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  Welcome to Die Sized and welcome back to the final episode of
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  Wish Hunter. This will be our epilogue folks.
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  But don't worry, this is still me, your DM and friend Rob
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  Whitehead. And with me, as always, is my
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  lovely table friends and family. Here we of course have my
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  brother George. Hey, it's G playing parable
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  question mark. Yes, yes you are.
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  We are staying in character today.
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  We will be sunsetting this beautiful campaign to be put on
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  the shelf for a later. Time.
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  I just wanted to say goodbye. To my friends, you get a chance
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  here at Parable, and though I don't want to, we got to say
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  goodbye to these characters. And one person who I know is a
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  character in my life I never want to say goodbye to is Maya.
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  Hey, it's Maya. You can call me Maya.
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  That was so nice and. I say goodbye to you too.
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  And Zen doesn't want to say goodbye to her friends.
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  So don't. I won't.
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  I don't think, to be honest, I don't think any of us are really
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  going anywhere. But in terms of the world that
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  we used to know, we are on to the next.
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  To be continued. Yes, yes, we will be starting
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  there, I think with the creation of said world and surrounding
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  universe. But then I think we'll be doing
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  some time skips as well. Just get a good feeling of
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  resolution with these characters so maybe they end up together.
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  But don't be afraid to take your own solo journeys y'all, cause a
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  lot of time we're passing. But one person who I know takes
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  a lot of solo journeys, she goes to the boundary bars a lot.
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  And like sometimes I'm just like home alone.
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  I'm just like, why don't you take me to the Boundary waters,
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  babe? Take me camping.
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  We go camping a lot, but sometimes she goes on camping
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  trips alone. Anyways, that's my lovely wife,
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  Savannah. Sav here.
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  Hey Rob, do you want to go on a canoeing trip this summer?
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  That would be fantastic. Cassie's coming too.
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  As she as she does in all of our car rides and elevator rides and
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  anytime we have a chance to chit chat about it.
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  Well, anytime you look up Cassiopeia's there.
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  So, so true, especially in the boundary wonders especially,
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  they're all up there and the big and little ladle, etcetera,
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  etcetera. Cassie would like everyone at
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  home to know that this episode pairs really, really well with a
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  hot cup of tea. Ah, as do most things I think.
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  And Cassie, that is one thing that you taught me throughout
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  this campaign. I always thought Tea might be a
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  little bit too slow paced for D&D, but then I realized that is
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  a lot of what D&D is there's. Always time for tea.
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  There's always time for tea, and why not slow down for a cup of
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  it? Well, I read you this doozy of a
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  recap. Last time our heroes escaped
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  craves wrath, and plunged deeper into the broken heart of the
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  broken Plane of Odd, finding themselves within a gallery of
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  memory and regret. There, our heroes spoke with
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  legendary heroes of old, Wizard Time and the Wizard luck, Soraya
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  Syria. Newly freed from timeless
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  stillness, she whispered both her guilt and her pride to
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  Cassie. Cassie immediately offered her
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  forgiveness, knowing that it was better to try and hope rather
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  than give up to regret and despair.
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  Her mother's awakening brought Cassie a reunion she had spent a
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  lifetime wishing for, and with it the truth of their enemy as
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  well. Grave was a God of obsession
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  bent on becoming something worse, an elder element, a being
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  with the power of a God, but without the restraints of
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  divinity. The wizard Time, once revered as
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  the Holy Light of Domi, nearly surrendered himself to despair,
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  but the party convinced him to make a stand.
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  Though he had little time to spare, he compressed what hours,
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  minutes, and moments he could, and granted our heroes a long
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  rest in an instant. With that, our heroes turned to
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  free the fading spirits of favor and fortune.
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  Yumi and Yami gave the last of their essence to strengthen them
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  as they passed. Our heroes knew they had done
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  well to give these spirits peace.
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  Lastly, and for good reason, the very addled elder Sage Sagacious
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  was left in stasis. Turning their eyes to the
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  conflict ahead, Parable sought Bricks help once more.
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  Mapping out the area as best he could, Brick identified two
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  bright spots that radiated power.
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  Nicks and more were able to identify them as primals, the
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  element of voices that exist with an all noble Gen.
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  With the stealthy sneeze, our heroes invisibly avoided Crave's
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  gaze and found their way to the chambers that held these
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  primals. While Flo, a primal of water,
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  welcomed the party, EB was far from friendly.
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  Though made of stone, EB turned out to be a real softie.
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  Both Ebb and Flo felt that Wish had forgotten them, or perhaps
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  just believed them to be quiet. Though they had long considered
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  taking on an adventure of finding Azerza, the mortal
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  aspect of Wish, they feared the wrath of Crave.
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  Our heroes helped to calm Flow and Ebb and spurred them to
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  movement, choosing loyalty to Zerza, the mortal aspect of
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  Wish, instead of the mad God that had discarded Zerza.
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  Ebb and Flow severed themselves from Crave, ripping away a
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  colossal portion of his divinity.
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  The glow shook, odd to its foundations.
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  The end had begun. Then came the final
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  confrontation, when they stepped again into odd shifting expanse.
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  The air itself began to roar. The storm face of Crave
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  materialized above them, and battle ignited.
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  Parable struck first, hurling himself skyward, silver form
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  shimmering with a flash of Ariel grace he carved into the
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  divinity that Crave wore like armor.
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  Astride Akuma's nightmare form, Zin ignited her blade dragon
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  hot, and it craved with the hex of knowing that his primals had
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  abandoned him. While Akuma breathed the blast
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  of flame, Cassie rose on her thousand League cloud, burning
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  bright with the Star Reformed constellation of a dragon.
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  Evoking the visage of Safandria, she unleashed a fateful
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  contagion that tore at Craves, constantly reshaping form, a
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  blighting radiance that caused Craves face of storm and stone
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  to crumble. Crave roared.
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  The plane around them shudder, and the mad God tried to unmake
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  them. He shaped stone and water into
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  weapons, split the sky, struck with chains, and brought the
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  wind itself to bear against them.
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  Zinn stilled those chains while parables stilled those winds,
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  and Cassie, with her charm of balance strengthened by her
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  mother, turned the God's wrath right back at him.
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  Then, in one terrible instant, Crave aimed at itself, at
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  Cassie, a killing word that no mortal could endure.
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  Zinn did not hesitate. Flames erupted from her like a
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  memory set free, shaping into an elegant long necked dragon of
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  fire that evoked memories of the inferno on her promised day long
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  ago. Zinn stood between Cassie and
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  annihilation and the killing spell died against the rage of
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  her defiant roar back. The tide of the battle turned,
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  Cassie hurled Crave's own power bucket, and burning bright with
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  star songs, Zinn unleashed a fireball with all the power of
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  the 9 howls behind it just as Cassie sent out a streaking line
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  of lightning. Parable, spinning with the
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  silvery might, drove the trimetal blade into Crave stone
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  brow again and again. And at last Parable struck true.
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  Their combined will shattered Crave's false godhood.
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  The storm peeled away. Divinity fell like broken shards
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  of glass. But Remain was only a man
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  screaming into the winds that no longer obeyed him.
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  Zin, Cassie, and Parable stood together, battered but unbroken,
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  as the last fragments of Crave's divinity began to fall.
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  Invoking his breath, Parable struck like a silvered falling
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  star, just as Zin forged a circle of death, the flood of
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  necrotic energies binding the false God with smoking chains of
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  her own, and Cassie felt fate smile upon them.
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  The end of his reign had come not by prophecy, not by gods,
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  but by our heroes, these lucky few.
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  Their story was no accident, and the next choice would be theirs
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  alone. Odd collapse.
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  Stars unraveled, reality tore open, and our heroes found
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  themselves upon a dirt crossroads.
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  With a simple stonewell and Raven as its keeper, Spekku
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  spoke of the great responsibility of raising a
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  world through the root and upon the world's tree.
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  The entire universe, a cosmos of their own, would be created from
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  their conceptual guidance. With the weight of unborn worlds
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  upon them, our heroes spoke thus.
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  I wish for something. New.
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  With these words of power parables Zinn and Cassie Feld
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  the first domino that would culminate with the creation of
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  an entire cosmos, riding the search through the route and
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  into the unformed universe that awaited their touch.
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  Thus ended Wish Hunter book one. But don't worry, we are here for
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  an epilogue as we rejoin our heroes now, as they rise beyond
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  the under astral, beyond the three great wells of creation
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  pass through the root of all things and into an existence
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  waiting to be shaped. So players, let's give it some
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  shape, y'all. First of all, welcome back to
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  the the the campaign. It's the last time.
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  How do you guys feel? Does anyone else smell cinnamon
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  plum tea? Sorry I farted.
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  Star farts. Zen.
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  You. Are.
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  Zen's gotten into her, her alchemy or.
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  She's been sucking fingernails and sniffing farts.
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  In my mind, this is like kind of like a primordial ooh soup that
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  you're in right now and it's just like your consciousness.
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  But I guess you could just be on the crossroads having tea and
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  talk about farts. I guess as you must consider
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  some things and power is being shaped within your hands.
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  I kind of like the idea of a bunch of conscious goop just
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  talking to yourself, talking about cinnamon plum tea, yeah.
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  I think this moment is truly you guys sinking into your most
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  primordial and natural senses when it comes to your type of
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  magic, really falling into what it feels like when you arcanely
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  push off one another, what it feels like to be dominari, and
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  you guys have really practiced that this entire time.
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  So we're going to make some important roles.
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  The first of which is the resolution of the Great Wishing.
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  Even though you've risen through the roots, there are some
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  consequences that might happen for some of these domains.
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  No so fair also. So I pre I pre rolled for the
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  amount of clusters that I think theoretically most of the
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  domains would have, you know, 2D6 for the two wells versus
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  like 3D ten for the lands of favor or 6D10 for the lands of
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  fortune, places that had long, long time to like build up
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  power, especially lands of favor and fortune, obviously.
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  So we're going to roll some D fours here, the most important
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  of which is going to be your guys's.
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  So let's start with that. OK, That is going to be 12
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  clusters that you guys captured throughout the great.
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  Wishing your living wishlings that lived at Callum's Crossing.
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  We had that many. Yeah.
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  Wow. We did a good job.
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  How many D4? 12 total, so you can all roll 4
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  together. The DC to remind everyone the
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  way that the way that this works.
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  We're doing ADC 30 check to see if you guys survive the great
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  wishing or if the domain does, you've already risen through the
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  route. So we know essentially that the
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  domain survives. But if you fail this check, I
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  will apply consequences through this process of ascension.
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  Essentially like as you rise through the route and begin this
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  process of world creation, Elder Evils and Elder goods of the
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  underverse try to stop you attempting to alter or influence
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  your the birth of your world in some way.
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  Those damn demons. Yes.
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  So let's see if you're able to hold. 40 fours each. 40 fours
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  each need a total of a 30 otherwise consequences. 11/9.
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  13. 33. Hell yeah.
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  OK badass. The Domain of Callum's Crossing
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  does survive. Would you guys like to roll for
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  two wells as well? You can add just two more D4 on
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  top of that. They rolled really well on their
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  living wishes, so even after all of the siege warfare, they were
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  still holding on to the energy of about 14 D 414 clusters of
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  living wish energy. You guys can each roll one more,
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  OK. Yeah.
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  Thanks, Parable. So Cassie can roll 5D4 and Zinc
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  can roll 5D4, and Parable you'll stick with 44. 9.
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  With 54 damn. 14. OK, we're 12.
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  Nice popping that up there. OK, what is that, a 343535?
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  Nice. Thank you, math brother.
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  Nice. Awesome.
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  So 2 Wells and Callum's Crossing, obviously very near
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  and dear to our hearts. So here's the thing.
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  Domi has 64. 60 like 60. 660 that was so much candy in your
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  mouth. You said that so nervously.
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  OK, six. Yeah, so.
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  That's fine. They can't.
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  They math that math though. Math.
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  Yeah, it doesn't given. Going to kill my parents just
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  like that. No resolution, no.
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  So this is not given the fact given the fact that you have
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  control of the greater domain. They're protected from like the
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  greater terrors of the underverse, but that doesn't
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  mean that their land mass is able to hold itself together.
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  So fair, yeah. I think it's more so a
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  consequence here. But if all six are fours, and
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  that's sort of like a crit. OK.
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  Well, OK, you know what I will say.
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  You want a couple extra. Oh, you want me to roll?
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  Roll rolling 64. I you need two more, Yep.
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  I will say that if you roll 4 fours, that's insane.
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  I will consider that a success given that luck has shined down.
