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lych 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 off
bits ink and it started forming on the horizon. It
cast an unusual stain on the pristine sky after rawn
storm season 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 Lanes.
Think you know what happened during the Great Battle, and
why wouldn't you? It's been drooled 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 fate potentially worse than death. The
council lied to me, to a tider blace. To all
of us, we are told what could happen to us.
The Council kept that from us. If they can lie
and keep seeks from the very heroes you risk their
lives for Neveria, for generations that have lies and secrets
to the hold over the rest of Naveri. It has.
It's been twenty 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 psych A barrier known as a fold is still standing,
has made a 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.
Speaker 3: Of the deep.
Speaker 4: As of late, more and more monsters have started to breakthrough,
sometimes welly, mutated, or possessing ability has never seen before.
There's even rumor that the Archeanists are considering resurrecting the
lost order of the title late. They need only a
new generational dreamers daring to be hearers. We're coming. Just
hold on tight.
Speaker 3: This is here, This is here in case I need it.
Speaker 1: Kah, we are in the fold and last we left off.
It was quite an emo moment with Amara and the
rest of their crew.
Speaker 4: Mora's standing as tall and straight as they they can.
They turn, they turn to, They tend to command a
braze and lea. He's frozen, students, friends, found family he
made almost twenty years ago, that lost because of his
trusting in the Council, his distrusting the real, least not
full support of his students earlier. And he looks to
the stormbringer that's materialized at Commander Brater's side. I I'd
entirely forgotten I had given her that. Then it showed
up again on the beaches of my home. Typical of
Braids to be reaching out even in the middle of
the fold.
Speaker 3: We're in danger.
Speaker 4: I think you all knew that to some degree, but
especially now that her eyes are on us. Where in danger?
Speaker 5: Learn just nods?
Speaker 3: Will title Master, what do you suggest we do? You've
always been a great leader.
Speaker 4: There's I think still a slight flinch as I hear
you call me tiredle master, a slight tightening of my
jaw when you call me a great leader. But I
turned to too far. This device you made, do you
think you can use it to unfreeze those two command
of brazen Leanne.
Speaker 6: Technically maybe it's possible, but I I don't know if
it's so much of a good idea. And I'm gonna
look at Werkity.
Speaker 3: Well, you see, all of these people, including some of
my dearest friends, are frozen and here, and the longer
they stay, the more she can twist them or the
fold itself can twist them.
Speaker 7: It is.
Speaker 3: Important that we can somehow get them out of here,
or as many as possible, before they become versions of
themselves that they know themselves can no longer recognize the
worst manifestation of all of their insecurities and doubt and
fear merged with the singularity that is the Fold. So
it is important that we find some way to bring
them out of the Fold.
Speaker 4: I'm as much as too, five said I am a scientists.
I don't know how I can do this. This is
beyond my knowledge your you're the engineer.
Speaker 3: There is one complication of my younger I guess we'll
use that term self did not know, but perhaps suspected.
The Fold is feeding off of all of those of
us who are here in order to stay stable, in
order to keep persisting, and without the fold, she will
be free. It is not ideal, but there is her here,
also trapped in the fold. If we take down the fold,
then she is also freed, and that would be a
great danger to all of Navii and whatever lies on
the other side of the fold as well.
Speaker 4: Trust me, I am very very aware of oh that
and her danger. I we need to free the tide
of Blade, your friends, anyone else has been trapped here.
But can that be done without freeing her again? I'm
here not a man of science.
Speaker 3: This well, this place is a place of both science
and also dreams. Learn you know this place better well,
you know the Fold better than any other being does,
and too far you are the most brilliant scientist in
all of Navii. There will be oh yes, there will
be songs made about you, or there already have been.
I believe very much that you too, if you put
your heads together, with your combined knowledge, will be able
to come up with a strategy to contain her in
the Fold, while also allowing us to bring our friends,
or as many as we can out of the fold
as well.
Speaker 6: My fear, my fear is that if if we bring
them out before we've do I say it dealts with her,
would they still be safe, would they be the same?
Would they be okay?
Speaker 3: If they stay here, they will not be okay. And
more importantly, I do not think that we can euphemistically
deal with her.
Speaker 1: She is.
Speaker 3: She has a level of power that I think it
would need a new generation of Title Blades to deal with.
Speaker 7: More.
Speaker 8: So we.
Speaker 5: Can't.
Speaker 6: We can't just take her down. I mean, you're also powerful.
Did you see what we did back there with the
I we can't.
Speaker 4: We sent over twenty incredibly talented and powerful title blades,
and that wasn't enough. What you saw me do, quite honestly,
is dwarfed by what the rest of the Tilabase could do.
I'm oh gets enough in my years. I can't incle
I do so much.
Speaker 6: Give yourself some credit, because if I was as old
as you were, I would be quite pleased actually that
I had the brain and the style and the flair
that you do. And I mean I don't personally think
that I will still be around if if I really
do live that long, But personally I just feel that
that's actually something to be very proud of. Mister Amaram.
Speaker 4: Thank you, You're welcome.
Speaker 8: H m hm.
Speaker 6: Learin. Do you know anything about this? Not mister Ramara.
I mean, I mean, I know that you know, mister Aramara.
That's not what I'm I'm just saying that, like, if
she like, do you do you know any Yeah?
Speaker 5: I don't know, oh enough to know how we could
defeat her, but I do know she poses a great
threat to me and those of my kind.
Speaker 1: To you.
Speaker 6: What do you mean your kind? Sorry?
Speaker 4: Is that that was this?
Speaker 6: Maybe? Maybe that's a sense to question, maybe, but I
was wondering that as well.
Speaker 5: You said yourself when we met Miss too Far, that
you'd never seen anyone like me.
Speaker 6: No, never, But there are there are.
Speaker 5: I am but one link in a chain of them,
of us, and she feeds off of us, she destroys us,
she will destroy me if given the chance. But I
do not think this should stop us. I will not
let this stop us.
Speaker 4: As Larn says this again, Larin, something inside of you
recognizes his thoughts. But I'm going to use devoted defender
and choose laren as my new word. And again no
words are exchange, but you see a straightening of a mara,
a heightening of senses. They'd keep watch, still listening to
this conversation, but keeping an eye out, specifically for anything
that seems to be coming for Lurin.
Speaker 6: I I'm going to open my book and take out
the leaf, the leaves that I have in my book
from where Larn touched them, and I took them and
put them in my book, and I'd like to just
put them in the top of her branches. This is
the equivalent of like tucking a flower behind somebody's ear.
I don't know what to say, but we're here, you know,
and I'm ready, right ready for ready for what? Don't
say it like that, ready for ready for what.
Speaker 9: To do?
Speaker 8: What?
Speaker 5: We must.
Speaker 3: Lear it this time, all of this time here in
the fold, I protected you and you protected me. Outside
of the fold, we have been in a circle where
here I protect you and there you protect me. I
will not stop protecting you here.
Speaker 10: I will not stop protecting you there, little one, What
does the ground look like?
Speaker 4: Are we standing on stand?
Speaker 5: What is it.
Speaker 4: Water? What does it look like here?
Speaker 1: Hmm, that's a very good question. So I think we
had we had a moment where when we first enter
the fold, there is nothing but like the white, and
it looks like you have storm clouds that have stopped
right above you. As you are kind of moving forward
and unfreezing little bits at a time, the rain will
continue you in the storm. It's like just active and
where in the parts where you are. And then the
landscape changed to a broken version of NAVII and then
changed back to this bridge where previous or future but
to us previous title blades are frozen in time on
this bridge, So I think for now, because she has receded,
I think it looks like the bridge. I think that's
what's around you right now.
Speaker 4: I will crouch down around where there's some rubble, some
small stones and rocks on the ground. Again, I'm not
much of a scientist, but I suppose I can imagine,
I can dream. So excuse me, the sounds silly, But
can we move the fold? And as he says this,
he'll I think pull out, Like take a large pebble
set in on the in the ground, on the ground,
and kind of move the other pebbles around it to
almost cluster around it. If we took my chronic energy
from other parts of the fold and concentrated it around
her specifically, would that slow her down or.
Speaker 6: Contain her.
Speaker 4: At least for a while. Maybe again this is just
a dream. It would double as weakening the fold, hopefully
letting everyone else escape more easily, while keeping her in
place until we can get more people to deal with her.
Speaker 6: We had this conversation before.
Speaker 4: Maybe I'm getting up there in my years, I tend
to repeat stories.
Speaker 5: It would bias time and time is all we need
and all we have.
Speaker 4: Would that be possible? Too far?
Speaker 6: I'm not sure, but I I think we should try.
We if we can't take her down, if we we
can't help her, and we can't go through the entire
fold and take every single personal weight, we can't. I
think what I built works, what we built, I think,
I think that it works, but I I don't know
how many times it will work. It's just a lot.
It's a lot of power, and it needs a lot
of power.
Speaker 10: And I.
Speaker 6: I feel that if we if we use the power
in small sections, maybe it will drain the device. And
I like, I can, I can go back, I can
make a new one. I could, I could maybe come back,
But I feel that it's yeah, I don't want to.
I don't know what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 11: Here.
Speaker 6: Yes, I think I'm.
Speaker 3: Saying, yes, yes, you are. We are thinking of placing.
I like to think of the fold as a large
dome that is very thick, and inside of it we
wander and roam, and well. Inside of the thickness of
the dome is the fold. The inside of the fold
is Naviri. Outside of the fold, we don't know, but
she roams the length of the thickness of the fold.
If we could create some sort of dam or block
or wall. We could contain her to one section of
the fold, and then if we let people out, she
cannot also slip out. But the larger question remains still,
how do we keep the section of fold that she
is in powered when the title blades leave it?
Speaker 6: I don't think I know a power source that large.
I can fabricate. I can manipulate energy in some ways
that allows us to be able to create a short
burst of power, and that's the device that I've designed
is able to do that. But I can I don't
know for how long, and certainly not for eternity or
into yesterday or tomorrow, or certainly not forever.
Speaker 12: Do you well, wait, Laren, perhaps she could Laryen Laren, No, Laren,
you have said that.
Speaker 3: You know her power. Would it be possible to get
her to power the section of the fold that she
is trapped in? She is a force of great power?
Speaker 5: Is it possible?
Speaker 7: M hm?
Speaker 4: Yes, it's an idea. What haven't we heard before?
Speaker 6: Laren?
Speaker 1: Can you.
Speaker 6: H can you talk with the.
Speaker 5: Hold?
Speaker 6: Hold on hold second? I'm sure I have one in
this somewhere. I just don't know where it used to
be so organized, I don't know wherey sorry, I know
time is off the essence I just write, so if
you if we're here and if this one is you,
can you m hm, can you speak to the others
because could be tweet or she's trap oh the.
Speaker 4: Sorry, sorry, now you're you're starting. Could you do you
think they're still alive in her? If they are, do
you think you speak to them? Convince them? If she's
powered by them, I'm sure they could help keep her
in place, make her susceptible to being a battery for
whatever device too far creates.
Speaker 5: I've never tried, so I don't know, but we won't
know unless we try.
Speaker 6: Could you imagine it like a dream, Like like a
dream that you dreamed before and when you woke up
you could kind of remember the parts of it. But
sometimes I feel like I've had these these dreams, and
then when I think about them and I try something,
it's it's just a little easier, and I can't explain it.
I mean, I don't. Oh goodness, I guess it's not
really very science. I don't have a method. I just
wonder if even Oh I'm sorry, I'm sorry, that was
that was a silly idea. I mean, I don't have
a method. I can't I can't replicate the effect, So
I just just ignore that.
Speaker 5: I I'm different. I am here with you because Laren
gave me this. Laren gave me this outside, this inside.
Hiliar gave up much to let that happen, and she's
the reason why I'm here with you communicating the way
that I can. And I do believe it is always
worth trying.
Speaker 7: But I know that.
Speaker 5: In my state, before Leare gave herself to me, I
couldn't speak to you the way I can now. It
doesn't mean it wouldn't work, but I don't know for sure.
Speaker 4: I think that's all we have. I don't think we're
ever going to come up with something that's just guarantee.
Speaker 1: Will these scientists make a role for me. It's an
intellectual to see if you recognize what you're looking at
in leer In now, I'll make the role as yes,
absolutely a scientist.
Speaker 4: It's called me a scientist.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you are a scientist. Things you've started.
Speaker 4: Things, would my chonic manipulation.
Speaker 1: Be a thic And that's absolutely absolutely am use that
as an asset for sure, And if anybody has anything else,
Oh one second, your volume's really low. Now, troupe, I'm
so sorry, couldn't here.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, okay, what difficulty is this role?
Speaker 1: I'm going to say normally, I think we anything with
the fold we were doing for but we're going to
drop this because she's revealed some things to you. So
we're going to say it's a three. So if you've
got assets or anything effort that you want to use,
you can. You can use it to ease the difficulty
if you want to.
Speaker 6: So yeah, and my miconic training would be an asset.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's correct.
Speaker 4: She is still very quiet.
Speaker 3: I would like to aid so that she may have
an ease on that.
Speaker 1: Dipic okay, perfect, all right, so we'll go ahead and
ease that too far because he's given you.
