Speaker 1: You are listening to table story.
Speaker 2: Title Blades is an improvised cinematic narrative with live production,
including music and dialogue.
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story and for creating the world to Title Blades vow
lych Neither this story nor my friends and I would
exist now. Somewhere in the very.
Speaker 4: Sad Sisters stunning a satny, a sweezy sense.
Speaker 1: Every Neverian remembers the storm. A monstrous cloud rolling across
the sky, blacker than Cuddlebeard's ink. It stained the pristine
blue like a bruise. The wind lashed out first. It's
a rage, a cry of warning. Then the rain began
to fall. Drifters moored their homes in haste, the bay
churning as the first waves crested high enough to threaten
the island city. It was, by all accounts, a most
magnificent storm, and as being scrambled for safety, a few
heroes remained standing strong against the thundering sky. They were
the Title Blades Elite Guardians of Naviri, tasked with defending
the floating islands for over two hundred years. They had
patrolled the reef Barrier day and night, keeping the city
safe from the terrors of the deep. But this storm,
this storm brought nightmares that clawed their way through the waves,
beasts that even the Title Blades could not hold back.
When the Higher Council convened, it was to decide on
a last desperate measure. There was a way to save
the city, but it carried a terrible price. As the
Arkonists gave the Title Blades the precious Hyperloom, their hearts
grew heavy, and when the full deployed in a searing
flash of magic and light, they knew Navii would stand,
but the Title Blades would not. Fifteen years have passed,
the air over Thevieri is warm again, the sky painted
with immaculate clouds. Navii has never been more vibrant, more beautiful.
The protective barrier known as the Folds still stands from
the scattered reefs to the wayward sea. It blocks the
horizon like a huge, glitching glacier, a brittle defense against
the horrors that lie beyond it. But stories travel on
the winds now. Creatures from the deep have begun to
slip through, strange and mutated, carrying abilities unseen before. Whispers
tell of folk found wandering outside the fold, blank eyed
and stripped of memory. Yet their skin is adorned in scars,
muscles taut and ready, their bodies clearly strong enough to
carry the memory their minds have lost. Could they be
former title blades? Some say that, others yet remain trapped waiting.
They need only a new generation of dreamers daring to
be heroes.
Speaker 5: Ah ha ah, clarin.
Speaker 3: Over there, ah ah, get behind me, I'll protect you.
Oh that's big.
Speaker 1: Very towering before you is a spine squid. They have
extremely long tentacles which they use to snatch up their
prey and hold them and squeeze them to death. And
this one is mutated. It's about two or three sizes,
two or three times the size of a human. And
that is what stands before you right now. It has
followed you, perhaps outside of the fold.
Speaker 6: Uh uh ah.
Speaker 3: I look at myself, and I don't have any weapons
or anything like that, and I've got my hands. Uh
and there's real big uh ah. Waituh. We have no time,
but maybe I can just see where it might attack us,
or where it's going. If I look carefully enough, I might. Oh,
we don't have time. It's coming right at us. No no, no, no,
no no no, But where where? Where? Who will attack?
Where we'll it go?
Speaker 1: I wish that's a great question.
Speaker 3: Which my friends were here?
Speaker 1: Oh, would you like to roll me a one D two? Also,
I'd love to know how your body feels right now?
Speaker 3: I don't have time to think about it. Okay, why
should I think about it? About it?
Speaker 1: I'm just curious. I mean, you can think about it
if you want to think about it, but also maybe
you shouldn't think about it.
Speaker 3: No, I'd like to do anticipation if you don't mind it.
Lets me see just a little bit into the future,
just a little see what this thing is going to do,
just a little bit. It's a multiple future outcomes for
my next action. So I want to see maybe where
if I, oh, if I try to protect my very
best friend, maybe maybe I can see where it's going
to hit and then I can protect my very best friend.
I would like to do that. Please it if it's okay?
Speaker 1: Absolutely? Is that something you have to roll for or
does it just happen?
Speaker 3: Well, it's an action on my intellect and I have
to spend some so it lets me know what my uh,
what the best move is, and I give it, I
get an asset on the first task I perform before
the end of the next round. But if I give
it to others, I get a hindrance. And I would
like to do that.
Speaker 1: Okay, who are you giving this to?
Speaker 3: Well, to my best friend Learan, we've been traveling through
all of us travel through the fold together. We escaped
Learan and I to help others, and so I thought
that be helpful if I maybe gave them insight of
what this. You know, there's a thing right there, it's
just right over there. I'm just I'm gonna just quick
look into the future, real real quick.
Speaker 1: If you don't If you don't mind, I don't mind
at all.
Speaker 3: Okay, I only get like five seconds in the future,
but that'll be enough. I hope I'm not actually passing
through time right now.
Speaker 1: Is there any particular thing that you see five seconds?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 1: Do you have control over what information you're getting or
is it simply its next attack?
Speaker 3: Well, says I look ahead and see multiple possible future outcomes.
Okay for my next action. But I'm going to give
it to learn and it lets me know of the
best move to make in the present. Ye giving me
an asset on the first task perform, but.
Speaker 1: You're giving it to her. Okay, does she also see it?
Does she also? Yeah? Okay, yeah, I don't see why not.
I think that's awesome. Okay, okay, So you focus and
you use your time magic, and it's harder for you
than it used to be. You're straining a bit, and
but you are able to see a myriad of scenes.
I guess that unfold before your eyes. It is the
tentacle reaching out and grabbing you, tentacle reaching out and
grabbing Leiran. There's also something striking it. I think the
best course of action is to dodge, to run. You
cannot win against this thing, and if it grabs you,
it's over Larn.
Speaker 3: It's going to grab you. It's going to grab you.
Speaker 7: You have to dodge, run and I'm going to do
my thorn burst attack as I attempt to run.
Speaker 1: Yes, Now, this is such a cool attack because you
don't have to roll for this one. It just happens.
So would you like to describe what it looks like
when these thorns shoot out of you or your branches
or whatever and hit this squid spine, squid's tail.
Speaker 6: So Leran's entire body looks like it's made out of
like like a tree has just naturally grown into the
shape of a humanoid person, and almost.
Speaker 8: As if flakes of bark are.
Speaker 6: Falling off of it.
Speaker 1: It looks like.
Speaker 6: Almost the way that leaves might might.
Speaker 8: Fall off of a tree, but with such force and accuracy,
these thorns just shed off her skin and like like
little honing missiles, goes straight towards the tentacles as they're
writhing towards us.
Speaker 1: Nice, okay, And I think that does a set number
of damage as well, right it does.
Speaker 6: It's four points.
Speaker 1: Oh, yes, okay, amazing, All right, now you do you
are hindered, right bull? I am h yes, yeah, okay.
What does that mean for you? Does that mean dodging
for you is going to be difficult?
Speaker 3: I think it means yes, because I don't think I
know which one one of the me's that I'm seeing
is me right now. I don't always it's there, I'm
in another space and time. It's hard sometimes to know
which one is the me and if this is just
a vision or if it's actually happening.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I think because you spent time to determine
the best course of action in the next move that
that was actually his move was to reach that tentacle
out to try to grab Learan and then failed because
he got hit with the spikes. So I believe that
makes it your turn again.
Speaker 3: Oh we're running. There, we're running. We're running running. Okay,
what do I see around me? Right now? We're on
the a shore.
Speaker 1: Where you are on a shoreline? Yeah, so you see
the vast expanse of the ocean kind of at your back. However,
there is the big glitching fold behind you, which is
the barrier that is protecting the town or the city
of Navii from the monsters like you are experiencing right now.
So you see that kind of behind you, and then
to your front, I think you see an expansive beach
and cliff sides and greenery and lots of vines and
things like that. But you're going to have to climb
a cliff side to get out away from this thing
or I don't know, it's going to be difficult, or
you just run and continue to run along the beach
side and hope that this thing that is four times
your size is not able to keep up with you.
Speaker 3: There it is, are are you okay? Can you run?
Are you? Are you? Are you okay?
Speaker 9: Do you?
Speaker 6: I'm fine? Let's go.
Speaker 3: Okay. I look over there to where the top of
the cliff side is. I can see it. Yes, yes,
well this was very easy for me to do before.
I should be able to do it again. I walk
over there. No, that's not right. I fold space and
time so that at one step I'm over there. I
have done this many times before. It is not difficult
to do with how practiced I am.
Speaker 1: Is it still easy for you to do?
Speaker 3: I think I'm very stressed right now, so I think
that's why I'm afraid of leaving Learan, because I cannot
take Laran with me. But Larn said it would be okay.
That's probably why it's difficult for me to step through
space to fold it. But uh, that's okay. I I
step to the side.
Speaker 1: Do you have to roll for this or does it
just happen?
Speaker 3: It says it's an action. It doesn't say to roll,
but it does cost okay, but I certainly I don't mind. Yeah,
I do have effort, but it still costs because.
Speaker 1: It's actually that would make sense to me.
Speaker 3: Wait, yes, I didn't used to have to spend effort before.
Speaker 1: I wonder why.
Speaker 3: Now, the last time I did this, I didn't I
didn't have to spend.
Speaker 1: Can you remember why?
Speaker 3: No? I can't remember? Why? Why can't I? Why can't
I remember why? I don't?
Speaker 1: Hm.
Speaker 3: I pull space to me like a blanket, and when
I unwrap it, I'm at the top of the cliff
looking at the vines, ready to rab it to help
pull up Laran. Even though I'm not that strong, but
I am. I'm strong. I've gotten stronger. Okay, Now, after
I felt space, I'm back.
Speaker 1: All right, back where, back with us? Clip oh on
top of the clip Okay.
Speaker 3: Okay, yes, there's only one of me here, that's right now.
Speaker 1: For now, there is the creature's turn now because he
went in between you and Laren. So I am going
to make an attack with my ridiculous range. Oh I
maybe should have read this more thoroughly. Okay, I am going.
