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Wish Hunter #16: Wishbeard · DiceSized

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  Welcome to Dice Size and welcome back to Wish Hunter.
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  This is DND Audio venture podcast where we tell bite size,
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  Dice World twice told stories. That's me, your DM and friend
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  Robert Whitehead. With me, as always, is my lovely
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  table of friends and family. Here we of course have George.
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  Hey, it's G playing parable on the back of a fucking dragon.
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  I shouldn't swear right away on the back.
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  Of a dragon. I mark them explicit.
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  It's fine. It's a thing to swear about.
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  If I was on the back of American, I would be saying I I
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  think that the first thing I would do is call you or my wife.
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  It's. OK, it's OK.
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  It's my brother that gets the call that I'm on a dragon.
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  I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
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  I'm sorry. I mean, it did come from a place
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  of excitement for sure, but. I'm I'm saying I'm on a dragon.
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  It's been great, yeah. So I'm ready to get back into
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  flying with my friends amongst a bunch of butterflies.
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  Hell yeah, those wishful butterflies are gathering
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  amongst the living wishes that have fallen into that little
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  flutter. Is that a flutter of
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  butterflies? Migration.
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  Whatever it is, the living wishes are starting to mirror
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  them as you just those, the butterflies just become more and
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  more and they are able to hide within.
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  But before we get there. I'm also a fucking genie.
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  That's true. That's true.
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  Let's get that in the clear. We are a Demi genie.
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  But before we get to the story, we got to get to Maya.
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  Hey, it's Maya. You can call me Maya.
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  And if you're confused and don't know how many clusters each team
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  has, don't worry, Zen has kept a list.
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  The current cluster counter is Wish Hunters with two, Alan
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  Solari with one, and Star Watch was 0 because they're basically
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  dead. Interestingly enough, nobody
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  knows how many wishes you actually have, because each of
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  those clusters will represent a D4 that will roll for once the
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  great wishing Foley comes into effect.
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  So those will be crucially important, but we'll talk about
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  that now. I'm getting ahead of myself in
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  terms of mechanics. What am I doing here?
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  Sorry I didn't have a list and she had to tell her.
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  About it. I love it.
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  I love it. It's a good job well done.
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  And another person who gets the job done every time is my lovely
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  wife, Savannah. We'll pretend that's not an
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  innuendo. Sav here.
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  I'll be playing Cassie. She can't come to the phone
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  right now. She's busy leaving her dad a
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  really mean voicemail. Yes.
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  So you can leave a message at the beep.
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  The energy that I get from you Sav when we're whenever we're
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  talking about Claude is just it's it's so intense and I part
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  of me is afraid of what happens if there is to be any amount of
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  downtime. So let's just get at it, right?
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  I do not condone texting while driving, but I did require Rob's
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  help today while I took notes in the car.
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  The highly important thoughts, ideas and content for a
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  conversation with Claude SO. Claude Ptolemy, to be exact.
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  Not the other Claude in the group Not to be.
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  Confused with Claude's Co worker Claude.
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  I just watched her hate text herself a note about what she
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  was going to say. To the light was red.
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  Yeah, well then it wasn't. Either way, your energy was
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  intense. And the other thing that thought
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  to be intense is this recap. Last time, after the fall of
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  Ever, the first born of living wishes, our heroes had little
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  time to breathe before Solaris, the frozen shooting star,
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  shuddered and cracked apart. A third living wish was flung
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  toward the distant lands of Fortune, heralding the dawn of
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  the next great wishing. The valley below, fragile from
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  the fight, was at risk of collapse as Violet light bathed
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  the world. The last splinter of the star
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  remaining parables, Zinn and Cassie combine their powers not
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  to strike, but to hold the lands together, buying precious
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  moments for its people. The reprieve was shattered as
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  the sky began to fall and rival factions arrived From the West,
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  Aylin Solari from Zinn's home of Domi, the Star callers led by
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  Alita Dario. From the east, the sages and
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  tower hands of Star Watchtower, led by Pulsar Zen.
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  Living fledgling wishes rained down, each burning with the
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  promise and peril of a wish. Even as they arrived, two of the
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  star callers, Esther and Igor, 2 of Zen's childhood friends,
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  spotted Zen and dropped out of the chase for these falling
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  stars. The Wish Hunters rose to meet
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  them. Taken to the air on their dragon
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  allies Saphandra, Gloom, and Glimmer, the Papaya and Dapple
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  rallied ground forces. Cassie's wishborn Butterflies
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  split the battlefield and protected the following wishes
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  that they surrounded. This allowed Stefania to easily
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  claim one of the falling stars mid flight, the stars light
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  reflecting off of her scales. A temp restored by Parables
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  Silver Power breathed once more as he laid about the Star
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  Watchtower hands and sages. One of those tower sages was
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  Cassie's father. Claude told him.
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  His eyes found Cassie, his daughter and then Raya, who in
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  the moment looks so like Soraya. Envisage convinced him to come
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  flying to their side, and Parables aura dropped him from
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  the air. Battle turned on Glimmer, dove
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  in in a punishing strike and took a grievous hit.
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  In turn, Zin's second charm flared, transforming her into a
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  portal to hell as a nightmare appeared, galloping out from her
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  as Akuma took Nightmare form, captured a cluster of Wishfall
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  even as Glimmer fought on fiercely.
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  Akuma in nightmare form charged through the fray, fell in a Star
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  Watch monk whose fading essence Zin drank.
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  Pulsar Zen stunned, cried. But the civil in books of
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  prophecy spoke of heroes. A temp now in a towering
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  guardian of faith form answered. The sibling prophecy is true.
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  Problem is just that you happen to be the villain.
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  Elsewhere in the sky, Elita Dario's Lantern ranked star
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  colors claimed A wish fall cluster in a dazzling brutal
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  display. Their weapons blazing with the
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  power of the light, movements precise and unrelenting, they
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  cut through the sky with righteous fury until that
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  falling star was theirs. We rejoin our heroes now, high
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  above the valley, locked in a frantic race for falling wishes,
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  flanked by Dragons and pursued by enemies.
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  The next great wishing has begun, and the battle for its
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  first stars is already underway. Cassie, that is you up next, and
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  I should also give a reminder about unit stuff.
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  Units will just have a D6 to contest for roles, as well as a
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  number of special abilities that will allow for them to interact
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  with each other amongst other DND mechanics.
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  But without further ado, that is you, Cassie.
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  Amazing. I think Stephandri and I are
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  going to move to capture another living wish.
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  Perfect. There's one just ahead of us.
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  I think we're going to go for that one close in close
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  proximity and it's still within the swarm or flock of
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  butterflies. Awesome.
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  I think in the Flock of butterflies I'm going to give
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  you advantage on D6 rolls. With Sophandra you have a power
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  of five, so you got 5D6 rolls. One of those from last time we
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  decided we could substitute into AD 8 due to your prophecy die.
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  SO4D sixes and. AD 8 and that D 8 is like
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  literally Raya reaching out and saying no like like young ones
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  to me, to me, let us protect you as she like an adult's sea
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  turtle looks to a bunch of sea turtles trying to make it their
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  way across the beach. Amazing.
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  OK, So I have advantage on all five of these roles, correct?
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  OK, here we go. First Tempest Sofandra makes for
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  this guy OK. 1/6. OK. 1/5 Nice.
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  So 2 succeed, one more succeed, 3 successes.
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  Wow, all three clusters, then all.
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  Three of the clusters in the area in.
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  The butterfly field. Fantastic.
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  That is so cool. In the butterfly field, what
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  does this look like? I think this is similar to when
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  you guys had those experiences in the forest and the wisp would
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  kind of follow you and be driven to move by what you were doing
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  or otherwise, you know, respond to the the the magics that you
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  seem to let off as the important dominari that you are.
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  What does this look like as Raya helps to gather up these wishful
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  butterflies as Saphandrea flies amongst them?
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  The only thing I can think of is that it's the combination of
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  three types of creatures who are all able to fly, and so they're
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  doing so like Raya's ability to fly paired with Saphandrea's
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  ability to navigate through the air with her wings, and then the
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  butterflies, the flock of them using their wings to sort of
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  flutter around. It just feels like a fun synergy
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  of light power. Absolutely, they fly in a way as
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  to start to lead this flock and flutter of butterflies that are
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  living wishes in form and gather around you all.
