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Thank you, enjoy Moon. You enter Mimosa's Bar. As you
walk in, music sort of buffets you a bit too loud.
As you enter, there are patrons about. As you can
see that this place isn't particularly huge. It's kind of
a smaller bar. There are what you might expect in
the bar, sort of stools and a few booths here
and there. The cyberpunk aesthetic continues on inside here as
you can see a few people probably look at you.
There appears to be some kind of like I don't
know if it's a bouncer, but probably like the equivalent
of a tough at the door, like a sort of
you know, like a thug looking kind of larger looking ghoule.
As you enter, that gives you the stink eye. As
you walk inside.
Speaker 2: Hi, I slowly grumble and walk by him.
Speaker 3: Does it smell like anything in here?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean it smells a bit like rot. It
smells on top of the typical sort of pubs, smells
a little bit little pissed, a little bit of like
you know, just that like stale beer kind of smell. Okay,
and uh yeah. As soon as he sort of grunts
at you as you enter, you can see that he
looks over towards the bartender for some sort of confirmation
or something, and the bartender just shakes their head. As
you look at the bartender, immediately it catches you off
guard because the bartender here appears to be some kind
of ghost in what appears to be like, I don't
know how to explain it. It's if you've ever played
Cyberpunk before. Have you ever played that game before? Have
you ever seen like people wearing that kind of like
just clear plastic clothing. Yeah, it's close to that, except
it looks like it's some kind of weird crystalline kind
of suit. It almost looks like it's keeping this ghost
contained inside this suit. As they are meandering about. She's
sort of semi trans parent and what wearing what appears
to be some kind of like completely different attire than
everybody else that you've seen in Cryptia. Whoever this ghost is,
I think you get the impression that their appearances of
when they were alive and their attire is probably not
from Cryptia. Okay, whoever they were before probably didn't originate
in Cryptia. They're here now, okay, And yeah, you can
see like little like it. It looks like like gloves
have been placed on this suit and she's managing to
like mix cocktails and stuff like your typical sort of bartender.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, I know that I just got here, but
I'm having kind of like a I don't know if
my memory is blurry or whatever. I'm just looking around,
like how did I even get here. I'm not sure
how I got here, but I know I wanted Mimosas.
Speaker 3: I don't think this city you they even know about Mimosa's.
Speaker 1: The name of this place is called Mimosas. And I
think you can probably look around and see that there
is a few patrons that do seem to be drinking Mimosas.
Speaker 3: And I go up to the bar.
Speaker 2: And I try and make eye contact with the ghost specter.
Speaker 1: The name's Jewels Jewet. Can I get you?
Speaker 3: Well? I hear tell that there are mimosas being served here.
Speaker 1: That's right, Grab a menu. We have a few different
cocktails that you can simple.
Speaker 4: Some food.
Speaker 1: She's kind of taken like a second look at you.
Speaker 3: True, you said, what's what's your favorite item on the menu?
Speaker 1: My favorite? Well, I'm usually not very hungry. She motions
like down, just like it's the ghostly visage.
Speaker 3: Of course, of course, how silly of me? Uh? Is this? H?
I'm sorry? Is this? Is that? Is that pineapple? Is that?
What that little picture is there next to the momota?
Speaker 5: Is?
Speaker 3: What is this?
Speaker 1: That is the lyches kiss. It's a BlackBerry highnapple reduction
with marsling black currant cider and floating eyeball garnish.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll tell you, I'll take one. I slide the
menu back over.
Speaker 1: Sounds great.
Speaker 2: And my mouth is actually watering because I haven't had
something like this.
Speaker 1: And while I'm sure you don't want any bar bites,
we have bone marrow fries, We've got nachos, We've got
white wings, flab sliders, ether tacos, charcuterie of the damned
and of course plasmic pretzels.
Speaker 2: And I'm standing there like you can see the gears processing.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, what do you want to all.
Speaker 1: Everything on the menu?
Speaker 3: Everything on the menu.
Speaker 1: Would you like some glimmer bombs? Yes?
Speaker 3: I don't even know what that is, but yes.
Speaker 1: They come in three different flavors, soul, fire, frostbite, and
static bliss.
Speaker 2: Ooh the bliss one sounds nice? What does that do?
Speaker 1: It leaves the nice Well, everyone calls it the digital laughtertaste.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, sure, sign me up, and my mouth is
like just I'm practically drooling.
Speaker 6: Rbites.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's various smells wafting around here. It's a combination
of like rot as well as stale beer and piss,
and also a little bit of that like tar grilling
kind of smell on top of it. It's just that
milange that you can't quite get anywhere else except like
either in the subway or a pub.
Speaker 3: Like pub food.
Speaker 2: You can kind of smell like the it lingers like
lots of food has been made here before.
Speaker 1: M Yeah, And there's just like a little there's like
a little grill or whatever, and you can see that
there appears to be a what appears to be like
a kind of like a a slimish looking kind of
character work in the grill. They look quite a bit
larger than say Bo, but they're wearing just like this
cyberpunkish trench coat, kind of like that long leather like
trench coat with patches and stuff. Hmm, and also wearing
some like big gloves.
Speaker 2: I'm glad that this creature is wearing gloves. I think
that's very that's very important.
Speaker 3: I'm kind of looking at.
Speaker 2: The Ooze character just watching how they work.
Speaker 5: M m.
Speaker 1: It's really weird. They're not moving like, you know, because
they don't have a skeleton, so they're kind of jiggling
their way. It's a little bit like one of those
like one of those games that you can get where
it's a boneless character, you know, and you have to
like move it and like I gotta push I gotta
push the right mouse button while also holding w and yeah,
it's one.
Speaker 2: Of those okay cool. I kind of watch in fascination,
just wondering like, wow, how is it able to do that?
And then my attention is turned back to Uh.
Speaker 1: Jules Jewels serves you the drink, and Uh says that
hobe tens in it.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, of course, of course. And I slide
over tens in it and look at her cautiously.
Speaker 1: Food should be ready soon. I think that Blap is
almost done.
Speaker 2: Blip great, great, right, I uh, I can't go wrong
with a cook like blip. And I have the I
have the mimosa, and I kind of like look into it,
like says can I. I'm just gonna and I take
a sip.
Speaker 1: Uh, so the mimosa is also served. And before you
do this, I'm just curious if you do anything with this.
The mimosa is served you see with what appears to
be like this sort of green capsule on the napkin
that it's served on.
Speaker 2: Oh, before I do anything, I pick up the capsule.
Is this the sparkle glitter bomb?
Speaker 1: That's the static bliss? You drop it inside?
Speaker 3: Oh? Can I take my cocktail? Can I drop it in?
Speaker 4: It?
Speaker 1: Phizzes. It looks a little bit like a bath bomb
that's been dropped inside.
Speaker 3: Okay, oh wow, and there's like screen.
Speaker 1: It kind of looks like some greenish stuff spreads out inside.
And yeah, this is probably like this one is uh,
you know, like when cocktails aren't stirred on purpose so
they can have like the colors kind of sure and stuff.
It's like that. So you can see like some what
appears to be some yellowish and sort of like purpleish
look to it inside.
Speaker 3: Okay, cheers.
Speaker 4: Enjoy.
Speaker 3: What does it taste like?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 1: Uh, it glows like a faint like purple color as
you're you know, like you're looking inside when you're taking
the drink and when it hits your when it hits
your tongue, first of all, you taste like, hey, this
is this is like BlackBerry and pineapple, and then there's
like a little spin on it. You start to you
start to taste I guess it's a little bit tapa tapioca.
And then that sort of fizzing static bliss that got
added kind of hits you with like citrus and mint.
Oh so it's like your pal it's all over the place.
Speaker 2: Ohow pleasant, And it's kind of fizzing like like that
one candy that I can't remember the name of you
put on your tournament.
Speaker 3: It and it fizzes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of it feels kind of almost like
that effect, but it's like refreshing in a way, like wow, well,
that's lovely.
Speaker 1: Lad you like it?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, wow? Food should be ready soon.
Speaker 2: Okay, great, thank you? And I kind of lean in.
What are you doing after work?
Speaker 1: Haunting?
Speaker 3: Can I come with?
Speaker 1: Excuse me for asking, but are you ALIVEI leen?
Speaker 2: And even closer? Will you share that secret? If I am?
Speaker 1: I don't care either way, as long as your zen
it's hey, I.
Speaker 2: Mean it's good money, it's good zenate, But yes, I'm
very much alive.
Speaker 3: Lom's the word?
Speaker 1: How did you make your way here? If you don't
mind me asking? We don't see many fleshies in here.
Speaker 2: I wish I knew how to tell you, but I
kind of just popped into existence here. I don't know
how to explain that, but no one seems to believe
me otherwise, So and I take another sip. Might as
well be the bartender that I tell these things too?
Speaker 3: Well, that's nice.
Speaker 1: I've heard stranger things in this place.
Speaker 3: Yeah, laying on me? What else have you heard?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 1: The feud between She looks around, trying to see who's
listening in. Dude, everybody's listening in. All the patrons are
trying to like catch an ear on whatever kind of
conversation this is, and you can see.
Speaker 7: Like there's.
Speaker 1: There's probably a few people that look like they're like
eating like a little too furiously like as they're looking
at you, you know.
Speaker 8: And she says, well, the corporations feuding with each other
can cause some really interesting situations, you understand, Io vax
Craven more.
Speaker 1: They don't get along.
Speaker 3: Well, why is that?
Speaker 1: Well, all of the liches want power, They want their
own east of this world. They want to rule Cryptia
and maybe.
Speaker 2: More surely though, they have to know right that a
lot of this world isn't undead. I don't think fleshies
would necessarily go for an undead ruler.
Speaker 1: Not yet at least, yeah, not yet.
Speaker 2: And I look around. I wave at this one patron
that's just been looking at me dead in the eyes.
Speaker 1: Hey, don't mind them. That's just rocks. And just to
be clear, what you see when you look at this
is a skull that's mounted on some kind of like
flying orb with like some pink smoke trails, and they're
kind of like just floating as they're staring at you.
Speaker 3: I go back to nursing my drink and I lean in.
What's up with rocks?
Speaker 1: Well, rocks is usually one of the more popular patrons here.
I don't think that he likes the attention getting taken away.
Speaker 3: Sure, sure.
Speaker 2: We listen, I can go sit somewhere. I just I
can wait for my food over there. I don't want
to bother you any more than I have to.
Speaker 1: Sure, if you'd like to grab a table, there's one
free right over there.
Speaker 2: Cheers and I make my way over to the table
and I PLoP down. I just kind of nurse my
drink because I really don't want to be any source
of attention right now.
Speaker 1: Sure, let's have a roll from you, please. This will
be decks and decks to try and not draw any
more attention than you are.
Speaker 2: A you have, God bless it. Open check open, check deck,
send it. Oh that's a five.
Speaker 1: Yeah, uh yeah. There's people that are just blatantly kind
of watching you, definitely talking about you.
Speaker 2: I'm staring into the bottom of my drink and it's
all purple and fizzy, and I started down at it.
Speaker 1: Sure do you do that like nervous thing that I
do when I'm in a bar. You just kind of
look for stuff to like occupy your attention.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm kind of there's like a little dent in
the table looks like somebody might have tried to draw
their name or initial or something.
Speaker 3: I'm kind of picking at it, waiting for my food.
Speaker 1: Sure, do you look at the menu at all? No?
Speaker 2: I think I'm already well aware that order the whole menu.
So I'm just kind of looking at the kitchen like
any hungry person, when where's my food? Which one is mine?
