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Speaker 2: Souls are made of glass, fragile to be handled with care.
Break them and they may shutter to danger shorts. In
our world, as it is in the other. Mordreal is
the second angel of Klimvoor, the first angel of Death,
was myself Mordrous. While all angels are considered to be siblings,
I was considered to be Mordreal's twin. Most thought I
was more powerful during the Mortal War. Due to my power,
I became our leader, known among us as the eminence
of the angels. Mordrial for a millennia, was weak in comparison,
not just when compared to myself but most of the
other angels. For the most part, he didn't even fight.
Unbeknownst to me and my brethren, he was harboring more
power than perhaps the gods that created us. When the
lizard Folk began turning the tide in the war, over
many hundreds of years, they defeated all other angels. After
the last angel fell to the lance and the overwhelming
force of the lizard Folk, Mordreal was able to hide
and survive for a great deal of time. Eventually, the
lizard Folk found Mordrial their leader pierced his skin with
the most powerful weapon, the angel spear. Mordrial channeled all
of his energy into undeath, postponing his immediate demise as
an angel of Chalamvore. In this moment, he was able
to draw upon the energy of the god of death, and,
in a move that none had thought to try, one
that we did not even consider to believe we had
the power to bequeath, Mordreal bestowed a soul upon the
lizard Folk leader. The act created a miracle of creation.
What was created was our world's first dragon. Angels are
unable to know the location of the Angel's spear. We
cannot even see it when it is before us. However,
the spear was inside Mordreal himself as he lay dying,
a new dragon above him, the spear in his chest
drew into himself. The power of the spear, the first
of austin over a millennia of war to give into death.
Consuming the power of the angel's spear, Mordreal unintentionally bound
the power of the spear to himself involuntarily. At this moment,
the dragon near by was also drawn into Mordreal, my
brother transformed into something else. Mordreal had ascended into a
new creature, neither angel nor dragon, neither alive nor dead.
His new understanding and command of death allowed Mordreal to
reanimate the fallen lizard folk into his command. Within months,
the world was underneath Mordreau's room. The lizard folk zombies
had converted the living into undeath. A rare few even
retained parts of their personalities, though they had become twisted,
vampiric creatures bound in servitude to Mordreal. But after thousands
of years of war, after a cataclysmic wave of death
brought on by Mordreal's new form, Arcaya had been destroyed.
The land cracked and torn, the sky forever darkened. Mordrial
with total dominance over death came to the slow realization
that Guaya itself was dead. The planet was entirely devoid
of any life, the plants, the animals, everything down to
bacteria itself gone white from the world. By Mordreal's new
natural power, hundreds of years would pass. Mordreal would search
every corner of Guia, but he was utterly alone. In
his meditation. Mordreal sought life, a desperate big to return
our world back to what it was. Mordreal missed the
other angels, the mortal folk, the animals. Mordreal even missed
our enemy, the lizard folk. Mordreal missed the war that
ended everything, the purpose it brought him. He sought methods
to allow our Gaia to be reborn. For many years,
turning up nothing upon nothing on the cusp of madness,
Mordreal discovered a unique ability, the manna Wee. Through this magic,
Mordreal found life, another world filled with life, a second Gia,
vibrant with the energy of vitality, And though it would
take him a century channeling all of his power, he
was ultimately able to open a doorway, moving from our
dead world and into another living Gia. Mordreal would find
the landscape clean, fresh and alive, the sounds of life,
a scent of vigor, his senses brimming with the life
blood of vitality. Mordreal came through the doorway, but so
too did his undebt, Pouring through the gateway the flood
of necrosis. Mordreal flew to the nearest city. Behind him,
the ground dried, the plant life withered, the wildlife decayed away.
Arriving at the gates of the capital city of Keay,
the forest city at the center Kingdom of Valia, a
city far greater than anything the lizard folk of our
world had ever constructed, Mordreal was met by the elves
of Key, such unique beings, vibrant with light. However, within
Mordreal's mere presence, the council and the entire city would
perish almost instantly. All that remained was Sylthus, Angel of Sylvanus.
The people, the land, the flora and fauna may have died,
but his brother stood before him. It did not look
like Sylphus, but it had felt like Sylphus. He sensed
his brother alive. How long had it been since he
had seen his siblings? Hundreds of years, the millennia Mordreal
approached Sylthus, calling to him. Sylphus did not respond. Something
was wrong. The angels here were wrong. They were not sentient. No,
something worse. The angels here did not have souls, no
hollow admirations. It was obscene to Mordreal the souls of
this world? Were they given to the mortals? Turning back
to his mindless brother, Mordreal came to a second sickening realization.
Speaker 3: Sylphus had died.
Speaker 2: Mordreal's power was so great it could kill even his
celestial kin.
Speaker 4: So this is war.
Speaker 2: The gods had ignored him, his cause, his cries, his pain,
his loss. This was why everything was a game, an
experiment in one world, souls given to the angels, in
another to the mortals. So then, when he had destroyed
his guile, had the gods ignored his cause because they
had yet another world to occupy their trivial time. If
we are but toys to petty children, Mordrel thought, I
will smash every toy. If my new form is onlyst
suitable for destruction, then I will break everything they have
ever created. And when they have nowhere else to look,
they will have no choice but to look at me
to turn and face me.
Speaker 4: Don't be so casual, Brad. Don't you dare be so casual?
Speaker 1: What I was just setting it up. You're in the forest.
You're in the forest at the House of Knowledge.
Speaker 4: Oh my god. Sorry, Um.
Speaker 1: You're standing before Carridwin, which is an angel which appears
to be just a giant fifteen foot mirror. When you
speak to this mirror and ask it questions, though it
takes some of your life force to do so, it
provides a truthful answer. And well, I suppose a truthful
answer would be in correct, A knowledge full answer is
what it provides. You asked a bunch of questions last week,
but the last one just sort of being like, what's
the entire story?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 1: Everything you just saw in that little video that I
banged out in a few minutes didn't take me long
at all. Sure, almost killed me, almost killed me. M
You now have that knowledge. That's that's the answer of
the mirror gave you. However, it was Thrack in the
mirror delivering that information rather than I thought it would
be more interesting and fun cinematically the viewers and us
to watch the version of the story told by Mordres
essentially you were given all of the information that was
in that little twelve minute video.
Speaker 4: So sorry, So Mordris appeared within the mirror to see
that story.
Speaker 1: No, dress did not appear in the mirror. Thrack told
you that story. I just thought it would be more
interesting if Mordris told the story for you know, rather
than have Frank do it. I see. So, yeah, that's
the only sort of like split you need to make mentally,
And everything you learned last week you learned. But remember
you've learned two sets of information secondhand through Hard, the
wizard that is with you at the moment, who has
been teaching Thrack everything. There's this Goliath wizard nearby who
is who had sort of retold all of the questions
that you asked the Mirror, including all of the information
you've got.
Speaker 6: The Mirror.
Speaker 1: When you ask it questions will take a maximum HP
from you, which means Thrack, I don't know if you
already did it, but you lose one plus one. I
think you only asked it one question after the reset.
Speaker 5: It's just one, and then it doubles every time. Okay,
I did I ask it another question after we Yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Think you asked it this question and then you've got
a twelve minute intro video.
Speaker 5: Play right, Okay, yeah, okay, gotcha.
Speaker 1: For the most part, Hard was able to use some
of the reverse O time music, magic and music to
reverse some of the effects of the damage done to you.
But I think really Sea was the one who suffered
the most. I didn't really take to you in that way,
assuming that most of you sort of just take the
information has read, then you have all of the information Jildren, however,
I think probably Jildren already mistrusting Hard, and then on
top of that, sort of being told by Hard that
you know, l Naeus is a fiend and not the
l NAIs that can be the angel Elmaires that can
be found in the village of Coup, I suppose would
be quite weird for children. Potentially, I don't know how
she's feeling or what she's up to.
