Welcome to town, Avra. I'm here to bother, here for the greater
good of cryptid Kai. I guess you didn't tell them everything. Then it's
not a bad idea. Okay. I think we're gonna need a change of
plans. Season five, Episode eight, now or never coming. Oh hi,
Kendy, Hello Sybil. How are you today? I'm good? How
are you fine? Thank you for asking? Are you still able to work
on shadery search today like we discussed? Yeah, come on in, thank
you. I see you've already gotten started. Oh yeah, just started looking
through some of the books a little bit. Did you find anything of note?
Not really, I was a little distracted. Not a problem. Let's
get to work then right away. Was there something else you wanted to do?
No? Nothing at all. Are you feeling okay? I'm completely fine?
God damn it. Do you have tape? Oh yeah, Auver's probably
got some in the junk drawer. Here it is. Thanks before I give
this to you, can we talk please about you know, what about or
confessions of love? So common for you that the other night doesn't really stand
out in your mind right that? I was hoping to just skip that topic
for now, since there's so many more pressing matters, So you were just
intending to never bring it up again. You might be leaving in a week
if we don't find a way to take down the High Council exactly. I
figured it wouldn't be something that would need discussion until after that was solidified.
So you were just going to kiss me and leave forever without saying a thing
if we didn't figure this out, Well, you kissed me. She remembers
that I thought it would be better, easier, easier to forget. I
exist to make moving on simpler. That's not what I meant. Is this
about my power? What you're afraid that now that you know I've had feelings
for you this whole time? Yours are just reflections of mine. Right,
Well, if that's really what you think, then just take back what you
said. I don't want to take it back. I Oh, hi,
hey guys, uh hey, hello, what's up? Just needed to grab
some stuff off them? Maybe we should ask your sister for help, help
with what It's fine, they're busy, right, Yeah, Okay, we're
going to go test some stuff out with the Shroud. We have some theories.
Knowing magic would probably be a big help. Yeah, Kenny and I
can come along, should we? Just you? Francy's coming too, and
there isn't enough space in the car. Sorry, that's fine. Sybil should
go with you. I'll work on some more research at home. Wait,
but good luck, Roger, glad you could make it. Come on in.
Thank you, bite. I got held up with things at work,
No worries. Everyone else just arrived. Hey Roger, Hi, Hey,
mister Torres. Hey, Yes, the gang's all here. So have you
folks started discussing things yet? Not yet. Lizzie's being very cryptic on why
we're here. Wow, notes she. Evennancy Drew can figure it out like
you have. Maybe we start explaining, Lizzie. Actually, it might be
good for you to start, Ben, considering the circumstances. Well. Last
night, while Roxy, Lizzie and I were hanging out, Lizzie had a
surprise vision. Oh dear, are they getting more frequent again? No,
that's the first one I've had since I started my treatment. And this wasn't
one of those throwaway prophecies that you were having when it was really bad.
I wrote it down actually because it seemed like it was going to be important.
At what seems the darkest night magic breaks and ignites the light with two
halves joined and power great. The wall shall fall and alter fate. Whoa
yeah, and there were flames and Lizzie's voice did this crazy thing? Well,
that stuff is pretty normal. It's gotta be about the shroud coming down,
right? What else could it mean by the wall shall fall and alter
fate? So you're saying we still have a chance. I think we might.
The High Council said they can't take it on the shroud though, it's
not gonna happen. What's a buzzkill, Mari. I'm not being a buzzkill.
I'm being realistic. Why keep trying, We're only gonna fail again,
just like every single other time we've tried to do something good. Do you
really believe that? Yeah, Okay, we've had a rough year. That's
fair, but it's also not true. We've had our fair share of losses,
but we've also had some really great successes, like what like saving Bluff.
You helped out with that, finding those old newsletters and Avre's office archives.
We made a deal with NeSSI and protected the town, and we encouraged
Bluff to be a bit more progressive and start opening themselves. Up to humans,
which they will now be shipped away from forever. Yeah, they will.
