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Wish Hunter #18: Bottle Broken · DiceSized

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  Welcome to Dice Sized and welcome back to Wish Hunter.
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  This is the D&D Audio Adventure podcast where we told Bite Sized
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  Dice World twice told stories. This is me, your DM and friend
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  Robert Whitehead and with me as always, my lovely table of
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  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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  hanging out in a tree. Yes, you are not just any tree,
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  quite a great tree. Another great Willow, the
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  creator brain of that great tree.
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  And my great friend Maya is up next.
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  Oh, you humble me. Hey, it's Maya.
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  You can call me Maya. Zin is having a great time
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  orienting her friends to her new friends and showing them the
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  ropes of frozen blueberries and oatmeal.
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  Yes. I like to believe that both
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  Willow trees, one and two wells and the one that Zin created are
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  connected in some way. Oh, I love when players do this.
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  I'm taking notes. I'm taking notes.
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  Yeah, of course I I thought so on some level.
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  But now I'm picturing, you know, the Witch of the Willow somehow
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  getting a feeling like, as when Esther said Zen, you have
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  friends and just like feeling a little bit of pride for a
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  protege that she was so she was so proud of and.
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  They're connected by Willow Phi. And another person who's
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  connected by Willow Phi with us tonight, my lovely wife
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  Savannah, not here with us in body, but very much here with us
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  in digital waves, digital spirit.
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  Sav here. Yes, reporting live from head
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  cold quarantine. Looking forward to playing
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  Cassie. Hopefully she's feeling a lot
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  better after a long rest than I am after my long rest.
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  Hey. Hey. 2 kettles of tea last
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  episode. So Cassie is probably feeling at
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  least hydrated. And her sinuses are feeling
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  good, right? Good.
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  Yeah. We love that for her.
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  At least. There's that.
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  Can't relate right now. And that's just a, well,
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  hopefully you get some sort of, like, psychosomatic star song
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  benefits. I'm counting on you guys to heal
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  me through the ether. Oh.
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  Bluetooth connected. We got you.
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  And another thing exactly. No, no screen bits, guys.
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  Just cuz Sam's on a big TV doesn't mean it makes it OK to
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  laugh. I feel like the guy in the van
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  you. Are the guy in the van You are.
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  The guy in the van. Anyways, on to a recap.
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  Last time, our heroes regrouped in the aftermath of falling
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  stars and clashing factions. In the calm following the
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  harrowing fight for power, our heroes heard a great booming
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  voice ring out across the astral waters and spotted a ship flying
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  towards them, tattered purple sails marked with symbol of
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  broken bottle. Cassie realized that they had
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  about half a day before the arrival of an airship of
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  pirates, and with them the legendary pirate Captain I.
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  Wish. Beard Parable, ever furious,
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  locked eyes across the astral waters with the Pirate King and
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  recognized a kindred troop. Wishbeard was a Demi Shin, just
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  like him. Cassie, meanwhile, puzzled over
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  the word pirate, knowing much of privateers and sailors from her
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  mother's tales, stories that suddenly entered at a far Wilder
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  past than she'd ever expected. Zinn remembered history too, the
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  infamous Spellbeard and stories of a pirate who raided for
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  magical power, leaving or even before the Great Wishing.
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  Was this new Wishbeard the same infamous Marauder?
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  Zinn, Parable, and Cassie reunited the Sin's old
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  companions, Igor and Esther, who had long believed her dead.
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  With a happy heart, Zinn gave Esther the Rs pendant, proof
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  that the man, boy tyrant who once controlled them was dead.
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  They spoke of many things, Scotty, Claire, Hazel, and the
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  Look Blade to name a few. That's ours.
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  He's around your back, he's dead.
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  Never forget it. Together, Zin, Igor and Esther
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  joined up with the rest of the party.
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  With that, indirections were made.
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  Lamilian and Vilano sparred against Papaya, Dapple tended
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  her chaotic menagerie and the Wish dragon Saphandra, Gloom and
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  Glimmer cared for the living wishlins.
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  Cassie's father Claude then stepped into the fold.
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  This specific reunion was far from warm.
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  He revealed that the Star Watchtowers creation of a
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  bounded field to drawing living wishes, and he told 2 truths
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  that ignited Cassie's contempt. Claude had known that the great
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  wishing was coming, and almost worse, he'd known that her
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  mother wasn't dead. As Cassie rose to respond, Raya
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  too, was stirred to move. How dare you?
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  She said, storming in and poking Claude in the chest as she left
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  to Cassie's defense. From the shadows came another
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  figure, Adelante, and from the shadows behind her Parable
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  emerged in counterpoint, snapping cuffs around her
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  wrists. Then came Toreya's message in a
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  bottle, scratched and ashurly worn, which emerged from the
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  starry waters. Cassie Pierce The Veil of
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  reality that lay around them, and realize that even the sliver
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  of star that remained was acting as a domain, protecting against
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  but also disguising the madness that threatened to overwhelm the
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  lands apart. This world was a lie, broken
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  dream held together sticks and string.
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  Parable anointed Lumillion then as a witch hunter in training.
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  Soon he was joined by Igor, Esther and Ryan and even Vilano,
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  each swearing O's in their own way.
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  All becoming witch hunters of the first well rather than wish
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  hunters in training, but still all bound to this new well of
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  power that U3 had created as fully realized Dominari.
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  Then something miraculous happened.
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  These three, Dominari, Zen, Cassie and Parable, founded a
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  new domain. Together they wove a great tree,
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  Zen shaping its face and countless rooms, Cassie crowning
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  it with an observatory, Parable filling its branches with a
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  grand library and archive. Together they built the home the
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  night, if such a thing still existed, We need these fractured
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  skies passed in peace. Parable and Brick opened the
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  Great trees archives and offered Adelante a place within.
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  Zen reunited in full with Igor Nester over a long overdue
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  slumber party, and Cassie check one more pot of tea and uneasy
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  words with her father. In Rabbit.
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  We rejoin our heroes. Now, as you all awakened and
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  gathered atop the branches of your new bastion.
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  Upon were the massive swaying branches of this great Willow.
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  You await the imminent arrival. Wish Beard ship the bottle
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  breaker. In the distance, astral waters
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  swell and surge, rising and falling in strange rhythms.
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  Though the sky has fallen and there is no true cycle of day to
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  night, the astral waters pressing against the domain
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  boundary do seem to almost brighten, as if responding to
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  your expectation of day. I just need to clarify one thing
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  with Cassie, assuming there was some amount of transparency
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  found in the discussion you had with Claude and Raya overnight.
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  I just want to ask, does Claude know the full story now?
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  I don't think it was ever fully revealed that specifically that
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  like your mom is alive. He strongly suspects it, but
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  we've never told him directly. Could you first tell me what he
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  would have said if I asked him in that, in our conversation to
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  expand on what he meant when he said that she had never died?
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  As you stand upon this massive swaying Willow branch, Cassie,
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  you have a slight flashback as you think of the conversation
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  you had last night with your father.
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  In response to your question, he said, Well, The thing is, I
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  just, I knew. I knew she was out there.
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  I, something inside me just knew it.
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  You know, that doesn't happen with me.
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  You know why I just, I have to prove things.
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  And that's one thing I think that Cassie and Claude probably
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  got along on is like the need to prove things to themselves.
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  And Claude just knew it deep down, but still obviously wanted
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  to prove it. And so I, I, I saw the stars and
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  every time I had any amount of success, my higher up stopped
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  me. I've been playing the good boy
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  ever since, trying to the lack of the better phrase, climb the
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  ladder at the tower so that I could eventually seek her out
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  further. But I always knew that she was
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  among the stars. Just an inkling, just a feeling.
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  I've been, I've been searching her in your gut.
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  I mean, when she disappeared, that her body wasn't found.
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  Cassie, are, are we never buried anything?
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  Yeah, I'm realizing that. OK, reflecting on this
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  conversation, Cassie definitely didn't let on very much about
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  what she's learned from Raya, any knowledge of her mom, Soraya
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  being all powerful up in the sky.
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  I think, spitefully, she feels entitled to keep that
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  information to herself, and not ever having been given the trust
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  and respect to hear about her dad's inkling or suspicions,
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  she's going to pocket them for a little while longer.
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  He might find out from someone else, he might start to catch
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  on, something might slip. And I want him to feel caught
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  off guard and out of the loop and like he hasn't been
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  considered. So no, I don't think Cassie
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  shared much with him. I think it's just maybe notable
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  silence as you don't respond to. At one point, he says something
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  about she was such a powerful wizard.
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  She knew magic's greater than anything even.
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  I just have to believe that she she had a way out.
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  And this is the first time he's ever come clean about her being
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  a wizard. Yeah, probably directly growing
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  up, it was probably just like, yeah, your mom can do amazing
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  things. I mean, fuck you, dude.
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  Like, I feel like I owe him nothing right now.
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  OK, Cool. I mean, it's it's coming from a
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  spiteful place. It's.
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  She's heated. She's feeling very resentful.
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  And she's feeling. Yeah, I think spiteful is the
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  best word. I don't know that that won't
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  soften over time, but right now I just think she's feeling a lot
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  of fuck you energy. OK, Awesome.
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  Yep. Very well noted.
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  I think Claude's under the assumption that Raya is like
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  some sort of high level like Wizard of divination.
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  Important, sent from the past even.
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  But he can suspect what he wants to.
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  I mean, he can ask her and she can be honest with him.
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  That's fine. I I think Cassie has no qualms
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  about letting him find out in the least efficient way possible
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  and then feel like pity that his daughter didn't tell him.
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  I think Raya falls your lead allowing him to experience what
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  you experienced. Cool.
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  And we cut back to the morning that is, which is again upon a
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  great Swain massive Willow tree. Any other notes that you guys
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  want to make Zen? Or Parable.
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  Parable has spent a lot of time walking the branches, practicing
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  a balance in the elements that he's just kind of not used to
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  yet. I love it I've.
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  Been thinking like being a genie.
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  Maybe like the inner ear is suddenly unneeded?
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  You're bouncing with something different.
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  Yeah, it's like kind of being pressed together by the elements
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  around me. So I'm exploring that feeling.
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  I'm walking around. I think at some point I do divvy
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  up a few positions and jobs. I make a long chain connected to
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  the center chain of Adelante's cuffs, and I let her know that
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  her role here at the Tree will be librarian, something that
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  helped me when I was. Ah.
