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Speaker 1: The Necromancer of Pricene contains adult content and may not

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be suitable for children. Parental guidance is suggested. In the

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world of Turinlay rests an enormous island called Pricene. The

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nation of Pricene is governed by a king and council,

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though the real power rests in the hands of ten

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cursed immortals, powerful supernatural figures who serve only their self interests.

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The land is plagued with black blooded monsters, corrupt political leaders,

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and bloodthirsty bandits, and the one man who is willing

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to stand up to them all just so happens to

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be an unholy abomination, a summoner of the undead, the

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Necromancer of Pricene.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back, my fellow scoundrels, outcasts and miscreants.

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Speaker 3: Allow me to summarize what's happened thus far.

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Speaker 2: I went to the Willows Bend Festival for the Faded Four.

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Those are the four annoying advents that we keep following.

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The festival was attacked by three monstrous creatures that decided

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to wreak havoc on the townsfolk. For some stupid reason,

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I got it in my head to play hero and

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ended up with a sword in my back. I thought

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I was a goner, but then I woke up in

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the house of Benjamin Wright aka Wrath, aka one of

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the Cursed Watchers. He was cordial enough and did a

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good job patching me up. Plus he had some amazing drugs.

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After a bizarre dream. In a few days of much

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needed rest, Rath filled some knowledge gaps about the Cursed

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Watchers and their weapons.

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Speaker 3: He called them woe sharks.

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Speaker 2: It turns out no one has ever survived a blow

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from one of the cursed weapons, no one except me.

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Speaker 3: My name is Charts the ability to.

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Speaker 2: Reanimate the dead and apparently survive a blow from a

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wo shard, and I'm on a quest to kill Torch,

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leader of the Watchers and the most powerful man in Price.

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Scene chapter seven, breakfast in bed. The aroma hit me first,

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savory and rich, a symphony of sizzling sausage, fried eggs,

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and fresh bread. My stomach growled loud enough to rival

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the clattering dishes from the next room. For the first

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time in five days, I felt hunger, sharp and insistent,

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pulling me from the haze of exhaustion that had wrapped

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me since well since Rat put a sword through my chest.

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I sat up, slowly, wincing as my body reminded me

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just how fragile it still was, and scanned the room

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to see if anything had changed. My clothes were now

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heaped into a small pile in the corner of the room.

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Rat's journal was no longer centered on his desk. He

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must have put it away or taken it with him.

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Besides that, the room looked much the same as it

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had the night before. A clean pair of trousers lay

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folded at the foot of my bed, a quiet invitation

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to reclaim some semblance of dignity. My shirt, however, was

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nowhere to be found. Not that I expected Wrath to

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have a closet full of spars in my size. I

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pulled the covers down from my chest and then propped

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myself up on my left elbow, shifting the weight away

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from my injured right side. I stretched forward with my

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right arm, feeling the stiffness in my chest.

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Speaker 3: Immediately, the pain was.

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Speaker 2: Not as bad as expected, and I collected the trousers

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with only a small grunt. Actually sliding them on, however,

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proved a hole ordeal. I was halfway through wrangling the

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waistband over my hips when my eyes fell on my

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coin pouch. It had been removed from my cloak and

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rested on the windowsill furthest from my bed. Wrath had

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likely set it there to reassure me that my money

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was safe and he had no intention of robbing me.

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But this brought on a slight panic. Questions whirled through

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my mind. Had he found the life seeds? Did he

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know what they were? Maybe he missed them. He could

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have been too busy trying to save my life to

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notice a sack of seeds. Then I remembered the emerald,

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which should have been with the money in my pocket.

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It wasn't on the windowsill, but Rath had mentioned a

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small chest at the foot of the bed. Maybe the

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emerald and seeds were there. I always stored the seeds

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in the left pocket of my cloak, so there was

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no risk of them being hit by the singe blade

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during the fight. Even with that reassurance, I dearly wished

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to hold them in my hands. I pulled my pants

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mostly past my left hip and felt exhausted. My entire

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body was sore from laying in bed for the last

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five days, five days nearly a week since I'd left

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Frank behind. Anything could have happened to him while I

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was stuck here? More unanswered questions. Has he stayed in

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the glade for this entire time? To the town's so

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go to that glade? I hadn't cared about that before

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because I'd intended to return quickly, But it was likely

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a well known location to the residence of Willow's ben.