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  So you need 4, but that's 4 out of 6.
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  Come on, I just want to yell at my dad, 12. 3 fours so close, so
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  close. But I, I, I will allow for
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  advantage on this role for consequence here, which is going
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  to be AD 12 here for me. And this D12 is going to
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  determine the severity of the domain's collapse.
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  Oh, good. Good.
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  Good, good, good. Good.
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  It is a possibility that it maintains stability if you roll
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  higher enough on this D12. OK, sure.
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  What's a six? I'm so excited about a six.
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  And then I forgot it was AD 12. You have advantage on this D12,
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  so you can do that once more. Can you see Adam No 7?
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  Can she? Adam 7 actually does 7 actually
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  does make the entire difference because so I'll read this full
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  table. One to three would have been
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  full domain collapse, no survivors.
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  If you rolled 2 ones, I would have yeah.
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  Then I would have like yeah, sorry, no, but luckily you did
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  it. 4 to 6 domain instability and extreme and frequent
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  Eldridge incursions. 7 to 11 domain stability and extreme and
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  infrequent Eldridge incursion so.
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  They they gotta sweat a little bit.
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  The your dad. Especially, yeah, yeah,
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  specifically the war that's. Like a year they get one, one
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  Godzilla a year. He really likes his sword.
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  He needs to use it. Yeah, I think the role of
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  charisma, say, for the entire people of Domi.
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  Ohh my stop it. Zen is like this is cruel.
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  We're going to use the time dice for this.
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  You know when people have conspiracy theories about people
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  in a room dictating fame and all that shit?
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  Yeah, I am using my My Wizard Time dice for this just so it's
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  not Zen's fault. It's Time's fault. 1212.
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  Oh no. I think a 12 will fail here, and
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  I think that is representative of the fact that they're like
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  infrequent Eldridge incursions. It kind of just reinforces a lot
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  of the lore for some people and like there is a even more
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  radical branch of doming that spread out.
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  That doesn't mean that there aren't like survivors, but I
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  think it becomes a very difficult faction to deal with
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  if you are to incorporate it within this new and growing
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  world. But you guys are conceptual
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  beings in this that have the control of like an entire
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  pantheon of gods in this moment. But it is not changeable.
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  The fact that they undergo some scars, that's fair.
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  Similarly, Star Watchtower has 44.
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  There's not much there. I have a fun table for that one.
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  I'll offer the same thing if you roll 44 and all of them are
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  fours. Good advantage.
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  I'll try. If you get 3 fours, you'll get
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  advantage. Mine is Adm now.
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  You're right, that is precedent. I didn't even get one for damn.
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  Well, they're all zombies, so. The tracks roll that default for
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  me. I'm I'm trying 7.
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  Hey, no, that's good. That's good.
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  It survives their stability, the domain.
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  That's good. So.
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  So your hands up, bouncing up. So there.
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  But infrequent, it's good. I mean kind of kind of kind of
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  arguably good because there's, there's a future mission that
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  you could go on to to preserve some of that equipment.
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  It could have been having you rolled A6 or lower equipment.
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  The I mean like the whole tower could have been lost and the
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  technology destroyed. You know, I'm sure that might be
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  a possible mission given it being around still, but that is.
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  Cassie is gonna start from scratch.
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  Interesting. Okay, well, that's.
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  Maybe someone else will discover Star Wars.
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  That's fair, there are a lot of zombies over there still so.
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  We can leave the big Roly Poly behind.
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  Yeah, he can smash his head into the wall a few more times and.
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  Again, these are kind of unchangeable factors that you
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  must incorporate into your world.
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  So some difficult factions to incorporate Star Song zombies as
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  well as Domi with a scarred and radical faction.
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  But that mean doesn't mean that that means your parents might be
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  alive, you know? Then she loves project every.
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  Every land needs a zoo and a circus.
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  Yep. Can we can we rebrand Star
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  Watchtower as Dead Song Spire? Sure.
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  Anyway, that's. It's lore.
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  So that that's Domi and Starwatch and now we got to, I
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  don't think we need to roll for Lands of Favor. 24-D4 and 26-D4
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  is insane enough that I think Lands of Favor and Lands of
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  Fortune to survive. So that means they too have
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  control over you guys not shaping them so much.
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  So like the Lands of Favor has the ability to stay relatively
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  unchanged if they so choose, as does the Lands of Fortune.
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  Again, that doesn't mean that they can't agree to be changed
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  with you. And I think Adelante would agree
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  to work along with you guys. Yeah, I feel like her being in
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  charge is surprisingly a very good thing for us.
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  And I think all of this is again, considering you guys just
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  in like a primordial soup way. Arcane sense is just spiking
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  there. It's just moments of discomfort
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  and like distorted electricity feeling as what feels like, like
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  ecstasy essentially, you know, true creation getting
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  interrupted is probably the worst feeling in comparison,
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  juxtapose against the beauty of what you guys are weaving
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  together right now. The last thing that we're going
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  to need to roll here is from each of you.
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  I need AD 20 and AD 10. This is going to represent the
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  waters of the wells of Creation, which are the wells of the Herb
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  and the Eld. Very different energies. 1
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  knowable and one unknowable. Just let me know what you got on
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  the D10 first and then the D20. Cassie got a 10 on the D10.
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  Then got a six. Parable got a 2.
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  Full 10-6 and two now. Cassie with A10.
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  What was your D20 role? 15.
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  You're mainly just wanting to be above 10 there, so that is in
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  your favor as this is the best result you could possibly have
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  from the Erdwell. From waters that usher forth
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  into your mind and into this creation process, you feel a
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  choice once more. Energy from a plane of your
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  choice infuses the entire cosmos, offering what aspects
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  you choose to different parts of it.
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  What plane? Of existence within the entire
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  D&D cosmos. Would you choose to make a part
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  of intrinsically truly the bones of your your cosmos?
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  I think the answer to me it might be obvious, but I wouldn't
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  want to speak for you the. Astroplane would be your guess.
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  I would guess. I think that's really nice, but
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  I could also pick Limbo. Yeah, do your.
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  Own thing. So the energy from this plane is
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  going to be infused in our new world.
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  Yes, and so every. Aspect of our new world or every
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  aspect of the cosmos, you said. Every it will be tied much more
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  so it's the to the cosmos, so it'll be easier to get there.
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  You might have creatures from that plane coming to yours more
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  often. So like the bad version of this
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  is the 9 howls or pandemonium or Limbo because those that they're
• 20:50
  just places where entities exist to to distill chaos.
• 20:54
  Here's my hesitation with Astroplane is how much of our
• 20:57
  past world that we just lived in was influenced by the ebb and
• 21:01
  flow of the pressures of space. I think not much and I think
• 21:07
  that might actually make the transition easier to to to mix
• 21:11
  mess with the ratio a little bit.
• 21:13
  OK, I will embrace MyHeritage, will embrace the Astroplane.
• 21:18
  Let's infuse this world with stars and magic and a bunch of
• 21:24
  little ladles. Amazing.
• 21:25
  I think that this means that there are astral color pools on
• 21:29
  the material plane as well that pop up.
• 21:31
  I think that as you are in control of this creation, you
• 21:35
  put them in secluded and sacred places rather than just out and
• 21:40
  about. That's not like it's a danger to
• 21:42
  people and to everyday society, but for adventuring, it becomes
• 21:47
  a way of fast travel, a cosmos interconnected by culture and
• 21:52
  means and trade and information shared, just as Cassie, I think,
• 21:57
  wanted from the start of this campaign.
• 21:59
  As you add this element in, it feels like your message board,
• 22:03
  the Astroplane, is the ultimate messenger space.
• 22:06
  Could you? Describe what a color pool is.
• 22:09
  Yes, I will. A color pool in the astroplane
• 22:11
  is a swirling pool of color that the color is typically related
• 22:16
  to a plane of existence that an adventurer might go to.
• 22:20
  Would they pass through that color pool?
• 22:23
  And in my cosmology they do a little bit more.
• 22:25
  I feel like they kind of operate in sort of like an information
• 22:28
  gathering way within the multiverse.
• 22:30
  So it feels right for Cassie to use that as an information
• 22:33
  passage system. So like worm wormholes with a
• 22:37
  library in it? Yeah, I guess it's a good, it's
• 22:39
  a good metaphor. Stars singing to make travel
• 22:42
  possible. I think it's also really fitting
• 22:45
  for Cassie because reading about the astral plane, there's just
• 22:50
  so much impact of time lasting longer.
• 22:54
  Yes, that's definitely one thing Cassie wishes she and her family
• 22:59
  had more of before things got wild was time together to just
• 23:02
  experience life. So I think that's very sweet.
• 23:04
  I think yeah, you get, you get to incorporate whatever elements
• 23:08
  you want. We'll get there.
• 23:09
  But we're going to talk about both your cosmos and like your
• 23:11
  prime world. So think about like how much you
• 23:14
  want the world itself, this prime world that I think will
• 23:18
  dub. If you guys have any suggestions
• 23:20
  I'm open them, but I currently have it labeled as Atlas 9.
• 23:24
  Given that this was Atlas's ninth turning and the one that
• 23:27
  was successful, feel free to rename it to whatever you so
• 23:30
  choose and think about what how much of it you want to be
• 23:32
  astral. As I ask Maya, what was your D10
• 23:36
  role first? A6.
• 23:39
  Nice with a six sounds great. What was your D20 role?
• 23:43
  A 70. Heard I needed it above a 10.
• 23:48
  Got real sad. An evil litch.
• 23:52
  Oh, OK. As you guys feel your budding
• 23:56
  creation take some sort of structural shape, an evil
• 24:00
  presence plane shifts into your cosmos and disappears.
• 24:04
  It is then followed by a a chaotically good power that
• 24:08
  appears within the mix. This is a great man,
• 24:11
  unfortunately. Yeah, this is perfect and this
• 24:13
  is really good. You, you just you feel that a
• 24:15
  feud is being played out AS2 incredibly powerful, fine and
• 24:21
  infernal. Or rather, a good and evil force
• 24:24
  battle amongst your cosmos. You know not what havoc they
• 24:27
  might wreak. I'm picturing, and this is
• 24:30
  probably not candid, but I'm picturing Aris and Igor.
• 24:34
  Oh my God, against each other. Just battling, Yeah, okay, We
• 24:40
  don't know what happens. I mean, if you want to add any
• 24:43
  flavors to that, I really added some options in here just so
• 24:45
  that when we were we do return to wish Hunter eventually.
• 24:47
  I can be like, guys, remember when?
• 24:50
  Yeah. Yeah, I think Zinn especially
• 24:53
  might see it as an example of the Blood War being like,
• 24:55
  immediately touched upon within her cosmos.
• 24:59
  Like, you've entered the real shit.
• 25:00
  Real shit has consequences, and it means that problems that
• 25:03
  aren't your problems suddenly become your.
• 25:06
  Problems. Yeah, definitely.
• 25:08
  And tying in two of like the 9 Hells being held back and
• 25:13
  everything that may be something that escape and Zen herself
• 25:17
  being a portal of sorts to the 9 Hells.
• 25:19
  Like, yeah, who's to say when she goes to primordial Goop that
• 25:23
  like, oops, something came along with me?
• 25:27
  Yeah, as a bridge to hell. You never know what you might
• 25:29
  bring with you. So I think Zen herself is very
• 25:33
  like, you know, you even crushed yourself in saying like Infernal
• 25:37
  is bad or whatever. Like, you know, there's there is
• 25:40
  a hope. And then that's like, well, of
• 25:42
  course both sides have to be here, you know.
• 25:44
  Well, I could use dark power for good.
• 25:47
  Who's to say that, you know, this won't be a good thing?
• 25:51
  Just like very much. Yeah, it'll be fine.
• 25:54
  The path to hell is paved with good intentions, but we shall
• 25:57
  see if the path from the underverses as well it has been
• 26:01
  so far. No good deed feels unpunished.
• 26:05
  And the truth. Oh gosh, everyone take a drink
• 26:08
  for wicked. And lastly, G, what did you roll
• 26:11
  for that D 10? D10.
• 26:13
  I got a 2. All right, now what did you roll
• 26:16
  for that D20? 20.
• 26:18
  OK, awesome. You know what I so.
• 26:21
  Cool. I love you.
• 26:22
  I I will with the. Does the 2 screw me though?
• 26:25
  Because I'm really I can't I've. No A2A2 does not screw you but
• 26:28
  with a 20 I will allow you to re roll that D10 and I will give
• 26:32
  you 2 options of your choice. OK.