I'm going to attack lear in yep. So the way
the way this works is I don't do any rolling
in this system, and it's super fun, so you will
roll to defend. Now, there should be a button on
your sheet here. Let me just pull it up, and
the difficulty is the enemy's level I believe. So let
me just take a look here. Oh geez okay, oh no,
oh no, okay, oh dear, okay, so well, I mean
you could you could roll really well. Uh so the
difficulty is seven actually for this creature. But they have
an asset for me, they do have well was that
for the last thing.
Speaker 3: But they didn't have to roll?
Speaker 1: That's true, that is true. I've been checked. Okay, all right,
that's fair. Now, when you are rolling to dodge, do
you need to have you don't roll on your armor
speed cost you're rolling where speed.
Speaker 10: If you're dodging speed, if you're trying to take their like.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, I gave I gave you tons of speed, laren.
Let's go roll your speed and then you've got one
asset and the difficulty is seven.
Speaker 10: So six.
Speaker 1: Yes, sorry, just six?
Speaker 3: Yep, no, no, so close.
Speaker 1: Wait no, This tentacle reaches out and wraps around learn,
pulling her up and waving her around like almost like
he's going to enjoy his meal. And it takes a moment.
Speaker 3: So far away.
Speaker 1: No, do you do anything.
Speaker 10: I I do.
Speaker 9: In that moment, you see almost erupting out of the
water right behind the squids and elderly looking turtle of
a walking cane in their hand, slammed it down on
the back of the head of this squid.
Speaker 10: Yes, and our reill roll for it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 9: So I'm going to use my ability crushing blow. M
h chat, and he's a bashing god bladed weapon in
both hands, plant and applight effort to attack. You get
free level effort to the damage my cane.
Speaker 10: At this creature.
Speaker 1: Mum hmm.
Speaker 10: Let's see. And this is definitely two sizes larger than me.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, it very It very specifically says it's like
three times the size of a human. So yeah, it's huge.
Speaker 10: Oh perfect, okay, bigger than.
Speaker 1: Me, much bigger than you, my dear. Difficulty six if
you've got an asset, yes, because it's default seven difficulty.
Speaker 11: Okay, it's fine, very close and to it. I have
one asset and I get to have a free little
effort to the damage.
Speaker 9: As sixteen, dialing six points sixteen points of damage. As
I slam you walking came into the back of the head.
I do think it's I rapped out of the water.
Speaker 10: It's so quick and not even tiny.
Speaker 9: Sure what's wrapping out of the water And with two
hands over this cane that you can just barely see
glinting in the sun, slam it down to the back
of the head of this squid and you see it fall,
and this person, this turtle kind of rides the body
down into the waves and crashes into the shore and
then rolls to kind of soften the london and stands
up and immediately props itself on the cane.
Speaker 10: Oh okay, I'm going to feel that in the morning.
Speaker 3: Hmm, really far away?
Speaker 1: You're far away?
Speaker 3: Would you like to Yeah?
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, would you like to teleport fold
space so that you can go back to your best
friend in the whole world and the new Savior?
Speaker 3: But it felt really weird, So I think I'm gonna
try to climb down. But I'm really bad at that
because I oh, okay, because it felt really strange last time.
So I'm going to climb down a role, uh for
this because I'm not great. I'm not outdoorsy, so uh,
I think whatever I role has a badness on it.
So because I'm not.
Speaker 1: That's right, because it's a Yeah, you specifically have a
not outdoorsy tag. That's right.
Speaker 3: Because I'm not athletic. What what's the difficulty?
Speaker 1: I think three is standard and four is harder, So
I'm going to say because standards, then I'm going to
say three three is Demanda. Yep, that's good. That seems fair.
Speaker 3: I think so too. Okay, Hey, and I have no assets,
but you know, okay, Oh no, I'm going to try
to climb down the vines, but I'm a little scared
and I don't know what's happening to me. I think
I fall.
Speaker 1: I think you fall. But I would like to posit Laren,
if it is okay with you that roots come out
and help him and grab him and like bring him down. Yes, yeah,
and you are now back down on the beach with
your very best friend in the whole world and the
new visitor.
Speaker 3: I step in front of Laren, although I'm very short
Lyrn is much taller than I am, just in case. Also,
Laren knows how to fight and I also don't. But
I still step in front of Larn quite small.
Speaker 10: What are you two doing so close to the fold?
Speaker 3: Hello?
Speaker 9: Hello again? What are you doing so close to the fold?
Your parents should?
Speaker 10: You should?
Speaker 9: Your parents definitely told you not to be so close
to the fold, and to you. You look quickily old
enough to know better. You shouldn't be taking such a
young kid so close to the fold either.
Speaker 3: I'm not that young. I'm just short.
Speaker 9: Oh I suppose I've been a late blom is fine.
Speaker 3: I'm seventeen.
Speaker 10: Oh okay, yeah, I don't think you're going to be
great any time to say.
Speaker 3: My name uh is Wakati deep Fisher and this is
my very best friend lear and we're the race. We
we we need help, we need help. There's danger.
Speaker 9: No I could I can see that the will gesture
to the dead squit, thank you, thank you, no problem,
but really should not be this far out, especially without
an adult.
Speaker 3: No, we scaped the fold. We came from the fall.
Speaker 10: Okay inside, did you get hit on the heads? Do
you have a concussion?
Speaker 6: M h what says? It's true? We come from the
fold and we need your help.
Speaker 3: The race I don't do you remember? Did who won?
We were? We were in the race?
Speaker 9: We just uh it was really sure. I don't really
fin the racism. I'm pretty sure was the Bright Shields
most likely?
Speaker 3: Oh well, we we went missing. I think you maybe
you saw or maybe you didn't see, but we all
we all went to the fold.
Speaker 9: Well, and I quote were KARTI in a chess with
the head of my cane, and I I've been a
near and a round the fold. I've been watching it
for a while now. I would like to use my cane,
which doubles as a macronic focus, oh wow, to see
and test the residue ra chronic energy on them right now,
to see if it matches what it.
Speaker 10: Comes from the fold.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, I don't think I'm gonna make you roll for this.
And the only reason I say that is because both
he and Lerian were just in the fold and so hardcore. Yeah. There,
it would be lighting up like you've never seen before,
and so would this creature if you were to look
and tap that creature because it's mutated and typically you know,
these creatures are only out in the deep deep sea,
so there is some implication maybe that they were out
pretty far in the fold, depending on how the fold works.
Speaker 6: You know, I don't know that that's why you're doing this.
So I'm just going to reach a hand in front
to knock your cane off and say we appreciate your health,
but do not poke my friend again.
Speaker 9: But just from the tap of your hand, I can
tell you are drenched in the fold signature of themarcrotic energy.
Speaker 3: So I'm I.
Speaker 9: Think it's more needed than before. Are you all okay?
Did anything else follow you out there?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 3: Not everything followed us at all. Our friends are in
there still, yeh. And not just our friends, their parents.
All of the Title Blades are still there. They're in there.
They're alive, and and we have to tell the council
we have to we have to get in there. We
have to we have They would.
Speaker 9: Want to know, wait, hold on, hold on, hold on
the title blades. What do you what do you mean
the Title Blades are still alive.
Speaker 3: We were in the fold. We fell in there. Somehow
we sailed there, I think, and inside it's very strange.
I didn't my friends.
Speaker 10: You do you need to speak to.
Speaker 3: I don't know the council. They have to know that
the Title Blades are still alive and can be saved.
But my friends.
Speaker 10: Are with me. And he just turns around and starts walking.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay. Would you like to go into any more
detail as to what your old man turtle looks like?
Speaker 9: Yeah, they stand about five foot nine ish. There'd probably
be about nearly five foot ten maybe five foot eleven,
but they are slightly slouched over, crouched over from age.
They are a deep like ocean blue skin, have a
scar over their eye, big silver, round rimmed glasses. They
look their clothing looks like it was once really Christine
and Gouda probably like maybe high tier clothing, but he's
worn it for so long he just kind of looks
tattered and ragged. They have a cane in their hand
that it used to kind of move. Even with the cane,
even with the limp, they move because it'll be fasten
both of you. The cane itself is made out of kildean,
a kind of a trend tolucent black metal, and on
the head of the cane is a carving of a
lion scar that kind of grips onto to keep hold
of this cane. And they're very clearly very physically built.
They're the kind of old man. He very clear was
very athletic in the younger years, and that has done
at the very least enough to keep that physique in
the older You can saw the results of that when
he took out that squid, and he's got a turquoise
green with some orange shell on his back and peppered
with old cracks and bruises and scars. You can only
as seen what's from fights from a younger and maybe
most more recent days. And he's just walking, would expecting
anyone to keep up?
Speaker 1: Would they have noticed an expression shift when he said
the title Blades are still in there and there might
be a way to save them.
Speaker 9: Yes, I think it was very clear. There was a
I think that was when they said that they came
out the fold. The look of almost disgust was on
their face because they thought they were just putting a.
Speaker 10: Prank on him.
Speaker 9: Yeah, because that holds a lot of wait for him specifically.
And then when he confirmed that they are they did
escape the fold and they added the fact that the
title Blades are still alive in there, there was a
look of solemness. And then I wouldn't say determination, but
specifically renewed determination, which I feel like feels and looks different. Yeah,
and that's when he turns and starts invigorated.
Speaker 1: Almost. Yeah, Okay, fantastic, And well, would you like to
describe what you look like for those who might not know.
Speaker 3: Well, first off, if it's okay, I'd like to hold
Larn's hand as we're trying to go and scramble after
this person who I don't actually even think said their name, well,
but say is that.
Speaker 6: Okay, Laren holds holds hands in a way that I
think you might.
Speaker 8: Need to be careful of splinters with, but it's hopefully
still reassuring.
