Chapter Seven: The Machine | Sagas of Sundry: Madness

Summary

Podcast Summary: Sagas of Sundry: Madness

Episode: Chapter Seven: The Machine
Podcast: Critical Role & Sagas of Sundry (Geek & Sundry)
Date: May 11, 2026

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Main Theme / Purpose

This episode plunges deeper into the harrowing world of “Sagas of Sundry: Madness,” as the survivors of the apartment building navigate haunting visions, confront their past traumas, and race against both cultist adversaries and the looming supernatural threat of the Watcher. Their desperate focus: find and activate the mysterious “machine” that could close the rift threatening their reality—before it's too late.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Confronting Trauma and the Supernatural

• Visions from the Past: The team’s path is haunted by personal ghosts—Selina’s abusive father, Emmett’s lost friend Samantha, and more. Their mental struggle is almost as challenging as the threats outside.
  • Selina: “I saw my dad, who I took a fire stick to a year and a half ago. So, yeah, not too crazy, I guess.” (08:38)
  • Emmett: “When I see things that aren't real, I just repeat to myself the things that are real. And we're real. And we'll go there with you.” (09:12)
• Watcher’s Presence: The Watcher, a spectral antagonist, lingers at the edge of perception. Its power seems to have waned, but the psychological tension hangs thick.
  • Narrator: “I am your personal darkness. I am the Watcher who sees all. ...But isn’t it great to have friends? People you care about who are truly real?” (10:06)

2. Investigation and Discovery

• Blueprints and Hidden Architecture: Clues from building blueprints lead the group to uncover a hidden void behind Emmett’s bathroom wall—illuminated by a strange green glow and only detectable thanks to the map.
  • Emmett: “So if we're out in the hall, there's something in the corner.” (13:16)
  • Game Master: “As you peel some of the old wallpaper, you start to see stonework...it feels more like plaster.” (13:31)
• Strange Relics: Digging deeper, the group finds arcane blueprints and a cryptic letter from Malik Abdallah Mahsim, referencing an indestructible amulet (the Amaletum Regnum) and the need to destroy it on another plane.
  • Emmett (reading): “The relic is the last remaining token of his essence on this plane. ...None of man’s most powerful tools can affect it. ...I believe that the amulet can be destroyed on its own plane of existence. The immense tower I’ve seen through the mirrors of this building is the most likely.” (17:00)
  • Player: “More who's holding this? Good luck, dear nephew.” (22:40)

3. The Challenge of the Machine

• Machine Room and Puzzle Mechanics: The team discovers the machine and faces an intense, time-sensitive dice and color-coded mechanic (reflecting the "Ten Candles" system) to reactivate it and possibly seal the rift.
  • Game Master: “Each one of these cards represent some kind of mechanism that you must fix in order for the machine to be fully operational. ...This represents a tower starting with blue, black, and then red on top.” (24:06)
  • Selina/Emmett/Players: (A frantic, collaborative sequence of rolling dice, sorting colors and numbers, solving as footsteps and danger draw closer.) (26:33–29:50)

4. Showdown with the Cult and the Supernatural

• Building to a Climax: As the machine springs to life, the group is confronted by cultists and a supernatural antagonist. The building literally begins to fall apart, possibly tearing reality itself.

  • Narrator: “You can feel it whizzing and moving and humming to life as you can hear footsteps and the sound of someone banging. ...You can see it, Jude. It’s standing right there in the corner. You can feel it.” (30:18)
  • Selina: “Hide! You're on point back.” (30:58)
  • Narrator/Game Master: “You think you’ve won. You think the watcher isn’t already here? You’re too late. He’s made his time.” (31:01)

• Supernatural Confrontation: The group tries to defend themselves verbally and physically but discovers their foe cannot be killed by conventional means. The building crumbles, and the surviving cult leader escapes, taunting them.

