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are you? Oh my god, I'm so sorry you don't know who I
am. I'm Goldie Haun. I work for Saul. Oh, hi,
Goldie, it's nice to meet you. Yes, I've been closely following your
case and I saw that Blanket and Nemeo were arrested in the paper and there's
just like so much drama going on. How's the deposition going? O?
Man, it's been all day, hasn't it been, Richard, It has
been the longest day. Yeah, I'm sorry. Usually like they're pretty quick
when Saul's in the room. Well, I think that might be part of
the problem. I don't think Saul has gotten a word in. Oh no,
that's the so unfortunate. Usually he's like very sort of I wonder why
weird. Well, no, you go ahead, Amyen, I think you
we're going to say the same thing. Well, I think Crystal she's just
so good. I think she really missed her calling as a lawyer. So
it seems like she's holding her own in there, and it's just a lot
and we can't say anything, and you know, and I'm nervous to like
do any doodling in there, and it's just it's just been a boring day.
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or District Manager Alex Capps and today's ice breaker, what is your go to
karaoke song? What Up? It's your boy? Marcel Hardy playing Richard Cox,
a human consultant turned halfling bard who holy believes it's better to be lucky
than good, but it's best to be both and Richard's go to karaoke song
is Thinking about You by Frank Ocean Smooth. Hello, my name is Anelin
Hardy, and I played Taylor Jacobs, a centaur barbarian with a heart of
gold, and her favorite karaoke song is lose Control Ya Tony swims because she
is never out of control in her I'm just kidding now, we know that's
really not true, but how she thought of herself in her head just casually
try murder someone. Yeah, I'm totally in control of my life. Everything
is fine. It was super fine. Hey everyone, my name's Katie and
I played Crystal the Drought Druid with her very own MLM Crystal Clarity, and
her karaoke song is that Don't Impress Me Much by Shania Duain. That's perfect.
Also classic karaoke, Yeah, incredible. Hey, I'm Marjorie. I
play Amy and Amanda, a basic, b rough and teable human fighter with
a freshly minted dentistry degree. Favorite karaoke song sweet Caroline. Very basic.
I just imagine that like the Family Reunion, Like when Sweet Caroline gets on
and those non alcoholic seltzer start hitting just right. Oh man, it gets
crazy in there. Oh yeah, so loud gravel boards get flipped, and
everybody's making their way to the to what what should be a dance floor.
Yeah, it's fantastic, all right. And last, but not least,
I'm Tyler. I played the itic paladin known as Bentley, and Bentley's favorite
karaoke song is anything by Taylor Swift or Nickelback Bold nothing wrong with seeing a
little bit of rock star at karaoke. And once again, I am Alex
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So when we last left off, I believe you were still sitting in the
offices of Ironquill and Storm. So when we come back in Crystal sitting across
the table, and so far you'd been dealing with Orial Storm. But now
Thorn Ironquill enters the picture and he looks directly at you, Crystal, and
he says, well, it appears that my client, Miss Crystal of the
Church of Clarity, may be making an appearance if if she feels it's necessary.
But before she gets here, I have a few questions regarding the details
of this case. Now we have several sworn statements by multiple people of the
fine city of Lavron that you have made some very very damning accusations and assumptions
about things between ownership, familial status, identity. Do you deny all of
all of these allegations. I guess I don't understand what the accusations are.
Also, Yeah, if you could just listen out for me that be made.
Yeah, we'll start, We'll start from the top. As he looks
at Saul, and Saul's just kind of kind of looking through his notes seeing
if there's anything like this in his notes. To start with have you ever?
And then crystallin iron Quill went back and forth on a line of questioning
for six hours. Look, dude, this whole experience, in this weird
little world that we're in I'm not gonna lie, has been a whirlwind,
and you're asking for specific details, and quite honestly, I can't give them
to you. But if you want to keep going down this rabbit hole of
trying to, you know, like pin me in a corner, that's fine.