Speaker 6: A h not already rolled. But does that mean it's
we adjust that role or roll anyone?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 1: I could potentially yep, you succeed. We could allow troops
to go to Amara if he still wants to ease.
Speaker 4: I succeeded either way, okay.
Speaker 1: Perfect, then keep your effort true or it was an ability? Okay,
so you I think both of you it's okay, it's
it's so low. True, I have bumped you as high
as I can bump you. But yeah, okay, sorry, we know,
we know chat we're working on it right now. So
I think what I'll say is I will give you
the kind of like the mechanics version, and then you
guys can role play it out. But essentially, at some
point both of you look at Lerian and I don't
know how you're able to recognize this, but essentially you
recognize mi chronic energy, but also it's condensed. It's it's
what the title blades use to power their ciphers. This
energy that you've been using is standing here with a
voice for the first time, and I don't think I
don't think anyone thought anything of it until now.
Speaker 6: I'd like to walk slowly up to Laran and take
both her hands in both of my hands and give
them a squeeze. I'd like to put my eye hand
on her face thank you, or.
Speaker 5: That thank you, like.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna put my hands back in my pocket and
just take a seat somewhere wherever looks like I can
maybe rest for a small moment on the side of
the bridge or on a piece of something.
Speaker 4: Looking at leerin hearing, he always assumed it, but it
was never said by Hearing that Elier gave her body
to help protect this being. It's a link of many
links in a chain. A slight smile on Amara's face,
because of course Ali would do something like that, and
then he focuses if if she's feeding off of your kind,
you seem like condensed chronic energy, something more, something that
we see in artifacts and ciphers in the area. We
could use the storm Bringer maybe to power whatever device
we plan on using to keep her in place. It's
clearly powerful enough to leave the Fold, to have followed
us several times through time and space. Maybe it could
be enough to keep her in place in time and space.
I don't think it's a be a permanent solution. I
don't think it is word on until we can get
enough people to truly deal with her. But we need
to stop her, even just for a moment.
Speaker 5: I think it's possible.
Speaker 4: I'll walk over to to command of brass frozen body,
and I'll reach for her hip where the storm Brainer
is this ax powered and refused by Micrantic, and he
just followed us out of the Fold and through space
and time, and I'll take that hold it. Just feel
the weight of it in my hands before walking over
to you too far and handle first, because of the
las she handled this, she cut herself, would hold it
out to her. Do you think you can do anything
with this?
Speaker 6: I think so. I'd like to reach out and take
it and look our crew. I I know that I
can't do this on my own. I don't think I.
I don't think I. I don't think I did try
to do this on my own. I think learned?
Speaker 7: Do you?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 6: My head?
Speaker 8: Is is it?
Speaker 6: This place?
Speaker 4: Is this?
Speaker 6: What this place does to your your mind? This pressure, this.
Speaker 1: Fog?
Speaker 6: This I can barely think straight.
Speaker 3: I all you need to do is concentrate. You can
do this because you're not alone. We are all here together.
Speaker 6: What is it missed?
Speaker 5: Too far?
Speaker 8: Well, it's just that I.
Speaker 6: I feel like I've had so many dreams of this.
I I've tried this many times, I think, But I don't.
I don't know if that's real. I don't. I know
everything that's written in my notebooks, and this is not
in my notebooks. But now I look at this later,
and I look at the like the case, and I
like gesture to Wakity to get his help. I think
you helped. I think you taught I think you taught me.
Speaker 7: I think you.
Speaker 5: I think you.
Speaker 6: But maybe it was just another dream i'd hadn't.
Speaker 3: No, I cannot bring out my case because you have
it at the moment. Of course, nothing dreams, I find
are just all of the possibilities that have unfolded well
for those who travel through time and space.
Speaker 5: I'm going to hold out my hand too far.
Speaker 6: I take it immediately.
Speaker 5: Laren then holds out her other hand and gestures at
the compass box.
Speaker 6: I put it in her hand with the compass inside it.
Speaker 5: Laren rotates it slightly, and you can see she lets
go of Tufa's other hand and runs her fingers across
the wood that the box is made out of, and
you see her tracing the spiral of a knot in
the wood and reaching down, looking at herself and tracing
the same knot, and she hands it back.
Speaker 6: Do you recognize it? I think you helped me make it.
I think we've met before, yes, or maybe we just
haven't met yet.
Speaker 8: I just.
Speaker 6: Thank you for helping me us.
Speaker 5: Thank you too far.
Speaker 6: Can you can you teach me how to do it again?
I just I can't, I can't remember. I I feel
like it's I can't remember. I'm sorry. I I'm not
really saying sentences.
Speaker 1: I know, I just I can't.
Speaker 6: I can't remember the I can't remember the lesson, and
I who must have written it down? But maybe I
didn't write it down yet. Well maybe I did write
it down, but I've I've forgotten, or maybe I just
did it in a dream. But I just could you
teach me again.
Speaker 5: I will teach you as many times as you need.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 5: I knew it when I.
Speaker 6: When I saw you just now and I saw that sparkle,
I guess, and then I thought, I've seen this before,
and I don't know. It's like when people say, oh,
it's got your name written all over it. It's like that,
except I don't know your your stampour. I guess. I
guess your energy, you know, like you just you made
it work, and I was stuck before you.
Speaker 8: I was.
Speaker 6: I remember that. I remember the feeling of giving up.
I was giving up and then and then you helped.
Speaker 5: I'll never thank you. It's too far.
Speaker 6: Take her face and my hand, skip and give her
the same thank you. I think you'll probably see a
little bit of tears well enough, and I'll never give
up on you, any of you. I'm very proud to
know you all. Not proud because I did something to
like be responsible for it all, but just proud.
Speaker 4: It's like, explain yourself. I'm very proud of all of
you too.
Speaker 3: This will be a moment that you will look back
on and look forward to the entire sphere that is
a life in all places and times. It will be
a moment before the storm that has been and will be.
And there will be loss, but remember that all losses
are possibilities, and there is a dream where nothing has
been lost, and we may find our way to that
dream in one of the possibilities. But we must always try, always,
because only by trying do we walk through time to
find the one that we need most. And we have
always been here for each other, even before we knew
each other, and we always will be here for each
other in all the selves that we are. We must
save our friends and the title blades. It is a
possibility that we must allow to be. There will be
a cost. The cost has already been paid, has not
yet been paid. We are paying it now, but it
is worth it.
Speaker 5: We are the.
Speaker 6: Adventures in the books, and the adventurers always win.
Speaker 8: So.
Speaker 6: We will do.
Speaker 5: Right. We will.
Speaker 6: We're just going to be adventurers that win, just like
in all of the books.
Speaker 5: That and.
Speaker 6: A happy ending.
Speaker 3: There are many endings.
Speaker 4: Sorry, no, what do you need?
Speaker 3: You do not apologize? Yes, I think we must find
the right location where too far will be inspired to
dream where Learan Learan will know.
Speaker 6: I don't know how to know where that is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why Learan is here with us. Learan knows
where we should go. Okay, this place is Larn's place,
this is.
Speaker 6: Learn I'm gonna take Laren by the hand.
Speaker 5: Lead the way, h please, and Laren's going to hold
her hand out to Amara. Yeah, we'll take it, and
she'll look between him and Wakati.
Speaker 4: Don't have a free hand. I see raises his walking thing.
Speaker 3: No, it's all right, and Wakati raises his his staff
as well. M I will, and he stands right behind
Laran and puts his uh his shoulder on Amara's shoulder
so that Amara's free hand can still be holding his
staff at his walking stick.
Speaker 6: I'm I'm gonna offer my elbow to Winki tee because
I'm holding storm Bringer in this un and elbow to
elbow careful of the blade, okay, careful of.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I will be. The blade is quite sharp.
Speaker 4: I know you felt. Did you cut yourself again?
Speaker 1: Not this time?
Speaker 4: Just I'll point to their shoulder. They're exactly where I've
been cut before. A cut spent opened up again, I said,
be careful with it.
Speaker 6: Okay, Sorry, I just a lot of clumsy sometimes didn't
mean to.
Speaker 4: It's fine, nothing, nothing serious, too.
Speaker 3: Far, Yes, I should tell you. It's not that you
are clumsy. Everyone my friends always noted that I was
clumsy as well, that I would knock over things, and
endearingly they annoyed them. But I have learned I am
not exactly clumsy. It is just that if you can
loop yourself through time, you are always more than one body,
and it's always a little bit tricky to tell which
one is which and where it is in space. And
so sometimes it's not because you are clumsy. It is
because you are infinite that you knock something over and
too far. You are infinite, You are not clumsy.
Speaker 6: Well, I suppose it is harder to keep track of
more limbs. Yes, oh, sorry, sorry, Laren, I didn't mean.
I didn't mean that I wasn't trying to say that
you were clumsy because you have lots of link branches.
Speaker 5: I just I was just trying to say, and Larn's
just going to start walking.
Speaker 1: I have a long question me, Larn. Yes, I imagine
being in this space feels very strange. Have the thoughts
and memories or anything surfaced for you here that weren't
there before? Or do you imagine that you've always just
kind of this is technically this is your past but
also your future and also it's happening right now. But
do you think that you've always known that this is
what was coming?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 7: Have you all?
Speaker 1: I don't know how to explain this because it's time travel.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I think it's there's no like flooding of
memories coming back. There is the feeling of that happening, yeah,
but it is echoes of what is currently happening to them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, it.
Speaker 5: It feels a little bit. It feels like a combination
of if you've ever had surgery where they have to
put you under anesthetic, that feeling where they tell you
to count backwards and the next thing you know you
are waking up in a different room, in a different space.
But it's instantaneous for you. That's what it feels like
to her to be here.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 1: Wow, Okay. I also wonder if you wouldn't mind taking
us back in time to the moment that you became
what you are. I imagine there was an understanding or
some form of conversation or a moment of acceptance with
a Leer. And it's not clear, and I don't want
you to answer this. You don't have to answer this part.
But it's not clear as to whether or not this
energy that has merged and mutated with a Leer truly
has always had these feelings or thoughts or this voice,
or if it are the If it's the thoughts and
the feelings of a Leir kind of mutated and morphed
with this energy and blended together. It's really unclear if
you are the only one of your kind to ever exist.
And I'm wondering if you wouldn't mind taking us back
to that scene, however brief that you want it to
be of just what that acceptance was like.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think.
Speaker 5: For a lear.
Speaker 1: It was quiet.
Speaker 5: It feels.
Speaker 3: A little.
Speaker 5: Like how it feels to fall in love when it
starts very slowly until it's there all at once, and
you almost don't realize it's happening until it's too late
to turn back. And so for her, it was a
silent moment, not of making a conscious choice to move
forward this way, but a silent moment of realizing she
already had and feeling that connection and giving herself over
to something greater than herself was the most she ever
felt like herself.
Speaker 1: Thank you, That is exactly what I was wondering.
Speaker 11: Please continue, as we're being led through the fold by laren.
Speaker 4: A Marvel, I think, just for a moment, break the
chain of arms and handholding, still keeping them in their sight,
but we'll hang back a little bit to be at
the end the back of this bubble that's been created
by too far as creation. And they'll take their cane
and very much like almost as if they're painting a
scene in the air, they'll run the head of the
cane across the very edge of this bubble where the
chronic energy is recondensing again to become this impenetrable fold
that we're traversing through. And you'll see this white was
electric energy seep into the head of this cane, as
if absorbing, containing, borrowing some energy for a moment, the
almost like crystal carving of a skull of a line
skull glows slightly before fading as they prepare for what
is to come, and they'll rejoin the rest.
Speaker 3: You don't have to.
Speaker 1: Answer me, but did we just learn that your walking
stick is a is an artifact or a cipher? Sorry?
So as you are walking along the fold, I can't help,
but y'all are too good. We do hear Toofa's device
doing that little beep beep beep beep beep beepep and
then spinning as it calibrates kind of where you are.
And then once the I don't know if there's a
light or a sound or something on the device will
tell her okay, it's safe to move forward because this
space has been recalibrated, and you continue forward where learan?
Do you take them in the fold? Oh? Sorry, I
didn't know you were speaking.
Speaker 3: Could could we have ten minutes please? I have to rest.
I'm afraid that this will be something quite dangerous when
we get there. When we when she notices what we're doing,
would that be all right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: You can go ahead, and I'm going to say, as
you're walking, yeah, take a recovery as you're walking through
started the new episode, go ahead and be recovered.
Speaker 3: You're good, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 4: I'll do that as well.
Speaker 5: Why not?
Speaker 1: Yeah, everyone, because you know that.
Speaker 3: Please do that, Like we should maybe maybe take a
take a recovery role and we get an extra one
from Laran.
Speaker 1: I believe that's right.
Speaker 4: That's yes, extra one, I guess right to Max, that's.
Speaker 1: Perfect, perfect, Everyone should definitely do that.
Speaker 4: Why why do you say that so fairly that we
need to rest?
Speaker 1: Uh huh, just a nice show through the fold, no
problems whatsoever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just going to take that uh that one
action recovery right now because just you know, just in
a little that's all. Thank you.
Speaker 1: For that moment to rest, of course, so lear in
the place where you take them. Do you have an
idea of maybe what that looks like to you? I
have an idea, but I am curious if you.
