Ep 42 | Bubbles and Other Dangerous Spheres - The Empire Initiative

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Last time on the Empire Initiative. Reign and
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Zavari continued to innovate as they turned an
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outhouse into an interrogation device. Talryn
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rallied his people against Vryn and the Emperor.
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Inside Lokara's house, they searched for clues
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and discovered a mysterious crystal ball. Meanwhile,
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Dart and Boulder explored a lost temple of Shar,
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where Boulder revealed a terrible secret. But
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Dart chose to forgive him and convinced him to
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surrender his cursed dagger which Dart was able
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to seal away with the help of Sylvanas. This
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is episode 42, Bubbles and Other Dangerous Spheres.
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and Verlyn. Um, Verlyn is... I want to say she's,
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like, looking through, like, a book that Lycara
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had, like, on her coffee table, you know? Yeah.
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And, Reign, you are over by the crystal ball,
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and Verlyn will... she'll tell you, oh, hey,
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yeah, that's where, like, she would give counsel
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and, you know, kind of tell people's fortunes
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and stuff like that. Mostly people came to her
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for advice. She didn't ever claim to be able
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to tell the future, but sometimes it kind of
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seemed like it. Could have been just really good
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at pattern recognition. Yeah, that's true. She
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seemed really smart. I just want to know what
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happened to her. Me too. I mean, she wasn't like,
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I mean, she wasn't really like a fighter. I mean,
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a little bit, but like... that I didn't, at least
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I didn't think of her that way. As Reign's, like,
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trying to attune to the crystal ball. So, uh,
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make an Arcana check. 13. A 13. So, you definitely
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can tell it's like magic. You just can't tell
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exactly what it does. You would, you're gonna
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have to end up like... kind of trying it out
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once your attunement is finished. It's not, I've
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never done this, I've never had a reading before.
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So I guess this is, I'm just kind of winging
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it. I mean, that's what I do, I guess. Well,
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yeah, give yourself some time and then maybe
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you can give me a reading. Yeah, maybe that'd
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be good practice. Yeah. I'm pretty much an open
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book anyway. At least I am now. She will, she's
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kind of like, she's flipping through the book
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and it's like a book of like medicinal herbs
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and stuff and in the back of the book is like
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some less friendly medicinal herbs and she's
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kind of flipping through the back of the book
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and she's like, wait a minute, one of these pages
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is torn out. And what do you mean? I mean, I
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don't know I just like I think it's unusual this
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book is in really good condition And then there's
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just one of the pages is just gone in the back
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here where there's like poisonous plants Is there
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a glossary or an index? Oh, that's a good idea
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social look and No, there's no glossary or index
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There is There's just like a table of contents
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in the beginning and it's just like categories.
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Yeah, are they in alphabetical order? They seem
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to be more so grouped by effect. But like each
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effect is grouped alphabetically. So what are
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the effects surrounding it? So... Like the page
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before and the page after. So the page before
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is Mugwort. Okay. And the page after is Poppy.
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But, like, woad Poppy. It has, like, a picture
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in there. Much larger and more vibrant than a
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traditional Poppy, but they put you to sleep.
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What about the mugwort? Similarly you can lose
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consciousness It also can make you like ill like
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it'll make you we could make you throw up It
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can't be like a light psychedelic. Okay. Yeah,
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I can make you like have mild hallucinations
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I think it can make you, like, feverish. Um,
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or maybe the magical one can make you feverish.
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But, uh, but yeah, so it can, it kind of makes
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you, kind of gives you a general malaise. And
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then it also can, like, make you fall asleep.
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So whatever it is. M -N -O -P. It probably starts
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with something likely N -O - or a pee. It has
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some form of like you sleep effect or lose consciousness.
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Makes Reign think about like how how they got
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her, right? Like did they knock her out? Like
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we don't know exactly. Why would they tear the
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page out? Do they just need to remember? It's
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kind of fucked up like going through her own
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book and then like picking something out to knock
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her out with? Or it could be something that little
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Kara ripped out because she was looking for it.
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Hmm. But would she do that to her own book? I
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mean, I don't know. I mean, I get, I mean...
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Are there other books around that might, like,
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that would have torn out pages that this is common
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for her? I mean, if you, if you flip through
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the other books, there's some that are just,
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like, for leisure reading. There's also some
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more, like, technical manuals and also books
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about spellcraft. But no, none of the other ones
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are really missing anything. Some of them have,
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like, notes scrawled in the margins and stuff,
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but there's no, like, dog -eared pages. There's
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no torn pages. Okay. At least not through, you
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know, you looked through a handful of books.
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So someone who received her services came here
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and potentially stole a page from this book that
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of an herb that knocks people out in some fashion.
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Berlin's looking down at the book and she goes,
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oh yeah, and at the bottom of each page it does
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it does explain like what to look for for foraging
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it Like yeah, like leaves of three let it be
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that kind of like that kind of thing Just said,
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you know, don't confuse it with this and look
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for that often near this that kind of thing like
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This always grows on the water. So Rain is now
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just like doubling down trying to attune to this
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crystal ball because she knows that this is like
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the center point between her and probably the
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person who took her down. Okay yeah go ahead
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and give me another arcana check. 16. Okay yeah
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with a 16 you do feel it kind of responding to
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you. I don't know how rain would feel about this,
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but when you start to feel the crystal balls
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respond to you, you immediately get that sense
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of, like, psionics. Right? Like, you can kind
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of feel, it's like, almost like you immediately
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feel like your head kind of connecting to it.
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It reminds me of, like, being at the Church of
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Asmodeus with the table. The table on a crystal
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table that was at the bar Yeah, yeah reminds
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me of yeah, it does kind of remind you of that
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Yeah, and it also kind of reminds you of more
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nefarious mind trickery that you've had Recently,
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but yeah once you Once you get kind of a feel
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for it, it takes you a second, you realize that
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this is a crystal ball of mind reading and telepathy.
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And like as a DM note, if you look up crystal
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ball, it's like an item that is very powerful.
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It's not that crystal ball. It's like a mini
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version of that. Lucara's mini ball. Yeah, exactly.
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So you can use an action to cast Detect Thoughts
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for creatures within 30 feet of you. You can
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also use it to communicate telepathically to
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creatures within 30 feet of the crystal ball.
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You have to use an action to activate the telepathy.
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and then you just kind of like turn it off when
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you put it away. So yeah, and then if you are
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scrying with it, so the crystal ball doesn't
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have scrying, but you do need a crystal ball
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as like a component of scrying. So if you've
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used it to scry, those effects apply to your
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target. So you could detect thoughts of your
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target, detect thoughts of any... of creatures
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within 30 feet of your target, and you can also
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have telepathy with your target. Dang. When you
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connect to it, you hear these kind of like whispers,
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like fragments of memories that are maybe caught
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up in this crystal ball. You can hear, you know,
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Lakara's voice. And that's what I'm trying to
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gravitate towards is Glokara's voice. And it's
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kind of in like a mixture of all of this haze
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and other voices speaking out and some are some
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are like masculine, some are feminine, some sound
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like young people, some sound old. I also want
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to look at their eyes. Like, I'm focusing on
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their eyes and their voices, I guess. It doesn't
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give you a visual. If you were using it to scry,
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it would give a visual inside the crystal ball,
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essentially. But when you're connecting to it
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using telepathy and detect thoughts, it's more
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like... Mean, I guess if somebody like thought
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an image really hard when it was like active,
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right? What when you're when you're casting detect
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thoughts you may see that but it's not holding
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any fragmented images it's just mostly these
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like kind of whispers the stories and Maybe an
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occasional disembodied voice But you definitely
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like as you concentrate and you try to focus
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on Locara's voice, it kind of, um, you start
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to pick up on the cadence of how she spoke, which
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is noticeably different from how Rosenia spoke
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as Locara. Also, I saw a video today where someone
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was, like, being interviewed named Rosenia and
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I was like, what? Sirens the whole time. I think
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it's a cool name. I don't remember how I found
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it, but and aside um yeah so uh you focus on
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locara's voice and you hear her um she's giving
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i mean she gives a lot of advice um you can you
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almost like can feel her trains of thought Mm
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-hmm as she's giving counsel to people sometimes
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it's like oh like well, you know the girl I love
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ever noticed me or Whatever and she's like well,
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I can't tell you whether or not I'll ever notice
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you but what I can say is that you know, if you're
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caught up in this you're going to continue to
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make yourself small and That's not how you get
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noticed like you need to focus on Being yourself
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and being outward and being warm and friendly
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to people and like that's how people will notice
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you like that's the kind of thing that people
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would come wanting like a prediction of the future
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and she would kind of instead guide them to.
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what she would believe would give them the future
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they want instead of saying like, yes, this is
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what you can have or this is what's going to
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happen. Or like, yeah, she does love you back
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or whatever. A lot of stuff is kind of like petty
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and, you know, sometimes there's like a heavier
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stuff, though. You can hear, you know, like I
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blame myself for my father's death and stuff
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like that. Is there moments where? Ros - or Lokara's
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inner voice sounds either scared or like concerned
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about her safety. Um, so make a - make an investigation
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check. 24. Casually. Jesus. Okay. Oh, so you
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get kind of like these, you start to listen and
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you get these kind of remnants of, you can hear
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Lucara chanting, like a verbal component to a
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spell. And if you focus on that, you realize
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that she's, she does use the crystal ball to
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scry on people. And It must be sort of recent
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the this memory because it feels kind of strong
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when you like when you hear it it say he sounds
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more clear and you hear like Lucara's inner dialogue
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and she is watching somebody and listening to
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their thoughts and She's thinking to herself
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No, this can't be right. It must not be her.
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Maybe it's somebody that she knows. I know somebody
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is watching me. I know somebody... I know somebody
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is whispering about me. She says to herself,
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like, I know it has something to do with Klein.
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and she has scried on him as well. But it's someone
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else. There's another actor out there that she
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was trying to hunt down. She was trying to find
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them by scrying on multiple people. But she never
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found that other compromised person in the town.
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Okay. I think Reign would try to... Does she
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like to have any journals or anything like that?
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Or is it just really in this crystal ball and
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fragments of memories? Um, that's really it because
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there's like a it's weird because There are a
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lot there are some like handwritten notes and
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stuff But it's like there's a distinct lack of
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journals if that makes sense Yes, um, I it's
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like that kind of thing was removed at some point
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I would like to try to figure out when the last
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time Locara used this and like, did Rosenia try?
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Okay. Like, when in the timeline did Locara stop?
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Because then that'll help me in the timeline
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of knowing when she stopped. Yeah, that makes
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sense. When I pop out, I want to incite Berlin.
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I'm trying to think of like, what would tip it
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off? Maybe it's like you hear her in her dialogue
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for that day and she's, you know, watching over
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this lady called Jaskula. And she's like, no,
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it's not Jask. It can't be her. And then she's
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like, oh, my tea got cold. And she's like, you
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know, and she's like, I need another blanket.
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And Need to and I need to have a hug to this
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fire. What am I doing? I've been so distracted
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so it's it's cold and It's somewhat recent So
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the most like recent time it's been cold is probably
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the beginning of the year Or like, you know Yeah,
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probably beginning of the year. Yeah So recent
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as in like six months ago And that kind of gives
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you an idea of how much this thing is holding
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on to. It's still not attuned to you, so once
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it fully attunes to you, this stuff goes away.
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It wipes it clean. Then she stops. Because she
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wants to get this to Zavari. Okay. She doesn't
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want to erase anything. She wants someone who
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knows more about it to get their hands on it.
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Maybe her eye can do something. You never know.
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Just open that baby up. But then she opens her
00:19:02.190 --> 00:19:04.609
eyes again and looks at Verlin and insight checks
00:19:04.609 --> 00:19:10.809
her about the book. Okay, yeah, go ahead. She's
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like, there's one more person. And he's like,
00:19:13.450 --> 00:19:23.009
I don't know Verlin. Damn it. 12 Nothing although,
00:19:23.009 --> 00:19:25.890
you know, it was so far you've insight checked
00:19:25.890 --> 00:19:28.690
on her. Yeah, you've you know so far She seemed
00:19:28.690 --> 00:19:31.849
genuine, but you don't you just don't know. It's
00:19:31.849 --> 00:19:34.369
I think you have a lot of I mean, I think it
00:19:34.369 --> 00:19:37.809
represents your doubt. Mm -hmm. You know, yeah
00:19:37.809 --> 00:19:41.829
Berlin connected but like I don't even know how
00:19:41.829 --> 00:19:43.950
we're really connected, you know, like that.
00:19:43.950 --> 00:19:48.690
I'm I have doubts there as well. Yeah It's like
00:19:49.130 --> 00:19:51.210
Is it just because she's another master and what
00:19:51.210 --> 00:19:54.990
is that even? Mm -hmm. Like, is that like...
00:19:54.990 --> 00:19:58.029
Why is that really significant? And just because
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you're a master or a fellow master doesn't mean
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you're good, like... Right, which has been proven,
00:20:02.990 --> 00:20:05.490
yeah. Mm -hmm. Time and time again. So yeah.
00:20:06.950 --> 00:20:11.230
She's alone in the car's house with Verlin. Yeah.
00:20:11.329 --> 00:20:14.069
As her friends are traveling away from her. And
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Verlin is... At this point, she's kind of like...
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She's not going through stuff. That's why she
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kind of like went through the book on the coffee
00:20:23.569 --> 00:20:25.609
table because she doesn't feel comfortable like
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going through her stuff. She's kind of like,
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I feel like I can, you know, I almost feel like
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I feel her presence here still and I just, I
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feel weird. I feel weird. I might go outside.
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Unless you're done in here. Or if you need my
00:20:43.549 --> 00:20:49.119
help for anything. Uh, no, I think I got all
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the information I need, and she, like, packs
00:20:51.160 --> 00:20:55.440
up the crystal ball to take to Zavari. This has
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a lot of information, and I want to get it to
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Zavari to help us with finding out who did this
00:21:02.380 --> 00:21:06.359
to her. Yeah, I saw you doing some, like... And
00:21:06.359 --> 00:21:08.619
she kind of makes this, like, little wiggly hand
00:21:08.619 --> 00:21:11.839
gesture by her head, you know, magicky stuff.
00:21:12.680 --> 00:21:16.849
I mean, it's not really my type of thing. Yeah,
00:21:16.970 --> 00:21:18.930
it usually isn't mine either, but sometimes I
00:21:18.930 --> 00:21:22.529
just kind of gotta fake it and then figure out
00:21:22.529 --> 00:21:24.410
what it is so I can give it to the right person,
00:21:24.410 --> 00:21:28.049
you know? If you can't punch it or use it to
00:21:28.049 --> 00:21:30.650
hit harder, I don't know what to do with it.
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I mean, this would be a really good blunt object.
00:21:33.470 --> 00:21:36.230
Yeah. No joke, especially if you put it in a
00:21:36.230 --> 00:21:40.069
sack. Oh, shit! And then if I put a rope on it?
00:21:40.109 --> 00:21:44.750
Yeah. Oh, dang. That would be crazy. And now
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she's like, do I? That's how she answered. Zivari
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and Talarin? Yeah. What are you guys doing? I
00:21:56.109 --> 00:21:58.809
mean, I know you have the captive. Yeah, and
00:21:58.809 --> 00:22:02.910
he's like knocked out. He's knocked out. I don't
00:22:02.910 --> 00:22:05.529
know. Did you guys like, was there somewhere
00:22:05.529 --> 00:22:07.250
you wanted to bring him? I can't remember that
00:22:07.250 --> 00:22:10.910
part. I don't remember. That part we didn't talk
00:22:10.910 --> 00:22:15.180
about. Were you going to Dart? Yeah. So I'm like,
00:22:15.519 --> 00:22:17.259
this guy's going to wake up. I don't know if
00:22:17.259 --> 00:22:20.720
I want him to see where we are. You're going
00:22:20.720 --> 00:22:25.420
to take over some boulders. Yeah. Yeah. Bouldery.
00:22:26.119 --> 00:22:28.279
Oh. A boulder can't do anything. She doesn't
00:22:28.279 --> 00:22:30.240
know that. She doesn't know that. Yeah, no, absolutely
00:22:30.240 --> 00:22:33.099
not. Can we just like put a bag over this guy's
00:22:33.099 --> 00:22:35.460
face and cut like a little breathing hole? Oh
00:22:35.460 --> 00:22:39.180
yeah, no worries. I'll carry him. Okay. And tower
00:22:39.180 --> 00:22:42.660
and just kind of like... slumps this guy over
00:22:42.660 --> 00:22:46.559
his shoulder to like tie like god he stinks yeah
00:22:46.559 --> 00:22:49.779
my god even though you like cleaned him off he's
00:22:49.779 --> 00:22:53.279
still stinky i don't how is that possible she's
00:22:53.279 --> 00:22:57.799
like starts plugging yours like my god no prestidigitation
00:22:57.799 --> 00:23:01.759
again let's make this trip quick yeah no joke
00:23:01.759 --> 00:23:06.180
he starts moving double time high knees my legs
00:23:06.180 --> 00:23:10.119
are a little weak we're stripped with the speed
00:23:10.119 --> 00:23:16.329
berries And you guys get back to the house where
00:23:16.329 --> 00:23:22.190
you hear melancholic warbles coming from the
00:23:22.190 --> 00:23:29.349
house. And Taloran's like, um... I've never heard
00:23:29.349 --> 00:23:34.190
that before. I mean, I heard them singing before.
00:23:34.690 --> 00:23:38.250
Are they singing? No. Maybe. This sounds different.
00:23:38.549 --> 00:23:42.190
Is there a monster in there? God, I hope not.
00:23:42.630 --> 00:23:46.930
Oh man, did somebody eat dart? He would kill
00:23:46.930 --> 00:23:49.569
them from the inside if they did. I've seen it
00:23:49.569 --> 00:23:57.890
happen. I believe it. Here, let me go look inside
00:23:57.890 --> 00:24:00.690
and I'll tell you if we need to come back later.
00:24:01.250 --> 00:24:04.450
Yeah, sure. And he like just like throws the
00:24:04.450 --> 00:24:07.390
guy on the ground like a sack of potatoes. Don't
00:24:07.390 --> 00:24:13.119
hit his head. Oh, and he puts his foot up to
00:24:13.119 --> 00:24:15.900
catch his head and kind of gently bring it down.
00:24:16.819 --> 00:24:20.519
Oh, there you go. Thank you, Tauren. It's where
00:24:20.519 --> 00:24:24.180
it'll turn and kind of like crack open the door.
00:24:24.380 --> 00:24:26.220
She just doesn't know what the hell this sound
00:24:26.220 --> 00:24:28.559
could be indicative of, so she's just being really
00:24:28.559 --> 00:24:34.059
cautious. And you crack open the door and...
00:24:35.360 --> 00:24:38.460
Dart and do you like stop as soon as the door
00:24:38.460 --> 00:24:42.740
opens or? I want to say no. I feel like I'm very
00:24:42.740 --> 00:24:50.079
in the moment. And so I'm kind of, you know,
00:24:50.440 --> 00:24:53.160
deaf to what other things are going on. Okay.
00:24:53.279 --> 00:24:56.640
Yeah. Are you still like embracing him? Yeah.
