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Speaker 2: Where is Karoon Spence?
Speaker 3: H people around? It's kind of hard to see anyone. Hmmm.
Speaker 2: Do you think she actually got a judge bot?
Speaker 3: I think krns cavable of anything really.
Speaker 2: Truly, hm hm hmm.
Speaker 4: Perhaps he's searching for my drugs.
Speaker 2: That is also of very high possibility.
Speaker 5: Is that a tiny volcano over there?
Speaker 4: Oh, it looks like an anteile?
Speaker 2: Well, it's a model, so it's similar. It's meant to
be like a volcano, but at a smaller scale. M
you see this stuff pouring out of it?
Speaker 4: Yes, that is not magic. It looks like.
Speaker 6: Hmm.
Speaker 7: I've never been to one of these things before review.
Speaker 4: M hm, No, he did not do this. This is strange.
Speaker 3: Where's a mm hmmm.
Speaker 8: I feel funny and he's in his help it around
all these people.
Speaker 2: Do you not like it?
Speaker 8: I am. I like it, but destroying a lot of attention.
Speaker 2: Because we all look hard, right, this is quite cold blooded. Well,
it's like figurative, like good looking.
Speaker 9: Attractive, tracking wrong attention.
Speaker 2: Kay be described you in a different way for those
posters not looking us together. I have admittedly it's been
a little bit though, so I don't remember the text
on it. It was really tiny and I didn't want
to look at them too long.
Speaker 5: Well, if we look like we belong, then perhaps.
Speaker 2: It should be all right here already with it.
Speaker 5: You can hold my journal if you like. M h
can go ahead as a buffer.
Speaker 8: I'm literally walking around with it like this.
Speaker 4: I appreciate it, I know. Yeah, thank you for giving
me things that look exactly the same. There are some
rooms I see, but it is nice not standing out man.
Speaker 2: It's also very slightly nicer fabric.
Speaker 4: If you feel, yes, it is a higher quality.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you like it. M sorry it was too decorated.
Speaker 10: Hmm.
Speaker 4: I that the ruins said some very strange things. I
do not think they knew how to write in ruins.
Speaker 2: Oh, no, what what did they say?
Speaker 4: The gatewalker from before, the one that said they had
the ghost hunting ruins, it was like that. I believe
it said what was that one? Was it ignored? Fool?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 4: That one was there was something like that. These ones
ended up saying no, what was it? I think it
was sweet cakes?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 2: Is that like a euphemism for.
Speaker 8: It?
Speaker 4: Was on the back.
Speaker 2: You listend food have.
Speaker 4: Botops, you have a cloaca?
Speaker 3: Is the rashot caked up?
Speaker 2: That's exactly what I about.
Speaker 3: Lean over to.
Speaker 4: Look whatever you think a lizard could be as a
cakes up lizard.
Speaker 9: That might be it.
Speaker 4: I have a decent constitution. Naked so much, I'm are you.
Speaker 5: Using a constitution to determine but.
Speaker 4: Size thickness, I'm not thin.
Speaker 12: That's for the.
Speaker 2: Yes, natural twenty darling for you.
Speaker 8: Everyone stare at us. So when you're having this conversation,
we should move and find karun a feeling not no,
how to I'll take whatever ritual they have for this.
Speaker 1: There are many different kinds of people walking around this
grand symposium of alchemical and arcane discovery, and sorry, let
me do this for you. I just realized that the
vision is on and it doesn't need to be here.
Speaker 7: We go.
Speaker 1: There are obviously people visiting from other areas. You can
see Leibastad is mostly human. There. There is a very
high population of humans in this town. There are some teethlings,
there are some of the other ancestries about, but it's
mostly human. However, today at the science fair there's a
lot more people that you can tell her from other
other regions of the world. You can see a few
people walking around with guards and things as well. I
would like everybody to make a society check for me, please,
m okay, actually, hold on, let's use technology. Hold on,
I have a button. I can generate a check book.
Speaker 2: Give us that DC.
Speaker 1: Okay, this will be a society check. Let's do this.
Uh does this work? Yes? There we go in the chat.
Speaker 2: There twenty accustomed any of this.
Speaker 1: Let's see if you recognize Let's see if you recognize
some of the people walking about.
Speaker 3: Mm hmmm, says I need to select a token.
Speaker 1: Uh what did everybody else do? Did you just push the.
Speaker 2: I just pressed the button. Do you have your sheet open?
Speaker 7: Mm hmmm, I'll just roll it from my okay, yep.
Speaker 1: Okay, um hmm. So Yara and a rash talk.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: You recognize some.
Speaker 13: Of the.
Speaker 1: Some of the heraldry on some people's clothings around the area.
You recognize there are people coming from brave O, There
are are people that are coming from Chelli Acts. There
are people coming from all over this region. To to
what you would anticipate is to view this uh symposium here.
Keep in mind Leapigstot is one of the the learned areas,
especially for alchemy and science and things. So I think
you would gather probably a rash talk especially there's people
that are doing some the equivalent of like head hunting here.
You know, they're looking for uh what could be you know,
valued staff in their in their you know, for their
private business or for noble use maybe in some of
the courts and things in these areas. The fact that
you're seeing people from Chelli Acts, though, is especially interesting.
Shelli Axe is kind of like, Ah, they are in
league with devils and it is known as it's kind
of like the equivalent of like a Nazi Germany kind
of place. It's yeah, they're big into working with devils
and they are extremely harsh in the way that they
go about things.
Speaker 4: We'll say that m that would be weird, I might
stare at this longer. In that direction, it's.
Speaker 1: Known as the Infernal Empire.
Speaker 4: Do they travel much at all to other nations.
Speaker 1: So they are an economic powerhouse, which is why nobody
has kind of really stepped up to try and stop anything.
A lot of other countries or of rely on Shelley
Acts for various income streams and things trade, and it's
it's uncommon for sure, but you know, sending some people
to you know, potentially you know, hire on some new
some new people, or get some new advisors or something,
you know, not too out of the ordinary, I suppose. Mmm.
I think if anything, it tells you that this little
uh science fair is a bigger deal maybe than you thought.
Speaker 4: Mm hmmm, uh, keep your eyes open, m m hm.
I'm there are very important people here. It's not.
Speaker 2: Sure, No, you can tell even by a lot of
the clothing. We don't exactly not mix in nice spots.
And in terms of like technologies and things that we
would be seeing here, are we seeing things like automatons,
like golams, things like that.
Speaker 1: So they would have some kind of displays up for
various various constructs and things. Nothing that is too ostentatious
that you've seen thus far. Mm hm, you've kind of
just entered though, right.
Speaker 4: I am most definitely looking around for any studies on
diseases and viruses.
Speaker 1: Okay, is anybody trying to look for anything else? In particular,
I'm looking.
Speaker 8: For something to drink edible, I'm nervous.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they would definitely have like an area for food
and drink. I mean, they would probably have signs up.
There's a lot of people here, you know, and you
can see that people have, you know, drinks and things
walking around.
Speaker 2: Yes, I mean, I suppose I'm just interested in the
the more technological side of things. I'm obviously always very
interested in medicine and things of that nature, but a
lot of these things are quite marvelous. I also would
be interested in finding things that I know my companions
would be interested in, such as like weaponry, anything like
if there's like a display of you know, fantastical guns
or something that these people have made.
Speaker 1: Sure, okay, Malvic, you you don't have to make a
roll for it. You can easily find some food and drink.
You can see it's it's like street food.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 1: They have like meat on a stick and you know,
you know, called drinks and stuff. And I would think
that that's kind of like what they're trying to really
sell at the at the foodstalls, Like they're showing like
this fancy ice machine, you know, that's being shown like
they instead of using magic for it, like they have
some kind of mechanical contraption that's making all kinds of
like steam, like you know, it's like Doc Brown in
Back to the Future three his ice machine. You know,
he's got giant you know, like contraptions that are looks
like mouse trap, you know, moving around like one ice
cube pops out.
Speaker 8: Straightened.
Speaker 7: I have at some point reclaimed my journal from Malvik,
and I'm actively writing into it as we're walking, mostly
just drinking in the sites and making lists of what
I see here.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yara, give me a perception check, uh, and I
would like one from a rash talk as well, or Cilia.
Sounds like you're just kind of going with the flow.
Speaker 8: So you don't have to make one.
Speaker 7: I'll make a crossing check as I sketch a cool
thing that I see and enrolled a mediocre ten.
Speaker 3: Then what the hell?
Speaker 1: Dan's a Rashtak's second krit was the first one in
Natural twenty No, it wasn't. This one is. Yeah, uh,
rash talk you are Yeah, there's like a whole pathology
section basically here you're muted, are stuck on you right, sy.
Speaker 4: Hi, there's an area I wished to go. I was
a little speechless. They have a whole pathology section, and
I kind of jog off toward it.
Speaker 1: Okay, a rash shock runs off.
Speaker 8: I don't know if this is a good thing or
a bad thing. I don't seek room anywhere.
Speaker 3: Hm hmm.
Speaker 2: Perhaps she made friends. Where's in jail?
Speaker 8: M Yeah, I do not know, but that's strange contraptions everywhere.
Speaker 1: Come on, come on, look at the magical lantern that
never needs refueling.
Speaker 2: Oh that sounds very convenient. Doesn't that sound convenient? Smell
office very fill the lantern.
Speaker 8: No, I don't.
Speaker 9: I don't need you don't need it.
Speaker 2: That The whole point of technology and science is to
make lives of people more convenient, create weapons of mass destruction.
But I digress.
Speaker 8: I could see in dark places, yes, would you like
a lander?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 4: No, I can.
Speaker 2: I can sort of see you in the dark.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
Speaker 8: Let me see the land.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, you
don't buy things at the science watch.
Speaker 1: I shall meet the inside the box.
Speaker 8: Why is it in a box?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 1: A wonderful question. It's daytime out. I feel as if
the lantern trying to shed light on daylight might be
difficult to see, so we're placing it inside the box
so you can see exactly how bright it can get.
Now let's have a look.
Speaker 8: Okay, now watch this.
Speaker 1: You simply turn this knob and give it a moment
and there you have it.
Speaker 11: Too.
Speaker 1: Right, Oh that's sorry. You can tone it down. You
just have to turn the knob a little bit the
other way, Yes, counterclockwise.
Speaker 8: How do you make Is it a flame?
Speaker 1: A wonderful question. It's actually a series of very very
small mechanical devices combined with some very intricate spell work,
A marvelous, marvelous way to draw in power from the
ambient magic. That's right, the ambient magic, nearly infinite power.
Speaker 2: Oh so it uses, it uses the magics from around,
it absorbs it.
Speaker 8: That's correct. Oh but what if there's no magics?
Speaker 2: Well, this magic everywhere.
Speaker 1: There's yes, they're well not not everywhere. I don't want
to mislead anyone, but in most places there are magic.
If you are extremely far from a lay line, it
won't really have much power. But there is most likely
ambient magic in most areas. No, please, I assure you
there's there's ambient magic in most areas. Don't worry.
Speaker 8: But if you understand the way magic works, can't you
just reduce flame?
Speaker 1: Not everyone is a wizard.
Speaker 8: But I can produce a flame. I'm not a wizard.
Speaker 1: Not everyone can produce a flame.
Speaker 2: Then I can't produce a flame unless I have the
appropriate tools.
Speaker 8: My mentor would strike rock with sticks and rub straw
together to create flame.
Speaker 2: The appropriate tools. Right, this is more about convenience.
Speaker 1: That's right. Convenience.
Speaker 8: Convenience has to be conveniently next to you.
Speaker 1: If you are curious about the mechanisms and the spell
work involved, I have detailed notes that any in the
university can see if they If you wouldn't look over here, we.
Speaker 2: Might see any other like things to look at at
this presentation.
Speaker 1: You're giving up on this presentation.
Speaker 9: I think you're giving up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, fantive mechanical parts.