  • Antagonist: “I have taken more than bullets, my dear. I have lived centuries to see this moment pass. ...All you have done is trapped yourself here with him. Welcome to the fold, brothers and sisters.” (31:22–33:05)

5. Another Reality (Or Doom) Beckons

• Aftermath and Foreshadowing: The episode closes with the group realizing they're in a new, possibly hellish dimension, face to face with their greatest task yet—destroying the amulet and facing the Watcher at last.
  • Selina: “What dimension are we in?” (33:36)
  • Emmett: “We're in the dimension where we can get rid of that thing.”
  • Selina: “Okay, let's fuck his shit up.” (33:46)

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• “When I see things that aren't real, I just repeat to myself the things that are real. And we're real. And we'll go there with you.” – Emmett (09:12)
• “It was here that you saw Samantha laid out in the bathtub. But she's not here now. ...It's quiet. Disgustingly quiet.” – Narrator/Game Master (11:30)
• “The relic is the last remaining token of his essence on this plane. ...None of man’s most powerful tools can affect it.” – Emmett, reading letter (17:00)
• “Welcome to the fold, brothers and sisters.” – Antagonist/Cult Leader (33:05)
• “We're in the dimension where we can get rid of that thing.” – Emmett (33:39)
• “Okay, let’s fuck his shit up.” – Selina (33:46)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Introduction to Episode Theme, "Madness" and the Watcher: (01:37–02:20)
• Confronting Memories & Trauma: (07:57–09:12)
• Discovery of Hidden Room & Blueprints: (13:16–14:43)
• Details on the Relic / Amulet and Parallel Planes: (17:00–22:47)
• Approaching & Rebooting the Machine (Puzzle Sequence): (24:06–29:50)
• Confrontation with Cult Leader and Reality Collapsing: (31:15–33:13)
• Closing Determination (Entering Another Plane): (33:36–34:01)

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Episode Tone and Style

This episode masterfully blends tragic horror, tense action, and raw emotional moments, punctuated by dark humor and the nervy camaraderie of doomed souls. The storytelling swings between the intimate psychology of the characters and the high-stakes frenzy of supernatural survival.

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For Further Listening

To continue the story and witness the final confrontation against the Watcher and the fate of reality, follow the next chapters in “Sagas of Sundry: Madness” or check out other campaigns and interviews in the Geek & Sundry feed.

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Note: This summary covers the main dramatic and narrative content, omitting any ad breaks, intro/outro chatter, or external promos.

Transcript

[Narrator/Ad Host]

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[Mr. Ren (Narrator/Storyteller)]

Can you ever really know someone? Lovers? Neighbors? Friends? Can you really be sure who they were before they were part of your life? What are their secrets? What did they do to get from the person they were to the person they are? Ask yourself. Ask yourself now. Do you really want to know their secrets? These are the sagas of Sundry. I am Mr. Ren. And there will be madness.

[Game Master]

The elevator lurches and stomps as you see a ghastly face lift its head straight into the grate. It gets frustrated and then just leaps right off.

[Emmett]

What are you doing?

[Selina]

I mean, you know, if you can't beat him, join him, right? No.

[Emmett]

No.

[Narrator/Game Master]

And as you walk through the door, you can see him. Your father. You know, I told the dumb bitch that if she ever walked into this house again, I would knock her senseless.

[Emmett]

Your father's not here. The voice isn't real. That's not real.

[Game Master]

So you find some few items of interest inside of this building.

[Selina]

That looks like the sketch of what Fenley pulled out of his wall.

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

This is the plans for the building. Emmett, you were 403.

[Emmett]

Your bathroom. It's labeled there's something in your bathroom.

[Narrator/Game Master]

And you hear a voice.

[Game Master]

I know they came down here. Make sure they don't turn the machine back on.

[Emmett]

I grabbed the map and we have to make a run for it.

[Game Master]

We have to go.

[Emmett]

You guys go.

[Selina]

We'll cover.

[Game Master]

As bullets are ricocheting around you, you can hear the. And it leaps straight for Emmett as

[Narrator/Game Master]

he takes his crowbar and whack right across the side of its face. And all of you pull yourself towards the elevator and hit the button to feel the ascending staircase of safety. You feel the lurch of the elevator stop. And you can still see your elevator, the out of service elevator. But there's also a cultist.

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

I've had it with these fucking cultists. Oskanatska, shut the fuck up. It's been a really, really long day, buddy.

[Narrator/Game Master]

You will not. As you come up to the body and look across him, you can see the gun that he has discarded is there. You can see the police officers from earlier. God damn it, Erickson. The lights weren't supposed to come back on. They weren't supposed to come back on. I thought they took care of those kids.

[Game Master]

As you lean up, you hit him across the side of the face with the crowbar. As Selina, with the last man, takes a giant sledgehammer into the back of the head.

