Sooner? So are you? Are you okay? So? What was I
thinking? Wait? Wait? You are you? Are you heard everything I've
ever done? It's because I believed in fate and I had some sort of
purpose and my destiny was out of my hands. It's very, very peaceful.
I felt all capable and I wasn't fearless, but I didn't carry a
sense of dread of not knowing what was next or what would become of me.
I felt like if it was my end, it was meant to be.
But that magic has left me now I don't feel it. I struggled
to walk, I'm learning to breathe, and I'm tired. I don't feel
that peace. I can't hear the trees. I can't feel the world anymore.
I don't feel that strength. And I'm wondering now or was it ever
really mine? Have I always spend this week frail woman propped up by magic?
What was I thinking? Should gime here? Gime here? I was
feeling and dark? Lets you, I can't do this? You can,
You're m It wasn't you magic? Then that I feel wrong? I feel
broken? Well, you're You're not wrong or broken to me. I don't
know how much that counts for you. But mm hmm. You know I
was always alone for a long time, had my reasons and I thought I
was content, and you barged in than you do, and h it wasn't
your, It wasn't it wasn't. Well, I don't understand all that stuff.
It wasn't that you did. You didn't. I don't think you cast
a spell and made my life interesting again? You know, it was who's
your? You're wet, you know that that that fire, and yet then
you know that's what broa well warmth back. You know so well. I
don't know about all the rest of it, but I know you sooner when
I think you knew a version of me that doesn't exist anymore. Don't seem
that different to me? Still still making my life interesting, you know,
And you know you're you're You're not out here doing this alone. You may
not have the magic anymore, but I mean, I don't. I'm not
saying I can do what it did for you, but I'm here trying to
help as best I can. So much maybe well, I'm doing my best.
At this point. I show up and I grab song though back from
Toby, and I say, she's right, this can't even sing anymore,
and I PLoP down on the ground, uh, probably across from sooner and
just say, everything just feels emptier. Yes, I feel so empty mad'
you know I can fix things, see it? And there mind you Brown,
I don't know what I can do to fix that's I don't think it
can be fixed. I think we broke it. I just don't know what
help I can really be in this state. Well, you did just survive
that, and I'll look off in the distance to where the creature flood so
you still have considerable strength remaining. Yeah, I mean that it's it was.
You know, it was a thing no ordinary person could survive that.
That's right. I am a little much too swallow at times. I mean
that's a new level of stubbornness thing. H I thought we'd I'm glad you're
okay. We're gonna switch now and head over to Belogna. It has been
a week and I would like my free Bologna crew to roll me a dice
please. Yeah. Yeah, I can't get rolled twenty to load. That's
a three on me ship. That's okay, hold on, I'm going to
roll for you. Uh okay, finally, no, it rolled or finally
it loaded. That was weird. Okay, yeah, okay, Oh,
you have discovered very little information this week. I don't know what you've been
doing with your times. But while you have had access to some of the
resources of the inquisition and maybe been tasked with researching, probably by ELLI and
ORRA been set to task you, most days have come up empty handed.
Now that might be that you, you know, somewhat actively, just didn't
want to go and do a load of re or looking stuff up or mucking
in, or it might just be that you just came up with nothing throughout
the week. The information that you're looking for, or at least the information
that it seemed like you were looking for, based on what you guys told
me at the end of last week, was is extremely hard to find anyway,
and most of the information that you're looking for doesn't exist. What you're
looking for is information on Dayevaki and the cycles and the dying order, and
it's just not information that's available. The inquisition, the ARC and I Inquisition
is basically the height of information, and if they don't have it, then
no one has it. Now, of course, you don't have access to
everything, and you've only had a week of looking through archives or maybe speaking
with a few you very scattered informants, maybe one or two other inquisitors.
Mostly your point of contact has been Reginald. You've been able to get him
to go and look for stuff for you, and he's been bringing you stuff
books, mostly archive information, tomes and tomes and tomes of recorded information from
other inquisitors throughout the years. Not a single mention of deov Aki, not
a single mention of the cycles, though there is mention of previous people's and
there's a pretty commonly held and understood and this is almost common knowledge information and
about a time that came before your understanding of your version of LaCrin with the
people that lived in it. This was a time known as well. Actually
there are two time periods technically for you. There is the frozen Age,
which was a time of just ice and cold, a frozen wasteland that existed
before the first men appeared and started building things. And by the first men
they are literally like the first of the halflings, and the first of the
elves, and the first of the teethlings, and stuff like that. In
the varying different places, it seems that these people appeared in their own respective
kind of areas of the world. On the map of Lacrine, as the
Inquisition have it, there's an area that the teethlings are from known as Muzan.
There's the mist Lands where the elves are from. Most humans seem to
have populated from here in Alexandria, things like that. But this again is
relatively common information. It's stuff that you probably would heard in tales or just
Aora in particular, having a library of her own to continually peruse, would
know this. Ellie and Bow, being city folk, would probably be more
aware of this. If you lived in the giant lands or you were kind
of out, you know, being a barbarian in the fields, then that
might be different. But I think you would understand that this is generally common
knowledge. But at least you can you can back it up as orderline fact
when it's being presented to you by the Inquisition. The time that came before
that was known as the Age of Magi. The There is no record of
this time that was scribed by somebody that saw it. It's mostly a bunch
of old tomes and books by people that used what they could in terms of
information, scrapped and pieces things together. There are stories that seemed to hold
some gravitas, but not really necessarily fact. And it really is just a
time of magic, heavily influenced by magic, and it seems like a time
that was ruled over by these people known as the Magi. It didn't seem
to have too much of a There is no real evidence or anything that suggests
that there's anything other than one kind of species. You don't have like half
things and teeth things and stuff like that. There is just these these Magi.
But it doesn't mean that they that they weren't human. But it doesn't
seem as if anybody. It doesn't seem like humans were wiped out and ice
age came and then they came back. It seems like this was an entirely
different species of people and then an ice age came and then everybody rose up.
This is very little crossover. It seems that not only did they disappear,
but most of their stuff, the places that they must have lived,
the things that they must have built in their time, also seem to have
been wiped away. For the most part, though, there is records that
I think Or and Ellie might have come across that suggested that there are small
pockets of what remains of their their time here. Those small pockets, for
the most part, seem to be the gates that you were told to visit.
At first they you, I think now understand that that was not the
case. You're actually working with information that the inquisition doesn't have. While you're
piecing this together, the three of you throughout the week here will have looked
at a map would have correlated some of the information. The physicians information states
that the ancient Magi, this race of people before built all of these places.
But you know that these are just places of immense power that are that
are the the seals that you are to break for the dying order, and
then you're able to access Devaki or whoever is sitting in place. The Magi
built these great, big structures, or they lived on them, or they
left them open. They opened these gates in some way so that during this
time Deevaki couldn't trick you, so that you skip an entire step. You
don't have to go around opening the gates. The trick that you were asked
to do at the beginning by Ahi to go to each of these gates and
open them you wouldn't need to do. They've been open since the previous cycle.
It was simply to waste your time. So you're looking all of this
information. I think you're looking at the stuff that the Inquisition have, and
actually it's kind of out of it's out of balance with what you know.
Though they do seem to have a lot of information on the previous cycle.
You know, it was just one of nine. The Inquisition seemed to believe
that that it isn't even a cycle. They just think a cataclysmic event happened
in the same way that here we had a meteor, right that wiped out
the dinosaurs, right, this is the same thing. Well, you know
that it was a cycle, it was the eighth cycle, this being the
ninth or partially the tenth. Here it's that that's happening, and that in
fact, these seals and all of this stuff has been been around since the
beginning. They have no information at all. Was there anything else specifically you
were looking for that you were going to use this time to have looked in
to because I can give well Ara and Ellie can have some answers depending on
what it is. Also, Reginald, was that your disposal to a degree,
you would come and go. You probably spent a lot of time in
the Inquisition headquarters. Here. You had access to one room. You were
given a room just a little more than a decent sized room with a table
in the center, some access to things like paper and vellum and inks of
different sizes, which is not easy to come by just freely. Though most
of you really wouldn't be shocked by it. None of you are like peasant
urchin children. But you know, pens and ink and books and stuff are
expensive. But yeah, you just would have had this room to work from,
and you would have been able to have Reginald arranged to bring things to
you. And I think you probably would have been given access to a ridiculously
large library a couple of times, which I think or you might have been
more interested in the others. But a huge library that you you were told
doesn't even have all of the information, but it's still an extensive library with
all of the books that aren't insanely like top secret Area fifty one stuff,
you know, like they would have kept back any of their black books here,
but they would have had. You would have had access to as much
information as is freely open to your average inquisitor. I think you probably would
only have been taken there twice during the week. It's in the same building,
and it's back down to the open area. That huge hallway right at
the back opens up to a huge domed library, and it's just three levels
of up and down and books everywhere. And still this whole building is very
empty, very very rarely do you spot someone else. And when you do,
their in inquisitors robes and they do not speak to you. What happened
to our friends? The the guy that's been following us around and taking notes,
Reginald. That's him, inquisitor of Reginald Sheridan is his name. He's
been around. One thing that he has been doing over the week is attempting
to arrange for you to meet with Grim he has he has discovered specifically,
he has to enter into a particular negotiation. While the inquisitors have a huge
amount of influence getting they can't just walk in and demand to free people who
well they can kind of, but it's not a good time to be doing
that. Essentially, it is how he put it. He said, being
diplomatic would have been the better approach, and waltzing into the fortress with the
queen and just demanding something of immediately of the region or the monarch of a
city is not something that the Inquisition does. Though they technically have the power
to do it, it's they're not really fond of doing it. Rocks the
boat unnecessarily, even in these dire times. So he has been negotiating to
have you three plus Kolougie visit the fortress Dungeons, which is where Grim is,
and you're assured he's alive. And I think today if we come to
this has been this has been seven days before we actually come to the actual
live play here. The as of this morning, Reginald will be missing to
go and once again negotiate for you to go and see with Grim. Grim
attacked the castle the fortress. He wandered up on the day of the Fall
of Magic and killed a bunch of guards. Was seemingly aiming to head straight
towards the Queen's quarters and assassinate the queen. So he's really hard to get
to. They stopped him. The Queen's guard themselves, which are the innermost
group of guards and the most well trained, managed to stop him. You
don't know what state he's in though you're assured he's alive and he's being kept
in the dungeon. That's all the information that Reginald has been able to get
to you about Grim so far. But he does seem to be able to
get you a meeting, and that's where he's gone today to do. But
until then, just if there's any other information that you wanted, yeap of
them tell me now, and I sent you a lot of what I'd be
looking at, because I think it would become clear pretty quickly that they don't
know what a lot of what we were doing. They don't know about any
of it. They don't know about the cycles. My second part of this
was going to be how much did you tell them? I think that I
think that Ellie became quite the astute student, putting on her reading glasses and
starting to started writing, Yeah, well you're learned, you're not You're you're
essentially from noble stock yourself. Oh yeah, that's what you write and stuff,
right. I think she would oh yeah. I think that she would
have been like, what would Zach want me to doing this moment and would
have done it. So she would have told them, there's like, there's
so much you guys don't know. It's hilarious. Uh. And then it
just started writing. But her thing would have been like, if you can't
get me grim, I'm not handing these papers over right. So you've written
an account? Yeah, and or and Bo helped you did your own.
Uh. Maybe that's why Bo didn't discover as much by himself as maybe he
was helping. Oh, trust me, I was. I was checking out
all the inquisitor ladies whenever they would now be passing by. I was over
there with a book of mermaids, looking about that one. The way she
looked at me, Damn she she looked like she wanted to beat me up.
I was just imagining her stepping all over me. Did you get her?
Did you get her name? At least no I did. I did.
She was far too busy. Oh yeah, they won't speak to you.
You you're under streat controlled movement. You can come and go at certain
hours, you can you can question your point of contact. Reginald, who's
always waiting for you, astutely at the time that you arrive. He again,
he seems to be genuinely willing to help. It seems that he I
think over the week of interacting with him a little more. He hasn't really
changed in his demeanor or anything like that. But I think you most certainly
get the sensation that he's relatively professional, but also he maybe even a little
enjoyers just having something to investigate. He doesn't seem like the type that has
much of a personal or social life. Maybe he seems to be an investigator
through and throw like that. It was his calling to become some form of
detective or investigator and an inquisitor, and ultimately the highest, almost the highest
rank of inquisitor or investigator or authority is the Arcaneye Inquisition. He has expressed
a couple of times that this might be his last ever job, because you
know, they don't know what's going on, whether it be the end of
the world, or whether it be that when the Arcane Inquisition disbands, he
remains as an inquisitor of any kind. He's not sure, but I think
it's more of a sense you get from him than him actually casually chit chatting
with you about it. He's very open to your questions, he seems to
want to answer it, and when you request books and stuff, he seems
to be able to get them quite promptly, or let you into the library
to try and find something yourself. If you can't find something, I think
maybe the couple of times you've visited the library has been you looking for stuff,
and so those roles there where I think more for your investigative abilities on
your own time, looking for key things, books on day Vaki, books
that came from before times, things, anything on the cycles or I think
Ellie would have given up on Deevaki ann on the Cycles pretty quickly, knowing
that they don't know anything. I think she would have then tried to investigate
magic itself and how do people draw magic and what's it mean? And I
think Ellie would have turned to bo Anne Aura and been like, well,
how did you guys draw magic? You guys obviously had those powers. I
did too, I got mine from a shadowy figure like I think she would
have had that conversation even with Reginald there, Well, seventeen's nice for you.