Speaker 2: Something actually cool.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, poor guy.
Speaker 2: He's invented like magic solar power.
Speaker 1: If you look here, you can see that it does.
Speaker 2: In fact, it's sonning.
Speaker 8: Okay, yes, yes, is lantern juiceless.
Speaker 2: Well, it's not useless, it's just not necessary for most people.
It's just convenient, yes, yes, yes, yes, I mean think
about it. Most of the people here are human. Most
humans cannot see in the dark, but they have just
take a light magic hooded lantern where they do.
Speaker 3: Not fuel for it.
Speaker 8: Mm hmmm you mean magic. I don't know. Well, it's
not in a system.
Speaker 2: Again, it's just convenient.
Speaker 8: Sodiant oil with all the liquid inside.
Speaker 2: What about that?
Speaker 8: What is there?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: As you approach, you can see a female student that
is carefully measuring out various liquids. You can see she
has uh, like some calipers and what appears to be
like a measured beaker that is there with various lines,
and you can see she's using like tube pipe ettes
and she's like sweating profusely, and she's like dropping like
the merest like barest whisper of a drop of each
liquid like.
Speaker 8: Okay, extremely close to her face and those vials.
Speaker 1: Okay, give me a stealth check.
Speaker 8: M hm.
Speaker 2: You're gonna make the size fair blow up, bro.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 8: They call it phazaz twenty five.
Speaker 4: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 1: As you approach, you get really close and you are
you looking like through the other side of the last face,
like you know, look you look through like one of
those weird uh weird, one of those weird like enlarging
class things. Yeah. Yeah, the the the index of refraction
is making Malvic's face like all weird. And she's like
mm hmmm, and it is.
Speaker 14: Yeah, drip.
Speaker 8: You see.
Speaker 1: It begins to like fizz inside the What have you done?
And she's like, frantic, where's the help? You? You can
see the bubbles are quickly fizzing inside the sphere.
Speaker 8: It feels a fast magical fill up the drinks.
Speaker 1: She opens the top and then like as soon as
it's exposed to air, you see this like thick black smoke.
Speaker 8: Whoa emerge, that's where do you go?
Speaker 1: She's like, where's the red the red liquid?
Speaker 3: Quickly, where is it?
Speaker 11: Pick?
Speaker 9: I'll pick up.
Speaker 8: I'll pick up whatever bottles in front of me.
Speaker 1: Uh y'are a make a perception check? Okay, yeah, there's
red liquid underneath. Like there's a series of shelves all
littered with various vials and uh lickster bottles. You can
see the small.
Speaker 2: Red lequords or the large red liquid one.
Speaker 8: I don't know, Great Yard reported more.
Speaker 1: She grabs both of them and she immediately like tosses
the other one shatters on the ground. You can see
this like the pock marks on the on the stone,
like as this what must be some kind of acid
just starts eating through part of the stone. And then
she takes the red liquid and you can see like
the fizzing of the of this golden liquid inside the
sphere is just rising up to the top and you
can say, no, it can't be exposed there, and she
like pours in the whole red vial inside, and as
it does, you can see the the the bubbles, just
the smoke changes color and you can see as this
black this like thick black smoke begins to change color
and it starts to become this like uh, first it
starts to turn white, and then it just starts to
turn into like this water vapor, and then you see
large bubbles m hm begin to float upwards. And then
she like really carefully takes the lid for the for
the sphere and just slowly she falls back in a chair,
looking up at the sky like something horrible was just avoided.
Speaker 8: That's incredible. I want one of those, Helmut.
Speaker 3: H that's us.
Speaker 1: Something not for sale. I have been working on living
spars and how they can be controlled with alchemy.
Speaker 2: You seem like you controlled it very well Living spells, Yes,
So what what spell was that?
Speaker 8: It was?
Speaker 1: Well, I've never seen it get quite that bad before.
Speaker 4: It was a spell.
Speaker 1: Revolving around friend gross, but I believe it evolved into
some sort of well exploding poison.
Speaker 8: How's the crowd around Are they cheering for this or everybody's.
Speaker 1: Like super nerds, Like they're just looking around like.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: A few people like who you see a few people
that were like in the know that are like sweating
profusely and like they backed like way up, like pushing
their children away and ship. And then there's people that
just don't know and they're like, yeah, it was great, yeh,
very good.
Speaker 8: You should teach the lantern guy about magic in alchemy.
Speaker 2: Oh, malefic, that's not very nice.
Speaker 3: We don't compare.
Speaker 1: That one seemed useful, Mirror Calvros. This is the living
plant growth spell. I'm looking for practical insights to help
test as the series in the field. I'm currently requesting
grant money to further my research.
Speaker 8: Great research, and I started looking through the belts. What
about this one and this one? If you heard the.
Speaker 2: Malevich, they are a students.
Speaker 8: They are sent to help.
Speaker 2: They can't afford it.
Speaker 3: You saw what happened.
Speaker 2: Watch those people did over at that other place.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
Speaker 8: How much are you raising funds?
Speaker 1: Well? I need approximately five hundred or one thousand gold
higher enough assistance.
Speaker 8: What about this one?
Speaker 2: Well, I don't have quite much, but for your inconvenience,
and I will go ahead and I'll hand them too
gold pieces.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2: My friend just gets very excited. Your work is splendid.
I look forward to hearing your name all over Glorian.
Speaker 14: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Would you like to take a card.
Speaker 3: A card?
Speaker 4: Yes, sure, this is.
Speaker 1: If you wish to contact me by post further interest.
Speaker 2: Now this this card they hand me. Does this look
like do this look like a kid?
Speaker 3: Like a student?
Speaker 2: Made it themselves?
Speaker 1: Oh for sure?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah absolutely, they made it themselves. Yeah they they
You know, it just has like a post address in
the city. It's the equivalent of like giving you the
post office box night.
Speaker 2: Well, if you ever get anything from a Yara Stammel.
Speaker 9: Then it's me.
Speaker 1: Thank you hmm, thank you for not destroying my work.
Speaker 2: Sorry for ames destroying it, but best of luck with
the fundraising. I am sure you will get many potential sponsors.
Speaker 1: Thank you. M oh, what on it?
Speaker 2: Olaf?
Speaker 8: Yes, I didn't pay for these, but I didn't take
them at the same time, I just wanted to see them.
Speaker 2: Please don't touch their displays.
Speaker 8: Bye.
Speaker 2: Weeks and weeks and weeks and months on some of
these things. Some of them are lifelong endeavors. These these signs.
Speaker 8: Book, there are the nephelm here. Would you mind if we.
Speaker 3: Not right?
Speaker 2: Does it seem like there are actually any nephelim doing
any sort of displays?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 1: Unfortunately not okay, so uh Yara and Malevic continue looking around. Meanwhile,
a rash talk in our Celia have found the pathology display.
You can see that there is a lot of visual
aids that have been placed around, and you can see
technical drawings that have been drawn of various various diseases,
and you can see potential routes for cures and things
like that. Rash talk there, there's like this is a
lot of like journal like medical journal type things. You
can see lots of visual aids drawings of the ways
that diseases seem to act, and you can see the
way that magical diseases are presented as well. There's a
display you can see that there are two they must
be siblings. They look it's it's a man and a woman,
but they their facial features are so similar you immediately
recognize that they must be siblings. And they are apparently presenting.
You can see that they have a what appears to
be some sort of skeletal servant that is assisting them
with this display that is currently walking around.
Speaker 4: Does it look necromantic or more construct animated?
Speaker 1: Give me an occultism check.
Speaker 4: At twenty nine.
Speaker 1: This is for sure necromancy.
Speaker 4: No issues with it, just curious. Hello.
Speaker 1: As you can see here there there are many different
routes that can be taken when it comes to handling
these diseases. There is the medical avenue that you can take. Yes, hello, sorry,
we are in the middle of presentation.
Speaker 4: I will listen, thank you.
Speaker 1: As you can see that we have several different solutions
to deal with these sort of diseases. Normally, they attack
the pancoys and they will cause all sorts of difficulties
in processing foods and such. But there are again several
different routes that can be taken. First there is medical,
then there is alchemical solutions, and lastly we have medical
solutions that can be taken. Most notably, clerics are able
to use various forms of disease curing and such. But
more often than not, you will be hard pressed to
find someone that can do these tasks. So we have
provided you today with a where as I said, magical solutions,
alchemical solutions and medical solutions.
Speaker 5: So a side in and I settle next year or
ash talk.
Speaker 3: What's going on?
Speaker 4: Talking about curing and working on diseases?
Speaker 12: Oh?
Speaker 1: Fascinating very Oh is this?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 4: Now this is good?
Speaker 8: What are you? What are you doing? Oh?
Speaker 3: I've just been wandering around to drawing pictures.
Speaker 4: Ah, this is I want to I wish to ask
for information, but I didn't want to interupt them.
Speaker 1: So they have materials like to read and such like
in front of their presentation. You can see the names
that are presented are Gustav and Gretchen Fassa.
Speaker 7: I reach for the papers and I begin to distribute
them between me and ASH talk.
Speaker 4: Yes, what what disease are they're working on right now,
like the current research.
Speaker 1: So at the moment they say it's an unnamed disease,
but they see it becoming more prevalent in the.
Speaker 8: In the.
Speaker 1: Lessian region. What apparent symptoms Apparently it attacks the pancreas.
So ah, yes, yeah, there's a there's what a effectively
like uh like pancreatic h serious like pancreatic damage that happens.
Speaker 4: I already this one before.
Speaker 1: It's unnamed, it says like it's unnamed, but you can
absolutely make a meta medicine check. Ah, this does appear
to be like a natural disease.
Speaker 4: Ah, they'll checking real quick because I think I can
do that's just for treat wounds, never mind.
Speaker 1: Twenty four Yeah, yeah, so, uh, you maybe have heard
rumblings about this. I mean, you know what the pancreas
does and the way that it effectively helps you digest
food and protein and such. So if you have something
that is messing with the pancreas, it can mess up
your insulin, it can mess up the way that you
digest food, all kinds of things. You know, most likely
the digestive system and enocurrent system are going to get
seriously damaged by this disease and it's potentially long lasting
effects even if it's cured.
Speaker 3: Rush tuck. Where is the pancreas?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: What is it?
Speaker 4: A low organ It mostly helps with digestion and ability
to processed foods. If it is damaged or removed, you
basically will not be able to digest well, which will
lead to suffering and or death.
Speaker 3: That's terrible.
Speaker 4: Yes, that's it's not named yet though. Who discovered this first?
Speaker 1: You're just kind of yelling this out? Yes, okay, yes,
so the sister pipeline, Gretchen A wonderful question. It was
actually noticed by the University of in Valencia and it
was another student, one of our colleagues, it is. Their
name is Fendel Dross. They are one of our colleagues there,
but they are not here. No, Unfortunately, they weren't able
to make the trip. But we are working closely with
them to hopefully create multiple cures for this disease because
it is becoming much more prevalent in Valassia and it
will potentially killed many people if we not make more
progress on this.
Speaker 4: Yes, I have studied many diseases myself.
Speaker 1: Oh now, yes, what is your particular field of study.
Speaker 4: Well, mostly diseases that are based in consumption of the
body and regularly lungs.
Speaker 1: Ah yes, airborne disease.
Speaker 4: Yes, sometimes or or perhaps severe boils or even magic.
Speaker 8: Yes.
Speaker 1: Yes, it is important for us to do all sorts
of research, which is why much of our studies have
taken us into fields of necromancy, and we have done
various experiments with some of our.
Speaker 8: Some of.
Speaker 1: Our help us. This is a help of Klaus Wave everyone. Klaus.
See the skeleton like.
Speaker 7: Sketch plos into my book and with the two crafting
just it's cartoonish almost.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess the stick figure with a few lines
for ribs. That is very wise. They cannot contract diseases.
You could have the handle things that would be too
dangerous for you to do.
