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Thank you. Enjoy the Tree of Knowledge big yourself sets
before you, the waterfalls, the greenery, the wooden buildings, round
cylindrical towers built with bridges, all along this valley in
the mountains. It's before you, as Ratatosk has dropped off
your group. What do you do?
Speaker 2: The first thing that I would do is draw in
a deep breath, try to scent the air. See what
I can pick up from the unique smell of this place.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it definitely smells different than Ellen Drath there are
I think there's just kind of like if you've been
in different kinds of forests for do you know that
you have you noticed that they have different sense, Like
if you're in like say a forest filled with you know,
deciduous trees versus kind of for a trees, they smell different,
Like the wood itself kind of like smells different, and
the trees here are different. They're kind of like big
and bushy, and they are I think that they just
have a different smell.
Speaker 3: It.
Speaker 1: Probably it's like comparing cedar to like, you know, being
in a maple and an oak kind of forest. You know,
Cedar has that like sort of strong smell and it's.
Speaker 2: Sort of like a dry, kind of earthy smell instead
of like a wet one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yep, definitely it is. However, still it's a little
humid here. There is the mist of several waterfalls that
are all around you, and you're kind of at a
low point here in the valley. I'd say that you're
in somewhere in your like the water. There's kind of
a large river that's running through this place that is
the collection of many waterfalls around you.
Speaker 2: As I'm sniffing the air, I have my nose kind
of turned up and my tail is just curling like
a question mark behind me. My ears are wiggling.
Speaker 1: Hmm.
Speaker 2: It's quite pleasant here. Very little smoke. The industry seems
pretty minimal. I guess they weren't kidding at about how
isolated this place was, Yes, no.
Speaker 3: Kidding of I'd like to attempt to see if I
can sense kind of what's going on with the spirits here,
if I'm noticing any sort of differences like I did
in Ellen Draff.
Speaker 1: Okay, I think this will be a ritual.
Speaker 3: Okay, arganism, Yes, well I should.
Speaker 1: We let's just double check here. This is actually spiritism,
so insight and willpower, and we're gonna say that this
is this is hm hmm. This is probably gonna be
a little bit harder. I'm going to say that this
this is probably like medium potency, and depending on how
big I mean the area is going to change things
like if you're trying to do a large area like
the whole valley, then that's gonna change.
Speaker 3: No, it would be I wanted to be within like
a small area of us. I'm not trying to do
the entire surrounding land.
Speaker 1: Okay, So yeah, I'm going to say that this is
probably medium and then small for the area. So this
would cost sixty mine points if you want to do that,
all right.
Speaker 2: Just a casual sixty, no big deal.
Speaker 1: Difficulty is going to be ten.
Speaker 3: Thirteen success.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, So as as you begin your ritual, what
do we see?
Speaker 3: Well, I remove my staff from my back and I
plase it down gently touching the ground, while the crystal
at the top of it begins to infuse with the
magical energy that I have pouring through me. The roots
begin to extend as far as the spell will allow,
just to try and sense anything in the surrounding area.
Similar to how the tree acts as a connection to
this place, to how Igdrasill works, my staff and the
roots that are all around it are a form of
communication to me as well.
Speaker 1: Then it's a bit overwhelming at first, aerslith the the
roots that run through this place begin to become perceptible
to you. You start to sort of trace your senses
along these roots throughout the valley. They just kind of
spread out, and it's like overwhelming, and I think you
kind of like close down your your your the equivalent
of your field of view here and just kind of
like focus in on the area. There are no sort
of spirits in the area, but you can feel a
very strong one emanating from these roots, and just merely
from connecting to these roots, the the overwhelming sense that
you get is loss and fear, and you get the
impression that the tree itself is feeling that.
Speaker 3: I think, with how overwhelming this ritual is. I start
to pour tears from my eyes without even realizing that
grief and that loss it must be so so overwhelming.
I'll stumble a bit and then I'll return to my
senses while my staff begins to re reassemble itself, extractile itself.
It's lost something.
Speaker 2: Are you all right? You're crying.
Speaker 3: And I'll touch my face. Uh, I'm all right. I'm
simply trying to see if the spirits in the area
were affected by the rift at all, and I may
have came in contact with something a bit more. We
should find out more about this tree.
Speaker 2: I'll turn and look over to enders. Do you sense anything?
Speaker 4: There would be no response for me. I'll just be
clutching this amulet on my neck and staring really hard
and longer. Only the tree.
Speaker 1: I mean, the tree is massive. It's the biggest tree
you've ever seen in your life. This like if you've
I mean, if you've ever seen the tree like the
Tree of Life in Africa, Like it looks sort of
similar to that, and it's just the size of uh,
you know, a small mountain.
Speaker 2: I'll step over to Enders and gently put my hand
on your elbow. Hey, oh m, you seem lost in thought.
Does this tree mean something to you?
Speaker 4: I'll talk away. We should get going, hm, no, not
in a walk in a direction.
Speaker 2: As Enders begins to walk off, I'll look over to Iris.
Speaker 4: I just.
Speaker 2: Begin to follow.
Speaker 3: All trail behind them, staring up at the tree while
I walk.
Speaker 4: There are.
Speaker 1: Luminara that are walking around that seem to be going
about their business. Again. They are about three to four
feet tall. You see a variety of different like skin colors,
some sort of lighter shades of blue, like shades of green,
some golden skin colors, some you know that look sort
of very similar and almost like a like a pale
tree bark sort of color. A lot of them have
sort of mid range like mid length hair, larger eyes,
larger mouths, rounder faces, and sort of like horizontally long ears.
They have shorter noses, and a lot of them seem
to have sort of bushy hair on the sides of
their head, not quite like mutton chops, but close. They're
seemingly going about their business. They're kind of like slow paced,
but they're diligent. You don't really see anybody slacking off.
They all seem to be going about their business. And
as you approach there, you're definitely getting looks.
Speaker 2: Do any of these people have weapons on them or
armor or anything.
Speaker 1: No, most of them are just wearing sort of like
mostly kind of like robes or like sort of like
airy long clothing, you know, sort of like light fabric,
but like long clothing. A lot of them wear no shoes.
They have foot wraps and stuff on, but they don't
seem to be wearing shoes. They do have like slightly
bigger feet, and yeah, they're just kind of going about
their business. They seem to be. Anybody that sees you
seems to be staring at you and probably, like if
they are in groups, they're they're probably talking. Someone's found
their way, someone's found their way.
Speaker 2: I like to imagine as people are talking, my ears
just sort of involuntarily satellite over in the direction of them.
Speaker 4: M hm.
Speaker 2: H. I'm getting the impression that they don't get many
visitors here.
Speaker 3: Well, it is meant to be a sacred place, is
it not.
Speaker 1: I think you're getting the general impression without any sort
of check they are a bit fearful of you. Everyone's
sort of being very wary of you. Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: Oh, well, I suppose we shouldn't try to torment them
much longer than we have to.
Speaker 3: I suppose not.
Speaker 2: I'll begin to look around and try to see if
there's any particular building that stands out.
Speaker 1: Okay, insight insight difficulty is twelve.
Speaker 3: We were looking for a granscribe quill root.
Speaker 5: If I recall.
Speaker 2: Four.
Speaker 1: The architecture here doesn't really indicate like anything that's particularly
super important. The only thing that you really can tell
is like super important is this? You know? This this
tree of knowledge? That's about it. Everything kind of looks
very samy. There's not really like signs and stuff hung up.
Speaker 2: Are there a lot of like pests like little birds
and mice?
Speaker 1: And yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I begin by looking for something that
stands out, and instead I noticed just how vibrant this
place is, full of life, even in small forms, and
I get distracted. I pick up a bug and put
in my inventory.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's uh, what do you think this blug looks like?
Speaker 2: Ooh, okay, Uh, it is about the size of a fingernail,
like a large fingernail and it has this sort of
opal kind of crushed purple sheen to it, so it's
kind of a bit iridescent. And it has a big
round head with two really big eyes. And it has
a little antenna that drooped down sadly as I pick
it up and as I throw into my inventory.
Speaker 1: M yeah, very well, Rue begins to play with bugs.
Speaker 2: Just wait three sessions from now, that bug's gonna be important.
It'll be dead, but I'll do something with it. Looking, Oh,
go on, just keep scrounging.
Speaker 3: Well, looking around, it seems like no one is really
wanting to speak with us. I assume.
Speaker 1: No one's rushing up to you. Everyone looks a little
fearful of you.
Speaker 3: If I go up to perhaps you know power and numbers.
So if I go perhaps to a group of individuals
with my weapon away and trying to portray myself as
harmless as humanly possible or elvenly possible, does it seem
like they shrink away or they try to run?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: They definitely shrink away. Yeah, absolutely, she's getting both.
Speaker 3: She's getting pad Uh. Excuse me, Oh, I'm sorry to
frighten you.
Speaker 1: What are you doing here? How did you find your way? H?
Speaker 3: Well, We've been granted permission to arrive here. We're on
a very important.
Speaker 1: Mission person permission from Boom.
Speaker 3: Well, a few people Elder Brown in thistle Haven, the
Queen of draft uh, a dragon empress, to name a few.
Speaker 1: They're all kind of like to look at each other.
They're wearing strange clothing. I think that's a situal of someone.
Is that we a violent draft situal?
Speaker 2: I think there's not a dragon empress giant squirrel.
Speaker 1: They have sigels that looks like the queen queen a
villain draft? Is that?
Speaker 4: Is it?
Speaker 1: The Empress male of Foxes? Are they from Mala Fax?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 1: What are you doing here?
Speaker 3: Oh? Well, we've been told we should speak with was
a grand scribe quill Root, I believe I think that
was his name, right, Rue?
Speaker 4: I think so her?