• 26:39
  I mean. Mine is very I like.
• 26:41
  I can't complain because it. Is in the land you guys were.
• 26:43
  In a couple of sessions when I wasn't using this dice though,
• 26:45
  yeah, where like I those are. Sad it needed time to rock.
• 26:48
  Yeah. Those are when we were in the
• 26:51
  weeds. I'm re rolling A10.
• 26:54
  I got a six. Nice.
• 26:57
  I think Zen rolled A6, so sorry. Nice.
• 27:01
  OK so you have the option of a 2 being an unknown elder good of
• 27:06
  well, space escapes along with you.
• 27:10
  An elder element can become an elder evil or an elder good.
• 27:14
  So an elder good you can assume has stayed good aligned for this
• 27:18
  long. You cannot know that it will
• 27:20
  stay a good aligned forever given the fact that it has no
• 27:23
  restraints or boundaries of divinity or worship.
• 27:25
  But it is an incredibly powerful individual.
• 27:27
  Should you choose that more like a God without any sort of
• 27:32
  restraint. Giving wish, yeah.
• 27:35
  Mortal. Wish or a six was your other
• 27:39
  role. Yeah.
• 27:40
  Star psionic forces batter the world seed as it grows,
• 27:44
  resulting in more creatures than not having some sort of force or
• 27:50
  knack power. Like some sort of minor ability
• 27:54
  that is just kind of randomly distributed throughout the
• 27:56
  verse, but not necessarily Star Song always, but a very common
• 27:59
  example of it. But also telekinesis, being able
• 28:03
  to never sleep. But little things that affect
• 28:07
  life in small and fun ways. Quirks, you might call them.
• 28:10
  That's amazing. I think knowing Parable, this is
• 28:13
  beautiful for him because I think there's a piece of him
• 28:15
  that wants to give up his gin nature and send that on its way,
• 28:19
  which would make the two make sense.
• 28:21
  Yeah, but that seems like setting up for something we've
• 28:24
  seen and we wish for something new.
• 28:26
  And so I think embody that wish that he made with his friends.
• 28:29
  He would pick six, he would say. But start small.
• 28:34
  And he'd just, he'd, you know, push it along its way.
• 28:36
  You you feel like the the the world's he kind of battered with
• 28:40
  it's the the star song psionic forces that you find the right
• 28:46
  distance so that you find resonance instead, and it helps
• 28:48
  the sea to grow. I.
• 28:50
  I sing to the sea. And I just sing and hum and try
• 28:59
  to get the stars to settle a little bit, but I don't want
• 29:01
  them to stop what they're doing. And I'm imagining the first
• 29:04
  power that's granted is the ability to know how someone else
• 29:08
  is feeling. Cool.
• 29:10
  Yeah, absolutely. Like empathy, telekinesis.
• 29:13
  I think that has a specific word.
• 29:15
  I imagine someone who starts with maybe the ability to sense
• 29:18
  how someones feeling and then when they can touch one persons
• 29:21
  shoulder and another persons shoulder they can transfer that.
• 29:24
  Cool. According to Superpower wiki,
• 29:27
  it's called Empathy. Empath Kinetics.
• 29:31
  Empathic. Telepathic.
• 29:33
  Empathetic. Well, I do think, I think
• 29:35
  empathetic that always, that always has been.
• 29:38
  Empathies. I do I do love that always
• 29:43
  having been like the the true nature of star song.
• 29:45
  So I think it feels right to have like a minor version of
• 29:47
  that that just requires a little bit of just requires touch and
• 29:52
  you know how someone's feeling. I also love to think that
• 29:54
  parables only able to do this because like he has Cassie's
• 29:59
  innate abilities to understand Star Song right now in this
• 30:02
  month. Like you're all so intermixed
• 30:03
  that you are all using one another's skills.
• 30:06
  Your oohs your. Oohs in the same hole.
• 30:09
  Oh Cass, thanks for the the tuning note there.
• 30:12
  Oh, you got that? Yeah, no, I think I do.
• 30:14
  I think I could. Yeah, I do.
• 30:15
  I don't even really know what I'm doing or where my voice is.
• 30:19
  Sorry. Is it the cow?
• 30:20
  Came with us. I we need balance.
• 30:22
  I'm noticing. We need balance.
• 30:23
  That's OK. That's OK.
• 30:24
  Did all nine Hells or is it just eight of them?
• 30:26
  Yeah, I've only seen eight. OK, well where'd the other go?
• 30:31
  Akuma Akuma's hiding something behind us back.
• 30:34
  She's reaching her prep. Fine, it was akuma.
• 30:37
  You can't have a whole level of. I was.
• 30:39
  I only took the third. I was gonna say this is really,
• 30:42
  really cool, given the implications of our collection
• 30:45
  of little animals and animal friends, especially, like, just
• 30:48
  wondering what kind of life they're gonna have and how.
• 30:50
  Yeah, this choice also makes it probably better and more unique
• 30:53
  for them too, which is sweet. I would love the the first
• 30:56
  person who gets this empathetic power to have a pet.
• 31:00
  Spider you you find that conceptually.
• 31:04
  Bit by a spider. As as a creature, this is spider
• 31:09
  man as the conceptual conceptually guiding powers of
• 31:14
  this verse. And given the fact that papaya
• 31:16
  is a close ally to you, I think spiders are prolific throughout
• 31:20
  this universe. I think that there's probably a
• 31:23
  whole universe. I think the way that this
• 31:25
  creation is going to work is we're going to design the the
• 31:28
  prime world and it's going to iterate out.
• 31:31
  So whatever aspects you choose to make very important about
• 31:34
  your your world here, which is astral battles of good and evil
• 31:38
  going on in the background that have come to your plane and
• 31:40
  perhaps this prime world. And of course, you know, the a
• 31:44
  massive amount of psionic powers.
• 31:45
  It also extends to everything about your characters from your,
• 31:50
  your pets, like papaya and stuff.
• 31:51
  So if there's a lot of spiders on your world, there's a lot of
• 31:53
  spiders. There's a whole spider planet
• 31:55
  out there somewhere because it your prime world is going to
• 31:57
  iterate out into and everything. I think one of the biggest
• 32:01
  things that I didn't get to do with parables, new fourth level
• 32:03
  spells was used find greater steed and I was picturing like
• 32:08
  either a buffed out papaya or some El enlightened versions of
• 32:11
  papaya. So this is kind of.
• 32:12
  Perfect for me. I think the cool thing about you
• 32:14
  guys being the power behind this ascension is that a lot of these
• 32:17
  things are immortalized. So like I think Papaya is
• 32:20
  becomes even if he dies, he becomes an ethereal spirit that
• 32:23
  you can summon, you know, forever.
• 32:25
  He becomes part of the stars. If you want, there's again this
• 32:28
  universe is shaped around you and the shapes you choose most
• 32:31
  so sounds like papaya is one of them.
• 32:32
  And I think there's definitely a constellation in the shape of a
• 32:35
  spider that is quite important to the peoples of this verse of
• 32:41
  this iteration. Any other decisions or any other
• 32:44
  add-ons that you wanna make about this prime world, mainly
• 32:48
  in terms of general features? Zen.
• 32:50
  Just pictured Zen walking around and giving everybody a pamphlet
• 32:53
  saying this is how life works. We didn't get these when we were
• 32:56
  born. Life One O 1.
• 32:58
  Wouldn't it just be so? Nice.
• 33:00
  Something Cassie would definitely advocate for would be
• 33:04
  more ease of travel. There was so many things in the
• 33:08
  way of being able to meet up with people quickly or travel,
• 33:13
  traverse roads and paths quickly to share information but also
• 33:17
  like community and to get to each other.
• 33:20
  And I think it would be really cool if there was just easy,
• 33:23
  convenient waterways and land bridges and.
• 33:26
  I think that ties in with the astral plane aspect.
• 33:28
  You have much many more accessible color pools for
• 33:30
  public travel. On top of that, that ties in
• 33:33
  with what I have to add to this little world as DM, which is the
• 33:36
  fact that ODD refuses to breakdown fully the scraps of it
• 33:42
  feel they must be used. And then you realize that it's
• 33:45
  almost an essential component of the cell of a universe.
• 33:49
  Needs not only the world tree to for it to grow upon, but almost
• 33:52
  like a splint, something to grow through it to connect it in a
• 33:56
  more interconnected way. An infinite staircase which is
• 34:01
  also a part of the DND multiverse as a place of doors
• 34:05
  and stairs endlessly so a place where you can get to anywhere in
• 34:10
  the universe if there is a door to get there.
• 34:12
  So you only need travel the staircase.
• 34:16
  And I think knowing it's Denison and Guardian, the wizard Wish
• 34:21
  ebb and flow as you feel their presences unite.
• 34:25
  And the moral aspect of wish, I think becomes the the guardian
• 34:30
  of odd, your version of the infinite staircase.
• 34:34
  Awesome, if you wouldn't so mind me adding that.
• 34:37
  No, go for it. Can it be in a?
• 34:39
  Spiral and kind of up a Wellish. Kind of thing, yes, absolutely
• 34:43
  it takes. On it takes on many visual.
• 34:44
  Aspects similar to you guys, the infinite staircase.
• 34:47
  It's really cool and quest from the infant staircase is the most
• 34:50
  recent D&D source material that uses it.
• 34:52
  But it's a it's a long running and fantastic lore.
• 34:55
  It's a place of genies and wishes.
• 34:56
  I think in the most recent lore, a noble gin named Nafas.
• 35:01
  And yeah, it's it's a great aspect of D&D multiverse
• 35:04
  cosmology and I I'm glad that ODD serves as such a great
• 35:08
  representation of it. Can I add something?
• 35:11
  Yes please. I would love if, and I actually
• 35:14
  kind of want some help with this, but the between Brick and
• 35:17
  the good book, it was kind of like having the good book being
• 35:20
  an intuitive feelings type of story container.
• 35:25
  And Brick felt like my intellect and like the calculator of it
• 35:28
  all. Even though Parable was alone
• 35:31
  during his experience, that felt like a little like family of
• 35:35
  self. And I would love to give
• 35:37
  everyone a brick in a good book, but I'd like to do that in
• 35:40
  concept and I'm struggling on how to narrate that.
• 35:44
  There's a philosophy, and this is also in the DMS guide, it's
• 35:48
  called animism, which is the philosophy that everything has a
• 35:51
  spirit. So rather than primals just
• 35:54
  being elementals, you kind of you could extend it to
• 35:56
  everything where if you don't want it to be just bricks, that
• 36:00
  means that if someone bonds enough to a spell book, then
• 36:04
  it's spirit is is nourished, right?
• 36:06
  And like that, spellbook becomes sentient, or even more mundanely
• 36:10
  so any any object, whether it be natural or mundane.
• 36:15
  Yeah, I'm thinking with along that line maybe like a mixture
• 36:20
  of imprinting, projecting and attuning to something to give it
• 36:23
  a level of your own sentience to reflect back at you.
• 36:26
  Cool. And being able to do that in a
• 36:28
  couple different forms. Yeah.
• 36:30
  I think the people of this world, this prime world, are,
• 36:33
  regardless of their genius, any blooded or not, are in tune with
• 36:37
  their version of breath. The perhaps it's they consider
• 36:40
  it the soul, perhaps they consider it magic.
• 36:43
  But people feel a connection to the world and the fauna.
• 36:47
  Everything from the fauna to the flora to the objects around.
• 36:49
  I think spirits exist everywhere as magic, given time, gain
• 36:55
  sentience in this world. And it just takes the right kind
• 36:59
  of energies to build cool that that just means a lot of people
• 37:03
  finding animal companions and bonding to special items and
• 37:07
  finding magical weapons that have just been infused with.
• 37:11
  A little kid picking up a rock and holding it and keeping it so
• 37:15
  close that it becomes alive. Yeah.
• 37:16
  Or. Tokens have meaning.
• 37:18
  Yes, yes. A kid picking up a stick,
• 37:21
  believing it to be a dagger, so much so that it it grows with
• 37:24
  him to the point where it becomes his one and true blade
• 37:27
  you like upon adulthood. Believe it, you can do it.
• 37:30
  Yeah, if you. Truly believe in something.
• 37:32
  You know, like there's tangible evidence that your belief is
• 37:36
  growing or grows with you in and you know, like when we work
• 37:40
  really hard or somebody really has faith or belief in something
• 37:43
  and it just doesn't come with that reward.
