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Speaker 3: Vow Lynch.
Speaker 2: Neither this story nor my friends and I would exist now.
Somewhere in the very.
Speaker 4: Sad Sisters starting a sentry.
Speaker 1: A sweetens.
Speaker 4: Every inveniant remembers the gigantic cloud black as cut of
bits ink i. It started forming on the horizon. It
cast an unusual stain on the pristine sky after arawn storms,
and wasn't expected for another few months. Before long, when
unleashed his fury like a battle cry, rain started hammering
the floating docks and drifters had to moor their houses
in haste before the first waves flooded the bay. It was,
by all accounts, a most fantastic storm, one which we
remembered as the Great Battle. As all were running for safety,
a few hearers remain standing strong against the thundering sky.
They were known as the tidal Blades. You'll think you
know what happened during the Great Battle, and why wouldn't
you it's been drilled into your heads like a mantra.
I bet you all can regurgitate the palatable summary, word
for word, beat for beat. Every Inverian remembers, I'm sure
they do, but very few remembers like I do. The
ones that would have the tide of blades are gone,
like jelly, sent to the slaughter. The Council sent them
to their doom, to a fate potentially worse than death.
The council lied to me, to a tired of blace.
To all of us, we weren't told what could happen
to us. The Council kept that from us. If they
can lie and keep seeks from the very heroes who
risk their lives for Neveria, for generations that have lies
and secrets to the hold over the rest of Naveri.
It has been years since the storm. The air is
warm and the sky is sparingly painted with immaculate clouds.
Laughs and cheers erupted from the local restaurants and racing tracks.
The city of Navii has never been so vibrant and beautiful.
A magnificent floating statue has been erected near the city
of Time to commemorate the tider Blade's sacrifice, now burned,
interfaced protect a barrier known as a fold, is still standing.
Has made the lagun as safe as it could ever be,
from the scattered reefs to the wayward sea. It blocks
the horizon like a huge, glitching glacier, a curse, a
brilliant display of experimental tie magic, and also an unstable,
untested last stand against the horrors of the deep. As
of late, more and more monsters have started to breakthrough,
sometimes willy, mutated or possessing ability has never seen before.
There is even rumor that the Archeanists are considering resurrecting
the lost order of the Tide of Late. They need
only a new generational dreamers daring to be here. We're coming.
Just hold on tight. How many times have I told you?
What's your left? Keeping open? Far too much?
Speaker 5: I'm watching my left, mister Amara.
Speaker 4: If you're watching on your left camerall.
Speaker 5: Doesn't mean I'm not watching it.
Speaker 4: Let's try this again, and I swing my cane at
a layer. Can you keep up? I'm over one hundred
years old, and you I should not be again. Hits
on you by now?
Speaker 5: All right? You try to keep up, old man, and
I'm blocking with my bowstaff and as I'm blocking, I'm
going to try to sweep my leg underneath mister Amara's
legs to knock him down.
Speaker 4: I think as you go to sweep Amara, very suddenly
dip over, stip to your the side that you're sweeping too,
over your leg, and then tap you on the side
of your shoulder, specifically on the left side. How was that?
Did I keep up?
Speaker 1: Third rap?
Speaker 4: I think this might be the fourth but okay.
Speaker 5: And the leader is going to start this time by
trying to hit mister Ramara on his left side to
see if he's watching it.
Speaker 4: I'll wrote for it. Yeah, I'll just feel flat D twenty.
I this the cyber system rules. I think I think
you get past. I think I've moved my cane to
time block you from striking on the left side, but
you dip just under beneath it and tap me on
the left.
Speaker 5: Okay, left, you're keeping your left open.
Speaker 4: Mister I sound nothing like that. We should rest.
Speaker 5: You should rest old, ma'am.
Speaker 4: You know what, Yes, I should rest. I'm over one
hundred years old. I'm not going to deny that.
Speaker 5: I'll rest.
Speaker 4: You don't. You don't need to apologize you're working hard.
Are you sure you don't be training the rest of
the Tiger Blazer resting? They should be resting. They want
to join them.
Speaker 5: No, I want as much practice as possible. You know,
I feel like I always feel like I have to
earn my place to be here, you know, every day,
all the time.
Speaker 4: That's not wrong, but we all do. I don't want
to put unjust pressure on yourself. Yeah, me either, especially now.
This is the only bit of reprieve we're probably going
to get before the next wave with this storm on
the horizon.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: The storm.
Speaker 4: Mars sits down and pulls out their notebook because they
start taking notes about the spiring session.
Speaker 5: Uh, Eleier is gonna lean over mister Aramara's shoulder. Wow,
today a leer did so well she knocked me on
my left side. I guess I'm a bit of a hypocrite.
Speaker 1: Murmur, er, murmur.
Speaker 4: Look, even the teacher needs to train sometimes. I will
write that in my page of the note Beau as well,
Thank you you've been doing good. Still incredible with the
bow staff. Very glad you've been working with that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm trying.
Speaker 4: You might give Kamanda Braze a running for her money. Honestly,
she watch out.
Speaker 5: And you just see a leer sit up a little straighter,
and her chest is out a little bit more and
her chin rises up as she smiles.
Speaker 4: How are you feeling? This is definitely the biggest mission
I think any of us have been on, are going
to be on. Hopefully we'll ever be on.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I wanted to talk to you about that actually.
Speaker 4: Sets their pen ins, how their booking closes it looking
to a leer, what's wrong?
Speaker 5: What do you what do you think about the Council's plan?
Like that feeling? What do you think.
Speaker 4: Got feeling? I mean when it comes to what the
Council does. And I really truly understand the big wigs,
the science guys. I'm not much of science men, So
I just trust what they say and hit what they
ask me to hit, right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And I know that's our job and I know
that's what we've been training for. But something doesn't feel
right to me, mister Amara, in my gut?
Speaker 4: What what are you doubting? You don't think you're ready
for this? You can stay back. We do need some
people to stay within the vary in case anyone wants
to step by it.
Speaker 5: No it's not It's not that I don't have reservations
about me being involved in it. I have reservations about
this plan, about what they're asking us to do, and
I I don't have evidence. I'm not a science person
just like you, but I know at this point to
go with my gut and to trust myself. And something
about this doesn't feel right.
Speaker 4: The Council has put a lot of thoughts and quite
literal brain power behind this plan. We'll keep close. I'll
keep close and make sure all of you are safe.
But I think this plan it will work, and if
it doesn't. If it doesn't, I suppose you'll cross that
bridge when we get there. But there's not too much
we can do right now except make sure it does
move in and out quickly. We have enough time.
Speaker 5: What if we're no longer there to cross the bridge
at all.
Speaker 4: Earlier? Okay? Is this what the actual training was about?
You're sure you can do this. I know we'll make
it out of this.
Speaker 5: I know that I can do this. I just don't
know if I should. I don't want to let you down,
mister Ramara, but I wouldn't feel right going into this
without speaking up about it. And if you say that
you feel good about it. If you say you trust
in the council, then I trust in you more than anyone, and.
Speaker 1: I'll follow.
Speaker 5: I just needed to say it, and I just needed
you to hear it.
Speaker 4: Thank you. You can no matter the situation, you all
of you can tell me how you're feeling. Thank you
for letting me in her. But keep close to you, Okay,
if you want to, you can share this feeling with
the rest of the tile Blase. I do think it's
important for one of us to know how we're feeling
about this.
Speaker 5: You promise will be okay, I promise, And we're just
gonna kind of lean her head towards mister Ramara.
Speaker 1: A little bit.
Speaker 4: They'll rest their head on yours five minutes and then
a round five.
Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure it's round four, but yeah, I can
take you again, old man.
Speaker 1: We are surrounded by light. You see nothing but white.
You don't hear each other, you don't sense each other,
you don't feel anything at all, only the crackle of
the fold.
Speaker 4: Queen know the seven seeds me. We did it there
in Wakatti? Do you fly.
Speaker 6: Waccatti Wakati?
Speaker 4: Okay, Thank goodness, you're here. Have any of you seen
Okati wakati?
Speaker 5: Can we see one another yet?
Speaker 1: After a few moments, I think the brightness will die
down and you can make each other out. Yep.
Speaker 5: I'm going to move towards Amara, And as I walk
towards him, reached my hand out in the direction that
I see too far.
Speaker 6: I see this hand appearing and reach out to grab it.
Speaker 1: Toufa's device is emitting some sort of micronic energy. It's blue.
It's almost like it is little fireflies of this micronic
energy that kind of swirl around in a whirlpool or
some sort of direction momentum that you cannot really understand.
But it is holding the space around you still in
this moment, and as you look around the fold, you
can start to see strange, strange bend in time. If
you're looking out into the distance, you might see maybe
a creature moving that they somehow are walking forward while
their gestures are moving backward. It's very odd in this
place time is you're seeing the future and the past
and the present all at once, and it can be
very very confusing. But for you, as long as you're
next to Toofa with her device, it is unfreezing tiny
pockets of time around you.
Speaker 6: I reach down and unfurl buckles on my jacket, and
I hand one strap to each, to mister Amara and.
Speaker 4: To just tomorrow. As they take that strap, you do.
Speaker 1: Not see what kati.
Speaker 6: You have to find him. You have to. We have
to find him.
Speaker 4: That's be difficult, but yes, no, we we have to.
We're dealing with a lot of narcotic energy here. I
don't know how long he could survive in this place.
Speaker 6: It's not the survival that I'm worried about.
Speaker 5: It's what might.
Speaker 6: Be left of him. If he does, it wouldn't mean
left of him. Survival isn't all there is right, there's
there's surviving, and there's.
Speaker 5: Living, and.
Speaker 6: He'll be here. He'll be here.
Speaker 1: We we just have to.
Speaker 6: We just have to figure out how I did it.
