I'm in the apartment that stuffs all on the floor. Everybody's gone. I
think something went wrong, something went really wrong. Let me help you.
Welcome to the doc this morning. Bright your eyes will adjust the time.
Hello, we're back. Yay. Did you miss us? I missed you
guys. I missed you all. I miss Nocturn. So we have a
question that I really liked. That was from the chat. Do you remember
who asked it? By chance? Packs? Oh, I'm going to a
little lost it. Oh, somebody asked this question, so we'll ever asked
this. Feel free to wave at me. But the question was what is
the character that you next want to play? And I thought that was a
really good question that we could all start with. You want to go first,
Millie. That's the ticky one because there's stuff are brewing. Oh and
you can't And I can't answer that right now. I'm kind of I'm stuck
between two sounds. Good sounds good? Don What about you? Who me?
Yeah? Oh yes, no, no, I changed my answer.
I changed my answer. I want to play Kaylor again, no pressure case,
no pressure shoulders. I mean we would all love to see you GM
again. That was incredible. So yes, that's a good that's a good
answer, just very slowly. It was easy. That was an easy question
for me. It was really easy, right there. Oh God, I
guess like maybe I should. Maybe my next thing is instead of an RP
character, I just try to GM again. Oh well, I guess so.
I mean you said it live, so it's real now, right,
Characters the world, so I create everything in that So yeah, no,
that would actually be fun. I don't know. There's so many things you
could do, so, uh, what about your character excites you? I
guess, Millie, what about Kayla would you like to look forward to playing
again? I guess that's I love that she is wired very differently to any
of the other characters I've played in role played so far. She's I I
tend to play kind of quite physical, outgoing, bumblee kind of people,
and she's very introverted to herself physically. She not great with people. She's
solutions orientated, and the relationship between her and Ray was so cute and resting,
and I'd love to explore that's more. Ray was the best of the
best of us. If I'm allowed to say that he is the best of
us, Ray is okay. Hashtag Dan What do you like most about Ray
His purity? Yeah, he's just so pure. He just wanted everyone to
be okay, we wanted and KPP. What what allures you about GMing that
you don't get from playing as a player. The adrenaline ration. Yeah,
it's like it was so I was so nervous that entire episode that we did,
but I, I don't know, it's kind of cool to see it
all come to life. Yeah, I think it's kind of a cool thing.
Yeah, and to watch I think when you have this idea in your
head or this world and then it's sort of the other players bring it in
a way you wouldn't. You didn't think of, you know, they just
kind of bring an extra element. Oh, community of collaboration is the best
pax. What about you? What's the character that you would like to play
next? I've been interested to do a serial killer for a while now.
Oh, going back to your roots. It's been over almost two years,
and I've a million knows about it quite a bit actually in full length,
the whole bubble of what it's supposed to be them in brewing. She might
even get involved, yeah talking about yeah, yeah, oh yeah, no,
of course, not do we get any more spoilers about this, Oh
no, no, hopefully soon TM will get some deats. Maybe. I've
been working heavily on it, and uh, I'm excited about it. I
just need to find the right right pond, right pool to drop that stone
in. It does amazing. Yay, all right, well should we just
dive right in? Then you didn't answer the question, did you? Okay?
Well, I wrote an entire dying slash dead language for the new show
that I'm going to be in, and that's the character I want to play
next. I'm playing an old woman and I cannot wait. I cannot say
language. It's a dying slash dead language and it's pretty broken. So yeah,
I wrote a bunch of nerdy stuff for that. Yeah, I wonder
you never have time you're writing languages like that was like three months ago,
but yes it was. I was. I couldn't help it. It was
like it happened and then it flowed. And you know how creativity is it
Just you ride that wave and then all of a sudden it's six am and
you're like, whoa, yeah that's the rhythm in it's five hours. Oh
ship, I should probably stop. I should stop now, so yeah,
okay, I answered, and yes, that's dying. That's dying. Order.
Okay, let's dive right in. I don't have a recap this week.
You I'm so sorry, but I can tell you sort of where we
were. Here's what I remember. I remember Trick and Emma had a really
intense moment. I remember THEEO and Brian had a really intense moment. It
was just a lot of Intensityan was sitting in the very quiet well, I
think brewing. I'm doing, I'm doing. Yeah, I'm just getting into
characters. Yeah, and okay, So where we last the immediately where we
last left off and where we're going to probably start today is we're actually going
to start with Brier because the episode ended with Henry shooting a future version of
Emma in the back of the head so that the current Emma in our timeline
would not disappear and not have to fight for her right to exist. And
Brier saw that and actually stepped in to open a door to another world in
which Emma could exist in her dog form and left her there and then came
back. So we are actually going to begin the episode with Brier on the
street as the sirens are in the distance, and she is walking back away
from the disappeared body. However, there is still blood on the ground and
walking briskly but not too fast that it looks suspicious. My arms are crossed
and I'm looking around. Are there a lot of people looking at me?
No? So there's a lot of chaos. There was a lot of screaming,
a lot of people running across the street and away from where the shot
happened. There seems to be somebody because you're looking. There does seem to
be somebody down the street with their phone out having been filming what just happened.
I'm gonna walk over to this person, okay, ooh, go ahead
and roll for me. Nineteen Okay, what are you thinking about as you
walk up to this person? What's your intention? My intention is to see
what they got if they got trick shooting Emma, and also if they got
me and then the body disappearing. Okay. Uh. It is a young
man, probably about nineteen or so, big Harry Potter style, round glasses,
big floppy mess of hair, red, tons of freckles, and he's
trembling as you walk up to him. Hey, did you did you get
any of that? Uh? I got, I got, I got some
of it. Can I can I see it? Uh? Sure, I'm
going to grab his phone from him and I'm going to play the I'm going
to go through his gallery and I'm going to see what his videos are.
Yeah, it's the well, he's got a couple of different videos, but
the one, the most recent video is of not the actual shot happening.
It's shortly after and she is laying on the ground and he's kind of like
shaking, and then he puts his gun away and then walks into the bar
where he left the other Emma, and then he absolutely did capture the body
disappearing and you walking up to it. Oh shit, I think I accidentally
deleted your video you rolled in nineteen right, mm hmm, okay, sure,
yeah, I'm so sorry. I want to use my customer service on
to see if I can calm him down a little bit. Yeah, okay,
go ahead and roll fifty three. And what is your your everybody leveled?
So what's your thing? Now? Let's look, my customer service is
eighteen, but my mind is sixty two. Okay, yeah, that's what
I thought. Okay, So he's honestly a little bit into what just happened.
I'm gone. I disappeared. You did? Oh my god, Oh
my god, the game is at everybody panic? Okay, hold on,
let me find me. Hold on, phebe, I don't feel so good.
Oh god, don't scare me. I get scared by the stupidest shit,
y'all. Okay, hold on, let me just I got this.
I got this doing an interpretive dance. It'll entertain them while you Okay,
thanks, Oh my god, there we go. Hello. Sorry, woo,
I'm a child. Okay, hold on, we're I don't know what
happened. Guys. Sorry, I don't know what happened. There we go.
We're good now. He's honestly, he looks sort of in shock when
he's trembling, but he doesn't look like he's going to say anything. He
looks like he can't quite understand what he has seen. But he's more afraid
of you than he is of what he filmed, like of the gunshot of
that. I promise it'll what's your name? Uh, Church, Trevor,
Trevor, promise it'll be taken care of. Okay, don't worry about it.
It's better if you just don't worry about it. Who are you.
I'm just somebody that you met today. I'm gonna hand his phone back to
them. Thanks for not breaking it. Why would I break your phone?
I perfectly good. Those things cost a lot of money, I know,
but it's what they do in the movies. You know, they'll just like
throw the phone down and then break it. Yeah. Yeah, well I
wasn't gonna do that. Thank do you? Thanks? And I'm gonna turn
around and I'm gonna walk into the Sleepy Bean. Okay, So the Sleepy
Bean. So you walked a little bit further and there's like a bar here
where Henry went into. So you're gonna walk maybe two blocks back to the
Sleepy Bean. Yeah, okay, and briskly, I assume, because the
police sirens are probably getting closer. Okay, are you going to head down
the main sidewalk or are you gonna take a different route to go to work?
I imagine the Sleepy Bean has a back door, yes, that employees
can go through. I'm gonna probably go down a side and go in the
back door. Okay, sleepy Bean is yours? So yes, if there
is a there's a back door, you say there is there is, So
there's a back door So you go in through this back door and it takes
you about a couple of minutes. I just need one roll from you while
you walk right, okay, yep, So you walk in. So as
you're walking through, it's like, you know, you can feel the cold
air in the temperature, but your heart is beating fast. You can feel
the blood kind of in your head, and everything's pulsing, and the breeze
is nice on your skin. And you get to the Sleepy Bean without any
issue. Nobody stops you, Nobody seems to look at you. You see
the police car go by, but it passes right by you. And then
you enter the Sleepy Bean and there is chaos in here. It's people are
talking about it a little bit. Uh, it's on the telly already,
which is pretty shocking. Is there video footage of anything? There is no
video footage of the actual incident. They are showing like the police arriving tape
tape and that's and somebody is standing in front on the on the mic and
given the news. But that's it. There's no actual footage of anything.
I'm gonna go upstairs to we're echo and THEO and I where Brian or where
I left. Okay, I think they were upstairs in the loft. Mm
hm, So I'll just quickly glance at the TV, but I'm just gonna
rush up the stairs to them. Okay, what were you guys doing when?
Uh, when she was gone? Like when the news came on to
see that this kind of accident happened? Did it? Do you think any
of you noticed or looked? No? No, I wonder Okay, all
right, please continue. Did you guys hear the shot? Yeah? Is
that what I think it was? He did it in the middle of the
street, execution style. H That unlike him. Not very smart? No,
not really. But he took off down a side alley. I don't
know where he went. Oh, he's smart, so he's probably trying to
keep things a little quiet. Do we need to clean up? There's there's
like blood, but I took her somewhere. You were able to find a
solution? Yeah, some kid filmed it, but I took his phone until
he did it. Well, that's good. You don't need anything else happening.
Uh. Well hm, Well, should we go to the warehouse and
send a text to Trick and I'm gonna meet us there. That maybe wise
unless we were Oh, I checked my phone. What are you looking for?
Any texts from Lee? Uh? No, No, no text from
Lee. I'll probably text. Oh no, it was an unknown number.
No, I wasn't able to text. But you can text it back if
you'd like. It just shows up as unknown. But you have a conversation
so you can respond. Yeah, let's all respond to that again. I'm
trying to think my last text was. I think it was, Oh,
we need to meet up and talk. Yeah, it was my last text.
I probably text day like things are getting dire. We need to like,
if you want to be involved, we need to move otherwise I'm taking
action. Okay, interesting, And I still read that over a shoulder light
last time. You can give a shot, go ahead and roll for it.
Do you have anything special for that? I think you do. Actually,
yeah, that's a book I haven't notice. Yeah, that'll work.
Okay. And what's that fifteen? Okay? Twenty six and you're governing stat
I assume is higher than twenty six, right, yeah, okay, So
you can read some of it, just little bits. You can get the
idea he's looking to reach out to somebody to help with the situation. Is
that? How? Uh? I think we learned that it's in Lee,
you know, from the the bar. I think a lucky rabbit. Yep,
you're texting Lee. But yes, they reached out first to be fair.
Oh why, no reason? Unusual? Wait, who's Lee? Have
we met Lee? No? Lee was the one that Jazz told us about.
Jazz wasn't there last time? No? Before that? I think the
time you don't remember. Yeah, so what you're saying, you want to
go to the Lucky Rabbit. We could see if Jazz is there first,
that's fair. Going to the warehouse wouldn't be bad either, to share a
warehouse may in odhesis, but that's in grand theory, a bit of that's
a bit of a drive, a little one to stop all by the lucky
go there first, figure out, well we can find out, and then
we'll go to the warehouse. That's not a bad idea. Mm hmm.
I think, yeah, if if you want to go there, I don't
know if we can come back the rabbit or to the warhouse. Mm hmm.
The rabbit of the warehouse. Oh, the warehouse. She spent so
long trying to leave it. It might be possible. I mean I've been
able to go there and back before unsettled. It's got a lucky rabbit than
the warehouse. Maybe we can find out something about it. Yes, good,
I think it's a good idea, A good jas. Wasn't there the
last time we were there though, Well she might be around, you know,
we go true, she's a busy lady, but she'll make time for
us. I know him. I hope you're right. Yes, that's anyone
has to have any objections. I need a coffee for the road. Well,
vehicle be taken as in Trick is escalated. No, that's we have
a super rue Yes, oh cool, I'll take that then, yeah,
yes, super all right, And then I kind of stand up and take
a last set of my coffee and start going down the stairs and Briar roll
for me. Yes, yeah, Brier. You notice the news reel as
you're leaving, and you do seem to there is not the same angle before
you think it's Trevor, but there is a cell phone footage of Trick putting
Emma down onto her knees with the gun, and it is now on the
television from directly across the street. And you happen to notice that as you're
getting ready to leave. Yeah, you guys, just you know, take
a casual glance the news on our way out and take a casual glance and
see, oh yeah, you can all see it. And you don't have
to roll for this. You're all extremely intelligent. You were just seen with
him in this in this cafe. It's probably not going to be long before
Trish remembers or notices and starts freaking out. We should go now, yeah,
do you really think, lucky Rob, it's a good idea. We'd
be safe in there, but it's the safest place I can think of.
