Due to some violent content, Parental 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
faster 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.
I'm not sure if we can trust Susan or if her mind has truly
gone or not, but it looks like we're heading into the demon portal,
and by the grace of the gods, I hope we find what we're looking
for. Day four. This city guard station, well, I do plan
to stay here and guard the portal if anything were to happen and you were
unable to close it. But oh, I don't think that you're mad bya
For what it's worth, I am sorry for what I did to you.
I hope you found my spear. What you did to Baya Baya and she
sits down in her cell not like clearly that's the end of that conversation,
bartand I'm missing something here? What just happened? What are you talking about?
What BYO? Was? Uh? What'd you say happened to you?
Buy before? Didn't you tell me about it? I told you that I
found passing comfort with a trader who arrived at my village shortly after my wife
had passed, And then suddenly no one could see me until you. Yeah,
that's what it was. You and Ovic? Did she? Did she
make it where people couldn't see you. I I don't know, why would
you do that to somebody, Susan make it somebody where nobody could see him
anymore? She she just sits there. Buya contemplates, So what if you
thought you broke your core? But it never really broke. I snapped it
in half and threw it down in a chasm in the demon world. It
was pretty broken when I tossed it down. Did you feel mortal? I
don't know what it's like to feel mortal. Huh? Well, I mean,
can you like get cut and stuff like that? Did you ever get
cut like after that? I mean I could always get cut, but it
would heal was a heel really fast? Yeah? My magic stayed with me.
Well, maybe the item never fully broke and you threw it down there
and some demon things got it. That's kind of what I assumed had happened.
So wow, if you thought that was gonna No, I guess you
didn't think that was gonna break the magic of the town, did you.
Back then, you're just doing that to kill yourself. No, that was
supposed to break the portal from the inside in the demon realm, but you
got out it didn't break it. Well, yeah, I broke it,
completed the ritual, then stepped through the portal. Uh. So theoretically,
if your core had been repaired, would that have allowed the portal to open
again? Yes, if they had the core there and they were using it
to power the portal from the other side. So maybe breaking your core did
work, but it was repaired. Possibly, maybe maybe you don't have to
kill everybody if what you originally did would work. But we need to see
if it's still intact. But if it worked, the portal wouldn't be functional
and demons wouldn't be able to come here, except maybe somebody wanted to repair
it. Yeah, that's why I need to go get my spear and break
it. For good this time. True, but do you really think it
need to kill brass Kane to do it. That's the only reason that I
can think of that the spear healed and it didn't break all the way.
The power here kept it alive. We have reason to believe that a distraught
lover that you left repaired it. I don't believe Kiarrian had the capacity to
repair something like that, not without help. He definitely had some help.
Well, that's concerning what elaborate it means. Karrian went into the demon realm
and repaired my spear, and I assumed that he probably negotiated with demons to
do so. I don't know about the negotiating, but yeah, we do
believe that Karrien went in there to uh what what? Emory's a demon?
Oh shit? Oh remember that time she made you drink slug water? I
should have known then she didn't make me. I drank it on my own,
because why would she have slugs? Like anyway, I can't with you,
guys, demon. I still think that Emory is a demon. Babe,
Okay, now I don't because Nico laughed. I mean, it would
explain the morisy, though, it would explain why she like remembers things and
is so magical. Well, Carrie and Tyter, she said, Susan,
what do you uh, what do you know about Emery the Apothecary. We
spent quite a bit of time together. She was very close with your father
and me. Okay, okay, so maybe she's not a demon. I
don't know anything about negotiating with demons. But I mean, we do believe
that I DA fixed your cores so to save you and hopefully you come back.
