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Speaker 2: Thank you, enjoy.
Speaker 3: Well, goodbye school. I guess even though I was never
actually a student speaking of, do you get a diploma
or like, you know, how people know outside that you
went to this really Ponsi university?
Speaker 4: Actually I don't know.
Speaker 5: I mean we got some robes, I guess.
Speaker 3: Aren't those like student robes?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I mean I don't know if I really want to
wear robes in the heat of infernia though.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: I mean, so, what what kind of job prospects do
you even have after leaving this place? You know, top
of your class or was it always in debt? Now?
Speaker 7: Oh, we are not in any debt, that is fair.
Speaker 3: The rest of our class are. But like, h I'm
just trying to im It's not my problem because I
didn't even go as a familiar. But I don't even
have like a familiar badge or something. Do we have titles?
Maybe like one a badge. I think I'll just absorb it.
Speaker 5: But jaw, actually, do you wear any armor at all?
Speaker 3: Kind of.
Speaker 5: Kind of hmm, what does that mean?
Speaker 3: It means this and you kind of see bows start
to look a little bit less shiny as a silk
shirt just kind of emerges from his being on the floor.
Speaker 5: Oh mm, So how does that offer protection if it
is inside of you?
Speaker 4: Typically?
Speaker 3: Well, I mean it's not digested. It's kind of like hmm,
how do you say equipped mm? Hmmm, huh. I don't
know slime stuff. And I just like put out a
suit of part and like a reabsorbed the silk shirt
and you see this gleam appear on me again on
my surface?
Speaker 5: Interesting, very interesting.
Speaker 1: H Well, was was that.
Speaker 3: Third one for? Whack? Why do you press it again?
Speaker 1: You said that your she sort of returned all right?
Speaker 5: Ah, well, at any rate, I mean, do we have
anything else that we wish to purchase while we're in Infernia? Mm?
Anything before we look into leaving, Because I mean if not.
We should probably regroup with a professor and find out
more information about what's going on because the arch majors
is involved everything.
Speaker 3: Is there a graduate success office here? I mean, I'm
really curious about this because we've gone all the way
through this, right, what's the point of going to school
if no one's gonna like? You know, what was the point?
Speaker 8: Well?
Speaker 5: I have learned a lot, and I am sure that
Andres is also. I'm sure along your time there as well,
you have learned too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I've kind of absorbed you know, a
lot just by being around to you pan unintended but like, hmmm,
I guess well, I mean if we have to leave,
we have to say goodbye to like a scary lady again.
Speaker 4: Scary lady? Oh you mean you mean the professor, right?
You think that the professor is scary?
Speaker 8: Still?
Speaker 3: Yes, why would I have changed my opinion of the professor?
Speaker 5: Hmm? I did spend more time with her than than
you all did. I suppose we were working on quite
a few things with regards to channeling my mama into
a smaller concentration, as well as a few other things
that are very interesting as well.
Speaker 3: Well, maybe you just like overexposed, Like, what are those
people who like watch horror movies all the time?
Speaker 9: You know?
Speaker 3: Maybe? Maybe? What do you think?
Speaker 5: I did watch Hell Razor when I was younger, and
I laughed during it and my father found it very peculiar.
Speaker 3: Not right? Hmmm? So what's what's in your hand?
Speaker 9: End?
Speaker 8: Is nothing of that sort?
Speaker 3: What is that? Can I see it? Can I see it?
The cover?
Speaker 8: Is it leather?
Speaker 3: Is this what let leather?
Speaker 8: Mmm? I don't know what she's talking about.
Speaker 3: Does it have a cover? Oh? Something?
Speaker 8: M What.
Speaker 5: Did you steal something from her office?
Speaker 3: Dragon? Smile? I know it?
Speaker 7: What did you buy something?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Which one?
Speaker 5: The first or the second? M?
Speaker 8: Technically it's not stealing if it's not missed and it's
not buying if I didn't spend any isn't it.
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 5: I will leave the debate of morality up to you.
Speaker 1: But what did you get?
Speaker 8: Well? I said, I came from a grimoire and that's
what I wanted. Huh did you look at that?
Speaker 10: What am we?
Speaker 8: Were?
Speaker 5: We looking at?
Speaker 8: Nothing?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 4: Come on, come on show you. I'll show you my encyclopedia.
It has so much information in it.
Speaker 3: Mm. She'll show you her book book club book club.
Speaker 8: I'm trying to be what's the word discreet?
Speaker 4: So when we are not here, will you.
Speaker 3: Show me m yes, yeah, okay.
Speaker 4: I'll show you mine as well.
Speaker 5: Perfect, Okay, Well, at any rate, do we have everything
we wished for? Is there anything we wish to purchase?
Speaker 3: I want to talk to the professor again. I have
to ask that question. If you don't got to ask
that question that I feel like they're only giving us half,
you know, like I just worry about.
Speaker 5: H we received three thousand senate as well as some
very valuable items for graduating.
Speaker 4: I mean that is quite the quite a lot.
Speaker 3: You kind of see a pseudopod rub underneath, like what
might be Bo's chin if he had like any facial
features whatsoever. It's kind of a kind of God, damn it, whack?
Speaker 4: Are you all right?
Speaker 3: Normal? Mm hmmm, nothing more the more good, but all right.
I look up and I think about quest log.
Speaker 1: Yeah it h the interface appears before you.
Speaker 3: I look up and I think about titles. Noon said
you had thousands? Do we have like any new titles?
Speaker 1: You do?
Speaker 4: What a great question?
Speaker 1: Well you don't. But iris familiar, iris and enders do.
Speaker 3: Not even familiar?
Speaker 1: Correct even there for.
Speaker 8: You put yourself in danger, but I didn't want to
say anything.
Speaker 3: Nothing.
Speaker 1: Enders and Iris. You both have a new title available
to you, and it is Malfikarnum Graduate.
Speaker 8: Does this going all identity?
Speaker 1: It's up to you. It's considered an optional title that
you can put into your identity if you'd like.
Speaker 5: Oh, Branks like immediately, Scoop.
Speaker 8: Not really doing much bounty hunting lately.
Speaker 5: Hmmm, Well, we do have to speak with a professor
anyway in order to move forward with our transportation plan,
which I'm not too sure. Did we reach out to
the Empress about it?
Speaker 8: Believe it's a two way street? Isn't it just teleportation? Man?
There has to be a place here that as a
receiver of some sort, I think I.
Speaker 5: Think more so, I'm asking if we reached out and
we know it's teleportation, because we didn't get a confirmation
from the Empress.
Speaker 8: I thought the professor said it was that.
Speaker 1: The professor did. Yes, the professor did. You didn't follow
up with the Empress unless we can assume I don't
know if you had any other communication with rue through
the night.
Speaker 4: Well, I would assume that because one of the.
Speaker 5: Things that I said last episode was that we should
reach out to the Empress because enders has a a school,
so I believe we would have. If that isn't right
with it, I.
Speaker 8: Definitely would have reached out to the Empress for my
own means, along with the mention of the traveling.
Speaker 1: Okay, so yeah, I guess just DM me whatever you
wanted to send the Empress privately.
Speaker 3: Oh are you.
Speaker 1: Yeah? Otherwise we can assume that you had some kind
of at least basicmunication. You know, we'll brief you or
whatever when we get there, or I don't know anything
else that you would have mentioned to the Empress or rue.
Do you think you said anything specific or I.
Speaker 5: Think well, we would have probably asked about whether or
not it was teleportation, where we should be, what time,
just details basically on what it is we are going
to be doing.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, I mean you were all pretty tired after
your mission, and the Professor Drosk would have suggested let
do it in the morning or something, and I believe
we did say that. So yeah, just some basically communication stuff.
And it definitely you could tell it was not the
Empress that you were communicating with. By the way, when
you were doing this, it was like somebody that handles
the minutia.
Speaker 5: Mm hmm, perfect. Well, it does seem as though the
time is near. Do we wish to go a little
early and make sure and we're good to go.
Speaker 8: Waiting for her reply. Once she replies, then we can
make our moves. But for now, we might want to
say your final thoughts to whoever you have made any
kind of connections with you.
Speaker 3: Hmm. I'd like to go talk to the cafeteria.
Speaker 8: Lady, the one with.
Speaker 3: The wings, yes, you know, you know, the one that's
kind of bent like forty five degrees.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Stephani a feature.
Speaker 3: Want did to say thank you? But it's okay, I mean,
otherwise I don't even want to talk to anybody here,
especially since I didn't even get anything out of this
place for exposure, experience and money.
Speaker 5: I gave you my money, Well, yes, but it is
it is also your money.
Speaker 8: You've got You've goten items as well.
Speaker 3: Hmmm, yes, sure, but I don't have a fancy title.
You know, I kind of assume that, you know, if
I've got a title, then people go, oh, look, it's
both you know how people are going, oh, save your
moon as if they you know, it's like they can
see it over her head. What of that that feeling?
Speaker 1: That's feeling.
Speaker 3: That title feeling?
Speaker 5: Well, technically you are our protector now stop at all.
Speaker 4: I mean I don't know.
Speaker 5: Maybe we can make titles.
Speaker 8: Who knows will Iris killer here? You know that's perfect?
Speaker 3: Listen, all right, okay, it only happened one time, and
she's not dead.
Speaker 8: She's right here, which makes the title even more special.
Speaker 3: I think it makes me It sounds like I can't
finish the job.
Speaker 4: You know, would you have wished to finish the job?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 3: Well, I can't be ourrist killer if you're alive, makes
you look, you know, incompetent.
Speaker 8: That's true.
Speaker 4: Oh, maybe we workshop.
Speaker 3: It workshop killing you.
Speaker 4: No, no different titles.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, all right, I mean we should probably say
goodbye to I suppose I mean lastly, we're going to
see the professor, and we are going to maybe meet
the arch majors. I don't know, but we should probably
say goodbye to to to to the first of all,
the doctor who helped enders and and us when the
whole fight happened. Perhaps even the cadet and Osca, as
well as.
Speaker 3: Dick Man, the card Oh look, I think.
Speaker 5: There was the commander the arch magic everybody.
Speaker 8: Okay, Well, it looks like I did receive a message
before and I did not look Sorry, all right, I
guess I'll relate this as we're walking the Impress. Impress, yes,
m M yep. Oh, there's a teleportication circle available in
the Malfacorum.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, well, communicate.
Speaker 8: With the arch majors to schedule your arrival in the morning.
Puff puff firefire puff puff.
Speaker 3: What did they really just assume that's.
Speaker 8: How they would sign off?
Speaker 4: There was improv.
Speaker 1: It says funny. He probably says something along the lines
of like, behold the power of the Dragon Empress. Probably
the way that a sign that's her Gmail signature.
Speaker 8: Well, the low red.
Speaker 1: It's like one missing image.
Speaker 8: Yeah, exactly. The gift is almost I was still and
it doesn't move. All right, let me or this is
very tedious work. This reply of mine, okay.
Speaker 4: Said all right, did you do O and K or
did you write?
Speaker 7: Okay?
Speaker 8: Okay, completely because I am completely different now, yes, M.
Speaker 3: He dots his creed, his creese, his t's.
Speaker 8: No, actually capitalize everything in front of a sentencey, and
he's punctuation.
Speaker 3: Now do you write and cursive? Are you left? Or
right handed.
Speaker 8: I don't both ambidexterous.
Speaker 3: You used both hands at the same time to write Yes.
Speaker 8: Two separate pins and two different colors.
Speaker 3: Gasp.
Speaker 5: Well that is impressive.
Speaker 1: Does it look like those pens that we had in
school when we were kids that the different in.
Speaker 8: Quills with two different ink bottles? I dip them at
the same time.
