Due to some violent content, b renal discretion is advised. In the year
two hundred and forty seven, in the Age of Judges, Vartan was summoned
home after the death of his father. Upon his return, Vartan discovered something
evil festering beneath the city of Eterno. With the help of some very unlikely
allies, Vartan works to uncover the mysteries of his hometown and put an end
to the nightmares that plague his people. Welcome to Ethereal Embrace. I'm Baya
Susan's back. Wow, I haven't seen Susan since I left Eturno. I
always knew she had potential, but a whole cult. I don't know if
I'm impressed or scared. Either way, it looks like we have a decision
to make day four. At the crime scene of the third murder, the
demons on the other side of that portal are preparing to come here, and
more and more people like this Robin will be willing to open the doorway for
them. Yes, the Robin does seem slightly suspicious, sorry dove Pree,
but is there no other way to close the portal than to murder the townsfolk?
No, none that I can come up with. Well, I'm not
going to stand by and let you murder anymore. Where's dove anolin, the
real dove anolin in her room? Dead? Yes, dead. I knew
we should have gone in there. Her body is stowed away in a locked
chest in her room. I needed it. I needed her blood. That
disgusting. Morgan's going to turn and look at Brie. See how she just
took that news. Brie is completely red in the face, ready to dole
out some retribution, but her training and plus she's the leader, is keeping
her in check. I mean, this person's giving a full confession right now.
So m we like unmasked somebody on Scooby Doo and they're telling us everything.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, loving it. Brie is is very,
very angry, but she is well well trained, and she is a good
elected leader of the group, and she will wait until it's done and then
hold them accountable by the laws standards. Martin, this is your mother,
but she's murdering the towns. We can't let her continue just murdering like this.
I can understand if a portal needs to be closed, but is this
really the way to do it? And if it is, Are these the
people we want to be? I mean, if this is her my mother
died a long time ago, that is true, she was already impersonating one
person. How do we know that she didn't just turn that clock and is
now impersonating a second person that they know will pull on your heartstrings? Yeah,
min, yep. Either way, we can't let them murder as if
she I mean she's carrying around vows of blood can activate them that watch and
just change on a whim if it's not her original body. Yeah, uh,
Barten, Okay, it's a lot to take in. Yeah, yeah,
I'm all right. So, Susan, how many more of your well
you call them scouts? How many more of them are out there? And
I'm guessing they're all prepped to finish off the the sacrifices that have to be
done by your standards after this one here, one of my children was fatally
wounded. So that leaves me with ten. Oh so you was just let
anybody die, So if you died, that also counts as a as a
sacrifice to this Like, what's where does it end? I cannot die,
Bartan, not without my core. What's what's what's this core? Did you
explain that, Bartan. I'm what they call one of the first people.
I have an item that I came to this world with all of us do.
It's a core item that binds us to this world. It needs to
be destroyed before we can be destroyed. I I don't see a spear on
her, do I? Nope, you do not. Did you see me
outside of the tunnel whenever you entered and went through the portal the first time
through that magic window a long time ago? Yeah? Yes, yeah,
I just I opened that up yesterday. How did you manage that? You
don't know? No, I'm not sure. I want to tell you.
I have a lot to discuss with you, Vartan. There are a lot
of things that I need to tell you for this to make sense. I
would rather not do it here, though, If that makes sense, and
if you all wish, I will happily give over this trinket here and you
can take me into custody. The events that need to go into motion have
already been put into motion. There's no stop in the death that will happen.
There only needs to be one more death to complete the ritual. I
really don't think we can let that happen. Yeah, I'm going to walk
over and grab the trinket out of her hand. The pocket watch. Okay,
dove Brie already has shackles out. I'm ready to go. So someone's
just following your orders to complete this ritual. They don't even truly know why
you're using people. Yeah, of course, and this makes you the good
guy. How that doesn't make sense, Like bay A pointed out, you're
the one who's been killing people. We didn't even know this place was here.