[Narrator/Game Master]

You all run up to Fenley's fourth floor room and you. You can see the hole that started it all. It makes a satisfying click as you

[Game Master]

put it into place. And it is enough for now.

[Narrator/Game Master]

Let's all come back to the lobby and complete our story.

[Mr. Ren (Narrator/Storyteller)]

It's Samoa.

[Narrator/Game Master]

Welcome back to madness. You've managed to fight off the watcher's influence, Selina, and have put the fuse back into the place where it once was. And because of that, you can feel it's completed. At the same time, that iridescent hum that you felt, that underlying sense that you now know has an absence, is not yet there. The machine's not on. Yes, you've prevented the power from blowing again. Yes, the power is still back on the building. But there's something deep inside of you. Almost as if when you walk into a room and you can distinctly smell the ozone in the air when turning on a humidifier. That's a terrible analogy.

[Game Master]

In any case, that feeling of safety and comfort that you would associate with the machine being on and closing the

[Narrator/Game Master]

rift that is in this place is not there. But the question is, what to do from here?

[Player Character (possibly Sam)]

Well, we talked about all of our apartments.

[Selina]

Yeah. Maybe we should start checking out Some of our rooms.

[Emmett]

The bathroom.

[Selina]

The bathroom.

[Narrator/Game Master]

You want to investigate. Which of your apartments first?

[Player Character (possibly Sam)]

Mine?

[Narrator/Game Master]

Yours?

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

He's next door, right?

[Emmett]

He's 403.

[Narrator/Game Master]

If you are indeed going to Emmett's bathroom, you are close at hand. And so far, the cultists that you've run into, they don't seem to be apparent on this floor. But you can hear footsteps moving across. They are definitely looking for at this point. So let's go to the bathroom, shall we?

[Player Character (possibly Sam)]

Before we go. When I met you guys today, I already thought I was losing it. I go on those walks all the time just to help with my writing. And a few months ago, I met a woman who worked on the streets.

[Emmett]

Sam.

[Player Character (possibly Sam)]

Yeah. After a while living here, she was the only friend I had. And she died. She OD'd. Except I saw her today in my bathroom. So. Doesn't seem too fucking crazy after everything else today, but I just thought it was worth noting.

[Selina]

I saw my dad, who I took a fire stick to a year and a half ago. So, yeah, not too crazy, I guess.

[Narrator/Game Master]

Emmett, one of the most difficult things that has happened to you is going to be revisited by coming back into this space. There's a lot of emotion, and you remember the words that she said to you when you were in there. Do you really think you're brave enough to go back in there? What if you saw her again?

[Emmett]

When I see things that aren't real, I just repeat to myself the things that are real. And we're real. And we'll go there with you.

[Narrator/Game Master]

Are you all ready to journey to Emmett's bathroom?

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

I'm ready.

[Emmett]

Yeah.

[Player Character (possibly Sam)]

Let's get it over with.

[Game Master]

Make a pull, Emmet. Get out of your head.

[Narrator/Game Master]

Selina's hand is warm and comforting. But there's more than just a comforting hand that you have to fight here. It is your own will. It is your own guilt that you need to make peace. This is your battle. And though Selina may provide comforting words, this is still your fight. I am your personal darkness. I am the Watcher who sees all. You can tell that the presence known as the Watcher seems to be weaker than what you've had to contend with. But before we're real. But his influence is still there, like a mindless echo. But isn't it great to have friends? People you care about who are truly real? And that small bit of flesh is all that you need to ground you into the reality of here and now. Let's go. As you creep down through the hallway, you hear the sound and movement of the cultists below you continuing to creep

[Game Master]

as doors slam every moment or so.

[Narrator/Game Master]

As you quietly tiptoe into Emmett's bathroom. Now, Emmett, this should feel very familiar to you. It was here that you saw Samantha laid out in the bathtub. But she's not here now. In fact, the moment that you were so dreading, that painstaking, piercing intonation of the Watcher coming into your mind to remind you just who she was, is not here. It's quiet. Disgustingly quiet. It's almost as if he's waiting to see what happens next.

[Selina]

You all right?

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

Not really.

[Selina]

Same

[Narrator/Game Master]

as you gaze around, it's not much of anything. There's a bathroom. There's tiles. There's a sink. There's a toilet. It's very sparse, yet there's something not right about looks.

