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Episode 17 (S3E17) · Tale of The Manticore, a Dark Fantasy Dungeons & Dragons Audiodrama

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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Sasa Kapakli and are listening to Tale
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Speaker 1: of the Manticor.
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Speaker 2: The following podcast is intended for a mature audience. Listener
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Speaker 2: discretion is advised. Welcome back to Tale of the Manticor
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Speaker 2: season three. Like the creature from which it takes its name,
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Speaker 2: Tale of the Manticor is a mashup, a cross breeding
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Speaker 2: between two different species of storytelling. Here you will find
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Speaker 2: the unpredictability of old school paper and dice games with
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Speaker 2: the story craft of a dark fantasy novel. No character
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Speaker 2: is sacred and none will be spared if the dice
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Speaker 2: decide their fate is at hand. According to Laura, the
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Speaker 2: Tale of a Manticore is barbed with cruel iron spikes.
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Speaker 2: Be much pain in the days ahead. Last time on
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Speaker 2: Tale of the Mantigor, Chapter sixteen opens with the party
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Speaker 2: members speculating on the source of some smoke spotted about
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Speaker 2: a quarter of a mile away. They investigate and find
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Speaker 2: more ruined buildings. Of them all, only one is intact,
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Speaker 2: and even beyond the smoke, there are signs that it
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Speaker 2: is occupied. The Companion's watch in hiding to no avail. Eventually,
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Speaker 2: Tantyr cannot wait any longer. And suggests they knock on
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Speaker 2: the door. The occupant, who responds to the PCs with
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Speaker 2: threats at first, turns out to be friendly, and when
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Speaker 2: the door opens we meet Dalen Fairwynd. He's a cleric
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Speaker 2: of sit All, and through their meeting and subsequent conversation
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Speaker 2: we learn that he is here both to escape persecution
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Speaker 2: and Camertine and as a sort of pilgrimage. He wants
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Speaker 2: to lift what he calls the curse of Moroc. Moroc
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Speaker 2: was one of the original kings of the Kymor people,
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Speaker 2: the same king that would later leave these parts and
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Speaker 2: found the kingdom of Camertine to the west. Faerwyn shares
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Speaker 2: the story behind Moroc's curse. It's a tragic tale of infidelity, regicide, infanticide,
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Speaker 2: and sacrilege. In it, the king returns from a hunt
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Speaker 2: to find that his wife has given birth to a bastard.
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Speaker 2: To protect it and herself against her husband's inevitable wrath,
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Speaker 2: she has pledged her own life and that of her
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Speaker 2: baby to the service of Sadal. By kym or law,
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Speaker 2: none may harm a cleric of the Sun deity, not
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Speaker 2: even the king. What the queen does not expect is
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Speaker 2: from Moroc to cast this law aside, and for this
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Speaker 2: she pays with the life of her newborn child.
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Speaker 3: And her own.
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Speaker 2: Chapter seventeen, Part one, Day sixteen afternoon mythic event meaning
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Speaker 2: assist the innocent party. Status achillea and of seven hit points,
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Speaker 2: Cord five of eleven, de Renni nine of nine, ten
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Speaker 2: Tier six of six supplies. The companions have five portions
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Speaker 2: of food and twenty one of water. Spells available. Achillia
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Speaker 2: has memorized message times two. Cord can cast, entangle and
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Speaker 2: locate plants and animals. Fairwind had just finished telling the
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Speaker 2: tragic tale of Moroc's curse.
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Speaker 1: That's what history tells us, and it rings true to me.
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Speaker 1: The Church of the Sacred Flame and some moral has
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Speaker 1: oh Nowther had an extensive collection of chronicles. My I
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Speaker 1: suppose they're all lost.
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Speaker 2: Though, Fairwind smiled wistfully, such a lass.
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Speaker 3: What happened until morrow, asked Achillia, you mentioned some troubles.
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Speaker 2: Fairwind took a bite from his portion of the duck
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Speaker 2: and chewed thoughtfully for a moment before.
