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Pirates in Etheros Episode 63 - Prisoner or Hostage · Chaotically Balanced

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  SPEAKER_01: Let's head into the adventure.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_01: Welcome, fellow adventurers, nerds, and neurodivergents.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_01: Sit back, stay hydrated, and prepare yourselves for tonight's adventure.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_01: For all of us,
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  SPEAKER_01: it has been a while since we have last recorded an episode,
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_01: but for all of you, it probably feels like it was just a week or two ago.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thank you all so much for sticking around this long we had.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_01: A lot of things come up in the past few weeks that delayed some
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  SPEAKER_01: of our episode releases for some time.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're hoping to try and get back on schedule here unless more life things happen.
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  SPEAKER_01: But without further ado, last we left off, secondhand souls split up and went out on the town.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_01: Joaquim and Krakka went out for food, drinks, and played some games of chance.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then they followed some sketchy guards,
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  SPEAKER_01: Joaquim actually spotting the guards and Krakka just spotting Joaquim.
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  SPEAKER_01: Deedle went shopping and then found Krakka and saw him following Wakim, so she followed him.
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  SPEAKER_01: Y'nor and Lala went out specifically to follow guards and track anyone out of the ordinary.
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  SPEAKER_01: With both groups tracking different guards,
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  SPEAKER_01: they each witnessed connecting sides of the same conversation.
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  SPEAKER_01: Upon further investigation,
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  SPEAKER_01: Y'nor realized that the guards were possibly undercover agents from the Iron Mist,
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  SPEAKER_01: or even the Iron Fist himself.
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  SPEAKER_01: She had a brief conversation with him, then regrouped with Lala.
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  SPEAKER_01: They both went to find the others,
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  SPEAKER_01: they exchanged stories,
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  SPEAKER_01: and planned what to do next while informing Kaida back at the Guildhall.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, we're just gonna pick up there.
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  SPEAKER_01: You guys are back in your Guildhall.
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  SPEAKER_01: You have just discussed all of this information with each other.
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  [music]
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  SPEAKER_01: You have to decide how you would like to proceed.
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  [music]
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  SPEAKER_00: We could knock him out and I can disguise you guys as him.
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  SPEAKER_01: Disguise us as who?
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  SPEAKER_00: The Shady Guards?
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  SPEAKER_03: I don't know if I could pass for that.
• 3:17
  SPEAKER_00: We just need the right code.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_03: I'm pretty confident I could pass for one of those guards.
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  SPEAKER_03: I heard enough of them.
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  SPEAKER_02: I could pass for a prisoner.
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_03: I could vouch for that.
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  SPEAKER_00: We just need a distraction to lure them away.
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  SPEAKER_03: I mean, I also do these distractions, so should I do the distraction or the other thing?
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_01: I thought we were going to contact General Malachi.
• 4:03
  SPEAKER_01: Now we're going off on a distraction espionage plan?
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, what are we going to tell him?
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_00: They look shady?
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_00: We need more.
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_03: Joaquin puts his hands up.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, okay.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_03: Let's backtrack for a moment.
• 4:18
  SPEAKER_03: We all found some shady guards.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_03: What do we want to do about it?
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_03: Weren't you and Yenor talking to them?
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, Joaquim,
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't think spoke to them,
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  SPEAKER_01: but, uh, Yenor spoke to someone who claimed to be important.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, who knows if they were actually telling the truth, though.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, either
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  SPEAKER_00: way, they can get in there.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we lure them away,
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  SPEAKER_00: steal their clothes, put them in a trash can, and then I disguise you as them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bada bing, bada boom, we walk right in and see what's going on.
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  SPEAKER_01: We don't know where they went.
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  SPEAKER_01: No one saw where they went after everyone left the alley.
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  SPEAKER_01: Everyone just kind of went to beat themselves back up instead of getting caught.
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  SPEAKER_00: That does throw a wrench in the plan.
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  SPEAKER_01: We could go to the building that you set on fire.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_00: Why would we go there?
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_00: Nobody set that building on fire.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_00: That building mysteriously burned down.
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  SPEAKER_03: Burst into flames, huh?
• 5:51
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: It spontaneously combusted.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_00: It happens to people.
• 5:54
  SPEAKER_00: It could definitely happen to buildings.
• 5:57
  SPEAKER_03: You're not wrong.
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  SPEAKER_03: So what are we doing about General Malachi?
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  SPEAKER_03: Did you guys talk to Ren?
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  SPEAKER_03: Is Ren getting ahold of Malakai?
• 6:10
  SPEAKER_03: Or are we supposed to go get ahold of Malakai?
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_03: Or what hear exactly about these guards?
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_01: As you're having this conversation, there's a loud pounding on your door.
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_00: Who can that be?
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  SPEAKER_00: Do we have a peephole?
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_01: No.
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  SPEAKER_01: No peephole.
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  SPEAKER_01: There are side windows.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like, windows next to the door.
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  SPEAKER_00: A little scurry and peep out the side window.
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  SPEAKER_01: Are you trying to remain hidden?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Curtain over the head.
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  SPEAKER_01: Lala, go ahead and roll a stealth check while Kroc is walking over to open the door.
• 7:04
  SPEAKER_00: To get my regular notes, because these hate me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's see if it works.
• 7:10
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, 14 plus 12.
• 7:13
  SPEAKER_01: No, that's a 2 plus 12.
• 7:15
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay, my bad.
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_00: The way it showed up.
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  SPEAKER_01: It showed up properly, yeah.
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_01: That's 2 plus 12, so you rolled a 14.
• 7:22
  SPEAKER_00: The way it showed up where I was looking at it.
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna Inspiration.
• 7:30
  SPEAKER_01: Those are rolling really fast.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_00: Thomas gave me his laptop.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, that's right.
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_01: You have a new laptop.
• 7:41
  SPEAKER_01: New to you laptop, but I mean, I fixed Thomas' laptop once, so, you know.
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_02: It's an Acer Nitro, right?
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_02: Those are nice.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's my backup.
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_01: I shouldn't say backup.
• 7:56
  SPEAKER_01: That's my downstairs laptop, and it runs great.
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  SPEAKER_01: That rolled really fast.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm used to your rolls taking like...
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_00: Hours, I know.
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  SPEAKER_01: 21, much better.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: You see...
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  SPEAKER_01: a...
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  SPEAKER_01: short, stocky, official-looking individual in like very ornate...
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  SPEAKER_01: Guard clothes, military uniform.
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  SPEAKER_01: You don't know which to pick.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then you see two other individuals standing on either side of him
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  SPEAKER_01: to just look like regular guards of some sort.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_00: These are not people I've seen before?
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_00: No.
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  SPEAKER_01: You don't recognize them.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_01: However, you do take note that there are a lot of people on the street that don't
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  SPEAKER_01: Look like they're doing much.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do they look hostile?
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  SPEAKER_01: They look like commoners,
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  SPEAKER_01: but they look like...
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  SPEAKER_01: You know what people look like when they're looking at something while trying not
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  SPEAKER_01: to appear like they're looking at something.
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  SPEAKER_00: The, like,
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  SPEAKER_00: loud whisper to Krakka as she catches him out of the corner of her eye walking to
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  SPEAKER_00: the door, like, That is clearly a hanging party.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't open the door.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're here to hang us.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_03: Well, I'm not gonna let them in.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's three of them.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and there's six of us.
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  SPEAKER_03: But they don't know that.
• 9:59
  SPEAKER_00: Does the window that I'm at open?
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_01: No, none of the windows open.
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_00: Goddammit.
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_00: I hate these medieval times.
• 10:09
  SPEAKER_01: You could break the window.
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not gonna break the window for these guys, then I can't shut it again.
• 10:19
  SPEAKER_00: She will yell at the glass and hope that they can hear, like, Halt!
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_00: Who goes there?
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_00: What do you want?
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_01: Krakka, are you still opening the door?
• 10:37
  SPEAKER_03: My hand would have been on the doorknob,
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  SPEAKER_03: but I would have stopped when she would have said something.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_03: That's basically what I was going to say.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_01: So, Krakka, you're reaching your hand out to the doorknob to open the door.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_01: Lala caught your attention real quick, so you paused, and then you hear her yell.
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  SPEAKER_01: You see them kind of lean into each other like they're whispering something
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  SPEAKER_01: in each other's ears.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_01: And then the short, stocky guy in the middle kind of waves the two other guys.
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  SPEAKER_01: And they stand back at attention.
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  SPEAKER_01: Excuse me, is this the esteemed guild hall of the secondhand souls?
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_00: It's to know.
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  SPEAKER_01: An interested party.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_00: That's big as fuck.
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  SPEAKER_00: Identify yourself, or we won't open the door.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I could open the door myself, but I was giving you the courtesy of knocking.
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_00: Opening the door yourself is trespassing, and we are allowed to shoot you in the face.
• 11:59
  SPEAKER_03: We are not officially opened yet.
• 12:01
  SPEAKER_03: If you need any assistance, there's a guild across the street that'll gladly help.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_01: You see the two guards behind him kind of lean over and whisper in each other's ears
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  SPEAKER_01: for a second.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then one of them leans in and whispers to this guy and he just kind of nods his head once.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_01: He takes off his hat, his officer's hat, quote unquote, and tucks it under his arm.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_00: Is he balding?
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_01: Make a perception check.
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_01: Make a balding check.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_00: What kind of check?
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_01: A perception check.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_01: I called it a balding check.
• 12:51
  SPEAKER_01: 23.
• 12:51
  SPEAKER_01: 23.
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_01: He's not balding, but his hairline does look like it has begun receding in his middle-aged age.
• 12:59
  [music]
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, we're here on official business of the council.
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_00: Weapons on the porch.
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_00: Or, uh, no.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_00: Weapons to the doorman.
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_00: And she, like, gestures at Kroka to, like, play along.
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_01: Fortunately, we don't carry weapons on our persons.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_01: We're only here to deliver messages.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_00: No magic?
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_01: You asked for weapons.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_00: And now I'm asking for magic.
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I can do this, and he makes a little light show in the window.
• 13:48
  SPEAKER_00: None of that shit.
• 13:49
  SPEAKER_00: Keep it to yourself.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_00: First sign of magic, and you're out on your butt, and we're keeping your pants in here.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_01: That's a very creative threat.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_01: I've heard a lot of threats in my day being a government official, but that one's creative.
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_01: Gotta give you that.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_00: She just kind of looks at Krakka and everybody else and shrugs.
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_00: At this point, they seem safe enough.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_01: Excuse me, Lala, and Kaida kind of leans around the corner,
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_01: trying to also protect the animals because one of them wants to fight and
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_01: the other one's just kind of excited.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_01: Figure out which one's which for yourself.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_01: Uh...
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_01: They never identified themselves.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_00: They're messengers.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_00: From the council.
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_01: Anyone can say that they're messengers.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, wouldn't they have badges?
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_00: I was gonna say, what do you want a badge?