Every every order that that gets passed out of the kitchen,
I'm like, is it mine?
Speaker 3: Is a mine? Is is it mine? That's a mine?
That's mine? Is that mine? That's the mine?
Speaker 1: Absolutely nailing, Like how hungry I am whenever I go
to a fucking restaurant and I'm just like that one
mine is that?
Speaker 8: One?
Speaker 1: Mine is mine?
Speaker 2: I'm sizzling fijidas and you're like, oh, that's my fie,
that's my fidas. Wait, that's not my feet is that's
somebody else's somebody else's.
Speaker 3: So that's how That's how.
Speaker 2: I'm feeling right now, like, oh, I don't get here,
you know, I just ordered it out of the little things,
the little little menu.
Speaker 1: I'm definitely the guy if you see ever seen like
the tiktoks where it's like the significant other. Like they
sit down together to eat their food, and it's like
tried to match my boyfriend's pace or whatever, you know,
with the with like a hamburger. Mine's gone in three seconds. Yeah,
I'm that guy. Uh so I think, uh, you know,
after a while, the food uh starts to slowly arrive.
Bleipp is kind of bouncing his way over towards you, wiggling,
wiggling their way, and you can see that there appears
to be two googly eyes that have been inserted into
the slime. And yeah, there's just like there's like a
there's like I imagine like a fucking uh you know
those like wind up Keith those are in there too. Yeah,
they're just like around.
Speaker 3: Well why would they do that to Bleip?
Speaker 2: I I hold in my laughter or I try to
hold it in my laughter because it just looks so goofy.
Speaker 1: Yep, the google eyes are just wiggling around as as
as they are making their way towards the table, and
you can see they've grown like some extra arms and
they're like carrying all the all the like trays of
food over to you. You've got like you've got a
whole bunch of different plates. Let me say one, two, three, four, five, six,
seven plates of food headed your way. Hell yeah, they're
like awkwardly placed on the table.
Speaker 3: My hands the other Oh, thank you, thank you, blip.
Speaker 2: He Hey, I have a quick question, and this is
just curious.
Speaker 3: Listen. I have a friend.
Speaker 2: I have a friend who's who's very similar.
Speaker 3: I was just wondering, are you very similar?
Speaker 2: No, not not me, no I I uh no, no, no,
but but a lot like you. Actually that never mind,
never mind, thank thanks for the food.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, they just kind of like wizzle and it
looks like they're walking backwards because they don't. They don't
have run over back really, it's just kind of like
just kind of switches their momentum as they start moving backwards.
Speaker 2: I'm watching I'm watching blep kind of kind of just
blep along, and they have I'm guessing there's like no
real shape to them, and they have just.
Speaker 1: Kind of super vaguely humanoid. Yeah, super vaguely humanoid, if
anything like Grimace. Okay, sure, it's sort of weird, conical
sort of shape.
Speaker 2: I turned my attention to the food, and I'm guessing
it's just spark it's sparkling, like it's it's like just
a just a mortgage board.
Speaker 1: It's a smortgage board of different ship. I mean, you
got you got all kinds of stuff here. Yeah, it's
all different colors, and like some of it looks horrific
and some of it looks, you know, like normal food.
Speaker 3: Uh, is there any purple meat?
Speaker 1: Let's find out. I need to check. Yeah, the charcoonerie
board's got some purple meat on it.
Speaker 2: Oooh yep, I immediately go for the slice of purple meat.
Speaker 1: Yep. Uh, just do me a favor and roll me
a D twenty please.
Speaker 3: Oh lord, that's a twenty.
Speaker 1: Holy shit, it's so good. Holy shit, this might be
the best thing you've ever eaten.
Speaker 2: I immediately start like shoveling it into my mouth, and
there's like there's just anime sparkles like oooh, like all
around my face.
Speaker 6: Right now, just like oh.
Speaker 3: It's so good, just absolutely.
Speaker 1: Absolutely there's yeah, there's like.
Speaker 3: I start crying a little bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it just looks like it looks like a
total anime scene I imagine, with mood stuffing face. Yeah.
I mean as you're as you're eating, you start to
have some some interesting thoughts run through your head. I'll
leave it to you how this expresses itself towards you.
But you start having some memories begin to make their
way into your thoughts as you're eating.
Speaker 4: The food.
Speaker 1: Maybe trigger something or wait a minute, you remember looking
at the menu when you order the drinks. You do
that thing where your brain tries to catch up with
everything that's been going on, and you have that flash
of for a second, on the menu it said something
about those glimmer bombs bringing up memories, and everything starts
to fade away for a second as you start to
think back to a different time. When you add shared
experience with one of your friends, was how long ago
are you had those drinks with Riley?
Speaker 4: Wow?
Speaker 9: Hey, uh, sorry I'm late. Uh I couldn't find any parking. Wow,
it is busy in here today. Hmm. Hey uh, I'm
glad you can make it. Did you take the bus?
Speaker 3: No, I I just drove. I just drove my Toyota.
Speaker 2: You know this shitty one that's been breaking down for
the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you still have conkered?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, dude, I had to.
Speaker 2: I had to get the brakes change the other day,
like it gave out on me on the corner of
second in Maine, and I was just like, bro, this
is like one of the busiest parts of the street.
Speaker 3: Like, what am I supposed to do?
Speaker 9: If that happens again? Just call me?
Speaker 3: Sorry?
Speaker 2: Sorry, I know, but like you know, I want to
take care of it myself.
Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm strong, lady.
Speaker 2: Really trying to do it all. And sometimes that's just.
Speaker 3: Like heart, it's hard to keep up with your own life,
you know.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I get oh, excuse me, Uh hey, can I
get my regular? Just some coffee. I'll take it with
some cream on the side, Thank you do.
Speaker 3: Wait, no mimosa, No mimosa today?
Speaker 9: Uh why are we celebrating something?
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, yeah, we normally get mimosas.
Speaker 3: Oh, let's get mimosas today. Let's just let's just do
something just just for fun, just for fun. I mean
I never drink. I just I don't know.
Speaker 2: I hear the mimosas are pretty good here, Okay, sure,
why not?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 9: I mean, I mean i'med out if you are, God
work has been just chewing me out. Hike definitely has
a drink.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, fine, seriously, like I hear you, I hear
you on that. Like the accounting has been really weird
and I'm trying. I'm trying so hard to like keep
my you know, organization together, and the boss has just
been it's just it's just been on me. So yeah,
I think we deserve a little break.
Speaker 9: I've been dying to get out of doing administration work.
Working the reception desk has been a nightmare.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I bet any desk seriously has to be
good nightmare.
Speaker 9: Oh. I was hoping maybe that I don't know, something
might open up for me. I don't know if I
want to stay with this company. It's just been too much.
They keep telling me and asking me to do things,
and I don't know. Maybe I need to just switch departments.
Speaker 2: Dude, Yeah, I think then I take her hands. You
you're a badass. You're such a badass, and you deserve
you deserve whatever you want, seriously, whatever is like what's
the best for Riley the best, So go get it.
Don't don't just limit yourself to where you think you
have to be.
Speaker 3: Go to where you want to be. You know that's
really important.
Speaker 9: Oh my god, And I squeeze your hand, Jan, that's
the nicest thing anyone said to me.
Speaker 6: Well, it's true. It's true.
Speaker 3: You you deserve it. Seriously, you're a badass. You're so
hard too.
Speaker 9: My gosh, it's only a matter of time before you
land some a lister all star and tell their friends
about you.
Speaker 3: That'd be so nice. That'd be so nice.
Speaker 2: I'd be like, hey, if I could just maybe do
their account and maybe account for somebody, you know, like
maybe somebody's like private, like cause I hear that that
like private actually pays way better than if you're working
with the public. So fingers cross, fingers crossed.
Speaker 9: Oh, excuse me? Can we get too mimosas? Please?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Sure, thing, you still want the other drink?
Speaker 9: No, it's fine, just.
Speaker 2: Yeah, hopefully we don't nap later on.
Speaker 9: I guess we'll just have to go out shopping afterwards.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, actually, oh my god. Yeah, yeah, I need
I need new pants. I need to, like, I need
pants like you just do stuff in you know what
I mean?
Speaker 3: Like pants are just.
Speaker 2: Like, oh, I just need like a pair of pants
who exist in bro because I like have the nice
work khakis or whatever.
Speaker 3: I'm like, I don't want to just wear my khakis.
Speaker 9: Yeah, they've got no stretch. You know, how are you
supposed to move around and their pockets.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: And I looked down and I'm not wearing pants.
Speaker 3: I'm wearing armor.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, khakis have seriously no stretch, no stretch at all.
It's like the weirdest thing, dude, Like you'd think that
they would be built for comfort.
Speaker 9: Well, I hear there's a store on the corner that
sells these nice pants. They look like trousers, but they
are made mostly of spandex. Huh, and they got pockets.
I'm down.
Speaker 3: I'm so down.
Speaker 2: I'm down to at least try and see what we
can find, because chopping Dame almossa day seems like it's
pretty good.
Speaker 9: I'm excited. I don't think i've had a mimosa since college.
Made no same, Oh my god.
Speaker 2: And then I look around because I remember having mimosas.
And then I look back, Yeah, it's been been a
while for me too. Look, oh, Riley, not to get
I'll sapy on you.
Speaker 3: But do you ever, uh you ever?
Speaker 2: Do you ever feel like you're in like a deja
vo sometimes where you're like, oh, I'm just kind of
I'm repeating something.
Speaker 10: M hmm.
Speaker 9: I mean kind of feels like that at work, just
the same brins and repeat.
Speaker 3: Yeah, is that what you're talking about? Yeah? Where it's.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's it's familiar and you kind of already know
what's gonna happen, just because it's happened before, maybe a
few times.
Speaker 3: I don't. I don't know. Does that makes sense?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 9: I think it makes sense. Do you have something on
your mind?
Speaker 3: Then I really study her because I've missed my friend.
Speaker 9: I look younger than you remember before I worked in HR,
before I got that motion, before I started chasing that
new dream, that new thread, and I look so full
of hope and bright eyed. A friend that you've known
for years. We've grown up together, but it was never
really that deep. It wasn't until we started having mimosas
regularly that we really got to know each other. Do
I have something in my face?
Speaker 3: No? No, Sorry, I don't know what's going on. I'm
just a little sleepy.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 2: I really think that maybe unwinding a little bit will help.
Speaker 9: Yeah. Yeah. We should avoid eating too much because then
the clothes won't feel very comfortable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, true, true.
Speaker 9: I guess everyone's ordering mimosas today. That's not ours. I
just watched the waiter as they passed by our table.
M hm, well, well we should celebrate something, right, should
we mark the occasion?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Mm hmmm, I don't know. Maybe maybe some new traditions.
Speaker 9: I'm going for that. Yeah, break out of this deja
vu cycle thing that we've got going on.
Speaker 6: Yeah, no, yes, over here?
Speaker 9: Yes?
Speaker 1: Oh do you so joy?
Speaker 9: Thank you? Thank you so much?
Speaker 1: You want anything to eat? Any any branch or anything.
Speaker 9: We'll take some water?
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, water, and.
Speaker 1: I can't interest you in any We have some amazing
savory waffles.
Speaker 3: Okay, I think I'm okay on waffles.
Speaker 9: Maybe next time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, enjoy, thank.
Speaker 3: You, thank you? And I look at the glass. I
hold it.
Speaker 9: So what are we going to?
Speaker 2: Cheers to the friendships that.
Speaker 3: Transcend worlds?
Speaker 9: Cheers to friendships that transcend where cheers. I clink my
glass yours.