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Speaker 1: Replying, great troubles. And not only for was it all's faithful,
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Speaker 1: but for all folk who value the good and the just.
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Speaker 2: Achillie quickly translated for the sake of the elves, and
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Speaker 2: then turned back to frewynd go On.
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Speaker 1: The king Colfrey was his name, was a very bad king.
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Speaker 1: The people called him Colfrey the Terrible, and for good reason.
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Speaker 1: He was petty, sadistic, prideful. He fell ill and disappeared
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Speaker 1: for a while. Then his new wizard, the Archmagis or Lah,
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Speaker 1: brought him back from the brink of death, and even
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Speaker 1: to this day cares for him. It is said the
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Speaker 1: king will tolerate the company of no one else. He
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Speaker 1: never leaves his bed chamber, speaks exclusively through the wizard,
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Speaker 1: who acts as a de facto king in his place.
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Speaker 2: The cleric took another bite and swallowed heart.
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Speaker 1: Things got much worse upon Coffrey's return. It was as
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Speaker 1: if only those worst elements of his nature survived whatever
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Speaker 1: illness befell him. He was crueler than ever before. The
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Speaker 1: city began to suffer. The gates were shut, no one
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Speaker 1: was allowed in or out. People people went hungry. The
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Speaker 1: cathedral of Vessel Luna was closed, and the priests fled
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Speaker 1: in fear of befalling the same fate as the followers
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Speaker 1: of Sadal.
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Speaker 3: What happened to the followers of Saddan.
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Speaker 1: Our church had already been closed and its members imprisoned.
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Speaker 1: None of them were ever seen again. I was one
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Speaker 1: of the lucky few who avoided capture.
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Speaker 3: How did you manage that?
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Speaker 1: Sheer luck? I happened to be away on pilgrimage when
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Speaker 1: the arrests happened, and when I came back there were
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Speaker 1: chains on the doors of my church, and the notice
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Speaker 1: of arrest had been posted. I fled to Mere, where
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Speaker 1: a smaller church of Sidal was still operating. But I
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Speaker 1: knew my days of freedom were numbered. Palfrey's wizard would
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Speaker 1: soon deploy priests hunters in an effort to stamp out
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Speaker 1: all religion and still moral. These were hard men, mercenaries,
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Speaker 1: broken handed survivors from Nipule. It was only a matter
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Speaker 1: of time before they cast their net wider and started
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Speaker 1: searching in the smaller towns Mirepool would have been next.
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Speaker 2: Ferwin talked at some length that about his religious persecution,
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Speaker 2: pausing every so often to allow a chilia to translate.
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Speaker 2: She related the information as best she could, though she
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Speaker 2: did not know most of the places he named and
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Speaker 2: could only follow him generally, and.
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Speaker 1: So eventually we decided to leave Silmoral altogether. At first
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Speaker 1: we considered Zatia, but that kingdom is not friendly to
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Speaker 1: the followers of Sidal cameronth would have been a better choice.
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Speaker 1: But to get there or must pass through Westmire very dangerous.
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Speaker 1: So in the end we decided to come here, the
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Speaker 1: place of our origins, try to lift the curse if
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Speaker 1: we were able, or else die in the attempt.
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Speaker 3: You said we did you not come here alone?
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Speaker 2: No, replied fair Wind.
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Speaker 1: No, I did not come alone.
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Speaker 2: He looked down and studied the floor. Achille did not
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Speaker 2: pursue the question.
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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, it must be hard to lose your home.
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Speaker 2: A lump rose in her throat as she spoke the
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Speaker 2: words and thought of her. Bobby Tender broke the tense silence.
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Speaker 2: What did he say, he asked in a whisper. Achillie
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Speaker 2: told him as much as she had understood.
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Speaker 1: Ask him about the Orcs.
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Speaker 3: If they have come this far north, he would have
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Speaker 3: seen them.
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Speaker 2: The young half elf relaid the question, and fair Wind
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Speaker 2: looked up blankly.
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Speaker 1: Orcs around here? No, the Orcs would not dare to now.
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Speaker 1: There are far worse things abroad during the night than them.