00:24:56.779 --> 00:24:59.859
Yeah. Yeah. So you see Dart embracing Boulder
00:24:59.859 --> 00:25:05.900
and they're both. warbling a melancholy frog
00:25:05.900 --> 00:25:11.339
song. And you also see sort of like, next to
00:25:11.339 --> 00:25:16.119
Dart, kind of hovering a foot off the ground,
00:25:16.339 --> 00:25:19.759
a golden bubble. What the fuck is that? And it
00:25:19.759 --> 00:25:23.539
like, kind of shimmers with a holy light. Oh,
00:25:23.759 --> 00:25:29.900
holy white. Slowly start to close the door, and
00:25:29.900 --> 00:25:32.680
turns to Talleran. I don't think we should leave
00:25:32.680 --> 00:25:35.140
but I do think we should give them a few moments
00:25:35.140 --> 00:25:41.119
of privacy to wrap it up. Okay, what did you
00:25:41.119 --> 00:25:44.180
see? They're like holding each other like they're
00:25:44.180 --> 00:25:48.599
hugging and they're croaking that sound and there's
00:25:48.599 --> 00:25:54.039
a golden bubble like off to the side full of
00:25:54.039 --> 00:25:58.369
like divine magic. I never tell you guys that
00:25:58.369 --> 00:26:01.009
you guys are really weird. Yeah, it's not the
00:26:01.009 --> 00:26:04.990
first time somebody's told us that. I never know
00:26:04.990 --> 00:26:11.569
what to expect. Neither do we, honestly. So far
00:26:11.569 --> 00:26:13.589
he's like looking back at the door like it's
00:26:13.589 --> 00:26:19.049
a heartfelt moment over now. Is it? No. She's
00:26:19.049 --> 00:26:24.609
like no, okay. Sorry, I'm trying to find a good
00:26:24.609 --> 00:26:29.140
visual... For what's happening. I know there's
00:26:29.140 --> 00:26:31.400
an animation for it, but I don't know how to
00:26:31.400 --> 00:26:36.900
find it But it's basically like you push the
00:26:36.900 --> 00:26:39.579
door open and there's just two frogs in there
00:26:39.579 --> 00:26:43.619
and they're like thick of throat in sync in sync
00:26:43.619 --> 00:26:46.339
like doing the throat expansion back and forth
00:26:46.339 --> 00:26:49.099
and like warbling at the sky and you're just
00:26:49.099 --> 00:26:55.400
like They're busy. They're busy. This might be
00:26:55.400 --> 00:26:57.759
a cultural thing that I have no knowledge of,
00:26:57.940 --> 00:26:59.980
so we're just gonna let them finish. We're gonna
00:26:59.980 --> 00:27:04.779
let that ride. I assume after several minutes,
00:27:04.799 --> 00:27:06.759
you guys. After several minutes, she's knocking
00:27:06.759 --> 00:27:09.440
on the door. She was in that, where she opened
00:27:09.440 --> 00:27:15.900
the door, and I was just like, Occupado! Mind
00:27:15.900 --> 00:27:28.700
your own f - Yeah, so I guess after a few minutes,
00:27:28.799 --> 00:27:34.420
you know the Boulder will settle down and he'll
00:27:34.420 --> 00:27:40.420
be like there are people here I Am now embarrassed
00:27:40.420 --> 00:27:45.460
Just hang out here. I'll go outside talk to him
00:27:46.409 --> 00:27:49.670
Okay. Don't touch the golden bubble. Literally
00:27:49.670 --> 00:27:51.809
is reaching for the bubble as soon as you say
00:27:51.809 --> 00:27:54.650
that. You should take the bubble. Put it in your
00:27:54.650 --> 00:27:59.589
dip -a -lance pouch. As his hand approaches it,
00:27:59.910 --> 00:28:03.549
it kind of like how when a magnet is repelling
00:28:03.549 --> 00:28:06.089
another magnet, it kind of just pushes away from
00:28:06.089 --> 00:28:08.470
him. It's like you can't quite reach it. And
00:28:08.470 --> 00:28:11.529
so he reaches out and he's like, wait. And it
00:28:11.529 --> 00:28:14.170
just stays. right outside of his grasp like he
00:28:14.170 --> 00:28:17.750
can't touch it even if he tried he tries to like
00:28:17.750 --> 00:28:21.549
he's like trying to back it into a corner i want
00:28:21.549 --> 00:28:26.769
you to just do me a solid why can't i and i want
00:28:26.769 --> 00:28:29.430
you to and i know i'm not allowed to have it
00:28:29.430 --> 00:28:34.789
but can i just he's moving his sticky hands around
00:28:34.789 --> 00:28:39.450
i just i need you to like sit down and relax
00:28:39.450 --> 00:28:43.309
fine You know, I'm sure there's more to talk
00:28:43.309 --> 00:28:46.490
about, but I feel like I need to go out there
00:28:46.490 --> 00:28:49.849
and, uh, explain that we're gonna need probably
00:28:49.849 --> 00:28:53.150
more time. And I need to find out if there's
00:28:53.150 --> 00:28:56.869
anything, like, amiss. I think I am okay. You
00:28:56.869 --> 00:29:00.789
sure about that, buddy? He just looks at you
00:29:00.789 --> 00:29:03.849
and doesn't say anything and then licks his eyeball.
00:29:04.950 --> 00:29:07.769
Just give me one minute. I'll sit. I'll sit.
00:29:10.219 --> 00:29:20.819
Polder settles down. Hey, Dark Buddy! Hey, uh...
00:29:20.819 --> 00:29:26.619
Do I wanna know? It's...complicated frog stuff.
00:29:26.980 --> 00:29:29.039
That's literally what it's been like the past
00:29:29.039 --> 00:29:31.160
three weeks. It really...yeah, it sounded like
00:29:31.160 --> 00:29:35.319
some frog stuff for sure. I'll tell you later,
00:29:35.799 --> 00:29:42.839
but... Suffice it to say that, uh, I think Boulder's
00:29:42.839 --> 00:29:46.400
probably gonna need to, like, sit out the rest
00:29:46.400 --> 00:29:52.160
of this, uh, situation. Savari definitely, like,
00:29:52.339 --> 00:29:54.500
furrows her brow giving you a look, like, oh,
00:29:54.500 --> 00:29:57.039
we're gonna talk about this later. Yeah, yeah,
00:29:57.039 --> 00:29:58.940
yeah, yeah. Teller is like, wait, but, like,
00:29:59.019 --> 00:30:03.279
where? Uh, I think probably what would be best
00:30:03.279 --> 00:30:11.670
for him is to... Stay with the Leap Syndicate.
00:30:12.609 --> 00:30:17.190
Back to the Reliquary. I thought, like, Danks
00:30:17.190 --> 00:30:19.329
didn't want to take him down there. Oh, shit.
00:30:19.910 --> 00:30:22.910
I mean, he doesn't have to go down into the Reliquary.
00:30:22.950 --> 00:30:27.410
He can stay at the cave. But I feel like taking
00:30:27.410 --> 00:30:32.950
him along in this situation isn't going to be
00:30:32.950 --> 00:30:36.430
good for his soul. Probably was never really...
00:30:36.460 --> 00:30:40.220
going to be good for him. I mean, no offense.
00:30:40.539 --> 00:30:42.960
He just seems a little like even, you know, he
00:30:42.960 --> 00:30:50.700
seems a little, you know, intense. Yeah, it's
00:30:50.700 --> 00:30:52.619
just, you know, you're not like that. Well, you
00:30:52.619 --> 00:30:55.700
know, I thought that there were a lot of work.
00:30:55.940 --> 00:31:00.019
I thought initially that what Boulder needed
00:31:00.019 --> 00:31:07.640
was To succeed in his goal and that that would
00:31:07.640 --> 00:31:12.759
give him like the piece he's searching for But
00:31:12.759 --> 00:31:16.720
the more I have observed what's going on here
00:31:16.720 --> 00:31:20.180
the more I feel like what Boulder really needs
00:31:20.180 --> 00:31:30.339
is Not to succeed but to let go To let go Yeah
00:31:30.339 --> 00:31:38.390
of his life's purpose see what's that old saying
00:31:38.390 --> 00:31:41.950
like holding a grudge is like drinking poison
00:31:41.950 --> 00:31:45.509
and hoping the other person gets sick i've never
00:31:45.509 --> 00:31:48.789
heard of that before must be a frog saying oh
00:31:48.789 --> 00:31:52.569
yeah no it's like uh revenge is like a two -headed
00:31:52.569 --> 00:31:54.970
snake it'll like bite you as you're taking the
00:31:54.970 --> 00:31:59.710
other person down yeah and i just feel like As
00:31:59.710 --> 00:32:04.230
much as he thinks that killing literally all
00:32:04.230 --> 00:32:06.730
of the orcs will make him feel better, that's
00:32:06.730 --> 00:32:08.950
not really what's gonna make him feel better.
00:32:09.029 --> 00:32:11.329
I certainly hope not. And I even tried to talk
00:32:11.329 --> 00:32:14.170
him down to just killing like one really, really
00:32:14.170 --> 00:32:17.049
bad orc, thinking that would make him feel better,
00:32:17.049 --> 00:32:19.289
but I really don't think that's gonna be the
00:32:19.289 --> 00:32:22.809
right thing for him either. I think what he really
00:32:22.809 --> 00:32:30.779
needs is to find new purpose. and i think i can
00:32:30.779 --> 00:32:37.339
give that to him if i liberate the frogs my way
00:32:37.339 --> 00:32:44.400
and then from there he can find a more peaceful
00:32:44.400 --> 00:32:50.059
and constructive purpose but anything more destructive
00:32:50.059 --> 00:32:53.559
and i feel like he'll be too far gone to come
00:32:53.559 --> 00:32:57.660
back you know By the way, Dart, you notice that
00:32:57.660 --> 00:33:00.420
there is like a guy just with his head tied in
00:33:00.420 --> 00:33:04.359
a bag. So, I know I had like a weird thing going
00:33:04.359 --> 00:33:06.079
on that we need to talk about, but I sort of
00:33:06.079 --> 00:33:08.119
feel like you also have a weird thing going on
00:33:08.119 --> 00:33:10.299
that we need to talk about. It's Pendleton all
00:33:10.299 --> 00:33:15.660
over again. Was he doing the thing? Worse. Worse?
00:33:15.720 --> 00:33:19.440
Oh boy. Well, this time this guy is pretty...
00:33:19.440 --> 00:33:25.750
Okay, we beat him up in the shitter. I really
00:33:25.750 --> 00:33:27.650
feel like you should have lived with that. And
00:33:27.650 --> 00:33:30.450
that's after I put my hand in a tub of hot gravy
00:33:30.450 --> 00:33:33.490
to get his imp familiar. Yeah, you're some kind
00:33:33.490 --> 00:33:37.329
of castor. Like red eye gravy? No, like white
00:33:37.329 --> 00:33:42.349
country gravy. I was like L .A. deep in it. Like
00:33:42.349 --> 00:33:48.690
pork or gravy. Yeah. So yeah, this guy was really
00:33:48.690 --> 00:33:52.670
weird. He set off Reign's senses and she was
00:33:52.670 --> 00:34:00.150
right. And he was like spying on us. And like
00:34:00.150 --> 00:34:02.829
also reigns that the she remembers his eyes.
00:34:02.910 --> 00:34:05.730
So that's like not a small meta moment. Do I
00:34:05.730 --> 00:34:08.090
know about the eyes? Yes, we talked. We talked
00:34:08.090 --> 00:34:12.190
about the eyes. OK, so. So it was a Pendleton,
00:34:12.349 --> 00:34:15.670
but his eyes were the coin. He blinked the wrong
00:34:15.670 --> 00:34:18.510
way. He blinked one too many times. So that's
00:34:18.510 --> 00:34:21.699
that rain off for the rest of the day. We think
00:34:21.699 --> 00:34:26.280
the general gist of it is that, like, the Emperor
00:34:26.280 --> 00:34:28.679
sees through, or he's got some way of seeing
00:34:28.679 --> 00:34:31.119
through the eyes of, like, all of his various
00:34:31.119 --> 00:34:34.440
agents. Assuming that he can see through them,
00:34:34.739 --> 00:34:38.659
yeah. But there's some way, some... There's some
00:34:38.659 --> 00:34:42.780
hive mind activity. Yeah, with eyes everywhere.
00:34:42.900 --> 00:34:47.579
Yeah. And you guys beat up one of them in a toilet.
00:34:48.639 --> 00:34:52.599
Yeah, we did that. Yeah, this is like kind of
00:34:52.599 --> 00:34:55.840
thinking about the what she's done today. The
00:34:55.840 --> 00:35:01.500
logistics. Yeah. The gravy thing. Yeah. So, but
00:35:01.500 --> 00:35:03.860
also so like, yeah, we knocked him out. We brought
00:35:03.860 --> 00:35:08.539
him here. But also, we're going to have like
00:35:08.539 --> 00:35:13.420
a meeting at Lucara's house. And we need you
00:35:13.420 --> 00:35:16.579
to come. I mean, I need your help, buddy. I need
00:35:16.579 --> 00:35:20.090
your help. People are coming real quick. I kind
00:35:20.090 --> 00:35:22.090
of expected that we were inevitably gonna have
00:35:22.090 --> 00:35:24.269
to have a meeting where we discuss like what
00:35:24.269 --> 00:35:27.750
we're gonna do moving forward and then more people
00:35:27.750 --> 00:35:30.570
were gonna have to be involved and we're gonna
00:35:30.570 --> 00:35:34.010
have to get some people on our side. Talon gave
00:35:34.010 --> 00:35:37.289
a very great speech. Really? You think so? Better
00:35:37.289 --> 00:35:40.920
than mine? Of course. He could definitely take
00:35:40.920 --> 00:35:43.039
some pointers, but, you know, the framework is
00:35:43.039 --> 00:35:45.300
there for something really great. Um, okay, but
00:35:45.300 --> 00:35:48.159
that doesn't really explain what the plan is
00:35:48.159 --> 00:35:53.539
to do with the, uh, bagged head dude. Um, I didn't
00:35:53.539 --> 00:35:55.320
think that part through, if I'm being honest,
00:35:55.500 --> 00:35:57.460
without a dart. I figured we'd, like, beat him
00:35:57.460 --> 00:35:59.659
up and ask him questions. I mean, Rain's really
00:35:59.659 --> 00:36:02.380
good at that. Hey, I'm pretty good at it, too.
00:36:02.460 --> 00:36:05.239
I mean, yeah, I'm just, Rain is - And he, like,
00:36:05.380 --> 00:36:08.300
flexes his muscles. Rain is, like, tried and
00:36:08.300 --> 00:36:11.989
true, you know? He smiles. Try and true torture.
00:36:13.610 --> 00:36:17.989
Say the quiet part out loud. Try and true torture.
00:36:19.469 --> 00:36:25.409
No one's ready for a Russian rain. Cupcakes and
00:36:25.409 --> 00:36:30.230
teddy bears. Cupcakes and teddy bears. Okay,
00:36:30.230 --> 00:36:35.170
I'm done. Yeah, this guy, honestly, I didn't
00:36:35.170 --> 00:36:37.949
realize that he... Was like that he just kind
00:36:37.949 --> 00:36:41.050
of talented like he's just kind of like the nosy
00:36:41.050 --> 00:36:43.550
guy in town So, I don't know what the hell he's
00:36:43.550 --> 00:36:47.250
doing flinging around fucking fireballs Um, yeah,
00:36:47.250 --> 00:36:49.250
he's never I mean, I don't know. He was never
00:36:49.250 --> 00:36:52.150
like that before I don't think I feel like I
00:36:52.150 --> 00:36:54.489
don't want him. It's probably not a good idea
00:36:54.489 --> 00:37:00.329
that he like Sees more than he already has That's
00:37:00.329 --> 00:37:03.510
why I feel like I feel like we can't unbag him
00:37:03.510 --> 00:37:11.460
Should we just like Yeah Take him out? No. Um...
00:37:11.460 --> 00:37:13.519
We haven't had the chance to even try to question
00:37:13.519 --> 00:37:16.480
him. I don't know if I can do that one, like,
00:37:16.679 --> 00:37:19.980
if it ends up coming to that, just so we have
00:37:19.980 --> 00:37:21.980
that clear. Don't worry about it. I won't make
00:37:21.980 --> 00:37:23.940
you do that. I didn't mind tying him up, but
00:37:23.940 --> 00:37:28.860
like, pretty good at tying knots. I think before
00:37:28.860 --> 00:37:34.269
we go to wherever it is you came from to... Do
00:37:34.269 --> 00:37:39.610
the next thing I have to Have one more conversation
00:37:39.610 --> 00:37:44.050
with Boulder Okay, you want us to wait outside?
00:37:45.789 --> 00:37:52.230
Yeah I'll be right back and then we can go and
00:37:52.230 --> 00:37:54.610
don't take the bag off the guy's head because
00:37:54.610 --> 00:37:56.909
it's not planning on it I feel like it's really
00:37:56.909 --> 00:37:59.230
ugly to look at Emperor Dane can see whatever
00:37:59.230 --> 00:38:06.860
this guy sees then Like, him seeing me now is
00:38:06.860 --> 00:38:12.320
not ideal. Yeah, no. Yeah, that's reasonable
00:38:12.320 --> 00:38:15.219
for sure. Yeah. In fact, we'll put another bag
00:38:15.219 --> 00:38:18.260
on his head. Yeah, I don't really - triple filtered.
00:38:19.440 --> 00:38:22.960
I don't really want any of us being observed
00:38:22.960 --> 00:38:27.260
right now. Yeah, and I feel like we should all
00:38:27.260 --> 00:38:32.590
be together when we interrogate him. Okay. So,
00:38:32.949 --> 00:38:34.809
I'm gonna go back and talk to Boulder again.
00:38:35.469 --> 00:38:38.269
He's sitting. Can I ask you one question before
00:38:38.269 --> 00:38:41.530
you go? Oh, yeah. It's a bubble of divine energy.
00:38:41.869 --> 00:38:43.650
Oh, right. Are we just not gonna mention that
00:38:43.650 --> 00:38:46.750
at all? Um, so... Yeah, what's up with the bubble?
00:38:47.170 --> 00:38:50.829
Can I see it? Oh, well, later. Sorry. Can I?
00:38:50.849 --> 00:38:54.610
Do I need to see it? Well, first of all, I don't
00:38:54.610 --> 00:38:57.329
think it's a good idea for anyone but me to mess
00:38:57.329 --> 00:39:01.289
with the bubble. Okay. Um, I made the bubble.
00:39:01.690 --> 00:39:07.210
You make bubbles now. Apparently. What I did
00:39:07.210 --> 00:39:12.690
was related to the conversation that me and Boulder
00:39:12.690 --> 00:39:17.909
had. You remember how he had that knife that
00:39:17.909 --> 00:39:20.690
was connected to that, like, devil demon lady
00:39:20.690 --> 00:39:22.869
and wanted to kill all those people? His patron,
00:39:23.010 --> 00:39:27.670
yeah. Right, so I had to sort of, you know, take
00:39:27.670 --> 00:39:32.550
away his bending, you know what I mean? You broke
00:39:32.550 --> 00:39:36.269
his pack? Yeah, well, it's more like I just kind
00:39:36.269 --> 00:39:40.670
of temporarily separated him from it. Have you
00:39:40.670 --> 00:39:43.469
been able to do that the whole time? Not that
00:39:43.469 --> 00:39:46.489
I know of. It was a very emotional moment and
00:39:46.489 --> 00:39:48.969
I think I was just like extra connected with
00:39:48.969 --> 00:39:56.070
Sylvanas. And I kind of called upon his like
00:39:56.070 --> 00:39:59.869
divine power to imbue me temporarily with the
00:39:59.869 --> 00:40:05.380
ability. to, um, separate Boulder. Um, I felt
00:40:05.380 --> 00:40:07.780
like it was the... Breaking a pact from a third
00:40:07.780 --> 00:40:11.440
party. It was the best thing I could do for him
00:40:11.440 --> 00:40:14.920
to, like, protect his soul. As you see, Zavari
00:40:14.920 --> 00:40:17.239
is, like, starting to go off into her own world.
00:40:18.280 --> 00:40:20.619
Breaking a pact through a third party. It's like,
00:40:20.860 --> 00:40:24.599
wow, this is definitely above my, uh... Expertise.
00:40:25.320 --> 00:40:26.920
I mean, I don't think it's the kind of thing
00:40:26.920 --> 00:40:28.719
that Sylvanus... That's not like something he
00:40:28.719 --> 00:40:30.880
just throws around willy -nilly. I think it was
00:40:30.880 --> 00:40:33.800
like a... Right place, right time. It was a right
00:40:33.800 --> 00:40:36.320
place, right time. Like I think this is, you
00:40:36.320 --> 00:40:40.000
know, this is a very difficult time for all frog
00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:48.579
folk. And I think Sylvanus saw, as I do, that
00:40:48.579 --> 00:40:52.340
hate, anger, violence, and death... We're not
00:40:52.340 --> 00:40:56.320
the path forward and that's why he helped me
00:40:56.320 --> 00:41:02.179
Pull her away from that particular path Okay
00:41:02.179 --> 00:41:07.699
You know at my at my request Okay Um, that's
00:41:07.699 --> 00:41:14.000
a lot to take in. Yeah, so the bubble is The
00:41:14.000 --> 00:41:17.079
I put that's patron. Well, I put that around
00:41:17.079 --> 00:41:19.139
the dagger because the daggers got the demon
00:41:19.139 --> 00:41:23.190
devil Inside it so I put the bubble around it
00:41:23.190 --> 00:41:26.570
What I'm gonna do with the bubble I have yet
00:41:26.570 --> 00:41:30.730
to determine all I know is Boulder really wants
00:41:30.730 --> 00:41:33.130
to touch the bubble. Is he touching it right
00:41:33.130 --> 00:41:36.949
now? He better not be Because we literally just
00:41:36.949 --> 00:41:38.989
had a conversation about not touching the bubble.
00:41:39.030 --> 00:41:40.869
He's like a teenager. He's probably trying to
00:41:40.869 --> 00:41:43.409
touch it Speaking of which we also went down
00:41:43.409 --> 00:41:46.530
into like What apparently was like a catacomb,
00:41:46.550 --> 00:41:49.849
tomb, temple type thing to Char, the Lady of
00:41:49.849 --> 00:41:54.309
Lost. What's that? It, you know, it was spooky
00:41:54.309 --> 00:41:57.070
and it made everybody real depressed and Boulder
00:41:57.070 --> 00:41:59.690
started to get kinda... Can't we get more depressed?
00:42:00.110 --> 00:42:03.849
Well, he started getting kinda, you know, like,
00:42:04.389 --> 00:42:07.090
should I end it depressed? And I was like, we
00:42:07.090 --> 00:42:10.889
gotta leave, like right now, go talk. Okay. Where
00:42:10.889 --> 00:42:15.030
is that? So the Temple of Reverse Hotline, as
00:42:15.030 --> 00:42:19.670
I'm gonna call it. Tauren's like, should she
00:42:19.670 --> 00:42:23.530
know where it is? Is probably just a place we
00:42:23.530 --> 00:42:26.349
don't want to go to. Yes, where is it so I can
00:42:26.349 --> 00:42:30.730
stay away from it? There's like, okay, this is
00:42:30.730 --> 00:42:34.070
like, this reminds me of like an internet thing
00:42:34.070 --> 00:42:35.809
where it's like, oh, what is that link? So I
00:42:35.809 --> 00:42:38.289
can definitely not go there. So I can never click
00:42:38.289 --> 00:42:43.440
on it. I just want to make sure none of my friends
00:42:43.440 --> 00:42:44.980
go. That's what it is. I just want to make sure
00:42:44.980 --> 00:42:48.059
me and my friends don't wind up there. I didn't
00:42:48.059 --> 00:42:54.639
want to upset a god, especially one that's so
00:42:54.639 --> 00:42:58.639
melodramatic and everything. But I also didn't
00:42:58.639 --> 00:43:02.199
want to give her the idea that we might be interested.