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  Interesting to find myself. I think it's I'm, I'm realizing
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  some of the gifts that I had when I was struggling and
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  honestly enslaved. I have a question.
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  Is there any forbidden section? I think I keep it right near the
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  top locked near Cassie's room. OK, Like I imagine the grand
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  library below Cassie's Tower Point.
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  And I think that's like a great spot to keep all the the sacred
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  texts and things like that. But I give her free rein because
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  it's a magic chain that's like connected to like one of the
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  center Willow branches that kind of.
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  You know, it's actually, we'll say that it's just it's really
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  well woven Willow branch that the tree itself grows to situate
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  your needs and it will serve as a tether to this place.
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  Yeah, I think I kind of whisper a spell in a Dominari way, kind
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  of more of an ask of the Willow and say if she ever does.
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  Well, no pun intended. I guess you can let her go.
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  OK. And then I I think I at some
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  point give a mop in a bucket to Claude.
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  OK, yeah, he wakes up to to your mop in the bucket at the door
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  and he says I guess I haven't. Contributed much to the group
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  yet. This will be your role and also
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  pulls 1,000,000 into the door frame.
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  No, yes, yes. This is your boss.
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  Oh wait, did you say? Yes, I have a.
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  I have a. You have a bottom button bro.
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  I have a bottom button bro. You do.
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  And he, he grabs clot around the shoulders and takes him away and
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  he says my friend you are about to have one hell of a day.
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  When I became a bottom button bro, my life changed forever.
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  And he starts walking away to the side.
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  I still don't know if I helped that man or created a monster.
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  You'll never know what the million pops up.
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  But yeah, other than that, I think I spent some time sparring
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  with Igor, if there's time. It's around mid morning vibes as
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  the astral waters. Like I said, respond to your
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  expectation and with your calculation.
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  Which beard is to arrive soon? But just a few hours I think
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  awake. OK, so I think yeah, I forgo the
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  sparring with Igor, but I can't wait to see what happens if we
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  both try to use the grandfather play.
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  Or if you can coordinate throwing it back and forth for
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  each other or. If just magically when we go to
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  strike, it aids the person's needs to and.
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  Becomes in both. Hands I just had some fun vibes
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  but I'll save the sparring. We cut to Igor and Zen saying
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  exact same like talking about that as ego.
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  Just like I wonder if we could have the same sword.
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  The same do you think if we like bought that we would both have
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  the sword or like I just don't understand.
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  You know, Igor, I've seen crazier things happen.
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  I I think it's very possible. But if there's only one sword,
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  how could there be two? Right.
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  So it is kind of a magical sword.
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  So it could it could happen. Esther, could you explain this
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  to me? I don't.
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  I don't. I don't get it.
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  Something you don't get. Wow, you're cranky in the
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  boardings. I don't.
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  Guys, I'm so glad nothing changed.
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  I'm kind of glad. Everything changed.
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  Well, I'm I'm glad that nothing in our interpersonal
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  relationship changed and I'm very happy that everything
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  around that did change so that we could be together and not
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  have our interpersonal relationship be changed.
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  Yeah, thank God I don't have my. Baby voice anymore.
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  Yeah, that would have been really embarrassing.
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  Yeah, I really, yeah. Or fleas.
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  Yeah, or fleas. Get rid of the fleas.
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  Leaves are normal. It took him like 6 or 7 years
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  and don't let him fool you, but he did kick him.
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  Oh my gosh. I'm so proud of you just.
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  Didn't know that you were supposed to shower at bathe.
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  See. Yeah, Esther, I thought I left
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  him in good hands, but. I tried.
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  Oh, I think with that. Too make a shower sound fun.
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  Yeah, that's really fair. I think Zen after like, waking
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  them up and being ecstatic that she has access to her oatmeal
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  and blueberries again, is taking them outside.
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  And OK guys, so I know you guys are used to like radiant stuff
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  and all the things that the light bestowed upon.
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  You, boy, this is definitely not going to be that.
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  Yeah, it's not that. And I just wanted to kind of
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  give you a rundown, show you some of the stuff I can do just
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  so like in the heat of it, it doesn't scare you.
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  So Zena's going to do some of her favorites.
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  So she's going to do an LG splash, she's going to do a fire
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  bolt, She's going to show them how not only she can cure wounds
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  like a badass up to 2D8 plus. Three damn.
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  He'll like set a million on fire, and then he'll.
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  She can also do false life and give them like pre emptive HP
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  being like we are like, you know, they told you that we're
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  so evil and the shadow cast are these awful people.
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  But like, look, all this healing I have.
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  And so she'll show them all that she'll go invisible.
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  She'll cast darkness and be like, you know, cast darkness.
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  I assume Igor would be like Oh my.
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  God, if you if you cast darkness, Igor would would
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  under. Zid.
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  Zid Zid. This isn't funny, Zid.
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  It's fine and she's invisible and like pops up behind him.
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  Like no, no, no, no, no, no. And one of my favorites that I'm
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  really not quite sure how it works, but I'm going to need one
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  of you to slap me. Esther does immediately.
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  And then as you were saying, we. Can't slap.
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  But Esther and then like a like hellish rebuke will like not
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  like happen to hurt them, but just get a little bit like.
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  I'll let yeah, you can. You can like I'll let you like
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  flare it up and like cancel it out for sure.
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  I'm. Not really sure how that one
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  works. Bouncing up and down on her feet
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  like holy shit this is so cool. And she says Zen.
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  Who would have thought you would be the biggest rebel I'd ever
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  know? I know, I know, and for the
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  longest time I thought there was something wrong with me, but
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  turns out with a little bit of control you can use big power
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  for good. I mean, do you ever miss the
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  light at all? No, I.
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  Well, and that's on growth period.
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  I miss, I miss my mom. I missed you guys so much.
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  I thought about you every day, but no, after I kind of heard
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  his voice for the first time, I kind of lost interest in the
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  light to be honest. All the teachings though, up
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  until having to pledge the light, those stuck around for
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  those are sticking around. Still very much working through
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  some stuff but. Honestly, a lot of it just lines
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  up right in land, like the destruction part that's that was
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  iffy. But like pure dedication to the
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  to the path. Absolutely.
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  She has it really, really strong commitment, willingness to go
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  without, which by us we're, I mean, we would love to have
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  stuff. Let's be clear.
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  Yeah, stuff would be nice. At the shadow where he could
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  turn it to a wolf. So yeah.
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  Recently I have been working out yes.
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  He's a shadow snake. Some have called him a devil,
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  but I just don't really subscribe to that.
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  What's? A dragon, currently a devil.
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  But so fun. Zid, Can I pet him?
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  Kuma. Igor just starts like scratching
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  like between the horns excuse. Me.
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  This is OK? Yeah, OK, OK.
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  OK. Would you please?
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  I I guess. You know, demons are devils
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  aren't so bad. Oh, definitely not a demon.
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  Demons suck. Yeah, demons suck.
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  Demons suck. Demons are what we're actually
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  kind of all surrounded with. Oh.
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  But Kuma is not that. He's not.
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  That no, he is my friend, my snaky little guy.
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  Red of Zid, I know that we have met when you were a spooky wolf.
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  Oh yes, I'm actually, well, it's not technically I'm the reason,
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  but I'm mostly the reason the candle burned down.
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  Yeah. You remember, Yeah.
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  When you wanted to escape from Claire Hazel.
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  I'm the reason that the. Oh, also, you heard me.
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  That was wild. Out of 1001 fucking voices in
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  the forest long time ago. You heard me.
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  You weren't crazy, kid. He was following us.
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  I didn't know at the time I did. Think you sounded familiar?
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  Is there any reason you didn't pick me?
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  Well, The thing is. It was just like gives akuma
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  look like. Talk your way out of this one.
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  Bad boy they go into. Well, destruction and
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  protection, it just doesn't kind of always line up, you know what
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  I mean? I wanted to change the world.
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  You wanted to be big and strong. I I could be destructive
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  destruction. Maybe No, you don't have to.
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  No punch. Is a pillow.
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  I'm not. Sure, that would have done the
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  trick against Rs Igor. Oh yeah, thanks for I mean I
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  don't think I was really wish I'll on too many people but Rs
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  sucked. There's no one holding any rules
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  over you now, Igor. So if at any point you're like,
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  maybe I shouldn't because don't worry about it, let it go.
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  And I count 11. You can count 11.
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  Igor immediately just starts 12345.
• 20:58
  Six. Yeah.
• 20:59
  Seven. Yeah. 8-9. 10-1 more fun. 11
• 21:05
  Wow. Wow, everyone, you're all so
• 21:09
  excited about that. That's really fucking.
• 21:11
  I mean, thank you. Yes, Would you please?
• 21:20
  I wish they could see your hand and how coordinated it looks
• 21:22
  into YouTube. I like tosses up a wood chip at
• 21:25
  the table. And see the flame, I can see the
• 21:27
  flame shoot out of my mouth. I can see it out of the like
• 21:29
  where it pops out of my. ANYWAYS, I think Cassie at some
• 21:33
  point Igor gets to a certain number and it kind of oddly
• 21:37
  coincidentally lines up with the amount of seconds away that Wish
• 21:41
  Beard is. Cassie says when he gets to that
• 21:44
  number, she says Igor run it back, do it in reverse.
• 21:48
  I I think he gets he gets this high as 27.
• 21:52
  It would get down to. 7. Cassie yells Ship Ho. 6543.
• 22:01
  It'll be 5. Two, everything will.
• 22:02
  Be fine What? I'm never counting over 10
• 22:11
  again. Off in the distance, astral
• 22:15
  waters ripple and split as the Bottle Breaker, an airship of
• 22:19
  dark timber and tattered Violet sails marked with a broken
• 22:23
  bottle, breaks through the domain's boundary.
• 22:27
  You see the lumbering galleon tilt, it's keel shifting in your
• 22:32
  direction, and in a matter of minutes the ship nears, tidling
• 22:38
  up alongside one of the massive Willow tree branches.
• 22:43
  I'd say you guys are only about like 1000 feet or so from the
• 22:46
  edge of the domain, so this thing makes its way pretty
• 22:50
  close. Do you guys make any sort of
• 22:51
  hostile looking movements or friendly looking movements?
• 22:55
  He is heading your direction as this ship veers towards you.
• 22:58
  Honestly I would love to think that parables out on one of the
• 23:01
  branches. Oh cool.
• 23:03
  Since Willow, would you mind making room for the ship?
• 23:06
  I I don't think we need to protect ourselves from this one.
