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Wish Hunter #20: Wish · DiceSized

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  Hello friends, before we get to our bite sized dice roll twice
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  So take a listen to this little clip and then we'll be on with
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  the show. In a world of sorcerers, only
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  those born with magic bloodlines can use magic.
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  But all of that is about to change.
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  My name is Nova and this is the story of how I became the first
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  warlock. That is rich.
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  Well, I guess I'll see you at the trial then.
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  Can't wait to witness this incredible power you've been
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  hiding. Without a legacy or the ability
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  to cast bills, you have no future as a sorcerer.
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  Touch the statue and I'll lend you my power, but it will come
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  with a price if you were able to receive.
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  It. This power might not be mine,
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  but I'll use it until I don't need it anymore.
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  Good answer. Welcome to class Red.
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  Yeah, there is a lady in my head who gave me this power.
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  It is literally not mine, but I can't tell him that.
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  All right, I'm going to stop you right there.
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  Look, I don't do well with all the technical mumbo jumbo.
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  Just tip me with your best attack and we'll go from there.
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  Look, we're classmates. Not friends.
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  I don't need to know your back story, I just need you to start
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  carrying your own weight. Got it.
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  How in the hell? Did you get such power?
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  Astro, join the quest and listen to Warlock wherever you get your
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  podcast. Welcome to Die Sized and welcome
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  to Wish Hunter. This is D&D Audio Retra podcast
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  where we tell bite sized Dice World twice told stories.
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  This is me, your DM and friend Robert Whitehead.
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  And with me, as always is my lovely table of friends and
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  family. Here we of course have my
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  brother George. Hey, it's G Finally a space
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  pirate. Yes, you technically the
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  technical definition of pirate is.
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  Oh, isn't What is the technical definition I gotta happen to The
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  Martian I? Think I gotta steal stuff?
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  I think you do need to steal something.
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  Just boots. I did steal stuff, yeah.
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  Still bad about that I'm. Wearing a bright in front of.
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  Wearing stolen things and hurtling through space parable.
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  You are a space pirates. And if you're unfamiliar with
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  space in D&D, it's it's astral plane, astral seas.
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  And then there's a space. They're kind of interchangeable.
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  We'll get into that later, but that's details and much too far
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  ahead. Another person in my life who is
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  Spacey but always. Astrave.
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  Astra connected. That is my lovely friend Maya.
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  Hey, it's Maya. You can call me Maya Zeniz.
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  Finally, a pirate. Oh yes, this is the same thing.
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  Totally different vibes. That's what she's always been.
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  Dreaming of OK? What do you flinch every time I
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  say spell beer? I mean what?
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  Spell spell beer. It's just it feels funny in my
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  bones. Maybe there's a certain amount
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  of power that Zen hasn't quite grasped yet in like taking over
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  what is the ultimate taboo of evil and thievery and well
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  wishing within your old community of Domi.
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  She's trying to like, already convince herself that this dark
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  power she has is good and to add piracy to it.
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  Like now I got to stop Akuma from stealing shit.
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  Damn, she's in. She's works cut out for her.
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  Akuma the Pirate. Well, so The thing is, I've
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  I've, I've never had a life as a pirate to everything I've had
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  I've. Were you a pirate when you were
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  a Caterpillar or? For a brief time, but not enough
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  to gain experience. But even though Akuma may not be
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  one for the skies and the stars, I know one that is.
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  And that's my lovely wife Savannah Sav here.
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  I can't stop thinking about those early 2000s anti copyright
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  infringement ads. That said, you wouldn't steal a
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  car. They were a very anti piracy and
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  that's the kind of piracy you know, Cassie's all about
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  intellectual property theft, except, you know, because she's
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  like, no, it should be shared. We should all.
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  You wouldn't keep your knowledge to yourself.
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  Amen *. Watch, you wouldn't keep your
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  life changing data to yourself. Download an armal area, except I
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  would and then share it with everyone.
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  Yeah yeah, I feel like Cassie is the one that's like no, fuck
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  this like big finger up to any amount of censorship in the
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  face. Yeah, totally.
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  I as you now find yourself with the power to literally rewrite
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  your own little world here, you wonder what star watch the
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  entire time as the world was preparing to crumble apart.
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  Claude, I think, he said, and he knew for almost a year before
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  these events happened and unfolded.
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  What a guy. That of the year.
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  That of the year there has been very little time to get answers,
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  but you guys have time now I will just.
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  Say Knowledge is free, except for Cassie's song.
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  Yes, yes, you did. You fully.
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  You better not steal. My son followed through on that
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  promise from long, long ago. You will not let anyone steal
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  your friend, Cassie. You steal my friend's song.
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  And you didn't let them steal her mom's name?
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  Yes, especially important. Why 2?
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  Thousands would have loved you arable because they did love
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  George. You know they did.
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  They did as they loved all Princess of the Odds.
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  Anyways, let's get to this guy. Called the Prince of the arts
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  and I I I feel of the. Arts of the arts.
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  That's what cool people call the the 2000s.
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  Cool. Really.
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  And now let's get on to a recap, y'all.
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  And back at it last time, our heroes embrace their roles as
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  Dominari, defending their newly founded domain of Callum's
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  crossing against demons of Shadow and Seeking just as Wish
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  Beard was. Speaking of Eldari, demonic
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  entities that prowl the under astral and, well, space.
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  The fiendish creatures attacked, piercing the domain barrier and
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  veering straight for the great Willow.
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  If they saw too that the shadow and secret demons weren't the
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  only threat. A greater Eldari, a true elder
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  evil of a size with the domain itself.
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  I'd noticed them as well. It's lumbering form shifted and
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  surged toward the domain. Her heroes didn't hesitate.
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  Cassie felt fate upon her as she found herself drawn to a
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  specific chamber within the tree.
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  The chamber with three seats. Parable shouted orders to Wish
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  Beard and fell backward, plummeting from within the great
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  tree to without a single breath. As he fell, Parable released a
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  time and gave him power enough to manifest once more, sending
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  secret and shadow demons alike tumbling with a flick of his
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  wrist, first sending out a shield of flame blasting out
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  from the great Willow. Zin then commune with the many
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  little things of the domain and sent a plague of insects to
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  swarm and Harry another group of demons and brought nature's
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  wrath down upon them, just as Parable and Zin unleashed.
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  Outside, Cassie reached the Helm, a central chamber with
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  three elegant seats grown from the Willow itself.
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  Taking her seat, Cassie found herself intuitively connecting
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  to everything the Domain touched.
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  Every drop of atmosphere, every leaf, and every enemy that moved
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  to destroy this place, Cassie became stars, assuming Star
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  reformed for the first time. Humming with power and seeing a
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  chance to literally shift the battlefield, Cassie willed the
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  domain to move. And it did.
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  Putting Flower Petal to the metal, Cassie sent demons
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  hurtling and gave our heroes a heading to the sliver of star
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  that remains. Shadow.
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  Demons surged against Parable then, slicing with claws of
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  night and cutting into his mind. Just as he felt this pain,
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  Parable heard Bush Beard's voice upon the wind.
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  Ay boy, give us a hand and get this where it needs to go.
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  Wish Beard smashed a Canon sized bottle and sent out a silver
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  shot of energy right toward him. Twisting as he fell, Parable
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  redirected the blast to decimate a group of demons, propelling
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  the entire domain with the force of the blast.
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  Meanwhile was Zen and Cassie's guidance.
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  The crew of the Battle Breaker struck with ballista and
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  boulder. Through all this, 2 secret
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  demons survived the onslaught and veered directly for Cassie.
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  Alone within the Great Willow, gazing into her very thoughts
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  and memories, the secret demons stole a secret from Cassie's
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  mind. The essence of signs.
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  Mortal name. Cassie's mother's true name.
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  Name Soraya. Spoken Star Song.
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  Cassie refused to let these creatures take this precious
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  thing that was hers, yet she didn't move.
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  Something told her she wouldn't have to.
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  It was then that the Greater Eldari struck with a crashing
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  wave of Dark Star Song, and Cassie slapped it back with its
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  own energies. With just one D remaining, the
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  one holding her memories, Cassie was proven right.
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  Parable didn't let the Seekers steal Cassie's secret because no
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  one steals parables. Friends Song.
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  We've rejoined our heroes now, just as Callum's Crossing shifts
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  to spell jamming speed, the stars that remain in the astral
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  currents around you, a long gate and color stretches past you on
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  all sides. Which group says I you're a
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  natural ass. We'll leave the rest of the
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  follow deems behind us what we are heading.
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  Up. Straight at the Star for now.
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  Are we supposed to be going this fast?
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  We are technically going quite fast, but.
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  Guys, why is why are my feet flying off the.
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  Floor Oh, oh oh. Igor, hold on to something.
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  Here, here. Grab this vine.
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  Wrap it. Wrap it around your waist.
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  Stay put, OK? You guys are feeling kind of a
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  noticeable tug. It's kind of like a perpetual
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  loss of center of gravity that's slowly settling.
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  Like spell jamming speed is insane.
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  You are feeling time and space elongate around you as you are
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  just becoming, I mean essence moving at a particle speed
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  faster than anything really comprehensible.
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  Wow. When you reach that speed in
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  physics, you get to see more moments of time.
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  So I feel like instead of like passing monuments and
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  architecture and landscapes, we're like through astral space.
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  We're passing through scenes of time playing out at different
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  horizons around us. I well, I could tell you about
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  time, but first I'll tell you excellent job with those demons,
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  Lesser El Dari. No matter what, they're a tough
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  cookie to crack and you all did a great job.
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  And is this speed fast enough to escape the the big one?
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  I guess it'll lose. It's interesting this after just
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  a bit, I'm sure. All right, my, my stomach's
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  settling a little bit. Do it.
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  Does anybody know why the these demons came?
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  Looks at Akuma. What do you what do you look at
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  me? I mean I.
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  Just feel like you I have a lot of opinions about them and maybe
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  they know more than I do. So demons, kind of lawless, kind
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  of orderless, they all came at us at once in a swarm.
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  That's new. Oh, new.
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  Yeah. So.
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  Don't love new, I mean. Yes, the swarm of the Seekers
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  makes sense. The swarm of the shadows makes
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  sense together, no? They are they not normally
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  friends? No, I mean no, demons are
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  friends. They all, they all, they all
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  think they're the best. I mean devils.
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  Devil's. Different I am the best.
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  We know it. We all know, we don't think.
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  Tuma is a devil. And he's the best.