Okay, well then we should probably go now before at the baby shows me.
Also, there can someone pay for mine? I got nothing, you
don't, don't worry about it. It's in the house. Thank you,
yes, thank you. And I was going down the stairs at this point.
Amazing. I'm hurriedly going down the stairs. Everybody exits the cafe and
heads towards the subaru, and I imagine Briar's the last one out of the
door. And as you leave Briar, you do hear Trish start to gasp
and go oh my god, and maybe even drop something so she is aware
of what just taking. I keep going. Yeah, all right, and
you guys head to the lucky rabbits, who's driving, who's sitting where?
I kind of pause by the car as we get to it. Oh,
okay, because a cat sight my reflection for the first time, And what's
the weather? Like? It's yeah, winter, but there's no snow on
the ground, but everything's a little bit frosted, you know, like the
ground gets cold. As we've been walking towards the car of kind of notice
the hairs on my arms standing up and feeling that the first time, kind
of giggling but not sure what to do with that sensation. It's such a
full body thing. And then it's gold and then just freeze as I see
my face reflected back at me and sort of turn my head. And I
can't wrap my brain around what this is and why it was chosen it.
It seems like such a poor decision. Why do you think it's a poor
decision? Because how does this help? Because this is this is cold and
unruly? And do you think you would have preferred to stay as a shadow?
I think things would have been easier. I don't know yet. Okay,
interesting, but it's very association that's going on because all my memories of
me looking back at myself and seeing Adza seeing is see. Yeah, you
don't like super Roos. Huh. See you're looking at it and it looks
kind of all disappointed. It's just a vehicle. I mean, it's not
the car. It's what was it? Sizzle? Sizzle? Uh? This
is all an interesting choice, interesting choice? How so what do you mean
by that? I lean up against the hood of the super well, talking
her, still inquisitive. M it's just all that's ever been in here is
is not? This is sure. It is all the matters is. And
I just poked the top of her chest. What's in there outside? Just
a shell? It's what you do, not who you are, all right,
mm hmm. Good. By the way, the hair looks great on
you, if you worry about that. I don't know so some ladies really
care about the hair thing. It looks fun, it flows well. Anyways,
which like the shotgun, I'm gonna send the back. I like it
in the back better. Anyways. That sounds good. Good. Who's drying?
Who's got the keys? Ror? You got the keys? Yeah?
I don't drive super often, but I can try, Like, I mean,
I have my license. I just let's have echo drive you've never done
before, right the whole It'll be fun. I don't is this the moment
to be experimenting? Might relax you? Oh maybe? I mean no,
no, she had noticed, right you know what? Yeah, scratch that
idea, good idea for the future. Okay, yeah, sorry, spontaneous
idea. I'll get in the back and shut up. Yeah, I can
drive, or do you want to THEO I can if you don't want to.
I'm not the best driver. I can get us there. I'm just
gonna pass them the keys, and I'm gonna since they've already taken the back
seat, I guess I'll sit in the passenger seat and I'm just gonna like
try it. I'm gonna pull my hood up because I feel like, you
know, i'body suspicious. Yeah, I'm just gonna suspicious stealth, stealth.
I'm stealthing in the person. Yeah, I just make a hide check and
plain sight. That always works. Uh, it'll work. You don't need
to roll for it. I'll only roll if somebody sees you first. So
you guys are good for now, and you're gonna drive to the Lucky Rabbit,
which is honestly was like what ten minutes from here. So let's just
you know, you one roll. It'll be fine. Who's driving THEO?
All right, THEO? Make that one roll? Oh perfect? Yeah,
oh I absolutely will. It's not like I'm terrible at driving or anything.
Be fine, fine, look at that. It's above my driving almost like
you've done this seven hundred fucking time. Look at between the lines drive in
a city. Not only does the signal he puts his head out the window.
Yeah, I probably like super old school driving, you know, like
right stop laugha no, that would probably stand out. But yeah, you
you move forward, uh, and you head to the Lucky Rabbit. Takes
about ten to fifteen minutes of normal time of drive time for you guys to
get there. But you arrive, there's nothing in the parking lot. What's
the condition of the Lucky Rabbit? Now after the time's gone by so lovely
that you act. Oh boy, it looks like it has been abandoned.
There are holes in the outside of the building. Looks like the inside dilapidated.
It would be terrible to go inside. The door is kind of off
the hinges. Now it looks real bad. That doesn't look good. Oh
boy, it's worse than I thought, yeah, I'm gonna have a quick
walk around. I'm just gonna walk start a walk around the print of the
building. And I'm guessing there's ways around the side that's part of a strip
or is it segregated. Its actually stands alone in a parking lot, and
so yeah, you can walk all the way around it if you'd like.
The rest of the building looks very much the same, decayed old. You
get a faint smell when you step really close to the wall, mildew,
but there's nothing on the nothing on the back. There's like no back entrance
or anything like that. But yeah, the whole building looks this way.
If you'd like, you can roll me some form of investigation to see if
you pick up anything else. I shall, I shall. Oh yeah,
okay, well that's right, this is the new Brian. Okay, right,
yeah, okay. So you smell mildew, you also very much sense
many different types of magic. You can you can feel it as you step
close to the walls of the building. But you can also feel a great
sadness and almost hear a weeping were run a time, guys, I can
feel it. Yes, I'm going to walk straight up to the building and
kind of put my hands on it, okay and almost stroke it, like
I'm trying to comfort it. Okay, go ahead and roll for me.
Do you have magic? Bullshit? I think you do. Let me just
check. I was just hoping for a roll of comfort and support. Ooh,
okay, yes you do. It's actually imitation. You're going to be
imitating what you've seen humans do. So you're rolling against that. Yeah,
okay, yeah, because you're by the way, it's forty. Her imitation
is forty. So that's a cure on success. Okay. So when you're
trying to comfort, what exactly are you thinking right now? I'm thinking of
the that's a phrasis the other one. I'm thinking of all the times that
I have memories of Busy, Yeah, comforting people, thinking of how she
would feel about seeing this, and the thought of this happening elsewhere, and
that loss, that emptiness and the sadness is the wrong word, but that
stale waste of something like this happening humans doesn't help. Yeah. Humans will
use words to describe themselves, like I'm a comforting person. So that kind
of comes to your mind when you're thinking about Isy. Was Isy comforting?
Sometimes do you like that? Would you like to be comforting? I think
so you can put that on your sheep. So I just kind of press
my face against the side of the building and just stroke my hand down it.
And I'm kind of lost for a moment, smelling that for the first
time and trying to get a sense of what it is that I'm feeling.
It's hard with the cold to block that out, you feel when you're stroking
this building and trying to, you know, send out this comfort to this
building. You do feel a bit of ease up on sadness. It's kind
of just pat it in recognition and look to the rest of them and realize
that this probably isn't usual behavior. From what I remember, I'd probably walk
up there and I puked there once. Actually, well, not this one
but mine anyway, yeah, yours, mm hmm, this one, or
how do you put it? This this place is as you know, special,
you know how you go in some houses and you see that weird metal
pole in the basement. It's a load bearing poles what they call it keeps
the weight of the world from collapsing. Mhm. This building is kind of
like that load bearing wall. Sure, there's you know, when you're in
your place, your time, it's there and it's it's its own entity,
but they're all the same, and if you remove it, it all falls
apart. Think of it, think of it that way, I guess.
So yeah, my version, I mean it's probably gonna reflect a lot of
what's going on here. But anyways, Yeah, I don't even know why
I even told you about the can more of long lines of like I was
for a second and I'm like, WHOA careful what you anyho? I look
at what you feel explaining the rabbit to me? Man, I think I
think that's what you did. Huh m hmm. I didn't mean like that.
I was just trying to like, you can Sorry, what what what
do you? What were you? What were you feeling for? It seems
sad, it's a waste. We should hurry. Yeah, all right,
let's get the heart of it. There's nothing around back. I didn't like
see anything. So and I look at the door as we're approaching, and
the idea of going in again kind of unsettles my stomach because I've got no
frame of reference now. My memories are not lining up with what happened in
reality last time, and this could all go very wrong. Are you still
going to walk inside? I think I have to. Who goes in first?
I'll probably walk for ride down okay, okay, yeah, people are
hesitating. I'd be right behind him. Okay, what about you, Brian,
I'd probably go on last. Okay, so you'll hold the door maybe
for Echo, and then Echo hesitates and then decides to go in, and
then Brier goes in. Life okay, thank you. You enter the Lucky
Rabbit and everything is as it was before, at least on the inside,
which is fucking strange. Outside looks terrible, inside is still buzzing lots of
people. Time has passed since you left. Not Revenant Hour anymore. It's
not Revenant Hour anymore. People have returned. I walked straight up to the
bar. I want to test this instantly. I walked straight up to the
bar, and on reflex, just learn behavior. I think of Gin and
Tonic one appears for you. I'd probably walk walking ahead of them, because
that was the first one to come in. I probably like had my hand.
I'll be just gliding it across the bar counter, going down the line,
looking at a familiar chair at the end, and I'll just like tap
the bar top and then sit down in my chair and then I'll just place
my hands out thinking about water. Uh, you'll get two glasses, two
full glasses of water with lemon, right, do you like lemon? M
there you go with onmon. Yeah. So I started drinking and I just
I said, I kind of like send my stool and just wait, knowing
that eventually it's something that's going to occur. Just being here so many times,
I just get comfortable. Okay, I just grin it. There it
works now, it is rather interesting. Yeah. Hm, so I guess
how that would have worked. You weren't real before, but you are now.
That's h are you writing down? Yeah? Taking notes in your booting,
Like I go to the section like of my notes on like shadow creatures,
because I'd been taking some notes about this, and yeah, I had
like no longer a shadow creature like under echoes notes. I don't even notice
that. I'm too busy kind of staring at this and trying to figure out
if I should drink it or not. And I think it's slow. I
doubt your liver knows what to do with alcohol yet. Coffee terrible. Yeah,
Why, it's like rubbing alcohol after effect. I'm gonna put my hand
out and imagine a caesar with a pickled asparagus in it, slight spice.
Uh. I have to clarify. Are you imagining it for yourself or are
you imagining it for somebody else? Imagine it for me. I know how
this game works. Oh, okay, a virgin Caesar will appear for you.
No, I didn't say virgin. I know, but the bar knows
what you want really for you, Okay, And then I slotted it down
the counter toward echo. Try that. Thank you. M hmmm, you're
gonna you're gonna have to translate. What the is he just passed me?
Oh? Because you know what a caesar is, right, Okay, it's
like real life. Yeah, it's like real life. It's like a tomato
and clam juice kind of booze. Yeah. It's almost like a bloody marry,
but with clam juice. It's a bloody marry, but with clam juice
instead of tomato juice. In a sense, it's it's clam and tomato.
Okay. Cultural difference is holy ship. That sounds awful. It's amazing.
What are you talking about? Sorry, I don't I don't do clam juice,
my bad Christ if you like it. Yeah, now, just imagine
a shout of voca it rather than drink. It's a drink like a bloody.
There's a shot usually a vodka in it. So this one's a virgin.
It was, yes, it was? Is it? Now? Roll
for me? Roll head, I'm gonna have Oh no, okay, yeah,
it's really to fail. It's time to fail up. Yeah, okay,
Well I trust him, So I'm I'm just gonna be like, I
assume you like it because you also, like you know, the role is
much different from the last one. So this you enjoy the taste of much
better than the gin and tonic. Mmm. It's just like I got a
straw on that sort of thing. Mm hmmm, I have none of up
here. Later, do you like weird fish tramatic concoction in I'll be honest,
Well, now you're gonna have to try one, and you're gonna think
about when you have it. You're gonna be like, oh, I guess
I'll try this. Good. Do you hear anything? No, I didn't
come into the bar like fully, I'm in still the door okay, the
door, like there's probably like a tiny foyer, and I'm leaning against the
wall in there, and I'm just holding the keys and playing with them.
Are you looking? Are you like trying to watch what's happening here? What's
your intent at this door? I think I'm taking it all in. I'm
watching them just order drinks. But then I'm looking around the room if I
can see jazz, to see if I can see anybody that might be interesting.
