

And then I'll let Huckuel take me away.

Like, I'll let him sort of pick me up and carry me.

As that happens,

you see

water start to spill into the room as you rush out,

and

you see behind water just

comes crashing in, knowing that was absolute certain death if you stayed in that room.

I believe we have a.

Was that the note you wanted to pass?

No, okay,

okay, it was.

You all dive inside of the Crimson Strand.

You see, there is this central kind of boiling sort of mass in the center, and it is almost unbearably hot in here.

As you realize now, as you look through the windows, that the Crimson Strand is surrounded by all sides by this geyser.

That this was clearly built on top of it as a way of then absorbing that energy.

So it is insufferably hot in here.

As you look across now, you can see that area that you saw in that video earlier with Admiral Anders, that place where he put a key in.

And I think that just through

your knowledge and your knowledge, you know that the only way to like reactivate the station to turn it on properly is with both of those keys.

However, there is a red light pulsing in the center of the room and you can hear this like emergency sirens going off and there is a repeating message about depressurization.

It seems that whatever happened in the Colgrave Nexus now is potentially affecting the rest of the ship and I won't even make you roll for this, Betty.

You know for a fact that if this station doesn't get turned back on properly and essentially able to absorb the energy of this geyser, this whole place is going down.

Okay.

We are going to go into a cinematic because this is a very high pressure situation and we're going to do like fast thoughts.

So, high tide or low tide for the party.

High tide.

High tide.

High tide.

Yeah.

Okay.

You see, if before, you've got the circular room, you can see the place where the keys go.

You can see that one, there is one key that's already in place, and there is another one that appears to be missing.

You look, there is a door over the top of it, it says Ron Fall Bastion, and in the other side, you see there is an open door, and that leads to the undertide vault.

And leading from that keyhole can you see there is a bloody handprint on it and a drag mark which leads all the way down to the undertide vault

okay

I'm gonna run towards the undertide vault sprint for it okay is everyone going yes yeah as you will run okay you get down there and you are immediately met by a door uh a door with a keypad on it and it seems to be sealed shut i'm gonna try and rip it open okay go ahead and make me a strike roll i'm gonna use

with my renowned energy another three

drives.

Yeah, okay.

Oh no, sorry.

Yeah, three drives.

Oh, six and a four.

Six and a four.

So I can do the render of flashability.

Sure.

I'm gonna say with the four,

you start hammering against this door every single time your fist connects you can feel the fibers in your muscles starting to tear apart and you keep pushing and pushing and pushing and from the outside you could swear you see his muscles almost look like they're like rippling and bulging at the pressure your hands cracking as well and I think that you're gonna take two body marks as you just relentlessly pound against this thing almost with a level of frantic uh like an uncontrolled kind of frantic energy.

And there's four marks with a, gives you a scar on the side.

Three gives you, and if you've got like one left over, that kind of carries on, yeah, essentially.

So I'll take that scar then.

Is that a scar?

Yeah.

How do you think it manifests?

I think there is, as you see, like the muscles tearing and rendering and my arms bulging.

I think what you guys also notice is that

my

hands have grown in size

and they look

they look

human but slightly beastly I think you can't necessarily tell whether it is bruising swelling or a genuine sense of like

a creature

whoa

and I don't think I can suppress that anymore and I think that there is a sense of I'm looking at my hands and I'm seeing them

and I'm sort of like

they're visibly I'm visibly in pain and I think it's gonna just yeah

there is a hole that's opened up in this door do succeed you make a hole in and as you look in you see now that there are these all these little um almost like drawers

it's kind of stacked one on top of another

and they don't seem to have a keyhole or anything on the outside but in the center of the room there is this like screen essentially and it's sort of flickering on now

and you can see that bloody mark kind of continues until you see that there are sort of remains of like clothes and bits of bone, but like the actual like

evidence of it the whole body is completely gone.

I'm gonna run forward and see

kind of clocking this and clocking that.

Um I'm gonna run forward and see if the key is anywhere in the

pile.

Going fine.

Okay, go for it.

Survey.

So we can we can enter the room.

It's not like much of the room.

Yeah, yeah, you can get into that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.

And if you want to as well, there's there is this computer like for example yeah can i celebrate to see if the screen has an interface yeah

um would we consider this a high-stakes role oh of course okay i mean i think cool under pressure rolls for the rest of the game probably

uh cool under pressure and i'm gonna burn a drive great

okay

i'm gonna take the six okay we'll resolve that in a second

also a six amazing and is that to with to for the interface to find the the interface to use the interface.