And maybe we can't connect with humans right now, or maybe we never
will again. But we were able to protect them against Legia when she was
trying to hunt them down. Not to mention save our friends from being her
next meal. I wasn't involved in that, but you all were involved in
saving Avre just a month ago. Yeah, and we had to save her
because I reached out to human Day and got us in trouble in the first
place. Not to mention that contacting Celo was my idea and led to the
possession that got the High Council involved. Honestly, I probably had something to
do with the exposure of Comerlock at this rate. That might be a bit
of a reach, is it because I'm basically the reason that everything else is
falling apart? Maybe it's me this whole time, and the Prophecy and all
is just being blamed for my curse. I don't even know why I'm here
right now. You guys should stay away from me. Jules, Wait,
come on, we don't want you to leave. Why are you still being
so nice to me? Because I care about you? We all care about
you, Juliet. But I've been trying so hard to push you guys away
so I wouldn't keep messing things up. But you're making it so hard because
we need you. Don't go putting the weight of the world on the girls
shoulders. We don't need you to be a superhero, Juliet, and I
know you're not the villain. Then why does it feel like bad things are
following me? Sometimes it seems that way, but those are the times where
you have to try your damness to hold on to the good things you have,
things like your positivity, your determination to make the world better, your
friends from I want to push people away when I needed them. Don't just
makes everything hurt so much more. I'm sorry, Mari. I'm sorry too.
I could tell you are going through something and I just got mad at
you. It's all my fault. No, I shouldn't have taken everything out
on you. You're one of my best friends and I never ever want to
fight again me neither. I just love it. Friends are able to reconcile.
Roger, you will, Softy. I'm sorry about the whole lie I
made up about who you have a crush on. I know none of that's
true because you told me who you really do have a crush on, and
it's for sure not right. Yeah, I forgive you. I'm sorry to
you too, Ben. I was really mean about everything and you're good.
It's a rough time, lots of emotions. Yeah. Well, now that
we've gotten to witness this lovely reunion, should we start scheming because I may
have an idea. Okay, you weren't kidding. You broke through the apparently
unbreakable shroud and got severely burned in the process, but you know this is
insane and no one else can do it, no one who's tried. I
gave it a try and so did Roxy, and both of us just got
a little burn No gap though, wild. Okay, So why exactly am
I here again to test the theory? Clearly, this gap is an actual
gap in the shroud. We've been able to throw rocks and sticks through and
they end up on the other side, as they should, So we wanted
to see if that extended to the memory erasing magic too. Does that seem
like it makes sense as far as magic goes? Oh, you're asking me,
Well, yeah, if the shroud itself holds the spell that messes with
memories, it would make sense that it would get disrupted. Not sure how
much though, considering how large the thing is. So, how do you
guys want me to test this exactly? Stick my arm through the gap and
see if I still know your names? Seems simple enough to me. I
thought you said this was a big favor of Oh that isn't the whole experiment.
That bracelet that's from Caleb, right? Yeah, Oh, I see
see what Only if you're comfortable with it, we want you to call Caleb
what Roger told me that during the first few days of the shroud being up,
his ex wife called him and wasn't able to remember anything about him,
despite his attempts to explain to her. That means that even significant others on
the other side shouldn't remember anything. And you're the only one of our group
who's in that situation unfortunately. Why don't you make Roger do it? Or
you your parents are on the other side, Why can't you just do it?
Offer tends to be the exception to a lot of rules already, and
we don't want to spread this secret too wide. It's not a far leap
from telling one person that Offer broke the barrier to either the High Council or
a really desperate citizen finding out, and both of those are just not likely
to end well. Is that why you You really think this is gonna make
him remember me, this little gap in the magic. Maybe it could be
really subtle, which is why we need people who are really close to do
it. Fine, I'll call him, be careful that edges can burn.
Here goes hello? Hi? Uh? Is this Caleb? It is?