Speaker 3: Then I take a sip.
Speaker 9: Hmmm.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, that's good. That's really good.
Speaker 9: We want to do this every week. It's kind of nice.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking we should make this another week thing.
Speaker 9: Okay, all right here, I have an idea. Starting tomorrow,
I'm gonna start applying for a different department.
Speaker 2: Yeah, get out of that cycle, you know, yes, yes, yes,
I think that's a great idea.
Speaker 3: You totally should.
Speaker 9: I think next weekend, we meet here, we get drinks,
and we just start hitting up all these IMDBs and
just see if anyone needs an agent.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, yeah, if you want, if you want to,
we absolutely can do that. Yeah bucket whah yeah, cheers, cheers,
my clink, Can I drink?
Speaker 1: As you begin to drink, there is something creeping into
your memory. You can see Riley in front of you
start to forget the conversation as Emberstone begins to grow
across the various surfaces. Riley seems unperturbed by this, so
you feel it closing in around you. The patrons don't
seem to notice patrons to get engulfed in Emberstone. The
waitress arrives, Can I get you anything else? And you
can see that her eyes are completely red crystal as
she looks at you.
Speaker 3: Why I ah, And I just stutter. I stand up
and I run out.
Speaker 1: As you rush out of this place, the scenery changes
around you. You are running out of this bar, and
as you do, you can see the familiar sights of Sinntharis,
the swamps and the marshes about you. You are wading
into deeper and deeper water in this marsh, this bog,
the heat and the humidity begins to overwhelm you as
you can see creatures beginning to sort of look from
the shadows. You can see that there is something large
looming in the distance, and it appears to be larger
than a mountain.
Speaker 3: What the hell.
Speaker 2: I weighed towards it? Even though it's getting deeper and deeper,
harder to move forward.
Speaker 1: The water is up to your chest as the bob
seems to be closing in about you. The algae and
other plants seemingly more and more overgrown. As you continue
to move, you see crystals floating in the water. You
can see that there are there are eyes that seem
to be glowing from whatever that creature is in the distance.
Speaker 3: Gonna make my way towards this creature.
Speaker 2: I'm not scared, just just frustrated.
Speaker 1: The bog starts to thin. You begin to walk like
on some sort of incline, making your way up, and
as you emerge from the bog, you feel your boots
get released from the mud and muck below the surface.
But when you put your feet on the ground you
see battlefield for you. There are dead bodies littering the battlefield.
Who are they men?
Speaker 3: There's some people from noll eFax. I killed them.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I don't.
Speaker 3: Want to be shotting this dreaming. I'm truth.
Speaker 1: Flash of swords catches your vision. Duck out of the
way of a strike. You can't see where it comes from,
but you see the sword just a second before it
makes contact. You dodge underneath and you raise your shield up.
The battering of your shield catches a blaze, it catches another,
and you feel like this. You feel something running down
your face. It's beginning to obstruct part of your vision.
It's kind of red, and you realize that it's blood.
It's not even yours moon. You look down and you
see bodies at your feet. You are wading through dead
as the battle rages around you. You hear people yelling
and screaming different battlefield commands. There are flights of dragons
flying overhead.
Speaker 3: I'm just trying to make it through. This just feels
like a nightmare.
Speaker 2: It feels like you can't move any faster, and I
want to run, but all I can do. All I
can do is just trudge. Yeah, and my cape's getting
stuck on something. And I turned behind me, and there's
this person, this person just clawing on my cape, and
then several people start to claw in my cape.
Speaker 1: You see at the top of a hill of bodies
an imposing, massive figure, the hulking stature of the Dragon Emperor.
Towers of cinder shroud dot the background, and you can
see that he holds the scepter, points it towards you,
and you know that the challenge has been struck.
Speaker 3: I stand tall and I point at him.
Speaker 1: As you do, Dragon Emperor changes before you. You see
the Emperor become the Empress. She looks at you, pleading
as the fight fades into the background.
Speaker 3: I kneel before her, my queen.
Speaker 1: She speaks to you. Her words seem distant. You can't
seem to hear her. This part of your life there
is no more. She reaches out for you towards your hand, and.
Speaker 7: That she does.
Speaker 1: She begins to weep, and she's holding the Dragon Emperor slain.
Look at your hands and you can see covered in
Blood's screaming at you. She's yelling, she's shoving you away.
Speaker 3: I try to talk and nothing comes out.
Speaker 1: You stumble down the hill of dead bodies. Amongst them
m hm h you see fallen members of.
Speaker 4: What was it.
Speaker 1: You were your friends once o day, Yes, fall to
the bottom of the hill. You see the bodies begin
to humble with you. They begin to fall around you.
At first, I just let myself.
Speaker 3: Humble.
Speaker 1: Your bodies begin to fall, pile up around you, beginning
to obstruct your vision, and everything goes dark, and then
it begins to turn red. Feel strong, feel powerful. You
feel like you can do anything, like you can create
or destroy. No one can stand in your way. Red
begins to fall away and you can see the sea
of red, crystal numberstone as far as the eye can see.
It's beautiful. Something catches your eye. Amongst the sea of red.
There is one lone figure. It stands atop the sea
of emberstone, wearing researchers clothing with white hair. You recognize
this person, he says, Tim Cross.
Speaker 5: Tim Cross smiles, and you see that gauntlet form around
his hand.
Speaker 1: Feel a sharp pain in your stomach. When you put
your head up, he is gone, and standing in his place,
you see Oh and IRUs Enders.
Speaker 4: And Rue.
Speaker 1: Encased in amber stone, looks of horror on their faces.
Speaker 2: I rush to them as quickly as I can, and
you see my cape flowing behind me because I'm going
so quickly. But I try and bang on the emberstone.
Speaker 1: The emberstone cracks breaks and the four of them fall
out onto the ground, which is no longer emberstone. Instead
it is the bar. The food on the table is
mostly devoured. Several people are looking at you.
Speaker 2: I stand up abruptly and never think clatters to the floor,
and I and I leave the bar in a hurry.
Speaker 1: Rush outside into the snowy cold, probably rush out into
the street. There's a vehicle that kind of like swars, sorry,
like a skeletal fist. It's like shaking at you.
Speaker 2: I run across the road and I look for some
kind of bench or seat or anything. In fact, I
just I just flop under the ground.
Speaker 4: Kay m hm.
Speaker 3: And I just go horizontal onto the ground and I
just lay there in the cold.
Speaker 1: There's a few people that walk high, but the hell
is that how they're drunk from the bar.
Speaker 11: I'm fine, fine, I'm fine, I'm fine, statachells.
Speaker 12: Hm.
Speaker 2: I take some of the snow on the ground. I
just grab a handful of it.
Speaker 1: Is that like gray city snow, and.
Speaker 3: I just cover my face in it. Oh, that's refreshing.
Speaker 2: And I Uh, I just kind of layd here and
I look up at the sky.
Speaker 3: Oh what the hell? Tim Cross? And I sit up.
Speaker 2: I look at my request log. Does it still say
find him Cross?
Speaker 1: Specifically the get answers quest find out why you can
absorb Emberstone? Why is Tim Cross here? And what is
his part in all this?
Speaker 3: Tim Cross?
Speaker 2: And I stand up, shake myself off, and I start
heading back to the docks, like I initially planned to
get out of this hell island because I don't want
to be here any longer.
Speaker 1: Very well, Moon begins to head to the docks of
craven Stone. While this is happening, we find our other
group as they are leaving Cinder Shroud.
Speaker 13: Are we all ready?
Speaker 4: Give me one second?
Speaker 7: I mean, suppose I don't have a bag to pack
or anything.
Speaker 13: Well, I still have some of your money if there's
anything you want from the market before we head out.
Speaker 7: But mm hmmm, I think I'm okay. I think these abyss,
I say, as I kind of like surface. The bear
claws onto my onto the top of my like a
I guess oval slime surface and then they sink back
in again.
Speaker 6: Oh what uh? Nothing, I should be used to that
by now.
Speaker 9: All the right?
Speaker 7: You okay, do you need a lot of.
Speaker 13: Well no, I was just emulating what it sounds like
when you when you morph into things and force things
out of your Uh oh, what is what is your
layer called?
Speaker 6: What's the exterior again?
Speaker 7: My membrane?
Speaker 6: Your membrane? Yes, when you expel things?
Speaker 7: H right, yes, because I'm a slime.
Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, Well, has everyone gotten everything that.
Speaker 3: They need.
Speaker 9: As much as I can? All right, and.
Speaker 6: I suppose let's go seek out our transportation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the immediate area around you is pretty bustling. There's
you received some directions basically to head to one of
the many one of the many like private transportation locations
here in town from the probably royal guard as opposed
to the Queen or the Empress. And yeah, it's I mean,
it's pretty nice looking like this. This area is definitely
like richer than the rest. You can see, I think today,
especially as you've been doing any shopping or what have you,
you've seen different parts of town in this city's massive.
This is the this is the metropolis effectively, and there's
been different sections of town that have looked uh it's
it's like quite clear that they are unpowered compared to
where you are right now. This area is much more bustling.
There's way more people here, and you can definitely hear
chatter about people talking about like I wonder when I
wonder when District District is going to run out of juice.
You really need some kind of emberstone replacement. Mm hmm.
It's definitely on everybody's minds. You can hear it almost,
you know, throughout the entire.
Speaker 9: Day, hearing that my eyes cut over towards enders, remembering
a conversation that I had with him, but not meeting
his eyes, and knowing that he's changed, I decided to
not bring it up. So, uh, what kind of transportation
are we thinking of?
Speaker 13: Well, the Empress we agreed would help us out with that, right,
So I guess it's really up to them.
Speaker 9: I hope it's not flying.
Speaker 13: We're going to be doing a decent bit of that once.
Speaker 6: We get the airship.
Speaker 9: Well that's different.
Speaker 6: Oh you meant.
Speaker 7: Yeah, right right, Superman style?
Speaker 9: Was it great? Right?
Speaker 13: Well, they do have a teleportation circle, so perhaps that's well,
maybe they don't have when it's called me or I
don't know.
Speaker 9: Wepe only way to find out.
Speaker 4: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 13: Yes, And I'm going to use.
Speaker 6: My special bullshit with the navigator in order to.
Speaker 1: Okay, I never know every week has the speaker's.
Speaker 6: Been one day? Yeah, this is the did this before?
Speaker 13: However, I'm not going to reach out to the Empress herself.
I'm going to reach out to I suppose one of
their the advisors that we met and spoke with that
handled all of our accommodations previously.
Speaker 1: Uh okay, one of the advisors for the Empress. Yes, okay,
I imagine this would have been uh, Sir Ashen, Sir Ashton.
Speaker 6: Apologies, it is it is, it is irislyth.
Speaker 13: We are wondering what sort of transportation to scald Here
we should be expecting today.
Speaker 1: And you've written this or this is your psychic bullshit?
Speaker 6: Did you say psychic bullshit?
Speaker 1: Okay, very well, uh yeah, fair enough. Yes, you may
head to the Volori Lux.
Speaker 4: It is a shuttle service.
Speaker 1: Typically they run back and forth from Well from Cinder
Shrouds to Scoldmere. That is the most popular means of transport,
A very elegant means of transportation that the Empress has
arranged for you.
Speaker 13: Excellent, Thank you kindly, and I relate this to everyone else.
Speaker 1: What great?
Speaker 6: Yeah, so we're looking for My brain just blinked out
and I forgot the name Valari Lux, Valari Lucks, thank you.
We're looking for the Valari Lux Transport. So if we're ready, let's.