Speaker 7: M's just staring at the blank mirror.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The version of Thranc that has just finished retelling this
tale explains everything that you just learned about Maudrials creation,
this sort of new version of him that exists that
inexplicably destroyed his own gaya that they mirror referred to
as gay as zero, sort of for the version of
Thranc that was pacing up and down and telling this story.
I would imagine in very much like a university professor
way rather are then, you know, a story weaving writer
or something reading a chapter from their book. Eventually closes
his own spell book, tucks it into wherever he holsts
his spell book, and then turns to the mirror where
Thrac has stood, taking up the same pose as Thrack,
and kind of falls still. The four of you stood
nearby the mirror heard all of this. Hard heard it
as well. Scratching his sort of chin and beard, he
looks to each of you, what are you doing next?
Speaker 4: I think I would have been watching and listening intently,
not even blinking. And then after the story has been told,
I just go Finally, all the pieces have fallen into place.
It makes so much sense. It's plain as day. But
I only have one question now, and that is if
this Modrial is from that world, and what of our Moudreal?
Where are they? And do they have the power to
stop this one? If it's soulless, can we control it
and make it stop this one?
Speaker 7: Control?
Speaker 4: Yes, the Moudreal without the soul, the same but different,
it's opposite, it's half, it's whole.
Speaker 3: Is it opposite or is it a limb?
Speaker 4: I don't know a limb. If this Moudrial or the
one that came through here, the one that brought with
it that wave of lizard folk, if if that is
from somewhere else, he must have another part limb. I'm
not so sure. Is that to imply that in this
other world, if we were to exist there, we'd be
limbs there, or would we be soulless mortals?
Speaker 3: To be another half, you'd have to be comprised of
the same thing. I mean, if what we heard is true.
The way that more Drill understands the angels are here
is that they're not.
Speaker 4: Sentient, right, they don't have souls. To him, their likely aberrations,
they are a laugh in his face. Right, he's been
spat at that. You know, his world, his exists. Our
existence is nothing but some sort of experiment from from
beyond the divine, so be it. It makes sense to me, However.
Speaker 5: Right, I do not think that is true.
Speaker 8: Way I leave that.
Speaker 5: Wow. When I was in the tower, I sat information
about the angels, and as I understand it, the Guya
where he comes from is the first Guya, and when
it was destroyed by modrial A, Gods created the second.
Speaker 4: Gya only when it was destroyed it.
Speaker 5: That's how I understand it.
Speaker 4: Yes, the story you just told us a second ago
seemed slightly different.
Speaker 5: That the story that was told two once a second
ago was told from the perspective of Montreal.
Speaker 1: Do you want to do you want to make me
an intelligence saving throw.
Speaker 5: To see if I remember things correctly?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Okay, An eighteen you.
Speaker 1: Get like a little Yeah. I don't know if you
misremember or whether in my the drag oled state over
the last few weeks, I sort of spoke incorrectly at
one point, but no that both of the guys were
or at the same time.
Speaker 5: At the same time, okay, And I wouldn't have said
any of that.
Speaker 1: I mean, you can you can say that you the
way that you remembered, the way that you gained that
knowledge was crazy. You know, you were like downloading from
the cloud all of the entire Internet into your brain.
So it could just be that, you know, you're the
way you remember things isn't necessarily the same anymore, and
that piece of information as you understood it was then
changed in real time by your brain to remember.
Speaker 5: Okay, ah, it's up to you how you want to
play it. Yeah I would, I just wouldn't have said that.
If so, I guess, oh yeah, maybe you're right. Having
a hard time remembering.
Speaker 4: I think Sea cracks a smile for a half second,
as I believe that's the first time he's heard those
words from that, those green lips. But immediately it's back
to business, because this is more important than that. So
in which case, if again, these are two parts, these
are two moredreals, I wonder where the other one is
and if it's possible to use it. If it is
just some rock, no no offense, cirrus, just waiting to
be used, if it has no soul, if it can
be controlled, if it can be moved against him, then
that seems why see.
Speaker 3: Why would you move against him?
Speaker 4: Well it wouldn't right.
Speaker 3: Well, we know we're speaking to an angel right now.
Martial may believe that they are not sentient, but we've spoken.
Speaker 9: To them, they've.
Speaker 4: Mood real is sentient. He's from that world where they
were sentient. That's a mirror. I don't believe.
Speaker 3: Is how can you say that? I don't know what
about what about the mountain? We spoke to the trees
and they spoke.
Speaker 4: To us for a seconds. When you think about it,
when you think about our encounter with those trees, did
they seem sentient to you? Or were they just giving information?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 3: Of course they were sentient. We're not just merely giving information.
Speaker 4: We dismantled and destroyed several automatons between there and here,
little machines going about their tasks being destroyed, that pseudo dragon.
You think those things have souls? There are constructs.
Speaker 3: Are you saying the angels are constructs?
Speaker 4: Things? From what the rag told us? Yes, the angels
here in this world are constructs. Our sister world, we
are constructs, and that makes sense to me. You see
sears eyes just wide and wild, the eyes on his forehead,
they're not open right now. This is all just him.
There isn't any body language other than him just staring
at you. Matter of fact, different.
Speaker 3: And perhaps the issue comes with what our perception of
a soul is. Who says it's necessary, who says it's
better to have one?
Speaker 5: I'm fine, of course, not certain a soul is required
for sentience, And I'm I'm sure why this matters Montreal
has described in the information we just got was very weak.
I'm not sure how I can help worse.
Speaker 4: M I mean, far be it from me to be
philosophical about this, And if a soul matters, I believe
even the gods themselves were practicing and seeing if this
was the case in the first place. That's why there
exists two guys, and who knows there might be more. However,
that's besides the point. This pouty Modrial destroyed his world
and now he seeks to destroy this one too, to
which I don't think it's going to be beneficial if
he does. Personally, I quite fancy living SENTI into otherwise?
Speaker 3: Right? SENTI into or otherwise?
Speaker 5: Mind? Why is moon still standing? Why hasn't Modrial or
destroyed it? Perhaps he's only just asking me, he's a
question for the mirror. Wow, I was hoping you could
save me the pain of asking the mirror. Well, I
haven't had my suspicions. Are I suspected that perhaps because
the around this and not alive, perhaps there is some
sort of like a disease that was unable to travel
across the snow. But I think perhaps this is not
the case. It just seems as though wherever more Drill goes,
it dies, and he simply has not gone to Moon.
Perhaps it is the last place for him to visit.
Speaker 6: I do not know.
Speaker 3: I turned to the mirror.
Speaker 4: I step away from the mirror.
Speaker 5: I look at serious.
Speaker 3: Why has more Drill not gone to Moon? And where
is he going?
Speaker 1: The version of Cyrus in the mirror watching Cirrus, and
then she turns to look at the whole grape and says.
Speaker 4: Well, he never.
Speaker 1: He couldn't really move his forces across the snow during
winter around Umah. There's no way for the Liserve folk
and the creatures that he commands to move through that
kind of cold. The mountain keeps them safe.
Speaker 4: In Moon, he.
Speaker 1: Basically had to wait till spring, and so he moved
east west south. I suspect soon he will move north himself.
If he is undead, don't destroyer Muma and Moon. First.
Montreal currently is moving here, flying this way. He's coming
here from the Terran Empire in the west.
Speaker 4: Hold on a minute. If this is talking, Dish knows
where Modrealism where he's coming from. That means there are
two spears as well. Thract just said that in his
world he was slain by a spear, and then the
spear became one with him.
Speaker 3: He accepted it, right, he pulled it into himself. Correct,
is the spear and the dragon? What makes you think
a spear here would not just add to his power?
Speaker 4: I didn't say it would. I didn't say it wouldn't.