Speaker 1: So the crowd begins to like mumble, and you see
this group of people, uh, sort of meandering their way
over towards this area.
Speaker 4: Who are the others the same people I recognized before.
This is a different group.
Speaker 1: No, this is a different group. Group. They're walking over
and you can see several students are sort of like
trailing them. You can see that they have what appears
to be they're walking with like a banner on a pole,
and you can see that there is what is effectively
like the insignia for Leapishtad University on it, and it
says judges underneath.
Speaker 4: Ah, I had a question one of the diseases I
recently studied. It was a plague and fifty years ago
the choking death.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, very deadly. Oh excuse me, the judges are coming,
clean up, clean up? What's the journals?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 1: What am I dear? Easy to see.
Speaker 9: Greetings young scientists and also humans, human, human human. I
am visiting adjunct Professor songbad retink Cern from University of
West crom Lli. The theme of today's contest is alchemically
altered states of mind. Honus Points will be awarded to
anyone who can show a stable, improved or advanced a
chemical compound capable of altering the states of a sentient mind.
We'd like to thank a partners to join any industries
with the generous contribution to the prize fund for thems
and conditions apply. With that said, let the scoring comments.
Speaker 4: We did not have any.
Speaker 2: She was wonderful.
Speaker 3: See the eazy speech.
Speaker 8: I don't understan, I don't know if this is going
to go the way we wanted. At least she left
the gun.
Speaker 13: Mhmm.
Speaker 2: Is there is there a gun on Karoon from where
we can see, not the one that you can see. Oh,
a little bit of the old prison wallet.
Speaker 9: You know, I got that thing on me.
Speaker 15: I'm sorry, so sorry, Yes, it scarme.
Speaker 9: Karoon is just going along with all of the other judges.
Speaker 3: Floring things.
Speaker 8: Mm hmm.
Speaker 4: I did not expect her, that is she is she?
I did not know rules a professor.
Speaker 2: I would assume that Malvic and Ram making our way
over to a rash hawkin to oar Celia.
Speaker 8: I'm holding to fizzy drinks.
Speaker 3: Quite impressive.
Speaker 8: I'll hamm the drinks over. You may need this more
than us.
Speaker 2: Oh knew that Karoon was such a fantastic aurator though.
Speaker 3: I take one of the fizzy drinks.
Speaker 8: They're in little vials themed of course not. I didn't
steal these.
Speaker 3: Right and just start chugging it.
Speaker 1: It's so yeah, so they're they're all themed. Yeah. So
I imagine when you're when when you are like eating
the food or drinking the drinks. They're meant to like
interact with each other and they create like different effects
you drink like one drink with this kind of food
and it like it enhances the flavor, like it makes
you taste something different, like after you drink the drink.
And some of them have like chemical reactions that have
do like a pop rocks like a you know, mm hmm.
Speaker 8: That what makes your tongue black.
Speaker 4: My tongue is still red.
Speaker 8: Oh, maybe you have to eat the I hate the
thing that goes with it.
Speaker 2: Sorry, yeah, I see you. There's reactions with the food.
Speaker 8: I didn't know.
Speaker 2: I thought his tongue was going to fall out my tongue.
Well no, no, no, malevis because his turn turned. His
tongue turned black. And then I almost had a heart
attack because that's it horrific.
Speaker 4: Studying pathogens here. Perhaps it's a heart issue.
Speaker 8: Do I see the undead?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, for sure. There's a sal just kind of
like waving at people and occasionally.
Speaker 8: Move everyone back. Finally, I want to attack it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Okay, if I notice that, I will try to
stop him. This is I am all about this particular
sand and I do not want it to interrupt it. Okay,
you have your sword on you.
Speaker 16: No, just hands, it's an armed okay, well no, no, no,
hold on, we need to do an initiative check because
rash talk is trying to stop you.
Speaker 1: Okay, so give me, give me initiative checks from the
both of you.
Speaker 8: It won't let me.
Speaker 17: There's no active no token, no active encounter. Okay, let's
do this then conroll regularly.
Speaker 8: No, we don't have there. Uh yes, I need my token.
I have no token.
Speaker 1: Put the tokens on the side for you.
Speaker 8: Thank you. There you go, nineteen twenty six.
Speaker 1: Okay, a rashtak, you act first? What are you doing?
Speaker 4: Oh, I just get in the way.
Speaker 8: I already ruled at thirty two. What would you do that?
Speaker 4: Because I do not want you to harm this this situation.
I will put myself in bodilies where there are diseases.
Speaker 9: Here.
Speaker 4: I know better than to let you just go crazy here.
I would rather be hit than release a plague.
Speaker 1: Okay, so your attack didn't happen, Malvic, we didn't get there. Okay, good,
all right, Yeah, so that didn't happen. A rash tak,
you get in the way. Do you do anything else?
I just, madamck no, make a diplomacy check. I think
fourteen Okay, yeah, Malvic, you can I think you can react?
Speaker 4: How you like, here, why do you protect the undead?
It is a servant, it is too.
Speaker 8: And I'll try to force my way through. Let me go.
Speaker 7: Let make athletics check e litt I start sketching this scene.
Speaker 4: God, which is it contested or just it's not.
Speaker 11: He's just making the check athletics. Yeah, that's a natural one,
thank goodness. Rash nineteen it's one what's your what's your athletics?
Speaker 4: Uh thirteen thirteen?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's a twenty three that Malvic has to be.
So yeah, Alevic, you uh you get a critical fail
to push a rash talk out of the way.
Speaker 8: He's not being like being super forceful. I'm just like,
let me let me He's.
Speaker 1: Like really trying to make you like, no, wake up?
Speaker 4: You know, now explain why do you know how diseases work?
Speaker 8: You get them, you die, or you get sick.
Speaker 4: That's pretty basic but kind of the case. Yes, if
you were to disturb this entire scene, it could release
those You could get the disease, and then you would
get sick or die and others around you a rosta.
I do not want to die, Then do not attack this.
Speaker 12: Then don't attack this?
Speaker 8: All right? Fine? But if it bites or goes crazy,
I will take it out.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 1: The judges are approaching this booth right now.
Speaker 7: As I'm sketching out Ashtak and Malvik wrestling. I make
them both extremely caked up in my drawing.
Speaker 2: The muscles are much bigger.
Speaker 3: Oh, you're right.
Speaker 9: I mean, look, as you said, you.
Speaker 3: What's for him?
Speaker 4: He looks good?
Speaker 3: Fine, those pants are very tight.
Speaker 8: Yes, and I decided to leave it alone. Yeah, and
I say it's fine.
Speaker 14: M h.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm going to be honest with you. I have
seen much better work here.
Speaker 8: I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I was not aware that the subject I was not
symposium changing.
Speaker 9: It's changing, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Changing its focus.
Speaker 9: We weren't told focus untold. You should have read the pamphlet.
Speaker 1: What pamphlet we didn't. I mean this is this has
been set up for months?
Speaker 14: What?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 9: What?
Speaker 4: I don't know?
Speaker 8: What?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Could could you not say that this unnamed disease you're
talking about not being on processful slows the mind causes
issues with the ability to think. Yes, so that would
fall under some of the criteria that they are.
Speaker 9: If you would like to make a case for your work,
I will have to see your formulas.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: There are detailed medical notes.
Speaker 9: Would you like to submit them for review? It could
affect your score.
Speaker 1: Of course, that's what we have presented here today. I'm sorry,
are you, professor?
Speaker 8: You said.
Speaker 4: I did not know the smacking your head.
Speaker 1: There was going to be a judge from Shelly X.
I saw it was all professors.
Speaker 9: I am a professor from West West Crown cheli X.
Speaker 8: Yes, but.
Speaker 1: I'm from the university here. It is a.
Speaker 9: Sister city agreement. It doesn't matter. The specifics are irrelevant.
I would love to see the formulas, though, if you
could just perception deception, our deception, that makes a lot
more sense.
Speaker 8: I believe that I'm dead is one of their old.
Speaker 9: Patient twenty nine.
Speaker 1: I love this, all right, I mean, I see, I
thought I thought we had Professor Montague Crier, the chemical theorist,
and it is irrelevant doctor el spasor Maya the accult.
Speaker 9: Specialist or dead.
Speaker 1: Actually yeah, And what happened to judge bound tiberiasors just.
Speaker 9: An incredibly terrible case of diarrhea, so couldn't be helped.
I'm afraid, all right.
Speaker 1: Yes, So if this is about al chemical reinforcement of
the body, this is one of the areas that we
are looking into to protect against this disease. You never know,
chelly X could be next the next region affected by
Is this pancreatic disease?
Speaker 9: Yes, it would be terrible if that was the case.
Speaker 1: So a note that here, as you can see, very good.
Speaker 9: I'm just going to snag the notes. Yes, snag the notes.
Take a quick peek through them. Does it look normal?
Speaker 1: What's normal?
Speaker 9: Is it possible to replicate it?
Speaker 14: You?
Speaker 1: This is kind of like you looking at your vaccine
and maybe making some alterations.
Speaker 9: All right, I will jot down on my note pad
any pertinent information and I'll just be like, all right, well,
I suppose I can award you another couple of points
for showing your work. But in the future, for next year,
I would encourage you to have a little more proactivity.
Speaker 1: And also what level? What level is your vaccine right now?
Speaker 9: My level of vaccine is It's an excellent question. Is
this a minor vaccine?
Speaker 1: Okay? You could potentially use this research to go up
to the next rank?
Speaker 9: Perfect. Thank you for your cooperation. The board will be
in touch with your final score next.
Speaker 8: Why does she sound like she knows what she's talking about?
Speaker 4: Well, she mostly does I mean, yes, she's a professor.
Speaker 8: I did not know this mixing random things together?
Speaker 3: Very smart?
Speaker 4: Are you passing out notes to others as well? I
would love to follow your research. It is very interesting.
Speaker 14: Copy.
Speaker 1: So yeah, they have like the equivalent of I would
imagine there it's been replicated. They probably have like several copies,
and there's some that are like attached, you know how
like on the like if you go to a bank
or something, they have like the pens chained to the desk.
They probably have the equivalent of that. Like they probably
have something in like a sleeve or something that's kind
of chained to the table, you know. But they have
one that's supposed to be given to the judges.
Speaker 4: Do you mind if I either take that or at
least copy down some of this side. I would love
to look into my own research on it.
Speaker 1: But yes, we can offer such things to any of patrons,
if you are beginning to help us with grants and such.
Speaker 4: I have no grants, but I do know how to
replicate the choking death.
Speaker 3: What a funny joke.
Speaker 12: Rost My research has found it is actually more simple
than you think.
Speaker 3: It's so funny.
Speaker 4: It's not that away it's not.
Speaker 12: No, I wish to look at that research.
Speaker 3: That research.
Speaker 2: You will be able to find it in some sort
of studies.
Speaker 4: Joking this very it will be years.
Speaker 8: So you do want to wipe the world of all
the filth and start over.
Speaker 4: No, I don't.
Speaker 9: I just wish to know to learn is there is
there any sort of booth with alchemist's drifting bombs or
or the us the.
Speaker 1: Girl that we talked to as you're you're you asking
them or me? Okay, so yeah, there's uh, there was
somebody uh nearby that they have these glass floating spheres
that effectively have this golden liquid in it that does
appear to be some kind of like alchemical.
Speaker 9: Yeah, promissing is promissing.
Speaker 1: The booth is titled like Living Spells and their Interactions
with Alchemical Substances.
Speaker 9: That's around I'm already over there.
Speaker 1: Also in the area you can see that there are
there is what appears to be a clockwork automaton for
household use that is on display. It's about the size
of a person, and you can see there's all kinds
of like bronze tubing and uh, gyroscopes and gears and things.
You can see that there's like what appears to be
this bluish liquid that's slashing around in various limbs and things,
and you can see the person's name below is titled
Vivian Demarkov. As you as you approach, I just out
of curiosity, are you? You're with some of the other personnel.
