Speaker 1: Come.
Speaker 2: Oh loud, loud, loud, loud, get down there the welcome
back loud? Fucking Do I have the bot on? Yeah,
you guys can hear that. Sorry, that was loud to
you guys in here.
Speaker 1: Lit hissy, that's about it.
Speaker 2: It's hissy.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no no, because it was loud.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, this is just the like ambiance of the
like noise floor of the recording.
Speaker 1: It was just like, oh I can't hear it.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, Welcome back, everybody. Welcome back to Gilligan's Grave.
Not nineteen. It's us. We're back. It's another week of
this and there'll be what another two weeks, three weeks
after this? So this, this month, this to this, this, this,
it's us. Where the we that we are when we're
being the we? We?
Speaker 1: Where the we?
Speaker 2: Where the we that we were when we pulled up? Look?
Speaker 5: Are you loaded with weed gummies right now?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Like I would not be that energetic if I was
loaded up with weed.
Speaker 6: It depends on the gummies.
Speaker 2: For those for those watching the VOD for those watching
the mod I just came off of a long story
that I'm not going to retell about how I got
dangerously high last week. So if you want to hear
stories about that, you got to tune in live for
the pre streams that said, oh yes, welcome back. I
fucking made a little table of questions that I've forgotten.
Hold on, no.
Speaker 1: Fuck?
Speaker 2: What is what was your favorite childhood show and who
was your favorite character from it? Good engagement?
Speaker 6: Difficult to narrow down?
Speaker 7: How how was the.
Speaker 6: Childhood Yeah, because.
Speaker 8: Like there's Blues Clues, there's power posts.
Speaker 2: What was the first show that you remember making a
point of following incontinuity in order? And by that I
mean when I discovered Inuyasha. It was the first show
for me that made me follow the TV schedule and
find out when it would be on because I wanted
to catch it in order. That's the first one I
remember being like, I care about seeing this in order.
What was your first show that made you want to
see things in order, that made you consciously aware there
was a story to follow that you weren't just catching
on TV.
Speaker 5: I'm just realizing that, like all of my fucking like
first ones were anime. I should note that these questions
are pokemon.
Speaker 2: These questions are questions. Questions are away questions for people
to answer in the comments and for us to answer
over the thing we're not.
Speaker 7: I want to learn.
Speaker 6: About my friends?
Speaker 8: Can I add an additional question though, on top of
the question, because Carrie pointed out that for U, for
herself and probably for a lot of people that might
have been anime, did this show also lead to a
sexual awakening.
Speaker 5: Some sort? Did you oh No.
Speaker 6: Yo sailor Mars Girl, Hot Spring running it on Kama naked?
Speaker 8: And yet Rumy made a point that to never give
Kagome a panty shot it on her naked though.
Speaker 2: No boobs boobs out all the time, especially in the manga.
I kind of a little respect that though, like yeah,
yeah for real, all right, so so so so so
so with that question that is not intended to be
answered by the cast, is intended to help people if
they want to comment, and that on the algorithm.
Speaker 5: I can't help it, you can't.
Speaker 2: You can help it.
Speaker 1: You're asked one of these questions we have answered, though, Yeah,
I might encourage people to answer their own thing.
Speaker 7: Thank you.
Speaker 2: People are answering all engagement.
Speaker 9: Yeah, mm hmm, just Pokemon.
Speaker 5: Pokemon was also one, but I don't think that was.
Speaker 6: It didn't anything.
Speaker 10: Cast like the cast the cast sits on it and
thinks about it and answers it over the break new rule. Okay, Oh,
so that the start of every session is not twenty
minutes of talking about the.
Speaker 2: Question ADHD I avoid like stepping into.
Speaker 11: It's okay, someone will have to remind us that question
what it was.
Speaker 7: Fine, It'll be fine.
Speaker 11: Carry, I got you, baby, Okay, thank you?
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, everybody, gay, D and D. We're gonna do
a D and D. We're doing We're doing a D
and D. But before we do a D and D,
I should also up for people at home that if
plans go as I intend them to, starting next week,
we will be we will be multi streaming to YouTube,
to the Project Mouthwash channel as well, where I might
not back up the videos. I probably won't, but we're
gonna hopefully try to bring that audience sort of into
the fold, or at least make them aware we're streaming,
because you know, there's two hundred and thirty thousands odd
subscribers over there, and I'm sure at least two of
them might.
Speaker 12: Like to.
Speaker 6: Know for real.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like we have a million subs, what we get
like maybe eighty people watching on YouTube all our.
Speaker 2: Bridge fans, but also a lot of y'all do not
like anything that is not the thing you're there for.
Speaker 5: And that's fine.
Speaker 6: You're here for.
Speaker 2: No one's holding your hostage. Yeah, but also we do
do other things.
Speaker 6: Justice, what up?
Speaker 11: Justice?
Speaker 1: What are you saying? Nothing? They're just holding the hostage.
Speaker 7: He has a gun and I don't know.
Speaker 2: Such a such.
Speaker 13: You didn't have to tell them so frequently on our shorts.
Speaker 2: Like I say frequently, I mean like maybe like twice
a month when where shorts go out from U b W,
you get people being like, go back to making sort
of the line of bridge, and I'm like, I don't
know what to do with you. You to us, Yeah,
I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: Listen, dude, they.
Speaker 2: Thank you and sound the same, which you so fucking
don't really true.
Speaker 6: Damn now, dude.
Speaker 5: We get people on our stream chats being like, y'all
have taken so long, you might as well jube up
on se O And I'm like, you know what, Clyde,
You're right, we'll.
Speaker 2: Do that, will give up. Well, you convinced me.
Speaker 5: You convinced us to stop. You're right, Internet, Clyde, you
it was you.
Speaker 1: I want you to know that you want it so badly.
You fail. You failed.
Speaker 2: You're right, it would be logistically sensible for us.
Speaker 7: To stop wing Charlie.
Speaker 2: You win the project. Frials are deleted, it's gone. Thank you,
thank you for thank you for releasing me.
Speaker 7: You win the whole factory.
Speaker 5: You've done it, You've done It'll come climb into my
glass elevators so I can.
Speaker 2: Talk like Matthew is a free YouTuber.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't know what the fuck to do, Master has
Matthew with the comment Matthew is a free YouTuber.
Speaker 2: Oh do me time WM alright, so I'm gonna roll
my die. Someone's gonna tell me what happened last time.
This is actually one of the ones where it's a
bit challenging, and that's why it's good that it goes
to erin. Fucking god Ah.
Speaker 1: We shout out for the room, all funked up. First
aid was provided the short term quite quickly. Scarn Lily,
I have ever stayed behind while the rest of us
went with our new prisoner more Lane to the downtown
h Q, where Commander Dendron met us and told us
that we were the only people that he was basically
one hundred percent sure he could trust and that I
shouldn't respond to orders from anyone other than him and
only him if it's face to face, to which to
which Laurie provided a lovely passphrase candy Wampus. Then, unbeknownst
to us, Scarn and Lily immediately left the house to
go meet so Un where they had a dramatic and
telenovela ESK encounter. It was delightful.
Speaker 12: Uh.
Speaker 1: Inst I'm just here man. They're supportive. Friend, I'm very supportive. Yeah,
you go girl.
Speaker 2: Ah.
Speaker 1: And while they were doing that, Pepper was scraunging around
looking for all sorts of notes and nickknacks. They found
a puzzle box and they chatted with a cat, and
they chatted with our dirty little prisoner friend, who was
also taken to the Southwester clinic over at the the
Resting Head. Yeah, the Resting Head Clinic where later on Bey,
Laurie and I went there talked to doctor Southrester. We're
liarning about a new disease. It's affecting people that are
very very different to cure if you don't catch it
quite early.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 1: And then Laurie had a bit of an emotional episode
before we went to bed. He lain.
Speaker 14: All right, so so so so so so.
Speaker 2: We're going to come in on the day of Monday,
the nineteenth of November, the year seven fifty six of
the second Era, and it is currently six am. I
have water in the background for reasons that I don't
fully understand. If I'm being frank, heck, you should probably
change that on me. It's something more cavy hold on
neighbors water.
Speaker 1: Cave with water.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, we're going to open because everybody went
home and went to bed, We're going to open with
Scarn and Lilia. The last thing that you, guys remember
is so saying something to the effect of like you
want to see something wild to watch this. You then
both find yourself From that point on. You have no
memory of the conversation. Past that point, all you remember
is awaken or not remember. You simply become aware that
you wake up, having at some point fallen asleep. You
wake up on bed breads that have been laid out
in a spare room in the temple, as it seems
you fell asleep there.
Speaker 1: Hm hm, Where where am I? Where?
Speaker 12: What?
Speaker 2: Lily is taking a bit more of a second to
wake up than you, Scarn, So you find yourself rising
earlier unusual circumstance.
Speaker 1: Uh, this is weird.
Speaker 4: Uh what didn't where's saloon? Wasn't you just saying that,
Hey Lily, Oh she is out?
Speaker 1: Okay, mm I have no idea. What's going on? Where
are we? What is that? Was cool?
Speaker 12: All right?
Speaker 1: Hell? Hey Lily elliet?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 1: Okay? Cool?
Speaker 3: Can I like investigate like where I am? Just in general?
Where I'm just in the same place?
Speaker 11: Right?
Speaker 2: Taking a look around, you do not appear to be
in the same room. You appear to be in another
room that is within the same temple. You recognize this
as still being in Karra Gosha Sanctuary. You figure you're
probably in one of the rooms that they leave open
for those that need shelter during the night.
Speaker 4: Okay, word, Oh what am I supposed to be doing?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: I mean like that's a long rest?
Speaker 1: Correct?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yes, everybody was just long rest. I'm going to long rest.
Everybody but doom sick.
Speaker 1: Rest and long rest.
Speaker 6: Yeah, thank god, I'm not bleeding anymore.
Speaker 1: Sick. Okay, I guess I have to wait for Lily
to wake up and then, uh, are we are?
Speaker 3: Do we just meet up with everybody?
Speaker 1: At this point?
Speaker 4: I don't know it's hard to deliberate by myself. I
don't make these decisions myself usually. Huh, I should learn
to make decisions.
Speaker 2: This is Scarn, by the way, this is talking out loud.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's just talking out as you do.
Speaker 6: So I'm sorry.
Speaker 11: Tell me.
Speaker 2: You heard all that.
Speaker 1: Those are first words morning.
Speaker 8: I mean in Lily's head, she wakes up like a
dizzy princess Scarn sees her eyes like frank inside.
Speaker 1: Those were literally the first words that came out. You
thought you woke up all perfect, and it's just like,
tell me good morning.
Speaker 4: I have no idea how we ended up in one
of the little cot rooms, but I guess it's morning.
Speaker 9: Oh, I don't know. It sounds like I'm disappointed.
Speaker 1: Hold on, why are you disappointed?
Speaker 7: Well, I didn't.
Speaker 15: I didn't agree to suddenly fall asleep.
Speaker 1: That is true.
Speaker 11: Were we.
Speaker 6: Will?
Speaker 11: We like.
Speaker 9: He did he drug us?
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think it was a drug. We
did we have that food was pretty good. I don't know.
Speaker 9: You think you put a spell on us.
Speaker 4: With the druggers, really leave us in the same place
with our kidneys?
Speaker 15: I mean if I mean, can you see if your
back has any scar no, I can't do you want
me to check your back.
Speaker 3: For Okay, don't lie to me.
Speaker 1: Don't do this.
Speaker 9: I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1: Don't do this to me.
Speaker 2: It's all my fault. It's Gord.
Speaker 6: Come on, nothing happened.
Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna leave. We should get out of here.
Speaker 3: We got to meet up with it.
Speaker 1: Where where is everybody?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 9: I don't know.
Speaker 15: We should probably leave though. Wow, we didn't get any answers.
I'm gonna have to really think about how you feel
about that.
Speaker 1: It was your idea.
Speaker 15: Yeah, I know, it was my idea, and at the
end of the day, it's only my fault that this happened,
and I dragged you along into it.
Speaker 9: And I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: I didn't say that. I just said it was your idea.
Speaker 15: But right now, I don't know how I feel about
all this.
Speaker 4: All right, Well, let's keep thinking about that as we
get the hell out of here.
Speaker 15: Yeah, I think we should leave donchalantly there way, that
way we don't raise any suspense.
Speaker 4: Yeah, usually that would be the best way, I mean,
the best where you want to go? Probably back to
Desmond's house.
Speaker 9: Honestly, probably would be a good idea. I mean, yeah,
I think that would.
Speaker 7: Be a good idea.
Speaker 3: I know nowhere else to look for.
Speaker 9: All right, well, now you lead the way.
Speaker 1: How long is that gonna take twenty minutes to get
to Desmond?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Desmond luckily lives like right across the way. Yeah,
it's like five to six minutes to walk over there
on the lines Mint in the lines. Yeah, so they do.
But you're so close on either side that I'm like.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: It takes an inconsequential roughly tennish amount minutes amount of time.
The lines are largely there for if you're like traveling
between pits for me to look at, if you're just
like jumping a little tiny bit of the water over time,
time soup, it's a construct. You move fast enough, time
moves differently. It's it's what is even his time?
Speaker 1: That's literally true.
Speaker 2: I'm missed throwing people on the map because I'm able to,
because it's the thing I can do.
Speaker 4: There.
Speaker 2: You all right, so you head over there. Uh do
you know where Desmond's house is?
Speaker 1: Yeah? He went? All right.
Speaker 2: You guys make your way out of the temple. As
you do, you kind of you escape past the Uh.
It's it's the later hours of communion. This would be
around the time that they'd be like, all right, it's daytime.
Everybody out.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: As of this point, you do not bump into Linnell,
who probably at this hour would actually be sleeping because
he sleeps at in two weird times of day because
of his religion. Uh. He he does not sleep once.
He sleeps during the transitional hours.
Speaker 4: Of Ah, so he does or some shit out.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The thing that moon razors do, they sleep during the
transitional hours. They're like, what is it fucking like five
to nine and nine to ten and six to ten?
I think something like that doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: Not a wig.
Speaker 2: You don't see any sign of sooon as you leave,
and you guys, find your way out pretty easily as
you step outside. Just as a note about the area,
despite it being mourning, the moon route that is up
above you, guys, it is giving off the same look.
It always appears to be a perpetual state of like night,
as if this part of the underground was always lit
by moonlight at all times a day. You head out,
you head across the way, you head towards Desmond's residence,
and as your hand reaches for the door to give
it a knock, we flip over them as they wake up.
Speaker 1: I'm definitely already. H you would be you would be Laurence.
Speaker 6: I was gonna say I stayed to Dismond's.
Speaker 2: I remember what are you doing, Lawrence?
Speaker 6: The whole thing? Uh sleeping later in the Desmond? Yeah,
yeah about it?
Speaker 1: Yep, yeah, I'd be making up food or something because
another do working. I'm soon.
Speaker 6: Yeah. You said something at the end of last game
about like a basket or something being at the door.
Speaker 5: But that's in my house, right Ye, your heads in my.
Speaker 6: House interell okay, macontro cool, I'm I'm even. I probably
wake up one. I smell food?
Speaker 1: May ray?
Speaker 7: Oh what you making?
Speaker 1: Hash bruns?
Speaker 16: Sick?
Speaker 6: Okay? I get somewhere.
Speaker 1: No, oh okay, of course you what do you think
I can need all this myself?
Speaker 6: That's fair? You do do body? Thank you?
Speaker 1: M coud comfy okay?
Speaker 2: And then a knock.
Speaker 1: I suppose I'll go grab more potatoes.
Speaker 5: You get the doorm Okay, I just got calm.
Speaker 6: Okay, I opened the door.
Speaker 5: Oh come on in Desmond made breakfast.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, I'm sick. I scrunch it in.
Speaker 5: It's just like got look a halfling quarters.
Speaker 1: He's got a small house. But I think it's like.
Speaker 2: You know, you.
Speaker 4: Know, I don't think you bought an inaccessible house for himself,
so I don't think it was made for scarns.
Speaker 6: So funny. Watch I had their scar. Okay, you got it.
Speaker 1: I'll be over here. Don't worry. Okay, I'll just you.
Speaker 5: May we'll honk her down, like on the floor or something.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, okay. Oh he's so big, he's so big.
How you guys doing? Are you feeling better? You're messed
up yesterday.
Speaker 9: I bought better now the church fixed me up?
Speaker 7: Real gay?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 15: What I mean? It was definitely Why do you got
to scarnh You have to say it like they did
something the fairious to want.
Speaker 1: No, No, no, they didn't do anything.
Speaker 2: You hadn't What the hell?
Speaker 15: I didn't have the farious reasons to scarn. I didn't
know there was any ulterior motives.
Speaker 1: Oh, you didn't have ulterior motives for me? You did?
Speaker 12: You?
Speaker 4: You want an information on your on your on your
little on, your little mate, on your.
Speaker 15: Mo That's not what I wanted. I didn't ask about
my prince. I asked about the weird, funny grave things
you were there.
Speaker 1: You see how she said, our prince. You see that.
Speaker 6: Is a real saucer, Lulu.
Speaker 15: Scar, you were there. I specifically had you come with
me so that you would be there.
Speaker 4: It wasn't at no, no, no, no, I know I'm witness,
but it's just also funny.
Speaker 1: If I had a gold piece for every time someone
in my proximity said they were having something to do
with some sort of royalty, I have two gold pieces,
which isn't a lot. It is weird that happened twice.
Speaker 5: I don't know if my dad's royalties definitely noble.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't understand the distinction between those words.
Speaker 15: AnyWho, We went to that, We went to the temple
not only to fix myself up, because they have the
means to do it very quickly and with no effort,
but well not no effort, but at a minimal cost.
If you come wine, if you come crying loud enough.