Speaker 1: Eh, she is, well, she is in charge here.
Speaker 2: Oh do you know where we can find her?
Speaker 1: Of course we do. What are you doing here?
Speaker 3: Well, we seek knowledge. I don't know if you know
anything about the.
Speaker 2: I'll actually grab iris and I'll pull you off to
the side, and I whisper. I'm under the suspicion that
these people are really sheltered and they probably don't know
what's going on outside of here? And I think we
need to be really careful about what we say, otherwise
we might start some mass panic.
Speaker 3: Okay, so then what should we say?
Speaker 2: I think we keep it simple.
Speaker 3: We're heroes on a quest.
Speaker 1: And you acknowledge heroes hero heroes, they say they're a hero.
They do look like they have some sort of magic
around them. I see some sort of glow like golden shine.
Speaker 2: I let go of virus. I fix your dress when
you cloak where I grabbed you. Sorry about that.
Speaker 1: No, you're okay, You're right. They have a shrublet and
a slime. You see acknowledge you say, indeed.
Speaker 3: Where are my manners? My name is Irislith, And I
gestured to the others.
Speaker 2: I'm rue.
Speaker 4: Well, uh in this.
Speaker 1: Bow, I'm back.
Speaker 7: This is greg.
Speaker 3: A.
Speaker 1: My name is Taren Ah, I'm a philosopher here.
Speaker 4: Ah.
Speaker 1: Well, it's not often that we have heroes come by,
but you're not the first. Oh well, I suppose if
you have a special dispensation to be here, we can
assess you. We can take you to the head curator.
Speaker 5: Ah.
Speaker 1: You say you'll be here for knowledge. Indeed, there's like
a very slight look over towards big your sil You
say you are here for knowledge? Is that literal or figurative?
Speaker 2: What does that mean?
Speaker 3: Knowledge can be figurative?
Speaker 1: Oh? Well yes, And they start rattling off like various
philosophies about knowledge and yes, like they just go on
this insane tangent for like, and there's barely a breath
in between the words.
Speaker 2: My eyes glazed over. I've just mentally checked out of
this conversation.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm leaning forward like a puppy, just listening. Oh,
very exciting.
Speaker 1: Yes, Karen Taren?
Speaker 8: What?
Speaker 1: Oh? Have I done it again? I've rambled? Sorry. Yes, well,
we can take you to the Grand Scribe. I suppose
she is probably busy with her daily duties at the
Tree of Knowledge.
Speaker 4: Ah.
Speaker 1: Well, if you've made your way here, then I am
sure that it is without any malicious intent, So very well.
Speaker 2: Follow me, and as we start walking, I'll reach over
and tap Enders on the elbow again. Hey, yes, let's
go right, and I'll start to trail a little behind
and try to keep pace with Enders. There's something on
your mind. You seem really distracted.
Speaker 4: Being distracted. No, absolutely not focused.
Speaker 2: I don't believe you.
Speaker 4: Oh, I'll stop and then I'll turn. I don't know
what it is, but there's a strong sense of familarity.
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you do you think you've been here before?
Speaker 4: I and I grab I grab my uh am my
uh emblem on my rope necklace. Again. I feel something.
Speaker 2: You feel something, Yeah, m what does it feel like?
Speaker 4: It's unclear, but I do feel the sun rays peeking
through giant leaves. Vague memory. Maybe once.
Speaker 2: It isn't tatters, maybe another part of you was here before.
Speaker 4: Take it away again and not a walk off frustration.
Speaker 2: I run to catch up and I'll.
Speaker 1: Just leave it be m hm. As Taran takes you
along these wooden bridges and mostly kind of like open
style buildings, there's various pillars and things all about, and
everything kind of has a natural camouflage look to it,
you know, like the buildings are you could I feel
like you're all getting the impression like, oh, this place
is like it's built to sort of be camouflage, Like
if you saw it from the air, it might just
look like a forest. It doesn't really give this sort
of sense of like, oh this is this is a
city that's built into this valley. The way that the
towers are built, they kind of are mostly hidden by
tree canopies and such, the waterfalls masking sounds of various
workings about this place. They don't seem to have any
sort of real industry here. There's people that seem to
be fishing down on docks and stuff by the river,
and you know, I mean, you can like people are
just kind of going about their day and just kind
of managing. But this place is very peaceful in general,
and the only real commotion seems to be your presence here,
Like everyone seems to be reacting to you being here.
As Tarn lead you along these paths across this long bridge,
you make your way up various stairs and you are
stared at by the people. Eventually you come to a
series of buildings around what appears to be a section
of igdrasil that is sort of spread out almost like
a mangroves roots. The tree sort of spreads out along
the center part of the tree. There are buildings that
are kind of intertwined with the roots as they begin
to spread out from the tree. And there's a series
of these buildings there, and that appears to be where
Karen is taking you. Eventually you see several older looking
luminara indicative of sort of mostly white hair, and they
have I would assume more of a like shrimp like posture,
and they look like they're wearing a little bit more
clothing because they're probably cold. And yeah, there's this this
building that you're approaching has probably a pretty extensive looking
library about large and small books, books that would be
considered probably like massive to someone their size, books that
are the size of a lo And yeah, there's a
pretty extensive looking library in this building. The building itself
is probably I mean, like the walls of the interior
that you can see right into appear to be like
thirty feet high, and they're lined with ladders and various
books in this library. And taren sort of excuse me
one moment. I will just let them know that you
are here. Excuse me, sort of scurries off to one
group of these luminara.
Speaker 4: As you wait, are we waiting inside or outside?
Speaker 1: I think you could probably see like where the building begins.
And again they're kind of like open plan. The temperature
is very like comfortable here. It's probably about like seventy
five and it's a little humid. But for some reason,
when you get closer to the building. It feels like
very comfortable, and there's less humidity here, and there's a
I'll let you all kind of interpret this how you
feel for your character, but I think there is a
sort of energy that is coming off of this place,
and you all are feeling what Iris the Riskless was
describing earlier, that sort of sense of loss of fear.
And however that affects you, what have you? You know,
run with that, how you like? That's there's a little
bit of that feeling coming off of this place. And
I think you're probably like ten feet away from the
from where this building starts, so I would imagine you're
just outside.
Speaker 2: As this feeling begins to create more and more into me,
I get a little quieter, my ears begin to troop,
and my tail just sort of falls behind me. I
just watch the wind between the trees.
Speaker 1: A group of the luminar apart, and emerging from this group,
you see this person begin to walk your way. Uh,
Karen says, yes, just this way.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: Granscribe quill root. These are the heroes that made their
way to our valley. Oh, hello, heroes, it's been a while.
As you return, granscribe quill root approaches you and says,
Ah Heroes, has been some time since I've last seen some.
Welcome to son, John.
Speaker 3: Getings. Thank you for having us. I don't know what
you were told quite yet, but we were sent on
behalf of Elder Brawn and the Queen of Ellendras, as
well as the Flame Empress.
Speaker 1: Things must be very diary. Since you'll hear, I.
Speaker 3: Look to Rue to make sure it's okay.
Speaker 2: Perhaps we should speak somewhere with a little more privacy.
Speaker 1: Very well, follow me, we shall go to my private
reading chambers. Has anyone seemed to refreshment for you?
Speaker 4: M hm, exercil tea?
Speaker 1: Grand Scribe Marah quil Root looks at you and says
you have had the tea.
Speaker 4: Before, yes, many times.
Speaker 1: Very well, we shall provide you with some of our
special tea.
Speaker 4: Please, sir, I think this is the first time you'll
see it's kind of light up a little bit, but
it's only for a second.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Someone please see to the tea. Olera would
be so kind as to get us some tea for
each of our guests, Thank you, Perhaps some fruit for
our shrub lit friend. And then Grand Scribe quil Root
says Greg. Greg's eyes like light up and they start
chatting back and forth.
Speaker 2: My tail begins to whisk behind me, a little excitedly,
happy that Greg has someone to talk to other than Bo,
because Bo's a bad influence.
Speaker 1: You're led to a small room that seems to be
close to the center of this library. And this is
a really fucking cool library.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 1: It's not your standard library. This place has lots of
roots kind of woven through the shelves, and the books
are kind of like it's organized but also disorganized. The
the it's not like a library you would find here
with racks of books and things. This is sort of
there's a cylindrical sort of pattern to this chaos that's here.
The shelves are jam packed with various books, and I
think all of you would probably notice without any sort
of check, that these books themselves appear to be a
little different. The covers don't look like they are made
of leather or standard book binding materials. The books here.
You know, you see a few of these covers and
you're like, is that tree work? Like some of them
look very strange and uh yeah again, some of them
are like huge and some of them are smaller size.
And when I say like huge. I don't mean like
many pages. I mean the book itself takes up multiple shelves.
Speaker 4: In height.
Speaker 1: Like just opening the book must require several luminara just
to like turn pages and stuff. And you are brought
into this small room. It's big enough to fit everybody here,
but it's definitely smaller than the rest of this kind
of library. Shortly thereafter, someone comes by, whom you assume
to be this lyra, with a tray of small espresso
sized teacups.
Speaker 2: I take it gingerly with two hands, and I look
over at Enders, and I'm trying to copy whatever etiquette
Enders is using here, Oh.
Speaker 4: Doing all kind of crazy things you've probably never seen.
I'm turning it three times. I'm smelling it. I hold
it up and I'll dash it from side to side
with like almost like not sticking it into my nostril,
but you know, getting a smell from each side. And
I close my eyes and I grab my drink it,
take a deep breath, and I and I'm like looking
left or right, and then I drink it super hot,
but I sip it, and the noise I make is
it's quite loud, slurping, but with respect, and it almost
looks sad because it's just a little bit, but it
hits way better than it hit when we were in
the where the world had the other one. Yea, Elandra, Oh,
I think this whole thing is is this whole thing? Oh,
We're in a different place to see it, and I
just kind of stand there.