00:43:02.300 --> 00:43:04.860
So I just felt like it was best if we all just
00:43:04.860 --> 00:43:11.369
took a step back and didn't go there again. I
00:43:11.369 --> 00:43:14.750
don't know how Asmodaddy and Char get along,
00:43:14.809 --> 00:43:17.030
but I feel like that's like a that's not a like
00:43:17.030 --> 00:43:19.090
thing. Did you just call him Asmodaddy to my
00:43:19.090 --> 00:43:25.730
face? Asmodaddy! No. Chaloran's like, what? It's
00:43:25.730 --> 00:43:29.349
like only rain ever since. Look, that's what
00:43:29.349 --> 00:43:34.630
I heard. Asmodaddy. I heard one of the people
00:43:34.630 --> 00:43:37.369
at Black Bottom call him that. Yeah, that's it.
00:43:38.030 --> 00:43:41.070
You never went to that church. I did, but those
00:43:41.070 --> 00:43:43.269
people came to Castle Wench. That's true. That's
00:43:43.269 --> 00:43:45.989
true. They do live with us now. Yeah. I think
00:43:45.989 --> 00:43:47.329
one of them said it. They're like, thank me to
00:43:47.329 --> 00:43:50.269
Asmodaddy. And I was like, you've had too much
00:43:50.269 --> 00:43:53.489
to drink. Yeah. Here's some water. Thank you
00:43:53.489 --> 00:43:58.070
for taking care of my flock. So yeah, anyway.
00:43:58.309 --> 00:44:05.329
Your flock. I'm going to go talk to Boulder and
00:44:05.329 --> 00:44:09.150
I'm going to try to get him to see things my
00:44:09.150 --> 00:44:13.130
way, then I'm gonna figure out if I can, like,
00:44:13.670 --> 00:44:17.170
do something with the bubble. Okay. And then
00:44:17.170 --> 00:44:19.989
I feel like we should probably go. Okay. And
00:44:19.989 --> 00:44:23.590
we trust Boulder to be here safely? Uh, you know,
00:44:23.929 --> 00:44:25.989
that is yet to be determined. I'm gonna have
00:44:25.989 --> 00:44:28.750
to chat with him. Okay. Leave him a weapon, at
00:44:28.750 --> 00:44:31.949
least, so he can defend himself if needed. Yeah,
00:44:32.030 --> 00:44:34.130
I can - I can - I probably will give Boulder
00:44:34.130 --> 00:44:39.860
a, like... Non -possessed dagger? But yeah, I'm
00:44:39.860 --> 00:44:43.139
gonna - I'm gonna - Boo! That's a boulder? Boo!
00:44:43.679 --> 00:44:45.199
You mean like the dagger - Boulders, stop listening!
00:44:45.960 --> 00:44:48.659
Yeah, yeah, you know, I got one of those. I got
00:44:48.659 --> 00:44:50.579
all kinds of stuff. Yeah, you got good ones to
00:44:50.579 --> 00:44:52.119
get. Yeah, that one's definitely not cursed.
00:44:52.559 --> 00:44:55.639
Oh goodness, no. We've already done insight checks
00:44:55.639 --> 00:44:59.320
on it. Let's just do - You already identified
00:44:59.320 --> 00:45:02.539
it. Boulder gets a stick. Shit, it's a stick
00:45:02.539 --> 00:45:10.960
bug. Shalulily! Shalul! It's a stick bug. It
00:45:10.960 --> 00:45:13.860
was like the scientists responding that we found
00:45:13.860 --> 00:45:17.619
a new species of stick bug. I saw that. It was
00:45:17.619 --> 00:45:20.719
like, these highly scientific things, blah, blah,
00:45:20.760 --> 00:45:23.800
blah. It looks like a fucking stick. I think
00:45:23.800 --> 00:45:26.119
I already gave Boulder that dagger. You did,
00:45:26.260 --> 00:45:29.929
yeah. As long as he doesn't use it to pierce
00:45:29.929 --> 00:45:31.530
the bubble. Yeah, that was his backup dagger.
00:45:31.769 --> 00:45:33.989
I don't think he can use it to pierce a bubble
00:45:33.989 --> 00:45:37.929
made by me and God. Probably not. You know, from
00:45:37.929 --> 00:45:42.949
the Bible. I mean, it never misses. Right, so
00:45:42.949 --> 00:45:47.190
just re -bag that guy's head and I'll be right
00:45:47.190 --> 00:45:50.110
back. It was never un -bagged. That meant like
00:45:50.110 --> 00:45:54.090
double -bag it. Oh. Well, do. Taloran double
00:45:54.090 --> 00:45:56.650
-bags his head and also gives him a little kick.
00:45:58.000 --> 00:46:00.239
Just to make sure he's like still knocked out.
00:46:00.239 --> 00:46:03.920
Oh, okay. I was just trying to see if he reacted.
00:46:05.119 --> 00:46:09.659
Well, good thing he didn't. Boulder is sitting
00:46:09.659 --> 00:46:12.519
like directly in the middle of the room with
00:46:12.519 --> 00:46:17.440
his like back facing the bubble because he's
00:46:17.440 --> 00:46:20.320
like I don't want to look at it and he is softly
00:46:20.320 --> 00:46:25.679
saying to himself No blade. No blade. No blade.
00:46:25.679 --> 00:46:29.590
No sound. No blade. And I've sounded no blade.
00:46:31.690 --> 00:46:41.849
No blade. No blade. Well. Oops, all barks. Boulder,
00:46:43.070 --> 00:46:46.730
I noticed you hear muttering to yourself in darkness.
00:46:48.289 --> 00:46:49.750
Well, you told me I couldn't touch the bubble,
00:46:50.190 --> 00:46:52.289
so. Yeah, yeah. I'm not touching the bubble.
00:46:52.989 --> 00:46:56.900
That's true. What do you want from me? And he
00:46:56.900 --> 00:47:03.679
starts tearing up a little. And then shakes it
00:47:03.679 --> 00:47:06.840
off. Oh my god, he's Adam Lambert now. With the
00:47:06.840 --> 00:47:10.639
hair. What do you want from me? What do you want
00:47:10.639 --> 00:47:17.900
from me? That's the chorus. Boulder, I can promise
00:47:17.900 --> 00:47:23.760
you that everything I... have done and will do.
00:47:23.980 --> 00:47:28.219
I do because I genuinely care about you and what
00:47:28.219 --> 00:47:32.619
happens to you and I am trying to do what I think
00:47:32.619 --> 00:47:37.960
is best. I understand that we are all trying
00:47:37.960 --> 00:47:41.280
to do what we think is best. You've trusted me
00:47:41.280 --> 00:47:44.659
up until this point and I would like to believe
00:47:44.659 --> 00:47:49.480
that I have not led you astray thus far and I
00:47:49.480 --> 00:47:51.900
hope that you'll follow me just a little bit
00:47:51.900 --> 00:47:55.340
longer. This bubble is questionable. You're fucking
00:47:55.340 --> 00:47:59.500
tweaking for this one, King. But I accept my
00:47:59.500 --> 00:48:03.679
punishment. Once I am absolved, I can return
00:48:03.679 --> 00:48:09.400
to my blade, correct? You know, my hope is that
00:48:09.400 --> 00:48:14.019
once we do what I'm trying to accomplish, you
00:48:14.019 --> 00:48:19.719
won't want to go back to it. Okay. But you know
00:48:19.719 --> 00:48:24.420
he kind of just pouts He's being like a little
00:48:24.420 --> 00:48:27.719
bit emotional like before he like had no expression,
00:48:27.719 --> 00:48:31.139
but now he's like starting to pull slight expressions
00:48:31.139 --> 00:48:35.920
Almost looks kind of goofy like he hasn't practiced
00:48:35.920 --> 00:48:42.699
So I know we talked about you participating in
00:48:42.699 --> 00:48:50.679
the liberation But I think part of being a good
00:48:50.679 --> 00:48:55.000
king is being able to put the right people in
00:48:55.000 --> 00:48:58.639
the right place at the right time. And I think
00:48:58.639 --> 00:49:04.460
the right place for you is not in this battle.
00:49:05.480 --> 00:49:09.300
What do you mean? Because I do not have my blade.
00:49:10.119 --> 00:49:13.079
You could return it to me and then I could fight.
00:49:14.059 --> 00:49:18.460
I'm worried about what continuing to fight will
00:49:18.460 --> 00:49:23.639
do to your soul and I genuinely believe that
00:49:23.639 --> 00:49:30.260
if you stop fighting now that You'll have a better
00:49:30.260 --> 00:49:37.739
future That What I need from you what the leap
00:49:37.739 --> 00:49:41.639
syndicate needs from you what all of frog folk
00:49:41.639 --> 00:49:48.400
kind Needs from you is To find a new path forward
00:49:48.400 --> 00:49:53.219
that doesn't involve killing I don't understand
00:49:53.219 --> 00:49:58.699
This has been my only value Yeah, that's sort
00:49:58.699 --> 00:50:02.059
of the problem bud I've been trying to impart
00:50:02.059 --> 00:50:04.500
this lesson onto this kid Edmund for I don't
00:50:04.500 --> 00:50:09.929
even know how long now, but like Being a great
00:50:09.929 --> 00:50:12.909
leader isn't just being able to wield a sword,
00:50:13.190 --> 00:50:17.269
it's knowing when you need to and when you don't
00:50:17.269 --> 00:50:22.849
need to. And you are so obsessed with revenge
00:50:22.849 --> 00:50:27.130
that you no longer see a time where you don't
00:50:27.130 --> 00:50:31.610
need to wield a blade. And I think the only way
00:50:31.610 --> 00:50:35.329
to bring you back from that is for you to put
00:50:35.329 --> 00:50:39.159
the blade down. potentially for good back to
00:50:39.159 --> 00:50:43.619
what I mean this is all I've ever known is fighting
00:50:43.619 --> 00:50:48.659
for survival what does what well okay let me
00:50:48.659 --> 00:50:51.739
ask you this what does not being this way look
00:50:51.739 --> 00:50:57.300
like I don't understand once just bear with me
00:50:57.300 --> 00:51:02.500
hypothetical okay suppose you killed all the
00:51:02.500 --> 00:51:07.079
orcs Suppose you killed all 100 ,000 of the souls
00:51:07.079 --> 00:51:10.440
that the blade asked of you. What then? What
00:51:10.440 --> 00:51:17.199
comes after? Surely I would perish before claiming
00:51:17.199 --> 00:51:24.500
that many souls. Is that what you think the other
00:51:24.500 --> 00:51:26.940
members of the Leap Syndicate want for you? Is
00:51:26.940 --> 00:51:30.559
that what you think I want for you? It seems
00:51:30.559 --> 00:51:38.210
not, but... I've accepted my role. I don't need
00:51:38.210 --> 00:51:45.050
to change. I am at peace with it. I understand
00:51:45.050 --> 00:51:52.949
that some get to live a life, and some are tools
00:51:52.949 --> 00:51:58.570
and instruments. And without tools, without instruments
00:51:58.570 --> 00:52:02.920
like me, those other people don't get to live
00:52:02.920 --> 00:52:06.500
their lives. I'm telling you, there's another
00:52:06.500 --> 00:52:10.780
way. You certainly have been doing a lot less
00:52:10.780 --> 00:52:15.500
fighting than I expected. And there will be fighting
00:52:15.500 --> 00:52:20.239
for me, I am sure. But my goal, and what I think
00:52:20.239 --> 00:52:27.360
your goal was, was to reach a point where that
00:52:27.360 --> 00:52:31.139
won't continue to be necessary. that there will
00:52:31.139 --> 00:52:35.659
be another side, there will be peace. And I want
00:52:35.659 --> 00:52:39.460
you to live to enjoy that peace. And what are
00:52:39.460 --> 00:52:48.340
you asking me to do? I'm asking you to... I may
00:52:48.340 --> 00:52:52.179
not have my magic, but I am still fast. I am
00:52:52.179 --> 00:52:58.460
still stealthy. I am still smart. That is true,
00:52:59.000 --> 00:53:08.019
but... I'm asking you to stay back. I want you
00:53:08.019 --> 00:53:15.780
to defend those you've already rescued. The Leap
00:53:15.780 --> 00:53:20.260
Syndicate. And I will go and I will liberate
00:53:20.260 --> 00:53:27.099
our people. And you'll be alive to share in the
00:53:27.099 --> 00:53:33.260
future of Frogfolk. He's like... tensing up speechless
00:53:33.260 --> 00:53:40.199
for a moment. Boulder is considering a lot of
00:53:40.199 --> 00:53:45.280
things and you can see that in his eyes you can
00:53:45.280 --> 00:53:50.980
see that his emotions are escalating again and
00:53:50.980 --> 00:53:58.940
he says, I brought you on to my goals. I brought
00:53:58.940 --> 00:54:04.260
you into my missions. This is my syndicate. And
00:54:04.260 --> 00:54:10.440
now you want me to just step down. You may be
00:54:10.440 --> 00:54:16.039
my king, but this is mine. You know, I don't
00:54:16.039 --> 00:54:20.800
ask this of you without good reason. I think
00:54:20.800 --> 00:54:26.239
that you have potential to be a leader amongst
00:54:26.239 --> 00:54:32.429
our people. a real leader, and you can't do that
00:54:32.429 --> 00:54:37.070
if you're consumed by hate and vengeance and
00:54:37.070 --> 00:54:41.809
death. And we have a real shot at liberating
00:54:41.809 --> 00:54:45.969
the frog folk. And when that happens, they're
00:54:45.969 --> 00:54:50.469
gonna need someone who is strong and smart and
00:54:50.469 --> 00:54:54.730
fast and brave to be able to protect them going
00:54:54.730 --> 00:54:59.250
into the future. And if you die fighting for
00:54:59.250 --> 00:55:04.849
this cause that is everything to you, what happens
00:55:04.849 --> 00:55:11.369
to them? They need you. They don't need you to
00:55:11.369 --> 00:55:14.010
hate. They don't need you to kill. They certainly
00:55:14.010 --> 00:55:18.929
don't need you to die. They need you to live
00:55:18.929 --> 00:55:25.960
and to inspire them and protect them. And I think
00:55:25.960 --> 00:55:32.139
that in order to be the frog, I think you can
00:55:32.139 --> 00:55:38.800
be. At least for a while, you need to put down
00:55:38.800 --> 00:55:46.059
your blade and look inward. Roll persuasion.
00:55:47.429 --> 00:55:50.389
I know, I'm trying real hard to be like, I wrote
00:55:50.389 --> 00:55:52.969
a Zuko right now and it's really... I'm feeling
00:55:52.969 --> 00:55:55.489
it, I'm feeling it. I can't remember all the
00:55:55.489 --> 00:55:58.210
exact speech, but I was leading there. Yeah,
00:55:58.289 --> 00:56:02.929
it's amazing. Roll persuasion and you get a plus
00:56:02.929 --> 00:56:14.110
four from your, you know, speaking. 21. I will
00:56:14.110 --> 00:56:18.199
try to see it your way. And he's like, not looking
00:56:18.199 --> 00:56:22.820
at you. He's like, he's just like, we kind of,
00:56:23.179 --> 00:56:26.619
you can kind of tell from his like, posture that
00:56:26.619 --> 00:56:29.679
he's like, upset that he feels like he lost.
00:56:30.320 --> 00:56:33.840
But at the same time, you did, he did hear you.
00:56:34.480 --> 00:56:37.619
And yeah, he says, I'll try to see it your way.
00:56:38.159 --> 00:56:49.280
I will stay. I believe in you. You better fucking
00:56:49.280 --> 00:56:55.780
win, please. You better win. I'm gonna bring
00:56:55.780 --> 00:56:58.260
them home. I'm gonna bring all of them home.
00:56:58.440 --> 00:57:02.760
Every single one. And bring peace to those who
00:57:02.760 --> 00:57:07.519
can't come back. I beg of you. You have to do
00:57:07.519 --> 00:57:10.940
this. I know you know you have to do this, but
00:57:10.940 --> 00:57:14.239
you have to do this for me now. You have to do
00:57:14.239 --> 00:57:21.400
what I would do when necessary. If you're taking
00:57:21.400 --> 00:57:23.900
my cause you have to take my conviction with
00:57:23.900 --> 00:57:28.059
you. I think part of the reason why you started
00:57:28.059 --> 00:57:31.380
following me in the first place is because you
00:57:31.380 --> 00:57:35.900
see in me the same drive to rescue our people
00:57:35.900 --> 00:57:40.420
that you felt. And I think you know how seriously
00:57:40.420 --> 00:57:46.699
I take this. I will give everything to make sure
00:57:46.699 --> 00:57:51.619
that they all come home. Then I'll stay. I'll
00:57:51.619 --> 00:57:56.719
stay and I'll defend... I'll defend our home.
00:57:57.800 --> 00:58:00.199
He's still being a little bit bratty about it.
00:58:00.320 --> 00:58:02.639
Kind of folds his arms, but he's like, alright.
00:58:03.420 --> 00:58:06.699
I'm so proud of you. He seems a little... He
00:58:06.699 --> 00:58:08.440
softens for just a second and he's like, nope,
00:58:08.519 --> 00:58:14.289
nope, nope, not right now. And the bubble is
00:58:14.289 --> 00:58:17.050
like just in the corner of the room because he
00:58:17.050 --> 00:58:19.789
had pushed it into the corner and then you told
00:58:19.789 --> 00:58:22.769
him to stop fucking with it What happens if I
00:58:22.769 --> 00:58:25.670
try to touch the bubble? You can touch it and
00:58:25.670 --> 00:58:30.710
it feels like warm and naturey and like sylvanas
00:58:30.710 --> 00:58:37.570
You feel like you could make it smaller if you
00:58:37.570 --> 00:58:39.750
wanted like you feel like you could kind of like
00:58:40.030 --> 00:58:43.489
you feel like you can push it in, you can manipulate
00:58:43.489 --> 00:58:47.110
it a little bit, you can kind of like make it
00:58:47.110 --> 00:58:52.389
float around, you can feel like that. So when
00:58:52.389 --> 00:58:55.619
you first felt - when you first had like - captured
00:58:55.619 --> 00:58:58.659
the blade, you felt it sort of like kind of thrashing
00:58:58.659 --> 00:59:02.320
the energy kind of angrily inside. And now you
00:59:02.320 --> 00:59:05.900
can feel that there are these celestial vines
00:59:05.900 --> 00:59:09.179
inside this bubble that have wrapped themselves
00:59:09.179 --> 00:59:12.019
around the blade and are like holding it tight.
00:59:12.340 --> 00:59:15.679
So not only is it like, it's not only is it in
00:59:15.679 --> 00:59:18.820
this bubble, but inside the bubble, it has like
00:59:19.300 --> 00:59:22.719
like locked it down even further to where the
00:59:22.719 --> 00:59:27.519
blade has to be in like a stasis. It can't try
00:59:27.519 --> 00:59:33.420
to retaliate, at least for now. It's kind of
00:59:33.420 --> 00:59:36.280
hard to say. It does feel very powerful. It feels
00:59:36.280 --> 00:59:39.360
absolute, but it's, you know, it's hard to say
00:59:39.360 --> 00:59:41.920
how long it will stay in this state. I don't
00:59:41.920 --> 00:59:45.019
know if I should keep it in my croak sack or
00:59:45.019 --> 00:59:49.500
in my bag of holding or in my jar of magic leeches.
00:59:52.099 --> 00:59:56.380
Wouldn't it eat the bubble in your leeches? I
00:59:56.380 --> 00:59:58.639
feel like it would if I put it in my jar full
00:59:58.639 --> 01:00:02.119
of crimson mist. For sure. That's why I didn't
01:00:02.119 --> 01:00:05.500
mention that jar. The leeches eat the magic.
01:00:05.860 --> 01:00:15.090
Dart plays Pokemon. Pokemon! I'm just like I
01:00:15.090 --> 01:00:17.130
feel like I'm rummaging through like my like
01:00:17.130 --> 01:00:20.190
knapsack and there's just like loose mason jars
01:00:20.190 --> 01:00:22.809
full of magical crap I'm like one of these should
01:00:22.809 --> 01:00:25.309
be able to hold it and then this one shake it
01:00:25.309 --> 01:00:27.809
no not that one not the sack with the deck of
01:00:27.809 --> 01:00:32.289
many things and so much magical crap I'm gonna
01:00:32.289 --> 01:00:35.429
put this holy bubble of divine energy containing
01:00:35.429 --> 01:00:39.789
the soul of a demon inside of a dagger And a
01:00:39.789 --> 01:00:42.769
box! I'm gonna put this box inside another box
01:00:42.769 --> 01:00:44.989
and I'll put that box inside of this jar and
01:00:44.989 --> 01:00:47.489
then I'll mail that jar to myself and then smash
01:00:47.489 --> 01:00:54.289
it with a hammer! I love that reference. It will
01:00:54.289 --> 01:00:58.349
never not be funny to me. Is there any way for
01:00:58.349 --> 01:01:02.429
me to determine if there will be some kind of...
01:01:03.710 --> 01:01:06.530
catastrophic pocket dimension disaster, if I
01:01:06.530 --> 01:01:09.750
put it in my bag of holding. There will not.