• 37:45
  That's, you know, and there's lessons to suffrage, but it'd be
• 37:49
  great instead of a wish that people through care and
• 37:52
  attention to themselves in this object or, you know, idea, yeah,
• 37:57
  grew something that was magical. Yeah, I think that reminds me
• 37:59
  very much of Raya and how like just the sentience of of power
• 38:04
  and how innocent that can feel and how I imagine a world of
• 38:08
  cultures surrounded by that sense of innocence and childlike
• 38:13
  wonder in the very primal forces and objects and elements around
• 38:18
  them. The.
• 38:18
  Last thing I have in this one comes from George's music magic.
• 38:22
  So much music magic. Dude, there's.
• 38:24
  Music is magic. I think you're you're if you
• 38:27
  have one, I assume you might what what note rings most true
• 38:31
  within the core of your world that resonates most with all of
• 38:35
  it? It's truest tone Shout out.
• 38:38
  Brandon Sanderson spoils for Rhythm of War.
• 38:42
  It would be just under 500 Hertz at 493.88 Hertz for B5.
• 38:49
  OK, awesome. Which is how specific that is.
• 38:52
  It's the very first note of Bush Hunter.
• 38:54
  Oh, that's awesome. I I love that.
• 38:57
  Please. Gosh, insert that note here.
• 39:02
  Incredible. I love it.
• 39:03
  And with that I think any other last minute additions.
• 39:07
  Otherwise I have a little prompt for you guys to set up a little
• 39:09
  bit more local epilogue for your characters and our MPCS.
• 39:13
  Before I manifest you guys in the physical space, do you guys
• 39:16
  have any other suggestions for the world name?
• 39:18
  Currently Atlas 9. Is this the world name or the
• 39:22
  universe name? The world name, but because this
• 39:24
  is the prime world, it will affect what it would probably be
• 39:27
  called Atlassian space. Yeah.
• 39:28
  So it's like the center of this universe, kind of.
• 39:31
  Yes, cuz this world right out. So the world name does matter.
• 39:35
  If you guys want it to be anything else, I'm open ears.
• 39:37
  I really like Atlassian. We could also drop the 9:00 and
• 39:41
  just reclaim the title of Atlas. Well, that's that feels good.
• 39:45
  I like the idea that the nine stays a mystery.
• 39:48
  I think that's what was eating at me.
• 39:49
  I like I liked how when we came into it we didn't know what
• 39:51
  iteration it was because I think that would bother the fuck out
• 39:53
  of me as a civilian of this universe is like.
• 39:56
  Nine. What about one through 8?
• 39:58
  10 coming, yeah. Yeah.
• 40:01
  So yeah, either a variation of Atlas or Atlas is great.
• 40:04
  Cool. Atlas just.
• 40:06
  Atlas. Just awesome.
• 40:07
  Reclaiming the name. Just Atlas.
• 40:09
  Excuse me, Atlas, Just yes. Then we descend towards a world
• 40:14
  called once More Atlas, and you all find yourselves once more
• 40:22
  standing beneath the swaying branches of a great Willow No2
• 40:29
  Great Willows. Welcome to 2 Willows.
• 40:37
  You shut up right now, of course.
• 40:38
  Of course, 2 Wells is still its own community, and Callum's
• 40:41
  Crossing is its own community as well.
• 40:43
  But they, as so near and dear to your heart, have morphed into
• 40:46
  one landscape. You can't even tell where one
• 40:51
  ends and the other begins. Is there anything else in your
• 40:54
  immediate vicinity besides the familiar aspects of Two Wells
• 41:00
  and the newly familiar aspects of Callum's Crossing?
• 41:03
  There's a want to have them have like a courtyard, so could we
• 41:07
  have like a hidden Oasis in between all three of them?
• 41:10
  Like if they're in the vicinity of each other, like a triangle?
• 41:13
  I'm just imagining. Yeah.
• 41:14
  I think that, yeah, there can absolutely be like upon the
• 41:17
  border between several different medium spaces of several
• 41:20
  different styles in Oasis being the most common and frequented.
• 41:24
  I think at its midst, of course, a color pool that one might
• 41:28
  travel to and fro a a very, very common weigh station I think for
• 41:33
  many in the area. Well, that's a good name for it.
• 41:35
  That's a that I caught the idea more than even the Oasis thing
• 41:38
  was weigh station. Oh good.
• 41:40
  Good, good. Yes, you have a weigh station
• 41:41
  here, truly. And as you all find yourselves
• 41:44
  between these two great willows, you have all the people of Two
• 41:48
  Wells around you. You see, I mean everyone from La
• 41:52
  Million to a very old Vilano and Raya, all the people from
• 41:57
  Collins crossing, even Mojo, Fall and Willow make an
• 42:01
  appearance as they are no longer bound to giving themselves the
• 42:05
  domain. They're able to make a recovery
• 42:08
  as you see Mojo stepping out gingerly and fall being erratic
• 42:12
  as he levitates way too many kids to count reverse gravity in
• 42:17
  them in the air and he says, oh don't worry, I'll catch them.
• 42:19
  Is there anyone that you guys go to make an immediate contact
• 42:22
  with in these first immediate moment as a is born and power
• 42:28
  leaves you, you are mortal once more.
• 42:30
  You gave it up. Thank God.
• 42:32
  You do not have the power of a God.
• 42:34
  You are not. So light.
• 42:35
  Ascended. I really thought that would go.
• 42:43
  It's it's off screen stars and fire and then we cut back and
• 42:46
  it's just chaos. Oh my gosh, I think because of
• 42:50
  the end of one of my favorite video games, I want to go up and
• 42:53
  very mundanely start a big fire. The people join in.
• 42:58
  You have Brick working in a way to provide translation between
• 43:02
  different species that might not speak to one another and
• 43:06
  cultures that might not as the lands of favor.
• 43:10
  Some individuals appear as well. Where do you think they do you
• 43:14
  guys? Would you place them away at
• 43:16
  all? Cuz parables nearness to the
• 43:19
  Moray and his natural connection to them draws the keepers to a
• 43:24
  very nearby community and you eventually get a a a group led
• 43:29
  by Adalanta Chorus and and now living once more prophecy led by
• 43:36
  the Moray. It seems Adalanta has given up
• 43:39
  power to the Moray, so that day three might be unbound as well.
• 43:43
  And the lands of Favor is no longer a domain in truth, but a
• 43:48
  a nearby community, one that is large and but one that holds
• 43:54
  your people as many come all different shapes and sizes.
• 43:58
  They are all of a desert skin tone and they all join your
• 44:02
  bonfire as Adalanta comes up to you worthlessly parable and
• 44:06
  gives you a warrior's grasp. I hug her back.
• 44:09
  She hugs you back too. She is wisened with wrinkles
• 44:14
  around her eyes. But Adamnari's life is a long
• 44:16
  one, and although she has seen many years, she has many more
• 44:21
  head and a huntress she still is as she whispers.
• 44:24
  That's behind me but still much ahead.
• 44:28
  You did the hardest thing, you did good.
• 44:31
  She I think sheds a tear and says not a word.
• 44:36
  But hold your embrace as you guys are just like arm and arm
• 44:40
  again near the Fire 2 warriors that have met after many years
• 44:44
  of a feuding. I kind of like meet eyes, I slip
• 44:49
  out of the embrace and I look at Prophecy and everyone that
• 44:53
  walked up with Adelante and I, you know, kind of give them a
• 44:56
  nod, modern embrace. And as I turn to the Murray
• 44:59
  people, I, instead of trying to greet everyone, I just start
• 45:02
  doing a chant parable starts doing something kind of gin, but
• 45:07
  more primal to the idea of the traditions of the Murray people
• 45:11
  and the the, you know, the land that we're on and connectivity.
• 45:14
  So stomping on the ground and banging his chest and amazing.
• 45:18
  Singing a song. They all join in and it's it.
• 45:21
  You fall into rhythm like you've ridden the spike 1000 times
• 45:24
  before and more so there are stories of you parable.
• 45:29
  They many of them have names that speak of your nature.
• 45:32
  Vigil, coda, creed. These names that all speak of
• 45:37
  belief and faith and a power behind prayer.
• 45:41
  Most so they speak of the power behind holding fast an oath and
• 45:46
  you see your touch upon the Murray even though you've never
• 45:49
  got to truly experience them. You will get to for as long as
• 45:54
  you live. In in this dance, I think
• 45:56
  parables meditating on the universe behind us.
• 46:00
  He thinks of Herbert, he thinks of the white family.
• 46:03
  He thinks of the endless chaos that was granting wishes and and
• 46:10
  all of that and just empties it into the fire with song and
• 46:13
  dance and knows that there's something new on on the border.
• 46:19
  And as he's doing that, he thinks of one thing that he's
• 46:22
  ready to let go. But he looks around for Count
• 46:24
  Chance. I think Adelante says that that
• 46:28
  she tells you that she kept kept him in the dungeon.
• 46:31
  He is still him. Wheel and worn are all still
• 46:34
  considered enemies that are to be held and given that they were
• 46:39
  dominari, they are also 2 long lived enemies that hold the
• 46:43
  grudges. She says she visits them rarely,
• 46:46
  but right now it seems out of your grasp.
• 46:49
  But I think at this moment you might be shocked to find that
• 46:52
  another community shows up, albeit with a little bit more
• 46:55
  scarred and and oh worse for where?
• 47:01
  Are they marching? They are notably, they are not
• 47:05
  good. The ones that would March, would
• 47:06
  not March towards another community.
• 47:08
  And you see many, many, they call themselves many call
• 47:12
  themselves exiles, but they are just, it's just the majority of
• 47:16
  your community of dummy that all were considered too weak of
• 47:21
  belief that didn't last through this great crisis of, of faith
• 47:27
  that you couldn't they couldn't hold on.
• 47:29
  It's most of the people that you would want to be here.
• 47:32
  And leaving them is your mother, Isla.
• 47:37
  Girl. Isla pending you do not see your
• 47:40
  father. Oops.
• 47:44
  She killed Zen. What do you do, Zen?
• 47:47
  As you see your mother, Isla, cresting the horizon, Leading
• 47:52
  shadow cast, they call themselves.
• 47:54
  But you know that shadow cast is not a name that they should feel
• 47:58
  bad about. Yeah.
• 48:00
  They should wear it with pride. Zen, before seeing them
• 48:04
  approach, I think, is passing out little pieces of paper to
• 48:07
  the young kids and having them write down something that they
• 48:10
  want to let go of or something they want to manifest.
• 48:14
  And then she's letting them like, crumble up the piece of
• 48:16
  paper and throw it up in the air.
• 48:17
  And Akuma is going to like awesome.
• 48:20
  So it's it's like her little way of like.
• 48:22
  I love this. This is such a scheme.
• 48:23
  They could just throw it into the big fire.
• 48:25
  But you're bringing them to me. Yeah.
• 48:27
  Destruction. Yeah.
• 48:28
  Thanks for the stack. Controlled destruction.
• 48:32
  So I think just during this act, she would look up at this group
• 48:35
  walking and walk up to her mom. She runs towards you as she sees
• 48:41
  you. I think hesitantly at first, but
• 48:43
  then is there. What do you, how do you
• 48:44
  actually? How do you approach?
• 48:46
  I think pretty tentatively. I think she runs at 1st and
• 48:49
  slows down within 10 or so feet, noticing that your your energy
• 48:53
  is not matching hers. I think Zen would like like, you
• 48:57
  know, when someone goes for a hug and you just kind of leave
• 48:58
  your arms down, like like that type of energy, but still like
• 49:02
  welcoming, like you can be here, but like, why are you here?
• 49:07
  The first words, I think she says, are Zen.
• 49:11
  I was always on your side. I was always and I'd I, I don't
• 49:17
  know how Xindo take that, but I think that those are the first
• 49:20
  words that she says. Why didn't you visit me when
• 49:23
  they locked me up? I tried.
• 49:25
  I even after, even after we spoke that night, I, I, I spoke
• 49:29
  to your father and I told him that you weren't ready for
• 49:32
  Promise Day. But what I meant, and what I
• 49:34
  should have said, was that Promise Day is a stupid
• 49:37
  tradition put together by fools that want to control power.
• 49:42
  It is control. It's it always was.
• 49:44
  It controlled me and it and it Zen, she corrects herself.
• 49:51
  I wanted to be on your side. I'm sorry I wasn't.
• 49:56
  I forgive you. Plus I got a lot of cool things
• 50:01
  to show you. And she like, gives her a hug.
• 50:04
  They'll like lean in like, all right, you can hug me like, hey,
• 50:07
  buddy. And I think she'll offer a bunch
• 50:09
  of pieces of paper to her mom and say that everyone is welcome
• 50:14
  here to be shadowcast is not a bad thing.