Speaker 5: I know what it feels like. Yes, I would love
to hear what it looks like.
Speaker 1: Okay, you go first, then, because I'll describe based on
your feeling.
Speaker 5: You know, the feeling when you get into a swimming
pool and you start moving forward and there's resistance of
the water against you, and you almost you can feel
water filling in the space where you used to be
standing as you move forward. Yeah, that's exactly what it
feels like to move through the fold right now? Okay,
And Lyarin is going completely off of that feeling when
it starts to thin out and there's less resistance as
they're walking, that's how she knows that they're coming to
the right spot. And when it finally feels like she's
not pushing through something but stepping into an empty space
for them, that's when she stopped.
Speaker 1: That's how she knows it's the right spot.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 1: Okay. So then as we are traversing the fold, we're
going to be going through I think what looks to
everyone except for Learan like you're repeating yourself your water
looking through? Wait, is that not the same bridge that
you just passed? And that's going to happen a few times.
But maybe there's something small different about that bridge, Maybe
it's not quite broken. And you have a moment where
you look and you think to yourself, I think I
recognize this space, but oh it's not the same space.
The wind, if we can call it that, the resistance,
you'll feel that sharp on your body and your face,
and you'll hear it too. And then she leads you
to a space where you can see the very tall
statue that was erected to commemorate the Title Blades and
their great sacrifice. And as you look at it, the
world around you will shift, reality will change. You'll see
various versions of this statue that seem to happen all
at once. It's brand new, it's old, worn, weather torn,
it's been taken care of, old still, it's got a sheen,
it's missing an arm, and finally it is broken in half,
laying in the ground. That is when you need to
roll initiative.
Speaker 3: Because she is back, I see m or so we think, well, then, well,
she's never really left, has she.
Speaker 1: Just also taking a short resp.
Speaker 3: Yes? What is our difficulty for her? I assume it's one,
because she's just very relaxing.
Speaker 1: Five Technically.
Speaker 3: She is challenging. I was wrong. I thought she would
just be hanging out with flowers.
Speaker 1: Now technically you're not rolling for her. You're rolling no, no,
something that she is bringing to you, because I think
a rolling for her would be much more difficult.
Speaker 3: But for now, I'm also also I'm not that fast
here now I should have it. Oh, this is Learn's home.
Of course, Learn will have a roll a natural twenty
with a major effect. This all comes down to this,
As they say, go.
Speaker 5: Leader, it w only not twenty in the entire game.
Speaker 1: It's perfect timing, perfect, perfect timing. I think you know
what's coming because you've been here before and you've done
this probably couple times over. How do you think you
know that these strangler wasps, which are like floating jellyfish
that have some electrical stunning capabilities, how do you know
that they're about to descend down onto you?
Speaker 5: Now I can feel the electrical current like that that
crackle that you get from it, and I can feel
Laren doesn't have hair in the traditional sense. It's not
that the hair on the back of her neck sticks up,
but you see, like all of the little small flowers
that she has growing out of her just stand up
as a through them.
Speaker 1: The leaves as well, might turn like they do in
your life for the rain. Oh yeah, that's very cool.
Oh I love that, Love that so much. Okay, who
else is after Learan? We had another success, didn't we?
Speaker 13: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yes, our team, the Dream Team, the Dream Team.
Speaker 1: All right, you get to go first, My dear learn
we have five strangler wasps that descend from the sky
from above you. They float there with the electricity pulsing
around them. I don't know if any of you have
fought them before, but too far. Of course, you may
do your role to get more information if you'd like,
on your turn, But otherwise, how do you open this fight?
Because you are first and there's a major effect, so
you can take control of the narrative a little bit
to influence the fight the first round of the fight.
Speaker 6: Oh okay, I.
Speaker 5: Kind of want to try a new ability of les. Okay,
so this is psychosis. Your words inflict a destructive psychosis
in the mind of a target within long range that
can understand you dealing six points of intellect damage. It
could be dispersed if they use an action doing nothing
but calming and centering themselves. Do they My question is
do they look beefy enough that I would get the
feeling that I need to be doing this much damage
to them? Because if not, if they look like I
don't need to, I would like to try something else.
Speaker 4: Six points of damage, six points of damage is.
Speaker 1: Significant for them. Okay, yeah, it's yeah. I will say that, yeah,
I think you feel like that's a good idea. You
could definitely do it. I also love how improv tabletop
when I prepare something and then a player chooses a
thing that it feels like it was scripted. And because
I don't know how you would have known that these
creatures literally are moving based on mind control, So you're
using one of the only abilities that they're kind of
weak against right now. And I have no idea how
you knew that or new to choose it, but it's perfect.
It's like it was. It's like, yeah, mass bit, it's
like I rolled in that twenty Yeah, and I guess yeah.
So I think you're using your new ability. So what
I'm going to say as well, is that your major
effect with that twenty is, you know, learn knows that
they're being controlled by what is known as the Strangler Queen.
So there is another thing out out there that is
controlling these things, and it's not who you're worried about,
you know, it's not who you're worried about. So I
think you sever that connection for a round, and essentially
they're not going to have a turn for a whole round.
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, should.
Speaker 1: Buy you some time. Yep, okay, yeah, and you just
get to do the six damage correct or is there
an extra role? Okay, all right, it.
Speaker 4: Would be an intellect role. When you're dealing damage, it'll
be an intellect role.
Speaker 1: Perfect. I wasn't sure if it was like her other ability,
which just is a flat damage amount.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it says dealing six points of intellect damage, then
it's good.
Speaker 1: Yep, okay.
Speaker 4: No ability tells you to roll is whenever you inflict
something on someone, it's a role that's just like the
blanket ah exypetically say it, but yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, And does your ability? Does your ability say if
you can do more that, if you can attack more
than one creature with this at once? It says a
target A target? Okay, so I'm going to say that
that We'll pick one random little jelly for you to
do that too. But the target that you were affecting
with your major effect is the queen because it essentially
would mean that they all don't have a turn this round.
Okay okay, and so next, oh yes, go ahead.
Speaker 5: Did I need to roll? Was that where we landed?
Did I need to roll for anything? Additional?
Speaker 3: It would be is it.
Speaker 4: If you if you just she's had the nation to
Cana's her own. That's honestly up to the GM.
Speaker 1: I think that that makes sense to me because that's
why she you know, she that was her first turn, right, yeah,
an initiative. Yeah, she should be able to go first
and use that. So yeah, I don't mind that. I
think that that makes sense to me. Okay, who is
next up in the lineup? It is oo far? What
do you do, my dear?
Speaker 6: I would like to know if I know anything about
these creatures?
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, let's go ahead, and would they be in
my book? That's what we're gonna find out. The role
will determine if they are, are they not?
Speaker 7: You do have that?
Speaker 4: I believe I would like to give an asset as
well as when I was showing you the notes I
taken of creatures that I come across, you might have
seen this in there.
Speaker 6: That's fun. Okay, and this is an intellect or all right?
Speaker 1: Yes, that is correct, and you have two assets difficulties
three It can be pretty common. That is a success
for those listening. All right, So do you think you
have this in your book? Like do you think you
have to pull your book out and flip through or
do you think you just remember.
Speaker 6: I I think I remember, yeah. I think I think
I remember yeah. I think this is something that I'm
particularly fascinated by because I'm not actually allowed.
Speaker 1: To see these.
Speaker 6: There's no there's there's nothing that has been kind of
really taught about this. It's almost like for I feel
like these are specifically kind of like maybe semi forbid
and knowledge and anything like that that I would never
be able to see or that I would be barred
from learning anything about is like poor, like yeah, like
tell me all about it, like I'm not allowed to,
but give me some more information. So I feel like
this is something that I would have remembered. I don't
think that there is much that's in my book about it,
but I think the information that's there is something that
I would remember. And I also think that's where Amara's
book came in, because if I saw that, I would
have been drawn straight to it. And maybe I've absorbed
little bit more information from just seeing that for like
a real short moment there.
Speaker 1: They also like the idea that when you were younger,
and the reason that they called to you in the
first place when you looked at them was because you
knew somewhere in you that you'd already encountered them before
at some point, or have yet to or are currently Yeah,
as is time travel. Okay. I love that there's.
Speaker 6: Something that just barkled about them, something that just glutted that.
Speaker 1: So I am going to sneakily give this to you
in a DM so that you can reveal it to
the rest of them. Oh my, oh, I just think
that's fun. All right? Who is next? After too far?
Speaker 3: I believe they are.
Speaker 1: They don't have it, You are correct, but they are
stunned for this turn. So we'll go another round then,
but you two get to go first.
Speaker 3: Cattie, I yes, I think. What I will do is concentrate,
and I will say we must. She will be alerted
and she will come. Once she arrives, we will need
to contain her. Make the wall block off so that
she cannot escape. When we make the walls in the fold,
be prepared, Prepare yourselves, everyone, and I will concentrate. Will
concentrate so that I can split my mind into more
than one self. This is not anything that I have
to roll for, but I must pay for it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I concentrate, and what you tried to do outside
of the fall. Then then found you couldn't because it
was already being done, right, you were already split into two.
Speaker 3: Well, there are so many ways that one can splinter.
This is just the first step where one begins to
see with more than one set of eyes. And I do.
Then that done. I'm going to then help Wakati. No,
that's me. I get confused. I'm so sorry. Now two
minds here. I'm going to help Amara. I will take
the helping task. Whatever Amara will do next, I will
ease him in what he aims to do. If that
is all right? What is Amara doing?
Speaker 4: You watch, and I think especially Lyrin sees this again,
the familiar concentration of micronic energy. You start to circle
and and in case, Amara focusing in on the joints again,
this as fast as the sobriety seems. He is over
one hundred years old. The age is catching up. But
some chronic energy always helps lubricate the joints. And he
charges towards the very center of these five strangler fish jellyfish.
And I'm going to use I'm very glad you said
that's five. I'm going to use spin atech. He standstill
make a text against up to five fos in one action,
as in less than a second, you see him strike
all this five of these jelly jellyfish. Anything that is
this eases a light weapon, is it's a medium, it's
a medium that I cannot aid you with this, I'm
afraid that's absolutely fine. As I strike these, each of
these are eased by the same amount.
Speaker 11: So if.
Speaker 4: Okay, what's the difficulty, I guess.
Speaker 1: Five, No, five is for the queen, their difficulties for
We're gonna go with mutated four.
Speaker 4: Just for ease. I'm going to dig because I'm going
to strike at these or five of these one time,
and it will take time to go through the menu
for each one. I've got an asset. I'm trained in
medium weapons. I've got an asset with my cane specifically,
and I'm protect uh huh no you first.
Speaker 1: You first, you're protecting.
Speaker 4: I'm protecting a Liryan who's my ward. So which gives
me another yes.
Speaker 1: Wow, trouble there for a second when you said protecting
my ward. I would also like to give you one
that you can use for the rest of the combat
going forward, and that is you're not just protecting her.
You're here protecting everyone that I mean, this is it.
This is what you've been thinking about for the last
fifty years, and your students are in here, and so
it's now or never, you know, this is it.
Speaker 4: So I've reduced it down to zero.
Speaker 1: So does that mean to do it?
Speaker 4: I suse I could go, I could get a cit
fail okay, okay, okay, So I'll just roll five D twenties.
There we go, I go it fail and one of
them one okay, I will as that one misses, I'm
going you see very suddenly and after image appear behind
and I'm going to strike it again with time combatant
and re roll that attack.
Speaker 1: Okay. And these these roles here are each of the
damage that you do to each one of them, right.
Speaker 4: No, No, this is just to make sure I don't
quit fail.
Speaker 1: Okay, hitting them okay.
Speaker 4: Course, that's that's a success. So are these bigger than
are these large creatures? So that would be seven damage
to all five of them.
Speaker 1: One of them will fall and it's the one that
learn attacked. So you are now down to four.
Speaker 4: Oh that's perfect. As one goes down, I have the
ability uh successive attack. If you take down a fur,
you can immediately make another attack that same turn. So
I'm going to measly swing and slam down again on
another one of these within my vicinity.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad I don't look at your sheets. I
didn't for first season either, because I was like, I
want to be surprised, and I obviously fully trust y'all.
And it's like, I'm so glad because it allows for
delightful surprises like this. Okay, which one are you striking?
Speaker 4: I don't think it matters. They all take an equal
amount of damage because I did seven to all of them,
So I'll just pick the closest one to me.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 1: I actually think you don't pick the closest one to you.
I think you go ahead and pick the closest one
to any of yeah the others.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, I'll pay the close to one to
any of the others.
Speaker 1: Okay, And are you striking it with a cane or
is it like something like you've struck all of these
with your cane and now you're pulling something else out
and strike again, or I think.
Speaker 4: It's I actually think that as I slam slammed down
on this one, jelly Fish, I used the cane to
almost give myself momentum and kick one of the other. Yeah,
because actually I have need no weapons, so like my
body does as much damage as a cane.
Speaker 1: Anyway, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I just love that. We have
seen you fight before, but now it's like you know,
old man off the bench. You know you're going to
be doing stuff that we haven't seen before, and I
love that.
Speaker 4: Okays, until seven damage.
Speaker 1: You take down another one.
Speaker 4: Type triggers. It keeps trickering, it keeps shaking every time
one goes down.
