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The Dragon Riders and the Everflame - Wizard Craft 3.0 - #17 - A Bedtime Adventure · Dad’s Bedtime Stories

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  Speaker 1: Hello, friends from across the nation and around the world.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Martin, and you are listening to Dad's Bedtime Stories,
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  Speaker 1: bedtime stories. Listener ideas like this one.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, my name is Brielle, and I would like to
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  Speaker 2: suggest a story for the WizardCraft 3.0 series. I would
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  Speaker 2: like a story where you find a girl who's... family
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  Speaker 2: is like dragon tamers and they help dragons in need
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  Speaker 2: and they like breed them and like heal them and
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  Speaker 2: they are running away because the golem king has taken
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  Speaker 2: over their village and they had a lot of dragon
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  Speaker 2: eggs and he tried to steal them And they've joined
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  Speaker 2: your village and she has a wind dragon. And you
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  Speaker 2: get a nature dragon. And the golem king attacks you
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  Speaker 2: and tries to steal the eggs. I love your podcast. Goodbye.
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  Speaker 1: Nice idea, Brielle. I did have to make a couple
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  Speaker 1: little changes that I hope you're okay with to make
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  Speaker 1: it work. One, it's the Wizard King's people who attack
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  Speaker 1: you in this case. And two, since you already have
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  Speaker 1: the Void Dragon, I might be doing something else with
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  Speaker 1: the Nature Dragon, but I'm going to include it. I promise.
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  Speaker 1: you can create golems and get new spells and that
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  Speaker 1: that that's something they'd be interested in. So let me know.
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  Speaker 1: Comment on it or send me a message or something. Now,
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  Speaker 1: it's that time again. Time to get as comfy as
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  Speaker 1: you can in that bed. Close your eyes and imagine
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  Speaker 1: yourself doing what the kid in the story does. You
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  Speaker 1: wake up to a familiar set of words floating in
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  Speaker 1: front of your eyes. Wake up? You mentally select yes
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  Speaker 1: and the world slowly forms around you. You find yourself
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  Speaker 1: lying inside your bed in the Royal Hill Village. Almost immediately,
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  Speaker 1: the all-knowing voice begins to speak. Congratulations! Character progress summary available.
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  Speaker 1: Current player level, level 11. Unused skill points, 2. Current
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  Speaker 1: skills unlocked. Lockpicking, level 3. Ninjutsu combat, level 2. Arcane
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  Speaker 1: Engineer Level 3 Cyborg Animal Control Skill Level 3 Dominance
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  Speaker 1: Breaker Current Wizard Abilities Advanced Wizard current spells unlocked stone
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  Speaker 1: golem copper golem iron golem golden golem diamond golem laser
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  Speaker 1: golem emerald cat golem netherite golem cloud golem fire magic
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  Speaker 1: level four telekinesis level three earth magic level two lightning
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  Speaker 1: magic level two Animal Control. Level 2. Current Equipment. Iron Sword.
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  Speaker 1: Sword of Stolen Skills. Flying Diamond Golem Mech Suit. Upgraded
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  Speaker 1: Armored Car. Current Mounts. Giant Hawk. Young Void Dragon. Flying Nimbus.
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  Speaker 1: Current Active Settlement. Royal Hill Village. The screen flickers. Congratulations!
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  Speaker 1: Your continued exploration, magical development, and growth of Royal Hill
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  Speaker 1: Village have increased your level. You have reached level 12.
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  Speaker 1: New skill point awarded. You now have three unused skill points. Three,
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  Speaker 1: you say? For once, you don't immediately dismiss the menu.
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  Speaker 1: Three skill points is starting to feel like a lot,
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  Speaker 1: but you still don't know what you need, and waiting
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  Speaker 1: has worked out pretty well in the past. You close
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  Speaker 1: the menu and get out of bed. You head outside
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  Speaker 1: to see the Royal Hill Village is already busy. Copper
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  Speaker 1: golems are rolling between buildings. Stone golems are carrying materials.