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Speaker 3: When we were outside your door. You said you could
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Speaker 3: get no respite from the wicked? What kind of creatures
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Speaker 3: roamed this land? Exactly?
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Speaker 2: Fair Wind stood up and paced back and forth across
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Speaker 2: the floor as he spoke.
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Speaker 1: The accursed, the undead, But only at night, never during
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Speaker 1: the day. They seem to avoid this place. You see,
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Speaker 1: it used to be a.
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Speaker 2: Chapel, said Achillia, finishing his sentence.
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Speaker 1: Yes, that's right, But how did you come to that conclusion?
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Speaker 3: The shirds of glass on your table they are from
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Speaker 3: a stained glass window, are they not?
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Speaker 1: Indeed they are, But again, how did you know?
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Speaker 2: Achillie decided to take a risk. She opened her satchel
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Speaker 2: and rummaged around for a moment before pulling out her
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Speaker 2: bundle of clothes. These she carefully unwrapt to reveal the
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Speaker 2: jet interquoise skull they had found in the ocre's cave.
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Speaker 2: Good Heavens, said fair Wind.
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Speaker 3: You know what this is, best, Achillia.
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Speaker 1: It is a relic from these ruins. You have never
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Speaker 1: been here before, have you? However, did it come into
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Speaker 1: your possession?
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Speaker 3: We encountered a horrible creature. We think it was an ogre,
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Speaker 3: some thirty or forty miles to the south. This was
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Speaker 3: in its cave, part of its treasure.
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Speaker 2: Fairwind seemed to see the party in a new light,
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Speaker 2: and his gaze darted between their various weapons.
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Speaker 1: Oh, it would seem to me no mean feat to
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Speaker 1: divorce an Ogre from his treasure. Did you we killed it?
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Speaker 3: Yes, though it almost split cord in two before it fell.
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Speaker 2: Good heavens, fair Wind repeated.
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Speaker 1: May I take a closer look.
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Speaker 2: Of course, Achillia handed him the small skull.
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Speaker 1: I've read about this kind of thing in Zygog's histories.
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Speaker 1: That's why I learned about the Curse of Murac as well.
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Speaker 1: It is an exceptional set of volumes.
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Speaker 3: I thought it looked like a child's skull, But what's
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Speaker 3: it for.
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Speaker 2: That's a chilia it is, It's the skull of a prince,
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Speaker 2: began fair Wind.
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Speaker 1: His name was Ah.
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Speaker 2: The cler closed his eyes once again, but this time
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Speaker 2: in an effort to.
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Speaker 1: Remember Leirin, that is the name prince Lyrain. He died
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Speaker 1: of some disease or other when he was just a boy,
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Speaker 1: and it was a tradition of the Khmors to decorate
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Speaker 1: the skulls of the deceased only if they were of
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Speaker 1: royal blood. Of course, if you found this one so
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Speaker 1: far to the south that would seem to indicate that
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Speaker 1: tomb robbers have already been here. Perhaps that is why
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Speaker 1: the dead are restless.
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Speaker 2: But Callier wanted to know more about the restless dead.
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Speaker 3: You've seen spirits walk abroad only a knight, but they
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Speaker 3: won't enter this place, as I am a priest of Sadhal,
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Speaker 3: and by law, no khymor may harm one of the
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Speaker 3: sun God's servants.
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Speaker 1: Neither peasant nor warrior nor king. This injunction, I believe
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Speaker 1: persists beyond the grave.
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Speaker 3: And what do these spirits look like?
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Speaker 2: Fairwind's brow lifted at the question.
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Speaker 1: They are the living skeletons risen from their graves. Their
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Speaker 1: bones are attached neither by muscle nor sinew, yet they
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Speaker 1: hold together as though a body of flesh surrounded them.
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Speaker 1: They all look this way, Achillia pressed, You seem to
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Speaker 1: be searching for a specific answer.
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Speaker 2: Achillia, suppose you tell me what you are hoping to
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Speaker 2: hear now there seemed to be no other choice. Achillia
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Speaker 2: told him all about her dreams, including a brief communication
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Speaker 2: with the dead Prince lear Haine.