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, everyone asks us for our badges.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_00: Slip your badges under the door!
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_01: I don't,
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_01: I don't,
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_01: your door is not high enough off the ground,
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_01: it's sealed,
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_01: and you see, like,
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_01: one of the tall guys kind of getting down,
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_01: like, trying to peek under the door, and Stanton just shakes his head no.
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_03: I, I open the door.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_03: You open the door.
• 15:31
  SPEAKER_03: The only way you guys will come in is if I see proper identification.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_03: Once I see proper identification,
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_03: I will allow each individual to
• 15:40
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• 15:52
  SPEAKER_01: So, they all nod to each other.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_01: The two guards in the back reach into their jacket pockets and pull out the...
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_01: Ishanian badge that you've seen on the council guards that were outside.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_01: The ones that showed that had badges on their actual jackets
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_01: as you were being escorted into the council chambers.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_01: And then the guy in the middle pulls out a badge out of his jacket pocket and kind
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_01: of just flips it down.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_01: He had it tucked up in.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_01: He flipped it down now.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_01: And he also pulls out a paper.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_01: Ah, thank you for finally opening the door for me.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_01: I have this for a, uh, Miss Greybreeze.
• 16:43
  SPEAKER_02: Hasn't been Miss in years.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_01: Mrs. Greybreeze?
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_01: Mrs. Greybreeze.
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_02: Inora will hold out her hand and walk up to the door.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_01: The other one.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_03: Remember, no magic if you want your pants.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know if I trust him near my wife.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_02: He's acting shady.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_02: I'll hand it to her, don't worry.
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_02: And you can watch me, but you can stay there.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_01: Unfortunately, I can only hand this document to the intended individual.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_01: Any other individual that touches this document will be incinerated.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_03: What part of no magic didn't you understand?
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_01: The document's been enchanted by its sender.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_02: See, you didn't inform us of that.
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_02: And that's shady.
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_01: If it gets handed to the intended individual, there's no magic.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_02: How'd you even know if she was here?
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_01: You're secondhand souls, are you not?
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_02: That doesn't mean we're here all the time.
• 17:47
  SPEAKER_02: She could be out to dinner right now.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_02: You're being rather presumptuous.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_01: You've been being followed.
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_02: No shit.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_01: All of you have been.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_02: No shit.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_01: So we kind of know where you are.
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_02: Creepy little fox, ain't ya?
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_01: May I?
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_00: I defy you to follow me.
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_00: Lala talks from behind the curtain.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_01: They don't have to come in.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_01: I will come up and grab the document.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, Wakim, do you still have your detect magic up?
• 18:26
  [music]
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_01: Hakeem?
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_00: He usually do.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I think he might.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_03: I'm sorry, go ahead one more time.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_01: Do you still have your detect magic up?
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_01: This document is enchanted with the Immolation fire spell.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_03: Oh.
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_03: And he literally says that.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_03: He's like, oh.
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_03: Odd stuff right there.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_01: You and Ynora watch as Kaida comes up and across and she reaches her hand out
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_01: to grab this document.
• 19:20
  [music]
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_01: Right as this document is being passed, Ynora, you hear Rakim go,
• 19:30
  [music]
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_02: Can I like push her back a little bit?
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you could stop her and kind of like hold her.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_02: I fling my arm out like a mom in the front seat.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_03: Hold on, if it's for her, then it won't burn.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_03: It's just going to burn everybody else if you touch it.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_01: You can only see the enchantment on it.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_01: You can't see the specifics.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, no?
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, never mind then.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_01: So detect magic only tells you the school of magic and an infinite item is magical.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_01: It's not identify, which will tell you the specifics.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_02: Can I use my monocle of identification real quick?
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_02: Just like flick it down over my eye?
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I don't say anything other than the oop.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_01: Let me check because you haven't used the monocle of identification in a very long time.
• 20:30
  [music]
• 20:43
  SPEAKER_01: You can either roll Arcana or Investigation.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I'm going to pick?
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_02: 26.
• 20:56
  [music]
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_01: Document has been enchanted with the Immolation spell.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_01: Level 9.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_01: For no specifications on said spell.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_02: Can I immediately whip my sword out?
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_01: You can.
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_02: I do so.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_01: It's going to be seen as an act of aggression.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_02: I'm just going to hold it.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_02: And I'm just going to look at him and say, explain yourself.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know what I'm explaining.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_01: I'm handing a document over.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_01: I was told this was for...
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_01: A Mrs. Gravery's and that it would only be handed to her and no one else would be injured.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_02: Told by who?
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_01: A private client.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_02: That's not good enough.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_03: Is this private client part of the council?
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_01: One second.
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_02: If it was a council, they'd have one of their personal guys bring it.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_03: Well, he said he was from the council.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_02: There's no specifications on that document.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_02: It's going to blow anyone else to bits.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_03: Let's see what the answer to the question is.
• 22:20
  [music]
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_01: Counselor Maz sent us.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_02: We didn't meet him, did we?
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_01: You did.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_02: Did we?
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_02: Which one was he?
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_01: He questioned you guys a lot.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, so he was the dick.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_03: Is he the one that Ellis shut down?
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_01: I believe so, yes.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_02: Do you know what is gonna happen if you hand that paper to anybody else?
• 23:03
  SPEAKER_01: I was told that it would immolate them.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_02: So you want to immolate my wife?
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_02: But he's touching it.
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_03: I was just thinking that.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_02: There are no specifications on that document.
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_02: I do not trust it.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_03: Well, you're already handling it.
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_03: So what if you just opened it and read it to us?
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, do that.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_02: That's a great idea, Kraotka.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_02: Open it and read it.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_01: You see his whole posture change.
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 23:51
  SPEAKER_01: From just this nice council person who's here delivering a thing
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_01: to just this sinister smirk
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_01: as he throws the document up into the air.
• 24:10
  [music]
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_02: Can I cast Command?
• 24:24
  SPEAKER_01: Sure.
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_01: On who?
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_02: Would catch?
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_02: Would catch work?
• 24:29
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, that's a single word.
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_01: To who?
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_02: The guy who just tossed it into the air.
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_01: What's the saving throw on that?
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_02: Wisdom 16.
• 24:40
  [music]
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_02: So in the air.
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_02: And he's fine.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_02: So I'm assuming he failed.
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_03: Can't hear him.
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_02: What the fuck was that?
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_02: Why are you throwing it?
• 25:39
  SPEAKER_00: Alex, you sound super far away.
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_03: How about now?
• 25:45
  SPEAKER_03: There you go.
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_00: Better.
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_01: He jumped up and he caught in midair.
• 25:52
  SPEAKER_01: And he was like... You told me to catch it.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_00: We already know you could touch it.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_02: Why are we throwing it?
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_02: What is your end game here?
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_01: How to complete a job?
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_01: More like, what are we getting?
• 26:21
  SPEAKER_02: What's the job?
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_02: How many of us are you supposed to get rid of?
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_01: You see his two friends have walked up to just the sides of both of the windows.
• 26:52
  SPEAKER_01: You have made some very powerful people very angry with your questions and your investigations.
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_02: Listen, a lot of people pay me to do this.
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_01: Some of those people might be paying you to do this to make sure you don't come back
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_01: from one of the jobs.
• 27:14
  SPEAKER_02: Unfortunately, we're kind of like cockroaches.
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_02: Do I think he was lying about who the document's from?
• 27:35
  SPEAKER_01: You can make an insight check.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_00: While that is happening, these folks who have approached my window, are they looking at me?
• 27:52
  SPEAKER_01: They're peeking in the window, but they're pressed against the wall.
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_01: So like they're not in front of the window, but they're keeping an eye on the window.
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_00: So I wouldn't be able to like dice their belts off, but we're not looking.
• 28:09
  SPEAKER_01: You'd have to break the window.
• 28:12
  SPEAKER_00: Still outside.
• 28:14
  SPEAKER_01: Haven't entered yet.
• 28:16
  SPEAKER_01: He was holding the paper in the threshold of the door.
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_02: So he was waiting to blow up the building.
• 28:23
  SPEAKER_02: Got it.
• 28:24
  SPEAKER_01: Your insight check was what?
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_01: Two eights!
• 28:27
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 28:30
  SPEAKER_02: Listen, that should be higher.
• 28:31
  SPEAKER_02: I got two infinity symbols.
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_03: Do I have permission to act on intuition?
• 28:42
  SPEAKER_01: Intuition?
• 28:43
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'm asking the group.
• 28:46
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, yeah, probably.
• 28:47
  SPEAKER_02: It's fine.
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 28:51
  SPEAKER_03: I am going to attempt to grab him, pull him in, close the door, and grapple him.
• 29:00
  [music]
• 29:06
  SPEAKER_03: That's... Just because I don't like his guys being so close to our windows.
• 29:11
  SPEAKER_01: So...
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_01: Go ahead and... You want to grab him?
• 29:23
  SPEAKER_01: Pull him in and grapple him.
• 29:27
  SPEAKER_03: Close the door in between the grapple.
• 29:31
  [music]
• 29:37
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm gonna have you make...
• 29:38
  [music]
• 29:47
  SPEAKER_01: An unarmed strike attack roll.
• 29:57
  SPEAKER_03: 22.
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_01: That will hit, though you do successfully grab him.
• 30:07
  SPEAKER_01: Now, to pull him in, you're going to need to make an athletics check.
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_03: We're not in combat, right?
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_03: We're not in combat, right?
• 30:24
  SPEAKER_01: No combat.
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_01: This is just what Krakow's trying to do in this instance.
• 30:28
  SPEAKER_03: Can I see what he's doing?
• 30:31
  SPEAKER_01: You can, but it is happening very quickly.
• 30:36
  SPEAKER_03: What would you like
• 30:36
  SPEAKER_01: to try to do?
• 30:41
  SPEAKER_03: Would I be able to...
• 30:44
  SPEAKER_03: So it's bonus action to summon...
• 30:48
  SPEAKER_03: A shadow, right?
• 30:54
  SPEAKER_03: I believe it's a bonus action.
• 30:56
  SPEAKER_01: It should be, yeah.
• 31:02
  SPEAKER_01: Kroc, roll your athletics check while Kima is doing this.
• 31:07
  SPEAKER_03: Because I would want to summon a shadow beneath the guy that he's grappling in order
• 31:16
  SPEAKER_03: to kind of I don't know, you know, like, I guess, help Krakka maneuver him inside.
• 31:28
  SPEAKER_03: If that's possible.
• 31:33
  SPEAKER_01: So, in the 18, Krakka used the inspiration.
• 31:37
  [music]
• 31:45
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• 32:02
  SPEAKER_01: As you are having this thought, Wakim, Rakka's got him inside.
• 32:07
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, never mind then.
• 32:10
  SPEAKER_01: He rolled low.
• 32:18
  SPEAKER_03: Actually, Akeem, continue, you know, a little bit more intimidation would be nice.
