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Now somewhere in the very.
Speaker 4: Sad sisters starting a sentry.
Speaker 5: A sweet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, mh.
Speaker 4: I'm I'm assuming this is it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it should work.
Speaker 6: It will work. It has to work.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it has to where I think teas and now
right now we're going to need some really.
Speaker 7: Really, I don't think you should be the one deploying
it with that leg I know you really want to,
but I don't think it should be you.
Speaker 4: Oh, figure it right, It'll be either me or command
probably the fastest of the group. I'm a close second.
Speaker 1: All right, Oh good luck, We're counting on you. We
begin at the fireside. Y'all came up here, I think
to hang out with your new friend. Too far has
made a scientist friend a lore hunter actually to be specific.
And it looks like there is somebody else at this
camp with him, but not particularly at this moment, but
I think he is with too far and basically showing
around the camp and showing all the gadgets that he
uses as an lore hunter, and is explaining like, you know,
this is this is what we do, and isn't this
so exciting doing science outside? It's kind of basically I
think the expression that he's taking. But the rest of
you are welcome to sit down by this fireside and
do a rest recovery if you'd like.
Speaker 4: I would love to.
Speaker 5: Because of my generous background, allies who have spent the
last day with me can add plus one to their
recovery roles.
Speaker 1: Yep, this will be like, yes, I think we can do.
I think we can do a longer one, just to say,
because I know you're technically probably only going to be
here for about ten minutes, but I think you guys
can take a full recovery.
Speaker 3: It doesn't make a difference.
Speaker 6: It just matters how okay left, Yeah, okay, okay.
Speaker 4: One one action, one, one ten minute, one, one, one hour,
one and one ten on.
Speaker 8: God, I'm gonna use my new screen.
Speaker 6: Okay, and it does it because I remember seeing that
it had the short rests and stuff on here.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'll run my action one. Haven't you used that?
So as I'm climbing up the kind of sandy hill, Nice,
I think that's Max. Yeah, I wrote Max Nice.
Speaker 1: I want to make sure everyone gets Yeah, okay, perfect.
Speaker 3: And colo. Since yours this is your first rest, which
only took one action, you could also take your next
recovery action, which would give you the ten minute one
if you needed it as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, okay. So now that you all have uh
or at least are rolling for your rests and have
all that info, I think we ended. We ended with
something pretty intense with wakaty right, you kind of had
this realization And then did you walk up alone or
did you walk up with Learan together up by the
camp side or campfire.
Speaker 3: I think I walked up. I wanted to leave Learan,
and I wanted to leave I want to say the
old people, but but Learan is my age because we
grew up together. It's just that I just thought that
maybe Amara and Leiran wanted to talk for some reason,
but I I don't remember why I thought that, but
I did for some reason, but I don't quite remember why.
So I walked up, leaving them by the old camp.
I wish I could remember why I thought that, But
I'm wandering upwards slowly because I don't have the best conditioning,
so I wanted to leave them. I don't know, it
seemed like they needed to talk to each other maybe,
But I'm also walking a bit slowly because I'm not
certain what I will find up at the camp.
Speaker 1: Okay, when you get up to the camp, there is
a There are probably like three or four different backpacks,
you know, like travel packs and things like that for
this lore hunter. But I think you all also notice
a bunch of vials and maybe maybe some things that
look like an herbalist or somebody that works with plants
you know has been here, or is maybe the traveling partner.
Speaker 4: M hmm.
Speaker 3: To this, to this person that you have met, I
imagine too far and this Sorry, I'm so sorry, dramatically
smart person are talking and looking at things. I'm going
to mhm, sit by the fire, and oh, sit by
the fire. I was going to take out my book,
but I don't think I will think. I will just
sit and observe. I think, to see what's happening. What's
what's going on?
Speaker 6: So what do we I mean I'm assuming that too
Far is excitedly looking over all these devices and like
basically going around the camp with her new friend.
Speaker 1: But what are you doing, Amara?
Speaker 4: I think if before Carti's just making it up the hill.
I think I've just finished packing up the tent and
about to go up myself, before looking back at Larn,
who is back here as well.
Speaker 3: And.
Speaker 4: I think that they're just a moment where I stare
at you, Laren, before chatting back to the sandy hill
and I begin walking up it to this cap of
this new friend too Far has made.
Speaker 5: I'm going to reach down and my sweet baby animal friend.
Speaker 6: Yes, the snaggle tooth, the one with the underbite, under bite,
yeah right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: I'm going to make a little motion to indicate that
I could pick them up, you know the way that
you can kind of hold your hand out to your
cat where oh yeah, tell, they're either going to let
you pick them up or they're not. And I'm going
to do that to my new little buddy.
Speaker 6: Okay, so your new little buddy is going to do
what my cats do, which is you wiggle their butt
and get on their haunches and then literally lift their
arms up like Superman because they're ready to be picked up.
Speaker 1: But I will say that this is a this is
a mist burrow, So he's quite heavy. You know, he's
like big brotund adorable got you know, this.
Speaker 6: Stone skin on the back and this this lazy eye
and this adorable tooth that's picking out.
Speaker 1: But he is absolutely happy. I don't imagine that they purr,
but I imagine he growls. He just does this little
low legger as he settles in and against you.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna do the This is how I used to
hold my cat a lot when she was a baby,
almost like the burpank position. Yeah, where like your head
is on your shoulder and you can just kind of
have your hand, one hand under their butt and one
on their back. And Larn's just kind of softly patting
them as she walks up, definitely walking up a little
slower than she normally would.
Speaker 1: And meanwhile, we just hear in the background, yeah, and
then we use this, and then this takes us over
here and yeah, and then this one time, and it's
just the two of them going back and forth very excitedly.
But if nobody moves to do anything, if everybody's just
taking everything in and resting. I would like to ask
too far a question, how are you feeling right now?
Speaker 8: I mean a little bit all over the place. I
I'm I'm kind of surprised. Mister Amara said that not
everything could be learned at the Citadel, and I just didn't.
I just didn't think that this is what he meant.
But like, here we are, and I'm learning all of
these different things, and I like, I mean, I've learned
about in the in there, and then there's the other thing,
and I've like I'm even patting my book out and
like adding more things that they and they didn't teach
me at the Citadel about those things. So mister Amra
was right, Well call me so surprised, you know, I
just I can't say that it was something that I'd
ever really considered. I was ready to I was ready
to go back, and well, I think I'll stay a
little longer now.
Speaker 1: I'm very happy to hear that. I'm glad you're learning
experiencing life outside the Citadel. Learn What about you? What
are you thinking and feeling at this particular moment.
Speaker 5: Laren is feeling more centered now that she's holding an animal.
I think anybody could look at her and notice the
difference in the tension when they were mid combat. Like
as intuitive as her movements are and as good of
a job as she did at like dodging and ducking
and weaving, it took a lot out of her, not
in the literal game sense of pit points, but mentally emotionally,
I think you would be able to tell. And you
can see her rejuvenating herself with this connection to nature
and to the mist burrow she's holding. She's overwhelmed, but
she processes overwhelming emotions the way that like a cliff
side takes giant ocean waves where it might erode at
them bit by bit over years, but day to day,
moment to moment, you don't notice it. Their stocks still,
they're grounded. And that's exactly how she is right now.
Speaker 1: Okay, thank you? Wow? How long will you all sit
here in silence with each other before someone breaks it?
Speaker 5: I will go over to Wakati and lean down towards
him in a way, silently and kind of doing this
with my hand, and then gently petting the miss burrow
and leaning the miss burrow down to Wakati to do
the same, going to reach up.
Speaker 3: I'm going to wait to make sure it's okay. I
can be very hasty, so just wait. Then when it's
okay and it's give it a little bit of a scritch.
Speaker 2: Hmm.
Speaker 6: I think like you see like a little drool farming
on its mouth, you know, and it's got its little
tooth broken out. And then maybe it does this like
the weird thing where one eye rolls up into the
back of its head, and he's just like, you know,
he very much enjoys it.
Speaker 5: He seems thoughtful, little one.
Speaker 3: Oh, I just think I forgot what we were. Oh
it's nice that, oh sir, thank you for letting us
stay at your fire place.
Speaker 6: And then I can't remember if I made him southern
or normal. I think he was just like me, right, yeah, okay,
all right. And then yeah, and then I found this one.
You're more energetic, okay, because I'm not very energetic. No no, no, no, no, no,
not me excited at all. And I found this one.
I found this one out on the reef, you know,
like right by the by the coral mine, and I take.
Speaker 3: Up against Uran while this is happening. I just kind
of lean up against Laran.
Speaker 6: Just and it was fantastic. Oh yeah, absolutely, no problem,
No problem. Oh I should, I should probably, I should
probably Do you do you do you want anything to eat?