Let me just find one thing. I don't know if you knew,
maybe you discovered because Ellie didn't come from a magical background. I mean,
they can take magic from her and she's a stabby stabber, like she just
stabs people. You find a book on Vendrous the Eternal, who is an
ancient shadow dragon, and I'll put that in our group chat that was a
and possibly powerful ruler of shadows. There is a title in the plane of
the shadow Fell known as the Ruler of Shadows, and that that was the
title that you were being groomed for by this figure. And from what you
read and understand in your brief week here, it seems as if you were
previously speaking to somebody known as Vendras the Eternal, and they granted you an
element of their power. Vendras is the type of person or dragon or thing
that employs mortals to bring her meals meals of elves and humans in mortal pledges,
and then when they die, she traps their souls inside of her body,
and her body is just a by an account here, set of moving
shadows that twist into faces and strange souls that are trapped within her body.
You don't think you were being brought up as a meal or anything like that,
but this is just the account that you have a Vendres. It really
did seem, I think, to you, as if Vendras was very willing
to work with you and bring you to the shadow fell to roll over a
portion of it. You were about as powerful as one can be in terms
of a you know, non you're not. You weren't like a god figure,
but you guys were getting extremely powerful while magic was around, and it
seemed like the type of thing that you You were a lifeless with a mastery
over death of some sort. And you know, there was a probably a
version of events that would have had you become the ruler of shadows. Eventually
we may never know, but you do find an account, several accounts to
do with this figure Vendors who's just unbelievably powerful. Now, you guys will
have found a load of information about magic. There is really very little science
around it, but there do seem to be multiple schools of magic, and
each of them there is no conclusive, singular point that they come from.
There are clerics that believe that they get their magic from a divine source,
such as the gods, but you know, the gods were false, so
that seems odd, I think to you. However, there are also druids
that believe they draw their magic from the land, and that is essentially what
Aura was doing, even in this other plane. So there are stuff that
makes sense and stuff that doesn't make sense, stuff that I think correlates to
a degree with what people seem to understand. Wizards bards learn their magic.
They go to a school Harry Potter style and study and learn. Some sorcerers
will just be born with a wild ability they can They will just be walking
along one day and their powers manifest superhero style, and not always in the
greatest of ways. Warlocks can exchange something of great value with a very powerful
thing in exchange for a portion of their power. Magic comes from doesn't really
have a singular, singular source, at least any confirmed singular sources, though
there are multiple accounts that say yes and multiple accounts that say no. You
guys, by the end of this week looking into this stuff are not too
short, Aura and Ellie. In fact, all of you, all four
of you even, would be relatively sure that magic does have a singular source,
and it flows from the energy or being that was known as chaos that
was killed or removed, destroyed, or however you want to phrase it.
At that moment when you guys were removed from their Vaki's and then you spent
a year in a place, and then it seems at the end of that
point chaos left, was removed, was killed, was destroyed, whatever it
was, there is no longer a chaos, and all of the magic went
with per it them that. So whatever chaos is or was, magic went
with it. If there was such a thing as a singular point that magic
came from and split into multiple different schools, or maybe later you all started
to assume schools for it might be the case. It really is kind of
it would be an entire investigation for you to probably make from the beginning of
this campaign. Again, over really hard for you to determine that from their
books. They have no There are multiple books that say this is definitively it.
There are multiple books that say, definitively this is not it. None
of them point to a thing called chaos. You guys know what chaos is
to a degree, and even then it's shrouded in a lot of mystery.
So it seems I think to you that chaos would be the source of magic.
But whether it's the source of magic in the same way that magic can
be drawn from it, or maybe it just created magic and put it into
the world and without it it was it was unable to remain. I don't
think you know all of that around it, but without chaos, there is
no magic is one hundred percent guarantee here for you guys, and you also
know that it went so if we discovered that throughout this last week, can
I have taken my time to research how to track like at what the Inquisition
can use to track people, as well as if we can create chaos ourselves
in a way unless you formulate it, it's really that the Inquisition has no
information on chaos. But I have incuerimented almost completely believe in the pantheon of
gods. They seem to have evidence that supports a pantheon of gods that have
appeared and people have drawn from them, and they have witnessed them. The
Inquisition is pretty sure at the highest level of being are the celestials such as
Mercle and my Leaky and deep so shalless these beings, They're pretty sure existed.
They believed in them, and they also believed that they were gods.
However, you know that there was another level above it, which was Dey
of Eki, and maybe another level above him, which was chaos, which
is not the same thing but still was a came after chaos. He was
a self professed mortal that was simply the first winner of the first cycle.
You know, he was the He was the aura of cycle one and just
stayed there. So I feel like though the thing that we goes up only
to a point. Essentially, they don't seem to believe in anything above the
pantheon of gods that you know to have been installed falsely and were actually previous
cycle winners and groups. They were the your group. If you had lost
or can continued and been installed and enslaved by day of eki cycle ten,
would have seen another group of people, maybe you guys, would have been
the gods that they believed in. Could I have with that knowledge, maybe
seeing if there's some books on magic and tried to experiment to create even like
small bits of chaos that would maybe let me try some of my spells.
Absolutely there Again, there's no real books that will guide you through the specific
process of recreating chaos in your own way or summoning up chaos from a death
of sorts, but there is your own ways around it. Also, you
had a previous question that was that how were people being tracked by the Inquisition,
And for the most part it was magic, divination and Arcani. They
had a bunch of Arcani and this, and this information probably came from Reginald
more so than books, But Reginald would have confirmed that they were using Arcaney
and they were using magic to just track people find out information they needed.
They've been stopping time and stuff like that for years, working in what is
essentially a hyperbolic time chamber to further their investigations and things like that. They
were the height of power and they were abusing Arcaney to do it for about
a thousand years ish. Well, then my question would be do they have
any arcan I that could store energy for magic? Not anymore. Every single
piece of Arcaonhei in the world stopped working, all enchanted things, things that
before arc and I there were just enchanted weapons and stuff. ARCANEI is just
a particular fusion of advanced technology. Anything from steam tech up fused with magic
would be an ARCANEI. Kind of it's a little wibli wobbly, but just
imbuing a sword with an enchanted room that maybe allows it to flame on would
be wouldn't be considered an Arcaney. But either way, all arcane stopped working.
It practically brought the Arcaneye Inquisition to its knees, and this was seven
days ago. As of the day's session, there is no magic. There
is not even a drop that has been reported or at least as far as
Reginald has told you. It seems as if all magic is genuinely gone,
and you're down to the basics of iron steel, the steam tech of over
a thousand years ago. You're down to gravity and physics, you know,
the same as we have. For the most part. Anything magical has stopped
working. Anything that was being was containing magic dispersed that magic or the magic
was removed from it. Any magical creatures either died or were sent back to
the plane that they were from magical. There's an entire set of islands in
the west known as the Sky Islands that vanished, gone, disappeared. What
about the gates? Was there a gate near us on this plate like in
Bologna? There is not one on Alexandria. No okay role for me Okay
eight will determine. It seems too that it's too early to tell. No
information has come in from any of these positions that then I Inquisition were looking
into, though they do seem to have extensive information on things that came from
them, including the primals which were born at the Gate of Time. I
think the LA would have mentioned a Reginald like, check out the gates see
because I mean, I guess Aura would have shown that she no longer has,
like, you know, the mark and whatnot of the first gate that
we went to. So it'd be like, well, check out the gates,
see if they're still active, because if they're not, don't know.
Yeah, yeah, I mean, the there just is no information on it.
Although Reginald maybe you would have mentioned that to him, and Reginald would
already be like, I'm quite sure they'd already be looking into that as they're
aware of the gates and how relevant they are. So yeah, no magic,
Aura, roll me. I dies about to ask if any of my
experiments yielded anything. Fourteen nothing. Okay, this is a dumb question,
but I'm gonna ask it anyway. Since there's no magic, there's no there's
nothing I can do to control time or reverse time. Nope, you and
so Una probably still have a mark on your hand, but it might look
more like a scar. I think it wouldn't really be very prominent. It
wouldn't glow. It certainly wouldn't be clean looking. I think it would probably
simply look like a very very small week discoloration of the skin in the particular
shape of a of an hour glass. But yeah, I don't that there
doesn't there doesn't seem to be anything coming from that at all. I would
just probably be trying this entire week with all my might to manufacture magic,
and then spend a lot of time pouring over figuring out if I can find
day of Eki, which I know may be kind of fruitless, but I
think that's what I would be focusing on the entire week, is locating where
he is fruitless, even using the nemesis ability. My question be also if
chaos, if we know chaos is a thing, then is there such a
thing as the opposite of chaos, which would be order? That would be
a question for you to figure out yourself. They're obviously not going to know.
It's unfortunately there's no book you are essentially ahead of, or the Inquisition,
though, though there might be some blanks on the mortal side of things,
or on La Crine side of things, or on history side of things
that you can fill out, and if going forward you maybe have some questions
about something in history that you want me to answer. You might be able
to say that you found a book on that in this time, But it
has only been a week. And although a week seems like a long time,
not an enormous amount of time to manually be going through books and trying
to find information. But I think what you've done is you've kind of confirmed
that realistically they don't have any information. Dey of Eki wouldn't have really wanted
anyone to know of his existence. Hit The whole point of him having a
pantheon of gods was to create an illusion of a pantheon of God's so that
anybody that does come into the dying order, no matter who on this mortal
the Krin was chosen, would always would never have the knowledge of him existing.
Ahhi is the closest thing to the possible link today of Aki, and
even are he is not mentioned anywhere. He never wanted anyone to know of
his existence, and he was in the perfect position and has been playing this
game for so so so much longer than you that essentially he was able to
There's just there's just literally no way that anyone would have found out And on
top of that, anybody who did and probably found out previously. You may
be able to piece together a little from Mother Numeraor's conversation with you and then
later your conversation with the god Savras that anybody that does come close to discovering
any of this very real information was removed, killed, just plucked from existence
by Savras. The mother new Miror was plucked up by Hi and Savras in
that last final moment of hers because she was finally found. She might have
been the only mortal thing that had any real awareness of Dayevki, and even
she didn't seem to have the full scope of everything, and that was like,
that's the maximum level of divination power. So it seems like probably people
have discovered this information that there's no way anybody got it into a book in
time. The moment people found things, an even more powerful divination god came
down and stopped that information from becoming fact or being used. That is again
information that you would have and not the inquisition, but it's kind of what
Mother numer and Savas told you, which Lau were present for both, so
you would have some idea of that. And also I imagine you guys,
you also had like ten weeks together that we didn't see, talking and walking
and maybe piecing some little bits together like that. So I'm willing to give
you all the benefit of some knowledge there. So yeah, you're kind of
ahead when it comes to at least the search for Day of Aki or any
knowledge or how to maybe jumpstart magic again or anything like that. Unfortunately,
you guys are it's what you guys have. You guys are the forefront information,
any notes you've taken, any ideas you've formulated, and any plans you
make. Now really is the only option. That being said, there could
be stuff littered around for you to go out and find, but where it
is, what it is, we don't know. I think our next best
bet would be to go and just try to find whoever Day of Argy was,
like, not even in the library because they wouldn't know we've found that
out, so just to try and go find him. Well, maybe this
is the Maybe this is where we should join you three today. I imagine
would you have you would have been staying all of you would be staying at
the Assassin's Guild, Yeah, including Kalugi. Yeah, and have you been
keeping with Kalugi because he's been wanting to run off and drink himself into a
stupid most likely. But I think that I would have asked Zach to bring
and like have a couple like assassins watching him. And let's say it is
now the mourning of the that is Kalugi's dice roll. It is the morning
of the of day seven. One week since you came back, one week
since Belona was falling apart, one week since Aura stumbled through her door to
find Alvin sick, and one wink, one week since sooner and the others
again their journey on the other side. In your corn you where would you
like to start this day? Would you have gone straight to the inquisition room?
Would you be in somewhere in the assassin's guilled? What do you guys
think? I think before any of us left, I would say I don't.