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  The Sofandre Aglow. Not only that, she sings as
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  Stephandra's song is singing louder than ever, especially
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  with Raya and Cassie to harmonize with her, and this,
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  amongst the madness, helps to bring these living wishes to her
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  side. Amazing.
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  If Stephandra has any more movement, I'm going to have her
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  scooch us over towards the western side of the Butterfly
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  Zone, and Cassie is going to make an attack on the alien
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  Solari who have captured the living wish to the to the.
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  West fantastic. So you're contesting another
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  unit. So this is the first time this
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  is really coming into into play here.
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  Even if your attack doesn't succeed, you'll still have a
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  contested D6 role as you rock in here with Savandria.
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  Cool. So the attack that Cassie is
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  going to make is he's going to cast Call Lightning.
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  Can I just say that I'm looking down, I see papaya down below.
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  I look up and I see a giant orb of butterflies with already
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  glowing wishes in it that you can kind of see where the
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  light's creeping through, but this giant moving light through
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  it, like creating these psychedelic lights through the
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  butterflies. It's stuck in my head right now.
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  And if you call some lightning parables.
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  Is. Tripping man, I feel like it
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  looks like one of those things at the Science Center where the
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  electricity. Is.
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  Coming. It's like in this big.
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  I was trying to think of what I was thinking of.
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  That is exactly where I'm at. Yeah.
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  Static. Balls.
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  Yeah, yeah. Maybe it's like a but.
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  Made of butterflies. Like, oh.
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  My God, I think you like appear as almost like a line of light
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  that like is fluctuating and emanating in different
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  frequencies and colors, just like a blazing comet of color as
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  that is what bursts out of the the butterfly field as you head
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  towards the alien Solari. I think give me an intimidation
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  check even before any of this. Wow, OK.
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  Yeah, yeah, absolutely fucking lutely.
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  They were just celebrating with such success.
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  Zen, what do you think your community would do as like a
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  show of celebration in terms of we've praised the light in the
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  best way possible? I'm thinking kind of like jazz
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  hands. Jazz hands.
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  But I'm also imagining like like can trips.
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  Just like. Like throwing like a light ball
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  back and forth, like, oh, catch this.
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  Like, yeah, we're so cool. Yeah, they're doing like little
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  light manipulation and then the horizons, the entire color
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  scheme changes. Cassie approaches look at each
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  other like is that. Fuck yeah.
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  They don't even know yet. They're like looking at each
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  other. They're intimidated by their own
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  powers. They're like.
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  Did we do that? Did we do that?
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  Oh my God, as you have thoroughly intimidating the star
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  colored Lantern unit, I will drop the morale by another
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  point, which you guys did at one point last session so that
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  they're just one point away from having to roll for breaking
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  Cassie. That is now your attack if you'd
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  like to follow through with that.
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  Amazing. Yeah.
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  So call lightning, it appears as a storm cloud that takes the
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  shape of a cylinder that's 10 feet tall with a 60 foot radius.
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  So I'd like to get as many of them in there as possible.
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  Is there a roll I could make to see if this might harm a living
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  Wish? Interesting.
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  Can Cassie tell what might happen to a living wish if it
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  were to take damage from an attack?
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  You know what I'm going to say that they are giving it total
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  cover due to the way that they've captured it, which is
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  they they had to like surround it in the light energy, which is
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  more like a consuming void type deal, but they're they're
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  basically like holding their hands together all around.
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  Jazz hands together, Yeah. Yeah, they're jazz hands and
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  this bloody motion. And so I'm going to give that
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  living with total cover from any effect that might come their
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  way. OK, sweet, they're bottled.
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  The other two, Aylin Solari who will be captured in this
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  cylinder will need to make a Dexterity saving throw 16 or
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  higher. They've just got a + 1 to save
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  here. That's a nine on the die and a
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  four on the die, and neither of those are going to save.
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  Tell me that damage, baby. 17 total.
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  They each will take 17 damage. 17 to both, and the way these
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  units are going to be structured, that essentially
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  will count doubled in terms of dropping their power.
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  So with 34 damage to the entire unit, essentially.
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  So with 34 damage, you're dropping 1/2 of the squad with
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  20 damage, there's one guy left as you face him, and so we're
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  going to do that contested D6 roll now and see if it breaks.
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  Whoever loses this contest loses one power and one toughness.
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  If they lose, their entire unit breaks, and if you lose them,
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  Stephandra loses one power. You go first.
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  So this unit would get plus one to this D6 roll if they were
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  adjacent to another star collar unit.
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  They are not because Alita Dorito is on the ground and
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  Will. Yeah, that is a six on the dye
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  watch. This it's a four.
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  Well, as you fly in the last Lantern rank star collar of this
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  unit holds fast and stabs into Sophondria.
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  As you ride past you can hear her pain in your mind, but she
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  doesn't let it out for fear that Gloomer and Gloom would be
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  worried for her well-being as she takes a very strong strike
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  to the underbelly. Cassie yells.
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  You fucking light liquors. Light, light liquors.
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  You'll regret that. But even as you fly away and you
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  say you fucking light liquors, you'll regret that they have to
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  make a rule not to break because their power is so low and with
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  the one on the D6 they will break.
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  Then what's the equivalent of a middle finger?
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  Darkness and shadow. I think, oh, it's, it's your
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  animated shield. You have that little bit of
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  consuming void and you see them manipulating little bits of it.
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  You can see like one guy's got like a dagger that ends in a a
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  pitch night with stars laced throughout.
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  All of the stuff that they have pales in comparison to the
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  mastery that you have over the void and the stars, and you show
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  that to them from a distance. Enough so that this last
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  survivor just is convinced him to run away.
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  Amazing. You know what, I think because
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  you didn't use your bonus action, I would allow you to use
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  it to try to catch that living wish that escapes from the star
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  collar as he gives up and drops the the void magic that he's
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  holding. It looks like a kind of like a
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  goldfish, albeit like an over large one as it mimics a fish in
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  in flight, in flight, a fish in flight as it bobs up and down
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  through the air. I would like to use Starlight
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  step to do that. Oh awesome, yeah perfect.
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  Roll me AD 6 and on A5 or A6 you will capture this wish.
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  That's a six, yeah. Yeah.
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  Yeah, OK, awesome. I.
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  Will update the cluster counter. Thanks Zen.
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  Zen taking her notes. That is just so, so freaking
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  cool. The house is just like, just.
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  Breaking in the living wishes. I was overdue.
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  Seriously, that is just amazing as you succeeded 3 times with
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  Stephandra, another once on your turn.
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  That is a great way to start this session as you have
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  Stephandra doing what she needs to be doing if her people and
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  her species are to survive and what you all need to be doing if
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  you are to make it through this great wishing parable.
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  That is you up next. Oh boy, Parable's been very
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  distracted by a tem in front of him, but he does have a moment,
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  I think when he sees the light and the butterfly burst and the
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  lightning. He's like Metamorphosis and just
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  sees this cool, just gross in a friend that I think was just
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  incredible to see. And it makes sense that Sofandre
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  got the most stars. As she should.
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  As you say metamorphosis or even just think it to yourself and
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  appreciate a Tem and his fading essence given the fact that he's
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  done 60 damage. He looks to you and that for a
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  moment something passes between you 2 Thank you for the power
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  young damnation. As you hear in your mind.
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  But more so you get the feeling like of a desert going through
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  seasons, life happening, growing from the sand and and dying.
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  You see the Marais people, people that you know have some
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  strong important part of your past wandering in a timeless
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  desert, but it feels like much more.
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  What does it feel like to you? I think it feels like the
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  parable true camaraderie. It's a moment of shared belief,
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  shared genetics apparently, but I think it really resonates in
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  parable as a real, like you said, of his prior experiences
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  recently and of the past that really affected him and rounded
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  him in who he now is. It comes out as honestly, the
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  salute that he's been doing. He does it without the sword
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  this time. A blade of flame and air
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  appears. I think it's more like a hand
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  gesture of the Moray that they held on and they don't know why
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  they do it. And so without the sword, he
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  kind of just touches his chest, touches his forehead and then
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  like reaches out a hand. And I think a tem weirdly does
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  the same. And then Parable snaps his
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  fingers, and a tem retreats back, threw him into the the
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  Good Book and the the Lamb. Fantastic.
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  Absolutely. Yes.