01:01:09.869 --> 01:01:14.030
It is not a, it's not being held in like a pocket
01:01:14.030 --> 01:01:17.469
dimension per se. It's more like, it's like a,
01:01:17.469 --> 01:01:19.289
it's more like a, it's like an actual physical
01:01:19.289 --> 01:01:22.570
object. Um, and it doesn't, it doesn't have like
01:01:22.570 --> 01:01:25.630
a realm inside of it. So yeah, it would be, it
01:01:25.630 --> 01:01:29.489
would be fine. Um, I was like, man, it just like
01:01:29.489 --> 01:01:34.789
float around in there. basically. And you can
01:01:34.789 --> 01:01:40.369
make it like as small as like maybe like a two
01:01:40.369 --> 01:01:44.750
inch sphere. I'm gonna make it as small as I
01:01:44.750 --> 01:01:50.170
can and then wrap it up in I'm gonna say a bandana.
01:01:51.110 --> 01:01:53.409
Can I wrap it in a bandana and put it in my bag?
01:01:53.409 --> 01:01:55.469
It feels kind of like soft and squishy to you
01:01:55.469 --> 01:02:00.610
but like it what the bandana doesn't like. harm
01:02:00.610 --> 01:02:05.829
it or anything like that. It's powerful divine
01:02:05.829 --> 01:02:10.329
magic. So yeah, bandana would, of course a bandana
01:02:10.329 --> 01:02:12.429
wouldn't cover it up. It does glow a little bit
01:02:12.429 --> 01:02:15.510
through the fabric. There's no one like a loose
01:02:15.510 --> 01:02:18.469
divine orb touching my other stuff. So it seems
01:02:18.469 --> 01:02:22.429
wise to wrap a bandana. Blessing everything randomly.
01:02:24.460 --> 01:02:26.699
If I keep it there long enough, it might become
01:02:26.699 --> 01:02:29.800
a holy bandana. Open it and it's just dank weed.
01:02:32.239 --> 01:02:35.000
Solana's blessings. There's already a bunch of
01:02:35.000 --> 01:02:38.400
weed slash wild magic cocaine in my bag. It's
01:02:38.400 --> 01:02:39.280
just a bunch of cheese sprinkled on everything.
01:02:39.480 --> 01:02:44.559
Oh my gosh. I've got balloons and balloons of
01:02:44.559 --> 01:02:49.250
wild magic cocaine. You just keep that on hand?
01:02:49.469 --> 01:02:51.570
I've had it since the beginning of the campaign.
01:02:52.369 --> 01:02:54.250
One of these days I'm going to use it for something.
01:02:54.530 --> 01:02:59.449
It's good to be the king. At this point, is,
01:02:59.449 --> 01:03:01.969
like, Reign and Verlaine, they're headed back
01:03:01.969 --> 01:03:05.269
to, like, the house? Yeah. Is that...? Yeah,
01:03:05.510 --> 01:03:07.510
well, we're in the house, right? No, I meant,
01:03:07.510 --> 01:03:11.730
like, the safe house. Yes, well... Because I
01:03:11.730 --> 01:03:14.750
remember you said you were packing up. Yes, but
01:03:14.750 --> 01:03:17.070
I didn't know if they were coming back and that
01:03:17.070 --> 01:03:19.550
we were just gonna meet back. I wasn't sure.
01:03:19.670 --> 01:03:21.610
Yeah, that's what I was asking. Yeah, like how
01:03:21.610 --> 01:03:23.610
you guys were planning on meeting up. I'll holla
01:03:23.610 --> 01:03:25.829
at my girl and be like, hey, are you rolling
01:03:25.829 --> 01:03:28.989
through or are we coming that way? Hey girl,
01:03:29.590 --> 01:03:32.570
so there's some weird frog stuff going on right
01:03:32.570 --> 01:03:36.710
now. Of course, normally. Like extra weird frog
01:03:36.710 --> 01:03:42.079
stuff. Okay. Um, I think once... Dart and Balder
01:03:42.079 --> 01:03:44.940
are done with their heart -to -heart She was
01:03:44.940 --> 01:03:46.880
like if this is like over the diplomats fashion.
01:03:46.900 --> 01:03:49.320
He's just puts a bunch of question marks Then
01:03:49.320 --> 01:03:53.300
I think we'll head over that way Okay So then
01:03:53.300 --> 01:03:55.219
we can stay but let's get the front yard ready
01:03:55.219 --> 01:03:57.760
for a bunch of people. We'll stay here. We'll
01:03:57.760 --> 01:04:02.159
get the place ready for for a kingly appearance
01:04:02.159 --> 01:04:05.219
Yeah, maybe there's there's like a tiny there's
01:04:05.219 --> 01:04:07.539
like a little porch Yeah, somebody gets like,
01:04:07.659 --> 01:04:09.239
you know, they could like stand on the porch
01:04:09.239 --> 01:04:11.940
to it. I make sure there's no like lemongrass
01:04:11.940 --> 01:04:17.619
or like or mint or mint in the area. People have
01:04:17.619 --> 01:04:21.219
like placed mint and lemongrass because like
01:04:21.219 --> 01:04:23.920
people have already started like creating like,
01:04:23.920 --> 01:04:28.480
you know, a shrine to her outside. Right. Like
01:04:28.480 --> 01:04:31.239
kind of kind of like in the front of her yard.
01:04:32.059 --> 01:04:36.940
Yeah. I don't want to like. take the things,
01:04:37.179 --> 01:04:38.760
but I just wanna like - People are placing candles.
01:04:39.000 --> 01:04:42.059
Yeah, I just maybe warn Dart that there are -
01:04:42.059 --> 01:04:44.280
there is mint and lemongrass over here. I am
01:04:44.280 --> 01:04:51.500
sorry. Haven't I been wounded enough today? Ham
01:04:51.500 --> 01:05:02.380
fact it up! Hi everybody. Hi guys. Hi guys. the
01:05:02.380 --> 01:05:07.400
hand fact today is a nice comforting one what's
01:05:07.400 --> 01:05:11.260
a dish you your character misses from their home
01:05:11.260 --> 01:05:15.360
and like tell us about it what it means to them
01:05:15.360 --> 01:05:22.340
what it reminds them of so i vaguely recall answering
01:05:22.340 --> 01:05:24.480
a similar question of this before we started
01:05:24.480 --> 01:05:31.079
recording yeah and if memory serves my answer
01:05:31.909 --> 01:05:40.929
was Coco Von. Mm -hmm. So my position in my village
01:05:40.929 --> 01:05:50.469
was a hunter, but this was like, for the listeners
01:05:50.469 --> 01:05:56.050
at home, Coco Von means cock with wine, so. It's
01:05:56.050 --> 01:06:04.039
not just the Friday night home girls. but um
01:06:04.039 --> 01:06:11.059
it's peasant food it is just a like chicken stewed
01:06:11.059 --> 01:06:13.820
in wine for like a well rooster really but like
01:06:13.820 --> 01:06:16.619
stewed in wine for like a long ass time with
01:06:16.619 --> 01:06:21.139
herbs and tasty like what's the word i'm looking
01:06:21.139 --> 01:06:24.639
for like vegetables that you can like pearl onions
01:06:24.639 --> 01:06:29.230
scavenge scavenge Forage? Forage. Forage. Very
01:06:29.230 --> 01:06:35.369
forageable stuff. Mushrooms. Herbs. Wild carrots
01:06:35.369 --> 01:06:38.889
and herbs. Wild onion. Yeah. You can usually
01:06:38.889 --> 01:06:42.550
get like various root vegetables like potatoes,
01:06:42.809 --> 01:06:46.710
carrots. And I do like mine over mashed potatoes.
01:06:46.769 --> 01:06:55.250
That is the best. Rain's food is just casseroles.
01:06:55.469 --> 01:06:59.369
of all forms like this side of the mountain just
01:06:59.369 --> 01:07:02.409
hasn't gotten with it with casseroles i feel
01:07:02.409 --> 01:07:05.489
like some places probably but not where rain
01:07:05.489 --> 01:07:08.449
has been there's like a lot of stews a lot of
01:07:08.449 --> 01:07:11.289
stews and we're stew based over here yeah this
01:07:11.289 --> 01:07:14.289
is the stew side of the mountain i miss the casserole
01:07:14.289 --> 01:07:19.389
side of the mountain um your people get hot dish
01:07:19.389 --> 01:07:23.050
yeah we we need hot dish it's a dwarven thing
01:07:23.050 --> 01:07:26.849
it might be maybe there's some It's a dwarven
01:07:26.849 --> 01:07:30.670
thing. It's a dwarven thing. Specifically, my
01:07:30.670 --> 01:07:34.550
mom would make this casserole where it was like
01:07:34.550 --> 01:07:40.090
crushed up chips layered with like a spicy, saucy,
01:07:40.190 --> 01:07:43.570
beefy deliciousness and cheese. All the cheese.
01:07:44.289 --> 01:07:47.110
And it was just so good. And it was even better
01:07:47.110 --> 01:07:50.269
the next day. And that was that's that's what
01:07:50.269 --> 01:07:53.389
rain misses is the leftover casserole. That's
01:07:53.389 --> 01:07:59.760
better the next day. For Zavari, when she is
01:07:59.760 --> 01:08:08.179
like home, she loves cedar braised bison stew.
01:08:08.940 --> 01:08:12.019
She loves it. There's bison in the highlands.
01:08:12.599 --> 01:08:14.539
It's not something that they, you know, eat a
01:08:14.539 --> 01:08:17.939
lot. But when they have it, it's usually like,
01:08:17.939 --> 01:08:20.920
you know, a very hearty thing in the winter.
01:08:21.720 --> 01:08:25.590
And she will also eat it over potato mash. Very
01:08:25.590 --> 01:08:27.449
close to mashed potatoes, but with cornstarch
01:08:27.449 --> 01:08:30.710
in it. So it kind of keeps a shape. She also
01:08:30.710 --> 01:08:34.489
Really misses a certain dessert not one of the
01:08:34.489 --> 01:08:39.409
chefs made her specifically for her I was gonna
01:08:39.409 --> 01:08:41.329
come up with a different name for it, but I can't
01:08:41.329 --> 01:08:43.949
so the name of it's called princess cake and
01:08:43.949 --> 01:08:48.430
it's like a sponge cake with raspberry preserves
01:08:48.430 --> 01:08:54.250
and Cream with marzipan on top. Nice. Yeah Drift
01:08:54.250 --> 01:09:02.750
is from Capital. Oh! And he used to go to this,
01:09:02.750 --> 01:09:07.750
uh, this deli, this like Riohen, Rio, Riohen
01:09:07.750 --> 01:09:13.909
deli, and they had goose liver pate. Zavari loves
01:09:13.909 --> 01:09:17.770
that. Um, and he would eat it on little toasts.
01:09:17.829 --> 01:09:21.149
And it was his favorite. He misses it so much.
01:09:22.729 --> 01:09:30.729
I knew you had good taste. Gross. It's decadent
01:09:30.729 --> 01:09:35.430
and delicious and creamy. And comprehensible.
01:09:36.350 --> 01:09:42.770
And just like cat food. Yeah. A little bit, a
01:09:42.770 --> 01:09:44.829
little bit. It's like the fanciest version of
01:09:44.829 --> 01:09:48.869
cat food. It's the fanciest feast. Yeah. The
01:09:48.869 --> 01:10:27.840
fanciest feast. Ham fact it down. You guys are
01:10:27.840 --> 01:10:33.260
like prepping the space and Zavari and Dart and
01:10:33.260 --> 01:10:39.460
Taloran are, you know, they finish, she finishes
01:10:39.460 --> 01:10:41.960
wrapping up the thing, the talk with Boulder
01:10:41.960 --> 01:10:49.500
finally agrees to settle down, I guess. And Taloran's
01:10:49.500 --> 01:10:51.119
like, okay, so what are we going to do with this
01:10:51.119 --> 01:10:54.479
guy? Like, do we even have time to mess with
01:10:54.479 --> 01:10:59.779
him? Really? I can just keep him knocked out,
01:11:01.199 --> 01:11:04.079
honestly. But he's just gonna take him with us,
01:11:04.119 --> 01:11:07.840
aren't we going to... back to Lorindar? Yeah.
01:11:09.579 --> 01:11:11.060
He's just gonna have to go with us and be tied
01:11:11.060 --> 01:11:14.979
up in a closet or something, honestly. Because
01:11:14.979 --> 01:11:17.420
I don't trust leaving him here. Yeah, we can't
01:11:17.420 --> 01:11:20.039
leave him here, we're bolder. Yeah, or here by
01:11:20.039 --> 01:11:23.720
himself in general. He can have an imp too. Yeah,
01:11:23.779 --> 01:11:30.130
so... Hope you're not tired. No, of course not.
01:11:31.250 --> 01:11:36.010
This guy's light. Come on. Okay, good. Okay,
01:11:36.210 --> 01:11:39.130
yeah, I'll scoop him up and carry him back. Dart,
01:11:39.130 --> 01:11:45.949
are you ready to go? Ready as I'll ever be. Yeah,
01:11:45.949 --> 01:11:47.989
we've made four arrangements and I'm just like,
01:11:48.010 --> 01:11:59.979
hey, Verlin, who's... Jask? Jask? Jaskula. Oh,
01:12:00.300 --> 01:12:04.060
oh, uh, she's like one of the farmers, I think.
01:12:04.579 --> 01:12:08.199
Do you know much about her? Um, not, not particularly.
01:12:08.359 --> 01:12:11.319
She kinda keeps to herself. She was one of the
01:12:11.319 --> 01:12:16.000
last people to see LeCara alive. How do you know
01:12:16.000 --> 01:12:19.619
that? Oh, you know, the time I was having with
01:12:19.619 --> 01:12:22.399
her crystal ball, I was trying to connect with
01:12:22.399 --> 01:12:28.550
her last visitors. to see when oh shit that's
01:12:28.550 --> 01:12:31.949
cool i thought that maybe something so connected
01:12:31.949 --> 01:12:36.470
to her would have whispers of what happened and
01:12:36.470 --> 01:12:41.250
i think i was right that was verlin that was
01:12:41.250 --> 01:12:47.250
six months ago six months ago was the last time
01:12:47.250 --> 01:12:53.390
she used this ball that's impossible no no no
01:12:53.390 --> 01:12:59.409
like She said it was cold. Her tea got cold fast.
01:13:00.710 --> 01:13:02.729
The last time that happened was at least six
01:13:02.729 --> 01:13:07.090
months ago. Could have even been longer. This
01:13:07.090 --> 01:13:14.949
whole time. I'm sorry. Um, Verlin is kind of
01:13:14.949 --> 01:13:21.329
speechless, honestly. She takes a moment to herself
01:13:21.329 --> 01:13:28.140
before saying We have to kill - we have to kill
01:13:28.140 --> 01:13:35.260
Rosinia. Come on now. Like, what the f - I can't
01:13:35.260 --> 01:13:38.579
believe we're here. She was in there - she was
01:13:38.579 --> 01:13:44.279
like - she stole her body for six months? Yeah.
01:13:44.920 --> 01:13:48.319
She like, lived here and went back and forth
01:13:48.319 --> 01:13:52.239
to the city and had like a whole - started -
01:13:52.239 --> 01:13:58.119
She knew about Clint. Cline, whatever the fuck.
01:13:58.439 --> 01:14:02.560
Cline, yeah, that's a good bastard. She knew
01:14:02.560 --> 01:14:05.560
about him, but she said that there was one more
01:14:05.560 --> 01:14:09.779
that she felt watching her, but she wasn't for
01:14:09.779 --> 01:14:14.659
sure. And the fact that she was so tired and
01:14:14.659 --> 01:14:20.420
so cold the last time drinking tea with a medicinal
01:14:20.420 --> 01:14:23.520
herb that we're missing, like, I need to get
01:14:23.520 --> 01:14:31.510
this ball. to Zavari so that she can maybe dive
01:14:31.510 --> 01:14:36.670
into this Jask. Jaskula. Yeah, no wonder she
01:14:36.670 --> 01:14:39.729
likes being called Jask. Yeah, I feel that. That
01:14:39.729 --> 01:14:50.510
would be too. Jaskin. Just Jaskin. Yeah, I wonder
01:14:50.510 --> 01:14:54.350
why she was like suspicious of her. I didn't
01:14:54.350 --> 01:14:58.550
get that much detail, but someone who is good
01:14:58.550 --> 01:15:00.869
at this magical stuff and not just winging it
01:15:00.869 --> 01:15:05.109
like I was, I could lead Zavari where she needs
01:15:05.109 --> 01:15:10.670
a look. I mean, yeah, I definitely think it's
01:15:10.670 --> 01:15:18.350
worth a shot. I don't think I could do it. Wow,
01:15:18.470 --> 01:15:21.430
you know, I just like a couple of months ago,
01:15:21.489 --> 01:15:26.560
I like... I told her, you know, a lot of personal
01:15:26.560 --> 01:15:32.819
things. I had no idea that it wasn't her. I feel
01:15:32.819 --> 01:15:37.760
stupid, like, how did I not notice? I mean, when
01:15:37.760 --> 01:15:41.939
we fought, or when I worked alongside her, she
01:15:41.939 --> 01:15:46.420
seemed so aggressive and different, and I just
01:15:46.420 --> 01:15:49.659
kind of like... I didn't know what to think.
01:15:49.840 --> 01:15:54.359
I thought that like... Maybe just working for
01:15:54.359 --> 01:15:58.039
Vren so much because she had She started worrying
01:15:58.039 --> 01:16:00.779
for him a lot. I thought maybe working for Vren
01:16:00.779 --> 01:16:05.180
so much just like stressed her out and Brought
01:16:05.180 --> 01:16:08.140
out like a nasty side of her and I just didn't
01:16:08.140 --> 01:16:12.899
even I don't know. I just How did I not realize?
01:16:14.359 --> 01:16:18.560
Hindsight's 2020 Right next to her Like while
01:16:18.560 --> 01:16:24.180
I was like fighting you I mean, I am pretty distracting.
01:16:26.239 --> 01:16:29.720
You're not wrong about that. But you know, change
01:16:29.720 --> 01:16:35.380
happens subtly. You weren't the only one. I know.
01:16:35.920 --> 01:16:40.439
Everyone thought that she was Locara. And it's
01:16:40.439 --> 01:16:43.920
because she acted like her in the further and
01:16:43.920 --> 01:16:47.460
further and further away she got from actually
01:16:47.460 --> 01:16:51.100
hearing her. The more and more she turned into
01:16:51.100 --> 01:16:54.899
a Rosenia. So it happened over time. It wasn't
01:16:54.899 --> 01:16:58.140
right away. And that's hard to see happening
01:16:58.140 --> 01:17:00.960
until someone from outside comes in and be like,
01:17:01.159 --> 01:17:09.220
what the fuck? I guess so. I just... The Emperor's
01:17:09.220 --> 01:17:12.100
people are on some other shit. Some other fucking
01:17:12.100 --> 01:17:19.720
shit. This is fucking crazy. We can't we can't
01:17:19.720 --> 01:17:25.100
can't we can't keep allying with this like It's
01:17:25.100 --> 01:17:27.260
just this this kind of thing is just gonna keep
01:17:27.260 --> 01:17:33.880
happening Yeah, I You know I hear I thought that
01:17:33.880 --> 01:17:37.399
Vren and the military were influencing Locara,
01:17:37.399 --> 01:17:44.520
but really it was Rosinia Influencing our military
01:17:44.520 --> 01:17:52.409
influencing Vren and Everyone. Making us more
01:17:52.409 --> 01:17:59.470
evil as a society. She's like, what the fuck?
01:18:00.090 --> 01:18:04.829
Where I'm from, I'm friends with lots of orcs.
01:18:05.590 --> 01:18:13.149
I was confused coming here. Seeing what was happening,
01:18:14.329 --> 01:18:20.829
you seem nice. I mean, it depends on who you
01:18:20.829 --> 01:18:23.050
ask. I mean, you weren't nice when you were beating
01:18:23.050 --> 01:18:28.069
me, like calling me a coward, you know? I really
01:18:28.069 --> 01:18:33.489
like to talk shit, sorry. It's okay. You were
01:18:33.489 --> 01:18:39.210
not a coward. I mean, not nearly. I don't know,
01:18:39.229 --> 01:18:44.649
I just... I know things could be different, and
01:18:44.649 --> 01:18:49.369
we have the chance to make that happen. We have
01:18:49.369 --> 01:18:54.510
the chance to take her down. To honor Lokara's
01:18:54.510 --> 01:19:00.569
name. And she says the thing. Yes. Death never
01:19:00.569 --> 01:19:04.710
yields, never yield to death. Yes. And she will
01:19:04.710 --> 01:19:08.890
repeat it to you. Then, you know, ham crew rolls
01:19:08.890 --> 01:19:11.029
up. You feel like that's when we're like finishing
01:19:11.029 --> 01:19:13.149
up setting things up. Yeah. That's when I say
01:19:13.149 --> 01:19:16.010
that and then they walk up. Talleran, well Talleran
01:19:16.010 --> 01:19:19.590
like leads you guys there. He's like, how do
01:19:19.590 --> 01:19:23.069
we like, we should like hide Dart until we like
01:19:23.069 --> 01:19:24.810
get there. He's in his like cloak. Yeah, I was
01:19:24.810 --> 01:19:30.949
like, can you put your hood up? Yes. We need
01:19:30.949 --> 01:19:36.609
disguises. Yeah, I'm on it. They just sort of
01:19:36.609 --> 01:19:38.670
like quickly, you know, shuffle into town. They're
01:19:38.670 --> 01:19:40.409
like, somebody's like, hi Talleran. He's like,
01:19:40.590 --> 01:19:44.050
hey, sorry, we'll see you at the meeting. And
01:19:44.050 --> 01:19:47.890
he's like kind of like body blocking dart like
01:19:47.890 --> 01:19:52.810
he's like an agent. Rain and the ball is goth
01:19:52.810 --> 01:19:57.609
rain. Oh yeah, that's right. It is goth rain.