Do I know you? You do, but you might not remember me very
well. My name's Francie. I don't know someone named Francie. Well,
that's my nickname. You might remember me by Francisco. Francisco leads. Sorry,
doesn't ring a bell? Maybe you have a wrong number. No,
no, I definitely meant to call you. It's not working. Keep talking
to him. Ask him about Water's Edge? Is there someone else there?
Don't worry about it. That's just my friend's shop. What's your name again?
I'm Shia Shia right and my other friends? Is he forgetting us?
Maybe? Should we pull him back? Not yet? Explain how you know
him? Something he would remember right? Right, Caleb, you might remember
me from high school. We went to Shannie High together. We were in
the same math class in freshman year. We were Yeah, yeah, you
had miss Sanchez right for geometry A level third period. I did, so
did I. We sat next to each other towards the back of class.
We didn't really talk until a few months into the school year. I was
super late to class one day and had forgotten all my stuff at home,
and you lent me a pencil and some paper. Oh okay, And then
at the end of class, when I gave back the pencil, you offered
to review what I had missed during lunch. Really yes, We found a
quiet hallway and spend fifteen minutes going over triangle proofs. And then you realized
I had forgotten my lunch at home. Two so you bought me a slice
of pizza or something, a grilled cheese, what I think. I bought
you a grilled cheese and a coffee, but it wasn't a regular coffee.
You filled the cup up halfway with coffee and then the other half was hot
chocolate. I used to do that all the time. You hated coffee,
but you were also always tired. Do you remember me, Caleb? I'm
not sure I remember that, but I don't know who you are. Or
what you look like, or anything else about you. I'm really really sorry.
I feel like I'm missing something. It's okay, it's not your fault.
I'm glad you were able to remember a little bit of me. Yeah,
I'm sorry. I have to go. My next class is starting soon.
Can I call you back? I don't think you're gonna remember too.
You're probably right. Well, thank you for calling. Francisca. Yeah,
bye, I whoa here you guys? Are you are right? Yeah?
Yeah? My head just hurts. I felt like I was looking at you
through a bunch of fog or something. But I can see you fine.
Now, Well that seemed like a success. He remembered, not much,
but something about me is still in the back of his mind. We have
to get rid of this stupid thing. To use whatever this is that you
can do Ava to take this thing down. It's not so fast. All
we know about what AV can do is that it takes a lot of pain
for her to take away a small portion of the shroud. Well, I'm
not suggesting throwing her into the damn thing. There is something there, though,
something I can do that doesn't make sense. Sybil. Any ideas on
the magic theory behind all this, not particularly, but Kenny's got more of
an understanding of the theory behind these things if I ask her, I'm not
telling Kenny why not? We need to be careful about who we're sharing information
with. Oh, you've got to be kidding me. You still don't trust
Kenny after everything she's done for us, Everything she's done she's done for you,
Sybil, teaching you magic, sparing Ovra, that was all for you.
What makes you think that, given the opportunity, she won't do anything
she can to get rid of the shroud. She would never hurt Avra to
save herself. She's changed, would you what you're saying? Kenny's changed?
But you've changed too. I didn't want to bring you out here because I'm
not sure what you're gonna do with this, knowing that I can take enough
of the shroud down for people to escape if I kill myself for it,
avraa chill. Sybil would never do that, of course I wouldn't. Oh
God, it's so fucking funny, isn't it that the one who thinks everything
is about her is the only one who can save us all by ending herself.
Fucking rich? Where are you going? Well? I'm not driving home
with you all, that's for sure. Don't want me throwing off out the
window at the shroud, right, What if she tells Kenny she won't Maybe
she should. We need a way to take down the shroud, but the
High Council claims that it shouldn't be possible, right, but it clearly has
to be if Lizzie's prophecy thing is correct, which I'm assuming it is.
They've always been correct before. Great, So that leaves us with two possibilities.
