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Speaker 2: In the world of the very small, there exists a
strange and wondrous things, a cosmic dance of connection and
mystery defiance duet. And in this odd of the world
of alts, particles are linked in a way that transcends
time and space, the fates intertwined in a way that
defies your logic and reasons. These particles move in perfect harmony.
They're every step dictated by the other's motion. What happens
to one affects the other, even when they are universes apart.
They are two halves of a whole, two sides of
a coin, a bond that cannot be broken, in separate
in a way that speaks to the very heart of existence.
For every interaction that takes place, there will always be
an equal and opposite reaction, a fair exchange that maintains
the palace of the universe, never in the cycle of
energy and matter, giving and taking, and sustains the very
woes around us. This fundamental role underlies the very fabric
of our realities. Whether you believe in it or not,
Everything comes at a cost of this, whether you see
it or not.
Speaker 3: M h.
Speaker 4: M h.
Speaker 2: In the world.
Speaker 5: Yeah, good to take it easy, Take it easy.
Speaker 6: Hey, hey, what happened?
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm?
Speaker 5: Perhaps you should be telling me that.
Speaker 7: I I I reached to my forehead and.
Speaker 8: The place my hand where the wound was. If you
see it, beggar, I.
Speaker 5: See it, but it has an essence to it that
just makes it look real, and I recognize it to
be an illusion.
Speaker 8: I remember some of it.
Speaker 9: I don't remember what.
Speaker 8: This, this place, the city going, It's it's hazy, I
I commonly place. What's happening? What happened? Is it's that?
Mm hmmmm? But what did you say? Mate? Is this
the end? What do you mean? Where did he go?
Has he vanquished?
Speaker 9: He's inside He's inside it.
Speaker 8: Inside in the core. H What did I miss? Exactly.
Speaker 5: Oh, well you missed Jude being fucking incredible as always.
Speaker 8: But well, I mean that's a given there.
Speaker 10: I'm already running over to him.
Speaker 8: Right, It's it's rather rather gay. Oh are you hurt? Yes, my.
Speaker 11: Leg, my leg.
Speaker 10: At least you're conscious, always concerned that you are under
some sort of enchantment.
Speaker 11: M what happened? H it's a fire, ogle, I believe so.
Speaker 10: I'm not really able to track what's going on, but
the the enemy seems to be gone. I believe you
did something. Is the sphere still in.
Speaker 8: Front of us? Take it easy? Yeah?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 9: Is it not?
Speaker 1: Oh no, probably the symbol that was left on the
ground and flame is probably ash now, so you can
see that. But as far as his body, no, he's
no longer here. He is inside.
Speaker 9: Why but the planet is still in the room. Where
has it been? Yes? Okay, okay.
Speaker 8: I reach out for Vega to try and help me
up onto my feet.
Speaker 5: Help him up with that hesitation.
Speaker 8: Slowly, Snanny, We don't have time for that. Something is coming.
Speaker 5: What what makes you say that?
Speaker 8: Before before I went down, he tried to do something.
I'm not quite sure exactly what it was, but it
was unmistakable for some sort of beacon. I tried to
stop it. That's when he reached out and here I
instinctively reached for my forehead again. Something something is coming.
I need to try and stop it.
Speaker 5: Okay, firstly, we we're all in this. Unless there's something
you've learned.
Speaker 8: It's just a stab in the dark, it's all, but
sure we always uh narrator, Yes you may that the
glyph on the floor it's ash. Yes. Would I be
able to use it somehow? As far as I know,
something has been lit This place is now a target.
It is you know, for lack of a better words,
you know, lit up for to see. Is there a
way I could attempt to mask this place or at
least blurry that.
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 12: Absolutely, Why don't you go ahead and roll for it?
Do you know how you will be doing this?
Speaker 8: In attempting, I'll be using the magic inherent To me,
there isn't much I understand about. And I think I'm
going to be saying this out loud to Vega whoever's
around me. There isn't much I understand about what I
saw happen. It seems to emanate out of him and
through that glyph on the floor like like light. For
a time I was able to stop him at least
a few seconds, but he was too powerful. I can't
hope to have the same effect as him. But maybe
perhaps I could still blur the lines, as it were,
between where we are and where that was going.
Speaker 5: Right, because we need to do something about that. I
can't just leave it here, can I?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 5: It can't. That would be ridiculous.
Speaker 8: I can't really deal with more teams.
Speaker 11: What is that? If I may ask?
Speaker 8: What is what? Sorry?
Speaker 5: We titude?
Speaker 13: We h it's a planet. H oh, it's it's a
small small din. I encased the ranger in the center
of it so that he couldn't hurt us.
Speaker 9: And yeah, he's in the core of it.
Speaker 8: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 11: Is it a replica of Den or.
Speaker 8: Den? What do you mean?
Speaker 4: What? Dean h It's made in Dinn's image, and each
of us added to it. You have to add to
it if you wan't, I mean, you don't have to,
but it's.
Speaker 5: Up to you.
Speaker 8: M M.
Speaker 11: I think it seems maybe as best if I don't,
I'm not with the magic I have access to right now.
Speaker 5: I think for that reason, you need to surely with
all that's something into it. I don't know if this
is a replica, an alternate dinner. If this is dinner
as we know it, this is the beginning and the
end of everything right here, I.
Speaker 4: Would say that whatever dinn exists needs RASA.
Speaker 5: Din wouldn't be done with that resat.
Speaker 11: M I'm are you sure, because from what I understand,
maybe Den would be better without a restaurants.
Speaker 5: We wouldn't be better off right now without you. And
as far as I can see, we make our own pathways,
our own destinies, and I think for us to make
our own pathways, our own destinies, we have to make
our own pasts and our own futures, and we need
you to do that.
Speaker 14: I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for you, And
I don't believe any of us added water to day.
Speaker 8: That's I'm mistaken.
Speaker 11: Okay, I'll bring rain clear Den. Do I get any shifts?
Speaker 12: You don't have to roll for it.
Speaker 1: Actually everyone was just went around and added something to
the planet. Narratively speaking, I don't want you to be
affected by this, players, but for the audience, the planet
is actually called Theyasulez depending on which side of the
planet you're on, But all they know is Din. So
that's why they're calling it Din, and it makes total
sense for the characters to have no concept of anything
outside of Din. But it is the whole planet they're making,
not just Din. For those who were asking, so you
have added rain to the whole planet.
Speaker 9: Wonderful.
Speaker 8: Do you know how I saw the Din was flat?
Speaker 9: Thank you for that.
Speaker 1: Perfect Sorry to interrupt, please continue. So Rasroth adds rain
the Din and all of Theius Sulaz or Suleztheria.
Speaker 11: I think that looks like I think I'm still sat down,
and I take a deep breath in and blow out,
and you see fog just pour out of my mouth
and collect as clouds as they float over the globe,
and from those the clouds rainfalls. Give me a moment.
I'm going to try to heal my leg. I want
to take the for like a better time. I want
to take the brokenness of it, and I want to
store it in my choker, use it for later.
Speaker 9: Okay, not that you don't need to roll for.
Speaker 11: Any shifts or not, No, I.
Speaker 12: Don't think so.
Speaker 11: Okay, could I argue that I've done this?
Speaker 1: We may always argue, and yes, absolutely you may have
attend shift.
Speaker 5: I did take you to argue me or me.
Speaker 11: I did this with I believe my broken hand to
that's right, you be. Yeah, let's see if it works.
Sixty seven partial Okay, what do you think happens? I
think it's quite literally just a partial healing. I'm able
to bring it down to a more manageable break than
anything else.
Speaker 1: Why do you think that is, ris? Do you think
it is for lack of skill or do you think
you just don't want it to be fully healed? Is
there some sort of mental blockage here?
Speaker 11: Yes? I think it's I had gone into this and
almost any fight to be the one to take the blows,
to be the shield for the group, and I feld
that colossally in this reason, but in the one that
we needed it the most. So even if it is subconscious,
maybe it is even conscious. Yeah, I'm keeping the break
as a reminder of the failure of today.
Speaker 8: Wow okay.
Speaker 11: And I think that's even reflected in how it heals.
It's not as clean. Hell, I think it hurts. I've
done this before, and I know how to do it
without it hurting, But this time around it does as
the bones slip back into place, or just about as
I take my hand from my leg and place it
over the the symbol on my choker, and it glows
red hot before dimming down. Okay, Ruthie, could you help
me up?
Speaker 10: Yes, and put my arms around him and lift him up.
Speaker 8: Thank you.
Speaker 10: What are we going to do? Just fighting one of
their warriors was hard enough. Those won't even the wards
like all of you are.
Speaker 8: It was just what a militiam and the guardsman. That's
why we need to blog this as soon as possible.
Speaker 9: They already know that we're here.
Speaker 8: Oh yes, and then what I.
Speaker 10: Mean, the fight we are facing will be tougher than
that by an enormous factor.
Speaker 8: If in transit. M hmm. Maybe perhaps I can steer
them wrong, you know them they'll find us coming to us,
but for now they won't, you know, give us a
head start at the very least.