But because I mean, I mean, I mean they take
offerable donations and volunteer work if you can't pay it.
Speaker 7: Huh either way, okay, I.
Speaker 15: Mean tresh has got to keep itself running somehow. Spells
aren't cheap, That's that's true.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, I'll go on you.
Speaker 15: But uh no, I went there to pack myself up,
and because it would have and the easiest way to
see Satoon to ask me about the graves and about
what it has to do with my family, which turns
out instead he put us to sleep.
Speaker 5: He did.
Speaker 6: He put you to sleep.
Speaker 9: He put us to sleep.
Speaker 5: He we have questions, and he was like, we indulged
in cheese and wine, and he put us to sleep.
Speaker 9: And Scarn still has his kidneys.
Speaker 5: What wouldn't Why wouldn't Scarn have his kidneys?
Speaker 6: Did the church the kidney?
Speaker 1: They don't. Don't worry about it, kid It was.
Speaker 6: All right, what did your works do?
Speaker 4: We went to the church to get patched up. That's
about it. That's all we need.
Speaker 1: That's all okay.
Speaker 5: But like her, principally put you to sleep.
Speaker 2: But it was weird.
Speaker 7: It is not my prince. Why did you see?
Speaker 5: He was I, Oh, yeah, I'm so confused.
Speaker 6: I can't even flirt with you right now.
Speaker 15: Okay, let's start from the top.
Speaker 9: Let's start from the top. Okay, let's let's try to.
Let's try to.
Speaker 15: Let's try to make our way back, really back.
Speaker 9: So after we got beaten, up at the estate.
Speaker 15: Scaring took me to the temple where they patched me up,
and I sought sanctuary and to see Satoon, not because
he is my prince, but because he was being suspicious
around my family grave site and eluded and alluded to
my family having information. You were there for that, Lawrence.
I asked my mother and father why were there brave
that we didn't know about? And they couldn't answer me
and said maybe I should talk to sat Un, which
comes back to the first point. We went to the
church to seek sanctuary and speak with sat mm hmm okay,
where he then proceeded to speak in more riddles, talking
about how he just feels so bad that what his
actions has caused great pain and suffering to me, which
I don't know what he's talking about, but let's let's
ride that for a bit. I told him I solely
put my trust entirely in him and he would never
do anything to forsake my trust and many put us
to sleep.
Speaker 5: What did what did you put your trust in him?
Speaker 11: Well?
Speaker 9: Right now, I don't have a reason not to mmm
right now if.
Speaker 15: He seems to be so indebted and and he's the
fact that he seems so indebted and like he needs
to pay a repentance to my family.
Speaker 9: I feel like I shouldn't. Well, I was saying, take
advantage of that. Sounds wrong, Make the most of it.
Speaker 15: And you and you know, test test his test, his
uh test, his passion.
Speaker 9: And his resolve.
Speaker 6: Why would you have passion for you if he's not
your friends.
Speaker 15: I'm not talking about passion for me specifically in a
romantic way, Lawrence. I mean passion to his word. You know,
his dignity, his pride, his is him. You know, you
can't just say something.
Speaker 5: I already didn't like him, and the story is making
me like him even less.
Speaker 15: Okay, but like Lawrence is okay, you're still so young.
Speaker 2: Real, just just call me stupid, real real quick, Pepper, Yeah,
what are you doing this morning?
Speaker 5: Get on in here.
Speaker 7: I mean, Dosmons said they would be coming up to
my place.
Speaker 1: Half arm off the side. Fuck.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I feel like I feel like she'd be like
doing doing work. Uh gotcha, Like in her room.
Speaker 11: She probably brought coffee up for her in ox, a
sauser of black coffee.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, we'll touch on that then once we
figure out what they're doing. Just wanted to know what
you're doing in case you are on your way there
or anything. All right, back to you, guys.
Speaker 17: Mm hmm, here's your food, thank you.
Speaker 1: Here's your food. Thanks. It's not much, but it's a food.
Speaker 6: Mhmm. You're you're really good.
Speaker 1: Hash brown eggs, some meat kind of mushed it. It
doesn't look advertising, but it's made of advertising things. The plate.
Speaker 9: It's really good.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, it's empty. Oh, excellent.
Speaker 17: Work sounds like a book. Oh they're talking about princes
and stuff, and he said he wasn't one, but I
was like, that'd make a good, good book.
Speaker 1: The Colian friends sounds like some sort of scandalous royal
intrigue story or whatever.
Speaker 15: He did say he was from a foreign land that
I the character would know, but the player is dumb,
so she does not remember the name.
Speaker 1: He's that's where most of the elves are from. Okay,
I need it's.
Speaker 2: Your continents at war with it. When Desmond was at war,
they were who he was fighting.
Speaker 7: Oh that's right, Lilia.
Speaker 6: Love hell.
Speaker 9: I did flavor from how do you spell that?
Speaker 6: Cook?
Speaker 2: Spars h u l I you l l i.
Speaker 15: Okay, the continent we are at war with, Okay, and
writing in my little journal.
Speaker 1: It's imparting to keep notes. I would have been writing earlier,
but I was making food.
Speaker 7: Mm hmmm, a little journal.
Speaker 5: Okay, if I'm getting this straight, we don't like so
Oon and he is not Lily.
Speaker 6: Okay, is chill?
Speaker 12: Mean?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 15: Right now, we don't have a reason to see him
as an enemy. He might be. It could have been
because we were really tired. It's just the point is,
we were next.
Speaker 1: We just thought a whole battle.
Speaker 3: Lily was dead five seconds before that.
Speaker 5: Okay, but why wasn't he just like you, guys, get
some rust. He didn't need to magically put you to sleep.
Speaker 4: We were He didn't magically put us to sleep. I
don't think it was magic. I think I don't know
what's the thing, two.
Speaker 7: Guys, what happened?
Speaker 2: Okay, we don't know either.
Speaker 15: But okay, so here's the thing. We have no reason
to dislike Satoon at the moment. We okay, you do.
We We have some reason to think that his presence
here might be a little bit dubious, but right now
we don't have any sort of evidence, aside from the
recent matter, that he put us asleep, because we do
not know the reason why and it could be benevolent
go on anyhow, any over ruled, And and until we
see a matter in which he is being explicitly bad,
we should we should at least hold a a neutral
to slight suspicion over him, because at the and he
has been here for uh over about a decade now,
he keeps seeing him around, he's he's he's been here
for over a decade, and he hasn't caused any stir
or attention. And he resides in the temple pretty much
all the time, and they let him stay there for
volunteer work and other stuff. So if he hasn't done
if he hasn't done anything in ten years, why would
he suddenly start doing things now?
Speaker 5: Maybe it's part of his evil muster plan?
Speaker 3: Come on, kid, how long do you think an evil mastermind.
Speaker 1: Is going to go for?
Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: You done your food?
Speaker 5: I need you do a little bit more, Desmond, Like,
what do you think of this?
Speaker 1: Eat your food?
Speaker 9: What do you think of this? Desmond?
Speaker 1: I I'm trying to put my personal feelings about anyone
holding a sword like that aside. He hasn't committed any crimes. Yeah,
that is my overarching opinion.
Speaker 6: He walked away, gron uh.
Speaker 1: Kind of yeah, is what what am I supposed to do?
Resting beforehand? It's your food. We gotta swing by your place.
Eat faster, come on, I got fast scarning.
Speaker 4: Don't don't, you're literally you can at least you can
at least that speed.
Speaker 15: You at least eat all your food and grow big
and strong and maybe you'll be as tall as s
Carn one day. You ladies know the ladies love tall
brooding awkward man.
Speaker 5: That is accurate, though, brooding yo, pathetic man somewhere.
Speaker 6: Let's go.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go pepper you. So if you're all set,
excuse your stuff.
Speaker 6: This is what I'm trying to hit on. Is that
what you're in.
Speaker 1: You can flirt with the girl while we walk.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, so you guys are going to head
up and head up towards where Pepper is.
Speaker 1: Of course, we got to get We gotta get Laura
change of clothes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we gotta get their houses on the way
nice all right, convenient.
Speaker 6: Way to go buy my house there like.
Speaker 2: Takes you about it takes you about twenty ish minutes
to get up to Laurie's house you're we're approaching about
seven am at this point. As you guys head up
and you head towards Laurie's house, you do find that
outside the door, sitting very very quaintly folded, there is
a small bag, and in the bag there appears to
be a change of clothes, a new change of clothes
in a young Lawrence's side, and a very tiny box.
Speaker 1: Oh did you prepack a change of clothes?
Speaker 5: No, Logan, would anything like this have happened before?
Speaker 12: No?
Speaker 2: First time?
Speaker 6: Okay, this is really weird.
Speaker 1: Y who set up the clothes for you?
Speaker 16: Bro?
Speaker 5: I I don't know, I mean, you don't know. The
only person I could think that would maybe do it
is Maurice m.
Speaker 6: But there's not like a note or anything here, is there?
It is weird.
Speaker 1: Anybody holm who would have done this?
Speaker 3: You didn't tell anybody about this stuff?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 11: Mm hmm?
Speaker 6: I mean like just you guys, Like you guys did this,
Like Pepper wouldn't have done this?
Speaker 1: Right. Oh? We split off with them and they went
the opposite direction after the resting head.
Speaker 6: Uh m hm, what's all here? Logan?
Speaker 2: You said the change of clothes and change of clothes
and a small box.
Speaker 1: Small box.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna look at the small box.
Speaker 2: Get up with a small box. Okay, all right, heck
can you you uh find five gold in it? Whoa, yeah,
that's all five gold?
Speaker 11: Guys.
Speaker 6: There's money in here.
Speaker 7: Oh h yeah.
Speaker 5: Someone gave me five gold in this box and a
change of clothes. Guys, I'm scared.
Speaker 1: What uh I mean?
Speaker 5: Okay, I I like the clothes and I want to
keep the money.
Speaker 6: So to make myself feel.
Speaker 5: Better, I'm just gonna assume that it's Maurice and ask
him about it later.
Speaker 4: Is there anything around that would be weird, like footsteps
away from said box?
Speaker 18: No?
Speaker 2: No, No, I mean it's all like there's a lot
of stone here.
Speaker 1: So yeah, okay, well that won't work. I'm gonna test
a thing. Mhm ah.
Speaker 2: I fucking added to everybody else. Hold on everybody, No,
I needed the money.
Speaker 1: Me getting paid and then they're like, oh that's too
much you're.
Speaker 6: Getting paid and then bills happened.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, I'm just gonna try to not be freaked
out about this until I have a reason to be
freaked out about it.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna go in and change you guys. Stay out here.
Speaker 1: It wasn't gonna fit yep.
Speaker 2: Cool.
Speaker 5: I like to go in and close the door and
be like, oh hey, mom, hi, how you feeling.
Speaker 6: You're feeling any better?
Speaker 5: Like really loudly?
Speaker 1: See there was knowing on.
Speaker 6: The lie is that my mom is here?
Speaker 1: Shut up?
Speaker 19: Good.
Speaker 5: Oh that's that's good. That's good.
Speaker 6: Here.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna keep doing my work with Desmond.
Speaker 6: You you feel better? O, goodbye? Come back out in
the change of clothes. Okay, you get going? Should we
should we should go get pepper?
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, going around here fresh?
Speaker 1: Okay, that was weird.
Speaker 13: Wait, scarn, mm hmmm, No, I take back what I said.
See see I knew I should have said something. See
I knew it. I knew it.
Speaker 2: I take a little look around. Mm hmm. Roll my investigation.
Speaker 11: Okay, let's go, baby, Oh my god, damn, come on,
my king, work.
Speaker 13: With me, gods, okay with me, gods.
Speaker 1: Seventeen sixteen.
Speaker 2: You just take a casual little poke around, just wander
around the house, trying to find prints from anybody.
Speaker 1: That may have been the one to leave.
Speaker 2: This, perhaps somebody that might be watching. And as you
investigate around the house, Scarn, you do find there is
a range situation in the back. As you come around
to the back of the house and you see there's
like a stretch of land that is between the house
and the wall. You see that there's like softer dirt
and stone toward the wall of the cave. And you
as you wander over and you see some what appeared
to be like footprints and scripe marks that are leading
either to or from some green, some shrubbery heck in
action that's going on near it. You push them to
the side and you see there seems to be a
large filled in hole that had been dug and then
filled over, and there's still rocks and dirts scattered around,
something that would have been very difficult to dig. It
is about six feet long and about two and a
half feet wide.
Speaker 6: Scroing what you're doing?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, this happened earlier. You're inside.
Speaker 6: Oh fair for reversorry.
Speaker 2: You didn't come outside, say a and then he didn't.
Speaker 5: No, I thought I thought this happened as we were like,
let's go see pepper, and then.
Speaker 6: You like caught it out of his eye. No, that's whine.
I'm inside, I'm not here, that's fine.
Speaker 2: I'm investigating you hear him yelling in his seemingly empty
house in the distance.
Speaker 3: As you discover this, Okay, I see it's I.
Speaker 4: You said it was like pretty difficult to have digs,
So I can't dig this up at all?
Speaker 1: Right now?
Speaker 3: Can I like you?
Speaker 2: It was because of the rocky texture of the ground here,
But as you look at it, you could, you could,
you could dig it up.
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Can I like go and try and dig a little
bit just to see what's going on over here? I'm I, honestly,
what what's this? It hasn't said danger yet, so I'm.
Speaker 2: Like, only and athletics to see how quickly.
Speaker 1: You do this?
Speaker 4: Yeah, athletics, yeah, yeah, mane.
Speaker 2: You begin pushing rocks and dirt and silt out of
the way as a lot of what's covering in this
hole appears to just be solid chunks of rock that
were like picked in mind out. As you push them
to the side, you do uncover down to the bottom.
Speaker 1: Of this hole.
Speaker 2: It's about three feet deep, and you find that there's
nothing in it.
Speaker 1: You're doing taking around on the kids yard.
Speaker 2: Suddenly he's there.
Speaker 3: Fuck the fuck God, you scared me.
Speaker 1: Ah, I'm very sneak. Yeah you yeah, I think so.
Speaker 4: So you're good with like this whole investigation stuff.
Speaker 1: You're a cop.
Speaker 4: Sure came over here, saw there was just this path
back here to this basically dug up spot. And you
know how the ground is down here, it shouldn't be
dug up. It had to like figure out what was
going on down here. But I didn't see anything. This
was like an old garden or something. I think the
shrubs right here right, yeah, but.
Speaker 1: Nah, there was like.
Speaker 4: Fresh footsteps foot marks and yeah, but who is here recently?
Speaker 1: And think about it? Yeah, other than Laurie.
Speaker 3: Unless like there's family here.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Am I wrong? Is the kid news mouth? Oh?
It was mom? She must be able body to be
able to do this chick right now? So unlikely.
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, I don't think. I think this might be
some we got to check out. But I guess nah,
I wouldn't.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't dwell on too hard. We'll get driven. How
quickly you got to the bottom of this? Oh m
anything in it's no, not really? Hey, Lawrence, Lawrence, there.
Speaker 2: Lawrence, you you hear a call from outside? Is you're
just about done to getting.
Speaker 1: Your clothes on?
Speaker 6: They're in the back right mm hm.
Speaker 5: Oh uh, what are you guys doing out there?
Speaker 1: You know, if anybody's been back here digging.
Speaker 4: What, yeah, digging, Just just a bunch of someone would
be back here digging up some dirt in some recent.
Speaker 6: That's that's weird.
Speaker 11: I know.
Speaker 5: Maybe it was like ourcoons or something.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's harcoons or something. They just breaking the peace
backyards and it's a pretty big hole for a bunch
of animals to be making. I wouldn't call them that.
I feel like they'd be offended.
Speaker 2: That's racoons at the humanoid raccoon. I thought I wanted
to say, see fantasy raccoons, got it, check.
Speaker 1: Raccoons that were different man.
Speaker 7: Somewhere out of the universe. Mention is offended. Yea, we
miss you all day.
Speaker 2: We do.
Speaker 20: Well.
Speaker 6: Why would random people be in your backyard digging stuff up?
Speaker 1: No, sounding like I'm sure it's probably you know, recently
is but how how could this be? Yeah, it's mom
could have done it before they uh, before they fell in.
We're going to plant some new things.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, my mom loved gardening. Yeah okay, I mean
like my mom loves gardening.
Speaker 4: Yeah, how okay, all right down, thank you.
Speaker 1: It was the thing. Don't worry about it, big man.
Playing in dirt. Have fun.
Speaker 2: Let's go, let's go.
Speaker 16: You dig fast by the way. Yeah, no, it's a lot.
I got a lot of wings man. Wow, it's an
unrelated observation. The time it took me to walk around
from the front of the house after you to get here.
You got what three feet in good job.
Speaker 1: It's mostly rocks. We're keeping pepper waiting that we should go.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we should go.
Speaker 15: Yeah, you guys, you me use your bathroom by the way,
learns I really needed it?
Speaker 1: Are you get to my house?
Speaker 7: Make a constitution saving No?
Speaker 2: Ye, you guys. Head upward through downtown. As you do,
you hear the distant sound of the barred College of
drifting echoes playing music reverberating through the air. As you
pass by. You pass in the general vicinity of the
Resting Head Clinic, which gives some of you a momentary
flashback to the previous night when you had spoken to
the others and you are aware that the captive and
old man mctraw are both being cared for. There in
the distance, you see the undertow HQ, or at least
the area where would be elevated on one of the
little cliffs inside this massive cave. You head to the river.
You head upstream, and you head out into Uptown, emerging
into daylight out above you so a little bit. It's
the faintest bit chilly for the time of year that
it is. Heading into Uptown, you pass by the undertow
Uptown HQ, follow the river upward and go into the
effectively town square that exists for the Uptown area. Find
the Curling Bobcat, a well known tavern that visitors tend
to stay in extensively sees a lot of business from that.