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  Speaker 1: Eleanor's colorful slimes bounce around the new giant crystal house
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  Speaker 1: she created yesterday. You see a water slime filling a
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  Speaker 1: trough while two nature slimes bounce around a garden, causing
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  Speaker 1: little green shoots to push through the soil. Then... Something
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  Speaker 1: circles far overhead. You shade your eyes. It's your giant hawk.
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  Speaker 1: And suddenly you remember something. You have mounts. Quite a
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  Speaker 1: few of them, actually, and, well, you haven't really used
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  Speaker 1: them lately. You've been so busy with the mech suits
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  Speaker 1: and the mines and, you know, golem kings, cloud castles,
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  Speaker 1: and All of those other things that... You haven't really
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  Speaker 1: spent much time with any of them. Especially your void dragon.
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  Speaker 1: You mentally reach out using your animal control skill. Almost immediately...
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  Speaker 1: You can feel him inside your mind. Not far away either.
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  Speaker 1: You follow the connection beyond the village wall... towards a
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  Speaker 1: large rocky clearing, and there he is. The void dragon
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  Speaker 1: lifts its head. He's considerably bigger than you remember, probably
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  Speaker 1: because he's actually gotten bigger. When he first hatched, you
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  Speaker 1: fed him until he was large enough to ride, but
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  Speaker 1: apparently he hasn't stopped growing. His black scales shimmer with
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  Speaker 1: dark purple light, His wings stretch wider than one of
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  Speaker 1: the houses in Royal Hill, and the strange darkness around
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  Speaker 1: the end of his tail seems to twist the air itself.
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  Speaker 1: He sees you and immediately bounds forward. Okay, okay. The
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  Speaker 1: dragon lowers his head and pushes it against you. hard
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  Speaker 1: enough to nearly knock you over. You missed me, did you?
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  Speaker 1: You feel a warm answer through your animal magic. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry about that. You rub the side of his enormous head. Well...
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  Speaker 1: What do you say we go for a ride? The
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  Speaker 1: dragon immediately lowers himself down. You climb onto his back.
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  Speaker 1: There isn't even a saddle anymore. He outgrew that a
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  Speaker 1: long time ago. You settle between two large ridges along
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  Speaker 1: his back. All right, let's go, you say. The void
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  Speaker 1: dragon runs. THREE ENORMOUS STEPS THEN HE JUMPS HIS WING
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  Speaker 1: SLAMMED DOWNWARD AND YOU SHOOT INTO THE SKY WHOA YOU
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  Speaker 1: NEARLY SLIDE STRAIGHT OFF OF THE THING YOU GRAB ONE
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  Speaker 1: OF THE RIDGES WITH BOTH HANDS AND THE DRAGON BANKS
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  Speaker 1: TO THE LEFT YOU SLIDE RIGHT HE BANKS RIGHT AND
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  Speaker 1: WELL YOU SLIDE LEFT OKAY Maybe not quite so much.
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  Speaker 1: You've ridden them before, but apparently riding a dragon this
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  Speaker 1: size is different. Then you remember the skill points. Hang on.
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  Speaker 1: You mentally open your skill menu. Constellations of glowing stars
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  Speaker 1: appear around you while the dragon continues gliding. You search
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  Speaker 1: through them. Wizard. Arcane Engineer. Animal Control, Ninjutsu, and eventually
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  Speaker 1: you come to a constellation you haven't seen before. One
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  Speaker 1: shaped like a dragon. Dragon Rider. You quickly select it.
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  Speaker 1: Dragon Rider tree skill unlocked. Level 1, Novice Dragon Rider.
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  Speaker 1: Novice Dragon Rider increases your connection and bond with ridden dragons,
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  Speaker 1: improves balance, aerial control, communication, and basic riding. Well, that
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  Speaker 1: seems useful right now, and you have extra skill points,
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  Speaker 1: so you mentally spend it. Congratulations! Novice Dragon Rider unlocked!