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Speaker 1: So you actually spoke with him.
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Speaker 2: With the prince, fair Wind was filled with wonder.
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Speaker 3: Not precisely, but we exchanged words after a fashion. I
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Speaker 3: knew it was more than a dream.
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Speaker 1: What secrets might the.
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Speaker 2: Dead share, breathed the cleric reverently.
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Speaker 1: Perhaps it would be best not to know.
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Speaker 3: Lehne only wanted to tell me that he thought he
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Speaker 3: was dead and that he needed help finding something. He said,
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Speaker 3: I was there to take him home. I'm still not
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Speaker 3: sure what to make of that. Surely the castle was
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Speaker 3: his home the rest of the dead.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes a spirit can become trapped in the living world
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Speaker 1: if their remains are disturbed.
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Speaker 3: But you are as certain you have not seen him.
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Speaker 1: No, no, not as you've described him. Now, the damn
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Speaker 1: souls I have seen belonged, I believe to those who
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Speaker 1: are once common as Mura's subjects.
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Speaker 3: I would help the spirit if I knew how.
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Speaker 2: Thus the wheel of destiny turns was Fairwind's cryptic reply,
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Speaker 2: a killer.
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Speaker 1: Your being here was preordained, inevitable. Your purpose here could
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Speaker 1: not be clearer.
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Speaker 3: I don't understand what purpose.
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Speaker 2: Fair Wind's eyes were bright.
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Speaker 1: Don't you see Sadal has sent you here to help
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Speaker 1: this lost soul find what it seeks, and to help
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Speaker 1: me lift the curse.
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Speaker 2: When I rolled up my current mythic event, meaning assist
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Speaker 2: the Innocent. It felt like the story was trying to
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Speaker 2: communicate with me through a veil, not unlike Prince Learhanes
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Speaker 2: trying to speak with Achillie. Now that the potential quest
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Speaker 2: to help the spirit is on the table, it's time
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Speaker 2: to roll for a new event, meaning using depresentile. I've
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Speaker 2: got sixty seven open and sixty one success open success
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Speaker 2: open successfully. Maybe I'm not quite sure what this means,
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Speaker 2: but that's not a problem. I'll just keep it in
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Speaker 2: the bank until I can put it to use. Since
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Speaker 2: I have my dice bag open, I'm thinking I should
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Speaker 2: go ahead and roll up fair Wind's stats. I don't
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Speaker 2: know if he's going to become a PC, but I
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Speaker 2: do see his interests aligning with those of the companions,
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Speaker 2: at least for the short term. With that in mind,
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Speaker 2: I'll use my three D six down the line, re
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Speaker 2: rolling fives in under method. Here we go for strength eleven, intelligence,
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Speaker 2: hum thirteen interesting, wisdom only eleven Well, that does makes
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Speaker 2: sense after a fashion dexterity an eight constitution, What, oh
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Speaker 2: my goodness, that is a seventeen charisma fifteen. These are
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Speaker 2: exceptional stats. The intelligence role awards fair Wind an extra language.
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Speaker 2: We know it is Nelvish, so which is it. There's
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Speaker 2: a list of potential languages on page thirteen of the
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Speaker 2: BX rules, but it includes things like Minotaur and Medusa.
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Speaker 2: It's not going to work for me. I think I'll
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Speaker 2: twist the rules a bit and replace the additional language
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Speaker 2: with an extensive knowledge of history. Fair Wind will have
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Speaker 2: a deep understanding of the ancient k Moors in future
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Speaker 2: we're applicable. I'll roll against his intelligence score if tough
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Speaker 2: questions arise on that subject, to see if he might
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Speaker 2: know the answer. His DEX score gives him a minus
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Speaker 2: one penalty to missile weapons, funny that, considering he complained
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Speaker 2: of his bad aim with the sling earlier, and a
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Speaker 2: minus one penalty to his armor class. However, his impressive
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Speaker 2: constitution score of seventeen means he gets plus two hit points,
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Speaker 2: making eight in total since the first level cleric. The
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Speaker 2: high charismas score seems a little utter step with the
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Speaker 2: way I've described him, but it's not hard to imagine
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Speaker 2: that even if he's a little socially awkward, Fairwind has
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Speaker 2: an inner strength that comes from his absolute conviction in
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Speaker 2: his faith. He shows him, the way he carries himself
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Speaker 2: and the way his eyes shine when he talks about it.