• 23:09
  You feel for a moment it's stir at your words.
• 23:13
  Like, kind of like the parting branches of the Willow.
• 23:15
  Give me a arcana or nature check.
• 23:18
  I like arcana just with my change in like magic elements.
• 23:25
  Half wings don't get that one. You feel the tree rise in anger,
• 23:30
  as intruders have been. Yes, yes, just for a moment.
• 23:34
  That is just a 12. 12 is enough to allow the tree in its newborn
• 23:41
  states to address a threat. It doesn't have a voice yet.
• 23:44
  You, you've, you've heard Willow back in the Two wells.
• 23:47
  Commune with the Willow system in Two Wells.
• 23:49
  This one is more so a feeling. And that feeling rages for a
• 23:54
  second as intruders have been spotted within the domain.
• 23:57
  How did they get through? And then it recognizes,
• 23:59
  especially with you touching it, the bark somehow warms it like
• 24:03
  burns your fingertips kind of slightly as magic courses into
• 24:07
  your hand a little bit and it just does enough of your spell
• 24:10
  casting circuitry to like capture some sort of arcane
• 24:13
  fingerprint. The feeling I would imagine
• 24:15
  would be like hot halfway up the forearm or so and then cold and
• 24:19
  icy and then it just having back and forth as that feeling turns
• 24:24
  to tingles. I imagine my hand sinking into
• 24:27
  the bark for like a moment and when I release there's like a
• 24:29
  handprint and I. Totally.
• 24:32
  And with that Arcana check, you can tell that it just kind of
• 24:34
  again took your arcane fingerprint to match against
• 24:37
  what Wish Beard used as coordinates to get in.
• 24:42
  And you see someone waving your boomerang with I think you've
• 24:48
  written a letter of welcome. But the arcane signature was
• 24:51
  enough for them to allow them passage, and combined with the
• 24:55
  fact that you guys didn't rise up and try to fight them back,
• 24:58
  but they split the domain boundary.
• 25:01
  Even his name's Wishbeard. He shouldn't be able to break a
• 25:03
  boundary like that, but he was able to with your permission and
• 25:06
  especially with the the boomerang.
• 25:08
  Last thing, Willow get Cass and Zen up here and in in my head I
• 25:13
  think parables like what the fuck did I just do?
• 25:16
  But at the same time he raises a hand and says oy.
• 25:20
  Cassie and Zen, you are maybe perhaps like on a different part
• 25:24
  of the tree and I think you 3 are suddenly set on one of the
• 25:32
  more prominent branches that rises as a pseudo airship dock
• 25:37
  forms from these great massive Willow branches.
• 25:40
  I love the idea of the the tree shifting and the branches just
• 25:44
  like more than like teleporting like like the endless staircase
• 25:47
  type deal of branches picking you up and lifting you to
• 25:50
  places. I imagine not everywhere, but in
• 25:53
  some places you see Willow vines moving fully against gravity and
• 25:57
  and binding up into rope for this thing to tie itself off.
• 26:01
  It tries to repair as best as it can.
• 26:04
  Yeah, I think Parable goes up to one of the the Willow branches
• 26:07
  and absent mindedly wraps the shoe and pulls it tight.
• 26:11
  Like I didn't know he knew how to do that.
• 26:14
  I do have one question before I think Wishbeard announces
• 26:18
  himself. Is there a name that you guys
• 26:21
  have that you guys would say welcome to?
• 26:26
  There's something at the tip of my mind like.
• 26:27
  Callum's corridor. That's good.
• 26:30
  Or crossing Callum's crossing. Crossing.
• 26:34
  Because that's like, yeah, I like crossing because that it
• 26:37
  feels like getting the crossing of many things.
• 26:40
  The fate of of all the things in this area, I enjoy that.
• 26:44
  But also hopefully that it's like a potential beacon for
• 26:48
  dwellers or good people who are. Traveling.
• 26:50
  I feel like having something completely new like Callum's
• 26:54
  Crossing. Awesome.
• 26:56
  Well, honoring. But there's a Scotty's sanctuary
• 26:59
  in Callum's Crossing. We have a little building, we
• 27:01
  have a little building. It's got the emblem.
• 27:03
  On it. Sure.
• 27:03
  Absolutely. Absolutely.
• 27:04
  That's like the apples. Oh yeah, totally.
• 27:06
  That's like Dapples Menagerie. Oh yeah, yeah, it happens to be
• 27:10
  at the base of the rainbow. Just happens.
• 27:13
  It all comes together. A great honor to Callum Scotty
• 27:16
  Loughlin. But before you can offer your
• 27:19
  welcome, you hear a great booming voice boom from off the
• 27:24
  deck of this ship as you see many heads pop up on this crew,
• 27:29
  all of them unique in their own ways, Some of them unique in the
• 27:35
  way that they seem infused with the elements similar to Janossi
• 27:41
  but less obviously so. Others, you see, made more of
• 27:46
  mechanics as if they are part man, part steampunk, you see.
• 27:53
  Or Toonie. Give me a history check actually
• 27:57
  at that. I actually think what I would do
• 27:59
  in this moment if we started to see any elemental heads pop up,
• 28:02
  Nick's more. Do you know that what those are
• 28:05
  in the in the machine guys? I will give Nixon more a couple
• 28:09
  of checks too, if Maya and Sav one of those.
• 28:12
  Oh yeah. Just a screen check.
• 28:14
  Yeah, and you guys can add +4 black y'all?
• 28:19
  I got a 10. Morgan, A 17.
• 28:21
  Knicks got an 8 interesting with A10.
• 28:24
  It's just enough to realize probably not for tonight,
• 28:27
  because the most you know is like to enter the great machine
• 28:30
  is to forsake the flesh. Any flesh at all is just
• 28:34
  wouldn't be seen in a Fortuna. They would be of the great
• 28:37
  machine. So most people take that
• 28:40
  literally as if like people would would hide their skin like
• 28:45
  they wouldn't they wouldn't be showing it.
• 28:47
  But you see, these people are part machine and part knots, but
• 28:50
  they are definitely partly organic.
• 28:52
  So that doesn't hit true. You only know that you're wrong
• 28:55
  there, that they're not Fortuna. Nick's not enough to know
• 29:00
  exactly what they are, but you know they're not primals.
• 29:04
  They feel more akin to to man. They feel more akin to immortal,
• 29:09
  but somehow altered more. You understand that they are
• 29:14
  changed by something that you see has a symptom of the
• 29:19
  elements, but in and of itself is actually something more base.
• 29:24
  Maybe you've always had an inkling that there's something,
• 29:26
  there's something that like exists alongside the elements,
• 29:30
  which is called aura and how a world is filled with vital aura.
• 29:35
  Maybe you've always felt like this is part of what is wrong
• 29:38
  with the cycle, the fact that the world used to have a million
• 29:42
  bajillion amounts of different types of aura.
• 29:44
  Now it only has three fortune, fate, and favor that exists as
• 29:51
  these three. Like maybe you don't have those
• 29:54
  words for it. You just have this idea of like
• 29:56
  3 powers that kind of underlay the elements, that all elements
• 30:00
  could be made of these. If you had a word for it, they
• 30:03
  would be vital something. And then the word springs to
• 30:07
  mind. Vitali.
• 30:10
  Rap. Those vibes aren't from around
• 30:11
  here. Do you always have to do the
• 30:13
  bird thing? You can talk.
• 30:15
  They're a bird rap. Not, not well.
• 30:20
  Those marbs are from around here.
• 30:22
  Vitali. Vitali is what they is.
• 30:24
  Vitali they It sounds familiar. Rap.
• 30:27
  Vitali Rap. Vitali, next.
• 30:30
  Do you do you see anything? They're not one of me, that's
• 30:34
  all I know. I guess that's helpful.
• 30:38
  Yeah. This is it.
• 30:38
  I didn't. I don't know why I let them in.
• 30:40
  I just, it felt right. I think they're Vitali.
• 30:43
  I don't know what it means, but I guess we have a a welcome here
• 30:47
  to get ready for. Yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm really
• 30:50
  trusting you guys that this is a good thing.
• 30:53
  All my history points are not a good thing.
• 30:55
  But I once again, I believe you more than my history.
• 30:59
  Thanks. You were so excited yesterday.
• 31:03
  I mean, I am really excited. I'm just starting to realize the
• 31:05
  consequences of my decisions and I'm starting to get nervous.
• 31:08
  Yeah, I mean, you know, we have the Willow, we have all of our
• 31:12
  our friends here. This will be fine.
• 31:14
  This will be fine. We're like Dominari now.
• 31:16
  Like what's so pirate to Dominari, You know we're.
• 31:19
  So excited to meet him yesterday.
• 31:20
  Okuma. Says the parable.
• 31:22
  I I I still very excited. I think I'm just nervous.
• 31:26
  Getting a lot of trust in my mom's opinion.
• 31:29
  You know, I'm not sure if this is the right choice, but I'm
• 31:31
  hoping that my mom won't lead us stray.
• 31:33
  And she's a God, you know? If she trusts them.
• 31:37
  Yeah, what are we supposed to question?
• 31:39
  We get right? I mean, I this will be fine.
• 31:41
  I really think this will be fine.
• 31:43
  Yeah, we're all like, facing each other, not even looking at
• 31:45
  the show. Yeah.
• 31:46
  But Parable, I think you should lead, because wouldn't it be
• 31:49
  cool if a pirate thought that you were a leader, I mean.
• 31:54
  I guess I could pretend, OK. You're going to do great and
• 31:58
  she's like push the top. Button bro, top button bro,
• 32:00
  click, click click, click, open, close, open, close, open, close,
• 32:02
  turns around, salutes. He's just completely different
• 32:05
  to meet her. Just like big and tough.
• 32:09
  Awesome, you guys are fully ready to receive Wish Beard as
• 32:13
  you see many unique individuals pop up and over around the crew.
• 32:16
  You do also see Wish Beard himself make his way to the
• 32:21
  stern of the ship. Put a strong boot atop the side
• 32:24
  of the ship. And he looks towards you all.
• 32:27
  Avast Wishbeard is here to say hi once more to Lady Luck
• 32:32
  herself. If she's here, I heard she might
• 32:35
  be. Sir Wishbeard, I see you have
• 32:41
  received my boomerang. Yeah, yes, and welcome to one of
• 32:45
  the silver blood as well. I appreciate the warm, the warm
• 32:47
  send. He is like me so puffs his chest
• 32:52
  back up. Then his thumb charging his
• 32:53
  voice so it's way louder than it actually is.