Speaker 3: Hmmm, that's I guess impressive, fast efficient, right, mm hmm,
I wish I could write.
Speaker 8: Okay, well, are you ready to go see the professor
so we can know where this circle is?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 5: I suppose so.
Speaker 8: I said that we're gonna let the arts majors. Now
I was supposed to meet with him. I would love
to see.
Speaker 1: None of you have met the arch Yeah, majors by
the way.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I want to meet them.
Speaker 5: Roight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's true. We've bet the professor, but not the
actual like you know, the.
Speaker 5: They were supposed to be out of our graduation, but
they had something going on. I believe.
Speaker 8: Let's start by the officer.
Speaker 6: Oops, right, okay.
Speaker 1: So head up to Professor Drosk's office, to the major's office. Oh,
you're going to the do you know where that is?
Speaker 3: Nope, we'll ask around okay.
Speaker 1: Uh, who is going to be doing the asking? Is
the whole group?
Speaker 8: No Iris opposed her for it in front of every.
Speaker 4: End we go through, perhaps the professor.
Speaker 8: First, who is the professor to us? We have graduated
pastor nah, you're her mentor now tour you watch mages
that's both of our mentor.
Speaker 3: We have an even metham of the aark mageous.
Speaker 8: Though you know how it is just kind of like
once you're too good for a school. By the way,
we graduate a lot faster than all of you. Jane,
tell us what watch me? This is why I don't
do the talking. That's why I pushed you.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, I walk up to the nearest the important
looking student.
Speaker 1: Make a will and insight. This is gonna be difficulty.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say fourteen.
Speaker 4: And this is just me right.
Speaker 1: If anybody else would like to contribute, you can do
a group check.
Speaker 5: Hi can try, okay, insight will power fourteen?
Speaker 3: Mm, yes, well I can help.
Speaker 1: Uh. Oh yeah, I don't know why this scrolling gets
like broken for these roles. It's so weird. I have
to manually scroll.
Speaker 8: Sometimes people's skills are.
Speaker 11: So uh.
Speaker 1: You start going up to various students asking about the
arch Vegas, and I think the consensus that you come
across is that, like the students, uh, it's a bit
like rumors. Almost. Yeah, I think yacht arch Vegas wash
down that corridor, up three flights of stairs and all
the way down at the end of the hallway, and
then you go that way dead end. Nothing there. Talk
to more students. There's another student that says, I've never
been to the arch May's office. I've seen them once.
Speaker 4: What do they look like?
Speaker 1: Whoa, I didn't really get a good look. Kind of small?
Speaker 3: Are they human? I didn't think so are they?
Speaker 5: Are they small like me?
Speaker 4: Smaller?
Speaker 5: Are they small like like?
Speaker 1: Come?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Well yes, is there.
Speaker 1: A slime by.
Speaker 3: Book?
Speaker 1: I'm sorry say that one more time.
Speaker 3: Are you going to eat the exercise book?
Speaker 1: No? I was going to read it. I didn't know
your familiar could talk.
Speaker 3: Yeah, high level magics. Look, I can't even do this.
And I turned into a cube.
Speaker 1: It's like, wow, impressive. They weren't joking. They said you
were like gregous mage in the school.
Speaker 3: Uh. Oh this both you you. Oh oh, you guys
are gonna have to deal with the title now.
Speaker 4: Just you can have it.
Speaker 3: No, no, I'm just so a title given.
Speaker 4: Anyway. Thank you so much for your help.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm, be sure I can walk away?
Speaker 5: Are you gonna find the arts magazine?
Speaker 8: Oh? I can. Why don't we draw the art mages here?
We create a fire here?
Speaker 3: No, no, something, never change.
Speaker 8: What do you mean.
Speaker 3: Arsonist, you cheeky fire starter?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 8: They we'll do a glacials. Then I can probably change
the currents in the air and create this giant ice
block that falls right in the middle here. Maybe you
can encapsulate some students. That will cause for some kind
of rockets come out, and then they won't be too
deadly after a while. I think the freezing period is Nah.
Speaker 3: I think you are better off with a fire. You've
done it before. No, no, don't trouble starter, sir, your
punkin instigator. Oh I'm going to honish two votes to
one fire.
Speaker 4: Oh I'm gonna puke.
Speaker 12: No, no fire. You heard them. I'm the greatest made
in this school and you cannot ruin that reputation.
Speaker 8: Oh, it'll be all you instead of me. I'll be back.
Excuse me, excuse me, Yeah it was you. If I
was to creative fire, you know, for showman purposes. That's
the safest place to do. So training room perfect, thank you.
I go outside the training room and start a fire.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'll be heading to the professors. Well that's happening.
Speaker 8: Flair flare, flare fla see.
Speaker 1: Yeah, nobody's in the training room right now. You just
start a fire there. I think you would see probably
the lighting in the hallway starts to like blink and
change color. And you might have encountered this in the
in the several weeks that you've been here, because there's
all kinds of magical mishaps and things that occur in
the school with people that are just kind of, you know,
doing shit they're not supposed to be doing. We're trying
to do magic that they probably are not ready for
or what have you. And yeah, the lights just kind
of like change color and they almost have like a
siren sort of look to them. So they're flashing kind
of brightly like after you after you cast the spell.
And yeah, it happens a bit like dominoes. You see
the lights that are closest to the fire activate and
then they start to continue outwards.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's not a huge fire. I'm not trying to
burn down like oh, yeah, the melem.
Speaker 7: I'm just trying to feel like a fire alarm.
Speaker 11: Ye.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like yeah uh And then students are like
yelling the.
Speaker 13: Wire, the whole white, fly, the whole.
Speaker 8: White you should go grab the arch mates. I don't
think you can be put out with just growing out
in an alarming rate. And it's like really small and
it's is getting a little bit big.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's probably, like I imagine there's the equivalent of like, uh,
probably some uh grad students or like you know, the
sort of prefect like students in the school that have
to handle this kind of stuff call yeah basically yeah,
and they'll show up after like thirty seconds or so.
What's going on in here?
Speaker 8: Fire? Scary fire just started out of nowhere? Well what
do we do? The arch made just to come and
put it out. I heard it was like a high
level spell.
Speaker 1: Oh no, they cast like a water spell. Put the
fire out. Hey, I'll it's out now. Hey wait a minute,
you're one of.
Speaker 8: The I'm out here looking for I'm working.
Speaker 1: On the you're one of the heroes. You graduate, you
you flew through the curriculum.
Speaker 3: God damn it type the recognition FI.
Speaker 8: Yes, sure, you're you're special. You you work to maintain.
I don't know fires the art of majors. Where are
they located?
Speaker 1: You don't know.
Speaker 8: We didn't have the chance. We kind of flew through everything.
They were supposed to come to our graduation, but it
was private. No one wasn't supposed to tell you that
they didn't make it.
Speaker 1: Oops. That was really hard to get the arch majus
to do anything.
Speaker 8: Really, So we're going to go see them and surprise them.
Speaker 1: You're going to surprise the arch majors.
Speaker 8: Yeah, there has to be some spell they've never seen before.
Good luck, thank you.
Speaker 3: To do that, we have to know where they are.
Speaker 8: So where are they? Well, they're in the tower, the
large tower.
Speaker 3: That's essential tower.
Speaker 1: If you climb the stairs all the way to the
sub right.
Speaker 8: I don't know why we didn't look there the first place,
because it's literally Ethan toldst thing here, thank you for
your help, and I roll my eyes and run back
towards the others. All right, started a fire, got information, right,
h watch majors, Well look up. Yeah, that the whole
tower that we kept circling the whole time with the
pass I don't know.
Speaker 1: You've probably had to take some classes that you climb
those stairs a few times. But the tower seems I mean,
it just seems to like keep going and going and going. Right.
It's one of those staircases.
Speaker 8: Yeah, good news is know where they are. They're up
there beyond the I can see how news is. We
have to climb, So let's get going.
Speaker 5: Come on, Okay, you're not a fan of procedure, are you.
Speaker 8: Prostegure? What do you mean? I got the information? No
one got hurt everyone.
Speaker 4: You're a very busy person.
Speaker 5: We could ask a professor to get us in with him.
Speaker 3: What's the worst that can do? A reverco title?
Speaker 8: I don't think that's possible. Fine, we could do it
your way. We can go ask the professor.
Speaker 5: Actually, I would like to try something GM. Okay, the
thing I've been working on with the professor.
Speaker 4: Am I able to get in touch with her utilizing navigator?
Speaker 14: Ooh okay, mmmm, so this is a ritual you can
absolutely try.
Speaker 5: Indeed, yes, this is utilizing ritualism.
Speaker 4: I believe.
Speaker 1: Okay, this is gonna be.
Speaker 3: Do do.
Speaker 1: This will be a medium potency individual. Okay, so thirty
nine points difficulty ten.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, okay, and that's.
Speaker 1: I think willpower and insight and willpower.
Speaker 5: You said it was difficulty. Ten huh nineteen success.
Speaker 1: Okay, how do you think this goes?
Speaker 5: So instead of us running around the school like chickens
trying to find her, I'm just going to go ahead
and I will pull out my staff and I'll prick
my finger on the one of the thorns that's on
it in order to kind of draw some blood. And
you'll notice that it turns into a little globule of
light that goes up into the crystal, and then it'll
blare like a little bit of a light color as
my message goes out to the professor.
Speaker 4: Professor, can you hear me? It's iris?
Speaker 1: You can respond, Yes, I can hear.
Speaker 4: It is working excellent. So where are you right now?
Speaker 1: Firstly in my office waiting on you?
Speaker 5: Oh right?
Speaker 4: Are we going to be meeting the are almost at eating?
Are we going to be meeting the art Vegas?
Speaker 1: The arch magas is the one the only one that
can activate the teleportation circle.
Speaker 5: Yes, excellent, so we will be meeting them, most wonderful.
Speaker 4: Are you hungry?
Speaker 5: Do you want anything? Before we go up there? It's
a lot of stairs.
Speaker 1: I've already thinking to him, just hurry up.
Speaker 4: Okay, excellent, it's working, Professor.
Speaker 1: There's no response.
Speaker 12: So firstly, m hmm, I just did something really awesome
and it worked finally, So I am now able to
telepathically communicate with my allies as long as they're around
a day away, and I'm.
Speaker 5: Also able to use it to locate people.
Speaker 4: I think we're still working on that.
Speaker 3: Question. A day away. How fast are we talking and
moving wise like walking carriage.
Speaker 4: Like standard travel, like on foot.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, so she's in the office and we're good
to go, and we are going to meet the arch vegus.
Speaker 4: We don't need to surprise them. So this is great,
This is wonderful.
Speaker 1: Why do I visualize bo has some kind of internal
database that is just like putting distance traveled per day
and associating it with the spell specifically.
Speaker 3: Because he is, because that's why he would have done
a main character as the strategist and guy person who
does those things.
Speaker 1: Always opened up a Google doc a Google sheet and
put this information inside.
Speaker 5: The bright side is that it can allow for all
sorts of things if we're able to find tunity. Okay,
the professor theorized that we could even use it to
travel between distances, but also to track specific individuals and whatnot.
If there's anyone we want to find, which is quite wonderful.
So it'll help us find anyone or anything, hopefully.
Speaker 4: As long as it goes well.
Speaker 3: Okay, see, can you do that? Enders?
Speaker 8: I can do other things, yes, like what and if
I show you to be the destruction of this whole area?
Speaker 3: So you have any utility spells like artists does?
Speaker 8: Oh utility? Yes? I can rip the man out of
her and impossibly well the spell every spells she cast.
You can also.
Speaker 3: Dry hands after washing your hands or something, or when
I know, like and waiting people up the winds in
the morning. I don't know. I'm just thinking, you know,
because like somebody call her the best mage. But you're
right there.