• 32:26
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 32:26
  SPEAKER_01: Akeem, you could still summon a shadow in this moment.
• 32:29
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, yeah, no, absolutely.
• 32:30
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, so as Kroka grapples and then pulls him inside,
• 32:34
  SPEAKER_03: Akeem will snap his fingers,
• 32:36
  SPEAKER_03: and a shadow is going to manifest from the dude that he grappled.
• 32:43
  SPEAKER_03: He's going to manifest from his shadow up.
• 32:47
  SPEAKER_03: And kind of loom in front of him.
• 32:49
  SPEAKER_03: I'll use an object interaction to close the door.
• 32:55
  SPEAKER_03: And then
• 32:59
  SPEAKER_03: will have the Shadow
• 33:03
  SPEAKER_03: try and wrap his tendrils around him.
• 33:07
  SPEAKER_01: Well, right now you can have, you can summon the Shadow and close the door.
• 33:13
  SPEAKER_01: In this moment.
• 33:15
  SPEAKER_01: The tendril wrapping will happen in the next phase, which is Kraka grappling him.
• 33:20
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 33:21
  SPEAKER_01: So right now you have the strato summoned and looming and you have
• 33:25
  SPEAKER_01: the door closed right as Kraka gets him in here.
• 33:28
  SPEAKER_00: Can I do something?
• 33:33
  SPEAKER_00: Sure.
• 33:35
  SPEAKER_00: As soon as Kraka has him inside and performs the grapple,
• 33:41
  SPEAKER_00: Lala will dart out from behind the curtain And stab him into, stab into his shoe.
• 33:49
  SPEAKER_00: She's not aiming, but depending on my role, probably gestures whether she gets a toe or two.
• 33:54
  SPEAKER_00: But she's gonna stab his foot to the floor through the shoe.
• 33:59
  SPEAKER_01: Are you trying to do damage or just pin?
• 34:04
  SPEAKER_00: She's just trying to pin his foot to the floor and be scary.
• 34:07
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 34:13
  SPEAKER_01: So this is going to be a multi-pronged event.
• 34:20
  SPEAKER_00: Well, he should have brought more people with him.
• 34:26
  SPEAKER_01: So, Krakka, you have him in here.
• 34:29
  SPEAKER_01: You can roll another athletics check, which will be contested for the grapple.
• 34:36
  SPEAKER_01: While that is happening...
• 34:38
  SPEAKER_01: Joaquin, you can have your shadow begin wrapping his tendrils around this individual.
• 34:48
  SPEAKER_01: As a, like...
• 34:53
  SPEAKER_03: I'm really just trying to help Krakka.
• 34:56
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, Krakka,
• 34:56
  SPEAKER_01: you could have...
• 34:58
  SPEAKER_01: You'd get free advantage on that,
• 34:59
  SPEAKER_01: so that would have only been one inspiration that you'd burned instead of two.
• 35:07
  SPEAKER_01: Because he's, uh, the shadow's giving you help.
• 35:10
  SPEAKER_01: And then Lala, I'm gonna have you make an attack roll with Nosferatu, most likely.
• 35:26
  SPEAKER_00: Yikes.
• 35:26
  SPEAKER_00: Inspiration.
• 35:27
  SPEAKER_01: What was that?
• 35:30
  SPEAKER_01: Did you get your physical dice?
• 35:33
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, it just came through now, yeah.
• 35:35
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, twice.
• 35:37
  SPEAKER_00: This is why I roll physical dice.
• 35:41
  SPEAKER_00: I will spend a low.
• 35:43
  SPEAKER_00: Holy fuck.
• 35:45
  SPEAKER_00: There we go.
• 35:47
  SPEAKER_01: 27.
• 35:47
  SPEAKER_01: Well, that will definitely hit.
• 35:49
  SPEAKER_01: If you're not trying to do damage, I will say you go through his foot.
• 35:55
  SPEAKER_01: It's like, and he is definitely pinned to the floor.
• 36:03
  SPEAKER_01: However, in your head, you're fresh blood.
• 36:07
  SPEAKER_00: Don't kill him yet.
• 36:09
  SPEAKER_00: Later.
• 36:10
  SPEAKER_00: You have to ask him questions.
• 36:13
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, so I can drink him later.
• 36:16
  SPEAKER_01: I can turn him into a husk?
• 36:18
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, but later.
• 36:20
  SPEAKER_00: Just a little, little sippy sippy, but then you gotta wait.
• 36:28
  SPEAKER_01: What happens if I turn him into a husk now?
• 36:31
  SPEAKER_00: I will not feed you for a month.
• 36:38
  SPEAKER_01: Wait.
• 36:38
  SPEAKER_01: I won't wait long.
• 36:43
  SPEAKER_01: I'll wait.
• 36:44
  SPEAKER_00: Good job.
• 36:47
  SPEAKER_01: Akraka, you have him grappled.
• 36:51
  SPEAKER_01: The shadows help.
• 36:54
  SPEAKER_01: Lalas has his foot stabbed into the ground.
• 36:58
  SPEAKER_01: However, there is lots of banging on the door.
• 37:02
  SPEAKER_03: Tell your men to back off.
• 37:03
  [music]
• 37:09
  SPEAKER_01: Over my dead body.
• 37:13
  SPEAKER_00: Those are the stakes, yes.
• 37:16
  SPEAKER_03: Yakeem, do you mind?
• 37:17
  [music]
• 37:25
  SPEAKER_03: Yakeem smiles, uh, and then kind of narrows his eyes at the, uh,
• 37:31
  SPEAKER_03: at our victim.
• 37:33
  SPEAKER_03: Um, and I will...
• 37:37
  SPEAKER_03: Victim, not prisoner?
• 37:42
  SPEAKER_03: Remains be seen.
• 37:43
  SPEAKER_03: We're going to... Is that because of what
• 37:46
  SPEAKER_01: happened to your last prisoner?
• 37:49
  SPEAKER_03: Let's first, let's focus here.
• 37:52
  SPEAKER_03: Let's mine Sliver.
• 37:54
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, you're going to mine Sliver him.
• 37:57
  SPEAKER_01: Intelligence?
• 37:58
  SPEAKER_01: Intelligence.
• 38:02
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 38:07
  SPEAKER_01: What's the DC?
• 38:09
  SPEAKER_03: Night Z.
• 38:11
  SPEAKER_01: That is what he rolled on the d20.
• 38:16
  SPEAKER_03: Son of a bitch.
• 38:20
  SPEAKER_03: I can't inspiration that, can I?
• 38:24
  SPEAKER_01: No, I can't.
• 38:25
  SPEAKER_01: No, you can't use inspiration for that, but you could use a lock.
• 38:30
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, do I have?
• 38:32
  SPEAKER_03: I think I do.
• 38:34
  SPEAKER_03: I kind of do.
• 38:36
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, okay, let's do that.
• 38:40
  [music]
• 38:48
  SPEAKER_03: I used a lot.
• 38:50
  SPEAKER_01: He fails.
• 38:52
  SPEAKER_03: All right.
• 38:53
  SPEAKER_03: So first, do a little damage.
• 38:57
  SPEAKER_01: Psychic damage, right?
• 38:59
  SPEAKER_03: Yep.
• 39:00
  SPEAKER_03: So, like, Joaquin kind of be like, hey.
• 39:03
  SPEAKER_03: And that kind of pierces in his head a little bit.
• 39:07
  SPEAKER_03: And then he has to, what, subtract a D4?
• 39:10
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 39:10
  SPEAKER_03: D4 from the next save.
• 39:13
  SPEAKER_03: Then we'll do bonus action...
• 39:18
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh,
• 39:21
  SPEAKER_03: buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh,
• 39:28
  SPEAKER_03: buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh,
• 39:34
  SPEAKER_03: buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh,
• 39:37
  SPEAKER_03: buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh,
• 39:42
  SPEAKER_01: buh, buh,
• 39:47
  SPEAKER_03: Wisdom save... 19.
• 39:51
  SPEAKER_01: With a minus d4.
• 39:52
  SPEAKER_01: With a minus d4.
• 39:53
  SPEAKER_03: Or use d4s, I have
• 40:02
  SPEAKER_01: to find one.
• 40:07
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know what number that is.
• 40:13
  SPEAKER_01: Rolled a one on the d4.
• 40:16
  SPEAKER_03: Oh.
• 40:17
  [music]
• 40:26
  SPEAKER_01: So he succeeds that one.
• 40:35
  SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna do it again.
• 40:42
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I'll just cast Suggestion one more time.
• 40:45
  SPEAKER_03: It kind of looks a little frustrating that he tries it again.
• 40:49
  SPEAKER_01: No minus d4 on this one, though, correct?
• 40:52
  SPEAKER_03: Correct.
• 40:53
  [music]
• 41:01
  SPEAKER_01: Just barely succeeds, but he succeeds.
• 41:04
  SPEAKER_03: Wow!
• 41:05
  SPEAKER_03: What the fuck?
• 41:06
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 41:08
  SPEAKER_01: A Mind Sliver on that roll would have made him fail.
• 41:13
  SPEAKER_03: Joachim looks very frustrated.
• 41:15
  SPEAKER_03: We're gonna do it one more time.
• 41:19
  SPEAKER_01: Before you do the third one.
• 41:21
  SPEAKER_01: Before you do the third one.
• 41:23
  SPEAKER_01: Kraka.
• 41:24
  SPEAKER_01: Because you're still against the door.
• 41:26
  SPEAKER_01: So all of you see this, but Kraka's right against the door.
• 41:30
  SPEAKER_01: This bolt cracks through the door.
• 41:40
  SPEAKER_03: How exactly am I restraining him?
• 41:44
  SPEAKER_03: Am I just holding his arms back?
• 41:46
  SPEAKER_03: Do I have my...
• 41:47
  SPEAKER_01: However, you decided that you were going to restrain him,
• 41:49
  SPEAKER_01: but his foot's anchored to the floor and he's got a shadow wrapped around him.
• 41:54
  SPEAKER_03: How tall is he?
• 41:57
  SPEAKER_01: He's...
• 42:00
  SPEAKER_01: Actually, how tall, he's probably shorter than almost all of you.
• 42:07
  SPEAKER_01: How tall is Lala?
• 42:08
  SPEAKER_01: Lala is 5'1".
• 42:09
  SPEAKER_01: Good, because you're the other real short character.
• 42:17
  SPEAKER_03: So can I... 4'8".
• 42:20
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, he's maybe a couple inches shorter than you, Kroken.
• 42:28
  SPEAKER_03: Can I switch the grapple to a chokehold?
• 42:34
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, that's a form of grapple, so yeah.
• 42:37
  SPEAKER_03: So like, and then I'll tighten around his neck and ask him, what was that?
• 42:43
  SPEAKER_03: And, you know, have your guys back off.
• 42:49
  SPEAKER_01: So, Joaquim, go ahead and are you doing suggestion one more time?