Speaker 5: I did it. It worked.
Speaker 6: I knew it would, Like in my heart, I knew
it would, but I do I just don't know. I
don't know what I did. Can you make sense of this?
I'd like to try and turn around to show them
the face of this device, but like for I've just
forgotten momentarily that they're both holding onto the straps of
my of my pocketed jackets. So I like spin around
and like, oh oh sorry, I just can you make
sense of this?
Speaker 4: I suppose I'm a scientist apparently, so I can give
it a go. I would try to understand or read
this contraption.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's roll for it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would like to. Laren doesn't say anything about it,
but she is going to lean over.
Speaker 1: And try to see as well. Yeah, absolutely, let's roll
first rules of the day, well technically second and third,
but anything that just gonna say, do you have anything
that will help you here?
Speaker 4: I have my chronic manipulation as a skill. I don't
know if that would help here in understanding this.
Speaker 1: I think I would like to give you an asset,
but it has to do with your secret rather than
the micronic energy understanding. But if you'd like, I will
absolutely give you that asset for sure.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, I'll do that. Then we will be the
difficulture in this.
Speaker 1: I think anything related to understanding the fold is gonna
be a four. We've had a pretty hard difficulty in this, uh,
in this run, but it makes sense?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, okay, success.
Speaker 1: Okay, So then I think I think you vaguely remember
seeing something like this a long time ago, maybe at
the citadel, but to be clear, it it didn't make
sense I think at the time that you saw it.
Speaker 3: And this.
Speaker 1: Device is somehow unfreezing bits of space while leaving the
rest of the fold intact, so you'll be able to
move forward slowly but surely using this device. But the
device is also reacting to what's inside the fold. It's
almost like they're a pair. This in the Hyperloom.
Speaker 5: I also somehow succeeded on that. And I have no
idea why.
Speaker 1: Okay, I have an idea why we wrote the same number.
Speaker 4: We both wrote a fullteen.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, okay. I think my offer would be that,
I mean you were probably with the team that deployed
the Hyperloom right, or at least carried the Hyperloom for
a time up until you handed it over to Commander. Yeah,
so I think I think you sort of kind of
recognize it. To be clear, this isn't the Hyperloom, but
it has some sort of sister energy here where this
device is somehow able to just keep time still. Actually
is more what it's like. It's not really unfreezing, it's
more just keeping all your molecules and everything solid in
place in one time so that you can experience everything linearly.
And I think you can look at that and understand
that that's what has been created here, and it is
somehow connected directly to the fold in the hyperllume itself. Somehow,
maybe there was something in it that was used from
the hyperlom or what have you, but or the same
technology is used there.
Speaker 4: I think, just on almost instincts, I look to leer
In in a you recognize this as well type of way,
and I think I could almost catch myself doing that
and then quickly look back to this gadget, a trinket
that too Far I had created. I don't know if
I can tell you what the inter machinations of this
thing is as much as you say, I'm a scienceman,
definitely not engineer. But it does seem to be pairing
something in here the hyperlim I think.
Speaker 1: You both know, and I think too Far would know
this as well, just by looking at the device. It's it.
I think there's there's like a light beeping sound that happens,
and then it starts to get faster and faster, But
you know that that's it, just sort of a tuning
I think to its surroundings but you must keep this
active while you're in here lest you get frozen and stuck.
Nothing can happen to this device.
Speaker 5: Don't let it go miss too far.
Speaker 6: I'd like to hunt through my pockets and find and
find some some string, some sticky stuff, which I do
have in my pockets, some string, some sticky stuff, and
some elastic, and I'd like to fashion on my wrist
something that keeps it directly on my skin at all times,
so that if I'm surprised or if i have to run,
it's not going anywhere. And I do have a little
bit of absolutely everything in these pockets to be able
to do that with. And I'm usually very prepared, but
I mean, the problem is that's been such a chaotic
I don't even know how long chaotic time. I don't
know where anything is anymore. And I used to be
so organized, and it used to just used to know
where everything is through all my pockets until I can
find every single thing that should be somewhere else, it
should be in there, but it's not. But I think
I will eventually find them so fast something together. Maybe
I'll pull the elastic off my off my band, and
I keep particularly searching and shaking, Yeah, shaking.
Speaker 4: I will.
Speaker 5: I'd like to just put a hand on a too Far,
just over one of her hands and try and steady it.
There's no right.
Speaker 4: Mar doesn't say anything. I don't think he places a
hand on too Far the way Laren does. But they
will almost stand a little bit straighter, and I think
let go of the strap and almost produce themselves in
front of too Far as I will activate an ability
because I think this is very relevant, devoted defender, She's
one character you see. That character becomes your ward. You
are trained in old tasks involving finding them, healing, interacting
with and protecting that character. You can I have one
at a time. It takes some action to initiate.
Speaker 1: Okay, and you're using this on too Far correct?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I know that something's happening, Like, can I sense
this something else?
Speaker 1: Does this look like.
Speaker 4: I can I take GM privileges for a second? Yeah? Absolutely,
am Could you roll an intelligence of recognizing Amara's demeanor
or something within you recognizing Amara's demeanor?
Speaker 1: I was about to ask, when's the last time you
did this? And was it like twenty years ago?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh my god?
Speaker 3: Do I roll?
Speaker 5: Do I roll with anything modifying the intellect role.
Speaker 1: I would say, there's at least an asset, if not
east east, because the because of the recorder that you
gave and because of the the fact that you know,
she kind of knows that you two had a history together.
So at least one asset.
Speaker 4: I think it's difficult to be like what three, three
or four?
Speaker 1: I would say, yeah, I'd say yeah. I think we
bumped the difficulty down to three for anything related to
remembering the past for the two of you, so you
could do three with one asset if you'd.
Speaker 4: Like, Okay, okay, I don't think there's any like there's
not like rise in ar chronic energy, just like lightning.
I think this is like a mentally Amara decides that
I'm going to make sure too far, like I'm gonna
make sure everyone say, but I need to make sure
too far is safe because if too far is in danger,
well in danger. They make a conscious decision there, and
I think you see it in their stance and maybe
too too far. It just seems like this old man
fixing their posture, which they do every so often. But
to Laren, I think Laren recognizes this as the same
kind of body language he holds when before emission, and
I think the last time Larn saw this, or rather
glass Elia saw this, was twenty years ago.
Speaker 5: Laren is going to look back and forth between Amara
and too Far, and she's going to press her forehead
against too Fars and say it is a gift and
cared for by mister Ramara.
Speaker 6: I'm going to push my forehead back and into the forehead,
and I get a gift to be cared to be
cared for.
Speaker 5: You will take care of you when you need it
and probably when you don't.
Speaker 6: I think we'll all look after each other. And in
one way or another, I think that you are I
think you and mister Amara took her more advanced class
than I did in that particular subject. But I will
do my best.
Speaker 5: Your best is enough, too Far, and.
Speaker 6: I'd like to thrust my hand out towards her. And
there's this concoction of straps and things that are holding
this device into the center of my palm. So if
I turn my hand upside down, it's still, it doesn't
go anywhere. So I can close my hand around it
and I can keep it right there. But I just
present it dealer in like a child coming home from
school and showing their parent the most beautiful piece of
art that they did.
Speaker 5: Lauren is going to smile and look down at it,
and if your hand is kind of like this holding it,
She's going to reach over and just roll your fingers
over it and kind of pat your hands so it's
held tight, keep it safe.
Speaker 1: I will.
Speaker 5: I will find WAKARTI.
Speaker 6: I think it will take us to work HARTI. I
don't know how I know.
Speaker 4: I just know.
Speaker 6: It's not a feeling, it's a fact.
Speaker 5: I just know.
Speaker 6: That if we if we follow where it.
Speaker 5: Goes, we'll.
Speaker 6: We'll find him.
Speaker 5: Feelings can be facts. This is both. We'll find him.
Speaker 6: I think I'm starting to understand that I'm going to
reach behind me and put my the strap back into
Amara's hand.
Speaker 5: Like a.
Speaker 6: Parent trying to cross the road holding onto their child's hand,
like come on. Then same attitude.
Speaker 4: And then strap, and.
Speaker 6: Then I do the same with Lern. But I want
to do this same thing that she just taught me
of closing her hand over the strap, putting my hand
over it, and then I look at both of them.
I will keep you both safe.
Speaker 4: Thank you?
Speaker 1: We know, Oh yeah, be fine. I'm going to have
each of you all a one D three.
Speaker 7: Please got the whole range, and that's getting a one.
Speaker 1: Two three fantastic, fantastic. Okay, so you are walking forward,
which direction do you go in? Too far? I'm assuming
you are following your interdimensional compass hyperdimensional compass, I think
is what it would be.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm following it. I don't really understand what it's
telling me. I can't logically explain to you. These are
the rules, and this is the direction. I feel like
I don't follow a direction when it does this specific thing.
Speaker 3: I just know.
Speaker 6: That's just like a knowing. I know where it's taking me,
and I let it lead the way.
Speaker 1: So I think, as you are following this hyperdimensional compass,
you probably get a certain distance and then it starts
to spin and beep very rapidly again, and something in
you knows stop. Wait.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 1: As you wait for the device that you've made to
adjust to its surroundings and allow you to move forward
into the next little bit of space, it's very clear
to you that you are able to go. It's keeping
via distance, so you can go a certain amount, and
then you have to wait and stop, let it readjust,
and then you can continue to move forward, and then
the place behind you goes back to being the fold,
and you can see rain, lightning, You can see clouds
as if the storm had stopped. Kind of and perhaps
maybe sometimes when you start to when you move in
one space, it begins to rain and pour, and then
you step forward and there's nothing. It's sort of like
that as you move forward. But there comes a point
where you hear the unmistakable howl of seahounds, and they
have awoken from twenty years of stasis, and they descend
on you, five of them.