I don't think that the assassins skilled or the assassin' skilled the inquisition has
any information for us. I feel like we've been spinning our wheels there a
week. I keep reading books about nothing. We learned a lot about what
they don't know, which is everything. Well, this Reginald guy keeps true
to his word, and we can see Grim. Maybe Grim will know something.
Don't you think we should find sooner? I mean it's been a week,
and I've had that feeling in my stomach this whole time that now something's
not right. I can't agree more. I don't think it's as Ylia as
going and finding her. Wouldn't you think that she'd come here? Well,
I thought she'd be here by now, Brad. We know it takes like
a month to get here, right, It's only been like a week.
Yeah, the the it's hard to work out there, are right? Because
in my dream world there are multiple different ways to get from places from place
to place. I think, you know, using on foot and going by
you know, standard ferry or ship that would be direct. The quickest you
could do it is maybe three weeks, and that is accounting for you walk
out of the door immediately straight onto a ship, straight over the water,
straight off a ship in Bologna and go to there. It's rare. You'd
have to be quite rich to be able to do that, and you also
need the world to not be ending around you. So yeah, you only
would describe that like I did this in my dream world. I you know,
I was a vagabond. I this is how I got there, this
is how long it took. Like there's no way that she would realistically without
magic, be here right now. I know, but I guess we haven't
heard from her. I feel like we should have heard from her by now.
As long as we can still sense her and I look at Bow,
then I don't think we should worry yet. I think it's we can no
longer sense her, and I don't think that we should rush over there,
because what if she's rushing over here and we miss each other halfway? Has
anyone been to the bar this week? Maybe at night? You've been to
the tavern? Probably? I think if Bau wanted to go to the bar,
then Ellie would have followed him. Then you would have had message from
from sooner. There would have been a message which I wrote down and immediately
lost that You want me to read it? Yeah, yes, wonderful.
Ah, I have to find it as well. One moment got it for
Kalugi Grim, Ellie bo or Aura. I hope this message finds you and
finds you well en route from your scorn to Bologna. Please wait for me.
I will come here when I arrive. Kalugi Grim. If you receive
this, our quest is half complete, but there's more to do. Please
find Ellie Bow or Aura and let them know I'm on my way. We
are responsible for the state of the world. Give us a chance to set
it right. Sooner you would have that letter, well, I think upon
receiving it, you know, I'm sure we'd all have that sense of relief,
you know that we finally heard back from her. I think there'd still
be a sense of worry too, of course, of course you have a
constant sense of worry for sooner. Yeah, would we have sense like what
she just well not just but what she went through with the snake. I
don't think it's that well attuned that. You know, it's an intense change.
If you're in the same scene and in the same room and stuff like
that, you'd have a lot more bonuses and things to roles because of it,
and all the extra stuff you get. But yeah, you just have
a gut feeling purely. It might not even be anything other than anxiety that
you would be feeling, you know, just a minor anxiety being together for
so long. You guys were together for like two three months, three months.
I think going through that intense thing together, and then to have the
three of you be split from one of your party members would create more of
a sense of anxiety. But there's just a slight edge of a deeper feeling
to it. I think the sickness in the pit of your stomach and the
fact that all three of you have it. But you know, soldiers coming
back from war might have the same sorts of feelings. I wouldn't necessarily say
it's that you have a deep magical psychic bond, that there is something there.
However you interpret it. And there's just a lot going on right now
with all of us. So what's the next move? Then? What should
we do? I just I think we should ask around. We should honestly,
I think I hope we canna speak to grim soon. You know,
he he was in tune with magic as well, and maybe he would know
something. Plus he seems to know a lot of the shadier people in this
area. I mean not that I don't, but I don't really hang out.
Didn't he try to kill the queen? Do you blame him? I
would? I would say this in the assassins. I wouldn't be saying this
if we're in the bar. I wouldn't say this, but yes, we're
in the guild than you know, I'd say, do you blame him?
I mean a lot of people have come through here trying to get us to
go after her. It's not the smartest move. Seems like a suicide mission
to me, depends on how good you are. But without magic, even
Grim I don't think could power through that. Obviously he couldn't. Well,
it's gonna be tough for me to just sit still. So I don't know
what we should do next. Go ask around? We can watch people.
Do you think he's nearby? Didn't you? Or no? I can't feel
him anyone? Yeah, anymore, I think he's still out there. I
just I don't think he's near us. Well, it's gonna make it harder.
Oh, yes, it's what do we ask for too? Like we
don't know what he looks like now. I mean, I'm sure he's mortal,
he doesn't look like what we saw him last, So I don't know
what to ask around for or even look for for myself. Shady people who
are stripped of their god powers? Would he be like a narcissist? Do
you think he'd have like a like he would be flaunting it or do you
think he would be more. Oh, I think that he would. I
feel like he'd be a shell of a person, not having his powers anymore.
I would have mentioned how he's probably in the shadows, are locked away,
possibly somewhere. Oh, he's got to be terrified. He knows we're
coming after him. I don't think we should find him until you know,
we reunite Wou sooner. Yeah, probably, because if he's not here and
we have to leave, we have to wait for her exactly, and she's
coming here, yeah, and I'll take two more weeks hopefully. So I
think we go back. We go back and we ask if we can see
Grim yet, if they worked out some sort of deal. I think what
we can do for now is scrounge whatever we can for well, this journey
to come, you know soon, I'm sure is going to need supplies too
for when she gets here. Well that everything we can get. That should
be easy. And I like wave around to the fact that we're in the
assassin's guild right now, like that should be easy. We know the thieves
as well, so this is a world that thieves and assassins still thrive in.
I mean, we have the weaponry here and everything, but food.
We need food, we need we can we can get that. I'm sure.
Well, actually it's easy. Let me let me go talk to Zach.
I think I will hand that way in the direction of his office.
Let's see if he's home. A very simple role. You knock on the
door, or you walk in. I would knock probably a moment, and
I would say it's quite early, you guys. Maybe maybe you were just
eating some food, preparing yourselves to head out and plan as you sat around
a table in the relative privacy of the assassin's guild. When yeah, Ellie,
you head down that corridor all the way to the very end, to
that large wooden door. You wrap on it a couple of times, and
you hear Zach respond come in. I walk in, probably the first time
I've walked in normally in the last like five visits to his office. Yeah,
let's see roll for me. Oh, okay, eight. He also
rolls an eight. But that means that I think that means that you do
see a strange register of mild shock that it's you that walks in after knocking
on the door. He's taken aback by it for a moment He moves some
of the things out of his way and looks up at you and says,
very well, what can I do with you? I thank someone else?
Can I look back at the door like, I don't believe you've knocked on
the door for I don't even remember how long. Oh well, figured i'd
be polite. And then I sit down in the chair. You must want
something very important. Food. Food. It's kind of important now I used
to not have to eat. Uh, we're going to be once we're reunited
with someone, We're going to be going and looking for one of the people
weave you as responsible for all of this. M The Inquisition can't quite help
because they have no record of him. And the Inquisition, have you told
them everything you know? I've told them most a lot of it. I
mean, they find a lot of that hard to believe. They have no
record of who Dyevaki was or the cycles, and explaining that to them it's
like trying to teach him a new language. And nobody's been following you.
They just let you go every day freely. Oh No, they've been very
strict there. They keep us on lockdown. I'm pretty sure they're not showing
us all the books they have. It still seems strange to me. I
would have locked you up, changed you down, and had you answer all
of my questions. But now we know how you, We know how you
and I would work. But they don't seem so keen to do that,
especially without their uh you know, magic. I've heard terrible stories of the
things they've done without magic. Are you saying I should be worried? Perhaps
not, Perhaps they are a shadow of what they used to be. Are
you planning on tying us down and torturing us to get information? No?
I have not much use for magic, franklier world without it might be beneficial
for us, That's what I said in the beginning. That being said,
I want to know if they're hiding a room, some books, anything from
us. I'm sure they're hiding most things from you. M hm. That's
not going to be helpful for them, is it. From what I understand,
they are rebuilding their structure arch inquisitors. There are many of them across
the world. I think that that would be their priority for now, and
then they shall work out precisely why the magic disappeared and whether they can bring
it back. Yeah, well, good luck with that. We've been researching
that as well. Doesn't seem like they even know. It stems from what
seems like a single source, and that source doesn't I don't. I don't
think it's around anymore. They want to get magic back, They're going to
have to find out how to bring that back. I'm sure they will want
to restore order first and then get back to business. Of course. I'm
sure you'll be helping with that. Well, that depends on whether they still
have the coin. It's true, he seems like wanted food. Yeah,
we're gonna be once we are reunited with our friend, we're going to be
going and looking for a man. As I said, this is someone that
the This is someone that the Inquisition might want that whole torture and get information.
He might be a good target for that. Do you have a name
for this man? Not yet, and they don't either. Well, you
said they knew a lot, but I'm surprised at how much they don't know.
So, yeah, perhaps it's been a face all these years. You
could say that boogeyman keep the people in line. Well, now are you
willing to help? I suppose so that if it's food, do you want
just help yourself? To the stores. Didn't want to just steal from you.
I'm not a part of the thieves guild, am I especially now where
there's chaos outside. Hmm, yes, kit yourself out, take what you
need and do whatever it is that you wish. All right, don't worry.
We'll be out of here in time. Once. Once we're done,
if I'm still alive, I'll come back help get back what we took.
I'm thinking perhaps we'll need to move. I mean, there's other spots in
the cities we can move to. We'll be fine. Well, when the
time comes, we shall make the decisions together. Perhaps, Yeah, And
I think that he would see that. It's kind of a reluctance. Ellie
feels like she knows she's gonna have to come back and work with him,
alongside him. But right, well thanks for that, and I just walk
out. Yeah. Yeah, the door closes behind you. He doesn't seem
to move until you leave. Where is Kalougi Probably passed out at the bar,
Absolutely are you? Because we have a bar in in the Saddin skilled
that barely anyone drinks that he hasn't probably hasn't barely even needed a bed.
Holkoon has probably been just carrying him to and from a cop A random one
Klugi passed out at one of the bars. As you walk past, maybe
stirs from a slumber and opening one eye, says, all right, I've
got a question for you, like stop and look back, and oh I
thought you were sleeping in your bed? All right, all right, listen,
right, okay? Why would grim m hm try and kill the queen
because he doesn't like her? Wrong? Because she's a dam Well she's a
demon, and demons don't exist up here anymore. Then she wouldn't be here,
would she? Then? Why the fuck did he storm the castle?
That's what I want to ask him? Right there, you go, see,
that's why we need to meet with him. And you know, if
you sober up, you can join us. Turning to be sober to me
with that assholder. You gotta be you gotta be able to walk. I'm
not carrying you, listen, I've been walking all my life. Yeah,
well, Ulcon's been carrying you to your bed every night. Well that was
his decision to make that. That alcohol is not very cheap. I mean,
granted we got it for free, but it's not very cheap. And
you've been drinking it by the bottle. All right, put me to work.
Who do you want dead? I like pat him on the cheek and
I'm like, in time, come on, okay. You'd see him looking
around a little. You reach over the bar and finds half a bottle of
something very dark and puts it under his coat. He's probably changed once,
but he's maybe partially in like strange assassins garb. I think that like hold
go on, would have forced him to change after a while, like no,
you need to change. Was half naked nice at the time, So
he's oddly oddly dressed for Kalougi, who usually wears kind of strange old finery
and is actually in some refined dark sneaking where quite well made the assassin's gear
would be. I would assume, Yeah, he's wearing a darker dress than
usual and probably still has his coat over the top of it. He falls
in line behind you as you head back to the other two. Yeah,
all right, well I think we should go go back to the inquisition.
I need to talk to Reginald. I mean, you don't have to,
you can stay here, but I'd like to see how they're getting along with
the grim thing. Obviously, We're not going to let you go back by
yourself. We're coming with you. We should stay together. I don't think
it's good to split up. Agreed, all right, And we're bringing him
this time. And I point back to drunk Kalugie. He's got questions,
and I mean, at this point, maybe he'll ask the right one.
Yeah, we seem to be not asking the right ones. But yeah,
I think we should go talk to them. I think it's a better plan.
Oh, worry about food. Uh, and we can just take from
the stores here. I made sure Zach knew we were the ones stealing,
so that way he didn't kill some Oh right, oh okay, Oh,
and don't say the wrong thing around the inquisition. Apparently they like to torture
people for information, so that's what I had kind of tie, but for
torturing people. Don't you think they'd have more information than they do. You
would think. But we just need to give them as much as we can
without giving them everything, and satisfy you know, their needs, so they
don't buying one of us down and torture us. Also, how do we
know that they don't still have eyes on us? Pretty surprise. They just
let us go I mean they're probably watching us when we're out. I mean
they can't come in here, but otherwise, yeah, just assume someone's always
watching. Do you think they're not telling us everything? Of course not.