Ah, Okay, we're different now, so go ahead and roll me
against your avatar skill. Oh seventy five. Okay, it looks pretty much
the same. You actually see the hawker there with his bag and his drinks
and many many straws. He probably looks at you and waves his fingers and
then he points he points to the ring on your hand because he doesn't well,
he has a bunch, but he's like, eh, have you changed
your mind? Maybe you know that seems to say yeah. I shake my
head like a no at him, but I smile at him. Okay,
Well, he just like wings at you and then goes back to his drink.
You know, he's probably saying, if you change your mind, you
know where to find me. I see him. No, your heat,
your back is to yeah, your back is to him. You're la at
the bar and doing the drink stuff while this is happening. So but you
you don't see Jazz and you don't see anybody else. I mean, there's
so many interesting people in here, but nothing really catches your attention. Okay,
other than the hawker. Maybe do you stay here? Do you go
to the bar? I'm gonna walk over to them. I'm I'll put my
hands like, okay, so are we just getting drinks? Are we here
for something? Because I don't really think you know what, I'm who would
do this. It's really good, Okay. I see the value in having
a drink because we all might die soon. But I also see the value
in the fact that maybe we should go figure some shit out. We're here
to find Jazz, as I like hap the counter for coffee. Coffee appears
for you, as does a note, and grab the note. Probably not
that surprised. The note just says in the back where the back is open.
Very good at it, and it's your drink. I don't think you
can bring it to the back room. Take it time, guys, there's
no rush. I think it is the kind of a rust prime. You're
in a lounge bar. Unsettled is not good here. Relax, it will
come to you. Ran Please sit, I'm good, I insist. Trust
trust me when I say this, Sit, relax and watch. I don't.
I don't sit, and I just I'm looking at him. I'm looking
at New Brian me too, back at her for not sitting and stuff like
that. Put my water down. I stand up and I walk up to
her. I look her right in the eye and I put my hands on
my lips like this, I mirror him. Damn you, this place doesn't
work with tension. This is a safe haven. When you come here on
these tense up and panicking, it's hesitant. If you want help, blend
in. Trust me. Trust me when I say this, for how many
times I've been here. Embrace the atmosphere. Sit down at the bar,
relax, get something nice, and the help will come. Works in the
details. If your mind is all over the place, I understand you.
Guys have been through a lot. I get it. But if this place
wants to help you, it's gonna have to sift through less stuff from a
lot of stuff until you calm down. Then they can find out the core
of what you need. So can you help me. Can you meet me
halfway here? I think you might be misreading me just because I'm actually quite
calm. Okay, good, well, if you're calm, that's that's perfect,
all right. Sorry you looked a little uppity, So I'll go sorry,
abug you. I'm gonna sit down and start drinking my water again.
Where are you sitting at the end? At the end, I have like,
I have a stool that I've always went to kind of my seclusion,
little spot there at the corner, kind of where the the bartender would come
in that little ah yeah, okay, and through there. It's kind of
like near the back towards the bathrooms and stuff like that. It's just like
this quick thing, so that an alcoholic wind. No, it's quick to
the toilets. It's quickly where the bartender so I get the first order.
It's an alcoholic position. And so I just know that chair. I sit
down there. I go straight to whichever the nearest is and sit cross legged
on the stool like yoga posts. It's a a fun balance thing, especially
with this brier. When you said I am calm, were you lying?
Are you actually calm right now? No? I am calm. Okay,
and what do you just new Brian's got some balls? This might actually,
this might actually work. New Brian's got some balls. This is kind of
how I took that when you were like, all right, might actually get
through this? Just man. Since he said that, I've turned around and
I'm my back's to the bar and I'm leaning against it and my elbows on
the bar, and I'm looking. I'm not drinking anything, but I'm looking
around and maybe a way people watching. Okay, go ahead and roll for
me one more time? Oh fourteen? Okay, you do notice something really
strange. There's a little girl in here, maybe about like ten or eleven?
Oh, parents or anything around her? I'm sorry, what was your
question? Does she have any like adults around her that are like, I
am your parent, I am your guardian? No? Do I know this
girl? For me? You might be like, you have to give me
a quick fifty two. If I do, you have to give me a
quick synaps. Okay, you don't actually rolled high in Yeah, so you
don't don't recognize this one? No? All right, none, my brother,
little girls in horror, No, have fun, Katie, You're on
your own way. If the girl you can roll if you'd like. No,
no, sorry, she was never in this bar, okay, this
this section, no different people any other one. I just do I know
her. You can roll red room, red room, m hm sixty five.
Uh no, you don't. You don't recognize her at all. But
she's she's got red hair, she's got tons of freckles. She's wearing like
a green oversized sweater and a scarf. I'm gonna walk over tour and I'm
gonna crouch down. Are you lost? Are you okay? Why are you
talking to me like I'm an idiot or a child? Are you all right?
Because you look like a child? Okay, well you look like an
old lady. Cool. That mean I'm gonna talk loud and slow right in
your face and be super disrespectful. I didn't think so, okay, So
who are you? And I'm gonna stand up. Then I'm gonna tower over
her. My name is Beth, Hi, Beth. Tell me something about
yourself, Beth, Like why you look like a small, infantile child person.
I don't think I want to talk to you? All right? Cool?
Glad you're all right? And then I'm gonna turn around walk back to
the bar. Sure, and I'm gonna I'm gonna just loudly say to the
group, there is a lady child over there, and she's super rude.
You did kind of walk off and, you know, patronize her. Immediately,
I asked her if she was all right in a bar for people who
are not people entirely. Yeah, well she was a bitch, Okay.
So I just sit on the stool, still cross legged, and kind of
make eye contact with her and go And I look over at that little girl
and I just kind of look back to myself. I once picked a fight
with a blind man bloodhound. That's nothing. Oh, you said I was
patronizing. She talked to me like I was an old person. Well,
comparatively, you are. You're gonna see a lot of weird stuff in this
place, Yes you will. This is this is nothing. This is like
a this is like a Wednesday. It's best not to mix nuff jesments.
I'm gonna come on a Friday evening. I'm gonna turn around to the bar
and see if it will give me two whiskey sours. Oh yeah. In
fact, as you're turning to think I'm gonna ask for this, they're already
there. I'm gonna grab them really quick and walk back over to the little
girl. Okay, and I'm gonna slam a whiskey sour down. Now that's
more like it. What's your name, Briar oh Aris? You can call
me. Brian doesn't give it. I don't give a shit. What's your
name? Beth? Oh? Yeah, you told me that already. She
takes the whiskey sour, lifts it, looks at you, and then downs
it, and then down my whiskey. So you're kind of like competing?
Is that it? I'm gonna have your roll for me. I would just
kind of look over. Okay, she beats you. She says, you
might even like cough a bit when you're like, yeah, she is.
I well know, until they do. I held by Brian and go I
like her. I don't think this is a normal woman's rivalry. M I
look at Beth. That was pretty impressive. Are you allowed to drink?
Shut and something I asked prior to bringing this over. If you're allowed in
the bar, you're allowed to drink. How'd you get in here? Uh?
I don't really know. I just got in here. What's so special
about you? Though? Do you intrigue me? Why? Because I look
small innocent. No, because you bite back. I like that answer.
Sit down, I sit down. I probably have some like whiskey sour dribbling
on my chin. Your cheeks are already like a little bit red. You're
like white foam. So I'm like wiping my face off. Why are you
here? Just a break from the real worlder? No, my parents got
murdered by a shadow monster. That sucks. Yeah, lucky rabbit took me
in and I've been here ever since, never left. What were your parents'
name? So, Joe and Mary? If you don't have to roll for
this, she's a lying good old Joe and Mary. I also, I
live in a mushroom in the forest. Yeah, mushroom. Well, it's
like standard red with the white dots. And you know, I have a
friend. He's a frog. His name is Harold. That sounds nice.
Does he broke them? Oh? Yeah? And if you lick the mushroom
you get super high, which is a fucking bonus living in the forest,
so sounds great. When can I visit whenever you want? How about?
Now? It's kind of a drive. You're just staring at each other.
This sort of fight that you're having is really really good though. I like
it. I'm looking over can we hear this conversation? How far away are
they? I'd say, it's really loud in the bar, and there's this
way of giving privacy. Yeah, so you're not really supposed to be in
the conversation. You can't hear it, so you can probably see that they're
talking, but you have no idea what they're saying to each other. Okay,
I'd still like look over it, Brian, be like, and she's
no longer in a hurry anymore. I'm just content with that. I can
tell. I'm just like, good, that's what we need right now.
I'm gonna look over echo. What do you think of the season? It's
pricingly nice. Thank good. Now, do you want to try something completely
different, something like out of your Spectrum? All right, it's beautiful,
refreshing, even has a it's gonna sound weird, but a copper tinge at
the end due to the nature of how it's made. Now, can you
imagine a little shot of vodka for me? Please? Well, this seems
to be more he wants me to do, so I'm doing that. It
appears right there for you. Okay, So I imagine a moscow mule.
For those who know, a moscow mule is vodka, ginger beer, lime
juice garnished with a slice of lime and then mint like the leaf mint put
into it. And it's usually in a copper glass, a copper cup.
Okay, is that what appears? Yes, that's what appears if that's what
you're imagining. Wait, you're saying you're imagining that specifically a moscow mule?
Yes, okay, are you imagining it for you? Are you imagining it?
Okay, because it works you imagine for yourself? Yes, yeah,
okay, I know, yes, that is correct. Okay, So then
I slide that over to her, put your vodka in that, just give
it a little swirl. Try that. Then I got something even close to
that as well, which is more of like a Cuban thing having a newer
being. Incredibly no, no, no, no, no, no.
This is if there's any place to be doing this, it's here. I
understand more. I mean, let her do more. She's she's got her
own it's yeah, exactly, let her try a little bit. I'm not
you know, I trust me. I know my limits. You can't know
hers. How are you feeling? You feeling good? That's an interesting question.
But if you're supposed to be fitting in, shouldn't you have one?
I am kind of fitting in in my own way. The key is to
just let the building cater you, and the way to do that best is
to be comfortable. I'm comfortable. I'm sitting down, I got my water,
I'm happy. I'm still sitting cross legged. And it looks like it
would not be comfortable on a bar stool, but apparently that feels the most
natural thing. And ahead, go ahead, try this is the best time.
This is the best place. No tab, you're good, give it
a will. What do you think this is the time to dip your toes
into this world I'm running through in my head? What is these Brian was
like? And this is setting off all sorts of memories, so you'll have
to roll for me. This is against your easy stat see how much you
remember? Okay, for you private or just it, but it's fine,
you can just doesn't need to be private, you d okay? Your easy
stat is over? Yeah, slightly over? Okay, So it's it's a
partial, So I'll let you roleplay that out whatever you interpret a partial to
be. But it's not entirely clear, but you remember something little flashes of
actually being in the in the part of is the flat that was her therapy,
were in her office, and then relaxing there and clinking glass together each
and it seems this is the happy version that is in that memory that I
don't remember seeing here before. But he always had a drink before, So
I don't know what this is, but he seems to really want me to
be trying this. I'm not shall I describe my mind reset for a reason
for this or just kind of keep that to myself right now? No,
no, no, this is good. Okay. So my mentality of this
of why I'm kind of like pushing Echo to try these drinks and stuffing that
my mind set. She's given this opportunity to kind of be a new person
without any of her She's a new being, she's her own thing now.
The past is regardless. I mean, as a person went from alcoholism and
a horrible tragy in my life, I could I would only aspire at the
at the mac like to be what she is in her state right now,
She's just got a whole brand new like without any baggage from the past in
a sense, So it's fascinating to me. So I'm just trying to in
a sense a little bit live through her of where she has this opportune chance,
Like everything's new and fresh and it's exciting to me to watch. You
should have got here sooner, you would have liked to see kind of look
I did that comment? I like this good? You like it? I
don't know. I'm actually asking, babe, and I don't like you just
roll anything over. It's we're gonna do the same scale. If it's like
ninety you don't really like it that much? Oh yeah, you love this
one? Oh so good. I mean it's also up to you. Don't
have to roll for it and just choose what you like or what you don't
like. Oh that's nice. Makes your lips make contact with the cup as
it goes in the cup is vital. What else would I just pour it
into my face? Well, if some people like to, like you know,
have the lips on top of the cup, they don't like to have
like the bottom lip kind of cress the cup, caress the cup with the
bottom lip, or to pour over into it. Trust me, it sounds
stupid. I know, I know, but this is one of those drinks.
Of where you have to do it that way. There's a reason to
why it's in that cup, and you're gonna find out. Savor it.
Savor it. This is one of those things that where you just take small
amounts at a time. Okay, Leo, what are you doing right now?
