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listening and enjoy see you and Jilden. You witness Thrack
take a hold of the capstan here in this magical tower,
in this area where the wheel that is turning or
wasn't turning underneath the tower of Eternal Nexus is as
you see through. To take hold of this capstan. Immediately
his eyes roll up into his head. Slowly, there is
a distortion around the area where he stands that begins
to take place. The arcane energy of the room starts
to quicken and deepen. There is a sort of heaviness
to the room all of a sudden, a pressure almost
like gravity.
Speaker 2: But more.
Speaker 1: Similarly, Cyrus places her hand into the pool of manner
below the wheel, and her eyes take on a strange
blue green glow. After a moment, the wheel itself begins
to shudder. The rumbling causes these bizarre distortions in the room,
these fractal shifts, this sort of odd ink blotting of
reality in the room around you. As you look, you
sort of one moment you see the room, the next
you see this sort of distant and bizarre low location,
this odd blend. As the room starts to shift and
change around you, Thrac immediately starts looking worse, his face seizing,
the veins on his face and arms bulging. There is
foam at the edge of the edges of his mouth.
We see see a dart across the room fearless. The
moment you make contact with Frank, there's a moment of
static shock that you feels here, but you wrench Thrack
away from the capstan, the two of you tumbling across
the floor of the room. At the same moment, a
second figure appears in the doorway, moving with a blistering speed,
his cloak billowing out behind him. The goliath wizard hard
stops at the capstan, his hands making contact with it.
His eyes roll up into his head the same way
that Thracks did. For the briefest of moments. His body tenses,
but he lets go, stepping backwards. He looks over to
Cyrus and then turns to you, Jorden, and says.
Speaker 3: Get her hand out of the pool, now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I have to catch it.
Speaker 5: I ran over. I stick my staff under her hands
and like yunk them.
Speaker 6: Out of the pool.
Speaker 1: Serious, make me a wisdom saving throw.
Speaker 6: Oh my goodness.
Speaker 4: I don't want to catch any it.
Speaker 6: Catch seventeen.
Speaker 1: I think that's three successes for you. You take a permanent
plus one to your arkana checks on your sheet there.
You let me know if you don't know how to
do that. Uh yeah, we see Jilden sort of wrench
Serious's hand out. It isn't like she's sort of caught
in this thing. Her hand comes loose freely. Serious kind
of collapses to the ground. Thrack is completely unconscious.
Speaker 4: Okay, Danny.
Speaker 6: Stop funning.
Speaker 1: Serious Hard looks about the room and begins to speak
to Jildin and see it. However, sometime later, you come
to the room sort of immediately spinning around you as
if waking from a very deep sleep. Not like I'm
drunk and I just got home, sort of spin. It
feels as though you've been asleep for days. There is
a heaviness to your muscles. There is a very bizarre
sense of confusion. You don't know where you are. The
room doesn't look familiar to you. You kind of roll over.
You realize you're not even on a bed. You're just
on a sort of makeshift cot, sitting for the most
part on just piles of books. There's a kind of
rolled up bedroll that is being placed underneath your neck
and head. As you sort of shuffle and come to
there is a smell of freshly baked bread and cakes
that fills your nostrils. There's also a scent of black tea.
Speaker 7: Very strong.
Speaker 1: Across the room at a small table, one table legs
sitting on the trapdoor that leads down into the basement
is Hard, Jilden and Sea. Before them there is an
assortment of food bread, cakes, meats. Each of them has
a wooden mug, and behind them is a pot of
boiling tea sitting on the kitchen countertop. For YouTube, Hard
has been oddly unforthcoming with direct information to your experience
or anything you might have questioned him about what has
happened here. While Thrack and Sirius have been asleep. He
sort of repeatedly claims that he's going to explain everything
when everyone else is awake, and then he would just
start talking to you about really strange things. And the
way he speaks is very odd. He doesn't really speak
about normal things like the weather. He'll speak about very
specific things that don't make any sense to you, or
he'll speak about items. Maybe I think probably he would
maybe have had a conversation with you see about strange
artifacts around the world, certain things that do strange things.
As he paus you each a cup of very very
thick black tea. No milk or sugar or anything. He's
just giving you this very dark, ocre liquid. He places
a spoon into one of the mugs and then just
lets it go and it begins to slowly stir the mug.
He takes it out, put it into the other one
and turns it around like that. He looks at you,
sere and says.
Speaker 3: You can have that if you want.
Speaker 8: I take the cup, but wait until Jildren has a
sip first. Before my sip, my.
Speaker 4: I drink half the cup.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it might try it great, very bizarre,
acrid black tea. But it's kind of energizing the way
it makes you feel. After a few minutes, you feel
kind of good. It give you a little energy, It
gives you a little focus on if you feel any
sort of ache from the travel of the maize or
the struggle of the day, it kind of dissipates. It's
quite relaxing and focusing, this strange tea. But it doesn't
taste very nice.
Speaker 3: He says. It is a taste that you will get
used to, but it is very good for you, make
you feel awake and focused.
Speaker 4: I don't want to get used to it, and.
Speaker 3: You can try. It will not work. I have tried
many different things. Alchemy was a subject that I was
usually quite good at when I was a boy, But
now it is there is something wrong with this mixture.
The effect is correct, but the tastes nothing I can.
Speaker 4: Do that, Mabe love Let's problem. Everything I cook and
jep right dish as well. It's a well doun issue.
Let me know if you ever figured it out.
Speaker 8: I think I suadly take a sip of mine after
Jordan does, and it doesn't heel over, and I think
I'm surprised by the flavor maybe I mentioned something about
it tasting a bit more like home.
Speaker 1: It's very better. He suddenly looks past your shoulders here
and his eyes locked with serious as she rolls over,
and he says.
Speaker 3: Ah, so you're finally awake. Yes, do you feel all right?
Speaker 6: How long have I been out?
Speaker 3: Perhaps an hour?
Speaker 6: Then I feel like I've slept for days.
Speaker 3: Yes, your hand, how does it feel?
Speaker 1: Feels fine? Looks the same as it should.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's fine. Good.
Speaker 3: Come if your legs will hold you, you can have
a mark of this. I think you will need it
more than your companions.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't go that far.
Speaker 4: It's nice though, you like it? Maybe I don't know.
I don't know if you like this kind of thing,
but I like it. So if you don't have it,
thank you.
Speaker 8: That was quick.
Speaker 6: How much do I remember.
Speaker 3: All of it?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 6: I get up on shaky legs, and I don't know
if they're shaky because I'm exhausted or because of what happened.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it matters. He's watching you. The goliath in front
of you is kind of it's kind of odd looking.
There's a lot of goliaths in this town. For the
most part, they're very large, plain looking individuals. In terms
of their features, they generally have similar skin tones. They
generally have similar body builds, and that goes for men,
women and everything in between that kind of roughly the
same heights and builds and sizes. There isn't a huge
amount of difference. It's just one of the things about
having giants blood that seems to permeate through goliaths, or
at least the goliaths here in Moon. For the most part,
everybody here has sort of a gray stone like skin
tone and texture. Their skin is quite thick and honestly ashy.
It protects against the snow and the cold. This golithe, however, Hard,
is a little different. He's a little smaller, a little shorter,
a little thinner. Most glides don't have any hair. Hard
has a beard, a sort of shaped beard. A lot
of golithes don't really need to wear a lot of clothing.
They don't feel the cold. They wear a lot of
barbaric looking clothing, the same thing you might find in
Conan and you know, kind of wraps and simple thongs
and throngs that run around their legs, and generally speaking,
they don't wear a lot of clothing, whereas Hard is
wearing robes, these thick red robes that run over his
back with a hood on it. He's got all these
different layers underneath. Some of the cloistered clerics and things
have similar robes, but Hard seem kind of it seems
like a fashion statement. He has lots of little trinkets
and ball balls and pouches that are hanging off of
the robes. Underneath the robe. Now that you three probably
see him for the first time, at least this close
and in a casual saying, you can see that he's
wearing multiple chains of different colored metals, just chain links,
the simple links. But some of them are green, some
of them are blue, some of them gold, silver, just
underneath and around his neck as if he has several
necklaces on. What might be hanging from them, or what
they really are is for the most part concealed underneath
his robes. He has lots of rings on his hands
as well, and a lot of glass have tattoos and scarification,
and he has seemingly none nothing like that on his body.
And a lot of these guys get tattoos young. They
end up getting them as mid teens and things. So
he's kind of an odd looking goliath when it comes
to most of the goliaths here. But he's watching you
with the with a sort of an unconcealed intenseness. As
you stand up and start moving across the room. After
you take a few steps, he seems satisfied with something
and then just goes back to thinking about something else
or pottering around on the table.
Speaker 6: I imagine he looks quite princely to me based on
how much he's wearing.
Speaker 5: Huh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he he is the maybe the only person in
town with a fashion sense.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Everyone else just it's it's very practical more than anything,
just covering the right bits.
Speaker 6: I don't think I like it or trust it.
Speaker 1: I mean the place that you're in, the room that
you're in is a kitchen living area. There are books everywhere.
For the most part, there's books and scrolls and paper.
There's runic etchings and scribbles and things even on the
walls and stuff like that. The place is it looks
like a UNI student common room. To be honest with you,
it just looks like a bomb has hit this thing.
There's stuff everywhere, little bits and pieces, old bits of
sticks and magical components and things just left all over
the place, even with access to spells that would tidy
this place quickly, seems like neither him nor Thrac tend
to do so, focusing much more on their studies. And
any second you spend casting a thrmaturgy over here or
a cleaning spell over there is a second that is
wasted when you could be reading another page in a
book and learning a new spell. However, he seems very
relaxed right now, as if he is just kicking back
with old friends, chit chatting away the rack. When you
awaken you feel god awful, where Sirius just feels sort
of kind of tired. You would probably feel as though
you you went through something. I don't know. I don't
know exactly how you would describe it. I don't know
if it would be a physical thing, which is where
I stop myself there. I think it would be more
like a mental thing, like you've been through some sort
of really rough few days. Maybe a little headachey, maybe
a little a little pain sensation physically, But for the
most part, I think what you have is a killer
migraine and a bizarre scent of self you experienced and
touched the weave of pure knowledge Really, your understanding of
magic has grown immensely in the last few episodes. Really,
but the understanding of that weave in the eight Schools
of Magic was just the beginning. What felt like breaking
through and being able to essentially read the matrix code
when you first picked that up and first started to
weave those things into the Capstan. Understanding which school of
magic went where and how to see them, understand them,
process them, and interface with them actually broke away. Eventually
you saw everything. You saw everything that there was to know.