Speaker 3: I am a golfing. We're fish. We're not so big,
but we're sort of round. And I'm sort of shorter
than most golfing actually because I'm a bit of a runt,
and I have very thick glasses because I read. I
have a fisherman's hat and best that I got from
my from my parents. All of the deep fishers are
are they? They fish? Or they used to? It would
go deep, close to the fold fish important things for
the community. It's hard work, it's really noble work.
Speaker 1: You remember where you got that scarf.
Speaker 6: That you're wearing.
Speaker 3: Yes, I do remember why Leric gave it to me.
Speaker 1: I'm just curious, all right, Please follow, follow your new
unnamed turtle friend. Where do you take them?
Speaker 9: We are quite far out from the center of the
very so I'm heading over to the fishing boat I
was in moments ago before I saw the spine squid
air up from the waters. Mind you, step I don't
mind the fish. If you're hungry, you can have one. No,
it's okay.
Speaker 3: I do look young, but I am older than I look.
Speaker 10: I just short, that's okay.
Speaker 9: Do you want to bud shield and a hand over?
I reached into one of my pockets and pull out
a handful of hard candies.
Speaker 10: Bud shoed.
Speaker 1: I'll have one.
Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 6: Laren reaches out kind of tentatively to take one.
Speaker 1: I have a follow up question for you, great old turtle,
because I feel like this will tell us a lot
about you. What does the fishing boat look like? And
what state is it in?
Speaker 9: It is the very definition of mishmashed. It's maybe one
plank is the original plank that it was originally made
out of. But at this point is with any sort
of wood that he gets hands on on these outer
eyles of the city. But despite how strange it looks,
it's definitely clearly well taken care of. Every single piece
of wood has been likely cut by him and fixed
upon the ship by him. It's a tight squeeze, is
very clearly built for at most two people. But these
two kids might be able to fit the world. The
blue one's really short, so that's like half a person.
It's the floor of the entire floor of it is
just covered in a bunch of fish that they must
have either probably caught with the bare hands, because you
don't see a fishing line on the boat.
Speaker 1: Okay, and how does he hear the boat? Is it
like one of those things where you do the ore
and then let the sails yep?
Speaker 10: Yes, yes, So.
Speaker 1: You are going to paddle your way towards where are
you going?
Speaker 9: They setting to see the council, So I'm going to
get as close to the center of the area as
I can.
Speaker 1: Okay, perfect, perfect, perfect?
Speaker 3: Do you think they'll see us?
Speaker 12: Sir?
Speaker 3: Mister sir.
Speaker 10: Amara, just me Amara?
Speaker 3: Do we know Amara bois in the sky?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 1: That is such a good question. I think i'd have
you roll for this. You might, it's possible, and.
Speaker 3: Learin too, because we've both been here all the time.
So let me see what I have a I'm trained
in memorizing things. I'm very good at memorizing thing, so
I'll make my intellect role. But I should have an
ease on this one by one, Okay, I don't know
what the difficulty is, but.
Speaker 1: I guess you are young. So I was gonna say
four for a couple of reasons. One, you're young. Two,
I'm not sure how fascinated you were with this subject,
particularly that might pertain to him before. And also I
think he's gone out of his Yeah, I think he's
also gone out of his way to not make waves
publicly since, so difficulty for sounds fair to me. I think.
Speaker 3: Also I didn't get I lived in a cave.
Speaker 1: So yes, that's true. That's true. Yeah, you guys went
to school and then stopped. So yeah, all right, go ahead,
I succeeded. Oh fantastic. Then I'm going to allow Drag
to tell us maybe what you would have known from
public knowledge about his character.
Speaker 3: But specifically the public knowledge that an orphan whose parents
died when he was like two or three and basically
lived in a cave, but likes to read a lot
and worked for a very very wealthy family as a
gardener and so picked up some things and likes to
talk to people.
Speaker 1: Oh that wealthy family though, was the moon Wakes, So
there may have been talk that you may have overheard, possibility.
Speaker 13: So just whatever I might have picked up in that way,
you would know Amara as probably.
Speaker 9: I think everything about Amara has been almost derogatory. I think,
oh you know that amongst everyone, especially most likely they're
more richer and high society people in the very and
most definitely from any if you meet any archanists or engineers,
you know Amara as the correct shell of Naveri. You'd
know that they were once one of the or the
trainer of the last two generations of title plates, and
after the Ford went up they.
Speaker 10: Became a hermit.
Speaker 3: Oh I have heard are you? Are you? There's this
wonderful person, a wonderful person and her parents are Moonwakes,
and they spoke about An Amara. I don't think that's
the same you, though, But you have the same name
as An Amara, who who trained tiding Wakes. Yes, their
daughter is one of my very best friends and they're
in the bold and we have to save them.
Speaker 10: Let's get you to the council.
Speaker 3: See what I will.
Speaker 1: Say now as Oh, sorry, please go ahead.
Speaker 3: Are you the same Amara? Seem quite brave, so I
think you can't be yes, yes you are brave, or
yes you are the same Amara.
Speaker 10: Yes I'm the same Amara.
Speaker 14: Oh oh oh ah.
Speaker 3: I look to Laren because I feel like Larr will
know what to say here. I think I just stepped
in it.
Speaker 6: Oh Leriam just silently puts a hand on Wacatti's shoulder
and hands over the candy that Amara gave her.
Speaker 1: The rest of the boat ride, yeah, I was going
to say, the rest of the boat ride is probably
mostly silent. Now. When you arrive at the council, they
are being it is being held at the Citadel of
Time or near the Citadel of Time, excuse me, and
the there is usually a statue that is commemorating the
title Blades in their sacrifice right outside the council, and
it has been defaced. And you will notice that there
actually has been a fire, and it looks like maybe
one of the neighboring buildings at the Citadel of Time
has been burned down. You will also notice huge graffiti
along the whole Citadel of Time that is the Fold,
and so it stretches around it like the fold does,
and it's white and almost electric. But the whole thing
has been tinged red. And so there are people cleaning,
there are people trying to assess the damage from the
most recent fire. In fact, the fact that you see
people there talking about the damage, would imply it's incredibly recent.
But you arrive without incident at the council.
Speaker 3: What happened?
Speaker 6: Why would somebody do this?
Speaker 9: Mar just runs again and keeps walking, doesn't even look
at the graffiti or the burnt down statue.
Speaker 3: I apologize to anyone who's cleaning. I'm so sorry. I'm sorry.
I'll help on the way out.
Speaker 10: And I ask Kathy to roll perception.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sure of course you may.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 3: I don't have the perception skill, but I can use intellect.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that'll work.
Speaker 10: Okay, I would say it's difficulty three.
Speaker 3: Okay, I will do that. Good luck, thank you. I
will do that right now. Success. I rolled an eighteen.
I'm I look at people a lot. I find them interesting.
People are interesting.
Speaker 9: As you're apologizing to everyone clearing up the remains of
the statues and the graffiti on the walls, you just
about catch Amara giving you the dirtiest look before turning
it back to the citadel time and continuing their walk.
Speaker 3: I just take lar In's hand.
Speaker 10: Hustle.
Speaker 1: Now, when you enter into the city council chambers, you
are actually well. I should ask are you going to
be interrupting anything, or are you going to wait?
Speaker 10: I'm not waiting.
Speaker 1: I figured you weren't waiting, but I thought I would
ask both. Okay, so it's fine both. So you're getting
ready to go in, and maybe you were like, well,
maybe I should just ask and we should wait. But
that's not the case.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 1: Amara just basically storms in the main council and there
is a meeting being held that you are very much interrupting.
Speaker 9: And everyone again, this is my monthly visit. Security wasn't
as good today.
Speaker 3: Mister Amara. What's the how do we do this? How
do we.
Speaker 9: These two are something to tell you? I didn't believe
that at first, but it seems true enough not to
step aside for the two of them to step forward.
Speaker 3: Brand council.
Speaker 1: Everyone is everyone is staring at you pretty much without
I mean, maybe there was some initial it, but when
they see you too and that it isn't just a
Mara for his monthly visit giving them a hard time,
they wait and listen.
Speaker 6: We won't waste your time, and we ask that you
don't waste ours. We come to you from the fold
where we and many others, including the title Lads, have
been trapped and she's going to put her hand on
Bull's shoulder and kind of squeeze encouragingly.
Speaker 3: We were in the race you might have been watching.
We were doing really well, all of us on our
little ship. And something happened as we were tried to
take a short cut and then we got law in
the fold somehow, And there are bad things in there.
There are There are bad things in there, and memories.
But all of the title Blades are in there. Still,
they're there, and they're waiting. They need help. And we
the two of us we left. Only we two could
get out some of the rest of them.
Speaker 1: That's its energy. You've gone too far, Amara, too far.
This is ridiculous.
Speaker 3: No, wait, we have to take the fold down off
and oh.
Speaker 1: The only thing protecting all of Navii. You want to
take it down? Of course, there are bad things in
the fold. It's protecting us from those bad things.
Speaker 6: On the other side, it's not protecting all of Naveri
when some of Navii is trapped inside it.
Speaker 1: Oh, we have no way to confirm that that's true,
but we were there. Oh, we're just going to take
your word on it, especially coming from Amara. For all
we know, he could have propositioned you to do this,
but he.
Speaker 10: Didn't, doesn't say anything.
Speaker 3: Now you please This Naveri is my home and I
love it. It's the best place. And I've only wanted
to be an engineer, that's all I've wanted to be
one day up here with the rest of you, great heroes.
The work you do on the Council, the things you've
done making the fold, saving us all and protecting us.
Your wisdom and your knowledge, and the things that you
dream and see and study, those things are the best things.
And I hope one day that I can join you
here studying, studying time. And so I would never lie,
I would never lie to any of you are and
I we we escape. We're the only ones who could.
And our very best friends are in there, and the
title Blades they're in there, and they're waiting for us.
Speaker 10: To save them.
Speaker 3: And they're already working to take down the Fold from
the inside, but they need us to help on the outside.
Speaker 1: Gasps from the council and murmuring now.
