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The Rise of Blankspace - A COIN Prequel · Session Zero Heroes | TTRPG Actual Play Adventures & Improv Storytelling

• 0:11
  Narrator: We open on a scene of stress and chaos.
• 0:15
  Narrator: The king in his war chamber,
• 0:17
  Narrator: pacing back and forth, his hands
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  Narrator: practically pulling out his
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  Narrator: graying hairs that peaks beneath
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  Narrator: his crown.
• 0:24
  Narrator: As the commander of the city
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  Narrator: guard enters the ornate doors to
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  Narrator: give him an update on the
• 0:30
  Narrator: current predicament.
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  Commander Berthold: Sire, we've prepared every city guard throughout the city.
• 0:36
  Commander Berthold: The Elan Night Patrol has even joined the battalion.
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  Commander Berthold: We've completely surrounded the College of Magic on all sides
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  Commander Berthold: with a squadron of.
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  The King: Has there been any word from the Thieves Guild?
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  The King: Their expertise and capabilities
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  The King: are imperative to winning this
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  The King: fight.
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  Commander Berthold: Unfortunately, we have not, Your Majesty.
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  Commander Berthold: But I truly believe we can beat
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  Commander Berthold: Vitruvian with the soldiers we
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  Commander Berthold: have.
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  The King: No!
• 0:59
  The King: No. no, Bertolt.
• 1:00
  The King: You know, I appreciate everything you do.
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  The King: All the training you've put into
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  The King: these men and what they do for
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  The King: the city.
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  The King: But we're talking about a highly powerful sorcerer holed up in a
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  The King: school filled with any and every magical item, relic and potion
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  The King: ever seen in this city.
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  The King: Our army of local guards are no match for his power.
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  Commander Berthold: Well, if it makes you feel any better, Your Majesty, we were
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  Commander Berthold: able to entice a couple specialists from the Mercenaries
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  Commander Berthold: Guild to join our ranks.
• 1:27
  Commander Berthold: They are stationed and ready to go.
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  Commander Berthold: Huh?
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  The King: I suppose that will certainly help.
• 1:32
  The King: Perhaps we can try to contact the assassins.
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  Commander Berthold: Your Majesty, we can't wait any longer.
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  Commander Berthold: Vitruvian is up to something in there, and is most certainly
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  Commander Berthold: going to enact his plan to take over as soon as it's ready.
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  Commander Berthold: If we do not act now, I fear we won't get another chance.
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  Commander Berthold: How dare you break into the King's war chamber?
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  Intruder: Wait, please.
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  Intruder: I come with an urgent message from the Thieves Guild.
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  The King: Stay your hand, Bertolt.
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  The King: This is the break we've been hoping for.
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  Commander Berthold: I don't trust him, Your Majesty.
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  Commander Berthold: Nor do I trust any of those thieving bastards from his
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  Commander Berthold: organisation, Your Majesty.
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  Intruder: Silver Song and Strong Pour have
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  Intruder: already infiltrated the college
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  Intruder: and have engaged in battle with
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  Intruder: Bart Rufian.
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  Intruder: They said they have wounded the sorcerer.
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  The King: This is incredible news.
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  The King: We must prepare.
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  Intruder: Strong. Poor is dead.
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  Intruder: Your Majesty.
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  The King: What?
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  The King: The King of thugs.
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  The King: Dead.
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  Intruder: Silver song sent me a message
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  Intruder: magically asking me to bring
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  Intruder: aid.
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  The King: Indeed.
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  The King: We cannot leave her to fight alone.
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  Commander Berthold: I say we leave her to fight to her death and finish Peruvian
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  Commander Berthold: off with the army.
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  Commander Berthold: Get rid of two filthy stains on the city at once.
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  The King: Now is not the time for your disdain and hostilities towards
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  The King: the Thieves Guild.
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  The King: Bertolt.
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  The King: They have answered the city's
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  The King: call for aid in its time of
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  The King: need.
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  The King: And that makes them no different
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  The King: from you and I. Now go prepare
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  The King: the assault.
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  The King: We must strike while he is injured.
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  Commander Berthold: Yes, your Majesty.
• 2:56
  Narrator: As the King and his commander prepare their troops for their
• 2:59
  Narrator: raid upon the College of Magic, we turn our attention to the
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  Narrator: walls within the very school of which they speak were.
• 3:05
  Narrator: A pair of eyes stared down at their dead ally, lying still on
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  Narrator: the cold hard floor below them, hidden amongst the shadows in
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  Narrator: the rafters above.
• 3:17
  Narrator: They observe as a cloaked figure hobbles limply towards the body
• 3:22
  Narrator: as a strange blue swirl begins to release from the deceased and
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  Narrator: is absorbed into the sorcerer that siphons it.
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  Silversong: So long, my friend, your life of greed and want is no more.
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  Silversong: I pray you experience every
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  Silversong: fulfillment in whatever comes
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  Silversong: next.
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  Silversong: I fear that I may be joining you shortly.
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  Narrator: Silver's song has lived amongst the shadows in this city all her
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  Narrator: life, learning the ropes of being a thief.
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  Narrator: One of the key rules was to know when things had gotten too hot
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  Narrator: and when it was time to flee.
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  Narrator: This was most certainly one of those circumstances.
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  Narrator: But there was something that held her back from leaping
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  Narrator: toward the open balcony doors and soaring into the safety of
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  Narrator: the city, away from the evil magician that was haunting her.
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  Narrator: Perhaps it was a sense of fear.
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  Narrator: Fear knowing that if she fled
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  Narrator: now and this villain wasn't
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  Narrator: dealt with, it was only a matter
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  Narrator: of time before his wickedness
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  Narrator: took hold of Eileen Loomis and
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  Narrator: crushed it between his crooked
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  Narrator: fingers.
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  Narrator: Or perhaps, perhaps it was hope.
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  Narrator: Hope that the message she had sent her subordinate would reap
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  Narrator: reward and rescue would come that would aid her in defeating
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  Narrator: this dastardly evildoer.
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  Narrator: Whichever it was, she clung tightly to it and chose instead
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  Narrator: to simply wait amidst the darkened shadows she had relied
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  Narrator: on all her life.
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  Narrator: Moments later, an army surrounds the College of Magic, led by the
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  Narrator: commander Berthold and the King of Ireland himself.
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  Narrator: As they prepare for their raid
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  Narrator: on the school and the sorcerer
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  Narrator: within.
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  Commander Berthold: Each and every one of you knows what is at stake today.
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  Commander Berthold: Inside the walls of this facility is a man bent on the
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  Commander Berthold: destruction of everything you've worked so hard to build.
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  Commander Berthold: If he had his way.
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  Commander Berthold: Every home, every business, everything you hold precious
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  Commander Berthold: would be taken from you or crumbled into dust in front of
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  Commander Berthold: your very eyes.
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  Commander Berthold: So today we rise up.
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  Commander Berthold: We rise up against our
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  Commander Berthold: oppression and the terrorism of
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  Commander Berthold: the bastard that enacted it on
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  Commander Berthold: this city.
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  Commander Berthold: We rise up for our homes, for our families, for everything we
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  Commander Berthold: have built for ourselves.
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  Commander Berthold: We rise for Isla Newman.
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  Bartruvious: Her fine speech indeed, Commander Berthold.
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  Bartruvious: Now let me offer my words in return.
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  Commander Berthold: But truly I give you this final warning.
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  Commander Berthold: Release the barricades on the door and surrender yourself and
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  Commander Berthold: will take you into custody.
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  Bartruvious: Let me stop you right there, my good man.
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  Bartruvious: You and I know we're far too deep into all of this to
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  Bartruvious: possibly put a stop to it.
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  Bartruvious: Now, to the people of Isla Numis, you have known me as
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  Bartruvious: Professor Sartruvus, teacher of Abjuration Magic here at the
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  Bartruvious: College of Magic.
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  Bartruvious: But after today, you will know me by a new title bar of Numis.
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  Bartruvious: And whatever lies beyond the great sea.
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  Bartruvious: The beam of magical energy you see behind me is a part of a
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  Bartruvious: device my benefactor has assisted me in the creation of.
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  Bartruvious: You see, the fools at this
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  Bartruvious: school saw fit to take the
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  Bartruvious: complexities of magic in what is
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  Bartruvious: possible within its vast
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  Bartruvious: intricacies, and hide it behind
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  Bartruvious: a mass of rules, regulations and
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  Bartruvious: restrictions.
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  Bartruvious: But I never let those stop me.
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  Bartruvious: Oh no. I dove deep within the studies of these forbidden
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  Bartruvious: rituals and spells, and discovered so many hidden
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  Bartruvious: secrets tucked away under the prohibitive label of dark magic.
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  Bartruvious: Well, I'll show them this very magic they kept secret will be
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  Bartruvious: revealed to all in the form of my ascendance to godhood, where
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  Bartruvious: I will reign supreme over evil and whatever other realms are
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  Bartruvious: ripe for the taking.
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  Bartruvious: But never fear, my good
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  Bartruvious: citizens, for I am a benevolent
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  Bartruvious: deity.
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  Bartruvious: I would see fit that my home domain and its people succeed.
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  Bartruvious: After all, you were cheated by these unfair stipulations on the
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  Bartruvious: possibilities of magic as well.
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  Bartruvious: So while your foolish commander offers me the foolish options of
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  Bartruvious: surrender, when I assure you I will not be accepting, I offer
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  Bartruvious: you a choice in return.
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  Bartruvious: You see, although I can be a
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  Bartruvious: benevolent ruler, I am also a
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  Bartruvious: jealous one.
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  Bartruvious: And I don't take kindly to insubordination.