Speaker 8: It doesn't bother me. Most of my spells are offensive.
Speaker 3: Can I roll inside to see if it bothers him
or not?
Speaker 8: I have no emotions. It really doesn't bother That's.
Speaker 3: What insight does.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think just having bow try any sort of
insight is always fun.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm, because bo hasletely clueless. M Okay, inside, I
guess open check insight.
Speaker 8: Okay, I just stare blankly at bow.
Speaker 1: Serious blankly bag.
Speaker 5: Well instead of having a pissing contest when we are
two very different people who are both very very skilled
at things, and.
Speaker 3: I can't piss huh my eyes kind of flats for
the apart. Sadly, do I look like I can pass?
Speaker 8: I'll poke him with the dagger and have him leak out.
Speaker 3: How much damage that did?
Speaker 4: You just stab him?
Speaker 1: He stabbed me?
Speaker 3: How much have I just leaked them?
Speaker 1: How much HP have just have a sound effect.
Speaker 3: I've been perfect. I was just helping.
Speaker 8: Me collect that. Just roll over it. It's quite disgusting
in thinking I take.
Speaker 5: I take the pointy hat that I've gotten and I
just use it to.
Speaker 6: Collect with snow.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, the thing.
Speaker 3: I calm down and I grab a suitor, I use
a suit a part and that kind of launches out
and goes around and fills the hole.
Speaker 1: What do you what?
Speaker 3: What was out for? Also? How much HP have I last? GM?
Speaker 8: Collected it? Again? You've gotten your black?
Speaker 13: Yes?
Speaker 4: Drink it?
Speaker 3: Well, it doesn't happen in combat one ow, it's gonna
mark that off. Well, now you know, when you least
expect I'm eating something you use h.
Speaker 5: Why don't we go see the professor?
Speaker 4: Cut to us going to the professor.
Speaker 8: Okay, where are we meeting the professor at the circle?
Speaker 5: Their their office first, So, uh, you head to Professor
Drask's office.
Speaker 1: Uh, she's just kind of sitting at her desk. As
you enter, she seems to finish writing something. Ah, finally.
Speaker 8: There was a fire. I put it out, mm.
Speaker 1: Hmm, wonderful. Let us comments, I have work to do today,
all right, follow me. Professor proceeds to leave the office,
and uh, she is in the same central tower where
students have kind of directed you. So she begins to
ascend the stairs, and she doesn't seem to be struggling
with them. She seems fine, Like she's not she's not
creaky or her knees aren't snapping on every stair.
Speaker 3: She's got oil in them joints. Yep, is it grease?
Speaker 1: She begins to lead the way and you start climbing
up these stairs. It's so it's taking a while. This
is like the stairs in the genra h Q.
Speaker 3: Oh goodness, Mario sixty four.
Speaker 1: Let's uh, let's have everybody do a a mighte and mite.
Let's do a group might check.
Speaker 3: I would have tried to latch onto somebody. Oh, when is.
Speaker 4: Fate going to give me an arcana that can just
carry me everywhere?
Speaker 3: Group check?
Speaker 1: I guess yeah, group check?
Speaker 3: Should I started? I've got the might, but I would.
Speaker 4: Have carried me.
Speaker 8: I have ten mites, but if you have more, go
for it.
Speaker 3: I also have ten, so you can start if you want. Yeh,
I'll take one of you.
Speaker 8: Take when kid? What's the difficulty?
Speaker 1: Difficulty will be twelve for the group check? The group
check is support is ten?
Speaker 8: Yes, my group check is twelve? Support us ten?
Speaker 4: Correct a mundo?
Speaker 8: All right? Good? Look mmm, I cud on the dumbest.
Speaker 1: What would you do? What would you like?
Speaker 8: I'm already up the stairs, I'm up there, I'm sitting
outside the office, and what was walking with you all
was a shadow of me.
Speaker 1: Yeah. What's hilarious is as you're walking there starts to
be like less and less classrooms. You will start to
see signs that are hung up on the walls as
you're as you're going up, Uh, classes are all located
in the lower floors. Thank you for ascending this far.
You probably don't need to be here. You should turn around.
Speaker 8: To that.
Speaker 1: Are you sure? That you want to continue.
Speaker 3: Hell, I think this is a point in a return, iris.
Speaker 5: I slump.
Speaker 1: Is this really worth the effort?
Speaker 6: I think so?
Speaker 3: Come on, iris, I say, latched onto her back.
Speaker 1: There's another sign that says, you know, there's probably an
easier way to do this.
Speaker 4: I failed the freshman mile.
Speaker 3: I wonder if there's a lift or something so magic
school after all?
Speaker 8: Oh, when you finally make it to the top, I'll
be like, I just take an aside. Did it just
automatically pulls you up?
Speaker 1: As you.
Speaker 8: Anti gravity?
Speaker 1: Professor? The professor smiling, which is the first time you've
seen the professor smile. Enders as she makes it to
the top of the stairs, and you see the professor,
probably just from your perspective, as the professor's ascending the stairs,
you see the professors wearing some kind of special boots
or something walking up these stairs.
Speaker 5: She just wanted to sit.
Speaker 1: On the door ahead of you. You can see there's
like a million signs on this door. It says enter
at your own risk. The arch may just is incredibly busy.
Don't you understand who this person is? Just littered with
signs all over.
Speaker 3: It in font all different but seriously or like you
know comic sense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're just they're in every there there looks like
they're in several different type faces. Okayod job, just an
obscene amount of signs deterring you from entering.
Speaker 3: Well the IRUs, I are a tiger.
Speaker 1: Let's go.
Speaker 8: So you actually climbed the stairs. There was an anti
gravity spell off to the right.
Speaker 4: I look at the professor with tears welling in my eyes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, enters. The professor looks at you before turning, and
there's a smile on her face that quickly like gets serious.
She turns back.
Speaker 4: What's the matter, nothing, professor.
Speaker 8: The best made in the school is.
Speaker 3: The best cobs.
Speaker 5: Yes, sure, I will push forward and persevere as you
have shot.
Speaker 1: Very well. Professor Drosk approaches the door begins to knock.
Arch may guess, may we end up arch Vegas?
Speaker 3: Can I use thunderingk rule?
Speaker 1: You can always try arch Vegas, spend the mind points
for it.
Speaker 8: I definitely move off to side slowly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks a little bit like the Jeremy Clarkson
gift as boss and uh yeah. The sound reverberates and
you see the stones like shake. There's little hebbles and
stuff that fall all around from the from the stairwell.
The Professor has her ears covered and she's glaring at bow.
Speaker 3: Did I help?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 3: What did you say?
Speaker 4: With a little bit of blood trilling from my eardrums?
Speaker 5: Bo?
Speaker 8: Do you know your maybe? Pop man Drake, It says
her plants out a notorious for screaming when uprooted. See
the streams Drivey listener insane, I've never.
Speaker 3: Been uprooted before.
Speaker 1: There's the sounds of some like scrabbling inside the room.
Sounds like some thing's getting knocked over. Arch vegus, we
are here for our appointment. Hello, don't pretend you're not there.
Speaker 13: Not again.
Speaker 8: I'm opening the door.
Speaker 3: Should I try again?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 1: Professor Drosk reaches for the door and uh, it sounds
a little bit like a car lock being activated. She's
furiously like trying to open the door.
Speaker 15: And she says, watch Vegas, let us in. You're not
going to cast us away. The Dragon Empress have schedule this.
Speaker 1: Do you want you up to set her?
Speaker 8: She has up being the Empress's sister lord.
Speaker 1: And you can hear something beyond the door. It sounds
like something else falls over and she's says, all right, fine,
if that's the way you're going to do it. I
will send a message to the Dragon Empress right now.
Speaker 8: Oh here you go.
Speaker 1: You hear like twelve to fifteen locks disengage behind this door.
Every lock you can imagine like a sliding dead bolt.
There's like some kind of latch. It sounds like some
kind of like massive one of those pull up locks
at the bottom of a door. That shit's getting u locked.
It's just like, yeah, it sounds like a like a'm
like some kind of spinning lock is disengaged, and the
door swings open. Ahead you see a magically lit room
that is looks like a hoarder's paradise, stacks of scrolls,
books that are opened. There's a stench from this room.
It smells a little bit like a few days old food.
Speaker 3: The ox made set of gamay.
Speaker 1: And there's like a massive chair behind this desk. The
desk looks smaller. It's definitely not like the same size
as the professor's desk. The chair, like the backing of
the chair is like really tall. It's probably it looks
like it could fit a giant. And it's turned away
from you.
Speaker 8: I'm immediately engrossed. And the scrolls and books. There's piles
of them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so it's absolutely disorganized chaos in here.
Speaker 8: Oh, they won't know if anything goes missing. Maybe I
just slowly trying to take my hand and grab a scroll.
Speaker 1: Yeah, go ahead and make a des des difficulty fourteen.
Speaker 8: God his eyes in the back of head. Uh okay,
this is a roll check, all right, x dex.
Speaker 3: You said fourteen.
Speaker 8: Yep, my goodness, gracious please.
Speaker 3: It's a scroll of fief killing.
Speaker 1: So when you go to take the scroll, there is
a purple hand that manifests a purple hand manifest and
will literally slap you on the wrist as you try
to take it.
Speaker 8: What I was just stretching.
Speaker 1: The chair spins around and you see a luminara at
the at the desk with the longest beard you've ever
seen a bald luminara. This luminara is it's sort of
a combination of a we decided a They look like
half Hobbit and half uh La La fell from like
Final Fantasy fourteen.
Speaker 6: Are the grippers out or do they have shoes on?
Speaker 1: What they're They're behind their desks so you can't see.
I don't know why. That was her first question.
Speaker 8: The same thing as a.
Speaker 3: God.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I'm sorry. The Luminara don't look like this.
I apologize this. That was the Marin I was thinking of.
The luminary are. Yeah, they're they're actually they're also small folk,
but they have like pointed ears, but they're smaller and
like kind of wider. They look a little bit like
I imagine they just kind of look like they look
like humans. I guess they're not as round as the
the marin are, so they're they're probably this one in
particular's like gaunt, so you can see their cheekbones kind
of like pressing hard against their cheeks and yeah, like
super long white beard that is you don't you don't
actually see the end of the beard behind the desk.
Ah Professor Drosk A pleasure to see you, hello, Arch Vegas. Yes,
I'm so glad you could make it here for the appointment.
It didn't exactly make it easy. Well, we don't want
students coming up here whenever they want. They need to
make it a little bit more challenging for them. We
have this conversation every time we speak, Arch Vegas, and
my answer still hasn't changed. Regardless, I see the graduates
are here along with the slime.
Speaker 4: Hi, so hell, it is lovely to meet you, arch Vegas.
Speaker 1: Yes, Yes, pleasantries and all that. M hm, now let's
get this started. Question Professor, like I imagine Professor Drask
is standing in front of all of you, so you
don't see her face. Her eyes roll.
Speaker 4: That thing where their head goes back like.
Speaker 6: Oh, ever, so.
Speaker 3: Slightly hurried up. I didn't get a title.
Speaker 6: Why would you?
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 3: I'm the familiar.
Speaker 5: He did assist us with the curriculum the entire time,
and he was instrumental in us surviving in the.
Speaker 4: In the caves.
Speaker 1: Technically, yach Vegas takes this very like wide brimmed pointy
hat that is sitting on a hat rack nearby, places
it on his head. It has like a ninety degree
angle to the point it kind of flops over. He's
constantly seemingly trying to straighten it out. I don't know
what you mean by a title. The two of you graduated,
but regardless you're from Milligar is just sort of there
is this.