You reached out and you were able to touch knowledge itself.
Knowledge not to be confused with understand, but answers, just
simple answers to questions that were the most part logical. However,
that power is completely gone. You're back to being yourself
while the information that you gained you still have. Everything
else doesn't make sense. Again, this is a Flowers for
Algernon thing where you experienced complete understanding or complete knowledge,
and then you've come back down. So even though you
had the answers, maybe some of the equations and some
of the ways of figuring out how to get there
have all but gone now predominantly, However, you're generally fine
there isn't at least it doesn't seem to be any
sort of long lasting damage here. That's seem to be
any physical issues. I think you just feel like you
had a horrible night again, same as for Cyrus. You
can smell what smells like fresh bread and cakes and
the familiar scent of that black tea that Hard is
always working on and brewing that he drinks relentlessly. I
don't know whether you do as well, This would be
up to you, but he drinks it all the time.
It gives him some focus, It does kind of work.
He's obsessed with drinking a cup of that and then working,
drinking a cup of that doing another bit of work.
Maybe if you drink a cup of that instead of
sleeping extra hour, you could do a little more work.
That's kind of his. You can sense all those smells,
and you can kind of hear some chitter chatter from downstairs,
as if, first of all, that would sound strange to you,
because very rarely do just Hard have any sort of
company like that. And second of all, you recognize as
it's the voices of those few individuals that you were
recently tasked with going on little adventures and journeys and quests,
with one of them being serious who you know from town,
with the other two being the kind of strangers who
only recently got here.
Speaker 8: What do you do?
Speaker 2: I use my staff to sort of help stand up
and stretch, and then n'll make my way to the
no mass of conversation.
Speaker 1: Do you drink this drink that he drinks? No?
Speaker 2: I I have once found that made certain urges and
impulses of mine aren't to resist.
Speaker 1: In that case, there isn't a mug waiting for you.
When you come down the stairs, Hard fixes you with
a look. As you come down the sort of circular stairway,
there's a it's a slow process. You can all hear
very clearly moving across the room above and then stepping
down each of the steps. There's a creaking to it,
the thud of his staff as he moves down. He's
moving kind of awkwardly. He looks like he's he probably
just would look hung over to anyone else from the
outside as he makes his way down the stairs relatively slowly.
As soon as your face and your eyes are within view,
Hard is kind of looking at you with a not
too dissimilar stare that he was giving Cirrus a sort
of seriousness to his face, and his looks hard actually
kind of silly. He's kind of a silly old guy.
A lot of the time. He's kind of making silly
jokes and being very He seems painfully relaxed sometimes at
the most important moments. The most serious I think you've
ever seen him be was in the previous episode when
he was straining and holding on to some sort of spell,
which was the ice shod holding the wheel together. He
watches you as you step down the steps, before you
even say anything, or before he gives you the chance
to speak or you guys have a moment, he simply says.
Speaker 3: Well done, all off. You truly a marvel to have
made it through the mace. Perhaps it was secure Bond.
Speaker 1: He's still watching thrack, but he kind of quickly glances
to each of it as he speaks.
Speaker 4: You're talking about what one.
Speaker 3: You will come to understand it. I am sure you'll know.
I have studied and studied that mark over countless years,
but honestly, I don't really know how it works.
Speaker 2: Much of a marvel.
Speaker 8: Less the angels, what a character? Do we have our marks?
Speaker 3: Yet?
Speaker 8: I don't think we do. This is during the pre Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't. This doesn't mean anything to you. No,
you're completely unaware of the fact that they were testing
you at this point. They seemed to be aware of
it about a year before, but you don't find out
anything until the beginning. You have seen the This is
about a week or so after the aurora that was
across the sky that started off the original Session zero,
which you can watch on our membership page if you
want to see that. It's cannon but not completely necessary.
It's all wrapped up in the first episode.
Speaker 8: In which case, I suppose I just say, is cure
what you lot here called mechanics because you could have
told us well in the advance what we had to
do instead of relying on a on a proto drag.
Speaker 4: Yes, and you could have been taking much better care
of that place instead of relying on ours. I mean, gosh,
if I take care of the stairs of my owner
about no change, you will figure it out.
Speaker 1: Sorry, what did you say?
Speaker 6: What will happen to him yard?
Speaker 3: Well, he will continue to leave downstairs. He has been
here for longer than I have. He has been here
almost as long as the tower itself has stood, which
is a very long time. I don't really know how long.
I suspect one day thrack quill understand something like this.
His specialities are a little different to mine. But I
think perhaps Track you you will understand time. Perhaps you
will even be able to go back. You could meet
the builder ah time, tracking time.
Speaker 8: How are you feeling my closed eyes on my forehead?
Speaker 2: I think Track is eating some meat and he's sitting
in a chair at this point.
Speaker 4: Sorry, I told the bread.
Speaker 2: Left if you like, how would I have some? If
you it all?
Speaker 4: But it is a life peace. But if you don't
say something, sure you, I'm going to keep eating it,
So givebut some more.
Speaker 8: Okay, my expoctor, we were not soon enough.
Speaker 2: I just continue eating a paunch of meat.
Speaker 3: I take it you chose to go deeper into the
badgers then, rather than finish the task at hand.
Speaker 2: I pause for a moment and say, and how often
have you turned it into the then of that particular badger.
Speaker 3: The one who taught me how to use that thing
made it very clear not to follow that particular hole
in the ground all the way down. It is not
for more tool minds. If you lasted much longer than
I certainly would have. I suspect, once again, it is
the mark.
Speaker 8: Do I pick up on what he's saying about a badger?
Then I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you, I don't know if you
would necessarily understand. It's entirely up to you. I think
I don't know if it's an insight check moment. I
think this is just whether you think that you would
understand that they're talking about whatever happened to Thrack or not.
Speaker 8: I suppose that much is clear. As for specifics, there's
no way i'd know.
Speaker 7: No, certainly, no way you'd know specifics.
Speaker 3: No, you were not already we knew this track, but
this was unprecedented what happened here. I am going to
figure it out. I think it will take some time.
You have other things to get on with, the three
of you. I am sure. Look at you, all caked
in the miasma of the basement. Perhaps I will clean
you all up and let you get on with your days.
You will seem to be fine.
Speaker 8: I'm sure I can bathe myself. But thank you very
much for the offer. I know you don't see many
people in here.
Speaker 3: You are covered in arcane.
Speaker 8: Mac Look again, right, I see that I feel.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 8: However, I don't think I'm keen tony to your arkeene bathtub.
If you are picking up what I'm putting down, Oh,
it is simples.
Speaker 1: He clicks his fingers, and although you feel a little
bit odd, ah, he instantly wipes your memory of the
events of the day.
Speaker 3: Serious.
Speaker 1: You find yourself at the cloister where you'd usually be
at this time of day.
Speaker 3: See here.
Speaker 1: You find yourself at the communal longhouse lodging. Thank you
find yourself at the writing desk in the tower, children
getting up a massage, probably asleep. Ah Thrank, you have
a pretty killer headache. But as far as you're able
to really remember of the day, you are it was
just like any other day. The same would go for
the rest of you. At the top of the stairway,
Hard opens the door to the top floor and there's
an icy blue light that bathes his face. He turns
down the stairwell and his face sort of hardens for
a moment, and he says, I.
Speaker 3: Will see you at the House of Knowledge, my apprentice,
if you are truly as masterful as I suspect you,
and those with the mark maybe the only ones who
can unlock the true potential of this tower and save
us all. He walks in.
Speaker 7: Closes the door behind him.
Speaker 9: Wriggle struggled to follow them across the snowfields. There were
times they vanished altogether. Riggle was crafty. Wriggle was quick.
He found them again. He would always find them. As
they disappeared into the big mountain. It was like his
home there, but filled with vibrant red life. Wriggle could
hear it singing. He called to him, that river of life,
but Wriggle closed his ears to it. He followed them
out into the broken woods. It was warm here, too
warm for Wriggle. He missed the snow and the ice,
but he followed them. He would always follow them. They
struggled to find the magical forest, but Wriggle did not.
Wriggle followed cautious the mirror. The other Wriggle lived inside
the mirror is the bad Wriggle in here.
Speaker 1: Now back to the present. Now, hidden deep within the
Nolands Forest, behind a shimmering magical barrier lies the House
of Knowledge, which is a sort of small, vibrant oasis
of life in a sea of desolation. The party had
previously stepped through the secret magical barrier from the oppressive
gloom of the blighted Nolan's Forest and the generally blighted world,
vanishing and appearing in a place that is bathed in wonderful,
warm sunlight. There are flowers of every huge, blooming in abundance.
Speaker 3: Here.
Speaker 1: They filled the air with a sweet fragrance. There are
birds singing merrily in the branches of all of the
trees here, covered in green leaves that whisper softly in
a gentle breeze. There are motes of pure arcane energy
and manner that flight that fly through the air, just
sitting there, floating endlessly on the arm, on the wind,
on that breeze. Being here immediately provides each of you
with the ability to hear one another's surface thoughts, at
first struggled to command the overwhelming amount of information over
the rest of you. With this ability, we're able to
recognize that the two elves that accompanied you across, allowing
them mor ghana, were actually working against you.
Speaker 7: They were undead beings working.
Speaker 1: For your enemy. And after discovering how to access the
house of knowledge, you fought with one another. You slayed
a lane as Morgana fled, I think I don't know,
I can't remember. It was so long agoing up in
very ill and I'm pretty sure you slayed a lane
and more Kana fled. Appearing towards the end of that
fire and sort of standing gracefully among the vibrant flora,
is this enormous face Stag, this creature of pure ethereal beauty.
Its body is sleek and delicate, with this fur that
seems woven from moonlight itself. It's radiating a soft golden
glow in the sunshine. The Facetag has these huge eyes
that are luminescent. There are sort of deep medallion colored
golden color that reflects ancient magic. And as this face
Stag moves, the Antler's sort of hum with a faint
musical resonance. There is a harmony with the forests, enchantments,
the magic, the life, and the fay creatures that live here,
and they're so in tune they quite literally make music
and resonance. Each step that it takes leaves a faint
shimmering trail of sort of radiant energy. There are points
where you see a hoof sort of hit the ground
beneath and the the area around that have blooms momentarily
with iridescent flowers before fading back into that sort of
lush greenery. This Stag's appearance is almost kind of surreal.
