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get a second chance to make a mess of everything. Tag frag Ougre Tagthrag
born in Brier Tower out of pod Pod not Tig traged. Mother pryor Witch
is Mother. Pryor Witch is master of magic and rule over all Northern Grimwood
falln Ocre's love Mother, love her lots other than Mother. We love to
eat, and Mother feeds us the firstest, bloodiest food other than more.
We love to kill, and Mother gives us lots of bois to smash and
fights to fight every so often, only comes to try and take back princess.
Mother has taken Tag Trag fight in three wars like this, the vines
around the tower come alive, strangle and tear the Ogre storm out of the
tower on bridges now, but us can see they lose a princess, but
Mother is better mother to princess. Then they get mad and come here and
they lose a lot more than princess Mother wants turn horror me to pigs and
chickens and dogs. We ain't so good that year. Dogg is tasty as
a lot of people. Don't all that. Nothing can get into Mother's tower,
nothing can get out. Walls are thick, thick, walls are cooked
with magic. Vines and briars are alive and hungry. Nothing can break more
dollar. But yesterday we heard funny music, funny dancing music. And then
tents and games and performers and big parades of animals, flying krapies, a
freak show of fire eaters came out of the woods. All different things,
but all one thing, honestly, the drag of hot times climbing. It
come in and it all tangled in vines and dryers, big bloody mess.
But other bosses saying of the world. Nothing can get past walls. Crazy
hungry circus can climbed tower because the vines fight. But today it got hot.
Then the forests buned up and something hit the tower, and towers shook.
Some ochre boxes that were on the walls dyed their hair all white.
That drag think they died of scares and fire burned vines, and now circus
is climbing up. And now we have human army, human army with giants
and silver horses and men made of mirrors and big nasty cantle bloats and arrowshooters
and so many yummy looking horses. But the horses look mean and some have
horns. Dagthric never see a people on me, So scary is this one?
They yell something about giving us back prince or princess, blah blah blah,
the usual. What is not the usual is how much peas and Dagthrike's
pants. It okay. Mother is greatest of all magic people. And even
though Mother makes us share this floor with stupid fairy bug people, Mother knows
what she is doing. Mother is the best thing there is. The nearlyse
have infiltrated the tower with the help of mister Styx, but the treasures Bastard
on the promise safe arrival, so the second floor defenders are ready and waiting.
Luckily, they are warned by the martin obsess shape shifter Clementine, and
now plan to ambush their ambush with illusions woven by not a gaster. He
swears he's trying to make it up to us, but is probably just trying
to find a way to show up his brother. Either way, let's roll
some dice. I will weave my magics and let you shape illusions. If
you do so craftily and carefully enough, perhaps we can turn these two groups
against each other. Okay, so what like maybe if we did like an
illusion of like the Briar Witch in a compromising position, like maybe she Jesus
will like it be like offensive to them to the other side, you just
a horseshop. I wasn't going like sexual with it. I was thinking like
maybe like she's like as like diarrhea on the toilet, and then we like
show them that and then they get mad. Stop please God, Wait wait
wait, So you're saying that we present the illusion as an illusion that one
of the factions is showing to the other. Yeah, like they're doing it,
Like, isn't this fun? Isn't the whole point of illusions to make
things that trick people into thinking they're real. But you want to give up
the most powerful part of my magic to just show it old shitting witch,
Well yeah, I do. But if they thought that it was coming from
the sides like they were doing it as a like a goof for a gag.
Interesting that great gool Interesting that the shitting witch strategy, the diarrhea old
woman, no notes, let's do it. It is interesting. Let's go
in that it no way this could get worse than it already. Is so
interesting that it does the diarrheal witch. It's gonna be bad. Most fanciful
hat can you project a diarrheal witch allusion? It's one of It's one of
my ma actions. Listen to this. That's great, the folliest, Just
so I make sure I have the plan right. Okay. This is not
to convince the ogres. You've made enough to the we're going road yep that
the Queen of Spikes soldiers are like spying on her shiitting or yeah they could
do that. Yeah, it could be like they could interpret it that way,
or they could just think that they made that they're just like doing like
a like a you know, like a leude caricature GRAFFEEDI somebody's poster and yeah,
I think about your candidate. Yeah, and you supposed to be like
story. The followers for putin Rainbow got her. Interestingly, what it does
do is it eliminates it eliminates the need for the one side to actually buy
into the illusion by presenting it as an illusion. That is interesting. Any
other takes don't involve just a screaming, grunting diarrhea, which old woman tough
act to follow. I thought there was, you know, whole bad ideas
a brain that's terribly that's that's very stupid. I don't know. We make
an illusion of these two guards that were out here bringing in Laveline interesting,
okay, and then claiming her for the Ogres and cutting out the qudaspite soldiers,
okay, be an illusion though, yes, interesting. We could do
that without illusions. We could do that with bodies and then save the illusions
for Yeah, I guess you know, we don't have to do diary,
which it could just be. Oh good, Well, thanks for being open
to other ideas, really relieving that in the maybe pile sht water. That's
great, Okay, I get it, I get it. We could have
the ogres uh plan to eat love instead of delivering her to the queens.
Interesting. Interesting. I like this. I like where this is going,
so that they have they have to interfere before the prisoner is killed. I
mean, I kind of like the whole like I don't know, shot heard
around the world thing where it's just like one side, you know, crosses
that line, just make its Yeah, and then they fight and then we
just kind of scoot. We got a shitting witch and then the ogres just
attack. Yeah, how is one supposed to be triggered by the diarrhea?
I've moved on. I have moved on from the I have not listen.