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  Devil. He's the best devil.
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  The strongest devil. And that's why Luzin is so
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  powerful, because I'm the king of hell.
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  I give a commercial. Oh, that's new King of heck.
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  And I like scratches. I'm I'm the king of hell.
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  I'm the king of hell. And I like scratches.
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  And he's my smoky little guy. Smoky little guy.
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  So. OK, So what?
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  I mean, you know, demons working together.
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  Like if one were had to guess, what type of bad thing would
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  make demons need to work together?
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  I will. Let's think of it like this.
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  We have there was a wish up there who is now, I would
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  assume, gone mad. God, he's still the owner of the
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  house. And so whoever let those things
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  in, I would imagine it was him. Well, Are you sure they didn't
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  follow you here? Wish Beard, I will.
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  I guess they might have. I was like.
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  You got here and then like they showed up the.
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  Deal stays in character and content.
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  So The thing is, we had two of those bottles and we had to use
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  the first of them to get through the the Violet domain.
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  Yeah, that's no, that's entirely possible.
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  At least you're honest. We don't judge you.
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  Do we want to investigate further though?
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  Like the might have sent the demons here.
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  The The thing is the the the barrier is practically
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  disappearing them the Violet light it's just it's gone.
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  It's it'll be gone shortly. And if anyone wants to give me
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  an arcana or investigation check, Wish beard seems to refer
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  into the fact that the Violet sliver of star that is left
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  which seems to represent the wizard wish.
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  Also his God like form is dissipating. 18 Arcana. 14
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  arcana, 13 arcana Zen, you know, destruction.
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  And it is indeed dissipating at a rate that has been really
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  unobservable. It's more of a feeling that
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  you're able to pick up. Can you repeat what's
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  dissipating? The domain that is the Violet
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  light around the lens of parts, the big one, the greater domain,
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  we shall refer to it. The one that it seems like the
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  three up above created long, long ago.
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  Yes, the wizard wish time and luck created together and now
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  only the wizard wish holds alone in God like form.
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  So he's either not strong enough to hold back to demons, let the
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  demons in. Or combined with Wishbeard's
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  entry, that puncture through combined with the weakening of
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  it was enough. But either way, it's weakening.
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  You can tell even with that check, you can actually tell
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  that those ones probably got in because of the combination of
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  both. But very soon it won't matter
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  that it'll just be thin enough that any even lesser eldari will
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  just. Yeah, I think that the bigger
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  domain is making it on its own. Oh I just don't think Wish Beard
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  made it better. The greater domain, I, I just
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  assumed that all these energies we've been hearing about and
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  this all not being real, I assumed that that was just the
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  illusion dissipating where that's a barrier.
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  Yeah, apparently. I mean, Cass got a better look
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  at it. Yeah, seems like her mom and her
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  mom's friends kind of got together and saved the.
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  World. That's generous.
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  A generous read. Wow.
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  So it's losing string. I would imagine you guys came to
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  the Helms room right to meet Cassie.
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  So you guys are all like 3 seats seated down.
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  I think A wish beards gathered with you, and it's probably just
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  Wish beard Ryan and you. Yeah, I think parables, just
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  sitting here contemplating the idea of how much we were
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  protected before. Maybe the greater universe.
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  Would we call it I, the underverse, lass, the
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  underverse. You use the right words these
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  days. I know that.
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  You've come to learn of it and your sciences.
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  Now that that information has been shared, I can digest it and
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  update my vocabulary. Look at how that works.
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  Ask the questions. I've got the answers.
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  Just ask away. Before this domain existed, the
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  bigger one, the greater domain. Yes, there was.
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  There had to be some sort of homeostasis.
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  There was when people lived then, just as we do with our
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  history, we we name our lands after them.
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  Who do you think the gods were before Wish, Time and Luck,
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  Fortune, Fate and Favour? But they fled.
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  Or at least that's what Wish, Time and luck said.
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  You've got a lot of whimsical stories up in that noggin.
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  Last, I was the one that gave them a ride to their final
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  mission and their first, if you think about it, but that was a
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  long time ago. I know much.
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  All of it's true. I promised your mother I
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  wouldn't lie, not to you or her. But you could lie to me.
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  Sorry. Yes, A. 110% and I just might
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  just for the space of it. Comparable actually well wish
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  beards talking try to recall something that he's once felt or
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  seen in the book. Well, about the under verse or
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  any time before the lands apart. Yeah, absolutely.
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  Give me a history check or religion check I would also
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  take. 15 Religion check. A 15 I think confirms what
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  you've long suspected. Something clicks, you're able to
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  remember some certain fable. Or maybe it's just the evidence
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  that has stacked up enough. But even from when Raya said
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  this world was once Atlas, how do I know this?
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  This world has seen so many breakings.
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  You remember a parable that has to do with a wizard who was
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  known as the Fool, who went through so many terms that he
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  lost count. But the number 9 was always
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  important, and that 9 might be the time that he'd be able to
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  stop repeating. It was a nursery rhyme center
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  around 9 and again, stacking a multitude of infinitesimally
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  small bits of information from across all the different studies
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  of stories from your time in the book.
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  Well, everything connects. This world has seen many
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  breakings. You know somewhere deep down
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  that this world is on its ninth turn.
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  Every iteration was different. Not all of them were great
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  wishings. Especially when you look back
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  into the stories, not all of them are referred to great
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  wishing. That's why the trend is hard to
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  see. Some of them are apocalypses,
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  world's ending, some of them go by without a blink.
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  But what you know for certain, at some point some heroes long
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  ago gave the opportunity for consistency between breakings.
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  The wizard wish time and luck tried to follow up on that by
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  saving the world and they failed.
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  This world is on the precipice of what could be something real.
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  The under verse often referred to as like the imaginary, a
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  place that does not exist. A place where things exist
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  before existing and never really truly do.
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  Now you know yourself to be in it.
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  Those stories must be from people like literally piercing
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  through the veil, just as you guys haven't done now, so near
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  the end of the world. So I'm I'm listening to Wish
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  Beard, I'm fingering through the pages of the good book and
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  noticing that I see an image of a wizard that looks foolish on
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  my page and I turn a page and it's there again and I turn it
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  very quickly until the pages kind of spiral on their own.
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  It's like a flip book and I see the wizard bull trip 9 times and
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  I remember 9 markings at the bottom of the book well and a
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  few other things that call out and I look up at Wish Beard and
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  say if this has happened. So many times before and we're
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  ready to go and battle the last ones responsible and the one
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  left of who made our world the way it did.
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  Are we meant to be the glue? Are we meant to hold it together
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  one more time? All I know is that those three
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  that tried, they failed. I know that.
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  Soraya, do you hope that you looks at Cassie?
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  He'll be braver. It could be better with the
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  friends that I see that you have by your side.
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  I damn well believe you might be.
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  I can tell you right now that time and wish we're no allies
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  like these. I turn the group and I say from
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  everything that I read it's just chaos and energy below the layer
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  that exists. And I've never read anything
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  that articulated outside of just a story.
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  But I do remember a tale of a wizard falling 9 times.
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  I believe we're the 9th turn. I don't know what that means,
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  but as we go on this journey, it's nice to know that we're not
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  the first to try. It feels like we're not alone.
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  Or we're we're just as dumb as the rest of them.
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  I know, I know, I've thought about that too.
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  I'm torn. To be braver than your mom.
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  Do we attempt to get to the real world?
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  Yeah, it doesn't seem like it makes it right, but is it
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  selfish to not want to die? Can.
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  We take others with us. There's so many questions and I
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  just want to be a pirate. I just know that just just
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  saving the world to pacify the evils until they can
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  breakthrough again and some other person has to decide that
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  feels that feels cheap. Yeah, I guess.
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  We can't do that again and again and again and again.
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  It's crazy, Megan. How do we break the cycle this
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  time? You know, I love breaking
• 22:08
  cycles. I don't know.
• 22:11
  I think I need to take a walk and Zena's going to get up and
• 22:15
  like come out Akuma and she's she's gonna.
• 22:20
  Oh, OK, well, that was so. Real, you don't really have a
• 22:22
  choice to come on. I was.
• 22:24
  Gonna say you don't have to say come on, I'm I'm literally right
• 22:27
  here. Yeah, but I wanted the
• 22:28
  camaraderie. OK.
• 22:29
  OK, He just stays behind. He's pretending to walk.
• 22:32
  Yeah. He was like in your collarbone
• 22:35
  spot, so he kind of like comes up a little bit out of your
• 22:38
  shoulder and like bobs his head behind you in the corner of your
• 22:41
  eye so you can feel like he's coming with you, like starting
• 22:44
  off with you. And Zen is gonna like, I think
• 22:48
  really just walk into the hallway and like just kind of
• 22:51
  get to a dark corner somewhere and just lean against the wall
• 22:55
  and like, slide down it kind of that whole like.
• 22:58
  Yeah, give me a perception check. 17.
• 23:02
  It is the same exact shape and form as the hallway that you so
• 23:06
  often after entering or exiting the two walls back at home.
• 23:10
  The rabbit's foot specifically in the Warrens, you would find
• 23:14
  that spot and it you slid down at so many times that it had
• 23:17
  worn a groove. You look at the wall above you
• 23:19
  and those grooves are there still.
• 23:24
  You get a good deep breath. You should start kind of just
• 23:27
  talking out loud, but mostly out of Kuma to say like, you know, I
• 23:31
  know what I came from or where I thought I came from.
• 23:35
  And now I'm here and there's devils here, but no demons and,
• 23:41
  and, and who's deciding all these things anyways?
• 23:44
  And who decides to have the light and who decides to have
• 23:46
  the dark? And who decides that they get
• 23:49
  all the power and that everyone else doesn't?
• 23:50
  And it doesn't make any sense. But Kuma doesn't make any sense.
• 23:53
  And I think she's just going to like with that frustration
• 23:58
  channel and contact patron. Oh.
• 24:01
  My. God the Holy knowing.
• 24:05
  Like Zen wants to know where she comes from.
• 24:07
  She knew. She knows where she was raised.
• 24:09
  She wants to know where she comes from.
• 24:12
  Did you prep? For that, did you prep for that?
• 24:15
  Wow, Zen, as you contact your patron, like apart from throwing
• 24:21
  out these words in the ramble that you do, what energy comes
• 24:25
  out from you? Is there any sort of magical
• 24:27
  component that maybe unbeknownst as in is happening?
• 24:31
  She's like probably. Pinky promising.