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  Bartruvious: So if you would like to be a part of what I am creating and
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  Bartruvious: want to thrive under my rule, do your rising God a favor and give
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  Bartruvious: this makeshift army of minimally trained guards and volunteers a
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  Bartruvious: bit of trouble, would you?
• 9:17
  Bartruvious: Some of my students stand amongst you and will be more
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  Bartruvious: than happy to assist.
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  Narrator: With the shadowy tendrils of his
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  Narrator: offer outstretched, the dark
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  Narrator: magician steps back into his
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  Narrator: lair to finish his forbidden
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  Narrator: ritual, leaving the citizens of
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  Narrator: Isla Numis to decide how they
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  Narrator: will proceed.
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  The King: Commander, are we prepared for the assault?
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  Commander Berthold: We are.
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  Commander Berthold: I am afraid I am getting word from the North Squadron that a
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  Commander Berthold: group of citizens have grouped together and are flanking our
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  Commander Berthold: soldiers from behind.
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  Commander Berthold: Sire.
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  The King: I see the sorcerer's words have
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  The King: already penetrated those weak of
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  The King: mind.
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  The King: Nevertheless, now is the time to act.
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  Commander Berthold: Yes, Your Majesty.
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  Commander Berthold: Bring out the battering rams.
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  Narrator: Although the soldiers pound away
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  Narrator: at the doors of the school, it's
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  Narrator: important that we step back in
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  Narrator: time to what was going on inside
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  Narrator: the spire.
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  Narrator: As the sorcerer was giving his monologue as the self-proclaimed
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  Narrator: soon to be God of Elah gave light to his coming plan.
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  Narrator: Out on the open balcony,
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  Narrator: Silverson continued to observe
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  Narrator: from the rafters inside and saw
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  Narrator: a strange spectacle a hooked
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  Narrator: rope softly latching itself to
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  Narrator: the railing of the balcony
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  Narrator: opposite the one the villain was
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  Narrator: speaking from.
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  Narrator: Seconds later, a group of six
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  Narrator: creatures crawled their way up
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  Narrator: the rope and into the room below
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  Narrator: her.
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  Commander Berthold: All right, team, you already know what to do.
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  Commander Berthold: Zeke spits.
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  Commander Berthold: Barnabas, go disable the device.
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  Commander Berthold: The rest of you, procure a hiding spot and prepare to
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  Commander Berthold: ambush the sorcerer.
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  Commander Berthold: On my mark.
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  Commander Berthold: Go!
• 11:00
  Narrator: As the team of strangers rush to take their places, Silver Song
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  Narrator: wondered if this might be her time to act.
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  Narrator: She stretched out her magic to the creature who seemed to be
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  Narrator: leading the charge, creating a message within his mind.
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  Silversong: I am a friend amidst the shadows, and I am here to help.
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  Narrator: The leader of this misfit crew.
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  Narrator: Paused for a moment and takes a quick glance around the room,
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  Narrator: attempting to find the source of this voice in his mind.
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  Narrator: Unable to spot silver song amidst the shadows, he shuffles
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  Narrator: to his hiding spot and responds via the voice in his head.
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  Commander Berthold: My men are disabling his machine
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  Commander Berthold: as we speak, but they will need
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  Commander Berthold: time.
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  Commander Berthold: And I fear our attack may not be enough.
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  Commander Berthold: If you can capture his attention
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  Commander Berthold: while my men spring their
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  Commander Berthold: attack.
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  Commander Berthold: It would be greatly appreciated.
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  Silversong: I most certainly can.
• 11:50
  Narrator: As the sorcerer outside
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  Narrator: finalizes his offer to the
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  Narrator: citizens of Island and steps
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  Narrator: back into the room, he is
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  Narrator: startled by the sound from above
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  Narrator: him.
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  Bartruvious: Who goes there?
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  Bartruvious: The shadows cannot protect you forever.
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  Bartruvious: Right shall illuminate all.
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  Bartruvious: There you are.
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  Bartruvious: Well, well, well.
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  Bartruvious: I had wondered if strong had come alone.
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  Bartruvious: I had no idea the Thieves Guild
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  Bartruvious: would be willing to send two of
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  Bartruvious: their finest leaders to
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  Bartruvious: challenge me.
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  Bartruvious: You know, I had debated whether or not I would allow the guild
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  Bartruvious: to continue once I ascend to godhood, or if I would eliminate
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  Bartruvious: it and its members.
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  Bartruvious: It's obvious to me now that those involved are unwilling to
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  Bartruvious: be a part of the kingdom I am creating, and therefore I will
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  Bartruvious: see to their destruction, which admittedly will be much easier
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  Bartruvious: without you around.
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  Commander Berthold: Now.
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  Bartruvious: You've defeated me.
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  Bartruvious: It's only a matter of time until
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  Bartruvious: my device has fully charged and
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  Bartruvious: I.
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  Zeke: The machine has been disabled.
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  Zeke: Chief.
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  Bartruvious: What you cannot.
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  Commander Berthold: Good work team.
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  Commander Berthold: Now let's get this guy tied up
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  Commander Berthold: and present him to Commander
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  Commander Berthold: Berthold.
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  Bartruvious: But but but this.
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  Bartruvious: Cannot.
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  Bartruvious: Be. I was.
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  Bartruvious: Promised.
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  Bartruvious: I would.
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  Bartruvious: Become.
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  Bartruvious: A god.
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  Silversong: And now you will be nothing.
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  Silversong: This one is for strength.
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  Commander Berthold: Wait. This isn't how it's done.
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  Silversong: We in the Thieves Guild are used to taking on dirty jobs.
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  Silversong: We understand that sometimes
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  Silversong: things need to be done outside
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  Silversong: of the confines of the law, and
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  Silversong: we're willing to take the bad
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  Silversong: rep from it if it means that it
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  Silversong: gets done.
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  Silversong: The members of the Assassin's Guild feel the same way.
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  Silversong: Trust me.
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  Silversong: I used to be a member there.
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  Commander Berthold: I can't let my men and I take
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  Commander Berthold: credit for the direction this
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  Commander Berthold: has taken.
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  Commander Berthold: We don't want blood on our hands.
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  Commander Berthold: And I don't imagine you're gonna
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  Commander Berthold: stick around and accept credit
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  Commander Berthold: yourself when the commander gets
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  Commander Berthold: here.
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  Silversong: Tell them what you want.
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  Silversong: I don't care.
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  Silversong: We in the Thieves Guild have
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  Silversong: always been villainized by this
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  Silversong: city.
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  Silversong: And taking down this wannabe dictator wouldn't change that.
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  Silversong: You know that as well as I.
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  Commander Berthold: Before you go.
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  Silversong: Yes.
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  Commander Berthold: Thank you for taking the hit.
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  Commander Berthold: If you hadn't created such a distraction, my men would have
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  Commander Berthold: been an added risk.
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  Commander Berthold: I may not agree with how you ended things, but you have our
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  Commander Berthold: thanks for your support.
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  Silversong: Well, thank you.
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  Silversong: In return for the healing, my wings feel much better now.
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  Silversong: By the way, before I go, I must ask, who are you people?
• 15:35
  Silversong: Mercenaries from the Guild.
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  Silversong: Some sort of specialists from the King's Guard.
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  Commander Berthold: Just concerned citizens with a
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  Commander Berthold: bit more training than your
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  Commander Berthold: average guard.
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  Silversong: Impressive.
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  Narrator: As Silver Song spreads her wings and flies from the room and into
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  Narrator: the skies above Isla Numis, the remaining individuals proceed to
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  Narrator: pick up the body of the would be overlord of their beloved city.
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  Narrator: But something stops them in their tracks.
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  Zeke: The machine.
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  Zeke: It's being pulled away.
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  Commander Berthold: Can someone stop.
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  Zeke: It?
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  Commander Berthold: Karria is casting something.
• 16:23
  Karria: I'm trying.
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  Karria: Chief.
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  Karria: It's too strong.
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  Commander Berthold: Damn it!
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  Commander Berthold: What was that?
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  Karria: Must have been whoever Vitruvius benefactor was.
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  Karria: They must have reclaimed the machine.
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  Commander Berthold: I'll get to the bottom of that.
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  Commander Berthold: But for now, let's focus on the
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  Commander Berthold: task at hand and get this one to
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  Commander Berthold: Commander Berthold.
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  Narrator: With that, our team of unlikely
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  Narrator: heroes hauled the deceased
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  Narrator: sorcerer outside and presented
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  Narrator: the villain to the king and his
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  Narrator: commander.
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  Narrator: The city was overjoyed that the villain had been stopped, and
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  Narrator: the terrifying tyrant was brought to an end.
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  Narrator: Many of the students who had
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  Narrator: sided with the professor calling
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  Narrator: themselves the Eliminators,
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  Narrator: claiming they would eliminate
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  Narrator: the restrictions put on magic,
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  Narrator: were arrested for their
• 17:18
  Narrator: association within the terrorist
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  Narrator: group.
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  Narrator: There were still those out there that believed the sorcerer to be
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  Narrator: correct in his path into the ways of dark magic and the acts
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  Narrator: of terrorism put on those calling themselves the
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  Narrator: Eliminators would continue for years to come.
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  The King: Are Chief Waters.
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  The King: I'm glad you could make it.
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  The King: Please have a seat.
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  Commander Berthold: Your Majesty, I can't express just how much of an honor it is
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  Commander Berthold: to meet you.
• 18:00
  Commander Berthold: I'm such a big fan.
• 18:01
  The King: Oh, fiddle Faddle.
• 18:02
  The King: Enough with the pleasantries.
• 18:04
  The King: You did my city a great favor.
• 18:06
  The King: And therefore it is I who is honored that you are here.
• 18:09
  Commander Berthold: I couldn't have done it without my team, Your Majesty.