Speaker 1: So you see, I need this, listen, I need this
orang dice Scott's I need him to just take down
all of them right.
Speaker 3: Now, one by one.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, yeah.
Speaker 4: It happens again. You see, just see the times I
can do this.
Speaker 3: Uh uh.
Speaker 4: Yep, another seven points of damage. You see each time,
each time they do this, they get faster and faster.
You see again the condensation and thickening of micronic energy
encasing them, and you realize that they're not moving fast,
they're just meaning through time fast. And that's how they've
been getting around their injury, how they've gotten around their age.
They've it's been a mastery of chronic energy. Just kept
them useful.
Speaker 1: It triggers again, go for it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yep again uh special special two loud.
Speaker 1: Okay, you've got a special extra damage. But it does
go down either way. Yep, you take the jelly down.
I need to, you know, please.
Speaker 4: That twenty on that one. Major effect. I think my
major effect that I take both of them out with
this one.
Speaker 1: Yes, well, because I think if it was the last one,
I was going to suggest that you get to trigger
your thing again on the second wave that descends down
on top of.
Speaker 4: Oh, that'd be great. I mean, if that's the case.
Speaker 5: I love that.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I'm sorry, but this is such an anime moment, okay,
of old men being like, you know, taking You just
took out all five, and then you look up and
you see the second wave of them coming down, descending
on top of you, and you go to strike another one.
Speaker 3: I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't with this.
Speaker 3: Yes, what I do here as.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll just go ahead and do that again. Yeah,
as this other, this new force comes. I think what
you see this time is as they're approaching, i'd even
give them time to get close. I kind of throw
my cane in the direction of one of them. Oh again,
and let's see if I hit fourteen to hit, dealing
seven points of damage on that.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, that one doesn't end it. But yeah, you
throw your cane and we see it, We see it
propelling itself, and then it strikes this jelly and I
think we see the electricity. You can smell the ozone
as you see his ability meeting with this strangler wasp
and the there is electricity that sparks off of his
cane but also from the wasp. And I think I
want you to roll. This isn't a typical thing, but
if we're cool with it, I think you should roll
like a defense thing. Because the strangler wasp grabs. That's
it's one thing that it does. So I'm going to
have it try to grab your cane. That okay, So
go ahead, and a defensive roll, okay against this thing. Therefore, wait,
hold on my defense role to Oh that's the resist
being paralyzed. Let's do speed. I think that makes the
most sense. Yep, yeah, okay, they're mutated for yep.
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, that's it.
Speaker 4: There you go. I knocked you down a minus one. Yeah,
I succeed.
Speaker 1: Fu. Yeah, I think.
Speaker 4: Again, I think every single time you've seen amara move,
you've been like, Okay, that's why he was known as
a stormshell. That's why he's known as the storm shop.
But I think this is when you're really seeing that
he moves like lightning when he needs to. As the
moment he throws this cane, he's almost already behind moving
with this cane through the air, grabs it before this, Yes,
frish jellyfish can pull it from his grasp?
Speaker 1: Can I can I add something here just a little
bit if you don't mind? Okay, okay, So not only
do you know, like is he just moving faster and faster,
but I actually think you we can hear that like
sizzle and that electric energy forming on his shell as
he is moving quicker and quicker and quicker. And that's
also partly why he has the name that he has.
And we can see it kind of like pulsing and growing.
Every single time you do something else and you get
faster and faster and faster, it's almost like you're building
up some sort of energy on your shell to either
be a shield or to propel something outward. But yeah,
you've got thunder turtle exactly. Yeah, we've got we've got
some energy building for sure. Okay, now we have five
more descending down on top. Whose turn is it?
Speaker 7: Now?
Speaker 1: Now it's clearings turn, top of the roum yep, top
the round, It's learn's turn.
Speaker 6: Oof.
Speaker 5: Okay, I would like to use my disincentivize.
Speaker 3: Who.
Speaker 5: I just want to confirm mhm. It needs to be
targets who can understand me? Do they qualify for that?
Speaker 1: I don't actually know? And the reason I allowed it
last time was because you are from here. So here's
what I'm going to house rule. Even if they can't
normally understand people, you don't count, right, Yes, So I
think you get to do this absolutely. It makes sense
to me. You are of this place more so than
they are in a way. So yeah, I think that
you can.
Speaker 5: I will. I would love to do that then yep.
Speaker 1: Okay. So this ability does what exactly? Just stops them
from attacking you or.
Speaker 5: It hinders all actions attempted by them for one round okay,
any number.
Speaker 1: One, any number of targets, yeah, yes, yes, okay, okay,
all right, so you do it?
Speaker 6: Okay, yep, all.
Speaker 1: Right, so all the jellies are hindered for this this round.
Well done, Well done, Well played, who.
Speaker 5: And it doesn't say that it takes an action.
Speaker 3: It's an enabler.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah. If it's an enabler, you just spend the cost.
Speaker 1: Pay for it. Yep, it's not an action.
Speaker 5: I trouble you'll get to do something then.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, enablers. Enablers are basically like free actions you
can attach to an action. So if he wants to,
you could do a bunch of enabling and attach it
to one action and that would count as an action.
So that's kind of how it works.
Speaker 5: Oh cool, Now I wish I had more enablers and
less action.
Speaker 3: I think you mean youers.
Speaker 1: I think you have an enabler that is one that's
like you can give somebody a buff while their turn
is going, right, that might be an action.
Speaker 5: I yes, I can do make people ease the tasks
of enabler. And then my my other inspire action is
an action that I.
Speaker 3: Have to.
Speaker 5: Which I would actually like to utilize my inspire action.
Speaker 1: Okay, oh you.
Speaker 5: I'm going to use that on Amara so Amara can
immediately take an additional action.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess the kind of clouds we're seeing above
us that have been unfrozen in time, you start to
see them almost concentrate around the mara as a MA
gets faster and faster, and yeah, I'm going to strike
first strike the one i've ready dot damage to. Actually, no,
I have an action. I'm just going to do spin attack.
Speaker 1: Again, okay, okay, which hits them all.
Speaker 4: Which hits them all. So they're all hindered. Difficulty three
specialized in medium weapons. That brings it down to one.
Speaker 3: And by the way, I checked, I checked, and my
help should count. It only doesn't count if I am
hindered and I'm not hindered medium weapons. So you make one.
Speaker 1: They're all hindered.
Speaker 4: And yeah, I really counted always right now. So yeah,
I'm just going to five D twenties again and I
will say, damn it another that one.
Speaker 3: And I am by you sort of. I am by
you with my battle staff sort of weaving in and
out to distract them so that the minute they look
at me, they are open for you. This is how
I help does.
Speaker 4: I merely take advanchae of that, making sure I don't
give them time to take advantage of a war to
give it, leaving themselves open as a distraction. And I
strike one after the other, missing one, but as I
they always take another seven points of damage, and as
one of them I assume dies, I'll use successful attack
to strike the one that I missed.
Speaker 1: I normally would be like, we just see the same
thing happening, but I have to know. So we're going
to do the dice rolls. Yep, so we'll do one
by one.
Speaker 3: And also this is how, this is what this is
what Amara trained me in about sixty years ago to
do this.
Speaker 1: This is crazy to me. This is so cool.
Speaker 4: See this one.
Speaker 1: Okay, I have an offer for you. Yes, okay, As
you strike this one and we're going to go in
a circle again, and you're building up power, I think
you catch a glimpse of someone else that is like
maybe opposite you, almost like they are fighting in the
same space as you, but they don't seem to see you.
And it's just a second, but you recognize is it
the sun of some of you? Or yeah?
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, I was.
Speaker 1: Actually gonna say jacko, Yeah, yes, I was going to
say jacko, jacko.
Speaker 4: Is yes, I think I recognized. I definitely recognize this kid,
this same kid I remember climbing up the council building
almost getting caught and me enjoying at least someone showing
the council what for or putting myself out in the
open to distract the guards. He most certainly doesn't remember me,
and to be quite honest, if he wasn't the son.
Speaker 1: Of the true that he doesn't remember you, right, because
you've been here and you're helping him now. And I
actually was going to say, I think there's a moment
where he looks at you and does like the anime
nod where he's like, I see you, Yeah, I.
Speaker 4: Nod back before immediately turning onto the next strangler fish,
strangle wasp rather and yes, oh Strake, I.
Speaker 1: Can't believe this. I need you to take out the
whole second wave.
Speaker 5: I need it.
Speaker 4: Damage as well. Oh and yeah, and because of because
of increased effects, and nineteen is a twenty for.
Speaker 3: Me, Oh my lord.
Speaker 5: So he just got, he just got.
Speaker 1: For those listening, he rolled twenty on the last roll,
which means a major effect happens, which was how he
saw Jacko, and then he just rolled the nineteen. But
nineteen's count is twenty for him. So I'm gonna say,
you see another one, and you see you see somebody
who looks like she's dancing as she's moving through fighting
a version of jellies of their own, and she has
she has blue features and fins, and she's using no weapons.
Her body is her weapon as she's attacking one of these,
and then she too makes eye contact with you and
gives you a slight smile. They're here to help, even
if you can't see them.
Speaker 4: As I take down another one, I think i'll almost
exactly mimic her movements as I strike the next.
Speaker 1: I think you might hear her also whisper something to you,
But I don't know if you understand. I don't know
if you catch it this time yet. Oh okay, yeah,
all right, please go ahead.
Speaker 4: No, I know you're good to this as well. Stop eighteen.
Speaker 3: Yes, this is what it should be.
Speaker 4: And I think you see this movement exact mimicking of
this person. This this almost ecquiition. I saw that whispered
something to me. I mimic the exact movement that I
think maybe Wakata even recognizes this. It's absolutely a harder movement.
As I strike down another of these strangler wasps.
Speaker 1: Yeah wow, wow, wow, I.
Speaker 4: Brought it twenty nineteen eighteen. I guess seventeen is up next.
Speaker 5: Let go.
Speaker 1: Wait, how many is that? We only have one or
two more left? I think it's two.
Speaker 5: I think it's two.
Speaker 4: Two?
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, oh okay, So it had to happen at
some point it is. It is the it's a one
though for those listening, which is the natural fail. And
then there is a GM intrusion, and I swear to
you the only way this could have happened is if
someone rolled a one in this fight. But the strangler
Queen comes out of the fold and grabs Leiran No
and lifts her up. Yep is starting to ascend with learn.
Speaker 4: I can't do anything until my ten.
Speaker 3: This makes it Colo's turn.
Speaker 1: I believe Yep too far. This very very very large
version of what you guys have been encountering comes out
of the frozen bits of the fold. It's crackling with
electric energy, and its tendrils, which end in like sharp blades,
almost reach out grab Leiran and start to lift her up.
And then it begins to ascend as well.
Speaker 6: I would like to use my cipher scope, okay, okay.
When activated, it searched for any cipher's within a very
long distance of itself and dispres a general location on
its small monitor. I would like specifically to search for
a very specific cipher.
Speaker 1: Okay, you have piqued my interest.
Speaker 6: I I would like to focus all of my brain
and all of my power on the mask that I
found at mister Amara's house, and I would like to
I'd like to find it. And I'm I'm hoping that
I can redeem myself after I messed it up with
this thing before. But I've I've seen multiple instances of
multiple ciphers in multiple places at the same time, in
multiple so I'm hoping that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, of course we're gonna try this.
We're gonna let we're okay, we're gonna let the dice decide,
but of course I'm gonna let you try this. So
so for those listeninger or those who might not be following,
she is trying to sort of, I guess, summon or
conjure this mask that technically she used already, she put
it on, it used, and then it was done. But
they're in the fold time and space. Everything is strange here,
so I think that absolutely should be able to do this. Okay,
how about sixteen or higher? Does that feel? Okay? Yep, Okay,
does feel like it should be hard.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 1: And this is okay, what kind of role do I
do to intellect? For sure?
Speaker 3: Okay, you should ease that if you can multiple times,
I would.
Speaker 5: Yes, you can ease it once through my inspiring ease ability.
You can do it once every twenty four hours. So
if you want to choose to use it now.
Speaker 6: I didn't gobo choose to use it now. I don't
use that accounts.
Speaker 1: Stop wait, don't use it now. I don't know why
I'm saying that, but don't use it now. Don't use
it now. You get it once per day? Yeah, okay, okay,
hold on to that.
Speaker 15: Yeah, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 3: So this is it?
Speaker 6: What difficulty is this?
Speaker 4: This is a it's a sixteen. It'd be like a
difficulty five.
Speaker 1: Four or five yeah, okay five, let's do that, okay.
Speaker 6: And the effort is how I ease right?
Speaker 1: Just so I've got this right head yep?
Speaker 6: So and the asset is this what amara you were mentioning?
Speaker 7: Ah?
Speaker 1: Yes, she rolled in nineteen, which gives her a minor
effect as well. How do you how do you can
I I have I mean, my immediate thought is you go,
where did I put it? And you reach into your
pocket and pull it out of your pocket? Right, it's
gotta be one of your many, many pockets.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, oh my gosh.
Speaker 6: Is in my pocket?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, oh my gosh. Okay, I.
Speaker 6: I don't think I contain this.
Speaker 5: I don't think I do this cooly at all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, that's fine.