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  Returning to his bottled form, he wants more rests to be truly
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  reborn. But you gave him the I think
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  that must have had some good benefit, like letting him
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  stretch his legs while he wasn't actually able to use his power
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  of his own accord. I think he'll heal a little bit
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  faster, but for now you have other business in front of you
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  to take care of. Turns to the butterflies and his
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  friends and he looks at way less sparkles in the sky.
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  How close can I get to the Aylin Solari on the ground?
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  Alita Dario is on the ground and Alita Dorito has three acolytes.
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  I think that would just take you a turn of movement.
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  Awesome. I look down at Glimmer and I say
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  I know you're hurt but but you want to search some butterflies
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  and just look expectantly up at the big butterflies.
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  Nice, yeah, glimmers definitely got the fly speed to to drop
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  down upon them. And as you look up to the
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  butterflies expectantly, what exactly are you hoping for?
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  Just as like you're gliding along the circumference of the
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  circle of the right at the edge and just kind of gliding around
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  that to surprise at the edge of the horizon.
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  Cool as you as you glide along the edge, glimmer again a little
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  bit more of the downtrodden of the siblings has a moment of of
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  levity as as he reaches into the butterflies and like splitting a
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  waterfall cuts a line in this almost pure sphere of golden
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  flitting shapes. And as you do so you I also find
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  a very strategically helpful angle to like dropping in the
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  light of the sun blind Alita Dario as she looks up, snapping
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  to her acolytes. You'll never be loved by the
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  light like I am if you don't move faster.
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  Oh my God, if I I'm the one that has to cast fly.
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  He's going to lean down and say glide and flip upside down,
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  buddy. Grimo.
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  Just trust me. Grimo.
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  And Parable is going to hold on real tight with his legs.
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  That was awesome. Farrell is going to hold on real
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  tight with his legs and he's going to try to strike Lita
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  Dorito with his luck blade across the top.
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  And I think this is the first time that his his blade is going
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  to erupt honestly on accident with the last breath.
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  Oh, fantastic, yes. Do you want to read off your
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  Blade of the Last Breath and what you're able to do with
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  that? Yeah, when conjured from Noble
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  Jin's breath, the hilt of the swords bears silvery rune
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  depictive of the Jin's breath by My Last Breath or Invoke Breath.
• 20:41
  When you target a creature with an attack using this weapon, you
• 20:43
  can invoke your breath, causing the blade to flare with
• 20:46
  Silverlight and infusing your attack with the primordial
• 20:49
  elemental magics of the jinn that runs through your veins.
• 20:52
  You then spend and roll one of your unspent hit dice and add
• 20:55
  the number roll to the attack roll.
• 20:57
  If this attack hits then you can spend and roll any number of
• 21:00
  your unspent hit dice and then add the total roll to the
• 21:03
  weapons damage. Hell yeah you can.
• 21:05
  And I don't think you guys have used any short rest dice, right?
• 21:08
  You have all your hit die I. Have all my hit die.
• 21:09
  So you have hit die per level, so you got fucking nine.
• 21:13
  Oh wow, what have I done? All right, so first roll to hit,
• 21:18
  that's a 17 day. 17 will hit. Nice.
• 21:21
  OK, and how do I, how would I roll the hit die?
• 21:28
  Let's see what my hit die are AT so you.
• 21:32
  Can you'll just roll? You can press short rest on your
• 21:35
  character sheet to like get the details for your stuff.
• 21:38
  Well I have six hit diets so can I roll those with my my damage?
• 21:44
  Yes, no way. Well, yes, you get to.
• 21:46
  You get to roll as many as you want, but then you won't be able
• 21:48
  to use them for any short rest like that is very important.
• 21:51
  Cool. I'm going to use two.
• 21:52
  OK. Cool, I am realizing that I'm
• 21:53
  going to need to put some guardrails on that.
• 21:56
  That's a 9 + 1827 damage. Fantastic.
• 22:01
  As you drop down upon Aleta, what does this look like as you
• 22:05
  invoke your breath? Parable tries clicking the pen
• 22:08
  in a silvering hand for the first time.
• 22:11
  With this his last breath in mind, he takes a deep breath and
• 22:14
  he clicks and extends. He flips upside down and he just
• 22:17
  swipes across. So cool, just like doing
• 22:20
  something that you would do but accepting yourself at the same
• 22:23
  time. Or at least this this newly
• 22:24
  found side of yourself. With 27 damage you will fully
• 22:27
  drop their power by 1. And Alita throws one of the
• 22:32
  acolytes in front of her as your elemental energies with this
• 22:36
  poor individual away. And she says I told you you
• 22:40
  weren't loved by the like like I am, otherwise that would have
• 22:43
  hit me. Lido Dorito.
• 22:49
  Parable, anything else on this turn as you have dropped upon
• 22:52
  them. I think you've got another
• 22:53
  attack, don't you? Yeah, I do.
• 22:54
  Oh God. My.
• 22:56
  God. That is a 18 hit.
• 23:01
  Yes, that will hit. Nice.
• 23:02
  I'm gonna click my my pen and switch it to the lucky pen blade
• 23:08
  so it looks like an ethereal elemental swipe and then I just
• 23:11
  kind of do a backhand as I'm crossing as well.
• 23:14
  But I'm also going to smite. 31 so far.
• 23:18
  And that's an additional 7 damage with the smite.
• 23:21
  Nice 38 damage just almost gets you there.
• 23:25
  But Alita again throws up an acolyte in front of her who
• 23:29
  looks singed and scorched and as this poor acolyte takes the
• 23:32
  blast they say oh for the light, for the light as they get blast
• 23:37
  in the face with your energy. This acolyte seems to like it
• 23:40
  and Elita says now that's the attitude you need to climb the
• 23:44
  ladder. Oh my God of this call.
• 23:46
  Is this a religion or an MLM? Who isn't art?
• 23:49
  Wait, Arguably both. Yes, yes yes Parable.
• 23:54
  You've still got Glimmer as a unit to do their attacks based
• 23:59
  on their power, which I think is just one right now, and a
• 24:02
  contested D6 role following that.
• 24:04
  Cool, I think glimmer of their own accord, hopefully as I'm
• 24:07
  doing this move. Breathed to fire the whole time.
• 24:11
  Badass. Yeah, roll for hit there. 17 to
• 24:14
  hit. 17 will hit, so we'll just do a flat 10 damage, but we'll
• 24:18
  break your threshold over because you had just hit done
• 24:21
  about 37. So I think you pop into 47
• 24:24
  enough to drop 2 power from this unit.
• 24:26
  And another acolyte is fully scorched as he says, My lady,
• 24:30
  will I be rewarded by the light for the fact that I've been?
• 24:33
  It hurts so badly. And she says yeah, probably as
• 24:36
  he's incinerated by Glimmer's dragon breath.
• 24:40
  Have it. I just imagine Lita going.
• 24:44
  I guess the lights still like. Sitting on me.
• 24:47
  I don't have any movement left, do I?
• 24:49
  No movement left, but you do have a contested D6 role here as
• 24:52
  units have engaged. I got a two over here.
• 24:56
  A5. Let me see if I've got anything
• 24:59
  Lita's got. Might have an ability to help
• 25:01
  here. Yes, Elita is actually going to
• 25:04
  re roll this. No.
• 25:06
  She learned that from Zen. Using gravity collapse will roll
• 25:10
  A6 on the die and if winning drops the other enemy unit by
• 25:15
  two morale. Can I use a luck point?
• 25:17
  No. What is Glimmer's current
• 25:18
  morale? Glimmer's current rail is 5.
• 25:20
  It drops to three. Sophandra is going to use star
• 25:23
  warn guardian. What?
• 25:26
  She's going to use Starborn Guardian which allows adjacent
• 25:29
  allies to re roll failed contests once per round, so I'm
• 25:33
  hoping that. We're I'm underneath.
• 25:34
  It we're literally right. And you both specified that you
• 25:36
  were going to the western side of the battlefield.
• 25:38
  So I will say yes, totally great.
• 25:42
  You'll love that. Re roll that contest, Glimmer.
• 25:45
  All right, that means. You got to get a six, right?
• 25:49
  Yes, that means you got to get a six.
• 25:52
  The three. We tried.
• 25:54
  We tried. Half of a six.
• 25:56
  You did get a + 1 to that, but it's still not enough.