After everything that you've sort of witnessed and been through,
after the world that you've been walking through over the
last few months much just death at every turn, to
be presented with something that is so very very alive
and being in this place of life is maybe a
little kind of odd. It pauses and it's gazing at
you guys, after it had called down a radiant bolt
of energy and it had seen off the the witch
dead elf. And you can see this creature is sort
of breathing. Its breath mingling with the air produces this
sort of luminous mist. But what you can hear is
its thoughts, because you can hear each other's thoughts, surface thoughts,
but predominantly you can hear Thrack's thoughts. Thrack is struggling
so much with this ability. The creature is speaking with Thrack,
and though you three can hear it, it's not super clear.
This isn't the same as speaking exactly. It's almost like
tapping into radio frequencies, but without the static, you're just
kind of catching up on things. And while you understand
when this creature speaks, and even when each other might
speak in air quotes or when you're picking up on
each other's thoughts or the creatures of this forest's thoughts,
while you will understand it and I will be speaking
with words, in reality, you're speaking not just with words
and picking up on thoughts that are words and thoughts
in that way, but with feelings and images. So some
of what is coming through feelings, images and projections. So
when you hear that faced out speak thrack, that is
what you're picking up on, but it is speaking to you.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 1: You are struggling right now to you're just getting thoughts
from everything, and you're getting these weird flashes of images,
even from.
Speaker 7: The birds and the.
Speaker 1: Creatures that are here, especially from the three that are
closest to you. And then also there's this face stag
that speaks to you, and it says.
Speaker 3: Focus your thoughts, follow the sound of my voice through
the underbrush of your mind. Your mind is fractured. It's
not about shutting out the voices. It's about understanding the
magic you can make me an arkana check rack.
Speaker 1: A twelve while something for you here, this creature, this area,
and all of the ways that you got here begin
to piece together. When you figured out how to gain
access to the House of Knowledge, it was through the
same process that you approached the wheel. You even the
trap door. You saw the thread, you plucked at the
right parts of it and used them. It isn't like
you're commanding them exactly, but you're able to, like at all,
use them to achieve whatever means it is that you're
aiming for. In most cases, it's very a very rudimentary,
and I think this is part of your understanding the
spells that you've been learning, casting and writing over and
over again, practicing perfecting.
Speaker 3: There.
Speaker 1: It's actually quite rudimentary. The way that you do it.
You're like a child, sort of chaotically bludgeoning at this weave.
Every now and then you'll strike the right arm thread advocation,
your cast a fireball, abduration, your cast a shield, something
like that. Your understanding of magic is beginning to shift.
Speaker 3: When you.
Speaker 1: Came through this barrier, and when this stag tells you
it's not about the voices, it's about understanding the magic.
You begin to piece together these elements again, and you
now remember all of the events of the previous session
with the wheel, the memory wipe that day that was
taken from you temporarily by hard the understanding, the knowledge
that you learned what the tower is and how it
can be potentially used to a degree. He didn't give
you everything, but he gave you an idea, And in
doing so, not only do you understand how the capstan
works with the wheel, how you're able to use those
threads and move the tower, how you're able to access
the House of Knowledge, and how you're able to now
understand what you are doing right now is where the
others are, Where the others have access to this radio station.
You know how the radio fucking works. You can build one.
You understand the divination and the psychic energy required to
cast a message spell or a detect thought spell and
that kind of thing, And that's kind of what's happening here.
So the magic is very complex because there are more
than just eight schools of magic. The eight schools of
magic are just really the only way that your tiny
mortal mind can comprehend it. But there are other ways
of interpreting that magic, and there are other forces and frequencies,
one of which being the sort of very pure arcane
energy that is being emanated from the angels themselves. The
magic of this place, the spell that is the barrier,
is not angel magic that was placed by someone, presumably
a group or presumably even more likely the phase Stag
and the other fay creatures that are here to protect
this forest. But the telepathy, the general sense of life
in this place. And now you're realizing, just by being
in such close proximity to it, just the knowledge you
were able to figure out this barrier because you're next
to the Angel of Orange of knowledge. This thing is
the angel Carridwin, who is the angel to the God
of knowledge. Ogma's where my brain went when I almost
said the word orange. So you, being a wizard and
a scribe and somebody who has devoted your life to learning,
just understand a little better here. It's just you're just
in tune with that knowledge, that understanding. So some of
this is just coming to you a little quicker. You're
able to just piece together things a little better. You
have while you're in the house of knowledge advantage on
any ar Karna checks that you make the facedagg is
not the angel, by the way, just in case that
was what you thought it might be. But yeah, you
now understand this. The others do not have their memory.
Would you like to grant them their memories back? Ah?
Speaker 2: How quickly and easily? I'm running on instinct here, But
how quickly and easily would that be?
Speaker 1: Well, it's going to come down to a skill check.
But mhm, right now, pretty easy for you. You understand
the spell that hard cast over all four of you.
One part of that spell is that it can be
broken by you, right, He gave you the keys to once.
Once you figured out all of this stuff, you can reverse.
Speaker 2: All of my My memory has been restored, and I
completely understand how because of that, I understand more about
the threads you were speaking of, and the threads that
defended this place. Is that right? It's still defend this place.
Speaker 1: You're free to interpret that however you want as well. Again,
I'm just kind of interpreting it the way that I might.
But Frank might see all of that in completely different ways.
Speaker 2: I actually think he sees it as streams. It's kind
of like threads, but they're moving, and you can place
your hand in the stream of power and pull with concentration,
pull out the right string, the right stream of power
that's interwoven into all these other streams, like water in
your hand, but also a string, and you pull at it.
But I think the first thing he does is he
speaks to the stag and with his mind warns him, well, actually, no,
does he even realize that the two.
Speaker 3: Creatures.
Speaker 2: I don't think he even knows that those two creatures
were evil like this point. I think he was writhing
on the ground while all that was happening.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a pretty quick commiss in terms of rounds.
So you know, the other three, he dealt with them
pretty quickly.
Speaker 2: He would look around and then attempt to He would say,
we've forgotten something, and then he would restore their memories.
Speaker 1: Yeah, make me on our contact with advantage. I twenty four,
twenty four. I didn't need advantage. How do you undo
this spell? It's it's you're essentially doing a dispel magic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well casting.
Speaker 2: Here, Yeah, I just sort of if I concentrate, I
can see these streams of water flowing around there. It
looks like to give it visual representation for me. I
can see it flowing around their heads, and it's just
like untying and not. It's very simple.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you returned the memories of that morning for them. Yeah,
this would be a weird action, I think as well
for all of you, as Rank kind of just does
like a little.
Speaker 7: A little something with his hands, maybe.
Speaker 2: Whispers staff into a rock as well for each one
of them.
Speaker 1: As it strikes this rock three times, one by one interview,
you regain this memory of a day. I don't know
if it would necessarily just like come back to you
like you were, you know, like he hits play on
a video for you, but you do just get this
memory back of this very important day that happened over
a year ago. And I don't know how you would
register that or how that would feel for you, but
it does happen.
Speaker 8: I feel, for a seer for myself, it'll almost feel
as if, well, you know how sometimes you can be
daydreaming then all of a sudden remember something that happened
to you a few days ago, or like you know,
you you're thinking about something in the past. It's it's
like that but in reverse, because like I'm not I'm
thinking about something else in tired and all of a
sudden my mind just immediately goes back that day and
I reach down into my belt pocket. I pull out
this you've seen it before, this pure white rectangular slab.
I then peel it open. It appears to be a book,
and I filter through it. It's gossamer white pages full
of pink prints and dots and stuff on it. And
I go back to that day, and for some reason,
it looks like that entire page, or like not a page,
but a line is missing, and I never questioned it,
and now I.
Speaker 1: Know, Yeah, I think maybe each of you has a
similar experience. The facetag is moving towards you, and first
it was a decent ways off, but as it gets closer,
you actually recognize the size of this thing. It's standing
maybe fifteen sixteen feet tall, not including the antlers, which
then go up even further by a few more feet.
It's moving closer to you. You get senses off of
this thing again, because you can't help but feel how
each other feel, how the facedag feels, feel somewhat in
tune with the area around you. The face Dag does
not appear to be and does not feel afraid of you,
but is moving towards you cautiously part of the reason
being that there was a skirmish that happened here. There
is this kind of ashen corpse of this elf, draped
in this old looking rope. The green leaves that were
making up a sort of adornments on this alf's body
have rotten away, and what is sitting there now is
kind of just a desiccated corpse. You'd think that she'd
been laying there for a year, two years, just nothing.
There's no real flesh to speak of. It's just kind
of like leathered skin over bones, with this ragged looking clothing,
an awkward bow sitting to one side of her, and
then some of her bits and pieces kind of like
scattered around. You can see that they had a bag
on them, but the things that fell out are old
and rotten. The face Dag is kind of moving towards
this thing, and you get this sense coming from the
Face Dag that this creature is almost a perversion of
the House of Knowledge. But you also get the sense
that there are bigger things and more important things to
do with right now than his personal grievance with this
undead thing that has appeared in his forest.
Speaker 6: There is a sense of.
Speaker 5: There's a sense of raw anger rolling off of children
right now, but she stays silent.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I look like I'm a million miles away. I
don't really, I'm not really comprehending what's happening at the moment.
I'm not really here.
Speaker 2: Ah. I look to the corpse and sire, what happened?
Speaker 4: I think it died?
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 8: I would like you to make a educated guess as
to what happened.
Speaker 2: I I speak to this stag telepathically and ask him
the same question.
Speaker 1: The stag, yeah, looks towards you, throng to the corpse,
and again you can all hear these conversations. Again, you
do have a semi understanding of this. If you don't
want your thought, you want a private message someone you can,
but just casual telepathic thought will probably be able. You'll
probably be able to pick it up as long as
you're close enough to the person doing it. The face
Dag says.
Speaker 3: It's traveled with you. This thing.
Speaker 2: It is dead. I it was not, yeah, when it
came with it. I'm asking what happened to make it
looked like this. It has been dead for a long time. Yes,
In fact, thoughts start running through his mind.
Speaker 1: The faced egg sniffs the corpse a little bit, and
you actually all get the sense of rotten stench of
death from this thing.
Speaker 8: Mm hmm. Are you asking who killed it or who
charred it up like a bad barbecue?
Speaker 2: I so asking, Oh it came to be like this?