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Someone could have found and reported him to Constable l

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Arune or worse the advents than it dawned on me,

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was roone even alive? The last I'd seen the beast

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had charged into the rusted saw. The fire, the screams

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they painted a grim memory. Had the end burned down?

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Were all my things gone?

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Speaker 4: Too?

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Speaker 2: Many questions needed answers, But first I needed my life seeds.

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The door to the kitchen area was on the opposite

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side of the room from my pile of clothes. I

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needed to know if the seeds were still in my cloak.

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But for some inexplicable reason, I didn't want Wrath to

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know what I was doing. He'd been kind so far,

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but I didn't know him or trust him.

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Speaker 3: I mean, how could I right.

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Speaker 2: Confident I could scurry over to my clothes retrieve the

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seeds and return to bed. Before Wrath entered the room,

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I slid my legs out from under the sheets and

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firmly placed them on the floor. The soreness in my

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muscles was.

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Speaker 3: A dull ache, and my back had little interest in cooperating.

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But I was committed to the mission.

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Speaker 2: If the seeds were not in the cloak, then I

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would have to find a way to open the chest. Quietly,

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I pushed myself off the mattress, lost my balance slightly,

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but caught myself on the stand beside the bed.

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Speaker 3: I did it. I stood up. Yay me Now to

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make it the.

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Speaker 2: Twelve or fifteen steps to my clothes, I moved my

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left leg forward, and it buckled immediately. It didn't take

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long for Wrath to appear. His arrival heralded by the

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echo of my fall. I stared down at my treacherous legs,

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silently cursing them for their betrayal. Wrath rounded the corner

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of the bed. His pock marked face reflected a mix

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of concern and exasperation. He had traded his vest for

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an apron, The clean lines of his button up shirt

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now softened by the practicality of a chef's attire. In

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his left hand, he balanced a platter that might as

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well have been a gift from the gods, eggs, sausages,

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and a thick slice of bread glistening with jam. His

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right hand gripped a long wooden spatula, held not as

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a mere kitchen tool, but with the poised intensity of

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a warrior sizing up his opponent. It wasn't as fearsome

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as the singed blade, but somehow Rath managed to make

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even a spatula look threatening. An excuse, hastily constructed and

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utterly unconvincing, started to take shape on my lips, but

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Raf simply shook his head, set the platter of food

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on the nightstand, and moved around the bed to help me.

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Only once I was tucked back into the bed and

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my wounds were inspected did the cursed watcher finally break

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the silence charts?

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Speaker 4: Are you that anxious to begin physical therapy?

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Speaker 3: What? No?

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Speaker 1: Not?

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Speaker 3: Really no?

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Speaker 4: Then would you mind explaining exactly what you were thinking

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getting out of bed?

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Speaker 2: I saw that you left trousers on the bed for me.

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I was putting them on and thought that it would

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be better to stand while doing so.

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Speaker 4: How did that work out for you. Not well, indeed,

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never mind, I made you breakfast. You must be famished.

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Speaker 3: I am thank you, and Benjamin, I'm sorry.

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Speaker 4: Think nothing of it. Eat your breakfast.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 4: Do you know why I like Willow's Bend charts. It's

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because it's distant from the chaos and corruption of the

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main cities. Places like Dawson, Snur and Dorian are filled

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with greed, gluttony, pride and hatred. Theft and murder are

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a way of life among both the highest society and

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the lowest of slums. It is the middle group where

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you can find the peaceful bliss of the ignorant.

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Speaker 2: You like Willow's Bend because you think the people here

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are dumb.

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Speaker 4: They're not dumb, but ignorant. Yes, they are simple in

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their needs, not their minds. I enjoy their way of

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life and the freedoms they are awarded by living so

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far away from the metropolis. You know, with the exception

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of Aaron and Big George, I don't think anyone in

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Willow's Bend even knows that I am one of the cursed. Well,

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I guess you know now, don't you. But mostly I

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enjoy the tranquility it's predictable. Nothing unexpected happens here, that

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is until recently. Now the town is played by Highway Bandits.

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Monsters of unknown origin would be adventurers and peculiar strangers.

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And why do you think that is? Don't answer that,

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eat your food and ignore the musings of an old man.

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Speaker 3: You don't seemold charts.