How are you feeling about this conversation? I mean, he feels a
little uncomfortable because it sorry, that's just gonna make yours almost spit a drink,
a little uncomfortable in the sense of like, this is a new being
and he doesn't want to have to babysit drunk echo because he remembered having to
baby sit a bunch of drunks the last time he was in here with people
from that went in the rabbit for the very first time. Yeah, and
probably remembers yan. Yeah, but he also remembers drink getting water from the
rabbit that sobered him up immediately. So after he remembers that, he's like,
that's not that big of a deal. The other thing he's thinking about
is what would a race born drink here, because he remembers distinctly the revenants
drinking what he could only assume was blood or something, and he's not sure
about that. See, it doesn't drink and he's not going he doesn't plan
on it. Are you like sitting there kind of pondering? Vous? So
I see this like you're just kind of like in your own place. Yeah,
he's just kind of like thinking and like he has this book out like
kind of tapping it. If I think I'm gonna make him think, I'm
gonna make him think, hey, professor, what what was that? What
do you want to drink? And then just him so that he starts thinking
about it, that it appears. I know the tricks this place. So
I'm like, what do you want to drink? So he doesn't even have
to say it's thinking about the coffee would appear immediately. Okay, another coffee
appears immediately. That's not what he was thinking. Not good enough? Not
good enough? What do you want in that? Or caffeine? Mm hmmmm.
I'm looking at that back wall and I'm pointing at it with ohod liquor
bottles, what do you want in it? None of that? Oh?
Oh something different? Huh. I don't drink Ryan, only the do I
There's got to be something on the menu. It's a big menu. That's
actually what I was pondering about, but I don't know what. It's really
good. You like it, it's good, right, yeah, exactly.
Another segue to that one is the mohe though. That is a that is
a key one as well. That's a good one to go off of that
one. It's a moh though if you like that refreshing thing. Some of
the names are ringing bells faintly from Izzy, but yeah, I don't have
the taste memory to go with it. And the only thing that Izzy would
probably get would have been G and T's d probably made them for her at
home. Yeah, So yeah, I don't know. I was I was
like, even whiles he's talking about that, I'm still thinking more like what
would more or less undead drink? Yeah, So when you're thinking about the
undead are you're thinking about it like you have your little notepad out and you're
like, oh, it seems like they were drinking this, and you're like
taking notes about that a little bit of that, and then like pausing and
thinking more like what do I drink? Now? Yeah? What do I
drink? Like? Do I need to eat anymore? Like? I'm pretty
sure I do, because like my body is still alive. But it's fucked
up, like, yeah, do I you know, need to survive on
human blood? Now when you're thinking about this, are you thinking about it?
Is it bothering you to think about it like this? Like are you
worried that you might have to suck some blood? Or is it just kind
of like No, he gave up long time ago like that, that doesn't
bother anymore, Right, that's part of why you avoided it for so long.
So he's just like, well, I wonder not even bothered. Amazing,
I love it. Okay, nothing appears before you see. Okay,
I nudge, I nudg you echo, I lean in. It was this
one time when I was here a long time ago, a rabbit came in
the door, right, and he was experiencing this whole process. And I
knew going into this that the minute of that person left the door, they
weren't gonna remember anything. And what got into my brain of where this was
a good idea. But I stroked up a conversation with this person, right,
and we started just talking the small talk about the towns and where he's
from, and he starts speeling off about like oh, this place is crazy
and I'm learning all these It was basically this weird magical puberty thing that he
was going to spelling off on me, and I convinced some to try a
Canadian mohito. He's like, oh know what that is? And I'm like,
well, let me get you on. And what I did was that
I imagined in my head a glass of moose piss with a pine cone in
it, and so it appeared and I just pass it on to this guy,
right, this new guy right, and he smells it and he's instantly
like, oh, it's dron like it's foreign, and he chucked I should
you not? He chugged the whole thing back. I thought you a sip.
No, he took the whole thing back and plopped it out of the
county. He's like, I don't know if I like that. I was,
what's that phrasing? Tried mose? Apparently you can stomach it. So
I'm trying to hold in my laughter so hard. I'm drunk as fun and
so it's just like this whole little layer. But that was that was That
was a different time. You are an awful person. It was a spur
of the moment. It was a rough It was one of my rough days.
Here, But yeah, this place, this, this place, that
goo can be. It can be a warm blanket, it can definitely be
a warm blanket on a very cold night, but also with that a treacherous
one. So if anyone asks you for a Canadian moh, you know,
I don't recommend it, dear, I consider myself very lucky that these I
haven't been moose piss. I assume it's a wide menu. It's a wide
menu. Not have a menu that wide. That's probably why they don't print
it. Echo it's crazy, So why why are you not? This is
fun? It was fun. It was fun. I don't I don't regret
the moment that I had in here. I regret the reasons. Hm hmm.
Yeah. I try to keep touch with people around this place and stuff
like that. But you know, when you kind of have to disconnect yourself
from that world, you have to kind of rip off the entire bandage,
right, you can't keep paces. It's kind of like Quinn's smoke and then
all of a sudden, you know your smoke of friends, don't you don't
hang out. It's the same. I guess you don't even know what's smoking?
Really, what do you know? Like what what's transferred over? You
don't want to ask him, like how much you know about reality? Does
that make any sense? Like you know what I mean? Like it's so
we're talking to you about this, I mean because like you So, it's
like watching It's like watching a young kids experiencing everything for the first time.
It's fascinating the fuck out of me. She mhm. Have you ever read
a book over and over and over or watch the same movie a lot to
the point where you I watched Lord of the Rings unhealthy amount of times.
Yeah, yeah, and geez my Lord of the Rings. Okay, so
you you you so you've you've jumped into this world on a single track of
whatever. Again, that's right, it's like whatever is the experience basically you,
that's all you know, and that that tracks you fascinating. It's a
bit more complicated than that, but well, I bet, I bet absolutely.
It's it's like the when you watch watch a movie. You don't get
the smells or the tastes, but you know the plot. Okay, okay,
yeah, okay, now I get I get it, all right,
I get it. So you've seen it, but you never okay, one
sense, one sense isn't key, but the rest of the okay, man,
you got a world to explore. Now, my god, you haven't
done anything. You haven't slept, you haven't really eaten. Really. Oh
my god, you're gonna love food. You're gonna love food. I can
tell Izzy love the good meal. The finer the better. My god.
I used to cook in this mean topster the line. I washed ata sauce
all over it, ground salt and pepper, and it was seared so that
it was just like brutal black on the outside, but like really raw on
the inside, high temperature. She loved that. Your friends, yeah,
we were. She was. She was one of the few that got in
I'm a tough I'm a tough egg to crack, but when everyone tries to
keep pressing at the top of the bomb of the egg, they never break
it. She was the one that came in sideline with a hammer and something
not right. She was so funny, so funny, just that dry,
witty humor that you don't see in a lot of people. So good.
The worst part about it was sometimes I felt like a one side relationship or
friendship, I should say, where she knows so much about me. Profession
obviously the profession did that. But I didn't really know that much about her.
She was that's that comedic wit. She was so good at deflecting the
questions. Right, let me try to get something about her. She'd turned
into a joke and put it back on you, And I feel kind of
bad. I never got to really know her about it. Yeah, that's
a good thing. I don't know about that. I don't know. Makes
it feel like she carried all the weight. She had a lot of weight
on her shoulders. Way of a patience myself in African and Aura, I
would have been willing to share that load. Yeah, you're liking that drink?
You want something else? So different? Or are you getting little tipsy?
I gotta be careful. You gotta be a chaperone here now. Mind
you, When you leave the building, life's better. But we got while
you're here. You might as well indulge a little bit, right, So
maybe want a time try something. Maybe we can go something small, something
real small, and then work her way up. And I want something more
dainty. You ever done the dainty thing? That's not an easy thing.
I get it, but you might like it. It's you because it's you
now, think I'm running through in my head what he's just said and trying
to fit it in with with the ideas I've had of her and the idea
that she had of her. And I'm I'm starting to feel buzzed because this
is a lot very quickly, and I'm torn between just pissing myself, laughing,
and crying because this is a weird, overwhelming sensation she's going through.
It's not like I feel. I don't think she can hide it. To
be honest with you, I think everything is on her face. I don't
know if she's learned how to do that yet, so it's probably super readable.
However, before we continue, meanwhile, during this conversation, yeah,
I gotta ask you some questions THEO, how are you feeling during mister Miller's
telling of his relationship with Izzy? Is not happy about that? I didn't
think so. So we had a little bit of private dialogue. So I'm
going to ask you some of these questions again out loud. Is he feeling
jealous about this conversation? Oh yeah? Oh yeah? And how does he
feel about the situation in general? He's got a savor so he can be
his again. And after thinking that that line, He stands up, paps
the counter, gets his G and T, and sets it next to him
on the other's chair, and then goes into the back room. Okay,
now I had you roll something, and I need to know in this moment,
and you must be honest with me in this moment. Does THEO want
to hurt Brian? No? Okay, that would go against what's needs to
be done. Perfect, Please continue to the back room. Meanwhile, Brier
and Beth, Yeah, okay, So do you ride the toad? No,
that's rude. That's my friend. Why would I fucking ride the toad?
Sometimes you ride your friends. I don't know where you come from,
but uh huh, well you know, No, Harold, doesn't yourself get
rid? And AnyWho tell me about yourself? Well, what do you want
to know? Can you like read minds or something? No? Why?
And even if I could, I couldn't do it here. That'd be pretty
les. No, I can't fly, can you? No? Not really?
Flying is a dumb power anyway. Yeah, do you have like laser
vision? No? You no, but I wish I did. Why laser
vision is also dumb power? That's your opinion? Well, you can't use
it in the real world, everyone's going to see lasers coming out of your
eyes. You get arrested and put down so fast a sleeper would be on
you like nothing, Yeah, like a sleeper. What's a sleeper? You
don't know what a sleeper is? You know they come and take care of
well, I know. Do you know what a sleeper is? Yeah,
of course I know what a sleeper is. I just made the reference and
then explain it to me. You don't know what a sleeper is, do
you? All right? You give me another drink and I'll tell you what
a sleeper is mine. What do you want another one of those? Do
I have to go back to the bar? Can I look at the table
and they will appear? Yeah, it'll appear. So I get one for
her and then I get one for myself too. Ah. So when you're
thinking of it, though, are you thinking two up to for me?
Or are you thinking like one for me and one for her, one for
Beth and one for me. Okay, so the one for Beth does not
appear, just the one for you. Then I'm going to slide it over
to that. Yeah. Great, and then I'm going to think about myself
getting one and one will look there for you. Yeah, okay, all
right. So you know, sleepers they're like you know, they ghostbusters.
They come in and take care of anybody that's being too loud that might scare
the rabbits. Don't want a scene, like are there any around right now?
And I'm just going to stay in the room. Oh no, they're
not allowed in here? Are you kidding me? Nobody would come in here?
What about like, uh out there though? And I motioned towards the
door, give me out there. I don't know where you're from, okay,
yeah, full disclosure. I'm new at this. Yeah I noticed.
Yeah, okay, well at least I'm honest, are you though? Totally?
Obviously? I don't yeh Joe and Mary? Your mom and dad?
So who started with? Oh yeah, I did well, detective Detective Brier,
I mean airiss. Yeah. I try to come up with something there.
I just couldn't bath. Sorry, I just can you explain to me
what sleepers do? Why they show up? Her face softens a little bit,
and she puts her drink down, and she dangles her feet more like
a child a little bit. You know. They if somebody is out of
line, they take care of it. It's too dangerous for the rabbits to
know we exist. Hey, you gotta keep it quiet. You got to
keep it down. You got to not use your real name in here.
You gotta follow the rules. If you don't follow the rules, they come
and take care of it. It's your name, not really Beth. No,
why don't you have like a cool name, like, because you don't
pick your own name. Usually it's usually what other people call you in the
bar, and then it just sticks, you know, and people just started
calling you Beth. Well, yeah, it's it's based off of some stupid
horror show or movie or something. There's like a creepy girl named Beth.
So they just started calling me Beth because I look like a child. It's
not very fun, but it's my name. Well, people kind of assholes.
Yeah, I like you too. So you're the one that they've been
talking about. Oh what do you mean? She just looks at you.