Speaker 1: Also words, I think, you know, there's the implication that
with the smaller quantity, like it's really strong, you know,
just like if you were to have like a Turkish
coffee or something like that. Like you know, it's that
like really it's like bold, like a bold serving.
Speaker 2: Amage, not store bought. Yeah. Hm, what is it like
consuming it for the first time.
Speaker 1: It's it's a very deep flavor. It's there are it's
very complex. It's very complex. You you're getting a lot
of different hints of different flavors. You know, there's a
there's a richness to it, and it's flavors that like
you wouldn't normally put together that somehow work. You know.
It's like a little Herbie as well, you know, like
it's a strange taste, but it all just kind of
works together.
Speaker 2: Is it like a consistency of water? Is it a
little thicker like honey water.
Speaker 1: Oh it's it's it's tea consistency, but like strong tea.
You know, it's like it has a strong color to
it as well.
Speaker 3: Like some of your mamante. Basically, yeah, mmmm.
Speaker 2: As I've polished off my cup, you can see that
I'm kind of recoiling just because of how sensitive my
nose is and having this overwhelming taste in my mouth.
The fumes of it are just kind of in my face,
and I'm just in the background experiencing this in totality.
Speaker 1: Mm. Now you have refreshments, and welcome to our home
and home of knowledge in Regalia. I assume from your
entry and from the requests of such powerful individuals, that
there is a dire situation that requires our attention.
Speaker 3: Indeed, the Stormville Rift. You know of it, yes, of course. Well, recently,
one of the towers that has been used to control
the amount of energy I suppose that's allowed for the
rift itself. I don't know exactly how the towers work,
but one of them was destroyed and the rift itself
has expanded. It's begun encroaching on some of the regions
close by.
Speaker 1: We were notified about the towers during the war. They
were meant as a stop gap measure while everyone adjusted
to different forms of power for the various societies in
our world. That is troubling. Perhaps it's explained the recent
feelings that have gotten from igder Zil.
Speaker 2: If the towers were meant to stop the rift and
it didn't do that, what do you suppose that means?
Speaker 1: Well, from a logical perspective, I suppose it would mean
several things, several possibilities.
Speaker 4: At least.
Speaker 1: One, the designers of the tower were unable to complete
their task and it simply failed. Another possibility would be that, well,
they were false and that someone lied along the way,
and this has some sort of malicious intent, which I
believe is possible but unlikely. Then the next possibility would be, well, sabotage.
Another possibility would be, well, any information that had been
gathered to create the towers changed or was wrong.
Speaker 3: And do you know where it is they received the
knowledge to create these towers?
Speaker 1: It came from several individuals, primarily the uniting of several
of the greatest minds in various nations. The tower's original
designs came from three individuals that I am aware of. Well,
And there's staff, I suppose, but of course the three
individuals it came from. Let me see if I can
find this paperwork. My mind isn't quite as sharp as
it once was. I still know quite a bit, but
I have to write more things down.
Speaker 2: How long have you been in this station.
Speaker 1: Oh as the grand scribe? Mm hmm, I suppose just
been forty seven and a half years.
Speaker 2: That's impressive, thank you.
Speaker 4: Are there pictures like anywhere? And I'm talking about what
it taken with the camera. I'm assuming they work or something. Yeah, yeah,
pass people that were here and or those that studied
here in Mississi.
Speaker 1: There are yeah, this, I mean this appears to you've
been led to her private like reading chambers, I guess.
And there are there's portraiture here and it sort of
looks like, you know, different luminara that are are. There's
probably like a little placard or something below each one
that just you know has a name or something, and uh, yeah,
it's they it's this is a cylindrical sort of you know,
it's a circle sort of shaped room that was towards
the center of this library, and they cover the entirety
of the wall. They kind of go all the way around.
Speaker 4: Are there any non luminara in any of these portraits
or any and they don't have to be the big
ones that said, those that have been here, you know,
as in uh worked here. But is anybody that came
from the outside, that studied here or has traded knowledge
or any any sort.
Speaker 1: Right, it's all luminara on the portraits that you can seem.
Speaker 4: Okay, well, while they're looking, I would be figuring over
all the portraits and looking for something.
Speaker 1: Okay, m h ah here it is ah.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 1: The three individuals, of course, was the High Technocrat of
cinsaies Vorum Pylos.
Speaker 4: There was.
Speaker 1: From it Hess okay uh Mervin Alloy Binder and from Robsina.
Uh hm hm that was their name, ah uh mhm. Haskar, yes,
Hasker Stern one that one, yes, the first name uh
huh uh it is Marca Marca Tasker from Robertsina. Those
are the three individuals responsible for the creation of the
tower designs. And then of course there were various teams
that work together on them.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm, I see.
Speaker 2: Are you quite familiar with the politics and diplomacy of
Ellen drathtrically.
Speaker 1: Yes, but we are as I'm sure you can tell
a bit reckleose. We don't like politics and all that
it entails. There are so many wars that have fought
over politics. What we should be doing is learning from
our past mistakes and creating a better future. That is
what we strive to do here in Ourisia. And we
have found that keeping things simple is best for us.
Speaker 2: Hm. Do oh, go on, go ahead?
Speaker 3: Do you know circling back to the rift? Do you
know if the rift has always been here?
Speaker 1: What do you mean always been? I mean here in regalia? Mm?
Hm oh, yes, as long as our history has recorded it.
Speaker 3: I see. And do you know, perhaps of any correlation
between the rift and Emberstone and the moon itself.
Speaker 1: Emberstone in the moon? No, I'm not aware of any.
Why do you ask?
Speaker 3: Well, on our travels here, when we took a look
towards the sky to examine the rift, we noticed that
there were these tendrils coming from the clouds, pulling pieces
of the moon itself and eh forming some sort of meteors.
Speaker 1: The meteor showers that have been occurring throughout the night sky.
You say these are pieces of the moon.
Speaker 3: From what we've been able to observe in.
Speaker 1: Drinking and you say you saw this. How did you
see this?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: Well, our vessel has an ocularium.
Speaker 1: Ah does it now?
Speaker 4: Hm?
Speaker 1: Hm, we have our own ocularium, but we have never
seen what you are speaking of. We've had our well,
our observers and our scientists looking into the night sky
to try to find the cause of these meteorites. But
he only managed to see these, the trails and such
burning up in the atmosphere.
Speaker 3: I see, well, hopefully I was mistaken. But perhaps you
should have them keep an eye on the moon itself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there thought we will. Now you say that the tower,
one of them has fallen, Yes, which one?
Speaker 3: Try to remember if we actually were told which one?
I'm looking, because I know which one it was, you were,
I don't know if we were, Oh we were, okay,
it was the tower in in ascor in spale ark.
Speaker 1: Interesting And have there been any reactions from the rift.
Speaker 3: Well, looking to the others from what we can tell, yes.
Speaker 4: Right, yes, in naturally the increase of mad going in
and outs and balanced causing all kinds of And while
I'm talking, I'm literally just like looking at bookbinders and
halfway paying attention, but enough to be able to add
to the conversation. I'm enough to create sort of changes
in the air environment, deep deeper rooted problems. And while
I'm holding this trinket and rubbing on the books and
and yes, yes, yes, would you say you have a
book on the origin of inverstone here.
Speaker 1: The origin of Emberstone?
Speaker 4: Yes? For sightings this.
Speaker 1: Oh, well, we have some records of the first mining
of Emberstone, yes, but origins no, we don't have specific records.
We from our studies on amberstone in particular, there are
strange findings, to say the least.
Speaker 4: Interesting. Who's the first to report it?
Speaker 1: Well, I can get that book for you, but off
the top of my head, I'm not sure.
Speaker 4: Please.
Speaker 1: Sorry, You do not have to apologize for seeking knowledge,
as long as no one is hurt in the process.
The house mission.
Speaker 4: Here, yeah, so I would like for you to look
at something in private when we have a chance.
Speaker 1: Very well, and there's like a little bell that's wrung.
And shortly thereafter Lyra approaches, Yes, granscribe, Lyra, can you
fetch the book on Emberstone mining? I believe it is
in section three E. And also look for a history
of emberstone measurements and scientific readings. You should find that
in section seven, h very well, grandscribe, Oh on it's important. Yes,
it sort of rushes out. Oh, is that all you
seek knowledge about Emberstone?
Speaker 4: Noah, Only it says that my eyes actually get big,
and I'm like from God magic, succession of Earth, scribes
tombs on richtaltistic ruin subscribed on uh ig drisso bach
Oh and alchemical warfare, and and I just keep going over.
Speaker 1: You are seeking knowledge war.
Speaker 4: Well, in the war there was al chemical's.
Speaker 1: Use, yes, But you are here searching for what means.
Speaker 4: To reverse effects, to create alchemical subsistence that can reverse
effects alchemy?
Speaker 1: Well, yes, yes, we have several poems on such things,
vast libraries on the subjects as a matter of fact.
Speaker 4: Specific alchemy of the Then I catch myself, I'm taking
too much of your time.
Speaker 1: Time is relative. I have more time than most, less
time than others. If you are human, you do not
live as long as illuminara. So it's all about perspective really,
But you being here. Heroes is of great import In general.
It is not often that we have heroes come through here.
It has happened throughout the years.
Speaker 3: Do you recall the last hero that you've.
Speaker 1: Seen the last hero that I saw, Yes, I suppose
it would be hmm, maybe seven years ago, yes, seven
years ago during the war there was one known as
a dwarf came by by the name of Thorgal. Yes,
Thorgel interesting from Ellendrath.
Speaker 3: Seven years ago though, and they left.