Speaker 10: Yes, Perhaps we should think about what we saw. Maybe
there's a common weakness that we can exploit among them.
It's easier to fill a large foe by striking at
its we can call then simply taking it head on.
Who else is versed in not liked magic per se?
It's not really something that we were taught, at least
not in the schools, but the magic I saw this
powerless one use they It seemed like tendrils. Yeah, at
the same time it was reflective, like fire flame, invisible
to the naked eye. But I could see it regardless
because I wasn't using my eyes to see to any
even understand.
Speaker 11: Well describing as ten draws as how I use and
see my magic, but beyond that doesn't seem to be
any similarities in what you described.
Speaker 8: I look around, both urgently around the group, but also
kind of helplessly as well. I'm looking for help, but
I'm not sure if anybody's going to put themselves forward, I.
Speaker 9: Could do it. It would be vague right.
Speaker 5: Described to me, rest of us all, what were you
when you felt this?
Speaker 8: Right there where I fell? It didn't seem to emanate
from him, came from decision on the ground. It shot
out through both layers of the building. It seemed out
into right.
Speaker 5: I saw it well over to the brand on the
ground and touch my fingers to some of the ashes,
trying get a feel for like the residual magic.
Speaker 1: Okay, go ahead and rule twice for me one in
some sort of like mental or magical barrier protection that
you have against magic, and the other one is for
what you are attempting to do.
Speaker 8: Okay, shift because she's assisting me.
Speaker 12: Yes, that's a perfect way to argue that.
Speaker 5: M hm, okay, I'll roll. Okay, knowledge first, my knowledge
of this eleven.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I'm gonna say then then I'm gonna say
what happens and we can continue.
Speaker 12: This is your knowledge, right barrier protection. This is the
one that you rolled.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've not rolled for my protection from my mind yet.
Oh okay, okay, very understanding it.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I'm gonna say that the understanding of it,
because this is doubles and eleven. It will prevent you
from actually touching it because the moment you touch it,
you are you're going to put your signature on it,
and it'll be easier for them to find you. So
I think as you are getting ready to touch this,
you get close enough to completely understand what this is.
This symbol that is on the ground is sort of
kind of like a way to travel. Where he came
from was obviously not anywhere on this planet, maybe even
in this reality, he came from somewhere else. But the
moment you touch it, you're going to market and it'll
be they'll know who was present when this ranger was here.
Speaker 12: You can continue to touch it if you like.
Speaker 1: But the Doubles eleven you know everything that you need
to know, and you do know that he did call
out and basically send up kind of like a flare
to let people know he was in trouble and where
exactly he was. It's going to take a little bit
of time for them to actually pinpoint, because you know,
it's hard for us to conceptualize the actual many many, many,
many millions and millions of different so you think they'd
have to navigate to exactly this point. It's going to
take them some time. They don't have perfect GPS to
get here. But a flare was sent and they will
be coming for it. Yeah, to investigate.
Speaker 5: So as I walk over, I reached my hand out
and then it's like a snap back and stop. It's
like a two way mare. I don't touch it. It
can trace you as much as I can trace it.
Would I know that is it tracing the magic that
we have or is it try ourselves like our spiritual beings?
Speaker 12: Ooh, that is a really good question. Why don't you
roll for me?
Speaker 1: Actually roll me your magic? Stat but with no shift.
This is just to see if I'm curious as to
something like a straight dine roll, just a straight dine
roll for me. Yeah, it's not for you, it's for
the rangers. Really waity for a partial success. Okay, So
I think what it does is it actually gets your
like your blood, magic, your magical signature that would be
throughout anything, including maybe an alternate version of you that
learns magic. It's you know, it's unique to you, but
also maybe potentially hundreds of you, not all of you,
because there's probably another Vega and another reality that learns
magic completely differently in her signature is different. She's a
different person right, But obviously there's gonna be a variance
of you that learn the same magic you do, that
have the same personality you do, just make slightly different choices.
Speaker 12: That'll have that.
Speaker 1: So that's maybe why it's difficult for them to narrow
down exactly where it is. But it also means they
could potentially hunt down other versions of you in your
stead by mistake.
Speaker 5: I'm going to see if I could get error fair
to disrupt it. Sin see it's no longer magically inclined.
But I had a couple of thoughts there, But actually
I think we're gonna I don't want to take that
risk right now. Yeah, I need to make sure. I
need to ensure his path in his future. Okay, then
perhaps when need to off your skate the magic somehow,
or find a way of confusing it somewhat h spreading
it out. Okay, So it's harder to pinpoint us.
Speaker 8: Right, I could try. I would like to attempt to.
I would like to.
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no.
Speaker 8: Stop, I stopped, stop Tim?
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah what either? Yeah, ideal? Why would I think
that's a good idea?
Speaker 2: Step back from the symbol, don't get near it.
Speaker 5: Stop, I take a step back.
Speaker 8: I take a step back. I expect from you.
Speaker 2: Everyone. It's good to see you can Hi, Leah, Leah,
Oh you're here there?
Speaker 6: Nor who the hell are you?
Speaker 8: How do you know?
Speaker 11: Tim was going to ask the same questioning.
Speaker 8: In time?
Speaker 2: Eh, how do I know? Tim?
Speaker 6: They you have? How many? How many months?
Speaker 14: He is?
Speaker 1: His looks down to his belt, him is dangling from
his belt?
Speaker 2: Who who has a watch?
Speaker 6: I used to it might actually still be outside, not you.
It was a nice watch. It was a Rolex, it
was a gift. It's I think it's outside right now.
Speaker 2: I don't. Perhaps we can pick it up anyone else watch? Okay,
well do you just stay there and stun silence?
Speaker 6: What they they got? They got their phones. I think
they got one of them, got an iPhone. They got
a thing that can tell time.
Speaker 2: They got phones. Of course, who has a phone? Oh yes,
just just please send it to me, okay, I He
picks it up in his hand, he takes care of it,
flashes bright, and then disappears. Perfect.
Speaker 6: All right, kid, really he just took one of their
modes of information. I guess I'm here. Yeah, it's really
they don't need that anymore.
Speaker 2: I'll give it back. It's right there, and it's right there.
Speaker 6: Oh you did, God you did. You're always doing those
party tricks.
Speaker 2: It's fine.
Speaker 6: Hi, Where did you come from?
Speaker 2: Have we all met yet?
Speaker 8: Introduce yourself?
Speaker 2: Are you sure.
Speaker 6: I've met?
Speaker 2: All right? All right, present your names one at a time.
Speaker 6: Please wait, hold on the the monica's the aliases of
the true names, because true names might be a bad idea.
If this is right after I may have stopped existing
and then existed again. They're being tracked probably.
Speaker 2: Yes, of course, Oh no, no, just what you would
call yourself to each other openly verbally.
Speaker 8: Please, I draw my sword.
Speaker 2: No, put that way. You're being ridiculous.
Speaker 6: He's fine.
Speaker 2: I make him put it away. Just just put it back.
It doesn't even come all the way out. It just
puts right back in. I'm sorry, but it's unnecessary. H No, no, no, fine,
I let him draw it. There. That makes you feel better.
Speaker 8: He came against managers. Who are you?
Speaker 3: Ah?
Speaker 2: I go my many names. I could give you that,
but this is more fun. Okay, so one other.
Speaker 8: Time, I sheet the sword back and scowl.
Speaker 2: Good, we're here. What shall I point? Give me a name?
Speaker 11: I am the sword binder?
Speaker 2: Still fine, okay, next stell uh a very positive lot.
Speaker 6: Do you want me to just go through their names
for you? Demonica's least I could do that.
Speaker 9: Joey, Jude the gun blade.
Speaker 2: Good ah, first time, hello Jude. He walks up to
you and puts his hand out. It's a pleasure.
Speaker 9: Shake his hand.
Speaker 2: Oh, I am, well, go buy many names, but I'm Blackbird.
It is a pleasure to meet you. I didn't expect
the hat. He steps back. Okay, next, wait, you're the blackbird.
There's more than any blackbird.
Speaker 5: He Okay, this is not what I had in mind.
Speaker 2: That's a terrible name. Excellent.
Speaker 5: Did you you know my name? You addressed me? I
don't play coy.
Speaker 6: I think did you get more funny after we've been
hanging out or you always like this?
Speaker 2: Yes? I picked it up from you. Thank you.
Speaker 6: You're very welcome. I wanted to take a little credit
for something.
Speaker 2: Leah your name.
Speaker 8: Leah the light Bringer.
Speaker 2: Thank you. That's unfortunate.
Speaker 15: Next, I'm Titus the Weaver. You're you're a blackbird.
Speaker 2: I'm yes, i am yes, Hi Titus. It is a
pleasure to meet you. And he holds his hand out.
Speaker 15: I begrudgingly shake it.
Speaker 2: Very good. Can I see that necklace of yours? Please? Why? Okay,
mind no, no, here take it? Why?
Speaker 8: I take it off?
Speaker 2: In hand it till I get I hold it in
my hands. It glows faintly, just a sort of a
yellowish light. There you go. You'll need that for later.
Speaker 16: Okay, hey, Rue, Yes, you're looking young.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 8: I tried not that young.