Do you do you need anything to drink?
Speaker 8: Or anything?
Speaker 1: I was just I was just shown too far here around.
Speaker 8: You see, like just over the corner of my notebook
that I'm writing do you do you want anything to drink?
And I've like gone through so many pencils, like my
pencils are now out of my hair, gone through so
many of them that they're broken, that they're blunt, that
my hair's down. So we're where why not? Do you
do you want any? Oh?
Speaker 6: Lunch? Yeah? I mean are you are you hungry? Because
I could I mean, we've got some fruit? Sure, yeah, absolutely,
I can do that. I can get that ready, and
I just immediately go over.
Speaker 4: I immediately go over and just.
Speaker 6: Grab a bunch of fruit into and it definitely looks
like I'm getting fruit from the herbalists area. I'm just
grabbing a bunch of fruit and putting it into a bowl,
and then I'm bringing it over and then I set
it down there.
Speaker 1: Shouldn't enjoy that? I hope I like to.
Speaker 8: I'm assuming there's something kind of vaguely apple like this.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, there's tons of different fruit from all around
the area. I think I.
Speaker 8: Pick up an apple and split it same that we
did before, and I like him.
Speaker 9: I like to go, yeah, the oh, thank you, it's
very nice.
Speaker 3: It's very kind of you. I I I love these.
I like how it seems like an orange on the inside,
but an apple on the outside, or natural or an
apple orange. But I haven't thought of a name for
it yet, but it's very tasty. Thank you for sharing.
Speaker 8: I'd like to sit down next to him with absolutely
no regard of personal space.
Speaker 1: Oh perfect.
Speaker 3: You might get the sense that what Kati is probably
not used to having a lot of personal space in
various ways, and so he doesn't even really it doesn't
really or no, that's not right. He's not used having boundaries,
so it doesn't bother the.
Speaker 6: Difference.
Speaker 3: The difference. It's not that it's the lack of boundaries.
So he doesn't seem surprised to have you just sit
right next to him. It just sort of eats it,
kind of like a look like you would eat it,
sort of like this, just like a little bit of joy.
Speaker 6: Oh my god, what are you doing? Oh no, don't
eat that. Don't eat that. Don't don't.
Speaker 8: Don't eat that. That's my science.
Speaker 5: Don't eat that.
Speaker 6: And then out of the out of the little brush
comes another scientist.
Speaker 1: Well actually technically it's an Orcadian.
Speaker 6: Which is somebody who is studying the like plants and
things like that for medicinal purposes and things like that.
Speaker 1: And so you see this, I think you just they're
absolutely covered. I can actually show you. I think I have.
Speaker 6: I have it right here, no way, there they are,
and I'll put I'll put it up here for a
for a stream as well. So they just have they
have absolutely like a hundred things that they're carrying in
all of their tentacles.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 6: And they come up.
Speaker 1: Eyes wide like oh oh oh no no, and that
one is poisonous.
Speaker 6: Oh who are you? What are you doing here?
Speaker 8: I'm so sorry for you trying to eat your science.
This one's poisonous.
Speaker 6: No, not that one, the one underneath it.
Speaker 8: Oh okay, okay, I'd like to hand back this apple
that's got like a very large bite chunk out of
it and just put it like face.
Speaker 1: Down in there and that hunt thank you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll take it in my hand.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm gonna put my hand in front of Wacatti's
mouth in the way that any teacher or parent would
identify as a spit it out spit it out.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, but okay, but but but where where? Where
are you?
Speaker 1: What are you doing here?
Speaker 6: Can I help you?
Speaker 3: Why?
Speaker 6: Why are you eating our science?
Speaker 4: Your friend invited us?
Speaker 6: Oh day, oh you're friends of Dace. Why didn't you
say so?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 4: You came out yelling?
Speaker 6: Was I yelling?
Speaker 8: Well, I don't think it's surprising that you were yelling,
considering that we were eating a science.
Speaker 6: I mean, but I did is but I'm pretty you know, yeah,
I did science. But it's important science that I certainly
don't want you poisoning yourself.
Speaker 8: Can I can I ask what science you're doing?
Speaker 1: I'm so glad that you asked. You Absolutely can't.
Speaker 6: I'm trying to see if I can figure out a
new way of of of of of of healing, especially
things that are coming out of the fold. They're they're
all strange and mutated, and I'm just trying to see
if I can find some additional properties that may be
help ease that or change the the the the the
the pain levels and and things like that. Sorry, sometimes
I get excited and I can't, can't, can't finish what
I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Does anybody have a pencil.
Speaker 8: I'm like, hold up my pencils and they're all like
broken and blunt, and yeah, I have.
Speaker 6: One and a tentacle, one of the many tentacles. Reach
around and grab a writing utensil and hand it to you.
Speaker 8: Thank you so much. I'm sorry, can you can you could?
Could you start again? I didn't get it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm working on some of the plants in the area.
Speaker 6: I'm trying for well, first of all, I'm trying to
test and see if they are seemingly affected by the
Fold at all, or if they can provide any medicinal
properties that might also help, uh, you know, eat ease
the mutations that we're seeing from the animals that are
coming out from the Fold and the monsters.
Speaker 3: Really, how is it going?
Speaker 8: We'll have you find so far?
Speaker 6: Well, I think I've found some. I think I found
some promising. Nothing really yet. Oh but I'm close you are, yes,
I have to be, and that's very true. Nothing is
still something. I'm I'm I'm al though, by the way,
although help cutter too far.
Speaker 1: And I will shake your hand.
Speaker 6: However, I feel like ooh, I think it's uh, I
think it's soft and a little squishy, because I'm technically
like I'm a I'm a cuddlebeard, like I'm a I'm
an octopus type creature.
Speaker 1: So I imagine it being like just a little just
a little spongy, just a little fleshy when you go
to shake, if you if you squeeze a little bit, I'd.
Speaker 8: Like to hold on just a little bit, squee longer
than so acceptable.
Speaker 6: I don't think I know the difference, So I'll hold
your hand as long as you want to hold my hand.
Speaker 1: That I think, I think the three of them now, yeah,
and now I need wakety to roll because this this.
Speaker 6: Might I don't know actually what I can ask you?
You don't need to roll? Does this seem familiar at
all to you, this this voice and this name.
Speaker 3: Yes it does. But that's not surprising because I have
a good friend named Kelp. But I just feel as
if there's something else that uh, I feel like, hmm,
that page is missing, mm hmm. Kelp one of my
dear friends. We grew up together. It's always upset that
I would mess things up in the hideout and I
left Kelp in the bold, I think with I don't
know where the ship is. What ship? The time Shark
Leerd and I we we navigated out with the Time Shark.
Did you when five minutes ago? It's five minutes ago?
Speaker 8: I think?
Speaker 3: Did you rip out pages from my book?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 3: I wouldn't do that, because there are pages going into
the fold and coming back out. Some are missing, and
I'm there was something about kelp I should I there's
this note. It's the first time I've seen it in
my book. It's in my own handwriting, and it says
stop trying to remember. I've never seen that before. I
don't know why it's there. I don't remember writing it.
Speaker 1: I remember thinking this last week about you and how
I really admire this about you, Walkeety. Do you trust yourself?
Speaker 3: Yes? I do?
Speaker 1: Then why are you still trying to remember?
Speaker 3: I guess I forgot that I'm not supposed to remember.
It's just it's a little disconcerting because I'm usually very
good at remembering things, and I just you know how
Laran and I grew up together. We were in the
hideout together. Learan I think also didn't have a place
to stay, so it was Leiran and I in the
hideout and all the rest of our friends would join us,
but then Valia came to stay after the fight with her.
But it seems to me that Leren seems older than me,
and that doesn't make any sense. If we grew up together,
then Leren should be my age seventeen. But learn seems
that I just look over at Learan and Amara seems
older and that doesn't make sense. So I just I
think it's hard to not remember when things don't fit
together logic, and I'm used to dream logic, but this
is different. I don't know if I'm supposed to ask
here or if I'm not supposed to ask Himir, And
because can I tell you a secret? Absolutely, I did
something different last time I made a little mark in
my book. It's the first time I did it. I
made a mark to see if pages were missing, And
there's one missing page from just a few minutes ago,
and I don't know where it went, but there's a
new page missing that I didn't take it out, and
I haven't seen myself or anybody else like that recently,
So it's just.
Speaker 1: Are you sure you didn't take it out just because
you don't remember it?
Speaker 3: If I don't have my memory? Who am I? That
was the one thing everybody else is so good at
something they're good at being fast, or everybody's good at something.
In my thing I'm good at is I remember things.
Speaker 1: And that's not the only thing you were good at.
Maybe you're an interdimensional hero.