I'm putting a diarrhea witch in the room. We're all gonna do that,
Okay, Well, okay, so an ogre can create a diarrhea wit or
pretend to, you know, the illusion is the ogre is like being conjuring
up diarrhea. Wa. I got something for you. Yeah. And then
the fas aggravating the aggravating the ogre. They kill each other. Chaos and
zoos, perfect, bingo bango. Nothing could go wrong here. Also that
the coal iron spike is out of my head, so that idea was like
sixty percent there, just sixty Just yet. Everyone, I hate to put
you all on the spot, but it appears that a new door guard is
arriving to take the place of the two that we're out here, So we're
on the spot everyone roll initiative. Dam So, how this encounter is going
to work is you are all in control of a section of not a Gaster's
like great magic spell. So what what you will do on your turn is
either do something in person as yourselves or control the greater magic illusion conjuring like
extreme powers of trickery and deception. So and now the mysterious g the miss
of the tricks to slip in your minds redemption for not a Gaster, fuck
cub And then he like blows fairy mist between two of his fingers through the
keyhole, which weeps out into the room as a billowing cloud. You can
see his body shriveling, and you can hear his bones creaking and cracking from
the effort of this like this magic is way too much for him. It
swoops around into the ears and eyes and nose and butts of all of the
like every orifice of the creatures in the room, weaving a strange alternate reality
in their mind. Love Alan, give my magical liave. All right,
you're up first, what image would you like to conjure? Oh? I
was actually going to erase an image? Okay of these three, so Valiana
Xenatour and Gwendolen. You're going to make them invisible out here on the on
the front stoop. Gotcha. So that's cunning, make a cunning roll opportunistic
yep, shrewd oh sure that got me there? Hey you should you should
have been an illusionist. So the Missweevee and whirl Around and those characters apple
Jack and then Vowel and who else did you want to just basically the only
basically I want you? Yeah, got it? That's everyone else is that
was the last plan we had discussed, and so we're just like, yeah,
you're snapping that sucker up, all right. So you are read and
myths. You now are invisible, You get your see through. You can
see each other, but nothing else can see you, and you have this
like kind of haze around you. Okay, okay, next up, can
I make Martin look more convincing? Absolutely? So his So so that's disguise,
So that'll be cunning as well. Great against their focus of five.
That's where you went because I want to do something else. Twelve. That
was a test for you, for me obviously, for you. You have
very good cunning, I think, so I oh ship you succeeded, so
you're you're well over, So the mysts weave around, the extra head melds
back into your body, the vomiting like green pustules, seat back in,
and before you know it, you look more or less like how you remembered
that ogre. Nice, ladies, well done. There may have been a
career in illusion craft for you. All right, Gwen, you're up.
I want to project like a taunt toward the ogres that they are going to
assume. Do you want to like throw your voice? Yeah, and like
I want to get them to start fighting, So you want to throw your
voice from the at least stir up the hornets. Okay, what would you
like to have? What sound or in a fairy nightly voice? I assume
would you like to come from the fairy encampment? Hey, Ogres? When
I think about you, you look like this. And then that's where the
diarrheal witch walking ship, the diarrhea witch is actually happening. All right,
Well, Gwen Stole, the diarrhea Witch has an idea making sure it comes
to fruition somehow that as Martin sees this withered old woman shitting on a pot
appear out of the middle of the encampment, obviously crafted out of fairy dust
and sparkles. What do I get to roll? Well, I'm a little
it's probably a will or agility undertaking. Probably will or agility. Well,
you know what, it's convincing. So it's persona persona versus their choice versus
their cunning of four. Okay, I will be calling on witty totally very
witty humor here the shitting toilet witch. Well, here's my thinking it maybe
you want me to fail, senator, piece of ship, piece of old
discredit you, old witch. Diarrhea. So here's my thinking is that,
like a good comedian can sell a badge, right, so someone who is
naturally witty. It's all about the set up. What's this? Any one
more of God? I think can we get like like a pre scene of
her just gorging on cheese? I think vanity would apply because taller. Wait,
maybe I'm thinking of you. You would know how to because you are
vain. You would know how to, I know how to somebody else you
would know how to make it as flattering as possible. Because yeah, so
she like out of toilet paper. Yeah, but there's like of the pandemic
but she's just realize cabinet like you can, yeah, like just to get
up and waddle with the robes all fights up, like activate my vanity.
The toilet paper shortage is a pretty good set up to that I got.
You know, I think it counts. I think it should account for at
least half. No, okay, butderful so a hey, okay, this
is what I think of when I see you and fairy dust plumes up into
the air. Oh it hurts good? Should I have dying? May I
also add that in this in this scene, this tableau that's playing out the
the briar which has company over and someone knocks on the door. I just
know, do you have the best of talent? Oh no, it's all
the way over there. And then she does the shimmy with her underara around
her ankle. Drip, Oh it's one brown drip makes it out of the
white bath map. So the ogres she's at a guess the ogres see that.
I want this to happen so bad. I want the Ogres to look
over and be like, stop doing that. Like, and it just gets
more. We told you last time that you made a diarrhea witch, knock
it off. No, so I think what happens? I hope you're not
using the broken that's oh no. She looks at the out of orders sign
on it. It's full, it won't go away. Okay. So Aaron,
we're counting on you to make this classy class all right. So the
so the ogres look over and see this like extremely unflattering depiction of the briar
witch, and one of them stands up and says, so, yeah,
her face is so red, she's so upset. Just come back, don't
stop knocking. There's a line out here. Yeah, why would there be
a line for a broken toilet? She's only one. I mean, we
know she has to slip it in at one point, right like. Okay,
So the ogre, one of the ogre, the bigger ogre, stands
up and looks over there. Oh, dall you to mother this way,
turn it off? All right? Zen, you're up? Are you gonna
top that? I try to top that. I'm going to try to help
with what I anticipate will be a forthcoming bluff check on Madeline's part. Ah,
by using my illusion to create absolutely gorgeous, elaborate like gilded gold.
That's very clever, okay, so I'm going to grab my weapons too,
and I'll hire your weapons. Yeah, Senator h prepares to assist. Uh,
meanwhile, can I just say that it in the in the Bookends,
I have done my very best to depict the Briar, which as a terrifying,
strange, formidable And before she even appears in game, we see an
avatar of her, shaky, creaky old butt, hovering, clogging. I
guess it's not her, so horrific. Oh my god, there's no hands,
so nothing she like is like, can I take a shower? There's
no shower in there? She turns it on anyway. This is a terrible
idea. Oh man, oh god, Yeah, she's okay here under a
glory. She turns on the shower and just ship comes happen. It's gonna
be great when we see her finally, because in all our in all their
brains, is gonna be this image, holy ship. She's gonna she's gonna
be like and now, but why are you all laughing? Martin? It
is now your turn? All right? Should we should we go in?
Meanwhile? Help screaming for alp when it's just like, it's my master,
I'm gonna push the door. Open and start walking official business hubbub. Oh
my gosh, look at what we've gone to a mother. Are you going
to sit and let them just make that? Fight them? They're defiling?