Speaker 9: Here at They won't leave me alone yet right right there?
Speaker 1: You somehow convinced them that the subject of this science
fair has now been changed to an aw chemical flaws.
Speaker 9: I didn't convince them. Song that with will with will
think with their son Bombton son convinced them.
Speaker 2: Huh oh was it the snooze.
Speaker 9: Anyway?
Speaker 1: Uh uh yeah. They look a little they look a
little cross eyed as they're following through and around. So
as you approach, you can see this display. It's very
very nice, but you're you're ignoring the clockwork automaton. You're
going towards the alchemy. Uh yeah, yeah. If you can
see this, uh this, this person that is working here,
she has like a uh you can see like lots
of tears and things in her apron. She's wearing like
a heavy like leather apron. It's seen a lot of use.
You can see lots of discolorations and things on it.
A very prolific student, for sure, but you can see
their display for living spells and there in alchemy's effect
on them.
Speaker 9: Good all right, your you know, go ahead?
Speaker 1: Yes, hello, uh, wonderful to see you today. I'm sorry, uh,
Professor Professor.
Speaker 3: Song Song.
Speaker 9: The Bomb, Yes of the University of West Frond Jeliacs.
Speaker 1: Yes, of the University of West Crown JELLIAX. Hello. Yes,
uh today I am showing a living spell, the spell
of plant growth being influenced by alchemy. As you say, yes,
it is suspended. The spell has been cast on a
seed in the alchemical fluid. The alchemical fluid is being.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 1: It's effectively keeping the plant growth at bay until the
right catalyst is placed inside the suspension.
Speaker 9: Really, so it is keeping it in stasis or in
most that's correct. And I would you keep a human
mind that way if you were to float it and
the fluid.
Speaker 1: That hasn't been part of my study. I'm trying to
see alchemy effects on living spells. Mostly we would do.
Speaker 9: It differently in Celiacs will tell you that much. Okay, anyway,
you may continue.
Speaker 1: So, yes, I am trying to see if alchemy can
be used to accelerate or decelerate the use in various
nature based spells. This one is obviously plant growth. And
here we have what appears all right, I'm sorry, did
you I did I read? I just I saw a
glance at your page. Did that any snooze?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 9: Scrap scrab scraped scrabble, of course not.
Speaker 1: Okay, So yes, this is the create the create food
and drink spell.
Speaker 4: This is uh, I've never seen.
Speaker 9: You were doing alchemy as well as all of the spells. Right,
there's alchemy here.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I've never seen you before.
Speaker 9: Well that is because I am from West Crown Chili X.
Speaker 13: Jedi X.
Speaker 1: I thought all the judges were going to be from our.
Speaker 9: University's complicated shitting themselves, you know how it is.
Speaker 8: I guess you.
Speaker 9: Could. I have a look at your formulas just to compare, Yes.
Speaker 8: I.
Speaker 9: For your grade.
Speaker 1: Yes, and they're they're available here or study.
Speaker 9: Good, very good, you wink.
Speaker 1: As you can see? Uh this chemical making.
Speaker 9: Copying copying, Yes, go on copying.
Speaker 1: Copying the chemical mixture using.
Speaker 8: Yeah mm hmm, go on.
Speaker 9: Copying, copy and copy.
Speaker 1: H Yeah, I'm sorry, are you h? Are you just
copying my formulas.
Speaker 9: Why would I do that. I'm a professor from West Crown,
Chelly Eggs.
Speaker 1: Please make a deception check for me.
Speaker 8: I'm just in the back while waving at the student constantly.
Speaker 9: Twenty nine Oh my god, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1: The uh chemical fluid here is a combination of several
different herbs and spices no herbs, as well as several
tinctures that have been brewed over several days. This one
has been brewed for a week, and as you can see,
it has a much more are you are you? Have
I seen you before?
Speaker 9: Have you seen me before?
Speaker 1: I feel like I recognize you from somewhere, but I've
never been to CHELLI acts.
Speaker 9: Well, I don't know. Have you seen me before? Have
I seen them before?
Speaker 4: Is this?
Speaker 9: Give me this with me in the store?
Speaker 1: Give me a perception check?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 1: Definitely no, no, I'll run.
Speaker 9: Twenty three m you think but transitions so so.
Speaker 1: I think you recognize them, but it's definitely not Egbert.
You recognize them. You think you maybe have seen them
around campus?
Speaker 9: Oh, I have been shadowing your campus for the last
couple of days to become acquainted with your thing. Yeah, so,
oh okay, probably you have seen that.
Speaker 1: Okay, sorry, Yeah, it threw me for a loop there
you Yes, so the hol chemical liquid here, because of
the longer brew time, you see that it has a
much stronger reaction to the spell. So when we are
using this to increase the effectiveness of the spell, it
has a much larger effect. So when create food and
water is used, the volume of food and water is
nearly doubled.
Speaker 9: So how can this be applied to, say, drugs? Excuse me,
I said, how can this be applied to?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 9: I don't know, drugs?
Speaker 1: Can't ah?
Speaker 9: I see him scratching, scratching, scratching, rips page. There you go, cofee?
Speaker 1: Is that going to.
Speaker 2: She's hought on everyone?
Speaker 3: Darling? You know there's professors from Chili acts.
Speaker 1: I tell you no, I don't.
Speaker 3: Well, now you know.
Speaker 8: She never said she was from Chili acts.
Speaker 1: Where that m Yes, so living spells and there uh
effects from alchemical.
Speaker 4: I've already started slipping back to the pathage in blue.
Speaker 1: Absolutely so.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 1: Some time passes here at the science fair, you all
sort of go around and experience these different things. You
see wonders, you see various all different kinds of sciences
are applied here. You see medical science. You see alchemical science.
You see science related to working spells and such. You
can see that there are various weapons and things and
such on display, and you can see bombs and potions
and all kinds of stuff. Alchemy is definitely at the
forefront here, and Krun seems to be hitting every single
one of these alchemical locations and ignoring the rest of
the people. Like the judges are. Yeah, the judges are
in some kind of haze, just like like almost like
zombies following behind Karun.
Speaker 2: Perhaps she's at Crema.
Speaker 1: Walking all along if probably in drugs. So you're here,
You're here for like a few hours, and eventually a careen,
you've made the rounds?
Speaker 9: And what have I stolen successfully? Anything useful other than
the vaccine?
Speaker 8: Roll me.
Speaker 1: Let's do a general deception check here.
Speaker 9: Let's see how general deception check.
Speaker 1: Yeah, will see how well you're able to infenty three fake?
Speaker 9: Hang on, I will take a hero point. Oh, there
we go, deception eighteenth.
Speaker 2: I somehow I knew it'd get worse.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's there's plenty of alchemical things here, but you
can't quite seem to uh convince too many people to
really give over details of their work. There's various displays
and things, but only a few of them had things
that you could just straight up copy. So you've got
your you've got the improved vaccine. It's gone up to
the next rank. But everything else doesn't seem to really
be usable. But you can see like the students kind
of like everybody's talking and like people are people are
like looking at the at the clock tower and stuff,
and everybody's murmuring about like when is the one of
the judges supposed to announce the winners?
Speaker 8: And how long does that drug last? That's the real question.
Speaker 1: The lethargy po poison, good old snooze last four hours?
Oh god, so it's been it's been like two and
a half hours. So the hours you guys are walking around.
Speaker 4: This yeah, I never left the pathage in booth after
I slipped back to it.
Speaker 1: Sure. So yeah, Karun, you're hearing people talking about like
one of the judges going to make their announcement of
the winners and stuff like that. Do you do anything
different or do you just put I am.
Speaker 9: Am finding my companions and just saying, look, I don't
think things are going the way I want them to.
I'm going to live. Where should we meet up later?
Speaker 2: You don't want to announce the winners, not paying these people.
Speaker 8: For I have an idea, the one, the one with
the big glass bottle. You should them as the winners.
They were erry, They're very intelligent. They make things in
colors and fizz and also they were looking for a.
Speaker 2: They prevented a murderous cloud. Well right in front of me.
Speaker 8: The prize is funding for the projects, right.
Speaker 9: But I'm not funding them.
Speaker 2: You're not going to go back on that. There's probably
some sort of legal ease or something that could happen.
Speaker 9: Say all right, well.
Speaker 8: The winner karun right.
Speaker 2: I would least like get the others to try and
vote on it so that they can't be like, oh,
we didn't actually.
Speaker 9: Say yes, all right, come here, come here, come here,
and I will just start scribbling on everyone's notepad. Winner,
this person, yeah, winner, this person, winner, this person? All right, hello, hello, attention. Please,
we would like to announce the winner. But I would
like you also know that the many of you have
failed and it has been very embarrassing. Don't give up
because well anyway, the winner of the Science Fair is.
It's American.
Speaker 2: Mira calros Mi.
Speaker 9: Can flows for the for the congratulations. Congratulations, everyone holds
up your congratulations. Yes you right now, I'm leaving. I'm
going Where should wen?
Speaker 8: They have to give them the award. It's right there
on the table.
Speaker 2: Yes, you send it to them. We can we can
meet at the entrance.
Speaker 9: We will go further than the entrance to the university.
I'm leaving the compass. I'm probably changing my name. We
have to go now, hold on, hold on, goodbye.
Speaker 1: Help somebody help.
Speaker 8: I believe what time does the thing that we're supposed
to be going to the broadest avoid.
Speaker 2: Well, it's it's it's ongoing and someone's in trouble.
Speaker 9: Yes, do we do?
Speaker 2: We get the idea that that person calling for help
is related to Karun.
Speaker 1: You can see, uh, there's someone like waving their hands.
They're effectively in their like underclothes they are. They're like
waving around. You can see like they have like their
makeup is kind of like smeared. You can see like
their hair is all messed up, and they've got they've
got like a rope around their wrists. Help help.
Speaker 3: Koru.
Speaker 1: Someone tied me up and put me in a closet.
Speaker 8: That's nothing.
Speaker 2: We've got places to be.
Speaker 1: Gods, God's.
Speaker 2: Nice leaving in the direction that karun k as well.
Speaker 1: Please make she is gone question. Look, well let's find
out make a stealth check form please.
Speaker 9: Twenty two.
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 1: Oh uh karun Uh you can see like, are you
just are you hauling ass out of this place?
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 9: I'm holding ass out of here? Okay, I recognize that
horrible screechy voice.
Speaker 1: Huh. You can see that there are what appeared to
be uh two people that are dressed in black thorned
plate mail.
Speaker 9: Ah, that's down cell EXE known't they?
Speaker 1: Uh Yeah, anybody that's slightly familiar with Shelley Acts. There's
a a group of people from Shelley Acts that sort
of work as.
Speaker 8: Oh uh.
Speaker 9: Intelligence.
Speaker 4: No, they.
Speaker 14: They are.
Speaker 9: A public private partnership, a military contract.
Speaker 1: Do they do whatever is necessary to enforce their beliefs.
They're known as the hell Nights.
Speaker 9: Oh, they don't have to be hell Nights.
Speaker 1: There's only two of them, luckily.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's enough hell lights for any situation. Yeah, hell
Lights is too too many.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so they're they're often avoided at all costs. But
there are there are two of them here, and you
can see that they are sort of uh sort of
helping this this judge that you have, Well, you've tied
up and you've effectively placed in a closet, and uh,
you can see that they are saying where did they go?
You can see like one of them is one of
them is an orc that is uh, you know you
can see their tusks through their through their mask. Another
is another is like a human with like wicked scars.
You can see they've got the mask up and they
are just kind of like yelling where are the rest
of their city guards? This is a poor excuse for
any sort of festival.
Speaker 4: Guards.
Speaker 1: Right over there, Ron, you're doing.
Speaker 9: This a chilexy and just as a Chelexian, I would
like to try to command the hell nights.