• 25:58
  It was good for four versus the six as your Morales dropped by
• 26:01
  two. You are one morale point loss
• 26:04
  away from Glimmer, being unwilling to fight and engage,
• 26:08
  and as you try to with your little movement, you have left
• 26:11
  to disengage. You are unable to, as Elita says
• 26:14
  in a completely different voice, eyes filled with void.
• 26:17
  Not so fast, we were having fun. Oh it feels like young dragon
• 26:24
  energy of like we were doing it so cool.
• 26:27
  Barrel rolling through the groups, couple swords, whizes
• 26:29
  some fire and then Glimmer goes through his own fire and starts
• 26:32
  like coughing and sneezing. You drop amongst the ground and
• 26:35
  it's like this fantastic moment of prowess.
• 26:37
  But as soon as you try to get away, I imagine Glimmer's wings
• 26:40
  trying to flap and trying to gain altitude and just the
• 26:44
  gravity pull of the gravity well that is Aleta pulling you both
• 26:49
  down and back to her side. And you don't have any other
• 26:54
  ways to do damage. I have Nixon more.
• 27:00
  Oh, you have your spear trout? Yeah, yes.
• 27:03
  OK, cool. Awesome.
• 27:04
  Yeah, toss that D8 at me. Cool, that is a six.
• 27:09
  With a six, yeah, more than enough to break that threshold
• 27:12
  and you drop Lita's squad as how do you finish the last acolyte
• 27:17
  that she throws in front of her face?
• 27:20
  I think I would leave it to Nixon more as I'm spinning and
• 27:23
  barreling through with sword strikes and fire with glimmer.
• 27:27
  I have these two. I'll set the spark, you fan the
• 27:31
  flame. Set me a fire.
• 27:32
  Set me a fire. Anyway, set me a fire.
• 27:35
  Oh my God, more. Sets on fire and just fly
• 27:37
  straight through. Oh, my God.
• 27:42
  I, I, you know, this is the main feat, but I, I think that it's
• 27:48
  something Moore says in Part 2 is if you ever see a bird on on
• 27:53
  fire, run. Just run.
• 27:57
  And Alita does not actually, yeah, did not.
• 28:00
  Run tosses this acolyte in front of her, and you guys create a
• 28:03
  little fire tornado through your shenanigans.
• 28:07
  We've been back. To say mooses are real.
• 28:09
  Moore, you weren't fucking kidding that that was
• 28:11
  terrifying. Just.
• 28:13
  Trying to like, like put himself out.
• 28:17
  I can't look, I'll go mad. Akuma says destruction.
• 28:24
  Of it just echoes. Well, I don't believe we've met.
• 28:29
  Oh my God, sorry. I'm actually in bigger form
• 28:32
  Akumi's. And Speaking of the Zen that is
• 28:35
  you up next. Wonderful.
• 28:39
  Is pulsars and dead? No, he's barely standing though.
• 28:42
  So Zen is gonna look at Pulsar and having heard him say earlier
• 28:48
  the half wit half elf, she's gonna bristle for her friend and
• 28:53
  say she is a whole wit half elf to you.
• 28:59
  She's gonna. I'm crying over here.
• 29:02
  Me too. And she's just gonna Eldridge
• 29:05
  blast him. Awesome, let's see it just
• 29:08
  absolutely at your level. How many Eldridge blasts are you
• 29:11
  rocking? 2 beams.
• 29:12
  Cool. Awesome SO2 attacks coming at
• 29:15
  Pulsar's and as he he is just. Does a 19 hit. 19 will
• 29:20
  definitely hit. What are you all on tonight?
• 29:22
  No, no goals beneath the 17 I feel like.
• 29:26
  So he's going to get hit first with 10 nice damage, and she's
• 29:31
  going to do it again because she has two hands and does a 23 hit.
• 29:36
  Oh fuck yeah it does. Incredible.
• 29:37
  So he's going to take an additional 3 force damage, Yeah.
• 29:44
  So Zen's just going to be like, don't be a Dick to my friends
• 29:47
  and absolutely blast him. How's he looking?
• 29:52
  13 total damage won't. It hurts, but he seems like he's
• 29:56
  able to. He's like manipulating the magic
• 29:58
  as it comes at him to just allow it to scorch him, but not enough
• 30:01
  to drop the power of his unit, so you'll have to do a little
• 30:04
  bit more damage to him. So Zen is going to look at Kuma
• 30:08
  and say get him buddy, and we're gonna go with some hoove
• 30:15
  attacks. I just wanna.
• 30:18
  Yeah, absolutely. All of that.
• 30:22
  I love this. Yeah. 25.
• 30:26
  Does that hit? Yeah, You know, I think it does.
• 30:29
  I think we'll say it does. I won't even look.
• 30:30
  Does a 15 hit. 15 will not, especially as The funny thing is
• 30:36
  that it it it would, except Pulsar Zen uses his shield
• 30:40
  reaction and will raise his ACA little bit.
• 30:43
  I really thought it would come in handy earlier, but he's got
• 30:45
  such a layoff. But he does, he does avoid that
• 30:47
  15. So he's going to take 16
• 30:50
  bludgeoning and 9 fire damage, Yeah.
• 30:55
  How's he looking now? Poorly with.
• 30:59
  Girl. Yeah, truly, truly, truly on the
• 31:05
  very last legs of his life as he has been dropped to power of
• 31:10
  two. I mean, he he's already on the
• 31:12
  brink. But you've got gloom as well if
• 31:16
  you'd like to follow up. Yeah.
• 31:18
  Oh yeah. Because it's it's you're too
• 31:22
  damaged away from hitting the threshold.
• 31:24
  It simply is the power of friendship.
• 31:27
  So with Gloom, do I just roll to hit?
• 31:31
  Yeah, you'll you'll roll to hit Bloom has a + 2 on the D20
• 31:35
  Pulsar Zen AC is currently a 17 a 17.
• 31:40
  Oh my God. So as pulsar Zen activates his
• 31:45
  shield, which looks similar to Cassie's, but like like
• 31:48
  threadbare, there's just no layered master work.
• 31:52
  It just, it's a scrap of sky that he puts up in front of him
• 31:55
  to give himself extra defense. And Bloom loves to eat magic and
• 32:01
  chomps right through it, as Pulsarazen says.
• 32:05
  I really thought I was going to be the hero that the civilian's
• 32:08
  books spoke of us and. Sin is like I want to hear you
• 32:11
  say it whole wit half out whole. Wit half out.
• 32:16
  Whole wit with your chest, whole wit half out whole.
• 32:19
  Wit half I can't breathe this bite into my diaphragm.
• 32:22
  Get him, get him glue. I look around the the edge of
• 32:30
  the the butterfly horizon. I'm like, is Zen making gloom?
• 32:35
  EI just imagined him blah blah akuma kitim gloom.
• 32:41
  Cassie's wiping the gentlest tears out of her eyes with a big
• 32:44
  smile. Pulsar dead.
• 32:47
  Pulsar Zen. More like Pulsar dead.
• 32:51
  Right, yeah, cuz he, he, he went down.
• 32:52
  He is very, very close to that. He does technically have a power
• 32:56
  one. He's not.
• 32:57
  He's so his. Unit is still he, him as a unit
• 33:00
  and he's here. Yes, but you've done more damage
• 33:03
  than he has HP, so no, he's not in this fight anymore.
• 33:06
  He's. Got he's levitating is what he's
• 33:08
  just just hanging out. OK, So that's good.
• 33:11
  I still have to do my contest with him as well, yes.
• 33:14
  And so that exactly. Which I because I'm on glooms
• 33:19
  first contest each round is at disadvantage.
• 33:21
  So he is disadvantaged on this contest.
• 33:24
  That is good for me, so no. Well, it can't get worse than
• 33:28
  one so well, unless I. See.
• 33:34
  Three nice. Let's see if Pulsar has anything
• 33:37
  that he can do. He is able to swap AD Six with
• 33:41
  allies, but has no. Allies.
• 33:44
  We killed him. I'm just in from the bottle.
• 33:48
  Yeah, and his only other ability would take effect if you want,
• 33:52
  but he doesn't. So he fully breaks and I think
• 33:54
  he is alive if you want him to be.
• 33:56
  But you're welcome to make this lethal if you'd like it to be.
• 33:59
  But I think he like faint as he keeps trying to say oh, wait
• 34:04
  half hour. Like he's so convinced that he
• 34:08
  just needs to say it and he'll survive.