As far as I know, from what that hard said,
it's likely that it wouldn't do anything. I'm just stating that. Well,
I guess it's the obvious, right there, two spears.
Speaker 3: He's angry at the gods, and he doesn't want to
be alone.
Speaker 4: Being said, how can we remedy that situation? I think
you offered to give this creature company. But Drag told
us a second ago he killed an angel simply by
being in its presence. We've seen what a dead angel
can do to us just by being in its presence,
and that's without the power of death on its side.
Speaker 3: I turned back to the mirror. Serious, where do things
with souls go when they die?
Speaker 1: First of all, you do have to take the damage.
For the last question, which is one the version of
Cyrus in the Mirror says, well, souls don't really die,
they are some of them are split some are recycled.
That is what ura is. People with the mark are
some of the first souls brought back. Sometimes souls split
into two, new souls are born, new people, new creatures,
and so on. The version of you calms again and
you take one plus one damage.
Speaker 3: To Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna ask another. Sorry, guys,
I know that we're not I know, I know, But.
Speaker 5: HM would say that means that we likely many people
on this guy are May I share the soul have
more Creo siblings?
Speaker 3: Do you think that's the case or do you think
that their souls I'm not speaking to the mirror. Do
you think that their souls exist somewhere else have not
been lost? Could we reunite more Drew? Could we show
him that their souls still exist somewhere, give him a
reason to not be alone, where.
Speaker 4: The souls would go, a reason to die? Hopefully?
Speaker 3: Yes, But I asked where do souls go? But I
can ask where are the souls of the angels? Specifically?
Can they be found? I I'm sorry, I just I
don't see how we kill him. I don't see how
it's possible. So I'm trying to think of a way
to give him what he wants so that he does
not need to kill.
Speaker 5: I agree that it is unlikely our original plan will
work with this new information. Well, however, the original spear
was not wielded by a dragon, was it not. No,
it was wielded by a soul list lizard leader.
Speaker 4: I suppose I'm sorry, No, go ahead, and MI misremembering now,
I thought that the lizard leader was given a soul
and then he then attacked with the spear.
Speaker 1: Uh No, he attacked with the spear right that he
the lizard folk had an angel spear, which is what
won them the war. I just you know, you got
them that he attacked Modreal with the spear. Modreal was
damaged by the spear. Then Modreal bestowed a soul onto
the lizard Folco, which turned him into a dragon. This
dragon was like flying around. Then Modreal tried to just
accepted that he was going to die, and this spear
and the dragon were pulled into him and he became
this bizarre amalgamation of all of those things.
Speaker 4: So what beget or what begot our dragon? Then I
see the thrag.
Speaker 5: Ah do I know anything about the history of dragons?
Speaker 1: You couldn't make me a history check. If you roll very,
very high, you might have this answer.
Speaker 5: No, sixting.
Speaker 1: Dragons are just old school preachers. Literally, as far back
as history goes, there are dragons. There's nothing particularly unique
about these dragons in this setting, in the sense that
like there's nothing you know that, they don't have any
particular features that might stand out. The metallic and chromatic
war exists. Generally speaking, the metallic dragons are more good natured,
though it's not that they are just aligned good. They
are still animals. You met one, they're very very reptilian,
they're very dangerous, and they they will just kill people
they don't. It's not like they're protectors and sort of
designated good or anything like that. But generally speaking, the
the chromatic dragons are all completely just pure evil for
the most part. But yeah, when it comes to the
questions that you have around regarding dragons and souls and
things like that, you've really got no information, nothing to
base it off of. Your general understanding of dragons is
probably appropriate for this. They're extremely rare. It's pretty rare
that anyone sees dragons then they're not They're not just
flying around all the time. And even Riothemus was just
underground sleeping for a really long time. So not only
are they rare in sight, but they often will just
sleep for hundreds of years.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would just say dragons are ancient creatures. I'm
sure where they come from, but I do not think
they are angels. So I believe based on the information
we just god, they must have souls, understood.
Speaker 4: I'm just curious as to the significance of a lizard
man getting a soul and becoming a dragon. I guess
that's why we've never seen lizard men here before, because
one with a soul is a dragon lives, you know,
the whole balance the scales, not of course, the dragon scales,
but the balance of souls. There aren't that many angels
as far as I know. But if every angel in
that world had a soul, and every person in this
world has a soul, I imagine that means that our
souls don't necessarily weigh as much as the soul of
an angel. And if they do, if our cure souls
are old souls, then what does that mean? So many questions.
Speaker 5: I believe it is likely we all share the same
soul of an angel from the other guya.
Speaker 4: Well, if I guess that would depend on how long
ago those angels died. But isn't that an interesting question?
Speaker 5: Long before we were born, according to the story we
just heard, at.
Speaker 4: Least one hundred years.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 3: If the god has just created these two places as experiment,
who chose us?
Speaker 5: We don't know that.
Speaker 3: Who designed the bond of Cura, the only thing that
could defeat more drial fate? What what are the strings
of it? If not designed by the gods, then it
means nothing. Then it's just is it just a folly
we just came up with on our own? What is
what is this magic that connects us to a purpose?
What is the purpose? Who designed the purpose?
Speaker 8: Well?
Speaker 4: Interesting questions play.
Speaker 5: There is another greater power I work here. Whether they
are actively of seeing situation or not, we have been
chosen for a reason. I think that's Claire. It's wrong
put the four of us in the same town at
the same time.
Speaker 3: Right, But what if Mortreal's wrong? What if everything that
we know maybe the gods are still there and this
is part of it. The gods are looking at Mordreal,
waiting to see what he does. They do care, maybe.
Speaker 5: Or not, they are watching him I am unsure. I
do not think they are here, though.
Speaker 4: I'm trying not to let this whole theory of the
fact that maybe perhaps we or may possess the souls
of angels getto my head. It's what is the mean?
But I'm curious, Cirrus, when we met you, you seem
to be an adherent of this mountain God? I am
were you always?
Speaker 3: I feel as though I always was meant to be.
Speaker 4: What is the basis of your faith?
Speaker 2: What do you mean?
Speaker 4: Why is it that this mountain is so important to you?
Why is it that somebody who used to be bounds
to blind faith is now filled with so many questions?
Where is your faith now? I'm just curious.
Speaker 3: We were brought together at the foot of that mountain
to which I pray, to which I owe my life.
We were bonded at the behest of a power greater
than ourselves, and my angel is one of those powers.
Speaker 4: Your angel is but a vessel, right, no offense. Your
angel here has no soul yet of course the one
in the other world did. Is your faith then? Not
with the angel, but with the Angel's God.
Speaker 3: That's why I ask, what is the meaning of a soul?
Speaker 7: Then?
Speaker 3: How important must it really be if a creature such
as my angel and exist and be such as it is?
And does anyone really need a soul?
Speaker 4: Ah? By that same token, it did seem as if
from thrack story that mortals within the other world were
more than content to wage war amongst one another without souls.
I imagine in that case that an warfare seems to
be inherent to all mortal kind with or without souls too.
What does a soul then do? Does it temper us?
Does it stop us from doing things? As it make
us ask these questions? Is that all souls are fool
for this back and forth, this rapport? I wonder I'm
not trying to.
Speaker 3: With my angel as well. I would have you know
that those angels with souls waged war as well, right,
there were participants in their own demise. More with a
soul will lead to the demise of this place as well, correct,
I can tell you from experience. Yes, I've known many
mortals with souls, and they are not better because of.
Speaker 4: It, true, But how many mortals with souls have you
met that were mortals with whole souls? Cura soul? As
we've learned, souls fragment, and those fragments likely find their
way into others. Not that I'm saying they are lesser
of being people without full souls, but that's beyond the
measure of my question. I wasn't poking, prying, or trying
to get into your head. I'm just curious as to
where you are right now as we march towards the
front door of death.