• 50:17
  I found a lot of joy in it actually a lot of fun.
• 50:20
  Meet Akuma. I I think that in this moment,
• 50:24
  Akuma's sharing in the hug and she opens her eyes and Akuma's
• 50:28
  just kind of smiling in a big oh, OK.
• 50:33
  No, no, he's a good thing. He's a really, you know what?
• 50:36
  He's probably one of the better things that's ever happened to
• 50:38
  me. Startled like a parent who isn't
• 50:42
  used to being told any sort of news and hears honest news.
• 50:47
  Takes a second to process it and says awfully bright.
• 50:52
  I love that about you. I've I've never realized that
• 50:55
  fire. Fire makes so much light.
• 50:57
  It does. It's just another form of.
• 50:59
  Yeah, so really allow fire except for candle promise sake.
• 51:04
  That's insane. Isn't that kind of funny?
• 51:05
  The first time I, yeah, I saw fire.
• 51:08
  Was a candle and we just don't allow it really any.
• 51:11
  That's amazing. Oh, they were watching through
• 51:13
  every bit of light. Archons lit the community
• 51:17
  because they were what they wanted to watch.
• 51:19
  Oh, that makes sense. That one in our.
• 51:21
  Home that was assigned to our house.
• 51:22
  I bet that, yeah. Yeah, I do have someone for you
• 51:27
  to meet, but maybe not right now.
• 51:28
  He probably needs a diaper change.
• 51:32
  It's time. It's depends.
• 51:36
  Yeah, it's depends. Sorry to do you have kids?
• 51:40
  No, no, no, no, no. That's.
• 51:42
  Awkward moment. Brick comes up and goes.
• 51:46
  He takes a polar ride. He's like it comes up to you
• 51:48
  with your first family photo with Akuma on your mom.
• 51:50
  Oh, that's. Really cute.
• 51:52
  It's like, no, no, no kids. Akuma's enough of a handful.
• 51:55
  But I did want to ask you some questions.
• 52:00
  Yeah. Why do I have horn and why?
• 52:06
  Why do you not have horn? That's, well, that's, that's not
• 52:10
  necessarily OK. Because I feel like, I mean, it
• 52:13
  might have been hallucination and totally not real.
• 52:15
  But I did have this like moment a long time ago where like you
• 52:19
  were arguing with that about like, oh, you left to be here
• 52:23
  and that, you know, you were so great before that.
• 52:26
  So I'm just wondering if you could maybe enlighten.
• 52:29
  Me so I you're right, I'm was not always from Domi I that's
• 52:36
  apparent. I once lived as a favour, I
• 52:39
  know, but but I found that the way that count chance led the
• 52:45
  people to take the city of Moray from the Moray people
• 52:49
  themselves. We ruled over a great city or
• 52:54
  the indigenous peoples protection.
• 52:57
  I could only live with that for so long.
• 53:00
  It was a delusion built by the idea of favor and being.
• 53:06
  Whether it was forced upon them or not.
• 53:07
  It was favor given, favor shared.
• 53:10
  They should be grateful, and they were not.
• 53:12
  So a city was taken. The Murray could be keepers no
• 53:16
  longer and Count Chance would keep it for them.
• 53:19
  I disagreed with that. So I left.
• 53:22
  And I didn't have the price across the desert until I met a
• 53:27
  servant in the desert. Yeah.
• 53:30
  OK, so I snuck out one other time.
• 53:34
  Before. Huma.
• 53:36
  Dude, we talked about this. No more secrets.
• 53:40
  I snake in a desert. I.
• 53:42
  Mean you knew I was already a snake, so I didn't mention that.
• 53:44
  Life. No, you're right.
• 53:45
  I was just in a desert that time you met my mom.
• 53:49
  Died pretty quick in that one. Got eaten by an eagle.
• 53:50
  Geese. Wait, is Akuma your dad?
• 53:56
  This new Polaroid has really. Changed now to be clear, she's
• 54:01
  just infernally contracted and bound, so the bloodline going
• 54:04
  forward is tainted. There's no intercourse being
• 54:08
  had. Oh good, that helps.
• 54:11
  I'm not your daddy. What do you want?
• 54:14
  Good. OK, so to to get through the
• 54:17
  desert you had to your next born child was infernal.
• 54:21
  Yeah. And it says yeah.
• 54:24
  OK, OK. Yeah, OK, OK.
• 54:29
  But I picked you for a reason. You're Akuma goes on to say you
• 54:33
  do have an inferno bloodline, one that Isla actually confirms
• 54:37
  legend of quote UN quote like family history.
• 54:39
  However, it's to Akuma's words dormant.
• 54:42
  He just like. It was pretty easy just to spark
• 54:45
  the flame inside of you. So I don't know how power back
• 54:47
  it goes, but I mean I was the trigger.
• 54:50
  For it so. So Zahir really is my grandma.
• 54:54
  OK, this is a very confusing family tree, but well.
• 54:57
  It's like, it's like she started it.
• 54:59
  It went dark and I really don't like what's happening down there
• 55:02
  so. Right.
• 55:03
  Sparked it right back up. OK, OK, OK.
• 55:07
  No more lies, right? No more lies.
• 55:09
  No more. Not really a lie.
• 55:11
  Thank you. Promise.
• 55:12
  You must smoke a little guy. Smoke a little guy.
• 55:14
  Thank you, Promise. Thank you.
• 55:16
  Parable walks up with something smoking from his lips.
• 55:20
  He's like Murray people. They gave me this.
• 55:23
  You awesome. No, no, no.
• 55:26
  It's desert stuff. Yeah, at the words desert stuff.
• 55:30
  At the words desert stuff. I think we cut over to we pan
• 55:35
  over to Cassie and I would assume Raya and and her mother
• 55:40
  Soraya and of course Claude as well as there notably Wishbeer
• 55:45
  is there as well. And one thing that you and your
• 55:48
  mother might be observing in this moment is Raya and
• 55:52
  Wishbeard are holding hands. Just kidding, I really, really
• 55:57
  love that for them. How long has this been going on?
• 56:01
  I think it's it's just around this fire in this in this quiet
• 56:04
  moment. And as you say that to them,
• 56:05
  they say they like stop doing it and they look at each other and
• 56:08
  they say what was going on. No, no, no.
• 56:10
  It's wrestling. It's no, no, it's.
• 56:14
  Nice. It's good as like stars go one
• 56:17
  way with pistol shots go the other way.
• 56:19
  It's good to have people you deserve.
• 56:21
  That they settle down and once more hold hands to observe the
• 56:25
  fire. As your mother says, good job.
• 56:30
  Thanks. I'm kind of just winging it.
• 56:32
  Have you, I mean have you always been?
• 56:33
  I mean, I only got, I only so good at dealing with managing
• 56:38
  everyone around you. Whether or not you can believe
• 56:41
  it, I didn't have friends until about.
• 56:43
  Six days ago. Oh no, honey, I saw that.
• 56:46
  But. Oh honey, you're a fucking
• 56:49
  loner. Let me remind you, your fault by
• 56:51
  choice. Sorry.
• 56:53
  Well, thanks. No one wants to be friends with
• 56:55
  the weird sad girl who's all alone.
• 56:57
  Honey, OK, you were a weird sad girl that was all alone.
• 57:00
  But The thing is, thank you always all alone, Cassie and she
• 57:05
  I think minor illusions up a few visions that she says I this is
• 57:09
  what I saw. And it's all the moments that
• 57:12
  you were stopped in the street 11 times on your way home by
• 57:15
  either kids or community members.
• 57:17
  You were never, maybe, yes, lonely, never alone, not within
• 57:22
  this community. You were treasured.
• 57:24
  You were loved because you gave people the time to unlock a
• 57:29
  potential that nobody else would.
• 57:32
  Whether that was? A very interesting perspective.
• 57:34
  She she shows you the all the small impacts that you had that
• 57:38
  created obviously a much bigger one.
• 57:41
  Kathy would be very, very touched by that, especially
• 57:43
  reflecting on how what a wild few days this has been, making
• 57:48
  new friends and having people she cares so deeply about.
• 57:51
  It's like one of those, you know, when you were, when things
• 57:54
  get really good and you reflect and you're like, wow, things
• 57:57
  were really bad. But it's just that Cassie's
• 58:01
  focusing on the difference between what felt like total
• 58:04
  isolation and now it feels like overwhelming accompaniment by
• 58:08
  besties. You know, they, they feel so
• 58:11
  vastly different. But it is a really refreshing
• 58:13
  perspective to have Soraya saying like, oh, well, yeah,
• 58:16
  remember, people did always ring your doorbell and bug you.
• 58:19
  Yeah, that's sweet. You're showing all these moments
• 58:22
  that you really touch people's lives, and I think you truly see
• 58:25
  that impact. And Claude has been just kind of
• 58:28
  quietly enjoying the conversation and like the energy
• 58:32
  even seeing his wife brought to life.
• 58:36
  He has been holding himself back as he looks at you as if in
• 58:40
  permission, in this moment, with the craziest eyes you've ever
• 58:44
  seen. Let's bring Dad into the fold,
• 58:47
  huh? I feel like you guys need to
• 58:48
  catch up too. I I think that's right.
• 58:52
  I have faith that what? Wish beard's there too, I'm just
• 58:55
  feeling awkward. Yeah, well, everyone gets a
• 59:00
  little, yeah. I mean, it's a little.
• 59:03
  Bit Gidham tiger. Closely, Claude in a million
• 59:05
  become over the past few days, you know.
• 59:07
  Not, you know, not that close. Speaking of Lamillion, you do
• 59:12
  actually see him over near Dapple, of course, as they sit
• 59:16
  quietly close by the fire. They are very much enjoying
• 59:19
  being back amongst one another. But most importantly, here
• 59:22
  Claude is ecstatic to talk to his wife once more.
• 59:27
  And you see that Soraya, your mother, is also ecstatic.
• 59:31
  She is quietly pleased. She doesn't.
• 59:33
  She sees your pain and like obviously knows the tension of
• 59:36
  your relationship. But.
• 59:38
  Being present for this reunion is really healing because over a
• 59:42
  matter of these few days, like Cassie really realized how much
• 59:46
  of Claude's terrible traits were the result of him also being
• 59:52
  isolated and abandoned by his wife and feeling lost and
• 59:57
  grieving. Yes, he repeats many of the same
• 59:59
  comments that she made towards you.
• 1:00:01
  I'm sorry, I made a choice. I know that it had this impact,
• 1:00:05
  and that makes it wrong of me to have done as much as it makes me
• 1:00:08
  right to have done. And Claude whizzes past that,
• 1:00:13
  having he never needed to forgive Soraya, he just needed
• 1:00:18
  this space. That's kind of annoying.
• 1:00:20
  Well, so it's it's it's it is because like.
• 1:00:23
  God, you really? It's not so to be to be clear,
• 1:00:27
  he doesn't need the space to forgive Soraya for himself, but
• 1:00:30
  he does actually you see, like he brings up you in your
• 1:00:35
  defense, Speaking of the fact that the impact was one that
• 1:00:40
  yes, it gave them you, but it also it's all you should have
• 1:00:44
  told me. You should have told me I could
• 1:00:46
  have been there for our daughter that I abandoned like he it's.
• 1:00:50
  On him. Of course it is.
• 1:00:51
  And he takes that too. But he just, he just asked that
• 1:00:55
  like you could have told me you could have trusted me.
• 1:00:57
  And she says, I couldn't have that.
• 1:01:00
  It's part of the plan. But you know, those are
• 1:01:02
  resolutions that they work out. And as Claude and Soraya find
• 1:01:08
  some peace after some words, you see your mom leans to you and
• 1:01:12
  says, I know that he can be difficult sometimes, but the way
• 1:01:17
  he loves is as devoted as he is dumb.
• 1:01:22
  It's. He's pretty dumb.
• 1:01:26
  Treasure, loyalty, oversmart and looks over at Dapple and La
• 1:01:30
  Million and La Million especially and just how dumb
• 1:01:35
  struck they are for one another there as it is.
• 1:01:39
  You know, measures of intelligence and all other
• 1:01:41
  trades come in. It matters not.
• 1:01:43
  The one true thing is whether they will be there for you.
• 1:01:45
  And you know, Claude, like you said, his capacity was broken to
• 1:01:50
  a point where he could not be. And now you see him and your mom
• 1:01:54
  just double down on being there for you.
