Oh oh bo. You are running, and you're running as fast as you
can, but your legs start to get heavier, and then heavier, and
then heavier. And when you look down, you that the dress you're wearing
is covered in mud, and the fatigue starts to set into your legs like
iron. As you begin to trudge through this mud. The baby, your
baby doesn't cry. He's sitting in your arms quietly all through the fighting,
through the running. And you know what you have to do, but the
cost might be great, because the magic is killing you. And each time
you use it, small or large, you know it's taking a piece of
you that you cannot regain. You call upon it one last time, and
the fires that are tickling at the edges of your fingers rush forward as he
rushes for you. And as you turn and see him, you see the
form of Daevaki. You have to protect the child in your arms. Beyond
him, in the distance you can see Belona's west gate. What do you
do protecting the baby? It all cast I have to find a way out.
There is a sort of There is a sort of fireball coalescing at the
end of your hand that you can use if you like. I have the
power. Mm hmm, I will, I will attempt to attack you.
Launch this fireball forward, and you can see this form of Deoveki moving towards
you, these kind of hands that are detached from him, that horrible face
with the yellow eyes and the yellow core, with the other faces that are
sticking out from this weird kind of mechanical body. But it's twisted and changed
a little. As the fireball strikes him, you can tell that it's done
nothing, that it was a little more, not even a scratch, and
he begins to grow his size, becoming something beyond anything you've ever seen.
He's larger than a mountain in the distance. You can see that the city
of Bologna, and it's just tiny underneath him. Now, as you watch
this figure grow and grow, is detached hands growing with him, Your magic
just utterly useless. And then suddenly he brings these hands down. There's a
terrible kind of crack of thunder as sooner you are standing atop a tower.
Below you, the seas are crashing into this tower's base. Above you,
there is nothing but stars. There's no land out there, just an ocean
and the top of this tower with you in the center. Of it is
filled with crying babies. There must be about a hundred of them. They're
crawling over one another, and another set of waves crash into the base of
this tower. But it's closer now, and as you maybe peek over the
side, you can see that the water is rising up quickly and it's going
to crest the top of this tower, which is, as you understand it,
the last bastion. What are you doing the babies that are crying?
Do I recognize them? Differ you said a hundred of them, You don't
recognize any of them in the sense that any of them are your babies.
None of them look like anything other than children. You can see that there
are human babies. There are teethling babies, there are roblin babies. There
is a I feel like I can do anything in this moment. This is
the mortal realm before me, crawling over each other, and something is coming
to take it, and I'm the this is the last stand here. Do
you feel like you can do anything in this moment? I feel like I
can reach up into the stars and call for some power to raise this tower
up to prevent it from being swallowed by the sea. Yes, I do
you attempt to do this. As the base the tower crumbles, you feel
the tower fall. You feel that sensation of falling quickly, and as you
fall you see the stars above you fade out, all but two of them,
which turn yellow and Ellie, you are standing in a graveyard. There
are the names on these graves that are very clear. Your comrades and friends
you can see sooner. You can see Aura, Bo Kalougi, Grim zach
Holcon. There is a field of them that spread outwards, the skeletal remains
of a single oak tree in the distance. As yellow lightning spreads across this
dark sky, Mercle is standing behind you. You realize now that you have
a chain around your neck and you're naked but for the iron that shackles you
to him, And he begins to walk away from the graves, and you
find yourself dragged. You can see your feet are all blistered and kicking at
the mud, and you can also now see the ghosts of your comrades walking
along the horizon. Is there anything you'd like to do? This is just
a bad dream. Aura. The earth around you cracks open, it splits
in several places, and you suddenly see Alvin is running towards you as fast
as is possible for him. You can see that he's probably not going to
make it to you in time. And then the grasslands around you ignite fires
upon each blade. The smoke and ash rises so suddenly that it becomes hard
to see. Your eyes sting that Alvin is still visible, barely, his
little legs carrying him swiftly. But the land cracks again. He reaches out
for the edge and then he falls. There's a rope next to you,
and it's already tied to the last tree, a big burning oak tree behind
you. This rope is very large, like you might find for a ship.
It's thick and it's but it's strong looking. Is there anything you do?
I can I either run to Alvin or is it going to be faster
for me to throw the rope? You tell me, I'm going to I'm
going to pick up the rope and I'm going to start running towards Alvin with
the rope. Yeah. You try to lift the rope and it's like iron.
It's heavy. Before you realize it, you can see that your foot
is caught inside this rope, impossibly heavy. It begins to coil around you.
Like a snake. You can't lift it, you can't move. There's
a scream as Alvin falls, and then you awaken or alone in a bedroom.
You find yourself awake quickly you're aware that this was a dream. The
bed you are in is comfortable, but your body is soaked through from sweat.
You can still feel the heat of that burning field, and you can
smell the smoke from the dream, but it fades pretty quickly, as dreams
do. Buns floats lazily down to you and lands on the bed sheet,
his head twisting from side to side, and he chirps before flying off again,
swiftly circling the room. It's raining outside, but not so heavily.
The drizzle continues of autumn. The sky is overcast. It's dark, but
it's lightening up because it's sunrise, but a cold sunrise. You can hear
noises from the next room as the others are preparing to head out to the
west Gate to meet Sooner Aurah O, Ellie Kalougi, Reginald Worston and Bob.
You are in the Inquisition safe house. It's more of a manner like
a small manor house, very very small in terms of like an extravagant thing,
but it's still a big and expensive looking place, very mildly furnished.
It doesn't seem like anyone lives here. You've seen a couple of their safe
houses now they're just kind of a show. It has multiple bedrooms and quarters
for study. There's a central hallway that connects all of the rooms, with
a stairway leading up to the bedrooms that each of you had your own one
of. After you return from the tavern, we can assume that you all
sat together, maybe in the dining room, and exchange stories and spoke things
over as your last few weeks of being apart. Bob is there, lying
bandaged and immobilized in a very large and comfortable bed on the top floor.
He's a thickly muscled, crimson skinned teethling who if you didn't know what happened
to him, your characters now do. He would have smiled and nodded or
as presence in a very non threatening way. Reginald and Worston would have simply
shrugged and left him to rest. The plan today is to head to the
Westgate at sunrise, sort of incognito. You're all planning on dressing as inquisitors
pretending to be shreds, which are like trainee inquisitors. Shreds is a kind
of in the term that they use in the inquisition. Worst and Reginald are
in their city's clothes, but they have robes prepared for each of you.
Kulougi is in his normal high class, scruffy look at the moment, but
he's also kind of down for this. He's more desperate to get to speak
to Grim for some reason than anyone else here, and keeps pushing for that.
But that's about all. And then I assume Aura, you probably come
down to this room where you'd all agreed to meet, and you'll see a
set of robes or multiple sets on the tables. Worston and Reginald are probably
discussing something. Oh, Ellie, we can assume that you're already there.
Kalougie with his feet up on the table as Aurra walks in. You guys,
do I think bo would immediately go to Aura and give her a really
big hug. Good to have you back, Are you okay? I think
so. I'm just glad that you and Ellie are okay. I I thought
something really bad happened to you too. Sounds like you got the worst of
it, actually, but you want a jail cell for a few weeks with
kologie. Nonetheless, Hey, it actually wasn't as bad as uh, well,
they spoiled us in they're believing or not really like how they gave us
food and all the wine we could possibly want. Maybe I should have let
Bob arrest me. Anyway, sounds like, uh, you had a reason
not to escape for those two weeks. The okay, well, look listen,
all right, it wasn't always like that. At first they stripped me
butt naked and I was chained. I even weed myself. It was very
embarrassing. Help pants, it wasn't even in my pants. I was butt
naked. Oh so then you're just laying in your own piss. Well not
not quite. Fortunately I was standing, but I was hoping to aim right,
but I could. I turned to words, and I'm like, you
got a pissing fighters or something. It's weird, man, We don't do
that. Yeah, pissed down himself. Want me to go in there and
hold his dick for him? No, or clean it up, you know
afterwards, or let him go to the bathroom if he has to go to
the bathroom. True, well, yeah, it was a scare tactic.
I couldn't just go in there and hold his hand. I'm gonna teach the
rowe if you're into that, I guess you know. I imagine terrorist this
world has ever known. I don't think pissing down himself will be too much
of a big deal. He's not really look at him, he's not really
a terrorist. He just it's an old man. He's a crazy old man.
I'm not too traumatized by it. It's okay, I know that now
that I oh, Bob'm gonna say, you know, write down anything about
this can tell anyone. Bob's gonna be laid up. I don't think he's
going to be moving for a bit. Probably best gonna have to be a
little bit. Uh, it's great today. Does Bob know how to write?
Yes, he knows how to write. It's a fair question. He
didn't seem to comprehend a lot of what I was telling him. I'm sure
we're asking of him. I'm sure he just didn't care. You can go
and speak to him if you'd like. Is that a good idea? Probably
not. I wouldn't go alone. M right then, And if we're gonna
be you know, a little more laying low. That means that, uh,
you two, And I point to Aura and Bo. I'm like,
you too need to also lay low. Don't go on any killing spurries or
talking sprees. Well, Bob's here, I can just go talk to Bob
and me. I don't know. I mean after we do the whole like
infiltrating stuff, we also have to go get soon. We have to we
have to meet them. Oh here at the eight. I'm not worried about
sooner, though, I'm worried about you too. I mean, I've infiltrated
places before, and I'm sure these two weirdos have so well, we can
do what what you did. Put put on a disguise, and you have
to see it's more than just a disguise though. You got to put on
a whole act, and you got to act like these assholes. I point
to Worsten. But you've got robes, one each, and someone should take
one for your friend. Yeah, okay, if anyone asks anything, just
let us do the talking. That's fine. Go to the West Gate.
If she's not there by midday, we'll split up. Go on with other
things. Just stand around, yeah, standing around makes us easier to find.
I started, I started to put on the robe, right, I
put on like over all my leathers and stuff. Because I don't really have
bulky armor. I change off or take off my green robe and put on,
I think with your robes and just try to They have hoods on them,
correct. Yeah, they're kind of like maje robes almost. They look
a little light. I try to like situated so you couldn't really see my
face. Easily doable. They're crazy as well. You might not notice straight
away, but they're filled with pockets and secret holes, and you can quite
easily, like unfold and fold out the sleeves to cover your hands or bring
them back up. The hood is very large, so you can fold it
down over your eyes. They're quite well made, not quite to the level
of the finery you were wearing the night before, but relatively comfortable. They're
quite thick, though they seem like winter robes, the type of thing you
might wear in the dead of winter. It's not quite that cold out yet,
so you might get warm in them during the day, but as you
read put them on. Including Pelugi, who kind of awkwardly stands in his
for a moment before moving around the table towards you all, Reginald says,
and should I wait here, perhaps just in case, just in case of
what? But yes, I suppose, I suppose I could come along.
Then, No, you're right, you should stay in case we all get
wiped out. That's what you mean? Right, Yes, all right,
you stay here, we'll go and get the shire witch. All right,
you ready? Yeah, okay. I hurriedly put on my robe and notice
that there's a secret hole in Uh well, some were very convenient, and
I just kind of let off a big grain on my face. Yeah,
all right, then, all right, why are you grinning right now?
No? No, I was just this this rope is quite nice. You're
weird. I start to walk out if anything goes wrong, like you're way
back here, but uh yeah, I don't know. Back soon. Then
Kaloogi follows in behind you, pockets a bottle of wine and heads out.