• 18:11
  The King: Indeed.
• 18:12
  The King: You and your team accomplished something.
• 18:14
  The King: I fear that our army of guards
• 18:15
  The King: may not have been equipped to
• 18:16
  The King: handle.
• 18:17
  The King: No offense, Bertolt.
• 18:19
  The King: Well, in response to what you
• 18:21
  The King: and your team were able to
• 18:22
  The King: accomplish.
• 18:22
  The King: I would like to offer you a proposition.
• 18:24
  Commander Berthold: Your Majesty.
• 18:26
  The King: You see, I fear this is far from the first incident of its kind
• 18:30
  The King: we can expect to experience in our fine city.
• 18:33
  The King: In fact, we've already started
• 18:34
  The King: receiving reports of eliminator
• 18:36
  The King: activities from here to the
• 18:37
  The King: Gotham District.
• 18:39
  The King: The Beast Gang's activity had
• 18:40
  The King: been on the rise since their
• 18:41
  The King: leader, Grogan, has passed, and
• 18:43
  The King: the Thieves Guild has been up to
• 18:44
  The King: increased shenanigans as they
• 18:46
  The King: seek a replacement for Strong
• 18:47
  The King: Paw.
• 18:48
  The King: And some new group of steampunk psychopaths have organized a
• 18:51
  The King: cult out in Wakandas.
• 18:53
  The King: The City Guard is a phenomenal
• 18:55
  The King: day to day police force, but
• 18:56
  The King: they are not equipped for these
• 18:57
  The King: new dangers taking root in our
• 18:59
  The King: city.
• 19:00
  The King: So that brings me to your summoning.
• 19:02
  The King: I'm seeking to create a new organized task force that
• 19:05
  The King: specializes in handling these strange new problems.
• 19:09
  The King: And so I'm turning to you, hoping that you can help me in
• 19:12
  The King: the establishment, development and training of this force.
• 19:16
  Commander Berthold: Well, I must say, this is a huge honor, Your Majesty.
• 19:20
  Commander Berthold: I only fear that I may not be
• 19:22
  Commander Berthold: sufficiently equipped to lead
• 19:24
  Commander Berthold: it.
• 19:24
  The King: Nonsense, waters.
• 19:26
  The King: I had Berthold do a little looking into your background.
• 19:29
  The King: Member of the Mercenaries Guild for three years before your job
• 19:32
  The King: on the wave.
• 19:33
  The King: Spear, which you served on for a
• 19:35
  The King: decade before becoming the
• 19:36
  The King: captain.
• 19:37
  The King: Now you're back on land and you're a backup for the Misfit
• 19:40
  The King: Munch's Blood ball team.
• 19:41
  The King: And you fought for prophet in
• 19:43
  The King: the Coliseum five times,
• 19:45
  The King: actually.
• 19:46
  Commander Berthold: Six times now, Your Majesty.
• 19:48
  The King: Six times.
• 19:49
  The King: Incredible.
• 19:51
  The King: Did you hear that, Bertholdt?
• 19:52
  The King: Six times.
• 19:54
  The King: What a lad.
• 19:56
  The King: Needless to say, it's an incredible roster that showcases
• 19:59
  The King: your skills both in leadership and in combat.
• 20:03
  The King: You're the perfect candidate to
• 20:04
  The King: get this organization off the
• 20:06
  The King: ground.
• 20:07
  Commander Berthold: Well, I'd be a fool to say no,
• 20:09
  Commander Berthold: Your Majesty, but I must ask, do
• 20:12
  Commander Berthold: you have a name for this secret
• 20:14
  Commander Berthold: police force you've already
• 20:15
  Commander Berthold: picked out?
• 20:16
  The King: Actually, Bertholdt and I have
• 20:18
  The King: been debating that, and we just
• 20:19
  The King: can't quite come to an
• 20:20
  The King: agreement, since the
• 20:21
  The King: organization won't have a
• 20:22
  The King: specific singular purpose per
• 20:24
  The King: se.
• 20:25
  The King: And it will also need to be a
• 20:26
  The King: fairly secret task force as
• 20:28
  The King: well.
• 20:29
  The King: I want to ensure that those in
• 20:30
  The King: this room and those who exist
• 20:31
  The King: within it, are the only ones
• 20:33
  The King: aware, for fear that there are
• 20:34
  The King: some in power within this city
• 20:36
  The King: who are part of the
• 20:37
  The King: organizations that I mentioned
• 20:38
  The King: previously.
• 20:40
  The King: And the last thing I want is for
• 20:41
  The King: them to get their grubby hands
• 20:43
  The King: on it.
• 20:43
  Commander Berthold: What about a blank space?
• 20:48
  The King: Hey, now, I like that quite a lot.
• 20:50
  The King: It has an air of mysteriousness about it.
• 20:53
  The King: What do you think of blank space, Bertolt?
• 20:56
  Commander Berthold: It's fine.
• 20:58
  The King: That's the best you'll get out
• 20:59
  The King: of the grouch, so it must be
• 21:00
  The King: good.
• 21:01
  The King: Blank space.
• 21:02
  The King: Yes, I quite like it.
• 21:36
  Narrator: Eight years later, and the
• 21:39
  Narrator: secret police organization known
• 21:41
  Narrator: as Blank Space has established
• 21:42
  Narrator: strong roots in the City of Elah
• 21:44
  Narrator: being an instrumental part of
• 21:46
  Narrator: keeping evil at bay without
• 21:48
  Narrator: their assistance.
• 21:50
  Narrator: The King fortunes would have
• 21:52
  Narrator: continued his rampage through
• 21:54
  Narrator: the city, causing even more
• 21:55
  Narrator: death and destruction than he
• 21:57
  Narrator: already had.
• 21:58
  Narrator: The Central Stark district would have fallen to the massive rock,
• 22:01
  Narrator: the origins of which are still unknown to this day, and
• 22:04
  Narrator: multiple crime syndicates would have taken over the city.
• 22:07
  Narrator: Time and time again, causing indescribable chaos.
• 22:11
  Narrator: They proved time and time again
• 22:13
  Narrator: that their allegations align
• 22:14
  Narrator: with the kingdom they serve, and
• 22:16
  Narrator: continue to seek justice for
• 22:18
  Narrator: anything that conflicts with
• 22:20
  Narrator: those ideals.
• 22:21
  Narrator: It is at this very moment, in fact, that the organization is
• 22:25
  Narrator: seeking to infiltrate the group known as the Legionnaires, who
• 22:28
  Narrator: have developed a strange cult fascinated with mechanical
• 22:32
  Narrator: enhancements thanks to the ever growing technological
• 22:34
  Narrator: discoveries over the past years.
• 22:36
  Narrator: Blank Space has picked two of their finest new recruits to
• 22:40
  Narrator: take part in a mission to permeate the cult.
• 22:43
  Narrator: Find out about the
• 22:44
  Narrator: organisation's largest schemes
• 22:46
  Narrator: and take them down from the
• 22:48
  Narrator: inside.
• 22:50
  Narrator: The two agents names you may be
• 22:52
  Narrator: familiar with Stephen McGriddle
• 22:55
  Narrator: and feather McGregor, more
• 22:57
  Narrator: commonly known as McGriddle and
• 23:00
  Narrator: Lil Sauce.
• 23:01
  Narrator: These two agents begin their
• 23:02
  Narrator: initiation within the
• 23:04
  Narrator: Legionnaires Gotham
• 23:05
  Narrator: headquarters.
• 23:08
  Lil Sauce: You don't think they're gonna make us chop off our arms and
• 23:11
  Lil Sauce: replace them with, like, mega arms, do you?
• 23:14
  McGriddle: I sure hope not.
• 23:16
  McGriddle: I like my arm.
• 23:17
  Lil Sauce: I can't imagine trying to sort
• 23:18
  Lil Sauce: of, like, make sauce with an
• 23:20
  Lil Sauce: alarm.
• 23:21
  Lil Sauce: Plus, I bet the city from the source would, like, rust the
• 23:24
  Lil Sauce: heck out of it.
• 23:25
  Lil Sauce: Oh, no!
• 23:29
  Octavia Hawthorne: Quiet down.
• 23:30
  Octavia Hawthorne: Initiates, we're beginning the inauguration now.
• 23:36
  Octavia Hawthorne: I assume you're all here because you've heard that it's possible
• 23:40
  Octavia Hawthorne: to achieve eternal life.
• 23:46
  Octavia Hawthorne: Well, it is possible.
• 23:48
  Octavia Hawthorne: So far, we've been unable to successfully achieve the feat.
• 23:55
  Octavia Hawthorne: Quiet.
• 23:57
  Octavia Hawthorne: Although no one has currently achieved it, we believe the
• 24:01
  Octavia Hawthorne: theory to be factual.
• 24:03
  Octavia Hawthorne: It is possible to achieve eternal life by replacing our
• 24:08
  Octavia Hawthorne: mortal coils with those mechanical in nature.
• 24:12
  Octavia Hawthorne: Although we've had great success in replacing arms, legs and
• 24:17
  Octavia Hawthorne: other such ligaments in an attempt to achieve what we refer
• 24:20
  Octavia Hawthorne: to as total replacement, we have yet to succeed in a complete
• 24:25
  Octavia Hawthorne: transfer of the mind.
• 24:27
  Octavia Hawthorne: Now, we do have promising research on this current hiccup
• 24:32
  Octavia Hawthorne: being led by my incredible and beloved mistress, Lady Maxwell.
• 24:38
  Octavia Hawthorne: In fact, her leadership and groundwork are the spearhead to
• 24:42
  Octavia Hawthorne: the entire concept this organization revolves around.
• 24:46
  Octavia Hawthorne: She is.