01:19:58.350 --> 01:20:02.770
Oracle goth rain with the crystal ball. Holy
01:20:02.770 --> 01:20:05.949
shit. With the black feather. Eat it up. The
01:20:05.949 --> 01:20:09.369
black feather tattoos on her neck. Eating it
01:20:09.369 --> 01:20:18.920
up. Seriously. God That's a sleigh, yeah, that's
01:20:18.920 --> 01:20:27.979
a sleigh This guys but yeah, Tom's like all right
01:20:27.979 --> 01:20:34.939
and he brings you guys to low car his house and
01:20:34.939 --> 01:20:39.460
It's like quickly like don't get inside He's
01:20:39.460 --> 01:20:42.460
like so scared. He's like Get on the roof get
01:20:42.460 --> 01:20:49.399
on the roof Yeah, don't be suspicious don't be
01:20:49.399 --> 01:20:54.640
suspicious exactly He shuffles dart into the
01:20:54.640 --> 01:21:01.960
room and I also go straight to Zavari and Talk
01:21:01.960 --> 01:21:06.170
to her about the crystal ball Because it's like
01:21:06.170 --> 01:21:09.630
before Sun how many how long before Sun set because
01:21:09.630 --> 01:21:11.569
that's when sundown was when we said the people
01:21:11.569 --> 01:21:16.289
you should come Come down go down Essentially
01:21:16.289 --> 01:21:21.670
like as long as you need narratively. Mm -hmm
01:21:21.670 --> 01:21:26.310
So soonish yeah, I wish I just wanted to kind
01:21:26.310 --> 01:21:30.930
of fill you in on The magical shit that I just
01:21:30.930 --> 01:21:35.800
did did you find another guy? No, maybe I tried
01:21:35.800 --> 01:21:39.279
to connect to Lucara's crystal ball tower and
01:21:39.279 --> 01:21:41.380
tosses the guy on the ground in the room in the
01:21:41.380 --> 01:21:46.340
house And you know, I found out a lot of shit
01:21:46.340 --> 01:21:49.140
But it's really just like I saw glimpses because
01:21:49.140 --> 01:21:52.420
I don't really know what I'm doing But the last
01:21:52.420 --> 01:21:58.819
person that Lucara saw with this ball Was Jaskula
01:21:58.819 --> 01:22:04.590
or Jask. That's an ugly name She? Was that she
01:22:04.590 --> 01:22:08.170
her? She her. I don't know. There's there was
01:22:08.170 --> 01:22:13.470
a page missing out of the medicinal herb poison
01:22:13.470 --> 01:22:17.890
section and she all I could feel from Locara
01:22:17.890 --> 01:22:21.090
was that she was cold and that her tea got cold
01:22:21.090 --> 01:22:23.449
and she wanted blankets and she was really tired
01:22:23.449 --> 01:22:26.449
and that was the last time she used it and that
01:22:26.449 --> 01:22:30.829
was like six months ago. Can I see this book?
01:22:31.000 --> 01:22:34.619
Here's - and no, it's the ball. I wanna see the
01:22:34.619 --> 01:22:37.840
book, too. What book? Of Midsommar's. Oh, yes.
01:22:37.859 --> 01:22:40.479
Here, here's that book. Um. It's the coffee table
01:22:40.479 --> 01:22:45.380
book. I - The - the - the - between Mugwort and
01:22:45.380 --> 01:22:50.619
Poppy, there is a page missing. I want to write
01:22:50.619 --> 01:22:54.579
down the title of this book and ask Taste, does
01:22:54.579 --> 01:22:59.439
he have it? Oh! And if so, what's in between
01:22:59.439 --> 01:23:03.340
those pages? And it's something to knock you
01:23:03.340 --> 01:23:06.359
out. It's because the section, this section is
01:23:06.359 --> 01:23:09.659
all about some way of knocking you out, sleeping,
01:23:10.100 --> 01:23:14.899
losing consciousness, psychedelic things. Like
01:23:14.899 --> 01:23:18.560
it's all, this whole section is about that. Okay.
01:23:20.100 --> 01:23:24.779
And I think that maybe it's Jaskula coming tonight.
01:23:25.619 --> 01:23:28.560
I asked Verlyn, do you know? I made sure I know
01:23:28.560 --> 01:23:32.149
who all is coming, but she lives here. I think
01:23:32.149 --> 01:23:35.989
you have the ability to scry, right? You can
01:23:35.989 --> 01:23:38.210
do scry. I mean, yeah, I can. I don't really
01:23:38.210 --> 01:23:40.149
even know what that means. I just think it sounds
01:23:40.149 --> 01:23:47.189
cool. But maybe you can... She was scrying and
01:23:47.189 --> 01:23:49.770
using this to scry on certain people because
01:23:49.770 --> 01:23:52.729
she was scared that someone was coming after
01:23:52.729 --> 01:23:55.390
her. And she knew that there was a second person,
01:23:55.390 --> 01:23:58.229
but didn't know who it was. And all I know is
01:23:58.229 --> 01:24:03.630
this Jaskula person. Okay. It was the last one
01:24:03.630 --> 01:24:08.710
she saw. Okay. I mean, I can do that for sure.
01:24:10.369 --> 01:24:13.750
Jaskula is who we want me to spy on. Yeah. Okay.
01:24:14.569 --> 01:24:18.489
And I pass it over. And I like, what other things
01:24:18.489 --> 01:24:23.590
was Jaskula saying? I know I have to really have
01:24:23.590 --> 01:24:26.170
anything of Jaskula's that does make the spying
01:24:26.170 --> 01:24:31.300
easier. She was, so you didn't get anything that
01:24:31.300 --> 01:24:34.420
Jascula was saying, she was like scrying on her.
01:24:36.239 --> 01:24:42.239
But like, you, I'm trying to think here. I mean,
01:24:42.239 --> 01:24:44.640
maybe you heard Jascula, but she was just kind
01:24:44.640 --> 01:24:47.880
of like, cause she probably used to detect thoughts
01:24:47.880 --> 01:24:50.340
to kind of like watch her. And Jascula was just
01:24:50.340 --> 01:24:56.359
like thinking about farm stuff. like, the farm
01:24:56.359 --> 01:24:58.439
schedule and what she's going to do next and
01:24:58.439 --> 01:25:01.699
how she's behind on so -and -so and whatnot.
01:25:02.039 --> 01:25:08.420
She's a... She's a farmer. It's a farm name.
01:25:08.520 --> 01:25:12.640
She's a farmer. Oh, okay. So, like, um, like,
01:25:12.779 --> 01:25:15.380
and Lokara was saying to herself, like, gosh,
01:25:15.500 --> 01:25:17.600
I guess it's not her. Like, it can't be her,
01:25:17.600 --> 01:25:22.079
I guess. I mean, sure, I'll try crying. I pass
01:25:22.079 --> 01:25:25.079
over the crystal ball. Do I need to be attuned
01:25:25.079 --> 01:25:29.420
to it for all that, or can I just...? Um, you'll
01:25:29.420 --> 01:25:32.960
have to try it without being attuned to it, if
01:25:32.960 --> 01:25:37.500
that makes sense. Give it an arcana. Okay. I'll
01:25:37.500 --> 01:25:41.500
give it an arcana check. I believe in you. You
01:25:41.500 --> 01:25:46.800
get some Bardo. Bardo. Ooh, that's a dirty 20
01:25:46.800 --> 01:25:53.069
without the Bardo. And you're attempting to scry
01:25:53.069 --> 01:25:59.149
on Jaskula? Yeah. Let me take a look at scrying.
01:25:59.649 --> 01:26:03.029
At least what she knew at that point, you know,
01:26:03.970 --> 01:26:07.029
like, because like, that was six months ago,
01:26:07.170 --> 01:26:10.810
you know? Like she wouldn't know what would be
01:26:10.810 --> 01:26:15.329
between six months ago and now. Yeah. So scrying
01:26:15.329 --> 01:26:21.399
would... If you use your ability from Danks to
01:26:21.399 --> 01:26:26.979
use Scrying, it would basically kind of surveil
01:26:26.979 --> 01:26:34.020
your target currently. What Rain was doing was
01:26:34.020 --> 01:26:38.140
kind of just searching the leftover energies
01:26:38.140 --> 01:26:40.619
from it. So if you're going to use it to cast
01:26:40.619 --> 01:26:44.420
Scrying, you can and it will show you what Jaskula
01:26:44.420 --> 01:26:48.000
is doing right now. Do you want to see what she's
01:26:48.000 --> 01:26:53.340
doing? As long as it's not inappropriate, yeah?
01:26:53.560 --> 01:26:59.180
Sure. So... What is your spell save, DC? Oh,
01:26:59.199 --> 01:27:04.739
it's high, baby girl. It's 17. Since you only
01:27:04.739 --> 01:27:06.699
have secondhand knowledge of the target, they
01:27:06.699 --> 01:27:11.239
do have a plus five to their save. And they have
01:27:11.239 --> 01:27:17.260
a 17 plus five. Okay, so... I cannot do it. She
01:27:17.260 --> 01:27:21.199
isn't affected and you can't describe her again
01:27:21.199 --> 01:27:26.300
for 24 hours. Yeah, I got nothing, Rain. And
01:27:26.300 --> 01:27:29.359
for, I guess, future reference, if you know the
01:27:29.359 --> 01:27:31.859
target well, or you've met them, or you have
01:27:31.859 --> 01:27:34.239
like their likeness or picture of possession
01:27:34.239 --> 01:27:37.680
or a garment, or like a lock of hair or something
01:27:37.680 --> 01:27:40.380
like that, you have like You get a bonus too.
01:27:40.560 --> 01:27:42.539
Yeah, that's why I was wondering if we had anything
01:27:42.539 --> 01:27:45.020
of hers. Yeah, but not necessarily No, yeah,
01:27:45.020 --> 01:27:46.760
you wouldn't have any way of knowing if you had
01:27:46.760 --> 01:27:50.079
anything of hers like if that makes sense. Um
01:27:50.079 --> 01:27:53.779
I mean it was worth a try. I guess maybe we could
01:27:53.779 --> 01:27:56.659
have tried to go to the market and buy some eggs
01:27:56.659 --> 01:28:00.239
or something Maybe one of them would be hers.
01:28:00.340 --> 01:28:03.680
I don't know. Just don't don't attune Because
01:28:03.680 --> 01:28:06.500
then we wipe it all off wipe all the memories
01:28:06.500 --> 01:28:11.670
that we have here all the information God, today's
01:28:11.670 --> 01:28:15.189
been so weird. Here you go, Ray. Okay, I'll -
01:28:15.189 --> 01:28:20.069
I'll keep it. And she puts it in her, um, not
01:28:20.069 --> 01:28:24.109
diplomat's pouch. Her... Bag of holding? Bag
01:28:24.109 --> 01:28:27.590
of fucking holding. By the way, Ray, just so
01:28:27.590 --> 01:28:30.229
- she, like, takes you aside just so you know.
01:28:30.609 --> 01:28:33.909
Not sure exactly what's going on. Something happened
01:28:33.909 --> 01:28:36.449
between Dart and Bolder. So you might - What
01:28:36.449 --> 01:28:40.079
do you mean, what happened? Um... I mean, we're
01:28:40.079 --> 01:28:42.520
talking about, like, leaving Boulder behind.
01:28:43.180 --> 01:28:46.140
The syndicate type stuff. We need Boulder. They're
01:28:46.140 --> 01:28:51.000
not fighting right now. All I know is I entered
01:28:51.000 --> 01:28:53.739
the room, they were hugging, doing a sorrowful
01:28:53.739 --> 01:28:56.859
croak, and there was a divine bubble in the corner
01:28:56.859 --> 01:28:59.199
that nobody really cared about in that moment.
01:29:00.619 --> 01:29:04.829
Oh. Frog shit. Got it. Um, well... I'll just
01:29:04.829 --> 01:29:07.789
trust Dart to be doing Dart things. Yeah, he
01:29:07.789 --> 01:29:11.050
did. I guess we don't need Boulder. I think he
01:29:11.050 --> 01:29:17.710
broke his Warlock pack. How? No idea. How that's
01:29:17.710 --> 01:29:21.770
possible. Reign starts thinking about it as a
01:29:21.770 --> 01:29:28.069
third party. It's the same trans thought that
01:29:28.069 --> 01:29:32.789
Zavari had. Breaking that pack to be a third
01:29:32.789 --> 01:29:37.899
party. An intervention. Are you thinking about
01:29:37.899 --> 01:29:41.539
an intervention? How can I? I don't want to give
01:29:41.539 --> 01:29:47.180
an intervention. That's not my style. Could I
01:29:47.180 --> 01:29:54.960
give her an intervention? So people do start
01:29:54.960 --> 01:30:03.720
to kind of arrive. They're snacks. Yeah. Snacks
01:30:03.720 --> 01:30:05.659
are important. Other people bring snacks, too,
01:30:05.659 --> 01:30:09.779
because, you know, this is a community that loves
01:30:09.779 --> 01:30:14.439
potlucks. Yeah. So, yeah. And there's even, like,
01:30:14.579 --> 01:30:18.119
funeral leftovers. Rain makes some form of casserole.
01:30:18.239 --> 01:30:21.779
Oh. Like, the comfort foods come out. That's
01:30:21.779 --> 01:30:25.920
so nice. Yeah. Rain had time to throw together
01:30:25.920 --> 01:30:30.420
a quick casserole. She has, like... Lucara has,
01:30:30.460 --> 01:30:35.880
like, a big oven. What if it was like um I feel
01:30:35.880 --> 01:30:38.199
like it has to be like just like a big shepherd's
01:30:38.199 --> 01:30:42.800
pie of some form or a cottage pie. Oh yeah delicious.
01:30:42.960 --> 01:30:47.760
Just like a uh in between us all all our foods.
01:30:48.380 --> 01:30:53.020
Um yeah so people do start to gather um rain.
01:30:54.079 --> 01:31:00.739
There are two uh orcs that approach you specifically.
01:31:03.479 --> 01:31:08.460
maybe they're in their early 20s approach you
01:31:08.460 --> 01:31:13.039
specifically and one of them who one of them
01:31:13.039 --> 01:31:17.720
is kind of like sort of taller and skinnier and
01:31:17.720 --> 01:31:24.560
kind of has like a kind of a tired look to him
01:31:24.560 --> 01:31:27.779
a little bit of bags under the eyes and you know
01:31:27.779 --> 01:31:31.119
just kind of kind of like a like a exhausted
01:31:31.119 --> 01:31:37.300
kind of guy and the other um looks he's like
01:31:37.300 --> 01:31:42.399
he's like athletic has um his head shaved and
01:31:42.399 --> 01:31:47.079
has he has um like these bright sort of like
01:31:47.079 --> 01:31:52.460
green eyes and he walks right up to rain and
01:31:52.460 --> 01:32:00.190
he says hey um i'm alistair this is commis We're
01:32:00.190 --> 01:32:03.069
actually, uh, we're here because we want to help
01:32:03.069 --> 01:32:07.529
with security. And, uh, we heard that you're
01:32:07.529 --> 01:32:11.229
the person to go to. Who'd you hear that from?
01:32:12.729 --> 01:32:21.289
Uh, he'll, uh, he goes, in the, in the pamphlet.
01:32:22.390 --> 01:32:25.510
Uh, Tony's like, oh yeah, I, I put that as, I
01:32:25.510 --> 01:32:27.970
put that down. You put that I'm head of security.
01:32:28.029 --> 01:32:31.729
Is that what you think of me? Is that all I am
01:32:31.729 --> 01:32:35.069
to you? No, what do you mean? Okay, okay. No,
01:32:35.170 --> 01:32:39.949
it wasn't like that. You gotta tell a girl if
01:32:39.949 --> 01:32:43.289
you make her the main contact. I just, I thought
01:32:43.289 --> 01:32:46.149
it made sense, like, that you were, like, the
01:32:46.149 --> 01:32:49.050
leader. You're coordinating it. So I thought,
01:32:49.050 --> 01:32:51.189
like, I didn't put, like, you're a head of security.
01:32:51.250 --> 01:32:54.550
I put, like, you know, if you want to volunteer
01:32:54.550 --> 01:32:59.340
to, like, contact you. Well, Rain does like a
01:32:59.340 --> 01:33:01.399
look at them. I'm sorry. I guess I should have
01:33:01.399 --> 01:33:04.640
told you. I don't know why I didn't. It's okay.
01:33:05.039 --> 01:33:07.680
Flashing back to Demelza, like copying them and
01:33:07.680 --> 01:33:13.439
being like, Rain takes on too much. That girl
01:33:13.439 --> 01:33:20.060
is too busy. It's true. You have no fucking idea
01:33:20.060 --> 01:33:24.000
what to do today. Oh my God. Okay. How can we
01:33:24.000 --> 01:33:25.699
help? We just want to make sure everybody's safe
01:33:25.699 --> 01:33:28.859
because like, We heard that there was gonna be,
01:33:28.859 --> 01:33:33.439
you know, some kind of, like, rally? Yeah, you're
01:33:33.439 --> 01:33:36.479
right. Um, would you just, like, maybe stand
01:33:36.479 --> 01:33:40.859
here and... Mm -hmm. Now I gotta decide how I
01:33:40.859 --> 01:33:44.420
want them to do it. Because I know, I know, internally
01:33:44.420 --> 01:33:47.300
in my head, this is internal rain talking, I
01:33:47.300 --> 01:33:52.199
know Shadow Viper got Dart, you know? Like...
01:33:52.199 --> 01:33:55.609
Yeah. I need to make sure Shadow Vipers on the
01:33:55.609 --> 01:34:00.229
porch with you. Yeah. I need, I need, I need
01:34:00.229 --> 01:34:09.449
you to, to spread out and keep eyes on people.
01:34:09.770 --> 01:34:13.989
Right. Who do you think that like is coming tonight?
01:34:15.170 --> 01:34:21.789
And she, yeah. Um, most of the town. that we
01:34:21.789 --> 01:34:26.250
were got out really quick and the thing is I
01:34:26.250 --> 01:34:29.409
you know at least for me when I saw the pamphlet
01:34:29.409 --> 01:34:31.409
and I had kind of heard like I heard that you
01:34:31.409 --> 01:34:35.090
guys like beat up some guy and it was really
01:34:35.090 --> 01:34:39.829
cool and he kind of like laughs and it looks
01:34:39.829 --> 01:34:43.130
a little nervous like like he's admitting that
01:34:43.130 --> 01:34:45.810
he's like I'm talking to like a minor celebrity
01:34:45.810 --> 01:34:48.850
here. Like oh, no, no, no, don't i'm not a celebrity.
01:34:48.850 --> 01:34:50.989
Don't don't treat me like this. I'm just writing
01:34:50.989 --> 01:34:55.630
And he's like, yeah, we we kind of heard how
01:34:55.630 --> 01:34:57.770
you like you you guys are really really brave
01:34:57.770 --> 01:35:02.569
and um Well, and you wanted to be brave too.
01:35:02.670 --> 01:35:06.050
We're missing our little sister And what happened
01:35:06.050 --> 01:35:12.930
to your little sister? We don't know and We heard
01:35:12.930 --> 01:35:15.560
that you guys were investigating that, like,
01:35:15.579 --> 01:35:19.380
missing people and stuff. And so, we don't know
01:35:19.380 --> 01:35:21.199
what else to do, so we just wanted to help, you
01:35:21.199 --> 01:35:24.380
know, however we can. Here, and then she grabs
01:35:24.380 --> 01:35:26.619
all these baskets of candles that she's gathered
01:35:26.619 --> 01:35:29.520
from Lakara's house. Um, because she just assumes
01:35:29.520 --> 01:35:31.720
that there's, I'm assuming there's candles at
01:35:31.720 --> 01:35:33.600
Lakara's house. Oh, yeah. Um, and she's like,
01:35:33.600 --> 01:35:37.680
okay, everyone gets one. Okay. Um. And just make
01:35:37.680 --> 01:35:40.579
a note of, like, I mean, I trust, I don't, I
01:35:40.579 --> 01:35:44.340
don't know people here. You know? We're, we're
01:35:44.340 --> 01:35:48.119
putting a lot of trust bringing Dart out here.
01:35:48.659 --> 01:35:53.279
Who? They don't know. Oh, is that like your,
01:35:53.279 --> 01:35:56.840
your, uh, is that like a surprise guest or something?
01:35:57.119 --> 01:36:01.180
Yeah. That's cool. So we do have a surprise guest
01:36:01.180 --> 01:36:04.199
that is really important to the cause. Okay.
01:36:04.600 --> 01:36:09.079
Okay. And we need to make sure that people are
01:36:09.079 --> 01:36:12.760
also supportive and aren't going to, you know,
01:36:13.310 --> 01:36:16.710
Try to hurt anybody. Okay, that's not why we're
01:36:16.710 --> 01:36:20.229
here. So, you know, we're and neither of us are
01:36:20.229 --> 01:36:24.569
like We're no, you know heroes or no, of course.