It didn't look like this before she was alive, before.
Speaker 8: The world ended. Were you not deceived at least once
in your life?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I'm not going to answer him, obviously. I'm just
he's just thinking right now himself.
Speaker 3: He awaits you at Carrodwin, we should go.
Speaker 6: Then, I look frantically towards the other three.
Speaker 1: Faced egg stance moving immediately, you get immediately the sense
that this that just took that as an acknowledgment and
almost a command, and turns around and begins to walk
away from you back the way it came.
Speaker 8: We still haven't We still have an other here with us.
Will we truly be safe here.
Speaker 3: Back?
Speaker 6: I don't think it really matters here. I think we
not turned back, so we might as well move forward.
Speaker 8: That is fair, I suppose at any rate, it makes
no matter or difference. We must always have our eyes
behind our backs, but their strength is half. Yet at
the same time, they were able to approach our campfire
without making a noise before, and we didn't even think
to second guess them.
Speaker 6: I suspect it kind of anything. Yes, I suspect that
if anything wanted to harm us here, we would be
hard pressed to fight them. I think we do what
we can do.
Speaker 8: My only concern the serius is the fact that they
came here for a very specific purpose, and even though
they've lost one of their number, that purpose has been
fulfilled and they know how to get here. Now, my
concern isn't so much to watch our backs. Then, should
we not need to hunt?
Speaker 3: This thing?
Speaker 6: Not our problem?
Speaker 2: I mean, what do you mean then? Now they now right?
Speaker 6: Well, regard one of them escaped, and we taught them
how to get here, it's not a problem.
Speaker 4: What are we supposed to do?
Speaker 8: It sort of isn't our problem, But at the same time,
it kind of is, and it irks me a little bit.
I turned to Thrack, Well, you do remember that this
had a twin. Yes, well, earlier in the forest, you
taught both how to get here. In fact, they helped
us get here significantly. They talked about returning to a master,
They talked about getting that knowledge back. So I don't
feel as if this creature is going to wait to
strike in a night, unless, of course, they really do
want their revenge. But if they are driven by something else,
like how a fanged friend from before is it was
two nurs?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 8: Must we need not chase this creature?
Speaker 6: I think that we should help if they need assistance,
But d angel wait waits for us. No, we should
not keep it waiting. This is why we came here,
is it not?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 8: Exactly who am I to bring up priorities the way
I say? Bring my hands behind my back.
Speaker 2: And just watching, I'll I'll start following the stang.
Speaker 5: Im I want to.
Speaker 4: Lose fifteen fresh staggered a beautiful fish or anything that
would be awful.
Speaker 1: Behind the giant glowing face, Stag begins to lead you
through the forest. It's only a short ways. He moved
through very thick underbrush and moving vines, past all of
these colorful birds and bugs under somelit dappled canopies before
arriving at a clearing. As you step through and kind
of into this slight opening of the very thick and
overgrown house of knowledge forest, you immediately notice a shallow
pool of water sitting here comfortably, and at the center
of it is a perfectly circular mirror, and it is
kind of bizarre. You look at and witness and see
this thing.
Speaker 4: I don't see myself when it do I you do.
Speaker 6: There is shy away from it.
Speaker 1: The faced agg doesn't enter the clearing. It just kind
of steps at the edge and looks back at you. You
get the sense that it's beckoning you forward. But as
you see this fifteen foot tall mirror sitting in this
pool of water at the center of a clearing, it
is just it is just thick circular glass. That's all
it is. There is a border of mirror around the
more plain looking, flat, thin looking glass of the central
part of the mirror. You're looking at mirror upon mirror. Yeah,
just just a weird circle sitting in the grass and
in the pool of water at the center of this clearing,
and standing next to the mirror is hard.
Speaker 2: He is.
Speaker 1: Again, not a particularly large goliath.
Speaker 3: He is.
Speaker 1: Pretty small for a goliath, pretty thin. But he seems
even thinner than you remember, each of you from only
you know, less than a year ago when you last
saw him. I think Frank would pick up on it
a lot quicker but you can see that he's got
bags under his eyes that betray a lack of sleep.
His hair seems thinner around that beard. The lines in
his face are deeper, and his left arm is sitting
awkwardly in a sling. You notice that the hand that
is hanging loosely from the end of it has been
blackened with necrosis and hard kind of looks over at
each of you, And as you have approach the clearing
the facedag, stopping and stepping to one side, he just
waves at you, kind of goofy from the middle of
this place, one arm in a sling, the other arm
up waving at you. You kind of just hear.
Speaker 3: Him, Hello, come on, esh bastard.
Speaker 4: Who do they think he is?
Speaker 8: No, no, no need to get indignant.
Speaker 4: I don't understand he took something from us without my permission.
Speaker 6: His arm is blackened. Is that what you said? Like necrotic?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: One of his arms kind of just looks dead in
a sling, an awkwardly made sling. You can see because
it's under the robe for the most part of the
fingers and the hand are small androtic, looking like they're
almost like rotting flesh or like a little mummy's hand
or something. It looks kind of desiccated.
Speaker 8: Serious, I think you have a brother in fashion.
Speaker 6: Yeah. I look down at my both of my hands,
both of which are now black as well blackened, and
my one arm, which is sort of tucked away and
is also blackened. I think the black is spread further
up the other arm than it is my BF arm. Yeah,
so I'm feeling strange, so strange.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you do see your reflections in this mirror, and
it's just a plain mirror. There's nothing weird going on immediately.
I mean there is, but you know, it's just a
reflection of you guys moving around. You're not seeing anything
different inside the mirror. You see him as well. You
see his back. He's just kind of in there, waving
awkwardly moving around. He's not he waves it, he waves
you over, but he's kind of like he turns back
to the mirror and you see his reflection. He starts
looking it over. He looks like he's very interested in it.
He's moving around it. What do you guys do.
Speaker 4: I've turned my back to the mirror.
Speaker 6: I'm looking up frock.
Speaker 3: H m hmm.
Speaker 2: I swhack. Jue didn't shell with my staff. Not too
hard done on. Let's see what he has to say.
At least.
Speaker 6: I walk backwards.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'd see your reflection moving towards this mirror. And
as you get closer hard as speaking, you sort of
catch that he recognize that he is speaking at you.
But he started before you got there.
Speaker 3: If you carried wing, carried win, it spelled with the
sea though the Angel of Okma, the god of knowledge,
the most useful being in this world, for what we face,
I really really hope you guys can communicate with it.
Speaker 1: He turns around, a big wide grin on his face.
Speaker 3: As you approach white the long face.
Speaker 4: What are you so happy about?
Speaker 3: Well, it is very good to see you all.
Speaker 4: How did you even get here?
Speaker 3: The tower?
Speaker 8: Where is your tower? Now here?
Speaker 3: This way?
Speaker 1: He points in the sort of opposite side of the
clearing that you came in from, But you don't see
a tower, but he just points that direction.
Speaker 4: So you're killing me, you or dish. God's damn time.
We could have just got here by car instead of
gone Bronie's mantains and through this icy hair escape. You've
just just arrived here, have you?
Speaker 3: Yes? Quite true?
Speaker 8: My arms are crossed as I look at hard. My
expression isn't necessarily one of giving away any particular emotion. However,
to Juldan's reaction to this person, I think I do
turn to her and my raise an eyebrow.
Speaker 3: Amused, you are confused.
Speaker 2: I suspect the journey was important. That is the destination
for us.
Speaker 6: You see, this is your angel.
Speaker 3: My angel. No, there are no such things as my angels.
We do not own them. Do they own us? I
don't think so either. No, No, this is an angel, yes,
Harry doing sorry wordsmith?
Speaker 6: I mean, is this an angel that you would pray to?
Speaker 3: I do not pray to the angels. I leave that
to Thors and your friends in the monasteries around the world. No,
this is this is simply a creature like you or I.
I think. I think Track knows more than I do
about the angels. Now I must pick your brains about it.
At some point I.
Speaker 6: Wept to look at him. I look at trecl like,
excuse me. I don't say that.
Speaker 3: But my prince here is very naturally skilled, but he
has to learn how to temper. He's greed for knowledge,
as did I, as to we all, there was a time.
Perhaps you will remember.
Speaker 1: He looks at Frank when he says that, but he's
speaking to you serious, and his eyes drift over towards
you again.
Speaker 3: That there was a time that we had to save
a wheel.
Speaker 1: And then he stares at you sious to see if
you acknowledge what he's saying. Yes, big smile on his face.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, Well this day was when Frank was supposed
to just go down and the wheel and come back
up and we all have a nice black tea and
go about separate ways. But instead, my young apprentice here
decided he would learn all of the knowledge of all
of time.
Speaker 2: Yes, I I don't think it was that much knowledge,
but I did learn nothing or.
Speaker 4: Two Why you kept it from it? You wanted to
keep it all for your share of that?
Speaker 7: What it is?
Speaker 6: What was that? What was that?
Speaker 2: Just remembered just now?
Speaker 6: A likely story? I look at him with absolute disdain.
Speaker 5: I am so pissed with rag right now.
Speaker 8: See his green widen's a thing exposed.
Speaker 3: The pool worst man saying, man's what you have here?
Speaker 1: He points at one of the little notes of energy
that's just floating around, he said. He just says it
to you like you're a child asking a question. You know,
like what's a snake? You know, and you're just let
as a lizard and you carry on, you know, doing
whatever you're doing.
Speaker 6: You're telling me that what I experienced is as simple
as a mode of dust.
Speaker 3: What did you experience?
Speaker 6: It felt like I experienced everything beyond any angel.
Speaker 3: I do not think this is what you experienced. Your
merely touched magic is a pure magic, like if you
were to before you bake a cake, if you were
to touch the egg.
Speaker 6: So simple.
Speaker 3: Then yes, sir, you went Thors with your cryptic ways
of approaching this.
Speaker 9: It is simple rules to this thing things.
Speaker 3: There are schools of magic. There are tones and scrolls
and lots of information all around that you could pick
up and read, but instead you interpret it with your
own thoughts and feelings. And it is childish. You went
Thors with your looking to the sky and listening for
the trees to tell you what to do when you
can just figure it out, as my.
Speaker 4: Stop it, stop it, stop stop saying these things.
Speaker 5: Yes, I put a hand on services back.
Speaker 3: Well, you see Thors put all of his hope into
this one, and I put all of my hope into
this one. And you see my apprentice here has done
exactly as I expected he would do. He has learned
how to turn the wheel.