• 24:48
  Octavia Hawthorne: What do you want?
• 24:50
  Legionnaires Initiate: When will we get to meet Lady Maxwell?
• 24:54
  Octavia Hawthorne: You would do well to keep my mistress name out of your mouth,
• 24:57
  Octavia Hawthorne: you impudent little maggot!
• 24:59
  Octavia Hawthorne: As if you would ever be so lucky
• 25:02
  Octavia Hawthorne: to even make a passing glance at
• 25:05
  Octavia Hawthorne: my mistress.
• 25:06
  Octavia Hawthorne: You are nothing to her.
• 25:07
  Octavia Hawthorne: Not even the dust amidst the ground on which she walks.
• 25:11
  Legionnaires Initiate: I'm. I'm so sorry.
• 25:13
  Legionnaires Initiate: I won't ask again.
• 25:15
  Octavia Hawthorne: You would all do well to refrain from speaking the names of those
• 25:19
  Octavia Hawthorne: leading our organization.
• 25:21
  Octavia Hawthorne: We don't want to alert the
• 25:23
  Octavia Hawthorne: authorities to what we're doing
• 25:25
  Octavia Hawthorne: here.
• 25:25
  Octavia Hawthorne: After all, if they go down, then
• 25:28
  Octavia Hawthorne: none of us stands a chance at
• 25:30
  Octavia Hawthorne: total replacement.
• 25:32
  Octavia Hawthorne: Now, on to your task at hand.
• 25:35
  Octavia Hawthorne: In order to be initiated into
• 25:37
  Octavia Hawthorne: the Legionnaires, you will need
• 25:39
  Octavia Hawthorne: to fulfill three separate
• 25:41
  Octavia Hawthorne: trials.
• 25:43
  Octavia Hawthorne: Trial one Percival Ironsides,
• 25:47
  Octavia Hawthorne: owner of Steam Way carriages,
• 25:49
  Octavia Hawthorne: and Lady Isabella Fairchild,
• 25:51
  Octavia Hawthorne: owner of Noble Metal Steeds
• 25:53
  Octavia Hawthorne: Transportation, have both
• 25:55
  Octavia Hawthorne: developed some impressive
• 25:57
  Octavia Hawthorne: technology, which they squander
• 25:58
  Octavia Hawthorne: away on their mechanized
• 26:00
  Octavia Hawthorne: carriages.
• 26:01
  Octavia Hawthorne: To make matters worse, they have
• 26:04
  Octavia Hawthorne: chosen to lock this machinery
• 26:05
  Octavia Hawthorne: behind copyrights and patents
• 26:07
  Octavia Hawthorne: that keep us from accessing this
• 26:09
  Octavia Hawthorne: valuable technology.
• 26:11
  Octavia Hawthorne: You will need to break into their facility and steal the
• 26:14
  Octavia Hawthorne: documents outlining their designs so that we can reproduce
• 26:18
  Octavia Hawthorne: it for our needs.
• 26:19
  Octavia Hawthorne: I will break you up into even
• 26:21
  Octavia Hawthorne: teams, each of which will
• 26:23
  Octavia Hawthorne: attempt to rob one of the two
• 26:25
  Octavia Hawthorne: facilities.
• 26:27
  Octavia Hawthorne: This increases the likelihood
• 26:28
  Octavia Hawthorne: that at least one team succeeds
• 26:30
  Octavia Hawthorne: and returns with the desired
• 26:32
  Octavia Hawthorne: technology.
• 26:34
  Octavia Hawthorne: Does anyone have a preference of
• 26:36
  Octavia Hawthorne: which facility their team will
• 26:38
  Octavia Hawthorne: take?
• 26:39
  McGriddle: I'd like to lead a team of noble metal steeds, if I may.
• 26:42
  Octavia Hawthorne: State your name.
• 26:43
  McGriddle: Initiate McGriddle.
• 26:45
  McGriddle: Ma'am.
• 26:46
  Octavia Hawthorne: Your quick response and enthusiasm has been noted.
• 26:49
  Octavia Hawthorne: McGriddle.
• 26:50
  Octavia Hawthorne: Keep it up.
• 26:52
  Octavia Hawthorne: As a reward, I will allow you to
• 26:54
  Octavia Hawthorne: choose your team members who
• 26:56
  Octavia Hawthorne: will accompany you on this
• 26:57
  Octavia Hawthorne: mission.
• 26:58
  McGriddle: If I may, I think that myself
• 27:00
  McGriddle: and my friend here should be
• 27:01
  McGriddle: enough manpower to handle the
• 27:03
  McGriddle: job.
• 27:04
  McGriddle: Smaller numbers equals better stealth, after all.
• 27:06
  Octavia Hawthorne: Your desire for efficiency is
• 27:08
  Octavia Hawthorne: commendable, but success of this
• 27:10
  Octavia Hawthorne: mission is of high importance to
• 27:12
  Octavia Hawthorne: the organization.
• 27:13
  Octavia Hawthorne: And it is my professional opinion that three members will
• 27:17
  Octavia Hawthorne: be better than two.
• 27:19
  Octavia Hawthorne: You?
• 27:20
  Brody: Yes, ma'am.
• 27:20
  Octavia Hawthorne: I will partner you with these two to steal the blueprints from
• 27:24
  Octavia Hawthorne: noble metal steeds.
• 27:25
  Octavia Hawthorne: See that you are a contributing member of their team.
• 27:28
  Brody: Understood.
• 27:29
  Octavia Hawthorne: Wonderful.
• 27:30
  Octavia Hawthorne: The rest of you will be assigned to steam carriages.
• 27:34
  Octavia Hawthorne: You have forty eight hours to procure these documents and
• 27:38
  Octavia Hawthorne: place them in my hands.
• 27:40
  Octavia Hawthorne: How you get these documents is of little importance to me.
• 27:44
  Octavia Hawthorne: But there will be consequences for those who fail once this
• 27:48
  Octavia Hawthorne: task is complete.
• 27:50
  Octavia Hawthorne: We will move on to the second trial.
• 27:58
  Lil Sauce: Yo, are we really gonna rob this place?
• 28:01
  McGriddle: We've got this in the bag.
• 28:02
  McGriddle: My dad is friends with the owner, Isabella.
• 28:04
  McGriddle: I'll just tell her we're working on a police gig, and we need her
• 28:07
  McGriddle: to make up some fake plans.
• 28:08
  McGriddle: Then we just break in and steal those.
• 28:10
  McGriddle: Piece of cake.
• 28:12
  Lil Sauce: Perfect.
• 28:12
  Brody: I guess we'll be working together.
• 28:15
  Brody: The name's Brody.
• 28:16
  McGriddle: Nice to meet you, Brody.
• 28:17
  McGriddle: I McGriddle.
• 28:18
  McGriddle: And this is my good friend sauce.
• 28:21
  Brody: Is that really your name?
• 28:22
  Lil Sauce: Well, my girl and I have been
• 28:24
  Lil Sauce: making and selling sauces since
• 28:26
  Lil Sauce: we were kids, so really more of
• 28:28
  Lil Sauce: a nickname.
• 28:30
  Lil Sauce: But I use it more than my real name now, so I see.
• 28:34
  Brody: I'm sure we'll have plenty of
• 28:35
  Brody: time to go over real names later
• 28:37
  Brody: since we seem to be stuck with
• 28:39
  Brody: each other.
• 28:40
  Brody: But for now, do you two have any particular directions on the
• 28:44
  Brody: plan for this mission?
• 28:45
  McGriddle: I've been working that out, actually.
• 28:48
  McGriddle: I live in the same district as noble metal steeds, so I've got
• 28:52
  McGriddle: a pretty good idea of their facility and layout.
• 28:54
  Brody: Ah, that's why you picked it.
• 28:57
  McGriddle: Exactly.
• 28:57
  McGriddle: They have a pretty high fence around their building.
• 29:00
  McGriddle: I think that if we climb that, there's a portion that attaches
• 29:03
  McGriddle: to the garage, which means we can get to the rooftop.
• 29:06
  McGriddle: From there, we lower ourselves
• 29:07
  McGriddle: into the lobby, and then it's
• 29:08
  McGriddle: just a matter of getting into
• 29:09
  McGriddle: the office and finding the
• 29:10
  McGriddle: documents.
• 29:11
  Lil Sauce: I've got some lockpicking experience that should help us
• 29:14
  Lil Sauce: get into the office in a lockbox, if it's in one.
• 29:17
  Lil Sauce: If it's a safe with a combination lock, I probably
• 29:21
  Lil Sauce: won't be much help.
• 29:21
  McGriddle: I don't have much experience with those either.
• 29:24
  McGriddle: We might have to cross our
• 29:24
  McGriddle: fingers and hope that's not a
• 29:26
  McGriddle: concern.
• 29:27
  McGriddle: Unless you can crack a safe.
• 29:28
  Brody: Brody never tried, but I'll give it a shot.
• 29:32
  Brody: What's the worst that can happen?
• 29:34
  McGriddle: Well, I don't know how much you
• 29:35
  McGriddle: guys know about the vehicle
• 29:36
  McGriddle: industry, but Steinway and Noble
• 29:39
  McGriddle: metal seats are in a pretty
• 29:40
  McGriddle: intense rivalry that's gotten a
• 29:42
  McGriddle: bit dirty over the last couple
• 29:43
  McGriddle: of years, so I'm sure they both
• 29:45
  McGriddle: have their respective security
• 29:46
  McGriddle: measures installed.
• 29:48
  Lil Sauce: Oh, it just keeps getting tougher and tougher.
• 29:51
  McGriddle: I'm pretty confident we'll be able to handle it.
• 29:53
  Brody: I don't imagine you all want to put this off.
• 29:56
  Brody: Shall we attempt it tonight?