• 24:33
  Just like pinky promising. Pinky promising.
• 24:35
  And like, a smoky kind of energy happens between her hands that
• 24:39
  she can then like, like, when she parts her hands, there's
• 24:43
  like, a pool of shadow between them.
• 24:46
  Yeah. And I think she just puts her
• 24:48
  head into it just like it just. Stuffs her head.
• 24:53
  Into it you see this pool. Start to form and then as you
• 24:57
  bring your head close to it, even with the decision to go in,
• 25:01
  unbeknownst to Zen, part of the especially with the pinky, every
• 25:05
  pink you hold formed a smoky chain link that rose above Zen's
• 25:10
  head and as the chain links. Form they.
• 25:16
  Grab right around Zinn's neck and pull her in.
• 25:19
  It's not. Just your face.
• 25:21
  Your whole body is pulled in and.
• 25:26
  Hey, has anybody? Seen Zinn?
• 25:28
  I think she just. Stepped out for.
• 25:30
  Some air. All right, well.
• 25:33
  I got a bad feeling you find yourself.
• 25:36
  Plummeting until with a yank and a giant rattle, your arm is
• 25:45
  nearly pulled out of the joint of your socket as the chain that
• 25:49
  was around the back of your neck is somehow wrapped fully around
• 25:53
  your arm and is the only thing to stop you from a fall.
• 25:56
  That as you look below you, you see a city of brass, and above
• 26:01
  it a massive network of chains. The entire city burning within
• 26:07
  those chains, also burning and molten and dripping with flame.
• 26:12
  You see an Angel spread wings, but horned Akuma says.
• 26:19
  Oh no. It's Ariel.
• 26:21
  What? What?
• 26:22
  What? Ariel what What?
• 26:23
  Sorry, what is what is happening?
• 26:24
  There was smoke and I put my head into an army.
• 26:26
  Or what if I'm we usually? Why?
• 26:29
  Why did you do that? I I don't know how I'm trying.
• 26:31
  To do that, I'm. I'm your.
• 26:33
  I know you're my patron. You're my smoky little guy.
• 26:36
  What's this? What's?
• 26:37
  This. What's all this I'm?
• 26:40
  OK, I'm. I'm kind of.
• 26:42
  Hanging here, leave me hanging so.
• 26:48
  You see Akuma? Beginning to, like, start to
• 26:50
  dissipate already, he says. I kind of snuck out for a
• 26:55
  joyride. You see the Angel down beneath
• 27:01
  you? Take a deep breath and Akuma is
• 27:06
  sucked in as he returns to smoke and suddenly there is a dragon
• 27:12
  that sits next to Dariel and you feel within your mind and the
• 27:18
  dragon say I told you once a life has a dragon you can still
• 27:24
  remember how to do the thing. But technically a devil
• 27:28
  assistant to an arch devil. An arch devil.
• 27:31
  Yes, Dariel. Has just been making direct eyes
• 27:35
  at you. A part of the chains is a mass
• 27:37
  that comes as a muzzle and locks her in place as she is pulled,
• 27:41
  drawn and quartered by wing tip and arm and leg as a barrier
• 27:46
  above the city. She stares at you.
• 27:49
  Give me an insight. Roll 17. 17 gets you the fact
• 27:54
  that she's angry, not at you, but about everything.
• 27:57
  The 17 is just enough to let you know that it's not personal,
• 28:01
  especially for sin. Did I do this?
• 28:05
  Did I somehow do this to you? Akuma says.
• 28:08
  No, she cannot speak, so I speak for her.
• 28:12
  You're a dragon. She has been long.
• 28:14
  Without a voice and I have been it for many millennia.
• 28:19
  So you. Took a little joyride.
• 28:22
  Yes, found me, took another little joyride and now?
• 28:26
  And now we're back, correct? So what am I?
• 28:28
  Supposed. To do akuma, assume you're
• 28:31
  placing now. Wait.
• 28:33
  Whoa, whoa, that's that's aggressive.
• 28:37
  I don't I don't know how many grades, but.
• 28:40
  Meet your grandma. She does not want me to say
• 28:43
  that, Dariel. Sorry, your ancestor.
• 28:47
  Sorry, the goodest of goods. But.
• 28:51
  Also the best of bad Zariel when he says.
• 28:53
  Goodness of good, she just like drills.
• 28:56
  Her eyes, certainly. Like what?
• 28:57
  What do you mean by that, Zariel?
• 28:59
  Began the blood war. That doesn't sound very good.
• 29:02
  Well, she meant her best, so she.
• 29:05
  Changed. Everything but the blood war.
• 29:09
  She she connected the abyss, the 9 Hells it runs through the
• 29:15
  underverse. This is how I escaped the bridge
• 29:20
  beckoning. This is of Zariel's creation.
• 29:24
  It began a war between devils and demons like none have ever
• 29:28
  seen. Oh that explains the devil demon
• 29:30
  stuff. Zariel was once an Angel.
• 29:33
  She did not believe that the heavens were doing enough to
• 29:38
  stop the war with the 9 outs. She was right.
• 29:41
  But Zariel rattles the chains, you hear.
• 29:47
  She doesn't like it when I say. It but she was wrong in the way
• 29:51
  she went about it, bringing mortals to the 9 Hells to fight
• 29:55
  a war because the celestials did not support her.
• 29:58
  These are the problems of the real material plane gods and
• 30:03
  factions and planes and armies. They're not problems for heroes
• 30:08
  such as you, Jane as you might be.
• 30:11
  She will burn you alive if you are to look away.
• 30:13
  So. It's just like.
• 30:17
  Hey, it's like I'm not going to you.
• 30:19
  Me, you and me, girl. It's just you and me here, not
• 30:22
  looking away, not dying today. What is it feeling, as Akuma
• 30:27
  tells you, this lore of an Angel who wanted to do the best good,
• 30:33
  but more than anything stirred up Hell and the Abyss.
• 30:36
  So much so that they're kind of spilling out upon other planes
• 30:39
  now. She changed everything.
• 30:42
  Yeah, she did. She did.
• 30:43
  There's a lesson in there somewhere.
• 30:46
  Donald Zen's going to get it. But honestly, what Zen would be
• 30:49
  feeling is validation. Ah, interesting.
• 30:53
  Tell me why that she. Sensed that there was something
• 30:56
  off and there was something off, and now it's it's.
• 31:01
  But sorry. Alice was good, but she was
• 31:04
  good, yes. And then corrupted by an
• 31:08
  infernal power that she yet still tries to yield.
• 31:12
  Well, but. We're here.
• 31:14
  Now, thanks to you why are we here?
• 31:17
  That still is unclear to. Me, I was kind of frustrated
• 31:20
  there for a moment and I was like, where did I come from?
• 31:22
  What is the meaning? And then I kind of.
• 31:25
  I think I summoned great, great ancestors.
• 31:31
  How? Yeah, the bridge.
• 31:32
  Of beckoning, OK. So bridge of beckoning.
• 31:34
  So you got out the. Same way I got.
• 31:36
  In got in the way same way you got.
• 31:38
  Out. Yeah, yeah, whatever.
• 31:39
  Still buddies? Still buddies?
• 31:41
  You're scaly. Now though, scaly.
• 31:42
  Little guy a long. Smoky dragon tail, Scaly little
• 31:46
  guy, high fives. So this bridge, is that where
• 31:50
  the demons? Demons are coming from?
• 31:53
  Yes. Is there something?
• 31:54
  To be done about. Said Bridge.
• 31:56
  Could I? How?
• 31:57
  Would you read off? Contact patron before I go any
• 31:59
  further, contact other plane. You mentally contacted demigod,
• 32:03
  the spirit, or of a long dead stage or some other
• 32:05
  knowledgeable entity from another plane.
• 32:08
  Contacting this otherworldly intelligence can break your
• 32:10
  mind. And when you cast a spell make
• 32:12
  ADC 15 intelligence saving throw.
• 32:14
  And because I'm using the long rest version of the spell, I
• 32:17
  automatically save on that. Because I save I can ask the
• 32:21
  entity up to five questions. The DM can only answer with one
• 32:25
  word answer such as yes, no, maybe, never, irrelevant or
• 32:28
  unclear. And it does say, if one word
• 32:30
  answer would be misleading, the DM might instead offer a short
• 32:33
  phrase as an answer. Awesome, awesome SO.
• 32:35
  Your first question was, can we do anything about the Bridge of
• 32:38
  Beckoning? Yes.
• 32:40
  Zariel shakes the chains and you hear the chains somehow scream
• 32:46
  the word upon your ears. No, it is.
• 32:50
  It is an unfixable problem. It is a problem that even the
• 32:53
  gods can't address. Oh, OK, Maybe you.
• 32:57
  Like. One shake for yes, two shakes
• 32:59
  for no. We don't have to do the whole
• 33:01
  screaming in my head thing. So that's maybe a little yes,
• 33:04
  sorry she got. Pretty cheap.
• 33:06
  She hasn't. She's been without me.
• 33:07
  She's had to learn to adapt. It's Yeah, I mean, and I've
• 33:10
  never. Talked to her.
• 33:11
  I got it before, you know. Sorry.
• 33:13
  I could just say it. No.
• 33:14
  You're going to shake the chains.
• 33:15
  OK, OK, OK. She wants to shake.
• 33:17
  She wants to shake the chains. What do I have?
• 33:18
  Her voice. Should I release you?
• 33:21
  The chains. Shake once for yes, but Akuma
• 33:25
  says at the same time impossible.
• 33:29
  She's been locked for millennia, breaking these chains like
• 33:32
  wrapped by the king of the 9 Hells himself.
• 33:34
  I I'm not the king of the 9 Hells.
• 33:35
  I'm sorry I've I again, sorry for lying Akuma.
• 33:41
  Look at me. Yeah, this fire.
• 33:44
  Burning up from your. Feet you're hanging by an arm
• 33:47
  there's an Angel of the death she's like fuck it, akuma, look
• 33:50
  at. Me.
• 33:52
  Look at me. Look at me, honey.
• 33:54
  Look at me, sugar. Pie, how are you feeling?
• 33:57
  The thing is. A chain of.
• 34:01
  Smoke appears from Czariel to Akuma and grabs Akuma's neck and
• 34:07
  Yanks him in a way that drags him off kilter.
• 34:11
  And he says, I think, keep going with your questions.
• 34:14
  Yeah, OK. Can Akuma leave with me a big
• 34:19
  shake for? Yes, OK, OK.