• 1:01:56
  Cassie really wants to observe her parents reuniting because I
• 1:02:03
  think as I mentioned, like that's just going to be really
• 1:02:05
  healing for her to see them having grown enough to navigate
• 1:02:11
  that conversation, however they will and decide to or not to
• 1:02:16
  carry on the family unit and see what comes next for both of
• 1:02:20
  them. Seems like it's going really
• 1:02:22
  well, which is great. But Cassie feels really
• 1:02:24
  optimistic about a just a fresh chapter with these people who
• 1:02:27
  she, you know, when her mom died or left or went away, she was
• 1:02:32
  robbed of the next decade of both parents, you know, So
• 1:02:37
  getting the chance to just reconnect with them and rekindle
• 1:02:41
  and develop a relationship as an adult is really exciting for
• 1:02:46
  her. She also so badly wants to pick
• 1:02:48
  both of their brains and talk more about what actually
• 1:02:51
  happened and the science behind it all and compare notes and
• 1:02:54
  talk about different perspectives that they each had
• 1:02:57
  on what was happening in the sky and on the ground and tell them
• 1:03:00
  about her adventures. That's that's so fun as you just
• 1:03:04
  you describe, but like observations that you made about
• 1:03:07
  the star and she equates them to like the time that her wish and
• 1:03:11
  time all got out of stasis and like like had a fight and she,
• 1:03:15
  you know, sent out a certain blast of energy.
• 1:03:17
  Yeah, you're, you're able to connect all these dots and more.
• 1:03:19
  So she's able to tell you about the the crazy stories and lore
• 1:03:23
  of her journal and how there's there is a science behind the
• 1:03:28
  the wild imperfections of myth, Lauren legend.
• 1:03:31
  And yeah, just the cross grounds that you find.
• 1:03:34
  And of course, Claude chiming in as much as he can and you just
• 1:03:37
  find a family dynamic once more. I think we'll swap stories for a
• 1:03:40
  long time. Beautiful.
• 1:03:42
  Any other notes for this immediate gathering?
• 1:03:46
  Parable at one point would ask wind walk and swirl around the
• 1:03:51
  fire and make it bigger. And it's more more like visuals,
• 1:03:54
  like celebrating this moment and being no matter what's coming,
• 1:03:59
  we're all here. And we all had how many people
• 1:04:02
  wish for a second chance or a chance to one last chance to
• 1:04:06
  come together with their loved ones or their enemies or you'd
• 1:04:09
  know, right? Yeah, now we do.
• 1:04:13
  And yeah, I think it would just be some gin magic around the
• 1:04:16
  fire really falling into the celebration of things.
• 1:04:18
  Awesome. I think Zen would after getting
• 1:04:22
  over the initial like, OK, Kuma's not my daddy.
• 1:04:26
  Yeah, that was a quick whiplash. I think she would ask like, you
• 1:04:30
  know, you're here and and so is the majority of, of Domi, but
• 1:04:34
  where, what happened? Where is everyone else?
• 1:04:39
  Where's Dad? So your father, to say the
• 1:04:43
  least, has been under a lot of pressure at work and I'm not
• 1:04:47
  sure how I'm criminal. This is the same rhetoric you
• 1:04:49
  used to use give. It to me straight.
• 1:04:51
  Sorry, we're separated right now.
• 1:04:52
  I'm going to tell you. Incredible news Keep.
• 1:04:55
  Go on. And she says in a very like,
• 1:04:57
  programmed way, you know, under the light, we could never be
• 1:05:00
  divorced. So of course we have to stay
• 1:05:01
  together. But we're separated right now.
• 1:05:02
  I have a guy you could talk to. What about an annulment?
• 1:05:05
  Anyways, anyways, I've got a guy you can talk to.
• 1:05:08
  I got a guy that's just. Great, that's really good.
• 1:05:12
  The domain began to fall even before the great Wishing began.
• 1:05:16
  Your father became more and more stressed and on the day that he
• 1:05:19
  sent out Alita Dario and her squad, star Igor and Estramps,
• 1:05:24
  but they're with you and she sees them and I think gasp.
• 1:05:27
  And she says, oh, God, I I hope beyond hope, but that's good to
• 1:05:31
  see. Your father apparently found the
• 1:05:36
  Star King and the Star Queen dead in their chambers and
• 1:05:39
  decided not to tell anyone. And he was essentially driven
• 1:05:45
  mad by the pressure of holding up a domain by himself for about
• 1:05:49
  half of a day. So that was kind of the straw
• 1:05:53
  that broke the camel's back. Yeah, Yeah, yeah.
• 1:05:57
  That would make sense. Is he's still, I mean, you're
• 1:06:00
  separated. Well he believes himself to be
• 1:06:02
  the reincarnation of the Holy light Chosen one and meeting I
• 1:06:07
  did out pack to followers. Got it, got it, got it.
• 1:06:11
  Over there and she like points like like just just West.
• 1:06:15
  Doesn't look in that direction. Just like, truly.
• 1:06:17
  Like, OK, making a note of that. I, I will.
• 1:06:21
  You've done enough. Thank you for bringing everyone
• 1:06:23
  else here. I'm.
• 1:06:24
  Sorry to bring our problems into this beautiful world.
• 1:06:26
  No, Mom, these have been following me for my whole life.
• 1:06:30
  I'm, you know, at this point it's a little bit of spice.
• 1:06:34
  So I want you to know that you're safe here and you don't
• 1:06:37
  have to worry about Dad anymore. I'll handle that.
• 1:06:42
  OK. Spicy, spicy company.
• 1:06:45
  I've got a guy. Amazing.
• 1:06:49
  I think Zen in this moment is like time is not in a place
• 1:06:53
  where he could really do much correct?
• 1:06:57
  Like he's his brain is kind of. I, I think he's being, like you
• 1:07:00
  said, like taken care of. He's probably going to restore
• 1:07:04
  himself over some time because given the fact that he's not
• 1:07:07
  dead, he'll, he'll be able to store up time again.
• 1:07:08
  It'll just take a little bit of. Time I think he's got a really
• 1:07:11
  cool like viny wheelchair amazing.
• 1:07:16
  Imagine high back, big wheels, vines, cool stuff.
• 1:07:20
  But I have a dream for Zen. Are we going to do like a flash
• 1:07:24
  forward at all? Yes, we will.
• 1:07:25
  Yes, we'll, we'll do, Yeah. Cassie also looks around and
• 1:07:28
  sees Zen having what looks like a happy reuniting with her mom
• 1:07:33
  and looks like Claude and Soraya and recognizes that Ryan
• 1:07:37
  Spellbeard are there and looks at Parable and just sort of
• 1:07:40
  takes a minute to like go chat with her friends and just remind
• 1:07:43
  them like, hey, between the three of us, we have an
• 1:07:46
  abundance of parental figures. Maybe we.
• 1:07:48
  Could all share? Oh yeah.
• 1:07:50
  And the mingling begins. You have Claude.
• 1:07:55
  Isla, you said yes. Your hands are awfully sweaty.
• 1:08:01
  Soraya coming over and like grabbing Isla by the shoulder
• 1:08:03
  and being like, and Claude, could you go talk to that one
• 1:08:06
  over there? I think he's has a question to
• 1:08:08
  ask and might need advice. You remember our day in the best
• 1:08:11
  way. You see, Lumillion and Dapple
• 1:08:14
  seem to be talking like intensely like so obviously in
• 1:08:17
  love. Sarai is referring to the fact
• 1:08:19
  that Lumillion might be thinking about popping the question soon.
• 1:08:23
  He seems to be like, like making a little ring out of foliage and
• 1:08:29
  leaves and greenery. And Claude goes and and grabs
• 1:08:31
  Lumillion for conversation. And any other mingling
• 1:08:34
  conversations that you guys want to toss just two NBCS into a
• 1:08:37
  chat together? Esther, I told you.
• 1:08:41
  What? What?
• 1:08:42
  We we did it. We're here.
• 1:08:44
  Everybody's here. Yeah, it worked out.
• 1:08:47
  I. You're going to say you've been
• 1:08:49
  telling me this the whole time? I mean kinda.
• 1:08:51
  Guys, guys, Esther, Igor, my mom's here.
• 1:08:55
  I. Know are you in trouble?
• 1:08:56
  No, really, no. Turns out can't get this.
• 1:09:03
  So what's the tea? Separated my dad.
• 1:09:06
  Crazy. Not new.
• 1:09:07
  My mom turns out, used to be a favorite noble yet, right?
• 1:09:13
  No way. Yeah.
• 1:09:14
  Why'd she come to do me anyways? She had to get away.
• 1:09:17
  Big hole. Ethical issue.
• 1:09:18
  We're going. To have a sleepover soon.
• 1:09:20
  I know, turns out Akuma met my mom in the desert.
• 1:09:24
  Is he your dad's in? No, Igor, why is everyone
• 1:09:27
  assuming that Akuma's my dad not?
• 1:09:29
  A demon, not your dad. Yeah, OK, Daddy, not a.
• 1:09:32
  Demon not your daddy. Yeah, Why is everyone lying?
• 1:09:36
  Everyone lying? Did you have anything to share
• 1:09:38
  with me while I'm? Ask me anything.
• 1:09:40
  I'm an open book. I won't lie.
• 1:09:41
  I'm afraid. Well, OK, so then my mom made a
• 1:09:45
  deal with the Kuma to get through the desert and then
• 1:09:47
  like, kind of reignited the Infernals.
• 1:09:50
  Yeah. Oh my God.
• 1:09:52
  Yeah, I'll tell you about my grandma later.
• 1:09:54
  That's crazy. But yeah, everyone's here.
• 1:09:56
  And it, it would be really cool if if you guys could maybe help,
• 1:10:00
  you know, get the rest of the the well, they call themselves
• 1:10:03
  exiles, but we know that they're just normal people.
• 1:10:06
  But if we can, like, bring them into the fold and let them know
• 1:10:08
  that they're welcome here and that fire isn't scary.
• 1:10:11
  Zid anything for you? Thanks guys.
• 1:10:13
  I. Think Igor goes up to both of
• 1:10:15
  you and pulls you into each arm for a hug.
• 1:10:18
  Yeah, this place is for everyone.
• 1:10:19
  Everyone to have fun. I'm sorry I left you behind
• 1:10:22
  again, but I'm back now for good.
• 1:10:23
  I do have one secret. Please.
• 1:10:28
  Please. I've always been able to count.
• 1:10:33
  I just I really like the way that you guys help me and it
• 1:10:37
  made me feel safe and I just want you to know if you ever be
• 1:10:42
  be the count anything I can do it?
• 1:10:44
  Thanks, Igor. Also, how was it to be kind of
• 1:10:46
  like a Dominari there for a little bit?
• 1:10:48
  It was so awesome. I told people what to do.
• 1:10:51
  They do it. Yeah, I, I could literally do
• 1:10:54
  like whatever I wanted. I had, I had backflip sessions.
• 1:10:57
  I did. But we, we, it wasn't a real
• 1:10:59
  rainbow. We painted it like a rainbow and
• 1:11:02
  we did rainbow slides. It would that was we kind of hid
• 1:11:04
  that from everybody because we've got a lot of trouble, but.
• 1:11:06
  So do not, do not want to hear the rest of my story.
• 1:11:10
  An elderly Vilano I was just in the midst of telling.
• 1:11:14
  Are you telling you all about it?
• 1:11:16
  Just cuz I was there too. Is that Clara?
• 1:11:19
  Kazel is Clara Kazel here. He is amongst he is amongst a
• 1:11:28
  shadow cast. Fan of a rock band?
• 1:11:33
  Clara Kazel comes and talks and starts talking with Vilano,
• 1:11:35
  taking his attention away. So you.
• 1:11:36
  Have a long low pony. Yes, thank you.
• 1:11:39
  Right, first shirt, first shirt totally.
• 1:11:41
  I think another note about Vilano is that he quite
• 1:11:44
  obviously becomes the elder sage of Star Watch because he he came
• 1:11:48
  to know it quite well in the years that he prepared it for
• 1:11:51
  your your visit 25 years ago. I don't know how time works
• 1:11:55
  anymore anyways. My business.
• 1:11:57
  I think around this time your wind walk parable sweeps up and
• 1:12:00
  the the fire sweep up as well and the joy and conversation is
• 1:12:04
  had. Any other last notes before I
• 1:12:06
  describe a little bit of a time jump here?
• 1:12:09
  I think maybe as Parable comes out of his wind walk, more
• 1:12:12
  continues tornadoing the wind for him.
• 1:12:15
  I was actually gonna ask, could we all have a moment after all
• 1:12:18
  this mingling is happening that we all turn to the fire and use
• 1:12:21
  something of our own magics to make it bigger?