As you enter into it, you just to delineate things
to get braiden into the fold. Here you speak to
the red haired gnomish man Goldul, who runs the Curling Bobcat.
This excited individual readily points you towards the room where
Pepper is. You guys, head up there. And before we
get up there, Pepper, actually you know what, Peppe. Wait, assumedly,
you hear a knock on your door, Pee pepe.
Speaker 11: Pepper's going to open her door, and she's like so not.
She's in a state of undress, her hair has not
been brushed, her shirt's like buttoned up, but it hasn't
been like done with the little cravat or anything. She
doesn't have her cape on, she's barefoot. Can you just
see into the back of her room? Just so many
books open on every surface, like, there's chairs with books
on them. There's a chair by the window with a
pillow that has an indent in it. And she just
kind of stares out at everyone for a moment, like, ah.
Speaker 2: There are two would effectively amount to coffee, one mostly empty,
another with a fluffy white cat locking out of it.
Speaker 7: Huh data, good morning?
Speaker 11: Uh yes, gosh, what time is it?
Speaker 1: Kind of early?
Speaker 7: Honestly, I have a thing.
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, I woke up, looked up sad, and it
was right here, and so I've been looking at it
and making notes.
Speaker 7: Where are my manners?
Speaker 11: Y'all?
Speaker 7: Come in?
Speaker 5: Did someone leave a box outside your house with clothes
and gold in it?
Speaker 7: A box? I don't know what's in it?
Speaker 6: Oh maybe, come on, come.
Speaker 11: On, come on.
Speaker 2: Question is no, you did not have a box. I
feel like there's a minor miscommunication there. You did not
receive a box?
Speaker 7: No I did not.
Speaker 6: Oh, okay, okay, that probably was Marie.
Speaker 1: How am I supposed to be? Okay?
Speaker 2: Oh, I get it. I never mind, I see what
you're doing.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they did and.
Speaker 6: Let her lie.
Speaker 2: I thought I thought, I thought that they may be
mishurt and thought you said that the there was a
box left outside their place. I'm sorry. Communication happens. Now,
I now see the the adhd ing that was that
happened just now, I understand. Continue with the give you.
I'll be over here turning the wheels and the rest
of the world. You guys, handle you, okay.
Speaker 7: So, so like where all of these books kind of culminate, is.
Speaker 11: Uh the jewelry box, Well not, it's not a jewelry box.
Speaker 7: It's the size of a jewelry box. It's a puzzle box.
Speaker 11: Oh and there's just like a bunch of notes written,
like some half eaten rations.
Speaker 7: That look old.
Speaker 11: She just kind of pops down in her chair and
she's like, all right, So it's got all these adolic
symbols on it, the Adnce, twelve Adolens.
Speaker 6: Like which ones are watching? Know about the Adolin logan?
Speaker 2: All of you?
Speaker 6: Sick? Oh yeah, I know about them.
Speaker 2: They're the primary deities of the world you live in.
You know them, sick?
Speaker 6: Why don't you.
Speaker 2: Would at least know, the ones that weren't part of
the Twilight Authority.
Speaker 11: Yeah, so I'm looking at this box.
Speaker 7: Oh no, go ahead, do you ask your question, Lili, I.
Speaker 9: Was gonna make I was gonna make a dumb joke
to Logan.
Speaker 8: I was like, so would you say that they were
one called the twelve?
Speaker 7: But mm hmm uh, I get that joke.
Speaker 11: They got the twelves here, and I'm looking at these
little knobs because there are three knobs, and all the
three knobs there are these motifs, ones of a moon,
ones of a sun, and ones of a sentence sun right,
And so I'm looking and for each one of the
three dials, it's a combination of four, you know, four
twelve kind of makes sense. So I'm thinking what the
different twisting my bobbers could be, Like is it from
ascending to descending order? Because you know, like if the
moon sun and then you got the setting sun is
like a median or or maybe it's a date, but
possibly it could be all of the idolines that represent
And so I have a little list here going and
she'll like it has like a cute doodle of like
a moon a setting sun, like it's just a sketch
of what's on the thing.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's right there.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna pick it up. How securty?
Speaker 2: Does it feel very very sullen?
Speaker 5: What what do we think happens like when you solve it?
Speaker 7: I think it opens.
Speaker 6: Okay, what if we just try to smash it?
Speaker 7: All?
Speaker 21: Right?
Speaker 7: Here are my thoughts on that one. Fun.
Speaker 6: Oh that's a good well. I mean look at it.
It's like it's a look a wooden box. It's not
gonna do that much explosion.
Speaker 7: Honey, that is magic.
Speaker 5: I would not have you.
Speaker 7: Have you heard of Warden? The spell Warden? Oh gosh,
what is it?
Speaker 21: I have it?
Speaker 6: I don't know what trying to tell me?
Speaker 7: Glyph of Warden? You never heard a glyph of Warden?
Speaker 15: Boy?
Speaker 6: Have I?
Speaker 1: I mean maybe who knows?
Speaker 6: I mean maybe who knows?
Speaker 5: You don't know me, I'll.
Speaker 7: Tell you what. It's a spell?
Speaker 11: Or when you fuss with things you shouldn't you pay
a press which you like cought skateboard box?
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, But if your theory about that's correct, then
how do you know it's not gonna happen even if
you solve it.
Speaker 15: I mean, he does bring a little bit of a
point but at the same.
Speaker 5: Time beautiful, perfect Leah.
Speaker 15: Usually the thing with both puzzle boxes is that you're
not supposed to force them open anyway.
Speaker 7: Exactly what suzzles.
Speaker 15: Four and they usually, depending on the level of sophistication,
will have a fail safe should.
Speaker 9: You try to just brute force your way through it?
Speaker 7: And why would they punish you for souve in their puzzle?
Speaker 15: No, there's a reward besides Laurie, there's more to just
there's there's there's more to just being a noble knife
than just being strong and being able to brute force
your way out of things. You have to be intelligent
and cunning. A puzzle box should be no different than
a lion. It's just a matter of which sword are
you using.
Speaker 5: No, she's right, Yes, we should use our intellects to
solve this this puzzle.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so what I made, I made a little bit
of a graph.
Speaker 1: I can't believe that.
Speaker 7: Bent and stone and killed and.
Speaker 1: It's just like death, subt what just like a nice
bs that's great.
Speaker 11: Pepper just huffed because she knows that people are not
paying attention.
Speaker 1: I have no idea.
Speaker 4: I don't think scarn would really pay attention to stuff
like this, he's just like looking around.
Speaker 7: So the son who is the god of the sun harrows, I.
Speaker 6: Know that one.
Speaker 7: I know that one right motif sun.
Speaker 6: Oh.
Speaker 7: And then I was thinking, like you got that temple
of the.
Speaker 11: Moon rabbit, So I wrote down like money god and
maybe to Quinn because they got them selves that festival
like when the moon turns all green, they like hop
to it and party.
Speaker 7: And and I wrote.
Speaker 11: Vestius by the moon as well, because Vestius also interacts
with the moon. Like, I'm not a cleric or nothing,
so I don't know too much about it.
Speaker 7: But like, did you did.
Speaker 6: You put any of your theories like to the test?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 11: No, no, no no, because I don't have a full
combination yet.
Speaker 1: Hm.
Speaker 7: I being fussed with it yet, you know.
Speaker 5: Okay, see now I'm do you think because okay, so
I was gonna say, like you should just like put
a random combination in now. But but like now I'm
worried about the thing that you guys said about the
glyph thing.
Speaker 6: What if it like explodes if you put the wrong
one in.
Speaker 14: Mmmm.
Speaker 1: You said someone left it.
Speaker 6: At your door, right, Yeah, it's weird.
Speaker 1: I don't know if someone would leave a puzzle bomb
at your doors. It seems like a a strange forgiving
way to deliver things.
Speaker 7: Okay, I said that as a fib as pepper.
Speaker 1: I'm leaving alone.
Speaker 7: I'm leaving alone.
Speaker 2: Sorry, I'm trusting that you're speaking with intention.
Speaker 6: It's killing logan. It's like, no, no, that's not what happened.
Speaker 2: In certain cases, are to be like just when it
comes to small details is to be like I want
to help out, but I realize what's happening.
Speaker 1: I'm being good.
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm, ignore me.
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 5: Do we have any idea who left this here for you?
Speaker 6: Why would they want you to solve a random puzzle box?
Speaker 7: I don't know. Maybe it has something to do with
the fact that we were at the trial state.
Speaker 6: Do you have like a lot of enemies. It's only
like a poison.
Speaker 11: Box for you.
Speaker 7: Why do you think that this is an act of violence?
Speaker 5: Laura, Okay, listen, I've been taught by the undertoe to
have my wits about me. Okay, I just want to
keep one of you guys safe.
Speaker 7: Hear it all?
Speaker 2: Wait?
Speaker 6: You know, yeah, you know what do what we want?
Do what we want to puzz a box.
Speaker 5: I'll stop voicing my thoughts because everybody says I'm fucking wrong.
Speaker 6: Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 7: I'm just excited because this could mean something, you know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm just trying to make sure you don't get
exploited or poisoned or something because I'd like you or whatever.
Speaker 7: Laurie.
Speaker 11: I appreciate that, and it the fact that you are
concerned with She knocks on her chest right there on
my heart.
Speaker 6: Okay, hell yeah, you keep me in your heart.
Speaker 1: Let's go.
Speaker 6: M hm, be careful, is my point.
Speaker 2: Rat.
Speaker 7: But something about this, I just I just have a feeling.
Go on, if we can solve it.
Speaker 11: Sorry, I could have something to do with this whole
thing we're trying to figure out.
Speaker 22: Okay, somewhere again, let's say that about him.
Speaker 1: He's cute, he is cute.
Speaker 9: He's just a little weird with potato.
Speaker 6: Potato.
Speaker 5: Yo, give potato potato.
Speaker 7: I give potato a dirty look, but you're looking.
Speaker 6: At the cattle potato. I'm gonna try to pet potato.
Speaker 1: Airplane ears.
Speaker 6: Oh okay, then no, no.
Speaker 1: Have you eaten properly yet? Looks like you've just been
snacking on your rations.
Speaker 7: I had coffee.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go downstairs and get you some food and
I'll be back in a couple of seconds.
Speaker 7: Fine, I can eat more rash.
Speaker 6: Really good cook Scarlant like Inhaled. His food is a
cat hungry cat's making a lot of noise.
Speaker 8: I'm trying to I'm trying to remember that when we
first saw the cat Lilia at least exposed in front
of like two other people, that this is a talking
cat at the.
Speaker 6: Very last, right right.
Speaker 5: I can't remember, guy or not.
Speaker 6: I had to.
Speaker 8: I had to have because my memory was like, did
I imagine that?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 6: No, for real.
Speaker 8: And it's just that there's just that as it keeps
me on and there's a little cross our arms with like
a little eyebrow.
Speaker 15: Raised, it's like, you know, you can just tell us
what you think.
Speaker 6: What have things going on?
Speaker 2: They look at the cat's eyes kind of she viishly
look at Scarn and then back down to you and
then Pepper.
Speaker 15: At least half of us know that you don't you
don't have to always meow, you can talk.
Speaker 11: You keep doing exactly what you want to, and she's
gonna give him scratches.
Speaker 5: I mean, I guess the cuts out of the bug.
I'm funny, Yeah, Scarn, this is a talking cat.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think.
Speaker 2: It's what talking.
Speaker 7: They have, and y'all complain that I had no decorum.
You see this, socks, you see this, This is yes
sad world.
Speaker 2: It is imperative that I remain hidden from as many
people as possible.
Speaker 7: That's why I didn't say anything.
Speaker 2: I'm aware. However, when people discover me in the future,
please tell them as well. Oh it takes a claw
out and points in its scarn. Tell no one.
Speaker 3: Till no one anything, talking cat.
Speaker 1: You have my word.
Speaker 2: God kind is a man of his word, hoping to
catch you with those that already knew about me. But
now that we're hearing that is now everyone in this room,
how mutual how mutual associates unfortunately did not turn up
as much as they might have liked.
Speaker 6: Huh the mutual associate, not you?
Speaker 2: Oh looking at Pepper, oh M, sorry, I wanted to
inform you and then have you related to them. They're
still looking into the symbols. They are, however, concerned about
the fact that somebody with trading from where we are
from is here.
Speaker 7: That was my concern as well.
Speaker 2: Looking into those who may have had some reason to
be here or may have been associated with this place
in the last decade or so.
Speaker 11: Uh okay, please don't you got a promise not to
be made?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 6: So look, I was.
Speaker 11: Focusing on the box and I forgot to tell you
something last night, what to do for.
Speaker 7: When we were over Kavariums, which I did tell you.
I did tell you we were there.
Speaker 11: I forgot to mention that he wrote up that he
might be asking someone for the Academy to be here.
Speaker 7: Please don't be mad. You promised you wouldn't be mad.
Speaker 2: You promised you the academy that presents us with problems.
Speaker 11: I know.
Speaker 2: They might be able to tell us for what we are,
depending on how close they get to us.
Speaker 11: And you play pegas for what we are, We're made leave.
Speaker 6: What are you guys? What are you?
Speaker 2: None of your business? Child, This is my natural speaking caidance.
Speaker 7: But we're not.
Speaker 5: Gonna tell anybody. And like we already know that you
were like a talking cat, you might as well tell
us what's going on.
Speaker 2: I can't Why we can't, neither of them? Why we can't.
Speaker 5: Was this some kind of like magic thing? Can you
physically not?
Speaker 1: We can't? Uhh.
Speaker 4: This is seeming a little bit similar to what happened
last night with Salon.
Speaker 2: What of our occupation that we are unable to speak
about the matters of our occupation.
Speaker 1: I guess that.
Speaker 2: They could kill them. That's what that would be in
poor taste.
Speaker 6: So much is happening. We should never split up. Ever again, the.
Speaker 9: Sun was doing it.
Speaker 15: He would open his mouth and his lips would flap.
Speaker 3: But then I think he tried. These guys haven't tried.
Speaker 2: I have no idea what.
Speaker 15: He explain ox that we we went to see Saloon
last night and he tried to tell us something, but
every time he tried to say it, it seemed like
like time or even just reality distorted in a way
that we couldn't hear anything.
Speaker 5: Told him, there's some guy. I don't like him.
Speaker 7: He's gorgeous.
Speaker 15: Whenever we pointed that out, he seems sad about it.
Speaker 2: That's not what's happening here.
Speaker 9: No, No, what's happening.
Speaker 2: We can't say a job. Know this.
Speaker 6: Let me check.
Speaker 2: He stands up on all fours.
Speaker 11: Know this.
Speaker 2: Papa and I were sent here to investigate strange magics
at play underneath your town. We mean no harm to
anyone here. This is a matter, yes, especially if a
member of our organization has been involved with whatever you're doing.
That makes it many times worse than it might have been.
Speaker 4: But are you talking about strange magics under our place?
This place doesn't have anything happens.
Speaker 2: The pits are a not in the lay lines of
the land, in the natural flow of idomantic and magical
energy and primal forces that move as an undercurrent under you.
Things that you would never detect, but to others are
as obvious as a river flowing through the land. They
twist and they contort. Here Gilligan's Pit, or rather the
tunnels beneath it the land around it, have always been
a fascinating place. But recently those currents have begun to change,
and we've been sent to find out.
Speaker 9: Why are you talking about the latch temples?
Speaker 2: What is a last temple?
Speaker 6: Okay, well we're not.
Speaker 2: That doesn't mean i'm not. I just don't know what that.
Speaker 10: Is, say, Lilia, we did not come here because we
know what's going on.
Speaker 2: We came here to find out what's going on. What
is a lax temple?
Speaker 7: Exactly from.
Speaker 1: HM they said, do you want sausage or bacon? I'll
ask I'll be back A potato.
Speaker 15: Latch tempo, so something that Ston was able to tell us.
Speaker 9: And if I'm remembering my little notebook, then.
Speaker 15: Well it's not it's in that. It's in fantasy grounds.
There's a little little note pattern here.
Speaker 5: You should like, you should try to like hurry about.
We're talking about some kind of important stuff.
Speaker 2: Don't tell him to hurry back, tell him to stay
away forever.
Speaker 1: WHOA what it was halfway down the stairs.
Speaker 6: I didn't hear that you should try to hurry back.
Speaker 5: We're talking about some kind of important stuff.
Speaker 1: Okay, I asked. They said, you can't have both, but
it's gonna take a sec.
Speaker 2: I would prefer not.
Speaker 1: No, I amn't. Do you want need juice? I don't
you already have coffee? But you know those don't mix
very well. But it's good to get your vitamins.
Speaker 7: Thank you, good luck.
Speaker 6: I have juice.
Speaker 1: You want juice too, Okay, I'll try a couple of trips.
Speaker 7: Hey, it's gotta it's under it's under pepper.
Speaker 6: Box.
Speaker 5: It's he's really smart, and it's unfair for everybody in
the group to know what's going on and not him, Like.
Speaker 6: That's not cool.
Speaker 1: This is not a matter of what he's fair.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna tell him.
Speaker 6: I'm not gonna pretend like I'm not gonna tell him.
I' gonna te him. I'm gonna te him. You were
talking yet, you think.
Speaker 1: You would believe that?
Speaker 6: I think you believe me?
Speaker 7: What what is that mean?
Speaker 5: Scorn?
Speaker 1: Don't worry about it.
Speaker 6: You have a fan?
Speaker 2: What is a latch temple?
Speaker 15: So soon told me that something. The reason he came
to the pits and had an expedition down below was
because he was looking for something called the latch temples.
Apparently there's something that has been below Gilligan's Pit since
before Gilligan's Pit was even founded.