• 34:21
  That's good. What do I do?
• 34:24
  I know that's. Not a yes or no.
• 34:25
  Question really I've just been trying to find the answer to
• 34:27
  this for years. I just don't really like if I
• 34:29
  can't even answer it, why would you be able to answer it?
• 34:31
  OK I'm a snake. Sorry, sorry, change.
• 34:37
  It's very profound still hanging in this.
• 34:42
  Fucking and also so. Vague.
• 34:43
  It's. So vague change.
• 34:45
  I mean I have changed. I've made friends.
• 34:48
  I'm very powerful when I'm around those friends.
• 34:50
  I have Akuma and akuma's not only for bad but he's also for
• 34:54
  good. What do change more is that?
• 34:59
  Change more with the. Question.
• 35:00
  Wait, no. I take that back.
• 35:02
  Scratch it. Do we fight the gods?
• 35:07
  You. Hear the.
• 35:08
  Chains rattle once for yes and give me an inside role as the
• 35:13
  flames flare up around Dariel, 2424 is enough to hear within
• 35:21
  the roar of the flames that rise up with the chains rattling.
• 35:27
  The flames speak of fight fire with fire, and in this context
• 35:32
  it's the concept of kill the gods with the gods.
• 35:38
  And with that role, because it's so high, you can get the
• 35:41
  distinguishing feature of kill the new with the old.
• 35:48
  Build the new Gods. With the Old Gods, you've no
• 35:53
  idea what that can mean for now, as you are pulled up by a
• 35:57
  painful smoky chain that wrapped around you and then suddenly
• 36:02
  from down below you see Akuma. Akuma from the chain that holds
• 36:10
  him in rise with unearthly power and the further and further he
• 36:17
  gets from zario the smaller and smaller he gets as he loses his
• 36:20
  power and his connection to her but he she doesn't she doesn't
• 36:24
  stop him she doesn't suck him back in and finally he touches
• 36:28
  you just as you get to the top of this weird portal that you
• 36:31
  created you fly up about 5 feet up in this hallway and then.
• 36:37
  Laying just. Where you were sliding back
• 36:40
  against the wall. Has anyone seen Zin?
• 36:43
  You're just here. Hallway.
• 36:46
  Just rattles. I think she's like before going
• 36:49
  through the portal had grabbed onto Akuma and like has him in
• 36:51
  her like her hands like clasped and she closes her eyes and
• 36:55
  she's like please be here, please be here, please and like
• 36:56
  opens her hands to see if Akuma's with her and we will cut
• 37:00
  there. As.
• 37:03
  Cutting back? Parable and Cassie, what do you
• 37:06
  guys think you were up to during this time?
• 37:07
  I'm going to say that it took it took a bit as if Zin went for a
• 37:10
  walk. Cassie took a moment to thank
• 37:12
  Parable for defending the honor of Soraya's name.
• 37:16
  No. George is like no you.
• 37:20
  Gotta actually say it. Let me, let me.
• 37:24
  Hear it out of your mouth. Thanks.
• 37:24
  Parable. Well, I.
• 37:27
  I just couldn't let anybody take something from you that special.
• 37:30
  I think it belongs to all of. Us now, I don't know, doesn't
• 37:33
  feel like it's just mine anymore.
• 37:35
  Feels bigger than that. Songs feel that way, I think
• 37:37
  sometimes. Yeah, I think.
• 37:40
  That's the way that sign wanted it.
• 37:41
  And as Raya sings, she makes star song, which isn't always
• 37:46
  audible, I think audible for parable and parable when in the
• 37:50
  in the heights of battle, you feel your song more than
• 37:53
  anything. But when Cassiar Raya shares it,
• 37:55
  it becomes this very tangible and real thing.
• 37:58
  You just feel the connection between the secret that you
• 38:01
  saved and this beautiful name song that Raya shares with you
• 38:06
  of the goddess. Songs always have felt like.
• 38:08
  Something I can hold like a gift.
• 38:11
  And when someone takes the words of a song and makes it their
• 38:15
  own, it's more than stealing. It's taking someone else's story
• 38:18
  and not knowing why. And I I I remember a lullaby my
• 38:22
  mother used to sing and the reason I left.
• 38:24
  Way back when from. The well I remembered that out
• 38:28
  chance had stolen that lullaby from my mother.
• 38:31
  I don't know why but I feel the same amount of protection with
• 38:34
  you and Zen and I just hope the star song that you have stays
• 38:39
  yours. Thank you.
• 38:41
  Parable, that lullaby that Count Chance took from your mother.
• 38:47
  Does Parable remember it fully these days or is it just on the
• 38:52
  edge of hearing He remembers the way count?
• 38:54
  Chance sang it. That's tough.
• 38:56
  And he fights every day to. Forget that.
• 38:58
  And I think he remembers the tone of his mother's voice.
• 39:02
  And a few lyrics that he knew that the count didn't sing
• 39:07
  right. There were little, little things
• 39:08
  that that cued him in. But when he remembers the song,
• 39:11
  I think he does. If he tried to sing it, he would
• 39:15
  be able to, I think, in a moment.
• 39:18
  That moment's not. Right now it was a night like.
• 39:25
  This of mourn and bliss we walked down through.
• 39:33
  The Misty. Myth, I carried your head upon
• 39:39
  my name. And as you.
• 39:42
  Dreamt I let you escape. Do a dream of many, a dream of
• 39:50
  few. Where the luck I'm and wish.
• 39:55
  Were all we knew. Give me a religion.
• 40:00
  Check with advantage and fuck right off.
• 40:02
  That's insane. Insane dude.
• 40:07
  I have chills 19. I'm going to die for a religion
• 40:12
  check that's at 23. Damn.
• 40:14
  OK. Feel free to shape this however
• 40:17
  you want, but so combined with this, I imagine this is the
• 40:20
  lullaby that you finally, in this moment, hear your mother's
• 40:25
  voice. Along with that comes this
• 40:27
  tumbling, tumbling, tumbling. You didn't read that book in the
• 40:31
  book. Well, with count chance, it was
• 40:33
  read to you before you could even speak words. 1001 books
• 40:40
  read to you in a voice that you'd forgotten and you remember
• 40:44
  now. Many of those have to do with
• 40:46
  the ship. Any of them have to do with a
• 40:49
  place to escape to should it come time for danger.
• 40:54
  Many of them speak of a mast, and how one might, in the Marais
• 40:59
  culture, very commonly hollow out the center of it ever so
• 41:04
  slightly. Configure them cleverly so that
• 41:07
  that inner compartment within the mast could be hidden.
• 41:10
  It's as if your mother tells you this herself in your memory.
• 41:14
  You just have a feeling that the answer to the problem that lay
• 41:18
  before you, the X on the map, might be back in a mast
• 41:24
  somewhere in two wells, or your shop of curiosity is in your
• 41:27
  broken shipwreck. That mast might hold an answer.
• 41:31
  You don't know what kind of answer, but an answer.
• 41:36
  I think the good. Book balls on its own from my
• 41:39
  satchel blips open with a dotted line and an X to two wells.
• 41:43
  A little pirate map you see the ship like.
• 41:46
  In in perfect half halves drawn with even like the little bit of
• 41:52
  Eddy of sand that you dropped into town with that has since
• 41:55
  been blown away. Arable is.
• 41:57
  Going to hold his lamp and press his hand to the book and just
• 42:04
  close his eyes and. I think I'll leave.
• 42:09
  That secret for the next curious person.
• 42:11
  Interesting. OK, do I?
• 42:13
  Do I get the? Sense.
• 42:14
  Can I roll to see if there's any way to explore that without
• 42:16
  taking the entire 3 there? Yeah, give me an.
• 42:20
  Insight. Check it.
• 42:23
  Was a 19. Yes, you totally could.
• 42:26
  A number of things that could be done.
• 42:28
  Zen has told you stories of her dad, the warden.
• 42:32
  You have also been told by Alonda that chance made her a
• 42:38
  warden, or at least she used the same word.
• 42:40
  You pick up on this idea that Dominari, although they're tied
• 42:45
  to their domains, might be able to elect proxies that serve in
• 42:48
  their stead. So it might be possible for you
• 42:51
  as to make a quick escape out like via wish beers ship.
• 42:55
  I'm spell Jamie, spell Jamie. So like the speeds all kind of
• 42:59
  equal intent. So even directionally, if you
• 43:02
  are to leave, you would be able to get back.
• 43:04
  It's just a matter of travel. So you have ships, you have
• 43:06
  Dragons, you have a number of different ways to travel, man.
• 43:10
  You could also write to Mojo. And, you know, work through
• 43:13
  remote resources and actually have them investigate rather
• 43:16
  than yourself you have. Friends in the two wells.
• 43:19
  Obviously you got hoes in different area codes.
• 43:23
  I'm. Very.
• 43:23
  Inclined as parable in character to leave the secret, but I as a
• 43:27
  player really want to know. Oh, I'm torn.
• 43:30
  Can I ask the table if it helps us fight the?
• 43:32
  God, we should gather info the insight for the secret.
• 43:36
  Do I get a sense that it's a secret about me or something
• 43:39
  that's a part of our future? It's a secret about the.
• 43:42
  Thing that you are actively trying to do, which is you are
• 43:44
  headed towards the star to to fight the wizard wish.
• 43:47
  OK. Yeah, we're trying to find.
• 43:49
  A guide. This is not the time to keep
• 43:51
  secrets. You want to take parable.
• 43:53
  On a daytime cruise off to Nostalgia Land?
• 43:56
  No, no, no, that sounds we were over here like.
• 43:58
  This call Bojo. Yeah, yeah, be fine.
• 44:01
  Yeah, I do. I.
• 44:02
  Do want to pen Mojo, but before I do as Parable puts his hand on
• 44:06
  the book and says I think I'll leave this for the next curious
• 44:08
  person. I think he gets a a physical
• 44:10
  paper cut from the book. Oh for the oh damn.
• 44:13
  I think the book look you had your.
• 44:14
  Hand on a temp. Too.
• 44:16
  Oh, and I look down and I barely.
• 44:17
  See the page go down like I like?
• 44:19
  You can't. I can't really tell if it moved.
• 44:21
  A drop of blood lands. From your finger onto the hex on
• 44:24
  the map and oh God, I got to go. Damn, Zen's still.
• 44:29
  Out of the room, right? Cass.
• 44:32
  Would you mind if I went somewhere quick do you feel?