Three of you following worsteron out. Yeah, yep, you're at the north
end of town. The west gate isn't too far away, and the five
of you begin your trek through town. At the west gate, we join
Sooner and Cairo and Ippo and the Twins and Zira. As you finally make
it up to Alona's west gate, you can see this kind of bridge that
sits across a pretty low tide river. I don't know what it would be
called, but there's not as much water in this river as you would expect.
It's very muddy below you. Ahead of you, there are a handful
of guards standing around a very large gate that lies open. People seem to
be coming in and out without being checked. You can see the guards kind
of just standing around kicking their heels. The sun is fairly peeking over the
horizon, giving you a little light as you first get onto this bridge,
heading up towards the gate. Just on the inside of the gate, you
can see that there's a stables with a very similar looking sign to the one
that you found in Daydon which towards the tray, the Tigrin's Stables rentals sign
what are you guys doing? Okay? Well on the front of the cart,
so you know you wake up from a sleep right or recently within like
the last ten minutes or so. So I'm not driving the cart. I'm
in the back of the cart and I've just woken up or recently rather when
I come down from that, I'll come up to these two. I'm assuming
that they're at the front with the reins. Yes, okay, are we
there yet? Yeah? All right, Well, I think the plan should
be we return the cart and and and this horse. We want to make
sure we return this horse for our new young friend here. Then I think
I should approach alone first. I think you should stay back, just in
case, Just in case. Yes see, she agrees with me. Really,
you don't fight this, see what if? What if it's a trap?
Then you can okay, quicker there, No, I don't think of
the trap. We're trapped, yeah, exactly. You can't help if you're
in the trap with me. So I think you should let me go in
at least the front. I'm not saying you need to be gone, but
you know, just a safe distance back, all right, a little bit
bike, just a ebit, all right, just just just a small amount.
And then once we know that it's safe, then i'll wave forward.
Well, I'll come up with a hand signal or something. I'll just reach
behind my head and you know, uh, hold this up or something,
you know, three fingers or something. I'll signal you see, can you
see that? Far. You can use your sight on your rifle. Right,
I'm not going to be that far a bank. Well, you need
to be a little bit farther back, right, be a little bit,
but not ai ebn just I just want to keep everybody safe, and I
think the best way for me to do that is to approach first. I'll
be close enough to see you, no, but not so close that i'd
be caught in the tap. I'll be half free between those two points.
There's a loud bang from behind you. Standing up in the back of the
car is Sirah. She's just hit the shield the edge of her sword.
She says. I keep you safe, yes, but from a distance.
Not to worry. Right, you're going to keep everybody. Do they under
Do they understand? They need to stay back with you? And then I'll
go forward. You keep them with you to the two of you. Right,
Oh, I'll go halfway between them and you. No, they need
to be with you. I want everyone to be safe. Please do this
for me. Okay, you have been to tear velm. What this much
bigger than tear velm. I do not want to lose you in here and
not find you easy. You you won't it'll be fine. We're literally meeting
at the gate. We're going to return the cart and the and your horse
and and and and you'll be able to see me. That's why I've got
my nice little traveler's hat on. And I just need everyone to be safe.
Yeah, And if anything goes wrong, I'll scream or something will happen,
and then you can come rush in. I'm sure it'll be fine.
I just it'll be fine. And it's good we stay back because if I
have to, and I'll just kind of peek the badge out and shure the
badge in quisitor badge exactly, see snatches down and snatches out every probably you
pull it back before she grabs her. Goodness, Yeah, is it just
a tool tool for what rescuing if we need it, You're a magic will
not work anymore, She's so sweet. It's not magic, Henny, it's
intimidation. Okay, plans. You'll go ahead, ad exactly. We'll eat
for you to weave your hand or something, and then we'll come and get
you. Yes exactly, Okay, all right, okay are we ready?
No, but let's do it anyway. Okay, We're ready. You guys
taking the cart all the way up to the stables or are you gonna we're
going to return the cart. Yeah, we're going to return the cart and
the horses first. Yeah, you can see it's the first thing on the
inside of the gate. There's another building on the other side, which is
probably some sort of militiam and watchman part of the gate. And then there's
just this very large looking stables all inside. No big field like the other
one. A smaller looking thing considering. But you get the sense that there's
probably others at other points of the gate, which Cairo is very aware of
to be the case. If I maybe the m cart trundles up and you
see a very tired looking gentleman who looks pretty similar to the fellow that you
met at the other side, lift his head up and walk over and brother,
yeah, you can assume that he walks forward and says, is that
one of mine? Yes? Yes, I don't know about this horse though.
This extra horse here, we met one of our companions on the road.
She was coming towards us as we were coming towards her. So we've
just brought this one back, I think, so, Bill, I'd like
you to be sure our gold the Zirah stands up. This is your horse.
He's not dead, very good? Yes, okay, and you're just
returning them. Yes, that's right. Can I take the name? Did
you leave a name? Oh? Ship, I look back at it.
I have completely forgotten what fake name I gave him. Was it someone you
knew his name or something? Was it? Oh? I don't know.
I just blurted out. It just came out. M m oh. I
can't remember if I gave your brother our name. But I'll tell you what.
Tell him it's the uh, the old couple that he thought was probably
going to get murdered by the TOBAXI. He'll he'll know us. He'll remember
the name of the horse. Oh, the name of the horse. Stripes
stripes, stripe stripes. He pulls out a note pad. You see him
write down the name, and it looks up and takes you all in.
And this one, this horse. Do you remember your horse's name, sweetie?
This horse bell bell? Yes? Right, Yes, okay, you've
been Yes, you've been here before. No, he looks at you sooner.
No, I don't think I have I don't suppose I have familiar very
well, closes the book. Lately, Yes, okay. He takes the
reins and leads the cart to one side and ties it and says, you
made a part. I assume you are all paid up. If you're not,
we know the Assassin's Guild, so do I Okay, have a great
day, Yes, very well, thank you for your business, and I'll
turn to the these two here. And I I think I saw something.
What did you see where? No, not not to hear? I mean,
I think I just had a sight and I just shouldn't. I think
so, But I can't tell if it's my own I used to be able
to feel it, the difference between something that was coming from elsewhere in my
own brain. But with magic gone, I can't tell the difference if this
is just my own anxieties, or if it's actually something that might come to
pass, or what was it? I'd really rather not say. I need
you to stay here, and I need you to stay safe, and everything
we do from now on is extremely important. If you so, you just
I want to make sure that you understand that what you do and what I
do and what we all do here is extremely important. This isn't just some
thing that I feel, Is I understand? Okay? Wait? Right?
Here. I'll go wait at the gate. Okay, so you will stand
around. The twins follow you. Oh no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, don't wait, grab their hands. I
point to I point and touch my my forehead where a third eye would be.
No, you stay, stay with me here. Okay. They look
at each other and then they turn around. That's for us. They stand
still. I will I will summon you. Yes, stay, okay,
all right, I'm going okay, and then I will go up to the
gate. And I'm trembling. I'm so scared. Romeia dies and the others
Romeo Dice as well, not Cairo and Toby. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
do we have an Ellie? Oh? Sorry, I thought it was
just everybody there. Okay, you sooner. Heading towards the gate is what
at first appears to be a bunch of majores in dark robes. The light
is pretty dim. Yeah, you can see just a group of dark hooded
robed figures heading towards the gate. They don't seem to have clocked you yet.
Great, I'd like to hide Romeo Dice. Ah, if I use
an nobility, will I have to roll the dice? Or can I just
do the thing? No? You just do the thing. Great, I
think, can I do It might not be possible, but I'd like to
do over there where it'll redirect a nearby creature. But they haven't clocked me
yet, so I don't know if I can do that. I can't do
distraction, all right, Oh dear God, seven, how do you terribly
hide yourself? I think I think I see these mages and I immediately panic,
and they haven't clocked me yet, so I'm like, oh, oh
oh, and then I probably just like turn around it. I'm like,
and what's this you have here for sale? And I'm just so absolutely absurd
that of course they look over and like, who the hell is that?
The moment you all hear it, you wreck ignized Sooner standing by herself near
the pork colors of the west Gate, you were all kind of heading towards
the gate. True, she's maybe stood to the one side. There aren't
too many people just standing around here. There is one group of people standing
over by the stables in front of a cart that's being wheeled in. There's
a handful of guards standing around underneath the pork colors itself, and a few
merchants coming and going. But for the most part of the West Gate is
relatively quiet and not a lot of traffic. The few of you that know
who soon it is and what to recognize, which is all of you.
Bret Wurstern will suddenly recognize her as she kind of does this terrible pretense of
hers. What do you all do? I think? I just like,
I don't even I just point at her. One of the major's points at
you. But I'm trying to pretend like I don't see it, but I
do out of the corner of my eye see the mage point of view.
Oh, thank you for your time, but unfortunately I can't I can't buy
that. Thank you bye, And then I will try to run away.
Yeah, there's a man standing just perplexed looking at you. Before he shakes
his head and moves away from you. I'm going to slip off the cart
and try to cut her off. I am trying very hard to run.
Thank you. Now, I can do over there, right, I mean
you could? Yeah, you could do that. Yeah, what is it?
Heb knows it's them, but soon it does. What do you?
What do you? What do you? One hundred percent try to use a
point to to say over there, which is I do something very distracting.
You make a suggestive gesture or redirect a nearby creature, But you're not hostile
towards me. But I'm preceding you as hostile. So I'm just gonna say,
yeah, okay, it looks like we're pursuing you, so yeah,
uh so it redirects against somewhere else. So I will, I think,
I just turn around and I look at somebody. I look in a different
direction. I'm like, Charlie, is that you? And then I just
immediately kind of as soon as I feel like you maybe are heading or you
at least look for a second to see what I'm looking at, then I
will duck away and points and exclaims that someone across the road. All of
you instinctively look over there, and when you turn bank, she's gone.
She's moving hidden underneath a cart. So she's just vanished doing There's a few
places she could have gone. There's a cart, there's an alleyway, there's
all the way back out of the gate. If she was quick enough.
Oh I know, I panicked and got on truck. You all know she's
under the cart because you know her so well, yes, maybe you can
for you soon these dark robed figures move around you. There's five of them,
two kind of hanging backwards. Three suddenly stop moving around the car.
One moves around the left, one moves around the right. Tell me,
I drop ah, he's dagger woman, I drop, I drop ah.
He's dagger at my feet. Oh god, oh no, oh no.
And I'm immediately thinking something terrible has happened to Ellie, because obviously no one
would have Ellie's dagger unless it's Ellie. And of course I don't clock,
but maybe you're in disguise. I immediately think these horrific people have murdered you,
and so I think I just start, oh no, Ellie, I'm
so sorry I didn't get here. Immediately stop saying my name. Ellie.
I thought you get it. Oh, I just grab your face, got
it. I just grab your face and I bring you for and I just
start kissing your cheeks, in your forehead. Oh, and I start crying.
I'm so glad you at it kind of you all right? I awkward,
don't worried. Please tell me they're with you? Are they with you?
Yes? You gotta keeep it down. Though they're are here, they're
in they're they're in the robes. Ah, wait, what why are you
not robes? Why are you dressed up? We should have told her,
well, we can't her can't hold on, let me help me get off
the floor. I help, I obviously help. And then I'm like,
we can't just walk around saying hey, it's me. People are looking for
us. I'm I'm totally crying now and I'm just bringing you in and I'm
just I'm so glad. You have no idea. I just I had this
crippling thought and feeling in my chest that you were constantly in danger. And
I'm just I'm just so glad to see you're all right. And look at
you. You're so beautiful. And I'm touching Ara's face and I'm like,
oh, I've missed you. I just I and I'm just like hugging her
and I'm squeezing her, probably a little too tightly. Oh I don't care.
And I'm worried you weren't going to get back, and I just it
was a long time, Oh miss you. Nothing could keep me from you.