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Speaker 2: All the quick reminder that in BX, clerics do not
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Speaker 2: get spells until second level. Fairwind is going to have
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Speaker 2: to earn that. But I will give him a leg
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Speaker 2: up and put him halfway to level two. He's been
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Speaker 2: through a lot already, after all, so this feels appropriate.
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Speaker 2: If he's still around on episode twenty one, fair Wind
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Speaker 2: will advance to level two. All right, let's take a
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Speaker 2: quick break. When we return, we'll see if Achillea and
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Speaker 2: her party are willing to help their new friend. Chapter
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Speaker 2: twenty seven, Part two, Day sixteen afternoon mythic event meaning
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Speaker 2: open success party status. The party's status is unchanged. Achillie
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Speaker 2: spent some time conferring with Dorni intent here in Elvish.
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Speaker 2: She wanted to know if they would support her if
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Speaker 2: she chose to help the Spirit of Lerahane. They promised
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Speaker 2: to stand behind her no matter what. Court, for his part,
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Speaker 2: agreed that it was the right thing to do. Finally,
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Speaker 2: she turned back to fair Wind.
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Speaker 3: We'll offer whatever help we.
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Speaker 2: Can, she said, taking the decorated skull back. When the
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Speaker 2: cleric offered it to help.
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Speaker 3: The spirit find peace. Perhaps that will lift the curse.
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Speaker 2: I hope, so replied fair Wind.
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Speaker 1: But even if not to do good is to do
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Speaker 1: Sidal's will, and I am sure we will have his
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Speaker 1: blessing for our efforts. Now, in your dream you mentioned
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Speaker 1: a pair of thrones in.
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Speaker 2: The dais as, Achillia excited.
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Speaker 1: No, I haven't, but I know where the castle once stood,
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Speaker 1: and that would seem like a good place to look.
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Speaker 2: Yes, Fairwind walked to the back of the room and
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Speaker 2: plucked the silver medallion from its spot on the wall.
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Speaker 2: When he slipped it around his neck, Achillia saw that
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Speaker 2: it bore a symbol of the sun.
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Speaker 1: Let's go now you have another time in mind. Yes,
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Speaker 1: now come, better to walk whilst it all's lights still shines,
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Speaker 1: I should think.
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Speaker 2: Fairwind made for the door, and Achillee followed. She told
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Speaker 2: the others that they were all going to investigate the
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Speaker 2: sight of the old castle. Tint Here, remembering, pointed out
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Speaker 2: that they had seen a large room nearby, though he
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Speaker 2: thought there wasn't enough stonework for it to have been
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Speaker 2: such a large building. Achillie just shrugged and shouldered her bag.
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Speaker 3: Perhaps part of his castle was made of wood.
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Speaker 2: She said to him in Elvish, and then in the
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Speaker 2: common tongue, said dan. Apart from the medallion around his
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Speaker 2: neck and his cudgel, the cleric took nothing with him.
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Speaker 2: He removed the bar from the door and opened it,
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Speaker 2: then looked back and gave Achillea a reassuring smile. Even
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Speaker 2: though she had only known him for an hour, it
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Speaker 2: seemed to her that the man was standing taller than before. Come,
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Speaker 2: he said as death through the doorway. Outside, everything was
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Speaker 2: as it had been before. To the left, with a
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Speaker 2: tree stump and the wood axe with its blade half
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Speaker 2: buried in it. Beside that was an old bucket, now
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Speaker 2: full of rain water. Straight Ahead was a rubble strewn
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Speaker 2: stretch of sward, choked by crabgrass and weeds. Everywhere they looked,
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Speaker 2: the vegetation was dead, or stunted or twisted. Fair one
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Speaker 2: seemed to read their thoughts.
