Revelations in the Ruins is the seventeenth episode of season 26, Cloudward, Ho!.
Recap[]
Last we were left off… Phew, last we left off, you know where we were. We were right in here in the as-yet-unnamed vehicle you constructed.
[Cue arguing about the mech name.]
And just like that. You guys are all aboard Mr. Big Britches, your incredible custom-built mech, surging forward over the stunned body of the other colossal mech here. You have made your way safely to this foundry where you used your incredible mechanical skills to quickly build your way out of danger, ruin, and certain death. Having dodged the Grim Reaper yet again. All too easy for this scrappy crew of wind riders here in the fabled land of Zern opposite your intended target of Zood. You now surge forward with much to consider and think about. You travel with quite a large crew of people, the six of you, along with Comfrey MacLeod, the professor, the Zernian automaton Sandy and the unconscious Torse. A tiny robotic toad you just pulled out of the wreckage. We also travel with Ghost Dog, your faithful canine companion, Kočka, your faithful rodent companion. Courtney, your faithful Tyrannosaur companion, Wealwell, your faithful fraternal companion. Bert, your faithful spousal companion, along with Freyja Ildisdottir of the Bank of Fehujar, Captain Dawderdale, who's really not been a captain much since episode one.
You, again, have arrived in Zern quite suddenly, and not necessarily with any time to prepare, as you were chasing after Torse being taken by Straka, who had destroyed the Zephyr Mark I as you arrived here, and realized that, indeed, the Queen of Zern, the Empress of Ruin, is none other than Ludmila Ryczanek, the protégé of Marya Junková, taken here in ages long past almost from the beginning of Zern's history. With that said, we now return under the red skies of Zern in a blasted wasteland. As you surge forward, you'll all have to think very quickly. Boom, as you surge forward, the ground before you is littered with Naughtomata. There are hundreds of Naughtomata around you in all directions. They are surprised as you burst forward from the ruin. What do you do as you leap forward?
Synopsis[]
As Van speaks the name of Tazgw’agwa, the knife Max had taken from Mordecestershire shoots out of his pocket to her, ruining his pants. Max demands that Van pay for new ones. He suddenly gets a new perfect pair from a future version of himself.The crew is deep within the Amphereon, in the heart of Zern. The lands of the Corrodi Primarch, beholding none other than the sickening towers of Castle Odpadku on the horizon. Mr. Big Britches, our brand new mech, was carrying our wind riders, our intrepid heroes, along with their allies and friends and comrades, escaping from the foundry hidden under the junk lands of Zern, all the way to the Amphereon, the ancient hall of the Corrodi Primarch that now where the forms of very advanced automata that speak with human faces and human mouths.
We saw them in the crystal screen with the intelligences of long lost Corrodi Primarch, Marya and Monty beholding this screen as Marya- and her blood moved into the machine. Marya looking out and seeing Ludmila arriving badly injured and being nursed back to health by small little automata worms that, over time, were gifted with her mechanical knowledge these incredible powerful forms that they now wield for the barters and bargains that they offered. Ludmila sought to contain the Calefactory Biangle to make sure it could not hurt anyone; a goal she succeeded at, containing it inside a doorway. After it was constructed, We saw her waiting dutifully by the Calefactory Biangle that she had captured with her potent craft and eventually around the time of what Comfrey had called the Prime Disruption, but was referred to differently by Olethra's reanimated friend that she found on a Nat 20, Buzz, a Zoodian, an ancient Zoodian clockwork man that had been sealed away.
With these various robots, discovering Buzz had come here with Torus and Tarun, envoys from Zood, back way before the Flying Temple of Katur, back before the Illangan Empire, when this apparently deal was struck or this arrangement was made, that a flow of energy going to and from Zood and Zern would instead be arrested and that the life force of Zood would be maintained within Zood. And the Corrodi seeming very intent on keeping that force of fire and ruin and ash within Zern, as well.
Hit the recirculate on the car AC for their respective worlds. We saw within the vision that Marya was having as the blood seeped into the machine of the destroyed consciousnesses of various Corrodi Primarch that had resisted the force of this total takeover of Zern. The Corrodi coming and comforting Ludmila as she eventually lost all hope that Marya would ever come, and gave in to taking the energy of the Biangle and letting it loose as Straka was born. Her doom created by her own hand there in the ash of Zern. We also saw flashes of her body being ripped open, the heart being pulled out of her chest, strange images of machine and blood and ash and ruin that we can't quite be sure exactly what it meant. And we saw that image on the screen of Ludmila's body floating, tubes entering it, with a heart removed. The heart of flesh, the thing that powers Straka.
We also ascended to the top of the Amphereon, beholding the ruined river that once flowed there and contacting Tazgw'agwa, and touching with that infinite power of this impossible astral being, Van took the knife, ruining Maxwell's pants in the process. Luckly a time traveling version of himself shows up to give him new pants.
Van reached the knife of obsidian into the air and cut the last bindings of the Beacons of Zumadi, releasing Tazgw'agwa, which has brought low the barrier between Zood and Zern, allowing you guys to jump right into Mr. Big Britches as a wall of water raced towards the Amphereon, climb up the spire and leap to where gravity meets and parts between the braids of Zood and Zern, and come crashing down, skidding down the mountainside to none other than Zumhara, the great crystal city of Zood.
Locations[]
Featured Characters[]
Player Characters[]
- Daisuke Bucklesby
- Vanellope Chapman
- Maxwell Gotch
- Marya Junková
- Montgomery LaMontgommery
- Olethra MacLeod
Recurring[]
- Naughtomata
- Bert Chapman
- Miryam Dawderdale
- Wealwell Gotch
- Ghost Dog
- Sandy
- Wisconson P. Toad
- Torse
- Tazgw'agwa
- Queen of Zern (flashback)
New[]
Mentioned[]
- Straka
- Longspot Gotch
- Corrodi Primarch
- Sylvio Dufresne
- Onion St. Clay
- Cadswitch Gotch
- Lord Kensington Cosgrove Mordecestershire
- Torus & Tarun