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Speaker 4: I'm nearly one hundred and twenty years of age thanks

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to the Singed Blade, and I have many years to come.

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Do you believe in fate?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 4: Now that was a quick answer. Most people have never

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even considered the prospect of fate, not seriously anyway. Yet

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you are ready with an answer as soon as the

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question escapes my lips. Why is that?

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Speaker 2: I've had plenty of time to consider fate, the gods,

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a master plan, whatever you want to call it. If

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I choose to believe in the gods or fate, then

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I'm inclined to hate them for what they are and

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what they allow. They would be responsible for the horrific

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things happening to good people.

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Speaker 4: And you don't think that they would be responsible for

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those things? What of mourn the god of death? Doesn't

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she hold some responsibility over the lives of people.

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Speaker 2: If we let gods bear the blame for every misfortune,

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then what need is there to hold men accountable for

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their actions?

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Speaker 4: Now you're starting to sound like a watcher discrediting the

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possibility of fate in order to justify your actions against

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other people you've judged as unworthy. Would you be the judge, jury,

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and executioner like so many watchers believe themselves to be.

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Speaker 2: I'm not a watcher and I don't aspire to be one,

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but I do believe people should be held accountable, and

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I believe there are resources in this world that we

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can use to hold those individuals accountable in a humane

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and just fashion.

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Speaker 4: Resources.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, some are as simple as prisons or rehabilitation programs,

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but others are more complex.

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Speaker 4: If you think prisons are not complex, you've never tried

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to design one. And I find it interesting that you

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deny the existence of the gods when you currently stand

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in the presence of magic. Doesn't that seem counterintuitive?

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Speaker 3: The world can have magic without gods or fate.

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Speaker 4: I believe in fate, and despite their lack of interaction

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with men, I believe in the gods. And do you

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know why I believe in fate Because every year or

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two I come to Willow's Bend for a few weeks

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to escape the pressures of the Watcher's Guild, King and Council.

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I've been taking this trip for over eighty years and

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have never encountered fiends like those I fought at the festival.

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I have never heard of bandits subjugating demons, and I

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have never met some one who can survive a blow

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from a woe shard. And yet here you are.

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Speaker 3: It could all be happenstance, Charles.

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Speaker 4: I ask around, and no one seems to know much

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about you. You arrived here only a short time before

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those would be Watchers, the Fated four. You keep to

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yourself but maintain odd hours. Mike said you were here

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for one day and were robbed, but wouldn't tell him

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about the thief. And aside from the local innkeeper, no

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one knows anything about who you are or why you're here.

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Speaker 3: I'm just passing through.

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Speaker 4: I'm sure you are. I had assumed you were trailing

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the Adventurers, but several people confirmed your arrival almost a

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full day before them.

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Speaker 3: My business is my own. I haven't done anything wrong.

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Speaker 4: I didn't say you had.

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Speaker 3: You're not far from suggesting it charts.

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Speaker 4: You're an impossibility, and something brought you here to me fate,

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the God's luck. Call it what you will, but it

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brought you here. Nonetheless, you the one person in all

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of known history to survive the Singed Blade, came to

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a place with monsters, bandits, adventurers and a watcher. If

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you're not the cause of these events, and by no

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means am I implying your culpability, then you were caught

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up in something larger than you when outside the realm

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of simple happenstance.

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Speaker 3: That's far fetched.

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Speaker 2: You're hinging this entirely on the fact that I didn't

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die after you stabbed me, and we both know that

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I wasn't far off from the underrealm. What if I'm

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not the only person that can survive a wow shard?

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What if others like me are out there and you

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just haven't stabbed them yet.

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Speaker 4: Well, I don't know. I've stabbed a lot of people

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and they've all died straight away.

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Speaker 2: Maybe you're just an excellent healer and your medicine saved me.

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I assume most people you've stabbed have been for mercenary work,

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and you had no interest in saving them. Maybe it's

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something to do with how quickly you got to me

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and started the healing process.

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Speaker 4: I doubt that. Now, after you fell, I collected the

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Singed Blade and chased down the third monstrosity. It wasn't

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until after I dispatched the creature that so some one

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had informed me that you had survived. You should have

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been long dead by the time I returned to you.