01:36:24.630 --> 01:36:27.630
No, we can both hold our own. We're scrappy.
01:36:27.630 --> 01:36:33.109
Yeah, but Especially you and she looks at Commas.
01:36:33.329 --> 01:36:42.279
Yeah He's like he just kind of like smiles and
01:36:42.279 --> 01:36:45.880
then like looks away kind of embarrassed. Like,
01:36:46.220 --> 01:36:48.840
hey, we got our own strengths. Yeah, we all have
01:36:48.840 --> 01:36:52.720
our own strengths. Um, but uh, but yeah, Alistair
01:36:52.720 --> 01:36:55.760
will say like, well, just give us like a signal
01:36:55.760 --> 01:37:00.439
if you want us to get like closer to like the
01:37:00.439 --> 01:37:03.159
front. But then like other than that, we can
01:37:03.159 --> 01:37:06.779
kind of like look around and like report anything
01:37:06.779 --> 01:37:09.460
weird to you. Does that sound good? That sounds
01:37:09.460 --> 01:37:12.399
great. And then, like, what kind of gesture do
01:37:12.399 --> 01:37:16.960
you want us to give you if, like, we need to
01:37:16.960 --> 01:37:19.560
talk to you about something? I hate that this
01:37:19.560 --> 01:37:21.640
is the first thing I think of, but I think it's
01:37:21.640 --> 01:37:26.000
because I brought it up earlier. I want you to
01:37:26.000 --> 01:37:30.180
cross your arms, lean your shoulders in one direction
01:37:30.180 --> 01:37:35.979
to wink, but wink with the opposite eye. Got
01:37:35.979 --> 01:37:38.899
anything to use here? Like, you gotta kind of
01:37:38.899 --> 01:37:41.119
practice. No, like, you don't, when you lean,
01:37:41.260 --> 01:37:43.119
you gotta, and you, like, lean your head, you
01:37:43.119 --> 01:37:45.939
gotta wink with the opposite eye from where your
01:37:45.939 --> 01:37:55.199
shoulder. It's so hard. Yes. If Rain just sees
01:37:55.199 --> 01:37:58.960
them just, like, weirdly struggling. I'm like,
01:37:59.060 --> 01:38:07.760
oh, okay, something's happening. They have to
01:38:07.760 --> 01:38:12.119
practice it for a couple of minutes before they
01:38:12.119 --> 01:38:16.899
try to get it. They're like, whew. And now they'll
01:38:16.899 --> 01:38:19.760
never be able to blink or wink a different way.
01:38:20.239 --> 01:38:23.640
They're always going to think about that. They're
01:38:23.640 --> 01:38:27.880
like, yes. They're like, got it. We got it, boss.
01:38:29.920 --> 01:38:38.640
Boss. Boss, boss, boss. Um, and yeah, and then
01:38:38.640 --> 01:38:42.000
they will, they will both kind of like split
01:38:42.000 --> 01:38:44.840
up and like they're, they start, they start handing
01:38:44.840 --> 01:38:46.560
out candles. Cause there's like a couple of people
01:38:46.560 --> 01:38:48.800
coming, like that are already here and more and
01:38:48.800 --> 01:38:51.060
more people are starting to arrive. And I asked
01:38:51.060 --> 01:38:54.340
them to be the first people to get food because
01:38:54.340 --> 01:38:57.039
no one wants to be the first person. Oh yeah.
01:38:58.000 --> 01:39:00.319
I'll happily be the first person to get food.
01:39:00.319 --> 01:39:02.800
So if you break that tension, that helps everyone.
01:39:04.060 --> 01:39:09.159
um yeah and uh Kamis is like I'm more of like
01:39:09.159 --> 01:39:10.520
you know I usually like wait until everybody
01:39:10.520 --> 01:39:14.640
else gets their food and then I eat but I'll
01:39:14.640 --> 01:39:19.840
you're right sorry I'll do it does Kamis say
01:39:19.840 --> 01:39:23.479
that? yeah yeah I can tell by those arms bro
01:39:23.479 --> 01:39:27.100
and Rain just like pushes away with her like
01:39:27.100 --> 01:39:29.939
thick ass arms literally flexing on him he just
01:39:29.939 --> 01:39:35.760
like looks at his arms like damn You're all triceps
01:39:35.760 --> 01:39:43.680
and forearms for the biceps bro. People are gathered
01:39:43.680 --> 01:39:49.439
and the time comes for this meeting to begin.
01:39:50.039 --> 01:39:53.539
Ultimately you guys end up with a pretty sizable
01:39:53.539 --> 01:40:02.699
crowd. About 60 people or so. You can pull them.
01:40:03.060 --> 01:40:04.819
Maybe slightly, you know, and then maybe a couple
01:40:04.819 --> 01:40:07.279
other people are starting to trickle in as well.
01:40:09.199 --> 01:40:11.600
Yeah, it's a pretty sizable crowd. I mean, this
01:40:11.600 --> 01:40:16.619
town has about, probably about like, I said like
01:40:16.619 --> 01:40:20.039
25 houses, so it probably has like 150 people
01:40:20.039 --> 01:40:24.010
or so. um living in it so you've got like a good
01:40:24.010 --> 01:40:26.729
chunk of the town showing up and definitely a
01:40:26.729 --> 01:40:28.449
lot more people showed up because they had more
01:40:28.449 --> 01:40:30.670
time before like you know the funeral was really
01:40:30.670 --> 01:40:34.750
quick um but word got out and now people are
01:40:34.750 --> 01:40:36.529
curious people are wondering what's going on
01:40:36.529 --> 01:40:38.789
they were reading the pamphlets they're like
01:40:38.789 --> 01:40:40.930
now they have questions you know now they want
01:40:40.930 --> 01:40:44.430
to see what's going on so you have gathered quite
01:40:44.430 --> 01:40:48.479
a crowd it's men and women children, teenagers,
01:40:48.760 --> 01:40:51.399
a lot of teenagers. Like all the teenagers in
01:40:51.399 --> 01:40:53.340
the town are there. Of course they are. Um, of
01:40:53.340 --> 01:40:58.500
course. And um, Verlind sees her dad there and
01:40:58.500 --> 01:41:02.199
he's like a, he's, he's looks, he looks just
01:41:02.199 --> 01:41:05.279
like her. Like he has like the same like long
01:41:05.279 --> 01:41:08.880
lanky like body. Um, he has a prosthetic leg.
01:41:09.720 --> 01:41:16.340
Um, and it's like got um, like a spring suspension
01:41:16.340 --> 01:41:23.479
in it. Reign's clocked it, for sure. Yeah, and
01:41:23.479 --> 01:41:26.539
Reign probably would immediately notice that
01:41:26.539 --> 01:41:28.760
it needs some, like, it needs some maintenance.
01:41:29.319 --> 01:41:32.640
Well, Reign would probably offer it, too. Hey,
01:41:32.680 --> 01:41:36.239
do you want me to look at that? I got you. Hi,
01:41:36.279 --> 01:41:38.500
I'm Reign. I'm your friend. I'm friend of your
01:41:38.500 --> 01:41:40.699
daughter. I'm just assuming you guys look alike.
01:41:41.669 --> 01:41:44.130
And they both have the same, they both laugh
01:41:44.130 --> 01:41:52.510
at the exact same, they both go. He goes, yes,
01:41:52.609 --> 01:41:56.789
I'm Talyn. Talyn and Talryn. There's a naming
01:41:56.789 --> 01:42:02.010
convention. Hi Talyn. Yeah, nice to meet you.
01:42:04.789 --> 01:42:10.149
I guess you're friends with Verlin. You know,
01:42:10.149 --> 01:42:13.810
there's usually, I don't, he's like, he's like,
01:42:14.090 --> 01:42:16.909
Rain pops out her extra chair and gives it to
01:42:16.909 --> 01:42:18.310
him for a second and be like, here, let me fix
01:42:18.310 --> 01:42:20.649
this. You're like, for you. What? What do you
01:42:20.649 --> 01:42:23.489
mean? You can fix it? I mean, I can work on it.
01:42:23.590 --> 01:42:25.170
Yeah. I usually have to go to the city to get
01:42:25.170 --> 01:42:28.850
it worked on. Sure. Yeah. And he like sits down
01:42:28.850 --> 01:42:30.689
and Verlin's like, yeah, no, she's totally guys.
01:42:30.810 --> 01:42:34.109
She's like really handy. And he's like, he kind
01:42:34.109 --> 01:42:37.390
of looks at Verlin like, Wait a minute. And then
01:42:37.390 --> 01:42:40.970
he kind of does this and Verla is like, no, no,
01:42:40.989 --> 01:42:46.270
no, no, no, no, no. And I look at him like, she
01:42:46.270 --> 01:42:49.069
couldn't handle it, love. And like pops his leg
01:42:49.069 --> 01:42:56.430
off. And he's like, he like rubs the stump. And
01:42:56.430 --> 01:43:00.989
she examines it to see what she needs to do,
01:43:00.989 --> 01:43:04.130
I guess. So it's like the prosthetic is like.
01:43:04.189 --> 01:43:06.270
Is that above the knee amputee? It's just, yeah,
01:43:06.430 --> 01:43:10.970
just above the knee. And it has like a, what
01:43:10.970 --> 01:43:13.590
kind of knee joint? Like a spring situation where
01:43:13.590 --> 01:43:16.569
maybe the spring is loose? I feel like it's like,
01:43:16.789 --> 01:43:20.729
yeah, like the ankle area has like a spring sort
01:43:20.729 --> 01:43:25.750
of flexibility to it. And it's probably, it's
01:43:25.750 --> 01:43:27.970
got like some, you know, it's got some rust.
01:43:28.229 --> 01:43:32.939
It needs to be oiled. It's like dry. I mean,
01:43:33.060 --> 01:43:35.439
I'm trying to think about like, the knee is like
01:43:35.439 --> 01:43:40.699
a ball joint. And it has like a mechanism that
01:43:40.699 --> 01:43:43.000
like locks it so we can like lock it into place
01:43:43.000 --> 01:43:45.479
if he needs to when he's walking and then he
01:43:45.479 --> 01:43:47.420
can unlock it and kind of like bend it, if that
01:43:47.420 --> 01:43:52.979
makes sense. Yeah. So rain it's like well made
01:43:52.979 --> 01:43:55.119
it's just like a thing that like requires a lot
01:43:55.119 --> 01:43:57.260
of maintenance Yeah, rain just like does like
01:43:57.260 --> 01:43:59.260
a tune -up right like where she is just like
01:43:59.260 --> 01:44:04.279
rock getting the rust off re Tightening the springs
01:44:04.279 --> 01:44:08.640
themselves probably wrapping it around her Oh,
01:44:09.000 --> 01:44:13.199
she extends her pole of collapsing and wraps
01:44:13.199 --> 01:44:16.359
the wire around and then shortens the pole of
01:44:16.359 --> 01:44:19.119
collapsing just to tighten the spring. That's
01:44:19.119 --> 01:44:23.039
cool. To like respring it and then pops it out
01:44:23.039 --> 01:44:27.199
and like does the things. Hell yeah. I would
01:44:27.199 --> 01:44:32.279
say, I mean, like that's like a, that's like
01:44:32.279 --> 01:44:37.689
a repair. check. I know you have like tools for
01:44:37.689 --> 01:44:40.810
your chair. Yeah. So that's like a, that's a,
01:44:40.890 --> 01:44:44.449
that's a tool proficiency. So I would say, I
01:44:44.449 --> 01:44:46.470
mean, I would say you, you could use either your
01:44:46.470 --> 01:44:48.949
decks or your intelligence, but you're definitely
01:44:48.949 --> 01:44:56.170
a proficient. 23. Okay. Yeah. So not only that,
01:44:56.170 --> 01:44:59.750
but you like see, you see a couple of places
01:44:59.750 --> 01:45:03.489
where you could quickly improve it. Maybe by
01:45:03.489 --> 01:45:08.289
adding like a spacer and I was thinking like
01:45:08.289 --> 01:45:10.949
rubber stoppers on the back so it doesn't click
01:45:10.949 --> 01:45:14.510
all the way like there's like a There's it stops
01:45:14.510 --> 01:45:18.649
so that the the back of the calf doesn't hit
01:45:18.649 --> 01:45:22.149
him in the thigh Okay, there's just like a gap
01:45:22.149 --> 01:45:24.109
that is created so he doesn't kick his own ass
01:45:24.109 --> 01:45:28.710
when he's walking sometimes He's like and he's
01:45:28.710 --> 01:45:30.489
you know kind of watching you, you know, he's
01:45:30.489 --> 01:45:34.199
like damn pretty impressed and he kind of leans
01:45:34.199 --> 01:45:36.119
over to her and he's like you sure you're not
01:45:36.119 --> 01:45:41.279
trying to like and she's like dad no for real
01:45:41.279 --> 01:45:43.619
it's not like that and he's just like i'm just
01:45:43.619 --> 01:45:45.140
saying you know it's been a long time that you've
01:45:45.140 --> 01:45:50.539
had a girlfriend oh it's been a long time uh
01:45:50.539 --> 01:45:53.819
she told me that she did have one or she was
01:45:53.819 --> 01:45:57.899
already in one oh he goes oh you didn't tell
01:45:57.899 --> 01:46:02.189
me who is it and she's like no no Not right now.
01:46:02.390 --> 01:46:09.069
Come on. What cat got your tongue? Purr. Oh,
01:46:09.289 --> 01:46:15.770
I get it. Zavari just walks past and says purr.
01:46:16.970 --> 01:46:19.390
And Verlin's just, she's like kind of fuming.
01:46:19.510 --> 01:46:22.579
She's a little bit mad. All right, you guys.
01:46:22.779 --> 01:46:25.180
All right. This is not why we're here. This is
01:46:25.180 --> 01:46:27.699
not why we're here. Then she finishes up doing
01:46:27.699 --> 01:46:30.720
the thing. And he, you know, immediately straps
01:46:30.720 --> 01:46:34.359
it on, like, stands up, tries it, and is like,
01:46:34.619 --> 01:46:40.159
whoa, like, this has got, like, I could play,
01:46:40.159 --> 01:46:43.319
like, I could play ball. Like, what? It reminds
01:46:43.319 --> 01:46:49.380
me of when my mom fixed my competitor's leg.
01:46:49.789 --> 01:46:53.050
before she did shot put while we were doing Pentathlon,
01:46:53.449 --> 01:46:56.390
and she got a personal record by over a meter
01:46:56.390 --> 01:47:00.529
and beat me in Pentathlon. I was like, after
01:47:00.529 --> 01:47:03.770
the competition, after the competition. That's
01:47:03.770 --> 01:47:08.609
amazing. But okay, Laura Voss. Yeah, he's like,
01:47:08.689 --> 01:47:12.390
wow, this is, this is, this is smooth. Thank
01:47:12.390 --> 01:47:18.560
you. You're welcome. Yeah, I I feel like can
01:47:18.560 --> 01:47:21.260
you teach me how you did that like not now, but
01:47:21.260 --> 01:47:23.479
like maybe another time Oh, yeah, that would
01:47:23.479 --> 01:47:25.479
be awesome. The thing is like the guy who made
01:47:25.479 --> 01:47:28.359
this he kind of like gate keeps the process He
01:47:28.359 --> 01:47:31.300
like takes it back in his back room fixes it
01:47:31.300 --> 01:47:33.239
up and stuff. So I don't have no idea how he
01:47:33.239 --> 01:47:37.159
like, you know, it's like There's no insurance
01:47:37.159 --> 01:47:39.359
in this world. So like it's really important
01:47:39.359 --> 01:47:41.939
to be able to maintain your own equipment, especially
01:47:42.319 --> 01:47:44.899
I mean, either with insurance or not it is. Yeah,
01:47:44.899 --> 01:47:47.319
he wants me to come back and pay, you know? Yeah,
01:47:48.140 --> 01:47:49.960
like, fuck that if you're, like, I'm glad I'm
01:47:49.960 --> 01:47:53.760
able to help you. Thanks. And he's like, for
01:47:53.760 --> 01:47:57.539
when? And then she leaves them alone. And he
01:47:57.539 --> 01:48:02.220
goes to Safari Safari. You're fucking up. You're
01:48:02.220 --> 01:48:06.220
fumbling a catch. There's not a girl like that
01:48:06.220 --> 01:48:16.090
every dynasty. Exactly. Go. Go to her. Shut up,
01:48:16.489 --> 01:48:23.949
Dad. Yeah, so, Dart. You're talking to Zavari,
01:48:24.090 --> 01:48:26.810
right? No, I was just sticking it away. Yes.
01:48:26.890 --> 01:48:32.489
So, Dart, you're in the house. You know, and
01:48:32.489 --> 01:48:35.090
nobody's come in. People are just gathering around
01:48:35.090 --> 01:48:40.369
outside. So, this is probably the first time...
01:48:40.350 --> 01:48:43.289
You've been surrounded by works in this context,
01:48:43.310 --> 01:48:47.329
I would imagine. So, I don't know, how are you
01:48:47.329 --> 01:48:51.069
feeling, I guess, is my... You see, like, specimens
01:48:51.069 --> 01:48:54.310
in jars and, like, I don't know, right? Not,
01:48:54.310 --> 01:48:56.729
like, full, like, specimens, but... No, that
01:48:56.729 --> 01:48:59.130
was, yeah, that was, like, resinous. Yeah, okay,
01:48:59.130 --> 01:49:01.890
okay. It's more like there's, like, lots of,
01:49:02.170 --> 01:49:04.350
like, dried herbs and plants and, like, flowers
01:49:04.350 --> 01:49:08.850
everywhere and... It's very, like, cottagecore.
01:49:09.420 --> 01:49:15.680
With like a little bit of witchy I would say
01:49:15.680 --> 01:49:18.960
that I am indescribably nervous because I know
01:49:18.960 --> 01:49:26.319
that Convincing these orcs to like fight on behalf
01:49:26.319 --> 01:49:33.920
of their food Will basically decide the future
01:49:33.920 --> 01:49:37.859
of my species so I kind of have to give like
01:49:38.090 --> 01:49:43.069
One hell of a speech. Tell her and we'll kind
01:49:43.069 --> 01:49:44.350
of like pat you on the shoulder and be like,
01:49:44.470 --> 01:49:48.090
don't worry, I'll warm them up for you. Um, and
01:49:48.090 --> 01:49:55.350
it's time to start. Oh boy. Not like that. Freak.
01:49:56.689 --> 01:50:03.119
I miss Zaris. Zaris misses you too. Here's the
01:50:03.119 --> 01:50:04.720
thing. I don't even know what that means, but
01:50:04.720 --> 01:50:11.579
I know it's fucking nasty rain. It's coming from
01:50:11.579 --> 01:50:13.619
the high priestess of Asmodeus. Well, you see
01:50:13.619 --> 01:50:16.119
fluffing is when they get the fluid into the
01:50:16.119 --> 01:50:19.659
canals. Oh, what? Yeah. Whip it up real good.
01:50:19.680 --> 01:50:23.779
It's true. Yeah, worked it in. All right. Yeah.
01:50:24.640 --> 01:50:33.930
Oh my god. This is why we mark it explicit. Yeah.
01:50:36.050 --> 01:50:43.130
Tsk tsk. Cock buns. There it is. It's always
01:50:43.130 --> 01:50:48.970
there. Just hanging. Just hanging. So anyway,
01:50:49.149 --> 01:50:51.470
about that speech, let's say my entire speech
01:50:51.470 --> 01:50:57.270
is in here. Alright, um, so, Tallorin will come
01:50:57.270 --> 01:51:00.470
out of the house and everybody will kind of hush.
01:51:02.130 --> 01:51:04.090
Everyone will, you know, start, and people will
01:51:04.090 --> 01:51:05.369
kind of start to gather around their... There's
01:51:05.369 --> 01:51:07.729
a tower. Yeah, and there's a couple people like,
01:51:07.750 --> 01:51:10.130
oh, wait a minute, yeah, wasn't he missing? What's
01:51:10.130 --> 01:51:12.250
going on? Where's this guy? He got this tower.
01:51:12.310 --> 01:51:16.189
Does his mom know? Wait, yeah, isn't this wrong
01:51:16.189 --> 01:51:18.850
with our kids? I bet she's really, like, more
01:51:18.850 --> 01:51:21.010
kids than she... I bet she's really worried.
01:51:21.770 --> 01:51:24.590
I heard he got beat up by three zebras and a
01:51:24.590 --> 01:51:33.970
monkey. I can't stand that guy. But yeah, people
01:51:33.970 --> 01:51:36.859
are whispering and he's kind of like... you know,
01:51:37.140 --> 01:51:41.739
settling down the crowd. And he will open up
01:51:41.739 --> 01:51:46.180
with telling the story about how he met the Crusaders.