Stand down, you fools. No, this aggression will not stand aggressive aggress
all right? Hackett stands up. What is happening over that? All right?
Would you make a persona check? You got, We'll do an undertaking.
Just the higher you get, the more amplitude will get on the ogres.
Are you're just going to stand there and let them do that? Fight
them? Um? Can I use authoritative? Uh? Huh and uh driven?
Yeah yeah, fight them gives you the thing for sure, all right?
So twenty four, Oh my god, so you hear the of hatchets
and cleavers and great swords being drawn by the ogres, who are now whipped
into a fucking frenzy. Look at this parody. This is obscene. Think
of the children of the children. Look she's trying, she's trying to flush
her hand down. I fad it was a veng on matriarch. All right?
Hackett stands up. Calm down, for God's sake, who's doing that?
I stand down? Nights Just point at one of them. It was,
and it's I think for sure that's when a hatchet flies across the room.
At that one that guy goes, I didn't do. The hatchet hits
him in the neck. Okay, it's showp Let's scooter, all right.
Blood sprays onto your face through the open door as a hatchet hits the one
the finger to fade Knight in the neck. But again it was that one.
Wait, look god, Okay, so I like that. This seems
right, This seems like what should happen and Lavolino blood spatters onto your face?
Terrific? What do you do? Well? Is this time when they
should like guards should form up and we should just it would be best if
we could obscure me at all and we just all get through. I think
we could do that. Yeah, we just we still have control of the
illusions. You want to make shiitty around the perimeter. How can I top
diarrhea Briar Witch sitting in a broken toile. You're at a new pinnacle of
greatness for this podcast. I don't think you need to try to top it.
I think you just need to ride ride this brown Witch diary wave to
the finish. Okay, what I want to do is basically, I want
to punch Hacket in the throat so that he can't order to shout orders,
storming in towards the middle of the group, because he could You fools,
you'll be stripped of your larry. All right, there's a fracas, and
she just all right, would you please make Yeah? So an ogre and
two ogres start to charge in. He did it that one? Clementine and
Martin run in, and then just a little white ghost appears between the two
of them and punches Hacket in the throne, or tries to. So would
you make an attack roll against his guard of eight? Go, it's just
an attack roll. Yeah, it's attack roll. So you're gonna use the
accuracy of whatever weapon it is you're trying to hit him in the neck with.
Might I suggest your silver toes? Yeah, okay, I don't know.
I didn't know how the magic were Cody's nades. I only rolled a
seven. You can get there. My accuracy is thirteen. He's probably flat
footed. Flat footed? Uh so that is gets you to twenty yeah,
minus his accuracy or his guard of eight. Yeah, so that's a twelve.
Yeah. I will say in this point in the tableau, the briar
witch is exiting the bathroom and shamefully walking past the li This rages the ogres
more than anything. Waiting for the broken tilet its stream logic that doesn't have
to make sense. Why is there shit coming out of the faucets? Everyone's
making a face because they can smell it once the door off fence. I
knew you shouldn't have invited. Yeah, so class pants just has a fabreeze,
So why didn't you use the super eat? That's what he's there for
my guests, My guess all right? You yeah, you kick Hacket in
the throat. Everyone stand down and cut and would you make a percentage check
to see if you can mute him with a calld shot to the throat or
if you kill him with by cutting throat open either are you're good? Eighty
one? He drops on the ground like gripping on you know, he's this,
you know, seven foot tall like briar man made out of wood.
But there's a crack in his larynx and he drops on the ground like holding
on to his throat. Hit me, fucking ship. That is incredible.
Everyone gains a power and hack it turns. It goes like this and briars
explode from inside one of the nearby ogres. He's ripped his shreds and one
of the ogres next to him gets his entrails sprayed all over his face,
and he just goes, all right, yeah, let's do that. So,
as his best friend since childhood is ripped to shreds by Hackett's magic,
his entrail spraying all over the ogre named Thud Thuds face Thud Thud looks over
at his foes and goes and then grabs onto a fine night and bites his
fucking head off. Blood is now spraying all over the room. Not a
Gaster starts to die like as his magic is he's using so much magic to
like to facilitate this skywalker. Yeah, he's like, it's my greatest Yeah.
Has a pile of his clothes fall on the ground. Yeah. So
he starting to like shrivel and wither away as these these mind altering magics are
swooping around the room, I would not have thought, gus, wow,
all right. Uh So Laveline is now in the middle of the room,
Clementine and Martin either side of her. An absolute fractae of a food fight
has broken out on either side of them. Actually, I know you're going
to be eating. It's just like it's so good, Like it's leans get
it at first, but yeah, I really like it. Now when when
when I pictured one of them eating one of the others, and it was
just like incredible, all right, val got anything else? Or we're gonna
try and sprint for the lift? Yea. At this point, loens invisible,
right we h all right? Would you make a cunning versus the ogre
or and or actually it's gotta be against the higher so versus six. Okay,
but they're distracted. Yeah, who's even paying attention? You're good?
Wait wait, you rolled an eighteen and you got your bones it got it?
So yeah, there's no way. So then so after kicking him in
the throat, dipping back behind the ogres, she just turns invisible. Someone
screams food, fight and blood and guts a hand. The falls at You're
like at your feet, great, all right, And and then you want
to just spread through the room, like slipping between what we need to do
here guys around you're up, darling. I mean, at this point,
I'm just I'm just trying to get im trying to get to the right,
All right, Val and Uh and Gwen try to make it through the fight
without running into anybody. That's gonna be a difficulty for agility. Check.
Okay, okay, you fucking knocked out of my agilities. Your limbs are
creaky and painful. God damn it, he did it. But if I
don't tell you that I rolled, I can I can I help her somehow?
It depends. Did you roll at twelve? List? Well, I'm
wondering if I can help her. Wait, let me see if I could
get there. My goddamn soel hunter, my brave and my weird will come
and handy here. All right, first two count, so that puts me
at thirteen after the four. Great, there you go. You get my
ass, eat my whole ass. However, I think what I'm gonna do
is for those of you at home, Amanda's full ass is it is?
It is wild how much nudity happens, how much unity happens there is,
yeah, how much app no, how much nudity happens unseen on this podcast,
and also how much as it's in my face right now. It's a
lot to take in on a dreary Saturday afternoon. Brack A window folks her
asses all the way out. I was writ cheeks. I was I was
going to definitely uh so no one, no one is able to see you.