Just know that I really don't remember most of what's happened. My friends
even called me out for talking to a rock because I thought it was my
cell phone. So when you talk about how clearly and how vividly things are
being remembered in this situation, just know that my sanity's kind of walking on
an edge, not gonna lie most days. So I just want to go
home, and I want my sh sit back, and I don't want to
deal with your bullshit laws. So can we please just actually, you know
what, it'd be good if you could just send us home. That would
be amazing, you see, then you wouldn't have to deal with me.
Saul looks very, very confused, and he's like wait, I didn't know
we were going with the insanity plea. We're not. It's kind of what
it sounds like. I want to go home. I want to go home.
Send us home, and you won't have to deal with me. This
fucking church that's lying about all their shit won't have to deal with us.
There will not be a lawsuit, there will be no shit to deal with,
no shit to shovel. So please just send us home and I can
go back to my normal fucking life with my normal fucking career. Well maybe
not normal, because I was excellent and most of the things I did,
but still this place sucks and I want to go home. So if you
guys want to stand here and bitch about it to me in my face and
the things that I've done and decisions I've made under duress, that's cool,
but send me the fuck hont So it's at this point during your tirade that
Ariol has returned with what appears to be popcorn, and she's just sitting back,
smiling like listening and turns to Thorn says says, Oh, this is
going to be a walk in the park. We're going to crush them.
Go ahead, go ahead, He says, Okay, I can see that
the instance at the bookstore may have struck a nerve. We'll move on to
maybe more recent events. Did you, after being informed that the Crystal of
the Church of Clarity had a trademark on the use of Clarity with a K
in business use case, did you attempt to use the Clarity trademark while selling
non Church of Clarity counterfeit products to a one Captain Montiac. Did I actually
sell them? Well, it says here you you gave them away with the
intention of recruiting new members to an utilization of what is officially known as the
Church of Clarity Vertical Fortune Ascendancy matrix. That's super cool, love her bag,
Like, that's awesome that she's doing that. But I didn't sell anything,
so well, it says here that you're this one Captain Monteac now has
forty seven members and something called his downline. But do you know what the
downline is? Why don't you tell us what the downline is? No,
I want you to tell me what the downline is, because you're trying to
make a point that I'm doing something I wasn't supposed to be and selling products
when I didn't sell anything. Well, this Captain Monteac, when interviewed,
was informed us that by giving away samples of the product you had given him,
he had now recruited to date forty seven members. That's amazing, what
a hustle. Good for him, good for me. Honestly, you haven't
been in contact with him, Actually I haven't. I'll go talk to him
after this. Okay, Well, you see his thorn now looks thoroughly confused.
He uh, he says, well, I believe that is all the
questions we had for you today. We'll be in touch about the trial.
Oh and just also be in touch about sending us the buck home too.
That'd be good. That's not our department. Oh, it's not, because
all of your problems and all of my problems would go away. I just
went home. Just take a boat and go home. It's not that simple.
I think you know that. I'm verily. We're all very clearly fishes
out of water right here. Okay, we didn't just boat here. Our
ariel storm chimes and says, the plural of fish is fish. Oh god,
yourself, Taylor's gonna like reach across the table and like hold on to
ariels like shirt and be like, what did you say? That wasn't how
you speak to a client. She uh takes her hand up and like grasps
your hand that's on her shirt, and she says, I said the plural
of fish is fish, and you know that I went to something other than
Yes, the public joke makes a return. I'm sorry, what did you
say, Aneline? I couldn't hear you. Oh, I just said.
Taylor gently lays her on the ground like a beautiful angel baby, and it's
like, I think we're done. I think we are. We'll be in
touch and uh so as you're all exiting. Uh, Saul turns, he
goes, I think that went well. I think I think you did great
in there. You've thoroughly established a alibi as being us being criminally insane.
This is wonderful. I'll take it. Honestly, I'm kind of tired of
this crap, like it's kind of being like it's really frustrating to be chased
around for things that are already mine. I just really want to go home.
I think I've established that, and like, I don't understand why everyone's
getting in my way, Like, can we just go home? This one?