Speaker 8: As much as I am loath to put a hold
to this cheerful reunion, What exactly is it that you
require of us now that we've reached this place, I say,
with my arms crossed, that.
Speaker 3: Is a very good question. Perhaps this one also has
the abilities to learn, rather than feel. This mirror, this angel,
tell me, what do you see inside?
Speaker 1: If you glance?
Speaker 7: Yeah, you just see the reflection and the reflection of
what's there.
Speaker 8: Okay, I step in front of the mirror and I
look into it. All I see is myself.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, perhaps it will be time for us
to do a little experiment. Experiment? Yes, are you feeling brave? Fearless?
Speaker 8: I narrow my eyes this entire time. The only eyes
I have been using are the ones in my eye sockets.
Speaker 3: Well, I do not want to make you do something
that you do not wish to do.
Speaker 8: Well, I've made it this far, haven't.
Speaker 3: I ask yourself a question in.
Speaker 8: The mirror, any question, I say, turning back to heart,
not at the mirror.
Speaker 3: I suspect one that will matter. There is, of course,
the chance that this will not work. Or perhaps you
will get hurt, or perhaps I will be honest. I
do not know if the Fay creature have told me
that it is possible. But I do not have the
mark of curra. I am not linked to this angel.
I do not have the thread that weaves through all
of the life, as you do very well.
Speaker 8: In that case, I turned back to the mirror, and
I loose in my robes somewhat to expose the mark
of the cure that's on my chest, and I say, oh,
great mirror, sort of you know, taking the piss. What
must we do next?
Speaker 1: Your reflection as we see you under the top thing,
and then we see that, you say, oh, great mirror,
Your reflection begins to move independently of you and the
seer in the mirror, while the rest of you remain reflections.
The seer in the mirror starts moving of its own accord.
You see it put its arms. That seer put his
arms behind his back and look up to the sky
and turn back to you seer and say, well, I
suppose you need to do what you need to do.
Aren't you here to save the world or something like that.
Speaker 8: I coily cocked my head at this creature in the mirror,
and I fold my arms, and I reply, very true,
and at this moment, what is it we need to do?
Speaker 1: Well, I suppose, and it folds its arms as well,
turning it's back on you for a moment, pacing around,
turning back, and all of you can see and hear
this by the way it walks up and down and
says that one is a difficult question to answer. But
I would imagine that figuring out how to get that
tower to take you to where the spear is would
be the first thought of core. Then take that sphere
and I suppose shove it into Maudrial's neck if he's
got one.
Speaker 8: I released the hold on my arms. My right foot
taps towards the creature. Can I say, this is the
sphere here in this realm?
Speaker 1: Last I checked? Yes, I believe it wasn't coup. At
this point, there is a set of sharp pains in
your heart from me three D four plus.
Speaker 8: Three three D four plus three ten.
Speaker 1: Reduce your maximum HP by that month. Wow, okay, you
take this damage. Your heart starts to beat in your chest.
There is a sharp pain as we see see a
kind of buckle. The moment the reflection shimmers and goes
back to being just the reflection of series. It reaches
up and grabs his heart. Hard is watching you, and
he says, what what is happening to you?
Speaker 8: Well, I suppose that's the toll. Ye I think I sped.
And there is a plum colored blood that's spat to
the side on the grass.
Speaker 3: So you are not immune to its effects. Interesting are
you imagined by that? But you know I suspected. But
wait before you get angry at me. I have a
little trick that I learned from my apprentice.
Speaker 1: Can you play the sound effect of the time rewind
for me. As Hard moves his hands through the air,
we see some birds fly backwards. We see the sky
shift back a little bit, the sun and shadows move
a little bit. And you guys see see step up
to the mirror.
Speaker 3: And Hard says, wait before you ask it your questions.
M Yes, this is going to hurt you.
Speaker 1: Ah.
Speaker 3: Now, I conducted a little test and I figured it out.
Not worry, but be careful when you ask questions in
the mirror. You will get the answers from the angel.
But the angel is going to hurt you. No, I
think you cannot handle the angel's power perhaps still moretal after.
Speaker 8: All, is my hit point maximum back to what it was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we went you, so for the four of you,
none of that just happened. So I don't remember that
you were about to ask your first question, and yeah,
you don't remember any of it. I feel like maybe
has some idea that he did some.
Speaker 10: Bullshit there, that Hart did some bullshit. But he continues
and says, yes, sir, you will asking it three questions.
But it seems that it will take something from you.
You must be careful which questions that you ask.
Speaker 8: It, turning away from him, I suppose I repeat this process.
Speaker 3: You are going to ask it what we should do.
Speaker 8: Obviously it will.
Speaker 3: Come back with some factious answer, putting its arms behind
his back, and say that you must save the world.
And then you will say to it, which we will
we save the world, And it says that you must
maybe perhaps go and find this speer and kill the
angel more drill with the angel sphere, which is already
the plant, so it is a waste of some of
your energy. And then you will ask it where is
this spear? Is it in this realm with us? And
it will say yes. The last it was able to
know it was in Coop.
Speaker 2: In coup.
Speaker 1: Kup is the place that is in the very It
is the place where I mentioned that the very small
monastery in sect of monks live in the most north
west area of the world. And it is a secret
place with a secret angel called el Naeus, deep within
the mountains. And nobody speaks of this place because they
don't want it to become common knowledge because of the
power of alnas.
Speaker 8: So it's both in the fee Wild in this realm,
you're at the same time also in coup Or. I
miss miss understanding this.
Speaker 1: Well, this you you aren't in the fay Wild's plane.
This is an enchantment. This forest is actually here.
Speaker 3: You are in a h.
Speaker 1: They created a magic barrier that hides this forest from
understood the rest of the Newlands forest. All right, you're
not actually on a different plane of existence.
Speaker 8: Okay, Well, I suppose if our questions about our task
have been answered, what am I to ask it now?
Speaker 2: I mean that.
Speaker 8: I have a mind or too as to what I
could ask it. How badly did it hurt?
Speaker 3: I say, you grabbed that to your heart and you
were about to split up blood.
Speaker 8: I'll take a step back. M.
Speaker 2: I approach this mirror and I go to the angel
it and touch you. Anything happened.
Speaker 1: It feels just like a mirror. It feels like glass,
cool to the touch.
Speaker 2: I'd like to see if I can understand the weave
of arcane magic that created this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hard is watching you very careful as you do this.
You can roll me and our carna check with advantage, sirrus,
you can roll me inside check as welcome.
Speaker 2: I got twenty four. Also, I wanted to mention that
I did tried to study Julban's face when the mention
of el Naus. I don't know if.
Speaker 5: Looking at was a flicker across day, a sort of
widening of the eyes in mild disbelief that his name
had even been mentioned by somebody, and then quickly attempting
to mask it down and pretend.
Speaker 6: I got to.
Speaker 2: Twenty four the corner.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you you understand some stuff about this angel. The
the weave as it exists is there are there's layers
to this stuff. It's it's quantum, right. So magic is
there's a lot of things going on. The Schools of
magic are predominantly how you They're almost like lens is
through which to focus manner energy are cane frequencies whatever
you might want to call them. The angels just operate
on a deeper frequency. It's not they don't They aren't
focused through one of those mortal lenses that the people.
The way that the angels operate is very alien to
the way that your brain perceives things and has to
understand things in the same way that we can't see
like infrared. The schools of magic are just the frequencies
that we can see and hear and understand. So they've
been kind of cut up into those eight different schools.
Underneath that, there are some other layers of magic, one
of them, you understand, being that sort of nature magic,
the kind of thing that children uses to transform into animals.
It's not really a school of magic, just tapping into
the fucking live stream directly and just using it to
just shape her body and become the thing that she
wants to become. And the same goes for a lot
of the divine magics that Cyrus uses, the healing magics
and things like that, they're just coming She's just pulling
straight from the divine energy of the angels, which is
just it's just pure manner it's just pure magic, and
that's really all the angels are. They are just these
ancient creatures. Though this is a living creature in front
of you as well. This is completely a living creature,
the same as the birds here, the face Stagg, yourselves.
They just operate on a They're just very weird and
very different. Answer your question, I would like to try
and if I can isolate the thread or stream magic
that is pausing on who us when using this angela
gat knowledge?
Speaker 3: Give me.
Speaker 1: Another archonogeck.
Speaker 7: But are all really high?
Speaker 3: No problem?
Speaker 2: Twenty four.
Speaker 1: Close you, it's very close. You start trying to isolate
those layers, and you have to move through the eight
schools of magic, and now you're looking at the deeper weave.
You're looking at this thing that is it's no longer
threads that are easily and singularly isolated. It's just pure magic.
It's just pure You're running on pure instinct to try
and figure out what's what here. It becomes a lot
more of a game of trying to find a needle
in a haystack than previously. The layers of difficulty have
just gone on to nightmare mode for you. As you
start moving through this you do isolate the ability to
recognize the differences between the divine magic, the angels magic,
nature based magic, some other things going on in here.
The issue isn't that you understand it and you don't
understand it, and it isn't that you can't isolate it.
It's just that this is kind of a ridiculous prospect
to try and control it, to try and shape it.
It's just bigger than you are. The the only you
actually do have an element of this divine angel magic
moving and coursing through your body, and so do the
other people here. With the cure mark, you are able
to recognize that hard doesn't have this this angel as
well as the other angels, and the energy of the
angel's magic in the weave is bolstering all four of you.
You're enhanced, you're stronger, you're better, you're faster, you've got
a better understanding of magic, you've got a better connection
to nature, and you've got resistance to interfacing with this magic,
or interfacing with the type of magic that the angels
would inflict upon a mortal. This is the type of
thing that where you're just trying to interact with a
radioactive isotype directly again. And it isn't that you don't
have the ability to, and it isn't that you don't
have the resistance or anything like that. It's it's just
not possible really for you to do, because no one is,
because you are ultimately still mortal, and so you just
you cannot interface with something this powerful without it doing
some sort of harm to you. Rob me another arkanacheck
with advantage again sixteen Okay, rob me a D four.
Speaker 7: H You nullify some of.
Speaker 1: The damage. It takes you a little while, maybe you
explain to the others, give me a moment here, and
you start to work on something. You begining canting, you
begin chanting, You begin writing stuff down, and then you
start creating a little enchantment of your own, a little
home Brew enchantment. As you write down this thing, you
piece together a way to enhance your resistance to this
angel's damage from now on. Instead of rolling a D
four plus another number here, you only take the amount
of damage equal to the other number. So see a
roll the D four plus three three D four plus three.