Speaker 10: As they are looks at them in surprise at that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, taken down the from the inside.
Speaker 3: They need but they need our help, and there's danger.
We have to warn the people on the islands next
to the Fold that they must evacuate because Folds, we
need your help. And you are the greatest heroes and
leaders of NAVII. I believe in you, and so I
ask you, as just a deep fisher, my best friend here,
please help us save my friends and all the great
title blades who are heroes. And I know you will
if you would just believe me that it's true. It's true.
I wouldn't lie. Also, I'm very bad at lying, so
I wouldn't be able to if I tried.
Speaker 1: I think everyone is. I think you might see a
couple council members that are looking straight ahead, maybe eyes
glazed over, like they're hearing you, but they aren't visibly
responding in any way whatsoever. And then one or two
are looking at each other and whispering to each other
and engaged in conversation. However, I am curious as to
the reaction of one individual who does not sit on
the council itself, but still in the room. She is
a human with red hair curly on top of her
head in a bun. I want to know how she's
been reacting to this information.
Speaker 12: She's been writing it all down fantastic, and whispering with
her nearest neighbor, somebody who she feels as a friend
but actually is probably an acquaintance. Acquaintance. Oh, personally, I
think this one's mad as a shell eater.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't, sir.
Speaker 1: And taking down the fold. That's ridiculous. You can sit
down the foot from the inside. How would you even
do that? I don't know.
Speaker 6: Who knows.
Speaker 12: They'll sort it out, the council will sort it out.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, I feel like, you know, what can you
even do with this? But all right, it's their conversation there,
and I think you'll see. Yeah, I was just going
to say, I think because you, I will say that
your speech swayed me. I was going to be like,
absolutely not. You're going to have to schedule a meeting,
and schedule that meeting with our secretary and then we'll
do a council a lot, we'll do a hearing on
it or whatever. But you're you you saying that, m M, yep, go.
Speaker 3: Ahead, pleasant social interactions. And also I'm just awfully sincere.
I'd like to at least roll maybe maybe somebody will listen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's let's roll for it. I was already r
peeing that you had swayed some people and those are
the people that were glazed eyes and looking straight ahead unfortunately.
But yeah, let's roll because you might get something crazy.
Speaker 3: And what difficulty if you please, I'm.
Speaker 1: Going to say this is at least a four.
Speaker 3: Okay, that I do have my asset. I will use
effort if you don't mind.
Speaker 1: I don't mind at all. I think this is the
most important thing you've done yet. I think we'll.
Speaker 3: Make two effort and I have my skill that will help.
Speaker 1: That will count as an asset, right or no, it's
the skills different. Go ahead, it eases it.
Speaker 3: Yea one, So I have a.
Speaker 1: Success, Okay, fantastic. Then I think you'll see maybe the
the you know, and the council is full of all
different races that make up Naveria.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 1: You'll see the the crocodiles, You'll see the the cuddle beards,
which are the like squid like creatures and they kind
of decorate in. You've got the batalloids, You've got the
chameleons and stuff like that. So it's just a wide
array of wonderful creatures and a few humans as well.
But I think the main one that we see at
this particular moment is a crocodile. And he leans forward
after a moment of having not said anything so far,
and he says, if what you say is true, then
the decision has been made for us. You say, your
friends are trying to take down the fold from within, but.
Speaker 3: They can't do it without us.
Speaker 1: And what makes you so sure of that?
Speaker 3: Well, they said, well, not them, my friends, we're from here,
but their parents. The Title Blades told us that.
Speaker 1: You're saying, Title Blades spoke to you.
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, ma'am person counselor. They're alive and they they
need our help because it's if they stay long, it
might twist them too much. Don't have a lot of
time to save them.
Speaker 1: It's alrighty been fifteen years. Somebody whispers quite loudly, nine years.
Speaker 6: Laren just looks down at bowl and says, fifteen years.
Speaker 3: Yes or yes?
Speaker 10: Are you going to have them or not?
Speaker 1: I think we need to talk about it. And you
know that. Amara.
Speaker 3: We wait outside.
Speaker 9: When they say talk is going to take another fifteen years?
Speaker 3: Oh no, they would no, they wouldn't do that because
we have no time. It's it's like torture in there.
It's like there being that's.
Speaker 1: Enough, that's enough, that's enough. We've heard enough for today.
Speaker 3: Should we wait outside?
Speaker 1: He he looks to his right where there is another
human woman sitting next to him on the council, and
he leans in and whispers something that you can't quite discern.
And she looks to our little redheaded assistant here and
just nods nods to her, And then the crocodile counselor
will speak again. We are going to send somebody with you,
and we will call for you when we're ready to
speak again.
Speaker 3: We'll we'll move the people in the outer islands right
We have to let them know.
Speaker 1: No, we will not do anything until we've made a decision.
But we will call on you again for more testing
and proof should you have any.
Speaker 3: But they're in danger.
Speaker 6: What do you expect us to do in the meantime?
Speaker 1: Wait, the tides are rising, The fold will protect.
Speaker 6: Us, the food will protect us. At what costs.
Speaker 1: One that has already been paid?
Speaker 3: Can we at least move the people out from the
outer islands right now while you're waiting and.
Speaker 1: They don't want to spread fear and panic. If you
do that, people will think the fold is coming down tomorrow,
and we have made no such decision. I don't even
know if we could take it down if we wanted to.
But all that is for us to discuss. Thank you
for your time.
Speaker 3: Thank you listening to us. And it's been an honor
to be It's been an honor to be in this place.
I've always wanted to be here.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you for your time. Deep Fisher, I
think I think this crocodile looks at you, learn the
way you are looking at him, and the moment he
catches your gaze, he looks away ashamed.
Speaker 6: Good, She's going to continue to stare at him nonetheless.
Speaker 14: Yeah out, yeah, sticks, yes, let's.
Speaker 1: And as you three head out, the female human assistant
or council member is going to stand up. They're all
getting ready to talk, and she heads over to our
redheaded assistant here. I'd like you to run some tests,
figure out if what they're saying has any value, any
information that you can find, you bring it back to us.
Speaker 12: Of course, of course, what do they mean when they
said all.
Speaker 1: Those years, fifteen years, all those years? WHOA I think
that he is implying that they have been trapped in
the fold for the last fifteen years, which seems highly improbable.
It is experimental time magic, but it's not supposed to
work that way.
Speaker 12: Highly improbable is not impossible.
Speaker 6: That's right.
Speaker 12: So when you say highly improbable, what sort of level
of possibility are we talking about here? In terms of
like highly improbable? So extremely extremely small odds.
Speaker 1: Extremely extremely small odds.
Speaker 12: One in one hundred, one in a thousand, one in
five million.
Speaker 1: I think, for the first time ever, you see an
expression on your mentor's face that you don't recognize, and
it is one of guilt and deceit, and they do
not answer.
Speaker 12: You should I go?
Speaker 1: I trust you will find any evidence that exists. If
it exists, I will, I will do my best.
Speaker 12: Another wait, not my bookshop.
Speaker 1: Yeah, before you go. She reaches out but doesn't actually
touch you. She just kind of reaches out. And there's
that awkward moment that you two sometimes have where it's like,
oh God, and she says, if they are taking it down,
we need to find out how to stop that. Okay, okay,
if the fold comes down, it will be catastrophic.
Speaker 12: I understand.
Speaker 1: Good luck.
Speaker 12: You two, Thank you. I mean I will. I'd like
to turn on my heels and kind of quick march.
This is the walk of this the school prefect who
maybe feels a little bit more important than they are.
And I am going to walk up to the up
to the group and stand and wait.
Speaker 3: Hello, they're coming with us?
Speaker 14: Yes I am.
Speaker 6: And how exactly would you like us to prove what
we're saying is true?
Speaker 12: Well, I feel we should start at the start and
methodically look through the experiences that you have been through,
and I will write them down and we will come
to a logical conclusion of the facts.
Speaker 3: Mister Amara saved us. We almost died as a hero.
So can that be placed in the council notes? Is
that a thing you can.
Speaker 10: Do best for you?
Speaker 9: If you didn't associate me with your plea. If I'm
gonna be honest, you heard them in there. Just me
bringing you in was enough to you for them to
dismiss you.
Speaker 3: But it's the truth. It's what happened.
Speaker 9: And the council, and I look directly at a new
friend doesn't care about the truth.
Speaker 3: That's not true. They they are in search of the truth.
That's what they do. They are their greatest minds in
all of Newbiri. Of course they care about the truth.
They didn't, well, then nothing would make sense.
Speaker 1: Yes, it wouldn't.
Speaker 6: Pheebe.
Speaker 12: Do I do I know? Do I recognize any of
these characters? Do I know who any?
Speaker 1: This is so fun? Okay? I think I don't know
if you would recognize I think I need you to roll.
I'm so sorry. I don't think that you would recognize Bold,
but you might. Uh, And I'm gonna se you recognize
themar because he comes once a month. But in terms
of Leiran, I think.
Speaker 12: Oh, can I consult my book?
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say that yes you can, Yes
you can. Okay, So that means that you yep. So
when you go ahead and roll, you're gonna be rolling
your intellect, and then you get an asset, which is
your book. So when it comes up and tells you
the difficulty, we're going to put four as the difficulty.
And you don't need to spend any effort if you
don't want to, but that is something that you can
spend if you'd like. But and then you just add
in the one asset and then let that go through
and there's no other bonuses or anything you need to
fill out. Holy oh okay.
Speaker 3: Twenty maject major l Okay.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay okay. Oh my god,
Oh my god, Oh my god. Oh okay okay okay. So question, Sorry,
I cannot believe this happened on episode one, shin, how
are you doing this? Because you have a lot of
gadgets and things in your pockets? So what does this
look like? Are you actually recognizing it by you look alone?
Or are you like ha, and then you pull out
a device that scans her or something like that, like
how are you?
Speaker 10: So?
