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Wish Hunter #22: Luck · DiceSized

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  Welcome to Dice Size and welcome to Wish Hunter.
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  This is D&D Audio Venture podcast where we tell bite sized
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  dice roll twice told stories. This is me, your DM and friend
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  Robert Whitehead. And with me, as always is my
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  lovely table of friends and family.
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  Here we of course have my brother George.
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  Hey, it's G playing Parable the Genie Paladin, currently on the
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  way to collect something very important and find his friends.
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  Yes, the weapon that you, because of your long range and
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  very delayed telepathy, know to be something of the old gods to
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  kill the new hidden within the mast of your ship.
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  Well, I'll find it. We shall see.
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  Parable, a paladin of genies, but also a paladin of wishes,
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  and I wish you luck on this journey.
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  Parable. But we got stuff to get to and
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  Next up, of course, is Maya. I'm the stuff we have to get to.
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  Hey it's Maya. You can call me Maya.
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  Zen is looking forward to this. Well they just found and finding
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  out what happens in the rest of this girls trip so.
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  What a girl trip it has been. Oh yeah, A.
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  Breaking and entering of a girls trip loves.
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  That the best girls trip comes with a little bit of a little
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  bit. It's just a little bit of just a
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  little bit. It's something that we might get
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  arrested for, but that's why we all say like I'm the one you go
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  to jail with or like I know that would bail you out, right?
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  I'd hide A body with you like no questions asked.
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  Me and Cass hiding bodies, all the bodies of the poor people
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  out in the ballroom that we just sent to their deaths.
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  But. Under 10% Stephandra has
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  definitely down to hide bodies with y'all and it has been quite
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  a trio with the sneeze to go invisible and you guys in there
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  suddenly. But that, that's the recap, and
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  I've got to introduce my lovely, lovely wife next, Savannah.
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  Sav here. Is that breaking and entering if
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  everyone's dead? That's true.
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  They are all technically gonna arrest us.
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  Yeah. Yeah, Zombie police.
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  Yeah, right. They're all like that's.
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  Fair and. I'm like, really?
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  Don't worry me, you can barely walk.
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  I think they all kind of walk around.
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  They say no walk up. Yeah, pretty much.
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  Quick walk, they're chasing us. The Olympic speed walk.
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  Hey, the the stakes, the stakes here are way heavier than
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  walking away from these zombies, you keep saying.
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  Shit like that man. I'm.
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  A lot nervous. Me too be my body call, but I
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  couldn't ever feel confident that she would never
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  accidentally tell everyone she knew.
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  Well, it wouldn't be everyone she knew, but she would have to
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  tell at least one person. And I I couldn't fault you for
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  that. Yeah, Cass, you're like on the,
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  what, 46 body? 46 so he's already talked about
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  32 of you. So, I mean, you know, yeah.
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  Well, let the bodies hit the floor y'all.
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  And on to a recap. Last time our heroes separated.
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  Parable to seek out a weapon to be used against the Mad God.
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  Wish and Zin and Cassie to Star Watch to the telescopic
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  transporter, a way to subvert Wishes gaze and travels straight
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  to the Violet sliver of Star. Parable arrived to the two wells
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  amidst a battle in the sky above the broken domain.
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  Oh Stone drones whirled and wheeled through the air,
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  fighting Favor I wishbound warriors that Parable knew to be
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  map makers, A specialized force from the lands of Favor with
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  orders to Wish Beard. Parable leapt from the deck of
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  the bottle breaker and fell once more, bashed and beaten by
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  whizzing stone drones. Parable called to the wind and
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  it welcomed him to walk it. He did so, becoming one with the
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  wind, and broke through the battle and shards of Broken
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  Domain to the ground below. Meanwhile, Cassie and Zinn
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  arrived upon Safandria to Star Watchtower.
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  Cassie immediately sensed that something was very wrong.
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  Signs of disuse and astronomical equipment fall into disrepair,
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  along with invasive amounts of Ivy grown along the tower, told
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  her that nearly 20 years or more had passed here, while only two
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  days had passed for them. At Calum's Crossing, Cassie also
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  spotted that the Blue Robe Monks and Sages below had become
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  zombified husks of their former selves, corrupted by Dark Elder
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  Evil Star Song. Zinn kicked off their Girls Trip
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  B&E by turning all of them invisible with a sneeze, then
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  nearly plummeting to her death before finding purchase upon a
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  tower window. On the other side of that window
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  they found a mechanism of incredible design, the Grand
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  Armillary dashing with the speed of elements.
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  Behind him Parable breeze past attention, drones that wind and
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  word as they sought out any fleeing creatures that they
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  could imprison. Arriving to his shop of
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  curiosities, Parable entered and found a combat drone waiting for
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  him. But so too was an ally hidden in
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  the shadows. With a white hot touch, Parable
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  slid beneath the drone, heating its chassis to a molten orange
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  and a fully grown adult Rangon Rabbit folk appeared from the
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  shadows. 5 struck A5 fold slash to end the fight while Parable
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  and Five fought dodging lasers and rockets.
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  Zinn and Cassie investigated the Grand Armillary set to the
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  moment of the recent second Great Wishing.
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  The chamber held dozens of Star Song zombies.
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  Looking up within, they discovered the side chamber
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  doors were all sealed as if in lockdown.
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  Each door held an inscription. Right are the Gems of the Dawn,
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  identifying the telescopic transporter and the Bounded
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  Field chambers. And judging from the outward
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  dense upon the door leading to the Bounded Field, they saw
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  something fearsome must be held inside that chamber.
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  And indeed, when Cassian Zinn opened the chamber door with the
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  phrase brighter, the Jewels of Dusk, A hulking star song zombie
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  burst out, rampaging directly for them.
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  Though they blasted it with magics it charged on,
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  redirecting its rage toward the zombified monks in the larger
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  chamber. Cassian Zinn were then able to
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  enter the side chamber where the Bounded Field lay and sealed the
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  door behind them. They did not expect what they
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  found. Stone work well akin to the
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  third well hidden within the Rabbit's Foot warns.
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  Back in two Wells, we rejoin our heroes.
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  Now once more separately, let's roll for an initiative to see if
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  we rejoin Cassian Zinn within Star Watchtower or Parable
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  within his shop in two Wells to three to seven.
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  OK, back to Parable within the Two Wells and his shop of
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  Curiosities. We zoom in Parable.
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  It is the quiet aftermath of the battle as the combat unit has
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  just been sliced in five pieces and slowly slid apart as you
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  hear the grinding of metal mixed with the soft sound of molten
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  metal as it all falls and crashes to the ground. 5 has
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  appeared from the shadows. You hear the battle outside,
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  very much still active, but you have 5 in front of you who has
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  just said, hey Parable, good to see you, I'm waiting. 5I I don't
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  know what to say. I I looked down at my hands
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  still glowing, I'm assuming from the the heat metal, and I'm
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  honestly distracted by this disturbing variation of brick in
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  front of me. Totally.
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  Can I roll perception or some sort of insight?
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  Yeah, give me insight here. 1515's not bad.
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  You're definitely able to pick up on the fact that this does,
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  at its base and core, use energies and designs similar to
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  brick in nature to operate. Once more, it is not the same
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  level of sentience. You can see crucial parts of
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  bricks layout removed. I think the easiest way to
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  describe it is that it's just much simpler in complexity.
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  It doesn't have the same amount of intricacies in terms of all
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  the the many markings and ruins upon it, but it does move in a
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  similar stonework way. You can see the fundamental
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  building blocks of it are made of the same stuff.
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  Additionally, I think with that 15, you're also able to put
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  together with what you know of the lands of Fortune, that this
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  110% came from the land of Fortune.
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  Machinery there takes many forms.
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  It's not always metal. By and large, there's many
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  stonework machines and parts of their city that operate with
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  stone rather than metal, and others that work with entirely
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  alien and different inorganic materials.
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  But stone is one of their most default materials that they use
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  to build creatures within the fortune.
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  Well, having just opened brick and knowing the treasure that
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  was inside a brick, I immediately kind of scramble,
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  using the heat for my hands, honestly trying to protect
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  myself from any other molten metal, assuming because I'm
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  still warm to the touch, sifting through even the molten stuff,
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  just kind of sporadically looking for a possible seed of
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  some kind just because I think it's going to be there.
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  And I kind of ignore 5 for a moment.
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  Give me an investigation check as you try to salvage something
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  from this combat unit, which is This one's made of like pristine
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  metal junk parts in some places, but largely metal 16 with a 16.
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  You do find a core that is a gemstone but cracked.
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  As you pass your hand near the gem, you see that it is
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  partially active. It's like fluttering and fading
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  as you destroy the unit. You likely severed any further
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  use that this gemstone has. But it's like I said partially
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  active. And as you pass your hand it
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  steals warmth from you. Not in like a way that makes
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  sense physics wise. It just like transfers it from
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  you feel more like you're part of your breath has been stolen.
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  Yeah, I immediately retract my hand and kind of assume the dark
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  engineering that's happened here take a step back and say I've
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  How long has it been? So you can you can tell that
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  I've grown up. You look big kid.
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  Nice parable. I put a hand on his shoulder and
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  I pull him in for a hug. He was, you know, very much
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  acting the man, and he is well in truth because.
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  How tall is it compared to what do I need to do?
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  Can I use my boots to come? He has to bend down now as he is
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  like I think he's I. Don't know why that touches me
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  so much. He's 5-6, he's a solid 6 feet
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  with the years, but as he bends down Tuggy you can definitely
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  feel that he is a man in truth and he says, well first ten
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  years were the hardest, the 1st. 10.
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  The second decade was harder. No, no, no, no, but.
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  These last few have been easier. These last few, we've had an
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  ally. The Land's a favor.
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  They they, they turned, they, they were harrying us too, along
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  with the Lands of Fortune. And within the last few years,
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  they've switched. We don't know why we can't
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  explain it, but we think we might have a chance.
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  Don't say that word not. Oh no, not not.
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  I don't know what happened over there, but I don't mean count
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  chance. Dad filled me in on a lot before
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  he he gets off. I don't want to ask, but is is
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  your father still alive? He looks at you and says
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  parable. I'd, I'd rather not say.
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  I'd rather just show you. Oh.