If he had, if he were to reroll that again,
now it would just be that he takes the flat
three he wouldn't roll the defauur. You've removed the defour
from the damage.
Speaker 8: Wow, that's great.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, i'd explain that I significantly reduced potential amount
of harm cauds us. But we should still choose our
questions wisely, and I think I should be the one
who asked them.
Speaker 6: Can I interrupt first? Why did I have to roll
an insight? And I rolled it twenty three?
Speaker 1: You understood a lot of what Thrank was doing then.
It wasn't that you just understood on an instinctual level
how he was interfacing with this angel, place his hand
on the angel, and while he was working this out manually,
he was just counting ones and twos. You know, he
was right coding. He was sitting there typing way and coding.
You understood a lot of that on an instinctual level.
Everything I just said about the angel's source of magic,
nature based magic, just pure mann out of the way
that people are able to just draw divine energy straight
up out of the angels. It is something that you
you kind of osmos that just then.
Speaker 6: Whoa holy.
Speaker 1: You felt it though you didn't think it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, uh holy, Okay, Well I'm in a crisis
but it's fine, It's going to be fine.
Speaker 2: Well that's my mantra getting back to the role play. Ah,
you're gonna do anything.
Speaker 6: With that, with that information that I just got.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't want to interrupt you. I just had
to make a joke.
Speaker 6: Oh no, no, no, no, no no. That was like I
experienced all of that, and you can continue saying what
you were saying. Sorry to interrupt, thank you?
Speaker 2: No, no, not at all. I yeah, so I guess
I say that. And then is there anything we think
would be worth asking?
Speaker 6: Well, I suppose the first question should be how do
we acquire the angel spear?
Speaker 2: No, they are going, well, I'm not sure with my
roles for do I was I able to discern I
wasn't looking for this specifically, so I'll probably had to
roll again. Was the answers so frustratingly useless because it
came from sea.
Speaker 1: That you didn't see it? Time went back?
Speaker 2: Oh that's right, okay, But he was the one that
asked the questions. And also but he did say I
can't remember the word you use. But he said on
the first question, like he gave a flippant response or
something like that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he asked where he asked where the spear was, like,
obviously we don't know this wrong, but he asked where
it was and then he said it's here.
Speaker 8: What are we to do next? And he said you
are to save the world, is what he said.
Speaker 2: And and Hard did sort of hint that he was like,
you see, it made a you know.
Speaker 3: Useless response.
Speaker 8: That's probably something that Rack, because of the way Thrack interacts,
would see, I would probably think on his own.
Speaker 2: But no, I swear he said something like that. Right,
I'll ask that question. Yes, I'll step up with mirror.
I think I'm curious. I want to see how this works.
I'm willing to take the risk. Once we take the
tower two I'm sorry, what is it called again?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: I thought it was northeastern. You're saying it's northwestern, northwest. Okay,
you're in your break close, right, Okay. Once we take
the tower to the northwestern most to coup, how do
we then get the spear?
Speaker 1: That's the end of question. The version of you that's
in the mirror that you're speaking to is looking at
you as you say the answer, and then immediately it
brings the staff into itself. It kind of moves its
hand and begins moving independently of you and looking across
the others, glancing at Gilden first and then back at you,
and it says, well, the thing is, I don't really
know where the spear is. Angels can't know where the
spear is. That's the problem, because we can't use it
to destroy another angel where it's a secret even from us.
That is the first thing. What you people made.
Speaker 8: The mortals.
Speaker 1: The only thing I know is the last time that
I heard about it, it was a coup.
Speaker 2: I would.
Speaker 1: You need to reduce your maximum hit points by one
by one?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: Yeah, just stabbing pain in your arm.
Speaker 2: I grasped at my chest and I go ahead and
ask your question while.
Speaker 8: No, no, no, the question was per So it's one max
HP per question instead of one D four plus one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 6: That is so absolutely clutch. I can't even believe how
crazy it is that we were able to.
Speaker 2: Do ask forty seven more questions before I die. No problem.
You know, we said stand in the back, right. I
turned to Jill. Then is she looking at me?
Speaker 5: Absolutely not looking anyway, but at you?
Speaker 2: Okay, if you love m hmm, okay, I approach God
them M hmm. What I believe. This is why you
are part of us?
Speaker 4: Why you know what?
Speaker 5: I have been stood far away from the mirror, deliberately
not wanting to be any part of whatever is happening.
Speaker 6: So I haven't heard any of the conversation.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, you don't know anything that's going on, all right,
But you did look when he sat down there us,
I did it.
Speaker 5: I heard the name. It's like I'm attuned to that
specific name like a cat'sier is pricking up.
Speaker 2: I think you shouldn't listen to my next question.
Speaker 5: It's like my It's like I'm warring with myself right now.
Speaker 2: It's what you seek.
Speaker 4: How do you know why Sikh.
Speaker 6: Being petulant?
Speaker 8: Come.
Speaker 2: I'll try to take her hand and guide.
Speaker 5: Him, snatch it away. I take a step with you
after you start walking, and hang out behind you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I welcome to the mirror. And I ask, yah,
I ask it is a nice still there?
Speaker 1: A version of you in the mirror starts moving about,
thinks for a moment, looks at you, looks at Jilden,
looks back at you. Mm hmmm. Now, if you're asking
me about the el Naeus, the angel that lives on
top of the mountain the coup. Is it still there
technically yes? Is it dead technically yes?
Speaker 3: But if you're.
Speaker 1: Asking me about the creature that presented itself as el
Naeus to Jilden, but in that one, while it is not,
el Naus is absolutely still about Wiley, what is it
talking about?
Speaker 6: What do you mean?
Speaker 1: Nice question?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: First, the threat, So I actually fucked up the damage
that you took earlier on my you would have taken
an extra three I think you would have taken an
extra five thrack you take two. Uh damage this time
permanent who had to be.
Speaker 3: By two.
Speaker 2: Increases every time.
Speaker 1: Jilden says, what do you mean to the mirror? Yeah,
the version of Thrank that was moving around kind of
continues to move about on its own. But the version
of Jilden snaps her head towards Jordan and says.
Speaker 7: What what I mean.
Speaker 1: Do you think that was? It's not as it was
a fiend using you, getting you to go around and
do things for its own.
Speaker 3: Horrible.
Speaker 4: It all needs no, no, no, this a light. This
is why you don't listen to angels and things like that.
None of them are real. They're all just charlatans pretending.
Speaker 5: A storm off away.
Speaker 1: From the mirror, you take one hit point of damage
permanent reduction.
Speaker 8: I casually stride up to the mirror, arms cross I
look into my reflection. Can I ask, can you see
into the future before the future happens?
Speaker 1: The version of you remains arms crossed. Are your eyes
on your forehead open or closed?
Speaker 8: So canonically, the eyes on my forehead before we set
out on our quest never really opened. If ever, maybe
when we were fighting, perhaps using a key point, one
would open. As we've been exploring, and you know, as
I've gotten to know our group and as we've been
doing things, they've kind of taken more of a character. However,
in this moment, amongst hard amongst this mirror, they are
shut again. I am just using my eyes in my
eye sockets, they.
Speaker 1: All flicker open, but the figure of you remains still
in the in the mirror, arms crossed. The figure says, well,
the future is a tricky thing, and I see into
the future. Yes, that does it change from moment to moment. Yes,
that's the problem with time and portance. The eyes on
the forehead flicker closed, but the two eyes on the
front of mirrorsere look at look at Cyrus when it
says portance prophecies as it looks back to you, especially
when you're dealing with something as bizarre.
Speaker 8: As mondrial. Are we up to the task? Is our question?
Speaker 1: Are you up to the task? Well? I suppose if
you're asking me how it looks for you. No, I
don't think anyone's up to the task. I think it's
already over. If your task is to save the world
is to destroy more drill. However, if your task is
to figure out some other way, perhaps escape your wretched fate,
there's a possibility. Then again, a spear created more drill,
perhaps it can undo him too.
Speaker 6: I uh. As he's speaking, I put a hand on
your shoulder and I step forward, and I say, you
said that it's already over, that it's already been done.
Is there a way to stop it before it begins?
Speaker 1: The version of Cyrus in the mirror frowning as you
say this, The expression on her face kind of softens
a little bit, the frown turning to a kind.
Speaker 3: Of a.
Speaker 1: Sort of a forlorn look, and she says, I think
it's already been done. I think it's already begun. Unless
you're talking about going back.
Speaker 6: Yes, that's what I mean. Is it possible.
Speaker 1: You would have to go back to the beginning.
Speaker 3: This start?
Speaker 6: When was the start the start of time?
Speaker 1: When the gods created Gia and Gia?
Speaker 6: Was it an error here for or did they make
it this way? The gods made it this way. I
know not why, but this world ours.
Speaker 3: This was.
Speaker 1: The second Guya created, the first my kind. The angels
were malevolent, violent, and they were given souls. I call
it Guya zero. At the same time the gods created
Gaya one. Here the angels were soulless. If you were
to go back to them, perhaps you could stop all
of this. But I think you would fail.
Speaker 8: Well, I like our odds considering this mirror things will
failed regardless.
Speaker 1: Take three damage?
Speaker 2: Serious mm hmm?
Speaker 8: She asked three questions?
Speaker 2: Ask three questions.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not three, it's ime, keep messing up. It's
three two three?
Speaker 6: Wait?
Speaker 2: What six? Damage?
Speaker 3: You take?
Speaker 1: Six downs?
Speaker 6: Six? Okay?
Speaker 2: In increases by one each question you ask.
Speaker 6: Oh, okay.
Speaker 8: That's why I was saying careful.
Speaker 1: He was trying to that whole time. Your heart is
in your test, starting to feel like you have terrible heartburn.
Speaker 6: I've been a worse pain. I barely noticed.
Speaker 8: Okay, right, be it's rack here that, by any chance
was he still controlling jielders.
Speaker 2: She walked off. I'm still futod here.
Speaker 8: Okay.
Speaker 2: If I'm not looking at the mirror, I'm looking to
my companions. If we go back, I wonder.
Speaker 8: Can we go back? Do we have that power that? Yes,
so easily.
Speaker 2: We can? I didn't say we would be easy?
Speaker 6: Rag, Are you willing to ask more questions?