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Speaker 1: The curses blighted the land.
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Speaker 2: He cleared his throat this way as Achillie, then cord,
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Speaker 2: then to Rennie, followed tender shut the door to the chapel,
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Speaker 2: and then fell in behind them drew maniest persona ten tier.
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Speaker 2: The door shut with a bang. He was to spend
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Speaker 2: the next four hours alone in this little bedroom as punishment,
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Speaker 2: and he knew he deserved it. Strict discipline for eleven
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Speaker 2: children was commonplace, but it was somewhat rare for boys
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Speaker 2: of his age, who were considered young adults. The look
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Speaker 2: in his father's face was still vivid in Tenttyer's mind's eye.
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Speaker 2: It was an expression of frustration and disappointment more than anger.
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Speaker 4: Ten Tier, I just don't know what to do with you.
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Speaker 4: Why do you insist upon acting this way?
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Speaker 2: His father had said in a heavy voice. He was
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Speaker 2: referring to Tantyer's latest rebellion, talking back to elder val Kene, or,
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Speaker 2: more precisely, showing a lack of proper respect. These little
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Speaker 2: incidents were becoming commonplace, and his father was growing more
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Speaker 2: and more upset.
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Speaker 4: You bring shame upon our family each time you do this.
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Speaker 4: What do you have to say for yourself?
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Speaker 2: This time ten Tier had replied with stony silence and
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Speaker 2: what he thought was a withering look. In truth, it
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Speaker 2: had only made him look peevish.
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Speaker 4: I suppose there's nothing further to say about it. Sit
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Speaker 4: here and calm yourself. Think on what you've done and
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Speaker 4: why it upsets your mother and me. Perhaps when I
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Speaker 4: come back, you will see the error of your way.
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Speaker 2: Tintres felt his face flush with shame. Bringing up his
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Speaker 2: mother's feelings was a low blow. As the hours passed,
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Speaker 2: with nothing else to do, he did reflect on his
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Speaker 2: actions and his motives. Where did his anger come from?
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Speaker 2: What did he hope to accomplish by making himself a
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Speaker 2: problem in their little community. The other boys's age did
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Speaker 2: not behave this way. They were all perfectly happy to
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Speaker 2: follow the rules. Conformity was highly valued among Elvin society.
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Speaker 2: Why did he insist on sticking out so much?
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Speaker 1: Ah, the nail that sticks out gets hammered.
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Speaker 2: Down, he muttered to himself. That was another of Elmer's
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Speaker 2: favorite proverbs. Tinture's major outburst against his archery teacher was
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Speaker 2: yet several weeks away, and he would land him in
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Speaker 2: serious trouble. Today's offense had not been so egregious. He
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Speaker 2: had failed to use the proper honorific when addressing Valkein.
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Speaker 2: The omission had been purposeful, and it had been noted
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Speaker 2: the slight was over something the elder had said that
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Speaker 2: Tentier had disagreed with. Currently, Tintyer was having trouble remembering
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Speaker 2: what it had been, so he couldn't even justify his
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Speaker 2: actions to himself.
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Speaker 4: When are you going to learn how to put the
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Speaker 4: tribe above yourself.
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Speaker 2: His father had asked him. Tinto knew that his actions
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Speaker 2: were selfish and that they reflected poorly on his family,
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Speaker 2: but for some reason, he kept on doing things like
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Speaker 2: this and drawing attention to himself. Eventually his punishment would
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Speaker 2: be something worse than spending a day locked in his
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Speaker 2: room alone. In his heart, Tinto knew what the problem was.