• 32:56
  Welcome to Callums Crossing and I lean a hand way down and do a
• 33:00
  flourishing bow. A beautiful place it is.
• 33:03
  He hops off the ship, gives you guys like a big group hug and
• 33:07
  squeezes all three of you. This is great.
• 33:11
  Those are big arms, really big arms.
• 33:14
  That's a lot fast friends, huh? He does kind of seem to like
• 33:17
  grow in size as if a parable you've accepted your in nature a
• 33:21
  couple times and you 2 feel it within yourself to gain power.
• 33:24
  But he does it not out of violence, but out of like a want
• 33:28
  to exude more emphasis upon the act as he hugs you and he says.
• 33:33
  I fast friends we will be. I knew fate would be my friend.
• 33:37
  I knew it all. I think.
• 33:39
  Zariah, you are clear skies they call you, but clear skies I've
• 33:43
  not had in many a year. And today I feel it once more.
• 33:48
  She is with me. Parables hugging back, you know,
• 33:50
  like when people handshake and they try to do squeeze harder
• 33:52
  and harder. I think parables hugging as hard
• 33:55
  as he can around what like his door says.
• 33:58
  Did you say Soraya? Oh yes.
• 34:00
  Oh, a picture of the lass herself.
• 34:04
  Did you get the ball? I did.
• 34:06
  I did. I've wondered for years what was
• 34:08
  on that. You'll have to tell me.
• 34:13
  Just joking. I read it long ago.
• 34:15
  I didn't unstopper. I use magic.
• 34:17
  Don't be. I'm not an asshole.
• 34:18
  Don't you worry about that. But I, I saw when I saw that it
• 34:22
  was a ticket for trust. I appreciate it for what it was.
• 34:25
  And I I knew then that Tariah took me right.
• 34:28
  And she always had. But damn, that wizard is
• 34:31
  something special. Well, it seems like we have a
• 34:33
  lot to talk about, but how did you get through the storm?
• 34:36
  Can we start there? The the world is literally
• 34:39
  falling apart. How did you make it here?
• 34:41
  As he walks you off like this deck that you guys have created,
• 34:45
  he says. Mr. Roos, take it from here, if
• 34:48
  you would. And you hear a man who is one of
• 34:51
  the more clockwork people, and as you see him move and step to
• 34:56
  the stern and look back towards the deck, he said.
• 34:59
  Yes, Captain Wishbeard, I'll have it right for you.
• 35:01
  And he looks towards the crew and he says.
• 35:04
  All right, you scallywags, you get those ropes where they need
• 35:06
  to be and. The crew seems to situate itself
• 35:09
  well as Wishbier walked away and your question was.
• 35:13
  Sir, how did how did you make it through the storm?
• 35:16
  I well, I've been in the storm for much longer than these lands
• 35:20
  have been falling apart. I've been in the storm ever
• 35:22
  since the first great wishing. There's a way to survive out
• 35:25
  there. The under Astral is just like
• 35:27
  any space. It's no kind for strangers, but
• 35:31
  it's a place to explore for adventurers.
• 35:33
  That's be sure. And Soraya, she was one of the
• 35:34
  best, one of the best sailors of the under rational I've ever
• 35:37
  seen. So, have you encountered other
• 35:40
  worlds like ours? None that I could save.
• 35:44
  Oh, so you were trying to save that?
• 35:46
  Oh, that's good. OK.
• 35:47
  Is that why you're here? Well, I wasn't always trying to
• 35:50
  save them. I used to pillage them.
• 35:51
  So don't, don't I've I've many, many are wrongdoers.
• 35:53
  I believe, I know, I, I know that people can change for the
• 35:57
  good and for the better, and I believe that you are that.
• 35:59
  Is that why you're here? Oh no.
• 36:02
  Lad, before you guys enter the full tree, he says I should.
• 36:06
  Do one thing. He looks towards the crew and he
• 36:08
  says. Why am I here?
• 36:11
  Why are we here? To save the storm, tossed and
• 36:14
  fateless fools that find themselves without kith, kin,
• 36:17
  Ken nor keel Neath their feet. Well, space is no place for the
• 36:21
  weak of will, and wanting only for wonder, Wonder there is to
• 36:25
  be had that be true. Trouble is that it goes hand in
• 36:27
  hand with the most unknowable and ancient tares in the
• 36:30
  underverse. Breakers, what is our quest?
• 36:35
  You see, they all like lazily and informally, but very much in
• 36:39
  response and in unison. To bring a little luck and fate
• 36:42
  to the luckless, fateless bastards of the land apart,
• 36:45
  Captain, that'd be. It fateless bastards of the land
• 36:49
  apart. Sounds like to say Sam.
• 36:52
  Since like writing this down like.
• 36:54
  Oh, OK, taking notes. Terrible is kind of hearing the
• 36:58
  stories from the book well, and he's like, oh wow, Sir, Sir,
• 37:03
  Sir. Wish Beard.
• 37:04
  Did you ever meet Good Beard? Oh, he's a legend, my friend.
• 37:09
  He doesn't exist. I what?
• 37:11
  Oh. Sorry my friend.
• 37:13
  Well. Parable looks at him like Santa
• 37:14
  Claus is not real. He.
• 37:16
  Doesn't exist in this fragment. He might exist in another.
• 37:18
  That's what I'll tell you, but you're just a sliver of the
• 37:21
  world, my friend. It's I'm sorry, it's just, oh, I
• 37:24
  just the odds are aren't aren't likely.
• 37:27
  It's so nice to meet you. I was just really hoping to meet
• 37:31
  good beard. All right, he's real.
• 37:33
  He's just, I just don't like the man.
• 37:36
  He's just, he just doesn't do good business.
• 37:39
  He's not all that good. I'm good at the good.
• 37:41
  I knew it. I knew it.
• 37:43
  Yeah. Parables like a little unhelpful
• 37:46
  because he's kind of blushing and and really fawning over wish
• 37:51
  beard he's sitting too close. He's like really leaning into
• 37:55
  every word that he's saying and. He gets like like ice cold at
• 37:58
  one point again Parable just like garnering all the
• 38:01
  conversation that he like drops into storyteller mode, noticing
• 38:05
  that he's gotten your attention he's.
• 38:06
  Lost in well, space. We were.
• 38:08
  Oh, for years we were wandering the under Astral, avoiding Eldar
• 38:13
  where we could, biting them where we couldn't.
• 38:16
  Now we're here, ready to fix things straight.
• 38:19
  Excuse me. Just like Soraya said, clear
• 38:21
  skies there will be once more I'm.
• 38:23
  Sure you did. You said that you that you knew
• 38:25
  her. Like a sister.
• 38:27
  You had mentioned you were you were fighting what?
• 38:31
  All all all. Oh Eldari elder evils
• 38:34
  abominations you anythings of the abyss.
• 38:36
  The the bigger ones we call greater eldari are elder evils.
• 38:40
  Eldari is kind of a a nomer for all of them.
• 38:44
  You're not an Aldari, are you? No, definitely not.
• 38:47
  Again, not a fucking demon. Why does that wrong People with?
• 38:50
  Their demons. Oh, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.
• 38:51
  I'm sorry. But I sometimes they're like,
• 38:54
  OK, so he's throwing a lot of. Looks like a duck and quacks
• 38:57
  like a duck. He's he's throwing a lot of shit
• 38:59
  at you that I've been really hedging on for a long time.
• 39:02
  He's kind of blowing open the whole thing, like you guys just
• 39:05
  found out the world wasn't real. Are you are you jealous?
• 39:07
  Did you want to be the one to let me know?
• 39:08
  Well, the. You're not even surprised that I
• 39:11
  knew and didn't. You're not mad about that at
• 39:13
  all? You know, Akuma, there's a lot
• 39:14
  of things you haven't told me. I'm just again, accustomed to
• 39:17
  people lying to me at this point.
• 39:19
  It's a whole new personality trait of mine, I think.
• 39:21
  OK, so I was doing it to protect.
• 39:23
  I'm realizing that sucks. OK, I'm realizing that.
• 39:25
  Sucks a lot. Yeah.
• 39:26
  OK, yeah, and once again, information should be shared,
• 39:30
  but I understand your reasoning. I don't respect your reasoning,
• 39:34
  but I understand it. OK so can confirm we are in a
• 39:38
  fake world surrounded by the abyss.
• 39:40
  We're not in the material plane as most that doesn't make sense
• 39:45
  to you. We're not in a real world.
• 39:48
  To get to a real world we'd have to do a lot.
• 39:51
  Part of that involves saving this one.
• 39:54
  So when I said I wanted to change the world.
• 39:56
  I meant make the world. OK, so.
• 40:00
  Have we done that? No, but we changed it, which
• 40:02
  before it was impossible, and now we've got a fucking chance.
• 40:06
  The tiniest sliver fucking. Chance.
• 40:07
  OK, so I one might say knocked over the 1st.
• 40:12
  No Smokey guy Smokey. Guy I it is so funny to me that
• 40:20
  akuma all about destruction of a fake world and he just wanted to
• 40:26
  build something. Oh, I just wanted to just, I
• 40:27
  wouldn't. I literally want to destroy this
• 40:29
  one because this sucks. Like I just want to get to
• 40:31
  regular D&D guys. Yeah.
• 40:36
  And I think. Akuma.
• 40:38
  Because we don't, we don't hear this right.
• 40:40
  This is just going on between. Yeah, this is just in her head.
• 40:42
  I think a parable continues on and says Sir, I don't want to be
• 40:47
  rude, but you're by Tolly correct.
• 40:50
  Or at least your crew. I how'd you one of the blood?
• 40:54
  I can see it in you now. Something talked to you it.
• 40:57
  Just. One of your elemental voices,
• 40:59
  I'm sure. Oh my God, you know about the
• 41:01
  elemental voices? But are you flinched?
• 41:04
  I'm not crazy. No, yeah, but I mean, I, I speak
• 41:08
  to the stone. You're a little crazy.
• 41:11
  Did you hear that? No, your, your, your defense are
• 41:15
  your own. They are demons.
• 41:18
  They're not demons, Akuma says. Everyone getting things mixed
• 41:21
  up. He draws, he draws of he in his
• 41:26
  mind, he draws a picture of the the sliver of the world that
• 41:29
  you're on and demons all around it.
• 41:30
  And then he puts a big X around it.