Saul's like, just I mean, you can go to the docks and
try to go home. Crystal put their head in her hands and is just
like so frustrated, she just wants to go home. Well, you know
what, Crystal, I guess we really haven't even tried doing that getting on
a boat. You're right, Well, we dig it on that boat at
the beginning. It didn't do us any good. But I just went like
in a circle and came back. Though. That's true. What was a
boat ride for anyway? It was our onboarding oh google, yeah, like
a literal. Yeah. But maybe I mean, maybe that's a good point.
Maybe we should see if there's some type of I don't know, I
mean, that seems like it would be pretty ridiculous at this stage in the
game. But I mean, does not have a good point. We've not
been to the dock. Oh my god. Well, I guess that's that.
And whatever they want to do is whatever they're going to do. It's
cool. I haven't made any money off this shit, so it seems crazy
for them to try and sue me for money I don't have. So yeah,
that's cool. I'm done. So it's about that time. What you
thought was a bird up on top of one of the buildings, swoops down
and lands right in front of all you guys, and it's a little mechanical
bird and it begins talking to you, and it said, oh hello everyone,
Hey, it's Fizzle Bang here. This is a pre recorded message,
so don't try to talk to me, but I need you to come see
me immediately. I have made a discovery that is very putting it to you
getting where you want to be, if you know what I mean. I
didn't realize we were doing video game mechanics style Crystal Play play Spiro when we
get back home. You'll understand. I wrote, Okay, all right,
is that kind of like a slinky Bentley just doesn't even acknowledge that. My
question was okay, okay, well do we guys do we know where thiszle
thing is? Probably at his office, maybe, okay, okay. At
one point I know he was sort of trying to hide out somewhere. Was
that time ago? I don't know. I remember that too, but I've
been being sued. The mechanical bird gives you a map to find him doing
video game logic. You guys were making fun of me for talking to a
fucking rock, And here's a talking to it. I just want you to
know it's not you see if the bird takes off and flying in the direction
that the map tells you to head, So we're following a bird now,
okay, Crystal's just like follows the bird. I guess you know what they
say? The bird is the word? All right? Is everyone going or
is there anything anybody else wants to do? I imagine Bentley is hungering and
would like to get food before hitting over there? Hey, Mark, Amy,
and you want to go get food before we go to Fizzle Banks.
We were trapped in the courtroom for a while. I know I started.
I was about to chew my own art off. Can we pick something up
on the way maybe because it seems like maybe there's some street tacos or something?
Do you have funnel cakes here? Hey? DM? What street food
do they have? So? Uh, let's see one of y'all roll me
a D one hundred, so like the percent, I'll die and tell me
what it comes up with. I'll let Amy and she's got a bonus to
finding food. Is that true? I want it to be true. It
is a five? I don't know, Okay, five all right? So
five? Let's see here. Oh okay, So you see, as you're
heading that direction, you see what appears to be a hot dog stand,
like it kind of looks like a hot dog stand. And you see Marjorie's
eyes right then when I said hot dog stand like, she was like,
we're here for it? So what kind of weird regional hot dog vario.
As you get closer, you see what looks like a hot dog bun in
people's hands, but you're not sure what it is that's in it. And
when you get up there, you see that it appears to be a The
hot dog bun is very very dark, like almost black, and it appears
to be a squid or octopus tentacle that's roasted and put in the bun with
some kind of what looks like almost like coleslaw on top of it. I'm
down for this. I'll take twos in absolutely not forgive me one? Yeah,
sure, no problem. Anyone else won't one, I'll take one.
I guess Bentley pays, Like, what's the I don't know how much would
it be to get everyone one? So what I'm gonna say is, with
the money Bentley has, it's basically negligible to get everybody in like like one
or two. So how much can a hot dog cost? Twenty goals?
Okay, Mara, I'm sure that cellar would be like, yes, if
they're like one silver five copper. Yeah, he pays them and everyone gets
whatever they want, and he's says he looks. He goes, would you
like pickle? Yeah? Up? He pulls out a jar and there's like
what looks like giant deal pickles. He goes, how many pickle? Uh?
How many? Would you suggest? How many are there? Uh?
This jar has about eight pickles in it. Let's take the jar H for
jar two silver seven copper here, I got this one, Bentley, don't
worry about it. Yeah, okay, just good doing business. Yeah,
I think man thinks I'm alarmed that the pickles are more expensive than the protein
option. Right, it was the weird effect why they're out of season.