And bo, look at your beard. Come, I'm crying, fount.
We should we should do this inside the inside? Who's this? Oh?
This is there? Are two other people, but they're kind of a
bank at the moment. Like you can see that you three the same rope.
Yeah, there's just two other figures standing back from you. One of
them kind of wobbling, steps forward and just whips the robe off, and
you see Kalougi. He's looking He looks a little but draggled because he's spent
two weeks underground. But he he opens his arms and says, let's just
see you. Look at that. You're alive. They thought you were dead.
I said, there's no way you can kill kill this one. She's
the strongest switch. She said that she would be dead. I had money
on it that you wouldn't you only fifty gold? And he points out it's
a lot of gold that you bet on my old bones here. But you
were right? Who said that you be dead? That's just a joke,
all right, said that. None of us said that. I want None
of us said that. Right. Well you drunk? Okay? Would you
like a drink? I would love one? However, and who are you?
You see the last figure kind of look around it, everyone know.
He brings his hood down and you see this person you you do not recognize
at all. Cairo. From your position far away, you probably recognized worst
and regardless, just from his swagger and his gait. But the there's a
fear bolb that stands before you, kind of kind of small for a fear
bulk, but kind of like a giant kin gnome figure, kind of rough
looking, though the clothing he's wearing looks relatively decent underneath. He looks around
at the others and says, incognito. Yeah, no one, No one's
going to see you. A lot of screaming in the street. I try
to tell him we should go inside. I try to us share like,
uh, sooner back to the cart. Hold on, I'm using an ability
with this man in front of me. I'm using my insight. You see
the intentions of a nearby creature, discovering a prominent motive. Choose one effect.
Each time you use this ability, you learn something the creature intends to
do in the next ten minutes. Use this until I felt, yeah,
desperate to get off the street. He's immediately looking around. He brings his
hood back up. Hoods up. All right, I don't know who's watching.
You've been waiting for you, Okay, Can I use the ability again?
Spend another one. All right, great, you learned something they intend
to do to a specific creature of your choice. Me how you would interpret
it? Really? But you can tell that he seems more like a chaperone
here. He doesn't seem to have any He doesn't seem to want to intend
me any harm. No, he slightly felt. You get the sensitive wants
to intend everyone harm. But it also seems like he has resting bitch face.
All right, I guess that makes sense. Okay, Yes, I'd
love to get off the street, but I I I have brought some people
with me. Is it okay if I call them over? Now? How
many a? Right? Let's see there's one or two and then of course
there's two twins and then five whims? Five people? I did you just
picked up? I shouldn't be surprised. You make friends with everyone. Oh,
thank you, that's very nice. Excuse you. I just say that
again, we don't need them trying to stay discreet. Great, well,
i'd say, the four of us are fighting to stop the end of the
world, and we'll decide what is needed or not. Thank you, And
we absolutely need them. Can I call them over now? Great? Yep?
And I just wave I'm on over. It's fine. Sorry, I
flink into the darkness, right, I mean I start heading over, honeyo
Rome and dies. We're incognito as well. We're disguised as a family.
Piro rolled me in. Oh okay, you're not coming over. Fifteen bo
walking towards you. You have a moment, there is there is this strange
moment where you recognize one of these people. You get the immediate sense that
you want to run. When you were younger, just a young man,
there was a particular guard among the watch who had it in for you.
You know, you don't recognize the figure walking towards you, but you also
had that image burned into your instinct. This figure walking towards you with a
rifle on his back and now a very long ray beard and gray hair.
Is that very same watchman who caught you once, holy shit, but failed
many more times and like a game of cat and mouse for several years?
Would how long ago? How many years ago? Been gone for thirty years
right? Hip? Well yeah, but this could have been before then.
Potentially it may be like forty years ago. So there he is. Do
you know his name? Does he know your name? You were a city
guard. I'm sorry, I don't know this. Did you ever? Would
he have had any chance of getting your name from you, probably'd have been
like Watchman Torbith or something, you know, Watchman Tobeth, your arch enemy
from when you were yuh much younger, much blonder, much greener. At
the the craft is heading towards you right now. Right we're posing as a
family as well, So come look at this. I immediately avert my eyes
and changed by h h, I got a piss again, Bow, what's
going on? No? I don't you have to prove, don't you okay?
Which will be quiet? Why so, where's Cairo? Who is you?
Sorry? What you know? Gola? I'm going to use my ability
again. Yeah, yeah, I want to insight because I'm panicking now I've
said her name and I don't know this man, and I'd like to learn
something they intend to do to that specific creature of your choice, Cairo.
So do I don't think you get the sense that he wants to do anything,
But he reacted with the most reaction you've seen from him so far as
soon as you mentioned He's spun around on you. Step forward. Look,
I know it's a dangerous situation. And I know I tend to yeap a
bit, and I think I've realized she hasn't stepped forward and he recognizes her.
I'm going to trust that she didn't do it for a reason. Oh
and I'm sorry, but what did you say? Her name was Carla?
Carla Carla right here, and I point to our new armored friend. She
holds out a hand roughly forward and says, Zira, right, I always
mess it up. That's started. I don't know how I missed her.
She's huge armor there, mister, you said, that's all right. It
happens all the time. So these are these are my new companions? And
uh, I can't are there only four? There's so in front of you,
guys. You see two quite young looking but strong I guess foreigners.
They would just be in kind of strange raps, but they'd have cloaks over
them. That just that they would have loosely rapped over them from the from
the drizzle and the rain. They're both carrying staffs, one of them carrying
Sooner's staff. There is an armored looking again, doesn't really look like any
armor that you recognize, kind of thickly pauldron. She has like a bandanna
around head, red hair. She looks very dirty and kind of like scrappy.
If you kind of glanced, you'd think that she was maybe a bandit,
But then again you would it would suggest that she's probably just some sort
of hired night of some kind. She looks like a mercenary. And then
there's this very old man that I think all of you might immediately guess is
Toby, just through the many times that sooner we'll have mentioned him met him
in the dream world though, like when we dreamed for a year what I've
met him. That's probably the strongest point because I described him as a monster,
so I don't think they would true you would never have described him correctly,
Yeah, I never, so I don't know if they would recognize him
right away. We also know you very well, that is true. But
that is a good question that I would like to know the answer to as
well. In this dream where she came to visit me and met him,
is would she recognize him from that? I oh, very interesting indeed,
So I wouldn't say anything on it. I think even as like I would
count in my head, but then I'd be like, it's not five.
But I wouldn't say that to anyone obviously, because I know sooner and I
know if she's saying four instead of five or there's a reason for it.
So I'm not gonna like call her out, thank you, it's for my
own mental note. Yes, uh right, so this is everyone. Shall
we go somewhere safer? Did you have kids that I didn't know about?
And I point to the two little ones. Maybe it's better if we have
this talk in private, are right? I know? Just they're so young
looking. Okay, they are, but this complicates issues. They can handle
Themation has gotten really complicated here. I mean it's far more complicated than anybody
initially anticipated. I'm sorry, who are you again? Why are you?
Why is he with us? Oh? He's part of the inquisition. What
we should probably talk about? That not here. I have a lot to
tell you. Now wait a minute, hold on, I'm not going anywhere
with this man. He's fine, and the other guy, I don't know
if he's fine. Well, I know that you say that he's fine,
and I trust you, Ellie. Implicitly, I put my hand on or
and I'm like, she beats some sense into one of them. So I
think they're fine. If you come with us. You can see what I
did. Yeah, she uh turned into quite the me. I look up
into the sky. Do I see Keepy? I feel like Cairo is trying
to tell me something, So I'm I'm just gonna glance up and see if
I see Keepy. Kiro ding Worston knows. So I can't see Keepy.
Yeah. Keep. He's not flying about keep He is beside the stable with
me, kind of lurking in the shadows. I look over at Hippo just
for a moment. Okay, all right, well we'll come with you.
Yeah, don't worry. We'll keep you safe, right Bo. Everyone keeps
saying that I'm not I'm not. You know, I'm old, but I
can I can no, No, I trust that you can take care of
yourself. And you got this guy too. I nudge, I nudge,
Oh, this is this is Tope, Toby. Have you Hi? I
have hi? And I put my hand out Hi. Yeah, yep,
Aura and Bo and Ellie. I'm trying to say stupid grin on my face
the entire time. I heard so much of all of you in on first
inpredation. You're not nearly as bad as you may do. Oh all right,
Well, that's enough. That's enough. I don't know what he's talking
about. I've had nothing but wonderful things about all of you. I don't
know. She kind of she kind of said that, you know, I
was I did hands. I absolutely, there's no She said, you perhaps
we should go inside. I'm just going to get that we should. We
should just get off. That's okay, let's let's smiling. As soon as
I walk inside, I'm blustered, I'm blushing, and I'm just you have
like a ten minute walk ahead of you. Hiro Romeia Dice. Oh boy,
I am shook at the realization that by Archie Nemsis Trovey. You all
start heading away deeply inside the row, head down, maybe walking ahead of
everyone so that no one can see under the thing, and you will start
moving away. Worston falls back and looks back towards the gate for a moment
before turning back and following you as a group back towards the safe house.
Kiro, what are you doing? So? I was just observing. I
think I'm trembling a little bit. I've had a vision that scared me,
especially since the Suna one came to pass. Or at least she's real,
so I think, I go and sit behind the stable and just kind of
slink to the ground and sit on my button, have keeping on my shoulder,
and I'm just breathing hard and trying to think what I should do.
Yeah, you see the others start to move off and head further up and
along one of the larger paths here that leads into the sort of the top
of midtown where you can move off and and head into Bellona. There's a
moment where Worston turns back and looks directly at where you are and then heads
after where the others are going, and everybody yeah, yeah, See,
in Cairo's mind, this is either a trap and I need I know where
the safe houses are and I need to stay back and see what I can
do, or yeah, I'm hanging back. The group move through the town.
You're brought to the safe manner, this safe house of theirs, this
relatively large hour of the way house. Worston opens the door, and as
soon as he opens the door, you can see a maybe thirty somethings man
and staring at you all. As the door opens, he looks over and
sees this kind of entourage of people that have followed and he looks at worst
and says, oh, that's more than one woman. Ye, yes,
it is right there. We go through there. Perhaps I'll go get everyone
out drink. Oh, I don't think so. I don't think so.
I don't need a drink. I think you'll sit right here among all of
us and we're all going to talk for a minute. Sorry to be so,
but I don't trust anyone, especially you lot of offense. Fine,
you see him turn around and close. If you were in my shoes,
you wouldn't let one of us go for a walk, would you. I
mean, how do we trust this one? And I point to the mercenary
looking woman. All right, well, well that's what we're going to do.
We're gonna sit down and we're going to talk. But I'm just saying,
like, if you put us all in one you know, tent or
one area, and then somebody went for a walk, it's a perfect opportunity
for you to come back with an entourage. So absolutely not, you're gonna
sit down and we're not going to have a talk all right after you then,
and he points towards the room. There's a very large dining table that
would probably see like eight people. I think there's more than that here.
Kalougi barges past everyone, sits down, puts his feet up at the thing,
drops the robe, starts swigging from the from the bottle. You see
this, the Reginald, this other inquisitor who isn't in his robes, just
looks like any average civilian man in town, kind of watching everybody. He
kind of sizes everybody up a little bit. You can see him just checking
over the newcomers, but not in a malicious wayness there. He's just kind
of like looking at everyone, nodding at them in a kirk greeting. And
if everybody moves in and finds a seat at the table, you all find
yourselves sat around this table. Let's see, Zira would not sit down.