• 34:10
  He eventually just uses so much of his breath that he passes
• 34:12
  out. Yes.
• 34:13
  And I think he's content with that, yeah.
• 34:16
  Olson Holman is. True, that's sick.
• 34:19
  And she's drank enough life in this battle.
• 34:22
  OK, she's already like with all of it.
• 34:26
  I imagine life native holding him like a cat holding a dead
• 34:30
  bird or mouse just like just by them.
• 34:32
  Yeah, yeah, this cannot be cannon.
• 34:34
  Just. Bully.
• 34:36
  It's like Bloom. You can keep him.
• 34:38
  You can keep him. He, like, looks at me like,
• 34:43
  yeah. Hold up a Talon and pause at
• 34:45
  him. Yeah.
• 34:45
  Bats at him with my bonus action.
• 34:47
  I just want to check in on. Pavilion.
• 34:51
  Oh yes, absolutely. Oh yeah, You've got your gaze of
• 34:53
  two minds active, right? Yes, because I can proceed
• 34:56
  through their senses. So I just want to check in and
• 34:57
  see what's up, what they're looking at.
• 34:59
  You hear more than anything the the their hurried pace as they
• 35:07
  seem to be reaching a point in the planning.
• 35:10
  You can hear them all kind of talking amongst each other.
• 35:13
  Oddly, Papaya's doing a lot of bleeding on the planning as
• 35:16
  people are just saying like they've they've they've worked
• 35:19
  out a shorthand for that means yes and horror means no.
• 35:22
  Papaya's talking about where he thinks the stars are going to
• 35:26
  fall, where his fellow spiders are throughout the valley, and
• 35:30
  you see him start to rebuild the network that the wish drinker
• 35:35
  had created through an artificial means with
• 35:38
  crystalline webbing papaya with his many brethren along the
• 35:42
  valley. Incredible from all different
• 35:49
  points of the valley. You hear them respond to one
• 35:51
  another and more than anything you feel a pies hurried pace on
• 35:55
  that. Give me a perception check to
• 35:57
  see if you hear what they don't hear. 8 Perception 8 Perception
• 36:03
  is not going to tell you as Zen what I will tell you as Maya
• 36:07
  that Adelanta is very, very near and stalking them.
• 36:11
  She was unable to capture her broom away from them last time,
• 36:14
  but she is near and more than anything, I think you can sense
• 36:19
  the preparation that that Team pavilion is doing and I it will
• 36:23
  definitely give you guys like an additional amount of stars to
• 36:26
  have been captured. I.
• 36:27
  Think Zen is just going to send the impression on his mind of
• 36:30
  good job? You're doing a good job.
• 36:32
  Hold fast and keep your eyes open.
• 36:35
  OK, and I'm with my bonus action, going to extend my gaze
• 36:39
  of two minds to the end of my next turn.
• 36:41
  Oh OK cool that's awesome, love that.
• 36:44
  And you can hear La Million and Vlano like slap fighting in the
• 36:47
  background. I don't know.
• 36:49
  Next up is Pulsarzan as he is limp and unconscious in Gloom's
• 36:55
  mouth. But along with him is Claude
• 36:58
  Ptolemy's turn, who looks up from down below and I think he's
• 37:04
  just looking up with wonder. But I'm, I'm curious if you guys
• 37:09
  have any words for him as he just, I think he does call out
• 37:13
  at some point and say go get him.
• 37:15
  You too. We'll talk later, I guess.
• 37:18
  He's cheering us on. I think so.
• 37:21
  I yeah, the. Absolute gall.
• 37:23
  Yeah, I think he's he. He's like regressing into this.
• 37:27
  This Yeah, this cheerleader for two Astro elves that he can't
• 37:32
  understand the importance of their actions.
• 37:34
  Why bother to Care now? Do you say this to him?
• 37:39
  Yeah, what's in it for you, dude?
• 37:44
  Well, I mean, if you would come down here, I think we could
• 37:47
  talk. As usual, I'm in the middle of
• 37:50
  something and and you feel like what you have to say is more
• 37:52
  important than what I'm doing. Well, no, I just had AI mean I I
• 37:57
  was you're you're right. You're busy.
• 38:00
  I'm sorry, he says. I'm sorry.
• 38:04
  And as he says it like out of like that habitual nature, he
• 38:08
  realizes how sorry. Well, actually give me an
• 38:10
  insight. Dirty 20.
• 38:13
  Oh yeah, you see him realizing as he says the words I'm sorry
• 38:18
  out of habit, how how much you are owed them with a dirty 20.
• 38:24
  You see it just like like recognition on his face, as if
• 38:29
  he hasn't had the space or frame of mind to think about this.
• 38:33
  But it hits him like a punch, the gut, like a slap to the
• 38:37
  face. He is shocked by the fact that
• 38:41
  he just said I'm sorry to his daughter, that he knows he is
• 38:45
  wronged many times in his life, never once said those words.
• 38:49
  But now he finds himself just saying it.
• 38:52
  Like I can see you're doing something important.
• 38:56
  Classic. As he says, I'm sorry and those
• 38:59
  words ring. I'm busy.
• 39:03
  It's too late to say you're sorry.
• 39:05
  I needed to hear it then. Well, I imagine that you've kind
• 39:11
  of dipped down below. The chaos of the sky is lighting
• 39:15
  up behind you. I just.
• 39:19
  You've always been meant for such big things.
• 39:24
  Your mother. My mother is gone.
• 39:28
  And when that goodness left, you sought out the vadnais, and
• 39:32
  instead of becoming the goodness that the world desperately
• 39:34
  needed, not to mention me, I needed that goodness.
• 39:38
  But yours would have sufficed. And instead you rejected the
• 39:41
  right thing to do in favor of a goodness that was fleeting.
• 39:44
  The goodness that came from power, which actually isn't
• 39:47
  goodness at all. It's typical, and it's small and
• 39:49
  it's weak. I'm sure she saw good qualities
• 39:53
  in you, but I can't say I see them now.
• 39:55
  It's too late for your apology. Did.
• 39:58
  You get my letters. Cassie and Savandra fly into the
• 40:04
  butterfly cloud. Dang, okay.
• 40:10
  Snapping ozy formation. Damn, I'm so curious.
• 40:14
  I think if I'm remembering correctly, way back when, Cassie
• 40:17
  never read her father's letters, correct.
• 40:19
  Correct as he, he says that as if it is in reply to all of
• 40:24
  these things you have accused him of.
• 40:26
  And again with that dirty 20, you can see he believes you to
• 40:29
  be right. As you're saying it's hitting
• 40:31
  him like the words that he said. I'm sorry he you're hitting him
• 40:34
  with again with punch after punch of epiphany.
• 40:38
  These are thoughts that he's intelligent enough and aware
• 40:41
  enough to know. He's just never given himself
• 40:44
  the motivation to look into something as painful as this.
• 40:48
  But of course he sees your rightness with every every word.
• 40:53
  They are settling within him like ripples in a pond.
• 40:57
  Not to go all therapy on this, but it is an interesting
• 41:00
  observation of how grief effects parents and children differently
• 41:05
  because of the age. Whereas a parent has the sort of
• 41:08
  emotional wherewithal to shut down and shield themselves from
• 41:12
  grief, a child has to learn to manage and grow and deal with
• 41:15
  it, sort of, in most cases. You unstoppered a bottle within
• 41:18
  him and it is only going to continue to flood his soul until
• 41:21
  he handles what pours out. So can he do anything with that
• 41:25
  guilt action, bonus action reaction you?
• 41:29
  Know what it is? Anything useful?
• 41:31
  It is his turn, and even as an individual and not as a unit, he
• 41:35
  does have some power here. Huge.
• 41:39
  Cassie, take this for what you will, but once more he does
• 41:42
  something kind of in regression, but this time the other seems to
• 41:45
  be a little bit more intent behind it as just out of the
• 41:48
  corner eye. As you turn to leave and fly off
• 41:51
  into the butterflies, you see him gather up but bare magics he
• 41:56
  can, for he is still a sage of stars and pass a dancing light
• 42:02
  spell to make a few modes of light chase behind you.
• 42:06
  And I will allow that to be the help action in capturing one
• 42:10
  wish as he strengthens this view of a migration in flight of
• 42:15
  living wishes. And you recall times in the past
• 42:18
  where your mother would say time to go walk amongst the stars or
• 42:22
  condo, seek them out below the surface, time to go dance in the
• 42:27
  sky. And you would do so.