Speaker 1: Mm, but make some degree of saints.
Speaker 2: There are plenty of old civilizations that were left underground
after the age of hundreds.
Speaker 15: Yeah, but ever since the incident of what happened with me,
he's essentially all but given up up entirely. Well, he's
he's kind of given up, but you know, he's still
kind of curious sometimes, and that's why he stayed here.
Speaker 5: Apparently he did.
Speaker 7: He did come off his lame He's gorgeous, but he's lame.
Speaker 15: Well, he said that he was so wrapped, he was
so ravished by guilt and sadness over me getting hurt
and my family suffering, and this thing that he seems
to just be very very concerned about that you know,
he decided to stay here with repentance and you know,
not search for it anymore. But apparently that was why
he came.
Speaker 2: To search for this fascinating papa. Hmmm. I am hereby
as I relate this all to our associate, I hereby
charge you with finding more information on or locating one
of these lash temples.
Speaker 7: Yeah. I figured you'd say.
Speaker 2: Investigate, use your able body.
Speaker 6: Proper kind of your boss.
Speaker 2: In a way.
Speaker 6: Yes, are you a super powerful cat?
Speaker 1: I'm not a cat.
Speaker 7: I'm You've been letting me call you a book Allian?
Speaker 6: Can you do spell? Some stuff? You murder?
Speaker 2: You could not weaken to have what I'm capable of?
Speaker 6: Preper?
Speaker 5: What is the coolest thing you've seen this cat do?
Speaker 15: Are you like other cats where if you scratch, like
right at the base of your tail, you can't of go.
Speaker 9: Like hell.
Speaker 2: To an average Catkay?
Speaker 1: Like an awesome cat?
Speaker 9: Does that mean I can test your far.
Speaker 2: More powerful and mysterious than any cat you're aware of?
Speaker 6: Oh my god?
Speaker 11: You are?
Speaker 6: Are you like?
Speaker 5: Are you like a powerful cat or are you like
a person trapped in a cat body?
Speaker 6: Look, what's your deal?
Speaker 2: I'm not trapped at anything, So what's going on.
Speaker 6: With you cat?
Speaker 1: I'm a Salia.
Speaker 6: That doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 2: You don't mean anything?
Speaker 7: Okay, y'all? All all right, well so much, he's fun out
of everything. He's a cat.
Speaker 15: We wouldn't we wouldn't use we wouldn't use the term
mean anything. It's just you know, at the moment, that
doesn't answer much.
Speaker 6: Thank you, Lilia.
Speaker 2: I'm not here to answer your questions about what I am.
Speaker 6: Oh hm.
Speaker 2: We are here to do a job that could lead
to the safety of your home. Trust me or don't.
It does not matter to me.
Speaker 5: Like I'm a cat or am a guy or ahm,
my god, it would take two seconds.
Speaker 11: I am.
Speaker 2: And I am not a cat.
Speaker 6: You go a cute little cat body though.
Speaker 7: He looks like a cute little bugger.
Speaker 15: Okay, how about this for all in tens of your purposes,
you know, and also to not burden Pepper too much
with screaming.
Speaker 9: How about we make a little bit of an impromptu deal.
Speaker 15: Then, mister Alia, for what purpose we Well, you just
sent Pepper on a mission didn't you? Yes, and you
want to accomplish that mission, don't you? Right now? Unless
you want us to spill the beans on your identity.
We're the only people that can help assist.
Speaker 7: Pepper, right you guys can't do that.
Speaker 9: We can't help you on this mission.
Speaker 7: No, no lax to bill the beans?
Speaker 6: You what will happen?
Speaker 1: You cannot fathom the weight of the beans.
Speaker 15: My point being, Auxalia, is that in exchange for helping
out Pepper, maybe once in a while you give us
a couple more breadcrumbs. I feel like it's the least
you can give us some sort of repayment.
Speaker 2: If you wish to protect well Home, then you will
cooperate with Pepper. The nature of me and of our organization, however,
is none of your concern.
Speaker 15: You can't just tell us that it's for the good
and the sake of the pits and not really have
anything to Just.
Speaker 2: Then go to sleep and Pepper and I shall do
our work.
Speaker 5: But it'll work out so much better if we can help.
You have to give us something to want to do
what we're doing.
Speaker 2: We do not want to help you.
Speaker 1: Do, Okay, Juice, I've gotta I can't open the door
I got the tray in my hand.
Speaker 6: At it.
Speaker 2: They jump under the windows.
Speaker 1: They only had orange juice. I hope that's okay.
Speaker 2: I will say nothing, then leaps out of the window.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, thank you, sir. They brought up your food
with me. Potato's gone.
Speaker 7: I can't wave for this whole campaign.
Speaker 5: I'm so angry at this cat that I want to
tell him. But it's also really funny if Desmond never
knows like it's good.
Speaker 6: For the fit.
Speaker 7: Yeah, good for the campaign, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: She was stressed out, Pepper.
Speaker 6: I want to tell him. I want to tell him
so bad.
Speaker 9: Let's let's.
Speaker 7: Let's give Peppers just like quietly eating her.
Speaker 15: Let's give Usalia a break for now again. Just like
I'm willing to trust Satoon, I'm willing to trust the
weird cat.
Speaker 12: Oh.
Speaker 6: I don't know how I feel about yours.
Speaker 7: It's just.
Speaker 9: I don't know, Pepper. Maybe maybe entertain me here.
Speaker 15: If someone just randomly came up to you and said
do what I say, or every thing you know and
love will be destroyed, but doesn't really just give you
anything to work with.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's usually when I arrest somebody. It's weird hypothetical.
Speaker 5: Yep, yep, completely hypathetical.
Speaker 1: I get what you're saying.
Speaker 11: We're looking into the lay lines and what's going on
with the magic down here. Yeah, that is my purpose.
I'm making sure that there's nothing going to happen to
your town. What you need to know is that this
mission means the world to me. And I understand that
you're frustrated that we cannot give you that half of information,
but you can't be fussing with it like that, threatening
to spill the beans.
Speaker 1: We locked the cat out, don't let them get stuck
on the roof. I think you jumped out the window.
Speaker 2: This is the record.
Speaker 6: It wasn't a threat.
Speaker 5: We were just trying to make a deal so we
know what's going on a lot more. We're not gonna
do anything to put you in danger of pepper.
Speaker 7: You're not putting me in danger. You're putting lots of
lives in danger.
Speaker 5: We wouldn't do anything to put lots of lives in danger.
It's just it's a lot to go on. It's like,
do this because I say so.
Speaker 6: It's a lot. You get why we'd want more info.
Speaker 7: If it seems like I'm taking a long pulse.
Speaker 11: It's how I'm trying to think of how to say
this information in a way.
Speaker 1: Well, while you're thinking you should eat your food because
it's gonna.
Speaker 6: Get cold, Yeah, you wanna eat it?
Speaker 15: Well, those hot it's gonna be that thing though, pepper
in a lot in the long run, and not even
just specifically us. If you keep yourself shrouded in secrets,
you don't really give us reason to trust you.
Speaker 1: Right, I'm gonna take one of these sausages. That's fine,
you go, potato.
Speaker 2: They jump back down from up above onto the window.
Speaker 1: Still always get air. You call, have a nice, old,
old delicious sausage from the pits.
Speaker 2: They grabbed the sausage, they bite into it, and then
they jump back out the window with it, taking it
with them.
Speaker 5: Make her little cat sound like.
Speaker 1: Christ is important even to cats.
Speaker 11: I don't know why I'm doing what I am doing.
I get orders and do them.
Speaker 1: Oh no, literally, like I thought it was gonna be
like figuratively.
Speaker 6: Okay, Okay, I want to ask you one thing.
Speaker 5: I want you to be super honest and then I'll
stop asking questions about this. I swear, do you trust
where your orders are coming from?
Speaker 23: Implicitly okay, hmmm, all right, Yeah it was gonna help
you anyway, but yeah, I'll thank you.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 11: I was just I was just doing my my research
alongside y'all's goals. It just seemed like we were all
going in the same direction. It just worked out nice.
Speaker 1: I don't exactly know so what I missed, but uh,
it seems like you're trying to save the pits, and
that's what I'm trying to do. So you got the
thumbs up from old old Desmond if that makes you
feel any better. He seems stressed.
Speaker 9: Pepper Desmond, have you ever heard of a latch temple?
Speaker 1: A latch what?
Speaker 9: Okay, Well that answers my question.
Speaker 15: So I guess this is not related to Pepper's mission,
as it's been involved the whole time. Apparently that's something
that Sutton was looking for when he came here ten
years ago, something called latch temple.
Speaker 1: Something older Marlene and one of the people in the
mirror said something about that.
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's my new mission to found one of those.
It sounded like I got to talk to the villa.
Speaker 1: Well, he's been in aggressive interrogations all night. I'm sure
I have. After reporting a bit, see one of them.
Speaker 7: I've meant soon, but I gotta talk to that, not him.
Speaker 1: No, we have no reason to do that yet.
Speaker 6: I want to go talk to so.
Speaker 11: I guess if you didn't know anything about the latch
temples in the first place, and he's asking you, guys,
I don't need to go talk to him.
Speaker 15: Well, he knew about them and just enough to want
to go looking for them. Apparently he's looking for something
and thought that those would help him out.
Speaker 6: Hmmm.
Speaker 2: Interesting, Scarn and Lilia. Wow, because you're kind of used
to the voice. You hear a voice calling from outside.
You hear a just a distant it's gone, Lilia Desmond, Oh,
are you guys around here? You hear the voice of Cabrado,
your younger brother Scarn streets just walking around, and you're like, guys,
are you here? People said you were around here somewhere?
Speaker 7: Where is the brother?
Speaker 2: What you guys, those of you that hadn't met them.
Speaker 1: You see a.
Speaker 2: Young adult male copy Hotto, big old big old heck
and satchel swung around, slung around their arm. You see
them kind of kind of jogging in place, a little
bit like one foot shifting to the other as if
they're like staying in constant motion. I was sent to uh.
I was sent to find uh Desmond uh. And also
I have a message from Dad. Scarn yo, what's up?
Speaker 3: I'm sure I'm like yelling out a window or something.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, you guys want got the second floor?
Speaker 3: Okay, cool for you.
Speaker 2: Dad wants to see you. He heard from some of
his Undertaeil friends what's going on, and he's got some something.
He wants to talk to you. Wants you to stop
by the temper this evening when you're able to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was probably. That was probably the time when
I was gonna jump back.
Speaker 2: You got this guy up there with you. They said
that you might be together.
Speaker 1: I can't see you at the window, but Hi, hey.
Speaker 2: You wanting to be on the downtown HQ.
Speaker 1: I'm painting Desmond out the window.
Speaker 2: They said. They said they want to finally report in
the results of the interrogation to you and Pepper. No, Lawrence,
don't ignore that, I said Pepper, my brain went in
a weird direction. Okay, Well, man, no, this comes from
from Dendron, comes from Dendron.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean I was going there anyway, so that
works out for me. Cool. Oh, all right, I guess
we should.
Speaker 2: Apart from that, you guys do win. Oh I'm pretty.
Speaker 1: Good, Bresk, just kind of hanging out.
Speaker 2: I'm asleep, I was asleep.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I have been crunched in rooms all day.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 11: Yeah, hey, listen, they only come in one size. This
is the biggest room here.
Speaker 2: You know, yeah, no, almost size. Rooms weren't built for
Scarn hated.
Speaker 15: Imagine if we imagine if we ever get to, like
go to a giant's village or something.
Speaker 11: Finally, Oh my god, there's there are a lot of
places you'd probably love. Scarn architecture, Elvin architecture.
Speaker 1: Let me leave this place.
Speaker 2: I got more errands I gotta do, so I'll catch
you guys around again. To have a good day. Guys,
I'll see you back at home. Maybe Scarn.
Speaker 1: I'll be back tonight.
Speaker 7: If I remember what I've read, summer grass Is architecture
is Elvin. Yeah, I think that's right. Yes, I I
know because you told me that as federous, But.
Speaker 6: I mean.
Speaker 2: It was a heck in modeling came together as a
effort to unite the greatest minds of the nations. And
then the wars and then the war started, there was
a massacre. Yeah, it was a summer Grass is like
a as the city, the center of Summer Grass what
we now call the Platinum District. Uh it is. It
was a testament to the unification of various races all
coming together, and then it became the site of one
of the greatest tragedies when the intercords kicked up. It's
a totally different places I related this campaign. It's where
another big part of But yeah, yeah, you.
Speaker 1: Know where that Crystal happens. It's really funny.
Speaker 2: You just said Crystal Crown. M it different thing in
a different place.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm wrong. Oh, just I said that never got
really quiet.
Speaker 7: I don't know about that. I only ran about lack
of the architecture.
Speaker 11: I was just flipping through lack of one of those
things that sticks in your mind. You know.
Speaker 1: I've gotta get to the HQ, So I'm gonna head
out as soon as I can. If you guys are
set here, I can I can head out lor Obviously
they want you to come, but you can stay if
you want.
Speaker 6: No, I'm sticking with you, but.
Speaker 5: I I'd like it if we could somehow stick together
because stuff keeps happening when we all separate, and then
I get really confused.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the job, And I don't know that that's why
they hire people like us. Oh, quite confusing. I recommend
buying a notepad.
Speaker 6: I have a note pod. I'm just not writting stuff down.
Speaker 7: Oh I ain't that the way?
Speaker 6: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 7: Are y'all gonna be getting more information on more lane?
Speaker 1: Yeah? No, Dendron should have a personal report for us.
Speaker 7: Do y'all mind it? Tag along?
Speaker 1: I mean, it won't be up to me, it'll be
up to him. But you're with the group, so I
imagined he trusts you to a degree. I'll show up.
It's always nice to have muscle. All right, Oh, let's
let's go for a walk.
Speaker 2: Says the entire group, heading to the downtown HQ.
Speaker 1: Just pick up.
Speaker 2: Could Yeah, it was the last person to leave the room.
Speaker 1: I would assume me. I'm big.
Speaker 3: I would let everyone get out first file.
Speaker 2: As you go to leave the room, Scar and you
very briefly you hey, oh you turn you see the
cat axalia once sitting in the window sill.
Speaker 1: Huh.
Speaker 2: There are things that you cannot be told, and things
that it is not my place to tell. You, but
if it satisfies you and your group. Pepper's future depends
on what happens here.
Speaker 3: What happens here, like right now in your town. And okay, ah.
Speaker 1: Ah, it is her.
Speaker 2: Story to tell if she wishes to tell it. But
in the meantime, do not sabotage.
Speaker 12: You.
Speaker 3: Got it, talking cat, you're a good friend.
Speaker 1: Man tries to dap up the.
Speaker 5: Cat, but you're so dull, and he's a cat.
Speaker 2: They jump back out the window onto like the roof,
like spanning beneath it.
Speaker 1: Yeah all right, and.
Speaker 2: With you all heading towards there, I say it's a
good time to take a little break.
Speaker 1: That's exact to give us what I was thinking.
Speaker 7: Oh my god, okay, yeah.
Speaker 4: Literally do that with my cats. Like they don't do it,
They don't go back. I just grabbed their and I'm like, what's.
Speaker 1: I'm getting?
Speaker 2: If you will?
Speaker 7: Yeah, hey, my cats fucking hairson for I will be right.
Oh I'm shaking.
Speaker 1: I love it. I enjoy it.
Speaker 7: Psyche. You are a gift.
Speaker 1: I want you to know.
Speaker 4: Reactions comments they go, I'm just I'm rolling my brain
as well. Just whatever fucking funnest thing to happen in
my brain with my character.
Speaker 1: I know, obviously, but I'm just more like, hmmm mm hmm,
how can I make this stupider? Mm hmmm mmm.
Speaker 8: The says.
Speaker 14: Cheese jo.
Speaker 11: And h.
Speaker 2: Habit a bab gabbita bap pup. Was everybody gone, Oh
Jesus Christ.
Speaker 7: Good instinct.
Speaker 1: How's everybody doing?
Speaker 7: M hm hm hm warm.
Speaker 2: Yeah it's pretty warm.
Speaker 7: My face is so red.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there we go. It's not terrible here. Yeah, it
was way worse yesterday. M hm hmmm. Do do do
do do do, do, do do do do find you
open open your son of a bitch.
Speaker 2: I will not be denied.
Speaker 1: I set up.
Speaker 12: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 2: There's a con going on right now.
Speaker 7: Get your tickets for bet don't.
Speaker 11: Don't do it because it's happening now, or maybe get
them now spontaneously and go.
Speaker 7: Get your don't don't get.
Speaker 2: Don't get your tickets for Annie Revo.
Speaker 1: Unless you're really close, because they're like halfway through the
first day or second day.
Speaker 7: Oh I used to do that in Florida. Cons What
a world?
Speaker 4: What a.
Speaker 7: Just show up and get your ticket. Oh, like, I
just can't imagine the lines now, Hi carry hello logan
carry hooray. I love your car.
Speaker 2: I love you so much.
Speaker 7: Bread day.
Speaker 6: Caddy, Cady, good dune Katy Caddy. It's so so fucking
m hm in your mic? What happened with my mic?
Speaker 7: Oh no, sorry a couple. Oh, I see what's happening.
Hold on, let me.
Speaker 1: I was gonna make a joke about you hitting the
boom arm guy, and then I was like, I'll save it.
Speaker 11: That.
Speaker 1: I don't know what an ox has a bit, so
it's like I can't have two bits that close back
to back.
Speaker 7: There we go. That should be a little better. I
was foto a chord as you know, audio equipment really
doesn't like that.
Speaker 8: I mean two minute Indian noodles that I found in
the grocery store for forty four cents a pack, and I.
Speaker 6: Was like, what goo.