Okay, so I think as you as you plug it into this

interface, you see that the kind of it's like flickers to life and you see there are two files.

There is a

there is like a recording labeled

like it's like a CCTV followed by like a bunch of like random numbers.

And I think that you immediately clock something that's strange is that this is

essentially is a raw file and you know for a fact that the file that you saw previously wasn't a raw file.

Okay.

Next to it as well, there is a uh uh VSB, like a file that says VSB on it.

Oh.

Do you want to do anything with either of those?

Download everything as fast as I can.

As much as I can, as fast as I can.

I think as you sort of click on the file, where the CCTV file, a little video springs up onto the screen and begins to play.

This is Admiral Anders of the Atlantec station Ran Beyond.

Systems are failing, the crew is mutinous and there appears to be something down here with us.

I understand the protocol demands that I get as much information off of this station as possible.

However, due to the perceived threat to the outside world, I have made the decision to initiate the Abyssal lockdown of protocol,

destroying the station.

Dr.

Blackwell agrees.

Three,

two,

Seeing someone that you recognize in this video,

you realize

that Emily is no longer in the room.

Huh?

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Let's continue our adventure in Thrusher.

Okay, what the fuck is going on here?

This is like doing an escape room with horrible people.

What would you guys like to do?

We're still in a cinematic, so it's

we're moving.

Oh, uh, the key.

Did she f I mean, we don't know if she found anything.

Is there anything in amongst the dead guy's remains?

Uh I think if you want to burn a survey, absolutely.

I would love everyone to give me a gilded die roll.

I think having seen that video, let's see if anyone is panicking currently.

No.

In fact, awful.

Four.

Four?

You burn through an hour of oxygen, but you do not panic.

One.

One.

It's my gilded die, so I get a drive back.

Yep.

So you start to panic.

What do we get here?

Three.

Three?

Two.

Two.

Okay.

Oh, with a two and a three.

You all, three of you, begin to panic.

I think seeing this and suddenly having a realization that perhaps there is much more to all of this than even you had realized, you

start to...

I think it's actually the moment of turning around and realizing that she's no longer there.

I think that for all of you, suddenly that weight of pressure, of this being under the ocean, of the horrors, I think seeing all of the things that you've seen, realizing what must have happened down on this station to cause that

this what has ever has happened to the people that were down here suddenly starts to overwhelm you as you feel yourself breathing heavily

so all three of you are panicked which means you will go first Then you will go what the three would the three of you like to do

So remember you can can try and calm yourself down try and center yourself you can take a selfish action ending it immediately

Just to clarify she we saw her go for the clothes Yep, and then she was gone Essentially as the video popped up and you all started watching it You then sort of turned around and she was gone.

But she went for those clothes first, looking for something and then booked it.

I'd like to take the most selfish action I could right now, which is to start evacuating the station.

I begin the long flight out of here and back to the thresher.

You're just essentially trying to book it out.

I'm leaving.

Book it out of here.

I am achieving it.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

You end the panic condition as you're like, see ya, and you just run.

This is getting worse and worse by the moment.

I'm going to do

in an effort to

stay focused on what I'm here for, I'm going to scan the room to see if there's anything else of interest before I follow our good doctor.

I think if you were to scan the room, you would realize that essentially all that's in there are these like locked boxes.

You think that if you were to sort of spend time tinkering with that console, you could probably unlock them.

But like, essentially, like with the time,

you would there's nothing else that's like immediately accessible, essentially.

in that case

In my panic, I am going to start

preparing for severe measures.

I

take off my auxiliary oxygen tank

and prep it, okay.

Understood, and finally.

Oh, God.

Um,

I think I'm gonna try.

We've just been betrayed, and I know this guy isn't who he says he is.

Or so I believe.

Can I try and calm myself down by trying...

He's helped me.

He, like...

He could have left me to die.

Can I try and calm myself down by trying to see if I trust this guy with like a reed or something like that?

Yeah, go ahead and make me a reed roll.

Yeah, love that.

I'm going to burn a resist drive on this as well.

A six.

Six?

six yeah i think there is a genuine moment of connection here as

um and i'm gonna say i'll reward the six and actually say that this helps you as well um and this will end the panic condition for both of you can i go to her cure and just be like look

we found something i somebody

this dr everett they said that they had your name they were obsessed with you but you helped me and she's gone what the fuck is going on in here please i trust you you saved my life you gotta gotta tell me what's going on, mister.