Speaker 1: Go okay, uh okay, let's do a group check. Let's
do some roles. I uh, this is going to be
insight insight. Who wants to lead?
Speaker 9: I think you make something that Irish leads orco?
Speaker 6: What is the difficulty game?
Speaker 9: Masta?
Speaker 13: Uh?
Speaker 1: Difficulty will be uh probably ten? You have directions? The
image is just not loaded.
Speaker 3: For the Is that what just happened?
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's completely blank for us.
Speaker 9: Fascinate for me.
Speaker 1: Let's go here then I try to figure that out.
Uh okay, yes, please, let's do the group check for
anybody that's trying to assist Iris and locating the shop here?
Speaker 7: Huh.
Speaker 9: I like to imagine maybe the reason that BO and
I fail is I'm like, oh, I have an idea,
and I pick up Bow and I just throw him
up in the air. You see anything?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 9: Why am I looking at the web to catch him?
Speaker 7: I don't see too good.
Speaker 9: Remember it's worth a shot.
Speaker 13: While they're distracted, I'm looking around trying to compare it
to the streets, to the things we've seen previously. Maybe
I've seen buildings that are close to it.
Speaker 6: Asking around a little.
Speaker 1: Bit, Yeah, it's not too hard you find it. It's
this place looks very posh as you're all making your
way through the streets. I mean you imagine, you know,
I imagine that there's everybody's wearing like nice clothing, you know,
like this is the rich, rich area of mill Offax.
You can see that it looks like nobility is kind
of like walking about and there's definitely a lot of
looks towards Bow for sure.
Speaker 4: We Hi, Hi, what is doing?
Speaker 1: Where is there someone's familia?
Speaker 7: Yeah that's me Hi excusty.
Speaker 1: Where everyone's being like really shitty to bo bo is oblivious?
Speaker 9: Ye, I flip them off as they're walking away.
Speaker 7: Bow.
Speaker 6: Why is everyone being.
Speaker 9: So mean to you?
Speaker 1: To me?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Quite nice of going high, being very personable as while
I'm being no.
Speaker 13: They're not.
Speaker 6: You're being rude.
Speaker 13: Your unkindness makes you ugly, I say to one of
the nobles.
Speaker 1: Sure, they just kind of like they turn their head
and walk away.
Speaker 7: Mmm. I sympathize, cat piss thank you, I is sind
what I was going to do.
Speaker 9: Thanks sir, don't be doing your cat piss business on me, please. Flying.
Speaker 1: You see this place ahead of you Valarie Lux and
the promotion around it is like probably you imagine like
a higher tech. You can see that this place looks
like it's got some like monitors and stuff stuff inside
like or I guess outside the shop and there's like
an ad playing outside. You can see what appears to
be they're using the word glidecraft a lot.
Speaker 7: O glydecraft. Oh are we gonna parasale? All the way back.
Speaker 13: They said it was a shuttles. I don't Perhaps that's
their definition of a shuttle.
Speaker 1: Then maybe.
Speaker 9: I steek my head into the doorway. Hey, is anyone
working here?
Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, you can see that this place is like busy.
Inside there's lots of people kind of like waiting in
a bunch of different lines. It looks like a car
rental service. Inside. Yeah, there's like a counter. There's like
probably five people working, and there's like like three lines
that are a bit long.
Speaker 9: I think we have to get in line.
Speaker 7: Do you see any glide crop in the sky?
Speaker 1: I imagine like outside the shop, you probably, I would say,
since you passed the group initi inside check. I'm gonna
say that you probably would have it kind of look
like small, sort of different, but small planes, not airships
like planes. They planes, Yeah, they're not. They're not actually
shaped like what we would expect the plane to be.
They're probably I imagine dragon styled.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
Speaker 7: Okay hmm.
Speaker 9: So they look like they would carry at least six people.
Speaker 1: There's a few of them in different kinds and sizes.
Speaker 9: As we're loafing about in front of the shop, I
am holding Greg's hand with one of mine.
Speaker 1: Sure, and like you can, you can hear the ad
like in the background. Now take a no, take a well,
Laurie looks holiday.
Speaker 9: That's two sent it for a person.
Speaker 7: I hate it here.
Speaker 13: Well, if you don't want to wait online, you guys
can hang out out here.
Speaker 6: I'll wait for us.
Speaker 7: I mean, there's no difference than me. I don't really
have legs to get tired, you know.
Speaker 6: All right, Well, I'm going to shuffle on in and
get online.
Speaker 7: Jump on her back and weigh her down.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 6: Oh, I'm gonna be so strong by the end of this.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 9: I wave out the two of them as they leave
and go inside. By when it's just Enders, Greg and
I outside. I look over at him. What is Enders
doing right now?
Speaker 4: Just staring off, looking all around and not really making
much eye contact with anyone in the group, Still trying
to find out, trying to read everyone after the whole
big reveal of the meeting and what the plan that
end us has.
Speaker 9: Hey you and I gently elbow you on the side.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, rue, So.
Speaker 9: I understand that you've went through a lot. Do you
happen to remember a conversation that we had about the Maelstrom, oh,
a log.
Speaker 4: Of fluctuation of magic in the middle of this world?
Speaker 7: Yes.
Speaker 9: Uh, we had to talk about maybe trying to find
or figure out a different way to generate power. Do
you remember no, m hm.
Speaker 4: I would imagine if that version of myself was somewhat
intelligent and think we'll try to use the Malstrom as
a source of power.
Speaker 9: Yes, okay, great?
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 9: Yeah. I don't know if you heard some of the
people that we were walking by, but sounds like there's
going to be a supply problem. Yes, I mean we've
already seen some of it, but.
Speaker 4: I imagine people will die.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, are you interested in maybe putting our heads together?
And trying to see if we can do anything about that.
Speaker 4: I am interested in the Melchiam and where it leads.
Speaker 9: Okay, let's a start. That's a start. You've been holding
that book ever since we've reunited, do you like?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 9: No, I'm not a peeper. I don't like to read.
You're fine. Maybe we should try to find out more
about the mailstream as we're going all these different places.
Speaker 4: Highly concentrated area in the middle of this ocean area.
It could be a rip of even a ripping space
and time. No idea where it could lead with that
much amount of magical energy can possibly be dispersed. Ye, yes,
could also end up being dangerous and destroying this old world.
Speaker 9: I get.
Speaker 4: I will destroy the world as well. I look at
the complications of it all, and here's some calculations. I've
done world it too with it.
Speaker 9: Okay, go on.
Speaker 4: Sorry, Yes, So there's dark energy and light energy, and
there's elementals all around, you know, fire dining, all the
boring stuff. It's all come together. You know, it's the swirl.
It's kind of like mixing hot and cold air to
do that big swirl happens, and real complications. Yeah, they've
been digging into this world's roots and sources and lay lines,
and this leads to a great disturbance. It could probably
possibly absorb this energy into something you contain it. But
I don't think they have the technological advances for this yet.
Speaker 9: And they start here, Yeah, we should ask people like
maybe maybe they know stuff. I imagine some of these
people have been living around it.
Speaker 4: Most of their lives, these people here in mit Offax.
Speaker 9: You mean, no, just as we're traveling.
Speaker 4: Oh, yes, I believe the best place to get more
interesting readings, the more intelligent kind, those that have already
lived through a great catastrophe. I've heard of rumors of cryptia.
Speaker 9: Maybe I don't know where that.
Speaker 4: Is, Yes, neither do I. But they're in this book
fascinating history. Also, maybe Ellen drafts. They've been around for
a long time. It's to live a lot longer. They
may have some advancements now. The cat they're aware of breed,
Yes I am. Oh, yes, you are a cat?
Speaker 9: Yeah? Uh?
Speaker 4: Why do you stare at me?
Speaker 9: Sorry? I didn't realize I was staring.
Speaker 4: Earlier when we were walking. Oh, you have taken glances.
Did I do something wrong that.
Speaker 9: You caught that? Oh? No, no, no, no, you're not
doing anything wrong. I was just starting to get to
know you before, and I'm not really sure where to
start or where to pick up.
Speaker 4: How was he I before?
Speaker 9: Warm, enthusiastic. H My favorite thing was that whenever you
would start a kuiled meeting that you'd always make sure
to call me because, uh, sometimes your girl sleeps through arms,
but you always want the extra mile to make sure
that I was there. And I think I didn't ever
really get a chance to say thank you.
Speaker 4: And I hold out my hand. I'm in it.
Speaker 9: Oh, hold my hand out.
Speaker 4: I don't know much else to do with this. I
just know that is a custom somewhere.
Speaker 9: There's a couple of things we can do. I slap
the shit out of your hand.
Speaker 4: As she does that, I spin around and I start
to build a spell in my hand. This is spying, man.
Speaker 9: Oh no, nope, that way, No, no, no, no, okay,
let's just start with something simple. And I take your
hand and I gently shake it up and down.
Speaker 7: Yes, let's just start with this.
Speaker 9: Please don't kill me.
Speaker 4: No kill I don't want to kill who you think
is still attached to That person is long gone. You
do know that.
Speaker 9: I'm silly coming to realize there's a trend of me
having to let go of people I used to know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that doesn't mean that you can't get to know
the new version of who that person will become if
we do save it.
Speaker 9: Yeah. Yeah, what's your favorite color.
Speaker 4: Color?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 4: I guess blue since I was referred to as that.
Speaker 9: Okay, that's a start. Blue, blue, blue, bluem Okay.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to fit in with the others and fulfill
the gap that they seem to have lost with whatever happened.
But I have a disconnection with I guess what you
would call emotions. There's emptiness.
Speaker 9: That's a lot to unpack. But you know what, there's
nothing wrong with that. We all have our different ways
of communicating and we're all different people. Do you want
to make a connection with us? Do you want to
get to know us?
Speaker 4: I believe that it is good for the mission.
Speaker 9: Okay, okay, that's a start. Well, one way to do
it is you tell people about yourself. Share a little
something like your favorite color is blue.
Speaker 4: Yeah, believe that's all I have.
Speaker 9: Well, you can build on it to start.
Speaker 4: You can teach me.
Speaker 9: Sure, I am great at building profiles. My day job
used to be Hr, so looking at profiles all day
was literally my bread and butter. Hr Yeah, oh sorry.
Human resources, Uh, it's it's basically a department where.
Speaker 4: I'm insurance resources.
Speaker 6: No, no, no, no, no, no, Well.
Speaker 9: It kind of depends depends on your whole philosophy on
like you know, the machinations of capitalism and all that.
But we don't have to get into it. We don't
have to get into it. I used to collect information,
important information about people.
Speaker 4: Human resources.
Speaker 9: Well, the it's more of like resources for humans.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, like the mailstream that we need for everyone here.
Sure calculations I understand very well.
Speaker 9: Yeah yeah, and you will.
Speaker 4: Assist me in the finding of a resource alternative resource. Yes,
I think I do. I'm starting to remember.
Speaker 9: Good good Yeah. Yeah. I think it'll help a lot
of people here. And I mean, you know, the whole
or kind of stuf started because of it, the Emberstone,
So maybe if there's a way to avoid a repeat
of that, maybe it really help people.
Speaker 4: I had a vision once where there was a large tree.
It was full of life in a field of flowers.
It was in the in between.
Speaker 9: That sounds really pretty.
Speaker 12: Hm.
Speaker 4: Well thanks for taking the time.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and uh, I look down at Greg. What's your
favorite color? Buddy?
Speaker 2: Ah?
Speaker 7: Call it that?
Speaker 9: Can you understand him? I can't understand him?