• 29:58
  Brody: If we get inside and things are over our head, we can flee and
• 30:02
  Brody: better prepare to do it again the next night.
• 30:04
  McGriddle: Sounds good to me.
• 30:06
  Narrator: The remainder of the day passed too quickly for sauce, who
• 30:08
  Narrator: nervously tried to focus on a new sauce recipe he and
• 30:11
  Narrator: McGriddle had been trying to figure out for months.
• 30:14
  Narrator: He made very little progress on it.
• 30:16
  Narrator: Unable to focus his thoughts
• 30:18
  Narrator: about tonight's mission flooded
• 30:20
  Narrator: his mind.
• 30:22
  Narrator: Joining Blank Space was supposed to be an opportunity to stop
• 30:25
  Narrator: crime in the city, not contribute to it.
• 30:27
  Narrator: But he was starting to realize
• 30:29
  Narrator: that in order to enforce the
• 30:30
  Narrator: rules, you sometimes had to
• 30:32
  Narrator: break them.
• 30:33
  Narrator: As dusk fell over the city, he
• 30:35
  Narrator: made his way to the Asgardia
• 30:37
  Narrator: district, a block away from
• 30:38
  Narrator: their target destination, where
• 30:40
  Narrator: McGriddle was already waiting
• 30:42
  Narrator: for him.
• 30:43
  Lil Sauce: So did you talk to your contact?
• 30:45
  McGriddle: Isabella?
• 30:46
  McGriddle: Oh, yeah.
• 30:47
  McGriddle: It's all worked out.
• 30:48
  McGriddle: She left fake plans on her desk in a cheap lockbox.
• 30:51
  McGriddle: This is going to be.
• 30:53
  McGriddle: Oh. Hey, Brody.
• 30:56
  Brody: Hey, guys.
• 30:57
  Brody: Are we all set?
• 30:59
  McGriddle: Hey. Nice robe.
• 31:00
  McGriddle: This is gonna be perfect for lowering us down into the lobby.
• 31:03
  Brody: Well, I didn't want you guys to
• 31:06
  Brody: think I wasn't going to
• 31:06
  Brody: contribute.
• 31:07
  McGriddle: Absolutely not.
• 31:09
  McGriddle: This is gonna be a big help.
• 31:10
  McGriddle: All right.
• 31:11
  McGriddle: They've been closed for about an hour now, so I'm pretty sure
• 31:14
  McGriddle: everyone is gone.
• 31:15
  McGriddle: Who is ready to scale the fence?
• 31:17
  Lil Sauce: Let's do it.
• 31:19
  Narrator: The trio easily scaled the fence and walks the narrow path to the
• 31:23
  Narrator: garage's rooftop and leap onto the roof of the adjacent office.
• 31:27
  McGriddle: All right, this is the opening to the lobby.
• 31:30
  Lil Sauce: This is a chimney.
• 31:33
  McGriddle: Yeah, and we're going to slide down it.
• 31:35
  McGriddle: What are you scared of, a little soot?
• 31:39
  McGriddle: Yeah.
• 31:40
  Brody: Rope is tied off.
• 31:42
  Brody: Let's drop in.
• 31:44
  Lil Sauce: All right, let's go.
• 31:51
  Lil Sauce: Not to criticize your plan, griddle, but I feel like they're
• 31:55
  Lil Sauce: going to be suspicious tomorrow morning when they notice
• 31:58
  Lil Sauce: footprints leading from their chimney into the office.
• 32:02
  Brody: I think I've got something for this, actually.
• 32:05
  McGriddle: Oh, nice fresh towels.
• 32:07
  Brody: Just make sure they end up back in my bag.
• 32:10
  Brody: We don't want to leave them behind as evidence, of course.
• 32:13
  McGriddle: Brody to the rescue once again.
• 32:16
  McGriddle: Now, on to the office.
• 32:17
  McGriddle: Did you bring your lock picking kit?
• 32:19
  McGriddle: Source?
• 32:19
  Lil Sauce: Got it.
• 32:20
  Lil Sauce: Right here.
• 32:21
  Lil Sauce: Let me at that door.
• 32:23
  Brody: Shouldn't we check for traps?
• 32:25
  McGriddle: I think we should be fine.
• 32:27
  Brody: How would you know that?
• 32:28
  McGriddle: I'm sure most of the traps are
• 32:29
  McGriddle: outside to keep people from
• 32:31
  McGriddle: getting in.
• 32:32
  McGriddle: And we bypassed all that by taking the roof.
• 32:34
  Brody: Seems pretty convenient that they left the roof clear.
• 32:37
  McGriddle: No need to overthink it.
• 32:39
  McGriddle: Got it.
• 32:40
  McGriddle: See?
• 32:40
  McGriddle: Easy peasy.
• 32:42
  Brody: Let's be cautious.
• 32:43
  Brody: What?
• 32:43
  Brody: We open.
• 32:45
  Brody: We don't want to set off any alarms.
• 32:46
  McGriddle: Hey, I bet it's in that lock box on the desk.
• 32:49
  Brody: Wait. Shouldn't we.
• 32:50
  Lil Sauce: I can take care of that.
• 32:53
  Lil Sauce: Got it.
• 32:54
  McGriddle: Nice. That was easy.
• 32:56
  Brody: Too easy.
• 32:59
  Lil Sauce: Do you think these are it?
• 33:01
  McGriddle: I mean, these look like schematics to me.
• 33:04
  McGriddle: If they're not the right ones, that's on the recruiter, not us.
• 33:07
  Lil Sauce: Sweet.
• 33:08
  Lil Sauce: Let's get out of here, then.
• 33:09
  Lil Sauce: Back through the chimney.
• 33:11
  Brody: Does anyone else think this was a bit too racy?
• 33:13
  McGriddle: Back up.
• 33:15
  Brody: Something seems a bit off about this.
• 33:24
  Narrator: The next day went by with
• 33:26
  Narrator: McGriddle and sauce giving their
• 33:28
  Narrator: report to Blank Space Chief, who
• 33:30
  Narrator: acknowledged their clever plan
• 33:31
  Narrator: and gave them permission to
• 33:32
  Narrator: proceed forward with the
• 33:33
  Narrator: infiltration of the
• 33:34
  Narrator: Legionnaires.
• 33:36
  Narrator: Meanwhile, Brody ran through everything that had happened in
• 33:39
  Narrator: his head, although with the fact that he had scoped the vehicle
• 33:43
  Narrator: facility early the day of the robbery and remembered seeing
• 33:46
  Narrator: McGriddle entering the front door of the office, something
• 33:49
  Narrator: just wasn't adding up here.
• 33:52
  Narrator: Perhaps it was worth reporting to the recruiter.
• 33:55
  Narrator: Finally, the forty eight hours
• 33:57
  Narrator: were up and members of both
• 33:58
  Narrator: teams returned.
• 33:59
  Narrator: It was obvious that Steinway Kerridge's team didn't fare
• 34:02
  Narrator: nearly as well as Mcgriddles.
• 34:04
  Narrator: Their bodies covered in horrible burns and one member was no
• 34:09
  Narrator: longer with them.
• 34:12
  Marleen: Um, unfortunately, Holly didn't make it.
• 34:18
  Octavia Hawthorne: That is quite unfortunate.
• 34:20
  Octavia Hawthorne: Did you manage to steal the requested plans, though?
• 34:26
  Octavia Hawthorne: Well, young Polly's sacrifice was not for nothing, as it has
• 34:30
  Octavia Hawthorne: paved the way for your team to move on to the second trial.
• 34:34
  Octavia Hawthorne: You have completed your first task.
• 34:36
  Octavia Hawthorne: And what about your team?
• 34:39
  McGriddle: It was no sweat.
• 34:41
  Octavia Hawthorne: HMM. How interesting.
• 34:43
  Octavia Hawthorne: You've brought me plans without a scratch on you.
• 34:47
  McGriddle: I guess stealth missions are a specialty.
• 34:49
  Octavia Hawthorne: So it would seem.
• 34:52
  Octavia Hawthorne: I'm surprised we were able to
• 34:53
  Octavia Hawthorne: get you before the Thieves Guild
• 34:55
  Octavia Hawthorne: did.
• 34:56
  McGriddle: Well, eternal riches doesn't mean much unless you have
• 34:59
  McGriddle: eternal life to spend it.
• 35:01
  Octavia Hawthorne: Undeniable logic, to be sure.
• 35:03
  Octavia Hawthorne: Well, now that everyone is here, we will move on to the next
• 35:07
  Octavia Hawthorne: task, one with a major increase in the lethality of failure
• 35:12
  Octavia Hawthorne: within the Wakhan district.
• 35:14
  Octavia Hawthorne: I'm sure many of you may be familiar with the Temple of
• 35:17
  Octavia Hawthorne: Reverence, the worship place of the goddess Lumina.
• 35:21
  Octavia Hawthorne: Without getting too deep into it, the leaders of our
• 35:24
  Octavia Hawthorne: organization are planning a raid on their facility in hopes of
• 35:28
  Octavia Hawthorne: retrieving a special artifact necessary for our endeavors.
• 35:33
  Octavia Hawthorne: Unfortunately, the temple's guardian, Ulric Ironfist, stands
• 35:38
  Octavia Hawthorne: in the way of that.
• 35:40
  Octavia Hawthorne: He's a powerful dwarven warrior who creates a bit of a problem
• 35:44
  Octavia Hawthorne: for our leaders.
• 35:46
  Octavia Hawthorne: With him out of the way, we
• 35:48
  Octavia Hawthorne: would be able to not only
• 35:49
  Octavia Hawthorne: retrieve the necessary artifact,
• 35:52
  Octavia Hawthorne: but potentially remove the
• 35:54
  Octavia Hawthorne: church from being a thorn in our
• 35:56
  Octavia Hawthorne: side altogether.