Speaker 1: Well, I assume you took their clothing. I did clothing?
Yeah I did? Yeah, Okay, the karun go ahead and
make a deception check.
Speaker 9: I would like to use to hear a point right
at this time, and the use heroin. Oh ship, I
sucked it a month, all right, another deception check.
Speaker 1: That's a natural plenty.
Speaker 9: They're trying to it because a political upheaval.
Speaker 1: Were you pointing towards they are expressing opinions? Who are
you pointing towards obviously to profess a song.
Speaker 9: But Wiltington, what you're talking about?
Speaker 11: You?
Speaker 14: What that is?
Speaker 9: The impossible is just stole my cat styll political dissident.
Speaker 4: Get them?
Speaker 1: They look extremely confused. Uh, like they're seeing the same person.
Like they're looking.
Speaker 9: Get it in the six foot two and completely white
and the very elevants.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're like looking and you can see them like looking.
There's there's a strange moment. You know, it's that Spider
Man meme or they're all pointing at each other. It's
like the karun is pointing at this person. They're seeing
the same kind of thing. And uh, they Nights, they are.
Speaker 9: Drifting political cartoons, political cartoons. Yes they are dissidents.
Speaker 1: That is against the law. Come this way, but what
are you doing?
Speaker 4: No, I'm the one that hid you.
Speaker 9: Sneaks away, sneaks away into the shadows. She's gone.
Speaker 8: Funny story is is very political.
Speaker 4: That kind of works.
Speaker 8: It does.
Speaker 18: So the hell Nights are dragging away the actual professor
in the distance. And yeah, you just guess not really
you just see this like horrible scene like screaming, what
are you doing?
Speaker 14: No?
Speaker 1: I had you eat just my family's.
Speaker 2: Get drinks somewhere. Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go,
let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go.
Speaker 8: I want to leave.
Speaker 2: I want to be more drink we can get drink
sales reckon.
Speaker 8: So what are we doing now? We all dressed up
for what?
Speaker 2: Well, there is the musical act tonight that we could
go see. I don't know how much is left though,
looking about the city as well, is there anything else
going on?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so, uh no major events. This is kind of
like the big the big event going on in the city.
But there's there's always some stuff going on in the city,
Like there's always little things to do, and it's a
beautiful day out, like it's uh it's cool, but it's
clear and uh yeah, it's it's just kind of like
a nice uh it's it's like late afternoon now, I
think after spending some time here, so you're approaching like
dinner time. So people there's probably a lot of people
that are leaving the symposium now as well, like they're
just kind of uh leaking out of the university and
beginning to like go get food.
Speaker 9: So it's extruding themselves from the university.
Speaker 8: Is there no after celebrations or anything for sure?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean there's there's groups of people that are
kind of like leaving simultaneously. You know, it's like any
any major event. You know, there's people that are going
to get food and drinks and stuff afterwards.
Speaker 5: What if we went to dinner and then after dinner
we went dancing.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, that's perfect.
Speaker 3: M Maybe there's a restaurant on the water.
Speaker 1: You did hear about a place called the Brazen Skull.
Speaker 3: Yes, I heard of a place called the Brazen Skull.
Speaker 2: That is where they're doing the musical act tonight as well.
So it's perfect lines.
Speaker 9: Up and there are many people there, yes, like crowds
of people.
Speaker 8: Korn. Are we allowed to call you there now? Yes,
you might want to. I don't know. You're still wearing
their clothing.
Speaker 9: All right.
Speaker 1: You see karuns closed, they do that that sort of
ripple like effect.
Speaker 8: All right.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 9: They will never know.
Speaker 2: That was a dangerous display.
Speaker 9: It was necessary for many reasons, and honestly we should
all be thankful, you know, for it, because I didn't
have to shoot anyone.
Speaker 8: With my gun, So.
Speaker 2: Yes, I would be grateful for that.
Speaker 9: And nobody died and a lot of people did drugs.
Speaker 2: Well, that fellow might die. Well, you know, Gelexians, it
is quite a terrible place.
Speaker 9: Anyway, that Portelexian may die anyway.
Speaker 1: Okay, so are you just heading to a restaurant or
something to try and find no food?
Speaker 9: We are going to the Brazen Skull and we're not
gonna Chelexion it up this time.
Speaker 4: Do I notice them leaving.
Speaker 1: Your your group?
Speaker 4: Yes, because I'm still at the booth.
Speaker 7: Come and got you? Certainly. I come up to the
booth a shock. I think we're leaving here soon.
Speaker 4: I have more to read.
Speaker 3: Well you can.
Speaker 7: I reach for the pamphlets and just start gathering them.
You can read them over dinner.
Speaker 4: They're chained to the table.
Speaker 1: There's pamphlets, but there's like proper medical journal type level information.
Then I assume a rashtok is reading and.
Speaker 19: I've been trying to memorize it because I can't take
it with me. Oh, probably has too much that I
can actually memorize though.
Speaker 4: All right, well you should have won.
Speaker 3: I lowered my voice, Rastock. If you want to take
the notes, I could provide a distraction.
Speaker 8: Why would I do that?
Speaker 3: So you can read them over dinner.
Speaker 7: Yes, I will move over next to wherever it is
and just sort of lean up against the table, dropping
my tits up on the table.
Speaker 3: My low cut, very nice dress. Excuse me, So.
Speaker 1: There's two twins that are working the table, and now
you have placed your two twins upon.
Speaker 7: The table, yes, on top of next to in a
different direction from the chain. So a rash talk can
deal with the chain, just essentially drawing their attention away from.
Speaker 3: A rash talk in the book. Excuse me?
Speaker 7: I have some questions that I would like answering if possible.
Speaker 1: Yes, what can we help you?
Speaker 2: It?
Speaker 1: Make a performance check? Please? Where you hear all that
six getting enrolled nineteen?
Speaker 14: Ok?
Speaker 1: Yes, how can we help you? You can see that
that Gretchen is keenly aware of your twins.
Speaker 5: So I've been thinking about perhaps joining the university.
Speaker 7: As a student. Could you tell me a bit more
about your experience here?
Speaker 14: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yes, of course, the experience has been very enlightening. There
are many opportunities that have been presented. That's ample. And yes,
sorry you see that.
Speaker 5: But you work in close knit teams, very intimate work of.
Speaker 3: Research.
Speaker 1: Yes, with my brother primarily Gustaf is very helpful. Yes,
how do you consider it to make a thievery check.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, this will go so very well an eighteen.
Speaker 12: That is almost the best.
Speaker 3: I could do.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, Gustav is talking to some of the other
students that were also presenting. They didn't even look at
my clockwork automaton. I've worked so hard on it. They
just bypassed the stall. I went over and I tried
to get them to look at my notes. I can't
believe they didn't even look. I don't understand. Gustav is
talking to them, and you can see Gretchen is blatantly
staring at our Celia's cleavage, and you're.
Speaker 9: Just like.
Speaker 1: Trying to rip the chain off of the desk. It
has like one bolt like holding it down, you know,
and you're like slowly loosening the thing like you know,
it's just like slowly pulling the bolt out, like it's
slowly like reversing the threads, like getting it to pull out.
Make one more thievery check for me, please, fah, yeah,
rushtack you grab it.
Speaker 4: I immediately put it in my bag of holding and
walk away.
Speaker 1: Okay. So, yes, we've worked very closely together. We actually
have a good relationship? And are you are you are
you a student here?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 3: No, not yet. Do you have a card or anything?
Speaker 1: Oh yes, of course, yes, me and my brother. I
am corretchensa.
Speaker 5: I take the hand in the card with both of mine.
Speaker 7: I turn her palms or palm is up and I
kiss the outside of her palm as I take the car.
Speaker 3: Oh, thank you, no, thank you?
Speaker 13: Are you?
Speaker 1: Are you interested in getting drinks or something? Sometimes?
Speaker 14: Oh?
Speaker 7: Yes, actually I have quite the first. I am a
bit busy tonight, but maybe tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, how how should we make those arrangements?
Speaker 3: Where can I find you?
Speaker 1: Should we? I mean there is?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 1: What kind of drinks do you want? You want something?
Maybe fancy or something cheap? Usually we go for cheap
here in the university.
Speaker 3: Is there anything cheap messy do like a strong drink?
Speaker 1: Oh? Yes there is. It's sort of a local sort
of a local pub we have here. It's the the
August Tit.
Speaker 3: August tit.
Speaker 1: No, no, the August tit.
Speaker 3: The Ougres titch.
Speaker 1: Is that the drink or the August the August flagging? Sorry?
Speaker 7: Oh oh sorry it seems so. And I just fixed
my tit that like came popping out of my dress.
Speaker 1: You can like hear the blood pressure in her cheeks.
Speaker 3: Right, how do we just meet there tomorrow? Let's say.
Speaker 1: Yes, seven o'clock. That's wonderful, all right, all right, and
I'm sorry I didn't get your name, but what is
your name? My name is our Celia, Celia. I'm looking
forward to it.
Speaker 7: Yes, and I'll walk away swaying deliberately, A super kicked
up vooty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, says Gretchen.
Speaker 9: So.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you heard, but Vivian was talking
about the fact that she wasn't dating show.
Speaker 7: And as soon as I round the corner, I start
hurrying over towards the others.
Speaker 3: Our shock was that successful?
Speaker 4: I can read such it now great?
Speaker 9: All right with me?
Speaker 7: We have to meet up with everyone else. A yes, yes,
I think we're going straight to dinner from here.
Speaker 4: It's very interesting.
Speaker 8: Uh huh.
Speaker 3: Where is koon?
Speaker 7: Oh? They must be have the Brazen Skull already? So
we decided on doing some dinner by the water.
Speaker 3: I should you might like that?
Speaker 7: Yes, and then perhaps afterwards we can go for a walk,
enjoy the way side, or perhaps even go dancing.
Speaker 8: You like to dance?
Speaker 14: Ah?
Speaker 3: No, okay, oh, I like to dance.
Speaker 4: You can watch a god. I am glad you have
for the thing you like.
Speaker 8: Most.
Speaker 4: Dancing was a round fires and usually for some of
our Sharman's rituals.
Speaker 3: Oh, the trolls.
Speaker 4: Fascinating, Yes, speaking to our ancestors or working with the
spirits to divine some sorceries.
Speaker 14: Oh.
Speaker 7: Interesting, a form of community and spending time together to
bond your song and music and.
Speaker 3: Essentially yeah, sometimes fucking.
Speaker 4: Oh it says what it's not the purpose for us?
I usually was just reading while they danced.
Speaker 3: Mmmm, well you have material read? Yes, stecks out wonderfully.
Speaker 4: I see is that it?
Speaker 8: I see?
Speaker 4: I scoll that board.
Speaker 20: Ah.
Speaker 7: Yes, As I hold the door open for oshtalk, I'd
like to look around and try to find our companions.
Speaker 8: Sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this place is very busy at the moment you
walk in, and this place is like a boisterous tavern. Effectively,
you walk in and you can see that you're bombarded
by like wonderful smells and also not so great smells
of you know, the typical sort of a little bit
of piss, you know, in a tavern kind of feeling.
But there's some good food cooking and stuff like that.
Lots of alcohol being sloshed around in this place. It's
your typical sort of tavern here. Hmm.
Speaker 2: I will go find karun H and sit down with her.
Speaker 5: Did you order yet?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 9: Should I? I will order the humans I'm over at.
Speaker 4: The bar ordering for us.
Speaker 3: I sit down, is already doing it?
Speaker 9: Oh good?
Speaker 4: H I found the research got rude.
Speaker 9: Really? Of what kind?
Speaker 4: I've been named? Pancreatic disease?
Speaker 9: H could?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 4: I wonder if it can be replicated.
Speaker 9: I'm sure it can. Anything of the science fair could
be replicated with enough you know, conviction.
Speaker 4: I have pulled the book open with a slight jingle
of the chain and begin reading.