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Speaker 2: He was meant to be like everyone else, the same
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Speaker 2: as everyone else, but he felt different. His father and
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Speaker 2: mother didn't understand. They and everyone else were trying to
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Speaker 2: force him into a mold. Everyone except Rennie, his brother,
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Speaker 2: and no one else accepted him for who he was,
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Speaker 2: without conditions. It was ironic because Dorrenni had never had
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Speaker 2: trouble fitting in. Ten Tire's problem was this. In his heart,
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Speaker 2: he wanted to be something special, but specialness was not
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Speaker 2: encouraged among the eleven people. He craved adventure, but routine
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Speaker 2: and repetition were held in higher esteem than excitement. He
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Speaker 2: didn't know why, but ten Tier had always felt as
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Speaker 2: though he needed to prove himself. Becoming a hunter was
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Speaker 2: all well and good. Tintre was as skillful a shot
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Speaker 2: as Derenni with a bow, but this was not enough.
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Speaker 2: He yearned for something more, a life outside the ordinary.
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Speaker 2: Elmeir is not the only one who can sling a
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Speaker 2: proverb or two. You know that saying, be careful what
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Speaker 2: you wish for, because you just might get it. Well,
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Speaker 2: I'd say that ten Tyr is getting more adventure than
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Speaker 2: he initially bargained for, and it's only just beginning. This
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Speaker 2: is the part where I get to announce that our
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Speaker 2: young elf has achieved level two. He'll get new hit
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Speaker 2: points and a chance for stat increases. Ready, let's go
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Speaker 2: for hit points. I'm using in D six rolling a
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Speaker 2: four is a good role. I'm happy with that. He
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Speaker 2: goes from six to ten. Next up, our chances for
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Speaker 2: stat increases. I'll go down the line rolling this D six.
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Speaker 2: If I get a six, that stat will get a bump.
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Speaker 2: Strength A one intelligence, Oh a six achillea must be
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Speaker 2: rubbing off on ten. Tier ten goes to eleven. Wisdom,
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Speaker 2: the three dexterity A six, Yes, that's right where it counts.
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Speaker 2: Two thirteen goes to fourteen, and while the mechanics are
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Speaker 2: not affected. He is that much closer constitution A six. Wow,
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Speaker 2: it is super rare to get three sixes in one
23:53
Speaker 2: level up. Eleven gets increased to twelve. I don't think
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Speaker 2: I've ever gotten four sixes in a level up? Is
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Speaker 2: this the charisma? Three? Well? I am happy, really happy
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Speaker 2: with that level up. It doesn't matter that none of
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Speaker 2: the stat increases came with new bonuses. Ten tier was
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Speaker 2: still extremely fortunate with his dice rolls well done and
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Speaker 2: well deserved. Let's hope this good luck will continue. As
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Speaker 2: we return to the narrative. Chapter seventeen, Part three, Day
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Speaker 2: sixteen afternoon mythic event meaning open success party status. The
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Speaker 2: party status is unchanged, with the exception of ten tiers
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Speaker 2: hit points, which have gone up to ten out of ten.
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Speaker 2: Achilles stepped around a broken and moss covered column. Although
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Speaker 2: she didn't recognize the courtyard from her dreams, she deduced
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Speaker 2: that that's where she was here. She was right then, Fairwood,
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Speaker 2: just ahead was to the castle proper.
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Speaker 1: What's interesting, amused the cleric.
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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, what are you referring to?
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Speaker 2: Hm uh the will of Siddal, I mean king the
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Speaker 2: reply the clerk pointed, out an exposed route with the
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Speaker 2: cudgel in his hand.
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Speaker 1: Mindus step. King Murak was guilty of five unforgivable sins.
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Speaker 1: On the day he drew Sidal's curse, he slew three
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Speaker 1: of the divinely anointed. He committed philicide and also regicide
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Speaker 1: since the infant bastard and no was the lawful heir
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Speaker 1: to the throne.
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Speaker 3: Was the murder of his wife not also regicide, making
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Speaker 3: the sins total six.
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Speaker 2: That's to kill your hmm.
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Speaker 1: According to Kymour law, a man had the right to
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Speaker 1: take the life of an unfaithful spouse.
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Speaker 2: Kim the grim reply, But it.
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Speaker 1: Is interesting that Sadal chose to curse the land and
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Speaker 1: not the king. In the end, Murark was driven away
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Speaker 1: from here, but his life went on, and by any measure,
25:57
Speaker 1: he was very successful.