You're invisible and live. However, the quills of your manticore cloak stick
out a little bit more than you were ready for, and you slip the
throat of someone as you're running by who who, and the blood sprays on
your face and he starts to say, eat what is a faint night?
And he was back pedaling trying to get away from the fracas, and he
goes, sh there's someone else's tricky, starts to gurgle, Yeah, I
can't hear you though a lot? Does that remind me of the scene in
Clueless when Cher is learning to drive and she like hits and breaks off somebody
side. Sorry, should it's just me? Should I even know? That's
awesome? So you're halfway across the room. This guy's bleeding pointing at you,
being like, there's someone else in here, and the senator it's your
turn? Is I'm gonna well, actually, I think I'm gonna check on
not a gaster? Okay. He is starting to like flag like you can
see him sort of sort of shriveling. Hey, hey, don't overdo it.
I just want you all to know that I am also using a lot
of mind altering magic to have the diarrhea, which really sell. I'm increasing
the adrenaline and testosterone and the olgas on the rage and outrage that they feel,
and I have the response the faries. All right, all right,
come on, I'm gonna pick him up. You're ruining my spell. Let
me die for a second. Robbie was gonna do a speech with not a
guesser like. I just want you all to know, no one, no
one's dying the character we've easily with the utmost contempt. Can I love you
all so much. I'm gonna give Martin a power for that, and I'm
going to make a cannon so as as Senator Pick picks not a gaster up
into his arms. He's so frail, he's like he weighs like thirty pounds.
At this point, I just watch you up to know that you,
my dearest companion, I really appreciate the up. What's go to redeem myself?
I've always played second fiddle to my brother, and I speak no one
tour we gotta move. No one has ever given me the respect behind him.
No one has ever given me the respects that you have. No one
gets left behind to come on, leave the race, throw him in the
alright, Martin, no one's ever given me the respect that you have this
second. He spent like the last the last week stuff. Yeah, him
before, but the tree woman just goes like, I don't know you smother
getting occasionally kicked, all right, all right, okay, but no seriously
caring about me, Martin. It's your train, all right. So I
want to try to keep pushing us forward and then yeah, if if anyone
kind of shoots us a glance, I want to there is one night like
fay Knight, who's pointing at invisible Gwen going, there's someone there. Yeah,
so I wanna, I wanna use my previously established authority and convincing powers
to be like he did again. I'm gonna die. I'm gonna all right,
damn it, he did it. I like that. You you know,
you could attack him, you could try and eat him, but you
know what, just sick others on him. Oh yeah, so I'm authoritative
Martin driven again m hm twenty four. So there's someone else there. He
did it and they're on him in a fucking heartbeat. No, all right,
and I motion everyone to go forward right, and you strumble through the
middle of the room. Hackett is freaking just panicking at this point, Sweet
big Nettles and Briars like left and right, what is happening? Incredible?
Okay? Uh love Aline reaches the other perfect other end of the room.
Gregory goes and shakes a rattle at the door at the back of the room,
which pops open, revealing another lift behind them. Uh. I hope
this goes straight to full. Seriously, I can't ship it goes to three.
So as you pile in arbor like h like materializes like out of her
invisibility next to you. All She's like, you're fucking crazy. What the
hell? Girl? Welcome to the family, Wake up man, Welcome to
the party. Pal the others, I don't love them, you're not.
I spt your vow. You're not doing a dramatic you're not even does he
just passed out. I put him in the bag. Then he says,
tell the others I love them, Yeah, sure can except the vow.
There you go, stuff him down in the bag, got to carry he
weighs like nothing now like he's not heavy, by the way, just like
that alien that's in the face and men in Black cat he's so so the
galaxy is on over ionspelled and then and then they just go and then they
just throw him in the tracks just like a dead mouse. They pick him
up like it's I keep my wife's name. Oh Jesus Christ, what a
hero. Okay, So the door slams behind you, The lift shutters and
starts to go out, and armor is just going like what the guys,
I don't know if I have a plane, you're good. And it comes
to a stop halfway up to floor three. Don't get out. We got
an invitation to the whole floor. We have to fight our way there like
this. It was either that or surrender to the guards who would have escorted
you. Oh yeah, you're okay. Uh did the lift just stop?
Someone standing on the plate in the middle of that, doesn't the rattle?
The rattle's working. Something stopped the lift. Can they stop it from floor
too? No? No, well I don't think. So I start jumping
up and down. I heard trigger an alarm, and then everyone jump at
once, jump up and down. Come on, now, is there panels?
I'm so heavy that the whole yeah, yeah, arbor is almost as
heavy as you because she's made out of solid wood. But yeah, so,
as you're jumping up and down, just a silky smooth voice comes out
of the darkness behind you, and a robe covered in eyes slips out of
the darkness. The eyes each are like looking at a different one of you,
and then they like change their focus. The eyes blink rapidly, long
elegant black hair, incredibly like bloodless, white, like paper white skin.
Every movement is delicate and elegant, long fingernails and just the most here seeing
strange like yellow eyes with this weird fire in them step out of the shadows,
and and he's like shaking his head like he's seen just a travesty take
place before him, but also can't deny how funny, how funny it was.
So Xenator recognizes Kabal, the Herald of the Glorious, the architect of
his downfall, the one who he who he dueled and like went delve too
deep in magic to try to defeat, who you haven't seen since under the
Guild of Heroes, where he conjured those illusions that tormented all of you.
So so he he he comes out of the out of the shadows. So
this is the new age of heroes? Is it? How fascinating? I
cannot wait to see what sort of white tree blossoms out of the diarrhea witch
would fight bonanza that you all have brought to the table. You ain't seen
nothing yet, Dagger, how fascinating? Uh? Who are you? Pardon?
I am Cabal Herald of the Glorious. I'm your biggest fan. Please
make your acquaintance, michaeloreal form quite anathema to such a lively and vivacious one
as yourself. I wouldn't wish to cause you undue harm. Jokes snorts,
What do you wish? Why are you here? I wish for you to
reach the top of the tower. I wish for you to reach your destiny.
The white tree must bloom. Well, now we're not going to do
it. Why is that? Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Because it
will usher in the next age of heroes. You've seen it in your dreams,
coiling up out of the rocks, built on the bones of generations upon
generations of martyrs and sacrifices. You are merely the next And why would the
Herald of the Glorious care about such a thing because I wish to see this
world end, and I believe you are just the ones to do it.