Sorry, Hey, is anybody allergic seafood here? We should probably check that
first. This would be a really shitty place to find out your allergic to
seafood. I don't allergic to selfish because Richard is actually allergic to actual shellfish.
Yeah wait, Richard is Richard is allergic to shellfish? Okay, Well,
how do you know that these tentacles didn't come out of a shell.
Richard. You know, I made this the assumption that it was going to
be like our place. You're absolutely right, and nothing is ever like where
we're from. And then now, which is very sad, that he's going
to get his hot dog this pickle. No, you can, you can.
You can eat the hot dog. Your worst case scenario, I just
heal you, all right. That sounds good. That's a good point.
That's a good ques. Again, does healing work on allergic reactions? I'm
sure less restoration works. Yeah. Lesser restoration is basically epinephrine in magic.
So he doesn't have to die first. Yeah, that's good. Okay,
that'd be great. Oh no, he's yet these I need to heal him
first. Let me kill him so I can resurrect. Anyways, So I'm
gonna say there's no weird effects from the thing. And that's actually I've got
a whole list of street food that i've I've seen on the internet, and
I put in a table. Uh that's actually a thing they sell in South
Korea. Uh in soul you can get an octopus tentacle hot dog. So
that's like a real thing. And the black bun comes from squid Ink.
So Squiddink Rice is on point by the way. Anyways, So you guys,
you guys, grab a you guys, grab a quick bite to eat
and have some delicious pickles. Are you gonna do anything else before you get
to Fizzle Bangs? Oh? Can I go pick up my weapons that they
said would be ready? Sure? Yeah, all right, Bentley goes and
picks up his weapons. Okay, we don't have to We don't have to
do anything like. Yeah, that was easy enough. They were. They
were gift wrapped and everything for you. No need to take this offline,
overworked and underplayed. We'll circle back after these messages. So you guys make
it back over to the corporate sector where Fizzle Bang has set up his new
lab because he is in hiding from some people. And you find this kind
of decrepit looking building on the outside and you see that the bird is perched
up on the roof of it. Oh, I'm not going in there,
No, but no, but Crystal. So to finish what I was saying,
I really feel like if you took like pickled juice and like distilled that
down, I think that would probably be a really good addition to your line.
Okay, I'll consider it. I do like pickle juice. We don't
know what Crystal just starts selling picklebacks and bulk not a bad idea, honestly
considering her. Apparently her current market is cutthroats and sailors, so they probably
do have Yeah, probably do have scurvy. So there's probably so that's fine
to see. So it's not really the same thing. But I bet you
they do pickle things all the time. That's what I was just trying to
say, to try and convince you to like open your mind, because I
love pickle juice as I as she you know, chugs it. Oh god,
And we know Amyan is not pregnant, right, we know that we're
not. Oh no, it's just really good, like electrolytes, you know,
it helps you get like a really good pomp in the gym. Has
anybody talked to you about the birds and the beast? I mean, assuming
you have a big oh oh no, what did you say, the birds
and the beats? Yeah, that's what I said. I'm not having this
conversation. If you want to, like you could, Taylor would probably be
happy to talk to you about this. I'm not going in that weird ass
building until he's gonna have to come outside. We're not doing that. That's
where people go to die. Awesome cool Bentley could be the first Crystal.
I mean, I'll ride with you. I'll beat down anything that comes your
way. Don't worry. Okay, do you want to ride on my back?
No? I think uh Noker Taylor. But I just this place is
just fucked with me so much. I'm just kind of like wary of what
are we getting into next? TENL Like, I think what you're describing as
a trauma response, Yeah, I think you might be right. All right,
So while y'all are discussing trauma bonding out in front of the building,
Bentley, as you approach, you wiggle the door and it opens right up.
And as you step inside, you see that the inside of the building
actually looks much more well kept than the outside, but that there's no lights
on inside. Hmm. Anyone anyone got got some lights? Does anyone know
the light cantrip? I have dancing lights, so I'll cast it all right.