Speaker 2: I'm thank you. I tried so. Question. I'm noticing a
why is there a disconnect? I'm not you're off you're
off center.
Speaker 10: More than off center. Honestly, I thought, I thought perhaps
it was you, but I suppose not.
Speaker 8: Was it you that I just.
Speaker 10: Heard about the past the beginning three days?
Speaker 2: Ah? In a way, did you do something.
Speaker 8: I suspect? So? Yes, how do you feel?
Speaker 10: Fantastic?
Speaker 2: Excellent. I'm glad to do that.
Speaker 10: You arrived at well at a particularly troublesome moment.
Speaker 2: Yes, the precise moment.
Speaker 16: Absolutely, we're trying to figure some things out.
Speaker 8: Perhaps we could use your counsel.
Speaker 2: Well, I do not see leer here.
Speaker 8: Right where you?
Speaker 2: Where is he? Is it not? Do you? Do you?
Is it not? Known?
Speaker 9: Him is right here?
Speaker 6: What am I missing?
Speaker 8: To him?
Speaker 2: What am I missing?
Speaker 6: What are you missing? Well?
Speaker 2: Also, are you comfortable? I'm very sorry. I mean there's
leather woven through his eye sockets around his belt.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean like it's it's comfy enough. It's not
like I have skin to feel anything anymore. So No,
that's you know, it's fine, it's kind of comfy. It's subjective.
Speaker 2: I pick him, I take him off my belt, and
I hold him for a second then I let go
and he's just sort of floating there. Yeah, it's a
bit think move around and see if you can go
up and down and left and right, and.
Speaker 6: He shall in a couple of months ago. Do you
think I forget? I don't do baby magic anymore? Right,
just right? And I regret telling you that was what
it was called.
Speaker 2: E's accurate. Yeah, it's okay.
Speaker 8: No what an insect?
Speaker 6: No, not anymore. Stop it. It's got me got better.
I got better and.
Speaker 5: We sort of fixed that. Yeah, quite significantly.
Speaker 6: No, I'm thinking you said someone's missing, Well, is it
all the ones from Larry's Miss Lear's here?
Speaker 5: This is right.
Speaker 2: Obviously he's here and I can see, yes, of course,
but lear is missing. This is this is the wrong one.
Speaker 5: Oh my god. It's like meeting Earth here again for
the first time.
Speaker 6: They swap. At one point, you think.
Speaker 2: No, I know that Learr is here. I can feel it,
but I don't know if there was a wait, wait
a minute. He puts his hands out and you see
the the area darkens around them, except for the sigil
on the ground. It has a faint sort of glow
to it. But as the area begins to darken, you
see there is a small it's like a wisp, like
a willow wisp, and it starts to sort of move
around and then it starts to not in a direct line,
but it starts to fly in sort of a northeasterly direction.
If any of you know which way that is? It is? Oh,
oh necessarily did we?
Speaker 6: Did we arrive too soon? You said it was the
right time?
Speaker 2: Well times relative? Yeah it was ore I was, but
now it's not. And that's okay, all right, So let's
see here.
Speaker 5: Eric.
Speaker 2: Can I talk to you? Please? Just over here?
Speaker 10: Yes, but don't take me anywhere.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, you you must be here. There's no leaving.
Oh no, no no, you're all quite trapped. Sandwiches and
then the little sandwiches pop out for each of you individually.
I don't know if it's going to be what you want.
It might be the opposite, but you're getting.
Speaker 17: It, okay.
Speaker 6: Put putting a sandwich on the floor for me doesn't
really work. I don't have a stomach.
Speaker 2: We'll give it a try.
Speaker 6: No I did, No, I did that before, and it okay. Anyway,
you'll do your thing. I'll be all here, my dear boy.
Speaker 2: How how who are you?
Speaker 10: It's hard to say, really I am. I'm not quite
sure what happened, or perhaps what drove me to this,
or I don't know, but I was frustrated for a time.
Something something was eating at me. I couldn't find myself.
All of the usual methods to divine the answers that
I sought weren't working. We found ourselves here, which was
altogether confusing. At the peak of my frustration, I think
I cast a spell. But oh, then I was like this,
I can't cast any magic, but I feel fine. I
feel good content. Have you you're.
Speaker 2: Going to the other side or have you just stayed
on this side.
Speaker 10: The other side of din Yes? No, you told me
not to. I've always obeyed your commands, regardless of our
confusing they might be at times.
Speaker 2: I apologize for that. No more confusing for us. Okay, questions,
veryone answers, Please, you will get them straight.
Speaker 8: That was is.
Speaker 10: I don't really have any I don't need answers anymore.
I'm rather along for the ride more than anything. I
just want to be with them, with ras Ralt. Beyond that,
I trust.
Speaker 8: That they will.
Speaker 10: Deliver us, or perhaps we will fail. If you wish
to help them, I'm sure that they would accept it.
Vega is the apprentice now. I taught her what I
could in a short time. We had it was about
a year. In fact, she's more inclined towards magic than
I am.
Speaker 8: Right, I couldn't figure out why.
Speaker 10: Why I was chosen for the longest time watching her,
But I suspect that there was no her at the
time that I was taken away from my family and
sent to you.
Speaker 2: It's very good not having any questions is the answer
in along for the journey is the answer. But you
can't be told that, can you.
Speaker 10: I suppose not, depending of course, on how I ended
up this way.
Speaker 2: The magic that was in you, you sensed something similar
in her.
Speaker 8: Yes, when we first met.
Speaker 10: It was a mark that suggested a particular inclination. I
always wanted to create something with the power of an
illusion so pure that it was creation itself. And well,
she took to it like a duck to water. For
all my struggling upstream, she simply swam. So I taught
her a few tricks, but she let the river flow, and.
Speaker 8: Well, after that it was simply a matter of leaving it.
Speaker 10: I suspect that's what I've done. Yes, it was only
ever going to be two ends for me. Either I
would achieve the goal and become something else, or I
would have left it all behind and settled down. I'm
not quite sure about the settling down, but.
Speaker 8: Well, I'm human now. Yes, I'm not chasing that really,
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: Please continue.
Speaker 8: No, that's all.
Speaker 10: I don't need to chase that dream and then have
that desire, that constant sense that I should be trying
to achieve more.
Speaker 8: I don't need more.
Speaker 10: I haven't needed it since I was fourteen, since I
met him. Some of the others, I just needed to
get out of my own way.
Speaker 2: In time, Vega is going to regret what she did
to you. You're going to need to assure her starting
now that it was for the best. You had a
burden on you, and it's not always a burden. It's
not always a struggle magic. For some it is like
a river and we flow with it. For others, we
are running along the bank trying to catch up. You
were running for a long time. You've done what you need,
and that future is still a future, is still there.
Turn towards those close to you. That is very important.
But I wanted to say that I am exceptionally proud
of you, and I know I've never said that, because
you needed it, and that's the problem you don't know.
It shouldn't matter to you at all. You've done what
you need, at least for the most part.
Speaker 10: I think I understand, and if I don't, then that's
okay as well.
Speaker 8: You can ask no.
Speaker 10: Rather like our relationship, you always there and yet somehow
never around. You taught me everything I know without ever
teaching me a thing. I appreciate it.
Speaker 8: It left me.
Speaker 10: Independent rather than lonely. But the magic was at the
core of it, and without that, I'm not sure where
that leaves you and I. Though I am not close
with my parents and I don't know my grandparents, you
really were like a grandfather to me, and I suppose
I never had the chance to let you know that
your methods were odd and unorthodox. Though I employed several
of them with Vega, I didn't have the time to
quite use the Blackbird method, I h I grew greatly
fond of you in my childhood, and I've grown a
strong respect for you as an adult. And it's important,
I think, for you to know that.
Speaker 8: I love you very much like bad I know.
Speaker 2: Feeling is mutual. I loved you like a sun as
much as I can, from the very day that you've
stepped through those doors shaking like a leaf. There is
a a burden of knowledge that I would never wish
on anyone. The difficulty is remaining in the moment long
enough to feel the feelings for that moment, like thinking
about people we've lost, and you get the feeling of
love and of hurt at the same time. It's difficult
to separate and separate those two. You are everything that
I expected you to be, and that is all due
to you. Yes, I came in from time to time
to say a word or do something just to give you,
not knowledge, but maybe a glimmer of an idea. I
don't truly think you needed it once you got going,
of course, I'm very proud. I love you as well.
I don't mean to apologize for what for what's next,
and I am sorry, But it'll be okay. It always is,
that always has been, and it will be again.
Speaker 8: I understand.
Speaker 10: Perhaps while we have the time, beggir, yes you okay,
be careful with him. I uh, I think it would
be important for you to speak to my mentor. Although
I do suspect that on our travels we met him
once or twice.
Speaker 8: There was.
Speaker 10: A treacherous looking crow at one point.
Speaker 5: I remember, I remember I pointed him out to you,
and I.
Speaker 10: Was trying to avoid.
Speaker 2: But treacherous whoops.
Speaker 10: Yes, well it wouldn't be the first time.
Speaker 8: You pecked me.