[Player Character (possibly Sam)]

Just the way it did when I moved in.

[Narrator/Game Master]

I still have the map if you want to look through it.

[Player Character (possibly Sam)]

Okay, let's put it up.

[Selina]

Put it on the toilet.

[Player Character (possibly Sam)]

Renovate.

[Emmett]

So if we're out in the hall, there's something in the corner.

[Narrator/Ad Host]

Renovate.

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

Bathroom.

[Player Character (possibly Sam)]

That's the front of the apartment.

[Emmett]

That's the hallway.

[Selina]

Came in.

[Emmett]

Should be in the corner.

[Game Master]

Abigail.

[Narrator/Game Master]

As you peel some of the old wallpaper, you start to see stonework. In fact, if anything, there doesn't seem to be stone back there. It feels more like plaster.

[Game Master]

As you knock along parts of the wall, it's starting to have areas where it feels hollow. One side is certainly deep and you can hear the very firm piece of concrete. But then over here

[Narrator/Game Master]

starts to feel

[Game Master]

more like something you would expect inside of a real building and not some prison in which one world and another

[Narrator/Game Master]

are colliding into each other.

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

What about here? This is definitely different than here.

[Emmett]

All right, stand back.

[Narrator/Game Master]

Oh, shit.

[Game Master]

You can see there's something.

[Selina]

There's something glowing. Keep going.

[Player Character (possibly Sam)]

Ease down, ease down, ease down.

[Selina]

Damn, girl.

[Emmett]

Oh my God.

[Selina]

You had some pent up shit in there.

[Game Master]

Holy shit.

[Emmett]

Saved the workshop.

[Game Master]

A soft green light pierces into the bathroom. There's a whole nother area. And the only reason you even knew about it or could even conceive it was there, is to see the blueprints.

[Selina]

All right.

[Emmett]

Usually I'm confined to just doing setups in my rooms. Soap. That's good.

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

Emmett, your bathroom buddy.

[Player Character (possibly Sam)]

You know, I don't want to face plan after all this, so. Hold on. Get away from that for a sec.

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

Oh, nice.

[Game Master]

Piece of shit. That's not fair.

[Selina]

I want to kick something down it. Sledgehammer.

[Narrator/Game Master]

All right.

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

Well, what the.

[Selina]

He looks like he's been here a long time.

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

Uh, yeah.

[Emmett]

What?

[Game Master]

Jude. As you unfold each one of the maps, you can see one is a different version of the blueprint that you've been looking at. There seems to be hundreds of versions of this building, Countless and countless versions with different equations all over, each one slightly different than the other.

[Emmett]

I found something in his pocket. The relic is the last remaining token of his essence on this plane. Several of the Magi's writings point to a complete cleansing of all the Watcher's essence on the material plane to be rid of his machinations. All attempts at destroying the Amaletum Regnum has failed. Fire, pressure, Electricity. None of man's most powerful tools can affect it. During the war, I managed to get the relic onto an atomic test site, which only succeeded in irradiating the damned thing for years. It appears indestructible. And yet. We've discussed appearances, haven't we? Objects on one plane appear far different from another dimension. I believe that the amulet can be destroyed on its own plane of existence. The immense tower I've seen through the mirrors of this building is the most likely.

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[Player Character (possibly Sam)]

More who's holding this? Good luck, dear nephew.

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

In your hands lies the fate of not just mankind, but possibly every living

[Player Character (possibly Sam)]

thing on this realm. Keep this infernal machine running until you

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

can find a way to shatter the amulet. May your life find the peace that mine never did.

[Player Character (possibly Sam)]

Your uncle, malik Abdallah Mahsim.

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

P.S. garbage pickup days are Thursday now.

Good to know what we were.

[Emmett]

We were what?

[Selina]

Yeah, we were there.

[Emmett]

The immense tower. Through the mirrors of this building.

[Selina]

Through the mirrors of this building.

[Game Master]

As you continue to look through this very, very old part of the building,

[Narrator/Game Master]

you realize the one thing you haven't found yet are the means in which to open the machine.

[Game Master]

Well, actually, you did just find it. There it is.

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

Gamer all right,

[Narrator/Game Master]

Jude, you open up

[Game Master]

the briefcase and you see large sets of old tubes. Tubes shaped like

[Narrator/Game Master]

cubes.