• 44:37
  Like you need to go somewhere quick.
• 44:39
  I think I can. Be back.
• 44:41
  I think I do need to go. Are you being called?
• 44:45
  Against my will. Do you need help?
• 44:47
  I don't think so. Will you be safe?
• 44:50
  I'll try. Would you like AT?
• 44:52
  For the road. You know I do.
• 44:55
  Insert T sounds. I do turn the wish.
• 44:58
  Beard and say I know I'm a new pirate, but when I borrow your
• 45:03
  ship lad. I.
• 45:05
  Never thought you'd. Ask Cool.
• 45:09
  Yeah, Parable's going to just turn around and walk towards the
• 45:12
  helm of Wishbeard's ship. Like, he knows what he's doing
• 45:16
  because of the stories, because of the passionate want.
• 45:18
  He just knows exactly what to do.
• 45:20
  He's read the user. 'S manual so many times.
• 45:22
  Actually, I do think he walks. On board and he says, all right,
• 45:25
  men man the lines to the sheets and get to the porch in the
• 45:29
  stern. We need to get this boat on the
• 45:30
  move. Mr. Ruiz looks up and says, aye,
• 45:35
  aye, captain. What Captain P.
• 45:40
  Pirate. Pirate.
• 45:43
  No. No Captain Pee Pee pirate
• 45:47
  parable. All right, you.
• 45:51
  You heard? You heard?
• 45:52
  The Little Man crew, let's get this ship on the Moon Board to
• 45:56
  stern, get moving as Mr. Faxler Ruse gets the crew moving and
• 46:03
  Wishbeard says, I lad, I thought I'd have to teach you a thing or
• 46:06
  two, but the winds seem to be beneath your wings already.
• 46:10
  I breathe it. It's always been part of me, but
• 46:13
  I do want to say that I've learned a lot just meeting you.
• 46:18
  Thank you. For showing up when.
• 46:19
  You did well. I.
• 46:21
  I've lived my life like, well, Aaron Stone, just bit by bit at
• 46:25
  a time and flowing when I need to.
• 46:27
  Let's go be pirates. Let's go be pirates.
• 46:30
  I'm excited to ride with the twin blood such as yourself.
• 46:33
  Flame and wind is no mix and match to underestimate.
• 46:36
  I'm glad to have you at my side. I am Jin, but I won't.
• 46:39
  Need the elements to steal what we're stealing.
• 46:41
  We just need to get where we're going and everything else will
• 46:44
  work out well, luckily. This ship can't just spell jam,
• 46:48
  it can wish jam. I don't know what that.
• 46:51
  Is as I just make that sound effective, but as you board the
• 46:55
  bottle breaker wish beer prepares to do something called
• 46:58
  wish jamming. As you get the crew ready, which
• 47:01
  does matter, the sales catch the essence of vital aura that is
• 47:06
  present within the domain and kind of whip up it like a
• 47:09
  parachute. If they weren't in position for
• 47:11
  what Wishbeard is about to do, it would be bad.
• 47:14
  But as soon as they are, you see him go down into like a room
• 47:18
  just off the side of the helm down some stairs.
• 47:21
  And you can see just kind of the light emanating of you see the
• 47:26
  the light of the energy that you let off, the light of the energy
• 47:29
  that Zim lets off. And then as those two energies
• 47:32
  sort of collide. The void of.
• 47:36
  Energy imbalance that cast kind of puts out at all times
• 47:40
  balances and you see just as wish beard shuts the door like a
• 47:44
  humming Nexus of like quantum looking energy, you feel the
• 47:50
  ship lose friction. There's no acceleration, it's
• 47:52
  just suddenly going. The only thing that prevents you
• 47:56
  all from being splattered because of physics breaking in
• 47:59
  this moment is the core itself that extends outward.
• 48:02
  And you feel like this wave pass through you that at the moment
• 48:07
  of ignition freezes time and everyone is in stasis for just
• 48:13
  that fraction of a second. And it feels like a flash of
• 48:16
  hot, flash of cold and then solid.
• 48:18
  Yeah, I think parable. Wouldn't follow him, he'd stay
• 48:20
  up on deck by the helm. But I'm imagining, you know,
• 48:22
  like in the old wood chips, there's a great on top into the
• 48:27
  hold. And so I'm imagining just
• 48:29
  peering through that grate and seeing the door creak open and
• 48:32
  all these energies collide just out of the corner of my eye.
• 48:34
  That glow that felt familiar. But I think Parable's focused on
• 48:37
  the experience. I think he's just looking around
• 48:39
  watching the boat and like feeling the most himself he ever
• 48:44
  has felt. Fan fucking.
• 48:46
  Tastic cast off men. Existence.
• 48:48
  Stretching on all sides, you will be at the two wells much
• 48:53
  more quickly due to the way that Wish Beard has just taken off.
• 48:57
  But we will cut there and cut back to Cassie.
• 49:01
  Cassie, what do you do? As Parable says, I got to do a
• 49:04
  secret thing and heads out. I want to emphasize that Cassie
• 49:08
  is. Terrifically worried.
• 49:11
  But also recognizes the strangeness of the situation in
• 49:16
  that all three of these people and all of their friends are
• 49:19
  being it feels. Like drawn.
• 49:21
  By greater forces at play to just do things that never made
• 49:25
  sense and will never make sense. And we just sort of have to
• 49:28
  follow those feelings. So she's worried about parable
• 49:32
  and worried about sin. Where is that girl?
• 49:34
  But is also sort of just embracing that she could.
• 49:37
  Never have expected. Any of this to turn out this
• 49:40
  way, and it's going to continue being that way for a long time.
• 49:43
  Yeah. The unexpected is going to be
• 49:45
  the norm for quite a while. Since as she watches Parable go,
• 49:49
  I imagine. Is she seeing the ship leave
• 49:51
  Domain? Yes.
• 49:52
  And as you do so, you do feel a presence at your side, as you
• 49:56
  often do because your father is hesitant to say hello.
• 50:01
  Stage 5, Clinger. You see Volano at his side as
• 50:06
  well. Age 6, Clinger.
• 50:09
  Sorry, what's he saying? He's waiting for you to notice
• 50:13
  it. I think he startles me.
• 50:15
  Probably. I'm caught up in watching
• 50:16
  Parable go and then suddenly wondering where Zen is.
• 50:19
  Oh, it's been a minute. And maybe I turn around and say,
• 50:21
  oh, hi, can I help you with something?
• 50:23
  Hi. Volano kind of hits him, hits
• 50:26
  him in the back, and he says so. The thing about being a coward
• 50:29
  is that first you have to realize it.
• 50:32
  Claude looks at Blondo and says. I, I'm the master.
• 50:35
  I'm the master, Sage you, you're the Blondo says.
• 50:38
  The thing about being a coward is that you have to realize it,
• 50:43
  Claude. Looks back.
• 50:44
  At Cassie. I have been afraid.
• 50:48
  Of losing you and the woman who. Came into my.
• 50:52
  Life so. Long ago, but.
• 50:54
  What seems like so short for the?
• 50:57
  Entire time that. I've known you to be Oh, I'm
• 51:00
  getting out. This is I'm getting awkward.
• 51:02
  I love you, Cassie, and I've I've done so many things wrong.
• 51:08
  My energy, this feels a woo woo to say this, but my energy feels
• 51:13
  like I've I've put it in the wrong places.
• 51:16
  I get it. My whole life I grew up without
• 51:20
  mom and then everything changed when I found out that she is
• 51:26
  sort of here and around and I don't know if I've made a single
• 51:30
  right decision since. I don't know if I've done
• 51:33
  anything right since I turned my whole life upside down, so I can
• 51:36
  only imagine that. You having a whole.
• 51:39
  Life with her and then suddenly having to live without her.
• 51:44
  I don't know that I would have made.
• 51:46
  Any good decisions either? It was hard, but I.
• 51:50
  There's no excuse for no. The answer was in front of me
• 51:54
  the whole time. It was.
• 51:55
  It was you, Cassie. I yeah, there was pain, but I, I
• 51:59
  should have, should have looked past that, Yeah, instead of
• 52:04
  squirreling myself away in my studies life.
• 52:07
  Got a whole? Lot better when I was forced to
• 52:11
  stop squirreling myself away in my studies.
• 52:14
  I didn't think I was cut out to be a wish hunter.
• 52:17
  I was on like day 2 out of my lab and I was like, what have I
• 52:21
  done? I've put all my friends in
• 52:22
  danger, all my new friends in danger, and then I just realized
• 52:27
  there's a lot more to life than. Marinating in the.
• 52:31
  Memories of the past. Yeah, I, I.
• 52:35
  I suppose you have a point. I, I, I tried to prove that your
• 52:39
  mother was a. It's silly.
• 52:41
  I built a device the. Armillary.
• 52:46
  Well the the armillary has been in works for a long time, but I
• 52:49
  built something that I I called the telescopic transporter.
• 52:54
  Telescopic teleporter. Telescoping teleporter?
• 52:57
  Well, it doesn't telescope. We can workshop a name later.
• 53:00
  It's actually pretty good at that.
• 53:02
  Maybe we could brainstorm. It connects to the Grand Norm
• 53:05
  Larry and like Bluetooth. A lot of very thick.
• 53:08
  Wires and cables, actually. I lecture myself several times
• 53:11
  setting it up. Yes, He smarks a little.
• 53:15
  Bit but he goes on to say. That this telescopic transporter
• 53:20
  is something that he built. To go to your mother.
• 53:25
  If I ever found her in the sky, but I never did.
• 53:29
  You never found her? No.
• 53:32
  I I assumed she was. Out there somewhere.
• 53:34
  I mean, she always loved the sky and the stars, and I suppose now
• 53:39
  that they're all fake, I guess maybe maybe she knew the trick
• 53:42
  all along. Maybe she was.
• 53:44
  Maybe she had another life in a different world.
• 53:48
  I'm sure she had a good reason. How did this?
• 53:51
  Device work. The grand arm lair, as you know,
• 53:54
  maps out the entire universe and it simply zeroes a non piece of
• 53:58
  it and sends you there. It transports your in essence,
• 54:03
  yes, as Vilano kicks him in the back as he like starts getting
• 54:06
  into like the math of it. Yeah, yeah.
• 54:10
  Did you? Ever.
• 54:11
  Use it successfully to get anywhere just once he.