She's probably standing by the door. You see her kind of rest the shield
up against the doorframe maybe, and then she crosses her arms and silently watches
everything going on. The twins would have done something similar. I think they're
probably still standing by the door. Like everybody starts moving through, and then
you realize that the Veraz and Tear is still by the door with their staffs.
I think I'd go and get the twins some food or something while everyone
talks, Oh, you're pretending to be a family. Well yeah, to
get here were Yeah? Absolutely, boy do I have a boy? Do
I have a tale for you? But do you mind? Since I mean
I don't, I don't know your new very curious friends here? Can I
ask how this came to be? Well, oh, it's kind of okay.
Uh, well, we got the Inquisition wanted us to. They thought
we were terrorists. I guess that's the best way to put it. They
thought that we caused the end of magic, and well, I mean to
be fair, yeah, and so that was it was due to the circumstance
we were in. Uh, yes, it wasn't it. It wasn't it
technically you lot? And I point to the Inquisition your lot, right,
No it was not. We still don't know if it was your lot.
No, all right, it was your lot. Keep telling yourself it wasn't.
I'm sorry, what what were your name again? Red Bloom? And
this is visitor Sheridan Red Bloom and Sheridan right, and and that's Reginald.
I reach underneath the table and I grab it Bo's hand and I squeeze it
very tightly because we know that one one of those names. And now I
know why Cairo is not here. Great. So well, here's the story.
I I uh, when everything was over, I h I woke up
in the woods, and I walked back to my cottage where this man was
squatting. Uh, you know, living in my cottage. If you can
believe that I'm gone for what ten months and then you're just already living in
there, happened to happened to stop buying, rummage through my cupboards more like
absolutely absolutely insane? Right, So I decided I was going to come back
here because I knew I needed to run into you lot. I've wanted to
make sure that you were safe. And then he, of course decided he
had to come with me and make sure that I was all right. I
didn't. I did not beg you. I did not. I shouldn't even
know. I would never shed a tear, absolutely not, I did I
know, I didn't. Anyway, he came along and then we we happened
to hire some friends to come with us. We met some people along the
way and they're you know, they're without magic. I feel a little bit
different, So I felt I needed a little bit more protection. So that's
why we have the hired help here. I am lying through my teeth.
So, so, Toby, you decided that it would be good to go
Sooner? Yeah, I mean it was a couple of things in there that
there was a sneak and there was it aid me the snake ate me whole.
It was a taste like barf up again. Didn't like the taste.
I punctured my way out of that. I did that it was going to
eat all of me because I'm delicious. So since did you you two have
been together this whole time, You've had a lot of time to talk,
right, I turn red, I look directly at Sooner. Fill me in
on everything. First, I didn't are you talking about? Did you eat
some mushrooms that you should have? But then you know, could have came
together and made sense, you know, Yeah, I don't what nothing.
I'll tell you, just kid. Yeah, I look at what. I
am trying not to make eye contact with Toby at all. I'm I'm listening
in. I'm nodding my hand as the conversation and it continues. I stepped
in front of between, like breaking the line of sight from Toby, and
I'm like, you got something to say about What's what's going on? I
didn't realize, man, Toby have some history like you're in a relationship.
No, no, no, no, no, I mean I just thought,
because you know, not that kind of history. I'm I'm afraid,
no, didn't get along, just been as for years. Well thinkingness,
you only have half of it left. Yeah, Well, anyway, I
don't know if he's still after my ass. Well you could just ask him.
No, you can't just simply ask him. I turned back to Toby,
and so that's our story, right question. So Toby, do you
have anyone in particular that you maybe don't like at all, like you hate
I just cannot stand, like, if you saw them, you would punch
them in the face. I turn and I look at hip Bo like,
yes, I'd like to know this too, hmmm. And what it looked
like this man? And I point to Bow just appalled at Ellie. I
just give her this this look, and I even like lower my glasses down.
I put my hand on bow shoulder. I'm like, it's okay,
I'm here. What the heck? Why would he hate Bo? You've never
even met the man? This? Can you can you see? I didn't
know she had a boyfriend. Wait, come again, couldn't you see that
from me? Something about boyfriend? See? Oh my ribs, oh my
ribs. Oh no, oh you didn't. Oh, I mean I'm surprise
as huh. That's strange. Good to see I guess, you know what.
Good just to see you too. Wait do you two know each other?
Well that's isn't that a coincidences? Small world for sure, and it's
getting smaller by the minute. Go on back in the we'll see. There's
a lot that I didn't feel. You want to have a reach ot and
play? You know, I almost didn't recognize you. You know. Wait,
do you two have history? Do you want you we can just step
out now. No, it's fine, and it's fine. I'm fine.
I mean I I was married. It's fine. If you two had a
relationship, No, not the same thing. No, it was definitely no,
no, no, no, no, no, no no, we
had a professional relationship. I guess you can say that I know what BO
used to do. BO used to wore himself. So are you telling me
that that's that's what you used to do as well? You know, it's
fine, you can just say so no no, no, had a dip
in pockets as well, and that he used to be a thief. A
pick polk isn't exactly a thief, it's it's a bit more cowardly. Cowardly
excuse me, wait, wait a minute, sorry, skill, it takes
some skill. You used to be a thief and I'm looking at hippo.
No, no, well, I don't know. You've never talked about this
period of your life, and I never asked because I'm trying to respect her
posty, So that's why. Well that's so, then what professional working relationship
did you have? Did you did you buy the things that he stole?
No? No, I stop. Yeah, I'm sorry. Could you peel
a little bit clearer, because it sounds to me like you're saying you're a
you were like a city guard or something. That's pretty well, he was
something even uh well, yeah, yeah, he had a higher position than
that. He was. He was one of the big boys. Hey,
that's the thing. That's well, that's not entirely true. This is the
funniest thing I've ever heard. You cynical man who believes in nothing just and
then everything's corrupt. You were a city guard. The sky was always gray.
Sprinkle on my rainbow cupcakes, he was just that rich, always ruining
my day. M hm. Maybe he's extra hard and not that good kind.
That was too much, that was too far. Just well, I
mean, we're already talking about a relationship with this guy, and I are
saying things are too hard and it was nothing like that. Mm hmm,
okay, right, that's us. What about what about you? Lot?
How have you been? How did you get here? Did you just wake
up here? When? What was a woman? I did? We woke
up here and I'm assuming or woke up in her town. Did you have
the same experience I did. I didn't fall in love, if that's what
you're saying, but I'm not. I look looked at I looked at Toby.
No, I meant the year of your life, Oh experience. I
experienced a whole well year, even visited you. Yeah, I'm a middle
nowhere. Wait what I had that too? I dreampt. I guess that
you visited me? Yeah, and then we went to go see uh my
family in dust Field together. Yep, all right, Boh married someone that
looked like me and it was weird. I don't remember that. I didn't
experience that. Bow never came to visit me. You bastard. He was
busy. He also, I didn't though you were you had a baby on
the way, didn't you. Yeah, Rascal, imagine a little bow running
around terrifying. I well, I mean there was that one time where we
were all young, so I can come imagine that. Yeah, it was
a little little, little big bow. And and and Aura I did.
I did see Aura though twice right, or I was pregnant too, I
was up until when I woke up. Yeah, I told I told Claes
obviously before I came down, kept her you kept your well there and also
before I came here. Oh, and he's not here with you now.
No, Alvin wasn't doing well when the magic left, so he's watching over
him and gives me something go back to. Yes, hopefully, hopefully we
can do something about that. Should should we discuss that? Maybe we have
to figure out what we're gonna do. So you remember that paladin grim,
right, Yeah, of course I was expecting this gentleman to be grim.
No, what happened is uh, he for some reason stormed the castle and
tried to attack the queen and we don't know why. And now they're holding
him prisoner or is she a demon. That's the only reason why he would
do that. Right, I look at PLUGI lifts a drink and says it
as me fifty gold pieces. Let me tell you that much. We're gonna
go and bust him out so that I can get that gold back. That
right, he's the one that thought I'd be dead. We all, that's
fair. He mentioned that the queen is a demon. Yeah, you said
that. You've mentioned like we should maybe deal with that as well. That's
the queen is a fucking demon, right, Okay, well what do you
think? Why are you even here? What does your involvement in this?
Are you going to help or what? Hopefully sir straightened things out? Shall
we? This might take a little while, sir the stuff from the and
he begins to speak, and as the few of you have a discussion.
Piro outside, I think this should work if I flip yeah kind of,
that's about It's all good. I have a solo screen. But you can
do whatever you want to do. Correct, Cairo, you are outside,
roll me a dice twelve. A twelve is a success. You see the
door open, You see Reginald step out, close the door quietly behind him,
and begin to scout the area. I'm gonna roll the dice for him.
We're gonna see if he can be at twelve h He is a little
more experienced than you. He was trained partially by the Thieves Guild and partially
by the Assassin's Guild, and partially by some of the best of the best
of this and that, and then he joined the Inquisition. So he starts
to move around very quiet. You see him move towards the front of the
gate. You were probably in mid transit as you were moving around the side
of the building to find out where everybody was inside to maybe get a good
bondage point or listen in on the conversation that was happening, and you notice
that he immediately picks up on one of your tracks and then turns around.
He brings out two daggers and just shouts into the kind of yard area that
you're hiding in and says, okay, come out, I've got your tracks.
You're not as skilled as you think you are. I I reach into
my cloak and my hand is probably trembling a little bit, and I pull
out my badge in front of me, and he probably just sees my hand
sticking out with the badge because I I was trying to hide. Hmm,
Now, where on earth did you find find a thing like that? It's
it's mine, Reginald Cairo. You stand up, yep, I don't answer.
He's looking at you in fall to back seat make up and garb,
and then he drops the daggers and rushes towards you. Cairo, your your
your, We thought you're dead? What almost was? He moves around and
while you're kind of hiding and things, he moves around the side of you
and looks at you and grabs at you kind of and tries to lift you
up. What are you okay? Why are you hiding? Come inside,
We'll be I didn't know. Speaking of sides, which one we were on?
You see, these these people are not the enemy, right. It's
a lot for me to blurt that out. I just waiting for the reception
of that. Yes, we we suspect the same thing. What are the
others? Is everybody else? There was no word? You didn't did they
not send any one? I barely made it out myself. Well if you
made it out the machine, yes, of course the machine. You you
you you saw it? You went there? Yes? Right, Well,
then we have a lot to discuss. Come inside, h have you eaten?
You look? Pardon you're terrible, still shaking a little bit. And
I say, I've been having some visions and when one of them worst and
shot me right, Yes, you've probably been through a lot that you.
Nobody's having visions anymore, and suddenly you've never shown any real pension for magic
aside from you. That's the thing. But that woman sooner, she was
in one of them, and she's real. Yes, she's in a found
diner of sorts, so I'm told is worst in on our side? Of
course he is. Why wouldn't he be h? Why would I have that
vision? Oh? Visions, prophecies there are diamond doesn't they could be anything?
Perhaps it was just paranoia. You've seen them every day. Watch his
comings and goings, he said, well, yes, of course, not
secret meetings, secret meetings as if we do, it's a trap for you
too. But if we're both in a trap, Reginald, he's the leader,
you know, yes, I know, But you're worrying, what is
this c stalker? What are the odds that two of our leaders would turn
on us in such a terrible way? To me, that just makes it
seem more likely, not less. He seems the same to me. Fine,
if anything else to back up your fears? Which is this dream?
Oh, it's just just a vision when it's the vision some time ago.
I haven't had any I haven't had any since it was right around when the
machine that was successful. So it was successful. This was the I mean,
I thought you well, I guess I don't. I just got the
hell out of there. You know what everyone decided they wanted it to happen.