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 9: Oh, I have an idea. What if I help you
learn how to get closer to people, and you with
that big ol' honking brain of yours, help me learn
how to talk to Greg.
Speaker 4: That can be done through spell work.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I love not having to study.
Speaker 4: Great mm hmm.
Speaker 9: Okay, fine, I hold my hand out.
Speaker 4: And I slapped.
Speaker 7: He's threw up.
Speaker 4: You can't have strange customs, but I appreciate it.
Speaker 9: Oh, I think my hand grew in a size.
Speaker 14: Better.
Speaker 9: How's going in there.
Speaker 4: The other? Yes?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I imagine that Bo and Irish probably are motioning
to you. You can see that they're like at the
front of the line or whatever. Inside.
Speaker 9: I grab Greg and I grab Enters his hand and
I drag them both inside. Hey, what's up?
Speaker 6: We're up?
Speaker 12: Next?
Speaker 9: Great? And I give an there's his hand a small
squeeze and I smile at him or let it go.
Speaker 4: I try to form more smile.
Speaker 1: Next.
Speaker 7: How does and a smile look? I think this is okay.
Speaker 6: Better than mine? Yes, Oh, that's us, that's us. Hello?
Speaker 1: Hello, do you have a reservation.
Speaker 13: Yes, indeed, the Empress has organized our travel to to
skald Mire.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 13: My name is and this is Rue, and this is Bo,
and this.
Speaker 1: Is We've received the Empress's commands earlier. Yes, please write
this way. And they immediately you could see like they
like make a few you know, frantic motions like and
you can see like there's there's like us the staff.
You know that they keep like doing other random ship
like some valeting and whatnot. They all like Russian. There's
like six of them that come flying out of nowhere,
like everybody's like brushing shit off of their uniforms and
whatnot as they all as they all got you. It's
it looks like you know, if you if you if
you've ever seen anybody like get off a plane in Hawaii,
you know, and they give you like the lace and
they give you like that super like pampered treatment. It's
a bit like that, you know, like oh yes, come
with a oh yes, would you like anything to drink?
Speaker 4: And blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: You know, like they're they're pampering the shit out of you.
Speaker 7: Virus. Yes, do we even have to cue? Uh, they're
giving us the fast pause treatment.
Speaker 13: Well, I mean, then what everyone else isn't gonna hate
us now, right, because I mean we didn't skip them
in line?
Speaker 7: Do you hate us? I turn around like to the
people behind us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's definitely like some people that are like looking
at bo for sure, they look like they're whispering. But
I don't think anybody outright says like the fuck that guy.
You know, like nobody's yelling that.
Speaker 7: I guess not.
Speaker 6: Perfect very good.
Speaker 13: Oh and I see them kind of up fussing over enders.
She doesn't really enjoy being touched all that much. Just be,
of course, no courteous about that.
Speaker 1: Just this way, please, we'll take you to some of
our finest glide craft.
Speaker 9: Perfect.
Speaker 1: They Yeah, they walk you to you know, the equivalent
of that like rental car pick up area, right where
it's kind of like a separate area of the of
the building and you can see, Yeah, there's like there's
just kind of like a bunch of different craft in here.
You can see some that are land craft and some
are aircraft. They do all sort of resemble dragons in
different ways, however, And you can all smell this like
overpowering smell that you've smelled before. It has that musky
smell of dragon in here.
Speaker 7: That's not the other smell we like so much.
Speaker 1: It is a bit like that capis smell. Oh, that
was what the you decided on for the musk of
the dragons.
Speaker 7: M h.
Speaker 13: Well, at least unlikely to get attacked mid air if
it smells like.
Speaker 9: Musk. Hm.
Speaker 1: Well, that is the that is the purpose of the
application of the musk. We source our musk directly from well,
from the royal court. Frankly, they have several dragons as
part of their obviously as part of the Royal Guard,
and it is the most recognizable smell to other dragons
and causes the least amount of problems we found. It's
also very expensive. You don't have to worry the the
glidecraft transportation is taken care of for you to travel
from Cinder Shroud. Who's called mere.
Speaker 6: Wonderful, Thank you so much?
Speaker 7: Can sorry on? Can I spend a fabula point change
the narrative so that they source the mask from I lancho.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm gonna say no, And I know that that's
kind of a ship aspect to things, because uh, they wouldn't.
Speaker 7: I just don't give a shitty pond don't worry.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to take about the pun, but I don't
know what it was. You're gonna have to Can.
Speaker 9: You please explain to the class.
Speaker 7: You're gonna have to explain the joke musk elan shoe, No, nope,
I mean it's a shitty joke.
Speaker 1: It really was. Nobody's doubting that.
Speaker 9: Can I spend a fabulau point for that to not happen?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 7: Yes, Can I have a fabula point.
Speaker 6: To be gone?
Speaker 9: Right now?
Speaker 1: I feel like I have to change this music up. Now,
there we go. We're gonna change that. As you are
led onto the the glidecraft. Yeah, I imagine it's probably
like I imagine it's probably kind of it's not like Camo,
but it is sort of no descript it's not like
particularly flashy, and it's kind of I imagine blues and whites,
probably similar to the colors that you saw on some
of like the tide Collar dragons, and it would probably
blend in like really well in general with the sky.
Speaker 4: Is this shaped like a dragon.
Speaker 1: So the interior is probably relatively comfortable, but it is
I imagine it's probably like one person wide inside and
it's it's like a longer craft as opposed to a
wider craft. It's it's not like, yeah, yeah, it's got
that kind of a feel, but yeah, it's really nice
in here, Like everything looks really comfortable, and it definitely
does not smell like muskin here. I feel like they've
sprayed too much perfume in here to like compensate for
the musk smell outside.
Speaker 9: Are either of the smells distinct enough that my very
sensitive shnase could potentially pick up the trail if we
lose it for something?
Speaker 1: Uh? Probably it depends on like how far away you go,
but yeah, maybe.
Speaker 9: Okay, start sniffing at the air to commit these to memory.
Speaker 1: Okay, make an insight and insight.
Speaker 12: Okay, the nose nose uh okay, and eleven, I'm gonna.
Speaker 1: Say, uh, yeah, you think you've got like a decent
memory of this. It's they're pretty intense smells. I'm gonna
say it's not. It wasn't super hard to do this,
But you think you've made it some kind of old
factory imprint.
Speaker 7: I guess.
Speaker 9: Great.
Speaker 1: The glide craft, you can see, uh, there's probably like
a pilot that's waiting like at the front of the
craft in front of like a little pilot's cabin area,
and you can see that there are yeah, there's just
like big comfy chairs probably on either side to keep balance,
and again sort of a thin craft, thin and long
and yeah, just there looks like there's some drinks later
on ice and you probably smell like some food in here.
Speaker 9: Does this seem that we have a dedicated pilot? Oh yeah, okay,
I saunter on in and I man spread as much
as I can on the comfy's chair.
Speaker 1: Oh god, you sink right in. It's like, oh oh.
Speaker 9: It's cupping my butt cheeks.
Speaker 1: Greg. You can see Greg has grabbed a chair as well.
Greg is like slowly disintegrating. The chair is like compassing him.
You know, he's like sat in a bean bag.
Speaker 13: I'll look at this variety of drinks and food.
Speaker 6: It all looks so good. Do you want anything?
Speaker 9: Roal?
Speaker 6: Greg?
Speaker 9: Yes, I opened my inventory and I just start slamming
things into it.
Speaker 1: Greg. Greg is yeah. Greg is saying, and Bo, you
interpret this as Greg asking y'all have a some tropical
fruit smoothies and if you've got any salad that would
be good. I really like some some.
Speaker 4: Rise of fruit.
Speaker 1: Maybe even do you think that they have any Ah,
do you think they have anything from mellow grove?
Speaker 7: Hmmm, I don't know. Uh my big bushy front here
once all your greenery, your fruits, your vegetables, and maybe
a blender and a blender are too to go with
it so they can do it for him.
Speaker 1: Yes, there is probably like a very very gaunt looking
man that is here that is like very well quaffed,
you know, like so much so much product in their
hair that you have maybe never seen it before in
your life, wearing a very clean looking clothes, very like
properly uh formerly like attired the uniform that they're wearing here,
and you know, like everything is like very very clean
and nice and like smells good. And he says, I'll
get right on that. What would you like And he
moves on over to iris. Can I get you anything?
Speaker 6: Oh my goodness, oh teas? Any any do you have any?
Speaker 13: Do you have any herbal teash?
Speaker 1: Yes, of course we can come up with that for you.
That shouldn't be a problem. Beautiful, too many like too
many teeth like hits you in the face, like you know,
like freshly cleaned, you know, just like blinding white teeth
like clean.
Speaker 6: Oh, and some sweets for for everyone.
Speaker 1: Yes, but I think that Jim carry's teeth in the
mask and like chick lit sized teeth.
Speaker 6: Anders. Do you have a preferred beverridge?
Speaker 4: Mm? No? Sort of liquids do you have on this apparatus?
Speaker 1: Would you like a cocktail? Or would you like some
fruit juice? Per have something sparkling?
Speaker 6: Yes, sparkling fruit juice, cocktail.
Speaker 4: I'll see what I can come up with.
Speaker 1: Okay, and you he's stopped in front of both.
Speaker 7: I looked at the guy. He was looking at me.
Do you have nuts going a plane?
Speaker 11: Right?
Speaker 7: Nuts?
Speaker 1: Do in fact have some? Would you like some mixed nuts?
Speaker 11: Now?
Speaker 7: I want them separate.
Speaker 6: Nuts touching?
Speaker 1: Okay? Sure, I think I can. I can accommodate you, sir.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 13: And also, do you have something of an extremely sour
variety or some of the extreme?
Speaker 6: I looked at both. Maybe maybe you'll be able to
taste it mm hmm.
Speaker 13: Extremely sour or extremely sweet or extremely spicy.
Speaker 7: It's worth a shot.
Speaker 1: I guess I have spicy and we have sweet. We
do have some local delicacies from Cinder Shroud that they
are very spicy. I would rate them a nine out
of ten.
Speaker 7: On the give it to me, picked all of it.
Speaker 1: Wonderful, the nuts, I would say, it's probably somewhere in
the range of four hundred thousand uh Skald mirror units
or so. Is that too hot or is that.
Speaker 7: I don't know what it is, but I have.
Speaker 1: It, eucelland I'll get that right away for you, okay, okay,
and anything else before I go. I'm grimore they have
I'm sorry, we don't Is that a cocktail?
Speaker 4: I look at the others.
Speaker 6: M oh, I don't think they give those unclean.
Speaker 7: Do you have like travel reading? Yeah?
Speaker 9: Reading material maybe?
Speaker 1: Oh yes, you can find it right in front of
you the seat, right in front of you, inside the pocket.
Speaker 7: There, that's right right.
Speaker 1: We have the history of Millifax available for you, as
well as our in flight magazine.
Speaker 7: Well okay, okay.
Speaker 6: And lastly, pillows.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, I have a lot of pillows. Anyone need
a blanket?
Speaker 6: Yes? And blankets?
Speaker 1: Okay, wonderful, Okay. I'll be back in just a few minutes.
Speaker 7: Oh of course, wait before I will be.
Speaker 1: Your yes, I will be your terror. On the seat right,
my name is speed Steed.
Speaker 7: Thank you Steed, because he's taking us for a ride.
Speaker 1: Oh, you're delightful, all right, Well, why okay, I'll be
back in a few. They turn and then they're like
the pleasure, like the happiness drains out of their face
like motherfuckers, you know, just.
