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Speaker 3: Vessels the stone hand me that book over there?
Speaker 4: Yes, all right, okay.
Speaker 3: I'm lining up the books in some kind of order,
trying to make sense of it all. When you pinch yourself,
you do feel yourself. I have no recollection of the
in between. There were multiple versions of Can I call
them versions if they've ever found distant timelines? At first
I thought of a spell oriented splitting fragmentations. There was
one there different like the rest of us. Didn't sound
like us, didn't looked like us, really favored the light
when they seeped through the other dog wasn't fixated on
that one. He had no color associated with him. Gray.
I believe we didn't feel compelled to help that one.
Blood loss took over one the other. So he's trying
to break a barrier, and that one that I remember
was bleeding. I don't remember exactly what they were saying.
I didn't understand the language. Eyes of green tint fade
to gray. They were the first on the throne, said
they wouldn't be the last. Didn't have patience for that one.
Gave up too quickly. I moved on the others feasted.
Then a gap opened, Never leave YouTube ward him. Yes,
the color of that gap, it was red. It was
so slight.
Speaker 4: It was red, you say, believe so.
Speaker 3: Faint glimmer. And then again maybe that was red himself,
plodding and twisting, converting with in between. That was at
the last I saw of that gray one.
Speaker 4: Thank m.
Speaker 3: Well. Here rituals probably started around Regalia. Influx of uses
of Imbostone could cause multiple reactions the Iraq. This book
says that imberstone is erratic. No real study can hit
point what way how we But if it's being overused
and used to summon multiple heroes per se from different worlds,
not just whatever world do you all keep talking about,
but many a worlds. If there was rituals done, it's
probably taxing on this world. Think of it all being
done at once, multiple heroes being summoned for a cause,
a war of some sort of What happens to those vessels?
Do they become encased in emberstone and then replaced or merged,
Almost like a caterpillar in a cocoon turning into a butterfly.
Caterpillars tend to liquefy themselves and form a new species
while inside this cocoon or the nutrients itsells play a
balance and role. Summonings can happen the body's encased, possibly
maybe both joined together as one vessel liquifies creates used
to mention liquefied inmstone.
Speaker 4: At the laboratory.
Speaker 3: Yes, maybe that's the remains of what's inside when the
mutations happen, or the mixture is merging, the takeover, so
to speak, parasitic bond.
Speaker 1: At some point during the conversation, you notice that bo
Rue and Greg have returned after well you're not quite sure,
but I think you get the feeling that it's been
hours that you've been studying.
Speaker 3: If this is true, what about bo Bo?
Speaker 5: You turn to Bow or me and I'm kind of
a little bit off from the other two, and I've
seen to be pacing left and right between I believe
books on this open plan floor. Pages maybe perhaps get
taken in. Maybe I don't seem to pay heed to
your calling my name.
Speaker 3: I don't explain this one. Bo come here, if you
don't mind, do be careful of the books. They are relics.
Speaker 4: I'll get up and I'll walk over towards bo Oh.
Speaker 5: I pace from a book and the cross in a
straight line. I stop, and then after a few seconds,
I then take a right angle and I go again
for about maybe ten feet.
Speaker 3: I stop.
Speaker 1: Oh but wa.
Speaker 3: Oh hi, okay, yeah, what's up?
Speaker 4: It's just your pacing.
Speaker 3: I am.
Speaker 5: That's a big place, right.
Speaker 4: Well, I think Andrews has something he wanted to ask.
It's over here. We've been sitting over here.
Speaker 3: All right. Can I eat this?
Speaker 4: Oh, don't eat anything, please? These are very rare books.
Speaker 5: What's the least rare one? Like yellow pages or something.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna take one of the notebooks that I grabbed
from my grandma's house with like a blank page and
just rip it out.
Speaker 5: He lands on me like a I guess fish food
in a tank. And then it's kind of dissolved.
Speaker 3: Yeah, uh genders? Were you encased in them the stone
when you came to Uh?
Speaker 5: Yes, it was terrifying, I recall, and there was there
wasn't screaming, no, but it was terrifying and dark and red.
Speaker 3: When you was red arrived in Regaria. Were you encased
when I arrived?
Speaker 1: M Yeah.
Speaker 5: When we all showed up here, we were all in
red Emberstone.
Speaker 3: Interesting, why what's up? According to this text, there's possibility
that to a sort of metamorphosis. It may have taken
over a vessel. But when I look at you, I
question everything, your slime? What do you mean?
Speaker 1: Mean?
Speaker 3: Well, inquisitively, when rituals happened? According to this book here
there's a possibility, and there's many rituals, but the one
that seems the most prominent is to be able to
do a mass summoning of some sort. Ember Stone is
involved a vessel.
Speaker 1: And be clear, I need to I need to hop
in here. I'm so sorry, but what you have read
was the very first summoning. That was the the bit
of information that I've given you thus far, and that
one specifically said that some basically a person was overwritten,
and that was one person.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, I'm going to go off of the information
that I see so here. It seems that rituals, if
there are many of them, that happened but from here,
from example, that that's the word person here, I can't
get overwritten by whoever they are summoned. And if that's
the case, it may some sense with us. But you,
on the other hand, it's not.
Speaker 1: Why less.
Speaker 3: You are summoned by slives m.
Speaker 5: Ha, like that one boss encounter. That'd be funny boss encounter.
Speaker 3: Now you know. Oh no, you probably don't know. I
want to make something very clear. Bo hmmm. From reading
all of this, it's very weird. I believe the more
and the most understanding we have been may have come
from the in between, though I am foggy on the matter.
I would have you reevaluate your situation there. What is
happening here is dangerous to Regalia. If there is other
worlds out there, as you so say, it could affect
the other worlds as well. If Regalia, say, is a gateway.
Since we have this rift here and if they're able
to tap in this it's just me assuming other worlds,
then the rift is probably more dangerous than we are
originally thought it's not just an event of magic going
in and out. Possibility is well could be more of
a way in and out as well. Huh.
Speaker 5: It's always a multiverse, isn't it. It'stever a duo versus
a try verse.
Speaker 3: I want you to start thinking more as in your
reality and what you know and what you feel can
either become permanent here or destroyed. And if it is destroyed,
you possibly if I'm guessing you're hoping that your body,
your slime form is intact where you're from, then it
could be destroyed as well, or has already been destroid Well,
that would be not very good, right. So with that,
I would like for you to take a serious note
about regalia treated as such as your world, because I
believe these two are interconnected. You see here in this book.
I'll slide a book towards bo Can and then I'll
pull it back. Can he even read?
Speaker 5: Mmmmmmmm, not in this form, but I could do something
about it.
Speaker 3: Forms. Can you form in your form self that you
believe who you are in the other world Unless it's
a slime.
Speaker 5: It's not really a one. I can do animals and.
Speaker 3: Interesting you it's left I don't believe this one remembers
what they look like beforehand. I know exactly what I
looked like.
Speaker 6: I was.
Speaker 5: I was, I was handsome, I had hair, not slime pseudopods,
and I had to killer fashion the sense mm hmmm.
Speaker 4: Sunglasses inside, because it's cool.
Speaker 3: To formulate yourself now, then if you remember how you look,
this may help us.
Speaker 5: I've never taken the form of a personally thought only
I can't. I've tried.
Speaker 3: Hmm.
Speaker 4: Interesting, Maybe we take a break from rituals and.
Speaker 3: I have to know know what I have to know,
what part of me is me? And what I have
to know?
Speaker 5: Well, I mean, if what you're saying is true, right,
and this world and where we're from aren't just two
separate worlds but kind of like are sitting on each other,
like you know, a kid on Santa and they're kind
of like this, right, you know? In that case, wouldn't
that mean that, I don't know, the mailstream getting larger?
What does that mean? In the in forgive me? And
does the real world you know, like, what does that
mean there? You know, towers blew up? What does that
mean there? What other things of dragons were beaten up
by moon?
Speaker 3: What does that mean there if everything is connected like
a neural system, so to speak, small pulses come from
sources that are connected to a thin line. If one
of those burths, what kind of reaction will it happen
across that neural network. Is there a blackboard or anything
in here or something that we.
Speaker 1: Can Yeah, I imagine that there would be. I think
that's probably a good shout. There probably is specifically a blackboard.
Speaker 3: I will get up and I will grab just assuming
the tools are there to use, and I will start
scribbling and holding a book in my hand and forming
this sort of like a neural networking map and labeling
certain areas like Regalia, the world they speak of. What
is this world called? The chief speaker?
Speaker 4: Earth?
Speaker 3: Earth? And I will start marking like a known one two, three, four, five,
you know, on down and forming this neural map. If
we counter Regalia as a center, it implodes, explodes, you
missing that link in itself versus line the cord. How
close do you think Earth is to Regalia if you
were here on a direct link explosion or ripple effect
across these what did you call it? A multiverse? Yeah? Multiverse?
Speaker 5: But then again, are we so sure that there's more
than one place people being summoned from.
Speaker 3: It could be a duo verse. Oh, I don't believe
that will Oh, I mean it's assumptions, but I don't
believe that one place will be a source. That means
that if it is, then be communicating with someone there
to be able to pull targets so they have familiarity
with that world. Unless unless in and I'll cut the
board in half and then draw Raguaia on Earth. But
I would draw them together and split it down the middle.
Unless they are a mirror of the other one. Yeah,
you see a reflection in the water. You drop a pebble,
and the reflection it ripples effects. It changes what you
look like, but you're still the same, and it ripples
out that moment that the pebble hits the water, new
possibilities are formed from that single point, ripples throughout the
whole surface. What if this could be a possibility as well,
like a petal water effect, or the decisions that you
make here can affect there. And I'll just keep mumbling,
going on and putting up like mathematical equations, and you'll
see me slightly right in Cynthurion, and I'll be going
back and forth without even knowing. I'm just scribbling interesting.
Speaker 4: At this point, I think I'm just a bit overwhelmed
by the prospect of all of this. So I've pushed
the books we were looking at to the side because
I can't. I can't fixate on the ritual anymore myself,
or I'll go insane. The idea of it is horrible.
So I've gathered up a few other books, and in particular,
was there any sort of literature that actually mentions tim
cross at all? I would have inquired with the staff.
Speaker 1: This will be an insight, insight and enders you can
join this as a group check if you would like.
The difficulty is going to be fourteen.
Speaker 3: If they have any get crosswords.
Speaker 7: Started it, No, don't care.
Speaker 1: Okay, what would.
Speaker 4: You like to opportunity information?
Speaker 1: Uh okay? All right, that is a big deal.
Speaker 3: His name is Timothy Kass.
Speaker 1: Uh okay. So how do you think the conversation went
in regards to you asking for that?
Speaker 4: I would have gone up to uh Lyra in particular.
The granscribes assistant.
Speaker 6: Lyra.
Speaker 4: Yes, I'm so sorry to bother you again. I know
that you've been helping us.
Speaker 1: It's all right. This is my job. This is what
I'm meant to do. How do you need more books?
So we're still pulling everything in regards to summoning rituals
that we can find. Granscribe is looking for through various
notes and things. But you must understand there is well
quite a bit to this library and it is a
constant job as we search through the different books that
are created and sort them appropriately.
Speaker 4: Of course, Well, I just have one very peculiar question.
There's an individual that we've encountered previously, someone by the
name of Tim Cross. Do you know of any literature
that involves them?