What do you mean they just sent me away. I'm lucky to be
alive, you know. Yes, I can't imagine why Western would want you
killed there unless you saw something well like what well, I don't know whatever
happened. The last we heard you were in some sort of submersible and then
you never returned. Well, I was afraid to come back. You know.
We never get any information from the High Inquisitor. We never meet.
It's always secret. It's always through sub channels. And I didn't know what
to think after everyone abandoned our mission. Yes, well, a little more
information has come to light about our fair arch Inquisitor. Turns out, well,
he was an ancient being, a thing that was crafted the arch inquisitor,
the dead crafted somewhat, yes, I think known as a primal.
I know if you'd have studied on any of those things, but well barely
now. I've only been doing this for five years, Yes, pretty new
at this, and now everything is turned on its head and idle. Well,
there's not many of us, and there's no word from anybody else either.
We've met with the inquisitors that investigation types, but we don't. There's
no eighteen. Nobody's showed up, nobody from the other cities, nobody from
the other continents. Yet it's only us. Mhm. It's a little strange,
very strange. As far as I'm aware, it's just myself, worse
than a Bob. He's a little ruffed up at the moment. But now
you're back, so perhaps the others made it out as well ruffed up.
Yes, the there's a tiefling in there. She's well, she's rather strong.
She ever powered me as well, strong enough to rough up Bob and
then me in the same day. There. Wow, rather strange and special
individuals. These people. I hope to get to know them. I've come
to care for sooner. And you've been traveling with them, Yes, and
I trust them. Yes, so do we. No, that's good the
investigator tear leak little relief here coming out. The investigation is not over.
We're going to figure out precisely what happened. You might have the last piece
of the puzzle weep looking for. We were about to go trudging off to
the boody fortress. Oh well, I guess I guess it's back to work
then, right, let's uh, let's head inside. I can't imagine that
Worston's going to suddenly pull a rifle on you. Well, we'll be ready
if he does. I think he'll be more happy than anybody else, rather
concerned about our hands on deck. And I'll make a few sounds and keep
he comes from a few roof pups away and keep he's alive as well.
M Yeah, he's as tough bird. And yes, let's uh, let's
get you some some food and maybe a fresh robe. I'd like that.
Turns around, scoops up and staggers, puts them away, and heads in
for the building. And that is where we're going to go to our break
for the evening. When we return, we shall return see how these people
plan their next move. All are you going to do next. Guys,
you can think about it on the break while everybody else goes and doos pepe's
and poopos se you all in a few minutes short break. When we return
will continue, Thanks so much for watching. We return to Blona's mid North
North Midtown in a a safe house. The door opens. As you're all
discussing stuff, you suddenly hear it open. I don't think anybody would have
heard it open the first time. I think maybe that might be possibly why
Reginald walks in, closing the door behind him a few footsteps. And then
in the doorway is this other person Reginald behind him moving around the doorway is
what I think some of you would recognize to be a TABANKSI. And then
so it's a discussed so it's a confusing I immediately stand up. You get
your hands off of her. Cairo, Are you all right? Caira?
You sit right there? Young man his head and stands up. Absolutely not.
He rushes towards Cairo immediately. He's not armed. I don't care.
I'm running towards him and I'm going to dramatically fling myself on him in between
them. I'm absolutely under no circumstances, would I allow him to approach her
even though I am a frail old woman. This is gonna be hilarious.
Okaytain successful? What are you doing? All right? I just immediately you
will not touch her. You will absolutely leave her alone and fel And I'm
like, are you clawing at him? Grabbing at your wrist? Absolutely not.
You will not touch her. I think it's what he is there like
battered? Other way, old lady? What excuse you don't call her that?
Are you all right? I'm okay? You know I know who you
are too. I don't think that you can get away with whatever you think
you're going to get away with. What are you talking about? I'm onto
you. I have sight, so I want you to remember that I know
what you think you're going to do, and I know what you're going to
do before you do it. You're going to do something terrible, but I'm
going to stop you from doing it. What do you may do something terrible?
You will not fucking touch her. I saw you in a vision,
Bursten, You're at it. You're at a vision. Yeah, I know
it's weird, but I did. I had several and in one of them,
you raised the shotgun at me and you pulled the trigger. Now,
why the fun would I do that? I don't know. Nobody knows what
they're going to do before they could, or why they're going to do the
things that they're going to do before they do them. But sure enough,
you'll probably find yourself in a situation where you're going to do that thing.
I just want you to know you're not going to get away with it it.
Don't do it. I would, I wouldn't. I would never.
I've never been happy to see someone walk through that door. And then here
come the tears. Oh he was going in for a hug. I'm sorry.
I here, let me sit down and we can do over start again.
He moves out towards carefully and slowly moves away from Sooner. He moves
over to the cairn, puts a hand on top of your head and says,
good to see your kid before you were dead almost of us, and
he gives you a rough hug like he does, so I'll hug back.
H Yeah the o us. All right, I don't think they survived.
And you've been with this law some good fucking work that fuck did you know?
Thank you? Yeh? Where so you're still having visions. And he
looks at you, and then he also looks at sooner and you two.
Yes, how the fuck is that possible? Then? Special? Do you
think magic has reason? All right? Then, okay, but it could
have happened beforehand. How many fingers am I going to hold? Up?
Four? Up? Five? Fuck? Can I roll for that? Actually?
Yeah? Can I use my ability? Yeah? I'll try. Yes,
do it again, and I will use my ability to know what somebody's
going to do in the next ten minutes. I'll just use points for that.
What's he gonna watch? Yeah? Roll you? Uh roll me a
dice between one and ten? Or roll the d ten? Sorry? Oh
right? Three? Three, three, brings his hand out from behind his
bag. Three you want to go again, I'll do it again. I'll
spend another all right, you'll lose. Oh there, this one I just
got in reverse. Now's the four? Go on? None? She changed
it? Well, that's that's fine, he knows. Oh no, I
really do need to know if you can actually do it, So if you
can take it seriously, and I'll do it again last time, okay,
and I'd like to do it before he holds up and like previously, I
feel like I've waited to say it. But as he's reaching back and the
moment he's like thinking of what number he's going to hold up, that's when
I want to do it. He turns his back and looks at you,
Cairo and flashes six behind his back, roll out in d ten. Okay,
I have goosebumps. I'm sorry six six, All right, let's try
something else. How else can we prove this? There is this. I'm
not going to play games with you. I can guess between one and ten
as well. Yo, yeah, try it? What number am I holding
up? Two? Exactly right? So? Can you do anything else?
Can I? What do you mean? Can I do anything else? No?
I'm not going to fire lightning, and I can't do that right now
because that kind of magic is gone. But I don't have to sit here
and prove myself to you, young man. Well really no, I don't.
You're gonna do arrest me with your dying inquisition? No, but what
if we all fucking die because you're relying on your bullshit? Well, no
one's relying on my magic. Well you perceived to be. Well, this
isn't very productive. Look, she has abilities and you should respect those and
we should all have a productive conversation. She told you that, well,
I was gonna shoot you. No, she told me, I just know
when to believe it. I don't have the visions anymore anyway, gone,
all right, that's uh, take a brief, honey. Do you mind
if myself Reginald with private discussion with Cairo? I mean, do you mean
yes, Cairo? Are you all right with that? But I suppose so,
but I'm not sure why it has to be private. I'm with her,
Yeah, I don't you think it's better if we just all layer our
laundry? All right, fine, then maybe we start that adding let's see
who've got what, figure out all the information is. See if we can
work out what's going on, You're not ruined the world. So why don't
you start Wait, why do you keep saying that? Well, and I
look over at Cairol, you do want to I mean right, yeah,
the last word about you? You were sucking Underwarter giant arc and I'm machine
and we were supposed to stop it. You know, those those dragonfly people,
they had the tattoos, and well we were right. Their leader was
Geo and we tracked him down and uh, we fought him and and then
he he ran, and so we followed, and then we saw a lot
of dead people, and then he started saying a lot of things that made
sense, and brah, I didn't do it. Well, they all they
all started listening, and I really confused, and I think, I know
they fired that weapon. Now everything's weird, So you see, I really
know nothing. H I think one of us set off. I think Erlay.
I think she set it off on purpose. I think so. Now,
what really drive you nuts is I saw that. I saw it.
I saw that happen, and I didn't know whose names to put where,
But Cairo and I have had a great, lengthy discussion about this, and
the moment it happened, I had a vision of exactly that. And it
was your friend Errol that hit a button on the machine and set it off.
She was convinced it was the right thing to do. They didn't make
her for that part. I didn't see. I just saw the actual act
of it happening. But yes, Seasuccer was there at the time. We
were walking down a long road. It took us like ten months, and
I saw it then. I think I thought it might be would have been
after, but I did see it, and I didn't know what it was
until she washed up on my shore. Well, I wouldn't say it was
necessarily how long I'd say that, sir, it was definitely. It sounds
like a last many defection to me. But they all did, too,
lead us into her other theory than Reginald standing in the doorway next to Desirah
looks nods. We uh and uh sorry new newcomers. We do have a
working theory that perhaps you were all the zapped, mind wiped, and but
potentially working for something or somebody very powerful. I immediately think of my father.
H anything that's able to quickly twist the mind of entire group of inquisitors.
Why why were you not affected? Pyro felt it and I wanted to.
I think I wanted to, but then they made me. Oh.
Oh I did was question and they said me away, So I ran mm
hmm. Well, you know anyone would have questioned an abrupt shift in judgment
like that. Why why did they do it? Crew said the dragonfly?
Not what's the point is it this? Sir? They said, magic is
for everyone. No, I agree with that. I know you lot don't.
Oh, I mean, do we and I look to Reginald and Wurston.
What do we believe now? I don't know if it matters what we
believe. I don't suppose it does. It looks like you're lot through through
a tantrum. If we can't have it, then no one can have it.
It matters what we do. No, that's not It's not what they
wanted. I mean as individuals. Maybe if they turned, if they were
controlled or something, but uh no, no, no, the arch Inquisitor,
the others. They wanted a full control of magic. They definitely didn't
want rid of it because they were in control of it. Now now no
one can have it. They don't want that well, of course not well
for one thing, he'd got killed. It doesn't make any sense. I
don't think you're with us. Do you feel strange sooner? In your your
head? Any thoughts, distractions, anything that might not belong to you.
I'm sorry? What was your name again? Call me Reginald? Oh,
Reginald, No, Reginald All My thoughts are my own. HM. Usually
with long term mind control and magical prists in turns of memories, you will
find bleed. For example, you might believe yourself to be a diviner and
that you've seen things, but in fact it's just, you know, a
little more than a dream. I'm immediately thinking of Ippo saying have you ever
been? And that that de ja vous that I just had. It troubles
me a little bit, so much so that I fell silent. She the
thing is one day she disappeared. Yeah, so make disappeared, disappeared,
didn't We didn't need to say in gettable ever lifted up, disappeared into the
sky or I believe it was a tower, but that's that's not main control.
Someone didn't control the main and het just disappeared. Well, yes,
we've still we were not quite sure this machine what it was capable of.
We haven't a theory of illithids as well, mind fliers. They're usually not
that strong. Now, wait a minute, I think we should explore all
of this with everyone here. Well, I I look very hesitantly towards Ara,
La and Bow. I have this, this mind control. Could it
make you live a life for a time? Well, presumably it would be
able to do with anything. Yeah, and you were an entire life lived,
so I suppose it would be able to Then you wake up and you
haven't lived it. At all unless you're still living it? Could it do
it twice where you live it and then wake up, but then you're still
in it three times? I guess. Really it would have been back in
when we met, you know, I would have been back there on the
bridge, and then again in here, and then again and then again.