• 41:32
  He says not. Here.
• 41:34
  OK, no, the demons. The demons haven't made their
• 41:36
  way here. Akuma really needed me to tell
• 41:38
  you that they're not here. They are out there though.
• 41:41
  Whispers is it? Is he mad at me or something?
• 41:43
  Akuma. No, he's just a little flustered
• 41:46
  right now. Okay, and I just continue on
• 41:52
  with which beard I say I didn't happen to know Soraya, but we in
• 41:58
  a way have her here and I look at Cass.
• 42:02
  Cass looks at Raya. Yeah, and then he's Ryan near
• 42:05
  us. I would say whatever chamber you
• 42:07
  guys kind of entered the great tree, the rest of the the crew
• 42:10
  is there awaiting whatever you guys want them to be.
• 42:13
  I imagine Raya has a tray of tea.
• 42:15
  OK, and like a a kettle. LA Million can't come down.
• 42:19
  He's still directing, clawed around.
• 42:20
  And you missed your spot over there, man.
• 42:23
  We're we're trying to do something here.
• 42:26
  He like slaps Volano to like settle, but you can tell that Le
• 42:30
  million was definitely the one that was starting shit and he
• 42:33
  says. Get get get in line.
• 42:35
  And then you see Claude behind him also step in formation as
• 42:39
  RYA steps out. I'm picturing Lavillian, like
• 42:42
  can't stop talking, like, all right, got to do the right
• 42:44
  things. I've got to be in the right
• 42:46
  spaces. This slaps, Vlado.
• 42:48
  All right, Vlado, calm down. I think, I think they do kind of
• 42:52
  all scatter to the rest of the places of the tree as RYA comes
• 42:55
  in and says, I think we've got enough people around.
• 43:00
  I'm going to go say hi to an old friend.
• 43:01
  I I think I'd like some privacy for the company.
• 43:03
  I think she just does like she doesn't want to handle this shit
• 43:05
  in front of Claude. She doesn't want to handle like
• 43:07
  she feels so many things. So she just like simplifies the
• 43:10
  situation and kind of sends people about their business and
• 43:12
  people listen immediately because it's a woman made of
• 43:15
  stars. She looks first towards you all
• 43:17
  and then approaches Wish Beard with like a tray and kettle of
• 43:21
  tea. And then as if something takes
• 43:23
  over her, she attacks him. And it seems like an attack
• 43:27
  until Wish Beard kind of goes with it.
• 43:29
  And let's see who gets the better of one another.
• 43:31
  That is Wish Beard and it's a it's a nine on a nine for the
• 43:36
  first roll, but. It's getting a little.
• 43:38
  There. And.
• 43:40
  Sister Dapple with a worm line moment.
• 43:42
  It it honestly does look like sister sister vibes because Raya
• 43:46
  goes to like kick his ass. It's not like cute cuddly like
• 43:49
  she goes to truly fight this guy and like go like moves to hit
• 43:52
  him in the head with the kettle as whish beard holds up a hand
• 43:56
  and a breeze of wind blocks it for a moment and he brings up
• 44:00
  another fist of stone and goes to punch at Raya's face.
• 44:04
  Raya, It's drifts underneath the stone fist that would crush a
• 44:09
  column of steel. This continues for a few bouts.
• 44:12
  They're sparring exactly and to the point where they slide apart
• 44:18
  to different parts of the room and they point at each other
• 44:20
  with finger gun and they say. Ah, you bastard, so.
• 44:24
  Whispered sorry, sorry, there's no roughhousing.
• 44:26
  No, no rough. Wait, is this OK?
• 44:28
  I. Think they're friends?
• 44:30
  OK, well terrible's like up on stool, the hands out and stop
• 44:35
  signs up to each side. RYA says breath is bad as
• 44:38
  always, but you still fight like the best.
• 44:41
  I excuse me, what be your name? I have to ask.
• 44:46
  You can't be Saraya. I know that she's in the sky.
• 44:49
  Well, it's it's RYA. That was fun.
• 44:53
  I think I know her a little bit better now.
• 44:55
  And she looks towards you, Cassie, in like a moment of
• 44:58
  pride. It reminds Cassie so much of
• 45:00
  roughhousing with her mom when she was young, like that same
• 45:03
  playful energy. And so Cassie was probably just
• 45:05
  standing there, starry eyed, for lack of a better term, admiring
• 45:10
  and appreciating just the light hearted playfulness that was
• 45:13
  coming out of Raya in those moments.
• 45:15
  Totally. And probably solidifying a
• 45:19
  deeper sense of trust in Wishbeard, at least for now.
• 45:22
  Awesome. Anything else as Wishbeard and
• 45:26
  just settled down from the fight and the conversation.
• 45:29
  Wishbeard kind of looks towards you all and says well I have
• 45:33
  much to say, but if you have anything to say first.
• 45:36
  I'll hear it. Before there's any more rough
• 45:38
  housing. Oh, it's not rough housing, boy.
• 45:41
  It's practice. It's just a little bit of
• 45:42
  practice. It was out of nowhere, but
• 45:44
  that's fine a little. Bit of sparring my friend.
• 45:47
  You tell me you never had a fight with a friend in the
• 45:49
  morning. Thinks of Igor.
• 45:51
  Maybe I will, and Parable is going to ask.
• 45:56
  I guess before you tell us anything, this whole journey for
• 45:58
  us started trying to protect this world that apparently
• 46:02
  doesn't exist. And we saw the star fall.
• 46:06
  We saw places that we were considering going save.
• 46:10
  Are they even? Are they even still there?
• 46:11
  Oh boy. If you can think of them,
• 46:13
  they're there. Especially if you can't think of
• 46:15
  them, then they've disappeared. What?
• 46:17
  Is there anything that you can't think of?
• 46:20
  I think Parable's actually really good at this and.
• 46:22
  Oh interesting, this is fun. He opens the good book and
• 46:25
  thinks of things he can't think of.
• 46:26
  Give me an intelligent saving throw.
• 46:30
  That's just a 10. 10 is just enough to save I think and and
• 46:35
  get it. OK.
• 46:36
  Cool, you've you've run through the index and there's not.
• 46:38
  There's no missing spaces. I think I'd go through the
• 46:40
  people that I I kind of feel first like the two wells mojo.
• 46:44
  I if you can name them, they're there, my friend.
• 46:46
  If you can't, then they've been lost to the globe.
• 46:49
  That's but that's another we're getting much too far ahead.
• 46:53
  Yeah, well, I guess all we have to do now is hear your story.
• 46:57
  It's a good one. Yeah, we can.
• 47:00
  We can all get comfortable, I guess, since since like writing
• 47:04
  a chair that was knocked over while they were sparring and
• 47:06
  like pulling the table back to the center and kind of
• 47:09
  organizing things. So great.
• 47:11
  Any other notes as you guys settle up around to listen to
• 47:14
  Wish Beard's story and. Get in about school position.
• 47:18
  Zen is going to minor illusion a map onto the table, kind of like
• 47:22
  a hologrammy map of what she knows, kind of like what Brick
• 47:26
  saw earlier. War table.
• 47:28
  Yeah, just to like, So this is what we know of our, excuse me,
• 47:32
  of our knot world. And yeah, maybe as maybe you can
• 47:36
  make it make more sense as as you tell us more.
• 47:39
  A knot world. Beautiful, you see like.
• 47:41
  KNOT, but also I don't. Think oh shit not.
• 47:45
  World there is an odd level of distortion amongst your minor
• 47:50
  illusion as you've created it as Brick sees it falling apart and
• 47:54
  at times like elongating into almost like ripping like strands
• 47:57
  of land. But you capture all the slivers
• 48:00
  of domains that are present within the Land of Fate, as well
• 48:02
  as the big two massive powers of the Lands of Fortune and Favor.
• 48:06
  A. Few branches come down and plug
• 48:08
  into the table to keep the illusion going on its own.
• 48:11
  As Wishbeard brings you all in. First story, What tells you my
• 48:17
  story? What is it, you ask?
• 48:22
  I was there. I was there when the Wizards 3
• 48:26
  spoke their wishes. I was there upon the deck of the
• 48:30
  Oath Singer. Most beautiful ship I've ever
• 48:33
  had. I was there as they argued
• 48:36
  amongst themselves. I was there as their apprentices
• 48:40
  watched alongside me. I don't have a crew then, just
• 48:44
  me and my lonesome out in those under ass for waters.
• 48:48
  I watched them look upon the sky.
• 48:50
  Very, very similar to the one that I see now above me.
• 48:54
  Really no sky at all. Then they came to a decision.
• 48:58
  I watched them step back. Play your skies.
• 49:02
  Looks towards you Cassie Soraya. Prettiest wizard I ever did
• 49:08
  meet. Wizard of luck she was.
• 49:10
  So she wished for it. She wished to give this world
• 49:14
  the luck it needed. Next up was that silver haired
• 49:17
  fellow. A Wizard of time it said.
• 49:19
  I don't know his name but. He wished too.
• 49:22
  For something that made sense for him.
• 49:24
  A little more time for the world to prepare.
• 49:27
  Now when the third one came in, the Wizard of Wish, a Violet
• 49:30
  skin man, Demjian like myself, like you.
• 49:34
  Look towards you parable. They were surprised at his wish.
• 49:39
  Instead of wishing for anything for the world, he wished to give
• 49:43
  them the power they needed, not the world.
• 49:48
  The first two wizard had offered up their wishes for the people,
• 49:51
  for everyone. Wish took the reins of those two
• 49:57
  and not only undid them, but use them.
• 50:07
  That change of one word unravelled the building energy
• 50:10
  between them. I wasn't ready for this, none of
• 50:13
  them were. But in that moment, Thrai looked
• 50:16
  at me and she winked and she threw me that bottle.
• 50:21
  So even if she couldn't stop it, I have to believe that she, in
• 50:25
  part, saw it coming. Because what happened next was
• 50:28
  terrible. A powerful, twisted and
• 50:31
  distorted thing. The corrupted wish emanated a
• 50:35
  dark and oppressive aura. The looks of shock on time and
• 50:39
  Luck's faces, those were real. They made attempts to stop it.
• 50:44
  Even Luck, who gave me a look for a moment.
• 50:46
  She did her best at the end of it.
• 50:49
  This just said something and I couldn't get near.
• 50:51
  None of us could not through the Gale.
• 50:53
  All he said was I'm afraid we must ascend.
• 50:58
  And with that he gathered up the energies around them.