• 54:15
  Tells you. Of a time that he knocked at
• 54:18
  your door for a while before leaving and having to fly all
• 54:22
  the way back to star watch. I didn't know it was you, if
• 54:25
  that makes you feel any better. I didn't really answer the door
• 54:28
  for anyone. I heard around town that that
• 54:31
  that that was the case. I was pretty depressed because I
• 54:33
  had a sort of like a flop of a father, you know, depressed flop
• 54:40
  of was that was that a joke? Is that you're kind of smiling a
• 54:45
  little bit? Is that a a joke?
• 54:48
  At my expense, not with me. That's fine.
• 54:51
  I'll take it, though. All right.
• 54:53
  You. Can take it.
• 54:53
  Smiles so big. And and like, turns away so
• 54:57
  Cassie doesn't get pissed off. I'm an adult now and I will
• 55:00
  mourn A childhood without a father, but I I could warm up to
• 55:05
  embracing a an adulthood with a dad I can call an asshole.
• 55:10
  I hated the first thing you said.
• 55:11
  Kind of like the second thing you said.
• 55:13
  OK, yes, sure. Anyways, let me tell you more
• 55:17
  about it. Give me an arcana if you'd like
• 55:20
  to understand what he's telling you about this device he created
• 55:23
  28 Arcana. Oh, you could build it better
• 55:26
  than he could. The way that he has constructed
• 55:28
  it has a 1% chance, which in science is actually kind of a
• 55:32
  lot for a thing that causes death 1% of the time.
• 55:36
  It could dismantle you, especially if you're a
• 55:38
  spellcaster by like pulling out your arcane signature enough to
• 55:41
  that it like can't decide where to be.
• 55:44
  But other than that, it's a pretty awesome work.
• 55:45
  The way it works is that it centers in on a general area and
• 55:49
  then finds a safe location within that.
• 55:52
  So he's got a little bit of science with a touch of magic to
• 55:56
  give it the extra preciseness. It's kind of like quantum in the
• 55:58
  way that like you're working with soft probabilities, but
• 56:02
  still expecting to find a decently not solid but probable
• 56:07
  answer. Yeah, you.
• 56:09
  Could use this to travel. To the star with that check, you
• 56:12
  know for certain that you could use this as a back door way to
• 56:16
  go confront the wizard wish. How long would it take on the
• 56:19
  ship? We didn't use that.
• 56:21
  If you didn't use that, probably about two days, which is like
• 56:25
  you look at how fast things have.
• 56:26
  Been falling apart. Two days is a long time.
• 56:29
  To get to Star Watchtower would be more of a day trip.
• 56:32
  It makes sense if you were to want to infront the Wizard Wish
• 56:36
  as a trio rather than with the entire crew.
• 56:40
  Is there a benefit? I think the benefit is.
• 56:42
  Sort of the opportunity of surprise rather than a ship
• 56:46
  coasting its way or a domain full chunk of island approaching
• 56:50
  an entity. Is that sort of what I'm picking
• 56:53
  up on? That is what I would say is you
• 56:54
  call it a back door. Yes, very much so.
• 56:58
  It's an instant appearance. Who would stay behind to man the
• 57:01
  domain if we took this? I think with that, our kind of
• 57:05
  check you're able to put together that parable also
• 57:08
  earlier was able to put together the idea of like warden and
• 57:11
  proxies and the fact that you could leave any number of
• 57:15
  individuals that you've come to keep here.
• 57:17
  Mesophandria, there's a time limit on that.
• 57:21
  There's no time limit on that. But should they die or should
• 57:24
  you die, the domain would be at risk.
• 57:26
  The domain would start crumbling, which is what it
• 57:28
  sounds like is happening to Domi.
• 57:30
  OK, I do think I put my hand on. Igor's shoulder then as I'm
• 57:34
  leaving for the ship and designate him as my my proxy.
• 57:38
  Cute. That is a very good note as.
• 57:40
  You designate Igor and feel this connection that shifts from the
• 57:46
  core view to the core of him and binds more strongly to the tree.
• 57:50
  I think he passes. Igor and says take care of the
• 57:53
  place while I'm gone. I I have something to do with
• 57:55
  Igor and Igor, like feels the energy shift.
• 57:58
  He goes, Oh my God. OK, OK, OK.
• 58:02
  What just happened? Parable's just walking away.
• 58:04
  What just happened? You're reminded.
• 58:05
  Of the day that you stepped over domain boundary and felt wish
• 58:08
  energy rampant, of course, through you.
• 58:11
  But we cut back to Cassie in this moment.
• 58:14
  Do you also consider leaving or otherwise putting together a
• 58:16
  plan? I do.
• 58:18
  I think I step out into the hallway where I saw Zen leave
• 58:21
  earlier. And see if she's there.
• 58:25
  That's the moment, I think. You come around the corner right
• 58:28
  as Zin's like lifting herself off the ground, Akuma breathless
• 58:33
  in your hand. So do you think we can kill the
• 58:36
  cots? You know, I think once we.
• 58:39
  Talk to the others, they might have some better ideas of how to
• 58:42
  do so. But then, Cassie, hey.
• 58:45
  I nothing. No, I'm.
• 58:47
  I'm not dressed. Then I'm dressed.
• 58:48
  OK, hold on, Akuma. I'm not.
• 58:51
  Dressed here, here, hold. My eyes back in, I have.
• 58:54
  To get you up. Parable left.
• 58:55
  It's OK. I know.
• 58:56
  That's scary. He took Wish Beard's ship.
• 58:59
  OK, He's going to find his ship. There's a hidden clue.
• 59:04
  I don't know. He left.
• 59:05
  OK. It's scary.
• 59:07
  He'll be back, I'm sure. I think he'll be safe.
• 59:09
  He'll be fine. We have a decision to make, I
• 59:11
  think. How do you feel about us turning
• 59:13
  the domain around to go get a device that my dad built that he
• 59:17
  thinks can help get us to the the big guys in the sky really
• 59:20
  quick? Oh, wow, Wow.
• 59:23
  We. So I also just came back from
• 59:26
  somewhere. You're sweaty.
• 59:27
  I'm really sweaty. OK, yeah, I need the SparkNotes.
• 59:32
  Yeah, OK. Spark notes.
• 59:33
  Are whoa yeah, same bridge between the Hells and the under
• 59:41
  verse. The Hells, huh?
• 59:43
  Nine of them, to be exact. Oh yeah, which now it's
• 59:46
  reminding me maybe parable said something about 9 things
• 59:48
  earlier. I don't know numbers are
• 59:50
  starting to correlate in my brain.
• 59:52
  But there's a bridge between the the Hells and the the under
• 59:56
  astral and I think that's where the the demons are getting
• 59:58
  through and you know my Angel ancestor.
• 1:00:02
  Oh that's new is protect. Yeah yeah.
• 1:00:05
  So she's. Well we can get into that later
• 1:00:07
  over T she there is a way to kill the gods.
• 1:00:11
  I asked her very nicely and. She screamed in my ear.
• 1:00:15
  You hate that? Yeah.
• 1:00:16
  That we need to use the old to kill the new.
• 1:00:20
  Use the old to kill the new. Use the old to kill the new.
• 1:00:24
  And I'm not back. Use the old to kill.
• 1:00:27
  The new Okay Cassie, give me an inside check.
• 1:00:29
  You can do so with advantage. I think 2525 is way more than
• 1:00:34
  enough. You can tell me how you put this
• 1:00:36
  together a little bit because I'd be curious.
• 1:00:38
  But it's something about how Parable said, I'm going to find
• 1:00:41
  like this, this thing, because Parable got it from feeling from
• 1:00:43
  this, this idea that the problem that you are all facing right
• 1:00:47
  now is one of such immense proportions, you will need
• 1:00:50
  something. And the answer sprang to his
• 1:00:53
  mind. It's in two, else it's a secret.
• 1:00:55
  I don't know what he might have shared, but it clicks to be
• 1:00:58
  related with killing the old with the new.
• 1:01:01
  That also feels like a secret. That also feels like a secret.
• 1:01:04
  And it's just, it's too perfectly timed.
• 1:01:05
  You feel the universe's song harmonized there as those two
• 1:01:10
  truths are the same. To kill the old with the new is
• 1:01:14
  what terrible is going. He's not going to do that
• 1:01:17
  exactly, but he's going to find something that's gonna let us do
• 1:01:21
  that exactly. You do, I think, See Akuma like
• 1:01:24
  a phoenix. He's risen from the ashes and is
• 1:01:27
  quite a smaller form. When he said I'm undressed, he's
• 1:01:31
  smaller, yes. He's he's kind of.
• 1:01:33
  Back to to Wushu size and you realize that he's grown like
• 1:01:36
  having a cat or a puppy and it's just like with every week of
• 1:01:39
  growth, you don't truly realize how quickly it happened.
• 1:01:43
  Akuma like had gained something from this adventure all blow
• 1:01:48
  short. It has also been long for both
• 1:01:49
  of you and he lost it as he perhaps gave strength back to
• 1:01:55
  Zariel. Perhaps it was a kindness to
• 1:01:57
  her, something that Akuma had like stored up like a kid with
• 1:02:00
  allowance, and it's disappeared. Then it's going to look down at
• 1:02:03
  her. Arm where?
• 1:02:04
  Like the chain was wrapped around?
• 1:02:06
  Is there any marking or any evidence that the chain was
• 1:02:08
  there? The arm feels heavier.
• 1:02:10
  And I would imagine that you have some clothing there and as
• 1:02:13
  you roll up the sleeve, you see, do you think brand or tattoo
• 1:02:17
  brand? Hot chain.
• 1:02:19
  Hot, hot chain. As that chain is still with you
• 1:02:23
  now as you feel, you feel like you could get back there.
• 1:02:27
  Which is weird to feel like like you knowing the directions home,
• 1:02:30
  you feel like you could get back to where you just were.
• 1:02:34
  And that must be a frightening feeling to understand the way to
• 1:02:37
  hell. Inxen's like a bridge.
• 1:02:39
  I'm the bridge Akuma, you know, you look great.
• 1:02:45
  And maybe the more days you spend away from Zariel, the the
• 1:02:49
  bigger you'll get. And in the meantime here she's
• 1:02:53
  going to reach out her hand and like, I don't know, like beckon
• 1:02:56
  him with her energy to try to like instead of taking him into
• 1:03:00
  her collarbone or her horn, like try to be like this is the door,
• 1:03:04
  this is the bridge. Like here.
• 1:03:05
  Maybe connecting him to this could like make him bigger as.