I think that they have knowledge stored away somewhere that they haven't even let us
know about. We have to start being careful what we tell them. I
because they're not giving us information, and well we seem to be giving them
quite a bit. Well, I pull out this, this scroll I have
like stored and I'm like, I haven't give them handed anything over to them.
I require a meeting with grim before I hand anything over. I have
an idea. It's just like an idea. I don't know, if you
take a page out of their book. What if we tortured Reginald? I
don't. I can't. Kind I know that doesn't seem like that's my kind
of thing, But I'm just still but it's kind of like the end of
the world's happening. What if we have to like to do this? Are
you I walk up to Or and I put my hand against her forehead.
I'm like, are you feeling all right? No? Do? I just
want to like, are you sure? Because that sounds like something i'd say.
But here's the thing though, Like it's the Inquisition and it's like they're
they're this huge thing that we've all made up in our heads that have all
this information and they're this all powerful thing. And literally Reginald's like, yeah,
I don't know the entire time we ask him anything. Maybe maybe we
grab you know, one of the lower down in the ladder people. No,
we need to get Reginald or he knows a bit, hold on a
bit. I've seen you makeing eyes with the ladies in the Inquisition, especially
that one, the bigger lady. I've seen you make a nose. Oh,
well a lot. I mean, did you even get anything done this
week? No? You didn't even get her name? No, I didn't.
How about we let Bo work his magic? What so? So I
I lure her in and what we start torturing her. You can try to
pillow talk her. I'm not good at this. See I'm not good at
tall seduction thing. But maybe if you can, Like time I went on
a date with an Inquisition girl. It didn't go so great. I smacked
her in the face, knocking her ound unconscious. Okay, so I don't
think it's well, we can if that's what happens, can mind him and
we don't the tour d room, but you know, it's not doing well.
When I left, Alvin was not doing well and I just were running
out of time. I don't think we have as much time as we think.
Hmmm, it realized that about Alvin. I'm sorry, Well, let's
not piss off the inquisition so fast. So I think we should try to
do a little bit more of a passive way. But first I want to
talk to Reginald. We've been talking to him for a week guy, and
he's literally like making notes on us and he won't even let us look at
his I would just start to walk out, like I'm not going to debate
it, but Ellie, come on, I just I'm gonna talk to him.
I want to speak to Grim. He's the one doing that whole thing
setting it up. We can't just barge in there. As you saw,
the biggest man got taken down. There's no way we're getting in without magic.
I mean, but that's one of the things though. We don't have
magic. But I got a big ass sword, then I got a bow
and some daggers. But it's not We're not gonna be able to take down
the guard, the queen guard. Have you ever went against them? No?
But I feel like I could cry, Nope, there's a reason that
us assassins don't try to assassinate the queen even we're not we're not going to
do that. And I look at Klue and I'm like, you know,
why did he go in there? What? Why did he go attack the
queen? No? My god, not this again. Well that's why I
really do walk out. I really do walk out, and he follows as
well. He just can't get I mean, I guess we should go.
Well, I just feel like I think there's gonna be a lot more people
that are not gonna make it if we don't figure this out. No,
and if we try and talk to Reginald Day, he's not going to give
us what we want if we just talk to him casually. We we gotta
do this the inquisition way and maybe snag him somewhere. And I think that
Ellie surprisingly might fight us on that. I know she she did not agree
on that. I thought she'd be into it. I know, I'm just
as surprised as you are. I thought she'd be all on board. For
that, why do we give him one more try? Like maybe Coluli you'll
ask the right questions or Ellie you'll ask the right thing, and then maybe
he'll help us. But I don't know. I'm I'm wanting to figure this
out before it's too late for everybody. Likewise, all right, So that's
that's what we'll do. We'll give him, we'll give you one last chance,
and if he doesn't give a ship, I'm in on this with you,
Aura, all right, okay, And like I start like breathing heavily
and trying to calm myself down. We got this, Okay, we got
this. Let's just so I guess let's just go with them, and then
if I think of anything, I'll let you know if I come up with
a plan. Okay, we're in it, Taylor, Hey, you both
of course, and I go out and I'm a low behind. Yeah.
The two of you head out into the streets of Bellowna and head somewhat northwards
towards the fortress, towards the area where the noble folk live and also the
kind of governmental buildings, including one building that belongs to the Inquisition. And
I think that's a good place for us to go to a break where we'll
be back in a few minutes to see who's doing what and where and how
and whether Kalugi is still conscious. When while we're on a break, we
have a little something to show you a little did he a little to something
special presented to you on behalf of table story. So stick around, keep
an eye on your screen. We'll be back in a few minutes. Thank
you so much for watching. See you in a few The swamp crew are
heading towards Tiecin fishing village on the eastern coast of Jos Corn and I think
it's been pretty much a fall day. You've spent one night in the in
the mountainous jungle range. It wasn't a difficult mountainous climb, but it was
a mountain in path through a lot of thick kind of jungle density. There
have probably been a few horrible things that have been gone. Two of you
were quite injured as well. I was gonna see them basically immediately. Oh,
I also have a healer ability that I will use. Please spend your
aps and heal yourselves up as much as you wish. But the journey wouldn't
have been necessarily comfortable. The entire way, but it wasn't too too,
too difficult for two days of a journey. I'm so sorry. I have
an absurd question how much HP do I have? Because I know I only
have four on my sheet, but I forgot what my max HP is?
Ten? Everyone, thank you? So did anybody else need healing? Any?
Sorry? You? What? Sorry? Does resting regenerat? Any of
it has to be mechanically healed. Let's find out. Let's find out arm
recovery, injury and death. You can regroup for a short time with no
enemies nearby, and you regain up to the halfway point of your maximum hit
points. For example, if you regroup while at three HP, you would
recover two HP. So when you regroup, you can recover half of your
HP. When you complete a full night's rest while in a safe place,
you recover all of your hit points. Let's find out whether you were in
a safe place. You were in a safe place, wonderful, So we
can say last night you had a full recovery during the during the evening.
Yeah, after a full month sleep, although it would have been uncomfortable and
no fun. But I don't know about that. Well, okay, roll
dices, Everyone how comfortable was I? I was ten comfortable, I was
eight comfortable. He was comfortable, not fair comfortable with a little worried about
sooner ten eight five. Let's see how that correlates with my quest rules.
A ten it's a tough choice. You succeed, but there is a cost,
and a five is a failure. So all of you were bitten by
ants. You're all covered in an itch with who rolled the five? With
Toby being the itchiest by far. You slept comfortably, but when you woke
up you found that these little tiny ants were all over you and the left
behind lots of little just little bites, nothing dangerous thing that's going to make
you sick or anything, but your skin is itching like crazy, probably for
the entirety of today. That's another thing I never needed to sleep before.
Do I sleep now? Yes? Romy and oother dice yeh God nineteen on
that one. Please tell me I slept soundly and successfully with no nightmares.
I was slightly concerned that now that I sleep, that's all that would happen.
So weird experience to just close your eyes I dreamed before, because yeah,
the weirdest thing about sleeping is if you to sleep you have to lay
down and pretend to be asleep, and then you go to sleep. And
it's the strangest thing that you've probably witnessed over your life and then discovered what
it is. And it's probably not great. I feel like, if you've
never slept before and you wake up, you probably feel awful. It's awful,
yeah, especially because I'm breathe now for the first time, I'm feeling
my age and yeah, it's not a great experience. And I thought I
was dying the first time. Yeah, so you probably don't feel amazing really,
but just on in a physical sense, you can feel however you wish
you'd feel any other way, but none of you are, you know,
dying or anything anymore. You feel okay. Your wounds were relatively superficial after
you kind of took some tumbles and some strikes from this snake and then the
yeah, the walk and everything will have clearly up. There's no permanent damage
essentially, and you're probably feeling okay. You clear the mountainous range eventually and
come to a very short flat piece of land with a very clear path.
The land begins to dip downwards and really very openly and clearly you can see
the ocean ahead of you. It stretches out pretty far. You can see
the lip of a kind of a cliff edge for a lot of what you
see ahead of you, Toby, you know that there's a path that leads
down and I think we probably join you just a little away from the thick
jungle and the mountainous path and now heading down a very long kind of cliff
path is what it is. It's wide, it's it's like it's almost like
walking down into what would look like a quarry to us. There's a huge
path that two carts could fit down, that winds a little bit down.
There are points where there are steps that help you to cut off some of
the paths so you can start walking down the smaller trails and paths. And
below you you can see this little postal port town, a little fishing village
with wooden huts. There are several stone towers around. They all look like
lighthouses, but they're not. They just are shaped in that kind of way.
There is a particularly large building towards the center of town that seems to
have a giant shard of crystal sticking up from the rooftop. That building in
particular as you get closer, appears to have fallen to recent damage. It
looks kind of busted up, and the shard of crystal looks like it's kind
of at an angle. You can see lots of small boats and fishing boats
at the bottom of this cliff. The town is kind of nestled in an
alcove to a degree, so the immediate water around it is actually quite calm,
though you would imagine that sometimes it's not always that case. You can
see a lot of boats going to and from the village. And this is
a village, but it's somewhere between a village and a town in size.
There's probably quite a few people here, but it's still relatively quaint looking.
It's similar to right Seabe's about the same size. We're just swampy and very
hot and gross. And this has a nice ocean breeze right and the same
system. Really, this seems to be the type of village. This place
most likely provides a lot of fish for a lot of for everywhere on your
current. Your current is not a huge island. You can get to and
from one end to the other quite quickly. It's just difficult to rain for
the most part trains do it in no time, and there are probably ships
that go up and down the coast. You can see two or three larger
vessels, two which appear to be docked and stationed and have probably been there
for a long time. A different vessel, slightly smaller but looks just like
a cargo vessel, seems to have been It looks of a different design to
what you expect of Gnomish design. It is a strange looking vessel and painted
blue, whereas the other vessels here are just kind of wood, no pange,
just varnished. There are a lot of gnomes in this village, Toby
that you would know. Most of them into fishing and just their entire culture
is built around that. They provide fish or yours corn and you guys spend
It takes a little while to get down the cliff side towards this town,
and once you get there you can see a great many buildings. There are
lots of different buildings, some of them with signs out the front. Many
of them just seem to be buildings. They could be homes, they could
be stores. It's kind of hard to tell. And there are plenty of
nomes moving around every and then you'll spot a human. Maybe you see an
elf loading something up onto one of the fishing vessels. But for the most
part, everybody here appears to be gnomes. A few of them glance up
at you, a few of them wave, but nobody actively comes rushing over
to you or anything. As you start moving through the village, where are
you guys heading for? What are you looking for? What's the plan?
What are you doing? Well, so I think when we get down there,
we should maybe just book passage to Bologna right away, and depending on
when the ship's leaving, maybe we could get a meal or I don't know,
but you must be hungry, Chiro. I'm definitely hungry. Maybe good
bath. I'm just kind of covered in snake's lime. Really not looking forward
to getting back on the sea. Right. It's our only way through unfortunately.
Will you be all right? I'll be fine, and I just uh,
yeah, sooner we get that part over with. Yeah, it was.
You know, if it gets too bad, just put your head between
your legs and breathe. Right, Okay, we'll be We'll be with you,
thank you. Yeah, but yeah, I angry. Let's go see
who's going in Bologna. All right, I go ahead and pull my hood
up over my head and just keeping keeping an eye out. I'm inquisition,
right, I don't know who's got eyes wear, so uh, definitely hood
up and not not showing my pink hair or my ears. Okay, I
ramble all the way to the port. That's where we're going, I think,
And you're are you looking for anyone or anything in particular that stands out?
I'm assuming though it's a small dog that has a dog master, don't
hear someone to the scare of things. Let's find out there is. You
come to a small looking hut towards the center of where the docks are,
and these are kind of like mostly wooden and rickety looking. This isn't like
any modern, nice looking dock with any stone areas. These are kind of
like wooden piers that stretch out multiple places. It seems like everyone in town
owns some sort of boat, whether it be a small rowboat or something slightly
larger. And you find that always wanted to live on a boat, kind
of like a marina of just multiple different piers that people are walking up and
down towards the center. You kind of realize that there's a sign that must
denote a a dock master of sorts. But there is a shut up,
pulled down and nobody there that mean things easier? Do we just want to
start at one end? And what cola until i'veeened someone? Yes, I
think if I think that, yes, I can do it. If you
want to, you can see. No, I don't need to sit down.
I'm fine, but I could use a sit down to if you want
on your own, that's what. Yeah, if you need to sit down
and take a rest, I can definitely do it. It's not a problem.