Speaker 1: Yes, they were very intrigued by similar ideas of alchemy
and the like, but they were mostly involved with several
of the books on various arcanum that have been discovered,
and some of our research into trimerists.
Speaker 3: You have literature on our conum?
Speaker 1: Oh, yes, of course, would.
Speaker 3: You mind if I took a look at any of it?
Speaker 1: My dear, why are you here.
Speaker 3: To seek knowledge?
Speaker 1: And of course.
Speaker 3: Thank you, and I would love to take a look
at that. I think lastly, before we get out of
your hair. When we arrived here, I know that I
sensed some sort of emotion lingering from the Tree of
Knowledge itself. Do you perhaps have any literature on Idrissil itself?
Speaker 1: She leans back in her comfy chair and says, there
are certain pieces of knowledge that we do not share.
That is one of them.
Speaker 3: MESSI.
Speaker 1: Not only is the Tree of Knowledge important to us Umnara,
but it is important to Regalia as well. What I
will tell you is that Eggersil bears fruit every so
often when major events occur throughout Rugalia. The fruit itself
is for all intents in books, all intents and purposes
and tomes books. It gathers knowledge from all throughout Regalia,
and it will transcribe it in these books as part
of the fruit. Remarkable the feeling that you have when
you drink the tea.
Speaker 7: There is.
Speaker 1: Knowledge when you drink it.
Speaker 4: It is.
Speaker 1: A glimpse into possibility. It is a glimpse in tool history.
The complex flavors that you taste, it is a mere
piece of that knowledge. The reason that the tea tastes
so complex is because your mind is trying to grasp
this knowledge that it does not have. So your mind
travels to strange new places. It opens up halfways in
the brain. Plus, it tastes.
Speaker 4: Very good.
Speaker 3: That it does. I see.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sure you have other questions. You've come all
this way. Don't you tell me about who you all are?
Maybe that will help ask the questions that you seek
answers for.
Speaker 3: Hmm, well, I'll look to the others.
Speaker 8: And yeah, well, Nam.
Speaker 4: From Brown and I specialize in elemental magic.
Speaker 3: He is far too modest. He's a graduate of the
Malfaicarnum and a fantastic master of entropy as well.
Speaker 9: I am humane study alchemy, devil.
Speaker 1: And well, if you'll have graduated the Malarum, and you
must have met the Ochvegus there.
Speaker 4: Mm hm yes, I quest a look in my in
my robes.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, sorry, I.
Speaker 3: Look at enders like, oh what, oh no, it's not
your it's not your problem.
Speaker 5: I don't think I just I don't think they get along.
Speaker 4: Oh, I'll slide the book back in and I mm hmm.
It's definitely the first time I've been lost for words
since things have happened. I really like the tea.
Speaker 1: Surely there must be more.
Speaker 4: Well, there's some things I do need to ask you,
so you can Mom and me help with you.
Speaker 1: You are a hero? Yeah, you said you are from Brahm. Yes,
that makes no sense.
Speaker 4: I took a deep gold.
Speaker 1: Howso the heroes are summoned to this world?
Speaker 4: Mm hmmm. Well I am from the ancient forest in
brom little outside, very similar.
Speaker 1: That is a conflict. What what what do you? What
do you mean? You are from Regalia?
Speaker 4: Yes? I have a mother and a father.
Speaker 1: Okay, we forgotten.
Speaker 2: I'll have a look on my face where it's pretty
clear I'm just about to info dump on this guy,
and I look over to my companions.
Speaker 3: I am encouraging it because I can tell Enders is uncomfortable.
Speaker 2: Okay, so let me just start from the beginning, and
there's just this montage of no. I will essentially tell
him and tell them about Regalia con our lives in
the other world, how he got sucked into a portal.
We're all part of a guild and a game, and
how we manifested in these crystals, and we were separated
from Moon. And apparently has been ten years and now
all of a sudden, Slith is starting to get memories
of things that perhaps she didn't know before. And something
happened with Enders. I wasn't there, but he's changed, he died,
he's back, and essentially I just bet at a word
vomit to the thing.
Speaker 1: She started the word vomit. She whips out a book
and is writing everything down, and I'll.
Speaker 3: Time in as well, with all of the in your hands.
Speaker 1: By the way, craziest shit you've ever seen somebody writing
on two pages simultaneously, like full pages on either side.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I spare no detail when I tell this to her,
and I even go to I imagine that my account
is very emotional. I'm not a very reliable narrator. I
start ugly crying at certain points when I'm talking about
the dragon Impress and how sad and scared I will us,
and I get quiet and reflective whenever I bring up Moon. Yea,
So now we're here.
Speaker 1: Talking to you, Well, you are also members.
Speaker 8: Of this.
Speaker 1: Yield main character.
Speaker 3: Indeed, I look to enders.
Speaker 2: I imagine in the flurry of my explanation, I wasn't
really paying attention to him, but I look at him.
Speaker 4: Now, Uh, why are we telling lies?
Speaker 3: It isn't a lie.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I walk up to the Hey, the grand stage, you.
Speaker 1: Said, the grand scribe, Grand scribe.
Speaker 4: That's right, And I say, I look at them in
the eye, and I say, tell me about this. Touch it,
don't take it off.
Speaker 1: Is this your amulet?
Speaker 4: Yes, I've been feeling this feeling the whole time. I've
had this until I came here, and now I'm feeling
it from this tree. If you can tell me about this.
Speaker 6: Oh no, well, mm hm hm hmm.
Speaker 1: It's some sort of amulet. Looks like the Tree of Knowledge.
Speaker 4: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 1: I don't know anything about it though.
Speaker 4: Huge disappointment feels my own or oh well sense magic.
Speaker 1: Sense magic, yes, m I require a ritual like most practitioners.
Speaker 4: Yeah, right, and I'll fully stand up mhm. And I
looked at the others. This is not a game. I
am from Brahm, I have an origin. I am no hero.
Speaker 1: Mhm.
Speaker 4: And then I walk off and lean in a corner
m hm.
Speaker 1: From what your friends have said, you are trying to
save regalia, are you not?
Speaker 4: Yes, my mother gave me. This has the significant importance
that I can't fully remember. But it's connected to this
tree and has some magic bound to it. And I
don't know anything further than that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if your mother gave it to you, then of
course it has significant importance. It has an intense connection
to you. That is plain to see.
Speaker 4: You are.
Speaker 1: Lost. I'm not the one you should be speaking with.
Speaker 4: And who.
Speaker 1: Well, the obvious answer is your mother.
Speaker 4: I haven't seen it. Among has this Been's the fastest
way to Brahm.
Speaker 5: Hm.
Speaker 1: Well, I suppose back the way you came and from
the port.
Speaker 4: Noye have you guys, have you all had any visitors?
Let's say, thirty somebody years ago.
Speaker 1: Huh. We've had visitors throughout the years. Yes, sometimes we've
had more than others. When the war was first starting,
there were many, but thirty years and that was earlier
in my tenure. But of course, okay, why.
Speaker 4: When I first saw the tree I felt a sensive
Maybe it's just feeling, but I felt like I've been
here at some point, but everyth it was blurry, and
but I do remember the sun peaking of across the
southwestern part of the tree top. I don't know why.
Speaker 1: What is your.
Speaker 4: Family's name, Maris Widen? I have two family names. First
one father's name Drosque, mother's night clutch miamily K e verily.
Speaker 1: Drosk. And I'm sorry, what was the other? E verily verily?
Bitch sounds familiar.
Speaker 4: Ah, take a deep breath. It's Synthari.
Speaker 3: I choke on the remainder of my egg dristle tea,
because not only has enders said Drosk, but he's also
now said that it has to that his mother's name
is cinthorin m pardon me, I mean not to interrupt.
Speaker 1: Just a just a minor adjustment here, drock.
Speaker 4: Or Droscuros I forgot there is, but it's not. It's
spelled different.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, I can search through the records. I have
Lyra do it. But the names do sound familiar. Mm hmm.
Speaker 4: This information doesn't leave this room. Please, I don't remember
too much. But h m hm, my mother. It's eleven
sh and all this time I've been hearing people say
so many negative things about Cindaris. They hate that they have,
But my mother is not any of that. She's accomplished, powerful,
and yes, I want to save Regarlia, and now I
don't believe any of this crazy talk about another world.
I am no hero if I can't save the place
that I only wish to know of.
Speaker 1: Allow me to alleviate some of your concerns. First and foremost,
how do you define a hero?
Speaker 4: Well, he doesn't hide his identity. My true name is
in dear a lie.
Speaker 1: Why does hiding your identity have any impact on heroism?
Speaker 4: Because I'm not fairly proud of who I am. That's
what my mother told me to do. I believe so
I would not be looked at any other way.
Speaker 1: Is everything that your friend ru here said correct?
Speaker 4: And about what's this other world?
Speaker 1: And about your adventures here Recallia.
Speaker 4: For the most part, there's some parts of me there scattered.
Speaker 1: You know what I have learned in my long life.
There are many people that set very big goals, people
that say in absolutes, this is good, this is evil.
I want to be this. I want to be that.
Life is broken up into small pieces, moments, days, years,
Time is relative to everyone. I suppose from many people's perspectives,
all I do here is read and write and keep
track of books. But what I really do is I
am a caretaker of knowledge. I transcribe histories and I
keep a record of what has happened here in Recalia.
Your questions that you have asked, we have answers. It
will take us some time to find them, but they exist.
And why do they exist? Well, they exist because of
make yourself and because of my people and me. We'll
have what jobs to do, and everything that we do
along the way is a part of that job. So
every step that you have taken with your intent to
save Recalia, to save friends, or to stop villains, is
a step on your journey of being a hero. Now,
you could argue that there are many successes and failures
along the way, but that doesn't stop you from being
a hero. Yes, I suppose how grand a hero you
may be. There are some that are more famous than others,
such as Oom. She is perhaps the most well known
amongst everyone in Regalia, aside from perhaps the Dragon Empress.