Speaker 5: You did look a bit shifting.
Speaker 8: Figure. This is Blackbird.
Speaker 10: When I was a boy, they found some sort of
inclination towards magic and took me away from my family
to be trained with the only mage at the time
in the land. I spent most of my life in
the keep and training under Blackbird's tutelage. Although it wasn't
quite the way you and I trained. There was more time,
and Blackbird's methods are unorthodox. I suppose you could say, Blackbird,
perhaps you could help or instruct vaguer in the moments
we have. I suspect that we are imminently in danger.
Speaker 2: But oh very much so.
Speaker 6: Yes, great, yeah, if you.
Speaker 10: Don't mind, I'd like to be with Rasroth Vega.
Speaker 8: Try to.
Speaker 10: I look at Blackbird and then turn back to Begar.
Just try to listen rather than understand, and Blackbird maybe
be straight.
Speaker 8: With us for a few minutes. Yes, riddles are going.
Speaker 2: To Oh, I understand, I understand. Vega's not going to
like what I'm about to say, please go be with yours.
Speaker 5: I mean, why don't you say something that I am
going to like you saying.
Speaker 2: That you're going to be the reason for him, the
reason for him.
Speaker 5: Doing what?
Speaker 2: Everything? Everything? It's a burden. I could tell you something.
In reality, as we find it, there is no fate,
not really, but there is a destiny. We have a
lot of control, which is wonderful and terrable all at
the same time. I will be very straight with you
about anything you ask. I will promise that going forward
because I have to with you. But there is one
question that I can ask and that I can answer.
But I don't know if you I don't know if
you're going to want it. And that's very exciting, exciting.
Speaker 5: Okay, great? Is it going to help? Is it going
to help everybody to know?
Speaker 2: Not at all?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 5: With then why would I want to know?
Speaker 2: What is the purpose? It is knowledge?
Speaker 5: You can't just dangle that in front of me. My
eyes wandered to the planet that is levitating in the
middle of this massive warehouse right now, Okay.
Speaker 2: Tell me then, No, what do you mean?
Speaker 5: No, No, that's not how this works. You said you
were going to tell me something that I needed to know.
Speaker 2: M No, And you know why why? Because you don't
need all the knowledge. It's not worth it. Ever, it's
okay to not know what is coming. I didn't know
what you would say, but it was okay to answer
because the result is the same. You don't need to
know everything.
Speaker 5: But what if not knowing gets somebody killed?
Speaker 2: What if killed? That doesn't matter.
Speaker 5: If you know when you get somebody killed, that's a
different feeling than that's guilt that that's knowing you could
have done more. Not Choosing not to know is remaining ignorant.
Speaker 2: It is guilt. Sure, ignorance is not a bad thing.
Tell me you fill the power within you?
Speaker 5: Yes, I mean I didn't feel my magic the same
way I always have.
Speaker 2: If you had to assign a color to your magic,
what were it? What would it be? I don't know.
Speaker 5: It always shifted depending on what was happening, but I
think it always went down to this gold.
Speaker 8: Gold, it's wonderful.
Speaker 5: Do you feel your magic?
Speaker 2: What's that?
Speaker 5: Do you feel your magic?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yes, very much so. That shifting color that is life.
You can't maintain one thing, your knowledge about the future.
It doesn't doesn't really matter because it changes. You know,
I had to train my OI over there, And how
do you do that when you know so much? How
do you teach someone what they need to know? When
you can feel what is going to be? You can
see what is going to be without ruining what is
to be. You can only do that by letting them
find their own way, just as you must. I will
still help you. I will answer questions much more directly,
because you are different than him, very different, as different
as I am.
Speaker 5: Arafa always taught me by making me make my own mistake,
by throwing me into places and letting us get beaten up.
And I pull up a sleeve of my shirt and
I am covered in scarring all the way up my arms.
You know none of less you make those mistakes.
Speaker 2: What sandwich did you get?
Speaker 9: I think it was.
Speaker 5: A cheese opened toasted in quite sometime.
Speaker 2: Did you enjoy it?
Speaker 5: Honestly? It was awful. It's too salty, and I never
really liked that cheese.
Speaker 2: It sounds like I made a mistake.
Speaker 5: That's okay, And next time you see me, you have
my favorite sammich, right.
Speaker 2: Maybe, but don't tell me. I'll figure it out.
Speaker 5: I don't know if that whole figuring it out thing
works when there could be so much at stake, There
could be so many people, their lives on the line,
all of my friends, everybody I've known, everybody I've loved.
I don't even know what's real anymore. I don't even
know what my parents. I'm trying to fight for a reality,
and I'm not even sure if it's a reality I
can fight for. So I'm trying to fight for everything
at the same time.
Speaker 2: Do you want to give up?
Speaker 5: God? No, I am I supposed to give up?
Speaker 17: Oh, it's very easy.
Speaker 2: You're going to be just fine.
Speaker 8: Okay, just fine?
Speaker 5: Is rifail?
Speaker 8: Oh? Yes, to promise me?
Speaker 2: Oh yes, I promise. Would you like to know anyone
else's fate to a point?
Speaker 11: Can I?
Speaker 5: I feel like I should say no after everything you
just said.
Speaker 2: You're welcome to ask.
Speaker 5: Always what did you mean about lair?
Speaker 2: Now? That is the right question. There is another layer here,
much younger, much smaller, much more in danger, and you'll
need to find him. I can help to appoint, but
I'm sort of along for the ride.
Speaker 3: Okay, you'll help us find him.
Speaker 2: Maybe, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: Please don't tell me you tore Rafa. They had to
be this way.
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no, no, no, he'd learned that all
on his own. I didn't teach him anything. Amy have
picked it up from me. But that's not my fault.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm really saying this similarity, sir.
Speaker 2: Well, it seems he was able to stop being that way,
and I enbm for that. I will make you a
promise if you would like, if that would make you
feel better. But there's a caveat with it.
Speaker 9: Of course there.
Speaker 2: Sorry, everything comes out of cost, right Oh no, no, no,
what exactly a cost? Just a will let me present it.
I will stay if you wish, or I will go
if you wish. I will trust you to ask for
information or help or knowledge when you feel you truly
need it, and I will provide it. But that is
a heavy burden for you to have. There is power
that can reshape things as it does as it has.
You are not ready for it yet. But for the
next few days, I will be by. I will be
here three days.
Speaker 8: Have you.
Speaker 2: How many?
Speaker 5: Did you say?
Speaker 3: Three?
Speaker 11: A few?
Speaker 2: If you need me, of course, I will be here
and I will tell you the consequences of what you
ask when you do. If you do, it is a burden.
Use me wisely.
Speaker 5: It isn't a burden I have to bear alone?
Speaker 2: How is it?
Speaker 18: No?
Speaker 2: You have friends? No, no, no, you need not be
alone ever unless you wish.
Speaker 5: But I condemn Erfea to a life of loneliness until
now I know I do.
Speaker 2: Do you feel lonely?
Speaker 5: I've never felt lonely. I've had the privilege of knowing
these people my whole life family.
Speaker 8: Yes, but.
Speaker 2: That's good for now. You need to find leir.
Speaker 5: Are you gonna tell me we need to bring him
to dinner?
Speaker 2: There is here now.
Speaker 5: Now a glance at the planet again.
Speaker 2: There are two. It is not prudent, but it happens.
You need to bring there.
Speaker 8: Tu in. I'm cling need to know.
Speaker 2: As soon as possible, because time doesn't wait.
Speaker 5: Somewhere on this planet. A child's just gonna go missing.
But he will be okay my glance at Leah, Yes,
I know he'll be okay. Will be okay because I
will make it okay, dude, And I will make him okay.
Speaker 8: Dude.
Speaker 5: What do you mean by that? What do you mean that?
What are you saying?
Speaker 19: Dude?
Speaker 2: Want met them?
Speaker 5: Sure? You mean nothing else?
Speaker 3: By that?
Speaker 2: I mean a lot, by many things, I.
Speaker 5: Know, isn't it is right here? That is that is
not comforting. That is the opposite of comforting. That is discomforting.
If you're going to stick around, you have to do
a lot less of.
Speaker 2: That, well right, a little less with you, but with them.
Speaker 5: Oh no, you're not drive the insane, I.
Speaker 2: Hope, so it'll be good fun him.
Speaker 6: Yeah, what.
Speaker 2: Did you try and eat your sandwich?
Speaker 6: Yeah? I thought maybe i'd still have a taste for it,
and then I remembered I don't have a tongue.
Speaker 5: How did you get Yeah, you know that was gonna
be How long have you two been together?
Speaker 20: Oh?
Speaker 2: Days or century somewhere between. I don't know.
Speaker 6: A yeah, I have no it's sense of time when
your little floating skull doesn't really exist.
Speaker 2: It was there was a time where we just sort
of were where were we? Where was that? There was
a there was a.
Speaker 6: Beach waves on dis planet on din on Oh I
don't know, Oh God.
Speaker 2: Red waves?
Speaker 8: Red waves?
Speaker 6: Do some red waves? Is that the one that we
had that weird squid? And by we I mean you?