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You left me there, of course I did. I told

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you no one survives a woe shard, so no, that's

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not the case. There are only three options that I

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can see as to why you're still alive. Option one,

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you're secretly one of the Cursed and can survive a

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blow from a woe shard. I severely doubt that's the case,

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considering I would have heard if one of the ten

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died and you would be carrying one of the cursed weapons.

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Option two is that there is something special about you

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that no one else in the world has ever replicated.

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I also find this unlikely. No offense, but you don't

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come off as super special. The final option is that

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the Singed Blade let you live.

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Speaker 3: Let me live. Can it really do that? Can it decide?

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Speaker 4: I don't see why, not like I said, it's magic, unless,

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of course, you know something that I do not know

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about why you would be unique?

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Speaker 3: I no, nothing comes to mind.

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Speaker 4: Then this is a mystery that we will solve together.

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Don't worry. There's nothing to fear. You are perfectly safe

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with me and nothing is wrong with.

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Speaker 3: You except the sword shaped hole through my chest.

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Speaker 4: Look at that. You're already at a point where you

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can joke about it. Now, finish your breakfast. You need

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to regain your strength, and I need to run into

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town and check on some things. While I'm gone. Try

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stretching your arm and shoulder. This will help with mobility

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as your wound heals.

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Speaker 3: All right, I will, and.

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Speaker 4: For Rowan's sake, stay in bed. If you fall again,

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you could tear the stitches.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I'll be back soon.

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Speaker 4: Get some rest.

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Speaker 2: I finished my breakfast and began working the muscles in

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my right chest, just as Rath had suggested. The movements

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were slow and deliberate, a necessary to discomfort as I

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tested the limits of my recovery. What I wanted, no needed,

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was to get to my cloak. I just had to

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make sure Rath was actually gone before trying to drag

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myself out of bed again. No way was I giving

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him another excuse to lecture me. The pain in my

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shoulder had dulled to a manageable throb. My gaze fell

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on the water he'd left on the nightstand, how consider it?

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And then I saw the bedpan, and the sheer fucking

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mortification hit me like a runaway cart days. I'd been

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out for days, and that meant that Rath had been

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dealing with everything that thought snowball fast. Did Rath have

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his own bedroom here? How many rooms did this house

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even have? Where was he sleeping? Or had I just

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spent the last five or six days shitting in his bed.

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The image of Benjamin right Wrath, one of the cursed

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and one of the most feared men in the kingdom,

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wiping my ass burned itself into my brain. The notion

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was outlandishly unthinkable.

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Speaker 3: But you know what it was.

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Speaker 2: His fault, rass blade was the reason I was in

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this predicament to begin with. Sure he might have saved

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hundreds of townsfolk in the process, but let's not gloss

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over the part where he stabbed me in the back

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with a cursed sword.

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Speaker 3: Am I being petty? Absolutely, but I refused to be

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embarrassed about the fallout. I handled the pan situation with

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as much dignity as one can muster in such circumstances,

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and set it back on the floor.

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Speaker 2: That task behind me, it was time to try for

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the cloak. Using the same strategy as my earlier, ill

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fated attempt, I forced my legs to cooperate, one shuffled

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step at a time. I braced myself against the wall,

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inching forward every joint ached, my muscles pro tested, my

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legs tingled with static electricity, and my back felt like

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it might betray me again at any moment. But I

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was on my feet, progress heroes in stories seemed to

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bounce back from mortal wounds in a matter of hours

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or days, but here in the real world, a wound

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this large could take months to heal. I'm not complaining

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or anything. The sword nearly hit my lung, and that

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would have been fatal, regardless.

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Speaker 3: Of my uniqueness.

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Speaker 2: Besides, complaining feels petty when you're already the exception to

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the rule.

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Speaker 3: I shuffled along the wall.

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Speaker 2: Until I reached the pile of clothes, the reward for

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my painstaking journey. Kneeling slowly, I began to rummage through

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my tattered garments. My shirt was a lost cause, shredded

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and bloodied beyond repair. But the cloak that could be salvaged.