• 51:02
  They disappeared. I found myself without a ship
• 51:07
  drifting in the under Astral. Wasn't until my man effects.
• 51:11
  The ruse found me sailing the ship Bottle Breaker and they
• 51:15
  gave me the aid that I needed. And all those words about Soraya
• 51:21
  saying that giving a little bit of help to somebody else might
• 51:23
  feel better than taking Darn makes sense.
• 51:27
  Oh, and I'd had this by then. And he kind of trails a hand
• 51:30
  through what is at times a dull white and rainbow colored beard
• 51:37
  on his face. But here it lights to like wish
• 51:40
  fire. As if.
• 51:42
  I had this, but the crew that came from a little bit of fate
• 51:47
  and luck. So from then on, I decided
• 51:50
  that's Raya. She was a friend the whole time.
• 51:53
  Yes, we'd had our mixed ways, but by the end of it, she was a
• 51:56
  true friend indeed. He'd give me a new ship, new
• 51:59
  life. I have to believe that that wink
• 52:01
  meant that where I'm standing, this is the best path I could
• 52:05
  have been. How long was that?
• 52:08
  The stupid question my friend. Not in the under Astral pawn
• 52:12
  doesn't exist. Not in the way you want it to.
• 52:13
  That's what I mean. It doesn't seem like this was as
• 52:17
  far in the past for you as it might be here.
• 52:20
  Correct on that my friend. Both longer than you could ever
• 52:23
  know, but also like it happened yesterday.
• 52:25
  And the under astral pain stays with you until you are out of
• 52:28
  it. That's the thing.
• 52:30
  It builds and it builds and it builds and it builds and boy am
• 52:33
  I happy to be rid of it. So, Mr. Wishpeard, Sir, so we
• 52:40
  know how Soraya or you said wizard, wizard luck.
• 52:44
  Yes, let's not speak her name in good company.
• 52:46
  Yes, the goddess sign I would. Believe that we're safe here or
• 52:49
  not. I don't think those those other
• 52:51
  two could find her. So that's right, the other two.
• 52:54
  So we know how the Goddess sign affected our world.
• 52:57
  How, How did? How did wish and and Luck come
• 53:01
  to play? Well, it seems like Wish is the
• 53:03
  one that made them gods. I That is how it played out.
• 53:06
  Soraya spoke against it. I I heard her several times say
• 53:10
  that the gods had fled for a reason.
• 53:12
  Being gods wouldn't solve no problem that they couldn't solve
• 53:15
  as morals. OK, So what?
• 53:18
  Whatever happened to to time? He ascended along with them.
• 53:23
  But if, if Soraya can affect, I'm sorry, the goddess sign can,
• 53:26
  can affect can affect us down here.
• 53:29
  What? What did?
• 53:30
  What did time do? Well for the longest time they
• 53:34
  were fighting waves in the under astral.
• 53:36
  With each clash, they'd ripple. Cassie.
• 53:40
  He talks more about these ripples and they like line up
• 53:43
  with your scientific discoveries.
• 53:45
  Even though the star never moved the the rest of the cosmos
• 53:48
  reacted as if it had been sending out this sort of energy.
• 53:52
  These pulses of conflict within the star didn't show signs of
• 53:56
  breaking up other than cosmic seismograph type data.
• 54:02
  He was able to see that well. Every clash, the sky changed.
• 54:07
  I can't believe the facade kept as long as it did, but time,
• 54:12
  bastard. He gave this world time.
• 54:13
  That's what he did. I have to believe that he took a
• 54:16
  big slice of it for himself. I saw Domain right bigger than
• 54:21
  this on my way in. Well, honestly, he gave us as
• 54:24
  much as we needed. We made it safely.
• 54:27
  How did the gods shape the world?
• 54:29
  I mean, I think that might be what Zen's asking it.
• 54:33
  I'm just, it's hard to think in knowing the gods in any way
• 54:37
  because if they made this reality, even if it's fake,
• 54:41
  there's so much pain and distortion.
• 54:45
  I It just makes me angry. But but without the time we we
• 54:51
  wouldn't have been able to achieve what we achieved to save
• 54:54
  to save the world. But why?
• 54:56
  I know they're trying. It seems like they're just
• 54:58
  trying to help, but I guess I'm just frustrated that we're in
• 55:03
  the world that we were in and they could have helped.
• 55:08
  I they they tried but. Cassie, I think in this moment,
• 55:12
  the letter that Soraya sent you of Be braver, be better, we did
• 55:16
  our best might ring in your mind.
• 55:18
  But that's right though that they seem like they've been in
• 55:20
  conflict ever since they ascended, so I don't know what
• 55:23
  wish was possibly thinking. I don't think parables had those
• 55:26
  validations yet. So he's just finding a little
• 55:29
  bit of frustration and anger looking up to this idol that's
• 55:32
  telling him these things and just having a really real moment
• 55:35
  as the world's ending of like, was it worth even trying to
• 55:38
  save? I know that we all these puzzle
• 55:40
  pieces have been laid out for us, but I trust you because of
• 55:42
  what we experienced. Well, and also feeling
• 55:44
  manipulated, like thinking that we were doing this great thing
• 55:47
  and now all of a sudden it's like, oh.
• 55:50
  We followed the rabbit down the hole.
• 55:52
  We followed the rabbit down the hole.
• 55:56
  Maybe achieving the status or that having the title of God
• 56:01
  doesn't necessarily give you all the answers.
• 56:05
  And as frustrating as it is, maybe by the time they ascended,
• 56:09
  it was too late for them to realize that the good work and
• 56:14
  the impact that they could have might be better done from where
• 56:18
  we stand. I don't think we should give
• 56:21
  them that choice, but I think you're right.
• 56:22
  I heard Psoriah say much the same.
• 56:24
  I heard your mother repeat these arguments at them for hours.
• 56:28
  Well, I know that I definitely would do it differently.
• 56:31
  Parable looks down. I wouldn't give us power.
• 56:34
  I'd give everyone power and he like really embodies the idea of
• 56:39
  doing this and what he would have done, but he finds grace
• 56:42
  for how they tried to do it, I think.
• 56:44
  Which beer looks at you and says careful lad, and you realize
• 56:47
  that your form is kind of been like turning to mist and flame
• 56:51
  at the edges. Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
• 56:53
  I'm still not used to the tail. I mean the legs disappear and
• 56:57
  you just have. But no, that's that's not normal
• 57:00
  my friend. Oh, when you meditate and float,
• 57:02
  you don't get a tail. No, it's that might be your one
• 57:06
  of your inner elemental voices fucking with you.
• 57:08
  It's. Just been Nick's flaming parable
• 57:12
  is just really caught in the idea that we're in the cycle of
• 57:17
  people trying to help and how he would he would do it
• 57:19
  differently. Now here's the thing, I'll tell
• 57:22
  you that as a sailor of the Under Astral, I was once a
• 57:27
  pirate pillaging other fragments of worlds fall into the abyss
• 57:31
  because I believe that none could be born through the root.
• 57:35
  We called the Under Astral because that's what we're under
• 57:38
  the root of. All things said that true
• 57:41
  existent lies above. I hope to know one day.
• 57:45
  Is there any way to the real through whatever's?
• 57:50
  It's through the wells, but that's where the elder evils
• 57:54
  love to stay. So there's two ways to survive
• 57:58
  in the under astral. It's either hunting elder evils
• 58:01
  be pronounced for elder goods. Or.
• 58:04
  Pilgene other worlds, and for the longest time I did the
• 58:08
  latter with Soraya. That made me believe that worlds
• 58:12
  could be saved and the world could be solidified.
• 58:15
  Big enough, strong enough, bright enough, brought through
• 58:19
  the roof. Born in decoration.
• 58:23
  We have no gods down here. We have no deities to help.
• 58:26
  We have you. Sorry.
• 58:30
  What are you by the way? Oh, hello, you're right.
• 58:34
  So I'm Zen. This is parable, this is cast
• 58:36
  and we are witch hunters of the third.
• 58:38
  Well, and we just recently acquired new witch hunters.
• 58:44
  So we are actually growing our LLC and it's more now the witch.
• 58:49
  Hunter Collective, you might say.
• 58:51
  Yes, we've come together and it's going to really be
• 58:54
  something we really, I really believe in it.
• 58:56
  You're making it sound like an MLM.
• 58:58
  Oh, yeah, no. So I came from one of those, but
• 59:02
  this is this is different and I'll tell you why it's just.
• 59:07
  Like goes into the differences in our.
• 59:09
  Hectic girls out terms and conditions yeah like akuma keeps
• 59:12
  saying you're really not helping you're.
• 59:13
  Really just selling just like more MLM.
• 59:17
  No, it's different, Akuma. I think it's just the.
• 59:20
  I think it's just the conditioning you've had.
• 59:22
  So I think Zen Two would say like, so if we can get our world
• 59:25
  bright enough and good enough, could we go through the well or
• 59:29
  is our our not world not? Not anymore.
• 59:33
  This one's broken. OK, so.
• 59:34
  Bits and string my friend bits and string a little less but.
• 59:38
  That's awfully pessimistic. It could be made whole once
• 59:41
  again. Oh, there you go.
• 59:45
  Cassie might jump in and say she's trying to marry.
• 59:49
  Two thoughts that seem to keep coming out of Wish Beard's
• 59:51
  mouth. Being that Soraya believed that
• 59:56
  we could work together to save our world and that the
• 1:00:01
  alternative to pillaging is fighting or defeating under evil
• 1:00:06
  elder evils. But within the under astral he
• 1:00:10
  basically elder evils and under astral.
• 1:00:12
  So are those two things the same?
• 1:00:14
  Was Soraya's belief that that was our other option or are they
• 1:00:18
  two different ideologies? You were speaking more towards
• 1:00:21
  just surviving in the under ash role and how well space is an
• 1:00:25
  incredibly dangerous space because it's so you could either
• 1:00:29
  eldritch abominations that you could risk your life and hunt
• 1:00:33
  down and thus protect because they're always hunting world
• 1:00:37
  fragments. So it's.
• 1:00:38
  Pillage or pillage? It's it's pillage or pillage,
• 1:00:40
  but it's pillage for the good of worlds or pillage for the good
• 1:00:44
  of yourself at the at the cost of other dying worlds.
• 1:00:47
  Right. It really does seem like some
• 1:00:49
  sentience or sapiens in a giant ocean of raw magic that will
• 1:00:54
  eventually be reality is like pretty.