Speaker 12: What this looks like to out to an outside eye
is I look up and to the right, and there's
a little weirring as I put my left hand in
my pocket. If it was really quiet in here, as
in like hear a pin drop quiet, you might hear
it until there's a moment of acknowledgment in my eyes
and not my head eyes.
Speaker 1: Okay, Then I think you would know there is no
record of any creature or being like this that you
have ever encountered, and it exists in no files, no nothing. However,
you would also with that NAT twenty you would recognize
some chameleon features and that would potentially have implications that
perhaps perhaps what she's saying is true, perhaps she was
in the fold. You know, the Fold can mutate beings,
so it's possible she was in there and mutated into
this amazing tree creature. But you've never seen anything like
this before.
Speaker 12: In that case, I don't think that would be a
moment of acknowledgment.
Speaker 3: Can I give that what they would have gotten about Wakati?
Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, with a bonus for the twenty Yeah.
Speaker 3: One, you probably would never Wikati. It was not a
person you'd probably know unless you were ever at the
moon be mistake in any way, in which case you
might have seen him as the gardener at one point.
But there was this big, huge, massive race recently and
he and a bunch of like people who are not
famous people were on. I'm sure we weren't there.
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry I have to stop you. Yeah, I'm
so sorry. I have to stop you. And I'm so
sorry I didn't tell you this before. Now, what the
race happened five years ago and there hasn't been one since.
Speaker 3: Right, So the race that just happened last week, you
totally would have recognized.
Speaker 10: Bull.
Speaker 3: Okay, so just let's just go on with that but
then because you've got a major effect, I'm going to
say something that Bull would not want you to know.
Bull has got a little case that he carries with him,
and since you were working the council, imagine it seemed
to be up on things. You might know. It's a
little case. This case might have been stolen from the archives,
has been missing for some time. And if you have
a twenty, I imagine you it.
Speaker 1: Yes. Oh, also also a.
Speaker 3: Little bit, a little bit longer than five years, because
they can work. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think just because this is a twenty and a
major effect happens, I think you might piece together too
that five years ago there was a boat of racers
that never came back, which very very rarely I would
say happens in general people because the fold protects from everything,
including inclement weather. So I think like it's incredibly rare
for people to just get lost at sea nowadays, and
this is in fact why they canceled the races after that.
So I think a moment goes off where you're like
fold time magic. She has been mutated potentially by the fold,
and he is saying that his friends are trapped in
there because of a race, and you go wait five
years ago where there was a missing boat.
Speaker 3: This is a this is a stolen micronic artifact. Uh
just from the from like the the time towers, you know, vaults,
but it was stolen you know five.
Speaker 12: Years Can I can I see.
Speaker 1: This or oh one with that with that major effect,
I think absolutely, as long as he's not hiding it.
Speaker 12: He's not hiding it.
Speaker 3: It's like it's it's like it's like on a string.
That's like it's like because he wants it, so he
wants to be able to grab it at any time.
So it's just like it's like like on a cord
that it's like hanging like off his stuff. He's not
he probably should have hidden it, but he didn't take
it out. But it's just like there in case he
needs it. Right, But yeah, it's a stolen artifact right there.
Speaker 12: Okay, So I think that the ticking happens and I
have this kind of look at look at bull, look
in the see my eyes go up to the top right,
and the ticking happens. It's really fussed speeds up and
I look really intensely at this stolen artifact, look really
really intensely, like the kind of thing like when a
dog hears a noise that nobody else can hear, and
they go and you can't distract them from it. That
that's the look. And then I slowly peel my vision
up to the face of this creature that I have
absolutely no information, and my left hand, which has come
out of my pocket, goes back into my pocket ticking
habits again. I put my hand out of my pocket
and I look at it, and I look at this
creature and I put my hand back in my pocket.
Speaker 1: Like, oh, this has to be wrong. There must be
some Yeah, there must be some information.
Speaker 12: And I'm going to keep going. I'm going to keep
keep going, keep trying.
Speaker 3: Mister Amara, Is this the normal thing that happened? Are
we supposed to just stand.
Speaker 10: Tired? I need to rest.
Speaker 12: I apologize. How how rude of me. I'm going to
look back to the artifact. How rude of me, How
rude of me. Perhaps we can go to the.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 12: I'm not sure about that, but maybe a lab right
this way, please, And I'm going to watch in front.
Speaker 3: Of me, wait, wait, waiting behind me? Are you going
to take us to the labs where the engineers are?
Could you take me? Also? When we have time to
the school where you study. Where did you see that?
Speaker 12: Where did you get at that? You don't you've not
been to a lab. Where did you get that?
Speaker 3: What? What?
Speaker 12: That?
Speaker 3: She points it's behind my back because if you put
it by my back, you can't see it.
Speaker 12: I'm going around him. I'm going around to him, and
pointed it from behind that.
Speaker 3: Oh, it was a present from who a friend?
Speaker 12: Is this one of those moments where you don't actually
want to tell me where you say friend, But what
you really mean is stop asking.
Speaker 3: Oh, oh, that's not very nice. I wouldn't say something
like that. That would be very rude.
Speaker 12: No, I didn't mean to say that you were rude.
Speaker 3: I just meant that he No, I hope I wasn't rude. No, Oh,
it's just that my friend is lost in the old
right now?
Speaker 12: Of course, what was that? I didn't catch that.
Speaker 3: My friend was a human like you.
Speaker 12: It's all, well, I guess, I I guess I should
I guess I should I should take you, I should
take I should take you to that, I should take
you to the and she walks off in front, just
expecting them to follow.
Speaker 3: Mister Amara, you'll stay with us, right.
Speaker 10: There's these time, walk follow don't even reply.
Speaker 3: I take larry t hand.
Speaker 6: I think that's a yes.
Speaker 1: Before we have to the lab, I think we see
a couple of different council members or people that would
be around the council that are staring at Learn, probably
having the same realization that our friend here just had.
But I'm curious if Learn looks back or what her
expression is after all of this.
Speaker 6: Laren's head is held high and there is absolutely no hesitation.
There's no looking back. It is directly onward. You can tell,
just based off of her body language, the way she's
angling herself and how tightly she's holding his hand, that
her primary focus is on Bull and almost in a sense,
shepherding him through this interaction. Thank you.
Speaker 1: What is your lab look like? Or is it your
lab that you take them to?
Speaker 12: No, it's not my lab. It's my mentor's.
Speaker 1: Lab perfect, which I have permission to use for lot
of the time.
Speaker 12: I don't have a key, but I have permission to
use it when it's unlocked.
Speaker 1: So so is it unmarked? I guess as the question, yes,
I would.
Speaker 12: Say so, considering I've been told to do this. It's
kind of the natural place that I would have been
guided to if if I was told to investigate something
or given an assignment, that's that's where I do it.
Speaker 6: That's where I go.
Speaker 12: So okay, it's very logical to me that that would
that would be where we go, that would that it
would be okay, not only do I have permission, but
that it is unlocked. Whether it is or not, actually.
Speaker 1: Maybe yeah, no, it's fine, Yeah, it's fine. Yeah, yeah,
it's unlocked.
Speaker 3: But what does it look like?
Speaker 1: Is it like pristine condition? Is there a lot of clutter?
I feel like this is like Mar's boat where we'll
learn a lot about you and potentially your mentor depending
on what this place looks like.
Speaker 12: So it's it's organized chaos. It's absolutely organized chaos. It's
not mine too. It's not messy, like you wouldn't walk
into it and think it was messy. But it is
extremely full. There are four benches, three on one side
of the room, one on the other side of the
room that have like stackable boxes on them, and every
single box is really well organized and has a different
type of thing. There's wires in one, there's pieces of
like unidentified strange objects. In another, there's like stationery in
another there's some blades and some tools hung up on
like I guess it sort of looks like a peg board.
It's made of steel, and and it's quite overwhelmingly full.
It also smells like nobody who's opened a window for
three weeks four weeks, so it's quite close. Like you
go in and it's about like, well, if you're not
used to it, there's so much staff, there's so much stuff.
There's like cages, there's like stuff on the ceiling. But
it's very tidy, very organized. The space of people who
work in it frequently and know where everything is and
must put it back at the end of the day fantastic.
Speaker 1: And then also, let's just take a second to describe
what you look like, because I only described from what
they could see you while you were sitting down.
Speaker 12: You're gonna wait, sure, I'm tall. I look older than
my years.
Speaker 6: They're kind of.
Speaker 12: Late teenager who has an air of are they maybe
twenty five or twenty six or are they eighteen or nineteen?
Like you can't really tell until I open my mouth,
and I think the tallness does that. This tallness sort
of gives this helps form this illusion of being unsure
about what age it is. She wears sort of a
lab coat and it's crossed between a lab coat and
a fishing vest, has huge pockets in it. Out of
them you can see various pieces of instruments and pieces
of miscellaneous things. Maybe you're not even really sure what
they are. There's notebooks, there's markers, there's strange pieces of
metal poking out, some of which maybe are familiar with,
some of which aren't really entirely visible. You're not entirely sure.
She holds a small notebook which is band together but
has many bookmarks and markings. Probably wouldn't make any sense
to anybody else if they opened it up, but it
makes so to her, and she carries it with her
wherever she goes. Her hair is up in a very
messy situation on the top of her head, and there's
maybe five or six pencils holding it in place. She
puts one in, forgets it's there, picks up another one, yep,
puts it in. It's a black hole of pencils.
Speaker 6: Who knows.
Speaker 1: Fantastic not today.
Speaker 3: I have a question. Yes, you said something in the
council chamber and I made me think of something, and
I was just on my mind, and so I was
just wondering. You described the council member that spoke to
our new friend here is having the same sort of
hair color. And I don't want you to think that
I'm being culturally insensitive and saying that all humans look
alike or something like this. But they have similar hair
Could they be related? Could the council member have been
her mother? Is that insensitive to ask? I'm just wondering
if I could get that from their interactions and they
have the same hair color. I was going to say, yeah,
do you ask well, it's a question I have on
the inside of my voice first, and then I might
ask it outside if I don't know if I think, yeah,
I think, but then I might ask outside too.