Speaker 5: What do you do when we say they descend on us?
Do you mean like like when you go to a
dog adoption event and puppies counting at you.
Speaker 1: Yep, except it's not quite as friendly. But yes, are
they are. They are on the hunt. They are coming
to attack you, and we are going to buy an initiative.
Speaker 5: Oh no, initiative doesn't sound like puppies. Well I was
hoping for puppies.
Speaker 1: They are a puppy of a sort, maybe not the
nice kind. Okay, puppy isn't nice.
Speaker 4: What's the difficulty for this?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna checker right now and I can't wait. I
might have you roll Okay, let's take a look. Climbing
jumping in speed defense is level five. Whoa, okay, yep,
we're gonna we're gonna stick with that. I'm not gonna
have you roll to see if it's any harder. That
seems hard enough, especially because there's five of them, which
that's what your roles were for, by the way. Uh so, okay,
how many there were? Okay, so there you are the seahound,
and let me see if I can I can put
it up here. Actually, so it looks like a mix
between a cat and a dog. Honestly, I think it
looks more hat like and dog like personally, but it's.
Speaker 4: In there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it looks like a strange blend between them all.
Oh yeah, with the tail and everything and the like
fin scales along the spine, but they have no fur.
It looks almost kind of like maybe their skin might
be like maybe for a hairless cat or something like that.
And then its face is very like a mix between
a cat and an eel. It's got glowing red eyes
and very sharp teeth and webbed claws and feet, and
they move in packs of four or more almost always.
All right, who's first with the initiative.
Speaker 6: Oh my, I'm amazed.
Speaker 4: Oh no, oh no, yeah, me and me and Meg's
order say number against entangled.
Speaker 1: Okay, that means something. Okay, so that means I believe
too far you act first? Wow, yep, you were like,
I can't let anything happen to this, And suddenly you
were just I think you were following the compass and
maybe I don't know. Was there something that alerted you.
Did you just hear it? Did you sense it? Did
you feel it?
Speaker 6: I think it happened slower for me.
Speaker 5: I don't.
Speaker 6: I don't think I experienced it in the same timeframe
that the others experienced it. I think it happened ever
so slightly slower for me. Yeah, I was on like
zero point two speed it. It gave me a little
bit more time.
Speaker 3: And I.
Speaker 6: How are these laid out? Are they all coming from
the same direction? Are they're closer to one?
Speaker 5: Puss?
Speaker 1: They're sort of I think gonna surround you, the three
of you. Okay, I have a very important question, and
I don't want you to feel pressured. Did you bring
your missed Burrow companion into the fold with you?
Speaker 5: More than anything, I want to say, yes, I know
I really don't think so.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, because you know what could happen
to things in here? Yep, yeah, okay, so he so
he's just like, you know, they're surrounded by all these hounds, right,
and then we just immediately cut to this adorable missed
burrow just eating a bunch of flowers, like sitting on
the on the beach, just like waiting for them to
come back, you know, just straight up the stegosaurus in
Lane before time spike, which it's just always eating. Yeah, yeah, okay, perfect.
Speaker 6: I I'd like to cost cutting, like yeah, okay, yeah,
I think that's the Yeah, I think I think that's
I think that's the move. I think I'd always like
to have more time to think about things. But you know,
even with time in zero point two, I just I
feel like this is this is the best decision. I'm
not free good at doing things on feeling. It's more
about finding out what the most likely outcome is and
then acting on that most likely outcome to succeed. But
I don't think I have time to do that that
calculation right now. So I reach into my pocket to
find exactly where I left it this time, my animal
skull the golden animal skull, and I hold it and
I push it forwards us to one of us, and
this is difficulty five.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, don't forget you have an asset, because you
are and I'm just trying to help now, and don't forget.
Learan has the ability to help ease. And also I
think she does have some abilities to help you give
like an extra action or whatever she can step in.
But for now you do have I think one effort
to like one extra effort to spend during this combat
from her. Okay, how much she can give you extra,
but for now it's just one.
Speaker 6: Okay, Well, this wrong.
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry that with me. You're good, You're all good.
So it's one asset and one effort. If you want
to use it, you don't have to. You can use
as much effort as you want. War two. Yes, okay,
describe what we see.
Speaker 6: This is what was in my plan. This is the text,
but this is how it should go. I double checked,
I made sure I was I didn't have my fingers
over the sensor, and I looked at it. I looked
at it strong, and I turned around. I pushed my
hand forward so fast, and it looks to me like
it's happening in slow motion. It looks to me like
I'm pushing my hand really really slowly as everything is
going fast, and the second my elbow extends, it synchronizes.
Suddenly these things are moving it exactly the same time
as the beam of light that comes out of this object,
moving exactly the same time as my hand. But for
a brief moment there, it felt like things were really slow.
And as much as that's confusing, it happens, and this
giant beam of light, the brightest. You need to close
your eyes to look away from this thing it's so bright,
pulls forwards and that's the only way I can describe it.
It's like it's like it's being pulled out of the beam.
It's not pushing, how it's being pulled out of the
beam and goes towards these creatures, towards this pack of creatures.
Speaker 1: Perfect, Now, this one does I believe? Five damage without contest? Correct?
I believe? So it's something like, okpose, oh fantastic, Okay,
And I'm gonna pick. I'm going to say maybe the
nearest to leering is that the one that you would okay, perfect, Okay,
As this light strikes one of these creatures. It immediately
is blown back a little bit. It humbles, maybe twisting
a limb and yelping a little bit before getting up
and kind of adjusting itself. It's still standing, but boy,
that was quite the shock. Who's next?
Speaker 4: We both failed?
Speaker 1: I think technically you both failed. So now I'm gonna
come in all right? How about this? How about Learan's
one Mars two and too far is three? Who wants
to be the one to go ahead and roll a
one D three five times for us?
Speaker 4: Five times? Oh?
Speaker 1: Okay, I think this one is going to lose an
attack because she just hit it with a light. So
let's just say four times. I can, I can do it, yep,
let's do it.
Speaker 4: Okay, how does feel forty three? Should separate it? Roll
as anyway?
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 4: There you go two to one three.
Speaker 1: Ooh holy cow, oh boy. Okay, we have two to
one in three. That's Amara, right, and then Learan once
and then two file once, So go ahead and roll
your defensive roles here and Amara, you gotta do yours twice.
I was just reading up on what these things can do.
Speaker 4: It's typically five, right, We're gonna bump it.
Speaker 1: To four because I think it's this climbing jumping in
speed defence is level five, sneakings level three, but it
doesn't list a standard level. But there's an ability in
here that looks like it can bump itself to a
level six. So I'm gonna say four sounds fair, So
we'll do that, just make it a little bit easier
on us.
Speaker 5: What does being trained in a speed defense task do?
Speaker 1: That means you will have it? It's eased for you. Okay, yeah,
so it counts one difficulty less yep, from five to four,
that's right, or from four to three now, because we're
I'm saying that since there are five of these creatures,
I'm going to put them at level four.
Speaker 4: Okay, see that again?
Speaker 1: Nice? Nice? Nice? Now, I think correct me if I'm wrong, leerin.
But I'm pretty sure that as a real like in
this reactive state, you can use your thorns, right, I
think you can do it when something tries to attack you.
But I could be wrong.
Speaker 5: It does not say okay.
Speaker 1: I feel like you can. Feels like a defensive thing
that you can do. Yeah, let me check a sheet.
Speaker 4: I do I do have a thing as I dodge
these two.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes you can. You can go ahead and use
that as a defensive thing.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 1: If something, if something comes close to you and tries
to attack you, you can absolutely let out these defensive spines. Okay,
if you'd like, that's not me. You know you can
do that, or you know you don't have to. And Amara,
you said you can do something right, Yes.
Speaker 4: When you seize the moment, I'm gonna do it once.
If you succeed a speed defense to resist an attack,
gain an action immediately, Okay, as they as I trictly
dodge the first that dives at me, and in the
second come and I dodge, and I want to swing
to smack it at the back of its head with
my cane, and I will actually no, I won't attack
it as I as I swiftly dodge the first in
the second, I think Lyrin sees this before anyone else.
But it's a very sudden Suddenly there's the concentration of
micronic energy on Amara, just very suddenly. It's almost like
as quick as the snap of thunder. Very suddenly, it's
like a thin layer of very dense micronic energy that
covers Amara. As I use an action to activate fury
for the next minute or mainly attacks you make inflict
to additional damage as you see very suddenly it's almost
like Amara's moving through space faster. But you see it
as you understand it, as he's essentially almost fastwarding himself.
It's a bit like moving at one point to your speed,
wh which adds a bit more thwack behind this his attacks.
Speaker 1: Fantastic. All right, Laran, do you use your thorns?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Okay, absolutely, okay.
Speaker 1: And those do an automatic, don't need to roll damage
of four Yeah, okay, I'm going to assume that you
were hitting the one closest to you, because that makes
sense for these thorns. Okay, and now you too can
each take a turn turn because I have attacked right,
because too far dodged as well? Correct, Yeah, yeah, yeah, fantastic, fantastic.
Speaker 4: Y special, I mean unless we'll with damage.
Speaker 1: Specifically in no mind, oh you did or they did
too far?
Speaker 4: They got seventeen, so I don't think. I don't think
it's seventeen, does anythink?
Speaker 1: No, No, it's I think it's eighteen and yep or nineteen.
Speaker 4: I think in twenty yeah, I mean empty you have
an idea of what living would do.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so dependent entirely on can these creatures, especially if
I'm speaking in simple terms, can they understand me?