Speaker 1: Not off the top of my head, but I can
ask around that some of the other scribes and assistants, m.
Speaker 4: That would be wonderful.
Speaker 1: Perhaps even the archivist.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, that would be that would be most wonderful.
Thank you welcome.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how long that will take that I'll
be back.
Speaker 4: Of course, I'll dive into some of the other literature
that you've given. Thank you so much.
Speaker 3: You're welcome.
Speaker 1: At some point during your research when you had asked
for this, there will be probably just like a soft
knock on the door, the office for the Grand Scribe
probably has two doors in it, one of them probably
would have led to a restroom and the other one
heading into the open floor plan library. And yeah, there's
probably just like a soft knock at the door at
some point in door will open thereafter and you see,
probably like an interesting site. Excuse me, I'm sorry to
interrupt your study. I have those books that you requested.
A very curious subject, apparently that name Tim Cross.
Speaker 3: We have.
Speaker 1: We found a small amount of literature in regards to
this person, but the name itself is familiar to many
of the assistance and scribes in the archivists that I
spoke about. It seems most of the people that work
here have encountered that name at some point or another
during the course.
Speaker 3: Of their studies.
Speaker 1: Really, yes, a very scattered bit of information, even with
robust memories that we have here. Well, it's difficult to
find all the literature, but this might get you started.
Speaker 4: Wonderful, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: You're quite welcome. This book in particular is from Brabasina.
Some research notes.
Speaker 4: Very well, and I'll take all of the pieces of
literature that is handed to me. My eyes have bags
under them because we've been just nose deep in all
of this reading and I will begin to pour over
it while Andrews is working on his theories.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so maybe you're you've remembered that book about Tim Cross,
and maybe you're looking for that now as you've uh
to find something else. That ritual kind of took over
because it was a lot. Yeah, and uh, begin to
look through this book in regards to thank all. This
is a difficult read. These are research notes and it's uh,
you've been looking at various forms of research, but this
is apparently from someone in Bravasena. And good luck for
me to find the fucking name again.
Speaker 4: For the scientists.
Speaker 1: Yeah, from from our Bravasna one shot. Yeah, the one.
Oh god, yeah, I'm looking for I've been looking for it.
Speaker 2: Uh but.
Speaker 1: Uh, let's see here. This is essentially research notes from
someone that appears to be a like an artificer alchemist
from from Bravasina. And they have an assistant named him Cross.
And this is from about ten years ago. It would
have been just after the stuff happened with the portal,
maybe a few months later.
Speaker 4: He was assistant to some some artificer. These notes they
date back and I'm throwing through the dat back about
ten years ago.
Speaker 3: Ten years What makes no sense, doesn't it.
Speaker 4: He was an assistant for ten so he was an
assistant before the whole portal thing happened with us.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but Moon's been here for ten years, right, and
Tim Cross is like the big the big, the big
guy you know for the game, So like how could
he be some some lab geek here but also you know,
like the big boss you know in the real world
at the same time.
Speaker 3: Huh, you said you were Moon was here ten years right, Yeah,
maybe you all came ten years ago, except you undergo
a different type of ritual wol and you were encased
metamorphosized how everyone I say it during that whole time
you were.
Speaker 5: There, so we had like beauty sleep or something. But
if that's the case, where were we I mean, were
we just crystal on the on the field the entire time,
or were we descending or coming out of the ground
or what?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 4: Would have found us right on a warfront like.
Speaker 3: That depends on where Emma Stone starts its originality. If
it's underground, then maybe you emerged. If it wasn't, there's
left in your case then what we've noticed you have
been in a part of a war, the war, Maybe
your encasement happened while or after the war, and whatever
spiritual thoughts of having another you came to be woke
up inside and youel started the process does an explaining slime,
but it also.
Speaker 4: Doesn't explain why Moon has ten years of memories of
being here, and why we would have memories of the
war but also be encased at the same time. If
my vessel and I stopped myself, if I was somehow
present at the war, you were president at the war here,
But then when were we encased?
Speaker 3: That's the mystery. I can't find the equation for it.
The scary thing is is if you can be in
two places at once, why can't Tim Cross? Who is he,
by the way.
Speaker 1: Who.
Speaker 5: I believe Tim Cross is the CEO or lead developer of.
Speaker 4: Oh oh Yeah?
Speaker 3: I kind of wander off. I circle Tim Cross's name
and then make a spider web, and then down below
that spider web, I put Tim Cross again, and then
I circle another one and put Tim Cross again, and
then I cross reference the neural network that I made.
What if we combine both theories appair mirrored universe a
neurown network. Maybe there are more aeroslifts around but have
not been discovered yet or realized that they're there. Different worlds,
different places. You may not look the same every time.
Think about the in between, Think about the spell that
I ignorantly placed on myself. Apparently, and if I split
and fragment myself, then we are broken pieces. But we
all share the same memory, but only big fragments. I
may remember more of Regalia, and whoever this frank person is,
may remember more of whatever world you come from, But
we are one and the same. What if Tim Cross
can do my spell but at a heightened level and
has control over it, and he can be there's different
tim Crosses and different realities. M that's impossible. This does
it make sense? Start with what we do now? If
there are two aerosless where's the other one? And I
go up to aerosles and I like, look in her ears,
I pull out of clothing, I look under her hair,
Well your grandmother, your significant other, and I raise an eyebrow,
Oh remember you and can account for you.
Speaker 4: But it was different.
Speaker 6: Recall that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we change all the time, but different in what way?
Speaker 6: I mean?
Speaker 4: We're forgetting also the version of ourselves from Earth in
this That's why they said it was different, because those
are the memories that I have.
Speaker 3: But your memories are flooding back in my dear, which
means if there are two of you, maybe the one
that you supposedly merged with is slightly coming back. And
then I like, turn around, I'm like thoroughly enjoying this.
I mean, I even see like a slight smirk. Interesting enough,
there's so much similarities between this and in between. Do
you nothink when you encountered me and me and me?
How did you not know the difference between whoever you
call Frank and red and gold blue? What made you
choose me?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 4: I looked at BO. I think both of us thought
that we could somehow reunite all three of the pieces
into Frank or Fox version of enders. That's what we
wanted to try. That's what I wanted to try. I
thought perhaps it was some sort of test to an
acceptance that needed to happen. But I was fooled by
the Red version.
Speaker 5: I guess, Oh yeah. I think we tried to sum
it all up, and then after that didn't work, it
was kind of picking the lesser of three evils.
Speaker 3: Interesting, you would say, They all individually had their own conscious.
Speaker 5: Goals ambitionous right one really thought?
Speaker 3: And I run to the board and I am like
placing Tim Cross's names out in deerslith and then all
of our names out the in between? Was we stumbled
upon it? It is an anomaly? Most likely Drosk Professor
Dross that she know of it, and you spoke to him.
Speaker 4: Yes, that was she had never gone herself, if I recall.
Speaker 5: Interesting, I knew about it, and she sent us there
and said we could die.
Speaker 3: Very interesting. What if Tim Cross has traveled in between
found a way to control or communicate with himself. No,
that would mean he would have to go there, and
some means the only way we know is through death
rshal death. Ah. Why isn't any of this making sense?
Speaker 1: Uh as Enders says, this something you saw inside the
research notes? Clicks.
Speaker 3: Mhm, maybe I'm thinking about this all wrong. No, no,
or now life tree. Life tree has branches and I'll
mumble off start drawing branches.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I don't know what it is that clicked.
Speaker 1: Do you try and look at the book.
Speaker 4: Oh, yes, yes, I'm sorry, I thought you were Uh
it clicked and this is what it was going to be.
Speaker 1: I was trying to give you a prompt to okay,
a minor eureka moment.
Speaker 3: I was trying to figure, are you listening? Do you
see what I'm talking about?
Speaker 4: I grab the notes and the books and everything, and
I spread it out in front of me and I search.
Speaker 1: The research that you see here. Didn't really make sense
at first, but it appears that this research involves viewing
or seeing another world. And this information here appears to
be written by a Tim Cross, and that this person,
Tim Cross, is apparently on regalia and seems to be
looking at another world doing various experiments. And as you
begin to look through this, following that train of thought,
there is a moment where in the notes you basically
see rambling, in coherent rambling, that is something along the
lines of this can't be possible. It doesn't make any sense.
How can I be there? When I'm here? I look
almost the same. There are minor differences. Who is this
person they also identify as him Cross. Pronounce ciation seems
a little different, but it's similar. This world is different
than ours. I don't understand. They have no magic. They
seem to value science much like I do, but they
don't have magic to assist them. How have they evolved?
How has this happened? This world is so much different
than ours. I don't quite understand how I've seen this,
But if I can repeat this, I wonder if it's
possible to see other worlds reflection?
Speaker 3: And then that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So if you take this now, it exist at the
same time.
Speaker 4: What there are two different people?
Speaker 3: Oh? No, way, a double cross? Who is they?
Speaker 7: Tim?
Speaker 3: Okay? Wait, which.
Speaker 4: Looks he was detailing some sort of procedure to view
into another world. He wanted to look into worlds other
than Earth as well, and he saw.
Speaker 3: Himself way, then which Tim is evil? If I read
some other notes and then I circle the ones that
they were close here, you see the mirror theory is
more adjacent to what is happening. So if there's a
Tim Crosser, is his name Tim Cross? The origin? The
original Tim Cross is from Regalia?
Speaker 4: I mean, not necessarily, They're both two separate.
Speaker 3: People, right perspectives? Okay, all we're here now, Regaia. Let's
make this priority one. We're here, We're alive. If we
take that, then the first discovery of the Earth, and
I write it, I do not spell it correctly. If
our Tim Cross is found Earth, then looking through the mirror,
what mirror was he looking for? Where was this taken?
And I look for the location?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not like readily apparent Erysolythus, you know, skipped
forward a few pages.
Speaker 3: You can write it go.
Speaker 1: To the beginning. Uh, you skim through and you can
see that it was from Bravasinasa from specifically in Tinkercrest.
Speaker 4: Does does Tim Cross detail at all the process in
which he used other than utilizing, uh, you know, a
mirror or something in order to view into Earth? Now, okay,
so he kept his notes to his chest.
Speaker 1: Understood, these are notes of varying experiments with Emburstone.
Speaker 4: All of it has to do with Emberstone in general.
Are there are there any records of experiments that he
utilized to perhaps in case creatures of any sort in Emberstone,
items things like that.
Speaker 1: Give me insight, insight. This can be a group check.
Difficulty is fourteen?
Speaker 3: Met you a critican?
Speaker 4: Because I don't know about that one, buddy, I need
you to succeed on that ten. Come on, come on,
plus three.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I'm not frank anymore.
Speaker 4: In no way, I'm not gonna be able to I.
Speaker 3: Don't have any way of re roll.
Speaker 4: Is this important to the point? Is this important enough?
Speaker 3: Important? Is the rgeous?
Speaker 1: Can you make the check?
Speaker 4: I would have to reroll situation so I have the
qualifier for my identity inquisitive specifically because Jean was a
librarian in her life, and so it's kind of transfer
transferred over into Rugalia because this is her bread and butter.
Researching and finding different particularities within a text.
Speaker 3: Okay, thank you if he allows is important, so I
would do it.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, it's only argument.
Speaker 3: I'm a age.
Speaker 4: Seventeen success stak.