• 1:03:10
  You connect him back to the this like you act as a bridge to
• 1:03:15
  hell. His cast just.
• 1:03:20
  Walked in. Give me an.
• 1:03:22
  Arcana check. 2220. 2 is enough. To slow the gates opening as the
• 1:03:30
  problem is being pulled back, which is almost what happens as
• 1:03:34
  Akuma almost greedily despite himself, gorgeous upon the
• 1:03:39
  energy of that chain as he kind of siphons back a little bit of
• 1:03:44
  what's Ariel took and you have to stop him before you feel
• 1:03:47
  another portal open up beneath your feet that ties to the
• 1:03:50
  chain. But as you you almost like you I
• 1:03:53
  think you lose footing for a second as you have to step
• 1:03:56
  aside, realizing that with every swallow of Akuma little drops of
• 1:04:01
  smoke hit the ground and hiss and shadow forms into a portal
• 1:04:04
  beneath his feet. Things is like.
• 1:04:07
  Picky purpose. Picky pro, I am the cork.
• 1:04:13
  You've done this before and you can do it again.
• 1:04:14
  It's just hell, OK? I.
• 1:04:18
  Feel I feel better yeah I mean we got this I'll.
• 1:04:21
  I'll. Keep a rain on you like I.
• 1:04:23
  Always do, and you'll be my smoky little guy like you always
• 1:04:26
  are, and everything is going to be fine.
• 1:04:28
  Totally. OK, so cats.
• 1:04:29
  Totally fine. Real.
• 1:04:30
  Quick question. We know how to kill the gods.
• 1:04:33
  OK, well, sure. You know, with the old and the
• 1:04:36
  new. So we have that answer.
• 1:04:37
  And we have Parable going for something here.
• 1:04:40
  And here's dirt. And you have what, like a taxi
• 1:04:42
  to get there? Sounds like it.
• 1:04:44
  Beep beep. Like a portal, sort of.
• 1:04:46
  It would teleport, you know, a couple of us at once.
• 1:04:49
  My dad. He said it was like a back door.
• 1:04:52
  I feel like it would give us the element of surprise, you know,
• 1:04:54
  more so than like limbering up with a big fucking island of
• 1:04:57
  rock, like knock, knock, hello, we're here.
• 1:04:59
  It would be like and what if? What if then our domain is like
• 1:05:04
  a distraction for like when we go on the back end and we're
• 1:05:06
  like, actually old gods die. OK, I think that makes sense.
• 1:05:15
  The semblance of a plan. Well, I mean, can we?
• 1:05:18
  Can we message? Is there any way we can tell
• 1:05:21
  parable parable? Because if we change our course,
• 1:05:23
  right, you guys hear? You guys hear?
• 1:05:29
  A little. Left Brick, there's a little
• 1:05:32
  note. On the dashboard next to the
• 1:05:34
  helm and I left brick there and it says if you need me press
• 1:05:38
  this, I'm with. It I'm down yeah, just what okay
• 1:05:42
  tickles your butt. Just a little look I.
• 1:05:46
  Have in my good book. It will make a map.
• 1:05:50
  He's microchipped. It'll make a map.
• 1:05:54
  For a for a split second and show me where you guys are on
• 1:05:57
  it. Find my face.
• 1:05:58
  I do. I do think.
• 1:05:59
  That you guys, if you need to have like, you could probably
• 1:06:02
  sorted out some method of communication.
• 1:06:04
  Did you take the telepathic feed?
• 1:06:06
  Yes, didn't you? Yeah, I did.
• 1:06:09
  One SEC yes I did. I also have my Willow.
• 1:06:13
  Sickle that I can cast a message, but I think the message
• 1:06:18
  only goes so far, so I think he's probably cool for that.
• 1:06:21
  Tell me about tell me about the Willow cycle one more time.
• 1:06:23
  Well, the will Willow sickle. Itself is a weapon.
• 1:06:28
  When the weapons on my person I understand the non written
• 1:06:31
  communication of all Fey and they understand yours.
• 1:06:33
  Secret message as a magic action you can use the weapon to cast
• 1:06:37
  message. Once this property is used, it
• 1:06:39
  can't be used again until the next dawn.
• 1:06:41
  Cool and. Message I believe.
• 1:06:44
  I think we flavored it. With like which Willow and
• 1:06:47
  communicating through the trees and I mean like did create a
• 1:06:51
  giant. HQ Willow yes, 110% message.
• 1:06:55
  Although it is a cantrip that requires you to point at a
• 1:06:58
  creature, I think in this case would allow you to at least send
• 1:07:02
  like a two or three phrase message to the two wells.
• 1:07:07
  Yeah, it's like to. Willow, I think I'd say like
• 1:07:10
  parable. Incoming.
• 1:07:12
  HQ change of direction, headed to Star Watchtower, then
• 1:07:19
  returning. To course yes, detour.
• 1:07:22
  Detour to Star Watch, then back to course.
• 1:07:26
  Be safe XOXO. WH3.
• 1:07:31
  Or like please share with parable or something like pass
• 1:07:33
  along awesome having prepared the 2.
• 1:07:35
  Wells, I don't think that they're able to respond in this
• 1:07:38
  way, but they, you have definitely, I think, sent that
• 1:07:40
  message. And you can feel the receipt
• 1:07:42
  with your telepathic feet. Cassie, tell me about that.
• 1:07:45
  Yeah. My telepathic utterance really
• 1:07:47
  only reaches within 60 feet of myself.
• 1:07:49
  So you are a dominar. Give me an arcana check.
• 1:07:52
  We will say DC1D, but you can do so with advantage.
• 1:07:57
  Rules don't apply 1st. Roll 20. 90 fuck off.
• 1:08:01
  That's my highest. OK Nine.
• 1:08:04
  I was like like a roll. 35 damn with the 20. 9 I think you
• 1:08:11
  establish a more permanent connection.
• 1:08:14
  It's about damn time. It requires brick, but you
• 1:08:19
  somehow use brick like a tuning fork and resonate with him and
• 1:08:23
  send your song out bar There's a little bit of a delay that you
• 1:08:31
  have to deal with, but it's not it's not insane and parable you
• 1:08:37
  hear as if. Through Cosmic.
• 1:08:39
  Static. We're taking a.
• 1:08:42
  Detour be saved cash. Yeah.
• 1:08:56
  Can you hear me? Yes.
• 1:09:03
  Where? Are you going?
• 1:09:08
  Where where are? You going star watch?
• 1:09:12
  My dad has a thing. Oh.
• 1:09:16
  OK. Do you want me to meet you
• 1:09:17
  there? Yes, probably.
• 1:09:22
  We'll keep you updated though, in case we're very efficient.
• 1:09:29
  And we'll. Return to Coors.
• 1:09:32
  Thank you for speaking. This way, so I don't have to
• 1:09:34
  edit it at all. This will be perfect.
• 1:09:36
  Yeah, I, I think. Parable initially thinks it's
• 1:09:38
  the wind, and he turns the wish beard.
• 1:09:39
  It's like, do you ever hear voices on the wind?
• 1:09:41
  Wait, wait, that's Cass. It is me.
• 1:09:47
  I do love that it's kind. Of sing song that to the point
• 1:09:49
  where Cassie has to like did you find?
• 1:09:55
  It yet do I have? To.
• 1:09:56
  Should I be singing back? Hi lad, what are you doing?
• 1:10:01
  Sorry, I'm having a conversation.
• 1:10:02
  With my friend, no what? I.
• 1:10:07
  It's like whales. I'm going.
• 1:10:11
  To where my blood told me to go. Godspeed, I hope.
• 1:10:20
  Not don't get up. As.
• 1:10:30
  As you hear the the echo, the echoes of star song fade.
• 1:10:41
  Telepathic. Slow MO.
• 1:10:42
  Echoing. Like whale talk?
• 1:10:45
  We need to find this song Cassie ends in.
• 1:10:52
  As the echoes fade and we cut away from parable on the deck,
• 1:10:57
  do you take any method of travel away from the domain election
• 1:11:02
  proxies and wardens of your own? Or do you just head the this
• 1:11:05
  landmass straight towards Star? Watch again, domain to domain.
• 1:11:10
  You can expect there might be a clash, especially if they are
• 1:11:13
  not excited to be a part of one another.
• 1:11:15
  This is true. I'm also.
• 1:11:16
  Thinking Star Watch will see you coming.
• 1:11:18
  Star Watch will see us coming. And potentially wish we'll see
• 1:11:22
  the course correct question mark if he's like.
• 1:11:25
  Keeping an eye, Yeah, it's nice. So we could ride direct?
• 1:11:31
  What's that? Take.
• 1:11:33
  Brick with you. Got it.
• 1:11:37
  Yeah. So I think you're.
• 1:11:48
  Welcome Cassie. Such good radio.
• 1:11:51
  Can the Dragons possibly move at a speed anywhere near what the
• 1:11:55
  domain can? Because I'm part of me is also
• 1:11:58
  thinking maybe we go most of the way there with the domain.
• 1:12:01
  I mean, this thing is curling through the stars, right?
• 1:12:05
  Yes. Anything get close to that as
• 1:12:08
  you consider it. And perhaps you stumble in upon
• 1:12:11
  Saphandria, Gloom and Glimmer, all taking care of the living
• 1:12:14
  wish lanes who flip around so fast around the room as if they
• 1:12:20
  move like at the speed of light. But still these wish Dragons
• 1:12:24
  corral them moving faster than you guys ever really saw them
• 1:12:29
  move at the speed Siphandrea never had the need to do what
• 1:12:34
  she does really well, which is wish step.
• 1:12:37
  Essentially she when surrounded in like Toothless.
• 1:12:43
  Yeah, she essentially can. Do the natural version of what
• 1:12:46
  Wishbeard did with the ship, which is wish jam, which is
• 1:12:48
  instantaneous travel versus very, very fast incomprehensible
• 1:12:53
  travel. Why don't we just use?
• 1:12:54
  Her to. Get to to.
• 1:12:56
  Get to the. Wish.
• 1:12:59
  You. Could it will?
• 1:13:00
  Be 1 use and then she's not coming back.
• 1:13:03
  Oh, we don't want to do that. Never mind we're walking it
• 1:13:06
  back. Yeah, she's got a family that
• 1:13:07
  she cares about. And so like, it's a once per.
• 1:13:10
  Day thing she. Could definitely get you to a
• 1:13:12
  different domain, but. Not back.