And then you tried to feed me something and it
didn't work again because I have no ability to consume food.
Speaker 2: Yes, that was it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you'd think you'd remember that, being that he's only
ever known you as well, unless you haven't. Did you
know him before?
Speaker 6: No, No, he's just been together a very long time.
Tiny whinies both yet things, yeah.
Speaker 5: Before Okay, we have a pressing matter to attend to you,
I think, don't we Because they're going to find us
and we need to find a way to stop them
from finding us. What can we do?
Speaker 8: Mmm? Mmm?
Speaker 2: Let us see they are that's okay?
Speaker 6: Good?
Speaker 2: Yes, maybe you should pocket with the pocket out with
your friends. I'm going to go sit down for a minute.
This old n of mine.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, he says that, but like you know, he
can heal himself, right, he complains all the fucking time.
Speaker 5: Sometimes a little pain keeps you in present, right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you'd think that, and you're probably right. So you're
doing no k there.
Speaker 5: I don't think I learned anything I didn't already know.
But well, I think we have a big task on
our hands. You still get my Tim? Is this your
name still? Tim?
Speaker 6: Yeah? Yeah, Tim's fine. I don't know if detective quite
fits the Yeah. I was going to say the body
or the role, but again that is lacking.
Speaker 5: Maybe we should think of something new. I mean, how
are you doing? Is more the question. I kind of
I really apologized for throwing you into that. It's just
I thought it would be best and you kind of
get everything you wanted and you know, get the chance
to change things. And magic magic, yep, let's baby magic.
Speaker 6: You yep, there's no more baby No more baby magic.
More like I don't know skull skull magic, is it?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 6: I mean bone magic. No, that's necromancy. Don't do that
sort of thing. Enhancement. Enhancement magic might be more accurate.
Speaker 5: It could mean something else entirely as well, if you
get it bone magic.
Speaker 6: But yeah, that wow, I've been gone for so long
and yet not at all and you get those quips
right ready? All right? Now? A well, you know, outside
of the existential crises that I had in the moments
of having myself removed from my body, thrown into a
literal planet, you know, the spinning vortex of nothingness approaching,
I'm doing pretty well now. Had time to process it.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 6: Ah, yeah, so I think I'm doing all right. Lucky
helped out a lot, Lucky Blackbird Sorry, oh.
Speaker 5: Okay, we have a pet name for each other.
Speaker 6: Okay, name implies to other things.
Speaker 5: Okay, well that name, he said.
Speaker 6: Okay, are you might you my pet? Now, Lucky?
Speaker 17: Why not?
Speaker 6: All right? I guess he's my pet? Sure? Yeah whatever, No,
my one of the things I want to be able
to help out with due to all of the baby
magic bs I kept getting, I asked Lucky to help
a little bit teach me things good.
Speaker 5: I kind of left you with a you know, quite
the clapty for magic.
Speaker 6: So yeah, yeah, a little bit. I think I could.
I could help enhance things that you do. That's that
might be a bit closer to one you might. It
sounds a little weird and I'm going to mention it
that way, but I think you could use me as
like a focus channel or something. Well, because I got
a soul and you know, but but not that it
can sort of kind of and then you put these
weird things in my head, which works.
Speaker 5: I mean, you generally have the concentration of magic right
there in your head like double yeah, yeah, and you
have all of this knowledge.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah, that I do. I do appreciate that one.
That yeah, I kind of am like an enyclopedia without
well that's search function. Uh that you could anyway, Yeah, yeah,
pretty much. You could ask me things and maybe I
could help, so Lucky would be better at that.
Speaker 5: Well, he's just going to answer riddles. So I think
I need you to be a.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Okay, let's get everyone else over here and let's we
need to figure this out right now, right now, lea Jude,
whereas airfare? Everybody, come ahead?
Speaker 8: Is this a sandwich?
Speaker 6: It was disgusting.
Speaker 8: It was pretty good.
Speaker 9: Okay, you hands and peanut butter.
Speaker 6: So that's a pretty tasty one.
Speaker 5: Actually, I'll be honest, we need to think about we
need to stop this. I as much as I would
love to have all of the answers, as much as
I would love to be the rafare, we will look
towards right at the beginning. I don't, I really don't,
and I really would like some uh collaboration here. Maybe
will you to stop them from finding us?
Speaker 15: M hm, yes, I we could try the rabbit.
Speaker 6: Boy. I haven't thought of that for a while.
Speaker 5: Tim. If they come and we're not here, are they
going to cause any other harm? Are they going to
hurt anybody else a situation?
Speaker 6: Probably not. They don't like making themselves terribly known, but
they will hunt for you.
Speaker 11: Oh, that's for sure, I could maybe buy us some
time wise, Tim, Yeah, do they put on dread magic what.
Speaker 2: We call magic?
Speaker 6: Should there be see what would be dread magic? What? What?
What do you do with dread magic?
Speaker 11: And I can try and translate that frankly anything.
Speaker 6: Then yes, I mean, yeah, I know magic works a
little different here than where you're from where I guess
I've been now. It's a little give and take more so,
so if they do something big, it costs them something
big or that that could be of something else. Mind you.
They could sacrifice someone, for instance, and that would be
a cost. But yeah, I guess they could do magic
you dread. Yeah, the power.
Speaker 11: Powerful idea or thought was when we were in the
dread forest, the dread words, we couldn't really find a
way even with magic. If I gave this warehouse a
similar property, they might shruggle to leave and buy you
some time.
Speaker 6: M I see so because some kind of sort of
magic binding sort of deal.
Speaker 11: Yes, Mabe, like I turn this place into Elaborrinth, but
not physical.
Speaker 6: Well you could do something like that or oh but
that maybe not something that may not be a good idea. Yeah,
she do you like bad ideas.
Speaker 15: I love them, big fan.
Speaker 6: Frankly, No, that's probably wise. There was that book I
was telling you about. Well, yeah, some of the things
that went wrong with it was the lady not even
gonna bother saying her name. I've gotten a little smart
about that. Her circle went wrong and bound her in
place in time. Powerful shit, you do it wrong, you
fuck with reality. So there's that. But could potentially lay
it trap and spring it and then they can't leave
or hop to other realities that buy you a hell
of a lot of time until they can break it.
But lots of risk.
Speaker 9: Yes, they could break it right.
Speaker 6: Away that I don't know about the breaking it right away.
I mean, they're not your kind of magic. If you
put something else of yours in it, that would give
them a stumbling block compared to trying to replicate what
they might be able to do magic unique to Din.
With the Din side, I should say, I.
Speaker 11: Think that's something I could do. I would need help,
but I think I could do that.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 6: Their help from me, help from someone else.
Speaker 2: What you need.
Speaker 11: Just reinforcement of what I do with my magic. The
more layers the better.
Speaker 8: Sounds like something our new scale friend can do now
he just said he could in hands, right.
Speaker 6: That is the theory. I mean lucky had be tried
a bunch of different things. So I haven't worked with
you specifically, so I don't have that bond at the moment.
But definitely trot blackbird. Sorry, you have a pet name
for him? Pet name again? That's that's like, that's a relation. Okay,
if you're staying here, stop no, stop colling. Okay, that's
I like that at least. Yes, yes, magically powerful.
Speaker 9: I'm sure he'll find a way.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Thank those eyes yet lost in them.
Speaker 6: That's been a while since someone's got last in my eyes,
not posed.
Speaker 11: So you're saying, yes, I could think I could do this,
but Lightspringer, i'd need your help.
Speaker 8: Very very well. What do you require of me?
Speaker 11: If we need to put as many stumbling blocks in
front of them as possible, just layer onto my magic
with yours. If they break through, mind, they have yours
to car up against. And if they break through yours,
they have yours to come up against.
Speaker 6: M Yeah, a couple of layers.
Speaker 8: It's mine, all right, Okay, I can do What sort
of are are we making here?
Speaker 11: I think I will I will go for making this
more of an arcane labyrinth, so it's difficult for them
to jump. If you could lay it onto that another
layer of a labyrinth.
Speaker 8: Within this area we're in right now.
Speaker 11: Yes, it would be probably best if everyone leaves just
in case.
Speaker 9: Okay, three of us, But look.
Speaker 8: Back to the rest of the group to see if
they've heard.
Speaker 9: Hi, I'm sorry.
Speaker 8: You want us to leave, just to step out while
we try and turn this place into what what did
Tim call it? There was one in Jew's place, a.
Speaker 6: Roach martin, a roach hotel. Right, yeah, that's not a
bad analogy.
Speaker 8: Okay, all right?
Speaker 4: And what happens if you get trapped there? If it fails?
Speaker 9: Is that something? If it fails, to be concerned about.
Speaker 8: Trust us.
Speaker 11: Yes, you'll have to trust us, Okay, to find the
way out.
Speaker 5: Right, lear Can I make a suggestion, Jude.
Speaker 8: Beggar, I know it was.
Speaker 5: Similar, but that similar.
Speaker 8: There's sometimes you're inseparable.
Speaker 5: There's something incredibly important we need to go do. So
whatever you do, I suggestion to make it so you
don't have to be here for it to work.