Her expression does not change. Is talking about me? Particularly me? Maybe
I was wrong or like the whole group, And then I'm gonna motion towards
the bar, towards all of them. Yeah, I guess the whole group,
though there's some missing, right, Yeah, I noticed then or like
waving if you Yeah you can actually because you're you're super sober and you're you're
awake. Yeah you can notice. So what do I see? What's the
mood I see between these two? The tension very I would say it's they're
having a serious conversation, but there's no animosity between them anymore like there was
that before. Yeah, but they seem to be, at least from Beth,
you're not getting any kind of Do I notice that they're starting the same
drink? Yeah? Absolutely, Okay you can check then, yeah, okay,
I got an idea. So I'm like, hey, Briar, like
I lean away from Echo and I imagine a coaster with a note written on
it. What does the note say If they don't know the drink, that's
your fuel or that that's your bargaining chips. So like, for example,
because you can make up a drink in your mind, and if they really
like it, don't tell them what the drink is because then they can make
it themselves. So if they really like that drink, you use that as
an ammunition. It's like, right, I really like that. What is
that? It's something I know about? It's like we got to tell me
what whoa what would it cost to know what that drink is? So I
send a little message, you know, if they don't know that, If
they don't know the drink, that's your ammunition. And I just hear you
should probably have a coaster when you're in this bar. You want to keep
the carris clean. And I just add it to her and tap the top
so she reads it. I'll read it quickly as I put it down,
and I give them like a knowing glance, thank you, no problem,
And I just I'm no on my glass and I lean back into echoing whatever
we were talking about, we're back to that. Do I remember hearing about
the cleaners? Oh god, I think it has been mentioned outside of this
bar. Yes, I think THEO has said the cleaners are coming. So
you can roll for me if you want, or I will give you the
benefit of the doubt because I think Theo's mentioned it. Yeah, Dan just
said theohau So yeah, you do remember. So I'll lean in a little
bit to Beth. What are cleaners? Are they different than sleepers? We
don't call them that here. Pretty that's the same thing. Yeah, that's
the same thing. They just have a different different name in different areas,
but yeah, we cleaner sleepers, same thing. Rangers, you know rangers.
Yeah, I just have different names in different places. So they like
bad guys. I don't know, not really. I mean, I guess
it depends in your view of bad. They just keep the peace in fact,
so they're like police officers of this and I just motion around the Lucky
Rabbit. Yeah, yeah, I guess you could say that. You know,
occult Paladins MM play D and D Yeah, I do, actually do
you? Yeah, I did a little bit. I haven't found a good
group here that likes to play it. So oh well, there's a there's
a group here that plays in the Lucky Rabbit every every Tuesdays. No shit,
do they need like another person? Absolutely, if you want to come
play, I'll let them know. Okay, what class do you play?
Well, you know, I like Elf high Elf, but you know I'm
willing to play whatever. I should have seen that, so okay, okay,
yeah, but I like to play like something that's really doesn't make sense,
so I can really make some things up. Okay, so like a
Bard, yeah high elf Bard. Okay, all right, I'll let them
know. Okay, is there anything you want to know about me, Beth.
Uh, well, if you're asking about the cleaners, I assume that
you're the ones they've been talking about, you know, at the end of
the world and all that. Yeah, and I slump a little bit onto
the table. Yeah, you know, the world just might be over.
So maybe find someone else for Thursdays just in case. Backup plan tuesdays?
Okay, oh too, you have cheap down there you go. You seem
a little stressed about this now that we're talking about it. Can I help?
Well, like, how could you help? I don't know what's your
problem? I like narrow my eyes at her because she's smiling. Now you
can tell there's like an exchange about to occur. Yeah, she's the whole
like distrust of everyone that Brier Maids is creeping in. I mean, I
don't really know that you could help, are you right? I probably couldn't.
Can you like reverse time or you know, make sure I was never
born? Is that something? She looks down at her drink and then looks
back up at you. You gotta be careful what you are willing to trade.
I mean it's a joke. I mean, I guess you know in
some ways though, it's not really you know, maybe I'm kind of serious.
Yeah I know, and so can everybody else in here. So what
are you supposed to do? Come in here and pretend to be somebody else?
Like you can't be yourself. You gotta pretend to be some sort of
like elitist version of yourself sort of. Yeah, that's a good way to
survive. It's one way to survive. It's supposed to protect us. But
like you can't actually get help here. You can get help here, you
just have to be careful about what you're willing to trade and who are you
getting helped from. See that guy and I'm gonna point to the hawker,
Oh yeah, I have this ring, right, he wants it. But
he wasn't fully honest with me. Oh of course, well he's you know,
he just wants your things. So like there's like this this air of
distrust in this entire establishment. Yeah, everybody's pretending to be something they're not.
We all can't use all real names, like this is not I'm gonna
tell I'm gonna tap back, go like I was just saying, going to
the bathroom, So I'm gonna go to the bathroom. I just have a
call I gotta make it any Oh yeah, yeah, okay, so there's
an air of distrust. Yeah, you can't like, this is not a
safe haven? Is a pretend to be something you're not haven and to get
free alcohol? Have you run into any one of us out where you're from?
She kind of lowers her voice a little bit, Probably be talking about
this. Do I see anybody that I recognize from my hometown? Know where
I live now? No? But like, what's to say? This is
not like some sort of psychosis and maybe I'm just like strung out on the
street, like super high on PCP or something. Oh, that's possible.
You could be, but you're not. And also, trust me, this
is a safe haven compared to running into one of us out there. Okay,
Well, then what do you suggest if I need to find help?
How do I get it here? What's the nature of your problem? End
of the world? Got it? Okay? But what do you need to
help you solve that problem? Oh that's a good question. Well, there
you go. You figure what that is, and then you figure out what
you're willing to trade, and then you come and have a discussion with somebody.
And if the person you talk to can't help you, then you find
somebody else. What do you mean trade? Well, everything comes at a
cost, Brier. So there's like no sort of money system here. It's
just you know what you're willing to right raid, Yeah, a bartering system.
Yeah. Okay. So you know you could say offhandedly as a joke,
but deep down, secretly sort of maybe mean it. Say something like,
could you maybe make it that I was never somebody might be able to
grant that wish, and then you've offered it. You gotta be careful with
shit like that. It could be something like your ring or whatever. It
could be a magical item. It could be you owe me a favor.
You know, we're all from different places, as you know, some of
us need certain things that don't exist in our realms anymore. Whatever you want
to call it realities. I'm going to lower my voice and get closer to
her. She leans in. Do you know anybody who could stop a time
loop? She leans back and looks up at you. She looks a little
frightened of you. You are the group they've been talking about. You're the
reason the rabbit's dying. Well, I'd like to point out, is THEO
did he go to the bathroom where Oh no, THEO went into the back
room. So we'll say probably, just because of timing and how long their
conversation was, it's probably. You point to him as he's getting up and
walking into the back room. You see crazy hair over there. Yeah,
he fell in love and then decided to fuck everybody's world up. Okay,
so if you really want to point fingers, it's him and someone named Adisa
Bello. Is that a real name? Oh? Hell yeah, it's a
real name. I'm not protecting her anymore. I think I can help you
come back in two hours. Do I need to bring anything? What's the
most valuable thing you have? Brier? Oh, you're gonna do like I'm
the devil and I'm gonna take your soul kind of thing. I don't want
your soul. Okay, that's good. Is that the most valuable thing that
you have? No, honest, they probably have to think about it a
little bit. Yeah, if you were so quick to trade it, it's
probably not the most valuable thing that you have. I'll find something worthwhile.
Does it have to be for me or can it be like a group collaboration.
It could be a group collaboration. I'm okay with that. Okay,
it's gotta be something good, something juicy, you know, good trauma,
good secret. I'm great with those. Information is also worthwhile. It doesn't
have to be something creepy like a soul. What exactly can you help with?
For right? I know some people that can maybe do some scrying for
us some excuse me some what some scrying? You play D and D you
know, look into a glass orb I can kind of see what's going on.
They can say, am I on this person that you gave me the
full name of? Let's be real though, like that seems like hocus pocus
magic. I didn't know that was actually a thing that people could do.
So yeah, it's actually, oh sweetie, yeah it's actually a thing.
Okay, Well I're in for a treat. So that's why we don't use
real names here, because names have power. Names help you find people.
Sometimes all you need is a name. Don't forget that. Well, I
hope you can find I can at least get you some information. If it's
as crazy as you say it is, I'll probably able to find something.
But you gotta you gotta give me something too. Everything comes at a cost.
Season for free but you can. Wow, you can't guarantee that you'll
save the world though. Just get me info. Well, we'll see.
We'll see what the info is. If it's big enough, then maybe all
right. Well I'll be back in two hours. Okay, might still be
around here, but I won't bother you, So I'll get up and grab
the coaster and my whiskey sour. Do you like this drink? Yeah,
it's it's really good. I quite like it. What is it? Oh,
it's just something that I've had, you know, she smiles. I'll
talk to you in a couple hours, your fast learner, Brier, I
mean airiss. You call me whatever you want. That's why I just turn
around walk away from her. Amazing. Do you head to the bar where
those two are? Do you head to the back where THEO went? I
head to where Echo is. Okay, amazing. As you walk away and
towards Echo Echo, you can probably see Briars walking towards you now, and
the little girl that she was talking to he's gone. Just look across the
room for a little bit, just like shape my head and look at the
drink and look at the color of my hair, like remembering that kid and
his like just strange seeing something. It's an unfamiliar color. When you look
back to where she was sitting, there is now a paper cream in her
place. That intrigues me. I go back and grab the paper. Crean,
do you look behind you? I assumed you were being all like super
cop and like walking away without looking. Okay a couple. Yeah, you
see the paper creen. So I'm gonna walk back to Echo. Is there
anything written on it? I'll look at you. You have a paper green,
there's nothing written on it. Okay, my granny made this for me,
and I'm just gonna set it down at the bar between Echo and I.
I made a new friend. Yeah, oh what was that about?
She? Uh she might be able to help help Apparently, i'm'll lower my
voice. Everyone's talking about us and how the world's gonna end, and uh,
you know, I don't think it's good. No, maybe not,
but she's gonna help. She said to come back in two hours, but
I need to trade with her. So I got to think of something good.
Ooh, careful, what is she? I don't know. She said
something about D and D and then she also, you know, knows people
who can look into like balls and see things you know, like like the
hocus Pocus, like, oh, looking to this magic crystal ball? Do
I remember I recognize what that could be. Sorry, anytime you try to
access easy, you just you can roll forainst Dizzy's knowledgeable. Oh no,
clue what that is? Okay, So you could be really helpful if Jazz
was here. Just look around the bar, the doors, h to the
back's where's Brian? Where's theogo? I mean I saw theogo back there,
but where's where Brian go? Bathroom? I think? And I'm just staring
at the door and it's kind of tiny little flickers of the other rooms,
and I really want to go through that door. I'm not invited. So
oh, I'm gonna stand up and look at Echo like I'm gonna point at
the door. Do you want to come with me? This place? It
has opinions. You might not want to go where you're not invited. Well,
apparently this place is dying because of us too. That's a fun fact
I got because of because of him. Apparently we're just leaving a trail of
destruction behind us. I have a feeling we're allowed in more places than you
might think. I think that's a great place to take a break. Holy
shit, Oh boy, yeah, oh oh oh oh, well I didn't
expect you guys to come here this episode. That's all I got to say
about that. What was that? That was amazing? Oh hello, all
right, we're gonna go take a break. This is your cue. Everybody
also to go ahead and stretch your legs, get a get a drink,
go to the bathroom, wash your piss mittens, and we will return shortly.
Hello, we're back. Surprise, Hello, we have returned. I
hope you washed your piss mittens. Pist mittens in the chat please story mitt
story mit. Okay, we're gonna dive right back in. Welcome back,
well, thank you, Welcome back to you too. We're gonna dive right
back in two. The two of you at the bar ceo is still in
the back. Oh my music, Hold on, there we are. I
was right with the world groove moment. Do you want to sorry? Do
you want to come with me? You want to wait for Brian? Or
I'll just stare at the door and look at my drink and I can It's
not like I can hear is he? But I can remember how she might
have wanted to react, or just like little flickers of what her impulse would
be, and what is her impulse? Her impulse would be to do the
thing and ask forgiveness later. How do you feel about that idea, do
the thing and ask for forgiveness later. I think if you'd ask me an
hour ago, I would not like that at all. That seems like a
good way to get us in trouble. It seems a good way to getting
us off the course that we need to be on to sort this out.
Okay, but changed just the drink or was it something else? Was it
Brian's story? A little bit of the story, Yeah, A little bit
of realizing that I watching something from the outside is not the same as living
it, and sometimes a risk might be worth it. What did you think
of that story? By the way, he served piss animal piss to a
stranger and thought it was funny. I thought that was hilarious. You thought
it was funny too? Yeah? Yeah. Some of the other things stuck
out and made me uncomfortable. What question? Too uncomfortable? When he said
that he didn't know much about her, and that echoes theos has said,
and it's just tickling at the back of my brain that maybe she was right
about what about herself? Do you want to elaborate on that, It's okay
if you don't want to. I don't want to. No, just some
of the some of the negative things we think about ourselves can be true,
and I can't figure out if that's right or not. Now I have a
question for you. Are you thinking that about yourself? Or are you thinking
that about her? The separation's difficult because she's the only frame of reference I've
got. You know, a character in a movie, a character in a
book, but there was no person reading the book, if that makes sense.