Speaker 3: I haven't done that yet. Maybe one day I will.
Maybe one day, when I do that in the future,
I bet I'll be brave and strong and somebody that
Bailey will be proud to know end. But I haven't
done anything like that yet.
Speaker 1: Would you like to roll facing this individual who is
sounding slightly like a friend of yours and has a
similar name, or would you like to trust yourself?
Speaker 3: Well, the thing is it says here that I'm not
supposed to remember, so actually I.
Speaker 1: Won't remember stop trying to remember, Not that you're not
supposed to just playing advocate here.
Speaker 3: Oh hm hmm, Well I trust myself. If I'm saying
that I'm supposed to stop trying to remember, then and
I will stop trying to remember. Sometimes it's hard, though,
Sometimes I just remember things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But.
Speaker 3: It's okay because and I just reach out and I
just squeeze Lren's handed that way that I normally do,
which looks like I'm trying to comfort Laren, but really
I'm just getting comfort from Laren. It's okay because I
have my best friend here, and if I forget anything,
she'll remember because we grew up together and I've known
her all my life, and so she'll remember all the
little things if I forget them, and I just smile
at Laren.
Speaker 4: I've been watching Okati this entire time, and the thing
it looks less like I'm Shimriccanti, but almost like looking
through him. And then I turn away to a host.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I'll get there eventually. But but these ones,
you know what to tell you what you could have?
These these ones are okadie, you can eat these these ones,
not that one that's the yellow one too far.
Speaker 3: I'm so sorry. I'm sorry. Thank you for your hospitality.
And just a little bit of stinging my mouth from
the poison. It's okay.
Speaker 6: No, oh no, no, no, that one's not poisonous. I
don't think. I hope you wait, what are you experiencing?
You're just a hold on, let me get my notebook.
Speaker 3: Hold on, Oh kay, I remembered something. Also, I can't
feel my tongue. But if mister Amara says that you're
supposed to get back, you're supposed to get back, wait
for him to say it, and when he says it,
get back or get behind me. I think one of
those two. Definitely do that, don't not do it. It's
really very important for you to immediately get back. I
cannot say for other moments, but in that one moment
you should do so. It's important. Actually behind him.
Speaker 6: Called up your tug. Let me look at it. Oh, yeah,
you're allergic. This is definitely an allergy. Probably that's weird
though that should be happening to you, do you? I
laid it a little bit closer. Where have you been recently?
H if you had any contact with the micronic energy
or you haven't been traveling near the fold, have you?
Speaker 3: Yes? No? Yes, yes?
Speaker 6: Okay, Well, first of all, that's very dangerous and a
young and like you should not be doing that.
Speaker 3: But but it was in a boat race, so we
had to go by the phone boat race.
Speaker 4: Okay, well you were just kids messing around.
Speaker 6: Kids racing around. That's very dangerous. You shouldn't do that
at all. You should not do that.
Speaker 1: But if you do choose to do that. If you
do choose to do that, you.
Speaker 6: Should absolutely immediately see a scientist afterward, so that you
know the you know, the stuff that's happening to you,
doesn't you know, just to happen for no reason? You
know what I'm saying. I mean to be clear, don't
go adventuring and racing your boat around the fold. But
it's you did.
Speaker 1: Can I ask you some questions?
Speaker 5: We red that's why we have missed too far here.
Speaker 6: Oh, I don't want to get I don't I'm sorry.
I don't mean to overstep on your experiments here. I
didn't know. It's so nice to meet it. Or do
you work for the Citadel?
Speaker 3: No, I'm really excited about maybe studying there one day.
I'm very excited about it. The Citadel's very exciting.
Speaker 6: Uh Oh, Is this like a project that you're working
on on your own and that you're going to present
it to the to the council?
Speaker 3: Is that how it works?
Speaker 6: Sometimes?
Speaker 8: Looking very desperately at mister Mara, I just think that
it's us cool school project.
Speaker 6: Oh okay, okay, well still, I mean a school project
is still an important project. And I don't like I said,
I don't want to come in and ruin your your science.
I won't do that, but but I I do really
like seeing you know, youngis practicing and study. And you know,
maybe when you're older, if you don't want to work
for the citadel, you can, you know, come and talk
to the Orcadians guild.
Speaker 8: Oh well, I've recently learned that you can't learn everything
at the Citadels.
Speaker 6: So maybe no, no, you have to. I mean, look,
we would I would I be able to be testing
the fruit you know here? No, I have to go
and I have to see for myself.
Speaker 8: Why does everybody know this except me?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 4: But I'm very okay, d Fisher, I've dealt with this.
Do you have a glove glove fruit?
Speaker 1: But oh I do, I do.
Speaker 6: Hold on, let me get get let me just give
my bag.
Speaker 3: Thank you. Okay, it's just a little.
Speaker 6: Here we go.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 6: Take that, and I'll just get this and.
Speaker 4: I'll cut the globe glove fruit in half and say
put this on your tongue. It should hurt with a swelling,
but not for too long. We're going to need some
spyfish that should be a much more long term.
Speaker 6: Thanks for this firefish. I think I think you know
Dace might have some of the fish over over there.
Speaker 4: Dace, some spyfish.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah, yah yeah, yah yeah yeah yah yeah yeah.
Speaker 6: I heard you, and I'm getting it and I have
it and it's here, and i'm cutting it up right now.
And I'm so sorry that you were guests at our
campsite and and your tongue is swollen and you're having
an allergic reaction to the.
Speaker 1: Food that we gave you to try to be good hosts.
It's your meltdown.
Speaker 4: It's okay, okay. You couldn't have suspected that anyone would
be silly enough to go so close to the fold.
Speaker 3: I'm not more than.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, deep Fisher, you can stop talking before you
buy something.
Speaker 5: I will.
Speaker 4: I will help Dace kind of gut this fish. I'm
making this on the fly, but I have monster law,
so I understand the creatures and monsters in Navii. And
I think I know that glob glove fruit helps with
the swelling, like that's like short term relief. I think
there is a a let's just say, excretion that spirefish
have that if you coat whatever is swelling, it should
reduce the swelling. Doesn't taste great, very Unfortunately it's Wakarti's tongue.
They're swelling, but that's the only way. As I pull
like kind of gut the fish, I kind of pull
out this organ and split that open, and you see
this kind of deep, deep, like burnt orange like viscous
fluid and I kind of skeep that out and okay,
just hold still coats Karti's tongue with it. It tastes that,
it tastes awful. Yes, I know you're going have to
deal with that for another probably ten ten minutes, and
it should be done after that.
Speaker 3: I'm dying.
Speaker 4: Mmm, it's fine. You've been through worse.
Speaker 1: M And I think I think you'll see Dace and
although kind of like moving around the camp maybe a
little bit. I think although is more maybe preparing some
medicines and maybe food for you, because his his guild
that he is with is actually like gardeners and cultivators
of food, but particularly like food with medicine, and he
in particular is out trying to study and learn more
things for the guild. But it does look like he
is maybe potentially, you know, preparing something else for you. Wakeety.
But they're whispering to each other, so you guys.
Speaker 3: Have some time a little bit better.
Speaker 4: That's good. Definitely the traditional way of dealing with that,
but it's.
Speaker 3: What we have. So it's okay. M but are you?
Is everyone here okay?
Speaker 4: I'm I'm fine, MH.
Speaker 3: But yeah, we're okay.
Speaker 4: I think we should own me. You've been near the
fold and that's about it as far as they're concerned.
Speaker 3: Okay, But they can't ask me questions of a hard
time seeing things that aren't true.
Speaker 4: I can help divert that. I can answer the questions
for you. Don't worry.
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 8: I was just trying to say that it was a
school project because I just.
Speaker 6: With them.
Speaker 8: Mister Amara, I didn't You didn't tell me that if
that was that was right the right answer, So I
didn't know if that was the right thing to do.
Speaker 4: I well, for one, in that situation, me telling you
that's the right answer would give away the lie since
there were certing right there. But it worked.
Speaker 3: It was enough.
Speaker 4: You followed your got and it was right.
Speaker 3: It's got some very interesting plants there from the outer islands.
I saw some.
Speaker 8: How, How did you know which fruit was was gonna help?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: I've been watching the forward for a while now, sometimes
closer than i'd recommend. Do as I say, not as
I do. And I've had an allergic reaction to this
fruit before because of it you have, yes, h well
not my tongue, but well we're were then swollen fingers.
Speaker 8: Oh did you have to put your hand inside a fish?
Speaker 4: Yes? Oh, okay, Well, I I was planning to myself,
so I was going to skeeep out there the residue anyway, So.
Speaker 1: It's meeting.