Rude an age marked by selfishness, self obsession, the children of narcissus,
staring into small glass mirrors and shouting into chambers that respond with their own voices.
It is a thing of beauty. This generation, they love only themselves.
You are there, champions now, Uh, we help people. I
mean, what are you talking about? What generation? Yeah, he's got
you there. He's my literal purview to speak over your heads, literally and
figuratively. Of course, you're the herald of the glorious. In fact,
I'm pretty sure that you and your freaking cult did something to bring them here.
We prepared the way, opened the door, softened the world around the
edges, and they are destroying far it tall they have. If that's if
what you want is this world to be destroyed, why not just let them?
I want all things to be destroyed. I want the world to return
to the perfection of the void from which all things were stolen. This world
is ours, literally built on our bones. You are thieves and pretenders.
Would you say ours? You mean what exactly you're from? This world.
All things can be changed and conjoined and twisted. All things may revert back
to the source, as you are reverting back to the source. Yeah,
you don't make any sense, all right. So the void is like the
primordial nothingness before existence, and that's what you want to bring about, because
that'll be better somehow. I wish to return the world to its rightful owners.
This world was stolen from the first gods, and we must return it
to them so that it may achieve perfection. But by returning it to them,
that's what you described as just replacing existence with the void? Right?
Do I get that right? I'm not sure you've ever gotten anything right in
your whole life. You don't know how much that hurts his feelings, specifically,
except once when you delved all the way down and unleash your true potential,
unlock yourself, Xenator, first of the glorious. Uh, I'm going
to that's not true. I'm just stabbing with gleam. The blade like slides
like easily through his flesh, blood sprays out, He winces in pain.
If my death is what the Master wishes, I shall serve and he slides
like life, sleep back off the edge of your blade. Did you know?
None of you have what it takes to be heroes, but all of
you are g As he falls off of the platform and disappears, spraying blood
all overs and it tore his hands, and the lift shudders and starts to
rise up towards the third floor. I'll do that thing where I like flick
the blood off off the sword and sheath it. This changes nothing or like
everything. So that's what she was always worried about, why she always looked
at you different, why she could never love you. And then it stops
at the third floor and the door slide open. We have here work to
do. Let's do it through the open door. There is a narrow bridge,
and standing on the bridge, this narrow like ten foot across bridge is
a massive stone statue, a big like a wall, but its face moves
and it has six arms with weapons in each of them, and it's staring
over at you with big jade eyes. Hullo Hi by Marley, Hi,
Marley O Marley the statue. Hi, I'm Martin. How this is narrow
bridge? You shall not boss? Please? Right? Oh cool, just
kidding, all right. So in this room, which is a massive chasm
with just this thin fifty foot sixty foot bridge across the middle of it,
and this massive statue standing on the center of it, deadly as can be,
enormous, like like it looks like he weighs three tons and he's just
a blender of swords and staves and our spears and knives and axes. And
the bridge is very thin and only maybe five feet deep, like I mean,
this is very precarious. And all around the edges is an abyss.
And then thousands of the sharpest thorns you've ever seen, some fifty sixty foot
long like like just spires and spears and tangles and brambles, I mean,
certain death above and below each like brimming with the most virulent poison that you
can hear sizzling from where you are. How much space is there in between
the walls and the bridge, Between the walls and the bridge, like maybe
forty fifty feet there's like there's there's clearance in the air around it. You
can fly around, We could fire around you. I, for one,
cannot fly. You have a room. Oh yeah, I actually I choose
not to. I am it's unfair to everyone else. Am I the only
one who's just in shock over this review or Sancho's right, this change is
nothing. We can worry about it later. God, we worry about a
lot of things moving forward. Yeah, you guys push a lot of things
out of the back. How many back burners roll one? The back burner
is at capacity? No, I completely agree, though. We don't have
time to sit around and jaw. That was for the first floor, trying
to get out of here without a broom. We'll unpack that later. Here,
get in my cloak. Just don't ask questions, Just jump in.
Why can't we cross? I never asked questions when a beautiful woman asked Marley,
Oh my god, why can't we cross? The rules has been put
on lockdown. Apparently there was a food right on the second floor food fight
protocol. Is anyone allowed to pass? Nope? Well the bride witch,
oh oh oh no, she's doing it. Looks like it hurts, shaking
so much every floor. Why won't anyone give us some toylet bab Oh god,
it's looked. Oh god, I'm not even about from Oh no.
At a party, she was already knew that. That's probably why she had
the rear. She had too much buffalo chicken tip those sounds just I wish
I could have food anyway, all right, only the briar. We have
a lockdown? Would how does someone in the lockdown? What do the rules
say? You know the rules? Don't you? A magical impost from higher
up in the tower. And then I turned back into the bridge. Can
we enchant? Can we enchant it to work the bridge? So you're asking
me, yeah, yeah, I'm made out of stone and enchantments. Well,
I mean you seem like an agreeable fellow. If you come closer,
I'll chop your head off. Guy Martin doesn't care anymore to give my secrets.
No, I'm just wondering. I mean, you seem, like I
said, we're not stepping in the close her. But is there you know,
maybe anything we could maybe do for you that would let you, you
know, let us pass this bridge? What I mean? Yeah? Do
they I mean, do you get like, do they give you? Well,
I'm just saying, like, do they You're standing on this is still
an ogre? And she's like he's nuts. Still. All I'm saying is
you're standing on this bridge all day. I'm sure it's like over eight hour
days. Do they do the bridge? Does she give you a chair,
like, what do you get breaks? No, I'm not I mean rose
up against the proletariat. Yeah, I eat the risks the proletariat. I
don't right, that's not right. So I love, I love where you
are heads at. I think it might be hard to unionize when you're the
only thing that does this talking about it the way. That's how he has
leverage. I suppose, Yes, that's true. He's valuable. You are
I'm sorry. I can't let you pass without chopping you to pieces. Oh
okay, is that the only requirement. Well, if you come close,
I will buy sect you into several pieces until dead. Well what if it
was just one of us? No, listen, it's it's really not very
complicated. If you try to cross the bridge, I will try to kill
you. Well, we don't try to cross the bridge. Why are we
not flying? I also have range the texts, but we're not going to
use the bridge. Don't do that. You're trying to cross the bridge.