Come on.

And we're gonna jump to you.

I think

I,

after having done this pounding of the door and kind of looked at my hands shaking, I've sat and I've sort of let everyone do their thing.

The video caught my attention,

and now I know that

Emily isn't in the room.

I'm gonna go after Emily.

Okay,

As

specifically the two of you head back up towards the Crimson Strand, you see

that stood,

if you wouldn't mind passing this down for me,

over the console,

twisting the key,

is none other than Dr.

Blackwell.

And she is saying

and doing.

Have I turned on the ship yet?

You can do it as part of this, yeah.

Okay.

Um,

Dr.

Blackwell looks at you all.

I'm sorry, I'm not dear darling Emily, aren't I?

You may call me Corinne.

And she turns both of the keys.

As

the keys turn, there is a moment of

the lights black out.

Pitch darkness.

Stillness.

Nothing but the void of endless sea swirls around you.

No fish move.

No current.

Nothing.

Until eventually sound comes crashing back.

And in the void of darkness you hear.

Iroph Naxal Velostri.

Un Karash Liroth

By the old pact sealed in blood and salt, let the sleeper stir.

Let the veil break.

Hear me, O hidden one, and rise from the silent deep.

And with that, she rips her arm open and blood splatters all over the floor.

The necklace that has fallen out from behind her cravat is now glowing blue.

As this happens, the lights

burst back on,

almost emerging out of the pitch darkness.

You see you suddenly come flying through the space towards her.

And there is a moment as your hand reaches up and you stop.

As you are unable to strike her.

A hand suddenly held there, the lights illuminating it.

You're looking at your hand, almost feeling betrayed by your own body, as you hear a whisper in your head.

As As do you, Corinne.

Finally free.

Thank you,

both of you.

And then just in your head.

You would not strike a fellow sister, one who serves the same as you.

And you feel your hand starts to ripple and change.

There's some spines and spikes and grey, sort of

fishy flesh starts to cover your whole arm and skin starts to grow over your face as you start to morph into this

strange fish-like being.

Through the window, the bubbles have ceased.

As it seems, the Crimson Strand now is doing exactly as it was intended, absorbing the power of this brilliant geyser underneath.

And instead, out of the windows,

like

temples, skyscrapers, huge and terrible tentacles,

just slowly swaying,

slowly rising from somewhere deep,

deep below the station.

What would you like to do

damon

well

if you're next to me

going to literally devour uh yeah go ahead and make me a strike roll please great

Where are we in relation to all this?

You are having a tender moment.

I think you come up and start to see this.

So we are coming coming into this

scenario, yeah.

Good.

Just gonna burn some three drives, yeah.

I'm so sorry.

I'm in the spirit of running away in terror from the previous thing.

I am maintaining that momentum.

And I'm trying to scramble from this further monstrosity.

Yeah.

Oh, you're lucky.

I got one success.

It's just a five.

That is important.

I will say this.

You do see, as you come back into the the room, that that door to the Ronfall Bastion is opened up, and on the wall, almost like a library of items, you see weapons all the way down.

There are, like, you see some of those similar, like, mechs, but have nothing inside them, not that face, that strange thing.

There's almost a space for a human to sit.

There is also, yeah.

Like almost like an exoskeleton type.

And then there is a...

There is like rows and rows of guns and

anything that you could possibly imagine is just sat in this room.

And then the other way you can go back out into either the observatory or to the Colgrave Nexus, but you know that

that has flooded.

So which way would you like to go?

So it's the Ronfall Bastion,

the Colgrave Nexus, which is flooded, or the Haven Glow Observatory.

Observatory, yeah.

Or you can just straight up try and get out and then swim it.

Swim to the surface.

Yeah.

You have your suit on.

Okay.

At depth, though.

To the surface.

It's a long surface.

Well, you know

the submarine is still waiting essentially just above the.

I don't know what's out there.

Oh, I do know what's out there.

It's freaking Cthulhu tentacles.

I,

scrambling, trembling, I grab the nearest weapons on

the racks in the Rumford Bastion.

Okay.

If I can.

Yeah.

What do you pick up?

A bandolier of something that goes into something very heavy.

Okay.

Amazing.

Something very heavy.

You pick up a grenade launcher.