Speaker 4: It became enough of a problem enough, frequently enough that
I ended up having to figure out a way to
deal with it without having to go back to the city.
Speaker 8: I guess you wouldn't really want to be at the city,
seeing as they're all quite mean about you there.
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm sorry.
Speaker 8: I probably shouldn't have said that.
Speaker 4: You're just stating effect.
Speaker 8: But why are they so mean to you that?
Speaker 3: Yes, why you've been very kind to us.
Speaker 4: Sometimes saying what people don't like to hear is enough
to annoy others.
Speaker 3: But they're going to help us though, the citadel I
know it.
Speaker 4: We just you saw them deep Fisher. They're not going
to help us.
Speaker 3: I don't remember that. I remember we spoke to them
and they said that we should go and wait for
them to deliberate. But I'm sure as soon as they deliberate,
they'll bring in all of the forces to help us,
because the Citadel are heroes and I've always wanted to
join the Citadel to be an engineer.
Speaker 4: I've been petitioning to put it, kindly for yourself, to
make a move for longer than you've been alive, but.
Speaker 3: Too far as mother will help us.
Speaker 8: She's not my mother. Oh no, no, it's it's it's
not it's not it's not a bad thing.
Speaker 3: It's just that why we have this conversation before. No,
I was, I was.
Speaker 8: I took it as a compliment before when you said
when you said it before, I took it as a compliment.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't think we had this conversation before. I
don't remember that. I just thought of it just now.
Oh she looked like your mother.
Speaker 8: She's she's not my mother.
Speaker 3: Oh oh, I'm so sorry. I hope I didn't offend you.
Speaker 6: No, no, not at all.
Speaker 8: I I always wanted to be like her. I spent
my whole life studying to learn from her, to be
like her.
Speaker 3: Very lucky, You're very lucky to study it under an
engineer is something amazing, because the engineers, they're the ones
who can help us take down them. You know, the
thing to say, you know the people, I'm not saying
the words out loud, so they don't know what we're
talking about. So I'm not you know, I didn't want
you to think that I didn't know what I was saying.
I do know. I remember that part.
Speaker 8: I know, I know, I know you know what you're saying.
Speaker 3: I remember that. I just I was trying to be subtle.
Speaker 8: I can't say that's my strong point.
Speaker 3: I'm very subtle. Lots of times. I don't think that's true. Though.
I don't think I'm subtle. I think are we going
to get inside? Uh?
Speaker 5: Inside?
Speaker 3: Where the fold?
Speaker 4: I have a friend, rather I a friend spoke about
someone he would know something about. Oh that's what we're
heading to now.
Speaker 3: Oh m, I lean in close by. Scritch scritch, scritch.
M listen. You may not believe me, but I did.
Learan and I we sailed out of the Fold in
a ship called the time Shark. We built. We made
it work, and if we took it out, it has
to be somewhere and if we can find it maybe
we can sail it back in or but I don't
know where it is.
Speaker 4: M h, it's somewhere. I appreciate the sentiment, and that'd
definitely be a plan. B. But when I found the
two of you, you were very much on land. I
did not see any boat nearby, and I didn't see
any boat prior to find you two.
Speaker 3: I look over to help. No, sorry, although just something's mind. Well, well,
maybe we can get a new boat, and we can
find a place where the old things best, and we
can get in that way or send a message.
Speaker 4: Like I said, this engineer knows or likely know the
forward more than you can ever hope to, so they
can potentially tell us this spot would rarely tell us
how to find it.
Speaker 3: Oh that's good a real life engineer. Oh too far?
Are you an engineer already? Or is that how it works? There?
You have like a title apprentice? Are you an apprentice engineer?
Speaker 8: I think I was.
Speaker 3: Aren't you still?
Speaker 5: I guess.
Speaker 3: You're very lucky. I can feel my tongue also, this
tastes very bad, and it tastes worse now that I
can feel to yes.
Speaker 4: No, and it's probably going to get worse for the
next five or six minutes, so.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna come over here, and hearing the very dejected
sound of this very young and bright scientist, I just
place a hand on her shoulder, tap very gently and say,
you're always an apprentice of something when you're a scientist,
my dear the world.
Speaker 8: Yes, that's it, an apprentice of the world.
Speaker 6: That's perfect. And I definitely the subscribe subscribe to that.
Speaker 3: I like that.
Speaker 8: I I'd like to. I'd like to go to towards
Amara and try and put my hand in the pocket
where he keeps his butter shields.
Speaker 4: Oh, I, what are you looking at?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 4: I Do you need something?
Speaker 8: Will I find one in here?
Speaker 4: Yes? Do you find the moment it's filled? It doesn't
make sense. I've filled your butter shows it is.
Speaker 8: I'd like try and take one out and like they
my hands and fall on the floor.
Speaker 4: If I'm happy to give you a butter shields.
Speaker 8: It's not for me, turn around, I'd like to. I'd
like to give it to Wakity.
Speaker 3: Oh, oh, thank you.
Speaker 8: I'd scramble and try and pick up as many as
I can off the floor and like put them one
by one back in a Mara's pocket.
Speaker 4: I would probably I appreciate the sentiment too far. But
the reason why I haven't offered it is because I
think it would just make the taste the worse.
Speaker 8: I'd like to run over to Wakity and slap him
the buck.
Speaker 4: It's very much like okay, you honestly better than it's
second on it. The flavor profile does not mix with
spy offish guns. Very similar to how orange juice, for example,
tastes different when you brush your teeth, but worse in
this case.
Speaker 1: Sorry, I was just I was.
Speaker 8: Just trying to have I'll make notes of it.
Speaker 6: Yes, Oh wait, learning.
Speaker 8: An apprentice of the world.
Speaker 6: That's right now? Who is it that you're trying to
go with? Side? And see? Like days that I know
everybody in the area.
Speaker 3: Do you know the waitress at the diner, the Witch Diner,
the best diner?
Speaker 6: But afraid I don't know what you mean, young one.
Speaker 3: Oh, you said you knew everyone.
Speaker 6: There is a I've needed this general scientific community area year.
Speaker 4: Oh, I didn't get a name. An old friend of
mine said they had a friend. He was an engineer
before leaving the citizdel Oh, okay, and a.
Speaker 8: Friend of a friend. You know, we don't even know
their names. There's it's not really not worth you wouldn't
know them?
Speaker 6: Oh okay, all right, all right, did but actually I
was hoping you might.
Speaker 4: Oh oh oh oh, yes, do you know any If
you don't, that's fine, But I imagine it's hard to
find a defunct engineer around here, and if there is one,
is really just one? Have you met anyone who fits
that description?
Speaker 6: Well? And I look over to Dace, and Dace kind
of looks at me and maybe very slightly shakes his
head and then shrugs.
Speaker 1: And then I look back and will.
Speaker 6: We know of one?
Speaker 3: But she.
Speaker 6: I don't know if she really wants to be found.
Speaker 4: You know, I'm trusty when I say I understand that.
But this is very important?
Speaker 3: Is it?
Speaker 6: For sites?
Speaker 3: It's fun?
Speaker 4: The stol.
Speaker 6: Something tells me this is more than a school project.
And I am making direct eye contact with tomorrow right.
Speaker 4: Now, much more than a school project.
Speaker 6: Okay, then yep, let me let me and I push
down onto my thighs as I pushed myself up, and
I walk over to uh, to some parchment. Let let
me let me get, let me get let me draw
your map.
Speaker 4: Thank you, I appreciate it.
Speaker 8: Yep mister Amara, I thought you weren't going to I
thought you went. I thought you said that it was a.
Speaker 3: Good idea, that it was this co project.
Speaker 4: It was a good idea for that line of questioning.
But if they know the name of the location, if
you were looking for, you can tell them enough, just
enough for them to answer question back.
Speaker 8: I'm sorry for butting in.
Speaker 4: You don't need to apologize. I don't.
Speaker 3: No, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: Mhmm. You don't need to apologize either. Why are you apologizing?
Speaker 3: Well, because I figured I must have done something. If
a Mars apologizing too far is apologizing, I should apologize too.
Speaker 4: I I just said that too far doesn't need to apologize.
You don't need, so then I apologize. No, no, no one,
no one did anything. What's happened?
Speaker 3: Was that the problem that I should have done something?
Speaker 4: No, I'm getting too old for this. Yeah, I'm gonna
put a butter shirt in both of their hands.
Speaker 8: I take it out of you can't have it, taste
worse can't come with me, And I'd like to take
wackets he's kind of God and stick down by the fire,
just like drag him away. So why do you want
to be at the Citadel tell me everything.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's where the engineers are. Ever since I've been
very small, I wanted to be like I suppose like you.
I didn't know you yet though, But you're studying at
the engineering You're good at time time engineering. How exciting
is that? Oh? Sorry, I burned and it was fish.