[Game Master]

These are the representations to turn the machine back on. This is our next challenge. After all this time, you've restored the power.

[Narrator/Game Master]

You've kept the current moving and flowing.

[Game Master]

And now this is the last thing

[Narrator/Game Master]

that will reboot the machine and turn it back into what it was before the circuit had shorted and left you in the current state that you are. And you can start to hear the

[Game Master]

sounds of people coming up the stairs. The sledgehammer that you took to the wall has caused attention and it's now or never to turn the machine back on. I'm gonna do this, and we will begin this adventure. All right, here is how this is going to work. Each one of these cards represent some kind of mechanism that you must fix in order for the machine to be fully operational. Now, you have your set of tools over there, which are those multi colored dice. Now, each one of these cards has very specific parameters denoted by their color and numbers. For example, the simplest one here is. Is just yellow, green, red, and any color die that has the number one on it. This is blue and red, or blue and green. Three different dice. This represents a tower starting with blue, black, and then red on top. Black and red cannot be placed before blue does. That final one over there represents a tower in which a green dice, any dice with the number three and a black dice for the final crowning piece. And whatever I have left in my hand after you've completed them will be

[Narrator/Game Master]

a pull from the tower.

[Game Master]

Now, under the circumstances in which I place the last one down and I have none left in my, you will have completed it. And if there's any time left over any more that you are able to clear off of the board, I will

[Narrator/Game Master]

give you one health block for each one that you share with.

[Game Master]

So are you ready?

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

Ready.

[Selina]

Ready. Ready.

[Narrator/Game Master]

Begin.

[Emmett]

For numbers. First 1, 1 and green.

[Selina]

3.

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

The green's more important for building on.

[Emmett]

Right, and the 1 and 1.

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

5, 2, 3. 5, 2, 3. Blue for the tower.

[Selina]

Come on, big money.

[Emmett]

No way, mate.

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

Three, five, six. Three, five, six. 3, 5, 6.

[Selina]

We still need a black or black over here.

[Game Master]

Clear.

[Emmett]

That clear.

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

Okay, black, two and a one. And we're aiming for 15, too.

[Selina]

Oh, black and red. We can finish this out.

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

Black. Yep.

[Narrator/Game Master]

Up, up.

[Selina]

Done.

[Game Master]

Okay, perfect.

[Narrator/Game Master]

Okay, let's

[Game Master]

five, six and five.

[Selina]

And this works.

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

Let's do this. 11 and this can go here.

[Emmett]

No, no, this is 15.

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

This is 15. We got it.

[Emmett]

That's 15.

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

10. 15. Got it. Clear.

[Narrator/Game Master]

Clear.

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

Okay, this is seven. So two and a five.

[Selina]

Two or four.

[Emmett]

One or a three.

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

Okay, that's good.

[Selina]

This one's clear.

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

Five can go here. We can put anything here. We'll just put a five here. Cause it's big for adding up. Green.

[Narrator/Ad Host]

Clear.

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

Okay, five there.

[Game Master]

One.

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

Eleven. Clear. One, two, three, four, five.

[Game Master]

Clear.

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

Okay, clear. Jude, here's some perfect.

[Narrator/Game Master]

Okay,

[Mr. Ren (Narrator/Storyteller)]

Any two letter.

[Emmett]

Any two.

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

Here's the green.

[Emmett]

Let's just clear this.

[Narrator/Game Master]

Go.

[Player Character (possibly Sam)]

Clear.

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

And then here's the green for this. And then.

[Selina]

Okay, and then we need a yellow or one.

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

I got it. All right, so Green again. And then we need a one over there.

[Narrator/Ad Host]

Red.

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

Clear.

[Insurance Ad Voice]

Or.

[Emmett]

Or a yellow. Or a yellow. Or a yellow.

[Selina]

Clear.

[Emmett]

Clear.

[Player Character (possibly Sam)]

I'll take them.

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

Got them.

[Player Character (possibly Sam)]

Black one.

[Narrator/Game Master]

Black one.

[Selina]

Oh, okay, this number has to be less than this number, less than this number. So these have to go up numerically.

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

Well, here's a one.

[Emmett]

One.

[Selina]

Perfect.

[Emmett]

Okay, two.

[Game Master]

Great.

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

So 1, 2, 3, 4.