• 35:58
  Octavia Hawthorne: This is an assassination mission.
• 36:02
  Octavia Hawthorne: I have designed as an ambush.
• 36:05
  Octavia Hawthorne: Iron Fist takes a lunch break
• 36:07
  Octavia Hawthorne: from his guard duties in the
• 36:09
  Octavia Hawthorne: church garden precisely at noon
• 36:11
  Octavia Hawthorne: each day.
• 36:12
  Octavia Hawthorne: I'm sending all of you to cloak
• 36:14
  Octavia Hawthorne: yourselves amidst the greenery
• 36:15
  Octavia Hawthorne: there in preparation for an
• 36:17
  Octavia Hawthorne: attack.
• 36:18
  Octavia Hawthorne: Given the combat capability shown by Marlene, given the
• 36:22
  Octavia Hawthorne: previous mission, I will be putting her in charge.
• 36:26
  Octavia Hawthorne: Marlene, I expect you will do well to instruct and lead your
• 36:30
  Octavia Hawthorne: team to success.
• 36:32
  Octavia Hawthorne: Great expectation is being
• 36:34
  Octavia Hawthorne: placed on you for this, which
• 36:37
  Octavia Hawthorne: can mean either great reward or
• 36:40
  Octavia Hawthorne: great punishment based on the
• 36:43
  Octavia Hawthorne: results.
• 36:45
  Octavia Hawthorne: I trust you will do everything in your power to ensure this
• 36:49
  Octavia Hawthorne: mission is a success.
• 36:51
  Marleen: Yes, ma'am.
• 36:52
  Octavia Hawthorne: Good. I will leave you to plan then.
• 36:58
  Lil Sauce: Do an assassination.
• 37:00
  Lil Sauce: This isn't something we can pull off.
• 37:02
  Lil Sauce: What the heck are we going to do?
• 37:03
  McGriddle: I know this is a tricky one.
• 37:06
  McGriddle: Maybe we can talk to the chief and see what he can offer.
• 37:08
  Marleen: All right, everyone.
• 37:10
  Marleen: For this mission, we're going to need perfect precision.
• 37:13
  Marleen: I'm going to teach you all a series of non-verbal cues I'll
• 37:15
  Marleen: be using during this mission.
• 37:17
  Marleen: That will ensure we all move in tandem.
• 37:19
  Marleen: Firstly, if a motion like this, it means attack.
• 37:23
  Marleen: Obviously, this one is pretty important since it represents
• 37:26
  Marleen: the goal of this mission.
• 37:28
  Marleen: If I do this, it means hold or don't.
• 37:35
  Narrator: After the meeting with Marlene
• 37:36
  Narrator: ended, the two secret agents
• 37:38
  Narrator: head back to Blank Space Office
• 37:40
  Narrator: in hopes that their leader,
• 37:41
  Narrator: simply referred to as the chief,
• 37:44
  Narrator: might have a solution for their
• 37:45
  Narrator: predicament.
• 37:46
  Commander Berthold: An assassination, you say?
• 37:48
  Commander Berthold: Well, I suppose it was only a matter of time before something
• 37:51
  Commander Berthold: like this came up.
• 37:52
  Commander Berthold: We don't have a lot of time to
• 37:53
  Commander Berthold: prepare, but I might have a
• 37:55
  Commander Berthold: solution.
• 37:56
  McGriddle: Do tell chief.
• 37:57
  Commander Berthold: I, uh, I used to have a thing for this illusion professor over
• 38:01
  Commander Berthold: at the College of Wizardry.
• 38:03
  Commander Berthold: Rebecca Van Bridge.
• 38:05
  Lil Sauce: Was dating stories from the chief.
• 38:08
  Commander Berthold: All right, all right, simmer down.
• 38:10
  Commander Berthold: It was short lived.
• 38:12
  McGriddle: What happened?
• 38:13
  Commander Berthold: Well, that's actually what I'm getting to.
• 38:14
  Commander Berthold: If you'd give me five seconds.
• 38:17
  McGriddle: Sorry, sorry.
• 38:18
  Commander Berthold: Anyways, long story short.
• 38:21
  Commander Berthold: I had this big date planned for the two of us.
• 38:24
  Commander Berthold: And when I met up with her, she was acting strange.
• 38:27
  Commander Berthold: Couldn't remember past conversations distant compared
• 38:30
  Commander Berthold: to previous dates.
• 38:31
  Commander Berthold: Just generally off, right?
• 38:33
  Commander Berthold: Well, afterwards I trailer back
• 38:35
  Commander Berthold: to the college and there's two
• 38:36
  Commander Berthold: of her.
• 38:38
  Commander Berthold: Turns out I went on a date with
• 38:39
  Commander Berthold: a simulacrum of the original
• 38:40
  Commander Berthold: Rebecca.
• 38:41
  Lil Sauce: SIM, who was.
• 38:43
  Commander Berthold: Simulacrum.
• 38:45
  Commander Berthold: Basically, an illusory clone
• 38:47
  Commander Berthold: looks the same for the most
• 38:48
  Commander Berthold: part.
• 38:49
  Commander Berthold: Acts the same, all that stuff, but with certain limitations.
• 38:54
  Commander Berthold: Turns out she had a ritual she
• 38:55
  Commander Berthold: didn't want to miss that night,
• 38:56
  Commander Berthold: but also wanted to make our
• 38:57
  Commander Berthold: date.
• 38:58
  Commander Berthold: So this was her solution.
• 39:00
  Commander Berthold: Good intentions, but obviously things didn't work out.
• 39:03
  McGriddle: Interesting. I think I'm piecing together what you're getting at.
• 39:07
  McGriddle: We make a simulacrum of Iron Fist, kill it and go home
• 39:11
  McGriddle: completing the mission.
• 39:11
  Lil Sauce: Only downside is that they'll
• 39:13
  Lil Sauce: obviously know that we didn't
• 39:14
  Lil Sauce: get the real one when the
• 39:16
  Lil Sauce: leaders of the Legionnaires do
• 39:17
  Lil Sauce: the raid.
• 39:18
  Commander Berthold: I imagine they'll be too
• 39:19
  Commander Berthold: distracted by their losses after
• 39:20
  Commander Berthold: we sneak some agents into the
• 39:22
  Commander Berthold: temple in preparation for that
• 39:23
  Commander Berthold: raid.
• 39:24
  Commander Berthold: In fact, this might be the end of your secret mission.
• 39:27
  Commander Berthold: Assuming all goes well, we might just take this organization down
• 39:30
  Commander Berthold: the old fashioned way.
• 39:32
  McGriddle: Sounds great to me.
• 39:33
  Lil Sauce: Nice plan as always, chief.
• 39:34
  Commander Berthold: Guess that leaves me to go have a chat with my ex.
• 39:39
  Commander Berthold: Oh, boy.
• 39:39
  Lil Sauce: Oh, you.
• 39:40
  Lil Sauce: Chief.
• 39:40
  McGriddle: You got this, chief.
• 39:41
  McGriddle: We'll head out and prepare for tomorrow.
• 39:43
  Narrator: The two agents slept soundly
• 39:45
  Narrator: that night, knowing that they no
• 39:46
  Narrator: longer had to end an innocent
• 39:48
  Narrator: life in order to further their
• 39:49
  Narrator: goals.
• 39:50
  Narrator: The next day went fairly smooth.
• 39:52
  Narrator: They joined up with the gang of recruits and hid amidst the
• 39:55
  Narrator: bushes and flower patches awaiting their target.
• 40:03
  Narrator: Unbeknownst to the two, a
• 40:05
  Narrator: simulacrum still retains a
• 40:07
  Narrator: significant amount of the
• 40:08
  Narrator: original versions.
• 40:08
  Narrator: Power and Iron Fist was certainly a powerful adversary
• 40:13
  Narrator: as Marlene initiated the attack.
• 40:15
  Narrator: They found themselves locked
• 40:16
  Narrator: into an intense and incredible
• 40:19
  Narrator: battle.
• 40:20
  Narrator: Sausage McGriddle tried to
• 40:21
  Narrator: remain on the defensive, a
• 40:23
  Narrator: detail Brody took careful note
• 40:25
  Narrator: of.
• 40:26
  Narrator: Over the course of the battle, two of the recruits were
• 40:28
  Narrator: severely wounded and would inevitably be left behind and
• 40:31
  Narrator: captured by the local guard.
• 40:33
  Narrator: The remaining four recruits,
• 40:35
  Narrator: Marlene, McGriddle Source, and
• 40:37
  Narrator: Brody, were the only ones to
• 40:39
  Narrator: make it out and return to the
• 40:41
  Narrator: secret recruitment base of the
• 40:43
  Narrator: Legionnaires.
• 40:45
  Octavia Hawthorne: So a successful mission that's narrowed our potential recruits
• 40:49
  Octavia Hawthorne: down to only four.
• 40:51
  Octavia Hawthorne: Quite interesting.
• 40:53
  Octavia Hawthorne: Nearly perfect, in fact, as we have only two openings.
• 41:00
  Octavia Hawthorne: Silence.
• 41:02
  Octavia Hawthorne: Obviously, you've all seen enough of our operation that
• 41:06
  Octavia Hawthorne: even if you aren't offered a position within our
• 41:09
  Octavia Hawthorne: organization, you won't be permitted to leave.
• 41:13
  Octavia Hawthorne: If you catch my meaning.
• 41:16
  Octavia Hawthorne: Yes.
• 41:16
  Octavia Hawthorne: Recruit.
• 41:18
  Octavia Hawthorne: Brody.