Speaker 8: It's quite all right. You'll have plenty of times too,
you know. Do you get other titles?
Speaker 3: I suppose I am a sort of there on time. Okay,
well we do.
Speaker 5: We are here on official business as for the request
of the Dragon Empress.
Speaker 1: Yes, I understand she wants to teleport you using our
teleportation circle.
Speaker 3: It requires some nine points.
Speaker 1: It's going to commit at hedic.
Speaker 3: Hm, come on this way.
Speaker 1: And uh the arch magus hops off of his chair
and you can see he's about three and a half
feet tall. Wow, the beard is dragging on the floor
a good one foot past where he stands.
Speaker 3: Is it filthy? Uh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there's definitely like for a few things stuck
in the beard here and there. There's yeah, there's like
a fork, there's like a pencil, you know, there's some
papers and stuff that are crammed in there.
Speaker 4: So what sort of magic is your specialty?
Speaker 3: Specialty? I don't have any specialties. I'm just special.
Speaker 8: Yes, indeed, I agree.
Speaker 3: Talk about a special us.
Speaker 1: I requested several students to assist you with the cataloging
of the scrolls that are here. I see that they
did not do their tasks. No, no, I told them
to go away. I understand exactly where everything is. Why
do I want them to move it? Because it is
unbecoming of an arch magus, because if students or i've
you must speak with them. I'm not speaking to any students.
When the heck do you was the last time do
you think that I actually spoke to any students?
Speaker 2: Just now.
Speaker 3: Some mentality, semantics, whatever, what have you?
Speaker 1: Anyway, follow me. My professor walks over to a side
of the room, and you can see that there's like
some candle OBErs that are there, and you just kind
of like casually waves his hand and the candlelabras light up,
and he says, now, was it was it? He begins
to look around, dragging his beard across the floor. You
see papers getting dragged with the beard every now and again,
and he just shoves over a pile of scrolls and parchment,
and and you can see beyond the scrolls and parchment
there appears to be like a portrait hanging on one
of the walls. He looks at the portrait and and
he says several words in a language that none of
you recognize, and he begins to cast one of the
most efficient and clean spells that you've ever seen. If
you would like to attempt to understand what he is doing,
I will take an insight. Insight and the difficulty will
be fourteen.
Speaker 4: Yes, should should this be a group check or a.
Speaker 16: Regular check to you?
Speaker 1: If multiple people are doing it, we can do a
group check.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, insight, Insight, you said fourteen, okay, oh has
to create.
Speaker 4: Checks are ten?
Speaker 5: Actually, so you just have to get ten?
Speaker 8: Yep. I'm not paying attention. I'm paying attention to all
the scrolls.
Speaker 1: Fifteen success. Holy shit, Iris, this was so fucking clean
and fast. The the arch mag is just a cast
like three spells at once, and it was super fast.
Even you you've never even seen Professor Drosk cast magic
like this. It's equivalent to how it must look for
other people to watch you guys cast spelts. It looks effortless,
but you can tell it's extremely practiced. And the archmagis
just cast a very complicated transportation kind of magic combined
with an illusion magic combined with what appears to be
some kind of spell activation. It was like a ritual
that he just casts super fast. Are they a here?
Speaker 3: I say, under my slime because I can't whisper because
I don't have breath.
Speaker 4: I'm just watching eyes widened.
Speaker 9: I mean.
Speaker 5: It just they moved like one.
Speaker 1: Almost as he does this, the portrait just kind of
dissolves and you can see like a what appears to
be away where the portrait was.
Speaker 4: Don't you know what titles were?
Speaker 1: Arch Magas begins to walk down the hallway. Professor Dross
says he always likes to show off.
Speaker 5: I was so impressive, Professor, it's.
Speaker 1: Not the arch magas. For no reason.
Speaker 8: I think that he will be missing anything. If I
took anything, I mean borrowed anything. Quarterback later quarterback in
the same sport. And sorry, how.
Speaker 3: Many arc majors had that been at four?
Speaker 1: Well, to my knowledge, they've existed for well over two
thousand years. Depending on the arch magas, it was varying.
Speaker 5: How long has this one been in their position?
Speaker 1: One hundred and seven years?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 4: A century?
Speaker 1: Yes, seven years?
Speaker 8: Very nice? But do we followed them?
Speaker 4: Come on, I'll shake my surprise away and follow.
Speaker 1: Okay. The arch vegus is just kind of like moving
along and just now you realize they appear to be
floating as they are moving down this hallway.
Speaker 4: I must learn that magic.
Speaker 3: Your cavs. I irish you spent so much effort going
up those stairs. You'll lose it.
Speaker 5: Oh, I must learn that magic immediately.
Speaker 8: What's magic?
Speaker 4: Are you point to his feet?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 8: I would have seem it's just like the same magic
that brought me up here. So not Oh you didn't
get to experience that.
Speaker 1: Sorry, I will learn it. At the end of this
corridor there appears to be a vaulted ceiling room. It's
about the same size as the arch Vegas's office, maybe
twenty feet in diameter, something about like that and sort
of you know, like a like a vaulted ceiling so
hm as a sort of like v shape, a conical shape. Almost.
Speaker 8: H wait a minute, did we walk down a hole?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: And the tower is rounded. It's the cylinder, I'd been
mumbling to myself.
Speaker 1: Just to be fair. When you see the tower from
the outside from Infernia, it just looks like a single tower.
But you've been inside this place. It doesn't make the
time and space the space like is distorted or something
inside this place, right.
Speaker 4: And Infernia itself is hidden as well.
Speaker 8: Is it not.
Speaker 5: Incredible?
Speaker 8: So? Uh?
Speaker 1: You come to this vaulted room and you can see
a chamber that's kind of similar to the training chamber,
except it's not like a raised platform. There's simply uh,
several pillars. We'll say there's probably a seven pillars around
what appears to be a circle.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: The arch Magas begins to walk over towards uh each pillar,
and again you can see like quick flicks of his
little hands, which when he casts spells, it's just kind
of like these massive sleeves, you know, expose his hands,
like every time he casts, the sleeves just kind of
like whip around and they're huge. They look like a
little kid wearing like a massive you know, maj robe.
But like he's practiced, and when he does his hand movements,
his hands come out of the sleeves to cast the spells.
But again there's some like spell work, and you can
see runes begin to activate along each pillar.
Speaker 8: M Uh.
Speaker 1: The arch Magas walks over to each pillar and says,
very impressive work, you know, being able to complete the
entire curriculum curriculum, the entire course load for several years
in a few weeks. The last time that anyone did
that was well, another hero.
Speaker 5: There was another hero who attended the.
Speaker 4: School.
Speaker 1: Oh not for a very long time.
Speaker 5: Was it in your time as arch magus?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I think it was about eighty six eighty
seven years ago.
Speaker 5: Do you know their name?
Speaker 1: I don't even know your names?
Speaker 4: Hi, I risk it nice to meet you.
Speaker 1: Been unfair, don't you think?
Speaker 8: Unfair?
Speaker 1: Yes? Heroes?
Speaker 8: Well, hullo, consider myself a hero. I haven't done anything
heroic yet, but I will.
Speaker 1: I just mean the whole thing with your heroes.
Speaker 3: What do you mean?
Speaker 8: I agree?
Speaker 1: Unfair for everyone involved? In more way, Well, you are
whisked away from your world, brought here under unknown circumstances.
Unfair for everyone that is here on this world in Regalia,
watching your incredible progress and your skills and abilities that
you don't earn.
Speaker 3: You could kind of say the same thing about yourself, right,
because you've been here for one hundred and seven years
and most humans die after seven. So I mean, like
you know, you have a bit of an unfa advantage too, right, Yes?
Speaker 5: Yes, indeed, perhaps heroes are necessary. They are something to
look up to and to try to constantly try to
achieve a higher level. I mean, I don't think I'm
any better than any of.
Speaker 8: You, but.
Speaker 1: Your understanding of levels are strange, right, at least to
us people of Racalia.
Speaker 3: What level of you?
Speaker 1: Well, in your terms, I suppose I would be level fifty.
Speaker 4: Max level mm hmmm.
Speaker 1: Of course I'm the archivegus of the most prestigious school
in all of Regalia.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's nice because I was wondering, because like this
is a teleportation rother're going to be going from like
here to somewhere else. I was wondering, how often does
that fail?
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm an interesting question. I suppose if one was
extremely unskilled, well unfamiliar with the basics of time and space,
it would.
Speaker 8: Be failure of success failure m hm, Borias.
Speaker 4: Do you know what happened to that hero that you mentioned?
Speaker 1: M digs into his beard, looks for something, removes what
appears to be some kind of snack, starts eating it.
Speaker 3: I sees an arch magus, not an arch historian.
Speaker 4: Are they go hand in hand?
Speaker 5: Do they not?
Speaker 1: Girls in general do not have pleasant.
Speaker 10: Endings, Sorry to say, to something bad.
Speaker 1: I don't remember the specifics, but I remember that there
was well, it was some sort of catastrophe that was happening.
I believe it was something along the lines of one
of the Kaiju escaping from it. Tessa, the hero, of course,
fought against it, bravely pushed it back, while other adventurers
from asagor assisted and then.
Speaker 3: Well they met their end.
Speaker 1: They saved countless people here though.
Speaker 3: Mm thank your self. Do not accept to fight any college.
They will kill you.
Speaker 2: Thank you?
Speaker 5: M were the Do you remember it all around? When
the rift appeared in the sky? Was it before or
after their time?
Speaker 1: Oh? The stone bil rift has been around very very
long time, significantly longer than I have been alive. Why
do you ask?
Speaker 4: It's just an anomaly?
Speaker 1: You know your world does not have such things.
Speaker 5: No, I mean we have natural disasters and a variety
of bad things, but.
Speaker 1: You can still remember things from your world.
Speaker 8: I have no idea where they're even talking about. Honestly,
I just go along with whatever they say.
Speaker 3: His brain broke.
Speaker 1: Not uncommon. It is far less common, in fact, to
meet a hero that can remember anything of their world.
Speaker 10: Really.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, I look towards bow and kind of tilt
my head.
Speaker 3: WHA, Well, I have something in my membrane.
Speaker 5: I wonder. At any rate, we appreciate your assistance with this.
Is there anything we can do to help help?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 1: No, no, that is not required about a piece of advice.
Speaker 5: From an art me gus, Absolutely, I don't like.
Speaker 1: To warrant my opinions on anyone or put them on anyone.
So I would always ask beforehand. You are heroes anyone
from Regalia and can tell with some degree of intelligence.
But I recommend that you seek out knowledge much as
you have in coming here.
Speaker 8: M I tend to do so. I seem to have
a lot of knowledge laying around about here that you're
probably not using. Do you want to part with any
of it?
Speaker 4: Yes, anything to assist us, if you know.
Speaker 5: Anything in terms of history, books, any any sort of
arcane anything.
Speaker 1: I am far too busy to spend my time detailing
every bit of minute history to you. However, my people,
do you know much about the Luminara?
Speaker 3: Would I have known anything about them? In like the
context of the game.
Speaker 1: So let's see here inside our world of Regalia. No
Sicia is the home of Luminara, and uh it's up
to each of you. If you'd like to make some
kind of role, we can do that, but it is
not expansion content.
Speaker 8: Mm hmm.
Speaker 5: Then I would I feel like we would well, I
was a huge lowerhead absolutely mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Okay. No Sicia is the home of the Luminara, and
it is also considered like the home of the stages.
It is a place where information is well, it's it's
kept and recorded. And this probably would have been like
end vanilla game content for you to travel to. But no,
Sisia is basically a small area. It's like a really
small country that is effectively like one town and a
few beaches and stuff. But the town itself is in
a valley that is effectively a large tree, the tree
of knowledge. And here the tree is sort of home
to the Luminara in these great stages that are protectors
of knowledge, and they house much of the history of Rigalia.