Speaker 2: Mhm? Did you have one in mind?
Speaker 6: Was the soul of the difference? I want the angels
having souls? Would it make them evil?
Speaker 2: I wonder if it's angel doing this? Is not from
this world?
Speaker 8: H I don't know. It seems pretty souleess to me.
Speaker 2: You're right, I don't know if knowing that for certain
would help us in any way.
Speaker 6: What does it want? What does it want? The more
more true a soul to die? I turned back to
the mirror. Okay, I'm like on a run and I've
had a crazy day. Okay, I just I'm like intuiting
the connection of the weave the gods. The angels have
no soul my religion? What is happening? So I just
I turned back to the mirror. What does Mortreal really want.
Speaker 7: Mirror?
Speaker 1: Cyrus rests one, you know, her good arm on the
pommel of her long sword for a moment, contemplating, and says,
Mortreal is in pain. I believe there are two things
that he wants. One is vengeance on the gods that
created him. And two he does not wish to be
alone anymore. But that is his curse, Montreal, his curse,
trying to kill everything, to draw out the gods, but
they will not be drawn out.
Speaker 8: No response. And to mi compatriots, and I look at them,
face stone, but hands to my sides, and I say,
it looks like we have two choices. Then realistically, Choice one,
we find the spear, we look for this Moudrial, we
end him and the world remains the same, quite the folly,
or we die. The second one, we go back in
time and try and face him there in the hour
of his birth and stop him there and then, or
we don't stop.
Speaker 6: Him, we give him what he wants.
Speaker 8: You want to be his friend?
Speaker 6: Would it help?
Speaker 8: I'm not so sure? Will it help?
Speaker 6: Is it not? The difference between misery and darkness? A
family of one' zone?
Speaker 8: Forgive me if this comes off as maybe perhaps a
bit sharp, But do you consider yourself worthy to be
kin to an angel?
Speaker 6: I don't mean me. I just mean if they say
that nothing can stop it. It was built wrong, it
was built broken, So maybe we build it right.
Speaker 8: Okay, maybe mad.
Speaker 6: Mortrial if given a different beginning, a different story. We
all want some thing. And I know that there's no
guarantee that he could simply become evil in another way.
But do you not feel alone? See her? Were you
not glad for us for this bond? No matter how
much you resent it, or fight it or embitter it,
do not feel more whole. You don't have to love
your family.
Speaker 8: Far be it from how I immortal feel. Serrus, you're
still proposing that what we change how God is conceived
in the first place.
Speaker 6: I know it sounds I know it sounds insane. Yeah
I don't, I don't know. I don't know. But if
an angel tells me that the only way to fix
something is by making sure it's not broken in the
first place, I wonder if it's possible. And I'll have
you know, up until this point, when we first met,
we had no clue that we would be here. If
someone were to tell us that we were to be cure.
We wouldn't believe it. Someone to tell us that we
would be able to traverse how we've gone all this
way if it entered the House of Knowledge speak to angels,
we never would have thought that we would be capable. Possible. Yes,
of course, there's the way that we as you said,
we find the spear, we bring it back, said the dragon,
and the dragon kills Mordrial. And then what if this
angel tells us true? Then that doesn't change anything. It's
already over. We just kill Mordreal along with all the
other angels, and now there's just one more angel dead.
Speaker 8: Well, that's precisely what I mean. The world as we
know it right now, from this mirror's telling is forfeit.
Whether we kill this angel or not. However, should we
could we go back in time using thrax abilities, find
Mordrial there in the hour of its conception and slay him,
then then we will save the world. Because this won't happen,
but the world still will either way, I believe we
are forfeit.
Speaker 6: You think that it makes more sense that we mortals
would be able to slay Mordreal at the moment of
his conception, but to befriend him or to God.
Speaker 8: And create a fam I'm sorry, but I think maybe
perhaps your horns are on a bit too tight there.
I'm not too sure exactly what you mean. I'm not
following what you're saying. What are you talking about? What is?
What is?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 8: What do you mean by family? What do you mean?
Speaker 6: What is? Eyes of the mother? Ceir?
Speaker 8: I beg your pardon, as of the mother?
Speaker 6: What does it mean?
Speaker 8: Why this?
Speaker 3: Why? Now?
Speaker 6: Why not? Now? Why not this?
Speaker 8: I bite my lips so hard I think my lip bleeds.
The eyes on my forehead opened into a small squint,
staring at her, shaking ever so slow at her. I
look away. I don't tilt my head, but my eyes
look past her. What do you mean?
Speaker 6: Why did he call you that?
Speaker 8: I wonder? I cross my arms.
Speaker 6: That's serious, m I don't think you do, sir. I
don't think you do, wonder. I think you know. But
I'm going to show you what family means right now.
I don't care what it means. I take you as
you are, and.
Speaker 8: You don't know what family is where I come.
Speaker 6: From, right just as Mordrell doesn't know where family, what
family is where he comes from.
Speaker 8: Perhaps there's other ways, how I lift her hand, waving
it to her iris tilts back and forth. We have
an instrument to destroy this creature. But what do you
propose we do when we get there? That makes no sense.
That baffles me. Family makes no sense.
Speaker 6: After everything, it makes no sense.
Speaker 8: In the context that you're talking about. Yes, it makes
zero sense.
Speaker 6: Do you realize, just think for a moment, do you
realize the one thing chosen, the one thing the angels
believe that can stop Mordrille is a bond? Do you
think that's coincidence? Destruction begets destruction, death begets death. You
kill one thing, it kills another. The only thing that
can provide life is life, love, safety, family, a bond.
Speaker 8: Surely, the reason why a bond is so important to
these angels is the fact that they can't make one
themselves because they have no soul? Right is that all.
Speaker 6: That can create a bond?
Speaker 8: You tell me you seem to be an expert in it.
Speaker 6: Far from I'm guessing just as much as you are.
But I suppose it's just a version of the world
you'd rather live in.
Speaker 8: I wouldn't go that far, but it's what I know,
is said the mother, Right, I squint again, don't say
those words as if you know what that means.
Speaker 6: I could carry it for you. You know, you could
tell me who don't have to, but you can.
Speaker 8: I look away from her again. See sorry, doesn't usually
have much of an emotion on his face when talking
can delited people. There is a way that he talks
that through this time that you've been in his presence,
you know, adventuring with him and all that talking eating,
there are two or three, maybe perhaps even four different
seers that you may have noticed. Perhaps an inside check
at this point might maybe perhaps allow me to divult
more feel like I could.
Speaker 6: Maybe perhaps you may do an inside check. Sure, I
would love to do an outside check. Twenty five. I
know you're real well.
Speaker 8: Now twenty five. All right, there are many seers that
you've seen so far. When you first met Syr back
in Moon, he was a bit reserved, polite when he
had to be otherwise, he was kind of to himself,
perhaps only maybe really jilled, and would when in her
way with her foot scrubs and all that, kind of
get past that and maybe perhaps you might see more. However,
in that time, generally he was business first. He'd be
cut but he'd always be helpful in terms of playing about,
in terms of you know, those mannerisms. Always it was
only the two eyes in his head. You didn't realize
that the marks on his forehead were eyes until the
world was ending and there was a giant that was
trying to smash down the mountainside that we had to
repel just its hand. And in that time they were opening,
and they seemed to kind of do their own thing,
but generally speaking they were part of that. It was
only really after Sear walked through that portal between spaces,
when we were going to see the tree the trees.
Speaker 2: That.
Speaker 8: He would use them, almost as if they were his face,
that they would open and he'd be more free to
use them per se that moment when he lost his fear,
it seemed as if maybe perhaps there was a different
person that you'd noticed, somebody who, yes, he's a bastard,
one of the biggest bastards you've ever met, but he
still was always helpful. Every single time he asked him
a question, even if it was curt even if it
was insulting your intelligence, the answer would be within it.
And that remains to be the case. But what was
your question? It was just an insight check the entire
yea a base on the conversation that we just had.
I said, like you could tell me, I think everything
down to even his his body language. You've noticed, Yes,
everything is deliberate.
Speaker 6: Okay. I turned to the mirror. I look at him,
and I look at frac and I look at Jilden
and I this is so dumb, but I'm going to
do it anyway. I say to the mirror, tell them
why I came to Moon? Can you tell them who
I am? What happened to me, what brought me here.
Speaker 1: The version of you in the mirror looks at you,
looks at the others in a similar way that you did,
and then begins to speak. But I'm going to let
you do it, Okay, be as truthful as it possibly can.
Speaker 2: I am going to telepathically repeat these words to children.
Speaker 6: You were born of two families. Your mother an elf,
your father dragon born. They fell in love amidst war,
battle disease, and they had you. They tried to make
life enough for you, but it wasn't going to be,
and so you left them. Nowhere wanted you, not a
single place. You joined a war band, and there you
learned what camaraderie could be brotherhood. You thought it was family.
You fought many battles, you made a father. Another one
eventually came the day of your dark night. Your war
father was killed, and in vengeance, you took blade to
the bat who killed him. It was only then that
you realized, as he fell, but it was your father
who had returned to war, both dead, one of your
own hands. Your brother's gone, your father's gone, your mother gone.
Nowhere was yours and you were never meant to be.
And you heard a call from a mountain, and so
you went to the moon, and there you tried to
learn not to be angry, not to be lonely. There
you tried to learn not to be you, to be
something else, something that could be loved, something that could
be wanted. And now you're in a bond. Is that enough?
Speaker 1: You do five damage?
Speaker 2: I put my hand on serious's Shortland must stop asking
questions or we lose you.
Speaker 6: I'm all right. I nod, and I look to see her,
and then I kneel down on the ground in a
prayer position and close my eyes.
Speaker 1: Watching you. The whole time has been hard. As he
paces up and down behind you, and listening to you
each ask the questions, and he steps forward and says.
Speaker 3: I think we could have asked better questions. Are you
feeling all right? Each of you arm farm good. You
must be cautious. You are resistant to the angel's powers
as those predicted, which means you are resistant potentially two
more drill powers of death. But there have been many
cura and you are the last.
Speaker 8: When you say many cura and we are the last,
are you to imply that many before us have tried
to fight more drill or what purpose has a cure
head before us?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, from what I understand and from my travels,
everyone in dead. There are a few preachers. There are
some in the mountains nearby who will certainly be dead
of their own devices soon enough. There are the beings
in this forest. There are some underwater. But I was
unable to find anywhere else. I traveled the world over.