• 41:19
  Brody: Mistress, I have reason to believe that McGriddle and Sauce
• 41:23
  Brody: are double agents.
• 41:26
  Octavia Hawthorne: This is a bold claim.
• 41:28
  Octavia Hawthorne: What proof do you have that this is true?
• 41:31
  Brody: During our first task, I witness
• 41:33
  Brody: McGriddle leaving the Noble
• 41:34
  Brody: Metal Steeds head office
• 41:35
  Brody: building.
• 41:37
  Brody: The infiltration was incredibly easy.
• 41:40
  Brody: Too easy.
• 41:42
  Brody: I believe he set things up.
• 41:44
  Brody: And the plans you were given
• 41:45
  Brody: were fakes, thus leading me to
• 41:47
  Brody: my initial concern that
• 41:48
  Brody: McGriddle was working against
• 41:50
  Brody: us.
• 41:52
  Brody: During our second task
• 41:53
  Brody: yesterday, both of them were on
• 41:55
  Brody: the defensive.
• 41:57
  Brody: Not only did this slow down the
• 41:59
  Brody: mission, but it also cost us two
• 42:01
  Brody: recruits in the process,
• 42:03
  Brody: recruits that actually care
• 42:05
  Brody: about the goals of the
• 42:06
  Brody: Legionnaires.
• 42:07
  Octavia Hawthorne: And how do you know that McGriddle wasn't just scoping
• 42:10
  Octavia Hawthorne: out the Noble Metal Steeds facility prior to the mission?
• 42:14
  Octavia Hawthorne: And how do you know that the two weren't strategically letting
• 42:17
  Octavia Hawthorne: others fall while weakening the adversary iron fist?
• 42:21
  Brody: I well.
• 42:24
  Octavia Hawthorne: Uh, well, wanting to rat our opposition to our organization
• 42:28
  Octavia Hawthorne: can be considered commendable.
• 42:31
  Octavia Hawthorne: It has to be backed up with
• 42:32
  Octavia Hawthorne: evidence, preferably physical
• 42:35
  Octavia Hawthorne: evidence.
• 42:36
  Octavia Hawthorne: With that being said, this makes
• 42:38
  Octavia Hawthorne: our third task that much more
• 42:40
  Octavia Hawthorne: interesting as it presents a
• 42:43
  Octavia Hawthorne: unique opportunity to ensure
• 42:45
  Octavia Hawthorne: this double crossing isn't an
• 42:47
  Octavia Hawthorne: issue.
• 42:49
  Octavia Hawthorne: We have to cull two of you.
• 42:51
  Octavia Hawthorne: The remaining two will be the stronger, more clever, and
• 42:55
  Octavia Hawthorne: therefore more worthy of joining up with the Legionnaires.
• 42:59
  Octavia Hawthorne: You've all proven yourselves as the cream of the crop.
• 43:02
  Octavia Hawthorne: So deciding which of you will move forward is a challenge.
• 43:06
  Octavia Hawthorne: So I will use a simple tactic.
• 43:09
  Octavia Hawthorne: A battle to the death.
• 43:11
  Octavia Hawthorne: Please, all of you, follow me.
• 43:21
  Octavia Hawthorne: Each of you will fight your
• 43:22
  Octavia Hawthorne: assigned opponent, one on one,
• 43:25
  Octavia Hawthorne: until your adversary ceases to
• 43:27
  Octavia Hawthorne: be alive.
• 43:28
  Octavia Hawthorne: Now, if I was a truly blackened soul.
• 43:31
  Octavia Hawthorne: I would pit the accuser against the accused.
• 43:35
  Octavia Hawthorne: But I prefer to work with a
• 43:37
  Octavia Hawthorne: darkened sense of clever
• 43:38
  Octavia Hawthorne: intelligence over a simple lust
• 43:41
  Octavia Hawthorne: for vileness.
• 43:42
  Octavia Hawthorne: So instead, Marlene and Brody
• 43:45
  Octavia Hawthorne: will be pitted against each
• 43:46
  Octavia Hawthorne: other, while sauce and McGriddle
• 43:48
  Octavia Hawthorne: will be on the opposite
• 43:50
  Octavia Hawthorne: opposition.
• 43:51
  Octavia Hawthorne: You are free to use whatever weapons along the walls, but
• 43:55
  Octavia Hawthorne: must stay within the boundaries of your half of the hall.
• 43:59
  Octavia Hawthorne: You are free to begin immediately.
• 44:02
  Lil Sauce: What's your bright idea to get out of this one?
• 44:05
  Lil Sauce: Uh.
• 44:06
  McGriddle: Just hold tight and I'll think of something.
• 44:07
  McGriddle: We'll just spar in the meantime.
• 44:26
  Octavia Hawthorne: It would seem we have our first
• 44:28
  Octavia Hawthorne: victor and newest member of the
• 44:31
  Octavia Hawthorne: Legionnaires.
• 44:32
  Octavia Hawthorne: Brody.
• 44:34
  Octavia Hawthorne: Congratulations.
• 44:35
  Octavia Hawthorne: May you achieve total replacement.
• 44:39
  Narrator: Our two remaining fighters,
• 44:41
  Narrator: sausage McGriddle, continued
• 44:42
  Narrator: their sparring for nearly an
• 44:44
  Narrator: hour.
• 44:44
  Narrator: The two perfectly matching each
• 44:46
  Narrator: slash and parry with the same as
• 44:49
  Narrator: if locked in an intricate and
• 44:51
  Narrator: well-trained dance.
• 44:52
  Narrator: As time slowly itched on.
• 44:54
  Narrator: The recruiter became impatient.
• 44:56
  Lil Sauce: She. She's starting to look kind of pissed.
• 44:59
  Lil Sauce: We need a plan.
• 45:00
  McGriddle: I'm still working on it.
• 45:02
  McGriddle: Every angle either blows our cover or gets us both killed.
• 45:05
  Lil Sauce: We blow our cover.
• 45:06
  Lil Sauce: There's a high chance they'll know something was off about
• 45:08
  Lil Sauce: fighting against Ironfist.
• 45:10
  Lil Sauce: And the chief's ambush at the temple will fail.
• 45:12
  McGriddle: You don't think I know that?
• 45:14
  Lil Sauce: Okay, let's go through this.
• 45:17
  Lil Sauce: We could escape.
• 45:18
  McGriddle: Blows our cover.
• 45:20
  McGriddle: They're not stupid.
• 45:21
  McGriddle: They'll see right through that.
• 45:22
  McGriddle: Fight them.
• 45:23
  McGriddle: Assuming we win that fight, we'd be blowing our cover.
• 45:26
  Lil Sauce: Crap. I can't think of anything else.
• 45:27
  Lil Sauce: Great.
• 45:28
  McGriddle: Now you're on my level.
• 45:29
  Octavia Hawthorne: I grow weary of this, Brody.
• 45:32
  Octavia Hawthorne: They're obviously two evenly matched.
• 45:34
  Octavia Hawthorne: Why don't you weigh the scales a little?
• 45:38
  Brody: Yes, ma'am.
• 45:39
  Lil Sauce: Wait. Why?
• 45:45
  McGriddle: Well, I guess that narrows down the options.
• 45:49
  Lil Sauce: What are you talking about?
• 45:50
  McGriddle: The only option left, the only
• 45:52
  McGriddle: one that makes sure the mission
• 45:53
  McGriddle: doesn't fail.
• 45:55
  McGriddle: One of us has to take the fall.
• 45:57
  Lil Sauce: No, it can't be all that's left.
• 46:00
  McGriddle: Whether it is or not, that's the hand we've been dealt, buddy.
• 46:04
  Lil Sauce: Look, it's just like when you'll recover from this.
• 46:08
  McGriddle: I could sure, but you're going to make sure I don't.
• 46:12
  Lil Sauce: What?
• 46:13
  McGriddle: You and I both know they're not going to accept.
• 46:16
  McGriddle: This fight is over until one of us is dead.
• 46:20
  McGriddle: I drew the short straw.
• 46:22
  McGriddle: So it's up to you to finish the
• 46:23
  McGriddle: job and make sure the mission
• 46:25
  McGriddle: succeeds.
• 46:26
  Lil Sauce: What are you talking about?
• 46:28
  Lil Sauce: Here.
• 46:30
  McGriddle: Let me make it easy for you.
• 46:32
  Narrator: McGriddle reaches up his hand and places the dagger into
• 46:36
  Narrator: source's feathered claws.
• 46:38
  Narrator: He guides him to turn the blade
• 46:39
  Narrator: downwards, aiming into
• 46:41
  Narrator: Mcgriddles chest.
• 46:42
  McGriddle: There. Now all I have to do is push.
• 46:46
  McGriddle: Make sure you do it quickly.
• 46:48
  McGriddle: You'd be a real jerk if you made me suffer.
• 46:50
  Lil Sauce: Are you nuts?
• 46:51
  Lil Sauce: I'm not gonna do this.
• 46:54
  McGriddle: You make me do everything.
• 47:00
  McGriddle: Check up on my dad every once in a while, would you?
• 47:15
  Octavia Hawthorne: Well, it looks like we have a winner here.
• 47:18
  Octavia Hawthorne: I doubt a double crosser would risk losing his ally.
• 47:22
  Octavia Hawthorne: Congratulations, recruits.
• 47:24
  Octavia Hawthorne: Source.
• 47:24
  Octavia Hawthorne: You're officially a member of the Legionnaires.
• 47:27
  Octavia Hawthorne: I have made the necessary
• 47:29
  Octavia Hawthorne: arrangements for your housing,
• 47:31
  Octavia Hawthorne: which will be here in the
• 47:32
  Octavia Hawthorne: recruitment facility until
• 47:33
  Octavia Hawthorne: you've graduated to an elite
• 47:35
  Octavia Hawthorne: member.