Speaker 5: Well, I believe you're historians, right, or at least generally speaking, right.
Speaker 1: Yes, some people consider us secret keepers.
Speaker 8: There's a lot to be learned from the stages.
Speaker 5: Are you advising we meet with them?
Speaker 1: Far be it from me to give you any sort
of direction. You are the heroes, but I am merely
suggesting that knowing more about Regalia, knowing more about yourselves
and other heroes is valuable information.
Speaker 8: Yes, I agree. Impossibly we'll keep us from meeting the
end of these other heroes. Yes, I do not place
myself above any of you personally. The hero thing is
just whatever everyone keeps calling us. I'm from Brahm. I mean,
and maybe not normal, but I am a person that's
just trying to learn. I have learned a lot from
uh carrying the mentor, I look back at the professor.
Speaker 1: Yes, Professor Drewski is one of the best.
Speaker 8: Watch Vegas material.
Speaker 1: I would say, well, perhaps maybe we'll see y.
Speaker 8: It's about our time to get going too.
Speaker 5: I'm smiling brightly having heard you compliment the professor for once.
Speaker 8: Yeah, are you glitching? No?
Speaker 5: I just didn't. It was very sweet and very true.
Speaker 4: But we will take your not advice and.
Speaker 5: Definitely try to illuminate ourselves. I know that in particular
Andres is very eager to learn quite a lot, especially
in the areas of magics.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so.
Speaker 4: Maybe that's our next chout right.
Speaker 1: It is appeal. However, I will say it's a good
idea not to get on the Dragon Impress's bad side.
He would know from personal experience that is neither here
nor there, Professor Drusk. Now shall we begin?
Speaker 3: Indeed, where do I put myself?
Speaker 1: Well? Stand where you are for now, I've activated the
ruins before you travel. Have any of you teleported before.
Speaker 3: Not recently deleted? The possiblet depends.
Speaker 8: I've been to the void?
Speaker 1: Is that what you were referencing with the in between,
Professor Drusk? Yes, m intriguing. Well, this sort of teleportation
is a little bit different. It can be rather disorienting
if you've never done it before. I would recommend did
you eat breakfast?
Speaker 3: I mean, can I have spent a fabula points to
have eaten one of the Professor's stools as a parting gift?
Speaker 9: Yes?
Speaker 1: Sure, why not?
Speaker 3: Mm hmm, I say that that stool was rather quite something, Professor?
Speaker 1: Did you eat another piece of my furniture from my office?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 3: I say, as like a chair leg kind of pokes
out momentarily before sinking back into like the opaqueness of
my slime.
Speaker 1: Ah, I see one hasn't quite the appetite as the slime.
Speaker 8: Hmm.
Speaker 3: If you can call it that, well, let's hope.
Speaker 1: You don't get sick. Then there are some people that
tend to get a bit sick when traveling through the
transportation circles. Oh, all right, anyway, the last of the ruins,
I will activate it. You simply need to step into
the circle and I will finish the incantation and the
two circles will connect, similar to if you fold a
piece of paper in half and poke a pencil through it.
It's a bit like traveling like that.
Speaker 8: H standing better than sitting?
Speaker 1: Oh oh oh, good question. I don't think anyone's ever
sat and going through the teleportation circle that I can remember.
Speaker 8: I need to have a slime in Yes.
Speaker 3: Is the world flap?
Speaker 1: Sorry?
Speaker 3: Is the what is the world flat? Mm hmmm, oh
it is not flat. How are you going to fold
it so you can go through?
Speaker 4: It?
Speaker 3: Was like a piece of paper.
Speaker 1: Time and space, Yes, time and space.
Speaker 3: Dead soon tight?
Speaker 8: Sit here and I move bow in between the IRUs
and I remember we.
Speaker 5: Read about entropy. No, that's time and space. It's a
type of.
Speaker 3: Magic, my specialty.
Speaker 8: Oh one, not that I think these A professor said. Anyway,
let's go and I do the stupid Spider Man pose
a go in between uh, standing and kneeling just because
there was no definitive answer.
Speaker 3: Superhero ending.
Speaker 1: Love it will before walking to the circle, of course.
Speaker 8: Oh yes, of course, yes.
Speaker 4: Right here.
Speaker 8: They move up and I get back in the.
Speaker 1: Position as the arch magis. It begins the last of
the incantations. See Professor Drosk with the same expression that
you've known her for, looking at you as particles begin
to grow from the edge of the circle and begin
to connect to the seven pillars around the circle. Each
pillar begins to illuminate, and you see this a different
rune appear at the top of each of these pillars
as they begin to sort of light up.
Speaker 8: As we fade out, I'll slowly pull out the grim
wore and hold it up and I'll mouth thank you, Hi,
she never gave it to me.
Speaker 1: Professor Drosk sort of just looks at you, you, and
she gives you like just the barest hint of a smile, anders.
Speaker 3: Frustratedly.
Speaker 8: I knew she knew I took it, and then I
just kind of low my head.
Speaker 5: Before we go. I'll also whisper in her mind, We'll
try to make you proud.
Speaker 1: Try more not to disappoint me.
Speaker 3: The perfect for her parent.
Speaker 8: I love it.
Speaker 1: H Professor begins to walk away even before you, even
before the transportation begins, and the archivegus Uh looks at
all of you and says, I have a sack trip.
And remember, the male of a carnum is not responsible
for any spells that you may cast once you leave
the school, So just remember that, are.
Speaker 4: We getting a disclosure agreement.
Speaker 3: Just now, what do we saw you? He never said
what percentage was.
Speaker 1: As the magic begins to flow around you, there's a
moment with a purple an orange flash of light as
you appear in a very different place. As you come
to your senses, you see a sort of black marbled
with gold cylindrical room. There are in fact similar looking
pillars with similar looking runes that have been activated, and
you can see several guards and a few familiar faces
as Rue and Greg Wood stand off to the side,
along with the Dragon Empress. As you appear inside the
other teleportation circle.
Speaker 4: Mhm hm, Riley, I'm running to her.
Speaker 3: What the hell is?
Speaker 8: Riley?
Speaker 6: Take you into my arms and I hug you tightly.
Speaker 4: Hey, are you all right?
Speaker 16: I'm I'm fine, And I awkwardly begin to pull myself
from you, gently pushing you back.
Speaker 1: Are you.
Speaker 5: We're okay?
Speaker 4: I think, and I look back to the others.
Speaker 6: Come ah.
Speaker 2: Yah.
Speaker 6: As you look back, I tilt slightly to the side
and I look past you, past Iris, past Bow, and
I look at enders.
Speaker 8: Hey, what have you done through?
Speaker 6: I am Rue?
Speaker 8: No, I always called you a different name, and I
don't understand what's going on. Here. This is this is rue.
Speaker 9: This is rue.
Speaker 6: It's just another name for her. You you seem to
be doing.
Speaker 1: Better, and in terms of flesh and blood, I believe
all is there, all three of you that have arrived.
Please make mic checks open checks not a group check
open check my micah. Oh yeah, so Bo, you feel
fine and you have an opportunity.
Speaker 3: M an opportunity blah blah blah, even a group. What
should I get? I don't want to ruin the moment
by looking for opportunities. What should I get?
Speaker 5: Here's advantage? Here is bonding? You know what?
Speaker 6: Burn it like?
Speaker 3: I always do favor. My actions earn you someone support,
an admiration. Maybe perhaps the cost of the spell goes. Wow,
slimes have a great constitution for But.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just after taking like one step Iris and Enders, Uh,
you are really nauseous and you are having like intense
vertigo right in here.
Speaker 6: Uh I take a step back from Iris. Oh sorry,
you look a little green. Uh yeah, I.
Speaker 5: Think the teleportation makes you want to toss your cookies,
so to speak.
Speaker 3: I have no cookies.
Speaker 9: Oh oh.
Speaker 6: I look around helplessly, and then over to the Empress.
What is her disposition?
Speaker 1: She is watching this entire exchange. She seems very interested
in your interactions.
Speaker 6: HM, maybe you should try to sit you down any water.
Speaker 8: I'm shure that way that off.
Speaker 16: Soon I will open my inventory and pull out a
water skin and hold it out to Iris.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 1: The the guards and stuff are all kind of watching
as well. You can see they all have like hands
on on weapons and they haven't drawn them, but their
hands around their weapons. And there is somebody that is
taking very rapid notes.
Speaker 16: And you can see that my ears are somewhat folded.
They are down, and my tail is drooping behind me.
Speaker 6: Ever since you've arrived, I.
Speaker 8: Nod toward Empress, and it's like his Empress. You have
lots to discuss.
Speaker 3: Yes we do.
Speaker 8: I walk past through and they say that may not
be you want to know. He tells the Fuzzy that
I apologize if I do not show sentiments of whoever
it was before.
Speaker 6: I lean in. As you stop beside me, I sniff
you do you smell different?
Speaker 8: Probably a lot different foreign.
Speaker 1: There's also the smells of like being in a different
place too. Rite like Infernia smells different than mill Offax,
Millifax smells different than or cinder shroud smells different than uh,
you know, like Sinthoris, and you know, like every place
has its own sort of smells like Sintharis and clatter
Point smelled very stinky and like like a little bit
of a fishy smell, and like scald Mirror smelled sort
of like that. Plus it also smelled like, you know,
dragon Dune and you know, like the smell of the sea,
and cinder Shroud smells like a big city with canals
and stuff. So it doesn't smell great.
Speaker 3: I imagine that, like because you're a cat and still
me if I'm wrong here, but you know, you maybe
have like a sensed like cat like nose. You can
pick out other things too, you don't just rely on
your eyes.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I of course you smell like a different place,
But I imagine I can't smell anything familiar with you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and I take a shy step back, understand.
Speaker 8: Animals, to you, I believe I died, or a version
of me did, and I was in a place in
between undescribable void. The other two apparently came and flucked
what they could from a mess of chaotic strands, and
this is what they pull down, And from my understanding,
it was their choice. I believe you'll notice, like my
eyes are different. Everything is the second wearing the same skin,
but there's a lot different. I retain memories of Brahm
and some of the adventures we went on here.
Speaker 6: Oh do you remember the convention?
Speaker 8: And I look puzzled, puzzled over to the others.
Speaker 3: Rue and I tell Rue, he doesn't even know what
XP is.
Speaker 8: What?
Speaker 16: And I look you up and down, looking terribly confused.
Speaker 8: Ask what you on on? Let's get it out of
the way now, I.
Speaker 6: Do you remember jan.
Speaker 8: Again? These names of aign.
Speaker 9: Moon.
Speaker 8: Yes, she died. Now there is only the Valkyrie, a
high class villain, a threat to Regalia. It must be
expunged in the name of the heroes.
Speaker 16: With that, my chin dips a little, and I carefully
look over at the Empress. Yeah, that was what I
was hoping we could talk about.
Speaker 8: Oh, I look towards Empress. Do you let them in
or let her in? On what we were discussing.
Speaker 1: Come leave the teleportation circle, we will have a conversation.
Speaker 8: I follow the Empress.
Speaker 1: As you move through the Imperial Palace. This place is
again more impressive than Coga. It's like black marble and gold,
along with stunning tapestries and lush furniture populates this place.
Statues of the Dragon Empress and previous rulers of mill
Offax litter the walls, and various statues are seen as
you walk through grand hallways. You are escorted by various
guards and such through this place, and it is so
beautiful and very intimidating as you make your way through.
Speaker 6: As we're walking, you can see that I wrapped my
arms around myself and there's a heaviness on me. Well,
that's entirely uncharacteristic, and I sort of lag behind as
everyone's filing after the Empress.