So as it lights up, you guys see, As the room illuminates,
you guys see papers, like thousands of papers, just like stuck to
walls with strings connecting different sections. Oh yeah, we're gonna get murdered.
This is this is what are we? Why are we here? Hey,
buddy, you hear yeah? You you? You don't hear a response,
And you look at the back of the room, and you see who you
think is Fizzle Bang, slumped over his desk, face first. Okay,
I've seen and listened to too much true crime documentaries and podcasts. This is
he's dead. We need to leave, We need to leave, crystally run
over to him, all right. So you run over to him and he
is just completely slumped out on his desks with and you see what appears to
be a trail of red liquid coming from under his body. I fucking told
you, hey, hey, are you okay? I try to lift him
up, or like move him so that he's I can see his face okay.
So as you lift him up, he snaps back, goes, I'm
awake, I'm awake, Crystal. Crystal scream so loud and so high and
for so long. And it's at this point you realize the red liquid on
his desk was ink from his his quill, and he goes, oh my,
my, documents, my documents, and he says he's trying to like
clean it up as best he can. Sorry, I fell asleep. I
haven't slept in days, so I got a little shut eye, So I
should be good for another And you see he's counting with his fingers and he's
counting by two or three, three or four days by the least. I've
made several discoveries while you've been gone. Have you had any luck finding the
crystal of varge? First of all, Bank, are you okay? I
am great. You need something. I was trying to make a joking noise
and it came out with choking on a pickle, just a waterboarded fizzle bang.
Yeah. It was like amy An was like putting the jar. I
was picturing Amy and putting the jar up the fizzle Bang's mouth. And she's
used to like her drinking stuff. And he's a little gnome. Uh he
says, oh, yeah, that that's very vinegary. Well, hopefully that
will help you. I mean, you gotta take listen. I am taking
care of my health. The goblins they introduced me to this new beverage called
boom Juice, and I've been drinking nothing but that for days. It has
made me not to have to sleep. Uh. My bowel movements are a
little another question. But everything else is fine. There's no negative side effects.
Okay, well, I mean I'm glad to see that you're not dead,
because it looked pretty scary coming in here. So yeah, okay,
somebody else talked to him, please, hey, fizzle, nothing you see
as he was like staring out the windows. Oh yes, yes, you're
here. Yes, you just been drinking water. Also, you don't want
to get dehydrated. It has water in it. I made it myself,
I know, but still drink some more water. I have to drink water
in addition to that. But it has water in it. That doesn't make
any sense, I know. So it is liquid, so you are getting
some refreshment, but you should be drinking more water as well. But anyway,
what were you going to say? Yes, yes, yes, I
have made several discoveries while you have been busy, uh, trying to track
down the next, the next to one of the uh the little items from
the from the the y. Have you had any luck? I think we
know where it is, but we haven't been able to procure it yet.
Okay, So I have made a breakthrough. I've discovered some old texts speaking
I believe of where you come from, the place you come from? Is
it a place, a mystical land known as eoth. Yes, it's actually
wonderful, yes, yes, yes, And he says, he flips through
this like dusty old book, and he points it a picture of Earth like
you see, like a circle and like the familiar outlines of continents and things.
It says, Okay, where do I start? Where do I start?
At the beginning? Fizzle, bang, at the beginning, at the
beginning. Okay, so there was this bang and the whole universe became a
thing. But this okay, okay, moving ahead, moving ahead, moving
ahead, Yes, yes, yes, okay. So there is a way
to travel from Earth to Ohsia. Yes, we're evidence of that. Yes,
yes, yes, it's a there's this uh how do you describe it?
There's this Think of it like a soup. Okay, think of like
you have a soup. Say you have a a piece of vegetable, you
have another piece of vegetable, and you you want to go from one vegetable
to another. Well, that stuff the soup is this thing called the infinite.
It is this uh uh theoretical substance that flows from one dimension to another,
and it appears that there is a a conduit for which one may travel
from your plane Earth to Osia. But as it stands, it is a
one way trip. Oh no, but but there was there were others who
came here before you, long long ago. Hurt one of them. I'm
I'm unfamiliar with an Amelia Earhart, but I can. I can do more
research. And you see as he starts writing that down and the triangle is
actually a portal here. There was a group of people who came from your
world to hear I'm not sure why they came here, but they were.
