Episode 28: Phone a Friend

**Episode 28: Phone a Friend** (C1E28) is the twenty-eighth episode of the first campaign of The Table is Yours: A Role-playing Adventure Show. The Faded Fates fight their way through the undead guards of the vats...

## Synopsis

### Vats, Vats, They Fought at the Vats!

As Codex processes Balthazar’s response, One attempts to slow the oozes down with her gun, but they seem unfazed. Terry continues to beat the life out of the undead in the back corner of the building and can’t quite see what is happening towards the front. Isa positions herself in between the oozes and One to slash at them; the ooze splits into two, and it damages her axe, as well as her armor and body, as they hit her multiple times. She crawls towards the entrance of the building and calls Cazamir on her sending stone for help. The ooze hits Isa twice more, knocking her unconscious while the sending stone is absorbed as Cazamir keeps saying her name. Codex sees Isa go down from across the room and tries to use a new ability to stop the ooze from moving, which manifests as a snake coiling around the ooze. Unfortunately, the snake can’t hold on to the ooze, and it continues moving towards Isa and by default, One, who is behind Isa. Codex throws a dagger into the ooze as a last ditch effort to save Isa, but the dagger disappears and doesn't seem to slow down the creature. Codex moves towards the ooze and tries to take the place of Isa to get her out of immediate harm’s way, and while it works, Codex is hit and is knocked down almost immediately.

Wash runs toward Codex and instinctively casts Healing Hands as he hoists Codex off of the ground, placing her behind him. He tells Codex to get out with Isa, and Codex starts dragging Isa out of the building, leaving him behind. One makes her way to where Codex has Isa, and she stabs Isa in the face (lovingly) with a healing potion. As quickly as it heals her, Isa is hit again and is knocked back down by an undead being. Codex, still as large and appearing as a bear, again helps Isa move towards their exit. One heals Isa, and Codex drops her and tells her to run as Terry smashes and defeats several undead to ensure the party can leave safely. Wash stays behind to hold off the oozes and barely makes it out alive. The party notes the undead creatures do NOT follow them past the area where the vats are being kept.

### And ANOTHER One

The party runs as fast as they can towards where they entered from the Echo Chamber, but they realize One is no longer with them. The Faded Fates see One on the shore of the Murkside river, seemingly hypnotized by something below the surface. She begins to disrobe, removing her armor, her (cloak), and her clothes until all that remains are her undergarments. One is unresponsive to the party’s attempts to gain her attention, and she dives into the river. As this happens, the party is rejoined by Shae and then by Maude and Cazamir, and Cazamir seems uncharacteristically concerned and emotional while he is reunited with Isa. The party explains what they observed of One, and Shae follows Codex into the river after her. One swims towards the diamond only she can see, pulled by a strong desire and want, and is summoned by the goddess to a beautiful, pink smoke-filled temple hidden in the depths of the river.