Speaker 1: Okay, do you like dancing.
Speaker 9: Well with my clothes on?
Speaker 7: Or?
Speaker 4: I mean.
Speaker 3: I think clothes are optional.
Speaker 8: But.
Speaker 9: Looking around everyone who's wearing clothes, yes, oh yeah, for sure, Yeah,
definitely not optional. There are many times when I would
dance in the moonlight with the elves of my forest,
but it was usually in service of you know, community engagement,
a function, a community function.
Speaker 3: And sort of nodding my head looking over at a
rash talk.
Speaker 9: It is a little different than humans wild gyrations, I think.
Speaker 3: Fascinating. I would like to see you dance sometime.
Speaker 9: It would have to be a full moon m and
I will be naked.
Speaker 3: All right if you can teach me your dance.
Speaker 9: Could just visibly up and down, like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: While I'm at the bar ordering like around rounds and
everything for us, I'm asking around to see if there's
anything special going on tonight or if anybody knows of
any more like low key clubs or anything like that,
so to speak.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, so you can tell that there's You can
make it just a general diplomacy check. This would be
the equivalent of you, what was that downtime activity Catherine?
Speaker 4: Information?
Speaker 1: Yeah nine, okay, Yeah. People are more than willing to
like give you some info. You can see that there's
there's a few things around. There's a few uh performers
that like to do some nighttime sort of like musical
uh sort of like busking in the in some of
the the uh the dock areas that are nearby. They
just have like these cool like light shows.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 1: They do some like cantrip type magics and things along
with some various performances, usually with some musical accompaniment, usually
with some you know, some like almost carnival esque uh
sort of performances. You know, there's people doing you know, uh,
acrobatics and things like that. There's also there's also like mmm, uh,
there's some there's a fortune tellers nearby. There's uh sort
of like a pavilion where people go dance and there's
some music that plays. It's just kind of like a
nightly thing that they have. They just have like an
in house kind of band and some dancing and stuff
like that. So that's pretty popular.
Speaker 2: Excellent, all right, thank you so much for the information, darling.
And I'll play some order with the bar keep. How
much gold should I be giving silver?
Speaker 3: How much?
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Do you get food and drinks? Yes?
Speaker 2: Absolutely, we're getting drunk.
Speaker 1: So if you're getting if you're getting a good amount
of stuff, let's call it like three.
Speaker 2: Gold perfect all right, And I will give of one
gold as a tip. All right, And I start bringing
things over.
Speaker 9: I am not very strong.
Speaker 3: Please help me, I've got you.
Speaker 9: Somebody help your.
Speaker 7: Oh no, I will scoop up a majority of the
heavier things and take them to the table.
Speaker 1: There we go.
Speaker 3: Everything for everyone, yes.
Speaker 7: Or ashtark, we need your help in destroying this food,
not literally with our mouths and our stomachs.
Speaker 4: That has got eating.
Speaker 3: Yes, so eating.
Speaker 2: There are a few fun things that are going on
in the city tonight. So there is a fortune teller,
which could be quite fun. I don't know if any
of you find that sort of thing fun. I find
that fun. There's their performers throughout the streets as well,
I'm assuming because of all the visitors and everything in
the city, and.
Speaker 3: There is in fact.
Speaker 2: A pavilion people go to you to dance, So we
have quite a few options.
Speaker 8: Mm hmm, you're right, mm hmm. You bought us all
of this stuff. I believe you should probably decide on
what we should do, and I'll just go with you.
Speaker 9: It sounded a little bit like you wanted to do
the fortune telling thing.
Speaker 2: Yes, but is that not interesting?
Speaker 8: Do you know?
Speaker 9: I would love I would love to go to the
fortune telling thing, because you want to do the fortune
telling thing, and I think you know.
Speaker 21: I think you would you know like it.
Speaker 2: Well, what if we find some thing out we could
we very well could. Maybe this fortune teller is not
a scam artist.
Speaker 9: Definitely, definitely. You never know, you never know, you never know.
They might sell drugs on the side. So let's go
take a you.
Speaker 2: Know, do you think a fortune teller sells drugslagenics if anything.
Speaker 9: I mean, if they are a fortune teller, maybe they
have hallucinogens. So we're at the shot perfect.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, let's us enjoy our food and then
I suppose we can we can go to fortune teller
if we see any performances that strike off, so we
can watch those. But like dance, So there is a dance, and.
Speaker 9: Do you at difference?
Speaker 4: Let's do it.
Speaker 9: Oh, just constantly out of the corner of my eye,
looking for any more tallexian. Sure, yeah, she's not relaxing
constantly over my shoulder.
Speaker 4: Just I reluctantly put the book away and eat as well.
Speaker 1: Sure, just out of curiosity. Is everyone drinking?
Speaker 8: Yes, yes, if I'm being forced to, I will. But
if I'm not.
Speaker 7: Forcing you, oh my god, I'm only drinking.
Speaker 4: I have tears.
Speaker 1: Okay, So a raschak is not not drinking alcohol.
Speaker 19: I've I've pulled out my own cup and put water,
like pulled water in it and then warmed the water
with prejudication and then.
Speaker 4: Right, yeah, I'm that smooth.
Speaker 1: Okay, everybody except a raschank please make fortitude saves.
Speaker 2: Twenty two nineteen.
Speaker 8: Oh, sorry, I have everything again. Okay, I would get
there in a second.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, So, uh, ar Celia, I did not know.
Speaker 2: Just roll it from the left side of your load up.
Speaker 1: Sorry, So are Celia you are? You're feeling it a
little bit. It's it's you're not drunk, but you you've
got a good buzz going. Uh, Yara, you're definitely like
step away from drunk.
Speaker 2: Okay, perhaps I was just stoping, h.
Speaker 1: Karun, you're fine, like you got a little bit of
a buzz going. I do this almost like you know,
it's just constantly drinking poisonously.
Speaker 8: What did you say, fortitude?
Speaker 1: Fortitude say four? Yeah, so this is a critical success
for you. You don't feel anything, Malvick. You don't even
have the pus yet. It's got to be like paint thinner.
Speaker 8: Great drink, cool boy feeling it.
Speaker 2: It was pretty good.
Speaker 9: I liked it.
Speaker 14: And so.
Speaker 3: Do you need more drinks?
Speaker 9: More?
Speaker 8: You're starting to show color more drinks.
Speaker 2: I should probably slow.
Speaker 8: Down, slow down? Why it is your night?
Speaker 2: Well, I don't want to be like he's drunk.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 7: Well, look the way that I see it, we should
all enjoy whatever we can here tonight.
Speaker 3: Matter of time.
Speaker 7: Yes, but also it's only a matter of time for
doctor Riddlelson comes back, and then we've.
Speaker 3: Got to leave, and then we've got to go do
the thing.
Speaker 7: And are we going to enjoy good music, a warm fire,
something nice to read, yes, prun, you.
Speaker 5: Know like drugs, drugs.
Speaker 2: I think the drugs follow us, right, aluise, I will.
Speaker 7: Say I am enjoying being here tonight with all of you.
We should make the most of it.
Speaker 4: M I agree.
Speaker 9: Cheers to that, cheers.
Speaker 3: Clink.
Speaker 8: I don't understand what we're drinking.
Speaker 2: Water Well, I'm just waiting for more liquid to come over.
But I also would like to say that you are
all splendid and I that we have had many tribulations.
I'm very grateful to have met all of you, and
you are my very closest companions that I think I.
Speaker 3: Might ever have.
Speaker 8: Hm hmm, you're missing one.
Speaker 2: Yes, I believe the anniversary is coming up for.
Speaker 8: Yes, take the head off the bag.
Speaker 9: No god, no no no no no no no no
no no no no no.
Speaker 8: Why celebrating.
Speaker 4: We are saving it so that it does not decay,
decay immediately, have to no, but every little bit of
bacterium and things attached itself to it when it is out. Yes,
like we detrimental.
Speaker 2: I also just would like to see my friends seven anyway.
Speaker 9: Yes, yeah, that was only about two months ago for us,
wasn't it. Yes, we are all probably still reeling from
the emotional toll of me having killed him with his
own dagger.
Speaker 8: The smile makes me feel that you are very remorseful.
Oh yes, m hm.
Speaker 1: You know how long?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he is like a century.
Speaker 8: So before you backstop warding us to make sure you
let us know.
Speaker 9: Well, it wasn't in the back. It was in the side,
like a fish.
Speaker 8: In the side.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Oh, and it was known. Oh kind of person allows
themselves to be stabbed by an.
Speaker 9: He asked for it.
Speaker 8: Very kind of freaky friend you have.
Speaker 9: Well, he was about to be taken captive and I
didn't want to be taken captive. So and you know,
he asked me to put him down. Well I asked
him if he wanted me to put them down, and
he said yes, which I talked to me, and please
put me down, So I did.
Speaker 2: Strange friends, he was trying, he was to try to
protect us.
Speaker 4: That prifice. Yeah, and he did. We escaped.
Speaker 9: We had a lot of really good times together. You know,
he would be doing a thing all on his own
and I would be talking to him through his mind.
He was a health elf. So things have been very
lonely since then.
Speaker 8: Explains why you? Well, you were actually talking live then
and not now then? I guess.
Speaker 4: Mhm hm.
Speaker 8: So how did his head them off his body? If
you hit him in the side and that was a sacrifice.
Speaker 4: The ruler of the realm? Did it too demoralize? Oh
and we killed him.
Speaker 2: In an equally cruel way.
Speaker 8: Very good, I'll drink to that more drinks. So it's
a capitation and.
Speaker 9: Crulative punishment and justice.
Speaker 2: How about to dronis, Yes, I.
Speaker 8: Guess that works and droness and didn't know you, But.
Speaker 2: Ahead of the situation, he would have probably flirted with
you too. He flirted with everyone.
Speaker 8: Okay, sounds like a nice guy.
Speaker 3: It's one I reckon.
Speaker 2: I listened to you.
Speaker 9: Did you have felt a lit lonelier? You know, there's
a very special connection that you have with someone when
you can talk to them in their mind without I
think to say a word. Most humans could only imagine
what that would feel like.
Speaker 2: I speak this on your mind and say boom, a.
Speaker 9: There is special connection.
Speaker 8: It seems like all of you have had a very
special bonding moment with this adronus.
Speaker 4: And yes, we start jokes.
Speaker 8: Even a Rasta got along with him.
Speaker 4: He tried to teach me jokes. I think I have
a handle on them now.
Speaker 8: Oh, well, should celebrate him as well.
Speaker 3: Yes, I chugged my entire drink.
Speaker 4: I think he would have said, this is an awkward
situation and then laughed. Indeed, I don't know why it's
awkward though it is a physical oh joke, right, Yes,
that's what he would have done.
Speaker 8: So what are you planning to be dead? I always
wanted to ask. I just thought it was really weird buried.
Speaker 4: When I returned to his sister. Indeed, remains of the
family going back.
Speaker 8: Is that an Elvin thing?
Speaker 9: It's continuing to drink.
Speaker 4: I think it is a family thing from where he
is from.
Speaker 8: Oh, I wouldn't know anything about that.
Speaker 2: It is also to be opened to the idea of
possibly finding someone with the means to perform a resurrection.
Speaker 8: Right, or you can do that?
Speaker 4: Yes, very high level for he stock Egg.
Speaker 8: That is interesting.
Speaker 4: Yes, it must be very high up in the belief system.
Speaker 9: He will bury him in the soil of his homeland
and place a seedling of a tree above his grave,
so that it may feed and provide the world with
a little memory of him. A little piece of a
droness is a common living custom.
Speaker 8: Never seen you so sentimental.
Speaker 9: I'm not sentimental. Is a fact. Just what this is done.
Speaker 2: It is a respect thing.
Speaker 8: I hope to be as missed in love that this is.
Speaker 9: And drummis then continuing to drink.
Speaker 1: Inside pounding them back, did not mean to.