Speaker 8: Booh oh oh you did.
Speaker 3: Oh I'm so sorry. Oh oh, no, I but it was.
I mean, I've always dreamed of becoming an engineer. Nobody,
uh m, nobody where I'm from does anything like that.
You know, they don't studied.
Speaker 8: I think that you're Oh how do I say this?
Speaker 3: You think I'm not good enough to be in the Citadel?
Speaker 5: Oh no, no, I.
Speaker 8: I I think that you know a lot of things
that that they don't.
Speaker 3: Actually, well, but I don't. I don't know. I haven't
studied with them, though they know everything about well everything,
that's that's what they do.
Speaker 8: Not hear? No, no, no, did you not hear what
mister Amara said. There's so many things that you can't
learn at the Citadel. All these things that days showed me,
all the things that you were talking in your notebook.
I don't think I could learn any of that there.
I don't think I could've. You're very quiet, wakity. I'm
just gonna give him a little back rub the.
Speaker 1: Tech issues today. I'm so sorry, y'all, we can't.
Speaker 4: Hear you, Trooper.
Speaker 8: So quiet.
Speaker 4: While this is happening. I think Amara is giving Odo
so recommendations for joint ointments because as a fellow elderly,
I'm sure they also suffer from the enjoint pain every
so often. I think seeing old kind of like almost
like slap their thigh as they stand up. They're like,
you also have some low level of arthritis. Here's some tips.
Speaker 8: And I think I've got one one year on that
conversation and one ear on what Waggedy is saying. Like,
I think I've tried to do my best to make
sure that we are out of the way, because despite
the fact that I'm not very good at picking up
on things, I'm getting better.
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 8: Actually, I'm kind of understanding a little bit about how
everybody is because I mean, I've been around them long enough,
and I've learned a lot since we've been here. So
I think that for once, I actually picked up on
the idea that maybe we needed to not be But
I am very, very very interested in the conversation that
mister Amara is having, and I'm sort of one heir
in each in each camp.
Speaker 3: Mhm, I think I'm back.
Speaker 1: Yes, think there's a strange there's I'm so sorry.
Speaker 6: There's like a really strange buzzing that's happening when you're
speaking though, So that's what we were trying to fix.
Speaker 1: Chat. I'm so sorry. I don't know if you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not hearing myself, so let me try this though,
going to see if changes things.
Speaker 1: That is much better. But I I just need to
bump you, so hang tight.
Speaker 3: M mhm.
Speaker 1: Oh, nope, I still hear it.
Speaker 3: You still hear it. I do very strange well one moment,
one second, but I will just say that I I
want to build time things, that's all, and Saiddel's the
best place to learn how to do that because.
Speaker 4: It's feel kind of quiet for me.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Well, if I bump them, we're going to hear the yeah,
the very loud buzzing here, look at it.
Speaker 3: One moment, check it. But please, I'm going to think
about this as bye talk.
Speaker 1: So I'm sorry, y'all. It sounds like either chord maybe
needs to be unplugged and replugged in, or it's picking
up something else, but I don't know if you have
something buzzing in the background or I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3: Next I see it though I can't hear it, but
I can see it.
Speaker 1: Such chaos. Okay, Amara, while I'm trying to help get
her video back.
Speaker 6: Yes, you two have a conversation. Please, thank you. I
will be back as the NPCs here in a moment.
Speaker 4: I think, after speaking to all and go for a bit.
As they busy themselves with Dace probably preparing camp for
the night, Amara will walk over to you too far
and kind of groan as they take a seat in
the sand.
Speaker 8: I liked try and clear the area for you before
you sit down. By realistically, I don't actually do anything.
It's a lot of effort for nothing.
Speaker 3: You're you'll find it.
Speaker 4: We're on a beach, You're not going to seep away
to set.
Speaker 3: Have you.
Speaker 8: Made any more drawings lately.
Speaker 4: As of late?
Speaker 3: Not?
Speaker 4: But I drew one. I suppose I haven't showed you yet,
but I might actually show when they're free. It seems
to pertain to their research, and I'll flip over to
the most recent page in this kind of sketch book,
and you see a drawing of a spine squid, which
you probably have in your encyclopedia. But this spine squid
is different. It seems wrong. You see that the spines
that kind of protrude from the tentacles, they've been circled
and drawn a bit larger on the side of the
page and then annotated crystal like not bone or spine
fold mutation question mark. And then along down its body
you see an arrow pointing to like the back of
his head where like the skull is a squid, so
it's not really a skull, but where the head meets
the rest of its body, circle it and there's an
arrow pointing to it that says still saying weak point
even with mutation, just random not evolution question mark. And
then underneath that just in writing why was it so
far from the fault question mark? As you as they
show you this and again this during is lifelike. It's
incredibly detailed. Let's they show you this. I don't know
how much deep Fisher and Lurin told you, but when
we met, well when I met the two of them,
they were being attacked by this creature.
Speaker 8: I've come acrush a few by a spinefish. Spine squid,
A spine squid, Oh goodness, a spine squid.
Speaker 4: Yes, and.
Speaker 8: This one's different. And I'm going to flick through my
book and put the drawing that I have in my book,
which is also annotated, but not with anything at all
like yours. This is notes that I learned in class
that are going to improve the textbooks. This is not
whatever this magnificent drawing is that I'm I'm seeing what
does that mean? And I'm going to point to the
bit that says fold that's questioning the material and the
fold fault.
Speaker 4: Usually spine squid says, I'm sure you know. They have
bone like spines, almost like quills or spikes, protruding from
their cantacles. Makes it east of the grapple creatures. That
makes the harpiest creatures to leave about doing some serious
damage themselves. I've come across to the spine squids, used
most of them back during my time in training and
fighting with the tidal blades, so I'm fairly familiar with them.
But this the spine seemed almost rock like, like crystals.
There was a slight iridescence to them, slight translucents much
tougher than anything I've come across, and I assumed it
had to be a can of mutation from the fold.
More and more creatures I've been getting through the fold
as of late. Nothing that big, But that's the only
explanation I can think of. I'm not a science man,
so I can't say for sure, but it seemed like
the only likely explanation.
Speaker 8: It reminds It reminds me of something that the shimmering,
not just the fold, but.
Speaker 3: But like.
Speaker 8: A shimmering a folder. I like hunting through my pockets.
Speaker 5: Oh, where is it?
Speaker 8: I usually put it right here? It's not there?
Speaker 6: Here is.
Speaker 8: I don't look at the fold through it. Okay, okay, promise,
I promise, And I hand over to you the device
that I used a few episodes back that reflects sunlight.
Speaker 4: I think as they take it, they kind of nod,
not too far by, I think to themselves, as they
recognize this thing. Do you hand it over?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 4: What about these mutated spy and tremind.
Speaker 3: You of this?
Speaker 8: If you open it up carefully, carefully.
Speaker 4: Yes, I'll be careful.
Speaker 8: And as you open it up, it's a bit like
a pocket mirror that you open up and there's a
reflective surface. And then if you just tilt it and
I'm gonna hold, like to hold your hands, hold it
and you'll like cut your hands and like move your
hands slightly so you can see it and so it
reflects the sky. Do you see do you see that shimmer?
Speaker 4: Yes? Actually, it just does seem similar.
Speaker 8: Don't and I'm gonna tilt it back down. Don't look
at the fold.
Speaker 4: I won't look at the fold.
Speaker 8: But it's the same shimmer, right.
Speaker 4: It does look similar?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 4: Interesting?
Speaker 6: What does it mean?
Speaker 4: I can't say for sure. Again, like I said, not
a science man, haven't really was never really my forte.
Speaker 8: But your forte.
Speaker 6: So what do you call this?
Speaker 8: She holds up your your beautiful picture with all the annotations.
Speaker 4: Observations. I attack a creature and then write down what
I notice.
Speaker 8: That's science. That's science, mister Amara, you're a scientist.
Speaker 4: I think. Amra smiles a little bit, but I do think.
I don't know if too far picks up on it,
but definitely like a this child is amusing, I kind
of smile.
Speaker 8: I don't.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what would.
Speaker 5: I roll over?
Speaker 10: This?
Speaker 1: Maybe your new skill?
Speaker 4: Oh, my niece, I'm gonna I think the difficult. It
is pretty low. I don't think Amara is hiding it.
So this is advice beside it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I just wanted to show chat what it was.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I think, yeah, it would have been it
would have been difficulty three and you go on eleven. Yeah,
you'd notice it.
Speaker 8: Oh it's funny. I'm funny, you're sweet, I'm sweet. Well,
no one's ever said that before. No one's ever said
that before.
Speaker 4: I don't mean to pray, and I'm sure there is
a more tactical way to say this. But do you
get much praise in general?