Speaker 1: Okay, you're specifically looking for the somehow encasing something inside
of Emberstone. You're skimming through it. There's a lot of
research here about Emberstone, a lot there's tests trying to
use in alchemy. You can see like lots of crazy
notes like Emberstone is a power source, is incredibly dangerous
but very effective, and has have had several catastrophic reactions,
often resulting in devastation throughout the lab when attempting. So
there's notes about like uh found a found like the
equivalent of lab rats, tim go going through like lab
rats trying to test this stuff out, and you see
a lot of failure, a lot pages and pages of failure,
and then you see something interesting. There has been various
animals that were tested, organic things, plants, et cetera. Tim
begins to ponder what Emberstone is. It is clearly not
some simple mineral. Yet our planet is abundant in Emberstone.
It's estimated that Cryptia has vast minds of Emberstone as
well as Tessa and Tim. Kross begins to theorize about
what Emberstone might be. It's not a mineral, that much
is clear. For some reason, I have been able to
burn it, freeze it, use magic upon it, which seems
to have one of the greatest results. Reacts very well
to magic. What does this mean? Why does it seem
to react so well to magic? So many artifacts in
our world use Emberstone as a focus. So many items, weapons, armors,
cities are powered by it. It reacts strongly to magic.
And this is like if you're paging through these I mean,
it's like lots of incoherent rambling, lots of incoherent rambling
on various pages all about, and Tim begins to theorize
if Emberstone isn't a mineral, it's not a liquid, it's
not a gas. It seems to have a resting state
as a solid. And then you can see Tim testing
these various experiments and finding that's been able to change
its state using a combination of magic and various tinkering.
That he's done, and he says, perhaps when emberstone is
in a different state, it can be tested in different ways.
Perhaps if it is a liquid or a gas, it
will react differently. Perhaps now I can encase organic material
in the emberstone and then forcibly change its state. And
then you start to see some successes in the results.
I've done it. I've done it. I encased a flower
in emberstone. It seems that different organic matter needs to
be encased in emberstone in different ways. This flower required
the emberstone to be in a gaseous state before I
was able to place the flower inside. And then he says,
I tried it again on a rat and it didn't work.
It needed to be in a liquid state. I wonder
if there is some universal application for this, And you
see him testing all these different states. A bunch of failures,
but there's some successes. Now we see some labrats, we
see some plants, we see some food like meat, like
raw meat, various forms of organic matter. And then he says,
I wonder what it would take to encase a person
in Emberstone, what would be the benefits? I need to
run tests. I must not let him know. This must
be done in secret. There is no way that he
will accept this research, but it is important. The hymn
seems to reference the uh, the person that I cannot
fucking find the notes for. Yes, the research mentor whatever,
his mentor in Bravasian.
Speaker 3: Interesting.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of information here, a lot of a
lot to pour over.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've pretty much grabbed it, and I am like,
face deep in it, just pouring through all of this.
Speaker 3: And is it right?
Speaker 1: I think it was. It sounds I think it was
close to that. Maybe I can't remember.
Speaker 5: I can't as a bell, but I was a different character,
so I can't really confirm.
Speaker 4: But I I'll go ahead and I'll just finally, after
reading about these final experiments and his thoughts about how
he wishes to utilize it in a more grand scale. Ye,
I mean this version at least knew about all of this,
and it ran countless experiments.
Speaker 3: It was his fast experiment, and hid himself from another world.
I'll be ridiculous.
Speaker 4: That doesn't say anything about people, but I assume naturally
that would be his next step considering what happened, which
means it had to have been.
Speaker 7: On his end.
Speaker 6: Perhaps that.
Speaker 4: This version of myself at Islith was in cased at least,
or at least his research in the labs led to that.
Speaker 3: Do you believe that Tim Cross is captured there is
lith in in cased her and in placed whatever there
is lith from another world inside? I believe that's fall fetched.
Maybe Tim Cross is stronger than we even credit for
and found a way to do that at a massive rate.
What stops across from knowing rituals to be able to
take his studies and experiments on Grand despair?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 5: And also how would he have been able to do
that on a battlefield and then you just disappear from
like I guess people.
Speaker 3: He needed to be at a place, Oh god, he
probably needed to be at a place that had high
concentration in movement stone. Maybe he could project magic towers?
Do they connect?
Speaker 5: Can?
Speaker 3: Are they close enough to reflect off each other? Did
did Iris relate everything? By the way?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 3: Yes, assume so well?
Speaker 5: In that case, I guess it makes the question if
Tim is like turning things or encasing them based on
their element or whatever. What did he inject into the moon?
Was it emberstone? Was that liquid mberstone? Was he trying
to encase? What was he doing.
Speaker 4: With the experimentation that was listed? Did he mention inserting
the umberstone into the subject or use utilizing magic as
simply a focus or some sort of a component in
the spell itself in order to in case the subject?
Speaker 1: If he did, you haven't read that yet, yeah.
Speaker 4: Okay, so oh there's there's even more from what we've
we've been reading.
Speaker 1: Okay, it'll take.
Speaker 4: Some time, but I mean we should finish these.
Speaker 3: I want stone, you want emberstoning? Yes, why, I'm master
of magics. If Tim Kross can do it, what can
we use it to our benefit? Well, I mean destroying
the world apparently? No, No, now, silly, I'm not trying
to destroy the world, not understand it on a good level.
My mother, I need books on my family name. Where
prother Sina? You said the labs were in, I mean
we destroyed one lab. Where's the where's the assistant at
what's her name? Again? Lyra?
Speaker 6: Lyra?
Speaker 3: Does she bring the books all the books yet? Yeah,
my mother is a well known major in alchemist. I
don't know what her studies led to what she's done.
Brain is still foggy. Hm hmm.
Speaker 8: But the.
Speaker 3: He did say that the name seemed familiar in.
Speaker 4: The reports about that we were given when we spoke
with the Spirit caller. Was there any mention about any
sort of activity with the emberstone or anything like that.
I forget what was said exactly. I know that Moon
destroyed the tower.
Speaker 7: We heard that much.
Speaker 1: Moon absorbed the emberstone of the tower.
Speaker 4: So we did hear that. So with the talk of
you talking about emberstone, I would turn to you and
I would say, are we forgetting about the fact that
Moon absorbed some of this, was also stabbed with it
at the beginning, which started the whole spree, and is
now doing all of these insane things that we need
to learn more.
Speaker 3: About above table, because I don't want to give any
men's for information or meta.
Speaker 6: Do we know.
Speaker 3: Anything that happened to Moon before, like with the other
group anything. Do we have any information journal anything about
her being escaping or anything of that nature.
Speaker 1: Escaping you mean that.
Speaker 3: I'm using words that I'm assuming.
Speaker 1: Yeah, escaping from what.
Speaker 3: Well, when we weren't here, she had a group of
other adventurers with her, let's just say, and some of
them got caught? Did they all get caught?
Speaker 6: And then?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I don't know, I don't want to meta.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you haven't really done a lot of delving into
Moon's journal. Uh, You've asked Greg a few specific questions,
and Greg answered the best that he could. Well, you
haven't really done a lot of delving into that now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so do we know about what you said that
other heroes were what changed?
Speaker 4: Well, yes, we only met one of them, though you're
still a Zuka to account for, which also, Lyra.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's probably like a moment or so before.
Speaker 4: Yes, I'm so sorry. Do you have any mention of
an Azuka in your in your writings? As well?
Speaker 3: Also, I need a book of my family. I can't irritate, I.
Speaker 4: Know, I feel so bad. I also gave them a
list as well of all of like you know, the summoning,
like all of the Yeah, the Arcanum information and things
like that that I wanted.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, we're still gathering everything. There's a lot of
books and rather scattered question. Yes, you must be very old.
Speaker 3: I grab her, an I put sir, don't worry, it
doesn't mean that way. Very curious, very curious.
Speaker 1: Lyra is actually quite a bit younger Grand Squad Grand
scribe Mara, who's on the Who's on our players screens
right now, that's the grand scribe. She's quite a bit older.
Speaker 3: Hmmm oh right, right, I see where you said that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I was just gonna like do the hairbay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Lyra just kind of looks I'm only thirty seven.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, never mind, you can't really see just right,
just going off, you know, the grand ma age guy
was like, really really really old. I thought maybe perhaps
he must also be really really really old. I could
ask you, you know, really old person questions.
Speaker 4: That's the wrong person.
Speaker 5: Bo oh mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Okay, remember I just list the whole lot of books
just to try to find this one earlier than the rest.
Speaker 3: Yes, please, and may thank you.
Speaker 1: All right, I will try to direct everyone to search for.
Speaker 3: Those run back.
Speaker 1: So when it's a little bit like when you've got
when you mark everything in your email as high priority,
it kind of loses the point.
Speaker 3: Floods.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they're they're trying to pull as many of
these books as possible, and they have been like periodically
kind of like uh, you know, bringing in like a
part of books here and there. But yeah, you kind
of try to push her to find something for your family. Sorry,
go ahead, I want Mbstone.
Speaker 3: I need Emberstone. We need to experiment, We need to
find ways. If we can use it to advantage, we
can change course. Understand it. I sect we have the
notes here. We need to perform some sort of.
Speaker 4: Controlled We have no experience controlling Emberstone.
Speaker 3: There are others that may have experience and all experience.
This is great. Sciences magicians come with.
Speaker 4: We can roll other things out first. We don't need
to jump immediately to something that we were told that
is incredibly unstable, something that is incredibly volatile, something that
in these experiments could potentially kill someone.
Speaker 5: I know what to find some numberstone, Yes, and I
scuttle up zoo bo where I mean back in mill Offax.
Obviously the gaffering car was powered by it wasn't it time?
Speaker 3: Time time time. We don't have time. Time is s.
We don't have have much. I don't mean to worry you,
are scare you. I don't have any alternative motives other
than to figure out this component and be able to
empower us even more.
Speaker 5: I can tell you something about it.
Speaker 6: What is it?
Speaker 3: It doesn't taste very nice and maybe throw up. You
can taste now, does Zimberstone give him taste?
Speaker 1: No, it's like it.
Speaker 3: Tastes like pain.
Speaker 4: I think we're jumping way too far ahead without knowing
all of the information in front of us.
Speaker 3: Right, all right, let's start with the sourced one that
can take in Nimberstone and possibly Stone.
Speaker 4: Let's start with what the hell Eimberstone is.
Speaker 3: We have moons, journals, books, anything on her.
Speaker 4: Just let me focus unders and I'm going to go
ahead and I will continue pouring through Tim Cross's notes
before I dive into another book about more of this stuff, yep,
because I want to finish one thing before we jump
to anything else.
Speaker 1: It's it's brutal. It's like you've got you know, the
buy now, Like the office has just been getting more
and more cluttered, Like you've got open books kind of
like all over the place, and there's you know, the
the Charlie board on the blackboard.
Speaker 3: I start floor.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like it's just it's just it looks like a
crazy person has been through here. And uh, yeah, you
kind of try to dive back into things. Andrews, what
are you currently researching? What do you have in front
of you?
Speaker 3: I have taken the m Stone book and based off
of what there's that that has been reading, I have
become I want to use my words very carefully, but
I believe as a scholarly ma age version of enders
that they have plucked, I've become obsessed with knowledge. I'm
writing formulas, I'm going back and forth.
Speaker 4: Well, I particularly have I don't know what Emberstone book
you're talking about, but in front of me, I would
say I was looking into the Tim Crosston.