You're trying to get from this end of the bridge to the other end of
the bridge. None to throw that involves the bridge. I can throw them
exactly. Do you get the signal from the upper levels that the lockdown.
Centered. I feel like I shouldn't tell you that. No, they didn't
cover that. So I get a magical impost from higher up in the in
the tower. What does it feel, look, taste, sound like green?
And it tastes like brier witch magic and it has a very specific password.
What's the password? Oh? You you're a tricky bird, don't you?
No? No, no, I'm not gonna tell you that. Is
he a beast type? No, it's very good domination spell over there.
The dumbest decision I ever made was giving you that we want to make We
need to make sure you don't have the old password. Did you get the
new password? The new password? Yeah? No, I just have the
one I have. Which one's which one is that the one I have?
Now? Yeah? Is that the old one? Oh? No, no,
I have this one? Well, well, the only one cross check
to make sure you have the correct passwords. If you let us on what
the password is, that we can cross check the passwords. We have the
new password. But if you what'sassword? Well, if you haven't been authorized
with the reception of the new password from the higher ups, you're supposed to
have the most current password, right, But the only way a psychic thing.
From the confirmation of the new password, you have to relinquish the old
you have to verify the old password. It's risky, it's extremely stupid.
Why would it be like that? Also, why the fun is it like
that? If you want to change your password, you can't remember what you
passor did with the pass just to make sure there's no authorized entry. You
wouldn't want there to be unauthorized entry. I think two factor authentication. Oh
ship, his head explodes. No, wait, so I got to a
phone. So if I don't have a phone on me, I can't get
into my passway anymore. Well, we weird. We do have a phone.
My account is locked out. I'm a phone, a Hamburger phone,
the most the most wow, the most powerful transformation that takes some real keep
it in your pain. No, I don't want to like nerd out.
But that's like the ultimate transformation Hamburger phone. There's so many like moving parts
in it. Can we get anything more powerful than that? Is it?
Just if you know? You know? Okay, So now we need the
illergia that the phone is ringing and calling. No, no, we're gonna
put a tie in that line of figure he goes cross eyed and reset,
Hello, Molly, who crows the bridge? Don't try to cross? You
will kill you. You want a prismatic shard, Marley, You said,
yeah, I did you just reset? Yeah? Well, interestingly enough,
right before you reset, we had provided you with the password in order to
cross the bridge, but you then short it out in a strange and unexpected
way, And now we're back. So I apologize, Yes, give me
the password again and then I'll let you cross. I'm getting a psychic wave.
What's happening, Martin? What are you here? Boy? It's the
it's the briar witch. She says that we gave you the right password and
you should let us go through without any more guff. Okay, wow,
well you heard her, your boss saying no more gruff. Now, I
can see you trying to convince me of things, but I should let you
know that I'm not an actual intelligence. I'm I'm just a reasonable Wow.
There's a rule against giving the password? Is there a rule against giving out
old expired passwords? Can you tell me the last three passwords? Three passwords?
Uh, there's only ever been one perfect? What's that one? Well,
it's not expired. Let's just blow up this bridge. Did you have
a bomb? We have the bomb? All right? He starts to sweat
like pebbles. Password bomb, it's not bomb. No, tell him what
to do, just the past. Tell him what to do? Can you
you have to wind bombs? That hold on? We don't really want to
do it, but we you know, we How would you give us a
clue? Give you a clue? What's your mother's maiden name? Sounds like
just think one word? Sounds like what might the boy which his past would
be? Princess blood sixty nine? Pretty good guess, but no princess blood
Jesus, what I mean? You may pass fucking hell? That's it,
alright, we blow it up anyway. Yes, wow, wow, guys,
he was a reasonable effect a lot of people. And just as he's
like shuffling backwards towards the entrance, a lot of people use that kids' names
as passed with Yeah, yeah, wow, I only have cats, So
that's what my word. The fact that it took us to get the most
obvious past I didn't have babe here. Dave would have gotten that in like
five minutes. You tried to guess the password for three seconds. We tried.
We floated, flying around. We floated unionizing it unionizing didn't work.
There's an incredibly powerful explosive device indoors all right. The flip goes up to
the fourth floor, which opens, all right. So when the door opens
on the fourth floor, it opens onto a beautiful, sweet little cottage.
You can see birds through the windows sun. It's very cheerful. It smells
like like baked goods and honeyed tea. In here. There's dried flowers hanging
from the ceiling, a large beautiful hearth, the hearthstones all carved with strange
runes. There's a little there's comfortable small chairs, and a small little old
woman sitting in a very comfortable chair near the fire. She has a mass
of tangled gray hair, gray white hair, fluffing, you know, in
every direction, crimped and tangled with with barbs and birds. And she's rubbing
her hands together trying to get her arthritis to you know, stiffen up.
She has like the most gnarled, withered old hands you've ever seen, but
a strangely kind face. She looks up at all of you and goes a
ten foot tall floating diaryhea witge, spraying, screaming, that's how you got
past the god. On the second law, an image of me crying,
shitting, waddling with her underwear down around her ankles, her dress hoisted up.
People from the party outside banging banging on the door, trying to get
in. No toilet bavent a broad toilet pool coming out of the fascet's shower.
My son's watching their hundred and seventy eight. But jullion year old mother
shaking and shitting, slipping around your own feces. Well, you can make
anything so ridiculous like that. No, whoa fucking done? Have heard you?
Proud out of her? I mean there was quite a power, which
I presume. Finally, I was told that you were an unconventional lot,
and I am not disappointed. Well, have a seat. I didn't I
don't recall inviting all of you to tea. But there's plenty for everyone,
we all got plus once. Yes, have a seat. We've got a
lot to discuss, all right, So lovely home you have here, one
of many. The interior of the briar tower is vast and varied. Well,
what do we have to discuss? Well, we'll make this as brief
as possible. I think that would be best. M What do you have
to say for yourself? Flaveline? Whoa wait a minute, Yes, you're
the one aligned with the glorious? Why don't you start explaining yourself? And
I'm not the only one aligned with the glorious? The girl's been traveling with
you for days. Oh that's the same tired bullshit. I've been fighting against
them every step, even Aberdeen. And what will happen when the white flower
blooms out of your rotted corpse? Well we shall see, shan't we.
Why don't you let the queen speak, wizard. She can defend herself,
can't she speak to her sins? The crimes? I am fixing them.