It would be four times, wouldn't it? Or righte wreck with again?
Right? So we were in a dream within a dream. But if that
was a dream, then the dream of the life we lived and everything we
had done would be a dream. And then that would be a dream.
And now this is a dream that's five times, that's five layers. That's
very powerful. Is that even possible? Though? I don't know. That's
what I'm asking? How deep can this mind control go? And it sounds
a little half etched to me? I do so wish ERLD say was here
actually agree with bit some bit much? Well? Why would I be getting?
Why would my dream's kingdom? Who would think of a dream that?
May? You know? In my life? That's just a bit? Well,
is there any way to test it? Yes? Can you like slap
me or something and wake me up? Or what? No? I didn't
I don't think that's going to work. I think we're I think in swallowed
beg sneak, and I'm probably up and was gonna start would be yep,
that's certain. While it's very possible you're currently in a dream, I would
suggest that we work with the idea that you're not, and we're in reality
right now, we're Therefore, if you are in fact in reality, then
your might you be let out? They're becky, Yes, no, we're
fine. Experience you would you would know by now it's been what eighteen days?
You would most certainly that's not possible. We'd lived an entire year.
Well, well, yes, since then, since the fall of magic,
since you were returned from your year. I see, probably would have I
see what you mean, we would have kept living. No, the bleed,
the effects they're usually begin to have a more prominent effect by now,
at least in our experience. That being said, well, that's what I
mean. Like, the only reason we woke up from our year long dream
is because magic died. Otherwise we would still be there in that whatever that
was right? So with magic, dad, we're not dreaming. But is
it dead? What do we do? Well? According to you, it's
not well, but that's what I'm that's what I'm starting to wonder. I
can still do some things. And it's you know, in the in the
beginning, when when magic was gone, I did I couldn't. You know.
I can't cast a lightning bolt or I can't levitate you off of the
ground, but I can number sense when danger is coming. I can when
danger is coming as well. But you were trained to do that. I
wasn't. Well, I an animal, is not trained parent. But I
can still sometimes predict what sometimes what's going to happen or what's not going to
happen. And I may have had my first vision in a long time,
and I just and I can, I can. I can do this,
And I'll reach over who's the one questioning who's closest to me, Reginald or
Worston. Actually I fucking hate that guy, so I'll do Reginald. So
I'll just like reach over and I'll just touch Worston or Reginald and I'll do
that thing where I just make him feel great. And before I thought I
was just being reassuring, But now I'm convinced that maybe there is still some
magic left. Yeah, what do you do exactly? I think I need
to speak to him to have it work. So I just reach over and
I just say, everything's going to be all right, Reginald, thank you.
That's very reassuring. I'm convinced I've done something, and I lean back
and I'm all smug, like, h well, can you do anything a
prominent I don't know it's sick or a light or I try. Yeah,
what are you trying to do? Awful? I can I try to levitate
him. I know I won't succeed, but I'd like to try. Roma
dies Yeah, Evan, do you do something? Do you stand there like
a crazy person? And oh, yes, I try. I do.
I do what I used to do with my hands. I don't have my
staff actually, in fact, I try and nothing happens, and then I
do you mind? And I point to my staff just just for a moment,
I'll give it right back right okay, and then I'll try again,
and then I'll do the same gesture with my staff, and then when nothing
happens, I dejectedly hand it back. All right. Well no I can't.
I can't right. I can't seem to feel that in my bones.
And I I used to not be able to sleep or or need air And
now I can't like that's awful walking upstairs or what do you mean? What
does that mean? Well, that's none of your business. Don't be rude,
all right? Uh okay, there seems to me you're struggling to come
to terms with the lack of magic. We all are. It's all right,
situation. She thinks she can on fire, can't do it? Who
takes the error? Right? But this, well I don't that. I'm
just going to lead these people into a battle without thinking with my brain,
leading anyone into anything, all right, I think that's about bickering. This
is this is bickering. Now we need to have a productive conversation, Reginald.
Don't you agree? Yes? I I do think we shouldn't quite write
off the idea that you know, she may have a connection to something,
but it doesn't pardon seem like it, right, So running maybe you just
need to extensive tests with wizards in town and they really are and I do
something so stupid. Yeah, I'm so sorry, but I think I would
actually do it. Can I take the Day of Ecky talisman out of my
bag and rip it in half? Yeah? So it's a puck piece of
parchment, strong, old vellum looking thing. How have you stored it in
things? It's just tied with a ribbon that that or gave me because it's
one of the ribbons that we used to tie notes for bunths, and so
I've tied it with that. So I just I think, I just I
think I'm just heated. And I pull it out and I, you know,
just the idea that I've been making this all up in my mind this
whole time is actually really quite terrifying and might possibly be true, and I
find that very upsetting. So I just I just untied it, and I
well, then I can then this probably doesn't work either, if magic's not
real. And then I just tear it in half and I just sit there.
It's really hard to tear in half, by the way. It seems
like it should just be a piece of paper, but it's it's it's like
when you try and rip like a money, you know, like in half,
and it's kind of harder to do than you realize at first, but
it's completely doable. You're there and you're just struggling with this piece of parchment
for a moment before you suddenly it tears in half. There's an image on
it of a strange looking creature that, now that you guys have met him,
doesn't really resemble Dayoveki, but doesn't not resemble day of Ki. It
certainly doesn't look exactly like him, but it has elements that seem relatively similar,
more of an odd depiction of something like Dayoveki than the like a one
to one scale thing. You guys have seen it before. It was the
thing that was given to you by Mother Numera. She claims that it was
one of the only things stopping Savras from finding her on behalf of day of
Eki. You find out later on that the this talisman would protect you from
his divination, therefore stopping him from being able to stop you. Moments after
handing it to you, she was immediately destroyed. You pull it out and
you rip it in half, and nothing happens. I think Reginald and Worstern
exchange of glance. They do it towards you as well, Cairo, and
then they look back towards you a little expect I wait for a minute,
nothing happens. You know you want to take a we break the last thing
I had from her. I don't know why I did that. We need
a rebreak. Don't be hard on yourself. Sooner, have it. It's
can't all have been for nothing? Oh yeah, I mean right, Okay,
let's take a minute. We take a wee minute. Okay, something
to drink, maybe for a rewalk gets somewhere. Yes, it's muskin.
Fine, you're talking about your stuff. Yes, And as I was saying
you, you might just be believing that your connections to magic are a remaining
There have been several people in town. Warlocks seem to be the most upset.
They have a patron of sorts that they can borrow energy and power from,
So it would be very difficult, like a phantom limb to suddenly lose
something like that. Fear. Your comrade is suffering with that a lot.
She apparently was very powerful. It was and still is. I have no
doubt that it's magic still exists. I'm almost certain of it. We just
have to reawaken it somehow. How How do we fix this? Yes,
you are rather certain that Sooner would help us, But she seems just as
perplexed as we do. Really not quite sure what the next step is.
Not just got here, yeah, not just that, But I don't know.
I I'm not gonna lie. I was hoping something would happen when Sooner
tore that, But so we don't know where to go. We don't well
go to go to the fortress when need to stick to the plan. The
plan was to find her and then sneak into the fortress, although we didn't
know we had five extras to deal with and do what in the fortress.
There's a final comrade, another person that they have picked up, fellow named
Elden Grimm. He's a fucking paladin of Baine. Stole the fortress. He
also tried to cut my head off. Why do we always forget that detail?
Yes, but he helped us after that. He helped us fight some
demon the whole time saying he was going to fight me to the death once
we were finished. He took it as a great honor because he thought you
were a great warrior. But now he doesn't have his powers and doubt.
She tried to get into the at the queen. I don't know why he
went fucking ape shit, it's what you did, is that what you're saying?
Well, we need to figure out why. I know he'll talk to
me. I don't think I can get every single one of you in not
taking these kids up there. He looks towards the monks that are kind of
looking out of the doorway. He turns around. The night that had come
with sooner. Sirah is not there either. She's kind of followed out quietly
after. Might be able to get a night in. I'll stay behind.
I'll stay here and try to come up with the next steps and stay with
Nod and on. Maybe. Yeah, I'm not sure there's a good reason
for me to go either, and I pull out my bow. But you
definitely need to come with us. And do you know as well? If
you say so, I mean, I guess if you guys are part of
the inquisition, they'll take us more seriously and sneak a couple people in.
Yeah, I suppose. But you think the grim as the answer or we
just need him no anymore, I don't know, because need more information.
We obviously don't have enough information between all of us. He's just one more
missing piece of the puzzle. He knows something or he's gone bashit crazy either
one. But it's probably don't bat shit crazy, I'm telling you that much.
But he asks me, well, I'm not crazy. I was actually
dead on right, it was a demon that I actually believed I was because
we're bros now. But he he also thinks the queen is a demon,
so yet to disprove it. Okay, well then we'll do it. Well
we go in. I don't think you should go, Kalugie. I think
that I think we can just waltz up and have a little chat with the
queen. I have a ring that someone can wear it like you have special
rings, right, Colugie got rid of them? Oh? Remember, no
magic. Well, I believe I'm under arrest or something not under arrest,
So can I go? Right? So, I don't know what that's why
I'm here. They put me in a fucking saund with him. Hey,
we did have some good times from worse than to Ellie and I say,
when do we go? It is at that point we head to another room
or outside or where did Sooner and Hipo go? And as you leave the
room, the twins kind of move, but then stop and then look at
each other and then kind of there's like a slight smile between them as you
two leave the room, almost childish, which is very rare from them.
However, as soon as you walk out that the Zira is following you.
She's like a few paces back, but she walks out of the room and
just is following you down the hallway, mindlessly looking around her a walk,
didn't we need some airor ironically, who are you not good? I don't.
I think I'm losing my mind? No, why what do you think?
I feel like I can do these things, but I can't. I
think you can, or at least you could. You really believe that because
you never believed it before. Well, I've had some things that have made
me. I tell you a wee story, you know, put some stuff
to fill you in with boring stories. Go on, well, once upon,
well I grew up here, we can I passed my house and away?
Really which one? It was a shamble sort of just after a whiskey.
Maybe if we passed again, help point. When I was a wee
boy, it was like a fair thing going on. And do you know
why don't really just take a wee walked into my house? I'd like that
a lot. Yeah, it was when I was a guard a watchman.
What will start at the beginning? I still find that hysterical. By the
way, I think it all makes sense when I was a wee boy.
It was a fair an old lady looked at me and she said, one
day you gonna be a hero, I know, and you know, we
boy, and you hear that, just yeah, So that kind of My
mom and dad they did their best. You know. My dad was a
passable new carpenter. My mom was a seamstress. And my dad made me
a wee wooden sword a practice with it. And as I've got older,
you eventually got into the watch. I kept seeing those kind of folks,
you know, do a card reading, look at my palm, that kind
of thing. The last time I saw one, they gave me my vision
said, leave all your belongings behind, head out, Fate will bring you
everything you need. How long is it going to be looking a couple of
days, maybe a couple of weeks, feet's funny. So I spent two
weeks out and then our first eating berries and trapping animals, and well lost
my patience came back, you know, gett an up date when they were
gone, and then my belongings are left behind, gone and the mason everything
in my house was gone, tables, chairs, my pillows, some of
the floorboards, and the watch didn't like that, you know, disappearing for
a couple of weeks and a watchman getting his house burgled, and ka,
it's a higher up sort of just I had made some enemies anyway, trying
too hard, you know, hard to imagine. Mm hmm. I thank
you that bowfella first time I got him. She's seen the looks on their
faces. I didn't like it. I showed them up, you know.