I don't think anything. Let's go do it, all right? Um
roll me at dice those of you that are looking around seventeen from me,
or I'm gonna be worried about that ocean right look at you. You definitely
needed to sit down, didn't you. I don't. I don't like this
question. Nonsense. You've got them all the way here gets eat. Yeah,
you do need to sit down. Actually think I need to applace himself
to that. It's kind of getting a bit, it's getting one of a
bottom right hit. We agree, I need to. I need to try
and fix my gun real quick, so I do need that's true to sit
down and oh all right, right, okay, well, where's that bench
right over there? You can sit down, kyrol, you can join them.
I've got this, I'll handle this, sure, I'm sure, all
right. I'll keep an eye on things sooner. You head off down the
docks looking for someone. But I don't know if you know what you're looking
for. Who want anything in particular that you're like, I've ridden on a
boat before. I'm not an idiot. I'm looking for a big vessel that's
probably making passage somewhere. I'll probably just ask each each each boat I passed
by, you know, where's this one going? And another accepting passage?
Three large vessels that have seafaring vessels. There are two which are docked up
on the northern end of the marina and one which is docked up on the
southern end. The one on the southern end looks way different to the others
too. What does it look like? The other two look like They actually
kind of look like the old like galleon ships, like like war vessels.
They look big and intimidating. The The third vessel, which is painted blue,
is is large and flat and has a lot of surface area on the
top There is a lot of things on it that have been strapped down and
covered in tarps and things like that. It looks like a cargo vessel of
sorts perhaps. Okay, right, what are the names of the ships?
Find out if you can see. Roll for me first, okay ten.
At ten, you can see the blue vessel, the cargo one. Yes,
you can see the cargo vessel is called Oh, the Utensia. Oh
that sounds promising. I was just going to go based on a name.
But if I can't see the other two, then I'll probably walk down and
ask where they're headed. They might not even be headed in the right direction.
Okay, roll for me again, okay five, five, one,
two three four five. You see a human fellow moving up and down the
docks nearby where the Utensia ship is docked. There are many people coming and
going from this ship. It looks as if they're either unloading or loading things
onto it. You can see a lot of gnomes that seem to be wearing
the same kind of attire as all the other gnomes that you've seen in town.
And you can see a crew of a few people who look like they're
probably the crew of the ship. You can also see several people standing around
with their own satchels and packs that look like travelers, like they might be
passengers, standing around doing nothing. As you come close, though, a
human figure with very tight clothing over a large muscular frame and a flat cap
steps in front of you and says, excuse me, sorry, where are
you going belowna hopefully? Oh right, I've not seen you. Well,
I just got here, so that. Oh right, you're on the manifest
No, I'm hoping to book passage for me and my family. Right,
oh well, you're a bit late. You want to get on our ship
hopefully? Yes? Oh right, if it's at all possible. No,
it's probably not, but you'll bit. You're in a bit of trouble if
you don't get on the ship, right I suppose why, well, I
suppose a lot of the ships ain't working hours. House not working either,
really not as much as it used to. It speaks to me on a
fundamental level. Is there any way you can make an exception? All right,
Well, it's not for me. I'll have to ask the captain or
maybe you know. I'm just we're trying to get to our other family and
the state of the world is quite disastrous, and we just want to make
sure they're okay. And oh yeah, it would mean a great deal to
me if I could speak to the captain or yeah right, yeah, all
right, yeah, I mean I suppose right, how many three including me?
Three? Ah right, I suppose we might actually any of you have
been on a ship before? Oh, yes, all of you. We're
on an island, you know, yes, all right, Well you don't
look like well, I mean I've lived here for ten years. But yeah,
yes, we've all been on a ship before. Yes, right,
you worked on a ship. Uh no, I mean I haven't perhaps,
No, all right? Can you cook? Yes? That I can cook?
Yes? Would you like I have I have the best lemon cake and
all of your corn here in my pack. Would you like to try some?
Well, okay, all right, and I'll pull out just a little
piece of lemon cake on a on a little handkerchief and I'll hand it over
right right, I'd like to have that for the entire what first, now,
well, of course it's a little bit stale. I didn't make it
this morning. All right. You're not from here, right, you've been
traveling? Yes? All right? Where here? Because the trains aren't working
city. I live on the outskirts of CT Mountain. We followed the northern
path to get here. What are you not from here either? No?
Oh, it's it's it's just on the other side of the mountain there.
You see that that mountain peak? Oh fucking hell, you climbed up that.
That's right, So it would be great if we could hit a ride.
Hell all right, yeah, I'll probably have to ask the captain or
maybe I know. Hi. Three of you, yes, three, we've
all sailed before. Hi, all right? And one of you is a
kid? Uh no, a young adult? Right, all right? My
daughter is young, but not that young. She's not a child. All
right, Yeah, no, that's all right, go get them then?
Great? Ah, sure you are you? Are you sure? No?
No, it's not to me right, Well, when when will we know?
I'll just left the rocks? Sorry what I just lift the rocks,
That's all I do. Right, But when will we know if we're allowed
passage on this ship? Oh, you'll have to go ask the captain or
maybe n okay, And how do I do that? Where are they?
I don't know? Well, the captain is probably in a bastard mood,
so maybe you should go and ask n Or. But he's you know,
he's a bit of a strange one, not all there up there? So
okay, how do I find him? And got money? What money?
It's it's right? Well then they paid ten gold per head? Are you
lying to me, young man? What? No? No, that's how
much it is. You've got to get on that thing with us. I
mean you might. You know you're expected to mock in as well perform tasks
and that if you've not well nothing before, then you probably have to do
some cleaning or labor or lifting like me. That's how I've got on this
ship cooking it. Make some of that cake. But can you cook fish?
Yes? I can, right, you've got spices and that make it
taste in fact alone, ye roll off like that like hot stuff. You
know, I met your eyes? What he likes that? Roll off?
All right? Will? If I can't do that, perhaps perhaps Toby can
do that. She always makes things too spicy. Really excuse you indigestion,
But all rex man, Tommy, I don't like it right, me neither,
But you know if the captain likes it, then then you know,
yes, of course, if you've not got your ship legs like your tommy's
not right. Then you're just on the can the whole time, right,
you're being sick, and then he was cleaning it up. Morgans. Well
you because you're going to work for us. Oh you're right with the mop.
Yes, I think I can handle a mop all right. Yeah,
we're leaving today. You better get a move on. Right around chatting,
I'll turn and I'll wave at them. You see that skinny guy over there,
thank you? Streaker pissed right there? See him, the one with
the weird streak in his hair, the black and white, that's what does
you? Don't like nothing? Really? He's a bastard, right, this
should be easy. Yeah, No, he's a nasty bastard. Really if
you can find him. Captains around here somewhere, big bastard, old old
bastard, not as old as old Norris, old Norris, older than that
old bustard. They see that old guy coming over? Really yeah, looking
at the old ancient he looks yucker than me. You're calling him agent?
How old are you? You'd never ask a lady her age? What's wrong
with you? Who raised you? Where are your manners? I don't know,
I don't know. See my parents I've been in the giant lands.
Oh okay, well I'm going to I'm going to go speak to Eno and
then I'll come back. I should like to know more about where you've been.
Well, we've been a giant lands. We've got some of that giant
ish marble, you know. Oh, that's what we do. We go
over there, pick up the rocks, you know, and then and then
you and you are going to Bologna. You say, no, what where
are you going? We're going to Dayton. Where the hell is that one?
Oh? Perfect? Well then that's fine. Okay, Well that'll that'll
do. I suppose, Ah, Toby Hiro, uh this is and you
said your name was why Wayne? Wayne? Yes, Wayne thinks that we
should be able to get on board. But we need to go speak to
that gentleman over there with the skunkhead you know. Okay, I'm gonna call
him that. You go right ahead and do that. Just don't tell him
it was from me. We are secret. And how long we'll take to
get to Ballogna. Oh? Well, the thing's battered, isn't it.
The old ship's battered. Stop working on account of the or the engine.
Right, there's a little chune up you know a little bit of chewne up
and now we ain't got you know, half an engine. So them lot,
they've been working on it, little guys. Look at him wrong,
look at him go all right, they've been working on it. They have.
They've been fixing it up right. They reckon it will float. But
I don't know anymore. We used to be able to do it in less
than a month. Okay, any other any other ships hidden that weed?
You know? No, I never been here before. I like it.
It's too hot, it's you get used to it, all right? Thanks
Wayne, you'll go, Yes, thank you, Thank you Wayne so much.
I'm really glad you enjoyed the cake. And hopefully we'll see you on
board. All right, Yeah, you want to go and speak to n
No, maybe the captain right on that you here? The captain. Captain's
an old bastard, old not as old as old Norris, not as old
as you know. He's old though you see him. Nothing about old gray
beard, not quite as great as yours, bits of bits of brown.
But I don't know where he is, so you won't miss him. No,
big bastard, big coat here, I don't know why. H great,
Thank you for getting Wayne, all right, not the goliath. Great,
don't just don't talk to the goliath, you know, you talk to
one of don't talk to the other one. Don't talk to the one with
the blue Why not? Absolute savage? No, let me tell you something.
He's a savage, right, It was up fine taking all the rocks.
He comes over with a rock and froze it at me like i'm him,
you know, like he expected you to catch this, right, And
am I going to catch a rock like that? It's bigger than I am.
We all like it. It doesn't necessarily make him savage. It just
means he miscalculated your strength. It means you're not strong enough really if you
look at it from his point right, And I'm pretty strong, right,
But he's a savage, very strong, but he's Toby. I think that
maybe insulting this man is not the not the way to go about anything.
It's realistic about it. Know, he can be strong as he wants to
be. Blacklias there just you know something else. When I see him get
on all falls and catch a deer, it's just alive. Ben's neck from
the back thing. I think his problems might go, Okay, we're going
to go talk to any keep just keep by, all right, Yeah,
watch out, though I'm not entirely sure how I feel about half an engine.
You know that that whole thing has me a little bit concerned, mildly
really, you say, well, anyway, regardless of engine and suffering a
month, he said, a month? Well, I mean it would take
probably, you see, less than seed less than are down there. Maybe
it would be faster. H Well, I mean it's whether or not we
can get if we spend time looking for another one and this one leaves.
You know, maybe we should talk to that anal fail of us and we've
got time, we can check with another boats. All right, we'll probably
have to book passage here either way. Yeah, did you say when they
were leaving? No, he didn't, Okay, just that we were out
of time and we'd be screwed if we didn't get on this ship. I
don't know if any of the other ships are growing. But I also don't
know if he knew. He seemed to have no clue what was going on
in the harbor. Okay, let's check with another failure then, all right,
just so not wait but that one, yes, excuse me, Yeah,
you're approached a very very tall man, human man. He's about six
five. I can't remember how told you, guys, but I'm guessing it's
not not at all. Extremely thin, borderline emaciated. Thin, tall man
with black hair, some grays in it, and a very thin looking mustachio
that twizzles around. Looks like a classic villain from like a Hannah Barbera cartoon
or something like that. He's holding a book and he's reading off a manifest
He seems to be kind of somewhat arranging or orchestrating what's going on with the
loading of the ships. And as you approach, he turns quite slowly to
you and says, hello, Hello. We were hoping that there might be
room for three more. You're going near Bologna, right, and we're going
to date on right. It's just a city over for us, and we
were hoping we could book passage if there was space. Let's see, if
there's space for three, will it'll cost you ten gold pieces per head?
Oh right, I just look over it. I can do one. Well,
so I've got I've only got Britain. You may travel with the crew
that you will be expected to perform tasks. Well, I can, I
can I can fix up stuff, and I can pretty well looking fish even.
Have you ever worked on an engine before? No, so you fix
that. When you say fix up things, I mean lingering to it will
like it was like structural affects houses that questioned them. Yeah, yeah,
rifle. Can you fire that doesn't work? Yep? Mm hmm. You
fired from a moving vehicle? Yeah, I can fight it out moving things.
I can fight a whale moving. Are you willing to fire it at?
Say pirates? No, shore, he want the he won the marksman
contest over in CTE. You may have heard useful and you what can you
do? Can you offer us anything? I can shoot this thing and I'll
pull out my bow, good shot. You're willing to fire that a,
say Pirates? Sure? Yes, very well? And have you ever killed
anybody before? M uh probably not? Yes, very good mm hmm.
And then you right? Well? I can cook, and I make a
mean lemon cake cooking, and this is pretty good. Yes, very well,
Yes you can. I also have some of my own spices if that
will help. I don't care what you cook. I do know that the
crew do not like cooking. They also do not like cleaning clean, just
like cooking. It's everyone can clean, right, of course we can,
yes, yes, no complaining, none, none whatsoever for how sea sick
you become, no matter where you are sleeping, right, I shall hear
none of it, with any of it? Got it? When? When
when do you? And do you leave? Well, that would be down
to I did hear enough to mhmm, that would be off to That will
be down to my captain. But he well, apparently not here. Perhaps
I can go and find out for you. You can stand with these fine
people who were traveling with us before we became stranded in this savage place.