Speaker 3: If you're asking me, if my resolve and my ability
to do what must be done, I will do it
that has not been shaken, it cannot be. What has
been shaken.
Speaker 2: Is to what end?
Speaker 3: If Hodd tells us true in this mirror says so
as well, then it cannot be stopped. So what we
find the spear before more drill comes to the House
of Knowledge, we give it to the dragon, and we,
using our bond, create a more powerful weapon. Both of
those things were pulled into him already. Who's to say
it will not happen again either way. To sacrifice ourselves
and we will not know what happens to this world
after we're gone, whether we succeeded or not.
Speaker 4: Well, look around you, well not not here. He doesn't
count yet, it's not dead. But look around you elsewhere,
the lands that we've traveled, the folk we've met, everything
is fuck if we don't find a way back. And
I still feel strongly with my plan. If we don't
stop Moudrial from coming here in the first place, giving
him a big, wet hug or killing him isn't going
to matter. Gia is dead.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 4: I don't have the resources to do anything to kill
a god before after he he wasn't always as powerful.
He became powerful after the spear, after the wish, after
he was attacked by these lizard men. Maybe there is
a way still I don't have And I looked at Rag.
Speaker 3: Such power, and what if this is what the gods wanted?
What if this is what the gods designed.
Speaker 4: Then why should we care? If this is indeed the
plan of the gods for chaos, death and destruction and
for this experiment to run its course, then us doing
nothing or us doing something surely a part of this,
and no offense. I couldn't give a fuck about the
plan of God's. However, if we're able to do something
with what is left of our lives, but with what
is left with this knowledge, then why not.
Speaker 3: I think that we're on the right path. The bond
cure brought us together for a reason. Someone, something brought
us together for a reason, just for us to have
these conversations. This for your perspective and mine, and children's
and threats. We're bred were better together as a whole.
That is the difference that will be made.
Speaker 4: I suppose that is yet to be seen. However, I
shall leave the decision making to you, and for the
first time since we enter this place, see you once again,
throws his hands back behind his head. Okay, and I
cast my eyes over to the rack Ah.
Speaker 5: I look at Odd and sorry, Odd, do you believe
it is possible to use the power of your power
to save Dyah?
Speaker 6: Well, first of all, it is not my tower. You
should know this by now. It is our tower, and
all of the wizards who came before.
Speaker 5: I washed avoiding rhyming too much.
Speaker 6: Our tower of power. I do not know if we
can use it to directly save our world, but I
believe it to be the most powerful artifact in existence.
It is far more powerful than any magical artifact I
have ever come across or made myself, except perhaps this
sphere hidden away in the mountains of Coup or inside
of this this Drakolic, who knows if we can use
the tower for anything.
Speaker 5: It is.
Speaker 6: Moving across Skaya quickly. That is its purpose. I believe
if it can do other things, then it could be used,
I think to go up and down the timeline. It
is not something I am able to do, but I
believe perhaps with time you would be able to do this. Ironically,
we do not have the time to learn how to
go up and down the weave of time. I would
suggest unless we are able to find a way to
hide from more drial for years so that you can
practice this, perhaps we could go back or enough back
to prepare.
Speaker 3: Is there something in the tower that can do that, Sarah?
Like a way to stop stop time freeze it a
place where we can go like the labyrinth, but where
time does not move outside I could allow, could afford
you time to learn, and then we could come back
to this moment. Is that possible?
Speaker 5: So such a thing, I think the possibilities within that
tower beyond our comprehension, So yes, it is possible. Understanding
how to do that peace question, we could ask the mirror.
Speaker 3: I watched him meaningfully like, yes.
Speaker 5: Okay, we could ask We could ask the mirror how
to use the tower to manipulate time?
Speaker 8: M hm.
Speaker 5: Hm. To what end.
Speaker 8: Here?
Speaker 5: We go back in time m A thousand years and
then find a way to open the portal to the
other Guya and kill Montreal there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, Or perhaps tell him what he becomes, give
him an option to choose a different path, be different.
Speaker 4: Not we could always open with sweet words, But that
is where my opinion goes from your story's track. He
was never always this omnipotence, bitter be He became this way,
and in this form he is indestructible, at least for
the likes of anybody but a god. If we're able
to go back before this time and stop him, that
would be, in my opinion, perhaps the right thing to do. Regardless,
I turned to Cyrus of the manner in which we
convince him.
Speaker 3: So why still hold hope that such beings carry wisdom?
Wisdom enough to wish for another outcome?
Speaker 4: Perhaps that's why you're here, Cirrus, to be that one
of us that has this hope.
Speaker 5: I believe one of us should ask the mirror. Oh
so we all share.
Speaker 4: I am so curious, you know, I am so incredibly curious.
We don't share a soul, we all have our own. However,
whose is it? Whose was it? Why was it an angel?
I'm so curious. You see my eyes flutter as I
say this. I've lost complete composure, catch myself and then
sit back. But I'm not prepared to risk a heart
attack for it.
Speaker 2: M h.
Speaker 5: I also think one of us good ask how I
can control the mm hmm properly of the tower that
allow for control of time.
Speaker 4: Oh, dear, respect, I.
Speaker 5: Know I've never given any of us respect, So if
you could stop using that phrase, it would make things
go a long faster.
Speaker 4: I bear my fangs in a long, wide smile and
I say, oh, you wound me. You would be quite
quite ReSpectacle in men's of brands. And I swear, however,
as I mentioned, with all due respect, my brother in soul,
I know not what questions I asked the mirror, but
I know not how exactly you rewound that process. But
I don't think I should ask any more questions. I
shall leave that in your proverbial court, respectfully.
Speaker 5: If that's fine. I don't think I would pour upon
you to do any question asking. I'm fine with asking
them both myself, but I wanted to have a discussion
with everyone before we move forward. We also are pressed
for time, as there is a raccolitch I looked hard
on the way here to destroy us all and everything
in here, including this angel told us or.
Speaker 1: Not, Hard is pacing around behind you. Again. You're all
kind of stood by the way in like a really
like an inch tall or an inch deep all of heah,
it's sort of just all around this thing. So the
entire time you were having that conversation, there was like
the splash splash of his feet and boots in the water,
and the dragging of his robes as he's moving around.
He spent a lot of time pacing. He turns to
you and says.
Speaker 6: What what are you talking about? Did you ask it
where my toothbrush is? Yet?
Speaker 5: He said something significant to have your toothbrush on. It's
a very good toothbrush. It gets all of the places
I needed to get without it in my back teeth
always gets sore. He says, some sort of magical properties
about your toothbrush that could help USh shave gia. No, No,
it is just a stick with some fine hairs on it. Right.
I think conversations like this happened a lot between the
two of them because he's so silly and Track is
so serious. I looked at Jilden. She just like got
a pouty face on in the corner.
Speaker 7: She's had a thousand yards stare, had this entire conversation.
Every now and then a snatched word she would turn,
but then nothing.
Speaker 5: Ding. I walk up to jil Din. Yeah, yeah, if
you've been listening, did you hear what the mirror said?
Speaker 7: Yes, a town, sure, James.
Speaker 5: Ah, does she looks sick or unwell?
Speaker 7: She looks more tired.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean you can make a medicine check or an
inside check if you want to know whether she's unwell
or if there's something going on with her. But if
it's just a I think a role play element from Yeah,
they're always free to do medicine checks on each other.
You never know. Have you guys picked something up?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, someone needs a leech. Wouldn't it be a nature
jack for the truth? No?
Speaker 1: Okay, is it trueing? She still is a person?
Speaker 8: Job?
Speaker 5: Oh yes, you know. Princes of opinion? What do you
think about all.
Speaker 7: This about about?
Speaker 5: What how do you think we should proceed?
Speaker 7: We're finding Modrial.