Now. You have something of mine and I want it back. Some things,
once thrown away are lost forever. You know that this is one of
those cases. I'm afraid I refuse to accept that, and your refusal is
duly noted. Was that all? Or did you have more? Because I
have places to be. I just wanted to give you a chance to explain
yourself and your sinain. I figured there must be a good reason for a
mother to toss away her child. I owe you nothing, and what of
oalle Evra. What do you owe to her when you see her and you
will, How will you explain to the poor girl why you sold her?
You named her? I see, she named herself at a young age out
of a book. Twelve years she has spent in the briar tour. She
is so beautiful and kind, and a mother would be proud. We shall
see. I don't want you to break her heart with your callousness and your
selfishness. I wanted to give you an opportunity to think about how you will
speak to her when you inevitably see her again. That is not for you
to worry about. I am her grandmother. I have raised her, cared
for her. You have stolen her. I have purchased her from her bonds
and given her a life of happiness that you never could have. And things
are different now. Yes, yes, so you wish to take her back.
You wish to take her away. What will you take her away too?
A life of gallivanting through the grim wood, chase from one quest to
another, bloody victory, narrow escape offering that is better than an imprisonment in
a tower. I keep her safe, I keep her happy. She wants
for nothing except freedom. What is it with you, young women and freedom?
Have you not seen the state of the world in these walls? I
have built paradise. What difference does it make if it is encased? I
have seen the world, and I've seen the gilded cage, and I know
which one I would choose. So her little narrow, smiley eyes, like
a thin pinprick of light appears as they start to open. All young are
so unruly, so self obsessed. You'll learn in time. No, I
don't think I will. Was there more. We do have some things to
do, very well. I have more. Oh, and I'm very interested
in what you have to say. I'm very curious about your thoughts. Senator,
Would you please pontificate and moralize to me? Are you helping the Queen
of spite sacrifice women of royal blood? We will open the door, we
will reach the bones, we will change the rules, we will set a
moderate cap on the number of human beings that may exist, and then we
will put things back as we found them. The young women will turn the
lock and return to their lives. So you are sacrificing them, You're killing
them. All of this talk about building a paradise. Who cares if it's
encased. But the plan was to keep them here until you murder them.
We're on the same page with that, right, I mean, I understand
that you might hope that somehow they might come back, but that is the
plan. Yeah, women of royal blood will come to no harm. I
would not sacrifice my own daughters to some blood harvest. We will reach the
bones, we will change the rules. Two of three human beings will die,
and no more will be allowed to be born. Things will be put
back as they were, and the rightful rulers shall take their place at the
pinnacle of the lands again. And where do the princesses come in in all
this? They will open the lock forbidden door? What does that mean?
How will they open it? The conversation is now at an end. I'm
afraid I am not your master, I am not your teacher. You are
my adversary, and we shall meet again soon. I'm looking forward to it.
Sister gwen I, Sister Hiliriana, I highly recommend that you ty avail
yourself of the amenities here, take a rest, and do not pursue higher
up through the tower than this or what I cannot be responsible for. What
harms might come to you, but stay here and you will be safe.
Tempting but got more or diarrheaing to do elsewhere? That really isn't funny,
you know, but everyone gets it. It's universally funny. Whatever. I'm
not explaining it to you, holy ship, the way that you just did
that same twist. And she's like, listen, I'm not explaining this to
use edatur And you're like, listen, I'm not explaining why diarrhea jokes are
funny to you. Get very good, get it, get it. No,
we're done here, very good. I have shown you do to see.
Gwen's like considering it. Okay. So from behind a door at the
far at the far back of the cottage, you hear a small, light,
delicate voice, grandmother. A human army seems to be approaching the tower,
and there's a large living circus coiled around the base, fighting with the
vines. That is Martin, sipping his tea and like looking around at all
of the scandals. A beautiful young woman with swan feathers and a blonde hair
and a coiled like a gorgeous style pinned up in crystals and fossilized feathers,
steps out around the corner and makes eye contact with Lavoline, and for a
moment she thinks she's looking into some sort of a mirror, like you get
that, like that like shocked, like triple take. So she finally the
signets of like like tiny pale lips part and and there's like a very soft,
like gasped word, mother, Hello, Elevra. I didn't expect that
it would take this long, great, great stark yep. She just stares
at you with huge luminous blue eyes. I understand that this is probably difficult.
No, no, I don't want this, grandmother, No, I
don't want this. And then the two of them are just gone in a
blink, and the fire crackles in the fireplace nearby, and there's an illusion
you bitch. No, she was wished away on the witch's magic through the
interior of the tower. Let's keep moving. Yeah right, they're planning on
murdering a third of all life in the world. Let's keep moving. Okay,
Yeah, yeah, let's right. Man, A lot of a lot
to take in here. Well, we'll unpack that later. We will unpack
that later, glorious. All right, hey, hey, h Martin.
Before we go to the lift, that's through there. I think I need
to have a word with you. Shape shifter, shape shifter. Yea,
yeah, just just one minute, guys, we're going to take just a
quick moment over here. Maybe you I am, by the way, so
sorry you, So we get it. I lead her away, Yes,
sorry, Oh my god, I'm so sorry. Not great. She gets
it, she gets it. I'm literally pushing. It could not have been
worse. And she takes you into the like a pantry. Like you're in
just a room full of jars and preserves. But you start to look closer
and some of them are like some of the jars are full of like caterpillars
and maggots and human eyeballs and fingers, and so there's some more dark,
witchy materials. Man. I first begin by saying, oh, hell,
primordial Lord, Lord of chaos, Lord of change, Hail to you,
Hail primordial Lord. Okay, all right, what are you? What are
you saying? I love you, I worship you, I am at your
service? Are you You're not You're not talking to him? Are you?
I'm talking to you? You stupid you dumb face me Martin, Yes,
yes, all right, all right, I'm none of those things. So
just What was it you had to say to me? You are a primordial
lord, a first shifter. I'm sure of it. I'm positive. Listen.
I'm just like a guy. Listen, Martin, that's fucking stupid.
You're just a guy who can transform and change his shape into whatever he wants.
Who made my body body vibrate from miles away while you were approaching?
I felt you arriving. Martin, I don't know what I'm learning from you.