• 42:29
  And your father would join in the only ways that he could with
• 42:32
  his magics. There was always a point where
• 42:34
  you had to leave him behind but his dancing lights would stay as
• 42:38
  long as they could till they disappear as you fly into the
• 42:44
  butterflies. So that will be a help action
• 42:47
  towards anything you want to do and Next up that is going to be
• 42:51
  Alanta, who has a decision to make here.
• 42:55
  And is barefoot. Is this animal handling to get
• 42:58
  the giant eagle on her side or a stealth and a sled pan to get
• 43:03
  her broom back? Didn't she fail on her
• 43:05
  perception to find them? Oh yes she did.
• 43:07
  She's right. Have to roll another
• 43:08
  prescription in in AW formation. That is a natural 20, yes.
• 43:16
  What was she? What was she?
• 43:18
  Rolling for she found them. OK, that's fine.
• 43:21
  This is going to this is going to be a stealth check with a
• 43:25
  role of a 13. Adelante actually meets the
• 43:28
  passive perception average of this group.
• 43:30
  So I'm going to actually make this a roll off with Papaya and
• 43:34
  Dapple and Lamelian and Vilano all being one role.
• 43:36
  Do you guys want to roll this? You have a 13 to beat.
• 43:40
  You have a + 4 to this role. Natural 20.
• 43:46
  Oh, OK, so Papaya and company spots Adalanta as she goes to
• 43:53
  steal the broom. I imagine like Adalanta because
• 43:57
  she's. Barefoot and dumb.
• 43:59
  She like, no, she's. Flicks one I know she like.
• 44:01
  Flicks one of the webs or like accidentally hits it and
• 44:05
  Papaya's like. Yes.
• 44:08
  Oh, I see them. I'm gonna get him.
• 44:10
  I'm gonna get him. What the fuck is in my hair?
• 44:13
  Oh, what is this? As Adelante is nearly captured
• 44:17
  by webbing, I am going to give her a sleight of hand check to
• 44:19
  get the broom, but I'm going to give it to her with
• 44:21
  disadvantage. She needs ADC 19 to hit this.
• 44:28
  That 19 raw would have done it, but the other eight on the die
• 44:31
  with this disadvantage will mean she does not get her broom as
• 44:34
  she reaches out for it and says. Spoke.
• 44:38
  Oh, so funny that you say that because I changed the password
• 44:45
  Popeye just like and just like like not dimension, but like a.
• 44:49
  100 yes a. 110 percent, 110%. Just just you know what this
• 44:53
  noise means Sync. I was like.
• 44:55
  You know what I mean? Just.
• 44:57
  Sync and back at the top of the initiative that is Esther, Igor
• 45:03
  and Lita and I think will give Esther and Igor another wisdom
• 45:08
  save to see if they might intervene rather than just hold
• 45:12
  back. Esther, do you see all those
• 45:13
  callers? I swear, I swear it's Zen.
• 45:16
  There's no way it's Zen. They lied to us, Esther.
• 45:20
  The only person who lies is me to myself.
• 45:23
  You know that if, if if even there's a chance that she was
• 45:27
  alive. There isn't.
• 45:28
  I sold her out. I sold her out and they killed
• 45:32
  her. Are you sure you're just not
• 45:33
  scared to see her? I'm scared.
• 45:36
  You're always scared, Igor. I know it's the why I'm telling
• 45:39
  you now. I'm scared all the time.
• 45:41
  Well. I'm not scared of anything.
• 45:48
  This friendship would have never survived.
• 45:52
  Then we needed you the whole time.
• 45:54
  You are the glue 18 for Ester. But do I get any modifier?
• 46:00
  As Igor, you have a + 1 and then you get an additional +2 due to
• 46:04
  your aura. I didn't add anything.
• 46:06
  Oh, you get +2 and you get an additional +2 from Igor Aura.
• 46:10
  21. 18 Fantastic you 2 overcome your fears, and for a moment,
• 46:19
  Esther, you realize you have been afraid, if not in truth, at
• 46:24
  least in action. Why are you here?
• 46:28
  Why are you a star caller? How did they convince you to do
• 46:31
  this? Yeah, at first it was to protect
• 46:34
  Igor. He's getting wrapped up in these
• 46:37
  teams that keep forging out for power because the domain is
• 46:41
  dying. Both of you know, Esther and
• 46:43
  Igor, that the domain is dying. And if no one does something and
• 46:48
  it will fade. I couldn't care less about the
• 46:51
  domain. But then why did you come?
• 46:53
  I just needed to be punished. Esther has just come out for
• 46:58
  self hatred and self flagellation.
• 47:02
  Esther, you've just been staring off into the distance for a
• 47:05
  while. You want to go have fun one last
• 47:08
  time? I don't know fun anymore, Igor.
• 47:12
  Well, let me teach you. That's what Esther.
• 47:21
  Said I'm imagining backflips in the air as as Igor returns to
• 47:26
  the South. Do you've ever.
• 47:28
  Scotty the Rainbows. It feels like it was a lifetime
• 47:33
  ago. It was, and all it did was get
• 47:35
  us in. Trouble.
• 47:36
  Let's go get more trouble. Do you want to end up dead too?
• 47:40
  I mean, it's better with what we've been doing.
• 47:43
  I guess that's true. Kinda.
• 47:46
  You're right. You go on.
• 47:48
  I'll watch. Will you stay right here?
• 47:51
  Yep, I'll watch as you go say hello to someone who's
• 47:53
  definitely not Zen because Zen's dead.
• 47:56
  Give me a perception, Jack. Both of you with advantage. 17
• 48:00
  on the die. I rolled A5.
• 48:05
  With advantage. Correct.
• 48:07
  I rolled A5 and then a three. Damn, Esther, you've turned away
• 48:12
  and aren't looking at this, but Igor.
• 48:14
  You see that Alita is smiling and confident in a situation
• 48:17
  that she should not be, and you understand why.
• 48:22
  And she holds it behind her back, an item of magical power
• 48:27
  to shatter. An orb of pure black with a tiny
• 48:33
  pinprick of light at the very center.
• 48:36
  A star captured within glass. But not only that, a dying star
• 48:42
  captured within glass. What do you do?
• 48:44
  Is this something that Igor and Esther would have been either
• 48:48
  hearing in rumor that we have or is it is a prevalent knowledge?
• 48:51
  Or does Igor know exactly what this is right away?
• 48:54
  Yeah, you, the rank that you've gained, would know that this is
• 48:58
  a self sacrifice device, one that would take out any and all
• 49:04
  in the surrounding area. It is a option of last resort so
• 49:08
  that you would not fall, capture to the enemy and otherwise give
• 49:13
  up secrets of the domain. It was Elias Pending's idea.
• 49:19
  I think Igor is going to immediately say.
• 49:21
  Esther Alita has the thing she has.
• 49:25
  She has the thing they all like. They kept the secret.
• 49:29
  The Star. The diag star, I think she's
• 49:32
  going to use it. On who?
• 49:34
  Everyone, don't you think we could do something about it?
• 49:38
  What's the point save people now so we can just fight a different
• 49:43
  war later? I just think if we could just
• 49:47
  help a few people at a time it it would do something.
• 49:53
  What do you need? Let's go fuck Alita up.
• 50:00
  I'm glad you had it up. So fuck Alita.
• 50:05
  You know Esther. I think, yeah, I think Igor is
• 50:08
  gonna turn in that moment and he's going to, for one, I think,
• 50:13
  just do a backflip. Yeah, I've.
• 50:15
  Been waiting for. It and he's gonna throw his
• 50:17
  sword mid backflip at Elita and just hope for the best.
• 50:21
  A blade that has only ever fit as best as it could as Luck
• 50:25
  Blade is no longer with you. Can I roll possibly to see if it
• 50:29
  turns into the luck blade in this moment with Parable so
• 50:31
  close? Oh fuck yeah, give me a religion
• 50:33
  check with advantage. I will say this backflip makes
• 50:37
  Esther do a double take. That's a Nat 20.
• 50:42
  Oh. My God, I am going to solidify
• 50:45
  right now. I don't care about the
• 50:47
  logistics. Never will these two swords be
• 50:49
  in the same room. And perhaps when Parable is not
• 50:54
  using it, it passes to Igor and vice versa.