Speaker 5: Yes, modil is on the way here to kill us
or destroy its place. We are discutting. Yes, we currently
have no way of defeating him. We are discussing how
we might best do that. Why Hm, Well, I leave,
and it's possible we could save dial with some chronology magic,
with the aid of the tower. Why to preserve life?
Speaker 7: Why?
Speaker 5: That is our purpose?
Speaker 1: Is it?
Speaker 7: Or is that just what you've been told?
Speaker 5: It is what I have been told, But it is
also what I have come to believe through observation and
study and quite a bit of thought.
Speaker 3: What ifout?
Speaker 7: What about purpose? All along as the found module.
Speaker 5: Do what?
Speaker 7: I joined him and finished this far? Mhm, I have
no curer ever managed to do the job. Perhaps this
isn't the wrong job we are trying to do. It
is all a game. You said that yourself in the mirror,
didn't you. You said it was only game. It is
a game, and we just paunched again.
Speaker 1: Hm.
Speaker 8: We are.
Speaker 5: Lesser reats compared to the corns. I would assume.
Speaker 7: Is this world just a whim? Every have a joy,
every folly, every dear you have ever said in your
life is nothing? It means nothing. It is all just
a whim of the god. A petty attempted entertaining themselves.
Speaker 5: Does that make your sadness of joy? And he that's real?
Speaker 7: It's as if they're not mine to begin with. If
this soul I haven't sided me is recycled versus and
if somebody else, how do I even know everything I feel?
It's even mine? It isn't mine?
Speaker 2: Is it?
Speaker 7: What if it is just a pale imitation of what
came before? Have any of us ever truly lived what
we experience authentic in any way? How many more times
will we be used as point? What if motorial has
a point? Even without sort, we turn the world to ruin.
Perhaps none of us deserve creation the way it is.
Speaker 3: Perhaps perhaps it is not about deserving.
Speaker 2: I do not deserve.
Speaker 3: Have the goodness I've had. I have done and been
things that I would view as an abomination of life,
even in my thoughts, even just in my dreams. Perhaps
it's not about deserving.
Speaker 2: But or bad.
Speaker 3: Perhaps it's just knowing that we are here, and yes,
these souls within us are connected to something else, somewhere else,
somewhe else. But if that's everyone, then it's the only
authentic experience we can have.
Speaker 7: And it is meaningless The continue to recycle.
Speaker 4: You know there is nothing sadder than a sad total
Look at you use the mirror. It's like normally your
face frowns or pouts in the first place, but now
it's just compounded. Listen, if nothing matters, if there is
no points to anything, if we are just pawns to
a game that's being played, which I don't believe we are.
I think they've given up a long time ago. There's
a reason why the gods don't walk among us. There's
a reason why the angels here a quiet even if
they have no souls. This is, or at least was
until this Mordry showed up our world to do what
we wanted to do, and simply put, what I want
to do is this.
Speaker 7: Oh, there is never our world to know what we
wanted to do. I can you think that given everything
you've just been told, well.
Speaker 4: I mean, given your freedoms in your long long life,
total your travels, doing what it is you want to do,
you have had freedom.
Speaker 7: I don't think I have.
Speaker 4: Or you tugged around on a leash going across them
helping toms. Mm hmm, does it true you No? Oh,
that's a shame. I thought we'd been we'd what's that word?
We'd had a bond of sorts. Perhaps maybe I was wrong,
a pity regardless, maybe it's because I'm talking the truth
to you again, regardless of if we have lack of
a better word, recite called souls that have been in
people far older, far greater perhaps than us. Does that
truly matter?
Speaker 7: You are a fish simile of what it means to exist.
We all lie.
Speaker 4: Similar, It's all lie. I believe we exist. We're here,
are we not? If anything, in this grand scheme of things,
this game of the gods, we are the most real
thing out there. Our counterparts in the other world didn't
have soul. They simply did as they were made to do.
Speaker 7: And you think having a show makes that any different?
Speaker 4: Perhaps it does? I mean why not? Regardless? You have
a choice, do you not. Either you retreat into that
convenient shell of yours and do nothing and rot away,
or find this more drill I don't know. Die, or
you can do something about it, learn more about it,
learn more about yourself, do something with your life, at
least before you die.
Speaker 3: See her, hmm, I give you a stern look.
Speaker 4: My smile widens a little bit.
Speaker 5: What what does Judn does she look incredibly sad after
his words. Do they look like they affected her?
Speaker 7: See? His words appear to have just washed over me,
not reflect. I'm not offended and I'm not saddened by
what he said. I looked like somebody who has made result,
but it looks not lost. But backing, I would.
Speaker 3: Like to step up towards where Jildren. Are you sitting down?
Speaker 7: No, I'm standing leaning on my staff.
Speaker 3: Okay, sorry, one moment. Yeah, I'm I'm gonna, uh yeah,
come over to you, and I'm gonna like get down
on one knee and put a hand on your shoulder,
and I'm going to cast something with only an RP
purpose uh aura of life, and I'm just gonna look
you in the eyes, killed in. I don't know where
you've been, I don't know how you got here. I
don't know where we are going. But it is an
honor to be at your side, and if given by
God's petty or not, I take it. There is no
such thing. There is always time time to be different,
choose different, find something new. I know that I know
that I know nothing of who you were before or
where we're going, but I just want you to know
that I believe you're real.
Speaker 5: I know you.
Speaker 3: I put my hand on the front of your shell
where your heart is.
Speaker 2: I know you.
Speaker 3: We're bonded. I'm yours in your mind. I think that
is meaning. I think that has meaning.
Speaker 1: I give it.
Speaker 3: So you're sort of like washed with these feelings of
my magic, which is this white warm It's like a
very specific warmth, like when you climb into a bed
at night and the sheets are fresh, and you've had
a long day and the room is the perfect temperature,
and you've nowhere to be. You can just take your
time and exist. That's the feeling that this particular spell has.
Speaker 7: Perhaps after Show That's Cure, Show that is nine, this
is it will remember these people.
Speaker 9: Are you?
Speaker 7: But more than likely at once.
Speaker 4: Who's to say you? I thought you just minimized yourself.
I thought you don't matter. Why all of a sudden,
now you think you know what happens to your soul?
Speaker 7: I said, perhaps there's anybody true I know what happened
to Ushaw?
Speaker 4: Does anybody truly care?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 7: I do.
Speaker 5: I personally, I would like to at least attempt to
jave dyah. I don't agree that life is meaningless. If
it was meaningless. Then you wouldn't be having any feelings
on discussion about any of this at all.
Speaker 4: That's what I'm getting at.
Speaker 5: Yes, but you're in a way that makes everyone even
more track.
Speaker 4: Just because as you have this chip on your shoulder
from being this orc doesn't necessarily mean that everything anyone
says to you that's not oh, you're the best, isn't
just fact. I'm telling Jordan, she can live her life.
Get over yourself, you grink beast, live all of you.
I'm starting to lose my patience, and I walk away.
Speaker 5: Before he walks away, and I turned to the mirror
and say, what angels soul resigns in all of us
and the four of us? Okay?
Speaker 1: The mirror version of Thrack glances over at the back
of Sear as he strides off, glances back to you
and says, there is no angel soul in you exactly.
Doesn't really work like that.
Speaker 5: Okay, how can I command control of the tower's ability
to manipulate time?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 1: First of all, mark off some damage.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've marked it off for both of them.
Speaker 1: Thrack opens a book, one that you've never seen before.
He pulls it out of the the bag of the
satchel of holding that you've got and begins flicking through
the pages. He says, right, well, m superposition, so you
know what that is. I'll explain the placement of one
object ideally in the position of another one, in order
to show that the two go inside the first magic
of suposition is a concept brought in from outside of
the manor weave. The builder the first The wizard who
created this tower sourced the magic from another plane. Something
like the tower can be in multiple states at the
same time until it is observed or measured. Imagine you
have a light switch. It starts pacing again, like a
university or something. Imagine you have a light switch that
can be both on and off at the same time.