Speaker 1: All right, you're looking at the Emberstone was a topic
for the books that you all wanted to grab. So
there's Emberstone and there was basically the main topics that
you have in front of you are summoning rituals and
anything they had to do with the heroes Emberstone, Uh,
Tim Cross and you were also like looking into the
Tree of Knowledge as well, I believe, and are count
them like there were there's a whole mess. Yeah, and
like they've been bringing you like tidbits here and there
wherever they could find, and uh, you know, it's a
lot so embers. You have a book of stuff on Emberstone.
Speaker 3: Emberstone and rituals, And what I'm doing is I'm going
to start us an equations and drawing small ritual circles
to try to make sense of things.
Speaker 1: Okay, if you are trying, are you trying to perform
the rituals or are you trying to drawing?
Speaker 3: Yes? Okay, And after aarslith kind of and this is
in character snap that enders I would just put my
hand up and say and walk and run. And then
that's when I go from the board to the floor
and I just start going like crazy, almost voiding out
that they're even there.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, So you you're doing practice on this, and and
you're as you're doing it, you can see I mean like, hey,
this is a ritual. And there's various like components that
are involved making the circle, like how do you make
the circles? There's all kinds of notes on rituals in general,
but involving Emberstone, there's.
Speaker 3: Really not like of course.
Speaker 1: Like it's not it's not like a common practice. I
think what you gather from all of this stuff is
like people are generally pretty scared about using it in rituals,
and that it's usually like it's already like a difficult
practice to employ it for any artifacts or magical items
or anything like that, Like it's not super safe, and
you know, anybody that's kind of tinkering around with it,
you know, has to be pretty well versed in it
to to do anything. So you're practice anyway risk So
oh sorry, it Ristlyth is looking more into the tim
Cross stuff. Bo Are you just kind of like waiting
to pick up little tidbits here and there of their conversations. Okay,
I think you'll notice at some point that Rue is gone,
Oh hey, where is Rue?
Speaker 4: What you could tell that I'm kind of you know
that when you get really focused on something and when
somebody snaps you out of it, you get irritated. It's
like that hyper focus. Like I'm just overwhelmed right now.
There's just so much information. There's too much in front
of me. There are too many questions we have enders
talking about using this substance that like we have no
idea what it does and how harmful it truly can be.
So for her, you know, like.
Speaker 7: That's it's it's.
Speaker 4: Just a nightmare at the moment trying to juggle all
of these things because obviously there's a conflict within within
her about using something like that. And I just attempt
to use Navigator to try to speak to uh, you
know when like you get that message and like somebody
talks to you and then it like loads in a second.
Speaker 1: Lay your name and you're like, oh wait what yeah.
Speaker 4: And then I'll go, oh yeah, and I'm going to
use navigator rue you are you?
Speaker 6: Okay?
Speaker 4: Here, I'll post it.
Speaker 1: It's just too much, it's too much. I need I
need a minute.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, she's some she just needs a second.
Speaker 5: Hey, Greg, Ah, I draw circle around Greg.
Speaker 9: Oh my god, mm hmmmm.
Speaker 3: I kind of shimmy away skar eating paper. Okay, I'll
draw ritual circle around bow. Can you just stay right there? Please?
Thank you? Okay? A Iris, what's going on with what?
Speaker 6: I know?
Speaker 3: What's what's end is drawing bo Can I drop an
elemental shot and you think you.
Speaker 1: Are?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 1: They are one of the consumables that you can pull
out from your bag typically or from your inventory, and
that is basically like, uh, you know, there were like
different items and final fantasy that you could use if
you didn't have an element you can just like throw
one of those out and then it'll do some damage
or whatever. That's what an elemental shard is. Basically, you
can select what kind of element and it will do
damage based on that kind of damage or that kind
of element. So like a shard of shard of air
will deal like ten air damage. So if you pull
one out, if you actually pull one out and feed
it to bow, that does cost ip.
Speaker 3: Oh, well, I had one created already. Remember when I
was experimenting when I left, Uh, what's the place? But
I was telling you about it? Secret formula does this? Hut?
I'm gonna put the tip on you and am I
allowed to drop it? But you absorb it?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 3: GM help me out here, please?
Speaker 1: How he's for the tipping?
Speaker 6: Me lenders tip everywhere?
Speaker 3: God, you always want to eat something? Why not eat?
It's an elemental shot. It's harmless. I'm not going unless
it breaks. But you seem conductive enough to hold it.
Speaker 5: Would just hold it or weed or were doing just
s just keep it inside.
Speaker 3: You're slimy me whatever the shot?
Speaker 5: Okay, take it in and it it just floats inside
in the middle like in between, like the organ nels
look like eyes. So she's like in the middle like
a weed like inwood squidward Nose. But it's a shot
of elemental stuff.
Speaker 1: Which elemental shard? Is it?
Speaker 3: It's bolt?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's uh, it's if if if you had it,
if you had a proper tongue bow, it would taste
like you know, if you ever licked the end of
the batter.
Speaker 4: I was thinking, he's like one of those elementals like
oozes and like the Dark Soul series, and like I
think in elden Ring they have them too, Like whos
is that all over the place?
Speaker 5: I feel like maybe like bubbles of air will be
like you know, evolving from like where it is because
it's like you know, I guess charged right.
Speaker 3: Interesting, Okay, And I'll just keep drawing around you. And
I went my way over to air Slith and I
kind of swerve around and just keep on the whole
floor is getting covered, books all be and pushed around.
I think in the moment that you had your head
down and upset and trying to contact, you know, trying
to be the motherly person you are. Yeah, yeah, I
have covered the whole floor at this point, and I
am just an erratic and I'm like tee. Where's my tea?
I don't know if she's been bringing to it the
whole time or she did. I have far like.
Speaker 1: Ten I imagine she brought you know, like a just
like a teapot.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that thing is gone. Yeah, I started drinking
from the pot at this time. Yes, yes, this is interesting.
Uh huh right, And I'm flipping through books and pages.
Speaker 1: As you were looking more at the tim Crossbook said, indeed,
what are you looking for?
Speaker 4: Well, at this rate, any sort of continuation of set experiments,
anything that has anything to do with any of the
hero's names that we recognize, or at least that I recognize. Gosh,
anything else that stands out.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, how do you see yourself
doing the skimming through this? Like, how do you how
do you see yourself? Are you just kind of going
page by page? Are you going you know, like, are
you picking a random page and just seeing what's there?
What are you doing?
Speaker 4: I'm trying to go in order as best as possible.
If it seems like a page looks mundane, I'll probably
be like, Okay, this is just him talking about the
sky being blue, like.
Speaker 1: Interspersed with the research on the Emberstone, which is very
cold and scientific as you might expect. You know, like
Tim talks about like like poisoning the creature that was encased,
or like there being adverse reactions to the organic material
in case in the embers Stone, it seems to happen
sporadically randomly. He's doing his best to kind of just
document it. And there are hundreds of experiments as you're
going through, and there is a progression like you might expect.
There's also information in there about what Tim is calling
dream walking, and he's taking small notes and referencing another
book in these notes details to be in the World Journal.
But it seems like him has seen multiple worlds.
Speaker 4: So to clarify what he's calling seeing into these other
worlds is called dream walking. Does he mention anything pertaining
to contact with this other like the denizens of the
other world, because we were all gathered at that convention
and what have you. So two things are possible. Either
Tim cross in the real world, I don't recall whether
or not we had any or in Earth, I should say,
I don't recall if we had any sort of connotation
about whether or not he was involved in that exact
moment or if it was kind of this Tim Cross
here in Regalia took advantage of the fact that he
was watching Earth's Tim Cross and knew that this large
scale event with very talented players was going to be happening.
Speaker 1: You mean int a int difficulty fourteen.
Speaker 3: More experiments?
Speaker 4: Oh I put six by accident, and I put ten
as the difficulty anyway. Oh wait, no, it was open.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I just got a six six. I'm exhausted.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a lot of notes. You don't find specifically
what you are looking for. There's a lot here. There's
hundreds of experiments, and there's a lot of random notes
about the page, like musings and writing in the margins
and shit like that. There might be, it might be,
but nothing that you see right away. Nothing jumps out.
Speaker 7: How long have we been doing this?
Speaker 3: Hours?
Speaker 1: So it's dark out by now? You I mean Bow
and Rue were gone for like four hours initially they
came back and probably on top of that, now you've
been at this for let's find out, let's roll the
D six two two more hours, so it's probably it's
probably just started to get dark. It's Lyra would have
come out around and hung some magical lamps about the place.
There's probably like a just a yellow orange low eminating
from then.
Speaker 4: We should probably take a break.
Speaker 3: Hmm.
Speaker 4: We've been at this for far too long, what.
Speaker 1: Enders oh years?
Speaker 3: I'm starting to write on top of notes at this
point looking in here. Mm hmmm, so your harmony between
the sps, this is not this one here, Yes, says.
Speaker 6: Do I have.
Speaker 3: Much longer les so h and my sour names. You
can dis puss off it or give it back the
elements shot.
Speaker 5: I kind of squeeze and it launches out of the
top of me.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's good. And I walk over with my head
turned and I grab it. I place it back in
my inventory, and my head is still on notes, and
I'm still scratching at the floor.
Speaker 4: Anders possibility and pacen't make me shout?
Speaker 3: Someone if voices now, voices can be distant mirrors.
Speaker 4: And take a hand on your shoulder.
Speaker 3: When I turn around you, I look maddening. Ours are dark,
I lips are dry. My fingers have bloodstains on them
from scratching the floor. I guess that the chalko bark
style tend so the thing I was using to write
notes is bareed down. But we all have only been
gon for thirty minutes. I just need a little bit more.
Speaker 4: Time, Andrews, We've been here for hours.
Speaker 5: At least thirty to thirty minutes, the days gone.
Speaker 3: I think I'm close.
Speaker 4: Sometimes it's better to take a break and look at
things from a different perspective. While you're away from it,
you'll be able to figure out, perhaps things you wouldn't
be able to think of while you're exhausted and not
taking care of yourself.
Speaker 3: Up on his shoulder and I run, and I run
up on top of a desk or a ladder, and
then I look from above and look down. Brilliant, brilliant, Yes, perspective.
That is what I've been missing the whole time. You
bring it all together mm hmm, wavering, And I look
back at you. Huh, you're upset and time.
Speaker 4: I'm so tired. I'm sorry. I'm sorry for snapping at
you before.
Speaker 3: I just.
Speaker 4: It's a lot of information, and I'm seeing it's getting
to you as well. Maybe we should seriously take a
break and get some water, a bite to eat, a
couple hours of sleep. We don't need to sleep the
whole night. We can get up really early.
Speaker 3: What's the look on your face? Right now.
Speaker 4: I look genuinely concerned. After seeing your hands and after
seeing everything that you've been drawing all over the place.
I mean, this isn't our home. This isn't a place
we own. Right, you're saying, you're like riding on the
floors and stuff. We're destroying another person's home. Basically, I.
Speaker 1: This is the Grand Scribes Office, just to be clear, right,
but I mean.
Speaker 4: Like home in the in the perspective of like, yeah,
this is someone else's how.
Speaker 3: She says that, I'll like rub my eyes. The heat
from my eyelids is starting to fold into my inside
of my eyes hockeys. Then I realize what I've done.
Speaker 1: It probably makes like a sandpaper noise.
Speaker 3: When yeah, you know when you're yeah yeah, or you
have a fever and you close your eyes and it's
like heat build up. And I'll take a really big
look at what I've done, and I'm like, did I
do all of this?