• 1:00:57
  Yeah, it just. And it feels like it's.
• 1:00:59
  Worlds trying to form and there is an ecosystem where there are
• 1:01:03
  predators upon these newly forming worlds.
• 1:01:07
  As Cassie pinpointed last session, the gods are doing no
• 1:01:11
  different than you guys are as a domain just protecting against
• 1:01:14
  that chaos and calamity that wants to destroy the world.
• 1:01:18
  That's not normal. Y'all like space doesn't want to
• 1:01:21
  destroy us. Yeah, entropy is a thing in the
• 1:01:22
  in the universe, but like, do you guys exist in a material
• 1:01:26
  plane that doesn't have typical spatial connections within the
• 1:01:30
  multiverse? Yeah, I'm imagining like a like
• 1:01:33
  a primordial soup with these fragments that are forming and
• 1:01:36
  collecting. You know, it's like the way
• 1:01:37
  gravity does in space or something like that.
• 1:01:39
  But then there's an ecosystem that like, well, that's our food
• 1:01:42
  totally. That kind of keeps that churning
• 1:01:44
  and waiting for things that can survive and maybe iterate
• 1:01:47
  totally. Survival of the goodest.
• 1:01:50
  Yeah, Sin was fucking. Built for this.
• 1:01:57
  It feels like there are sort of a lot of holes to be poked in
• 1:02:00
  Wish beard stories and I can't help but wonder if he's sort of
• 1:02:04
  gotten swept away with the spirit of adventure.
• 1:02:08
  And maybe not everything he's saying is over exaggerated or a
• 1:02:11
  false assumption, but even him saying like there are no gods
• 1:02:15
  here. Look at the Dragons and their
• 1:02:18
  relationship that they have to this planet.
• 1:02:20
  Like, I don't know, it just seems like he's got these, you
• 1:02:23
  know, he's he subscribes to a religion just like everyone else
• 1:02:27
  here on this planet. And maybe maybe it's not all
• 1:02:30
  right. Yeah, I think he does kind of
• 1:02:32
  seem have not necessarily simple minded, but simple minded in
• 1:02:35
  terms of goal in the way that his goal was to get here to
• 1:02:39
  follow this path. That's right.
• 1:02:40
  I said not set him on. And he's going to assume that
• 1:02:42
  things are just going to keep on working out.
• 1:02:45
  There are no gods. And it's just since he's had
• 1:02:48
  fate, it's been going well. So he's going to keep on
• 1:02:50
  following that and try to get to the real.
• 1:02:52
  To have fate. To have fate.
• 1:02:55
  All of you, including me, are fightless luckless bastard in
• 1:03:00
  these fightless, luckless lions, and it wasn't until Soraya, the
• 1:03:03
  Wizard of Luck, that we had a little bit of it.
• 1:03:06
  Well, I know that we're not Wizards, but if we wanted to,
• 1:03:11
  considering that they rose to being gods and shape the world,
• 1:03:17
  is there a way that we could hold this world together?
• 1:03:21
  I but I think you'll need to do a couple things.
• 1:03:26
  Zen loves a checklist. I do love a checklist.
• 1:03:29
  I also want a role for. Get em.
• 1:03:34
  I'm not quite. Sure, I guess it would maybe be
• 1:03:37
  history or religion. Wish Beard saying the sentiment
• 1:03:41
  basically of we are only here because of Soraya.
• 1:03:45
  We are only here because of the goddess sign Zen is getting.
• 1:03:48
  We are only here because of the light.
• 1:03:49
  Must plunge everything to the light vibes.
• 1:03:52
  And. Wants to do some sort of check
• 1:03:54
  of like, right? How's that hanging?
• 1:03:55
  Yeah, everyone give me insight on this guy that's like been so
• 1:03:58
  boisterous and excitable. 10/17 for Cassie 24.
• 1:04:06
  Nice. Like, Zen's kind of just
• 1:04:07
  sweating, right? Like getting maybe a little
• 1:04:08
  like, oh shit, oh, like we've, I, I, I had all my energy in one
• 1:04:13
  thing and then I removed it and I just put it back in the same
• 1:04:15
  thing over here, like just like. He looks at you in a certain
• 1:04:18
  angle and you get Spell Beard in your brain much more than Wish
• 1:04:21
  Beard. And Cassie, with your insight, I
• 1:04:25
  think you're kind of nail on the head with the fact that he seems
• 1:04:28
  to be offering a lot in terms of answers.
• 1:04:32
  But with that insight, you can see that he's looking for
• 1:04:35
  answers. Yeah, he's overcompensating,
• 1:04:37
  right? He's overcompensating, trying to
• 1:04:39
  like he doesn't want to make it seem as if he doesn't believe in
• 1:04:43
  you guys like the outdoor. So set against you and Parable
• 1:04:47
  with that check, I think you can tell that he's fanning the
• 1:04:50
  flames just as Cassie feels you feel elementally so as he's like
• 1:04:54
  almost working himself up to make it believable and possible.
• 1:04:58
  It's even to him. I think the 17 and the 24 are
• 1:05:01
  enough for Cassie and Parable to understand that he does not
• 1:05:04
  believe it to be possible. It's just something that Soraya
• 1:05:07
  said to him once. It's just something that someone
• 1:05:10
  said to him and then after a series of circumstances being
• 1:05:14
  lost in the under rash role, he somehow got out of that and has
• 1:05:18
  to believe that the woman that told him it was possible for
• 1:05:22
  them to reach the real and got him out of the situation.
• 1:05:25
  He has to believe it, so he's forcing himself to believe it.
• 1:05:29
  Can I cast detect thoughts on him?
• 1:05:32
  Yes, I believe detects thoughts is a self cast that you get
• 1:05:35
  surface level thoughts even just initially.
• 1:05:37
  So do you want to look deeper or do you want to surface level?
• 1:05:41
  It has two components. It has sense thoughts and read
• 1:05:43
  thoughts. Cool and read thoughts is what I
• 1:05:46
  would attempt. Awesome, let's do.
• 1:05:48
  Read Thoughts then. Cool, it's a wisdom saving
• 1:05:51
  through a 14 that will save. So you are only going to get
• 1:05:57
  some surface thoughts here. OK.
• 1:05:59
  And I think those surface thoughts are much in line with
• 1:06:04
  what he is giving in terms of energy.
• 1:06:06
  Cool. OK, One slight difference is the
• 1:06:09
  fact that you pick up on just evidence that he is fanning his
• 1:06:12
  own flames, that he's working himself up.
• 1:06:16
  You catch one line of thought in his brain where he says.
• 1:06:18
  You've got to make him believe it, you've got to make yourself
• 1:06:22
  believe it and you can see that he's struggling.
• 1:06:25
  A little bit of a show, but it seems to be for the good of
• 1:06:28
  y'all. Can I ask one more clarifying
• 1:06:30
  question? Absolutely.
• 1:06:32
  Earlier when Wishbeard started telling his story very early on,
• 1:06:36
  after you had mentioned how each wizard had made their wishes, I
• 1:06:40
  think you said a line, something along the lines of with one
• 1:06:45
  word. With the switching of one word,
• 1:06:47
  everything changed. Can you go back and remind me
• 1:06:51
  what that was referring to? Maybe misspeaking a little bit
• 1:06:54
  because it wasn't necessarily one single word, it was the fact
• 1:06:58
  that Wish rephrase his wish to be for himself.
• 1:07:02
  So wishing for us rather than them.
• 1:07:06
  Wishing for the power for us to protect the world rather than
• 1:07:10
  wishing for them to have the power to protect the world.
• 1:07:13
  Them being them being the gods or whoever was out there
• 1:07:15
  already. Them being the populace of the
• 1:07:17
  world, from every villager and every child, everyone, everyone
• 1:07:21
  upon these lands. Instead, he wished for the
• 1:07:24
  Wizards. 3 Thank you of course. Yeah, I know that we're not
• 1:07:29
  Wizards, but I think we could do it.
• 1:07:31
  I do pull out Brick and I say I don't know what it means still
• 1:07:35
  to be Dominari, but if we have anything in us to just reshape
• 1:07:41
  this world enough to travel, you think we could?
• 1:07:45
  I look at, I look at everyone, not just Wish beard.
• 1:07:47
  I look at like Raya and Zen and Cass.
• 1:07:52
  I think Zen continues to look around the room too, Like
• 1:07:55
  absorbing it, like the thought of leaving again.
• 1:08:02
  Yeah, and wondering at least for Cassie, like, is there more out
• 1:08:07
  there to be saved? Or is our world now just these
• 1:08:10
  people? Like, is it, is it worth leaving
• 1:08:15
  this world, this version of our current world, our current
• 1:08:18
  bubble behind? I I see three options as it be,
• 1:08:22
  Ryan says. I see 2.
• 1:08:24
  But go ahead. Well, oddly, I missed you, sassy
• 1:08:29
  lass. I see three Hazard one.
• 1:08:33
  We make a. Claim for the other lands and we
• 1:08:35
  conquer them, Ryan says. I knew you were just here and
• 1:08:37
  said we're not doing that one. We're not.
• 1:08:39
  We're not conquering people one by one.
• 1:08:41
  Well. Sorry it's just I just thought
• 1:08:44
  it would be fun as all. Or, as our little missus said
• 1:08:49
  here, pointing towards Cassie, we could make a break to the
• 1:08:52
  root. Leave this all behind, perhaps
• 1:08:56
  Sign all she wanted to give us was a chance.
• 1:08:59
  We have that. Perhaps this world, this tiny
• 1:09:02
  fragment, perhaps it would be enough.
• 1:09:05
  I could never know, but it would be dangerous.
• 1:09:09
  The 3rd and clearest option I see is to fly up there, find the
• 1:09:14
  wizard wish, bring him down back to mortal life.
• 1:09:19
  I know I've got a well of power on my ship, enough to feed my
• 1:09:23
  crew favor and fortune or our our food these days.
• 1:09:28
  But it's also the blood of the gods so that I think we could
• 1:09:32
  take them with power enough power of wishes, power of favor,
• 1:09:36
  power of fortune. Fortunately, Taraya seems to
• 1:09:39
  have given all of our power back to these lions.
• 1:09:41
  But. So she's not up there anymore.
• 1:09:44
  Not that I can sense her in time.
• 1:09:46
  I I I sense the residue of but I have to believe that's just a
• 1:09:53
  taste of a meal after it's been eaten.