So it's it's it's the only emotional and logical and experience. It's it's
like looking at a film of yourself that you don't remember filming and trying to
figure out why, why you're doing the things you're doing, and whether you
approve of it. It's it's very strange. And especially Brian seems nice.
Is these memories of him, not that one, but the nice ones.
I feel that again feels a strange word. But when he was talking about
her sense of humor, that kind of dry wit, and and that memory
is there for me, and seeing how much joy that brings him, I'm
kind of like, maybe she's not as bad as she thought she was.
Okay, but then he says that he doesn't know things about her and that
that makes me think maybe it's the other thing. And there's only one part
of that I would ever want. She spent so long hating herself. Sorry,
my cat, just like all right, and I'm ready sorry she spent
so much time doing what hating herself and fighting fighting what she thought she could
be. Oh well, that's a tough place to be. And please roll
for me for you, yes, private did that go? Oh I'm looking
at the wrong fucking thing. Okay. You see that number though, and
that is good for you. So I will let you role play out how
you kind of overcome or put these complicated feelings aside. It can be detachment,
it can be whatever you'd like. And I believe Brier is going to
walk into the back right like Brier's like, you're gonna come with me?
And you were kind of like yeah, because you know, shoot first,
asked questions later, Yeah, I'm gonna pick up hell little the paper crane.
Oh okay, you're gonna take it with you, okay, mm hmm,
And I'll grab up by the arm as she's walking though. Okay,
just in case, maybe stay behind. You're putting me stay hind you No,
no, I uh, I mean it's gonna be fine. I'll go
first, and then if I blow up, then you know, just take
over for me. Then blow up. I don't really want to, but
you know, no, no, no, no, that can't be you
know anymore. Well it's not. But you know, like when I blow
up anyway, So god right, okay, And but then I do.
I stop and I grab her arm gently. But if you don't want to
go, you don't have to come. If you want to, just you
know, do your little tour around the world with Brian with drinks, that's
fine too, it's up to you. And put the drink down. Okay,
that's good. And I'll turn around and I'm gonna walk through the door.
As you are walking through the door, I just need you to roll
real quick one more time, both of us. Uh nope, just just
briar. Oh yeah, okay. As you're walking through the door, you
bump into somebody that's leaving fairly tall, gentleman, dark hair, pale skin.
He's wearing a black pea coat and he just walks out rushes by oh,
excuse me, and then continues to leave. I want to Can I
grab his arm? Yes? You can? I want to grab his arm.
You, sir, are not excused? What is your name? Hello?
It's nice to meet you. I have to go somewhere now. Is
it's really impolite to not answer someone's question, and it's really impolite to grab
someone's arm and prevent them from leaving. I don't know you do? I
hey, hey, and I'm gonna let go of his arm. You ran
into me. I mean, I don't know if you remember this, and
I apologized, excuse me, I'm sorry, miss uh. I just rolled
to see if Izzie would have recognized this. PS. You do not.
I don't recognize him either. No, you do not. I'm gonna I'm
gonna watch him leave. Okay, so you look and then you just don't
say anything after that exchange. Does he just turn and walk away from me?
Or is he still looking looking at you? Because he said you know?
And I apologized, I'm sorry, excuse me, miss You are forgotten,
sir, but I just you know there's a social bar. Oh well,
I'm I'm not looking for that, but thank you would excuse me?
Looking for what, just become a prostitute. No to socialize. I'm sorry,
Yeah, that sounds a prostitute. No, no, no, I
didn't think that's what's happening. Yeah, sorry, it's that's that's all right,
It's really not what's happening here. And I do apologize, but I'm
I have to go have a good night. Why don't you buy me a
drink to make it up for me? I'm again, miss, I'm you're
not my type. I'm sorry. I don't know any other way to say
this, and I really have to go. I am on a I'm short
for time, but I will happily tap on the bar for you, and
the bar will get you whatever you like. I just I look at him,
and I do that Robert de Niro thing for meet the Fokkers right points
at him. I'm not interested in you either, and then I walk.
I try to go through the back door. I'm not trying to look so
confused. Do you look back at him? Echo, Yeah, so I'll
be confused. What's just happened? And I don't know who to please right
now? Yeah, he looks really confused and kind of looks to you like,
what is with her? Like what just happened. She's having a weird
day. I'm so sorry. That's that's all right. You know you have
a good day now, and ye, thank you. And he leaves and
I follow her. I'll see echoes behind me, and yeah, so you're
watching him leave, right, Yeah, okay, you can go ahead and
roll again if you'd like. Fifty nine. Yes, he just walks out
the door when he leaves. When he opens the door, it looks like
your street. However, that strikes you was odd. It's definitely half more.
That guy is trying to get his name in the place where you don't
use names. Yeah, but sometimes people slip up. What is how do
you yet to be like that? You just er? I used to like
try really hard to please everybody. Now you be quiet, you sit down,
You say yes to too many things, you do too much for other
people, and considering that stuff might not last much longer, I don't seem
much of a point. That's like a gut punch. And I pushed past
her and go straight up through the door. Is that a gut punch?
Because you feel that way, and now you realize that you only feel that
way because it's Briar's feelings. It's partly that, yeah, it's partly a
realization that the end goal of all this, the whole save the world thing,
was never my choice. I don't even know if I had have a
choice, but it's well, where you're from, it is understood that it's
necessary. It's necessary. But then all I've got experience wise in my head
is that that responsibility towards what needs to happen, and is these memories of
trying to be liked, of trying to be what's good for other people,
of throwing herself in front of cars to help other people. And I need
to find out balance. That has to be a balance, And right now
I've had enough booth to take a risk after these two things, I would
say, when you walk through this door, you're completely sober. Brier,
you walk through the door as well, right after you watch the sky leave.
Okay, same if you had any buzz or anything. You are now
completely sober as you walk through this door. As you two walk through the
door to head to the back room, Brian, you walk out of the
bathroom and you're like, where did everybody can go? Because they're all gone.
However, you do see that the back door which normally remains it looks
like a wall. If you're not invited, you do see that the door
is open for you. It's a door you've been through before many a time.
I'm sure, Okay, i'd probably go through it then, okay,
because see if they went that way. Yeah, so you guys go into
a back room where THEO is THEO are you sitting? Uh? If there
was someone here already seated, I would have sat. There was nobody here,
if there if there's like a table that's set or like out, I
probably have sat. Like with the end like you've got the long Chesterfield couches
that kind of wrap around the entire room and then there's a coffee table in
the middle and it's just a private room. Said, there's like a TV
up on the wall, but it's there's nothing on it or anything. Yeah,
I probably would have sat if no one was in here and like I
knew we were invited, or like I was like, hey, meet me
in the back room. Yeah okay, Like so I would have sat down,
made myself comfortable and probably been like I'd like another coffee. Yeah.
If anything, I'm just sipping at a coffee back there. What are you
thinking about Uh, we need to get answers. Okay, I need answers.
I need to know what the next step is. I think I know
the next step, but Lee has been trying to lead me. So I
need to talk to Lee. Get this stuff figured out. Okay, you
roll? Can you roll for me? Yeah? Private? Public's fine?
Okay eighty seven. You wait for about five minutes, and then your friends
come in. Brian and Echo come in and then Brian's not short behind them.
Good. So, uh who were meeting? I'm not sure yet.
Not Usually how invitations always were. It goes straight up to the You're on
a couch right yep in Chesterfield. I sit on the couch right next to
him and just kind of I walk around the room and start touching things.
What are you? What's around? Uh? Okay, you've got the television,
and you've got the Chesterfields and the coffee table. That's pretty much it.
It's pretty empty. I'm gonna turn I'll like run my finger on the
wall and drum on things I shouldn't and then I'm gonna turn on the TV.
Roll for me. Please like I see you message. I'm just kind
of I probably got like a small smile to myself, like waiting for something
to get fucked up because of this. Uh, what are you thinking about,
Briar? I'm thinking like I wonder if they have the same kind of
TV that we do. Guess what they don't. You turn the TV on
and you see yourself. Is it like a camera of myself? Or is
it like it looks like a camera of yourself but you're not here, You're
in the sleepy bean. Gonna cross my arms and just watch it. Is
anything interesting happening? I'm just making coffees. You're making coffee your It seems
to be like a day that you maybe vaguely remember, just any other day.
There's no volume, the volumes muted, so unless you turn it up
like I would turn it up. Okay, all right, you turn it
up, and probably the most horrific thing you could imagine happens. You hear
your inner dialogue, the things you think to yourself that you think nobody else
can hear. It's playing on the telly for all of your friends to hear
as well. What are you thinking about? What you're thinking about? I'll
tell you because this isn't this isn't Brier, this is Blair, and this
is after her encounter with a certain hymn. Oh hey, oh my god,
he's so hot. Oh my okay, stop, it's play cool.
He just you know, he gets this every day. Just do you not
smile? Don't be weird about it? Oh my good? How can you
be like this? How can you like? How can a human look like
him? I just need to like Okay, it's fine, Okay, he's
coming over, Okay, okay, ahead, all right Jack. Then they
have a dialogue. I'm gonna keep my arms crossed and I'm just gonna like,
let it play. I'm gonna look at all of them like a small
child watching Saturday morning cartoons. What the is this? Faho? Is there
like a THEO channel? And I'm gonna start changing the dial. Okay,
I need some roles from anybody who was maybe intently watching that channel real quick,
So everybody just go ahead and roll. I think I probably wasn't because
I remember that day. Ah yeah, I know. Woh double okay,
so THEO then I will say you notice this. Then as as she's getting
ready to go change the channel, you hear the man ask if she's seen
Joe, And I don't think you know that. I don't think any of
you know that they were looking for a man named Joe. Yeah, okay,
oh no, Joe Williams is one of the names on on the reel
of the people that were missing in the Sleepy Bean. Yeah, Joe Williams.
Way, oh yeah, you see him asking have you seen Joe?
Like you're you know, and then you might see her go oh yeah,
like he's a regular, and then she switches the channel. Yeah, and
we're going to go to mister Miller. But this doesn't have to be an
embarrassing moment because you rolled to twenty two, which means this is a moment
you're proud of. This is a good moment. So what is this?
And yes, we can hear your inner dialogue. I love this room.
This is on a TV mm hmmm, a moment that I'm proud of,
or a happy moment, a good moment. It's doubles, so it can
be whatever you want, but it's not. It's it's not embarrassing because you
succeeded on your role. Okay. Probably this really old lady that I used
to kind of half sart castle make fun of. I walked her across the
street one night and she's like thank you, and she give me a pat
on the back and I'm like, yeah, I'm being a good person now
all that. So you're helping a woman across the street and your thought is,
yeah, this is like I'm being a good person now. This is
new life life. Okay, all right, all right? If you and
me, I would reach out and kind of squeeze your arm, you look,
oh, like, how cute. It was a good day. Turn
the TV off, okay and just turn around so like they can just watch
ship that we'd say and do without Why is that? Why am I on?
Why is Brian on this that was being watched? You know, the
whole problem with everything and then knowing that we are the problem that whole business
is this just like an elaborate candid camera without Bolly. I didn't realize that
show what They rebooted it with Betty White at some point. That's right,
and it only shows whoever is in the room. Do you any of us
know that though Jazz has walked in and said that Jazz is now standing in
the doorway. Hello Jazz, Hello, you're back as hee. Yes,
good news, I hope maybe maybe maybe you've come to chat and yeah,
figure out some things before we attempt more drastic means and see if you've learned
anything. Oh and Lee, you know that whole business. He has not
contacted us yet. She and Okay, sorry, I've still not met them.
Sorry, I correct at the same time, So Jazz, a new
friend told me that where to blame for a lot of things. Yeah,
it seems that way, John, we fix it. I don't know.
There's some sort of ritual. Is that right for you? That's correct enough
that I've filled them? Okay, partially wait for a specific day to do
that. Then. I don't have a clock, but I think it's a
few days from now. Okay, well days And I pointed her, like
your time, but she's she's already done it, right, that's what she
initiated it it fails, we have to see it and close it. Okay,
well, how are you going to do that? Do you know how
to get to grand theory? I know how to get myself there. Getting
the rest of them is a little more challenging, it seems. Okay,
Well, I don't know how to help you with that. I can't leave
the bar, and I can't give you anything. Yeah, can leeve?
They can leave? Right? Yes? She might be able to go with
you, but I don't know if she will the road do Grand theory is
here? Is it not? We haven't heard. We haven't heard anything from
Grand Theory. I heard how long? Uh? Sorry, Hi, that's
that's okay? Hello echo three three days? Maybe our time? So that's
like I don't know how long in loop time, which one for me about
eight years? Yeah, well they must be losing their fucking minds. Yeah,
what what are you know? Seems like the bars of buzz with it.