Speaker 5: I know it's fucking hot, so I'm not burning my
tongue again.
Speaker 6: I've already done that today, dude.
Speaker 5: Fucking Weirdly enough, the like absolute cheapest noodles are always
the best.
Speaker 24: I've just I've never tried like Indian noodles.
Speaker 8: Like it's it's like Maggie Brand, so I and I
know Maggie Brand from like yeah, growing up preaking Latino,
but like I saw these and I was like, they
just had it in a huge bin for forty four
cents and there's these teeny weeny little packets at really
cute and I was like, how much?
Speaker 2: How much a noodle?
Speaker 6: Really is this? Yeah, you're like like ship done in
your fucking cart, Like, let's go. I've got a couple
of them.
Speaker 8: I've made two another fresh from the hecking stove, so
I'm not eating them now.
Speaker 6: They're gonna cool oaf.
Speaker 15: But I'm ready for an adventure.
Speaker 5: I like Indian food recently, I love Indian food, Oh
my god, Oh so good.
Speaker 6: A good curry, a good pakora.
Speaker 7: Guys, you have you have that fantabulous place near you?
Speaker 5: I don't know if we still have it.
Speaker 6: Which one are you talking about?
Speaker 7: We went there before we watched Destsperate Housewives.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, they got taken over by someone new.
Speaker 6: Oh I know, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 5: I mean, Logan likes them. That's Monsoon, like it used
to be a different place.
Speaker 6: But yeah, you get taken the place.
Speaker 5: You're thinking, I've got taken over by the weird Baja
Racing sports fucking bar.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 7: Know A legendary hang with you me and Maddie, that
was so good. Oh that curry was so fucking good.
Speaker 6: God damn it. I love that place.
Speaker 7: We have some pretty good curry places.
Speaker 15: Hear.
Speaker 11: There's an Ethiopian place near me. I really want to
go try some Ethiopien food.
Speaker 6: Very good, hecan.
Speaker 5: One of the girls that Sturbs was telling me because
it was her birthday and she was going out for
Korean barbecue for her birthday.
Speaker 6: And I was like, I've never had it.
Speaker 5: I've never had Korean barbecue and I only ever see
great things about it.
Speaker 7: Yeah it's good, it's so good.
Speaker 5: Oh but yeah, I'm Logan Air and there's currently a
really good Korean barbecue la out in Burnaby that she
like went to.
Speaker 11: So I was like, oh, it's very thin slices of
meat and so they melt like buttery and like either
depending where you go. When I was in Florida, they
just gave you the stuff and you cooked it yourself,
which is like, yeah, it's fun.
Speaker 7: I like doing it that way. But here in atl Atlanta.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're like for the Canadians, like we know, we
know you're good.
Speaker 24: They they'll come and cook it for you.
Speaker 11: M oh fancy, like for me, it was a little jarring.
I felt like I was robbed of the fun because
I didn't know going into the experience. So I was like, yeah,
me and my friends are going to he's taking my tongues.
Speaker 2: I know him.
Speaker 8: Hey in Maine, Vancouver, there's a and I had heard
that there was a fire, so I don't.
Speaker 6: Know if it's still there, if they've mixed it up.
Speaker 8: It's a place called Yukaku oh and it's uh, it's
a Japanese restaurant, but it's got a similar thing with
the k Barbecue where you you cook the food.
Speaker 6: Like I've been there before with Jester. It's really really nice.
Speaker 7: Oh, so i'd say many of them here.
Speaker 8: Definitely definitely give that place a place a shot. I know,
like they have an app where if you sign up
for the app you can like points and stuff, and
I think just for signing up, unless they've changed that,
you can get some free meat.
Speaker 5: Oo helly me free mate free made me.
Speaker 8: Definitely, I definitely give that a give that a shot.
Speaker 15: If you ever hear Hell yeah, you know, you should
come visit again and we can all go. I would
love to go.
Speaker 8: We gotta see how like things are going, because like
I'm to Atlanta.
Speaker 20: On a Friday, so I can talk to you more
than just being like Hi, I'm between streams, like I
gotta I got my PR card back because like I
had to get it fixed, so I have my my
PR card all correct now now I don't have to
worry about traveling.
Speaker 8: But then it's like I'm getting used to the new
job and how much it's paying me to like what
I used to make, and it's like, wow, I'm certainly
feeling that I used to get ten an extra thousand
tips now that I do no longer get like I'm starting.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no zero pressure, just want you don't know, You're
always welcome and below.
Speaker 8: No, I would I would love to come visit, especially
because like the time that me and Justter were there,
like we really liked it and we really enjoyed Danny Revo.
Speaker 9: So it's like we want to go back and like
do stuff.
Speaker 6: But things are just getting me to intensive, dude, it's
crazy expensive to travel, like.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's no joke, and Richmond that's apparently really good.
Speaker 7: I'm just I'm just out here with my little water gun.
Speaker 11: Like I know, there are sort ot online of ridged
fans in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: But it's got the same vibe. The fucking all sixteen
is so good.
Speaker 11: I literally drove, I literally drove past a fake Grand
Order car. I know there are Project Mouthwash fans and these.
Speaker 5: Bar weeves here in Frice. I'll say the Chase driver,
Chase reaches out to con so I'll be like, I
have a special request to focus on Atlanta so we
can fucking get at our girl.
Speaker 11: Like watching Save I I didn't. I was safe, but
I did almost like I have a full body reaction
to like Saber driving.
Speaker 7: Past me in traffic.
Speaker 6: That's incredible.
Speaker 5: Like, dude, the first year we went to a to
my expo, it was big into fate, Like there was
like fate everywhere, like iron fucking billboards and like cars,
basses and ship and I was like Logan, like you
but you're not missing.
Speaker 1: Out, Like, oh my gosh, everyone goes to that. No
one who goes wants to go to.
Speaker 11: I'll never forget when Logan when we were at Soccer
Con and we walked past those uh fake cost players
and Logan was like, oh, nice costume to the Saber
cost player and the rint cost player was like that's
my baby.
Speaker 5: And watching that's.
Speaker 1: Because they should something out of the background. And he's
like one might call the babe perhaps like oh my god,
you watched that. He's like, yes, I do.
Speaker 2: I can't.
Speaker 5: I never That's the most dude.
Speaker 21: Some wrin.
Speaker 11: At that same convention. I remember I was walking with
Spencer and Maddie and someone heard Maddie and was like,
oh my god, are you here too?
Speaker 7: From s A O O like s A O like.
Spencer being an asshole was like yeah, and this is
awesome to me, and I was like, oh my god,
he's a muster. I wonder.
Speaker 8: I have to wonder if that one Rin and Saber cosplayer,
if they knew who they were talking.
Speaker 1: To the Oh yeah, we did. They give us the
card and everything we chatted about the series they were
there was a Saber and an Archer.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: They run I think called Fates Flair. I still have
the card Riner somewhere.
Speaker 10: Oh cool.
Speaker 1: They like make cosplay and they do like they go
to different cons to show off their cosplays. They seemed
really nice.
Speaker 6: I was really jerking out.
Speaker 7: I was like, oh my god, because it's like seeing
your friends.
Speaker 1: Actually he's a picture of them. Yeah, it was these
two so good.
Speaker 12: I think it'd be really funny if like after Logan
was like, yeah, I totally watch it, and then a
little bit later like we just like right now we're
talking about it, and then if they were watching, and it'd.
Speaker 1: Be like, yeah, those two and they had a wrin
as well.
Speaker 7: Yes, that's the one that said in favor that it
was made him go like.
Speaker 11: Hec and there's a cursed timeline where they interacted.
Speaker 7: And one of them was like, ha ha, someone's the
next episode on. Yeah, Morgan just leans back and evaporates.
Speaker 1: Later.
Speaker 5: That's our rule, baby.
Speaker 6: Idology.
Speaker 5: Sir is asking what we're gonna do fake costplay Braiden,
Oh my god, oh my god.
Speaker 6: Which one of us would be? Which?
Speaker 2: Mm hmm?
Speaker 7: I mean, I mean you one of them.
Speaker 6: Was Aaron.
Speaker 2: Damn.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Like I could be soccer.
Speaker 5: But if we were gonna do like fucking written Saber,
I feel like you could pull off Saber, Like let's.
Speaker 6: Go with my little.
Speaker 7: Carrie.
Speaker 11: What did we choose the heavy costly And you're walking
around just wrin like.
Speaker 6: Just having any time, Like, yeah, I'm good. The wick's
kind of big, but.
Speaker 11: Oh my god, I get to into costplay. I was
looking back at the photos. Then I found a cosplayer,
like I found I found the ones of when we
did My Hero and.
Speaker 6: A picture of me.
Speaker 7: There's a picture of me straddling like Maddie's leg.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I got that. I've got that ship, dude, I
want to I'm like that because I was so like
inslugger about being Bacca Go because of my shit fucking teeth.
But I got good teeth, and I'm like, let's fucking
smirk up a storm, bitch, Like, let's fut cosplay back on.
Speaker 7: Let's go shout out to Aaron for taking photos of
me at that convention.
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, you were.
Speaker 5: I'm so in the my hero brain rot right now,
Like that's where my dopamine. So I'm just constantly fucking
thinking about Bacca Go. So my brain is like, do
I want to go into storage so I can just
wear my Bacca Go boots in August?
Speaker 6: I don't, but I'm thinking about it.
Speaker 7: I can yell at you verbally.
Speaker 25: The outfit was not fabulous because it was part of
your face sassion. It was fabtist because of the way
you take the goddamn compliment.
Speaker 7: Sorry, I think I know where that came from.
Speaker 6: Crazy now do. That's my fucking boy boy.
Speaker 11: I've been looking into salt and pepper wigs and unfortunately.
Speaker 7: There are too many. I'm trying to find.
Speaker 5: You might you might need to get like a gray
one and then kind of sharpy and be like I mean,
I was gonna say hair dye, but if you want
to sharpie it up, sure, Okay.
Speaker 11: The problem with hair dye is hair dye uh works
with the natural fiber in your hair. It would have
to be like a rit fabric dye, which might not
take into the hair because it's plastic.
Speaker 6: Oh my god. You'd have to get like a real
hair yeah, I mean a real hair, real hair wig.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and those are expensive.
Speaker 11: Although it would be cool to have a human I
will a lace wig with real hair, yeah, I have.
Speaker 7: I have a couple of love.
Speaker 11: It's storage because one of the things I used to
do was I would be on Evay and be like,
oh my gosh, this offer house is your old wigs
plus you.
Speaker 2: I'm back. I have my hot dogs. I hadn't eat
before the game, and I'm I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna
inhale a hot dog and then I'll be ready to go.
Speaker 6: You won't even it's really hot.
Speaker 1: Don't fucking desactify hot dogs, I mean be sactified someone
else to full like the glizzy goats and the throat goats.
Speaker 2: I'll fight them when they do it too. I'm fighting
you now, hot.
Speaker 26: I love a good Glizzie.
Speaker 6: That's so fucking filthy.
Speaker 8: Oh you can get, you can get, like you can
get forty eight of those, like nine dollars or more.
Speaker 5: Let's talk.
Speaker 1: This is literally like almost a decade to hold at
this point. But so I made like this weird fucking
rage comic of technical arguing because someone's like, it was
fucking Donald Trump hot. Someone's like he the throat goat.
Someone's like, nah, there's no way.
Speaker 27: He could throw as much as Obama eating a hot
talk And they're like no, they're just getting to fight
over who's the throat goat.
Speaker 6: That's incredible.
Speaker 1: Think they could throw way more Glizzies than him.
Speaker 28: Fuck you, yeah, that's that's a criteria I want for president.
Whoever is the throat goat, get on in there, respect
the shit out of you.
Speaker 1: I can't believe Reagan's wife was supposed to be president.
Speaker 6: Damn. Nine dollars is a good deal.
Speaker 5: Damn but I'm like, Anna, where are you shopping?
Speaker 6: Like there isn't close to us? God damn it.
Speaker 7: Roger has pretty good deals.
Speaker 11: Kroger is awesome because when you shop there, they give
you points that go towards your gas, Like you can
get gas at their gas station and you can get
free gas via shopping for groceries and they.
Speaker 6: Give you the gas from like Costco Costco Gas.
Speaker 1: Yeah, our closest wall marks in East Fan. It's near
where Logan and I you.
Speaker 6: Still live again, isn't the closest one metro town.
Speaker 1: Considered?
Speaker 12: Is it?
Speaker 6: Okay?
Speaker 2: Oh right, what we're talking about is like Renfro adjacent.
Speaker 19: Oh.
Speaker 5: Still a pain in the ass, dude, I'm still reeling
from fucking I told you this. Logan fucking the hot
ones with you Jackman and Ryan Reynolds. And one of
the questions was like, fucking Ryan, like, what was like
the worst injury you got while working the warehouse at
the Safeway on.
Speaker 6: Twenty fifth and Oak.
Speaker 5: And I was like, which fucking safe way is that?
And I was like, it's some one literally around the
corner from us. Bryan Reynolds worked at the fucking safe
Way that's around the corner from us. That's wild, that's crazy.
Oh my fucking god, Like that's oddly specific at all times.
Fucking right, like the work here, fucking right, works there
right now, Like.
Speaker 1: It's a bit ship if I remember, Yeah.
Speaker 6: We don't like that one as much as we go
to a different one.
Speaker 1: I remember going that last time. I was like, change
it up, go in, and like all of their vegetables
are just fucked yeah. I couldn't find anything else I wanted.
There's like one good thing. They had like massive twenty
five fucking dollar like three kilogram boxes of chicken titties,
and I just struggle to fit all my chicken titties
in the freezer.
Speaker 2: And that was nice, yeah, but it took.
Speaker 8: Me a second of chicken titties like like I'm so
used to chicken tenders, but it's like, no way, chicken
brea there you go.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the chicken titties yep, like chicken kitties.
Speaker 15: I never heard of that.
Speaker 5: Before, dude, that's all we say in our I'm so
used to it now being safe with you're being like that,
that's not a very good deal on the chicken titties.
Speaker 6: Just fucking yeah, No chicken freaking they're expensive.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and it's like fourteen bucks for like four fresh ones.
Speaker 8: It's like god damn, oh no, I get like the
seven packs and they're usually around twenty bucks damn for seven.
Speaker 5: I don't know that much chicken done.
Speaker 11: Zaw.
Speaker 8: I'm usually in charge of the grocery shopping, and most
of the time I'm like, okay, so, like it's just
me and gesture and seven seven good sized chicken breasts.
That's like three meals right there. We can make out
of them, and then each meal lasts like two or
three days.
Speaker 11: Oh sure, and you can phrase it if you really
need to, like if you're not planning to cook it
right there and then.
Speaker 8: But I'm definitely more a lot of the time, ifinitely
more of a chicken thighs girl, though, learning how to
make I like a titty over a thigh like an
I love.
Speaker 6: I love thighs and drums and wings. The darkness for me,
nah do I like that white meat.
Speaker 1: I am a fan of thighs. Chicken is good too.
Speaker 2: Got an important email I have to respond to. Once
I finished responding to this'll.
Speaker 6: Be good about food.
Speaker 1: More food.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: When it comes to there's a whole lass meal right there.
Speaker 8: When it when it comes to a lot of like
Asian cuisine that I've been learning how to make, though
they use a lot of thigh Yeah, because it's cheaper,
juicier cut.
Speaker 1: You can use chicken thighs and they're still going to
be really juicy. Even if you overcook them, they're still good. Yeah,
chi they turn to gravel, like if you overcook a
chicken breast, it just because it's stringy, dry off.
Speaker 6: You can be a lot rougher with a thigh. You
gotta be kind of gentle with the titty. Yeah, Liken't
get me wrong.
Speaker 8: I'm also gesture is also a breastical man, and like
whenever we make breasts, we dry, rub and grill them
and that kind of that that locks in all those juices.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, no no it doesn't not really, the juices
will come.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, the juice is gonna come. But but again with.
Speaker 8: The use chicken thighs, and it's like I want to
I want to make like Korean fried chicken, and most
that I found usually awful thigh So you need to.
Speaker 7: Pully Spencer to get his chicken drumstick recipe.
Speaker 1: Shorthands.
Speaker 5: They saw that he likes chicken pitties, like, he's fine
with that one.
Speaker 6: But it's like spubby and shoppies.
Speaker 5: I think the other day I said offies and he
was like, did you shorten shoppers to shoppies to affies?
Speaker 6: And I was like, Yemen, like, what's gonna be Pea?
Just next next time?
Speaker 5: I need to find that climp of just what are
you saying?
Speaker 7: You say things all the time, and he's bat just
to know what you what you're saying?
Speaker 11: What are you saying?
Speaker 7: I don't understand?
Speaker 27: He makes a prodigious use of the word we we
don't understand you, and I'm like, true, the people who
need to know, no, the people who can't match my
power level.
Speaker 11: It's such a betrayal on Spencer because he's the only
sane one in a mad world.
Speaker 6: I don't know, but say that he's chosen to date me.
That's the epitome of madness.
Speaker 29: Chosen, man, what a good being.
Speaker 1: Reason for madness? That apparently? I mean, I definitely fucked
it up the first time I did, but apparently if
you do it right, it does smell like farts for
a while. It sucks.
Speaker 8: Has that thing with like with broccoli where it just
smells like butthole the whole time.
Speaker 1: No matter like, no matter how much I found out
about broccolis, that there's like a gene you have with
broccoli where you might not smell it or you might
smell it more. Ah so like tootless.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: I was talking to them a long time ago, and
They're like, I fucking hate broccoli. It smells disgusting, It's gross.
I don't know how anyone can possibly like it. And
I'm like, I pretend I'm a giant eating trees because
I'm a vegetarian giant, dude.
