Show Notes
Four goons wake up in a theatre of the mind, and Croc is in the next seat smoking a cigar. He offers them their lives back for one small favor: make it whole. Each of them walks through the worst memory they ever buried — a burning church, a betrayed caravan, a mother's cigar ash — and comes out the other side owing a debt.
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System: Pathfinder Second Edition
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The gate is the tomb of a betrayed general, and the talisman has been screaming his name this whole time. Heart is his key. They set the stone in the door and something crawls out — an eye, a robe, a rhyming corpse called Der Tib who remembers being murdered and wants a crystal soul to reap. Beetle's mother is waiting on the other side with a knife at Heart's throat. The Rotgoons have one finale in them. Make it count.
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They find their friends. Vena, the Elmas, Hollick, Brog and his daughter — all driven underground while Outset burned topside. Greg the potato mancer shows up with 64,950 gold. The Ferryman's rate has climbed to a thousand a head. Talim clutches the money bag like scripture and weeps.