Speaker 4: And my eyes will drift to your hands.
Speaker 1: Looks like a beautiful mind in this in this office
right now, there's just equations and ship all over there.
Speaker 3: I have gone a little overboard. I am terribly sorry.
It's okay.
Speaker 5: What was I did you lose time of what?
Speaker 3: Oh I I don't know what came over myself. I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: From where you're standing on the desk, I'll just reach
a hand up to try to help you down.
Speaker 3: And I'll step down. Unees a week just from bending
over and writing on different areas. These notes are pretty important.
I don't want to erase them. But you go on,
you get yourself something to eat and drink, and I
will write this all down in a notebook. That way
I don't lose them, and I will clean up this area.
Can I get a notebook? We've seen they have stores
that have natural bindings.
Speaker 4: Well I have if h so I have done a
ritual and koga about recalling memory. M do I get
the idea that perhaps I could do one to save
the memory of everything that's in front of us here
that Enders has done so that his research is not
messed up. But we could still clean the place.
Speaker 1: I don't see why not. Let me see what we've
got in terms of ritual stuff. Category that would be in.
Speaker 4: It was spiritism last time, because it was a manipulation
of like memory, I think.
Speaker 1: I'll see presence and feelings of creatures of spiritism chimerism
is in enhance your senses, see through the eyes of
the animal, call the fury of a monster. I would
say this is most likely might just be general ritualism.
I think it's probably just general ritualism in this case.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just so, because I mean, it's gonna be different
if we write it down in a notebook versus that
raw memory. I'll look to you under it and I'll say,
I mean we could just, h we could just try
to do a ritual to save the memory exactly of
this place, save the memory.
Speaker 3: You know already fractured mine. Oh, if you can do
mist tools on memory, why haven't you performed one on yourself?
Speaker 4: Well technically technically I did, but it was to recall
memories from before and project them.
Speaker 3: So ill, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1: Uh, it would probably be a spiritism. I'm trying to
classify it, and I think it's probably best in spiritism
because that's about senses, and like you said, we did
the original one to search your memories or whatever. So
I guess let's just classify it as spiritism.
Speaker 4: Okay, do we have any idea of what the it
would be individual and it would be what would be
the difficulty.
Speaker 1: Medium. This is medium potency, I think, so difficulty tenka
thirty mind points tend difficulty for the ritual itself. And
this is spiritism. So that's insight and will power.
Speaker 4: Okay, andres We could do a ritual to just try
to see the memory.
Speaker 3: Though, if you want, as long as it doesn't over
write my memory or make it more fractured. Hmmm, what
if you fell a ritual?
Speaker 4: I mean you can write it all down if you want.
Speaker 3: I was just asking, I don't I have loose studies
of rituals, you know what? And I'll stand up as
you say, do it. I have complete faith in you.
What am I talking about? Your master's spiritualists have at.
Speaker 4: It all right, And I'm gonna go ahead and I'll
drink a potion in the lick, sir, or three mind
points here, get some more MP back, okay, and I
also get more because of my special bullshit. So I
think it's like a seven total more on top of that.
Speaker 7: But I'll look into it.
Speaker 4: But from there, what I'll do is I'll go ahead
and I will take my staff and I will gently
place it onto the ground, or I'll put the bottom
standing up and I will wave one of my hands
and the staff will separate like you've seen me do
it before. The crystal floats above us, and instead of
throughout the room, the vines are very carefully trying to
steer clear of the research, so kind of on the edges,
and it encircles the entirety of the room basically. And
from there, I will go ahead and I'll place my
hand in front of you whenever you are standing where
you want to remember this in the exact way you
want to remember it.
Speaker 3: How does, as well? Do I need to take an
inventory of it?
Speaker 4: You just need to be looking I suppose in the
direction you want to, and I suppose it could probably
take a look from side to side since there's so
much of it, So just to sweep around.
Speaker 3: Ah, I'll do like the panoramic camera. I mean to
back in the day, and I'll as she's performing it,
a'll soowly. You'll see my eyes dot around fast and
taking note as I spin around slowly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And as he's doing this, I'll make sure to
place because I have to have a physical contact with
you for this one. So I will just place my
hand on you and that familiar mote from the ritual
at the very beginning of the show, that pale lilac
kind of color floats into the air from my chest
and unders what color is your soul? In its currency?
Speaker 3: Mmm, I would say, and I have a purple outline
a darken think of a novolcado. So you have the
shell and that like a thin purple outline of the
avocado split the I guess the meaty part of it
would be blackened, and then the sinner would be white.
It's gotta quack a muley soul black a solely.
Speaker 1: A welcome back, my.
Speaker 7: Good to be back.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 4: Well, you would notice a moat in that color float
from the center of your chest and go past your eyes.
It's slightly warm. H don't be alarmed. It's well, I mean,
it's a fragment of your energy. But it'll go back.
That's how the ritual anyway, And they'll float into the crystal,
and the crystal will illuminate into this opal lescent rainbow
of light that kind of sprawls all over the place
as I attempt to go ahead and see if I
actually pass the ritual with a fourteenth success.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what do you what do you think it feels like?
As this happens enders is the memory makes like a
solid imprint for you.
Speaker 3: I believe at the same time, I will snap my
fingers and I'll probably hear it reverberate and time itself.
I will look like it slows down and then like
kind of like a burst of all the equations and
the rituals and everything that I wrote down notes wise
will burst in front of me, almost in like a
runic fashion, and I believe that it will kind of
like speed within me. So it kind of feels like
a rush, like I'm being like a air being, like
you're taking in too much air at once, and I
have to kind of my breathing and it's almost like
packing a balloon, blowing a balloon too much until it
was about to pop. I would expoon because this like
so much information being gained at once. And I definitely
one hundred percent looked at the books, whatever page the
books were on as well, that was spread out.
Speaker 1: Okay, fair enough, this flood of information washes over you,
I know comfort.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's actually a really good reference. I would imagine
that's how it would feel the you know, best scene,
and yeah, it's like, oh that the weapons being summoned
I think my eyes would be dry and watering at
the same time. And because my eyes were just darting
so to you you just see my eyes moving like
in a really alarming fast rate. And then when it's done,
I'll close my eyes and I guess tears of some
sort will flow down, just because you know, moisture wasn't there.
I was like my soul by please.
Speaker 7: Of course.
Speaker 4: And I'll wave my other hand over towards the crystal
and beckon them back towards us. As the moats float
gently back, my staff reaporates into itself and I'll catch
it as it falls. Well, I think it worked, I do,
hope so.
Speaker 3: And then I'll like slowly step out, you know, and.
Speaker 6: Mm hm.
Speaker 1: Ah boom mm hmmm.
Speaker 3: If you could do me a favor and just roll
around this whole.
Speaker 5: Area, roll around the area.
Speaker 3: It's all over the notes that I've wrote written. I
don't want to watch, and I will gather the books
and start trying to pile them up.
Speaker 4: Is going to be able to clean that.
Speaker 3: We have to do another ritual, baby, well, just creams
all over. Oh you know what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna enlarge and basically become like a four times
my normal size. Basically, I'm using my I'm turning into
my mouth and I am then going to.
Speaker 3: Just like a giant.
Speaker 7: Yep.
Speaker 3: Exactly. Well, there we go.
Speaker 6: Yep.
Speaker 1: We'll go back in the day.
Speaker 3: Nintendo, send your lawsuits to not my house, please, and
I back up all the all the notes.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, mm hmmm, food, bedtime, tea and sleep for
a little bit.
Speaker 3: But she hasn't even bought the books to her as for.
Speaker 4: We can instruct them not to touch these.
Speaker 3: I needn't know more about the family name, and you
know more about alchemy.
Speaker 4: We'll figure it out. We've got time, all right.
Speaker 3: Fine, do you think if I take a book from
me and they'll notice?
Speaker 4: Oh, they definitely will. They have an entire catalog of
all of the things that we've I'll.
Speaker 3: Break it back. I just won't get a library cod.
Speaker 4: Well, did they specify that the books can't leave here?
I'm pretty sure they did a point. Yeah, yeah, I
should probably not get on there in their bad side. Fine,
if we want to stay.
Speaker 3: Here, I'll take out like four books unloading.
Speaker 4: We do have moons Journey, and we can read that
while we're eating dinner.
Speaker 3: Oh great, I'll get a little bit more lively. Yeah,
just follow your lead, and.
Speaker 1: Our group here in Nossissia finally gets some rest after
a day of heavy, heavy studying. I would like each
of you to start thinking about possible updates to your
identity theme and what have you. I think it's probably
a good time to think about all that stuff. As
we switch scenes, m Moon, you are recovering from being
smashed through a few walls. In It's Tessa. The rubble
is sort of coming down around you from some of
the room that you smashed through as your consciousness extended
to another world.
Speaker 7: I slowly get up. I look around where am I?
Speaker 1: You're in one of the other hotel rooms here. You
can see like this one seems to have been unoccupied,
and there's just like debris all about you. There's probably
like a little alarm going off in the background, you know,
as you know, some debris has fallen, and there's probably
some like water maybe just kind of like pouring out
from a pipe or something that you smashed through on
the way here.
Speaker 7: Weird, I'm looking at all the plumbing and wiring in
the wall. Then I can still see it glowing, but
I'm here in a Tessa still.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, hey are you there?
Speaker 3: Always?
Speaker 7: Okay, great system, right, Okay, I need.
Speaker 1: A map, map of what.
Speaker 7: The globe I need to find my friends.
Speaker 1: Your friends are no longer in Ellendra, they are great Noia,
no Cicia. And as you think about this, you begin
to visualize a map.
Speaker 7: Whoh Ohia, isn't that the DLC.
Speaker 1: So above the table? No Sissia was in the base game.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 1: It was a location that was difficult to get to,
but it was in the base game.
Speaker 7: Have I ever visited No Sissia?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: You visited no Sissia. I don't think you visited San
Chan Sanshan.
Speaker 7: Though, mm hmm okay, No Sisia. Okay, what's the quickest
way to Assisia? And I internally consult this mini map?
Speaker 1: You can teleport there?
Speaker 7: If she's like, wait, I can teleport and not just
with my mind.
Speaker 1: It will consume ultimate points.
Speaker 7: To do so, of course, it will consume my ultimate points.
And I look at my ultimate points, which I don't
think I have too many left right now, I only
have two.
Speaker 3: Oh, I don't think I can teleport.
Speaker 7: Oh I've wasted all my ultimate points trying to find
team across when I should have been finding my friends.
How many ultimate points does it cost to.
Speaker 1: Teleport more than you have currently? Three?
Speaker 7: Huh? Okay. I grab my cloak and I make my
way down the hallway.
Speaker 1: And I just kind of people are freaking out by
the way in the hallway. Okay, people have emerged from
the room like card you make its way to the
hole town.
Speaker 7: I rushed fast people, and you can see, like you know,
there's there's still things like did you falling off of
the rubble pipe? Spring water behind me? And I just
like make my way through people and start heading downstairs.
Speaker 1: I take the stairs, like what happened? Something explode? Was
it the magic?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 1: Like you hear people are just throwing out theories like
is everyone okay with there any injuries? You hear like
just in the distance, like pull them out through the
rubble You head to the to the elevator, to the lobby.
Speaker 7: I took my way down the stairs.