Speaker 1: I think I will allow you to roll difficulty? How many? Okay? Well,
your best friend human h four? We'll say four. That's
a little challenging.
Speaker 3: Sure, one way or the other. I'm going to say
something out loud yep. So pleasant social interactions includes disserting
the dispositions of others. So I'm hoping this is dispositional
yes for each other?
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course I will allow it.
Speaker 3: Thank you. Uh, let's see, let me do this and
then this is a difficult and I do not think
I have any eases for this, and I won't use effort.
But uh, here we go. It is a success.
Speaker 1: Okay, boy, they sure don't act the will hold on.
I have to back up. I think they act very
similar to the way you and your parents acted, or
the way your parents treated you, sort of, except maybe
this mentor seems a lot warmer than your parents were. Right,
if I remember, if I'm remembering correctly, your your dad
like shoved you in the water to be like, well,
let's see if he can swim like the rest of us,
gut eas and if he can't, oh well there goes
another one.
Speaker 3: Right yeah, yeah, yeah I did. I didn't swim, I sink.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. And one of your best friends in
the whole world saved you, right, yeah.
Speaker 3: Well was it Laran? It was Leiran, wasn't it.
Speaker 1: If that's what you remember, it's probably true.
Speaker 3: Strange that you spraise it that way.
Speaker 1: Um, But also I think that the relationship between this
mentor or, you know, the council member and her seemed
a lot warmer than your parental and as far as
their body language, yeah, probably a.
Speaker 3: Parent Well excuse me. I had a question. Oh, I
do not wish to be culturally insensitive, but you and
the council member that you are an apprentice to maybe
have the same hair color, does that mean that the
council member is your mother. I'm not just saying this
because of hair color, but the hair also, you both
have curly hair, which is two factors. And then the
third factor is that you had a strange not strange,
that's very judgmental. You had a an exciting interaction with
each other. Is or is that how normally it is
between mentor whor is it apprentices?
Speaker 12: I'm blushing. I'm like, uncontrollably blushing. I'm clashing with my
hair right now, blushing away.
Speaker 10: Was laughing to themselves.
Speaker 12: They came, I, I can't. I can't say in terms
of insensitivity, but certainly I am not offended by your statement.
I feel I feel, uh, she's not my mother.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 12: Oh don't be it's quite the compliment.
Speaker 3: I looked at lyric because I do not understand that
comment like that. That does not part. I was like,
I don't like clearly like Bulla's like did I just
what wait? Just looking to like, I like help.
Speaker 6: Laren shakes her head softly and goes it was a
good guess.
Speaker 12: Ah, I'd like to go to the end of the
lab where there's a fairly large blackboard. Absolutely, And I'd
like to take a piece of chalk out of my pocket,
and I'd like to write on the whiteboard t U
F F A and then underline it chalk down, turn around,
face my new friends.
Speaker 3: Temporal understanding, uh final fish fluctuation fluctuation.
Speaker 10: Yes, it's a name, it's a name. What are you doing?
Speaker 3: Oh? Well, I thought it was an acronym and this
was a test.
Speaker 12: Oh no, that's not an acronym. That's that's my name.
I just thought I could introduce myself.
Speaker 3: Oh is to meet you? Too far?
Speaker 12: Actually it's too far, too far. Oh, I'm sorry, too far,
and you are I hold my hand out.
Speaker 3: I'm Wakati and my friends call me bull, a deep
fisher of the deep.
Speaker 12: Should I call you bull? Or should I call you Wakiti?
Speaker 3: Wakati? But I'm not saying you should call me Wakati.
I'm saying that's how it's pronounced. I'm saying that if you,
if you, if you, no, no, no, no, It's okay.
You can call me bull if you like, I mean,
if you're my friend, but.
Speaker 12: So do I call I'm just gonna open my notebook
and scribbles something down and and you are And she
turns to Amara, too far.
Speaker 10: You far, I'm Amara. They don't take your hand.
Speaker 6: Uh, Laren will cut in with a handshake to try
and ease the social awkwardness, just like scoop in from
the side.
Speaker 12: The look of relief on my face is like you
can hear it in the next droom.
Speaker 6: So when Laren shakes your hand, uh, just with how
unbelievably awkward that just was. You'll see she has little
bits that kind of stick out of her where small plants,
little sprouts are growing out. And as she holds your hand,
one of the little sprouts on.
Speaker 8: Her wrist will kind of loop over your wrist to
like give it like a little hug.
Speaker 2: That's so cool.
Speaker 1: That is so cool, Laren.
Speaker 12: I'm not lego, Like this is the most fascinating thing
I've ever seen in my life. Like what what does
your hand feel like? Is the texture like muscle, like
plant or like bark, or like what's it feel like?
Speaker 6: Oh my god, I thought your character was saying that,
and I was about to be like, I'm pretty sure
you can tell your hold right. Strange thing to say
to someone.
Speaker 1: Passed up.
Speaker 6: So it's interesting because the exterior the same way that
like the interior of our palm feels a little different
from the skin that's on this front of your hand.
It feels like bark on the edge. But the inside,
where our skin would be a little bit softer, almost
has a worn wood texture to it, which you would
just imagine from being worn down over over you. So
it's a little.
Speaker 3: Softer, oh like sandal wood.
Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 12: I'm like fascinated. I like lift our handshake up to
like study it, like to like study it up close. Oh,
and I like suddenly he realized what I'm doing. Give
a hand back. I didn't catch your name.
Speaker 6: Learn's gonna turn their hands over and, in an effort
to be polite, study your hand the same way that
you've just studied hers, and go.
Speaker 12: I am so honored. I am so unbelievably honored. My
hand stays there, and I like bob in almost like
a little curtsy.
Speaker 6: Learn too far lyirn.
Speaker 12: And as I take my hand away, I like this
is oh, this is I'm so sorry about what for
one but to say, I like stroke the like soft
bit in your hand as I like to hear it's sorry.
Speaker 9: Washing Dory incredible.
Speaker 3: For the record. Wakati, who by the way, is not
able to lie it's it's on my sheet, is just
actually confused why somebody is so surprised to see his
friend who grew up here right we were in a
cave together, and like it's not like learn has not
been around so is too far just maybe to thought,
maybe they don't get to leave when they study in
the tower, they don't see people often. Although that doesn't
seem to make sense, but there's a there's a real
sort of like I don't know what's going on here
right now, just on my face in a very obvious way.
Speaker 12: I can't read that.
Speaker 1: This is such a wonderful party. The joy I felt
when I talked to each of you individually, and almost
every single one of you was like, I'm looking like
socially awkward a little bit? Yes, yes, what this is
going to be amazing.
Speaker 3: Wait, I'm sorry, I don't understand. Are you saying that
anybody here is socially amara's not either too fond.
Speaker 10: A social person you'll ever meet.
Speaker 6: The same.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, we are back, okay, perfect, I'm so sorry everyone.
The computer just froze itself. All right? Where were we?
Speaker 3: There was some breaking of glass?
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, everyone was.
Speaker 9: This awkward interaction was going on. Amara's wandering around and
not some fragile equipment off the table with their cane
and just kind of looks down at the shattered pieces.
Speaker 10: Of up at too far. It goes, sorry, do.
Speaker 3: You need to test us to show?
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 3: What do I know? Real?
Speaker 12: I know if this is royal? Like what I know?
If you're actually sorry, probably not.
Speaker 9: I think you can roll if you want to. But
I'm gonna I will say. Amara does not hide their
emotions on their face. They could say a thing, but
a face always betrays it.
Speaker 3: Wait, wait, does I just have just a quick out
of character question. So Amara always expresses his true feelings
on his face. Wakati is never being deceptive at any
time on his face.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is gonna go so well for y'all. I'm
so glad.
Speaker 3: Anybody here who's good at lying, because I will I will.
Speaker 10: Say Amara is good at lying. It doesn't he just
doesn't care enough to convince me. Lie right now. I
think that's the thing.
Speaker 12: I think time would tell for me, like I'm not sure.
I'm not sure my character will even know how to
answer that question, whether she's gonna lie or not.
Speaker 3: I don't think I know time.
Speaker 1: Time, Oh boy, time indeed, all right, I'm so sorry,
Please continue.
Speaker 12: I would I would like to go to where Amara is.
H I'm producing cleaning equipment, and immediately start making sure
this place is tidy.
Speaker 3: Oh wait, I will help because I have done a
lot of cleaning. That's what I'm good at. I will help.
Speaker 12: I'm going to look at you kind of confused and
just hand it to you.
Speaker 3: I will clean up the things. If you have tests
to do, please, I will clean up this.
Speaker 12: Amara, mister Amara, which one is it?
Speaker 10: Just Amara?
Speaker 12: Amara, be careful.
Speaker 10: So are you here to spy on us? What h
with to spy on us?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 14: Just to.
Speaker 12: Just to learn about what you've experienced.
Speaker 9: They are drenched in the me chronic energy with signature
that only matches the fold.
Speaker 2: You can out.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I feel like, if I'm honest, I feel like
I'm a little too flustered at the moment, Like I
haven't I can do that, But I I feel like
I probably haven't quite recovered from beating the people and
figuring it out. Yeah, Like, I'm a bit too flustered
to really think about what I can do and how
I can understand this situation. I'm too busy trying to
understand these people before, these characters, before I can kind
of use those. Okay, so maybe we should start at
the beginning. I'm uh, two five takes off the shelf.
Speaker 1: Darkness presses in on you. I'm too thick and suffocate
to hear it, as if the very air around you.
Speaker 3: I hate to I hate to interrupt, but I'm just
a little concerned. We we went missing yesterday, and we've
been gone at least I imagine at least a day
or two. And I mean, my family's all gone. They
died when the fold was made in the tsunami. But
but Bailey and Moonwake is in there, and we should
tell her parents, I mean, her parents should know. We
should can we can? We tell? We tell them in
the fair Waters.