What are you going to do with it?

Tote it at Damon.

Okay.

Go ahead and make me a sprite roll.

Oh.

What?

And you can add this.

You can add three dice to this roll.

That's fair.

Add three dice to this roll.

Just as well.

Oh my god.

Oh

triple sixes.

Triple sixes.

Three sixes?

I don't know what you want to do with three sixes.

I know what I want to do with three sides.

Six, six sixes in the presence of Cthulhu.

Awesome.

Oh my god.

You are the chosen one.

You see

as this grenade sort of lands, hits the ground, doesn't explode, rolls right between your legs.

And there is a moment as your form now looks down, as it blows up, you go flying back, hitting into the side of the wall, your legs and the lower half in tatters.

Feel no pain.

You feel only hunger.

As you hear in your mind, it will take far more than that.

These tentacles now start thrashing at the side of this building.

I will save my children.

And you know, instinctively, this thing is trying to get in to kill everyone but you two.

Wow.

Okay.

Hey, where are you going?

Where you going?

You two.

So we are at the door to the Crimson Strand.

Yeah, you're like in the doorway.

You've just seen Grenade Launcher, what used to be Damon, fly through the air.

She is human.

Yeah.

He is most certainly not.

Not right now, no.

And is he close to us?

He's on the floor, sort of with no lower half, but sort of seemingly patching himself back up as parts of him are regrowing.

Did we...

We heard her speech.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay.

Okay.

You are not nice.

I'm going to take the oxygen.

So we notice that he is starting to recover.

Yes.

I'm going to take the oxygen tank and throw it in his direction

and then yell at Betty.

Shoot it.

Oh my god.

Okay.

Can I?

Alright, you know what?

Yeah.

I'm gonna use my shift the tide.

Oh

yes, there we go.

Okay, now my shift the tide.

So as I see this

oxygen tank come towards me, I'm trying to patch myself together, my hand still there.

I kind of laugh as you've blown me back to where my canister is.

And as I sort of hit it, you just see this spray of like red liquid just douse me.

And

you get this strange kind of tingy smell of like metallic sort of elements of it because you realize that this is human blood And suddenly I sort of awaken, and this canister, I pick it up and I throw it at like a window for it.

And as so as you shoot it, it almost I throw it and kind of want to blow the window up to throw water in.

Okay.

And that's what I do.

Can I try to use reality bending to make him slip as he grabs the canister?

Unfortunately,

this shift the tide ability is full narrative control.

Ah la la la la.

Well then.

perhaps I can use my shifted tide to change it back.

I'm going to say you can't undo it, but you can make the consequences of it lessen, right?

You can do something in that moment to, you know, like, so essentially this window begins to crack.

And then finally a tentacle bursts through into the room as it gets flooded with water.

I'm gonna make everyone roll me move to see how you essentially handle this moment.

The tentacle, Herbert, is going to give you an extra two dice, Dr.

Blackwell.

As it's going straight for you.

Got a five.

I'm going to spend a drive.

Five?

Yeah.

Five.

Five.

Five.

Five, five, five.

Five.

Five.

Come on.

Oh, wait, I rolled two and I only actually get one.

Oh.

One was a six and one was a three.

Five.

Three.

Ah, okay.

That's a failure.

This water comes crashing in.

Anyone that failed is going to take a body mark as you get slammed against the wall.

Sorry, anyone who got

mixed success, sorry, gets slammed against the wall with a full failure.

You're going to take two body marks.

As I see this happening.

You do not take a mark, however, sorry, as the tentacle wraps around you, shielding you from any further damage.

Can I ask a question?

Engineering-wise,

the two switches that got turned-isn't that supposed to destroy the facility, right?

So essentially, there's like different modes for like what that does.

You have to like input a sequence and things like that.

So I think essentially what you see is that like there was a certain sequence that the Admiral seemed to do to like activate that mode, and you would assume that Corinne, Dr.

Blackwell, developed a different sequence and turned it.

But we I remember that sequence?

Would you remember the

Admiral sequence from the video?

Roll me focus.

Focus?

Yeah.

I'm gonna spend

absolutely.

Yes, please.

I'm gonna.

Oh, I can't even resist this sequence.

Can I help?

I was watching that video as well.

You can absolutely.

You can add a.

Do you want to add spend a drive?

Do another one.

Yeah.

Yeah.

No!

Oh, I can't even resistance it.

I've spent it.

What did you get?