Speaker 8: Well, I mean, I guess it depends what you're asking for.
I mean, I guess it depends what you would count
as praise. I mean, if I do something correctly, it's
usually recognized.
Speaker 4: Recognizes one thing, but I suppose praise is it is
definitely another.
Speaker 8: I would never expect anybody to praise me for the ordinary?
Speaker 4: Can I ask what inspired you to the journey to
become part of the council? And engineer and arcanist? So
which of the two way trying to be? Actually, I
suppose I should ask that an archanist or an engineer.
Speaker 8: As long as I can make things I'm happy.
Speaker 4: And you don't need to be part of the engineers
to do that.
Speaker 8: You do realize that, right, Well, I don't really know
where else are i'd find the access to the tools
and learn the skills and the knowledge and the It
feels like something that would be exceedingly hard to do
on my own.
Speaker 3: Oh it would be.
Speaker 4: That's definitely, that's definitely certain. But I think you'd be
a bit more free in what exactly you study and
build outside of the citadel.
Speaker 8: Free, yes, because you can't learn everything at the citadel, right.
Speaker 4: I'll be quite honest with you. I don't think it's
just that you can't learn everything within the citadel. I
think it's the citadel won't let you learn everything in
the citadel. But as coming from someone as not much
of a fan of everyone there, so I suppose it
can take my word of a pillar of salt.
Speaker 8: Well, it's mostly wonderful, you know, it's mostly it's mostly
fun to PASTI is there are the smartest people doing
the most complicated of science and building the most wonderful contraptions.
Speaker 2: Off you could see it.
Speaker 8: Oh, it's so special.
Speaker 4: I am clear not much of a science man, because
this is that doesn't appeal to me at all. I'm
glad it's something you're passionate about that. I would just
be sure to focus on your love of creating over
your adoration of the council. They may feel the same
right now, but they're not.
Speaker 8: I think, hm, I think I'm starting to understand that.
Speaker 5: There is.
Speaker 8: A kind of nuance.
Speaker 3: To that.
Speaker 4: There's an almost like relaxing of shoulders from a Mara.
I don't really think he realized he was kind of
tense during this conversation, but I think upon hearing that,
he seems to relax, almost lean back a little bit,
and I think properly look at too far. I think
I don't think he needs to rap for me. I
think he noticed a shift in the way he looks
at you that goes that you realize, this entire time
that you've interacted, he's seen you as a He's looking
at you as a young adult now rather than a
naive child, and you're only realizing that now because of
the change in the ways of looking at you.
Speaker 8: Did you not trust me? Do you not trust me?
Speaker 4: I trust that you are honest and earnest, whether that's
because you choose to be or you physically can't be
anything else that's up in the air. But I also
know that people can take advantage of that. It's not
you that I don't trust. I just don't trust the
counsel or anyone in the citadel.
Speaker 8: Well, they only want the best for everyone. There's like
a hesitation, as a questioning in my eyes.
Speaker 4: He visibly he sighs very loudly the moment you say that,
and immediately looks away you, down at the ground, almost
as if he he's angry but doesn't want to give
you that glare. He knows you don't deserve it, but
you can't hold it back, so he stares down at
the ground before signing again and looking back to you.
They want the best for themselves. They want what's easiest,
not what's right.
Speaker 6: I don't think that's true at all. I'm sorry to
interrupt on your conversation, but it's really hard to make
a decision that's the best for everyone, and.
Speaker 1: They do that best.
Speaker 6: Yeah, kah right, there's a lot of people to keep
in by Todd Veri. There's a lot of people outside
of Daveri.
Speaker 8: I mean, they've kept us safe for this long.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, Laren is going to open her eyes. They've
kept you safe for this long.
Speaker 8: What j oh, yes they have.
Speaker 6: What do you mean.
Speaker 3: What's outside of the on the other side of the foe?
I mean probably what if there were islands on the
other side, just like on this side, maybe lots of them.
Navieri is quite small. I can't imagine the world is
as small as Navii. And if there were islands out
there with people like us, and we made the fold
to protect us from the monsters that were coming, well,
then we've trapped them with all of the monsters, didn't
we That's what I think thinking about no, I think,
what do you mean trapped? Well, I look at Amara
made a wall, right, the wall to protect us from
the things on the other side.
Speaker 6: But if there are the monsters from the from the deep.
Speaker 3: Right, but they can't get in here because of the fold. Right,
if there were an island on the other side of
the fold full of people just like us, where the
monsters are going to go, then with the fold here,
they'll just go to those islands where those people live.
And the people can't come here because they're trapped outside
of the fold with all the monsters. So we make
this thing.
Speaker 8: Well, firstly, We don't know that that's true. We don't
know what's the other side of the fold. But like
you said, it's a wall, and they're the insulation in
the wall. There's no if there were another island, the
fold would be keeping the island safe too.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's what I think too.
Speaker 3: No, it's like it's a wall, but it's a wall
that surrounds us, so that it's like we have a
bubble around us and only us.
Speaker 6: Nor would she say, is if there was an island
of people, that they would have been included in the
naveri in the fold?
Speaker 3: But we You don't you really think that all of
these islands are the only islands that exist, you know?
Speaker 6: But and I kind of put very forcefully down by
little jars that thing said, I am and dive by
huff off. I think.
Speaker 8: I'd like to go and sit down next to larn
a little more mindful of personal space than I usually am.
Are you from another island?
Speaker 3: No, we grew up together, I.
Speaker 8: Meant, I I'm I meant she points out there.
Speaker 5: M Can I roll to see if I remember anything
about where?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 5: Would that just be a straight intellectual.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think we've been doing difficulty for for
these right, However, I think this will be. I think
you have an asset here because of the thing that
Amara gave you. Right, did you give that to her
or just show her?
Speaker 6: Okay, Okay, I'm still going to count that because I
think you've seen the drawing and I think you have
an asset here.
Speaker 1: Okay, So difficulty for.
Speaker 9: For that.
Speaker 1: Success. Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh. Okay, what do
you remember a very Miss too Far.
Speaker 5: From this side of the fault, from this side of
the fall.
Speaker 3: Yes, they're nice together. You're from we're both from here.
We're not from the center of Navii. But we grew
up in a cave on a clip side.
Speaker 8: Is that way. I've never seen anyone that looks like
you before. I mean no offense, I just I I
just haven't.
Speaker 5: With all due respect, Miss too Far, I don't know
what in your life came before me. I don't know
what you have or have not seen. All I know
is I am who I am and I am what
I am. Oh.
Speaker 8: I'm sorry for us asking.
Speaker 1: I didn't mean.
Speaker 8: I don't always know when.
Speaker 5: You have nothing to apologize for. When we ask, we learn.
Speaker 3: We do.
Speaker 8: By the way, go ahead enough, I'm not I'm not
sure if I if I learn anything about you, do
you have any hobbies?
Speaker 5: Laren smiles and she's actually gonna look at Wakatti.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm. Well, I guess we grew up together, so
in a cliff side, in a cave on the side
of a cliff, That's where we grew up. After my
parents died, Leard and I we stayed in the hideout
and I would build things and Laran. Laran would dance, dance.
Lard would dance and pick flowers. I think h Lear
and dance as well. Mm hmm. And we would stay there,
and our friends Jack Owen help m h Aliens invented.
They would come visit us and we would stay in
the hideout. We grew up there all our lives.
Speaker 5: I like the sunshine. I like animals. I like Wacatti
what about you and missus too far?
Speaker 6: I like.
Speaker 8: Books, learning.
Speaker 6: Mostly.
Speaker 8: I like making things from tiny little parts and an
idea into existence. Watching it. I mean, it doesn't live,
but it's giving something life. I guess, an idea making
it real so like you can touch it.
Speaker 5: Who exist as a gift. There is great beauty in
providing that for others.
Speaker 8: Most of the things that I I make, at most
most of them aren't really for other people. I could
I could show you some though I have. I have
some year if you want to, if you want to look,
just digging through my pockets, just gonna stop and wait
and realize that there wasn't a response.
Speaker 5: Laren's gonna hold her hand out.
Speaker 8: I take her hand with my hand.
Speaker 5: Are you holding anything in the other hand? Yes, okay,
Laren is going to continue to hold your hand with
her right hand and with her left hand reach over
and pick up the object you're holding.
Speaker 8: The object that she's picked up. Is this is this case?
This is the case that you might have you might
have remembered, you might have remembered her using this case.
There's nothing inside it, but this is the case that
she used to send a note at the citadel. It's
completely empty, but it wouldn't with a circular insert on
the inside. Oh, so so this you put the you
can put a little note in and then when you
close it, the energy accumulates, and then you open it and.