Speaker 1: Okay, stairs fair enough? You rush down the stairs, uh,
and yeah, people are in the lobby. There's like, you know,
there's people that are sort of rushing up the stairs,
probably past you as you're making your way down shoes.
Speaker 7: And I make my way past everyone, and you can hear, actually,
my the heels of my boots are kind of clack
clack clack clack clack, because I'm definitely not just speedwalking
I am. I am running out of there.
Speaker 1: Absolutely rush through the lobby of the hotel. And it's
it's like dark out now as you make your way outside, and.
Speaker 7: I keep asking questions to the system. Well part of Nisissia.
Speaker 1: They are located in Sun John Sun.
Speaker 7: John sunhan Son, and I just keep repeating to myself
because I've realized that I have been trying to solve
this on my own, and that's silly, It's really silly.
I'm going to head straight to the nearest form of transportation.
I'm not certain that they have airships here in Atessa.
I would assume that they'd probably do because of their
technological advancements, but do they have Do they have airships here?
Speaker 1: So there were flying vehicles in the Echochede, but it
didn't seem like they had any like large airships at
least in this city.
Speaker 7: Okay, is there anyone still near the Kaiju?
Speaker 1: Oh, for sure, there's teams like out and about. Yeah. Yeah,
there's probably like all kinds of lights and things over there.
You know, there's like there's just like big stupid floodlights,
you know that are just kind of illuminating a snowfall.
It's probably like a light snow that's happening right now.
It's not like flurries, but just like a light light.
I mean, it seems like it's a clean up team
right now, you know, like it's it's uh echo shade
like Kaiju clean up personnel or whatever that are just
kind of running around. So, I mean everybody just I
mean they just kind of look like regular people. It's
not like the people from as Gore, like the veterans
are here.
Speaker 7: Okay, who looks the most dedicated?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you can, I mean give me an
insight inside.
Speaker 7: I guess, okay, just open check okay.
Speaker 1: For yeah, I mean you just rush over to anybody's fine.
Speaker 7: No, I uh, I just do a quick scan with
my eyes. You and I run right up to this
kind of of not tall woman because admittedly I am
still taller than this woman, but she comes up to
about here. She's not an asthma, but she's definitely taller. Hey, yes,
do you need a job and do you like adventure?
And are you any good with a sword?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: No, no and no great?
Speaker 7: Are you good at observation?
Speaker 1: I'm sorry? What is this about?
Speaker 7: Look, I need someone to come with me, and it
needs to be within the next five to ten minutes.
I'm going to be leaving on one of those and
I point to a vehicle. I'm going to Assisia. Do
you have any interest in that? You look capable?
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, what.
Speaker 7: Do you want to come with me on this airship?
Not airship? Do you want to come with me on
this vehicle?
Speaker 5: Ah?
Speaker 7: If I said yes, would you say yes?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: Shit?
Speaker 7: And I immediately turn around. Okay, new plan, new plan,
new plan, and I start looking for a tavern.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, you see me like rush off, like it
ran out, you like ran outside out of the wall
and like went outside to the scene where the Kaiju fell,
and there's just all this person these people around that
are just kind of like it's, you know, like a
police crime scene with like tape and like, you know,
it's a little bit like that.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 1: They've just got like big stupid floodlights, and there's like
you know, carts and things to like try and transport
some of this stuff. There's people with like bone saws,
you know, like the chainsaw type of equipmen like okay,
you know, like cutting chunks out of this thing, right right.
Speaker 7: Well, I immediately run back away from the kaiju and
I start.
Speaker 1: To look for a tavern yep, Okay, yeah, you rush.
Speaker 7: It has to be run down looking like not a
nice definitely not.
Speaker 1: There's not like taverns really here. There's this is like
this is like Star Trek socialist utopia looking place, you know.
This is this is like the like everything's super clean
and like this isn't this isn't like spye Ark. This
is a very different kind of town. Okay, all right,
I go into restaurants and stuff like that clean.
Speaker 7: Looking restaurant, sure, And I step inside and I kind of.
Speaker 1: I think, so there's probably like a crowd in here,
like just eating dinner.
Speaker 7: Does anybody have a battle axe on them?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: Insight Insight open check.
Speaker 7: Oh if only i'd stayed put in spe Ark Okay,
Insight and Insight.
Speaker 6: Eleven.
Speaker 1: Uh, yeah, there's probably somebody like there's probably a veteran
group here, like they're just being raucous, like in a
corner like a corner booth.
Speaker 7: Okay, I I immediately step in, and then I stopped
because I realized that there's a host, and I say, oh, hi,
and I'm looking at the person with the battle ax.
I can't really make out their features, so they're just
a person to be right now with the giant weapon.
Speaker 1: I find you a table.
Speaker 7: No, actually, I'm meeting a party right there. And I
realized that I probably have crazy eyes, so I say,
I am, I'm here to meet my party right there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you do that. I'm here to meet my party.
And yeah, yeah, you're like a little too close to
the person. Okay, sure you can head right over, Yes, okay, wonderful.
Speaker 7: Is there an extra seed at this table?
Speaker 1: Probably? I imagine it's probably like a like a corner
booths or something like that.
Speaker 7: Okay, I walk up to them, and then I heat the.
Speaker 3: Tail with give birth to lax.
Speaker 1: And I was surprised at it. You know, I didn't
chumped the tail directly off. The creature's hide was so tough.
Speaker 7: I slide into the booth and I sit down, and
I say, don't make a sound, right, it's the singer. Look.
I came in here because I saw your battle axe,
and I point directly at the person with a battle axe.
Speaker 1: You nice, isn't it?
Speaker 7: Yes, it is? And I look around at the rest
of the table, who also look quite capable. All of
you actually yes, yes, this is good.
Speaker 6: Look.
Speaker 7: I don't mean to interrupt your meal, but I need
steal and I need it within the next five to
ten minutes. And if you join me, I promise not
only to feed you, but I promise a battle you
join me.
Speaker 1: Uh, insight and and willpower unless you're using an ability.
Speaker 7: Oh, do I have anything persuasive that I can throw
at these at these poor unfortunate souls. Dominate? Maybe I
don't know if that's what I'm going for, though.
Speaker 1: So you can you can use uh yeah, Dominate's kind
of the only thing that you have other than rolling
and insight and willpower.
Speaker 7: To conc I'll just roll insight and willpower. Okay, I
suppose does that open or uhh.
Speaker 1: We got to make sure we take off the shaken
condition from you though.
Speaker 7: Okay, that's a ten.
Speaker 1: We are in the middle of a meal. Is there
another You can hear any alarms.
Speaker 7: And you see this like I turned to the side,
like think, think, think you have to get this people
away from their meal. Yes, but it's coming to the
city and it will be here soon. Uh, but we
have to get there in advance.
Speaker 1: They all look like questioning at you, what where is it?
Speaker 7: They haven't spotted it just yet, but it probably will
be here within a day or two. And I look
at them and I realize I'm I'm just looking at
this weapon, like, oh, that would be so nice. What
if I just paid you?
Speaker 1: I don't understand aid me for what the meal? Are
you taking care of this meal?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no no no.
Speaker 7: I need you all to join me.
Speaker 1: Oh you want to pay us to be mercenaries? Oh?
They kind of like look at each other.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yes, yes, yes, I need a band of mercenaries. Really,
anything that's I need help, Well, that is what we do.
Speaker 7: Okay, listen, you can finish your meal. I won't bother
you anymore. But you know where the transportation is, right
so you can see, and I point towards the vehicles
outside the window. That's where i'bie I'll be waiting for
you over there, and there's coin and possibly another meal
and definitely things to slaughter. I promise you that.
Speaker 1: They look at each other. Well, all right, we try
to finish our meal. How much does this pay?
Speaker 7: I pull out a bag and I give them fifties
in it on the table in coins and it just clatters.
That's for you right now. There's more where that came from.
Speaker 1: Oh much more.
Speaker 7: I just have to find out. And I stand up
and I salute and.
Speaker 1: I leave, just like watching you go out. Like the
neighboring tables also heard you. They're just like going on, is.
Speaker 3: There another kaiju?
Speaker 1: I didn't hear an alarm? Yeah you you head out
of the restaurant that's here, like everybody's kind of uh
thank you.
Speaker 7: I as I as I'm on my way out, I
slam the hostess desk like tap tap, thanks a bunch.
Speaker 1: Are you sure you don't want any food or drink?
Speaker 7: And I just like I've focused, got one plan, one plan,
all right?
Speaker 1: You head outside?
Speaker 7: Also, do you know how much money I have left?
Because I cannot see how much money I have left?
Uh yeah, bo is shaking in his wherever he is
right now.
Speaker 1: So minus the fifty you had two?
Speaker 7: Okay, okay, so to fifty total or okay, okay, got it?
Thank you, And I find a place to either lean
or pop up squat at the transportation area. Where it
looks like there's a bunch of unfamiliar vehicles. To be honest,
I haven't really expected anything this clean because I've been
traveling in dirty ships and through time and caves. So
I just kind of look like really unnatural, and I
just lean against something and I just kind of wait
and tap my foot.
Speaker 1: You didn't travel through time, didn't travel through that was okay?
Speaker 7: Maybe I exaggerated. Maybe I didn't travel through time, but
I traveled somewhere. You know when you when you when
you dream, And I'm saying all of this out loud,
and there's like passers by like when you dream, you know,
that's that's the thing. You go somewhere, right probably.
Speaker 1: Hi, Yeah, there's a few people that like walk past
like crazy.
Speaker 7: I tap my foot. How long does a meal take?
And I want to wait? However long it takes for
these people to come over, We'll see if it's more
than an hour or two.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, it's probably like twenty minutes. But eventually they
start filing out and there's like three there's like three
veterans that were at that table that seem to head
your way. So what's all this about? Oh, you came great, well,
that depends on how much money's involved. We are mercenaries,
after world. If we're fighting another guy, Jude, this is
going to be pricey, look fifty, then it isn't going
to cut it.
Speaker 7: I can't promise that it's going to be another cut you,
but I can't think about Oh all right now, I'd
like to use intimidate.
Speaker 1: Okay, so this is uh, this is still insight and willpower. Okay,
unless you are doing something to intimidate them.
Speaker 7: Ooh, I said, so tough, because I just need a crew.
I just need a crew, That's what I tell them. Look,
I just need a crew. I just need people who
are are good at this kind of thing, who can
handle themselves in a battle.
Speaker 6: Look around you.
Speaker 7: I just came from Spalerk. I just came from Spielerk.
I just came from a from a from a group
of people who could handle themselves.
Speaker 1: Okay, and what does that have to do with us?
Speaker 7: Well, you can obviously handle yourself.
Speaker 3: I can promise.
Speaker 7: Why should we take another one hundreds in it?
Speaker 1: They look at each other, for all of us, No, just.
Speaker 7: You, You're a mercenary. Why do all these people have
to come with you? I saw your battle axe.
Speaker 1: Make an insight and willpower open check.
Speaker 7: Fourteen.
Speaker 1: Come on, we'll take a look for a hundred.
Speaker 7: You say, take a look. That means you'll come with me.
Speaker 1: I would come and take a look. I won't go
If it's only one hundred zen it and it's only
for him, why should we go?
Speaker 7: Because now I'm only paying for one person.
Speaker 1: Obviously, and the other two begin to leave.
Speaker 7: One hundred and twenty sen it. That's my final offer.
Do you want to come with me or not? I
jingle the coins.