Speaker 6: This is this is like like I there is zero cool.
Speaker 1: There is zero chill about this all. Like I had
a dream and it was real.
Speaker 6: Yeah, like a fact like science. I knew it. I
knew that this was going to happen.
Speaker 4: I knew it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and I reached in and I take it out.
Can I do something with it now?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's your a little that's your minor effects because
you got rolled in nineteen. So you know, I'm not
being super easy going GM, I'm not fubbing anything. That's
that's that's it. It says it right there on the roll.
It says you get a minor effect, So yes, you
can you justifying.
Speaker 4: Yourself as if you're known as famous roses are written famously,
so they must.
Speaker 3: Have to justify himself that everyone says everyone.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, you can well I would like to do with it.
Speaker 6: I would I would like to walk towards the queen
okay and put it on.
Speaker 1: Okay, yes, I will allow it. Will you explain what
it does so that they understand those listening and don't
remember what this mask does?
Speaker 6: So this mask allows you to swim underwater? Is this
is this right, mister Amara? Have I remembered this correctly?
Speaker 4: Yes? It allows you to breathe underwater and swim fairly
quickly underwater as well.
Speaker 6: And I would I'd like to go into the jelly.
I'd like to go inside it like.
Speaker 1: The stone we're recreating, walk atys stone y move Okay, wow, yes,
absolutely absolutely you may do this. I have no idea
what you're gonna do, but yes, I accept that's your
minor effect. You put this mask on and you go
inside the jelly of this queen. Okay.
Speaker 6: I know from my b serie, I know from seeing
in Amara's book that exactly what they do is what
they did to Larn. They take you, they pick you up,
and they and they bring you inside and they and
that's that's deeply terrifying that I need to go and
get Lyrn. And the only way that I can do.
That is, if I can survive the environment, I need
to go and get her out because I don't know
if if we're gonna deal with this creature before before
it's too late, and I can't even begin to think
about that. There is no risk that I wouldn't take
in this moment. I don't think there's any risk I
would take in this moment. So I would I would
like to go into the jelly as if it has
pulled me in, and I would.
Speaker 5: Like to.
Speaker 6: Triumphant lun Yeah.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. I mean she's a very large jellyfish, but I
imagine that the jellies are you know, translucent and so
or at least a little bit enough that you can
see her form inside this jellyfish where it has lifted
her up.
Speaker 6: And I think, Amara and market you see me disappearing
like like somebody walking into an ocean or walking into fog,
and it just envelops.
Speaker 3: Behind me, and U Leirin is not yet enveloped. Correct,
She's just taken but not yet inside.
Speaker 4: Is that so?
Speaker 5: I think?
Speaker 1: Because yeah, I think I'm gonna yes and this and
so I think she's inside. I was gonna to take
a moment, but this is too cool. So she yeah,
she's inside with her.
Speaker 6: I think if Laren is an inside, I think I
would still do that. I think we'll go inside to
like preempt yep.
Speaker 1: Okay, then, yeah, she's being I was gonna have. At
the end of this round, she gets lifted up.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 3: Mm hmmm, I believe it's their turn. I'm afraid that's correct.
Speaker 1: Oh no, okay, So we have two left because there
was that gnat one. So we have two of the
small strangler wasps and the strangler queen.
Speaker 5: Yes, my dear, they're still hindered. Right, this has been
the longest turn.
Speaker 1: Ever, but this has been the Yes, they are still hindered.
It has been the longest round ever. Yes, so, yes,
they are hindered. Okay, So let's roll a one D
four and sound off Amara one, learn two two for
three and walkity four. Who wants to roll the one
D four for the two tiny ones?
Speaker 3: Well, I would say that Lyran is safe because she's enveloped. Yes,
so potentially, Oh no, I.
Speaker 1: Can roll they have a long range ability as well.
Speaker 3: Yep, how terrible.
Speaker 1: Okay, one, so we need one more role. So that's
a MAA. One of these is going for amara, Another
one d for it yep, it's just deciding who they attack.
Two is you, my dear?
Speaker 5: Yep?
Speaker 1: Okay, So the first one moment.
Speaker 4: I see one of them go for Lyran, I want
to slam my cane down and get attention on me
if I can.
Speaker 1: Yep, Okay, yep, yep. I think you have to roll
for that, right or do you just spend the effort.
Speaker 4: Orittinally just happens. It's like you can choose to steer it.
And if they're intelligent, because yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, if
they're more intelligent, it just happens.
Speaker 1: I think that we sho should I don't know if
they're necessarily super intelligent, but they are being commanded by
the queen, so I think that should count. So let's
go ahead and roll for that.
Speaker 4: Then Okay, will it be intellect Ah? Yes, okay, Well
did difficulty be here?
Speaker 1: Therefore she has by so they are handy yep.
Speaker 4: Three okay, yep, I'll use one level effort. Could I
pitch that they witnessed me kill twenty of these things?
I'm a threat so they might focus me in as
an asset.
Speaker 1: This is the only time I'm going to say I
don't think so because they're under command from their queen.
I don't think they suffer intimidation quite like that. But
it's good. You may always try to lawyer me.
Speaker 4: Success.
Speaker 1: You didn't need it anyway. Fantastic. Okay. So the one
that was actually going to use a long range paralyzation
attack on Leerin so that she couldn't fight going up
changes its mind and is going to attack you. You
need to make a speed roll two of them or
be poisoned.
Speaker 4: Difficulty four three because they're hindered.
Speaker 7: Yep h m hm.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 4: Success of a seventeen Nice. As I dodged that, I
will trigger seize the moment. Okay, when you succeed on
the speed defense to resist an attack, you gain an
action immediately. As I dodged that. You see me almost
like again, in the same motion, I slammed the cane down.
I slammed ahead of my cane down. You see you
see the skull shatter as I trigger my artifact and
see my chronic energy spill out of this cane and
wrap around wrap around me as I trigger this, Let's
see what happens here? Okay, no depletion as I use
my ability my walking Cane, which is the time book.
The weapon functions a normal cane. However, if the world
uses an action to activate it, which I just did,
the weapon creates a micronic loop. On the user's next turn,
they can take two additional actions for total of three
the user. The user can use one or both of
these actions to So basically, I get three attacks or
actions next turn as I dodge this attack, and then
I'm going to dodge this the next attack for it?
Real quick? Difficult?
Speaker 5: Do y'all ever just feel like this is a Mars
world and we're just living.
Speaker 3: Yeah? Then, oh wow, and I love it very much.
Speaker 4: Success success.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you dodge both of these attacks and you
break your artifact damn. Okay, now it is the Strangler
Queen's turn. So Learan, I need you to make a
level five h might task or speed either one, and
it's to break free.
Speaker 5: Is this a defense role or just a regular task?
Speaker 1: It looks it says task, So it says breaking free
is a MITE or a speed task?
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, I will, let's let's go with speed. Yep.
And you said level.
Speaker 1: Yes, it is the Strangler Queen.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, No, that's fine.
Speaker 1: Oh no, Okay, she sends out an electrical pulse and
she is going to do five points of electrical damage
to all characters within long range. So not only does
she strike you, but everyone is going to take the
five points of damage.
Speaker 4: Just take it?
Speaker 1: Yep, you just take it?
Speaker 6: Am I within long range?
Speaker 1: Can she die? I actually think she's not going to
damage you because you got inside her. And you know,
I was going to make a reference to a game
that I'm sure some of us know, but I want
them to play it, so I'm not going to name
the name of the game, but you know, Okay, anyway.
Speaker 3: Can I take this off of my speed pool?
Speaker 7: M m.
Speaker 1: Yes, you get to choose where your damage goes.
Speaker 4: Uh, but the roses might be an intellect but yeah,
typically yes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, except to you.
Speaker 1: I don't see why not unless it's gonna honestly.
Speaker 4: It makes sense it hits yeah, I think so paralyzing
it makes sense the muscles.
Speaker 7: M hm.
Speaker 13: Oh.
Speaker 8: Question?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 5: Is that only player characters that it affects? Does it
affect question?
Speaker 1: That's a really good question. I don't think it affects
her own jellies? Okay, I don't think so. How sad
it says all characters. So I'm going to assume that
it means that's like, yeah, yes, okay, that is her
turn next up.
Speaker 4: Mm hm.
Speaker 3: It's either you or I, Amara, your choice.
Speaker 4: I think if if you're okay with it, then I
think Amara is not in a panic, but I think
in a dead focus. Their mission, their ward is to
protect literal especially after learning that someone's coming after specifically,
and so they go into immediately take the action, and
they're going to ignore the shangler wasp around them and
go for the queen. As I'm going to use one
of my three actions, I gain to use a cipher
as I pull out from my from one of my
from my hip, one of these satchels hanging from my
hip and pull out a a or it looks like
a almost like a crystal board, but can fit in
their palm of their hand. And again lyric consense is
filled with chronic energy as they crash in their hand,
and I will use time stretch using this action to
activate the cipher. Time slows down and it gives you
additional three actions. So now with a combination of all
of those, I have five actions. It is.
Speaker 3: In a good way, in a delicious way.
Speaker 4: Again. You see crackling energy off of Amara at this point,
it is difficult to see him as he suddenly moves
at honestly lightning speed towards this queen shrangle wasp.
Speaker 1: There's going to be like a crackle of lightning that
is like emitted off of your shell, that like cracker.
Speaker 4: As you go, and I will attack this five times,
let's go, let's go. Okay, So it's difficulty.
Speaker 1: Fun because too far is inside here.
Speaker 4: Yes, okay, Well what I need to do to be
I guess what mechanically do I need to do to
be careful hindered?
Speaker 1: Maybe I think that that would make sense. You're trying
really hard not to hurt her.
Speaker 3: Yep, yeah, but they are hindered. So it is canceled out.
Speaker 1: She is not hindered. The jellies, the two jellies were correct.
Speaker 3: You are correct. I'm so sad. No, it is excellent.
Speaker 4: Okay, let me just make sure because this one thing,
additional action is perfect.
Speaker 3: Okay, cool.
Speaker 4: I yeah, I'm going to shrag this thing. I'm going
to do it one at a time because each of
these I want to put a bash on. What bash
does is this is a pummeling MELI attack, you inflict
your attack fis one less point of damage to your
target and it's hindered by that much for each round,
each one one.
Speaker 3: It's huge.
Speaker 1: That's huge, that's huge.
Speaker 3: It's very good way.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 4: Is this large or is it smaller than yep?
Speaker 1: This is large?
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 9: Six I'll put into this of Essex and protecting therein okay,
method to damage.
Speaker 1: I will also take this opportunity while you're doing that
to say learn she's coming and you can tell she's
on her way.
Speaker 4: That's sixteen points of damage. Fifteen because there's one less
because of besh I hinder it. So now it's the
next attack would be slightly easier, yep, to do it again.
Speaker 1: He is not down. But you obviously what does this
look like?
Speaker 4: I I think you see it almost looks like a
mara is teleporting around. You see a flash of light
and then somewhere you know, a flash of light is
somewhere else, and.
Speaker 1: Every time he strikes, there's like a lightning strike that
comes down with him. Yes, I love this.
Speaker 4: Holy Okay, success didn't have a fifteen points of damage.
I've hinted it one more time, one more time, Okay,
so that's a difficulty for that's it. There we go
another fifteen points of damage. Unreal that's what three attacks? Yeah,
the got two more?
Speaker 3: Ye my goodness, that's it.
Speaker 4: Another feasting point of damage. I hinder it again, yep.
And the last one I'm going to unreal difficulty two. Yeah,
I'll put two points of effort into the damage perfect
d thirteen thirteen point damage.
Speaker 1: Just so we can all hear it. How much damage
did you just do to this queen?
Speaker 4: And actually that shouldn't be thirteen, sorry, that should I'm
particularly wrong. Think it should be three six. That should
be twenty one points of damage to the last one.
Oh wow, okay, standing.
Speaker 1: Okay, that actually makes the difference. So yeah, that actually
makes the difference. So okay, we're seeing Amara flash around,
We're seeing the lightning strike come, we're hearing the thunder
as if he is calling forth the sky, and then
we see him. I want to say, destroy this queen. However,
it's more like, how about this. I think we see
an electrical pulse rush up her, almost like it's like,
you know, it's the death throws, right, It's like it's
brain death, but for the whole jellyfish right, but then
another color that isn't the same blue. It's now the
purple of the fold descends down this strangler queen. It's
now phase two of your JRPG boss fight.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, perfect. Well, I guess my question here is,
does that kind of me dying foe? Does that trick
a successive attack?
Speaker 1: Yes? I accept.
Speaker 3: Our lera and too foss still trapped within it is.
Speaker 1: My question trapped no, but yes they are still within it.
It is correct, Yeah, thank you, yep.
Speaker 4: So yeah, that successive attack triggers.
Speaker 7: Oh.
Speaker 4: I guess my other question would be, do they because
it technically dieting and came back, do all of the
hindered stuffer a plaid disappear?
Speaker 1: I think so yeah, because it was like that version
of the second phase. Yep, second phase they come back
absolutely fair.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 3: It's delicious.