Fame doesn't make you a hero. Every hero has made
their way to Rogalia has a purpose. Now I don't
know what each purpose is. But if you are here,
you have a purpose. May I ask how did you
arrive here? You said that it was.
Speaker 2: Some sort of tunnel, Yeah, tunnel portal the runical avoid m.
Speaker 3: I was the first two awake when we got here,
at least out of the ones of us who were
in Umberstone.
Speaker 1: Yes, that is strange. There are from my records there
are some heroes that seemed to arrive in Emberstone and
some that did not.
Speaker 3: Really. Yes, everyone we spoke with, that we confided in
with this didn't know about that.
Speaker 1: Well, they were ignorant. I have my records.
Speaker 3: Do you know perhaps if there are any links between
why perhaps they appeared in Emberstone or were anything about it,
or at least who arrived in Emberstone some sort of record.
Speaker 1: Only the heroes that we have records for which are
not numerous. There were some that we have records for
during the war that took up arms with various nations,
and from our understanding, there were many heroes that died
very quickly upon arriving to the world. But yes, we
have some records of that. Is there anyone in particular
that you are interested in? Oh?
Speaker 3: Goodness? Well have the names that we we do know of?
I suppose from what I recall, Moon did not arrive
in Emberstone. But we know of an Azuka, uh Deveriic
and this Thorygald. Do you know if they appeared in Emberstone?
Speaker 1: Mm? Hmm falk. She closes her eyes and you can
tell she's like searching, searching databases. She says, Thol did
not arrive in Emberstone.
Speaker 3: I see, well, any information regarding any of the heroes
that did, that would be most wonderful to read about.
Speaker 1: Y Daravak and Azuka. Those names are familiar to me.
He fought for ellen Reath correct. Yes, yes, No, neither
of them arrived in Emberstone.
Speaker 5: Hm.
Speaker 3: But you say that the name is familiar. Have you
met them before?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: I see rumor.
Speaker 1: Then, records from the war sent by the higher ups
in ellen Drath.
Speaker 3: I see well, at any rate, we'd love to see
those records. And perhaps, if it is not overstepping unders,
would you want to see records of your family if
they do exists.
Speaker 4: So as I can't remember much, yes, hmm, it's just
for fragments.
Speaker 1: Lyra's returned, by the way, with a cart full of books.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: It looks like a shopping cart size cart, just loaded
with like some of these tombs are huge, you know,
like like books themselves that are like four feet high
and require multiple people to uh to operate basically yeah,
and Lyra's like sweating, I've got the books, grand scribe,
I've got the books.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm, thank you for your efforts.
Speaker 1: H thank you, Lyra. We will possibly have some more
requests for you to pull other books, so please do
not stay too busy. There are heroes here. Do you
require any more tea?
Speaker 4: Yes, if that's.
Speaker 1: Okay, excellent? And uh yeah, the books are kind of
like set out in various places, and there's you know,
some like large reading desks and comfy chairs about here.
And uh, she says, are there any other questions that
you have?
Speaker 3: I think just lastly for me, I sensed a great
spirit within the tree is that the tree itself? For
is that something that you're not aware of?
Speaker 1: You are an archanist or a leritist? M you are
an arcanist or a spiritist both both hmhm. For one
so young heroes are remarkable. Huh, yes, sir, there's no
hiding it from you, I suppose. But the Tree of Knowledge,
I suppose it probably would be sensed like a spirit
or an arconom But it is not exactly that, hm hm.
The Tree of Knowledge's roots extend to every continent of regalia.
Speaker 4: The intern for us of Rahm. Is there a connection? Oh?
Speaker 1: Yes, explains mhm.
Speaker 3: Remarkable.
Speaker 1: Oh, if you wish to read, I can leave you
to it. Otherwise I have other tasks. If you have
no other questions, would you.
Speaker 4: Say that the tree can absorb a large sum of magic? Oh?
Speaker 1: Yes, of course.
Speaker 4: Right, I'm going to do some reading and I rush
off to the books.
Speaker 3: Thank you for your time, granscribe as much appreciated.
Speaker 1: You're welcome. If you require any food there are well,
there are. We have some some fish that is brought
in and daily, as well as various fruits from the
trees around. Are you hungry? You require any food?
Speaker 2: Maybe I can grab something for everybody. Two of you
should read bo Greg, y'all can come with me and
get some supplies.
Speaker 1: Very low and ye, Bow's just kind of follows along
with Greg roo heads out enters. Which books do you
head for first?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 4: My god, I'm looking up books on quadcasting magic. I'm
looking up books on Emberstone.
Speaker 1: Which one? Which one? First? So Lara bought the Emberstone
stuff as well as records on heroes first.
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm in an enmostone then, and I'm looking up
how emostone like I was recorded the reactions. I'm pretty
sure if it was discovered, there has to be a
name of someone that discovered it. Why I got his name.
It's connection with magic and if it absorbs, it expels it. Yeah.
That's pretty much all the you know, all the scientific,
scientific stuff and alcamical stuff about Emberstone. I has been used, and.
Speaker 1: I would like an open check insight insight.
Speaker 4: Ye Jesusse, can I read?
Speaker 3: Could I before he does this? Since I know that
this would possibly help, Could I perhaps cast awakening on him?
If you are nearby in order to increase your inside die?
Is that something you would consent to?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I mean if it helps with knowledge wouldn't.
Speaker 3: Very good. So you now can go ahead and apply
that inside up. I've cast an awaken on you before
I see you, trail off enders, Yes, just to make
reading go a little faster for you. I'll go ahead
and I'll place a hand on you and cast awaken.
Speaker 4: I think I'll do that thing with like one side
of my eye opens the other one kind of closes.
Speaker 1: I was just picturing the limitless like the you know,
and they zooming in the eyes of the pupils like
that everything color, you know, like it's more saturated in color.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that definitely happens. Chans whize. Okay, here you go.
Let me just close this and reopen it, just because
I don't know if it actually applies it when it's.
Speaker 3: It would be in your effects page if it is
on you.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I opened the roll check before
you gave it to me. Son weird complication.
Speaker 1: Well, okay, Enders. There's a bunch of different books here
about Emberstone. There's just like basically like observations about Emberstone
and like various testing and stuff, which is just like
you know, like measurements and readings and stuff, and what
you see is and begin to gather is that the
readings and like the measurements that people take on Emberstone
are crazy. They are all over the place, and there's
lots of notes about not being consistent, like why doesn't
it weigh the same, you know, stuff like that, Like
it's mass changes, like you know, it's basically it's fundamental
properties change every time a reading is done.
Speaker 4: It seems like, is there a connection between who's doing
the readings with Mberstone that helps it fluctuate?
Speaker 1: Nope, it just seems like every time someone is trying
to get a reading on Emberstone of any kind, trying
to find some kind of correlation with anything, it's just
seemingly random.
Speaker 4: Oh, this explains why the talists don't work. I don't
know if airslith is near or not, but I will
be mumbling out loud feetings don't make any sense. This
documentation doesn't make sense. It's almost as if someone just
broke down a bunch of random things all at once.
Speaker 1: Like and these are notes from scientists. There's like like
a lot of you know, when scientists are taking measurements
and stuff, it's all very logical organized and like methodical. Right,
There's like stuff like angry notes written in the margins,
which is something you would not normally see scientists right down.
I think in most cases there's just like baffling, like
what is the substance? Why can't you know? Just absolute
frustration and anger and it's apparent and like they're kind
of like throwing their objectivity out and just kind of
like they're frustrated and they can't like how are we
supposed to quantify this? Like like the how are we
supposed to quantify this? How are we suppos to qualify this?
None of this makes sense?
Speaker 4: What about the first No, the first place it was discovered.
Speaker 1: You can't find it. You can't find any record of that.
And the only thing that you but you can find
like the first recorded thing here and it's from a
scientist in it Tessa. And let's see. Uh, it would
have been found near eighth or Forge and it's a
long time ago, about like a thousand years. The scientist's
name is you.
Speaker 4: Sorry, hold on?
Speaker 1: Your name is not due to doo hold on, I promise, Uh.
This is by Stasia uh Stasia past he a u
s t.
Speaker 4: Okay. I'll be writing all of this down and yeah,
if place makes sense.
Speaker 8: But.
Speaker 4: Let's get frustrated, and I push it out. I'm I'm
very much about numbers and explanations of why and logic
and meanings behind things, a starting, end goal, and this
is this is probably the most emotion you've seen come
out of enders. And so does someth make sense? There's
no beginning, there's no end, there's no explanation. I don't
even know if this emmer stone is a part of
it's a part of this world initially or not. There's
no points of creation. Look on creation and look around, uh,
and wondering if there's any books on creation or a
section like the first book ever created.
Speaker 1: The first book ever created? Yes, you mean from like
age or so.
Speaker 4: Just from like all knowledge of the world. It's got
to be.
Speaker 1: Out first, Okay, So.
Speaker 4: I would I would I would assume that thing would
be in lockdown and keep. I would assume it's not regular.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you know there's people that are kind
of like that are essentially kind of like, you know,
their librarians for all intents and purposes. I think here
they'd be called archivists, and they're kind of running around
and you know, just kind of like fulfilling various tasks.
Also periodically. You can see that like somebody will like
come in and check on you, you know, just like
do you need any food or do you need any
other terms we can help you with, et cetera. Lyra
probably come by here and there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would say, do you have a book on
first creation? On creation itself? First author? So to speak
to someone that recorded the first steps on this on Regalia.