Speaker 1: Let's find out while seahounds are clever and they don't
seem interested in interacting with people who are seen to
them as prey. Now it doesn't say it's not possible,
It just says it's they don't seem interested. So we
can absolutely roll for it if you want, if you
want to try to talk to them. But I think
it would have to be like I don't know, eighteen
nineteen or twenty on the role for it to work.
Speaker 5: Okay, because I have when we leveled up, I got
a new ability.
Speaker 1: What's the new ability?
Speaker 5: Discent devise? You hinder all actions attempted by any number
of targets within short range who can understand you. Oh yeah,
gets affected?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean they understand you. They don't seem
interested in interacting, but that doesn't say that they can't.
And there are enemies in this book that they very
clearly says interacting trying to interact with them is useless,
and it doesn't say that. So I'm gonna say that, yes,
we can house rule this to absolutely be effective.
Speaker 5: Let's go all right, so their actions and I will
obviously only target the five of them, not my companions.
They are hindered for one round.
Speaker 1: Nice, that's fantastic.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Laren is just going to put a handout. When
I'm training my dog, for instance, I have like flat palms,
very this means business kind of stop gesture, and you
would immediately recognize that it's like animal trainer attitude. Laren
snaps into place and her hand comes up and she
says cease. And they might not care what it is
that she's saying, but the conviction and the authority in
her voice I think is one of those like animals yep,
just like children can be rowdy, but the second a
teacher raises their voice like even if they don't listen long,
and gives them pause, you know.
Speaker 1: Yep, yep, And this is what that does. I love
that that kind of energy that Laren would have to
put them make them stop at least for a second
and look at each other maybe and then try to
decide what are we going to continue to do. But
they've spent twenty years in stasis, and I think they
decide we're pretty hungry and they'll come for you in
the end anyway, However, they will be hindered for this
whole round until the start of your next turn.
Speaker 5: Okay, that's my whole action, right.
Speaker 1: Yep, you can move as well if you want, but yep,
that would be the action.
Speaker 5: I think we're all still pretty close to one another,
right yeah, yeah, I don't worry about moving. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think they're kind of surrounding you at the moment. Okay, okay,
mister Amara, Yes, what do you do?
Speaker 4: Just Amarah? I I will start swinging I think, as
our amusing mood towards whatever hound was the closest to
too far socially, after seeing Laran deal with some damage
to one of them already and slow down at the
very least make the rest of them hesitate, I want
to take the opportunity and mut towards the one that's
close as to too far.
Speaker 8: Swing nice Okay, yep, difficulty for now, thanks to that's right,
and I doubt it.
Speaker 4: But are these twice our size?
Speaker 1: No, unfortunately they are not.
Speaker 4: They're still all good. I will swing put effort into this. Uh,
I'm protecting too far because they are my wards. I
get one free asset. Yeah, effort to damage output opining
to doubt success as I swing my cane down and
smack it on the back of the head, and then
I'm going to reasingly do a thing that a new
ability I got. It is called weapon and body. After
making a merely weapon attack or range weapon attack and
may follow up people punch you on an additional or
a kick as an additional action attack, smack it in
the back of the head, and immediately bring my elbow
down to almost like drive my cane into it into
the ground. Everything that modified the last attack modifies this one,
So I would do that. Yeah, uh, the four see
efforts that no effect to damage for another damage. Okay,
elbow my butt cane into the same one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, how do you kill it? I mean you
bring but I mean what do we see as you
do this?
Speaker 4: I think, yeah, I think I smack as I suddenly
I'm almost like I'm covered breathing lightning, and I almost
I'm maybe in front of to you finding very suddenly
behind them as I smack my cane down onto this
creature and then as I bury it face into the ground,
I almost stomp on my cane to finish it off.
And you hear a crunching sound underneath it, and immediately
whip around to the next hound.
Speaker 1: I think that hound looks terrified for a moment, absolutely
stopped in its tracks. All right, start of a new round,
too far.
Speaker 6: I'm going to do the same thing again. It worked,
it made sense, and it was successful. Therefore it has
a high chance of being successful against another enemy of
like a very similar So I'm going to do the
same again.
Speaker 1: You knew that it heard it, so it's perfect. All right,
good for it.
Speaker 6: So it's a difficulty of four.
Speaker 3: Now, is that ry?
Speaker 6: And I get that f one effort?
Speaker 1: You can if you'd like, Yeah, fantastic. Five five points
of damage to the same one that you hit before. Correct, Yeah,
the same moment.
Speaker 6: I hit before, the one that's closest to larn At
this at this moment, I very similar to how I
did it before, except with a different hand, because this
thing gets hot. It's hot all of a sudden, So
I'm switching from from right hand to left hand, from
right hand to left hand. I double check the sense
is clear. It's fine, and I push my hand forwards
and the same I have that same sensation that for
a moment my hand is moving really slowly, but somehow
it all minds up at exactly the right point, the
moment that my arm is outstretched and this big, huge
shoe of light gets pulled out of the skull and
hits this uh, this hits this creature. I think that
I would specifically be trying to hit this creature in the.
Speaker 5: Jaw m.
Speaker 6: Because we learned that there was another creature and there
wasn't there was this thing, and it wasn't in my
book that this other creature, this separate creature, had a
weakness in its jaw. But I wouldn't know because the
Citadel don't teach me if if that's part. But that's
something that mister Omara taught me, So it's really important
that I put it into practice right now. So I'd
like to aim for its jaw.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you can absolutely do that. I'm I'm
just I'm having a moment because the next thing they
were going to do was a joint move together where
they howl, and you've just disabled the ability for it
to do that. It would have paralyzed you all for
two rounds while they attacked you. So I think you
just saved everyone's life. I'm not even kidding. It's and
and they can only do it. They can only do
it with like four or more. And so you've killed
the fifth one, right, so you just managed to take
this one down as well. So okay, so yeah, I'd
say you definitely strike it in the jaw. And maybe
it was like maybe in this moment, they were all
kind of squaring up. They were leaning back on their
on their haunches and preparing maybe to do this howl.
And then you kind of reach forward and the beam
hits this one and it's again knocked back. It tumbles
backward a whimpering a little bit, and then scrabbling to
its webbed feet before squaring off. But it looks very
dazed and struggling to even stand. But yep, you succeed.
Oh now it is Oh yes, go ahead, I just I'm.
Speaker 6: Be stretching out that hand and swapping it again to
the other hand. In the meantime, it's hot.
Speaker 1: It is their turn. However, they are still hindered. So
remember when you roll your defense to mark, the enemy
is hindered. But they are going to do a hope,
not that one. They can't do that one anymore. They
can concentrate on a single foe and make one attack
as if they were a level six creature. Their combined
acid attack will inflict eight points of damage initially, plus
eight points for each additional round that the victim until
you succeed on a mite defense roll and they are
coming for you, mister Amara, So go ahead and roll.
They are hindered, but this will be level six.
Speaker 4: This is a speed defence. Ah yes, okay, so the
level six after hindering or with before hindering.
Speaker 1: Before hindering yepka, yeah okay, and then if they get it,
you then need to switch to succeeding on a mite
defense rule okay, which hopefully they.
Speaker 4: Do not fingers crossed. Uh yeah, okay, there you go.
Speaker 1: Whoa okay, okay. So they they kind of group together,
I think, especially after seeing that one get knocked back
and spit this dark acid at you, but you are
able to move out of the way. What does that
look like?
Speaker 4: I think, as I see too far shoot one of
them in the jaw, I almost rush past too far
and just a quick there's no words exchange, but it's
a quick nod in too far the erection as they
I think I moved towards almost like the spit of
this creature, these creatures, and I I I think in
this moment, I would it's gonna be all part of it.
I'll trigger seize the moment because I succeeded in a
speed defense, and I will pay the efforts second servant action.
But as I dodged it, I think I slide underneath
the kind of project out of this acid, and before
I even on my feet, I throw my cane at
one of them to slam them in the face and
just like too far, aim for the jaw so I
will roll that it is hindered. Just there was three
now no, there were four were hindering.
Speaker 1: Okay, h no, because their attack was together combined level
five or like level six, and then it brought it
down to four. But they're normally four. So if they're hindering,
maybe three, yeah, o.
Speaker 4: Three, Okay, we'll take it into account to any move
past that stage.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, sorry, yeah, no good.
Speaker 4: But damage as I throw my cage or dealing twelve
points of damage.
Speaker 1: You take another one out in one hit. You just
clock this one somehow and kill it.
Speaker 4: I truly think, just like the moment, I think it's
like as they spit this assett yeah, ends and then
through like the almost pillow acid you see this.
Speaker 1: Can come through? Wow, okay, and.
Speaker 4: Then imasly like we've used the momental that slide or
grab the cane of their mouth and ready themselves again.
Speaker 1: Three remain And it is at this moment that you
hear a spark fold energy, my chronic energy, and someone
comes in to aid you. Would you like to describe
what we see? Oh, we can't hear you, k not yet.
I'm so. I'm so shocked by the way. I was
not expecting this at all.
Speaker 5: It's amazing, the dramatic tension that this adds.
Speaker 1: Let me make sure that in.
Speaker 5: Yep, there you are.
Speaker 1: There you are sort of, but then you left again.
He's pointing, but I don't know. Noh, we heard him
for a second. Maybe retry rejoining the clean feet, he says, yes.
Speaker 5: Yes, traveling through time is really rough on your vocal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, totally.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so good.
Speaker 4: There's a bit of a time delay, yeah.
Speaker 1: The time delay. Okay, that's all right, we will So
I think I understand his energy. I'm going to describe
a little bit of what he looks like. Okay, but
then I'll leave the rest of it to him when
he arrives. Yes, okay, we see Wakitty, but he somehow
is not the same Wakity that we have seen the
last couple of episodes. He is bigger, he is stronger looking.
He has what looks to be he's fashioned some sort
of scythe out of potentially like hard in seaweed. And oh,
it's not a site, it is a what is that?