I'm guessing probably not the way he expected it, But I mean him
being dead and you coming back and murdering folks. Yeah, probably not,
But that's why you can't die. You're immortal again because he fixed it,
not because you failed. He opened the portal back up. I don't think
it was ever truly broken because I broke it two hundred years ago. So
even by those standards, I should have died a normal death if I was
separated from my core. You're a fur bulgue, you live forever. Not
you live a long time as a fur bulgue. I mean shit, yeah,
I at least know that Dad taught me about furbul culture. I'm like
me being able to commune with the with the woods and stuff that I'm still
trying to get the hang of. I was gonna say, I've been separated
from it my whole life, only going off of what he taught me.
So are you going to retrieve my spear? Are you going to keep killing
people? Like I said? Events are already in motion to take the last
life? About that? What exactly did you have in motion? It should
have taken its toll by now. My children should be looking for his body.
Oh oh, what if they can't find this body, then the ritual
waits. It'll delay until they find it. Well, yes, Susan,
we are going to go to get your spear. We will have Cody help
us destroy it. Is that good enough? Yeah? Then I'll sit right
here and wait. Okay, one other thing before we joined back with Robin
Torment. By the way, Vartan and Baya is just speaking to Vartan.
Vartan, did you notice the backpack that the put on. Yeah, those
maybe magic items that a demon is convincing him to bring down into the demon
realm, so they could keep the portal open for as long as they want.
So maybe before we jump in, rip the backpack off and throw it
all right, So, he cannot take those down there, all right,
just make sure he still has the book, that's it. Well, I
guess he can't even let the book leave his hands, right, We'll just
ask him to hold the book while we jump in because we may need it
right away. What if and then have him jump first and grab the bag?
What if I grab that bag and run down the corridor or run down
the cave and throw it down that well and then come back and then we
open it with the heart. Okay, that's fine. I just I don't
really care what he has to say. Yeah, okay, I mean he
ain't gonna catch me and ain't gonna beat me in a fight. That is
true. Well, let's uh get this show on the road. Then Morgan's
gonna stop and talk debris real quick. Brie. We're taking the robin to
the portal where he's been wanting to go. Do you want to come along?
No? I will stay here in guard this creature. I thought as
much. Oh, I have the doves with me. We're going to perform
our duties of trying to keep his uh holy self alive. I'm not sure
how successful we're going to be because I have no idea what we're going to
find and we get down there. Yeah, that's a good point actually,
And she opens the door and steps out where the other doves are waiting outside,
and she says, while you are on this journey protecting Torment, you
are to follow the instructions of Dove Morrigan and Dove Sean. They are to
be my voice while you are in this demon realm or wherever Torment and needs
to take you. And then she'll turn back to you and say you are
responsible for the piteousness. Bring them back alive. I will do my best.
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Now back to the town of Eterno. All right, let's do this.
Do you want to look at the magic items that he has in the
bag? We just want to We just want to get it away from the
portal so it doesn't power the portal. Yeah, okay, Ship, do
we okay, we'll just take you need it to get back out it?
Do we need them to get back out? All right? So I'm gonna
take it from him, and I guess Ship, do we take it on
this side or do we take it on the other side. I think we
should take it now. We could always just ask him what's in the bag,
but I feel like he won't tell us or maybe he'll lie. Hm
hmmm. Baya has very low wisdom and intelligence, so she would definitely go
with just tossing it without even looking at it or questioning it. But that's
Morgan doesn't know about it because we need the Dragon's heart to power it.
On our side, it's going to absorb all the magic from that item for
us to get through I imagine the portal's going to close pretty soon after we
get through. It's a dragon heart, I'm not so sure about that with
nails in it. Yeah. Also, he doesn't know we have the heart
with us. That is true. He can use those items and we could
be like, oh, we got our second heart, got our own sec
You did tell him you would tell him where the heart was when you were
Oh, that's right, that's right, that's true. All right. I
mean you haven't yet, but you said you would tell him where it was
if he answered your questions. That is true, and he hasn't asked yet,
which is awesome. Man. I mean, I guess we run the
risk of trapping ourselves in the demon realm, but I feel like by that
point Susan would find brass Kane, kill him, and then come rescue us.