Sorry, once you get used to it. Really, just you know your
corn's not savage? What do you mean? It's quite lovely, lovely,
you know, some of the best fruit you can find. Calling apart,
they barely have a doc. I think we should just go stand and I'm
gonna grab these two by their elbows over here, Lia. We'll be back,
thank you, sort of, Thank you there finding in ten years you
wish he was retiring here? You sure for me he doesn't know this place,
he's he's never been here. Do you think giving you that's a swallowed
by a giant sneak? You would have a different opinion. I don't.
I don't think. Yeah, well being you know, that's just wildlife that
exists everywhere anywhere you go. It's going to be a little bit dangerous.
I mean, you should see what it's like in dust fail. Everything's there
to kill you. Everything, the sun, the sand, all the all
the creatures. It's just it's I just think that was rude. That was
rude. Stranded in the well. I think we should maybe just check the
other boats. I think you're right, okay, so kind do you want
to stay here and keep an eye keep it, stay here and you two
go check or I'm pretty itchy. I think I better. All right,
I'll wait here. You're here, we'll go check the rest of them.
All right. It's not a long walk, right, It's just to the
other end of the dock. Yeah, it takes you five minutes to all
walk down. There's quite a few people moving about. You. Cairo heads
over towards where the other passengers are sort of milling around. There's only four
of them standing there. They pay you no real mind, Cairo, before
the other two head off down the dock. Both of you roll me nice.
Christ three seventeen three seventeen. Yeah, you're heading down the dock one
of the Once you get close to it, you can see the the two
ships ahead of you, and they do appear to be war vessels. They
have armaments on them, and they have ports that would potentially open up and
poke guns through. They look pretty similar to what we would expect to be
a galleon of some sort. And now is this weird? Why is there
a warship here? Two? Why? One of them looks like it's been
here forever? All right? You can see that that one is known as
the Eagle and the other is known as Mantis. I like Eagle better,
but if it looks like it's been here forever, then that's probably choice to
make the oldest ship of all time. The closer you get to it,
you can tell that it probably hasn't been sailing even for a long time.
It doesn't mean that it'll be a bad experience just because it's old, and
the Mantis appears to be a little newer. It's a little larger. You
can see that the armaments appear to be clean and ready, the rigging is
ready to go. But there is nobody going really to and from them.
But both ships do have a couple of guardsmen, watchmen looking out for them.
You can see two small figures, both of them with rifles similar to
yours ippo, maybe a little better in fact, and little swords short swords
on their hips standing near where the gang plank is. Is that what it's
called the plank to lead up to the ships. But as you're drawing closer
to these these ships, you pick up on a conversation. You can hear
what sounds like maybe an argument between two people. You hear one person shouting,
no, I will, I will not pay you any any money whatsoever.
And you hear a second person saying give me your money. You give
me your money like you. And as you as you make a robbery,
sounds like there's a mugging happening. You look to your left. There's that
kind of broken looking building with a huge shard of crystal that looks like it's
been dropped on top of it from god knows what. Hyde seems to be
run down and broken. It looks like it was maybe a tavern, but
is absolutely not in use, as there's debris around it, bits of wood
and the windows are all broken in. You can see an old man with
his hands up saying I will not give you a penny, And you can
see what looks like maybe a small dwarf with a long looking thin blade pushed
up against the collar of this all the man Tobe. Get your rifle out,
so stop right there happening here. You want point my rifle. I
think it sits high time you left you I do, I won't. I
don't think I give a ship what you want your I think, I think,
I know, I think there's I think I know he's he's here.
You're in the wrong city, buddy. You're looking for the next one over
for all the three boose having the party the next city over them then,
because I'm the city. I lived here, my light the whole night three.
But well so you obviously heard about the party then, because someone who's
like you wouldn't have not heard about it. I can't believe that roll me
dies both of you. Mm hmmm, wonder twin powers activate up to the
party. I go where's that? You'll pass a snake on your way.
You'll know you're going the right way. Just listen, listen for the singing.
Okay, you see him move around the back of the building. There
is a relatively like maybe a middle aged looking man in a thick coat with
a captain's hat on his head and a set of boots and an old set
of trousers. Standing his hands, shaking a little, he says, Oh,
you are right. Came along when you did. I was about to
shout, you're all right, fully sorry? Hand in through your nose,
out through your mouth, nice and slow, nice, and so slow down
there, you know, I'm gonna go ahead. I'm going to I'm going
to use relieve right now. What does that? Do you say? Something
comforting, alleviating them of anxiety, pain, or discomfort. For one hour
in the state, they cannot be affected by fear or confusion, and for
a brief time they feel better than they've ever felt before. Oh, okay,
what do you say? I'm just telling you. Breathe in through your
nose, out through Do you smell the sea breeze? That's right now?
Look at the water. What colors the water? Green? Blue? What
about the dark blue? Right? Doctor Brown's? And some oranges? There
you go, right? And what about my hair? Well, it's beautiful,
it's very nice. Oh well, thank you, that's very nice.
And I'm just touching his arm, and I'm trying to help him. Breathe
just in through your nose that three mouth nights and slow, there you go.
It's okay, fellow, you can move on. My name is Spirs.
He grabs your hands Sooner and kisses it. Well, well, I'm
just glad you're all right. You're welcome. It's almost shipwrecked ourselves the day.
Oh well, all right, so please I do apologize. What's your
name, milady? My name Sooner, and this here is Toby, and
very nice to meet you, Sooner. It's very good timing as well.
I thought he was going to slip my throat. He thinks I have all
this money because I've got a ship. Did I tell you I have a
ship and that's my ship over there. Oh, we were just trying to
book passage. You can absolutely have passage. I have quarters, just perfect.
He can have my quarters like my quarter. Yes, that's a bit,
that's a bit much. He's the captain. He needs his own quarters.
We can have quarters. I mean, you're welcome to join me in
them, but you can have them if you like. Well, that's nice.
We sort well, we're not going where you're headed, so we'll Yes,
we are We absolutely are headed. We're headed to Bologna with one city
away. Don't suppose you could go to Bologna first, We can't because of
where it's located as well. Perfectly we can try and get as close as
possible. They don't see, I mean, he's only going there. Maybe
we can find someone with a flying ship and it's very nice and potentially free
accommodations. Would watch I can have the watch taken. No, no,
definitely not. And he needs to come with us, and and and and
so does someone else. So be three of us booking passage with that?
Be all right? Yes, of course, absolutely, yes, we'll be
leaving today. Hopefully these little gnomes have been fixing the engine. The engine
is not working. I must say I wasn't quite into using that engine when
it was first introduced to me. For quite illegal. You don't know that,
well, it doesn't matter, doesn't I don't know. Well, it
doesn't matter anymore. We almost brought the ship to Ruin. You do know
how to sail without an engine? Oh? Yes, of course, yes,
of course, of course I do. Yes, well, of course,
okay, yes, sail that no, but sail, yes, of
course? What are you doing all the way down here near the warships.
Well, I was going for a nice walk. Oh sorry, it turned
out the way that it did. I made the mistake of telling him that
I was rather wealthy. Well, yes, I don't do that. Probably,
even if people don't try to rob your norns and pressed, some people
are impressed. It takes a lot to you know, work yourself up from
wherever you know we come from and to ownership. That's that takes a lot,
of course. Yes, So where where did you send him? Over
the mountains? The mountains? You have to go get him back? Why
we need him? What you need? Why do we need him? He's
on my crew crewman was trying to rob you. Oh, yes, they
do it all the time, the terrible Oh dear. Yes, I don't
keep any of my money on my person. But I don't think he's going
to die. He's going to die. He's going to die. We must
pretty sure that that lump over there underground is probably him. Just see it,
rather drunk all the time he's going. And so what does he do
on exactly how many times have you made this trip? Exactly how many times?
Well, I've I've made the trip several several times, every time,
though the crew changes over. We have to go to the giant lands.
You understand, it's a lot of people being eaten by giants. So I
went from my original crew long gone maybe the gods bless their souls, And
now I'm really really down to just myself. The original crew. We hired
roll Off because he was quite quite good at navigation. If we've ever needed
him, we need him now. I've never been here before. We usually
make the trip up the coast of the dust fail and then in, but
we've got cut off. Course I've been to that dreadful play Oh wonderful place.
I absolutely love it. Well, well it's will I will go fitch.
Would you say his name was roll Off? Yes? Is that because
he's prone to rolling off? I have no idea. It's an I'm sure
I'll go. Savages and pirates, a lot of them. I'll go through
a open intenment that I came over there, right, Yes, right,
wonderful. Get him on the ship. Yes, okay, Well, perhaps
i'll well, i'll stay. Well, I suppose I can escort you,
Miladi to the to the to the ship. I'll show you. I'll show
you the very very nice quarters that I have really the last bastion of safety
on the entire vessel. All right, come on with me. Very nice
clothing you're wearing. You to say you're front us fail. Well, I
yes, but I haven't been there in a very long time, and these
dreadful things I I you know, I've we've been walking up through the mountain
and I believe I'm a bit of a mess. But you're up in those
mountains. Yes, we came from city to hopefully book passage. Glorious city.
It's a swamp city really, Oh yes, I've never heard of it.
Right, well, it's impressive to me. I like it peaceful.
Yes, well perhaps, well, well maybe we can. We'll visit.
We'll visit maybe another time, though this not now, not now, right,
of course, not now. Well, but we'd like to get going
as soon as you're ready. Right, Yes, you're going to Kolona to
visit your husband, No, to visit my friends. Yes, very good,
well, very good. Yes, come come come, I'll take you
up there. He leads you down the dock and heads up towards the the
Autensia, this kind of large, flat, relatively plain looking vessel, though
it has been painted blue. The crew you can see many of the crew
members moving around. You can kind of pick out who seems to be crew
for the ship and who is passengers for the ship. They all seem to
be wearing like vastly different clothing to the clothing that is fashionable currently on your
corn and in this town in Tsin. There's a scuffle as Toby wraps a
rope around roll Off and begins to just drag him. I guess towards the
ship and we're gonna switch back over as the Belgna crew head towards the inquisition
building once again, you guys arrive relatively early morning, the three of you
plus Klugi. As you step up along the steps towards they are towards the
the building, you can see the inquisitor that you've spoken with, Reginald,
standing at the top of the step expectantly looking down. You see him looking
around, and then he sees you and gives you a wave. As the
four of you make your way up the few steps to this quite large,
flat, square plane looking building, and he greets you one by one and
then says, oh, I have good news. What's that I seem to
have managed to arrange a meeting for you all, all of you somehow,
even though they seem to be quite aware of Kalugi. It seems you've tried
to break in before Kalogi, and they didn't. They know exactly who you
are, But the rest of you was a little easier to arrange over the
week. But unfortunately it's not going to be quite as simple as to waltzing
up. Okay, aren't. She's supposed to fix that up for us.
I thought you had the power to do that. Well, I do,
but I am not in charge of everything. My superiors require that story,
the scroll, everything that you know, they won't budge. Well. I
immediately turned to Ellie and well, kind of give her the impression, like,
you know, don't do it? Give it. Why can't we just
give it to you after we meet with him? I mean, if it's
I mean, it's just I don't understand why it's such a big deal,
like, I mean, she has it all written out. It's just well,
they would like to get on with their side of the investigation, our
side of the investigation, and we already have all of our information. The
only pieces of the puzzle we don't have are frankly, the pieces of the
puzzle that you hopefully have in your very strange story, at least from what
I'm able to piece together. You know, but you didn't really hold up
your side of the deal, did you. You gave us access to limited
access to your library, but did you actually show us everything? Well,
no, of course not. We can't just show you everything. We fully
give our side of the story. If you didn't even show us everything,
Well you can see everything if you'd like to go through years and years of
inquisition training and then earning the respect of your peers. You're saying you never
wrote stuff down and have it kind of stowed away in a endless rooms and
endless things stored away. The worst thing. We have these things called law
cubes, and they're all defunct now, so we've actually lost quite a lot
of our information. But you didn't get that from me. It's just here's
the thing. You didn't make backups. Hell, everybody I worked at the
library, you always had a backup book for the book. Yes, I'm
sure somebody made backups, but well, who's going to go and go through
all those things when you know everything's falling apart around us. Well, this
was supposed to happen before things fell apart. It's just like protocol. Do
you guys not have protocol? Oh, yes, we have protocol that we
I thought you were the inquisition. Well, well there wasn't much of a
protocol for the entire entirety of magic has gone. Now what do we do?
But we did have a protocol, but it didn't quite work out the
plan. We need your side of the story. It really is the only
thing I'm here to do. I reached into, you know, inside my
my I guess what would be like an overlaid sort of part of my outfit.