Just twos and ones.

Twos and ones.

Yeah, Yeah.

Nothing.

Here's what I'm gonna say.

I think

you do

know the sequence, but what you realize is there would be no way for you to input the sequence, turn the key, and for you to get out.

Or for anyone who was to do it.

Okay.

Then it would be immediate.

As I see HerQ get smashed against the wall, I shout out to him within the shield of these tentacles as this glowing orb still glows.

Haku, you are a good man.

You are like us.

I have seen what you can do.

Join the Riftborn.

They mean no harm.

Please save yourself.

Come to me.

Come to her.

You hear it in your mind?

You smell like us,

marked by us

as

I hear her words,

the scars on my neck

sort of flare

and split

on either side.

I'm sorry, Betty.

It was inevitable.

And I will walk towards her.

We still have radios, right?

Yeah.

Yo, you're still...

You're communicating via radios.

This is all essentially underwater at this point.

They seem entranced with each other, and there's all these tentacles and the waters coming through.

I think you can make me a reed-roll, maybe.

Just in terms of, I think there's so much going on.

This is pure chaos.

Whether you would detect that four and a five.

Four and a five?

What do you think?

What's the sort of intent for, like,

as he's, as you know, you're being read essentially in this moment?

What does

Betty get?

For a moment, you see a look in my eyes,

and it reminds you of Marcus.

Switch it to Val's channel.

Get out of here.

Hey, what?

I know how to blow it up.

No, no, no, it's leaving time.

We're going.

You get out of here.

No, we can run with me.

No.

They took Marcus.

I'm not gonna let him get away with that.

Please go.

Do it.

She starts slowly backing towards the door, flips off her radio.

I wanna wait till Val gets a good distance

and and I'm gonna spend my

tide

shift the tide

to basically

get to that console

using this moment as the body's destroyed and everything else

avoiding whatever's going on and I want to get to that console

and put in the code and switch the keys.

Okay.

What are we doing over here?

As this happens, where are you going?

As I see the decision that Betty is making,

I turn to her and I say, doesn't have to be this way.

You can still live.

And I have that scar, right?

Yeah, you feel that pain, I think, still

that pain.

Marcus's death is like in, it's like ripe in your brain, still.

Can I use that memory to take

a gesture, a moment, a behavior of Marcus

to let her know

I am on her side?

Fuck away!

What?

Okay, I think as you do this, there is a moment where you...

I don't even think you intentionally do this, right?

It's almost like a reflexive thing.

where you do this, you cock your head to the cock his head to the side and just gives you that little smile, and it is just like it's exactly what you remember Marcus doing.

Can it almost be that you try and like you look as if you're gonna stop me from what I'm gonna do, right?

And then I see that,

and as you grab me,

I pull something from inside my suit.

He promised he'd take me.

The keys turn.

Are you staying?

I bend the knee,

and as I bend the knee, I take the ampio that is in my hand and slam it into her thigh.

Would you do you still have a chef the tide?

Oh, yes.

Do you want to tell us what happens?

Erquie de Bourdain

is famous for creating a solution, a cure for a disease called ravage, which was

destroying children.

What no one ever said

was the horrible price these children pay through the treatment.

As I inject that medication into your skin, your body overclocks.

Every mitochondria in your system triggers into triple, quadruple, quintuple overdrive, and you can feel yourself starting to burn.

You are literally heating yourself from the inside out.

And if you cannot find a way to stop this, you will be consumed.

She starts to feel the burning from inside and holds on to her metal, which is now colder and colder.

Riftwalker, please, Riftwalker, please heal me from within.

Riftwalker, please, Riftwalker, please heal me from within.

And can I do some type of check for how I've connected with

I do believe that you've actually also achieved a goal?

This is fucking mad.

What is wrong with you, people?

And from

I am just a fucking beast.

I am a beast.

Not some demon-talking motherfucker.

Not demon-talking, just commuting.

As this happens, the salt water seems to almost caress the wounds that I have.

And through the massive rip that I have created in my arm, the salt water starts to dive into my veins.

And I can feel it cooling me.

from within.

I think as you feel it cooling you, you know instinctively that this comes at a terrible, terrible cost.

Yeah.

So you stay to do this action?

Because you didn't say that you were leaving.

Essentially, the keys have been turned.

So I'm watching this happen right now?

Was this her turn of the tide?

Yes.

So

I think what happens...

You watch as this key has been turned.