• 42:57
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, yeah, sure, we'll do the combo one more time.
• 43:00
  SPEAKER_03: So, uh, Mind Sliver as an action.
• 43:03
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 43:05
  SPEAKER_01: So we're gonna Mind Sliver, so that would be your Intelligence of 19?
• 43:09
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, sorry, I didn't mean to do that.
• 43:13
  SPEAKER_01: That's fine, Intelligence of 19.
• 43:23
  SPEAKER_01: He will fail that one, so he will take That damage.
• 43:30
  SPEAKER_03: And then do another, suspend another Font of Magic.
• 43:39
  SPEAKER_03: And yes, bonus action suggestion.
• 43:44
  SPEAKER_01: So that would be your Wisdom 19?
• 43:46
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 43:49
  SPEAKER_01: He doesn't need the minus d4, he fails.
• 43:52
  SPEAKER_01: Sweet.
• 43:54
  SPEAKER_01: So he rolled a 10 total.
• 43:57
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 43:58
  SPEAKER_03: Joaquin smiles and then looks at Kraka and kind of gives a little nod and says,
• 44:11
  SPEAKER_03: he looks at this guy and says,
• 44:12
  SPEAKER_03: from now on, you're going to answer all of our questions truthfully.
• 44:23
  SPEAKER_03: His men.
• 44:31
  SPEAKER_03: And then he just kind of looks at Croc and says, yeah, go ahead.
• 44:34
  [music]
• 44:45
  SPEAKER_03: Tell your guys to back off and I'll release my hold so you can talk.
• 44:53
  SPEAKER_01: He just starts laughing.
• 44:54
  [music]
• 45:00
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 45:02
  SPEAKER_01: He is still holding the paper that has emulation on it.
• 45:08
  SPEAKER_03: Who do you work for?
• 45:09
  [music]
• 45:15
  SPEAKER_01: No one knows his real name.
• 45:23
  So how do you contact him?
• 45:27
  SPEAKER_01: He contacts us.
• 45:29
  SPEAKER_01: Is it a he?
• 45:31
  SPEAKER_01: Might be an It.
• 45:32
  SPEAKER_01: We're not really sure.
• 45:34
  SPEAKER_00: Does It have a street name?
• 45:40
  SPEAKER_01: It is much larger than a street or a city or even a continent.
• 45:49
  SPEAKER_00: Jesus Christ, we're writing poetry here.
• 45:51
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, what do you call it?
• 45:58
  SPEAKER_03: How deep are the roots of this
• 46:03
  SPEAKER_01: Corporation you work for, let's just say.
• 46:07
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, one question at a time here.
• 46:09
  SPEAKER_01: I'm only one guy.
• 46:13
  SPEAKER_01: What do we call it?
• 46:18
  SPEAKER_01: The only way we know how to refer to it is the cloaked figure.
• 46:29
  SPEAKER_01: Do we work for?
• 46:33
  SPEAKER_01: We work for the ones that fight for freedom.
• 46:40
  SPEAKER_01: Go ahead, Lala.
• 46:43
  SPEAKER_00: That makes her think of the person from their dream.
• 46:49
  SPEAKER_00: I don't remember if we have a drawing.
• 46:53
  SPEAKER_01: You have a minor illusion that Wakim and Ynor have been able to do,
• 46:57
  SPEAKER_01: but you don't have a drawing now.
• 47:03
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, uh, okay.
• 47:05
  SPEAKER_00: You know, do you know the, uh, the guy from the dream?
• 47:12
  SPEAKER_00: Can you show him?
• 47:16
  SPEAKER_02: Can I minor illusion him?
• 47:18
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 47:19
  SPEAKER_02: I do so.
• 47:20
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, he just, I mean, he's looking at it.
• 47:25
  SPEAKER_01: He doesn't really have much of a choice.
• 47:35
  SPEAKER_01: Is there a question associated with this image or are we just making pictures now?
• 47:40
  SPEAKER_00: Familiar?
• 47:41
  SPEAKER_00: This the guy?
• 47:42
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, that's just a disembodied floating head with a cloak over it.
• 47:48
  SPEAKER_01: That could be my Uncle Sam.
• 47:51
  SPEAKER_01: That could be Aunt Marge.
• 47:56
  SPEAKER_01: I know I'm not getting out of here.
• 47:59
  SPEAKER_01: You guys have a reputation.
• 48:04
  SPEAKER_01: Last guy who didn't cooperate, you cut off his hands and feet.
• 48:12
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• 48:14
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• 48:37
  SPEAKER_01: All right, it's time to get back into the adventure.
• 48:44
  SPEAKER_02: And he's alive.
• 48:46
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I don't know why you kept him alive.
• 48:48
  SPEAKER_01: I'm here with a bomb and you're going to keep me alive?
• 48:50
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, okay.
• 48:52
  SPEAKER_03: Joaquin just gives the dirtiest looks to Yenor about when he mentions
• 49:02
  SPEAKER_03: the former individual.
• 49:06
  SPEAKER_02: We can give mercy where mercy is due.
• 49:17
  SPEAKER_01: Mercy has already been given by the cloaked one.
• 49:22
  SPEAKER_02: Then mercy shall be taken away.
• 49:27
  SPEAKER_01: And I will become one with him.
• 49:31
  SPEAKER_01: It?
• 49:32
  SPEAKER_01: I don't really know.
• 49:34
  SPEAKER_00: Oh god, it's a cult.
• 49:36
  SPEAKER_02: How did we get involved with a cult?
• 49:38
  SPEAKER_02: Do I know anything that would vibe with that?
• 49:43
  SPEAKER_02: Like when you die, you become absorbed into it.
• 49:47
  SPEAKER_01: Does that ring a bell
• 49:48
  SPEAKER_02: for any creatures?
• 49:49
  SPEAKER_01: You try thinking about it.
• 49:51
  SPEAKER_01: And you get this piercing headache.
• 49:53
  SPEAKER_01: So please make a constitution saving throw.
• 50:00
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, kind of like that.
• 50:04
  SPEAKER_03: Is that what they have you believe?
• 50:05
  SPEAKER_03: Once you die, you become one with them?
• 50:11
  SPEAKER_02: Inspiration.
• 50:14
  SPEAKER_02: What the f- Hold on.
• 50:22
  SPEAKER_02: I have no more inspiration points.
• 50:23
  SPEAKER_02: I have hero points, though.
• 50:25
  [music]
• 50:30
  SPEAKER_02: Back at the original 12.
• 50:31
  [music]
• 50:44
  SPEAKER_01: You take 18 points of psychic damage.
• 50:46
  SPEAKER_01: I'm going to think of an entity that fits that description.
• 50:51
  SPEAKER_02: Is that thing still in my head?
• 50:53
  SPEAKER_02: You say 18.
• 50:54
  SPEAKER_01: 18.
• 51:00
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, have you been having the visions too?
• 51:06
  SPEAKER_02: What do you know of the visions?
• 51:11
  SPEAKER_01: I know that they bring you to prosperity.
• 51:15
  SPEAKER_01: If you reject them, they will bring you to ruins.
• 51:21
  SPEAKER_02: How do I get there?
• 51:23
  SPEAKER_01: To where?
• 51:24
  SPEAKER_02: Prosperity.
• 51:26
  SPEAKER_01: Following the visions.
• 51:28
  SPEAKER_02: And how do I do that?
• 51:30
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 51:30
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know what the fuck your visions are.
• 51:32
  SPEAKER_01: Everyone's visions are different.
• 51:35
  [music]
• 51:45
  SPEAKER_01: Alala, are you still looking out the window or are you more focused on the inside?
• 51:54
  SPEAKER_00: She's not actually looking inside at all, really.
• 51:58
  SPEAKER_00: She darted out, stabbed the foot, and skittered back behind the curtain.
• 52:03
  SPEAKER_00: And she's still looking outside, just kind of listening and commenting.
• 52:08
  SPEAKER_01: All the individuals that were pretending to do stuff on the street have now somehow pulled a...
• 52:19
  SPEAKER_01: Giant ram that's used to break down doors out of an alley and are moving towards
• 52:27
  SPEAKER_01: the front door of your guild hall.
• 52:33
  SPEAKER_01: Very strange, there's no one else on the street.
• 52:37
  SPEAKER_00: We have trouble.
• 52:40
  SPEAKER_03: What?
• 52:42
  SPEAKER_00: They got a battering ram.
• 52:45
  SPEAKER_00: The citizens?
• 52:46
  SPEAKER_00: Just a bunch of fuckwats.
• 52:48
  SPEAKER_00: There's just nobodies on the streets.
• 52:53
  SPEAKER_03: You do know that if your men ram this door, you are going to get seriously hurt along with me.
• 53:03
  SPEAKER_03: I know you don't care about me, but at least yourself?
• 53:08
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think they care.
• 53:12
  SPEAKER_01: Does he care?
• 53:17
  SPEAKER_01: If I shall die, so be it.
• 53:19
  [music]
• 53:25
  SPEAKER_00: Do we have any oil?
• 53:34
  SPEAKER_01: What kind of oil?
• 53:39
  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna make pasta?
• 53:44
  SPEAKER_00: That's a choice for pasta topping, but no!
• 53:47
  SPEAKER_00: If we pour it out under the door, they will all slip and not be able to batter.
• 53:52
  SPEAKER_00: Ha!
• 53:56
  SPEAKER_00: Oil, batter, hilarious.
• 54:02
  SPEAKER_01: But the door's sealed at the bottom.
• 54:05
  SPEAKER_01: I think we'll just pour oil in here.
• 54:09
  SPEAKER_00: We can creak it out a little.
• 54:11
  SPEAKER_00: Battering rams need, you know, force.
• 54:14
  SPEAKER_00: They back up and then come forward.
• 54:16
  [music]
• 54:29
  SPEAKER_01: In your head, you hear, can I turn him to a husk now?
• 54:37
  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 54:38
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe.
• 54:39
  SPEAKER_00: You know, are you done with him?
• 54:51
  SPEAKER_02: Is he giving off any weird vibes or anything?
• 54:54
  SPEAKER_01: He's giving off a lot of weird vibes.
• 54:56
  SPEAKER_02: He's a cultic.
• 54:57
  SPEAKER_02: What?
• 54:58
  SPEAKER_02: He is a cultist.
• 55:01
  SPEAKER_02: Can I try to gain what information I can by observing?
• 55:08
  SPEAKER_01: Observing what he's grappled and stabbed in the foot.
• 55:13
  SPEAKER_02: If he's struggling or not, where his eyes are looking.
• 55:16
  SPEAKER_01: He's just looking off into the distance.
• 55:20
  SPEAKER_01: He hasn't looked at anyone in the eye since he got grappled.
• 55:24
  SPEAKER_01: His arm's still just holding this paper out.
• 55:28
  SPEAKER_01: He's not struggling.
• 55:33
  SPEAKER_01: He hadn't even said anything about being stabbed in the foot except
• 55:35
  SPEAKER_01: that initial exclamation of pain.