It's a glave. Oh my gosh, that looks so cool.
It looks like it's fashioned out of driftwood and seaweed
and kelp wrapped around the top and then maybe some
coral that makes the glave. He has an eye patch on.
He is no longer wearing the red bandana that we recognize,
and he is just the energy that he has as
he looks at the group and arrives, and there is
this micronic energy that is radiating from him, especially around
the tip of the glave. And he makes one slight
nod to mister Amara before he joins the fight. But
we're gonna just.
Speaker 4: Says there, there's a couple of inches as I hold
my cane up at the rest of the seahounds.
Speaker 1: Right, we are going to go ahead and do another
round here and let him come in when he has
fixed the audio here. But Toofa, you're at the start
of the round.
Speaker 5: Oh I didn't wait.
Speaker 1: No, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 5: It's you.
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry it's you.
Speaker 5: You are no, No, you're fine. I'm just determined to help.
Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely well you did by hindering them quite a bit.
That does a lot.
Speaker 5: Uh. I am not quite as trained in combat as
these two in my current state, so I'm going to
rely on my handy dandy thorn burst again. Yes. Uh,
how many of them are standing?
Speaker 1: Now? There are three standing. One looks very rough. This
is the one that Toofa has been using her light
cutter on, and then the other two look like they
haven't been touched at all.
Speaker 5: Okay, I will target the one that Toofa has been attacking.
Speaker 1: Yep, okay, and this is the automatic four right? Yes, okay?
How do you kill it?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 5: I know, having it to describe if it makes you feel.
Speaker 1: Better, it would have torn your flash off and eaten
you like has No, I know it doesn't help, but yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, ooh ooh, I think I have an idea.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean yeah, I mean, I know we technically
said it was the thornburst attack. But I'm totally fine
if you just want to kind of like put you know,
like put your hand on its head and be like
stay and then it is just out of the fight.
That way, you don't actually have to kill the animal.
I'm fine with that if you'd like.
Speaker 5: I do think Laren would do more of that. I
think it would be a little more.
Speaker 1: Or perhaps it like hits him and then he, you know,
whimpers and runs away. Don't we have to Yeah, he's
out of the fight, but you didn't murder him.
Speaker 5: Okay, thank you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you, very Catilleran.
Speaker 5: Last time they killed an animal pride and put.
Speaker 1: Flowers on it. Yeah, yeah, I got you. I have
your back.
Speaker 7: Thank you.
Speaker 4: Also, by the way, I just realized I also haven't
had my turn, my meekling that with my reaction.
Speaker 1: Perfect, that is more time. Let's go, mister Mora, take
your turn.
Speaker 4: As I yank my cane out of the mouth of
the one seat and I see the other wimp and
run away, I will turn to the one remaining one.
If I'm running, creck, go it too. It's two remaining, Yeah,
it's too many left.
Speaker 5: And oh I will.
Speaker 4: I would like to scare these away. I think seeing
Lirin take the active efforts of gain it's a run.
Probably even maybe seeing too Far flinch at the killing
of the other two that Amara did. Amara almost like
size and turned to the one of them because like he,
I think he like for a moment in this he
forgot that these at the very least, too Far is
just a kid. I'm very much not built for all
this whole situation, very much thrown into it. And I
will use an ability I have as a fighter. I
have the ability to speak with well. I can make
myself understood by monsters. So as I turn to these creatures,
I think I let out a growl and almost like
chittered that matches almost exactly to these seahounds. And do
you know anyone who knows seahounds, maybe your too Far
wouldn't know this from their textbook, that this is like
a almost like claiming of prey. As I'm saying that
these two are mine, stay away to this, these three
are minds. Stay away to these monsters. Wow, So we
probably kind of hard because it's intellect I'm not a
smart man.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's okay, I do think I do think that
specifically because it says that they're not really interested in
communicating with people, and I had lerian Ll say, like,
you know, it would be sixteen or seventeen, eighteen or
nineteen to hit. I think it's going to be the
same here, which I know makes it pretty difficult, but narratively,
I think it would be super awesome.
Speaker 4: Can I if instead, can I focus in on the
one that you described as being scarce at the moment
killing at the first?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 4: Second?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Would I bump up the odds by any o?
Speaker 1: Yes, we can bump that by so if instead of seventeen,
we'll go fifteen or higher fifteen?
Speaker 4: Okay, I was rob of flatty twenty then no six nine. Yeah,
I think that's my actions here this, Yeah, what do.
Speaker 1: You think happens there? You're just like you're you growl
and do they I think they respond. I think they
listen to you for a second and then they go,
wait a minute, you know he's not eating them, you
know that kind of thing, and then they kind of
go or they go, I'm starving, I'm hungry, because somehow
it feels like no time has passed for them. But
also twenty years without eating at the same time. So
I think they're just gonna yep, and they square up,
but only two of them remain. All right now it
is top of the round. Too far, my darling.
Speaker 4: What do you do?
Speaker 6: I do the same again, Yeah, exactly the same thing again.
Speaker 1: All right now they are no longer hindered, but they're
still level fours. Yep, go ahead and make that role.
I look at this goober.
Speaker 6: Oh baby, you'll get it a little pod.
Speaker 4: I I.
Speaker 6: I've understood the message. I think you're You're right, mister Amara.
I've read about something like this in a textbook, and
I understand the message. But like, I'm helping, and it's
factual that I'm helping because I have I've actually contributed
to this fight. That's that's the fact I've done something.
So I'm gonna help, and I'd like to actually attack
the one that's closest to mister Amara.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll go four difficulty for.
Speaker 4: Yes, Oh we get an extra plus one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we see. Oh that's incredible, So you do six
damage instead of the five. I know that it's the
same and you've been switching hands with this device, but
I want to know what does too far look like
as she is becoming like better at this, do we
see like shoulders squaring up? You know? Is she becoming
more confident in what she's doing.
Speaker 6: It's I think the progression here has gone from a child,
as mister Hamara rightly said to somebody who is standing
on top of a rock screaming her heart out, like
this has gone from a I think I can do
this push to a like a battle like this is
a battle.
Speaker 1: Cry now, yeah, And.
Speaker 6: I think all of us have a moment where when
when we suddenly become successful at something, that the belief
in ourselves allows us to perpetuate that success and that
I think that's exactly what's happening here. And yeah, I
think that the battle cry.
Speaker 1: Is the closet a battle cry. That's fantastic battle cry.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and I think it's so I love it from
the chest like this isn't a shout or a scream,
it's a raw like it's a roar of a battle cry.
At the exact same moment as I shove my hand
forwards and how it.
Speaker 1: Comes the beam of light comes out and hits this
second to last remaining seahound. And I think it's a
square in the jar, and it is again rocketed back,
tumbling backward, but it lays there for a moment, a
little too stunned to get up. It's still breathing, but
it is quite a bit stunned. And now it is
their turn. So we're going to roll the one D three.
Who wants to do that? You just need to roll
it twice. I think I can do it, okay, okay, okay,
Oh boy.
Speaker 4: I would like to draw the attack of both at these.
Speaker 1: Please that that is a good idea. Okay.
Speaker 4: I see one already charging towards me. I see the
other charging towards me too far for three yep, and
I think again you hear me was back at this
seehaun charging at too far and gets attention on me.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay. They are going to go ahead and use
their black acid attack from a slight distance. They can
either do a single target up to a long distance
away or spray it on up to three targets within
short range. But because you've said, like target on me,
I'm going to switch it to focus on you. So
this one is a I think it's a speed defense roll.
It says it's four points each each additional round if
you succeed on a mite defense roll, which to me
says like you're able to, you know, withstand it, but
to dodge it. I think it's speed. So we're going
to go ahead and do that. Yep, level four.
Speaker 4: It's not too bad. Four effort, Yes.
Speaker 1: And don't forget. You have to do this for each
one twice.
Speaker 4: Okay, so sorry, see the first one. Yep, I dodge
them both again. I think you see almost like this crackling,
this condensed micronic energy that's around Amara. I think you
start to notice that in these moments there's almost like
subconscious control over them. And you see that every time
he's dodging, you see these this chronic energy almost focus
around his joints, specifically as he moves, to help him
move fast and more fluidley. And you see him again
step and duck and dive underneath these these sprays of acids.
Speaker 1: Not as scientist, he says, as he uses micronic energy
to get out of the way. Fantastic. Okay, you managed
to dodge both of them. Now it is your turn.
It's either you or Lerian, or perhaps it is your turn. True.
I don't see him yet in the call. So one
of you may go, Larin, do you want to take this?
Speaker 5: I will follow your lead if you want to go first.
Speaker 1: Okay, I feel like there's a moment happening here in character.
Do you look at her and like wait for your
student to go like.
Speaker 4: I think so? I think, almost on instinct, I turned
to Lyrin. I think especially since I'm using my cane,
they're using their do you have your boy stuff? I
guess it's the question.
Speaker 5: I I don't think I do narratively, I know how
to use one.
Speaker 4: But yeah, no, I think that's I think instincts. I
look to you, there's like a moment of like not
familiarity is not the word, but like almost like expectant,
like I'm expecting to see something. As I turned to
my left, and there's a moment of hesitations. I don't
see exactly that, And there's a almost like not hard thing,
but focusing of my expression as I turned back to
the seahand and I think I'll take my move right
for Yeah, I think the did do any of them
seem heard? They equally hurt, right or not?
Speaker 1: One of them was knocked back pretty hard by too
far as light, but it did get up so that
one probably looks in rough shape. You want to go
for that one.
Speaker 4: I'm going to go for that one, and I'll swing,
but I'm going to a usually Actually yeah, I'll swing
first to see if I hit, because I need to
hit for this swag anyway, as I swing my cane
at them, this is a difficulty four yep, yep, I
go as I swing and slam into them for nine
points of damage. But I will use and I mean
unless they're dead.