And I do pull out a skirl and I handed to him and I
say, well, that's the first half. Very well, he opens it
on the spot immediately, and it would be it would be the beginning of
stuff, but it wouldn't be all of it. It wouldn't be like what
we faced towards the end. I would say, you can get the rest
when we're done. I mean, there's a lot of fact checking. There's
a lot of things that you guys don't know. Just in that alone will
be able to get to work immediately. And I pat him on the shoulder.
Well, we shall have to conduct a set of interviews after this as
well, of course, who confirm and correlate emation and timelines? And yes,
of course, well we don't need to do it. Can I see
your book? Because you're getting some of our stuff. I'd like to see
your book now, yea, yours? Well, if you like. It's
really just a set of gmbled notes. I sort of have my own way
of well, yes, notes, you just like it and give it to
Aura, like down, I open it and I just start thumbing through it
and kind of showing it to Bo and Ellie. As I'm going through it,
what do I see? Does anybody speak or read inquisition? Okay?
Do I still retain my celestial dialogue? You can kind of read celestial?
Yeah, can I see celestial scroup? So inquisition doesn't fall into that cat
Inquisition looks crazy. It looks like you know when you know, when you
see a doctor's prescription and it's just like that's not work and you just can't
understand ship. Yeah, you can't read it. It's like the it feels
like the equivalent of that when you look at it. What is this?
This is? What is this? This is? Of course you'd show it
to me if I what is this? Well, that that ironically, that's
your name. Why are you writing it? I kind of handed over to
bow and I just I walk away and then fold my arms. I didn't
show him the page. This is gibberish. We don't understand this. Well,
yeah, actually that page is sort of gibberish. I suppose I have
it back now. I handed back, thank you, right, okay,
very well, it's fine. I didn't even bother that whole time because I
was looking over his shoulder when he was writing stuff down like in the beginning.
Yeah, and you probably have your own. You probably have thieves can't
which you can write in, which is the same kind of thing. He
turns around and says, well, actually before you go in, all right,
okay, fine, we have another task that is well, while my
superiors would like you to, you know, provide us with any information and
ensure that this is not just wild goose chase. And you are not all
crazy people. I don't think you are, but we have to, you
know, cross our t's and dot our eyes. They've asked me personally to
do something the Fortress, the Queen's people. I thought maybe it would be
better reviewed it for me and then I can get on with important work.
Okay, what is this task? Yeah, what is it? I just
need you to pop into town and find a fellow by the name of and
I'll write it down for you. He writes it in his bullshit cursive thing
that is Professor Peru Panu. Wait, hang on, and then he writes
it in common. There you go, and it is spelt this way.
I take the paper from him, and he said, yes, that's a
doctor. And well not just any doctor, right Oh no, no no
no, no no no no no that would that would that would be very
dire for all of us. I would imagine. No, he's a he
is a doctor of medicine, actual physical physician, doctor Pierru Panu, the
physician, the inquisition physician. You could say, he's a he's our physician.
He's he's our he's an inquisitor to a degree. But he's really a
doctor and our he's a secret doctor. Okay, okay, what do you
need us to do? Because I didn't know we were your errand people.
Now, well, yes, it's just if you do that, then I
can work on, you know, negotiations to to get you in. Since
I now have to get them to agree to half a scroll. Can I
read him to see if he's telling the truth at all? Yeah, and
you guys have a pretty good read on him by this point, I think
roll for me anyway, Yeah, both has become a paranoid as hell,
and maybe he doesn't quite get as strong of a read on him. But
I'm kind of giving you the benefit of the doubt, all of you that
you know him a little better this week. He does actually always seem to
be quite forthcoming with information. From what you can tell. He does seem
to always be telling the truth. He really doesn't seem like he's pulling the
wall over your eyes. For the most part. Whenever you ask him for
something, he does deliver it, whether it be a book or if he
doesn't have the information, he doesn't say it like he will hand over his
book even though it's bullshit. He does seem to be telling the truth most
of the time. He's looking at the scroll as well while he's saying this,
and he's kind of half of his attention always seems to be elsewhere.
But for the most part, you get the sense that he's not really like
trying to run the ring around you or anything more like a lie. By
your mission, but don't blatantly lie, maybe he he While thumbing through the
scroll of what you've you've written, he says, yes, well, okay,
so our the fortress seems to be in quite the tizzy. Frankly,
there's something going on, and and I'm not privy to that information. Maybe
I could speak the worst and cool find that out too. Then yes,
well well no, no, I would. I would really recommend you not
go anywhere near there, especially with him, not yet, although they will
be expecting you, of course you you you go find this physician and and
and and bring him to the fortress or maybe bring him to me. Yes,
bring him to me first, and then we'll go to the fortress.
Yes, that would be better. What if we didn't do it, well,
then I suppose they probably wouldn't let you in to visit your mister Grim.
I mean, I guess here's the thing, Ellie. I know you
want to see Grim, but I don't want to see him that bad.
I do. I have questions for him, And then I would turn around
because I mean, this is this is just another Aaron for l A,
Like she's done stuff like this before. She's kidnapped people and everything. So
I think yeah, I would just turn around and start walking towards the guild
again. And you're looking for a halfling man half okay, halfling man,
large ears, much large ears, blonde hair down to here. He has
like mutton chops. I'm sure is he hang out he hangs out at Let
me find out for you, Maranas. It's a I've really let me here
we go what I know where this is? You can all roll for me.
If you've heard of it, do you or somehow knows it? You
passed it on the way in, you know exactly where it is that you
have a flashback to being in the cart with nine lives. As he says,
it's Marani met my first wave there she did, as he points at
this place, and it was really only moments into the town. It's in
the low town, right down by the down by the by the gate where
the slums push out from the south and east along that along that big river.
Pretty pretty damn close to the gate. But looks like a rundown,
very small place. It looks like it doesn't look like a tavern. Really,
it looks like a building that you might live in, and they've converted
maybe the floor to a very small tavern. But yeah, that comes back
to you in that moment as you recognize it. Elie, you've heard of
it too, knows all taverns in the entire city without having to check.
And yeah, but it's a it's a terrible bar, small family run business,
but yeah, not doesn't really have much of a reputation outside of that.
And uh, and Reginald continues. He says, there's one last thing,
uh, which is probably why they asked me to fetch him. He's
been missing for a week. Okay, well, no, he's a he's
a physician and people are dying everywhere, So why do you need him?
You haven't told us why you need him. Well, he's he's he's he's
the one of the greatest minds really in Belogna. I would say so,
But didn't the Inquisition have better tabs on it's people. There's no point in
sitting here and arguing with this guy. He was just indeed, and we're
becoming his errand boy, Ellie, we're going to go get a position.
So they little globe and say a name because it was your real name.
Okay, why don't you just get us to talk to grim and you could
find somebody else who works here to go find your physician, much trying to
get you to speak to Grim. I want to know why you want to
speak to Grim, just as much as you want to speak to Grim.
I I that's Ellie. That guy almost chopped my head off. I want
to go find my friend, and I want to go figure out something else.
Well, And you don't want to speak to Graham, the guy who
almost chopped your head off, because you don't want to get him on our
side when we go Chase the guy who used to be a god. Yeah,
I don't think we need him. I I think we'll be fine with
him. And I also want to find out why he tried to bust in
on the Queen and I look at Kaloogi, I tried to do it.
No, we know I I'll tell you about it. She's a demon.
According to him, she's a fucking demon. And he knows it, right,
don't you know it? Might? No? I don't. I don't
know it. He fucking knows it. I'm fucking telling you that they all
know it. Plus knowing a physician could go well for us in case something
happens to any of us. I mean, look, bho can you.
I mean you can heal right, you can do bandaging, but you can't
do like well magic fingers used to do. He can't this, This inquisition
doctor can either. He's going to be able to do bandaging as well.
The doctors knew how to heal people without using magic. I mean not everyone
was born with magic. I wasn't. Yes, he's quite special. Actually
he's rather good at all sorts of strange things. Will they say he cured
like nthropy? Hmm, that's a curse. He cured it with medicine.
But curses don't exist anymore because there's no magic. Right to think about how
but wounds that is to pure something of magic with no magic. I used
to survive in the woods. I trip over things all the time and cut
my knae up and just stitch my leg up. In the woods, I
could stitch you up belly. Well, he's a physician of a rather impressive
nature oddities and strange strange things. Do you ever say like what you mean?
Well, no, no, no, I don't why Well, years
of keeping secrets sort of musclemmbell, I don't think right now, Just tell
us the truth, because then maybe I trust you more. Right, Well,
what I know of him, he went missing a week ago. I
met him once, a very long time ago, and I found him to
be eccentric. They want him up at the fortress for some reason that I
find to be odd myself. Something's happening in that fortress and I'm not sure
what it is. But if they need somebody like that to cure somebody in
there of something strange, then what could that mean? Why would you need
a very specific eccentric decision who can work on oddities in the fortress in this
of all the weeks. Does that not strike you as odd as well?
Of course it's odd, it is, And you know what, maybe maybe
you are telling the truth. I think you're telling the truth. I just
don't want to get in trouble with my superiors. They're rather flustered at the
moment, with their arch inquisitor laying in a casket in there. We're down
to, are you afraid of losing your job right now? Oh? Well,
that my head, haven't you heard them? He doesn't even know if
I'll have a job after this, right, Yes, I'm really not quite
sure what happens after this. Also, you know the world is ending and
that's interesting. We don't know the world's ending. Oh it's rather frightening.
If all of the magic can be sucked out of the world lickety split drop
of a hat, then what about the air? What happens if all the
air disappears? Yeah, well go find this, guys, so we can
get in the castle and find out what's going on in there, Because now
I want to do way more than just see grim. Yes, that would
be very helpful, And I shall take this scroll to my superiors and see
if it's enough. Nope, tell them that's all they're getting. We're not
going to budge on that. Very well, I shall try and argue on
your behalf again for the rest of the day. Well, that seems like
a waste of time. Why don't your superiors just work on things that can
maybe solve the problem stead of making a bunch of barriers to make this more
difficult. Well, yes, I floated a very similar question, of course.
But where we once had a lot of power over the arc and I
in inquisition, Well there is no Arcani right now, so they're weak.
They're susceptible to attacks from everybody right now, All the more reason to try
to make things work. You guys, get rock the boat with the queen
and oh, let's go barging in and do what we want with the inquisition.
It usually treading on toes is not the best way to go about things
in the long run, especially if Queen decides to turn on us. No,
no, no, isn't that what you I have read books about the
inquisition. That's what you all do. You just go and do what you
want. Not with the it's not the same. It's not the same with
the queen. Certainly have our own autonomy, but it's really not. It's
a symbiotic relationship with a lot of countries. Many countries have tried many times
to I got you. There's no point in arguing you're really going to say
corruption to someone. I won't get into it right now. Let's we need
to go do this. The longer we argue here, the longer, Ellie,
the people I care about are dying, and these people want to make
heads or tails over. If that's enough information, we still have two weeks
before Sooner gets here. That's plenty of time to go get this guy and
get in the castle and get our answers and leave, maybe with grim maybe
not I just think we're not getting the whole picture. I think a lot
more to this picture, and I don't think badgering this guy who clearly doesn't
have the answers is really gonna help our case in this moment. So I
think we need to go find the answers and we're not gonna find it with
him. And yeah, I'm not gonna say anymore. Don't want him taking
notes, So I think you should go find him. I'm gonna go try
to find out some things on my own. I really don't think this is
a time to split up, not in this city. I really don't think
this is a good with everything falling, Hi heart, I were getting hostile
and attacking one another, praying on what they view as the week one of
us gets ganged up on by you know, a rival gang wanting to find
some power now that they have the means because magic's not here. If we
get this guy and we're back here talking to him about the same things,
I'm going to go out and do some things on my own because this has
been a pattern. And I agree, that's that's only fair. Aura,
that's only fair. It's been a pattern of what arguing because we do argue
a lot. Well, no, we aren't getting the information we need.
We've been looking at a library for a week. We didn't find our answers.
I think we need to figure out what's going on in the castle and
the fortress. They have the answers, they're just not giving it to us.
Yes, I don't think they do the other half. Now, you
know, I'm not going to talk about this in front of him, and
I start walking away. Good luck. I turned to Reginald. I touched
his chest. I'm watching you, and I turn around and walk out.
Good good luck. I do the same thing like right before I start to
follow Aura. I give him the stink guy without saying a word. I
go, I don't even bother to threaten him, because the Guild can take
him over pretty quickly if they wanted to. So you guys head off in
the direction of Marana's heaven. No, I head off in the direction of
the guild again the guild. Okay, yeah, So you guys head off
in the direction of the guild. All three of you roll for me?