It's only when you look at the switch that it
chooses to be either on or off. Before you look,
it exists in superposition of both states. In the same way,
the tower can be in different places or have different
properties simultaneously. It's only when we measure it in one
specific state that it can exist in all times. Harnessing
this ability would require someone to apply the wheel, the emplacement,
the location and the position of the wheel, and thus
the tower at the appropriate time they wish. However, the
magic that exists within the tower can only be accessed
when one is shown when they observe it. For example,
you must watch another wizard turn the wheel to move
it from one basic location to the next. The same
for planes movement, the same for time. There are currently
no wizards able to show you time or planes walking.
You shall have to discover it or find one. The
thrag settles in front of you.
Speaker 5: I looked at the others and say, well, at solution
moves unlikely, And I noticed that CEO has just walked
off when I do, uh, intelligence saving.
Speaker 8: Eleven?
Speaker 5: Okay, do I see where Sera is gone?
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know why you did an intelligence
saving throw. Well that's for me, okay, right, Okay, I
thought it was so weird You're you're now doing perception
checks with the weave.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Can I use magic to detect exactly where we is?
Speaker 1: No, well, I guess I would be able to see it.
Speaker 4: Then I didn't go far. I just walked to a
tree away from physical proximity.
Speaker 5: So I can see you. Yes, Okay, well, I guess
I just turned to Cyrus and so well yeah, no,
either of those questions really amounted too much. Sure, if
you have any other ideas, I don't know.
Speaker 8: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I I I look a bit uh yeah, like just haggard,
you know, like I think you you've noticed over time
that Sarah's just continues to look more and more exhausted.
That's just part of the journey. Ah. But I think
I've tried very hard to withhold as much of that
as possible. But right now I just seem Yeah, it's
like I haven't slept in a millennia. I don't know,
rack Ice. My heart is guiding me to believe that
anything that we do will be the right choice, because
that is why we were chosen in the first place.
Is that any decision that we make will be the
decision that we were meant to make. Who we are, we.
Speaker 5: Should be rais of wrong choice to make care? Probably many?
Speaker 3: Yes, Well, so that's what my heart says.
Speaker 5: I would like to use your mind telling you something else.
Speaker 3: My jaw tightens. M. I don't think we can beat
more drial. It does not make sense to me with
Spear or dragon, even us in tandem. I believe that
we will sacrifice ourselves m meaninglessly, and we will not
be here to witness our failure. I still believe that
when Carodwin said that it could not be stopped and
that it was already broken, my instinct to go to
a time when it was not that still makes the
most sense to me. But I haven't a clue how
to make that happen. I have no idea if it
would work. I have no idea if we are capable
of such a thing. I don't know if anything is
capable of such a thing, not even Martreal himself. Wait wait,
I'm sure, yes, I think Montreal could.
Speaker 5: Now Mordrel has no power of a time I just
asked how we could use the tower, the most powerful
artifact in existence as far as we know, and it
said we would have to find another time wizard to
show me how.
Speaker 3: Well, there's you. Surely no another one another you.
Speaker 5: I cannot and time that much without the tower in
the first place. So I cannot go to the future
to ask myself to help me without having me to
show me how to do it. H hm.
Speaker 3: But hold on, wait, if we decide that that's what
we need to do in the first future, you would
know that that's what we've decided to do, and would
know that you would need that information and would know
that you would be the only person who would be
able to give it mm hm, So you wouldn't have
to seek him. He'll find us.
Speaker 8: Mhm.
Speaker 5: Potentially we could walk into the tower and he could
be there waiting for us, I suppose. But one quick
thing for the GM. Did we ever ask how to
kill Mondrial?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I think we are wed. We asked like a
round about kind of version. I think you and I
thought I wrote it down.
Speaker 5: No one remember it's been a week in all of
our no way when I'm still I've been ill for
six weeks, and.
Speaker 1: So my memory is not very good either. You did ask,
I remember the I still remember the answer you were given.
You asked sort of something I generalized something around there,
and the the Mirror responded by kind of giving you
the The answer that Maudrial has already been killed basically
he once with the spear, and that it didn't quite
take was essentially the answer. But I don't think you
asked outright, how do we kill Modreal? To just get
you know, like a one one answer, something as simple
as that. So it was essentially you you you understood
before you got the story of you know Modreal and
what's going on that an attempt has been made on
him before and it didn't stick.
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Then oh right, sorry you were asking the GM.
You did not say that out loud. Sorry, continue, I
was just going to be like I turned to the
mirror and ask, but you didn't say anything out loud.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I uh, I would say, Wow, I wonder if
we should ask one last question, and I think the
wording is import Orton. Could we ask how do we
defeat Modreal? How do we stop Moredrial? How do we
save Guya? How do we kill Montreal?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Didn't we ask how do we save Guya? And
that was when the mirror answered, you can't?
Speaker 1: Kind of yeah, okay, your first few questions were not specific,
they were very monkeys poor. Yes, essentially, I'm sorry what
we we did ask how to kill him? Now we
have to like to save Gia?
Speaker 5: Yeah, ah, and we can't, okay, man, I really I
should have written knowledge down in my notebook.
Speaker 1: I thought I did write them all down and character ever, really,
this is on you guys. You should be taking yeah.
Speaker 5: Real well me, I mean see, yeah, like at least
a pandamay and we've got Jill Den, who's you know,
pitty party. Then we've got this one who's haven't had
a nap in katy four years.
Speaker 3: I'm also just asking it, like all these random questions
not related to what we're actually doing.
Speaker 8: Yeah, don't mean it's ridiculous.
Speaker 5: M Well, we can follow our original plan and hope
for the best.
Speaker 3: Why don't we original plan and hope for the best.
Bring the spear with the dragon, see what happens. Well,
I suppose the one thing about that is that we'll
have more information as we go. Perhaps we're just missing
something that we need to nowe in order to move
forward with a different direction we would only find along
the way.
Speaker 5: Yes, we may find a nice solution. I think we should. Well,
I think I should attempt to protect this place from
modreals arrival if I can, and then we should.
Speaker 4: Go protect this place. Yes, well I did bring this
up before. This place more or less was protected from
Woodreal before we taught those two how to get here. Yes,
one we have killed. One has fled. I know not
where to if they are capable of leaving here without us. However,
if you do intend to protect this pocket, for whatever
purpose that may have, I feel as if we must
needs find this person.
Speaker 5: Ah, well, I'm more concerned about Modreal getting in to here.
Speaker 4: Yes, this garden, Yes, yes, As I said, the two
that came here did so to try and find a
way for Moudreal to get in here, to destroy it
and smash this dish. So we must find them and
put a stop to them before they get back to him.
Speaker 5: You think that they didn't already communicate how to get
in here to him.
Speaker 4: I don't know how it works, do I?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 4: Maybe, maybe not. There is a chance, there's a chance
to all of this thrag.
Speaker 5: Okay, I'm telling you, I'm going to focus on this
problem if you want to seek that one out by
all means.
Speaker 3: Are they not the same problem?
Speaker 4: Are they not? Indeed, Cirrus, are they not indeed?
Speaker 5: And understand, while you're getting so frustrated.
Speaker 4: I'm frustrated because at every turn there's just a little
part of you and I know, I understand, right, I'm
so pretty However, even when the most base, simple, straightforward
information is put in front of your face, you find
a way to bat it away, even go into your
tower and trying this solution that Cirrus put in front
of your face. It can't possibly be that I have
more faith in you than you have in yourself? How
can that be? As I said before, get over yourself.
Speaker 5: I turn, I grab him by the fucking throat.
Speaker 4: Oh far away?
Speaker 5: Oh okay, I misty stepped to you and grab you
by the throat. Actually I cast momentary statis.