Speaker 1: They are, so yeah, if you I'll do that, you can.
We can also narratively say you chase it off if
you want.
Speaker 4: I would like to narratively do something slightly different.
Speaker 1: Yes, take it away, I trust full trust.
Speaker 4: There you go. I'll use control of the field. This
may attack deals one less point of damage then normal
regards to whether you hit the tipe get you maneuver
it into position you desire with an immutiate range swing,
and I move it out of the range of our
device back into the phone.
Speaker 1: Nice, nice, so it freezes. Yep, Okay, fantastic, All right,
one remains troop. Are you here? I'd love to allow
you to take a turn.
Speaker 3: Ye, I may be here. It's possible that I am
I am here, after resetting time that sometimes has to happen.
I show up with the sparkle of my chronic energy
to this place where I have been before and will
be again where I always am. And the first thing
that I would like to do is something that well
Amar and too far have seen me do before, but
others perhaps have not. I concentrate. If all time and
space is one thing, I am going to divide my
mind into two. This will be split intent. I do
not have to roll for it. I only have to
pay for it, and I have enough energy at this
moment to do so somewhat easily. Yes, then that done.
I can now take two turns, but the second one
must be a regular action. With that, I will take
this battle staff, which is a plain weapon. It's homemade,
but it is a weapon that the Title Blades often use,
or anyone who might need to do something in two
hands at once and quickly. I will move forward towards
this one creature, and I will swing at it with
this battle staff in a way that as if I
have been trained by a title master at some point
in time, and all that is time, and I will
move forward and take this attack. If you don't mind.
Speaker 1: I don't mind at all.
Speaker 3: This will be eased twice because I am trained in this,
as it turns out, and also it's a light weapon,
so it's not so difficult. And this is a difficulty of.
Speaker 4: It was.
Speaker 3: Now two and I will spend Oh, I will spend
too effort and I don't have to roll is what
I will do just to finish that. Well, you know what,
I'll spend one because the role might be excellent.
Speaker 1: I was going to say, you might get a nineteen
or something.
Speaker 3: I might, so let me do that. Then, if you
don't mind, I don't mind it. Thank you. One effort
and I do not believe I have any assets to
think of at this moment. But there, Oh, I will
spend one effort to damage. So I'll spend to effort.
There a success, this will be five damage to it.
Speaker 1: If you don't mind, I don't mind at all. It
still stands. But what does this look like when you
come in to hit this sea hound.
Speaker 5: I have my.
Speaker 3: I still looks quite strange because I'm clearly operating in
more than one space and time, and I'm moving faster
than you might imagine, but also slower at the same time.
And I have this one armed staff that well, it
looks like I made it myself, but of the style
of the title blames and as I slide in, it
seems as if I was somewhere different just a few
moments ago. And I interpose myself between this creature and
too Far and also Amara, and I slide in and
I swing, noting as if perhaps I have been here
before that my friends have been hitting it in the jaw.
And I make a big wide sweep with this staff,
and I hit it similarly right in the jaw, and
that done. I stand back in a city of defensive posture,
waiting for it. I just say, too far Amara. I
note I did not call him mister Amara, and my
dear friend learn It has been a long time since
I've seen or perhaps only five minutes.
Speaker 1: And I wait, I believe Learan has yet to go
this final round?
Speaker 5: How is the final hound looking pretty rough? I am
going to look at Wakati and without looking away, reach
an arm out and shoot out thorns coming just cascading
off of that arm towards the for another four damage.
Speaker 3: And I give leirda nod as if to say it's
all right, It's all right.
Speaker 1: It is still standing, but barely. These thorns hit it
one at a time, and then it kind of slumps
down a little bit and then shakes its head and
begins to growl.
Speaker 3: May I go next, just at the top of the
next turn, that would.
Speaker 1: Be now the top of the next turn, you may
I look.
Speaker 3: At Leiran, and I know how Leiran is. I know
that it is difficult for her. And so with this moment,
I reach out towards this creature and calmly gently, not
with the weapon, but with my hand, and I would
like to cast exile upon it, to send it somewhere else,
in another place in time, just long enough for us
to leave. Let me do that, if if it's all right,
I just this is a an action. So this is intellect.
Speaker 4: Well, it's my chronic So I have I was gonna say,
don't you have?
Speaker 3: I have some eases a few times? Is this? Are
they still hindered?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 3: That is fine? This will be just eased twice. Well,
and then I have effort and also action. Mm hmmm,
this I will just spend the effort on. That's three
five seven minus two. I just reach out and I
send it away, and it goes to another time the
same place, but all time is the same time, and
you can just shift it from one to the other.
And so I do.
Speaker 1: We see maybe white light kind glitching a little bit,
and that a little bit of that lavender huge electricity
as it encompasses almost this in the entire body of
this creature before its eyes widened for a moment. It's
all right, He's taken somewhere else, perhaps even outside the fall. Finally,
after twenty.
Speaker 3: Years, I look to see if there's any other danger.
Speaker 1: That is such a very specific word that I would
love if you rolled again.
Speaker 3: I will seem intellect I don't know the difficulty. We
will just find out what it is.
Speaker 1: And I think I think three three, yeah, excellent, because
you've been in here for a long time.
Speaker 3: Perhaps I have been here for some time. But I
will be careful to make sure there is nothing.
Speaker 4: To be seen.
Speaker 3: And it's a bit, how would you say, a bit
perhaps strange, but I scan our space, the space around us,
but also the time around us to make sure nothing
will be or has been here or there as it
might be.
Speaker 1: Ooh, okay, with a success on this. And you're using
a device to scan through your space and time. I
think you're able to tell that right now, in this
specific instance, in this specific iteration, there is no danger
to you physically. However, at the same time, you know
there is something in here. This space and time is glitching,
It is falling apart. The fold is in danger of collapse.
A hyper loom is malfunctioning, maybe purposely being malfunctioned. And
there is another presence in here that wishes harm on
all of you, as well as all of NAVII.
Speaker 3: We don't have much time before that injured creature comes back.
We should move to a different place.
Speaker 6: I'd like to run directly at Wikiti, and then when
I get within touching distance, I immediately come to a
stop and I gotta go uh and my arms are
out as if I'm about.
Speaker 3: To hug him. I step forward. I give you the
biggest hug, and I whisper something in your ear that
they cannot hear. And I lean back just a little bit,
and I say, it has been far too long since
I've seen you. I've missed you terribly.
Speaker 6: We found you.
Speaker 3: We'll come back.
Speaker 9: It worked, of course, I've never doubted you.
Speaker 6: And I hold up my hand where I've moved the
compass device back to my hand after I've moved it
down to my wrist to swap my my weapon hands
out and I look at it and i'd like to
observe what it's doing. Now we are here with Waki, I.
Speaker 3: Put my forehead onto Far's forehead just in that moment,
I have to sort of reach up because you're still
much taller than I am, but I've not The growth
is mostly just better posture, so it's not really more
than an inch or two. But confidence will do that
to you.
Speaker 4: Just lean forward.
Speaker 6: I'd like to just bear hug him, oh, like like
a koala oh.
Speaker 8: And I.
Speaker 6: I feel like maybe I'm gonna accidentally overbalance you because
at her Yes, I'm growing into my limbs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no, it's fine, I'm just falling.
Speaker 7: Okay, we did we did it.
Speaker 1: We did we did it.
Speaker 6: We did it. And I'd like to reach a hand
out and like pat around. I'm trying. I'm trying to
find another hand kind of can I feel hand, just
feel anybody else's hand around it.
Speaker 3: I stay in the in the embrace.
Speaker 5: Lear in. We'll walk over slowly and take too far
ast hand.
Speaker 6: I immediately know that it's Lynn's and I have I
have very socially uncomfortably stroked this hand too much, and
I'd like to just pull her into the hug pile. Oh,
and once she's down, I'm going to put my hand
out again and meet around behind me.
Speaker 4: I think Amar is sat on the ground. There's the
layer of like condensed chronic energies dissipating, and he's just
massaging his joints. I think I think he's kind of
rubbing his knees, like, just give me a moment, I'll
be then a bit. Oh, I'm back, and Amara picked
himself up and join in the hug.
Speaker 6: Same deal, and pulling him in, pulling, pulling you in
the hug pile. If we can do that, we can
do anything.
Speaker 3: I I don't don't have the compass. I gave it
to me, but I got it.
Speaker 6: You gave it to me, Yes, you got it, and
I got it. And then I suddenly remembered it's been
in my pocket for over a year and I didn't
know what it was. I thought it was broken.
Speaker 3: No, it was fair far nothing about you is broken.
You are perfect as you are.
Speaker 6: I'd just like to bury my hat in the shoulder
of his jacket. I missed you.
Speaker 3: I missed you too.
Speaker 6: I didn't even know there anything, was there anything to miss.
Speaker 3: I did. I remembered everything. That's I always do. That's
the thing. I remember everything.
Speaker 4: I remember.
Speaker 3: All the times when I've missed you, even when you
didn't know it yet.
Speaker 5: I didn't.
Speaker 6: I didn't I didn't know it.
Speaker 5: I do now.
Speaker 6: I'm I'm sorry that I asked you to come back. No,
I don't think I knew what I was really asking
of you. And that was a lot to ask you
to do all of that and to come back selfishly,
you know, just for me and I just I didn't
realize that it was me, it was us. It wasn't me.
It was us that we had to make our way
back to you and not the other way around.
Speaker 3: Well, sometimes that's how it is. One of the side
effects of my chronic traveling is gaps in memory. You
have too many memories and they sort of glitch the fold.