Why is it, all of a sudden so important that you have to
do this and you're killing townspeople instead of your own followers. Why I need
to do something to close that portal. It is a much stronger magic than
what I had first anticipated. I attempted to close it before, to the
point where I thought I would die. I tempted to be the sacrifice the
first time, and I left, abandoning my son and my husband, so
that I could go out and complete this ritual. I destroyed my core or
snapped it in half, and thought I had destroyed it in the demonic realm.
I completed the ritual and left the city. I gave up everything to
save this city and it did not work. So now I'm doing the only
thing that I know that it's just a little bit more powerful, and that
is weakening the magic of a Turno completely and then repeating the ritual. So
I don't understand. I don't understand why killing people is killing people? Will
that open the portal? Or is that what weakens the magic? The rooin
is from the language of the first People. It means to weaken or destroy
the room for the city. For the magic of a Turno. A city
this size and a magic that old, it needs blood sacrifice to be able
to close it off. It was a blood sacrifice that made it work to
begin with. It's the only thing that can rebuff it. This city and
its magic was founded on death, and only death can reverse it. Well,
what if the ten doesn't work and you need more? What if it
takes everybody? What if it takes all of us dying? I won't know.
I will likely be dead when all this is done. How are you
planning on opening the portal after the magic was weakened. I could use my
own magic to open the portal, but that would take a lot out of
me, and I need my magic to be able to survive in the demonic
realm, so I was hoping to piggyback off what the Robin was using.
I wanted him to open the portal and then I could come in as one
of the doves. That way, my magic would be available to me.
From there, I would be able to recover my core, complete the ritual
there, and then come back out and close the portal by destroying my core.
What stops the robin from continuing to do what you're afraid of him doing.
The Robin is probably looking for more or magic items, or looking for
something specific there. If he goes off on his own to find it,
he'll be trapped there when we come back. And I really don't care about
their stupid religion. It makes no difference to me, So I'll leave him
there, or if I feel like he's become dangerous, I'll kill him,
or he can come back, whichever. Do you actually care about anything,
because it doesn't really sound like it except for completing your plan. What happens
to the people who are live right now because of the magic. Their lives
will continue as if they were normal. If they would age too eighty and
their body is around middle aged now, they could have another forty years of
life, and then they'll die in normal death like everyone else. I really
don't mean to kill any more than I have to. You've killed innocent people,
very innocent people. I've killed people who've lived hundreds of years. Off
the magic here. Aneline did not live hundreds of years. That's true,
Aneline was innocent, that is not. I don't care about your views on
religion. You're clearly old, so you have no care for these things.
But a life is a life. You yourself have lived for who knows how
long. Aneline had not lived that long. This is not acceptable. You
will face punishment for this, and it will not be by your own hand.
But we need to stop whatever it is that you're doing, because more
innocent blood does not need to be shed. I don't mean to end your
moral superiority over someone ancient, but you couldn't punish me if you tried.
You can't kill me, you can't imprison me, and I'm more powerful and
everyone in this room combined. I'm speaking with you because I want to.
If she truly is one of the first, she's right now. Will you
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Now back to the town of Eterno. Now, will you help me
get my spear or not? Where's the next death? I'm afraid I can't
tell you that that's the one thing you don't want to share. I'm assuming
she is making a pattern of the room that we've seen multiple times across the
town, and we have the three spots of death, and I'm assuming the
fourth one is going to be in a town like above the eye, like
around where the eye is in old district on the map. The fourth one
you actually know where the fourth death is where it's Anlin and counts. Oh,
it's at the tavern. Ok. Yeah, I was tracing this out,
earl. Fifth death. Yeah. Do I have a map at the
town on me? Yeah? You do, all right, because you had
the map that showed all your father's properties. Yep. Uh, I gotta
have some kind of writing tool on me. Yeah. I has always got
stuff in her pack. Hey bye, can you hand me a pen?
I'm well whip out the map, flatten it on the wall, hold it
there. I'll be like, all right, right here, first death was
here, second death was here, Anlin, fourth death here? What?
What? Bye? A what's that room? I don't, I don't.