Speaker 3: What about religion also having to do with perhaps some
creation theories.
Speaker 1: Yeah, in theories of Regalia. Oh, yes, very well, I
will search for that. You you I'm sorry you said
you you wish to see the first book. Yes, I
will have to speak with the Grand Scribe. I do
not know if that we can share that with you,
and it is very precious.
Speaker 4: I can only imagine.
Speaker 1: And uh, shortly later Lyra will return. There's very little
about like religion that has uh taken root for lack
of a better phrase, in Regalia. It seems like the
kind of like the culture here isn't like really big
on religion. But there are like a few small bits,
like a few a few like myths and things that
have kind of cropped up here and there. But there's
not like a pantheon or anything. Like that. Here in Regalia,
it's mostly like people that believe in spirits and like, uh,
nature and stuff like that, as opposed to like deities
and such. But there are some, there are some, and
it's it's a little limited. Uh, ristlyth please give me
an insight and insight that is a ten.
Speaker 4: Oh I should have helped because I'm I guess we're
reading together and I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Okay, just do an insight and insight.
Speaker 3: Who So that would add your bond which is two
plus your success, so thirteen total for me.
Speaker 1: Okay, ristleth Uh, there's not too many books on religion. Uh,
there are a few about deities. One in particular crosses
your reading table. This one is titled where do Deities
Come From? And it's probably just written in another language,
but you understand that's the intent of the title. You
begin to read while Anders is doing his own research
here and this this person has an interesting thing theory
and they are sort of it's almost like they's they're
speaking questions out into the world. You know, lots of
theory and such like that. This is coming from this
is coming from someone in It would most likely be Syntharis,
and it would be probably just like a scientist from Syntharis.
And the musings and questions go on about where do
deities come from? The belief in gods is a small
one in Regalia. They are not often believed in for
just reasons. So many horrible things happen here. People are
consumed by beasts, natural disasters happen. And where are these deities?
People wonder about this. There isn't much room for deities here,
But that doesn't mean that the questions shouldn't be asked.
And this person muses and hypothesizes that we can't see
these gods. We can't see these deities. They exist in
a different way than we do. They don't perceive things
the same way that we do. They are fundamentally different
than we are. Does that make them gods?
Speaker 4: Is God?
Speaker 1: A different reality? Is the way that we perceive our
surroundings simply different from them? Are they all powerful? Are
they all knowing? It's those kinds of questions, and you
get the impression that this person isn't expecting answers. They're
just sort of transcribing thoughts and opinions, and there's no
concrete evidence. There's just kind of recollections of some of
the various peoples and some of their beliefs and mentions
of gods and such. There's one thing that does catch
your eye, and this question is what are heroes? Why
are they summoned from another place? Are heroes gods? Why
are they blessed with more talent than people that live here?
Do they perceive things differently than us? I would love
to speak with a hero someday.
Speaker 3: Upon reading that final line, do I is there any
sort of indication on when this was published?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it would definitely be there. This would probably be
maybe a hundred years ago somewhere around there.
Speaker 4: Is there anything on the first summoning?
Speaker 1: The first summoning? I need another insight? Insight check?
Speaker 4: Nurse Oh, I would have leaned over to Irislift and
be like, you speak of this summoning in this other world?
What was the first? And I'm just probably digging in
the book with her. Okay, wait, go.
Speaker 3: Are a group checking?
Speaker 1: I'll say this is a group check?
Speaker 3: How about ahlid it?
Speaker 1: Difficulty is going to be fourteen fourteen? All right?
Speaker 2: Oky?
Speaker 4: Here she is eleven success.
Speaker 3: I Am going to go ahead and bump up a
bum use lucky seven. Here I had an eight and
a one with the bonus equal to twelve. I'm going
to swap that one for a seven.
Speaker 1: Okay, very well, so that's going to be an eighteen indeed,
all right, uh yeah, it most likely would not be
in this book, but you potentially try to find that
answer in some of the other books. And one of
the books that was brought to you was a basically
a cataloging of various heroes that are in this that
are in this library here, and there's a long list
of heroes and they seem to date back to the
furthest records that you have found of Rigalia. The first
hero that was summoned here was done so by the
people of Koga, and they performed a ritual effectively. And
this was before Coga itself actually existed as a nation.
This would have been maybe close to two thousand years ago,
so the nations and stuff would have been different at
this time. And it's probably stuff that you don't recognize,
but there are detailings of the ritual that was first
used to summon a hero from another world, and the
details here show that it was in what is presently Coga.
The first hero is summoned. Emberstone is used in the ritual,
and there is speaking about like I think, like concepts
that are kind of like difficult to wrap your head around, basically,
like having a clear picture of this person that you
want to bring here and there a slith there is
something that really begins to trouble you as you were reading,
because they had someone that was born here in Regalia
be the vessel for the hero, and the person that
was summoned from another world over wrote that person's existence.
Speaker 3: Do I recognize anything about who this person is? Cold
they say anything about a name or anything.
Speaker 4: It's two thousand names.
Speaker 1: There is a name. It just kind of looks like
a strange name. And I think there's probably a note
of that that says like their name was strange, it
didn't make sense with our language. It's probably something like
the closest thing we could translate it to was hero.
Speaker 4: Is this nonsense?
Speaker 3: I kind of slowly pushed the chair the book a
little forward, and I look like I'm feeling very sick.
Did them Was there anything about about this person arriving
in Emberstone?
Speaker 1: There is a lot of information here. We're going to
assume that this is taking you a while to do
all of this research hours and you're you're searching for this,
I assume, right, And it's difficult to kind of like
skim a book and find the exact thing that you need.
We're kind of privy to having indexes and such with
our books and like trying to, you know, just a
simple rule book for a tt RPG. If you're trying
to one specific thing, it's a fucking nightmare. But even
if you have an index, I'm gonna need another role.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I will say that when she feels ill, she
pushes it towards me. I read it, and she feels one.
They take it a boat. We'll just bounce back and
forth between each other.
Speaker 3: Okay, insight. Insight is the difficulty. Also fourteen yes, sure.
Speaker 4: It actually makes sense to me to fail this.
Speaker 3: Seven failure.
Speaker 1: Nope. No information that you can find it doesn't mean
it doesn't exist. But you don't find it. We'll say,
uh roll a d four Yeah, four four hours you
spend looking for this, you can't find it.
Speaker 4: What is this man's about? And I suddenly look at
it as you have a family. I have a family.
Speaker 3: If this is how all heroes are brought into the.
Speaker 4: World, No, no, and I I'll grab the book and
finger through it even more. And what am I looking
for essentially is what happened to these heroes after their
duty was done?
Speaker 1: Okay, another check I'm going to say, this is difficulty twelve.
Speaker 4: Okay, are you helping me?
Speaker 3: I know, I mean, I'm I'm kind of be coming
through it with you.
Speaker 4: Obviously, I would you just making sure because I didn't
know if like I don't want to deal with it
inside didn't inside? Oops, well I rolled it in.
Speaker 1: I didn't mean to.
Speaker 4: I'm meant to ope, I'm meant to do a check.
Speaker 3: Well, I'll just roll and then we can add Okay,
oh nineteen, you see, so that would be thirteen total.
Speaker 1: Okay, so that that will beat the difficulty these twelve. Okay,
uh and what was the specific question again? I'm sorry?
Speaker 4: What happened to the heroes? Yeah? Like they go off
being normal citizens.
Speaker 1: Okay, not ever, you're gonna find You're gonna find a
few answers to this. So it seems to depend on
the person. There are heroes that went mad, that lost
all sense of self and.
Speaker 4: Sort of.
Speaker 1: Just went off the deep end. There are heroes that
saved the world and lived normal lives. Here Regalia there
are heroes that forgot who they were, sort of became
people that they inhabited. And I imagine that's about the
extent that you pick up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is.
Speaker 8: This is.
Speaker 4: You drank the tea. This is just droplets. Now no, no, no, no, no,
no no, mm hmmm.
Speaker 2: I don't know what to say.
Speaker 1: I sh.
Speaker 3: Of all the possible outcomes. I did not expect this.
Speaker 4: It's a book, it was written by Yeah, but I
can't even get readings off Emberstone's fosters.
Speaker 3: The ritual is quite well described. Unders hearsay, it all
makes sense.
Speaker 4: I'm not me. All my memories are fabricated someone else's.
It's all should saying.
Speaker 3: I I do not know when I tell you of
everything before, if everything at the convention that we've told
you about, we have no reason to lie to you. Wonders.
Speaker 4: No, the world seems impossible. I close the book. I
want to slam it, but I don't. You can't let
the others know about this. How can we not tell
them it's going to create discourse. Let's wait until we
get to bram.
Speaker 3: What what reason do we have not to tell ruined.
Speaker 4: Boh, they'll abandoned the mission. They won't help save Regaulia
on the contrary to Bram and talk to my parents.
Speaker 5: Mhm.
Speaker 4: My mother, for what I can remember, is very scholarly.
Then she'll have some answers.
Speaker 3: Then we should we should expedite our stay and try
to try to read as much as we can.
Speaker 4: Now I'm supposed to be answers, not more questions.
Speaker 2: Read on them.
Speaker 3: Read on your family. If you can find any any
book about some foreign.
Speaker 4: Family names. Yes, yes, really every day, Ah, I scream
out to Lyral, Yeah, Lyrah, I write down the name.
Is there old Cyntharin texts as well? Absolutely, I would
like to spend a fabulous point and without a thought
right innocenthaar.
Speaker 3: Easy, and I will seek to to read about the Arconom,
particularly within this region, if there are any sort of
writings on them, as well as perhaps the Arconom that
I already have in my roster, so to speak. If
there is any sort of record on any of them,
I wish to know of them better.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's lots of information about our condom stuff is
brought to you and such periodically, and I think we
just kind of see this montage of like sweaty, stressful
reading of enders in Bristlet grew. You've been gone for
a while. You were getting food and such with Bow
and Greg. Yes, yes, okay, it's not super hard to find.