I was trying so hard to to be a hero or whatever. He didn't
try that hard anyway. They wouldn't talk to me. I was out of
the watch didn't have a house anymore. I came back. There was people
in there, you know, squatting and that. So one person give me
a rusty old sword and some chain meal. I used that escorting to day,
then made a bit of cash, hopped on a boat to your scorn.
That's how I ended up there. And then because that fills in the
gaps. So I don't like authority's and the visions and stuff. But you
know, I got thinking, h yeah, who wasn't until I left here.
I left everything behind and you can't get more out in the walds than
you're scoring. And then well Pete brought me you. So what was it,
fate, Well, no, that's your that's your it's your area of
expertise. I guess it's some is circus that came to town. Yeah,
it's sir. Was it a woman who told you you were going to be
here one day? Yeah, lady, I mean this was anttle E boy
back then, you know. But yeah, I just stop walking to take
your hands. Before we get to do all of this. He awakes,
I guess, and I think you deserve to know, you know all of
it. So that's me Field, watchman, Field hero. I had to
quit hermit, I think, yeah, not a hermit anymore. There's tools
then before we again all that, well waited you know all that, and
find you and all that. I love you sooner. I love you too.
You guys are standing in front of a little small house in a row
of small houses. There's just simple stone with wood supports and a thatched roof.
There's two little windows blanking the door on the outside of the street.
Inside you can see a family, a mother and a father and two young
boys maybe five six, running around a table while some food is prepared.
This is I wish F'd had brought you sooner. Mm hmm. What's the
weat back at the other house. The rest of you are sitting around this
uh this table worst and stands up and says, right, it looks like
I'm gonna have to go and get some more supplies. How many of us
are there? I suppose I'll just I can bring them all we need anything
else? What are you going to get? Hopes? I'm gonna say,
fuck it, let's all go. But why would that's a good idea?
Even the kids? Yeah? All right, then, no, we're all
going to go to the fortress. Oh, now, we'll go tomorrow.
I'm gonna have to go and speak to but I'll go and speak to the
high Reeve. I'll tell him that we've got some new shreds in they need
training, and we've got a lead and we need to speak to this fella.
Mm hmmm. I'd also say he's super dangerous, so you need backup.
It's dangerous. Don't look, he's all changed up. He's probably changed
up like a beast. Yeah, they are usually don't treat their prisoners the
same way we do. He glances towards bow. No, I wouldn't imagine,
so no, yeah, well there Visional Dune most of the work.
I think we're expected at least at some point. All right, well we
have to wait for those two to come back, hopefully by the night,
and then we can go tomorrow. Yeah, I'm gonna go, and I'll
get some robes. See if I can muster up some patches, but probably
not. You're gonna have to work on not making a scene and shouting and
just yeah, there'll definitely be no repeat about what happened back on the street.
What happened? Oh yeah, right, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, Okay. He stands up and then heads towards the door.
You see him shoulder his rifle and then turns back to you, Cairo
and says, good to see you back, kid, got to be back.
Yeah. Then he heads out. Reginald turns to everyone and says,
perhaps we should uh get some food or relax. I suppose I gonna need.
I got a lot of food to rest up as much as we can
before. You know, I always knew Worston had a soft side to him.
He's, you know, he's got the resting bitch face going. But
you know, I always know he was kind of a nice guy, even
though he changed me up and strip me naked and make me peel myself.
But yes, I took it. Number ten. Oh, they gave him
the treatment first, just to see if they'd break. Didn't he do?
Piss down his own leg? Really? Well? Right, I should really
stop. I mean, if it makes you feel any better, I've seen
a lot worse happen in ten. But you and I, after all this
is over, we're gonna have to train you a little bit, you know,
to not piss on yourself at least next time if that ever happens.
Are you are you telling me you're gonna show me how to be? I
just walk out. Just where are you going? I shake in my head
at these two, like is this normal? Is this? And I looked
at Reginald and I say, should we go ground up some grub? Yeah?
You each well, then spend the rest of this day. It's very
early, you know, it's like six am, you know, when you
guys first get back to this place. By now you're looking at maybe seven
mancs something like that. And Reginald, I guess, with Cairo and whoever
else joins them, goes and prepares some sort of basic breakfast. I don't
think they'd have stuff, so you'd probably have to go and buy it,
so they would have headed out, everyone would have got a little better acquainted
maybe, and then over the course of the day, I assume, so
you know, an Ippo would return and you'd be able to speak more in
depth about what you guys have done, where you've been, some of the
more specifics of what's been going on since you guys have been split up.
Zira would introduce herself. You'd have to explain what the deal is with the
twins, things like that, just to give everybody contact. Is there anything
that anybody specifically would mention or would not mention, or anything like that just
forgo Otherwise, we'll go ahead and assume that for the most part, you
guys have as much information as we have our out of character watching this thing
play out. I think I hold back the weird coincidence with the twins,
Andra like knowing me, I hold that back from them, but not the
other three, and I'll find a way to tell them privately. And I
still you can assume you've all spoken privately at any point, all right,
it's a lot more relaxed, So anything, you probably had a moment or
four If you don't know that you spoke. You know, an opportunity for
everyone to do, four of you to have a moment to discuss specifics and
things. You can just assume anything you want to assume, but let me
know what it is so that we all. I've told them everything, but
I definitely didn't tell the inquisition that they're they're convinced they have to protect me
and that we're the last hope to write the world. But I do tell
them that I think before we move on, I uh as a souna and
it will come back. I walk up to Ippo and uh, I put
a hand out. I then express I know we've been through a lot of
things. It's been a lot of well cat and mouse and cat fights between
us cheers. I'm doing this for Sona. I grab you ran. It
was a long team and going sooner told me everything that happened. Thanks,
thanks for taking care of course. Oh my two heroes. I just pat
the size of their faces. That's lovely. It's probably a strange moment between
keeping and Buns and maybe Or and Cairo as they both produce a pouch ful
of like random bird seed, like what do you where do you get yours?
And like try to like compare like mealworms, and both have like this
weird secret pocket that's filled with just miscellaneous things to feed a bird. Not
that they would eat exactly the same things, but I think you'd probably find
a lot of common ground in essentially both having in training birds. It's probably
mad to you, Caro that she has like such a well trained robin.
Mm hmm, yeah, the type of thing that you might have experienced when
you were much much younger around more Elvin folk. It's the type of thing
that they can do, but you don't often see a teeth fling with such
kinship with animals. You can tell that she's probably very similar to you in
that sense, and that in the upbringing sense. At a point two,
I sit and I just talk Ellie's yer off. I catch her up on
all of the things. I tell her everything I was about to say.
Ellie would have tried to get Souona alone and would have talked a lot about
Zach. Yes, and I would have asked, I would have been like,
what happened there? And she's still alive? And Ellie would have admitted
just to Suna that she basically made amends with Zach. And I therapy a
therapist to you onuse. I never wanted you to kill him anyway. Remember,
I was trying to convince you not to do it. So I'm like,
oh, I'm very proud of you and that must have been so hard,
and you know, how do you feel about that now? And she
would have said that like he gave her a warning. He found her and
gave her a warning that the Guild was going to have to come after her
because of the Inquisition, so it allowed her time to get out. Ellie
also sent you multiple messages that you didn't get. Yeah. I would have
said that to ill for you and things, but you wouldn't have picked it
up. Yeah, And it's like I was trying to warn you. The
Guild warned us that they were going after all of us. I let him
capture Kalougi because it was too late. And I reveal everything to you,
Ellie, especially the the emotional side of it as well, like the snake
swallowing me and how helpless I felt and how terrified I am that I'm going
to let everybody down. I definitely tell you that I would have. I
would have tried to comfort you through that and been like, well, you
got out of the snake. So it was terrifying, but you overpowered it.
Well I don't know what if overpower is the right word, as much
as I you know, stuck a stick in its throat and made it choke
me out. But but that's all right. I mean it's nothing like or
you know, going through the spider or anything. She killed someone. Uh
no, you know that man that's like kind of sleeping and he can't talk,
and he's like have been shown it's giant sleeping teeth thing ustairs. He's
covered in bandages. Yeah, that's that's the guy that she did that to
him. She did that? Oh my, Well, of course I wouldn't
put it any other way, but just surprises me, you know. She's
always like, no, I don't, let's talk first. He also took
out Reginald. Technically, oh yeah, I would have Yeah, I think
even or probably would have explained that. But I guess you could captured Reginald
and took out that man. Have you seen him? He's tiny. There
would also be a moment where I think Worston and Reginald would speak to you,
Cairo about everything that they know and kind of talk your ear off a
little more specifically, about the events and run down of what happened with se
Stalker and Vengeance and the other members of the bad Team. I assume you
would just tell them the truth fully, I would as a full account.
Worston would also suddenly become very interested in Zira when he realizes what the dragon
on her pauldron means that she's from Dragon's Reach. Apparently he fucking loves Dragon's
Reach and actually begins to question her on random things in a weird, strange
human moment, and then see someone looking at him and then pretends that it's
not that big of a deal and then heads off. That's when you probably
maybe work out that she's from Dragon's Reach, which is this continent that's really
far away in the east, a lot going on. There was no gate
there or anything like that, whereas most of the other continents seem to have
one. This one's just on its own out there, and it isn't some
big, magical floating set of islands that vanished, And that's where she came
from. So she traveled from really far away. And then after disc because
she would have given an account probably of her journey that also she might have
told you previously on the way sooner that she kind of she actually has a
village elder who had the vision of you and sent her to you. Still
makes me so uncomfortable. But I would like to know. Do these inquisitors
any of them specialize in old ancient languages and can finally translate for the twins.
I don't think. I think Reginald would be aware of it. Worston
probably wouldn't. Reginald would be aware in a knowledgeable sense. You know,
You're just like, hey, they speak as tech, you know what I
mean, That's what it's kind of like. Unders he can't. Yeah,
he definitely doesn't speak yet, but yeah, they Yeah, I don't think
either of them speaks that language. So still out of luck a little bit
with them that they're starting. I think they're starting to kind of understand what
you're saying a little bit better. When you gesture for them to stay and
come with and eat some food and sit down and stop pacing or whatever it
is they seem to and we go and we eat a meal together. I
think you probably do. Yeah, I think, I mean, this would
probably be the majority of the day, so you probably have a couple of
times when someone would show up and provide food. I think the first set
of food would be something really basic like breads and cheeses and things like just
stuff that because Reginald doesn't cook or I was going to say something just now.
Yeah, I was just going to say, like in between like meals
or something, maybe I take a minute to go to the room that I'm
sleeping in. And because we don't have a clear plan of finding day of
ecky, I would try to use my nemesis skill again just to see if
I could sense him brow me a dice. Okay, oh, oh my
god. Three. Well at least he's not nearby right now, but I
still send that he's out there. Yeah, okay, And I don't have
any inkling of a direction, like nothing that's make you pulling me. Where
do you think he is? Oh, dear god, where do I think
he is? Yeah? Oh boy, I have no idea where he would
be. I mean, honestly, I don't know. If I were to
kind of conjure up an image, I feel like he wouldn't be where we
are now, Like he's somewhere far away because I can't send him closely.
And that's your direction. Okay, do you cook a real meal anyone.
I think we should do something hearty for dinner. I do you have almost
like you have a ridiculous amount of money, Like they probably bring out a
bag of like five hundred gold and they're like, do you want to go
and buy because they just have. I don't think we should buy food.
I think we should go out and eat all together. That sounds absurd,
but I you know, like you know, family, one big family.