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  Speaker 1: something changes immediately. You can feel the void dragon underneath
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  Speaker 1: you differently. Every movement of his muscles, every shift of
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  Speaker 1: his wings, you somehow know when he's about to turn
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  Speaker 1: before he does. He banks hard to the left. This time,
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  Speaker 1: your body moves naturally with him. You don't slip at all.
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  Speaker 1: That's awesome. But there is another level glowing over top
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  Speaker 1: of it. Adept Dragon Rider greatly increases rider-dragon synchronization, allows
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  Speaker 1: advanced aerial maneuvers. Riders can maintain balance through extreme turns, dives, rolls,
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  Speaker 1: and sudden movement. Falling from a bonded dragon becomes extremely unlikely.
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  Speaker 1: You grin. You still have two skill points after all, so,
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  Speaker 1: you know, why not? You select it. Congratulations, Adept Dragon
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  Speaker 1: Rider unlocked. Unused skill points remaining.
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  Speaker 3: One.
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  Speaker 1: You dismiss the menu. Alright, buddy. You lean forward. Let's
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  Speaker 1: see what you can really do. The void dragon roars,
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  Speaker 1: then dives straight down. The ground rushes toward you, but
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  Speaker 1: instead of holding on desperately, you decide to do something
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  Speaker 1: that would be absolutely crazy if you didn't just select
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  Speaker 1: these two skills. You stand up on top of the
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  Speaker 1: dragon as if you're surfing or something. Your feet somehow
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  Speaker 1: adjust to every movement of the dragon beneath you. Wind
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  Speaker 1: tears past your face and at the last possible second,
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  Speaker 1: the dragon pulls upward. You remain perfectly balanced like you're
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  Speaker 1: riding a wave. The dragon rolls sideways and you stay
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  Speaker 1: standing through the entire loop. He rolls completely upside down
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  Speaker 1: For one strange second, you find yourself hanging beneath him,
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  Speaker 1: your feet magically and instinctively positioned against his scales and
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  Speaker 1: just away as to let you hold onto him somehow
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  Speaker 1: from your feet. Then he completes the roll. You laugh.
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  Speaker 1: The void dragon shoots upward again. Show me what you
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  Speaker 1: can do. He opens his mouth. Dark purple fire gathers
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  Speaker 1: between his teeth. Then, with a boom, a huge blast
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  Speaker 1: of purple-black flame shoots across the sky and explodes against
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  Speaker 1: an empty rocky hill. The stone disappears inside a cloud
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  Speaker 1: of dark smoke. Then, the dragon creates something else. A
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  Speaker 1: tiny black sphere launches from his mouth. It hits a boulder,
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  Speaker 1: the air bends, the boulder gets pulled inward, and disappears. Alright,
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  Speaker 1: that's still terrifying. You say as you, well, sit back
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  Speaker 1: down properly on the dragon. The void dragon just seems pleased. Then,
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  Speaker 1: you notice some smoke in the distance. Not from the boulder,
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  Speaker 1: from further away. beyond the forest. You narrow your eyes.
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  Speaker 1: Take us over there. The dragon banks, heads straight for it,
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  Speaker 1: and minutes later you hear it. Roaring, metal crashing, people yelling.
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  Speaker 1: You crest a hill and see an entire battle unfolding below.
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  Speaker 1: A caravan of wagons has been surrounded by Golems. Iron golems.
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  Speaker 1: Stone golems. Even several diamond golems. Blue and green banners
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  Speaker 1: hang from some of the machines and wagons behind them.
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  Speaker 1: The Golem King's men. But the people being attacked aren't
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  Speaker 1: ordinary travelers. They have... dragons. Dragons? One enormous red dragon
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  Speaker 1: breathes fire across a line of stone golems. A blue
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  Speaker 1: dragon blasts what looks like freezing mist, and soaring above
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  Speaker 1: everything else is a pale white dragon with enormous wings.