Speaker 1: Very well, you're taken to what appears to be some
kind of I guess like a I don't think they'd
take you to the throne room. I imagine you would
be sat at some sort of conference table looking room.
It's very posh. It's very comfortable, but also very imposing,
like massive table, grandiose chairs, and there is of course
at the head of the tables it's the Dragon Empress.
There are probably ten guards that are here as well.
All of them look like badasses as you make your
way through. It's the temperature is probably it's not really
comfortable I would say it's leaning more towards like hot,
which is a bit different than the Malifacarum. Infernia was hot.
It was like really very I mean it was you know,
like desert like temperatures, and here it's probably pretty close
to that. Malifacarnum was like temperature controlled. It was like,
you know, they had like a proper h vacuum running
through that place, magical h vac and uh here, it's
definitely like it's not uncomfortable, but it's like on the
hot side. You're all kind of like motion to uh
to sit after the dragon Empress sits at the head
of the table.
Speaker 5: M right, I'll go ahead and I'll take a seat.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so now I kind of PLoP myself on on
Iris's shoulder because I'm still the familiar.
Speaker 6: I sit down last.
Speaker 1: No, your friend ruhe here, or should I say Riley,
in fact said much of your adventures. She have spoken
of how you arrived here and this world beyond Regalia,
the world you come from.
Speaker 8: Yes, M.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 1: It is not uncommon from my understanding for heroes to
lose their memories of their original worlds.
Speaker 8: The only world I know is this one. That's the
only one I am able to protect.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, we shall see. Anders, we shall see. From
my understanding, two of you have graduated from the Maleficarum
within merely a few weeks. Impressive.
Speaker 3: Congratulations guys.
Speaker 1: Yes, do you have any more information about the Valkyrie?
Speaker 8: I said, up, yes, m I close my eyes. Valkyrie
high class villain, killed three of us. If I ever
ready serves me correct starting with rue.
Speaker 6: Down at the table and I nod.
Speaker 8: Then bow, hmhmm, you were destroyed once bow.
Speaker 3: Shattered, squished, plopped. I'm not about destroyed.
Speaker 8: Has performed some high level of magic, said you did
not know about to bring them back. I, on the
other tried to hold her all so the others can
get out. I believe I spent the most time with
the Valcony. Then I tried everything in my power too.
It's fuzzy, sway her from her ways. She seemed caught
between two personalities, like an eclipse over our moon, slowly
losing light. I then remember splitting myself into multiple versions.
There was a spell that I wasn't ready to perform.
I did this to by time, but unfortunately there was
an anomaly event to me from performing at peak, and
I looked towards her, though instructed to leave. They came
back from me. I suffered a massive blow into the
face and everything went black. Believe I died at that
point in the middle of it. I stared deep inside
of what was this once known moons visage, and there
was nothing left. A chaos, hunger, an ultimate destruction like
the void happened and I came to information updated to me,
and I looked at the others. I did not share
this with him immediately. She is now fully classified as
a villain. There's no traces, and I can tell of
Moon left.
Speaker 5: She was injected with something with Emberstone. We believe.
Speaker 3: We saw a video of it on a screen.
Speaker 8: Yes, her last attack did involve an absorption of a
large amount of mbstone.
Speaker 5: It ended me, and I recall when I activated my magic,
the Emberstone also reacted, seeming to empower her more. Perhaps something.
Speaker 1: You speak as if this was some sort of catalyst.
Speaker 8: It does seem like a boost in power for her. Also,
that's gonna say. Also from what I know, anything that
seems to be a dependent may be used against one
is powerful. She calculations seem to be this is not
a one time thing. They have to be on God,
and if I speak out of her and Empress, I apologize.
You may need to be on the utmost God. Any
ember soon that may be in the city hidden can
be subject to draw out the Valkyrie. At least that's
what I believe.
Speaker 5: Have you ever done or have have there ever been
experiments on people or heroes that you know of utilizing emberstone.
Speaker 6: The injection of it.
Speaker 1: To my knowledge, No, However, with this new information from
the laboratory is I have learned that there have been
without my knowledge, and I do not appreciate millifacts not
having said knowledge. Drag More and the disaster there that
we believe to be caused by Moon and this individual
known as Tim Cross. You can see the Empresses like
trying to look at all three of you engage your
reaction in hearing this name. Do any of you have
a reaction?
Speaker 8: I just immediately think it's the person that injected and
it's more so a reaction towards that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there is a bit of a foreboding look on
my face.
Speaker 1: So Bo and Iris both have a reaction.
Speaker 8: A reaction.
Speaker 1: Okay, if anybody's like really trying to read the Empress,
you would note that she's clocking that.
Speaker 3: The Empress will remember that.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Why, whilst we were in the Labar toweither there was
some what we can only assume was a test subject.
We think maybe it was a hero. Does the name
derriv Act mean anything to you?
Speaker 1: Yes, we looked into this individual, the contacted Sinthes and
regards to their existence. There was, in fact a hero
that worked with ellen Draft at the start of the war.
In fact, there were many that worked for both ellen
Draft and Sintharis at the start.
Speaker 11: Of the war.
Speaker 6: This one, My ears perk up at the mention of.
Speaker 1: This, this one, this Derivak was from what we understood,
killed early on.
Speaker 3: But hearing this.
Speaker 1: Information a drachmore suggests that they were not killed, or
they were experimented upon. We believe there was another that
was taken as well.
Speaker 5: Was it was it someone by the name of Azuka.
That was a name that he mentioned.
Speaker 1: Yes, who is he?
Speaker 6: We don't know.
Speaker 1: You just said that he mentioned this.
Speaker 5: What do you mean, Dara Vak in the stupor we.
Speaker 1: Fought Paravac spoke to you.
Speaker 5: We fought their a Vac. He's dead, indeed, he seemed to.
That's why I brought it up with the experiment talk.
That was the one that I made mention of that
they possibly were experimented on.
Speaker 6: I opened my inventory and I pull out the air
tank that I took.
Speaker 1: Yeah, do you say anything about it? I mean the
guards out, the guards draw weapons. As soon as you
take something out of your inventory.
Speaker 6: My ears flattened and I.
Speaker 1: You just hear like the sound of like ten ten
like weapons being drawn, like a few lances, of a
few swords.
Speaker 6: Uh. This was on his person when we encountered them.
Speaker 1: The Empress just kind of motions with her hands, and
you hear all the weapons get achieved. She motions towards
the canister or whatever, and the person that was writing
things down, you know, just seems to be a stribbling away.
It looks like they reach for the canister and there's
still a uh, there's still like a quill writing on
the on the parchment, like a stenographer in here, like
as there as they take the canister. It doesn't appear
to be dangerous at first glance, Your Eminence, However, it
does appear to be some sort of technology. I believe
it to be originating from Bedwin's Star. If my eyes
do not deceive me some sort of steam powered technology
from what I could tell, intriguing. Yeah, continue, what else
do you know of this deravac?
Speaker 5: We found files while we were in the laboratory. I
believe they listed him as an abomination. Abomination indeed, and
there were others in the facility labeled as such.
Speaker 1: Are you suggesting that there are more?
Speaker 8: Well?
Speaker 5: There was another one that we read about what stood out.
Their name was Owl, but it seemed as though they
died while we were in the facility.
Speaker 1: Habspiled experiments, your majesty, Yes, what were you doing Cross?
What were you doing in this place? Why were you
experimenting with heroes.
Speaker 8: And what have?
Speaker 1: The ember stone that you found there? Did it look
strange or different?
Speaker 3: It tasted really weird and there were weird creatures there
as well that like attacked us and.
Speaker 1: You hate it.
Speaker 3: Kind of. Has the slide.
Speaker 1: Had any reaction? Oh?
Speaker 5: No, none that I've been able to notice. How did
it make you feel after? Did you feel sick or anything?
You haven't seemed to lash out or have any reaction
if a cack right, that was the thing that made
you throw up or want to throw up? While we
were in the facility, did we notice anything abnormal about
the Emberstone.
Speaker 1: Make an insight and insight this will be difficulty twelve.
Speaker 6: Could I potentially get something since I touched it?
Speaker 14: Uh?
Speaker 1: So you can potentially. I would say you can make
a role as well inside and inside difficulty twelve, these
will just be two separate roles, not a group.
Speaker 8: Gotch.
Speaker 5: I would like to use my lucky seven in order
to swap the seven the two four seven, which would
then create an opportunity.
Speaker 1: Okay, so that will turn it into a crit.
Speaker 5: And I'm just looking for information.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, you noticed several things strange about the Emberstone.
And I mean you haven't exactly seen a lot of
it since you've arrived, but you have seen it. It
was all in some sort of crystalline form from when
you've seen it, sort of in its natural state, except
when you were in the lab. You saw it as
a gas. You saw it as a liquid, and you
saw it in a solid state, and you saw that
Unlike in normal physics, when things goes, you know, it
has an order in which it transforms into these different states. Right,
normally you would have something go it's from solid to
liquid to gas right in that order, or opposite in
the lab you saw it jump states like it went
straight from a solid to a gas. You saw something
switch from a gas to a liquid, you know, so
you saw it sort of move. It was chaotic. It
switched states in various ways, and from what you could tell,
Moon was the only one that absorbed.
Speaker 5: It well, the different states of matter. Normally in nature,
we've only seen ember stone in the form of crystals
right at least us prior to the laboratory.
Speaker 1: Yes, but it does not reside in other states from
what we understand.
Speaker 5: But we saw it in other states and also leaping
into states that it should not be able to.
Speaker 1: You have seen it in liquid and gaseous form.
Speaker 3: That's why I try to drink or take.
Speaker 1: Furious scribbling like by the note taker sh.
Speaker 9: Ah.
Speaker 3: It looked tasty, like I don't care for your eating habits.
Speaker 1: You asked why I was speaking to myself?
Speaker 3: Okay, does she have an answer?
Speaker 1: She's got a very ponderous face on at the moment,
and I think she says, what are you doing? Who
are you? We have done what we can to locate
this one known as Tim Cross, searched records and we
have found next to nothing. Yet this person is known
to you, and the small bits of information that we
have found suggests that this individual apparently arrived approximately the
same time or earlier than when the heroes that arrived
with your group arrived. When Moon arrived earlier. The only
records we were able to find were related to this
him cross at some sort of well a casual checkpoint.
They were making their way into Millifacts, we believe from Brabasina,
crossing the border into Zancraft.
Speaker 8: Well, from all the information I'm gathering here and the
odd name that this one shares with the odd names
that are being spoken, just a hunt. Maybe this individual
has their ability to jump worlds if this other place
that you speak of history other than Regarda.
Speaker 1: Bravasina. Bravasina is the country the southeast of Millafax. Zankrat
is the city closest to its border. It is the
home of many artificers. There are many competent people that
live there, not exactly an ally of mill Offax, but
we occasionally will trade with them. That is the only
record we have of tim Cross. It is most curious.
I do not know how he made his way into
track more how he was able to convince the staff
to follow him and whatever plan he had. When I
assure you you will find out all that we can
from the staff that has survived, You've already begun questioning
the research as there.
Speaker 3: However, I wonder.
Speaker 1: What will you do next?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I was hoping to discuss that with you in private.
We're a team, Yes, I've noticed that recently, so I
guess I'll be open in front. I have been going
back and forth in the address and there, and I
have dedicated myself as a sawt to take down the
Valkyrie once I become strong enough to do so.
Speaker 3: Whoa mm hmmmm. Wondering what he's saying.
Speaker 1: A few people that can understand Greg Greg says, did
he just say he's going to kill Moon?
Speaker 3: I tell Greg, Yep, he says he's gonna kill Moon.