Speaker 5: There's a bunch of stuff like that, Like I did
like fucking twenty three and meters and then it gave
me like a whole bunch of fucking stats. And there's
stuff of like fucking if like cilantro tastes like soap
to you, or like if you prefer vanilla over like chocolate, Like,
it's a whole bunch of fucking weird Jean stuff.
Speaker 6: I'm like, huh, all right, anyone that has a soap jean,
I'm sorry you can't taste.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I have it a little bit, but I
don't give a fuck. It's never bothered me that much.
Speaker 8: Like we love its so Jean, and it sucks because
it's like when we didn't know, because like whenever I
would have like fuck, I'd put my sprouts and all
that stuff in there, and we didn't think about it,
but he would always be like, there's just something about
your broth that tastes weird.
Speaker 9: And it wasn't until.
Speaker 8: It wasn't until I made a chicken thinga which is
just like Chipotle Chipotle Chicken for like kind of like
a like a taco night. I was like, hey, here's
a tostata, uh, the way they normally do it in Mexico,
even though I'm a Mexican, just in case people ask
for some reason.
Speaker 7: But we they they eat it like this and.
Speaker 8: They put cilantro and lime in it, and he was like, yeah, no,
I'll give it a shot and I'll try to do
it like the other way. And then he's eating it
and he's like he's like this is good, but cilantro
taste sweet at it, and I'm just like no.
Speaker 6: He was like, it was like, does it taste like soap?
Speaker 7: And he was like here one of he was like,
it tastes like shit, bitch.
Speaker 5: And then and then I give him one.
Speaker 8: Without the cilantro, and he's like, oh, yeah, this is
bomb without that, and.
Speaker 6: I'm like no.
Speaker 5: I was like, I was like, honey, I cannot tell
my family that.
Speaker 6: I can't live my life not having cilantro.
Speaker 5: And when we barrass you.
Speaker 8: In front of them, we talked to Mama Jester and
she's like, yeah, I kind of don't like cilantro either, you.
Speaker 6: Car samn.
Speaker 8: I was like, no wonder because even think Jester also
doesn't like Indian cuisine, he's not a what the fuck
he doesn't like Indian But here's the thing. Indian cuisine
utilizes a lot of spices like that, and they also
utilize cilantro a lot, a.
Speaker 26: Lot, so it's like and it's in it.
Speaker 6: It's not something that it's not just a garnish, it's
it's in.
Speaker 8: And it's like, no fucking wonder because your genes literally
mean you hate Indian.
Speaker 5: Food, jan you can't eat And I'm just like, yo,
this gene sucks.
Speaker 8: And then he's like he's like, I don't know, I
think cilatro just tastes like ship and your jeans are
making it taste good.
Speaker 2: I'm like, no, you're fucking wrong.
Speaker 6: You're wrong, fucking wrong.
Speaker 30: Well, even if it tastes wait but because never mind,
no no, no, no, no no, I want your thoughts. Yeah,
well if it still tastes good to you, but tastes
like shit in general, Like it still tastes good to you,
so it tastes good to some amount of people, So
it still tastes good.
Speaker 5: It's they're getting to the gene.
Speaker 7: We're getting really back and forth.
Speaker 2: Bat I mean, if you're just talking about the perception
of the statement fucking tastes good. I mean people usually
want others to be, you know, in concert with their tastes.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you didn't see absolutely worst someone tastes good.
Speaker 2: They're not stating it from an objective point of view.
The statement is more broadly, most people like this.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, it's the thing of like I think the
soap gene is a minority thing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, like not many people have the soap gens. So
that's where it's like, No, all these cultures can't be lying.
Cilantro is good ship.
Speaker 7: I will happily your cilantro for you.
Speaker 8: For me, Thank God, strike me down before he takes
my fucking cilantro.
Speaker 12: Dude.
Speaker 5: That's like where I'm.
Speaker 6: At with my tomatoes.
Speaker 2: We've been on break for about a half an hour.
The food conversation is very enthralling. I do think it
should end, and it is.
Speaker 6: Real real quick. I'm gonna do a thing.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 5: People in the comments, if you're listening, do you have
the soap Jean, do you have the soap gen Yeah?
For me, it was out lost star.
Speaker 2: Nice, nice, good, good, all around good stuff all around.
Job everyone proud of us.
Speaker 1: We've done it.
Speaker 2: Handshakes all around, handshake, handschacks all.
Speaker 26: Around, Yes, yes, business deals yes, Oh, back.
Speaker 11: In we go.
Speaker 1: Alrady.
Speaker 2: Everybody, you are heading to the downtown h Q. Is
there anything you are doing or saying as you're head
there doing or saying or or doing.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, we're doing.
Speaker 6: Trying to turn off my AC.
Speaker 5: I won't try to like fucking whispered to Desmond out
at your shot of everybody else?
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll uh.
Speaker 6: Okay, Hey.
Speaker 24: You got You and scarm were like in the backyard, like.
Speaker 1: Just is he like suspicious of anything or like he
was smoking around?
Speaker 12: What?
Speaker 6: What did you tell him?
Speaker 1: It's just probably Gardner.
Speaker 26: Okay, you don't think he's like suspicious or anything, but
what are.
Speaker 1: You gonna do about it?
Speaker 7: What are we doing about it?
Speaker 1: There's nothing to be done.
Speaker 6: Do you think these guys would drop me out.
Speaker 2: If they knew?
Speaker 1: Probably not, I'm being serious. Mm hmm. I think if
anyone's gonna write you out here, it's me and I didn't.
So yeah, whatever that's worth, it's.
Speaker 6: Worth a lot.
Speaker 5: Okay, I'm probably still not gonna like just up front
and tell them, but if if it becomes an issue,
then you maybe Yeah.
Speaker 6: Okay, thanks again, don't worry about it, continue walking.
Speaker 2: All right, anybody else, I'm no. You guys arrived there.
It is currently about a dish in the morning.
Speaker 1: You old it up for about two hours as at
this point, just in the time.
Speaker 2: The time is important. Do you guys approach the large,
large circular area that is the Downtown HQ. As you
approach the large building that is nestled into a rising
cliff that is on the side of it, UH, you
spot a estate on the top of it when that
belongs to the uh the governor of the Downtown h
Q or the Downtown pit. As you move past it
and into it, you once again re entered the same
place that that Lawrence and Lawrence and Desmond were the
previous night, and after some arrangement, you guys are sent
to a room where you are to be met by Dendron.
You are sent there to wait, assuming that there is
no issue with that. You guys arrive in it a
room that has enough chairs and such for everybody in
a large table. As you guys wait, you would probably
end up waiting about like ten fifteen ish minutes as
Dendron is fetched and brought out of what he's doing currently.
But eventually he does enter. I'm gonna grab the picture
just because I can. Maybe I should have been grabbing
it while I was talking, but I'm a fool either,
a fooler didn't do it.
Speaker 1: I just lost in my own world.
Speaker 12: I was.
Speaker 2: As again the dragon can man, silver skin dragonkin man
steps out that one of the few people you bumped into,
who is a slightly taller than Scarn, just ever so slightly,
as he walks in put out a cigarette.
Speaker 21: My brain, my brain was like, dragon man, dragon man,
dragon man, I'm done.
Speaker 6: I don't believe you.
Speaker 2: As he walks over and he takes a seat, he
has a what looks to be a couple pages of
parchment in front of him. He seems to regard as
he sees you, Desmond. He then looks up to you, Desmond.
Thanks for getting here so quickly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no problem. Already on my way when a message
got to me.
Speaker 2: Young Lawrence.
Speaker 1: Okay, what was that word you wanted me to say?
Speaker 6: I don't know what was the word I wanted?
Speaker 2: Nonsense word that you told me.
Speaker 6: I don't know what was it.
Speaker 2: You see him trying to think for a minute, and
he does not seem to be.
Speaker 1: Able to work.
Speaker 6: He's not saying the safe wordsmon hmm, this is a
is an issue, Commander.
Speaker 9: I feel like telve of us are not in the loop.
Speaker 1: I'm missing something.
Speaker 5: We'll tell you guys. This is this is a safe
word just for him. We'll tell you guys a safe
word once we're done. He needs to say the safe
word before we give him money off me.
Speaker 2: I can't remember what the safe word is.
Speaker 1: Isn't the fact that he knows the safe word part
of this?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 15: Knowing the safe word also kind of you said it was.
Speaker 4: Ridiculous, and like unless somebody actually would know the safe
word that they know, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 6: It's mean you think it's worth the risk.
Speaker 2: It was late and there was a lot happening, and
you made up a nonsense word and I've forgotten it.
Speaker 6: I mean, those are all excuses that you could say
on any day. Doesn't know what you think.
Speaker 2: He shuffles the papers that he has.
Speaker 5: He's just being silent.
Speaker 6: You not saying.
Speaker 2: Lock's eyes with Desmond. Richard ended up being fairly forthcoming,
although the information is only somewhat useful, especially given the
fact that this place has been ah it looks to
the others. I suppose I should tell the entirety of
your group just curious, Desmond. Is this the group that
you took with you? Yes, sir, okay, then all of
you should be free to know that we are going
to be putting some responsibility on Desmond for trying to
help us sort out the matters at hand. As you know,
there is an impostor within the Undertow. We don't know
how many others there are. He's been instructed to only
take orders from me. And because we cannot trust many
of the Undertow members, apart from all of you, you're
the only ones that we find may make use of
this information without us having to assign additional oversight. Kil
last night into this morning we interrogated Richard. We uncovered
a fair amount, specifically the name of our enemy. I'm
not sure if you had found any of this out already.
This cult that has infiltrated the Pitts is referred to
as the Court of Decay, a cult that on the
whole serves to worship the god of Undeath, Gotham. This
is just one chapter of it. The group that is
here is not the entirety of it, but just a
branch that has become interested. And apparently they've been operating
around the town for at least the last decade. Richard
doesn't know if they were here before then, but he
knows they were here at least a decade ago, and
they've been managing to keep a low profile and staying
out of our way, which is concerning. Richard said that
his job was apparently to cover up the cult's activities.
He had discovered them as they were operating, and they
initially wanted to kill him. He made himself useful to them,
and he's been covering up their tracks ever since in
exchange for a fair amount of compensation, as seems to
Richard did us something favor. According to him, this cult
wanted to attack and capture people within the town, but
he managed to convince them to use dead bodies from
the hollow yards until recently.
Speaker 11: And.
Speaker 2: Like looks up from his papers, I trust that you
all know what they're doing with those bodies.
Speaker 7: Yes, sir, yep, we've seen it.
Speaker 2: They have pockets, apparently in the caverns below where they've
been gathering their forces and setting up bases. They've likely
abandoned them now, but they've been gathering servants to turn
into undead, while also apparently gathering together a massive amount
of undead to perform some large ritual. This is where
the information starts to become mildly useful.
Speaker 11: We know that they're there.
Speaker 2: Command structure is that, above all the rank and file members,
there are three those who he contacted through his mirrors
who go by the title of Blood Reverence, and they
are effectively those that are leading this area, this chapter
of the cult, and then they serve under an equerry. Indeed,
he is apparently only ever directly met one of them,
a name that we know, unfortunately, Tannistain. You see this
like saddish look come across his face.
Speaker 6: You okay, that manner.
Speaker 1: Tannastein used to live in the town. They were.
Speaker 2: They and several of their friends a very tight knit
group used to be with the BBTA, and there was
a cave in. They were contingent and they were thought dead.
Tannastain is a.
Speaker 1: Fear bulg. He used to be a very good man.
Speaker 2: At least he seemed to be very friendly, treated everybody
like they were family. We did a lot of work
with him. I don't like to imagine that the version
of Tannastain that I knew wasn't really him, But here
we are. That may also explain why they understand the
power structure within the undertow tannas Stein knew it fairly well.
There have been a bunch of them who have been
coming from outside of the village. He seems to shuffle
and continue onwards like just going down notes that he has.
Speaker 1: The cultists seemed to have been.
Speaker 2: Coming in greater numbers from outside the town as a recently,
as if preparing for whatever it is they're doing. Richard
said that he despite the fact that most of the
cultists come from outside, he can confirm through Tennistein's word
that the Three Blood Reverence were here already they were. Apparently,
and he quotes born of Gilligan's pit. We don't know
exactly what that means, but we take it to mean
that they were likely recruited and promoted here. We also, unfortunately,
have confirmed that Richard has no idea what's happened to Conglo.
Apparently he prefers to keep such details away from himself.
Speaker 1: He knows they took him.
Speaker 2: He offered a tennis stain that he should take him
as a subject, or for fodder for his ritual or
a bargaining chip, but he knows that he's likely not dead.
Governor Conglow is likely still a captive. Everything past that
point and everything in between that Richard told us, we
think he told us just to curry favor. The information
I've just told you is all.
Speaker 1: That we trust.
Speaker 7: Conglow still at large.
Speaker 2: We would like the return of Governor Conglow if we could.
If all of you continue to be associated with this,
which I would prefer that you were, one of your
primary missions would be to find him and bring him back.
If they have found this ritual ground they've been looking for.
As old Man mctraw has also given us some information
on the subject, it's likely that they took him there.
This ritual apparently requires a large amount of undead, near
dead and freshly dead. Conglow has likely been taken to
stand among the ladder of those. He also makes for
a elegant bargaining chip if we overplay our hand, if
we find them and wage too large of an assault.
Speaker 1: They could use him rather avoid that, if possible.
Speaker 2: After scouring that mansion old the old Mctraunala State, we
put a lot of our effort into trying to uncover
the exact route that those maps say that they took.
Once we understand where they went, we would like you
to follow them, Desmond. We'd like you to go for
a dive completely off the record, without any members of
the undertone knowing about it except for me. If possible,
I'd like the rest of you to go with him.
The purpose will be to scout and find this place
where they are choosing to conduct this ritual, understanding what
they're trying to do and if Conglo is there, bringing
back Congolo, furthermore, bringing back any information on these blood
reverence and trying to find Tannas Stain and find out
exactly what's happened with them. We worry that if we
tell any other members of the Undertow, and I say
we as in just I at the moment, if it
gets to any member of the group that has infiltrated
the Undertow, then they would be able to prepare a
defense against you before you get there.
Speaker 1: I hope you understand the need for secrecy. It makes sense.
Speaker 6: Run me down the list again.
Speaker 5: If what you want us to do, you want us
to try to find Tannastain, research the blood Revenance, what else?
Speaker 2: Reverence reverence, research the blood reverence, capture or take them
out if you can find Conglow, find the nature of
this ritual ground that they're headed to, and find out
exactly what it.
Speaker 1: Is they're doing.
Speaker 6: Gotcha?
Speaker 2: In more vague terms, find this temple and find out
whatever you can that's useful.
Speaker 1: Is there anything else I should know?
Speaker 2: Leyna has been kept off duty until we can resolve this.
They all but insisted that they should be taken off
of the force after what happened. They also said that
they have some things that they want to look into,
given that whoever was impersonating them seem to know them
and who they were and you so well, they have
certain personal leads they want to follow.
Speaker 1: Before they recommend we do the same.
Speaker 2: So Leyuna is I believe going to be trying to
get to the bottom of exactly what it is that
has happened within the undertow. However, don't work off the books.
Speaker 5: I've left it to them, Okay, I just want to
know if we should trust Leona that we run into
or not.
Speaker 2: No, as with before, any orders that you receive not
from me should be disregarded.
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 2: Everything that is happening is being kept almost strictly between
us regarding the research into those map notes and such
as far as the rest of the undertone knows, they
are only researching those to give us an idea what's happening.
No one has been told that I'm going to pass
that information onto you, So Lawrence and Desmond for me,
I assume that you'll be good to go. The rest
of you. Yeah, you will be paid as if this
is a normal BBTA dive. I'm going to speak with
our liaisons at the BBTA and they're going to organize
some kind of cover story for you about a dive
that will take you into the tunnels and keep you
there for a while. Publicly, this work will not be
with the undertow it will be a private affair.
Speaker 7: Naturally.
Speaker 1: Understandable. So when are we supposed to be going well?
Speaker 2: According to BBTA regulations, from what I understand with your schedules,
you are supposed to be off work for another few days,
just a few. But it's your choice. I understand BBTA
members sometimes willfully and their four day vacations early. It's
really on you give us until at least tonight to
properly analyze the information about the tunnels. Once we're ready
to pass that on to you, you can leave whenever
you want to. The sooner the better, as far as
I'm concerned. The sooner you leave at least, the higher
the chance that Conglo will still be alive.
Speaker 1: Understood, I'd like to talk to somebody about requisitioning some equipment.
What do you need? I'd like to get some lighter
armor if I'm going to go in. If we want
to keep this quiet. As much as I love the
defense it provides, you'll tap is scale mail. It's a
bit loud for what we're doing.
Speaker 2: I could get you some studded leather armor if you want.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that and some ammunition, and I should be fine.
Can do.
Speaker 2: With that, I will likely check in with you all
later this evening, or rather I'll likely check in with Desmond.
Speaker 1: He can pass on information to the rest of you.
Speaker 6: By the way, sir, it was Caddie wampus.
Speaker 1: Right, How could I forgotten?
Speaker 7: Where do you think that's that is?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Catch, I mean yeah, I mean if you want to
change the change it, if you want to be kiddie
wa oh, I just it wrong, Okay, c.
Speaker 16: A t.
Speaker 12: W and.
Speaker 6: I'm glad you like it so much proper, It's good.
Speaker 7: M My brothers would a love that. Change this portrait
and said Caddy wo.
Speaker 6: Log it's teased, not d's.
Speaker 2: I'm in control here, all right.
Speaker 5: If he comes up, I feel like slides a piece
of paper towards me.
Speaker 6: It says that I'd be like, No, it's.
Speaker 2: Wrong, sir. It's a Desmond to delineate matters. You were
looking for lighter armor. There's a spare parents studied leather
armor going around anyways.