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  Speaker 1: A girl is riding on its back. You watch as
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  Speaker 1: the dragon beats its wings and a tremendous blast of
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  Speaker 1: wind sends three stone golems rolling across the field. Behind
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  Speaker 1: the dragons are several wagons and inside those wagons are eggs.
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  Speaker 1: Dozens of eggs. Dozens of dragon eggs. Is the golem
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  Speaker 1: king trying to steal the dragon eggs? Your void dragon growls. And,
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  Speaker 1: through your animal control spell, you can immediately sense that
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  Speaker 1: he wants to help. I agree, you say. We need
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  Speaker 1: to help them. The dragon dives. You sit on its
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  Speaker 1: back as he plummets toward the battlefield. One of the
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  Speaker 1: iron golems looks up, but it's too late. Your void
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  Speaker 1: dragon opens his mouth. and unleashes a huge blast of
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  Speaker 1: purple flame. With a boom, two stone golems disappear instantly.
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  Speaker 1: You leap from the dragon's back. Your adept dragon rider
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  Speaker 1: ability seems to tell you exactly when to jump. You
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  Speaker 1: fall through the air and summon your sword. You land
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  Speaker 1: on the shoulders of an iron golem.
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  Speaker 3: Hello?
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  Speaker 1: The golem says. but you just drive your sword downward.
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  Speaker 1: The golem stumbles and disappears in a puff of smoke.
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  Speaker 1: Your void dragon flies past and blasts another set of
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  Speaker 1: golems with dark fire. All of them instantly explode, leaving
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  Speaker 1: behind loot. That was amazing, the girl on the white
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  Speaker 1: dragon says staring at you. Who are you? Eh, long story,
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  Speaker 1: you respond. Her dragon beats its wings and hovers there.
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  Speaker 1: A tornado-like blast smashes another golem backward. Well, my name's Brielle.
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  Speaker 1: Nice to meet you, Brielle, you respond. A diamond golem
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  Speaker 1: charges toward one of the egg wagons. You reach out
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  Speaker 1: with your telekinesis, and the golem slows. I could use
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  Speaker 1: a little help, you say, putting everything you can into
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  Speaker 1: stopping the gigantic diamond golem. Brielle reacts instantly. Her wind
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  Speaker 1: dragon unleashes everything it has. A blast of air hits
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  Speaker 1: the trapped diamond golem and sends it crashing through two
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  Speaker 1: iron golems. Your void dragon follows with another blast, only
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  Speaker 1: this time it's a void ball. The void energy strikes
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  Speaker 1: the diamond golem. The world ripples and immediately... The diamond
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  Speaker 1: golem and the two iron golems that were with it
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  Speaker 1: get sucked inside and, well, disappear from existence. The battlefield
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  Speaker 1: begins turning. The golem king's forces weren't expecting another powerful dragon, obviously.
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  Speaker 1: Several remaining golems start retreating toward the forest. Keep them
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  Speaker 1: away from the eggs, Brielle shouts. Then, something launches from
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  Speaker 1: behind the tree. A gigantic, metal spear. No! It flies
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  Speaker 1: directly toward Buriel. Your void dragon twists. He throws himself
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  Speaker 1: between her and the weapon. Following your unspoken mental command,
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  Speaker 1: the spear slams into his wing. and the dragon roars.
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  Speaker 1: He spins, drops to the ground, and smashes straight into it.
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  Speaker 1: Dust and debris flies everywhere. Then, you hear him. A low,
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  Speaker 1: painful growl. At least he's okay. You scramble up to
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  Speaker 1: him and find the enormous metal spear as torn through
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  Speaker 1: his wing.
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  Speaker 3: Oh no.
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  Speaker 1: Brielle's wind dragon lands beside you. She jumps down immediately.