Speaker 4: Like bother.
Speaker 3: Hi.
Speaker 4: I was studying up on different versions of slimes latinous cubes.
Mm hmm, a special variety. You're saying you specialize in
Cameron anyone else mutants? Why don't you just form taste glass.
Speaker 7: Well, I would need to find something that has taste glans,
but like not just any taste clans. They'd have to
have like the tastiest taste clans. Ever, it'd have to
like be super sensitive. They'd have to like they'd have
to basically use that in such a way that I
can then use it. I can't, just not very so
I don't think.
Speaker 6: What about like a giant ma type monster or something.
Speaker 7: I think it's more.
Speaker 9: Munching something that dragon mouth, right, a form of.
Speaker 7: A dragon ish. I think I couldn't see myself, but
with that I could fly and how was am I really?
And it hurt like heck to do. So what you
were saying is I could try and do it, But
if I did that I'd probably hurt myself significantly just
to try and do so.
Speaker 4: Just form the part that matters m almost like flexing
and muscle. At least that's what the book says.
Speaker 9: Hm.
Speaker 13: Hm Would you be able to form them if you
looked at one of ours? Oh, from our glands inside
our mouths Oh?
Speaker 7: Geez, I don't know. Maybe I've never tried before.
Speaker 9: Does this help? And I open my inventory and take
the last dead fish out of it, attle it down
in front of you, taste and feel.
Speaker 4: Probably doesn't mix with the fish of all things. How
about this? How as you open your mouth a bo
you take your pseudo pod and fill her mouth up
what hear me out? Kind of big caird motherfuckers.
Speaker 7: Make them.
Speaker 9: I think you've seen this before.
Speaker 4: I've read this, have no I'm serious. Okay, And you
make a mold.
Speaker 9: Oh, so you fill the mouth.
Speaker 4: Cut the mouth a liquid and hard in it, make
them mold, pull it out, and then construct your lands
from that.
Speaker 6: At least take me out to dinner first.
Speaker 4: What do you want to eat?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 1: Trying to get that bad dragon sponsorship for tablet.
Speaker 9: Hey, we're trying to help it.
Speaker 3: We're trying to help.
Speaker 9: Yeah, thanks, one thing in our mouths on time?
Speaker 1: Perfect?
Speaker 4: How you do it?
Speaker 7: Okay mm hmm.
Speaker 4: I there's a fabulous way you can do it.
Speaker 7: M m, but I don't want to use that out
of character.
Speaker 4: You're willing to spend a fucking vowel way on the
stupidest ship. But now you don't want to know something
was kidding. I didn't care.
Speaker 7: I take a pseudopod ton ram it into a throat,
and then I try and take a mold of like
I guess like ils right now, I don't know. Am
I killing it?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Oh my god.
Speaker 7: I've never done this before. My god. Oh look, don't
look you too close your eyes?
Speaker 4: Something all fan art.
Speaker 1: So uh, after after this goes on, I think, uh,
seed returns with like the food. Oh, I'm sorry. I
didn't mean to interrupt anything that's going on here. Do
you want me to go?
Speaker 4: No, please join us?
Speaker 1: I don't think I can. It's pretty sure that's against
my contract.
Speaker 7: I retract my pseudopod and like it's like a perfect
cast of like iris is like the inside of her head,
like her tongue, and like like sinuses.
Speaker 1: It's serving.
Speaker 4: Yeah, place it back inside you and mold it to
yourself and you should be able to taste hopefully.
Speaker 7: It's just a shape though, but I retracted into me
and I kind of retained that shape, and you can
kind of see translucent inside me. Just that horrid like
ceaty scan of iris is just in.
Speaker 1: Its Yeah, go ahead and make a U. I guess
this will be insitan willpower Okay or wait no, yours
is different, you guys, the idea, goodness, this moment.
Speaker 3: This is.
Speaker 9: This is all it's mounting up to.
Speaker 1: Because you had a different you had different stats that
you do for your chimerast bullshit right, mm hmm. I'm
trying to remember what those were together, might and willpower.
Speaker 6: Oh could this just be a commerst ritual?
Speaker 7: Do you have rituals.
Speaker 1: Insight and willpower or might and willpower? Oh, might and willpower.
This would be considered a ritual.
Speaker 4: Basically if you want to do this ritualistic.
Speaker 1: So if you want to do the ritual, let's see,
this will be mm hmmm, uh minor I think for
well actually hold on uh energy, Uh, I guess medium
actually medium difficulty will be ten. And I'm going to
say this is individual because you're doing this for yourself. Okay,
but we can do a group check if you want
to potentially help here.
Speaker 9: I'll help.
Speaker 4: I'm totally and I'm I'm and this is totally looking
at rue and it's like because it was this plan
to get closer. Yep, it's awkward as that.
Speaker 9: Just get in there, I like push enders in.
Speaker 7: Okay, all right, so Mike and will Power, Wait, what
are we assisting?
Speaker 4: Am I holding a mouth open? Are you?
Speaker 2: Uh so?
Speaker 1: Up to you how you want to do? I don't
know what? You know? We have to get super specific.
Speaker 4: How's this ritual happening?
Speaker 9: You're directing?
Speaker 7: He's basically reading off his books and saying.
Speaker 4: Simon, I'm at the couch at my book and I'm
just directing you and.
Speaker 9: Sure, amazing.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 1: I'm going to say, don't say let's just do this
as like, uh mine little Power, yeah, mine will Power
and we'll just say, uh difficulty fourteen four, Okay, let's
try it.
Speaker 4: I have to make sure you get all the blah
blah blahs.
Speaker 6: Okay, support checks or ten just.
Speaker 4: As he please.
Speaker 9: And you know, you know what, I'm gon lucky seven
here to make one.
Speaker 6: Of those threes a second.
Speaker 3: So that's ten.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, I can envision this whole thing.
Speaker 6: Two successes and then you get the plus two from
our bond.
Speaker 7: All right, so now I hit royal group check right, yeah,
so what does that make it a plus four? H
oh wow, oh Jesus.
Speaker 4: Louises.
Speaker 1: So yeah. I think you can see Bo like struggling
to do this, and Bo Bo might actually look like
he's in the little pain.
Speaker 7: You kind of you're gonna have to help me out here,
because this is your sinus is inside bow right now.
You kind of see Bo shaking up and down the place.
You can see like the slime opens up in the
in the center, and I start to like go that
but in your voice because it's your sight.
Speaker 1: And then I slam shot, how everything normal?
Speaker 9: So wet in here now.
Speaker 7: Same time tomorrow a lime cigarette.
Speaker 9: I think that we should come up with a different solution.
I don't think this is working.
Speaker 4: It shouldn't worked. I calculated it perfectly. I don't think
the execution was as well done as you shouldn't been.
Speaker 6: Maybe his heart wasn't in it.
Speaker 4: You shouldn't have jammed it. He should have slowly put
it in.
Speaker 7: You think maybe if I go in try and mold
her hot next time.
Speaker 6: Oh no, maybe stay away from my heart.
Speaker 4: And hopefully you can taste.
Speaker 13: If my heart stops, perhaps you'd be able to manually
pump it until you're able to receive help from me.
Huh don't they do that on like doctor shows.
Speaker 7: I mean, the last time, like squeezed, you almost died,
So I'm not too sure if I want to do that.
To be fair, true, m he got splos in to
almost oblivion.
Speaker 6: Are very clear.
Speaker 7: You're welcome, Thank you? Is that way to a guy
still here?
Speaker 1: Uh, looking on in fucking horror? Yeah? You can see
their like mask has slipped a bit, like as they're
watching all of this and like, yes, here's your here
are your drinks. I'll be back with the food in
a little bit.
Speaker 6: Excellent. Do you have anything like honey for a sore throat?
Speaker 1: I'll see what I can do.
Speaker 7: Okay, I say, waving a suit of park in the
shape of viruses like sinuses.
Speaker 9: Amazing?
Speaker 7: So is there like a view or anything? We are
we flying already?
Speaker 1: You can see that you're essentially sort of like taxiing
out to out outside. There's probably the staff is probably
uh working to get the glidecraft outside. Okay, you can
see that there. It's not like a runway. By the way,
there is something that looks like the equivalent of a
giant fucking slingshot. It looks almost like an amusement park ride.
And you can see that there is a glidecraft ahead
of you that is loaded into this thing and is
about to get fucking launched.
Speaker 7: Amazing.
Speaker 1: Hmm.
Speaker 9: Can we discern from having been outside the vessel and
now that we're in it, if there's like a parachute
kindeth business? What do we have any kind of idea
of what the are you.
Speaker 1: Asking or you just did? You get up and start
looking for this?
Speaker 9: I start looking for it?
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, Okay, you get up and you just start
looking around. I imagine that there is Go ahead and
make me a roll, do an insight and insight I'll
just say open.
Speaker 9: Check hate this game, loven.
Speaker 15: Okay, I'm gonna say I'm gonna say that being nice
to me today, I'm gonna say that there is uh
probably like.
Speaker 1: It doesn't look like parachutes. I imagine there's probably some kind
of They look like fucking like some folded up wings.
Speaker 9: Have my my face plastered up against the viewing we'll
think there's any parachutes on this thing.
Speaker 1: They just be like up near near the exit, like
they'd be hung up near the exit, and they're probably
just like there's some rows of them.
Speaker 9: I turned to the others. How's it one feel about heights?
M this might be falling with style?
Speaker 7: I mean I can fly, so I'm okay. I guess.
Speaker 9: All right.
Speaker 6: I mean, as long as I have help, I'm fine.
Speaker 1: Greg. You can see Greg like trying to like get
the straw for his smoothie, like squished into the only
bit of him that's like showing in his chair, just
just like the there's like a small section maybe like
uh like is a foot wide or so that is
actually protruding from the chair, and he's trying to find
the straw, you know, with his mouth, and he he
does it and starts consuming this movie. Hmm.
Speaker 9: I said, well, we've got a long journey ahead of us.
While we have everyone here, is there anything that we should.
Speaker 7: Talk about nice whether we're having right.
Speaker 9: I reach over and nudge enders in the side.
Speaker 4: Oh, yes, we should probably discuss our accelerated training. Oh,
I look back towards.
Speaker 9: I look disappointed.
Speaker 10: Hello, everyone, this is your captain speaking.
Speaker 1: Well, Ri, and we'll be taking off shortly.
Speaker 10: If you could please be sure that you are probably
secure inside of your seats and also cleans, being sure
that any drinks or food that you have have been consumed.
We've probably got about ten minutes before we take cough.
Speaker 7: Oh okay, he brought the drinks, didn't he. What's my
drink again?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I think you just have this weird blended amalgamation
of a bunch of gray.
Speaker 4: Is it bubbling since it's hot, Jesus, it's probably there.
Speaker 1: There's probably like a little bit of a burnt smell
coming from it.
Speaker 7: Hmm, okay on neck it. Oh, I guess I'll mem
brain it.
Speaker 4: Does it well? Anyway?
Speaker 1: It tastes like a lot of things for you, bo
leave it up to you how this comes comes across
to you. For normal people, if they were to drink this, uh,
it's like eating the last wing or the bomb wing
on Hot Ones. It's it's like one of the last
sauces on the on the Hot Ones show. Uh. This
ship would fucking melt melt your face off normally.
Speaker 4: Hmmm.
Speaker 7: I don't think I taste it because I've never tasted
anything to this point, So do I take damage? I mean,
I think I will know that if it's warm and
hot and spicy. Maybe Spie, I don't know. Spice does
nothing like birds, I think. I think BO just can
I roll for this?