Speaker 8: Damp in the mood.
Speaker 9: No, it's fine, it's fine. He would have done the
same for me. I think.
Speaker 2: What he would want is for us to have a
night of merriment, because that was his entire personality, A
very merry individual. Oh yeah, even the most stone faced
asshole smile or at least crack a little bit of one.
Speaker 8: We didn't. Let's have the best night then.
Speaker 2: Indeed, m M all right, I'm going to finish my drink,
pound it down, slam it on the table, or should
I say male of ex drink?
Speaker 8: Yeah, give me a quite safe A drink is strong,
by the way.
Speaker 1: Sixteen Oh yeah, this one gotcha, Yara, Who I.
Speaker 2: Feel my insides burning. Let's go that's the perfect time
to go see someone to tell you about your potential future.
Speaker 8: It's called Wybrn's Blood. I thought it sounded very appropriate.
Speaker 4: Yes, are we going to the music thing?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 9: Yes, yes, find yes, Yes, let's go there.
Speaker 8: I'm following you lead the way.
Speaker 4: I will enjoy you momentarily. I will meet you at
the fortune teller. I need to get my formal attire
for the party.
Speaker 2: Excellent, all right, right, and I walk out.
Speaker 9: Fortune hm hmm.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So this is kind of so this was like
one of those things like oh yeah, people around the
tavern or like mentioned like, oh yeah, it's fun, I've
done it before, stuff like that. There's a a fortune
teller that goes by the name of Casilda of the Whispers.
Speaker 8: How does he look.
Speaker 1: This this building that she in, she's in is obviously
her home, and it's pretty small and like, uh, definitely
like more dilapidated than a lot of the places here
in Liipenstad. To be fair, there's not like a ton
of you know, like run down neighborhoods or anything. This
one is just kind of like one of the few
houses that kind of is. It's a small place. It's
like the equivalent of maybe like a two room kind
of little shack. It's along the waterfront, and there's still
people that are kind of like milling about. You can
see the equivalent of like street performers, like buskers that
are kind of about you. You hear a few, like,
you know, people just with some lutes that are just
kind of playing and singing folk songs and stuff like that.
Various performers like you know with uh, with places for
you to throw in some money to tip here and
there along the along the along the waterfront.
Speaker 8: Want to ask a more question, but not out loud.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well you you walk along the waterfront and basically
like up northeast of where you are, it's like it's
a little place like up here, yeah, way up there,
the spot up here.
Speaker 8: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: H So uh there is a rudimentary sign that is
up just outside. You can see like there's just a
scrawled just a scrawled sign, the equivalent of like a
very makeshift a frame, right uh. And it says whispers
from the other side. Casilda of the Whispers reads you
your fortune and interprets the other worldly realms and their meanings.
And it says tarot reading or tarro reading five gold pieces.
Speaker 2: M all right, who wants a reason?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 8: I believe for you and you and you are right? Fine?
How many of us are here?
Speaker 2: There's four and then there's a ross.
Speaker 8: Okay, pay for all of you.
Speaker 2: I have money as well.
Speaker 8: I'm happy to Okay, then you can pay and I'll
put my coin person.
Speaker 2: I only have thirty gold, so to be completely poor,
sure offered.
Speaker 8: I will always take you.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, then we'll be by.
Speaker 9: We'll pay for everyone.
Speaker 4: I will pay for everyone.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, you just had that fantastic job.
Speaker 9: Yes, I have one hundred I have one hundred and
ninety eight gold.
Speaker 3: Probably will you go?
Speaker 9: I will pay how much? How much?
Speaker 2: Into your pocket?
Speaker 9: So there's a five twenty gold dotal. I will pay
for this.
Speaker 1: Yes, if you're having everybody better rash tacket a reading?
Speaker 9: No, no, no, you need more twenty five twenty five
mm hmm okay, yeah, all right, I've paid.
Speaker 1: So, uh do you you haven't paid yet? Do you?
Speaker 9: I mean I took it out of my inventory.
Speaker 1: Okay. So you walk inside, there's this like uh, it's
it's like dusk right now. There's probably like uh, you know,
the the sunset is happening right now. It's very beautiful outside.
There's just that that reflection of the sunset sort of
dancing along the river that's nearby. As you enter, there's
a rickety sort of door, and immediately as soon as
you open the door, there is this rolling mist that
begins to cascade out of this shack. There's this purplish
sort of light that begins to dance about.
Speaker 11: The The.
Speaker 1: Sides of the door immediately are lit by this purple
magical light that begins to swirl around as you enter,
and immediately upon entering, you can see what appears to
be a cleared table with this what appears to be
like a shawl with a mystical sort of magical looking
design woven on the shawl laid across this round table
that is sitting with You can see there's probably one
chair on your side of the table, and there is
an empty chair on the other side. As you walk
into what appears to be an empty room. Along the
walls and things, there are.
Speaker 9: Sort of.
Speaker 1: Various occult things hanging about. There's what looks to be
preserved skulls. There are candles that, as you enter, begin
to slowly light up.
Speaker 9: Is it possible to tell if the occulties autrement is
like accurate or is it just a ghoulish interpretation of
what someone may consider to be a cultism satiati one,
this looks like legit stuff.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, there's like you know, there's some obvious there's
some stuff here that's kind of like thrown in that
might just look good. But like then you start like
thinking about the way that it's organized, Like on the wall,
you know, like there's some proper there's some like proper
what appears to be some like descriptions of creatures that
you've heard of or seen. There's uh, even in Ustlav,
there's descriptions of like were wolves and vampires and things
which are prevalent in this in this country and in
this region. You can see you know, like tales of them.
And then you can see like there's garlic and stuff
like hanging. There's what appears to be some like holy
water and stuff all about as well.
Speaker 8: Only next to chronisms, certain mechanisms and the absorption of
magic creates these lantern like things that go off, you
know near lay lines. Is nothing.
Speaker 1: H okay.
Speaker 9: And there's even the bar of a cat a shop cat.
Speaker 2: Play with the cat the cutest cat.
Speaker 1: There's no response.
Speaker 20: Mm hmm, okay, hello, we are here to have a
Fourton's ready?
Speaker 8: See?
Speaker 9: Oh all right, Canna scooch up.
Speaker 3: To a chair.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's one chair at this round table and on
the other side that is empty.
Speaker 9: Who wants to go first?
Speaker 8: You?
Speaker 2: You sat down, go first?
Speaker 14: All right?
Speaker 9: I will, I will go first. Here's my five, girl,
and just put it on the table. Scooch into the chair.
Speaker 8: That's what we started as a rosta.
Speaker 1: There was a you sat down at the chair current, Yes, okay,
As you're scooching the chair, you know, you just kind
of like look down for a second. Nobody notices when
this happens. But for whatever reason, as you scooch your
chair forward, Kron, by the time you like look back up,
there is a woman sat down in the other chair.
Oh my god.
Speaker 9: Hello.
Speaker 1: She has graying hair, it's sort of long, hooked nose.
She appears to be quite old, definitely looks human. She
has a very weathered, hanned face, very wrinkled.
Speaker 9: And I would like also to point out that Karen
has even instincts in this particularly attuned to when people
are just appear in front of her and this woman
was able to do so anyway.
Speaker 21: Spo Hello child, Hello, how are you are you here
for reading of your future?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Yes, I am excellent. I need to know. However, what
have you come to learn?
Speaker 9: Well, my future, your future? Well, we're all going to go,
you know.
Speaker 1: So, so you seek a place and it's future how
it interacts with you?
Speaker 9: Well, yes, but also we're all going to get our
futures red.
Speaker 8: So you know.
Speaker 17: Very well?
Speaker 1: You pay five gold pieces.
Speaker 9: There you go, right there, skutch across the table.
Speaker 1: Then I will.
Speaker 8: Begin.
Speaker 2: Great, it's a cold in here, it's a little cold.
Speaker 14: Mm hmm. First, the two of cops, love, profession, ink
a lot.
Speaker 1: Friendship union.
Speaker 8: You have.
Speaker 1: Friends that's around you, She looks around.
Speaker 14: They are.
Speaker 1: Important to you.
Speaker 9: I don't tell them that more than you let on. Yeah,
you hide this.
Speaker 1: From them?
Speaker 9: Well yes, you do, not let them.
Speaker 1: Get close.
Speaker 9: They're all going to die, you know eventually, And I'm
still be here being me.
Speaker 1: So she places this down, reversed.
Speaker 12: Humph.
Speaker 1: Instability revolution. Your friends have been unstable.
Speaker 9: I've had some unstable friends in the pair stairs.
Speaker 14: M.
Speaker 1: Intriguing.
Speaker 22: They will influence you or that which stands in your way.
Their instability will cause problems for you.
Speaker 9: Well, it's already caused problems.
Speaker 22: The six of cops. Your origin of your question or
your struggle. You look back at memories, maybe a childhood
for joy. It's been a long time, hasn't it.
Speaker 9: Yes, and it didn't have a great childhood.
Speaker 7: So you know.
Speaker 22: Recent of events here four of cups.
Speaker 1: Strange.
Speaker 13: You are weary, averse.
Speaker 22: To what has happened recently and the troubles that you
are experiencing.
Speaker 9: That, yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 1: Oh my, what what is it?
Speaker 9: What did you finisher?
Speaker 22: The reverse page of pentacles?
Speaker 1: What is it?
Speaker 9: What does that mean?
Speaker 22: Luxury? Hm, liberality, freedom, You will get through these troubles
live in luxury.
Speaker 9: I like the sound of that for you is quite bright.
Speaker 1: Or in this case it could.
Speaker 9: Also mean could also mean what that you will.
Speaker 1: Have difficulty with this luxury? Oh and this next card
will tell your future strength inverted, disgrace, dis cord, weakness.
Speaker 9: Like now or further on down the line soon tomorrow.
Canin problem?
Speaker 8: Got it?
Speaker 22: Your current emotional state an inverted King of cups, dishonesty,
dupless tea scandal, an injustice.
Speaker 9: You believe you have been wronged, everyone has been wronged.
At some point.
Speaker 1: She grabs your hand quickly, and she looks into your eyes,
and as you look into hers, you see endless depth
behind them. She says, you have been betrayed.
Speaker 22: Yes, the external forces of influence, people in the world around.
Speaker 13: You, the Ten of Sorts, pin, sorrow, desolation.
Speaker 9: That is something I don't know.
Speaker 1: I see you, and I see those around you. Many
have fallen.
Speaker 21: You are.
Speaker 1: Still here, survivor. You've seen many tragedies.
Speaker 10: Yes, there will be more. Your hopes and desires before
I turn this car. Your question about your future.
Speaker 9: It is related to this.
Speaker 1: The Ten of Cops reversed, indignation violence. There will be
much fighting. It will not end soon for you.
Speaker 3: And the outcome see that.
Speaker 1: The last card, the Six of Swords. The path lies
before you.
Speaker 22: You have been told the path that you must walk,
and it is the only way forward for you, the
only way that you will get answers to your questions.
You walk this path now, and you are correct. Continue
to walk it and all will be revealed to you.
Speaker 9: Well, thank you appreciate that. I'm just gonna scooted back
to the chair, stand back up. She really is something. Yes,
she's great. You guys should go have a turn.
Speaker 2: Go ahead with you. We could also go dancing.
Speaker 9: Yeah, no, go ahead, No you try, No, no, no,
you try.
Speaker 4: This is the yes, thank you.
Speaker 2: I will sit.
Speaker 4: And I step in.
Speaker 9: Huh listen, listen what you're wearing. What you're wearing on
your head? Listen. I was told that hair is regularly
done up for dan human hair, human hair. Yes, that
is goat hair. It matches perfectly. I love it.
Speaker 3: Yes, thank you.
Speaker 9: I want to ever take it off mm hmm Christmas.
Speaker 4: It is uncomfortable, but I'm with you.
Speaker 9: Next, there's me. I'm just gonna go.