It appears they were looking for something, and once they realized that they were
basically trapped here, they they decided to figure out a way to open up
another portal back home. They were known as the Seekers. They are the
ones who built the Orri and used the items that you were searching for.
Oh okay, But it appears that as they were finishing construction of the Orri
that one of them corrupted by an evil being betrayed them, with a great
fight ensuing and one member of the group banishing him, while the others fled
and hid the items to prevent this evil entity from reaching your world? Is
that the mask guy? You think? I don't know? Doctor dildo?
Doctor, he says. He writes down doctor dildo. Doctor will do research
on this. Doctor. Don't look up dildo. You can call him doctor
dipshit though. I think that probably fits. Yeah, he says, he's
writing all of this down like he is, Uh, make searches on Oh,
there's no safe search in this world. Are you kidding me? He's
going to search dildo would end up at two girls, one cup. This
is Look, this is early two thousands Google. Okay, this is not
modern Google, he says. It appears that that there are maybe some evil
forces at work trying to claim the items so that, for whatever reason they
wish to reach your world. It appears that the the head of the of
the Orchard may have been a champion of one of these evil entities known as
Malfus. Oh is that short for anything? He says, No, Malfus
is He's known in the ancient texts as the fallen god of treachery. It's
not very trustworthy. But it does appear that they were able to temporarily open
up a portal back to your world. It works. There is evidence to
suggest that he sees. He starts walking around the room, pointing at different
things he has up on the wall, and the strings connecting things. There
is evidence to say that all of this is actually going to work. Wow,
we're going to be able to send you home. But we have to
find these things, and we have. But the most important thing, you
have to make sure that they don't fall into the wrong hands. These seekers
they never left. They stayed here to ensure that the that the portals never
opened. I bet you that's what doctor d is. That's why he's so
so mad about it, Doctor douchebag. You see, as as Fizzle Bank
starts writing, good, how do you spell that? He's a douche bag?
He says? Is that a family name? Sure, he says.
Anyways, Uh, it's probably German, the he says, So, anyways,
do you have any questions for me? I'm sorry, I just kind
of threw all of this at you at one time, but I've I've been
furiously researching since we last met. And and uh and and this this,
Oh man, have you tried this boom juice stuff? And you see,
as he picks up like a three day old pot and he goes still good,
and he starts cast lesser restoration on him. See if he falls as
uh you see as he kind of like drops down in his chair and he
is definitely dozing, like like about to doze off. Yeah, I kind
of felt like he didn't really need any more of that boom juice. Do
they have aa in this world? He'll be fine, Let's just pour the
stuff out, gets the cup and poorest on the ground. That's definitely worked
for addicts in the past. Fine. Yeah, you know, I gotta
be honest, this is like the most paladin thing that I think Bentley has
done this entire campaign. He's like, let's just let's just put you to
sleep and let's let's see if we can fix this place up a little bit.
Anyways, Yeah, okay, cool. Is there anything we can do
to help him hide? Like, I don't know dis guys or anything like
that. So, uh, I'm just gonna go and say, if you
asked him that he was still white, he would have told you that the
mechanical bird is almost like a key for his lock, and so he's pretty
well safe where he's at. He's arguably the nicest person to us, so
nice, he always don't nice. I don't think it's really arguable. Sure,
hey, guys, what if Matt Damon is a champion for one of
the other bad guys Richard's like that tracks I have been off about that guy
since day one, So yeah, I think we should be curious about him
one again. Yeah, because fiddle Ban works for him, uh huh,
you know, and so he even though he probably has good intentions, he's
still his loyalties maybe you know, aligned with the baddies. To be fair,
fizzle Bang doesn't necessarily a word for him. They just fund his research.
It's all work for him. He just pays his bills. Yeah,
I mean, you know, it's not like colleges or professors at a college.
They don't really care about the teaching part. They just do it so
they can get grant money. Yeah, but they're still employees. But either
way, I just wanted to point that out. Guys. If there's like
such a thing as champions and stuff, and you know, I'm a big
wrestling fan, and Doctor d he wears like that kind of like wrestler mask,
and he's talking about champions, and I feel like this is all kind
of coming together. So I think we need masks, is what I'm saying.