• 55:39
  SPEAKER_02: Can I cast Detect Thoughts?
• 55:41
  SPEAKER_01: You can.
• 55:43
  SPEAKER_02: I do so.
• 55:46
  SPEAKER_01: Lala, in your head, can I take a little sip of him?
• 55:50
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 55:52
  SPEAKER_00: Like I said, sippy sippy, just, you know, chill out.
• 55:58
  SPEAKER_00: Any weird vibes in your blood tasting?
• 56:04
  SPEAKER_01: I want you to know the slurping noises aren't necessary.
• 56:07
  SPEAKER_01: I just like making them while I eat.
• 56:09
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah,
• 56:10
  SPEAKER_00: I know.
• 56:10
  SPEAKER_00: You're a freaking weirdo.
• 56:13
  SPEAKER_00: You know what else is really slippery blood if I kill just one of those people with the ram?
• 56:19
  SPEAKER_00: She's muttering to herself by the window.
• 56:22
  SPEAKER_01: And I turn that person into a husk, too.
• 56:25
  SPEAKER_01: Which person?
• 56:27
  SPEAKER_01: The person you kill with the ram.
• 56:30
  SPEAKER_00: No, I need their blood.
• 56:30
  SPEAKER_01: Also, can I drink the ram's blood?
• 56:32
  SPEAKER_01: Since when did we get a pet ram?
• 56:36
  SPEAKER_00: I need the blood to lubricate the streets.
• 56:39
  SPEAKER_01: After that.
• 56:42
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not letting you lick the street.
• 56:43
  SPEAKER_00: Stop it.
• 56:44
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, if there's no blood, there's no evidence.
• 56:49
  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 56:52
  SPEAKER_01: You thought about it for a second.
• 56:55
  SPEAKER_00: I did, but there's other people out there.
• 56:56
  SPEAKER_00: They're going to see you.
• 57:02
  SPEAKER_01: Weird vibes?
• 57:05
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he tastes like ass.
• 57:09
  SPEAKER_00: That's not helpful.
• 57:13
  SPEAKER_01: Let me elaborate.
• 57:14
  SPEAKER_01: There are only a few entities that I've tasted in my lifetime that tasted like ass.
• 57:23
  SPEAKER_01: Most people taste okay.
• 57:25
  SPEAKER_01: Deities taste great.
• 57:31
  SPEAKER_00: And ass tastes are cultists?
• 57:39
  SPEAKER_01: From the void.
• 57:42
  SPEAKER_00: It's a void person.
• 57:46
  SPEAKER_00: Where?
• 57:47
  SPEAKER_00: Where is the void?
• 57:52
  SPEAKER_01: Your prisoner is talking.
• 57:53
  SPEAKER_01: The void is everywhere.
• 57:55
  SPEAKER_01: It's in everything and everyone.
• 57:58
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, you shut up.
• 57:58
  SPEAKER_00: You're providing useless information.
• 58:01
  SPEAKER_01: You asked a question and I had to answer.
• 58:04
  SPEAKER_01: Blame your friend there.
• 58:08
  SPEAKER_01: No, no, no.
• 58:09
  SPEAKER_01: He said I had to answer your questions with truth.
• 58:14
  SPEAKER_02: When he was talking about that, is he thinking anything weird?
• 58:18
  SPEAKER_01: He is thinking...
• 58:20
  SPEAKER_01: I will return...
• 58:22
  SPEAKER_01: To the Promised Land.
• 58:25
  SPEAKER_00: How about this?
• 58:26
  SPEAKER_01: A creator will be so pleased.
• 58:28
  SPEAKER_00: How'd you get wrapped up in being a weirdo cultist?
• 58:36
  SPEAKER_01: You see, and he goes into this really long monologue.
• 58:42
  SPEAKER_01: Like, three minutes,
• 58:45
  SPEAKER_01: four minutes of monologuing while this battering ram is being slowly driven up
• 58:49
  SPEAKER_01: to your door.
• 58:50
  SPEAKER_01: Just...
• 58:51
  SPEAKER_01: His whole life story.
• 58:54
  SPEAKER_01: He was this rich kid.
• 58:56
  SPEAKER_01: He had a great life.
• 58:57
  SPEAKER_01: He went to a great school.
• 58:58
  SPEAKER_01: He was going to inherit his family's business.
• 59:00
  SPEAKER_01: And then one day everything burned down and his father committed insurance fraud.
• 59:05
  SPEAKER_01: And then there were some bad deals with some people.
• 59:09
  SPEAKER_01: And then eventually his father started losing limbs because he wouldn't pay these people back.
• 59:13
  SPEAKER_01: And then his mother got sold because his father still owed people some money.
• 59:20
  SPEAKER_01: And then he made a deal with the devil to go and try and rescue his mother,
• 59:24
  SPEAKER_01: but by that point they had killed his mother because she wasn't listening to any
• 59:28
  SPEAKER_01: of them.
• 59:29
  SPEAKER_01: So then he killed all of them and he summoned a blood god who gave him powers.
• 59:35
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, good job, Mom.
• 59:39
  SPEAKER_03: That escalated very quickly.
• 59:41
  SPEAKER_01: And then the Blood God told him that he owed him so that he's been working for
• 59:44
  SPEAKER_01: the Blood God,
• 59:45
  SPEAKER_01: but he's not sure if the Blood God's a Blood God because he doesn't actually ask him
• 59:49
  SPEAKER_01: to get any blood.
• 59:52
  SPEAKER_01: And he continues on with the story about how he's recruited all these cultists
• 59:56
  SPEAKER_01: from every city,
• 59:57
  SPEAKER_01: and he's traveled everywhere,
• 59:59
  SPEAKER_01: and he's infiltrated all these governments,
• 1:00:01
  SPEAKER_01: and he's even got some government people on his payroll.
• 1:00:04
  SPEAKER_00: Clearly.
• 1:00:06
  SPEAKER_03: But, throughout the monologue,
• 1:00:10
  SPEAKER_01: Throughout the monologue,
• 1:00:12
  SPEAKER_01: he brings up something that not a lot of people talk about.
• 1:00:16
  SPEAKER_01: The Island of Ryuga.
• 1:00:24
  SPEAKER_00: Interest.
• 1:00:28
  SPEAKER_01: He said there was a time when him and a small group
• 1:00:32
  SPEAKER_01: of fellow believers were going up to the island to see if they could Get into
• 1:00:38
  SPEAKER_01: the restricted area.
• 1:00:41
  SPEAKER_01: They did.
• 1:00:41
  SPEAKER_01: They were successful with the help of this quote-unquote blood god.
• 1:00:45
  SPEAKER_01: You're not entirely sure if he even knows what he's talking about when he says blood god.
• 1:00:52
  SPEAKER_00: The island of Ryuga, like, area 51?
• 1:00:57
  SPEAKER_00: Not normally let people in?
• 1:00:58
  SPEAKER_00: So,
• 1:01:02
  SPEAKER_01: he gets him and starts talking about all these strange creatures on the island.
• 1:01:08
  SPEAKER_01: And how they said the island was uninhabited and it was dangerous because you could die.
• 1:01:15
  SPEAKER_01: But then there's like all these feelings that you get when you're on the island.
• 1:01:20
  SPEAKER_01: Like there's something more than just yourself.
• 1:01:23
  SPEAKER_01: And he goes into another monologue about how that made him feel
• 1:01:26
  SPEAKER_01: and how he started remembering his mother and why he did all this in
• 1:01:30
  SPEAKER_01: the first place.
• 1:01:33
  SPEAKER_01: And then he talks about a beautiful temple.
• 1:01:39
  SPEAKER_01: And
• 1:01:40
  [music]
• 1:01:49
  SPEAKER_01: that's where he says he met the hooded figure.
• 1:01:54
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• 1:02:04
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks.
• 1:02:07
  SPEAKER_00: I am not listening to this.
• 1:02:09
  SPEAKER_00: I'm either finding some oil or blood.
• 1:02:16
  SPEAKER_01: Go ahead.
• 1:02:17
  SPEAKER_02: Can I try to probe deeper while he's talking?
• 1:02:20
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so your detect thoughts throughout this whole conversation.
• 1:02:24
  SPEAKER_01: Go ahead and probe deeper.
• 1:02:26
  SPEAKER_01: He has to make what?
• 1:02:27
  SPEAKER_01: A wisdom save.
• 1:02:33
  SPEAKER_01: He fails, because that's a three.
• 1:02:35
  SPEAKER_02: Ha ha ha.
• 1:02:36
  SPEAKER_01: Even with a modifier, he fails.
• 1:02:44
  SPEAKER_01: So you probe deeper into his thoughts and you get images of this hooded figure
• 1:02:48
  SPEAKER_01: and you get the images of this grandiose palace.
• 1:02:54
  SPEAKER_01: Island of Ryugo is barren.
• 1:02:57
  SPEAKER_01: There's no way that life would be able to be sustained on the island
• 1:03:01
  SPEAKER_01: from what you are seeing in his thoughts.
• 1:03:04
  SPEAKER_01: But you do see these weird amalgamations of creatures that look like they're thriving.
• 1:03:12
  SPEAKER_02: Interesting.
• 1:03:14
  SPEAKER_01: And every so often, you see this just spark just in the sky.
• 1:03:24
  SPEAKER_02: Do I know where the island is on the map?
• 1:03:27
  SPEAKER_01: You know, it's rough location.
• 1:03:29
  SPEAKER_01: It's on the northeast side of the continent that you're currently on outside of
• 1:03:36
  SPEAKER_01: the Litvaultian Confederacy.
• 1:03:40
  SPEAKER_02: What would I?
• 1:03:41
  SPEAKER_02: Would I know the weather patterns?
• 1:03:44
  SPEAKER_01: There?
• 1:03:44
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 1:03:45
  SPEAKER_01: It's like any other island, maybe less tropical and more cold.
• 1:03:53
  SPEAKER_01: Because it's very north.
• 1:03:55
  SPEAKER_01: But not like blizzards, not frozen.
• 1:03:59
  SPEAKER_02: And it's supposed to be barren.
• 1:04:02
  SPEAKER_01: It is barren from what you can see.
• 1:04:04
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 1:04:04
  SPEAKER_01: But there's life.
• 1:04:06
  SPEAKER_01: Like creatures.
• 1:04:09
  SPEAKER_02: Would it make sense for an island in that geographical location to be barren?
• 1:04:18
  SPEAKER_01: Intelligence check.
• 1:04:20
  SPEAKER_01: Unless you're asking a rhetorical question.
• 1:04:24
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, I'll make the intelligence check.
• 1:04:26
  SPEAKER_02: I gotta find where intelligence is.
• 1:04:29
  SPEAKER_02: It's just up here, right?
• 1:04:31
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 1:04:32
  SPEAKER_01: Because it's just basic.
• 1:04:34
  SPEAKER_01: Just a basic check.