It's glitching out. Some thing is in here. Everyone else
is in here as well. They're all here, but there's
something trapped in here, like in the lining. If you
can think of the fold as a dome or a
wall or something and there's this huge field, but in
the edges of it, two inches to your left, there
is something trapped here. I didn't know it at first.
My younger self doesn't know this yet, but there is
something here, something with thoughts, something malevolent, and it is
trying to take this thing down, but not in a
controlled way, not in a way that would help, but
only in a way that would hurt. Wants to be free,
and this thing should never become unstuck in time. If
it is unstuck in time, then it will be in
all times and places. And it is not. It shouldn't.
It shouldn't.
Speaker 6: So how can we? How can we? How can we
do that? I'm like trying to read everyone's face, looking
at Laryn, looking at mister Amara, to see if they
understand what this is, to see if I can read
how I'm supposed to react to this.
Speaker 3: But I thought that's what you would have figured out
when you got here. What have you all been doing then?
While I was trapped here? I imagine having tea at Amara's.
I missed the tea, Mastermorrow, but I just get a
little bow to him. No, no, I'm not mister Amara,
Master Amara, thank you for coming. I have missed you
as well very much.
Speaker 4: Let's see the staff trading has come in helpful a little.
Speaker 3: Yes, thank you. I spent well, I've been here a
long time, and I've spent a long time practicing what
you've trained me in. What you taught me, oh sixty
years ago, although I don't know what time it is
for you. For me, it was about sixty years ago.
The thing that's about right, Yes, thank you. I would
not have survived this place if you had not trained
me so well.
Speaker 4: Don't thank me just yet. We haven't got to not
to fail life yet, No, Learan, it's you, my best friend.
We have walked this space so much, so long.
Speaker 3: I have missed you.
Speaker 4: Hi.
Speaker 3: You were the older sister that I always wanted, and
I am so glad that we are back in each
other's company, although I'm also sorry you had to come
back for me. But it is you and I together
again in the fold, defending those who need defense and
finding some way to get you out and that other
me out.
Speaker 5: I will always come back for you, I will always
find you.
Speaker 3: I put my hand on Learn's heart. I love you
so very much. Learn, And knowing that, my dear friends,
we're on the other side made bearing these centuries, I
think I don't know worth it?
Speaker 4: Did you?
Speaker 3: Did you find a way to make to faugh the device?
Have you made it already in this possibility, or have
you not yet made it?
Speaker 5: Laren's gonna look that too far.
Speaker 6: I'm looking back and I want to reach out my
hand and hold it. But like I it's but my
expression is a bit vacant, like my kind of eyes
are inquisitive, and I don't I don't really understand what
why you're looking at me. I don't really like I
think you'd be able to pick that up. For all
the time that we've spent together.
Speaker 1: Oh, I want to be there.
Speaker 6: I want to be in the moment I'm holding your hand.
Speaker 5: I'm with you, Laren.
Speaker 3: Too far. You are going to save us all. I
look to Laren and I look to Amara. There's something
you don't remember. I remember though. Laran said something to
you once in Amara's home. I the younger me, I
guess doesn't remember either, but I do. It was about
how we make a choice. Learan said, the most inspiring
thing about the choices we make. There are times when
we don't know things, but once we do, we have
the responsibility to act, and we can act. And it
is only the act of one person holding the hands
of another person in concert that decides who we are.
And we both took those memories away from ourselves. But
now I want you to remember, because you have made
choices every step of the way, in every possibility I've
ever seen, to make everything better, to be a true friend,
be a hero, to make your own way. And you
are one of the greatest scientists and engineers that NAVII
has ever seen. And you will take the compass that
I gave you, and you will transform it in a
way that only you can. With your own unique way
of seeing the world that cannot be taught, your intuition
and your empathy and your brilliant mind, you will make
a device out of that compass.
Speaker 4: That will save us.
Speaker 3: I know it.
Speaker 1: Have you seen it?
Speaker 3: I've seen it in so many different ways. Sometimes it's
a globe, sometimes it's sometimes it's that range device that
has followed us through all the different possibilities, the storm device.
Sometimes it's the compass. I think it can be many
different things. I think you just have to decide what
you want it to be. You must focus your intent
and decide which of the many possibilities we all will inhabit.
Speaker 6: I think I already decided.
Speaker 3: Did you well tell me.
Speaker 6: You think it's better if I show you?
Speaker 3: Well, we should probably do it. Not right in this location,
we don't have much more time before the hound returns.
Speaker 6: You just see me close my eyes really tight and
grasp my hand around this device.
Speaker 5: And this is the look of a.
Speaker 6: Child concentrating really hard to try and make a dream real.
Speaker 3: By the dreamer. I just placed my hand on the
small of your back a little higher because again I'm
a little short, just as a form of comfort, so
that you know that I'm here, the one that you've known,
and I.
Speaker 6: I am trying my best to get this device to
tell us where to go.
Speaker 1: Okay, I would like a role, my role. There are
so many answers to this question you have posed.
Speaker 6: I tell you what I'm specifically looking for.
Speaker 3: I'm an assistance.
Speaker 6: I'm looking for the cipher, the number eighty nine blade,
yes that has repeatedly come back. I'm looking to I'd
like to ask you this device to guide us the version.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, okay, yes, absolutely absolutely, Okay. So we're going
to go ahead and make a.
Speaker 4: Role oh, yes, go ahead before you do, I'd like
to aid that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, I can see into multiple possibilities. I see
the future, all of them, all of the possible futures.
I would like to look into the future just a
few moments. That's easier that way. And when I do,
I would like to return with something that will help
help to fa by heart, something that will help her
with what she needs. I imagine it is a piece
of lightning that will aid you to find what you need.
It takes a bit out of me, but I hand
over a piece of lightning, don't ask, it is what
it is, and I hand it to too far. This
will help.
Speaker 6: And it's heavier than I expected.
Speaker 4: I wasn't.
Speaker 6: I wasn't expecting this piece of light to weigh something,
but it does, and it's cold.
Speaker 3: And it tastes like ozone.
Speaker 1: Do I eat.
Speaker 6: Eat it?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: We do have that habit of eating things we probably shouldn't,
but it has helped us so far mostly.
Speaker 4: Do I know your way you're looking for? Specifically in
this moment you make this vocal.
Speaker 6: Don't think I've said it. I haven't said it, but yeah,
I think you would know Wakiti. I think you would
know what I'm looking for. Yeah, I think as if
you've said it, then Omara wouldn't know.
Speaker 4: As you search for this. I kind of look down
at my side at the version of the storm Bringer
that I have that appeared again on those coasts, and
I think, I take I take too far as hand,
these very very callous hands. I kind of open up
one of your hands and then wrap your hand around
the handle of this this battle ax, this storm Bringer.
Just say, concentrateush your gut, and.
Speaker 1: I hold.
Speaker 6: The lightning and the storm Bringer the accent in one,
and I hold my compass in the other. And you
see that scene that face child trying to will a
dream into reality. The biggest concentration.
Speaker 3: There's no focus, focus your intent.
Speaker 6: There's no science in how I do this in my brain,
but somehow I understand that this is the logical thing
that I need to do to be able.
Speaker 1: To science to do it. Yeah, yeah, you know what
to do?
Speaker 4: What to do?
Speaker 1: All right, Let's make an intellectual believe you you are
being aided by two of your partys in this moment.
Yep fold related is difficulty for with two assets? Ah success,
Now you both came into aid, but Amara, I'd like
you to take the narrative a little bit and explain.
Speaker 4: I think as you reach for this version of the
storm bringing what version may or may not be in
the Fold, I think I think it's less of a
case if we find it. But you almost send this
stormbringer to the state or location space time in the
Fold that originally was from as you see it almost
dissipate into a mist. And you can, I think your compass,
maybe even maybe very specifically living can even see this
kind of trail of micronic energy leading us forward. But
I think us specifically, we see the compat to reacting
point us in a direction deeper into the fold, into
the center, as it seems to be leading us to
the almost ground zero of the fold, which is.
Speaker 1: A broken bridge. And do we see who do we see? Amara?
Speaker 4: You see a an orange skinned, blue haired, slash finned
Nagi I think by their side, frozen in a almost
battle stance, but maybe study beginning to move to get closer.
Someone almost seems younger but identical to them. You see
Commander Braize and leanne the tidal blades, and at this
at Commander Bras's side is a is the a version
of the storm Bringer. You see almost like materialized, this
mist materializing to the storm Bringer at their side, this
time looking more war and used than it was previously.
In a mar end too far as hands it Almos
seems like this one's seen recent battle, but that battle
has been frozen for the past twenty years. And I
think a mar almost freezes in place as they see these.
Speaker 9: Two mar It's okay, it's okay. Time is not passing
for them.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 6: And they're frozen, right They're not moving.
Speaker 1: Right now. They are frozen, yes, But I think you
would know, especially because it's your device. You know how
it works. And also I think you've been in the
fold long enough to understand that maybe there's another time
where another set of heroes come in here and they
are not frozen and they are able to talk to them.
That time isn't now. It hasn't happened yet, or it
happened before, but you weren't here. But for now, they
are frozen for you. And perhaps there's a hint of
a few names maybe that kind of float by your mind, Axel,
but you know that that's not now, and Commander Brace
is frozen.
Speaker 3: Mar.
Speaker 1: I'd like you to roll an intellectual for me, please
difficulty four. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I don't think anything can add to this. I think
it's just just anceteral.
Speaker 1: Okay, Hey, that is a failure to be clear. Her
mouth does not move. You lied to us. You knew,
you knew what was going to happen, and you sent
us in anyway, all the council did, right.
Speaker 4: I didn't. I suspect, but I didn't. I didn't think
they would do that, not to us, just to one.
Speaker 1: You knew that they wanted to trap someone in here.