Speaker 4: Sure?
Speaker 1: What would you like to roll?
Speaker 7: I don't know. I'm a little probably insights my guess,
okay or insight a nothing but a seven?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 7: BO just kind of m tasty. What Wow? That show
was not ha that drink show did and I put
it away.
Speaker 9: Mh mm hmm.
Speaker 4: I haggured out, my favorite color is blue?
Speaker 9: Really?
Speaker 6: What set of blue? In case I want to make
you anything?
Speaker 4: I looked towards room, didn't fusion.
Speaker 13: Well, there's like cobalt, there's electric, there's sky blue, there's
there's robin egg blue.
Speaker 6: There's like a teal kind of color.
Speaker 9: I think that enders meant to say that their favorite
color is blue. What is your favorite color? Following up
with a question, yes.
Speaker 6: Oh lilac.
Speaker 4: Very well, I'll store that information.
Speaker 7: I mean, all I see is shades of blue, so
I guess relatability I suppose, But can it be my
favorite color? I mean, do people have an unfavorite color?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 7: What color do you hate? Is that a thing.
Speaker 6: Mm hmmmm, I do not think so you know something.
I don't really like gray. You want to know why?
Speaker 3: Why?
Speaker 6: It reminds me of depression?
Speaker 7: M hmm, gray clouds.
Speaker 4: Uh h.
Speaker 7: But I like over bastards uh huh mm hmm. Okay,
well what about you?
Speaker 9: Rud uh I sort of snap out of it, having
been watching everyone's face as as they're talking, especially enders. Red.
I like Red? Why because? Uh, I don't have a reason,
and I don't need a reason.
Speaker 7: Why why not? I don't know who she got you where?
I'm right here, I'm out of range.
Speaker 9: Why. I think that we've all been through a lot,
and uh I think some of us have changed a bit.
I think it might be worth us just trying to
get to know each other a little better.
Speaker 7: You know, okay, what do you mean?
Speaker 4: I will never fill the gap of who you lost,
So we thought it was a good idea for me
to start as my own self and not try to
be whoever I was.
Speaker 7: Do you question? Do you remember anything from before we
failed miserably in saving you and turning into this?
Speaker 4: Yes, of course, like what?
Speaker 7: Like everything?
Speaker 4: I remember dying, I remember taking a head, and before that,
a light coldness being split from what felt.
Speaker 7: Hold No, I mean look at the day before we
have a breakfast or I guess, like you know, when
we first showed up.
Speaker 9: For a moon?
Speaker 13: Do you remember anything memories there?
Speaker 7: M yes, okay, okay, cool, because I kind of thought,
you know, we lost that and that you are completely different.
But I guess you're not completely different, but you want to.
Speaker 4: Be memories are attained.
Speaker 13: I mean, while we want memories, you're just another season
of yourself.
Speaker 4: Yes, I suppose.
Speaker 9: Do you think that it means there's still a part
of jan out there?
Speaker 4: Who nor I believe moon is gone?
Speaker 3: Why?
Speaker 7: Hmm, You're not gone, You're just different.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm also not having foreign objects inside of my body.
Speaker 7: I looked to Iris and put my suitupop behind me
and say, sorry, no, there's a complication.
Speaker 4: It's more of a feeling than I felt. I believe.
I don't believe. I don't know who this Jane is.
As you speak of moon, there are still some lingering pieces.
But just like I was shattered, I believe that that
may have happened. Not absolutely said, but I do believe.
Speaker 7: Yes, do you remember anything from before we showed up here?
You're not together? Before we met Moon.
Speaker 4: I'm from bron I remember.
Speaker 7: What do you remember from brahm hm hmm.
Speaker 4: I remember a field. I remember no offense slime mm hmm.
I remember tackling them, going after.
Speaker 7: Them, something slim and brohm. Yeah mmmm makes sense.
Speaker 4: I also remember other creatures. I remember almost losing battle
between Remember then someone came around Eager bubbly too much.
They helped me and they introduced themselves as move It's
the furthest memory I have.
Speaker 7: You don't remember. I don't know parents, or growing up
or kind of becoming who you are. You just like
we're in a field.
Speaker 9: Oh my god. His memories started from when he made
his account.
Speaker 4: Yes, he was a dram. There was a light and
I was there.
Speaker 13: Looking at enders's face a little closer. Is it like,
are there any you know how everybody has their own
little imperfections, their own little scars, their own little marks,
their own little like gross things like that texture in
their face. Is it the same as we remember?
Speaker 4: Oh no, it's completely in whatever character I was created
to be. Hmm.
Speaker 7: Okay, now I suppose that makes sense.
Speaker 1: There were a lot of details that could be added
to your character when you designed your characters. It was
one of those character creators that goes really over the
top in the game.
Speaker 7: Hello, I guess in that case, nice to meet you. Hello,
my name is bo.
Speaker 9: Hi.
Speaker 4: Yes, b still don't understand how you're talking? Slime?
Speaker 7: How are you a talking man?
Speaker 4: There are plenty of me around, well, others like me,
but you, on the other hand, anomaly? How is it
at the bow is around? Anyway?
Speaker 7: What do you mean?
Speaker 4: Well, Greg is one thing, you are another.
Speaker 7: Hmm. How's a drink buddy?
Speaker 1: You see Greg has gone through three smoothies already. Really good.
Speaker 7: We're gonna need a drain Paul for him or something. Anyway,
you were saying, well, cat are cat.
Speaker 4: They have origins, Elves have multiple origins. Human kind as origins.
But you are a slime, right, there aren't. I do
not know of any and I haven't read of any
with sentient'sn't.
Speaker 13: An April fool's thing?
Speaker 7: Boo, Are you familiar with the term april fools?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 7: Never mind? Then t.
Speaker 6: It was some sort of promotion.
Speaker 13: Okay, he doesn't know that, right, it is something he
should know. I mean, knowledge is power, yes, regardless of.
Speaker 6: What it is you remember or.
Speaker 13: If you are some other sort of incarnation of Frank
or what have you? You were his creation regardless.
Speaker 7: Oh, in that case, Fool's Folly, the April Fool's Festival.
You know that one, right, Fool's Folly. Your familiar is.
Speaker 4: That here in Regarta m h.
Speaker 7: Annual Brom April to twenty first.
Speaker 4: NFS. It was in Bron. Yes, but Fool's Folly.
Speaker 6: Frank's on other pe a. But like in good spirit.
Speaker 4: AH want the mass mm hmmm yes.
Speaker 7: Well yeah, well I'm uh, I me he's not gonna
understand any of this, is he right? Because he doesn't? Ah,
I turn into a mask.
Speaker 4: Not quite.
Speaker 7: No, No, I am a Fool's Folly, Limited time edition
kind of guy. I say, I'll show you. I'll show you.
I jump into uh. I looked, I turned to Iris,
do the bit, and I jump into uh. The the flask.
I just drank, and then I moved to Iris and
and then I.
Speaker 13: Liked to him, Oh my goodness, I have such a
large bottle of Is this a bottle or I don't know.
Speaker 6: I have such a large.
Speaker 13: Container of water for a thirsty individual.
Speaker 6: Would you like a drink?
Speaker 4: I'm not thirsty. I just had a.
Speaker 6: Oh come on, try it it's delicious.
Speaker 4: I will try my drink, no, no.
Speaker 6: Mine, It's a refreshing beverie.
Speaker 4: Very delicious. M I looked at room.
Speaker 9: I seem to have mentally checked out of this, and
I'm staring outside the window looking.
Speaker 1: Very spell Yeah. You can see like that. You can
see the sling shot shit is getting like hooked up
to the wings of the glider. Like there's probably like
a few bumps here and there, you know, like as
this as this contraption is getting attached to the the
glide graft.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, a A. And I walk over to Roue.
I tap on her shoulder. I have a large bottle
of delicious beverage that I think you're thirsty to have.
Speaker 13: Don't you want to try the best water in all
of Regalia.
Speaker 9: I take the bottle and I look down into it.
Speaker 1: Sure wait, wait, we gotta have a check for this
insight insight bo I need a mite and willpower and
this is going to be contested.
Speaker 9: Roles open, You're like, just blow up my eyeball or something.
Speaker 7: Twelve eleven.
Speaker 1: What do you think rue sees that hints that it's
you in this form?
Speaker 7: Buff it's the same color as me and every now
and then you kind of see those like tonguey little
eye things like float to the surface and then go
back down into the bottom.
Speaker 6: You make eye contact with one.
Speaker 4: Hmmm, just hold the bottle, you should, I look back,
drink it. It's very delicious.
Speaker 9: I like to nurse my drinks.
Speaker 13: Oh fine, if you won't have one, I will, No,
it's mine. Oh well, then you better drink it up
fast because I'm going to steal it from you.
Speaker 6: Because I'm evil.
Speaker 9: Oh well, then you better catch and I throw it at.
Speaker 7: You in me there. I you thought I was a
bottle of water, but I'm actually a slime.
Speaker 6: Hah oh rig.
Speaker 7: Hadda full stolly eh huh ah.
Speaker 13: It works better on unsuspected and individuals and macrod.
Speaker 7: And use a lot. It's one of those things. What
repetition is key, very very good.
Speaker 9: My eyes trailed back to the window and I point,
I think we're about to get everybody.
Speaker 10: Please hold on tight.
Speaker 14: Yeah, around to launch and there is there is a
fucking crazy uh basically like you're all like launched back
in your seats as the fucking slingshot fucking launches this
glide craft.
Speaker 1: Into the air. And it is like the Jeremy Clarkson
gift of him in a car as the inertia slams
into you and and yeah, you are just slammed back
into your seats and you realize now why they were
just so friggin cushy and comfortable, because you are propelled
into the air and it lasts for a few seconds,
and then you can slowly start to feel the inertia
dying down a little bit.
Speaker 9: I don't like that.
Speaker 1: You see cinder shrouds start to shrink away below. If
that was what.
Speaker 9: It was like coming up, I wonder what it's like
gonna be like going down.
Speaker 1: There is a moment where you're you have that feeling
like being on a roller coaster, or your stomach kind
of continues upward and your body goes downward. You know,
it's like that sinking feeling for a second, and then
you feel this like weightlessness for a little for a
little bit, and then you start to feel the craft
shake as the wings extend and the wingspan gets further.
On the glidecraft, you see these like massive wings kind
of uh retract and you begin to float on the air.
Speaker 7: As I waitless like I grab a flower and I
show it to the camera and then I go back
to Okay, you.
Speaker 1: Fuck and you can see the uh you know the
uh there's roll for the weather wants to roll for that?
For me, I'll do it roll D six.
Speaker 9: Me historically no to roll well in this game the
storm color.
Speaker 1: I imagine that it's probably a bit overcast today, maybe
like a little bit of rain, just that like drizzly
kind of rain raining on the windows here and there.
But you are.
Speaker 9: Inside and outside of the vehicle.
Speaker 1: As you take to the skies. You maybe have a
minute or so before a steed makes his way back
towards you all with food. Thank you, You're welcome. I'm
glad that I could assist you. Does anybody need anything else?
I'll be bringing the blankets and pillows soon.
Speaker 9: Do you fly up in this sort of thing?
Speaker 1: I'm sorry?
Speaker 9: How often do you fly up in this sort of thing? Up?
Speaker 1: Just once?
Speaker 9: Never mind?
Speaker 1: Are you talking about me in general? How many times
a day do.
Speaker 7: I do this?
Speaker 9: Yes?
Speaker 1: Okay, sorry, I just needed a little bit of clarification.