• 1:04:38
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna hero point it.
• 1:04:45
  SPEAKER_02: 19.
• 1:04:47
  SPEAKER_01: Based on what you know,
• 1:04:49
  SPEAKER_01: and all the travels you've gone on,
• 1:04:51
  SPEAKER_01: An island like that, while it wouldn't be tropical, it shouldn't be barren.
• 1:04:54
  SPEAKER_01: It should have like a cold forest feel.
• 1:04:59
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 1:05:01
  SPEAKER_01: With some cold, sandy, rocky shores.
• 1:05:03
  SPEAKER_01: Not necessarily easy to get to.
• 1:05:06
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 1:05:07
  SPEAKER_02: That's weird.
• 1:05:08
  SPEAKER_01: But it's far from frozen tundra.
• 1:05:11
  SPEAKER_01: It would be a cold forest.
• 1:05:15
  SPEAKER_01: There's not even a sign of dead trees.
• 1:05:18
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so there's no dead trees.
• 1:05:20
  SPEAKER_02: It's just what's the ground look like?
• 1:05:24
  SPEAKER_01: Nothing.
• 1:05:26
  SPEAKER_02: What do you mean nothing?
• 1:05:30
  SPEAKER_01: The ground isn't in his memory.
• 1:05:33
  SPEAKER_02: He has no memory of the ground.
• 1:05:36
  SPEAKER_01: Nope.
• 1:05:45
  SPEAKER_02: Does this feel like a real memory?
• 1:05:50
  SPEAKER_01: I'm going to say make an insight check on your deep dive detect thoughts for a memory.
• 1:05:57
  SPEAKER_02: Insight check, you said?
• 1:05:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 1:06:02
  SPEAKER_02: 24.
• 1:06:04
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 1:06:05
  SPEAKER_02: So this is a real memory.
• 1:06:06
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 1:06:09
  SPEAKER_02: He does not remember the ground.
• 1:06:14
  SPEAKER_01: There is no ground in his memory.
• 1:06:19
  SPEAKER_02: Not even like.
• 1:06:22
  SPEAKER_02: Am I seeing, like, from his eyes?
• 1:06:25
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 1:06:27
  SPEAKER_02: He, there's no ground for him to see.
• 1:06:30
  SPEAKER_01: He sees these creatures,
• 1:06:31
  SPEAKER_01: and a barren wasteland,
• 1:06:32
  SPEAKER_01: and there's no ground, and then this temple, and
• 1:06:36
  SPEAKER_01: then the wooden figure.
• 1:06:38
  SPEAKER_00: The distance.
• 1:06:41
  SPEAKER_00: Is he floating?
• 1:06:42
  SPEAKER_00: Does the horizon end at his feet?
• 1:06:48
  SPEAKER_01: There is no horizon line.
• 1:06:50
  SPEAKER_02: No horizon.
• 1:06:57
  SPEAKER_02: Is he floating?
• 1:07:00
  SPEAKER_01: No, he is, like, walking.
• 1:07:04
  SPEAKER_02: Walking.
• 1:07:05
  SPEAKER_02: Is he on the back of a creature?
• 1:07:07
  SPEAKER_01: Nope.
• 1:07:07
  SPEAKER_02: No.
• 1:07:10
  SPEAKER_01: Not that you can see.
• 1:07:12
  SPEAKER_02: What do I see?
• 1:07:15
  SPEAKER_02: If I look down...
• 1:07:17
  SPEAKER_01: Another memory hits.
• 1:07:18
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 1:07:20
  SPEAKER_01: This is another trip to this location.
• 1:07:24
  SPEAKER_01: This is more direct.
• 1:07:26
  SPEAKER_01: It's less about exploring and more about getting to the temple.
• 1:07:29
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 1:07:33
  SPEAKER_01: You see
• 1:07:35
  SPEAKER_01: this
• 1:07:38
  SPEAKER_01: figure, very tall,
• 1:07:43
  SPEAKER_01: with a hood up.
• 1:07:44
  SPEAKER_01: Looks real familiar.
• 1:07:47
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 1:07:48
  SPEAKER_01: Takes the hood down.
• 1:07:49
  SPEAKER_02: Yep.
• 1:07:53
  SPEAKER_01: My friend, welcome back.
• 1:07:55
  SPEAKER_01: What sacrifices have you brought me today?
• 1:08:01
  SPEAKER_02: Who does it look like?
• 1:08:04
  SPEAKER_01: So this individual does not look like anyone that you would recognize with the hood down.
• 1:08:10
  SPEAKER_02: But he gives real familiar vibes
• 1:08:13
  SPEAKER_01: with the hood up.
• 1:08:14
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, like like dream guy, guy who has Belfast.
• 1:08:23
  SPEAKER_01: You only left a note for that one.
• 1:08:24
  SPEAKER_01: You don't know if that's the guy that has Belfast.
• 1:08:26
  SPEAKER_02: He highly alluded to it.
• 1:08:37
  SPEAKER_01: So...
• 1:08:40
  [music]
• 1:08:48
  SPEAKER_00: Hm?
• 1:08:53
  SPEAKER_01: He looks
• 1:08:56
  SPEAKER_01: very
• 1:09:07
  SPEAKER_01: beautiful,
• 1:09:10
  SPEAKER_01: but chaotic.
• 1:09:13
  SPEAKER_02: What does that mean?
• 1:09:15
  SPEAKER_01: So like.
• 1:09:16
  SPEAKER_01: He's got the crazy smile when he's talking.
• 1:09:21
  SPEAKER_01: His expressions change very quickly.
• 1:09:24
  SPEAKER_01: He's got twitching.
• 1:09:25
  SPEAKER_01: Like his eyes are twitching.
• 1:09:27
  SPEAKER_01: Every so often you get a glimpse of
• 1:09:31
  SPEAKER_01: like these broken wings behind him.
• 1:09:38
  SPEAKER_01: Every so often you get a glimpse like when he's moving his arms
• 1:09:42
  SPEAKER_01: that there's like other arms moving as well.
• 1:09:46
  SPEAKER_02: Can I try to focus on those?
• 1:09:54
  SPEAKER_01: I would say you can.
• 1:09:54
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 1:09:58
  SPEAKER_01: It is very difficult.
• 1:09:59
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 1:10:00
  SPEAKER_01: Make a perception check.
• 1:10:09
  SPEAKER_02: 26.
• 1:10:13
  SPEAKER_01: You try focusing on the fading parts of him.
• 1:10:16
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 1:10:20
  [music]
• 1:10:31
  SPEAKER_01: has like these four broken wings
• 1:10:37
  SPEAKER_01: on his back.
• 1:10:37
  SPEAKER_02: What kind of like fairy wings and really
• 1:10:40
  SPEAKER_01: hard to tell, but they're long and big.
• 1:10:43
  SPEAKER_02: Do they look feathered or scaled?
• 1:10:46
  SPEAKER_01: There's not enough material left on the wings to tell.
• 1:10:49
  SPEAKER_02: So it's just like...
• 1:10:51
  SPEAKER_01: The skeletal outline.
• 1:10:53
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 1:10:55
  SPEAKER_01: Four arms.
• 1:10:57
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 1:11:02
  SPEAKER_01: And like, three faces.
• 1:11:05
  SPEAKER_02: What are the faces?
• 1:11:06
  SPEAKER_02: Are they also beautiful?
• 1:11:08
  SPEAKER_01: Blurred.
• 1:11:09
  SPEAKER_02: Blurred.
• 1:11:11
  SPEAKER_01: They keep switching back and forth between three different faces.
• 1:11:15
  SPEAKER_01: And they're moving so fast, you can't tell what is happening.
• 1:11:19
  SPEAKER_02: So I can't make out like if one's like a snout or if one...
• 1:11:23
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 1:11:24
  SPEAKER_01: They're all humanoid in nature.
• 1:11:26
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 1:11:27
  SPEAKER_01: You can make that much out.
• 1:11:30
  SPEAKER_01: Like his head and facial structure isn't changing, but the face itself.
• 1:11:36
  SPEAKER_02: Would I know of a creature that looks like that?
• 1:11:39
  [music]
• 1:12:02
  SPEAKER_01: You see these two golden eyes start peering into your mind.
• 1:12:09
  SPEAKER_01: I told you to leave it alone.
• 1:12:13
  SPEAKER_02: Hello, my friend.
• 1:12:15
  SPEAKER_01: We have not established that we're friends.
• 1:12:19
  SPEAKER_01: You haven't figured out who I am yet.
• 1:12:21
  SPEAKER_02: We could be friends.
• 1:12:23
  SPEAKER_02: And I would have left you alone.
• 1:12:25
  SPEAKER_02: But somebody sent this man with a bomb to my home.
• 1:12:28
  SPEAKER_01: Leave it alone.
• 1:12:30
  SPEAKER_01: Not me.
• 1:12:32
  SPEAKER_02: It could have left it alone, but they sent a bomb to my wife.
• 1:12:37
  SPEAKER_01: I'm trying to protect you.
• 1:12:39
  SPEAKER_02: And I'm trying to protect her.
• 1:12:42
  SPEAKER_01: If you open this can of worms, you can't go back.
• 1:12:47
  SPEAKER_02: What is it?
• 1:12:47
  SPEAKER_02: I'm
• 1:12:53
  SPEAKER_01: warning you one last time.
• 1:12:55
  SPEAKER_01: If you open this can of worms, there will be no returning.
• 1:13:00
  SPEAKER_02: You want to protect us.
• 1:13:02
  SPEAKER_02: That means you want to be friends.
• 1:13:04
  SPEAKER_02: Friends help each other.
• 1:13:06
  SPEAKER_02: What is it?
• 1:13:09
  SPEAKER_01: That would be opening the can of worms.
• 1:13:11
  SPEAKER_02: I'm well aware.
• 1:13:13
  SPEAKER_01: I am handling it.
• 1:13:15
  SPEAKER_02: Are you?
• 1:13:16
  SPEAKER_02: It sent a bomb to my wife.
• 1:13:19
  SPEAKER_02: It would have caught me in the crossfire.
• 1:13:22
  SPEAKER_02: That is a level nine.
• 1:13:25
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 1:13:26
  SPEAKER_01: I'm still working on locating it.
• 1:13:31
  SPEAKER_02: It is on an island where the northeast appeared.
• 1:13:34
  SPEAKER_01: It is not there.
• 1:13:36
  SPEAKER_02: It was.
• 1:13:39
  SPEAKER_02: What are you?
• 1:13:43
  SPEAKER_01: So you see,
• 1:13:46
  SPEAKER_01: out of the shadows,
• 1:13:47
  SPEAKER_01: this is the first time,
• 1:13:49
  SPEAKER_01: because all of you,
• 1:13:50
  SPEAKER_01: even though none of you know what's going on in Yenor's head right now,
• 1:13:55
  SPEAKER_01: All of you have seen the golden eyes at some point in your various void or.