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  Speaker 1: Don't pull it out. You freeze. Brielle runs toward the
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  Speaker 1: void dragon. Several other people arrive behind her, including an
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  Speaker 1: older woman carrying bags of herbs, a man wearing thick
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  Speaker 1: leather armor, and two other kids. They move with incredible
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  Speaker 1: confidence around the injured dragon. My family are dragon tamers,
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  Speaker 1: Brielle says. We heal dragons too. The woman examines the wing.
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  Speaker 1: He'll be okay. You finally breathe. But he cannot fly.
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  Speaker 1: Can you fix it? You ask? With time. Brielle looks
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  Speaker 1: toward the wagons. We were leaving our village when they
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  Speaker 1: found us. The golem king? You ask? She nods. He
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  Speaker 1: took our village. We breed dragons, heal injured ones, and
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  Speaker 1: protect eggs until they hatch. When his soldiers realized how
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  Speaker 1: many dragons we had, they tried to take them. Brielle
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  Speaker 1: looks really, really mad. We got most of the eggs out,
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  Speaker 1: but they got some of them. You look at the wagons.
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  Speaker 1: So where are you going? We don't know. You look
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  Speaker 1: toward the mountain. Well, I have an idea. Why don't
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  Speaker 1: you come to my village? I could make a home
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  Speaker 1: for you and your dragons, and, well, we've already fought
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  Speaker 1: the golem king off once. We'd probably have an easier
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  Speaker 1: time of it if we had, you know, a team
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  Speaker 1: of dragons. Brielle and her people speak for a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: and not long afterwards, they agree. Several of the larger
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  Speaker 1: dragons carefully lift your void dragon using some sort of
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  Speaker 1: enormous leather support straps. They flap their wings powerfully and, well,
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  Speaker 1: the dragon lifts up off of the ground. Brielle climbs
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  Speaker 1: onto her wind dragon, then reaches down. Need a ride?
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  Speaker 1: You grin and take her hand. the wind dragon launches
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  Speaker 1: into the sky. Below, the rest of the dragon family follows,
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  Speaker 1: some of them riding on their own, others carrying, well,
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  Speaker 1: wagons below themselves, wagons attached to similar leather straps than
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  Speaker 1: the ones carrying your dragon. Together, you make your way
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  Speaker 1: into the air. Not quite as quickly as you would
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  Speaker 1: if you were riding your own void dragon, without, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of wagons and, well, injured dragons being carried,
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  Speaker 1: but you still make good time of it. Before long,
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  Speaker 1: Royal Hill appears beneath you. As you slowly lower yourselves
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  Speaker 1: to land in the town square... You see Gus walk
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  Speaker 1: out to greet you. He looks up at the sky
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  Speaker 1: filled with dragons and starts to look a little bit worried.
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  Speaker 1: He waves for the golems around him to gather until
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  Speaker 1: you finally wave to him. Gus! It's okay! It's me!
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  Speaker 1: You shout. He looks at you.
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  Speaker 3: Ah!
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  Speaker 1: Oh, and I see you brought friends. You carefully land
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  Speaker 1: in the town square. The other dragons carefully place the
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  Speaker 1: wagons down, let go of the straps and land beside.
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  Speaker 1: The two large dragons carrying your void dragon mount place
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  Speaker 1: him off to the side as well. Oh dear, Gus says. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but he'll be okay as long as we have these
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  Speaker 1: people to help us. Speaking of which, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: need to make a little bit of room for them. Ah,
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  Speaker 1: of course we are. What exactly do they need? Brielle
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: quickly explains to Gus what dragons need. It turns out
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  Speaker 1: they can live almost anywhere, but if you want them
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  Speaker 1: to settle permanently and lay eggs, hatch young, they need
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  Speaker 1: a proper roost, high ground, open air, sheltered nesting place, and, well,
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  Speaker 1: most importantly, heat, lava, or some other source of magical
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  Speaker 1: or permanent fire. You look toward the top of Royal
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  Speaker 1: Hill Mountain. I think we can make it work up there,
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  Speaker 1: you say? And within hours, the village goes to work.