Speaker 7: But what I'm totally nowhere in there now Ah. You
said it looked like my other armor, right, yeah.
Speaker 2: You can make it look that way.
Speaker 7: I did, all right.
Speaker 2: He give yourself back ammunition. Let's say that we'll give
you back your full thirty clip. I'll give you back
all your ammunition for both your weapons as you are
supplied with more stuff I have given you. Put studied
leather onto your sheet. Ba boom. With that, you are
all excused.
Speaker 1: It's your Evening's looking like we haven't least until tonight
before we're hearing anything back from the commander. Well, I
should probably at home.
Speaker 3: Haven't been back there, and I was given express.
Speaker 1: Calls from me pa.
Speaker 5: Is the orders from the commander that like next thing
we want to do because we have like a lot
of stuff on the docket, but this seems important.
Speaker 1: Well, once we go down, I mean, it takes us
closer to whatever this flatch fletch, temple, latch key kids thing.
Speaker 11: That uh.
Speaker 1: Pepper's looking for. Yes, and I agree with his assumption.
The faster remove, the more likely itest Congo will come
back alive.
Speaker 6: So we should probably the first thing.
Speaker 1: I'll put the fire to our heels on anything you
want to do in town beforehand, because we don't have
long before our next dive.
Speaker 6: Stock up on rations and stuff.
Speaker 1: I guess we'll do that when we go to the BBT. A.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, that's that's that's all I want to do.
Check in on my mind. It's about it, all right.
Speaker 1: So what does everybody doing. I've got some personal stuff
I want to do, so I'll have to step away
for a little bit. But I can catch up with
you guys later.
Speaker 6: I can head home if you want some privacy to
do your personal stuff.
Speaker 1: If you want.
Speaker 6: Me, I don't. I don't want to. I don't want
to impose on your private stuff.
Speaker 1: I just don't want to be, you know, stuck inside
the house. Yeah, I see when I interrogate that Maurice
fella about whether or not he's the one who left
that bag there.
Speaker 5: Y know what I'm gonna do that.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna ask him if he left.
Speaker 1: That for me? All right, you take care of that.
I'll head back your way for beforehand.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, Lily a Pepper scar and how about
you guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm headed back to home.
Speaker 24: Pepper.
Speaker 11: It is like still engrossed in their book of like
notes about the lock box. Probably going to go back
and keep working on this.
Speaker 1: M for this one. I think I can help you
with your problem too, all right.
Speaker 7: Huh oh yeah, sure, Neah.
Speaker 9: I think Lily is gonna do a heck in hot spring.
Speaker 2: So you go in with scar then.
Speaker 15: I guess so I was like, I thought, I know
that there's like the pits Spring and then there's the
them residence.
Speaker 2: Oh you want to had the big old communal one. Yeah, absolutely,
you can go there.
Speaker 9: H Spring.
Speaker 2: Run springs the Dana stip which are those are the
ones that are run by Scarnes family. The pit Spring
is like a big open natural one.
Speaker 1: It's like a big public kind of micro lake. Yep,
that is a big old hot spring micro.
Speaker 6: We'll go to the we'll go to the pit spring
then for this one time. Okay, let's start and have
family time.
Speaker 1: All right. You go there.
Speaker 2: You head over to the pit spring and you effectively
as you enter into this large steam filled area which
has large holes that have been dug upward up to
the surface to allow steam to escape from it so
it doesn't flow into the rest of the area. You
head there. You head to the warm rocky outcrops of
the pits Spring. There's a few people there already. There's
always at least a couple dozen people that are in
this place, most of them being copy Hota most of
the time, as is their nature. They you head in
and you relax and you spend your day there. Ye
scart eh. As you head back to the dip, you
get there at about nine am ish, you head in.
You see that they are just now effectively opening up
the place. Did you come in? You see your mother
is carrying towels and blankets and stuff around the area.
As they see you, they stop, huh Scar and you're back?
Speaker 13: Eh?
Speaker 7: Mom?
Speaker 1: What's going on?
Speaker 2: Just doing the usual? It's very good to see you.
I'm very happy you've returned.
Speaker 4: Oh sorry, you had a lot of stuff going on
as after we came back.
Speaker 3: I wanted to come back immediately, but we had some
to take care of.
Speaker 1: Don't worry about it.
Speaker 2: These things happen. Have you bumped into your father.
Speaker 4: Yet, Nope, just walked in, just saw you, said hi,
he said out where we're at at this point?
Speaker 2: He said he wanted to speak to you by tonight.
I assumed that he would want to meet with you
at the temper after work, but he's not going to
be into work until about noon, so he should be
over at the temper right now.
Speaker 3: If you wanted to go speak with him, I might
as well get it done with now.
Speaker 2: Indeed, once you're done there. If you're not doing anything
with your day, would you mind helping out around here?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 1: No, no, no, it's easily I could do that. Thank you.
I have seen a little bit of up here.
Speaker 4: Yep, nope, you guys cannot get boobies hi points Yeah,
I got that.
Speaker 2: So huge?
Speaker 21: My god?
Speaker 1: Oh do you uh? Do you head over to the temper?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm heading back to the temper, walking on back.
Speaker 2: As you head over to the temper, it is far
from opening as you As you open it up, you
see your father is in the middle of the large
dojo like room that constitutes most of the building. You
see him. It seems to be sweeping. Seems to be
sweeping it up. As you walk in. His back is
to you. He stops as he hears the doors open,
slowly turns one cappy hottle eye see looking at you
from the side of his head.
Speaker 1: Earlier I expected.
Speaker 4: Yeah, as soon as bro walk through to get me,
I basically game here.
Speaker 1: Sorry.
Speaker 3: I couldn't make it immediately yesterday, but we had a
lot of stuff going on, bought of loose ends to.
Speaker 1: Get done.
Speaker 3: So you said that you needed something from me. We
were saying you had something to tell me about.
Speaker 2: I have friends within the BBTA and the Undertow, and
they've told me some things about what's happened over the
past couple of days. Oh okay, So how much do
you know that there is danger within the pits and
that you have become wrapped up.
Speaker 1: In that danger? Yeah, it's part of the job. I
guess you know that working for the BBTA is a
risky way to live your life. Right? Of course? What
else am I supposed to do? Just rot.
Speaker 3: I'd I'd love to keep working here, but like, look
at me, I don't fit here.
Speaker 1: I gotta ghost somewhere. I gotta do something.
Speaker 2: Do you continue? Do you plan to continue to be
a part of whatever it is that's happening here?
Speaker 1: And I plan to live dad? Of course.
Speaker 2: He heads over to the side of the room and
he puts a broom, the broom that he has against
the wall. He then heads over into the back and
you hear some movement as he re emerges. As he
comes back out with a rug under one arm folded
up and he appears to have a case in the
other one, a very small sealed case. He walks over
to the middle of the room and He puts the
case down, takes this rug, fans it out. It's very small,
It's like the size of a towel, puts it on
the ground, sits on the other side of it, opposite
side of it from you, crosses his legs, and then
he gestures with his hand out to the other side
of it.
Speaker 1: What's It's all this? I have a gift for you. Oh,
kind a weird time break gift. What is it?
Speaker 3: He said, sure, scarn sits. I would like you to
make a choice for me.
Speaker 2: And he reaches over and he pops open a lock
on this little case and opens it, and you see
him very slowly reaches in and he takes out and
puts one at a time on this little rug that
he's put out in front of him. He puts what
looked like three scroll cases, three bound scroll cases, just
one after the other, in front of you, equidistant from
each other. Within these scrolls are instructions for techniques that
you could learn to utilize. Each of them may prove
useful to you if you were to continue down such
a dangerous path. However, I would like you to choose one,
knowing that some of these may be beyond your ability,
but that is for you to decide. And he gestures
to the first one, which would be on his right.
Speaker 1: You were left.
Speaker 2: This scroll should be well within your abilities. It should
be well within the mastery of a patient student. He
then puts his hand on another one in the middle.
This one would be difficult to utilize, but a tempered
mind of intermediate skill would find its use. And he
puts his hand on the other one, which would be
on your right his left. And this one, this one
would require mastery of one's mind and talents. Its lessons
maybe beyond your ability. I do not wish for you
to take all of them, as training like this takes time.
But I wish to give you the opportunity to choose
what you.
Speaker 1: Would like to take.
Speaker 4: So one would be pretty easy, one's kind of more hard,
in the last one probably would be impossible. Ah, And
I like, I can't like investigating these or telling anything
about this.
Speaker 2: Right he does not seem to be opening them all right.
I wish for you to gauge your own ability and
make your own choice. I will not be there to
help or protect you on the path that you are,
so I need to trust that your heart knows what
to do.
Speaker 7: This is.
Speaker 1: There's a lot to think about right now.
Speaker 2: Most dangerous choices you will have to make will not
be ones that give you time to think.
Speaker 3: Of course, well, knowing what I know, I gotta take
the middle one.
Speaker 2: Do you wish to take the scroll that would post
some difficulty, some complexity, but likely be of use to
one with a discerning mind?
Speaker 3: Well, I want a challenge, but I also want something useful.
Speaker 2: He reaches over and he takes the other two and
he puts them away. He then turns and pushes the
center one toward you.
Speaker 1: Am I able to open it? Yep?
Speaker 2: You reach over, you take it out, and you find
that there is within this, within this scroll case. As
you unfurl it, you find that there are actually two
scrolls that are together bound within this thing. These are
manuals of esoteric techniques, which mean these are additional focused
techniques that you can learn. You'll only be able to
each day. You have to spend a one hour period
refreshing your knowledge on which which one you wish to learn,
And you can only have one learn this way at
a time. So every long rest, if you have multiple,
you got to switch out which one you want This
one your choice has two and the intermediate complexity that
comes with it is that you're going to have to
pick which one of these at any given time you want.
I'm going to throw them both onto your shoe. One
is called the Manual of negative zero. The technique is
called negative zero, and the other technique is called heart.
Speaker 1: Purification m hm hm. And they are.
Speaker 2: Both now in your inventory. Each one explains how they work,
and then at the very bottom of their descriptions it
says what the technique.
Speaker 1: Does mm hmmm.
Speaker 2: Interesting And if you have any questions about those, you
can hit me with them whenever you want.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I have to like take time and hours
out of the day.
Speaker 2: Ye take an hour to read one, to memorize it,
and then you have it prepared and you can use
it or its effect just takes place until the next
time you complete it, until the next time then you
have to do it again, or until the next time
you spend an hour using one. Then they're not used
up when they're used.
Speaker 3: Oh so I can if I have time, I can
take an hour to swap to the next.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, just every time you take a long rest. Basically,
pick one of these techniques. And you can use it
until next time you take a long rest. Okay, it
just becomes one of your focus techniques.
Speaker 1: Cool, all right, one of.
Speaker 2: Them isn't one you use, the necrotic one. I'll just
go over them. Negative zero necrotic it just if you
haven't prepared, you just become resistant to necrotic damage. The
other one. If you ever prepared, you can you have
advantage on saves to avoid or stop being.
Speaker 1: Poison or paralyzed. And it's an action.
Speaker 2: You can spend two focus points to target yourself with
the effects of lesser restration, or four to target yourself
with greater restoration. I will throw those spells at you.
Speaker 11: See you didn't need that armor of anic resistance at all.
Speaker 6: Baby girl, you're doing it. You're gonna live.
Speaker 1: I'll die, I'll find a way.
Speaker 7: No justice, please, just please.
Speaker 1: I'm not doing it intentionally.
Speaker 2: This is what the dies want, all right, and I'm
just going to Okay, I'm gonna These are what both
of those spells do, and you can only target yourself
when you cast them this way, all right? And who
knows what would have been in the other ones? Scroll
cases gone away?
Speaker 4: No no, no, no, no, there was nothing there was
nothing there. No one knows anything because other choices don't
exist in the world.
Speaker 3: You only get the one that you choose.
Speaker 2: My dad in the face, steal both of the scroll cases.
Yell fuck you, old man.
Speaker 1: Runs away.
Speaker 3: It was like your mom's Mom's just like you, knowing
I'm running.
Speaker 1: I'm running out with like weird legs, with a bleeding
nose stopping. Nobody's like, no, I did the same thing
when I was.
Speaker 2: He was like, wakes up two hours later on the ground.
Speaker 1: You passed, Wow, just like I did when I was young.
He will be strong. Oh jeez.
Speaker 4: All right, So I'm yoinking these uh am I. I'm
coming a place where I'm just gonna be here for
a long time, anyway.
Speaker 1: Can I just take some time.
Speaker 4: Read this fucking art purification for me right now? Yeah,
since I'm going to be working here for the day.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: So we just the way that we can turn them
on and off is we can just equip it in
your stuff, which I just yeah, okay, cool, cool, cool,
which should if I've coded it correctly. If you'll go
down to if you look at your actions tab, any
techniques that pop up for these, there's like gonna be
a little thing called I'll move it to the top
esoteric techniques. Just open that and the stuff's in there. Yes, nice,
And then you're just gonna spend the day effectively training
and getting used.
Speaker 1: To these Yeah, cool, cool, cool cool. I spend that time.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna gonna do that does eventually go back to
my mother.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Desmond. Uh we cut back to Lily. Lily is
out there and the big old the old pits heck
in pit spring, just having a good time, having a
day off. You have a good time. Lily being in
the hotspring, being a bunny in.
Speaker 8: A hotspring, hell, living her Disney princess life in the
hot spring, floating back.
Speaker 1: And also Starfish's considering how.
Speaker 19: Long her hair is, just fucking everywhere. She's living a little,
She's living her area a little. She's being a total
water bunny right now. Although she had to like freaking
wrap her ears somehow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's got a.
Speaker 7: Like a swim cap. But it's like all the flowers
like synchronized swimmers.
Speaker 8: Yes, I felt like her weird version of a happy hoodie.
Speaker 2: Alrighty as you do that. So I have a feeling
that you are taking uh Lorenz to the Temple. Would
that be correct?
Speaker 6: I mean I was gonna go fucking questions.
Speaker 2: Oh sorry, not Laura, it's Pepper.
Speaker 1: I was like, what, I'm not taking Pepper to the temple?
Speaker 2: No are you taking Peer?
Speaker 1: I'm taking Pepper to the College of Drifting Geckos. Oh oh, okay,
what do you.
Speaker 7: I don't know what's the goal here?
Speaker 6: I don't know anything.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean it's one of the most famous Bard
colleges in Retia. If anyone's gonna have any idea how
to fix your puzzle box or fix it, I guess
open it. Uh, they'll be there, and I got to
talk to them about some stuff.
Speaker 7: Sure, I mean might as well try. What are you
going to ask them about?
Speaker 1: None of your business, is what I'm want to ask
them about.
Speaker 7: You ask a lot of questions for someone who won't
answer them.
Speaker 1: You don't answer a lot of questions for someone who
asks them back.
Speaker 7: I literally can't answer most of them.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that means.
Speaker 7: We'll say sometimes it's striking.
Speaker 14: It's all uncomfortable, sounds terrible, alrighty cause you take them
to the College of Drifting Echoes, you approach it as
you do, as you walk up, ascending to the effectively
the highest point in the downtown college you which doesn't
take you much time at all considering where you're coming from.
Speaker 2: H oh, pickups, what's up?
Speaker 1: What's up?
Speaker 2: Picos probably on the Bingo somewhere. So once got Bingo,
as you had towards the College of Drifting, echoes the
sound of instruments playing it springing out pretty clearly. It's
pretty early in the morning, so it's not being terribly raucous,
but as you approach, you do hear people preparing. You
see instrumentalists are tuning their instruments, you see them some
of them playing. You start to hear singing and vocal
warm ups coming from parts of it, and you hear
a mild murmur as you see a bunch of relatively
scholarly looking individuals walking about within this building, this large,
very open concept building that is mostly a massive garden
out front that has a large fountain in front of
it that then extends back with paths leading around it.
And at the fact there's a large singular college like building,
like a very large institution, that has various balconies and
such erupting from it. One such notable balcony above the entrance,
looking fairly exquisite. This is probably the most ritzy elaborate
building in the entirety of the pits, with maybe the
exception of some of the higher up estates. As you're entering,
no one really seems to pay you any mind as
you just walk in. What is your exact goal? What
are you trying to find?
Speaker 1: Ah, if there's any sort of administrative area and look
for that. Since this lives in order and assumes that
they have one, so he'd walk around looking for someone
in charge. Beyond that, just keeping his eye on things
going on.
Speaker 2: Roll me investigation, Oh yeah, oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, investigation time. He's out cooking something. That's a total
of thirteen.
Speaker 2: As you wander about the area, Dragon Pepper along with you, Pepper.
This sort of environment is not entirely foreign to you.
The clamor of people here, the slight higher density of
more scholarly individuals, it somewhat puts you at ease. It's
something that you've been around before, and Desmond. As you
search for a symbol of authority or someone who knows
they're talking about you catch an individual down a hallway
as you enter that you recognize basically immediately a woman,
an elderly Elvin woman, nay, Headmaster Caspian, the head of
the college. You see this elf, who, as elves do,
is graceful in her old age, but is pretty well
known to be pretty up there even by Elvin's standards.
Despite this, she has fairly long silver hair skin that
is far more resplendent than basically anybody else in the
pit as she is one of the few full elves
who live here, if any. As she moves about dressed
in the colorful colors of both a headmaster and a
minstrel as she is both, a large mantle robe falling
around her as she moves, dragging a bit behind her
on the ground. You see her before she sees you.
What would you like to do?
Speaker 1: Headmaster? Hello, excuse me, all right down here?
Speaker 2: Huh sorry, I'm afraid that I'm not in terrible I'm
not terribly Uh well, the quaint have we met before?