Speaker 1: It's absolutely delicious and also unbelievable that you did that
much damage. I did not think that you would, you know,
like I thought maybe some other things would be happening
before now before you hit pace. So wow crazy.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah. So also because of time stretch, what happens
is that every time I take an extra action, I
take three points. It might damage. So I've lost all
of my mite is down. Some impaired, but because of
an ability called fight on, I don't suffer the penalties
of impaired. You see, I'm tired, but I'm still moving dirty.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 4: So what's the difficulty of this new face? She's now
seven seven okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 1: And I think, like when, like when this purple lavender
color of lightning from the folds descends down, I think
you do here, or maybe you think you hear her laughter,
not the queen, but obviously what you've all been afraid of.
She is approaching and she is basically going to power
up this jelly.
Speaker 3: I see.
Speaker 4: Any effort to damage. Okay, still, dell, I'll have this
be a Bachel's also fifteen points of damage, and I
hinder this.
Speaker 1: Okay, yes, yes, very good, very good.
Speaker 4: And yeah, then I land. You see like I'm I'm panting,
I'm like heathing to keep moving.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's like plushing onto his cane and kind of
holding him so barely holding himself up. He's breathing heavy.
Speaker 3: Hmmm, no, no, no, no, no, no, mmmm ah. I
think we might need a bit more help. I'm going
to concentrate and for the first of my two actions,
the one that is well, I spend a bit of
a moment and I concentrate and I call forth well
I I step into the future, don't I? I think
I do. And in a moment, there is another Wakati
who shows up right next to Amara, and that Wakati
will heal Amara, bring out a small healing kit and
heal him. Because that second Wakati also has an action,
I will do my healing touch, which is something that
comes as well as a golfing. That's one thing that
we can do. So I will do this at the moment,
an intellect check to heal you. But I have one
asset because I have a healing kit let me. I
don't need effort, but I will take this asset special
plus two. I need to roll how much I heal
you Amara four points to heal your might if you would.
As the second the second wakati shows up, it's clearly
a wakati from a different moment in time, busts out
a small healing kit and heals Amara. The first Wakati,
knowing that we still have a moment, begins, goes through
his pack and takes out as micronic tools and he
begins to set up we know that we have to
contain her. He's going to begin the process of the
containment process. This, I imagine is a task. I don't
know how you wish us to take care of this task,
as we have at least two blocks to do, and
I imagine it takes quite a bit of work. Perhaps
we need multiple successes. I don't know how would you
like to begin this process that takes some time.
Speaker 1: Let's do multiple successes and start with two. That seems
good to me because there's two of you.
Speaker 3: Yes, and he will the first. Wakati will begin taking
out his tools and begin to work on the Well,
he doesn't he doesn't have the compass, but he does
have his son dial. He'll begin to tune it to
help create a block. I imagine this will be an
intellect check.
Speaker 16: I assume, yes, difficulty, she's seven, But you're healing, so
I think, well, that's differ.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's kind of what I'm There are two of
us now, yeah, so you I mean, but it's healing, right,
I can't imagine that he's fighting.
Speaker 7: You know that.
Speaker 3: No, that's Wakati already has.
Speaker 1: Already done it. Okay this one? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 3: Who is going to start working on the block she's
hindered though? Ah yep six.
Speaker 4: Actually, I think Wakati is going to work on the
containment for her, not the queen.
Speaker 3: Yes for her, that's what for.
Speaker 7: Her right now?
Speaker 3: Yes, on the containment of her, the one that we
need to block off. I will spend two effort on this,
and I have two assets. This will be one success
to start the process of containing her. I know we
need two blocks to contain her in one spot, and
so by the statue, I begin to tune my my
sun dial and begin the process. And I need too far,
but I can begin the process that is me. The
other Wakati is healing Amara over there.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 3: A success.
Speaker 1: Okay, my rule me one more with the same stuff.
If it takes it away, put it back. I just need,
I just need another reality in which this didn't of course,
that's so glad you understood what I was trying to.
Speaker 3: I do understand.
Speaker 1: As I said to myself, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I was I was in the other timeline with you.
As that is a g I'm sorry, I'm sorry, No,
it's not. I don't think you understand, Oh I I do.
Speaker 1: I will not sleep tonight.
Speaker 5: I don't.
Speaker 1: Okay, yep, you see.
Speaker 3: Who said we didn't know if I would understand. But
I do because I have been in this timeline before
and I can now sidestep that one and roll again.
And I will because the difficulty that you saw PB
is not one that I can allow to stand, and
so it is a success in the other timeline as well.
This is what I do. After all, I have an
ability that allows me to reroll anyone that I roll
is called twist of time. I do not let that
other possibility stand. I'm watching all of them, every single
one as they unfold, and that one I do not
let become a possibility.
Speaker 1: Okay, that is perfect, thank you. So I think we see.
I think we also see in this moment, as you
are keeping track of all of these different possibilities and
you're seeing, you know, you're seeing too far. Her hands
are moving very quickly, she is inside this jelly. She
has something in her mouth, her hair, she's pulling something
out of her hair, she's reaching into her pocket, and
she's working very very quickly. And you know you needed
to buy her time, you know you needed to hold
this wasp queen here for some reason, she needs to
not be able to move, and this was what you
knew it was important, so you used your ability. And
in that moment, I think you hear the voices of
your friends that have been here helping you. Vilia Jacko,
help Ventin. They are here, even if you can't see them.
Speaker 3: I can see them, of course can't see me. But
they shouldn't be able to. It would ruin everything, would it.
But they're here. Yeah, too far, Lyran, I've got one
half of the containment up. This is this is for you, go.
Speaker 1: Pop of the round. It's too far on Lyran.
Speaker 5: So what am I seeing? Too far do? Right now?
Speaker 8: I am.
Speaker 6: Suspended in this like viscous jelly, and my arms it's
like it's like moving through tar, but my arms are
I'm moving into my pockets. I'm I'm taking out my
compass and I'm I'm trying to get it to spin.
I'm physically trying to spin it. And as I do,
the case kind of starts cracking and breaking, and it
kind of starts coming off, and I am fiddling with
all of this, and I have a chain and I
have some seeds, and I have and I have this
huge weapon by the handle that I'm kind of trying
to hold under my arm without cutting myself again. And
I'm trying to put the things together. I'm trying to
find a way that they fit.
Speaker 5: I am going to reach for too far and put
a hand on her and say, you've done this before,
you will do it again. You can do it now.
And I will use my stimulate your words encourage a target.
You touch, you can understand you. The next action it
takes is eased by three steps.
Speaker 3: Whoa yes, yes, And.
Speaker 5: I will look a little rough over here. It's not
looking great. Is the queen still kicking?
Speaker 1: She is still kicking?
Speaker 5: All right, I'm going to utilize my disincentivize again. Man yep, okay,
so she will be hindered for one round.
Speaker 1: That keeps the hinder up essentially that Amara did. Yeah,
that's very important in case anyone feels like the hindering
is you know. That's oh, it's very important. It's extremely important.
Speaker 4: For the record.
Speaker 3: The way this game system works, we have a difficulty
in this case a seven. In order to beat that,
we must roll three times that number on a D
twenty her difficulty is a seven, which means we would
need to roll a twenty one, which is impossible through
the only way we might be able to affect her
is through hindrances and the help of our friends.
Speaker 1: And the abilities that are reserved for the title Blades
and the title Blades alone. All right, now, as you
do this, she is now hindered. Too far, my sweet sweet,
too far?
Speaker 7: What do you do?
Speaker 3: One half the containment has been made.
Speaker 6: I would like to in this strange suspended jelly where
everything feels like it's underwater. But like I know what
Larn said, I know what she said to me, and
I remember she said she was going to help. She
said she was going to teach me. And I know
that Waggity is doing his and I have this understanding
that like it's time, I'm ready. I'd like to hold
storm Bringer, like to hold storm Bringer up extremely high,
like the giant weapon that it is. And I would
like to let me do something else first, Yep, I
would I would like to try, and I don't know
if this is going to be possible, anything is possible.
I would like to try and find physically within this jelly, Yes, yes,
where the connection is happening between Jelly Queen and yes,
I'd like to find where that is happening.
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm reading your mind, So let's roll
to find this. It'll be an intellectual difficulty seven for her. However,
if you succeed, we will go ahead and ease difficulty
on the next task that you're about to do, and
you for an asset yes.
Speaker 3: By four yeap, because one from the hinder and three
more difficulties three.
Speaker 6: So do I have a bonus on this?
Speaker 1: You have the difficulty dropping here on this one, and
if you succeed on this one, it's gonna make what
I think you're gonna do next eat much easier. Yep,
because basically you're finding her. You're finding the spot where
she is connected to the unnamed entity here. Yeah, and
you're gonna use that to trap her. That's perfect. Yeah, yep.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, sorry, spot, I'm so sorry. Okay, So difficulty
going three to three three?
Speaker 1: Yes, because you had four of it taken away by
your friends.
Speaker 5: You can use my inspiring ease.
Speaker 6: Still, you do still have that.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I think I'm going to hold that
ye hold it?
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, just finding.
Speaker 1: Yep, yep, you're good. I think she should the next one.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, yep, And my first two efforts are free,
so I can use another.
Speaker 1: M.
Speaker 6: First, you have a three, so I can use another
three to take me to five.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 6: An asset wise, Yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Will give you an asset being inside.
Speaker 1: For being inside. That's right.
Speaker 6: I think this is where I was supposed to be.
Speaker 1: I do, too, and I can't believe this.
Speaker 13: Oh, oh my god.
Speaker 1: What do you think this looks like? What do we
see as too Far looks around to try to find where.
Speaker 5: I mean?
Speaker 1: I think right up in the core, it's pulsating. You
can see it like a heart.
Speaker 6: I think this is a trio of things that we see.
If you were looking through too Far's eyes right now,
you wouldn't see this externally. But if you were looking
through too Far's eyes right now, she would see this
sparkling essence, the same sparkling essence that she saw on
Lyrin when she had that moment of RECKI I saw it,
it was there, and then that same sparkling essence, and
I looked at my compass and I saw it, and
I remembered this was Larin. It was Lyin all along,
and I look for that, and it's it's the electricity.
It's the electricity that this jelly is using to communicate
to pulse. It's how they do their damage. It's how
they do all of it. But it's it sparkles like
lyric say's something, and that it's.
Speaker 1: I can tell you why, because I did actually mechanically
set this up to be this way. The purple light
that the lavender light that we're seeing from a fold,
this jelly is in phase two because she has taken
over this jelly and is using this power that is
existing in the fold to reinvigorate and kind of reanimate
this jellyfish. The jellyfish is long gone, but its body
is being manipulated by the same energy. Yes, everything you
said is true.
Speaker 6: Like yes, And I feel that this looks to me
like a bacteria multiplying in a Petri dish, sped up
but reversed. So it's like that all these fonds and
restaurants and strands are going all the way back into
the to the root thing that kind of duplicated and
caused this huge reaction on this Petri dish. And I
can find the epicenter yep, And.
Speaker 3: I shout out as I'm by the statue, I say,
with my with my sundye, I say, I've opened the
anchor in the statue. We can contain her here too
far if you can do it. And I know you
can because you've done it before and you will do
it again, and you are doing it now. As I
am by the base of this statue, the statue to
Hotter the title blades, it's my inspiring.
Speaker 4: Word, yep.
Speaker 1: And now what do you do? Too far?
Speaker 6: I would like to place my compass on the ebbicenter.
And this is I feel that this is really hard.
This is like trying to trying to place something in
a jelly, trying to place something in something that's moving
and making my skin feel more prickly. And I don't
even know if I'm doing it right. But I also
know that this is exactly what it's supposed to happened,
because Wikiti is right. I've done this before and I
can see it. I can see this, this evidence of Lurin.
It's like I don't know if she was here or
if I like, I don't know. I just know that
this is what I have to do, and I put
the compass in this epicenter. And I swing.
Speaker 3: And I imagine the statue has like a line of
purple going down it, as if it's opening a portal
inside of this statue itself. And I'm holding that open for.
Speaker 6: You, this huge weapon that I've hurt myself with so
many times in so many places, all at the same time,
and I lift it up with all of my my
and I swing it down on top of the compass,
and i'd i'd like to I'd like to try and
break the compass. I'd like to try and break it.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, absolutely, that's why it was broken. Are you
kidding me right now?
Speaker 3: Yes, that's why it was broken.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, roll emotional?
Speaker 5: How do I how do I roll for this.
Speaker 3: Trully?
Speaker 1: We're going to do intellect. But I had said if
you found the epicenter that this would ease this is
this act in preparation for the entrapment. I need to
know what breaking this compass is doing.
Speaker 6: Breaking this compass, I think too far as understanding more.
Breaking this compass does is that it it does the other.
Speaker 1: Of what she is doing. Okay, and then the final
step then is to power it. Is that correct?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 6: And I don't have a power source Okay, I don't
have a power source. I don't know what's going on here,
but I feel that I need to try something to
be able to start it, like a flint to start
a fire, Like I might not have the fuel and
the wood to be able to keep the fire burning,
but I feel like if I started something, maybe something
will happen and I'll be able to utilize this connection
to her, to whoever her is. Because we were told
that we couldn't do it, Like they all said we
couldn't do this. They all said we couldn't do anything
to harm her and to damage her. But what if
we can find a way to her, and what if
this is how we connect to her?