You just didn't think they would sacrifice us, that they
would trap us. Well, what did you think was going
to happen? Did you really think we'd be able to
get out in time?
Speaker 4: I trusted them, and they told me we would have
time to move. If I had known, I wouldn't have
let I would.
Speaker 3: Have let you do this.
Speaker 1: I don't believe you. I don't believe you. None of
us did. That was all of our thoughts as this
went off, that you lied to us.
Speaker 3: Aran, that's not true.
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 6: Can we hear this?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think you can. It's a voice that sounds like
it is coming from all around you. Again, her mouth
doesn't move at all, if you would like, you may
roll in intellect role the three of you. But Amara
did fail.
Speaker 3: His I'm going to ask. I'm going to assume that
I have a hindrance on this.
Speaker 9: I think so.
Speaker 1: I think everyone except for Laren I think learn you
actually have an asset.
Speaker 3: Because I have an I cannot. I have an inability
to detect falsehoods. And if this is in a way false,
then I will have a harder time with it.
Speaker 1: Yep, that's absolutely true.
Speaker 3: What is their difficulty?
Speaker 6: Four?
Speaker 3: So for me five, I will spend a lot of
effort because I believe in Amara. I believe they're being unfair.
I will spend four effort because Amar is my brother.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Oh my god, oh my god.
Speaker 3: A twenty.
Speaker 1: I think I'm going to tell you something and then
I'm just gonna that's your launching pad for this next
improv scene. They have no idea this is coming, but
here we go. You rolled to twenty. It's a major effect.
I'm going to tell you that you recognize in an instant,
maybe because you've been here for a while and you
know how things go. Some of this there is truth
in a little bit of it, but it is twisted.
It is an illusion being that is trapped in this
space has the ability to do this, and is speaking
as if they are this commander, But they are not,
and you know that. But this being is also the
one that is after Learn and all of her kind.
She wants to collect them and consume them, and it
will break the fold down and let her out. And
I don't know how you knew this. I don't. Maybe
it's how you and Learn met.
Speaker 3: But I also saw what it did to Jacko's parents.
I know how this thing works. I know how this works. Unfortunately,
I've seen it twist things for a very long time.
Thoughts people, bodies. Learn was well, not Leiran Well, I
suppose also all of them.
Speaker 4: Amara, look at me, prison staring at the commander.
Speaker 3: Amara, look at me, Please?
Speaker 4: Did you didn't not? You?
Speaker 3: You didn't know? This is your guilt, your fear. It
is the darkest part of you, the thing that makes
you stand on the beach, unable to move or breathe.
It is what haunts you. And this being that sits
here and feeds off of people, slowly feeds off of
those dark spaces in ourselves, the thing that makes you
feel alone. If you are alone, you have no one
with you. Then it can corrupt you and taint you.
It creates all of those possibilities, the the darkest ones,
and it floods you with it. But this isn't true.
Speaker 1: You are not alone, Oh sweet, tell them the truth.
Speaker 3: I don't think you would like that if I did,
because it wouldn't be good for you either. You don't
frighten me.
Speaker 1: I should. I should frighten every single one of you Naverians.
I am coming for you. I will get out of here.
Speaker 3: I've seen it, You've seen a possibility.
Speaker 1: The landscape changes and it is now a broken, destroyed
version of Naveri. Statues toppled, buildings, destroyed.
Speaker 3: Larn. You are the one who told him. You have
to tell him now.
Speaker 2: He needs you.
Speaker 3: Amara needs your history as you were, that part of.
Speaker 4: You you fort to stop. That's what I want, That's
what we want to want to fight to stop this
from happening, mister Maara, Maara fletches. I think at hearing that.
Speaker 5: Is Amara standing right now? Or did you say crouching?
Speaker 4: He's standing, He's almost step taking a few steps back.
He's behind the group.
Speaker 5: Laren is going to walk over to him. You are enough.
You did not know. You could not have known.
Speaker 4: You warned me, you told me I and I didn't listen.
I trusted. I thought they wouldn't do something like this
to us.
Speaker 5: Mister Amara, you are never at fault for an open
heart and a trusting soul. Don't lose that part of yourself.
Speaker 4: I think, for the first time this whole interaction, he
puts his gaze away from Commander Braids or where Commander
Brads was before this space shifted, and looks to Lyarin,
and I think, even without him saying it, I think,
in this moment, you know he's not seeing Lyring, He's
seeing a liar. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry I
didn't listen to you. I'm so sorry I felt I
felt bored of you. I couldn't even be here to
suffer with you. I couldn't even do that, right.
Speaker 5: Mister Amara, it's the counsel that failed you and the
council that failed us. I refuse to let you take
the blame for something that is not your fault.
Speaker 6: She's right, you know, so there's a reason that's I
mean about you.
Speaker 5: What would they.
Speaker 6: Stand to gain?
Speaker 3: You are their shame? You remind them every day you
stand outside the council their failures and they projected onto you.
Speaker 5: But you.
Speaker 3: Did nothing wrong. Because people see their failures and you
doesn't mean that you are a failure.
Speaker 5: Laren's going to so fast you can hardly see her
dive in for a hug with arms wrapped tightly around
Amara on his left. Watch your left, old man.
Speaker 4: I think Amara collapses and just starts crying into they're
in the shoulder.
Speaker 5: I know I feel it too.
Speaker 6: I'd like to go and put my hand on the
back of his shell, like in the same way that
Wakiti did to me, to comfort me.
Speaker 3: To do that, and I do the same on the
other side, just mirroring too far, like we're a team.
Speaker 6: I'd like to take my my dictionary out, my encyclopedia
of all of the animals, and flick to one of
the pages that I've slotted into the back, and I'd
like to reach around and just put it in front
of Amara's face. And what you see, Amara, is a
picture of you. You I've drawn, and it's in the
same format as the b serie lists. It lists things
about you, it lists kind, it lists good cook it
lists face, knowledgeable, see it's even in my book.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think Mark can speak right now.
Speaker 3: I think who I am it wouldn't be who I
am if you hadn't taught me. When you first met me,
I was lost. I couldn't remember hardly anything. And you
said to me once, you said, are you sure you
want to be an engineer? Maybe you should be a
title blade And that me could never believe that I
could do really either one of those things because you
were not in the fold, because you are outside, I
could find you, and you helped me become a me
that I never thought I could be, somebody who didn't
just watch helplessly seeing but not being able to do anything,
but somebody who was inspired by you, had trained by you,
and mentored by you to be more than I could
have been before.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Mara. The crying, the tears keep flowing, but
I think the one was gasping sobs too slow, and
I think slowly he gets back up. I think it
takes a more for him to let go of Laren,
but I think he let's go.
Speaker 9: You all.
Speaker 4: I'm so honored to know all of you.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 4: It's okay.
Speaker 3: Golf and Hug, Big Golf and Hug just really pull
the golf and hug.
Speaker 4: He hugs you back. It's a tight squeeze, a thing
to shrink you probably don't expect from an atomate.
Speaker 6: I just want to squeeze Learn's hand. What should this happen?
Just learn? I know I'm here.
Speaker 3: You were the best dad I could have, way better
than my own, and you will help me grow up
to be somebody important. Thank you for for being the
dad that I chose. I'm proud of you. Thank you
I am No one's ever said that to me before.
So thank you.
Speaker 4: I give maccarti one more squeeze, and then I turned
to lerin can I say something selfish.
Speaker 5: Always?
Speaker 4: I haven't had a chance to really truly say this,
and I know it might not mean much to you,
but I think I just need to say it. If
you're in there at all, a lier, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 5: She is with me and she knows.
Speaker 4: Thank you. The fold is I was told not to
tell anyone, but mccardi's right, there's someone, specifically, someone trapped
in here that it's dangerous. The goal was to keep
them here to protect the rest of Naveri. I had
been told that would have time to leave before it activated,
but I was lied to that known I would never
have Commander Brace activated. I would, but she's dangerous the
person here. I don't know if we'll be able to
take them on ourselves.
Speaker 3: So we have to We can save the title blades,
can't we We can do that.
Speaker 4: If we can, I think we might have.
Speaker 3: A chance we do.
Speaker 6: I'd like to are the figures still frozen here or
is the landscape completely Have they gone with the landscape.
Speaker 1: I think that they went with the landscape, and then
I think the landscape left right when she realized she
didn't really kind of have power over this moment, I
think she let go, at least for the time being.
You don't really feel her here, and so it's back
to the bridge, and it's back to the frozen individuals.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'd like to walk slowly up to them with
my compass in my hand outstretched to try and take
this familiar object. Yep, I'd like to try and pick
it up.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think you do that. I think you approach gingerly.
And you know that if you turn the right dial,
if you flip it upside down, if you angle it
just right, you can grab it without hurting her, without
really kind of waking her up to the situation that
she is in. Somehow, you know, now is not the
time for her to move, but at some point she will. Now,
you just need to make sure that this device works.
Speaker 6: I'd like to take a piece of paper out of
one of my pockets, and i'd like to scrawl a
little note that says you are not alone, we will
be back, and I'd like to place it in the
hand where this object was, And then I'd like to
very gently step back holding this object, this thing that's
somehow extremely familiar to me, but I still don't entirely
really know what it is. But I've cut myself on
it before, not this one, but one like it, so
I'm careful. I don't want to slice myself. I don't
want to slice time. I'm just gonna gently take it
back in both hands and just lay it down at
everybody's feet, kind of very carefully, so everybody can see
what this is and just take a step back.
Speaker 3: I stand right by too far, as I always do.
Speaker 1: I think, as you are looking at this device, time
is frozen. We see our for dreamers and heroes here
looking pouring over this device. There is a voice that
comes out of the fold.
Speaker 2: Ball.
Speaker 5: All is that you?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 3: Is that you?
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