• 50:58
  Whenever it's in the pen. Whenever it's in the pen and as
• 51:02
  you holding down as you see parable in the background in
• 51:06
  this moment switching to his just his pen blade rather than
• 51:10
  the lucky long sword pen blade. You send it to Igor and as he
• 51:16
  flips he is hold once more holding his father's tarnish Lux
• 51:20
  sword. I think in just a moment of like
• 51:23
  fully embodied luck mid backflip, he notices it because
• 51:26
  he was just going to do a backflip and he notices it's the
• 51:30
  his grandfather's luck blade and he's going to accidentally let
• 51:33
  go mid backflip and it's going to hit sail towards like just
• 51:37
  luck happening. Fantastic.
• 51:39
  Yeah, at Alito with the momentum of a backflip.
• 51:43
  Give me an attack roll. Esther goes.
• 51:46
  Is that what my backflip? No, the the the the sword.
• 51:52
  I thought I was hallucidated. Was that my sword?
• 51:54
  Esther rubs her eyes. That's a 19 on the die.
• 51:59
  Oh. Yeah, you rolled that long sword
• 52:02
  damage D10. It looks like Eager's got a + 4.
• 52:06
  9. 9 Hertz, you do have another attack as Igor and I would give
• 52:13
  it to you if you want to follow up.
• 52:15
  Oh, I get a second attack. Yeah, OK.
• 52:17
  I think the luck blade literally stalls in the air as Parable
• 52:23
  tries to click it. It doesn't know where to go for
• 52:27
  a second and just like kind of zigzags back and forth and tries
• 52:30
  it twice. Awesome.
• 52:32
  Yeah, I'm assuming this is for flavour.
• 52:34
  I might make you have consequences if you're closing
• 52:37
  in. That's another 19 on the die.
• 52:41
  Fucking yeah it might not matter.
• 52:44
  Let's see that damage. This is important.
• 52:46
  The D 10 + 4. The 9:00.
• 52:50
  OK, so 18 damage is just barely as you cut down Adelita and you
• 52:57
  take her out, but you don't, she doesn't drop it, She doesn't
• 53:01
  drop the device. Oh no.
• 53:05
  You, you don't have the action economy to help here, but
• 53:09
  Esther, if you could be convinced.
• 53:13
  Give me hands, Give me hands. Give me it.
• 53:16
  So as you guys close in, do you go to take away this device from
• 53:21
  Alita? I think once again, seeing
• 53:24
  someone close to Esther take action and the part of her that
• 53:31
  has always been drawn to other people's energy and charisma is
• 53:36
  going to sort of kick in out of a sense of FOMO or just
• 53:41
  something to do to to stay distracted.
• 53:43
  And she will jump in and try and lend a hand here by trying to
• 53:48
  swoop the star, the dead, dying star.
• 53:51
  OK, I will offer you an attack roll or a sleight of hand check
• 53:58
  and I I can let you know Esther stats.
• 54:01
  Did I hit Elita? Did she drop it?
• 54:05
  I didn't mean to do that. An attack roll with your Arcane
• 54:11
  Burst would be a + 5. A Sleight of Hand check with
• 54:16
  your OH would be a + 4. 10. With a 10 that is going to be in
• 54:24
  a pose sleight of hand, you never know.
• 54:28
  With an 18 on the die she hold onto a hip.
• 54:32
  You do have two attacks, so I would give you 2 attempts here.
• 54:35
  Well, yeah, OK, let's do it. That's a 10 on the die, about
• 54:43
  15. Again opposed with A14, you will
• 54:47
  succeed here against Elita as you pull away this device right
• 54:53
  before she can move to crush it. Yes.
• 54:57
  Good God. Esther like it bounces between
• 55:01
  her hands like. Holy shit I have it.
• 55:03
  Esther, Esther, hold on to. It if you're going to pick it
• 55:06
  up, I. Hold it close to my chest.
• 55:07
  OK, just don't squeeze it too hard.
• 55:09
  As soon as that has been taken from her, she says no, the light
• 55:13
  was on my side. The light was supposed to be on
• 55:15
  my side. That's that wouldn't have
• 55:18
  happened if the you took my thing.
• 55:21
  You took my thing. Give me back my thing.
• 55:23
  Your thing. The thing?
• 55:24
  Give me back the thing. You're not a nice lady, she.
• 55:27
  Starts screaming. Here's the point where it's
• 55:30
  like, it's like that breathless like.
• 55:33
  Igor is going to. She starts shaking and like
• 55:35
  she's having a temper tantrum like she's 5.
• 55:37
  Igor picks up his sword and checks to see if it's the the
• 55:42
  grandfather blade. I think it's switched back to
• 55:45
  your regular old long sword. I knew I would see big city.
• 55:48
  Bops are on the flank, blade on the top of the head.
• 55:51
  Fantastic. Esther, after the series of
• 55:55
  events between Igor mentioning The Cave and Scotty, between the
• 56:00
  backflip, between the even idea that someone could say that
• 56:04
  Zinn's across the battlefield, all of this is sort of
• 56:07
  happening. And it's it is encouraging
• 56:11
  Esther to just consider potentially opening her eyes and
• 56:16
  looking in Zinn's direction. Maybe, Yeah.
• 56:23
  Zen is still on the other side of the butterflies too, so.
• 56:25
  Yeah, it's a ways. Why is my pen not working?
• 56:29
  I'll ask you to set the DC. And this check is sort of to see
• 56:34
  if Esther sees Zen and believes that it's Zen.
• 56:39
  That's the easiest thing to do. She has the time and could just
• 56:43
  look. I think it's more so is she
• 56:45
  willing to? Have it in her.
• 56:47
  Yes, I'll say the DC is a 15. OK, we're going to call this a
• 56:52
  wisdom save, so you've got a plus.
• 56:55
  That's a natural one. What do you do?
• 57:00
  You don't look towards Zen. You don't look for her on the
• 57:03
  battlefield. What do you focus this intense
• 57:06
  energy? There's a ball of butterflies in
• 57:09
  light and all. Esther can do is look at the
• 57:12
  dying star. Oh.
• 57:15
  Bathing the world in a Violet light, you see that there's
• 57:18
  something wrong with this light. You're reminded of a time when
• 57:23
  you walked through a forest and felt feelings not your own.
• 57:28
  And right now you're sensing that this light wants something
• 57:31
  from this world. The light from the dying star.
• 57:35
  The light from the dying star and it it feels malignant, for
• 57:40
  lack of a better word. And I think that is the only
• 57:44
  thing that you can think of. The end of the world has come,
• 57:47
  and your domain is far off. You've taken no stars to bring
• 57:54
  back. And Zinn's dead.
• 57:58
  She's got to be dead. Esther, are you OK?
• 58:02
  Do you want me to hold it? Yeah.
• 58:07
  OK and I think I try to grab the void orb.
• 58:12
  Gingerly, gingerly, with Esther in this state, it seems.
• 58:16
  Esther's a little rough with the hand off, sort of like dumps it
• 58:19
  into your arms. Whoa, OK, OK.
• 58:24
  You're not feeling too great today.
• 58:25
  She. Doesn't say anything.
• 58:28
  And Igor's going to look down at this blast orb full of darkness,
• 58:33
  and up at the glowing orb of shimmering butterflies and the
• 58:39
  stars falling around. He's going to hold the orb tight
• 58:43
  and start walking slowly towards and actually, because he knows
• 58:47
  what this is, he's going to start walking away from
• 58:49
  everyone. Oh, OK, so you're not going to
• 58:52
  go explore and see if Zen's over there, You're just.
• 58:55
  Well, he he desperately wants to, but I think he feels a
• 58:58
  bigger responsibility of getting this away from everyone.
• 59:01
  Could one throw the thing? Like into space?
• 59:04
  Yeah, I mean shit, like there's like astral tides, like just eat
• 59:10
  it. What I.
• 59:11
  Wonder if Raya would know what to do with it.
• 59:15
  But but Igor doesn't know why. Yeah.
• 59:17
  I think I will do. You do you, Igor, do.
• 59:19
  You. I will say I'm going to offer
• 59:21
  both Igor and Esther a survival check here.
• 59:25
  This is going to be ADC 10 and both of you have a + 2 here. 18
• 59:32
  out of the day. 11 both enough to know that if you're going to
• 59:37
  get back to Domi at all, if you have any hope to returning to
• 59:42
  that domain before it separates off into its own fragment, or
• 59:47
  this is truly becoming the lands apart.