I do think that we've disguised as right, you know, I think
that we've been pretty open about our stuff. Can we look around and like
maybe do a little bit investigating on like his sociopath board, and maybe we
can not have to go to Fizzle Bang every time to find these items,
Like maybe we can just you know, go through his notes and maybe we
can just you know, not have to depend on him in case he is
so, you know, in case Matt David is you, then I need
everyone to make an investigation check and had twelve investigation in eighteen for Taylor,
flat sixteen for Bentley. Richard got a twenty three. Okay, so who
waits, somebody get a five? Crystal Crystal got She wasn't really paying attention
anyway. Yeah, so Crystal Crystal looked for like thirty seconds and got bored.
She's like, this is nerd shit, Like it's like trying to read
Greek mythology, right. I say that as someone who loves mythology of all
cultures. But uh, anyways, you all find some i'd say fairly relevant
information, mostly about like the deities of the world Bentley. Mostly what you
capture is the origin of the dragons and the fact that there are. You
know, you already knew about the five dragons that were like the creators of
artifice, law, duty, logic, and writing. But then you learn
also of the five chromatic dragons of the dark lord Zahat. You also learn
of something of two pantheons, one known as the Arbitorious, which appear to
be the more lawful like good gods, and then the fallen, which are
the evil entities. The rest of what y'all find is more or less what
he went over with you. You see some interesting diagrams of how the infinite
might work, even though it's theoretical at this point, of like how you
might traverse it. But you do see an entity known as Sunam and question
marks around her champion known as Crystal of the Church of Clarity, and then
as Amy Anne is going through all of this, you see, you know,
a lot of gibberish, a lot of things that don't make sense to
you. But you spot one thing that you just can't shake. It's really
heavy. It is you spot in the the sigils and things of the seekers,
you spot a symbol that you recognize as the Amanda Family Dentistry like thimble.
Okay, so is it? So it's just written on a page or
where where it's like a it's like an image of a signet ring, all
right, but it's the it's the symbol that the Amanda Family Dentist office uses.
Do I have a signet ring that matches it? You don't, but
you've seen your father wear one. Okay, guys, guys, look look
this this is this is my this is my dad's signal ring image and also
on all of our stationary This has gotta be important. Do you have a
family member that disappeared? I don't think so. Dang I wish I could
call my mom or my brother and just ask them if they you know,
they recall. They're much better this stuff than I am. Dang it,
I can't recall. But I mean, we used to have like bigger family
reunions and they've kind of dwindled since Grandpappy passed away, and it's just been
It's just it could be maybe an extended family member, although I think I
would know everybody who knows the Amanda Family Dentistry logo like Crystal is tired and
frustrated and feeling a little hopeless at this point, and she's like, what
if we're just looping? Like what if this has happened over and over and
over and over again and it's yours. What if we're just stuck here forever?
What if we never ever get to go home and we have to live
in this healthscape and we never ever get to go home, and I never
get to go back to my downline, and I never ever get out of
this shithole of a place. I want to go home? What if this
is just happening over and over again, Richard, here's that? And he's
like, wait, no, we can't lose Crystal. She was just on
the whole like we have to get home trained. So he's like, well,
I think she said she. I think she said she didn't have a
ring, so it can't be her. So we're definitely like not looping,
So I think we're okay on that. And plus Fizzlebanks said that it was
like ancient times that people came here and like, I mean we don't have
the technology though, Well that's what I'm saying, Like it can't be us
at least, because like we don't have we didn't have the technology or like
from our timeline, so like either in the past or in the future.
But I don't think it's us. I think we're okay. I think we
can get home. He said it's possible. We just have to really hold
on to that. A gratitude today keeps the haters away, and that's why
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flight own up. Does Taylor need to be re shooed or anything? She
could probably go for, like it depends would you like to wear shoes because
you could just get a trim, Like, how does that work? It's
a horse pedicure? How does that work? When she shifts back into human
form? Though she has really long Tony. That's all I can consider.