01:51:46.260 --> 01:51:50.659
So he'll explain like, you know, he was sent
01:51:50.659 --> 01:51:57.260
on a mission by his father and Vryn to explore
01:51:57.260 --> 01:52:01.520
this pyramid that had mysteriously appeared near
01:52:01.520 --> 01:52:06.819
one of their outposts. outposts. And this actually
01:52:06.819 --> 01:52:11.199
like happened to be one of the outposts that
01:52:11.199 --> 01:52:14.800
Locara was using for like, you know, like a second,
01:52:14.859 --> 01:52:16.899
like it was another location that she was often
01:52:16.899 --> 01:52:20.380
frequenting. So Locara naturally went along with
01:52:20.380 --> 01:52:24.159
them, along with other associates of the Empire,
01:52:24.279 --> 01:52:27.140
like they weren't other works. Like if you remember
01:52:27.140 --> 01:52:29.520
correctly, it was like a, it was like a deep
01:52:29.520 --> 01:52:34.020
gnome who went with them. I think, or no wait,
01:52:34.039 --> 01:52:39.979
it was a dwarf, like a... Dwargar. Dwargar, that's
01:52:39.979 --> 01:52:42.460
right. I believe that's who it was, yeah. So
01:52:42.460 --> 01:52:46.939
there was another associate of the Empire with
01:52:46.939 --> 01:52:50.979
him, and he will explain that the pyramid was
01:52:50.979 --> 01:52:56.899
really weird and intense, and that they failed,
01:52:57.680 --> 01:53:00.739
and they were trying to escape, and that is when
01:53:00.739 --> 01:53:06.800
Lokara betrayed him, turned on him, and trapped
01:53:06.800 --> 01:53:10.619
him in the pyramid. He said he eventually found
01:53:10.619 --> 01:53:13.239
his way through the puzzle that was in the pyramid
01:53:13.239 --> 01:53:19.460
and he battled with the creature that dwelled
01:53:19.460 --> 01:53:25.359
in the pyramid and he lost. And he was trapped
01:53:25.359 --> 01:53:28.779
in a nether realm of nothingness and despair.
01:53:28.970 --> 01:53:33.470
and the Crusaders just so happened to do that
01:53:33.470 --> 01:53:38.630
same challenge and win. And instead of getting
01:53:38.630 --> 01:53:44.050
some kind of extra prize from the creature, they
01:53:44.050 --> 01:53:51.029
gave that up in order to save my life. And that's
01:53:51.029 --> 01:53:55.550
how I met the people I'm going to introduce you
01:53:55.550 --> 01:53:59.550
guys to today, the Ham Crusaders. Like, ham.
01:54:02.210 --> 01:54:05.529
Trust me, it doesn't matter. We feel the same
01:54:05.529 --> 01:54:12.270
way. He'll say, but yeah, so when I, you know,
01:54:12.890 --> 01:54:17.069
met the Crusaders, I had the privilege of also
01:54:17.069 --> 01:54:21.670
meeting the Frog Folk. And they're like, what
01:54:21.670 --> 01:54:24.569
do you mean? meeting the frog, like the people
01:54:24.569 --> 01:54:28.130
start whispering. And there's like a, you know,
01:54:28.270 --> 01:54:33.109
a whisper of doubt. And he says, you know, he
01:54:33.109 --> 01:54:34.770
explains kind of like when it like it like the
01:54:34.770 --> 01:54:37.329
speech he gave before about how like, the frog
01:54:37.329 --> 01:54:39.649
folk are people, they have a culture, they have
01:54:39.649 --> 01:54:42.789
families, they, you know, they're more than livestock.
01:54:43.590 --> 01:54:48.010
And that, you know, there's more going on to
01:54:48.010 --> 01:54:53.939
all of this and that it's been revealed that
01:54:53.939 --> 01:55:00.560
Lokara was being controlled by a powerful spellcaster
01:55:00.560 --> 01:55:05.100
that's working with the Emperor. And he'll say,
01:55:05.100 --> 01:55:08.300
you know, she murdered her. She murdered Lokara.
01:55:09.859 --> 01:55:12.300
And... Reign is looking out at everyone when
01:55:12.300 --> 01:55:16.300
he says that. Okay, yeah. Make an insight check.
01:55:16.920 --> 01:55:20.659
And, like, I want to, like, signal my voice.
01:55:20.699 --> 01:55:24.100
There's definitely gasps. Signal my bullies.
01:55:25.779 --> 01:55:30.560
This is why you're head of security. What? Insight?
01:55:30.939 --> 01:55:34.460
Yeah. 19. Okay, yeah. So mostly the crowd just
01:55:34.460 --> 01:55:38.939
seems sort of shocked. You kind of scan and you
01:55:38.939 --> 01:55:43.159
don't see, you don't see anybody. Well, can I
01:55:43.159 --> 01:55:46.319
roll for eyes? Yeah, you can roll for eyes. You
01:55:46.319 --> 01:55:49.079
don't see anybody at a quick glance that like
01:55:49.079 --> 01:55:52.779
seems. not surprised, I guess. Maybe some people
01:55:52.779 --> 01:55:56.220
are not as reactive, but some people are covering
01:55:56.220 --> 01:55:58.359
their mouth and other people are like, huh? Raising
01:55:58.359 --> 01:56:06.159
their eyebrows. 31. Do not recognize any eyes.
01:56:07.739 --> 01:56:11.819
But yeah, so he'll kind of just, you know, he'll
01:56:11.819 --> 01:56:14.020
reiterate the stuff he had talked about before
01:56:14.020 --> 01:56:18.840
with the with the frog folk and and revealing
01:56:18.840 --> 01:56:24.399
Rosinia. and that's when he's like, all of this
01:56:24.399 --> 01:56:28.460
has been due to the Emperor's influence and I
01:56:28.460 --> 01:56:31.319
do believe that Rosinia was influencing Vryn
01:56:31.319 --> 01:56:35.199
and may still be influencing Vryn and you know
01:56:35.199 --> 01:56:38.859
people are kind of like you know and you there's
01:56:38.859 --> 01:56:41.840
definitely some divisiveness in the crowd not
01:56:41.840 --> 01:56:44.979
everyone's really like buying into what he's
01:56:44.979 --> 01:56:49.399
saying. I know you're wondering how I know this
01:56:49.399 --> 01:56:53.340
and all of this, and that's because one of the
01:56:53.340 --> 01:57:00.680
crusaders is a frog folk themselves. What? And
01:57:00.680 --> 01:57:03.479
everybody's like, huh? No way, what do you mean?
01:57:04.520 --> 01:57:06.880
And he's like, and I think the best way for you
01:57:06.880 --> 01:57:10.439
to understand what I mean when I say that...
01:57:10.460 --> 01:57:13.680
We can't keep doing this to their people that
01:57:13.680 --> 01:57:17.920
they are more than we ever knew or imagined,
01:57:18.939 --> 01:57:23.960
is to see him and meet him for yourself. And
01:57:23.960 --> 01:57:27.399
he's kind of like looking around, kind of nervously.
01:57:28.140 --> 01:57:31.279
Your boys are like, they're giving thumbs up.
01:57:31.720 --> 01:57:36.380
And I look at Tauren and I like, do a firm head,
01:57:37.279 --> 01:57:45.500
like, we're good. And Talryn will open the door.
01:57:46.859 --> 01:57:49.220
Darts out there. How is Dart making his appearance?
01:57:49.319 --> 01:57:52.880
See on the roof. Please see on the roof. Oh boy.
01:57:54.500 --> 01:57:59.060
He's in the crown. He takes off his... and steps
01:57:59.060 --> 01:58:01.680
up. Takes off his vins and steps up. He gives
01:58:01.680 --> 01:58:06.529
us a Sephiroth entrance. Everyone. He's just
01:58:06.529 --> 01:58:09.369
for a farming like I know their roof like right
01:58:09.369 --> 01:58:16.770
in the background Damn should have brought you
01:58:16.770 --> 01:58:25.670
in that So The way I'm imagining it is that There's
01:58:25.670 --> 01:58:28.970
a light behind me like a torch or something or
01:58:28.970 --> 01:58:36.710
a lamp or my wall fire And so the effect is is
01:58:36.710 --> 01:58:40.970
that as I'm like walking out the first thing
01:58:40.970 --> 01:58:47.109
you see is my shadow and it like seems very large
01:58:47.109 --> 01:58:51.329
and imposing and every like step I take up it
01:58:51.329 --> 01:58:54.649
gets smaller and smaller and smaller until I
01:58:54.649 --> 01:58:57.869
step out and everyone's like he's a lot shorter
01:58:57.869 --> 01:59:08.310
than I thought he'd be Indestructible dirt. Everybody's
01:59:08.310 --> 01:59:13.710
just kind of like, they look bewildered by your
01:59:13.710 --> 01:59:16.930
appearance. They just like, everybody's like
01:59:16.930 --> 01:59:19.689
hushed. You have everyone full attention. You
01:59:19.689 --> 01:59:23.609
see eyes on you. Some of them look a little hungry.
01:59:24.390 --> 01:59:27.210
Not gonna lie. You know that little, that thing,
01:59:27.390 --> 01:59:29.310
that creatures have when they want to eat you.
01:59:29.590 --> 01:59:31.329
Which is extra greedy because they just fucking
01:59:31.329 --> 01:59:40.609
eat. Rain looks at Dart and gives him the big
01:59:40.609 --> 01:59:44.189
thumbs up and that's her bardo. His big thumbs
01:59:44.189 --> 01:59:49.970
up. I believe in you, so you have bardo. I do
01:59:49.970 --> 01:59:54.569
not come before you with sword or spell. I come
01:59:54.569 --> 01:59:58.329
before you with the weight of graves. Graves
01:59:58.329 --> 02:00:03.350
of my kin. Graves dug not by war, but by wicked
02:00:03.350 --> 02:00:07.930
design. All our lives, your kind and mine have
02:00:07.930 --> 02:00:10.829
been told we are enemies, that we're born to
02:00:10.829 --> 02:00:13.909
slay each other, that blood must answer blood.
02:00:14.569 --> 02:00:17.930
But I say to you, what if that story was forged
02:00:17.930 --> 02:00:21.529
in chains? What if our hatred was shaped in the
02:00:21.529 --> 02:00:26.489
dark by a hand neither orc nor frog? Blood harvester
02:00:26.489 --> 02:00:30.880
Vryn, your great leader. kneels to a power fowler
02:00:30.880 --> 02:00:35.380
than any blade. Bewitched by a necromancer wearing
02:00:35.380 --> 02:00:38.640
the skin of your shaman, he was taught to drink
02:00:38.640 --> 02:00:42.260
souls as wine and gross fat on the agony of others.
02:00:43.220 --> 02:00:46.960
You see glory, you see strength, but I have seen
02:00:46.960 --> 02:00:50.979
the pits. Pools of my people bred like cattle
02:00:50.979 --> 02:00:54.220
for meat and labor, but more importantly for
02:00:54.220 --> 02:00:57.909
their souls. harvested and bottled and spent
02:00:57.909 --> 02:01:03.710
like coin. You have called us weak, soft, pathetic,
02:01:04.670 --> 02:01:08.390
and yet still we croaked and endured, and in
02:01:08.390 --> 02:01:11.909
that endurance we have uncovered the truth. The
02:01:11.909 --> 02:01:15.470
enemy of my people is the same shadow that leeches
02:01:15.470 --> 02:01:21.369
yours. You are warriors, fighters. You know when
02:01:21.369 --> 02:01:25.750
you are being used. Ask yourselves, Why has Vryn
02:01:25.750 --> 02:01:29.550
grown distant? Why did your shaman whisper behind
02:01:29.550 --> 02:01:33.409
closed doors? Why did she mark her own people
02:01:33.409 --> 02:01:37.529
for suffering? It's because he feeds on souls,
02:01:38.050 --> 02:01:41.189
and that dark magic demands ever more souls.
02:01:41.770 --> 02:01:46.510
Orc or frog, it cares not. He is no true leader.
02:01:47.149 --> 02:01:51.369
He's not an immortal god. He's a butcher in blood
02:01:51.369 --> 02:01:55.600
-stained armor. But you... You can be more than
02:01:55.600 --> 02:01:59.140
pawns. You can be the flame that burns away the
02:01:59.140 --> 02:02:03.619
rot. You can be the ones who end the lies, break
02:02:03.619 --> 02:02:08.159
the chains, free my kin, and maybe, in that freedom,
02:02:08.680 --> 02:02:12.760
find your own. In this last part, I say in Orcish,
02:02:13.699 --> 02:02:17.560
stand with me, stand with truth, and let us sing
02:02:17.560 --> 02:02:21.619
a new war song, not one of slaughter, but of
02:02:21.619 --> 02:02:26.859
rebellion. Well, go ahead and roll Persuasion.
02:02:29.760 --> 02:02:39.140
I don't remember what bar that was. 1d6. That's
02:02:39.140 --> 02:02:45.800
31. There's a lot of, there's like a moment of
02:02:45.800 --> 02:02:49.520
stunned silence after you speak. This is throwing
02:02:49.520 --> 02:02:53.359
a lot at people who had no idea what was going
02:02:53.359 --> 02:02:56.079
on. And people are sort of like whispering, it's
02:02:56.079 --> 02:02:57.819
like, yeah, okay, that makes sense what the pam
02:02:57.819 --> 02:02:59.739
- like, you know, the pamphlet said that they
02:02:59.739 --> 02:03:01.659
would reveal what's happening to people so they're
02:03:01.659 --> 02:03:04.659
being harvested. Is that real? No way, that's
02:03:04.659 --> 02:03:08.819
not true, right? And then, you know, you do kind
02:03:08.819 --> 02:03:12.500
of hear like whispers of that are a little bit
02:03:12.500 --> 02:03:17.039
more agreeable and there is definitely a sizable
02:03:17.039 --> 02:03:20.159
amount of the crowd that seems to be with you.
02:03:20.350 --> 02:03:25.270
And after a moment, one of the people, a teenage
02:03:25.270 --> 02:03:33.270
girl, starts clapping. And whistling and cheering
02:03:33.270 --> 02:03:36.789
and all of the other teenagers, all like, you
02:03:36.789 --> 02:03:40.170
know, ten or so of them start joining in and
02:03:40.170 --> 02:03:43.399
that kind of causes like... an uproar of people
02:03:43.399 --> 02:03:46.859
who are willing to cheer for you. And it's, you
02:03:46.859 --> 02:03:49.600
know, a good amount of that. I always wonder.
02:03:51.500 --> 02:03:56.539
Yeah. And there's people like repeating Lucara's,
02:03:56.539 --> 02:03:59.220
you know, chant. I feel like Reign starts it.
02:03:59.319 --> 02:04:01.359
Yeah, Reign starts the chant. People are repeating
02:04:01.359 --> 02:04:04.300
Lucara's chant. And things are kind of settling
02:04:04.300 --> 02:04:07.979
down a bit. And somebody, you know, wait, wait,
02:04:08.060 --> 02:04:12.100
wait, you know, a person, an orc. you know kind
02:04:12.100 --> 02:04:16.560
of tries to calm down part of the crowd and kind
02:04:16.560 --> 02:04:19.680
of be like wait wait wait okay you know don't
02:04:19.680 --> 02:04:24.699
you guys see that this and he points to dart
02:04:24.699 --> 02:04:30.760
this is the legendary frog menace this is the
02:04:30.760 --> 02:04:33.659
one that haunts her our nightmares our dreams
02:04:33.659 --> 02:04:40.689
the frog king that returned to destroy our people
02:04:40.689 --> 02:04:46.010
and end our way of life. Don't you guys remember
02:04:46.010 --> 02:04:49.729
Sheena Tantoo's painting, Blood and Blue Fire,
02:04:50.609 --> 02:04:52.689
depicting the horrible night where he slaughtered
02:04:52.689 --> 02:04:58.350
our people behind a wall of blue flames? And
02:04:58.350 --> 02:05:04.029
everybody's like, hmm. Yeah, wait, was that you?
02:05:05.090 --> 02:05:07.659
Yeah, didn't you say? That you were gonna kill
02:05:07.659 --> 02:05:10.500
all of us or something? That's what we heard.
02:05:12.680 --> 02:05:15.159
Holy shit, I just thought that was like a legend.
02:05:16.960 --> 02:05:22.579
When did this happen? In the last episode. No,
02:05:22.680 --> 02:05:26.880
I don't mean that. I mean to them. There's a
02:05:26.880 --> 02:05:30.140
painting and stuff like this. This person looks
02:05:30.140 --> 02:05:32.739
fast. This was like a few days ago. Like a week
02:05:32.739 --> 02:05:37.619
ago. Oh yeah. Oh, yeah. You just have them on
02:05:37.619 --> 02:05:40.899
retainer for painting epic battles. That would
02:05:40.899 --> 02:05:45.020
be dope. Well, I mean she lives here in town
02:05:45.020 --> 02:05:47.180
and just like paints stuff that she hears about
02:05:47.180 --> 02:05:49.760
and whatever inspires her. Where the hell is
02:05:49.760 --> 02:05:51.439
she? It's kind of like an impressionist painting.
02:05:51.579 --> 02:05:54.199
It's just like a big wall of like blue and then
02:05:54.199 --> 02:06:00.420
like a menacing silhouette. Like I said in my
02:06:00.420 --> 02:06:04.989
speech. Much like you have been taught to think
02:06:04.989 --> 02:06:08.329
of me as either food or the enemy or a great
02:06:08.329 --> 02:06:12.189
menace, my people were also kind of taught the
02:06:12.189 --> 02:06:15.970
same thing. And I pretty much spent my whole
02:06:15.970 --> 02:06:18.890
life hating you. And it wasn't really until I
02:06:18.890 --> 02:06:28.010
got here and realized that you were being misled.
02:06:28.649 --> 02:06:31.029
And somebody will say, hold on, we're not being
02:06:31.029 --> 02:06:35.409
misled. No, I know what's going on here. Those
02:06:35.409 --> 02:06:37.609
people that went missing, they did something
02:06:37.609 --> 02:06:41.789
to have that happen to them. The people that
02:06:41.789 --> 02:06:45.909
Locara, you know, cursed, they were bad people.
02:06:46.590 --> 02:06:50.069
And what if they weren't? They were. They had
02:06:50.069 --> 02:06:51.630
to be. It's so hard to believe that they were.
02:06:51.630 --> 02:06:53.149
They told us that they were only doing it to
02:06:53.149 --> 02:06:56.310
bad people. So what about their little sister?
02:06:56.520 --> 02:06:59.119
It's probably just unrelated. And what about
02:06:59.119 --> 02:07:02.579
his girlfriend? People go missing, but they're
02:07:02.579 --> 02:07:05.439
not like... And you never know what people are
02:07:05.439 --> 02:07:07.859
like. How many people have someone missing in
02:07:07.859 --> 02:07:10.159
their life? Who here has somebody missing right
02:07:10.159 --> 02:07:13.460
now? A lot of people start whispering and raising
02:07:13.460 --> 02:07:19.279
their arms. And somebody's like, no, why are
02:07:19.279 --> 02:07:24.260
we siding with this outsider? They're straight
02:07:24.260 --> 02:07:29.939
in solidarity. Vryn has kept us safe. He has
02:07:29.939 --> 02:07:33.899
kept us strong. And he's created a home for us
02:07:33.899 --> 02:07:38.220
here. Does Vryn remember her voice? Who is this?
02:07:39.119 --> 02:07:43.920
It's just like a townsperson that you don't recognize.
02:07:46.079 --> 02:07:49.140
A lot of people are on your side, but there's
02:07:49.140 --> 02:07:54.500
a few people who are questioning. They're speaking
02:07:54.500 --> 02:07:59.479
up. And there are other people going, no, it
02:07:59.479 --> 02:08:03.979
makes sense. Haven't you thought about it? Those
02:08:03.979 --> 02:08:07.060
disappearances, they probably are all related.
02:08:08.500 --> 02:08:11.739
And he's like, no, they're not. It's not possible.
02:08:12.000 --> 02:08:15.140
Why is it not possible? Well, no, you just don't
02:08:15.140 --> 02:08:17.460
understand what Vren needs us. He's our hero.
02:08:19.260 --> 02:08:26.250
He's changed, hasn't he? Recently too. Lucara
02:08:26.250 --> 02:08:31.189
chains six months ago and tolerance like you
02:08:31.189 --> 02:08:34.569
guys you have to you have to understand that
02:08:34.569 --> 02:08:41.090
like It's more than that. It's we're talking
02:08:41.090 --> 02:08:49.890
Soul magic we're talking I just Fuck you know
02:08:49.890 --> 02:08:53.409
what? Yeah, no one is concerned about the singing
02:08:53.409 --> 02:08:58.729
bowl Maybe they don't hear him. The bowl, it's
02:08:58.729 --> 02:09:01.390
just, it's nice. It's nice. Some people are like,
02:09:01.470 --> 02:09:04.329
well no, it kind of makes me feel sick. Yeah.
02:09:04.569 --> 02:09:07.489
How many of you hear the bowl? Like, not that
02:09:07.489 --> 02:09:13.109
many people. Probably like, ten? Okay. And two
02:09:13.109 --> 02:09:16.189
of them are teenagers. So one is six? Of course.
02:09:16.970 --> 02:09:20.010
Yeah. The biggest demographic is teenagers. Like
02:09:20.010 --> 02:09:23.939
man, fuck them. Fuck Ren. He said we can't skateboard
02:09:23.939 --> 02:09:27.319
in the park. To that I can't eat raw chicken.
02:09:27.560 --> 02:09:29.159
Like, Talarin doesn't know, like somebody's like,
02:09:29.180 --> 02:09:30.579
Talarin doesn't know what he's talking about.
02:09:31.159 --> 02:09:35.000
He's, you know him, he's the idiot son of a brilliant
02:09:35.000 --> 02:09:39.939
commander. He is no idiot. Talarin's like, hey,
02:09:40.920 --> 02:09:44.100
like, is that what they say about me? Tauren
02:09:44.100 --> 02:09:47.340
is no idiot. I can rest assure you that at that
02:09:47.340 --> 02:09:50.220
time. And who are you? The only person who would
02:09:50.220 --> 02:09:54.399
call Tauren an idiot is projecting. Yeah, who
02:09:54.399 --> 02:09:57.819
are you people? We are the Crusaders and what
02:09:57.819 --> 02:10:02.939
does that mean? Like why would I come here and
02:10:02.939 --> 02:10:08.140
lie? Why would I risk it? He does have a point.