Speaker 6: It has like a short bust.
Speaker 8: So in short waves you can send a message like
a scroll or a piece of parchment or something and
I made it. Well, I didn't. I found it, but
I turned it into that. I made it into what
it is.
Speaker 3: I have something like that, but a box like that,
you do. But the box isn't important. What's inside is
what is important. So it's funny we both have the
same sort of box.
Speaker 8: Mine had something inside it, but it's broken. I can't
fix it.
Speaker 3: Hold on, sure it to me. Maybe I can help.
Speaker 8: Somewhere. You know, I used to know where everything was,
and just in these past few days, it's all just
gone so jumbled up, and now it's not in the
right pocket that one you sed to live there, that
one you used to live.
Speaker 4: While you're or chatting, I will guess I'll go fish
and get some more food. You can't live on half
a fruit. And Amar will stand up and head back
down to start to fish.
Speaker 3: Oh what is it?
Speaker 8: I hold out Wakins's hand and put inside his hand.
This looks a little like a compass. It's a circular
gold device with like a felt bottom, and the it
doesn't point in any particular direction. It doesn't seem to
have any kind of rhyme or reason or logic to it.
Speaker 3: What hold on? Uh? Wait, wait, wait, wait, take take
take this back, hold on, take it back, hold on,
because I I this is this is my? Uh, this
is this? This is mine?
Speaker 8: I nice is mine?
Speaker 3: Ah? Yeah, you have stickers on yours. They cover the
being great saving mine mine mine, says Wakati deep Fisher
in the engraving. Does does yours say that?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 8: Mine?
Speaker 5: Well? It felt.
Speaker 8: It felt personal. It wasn't for me, so I felt
that it needed to I felt disrespectful. You know that
I I had something that wasn't mine.
Speaker 4: So I've.
Speaker 3: No, that's this is this, that's you. You have my compass,
but I also have my compass right now. This is
uh uh my parents gave this to me.
Speaker 1: And the compasses both begin to spin.
Speaker 8: H well it's never done that before.
Speaker 3: Okay, where did you get this? Where did you get
by compass? I found it on the beach, the beach,
on the beach where.
Speaker 8: I don't remember exactly. I go collecting often all the time.
Most of the things that I make come from something
from the beach. I just it felt like an interesting thing,
and I what does your say?
Speaker 3: Oh, it's my name.
Speaker 8: I'm like peeling it's your name.
Speaker 3: Okay, so you found it? How long ago? A year
maybe a year ago.
Speaker 4: In the summer, summer, a clear day.
Speaker 3: On the beach. Was there a rock, A big rock,
not so big but enough to to hide it under it?
Speaker 8: It was under something a rock maybe I I mean
the box was separate. I found them separately, and then
it was only later that I put them together and
realized that they're a match. But I could never get
it working the.
Speaker 3: Beach, the beach I would like to use. I have
a power that I would like to use. I can
go and remotely view places that I've been before.
Speaker 1: May I, ah, you may try. Let's double check.
Speaker 3: It's no longer on my sheet. It's it used to
be there, But it's not there any I used to
always go and look back at places, see my friends
do things, my bullies. I would look and see what
they were doing in the past. I would just just
see what their lives were like and they were happy.
But I don't I don't have that ability to do
that anymore. It's not there.
Speaker 8: What do you mean it's not there?
Speaker 3: You can do things, yes, some things. Have you ever
rowed a boat.
Speaker 8: A few times?
Speaker 3: Let's pretend that you and I are the kind of
people who row boats. Regularly, but we aren't. But let's
pretend we are, okay, and you row the boat, and
you know how to row a boat, and if you
get into a boat, you know how to row it.
And it's like tightening screws on small little devices. You
know how to do it. You've done it so many times,
and even if you haven't done it, when you do
it again, you know, and so you can just reach
out and you can tighten the screws. But imagine you
know you've tightened screws before many times and with a screwdriver,
and he pulls out a small micronic tool, but this
time you go to to do it and you don't
know what a screw is, and you don't know what
a screwdriver is, but you knew, you knew one time,
but now you don't know how to do it. Or
it's like you've never done it, but you remember that,
you remember that you did once. So I remember spending
hours hours just looking at my friends when I was
in the cave. By myself clear it must have been there,
but I would just go and look to see my
friends at home with families and just people doing things
I can't do it. It's like that ability that I
had is just gone. Like I used to be able
to go through time. I could, I could take people
with me, and I could go forward and back and
I would see all the things. And I can't do it.
I don't know why.
Speaker 4: But if you, I.
Speaker 3: I feel like I know the beach that you were on.
I feel like I've seen you walking that beach multiple times,
and I feel like I knew you would be there,
and I think I must have put this there for you.
But I don't know when I did that. I think
I wanted you to have it. But if I still
have mine, that means I haven't done it yet, that
means it was me, but not the me from now,
the me and the future must have put this back
there for you. I don't know why, but you.
Speaker 6: Have to have it.
Speaker 8: Well. I think they quite like being together.
Speaker 1: I'd like to put mine right next to yours, and
they are just spinning wildly. And then the closer you
get to putting them together, the slower they get, until
the needle points directly toward the fold closest angle.
Speaker 3: This is the way we have to go. I think,
I think this is the way we have to go.
Mister Barra, into the fold.
Speaker 8: That can't be Surely that's not right.
Speaker 4: Are you fighting? What do you need?
Speaker 6: No, it's.
Speaker 4: It's hold on. I'm crying back up.
Speaker 1: When you arrive, you see stunned expressions, and it's that
moment when you look at someone and they've just seen
something that they really can't explain or believe in. Their
eyes are a little watery. It's like that, you see.
Too Far is just in shock, because I think this
is the first time she's really seen time travel to
this extent. There are small adjustments and things that you
can do in the citadel, but nothing like this before
where she's holding two or they are holding two of
the exact same item next to each other, and the
needles are pointing towards the fold.
Speaker 3: I came back in time to give this to too Far,
And when they're together they point there over there, you see.
Speaker 8: But you haven't done it yet, but you've already done it.
Speaker 3: Well. Time is just space. It's the same thing you
see and everything happened there is There is no time,
you see m hm. Okay, So mister Amara is over there, yes, yes,
and I am here. You are there and Lyriate just
squeeze Lyarn's hand is there, but all at the same time.
Do you understand right, time is the same? All time
is happening at the same time. Yeah, time is is
just space in the same way that we are both
in different places. We are both in different times at
the same time. And do you just have to this
same way that you can move? I stand up and
I just walk a few steps, and I sit right
down within personal space. It's not happening right there right
next to you. Far. I just moved through space. I
also moved through time. And if you can understand that time,
there is no past or future. There is only time.
And once you can understand that, once you can see
all of time, just like you can see all of
the ocean, then you can move through it because it's
the same thing as standing and walking from one place
to the.
Speaker 8: Next, sometimes through time to the same place.
Speaker 3: Yes, I have done, or I already did.
Speaker 8: Yes, but you haven't yet.
Speaker 3: Oh I already have, because I'm probably doing it right now.
Because it's all the same. You see, there isn't really
a past or future. There is only time. We just
aren't good at seeing it. It's like it's like when
you are very small, you can only see a small
piece of something, but everything is still there. You have
to get you have to be able to see all
of it at once. The problem is it's very hard
for us to imagine it. I said that I would
go look at my friends and I would to see
how they are. But sometimes the friends I would see
would be not ones I would recognize, because they are
from different possibilities. And I would sometimes see friends happy,
sometimes sad. Sometimes they wouldn't know me, sometimes they would
Sometimes we were closer or farther. Sometimes it was beautiful,
sometimes it was sad. But all of these things are
happening all at once. It gets confusing sometimes. But this year,
this is a gift, a gift that's important.
Speaker 8: I've taken great care of it.
Speaker 3: This came from my parents. They gifted this to me
when I was two years old, right before they died
when the fold was made too far, they were tsunami.
Not everybody was a title blade. Some people were just
fishermen in boats, and when the fold was made, great
heroes went in. But some people were just fishermen in boats,
and the great waves that were made as the fold
went up capsized many boats. Many people died just not
being heroes, not for science, just because they were on
a boat when it happened.
Speaker 1: I'm going to use one of my banked GM intrusions.
Now here too far. While you are holding this compass,
what are you thinking?
Speaker 8: I'm thinking that the most impossible things maybe are possible.
Speaker 1: I would like you to roll the ability that you
now have that Wakity no longer has, which is to
view time.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 1: I think this is not on your sheet at the moment,
but it is an intellect role. Do you I know
Wakty has a different sheet that has it on there.
I think it's just the intellect And then can you
read the description for us? True?
Speaker 3: Let me get I have many character sheets at this point.