Either the High Council does know how to take it down and they're just
lying, or they really don't. But there is a way. They aren't
gonna tell a shit either way, so we have to go back to the
source. The High Council is the source, though not exactly. They may
have put up the shroud, but they used Hanna's magic to do it,
but she's been dead for ages. Well, oh, I see where this
is going. So you really can talk to the den? Sure can?
Perfect, then we can. Just because she can doesn't mean she wants to.
Yeah, if Mari's not comfortable doing a seance, we're not gonna make
them. Oh, I didn't realize It's all right, guys. They're just
worried because the last time I used my powers I kind of summoned a demon
by accident, but that was a while ago. If talking to Hanna's spirit
is something that could help the town, I'm willing to do it. Are
you sure positive? Okay, We'll be right there with you. Actually,
as much as I don't want to break up the three Musketeers, I think
Roxy and I should be the ones to do the seance with you, Mari.
As a human, Roxy might be able to provide a grounding presence.
And I know my powers aren't that much like yours, but I could probably
step in if something were to go wrong. That's not a bad idea.
Are we sure that Hannah is bul though it sounded like the High Council did
a number on whatever was left of her to make the shrouds? That's a
good point. Is there a certain amount of soul energy that you need to
be able to talk to someone? I don't know. This is kind of
a unique situation, fair enough, do you think it'd help if you had
some sort of anchor or something to connect you to Hannah? That always helps
my visions. It definitely wouldn't hurt we could try to get the conduit.
That is way too risky. It would give us a hell of an upper
hand though, whether we're able to talk to Hannah or not. We could
have the thing that the High Council needs to put these shrouds up. They'd
have to listen to us, and they'd have to tell us the truth if
they wanted it back. It's not like they can make another That's not a
bad idea, don't encourage them. Think about it, Liz. I could
use my powers to disguise myself as one of the High Council members and SNEA
into their office. And then what happens when someone tries to talk to you?
And here's what is definitely not the High Council member's voice. Wait,
I think there might be an old magic spell for that. Hold on here
it is. Yeah, with this one, you can change elements of your
outward appearance to mimic someone else's. Depending on how powerful the spell is,
you can go from changing your entire appearance or just your voice. O lead
me is a voice puss. And if I did it on myself, it
wouldn't take that much power. And then Ben could just disguise me. Wait
you've been trying out old magic, just some of the smaller spells. No
way, you don't tell us we weren't talking to each other. I've had
a lot of free time these past few days. So do you think you
could change your voice and go undercover? I think so, as long as
the conversation isn't too long. I've gotten the spell to work for a couple
of minutes at a time, but if I practice some more, I can
probably hold it for longer. It's very impressive that you can do old magic,
Juliette and I appreciate the plan, but I don't want to put you
kids in danger. Mari's helping you though. Mari's doing something she's done many
many times in a safe environment with people she trusts. It is a good
backup plan at least, Liz. Okay, Look, if we aren't able
to contact Hannah and stealing the conduit is the only option, then we do
that, but not until it's the last option. Okay, Okay, great,
So then we have nothing to connect this to Hannah. I mean,
doesn't have to be a thing, could be a person. Kendy, do
you think she'd do it? I think I could convince her so when should
we try this silence? How's tomorrow night? That's kind of same. The
longer we wait, the less chances we have. It's now or never.
Roxy's right, The High Council is scheduled to leave in just five days.
If they stink to the plan, we need to act fast. Okay,
let's take this thing down. Thanks for listening to Season five of Cryptid Cake
Now or Never. This show is created and produced by me Victoria Pereira,
I also voice Opera. The voice of Sybil is Caroline Byrne. The voice
of Kenny is Mianni Watson. The voice of Shia is Angelique the Spekja.
The voice of Lizzie is Christina rose Hargus. The voice actor of Roger is
Christopher Medina. The voice of Roxy is Amanda Manheim. The voice of Juliette
is Amy Ossabato. The voice of Mari is Odd and Fistuar. The voice
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