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  No, Paul, I'm here for a reason. I need something from here
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  before we leave. We have to move fast.
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  There will be more units moving in fast if we can make it to the
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  hex. The detention drones, they just
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  moved out for another wave, so. Talk while we move.
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  I'm going to turn and start looking in the shop of
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  curiosities for the base of the mast and I'm assuming I've
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  always thought of the ship as twisted and overturned in one
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  area, so I'm honestly looking for the at the walls too.
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  Yeah, totally. Yeah.
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  I don't know ship anatomy well enough, but I know that a main
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  mast extends down below several decks.
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  Your shop is built in such a way that you're on one of the
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  middling decks to the point where it's all slanted, so
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  nothing's perfectly level anywhere.
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  So you're making your way along the walls as best you can until
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  you access the relatively hard to get to area where the mass
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  extends down into the ship. As you're looking. 5 fills you
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  in on a couple of things. Again, 20 years of defending the
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  domain. In the last five years, the
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  boundary of the domain has broken three times, getting
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  smaller and smaller and smaller. And when they placed it at the
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  base of the Great Willow and fully said like, no, bring
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  everyone into the war ends, we're going full siege mode,
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  they expected the domain to break one more time.
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  And that was when the lands of favor switched and things
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  started to look up. That was about two or three
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  years ago, within the last five years.
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  Well, and when you say switched the lands of favor decided to
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  start helping the lands of fate. Yes they were either.
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  Beforehand they were either indifferent or directly hostile.
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  Never in large numbers. The map makers came in like
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  little units to Harry the two wells and sneak in and steal.
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  I've also explains that time has been fucked up.
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  Like they don't know how much time the lands of Fortune has
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  gone through and how much time the lands of Favor have gone
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  through, but he can't be sure that they've had the same amount
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  of time on either side. But that's everything that five
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  relates to you as you search for this hidden item.
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  So time has been different for all of you depending where you
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  are. I think so, but wait till we get
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  back to the Warrens and you can ask Bell.
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  He's the star guy these days. Bell.
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  Yeah, he was 1/2 trowel boy when?
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  I remember Bell. I remember Bell.
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  He grew up to be a good man. This is just all so confusing
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  and hard to think about. Do you I?
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  I hate to ask, but do you remember the day that it all
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  happened? The day that this guy broke open
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  again. Yeah, that day.
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  I remember again, I don't know if it's something I want to talk
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  about. I think I'd rather show you.
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  OK, that's the last time I'll ask friend and parable's going
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  to turn towards the area of the ship that he's honestly kind of
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  avoided for some reason. His whole entire experience in
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  the shop of Curiosity. It was always just like a dark
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  corner. It it he never decorated it
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  never hung things. He just left it to collect the
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  extras and things. And he moves with all the debris
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  left, you know, on top of boxes and things that were full of
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  trinkets yet to be displayed and things that, you know, he just
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  never got to. And he moves those all out of
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  the way. And I think we need to go a
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  little lower. Give me an investigation check.
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  You can do so with Advantage. It's 2 nineteens on the die so
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  my investigation check would be a 23.
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  Awesome. When you say lower, you mean it
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  part of the ship has actually been crashed into the ground and
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  you have to actually kind of spelunk here a little bit, going
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  under the ship into the ground and using your small stature to
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  reach a part of the ship that is truly inaccessible, but accesses
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  that same area that you're in where the main mast extends down
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  into just a different perspective.
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  And as you forcibly and painstakingly get yourself into
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  this location, not using the wind or the elements to this, it
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  feels right somehow to dig through the mud and the dirt of
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  your home to reach this place. As you do your eyes see
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  something that only one of the keepers, one of the Marais,
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  would see. A puzzle box style latch or
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  device that hides something within the mast.
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  It is so imperceptible but your eyes spot it immediately even in
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  the half light as you pop your head up out of the tunneling
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  like environment. I imagine a plank in the floor
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  that just was under all those boxes and I move it and there's
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  a way to get in. But like you said, there's
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  graping and tunneling happening, and one of the first abilities
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  that my pen could do was shed light with a click.
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  Cool. So I think just out of nostalgia
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  I click my pen and I'm using it to light the way with a a bright
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  light and just for theatrics. I feel like it dims as I get
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  closer to the mast and when I discover the puzzle box can I
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  can I roll? Thinking of the Marais people
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  and how they would invoke someone through a test or trial
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  like this. Yeah, give me a performance
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  check here actually. That is A7.
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  You can do so with advantage here I think.
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  That is a 25. He's a Murray, No A20A-23.
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  The 7 to 23 really represents the the need to get it back, but
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  it's like riding in a bike. It begins in your breath and
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  then it becomes a beat as although you see where this
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  thing might be hidden because the wood is altered, there's
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  this most imperceptible line. There's no true latch or puzzle
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  like mechanism to touch or grab to get at whatever's hidden
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  inside. And as you fumble looking for a
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  latch, your fingers become knuckles, and you begin to
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  knock, and you find the hollowness inside, and your
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  breath begins to respond to the beat that you begin to use on
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  the wood. I breathe over the space and I
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  see a pattern. Little nodes and patterns come
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  up and I just start playing and then I go.
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  And like air escaping from brick as you opened him so long ago,
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  similarly an item of great precious value drops out from
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  the mast larger than you expect. A spear tipped with a
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  triumvirate of silver, Violet and golden medals.
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  What you see that this is just a plain wooden spear.
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  It's it is truly the tip of the spear that is important.
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  As you look upon it, it emanates with almost like a a surreal
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  energy. Not you're around magic a lot.
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  It's not necessarily magic. It's more like authority.
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  If you had a word for it, like true authority over existence,
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  over reality. It's it's the closest thing
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  you've ever held an object to be divine.
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  I'm imagining after the knock something just swings open and
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  this spear falls out of the mast.
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  Yes, yes, totally. And I know immediately that this
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  this wooden stick connected to it is just a just a stick.
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  Yeah, plain stick, plain wooden spear shaft tied to, or rather
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  lashed to a spearhead made of precious precious metals.
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  I snapped the staff and I grabbed the, the end of the
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  spear and these metals and I, I put them in my satchel
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  immediately. And I, I turn around to leave
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  before I want to study this. I want to do, I want to roll on
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  this honestly, but I think I'd be, we need to get to where 5
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  needs to go. And so I immediately tried to
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  start getting Outback the way I'm came.
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  And I'm wondering if it's one of those spelunking scenarios where
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  I have to go out feet first. Yeah, I think you really have to
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  go the way that you came. But once you get out, five is
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  like very much hurrying you long as he says parable.
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  I'm sorry, we don't have much time.
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  And you guys hear screams and explosions too much, too near
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  for this to be a safe location anymore.
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  So what do you guys do as you hear much commotion outside?
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  Five what? What direction?
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  How far? Follow me and as you leave from
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  your shop of curiosity as parable, we will cut there and
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  to the Star watchtower where we find Haassian Zin in a no longer
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  glistening and no longer polished Star Watchtower.
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  You find yourselves within a side chamber that holds
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  apparently, the generating mechanism for the bounded field,
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  something that's drawing in power to this domain and that
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  appears to be a stone well, very, very similar in appearance
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  to the well within two wells within the warms of the rabbit's
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  foot. I think that's tell me that's
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  not a Yeah, I think that's not supposed to be a there's no way
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  they do they have a fourth well or something here.
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  Are they the 4th well, star watch the 4th well.
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  No, no, no, no. There's only the third well, and
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  we are it. This isn't real.
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  You hear a voice come from above you that says no, they called it
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  a third well. Hello.
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  Hello. Yes, it's good to see you, my
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  friends. It's been so long.
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  Who are you? Where are you?
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  Above you see kind of in like an alcove where you might store
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  this. This room has a lot of different
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  like nooks and crannies hidden amongst this chamber, within one
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  of the many nooks and crannies it's.
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  The wizard fall. At first you might assume it to
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  because it is an old robed individual with long Gray beard
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  and features that seem familiar. And as he peeks his head over,
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  he says, I've been quite brave and I think you'd be proud of
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  me. It's been many years.
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  I don't know if you recognize me, but it's it's me, Bolano.
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  You know, it's not surprising that you're on the ceiling.
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  Well, The thing is, I mean, he, he, he floats down and you, now
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  that you look around the room, you do see that there isn't in
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  another corner two other roped individuals that are dead.
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  They're skeletons, not zombies, not star zombies.
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  They're destroyed and fully naturally indicate skeletons in
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  the corner of the room. OK, whoa, whoa.
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  Would you get here? Didn't we just leave you back
• 21:59
  at? Callum's crossing.
• 22:00
  I have so much to talk to. You do, and you better start
• 22:03
  talking now, buddy, or we'll unleash the thing on you with
• 22:06
  the big thing in the in the in the foyer.
• 22:08
  So a. Lot be much left of you or the
• 22:13
  thing in the foyer to to mess with.
• 22:16
  OK, well, would you like to debate again?
• 22:18
  Do we have the time for that, Cassie?
• 22:20
  No, no, we don't. You know, just talk.
• 22:23
  A lot happened as soon as you 3 left.
• 22:27
  Oh no, you were there when we left.
• 22:30
  Alanta convinced myself and Chorus to join her in in
• 22:35
  something rather crazy. 2 days ago.
• 22:38
  Cassie, look at me and as you fully appreciate him in view.
• 22:43
  How, How, how, how? You've never studied something
• 22:48
  like this. You don't know what this means.
• 22:50
  This means something terrible. Oh.
• 22:55
  OK, he, he's, he's somewhere between, not 20 years older,
• 23:01
  somewhere like 50 years older than what he was before, maybe
• 23:06
  60. He tries to explain as best he
• 23:09
  can. When you 3 left, Otto Lanta
• 23:15
  convinced us, like I said, that we could do something.
• 23:18
  And of course, none of us felt good about sitting around.
• 23:23
  And for the first time in my life, I didn't want to be a
• 23:25
  coward. I didn't want to be safe.
• 23:28
  I wanted to help. And so I listened and I fully
• 23:34
  rolled for this but he tells the story of how Adelante stole back
• 23:37
  the stone were pendant. I I did this straight as a DMII
• 23:40
  forget I think it was 3 episodes ago.