Speaker 10: You when did you say you went to the fold?
You mentioned the.
Speaker 3: Race, right, Yeah, the race like yesterday. I guess it
might have just been a couple of hours ago.
Speaker 10: Said there has been.
Speaker 12: On that there hasn't been a boat race for five years,
ever since I fall through her little notebook, ever since
the incident where where they didn't return.
Speaker 9: When the Hodge globe.
Speaker 12: That was us, right, I think now's the time where
I'd like to detect if there's chronic energy. Can I
roll from iconic training here?
Speaker 6: Maybe?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Absolutely, absolutely.
Speaker 14: So.
Speaker 1: I think you have either an item that you can
use or you can let's just do an intellect role
and then we'll include your training. That will ease the
effort or sorry, that will ease the difficulty because you
do have micronic training on anything like it's a specific
ability you have that tells anything micronic related. You got it,
So we'll go ahead and roll. Difficulty will be I'm
just now realizing if I'm wondering if they would keep
things from you, and I think they might, So we're
gonna say, yeah, I'm gonna say difficulty five. Actually, so
with your asset, it'll be four.
Speaker 12: When saying when you say keeping things from me, do
you mean the party or do you mean the council?
Speaker 1: I think the council and maybe your mentor might be
keeping things specifically from you. Yeah, some things, but it's
difficulty four four, yep.
Speaker 10: I would like to help keep an asset.
Speaker 9: Oh hell yeah, kind of groans, so he just takes
a seat and his pain against the floor three times
and weather device. If you use the device, you get
almost like a data packet equivalent of that of my
chronic energy that they kind of borrowed when they detected
and checked try to check what CARTI, but end up
taking from lirein instead.
Speaker 12: I think in this instance, I'm not convinced that it
would be an item, but I think it would be
like a trick that I've been taught to focus in
a very particular way to be able to perceive the
specific waves that are normally naked to the eye.
Speaker 9: I don't know if I'm were to help with them,
because I do think mom would be device focused. If
I can't send in the device, probably can't help.
Speaker 3: So wait wait wait, wait, wait, hold on, hold on.
I feel like I can help by just having you know, uh,
I have a iconic micronic training as well, and also
I'm just drenched in micronic particles like a lot, and
I you know, I kind of feel like there's just
so many of them, very bright and shiny micronically. Maybe
then that my training might help you so much.
Speaker 1: What exactly was the question you were trying to determine?
If you don't mind rephrasing it for me, because then
I can.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I am trying to detect my chronic energy. I'm
trying to detect any evidence.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay of the fold Okay, yes, yes, his
his asset will help as well. So you'll have two assets.
And also this isn't I think I think any device
or anything that you do is going to detect this
because he is drenched in it. But this is actually
to see if you get any additional information.
Speaker 12: Okay, so yeah, sorry, just run me through you. So
I'm rolling intellect and then from the difficulty from there
mm hmm.
Speaker 1: You put in the difficulty of four I think is
what we said.
Speaker 6: Yep.
Speaker 1: And then after that it should give you effort if
you want to use that, but I don't think you
need to because you you have a minimal amount of
effort to use. So save that for when it really
really matters.
Speaker 3: And they did not use the assets.
Speaker 9: The two assets there, I will say even with the
two assets, that would pass.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, because it would be a six.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, would you like to roll again? With the assets,
just so that you know how to do it in
the future. Yeah, it should come up and say in
the pop up button or boxes. There should be one
that's effort, one that's uh assets as well.
Speaker 12: I only have difficulty and then effort.
Speaker 10: That is the thing, the tick one. I remember that's
my fault.
Speaker 1: Then, because I did your sheet, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 10: Let me thank you.
Speaker 3: I can say yes, yes, yes, try roll over again.
Speaker 10: I'll do full as well, just in case check. Yeah,
thank you.
Speaker 12: Okay, So intellect mm hmm, bonus.
Speaker 1: There you go, No bonus, but there should be one
that says asset as well.
Speaker 10: It should come next year.
Speaker 12: Difficulty for efforts zero at and there was two yep.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, but that's okay. We're gonna go with your
first role, which technically would have been a success, but
I just wanted you to be able to see kind
of how it was done. Okay, So yes, how mm hmm.
I'm actually just going to tell you some in and
then I'll let you guys role play it out. But yes,
a hundred times, yes, you are able to tell that
there is some energy. I think if you're using your eyes,
the skin looks like it glows a little bit, but
then also at times looks translucent. I don't know how
much of the fold you've studied, or how many animals
or creatures you've studied that maybe came back from the fold.
Can I ask you that is that something that you
are extremely interested in.
Speaker 12: It's something that I'm extremely interested in, But I feel
that I would have, at any possible moment been diverted
from that into looking.
Speaker 1: At something else.
Speaker 12: Somebody else saw what I was doing, yep, yep.
Speaker 1: Okay, So then I think you're not the.
Speaker 3: Kind of person that just does the thing you're not
supposed to do anyway.
Speaker 12: I mean, if my mentor tells me not to do it,
I will.
Speaker 1: Not do it. Yep.
Speaker 12: I have a book of creatures, and I feel that
I've probably like slotted in extra where I've learned about
something that maybe isn't in my book, or that I've
been diverted away from. I kind of make my own
page in the book, like in the same format, with
the same margin, with the same picture, with the same
like every precise detail. But I like make my own
page and like gently glue it in in that order.
Speaker 1: If it's okay with you, and feel free to jump
in and stop me if any of this doesn't sound
like something she would do. But I think there's probably
a moment where you're looking at him and you see
his skin, and maybe you look at her as well,
and you realize it's somewhat the same, and you go
and you like reach into one of your many pockets
and you pull out this book with a bunch of
notes in it, and you flip to a page that
you've suddenly remembered and it's a long time ago, that
one time that you ran into a creature that had
this translucent skin that would then glow and then go
back to being translate, and it lasted about a week
after their exposure to the fold. But that was very faint,
And this is incredibly so. But it's almost like you'd
have to be looking for it to notice it. You
had to actually look at him to see it. But yeah,
I think that matches with your notes for sure. So
not only do you see the exposure, but it's deep,
it's heavy exposure. It's like nothing you've seen before. Really.
Speaker 12: I take a few steps back and feel behind me
for the seat. I know exactly where it is. I've
been in this place so many times. I know that
like the back of my head, I find the seat
and I immediately set myself down and I stare, I
just stare silently.
Speaker 9: And resting their chin on their walk And can they
look at too far?
Speaker 10: Do you believe them now?
Speaker 12: I mean, I want to say, of course, there's some
possible explanation here. I just I just don't know what
it is yet. I just don't know what it is yet.
Speaker 3: I just just but we have to talk to Vailia's parents,
have to tell them that.
Speaker 12: Do I know who this is?
Speaker 3: That?
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe, yeah, one hundred percent. The Moonwakes are an
incredibly wealthy, well known name around Navii. They probably support
a lot of the sciences in the citadel. And I
mean rumors that you know, Matron Moonwake has been trying
to get on the council or near the council, but
she just doesn't really have any applicable skills that put
her there other than money. So yeah, but she she
her daughter went missing five years ago, Okay, and it
has been blamed on the fair Waters.
Speaker 3: Oh, I didn't nobody told me that? Yeah, Okay, my friends,
we have to tell everybody. Well, I suppose we can't
but we can. We can't tell everybody, but at least
we could tell them, right the moon wakes fair Waters.
My friend Jacko doesn't have family like me. I need
to tell their families because they'll be worried. Jack Her
black sword, black Sword, Yes, do you know him?
Speaker 10: I'm you his parent.
Speaker 3: Right, He's one of my good friends too. And just
like instinctively, I just like hold the little like the
little relic a little tighter in my hands when I
say that his parents are they were lost in the Fold.
I should say something so that they don't worry. Well,
the council's talking. You can do that, right.
Speaker 10: The Council's not going to do anything, deep Fisher.
Speaker 9: I've been trying to petition to them to do something
about the Fold and the people we left behind for years.
You've done well, I'll be honest, Sending a spies in
the most action they've done. But it's not going to
go anywhere, not with them.
Speaker 12: Why are this is going on? I've ripped a page
out of my notebook and I'm and I'm writing the
names of these people. I'm probably not trying to hide
what I'm writing, so I imagine, I imagine I'm close enough
for you to see it. I'm writing the names of
names of the lost, and writing that I've sensed the energy.
And then at the bottom I put and the little
one has the relic. And then I fold it up
almost like you're like ringing a towel out Like I
fold it up like that, and I take out of
my pocket, I take a small wooden box. I trap
the paper in the wooden box, and then I open
it up again and it disbears. It shoots off really
really far lost.
Speaker 1: To its recipient.
Speaker 3: That's cool. What did you write?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 3: What you said, Benton fair Water, help fair Water, Well
Jacko Blacksword.
Speaker 12: It's not my it's no, it's not my judgment to make.
So I had to inform those who can make the
judgment to make the decision.
Speaker 3: So there you sent a letter telling them to tell
their families.
Speaker 12: Oh no, just what was happening?
Speaker 6: Surely we I don't need an answer from anyone to
notify families.
Speaker 3: I'm just looking at you blankly. We're not prisoners, are we?
We didn't do anything wrong. Not prisoners, No, mister mara,
are we are we prisoners?
Speaker 10: Here?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 9: What I will say is that you do expect the
counselor to do something about it. I think that's the
only prison you're in right now, waiting and thinking that
they will do anything about this.
Speaker 10: No offense, as I looked too far.
Speaker 6: Oh then we won't wait for them. We'll handle it ourselves.
Speaker 3: Right, Paul, Right, right, we should go.
Speaker 6: We have families to notify.
Speaker 12: Uh ah h, I say, back town. It's like the
human equivalent of the buffering symbol.