Okay, yeah, yeah, I damn, what's up with my tonight?
And an eight Yeah bose really on one? That was me last week it
was. Yeah, you guys had thanks towards the the the Assassin's Guild,
with the intention Ellie, of looking into this professor with your guild or you
kidding up? I think uh, I would try to use I mean,
because the guild does keep track of people. And if this guy happens to
be I mean, if he's he cured uh werewolves essentially like it like and
I don't know how to say it whatever being a were wolf, I mean
we we would know who he is. I imagine he's not like some little
guy that you know, made a boo boo better, right, Yeah,
okay. I was just curious about whether you were just going to put it
like, would we be able to track him? Would we have been keeping
track of him? Okay, we'll find out next week. Oh. I
was just curious as to whether you were going to like and grab some stuff
or or no, I go straight to like like ledgers of the people,
the important people we keep track of. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, all right, I think it's probably a good time to call
it. Then we'll see what you guys do with your additional investigative powers next
time. Oh that didn't do that? What I wanted it to do that?
Did did it? Yes, I'm interesting m hmm. Interesting choices made
I think my computer might be freezing and dying. So just everyone, Kimberry,
well she's not here. What a fantastic That was really good and my
computer, Oh dear god. Yeah, it was a good episode. I
enjoyed. It was really you didn't really good episode. I would like to
say that when you were playing what was the guy's name that was talking to
us about the ship? The first one Wayne, Wayne broke me. And
it's the first time I remember in Forever that I just couldn't character. I
was like, if I talk, I'm just gonna laugh, So I can't
do it. So I just standing there like, oh god, Yeah,
I couldn't write a lot for these characters because sometimes with my NPCs, I
like to just leave them kind of open when I play them. Of Wayne,
by the way, I when you roll the five, I just counted
down my list of names for the crew so that you could bump into one
of the crew to number five. But it's Wayne spelled w A I N,
which just it makes me laugh because I think I randomized the name.
But I was like, Wayne is such an English name, like like a
British name like Wayne. I don't know. I've never met anyone from anywhere
or Wayne. The only Wayne I've ever met was I had a boss at
a toy store that I worked in for a long time when I was seventeen
for a weekend job. He was called Wayne and he was from up north.
He was from Leeds or somewhere. So all I wrote next to Wayne
was the word Sheffield, which was weird. I do like a Carl Pilkington
on a ship. A kind of character is just what happened with him.
All the people on my list here for the NPCs, for like stuff that
I'd written down for them, he had the just one word, nothing else,
And I was like, that's the one plump into could have been I
had to reach for the mute button. Could have been Aussie. The guy
throws rocks at people and eats deer hole in life. I wasn't sure if
that was real or an exaggeration. Oh you'll you'll get to meet I'm sure,
or maybe we'll see maybe. So are we guaranteed passage on the ship?
No? Yes, no, yes no yes So just because I am
no, I'm opening a boot of my feelings sort of kind of for the
first demon. In the next fucking smug little ship that comes along, She's
all fucking flo work, he's never felt better. Why would he not immediately
fall in love? I was like, how I interpret that? This man's
like, he's never felt better. I'm like, okay, he's in love
then, Yeah, that that made me laugh a lot. The others getting
the run around from the Inquisition, Lol, idiots kidding? Or am I
who knows the Inquisition running around doing stuff? We'll find out maybe or maybe
they'll just keep running around, maybe they'll kill him. Surprised Ellie hasn't killed
him yet. I'm also surprised that it was. I am so surprised Ellie
is willing to play ball. I know Ellie's playing ball now, and Aura
is like, let's just kill everyone. To me, you were so down
for kidnapping him and torturing him. Here's the album that people don't see him.
To understand is Ellie is human again and she is back in bureaucratic mode
too. Where if he just kills the Inquisition, that's the Inquisition and maybe
the Queen versus the assassins that he was being diplomatic is making me play Zach
in a way where he's bringing you back in. Yeah, so he's like,
oh, let's do this together now because you're kind of playing ball with
everyone, like kind of who does in a way, and so I love
that. But then or Or it's like, why don't we just behead everyone?
Is how many times did Aura, over the course of all time try
to stop Ellie's so much like now it's it's a matter of I'll do anything
for the ones I love, like Or is at her breaking point, you
know, And also no, I get that, it's just we must all
feel responsible on some level for what's happened. Is like my prime element right
now she's back to being human and she's an assassin magic to stop her.
You are now the most here. You guys are the most powerful now to
Or is like hit pretty good with her own things, but she's kind of
out of her element in a lot of ways. I like it's had intens
before you ended it to talk to Aura before like we went back out.
But Ellie's got stuff going on up here where she's like, I'm not even
gonna bother with this guy. He's he's an errand boy, he doesn't know
anything. So yeah, I mean that's I love it. I love watching
how you're all approaching these things. I mean part of me was like,
oh, Ellie's just gonna go to the fortress by cover of darkness. I
was debating it, but then I was like, oh, if I get
if I get trapped there, oh it's a very very dangerous route. But
like it's just seemed like the very it seemed like the Elie approach to something.
And actually you've kind of twisted it around and you're like, oh,
but I don't need to do that, which is why ZA a really interesting
character growth. And then you have Aura who's committing to this kind of approach
of I need to save Alvin's life right now. It's like the impatience of
of like this need. I love it. I think the unspoken idea is
that if Alvin dies, it's my fault because we did this right. Yeah,
we're running out. I feel like we're running out of time in character,
for sure. And like as I was leaving, he was feeling a
little bit better, but he was weaker, and so I can only imagine
she's sitting there thinking he's dying slowly unless I'm gone. Yeah, I'm not
there to take care of it. Yeah, it's a good thing. We're
going to find a doctor. Hey, yes, you can go and find
the inquisition physician next time, and we'll see what the ship is all about.
And we'll see if bo ever catches up with Inquisite. I hope is
hell. Hell, she's a She's a big, old strong woman with a
nice bosom. Inquisite, Inquisitor. Hell go with the bosom. That reminds
me of the Mermaids. All right, Yeah, we'll do around the shout
so people can can find you during the week where you are on your streams
and things and stuff. We'll start with the brand new Aura the or the
Dark Knight more Murder, Murder, Oh where can people find? They can
find me at Katie Peter's place and on Twitter, play Katie play. And
I'm like the fact that you ended today's episode. I'm already liked, but
there's so much more I want to do and say, and so I'm excited
for next week. But oh man, I'm sorry, I hope. I
feel so suspect about the same inquisition business. There's just something about it.
Oh yeah, I think I think we need to have a hard to heart
because I think Ellie be like, oh, I don't trust them for like
an inch with an inch of my life. So I just there's so many
things that I'm excited to. Don't worry, I'm cooking up things for you.
Oh god, or it doesn't start swinging her sword at any minute.
But yeah, I'm excited, uh for next week. I loved the side
story with everybody else today too. I was just sitting here with my popcorn.
I thought you were going to tell Toby you liked him today, and
I was so and she went off with another dude. But yeah, that's
me. I played Aura. I'm Katie Peter's place. Thanks for watching,
everybody. Thanks KPP. Why I did Sooner run off with another man?
We may never know? You can ask Pumpkinberry on her stream tomorrow. Maybe
yes, I have no idea when you stream anymore? Wait, yeah,
I'm Pumpkinberry. You can find me at Twitch and Twitter at Pumpkinberry. And
I played Sooner for you today. Yeah. What am I doing right now?
I'm playing Silent Hill. I'm playing through the Semon Hill series on on
someone Hill four. We're going to be doing more ghost hunting next week.
I don't know which days, and yeah, that's what's coming up for me
next week. And then of course I'm here on Wednesday's gym and gone and
on Saturday is playing a vampire for Leech and yeah, thank you. You
can also go to Tablestory dot tv forward slash the Monolith and it will take
you to Pumpkinberries. Chance, it's not real. Did you actually make that?
No? You didn't. I would love you didn't. I will try
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forward slash twat. Well, for some reason, take you to my channel.
Why? Well, the only other person who probably calls people twats and
not twats is young Zakota. I. I loved the reaction to the man
I'm sorry for you so good. Wanted to stare right into the camera when
it was happening. I happened to glance over and I was like, oh
no, it was so good. It was like making me like wobb Along
character because I just wanted to laugh so much. I needed you to know
that I don't know, all right, what are you doing and where do
you do it? Well? I'm here on teamle on Tuesdays as well,
when I play Alexander Peppin. He's a raven close student at Hollquarts and there's
some shenanigans going down and we're trying to figure it out. Me in a
wonderful cast of people, So come check that out and you can find me.
Everyone Internet is god us on all the places I've been streaming Hades a
whole bunch. It's so much fun. But her stepmom next as been of
an asshole. You can come to my team and find out why what.
I don't know what it means. I haven't seen much of Haides other than
the stream of rules that I was watching, But you were just you were
like talking about like these really advanced mechanics in the game because you're like the
sports bro at heidays. I was like, I have no idea what's going
on? And look at the pretty colors and the game is gorgeous. It's
gorgeous. God. Also, I have a podcast as podcast. You can
check that out. I talk with people about stuff and it's not edited.
It's just me and someone cool having a cool chatter bird things. It's good,
So check it out. I know I have a guest early November ish,
I'll have one, and before then I'll probably try and grab someone in
chatter boad stuff, but I'm not worried about it, all right, zookotkas
Twitch dot Tv, Forward slash twat two Horible Sorry, that's all right.
Well, what about you Tuesday? It's Tuesday, isn't it? It is?
I am Tuesday Gray. I played Cairo for you today. I was
driven speechless by a very funny interaction. You can find me not speechless at
all on Saturdays on this very channel playing a sassy vampire. Definitely tune into
Leach if you haven't yet, because it's super cool and it's one of the
best things ever. So yeah, table Story Saturdays and Sundays. And that's
it for now, but you are coming back soon, right soon? Yes?
Soon? Yes, exactly, trying to get her to pick a date
and make it official. They're trying to put a ring on me. Guys.
What about you be Hi am dysfy. I played bo Bobo for you
today. You can find me at that same handle, Twitch and Twitter.
I can't wait for Amnisial Rebirth coming out next week. I'll be checking that
out and do some ghost hunting as well. So yeah, that's it for
me and I had blasses always with everybody, ask more pee, Thank you
so much for the great sash. Thank you, bo Bobo. I'm literally
just double checking that I have the correct details large bosom, muscular. Okay,
sorry, don't be sorry. Who doesn't like big Busters? Well,
I don't know. I cannot lie his next barbic hit And what about you?
Pocket? You can find me at twitch dot tv slash pocket or on
Twitter apt pocket. I've been editing a lot of photos this week instead of
streaming, but I'll be back to makeup Halloween makeup stuff and streaming this week.
So this next week, yes, so yay. I look forward to
next week. I have so many ideas cooking up here. Yeah, write
them all down. We have like we blitzed through this aside today, Like
I'm so expected to do more, but it's just so nice to let you
explore the scenes a bit more because we kind of I feel like we blitzed
through the main campaign a lot of it because there was stuff to do,
there was a relative kind of time limit, there was a lot of direct
pressure. Although I know Aura still feels that direct pressure. It's like nice
to still be able to let you role play stuff out. And since we
don't have things like D and D style combat or even D and D style
like puzzles and stuff like that to do, there's a little bit less mechanics,
so there's more room for role plays. So I've just been letting you
kind of just play it out, you know, even if I'm in it,
and just exploring that pressure cooker to us. Yeah, like we feel
the pressure to continue, but we literally cannot go any faster. We have
no magic. We cannot you know, we have to we actually do like
mundane things to get how terrible it feels, Toss, I feel great,
Yeah, you feel fine, Yeah, because you're the you're the big fish
now right. Yeah. Well, and and at least human again, she
actually gets to feel That's a situation she never thought she'd ever feel again.
It's like to be human, to feel emotion and be like, well,
maybe we shouldn't just go and do that. Yeah, that's right. Yeah,
And no one can like snap their fingers and just you know, magic
up the answers. And it's so frustrating, isn't it. No Google,
no Google, no, no answers to questions immediately and it's it's a little
frustrating, but also I think it's fun for us to watch and hopefully fun
to play. Probably not give me this, I'm going to I like it.
Heading people. Yeah, we'll see, We'll see how it goes.
We'll see whether all of this is just a run around or if it's fruitless,
or what's going on next time. Thanks so much for watching. Everybody,
Remember that we have a brand new show coming up. We have all
of our shows during the week, make sure you catch them. We have
a discord channel for all of you people to theory craft about all of the
different shows. And if you go to tablestory dot tv forward slash the Monolith
will take you a pumpkin very show. No. I want a quick shout
out to the new folks in the chat. We had a bunch of new
people. I have no idea why, but hello people, Welcome, Hi,
welcome, and goodbye.