Speaker 1: He looks at them and says, what are you doing?
Speaker 3: What is this.
Speaker 6: At me?
Speaker 7: He says this to me?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Are you interested in me? What is this about?
Speaker 7: Look? Do you need to know what it's about? Do
you ask every single person that pays you what the
job is?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm a mercenary. I'm not in this for or
good feelings, and I don't know whatever it is that
other people do good.
Speaker 7: Then there's no good feelings involved. There's probably going to
be some killing. Killing. It literally happens wherever I go.
Speaker 1: I don't mind killing, but I want there to be
money involved in one hundred and twenties and it isn't
very much but I'll have a look. If it's something interesting,
maybe I'll do it. I won't make any promises.
Speaker 7: Okay, then follow me and I'd like to make my
way to one of these transportation.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I mean it's they're different than like probably cars.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but how far can these go?
Speaker 1: So you've been to a Tessa before, You've been to
Corvaks or Cormax, which is the capital, and you've definitely
seen this, Like they're flying transportation around, but they're not,
like they're typically used just around the city. So they're
kind of like smaller and when they do need like
long distance travel, they have like like some larger vehicles
for it, but typically they only do it from specific places,
primarily because of the Kaiju threat and other like monsters
kind of wandering around a Tessa. There's really not too
many different kinds of monsters in a Tessa. They're they're
pretty much like kaiju and like other strong creatures, primarily
because they're the only things that are brave enough to
stick around.
Speaker 7: Okay, so do these lead out of a Tessa like these.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean they're they're just kind of like parked vehicles.
Speaker 7: Okay, so they're like flying cars if I'm trying to
get like a okay.
Speaker 1: Kind of like flying cars, and there are some bigger
ones that are probably the size of like a bus,
and those are the ones that are typically like long
distance you've seen. Okay, are you trying to find one
of those? Specifically? Yes, insights insight inside open checky.
Speaker 7: Eleven.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I'm gonna say that there's probably you know,
you're mostly looking at the equivalent of like city travel vehicles.
But I will say that you probably see one landing
within you know, maybe a few blocks of where you
are right now.
Speaker 7: Okay, there, that's perfect, And i head over to where
it's landing. And I'm not certain if bad Lacks is
following me or not.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's following you. He looks kind of skeptical, like, yeah,
just it seems to be following. H you're the savior
round to you. Yes, you defeated that kind you almost
single handed.
Speaker 7: And I look at him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so why do you need me?
Speaker 7: I told you I need someone capable? Again, this is
very clean place. I don't think people here are looking
to fight. And where I'm going, I know I'm going
to need to fight.
Speaker 3: Where are you going?
Speaker 7: Look, it's called Narcissia. I don't know if the fight
will be in Nissia, but this is going to be
a long term endeavor. If you don't want to come,
you don't have to. You don't have to be here
for the feel good feelings either, but there would be
rewards the money.
Speaker 1: Do you need me to go with you to Narcissia.
It's so far away.
Speaker 7: Company. Look, you understand battle, You understand what it's like.
You know what it means to destroy, to do something else.
You have a mission, you have a purpose. I can't
just take somebody average here.
Speaker 6: I already tried that.
Speaker 7: They weren't interested. I need someone battle hardened.
Speaker 1: That's because you're talking crazy. You're not saying anything. You
just keep saying over and over again that you need help,
but you don't say for. But now you go to
this far away place. You talk of Kaiju. You said
you lied, You said that there was Kaiju north of
the city and they were going to be here. There's
going to be What does that have to do with
this other country. Look, I am a simple mercenary from Asgor.
We come here to test our metal against the Kaiju.
In it testa We have an agreement with the government
here to come here help, but I don't know what
this is. You wave around a fu zen it in
front of my face and then you expect me to
just follow you to the ends of Ragaria. I am
an adventurous person, but I do not know why the
Savior would need me.
Speaker 6: Ah.
Speaker 7: I think the world is gonna and soon.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: When I realized, like, well, that was the craziest thing
I probably could have said. But yes, I am serious.
Speaker 1: Look and it's ending where it's what is happening?
Speaker 7: I breathe out. You're trying my patience. If you don't
want to come, don't you recognize me. I took down
a kaiju, but don't come with me. You don't want
the money, that's fine. You don't want the adventure, that's fine. Asgor,
everyone I met in Asgor was honest and blunt about
what they needed. I can't be honest with you because
you're not gonna believe me. I'm gonna tell you the
world's gonna end, and you don't want to believe me.
Speaker 1: Fine, but.
Speaker 7: I just needed somebody to come with me. I guess
it's not gonna be you.
Speaker 1: I guess not.
Speaker 7: I fold my arms. It could just take you hostage.
You could be my prisoner. Do you want to be
my prisoner instead?
Speaker 3: Why? What would what purpose would that serve?
Speaker 7: I don't know the same purpose for me companionship, but
probably wouldn't be that fun for you.
Speaker 1: M this is some kind of weird Are you kidnapping me?
Speaker 7: Do you want to be kidnapped?
Speaker 1: Takes a second and thinks about it, like, looks you
up and down. I don't know.
Speaker 7: Maybe, Okay, right now, we're getting somewhere, okay, Uh, Hey,
and I look at the guy who just stepped out
of them the vehicle. Hey, can I can? I? And
I point at the the vehicle? Can I can I
rent this? Please?
Speaker 3: Uh? Are you?
Speaker 1: Are you? I'm sorry? This this vehicle belongs to This
vehicle belongs to uh one of the city guard here
in Echo Shade. It's not available for rent.
Speaker 7: Okay? Is there anything any other long distance?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Long distance vehicles?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't I don't have any sort
of record of vehicles throughout the city.
Speaker 7: Oh okay, okay, never mind, And I look for some
someone that I can just talk to. Uh.
Speaker 1: You're just trying to find somebody that seems to know
about like a quarter master.
Speaker 7: Yeah, or somebody who's taking care of this, Like there's
got to be somebody monitoring.
Speaker 1: I'm watching this. I'm watching this, and Moon is just
like crazy walking around the entire city, like just trying
to find a way to travel to Nosissia. And it's
just it. It looks from the outside as crazy as
it sounds. So uh, make I guess this will be
another insight insight just open check eight. Okay, yeah, nobody
just kind of like jumps out at you, like everyone's
looking at you like your nuts.
Speaker 7: This is not going well.
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 7: I walk up to a vehicle and I jimmy the handle.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah this this guy that you're hey, isn't kidnapping
supposed to work a little differently?
Speaker 7: Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, we're not there yet. And
I jimmy the handle. Come on, come on open for mom?
Speaker 1: Uh just roll. I guess the might and uh just
might and might might and m.
Speaker 7: Fifteen.
Speaker 1: Yeah you just ripped the fucking door.
Speaker 4: Open, sweet, I get in.
Speaker 7: Is there energy in this.
Speaker 1: Energy in the in this vehicle?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 1: You are you asking if there's emberstone here?
Speaker 7: Whack do it?
Speaker 6: Got?
Speaker 9: Guess?
Speaker 1: I'm trying I need to know. You gotta be specific.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, is is there fuel in this vehicle?
Speaker 6: You look?
Speaker 1: I guess they would have some kind of instrumentation that
would say like, hey, you know, this is how much
fuel is here? Yeah, it looks like there's some kind
of fuel in there. It's got some kind of charge. Okay,
this was just one of the regular city vehicles that
you've gone up to.
Speaker 7: Oh, regular city vehicle. Okay, well it's something all right,
what I and I pop my head out, what's your name?
And I'm asking the mercenary.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my name is cor fag core Tag.
Speaker 7: I'm kidnapping you get in, Okay.
Speaker 1: He just like goes over. He like walks over to you,
like and he gets in the same door that you've
like you've ripped open. You know it just you know,
he he gets in that way. This guy doesn't know
what this is, you know, he's just like he just
assumes it's like a carriage or whatever. You just like
open the door for him. He just walks right in
it like sits he sits in the seat right next
to the open door.
Speaker 7: Okay, I I look at the gadgets and gizmos in
front of me and realize I don't really know how
to operate this, but I'm going to start pressing buttons
okay until things happen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it. You just start pushing buttons. Yeah, absolutely,
give me decks and insight, I think.
Speaker 7: Okay, decks and insight. Hey do do do?
Speaker 3: Do?
Speaker 5: Do do?
Speaker 3: Is that?
Speaker 7: Open?
Speaker 6: Check?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Open?
Speaker 7: Chack okay ten?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so uh yeah, you kind of can figure this out.
You just start pushing buttons and there's probably like the
horn goes off or something like at first, like and
like the animal in this is it inside? I don't
understand this technology here?
Speaker 6: Did you? You will?
Speaker 7: You will? You will? And I'm pushing buttons and things
are lighting up and like beeping, and there's like a
radio frequency like welcome to It doesn't off good. And
then suddenly I'm hoping that there's something that sounds like
an engine.
Speaker 1: Yeah it doesn't. It just sounds like, you know, like
when you turn on an electric car. Okay, yeah, it's
just it's just like okay, okay, a bunch of lights
come on. Uh like there's the equivalent of headlights that
turn on.
Speaker 7: Okay okay.
Speaker 1: And door is the jar? Door is a jar? Door
is a jar?
Speaker 7: Could you uh you and I motioned towards the door
cold you can you slam?
Speaker 1: That is the jar? What now this thing making noise?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 7: Yes, yeah, close it from the and then still slam it.
Speaker 1: Door is a jar?
Speaker 7: Close what I reach across from him when.
Speaker 1: It doesn't stay closed?
Speaker 7: And he like brooke the lock, and I like close
it shut. And there's like some metal that's screeching against itself, like.
Speaker 1: You force it closed, and you're like leaning over a
core gas to close the door, and you just you know,
you just like cram it closed like it's you know,
it's not properly closed. You like bend the metal a
little bit. And he's like, ahh, you are very strong.
Speaker 11: Is this the beginning? No, well not just yet, but
my kidnapped. Now yeah, what kind of things are you
going to do to me?
Speaker 1: You just wait and find out.
Speaker 6: And I and I.
Speaker 7: And I like put it into reverse if I can,
and I hope these things starts moving.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it goes way too fast and reverse. You know
how like electric cars don't have like the the the
lead up time you know, to accelerate. You know, they
just kind of like the torque, just like activates like
you know, it's it's a little bit like that when
you when you go and reverse and it's just like
way way.
Speaker 12: Too fast, okay, like real uh I it like rears
back kind of kind of like uh like whoa okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 7: Not exactly, not exactly. Dragon, we could do this, we
can do this. This is fine, okay, and then.
Speaker 1: Go okay, yeah, you're still like trying to figure it out,
uh and you begin to uh fly as as fast
as possible. Is that what's happening?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there's probably like a hud or something on
the windscreen that is that like has popped up and
it's showing like uh, you know, all kinds of like
red flashing like has you're as you're flying like this.
Speaker 7: This is the Back to the Future scene when Marty
gets into traffic in the in the future that it's
that it's like, oh my.
Speaker 3: God, what is going on?
Speaker 7: So there's just a bunch of stuff going on, like okay, okay,
be being here, Okay, this is fine, this is fine.
The door is like rattling as we're like flying, yep, okay, okay, okay,
I'm guessing there's a wheel.
Speaker 1: It's just like you know that, you know, like when
you do leave your door ajar and there's a like
ping that's happened? That happens? Yeah, oh god, what is
that noise? I don't know?