• 23:43
  But right before you guys left, Adelante stole the pendant from
• 23:46
  me, yes. How?
• 23:48
  It was right before Wish Beard arrived and I described everyone
• 23:52
  was in the room and then RYA sent everyone away.
• 23:55
  Adelante used that moment I rolled against her as passives
• 23:59
  and but I'm in handcuffs. I'm in handcuffs.
• 24:02
  Well, I guess I could have done it with this advantage, but but.
• 24:06
  Out of her bosom. Volana goes on to describe the
• 24:08
  story where he, Alanta, and Chorus all used that stonework
• 24:14
  pendant to use the Word of Recall spell hidden within it,
• 24:18
  which was an instantaneous travel same as you guys, to the
• 24:23
  lands of Favor. Then he describes the craziest
• 24:27
  50 years of insurrection and battle against the Count chance.
• 24:33
  Oh. Shit, you'll never believe it,
• 24:36
  but. Parable's going to love this
• 24:38
  Brick Start recording. Alanta, once we fully had sway,
• 24:43
  once we had the people behind us and then the Murray joined the
• 24:47
  keepers. Well, I would.
• 24:49
  I didn't stick around to see the end of it, but.
• 24:51
  You never do. OK, this time it was for a good
• 24:53
  reason. Cassie.
• 24:55
  I had to get to star watch. I had to tell you what happened.
• 24:58
  Tell me yes. How'd you How did you know I
• 25:01
  would be here? I left after you.
• 25:03
  But Oh yeah. I just had 100 years to do a
• 25:08
  lot. Well, you only had a day.
• 25:10
  20305060, a hundred years. I'm sorry.
• 25:13
  This isn't quite adding up. I know it's I know it's not
• 25:15
  adding up to me. Yeah, out of her bosom, like it
• 25:17
  was in her corset. Like I saw her put it in there.
• 25:21
  It was far down there. Thanks for keeping taps and my
• 25:24
  boobs in. That's a real friend.
• 25:26
  When you say addie brick goes. OK, so so you knew you had to
• 25:32
  get here to tell me what? To tell you that that this
• 25:34
  happened that and and to see what happened to star watch I
• 25:37
  I'd always been curious so. When did you get here?
• 25:41
  It's hard to really place it exactly within the last two
• 25:44
  years I would say. You've just been waiting for us.
• 25:47
  Well, it took a while to get inside the tower and I've been
• 25:50
  avoiding the zombies did. Terrible.
• 25:51
  Make it. I don't, I don't know.
• 25:54
  What do you mean? How would you not know?
• 25:57
  I haven't been to the 2L's. OK, OK, so Oh yeah.
• 26:01
  What was the state of the lands of favor when you left?
• 26:04
  You said you were in charge. Well, that's that's very kind of
• 26:08
  you to say. Well, I assume Adelanto's in
• 26:11
  charge and you were kind of her second, third, 4th, 5th.
• 26:13
  Man, that. Is exactly what is she she took
• 26:17
  power with the people and though they did need 3 for a domain I
• 26:24
  I'll be honest I my name was in the running I fully could have
• 26:27
  been OK I but I was outvoted rather quickly but.
• 26:31
  Alano, I'm going to need you to speed it up.
• 26:33
  OK, Alanta forced chance wheel and worn the three Dominari of
• 26:41
  the Lands of Favor into imprisonment.
• 26:44
  They are all captured at Adalata's command.
• 26:48
  Where are they? Within the dungeons of the city
• 26:50
  of Murray, she forced them to create wardens that could serve
• 26:54
  with Adalanta as 3 proxy dominari.
• 26:57
  I believe Adalanta had plans to bring back Prophecy and
• 27:01
  resurrect her to serve as a Dominari alongside her and
• 27:04
  Chorus served as well. Once more, their party joined.
• 27:09
  What the fuck? Yeah, I hope that doesn't.
• 27:11
  Again, prophecy coming back to life.
• 27:15
  OK, so they're holding on the Fort over there, allies.
• 27:19
  I can only hope so still. Are they good do.
• 27:21
  They wanta had plans to help the two wells.
• 27:24
  Well, we learned rather quickly that the lands of favor had
• 27:28
  their map makers, they called them agents that were being sent
• 27:31
  out to fight other domains. They were sent out in squadrons
• 27:35
  to fight the lands of Fortune. And we know for a fact the two
• 27:38
  wells, it seems like almost a some sort of star war out there.
• 27:43
  When the whole universe is collapsing, the last thing we
• 27:45
  should be doing is fighting each other.
• 27:47
  We should be coming together. Why would they use their energy
• 27:50
  to do that? I.
• 27:51
  Think that's how Adelante convinced the wishbound to
• 27:53
  finally rise up. OK, well, girl, power to her.
• 27:58
  Not cool about the stealing. We'll have words about that
• 28:00
  later. So what are what are you here
• 28:03
  besides to fill us in? Like what?
• 28:05
  What? What's been happening with this
• 28:07
  Well? Well, so it it's been, it's been
• 28:13
  rather turbulent in terms of mood lately.
• 28:17
  Well. Yes, I guess I should make
• 28:19
  introductions. It's rude that I haven't
• 28:21
  already. Cassie Zin, meet Sybil.
• 28:27
  Sybil, would you come out, please?
• 28:30
  I promise they're friends. I know you're shy.
• 28:34
  I promise they're friends. As if he can hear her in his
• 28:37
  mind. He says, Sybil, not to be crass,
• 28:42
  but you were you were literally once a God.
• 28:44
  I I think you have no, you haven't fault.
• 28:47
  This is not it's a great position to be a keeper of a
• 28:49
  well. Sybil.
• 28:51
  She's she's nervous. You see that this spirit rises
• 28:56
  from the well behind Vilano and says hi, He's right.
• 29:02
  My name is Sybil. I, I don't, I don't remember
• 29:05
  much else. I'm, I'm, I wasn't once a God.
• 29:09
  I'm just an echo, a divine echo. But I do feel like fate.
• 29:17
  That's who I was once. Like Fate.
• 29:23
  Yeah, I, I think. They named a land after me or
• 29:25
  something. Yeah.
• 29:26
  So you, Yeah, we're in it. Land, Land.
• 29:28
  Fate. Did you have a friend, fortune
• 29:32
  or or or favor? She grows thoughtful and wistful
• 29:36
  at that, she says. Not friends, I think, more
• 29:46
  family. Both.
• 29:50
  Yeah, we get that. OK, it's hard to remember.
• 29:53
  I like I said I more feel like or echo.
• 29:58
  Oh, Sybil, so nice to meet you. Lovely to meet you.
• 30:01
  Thank you, I wrote some books in my time.
• 30:04
  I like to write these days books.
• 30:07
  Love books, I can't wait to read them.
• 30:10
  Any titles we would know? Valano nods.
• 30:16
  The Sibilene, The the the Sibilene books.
• 30:19
  The ones with the prophecy about the heroes.
• 30:22
  Yeah, developing a severe phobia of the number threes and you.
• 30:25
  Yeah. Mm, hmm.
• 30:26
  Yeah, mm. Hmm.
• 30:29
  So. Simple says, I'm sorry, I'm I'm
• 30:33
  so tired. What is they just they just
• 30:36
  keep, they keep. Oh, there's another one and you
• 30:39
  see, it feels like it's coming from the sky, but it really more
• 30:43
  appears from the air is a mote of light that it falls towards
• 30:47
  the well. And she says no, no, no, no, no,
• 30:48
  no, no, no. And she kind of has to like
• 30:50
  quickly move to catch it before it falls into the depths.
• 30:53
  And she says, sorry, I'll I'll be back soon.
• 30:57
  I just there's another one and drops down into the well as if
• 31:01
  she has business to take care of with this newcomer to the well,
• 31:04
  this little bit of wish energy that has just been drawn in.
• 31:07
  So the bounded field is drawing in living wishes to power this
• 31:14
  domain, I'm assuming. Putting it together.
• 31:17
  I think we need to let Fibble go.
• 31:19
  I think. I think she needs to.
• 31:21
  Yeah. Go to a farm somewhere.
• 31:25
  Oh, Yeller. We're not coping well.
• 31:28
  We're not coping well. We just met a God.
• 31:31
  So Brick is recording all this currently.
• 31:34
  Yeah. We're going to have Brick's AI
• 31:36
  summarize it for Parable when we get back together.
• 31:40
  Give me the readout. What does Brick Does he respond
• 31:44
  at all to this power? I think he might like, innately
• 31:50
  glow a little bit next to this power, but I think if anything,
• 31:54
  he connects in a way that is kind of like almost
• 31:58
  commiseratory, recognizing the injury that is being placed upon
• 32:03
  this well. He can innately sense like this,
• 32:06
  like you guys said, that this thing is on its last legs.
• 32:08
  The spirit within this well that animates its power is being
• 32:12
  forced to stay awake. And Bolano says as much as he
• 32:16
  says. She's quite the talker, at least
• 32:19
  she used to be. But these days, she doesn't have
• 32:21
  the energy for. It who is telling her she has to
• 32:23
  stay. Herself the well, that's Star
• 32:28
  Watchtower. They turned an echo upon an
• 32:31
  echo. She's stuck.
• 32:34
  They didn't know how to feed the well with bindings of true
• 32:37
  power, bindings of promise, bindings of prayer, bindings of
• 32:41
  potential, only bindings. And so they bound Sybil to
• 32:48
  herself. She is an echo screaming upon
• 32:52
  herself, and she will be until, like you said, we put her to
• 32:57
  peace. However, to do so would mean the
• 33:01
  well is no longer a method of travel between domains, as I'm
• 33:04
  sure you 2 know. Yeah, the third wells are
• 33:07
  connected. There's nothing left here.
• 33:10
  I've long thought trying to make an escape to two wells, but you
• 33:14
  had a plan to come here and Parable left first go.
• 33:20
  That's all the power that the well has.
• 33:22
  One trip. OK, wait for Sybil to get back
• 33:24
  and then go. I think it would be better if
• 33:28
  you brought parable here. Oh.
• 33:32
  That's a good point, right? Because he left birth.
• 33:35
  Yeah, but I'm 50 years in the 100 years in the past.