02:10:09.539 --> 02:10:13.449
The car should still be here. Berlin's like,
02:10:13.909 --> 02:10:16.789
exactly. Everyone should still be here. Your
02:10:16.789 --> 02:10:18.989
girlfriend should still be here. I look at Tyler
02:10:18.989 --> 02:10:23.210
and I look at my guys. Your little sister should
02:10:23.210 --> 02:10:30.250
be here. And they're like, we need justice! A
02:10:30.250 --> 02:10:33.510
couple of the people who were like, kind of,
02:10:33.729 --> 02:10:36.170
who were like challenging these thoughts are
02:10:36.170 --> 02:10:38.810
like... Maybe you're right. I mean, it doesn't
02:10:38.810 --> 02:10:41.510
make sense. Like why would he endanger himself
02:10:41.510 --> 02:10:43.989
like this? And you know, a couple of people do
02:10:43.989 --> 02:10:45.729
kind of shout like, we want to hear more about
02:10:45.729 --> 02:10:49.189
the other Crusaders. That one's like, yeah, maybe
02:10:49.189 --> 02:10:52.949
that's fair. Like you should know who we're allying
02:10:52.949 --> 02:10:56.289
with. Yeah, how do we know we can trust you?
02:10:57.649 --> 02:11:01.310
Because we have nothing to hide. And we're still
02:11:01.310 --> 02:11:09.079
here. Begging for your help. Why why are like
02:11:09.079 --> 02:11:12.300
we understand why he's here? Why are you guys
02:11:12.300 --> 02:11:19.739
here? Honestly originally I came here just to
02:11:19.739 --> 02:11:24.340
simply help my friend Free some of his people
02:11:24.340 --> 02:11:31.819
wrap it up go home. I came here and saw how Much
02:11:31.819 --> 02:11:34.979
bigger the situation was and there was no way
02:11:34.979 --> 02:11:39.649
I could turn my back on the situation and sleep
02:11:39.649 --> 02:11:44.550
peacefully at night. So here I am, trying to
02:11:44.550 --> 02:11:48.369
convince all of you people that overthrowing
02:11:48.369 --> 02:11:52.649
your leader for the sake of Frogfoot kind is
02:11:52.649 --> 02:11:55.329
the correct thing to do. And it sounds insane,
02:11:55.529 --> 02:12:00.369
but here I am, believing in it anyway. And, you
02:12:00.369 --> 02:12:03.489
know, people are listening to you and they're...
02:12:03.359 --> 02:12:07.180
that's resonating. And you're Orkvary, aren't
02:12:07.180 --> 02:12:09.340
you? Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's definitely resonating
02:12:09.340 --> 02:12:11.100
with people, even with people who don't, like,
02:12:11.100 --> 02:12:14.560
nobody recognizes her, but... My name is Rainn
02:12:14.560 --> 02:12:17.960
Vosgrove, and she's, like, taking off her, like,
02:12:18.239 --> 02:12:23.779
goth, like, appearance. Wiping off. Wiping off
02:12:23.779 --> 02:12:28.140
the... with the Mulan makeup remover. Oh, yeah.
02:12:29.140 --> 02:12:33.010
The makeup remover sleeve microfiber. And then
02:12:33.010 --> 02:12:34.729
she just throws down the things that she doesn't
02:12:34.729 --> 02:12:41.670
have sleeves anymore. I am here because I believe
02:12:41.670 --> 02:12:49.689
in Dart. I have sworn an oath to Dart because
02:12:49.689 --> 02:12:53.890
of who he is and what he believes. And seeing
02:12:53.890 --> 02:13:03.060
what is happening to Frog Folk here is... a disgrace
02:13:03.060 --> 02:13:11.479
to nature and to orc kind. And I want to work
02:13:11.479 --> 02:13:17.060
with you. We want to work with you to make a
02:13:17.060 --> 02:13:23.880
better future for you, for the lode, and for
02:13:23.880 --> 02:13:30.220
the frog folk, however that may be. Both of you
02:13:30.220 --> 02:13:41.340
roll persuasion as well. 15. Okay. 27. Okay.
02:13:43.460 --> 02:13:46.380
Yeah, and you know, even if you're not, like,
02:13:46.380 --> 02:13:48.000
because persuasion, you know, even if you're
02:13:48.000 --> 02:13:50.819
not, like, persuading people necessarily, they
02:13:50.819 --> 02:13:54.020
still are, like, you know, listening to you and
02:13:54.020 --> 02:13:58.359
seeing, you know, how genuine you are. And I
02:13:58.359 --> 02:14:02.859
think, like, there are some people in the crowd,
02:14:03.960 --> 02:14:07.760
a small handful, who do walk away, like during
02:14:07.760 --> 02:14:12.399
these speeches at some point. But the vast majority
02:14:12.399 --> 02:14:16.979
of the crowd seems to be with you now. And they
02:14:16.979 --> 02:14:20.359
are discussing things and they're saying, well,
02:14:20.359 --> 02:14:22.579
what are we gonna do? What's the strategy? Like,
02:14:22.840 --> 02:14:25.140
are we gonna have to, are you guys gonna kill
02:14:25.140 --> 02:14:29.909
Brynn? Like, what? What can we do? How can we
02:14:29.909 --> 02:14:41.350
stop this? It's our understanding that Vryn has,
02:14:41.710 --> 02:14:47.449
in his pursuit of immortality, become a tool
02:14:47.449 --> 02:14:53.409
of Emperor Dayne. Emperor Dayne is using you,
02:14:53.750 --> 02:14:59.050
the Orc people as a cudgel in this region of
02:14:59.050 --> 02:15:05.149
the world, with Vryn as his puppet, leading you
02:15:05.149 --> 02:15:09.090
into whatever conflict he sees fit. With Dalarath,
02:15:09.250 --> 02:15:12.229
first and foremost. And he's doing that specifically,
02:15:12.489 --> 02:15:18.369
or was doing that, by having his agent, the Necromancer,
02:15:18.449 --> 02:15:24.090
Rosinia, inhabit the skin of your once beloved
02:15:24.090 --> 02:15:29.630
shaman. Lokara and using dark magic to influence
02:15:29.630 --> 02:15:36.750
his mind. And I believe that the orcs as well
02:15:36.750 --> 02:15:40.550
as the frog folk deserve the opportunity to choose
02:15:40.550 --> 02:15:43.949
their own destiny and not be led into conflicts
02:15:43.949 --> 02:15:48.909
against their will. And so I've come before you
02:15:48.909 --> 02:15:53.329
merely to ask you to make a choice. Stick with
02:15:53.329 --> 02:16:00.500
Vryn. Be puppets, be led into conflict, be controlled
02:16:00.500 --> 02:16:05.859
by dark magics, stay in line or hear a bell that
02:16:05.859 --> 02:16:13.640
drives you to madness, or fight for freedom and
02:16:13.640 --> 02:16:23.560
justice. We can do this, says Talryn. Once Vryn
02:16:23.560 --> 02:16:27.920
is defeated, And Rosinia, presumably the evil
02:16:27.920 --> 02:16:34.040
necromancer lady. All I wish is for my people
02:16:34.040 --> 02:16:39.000
to have freedom, and then I'll go. If they're
02:16:39.000 --> 02:16:43.059
using the frogs to like power something, Ren,
02:16:43.239 --> 02:16:47.479
whatever, um, what if we try to break them out
02:16:47.479 --> 02:16:50.319
first? Maybe that would weaken Ren for the good
02:16:50.319 --> 02:16:54.649
ol' one -two. But I feel like they're turning
02:16:54.649 --> 02:16:59.389
them into crystals to be used for batteries for
02:16:59.389 --> 02:17:06.909
something My issue is is that Like there's a
02:17:06.909 --> 02:17:13.930
lot of my people down there a Couple dozen More
02:17:13.930 --> 02:17:17.690
like hundreds probably maybe thousands and hundreds
02:17:17.690 --> 02:17:21.370
of dozens. This is a big enough people were willing
02:17:22.430 --> 02:17:24.629
to be on our side. Maybe we can take some of
02:17:24.629 --> 02:17:27.030
the orcs down there and just cause a big scene.
02:17:27.229 --> 02:17:28.969
Maybe not necessarily kill anyone, but just create
02:17:28.969 --> 02:17:34.409
so much chaos. No beans. Not down there. That
02:17:34.409 --> 02:17:37.629
kind of chaos. And no bean -based chaos that
02:17:37.629 --> 02:17:41.770
it could give us a chance to bust all, if not
02:17:41.770 --> 02:17:45.989
most, out. And you do see that, like, people
02:17:45.989 --> 02:17:49.079
in the crowd. um, are now starting to sort of
02:17:49.079 --> 02:17:51.559
break up into like groups and they're discussing
02:17:51.559 --> 02:17:54.319
things, you know, talking back and forth. Um,
02:17:54.459 --> 02:17:55.600
everyone - We need to be able to channel this
02:17:55.600 --> 02:17:59.020
energy of the crowd. Everyone who has stayed,
02:17:59.500 --> 02:18:03.020
like, is with you, essentially. Like, there's
02:18:03.020 --> 02:18:06.520
- there was a number of people who left. Your,
02:18:06.520 --> 02:18:10.899
uh, Alistair - Are they a unit? What? Are they
02:18:10.899 --> 02:18:14.559
a unit now? For, like, if we, like, do Wargame?
02:18:15.459 --> 02:18:19.399
Um... Well, yeah, I mean, they will be. Yeah.
02:18:20.420 --> 02:18:24.139
But uh, yeah, Talloran will, or sorry, Alistair
02:18:24.139 --> 02:18:26.319
will come over to you and he'll say, don't worry.
02:18:26.379 --> 02:18:31.159
I made note of who left. My man. And he like
02:18:31.159 --> 02:18:34.559
gives you nucks. Did you just denzel it? Yeah.
02:18:34.909 --> 02:18:38.069
Um, and when I, yeah, when I nucks, I somehow
02:18:38.069 --> 02:18:40.489
slip some coins between my fingers and then it
02:18:40.489 --> 02:18:44.350
slips through his fingers when we nucks. So that's
02:18:44.350 --> 02:18:50.190
smooth like money. Hell yeah. Don't spend it
02:18:50.190 --> 02:18:52.729
all in one place. Yeah. But we could use some,
02:18:52.729 --> 02:18:56.850
some consistent help from people like you. I
02:18:56.850 --> 02:18:59.590
mean, yeah, however I can help the cause. And,
02:18:59.590 --> 02:19:01.450
you know, some people are kind of gathering around
02:19:01.450 --> 02:19:04.290
Taleran, asking him questions. A lot of people
02:19:04.290 --> 02:19:07.549
do trust him and they're, you know, they're kind
02:19:07.549 --> 02:19:10.629
of gravitating towards him. And he's, you know,
02:19:10.690 --> 02:19:12.670
like, yeah, no, for real, like, oh, he's a cool
02:19:12.670 --> 02:19:15.950
guy. Like, for, yeah, actually, you know, he's
02:19:15.950 --> 02:19:18.430
not really that, like, violent. It's just kind
02:19:18.430 --> 02:19:27.469
of like, no. What's up, fools? And he'll be like,
02:19:27.569 --> 02:19:29.090
no, no, no. They're not trying to say that we're
02:19:29.090 --> 02:19:33.309
evil. They're not trying to demonize us. I felt
02:19:33.309 --> 02:19:36.629
attacked at first, too. So you can hear I'm sort
02:19:36.629 --> 02:19:39.409
of trying to... There's still people who are
02:19:39.409 --> 02:19:44.489
trying to cope with everything that they're trying
02:19:44.489 --> 02:19:47.010
to wrap their heads around. But there are some
02:19:47.010 --> 02:19:52.590
people who are prepared to organize. And they
02:19:52.590 --> 02:20:00.139
are... ready to take that next step with you
02:20:00.139 --> 02:20:05.340
guys or that next part of the journey. Do we
02:20:05.340 --> 02:20:09.920
need to just break this one group up into multiple
02:20:09.920 --> 02:20:12.139
groups and send them out to different cities?
02:20:12.719 --> 02:20:17.200
Are there different outpost cities? So there's
02:20:17.200 --> 02:20:19.799
three little towns and then there's Vrenvara.
02:20:20.620 --> 02:20:22.659
Because if we get the more support we get, the
02:20:22.659 --> 02:20:27.620
more... Somebody will say, you know, well, if
02:20:27.620 --> 02:20:29.659
you guys need to fight Vren, we have to like
02:20:29.659 --> 02:20:33.780
figure out how to get you guys like to him, right?
02:20:34.139 --> 02:20:38.520
Like, he's not there right now. We need, we need
02:20:38.520 --> 02:20:42.899
like, we need like military connections. And
02:20:42.899 --> 02:20:44.620
a couple of people look at Taron and Taron's
02:20:44.620 --> 02:20:47.440
like, I do think we should talk to my dad, because
02:20:47.440 --> 02:20:50.479
he's he actually has control over, I mean, not
02:20:50.479 --> 02:20:55.930
like a good third. of our military force. Does
02:20:55.930 --> 02:21:00.290
he have a diplomat's pouch? Yeah. I just feel
02:21:00.290 --> 02:21:02.909
like it's really important to convey because
02:21:02.909 --> 02:21:09.549
of what I would perceive as the fierce independent
02:21:09.549 --> 02:21:16.889
nature of orcs in general, you know? At least
02:21:16.889 --> 02:21:22.180
within their own culture. to be very aware of
02:21:22.180 --> 02:21:25.280
the fact that, like, what they're doing isn't
02:21:25.280 --> 02:21:28.959
their plan. It's not even really Vryn's plan.
02:21:29.719 --> 02:21:33.020
It's Dain who's, like, controlling them deceitfully
02:21:33.020 --> 02:21:36.860
through dark magic. Dain is using Vryn as a puppet
02:21:36.860 --> 02:21:39.440
and the rest of the orcs. Like, clearly I want
02:21:39.440 --> 02:21:44.860
to free my people, but to do so requires defeating
02:21:44.860 --> 02:21:49.600
the agents of Emperor Dain, Vryn and Rosinia.
02:21:50.010 --> 02:21:54.969
and they have like you know the enemy of my enemy
02:21:54.969 --> 02:21:57.530
is my friend type of situation going on because
02:21:57.530 --> 02:22:03.229
like their true independence and freedom is being
02:22:03.229 --> 02:22:08.450
like denied to them like their their freedom
02:22:08.450 --> 02:22:10.870
for like self -determination is being denied
02:22:10.870 --> 02:22:15.729
to them by like a false leader who also happens
02:22:15.729 --> 02:22:19.680
to be harvesting my people's souls. And so like
02:22:19.680 --> 02:22:23.219
they have a reason to not like Vryn as well in
02:22:23.219 --> 02:22:27.100
that he has lied to them and manipulated them.
02:22:28.020 --> 02:22:31.920
Right. People are starting to sort of wrap their
02:22:31.920 --> 02:22:33.760
heads around it and you can see people passing
02:22:33.760 --> 02:22:38.299
around the pamphlets and we should send Daru
02:22:38.299 --> 02:22:41.549
out. I guess to drop the pamphlets for the other
02:22:41.549 --> 02:22:43.989
cities. We need to, yeah, somebody, somebody
02:22:43.989 --> 02:22:46.590
comes up and says, yeah, we need to like, I go
02:22:46.590 --> 02:22:48.670
to the, I go to the city pretty frequently because
02:22:48.670 --> 02:22:52.809
I'm a trader. So I can like, I was planning on
02:22:52.809 --> 02:22:55.110
making a trip to the city tomorrow. I was thinking
02:22:55.110 --> 02:22:58.829
about like merchants and people who can get on
02:22:58.829 --> 02:23:01.510
the inside too. So why don't I give you here,
02:23:01.610 --> 02:23:03.610
here's some pamphlets and I just give her, give
02:23:03.610 --> 02:23:07.049
them a stack. Yeah. And so they have different
02:23:07.049 --> 02:23:09.520
ones and yeah. Yeah, and you have like more people
02:23:09.520 --> 02:23:11.280
kind of coming up and saying like, you know,
02:23:11.780 --> 02:23:14.739
I slip some gold as I go to I go to Al Kier,
02:23:15.319 --> 02:23:17.899
like, you know, every once in a while I could
02:23:17.899 --> 02:23:19.799
I could head over there. My uncle lives there.
02:23:19.799 --> 02:23:22.319
I could talk to him first and then kind of see
02:23:22.319 --> 02:23:23.959
and somebody's like, oh, yeah, you know, I know
02:23:23.959 --> 02:23:29.079
the I know, you know, the butchers and Marie's
02:23:29.079 --> 02:23:31.120
and, you know, that kind of thing. And so people
02:23:31.120 --> 02:23:33.780
are like talking about like who they might know
02:23:33.780 --> 02:23:38.110
who might be. all like on their side and who
02:23:38.110 --> 02:23:45.870
might who might be reachable and like you can
02:23:45.870 --> 02:23:49.450
see like the seeds of this movement being sown
02:23:49.450 --> 02:23:54.290
like right in front of your eyes and it's you
02:23:54.290 --> 02:23:58.260
know a community Finally having because like
02:23:58.260 --> 02:23:59.879
this, you know a community who's been that's
02:23:59.879 --> 02:24:03.739
been suffering having a purpose and having you
02:24:03.739 --> 02:24:06.979
know a goal and Some people are kind of like
02:24:06.979 --> 02:24:09.260
one person does go like wait a minute like well
02:24:09.260 --> 02:24:11.700
if we get rid of a friend and like who's the
02:24:11.700 --> 02:24:19.520
chieftain and You know People like oh I'm sure
02:24:19.520 --> 02:24:22.139
that there's plenty of eligible people out there.
02:24:22.139 --> 02:24:25.469
It's usually like the head of the military And
02:24:25.469 --> 02:24:29.729
then Palin's like, oh, man, my dad. Like, crap.
02:24:31.950 --> 02:24:35.709
Rain goes up to Dart and just puts her hand on
02:24:35.709 --> 02:24:40.569
his shoulder and gives him a hug. You're giving
02:24:40.569 --> 02:24:48.790
Dart a hug. And it was kind of like dusk, right?
02:24:49.090 --> 02:24:53.909
The sun hasn't set fully. But you know, because
02:24:53.909 --> 02:24:55.430
of the trees you can't really see the sun, but
02:24:55.430 --> 02:24:57.469
you can kind of see like the light in the sky
02:24:57.469 --> 02:25:06.889
still. And suddenly you hear a loud sort of rumbling
02:25:06.889 --> 02:25:13.790
and rushing sound coming from the sky. And in
02:25:13.790 --> 02:25:22.010
an instant, the entire sky is blocked out. by
02:25:22.010 --> 02:25:30.069
a large structure hovering above the entire area.
02:25:30.129 --> 02:25:32.569
This thing is impossibly large. You cannot see
02:25:32.569 --> 02:25:39.149
the sky. And if you look up at it, it's clearly
02:25:39.149 --> 02:25:48.090
some sort of creation. And it has... Yeah. Oh,
02:25:48.149 --> 02:25:52.709
fuck. Zavari would recognize this. But Zavara,
02:25:52.709 --> 02:25:57.430
you haven't seen it quite this, I will say, active.
02:25:58.090 --> 02:26:02.969
Oh. So essentially, you know, what you're used
02:26:02.969 --> 02:26:07.469
to that has, it has like rings, like concentric
02:26:07.469 --> 02:26:13.250
rings of these stone, these stone rings that
02:26:13.250 --> 02:26:18.530
are kind of like hoisting it up. It's this continent
02:26:18.530 --> 02:26:24.389
that's just blotting out the sky. And these,
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the rings underneath, Zavara, you recognize them,
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they're kind of like, from what you understand,
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they're kind of like the mechanisms that hold
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up this structure itself. And typically they
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kind of spin sort of slowly but right now they're
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kind of like and there's like a bright glow in
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the very center like sphere of all of these rings
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think like biblically accurate angel architecture
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and they are completely covered in like Magic
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runes and they're kind of like the only light
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that you can kind of see from the sky is now
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these runes sort of glowing passively and Rain
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when you look at the rings you don't see runes
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you see eyes Every like every rune every ring
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is just covered in eyes Some of which you instantly
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recognize, but you don't know who they are, you
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just know you've seen them before. And so there's
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these just rotating stone rings of eyes. Really
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a biblical angel. Gazing down at you. And everyone
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else, like I said, just sees like runes. And
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I'm like, Savaree? Yeah. Just the Emperor, isn't
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it? Worse. It's this whole fucking town. So this
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is the Emperor's City. Regalia. A porthole, like
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a ring that opens up in the underside of it.
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And a massive, like wide, violent streak of lightning
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crackles down out of this portal. It strikes
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the top of Wren's tower. And when it does that,
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there's just this loud rolling thunder that shakes
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the air. Taron's like, I think Ren's back. I
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think Ren's home, yeah. Welcome home. Thank you
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for listening to Roll Forth. This has been the
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Empire Initiative featuring Samaria Hawkins as
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Lady Zavari slash Lady Litria. Ryan Musgrove
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as King Dart of the Hopkins, Rachel Voss as Rainn
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