• 59:50
  For some reason, the Valley's staying together.
• 59:53
  Esther and Eager have no idea why, but it can't hold forever,
• 59:58
  and as soon as it collapses, they will be without protected
• 1:00:02
  land in a world where. Non domain lands are literally
• 1:00:07
  starting to crumble and turn into planar distortions, turning
• 1:00:13
  into the astral plane or the ethereal.
• 1:00:15
  You have no idea what might happen, but if you already get
• 1:00:18
  back time's of the essence. That's just a choice though of
• 1:00:22
  whether you want to get back to Domi or not.
• 1:00:23
  Eeyore was just planning on getting as far away as possible.
• 1:00:27
  Everything going on, because I think he just recalls hearing
• 1:00:31
  like this is like self destruction.
• 1:00:34
  It's like a detonator that will, if you're in range to use it,
• 1:00:38
  you're like, gonna die. Yeah.
• 1:00:41
  And so as much as he wants to go back towards Zen, I think he
• 1:00:45
  goes to the nearest edge of these glowing tectonic plate
• 1:00:48
  riffs. Planning on throwing it off.
• 1:00:50
  It has, It's not. It's not far off.
• 1:00:52
  Parable. Cassian Zen as a domain weren't
• 1:00:56
  able to hold on to more land, like it's really just valley and
• 1:01:00
  like the the barest amount of of land rising on the side at that
• 1:01:04
  edge where you breakthrough trees and suddenly the horizon
• 1:01:08
  is no longer. You can fool yourself where this
• 1:01:12
  battle took place that the horizon is still there, but as
• 1:01:16
  soon as you get close enough to the edge of this fragment of
• 1:01:18
  land, it is just chaos. A chaos of color and light that
• 1:01:25
  breaks down from physics. You look at a rushing ocean as
• 1:01:31
  if you were in a bubble underneath.
• 1:01:34
  At the very bottom of it, however, the waters are bathed
• 1:01:38
  in that Violet light. Igor's going to walk up to the
• 1:01:41
  edge and think of his friends and throw it as hard as he can.
• 1:01:45
  Who exactly? Esther and Zinn.
• 1:01:49
  He really wanted to go see Zen, but he knows that this is such a
• 1:01:52
  dangerous thing. It's made of glass.
• 1:01:53
  They shouldn't have been brought out here in the first place.
• 1:01:56
  Well, and this is a big moment, you'd be defecting, wouldn't
• 1:01:58
  you? Yeah, absolutely.
• 1:02:00
  So it's still sort of this in between of breaking ties with an
• 1:02:04
  alliance that you sort of swore to, but also it's like this
• 1:02:10
  medium you've taken in the middle stance.
• 1:02:13
  Yeah, I think in a very paladin way, he walks up to the edge as
• 1:02:17
  if it looks like he's going to walk all the way back to Domi.
• 1:02:19
  But he gets up to this chaos in front of him and he just says
• 1:02:24
  floor by Freds and he just whips the the glass orb as far as he
• 1:02:28
  can. And I think he makes the
• 1:02:29
  decision in the moment that he's he's done with anything with the
• 1:02:33
  Aylin Solari. Wait, Igor, are you are you
• 1:02:39
  rebelling? You, you see Esther, having
• 1:02:42
  followed you, kind of kind of silently stands behind you as
• 1:02:45
  you have chucked this thing into the into the astral waters that
• 1:02:49
  surround this fragment of land. Are you choosing to do the
• 1:02:54
  things someone told you not to do?
• 1:02:56
  I, I know I've always followed the rules.
• 1:02:59
  I just, I just wanted to do good and I should have listened to
• 1:03:03
  you earlier. I think if we had, if we had
• 1:03:06
  rebelled like you did earlier, I think we would have been at a
• 1:03:10
  better place. This has just been so terrible
• 1:03:13
  without Zit I. Think with that, we're out of
• 1:03:17
  initiative. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:03:18
  Zen at this point has like made her way over to like where
• 1:03:23
  Stephandra and Parable are. Yeah, absolutely.
• 1:03:27
  Without the butterflies between, Yeah, like the East and the
• 1:03:30
  West. So Zen's made her way over like
• 1:03:32
  as I'm assuming all this is happening, and because they're
• 1:03:36
  at the edge, you know, like talking, looking the other
• 1:03:38
  direction. Igor and Esther would just hear.
• 1:03:41
  Igor. Esther, is that you?
• 1:03:46
  Igor, that's not funny. Stop playing tricks.
• 1:03:47
  Esther you know it's that funny when you wait.
• 1:03:51
  What? I wasn't playing a trick, you're
• 1:03:54
  playing a trick. Nice turn around.
• 1:03:57
  I slowly turn around. I whip around so fast my brain
• 1:04:01
  Igor in the head. The black hole goes off behind
• 1:04:03
  us as like through on the other side.
• 1:04:06
  Movie moment. So I was just about to say as it
• 1:04:09
  does, thank you for pre empting me.
• 1:04:11
  As it does, you see the Astral water separate for a moment,
• 1:04:17
  enough to see that Domi is in the distance, already separated
• 1:04:22
  off as its own domain, floating away as its own fragment.
• 1:04:26
  You'd have to make your way into what is essentially a different
• 1:04:29
  plane of existence, unformed and primordial, to even make it
• 1:04:34
  home. As that massive blast separates
• 1:04:39
  these waters, you not only see the only disappearing in the
• 1:04:43
  distance, but something coming closer.
• 1:04:47
  Rough wood and cloth sails flying some sort of sail that
• 1:04:57
  you see now that it has a sigil on.
• 1:04:59
  Yes, clearly sails a bottle. A broken bottle as it's glass
• 1:05:03
  shatters in the Insignia across the top and you can hear even
• 1:05:07
  from this distance as if astral waters can somehow pass sound
• 1:05:11
  better than any any liquid or air ever could.
• 1:05:15
  I wish Beard is here to claim the land once more and the
• 1:05:20
  bottle breaker and his crew happy, haven't you?
• 1:05:25
  And there we will end our session as we have a lot to
• 1:05:28
  clean up next session and thank God we are out of initiative.
• 1:05:31
  Zen. Igor Ester you are reunited.
• 1:05:35
  Parable and Cassie you are off somewhere hanging out with
• 1:05:39
  Cassie's dad. Fucking shit's going down y'all.
• 1:05:43
  And we got some sort of pirate coming in hot.
• 1:05:46
  And still no long rest. Honestly, Parable's experience
• 1:05:51
  after everything went down and Igor and Esther's term was like,
• 1:05:55
  like why isn't my pen working? Like shaking it.
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  Cassie, are there any moments that you have towards the end of
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  that as we cut back towards parable, click, click, click,
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  click. But we do have Cassie and Claude
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  if you have any last words. Cassie says something to Claude
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  to the effect of tries to take the reins of the relationship in
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  this moment, in acknowledging that she wants to hear him out
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  in some capacity, but she doesn't want it to be a shitty
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  mirror of how Valana was like begging on his knees.
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  You know, flipping like a frog in a pot of water or whatever
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  the fucking phrase is. Like, I don't want it to be
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  someone groveling at my feet. I want to be treated like an
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  adult now that I am 1 and I don't feel like a bunch of
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  exasperated apologies are going to solve this relationship.
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  So I think she said something like.
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  That conveys all that. I think what conveys that mostly
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  is comfortable silence, which is a hard thing to convey because
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  to heal takes time and words can very, very infrequently help,
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  especially when those words are. I'm sorry, the hurts been done,
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  the hurts been had. And I think he I will give him a
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  roll here. Let's see if he is wise enough.
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  One last role for the session wise enough just to.
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  I think he probably opens his mouth, but maybe what Cassie
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  says is just not now. With a natural 1, he says.
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  You never read my letters, did you?
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  Nope. And there we will end our
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  session. I wanted to, as you go, run up
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  and hug you so bad. It's so funny.
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  It's. Like.
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  I was actually. Starting to sweating I was.
• 1:07:56
  I was sweating because I was like, if we're gonna have to
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  role play this reuniting right now, I don't know.
• 1:08:01
  I don't know if I can. That was so fun.
• 1:08:04
  Okay, I got stuff to read. I got stuff to read.
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  You know I do. Yeah.
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  I don't want it to end, but it's gotta.
• 1:08:12
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