Actually it's right there all right, So connect those dissolution, dissipation, secession,
destruction and nah it's at the storehouse. We gotta we gotta get to
the storehouse. We're right in front of Susan right now. Yeah, right,
she just watched you map this out. Well, I mean she's already
mapped it out. No, I know she's already mapped it out, but
now she knows that we are ween. But she also doesn't think we can
stop it. She's very confident that we can't stop it. So it's either
a already happened or it's in progress. Well, we have two options.
We leave it, or we go there and possibly become the fifth death as
well. We either become the fifth death or we watch somebody else be the
fifth death. Were you can handle, Susan, she's already given herself up.
Take her into custody. She'll break out, probably, But if we
think we know where this is going to happen, we should at least try
to stop it. I agree. She says she had ten left, ten
ten people left or something. M there are all ten of them at the
storehouse, Susan, they will be shit. If we kill one of them
then that counts too. Are you going to draw the rooms and sigils out
in their blood? Fuck? No, I'm really sorry to say this,
but the last one has to be someone specific. Can you be more specific
on who that is? It has to be brass Kane. That nah,
that can't happen. Is brass Kane still here? Yeah? Yeah? He
draws his sword. Actually, at this point he's like, nope, nope,
are you going to elaborate as to why this one is special and why
it has to be Vartan's best friend from childhood, because he is a descendant
of the first People. His bloodline leans all the way back to one of
my cousins. He's the only one here that fits that role except for me.
Vartan, you cannot. You have to do something else in the in
between. You keep talking about all this new stuff. What's what's an in
between? The end between is the ethereal realm. It requires you to stand
up against the avatar of Greyhawk. You'll have to do that. I tried
to make it so you wouldn't have to again. This is something we can
talk about later, maybe in a more private location. That's okay. So
you're telling me you're you're a first person, I gotta fight at God,
my best friend has to die. Like this all sounds like a bunch of
fairy tale stuff, like like you took your your book that you create.
Damn, Timorin's not a first person. You just is he? No,
No, he's not a first So you just you just entertained his his uh,
his fantasy fantasy story and created your own cult at half out of it.
I added truth to his fantasy enough truth to make it viable so you
could convince other people to kill for you. How did she get the sack
from the Morrissy? Yeah, yeah, you can ask her. I'm curious,
how did you get the sack from the Morrissey's stomach after it was placed
in the stone? I made my way in there, opened it up and
took what I needed. But it's been locked. It was locked for a
week or so, but I got spells to unlock locks. That's not a
big deal. Oh that makes sense. Well, uh, I don't think
we're going to allow you to kill brass Cane. I don't need to kill
brass Cane. There's already something in motion for that. What I need is
that magic item that Torment has. Well, somebody stole it. I thought
it was you. Yeah, it's it's gone. I don't know what happened
to it. It also standing right here. How are things in motion for
him to die? He's here with us. I think we're not bras Kane.
Run away right away, don't go, don't run away, stay here.
Yeah, like, get some guns and bombs are something I don't know.
He's standing right here. You can't have something in motion to murder him
across town and you're telling us about it. Whatever you do, Yeah,
don't go into the storehouse. Come over here and whisper. You're chilly in
my ear. Here's a cyanide capsule, Like if you're getting drug to the
storehouse, don't go. Yeah, but then he's dead and then they just
have to draw runs and stuff. All right. Is there any possible way
that we can go into the portal, destroy your core and me fight Greyhawk
without killing brass Can? I don't know. I wouldn't want to take that
chance. Well, good for you. Is there any way I could die
and be brought back to life. I do not have the ability to bring
someone back to life. Somebody's got to We got a Yeah, we got
a Robin here, Brie. You know, if he can bring me back
to life, I'll sacrifice myself brought back to life and go fight a god.
Yeah. She shakes her head. Now, thank you for listening to
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foolish. Me see if I can do this on my phone. It's hard
to Uh. I think it's either going to be in the bricks or the
storehouse. Oh, I posted it before. I fucking I fucking posted it
before. Is it the same? Yes? Basically, yeah, yeah,
I pulled this up like when when he first posted the map in here,
and I started like okay, and I was looking at it and yeah,
I last haven it's probably gonna be in the storehouse.