• 47:36
  Octavia Hawthorne: At which point you will be moved to our primary facility.
• 47:40
  Octavia Hawthorne: I will see both of you tomorrow morning.
• 47:43
  Octavia Hawthorne: Oh, be sure to have these messes cleaned up before then, or there
• 47:48
  Octavia Hawthorne: will be consequences.
• 48:13
  Narrator: As I'm sure you can imagine.
• 48:15
  Narrator: Sauce didn't get any sleep that night.
• 48:17
  Narrator: The sensation of the knife plunging into his friend's chest
• 48:20
  Narrator: encompassed his hand like an itching glove, constantly
• 48:24
  Narrator: haunting him with discomfort.
• 48:26
  Narrator: The next morning came and went with manual chore duties and
• 48:30
  Narrator: training on automaton repair.
• 48:32
  Narrator: They were essentially working
• 48:34
  Narrator: towards building their own
• 48:35
  Narrator: mechanical bodies, which would
• 48:36
  Narrator: someday replace their flesh and
• 48:38
  Narrator: blood.
• 48:39
  Narrator: At least that's what the Legionnaires claimed that night.
• 48:43
  Narrator: The recruiter who revealed
• 48:44
  Narrator: herself as Octavia Hawthorne,
• 48:46
  Narrator: right hand of the Legionnaires
• 48:48
  Narrator: Prime leader Cornelia Maxwell
• 48:51
  Narrator: and other leading members of the
• 48:52
  Narrator: Legionnaires went on their raid
• 48:54
  Narrator: to the Temple of Reverence as
• 48:56
  Narrator: planned.
• 48:57
  Narrator: They were unsuspecting of not
• 48:59
  Narrator: only Iron Fist still being alive
• 49:00
  Narrator: and ready for battle, but also a
• 49:03
  Narrator: secondary force of Blank space
• 49:05
  Narrator: agents.
• 49:06
  Narrator: Source.
• 49:06
  Narrator: Found a letter from the chief in his room the next morning,
• 49:08
  Narrator: summoning him to his office.
• 49:10
  Narrator: Octavia never showed up for
• 49:12
  Narrator: morning training, so source was
• 49:13
  Narrator: able to easily slip out of the
• 49:15
  Narrator: facility unnoticed.
• 49:21
  Lil Sauce: Yes, chief.
• 49:22
  Commander Berthold: Thus glad to see you.
• 49:24
  Commander Berthold: I have some great news and some slightly less great news.
• 49:28
  Commander Berthold: Where's McGriddle?
• 49:30
  Lil Sauce: He, uh.
• 49:32
  Lil Sauce: He didn't make it.
• 49:33
  Commander Berthold: Well, I can see that.
• 49:35
  Commander Berthold: Where is he?
• 49:36
  Commander Berthold: That's so important.
• 49:37
  Lil Sauce: Well, chief, he's he's dead.
• 49:42
  Commander Berthold: Uh, I'm so sorry.
• 49:45
  Commander Berthold: Source.
• 49:46
  Commander Berthold: I. I didn't know.
• 49:48
  Lil Sauce: He did it.
• 49:49
  Lil Sauce: To retain our cover to make sure the surprise attack would work.
• 49:53
  Lil Sauce: So please tell me that it was a success.
• 49:56
  Lil Sauce: And a sacrifice wasn't for nothing.
• 49:58
  Commander Berthold: Source. Truly, I'm so sorry.
• 50:03
  Commander Berthold: McGriddle was an excellent agent.
• 50:05
  Commander Berthold: His contributions to Blank Space
• 50:06
  Commander Berthold: have been instrumental to our
• 50:08
  Commander Berthold: success.
• 50:10
  Commander Berthold: He will be missed.
• 50:12
  Lil Sauce: Yeah, he will be.
• 50:13
  Commander Berthold: The defense of the temple was,
• 50:15
  Commander Berthold: for all intents and purposes, a
• 50:17
  Commander Berthold: success.
• 50:19
  Commander Berthold: We were able to stop them from
• 50:20
  Commander Berthold: procuring the artifact they were
• 50:22
  Commander Berthold: after.
• 50:22
  Commander Berthold: We kept the staff of the temple
• 50:24
  Commander Berthold: alive, and we didn't lose any
• 50:26
  Commander Berthold: agents in the process except
• 50:28
  Commander Berthold: McGriddle.
• 50:29
  Commander Berthold: Right.
• 50:30
  Commander Berthold: Except McGriddle.
• 50:32
  Commander Berthold: The only downside is that they had this vehicle.
• 50:36
  Commander Berthold: It was massive and heavily armored.
• 50:39
  Commander Berthold: When they saw our force was too strong for them to overcome,
• 50:41
  Commander Berthold: they fled the scene.
• 50:43
  Commander Berthold: We were able to take down several of their members,
• 50:45
  Commander Berthold: though, and severely wounded their primary leaders.
• 50:48
  Commander Berthold: There was this one.
• 50:50
  Commander Berthold: We identified him as Adrian Ironsides.
• 50:53
  Commander Berthold: He was their main bodyguard.
• 50:54
  Commander Berthold: He used to be a local guard.
• 50:57
  Commander Berthold: We practically blew him to bits.
• 51:00
  Commander Berthold: I can't imagine he's still alive at this point, even though they
• 51:03
  Commander Berthold: hauled him away.
• 51:04
  Lil Sauce: Understood.
• 51:05
  Lil Sauce: So the threat still exists?
• 51:07
  Commander Berthold: Yes, but I can't imagine they're
• 51:09
  Commander Berthold: going to be making any big moves
• 51:11
  Commander Berthold: anytime soon.
• 51:13
  Lil Sauce: Bobby.
• 51:13
  Lil Sauce: I'll be heading back to their recruitment facility now.
• 51:16
  Commander Berthold: Well, hold tight there.
• 51:18
  Commander Berthold: Source.
• 51:19
  Commander Berthold: Without McGriddle.
• 51:20
  Commander Berthold: I don't want to send you in there without backup.
• 51:24
  Commander Berthold: We took care of the
• 51:25
  Commander Berthold: Legionnaires, at least for the
• 51:26
  Commander Berthold: time being.
• 51:27
  Commander Berthold: They're gonna suspect something is going on inside their ranks.
• 51:31
  Commander Berthold: I think it's best you lay low for a while, but I. No buts.
• 51:36
  Commander Berthold: We've already lost one good agent.
• 51:39
  Commander Berthold: I don't need to lose another.
• 51:41
  Commander Berthold: Take some time off.
• 51:43
  Commander Berthold: You need to process the loss of your partner.
• 51:46
  Commander Berthold: I'll get a hold of you once things have smoothed over.
• 51:48
  Commander Berthold: We can discuss our next move then.
• 51:50
  Commander Berthold: Understood.
• 51:51
  Lil Sauce: Yes, sir.
• 51:52
  Lil Sauce: Understood, sir.
• 51:54
  Commander Berthold: Good. Maybe start up that sauce
• 51:57
  Commander Berthold: stand in the medium mill
• 51:58
  Commander Berthold: district.
• 51:59
  Commander Berthold: We can always use more eyes and ears there.
• 52:01
  Commander Berthold: It's far enough from the reach
• 52:02
  Commander Berthold: of the Legionnaires, but still
• 52:04
  Commander Berthold: keeps you in the blank space
• 52:06
  Commander Berthold: work.
• 52:06
  Commander Berthold: Plus, I know you've been trying
• 52:08
  Commander Berthold: to perfect that sauce recipe you
• 52:10
  Commander Berthold: and McGriddle have been working
• 52:11
  Commander Berthold: on.
• 52:12
  Lil Sauce: Is that an order, sir?
• 52:15
  Commander Berthold: Yes, that's an order.
• 52:20
  Narrator: As this dream, a reminder of your past fades to white, you
• 52:25
  Narrator: awaken in your room.
• 52:27
  Narrator: You look around at the allies that you've made only a couple
• 52:30
  Narrator: weeks ago that you've grown quite close to.
• 52:34
  Narrator: These strange aliens that, although sometimes they've been
• 52:37
  Narrator: a bit frustrating to deal with, have showcased elements of your
• 52:41
  Narrator: old friend McGriddle, Kato's strength and battle capacity.
• 52:45
  Narrator: Maki's inquisitive and clever
• 52:47
  Narrator: mind des's stealth and cunning
• 52:49
  Narrator: and rodrick's lack of fear and
• 52:51
  Narrator: charismatic nature all of them,
• 52:53
  Narrator: although certainly criminals,
• 52:55
  Narrator: have shown a willingness to
• 52:57
  Narrator: fight for an end goal you all
• 52:59
  Narrator: now share.
• 53:00
  Narrator: Stop whatever scourge is plaguing the city and escape to
• 53:04
  Narrator: a better place.
• 53:05
  Narrator: These thoughts bring you comfort
• 53:07
  Narrator: as you lay your feathery head
• 53:09
  Narrator: back down against the equally
• 53:11
  Narrator: feathery pillows and you notice
• 53:13
  Narrator: something.
• 53:14
  Narrator: That sensation that's haunted your hand for years.
• 53:17
  Narrator: That feeling of plunging the dagger into your friend's heart
• 53:20
  Narrator: begins to lift.
• 53:22
  Narrator: You come to realize that it's
• 53:24
  Narrator: not a ghost of McGriddle that's
• 53:25
  Narrator: haunted you with this sensation
• 53:27
  Narrator: all these years, but your own
• 53:28
  Narrator: feelings that have chained it to
• 53:30
  Narrator: you.
• 53:30
  Narrator: But now those chains are unlocking and giving way for an
• 53:35
  Narrator: opportunity to make things right in the world again.
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