Speaker 8: Okay. I had no plans on staying.
Speaker 5: I need you, I need Jude, I need astroa.
Speaker 8: Okay, okay, and do.
Speaker 5: Tim can you help? Can you help Lear?
Speaker 6: Oh? I mean yeah, I was going to help with
this predicatar thing, but I could also help him. Yeah,
what do you what do you mean?
Speaker 2: What do you need?
Speaker 5: Whatever Leo is going to do to help Razroth here
to help hide us, I need.
Speaker 6: You to help.
Speaker 9: That does focus?
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, absolutely, yeah that that was implied. Yeah, oh
oh yeah, yeah, I got you.
Speaker 8: Okay, I've got your back, ras Roth. You see me
standing by Rasrod's side. I make a few hands, a
few somatic gestures. My hands just make a few shapes
and I bring them to my forehead and then down.
You see my as I bring my hand to my forehead,
you see a space in between my hands. I'm not
trying to make a perfect seal. You see a dim
glow as now my hands are down, are still clapped
together in front of my chest, waiting.
Speaker 11: Unlike layers very learned smatic components. You see Rashroth almost
shake his hand as if he's getting ready for something
more physical, like a fight. And as he does, you
can feel the energy polting through him. And he plays
his hands on the wall. And I'm going to try
and make this a this warehouse a labyrinths not physically
but magically for anyone who tries to use magic in
here after we're done, for it to be near impossible
to find an exit of any kind.
Speaker 12: All right, go ahead and roll. You can have shift?
Speaker 2: How many you want to argue me?
Speaker 9: What shift you should have?
Speaker 8: I mean, Rasroth and I are working together with magic
for the first time, and you know we've had this
entire thing throughout the entire King Makers. I think it's
only fair that we have a twenty shift for this.
Speaker 12: Sounds great.
Speaker 6: Let's add to that, argue as I am here to
help and enhance and channel the magic through myself, to
add a little extra layering and power.
Speaker 1: Okay, sounds like you have a thirty shift and that's max.
Speaker 12: Nobody else are. Oh don't you dare eron.
Speaker 2: And watching such a bright expression and waiting.
Speaker 11: I would like to argue that I'm using dread magic
and from the dread Wood, and this is exactly what
the Dreadwood did to us. I know how it works,
and this dread magic seems almost geared to doing this
kind of stuff. Anyway.
Speaker 12: Did we just get our first forty shift? All of
these things make sense to me. It's logical. Yes, you
may have it.
Speaker 6: Yes, let's go, let's go.
Speaker 2: I'm so close to negating that, just forgotten forty success.
Speaker 21: I'm sorry with a forty shift, you got forty Oh
oh my god.
Speaker 12: Wait does that mean you would have rolled the one hundred?
Speaker 8: No, no, it doesn't.
Speaker 5: Right, and.
Speaker 12: Lear roll the five. So what happened?
Speaker 8: Rares goes first.
Speaker 11: I place my hands on the wall of this warehouse
and I think, I think everyone but Arufa, I think
at this point, with the inability to really connect to
the magic, they see for a moment this everything seems
to disappear. And it's almost like in the dread Woods again,
these trees towering over everybody, the feeling of just oppressive
dread for lack of term, weighing down in everyone. And
it disappears again. We're back in the warehouse and if
you look for it, and I think, if you really
look for it, it's almost like the walls have become the
war of the trees in the Dreadwood. But you have
to search for it. Other than that, if you just
pass the guards, if you don't know it's there to find,
it looks like the walls of the warehouse as it
always was.
Speaker 8: Okay, I am going to I watch Rasroth do this,
but I'm also in lockstep with him at the same time.
We're in sync, and I touched the wall in much
the same way as him. But if he used one hand,
I use the opposite. If it's both hands, then my
stance has my weight shifted on the opposite side of
my body, and I push down onto the wall, and
as I do, unlike the darkness that emanates from Razroth,
instead there seems to almost be like a ripple, like
a bubble starts to lift off the wall, like a
light is being lensed and reflected along the walls. There's
a pulse and as it happens, you see this pulsive
lights trail along this Escher kind of a labyrinth that
Razors has made out of the image of the dread
Wood and the factory. And it's almost as if every
now and then as you turn, it's like a house
of mirrors effect. Like wherever there's a corner, wherever there's
a turn or a bend, it's almost as if, well
you could probably go there, but you'll walk into a
wall instead, bumping into one of the walls that are
part or just outside of Rasrot's magic. And you know,
sometimes you might see yourself. Sometimes you might wish you did,
other times not so much. It's it's we've created a
twisted house of mirrors, I think, and only us to
know the way out.
Speaker 1: Okay, now what do you do?
Speaker 12: Holy shit? Actually, can you roll me a one D six.
Speaker 5: Either?
Speaker 12: Yeah, either one of you?
Speaker 8: But yeah, when a roll as well? And then we
take the average restaurant.
Speaker 1: Sure, yeah that sounds good.
Speaker 11: Okay, no, that sounds good.
Speaker 8: No, I rod a four.
Speaker 11: I rolled a one.
Speaker 8: Round up or down?
Speaker 15: Yeah, no that.
Speaker 1: I just need to know how many rangers are going
to get stuck in this forever all eternity, because I
will write it down.
Speaker 12: And it will become more Yeah.
Speaker 1: Three, of course we would have thought, please continue.
Speaker 11: On, And I think for us, the two of us
and Tim. I believed Tim helped as well.
Speaker 2: Yes that I did.
Speaker 11: We we see the exit clear and we walk out
to meet the rest of the group.
Speaker 8: I should hold them, I think oach motel quite yeah,
basically roaches.
Speaker 6: That's that's present now. I mean, for now, God has
some problems. It will distract the ones that are stuck
and the ones that don't get stuck might try to
get them out for a bit until they give up.
Speaker 4: So yeah, well I imagine that their own are going to
be much more important than us.
Speaker 9: No, do they not have loyalty?
Speaker 6: Why am I trying to suck in all my teeth?
It doesn't work anyway. Ah, yes, yes, and no, you've
all done a lot to get eyes on you. I
don't honestly know if there's anything more important than you
in their eyes. I wish I could say otherwise, you
may be their number one on their list.
Speaker 11: And I suppose we should get moving. I don't know
how much time that will give us, but we should
made the most of.
Speaker 5: It, and we should hope that whatever dinn we've left
in there does not have any trace of us on it.
Speaker 2: Rwna hot dogs?
Speaker 8: What?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 2: No for a hot dog?
Speaker 19: Yeah?
Speaker 6: And I could go for a garbage plate? But here
we are, bro, What the fuck?
Speaker 12: I literally just put that in the group chat that
Erin is not in.
Speaker 6: What the fuck?
Speaker 1: Do I just fucking end the episode. I'm having a
heart attack right now. Excuse me, I'm just gonna I'm
just gonna exit left.
Speaker 5: He said, like, how did you.
Speaker 6: I mean we had to stop.
Speaker 8: Mental was about to have TV. Yeah, mentally.
Speaker 9: We should have.
Speaker 12: I was like, actually.
Speaker 6: I saw I saw your face, dude, and I was like.
Speaker 10: Oh no, four of us leave to go and get
hot dogs.
Speaker 21: We actually all pick up dogs.
Speaker 5: They rather.
Speaker 8: Have something.
Speaker 10: And then have the Marvel post credits hot dogs.
Speaker 12: Okay, I'm so sorry. Please continue.
Speaker 2: Do you have a pen paper?
Speaker 8: No? No, no, that's fine.
Speaker 6: You can make some you can literally, I know.
Speaker 2: Let people be youtiful. Come on, Tim that.
Speaker 6: You keep saying, be self reliant, Tim, use your hands, Tim, yeah.
Speaker 5: Okay, even tell you to use your head.
Speaker 6: More than once.
Speaker 2: Yes, right, a few things. I need you to go
to this place to get the hot dogs. They're very good.
Speaker 5: I look him in the eye.
Speaker 2: It's a place called Nathan's.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 2: Okay, there you go.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I take the slipper safer.
Speaker 2: Don't look at it yet. Need to leave first.
Speaker 5: Okay, And what are you going to do? They're competing
the aphole dog chain down the road that you want
to try out or something.
Speaker 6: Oh maybe there is national Hebrew that that could yep,
let's start here out there.
Speaker 2: Sorry, no, I'm I'm going to let you continue talking.
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, we have. It's something very important to do.
I'm going to need, like I said, lead Jude Australia,
I need you.
Speaker 8: With me hot dogs.
Speaker 5: Wen. You don't even know what hot dog is? Do
you know what hot dog is?
Speaker 6: I want to know it's it's a sausage.
Speaker 15: Oh yeah, I could. Can you bring one back?
Speaker 3: Then?
Speaker 15: For like five you could get.
Speaker 4: The hot dog pizza that we got from Mendela's Pizza.
I remember that's the one that I got it. It's
very good.
Speaker 2: No, not the hot dog pizza now right that butt spoken?
Speaker 6: Please do that every time? Please, please do that every time?