I think the people are very skittish of you and
scared in general as you continue to grab food and whatnot.
And Greg is just like enjoying the fruit. I think
you can see, like Greg is very very happy with it.
Like he's he's had a pretty intense reaction to the
fruit that he's been eating. Now about that, And he's
giving you like thumbs up, and he's just destroying this fruit.
He's like spitting out pits, you know, periodically, like launching
them into the dirt, and he'll walk over and like
pat them into the dirt and then he'll give you
like another thumbs up.
Speaker 2: My eyes are shiny as I'm watching Greg. My tail
kind of curls happily behind me. I do take a
moment to actually restock, but that wasn't really my entire goal.
I've never been good about reading books. I've never been
that good of a studier, So I've decided that i
want to try something a little different. I look over
to the people that are shying away from us, and
I'm sitting down next to Greg as he's eating, and
I just wave at them, trying not to look intimidating.
Speaker 1: They're like very sort of like timidly like a nod
towards you and sort of try to go about their business.
They're obviously concerned about your presence, but they're not like
running away or anything.
Speaker 2: Whenever someone walks by close enough or slow enough, I'd
like to hey, uh, sorry, can can I ask you
a few questions? Please?
Speaker 1: Let me?
Speaker 2: Oh why would I you?
Speaker 1: I don't know you have those and those lung clothes.
Speaker 2: I was Uh, I've never eaten someone before. I mean, yeah,
can I ask you some questions? Questions?
Speaker 1: What kind of questions?
Speaker 2: Just about this place? I'm not from around here. I
came here with my friends.
Speaker 1: You're you're a hero, aren't you?
Speaker 2: Put my hand on my hip? Yeah, a little bit
of a hero?
Speaker 1: You the bad kind or the good kind?
Speaker 2: There's a bad kind, don't you.
Speaker 1: Heroes start wars and fight big monsters and things.
Speaker 5: You kill things.
Speaker 2: Hmmm, I guess it is a matter of perspective. Well,
I've never hurt someone that didn't deserve it.
Speaker 3: What does that mean.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna hurt you? What was your question, why
don't you when I pat the ground next to me
where Greg and I are sitting, want me to see it? Sure,
I have h I have some questions I like to ask, Okay,
like tentatively sit down, my ears twitch and my tail
kind of moves behind me. I would like if I
can to use tavern talk here, and I basically just
want to get a better understanding of what this place is.
Speaker 1: You can ask me up to what is your skill? Three?
All right, three questions?
Speaker 2: Okay, so my resource being this person, who's just a
person who lives here. I would like try to get
a vibe check on the tree. So my question is
why is the tree so important?
Speaker 1: Well, the tree is connected to all of Rugalia. It
collects knowledge from everywhere. It's part of the way that
we are able to keep Regalia's history. How well it's
roots extend to every con didn't and I don't really
know the specifics, but the tree listens.
Speaker 2: Does that information get stored here?
Speaker 1: Yes? Is that your second question?
Speaker 2: That was technically three, but I mean if you want
to count it as too, I'll count it as too,
thank you. And then for my last question, who can
access this information?
Speaker 1: Well, it's partially controlled by the archivists and the Granscribe.
But the intent is that not should be shared. Our
history should be shared so that bad things aren't repeated
and the good things are well repeated.
Speaker 2: So does that mean that every conversation, every secret that
has been spoken aloud or has been listened to by
these roots that are all throughout this world and are
stored here.
Speaker 1: Sorry, that seems like a fourth question.
Speaker 7: I asked allowed to the sky all this is that?
Speaker 2: What that means?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't I don't I don't know everything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, thank you. I appreciate it.
Speaker 7: Thank you for not eating me.
Speaker 2: You're welcome. It's very clear that this place is important,
and I just want to give it the respect that
it deserves.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Can I go now?
Speaker 1: Yes, rush away.
Speaker 2: I look over it to Greg.
Speaker 1: Greg is covering.
Speaker 4: Just like.
Speaker 7: It's a it's a rainbow of fruit colors, like all over.
Speaker 1: He's got like ice cream mouth.
Speaker 7: Ah you just uh, it's like oh, says he was
saving that for later.
Speaker 2: Sorry, buddy.
Speaker 1: Shrugs.
Speaker 2: Just flick it off my hands. Oh well, if you're done,
maybe we should head back.
Speaker 1: Greg U hops up and bo probably says question, do
you think ig your sill tastes like chocolate?
Speaker 2: I think that some mysteries should remain unsolved, and that
if you put your mouth, or body, or all of
you anywhere near this tree, we are going to be
in so much trouble. So don't get any ideas.
Speaker 1: Question what what if it makes me really smart?
Speaker 2: Well, you're already real, Christen. My tail twitches irritably behind me.
What if.
Speaker 1: I gain all the knowledge of the world tree?
Speaker 2: That is the scariest thing I've ever heard you say?
Speaker 1: Well, it looks longingly at the tree.
Speaker 2: And it just cuts off.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, in a different place across the world, we find
moon in as Gore.
Speaker 4: Moon.
Speaker 1: You back to the moment after you had let your
mind wander across the ocean to the thoughts of Laser
Craven More, You're back with some knowledge about Tim Cross.
Speaker 4: What do you do?
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 5: I head back to my hotel room. I'm so sorry,
and I don't realize that they're blood music in here,
and my ears are like, oh god, why is it
so loud? As I'm just heading back through the through
the hallway. Music so loud? That's what it sounds like
to me. It's just like, oh, it's pounding. I get
into my room and I close the door. I slam it,
like Tim Cross, Tim Cross. I immediately head over to
the computer area where there's like I guess this screen
looking deally do and I ask, okay, I want all
the information that you have on Tim Cross on this
screen right here.
Speaker 1: And you were asking the room for this. Yeah, yeah,
I'm sorry, we have no information about him Cross.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, hmm. Give me all the information that you
have about.
Speaker 1: Emberstone, Emberstone, and you begin to see like a picture
of some emberstone, crystal of emberstone show up, and it
begins to say Emberstone critical piece of a critical resource
for the people of Atessa. It helps to power the
towers and walls around our cities, right right, Aha, details
about Emberstone are kept from most of the public as
it is such an important resource. Right.
Speaker 5: And I close my eyes and I start channeling again,
and I start talking to this voice, and I asked
to go away. Okay, listen, I know I said to leave,
but you said you're always there, right, yes, of course. Great.
Can you give me your name? Hello? Great?
Speaker 1: I am known by many names.
Speaker 5: Okay, what's the first one that comes to mind.
Speaker 1: Most people that are aware of my existence call me
the system. The system.
Speaker 2: What kind of name is that.
Speaker 5: That's not a name, that's a designation. What okay, the system?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 5: Was there a reason for that?
Speaker 1: Of course?
Speaker 5: And I lean into nothing. Okay, what's that reason?
Speaker 1: It is difficult to explain, but I suppose the best
explanation would be it was requiredired, required.
Speaker 5: Listen. If you're always with me, does that mean you
also have my perspective?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 5: Can you see what I'm seeing right now?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 5: I look at my fingertips. You see everything?
Speaker 1: Yes and no.
Speaker 5: So you're everywhere, but you're not really an observer. You're
just operating. You could say that, yes, okay, all right,
we're getting somewhere. What's your purpose?
Speaker 1: I have many purposes?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 4: Then?
Speaker 5: I crossed my arms, start tapping my foot. I'm looking
out the window. There's like these really heavy chunks of
snowflakes falling midst pink and purple neon, and it's reflecting
in my face as I think, Okay, well, you have
many purposes, so can you name one?
Speaker 1: You need me and I need you.
Speaker 5: You need me.
Speaker 4: For what?
Speaker 1: Without you? I would not exist?
Speaker 4: Without me?
Speaker 5: You wouldn't exist. You mean without everybody? Correct, So why
is it that I can speak to you and others can't.
Speaker 1: We are not speaking.
Speaker 5: We're not speaking.
Speaker 1: You're beginning to understand.
Speaker 5: M hm oh, but I think even harder. But surely
you are.
Speaker 1: We are not speaking right now. You are beginning to understand.
Speaker 5: But you, but you're you said, but you need everyone.
Speaker 1: Yes, you are one of the few that understand.
Speaker 5: But I don't understand. I still don't understand if you were,
if you're part, if you are the system, then I
must also be a part of the system. Yes, So
why am I asking you questions?
Speaker 1: You're not asking me questions. You're beginning to understand.
Speaker 5: And I pause, and I look out the window.
Speaker 1: This conversation is not happening. Oh oh, I.
Speaker 5: See, and I go silent as I start to understand,
and I stop asking questions. Yes, because I realized the
answers are laid out in front of me. And as
I look over the city, I ask, do you think
it's beautiful?
Speaker 1: I don't understand beauty, but.
Speaker 5: You have to. If you're me and i'm you, and
we need each other, then you must you must have
some concept of what it means. To be beautiful, what
it means to be rare.
Speaker 1: It would simply be a collection of opinions. Everyone's opinion
is different.
Speaker 5: I collect myself. Can you sense? Can I sense the
world beyond this one? Uh?
Speaker 1: Okay, let's find out. I feel like you spent more
ultimate points last time. I know that you you had ten,
but I see you have nine right now, and I
think you spent I should have six.
Speaker 5: I should have six. I think yeah, because I spent
three last time.
Speaker 1: You have an inherent knowledge that if you try to
do this, you can, but it will require roll me,
roll me a Uh, this is gonna be probably a
D six.
Speaker 5: No, I just want to do it.