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Speaker 2: He founded after all, How large was this left a
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Speaker 2: chillier wanted to know.
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Speaker 1: Not so large. It's bordered by the river to the south,
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Speaker 1: east and north, and the west extends to the edge
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Speaker 1: of the yonder woods. A whole village can be crossed
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Speaker 1: in twenty minutes or so. You will notice that very
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Speaker 1: little grows and nothing flourishes within. The grass is choked
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Speaker 1: by weeds and brambles. The trees are stunted and sickly.
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Speaker 1: Virtually no animals will enter. In fact, your bird is
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Speaker 1: the first one I have seen in cam or Lands.
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Speaker 3: Other than the duck.
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Speaker 2: The chillier corrected it.
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Speaker 1: No, the duck was in the river, which I would
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Speaker 1: say is outside the borders. No, everything within is blighted,
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Speaker 1: with the possible exception of the church.
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Speaker 3: Possible exception.
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure how much longer I would be saved there.
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Speaker 1: Perhaps if I could restore it fully one day, I
26:55
Speaker 1: should like to do just that.
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Speaker 3: You'd need a stonemason for that, I should think would.
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Speaker 1: But at least there will be no need to quarry
27:02
Speaker 1: any stone.
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Speaker 2: Fair Wind used his cudgel to pointed a jumble of
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Speaker 2: large square cut blocks from the former castle. Presently they
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Speaker 2: reached the outline of some walls that had sunken into
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Speaker 2: the earth. It was almost like walking on a map
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Speaker 2: outline for only the foundations and some broken floor tiles remained.
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Speaker 1: Here's where the outside door would have been, Fairwind observed.
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Speaker 1: And here's a broken arch in the corridor.
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Speaker 2: It's that way, said Achillie, interrupting and moving to stand beside.
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Speaker 1: The cleric, you've been here before, haven't you in your dreams?
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Speaker 2: Yes?
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Speaker 3: I think so. Over there is the throne room. We'll
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Speaker 3: find a dais.
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Speaker 2: Achillie took the lead and followed the outline of corridor
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Speaker 2: walls to their end beyond, Almost completely swallowed up by
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Speaker 2: the ground, she found it. The dais was almost invisible
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Speaker 2: under a thick covering of moss and bramble.
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Speaker 1: This is the place, she breathed, You're sure, I'm sure
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Speaker 1: I would have expected to see a throne fair Wind said.
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Speaker 3: There were two, but they were made of wood.
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Speaker 2: Achillie replied, distractedly. She was kneeling down in front of
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Speaker 2: the dais looking for something.
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Speaker 3: Oh, here it is.
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Speaker 2: Clearing away some spaky of vegetation revealed a floor tile.
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Speaker 2: There was a hairline cracked in the middle, but it
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Speaker 2: did not obscure the sun shign etching a sign from God, declared.
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Speaker 3: The cleric, the spirit in my dream. He was searching
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Speaker 3: for something here.
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Speaker 2: Fairwood was regarding the symbol on the tile as though
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Speaker 2: trying to remember something hmm for the k Moors, he began.
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Speaker 1: A throne room was not a place of worship. O
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Speaker 1: do Oak's histories teached that the chapel is the only
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Speaker 1: place that was What.
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Speaker 3: Did you just say?
28:39
Speaker 2: Asked Achilia, her voice trembling. Court Durnian Tenier had caught
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Speaker 2: the name too, and were staring at the cleric.
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Speaker 1: I mean that symbols of the deity were confined to
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Speaker 1: the chapels, so this symbol might it kate for that?
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Speaker 2: Achilia didn't care if she were being rude.
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Speaker 3: You said a name o'doak Achilie.
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Speaker 2: I had only ever seen the name written. She had
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Speaker 2: assumed it was pronounced Audoc. But perhaps she had been
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Speaker 2: wrong about that.
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Speaker 3: Who is odoc O dog Zygog?
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Speaker 1: O dog Zygog is the most famous historian in Marath?
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Speaker 2: Achillia slipped the sketchbook from Mersatchel and opened it to
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