Speaker 5: A right, Okay, we are going to do something very important,
and you you're going to be maintaining whatever you have
done here and figuring out if they've managed to find
out how to see through this and it is I
don't mean to, can you know, give you an awful
horrible task. But Titus, whereas Arafa a blackbird, you need
to make sure that they don't hurt anybody. They do
whatever you can to be sure they don't come for us.
Speaker 11: I will do the best I can.
Speaker 9: Sure or could simply erase them from.
Speaker 6: Existence, can but apparently won't.
Speaker 9: Can but probably won't.
Speaker 6: It's a good answer, yes, yes, figure, you.
Speaker 5: Can go wherever you'd like to go. I don't know
wherever you think you'd be most useful. I guess if
you want a hot dog? Not that?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Maybe not?
Speaker 9: Yeah, maybe hot dogs when we get back.
Speaker 6: Viga salid lucky, Ye, lucky, you don't, okay a blackbird? Yes, yeah,
there you go. Should I just go with it? Should
I stay here and just go with them?
Speaker 2: You can?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 2: Would you like to do both?
Speaker 6: That's what I mean? Yeah? Why not?
Speaker 9: Yes?
Speaker 2: I think it's perfect?
Speaker 6: All right? Good? He kind of threw like, sort of
a couple souls at me. They're vega, you know, so
I can kind of I can't do both?
Speaker 20: Right?
Speaker 5: We have? That was definitely intended. Great.
Speaker 1: What does it look like when Blackbird does this to Tim?
I put them in a state of superposition so he
can do both things at once?
Speaker 12: Or does he not do it at all? Does he
just let him do it? What does it look like?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he lets Tim do it. I think that I
don't know how Tim will accomplish this, but Blackbird is
just watching with a smile him.
Speaker 6: Uh, well, you'd end up seeing these little orbs here
quite literally pop out of my skull and begin to spin,
as though the skull itself is the nuclei in an atom,
and the atom quite literally splits. And there are two
that were one.
Speaker 2: You didn't blow up?
Speaker 6: Yeah, thank you? Yes, yeah we did. We did fission
here and did Yeah, didn't have a meltdown.
Speaker 8: Was that right?
Speaker 5: I'm glad that this is the first time you've tried up.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, of course it was.
Speaker 5: I guess we're all on since it's not lied. Okay, exaggeration, Okay,
will we need to find somebody to meet.
Speaker 8: Okay, that's never going to be normal, by the way,
just putting that out there.
Speaker 6: M a floating skull was normal before.
Speaker 8: I mean I just turned around and follow a vega,
and so do I.
Speaker 5: We'll meet you back in juice apartment a day from now.
Good luck, and don't forget your gun blades please, Yes,
I have mine.
Speaker 15: Let's go bring us back some hot dogs.
Speaker 22: Though, yes, I wonder if Tim says bone appetite before
he says, I don't know, do I I forgot there's
two of you.
Speaker 6: Yep, little weird gonna be honest, but that no, I don't.
Lucky over here likes to say it though you.
Speaker 2: Could, you can, it's just words.
Speaker 10: Mum.
Speaker 11: Hum, Let us go to Nathan's hot dogs.
Speaker 2: Why they're very good?
Speaker 15: No, wait, we're supposed to stay here, right.
Speaker 11: I'll be able to monitor it from as far. I
think it's best we stay away from here. The range
is a coming here.
Speaker 6: I don't need to tip them off.
Speaker 11: Yeah, where to? I can probably use my phone to
find a hot dog.
Speaker 2: But no, no, no, there they're doing it. Don't worry
about the hot dogs. You want to be able to
monitor here.
Speaker 8: That's what I just said.
Speaker 2: Okay, the area around us begins to shift. We are
within eye shot of where we just were.
Speaker 12: Holy shit, is this good enough?
Speaker 8: M hm?
Speaker 11: Okay, that's really.
Speaker 10: Really odd when someone else does that to you and
you don't know what's happening, isn't it m h.
Speaker 11: Yeah, that's this was you quite often. I see where.
Speaker 8: Very well. So now.
Speaker 11: I suppose we wait and to monitor.
Speaker 2: Aware.
Speaker 6: That became fast, Doyce.
Speaker 11: I wanted to apologize as Actually, Tim, this wasn't my intention.
Speaker 6: Yeah mine either, but what happens in well other me,
I guess kind of tried to fuck you up. So
I'll apologize on my behalf. I suppose.
Speaker 11: If I understand even a little bit of other wells
and the versions of us from them, it has nothing
to do with you.
Speaker 6: There on that behalf and same for you. Then, because
you did not cause my death, I questioned, Mark, that's
a little still up in the earth.
Speaker 15: Yeah, you're getting a little ahead of yourself. I don't
you didn't really die, so.
Speaker 6: No, I, oh god, I don't need two of you
to do this.
Speaker 15: I try to make two of me once. Actually that
that didn't.
Speaker 11: Go well, so it really didn't. So you're actually doing
better than Titus. Not baby magic anymore, apparently.
Speaker 6: No, no more baby magic, just skull magic or I don't,
I don't really know what. What did you call it
that one time, lucky.
Speaker 2: Instead of skull magic?
Speaker 6: Uh huh?
Speaker 2: Bone magic?
Speaker 6: Yes, so so yeah he called it bone magic, which which, yeah,
you weren't from here. There are movies about that sort
of thing.
Speaker 20: Uh oh, really, I shouldn't have God, you can't see,
but there's an ethereal hand going up to my forehead
and covering my eyes and face.
Speaker 2: Do you do we not raise the dead for fun? Sometimes? Here?
Speaker 6: This is not a no, that is necromancy is not
a fun thing. Here.
Speaker 2: Sure, I mean, well, h but you can put them
right back. I mean, no, no harm, no foul.
Speaker 6: No, no that that magic doesn't work like that here, Lucky.
I tried to tell you that it's a little weaker
and a little more permanent when things happen occasionally.
Speaker 14: Oh, I mean, tim, I actually do have a bone
to pick with you. And then everything kind of esco
and I completely forgot about What were you thinking? Remember
we went over the plan and you said you weren't
going to say their names, and then and then you
said their names.
Speaker 8: Do you remember that?
Speaker 6: Yeah? I lie.
Speaker 15: Oh, okay, it's good to know.
Speaker 6: I knew that was gonna be the fastest way to
get him over here. I wasn't expecting a beheading, but
you know what I was hoping for, did indeed happen.
Speaker 15: Just wanted to clear that up.
Speaker 6: Thanks, Yeah, no problem. As I said, it was a detective.
Speaker 8: Walk around, get a lay of the land.
Speaker 11: I think I will come with you.
Speaker 2: See we have that.
Speaker 12: Hello, we're here.
Speaker 10: Hi.
Speaker 12: Oh I'm not here, but I am here. Now there
we go. There, we're all here, and you are also here.
Not a floating head? Perfect? Okay, who wants to shut
out first? Ann was here.
Speaker 6: Aaron, Aaron, Aaron.
Speaker 21: Our Blackbird on physically.
Speaker 2: Hi everyone, my name's Aaron. I got to play Blackbird,
which was an honor. Maybe he had reached out to
me about doing it and we had a nice couple
of conversations with it, and I also talked to Brad
a little bit today as well. It was it is
interesting to play a character like that. There's a lot
of creative freedom that's allowed. But then I won't go
into the bullshittery of it all, but it was. It
was fun to play. So thank you everyone for the
very kind words.
Speaker 18: As I said, my name is Aaron black I wrote
a book once called Firewall Down. It's all right if
you want to check that out. You can find more
information about that at my Twitter at Aaron B. Wright's
and other than that. Thank you all again.
Speaker 2: I really want to have digging conversations with all of
you to see just how pissed off I can make you.
Speaker 5: Of course you did.
Speaker 12: Goodness, who's next.
Speaker 6: Track?
Speaker 11: I guess this is me? Hi, I'm Dragon all your chonics.
You can found me on Twitter at your iconic sst
r a k n i q e S. I played
rat Ross the unconscious because that's why I was Apparently I.
Speaker 1: Feel so badly because you were like this, I'm going
to leave a bone broken because of this failure.
Speaker 12: And I'm like, I did it because you weren't here.
Speaker 1: I knocked you into the wall because you weren't here,
and now I feel like I punished you for not
being present.
Speaker 12: I feel terrible.
Speaker 11: No, it's perfect, but yeah, that's it. Really. I think
Ra is very nervous because he's me and the equivalent
of his boyfriend's dad. That's what I'm going to say.
Speaker 8: Anyway, Brad, wonderful. It was.
Speaker 10: It was a bit like that I was going to
do like a thing like that, but I just didn't
want to take up too much time with like being like, okay, everyone,
let me go and introduce you.
Speaker 12: It was like was a point kind of sort of
yeah it was to.
Speaker 10: Do, but I mean I was going to kind of
like go up with my arm in Rasross arm and
be like, so this this is what happens between now
and next session? Is him being like so this is
Ras Ras, I don't know if you remember him, and
then Blackbird does something really embarrassing. Yeah, it was great.