• 33:38
  But he's through the well. I have to believe that he made
• 33:40
  it. I've thought about this a long
• 33:43
  time. I bet the well's power surpasses
• 33:47
  time. This sucks you to whatever time
• 33:50
  that place is in. This well would take you to the
• 33:52
  two wells. Or take parable here and to the
• 33:55
  time of potentially the two wells would be my guess.
• 34:00
  He does confirm that this is a method of travel between
• 34:02
  domains. Third wells quote are connected
• 34:06
  and luckily enough star watch and two wells were just about
• 34:09
  the same amount displaced by the zero point.
• 34:13
  Sorry, the the zero point is what we started calling the
• 34:16
  second great wishing what happened to us that day.
• 34:18
  And for the record, 2 days ago. For you, Cassie.
• 34:22
  Yes, I understand. I just want to reiterate how
• 34:25
  crazy this all is. Nearly 100 years ago for some.
• 34:30
  Right. Great, great, great, great,
• 34:32
  great. So we came here.
• 34:35
  You know, we have a thing that we have to do while we're here
• 34:39
  and that is get the transportation device.
• 34:43
  Todd told me. That is why I think you should
• 34:45
  bring Parable here. Oh, and then we leave from here
• 34:48
  to wish. OK, OK.
• 34:50
  Not to back Cassie I I think this is also a one way trip.
• 34:56
  The telescopic transporter draws the same power that the bounded
• 34:59
  field does. It's got one trip in reserve
• 35:02
  that will stay even with the well down.
• 35:05
  So get parable here and then you have one shot somewhere.
• 35:08
  Back to the ship, straight to wish.
• 35:11
  Because then if we go, we can't. So I'm I'm understanding that
• 35:15
  the time dilation is between domains.
• 35:18
  Yes, and it seems to be focused around the zero point.
• 35:21
  Yeah, kind of like think different planets have different
• 35:24
  gravity in the zero point happening.
• 35:25
  Yes. If you were to equate it to
• 35:26
  gravity, I would say that the largest source of gravity is
• 35:31
  right where you guys had that fight with the wish drinker,
• 35:34
  right where it went off, right where above it the star split.
• 35:37
  That was the point where time was the most dense, and
• 35:40
  everywhere else, the further you got, the more time passed.
• 35:43
  OK, so there's no opportunity for me over the time that has
• 35:46
  passed to have been the star watch and leave them a note.
• 35:49
  No, OK, no, he he explains that luckily Star Watch and two wells
• 35:54
  were about similarly displaced, so both experienced in about 20
• 35:58
  to 25 years. Well, only two days passed for
• 36:01
  council crossing. It was Volano, so old thing.
• 36:04
  Yeah, because he went to the land of favor as he.
• 36:06
  Went he went to land. To star watch.
• 36:08
  And so he had 100 years to do this.
• 36:11
  Well, he didn't use all of the 100 years.
• 36:13
  He's like he said stayed there for about 50 Adelante to finish
• 36:16
  it up for the rest of it. But now Adelante prophecy and.
• 36:21
  God, she's brilliant. And chorus are.
• 36:23
  Irritated that in our experience of two days, Volano has done so
• 36:28
  much good that more than makes up for his shitty behavior over
• 36:34
  four or five days with us. Inspired by your actions
• 36:37
  Inspired by your words Inspired Adalanta.
• 36:40
  Inspired by parables Let Go Inspired by parables Offer of a
• 36:43
  second chance chorus. Inspired by Zins want to bring
• 36:47
  back an exile and Vilano, obviously inspired by Cassie's
• 36:51
  Want to spread good. OK, that's great.
• 36:54
  That's just great wonder. I'm happy for everyone.
• 36:58
  I'm just so happy. I don't know why it's it's the
• 37:00
  time dilation is pissing me off that way.
• 37:02
  A little like. Yeah, that they had 100 years to
• 37:04
  do something that we we played on.
• 37:06
  And it left out. Prophecy coming back.
• 37:10
  I hope she at least had like a reset.
• 37:11
  She's nicer. But still very hot.
• 37:13
  Yeah, still hot. Hopefully less pissed that we
• 37:16
  killed her right outright. Yeah.
• 37:19
  OK, so I think maybe when Sybil comes back, we can see if Sybil
• 37:24
  can reach into the well and talk to the two wells.
• 37:26
  The two wells? Yeah.
• 37:28
  Yes. Parable.
• 37:29
  OK Zen is going to start to, like, flank the room.
• 37:34
  Is there a wall between where we are and the transporter?
• 37:38
  Yes, there's the whole outer large chamber between you and
• 37:42
  the telescopic transporter. We have to go through the mid
• 37:45
  chamber with the big. Yes.
• 37:47
  There's absolutely no other way to get in there.
• 37:51
  I don't think so, no. Stephandra can't.
• 37:54
  I guess Stephandra could get you back out there, but I think,
• 37:57
  yeah, that could also work. Interesting.
• 37:59
  OK, just noodling. I have a feeling we're under a
• 38:04
  time crunchy. We need Perry do.
• 38:06
  You guys have any questions for either Vilano or Sybil the
• 38:10
  Spirit? I mean so many.
• 38:13
  Sybil does come up after a moment and she says sorry, I'm
• 38:16
  sorry I they're all so young. No, there is nothing for you to
• 38:21
  apologize for, Sybil. Thank you for all that you've
• 38:24
  done for this well and are waiting.
• 38:28
  Your sacrifice. Yeah.
• 38:30
  And waiting so long for us to get here, would you be able to
• 38:36
  possibly contact our friend and the two wells?
• 38:42
  Oh, my friend, my friend shy. It's been so long.
• 38:50
  Yeah, yeah, it has been so long. Her coin is so pretty and she
• 38:57
  mentally connects to the two wells, Volano says.
• 38:59
  How did she do that? How did how did you know that
• 39:01
  she could do that? Isn't shy with me.
• 39:04
  No, shy is your token that you use to bind yourself to the the
• 39:08
  third well beneath 2 wells. Oh, because that was a
• 39:11
  flashback. Because then the coin became my
• 39:13
  token. Holy shit.
• 39:14
  I I fucking cook. I'm so glad you said that.
• 39:19
  You absolutely do. Thank you.
• 39:21
  Time dilation is fun to prep for and this.
• 39:24
  Explains the stress. OK, so she connects and yeah, of
• 39:28
  course we know that. OK.
• 39:29
  We know all the wells connect Falano.
• 39:31
  And as as she does connect. Just cuz you're 100 years older
• 39:34
  than me. You're so angsty teen right now.
• 39:37
  Our emotions are still very raw, a lot of time to heal.
• 39:40
  We're still a little pissed at you.
• 39:42
  Hilano says OK, just take it out on me in just like 2 minutes.
• 39:45
  It it feels like this connection might not stay.
• 39:47
  And Sybil seems like she's very fatally and dreamily speaking
• 39:52
  about Shy, the spirit that animates the third well of two
• 39:57
  wells within the warrants. Do you guys have any any
• 39:59
  specific questions that she can relay?
• 40:03
  And you let them know that we need parable now to come through
• 40:07
  the well to us now, immediately. Shy loves parable.
• 40:12
  Good, good. He tells the best stories, yes,
• 40:16
  and that's saying something. She had, oh, she's had many a a
• 40:20
  good story from people that she loved.
• 40:23
  Parable's one of them. When can parable come to us?
• 40:28
  Parable busy. Oh, that's you're right.
• 40:29
  You asked me a question. Yeah, I'll ask shy.
• 40:34
  And you see her again dreamily not and then again gets so
• 40:38
  sleepy as she fades down, as if that's taking something out of
• 40:43
  her just to connect. And Vilano says careful.
• 40:46
  I think we've used as much as we can, got the energy for one trip
• 40:51
  and I think she deserves the rest.
• 40:59
  And now you understand that it's not just space but also time
• 41:03
  separating these messages that you send to one another.
• 41:05
  So This is why they come through so distorted and delayed and
• 41:09
  drawn out. Why do you sound like a robot?
• 41:18
  I will tell you, just trying to get it to go where we need him
• 41:25
  to go. That comes in like 24 years
• 41:28
  later. That's what deja vu is.
• 41:32
  Oh, it's just reliving timelines.
• 41:34
  Shit. Would Zen be able to walk
• 41:36
  forward and cast False Life on Sybil?
• 41:40
  Yeah, I would totally allow you to to do that, especially in
• 41:43
  light of the fact that you've canonically stored so much life
• 41:46
  within, right. And I feel like because we
• 41:48
  didn't role play this before, but when all of the zombies
• 41:51
  died, Zen did drink that life. So you actively and readily have
• 41:56
  an abundance that you just transfer into the well?
• 42:00
  Yes. Is there anything else that you
• 42:01
  guys want to do to? Cuz I would say if you as truly
• 42:04
  spend a couple more resources, we could potentially add more
• 42:08
  power to the well with that. You make Sybil feel better.
• 42:12
  You you see her come up and she's alive a little bit, but
• 42:16
  you don't add like such a depth of power to grant another trip.
• 42:19
  But you do allow like someone passing in Hospice A smoother
• 42:25
  ride. And she little morphine.
• 42:28
  Yeah. She begins to tell stories as
• 42:29
  incredible. Yeah.
• 42:30
  She she tells you about how this is both the Well of Stars and
• 42:35
  the Well of fate, and that speaks true to you, Cassie.
• 42:38
  And you also notice that the well itself is decorated around
• 42:42
  it with many constellar symbols and images.
• 42:47
  Since we're sitting in this room, could Zen perform an
• 42:50
  esoteric write and get her pack spot back?
• 42:52
  I will allow that for sure Yeah, you guys have the time for a
• 42:55
  short rest if you need it all. I'm not sure if you guys have
• 42:57
  any damage but. And I will take that short rest
• 43:00
  and I will take my pack slap back.
• 43:01
  Thank you. And as she speaks with you,
• 43:04
  telling all these many fables and fates of times long past, we
• 43:09
  will cut back to the two wells, back to the shop of curiosities,
• 43:15
  back to Parable and five, on your way to race, to the village
• 43:19
  hex, to the rabbit's foot, to the Warrens that lie beneath the
• 43:23
  great Willow. Parable.