Speaker 4: Well you attempt to grab me however, okay, sorry?
Speaker 3: How do you him?
Speaker 5: You are held in place?
Speaker 4: I wasn't moving, so you cast momentary statis?
Speaker 7: Now?
Speaker 8: What? Rack? Uh?
Speaker 5: I then would sprint to you and grab you by
the throat and lift you into the air.
Speaker 4: I look down on you.
Speaker 5: You want to see me angry?
Speaker 8: Is that it?
Speaker 10: But you think I've been dismissive before? Wait until you
see what's inside me?
Speaker 5: Siea.
Speaker 10: If you don't shut up and let me deal with
the problem, and then we.
Speaker 5: Will all die.
Speaker 10: If you want to go seek out this thing, do
so instead of standing there and waiting for us to
decide what to do.
Speaker 5: Go, I do not care. I will solve this problem,
and you solve that.
Speaker 4: You'll try to have some faith in yourself, You lummocks?
Speaker 5: What are you said saying?
Speaker 4: I wish, with that big head of yours you would
know because it is clear's day to me. But drop
me before you regret things.
Speaker 5: But I'm know is that you are a fool.
Speaker 4: I wish you knew more than you think you.
Speaker 5: Did, so explain it.
Speaker 8: Then.
Speaker 10: It's so easy to pick it people from a distance,
But you don't know what you're talking about. You think
you're helping. You're making everything worse along every step, and
never if we be better off without you?
Speaker 4: I wonder. Indeed, however, at this very moment, you're making
me doubt my faith in you.
Speaker 5: You have never shown faith and anyone so far as
I can tell, and I will, I'll throw him against
a tree thrack.
Speaker 3: I stepped forward, and I grab the thracks arm, the
one that he used to throw. I grab it hard.
Speaker 5: What are you doing? I Am going to try to
save this place, this small corner still holds life. Perhaps
you should assist him in finding the one that got away.
Speaker 3: Is that a dismissal threat? Are you dismissing me?
Speaker 5: I said, perhaps do what you want, and I'm going
to try to m well, I'm going to walk away
and try to study the weave that protects this place
and see if there's a way that I can change it.
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 1: Firstly, you understand the manner weave. Now presumably you have
ah proficiency in our conna. You now have expertise.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I have expertise in the If you have advantage
on rolls, I think no.
Speaker 1: No, you have expertise mechanically in arcana, so you get
I think expertise is double your proficiency.
Speaker 5: Bonus cool.
Speaker 1: All of your checks from now on. And this is
because you understand the fundamentals of madic and not just
the fundamentals as in the fundamentals of the basis of
where it all comes from. This is not a reward
for starting PvP, by the way, but you also whispered
a question to the mirror. You can pick any one
spell from fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, or ninth levels as
in the spell level right, you can pick any one
spell you want the higher up that you go on
that list, though I don't know if you're going to reach.
Speaker 5: That level, right, Okay, I do need the spell slant
in order.
Speaker 1: To so the gamble is down to you whether you
want to take a fifth level spell, a sixth level spell,
so on. You could take a ninth level spell. You
can have wish but I can't guarantee that your hit
level seventeen.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 1: You might, you might not. So that's your game to
play for a little while. Here you wander off and
start to sort of attempt to attune with the ridiculously
overpowered spell that sits across the House of Knowledge, to
begin to figure out a way to either hack it
or recast it, or do something to potentially stop MoU
Drill from gaining access. While you do that, and we
will get to that, that is going to be a
series of checks that you're going need to make. What
are the other three doing?
Speaker 3: After I confronted Thrack, I would have run over to
where Cier was the check that he was not injured.
Speaker 4: Hm, I'm fine. I look up at her and I say,
I'm fine. Thanks for asking, however, and I turned to yielding.
I'm not sure. Perhaps maybe she might be onto something.
If if faith, if being told that he has the
power he snaps, If this, if that is meant to
be our salvation, if he is supposed to help us.
As small as I stand, I look at him now,
and he has never been smaller. I'm going to see
if I can find this person. If you recall, she said,
she has to tell them. That means they haven't spoken yet.
Stay here, if you will, maybe perhaps talk some sense
into the self hating lummocks. I don't know, frankly, I
don't care, not any more, at least any one.
Speaker 3: I think it would be very bad if you left.
If we do you even know how to get out?
How would you come back?
Speaker 4: I do not intend to leave. I intend, as I
suggested before being strangled, before you told him that it
was the same plan, to find the only chink in
this chain and stop them. Do you care to follow
me and find them? Do you care to stay? I
shall leave that to you.
Speaker 3: A small point of order. I just want to double check,
because my memory might be failing me. Did they not leave?
They laugh? One of them's dead, the dead, and.
Speaker 1: The other one did tear tear out. It was almost
as they pas. It was almost as if she tore
a piece of the the magic down and did leave
the enchantment again. You're in a spell. The two forests
are overlaid, right. I mean, I guess you wouldn't really
know how that works. But yeah, she did.
Speaker 4: Leave, In which case, my steel pot red corn what
I said, and I'll walk away regardless.
Speaker 3: I looked at Jordan.
Speaker 7: I've been watching you all but my hands, most of
my stuff, just observing.
Speaker 3: What do we do?
Speaker 7: You do what you think is the right thing to do.
I should always have You are here forever reason. You
yourself said this. You all pirate this your face. For
whatever reason, you are here, no doubt.
Speaker 3: That will you killed.
Speaker 7: I am also here for everything. Everything I am, everything
I have been, has littered it. It is a shame
for all of us, but none of us are the shame.
The outcome will different.
Speaker 3: I would like to roll an inside on her.
Speaker 1: Okay, what are you trying to determine?
Speaker 3: Huh? I'm uh yeah, I'm trying to see how far
gone she is in this, in this path of darkness. Wow,
twenty seven.
Speaker 1: That's twenty I mean this is somewhat ut to you, Leah,
but I would roll that. Really, she sort of gets everything.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 1: She's looking at you, and you recognize this from someone
else or something serious, You recognize the state that she's in.
She's in there, she's had her world rocked by something,
and she's just like her core being has been shattered
or something here. But I think I'll leave it up
to lea to determine.
Speaker 7: As I speak to you, you recognize that everything I
say has a firm foundation. There's no shakiness. You recognize
it does not come from a place of fear. It
does not come from a place of desperation or loss.
Speaker 5: It just is.
Speaker 7: There is an immutable fact to the way I talk,
as if I know the very core of the universe.
It anchors everything I believe at this point in time.
But as I speak with you, there is no malice.
There is no hope for you to give up your sense,
this feeling of children believing in Serious and truly believing
that Serious is here to do what Serious is meant
to do. Children is not trying to convince Serious to
join her in her thoughts. She is simply accepting everybody
for who they are.
Speaker 3: I look at you with a curious expression. And is
it like cool to ask people to do an insight
on me? Or is that like against the D and
D rules of play?
Speaker 1: First of all, there are no rules here. We're barely play.
If you find any orthodox d M out there and
show them any one of my campaigns, they will vomit.
Speaker 4: You will kill them.
Speaker 1: I barely playing the play. I play a weird twisted
D and D five E light that I wrote.
Speaker 7: So instead, can I roll for whether, because at this
point it's simple logical curiosity that would determine whether or
not are you care enough to be you out right now?
So I think I'd like to roll for the curiosity
more than anything.
Speaker 3: Cool cool, cool cool cool.
Speaker 7: Sorry, I'm just going to roll a flat D twenty.
Speaker 3: Thank you for obliging me.
Speaker 7: It's an eleven, So there is I would say, a
spark of curiosity as to what is going on inside.