Me and Aaron did speak earlier on briefly, and one
of the things that we spoke about was the idea
that like Blackbird shows up and just does the exact
same thing as what Eru did to you all in
the beginning, but just in his own kind of more
eccentric way, and it was so perfectly executed. It was crazy, Aaron,
it was so good. It was so fun to watch.
I love playing human air Fear and getting to watch
Blackbird and going like, oh.
Speaker 8: That's what I was doing. Oh that's why that's annoying.
Speaker 2: Oh right, I wonder I didn't know what I.
Speaker 10: Like having, like being in linear time and just being like, right, okay,
of course they didn't understand what I meant when I
said that, why would they? Yeah, So that was really fun.
It's really cool. Almost cried when I was speaking to
you about being the best ever and.
Speaker 8: Just it was so cool to get to role.
Speaker 10: Play like like like that and get this moment with
Blackbird because for Eru Fear, he's a really important character
for everything that er has done, and I don't know,
man like er was so confusing at the beginning, So
it's nice to be to have someone to bounce off
and do some just like fill a gap, filler stuff
for what was going on with erin where he came from.
And it was just so masterfully dumb. Aaron, I don't
know how you do.
Speaker 15: And I don't know.
Speaker 10: I mean, Dan's the same when Dan just jumped in
and just started downloading information on us a couple of
weeks ago. I don't know how the hell you do it,
jumping on the back end of a show like this
and just take all the knowledge and just seamlessly fit
into the cast and then also like bridge a gap
between GM and cast and and just give information. It
was It's so difficult to do, and both of you
did it really really well. I loved it, really enjoyed
the interactions with Blackbird and everyone today.
Speaker 8: It was so good.
Speaker 10: But that's it, man, I don't stream. Don't worry about
my stream. Please tune in on Sunday for Star Wars
rise of the Apprentice, which is a show that I'm
GMing on this channel. And that's it. Over to the
other apprentice Apprentice too. I also wanted to do like
a passed the torch thing where that was very good. Hey,
look here's like I have no fucks.
Speaker 8: To give about this shit. Anymore.
Speaker 10: I just want to kiss and caddle with Ras for
like two days and die.
Speaker 8: And then.
Speaker 10: So like any any I'm out of office, forward everything
to Vega and then I was like, here you.
Speaker 8: Go, you deal with him and just kind of went
over to Vegas and you're turned to do a shout
out as well.
Speaker 5: Yay. Yeah, it's very no pressure anything. Yeah, I want
to say more nice things about Aaron to make him
weld than uncomfortable till he leaves no like now. But yeah, honestly,
master Glass from Aaron though, that was freaking awesome. So
just be able to roll in like that and make
a character that was so unique and so fitting somehow
and like blended in perfectly and it just how did
you do it?
Speaker 2: So good?
Speaker 5: But yeah, what a alsome episode again. Yeah, it's been
I don't know, the first half of this show has
been very very much like what's happening? I don't understand anything?
Speaker 2: Who am I?
Speaker 5: Where am I? And now it's like what's happening, I
don't understand anything? Who am I? Where I am it? But
like in a different flavor. So it's really nice because
it's like I do get it, like and I am
I'm creating my own destiny and it's pretty cool to
be able to just do that. So you can find
me at twitch dot tv for slash leah l e
a H And I am doing in a bit of
everything and anything. I just permitted by longest running character
in a Red Dead RP. So now I'm lost forever.
So yeah, come on over and check it out or something.
I don't know, Okay, all right, bye, Michael.
Speaker 21: I'm gonna say I'm gonna say nice things about Erin too.
I'm gonna segue away from Johnny to say nice things
about Erin as well.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 21: Man, there was just like so many, so many really
excellent lines and it actually felt like a real wise
ancient sorcerer wizard came into the cast and like actually
had things to say. And I was sitting there and
I was like, I want this. I want this in
every way. I want to like be able to listen
to this, I want this advice for the rest of it.
I need to think about this in my life context.
I'm becoming a changed person right now by listening to this.
And it was just like really really wild and amazing.
So yeah, incredible. Uh, you can catch me on Thursdays
on Ashes of Area Door also on Table Story with
Peebee and Aaron and Meyer and it is fantastic and amazing,
so come check it out.
Speaker 9: And that's me. That's me Done Meyer.
Speaker 8: Hi, my name is Meyer, and I played leir Vin
Blakeard today. No lea the Light bring it today. No,
I don't know who I played today, But enough about
me and who I played that Aaron guy, right, Yo,
I think everything has already been said, so I'll just
say it again. Aaron did really Aaron like, yeah, well wow,
you came in and you were like basically part of
the cast as in, like from the beginning, it was
like so natural everything that happened and that became a blackbird.
I look forward to seeing what happens with it next.
You can find me a Twitch dot tv forward slash Meyer,
where I do stuff sometimes like space game stuff and
then r P stuff. You can also find me on news.
This episode did taste kind of soft. I'm not gonna lie,
but regardless.
Speaker 10: Yeah, this episode tasted like an episode of King Makers.
Speaker 9: In nature and its flavor. You need flavor of King Maker.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Otherwise. You can make me on Twitter at Twitter
dot COM's Underscore myer Nope, Twitter dot com, slash Meyer
underscore tests my handle, I know it, that's right, damn straight.
First try myrgoles Dan Dan.
Speaker 6: Today. What's happened? A very tasty funeral? No, Hi, I
am domestic Dan.
Speaker 19: I got to be Tim Skeletim today again with my
bone Magic or as the Wonders of our Discord Skullduggery,
which is solid.
Speaker 6: Uh yeah, it's super fun. It's so great.
Speaker 15: I get to RP with Eric again.
Speaker 6: This is great. I missed it so much.
Speaker 2: If you guys don't know, the first show that I
ever did here on table Story Dan was the the
GM of it. It was a mass effect and I
got to play. It doesn't matter what I got to play.
Speaker 12: It was wonderful because behind you we can see it.
Speaker 2: I think that's a lie. There's nothing there.
Speaker 12: Sorry.
Speaker 15: I can only take it too.
Speaker 2: I can only take so much anyway.
Speaker 21: It's like so hot and trurian and grate at RP
and the nicest human and best friend.
Speaker 6: So that's what I was going to say. That's perfect,
Thank you, Marks.
Speaker 9: You're welcome.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's because yeah, well yeah right, no, we established
that earlier. That's me. I story stuff it's I do
other things. You could follow me there, but you'll see
me here for a bit longer. And that's all I got.
Johnny Hello.
Speaker 15: Today was really cool.
Speaker 14: Playing in this show is like you went on vacation
and your dad said, hey, let's make a puzzle and
you get about half the puzzle done, and then halfway
through the puzzle he's like, that's not good enough, and
it smashes all together and you don't know it, but
the puzzle is also going to come back without you
even knowing. Like there's been so many links into this
show that have been, uh, just crazy to watch unfold organically.
Speaker 12: Also compare me to an angry dad.
Speaker 5: This is my projection.
Speaker 8: Coming out.
Speaker 15: I have many puzzles.
Speaker 11: An episode of King make because jun this is an intervention.
Speaker 14: That checks out that makes sense. It was also really
cool about that Aaron guy. Throughout this whole show, I've
had a huge man crush on Erw as a character,
and you're always just like, Wow, he's so cool, and
you're like, wow, that is the coolest rock lead jute
who I've ever seen.
Speaker 15: And today we get to meet guys Sence and you're.
Speaker 14: Like, oh, this is where this dude gets it from
and it was like, Aaron just did such a cool
job of like being.
Speaker 15: The mentor with about.
Speaker 6: Lost my ship.
Speaker 15: Dude, I would have left. I would have been like,
I'm out.
Speaker 14: Yeah, Aaron really killed it.
Speaker 8: With dynamic entry.
Speaker 14: Seeing Dan play Sherlock Bones has been like one of
my favorite parts of this season.
Speaker 15: Honestly.
Speaker 14: It's Tim just brings such a liveliness and comedic relief
to the group site.
Speaker 15: I really enjoy it. I'm Johnny Blams.
Speaker 14: You can find me on my channel twitch dot tv
slash Parma all my friend's characters and see how my
heart feels. Yeah, and I do fake cowboys stuff. Yeah
big PB.
Speaker 12: I'm so sorry, Aaron, but I gotta you know, I've
got to right. I know, okay, okay.
Speaker 1: I literally the first you spoke and I was like, oh,
there he is. And then within two minutes of your conversation,
I was like that near tears. I had to black
out my camp and I was thinking, like, this is
why you have people that you love and trust come
and play your NPC's characters, because they now it's not
an NPC's it's brought to life. It's like better than
I could have ever imagined. And you just fucking killed it.
You absolutely destroyed and like never.
Speaker 12: Now in my mind, will it not be?
Speaker 1: This was Aaron's character, Blackbird, you know it's not just yeah,
it was incredibly well done. Thank you for doing that.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thanks for asking.
Speaker 12: Okay, that's it. Love you guys. Rate and review the
fucking show on Apple and we'll see you next week.
Before I cry, okay, bye, it's happening.
Speaker 15: Oh I hit the wrong button?
Speaker 8: Oh no, Apple, Rate and review on Apple.
Speaker 5: What did she say?
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