• 1:13:16
  Well, she could. Probably hold her own for a day.
• 1:13:18
  She watches. She.
• 1:13:19
  Could. She could hold her own for a day
• 1:13:22
  with the little weebs that's about, but she could put you
• 1:13:25
  right in their courtyard. I mean, how big are?
• 1:13:27
  Gloom and glimmer. Now gloom and glimmer.
• 1:13:29
  They're so they I have them step block wise as adult Dragons,
• 1:13:32
  which step block wise proficient.
• 1:13:35
  I don't have the wish step ability.
• 1:13:37
  She's going to be the best and most efficient option.
• 1:13:39
  So I think Stephandra is the only one that's able to do it so
• 1:13:43
  expertly, and we're going stealth.
• 1:13:44
  I think for this. So I think having less is more.
• 1:13:49
  Igor and Esther are hanging out. With gloom and glimmer in their
• 1:13:51
  flying room. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:13:53
  Didn't get a little wishes all. Right then, do you?
• 1:13:55
  Want to come with Yes. But we're going to need new
• 1:13:59
  clothes because dragon rad and gave me a rash.
• 1:14:05
  I know where we can get. Just the robes.
• 1:14:08
  How does Blue look on you? Oh.
• 1:14:10
  Bolana looks at you nervously. Well, I know that does make
• 1:14:17
  sense. That does make sense.
• 1:14:18
  It's not my colour. Yes, I'm so smart.
• 1:14:20
  Let's say club. All right, give me your draws.
• 1:14:24
  I don't need the draws. Personally, but the over part Oh
• 1:14:27
  yeah, sorry. Give me your.
• 1:14:30
  Give your. What?
• 1:14:31
  Do you, what do you do normally? Normally we like to say don't
• 1:14:34
  look up. I'm going to say don't look
• 1:14:35
  down. I rather actually love if you
• 1:14:37
  look straight up first. I'm just going to turn all the.
• 1:14:39
  Way around. There's a bathroom.
• 1:14:43
  A toilet flushes Igor. Comes out, he's like, hey, Alex.
• 1:14:45
  Yeah. You're going to, he's going to
• 1:14:48
  go at. That give it.
• 1:14:49
  A minute, give it a like at least count to 10.
• 1:14:52
  We don't have 10. All right.
• 1:14:55
  Yeah, OK. Blue cloaks.
• 1:14:58
  Sefi, one last thing to you do. Is to elect a warden
• 1:15:01
  specifically? Do you want RYA to come with you
• 1:15:04
  guys or do you think RYA should stay?
• 1:15:06
  I don't want her anywhere near the star watch peeps.
• 1:15:10
  I I I think the bounded field might do something a little.
• 1:15:13
  I don't think it would feel the feel great, Bolano says.
• 1:15:16
  I I think it was designed to kind of was it looks like Claude
• 1:15:22
  incapacitate or or kill the living incapacitate.
• 1:15:26
  It was definitely, I'm sure, yeah.
• 1:15:28
  Anything we could you. Know a back door to star watch
• 1:15:32
  well, the bounded field. Will mean that you won't be able
• 1:15:35
  to leave until you take that down.
• 1:15:38
  How do we take it down? But it's, well, it's tied to the
• 1:15:42
  grand armor layer with another device.
• 1:15:44
  How do we sever the ties on that device, reach the grand armor
• 1:15:48
  layer and sever the cables? OK.
• 1:15:52
  And then where is the? Device that you built just also
• 1:15:55
  dad, daddy, father. It's.
• 1:16:00
  Papa, it is. It is I.
• 1:16:03
  He's just crying actively but it is off side chamber in the grand
• 1:16:10
  Armelaise and he describes there are several towers at Star Wars
• 1:16:13
  tower. Despite the name, the tallest
• 1:16:16
  and main one has a chamber at the top of it which holds the
• 1:16:19
  Grand armillary. Off the side of that main
• 1:16:21
  chamber is several different devices that use the grand
• 1:16:24
  armillary. 2 of them. One is the is his and the other
• 1:16:28
  is the bound field. Is this one of those things
• 1:16:31
  where? Like we cut one wire off as well
• 1:16:33
  and another wire everything go blur fucked.
• 1:16:35
  Well, we. Don't want to cut the wire to
• 1:16:37
  the. To the device we want to keep.
• 1:16:40
  That's That's true. That's true.
• 1:16:42
  Use. Brick Valana as.
• 1:16:47
  Valana and Claude are like arguing about but I mean no, you
• 1:16:51
  need to calculate endlessly and but.
• 1:16:55
  They say something. Mathematical and say this is
• 1:16:58
  impossible, and Brick proves in light behind them that it is
• 1:17:02
  very easily and simply and elegantly possible.
• 1:17:08
  Ask me a girl thing. Cassie, you like almost make eye
• 1:17:12
  contact with Brick as you're like almost writing it at the
• 1:17:15
  same time as he's writing it in the air.
• 1:17:17
  Yeah, it makes sense to me. OK, so we get in.
• 1:17:21
  We cut the wires, cut the wires. We.
• 1:17:25
  Take the other thing. Take the other thing.
• 1:17:27
  We plug plug brick in. Plug brick in.
• 1:17:30
  At some point plug brick in. I don't know.
• 1:17:33
  Yeah, we'll. Use maybe him first, maybe,
• 1:17:34
  maybe Brick will know at this point.
• 1:17:36
  I think Brick might know, but then we do have to shut down the
• 1:17:39
  thing so we can leave. Yeah, OK, They're cutting the
• 1:17:41
  wires. The right wires should.
• 1:17:42
  Do that. OK.
• 1:17:43
  Yes, I think, I think plug in brick in is equivalent to
• 1:17:46
  cutting the wires in this case. Yeah, Brick, we'll do it.
• 1:17:49
  OK, Brick. Good.
• 1:17:51
  OK. He's in.
• 1:17:53
  OK. So I think the last thing is
• 1:17:54
  your your clothes, OK? RYA, RYA, you can take my seat.
• 1:18:00
  RYA. Igor.
• 1:18:01
  You've met right? Good to meet you, young Sir.
• 1:18:05
  I've I've seen that you're energetic.
• 1:18:07
  Well, you know. But I just had was feeling fine.
• 1:18:11
  I that I touched parable that I had to go to the bathroom.
• 1:18:15
  I I, I don't know if you've. Been counting but I have 22
• 1:18:18
  backflips in the last. I mean since he's left but I've
• 1:18:20
  been making backflips. You have, I mean.
• 1:18:23
  You haven't noticed though. OK.
• 1:18:28
  Sits in the chair. Actively does another backbone.
• 1:18:31
  Why is the room spitting? Oh God, I got to throw up again.
• 1:18:35
  I have to choose. My warden and you have you know,
• 1:18:37
  I don't need it with Igor being here.
• 1:18:39
  I don't want Esther to feel left out, but I feel like Esther
• 1:18:41
  should also be there to like, you know, grab support Igor.
• 1:18:43
  And I think maybe the best idea would be because she did a
• 1:18:45
  domain all by herself in the future or in the past that it
• 1:18:48
  that will be the right choice for my warden, I think.
• 1:18:50
  Dapple would be a great. Choice.
• 1:18:52
  OK, I think I'm going to choose Dapple.
• 1:18:53
  And I'm going to leave a note for Esther so she knows when she
• 1:18:55
  gets back from her sort forms in the yard that it's all chill and
• 1:18:59
  I still like her. I think she's mature enough.
• 1:19:01
  I. Think she'll know?
• 1:19:01
  Yeah, I think. That's good, I think.
• 1:19:04
  This is actually such a wise decision, knowing that your
• 1:19:07
  friend has just come out of a place where any amount of
• 1:19:11
  responsibility was paying for Esther because of the
• 1:19:15
  responsibilities that she was given and didn't agree with.
• 1:19:18
  Maybe giving her a position of power and responsibility would
• 1:19:21
  be a kindness because it's one that she agrees with.
• 1:19:24
  I think for now she's just happy not to have to make the choices
• 1:19:26
  she's been really enjoying. The library?
• 1:19:29
  Really. Yeah, OK, good.
• 1:19:32
  She goes up. To the to the observatory at the
• 1:19:35
  at the library a lot, Yeah. And you seem to be.
• 1:19:38
  Accidentally really good at things now, so I'm yeah, I don't
• 1:19:42
  know what. Happened.
• 1:19:43
  I just kind of like decided the dot.
• 1:19:45
  Don't don't think too hard about it, I think.
• 1:19:47
  Maybe just don't think any further about it and everything
• 1:19:50
  will be good, I think. What?
• 1:19:51
  You're scared? OK.
• 1:19:52
  Don't think, don't think. Well, OK, so I.
• 1:19:56
  Just, I just, I just sit in the chair, Tapple says as she goes
• 1:19:59
  and sits down. She says, oh, I can like a
• 1:20:03
  glove, right? I can.
• 1:20:05
  Bugs and all, I can feel everything OK this is get used
• 1:20:10
  to this as her job becomes a million times easier where it's
• 1:20:14
  not a good choice then. A really good.
• 1:20:18
  Job as you guys have, I think you put three people here who
• 1:20:23
  could make this not only maintain but improve this place
• 1:20:27
  into something maybe a little bit sturdier to take on the
• 1:20:30
  fights to come. But for now I think there we
• 1:20:33
  will end our session as Cassie and Zinn take off on Dragon
• 1:20:39
  back. As Safandrea.
• 1:20:43
  Says you have but to wish you want to do the.
• 1:20:46
  Honors. I do.
• 1:20:48
  Did I say I wish? Yeah.
• 1:20:53
  Do it. Do it.
• 1:20:55
  Like. As players, we're like sweating.
• 1:20:59
  Cassie says. I wish to be where we need to
• 1:21:03
  be. Oh, putting.
• 1:21:06
  A lot of power in my hands at that one, and we will find out
• 1:21:11
  if I twist that around at all next time as we're done, we're
• 1:21:17
  done. And are you you're?
• 1:21:19
  Illegal. Nothing goes wrong, ever.
• 1:21:21
  Having elected proxies wardens to serve in your stead at your
• 1:21:25
  domain of Callum's crossing it hurdles still towards the wizard
• 1:21:29
  wish the mad God that he is now, but terrible has a mission at 2.
• 1:21:34
  Wells and Zen and Cassie have a mission at star watch.
• 1:21:37
  We'll see how those end up next time.
• 1:21:40
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• 1:21:43
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• 1:21:46
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