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  Speaker 1: Stone golems carrying, well, a ridiculous number of materials. Copper
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  Speaker 1: golems immediately begin building platforms and caves and, well, anything
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  Speaker 1: else the dragons might need. You use earth magic to
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  Speaker 1: tear open large nesting caves inside the mountain that's already there,
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  Speaker 1: and Grayson begins adding some reinforced walkways and storage buildings. Soon,
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  Speaker 1: huge landing platforms extend from the cliffs. A massive house
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  Speaker 1: is built into the center for Brielle's family and friends.
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  Speaker 1: By sunset, the top of the mountain has completely transformed.
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  Speaker 1: Dragon roost established, but something is missing. At the center
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  Speaker 1: of it is a huge circular stone basin. Brielle points
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  Speaker 1: toward it. Ideally, we'd have fire there. Fire, huh? Maybe
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  Speaker 1: I can do something with the fire? Do you know
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  Speaker 1: how to create an eternal fire? That would be perfect.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, no?
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  Speaker 1: But maybe I can figure it out. You quickly make
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  Speaker 1: your way into your skill menu. You flip through all
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  Speaker 1: of the different options until you pass the wizard skills.
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  Speaker 1: You scan the different options available to you until you
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  Speaker 1: find what you're looking for. A fire specialty. One that
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  Speaker 1: forks off from the main wizarding constellation. Fire Master. Fire
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  Speaker 1: Master increases your understanding of fire magic. Fire spells cost
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  Speaker 1: less to cast. Fire becomes more powerful, and you just
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  Speaker 1: may unlock some more secrets, if you think and try
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: hard enough. The voice says, You select the skill. Congratulations,
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  Speaker 1: you have unlocked Fire Master. You feel a new understanding
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  Speaker 1: of fire pass through your mind. Memories from fire mages
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  Speaker 1: that came before you. You suddenly understand what fire is. It's, well,
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  Speaker 1: it's obviously heat, but it's more than that. It's living heat.
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  Speaker 1: It's built into the nature of the universe itself. You
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  Speaker 1: step to the center of You reach to your mana,
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  Speaker 1: fire forms between your hands, and you pour more mana
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  Speaker 1: into it, and more. You aim the fire down in
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  Speaker 1: front of you, and it begins to grow, larger and
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  Speaker 1: larger and larger as you continue to feed it more
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  Speaker 1: and more mana. It grows from orange to blue to
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  Speaker 1: white-hot as your mana quickly drains. Then, something else occurs
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  Speaker 1: to you. Life Force. That's how you make golems, after all.
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  Speaker 1: What would happen if you added a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: Life Force to the fire? You reach inside yourself, detach
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  Speaker 1: a small amount of life force, and press it into
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  Speaker 1: the glowing white flame. Immediately, you feel something take over.
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  Speaker 1: The fire grows even hotter, and you no longer feel
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  Speaker 1: it pulling from your mana. You step backwards, and watch
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  Speaker 1: as the fire continues to burn. Congratulations, you have created
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  Speaker 1: a magical everflame, a magically sustained flame capable of providing
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  Speaker 1: heat and magical energy to the surrounding area. Oh, you
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  Speaker 1: say as you fall backward onto the ground. completely exhausted
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  Speaker 1: from using all of your mana and, well, a good
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: amount of life force. Soon you feel yourself lifted into
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  Speaker 1: the air, carried down the mountain, placed inside your bed,
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  Speaker 1: where the prompt appears. Sleep now?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: You answer yes mentally since, well, you couldn't even imagine
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  Speaker 1: getting up. You're exhausted. Fatigue passes through your body. Your
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: muscles begin to relax. You quickly sink down into the mattress,
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  Speaker 1: more tired than you ever remember being. Your eyes become heavy.
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  Speaker 1: And soon, sleep takes you off to thoughts of new
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  Speaker 1: dreams and new adventures to come. Good night, everyone.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.