• 43:26
  What do you do as you know that you must make it there quickly?
• 43:30
  1st, I admire five. I think I just mundanely run
• 43:33
  alongside of him. You guys anime run as you guys
• 43:36
  just kind of catch up this dodging and weaving through the
• 43:39
  forest. Yeah, at first it's terrifying.
• 43:41
  There's explosions and there's there's fire and I'm seeing like
• 43:46
  that awkward twilight that we've been seeing.
• 43:48
  But the skies have changed for me.
• 43:50
  So it's just an alien world with obstacles at left and right, but
• 43:54
  with five next to me, I, I think I crack a grin.
• 43:57
  Nice as you do, 5 looks at you and says, all right parable.
• 44:01
  How about a race then? Well, you'll have to keep up
• 44:03
  with this trick. And I think Parable flips off
• 44:07
  the wall and he turns to wind accessing or in this run he just
• 44:10
  takes a minute. So there's a mundane run for a
• 44:13
  minute, you see Parable starting to hop from obstacle wall off of
• 44:17
  wind or just air to the like every once in a while until the
• 44:21
  point here he's more so on the wind than he is on the rocks or
• 44:25
  the debris. The surprising thing is that
• 44:26
  five, I'm going to roll for it. I'm going to give him a
• 44:28
  acrobatics check. Yeah.
• 44:30
  He keeps up with you with a 24. He keeps up with you even as you
• 44:33
  step upon the wind. He does amazing acrobatic feats
• 44:37
  just to stay by your side. I think one of us, whether it's
• 44:40
  me to him or him to me at some point like throws a piece of a
• 44:45
  board or a rock to step, to jump off of, to get out of the way
• 44:48
  from like a just a lot of teamwork of two friends that
• 44:52
  missed out on time. Yes, absolutely.
• 44:55
  And you totally feel the transition from a slight mentor
• 45:00
  position that you held in Five's Eyes to peer and friends that
• 45:04
  just despite the space of years and experience, couldn't
• 45:08
  necessarily find common ground. But here you do, and it's within
• 45:12
  the air as you both flip and fly through the air.
• 45:15
  Give me a perception check as you near in on the the village
• 45:18
  hex that situates the Great Willow and the Rabbit's Foot and
• 45:22
  the entrance to it beneath the two wells at the Great Willows
• 45:25
  base. I think after a minute of
• 45:27
  travel, Parable yells out to Five, who's actually gone up
• 45:32
  ahead of him a little bit, and he says 5.
• 45:33
  You want to see one more trick? Absolutely bearable.
• 45:36
  Grab my hand and I jump over him and I grab his hand and it turns
• 45:39
  both the wind. He is absolutely and utterly
• 45:43
  overcome by the fun of this moment as thank you and they
• 45:49
  both fly with the wind. Give me a perception check as
• 45:53
  you reach the village hex. Just a 13.
• 45:58
  You do not spot it, but let's see if 5 does five does luckily
• 46:01
  spot it and we'll point out beneath you as if like you can
• 46:06
  still see his features within the wind, and you see them bro
• 46:09
  concerned as he says, this isn't fun games below us, and as you
• 46:15
  guys have reached the the village hacks, you see that
• 46:18
  there are several detention drones that are leaving village
• 46:22
  hacks with individuals captured within the orbs as you near
• 46:28
  parable. There's something special about
• 46:29
  you. Their aura breaks up and fucks
• 46:33
  with magic as you pass these drones.
• 46:36
  You get to force them to make a save here to hold these
• 46:38
  detention orbs up. I don't think they're ready for
• 46:41
  the wish flick. We'll see.
• 46:42
  That is for detention drugs that have individuals you can't quite
• 46:45
  see because the opaque orb includes their identity and two
• 46:50
  of them will fail. AS2UC Faberi map makers drop out
• 46:56
  of the detention orbs and two are still captured.
• 46:59
  Do you stay at all or do you just pass by to give them this
• 47:03
  advantage? If you want to act here, you got
• 47:08
  1 action, otherwise we're dropping into initiative.
• 47:11
  Yeah, I think I would just use to save one of them.
• 47:15
  I would use drink wish or dispel magic to.
• 47:18
  Well, to spell magic is an action and drink.
• 47:20
  Wish a bonus? Section, Yeah.
• 47:21
  So you could technically do these last two detention orbs,
• 47:25
  right? I think so, yeah.
• 47:27
  But yeah, if that would put me into initiative though, I just
• 47:29
  don't want it to slow me down. Just spell magic.
• 47:32
  You have to make an ability check that is against the spells
• 47:36
  level which is DC-10 plus the spells level.
• 47:38
  This is a third level spell to detain these creatures or
• 47:42
  equivalent to give me ADC 13 spell casting check.
• 47:46
  You can use your spell casting modifier for it.
• 47:48
  Awesome. That is a 13 on the nose.
• 47:52
  Awesome, Dispelled and the other one with Drink Wish.
• 47:55
  Let me know what the text of that ability is.
• 47:57
  Cool. You can refute certain spells
• 47:59
  and use them to nourish yourself.
• 48:00
  Using Channel Divinity, you can interrupt a creature you see
• 48:03
  within 30 feet casting a spell. When you use a reaction, you can
• 48:06
  you see a creature with age that's actually a reaction, but
• 48:08
  that changes the action economy. I I think that helps here
• 48:10
  because like I said, you just have like this one turn of
• 48:14
  movement past and we won't even roll for initiative as you've I
• 48:17
  spelled one, your aura is taking care of two more and you have
• 48:20
  this one last one. Using your reaction to drink
• 48:23
  wish, you're able to disrupt what is technically a spell like
• 48:27
  effect. And even though it's not
• 48:29
  technically the casting of it, give me an Arcana check, we'll
• 48:32
  say DC-10 to make it effective against this detention war.
• 48:37
  Cool. Yeah, it says the spell fails.
• 48:38
  It has no effect if the level is no higher than one plus your
• 48:41
  paladin level to a maximum of six level spells.
• 48:43
  When it does, you get a number of temporary hit point sequels
• 48:45
  to the CRISPR. Cool, it's definitely below that
• 48:47
  level. So if you get this Arcana check,
• 48:49
  it fails automatically. Athlings don't roll net ones.
• 48:53
  Fantastic. Athlings don't roll net ones.
• 48:56
  Oh, Athlings actually do roll now.
• 48:58
  No, on the second time. The second time because I
• 49:00
  believe the feat states when you roll A1 on the D20 of AD 20 test
• 49:06
  you can re roll the die and you must use the new.
• 49:10
  Roll so and I can't use a luck point because I didn't call it a
• 49:13
  lucky roll. I I don't think I can I can use
• 49:16
  my luck sword I think right? Because.
• 49:18
  You can use your luck sword, but you've used all of your luck
• 49:20
  point support without a long rest.
• 49:22
  Yeah, because we didn't take a long rest.
• 49:23
  You used 3 this morning to find brick.
• 49:26
  Yeah, we we didn't rest before that.
• 49:28
  No, you did not rest before you left.
• 49:31
  Yeah. Yeah, just triple checking.
• 49:32
  You have your luck sword luck point, which would be your last
• 49:35
  luck point. I use it, I swipe instead of I
• 49:40
  wish flick, it doesn't work and I swipe the the lucky pen bait
• 49:43
  to undo the the flick 11 + 415. It is absolutely enough here
• 49:52
  with. Really a.
• 49:52
  Check here to yes just DC-10 to allow your drink wish effect to
• 49:57
  affect the detention drone and you free or wishbound your oath
• 50:04
  sings. You see that even as they begin
• 50:08
  to fight back, they just needed the tide to turn slightly and
• 50:12
  they are vicious fighters. You see one begin to actually
• 50:18
  sit down amongst the other three that seems to be a leader of
• 50:22
  some sort, and he begins to take notes on his three scouts
• 50:27
  fighting for him. So they are so advanced in
• 50:31
  technique and combat that it must have been an unlucky
• 50:34
  situation for them to all four have been captured.
• 50:36
  They're good. You do not need to spend another
• 50:38
  moment on this fight. Is a leader in but scoot
• 50:40
  position. The leader's in perfect but
• 50:43
  scoot position. I squat and salute.
• 50:46
  As you squat mid air and salute he says this is at the tail of
• 50:50
  the shin. And and in my wind.
• 50:53
  For my I dissipate back down to or as I fall, I'll be cast in
• 50:57
  the wind. You hear him speak in the
• 50:59
  language of the Murray to his men.
• 51:01
  The wind is with us. Men fight.
• 51:03
  And as you descend into the two wells below and you make your
• 51:08
  way for the entrance to the Warrens, you have to actually
• 51:11
  approach the barrier of the domain itself, which kind of
• 51:15
  starts right where the walkway up to the great Willow begins.
• 51:19
  And as you hear it thrashing in the air above you, knocking
• 51:22
  drones out of the sky, Mapmaker favorite down below you and five
• 51:27
  at your side. He says I'm going to beat you,
• 51:30
  Parable, and head straight to the entrance to the rabbit's
• 51:33
  foot. Awesome.
• 51:35
  I follow and I look back towards the wishbound and you see
• 51:39
  honestly a tear come from the wind and fall from seemingly the
• 51:43
  air as I follow as fast as possible after 5 and I I look
• 51:49
  around I absorb what the hell is going on like it's I.
• 51:53
  It's just so strange and alien to me to be in the space that I
• 51:56
  remember being peaceful and calm and at least a safe haven away
• 52:00
  from the chaos of the wish torn world.
• 52:02
  And to see it here in battle, as much fun as I'm having with
• 52:06
  five, it's sobering. Live similarly is taking this in
• 52:10
  seriously, but has captured at least the the thrill and seized
• 52:14
  your joy and your also sadness at this beautiful moment of
• 52:19
  saving these wishbound. And as you pause at a threshold,
• 52:23
  you once paused that for a very different reason.
• 52:26
  You know that fear is not part of the reason why you pause now.
• 52:31
  It is pride, it is protection, it is a want to save all of the
• 52:35
  things you see falling apart around you.
• 52:38
  Just before you enter the Warrens, just before you dive
• 52:43
  into the entrance, you see in the sky appearing from a rift of
• 52:51
  spell jamming speed and space, a massive landmass.