• 1:14:03
  SPEAKER_01: You're playing our vision adventures.
• 1:14:08
  SPEAKER_01: For the first time, just this faint light shines down and its face comes into view.
• 1:14:14
  SPEAKER_01: Its head is this massive.
• 1:14:18
  SPEAKER_01: Serpentine head.
• 1:14:22
  SPEAKER_01: Two golden eyes and then.
• 1:14:25
  SPEAKER_01: A row of eyes on each side open up.
• 1:14:28
  SPEAKER_02: How many eyes?
• 1:14:31
  SPEAKER_01: On each side, going back from the front two.
• 1:14:35
  SPEAKER_02: Four on each, so five eyes on each side?
• 1:14:38
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 1:14:39
  SPEAKER_02: So ten eyes?
• 1:14:41
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 1:14:43
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 1:14:44
  [music]
• 1:14:52
  SPEAKER_01: And then his eyes glow.
• 1:14:54
  SPEAKER_01: And you see this picture in your head.
• 1:15:03
  SPEAKER_01: This extremely charismatic,
• 1:15:07
  SPEAKER_01: beautiful looking eight winged humanoid, not male, not female, just humanoid.
• 1:15:15
  SPEAKER_01: With four arms.
• 1:15:20
  SPEAKER_02: Is that you or him?
• 1:15:22
  SPEAKER_01: That's me.
• 1:15:25
  SPEAKER_02: And he's one of you, or something like you?
• 1:15:28
  SPEAKER_01: He's a mistake that was forgotten.
• 1:15:32
  SPEAKER_02: Barely not forgotten well enough.
• 1:15:43
  SPEAKER_01: Figure out who I am, and you'll figure out who he is.
• 1:15:47
  SPEAKER_02: Why are you in my head?
• 1:15:52
  SPEAKER_01: And then you're shunted out of your detect thoughts as well.
• 1:15:57
  SPEAKER_02: He's always doing that.
• 1:15:58
  SPEAKER_02: That's so fucking rude.
• 1:16:00
  SPEAKER_01: No headache this time.
• 1:16:02
  SPEAKER_02: No headache.
• 1:16:03
  SPEAKER_01: And you still remember everything.
• 1:16:05
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 1:16:06
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 1:16:11
  SPEAKER_01: All of you in this space,
• 1:16:14
  SPEAKER_01: so not necessarily in your head,
• 1:16:15
  SPEAKER_01: just this ethereal voice says, the can of worms has been opened.
• 1:16:22
  SPEAKER_01: Good luck.
• 1:16:23
  [music]
• 1:16:33
  SPEAKER_00: And cans of worms get opened, we go fishing.
• 1:16:37
  SPEAKER_02: Can I relay to them what just happened?
• 1:16:40
  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
• 1:16:40
  SPEAKER_02: I do so.
• 1:16:49
  SPEAKER_02: Can I minor illusion?
• 1:16:51
  SPEAKER_02: Two things at once or no?
• 1:16:53
  SPEAKER_01: No.
• 1:16:54
  SPEAKER_02: No?
• 1:16:54
  SPEAKER_01: You can do one at a time.
• 1:16:56
  SPEAKER_02: A minor illusion, the golden one first.
• 1:17:03
  SPEAKER_01: Which one?
• 1:17:04
  SPEAKER_02: The golden one, the whole one that was in my head.
• 1:17:07
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, so the face or the serpentine face or the humanoid?
• 1:17:12
  SPEAKER_02: The humanoid with the wings and the arms.
• 1:17:15
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 1:17:16
  SPEAKER_02: And so does anyone recognize this species?
• 1:17:33
  SPEAKER_03: Does it look like anything I've seen before and what I've done some Witch Boy stuff?
• 1:17:41
  SPEAKER_01: This is going to be a really, really difficult check.
• 1:17:48
  SPEAKER_01: But whoever would like to, I'm not going to limit it to two.
• 1:17:51
  SPEAKER_01: Besides, Yenor's already done, so not Yenor, but anyone else can make a history check.
• 1:17:59
  SPEAKER_03: See, I'm no good at history.
• 1:18:01
  SPEAKER_03: That's the thing.
• 1:18:08
  SPEAKER_03: It's kind of like... Jesus, Crocca!
• 1:18:11
  SPEAKER_01: It's just getting worse!
• 1:18:14
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, look, you're back to where you were.
• 1:18:16
  SPEAKER_03: Yep, and that's all of them.
• 1:18:18
  SPEAKER_03: So, 11 it is.
• 1:18:22
  SPEAKER_00: I was just hoping to get lucky, and I didn't.
• 1:18:26
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, just shooting for luck, but...
• 1:18:29
  SPEAKER_03: Even so, it's just a flat roll.
• 1:18:32
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, nope.
• 1:18:33
  SPEAKER_03: Absolutely not.
• 1:18:39
  SPEAKER_01: Remember, failing rolls on a check are not always bad.
• 1:18:45
  SPEAKER_01: None of you recognize Yanora's Minor Image.
• 1:18:52
  SPEAKER_01: Or Minor Illusion.
• 1:18:54
  SPEAKER_02: That is kind of.
• 1:19:01
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sorry, Iris needed me for something.
• 1:19:02
  SPEAKER_01: Can you show me again?
• 1:19:05
  SPEAKER_02: I minor illusion him into my hand.
• 1:19:10
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, Joaquim.
• 1:19:14
  SPEAKER_01: You remember before she went on her undercover mission
• 1:19:19
  SPEAKER_01: when she was still getting back on her feet?
• 1:19:21
  SPEAKER_01: You did a run for me to pick up a bunch of books for the library.
• 1:19:27
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 1:19:31
  SPEAKER_01: And you came across that sketchy location?
• 1:19:41
  SPEAKER_01: I know, you've come across a lot of sketchy locations.
• 1:19:43
  SPEAKER_01: I'm aware that doesn't narrow it down.
• 1:19:47
  SPEAKER_03: This is ringing a slight bell, but do continue.
• 1:19:50
  [music]
• 1:19:58
  SPEAKER_01: Can you...
• 1:20:01
  SPEAKER_01: Can you minor illusion the three books that you picked up for me?
• 1:20:09
  SPEAKER_03: The covers?
• 1:20:10
  SPEAKER_01: Because I mean, I didn't.
• 1:20:11
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, just the covers.
• 1:20:12
  SPEAKER_01: I just need the covers.
• 1:20:19
  SPEAKER_03: Can I do this?
• 1:20:24
  SPEAKER_01: Make a history check to see if you remember exactly what she's talking about first.
• 1:20:48
  SPEAKER_01: I grant you advantage because she's helping jog your memory.
• 1:20:54
  SPEAKER_03: Do I not?
• 1:20:56
  SPEAKER_03: I have one hero point left.
• 1:20:58
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 1:20:58
  SPEAKER_03: I appreciate the advantage.
• 1:21:01
  SPEAKER_03: I'll roll this.
• 1:21:06
  SPEAKER_03: And boom, that's a three.
• 1:21:12
  SPEAKER_03: Fuck it.
• 1:21:12
  SPEAKER_03: I'll use an inspiration.
• 1:21:14
  [music]
• 1:21:20
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, wait, sorry.
• 1:21:21
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I got it that way.
• 1:21:24
  SPEAKER_03: Inspiration.
• 1:21:25
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• 1:21:26
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• 1:21:32
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• 1:21:35
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• 1:21:36
  SPEAKER_01: Thanks.
• 1:21:37
  SPEAKER_01: History.
• 1:21:39
  SPEAKER_03: Wow.
• 1:21:41
  SPEAKER_03: I'll try it one more time.
• 1:21:49
  SPEAKER_03: Nope.
• 1:21:52
  SPEAKER_03: Memory is not Joachim's thing.
• 1:21:57
  SPEAKER_01: Well, you do remember two of the three books.
• 1:22:03
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 1:22:06
  SPEAKER_01: The third book doesn't come to you because you also remember the individual
• 1:22:11
  SPEAKER_01: that was handing you the books who was this very handsome gentleman.
• 1:22:15
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 1:22:17
  SPEAKER_03: Strapping.
• 1:22:18
  SPEAKER_03: He had very nice suspenders.
• 1:22:22
  SPEAKER_01: So you kind of got distracted by the time he handed you the third book,
• 1:22:25
  SPEAKER_01: but you remember the first two.
• 1:22:27
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 1:22:29
  SPEAKER_03: I do minor illusion the first two,
• 1:22:31
  SPEAKER_03: and then I kind of...
• 1:22:33
  SPEAKER_03: As I try to minor illusion the third one,
• 1:22:37
  SPEAKER_03: it transforms into, like, the top half of this dude.
• 1:22:44
  SPEAKER_01: Sorry.
• 1:22:45
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, we don't need to know who you've slept with, thank you.
• 1:22:47
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you.
• 1:22:49
  SPEAKER_03: I only got his number.
• 1:22:51
  SPEAKER_03: I should call him, though.
• 1:22:53
  SPEAKER_03: But yeah, sorry, I only got two.
• 1:22:56
  SPEAKER_01: I go to the... Oh.
• 1:22:58
  SPEAKER_01: As you go back to the second one,
• 1:23:03
  SPEAKER_01: there's this etched image on the cover of a figure with eight wings and four arms.
• 1:23:13
  SPEAKER_01: Can you make that one bigger or increase the detail on it at all, the second one?
• 1:23:24
  SPEAKER_03: What do you think I can do?
• 1:23:28
  SPEAKER_03: You're Magic Boy.
• 1:23:29
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 1:23:30
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 1:23:31
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 1:23:31
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 1:23:32
  SPEAKER_03: Stop.
• 1:23:33
  SPEAKER_03: Stop.
• 1:23:34
  SPEAKER_03: I am going to, using the illusion sprayers, he's going to, like, clap them together real quick.
• 1:23:40
  SPEAKER_03: And then in one hand, he's going to minor illusion, you know, the two books.
• 1:23:45
  SPEAKER_03: And then...
• 1:23:47
  SPEAKER_01: No, I just need the one.
• 1:23:49
  SPEAKER_03: The second book.
• 1:23:51
  SPEAKER_03: I'm working.
• 1:23:52
  SPEAKER_03: Okay?
• 1:23:52
  SPEAKER_03: Let the man work.
• 1:23:55
  SPEAKER_03: Let the man work.
• 1:23:57
  SPEAKER_03: He's going to narrow his eyes at his own illusion and try and focus on that area.
• 1:24:02
  SPEAKER_03: And then in the other hand,
• 1:24:04
  SPEAKER_03: he will use the Illusionist Bracesters to cast Minor Illusion as a bonus action.
• 1:24:11
  SPEAKER_03: And he will try and kind of like magnify that in the other illusion.
• 1:24:17
  SPEAKER_03: I think I can do that.
• 1:24:20
  SPEAKER_03: Allow that.
• 1:24:27
  SPEAKER_01: As you do that, yeah, that's perfect.