I went to Coop, I went to the barbarous lands.
I even went to the Learning and Kingdom. I went
to Kissa, to dragon Fall. Everywhere is wasted. I think
I even bumped into more trial himself in the Tyran Empire.
And I think that is what has happened to.
Speaker 8: My arm a firm handshake.
Speaker 3: Then there have been many cure it is a non phenomenon.
It is not common. But you are not the first,
but you are the last. The other ones where are they?
I believe the last of them have gone. I do
not want to do this, but I will try something.
I will need your help. Track.
Speaker 8: What are you going to do?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Well, I can cast my spell one more time.
Speaker 2: Well we still have we still have a chance to
ask it questions when you're finished.
Speaker 3: How how do you feel? I do not want to.
I do not want to see one of you fall
and my spell fails.
Speaker 2: I feel fine. I've only asked it to questions.
Speaker 8: You have been present. However, for all of this, if
that steel trap of yours is as strong as everyone
in Moon thinks it is, then maybe perhaps we could
rely on you to tell us what it is that
we've learned. However, I turned to Cyrus. Certain sacrifices have
been made today. I do feel as if I do
feel as if the power of such a sacrifice would
be moot. Should you just turn back the clock?
Speaker 6: It's your choice. I can continue like this.
Speaker 3: Right very well? I will wait, But I think I
can try again. I am not as proficient ass track,
but I do have a few tricks up this sleeve.
Speaker 7: He Lift says, slung arm.
Speaker 2: H atturned to the mirror, and I'll ask myself, how
do I convinced then then the angels are not all
evil beings that are using her like that creature did.
Speaker 1: Mirror Thrack looks at you and says, well, I think
I'll let Jilden answer that. Mirror Jilden turns to you
and answers the question, uh so, uh, Mirror Jilden says.
Speaker 4: That problem is how do you convince you in the
first place that that's even the truth. She'll never believe
you got a chance in her if you think you
need to convince her that not all angels are evil
because she's been hoodwinked an angel. And I don't know
children fairly well, clearly, there's not a bone within either
of our bodies that would ever truly believe we have
been hoodwinked. Faith is a strange thing, even when it
is misplaced.
Speaker 1: Right, take the appropriate amount of damage.
Speaker 2: There was the third one, and then I I would
like to, in a soft voice, the mirror say, how
do I and the rest of it cannot be heard. Bye. Yeah,
that's and I will deam you that question. Okay, that's
all right, and that's for damage, for more damage. So
I've taken quite a bit taken. Ten.
Speaker 8: I'll take your banking on Hard's reversal, all right.
Speaker 2: No, No, I can survive a thirty non hit points.
I never take damage, you never take damage yet, you
never take damage yet, rarely take damage.
Speaker 6: Forty two is going to be rough for me, but
it's worth it. Yeah, call me when I'm literally in
death rows. I don't know if it was with that,
I could have just told him over tea.
Speaker 1: Hard steps forward looking over age of you.
Speaker 3: He says, well, why don't you just ask the mirror
what the fuck is going on?
Speaker 8: I believe me if we asked that question before.
Speaker 3: Get some answers from it, some hard answers that we
can use, information that we can use. What is our
enemy a big lonely angel. I don't know if we
can fix it with a hug or with the fucking spear,
but you should ask the mirror. Ask the mirror where
it comes from. What is its weakness?
Speaker 8: I believe it's weakness is a big fucking spear, isn't
that what we hear?
Speaker 2: And I believe it comes from another world? Now I
am making an assumption. Do you think we have time
to learn how to go back to the beginning? And
how are we going to get to this other gaya?
Speaker 8: Are we to go back to the other gaya or
just to this I wasn't quite following the guy A zero,
one and two.
Speaker 3: But you have two plans, right, You're going to go
and get the spear, give it to Rialtimus and kill
him here, or you are going to go back and
Cerrus is going to give him a hug and friendship.
Speaker 8: Well, I thought that perhaps that is maybe planned c D,
maybe even plan Oh could we not just take the
sphere back to the beginning of time as well and
kill him? Then that way everything that has been still
will be safe for us? Ask the fucking mirror, it
might be better off if I don't ask it.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I'm not asking it any more questions.
Speaker 1: But my heart's got like a staff out and he's
like hitting the glass.
Speaker 8: Taking an awful grinding.
Speaker 1: Noise, weird grinding noise in the background.
Speaker 6: Why don't we just let God uses power and start over?
Speaker 8: How many times can you do that.
Speaker 3: By the way, I did not even know I could
do it once.
Speaker 8: I don't like how that sounds.
Speaker 3: This is strong magic. It is more than that which
I understand. The angel's magic is something that is very
much amistory to me. It does not always make sense.
It defies logic at times. Therefore, it is harder to
shape to control.
Speaker 8: What you're saying is there's a risk involved, and we
can't just keep playing this loop.
Speaker 3: This is what I am afraid of. Yes, this is
why I do not want you to kill yourselves. In
case I cannot go back, we could try.
Speaker 6: Let's try show answers.
Speaker 8: I asked this last question, then we revert, all right.
I approached the mirror, I look at the entity in
the mirror eye to eye, and I ask, should we
go back to the beginning of the creation of this world,
to the inception of this this deity, this angel, this
moudrill were rafter? Can we make this spear with us?
And if we do, can we kill it?
Speaker 1: Mirrors here size? Well, you could certainly try. The only
problem with your plan is that the lizard folk over
there already tried that and failed. The thing that is
heading straight for us, the eyes flicker open and close again,
and it looks beyond you, and then comes back and
fixes its eyes on you again.
Speaker 2: Se is.
Speaker 1: A little more than it was before. The spear didn't
work on it in its world, so I don't know
if the spear would work on it in ours. Well,
that's inaccurate. The spear did work more. Drill just came back.
Speaker 8: He came back.
Speaker 1: Yes, that was another question. So you take, you take
whatever you take?
Speaker 3: What's that?
Speaker 8: What questions are the negative four or the negative five?
Speaker 3: Says? Now? Ask it where I lost my toothbrush?
Speaker 6: Just make a new one.
Speaker 3: I really liked it.
Speaker 1: He sort of wanders off. He's moving around in circles,
his feet splashing in the very shallow pool of water,
of robes dragging through it.
Speaker 8: Well, I don't think I liked what I got from that.
It didn't seem as if it didn't bode well. If
he simply comes back, if we go to the beginning
of time and kill him, then then who knows how
long it will take for him to come back here.
If these lizard folk, these these wretches that keep following
us around the place are just what we want, what
if they are our future? Does it matter. Does any
of this matter?
Speaker 6: Can we do this one more time? Hard?
Speaker 3: All right? I will try first of all, track, Will
you help me?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not And stand next to him.
Speaker 1: How many charges of your reverse times thing do you
have too?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Do you want to give him one or two
of those.
Speaker 2: For him to do this right now? Yeah? I'll give
him both permanently permanent.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, you are helping him by consuming two of
those charges.
Speaker 2: Ever, No, not forever, just for until I recharge.
Speaker 8: Okay, I don't want to forget. Seriously, story, it's fine.
Speaker 6: I've made my peace with it.
Speaker 2: I assume we're going to record it all and tell you.
Speaker 3: Hard says, all right, let's see if I can do
this again. But I am feeling a little bit tired,
and I am not fully sure how it works, but
I will try.
Speaker 1: Give me the sound effect turns back time. Let me
roll the dice O hard, I'll roll in here.
Speaker 7: But he has.
Speaker 1: A plus five this twenty three? Okay? How much damage
did each of you take in total?
Speaker 6: I took fifteen, okay, I tink twelve.
Speaker 2: Twelve, Actually take twelve.
Speaker 8: Because I said, oh, and then they counted.
Speaker 2: It should be one, three, six, ten, fifteen is the
increments ten, fifteen.
Speaker 1: Ten, fifteen, fifteen, ten and one. So Jill, you get
that one back?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: Two of you row me a D fifteen, one of
you rolled me a D ten. Then how much you
get back?
Speaker 2: Ship? Okay, this is going to be a one almost guarantee,
which means not so bad.
Speaker 1: No one.
Speaker 8: That means I remember seriously story, that's.
Speaker 1: My Uh No, you don't. You can't remember any of you.
Speaker 8: And I only get one hped bag yep.
Speaker 6: Oh fuck, oh that's such a raw deal.
Speaker 1: Serious steps up to the mirror again for the first
time and hard guys.
Speaker 3: Wait, wait, wait, don't do that before you ask your question.
I know what you are going to ask. I've done
this twice now, or can you can stop looking at
me like that it has been you have been asking questions?
It will hurt you. Blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: He starts explaining everything. He explains it pretty well. He
tells you everything that you learned. He just he just
goes over it. Even going in, he begins talking about
on theres as if he doesn't even have any sort
of awareness of the reaction that children will have. Could
have kept that back you know, it doesn't explains everything.
Speaker 3: One one.
Speaker 1: After sort of catching you all up and pacing, he's
pacing up and down in this water.
Speaker 3: At the end, he says, how do you feel though,
because I was not able to do this spelled with
perfect accuracy. So I think perhaps you might be feeling
a little sore. I believe it affects the heart.
Speaker 8: I know I feel pretty overall.
Speaker 1: It did not work, he looks.
Speaker 2: I look fine, I feel great, I feel normal.
Speaker 6: I do feel some pain, but it's not very bad.
Speaker 3: My power is not strong enough to counter that of
the angel, and I am sorry see her. Since I
assisted him, do I recall everything?
Speaker 1: M hm oh out in your assist him from me? Well,
I stood next to get flavory. I have no idea
what you.
Speaker 2: Get flavoring, all right, So I imagine that he's trying
to perfect his part, right, So I stood behind him,
brat my arms around him. I think I I think
we both stood next to each other and close our eyes,
and I started doing movements and he was watching me,
and he started doing the same movements with me. And
then I'm just started to there's like a bubble around us,
and time just started to you know shift back on
rewind as it were.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's fair to say that you remember it,
all right? He hits you with his staff softly, right yeah,
and says.
Speaker 3: Now ask it, ask it where fuck it? Ask it everything?
Tell it to tell us everything it knows about more
drill That way, it will tell us the entire thing,
from start to finish. No, it would tell us where
he came from, what created him, what happened to his guy,
how he came here, what the fuck he is doing
right now?
Speaker 2: All right, I'll walk up to Jacky the Angel and
I say, what is every fucking last thing you know
about Montreal?
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