Speaker 8: I did not say that.
Speaker 1: You didn't hear us, So what you just said you
just hear Bo talking in the Greggs.
Speaker 5: Sorry, I mean there's a multitude of things we could
do before killing her.
Speaker 8: You misunderstand where I'm coming from as that takedown. The
Valkyrie did not say anything about killing the Moon.
Speaker 5: You mean the current state she is in.
Speaker 8: Al expunds the Valkyrie from me, you're there to a
week in state. She could barely move on the cusp
of the in between. We pull Moon out, leave the
Valkyrie there to die, as parts of me have done.
So you possess the power is to do so.
Speaker 3: I'm picking up what you're putting down. But there is
a chance that you can make a go poo brained,
you know, or like shatter her and get like a
boring librarian or something.
Speaker 8: I believe that happened to me because I split myself
into mini. It shouldn't have done what I've done. It
was untested that it was the last effect ditch effort
to save you all believe that was the intention.
Speaker 6: This is great, this, it's a plan.
Speaker 1: Is it.
Speaker 3: Kind of?
Speaker 8: I have also promised the Impress that if this goes
awry at destroying the subject completely, it would be the felsy.
Speaker 5: I don't know if I could do such a thing. Well,
I mean, go on, I mean it was incredibly difficult,
and we almost.
Speaker 3: Lost you, We almost lost ourselves.
Speaker 8: It's I meant to be easy. As I mentioned, we're untrained.
We'd have to celebrate our training to even be on
part with evalchery.
Speaker 3: True, but with this particular like move we'd have to
like brush that up too, because the professor said, you know,
like failure. If we couldn't bring any part of you back,
both of us would have died in there with you.
Oh yeah, so if we fail trying to help Moon
this way, I don't think there is a okay, let's killer. Instead,
I think it's a oh it's you know, no more
credits kind of situation.
Speaker 8: But the end goal is the same, to say, Regalia,
to become the hero.
Speaker 5: Of course, I'm looking around the room at this point.
Are any of the people present, any of the guards.
Speaker 4: Anything like that?
Speaker 5: Do they look as though they have any sort of
reaction to this kind of discussion. I'm kind of gauged,
trying to gauge basically, like because we just we just
gave them our plan. You know, these guards I would
assume more trustworthy, but like this is a huge plan.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Insight Insight Difficulty fourteen. If anybody wants to contribute
to this, you can roll in a group.
Speaker 4: Am I doing a group check? Or are you guys okay?
Speaker 5: Insight Insight almost put one hundred and fift fifteen.
Speaker 1: We can make it one hundred and fifteen difficulties you
want to.
Speaker 6: Eleven.
Speaker 8: Ye ten, Oh, I helped you can and I was talking,
so I won't be about to this. I just assume
you're doing as well.
Speaker 5: I was talking fifteen success.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, so I think that the guards don't really
have much of a reaction. But the note taker that
seems to be I guess somewhat in the know here, Uh,
definitely had a reaction. This person that is taking the
notes looks a bit surprised by the suggestion, for sure.
Speaker 6: I look to.
Speaker 5: Between Anders and the Empress, and then I glance over
at the note taker.
Speaker 1: The Empress is cool as a fucking cucumber.
Speaker 5: Well, at any rate, I mean we you're right, I
mean we would need a lot of a lot of
practice and knowledge. Particularly, I mean, we haven't heard that
there are any other heroes, but but what if, what
if there are, maybe maybe we can find help. Yeah,
we don't know anything about this azuk A person or
if they died. There were no records of them other
than that they were there at some point.
Speaker 1: Your idea is intriguing. I do not know much about
this place that you went this in between I believe
it is worth further study. We as a country, as
an Empire are currently putting Moon on the highest priority alert.
If she enters Millifax in any of our checkpoints are cities,
I will be notified immediately and if she is to
be seen, she will be treated as the highest threat possible.
Speaker 3: Question speak, well, the last time, like some of the
best dragon writers went after her, she kind of destroyed them.
Would it not be a better idea to avoid her?
Speaker 1: You mean to cower weakly in a corner.
Speaker 3: Because of her power?
Speaker 1: Not really?
Speaker 3: More like you know, I think that what you suggest.
It's an eye.
Speaker 1: Dragon riders.
Speaker 3: Are prized.
Speaker 1: They are valuable not just to me, but to the
people of Millifax, both as a symbol and as a
force of protection. Now, the loss that was suffered from
the god at Infernia.
Speaker 3: Is deep.
Speaker 1: I grant you that, but I assure you that none
of my god would back down from the challenge, would
back down from that, because they have one desire to
serve Milifax, to protect its people, to serve me. There
is no higher honor. So no, they will not cower,
They will not hide, even if it means they're deaths,
because death in a service for mil Offax and its
people is the greatest achievement that any of them could have.
Speaker 5: Then at least let us be the first there. You
don't doubt the strength of your army, but we have
seen horrible things. What bo is trying to say is
that it is more valuable to keep them you at
the ready.
Speaker 1: Men have graduated from the Maleficarum for your abilities and
your skills. But from what I understand, Moon easily defeated
all of you. Is this wrong?
Speaker 4: No, it is not wrong, which is why we need
your help to get stronger.
Speaker 8: Then what do you propose?
Speaker 3: And we use rue.
Speaker 8: Me? Oh? Yes, I've been denying you the whole time
when we're speaking. Your connection with Moon seems to be
the debits. What do you suggest?
Speaker 16: I mean, I part of the reason why we're even
talking to the Empress is because I suggested that we
could potentially be bait or at least try something. We've
got a connection with her. Should we not try to
use this, and should we not try to prepare as
much as we can?
Speaker 1: That is my point. Even with your skills that you
have gained from the Malifacarnum, your talent for spellcraft and combat,
it's impressive, you are still no match for Moon.
Speaker 6: Though we could be in time.
Speaker 1: Yes, perhaps, then how will you accomplish.
Speaker 8: This accelerated training? We have skim the surface of it
at the malificarum. I have learned mini tricks. We must
work together, learn each one's abilities. We've been doing it wrong.
I apparently have done it wrong. I tried to take
on Moon alone. There was the first mistake.
Speaker 1: I should think.
Speaker 8: So, Yes, that I have learned, And even though I
can make many copies of myself, it doesn't hold a
candle to what all of us can do together. We
have to form this, one would say, combo abilities.
Speaker 5: Actice on the field together. That in conjunction with perhaps
the arch vegas is not suggestion seeking out more knowledge
with the sears.
Speaker 1: Yes, stages, you mean to go to Narcissia.
Speaker 4: An option.
Speaker 1: Not a bad one at that.
Speaker 6: Empress, do you see this? And I'll try to open
my quest log and gesture towards it.
Speaker 3: See what.
Speaker 6: You don't see?
Speaker 1: This your hand?
Speaker 8: M So.
Speaker 16: Maybe it's a hero thing, But there's a log right here.
Maybe you can't see it, but.
Speaker 1: This is some sort of illusion cast upon this free.
Speaker 6: No, no, no, the other heroes can see it, right?
Speaker 3: Can we see each other's logs?
Speaker 8: I can't see a thing. I've just been going along
with whatever you guys are saying the whole time.
Speaker 7: Really do you not have a lock?
Speaker 8: I have something, But when you act in a way
of pulling something up, it's just just just.
Speaker 10: Right.
Speaker 16: I try to see if it's updated since the last
time I checked?
Speaker 1: What are you checking?
Speaker 6: The one where I was tasked to convince the Empress.
Speaker 1: To help me?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 1: So I don't recall what that specifically was. I don't
appear to have updated that or given that.
Speaker 5: It was to basically seek out the Empress to try
and see if she'll help. I think with reunifying us when.
Speaker 1: That whole yeah, is that that would have been completed?
Speaker 5: Rue?
Speaker 1: Uh and you'll notice your your level has increased the
level twenty two mm hmm.
Speaker 6: I just completed a quest. We have a list.
Speaker 16: Whenever we get a quest, it populates, and I just
had one here. Convinced the Empress to help you, and
it succeeded.
Speaker 1: I wonder.
Speaker 3: Who set the quest.
Speaker 1: I do not know of what you speak. I remember
in times past speaking with Moon about such things. It
was strange, but she made similar gestures as you did.
Speaker 9: Hmm.
Speaker 6: Interesting and all that close the quest log that's how we.
Speaker 5: Get powered up, so to speak. So we're doing tasks
that are either assigned to us in the world or
by whoever is giving us. Is a quest that, for example,
brought us to you.
Speaker 8: There is talk in histories.
Speaker 1: Of a system. It is mentioned in ancient texts, spoke
of power and magic, and it is similar to what
you speak of.
Speaker 6: It's it helps me level up. I'm level twenty two.
Speaker 3: Now, your terrifying majesty, May I ask a bold question?
Ask it it? Could you ask me to give you
something that Iris has? Just just say I command you
to give me a thing that Iris has that's magical.
Speaker 1: In those words, please make an insight and willpower check above.
It's gonna be difficulty twelve.
Speaker 3: Okay, insight will power difficulty twelve.
Speaker 16: Imagine if you quit this and then it's like, okay,
we'll just level up to Moon's level just by using
the loops.
Speaker 3: Right, I rolled the seven. So unfortunately, now, unless of
course I can, I don't have any fact of that
points I've already used them, never mind.
Speaker 8: Or a stool.
Speaker 1: I do not know what she has. This is idiotic.
Speaker 5: No, but there's enough that he's trying to make is
that if perhaps you were to present us with any
sort of any sort of task, big or small, we'd
be able to be empowered by that.
Speaker 3: Perhaps break the system.
Speaker 1: I command you to pull out Iris's chair.
Speaker 3: Do I get a quest? I look at my quest log. Hmm,
wait for it?
Speaker 5: M it?
Speaker 3: Maybe retrieve something. But just in case, I pull out
Iris's chef from underneath.
Speaker 1: It, nothing happens.
Speaker 3: Nothing happened then, hmmm. Maybe it has to be something
less trivial that.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to waste my time doing this.
Speaker 8: Apologies, if I may, I believe this system. Let me
keep referring to everything that we have gotten so far
may be personal. We all may have different tasks unless
it involves all of us together us. Maybe this system
has its own agenda for each one of us. So
trying to trick the system it's not going to work.
Speaker 3: H I sure hope the system doesn't want me to
do the thing that though well.
Speaker 5: At any rate, we would need to identify by whatever
tasks work and train in order to hopefully match up
to Moon.
Speaker 1: M Well, if you wish to follow the same journey,
at least the one that Moon disclosed to me years ago,
this is what she remembered, and the Empress makes emotion
to the scribe that is keeping track of everything, and
you see a there's a papyrus scroll that's just kind
of like passed over to you, and you see a
list of places and it's just titled Moon's Journey.
Speaker 5: Perfect, thank you.
Speaker 1: This is the journey that Moon communicated to me, at
least seven years of it, judging from what I understand.
There was a period here and the Empress points to
when Moon was in Cinthoris early on about ten years ago,
closer to nine and a half years ago, she went
missing for a period of time, and here and here
you can see there's a few periods where time is
unaccounted for. I tried to find out more about where
Moon had gone, but I do not know.
Speaker 3: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 8: I have us what if we visited our hometowns and
talked to the leaders there and got information from them
as well at some point. Be careful.
Speaker 1: This information is valuable.
Speaker 4: I assure you, we'll guard it with our lives.
Speaker 11: Understand there are those out there and a predators and
you can see her teeth as she says this. We
all have our own motives and our own desires. I
think you will find that anyone that you speak to
will be much the same. Make no mistake, I will
do what I believe is the best formula. Facts first
and foremost. I cannot speak on the others, but it
is something to be wary of. Regardless, I have other
matters to take care of. You have told me all
that you know.