• 1:24:31
  SPEAKER_01: My love, can you bring your illusion over next to the book?
• 1:24:39
  SPEAKER_02: I do so.
• 1:24:43
  SPEAKER_01: I might be biased, so I need someone else to look at this.
• 1:24:45
  SPEAKER_01: Do those look similar?
• 1:24:46
  SPEAKER_01: The cover of that book and my wife's illusion?
• 1:24:52
  SPEAKER_02: Do they?
• 1:24:56
  SPEAKER_01: Well, you've been staring at your illusion.
• 1:24:58
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 1:24:59
  SPEAKER_01: Joaquim's been focused on the book,
• 1:25:01
  SPEAKER_01: so someone else,
• 1:25:02
  SPEAKER_01: Deedle, Kroka, or Lala, if one of you would like to examine the illusions.
• 1:25:15
  SPEAKER_01: Make an investigation check on them.
• 1:25:25
  [music]
• 1:25:32
  SPEAKER_01: They look very similar to you, Deedle, who has a mostly unbiased opinion.
• 1:25:49
  SPEAKER_01: Deedle, I see you've been staring at him.
• 1:25:53
  SPEAKER_01: What do you think?
• 1:25:58
  SPEAKER_00: Sorta?
• 1:26:00
  [music]
• 1:26:12
  SPEAKER_01: There's only one real way to find out.
• 1:26:17
  SPEAKER_01: We have to get out of here.
• 1:26:23
  SPEAKER_01: And we have to get somewhere where we can bring Joaquim's ship back out so I can get
• 1:26:29
  SPEAKER_01: to my books that I've stashed.
• 1:26:33
  SPEAKER_02: What do we do about the bomb?
• 1:26:39
  SPEAKER_02: He still hasn't dropped it.
• 1:26:40
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know why he hasn't dropped it yet.
• 1:26:43
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, the shadow's wrapped around that arm.
• 1:26:51
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 1:26:51
  SPEAKER_01: Wasn't someone gonna turn me into a husk?
• 1:26:58
  SPEAKER_02: I feel like it might be worse for him if we let him live.
• 1:27:02
  SPEAKER_00: How did he know that?
• 1:27:05
  SPEAKER_03: So what would you have to say to get your men to stop?
• 1:27:10
  SPEAKER_01: I could just walk back out there.
• 1:27:20
  SPEAKER_00: You can take, like, half.
• 1:27:24
  SPEAKER_02: That's still gonna kill him.
• 1:27:26
  SPEAKER_00: No, it won't.
• 1:27:27
  SPEAKER_00: He's just gonna be passed out.
• 1:27:30
  SPEAKER_00: And we'll shove him out.
• 1:27:30
  SPEAKER_02: And then he'll drop the bomb.
• 1:27:33
  SPEAKER_00: What?
• 1:27:34
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, that's fine.
• 1:27:35
  SPEAKER_00: It's outside.
• 1:27:41
  SPEAKER_03: So we're showing this guy out?
• 1:27:42
  [music]
• 1:27:51
  SPEAKER_01: As you are having this discussion,
• 1:27:56
  SPEAKER_01: you hear just the marching bootsteps of a lot of soldiers.
• 1:28:05
  SPEAKER_00: Oh good, back up.
• 1:28:07
  SPEAKER_00: Sorry, go ahead.
• 1:28:09
  SPEAKER_00: That's okay, she's just gonna really quick snatch Nosferatu up before he can do anything
• 1:28:18
  SPEAKER_00: and yank him out.
• 1:28:26
  SPEAKER_03: Diddle, would you like the honors of showing our guest out?
• 1:28:33
  SPEAKER_03: No worries.
• 1:28:35
  [music]
• 1:28:45
  SPEAKER_00: Tour is already open, right?
• 1:28:48
  SPEAKER_01: No, it's still closed.
• 1:28:49
  SPEAKER_01: Lala, are you still looking out the window?
• 1:28:53
  SPEAKER_00: I mean...
• 1:28:54
  SPEAKER_00: Any, with the exception of the couple seconds it takes her to kind of lean over
• 1:28:59
  SPEAKER_00: and yoink Nosferatu back out.
• 1:29:03
  SPEAKER_01: You see all the individuals that were moving towards your door to breach it,
• 1:29:07
  SPEAKER_01: they were almost there.
• 1:29:09
  SPEAKER_01: They all of a sudden stop moving and have put their hands up.
• 1:29:14
  SPEAKER_00: Ah, caught with their hands in the cookie jar.
• 1:29:21
  SPEAKER_01: There are a lot of Chaldesian dressed guards and other soldiers around.
• 1:29:28
  [music]
• 1:29:37
  SPEAKER_01: You see an individual walk up to the door that you recognize.
• 1:29:45
  SPEAKER_03: Who are you?
• 1:29:46
  SPEAKER_03: It is a...
• 1:29:52
  SPEAKER_01: The Blood Rose sisters, actually.
• 1:29:55
  SPEAKER_01: It's two of them.
• 1:29:56
  SPEAKER_01: The second one was kind of hard to spot.
• 1:30:06
  SPEAKER_01: They knock on the door.
• 1:30:07
  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to go ahead and open it.
• 1:30:15
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, thank God.
• 1:30:17
  SPEAKER_01: We got here in time.
• 1:30:18
  SPEAKER_01: You guys aren't dead yet.
• 1:30:21
  SPEAKER_01: No.
• 1:30:23
  SPEAKER_01: What do you mean, yes?
• 1:30:25
  SPEAKER_00: Notoriously hard to kill.
• 1:30:28
  SPEAKER_01: We got word that there was a bomb threat on various guilds around the city.
• 1:30:33
  SPEAKER_01: Most of them were false alarms to throw us off.
• 1:30:38
  SPEAKER_01: Your guild was last on the list.
• 1:30:40
  SPEAKER_01: Of course it was.
• 1:30:42
  SPEAKER_01: You're the newest.
• 1:30:45
  SPEAKER_03: It's in his hand.
• 1:30:50
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, that won't be a problem, and...
• 1:30:53
  SPEAKER_01: Devlin just kind of waves her hand and just this red,
• 1:30:58
  SPEAKER_01: this blackened red magic wraps the paper and then it disintegrates.
• 1:31:06
  SPEAKER_01: Guess we're no longer on the list.
• 1:31:12
  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna take
• 1:31:16
  SPEAKER_01: You guys can keep your prisoner and escort him back with us.
• 1:31:19
  SPEAKER_01: We're taking the rest of them, though.
• 1:31:21
  SPEAKER_01: They're all prisoners now.
• 1:31:22
  SPEAKER_01: They're all going to jail.
• 1:31:25
  SPEAKER_00: Nah, you can take this one.
• 1:31:28
  SPEAKER_01: Hopefully one of them will talk.
• 1:31:32
  SPEAKER_01: Wait, what are you doing with that knife?
• 1:31:35
  SPEAKER_00: He's a prisoner.
• 1:31:37
  SPEAKER_00: She slips it under his belt and yanks it so that his pants fall down.
• 1:31:44
  SPEAKER_01: I mean...
• 1:31:46
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, that was unexpected.
• 1:31:49
  SPEAKER_00: He knows what he did.
• 1:31:53
  SPEAKER_03: If you have any specific questions you'd like to ask him,
• 1:31:56
  SPEAKER_03: I would do it now while he's being so kindly to talk.
• 1:32:01
  SPEAKER_01: We can make him kind to talk, don't you worry about that.
• 1:32:05
  [music]
• 1:32:11
  SPEAKER_01: Also, we had a couple counselors vanish.
• 1:32:15
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 1:32:15
  SPEAKER_01: We
• 1:32:23
  SPEAKER_03: kind of might have heard of some rats in the council.
• 1:32:28
  [music]
• 1:32:36
  SPEAKER_01: Let's go talk.
• 1:32:38
  SPEAKER_01: I think we need to get you guys into some more protected quarters
• 1:32:43
  SPEAKER_01: until we solve whatever's happening.
• 1:32:45
  [music]
• 1:32:51
  SPEAKER_01: Not talk here, we'll talk when we are in a more secure location.
• 1:32:56
  SPEAKER_01: But you are welcome to come back with us and our guard.
• 1:33:03
  SPEAKER_03: Yep, I want to go with the pretty tabaxi ladies.
• 1:33:09
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we'll go.
• 1:33:12
  SPEAKER_01: As you guys walk out,
• 1:33:18
  SPEAKER_01: What you didn't see was the rooftops are just lined with various different types
• 1:33:27
  SPEAKER_01: of marksman tabaxi.
• 1:33:35
  SPEAKER_03: Old tabaxi squadron.
• 1:33:38
  SPEAKER_01: I love it.
• 1:33:40
  SPEAKER_01: Deedle, you recognize most of them.
• 1:33:43
  [music]
• 1:33:48
  SPEAKER_01: Even from afar.
• 1:33:56
  SPEAKER_01: On the ground,
• 1:33:57
  SPEAKER_01: you see there's a bunch of other feline-like creatures that are bigger than Tabaxi.
• 1:34:03
  SPEAKER_01: Some Leonin, some older, unidentifiable,
• 1:34:11
  SPEAKER_01: just more beefy.
• 1:34:15
  SPEAKER_01: Nevertheless, you all are being escorted back as individuals under protection by the council.
• 1:34:23
  SPEAKER_01: The rest of the individuals have been put in chains.
• 1:34:27
  [music]
• 1:34:33
  SPEAKER_01: As you guys leave,
• 1:34:35
  SPEAKER_01: Devlin does some kind of crazy magic stuff
• 1:34:38
  SPEAKER_01: and you see this just this red arcane hue go around your building.
• 1:34:48
  SPEAKER_01: Or it dissipates.
• 1:34:54
  SPEAKER_03: Are we in trouble?
• 1:34:57
  SPEAKER_01: No.
• 1:34:57
  SPEAKER_01: That's so that while we're gone and no one's watching the building
• 1:35:01
  SPEAKER_01: that no one can get it and do bad things.
• 1:35:06
  SPEAKER_00: Oh.
• 1:35:08
  SPEAKER_01: Gratitude.
• 1:35:09
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, they could get in, but it'll let us know and then we know to look for traps and whatnot.
• 1:35:16
  SPEAKER_03: Still gratitude.
• 1:35:20
  SPEAKER_03: So it's not a protection bubble, it's a detection bubble.
• 1:35:24
  SPEAKER_03: Correct.
• 1:35:28
  SPEAKER_03: Our own personal house alarm.
• 1:35:32
  SPEAKER_01: Only has one use.
• 1:35:35
  SPEAKER_01: But if it gets broken once, we know that there is something going on.
• 1:35:40
  [music]
• 1:35:47
  SPEAKER_01: As you all are being escorted back,
• 1:35:50
  SPEAKER_01: We are going to make this one a little shorter and call it there because that's
• 1:35:56
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• 1:36:49
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