• 52:56
  Lands of favour have arrived, but so too the land of fortune
• 53:06
  floating through this astral space.
• 53:09
  A galactic war has made its way here.
• 53:12
  But as you enter the two wells down beneath, let me describe
• 53:15
  what you see. Before I go down the wells, is
• 53:18
  there any way I can communicate with Wishbeard?
• 53:20
  Now I'm going to say no as you do see the bottle breaker
• 53:24
  lighting up with cannon fire and Bancanal and ballista as it's
• 53:28
  two fights within this battlefield.
• 53:30
  It is obviously working to defend the two wells.
• 53:33
  So we breakthrough the the now I'm assuming shrunken barrier to
• 53:37
  the domain of the two wells. As you approach the barrier 5
• 53:41
  like as he walks in, you notice that the barrier like he doesn't
• 53:46
  have to say anything for it. And I think in that moment you
• 53:49
  see five holds a position of power in this domain, one more
• 53:55
  so than you might have first suspected.
• 53:56
  And as you enter the warrants and truths, you might understand
• 54:00
  why it has changed. The clearing that was down below
• 54:07
  within the Warrens is still there, still readily viewable,
• 54:11
  and still a maze of a run. To get there.
• 54:14
  You and Five travel and traverse it quickly.
• 54:17
  You remember the turn by turn directions that he spoke aloud
• 54:20
  that day long, long ago, but not too long ago for you.
• 54:24
  And even from the top of the clearing you can see it.
• 54:27
  But it's not until you complete the trek down to the third well
• 54:31
  that you accept it grown around the well, as if the Willow roots
• 54:37
  have grown so much so around it to protect it.
• 54:41
  You see. Mojo himself, not dead, but
• 54:47
  fully suffused and a part of the tree, more so the well you see
• 54:52
  above him, closer to the top of the cavern.
• 54:56
  Willow herself, her form more and more being pulled back into
• 55:01
  the Willow tree, her eyes closed softly.
• 55:05
  And you see next to the well amidst a chaos of refugees and a
• 55:10
  command center here in this clearing, the wizard fall
• 55:15
  rocking himself back and forth as he says to himself, what went
• 55:22
  up came down, came crashing down.
• 55:26
  The fall was so terrible. Fall.
• 55:30
  And he sees you and he turns and begins rocking once more.
• 55:35
  And Five just kind of shakes his head sadly and pulls you to the
• 55:40
  well. And he says, I don't know what
• 55:42
  to say. Just had to show you they made
• 55:46
  the decision without us. And at this point, 1/2 drow
• 55:51
  individual, a man comes up and you know this to be Belle grown
• 55:54
  up and grabs 5's hand and says it's not a position that we
• 55:58
  wanted but it's one that we hold proudly.
• 56:03
  It's so much to say. All right, hold on.
• 56:07
  I look at Bell and I look at Mojo and I nod to Bell 1st.
• 56:12
  And I pointed you in a direction a long time ago.
• 56:16
  It seems like you found your own.
• 56:17
  How is she doing? You talking about Cass?
• 56:20
  Yeah, she was. She was always the nicest to us
• 56:23
  when we were kids. Yeah, honestly, she was a way to
• 56:27
  get you off my doorstep, but. Oh, I was.
• 56:32
  I was a little persistent, wasn't I?
• 56:35
  You were great. Well, now I'm the only well
• 56:39
  known well. Wish Hunter and I reach out of
• 56:42
  hand and. I he says, well space astronomer
• 56:45
  and shakes your hand. The wish hunting was never for
• 56:48
  me, but well, space is something different.
• 56:52
  There's terrible things out there, but wonderful things too.
• 56:56
  I've taken to using Cassie's Tower in the past few years, and
• 57:01
  amidst it all, I've seen some amazing things.
• 57:05
  And five, I know we'll get through this.
• 57:08
  We've got a lot to explore. Well, thanks for holding down
• 57:12
  the Fort not to make it light, but it's only been a few days
• 57:16
  for me and I can't only fathom what you've gone through.
• 57:21
  But wait here just a moment and I turned around and I go to the
• 57:24
  wizard Paul and I can choose up to 8 features become the wind.
• 57:30
  Awesome. And I just want to give this
• 57:31
  man, even if it's not fully accepted, a moment of that
• 57:37
  wonderful sensation in your belly that you lose when gravity
• 57:41
  turns or changes. I put a hand on his shoulder and
• 57:44
  I close my eyes, and it take as long as it takes for him to
• 57:48
  become the wind with me for a moment.
• 57:50
  Awesome. As you do so, I think it starts
• 57:54
  with him kind of avoiding eye contact until the point where
• 57:59
  you have to be a little bit silly to get in his.
• 58:01
  You have to be a little bit fall like to get his attention.
• 58:04
  Give me a persuasion check here. You can do so with advantage, I
• 58:08
  think, turning him to the wind. That is a 19 on the die.
• 58:13
  Nice with a 19 on the die, more than enough to at first
• 58:18
  hesitantly but get fall to dance.
• 58:21
  He dances as he did, sensing a little bit of weightlessness
• 58:25
  about him. He starts to oh what?
• 58:28
  No, I'm sad right now, I'm sad. I'm no, I couldn't possibly be.
• 58:33
  I'm falling, I'm falling up. And he begins to do that rude
• 58:37
  slippy thing. As he begins to turn to wind and
• 58:39
  gain this fly speed, you give him a moment of distraction.
• 58:45
  The stress that he's under holding this domain together as
• 58:48
  one of the only still active dominari, whereas 5 and Bell
• 58:53
  hold a lot of energy as well. All is still holding the brunt
• 58:58
  of it. And as he does so, you give him
• 59:01
  a moment of distraction from all of the the pain and agony that
• 59:04
  he's had to endure. I yeah, I, I stay quiet and just
• 59:10
  experience it with him and try to emulate what it's like to be
• 59:15
  free of all the pressures that that burden us.
• 59:18
  Sometimes they're more than having him fall physically.
• 59:21
  I hope it lightens him to a point of that youthfulness that
• 59:24
  we saw in him when we when we first met.
• 59:26
  He begins to laugh, and as he does.
• 59:30
  Willow, Willow, see me now, look at me now, watch how many flips
• 59:36
  I can do. Willow and Mojo.
• 59:39
  Mojo, Oh no, I'm not coming down yet.
• 59:41
  I'm not coming back to work yet. No, not yet.
• 59:44
  Mojo and as he, you know, kind of insanely, but so, so, so
• 59:51
  deservingly remembers his friends.
• 59:54
  A flood of little whis bursts from the well, responding to his
• 1:00:02
  call As he says, there's much to be about and many a thing to
• 1:00:07
  fall. And you know that what goes up?
• 1:00:11
  Must come down and you see the many Willow whisks of the well
• 1:00:15
  fly out infused with magnified gravity spells that will shoot
• 1:00:20
  out towards the O stone drones out in the battlefield above You
• 1:00:24
  have awoken fall to fight once more for this domain and five
• 1:00:29
  looks at you and says he hasn't done that in years.
• 1:00:33
  Parable. I know you don't have much time,
• 1:00:35
  but if you're going to spend it on that, thank you do.
• 1:00:39
  You have anything to tell me before I leave?
• 1:00:43
  Just that it's been a long time coming for this to be done the
• 1:00:48
  way Dad told it. More time than any of us can
• 1:00:51
  really know. I.
• 1:00:54
  Look around for a tea table. You see the one that you shared
• 1:00:58
  with Mojo? A stonework table built into the
• 1:01:00
  landscape itself. It's what Paul was resting
• 1:01:04
  himself up next against as he rocked back and forth and now
• 1:01:08
  dances upon. I go up and blow off the dusty
• 1:01:13
  jars, pull out some very old tea, and use some elemental
• 1:01:18
  magic to kind of whip together some genie tea.
• 1:01:22
  You reinfuse some genie tea upon the table for sure.
• 1:01:26
  Say I can't stay and drink it with you, but think of us.
• 1:01:29
  I'm going to go follow the butterflies and I run and I jump
• 1:01:32
  into the well. Ball looks down at you and for a
• 1:01:34
  moment kind of sets his feet really strongly, almost
• 1:01:37
  returning to solid form and kicks the cup as far as he can.
• 1:01:40
  And he says, I'm back everyone, and I'll get you my pretties.
• 1:01:46
  That's a funny reference. I don't know if you've ever
• 1:01:47
  heard that story, but it's funny.
• 1:01:50
  And he, you know, has his Willow wisp flying and soaring around
• 1:01:54
  him. But you have a mission ahead of
• 1:01:56
  you, and as the many overgrown roots of the well open, the well
• 1:02:04
  awaits you, what do you do? I Sprint towards it, this time,
• 1:02:09
  no hesitation, no wait. I flip over and look at Bell and
• 1:02:15
  Five and Ball and I give them a wish Hunter salute as I tumble
• 1:02:19
  backward gracefully flipping my feet back over and Ariel and
• 1:02:23
  straight head bursts down into the well with the eyes open.
• 1:02:26
  So fantastic with absolute virtuoso movement.
• 1:02:30
  You go from once to where and traveling through the third,
• 1:02:37
  well, like you once did. This trip is different.
• 1:02:43
  This trip is turbulent, but you meet a friend along the way that
• 1:02:49
  makes it much less so as you feel a soft hand in yours and
• 1:02:54
  then the other, a smooth coin, a long lost friend, a token that
• 1:03:00
  you once bound to this third well, long ago.
• 1:03:03
  Chai guides you to where you need to go.
• 1:03:07
  She says. Do you have a story along the
• 1:03:08
  way? I guess we have time.
• 1:03:12
  That's all we have here. Have you ever heard about the
• 1:03:15
  pirate Good beard? I haven't, and I've heard many a
• 1:03:19
  story. Tell me that one.
• 1:03:22
  You're going to love pirates. They must be new, and they're
• 1:03:28
  we. Can do that.
• 1:03:28
  They can't be space forever. And with that, we cut back to
• 1:03:37
  Star Watchtower for just a moment as you get a slight
• 1:03:43
  warning before Parable arrives, which is that Sybil perks up a
• 1:03:48
  little mid sentence. She's telling you about Owen
• 1:03:53
  Fortune Favor. Oh, they were just, I mean, at
• 1:03:56
  times they were, they were friends, but at other times,
• 1:04:00
  like I said, they were family. And other times I hated the
• 1:04:02
  guts. But all the time we did good,
• 1:04:07
  that's what. Oh, something good's coming.