Speaker 3: Your mind reverse inside check, I kind of I kind
of just wanted because I would say, your heart's in
your sleeve most of the time as well, so it's
probably exactly everything. Well, the thing is is like I'm
trying I after what I've just intuited, right, or what
I've just incited in sought. It's not a word, I know,
not to communicate back to you with words. I know
it's pointless, like that's not what would reach you, you know,
And so I want to I want to just like
give you a look that expresses understanding and acceptance of
who you are, you know, like if that's what I
got from you just now, I want to return it
in kind and be like, all right, I see where
you're at, and I'm meeting you there, and I'm not
going to try and convince you otherwise either, because the
vibe and so I just give like a light nod
and chew my lip a little.
Speaker 7: My eyes soften a little bit, and any tension that
was in my shoulders is lessened, ever so slightly. You
should go look for.
Speaker 3: Sare, Yes, I will, and I linger on your eyes
a little bit before I turn and walk away.
Speaker 1: At any point, yeah, did you look in the mirror
even if do you think there was any point you
would have glanced over?
Speaker 3: Is there anything I'm like always checking my hair? Yeah, yeah,
totally hair, Yeah, one hundred percent. I would be casting
glances at the mirror because it yeah, yeah, because there's
so much visual interest going on there.
Speaker 1: There's a point where she says you should go and
look for Sear and you linger for a moment, you
sort of glance back to where you saw see her
walking off, glance back to Jildin and the mirror just
over Jildin's shoulder. In the mirror for a moment, you
see a different person where Jildin is stood. You see
a tee fling stood there with sort of deep red
skin and these black horns that curve backwards over her
head twice the size of what yours are now. Jilden
being stood away from this mirror, you don't see a
face or anything like that, but you can make out
very quickly that this is a teethling with a very
strange kind of hairstyle that's kind of pulled to one
side and runs down over a shoulder, with these little
braids that just these thin little braids that run much
longer than the actual natural length of the rest of
the loose hair. And the clothing is extremely bizarrees like
nothing you've ever seen on anyone else before, these strange
wraps with lots and lots of belts, very rudimentary looking.
As you catch this, and that is a fraction of
a fraction of a second, Yeah, yeah, you witness it.
You recognize for a second that the mirror reflects the
original soul of Jilden, that natural twenty insight. You're fully
aware of what you saw there. You connected. What you
actually did, was you connect with the angel in that moment.
I just got a glimmer, a glimpse.
Speaker 3: Sorry, I'm like disentegrading into That's so cool. Okay.
Speaker 1: A children's also looking at you, like, get the fuck.
Speaker 5: Away from it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yea, yea, yeah, yeah yeah yeah, I don't. Yeah,
I mean I I log that away and then I
not and I turn Yeah, holy cow, Yeah, I'm gonna
go look for Seer.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, you wander off in the direction that's sere
when hard has already followed thrack away. First of all,
what's your passive perception? Children? Sixteen sixteen? I roll a
good old fashioned real CLACKI clack.
Speaker 7: Dice here, I am them are Okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're left here for a moment. You see the
others kind of disperse into the forest. There's a sort
of a piece to this area. Again, there's life here.
You haven't witnessed any life for a while. The place
that you are from your home, AzID In is more
of a sort of an open expanse of flat green
land with just these huge lakes and these underwater connecting
tunnels and things, with these like kind of large plains
and beautiful long lakeside meadows. But there is an element
where there are forested areas and there are these wonderful
patches of land. But there's a sort of an element
to having just your feet an inch into this pool
of water and being surrounded by nature that inevitably brings
you back to a time when you were probably very
young and growing up in the traditional way of your people.
And you are left here in this kind of space
for a little while, what do you do.
Speaker 7: I close my eyes for a moment, finally alone in
this place, and just breathe in this air. I listen
to the nature around me, still holding on to my
staff in the middle of this pool. Eventually, I'll take
one knee and dip a clawed hand into the water,
just slightly, skimming across the water's surface, bringing my fingers
to my face, watching the water drip from them. And then,
for the first time since coming here, I allow myself
to look towards the mirror.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you see a perfect reflection of yourself.
Speaker 7: I take a step forward, stare her hand reaches to
my face, just a check. And then I look myself
in the eyes in the mirror, and I go to
ask a question, but my breath hitches. I swallow my
eyes and try again it And they ever loved.
Speaker 1: Me the reflection of your self doesn't sort of change
how they are staring back at you for the first moment. Here,
for the most part, whenever somebody asks a question, the
reflection breaks off almost immediately and starts doing different things.
Your reflection holds your gaze and holds the position that
you're stood in for a moment. And then there's a
moment where the children in the mirror size very deeply
and then kind of awkwardly walks away. There's a a
toughness to the hips in the way that the mirror
Jilden walks that maybe it's something that you hide, maybe
you do have tough hips, or maybe you have some
pain in the hips that you can seal. But this
version of Jildin doesn't seems to almost struggle to walk
away from your reflection. She turns to you and says.
Speaker 9: Well, the first thing is l Naeus was not called
al Naius. El NAIs the angel.
Speaker 1: I am.
Speaker 9: I'm not believed to be capable of love.
Speaker 3: You're l Naius.
Speaker 9: Is a fiend known as an aah.
Speaker 8: A.
Speaker 9: Hag, a witch, a demon, a devil, occultist.
Speaker 1: You were led.
Speaker 9: Astray and you wasted thirty five years of your life
trying to find your angel. You lied, stole, killed, or
a demon and all you needed to do was pick
up a book, but you didn't. You allowed yourself to
be led astray by this creature until it was bored
of you, and then it dropped you.
Speaker 4: And left you.
Speaker 1: And what do you have to show for it?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 9: An award did not love you. No Elnaeus, the angel
did not love you.
Speaker 5: Who could.
Speaker 1: And there's a moment at the end of this where
the reflection kind of warps a little bit make me
an insight check twenty one. It warps into this kind
of bizarre woman, and this being steps forth from the mirror.
This woman just looks pretty much like a human woman,
very beautiful, slightly eleven fay ears with two small horns
that protrude out of the front of a forehead in
a very demonic way. Rather than something like a tear fling.
She has this just sort of just pale, kind of
creamy skin that toughens and hardens into scales that form
a kind of dress behind her and sitting on or
just off of her shoulders. These wings are folded inwards
and you can see them sort of tucked behind her
as she steps out of the mirror, Still imitating your voice,
she says, well.
Speaker 9: Look, who's finally come home to roost.
Speaker 1: You've been missing for some time. This woman starts to
walk around you.
Speaker 7: Who are you?
Speaker 1: And you know that already.
Speaker 7: I reached up a hand and reach out to try
and touch, and I'm worry.
Speaker 1: A hand reaches out towards you, she holds it outwards.
As your hand touches hers, it passes through it. Her
hand kind of mists and twists in the air like
a smoke. She says, Oh, I'm not actually there with
that horrible mirror and all of that light. Now, I'm
up here in your head where I've always been. And
that one points in the direction that Cyrus wandered off to. Yes,
she thought I was a river of blood for a
little while. Almost got her to kill someone. He's a
little tougher than you. You were very easy to break.
Speaker 7: Both my hands, take my staff once again, and crackles
of lightning begin forming all around. And I looked at
the sky, and I looked at this blasted mirror in
front of me, and the crackles of lightning extend into
tendrils that reach forward towards the mirror. And then stop
barely an inch away. They dissipated, leaving the mirror. I scathed,
as if I could ever harm an angel anyway, as
if I have that capacity, I slam my staff into
the ground, splashing the water, willing this creature in front
of me away.
Speaker 1: She watches you do all of this, and she's stepping
around you. As she steps around you in the pools
of water, there's no rippling from her, sort of At
first it looks like she's wearing like like boots, but
you'd recognize actually that the bottoms of her feet are
kind of cloven. And she steps around you, watching you
do all of this, a sort of amused look on
her face. She says, see you soon, and she vanishes.
Speaker 7: A collapse to one. Thanks stop.
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