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Lords. Thank you. Ricardo was like shifty eyed, like looking at the
clearing ricards are just not like the idea of staying yards and knights. Do
we feel like we have any use to push ourselves? What was it better
to wait till we have some lights? It was some natural light. The
better question is if we make it through this briar wall, aren't we going
to just end up in a bog? This might be the last dry ground
we've got. Ricardo is upset by how correct that sounds. Sorry, you're
right, Phedra's actively scowling. I hate this fucking wizard, small ball wizard,
small ball wizard in this fucking thornhell this small ball wizard in the bag
Apes making their debut album. I should have that, not for you,
not for you, Dome Token or the pet ponies. So what's it gonna
be? Guys? What do you want to do? Head again, firmly
nestled in my bum. How do we make fire? What a wonderful question.
What's the target number? What's the target number? Oh? Yeah,
we're going to gather a bunch of shitty thorns to make a fire. If
you snap the thorns off of the vines, they look like they would make
pretty decent kindling. I will use my croc tooth dagger and set about that
task because I'm getting antsy and anxious, and you know, hansy work sounds
like just the thing to call me. Now, is anyone going to assist
her? Yeah? Yeah, Ricardo of them, there's also some like dead
sections of vine you could use as like the main component. But the thorns,
especially once optomers aren't experimenting with them, they seem like they're pretty flammable.
That's okay, that actually be bad. Later, have to be careful.
We should probably make a make sure the pits is correct. Anybody see
any rocks? Oh don't necessarily need rocks. I could just dig a smallish
hole because the thorns are surprising, the easy to light. It is only
going to be a target number one just because this is weird for you.
You're the thorn diver. Maybe it's not that weird. Thank goodness, there's
sparks and the thorns. Na, this is just a Thursday. But yeah,
target number one to set up a safe five that will not light the
canopy. Yeah, I can fuck this up. Where the fuck were you?
That's sight, That's exactly what you need to God. Wow, that's
so full shit. Wow, good job on the christ success. You know,
I've never seen someone so angry over success before. This is ridiculous.
You hate success. This is an established fact. That's true. If I
didn't know better, because I'm broke, I would say that these are on
my payroll. That explained. Like I said, this is just another Thursday
for old aucer thorndiver. It's gonna get a little heeded in the bramble.
If you catch my fucking drift I do. I do hot and fresh out
the bramble. Bramble on bramble action in your town near you? Who looking
for little thorns in your area. Okay, all right, all right,
I feel bad for committing to that, But anyway, what is the greatest
fire ever set known to man? Like? I guess it looks like three
momentum points for the pool. That's what it looks like. Suppose that's true.
Okay, I'm fucking spending that to get us out of this piece of
shit thorn wall. What you just turn that into a flame thrower to get
us out of here? Okay, so this is interesting. Admittedly it might
be kind of hard, but a smoke trail might be able to help us.
But for now, you guys are sitting around the fire, having food
co miserating your miserableness. The air here is starting to get thick, like
the thorn wall itself. The humidity is uck. Everybody is sweaty and uncomfortable.
Moist moist. This would be atypical of whether I'm used to. Would
it im some more of a dry heat? Yeah? Okay, you're on
the coast and coast, yes you're right, Okay, yeah, no,
miserable, miserable. You guys are getting ready to take it easy. You're
talking about watches. Everybody's a little agitated because nobody really wants to stay here.
But also Optimer made a really good point. M hence the noise I
made. And right around the time that you sort out who's going to take
what, watch you hear the panic screams of a child. It sounds like
a young girl. There's general screaming at first, and then you hear help,
please help, the bad man's coming to get me. Oh god,
if that small bow wizard is imprisoning children here, Phaedra look at me,
there is no way. Slowly turns her head and locks eyes with Ricardo and
says, I don't have many lines, but once once my few lines are
crossed, any of them, any of them, there's almost light in her
eyes, glowing with the anger seething inside her tiny body. Hello, stand
up, I'm tensing up my bow. I look her dead in the fucking
eyes. Did I say this is a bad idea, This is gonna get
us all killed? I agree, But it just called that's cool? What
the fuck did he do? He knows? Fight? What's called? Fuck?
Holy shit? If a young one is in destress us and I did
nothing, I would feed myself to the dragon. I would not be able
to live with myself. I can't risk that consequence. Ricardo, Like,
it's almost like you can't get the words out because his jaw, Like you
could hear the teeth grinding, because his jaw is fucking like that that clenched.
Fine, fine, fine, come on, now take a torch.
We're not gonna go do this in the dark. We're gonna find her.
Can I like try and like facilitate, Like, we don't have cloth,
do we? That's the problem. We have raw apide. Oh wow,
nicely, yea, that shit's gonna burn very nice. You're definitely really low
on right a piede like you've made a suit of armor. It's several water
skins at this point, I just imagined the smell for a moment and I
can kind of taste it. Oh yeah, whatever's out there, it's gonna
find us just the minute. We Like, if you want more apie,
you're gonna have to file bog apes for good news. They're coming to us
off the regular ape spelled bed. Yeah. Hold up, I got delivery.
It's being it's I got raw apied on fucking Uber Eats. It's on
route. You're a driver, is approximately five minutes a waiver apes. All
right, I'll wait, I'll wait for my front liners to go ahead of
me. All right, So you grab a stick of this thorn vine out
of the fire, like one of the dryer ones m and wrap a few
scraps of leather in the hope that it stops the fire from just going down
to your hand, because it's rob what you can do on short notice,
right, Yeah, it's great. And you start traveling towards where the brambles
thin out. The girl is distress increasing. She's screaming something in hearing about
magic and like in distance like here and there, you're seeing flickering, green,
sickly fire. Oh shit, and then it'll go out and then maybe
twenty thirty feet it'll be like a yellow shianes really bright. You're seeing a
bunch of lights going around like that, and the little arrow is just screaming
and crying. Are there noises associated with the lights or is it mostly her
screams that I hear mostly the screams? Yeah? Okay. What sucks is
I've read Beyond Thunder River. Someone's right ahead. No, I read it
like years ago. Okay, it's a great fucking story. But Beyond the
Thunder River okay, good to know. Well, anyway, I guess we're
gonna keep going towards the fucking screams, because what else can we do?
Nothing? All right, the flickering lights make it very easy to find your
rate towards the source of the disturbance. There's like a hectic five minute rush
through the dark. You guys are getting snagged on brambles, scraped up.
Nothing that really hurts, but it's just not fun. Just luckily for you,
nobody twists their angle or anything right right, you make it out into
a clearing. You can just hear the girl is very close by, and
all of a sudden there's a flare off of like this baleful, purply red
fire, and it rises of nine fall and walks out of the tree line.
Is a hideous monster covered in scaly, pale green brown skin that kind
of matches the brambles, big horns coming off its head, no eyes,
in an extended ball filled with sharp fangs. It looks at you and opens
its mouth, and the little girl's voice comes up, thank you for coming
to save me.