We wouldn't be there forever. Yeah. I do have a feeling she's
gonna still find him and kill him. We did what we could, but
it's inevitable, I think because she I'm sure she knows how to get in
that basement. Shit, would I have any No, I don't. I
don't see any reason why I would think that we would need the items but
we also can't assault Torment because of the piteous this. Hey Morgan, real
quick over here if you don't mind. Yeah, what's up? So?
I noticed that the Robin through five little boxes in his bag. My concern
is that he was advised to bring those five little items down to the Demon
Realm by a malicious force. So I informed Vartan, and I suggested that
he rip the bag off of the Robin's back and throw it down the well
or somewhere before the Robin enters the Demon Realm, because I would like very
much for those items not to go down there, in case they're just items
that some nefarious like creature is tricking the Robin into bringing down there. I
mean I might be able to get the items. He doesn't like to carry
things on his own. He makes us lug everything anyway, so I mean
I might just be able to take them from him. I mean, are
they I didn't see him he's got He's got a bag, right? Is
it in the bag? Yes? The items are in the bag. Let
me go see if I can get them and if they're important. So Morgan's
gonna make her way over to Torment. Robin, Torment, What is in
the bag that you're carrying, some basic travel gear that I keep with me.
I don't know how long we'll be in there, and then I have
the tools to be able to power the portal for the safety of everyone involved,
Would you allow the piteousness to carry those items for you, the magic
items. I don't want them falling into the wrong hands. You would be
carrying them to the portal itself. They will be in my possession until needed.
That's fine. I need to use them before we go into the demon
realm. Those alongside the dragon Heart that you know of, are what will
power the portal while we're there. All of the items are necessary for the
amount of time that I've done my calculations. Yes, I have looked at
it. The dragon Heart itself can power the portal for six hours. These
other gems in unison in a specific order will allow that to be expanded to
twenty four hours. Very well, Please allow me to take that burden from
you, and we will make sure that they remain safe until needed. That's
fine. If I get hungry, I will be bothering you. I'll make
sure you have your food. We can't have you beat grumpy Robin m I
sense you are being sarcastic, Of course not. I'm just gonna take the
bag from him. I'm going to walk back over to Vartan and relay what
he told me about the the time. All right, So maybe we should
hang on to these Yeah, I mean, I don't know how long we're
gonna need to be in there, so I guess if we come back out,
we can kick him off, you know, pick him up, stop
powering the portal. Yeah. See, then you can pick him up and
toss him down a well so he can't use them again. Yeah. If
it's gonna be open that long, I think we need to have somebody garden
the portal too. I can station two of the doves at the opening,
all right as security. Maybe we could grab Cody and Magno to do that.
They helped us protect the portal from being open from a demon before,
Well, Cody and Bastille did last time, I think. But yeah,
thought it was Cody and Magnow whenever we fought the Morsy. They were there
when you fought the Morrisy. But Cody and Bastille were there to protect the
portal when you guys first visited the Rave Cave. Oh okay, all right,
Yeah, let's go see if they'll do that, and then head that
way and we can go into the cave. Well, we can just portal
there from the tavern. So you go to the last stop tavern and then
you talk to Cody and Magnow Cody grabs his sword down from its mantle and
he doesn't even strap it to his belt, he just carries it in his
left hand, and they agree to guard the portal exit for you while you
are in the portal, and then to help defend you on your retreat should
you need to retreat back through. And then you portal to the cave.
I assume, yeah, with eleven people. Yeah, yeah, but the
whole the whole mess. Say twelve twelve, and now it is twelve.
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be safe, we love you all, and stay foolish. I would,
I would still me as Baya would go with the original plan. Just tossing
it, Harry. I can't. I can't do the voice like you.
None of your hello, your no of your wax, got your filthy hands
off my sack? Yeah, by a Okay, this is out of control