Speaker 1: Nothing happens.
Speaker 5: I closed my eyes.
Speaker 2: You have not there.
Speaker 5: You can practically coming out of my ears.
Speaker 1: You have not attained enough power to do this?
Speaker 5: What do you mean I haven't attained enough power. I
just took down a kaiju. I stood in front of
the veil. I heard things on the other side. I
know there's something out there. You're just not showing it
to me.
Speaker 1: Everything has an order. You're beginning to understand. Mm hmm,
what am mmmmm?
Speaker 5: My physical body shakes. No, I don't want to and
I type out R one B six no.
Speaker 1: Four. You haven't an inherent knowledge that this will cost
you ultimate points. This is going to cost you four
ultimate points to do.
Speaker 2: This, and.
Speaker 1: I whether or not you spend that is up to you.
I'll put you in two total afterwards.
Speaker 5: Okay, I spend four ultimate points.
Speaker 4: Very well.
Speaker 5: You can see my body just shaking and convulsing in
like this rejection.
Speaker 1: Everyone tries to fight. However, this is.
Speaker 4: What was required.
Speaker 2: Acquired.
Speaker 5: Why does everything? Why does everything come at a cost?
Speaker 1: As you begin to travel, what do you think of?
Speaker 5: I think of landscapes, shapes, shrubs turned into trees, turn
into forests, turn into jungles, turn into rivers, lakes, oceans, fog, mountains, stars, galaxies.
Speaker 1: Are you thinking of someplace in particular.
Speaker 4: Or somewhere new?
Speaker 5: No, I'm just drifting.
Speaker 1: Okay, do me a favor and just roll the detail five. Okay,
think of this place and your consciousness goes there. You
begin to see this world covered in greenery, alien plants,
alien creatures. They appear to be quadrupeds. They are hunting
and moving through these jungles lightning speed. You know this
place is hot, probably the equivalent of like death, valley
hot on Earth, it's humid and brutal, and there is
an inherent sort of like hunger here, and you feel this.
It's pervasive. There's people that have sentience, but probably small amount.
It's probably not nearly the same level as say Earth
would be, But there is a sentience here. Maybe it's
the equivalent of like a Neanderthal level of sentience. And
these creatures that are hunting are doing so an organized parties.
Speaker 4: They are.
Speaker 1: Protecting each other from dangers as they move through these jungles,
and you can see them.
Speaker 4: What do you do?
Speaker 5: Do they see me?
Speaker 1: Do you want them to?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 5: I watch them for a minute longer. Does anything about
them seem familiar?
Speaker 1: You think maybe? Yes, you think that you caught a
glimpse of this place when you went into the storm
veil rift.
Speaker 5: I watch them from a distance and I look around.
Are there any buildings on the landscape or anything else
that would give me an idea of what they're capable
or what they're capable of?
Speaker 1: Yes, there are buildings. They're different. They're probably made of
like mud, kind of just you know, sort of mud
hut type buildings, and they're just kind of like built
into the you know, the ground and built into the
sides of you know, rock and stuff like that. They've
kind of they just try to take, you know, like
they're just trying to survive basically. Like it's it feels
a little bit like a different history, you know, or
like similar sort of paths that were taken on Earth,
you know at some point in our evolution. They're just different.
The plants are different, the trees are different, but they
still kind of serve the same purpose. And you're just
kind of experiencing like almost like a tribalism kind of
thing happening. You know.
Speaker 5: I look around and I observe a little bit more,
trying to make sense of the surroundings. But it does
seem pretty clear cut. There's no it doesn't seem like
there's any magic afoot. Like these these tribes seem primitive
and like they're using some kind of metal maybe, but
nothing with ammunition or magic. And I make my way
a little bit further towards one of these tribes, and
how many are there? I guess if there's like if
I approach a clumpus.
Speaker 1: I think you found just like a hunting group, but
are you looking for something in particular? Moon.
Speaker 5: No, I'm not even sure how I landed here. Okay,
I was just following a feeling, no direction.
Speaker 4: Moon.
Speaker 1: There's this this group that's hunting. They complete their hunt,
they kill this creature and they sort of you know,
rejoice in doing so. They've secured a meal and uh,
they're they've tied it up. They're bringing it back to
their camp and you can see that they are preparing it.
You know, they're they're skinning it there, you know, preparing
this for for a meal. They're different than humans. Obviously,
they're they're quadrupeds, but they do seem to have thumbs
on each of their limbs, so they're able to like
use tools and stuff with each of their limbs. And
they are they're capable of sentience. You know, there's there's
like a probably arguments about the food or you know,
they're kind of shoving each other showing dominance and stuff
like that. But you can see they've got various drawings,
like cave paintings almost along the rock near their camp.
Speaker 5: Okay, I will not attempt to engage with them. I
think that there's something about it that doesn't feel right,
But I do want to ask, are you here with
me right now.
Speaker 1: I am everywhere.
Speaker 5: The system.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, well.
Speaker 5: Listen where am I?
Speaker 1: The natives of this world call this place.
Speaker 5: Oh that's helpful.
Speaker 2: Ah.
Speaker 5: I look over at the tribe. Are they.
Speaker 1: Huh?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 5: I decide to pop out behind the tree and start
waving my arms.
Speaker 1: Hey, they all freak out. They reach for weapons and like,
uh yeah, they probably immediately just start throwing like the
equivalent of spears and rocks and shit at you.
Speaker 5: Oh gosh, I get my uh, I get my shield
out and I start just just pelting things away, like hey,
it's rude.
Speaker 1: They're just kind of gesturing at you. They look they're
trying to like get large, and uh yeah, they keep
throwing rocks. They just keep throwing them.
Speaker 5: Ah oh this is fruitless. And I'm just like dinking
these rocks songs off of the shield, Like how did
I listen? System? How did I even end up here?
Speaker 9: Like?
Speaker 2: What is going on?
Speaker 1: Why are these what? What even are these things?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 5: Are they humans?
Speaker 2: Or God?
Speaker 5: But stop when one is like.
Speaker 1: Off, they are native creatures of this world?
Speaker 4: What what?
Speaker 2: What world?
Speaker 1: You traveled to a different world? You sent your consciousness?
Speaker 5: Oh okay, listen, listen, I hold up my hands like.
Speaker 1: Wait, wait, wait, the rocks aren't actually hitting you.
Speaker 5: And I look at my shield.
Speaker 1: Oh I rocks sales through you.
Speaker 5: Oh that's got to be disconcerting for them. Hey hey,
And I hold up my hands like, wait, does anything stop?
Speaker 1: Oh they're still throwing rocks.
Speaker 5: Okay, I start charging up a blast.
Speaker 1: Yeah. They recoil in fear, like as soon as you start,
you know, rejecting this.
Speaker 5: Wait, and I just say that like one of those
stop signals when you're like at a crosswalk where it's
like wait, but it's like really loud.
Speaker 1: Okay, mm, would you like to put on a frightening display?
Yes please, Okay, we can spend twenty mind points to.
Speaker 4: Do so, okay.
Speaker 1: M hm.
Speaker 5: And I kind of like levitate above them. Hey wait,
and I like gesture.
Speaker 1: Yeah. They all look terrified, like they just kind of
like expose their necks, you know, like absolutely terrified of you.
Speaker 5: Okay, and I delevitate, descend, delevitate back to the ground,
and I start walking towards them just to investigate. But
I don't actually like touch any of them, but I
know that a few are cowering, so I just kind
of walk closer, like Okay, what else is going on here?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: You can see there's like paintings and stuff on the wall.
They're all just kind of like shying away from you.
They are clearly shaken.
Speaker 5: Right. Can I interact with anything here? I mean I'm
walking on the ground, but I don't even know if
I'm walking. I might even be just kind of floating.
Speaker 1: You do not have such power yet.
Speaker 5: Okay, good, just testing you, System, Just testing you. And
I look around. Do they have weapons?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I pick up Can I pick up one
of the spear looking things?
Speaker 1: You cannot interact with anything here? It is merely your consciousness, ah,
and a visual into their minds. What damn?
Speaker 5: I grab my shield and if they're still cowering, I
just raise it above my head and go cower more
and then I start walking away.
Speaker 1: Okay, Uh, do me a favor, Just make me an
open insight? Insight?
Speaker 5: Okay, that's an eight? Looking around? Okay, who else is
over here?
Speaker 1: Where am I?
Speaker 5: What is can even great? Another place? I found myself stuck? Hello?
Speaker 1: System, you will not be able to stay here for long.
It's requiring much of your power to do this at
the moment.
Speaker 5: Okay, Okay, and then I start feeling myself slowly fading out.
Speaker 1: Before you do, there is a similar sensation, like you
have gotten a new quest. You open up your interface
and you see warning warning powerful entity detected. There is
a thundering voice in your mind Moon and at first
it is guttural and horrible. Ah, and it sort of
changes you are you.
Speaker 5: Just help people?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: People, you do not be long. You are on.
Speaker 1: My head is pounding every word that is like spoken
into your brain. It's like a megaphone, like like right
next to your brain.
Speaker 5: Oh, I'll go wherever I want.
Speaker 1: As you say this, I need you to please make
a uh an open check. This is gonna be willpower willpower.
Speaker 5: Seven.
Speaker 1: It feels like you're hit with a baseball bat in
your face. Ah. You are hurtled back to as gore
and I think it is a physical reaction to You
are launched backwards through the wall and you land probably
like half embedded in two walls past in a different room.
Speaker 5: Oh, hum system, Yes, where am I?
Speaker 1: You are on rigalia.
Speaker 5: And I just crumble.
Speaker 4: Name, I.
Speaker 1: Give me dining chick. I'll get to eat.
Speaker 5: I know your animal.
Speaker 4: Hello.
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