Speaker 1: Yes, I believe so.
Speaker 6: The of my knowledge.
Speaker 1: Is anyone trying to hide anything?
Speaker 8: Mm hmm, No, No, I'm withholding, but I'm not trying
to hide it. I'm more so I'm just stonefaced, but
I'm withholding. I'm definitely a person that keeps acis to
the chest and not give everything for reasons.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Impress will look at you. You will linger
on you for a little bit. Enders have a communication scroll.
You will update me on any major news. For now,
I have other matters to attend to. You are free
to move about mat offax, but I suggest you get
to move on. The Empress stands up, the guards all
stand at attention, and she says good luck. She turns
and walks away.
Speaker 5: We've got a lot of work to do.
Speaker 3: Huh here.
Speaker 6: I am thankful that we're back together. I was a
little worried that I might be dragging food.
Speaker 5: We have a lot to talk about, right, Why don't
we find somewhere a little less uncomfortable and foreboding as
beautiful as this place is. Why don't we go get
some food and drinks. Yeah, loosen up a.
Speaker 6: Bit, I know just the place.
Speaker 3: Come on, Greg, have you been Greg?
Speaker 1: Shit's been crazy?
Speaker 3: Yo ah, you tell me about it. It's been really crazy.
I mean we went to a holy university for two weeks.
He's gouse graduated and I didn't even get a freaking title.
Speaker 1: That's fucked up. You want to hear all the crazy
ship that Ruin I got up to, sure well, first
and foremost. Rue likes to dance a lot and has flashed.
Speaker 3: So many people I can't even Oh my god.
Speaker 1: As our reunited group begins to explore Cinder Shroud, the
largest city in Regalia metropolis of Wonders, Inspires and Dragons,
Moon is currently experiencing something very different in craven Stone
City in Cryptia. Fine Moon in the corporate Tower of
craven More, currently being surrounded by Laser Craven Moor's entourage. Moon,
Laser craven More and his entourage are sort of having you.
Have you stopped just outside the office of Laser craven More.
They're all sort of circling around you as Laser tries
to stop you from leaving.
Speaker 8: What do you do?
Speaker 7: I'm backing up and there's like a wall behind me. Listen, guys, guys, I.
Speaker 4: I don't want any violence.
Speaker 7: And I look at like, Okay, maybe I might have
faked a whole company to get into your company just
to talk to you, But can't we work.
Speaker 9: Out something here? I mean, clearly, I'm smarter than the
average bear to get up to the top four.
Speaker 1: Right, right, Oh, I don't doubt that.
Speaker 13: You are some kind of super smart, really attractive and
very tall woman. But right, you have tried to blame me,
Lacey craven More.
Speaker 1: Why have you done this?
Speaker 7: I just needed to know what was going on at
this company.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 7: Look, I was trying to leave by the docks and I.
Speaker 1: You're sent by my dastardly lych bitches.
Speaker 7: Lych bitches. I look at my inventory and my log.
Is there any think my journal any mention of lich
bitches anywhere?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 1: Of course not?
Speaker 7: Okay, and I just chuckle. I can't say that's the case.
Chief just me just being curious.
Speaker 1: Are you sure that Dana didn't send you perhaps on JA? Yeah?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 7: One positive uh insight and well powered difficulty try to
start levitating and.
Speaker 3: Be like, look I can fly?
Speaker 1: Oh wow, so can I? He starts to levitate.
Speaker 13: Oh shit, okay, you think you're the only one with
pole is?
Speaker 8: No, But.
Speaker 7: I mean I'm obviously not undead, right I got here.
Speaker 1: Slams his staff down and like the fucking the jewel
on the staff, and the ruines begin to like light
up and you can see his fucking like spectacles like
start to light up, and he just he's just fucking
like heat visions like a section of the of the hallway.
Speaker 13: Oh shit, that's on fire again, Jasper Jessper put it out.
Speaker 7: I'm just watching in horror as things are aflame?
Speaker 8: Is that?
Speaker 1: Do you?
Speaker 3: Maybe? Should you put that out?
Speaker 1: Jaspa was on it. You asked a question, right.
Speaker 7: Yes, uh DM, Do I have anything like laser eyes
that I can just point at something?
Speaker 5: And?
Speaker 8: Uh? Do you?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 6: Listen, I I'd love to.
Speaker 7: I'd love to maybe maybe maybe can I use an
ultimate point?
Speaker 1: You can use an ultimate point?
Speaker 13: Great?
Speaker 7: Okay, So I'd love to use an ultimate point and
look at something super insignificant like a trash bin or something. Okay,
I just want to like aim right at.
Speaker 1: It and and have a explode it explodes. Spend an
ultimate point.
Speaker 7: Okay, awesome. I can't believe I just spent an ultimate
point and use something as useless on a trash man.
And you just see like papers go everywhere. There's like
banana peels and and and bags like you are.
Speaker 1: I've not down I have that.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 1: Great, Still doesn't explain why.
Speaker 7: Your minions hey here, that's.
Speaker 4: A great question.
Speaker 7: I'm trying to figure that out.
Speaker 8: I was.
Speaker 7: I was underground for I don't know how long, and.
Speaker 1: As far as I know, part of the rebels? Are
you part of the rebel lions? Should I be? What
the hell are you talking about?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 7: You keep asking me questions I don't know the answers to.
How don't even have I ended up here?
Speaker 1: Why are you part of the rebel lions?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 1: I see that wasn't hard, I guess not. You're making
this out to me much more complicated than it needs
to be.
Speaker 13: Okay, then then why are you here? What are you
doing here? Why are you I've got some very simple questions.
Speaker 7: I don't know, man, I don't know. I'm I'm trying
to figure out.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 7: And I'm looking around, and I'm getting very visibly frustrated too,
Like you can see Moon's face start to get rhdter
and rheta and redder. She's trying to explain that she
doesn't know how she got here to this guy. So
uh uh, well I and then I see like these
little sparkly start to form in my hands, like, I, uh,
I don't know. I don't know how I got here.
Maybe we should go inside?
Speaker 1: Though we are inside?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I guess we are? Are the are his little
companions still around?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: His entourage has just got you surrounded. They've got like
a circle around you.
Speaker 9: Okay, look, I'm hungry and I'm tired.
Speaker 7: I'm not here to kill you, and I'm not here company.
Speaker 13: It's really good trying to kill me crazy.
Speaker 7: And I look at him. This guy that's a good one.
This is a good one. This is a good this,
This guy's good. This guy's good.
Speaker 1: How about you? Question?
Speaker 5: Kill you?
Speaker 7: I probably could kill you if I wanted to.
Speaker 13: Oh, his minions begin to laugh. You don't know who
you're fucking with. I'm the main litch.
Speaker 1: That's right. Look at all my jewelry. He holds up
his hands and there's just what rings on all of
his fingers. They all look magical.
Speaker 7: Great, Yeah, you look very very magical. Okay, So are
we going to fight or not?
Speaker 13: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Are you going to answer my fucking questions?
Speaker 3: I did?
Speaker 1: You said?
Speaker 13: You gave me a lot of horseshit. You said I
don't know, I don't know, and I don't know. Some
of those sound like answers.
Speaker 9: All right, I'm on the run, on the run from
who my friends so I could keep them safe. God,
this is gonna be useless.
Speaker 1: Look, do you know?
Speaker 7: Do you know anything about anything?
Speaker 11: Dude?
Speaker 7: Do you anything about the world outside of Cryptia? Probably not?
Speaker 1: How dare you? Of course I do.
Speaker 13: I know the happenstance that is going on in the
world about I'm well informed and shit, I.
Speaker 7: Decided to be serious with him. All right. Have you
have you heard of Emberstone?
Speaker 13: Oh that's funny, coming to Cryptia and asking if I
know about embers Stoa.
Speaker 1: Of course I do. Yes, Look at my fucking stuff.
He activates the staff and you see red Emberstone glowing
staff and you see as.
Speaker 7: His staff lights up, my eyes.
Speaker 9: Just kind of reflect this Emberstone glow off of the staff, Like, oh, oh,
so you do you do know about Emberstone?
Speaker 1: Of course I do.
Speaker 13: Gripp Tea is one of the premiere sights of mining Emberstone.
Of course, the stupid fucking war ended, They're going to
have to scale it all back. Why do you think
you've seen so many bloody ads in regards to reanimation
and whatnot that to switch my entire process around.
Speaker 7: Bloody?
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 9: Oh, and I my mind suddenly starts racing as soon
as I see this Emberstone, even though I feel fairly stated,
it still looks like and I start to walk towards him.
Speaker 1: Oh, hold on, Am I getting a vibe here?
Speaker 7: What vibe?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 13: I'm seeing that you would look in your eyes? Yes, Oh,
someone looks hungary.
Speaker 7: Yes.
Speaker 1: Is this some sort of situation a sex you out?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 1: Really, you don't want to bone?
Speaker 4: Uh no ah.
Speaker 7: And it's so it's so obvious, how how much the
like innuindo just goes over my head because I'm not
thinking about anything sexual other than dinner. And I'm still
moving towards him.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The entourage is reacting. As you were getting closer
to Laser. You can hear the the hound that is,
you know, sort of skeletal h start to growl a
little bit. Can you hear like clattering like you can
hear the sounds of like some claws digging into some
some of the floor the tile.
Speaker 9: I keep going, I've got my eyes on that on
that staff, and even though I hear them clacking in
my ears.
Speaker 7: I'm not sure there's anything that can really stop me
moving forwards here.
Speaker 1: Okay, Laser says, I don't know. I mean we're still
having a conversation.
Speaker 13: We can work out some sort of complex sexual activities
once we're Yeah, however, I still need to know what
are you talking about in regard to see a frame.
Speaker 7: Am I within reaching distance of his stuff?
Speaker 11: Yet?
Speaker 1: Probably not? Okay, imagine maybe like ten feet away.
Speaker 7: Okay, I'm probably not thinking clearly as I'm moving forward,
and I.
Speaker 1: Just you're not stopping at all.
Speaker 7: I'm not stopping now, and I'm mumbling my friends, well, friends.
Speaker 1: As soon as you get my friends, as soon as
you take like one more step, you can hear the
sounds of some like weapons and stuff being drawn. Uh,
you see one creature that is kind of like dressed
a bit like some of the creatures that you've seen
walking around in the city, wearing like a pink like
leather jacket with like LEDs and shit on it and
like leather, and they have sort of goggles on with
like pink lenses in there, draws what appears to look
like something really close to a shotgun. Draws a shotgun,
and it's got to pointed at you standing to the
right of Laser. To Laser's left, the other member of
the entourage appears to be wearing some kind of they
look like magical robes, but there's like LEDs and shit
on them. They're wearing like a pointy hat, and they
look like they are skeleton sort of similar to Laser,
but a little bit different. The one in the leather
jacket kind of looks like they have bits of flesh
on them still, and you can hear hear some of
the others behind you.
Speaker 7: Okay, I'm wondering, actually, can I can I roll to
see if the shotgun breaks my focus? Sure, I think
I think I might move forward or I might not,
And I kind of can't make up my mind.
Speaker 1: There, Okay, so since this is a self imposed thing,
you can decide the difficulty as far as the role goes.
I imagine this might just be willpower, willpower.
Speaker 7: Open check. Uh yeah, okay, well that's a fifteen. So
I guess my version would just be I keep going forward,
my my, my, I would not be distracted by anything.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah. I think you hear the entourage speak then
they say laser, she gets too close.
Speaker 8: And uh.
Speaker 1: Wann't we change things? Ample And as he says this,
you hear the shotgun go off.
Speaker 4: Namier, ilma.
Speaker 7: Gay let me get to eat them?
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