Speaker 1: Uh No, that's probably for the best. Most people don't
want to meet me. I am Desmond Brandy Barrel with
the undertoe.
Speaker 2: I see, I'm I'm sure you know, but I'm Headmaster Caspian.
I run this facility and have for quite some time.
How may I help you.
Speaker 1: A lot a few questions, But more pressingly, my friend
here has a a interesting piece of evidence that we've
been trying to get heads or tails of, and it's
been eluding us, and I figured the college.
Speaker 7: Might have some figuring it out.
Speaker 1: Sure, but uh, you know, the College of Drifting Eechos
is home to some of the brightest minds in the area,
hell if not a all of retire So if anyone
could help us figure it out, I think one of
the bards here might be able to give us a hand.
Speaker 7: It's true, I could use assistance.
Speaker 2: Very well runowned for our ability to keep track of
historic events. We have many friends here who came from
the Itonian capital, and if anybody are reverent of history,
it would be them.
Speaker 7: Well that's great because that was actually well. One of
my theories is that it.
Speaker 11: Could be specifically lack a time period, and it could
be like the way that the stars were aligned with
the different ads in the sky, because you know, we
have those astrological symbols up in the sky of the adolins,
So I figure it could be imposition of lack. If
you're thinking that the same sun it is the West.
Speaker 7: I don't know. It's like a run in theory of mine.
I've got a couple of them. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I was just looking back and forth.
Speaker 12: What is it?
Speaker 1: No idea? What they just said?
Speaker 2: What is it in regard to you want to know
the constellations related to the idolins?
Speaker 1: But for what.
Speaker 4: I?
Speaker 7: I pull out the puzzle box.
Speaker 11: Sorry, we're trying to sell boo ex excuse me, we're
trying to solve this puzzle box.
Speaker 1: Oh, we have reason. I believe that whatever's inside might
have pertinance to an ongoing investigation.
Speaker 7: And I noticed that they have all twelve o Dolins.
Speaker 2: Here, set off in groups of four, right.
Speaker 7: And then I noticed that it's the moon sun and
setting sun.
Speaker 11: And at first my thought was, well, shoot, a lot
of Idolins have lack motifs.
Speaker 7: Of the moon. I mean, you literally have the moon
temple down here.
Speaker 2: Kindly, would you accompany me to my office? Sure, like
a moment of your time? Havevn't seen this?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 7: Is that?
Speaker 2: Would you care to accompany us? Desmond? Or is there
somewhere else perfect for me?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 1: I think that would be exactly what I need.
Speaker 2: Wonderful, All right? Follow me then as she walks away
and leads your guys up a flight of stairs up
at the back of the college and back around and
she brings you to a very large room that you
can tell is connected by a very large, open concept
sort of door, and behind it to that balcony that
I referenced before. She takes you to a very large desk.
This room that you enter into is very wide, has
effectively enough room you could put a whole stage of
performers in here are on each side of it. There
is a wall that is just a just a massive
set of shelves that have books lining it from side
to side, from top to bottom. She walks over behind
what looks to be an oak desk, sits down, refers
to some chairs as she does too. She also puts
her hand out and taps the table in front of her.
If she wouldn't mind, I'd like to get a closer
look at it, I might be able to help you.
Speaker 7: Gures.
Speaker 11: Let me just.
Speaker 7: Right, Yeah, put the box on the table. You put
the box on the table, and I like pop up
on one of the chairs, yep.
Speaker 2: And she reaches over and as you put on the table,
she takes it, turns it towards her and begins fiddling
with those dials, moving them. You hear the clicking of
each one as it shifts from place to place.
Speaker 7: I love that sound.
Speaker 2: It's very tactile. Yes, I'm curious. Where is it that
you found this?
Speaker 1: From my understanding, it was delivered to them by a
person of interest regarding an ongoing investigation.
Speaker 2: Oh that's quite mysterious.
Speaker 1: Yes it's It's got my attention enough that we came here.
Speaker 2: If it wouldn't upset your sensibilities, would you mind for
a moment if I attempted a bit of magic?
Speaker 7: Now please?
Speaker 2: She puts her hand over it and then just slowly
starts tapping rhythmically, and you can't quite tell what she's doing,
but as she's tapping, the sound stops being the sound
of wood tapping.
Speaker 1: Also, I should totally change us to where are you?
Speaker 2: This is basically the called bart Coulture music.
Speaker 1: So why do I not have this on?
Speaker 2: Fucking So she starts tapping it, and as she does,
the taps slowly go from being the sound of nails
on wood to sounding like a drum beat that is
echoing around you, And as it picks up, begins to
find a rhythm. She slams her hand down on it,
not like slams, but just presses her whole palm against it,
and there's a massive drum beat as you see magical
energy wrap around the box. And then you hear this
massive crunching noise, as if a lock had turned, this
huge boom that echoes out around all of you. There's
a brief disturbance of some dust kicks up just off
of the table, and then nothing for a moment the
sound dies out. She puts her hand on the top
that tries to open the top and finds it doesn't. Well,
that answers one relatively obvious question. This is impervious to
being opened by magic. Oh, you should be excited by
that fact. Anything that is protected such a degree must
have something very interesting inside of it.
Speaker 7: That's what I was good. Hmmm, you get it.
Speaker 2: And so you're wondering if I have any ideas about
what the dials and the symbols of the center.
Speaker 7: That might mean, right, because I have my theories, but
then I have my questions. Indeed, it's like I'm not
like a cleric or lag a bard.
Speaker 2: Well, I suppose I must ask, then do you think
that if you found out what was inside of it,
that it'd be a bit of fun. Are you enjoying
the chase and trying to figure it out?
Speaker 24: Yes?
Speaker 2: You do, seem awful keen to get inside of it.
Speaker 11: Whenever, since got'd be good if they hit it under
such an intricate luck.
Speaker 2: Indeed, and then I'm.
Speaker 7: Kind of learning something as I'm doing it, so it's
like an adventure with a bit of fit.
Speaker 2: Well, I can tell you three things. The first is
that I vaguely recognized the construction of it. Whatever this is,
it was clearly taken from some old ruins that were
beneath the pit. There are several old places where things
like this exist, several old sacred objects that were contained
by things similar to it. A civilization that is long
since gone, but has left us not but stories and
certain objects of theirs were protected by means like this.
Whomever delivered it to you must have been an adventurer
or a member of the BBTA. Perhaps they're trying to
get you to open it for them before they take
it back. Wouldn't that be fun? So whatever's inside it's
likely of great historic value. The second thing I have
to tell you is that and please hold your breath
when I tell you, I'm relatively certain I know exactly
how to open this. The exact combination is relatively obvious.
Speaker 7: Oh my god, you have to tell me. I need
to know if I was even close.
Speaker 2: Well, there's the third thing. She like puts the puzzle
boks back in front of you. I would be ever
so happy if when you did manage to eventually figure
it out on your own and open it, if you
tell me what you found inside. Because the third thing
is you seem to be awful invested in it, and
I wouldn't take the joy of figuring it out away
from you.
Speaker 7: Play a dirty game.
Speaker 2: I believe that the act of trying to open this
would be far more valuable than simply having whatever's inside.
I would not steal that from you.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this.
Speaker 2: It's only about the Idolins.
Speaker 1: Ellen know about the The eight remain in the to
you that served beneath them right are.
Speaker 2: In reference to the twelve the traitorists said. Idolins the
Twilight Authority have been scrubbed for much of our history,
but there are several possibly fictional Idolins. These extra symbols
you likely don't recognize they're based on that.
Speaker 1: Are those ones going to be in the sunset one?
Speaker 11: Then?
Speaker 2: Who's to say, God?
Speaker 18: But help urea.
Speaker 1: I'm happy to have helped. I think I said something useful.
Speaker 2: Do you have an idea of what the combination might be?
Speaker 7: Are there are some parts I'm still fussing with.
Speaker 11: I mean, if you could answer, I do have some
questions and what you figure some of these are?
Speaker 2: As long as it doesn't give away the game, I'd
be happy to.
Speaker 8: Well.
Speaker 11: Like form Moon, I've got three of the four figured out,
I just need to get the fourth. I figured to
Quinn with the ritual of the emerald sky or whatever
it is, your god with their moon temple, nonsense, not nonsense.
Speaker 2: Excuse me, Hugh, got use with all your bullshit anyways,
And then.
Speaker 11: I put Vestius here because, like I guess, they seem
like a god that do things.
Speaker 2: Now, I would say, if you're looking to the sun
moon and the setting sun and trying to associate them
with the domains, you might be on the wrong track.
Oh oh, so none of these symbols are related to
chan Kari goosh, our local deity of the Moon's is
a mere lesser god. Oh none, of these symbols are theirs.
Speaker 11: Its message was strong enough that I mistook it. Let's
see what other theories did I have? It could be
maybe like oldest to newest.
Speaker 2: Well, the idolins are all equally.
Speaker 11: Old, right, Well, if we're thinking about west, literally, the
sun sets in the west, so.
Speaker 7: That one would be going west. But they're all in
one place on the box, right, Some of these theories
I wrote before.
Speaker 2: You just like sent me the in a row on
one side of the box.
Speaker 7: Ohooy okay, next to.
Speaker 22: That one.
Speaker 6: Scribbles.
Speaker 2: Believe you might be on vaguely the right track, but
I don't want to give away anymore. That might ruin
the surprise for you when you figure it out, So
I'm afraid I should leave you to it. From there forward,
I'm gonna get.
Speaker 7: In this damn wow. Well, thanks for saving me the adventure.
Speaker 2: I guess you're very welcome.
Speaker 7: Gives me something to fuss with when I'm not working.
Speaker 2: Is there anything else I can help you under toe
with today?
Speaker 1: Not the undertoe, but me personally? What do you need?
I wanted to know a bit about the college. I've
got a cousin who's taken care of a neighbor kid,
but they're probably they're probably not going to be able
to keep them in for too much longer, just expenses
and everything, you know, and so the kids a bit
of a prodigy in the way of you know, your
musical magic, h whatnot?
Speaker 2: I mention that you're talking about Lawrence.
Speaker 12: Uh no, m.
Speaker 11: H.
Speaker 4: I have.
Speaker 2: As far as as far as those who train here go,
Lawrence is definitely.
Speaker 1: Let's use him as an example.
Speaker 2: All right, let's somebody like Lawrence.
Speaker 1: Yes, I just wanted to know if there was like
residency on the college for formally introduced attendance, or if
they were people who just lived about the pitch themselves.
Speaker 2: Well, for someone of the approximate age of one Lawrence Valorin.
If a guardian were to give us permission to take
care of them, and they were to dedicate themselves to
the college, then yes, there's absolutely living quarters here. We
would need to know, of course, that whomever was taking
care of them was all right with them staying here,
and there is work that could be done around here
if they wished to make any kind of living. Much
of our many of our students also work as a faculty.
Speaker 1: Makes sense.
Speaker 2: After all, we are here to learn eternally.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I wanted to know a little bit about that.
Their situation's not quite the same. They're unlike little Laurie.
This person's not got any relatives left. There's an attack,
something from the woods. I don't know the specifics, but
I was looking at seeing what kind of what kind
of onset and tuition and things they might need to
prepare them for something like that. I just want to
get all this to them. I'm going to be writing
a letter this evening.
Speaker 2: We focus on three things here, often all at once.
The first is a willingness to know and to understand history.
There's a great deal many mysteries to be uncovered, and
we are huge proponents in gathering old stories, making sense
of them, making nonsense of them, and trying to pass
them on to make sure that they're not forgotten. The
second thing that we focus on is musical aptitude. The
ability to perform is very important because we believe that
history only lives if we can make it entertaining enough
to be remembered. So everything outside the results of war, famine,
and death have to be something that people want to
keep in their minds. So anybody that is willing to
pursue a career in performance, be that acting, performance by
way of instruments or singing, or anything that could carry
culture forward. We are very happy to entertain here. And
the final is the magic that comes with those things
is the rare talent that the ability to understand song
and the emotion behind it allows one to use to
vibrate into existence the many effects much like the one
that you saw just now. Any that are willing to
pursue the sort of magic we can teach here and
have a mind for it, we are willing to bring
on as well. Anyone who has a keen interest in
any of those three things is welcome among our ranks.
Speaker 12: All.
Speaker 1: I think that's all I needed.
Speaker 2: Very good, young friend. I'm sorry, did I get your name?
Speaker 1: Regards Pepper?
Speaker 24: It's Pepper, all right, Just Pepper, Just Pepper.
Speaker 2: I hope that whenever you do solve that you will
bring it back and show me. And if you have
any interest in any other faculties or services the college
might be able to provide, I certainly hope we see
you again. Best I can tell, because I do have
an relatively good eye for people that are within the pit.
Even if I hadn't made their acquaintance directly. You don't
strike me as a pit goer. You seem like someone's
relatively new.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm new in town.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Uh, I would love that. Wow, really like your facilities
and stuff.
Speaker 2: Feel free to come by and ask us for help anytime.
Speaker 1: Who spring Potato along. I'm sure he'd love it here.
Unlet's he scare the music. There's lots of like tubas
and stuff.
Speaker 7: Oh, he likes he likes music. He's just stuffy about it.
Speaker 1: Oh, it makes sense. I mean they seem to like you.
They follow you around everywhere.
Speaker 7: I don't see them.
Speaker 2: Sorry, your name is Pepper, and you have a friend
named Potato.
Speaker 1: There's a cat cat named Potato, and uh, I think
it's adopted them because that next time I saw Potato
he was up in uptown.
Speaker 12: Oh.
Speaker 1: I see, it's a bit of a trip for a
cat to make.
Speaker 2: A very interesting.
Speaker 7: Well there is she go.
Speaker 1: If that is, we shouldn't keep any more of your time.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Thank you, this proved most entertaining.
I hope you both have a good day, you two, headmaster.
She nods and sees you out of the office, doesn't leave.
She beckons somebody else that's in there, relatively flamboyant looking
minstrel to see you guys out to the front. And
as you guys leave, as you walk through that central
garden that exists in the front of it and by
the fountain, you briefly catch just her standing, not up
on the balcony, but you see her behind a large
a large window that constitutes the entrance to it, the
adore glass pane door. I don't know why I can't talk.
You see you're watching as you guys leave, relatively happy.
Speaker 1: May can at least give them some entertainment.
Speaker 7: You're too good, Jusmond, hush, Laura's lucky.
Speaker 11: To have you.
Speaker 1: That makes any sense to.
Speaker 7: Me and Lauren and entertainment's good. They are bards. They
need something to gossip about.
Speaker 2: Alrighty man with Lawrence, with you heading, I presume you
are heading towards low Market. I know I want to
get to your stuff, but we have just passed about
three hours and fifteen minutes, all good, and did an
effort to not keep make this go too long. I
think I'd like to stop there for the day, calm,
before you head to speak to Maurice.
Speaker 5: That makes me feel like that's either going to be
like a yah, know it wasn't me, or it's gonna
be a big thing.
Speaker 2: With all you having done your things for the most part,
the rest of you commit to what you're doing for
the rest of the day. You commit to spending your
time with your families, bathing. Probably not gonna be the
entire day, I presume, but heck, having an hour and
our day, spending time with your families, heck, and doing
going about your duties as you wait for orders from Dendron.
Lawrence heads singularly alone towards low Market to find out
if the mystery items were in fact left by Maurice.
And that is where we'll next time.
Speaker 6: Lawrence head singularly alone.
Speaker 2: Singularly alone, devoid of allies or backup is going.
Speaker 18: O God, Godey, wasn't Morlane?
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: There's so many characters with names.
Speaker 5: Logan's this on purpose.
Speaker 2: Maurice is actually a Maurice is actually a nickname.
Speaker 1: It's short for Tannastaine Maurice.
Speaker 2: Of course I knew it. Puts rights down Maurice, of course, Maurice.
If you add in, if you rearrange the letters and
add these twenty three letters. It's spending switched them around.
It spells out I am blood reverende God damn it.
Speaker 7: I should have known.
Speaker 6: I'm smarter than this. How did this happen?
Speaker 1: I believe that halfling question mark was a fear ball.
Speaker 2: God know, an excellent disguise again. Yeah, that's what I
ask you.
Speaker 6: What game recognizes gay Maurice? Fucking take me out?
Speaker 2: Jeez, and credit button.
Speaker 7: If I'm gonna go, this is the way I go.
Speaker 5: I mean, well, I lived a long life, ten years old.
Speaker 2: Credits, I said, credits, I hit the button. Oh fuck,
they were almost there.
Speaker 1: Damn. But did you do it right? I did?
Speaker 6: I don't think you did. What happened to you?
Speaker 1: I sun any.
Speaker 2: Credits come to me?
Speaker 9: I need you.
Speaker 2: I need you to die.
Speaker 6: Oh god.
Speaker 2: I'm also getting a bit warm down here. I'm like,
I'm good to maybe a.
Speaker 1: Little bit warm. Yep, didn't take it for a little bit.
Speaker 2: I ain't got no fans on heaving head, red bull
tired warm.
Speaker 1: Damn Bill, get a drink.
Speaker 2: I think I'd like to go to shoppers. Yeah, everybody else,
make sure you come back and you join us next
week when there's gonna be probably this, and then I'm
probably gonna be like and we skip ahead to tomorrow.
I don't know what you mean, Oh James, gosh, gosh, gosh.
I'm not in any particular rush here or anything, but
I believe YouTube side that is where I'm going.
Speaker 1: To cut things down. Not a rush or anything, but yeah, right, but.
Speaker 2: Goodbye you tube side.
Speaker 5: We'll see love you been appreciated.
Speaker 2: Oh if we start multi streaming, goodbye YouTube side, it's
gonna take on a different meaning.
Speaker 1: Think of another.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, goodbye's side.
Speaker 11: There you go.