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, we're going to do an intellectual and your
difficulty is seven right now. However, you did succeed on
your previous role, so I'm going to allow that to
be eased three.
Speaker 6: And I'm going to use all my effort. I really
do think I said I'm with all my might, and
I really feel that this is every single ounce of.
Speaker 1: My effort, which I think means you pass out after
correct yep, yep, Okay.
Speaker 6: An asset wise, do I still have the one asset?
Speaker 1: Or no, you actually have two. And I've been waiting
for this whole moment because of the compass, because of
the compass and the thing. However, they write songs about
this moment. I'm going to give you a third. One
can only take two oh two weeks, so then we
ease it one more step. If there's an extra, you
just get to ease it one more step. Okay, okay, I.
Speaker 6: Think after whirl again, I'm sorry. So we go down
to a difficulty three and I'm using every single ance
of my effort, and the two s ast too successful.
Speaker 1: I think time freezes, and I think we see her
swing down and then it stops right before she's about
to strike this compass, right before she breaks it open.
The only one that is not frozen is leering. I
believe you wanted to take a reaction, correct, But if
you want to hold it, you may Is this me
or Laren learan intaction? Yeah, taking the reaction in conjunction
with what you have done, but only if you still
wanted to do that.
Speaker 5: Can I hold it?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Absolutely?
Speaker 5: Okay, Okay, I think that's the move. Yep.
Speaker 1: Okay. So as you go in to strike this, then
there's a moment, I think time freezes right before she's
about to hit this. We see Walkeetty looking at all
the possibilities, trying to decide the best option forward, and
then time resumes and she breaks the compass. What happens
when you break this compass too far?
Speaker 6: It's the petri dish the other way around. Nice, It's
the It's the the bacteria multiplying and multiplying and multiplying
and multiplying and multiplying. It's also a pulse being sent down,
a nerve down, so many nerves all at the same time.
This is not dissimilar from what happens when I hold
up my golden skull and cutting light comes out of it.
This is a not dissimilar They're like sisters, maybe that
maybe this action is somehow related in some way. And
you see this huge pulse go through so many different
fronts and so many different places, all the way through
this ginormous jellyfish, and in the center as all of
this happens, I drop and I'm I'm passed out, suspended
in this jelly still holding fragments of what I was
trying to put together, but I'm passed out. Stick everything
I had.
Speaker 1: Okay, I believe it is my turn.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 1: Her turn. She's just doing it through me. I have
to remind myself in case something terrible happens, it's not
my fault. It was the dice. Okay, I am going
to make an action. I'm going to try to paralyze
Learan because I think she has done this before and
is going to try to stop what comes next. So
you need to do a speed defense role.
Speaker 3: You'll excuse me.
Speaker 4: Sense you were like, oh, beb the girl.
Speaker 17: We're gonna save that, We're gonna protect her.
Speaker 3: We are going to try at least. It is up
to you Amara if you would like to.
Speaker 4: I want to keep I want to keep trying to
get their attention on me. I want them to see
me as a threat. I took down this thing in
less than six seconds, and I can do it again
if they don't focus.
Speaker 3: Me in now.
Speaker 1: Okay, you're gonna have to roll for it.
Speaker 4: I'm very happy to do so.
Speaker 1: But my ward is in there, I know, so I
think that's an asset. Yep, let's go.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what's the difficulty seven?
Speaker 1: She's seven hund spend.
Speaker 4: By levels of effort for that, I think after before
I'll take myself out. I have an I said, because
you are my award success as I I don't think
I even say anything with incredible speed, I almost raise
my cane very suddenly see a crackle of lightning slam
against the ground beside this changler wasp, as if to
say that was a warning shot.
Speaker 1: She turns and focuses your attention, her attention on you,
and she's gonna grab you with her tendrils. So speed
defense role.
Speaker 4: Yep, this is the twenty seven.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 4: Okay, I put tea levels of effort into this. Would
this count as been part of me protecting my ward? Yes, okay, this.
Speaker 1: Is part of protecting the world right now, this is
all in the Beery relies on this. Absolutely.
Speaker 4: That's a thatt twenty because nineteens are twenties to me.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, oh that's a major effect.
Speaker 3: Yes, that is.
Speaker 1: I think you trade places with her with learn So.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I reached you grabbed Larin, pull larn out,
and you just.
Speaker 1: Let her tendrils pick you up because you cared more
about getting lyran out.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh one hundred percent.
Speaker 3: I have a question about that. Yeah, there is he
drew the attack there is another helping aid called take
the attack, where you thrill yourself in front of this
attack and it gets you instead.
Speaker 4: Yes, and I say something and you can choose, of course,
as a thing, as I've trained you, this wakati, I
trained you, I think. I I'm just trying to recognize
your you move before you think. So as I see
you move, as I reach and grab Larin, I yell
get behind me. As you remember you're hearing me saying.
Speaker 3: This, and immediately the other wakati does, who was right
by you, gets right behind you.
Speaker 4: And I think I throw basically amost like throw lurin
into you as you catch lurin as I used them
and meant to put myself into Yes, this queen.
Speaker 3: Kah yep?
Speaker 1: Was that your turn? Or was that a reaction?
Speaker 3: That was the reaction?
Speaker 1: I didn't do the reaction, okay, yep, okay.
Speaker 3: So didn't you do it? I stood down?
Speaker 1: Okay that one did?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: All right? So then I believe, Maura, it's your turn. Correct.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, technically he took right.
Speaker 1: So but I do think you need to so I
think you need to do spend this action here in
this moment to not be paralyzed by the Yep. Okay,
so that is a mite or speed?
Speaker 4: Yeah, OUNTI speed.
Speaker 1: Mh.
Speaker 4: This is a seven difficulty seven right, yes, yep, that's right. Okay,
O happen taft to this. I don't think this count
This no longer counts as an action protecting Liarin?
Speaker 1: Correct, correct, this is protecting yourself.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I fail.
Speaker 5: Ah.
Speaker 1: The lavender electricity of the folds of her, of this
entity that has been trapped in here a ripples over
your body and.
Speaker 3: I will take it. I will take this, he said no,
But that's second Wakati will take it. It is an
action that it will take.
Speaker 1: Okay, do you have to roll for it?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 3: It is automatic. Okay, you take it. It automatic succeeds
and deals an additional point of damage.
Speaker 1: Okay, you take succeeds.
Speaker 3: I will then, yeah, switch with it with Amara.
Speaker 1: Actually, I don't think you switch places because he's been
grabbed and then then the paralyzation is at least However, yes,
but I do like the idea that you know the
difference between time and space and that there is no difference,
so you literally just take the attack like you outstretch
your hand and all of a sudden the paralyzation electricity
is around you instead of Amara, and unfortunately that means,
once again, in the final episode of Title Blades, you
cannot move.
Speaker 3: Except I don't know how to explain this. I have
been trained by Amara, yes, and whenever I would be
hit by an attack, which now I would be, I
teleport an immediate distance away, leaving only an illusion of myself.
Speaker 1: I don't think you can do, can you? I mean,
correct me if I'm wrong. But you were doing a reaction,
a move to take the attack. Yes, it wasn't technically
attacking you. You were just taking the damage right away
from him because he got hit he failed.
Speaker 3: Right, Well, it says a character can use their action
to throw themselves in front of a faux successful attack
to save a comrade. The attack automatically succeeds against a
sacrificial character and it does an additional point of damage. Right,
So I says taking the attack, what's up to you?
Speaker 1: Yeah? But I think it automatically succeeds, right, and that
there's yeah, you know, because that would be the point
of being a sacrificial So I don't think you are
able to piggyback off that. As cool as that would be.
Speaker 3: It is fine, okay, that one is paralyzed. Yeah, okay,
which makes it the round top of the round yea.
But this is where does the damage go?
Speaker 4: By the way, what is it?
Speaker 3: Might damage?
Speaker 1: Let me know, might damage?
Speaker 3: Thank you? And it's six seven yes, six, well plus
one oh yes, because I automatically get an extra damage.
And that damage you can see, hits the prime wakati.
Even though the other one got damaged, the damage hits
us both. Now, okay, is everything finished? You said that
we don't need to power This is the powering already done? No,
it is not powered yet, in which case the prime
Wakati concentrates and he brings forth At this moment one
more wakati. This one looks exactly like him. It is
another hymn from another time. And this one emerges right
by the gap in the statue. And this one looks
at everyone with fondness and steps inside the gap to
power it, destroying itself.
Speaker 1: Wow, okay, there's an issue with this. I don't know
if you have the energy required.
Speaker 3: Well, at least I can help.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, okay, okay, But.
Speaker 3: I feel the pain of dying and being unraveled.
Speaker 1: This is yeah, okay, can you roll for me?
Speaker 4: Sure?
Speaker 3: I just want to see how By the way, this
time twin is what this one is?
Speaker 1: Yeah, what does this do? Exactly?
Speaker 3: It creates I call myself from the future just a
few moments in the future to help me now, and
my future self appears. Okay, no, no, sorry, this is
time twin.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So a twin version myself from another timeline or the past,
ye shows up and it is the same as me,
although one tier lower and with a little bit less health.
It has my entire mind and my memories, and I
exist in all of them at the same time. I
see Okay, it is another me. Okay, okay, And I said,
stend it into the breach okay, to help power it.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's do an intellect role. I just want to see. Well,
difficulty seven, Yes it is. Yes, it is arguably one
of the most important moments.
Speaker 3: Well, it is eased because this is my chronic let
us difficulty seven. She is still hindered. Is that correct?
Speaker 1: That is correct?
Speaker 3: So I have too effort and I have two assets.
Speaker 1: Yes, I succeed okay with a thirteen. Okay, thank you.
We see we see a twin wakity slip into this breach,
and I think potentially he's even finding it holding it open.
He is holding space with himself for what is about
to happen next. However, the device does need more power.
Speaker 3: Yeah, those are all of uh Wait, I can take
one normal action?
Speaker 1: Was that not the twin?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Using that ability?
Speaker 3: Was the yes? But prime Wakati gets two actions and
then second wakati and then third Wakati third, but I
cannot use it? Yeah, yeah, yes, thirdi Kati went in.
Second Wakatis took the damage. First Wakati called the third
Wakati can do one more thing that is not nobility?
Speaker 1: Yep, that is.
Speaker 3: Normal. I will look at Learan and I will say, Laran,
you cannot sacrifice yourself for this, but I will aid
her in whatever she is going to do next, giving
her and easing whatever task she does next. I will
aid her.
Speaker 1: And it's the top of the round.
Speaker 5: Where am I now that I have been taken out? Yamara?
In relation to where this breach.
Speaker 1: Is, I think you're very close because he described throwing
you into the arms of wakaty So I think you're
right next to him, one of them, the one of them.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So you're a little waist from the breach. I think
you'd have to travel there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't have much time left, Laren.
Speaker 5: Laren leans forward and presses her forehead against Wagotti's and
cups his face in her hand and turns and walks
to the breach. And I would like to attempt to
power the.
Speaker 4: Device struggling against this queen Shranglo waspy here, Laren, I'll
catch up.
Speaker 3: Just run.
Speaker 4: Please, I just got you back.
Speaker 7: That's there.
Speaker 3: The second Wakati disappears out of space, the frozen one.
Speaker 1: Aaron, you're going to make an intellectual I believe yep.
Difficulty seven.
Speaker 3: Eased by me by one, eased.
Speaker 1: By one, the primary by because of Amara, eased by
three because of two far east, by four because of
a leer.
Speaker 5: So that's difficulty three, correct, Ye, I am going to
use all of my effort.
Speaker 3: The prime Wakati disappears from this timeline.
Speaker 5: That's A nineteen.
Speaker 1: That means you get a minor effect. And I will
show you my GM notes later that I have an
offer for you that was only possible on A nineteen
or a twenty, and I have to DM it to you.
So everyone just must wait I'm so sorry. Okay, yeah, cool,
all right. We see we see Learyn step into this breach.
What does it look like as you do this.
Speaker 5: That kind of purple blow that we've been talking about.
As she gets closer into the breach, it glows brighter
and brighter until it envelops her.
Speaker 6: Entirely.
Speaker 3: They're ran.
Speaker 5: You just don't hear anything in response.
Speaker 1: I think the sky around you illuminates with energy, with
all of her being in her essence going into this moment,
into this device that too Fa and Wakaty have made,
and all of this was made possible by the group
of you together. You are successfully trapping her in this
one spot, in this particular instance, but you are also
responsible for weakening the fold just enough that more and
more monsters start breaking through. You are the reason you
came to investigate this in the first place. You are
the reason why the Council will finally take action because
they think the fold is breaking and they are going
to send a new generation to come in and investigate
and they are going to find this. But it's not now,
but it is happening right now, and it will happen,
and it already happened, and the strangler wasp queen that
was being powered by her seizes and collapses to the ground.
And when that light fades and you can see Maura,
there is someone you recognize laying on the ground.
Speaker 4: Amara pullings themselves from the body of this this stripango,
wasn't I think drops the kinda practically crawl links to
this body, Liar Eliah, Helloah, I'll just lift our cradle her.
I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. Too far? Do yeah,
a medica anything water?
Speaker 6: I'm still suspended in what is left in this jelly,
still passed out.