Speaker 3: You would like to go?
Speaker 8: You're have a seat.
Speaker 4: Right atmosphere here is very.
Speaker 1: She begins to take all the cards, push them back together,
and she hands them to you, Yara, and she says,
what is your question? Oh? My question?
Speaker 2: Will that's a good question. I suppose it has to do.
Speaker 3: With the nature.
Speaker 2: Of the quest.
Speaker 3: Time on.
Speaker 2: And my sister, what is your question? Am I being manipulated.
Speaker 4: Very well?
Speaker 1: She takes the cards back and let's find out your
first card. It represents you and your.
Speaker 4: State of being.
Speaker 1: The Queen of Swords, mourning, separation and absence. There is
a morning.
Speaker 4: Here.
Speaker 8: You have.
Speaker 1: Lost someone you feel their absence the night.
Speaker 2: Especially indeed, I look around the room at all my companions.
Speaker 22: Next that what influences you or what stands in your way?
Speaker 1: The King of cup.
Speaker 22: Art, science, law, creativity and intelligence.
Speaker 13: Your thoughts.
Speaker 1: Maybe get in your way more often than not. Perhaps
you are in your own head too much worrying and
the origin of your question or struggle. The fool reversed negligence, carelessness, vanity.
Speaker 2: Your sister you say, indeed was it your fault?
Speaker 8: I do not know.
Speaker 1: Your current events and trouble. The four of Pentacles. You
have been given a legacy, perhaps a gift. Dusk Walker.
Speaker 22: Mded the issues of your future, which can change depending
on how you respond.
Speaker 1: To your present. The Page of WANs Distractions, loss of focus.
You must not be distracted from your purpose. You must
press forward. You must continue if you are to solve
your problems.
Speaker 8: The future.
Speaker 1: The two of Pentacles Obstacles, agitation and troubles. There is
trouble ahead for you, yaah. It will not be an
easy path. Your current emotions, temperance, patience, management and moderation.
You are doing well to control your feelings and doing
your best to manage all that happens around you. You
are in your own head much, but you are keeping
it together the people and world around you. The Night
of Pentacles. Responsibility, usefulness normally, but here it is reversed, idleness, sagnation, lacidity.
Do not take this world at face value. It will
lie to you hopes and desires regarding your question or struggle, just.
Speaker 22: Law, equity, righteousness.
Speaker 13: You hope.
Speaker 1: That everyone will get what's theirs.
Speaker 22: The world doesn't always work out that way.
Speaker 1: Your outcome the eight of Wand's movement speed haste. Things
will fall into pay into place quickly for you. Events
will be tumultuous.
Speaker 22: But they will happen soon. You wait, and your weight
is almost over.
Speaker 1: That is what holds. That is what the future holds
for you.
Speaker 8: Child.
Speaker 2: Looking upon her, does she okay I don't really know
how to describe it, but does she strike me as
some sort of oracle or something of that nature, some
some actual magic practitioner.
Speaker 1: Ah, make a perception check.
Speaker 3: That's an eighteen.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm not sure she's got a obviously a lot
of mystical crap around here. If she managed to appear
before you all without giving any hint that she was here, before,
but you're just not sure. I thank you.
Speaker 2: I'm very hopeful, and I will stand up from the
suit in which I've been white knuckling gripping the chair
the entire time.
Speaker 6: Just anyone else won't to turn as Celia, I suppose I.
Speaker 7: Can I stand up from where I've been petting the shopcat,
and I will slowly, carefully sit down.
Speaker 1: She begins to put the cards back together, shuffle them
and hand them to you.
Speaker 7: I would like to do something as I'm taking the cards. Sure,
I would like to use my read psychometric resonance. I
get the sense that so as a Falmiturge, I essentially
am very sensitive to the magic of the mundane emotional
power of things in this world. And I have a
strange feeling about this place. And I try to draw
into the energy of this deck as it's passed through
many hands and lastly from hers into mine. So I'm
cressing my fingers over the texture of the cards, paying
mindful attention to if any of the corners are bent faded,
how old this thing might be.
Speaker 1: Yep, it's taken care of. Make a we'll save for.
Speaker 3: Me the thing I will master.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you didn't even need your master.
Speaker 3: That's a natural twenty okay, thirty four?
Speaker 1: Uh, holy shit. This deck of cards has been through
some stuff. It has been held in many many hands before.
It has experienced trauma of varying levels surprise and shock,
and they are definitely magical.
Speaker 7: I hold them with reverence in my hands. Is these
emotions wash over me that I'm prepared?
Speaker 1: This time just takes like a minute to do as well?
So she's waiting while you do this, Yes, And she's
staring into your eyes when you look back up.
Speaker 7: And there's appreciation in my eyes. I'm holding them reverently.
I'm holding them carefully, and when I hold them and
return them, I'm holding them with both hands, almost as
it's a relic.
Speaker 1: Have you found what you are looking for?
Speaker 3: My question is are my.
Speaker 5: Friends and I going to make it out of the
trial ahead alive?
Speaker 1: A much more pointed question. Let's find out together you
and your current state of being the nine of One's
suspension delay interruption. You wait for something or someone, but
you are feeling restrained. You want to begin your quest.
Speaker 22: Something holds you back, or some one that which influences
your stands in your way.
Speaker 1: The Night of Cups incitement, invitations, propositions, someone it is
a someone holds you back, perhaps an offer. Someone has
convinced you of something. You wait for them.
Speaker 22: Dis Inverted trickery, fraud, swindling, duplicity.
Speaker 4: You are being lied to.
Speaker 1: This person you wait on is lying to you.
Speaker 22: Your recent events, the inverted fool, negligence, carelessness, vanity. You
do not see what is before you. You obscure your
own vision.
Speaker 1: Maybe or someone close to.
Speaker 8: You does m hm.
Speaker 1: Your future problems.
Speaker 22: An inverted ace of swords, force, loss, defeat. This could
be very bad for you, our cilia. How you handle
this is incredibly important.
Speaker 3: As these cards are being drawn.
Speaker 7: I look for the side eye over towards Malevik, and
it isn't a sort of accusatory glance.
Speaker 3: I'm not.
Speaker 7: Suspicious of Malevic. It's almost as if I'm worried for Malvik.
It just don't but I don't say anything out loud.
Speaker 22: Judgment, inverted weakness, liberation, simplicity. Perhaps you see yourself as
weak you wait too long.
Speaker 8: The future.
Speaker 22: The magician skill, diplomacy, will, and self confidence. You conquer
your weakness through diplomacy and your own will. You will
find your confidence again.
Speaker 9: Do not falter.
Speaker 22: We all stumble your current emotions. The High Priestess secrets, mystery,
uncertain future surrounds you. There are forces at work that
obscure your path.
Speaker 1: Do not let them. Hm the people in world around you,
the Emperor, Power, stability, will, and authority. There is an
authority figure that controls your fate, your hopes and desires
about your quest.
Speaker 22: And if you come about unscathed.
Speaker 1: The three of cups solace, merriment, victory, and healing.
Speaker 22: You hope for the best. You see victory and healing.
Maybe with your friends, everything will work out. And what
does the ultimate outcome? Say will happen? The hermit inverted concealment, fear, caution,
and disguise. The future is clouded for you. Your outcome depends.
Speaker 1: Dearly. And if you can maintain your confidence your will.
Do not give up. The moment that you do, you
will be lost.
Speaker 7: Oh, thank you, it's has given me much to think about.
I bow my head respectfully at her. It's I get
out of the chair.
Speaker 1: She grabs your hand for a moment before you get up,
and she says, remember you have friends. Do not forget this.
You share much with them. She looks at Malvic pointedly.
Speaker 3: M thank you.
Speaker 7: I awkwardly pull my hand away and I go to
stand over near Malvik, crossing my arms.
Speaker 3: Over my chest.
Speaker 8: Let to go on quite assurance.
Speaker 4: I am intwisted in this, and I seat myself.
Speaker 3: As you sit down, I'll look over at Yarra appointedly,
trying to make eye contact with her.
Speaker 2: Even notice at first that I look a little bit angry,
But I will compose myself. I will make eye contact
with you.
Speaker 3: Now, keep staring until perhaps you try to reach out
to me. Yes, I will.
Speaker 2: I'll cast message. It's everything, all right, this.
Speaker 3: Is real, Yara, all of this. This is not a sham.
This is not a fake.
Speaker 2: No, it's not, and we are being lied to you.
Speaker 3: Then I look over or rash talk to listen.
Speaker 14: You.
Speaker 1: What is your question?
Speaker 4: He was curious if I would find the knowledge I seek.
Speaker 1: The knowledge that you seek is grand? What knowledge do
you seek?
Speaker 4: Some I do not wish to speak aloud, if.
Speaker 8: That is all right?
Speaker 1: Who do not mean to speak it?
Speaker 22: Only think it.
Speaker 1: She places the cards roughly in your hands, shuffle.
Speaker 4: Hm hm, and I shuffle awkwardly with my clause.
Speaker 22: She grabs him from you, places the first one down
you and your current state. The wheel of fortune, destiny, luck, success.
You have been doing well venturing towards your knowledge that.
Speaker 1: You so desperately seek. You are on the right path.
Speaker 22: That which stands in your way an inverted four of
pentacles suspense, delays, opposition, Someone or some thing is preventing
you from trying.
Speaker 1: And proceeding on your quest for this knowledge. The origin
of your question or your struggle an inverted seven of
cups desire, will determination. You seek this unwaveringly. This is important.
Do not give up. What you seek is important. Your
recent events and troubles the three of cups soul, This merriment, victory,
and healing much needed this night tonight, A rashtak is
much needed for you. The issues of the future, the
night of swords, destruction, defense, ruin, and wrath. A critical
point happens soon on your path for this knowledge. How
you handle it will be very important. Rushtok the future,
the Emperor, power, stability, will, authority, The authority, she pointedly
glances at all of you, stands in your way. Your
current emotional state.
Speaker 13: The world.
Speaker 1: Travel voyage change. You have been on a long journey.
It will continue soon.
Speaker 22: You must journey to find your answers. The people in
world around you, the external forces, the inverted lovers, foolish action,
and failure.
Speaker 1: Surrounds you. Do not let it stop you. Failure happens
to us all.
Speaker 22: How you recover tells you who you are, your hopes
and desires. In regards to your question.
Speaker 1: The ten of wands, inverted difficulties, intrigues, stress, You desire
these things, this difficulty. Perhaps the answer is not.
Speaker 8: What you.
Speaker 1: Want easily given to you. The true answer is earned,
and it is not given easily. The outcome.
Speaker 22: An inverted seven of wands, anxiety and surprise, more questions,
perhaps not what you are seeking.
Speaker 1: She looks towards.
Speaker 4: The group.
Speaker 1: She takes the cards back. She looks at Malavik, and
she says, you do not want your fortune read?
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, oh it'll be fun so nice tricks. I
like them, yes, us.
Speaker 14: Mm hmm.
Speaker 8: If you want to, oh it's closing time, I'm sorry.
Maybe you're trying to go to the parties as well.
If it's no time, then sure, yeah.
Speaker 1: She looks at the rest of you.
Speaker 4: I should be.
Speaker 1: Resting now.
Speaker 2: Thank you for your time.
Speaker 8: Maybe next time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, insight is useful, Thank.
Speaker 8: You well, then was it fun? I've been I think
I know how these work. There was a there was
a person at the the affair was talking about all
the lanterns and how the mechanisms and all the ascription
of magic Bru stuff.
Speaker 1: Are you beginning to leave? Are you leaving the shack?
Speaker 12: Yes?
Speaker 3: Yes, Okay.
Speaker 1: As you leave the shack, there is this sort of
sound of the candles begin to wink out as you exit,
before someone closes the door, it closes itself, mist rolls
out from the door. When you look back, looks like
a different house. Hello, this is why Stephen from Table Story.
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