Speaker 6: Lauren just looks down at full Do you know how
to get to their homes?
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 6: Lead the way, my friend.
Speaker 3: Thank you. Will you do me a favorite like you promised?
I remember, I remember they asked you once that if
I seemed like I was a different me, you would
let me know which me I was, so I wouldn't
forget where and when I was and which one of
me I was, because I could use sometimes and you
would always remind me. So this is a Nightmary, you
would tell me right this wasn't the right the right me.
If I was the wrong me, somehow, it would tell me.
Speaker 6: You are the only you I have ever known.
Speaker 3: Thank you. Go to the moonwakes, mister mar Will you
join us? People will listen to you.
Speaker 9: I wouldn't say that, but I'll be hot to ignore.
Speaker 10: Mar was sent up.
Speaker 3: TUFA. I don't know if you are going to come
with us or you're going to stay here. Well, it's
that something question.
Speaker 12: I suppose I should come with you. Oh, and it's
it's too far, too far?
Speaker 3: Did I say it wrong?
Speaker 12: Too far?
Speaker 3: Too far? Sorry?
Speaker 12: Oh it's okay, No.
Speaker 3: It's not because your name matters how it's said too far.
Speaker 12: My shoulders relax. I didn't realize I was holding my
breath this whole time. But my shoulders relax.
Speaker 3: Let's go far.
Speaker 10: Would you like her butter shield as they hand out?
It can't do?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 10: One nice guy?
Speaker 1: Too far has an expression that is almost a bewilderment,
And I think it's definitely the first time in this
whole interaction we've seen it quite like this. We've seen
a bewildered excitement at something new that she is discovering,
but we haven't seen it quite like this. Would you
like to describe maybe what you're feeling a little bit.
Speaker 12: I think it's the expression of a It's like a
very hard and sharp piece of wood that suddenly has
the corners shaved down just a little bit, maybe just
one or two of them, maybe know all of them,
and a.
Speaker 6: Look of.
Speaker 12: Confusion and relief at the same time, like some like
she's she's she's breathed out yeah, and I think to
the to the point where she sort of stands up
before she even realizes that she's told herself to start up,
like yeah, I'm on my feet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like let's go, all right, thank you as you leave.
Do you do anything to sneak out of here? I'm
assuming that you do not try to do that. Yeah,
I didn't think so, Okay, you hear the.
Speaker 10: Ground like she's not.
Speaker 1: I figured you wouldn't be hiding it, but I thought
i'd ask just in case I will need somebody to
roll then for me, I'm gonna say, Amara, it might
be you, since you are the tallest in the loudiced
and this is really just any kind of speed actually,
or I would let you do might as well if
you wanted to. But essentially you're going to run into
some people that do not want to let these guys
leave until they've been spoken to again by the council.
And also they don't I'm scaring people, yep.
Speaker 10: Okay.
Speaker 1: I would say the difficulty is four because or three well,
up the difficulty if they insist, but you are pretty intimidating,
I think. So I think we'll say three is the
difficulty for this.
Speaker 10: Actually, surprisingly do you have training and stuff?
Speaker 9: So I think that fantastic. Okay, training and stuff. I
get a free level of effort speed tasks. I think
that would be that's it.
Speaker 6: Yep.
Speaker 9: Okay, difficulty three said before.
Speaker 1: I think I dropped it to three because two is
standard and three is challenging. Yep, and four is difficult,
not twenty okay, Okay, that's a major effect. Okay, nice, Okay.
So then I think what happens is you'll have you'll
have some people that are I think you probably have
like a really cool Gator individual. I forget the name
of the race. I'm so sorry. Oh it's Crock. You're right,
you're one hundred percent right. So you'll see like a
Crock guard and then maybe a chameleon guard as well,
and and they kind of approach and whoa, they shouldn't leave.
They can't leave.
Speaker 9: I just give them a the angriest glare as I
don't slowly that it's cute moving.
Speaker 1: And they can he can he do that? Can he
do that? I mean he's doing it. Okay, all right, well.
Speaker 10: Come on kids.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and yeah, they just kind of sort of let
it happen because they no one wants to mess with you.
And then for the major effect though, because I think
that would have happened on a success. But what do
you think happens that's a major effect of this? Oh,
have an offer for you. I'm la is okay. I
think there might be some rejuvenating pride in this moment
that they just stepped out of the way, and you're
leading these kids, and you got people that need you
and depend on you.
Speaker 9: Again, I'm leading the packs and no one sees this,
but there's like like its like crack the smile before
it goes back to the almost permanent scowl.
Speaker 1: I love that. So then I would like to give
you effort to use. I think that that's what you know,
kind of a rejuvenation of spirit is. So you can
just add that to use in the next role anything
that you need. All right, okay, and so you head
to the Moonwakes. Is that correct? Oh boy? Okay, Well
you're leading the charge here. What do you do?
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, no, I'm not leading and this is
the Moonwakes I mean, huh huh, Darren, maybe you you should.
I will knock on the door.
Speaker 6: What's the matter.
Speaker 3: They didn't see me very often. I mean I was
always here, but they didn't see me. She was the
only one who saw me. And there's like probably a
really amazing door knocker that is probably like abaloney and
all that, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I imagine that somebody will answer the door.
It's probably not her parents, but they'll see you in
and you're probably waiting in this incredibly large area where
you can just like sit and it's incredibly decorated. I
will say that I remember Velia's mother really loved the
islands and the volcanoes, and so you probably have a
moment where you glance over and you see that painting
that she used to talk about in the flowers, and yeah,
maybe you see some of the flowers in the house
as well. Before missus Moonwake comes in and I think
normally she would oh, she's all about decorum. So she
sits down politely across from you, and you might.
Speaker 3: Be Matrod Windwick. It's me Wakati deep Fisher.
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry, deary. You're gonna have to help me
a little bit. More than that.
Speaker 3: Oh, I was a friend of Bailia's.
Speaker 1: Taking a deep breath in. Maybe just deal herself. Maybe
she's done this many times before. Maybe not at all.
Speaker 3: I was your gardener for a couple of years, worked
here every day after school when I was younger. I
went BALLI and I we were on the ship, the
Hodge Glob on the race.
Speaker 1: She stiffens.
Speaker 3: I just got back and I just found out that
it's been five years. I didn't think it was just
thought it was a day.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry you're saying you were with the ship. You
were with the fair waters who warped the mind of
my daughter and convinced her to go on this crazy quest.
Instead of riding with her family, instead of racing with
her family, representing her family.
Speaker 3: She wanted to race with us. We are her best friends.
Speaker 1: Get out of my house. But I wanted to tell
you about of my house.
Speaker 3: But she's alive. I know where she is.
Speaker 1: My daughter died five years ago.
Speaker 3: Oh no, I was with her, and we can save her.
She sent me back. She's being very brave right now.
Speaker 10: Role for me, that's what use.
Speaker 1: I just remember her parents in absolute trash, and I'm
trying real hard.
Speaker 3: They're the worst. They're the worst, worst, they really are.
They're also very classiest. Just gonna noteed what difficulty.
Speaker 1: I'm going to say five, I'm sorry, it's.
Speaker 3: Do not apologize.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think she's had to. I think there's a
small part of her in there somewhere that would be
it's dye happy. Yeah, that's dying because her daughter left
and because of all the things she didn't say and
their argument that they had. The last thing that happened
was they argued, and so I think there's a part
of her that can't forgive herself for that. So you
might be Yes.
Speaker 3: She also broke the engagement with that jerk and just.
Speaker 1: Like all of that, my parents were very upset about that.
Yet could I help, Yes, how would you like to help?
Speaker 6: I would I would like to think the kind of
bond that Laren and Roccatti have, that her reaching over
and holding his hand helps give him a kind of
resolve that boosts his confidence and assuredness in this moment.
And as part of my background, I do have helpful
I know.
Speaker 1: So that's perfect. Okay, So she can actually do that
for you, which I believe. Does it do that ease
of effort or asset, because she actually has a couple
of different moves on her shape where she can do either. Yep.
Speaker 6: So that is a great question.
Speaker 8: It says, whenever I help another character, that character gains
the benefits if you were trained, even if you were
not trained or specialized in the attempted task. However, I
am also trained in tasks related to social interaction, putting
others in ease and gaining trust.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, I'm not quite sure how that one works.
We're gonna, yeah, we're gonna translate that to an asset. Yep,
because he's already trained, So now it counts yep.
Speaker 3: Yes, And I think that I have if I would say,
in case you might think this would count as an acid,
I do have on my person the flower.
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say, you have her dried flower.
Oh my god, Okay I do. Yep, that counts as
an asset. Oh my god, I'm gonna cry.
Speaker 3: And with Larn's hand on my shoulder and I touch it,
my reach in and I pull out this dried flower. Yeah,
it is a success, and it's a special it's a seventeen.
And I hand this dried flower.
Speaker 1: Over and I think she is still completely stiff, but
tears are running down her face and you might not
notice right away, but the tear does fall in and
hit the flower. But she is unmoving, her chest is
not heaving. It is just a silent cry as she
recalls the last thing she said to her daughter in
all the regrets she has.
Speaker 3: I'm going to save her because I love her. She's
the love of my life and I've never met anyone
as amazing and wonderful as she. And I give you
my word as a deep fisher, I will bring her back,
with or without the Council's help. Will never leave her
there in the fold. I just wanted you to know
I should have hope.
Speaker 1: She hasn't moved this whole time, still staring at the
flower that a barely audible whisper escapes her.
Speaker 6: Spring my baby home, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 1: And she doesn't look at you. She doesn't move. If
you see yourself out, she's still there, looking at the flower.
Speaker 9: I think guide everyone out, and as their kind of
help and guiding everyone out, they will under their breath,
but loud enough for wakartis you hear say?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 10: You grow a few inches there?
Speaker 3: Thank you, sir, and that's for me.
Speaker 1: In the episode that was perfect? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 6: You drew a few inches there.
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