• 1:09:55
  That's a terrible metaphor, given our last five days.
• 1:09:59
  Oh, I didn't. Did you tell me about that?
• 1:10:03
  Yeah. A lot of hunger, a lot of power,
• 1:10:06
  Yeah. Really just a lot of absorbing
• 1:10:08
  things. All the screens.
• 1:10:09
  Can I get a drink by the way? Tea.
• 1:10:13
  I've got cinnamon plum Wish Beard share some tea with you
• 1:10:17
  guys. Do you guys have any other
• 1:10:18
  questions for him? It's all many.
• 1:10:21
  I mean, yeah. So many parable's been
• 1:10:23
  surreptitiously playing with Brick.
• 1:10:25
  He's been reshaping to the weirdness that's going on.
• 1:10:28
  He can't really formulate what's going on around us.
• 1:10:30
  I do know we have our little spot and stuff, but I try anyway
• 1:10:35
  and I'll roll for this. But I want to try to open Brick.
• 1:10:38
  Give me a sleight of hand, Arcana or religion.
• 1:10:43
  That's the 14. You just don't get it.
• 1:10:46
  I mean, you get, you get. Kinson cast guidance.
• 1:10:49
  I'll use a luck point. OK, luck, luck point.
• 1:10:51
  And guidance. Let's see what you get.
• 1:10:53
  Just kind of comes over and like, puts her hand on Parable's
• 1:10:55
  shoulder as he's playing brick. Total of 17. 17 is unfortunately
• 1:11:01
  still not enough. You get to these points of
• 1:11:03
  frustration where you feel like you're just about to get it and
• 1:11:07
  always, like before, you'd have to force it.
• 1:11:09
  And when you force it, it just doesn't always work the best
• 1:11:12
  later. So yeah, you get to these points
• 1:11:14
  of of infallibility that you're just not quite able to slip
• 1:11:17
  past. I can't use another look point,
• 1:11:19
  can I? I mean, you could, yeah, I guess
• 1:11:21
  if you. Want burn them?
• 1:11:22
  Yeah, let me use one more. Oh Jesus Christ, what's my last
• 1:11:27
  one then? 18 I could.
• 1:11:33
  Cast guidance again. Yeah, guidance stays up.
• 1:11:35
  Guidance is a concentration cast.
• 1:11:37
  Yeah, I I think it looks like parables almost like sweating
• 1:11:40
  trying to get this old puzzle that he he said he he glows
• 1:11:43
  every time that and like the time almost kind of skips back
• 1:11:46
  for him totally. This is DC 20 so.
• 1:11:48
  DC-20. Where are you at right now?
• 1:11:50
  18 at the time roll. D4.
• 1:11:55
  The three on the D4. Nice, with a 21 you are
• 1:11:59
  definitely able to open brick here as you what's it like
• 1:12:04
  physically as Parable manipulates Brick in this way.
• 1:12:08
  I think I just tried to zone out because the pieces keep moving
• 1:12:12
  and instead of trying to find anything stationary I just kind
• 1:12:15
  of let them move and push them in momentum around.
• 1:12:17
  Instead of like a Rubik's Cube, it feels more like a globe.
• 1:12:20
  You're moving things across. And when it starts to split, I
• 1:12:23
  twist it and I think I see like magical roots for a second, kind
• 1:12:28
  of climb out and vanish and I look inside brick.
• 1:12:35
  As if air escaping from a capsule.
• 1:12:39
  Tiny, tiny, tiny at the very center of brick.
• 1:12:42
  A place that you've always just assumed to be 1 solid, full
• 1:12:45
  mechanism. At its heart, it's actually 2.
• 1:12:48
  And as you crack that open just slightly, finding the perfect or
• 1:12:53
  graded grooves to slide apart, invisible lines suddenly appear
• 1:12:59
  as you break it open. And inside you find a seed oddly
• 1:13:06
  charged with a dark energy. Seeming.
• 1:13:11
  Broken in part, but also full of life.
• 1:13:16
  You're seeing like a flickering, flickering light, the dying
• 1:13:20
  ember of a something that could be great in your mind.
• 1:13:24
  You feel that this would be a power to create a world unto
• 1:13:29
  itself. Perhaps you might call it a
• 1:13:31
  world seed. I look at it for a second and
• 1:13:35
  then I close break. It's like the Wally moment,
• 1:13:40
  like. It's like my eyes are glowing
• 1:13:42
  and you see the reflections of the seeds in my eyes and it's
• 1:13:44
  like magic between my fingertips.
• 1:13:46
  And then I close it and I like to see it.
• 1:13:48
  Can I roll a slight hand to? See.
• 1:13:49
  Yeah, you can just roll a slight wish.
• 1:13:51
  Wish Beard looks over. Oh hey, what's that?
• 1:13:54
  That the 17. 5 on the die. Won't we get in there?
• 1:13:58
  Yeah. I think you successfully hide it
• 1:14:00
  away really quickly. But you have something quite
• 1:14:02
  special within there. Power of creation of worlds, or
• 1:14:07
  you don't. Power Untold is resting inside a
• 1:14:10
  brick. I knew you were special, buddy,
• 1:14:12
  and I think I really try to subtle the look at Zen and Cass
• 1:14:15
  and say, guys, I have, I have to show you something.
• 1:14:18
  Right now. Later.
• 1:14:20
  Oh, OK, oh later. OK, let's look at thing later.
• 1:14:26
  OK as. You enjoy your your first cup of
• 1:14:28
  tea for the day. Everyone give me a perception
• 1:14:31
  check and you can do this with advantage as you are the
• 1:14:33
  dominari of this domain. 18 per Cassie. 18 for Zen. 23.
• 1:14:44
  Awesome parable. You're the first one whose
• 1:14:47
  heckles rise as elementally you flare, feeling that this domain
• 1:14:52
  has been invaded. It's it's a half a second later
• 1:14:55
  before Cassie and Zen to look towards you with tense looks and
• 1:15:00
  all three of you can feel it, not just from one place in
• 1:15:03
  almost an entirely 360 fashion. There seems to be pressure
• 1:15:09
  little points like mosquitoes at a net pushing in at the domain.
• 1:15:14
  And the first feeling that you get is of that pressure
• 1:15:17
  pressure, pressure 1 pokes through.
• 1:15:20
  And then you feel many, many, many presences within this
• 1:15:27
  domain invade. Parable flares silver.
• 1:15:31
  His eyes go white, his skin goes silver, His voice drops.
• 1:15:36
  We're not alone. It comes back to Self.
• 1:15:38
  His guys, do you feel that I. Do the roots are screaming?
• 1:15:44
  The roots are screaming. The tree is telling us there's
• 1:15:47
  we're not alone here. I my man Ruse is contacting me,
• 1:15:49
  he says there's creatures afoot, demons.
• 1:15:53
  There's your ship. Got cannons, Sir?
• 1:15:54
  The Kuma. Some of the best and there
• 1:15:57
  aren't cannons, but. They do the same thing in the
• 1:16:00
  damn fucking cool. Zenna's going to cast Wall of
• 1:16:04
  Fire in a way of like the like we did before the bubble kind of
• 1:16:08
  pushing out. It's just kind of like, not my
• 1:16:10
  home. Awesome, awesome Callum's.
• 1:16:14
  Crossing. And fucking testing.
• 1:16:16
  I will add that in mechanically to what will be an invasion and
• 1:16:22
  the defense against next session.
• 1:16:24
  Cassie, any last notes as do you prepare to fight off this
• 1:16:28
  invading force? No, Cassie's ready.
• 1:16:34
  So is Raya as she looks towards Wish Beard and says just like
• 1:16:38
  the old days. And I think there is a perfect
• 1:16:41
  place to end our session, unless you have any other last notes.
• 1:16:43
  I think Parable steps out to the edge of the tree and just blows
• 1:16:49
  air out of is a breath. And I want to ask you if I can
• 1:16:53
  ask Miss Jewel's magic aura as a false aura around the tree.
• 1:16:58
  I just want the Willow to look like it's like a fire.
• 1:17:03
  OK. Like, yeah.
• 1:17:05
  Yeah, like I just wanted to like a tree bursting into.
• 1:17:08
  Flames. Oh my gosh.
• 1:17:08
  So we had the like wall of fire burst and then the tree just
• 1:17:12
  starts to flame. But we're just standing there
• 1:17:13
  like it's not affecting us. Yes, the natural enemy of
• 1:17:17
  demons, Devils. As Akuma says.
• 1:17:21
  This. This is good destruction.
• 1:17:25
  And there we will end our session to fight off these
• 1:17:28
  Eldridge Eldari abominations that seem to be creeping in to
• 1:17:31
  crush your domain and the fledgling power that lay within.
• 1:17:36
  Damn it. You guys starting to think we're
• 1:17:38
  bad luck bitch. Things just keep happening, no?
• 1:17:43
  We're just like so cool that like everyone needs to come and
• 1:17:46
  get a taste. We got a, yeah, you're right, a
• 1:17:48
  slight glimpse of one conversation or two from the
• 1:17:52
  Wizards, right? And to hear that time and luck
• 1:17:56
  are no longer part of what's going on up there and it's just
• 1:18:00
  wish. I'm very torn on whether we go
• 1:18:03
  towards the root or go fuck up wish a little bit because I'm
• 1:18:05
  kind of pissed. Yeah, bring him down here.
• 1:18:07
  Like who made you yourself but you know.
• 1:18:13
  Again, though, I got to say of Wish Beard, like, what the fuck
• 1:18:16
  is he know about feeling who's still alive up there in the
• 1:18:20
  stars? I mean, I don't know him, he
• 1:18:23
  said with a whole lot of confidence.
• 1:18:24
  Like doesn't really feel like she's alive up there.
• 1:18:27
  And it's like, what are your qualifications?
• 1:18:29
  Where are the? Receipts.
• 1:18:31
  Where are those receipts? But the rest?
• 1:18:35
  To be clear, Sav did lick her finger and stick it up to the
• 1:18:38
  air. Which?
• 1:18:40
  Gotta test the vibe I think. I think they can hear.
• 1:18:45
  It's so good, so good. Yeah.
• 1:18:46
  I mean, towards that point, Cassie did also have feelings of
• 1:18:50
  time and luck within Wish. Is that in the same capacity as
• 1:18:54
  what Wish beard means as residue is?
• 1:18:57
  Is that different you? I think that's a very good
• 1:19:00
  point. To get out is wish.
• 1:19:02
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• 1:19:04
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