• 1:12:24
  Yeah, I cast fireball. Perfect, amazing.
• 1:12:28
  I cast control wind and I just swirl it up and around.
• 1:12:33
  I cast slow and I make the flames dance really
• 1:12:35
  romantically. Amazing, That's awesome, that's
• 1:12:40
  so cool. Lighting up the sky with flame
• 1:12:44
  and a column that shoots up with the wind.
• 1:12:47
  You feel a culmination of sorts as the flames reflect the
• 1:12:52
  ascension that you felt one through the root.
• 1:12:54
  And though it is a world that was created with problems in
• 1:12:58
  hand with all the good things that came with it, it is one
• 1:13:01
  that is yours. It is one that will be true.
• 1:13:05
  It is one that will not be threatened to be crushed every
• 1:13:09
  second by demons on all sides. I think Parable, while he's
• 1:13:13
  swirling around the fire, is thinking about what you know.
• 1:13:16
  A lot of this is built on newness and hope.
• 1:13:18
  I think his element he wants to add to that.
• 1:13:20
  It comes from his shop of curiosity, so he wants to add a
• 1:13:22
  little bit. If he's going to be push in Exo
• 1:13:25
  VS, I think his push is going to be in those moments of darkness
• 1:13:28
  for people that they feel a little in their last breath,
• 1:13:30
  they feel a little bit of curiosity.
• 1:13:34
  I think as you push you see the pull of Zen as some of the
• 1:13:38
  shadow cast remain on the outside.
• 1:13:40
  It's typically staying in the shadows, ironically enough, of
• 1:13:43
  the flame until you bring them into the closer fire.
• 1:13:46
  I've always wanted to be drawn and quartered.
• 1:13:49
  That split and bounce. Sorry, no, I love the I love the
• 1:13:52
  push towards curiosity. Like a pole to be, you know,
• 1:13:54
  included or held. I like the idea of like if the
• 1:13:56
  fire gets bigger there's no more shadow to hide in and they.
• 1:14:00
  Have to step forward, yes. Beautiful.
• 1:14:02
  None of us are. Well, we're all shadow cast.
• 1:14:04
  Or none of us are shadow. Cast the light shines on us all.
• 1:14:06
  Yes, and Cassie creates a true star to once more stand still
• 1:14:12
  for you all but this one. One that shines brightly upon
• 1:14:15
  you all in the best way, in the goodest way.
• 1:14:20
  And there I think we will flash forward one year from that day.
• 1:14:25
  What is it like? What has two wells undergone?
• 1:14:28
  Have you undertaken any sort of quests to Planes Unknown?
• 1:14:32
  You have the entire multiverse at your dispense, Or have you
• 1:14:35
  spent all of your time exploring this world?
• 1:14:38
  Parable would fly in like with the wind and the elements, and
• 1:14:44
  instead of paying attention to the elements of nature, I think
• 1:14:48
  he would focus on stories. And he tried to be a part of
• 1:14:53
  what Cass had really helped him connect with is that
• 1:14:57
  information, knowledge is for everyone and he would fly from
• 1:15:01
  place to place sharing stories. You at first begin to fly until
• 1:15:07
  you were one day upon a mountaintop where you find.
• 1:15:12
  A. Doorway and God presented itself
• 1:15:16
  to you once more, and you're offered a flight away from this
• 1:15:19
  world. You have a conversation with the
• 1:15:21
  wizard wish this one one of the nature of genies, and you argue
• 1:15:25
  back and forth on many topics. But I think you find agreement
• 1:15:29
  in the fact that wishes are best made for others.
• 1:15:34
  And you share stories of the wishes of this world throughout
• 1:15:39
  the cosmos, not just throughout the world.
• 1:15:42
  Maybe not, perhaps in just a year, but you have the entire
• 1:15:45
  cosmos at your behest as the store opens upon this
• 1:15:48
  mountaintop. Hello Wish.
• 1:15:52
  Parable. The last we met, I was of a
• 1:15:56
  different mind. You put up a good fight.
• 1:16:00
  As do you, your breath becomes you.
• 1:16:04
  It's nice to be in a space where we can talk.
• 1:16:09
  Well, I have nothing but time here, time to think, time to
• 1:16:16
  regret, but also, as you've taught me, time to hope for I
• 1:16:22
  have friends alongside that keep me company once more.
• 1:16:26
  And ebb and flow are upon his shoulders and manifest.
• 1:16:29
  As you see, they're already chatting with Nixon more.
• 1:16:32
  Yeah, Nixon. More pop up.
• 1:16:33
  So yeah. Yeah, as you hear the voices of
• 1:16:36
  Nixon, more chime in as AB says. Who are you?
• 1:16:41
  Who are you? Get out of my domain.
• 1:16:43
  No soft parts on that one. I was here first.
• 1:16:46
  No, I was right. Here no that.
• 1:16:49
  Was your first blow. Blows like racing alongside of
• 1:16:55
  more as that Nick's end, but kind of go at it like pushing
• 1:17:00
  head to It's sizzling rock against stone.
• 1:17:03
  In a moment of levity, I look up at the chaos like kind of
• 1:17:06
  happening that we only can see and I just shake my head with a
• 1:17:09
  smile at wish. The arguments happen in primal
• 1:17:11
  voices alone, but all words that you speak to one another with
• 1:17:15
  your voice are well spoken and well said.
• 1:17:19
  And it is. I think this is a common
• 1:17:21
  occurrence that parable might do traveling, signing the door, and
• 1:17:25
  being shown a new place that might appreciate a story.
• 1:17:28
  Yeah, I think Parable spend his time on this world trying to
• 1:17:32
  share culture. So like the things were were so
• 1:17:34
  segmented in this world before with the the artifice and the
• 1:17:38
  the machines and the lens of fortune and that's so separate
• 1:17:41
  from different cultures. I try to bring them together.
• 1:17:43
  So I hope to see the two wells full of the technology from the
• 1:17:47
  lands of Fortune and the lands of Fortune with the the depth of
• 1:17:51
  tradition from the Moray and the favor I and the lands of Fate
• 1:17:56
  flourish. Amazing.
• 1:17:57
  I think with, with your, with your travel and combined with
• 1:18:01
  perhaps Cassie's help, you're able to link up not only these
• 1:18:06
  doorways for your own personal travel, but also the color
• 1:18:09
  pools, the Oasis that are much more permanently connected as as
• 1:18:15
  true portals to one another. That Zen keeps a list of.
• 1:18:19
  She's the city planner who's got.
• 1:18:20
  The directory a lot, yeah. The the why did we install the
• 1:18:23
  hell magic system for the for the gateway again?
• 1:18:26
  You just never know and and and. I'd rather be prepared than not.
• 1:18:31
  Everyone in is in like a line. I pick pick a little piece of
• 1:18:34
  hair, peel a little bit of nail, put it in a car.
• 1:18:38
  It's like, it's like, give me your trace cup, please.
• 1:18:42
  But like, in a cool, chill, fun way.
• 1:18:43
  Yeah, yeah. No, don't worry.
• 1:18:45
  No, your DNA is your own, right? You can take it back at any
• 1:18:49
  time, I promise. Ancestry.com.
• 1:18:53
  And of course, they're provided healing as they do it.
• 1:18:55
  I think on top of the mountain, though, after some philosophical
• 1:18:59
  debate with Wish, we kind of look at each other and I want to
• 1:19:04
  do a dance of the Murray people just quickly with him, kind of.
• 1:19:07
  It almost looks like Dance fighting back and forth and just
• 1:19:10
  nod to him as if they're in agreement to to disagree has
• 1:19:13
  been met and say I know you'll at least carry the curiosity
• 1:19:18
  that others need and give them a push up those stairs.
• 1:19:21
  I will parable. You may call me Azareza.
• 1:19:26
  It was nice to have finally met you Azareza.
• 1:19:29
  You are welcome anytime and I open the door.
• 1:19:32
  I think that's a good point to to cut away.
• 1:19:34
  And is there anything else that someone spends their year doing
• 1:19:38
  apart from of course building up the 2 willows and flourishing in
• 1:19:41
  the in the community of it? After reuniting with her mom and
• 1:19:47
  Claude and maybe even Vilano, I think Cassie's goal would be to
• 1:19:52
  work together to, similarly to Parable, make sure that everyone
• 1:19:58
  around anyone who wants to knows the history of what really
• 1:20:03
  happened over the last. Before the great wishing that we
• 1:20:07
  lived through. If you wouldn't mind, I would
• 1:20:10
  love if that story or that booklet of the story of might
• 1:20:15
  perhaps be called Wish Hunter, but also have the subtitle of
• 1:20:19
  The Lucky Few. I love that.
• 1:20:21
  I think it would be a book. It would be captured in a series
• 1:20:24
  of books, probably. But I also wonder if, if Cassie
• 1:20:27
  would, you know, continue on as an astronomer by day but like a
• 1:20:31
  history teacher by night because what is looking at the stars if
• 1:20:36
  not looking to the past? Right.
• 1:20:38
  Amazing. So it sort of makes sense.
• 1:20:40
  And I think travelling around to make sure that everyone who
• 1:20:43
  wants to know what happened has the true and accurate picture,
• 1:20:47
  not just of the logistics of what happened in space, but also
• 1:20:50
  of how different groups were affected.
• 1:20:52
  Yeah. Explaining communities, the
• 1:20:54
  communities of our friends and. Well, yeah, languages have
• 1:20:58
  changed. Like there are culture, there's
• 1:20:59
  culture shock happening just due to the fact that years passed
• 1:21:02
  differently in certain regions of the world and not not others.
• 1:21:05
  She reflects on how when she was growing up with Zen and Parable,
• 1:21:09
  there was all this myth and legend and lore about what
• 1:21:13
  happened 100 years prior. And myth and legend are great,
• 1:21:17
  but after a time of such universal deceit, telling the
• 1:21:22
  truth is an act of resistance. And I think that's and that's
• 1:21:26
  what drives her, and I'd imagine her family too.
• 1:21:29
  You inspire a generation. I think there's a mass movement
• 1:21:33
  behind this, this information in the ways that you share it.
• 1:21:37
  I think in the several ways that you mentioned, they each are
• 1:21:41
  surges in this what is in all rights like a a mass education.
• 1:21:47
  I mean, the lands of fate weren't any more educated than
• 1:21:49
  any other medieval world. You didn't you hadn't as many
• 1:21:52
  people that couldn't read as those that could.
• 1:21:54
  You not only do what you hope to do, but you expand the
• 1:21:58
  appreciation and search for knowledge, providing also like a
• 1:22:02
  universal translation system amongst cultures, allowing for
• 1:22:08
  and again, interconnectedness just seems to be the theme of
• 1:22:11
  this world. I don't think that there's a
• 1:22:13
  single culture that doesn't know of all the other cultures of
• 1:22:16
  this world. Given the fact that travel is so
• 1:22:20
  prolific and you, Cassie, are spending so much time on
• 1:22:24
  spreading the exact details of what happened, there's no
• 1:22:27
  miscommunication to cause conflict and.
• 1:22:31
  Just the truth from all perspectives, from all the
• 1:22:33
  perspectives I've been able to reach and record and gather
• 1:22:36
  between everyone we've met. My friends, my parents, Raya
• 1:22:41
  people up in the sky, people down below the wells.
• 1:22:45
  I think in a very madding way, there are certain people who
• 1:22:49
  still refuse to listen to the truth, that as soon as you tell
• 1:22:52
  them the truth, they double down on their resistance.
• 1:22:54
  One such group is our radical friends over in Domi who still
• 1:22:58
  call themselves Star Callers and the alien Solari, and you come
• 1:23:02
  across them on your journeys and several other groups like that.
• 1:23:06
  That doesn't stop your spark to spread to the majority who love
• 1:23:11
  and appreciate the knowledge and transparency that you share.
• 1:23:15
  Is there any other communities or groups that you either really
• 1:23:19
  synergize with or think you find yourself in contrast to?
• 1:23:24
  Like, don't me. As you share this information,
• 1:23:28
  you realize that it is a journey that has value because there are
• 1:23:31
  obstacles in the way of it. Cassie probably really does not
• 1:23:35
  enjoy returning to the two wells, to the people of the two
• 1:23:39
  wells to sort of try and defend the reputation of maybe her and
• 1:23:46
  her friends. I wonder if between Cassie and
• 1:23:50
  Parabolins in there are people who think we did the wrong thing
• 1:23:53
  or who feel that now that they know all the truth.