Anything that I've learned is and I've learned a lot about sex. I've
learned about a lot about sex, a lot about shape shifting. Listen,
I know you're very uncomfortable right now. I've learned from you and or your
book you're teaching me. Did you not get the code? Did you not
read the inverse chapters? What? What's an in turn the book upside down?
Oh? Okay, change your eyes left to right. Okay, literally
switch them. I clementine the ever changing order, ever changing, shifting.
Drink them, drink them all and change, ever changing. And so it's
like this mantra of like strange archaic what is what is that? That's Martin,
You don't understand. You're so good at changing what you are that you
changed into some guy and now you don't remember. But you are a lord
of chaos. You are the flowing god. No, No, that's that's
cirt. That's a it's a demon in your stomach. You ate him,
he's you are slowly digesting him. You ate him, you absorbed him.
He's not the only one in there. There's some guy in there too.
That's the guy who you are misunderstanding yourself to be. So what what am
I supposed to do about this? How do I how do I stop?
You claim your power? Wait? Stop circ Yeah, he's lunch, he's
dinner. Just finished digesting him. I don't know he's popping out. I
don't know how to assert your dominance. Do I just think hard? Like
like I'm I'm pretty sure that's how think. No, that's what happened to
the that's not thinking. That is st Why don't you know the difference between
thinking and straining. Okay, So if I just concentrate very hard, it's
not about you're not putty. You need to believe it. You need to
see yourself as whatever you want. Okay, I mean I've done that before
and I've failed. I can even do a rope like a rope, A
rope has taken me so many tries. How that's not a god behavior?
Yes, it is when it's a god of chaos. When it's a trickster
god of comedy, That shit's hilarious. I don't that's I don't want to
be that. I want to be me. I want to be Martin.
That's it. I want to help people and be with my friends. You
got that throw up. She was so into you too, She just got
the X. You ain Martin. You absorbed Martin, You digested him,
devoured him, dissolved him. Why is he sticking around in your head?
I, I honestly don't know what you're doing. This is if every time
I ate someone, I just was like, no, I guess i'm them
now? What is wrong with you? Can you imagine your friends eating I
don't know, sandwiches or whatever they eat, and then just being like,
well, I guess I'm a sandwich now, and I'm gonna hang out with
my friends and ruin their lives with nonsense. No, I just that's I
don't know. Okay, you're telling me one thing, but that doesn't change
how I feel, and I feel. I know I am Martin that I
don't know what to tell you, So I so just choose to be something
else. Why I'd do it all the time when they go away academy,
just pretend to be someone else. No, I like being Martin. He's
nice and he's who I am. That's how many people have you killed while
you've been pretending to be Martin? Maybe like three? Accidentally? How many
more have you devoured that you don't remember devouring that you did instinctually? I
don't know anywhere you've been that I've followed. I have seen missing people,
signs, disappearances. People just sort of gone that that's not me. That's
how do you know that? That's my friends would have known, they would
have spotted me if I was just Yeah. They seem like a very observant
bunch. Well yeah, taste pretty man. It's the principle of its crying.
So I think we've got everybody. We've got to everybody, all right,
fair point, listen, here's the thing. Here's the thing. You
are a god of change. You can be whatever you want. If what
you really want to be is some guy named Martin, then I guess all
hail the will of the primordial But if you want to be something bigger,
better, more exciting, take a page out of CIRs book and think big,
have some fun. You can do anything you want. I mean,
like, if you really wanted to save people from you constantly devouring them,
which, by the way, you do. We all have to eat people
to keep our matter flowing. We have to dissolve others. I killed three
people outside of the guild quarters while I was waiting. But we have to
eat. And I know you're eating because you're still alive and you're still healthy.
If you weren't eating, you would be really, really sick. So
if you really wanted to save people from yourself, you should just permanently turn
yourself into I don't know, like a bowling ball or something, something inert,
something that doesn't have moving parts. You could be that forever. But
that's no fun, Martin. So eat, just eat people. I recommend
you eat your friends outside. Just rip that band aid off. That's what
you can't I mean, but I'm not starts then stops. But it's okay.
For one, it's not even possible to I can't even permanently turn into
any Like how what how would that even if you if what you're saying is
true. I pull all of your shape into something solid, small and stable,
and just solidify it. Dream yourself into a frigging rock or something or
I don't know, and uh and urn and we'll put your your future ashes
in it. Or I don't know, I know, jet you know,
I don't. I don't want to hear this. I am. I know
who I am, and I'm gonna keep being that and whatever challenges come up,
I'm gonna take them one at a time. But I M yeah,
no, I don't exactly what you're saying. I'm going back to my friends,
okay, but real quick, before you do that, I just want
you to ask Xenator where as familiar is okay? Why and she reaches behind
your ear and grabs a little bit of white fluff. All hail the Primordials,
turk rags, some mad sal mad bug men. They lie, They
lie about Mama. Tang frags fast them and cross their bones and broad so
so much it is a at our ankles. Room is poor stickmen they stick
Commander mister Hacketty yell and yell and say it is a trick. Say they
did not show horrible thing about mother, how she pooped. Mother did not
poop. Mother is perfent and beautiful, more powerful, and she would never
make dirty at the dinner body just thinking about imagines, so mad mister Stickman
Hacket say it was trick. And when dag Freg hit him the first time,
dag Fred saying, yes, it is Trek, you treck, you
trick us him to thinking mother make dirty and be shamed, mister stickman.
Mister Stickman Hackett seemed surprised deag Trek could eat so hard. But doag Thread
love his mother? And he hit him again and again. Maybe dag Freg
hit him too hard because he brought him half and he died. I think
maybe I did bad. You think maybe she was important because when his face
break in half, other fairies who were still like starts making wailing sound.
And wait, did someone go up the lift? No one is supposed to
go up the lift? Wait? Was el someone else in here? Tagthreg
his vision and red sure, but dag Threg think he might have seen big
sexy gray lady running ooo. But now dag Tregg is thinking of the horrible
thing the fairies make us see, of Mother and her shaky bear legs like
baby deer legs as she squaddled around looking for cleaning paper and tag rim rage
ooh okay, dag thra against her wife's stay. And we catch those nailies
when they come up, and we take the royal bloods to mother and eat
the rest like mister Stick said to do, and Mother will understand we only
defend her honor. Mother will understand Mother is the greatest thing there is.
And Mother would never get dirty all over our legs. Thanks for listening.
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