But like, are the sleepers coming for us? Yeah? I already
mentioned that the cleaners? What I told you? I did you know him?
Yeah, I kind of. I'm learning that I might or might not,
like the cleaners are coming, and then we're all like, okay,
what does that mean? Okay, so the cleaners, they're a big group.
They're going to come and take care of everything that's a mess, and
by take care of I mean gone from existence. Definitely don't want that to
happen. If we can make that happen, yeah, okay, that is
my goal. Well it's my goal too, and it's the cleaner's goal as
well, but we would prefer that you do it rather than the cleaner.
Do it, otherwise none of you will have ever existed, and we don't
want that. Yes, I might be other rate per cushions as well for
you as a result. Yeah, well, my bar is dying because we're
we're connected. We're a hive, you know, we can't survive without another,
and we can't get contact with grand theories. Bar good disease. It's
spreading. It took her a long time to get out with that. I
think it's locked. Yeah, it's stuck. That's where she did the ritual,
right, So I'm assuming it's very difficult to get in. Yes,
I think I'm one of the few that can. Okay, well, you're
gonna have to find a way to punch through and then put it in finish
the ritual, or or get there before she does it and stop it.
You know, you have a couple of different options. You could, you
can't. You can't get there before it starts, that's right. Oh okay,
Hey, that's what caused this. Getting there beforehand is kind of the
whole problem. Oh shit, Yes, And I pull out my I pull
out my phone and I play the begrudgingly, but I play the voicemail for
oh no, Okay, roll a one three for me? Yeah mm hm
oh yeah yeah. Two. Hey, my wild man, You're never gonna
believe what I've done. I think I forget it, have to manipulate the
ritual. If you can get to the flat before my lecture tomorrow, I'll
show you. It's gonna be wonderful. I love you. Probably the first
time that Theo's flinched in a while, I'm so sorry. What is happening
here? She points to Echo because your voice is the same as what she's
heard on the on the voicemail, I just point to Briar. I guess
it's kind of hard to explain, but well your best talk. Well,
okay, apparently Adsa is my twin and uh man izzy with us for a
while. She was a mix of a dec in myself that I somehow created,
and this is Echo. She's from the veil, and I let her
live so that she can be herself and be whatever she wants to be.
Now, how are you in here? I was in here before. It
didn't see me. She looks really shaken for the first time. Is this
a problem? Just be the bar is sicker than I thought. It's broken
down on the outside. It looks abandoned sime with grand theory. Okay,
I sort of suspected certain beings aren't allowed in here, and now I've seen
two in one day. Great, what's the first one? So you're related
to You're related to Adisa? You're her twin? Wait two? Yes,
not like this, No, and not like you, just beings that aren't
normally allowed to walk through the door like children. You could, Yes,
you saw Beth. Beth's fine, that's been here forever. Don't worry about
that, all right, Apparently I am related to adssa bellow. Okay,
so your blood will come in handy right the Yes, Okay, that's correct.
Yes, did you know this the like this whole time, that you
related to her? Yeah? No, is this one didn't either, not
until I learned it at the same time as you. Oh. Okay,
that's kind of weird, isn't it. No, it's not really much coincidence
in the world. Kind of like give him a look, just like,
because that would be shocking to me to find something out like that a student
in my class was related to the person that essentially destroyed time. Okay,
well, yeah, we're not identical, though, I don't think I mean
clearly and I. Otherwise he would have thought and I look at THEO that
I was her and it would have been a whole thing. So yeah,
I don't know, you're how do we help? Well, I've helped.
My initial thought was you got to get to grand theory. You got to
either prevent alter the ritual if you can get there beforehand, but THEOSOS that's
not possible. The other option is, you know, finished the ritual if
you know what went wrong. But I don't know what the ritual was,
so I can't we do now? Well, at least we know most of
it. Like I tap on my book. Okay, you wrote like,
I haven't had time to look at much of what echo actually like drew out
and wrote out because that I said she knew what it was, we haven't
had time to sit down actually look at it. So I just had the
paper and like slapped it away. Okay, you don't have to roll for
me when you look at this, so yeah, I pull like yeah,
yeah, So it's it is the same symbol that you sort of kind of
remember seeing, but there are things that are different with it. There's something
different. Oh okay, like a couple of symbols off. It looks like
including eighth or e believe was not on the right. That's right, that's
right. And like when doing that, like I look at my hand and
like kind of subconsciously touch that while looking at the symbol and being different.
Okay, I think that's the first time I've actually seen the symbol on his
hand because when when that happened, is he was dealing with Yeah, blood,
he has a he has a scarred on the heel. Just grab him
by the wrist. It's like a cut. It's probably like constantly bleeding the
cut that never healed. What careful? And I I remember think back to
the bar outside that that feeling of comforting, that feeling sorry for it almost
that this all seems such a waste. How can I how long of this?
Careful? Okay, well, I don't recognize this symbol. This is
what she was doing, Lisa, some some sort of time manipulation. Clearly
Okay, she didn't tell me or didn't get the chance, but which tell
me what to do with it? I think it's so complicated. Yeah,
you're telling me, I said, you've seen this seven hundred pleasures complicated.
Yes, I've seen this it's a little different. But this is I tap
on the book, but don't open it to the page. It's a slightly
different version. It's in here. It's mine. Yes, is he before
before? Yes? Yes, I have in one of the loops. Do
I create her twice? Oh? I think that's when Ezzy started. Mhmm.
You never said she created her and then you pulled her through. No,
I think she got all through herself somehow. It must have been new.
Then, she points to Brier. Makes sense to me, mister Miller.
It's nice to have you back again. Goodness see you. How's things
been all right? All things considered? And you can help with the problem.
Well, that's why I got dragged here. I guess I appreciate it.
I didn't drag sure, okay, and it's digestions jazz. Yeah,
leave the leave the ritual with me. I'll see if I can find out
what exactly it is so we know how to how to stop it. The
only other option is to fight it head on. You know. If you
don't want to actually use our brains, then we use braun. Sorry I
was using I don't It wasn't what I true, that was yours. This
is different. This was disease. Yeah, that's what I say. This
one, so this one might actually be correct then, yeah, so I
have to figure out what this one is so that you can fix her broken
one. It looks like she fucked it up. Well, the difference is
this. I don't know why she would have done that. I'll have to
look. I'll have to ask around. There's there are definitely some chefs in
here I can ask. Yeah, I can get you copies of this and
the one in my book to compare them, but to be very careful.
She smiles at you. It's not your book, now, is it for
you? I like I clutch it harder. M M, it's mine.
M. She doesn't say anything. When can I expect those copies? You
can give them to you in a couple of minutes. Are you going to
draw them if you'd like me too, don't bother, just lay them out?
Yes, And I lay out what was that? Is there like a
photocop here in here? Yeah? My eyes? Oh, I lay out
Izzy's version because look away, what to Brian, I'm Brian. Yes,
it's first. If you don't see this, if you don't have to,
oh, magic doesn't work in here. It's fine, you're safe if they
remember it outside of here though. All right, well, I guess you
can't be too cautious, and you've dealt with this for this long and I
opened the page too. She takes a second, her eyes go completely white,
and then act normal. Yeah, I have it now. My magic
will always work. This is your place, and you're domain, well not
really mine, but sort of good enough. Little arrouge family here, you
say that, what else can I do for you? Guys? You know
what to do now, right, Well, wait for you to get some
extra things that could help. I suppose I'll try to see if I can
find out what the ritual is. But I'm sure I can ask some chefs
in here that might know why she switched the symbols and what she was trying
to accomplish. If we figure that out, then maybe we have a chance
at stopping this without any bloodshed. If you had her hair, would that
help? You mean, if the one who casts the spell was standing right
here in this room? No, but as close as we could get potentially.
Why are you asking? Just mumming eye for options? All right,
laying all our cards on the table. I appreciate it, Brier, you
might be the only one who can stop her. How there's power in blood,
you know, like her magic might not work on you. Just got
to find her first, right more, get to her. We know where
she is. I didn't realize that your warehouse and I do air quotes,
was in Grand Theory. Yes, I said as much. Pretty sure,
you just said we have to get to the warehouse. I didn't know there
was a giant magical barrier that we now have to somehow pierce to get through.
Did you think we kept not being able to get all the way to
Grand Theory? I mean to be honest, when we started all of this,
there really wasn't a lot of answers, so I didn't remember a lot
of then either in a shadow, in one of my shadows, maybe pierce
it, I'll look at potentially. Can you contry that? Wait? I
think so if I can get there, you might be able to get to
me. Then Brian and pull the rest with you. Yeah, I noticed
she was a puller, well like what he does. And I pointed THEO.
Yeah you didn't know. No, Okay, well you're you're airiss.
Your chaos magic is all over. But it really hasn't gone too well for
him so I just yeah, don't don't get caught doing that shit. A
cleaner will come and get you soon enough. I'm already on their list.
I'm not worried about me. Yeah, I'm sure you all are at this
point. If we can fix it, maybe they'll leave them alone in me.
No yet, at least are the cleaners here? She doesn't answer.
Probably how many are there? There's only ever one? I think about how
I saw the door open and I saw our town, and when Beth said,
where do you think we're all from? He's already here, isn't he?
She doesn't say anything again, Probably, and I think this is our
last shot, which is what you've said hers. Yeah, is it just
a cat and mouse game? Like if he finds us? I don't know.
To be honest, I have only ever met too in my life.
Are they good people? That is relative? Yeah? I think I want
to believe that he actually wants to let you solve the problem and he's a
rational person. Yes, that's what I want to believe. I can't leave
on lean on once. Henry just have like a theoretical question, Sure,
can they die? Yeah? No, so they're immortal sort of? You
mean, can you can probably kill one, but I've never heard of it
happening. Everything dies, but it's incredibly hard. Yeah, if it's possible
at all, trust me, you don't want to. You don't want to
fuck with a cleaner. Well, if we're able to get to grand theory
and she can pull people with me, are you able to communicate with us
at all? You probably won't be able to. So if you find things
out, if we were to head out now, that would be fairly inconvenient,
unless they were to wait until you had answers and I was to get
there. You can head out now. I know Lee can get there.
If Lee can get there, you could send them there. It's there,
that's yes, Okay, I don't think I have any time to waste.
If you want to head there, I'll send Lee after with you any information
that I find walking full like anyone from anywhere. I honestly don't know how
it works. I've never really met one before THEO. They're pretty rare.
We're missing too, but are apparently important for finishing this. So you have
to have five Oh, there's five people, five bodies. I have people
who are awoken. Ry magic doesn't work in here, so you'll have to
step outside. I'm aware I need to get a walk on. Why don't
you let her try it? Fair enough? I figured, if I know
where we're going, it might be good if I took the lead. But
if that's what you think would be best, jazz, Yeah, it is
fair enough. If I check my phone, have two hours passed? Uh?
Time isn't passing on your phone in here? Okay? Like it looks
like it's the same time. About how long have we been in here?
Anybody? No idea? Probably about an hour our time? Okay? Like
what would two hours be in here? It depends. Sometimes it's different.
You'll walk through the door, no time, I'll as we'll have passed,
walk through the door. Days have gone by, okay. Unfortunately it's something
we don't have control over. You said that the bar isn't supposed to have
preaches like this in it. Have you seen one of these before? No,
I've never seen someone from the veil. They don't usually come in bodies
though, from what I understand. But I also understand Aris gets what Aris
wants. So if Ris wants a veil in a body bag, then it
doesn't surprise me. I guess now, not even that I'm sorry about your
bar. Echo, this is your chance to be whatever you want. She's
given you a good gift. You can't only need five. And he said
it himself this no, oh, well perhaps they said it. Get going
then, everybody ready if we make it? Do you want me to take
a message to death? Yes? Tell him we're trying. And if you
get to grand theory and I don't see any of you again, thank you
for trying. Sure. I reach out kind of tentative and almost touch her
arm and let her body language dictate whether she's cool. Yeah, she's cool
with that. She'll take your hand. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll
just give it a little squeeze. I'd like to give you all something.
It'll be on the bar on your way out. Swear it and good luck.
Thank you. I'll send Beth's message along with Lee. Is that what
you're waiting for, Brian? You're not send who? Well, you're waiting
for a message from Beth, right, Yeah, I'll walk over to Jazz
and give her the paper crane. Ah. Yes, she leaves little animals
around. Yeah. She said I would meet her in two hours. She
might be able to help. Okay, I will pass any information she has.
I'm sure she wanted a fee for it, and you probably can't pay
that, but I can, Harry Old tell her was a whiskey sour.
Okay, thanks Jazz, thank you, and I'll like gently pat her shoulder
and walk out the door. For what it's worth. I'm sorry, your
bar is dying. I walk out the door. Who's left in this room
right now? I think it's just Brian and Echo, right, Okay.