I think on average I do about three trips per day.
Speaker 9: Can I try to get a vibe check on this person?
Speaker 1: Uh? Yeah, insight, insight, do an open check.
Speaker 6: You're so nice? Whatever do you mean?
Speaker 9: Seven?
Speaker 1: I hate you all, hate you all?
Speaker 9: Oh okay, I stored out in my loggin.
Speaker 1: Absolutely just masking up. Uh, definitely definitely hates you.
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, ah, pardon not manners before you leave on
a pseudopod like slings towards Iris, grabs ones in it
and flings it towards the guy. Thank you very much
for your help. I've seen that in movie before.
Speaker 1: Thank you, But tips are necessary.
Speaker 7: Okay, I take it back and put it back into
Iris's fuck it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, fair enough. Yeah. Shortly thereafter, returns with some food.
Speaker 9: It's been spit in.
Speaker 4: Oh, definitely not eating any of it.
Speaker 9: Ye, is there a spit get?
Speaker 7: We have the spit to flat. Okay, what did we get?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 1: Well, you got some super spicy shit. It looks like,
you know, like, uh, it's probably like a lot of
red food, you know, like just signifying either tomatoes or
extreme heat. Yeah. I imagine it's maybe some kind of curry,
but it's like red, and yeah.
Speaker 7: There's probably peppers and stuff floating in it. I'll just
kind of like subsume the tray. I'm just gonna sit
on it and the trays enters from underneath and wound
floats inside and like, yeah, yeam delicious, so spicy. Wow,
you can really taste the new gut.
Speaker 1: H Are you trying to tell Steed? Because Steed is
probably like.
Speaker 7: I'm telling my I'm trying to convince my friends how
tasty this is.
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Do you if you don't taste it? Mm hmm, you
get you get hungry?
Speaker 7: Yes, I think at least I thought I was hungry
that one time until I realized no, and then I
almost exploded.
Speaker 4: All right, then, how are you satisfied when you consume?
Speaker 7: Have you ever have you seen Hamilton?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 7: Never mind?
Speaker 1: Iris? You have some veggies that you picked out? Rude?
I think what would you have gotten? Did you get
maybe some like fish dish or something something?
Speaker 9: Indiscriminately shoving things in my mouth?
Speaker 13: Right, Craig and I are like sharing a big platter
of greenery.
Speaker 1: Just like Greg isn't sharing anything. Greg is stuck in it.
Speaker 6: Oh no, I'm sharing mine with Greg.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Greig is like trying to find stuff like in
front of him, you know, whatever's around, He's trying to
eat it. One. He's like.
Speaker 9: The couch boid.
Speaker 1: He's just like trying to look down, you know, like
trying to see if he can get any peak at
what whatever he's consuming.
Speaker 7: Goes straight to your trunks, Greg.
Speaker 1: And uh, yeah, enders I imagine something just nutritious. You
got right, something very obvious, practical. It's probably like meat
and veg yep, oats, Oh, definitely oats. M h Yeah.
And it's good food. It's it's really fucking it's good food.
This is like, you know, you're eating like a fine diner.
This is uh, this is like first class, first class treatment.
Speaker 9: So hungry now talking about food too, and yeah, you're
you're pretty like well pampered.
Speaker 1: The trip itself doesn't take too long. It's maybe about
an hour or so to scald Mere. Traveling this way,
I imagine that you can probably see like I imagine that
you can see probably like some dragons and things flying
in the distance here and there, you know, looking out otherwise,
I mean you just kind of see the landscape below,
which is about what you'd expect. You're definitely not as
high up as you would be, say like on a
commercial flight that you know, if you took an airplane,
so the ground is significantly closer. You're probably maybe a
few thousand feet up as opposed to like you're not
at like twenty thousand feet up, you know, you're maybe
at like three four thousand feet up. Yeah, so it's
it's a bit more turbulent as well. There's probably like
a lot of jostling happening. Is if you've ever been
on a prop plane before, it maybe feels like that
drift grift. You can absolutely make a check for me
if you'd like the b insight and insight and just
do an open check.
Speaker 9: Four.
Speaker 1: It's probably just the angle. It's just like really hard
to see, you know.
Speaker 7: So do these things have a miss? I say to Steed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Steed uh probably comes back at some point gives
you your blankets and pillows and whatnot, and m yeah uh,
Rue asks as well, and uh Steed says a miss. Well,
that's part of the pilots, you see. It has to
do with the wings. And honestly, there are some times
where some malfunctions have happened, but it's usually very few
and far between.
Speaker 6: Malfunctions.
Speaker 1: I would worry about it. Everything should be fine, Okay.
The captain is very skilled one of the Volari family,
actually Captain Valari.
Speaker 7: Okay, are the parachutes or like, you know what happens
in case of emergency. You didn't like to do the thing?
Speaker 1: Do what thing?
Speaker 7: We're in danger?
Speaker 1: I'm unfamiliar with that term. Is that some sort of
slime language.
Speaker 7: As suspenser?
Speaker 1: Are you talking about a flight suit?
Speaker 9: Sure?
Speaker 1: Yes, we have flight suits a board in case of
any serious malfunction.
Speaker 4: Should we have putting those on? No? Okay?
Speaker 7: Are they clearly wearing one themselves?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, you put it on like in the three seconds
that you asked.
Speaker 13: Actually we're about to crash.
Speaker 1: They don't take very long to put on. They're magically enchanted,
so they fit one's eye fits all. All you have
to do is step into them. It's a bit like
a large bag. Okay, but don't worry. I haven't been
on one of those flights yet.
Speaker 7: Oh, people like them. I'm sorry, never mind. Is any
entertainment entertainment?
Speaker 1: Well, we do have the reading materials that have been provided.
What exactly were you expecting?
Speaker 7: I know something that moves.
Speaker 9: I could dance if you want, bo.
Speaker 7: I mean you could, but I mean it was the
fun in that you dance all the time. Do you
have a special flying dance?
Speaker 9: Do you want to well, we've been practicing.
Speaker 1: You see, Greg, you have a special dance.
Speaker 7: You ok't, Greg aration, I'm stuck. Oh he stuck. Help
him out your staken root.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you pull him out. There's smoothie like flattered all
over him.
Speaker 4: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Oh, leaves are like all stained.
Speaker 9: All right, Greg, I'm gonna follow your lead. We haven't
practiced you in the lead role yet, but it's time.
It's time to shine, buddy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Greg does like a gain you force pose.
Speaker 4: Perfect.
Speaker 9: Wait, it's more exciting if you have the guns out too.
Speaker 1: Greg into uh start. It looks like he's got a
hairball and he starts like coughing it up.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 1: And he reaches into his mouth and he pulls out
two guns.
Speaker 9: Oh that's what I'm talking about, all right, three two one,
and we start dancing.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I'm looking shot some hot fire.
Speaker 6: It was aren't loaded right, Yeah, like.
Speaker 1: Greg, I don't know where he gets them from. But
he puts on some sunglasses and you can see that
they start going to this complicated dance routine.
Speaker 9: On the straight up, we straight up steal one of
the dances from K pop Demon Hunters.
Speaker 1: Okay, straight up, Yeah, let's see how you do. Let's
let's do a role for the for the dancing. Give
me a I guess this will be decks and decks right, okay?
Open check.
Speaker 9: Thirteen?
Speaker 1: Holy shit, How the hell are they doing this on
this on this private glide this glidecraft that's effectively the
size of like a very small, like private jet, and
they just definitely don't have enough room. But they're doing
like parkour and shit, and yeah, it looks like a
straight of the K pop Demon Hunters.
Speaker 9: And we're comboing.
Speaker 6: Dang, Greg, you got an ass. I've heard that before.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, Greg says, uh, Greg says this bark don't bite.
Speaker 7: You you said this bark don't bite It might be
a mistranslation. Is the aname of your dance?
Speaker 1: And uh, they kind of like wrap up the dance and.
Speaker 9: Yeah, okay, hey, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 7: I like the part where you you did the thing
with the jump. I thought you're gonna fall out.
Speaker 9: I five Greg Ah, Yeah.
Speaker 1: His highest high five is your low five mm hmmm.
And Greg points out the window and looking outside, you
can see the ground starting to get closer. You can
feel the glidecraft starting to angle down towards Skaldmere and
you can start to see the towers growing closer. You
can see probably like the airship, docks and everything. As
you approach Skaldmere.
Speaker 10: Listens, Captain Blow, where turn we're going?
Speaker 1: Beginning?
Speaker 10: Are just sent down into scald Or in just a moment,
everyone please hang tent. Sometimes this can be a little tricky.
Speaker 4: Little dropping.
Speaker 9: I pick up Greg and I put him into a seat.
Speaker 12: Yea.
Speaker 13: The landing is always the worst, isn't it.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they say take off and landing at the most
dangerous parts of a flight.
Speaker 6: Maybe they do.
Speaker 7: Mm hmmm. I wonder how we landed? We have wheels?
Are we gonna be coold by a giant mitt? What's
gonna happen?
Speaker 1: Yeah? You see, if you look outside, you can see
that like you're not heading directly for Scaldmere. There appears
to be like more water. You're kind of like heading
towards where the water and the sea meets the bay,
and uh, you realize now that you're kind of overshooting
scald Mire a little bit. And in the water, Yeah,
in the water, you can see there's probably like a
a burst of color that blasts into the air. And
then you realize you're starting to go dec lying towards
the water water landing, and the water starts approaching pretty quickly.
Speaker 7: I engulf my seat and that normal.
Speaker 1: In the back. You can hear a seed, Oh yeah,
we'll be fine. Everything's good, everybody, just make sure you're all,
you know, buckled in.
Speaker 7: Oh hey.
Speaker 1: And as you approach the water, you can see what
appears to be this this sort of I guess you
could call it like almost like a particle effect. You
can see what appears to be that color that was
blasted into the air. I imagine it's probably like a reddish
kind of color, and you can see it's beginning to
swirl around. And as you descend towards the water, it
feels a little bit like that inertia hits you again
the other direction. There's like a little bit of like
whiplash for a second, and then it's sort of immediately
slowed down and you are appearingly caught by this gust
of air that is blowing all around. You could probably
hear it. It's probably sounds like really intense winds outside.
As you are gently lowered to the water, and there
appears to be like a pier that is not too
far off the glidecraft seems to land on top of
the water now as the air currents subside, and there's
like a short intermission before you feel it like lurch
forward again. As you can see, there appears to be
some what looks to be like small dragons that are
in the water swimming, that are pulling the craft towards
the pier.
Speaker 9: Oh that's so cool.
Speaker 7: A magical landing appears. So was it powered by end
of stone? I look for like John Poles or something
doesn't appear, so I wonder who did that? Is there
like a mage who just stands there trying to effectively?
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's somebody out there that looks like God, I
hate this fucking job. You know, like there's like there's
there's some kind of like air. There's some kind of
like arromancer that is out like, you know, kind of
like doing this to catch everybody. There's probably like a
little pass by.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I imagine individual I flashed them my titties.
Speaker 1: Let me see if they notice it.
Speaker 7: That's too plain behind us.
Speaker 9: No, no, we've already landed, right.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's the place behind us in trouble.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Problem you can see you can see they like look
like you know, like a little confused, like they didn't
know what they just saw, you know, like one of
those like grou put.
Speaker 13: Those weapons of mass destruction away.
Speaker 4: Want to rewind.
Speaker 6: You're gonna hurt somebody with.
Speaker 1: Those as you begin to approach the familiar port of skaldmere.
Speaker 16: Na they gave me, I get to eat the.
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