I'm convinced half of us are going to die. I would take yeah,
yeah with ash Glade, Yeah, go to a tabor and get Kalougi the
finest wine, and I just I would just like to sit down with my
people and have a good meal. Yeah. So there's a scene I think
of the twelve of you sitting in this in this tavern that they probably pushed
half of the tables together, ash Glade going out of his way for some
reason for Eli he's discussing multiple times. It seems also by the way that
the inquisition know who Ashglade is and they greet him the way you do,
almost like hey, how's it going. I haven't spoken to you in age.
Is that kind of a thing where you like, oh, they kind
of really know each other. Ash Glader is a very old and relatively powerful
wizard, quite famous. I think I would act like I don't know him
that well if they if they recognize him immediately, I think I'd be And
I think I would hope that ash Glad would pick up on that. Yeah,
I think Ashclay can pick up on whatever you want him to pick up
on. He is is wisdom the character, And yeah, I think probably
we see this nice image of you all actually just having a decent meal,
no one really arguing or fighting, Kalogi getting pissed drunk, and the inquisitors
kind of maybe not being so uptight with the return of Cairo that you actually
see them smile. You know, maybe for the first time they thought all
of their comrades were dead. They genuinely were suffering a huge amount of grief,
I think, and you get the sense that with Cairo's return they that
the edge of that has taken off for them, so they're actually able to
let their hair down and enjoy the meal with you all, and everybody has
a hearty meal before the plan, which I assume is for everybody, you
come up with the plan to go next day. Worstern has arranged to go
and meet somebody called high reeveesil high reeves are just kind of nobility that run
and have access to all areas of nobility around the palace. Think of them
as like retainers to the king type people. And everything appears to be above
board and ready to go tomorrow if that is the plan, unless anybody would
have changed that. I feel like at some point I would have tried to
sneak out. Maybe as people are having conversations, you know, getting like
telling their stories and whatnot, catching up, you can think without a dice,
roll sneak wherever you want, Okay, I try to sneak out and
somewhere where I know Zach would see if he went out, like maybe on
his way back to his house, I would write something in thieves. Can't
you want to tell me what it is? Or do you want to tell
me what it is? I want to I'll tell you what it is.
Then, Yes, I think it's probably a good place to end our session
today, having you all have a nice meal. And nice is a horrible
describing word. Yes, yeah, exactly, reunion and yeah, I'd just
like to say I do have an ability called plan, and I do I'm
using it in this moment right as the ability plan. If you have time
to prepare before a conflict, and you can choose when it begins, you
may ambush your enemies and take the first round before action begins. Each party
member must say what they will do during theres Well, if that's the plan,
then yes, we've certainly got time pig to Grim. But you can
storm the fortress. Sure, No, I thought we were just well infiltertration.
We have to have a plan, right, Yeah, No, it's
fine. I'll give you the first round. You can also say I'm sing
the first round please, because I am one of the most powerful people in
this except I don't know if I believe that. But what I do believe
is that I saw that picture of us in front of a fortress and my
tower being torn in half. So they're all like, we're going to go
talk to Grim, and I don't think I believe that. I think I
believe. I think I believe we're going to storm the castle. So well,
so let's find out next week in the finale, the official finale episode
of Dying Order. Next time, that's right, do with that information what
you will? Is he joking? Nope, this time, there is no
lie. This time it is the true final session. I'm so glad you
had a nice meal together at the end of it too. It was lovely.
They just found out as well. By the way I suspected, I
suspect this entire arc was just get you guys back together and then see what
you do next. A lot of like stuff I need to do next week
for my like I gotta go shopping. I gotta go take care of some
stuff like the game. So we'll see, we'll see you definitely don't get
to go shopping. Shopping is the only thing you can't do because shopping episodes
last four episodes tradition. That's why I'm saying it bias. Time I reveal
nothing other than let's just a shout outs. Next week will be the true
finale. Also, the week after that we will do our actual roundtable thing,
which will be on the twentieth. So I guess we'll have to just
check everyone's in town and not. I guess COVID kind of locks you all
indoors. Anyway, we'll double check with that. But last time I duked
everybody and lyed and said that it was the actual finale and everyone was handing
over questions and stuff, but I had to keep very very stone, play
all my cards post to my chest that it wasn't the true ending for the
big twist a rue. So this time you do have any questions or you
have questions from before, then you can submit them on the discord to Piranha
Plant, who is an inquisitor Parana Plant, the creator of Worston, and
he will, he says, check the pinned post in the discord if you
want. If not, then there will also be an ability to ask questions
during the DNA livestream, so that will be the real deal this time.
So if you do have any questions or you want things asked, then you
can try and get those to us over the next two weeks and I'll try
and get through them when we do that thing and we're still doing cast,
and then you separately, right, the plan is yet to any questions in
for the cast to answer whatever it ends up being, and then there'll be
a dedicated section where I'll do law questions that will probably span all three of
my campaigns in the CRINT because this is the end for me as well.
With this, this has been four years of my life with three campaigns leading
up to this point. So if there's any other questions that you might want
me to answer, I might. I also reserve the right to not answer
questions if I want to leave stuff ambiguous, but feel free to ask whatever
you want to ask, just so that you know two weeks in advance that
if you want to ask any questions, then there are ways to submit them
to us. I'm sure that if you just try, you can tweet them
out and stuff as well. If you want. I want to follow up
by saying your background's red. Yes it is. I noticed it, and
I was like, just a little nod, just a little nod, But
it's really nothing more than just a yeah, right, I don't really In
the last no, let's sky at night. All right, Let's go around
and do a set of shout outs. People can tell the viewers where you're
from, where they can find you in the week, and what you'll be
doing. Let's start with Kati Peter's place, Brett, I have like a
lot of emotions right now, and now save them for next week. It's
so good. It's not over, yea, no, I know, but
I feel like I've already started this stages of grief that I didn't realize was
gonna happen today. So okay, so hi, I'm Katie Peters Plays.
I've been playing Aura for you and we'll see what happens next week. I'm
gonna I'm gonna deck out next week. I'm gonna try to wear the wig
and everything, and I don't I don't know what to say. Come hang
out with me on my channel if you want. Okay, I'm just gonna
I'm just gonna process this. I guess all right. Next person on my
list, Tuesday Gray. Hi on Tuesday Gray. You can find me at
Tuesday Gray on Twitch and Twitter. I'll be streaming again starting December fifteenth,
and tonight I'm gonna go I have a good long bath and price silent tears.
Thanks for watching. That's just a normal night for Tuesday. Don't worry.
That's nothing normal, nothing to do with you. What about you,
desby h I am dyspierics. I played Bulbobo for you today. I too,
am having a hard time processing all this because I remember the first time
Brad told us it was the end. I was bawling my eyes out and
then he was like, no debate it's still gonna you know, now that
it's actually the end, I'm just like, I can't believe it. But
it really has been an amazing journey. This was my first like full on
campaign and I couldn't have been more honored to have been role playing alongside you
all and Brad being our GM. It's it's been such an amazing experience,
so thank you everyone so much for that and introducing me to Dungeons and Dragons.
So threw you in the deep end and then I got really fucky with
it as well on purpose to really wanting to show like the transition of control
too chaos, I guess, you know, no control by just having like,
oh, it's really rules heavy, and then slowly but sure it stops
even being D and D and it's just you know, this what we've been
doing, which has been very rocking in wild Ride. Thank you everyone so
much. You can come find me here on Twitch and Twitter and yeah I
do righty stuff. Yeah that's about it for me. Thanks guys for coming
out, Thanks for accepting being thrown in the deep end of it, which
is also what I did to KPP technically as well as my newcomers. I
learned a lot, like I have actually learned a lot about D and D.
I'll run you through a traditional D and D campaign one day. We'll
just play Lost Minds of fan Delva, which is like the five E basic
starter module. Will just play it for fun so that you can have a
true not being stuck in my artsy Tornado version of D and D about you.
Pocket To be fair, I don't think any D and D campaign I've
ever played it all like started kind of traditional and then all of it got
fucky really quickly. And it's like even the last one I was in,
it wasn't even like like this where it was very like had a lot of
very scientific fantasy. I don't know how to like, I don't know how
to say it, but like heat stuck to very being traditional D and D,
but like finding God's resurrecting people like and it's just like how do we
get to this? And then summoning a dragon to kill the whole world?
Yeah, where it's like but I think I'm still in the denial denial stage
as well. I mean, he does have a red background. Perhaps he's
lying to a second I It's it's hard, Uh, I could go for
another year I'm just saying, but you can find me at the Yeah,
you can find me at pocket on Twitch and Twitter, and yeah, I've
been having a lot of fun. This was a great campaign, So thank
you, Brad, and thank you everyone else. I learned a lot about
character development, and I think this is the first character that ended up not
as scary in the air as you got real scary at one point, Like
if we had ended where it looked like it was ending, if we had
stayed like with all the magical abilities and stuff, I think God of Dead
Ellie would have been terrified. Yeah, I mean there was a reality there
was a version of this that, like, I didn't plan for this outcome.
You know, it could easily have Errol pay could have walked up to
Vengeance and worked out there's a puzzle on Vengeance that you could have worked out.
But she just whipped out still be magic, right, she was getting
attacked. Yeah, but she just went fucking shut this thing down, right,
and whipped out one of the stones that was dealing with it. And
you know she might have if she had successfully shut it down, then there
would still be the gods and magic and stuff, and it would have really
impacted the end of you guys, when you were up there going through each
of the things, and that would have led to a potential version of this
where you guys do return to the moral realm with magic and powers and all
this stuff, and therefore or you would still be undead early, you'd still
have a patron that was kind of like grooming you to be the queen of
shadows and death in the Shadow Fell or whatever the hell was going on there.
And then so like in my head several times I was doing the thing
pb with Charlie from Always Sunny, with all the things where I had like
about eighteen different versions of this that were working out, and all the time
travel and then this and then vendors and then that guy and then see Stock
and what if this? And then you know, and I had all these
things where obviously each of the different outcomes could have led to a different version
of the previous ending, the false ending that switch a rude that I did
not the rear ending, which is next week. And I'm not lying,
and everything I'm saying sounds like I'm lying. All right, let's carry you
on, what about you, zacotocus Hi. I was going to kiss the
play apple too, I hope you enjoyed it. You can play me here
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and you can find me everybody else on Internet. It's got to kiss and
all the places. And you can check out my podcast is podcast when you
just sat there and have cool chats with people. Thanks, have you check
any of them out? Thanks? If you don't check any of them out,
I've got a booker rate names and so just say uh, and what
about you, Peebeki? All right? You can find Peebe playing for a
Final Fantasy six at one eastern on twitch dot tv forward slash Pumpkinberry. And
if you liked this campaign, you're probably gonna like Final Fantasy six. It
was almost magic Tech armor in this I'm not kidding, just straight like,
I sat there for a long time coming up with a synonym for magic Tech
from Final Fantasy six. And that's what the word Arkhana is. It's just
a synonym or magic Tech from Finantics. It's the same thing Kinder and that's
what she's playing through this week. She is the Monolith. All right,
ol ground you you're welcome. Penultimate episode. What about me. You are
about me. It's talking about I'm playing. I'm sort of trying to play
code told too. I've got very nine am. That's rights three hours.
Do you go to table Story TV slash tweat and that's also there will be
a link makes you directly to that is slash. That's why I had the
episode start with the dreams as well, which I was wondering whether you would
pick up on that with the four if I was like, I wonder if
this is going to reveal to them, I'm going to I don't know alright
on feeling m hm hmmm. All right, that's it. We're almost done,
but it's not over yet. We have one more session left. I
swear to god, I do not know what is going to happen next week,
so I'm very interested to find out along with everyone else. And we'll
see you then usual time. Thank you so much everybody for watching, and
see you in the discord. We'll see you next week. Peace bye,