• 1:23:56
  I don't know. It's sort of like the hometown
• 1:23:58
  vibe of what do? What do the hometown people
• 1:24:00
  think of us? Is there a gossip?
• 1:24:02
  Is there frustration? Is there misconceptions?
• 1:24:06
  And I wouldn't be surprised if Cassie felt like she had
• 1:24:08
  outgrown the spaces she grew up in, but also feels it is her
• 1:24:13
  duty to stay. I think the fact that they are,
• 1:24:16
  the stories are so detailed make them even grander, like you are
• 1:24:21
  living legends. And it's really hard to avoid as
• 1:24:24
  you kind of have outgrown this place, not out of any sort of
• 1:24:28
  claustrophobic sense to leave, but out of a sense of the things
• 1:24:32
  that this place could offer you versus what you offer it.
• 1:24:35
  You know that this place runs with your very your very
• 1:24:39
  efforts. The you see every place that
• 1:24:42
  you've touched, every individual in this community is inspired by
• 1:24:46
  you. That's not something that you
• 1:24:47
  can hide from anymore. And most of all, it's hard to
• 1:24:50
  forget you 3 heroes for when you leave the Dragons sing most.
• 1:24:57
  And Sophandria, I think, and her family are also amongst the
• 1:25:01
  trees, as I need to note that I think that they help you with
• 1:25:04
  your travels. So especially throughout these
• 1:25:07
  these moments, I think when you come back, you have moments of
• 1:25:09
  like either Mojo telling like much more done up stories or
• 1:25:15
  Saphandria telling it exactly like it was.
• 1:25:17
  But all people who speak so well of you that you are.
• 1:25:21
  Yeah. There's no hiding from it.
• 1:25:22
  You are the most famous people in this world.
• 1:25:25
  Like we hate that. Yeah, yeah, Parable spent most
• 1:25:28
  of his time with Cass's help, either traveling through the
• 1:25:31
  color pools or like some some other.
• 1:25:33
  However I can travel to just show up in a place, tell the
• 1:25:36
  stories and leave and move on. Yeah.
• 1:25:38
  It becomes the most annoying rumor and confusing rumor is
• 1:25:42
  that the Wizards 3 have returned because it's part of the story.
• 1:25:45
  It's it's it's a factual part enough where it just loops
• 1:25:48
  enough times where it's just like 3 magical people are just
• 1:25:51
  flying around. Just doing our jobs.
• 1:25:53
  You really inspired me with the the book and I I imagine that
• 1:25:56
  parable hasn't hadn't really all these stories are in him now,
• 1:26:01
  like he doesn't have the need for the good book anymore.
• 1:26:04
  And, you know, open the door, it closes, wish goes door opens
• 1:26:08
  back up and parable says, Oh, I forgot this.
• 1:26:11
  And I I hand him the good book, but on the cover now it says
• 1:26:16
  Wish Hunter the lucky few. I love it.
• 1:26:20
  I think if you want to give the good book back to yeah.
• 1:26:23
  Just at least that cool. I do love the idea of giving up
• 1:26:26
  the good book because I no longer need it and I think it
• 1:26:28
  was wishes. And if anybody is the transition
• 1:26:31
  in a transition space, for them to at least pass by the origin
• 1:26:35
  of our story seems special to me.
• 1:26:37
  Yeah, I like that. And I think those stories truly
• 1:26:41
  do travel as you hand over the good book to wish once more.
• 1:26:45
  For he is nothing but a storyteller in this space to the
• 1:26:49
  travellers that come through. And he, I think even at the
• 1:26:52
  earmark, shares that he's heard rumor that there from travellers
• 1:26:57
  around that there are even worlds named after you. 3 An
• 1:27:02
  entire world out there in the cosmos you haven't visited yet,
• 1:27:06
  but a world called Parable, a world called Cassiopeia, a world
• 1:27:13
  called Zen. That's cool.
• 1:27:19
  I think. You know, not what those nature
• 1:27:21
  of those girlfriends that that remains for a campaign far, far
• 1:27:25
  in the future. But we're nearing the end of
• 1:27:27
  time and I want to make sure we round out Zen.
• 1:27:29
  What do you do with your last year here?
• 1:27:32
  Yeah, I think Zen feels responsibility to the shadow
• 1:27:34
  cast to take them in. She understands the loss of
• 1:27:41
  purpose and empathizes with that.
• 1:27:44
  With all of them being, you know, having this whole goal
• 1:27:48
  exactly like Zen and then having it kind of just ripped away from
• 1:27:50
  them and not anything to really work towards.
• 1:27:54
  I mean, a lot of them are probably either not committed to
• 1:27:58
  the light anymore or haven't even stepped into their their
• 1:28:03
  patronage yet. So I think Zen would train them.
• 1:28:07
  I was, I was just thinking of Esther like teaching people how
• 1:28:10
  to use the light for fun. Like you have you have Esther
• 1:28:13
  and E or obviously as like generals.
• 1:28:16
  And and I mean that in a non militant way, like generals in
• 1:28:19
  this fight to to deprogram these people who so obviously need it
• 1:28:24
  and ask for it. Like many speak to view of of a
• 1:28:28
  loss of faith and a need to replace it with something so
• 1:28:32
  much so that they they want to go back like, like people that
• 1:28:36
  tell you of intrusive thought that they deal with because of
• 1:28:39
  who you are and your reputation in the community.
• 1:28:42
  They feel safe at first. It's kind of kind of fucking
• 1:28:45
  insulting and how, OK. Now you like me.
• 1:28:49
  And just like how comfortable they are with telling you their
• 1:28:52
  how, how like, I mean, the same people that condemned you.
• 1:28:56
  Yeah, right. The same community that that
• 1:28:59
  that told you that you were something bad tell you to your
• 1:29:04
  face, I'm afraid that I'm bad and you have to have the grace
• 1:29:08
  to to be there for them. Yeah, I think she definitely
• 1:29:12
  works really hard to change the focus from an external focus to
• 1:29:16
  an internal focus for people that they don't have to prove
• 1:29:19
  themselves to anything or anyone.
• 1:29:21
  And they just really work on like inner resilience and
• 1:29:25
  strength. And so she really does still
• 1:29:27
  like kind of dig back into her background and they do sword
• 1:29:31
  forms and they do like all the sort of kind of grounding
• 1:29:35
  rituals that Zen took with her from this really structured
• 1:29:39
  place, but have turned into her own tools and shows them
• 1:29:43
  different ways to control their emotions, their, their powers.
• 1:29:47
  And if they want to pledge themselves to anything else,
• 1:29:51
  they can. And I think that's a big theme
• 1:29:53
  of like Esther's choosing the light.
• 1:29:56
  Igor is now a paladin. Zen is infernal.
• 1:29:59
  Like, it's just this, like, you can be and do and choose
• 1:30:03
  whatever you want. And she's just training them to
• 1:30:07
  be strong on their own. With that said, she's not
• 1:30:11
  training them in a way to like be a unit.
• 1:30:14
  Like it's never like we're doing practice drills to be defend
• 1:30:20
  something. Like it's never.
• 1:30:21
  It's truly like we are doing it for ourselves and to be strong
• 1:30:26
  and confident in yourself is really powerful.
• 1:30:29
  I think that that really synergizes with what you find to
• 1:30:32
  be true of the Murray culture on this opposing side is at first
• 1:30:36
  there's kind of this cultural clash between 2:00, just vastly
• 1:30:40
  different peoples. But I think that's one really
• 1:30:43
  synergizing points. These training sessions that you
• 1:30:48
  guys undergo of how to live in synergy, not only do you, I
• 1:30:52
  think, give them a sense of physical confidence that allows
• 1:30:56
  them to again, deprogram a little bit, but also I just
• 1:31:01
  imagine that interacting with the Willow wisp rather than an
• 1:31:05
  Archon Lantern and seeing that all the natural ways that this
• 1:31:10
  community can be interacted with amongst.
• 1:31:12
  Yeah, I imagine, again, not a unit, but a bunch of people
• 1:31:16
  comfortable in the Forest of Wicked Willows that if danger
• 1:31:20
  were to come, similar to the Keepers, they are not a militant
• 1:31:23
  people, but damn if you should fuck with them.
• 1:31:26
  Yeah, they're the last that you'd want to fight.
• 1:31:28
  Yeah, I did have the image of like them kind of taking up or
• 1:31:32
  like making their homes in in the willows, like having kind of
• 1:31:35
  the like walkways between and they're living up in the
• 1:31:38
  branches. Absolutely.
• 1:31:40
  I think almost annoyingly, some that are harder to deprogram
• 1:31:45
  constantly asks Zen if they can pledge to her and she's
• 1:31:50
  constantly saying dear God no are.
• 1:31:53
  You listening to me? And I'm catching up again.
• 1:31:56
  Yeah, time. Keeps catching you for like like
• 1:31:59
  coffee chats, I think and being like you know, you could always
• 1:32:01
  send them back to me. I know I said I wouldn't do it
• 1:32:03
  again, but if you're ever wanting me to, I mean they need.
• 1:32:06
  I'm gonna need you to do at least 25 box jumps before I will
• 1:32:10
  even consider it all. Right, that's that's fair
• 1:32:12
  enough. Not be asked me.
• 1:32:14
  Give me another 50 years. I'm 100% imagining with all this
• 1:32:17
  language of deprogramming and group Hangouts, but
• 1:32:20
  individuality of Igor running a yoga class or like some sort of
• 1:32:24
  like. Everybody count to Ted exactly
• 1:32:27
  inhale what 2? I really I did imagine. 66 in,
• 1:32:32
  four out, everybody. Hold for 24.
• 1:32:36
  And I, I think Zen definitely encourages the shadow cast to go
• 1:32:42
  to Cassie's history lessons to enlighten themselves with the
• 1:32:46
  knowledge of the world around them, understanding that their
• 1:32:50
  look in the world is pretty narrow and just really, yeah,
• 1:32:54
  just guiding them. I think in the back of her mind,
• 1:32:56
  there's definitely, and probably after talking to Cass, like if
• 1:32:59
  she went to Domi to be like, OK, like, what's the vibe over
• 1:33:03
  there? And doesn't really know what to
• 1:33:08
  do about it. I think there's a part of her
• 1:33:10
  that wants to go try to reason with her dad, but if he didn't
• 1:33:16
  even listen to neutral advice, I think even Zen showing up would
• 1:33:21
  be almost reinforcement to his delusion.
• 1:33:25
  And at this point, I think Zen kind of has to just let it go
• 1:33:29
  and trust that. You find an abandoned Domi.
• 1:33:33
  You find a place that you recover many beautiful bits of
• 1:33:37
  your past from. Domi is again scarred by El Dari
• 1:33:42
  attacks that must have taken out a majority of the community in
• 1:33:46
  terms of structure. Many people escaped, but that
• 1:33:50
  radical few is no longer here. They've since left and you can
• 1:33:54
  see traces of like massively complex teleportation circles
• 1:33:58
  that they sent out full unit. It it this looks militant the
• 1:34:02
  way they left looks militant. It it looks like they still are
• 1:34:06
  operating as if it's the end of the world.
• 1:34:08
  You can just tell that from the way they left this place.
• 1:34:11
  There's no all the all the nostalgic things are still
• 1:34:14
  there, right? Like there was no time.
• 1:34:17
  They they took no time to grab things for sense mentality.
• 1:34:20
  I think with Zen being so like choice driven and independence
• 1:34:24
  driven, like she is going to cross that bridge if she needs
• 1:34:28
  to. If they become aggressive
• 1:34:32
  towards anything like, then it's something to handle.
• 1:34:34
  But I think it's like, you know. Not my circus.
• 1:34:39
  Exactly like I I think then is truly going to let go of the
• 1:34:44
  responsibility. I think this is what good is we
• 1:34:48
  could wipe them out. They they will be a problem for
• 1:34:53
  US one day. But even to me, I think we've
• 1:34:59
  had enough destruction. I can't say that I've been
• 1:35:03
  changed for the better, but I know I've been changed for good
• 1:35:10
  and. I'm with that.
• 1:35:13
  I'm with that amazing, amazing wicked reference.
• 1:35:16
  I think there is a good place to end our our epilogue here.
• 1:35:20
  Are there any final notes y'all before we sunset this Wish
• 1:35:24
  Hunter Book 1 campaign? Parable hands wish.
• 1:35:27
  The book closes. The door turns around.
• 1:35:31
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• 1:35:36
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• 1:35:40
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• 1:35:58
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• 1:36:00
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• 1:37:03
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• 1:37:11
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