These

signals kind of light up around

the Crimson Strand.

One, two,

three, four, these little red lights.

You

outside now, just in the ocean, furiously swimming.

I'm going to need a move check.

Alright.

Also, I'm assuming we've all burned through more oxygen at this point.

Oh, I think oxy- yeah, we're fully out of like I don't think anyone's uh fumes, you know,

yeah, I think absolutely we're running on fumes here.

Full.

Full, okay.

You

feel

an overwhelming and intense heat behind you

as a

explosion

emanating from the Crimson Strand sends you flying.

You find yourself yourself

after maybe

five,

ten, twenty, who knows how long

oxygen depriving you of your senses,

desperately crawling, swimming up

through one of these cavernous holes.

Doing everything you can

until eventually you sort of almost drift out of the top of one of the holes.

You see the thresher ahead of you as your vision starts to go

and closes.

Until you hear.

Oh, what the hell happened?

Are you alright?

Hello?

Look, Captain!

Atticus!

You open your eyes, you are suddenly on the thresher.

You open, you are coughing up blood and salt water.

What the?

What on earth was that?

Oh.

Captain, I.

It's gone.

It's gone, did you see?

Yeah, but I mean...

They're dead.

And you see, the captain goes, well, it's a shame.

But I...

I got it.

Did you get it?

I got it.

What did you get?

You got the blueprints?

PSP.

Give you a massive high-five.

Sweet!

Well, that couldn't have worked out better.

There's not even anyone left to hang about and tell us what happened.

It's a shame.

I gotta say, that is some fine, fine work.

You know that.

Atlantech is gonna give you a raise.

It's more luck than skill, you know.

Oh, come on, don't do yourself dirty.

Do you know what I mean?

Oh, a nice bath.

At this point, the thresher is currently

leaving.

And

we will just now, as the thresher leaves, we will stay behind just for a second.

As

we descend one last time back down

through the hole to see

this smoldering rubble that is left of the Rambior station,

you see severed these huge

titanous severed tentacles lying ripped to pieces on the ocean floor.

There is one, however, curled in a sort of tight ball.

And as it loosens,

you just see floating, limp but not lifeless,

two

fish-like beings.

No faces,

one slight and live,

one

hulking and huge.

They

And begin, two of them, to swim up to the surface.

And that is where we're going to end

our second episode of Thresher.

Thank you so much.

What a story!

I mean,

that's like what?

Like what if what even what even we're not gonna just whatever you're doing right now, just go to beacon and watch the cooldown because why wouldn't you do that?

We have to.

Oh my word.

Oh, thank you so much.

A huge, huge, huge thank you to my cast, to the crew.

What?

And wow, my brain is mush.

Complete mush.

Thank you so much.

And we'll see you in the cooldown.

Oh, wait.

Hold on.

I just realized.

What?

Is it Thursday yet?

Hey, it's Jasper here again.

What remains of the Thresher crew will return to sea level.

But don't be sad.

That harrowing journey is is over.

Be happy that you survived all the hidden horrors of the Dark Abyss.

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It could help us recruit some more brave explorers, because we're kind of running out.

Thank you so much for listening to Thresher and we hope you're inspired to homebrew your own adventure based on the Candela Obscura game system by Darrington Press.

Farewell, Daring Explorers, and may we meet again, hopefully above sea level.

And from your game master, thank you so much for listening.

This has been a joy and an honor.

I'm very very thankful that I got to tell this story for all of you.

Thresher was produced by 12-sided studios and Paragon Pictures for Critical Role.

Original world created by Jacqueline Emerson and Matthew Linton.

Adapted and homebrewed for gameplay by Jasper William Cartwright.

Produced by Sam St.

John.

Critical Role producer Kirby Winslow.

Critical Role executive producers Ben Vanderflute and Annie Kruger.

12-sided executive producers Jess Jewell and Chad Pitel, starring Abubakasa Lim as Damon Adams, Jacqueline Emerson as Emily Wadsworth, Jane Douglas as Valerie Sutton, Mark/slash Mara Humes as Betty Callahan, Noshir Della as Hercule Dibodine, Travis Willingham, Marisha Ray and Sam Regal were all radio voices, Ali Henderson, Owen Tunston and Jess Jewell as Screaming CCTV voice.

Multicam director John Cerdivan, 3D artist Owen Tunston, post-audio Oliver Moore, and production designer Gemma Alexander.

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