Act 2 Episode 14: Staring Contest With The Abyss(al)

Meon's trap has been sprung, and the gang must now escape both the ocean's crushing depths and the terrifying demon attempting to fry them all. And the army of jellyfishfolk now visible on the horizon, they're still here too. While the Circle struggles to reorient themselves and strike back at their Sidereal foe, their allies uncover the final pieces of several puzzles, and finally enter the long battle to save the Nighted City from the oncoming mini-apocalypses!   Aura also has another run-in with Sky Sundering Shadow, who wants to make good on their contract from back in Act 1. She reveals some ominous information about the coming fight and offers yet another devil's bargain to help turn the tide. Also, Gavel's own army forgets who she is! Lythander singlehandedly invents a shovel-based martial art! Many, many high-difficulty rolls get blown out of the water! Nellens Liza has a harebrained scheme, and Rajeev gets some major flashbacks! A lot's going on today, on the penultimate episode of Act 2!   This is an Actual Play of Exalted Essence, the classic high-fantasy high-powered TTRPG, using the new Essence ruleset hot off the Kickstarter presses! If you're interested, you can pre-order it here and check out the pre-release draft now! https://www.backerkit.com/projects/200664283/exalted-essence-tabletop-roleplaying-game --- Here are links to our Twitch and Youtube if you want to see more of our content (mainly video game variety streams and the video archives thereof): Social Handles: Gamerex: @Gamerex27 Corrack: @Corrack Chills: @DiogoMontesso) Alatos: @Alatos_Diogenes --- Musical Attributions: Opening Theme: Traveler by Alexander Nakarada Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4770-traveler License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Closing Theme: The Final Show by Luca Fraula Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4704-the-final-show License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   Additional Tracks:   The following music was used for this media project: Music: Memories From Lost Worlds by MusicLFiles Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/7494-memories-from-lost-worlds License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   The following music was used for this media project: Music: Fanfare for Space by Kevin MacLeod Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/3736-fanfare-for-space License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   Lucid Nightmare by Tim Kulig Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/8492-lucid-nightmare License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   The following music was used for this media project: Music: Space Police by WinnieTheMoog Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/10121-space-police License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Artist website: https://linktr.ee/taigasoundprod