Speaker 4: Gotti cuttie. I'm seeing I'm alone. I'll pick up Eliah,
try to move over to too far and try to
reach into pull her out.
Speaker 7: Hm.
Speaker 4: And you're going to follow your gut into the gut
of a waspot and I've told you to do that,
too far? Okay. I will reach into my bag again,
my satchel and pull out one last cipher, and I think,
how are you honest? I don't know what it looks like.
I think it looks like a I think it looks
like a almost like a wire, a thin wire with
what you can only describe as tape on either end
and I'll attach it right to my neck and the
other to the neck of Alier. And I'm going to
use essence transfer allow one willing creature to transfer points
from their points to another. Quick characters, Paul, I'm going
to give a layer ten points, uh fifteen points from
me to see if I can stabilize them and get
them back up. You see this crackling of energy, the
same type of electricity see coming off with him when
he's fighting go down this wire and dissipate into the
body of a layer. Mister Amara, I just hugue, I
just hug you. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 5: You don't have anything to be sorry for.
Speaker 4: Did we.
Speaker 6: Did we do it?
Speaker 4: We did?
Speaker 7: We did.
Speaker 6: That's where we end title Blades, at least for now.
Speaker 1: I think I would like to know. I'd like to
have a small moment with each of you to talk
about what you do after this, what you think remains
for your character. We'll start with Amara. I.
Speaker 4: I think I would have waited for a while to
see if Wakati appears again.
Speaker 1: Does he?
Speaker 3: Wakati shows up just a moment later, exactly the same
place he showed up a few moments earlier. Oh ah, oh,
and he heals mister Amara, just the same way he
did just a few moments ago, just the same way
he did.
Speaker 7: With his.
Speaker 3: Golf in ability to heal. And this will be stand
or difficulty, but he puts in his effort. He had
one asset. Let me, let me heal you, mister uh Amara,
but he for four four. He looks younger again. Mister Amara,
are you all right?
Speaker 4: I'm okay, we need to leave the Tifa check on tifa.
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, I will, of course, and I will go
to heal her as well.
Speaker 1: I think you've got a special on your last one
I did. Would you like to just roll how much
you heal her for.
Speaker 4: Sure?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that could be your special effect quickly.
It's plus one damage, but I'm going to change it
to a special effect for so too far. Please wake up.
You have four effort back in whichever intellect pool proper.
But when you wake and you look over, I know
that you know in your heart who this is. But
she looks different. It's a chameleon. She looks the way
that she did when she first entered the fold lear.
And you see Wakaty who looks a little different than
the last time you saw him when you close your eyes,
and mister Amara as.
Speaker 4: Well, we miss a go did we do it? We
did it? You did it?
Speaker 18: Can't go with you.
Speaker 3: I still have the compass, so.
Speaker 4: I have to go somewhere else.
Speaker 3: Oh ye, to go somewhere else. I'll see each other again, though,
hm and I give her the biggest hug. I won't
remember you when I do.
Speaker 6: It's okay, I'll remember you.
Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you. Don't forget to get this. I'll
leave it there for you on the beach.
Speaker 6: I would never.
Speaker 3: I'm going to miss you.
Speaker 4: See you soon, Okatty.
Speaker 3: Morraw, I'll come find you sixty years ago, I promise.
Speaker 6: I'd like to squeeze ELA's hand and look at her,
and then look at Wakity and say, safe little one.
Speaker 3: No, you're not my leran right now, but I still
will protect you, and I'll be looking forward to you
protecting me when we find each other again.
Speaker 5: I might not be your Laren, but it could be
your earlier.
Speaker 3: I would like that very much. I have to go
now because I I can't be in this place. There's
another one of me waiting somewhere.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I love you all, and I'll miss you. I teleport away.
Speaker 4: Oh, it's how carry earlier the rest of the way,
set the head out?
Speaker 1: Where do you go?
Speaker 6: I think maybe I can make a suggestion. Absolutely, I
think we should go to the citadel. I think I
think I have some work to do. I'm still holding
Aliah's hands as mister Amar is carrying her. Leah, it
is so wonderful to see you again.
Speaker 5: You too too far?
Speaker 6: Are you ready? Always? Then let's go.
Speaker 3: Failure?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Oh you think we'll win the race?
Speaker 1: Oh for sure, we got this in the bag?
Speaker 18: Okay, jacko nothing, I just okay, you know.
Speaker 4: It's just.
Speaker 3: Their ship is so much faster than ours.
Speaker 17: Well yeah, but that's what makes it fun and a challenge.
We're good at challenges.
Speaker 4: We can do this.
Speaker 17: Are you nervous?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 17: No, Yes, come on, it's gonna be fun. We're doing
this for fun, remember.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and we're doing it for friendship.
Speaker 19: I like that, bed Dad, for the last time, do
not sit on my secret box of weapons?
Speaker 5: Oh not again?
Speaker 3: Keep sitting on it? Hey, Jack, get tired of telling him.
Speaker 4: I feel like I.
Speaker 3: Haven't seen you in years. But it's only been five minutes.
Speaker 17: He's having a moment.
Speaker 1: Don't worry.
Speaker 17: I think the nervousness from the race is getting to him.
Speaker 1: Well, we're almost there.
Speaker 3: Oh oh hold on, I better hold on? That Does
that work?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 3: Mm hmmm, oh, let's hold hands. Okay maybe not okay,
maybe not help because it's gonna fly. But if we
hold hands, we can't fall off.
Speaker 17: Okay, boll oldrahanne.
Speaker 3: Are we doing this so we don't?
Speaker 4: Okay? Because right?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 17: Yeah, going fast right toward the is lying.
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, help.
Speaker 18: To left.
Speaker 7: Oh we are we're winning.
Speaker 17: Yes, we're close, and then by still still.
Speaker 1: We get all the rest of our lives.
Speaker 3: They're right on the times.
Speaker 5: Shine fire something.
Speaker 17: Do you breathe fireship?
Speaker 3: Then stop sitting on the box. We've got to push
it over.
Speaker 13: Well, I mean, do we need to start trying things
over that we.
Speaker 5: Need to do?
Speaker 3: Yes, you have to him to start with with all
the sleep.
Speaker 4: No, okay, I think well I think we'll be fine.
Speaker 20: What mam okay, okay, okay, okay, all right, don't throw
my secret box of weapons over.
Speaker 7: We can always.
Speaker 17: Okay, okay, are they still there? Are they still behind us?
We're increasing the gap, but we're increasing the gap.
Speaker 3: Keep going.
Speaker 19: Sling over a little moat over the little moat and
give him a poke in the eye.
Speaker 6: We hadn't exploded.
Speaker 4: Everything goes.
Speaker 3: How about this? You're bullies and that's not okay. You
should feel bad about yourself.
Speaker 17: I don't think they can hear you, but I that's good.
Speaker 8: That's good.
Speaker 13: Next time you see them you can say that.
Speaker 3: I don't think in your fast.
Speaker 17: Yeah they are.
Speaker 3: You know what, this would be easier if we could
travel through time, but that's silly.
Speaker 18: Travel through time.
Speaker 3: We're trying to win rice. We're not trying to go
back in time. That's backwards.
Speaker 5: I feel like that.
Speaker 6: Would be cheating.
Speaker 17: We could go forwards in time and cross the finish line,
then we'd be cheaters.
Speaker 19: So what you're saying is I should put it up
into an even faster gear.
Speaker 1: Hodge clob can go.
Speaker 19: Okay, the ship is gonna start chunking a lot now. Okay, Oh, hey,
crossed the finish line.
Speaker 6: As that feel there?
Speaker 3: Now we can do whatever we want. Any tam pulled them.
Speaker 8: Yeah, this means that we we we we we want.
Speaker 5: So that means that.
Speaker 13: What you can go to school, right, that's what you
wanted to do.
Speaker 1: Should be an engineer, right, Yeah, but you're gonna be
real good at it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but what if we do something different, all of us,
like a new adventure, like a new.
Speaker 13: I love the adventure.
Speaker 3: We couldn't we could do anything. We could do anything at.
Speaker 1: All, a new secret box of weapons.
Speaker 18: Or a new shield.
Speaker 8: Could we build a new ship?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 18: Yeah, for parts from all over it.
Speaker 8: We can fail over all of Livieri and and take
the best parts that you want help and I can help.
Speaker 17: Yeah, guys, I feel weird.
Speaker 1: You do why stomach just.
Speaker 5: Like seasick?
Speaker 14: No, it's just like we just won this race and
I and she was asking, what's your name? We Yeah,
I'm sorry, I we're having a weird blank.
Speaker 21: But you were saying, you were saying, we can all
do something. What did you want to be asking Walky,
what do you want to do? Didn't you want to
go to school? And he said yeah, but we could
all do something different, And I thought, what do I
want to do? And I didn't remember for a second,
but then I did remember, and it just feels like
a long time ago.
Speaker 17: It's weird, weird. Sorry, it's probably nothing.
Speaker 8: Now I'm feeling weird.
Speaker 17: I maybe you worried a bad fruit?
Speaker 3: Fruit?
Speaker 7: That was it?
Speaker 17: I wanted to do he gave me a name after
a fruit?
Speaker 8: Maren?
Speaker 5: That's right.
Speaker 8: Why did I forget my name?
Speaker 3: I don't know, Hey, Maren, something is weird.
Speaker 18: It's okay, It's gonna be okay, though, well, of.
Speaker 13: Course we're all together.
Speaker 17: Yeah, and we won the race.
Speaker 1: It can't be.
Speaker 17: It couldn't have been anything. Nothing bad, nothing bad can
happen now we just won.
Speaker 3: I mean, I mean probably work that bullied a little bit,
but yeah, they lost, so it won't.
Speaker 17: They're just jealousy exactly.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 4: We're leaving again anyways for a new adventure.
Speaker 13: I love adventure.
Speaker 17: That's right, new ship, right.
Speaker 7: I feel.
Speaker 13: I feel like I've known you for a very long time.
But when I think about it, that feels weird. It
feels like i've known you for a very long time.
And then also I feel like.
Speaker 17: I don't know, but not long enough to have known
us as well as you know us. Right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I feel the same.
Speaker 13: I think I'm okay with it.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say it matters, say something terrible, but
I have a premonition and it's real bad.
Speaker 1: What's that?
Speaker 7: What is it?
Speaker 1: Is it about dinner?
Speaker 13: Is it not sitting on something?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 3: How did you know?
Speaker 6: Maybe maybe.
Speaker 1: What does it feel like her?
Speaker 13: Tommy, get funny, because that could be what happened to
me before I had a premonition.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, I think that's going to sit on
something and break it.
Speaker 1: Okay, new plan.
Speaker 2: We use the money to make anti Fenton sitting objects
all over the boat.
Speaker 1: Maybe a little spikes or bumps, just reinforced chair.
Speaker 3: You don't has what will make turns? How many times
did all of you bumby the stuff? And we'll start
putting spots. Everyone is gonna get hurt.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a really good point.
Speaker 3: Hey there's a diner we could go to have food.
Speaker 6: Yeah, good.
Speaker 8: Set the gold shack.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh I love the god Jack, Yeah, delicious.
Speaker 4: I think we should probably accept our trophy first, right, yeah.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I think we have to wait for some of
the other racers to come in before they announce it.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, hey, everybody here, even you Merit, especially you.
I'm so glad that I know here.
Speaker 13: And now I'm glad I know you too here and now.
Speaker 22: Hey, Bailia, Yeah, I was wondering jacko oh oh oh right,
I'm going to check the back of the ship to
make sure venting isn't sitting.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's go sit on venting everyone.
Speaker 3: Come on, I don't sit on vent then you can
hold him down.
Speaker 6: Actually, you know what help?
Speaker 13: I would love to see the blueprints for the new
ship you have planned little sketches.
Speaker 19: But I'll be showing you.
Speaker 3: Come check you down. Look, look, I was gonna, uh Failey,
I was just wondering if you might want to have
dinner with me just I mean, everybody will have dinner
at the Gulf Shack tonight, but maybe I thought we
could have dinner tomorrow, just the two of us. Not
that I don't like having dinner with every buddy, because
I really do. Everybody's my friend, and I just.
Speaker 17: Thought, yeah, why do I feel like you want to
kiss me?
Speaker 3: Because I do? But I was half afraid to ask,
could I would that be? Okay?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Okay, But before I do, I just want to tell
you that you won't know what this means. But I
haven't looked forward at all. I don't know what's going
to happen next, and I'm really excited about that.
Speaker 6: I feel weird again. I feel like I know you
better than I do, but I don't know how.
Speaker 8: Do you know?
Speaker 7: Why?
Speaker 4: Yes, I forgot, but that's it.
Speaker 3: Hey we dance, Yeah, we can dance. Okay, I will
take you like in a in a kind of awkward
high school dance.
Speaker 17: Every dress going to start somewhere right right.
Speaker 3: You can teach me okay, and then I it up
for a kiss.
Speaker 6: And I kiss you back. I was like, back, gonna.
Speaker 8: Okay, Everything will be okay in the end.
Speaker 6: If it's not okay, it's not the end.
Speaker 13: And in those moments when the current feels strong and
the end far away, remember the hardest, bravest thing we
can do together is the aren't you drunk?
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