I'm just smiling slightly because for once, both of them have copied me,
and that feels very strange. I'm kind of powerful. I probably have a
look around the room, just quick peruse, and then I look at Jazz
to be like, it's good seeing you again. It's good to see you
too, and don't take this the wrong way, but I hope I never
see you again. I know what did Thanks Chaz, thank you. I'd
probably walk out and just pat the side of the door on the way out.
Let's see how the bar do you linger? A little? Okay?
I point to the tv. Okay, what does yours say? She reaches
over and flicks on the television, and you see Jazz in what you can
assume is upstairs because it looks the same. The bar looks the same.
She's upstairs and she's in bed. Ah, she's just she's cuddling with her
girlfriend and they look very happy, but you cannot hear her thoughts. And
then she flicks it off. It must be nice to have someone line it
was. Yeah, I'm so sorry. Don't worry about it. We'll try
and fix it. I appreciate that before you go. We don't always get
a roadmap, we don't always get instructions of what it is that we need
to do in life. But it doesn't hurt to try. Even if you
think you're not needed, you might end up being what makes it work this
time. I guess I'm going to find out. I guess so I hope.
But do you get to see you again? Just maybe not like it?
Well, it is called the Lucky Rabbit. Good luck you too,
And I woke through the door. As you leave the Lucky Rabbit, Oh
my god, that was my cat and scared the shirt on me. As
you leave the Lucky Rabbit, there are pendants on the bar, six of
them, small tiny pendants chain with symbols for you to grab. Mm hmm.
Does mine have anything? Yeah, specifically on it? Got a tree
on it. Do they all look like this? Yep. They all have
different symbols on them. I'm just gonna put it on. You know which
one is yours? Yeah, you know which one's yours when you go to
reach for it, you know you know which symbols yours. Scott a little
yep. I pick it up and absolutely one husy for a second, just
like almost like her voice is controlling my vote, her brain's controlling my vocal
called You've got to be fucking kidding me. Mm hmmm, intriguing. I
should grab the others with them, Yeah, and grab my pendant and slip
in the pocket. Mm hmm. You've seen these before THEO previously. You've
never been gifted one, but you have seen these coming through on some of
these people you pull, you've seen a couple mmm mmm. And now you
know where they came from. Now you're at the time in the timeloop where
you know where they come from. Yep. I'm mulling through in my head
like if this is where they come from, where did hers come? Who
did hers? Who was he mm hmmm h I grab tricks and Emma's and
point to Brian's like that's for you. I'd like to protect you. There's
a pendant on the table on the bar and the end of the bar for
you, and Jazz left for you. There's also a flask for you that
you know is yours, meant for you. Okay, mm hmm. I
see him pick that up, and I know what that must feel. Isy's
version and her had had conversations about that process of cutting that off and just
picking it up. I know what that must mean. And shoot him a
look like you, okay, do you want me to take that for you?
Mmm? No, I can handle it, I can he look,
I'll put that in my pocket. Now. Is this pendent thing like a
picture one the thing in it? Uh No, it's actually just a tiny
It looks like a flattened penny, but it's gold and in it etched for
you. Is a sailing ship, a sailing ship like all okay, cool,
with like three different sales on it. And it's very tiny. Okay,
I probably look at it. I'm looking at it. I'm exam is
another kid in the bath. I'm looking at it and stuff and kind of
examine the details of it. What was it? Was this? What was
this to be? When you pick it up, you feel maybe missed of
the sea breeze on your face. It feels good, it feels safe.
It feels like an escape away from your current life. Fresh start is what
it feels. Okay, all right, uh kind of bundle up with the
chain in my hand and h I tucked out in my pocket as well.
Okay, does anybody put theirs on? Yeah? I put mine on right
away. Everybody else tucked it away, right okay, Yeah, I'm just
I'm just going on. It's it's like a repeated motions practiced. Okay,
and as you all leave the bar, does anybody else want to do anything
else before they leave? Real quick? Yeah? Okay, what would you
like to do. I'm going to go to the bar and think of a
whiskey. It's a shot of whiskey. Sure, there's a shot of whiskey
right there for you. And raise my glass a note of yours like a
crumpled piece of paper note it says thank you for trying on it. There's
a cute little drawing of a little bunny rabbit. I'll give it a guy.
Look after yourself, and just toast the Brian. I didn't get to
say goodbye to Michelle and follow the rest brier. When you're outside this bar,
are you gonna try to pull or are you gonna like? Is this
the thing that you're gonna try to do? I feel like I should,
especially if I need to do it on the other side by myself. You
gotta practice. Yeah, Okay, Now how are you doing this? And
who are you trying to pull? When you trick an emma? Okay,
I'm thinking there together. Okay, So I'm gonna go into the veil and
see if I can find a door that they might be behind. Okay,
go ahead and roll for me. Oh my goodness, yeah five. Yeah,
it's a five. Yeah. So she is able to do the no
problem in very quickly. So describe what this feels like. You just slip
into it. I feel like it's like a curtain that I can see,
but it just kind of looks like I slide behind it and it ripples away,
so it goes back to whatever you were looking at. And then once
again, I'm in the darkness and there's voices, and there's doors everywhere that
have whisked of smoke coming up from the bottom, and they're just like ghostly
doors. And the one that I'm looking for is the only one that looks
solid, and so I instinctive lead ahead right for it. Okay, a
basic white door. It's not fancy or anything, but the door handle has
this like ornate pattern on it, almost like a diamond. And so I'm
going to turn the door handle and open it. What do you say?
An alleyway and Trick and Emma kind of cowering behind a garbage dumpster, and
so I step out, but the door is open, so you can just
see blackness behind me, and I walk over to them without saying anything,
and I just reach my hand out and take Trick's hand and pull them with
me back into the veil. And just as quickly as we step through,
it's like the curtain again. We come back out in front of the Lucky
Rabbit. Amazing. So you've stolen them from their spot, but also from
their spot in time, because an hour has gone by for you and you
just grab them from the alleyway when they were getting So that's pretty That's something
else. That's something else. What does it look like when she comes back?
It looks like that curtain like it looks like a ripple of reality is
kind of like there was a hidden curtain of the sidewalk and sideways, and
you just kind of like it opens and she comes through and then it falls
back behind screen aside. Yep, exactly, and she just comes through and
she comes through with Trick and Emma, and I think that's a good place
to end our episode today. Shit, we had the opulling from the past
and Briar just pulled to the future. I want to live at the Rabbit.
Yeah, I know, I do too every day in my life.
Well, thanks, you guys need to know at some point next week I
might be there. Oh yeah, yeah, with c K, you guys
might go find the Lucky Rabbit. No, would you? If you do,
you have to take some selfies in there. Oh yeah, okay,
okay. It is an actual bar, by the way, that exists somewhere
in the world. I just don't know where it is where. I mean
the screenshots that I grabbed. I don't know if it's actually called the Lucky
Rabbit, but anyway, I think it's a rabbit hole or something. Yeah,
it's called something like that. Yeah, hmm, so good. Let's
do a round the shout outs. Shall we start with you Millie Bean?
Okay, Hello, I'm Amelia Tyler. I am a voice sector for video
games, and I do this crazy stuff for these lovely people, and it's
so nice to be back. I missed you all loads. I've been having
a pretty shitty week, so going to a bar and getting drunk was exactly
what I needed. Thanks Plot, I really like this Brian and yeah yeah,
and seeing the olist just gave me just so much joy. He deserves
it a little, Sorry, Dan, I love you. Mmm stasy c
woman. I love this new hashtag that seems to happen as well. What
is it ris gets what eris wants? Yeah, some of your rolls KP.
My god, that's like the first time in a long time I've had
decent roles. So it's only when you're briar, Like I didn't want to
say anything, but every time your brier you nail almost every role. It's
so freaky. John's couldn't search a couldn't shir dress sir, but Mayor Bryer
can rip through and pull people into the future. Jeez, mean you insult
for somebody like you couldn't find your ass with both hands and you couldn't search
a dresser. You couldn't search a dresser with five Rolls's and where can people
find you, Millie. You can find me on Twitter as Amelia Tyler.
Maybe streaming at some point soon life's a little bit so I may just join
other people on their streams and then they can just delete the pods. Yeah,
and there may be some more news about some more role play type stuff
happening at some point soon. So I missed you all very very very much
and a lot of fun. Yeah you're up. Hi, I'm domestic Dan.
You may have difficulty recognizing me because I have no beard. Now I'll
have to say that for the next month on any stream I do, because
there's always someone's just like it's like, yeah, it's been like three weeks
now, it's kind of crazy. But yeah, I do cooking streams and
the gaming streams, and I still have a slight echo. Now I don't
and you know I'm still here. Oh yeah, that's right. And this
is packs week which I am attending. So streams are gonna be very sporadic,
probably just morning streams, baking cookies because I don't like business cards,
but I do like feeding people because they remember me better when I've given them
a cookie in the morning when they're hungover. Smart very smart packs. Good
sir, you're up there. What a wonderful perfict say that so good?
So for those listening, he basically typed it out and dropped it in the
chat. You can find me at twitch to tv slash Classy PAGs. I'll
be doing ourp stuff maybe wait, oh my god, you guys are talking
so much. I love you so much. Maybe some wow and working on
a large flightsimme event aimed for after TwitchCon. Love you all, kat b
b Hi. I'm Katie Peter's Place. I've played Briar for you today.
I've been sick so but I'm streaming again, so if you want to hang
out with me, how do you lost? I fie horror and I'm planning
October Ooktober is coming really excited. I only play horror games and wear a
heart rate monitor and stuff, so I want to come for that. That's
a month away. You have time to plan. But yeah, I'm Katie
Peter's Place, yay, and I'm I'm peebe. I also do some things
sometimes over on my channel, like noc Turn Recovery Room Tomorrow where we recover
from today's episode together. But you can also find me here next week next
week, a new show starts dying order. I will play the trailer at
the end of this episode today because it's I'm so excited for it. But
yeah, thank you guys for being here. Thank you so much for coming
back after a week off. I know we like didn't miss anything since February
thirteenth, but I was away for work, so I appreciate it. And
I missed this. I missed everybody here, I missed the story. I
missed you guys. Please join our discord hang out. We've got spoiler free
tags. So if you're watching this and you're like, oh, but there's
six episodes ahead, don't worry. Come on in. We've got everyone.
Yes it is yes, thank you. By the way, So yeah,
that's actually Pax is the one that recommended to be for us. Well,
you guys are gonna like her. We're very very excited. Yeah, And
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thank you to Katie, Pax, Millie and Dan for being amazing role players
today. And also shout out to Zeke and c K who are not here
today. Zeke is away at burning Man. He'll be back next week.
And k just did a twelve hour stream for charity. So please, if
you have a chance to go check out her channel, please do that.
I adore her and yeah, we'll I'll be back next week. So I'm
gonna wait. I'm gonna play the trailer right now, hold on, hold
on, yes it is Okay, I need to mute. I need to
meet the scary music. Okay, okay, hang on, it's just going
to take me one hot minutely, right KPP, I want to same,
that's the best. Yeah. I don't plan to have children, but I
would totally adopt Beth. I can't say a thing because you know, things.
I hate it so much. I hate the GM and I love it
all at the same time. Okay, here we go. Are you ready?
Yes, the year is twenty five seventy seven TC. We use the
Thelmician calendar we always have, even after Thealmicia was destroyed. They say it
was supposed to be a shield, a defensive measure against monsters, to bring
Thelmicia into a new age, a utopia at the center of the world.
Some time ago, we began weaving magic into our technology. We called it
Arcanay, but it was too strong, weapons, capable of atomizing entire cities,
Shields that should have saved lives, but instead tore them away. They
outlawed it the world over. Most continents didn't even have it in the first
place, but now no one does. Supposedly, some low level Arcanye remains
the Acani engines that power the trains Alexandria, even as a few airships now
seems the Alcani inquisition. At that one slip, well, I managed to
get a hold of one of those engines, plugged it into something I found
in the sunken ruins of Fealmicia. A few nuts and BALTSA are a little
alchemical touched there and a simple cantrip to hold it all together. I'm a
scientist, that's all. I just want to see what happens when I fire
it up. Will it fall apart? Maybe? Will it reduce all of
Lacorne to dust? Hopefully not? Will it punch through into the heavens themselves
and take from the gods what they took from me? I fucking hope,
sir. When I was a girl, my father told me why they outlawed
Arkanai across the world after Thalmisia was taken into the sea. It was said
that arkana was too powerful. But somewhere out there someone created an Arcanai weapon
strong enough to strike at the gods themselves. The problem is this time they
answered, that's all I have to say about that. Okay, that's it.
I think we're out. We love you all. We'll see you next
Wednesday. Bye bye THEO. Good luck,