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A little stitching and it'd be good as new, or

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at least good enough relatable. Right, My fingers found the

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hidden pocket and the left breast of the cloak, and

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my heart sank empty. The seeds were gone, and so

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was the gem. Why would Wrath have taken them? The

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emerald sure, shiny, valuable, tempting, but the seeds did he

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know what they were? Wrath was old, ancient, really, and

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would undoubtedly be familiar with the legend of the Tree

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of Life. My mother, who passed the legends onto me,

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wouldn't have been the only person in the world to

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know those tales. But the real question was did Rath

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take the life seeds with him or did he stash

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them somewhere in this house. I looked around the room,

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taking stock of all the places Wrath could have hidden

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the seeds. The house was oppressively quiet, save for the

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persistent ticking of the long case clock, each tick gnawing

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at my nerves. My thoughts raised a chaotic loop of

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where could they be and what does Rath know? And

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for a moment moment, I was unable to focus on

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where to begin my search. I limped back along the

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wall until I reached the ninth stand. One drawer and

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then the other empty, save for a few unremarkable odds

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and ends, nothing useful, nothing of mine. I shifted my

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weight against the bed and dragged myself to the other

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side of the room, making my way to the small

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box Rath had mentioned earlier. Inside I found the emerald

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and my essential travel gear. That was a small relief,

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but the life seeds were still missing. I continued to

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use the bed for support and made my way toward

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Rat's writing desk. The trek took minutes, but it felt

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like an eternity. I finally collapsed into his chair. My

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hands flew to the drawers, rifling through them with a

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mix of desperation and anger. I was so focused on

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finding the seeds that I nearly missed it. A secret

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compartment in the back of the bottom right drawer. I

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blindly felt around until I found the and with a twist,

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the locking mechanism released. A hidden panel in the drawer

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snapped free, revealing its contents without hesitation. I pulled everything

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out and laid my findings on the desk.

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Speaker 3: Six books. I recognized the.

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Speaker 2: First as the one Wrath had been writing in. The

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others looked as if they were journals as well, and

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from the wear and tear on each book, they were

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likely complete. My curiosity hijacked my better judgment, The urgency

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of my original mission to find the seeds temporarily forgotten.

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What can I say, I'm easily distracted. I opened the

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journal and went to the bookmark page. Glancing over the text,

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it appeared to be the most recent entry he wrote.

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The subject continues to demonstrate an above normal level of

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physical self repair bordering on the supernatural. I assume Wrath

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was labeling me the subject. I don't love that, but

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much like the proverbial dead cat, Kurrio had me hooked

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and I continued to read on.

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Speaker 4: The subject continues to demonstrate an above normal level of

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physical self repair bordering on the supernatural. As previously noted,

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the singed blade wound continues to heal at a slow

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but steady rate. There is no benchmark for this healing process,

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as there are no other documented survivors from a singed

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blade wound. Most of the minor cuts and scrapes the

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subject incurred during the fight with the gurrikthin had healed

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by day two, and all major injuries were healed by

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day four. The subject experienced extreme fevers and fatigue for

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several days. During this time, his body fought against potential

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infection from the open wound and possibly the effects of

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the sined blade. The specific impact of the blade has

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yet to be determined. During this time, other portions of

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the subject's physique were negatively impacted. Most notably, the muscles

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in his thighs showed a massive reduction in size, decreasing

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the initial measurement of circumference from twenty three inches to nineteen.

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These changes took place in only four days, which is

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too rapid a decrease to be attributed to physical inactivity.

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My current theory is that the subject's body draws upon

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other muscle groups to heal the damaged ones. In the morning,

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I will cook a high protein meal for the subject,

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hoping the body will use the food to heal the

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wounds and slow the atrophy of the other muscle groups.

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The easiest way to validate my theory would be to

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assist the subject in full recovery. Once the subject has

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regained his strength, another large wound should be inflicted on

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a non fatal muscle group. At that point, a second

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and observation of the healing process can begin.

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Speaker 2: I stared dumbly at the final paragraph of the journal entry,

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my brain tripping over itself to process the words. Rat

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didn't come right out and say it, but I think

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the bastard wants to stab me again.

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Speaker 3: What the fuck?

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Speaker 1: Charts is voiced by Josh Allen. Benjamin Wright aka Rath

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is voiced by Ray O'Hare. Audio engineering by Adam Culbertson

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and Richard Collins. Editing by Tisha zang music provided in

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part by Elizabeth Blakeley and written by Nico Rodriguez. The

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Necromancer of Pricene is a Creative Typo Entertainment production. For

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more information about this show, our cast, or other shows

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under Creative Typo, please check out our website at www

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dot creative typo dot com. And thank you for listening.

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