You'll have to give me a moment. It's confusing sometimes
remote viewing, that is what it's called. Distance is an illusion,
and all space is one space, just as all time
is one time. And with great concentration you can see
another place. Can pick a spot a specific distance away
and in a specific direction. Then you can see from
that place as if you were there, but only for
a minute. Or you can think of any place you've
ever seen before any way, either through your own eyes
or by looking through time and then you can see that.
See where your father is right now? For home, see anywhere.
Just realize there is no difference between There is no
hero there, there is only all space.
Speaker 1: So you may roll your intellect and you have two assets.
Difficulty I think, is there a set difficulty with that troop?
Or can I say four?
Speaker 3: I guess it depends on where there is no set difficulty.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we'll say difficulty.
Speaker 3: For I think, actually, you just do it. You just
have to pay for it.
Speaker 6: Oh that's perfect, that's even better.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: I kind of want to say, so, I'm.
Speaker 1: Curious where do you think too Far would go? Because
the thought is like you're hearing all of this from him,
and you're thinking the impossible might actually be possible, and
then for some reason, you go, I'm just going to
try science. Where do you go.
Speaker 3: His base as an illusion? Anywhere I've seen before?
Speaker 8: I I'd like to. I think the first thing I
try is I try to go back to where I
found this. I can't remember it. Yeah, so I don't
know if that's possible, but I want to remember.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you can go there and you can see,
But what do you think you see?
Speaker 8: I think I watch myself.
Speaker 1: I I have an offer, and it is crazy because
we're gonna have to figure it out as we go.
But you've done this once already in the show, where
you both wiped your own memories for whatever reason. I
think we see a scene where you two talk to
each other, and for whatever reason, whatever you say in
this conversation, you choose to wipe it when it's done.
But I think you didn't find it on the beach.
I think he handed it to you because you need
it for some reason.
Speaker 8: Do I hear the conversation?
Speaker 6: I think so, And I think I think, I mean,
it's it's up to you. You can hear the conversation.
I think that's juicy as heck. Yeah, yeah, yeah, sadly
tried to have a conversation.
Speaker 1: Yeah all right.
Speaker 6: Well it's only a few minutes.
Speaker 1: So we see the beach, we see the waves, and
then we see walkeety a version talking to too far
a version past, too far, too far?
Speaker 3: Are you all right?
Speaker 6: Hello?
Speaker 5: Hello?
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm glad you came to me. No one followed you,
did they?
Speaker 8: No one followed me?
Speaker 3: Have you been watching remote?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 8: When I can, no one suspect, no one suspects.
Speaker 3: To follow. I know you're putting yourself in danger. The tuns,
they are danger. But what you're doing, you're doing for
all to save everything.
Speaker 8: I'm trying. I'm trying my best.
Speaker 3: I've known you for so long. I trust you are
one of my best that I've ever known. H I
want you to take you. If I tell you it
comes from my parents, it's not true. I built this
in myself by and I want you to happen. It
will protect.
Speaker 8: Protect me, yes, yeah, yeah, But what about you? Friend?
What about you?
Speaker 3: Too far? I'm a little detached full time that following
I get lost.
Speaker 8: But you will come back, right you, You'll come back
to me.
Speaker 3: I will dry, but I might eat your out because
I don't think I can stay here long. I don't
know where I am. I just here memories things that
haven't happened, and I'm an echo of myself over I miss,
I miss.
Speaker 8: How can I help you? How can I get you out?
Speaker 3: I'm stuck. I don't think I ever left the phone,
and I'm stuck there and I can't get out. Please, Hm,
there has to be a way to get through the fold.
Speaker 8: It will be. We'll find it. We'll find it and
we'll get you out the oldest too.
Speaker 3: I take your hand, too Far. You are one of
the people I trust most out of it any but
we have to erase this. You can't let me know about.
Speaker 8: They want to raise you right just today, just.
Speaker 6: This, just.
Speaker 3: But what that you will meet me peace. I've not
been very nice to him. He doesn't remember hardly anything nice,
not no, no, sorry, tell him I'm sorry for what
I did. Do you can't. He just has to go
through it all his.
Speaker 6: But I.
Speaker 3: I'm waiting.
Speaker 1: I'm waiting, and I think that's where it ends. And
too Far you experience all of this while holding this compass.
Just after he said you can travel through time you
can remote view?
Speaker 3: Hm, did you see anything interesting?
Speaker 7: Hi?
Speaker 3: I I.
Speaker 8: I and it's just sink to my feet immediately.
Speaker 3: Are you okay? Mister Maara? Near?
Speaker 4: And I think just Amara what happened?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I Laren is going to sit on the ground next
to too Far and gently rub her back.
Speaker 3: Ye.
Speaker 8: I don't know what to tell you, okay, I don't
know what to say.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Hey, just just follow your gun.
Speaker 3: Probably messed it up? Sorry, no, no, no, no, you did.
Speaker 8: You did exactly the opposite of mess it up. You
You were right, it's yours.
Speaker 3: Oh well, if you have it, it means that I
wanted you to have it for some reason, so you
should have it. You did, ayes, I have one of
my own. You do k.
Speaker 8: If I knew something that you didn't know and it
was really important? Do you think I should tell you?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 8: No, I'm gonna start gathering my things systematically in my pockets,
and then I'd like to go over to a wiki.
I'd like to go to wiki and take his hand,
and then I'd like to go and take Larin's hand,
and then I'd like to go to Amara. I think
it's time.
Speaker 4: Time for what exactly?
Speaker 8: Time for everything? Yeah, time for everything all at the
same time, in a different direction, just like you're standing
here and the lyrics standing here and I'm standing here.
It's just like that. But it's time, you see.
Speaker 4: Yes, I'm sorry, I'm going to damp in the mood. No,
I don't understand.
Speaker 3: It's okay, too far, nose, I trust her?
Speaker 4: Is this what your gut is saying?
Speaker 3: Too far?
Speaker 8: I'm more certain than anything than I ever have been
about anything. Ever, it's not what my Gut's saying it's
a fact.
Speaker 4: Okay, and it's time.
Speaker 8: I like to take my compass gesture for Wackete to
do the same, and I'd like to take it as
close as possible. Watch the dials go and with my
other hand, I reach behind me, hoping that somebody will
take it, and I walk as forward into the fault.
Speaker 1: That's where we end the episode. Okay, Wow, Wow, can
we have.
Speaker 6: I was gonna say, can we have a role for
I think bending because I'm imagining, like, you know, the
the first thought is we walk towards the fold. But
now you've learned what you've learned, I wonder if you
just go there, like if you just go there, and
I kind of want to.
Speaker 1: See a role for that. Okay, so we're gonna do.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I was just gonna say, this is an ability that
you are able to get as an adept. But maybe
you just didn't have it yet, or maybe you always
had it and just now you're remembering that you've always
had it. So it's gonna be an intellectual It's gonna
be difficulty, I guess four because we've been doing that
for anything related to the fold. But you're gonna have
ease of effort because of leering. You're also gonna have
an asset for your compass you're gonna have do we
have another asset from you? Okay? Perfect?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 6: Okay, so two assets right, not easing the effort or yep?
Two assets one easing effort and amara do you do
anything here to help?
Speaker 4: I'm I don't think I do anything actively. I think
I just trust.
Speaker 1: That's five. That's amazing. Okay, three assets and an easy effort.
Let's go.
Speaker 3: Ye.
Speaker 8: So the effort is what can I put their effort?
How much effort can I do it?
Speaker 3: Difficulty will be three this time rather than just four.
Speaker 1: Yep, so difficulties three and you have three assets. You
can put as much effort in as you like, but
you do have to take it from your pool.
Speaker 8: It's only allowing me to put in two assets you
can yeah.
Speaker 6: Oh that is correct.
Speaker 1: You have a max of two.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you can just have the other one be effort.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can bring it to use.
Speaker 4: Three.
Speaker 1: We're going to take that third asset that you can't
technically use and we're going to ease it. So difficulty
is now two, which is incredible, and the asset two assets.
Speaker 10: Special the dice don't lie, babe, the dice don't lie, okay,
which means it's a minor effect.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 6: So then I think what we see is as she
says it's time, and she takes everybody's hand and begins
to walk towards the fold. It is a moment where
it's towards the fold, but we know it's actually going
into the fold. Her device that she holds up, this compass.
She hasn't made it yet, but she will. This device
is going to allow her to unfreeze parts of this
fold and to enter in safely.
Speaker 1: But she is the one who makes it. She just
hasn't done it yet. But she is holding in her
hand the completed version of her own.
Speaker 6: Device that Wokety and her maid together, and it sparks
just a little bit of that white electric with that
little bit of lavender in there of the fold as
they disappear into nothing but white, and that's the end
of the episode.
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