• 1:04:15
  Yes, and as you see Parable flying up through the air in a
• 1:04:21
  moment that none of you can fully take the time to fully
• 1:04:25
  appreciate. As Parable flies up through the
• 1:04:27
  air, Sybil looks down to the well already fading and you see
• 1:04:34
  Shy come up and take her hand and both drop together.
• 1:04:40
  You don't see Sybil disappear, The last you see of her is
• 1:04:43
  taking a long lost friend's hand as Shy says good luck and Sybil
• 1:04:49
  says they don't need it. Thank you.
• 1:04:54
  Thank you. Thanks for the ride and I hope
• 1:04:57
  the stories were, I guess, entertaining.
• 1:05:02
  Parable. And I flipped the coin down to
• 1:05:05
  shy. Knowing that it must stay bound
• 1:05:08
  to the third well, so that you may too stay bound to it, you
• 1:05:11
  drop amongst your friends. Cassian's in OH.
• 1:05:14
  My God, it worked. Parable.
• 1:05:15
  Oh, my gosh. OK, So I don't really believe
• 1:05:17
  that it works. I don't.
• 1:05:18
  Is it? Is it you?
• 1:05:18
  She's like Zen's like poking you, prodding you, pulling your
• 1:05:21
  skin on your legs. In the future, do you guys know
• 1:05:23
  where in the future? You always have those wrinkles.
• 1:05:25
  I I'm wait, do you have a mirror?
• 1:05:28
  The well, the well, Look, look in the water.
• 1:05:31
  Look down a void. I yeah, I it's dissipating.
• 1:05:37
  I think it's like a it's magic essence that simulates water.
• 1:05:40
  So if you guys want to to capture anything of it, it is
• 1:05:44
  fading fast. I look over at my reflection and
• 1:05:48
  see the toll of the desert, the toll of what we've been through
• 1:05:53
  in the years travelled, and I look to both of my friends and I
• 1:05:59
  say I don't think we're in the two wells anymore.
• 1:06:04
  No, we're at Starwatch and they're zombies and.
• 1:06:07
  I'm Vilano. And that's Vilano Vilano's here.
• 1:06:10
  What you're supposed to be? We have it all recorded on
• 1:06:13
  Brick. You're just going to need to
• 1:06:14
  trust us right now. Give you the SparkNotes in a
• 1:06:16
  minute. Are we at, am I at Starwatch?
• 1:06:18
  Yes. OK.
• 1:06:21
  Everyone's dead. It's been 20 or 30 years and
• 1:06:24
  they're all dead except Vilano and and there's sort of like an
• 1:06:27
  undead. Beast I know 5 is all grown up.
• 1:06:30
  5 is all grown up. You haven't met 5 yet?
• 1:06:33
  Oh no, he's back at two. My brain hurts.
• 1:06:35
  Mine too. Is it somehow Vilano got here
• 1:06:38
  but has also spent 30 years elsewhere?
• 1:06:41
  Give or take. Brick, I run up and I grab brick
• 1:06:46
  like I'm fielding a baseball pitch and like.
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  He lifts you a little. Bit but I got the boots on and
• 1:06:52
  I'm still a little cloudy, so I I'm like floating around with
• 1:06:55
  him hugging me. Absolutely.
• 1:06:56
  Brick very happily chimes and chirps at your side.
• 1:06:59
  I think I accidentally access the witness mode he's in and see
• 1:07:02
  everything that they just saw. Yes, fully.
• 1:07:04
  They brick passes along almost happily, like I had so much fun
• 1:07:08
  on my girls trip. We did this and then we did this
• 1:07:13
  and then we did this and then I'd done it without him.
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  I. Was so worried about you both I
• 1:07:16
  thought I'd never see you again. In a moment I I always had hope,
• 1:07:20
  but it felt like moments but years at the same time.
• 1:07:24
  I How do we get back? Do we get back?
• 1:07:26
  Where do we go? Great questions.
• 1:07:29
  Well, surprise we found of the fourth well at Star Watch.
• 1:07:34
  This is how they were keeping the bounded field active.
• 1:07:36
  Technically a second third well, but there are many third wells.
• 1:07:40
  So I guess if you start I. Think we're going to call it the
• 1:07:42
  Fourth? Well, sorry Valan, you don't
• 1:07:43
  make the rule. OK, OK.
• 1:07:44
  Yep, that's fair. It's the fourth well.
• 1:07:46
  That's fair. I walk up to the I walk up to
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  the well and I squeeze both of Zen and cast his wrist for a
• 1:07:53
  second, but I think tell me if I can do this, can I unstop her my
• 1:07:58
  bottle lamp and scoop some water?
• 1:08:00
  Oh yeah, absolutely. I think that would be perfect
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  for are you. You're talking about for a time.
• 1:08:06
  Yeah, 100%. You like recharge and like you
• 1:08:09
  give his chambers like a fresh coat of paint.
• 1:08:11
  It's kind of, it's kind of like it's you do rehab.
• 1:08:14
  He's got like all of the best I. Think in a similar fashion where
• 1:08:18
  as the death of 1 plant might be the nutrients for another.
• 1:08:21
  You capture the cycle here and attempt says this.
• 1:08:27
  This is how we fix the cycle in your mind.
• 1:08:30
  Just he doesn't mean this specifically, but through the
• 1:08:33
  spirit of actions like this, this is how the cycle can be
• 1:08:36
  restored. And you do so capturing a little
• 1:08:39
  bit of the well to reimbu a little bit of your energy and a
• 1:08:43
  little bit of attempts as well. I think it's kind of autopilot
• 1:08:46
  because Parabola was remembering something of the Murray people.
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  And he he does it and he says the water that gives me life and
• 1:08:53
  the breath that holds me and he stoppers the bottle, turns to
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  his friends, is like, OK, I think I have my breath.
• 1:09:01
  You guys came through that door. I think Rick showed me.
• 1:09:04
  Yeah, you don't want to go back that way.
• 1:09:06
  Yeah, what the hell? Was that thing?
• 1:09:07
  Don't know, but lots of death. We're going to try a different
• 1:09:10
  way. A different way.
• 1:09:11
  Yeah, I have an idea. She's got a lot of them.
• 1:09:14
  So are we still telepathically connected to Saphandria?
• 1:09:18
  Yes, you are as Valano was talking about and I'm sure you
• 1:09:22
  all. Valano, thank you first of all
• 1:09:25
  for coming here and delivering the message and being really
• 1:09:29
  brave. You were really brave.
• 1:09:30
  Good job. It's literally been both my
• 1:09:34
  life's pleasure and my life's mission.
• 1:09:37
  We really carried on the good and I'm I'm very thankful for
• 1:09:40
  that. I want to say.
• 1:09:42
  Yeah. I think Lyra would be proud.
• 1:09:46
  He begins to weep at that and has to kind of recover himself
• 1:09:50
  as he says thank you, thank you parable.
• 1:09:55
  Thank you Cassie. I'll be honest, your opinion
• 1:09:59
  means the most to me. Thought about your words my
• 1:10:03
  entire life. Zen.
• 1:10:07
  We have some amazing friends, not just these two.
• 1:10:09
  But the way Igor and Esther volunteered for the mission,
• 1:10:15
  don't worry, they hopefully stayed back at Count Crossing.
• 1:10:19
  Igor was luckily bound as a warden, so we didn't have to do
• 1:10:22
  much to hold him back. But both of them, Esther and
• 1:10:25
  Igor, were convinced that they had to come and help.
• 1:10:30
  That's understandable. Yeah.
• 1:10:31
  I've never been able to control Esther anyway, so I wouldn't be
• 1:10:34
  surprised if she did her own thing.
• 1:10:37
  I hope they're OK. So oh, buddy buddy, buddy buddy.
• 1:10:41
  She like, takes his hand. You're not going to be able to
• 1:10:45
  come with. Us.
• 1:10:46
  Oh. But you can go back with
• 1:10:49
  Tafondria. But you can ride a flying horse.
• 1:10:53
  Wow, I was, I was actually about to say I I would sacrifice
• 1:10:56
  myself for you, but that sounds way better.
• 1:10:58
  Yeah. If you want to live, you can.
• 1:11:00
  And also, if you don't mind, maybe operate OK, flying Horse
• 1:11:04
  Incredible and maybe operate the teleporter for us so we can get
• 1:11:11
  OK, cool. I was prepared again to do that
• 1:11:14
  as my dying action, but I will. A Safondra sounds better.
• 1:11:18
  Yeah, Safi cannot come with us. And I think is I'm just going to
• 1:11:21
  think really hard at Stephandria and say we need we need to pick
• 1:11:25
  up. You'll know where to go.
• 1:11:27
  And she's going to turn to the outer wall and I'll just blast a
• 1:11:30
  hole through it. OK, sick.
• 1:11:32
  Absolutely. As you do so you have to use
• 1:11:35
  Cassie a little bit as her. She's the true dragon rider.
• 1:11:38
  Perfect telepathic link, but you echo this off of Cassie's star
• 1:11:42
  song Mine connecting to Stephandra.
• 1:11:45
  You just hear Where should I? That's bright, that's oh,
• 1:11:50
  they're all looking at that. They are all coming in.
• 1:11:53
  She telepathically passes along the idea of like, all the
• 1:11:56
  zombies down below being like and they all start travelling.
• 1:12:02
  Perfect. OK, guys, now or never?
• 1:12:05
  Zen. There was a wall there before.
• 1:12:06
  Can we? Just I think Zen is just going
• 1:12:09
  to run at this hole and just leap.
• 1:12:12
  And hope that the hundreds you catch her just as she passes,
• 1:12:17
  still invisible. Incredible.
• 1:12:19
  Girls got hot. Me and the Western.
• 1:12:22
  Scat. So yeah, I think like she's.
• 1:12:27
  Going to jump. And then because the founder's
• 1:12:29
  invisible, like she's going to extend, look down and go, oh,
• 1:12:32
  no, like she's not there. And then like.