[Emmett]

This one.

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

This one completes that. 5, 6.

[Selina]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Clear.

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

Clear.

[Game Master]

Is that all four numbers? Correct, everyone, you have completed it.

[Narrator/Ad Host]

Keep the rolling.

[Game Master]

Turning the machine off.

[Narrator/Game Master]

How much time do we have left?

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

Okay, what's time? Another black here.

[Ellen Marsh]

Wait, wait.

[Selina]

No.

[Emmett]

Six minutes.

[Game Master]

Six.

[Emmett]

Do we have a four? Oh, damn it. Sorry.

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

No. So black and black and that one.

[Game Master]

Clear.

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

Keep going.

[Emmett]

And then three.

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

Clear.

[Game Master]

And then.

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

Okay, we need two blacks and a one. Two blacks.

[Game Master]

That does not have a legal placement. So I will be taking this one away.

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

Okay, so all we got is this. These are gone.

[Mr. Ren (Narrator/Storyteller)]

Those are.

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

Just drop them in for red.

[Emmett]

Just keep.

[Mr. Ren (Narrator/Storyteller)]

Just keep rolling.

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

Blue does anything.

[Emmett]

Six minus four equals two. Clear. Okay.

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

Blue and yellow.

[Narrator/Ad Host]

Blue and yellow.

[Emmett]

It's gonna be the hardest one.

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

Can't do it. We need a blue and a yellow. So those are all duds.

[Game Master]

So 1, 2, 3.

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

Son of shit. This is all gravy, though. Black and red. Those are duds. We just gotta go for speed. It's all about color. Yeah, yeah.

[Game Master]

No, nothing.

[Player Character (possibly Jude)]

Gone. Blacks and reds. This one is impossible. That's a dud. So one of these goes away. Right?

[Josh Horowitz]

Game master, guys.

[Game Master]

Because of the configuration of this, I

[Narrator/Game Master]

don't think there is any way this one's going to be completed.

[Selina]

That's fair.

[Game Master]

You are already three up. So you have turned the machine on. You filled the switches, you put things together. You can feel it whizzing and moving and humming to life as you can hear footsteps and the sound of someone banging. And yet there's one more thing to do.

[Narrator/Game Master]

You can see it, Jude.

[Game Master]

It's standing right there in the corner. You can feel it.

[Selina]

That's my babe.

[Game Master]

You hear as lights. The lights flicker.

[Narrator/Game Master]

And you feel this warm pulse of energy fly through you. This warm waking atmosphere just humming to life as it crackles and pops and sizzles into being. And then you hear a gun click as someone through the door frame is pointing a gun right at you.

[Selina]

Hide your on point back.

[Narrator/Game Master]

You think you've won. You think that the watcher isn't already here? You're too late. He's made his time.

[Selina]

And click, click, click.

[Game Master]

You shoot into this person as they

[Narrator/Game Master]

are walking towards you. I have taken more than bullets, my dear. I have lived centuries to see this moment pass.

[Game Master]

And I will not be thwarted by a bunch of nobodies. And you hear as the building

[Emmett]

as

[Game Master]

it rumbles and shakes and you can

[Narrator/Game Master]

feel as the building is beginning to waver and tumble and move. And she hands her hand out. And this time you can tell that an elderly woman holding her face pulls the mask back as a long languid tongue comes back out. I will be taken. Take my journal back. Now

[Game Master]

you watch as one of the walls rip and peel open as stone begins to fall away. And you can see the barren wasteland all around you as the building begins to crumble. And you can see as pieces of rubble fall and things are crashing onto the floor.

[Narrator/Game Master]

You can hear her continue to cackle.

[Game Master]

All you have done is trapped yourself here with him. Welcome to the fold, brothers and sisters. You watch as she unceremoniously floats out

[Narrator/Game Master]

through the entrance and out the door as the building.

[Game Master]

Begins to settle. Enjoy your time with him. He's not very forgiving.

[Narrator/Game Master]

Son of a bitch.

[Selina]

What dimension are we in?

[Emmett]

We're in the dimension where we can get rid of that thing.

[Selina]

Okay, let's fuck his shit up.

[Glass Cannon Podcast Narrator]

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[Game Master]

us in the dark.

[Ellen Marsh]

Oh, please, not that music. That music gives me nightmares from my childhood.

[Joey Taranto]

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