Speaker 7: And I the dashboard.
Speaker 1: It laughs. You can see like his battle axe is
just like tearing up the fucking seat behind him. You know,
he's got it like on his It's just like like
every time he turns it like makes a gesture, it's
like ruining this vehicle like even more.
Speaker 7: Okay, okay, right, well, and I look below. Where are
we right now? My goal is to get out of
the city. I don't even know how long this this
car is gonna drive.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you you've you've basically like headed up and
you're beginning to try and like find your way around.
Now the lights don't go that far and you're in
a light snow, so it's kind of difficult to say exactly,
but you can see you're there is the equivalent of
something that you can read in terms of like how
fast you're going, And uh, I think you have an
innate knowledge of like how fast that is. When those
numbers show up, they're obviously not miles per hour, but
your brain or the system interprets them that way for you,
and uh, you have a general idea like you're going
kind of like you're not traveling at like jet speeds
or commercial airliner speeds.
Speaker 8: Right right, right, probably probably the equivalent of like maybe
like eighty or ninety miles an hour.
Speaker 7: Okay, so not too slowly, but but enough and not
not an airline. Yeah, I'm guessing it's there's still beeping.
Is there is there no beeping?
Speaker 1: No, You've smashed the hell out of the dash?
Speaker 7: Okay, great, great, great, yeah, okay, and I'm looking out
of the window. Okayis many map, many maps? We have
a map anything anything system? Where are you?
Speaker 1: You are currently in the northern region of Viagalia. A
Sissia is in the southern region. If you wish, you
can travel north and eventually hit in no Sissia. Yes,
it is approximately And I need to do some calculations
here because I mean it's a globe. You can just
go around the other way, which will take you into
the very cold northern regions, or you can take the
longer it's longer to go south and it's shorter to
go north. But the you know you're going to basically
hit you know, some extremely cold weather if you go north. Okay,
so it depends which way are you going north or south?
Speaker 7: Well, I have been in cold weather before, and Krgath
looks like, hey, I'm assuming it's he is relatively wrapped up,
so to speak, and I think we should go the
colder way to get to Nosisia.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, so let's do some basic relations here quick.
Meths oh, I got a zoom wagh in. I forgot
how jug gundo. This map is okay, probably about five
hundred and fifty to six hundred miles.
Speaker 7: Okay, it's a bit of a drive, and I I
open my eyes and hopefully I have some sort of
idea of where I'm going. I think I do. The
more I think about it, the clearer I can kind
of visualize it. But really, when I look out the windshield,
it's it's just snow. So I'm hoping that they're there
is something that gives me an idea of like, Okay,
there's there's that compass. Maybe I kind of feel it
like I felt like when I was in the cave.
There's just a way and I'm going that direction.
Speaker 1: You have like a very good idea of where you're going. Okay, okay, and.
Speaker 7: I press forward and I haven't been paying attention to
to Corgath at all, who I'm guessing is still freaking
out and moving around and trying to figure out what's
going on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's just he's like, he's like kind of just
looking around. So, how many kid you have you killed?
Speaker 7: Uh? And I have to think about it, couple, I think, Yeah.
Speaker 1: There are always so many grand stories about the Savior.
I don't know what to believe.
Speaker 7: Well, what have you heard?
Speaker 1: Well, much like everyone else, I suppose you're very strong
and from what we saw outside Echo Shade, it seems correct. Yeah,
and they say that you are.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: There are many people that call you different things, but
most call you Savior. I've heard people say things like
the Valkyrie, and it's sometimes in Asgorg they call you
the angel of death, you know, because of the war
and everything.
Speaker 7: I've got one hand on the wheel.
Speaker 1: Corgoth, is it time? Are we doing something?
Speaker 7: I look at him and I debate for a long
time whether I want to throw him out of the
car or kiss him, And then I look back at
the windshield and I go your shoes on tied?
Speaker 3: Oh? Stupid.
Speaker 1: It's the cold weather. He like he does He's like
folds himself over, you know, trying to tie his boot,
and it's just like causing mass having like she like
his axe like like scraping against the metal. Shit. Like
he's just like completely oblivious to the fact that he's
in a complicated piece of technology and it's easily damaged.
Speaker 6: Ah.
Speaker 7: There we go, and I'm glaring at him, and I
take a deep breath and I say, how many cad
you have you killed?
Speaker 5: Mm?
Speaker 1: Well, I've been on three hunts.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: One was very bad.
Speaker 3: Uh, there was a.
Speaker 1: Well we had to go out to find it. There
was one that was near eighth or Forge a few
years ago, maybe three years ago. Yes, it was a
long journey. We traveled through the woods and the mountains
and we were hunting this creature. The forest was mostly destroyed.
Speaker 3: M When we.
Speaker 1: Found the massive tracks, there was some sort of acid around.
The creature must have dropped it.
Speaker 3: I don't know if it was blood or you know, it.
Speaker 1: Shot the acid out of something.
Speaker 3: But when.
Speaker 1: When we went to look at it, we didn't know
what it was. It smelled horrible. Someone thought it pissed
or something, but it might have been it might have
been acid pissed.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: When we went to look, someone fell inside it oiled
all its all their skin off.
Speaker 3: It was horrible. And then.
Speaker 1: Of course we laughed and then we you know, we
made jokes, and then we kept tracking it, and then
eventually we found that this was a creature like a
big sort of bear bear the pieces acid. Never I
didn't know that guy, you could do that.
Speaker 3: And then.
Speaker 1: Where we found it, it was sleeping, and when we
snuck up on it, we prepared an ambush.
Speaker 3: Was sleeping, and.
Speaker 1: It was far stronger than we imagined. It killed nearly
all of us, but I survived. Look a good hit though.
It like pulls back some of his clothing and you
can see this like wicked gash along his side.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: It healed like horribly, like it's just a really bad scar.
Oh yeah, it broke all of my ribs on my
right side. And then then the creature bit into one
of my friends and ripped them in half. Was terrible,
and then of course we laughed again. We kept fighting,
but it was hurt bad. We were hurt bad. But
we killed it. And then when we killed it, there
was well nobody around to collect it. We had to
travel all the way to eighth or Forge. She was
very very very long trip in the snow, and finally
when we got there, we had to tell them where
the kaiju was and it took weeks to find.
Speaker 3: It and get the price.
Speaker 1: What was the prize, well, a good sized coin purse.
Speaker 3: And that's when I got these x.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 7: And I look at the axe and it is a
nice axe.
Speaker 1: It's good, right. It's big though, and he like he
looks back at it and it's just like shredding the
seed again.
Speaker 7: All I have is is this right now? And I
take out broken revelry and I give it to him.
This is what's left of my sword, still hits, but
not quite the same. Unfortunately, you know any good blacksmiths.
Speaker 1: Uh, this doesn't look like a sword. I mean it's
a sword, but it's all sort of broken and put
back together.
Speaker 3: I know, how did this happen?
Speaker 1: Is this what you used to kill the kindju?
Speaker 7: Yes? And and also a little bit extra. I turned
to look at him and I've got, uh, you know
this like the magic like right below the surface, and uh,
I asked him, have you ever seen you know, I'm
certain you've seen magic, but that's really that's really how
I did it. Use a lot of magic.
Speaker 3: Impressed.
Speaker 7: I'm not really sure I could take down something with
just a sword.
Speaker 1: But you did, I mean and magic. Yeah, not a
lot of people use magic in as Goore.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: There are some that enhance themselves with it. You would
fight better, but not a lot of magic. You won't
find many elementalists in Ascore.
Speaker 7: You have amberstone towers.
Speaker 1: He did not make it.
Speaker 7: It is for your own protection. And I look up
the windshield.
Speaker 3: M hm, yes, there was.
Speaker 1: Some news about that. They were talking about it. They
said that the tower near Swalark was destroyed.
Speaker 7: I look at him.
Speaker 1: I don't know what to buy. Maybe it just blew up.
That's what technology does, right, And he looks around at
the car and there's just like this persistent.
Speaker 7: Like, hmmm, what if I told you that that was
something I did?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 7: I look out at the snow. I'm just silently driving
the Emberstone tower.
Speaker 1: What do you mean you did it?
Speaker 7: I destroyed it?
Speaker 1: Why I.
Speaker 7: Needed the Emberstone? What I needed the Emberstone to survive?
And at the foot of that tower, I remade one
of your friends. I created him after he died.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about?
Speaker 7: Made him a whole new Torso. As a matter of fact, what.
Speaker 1: Are you telling me right now? You destroyed the tower? Why?
What do you mean you needed the Emberstone?
Speaker 7: I needed the power to save the world. Corgath? Can
I just keep driving?
Speaker 1: You're not making sense. I thought the towers were put
there to stop the rift.
Speaker 7: Do you even know what the rift is?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: I'm a simple man. That is form scientists.
Speaker 7: I take out another handful of gold, the one hundred
and twenty, so that's leaving me with one thirty and
I give it to him.
Speaker 1: What are you doing.
Speaker 7: For the rest of the trip. What I'm going to
attempt to knock him out?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 3: How would you like to do that?
Speaker 7: Probably using like the butt end of my sword?
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, uh, okay, I guess you can just attack
with your weapon. Yeah, I guess. Just I guess just
to hit the button and attack with your weapon.
Speaker 7: We'll see, We'll see what happens. What would I need
to roll for this?
Speaker 5: Just? Uh?
Speaker 1: You should be able to just push the button for
broken Revelry and it's the equivalent of an open check.
Speaker 7: I look at Broken Revelry and then I look at
Corgath and I put it back and I don't do anything.
Speaker 1: Okay, He's just kind of staring at you. At this point.
Speaker 7: I look at him.
Speaker 1: A feeling mad.
Speaker 7: Yes, there's your payment, and I just keep driving.
Speaker 1: Okay. He's like looking out the window like he's looking
he's trying to like see how far up you guys are?
You know, how far up are you?
Speaker 7: I don't know if in this storm, well, because we're
in the snow right and I imagine it's pretty heavy,
so I don't know if you'd be able to see
the ground, but it's at least a couple stories, maybe
three or four. I think if he were to try
to shut out, there's actually, you know, the child safety
lock seems to be activated.
Speaker 1: Miild safety lock.
Speaker 8: To be clear, is the fact that you have warped
the door of this vehicle just to shut it up
from making the door as a jar noise. There's a
fist sized fucking imprint in the dashboard that's just concaved it,
and the door is just mangled and it's like whistling,
you know, the air is blowing through holes in the door.
Speaker 1: It's like iced over on the window.
Speaker 7: Yep, yeah, we're probably like three four stories up. I
mean we're headed to Nosisia that that is the goal,
and I just needed some company. But we'll see, We'll
see what he We'll see what he does.
Speaker 1: Just looking at you like this whole thing is crazy.
He's he's just kind of staring at you, staring at
the like pouch of coins in his hand, and he
keeps like looking out. He's doing some math here where
he's just like, am I gonna get thrown out of
this car? Do I have to jump? Do I have
to take control of it? You know, like there's like
a hamster seriously overworked in his brain right now. There's
like smoke coming out of his ears where he's like
trying to figure could I fly this flying carriage? You know,
like he's trying to do a lot of math right
now and it's not going well. He just sort of
I think you could just kind of see him like
resolve himself. Really, if I die, I die, you know,
you probably hear him say like under his breath, and
you continue sailing north through the ice and cold.
Speaker 7: Yep, no, no, I.
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