• 1:12:36
  Ow. She's here, you guys.
• 1:12:38
  Just Cassie, in your mind's eye, you can like sense where
• 1:12:41
  Stephandra is that. Didn't make it any less
• 1:12:44
  stressful like one eye open because if sin was about to
• 1:12:47
  plummet to her death, I just wanted to be able to protect
• 1:12:51
  myself from seeing it. So I'm like, that is so through
• 1:12:54
  an eye, like, oh thank God my mental math was correct.
• 1:12:58
  The grace of you diving out, arms wide, then not seeing
• 1:13:01
  anything that's starting to like flail a little.
• 1:13:04
  Bit Oh, she's here. Nice job.
• 1:13:08
  Yes, I am. You guys, you guys can come.
• 1:13:13
  Cassie follows suit. Ride the dragon.
• 1:13:16
  Come on, Vilano. As you all aboard to Stephandra
• 1:13:20
  of Vilano says, Oh do I. Horses the fly.
• 1:13:24
  Horses the fly. Well, I am specifically thinking
• 1:13:26
  of the last time that I had to ride behind Stephandria.
• 1:13:30
  Oh no, you get her back this time, OK?
• 1:13:32
  Bearable host on the rope, preparing for that.
• 1:13:37
  Then I was like, naturally. Oh, oh, sorry.
• 1:13:40
  Oh my friends, it's good to see you all again.
• 1:13:43
  Yeah, it's so weird that you're our elder.
• 1:13:44
  I'm still not used to that. I mean I was before but still no
• 1:13:47
  respect. I don't expect any now.
• 1:13:49
  Still no respect. Yeah, I'm fair there.
• 1:13:53
  One thing I was saying is she does not respect your.
• 1:13:55
  Elders And as you sweep around the tower towards the other side
• 1:14:01
  where this other side chamber is accessible, what do you guys do
• 1:14:04
  to gain access to this side chamber, the one that holds the
• 1:14:07
  telescopic transporter? Cassie might attempt guiding
• 1:14:11
  Bolt through the wall. Yeah, absolutely.
• 1:14:14
  As you go out, so you will go in and Cassie give me an attack
• 1:14:17
  roll for this one. 20. That's one of you will
• 1:14:22
  definitely be hitting, and you can roll damage if you want to,
• 1:14:25
  but blast open the wall for sure. 17 damage, more than
• 1:14:31
  enough as you destroy a section of wall and shuttered window,
• 1:14:36
  and Sofandria slides and skidders just barely enough room
• 1:14:42
  for her to enter this chamber, having blown open the entire
• 1:14:45
  section of wall. So she's fully in the chamber
• 1:14:48
  or? She's fully, not comfortably so,
• 1:14:50
  but all of you are very able to very safely dismount and then
• 1:14:53
  she's able to make her way out of the chamber rather quickly.
• 1:14:56
  Amazing. What do we see?
• 1:14:59
  First you see Vilano waving from Sophondra's back and says good
• 1:15:02
  luck my friends. Maybe stick around for like 10
• 1:15:05
  minutes or something. Yes.
• 1:15:07
  I will to turn on. This thing, he leaves and he's
• 1:15:14
  like, oh. Yo, shit, I just got so excited
• 1:15:17
  about Nana wanting to, you know, stop myself.
• 1:15:21
  And Cassie, as you see your father's life's work, it is
• 1:15:26
  gorgeous. Give me an investigation check
• 1:15:29
  or a Arcana check to tell more about it. 25 Arcana.
• 1:15:36
  Fuck, you see? You see.
• 1:15:42
  Both the beauty of this machine as well as the parts where he
• 1:15:48
  could have been a little bit more elegant, but you see him in
• 1:15:51
  it. You see a machine that is meant
• 1:15:55
  to do something in a straightforward way, but at the
• 1:16:00
  most unexpected times hints at an amount of elegance and beauty
• 1:16:05
  and understanding of life that is.
• 1:16:07
  But there's. Desperation here.
• 1:16:10
  There's desperation in this machine too, as you see that it
• 1:16:14
  does its best to calculate the stars and then zeros in
• 1:16:18
  magically, as we've ascertained with that check.
• 1:16:21
  You also see that the constellation cipher that is
• 1:16:26
  used to start up this machine, as Vilano says, I've thought
• 1:16:30
  about this for years, and Star Watchtower, they always key
• 1:16:33
  their machines and devices to a certain constellation.
• 1:16:39
  Cassie, I bet your father keyed it to a star that stands still.
• 1:16:43
  If we get it wrong though, the machine won't work and it will
• 1:16:46
  be locked down. What constellation do you think
• 1:16:49
  it is? You basically see like a
• 1:16:51
  circular keypad representing all the different constellations of
• 1:16:54
  the sky. I don't think he would have used
• 1:16:57
  thelaris. And with that 25 arcana you see
• 1:17:02
  one that almost with magical residue, but it makes sense.
• 1:17:08
  The little ladle lights up to your hurricane senses as you
• 1:17:12
  know exactly the button push to activate this as Valada looks at
• 1:17:16
  you and he says I could just guess if you don't think it's
• 1:17:20
  Solaris then. It's the little ladle, but
• 1:17:24
  thanks. You're sure?
• 1:17:26
  Positive. I trust you.
• 1:17:29
  OK. I've had a lot of time to think
• 1:17:33
  about this. I said that with way more weight
• 1:17:35
  than you were feeling. I understand that.
• 1:17:37
  Again, it's been 2 days. I I've thought about that,
• 1:17:40
  sorry. We're all, you know, overtired
• 1:17:43
  and old. He holds, he holds his his frail
• 1:17:49
  body response as best as he can. Holds his frail body.
• 1:17:53
  I do want to just warn you that if your hope is to travel back
• 1:17:59
  in time with Stephandria. That's Cassie.
• 1:18:04
  I decided a long time ago that my life's mission was this
• 1:18:07
  moment to see you off and wish you luck.
• 1:18:11
  That's honorable. If you if you do happen to make
• 1:18:16
  it back to Callum's Crossing, will you tell them that we made
• 1:18:21
  it? I most definitely will.
• 1:18:23
  Oh, and Brick, would you mind? And Brick flying over to Vilano.
• 1:18:32
  Vilano places a hand upon Brick. It's a quiet moment, kind of
• 1:18:37
  awkward. And then Brick flies over to you
• 1:18:41
  3 And Vilano says please. I think it will.
• 1:18:45
  I think it will strengthen your spirits before you move on.
• 1:18:48
  Do we touch it? Brick covers into the center of
• 1:18:51
  all three of us. OK, everyone, put your hand.
• 1:18:54
  In and as you all touch Brick, you see as if gathering for a
• 1:18:58
  group photo, Igor, Esther, Raya, everyone that you left behind,
• 1:19:05
  even Alanta Chorus before they left.
• 1:19:09
  They all gathered, knowing that Vilano might have a longer
• 1:19:13
  mission, knowing that they all might have a longer mission.
• 1:19:16
  They took this memory together and they pass it along to you
• 1:19:20
  here now. And they all wave and yell good
• 1:19:24
  luck. Good luck, we're going to change
• 1:19:30
  the world. By our last breath.
• 1:19:36
  Tell them we're following the plan, Milano.
• 1:19:40
  I will. We'll meet them there.
• 1:19:44
  We'll meet you there. Good luck.
• 1:19:48
  And with that he presses the button.
• 1:19:51
  A little ladle and there we'll end our session.
• 1:20:00
  Wait, I didn't put my C ball? On.
• 1:20:02
  I was just thinking like, do we need to sit in it?
• 1:20:04
  Do we need to touch something? Do we need to I need a ginger
• 1:20:06
  mint. My tummy hurts.
• 1:20:07
  Yeah. Is it just like a catapult?
• 1:20:09
  Gathered in a soft circle, U3 enter the effective area of the
• 1:20:15
  telescopic transporter, which is just out of space where you
• 1:20:18
  might foreseeably look through it.
• 1:20:21
  It's set to where you need to go.
• 1:20:23
  Yeah, it's almost like it. Needs to be activated.
• 1:20:26
  It's almost like using the keypad to input the little
• 1:20:28
  ladle. It was almost like the only
• 1:20:31
  command it had and knew what to do.
• 1:20:34
  Yeah, it is a moment of fate, as Vilano recognized that.
• 1:20:39
  He doesn't know why I think he presses it so suddenly and
• 1:20:42
  immediately, but just that. Fate is upon this moment and it
• 1:20:45
  is not to be waited for. And we will see where fate takes
• 1:20:49
  us next time. Great.
• 1:20:54
  Not just looking up anymore. We're going up, baby.
• 1:20:57
  Or being up. Beam me up, Vilano.
• 1:21:00
  Great fucking stuff y'all and we will be returning for our our
• 1:21:07
  next session and possible finale upon A star next session.
• 1:21:14
  I thought it was the penultimate.
• 1:21:16
  Hopefully, but I mean, it is it is.
• 1:21:18
  I'm just I'm. 2nd to penultimate.
• 1:21:20
  It is, it is. No, it's penultimate, but it's
• 1:21:23
  just the finale is going to be two parts.
• 1:21:24
  That'll be two. Parts.
• 1:21:25
  There's no way we beat wishing one session.
• 1:21:28
  Beat em. Anything you guys want to sneak
• 1:21:30
  in before I say my stuff? Here I think that group photo
• 1:21:34
  moment was cruel. Was the hardest part of this.
• 1:21:37
  Whole campaign what's the thing about them all taking a little
• 1:21:40
  group selfie yeah for us a long time ago knowing that we'd see
• 1:21:43
  it now a. 100 years ago for some and just days ago these
• 1:21:47
  spaghetti I. Mean for the past like 3
• 1:21:49
  sessions, I've been looking at brick as this like world seed
• 1:21:52
  holder slash floating Polaroid camera and cruise director.
• 1:21:57
  And it's so it's it's hurtful to know that Vilano held that for
• 1:22:05
  us so that brick could have it so that we could have it.
• 1:22:08
  And it's a lot. Man I got to save it for the
• 1:22:11
  after show. Yeah, save it for the after show
• 1:22:12
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• 1:22:15
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• 1:22:16
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• 1:22:19
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