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Pirates in Etheros Episode 62 - Everyone Has Allies · Chaotically Balanced

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  SPEAKER_03: Now that we are done with that, it's time to start the adventure.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_03: Welcome, fellow adventurers, nerds, and no divergence.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_03: Sit back, stay hydrated, and prepare yourselves for tonight's adventure.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_03: Last we left off,
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  SPEAKER_03: secondhand souls began cleaning up their new guild hall
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_03: and discussed what their plans for it would be.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_03: Deedle and Krakka focused on the broken furniture and trash,
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  SPEAKER_03: while Yonor and Kaido went to the basement to better plan and scope things out.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_03: Joachim and Lala went out to buy cleaning supplies and introduced themselves to
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_03: the surrounding citizens and businesses.
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  SPEAKER_03: Upon doing so,
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  SPEAKER_03: they purchased a bunch of cleaning supplies specifically for Lala and began mingling
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  SPEAKER_03: with individuals around the area.
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  SPEAKER_03: They ran into some suspicious people who invited them
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  SPEAKER_03: to discuss their guild operations and the discontent with the council.
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  SPEAKER_03: This ended up being a trap.
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  SPEAKER_03: Lala sent Puppyfish back to the others for help while she infiltrated
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  SPEAKER_03: the upper floor of this building and started a fire for distraction.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_03: Joachim kept talking to avoid hostilities, then invoked his darkness to survive.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_03: When the fire was roaring and Lala was in the darkness with Joachim,
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  SPEAKER_03: Yenor, Deedle, and Kraka arrived to help.
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  SPEAKER_03: They got held up by some possibly not guard guards,
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  SPEAKER_03: but got everyone's attention on the burning building.
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  SPEAKER_03: They saw Lala and Joachim running out of the building and met up with them.
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  SPEAKER_03: Recovering their cleaning supplies from the middle of the street,
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  SPEAKER_03: they faded into the crowd to escape the suspicious people
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  SPEAKER_03: and their burning building.
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  SPEAKER_03: Now, secondhand souls regroups at their guild hall and plan what to do next.
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  SPEAKER_03: So,
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  [music]
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  SPEAKER_01: gotta figure out
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  SPEAKER_03: what is it that
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  [music]
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  SPEAKER_00: What do we have to do right now is the question.
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_00: Because we have to fix up our guild hall here.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have to, you know, we've been trying to learn the area, so to speak.
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  SPEAKER_00: At least that's what a little bit of what I was trying to do the other day.
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  SPEAKER_00: What else is there currently?
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  SPEAKER_00: Cause I mean,
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  SPEAKER_00: I guess I don't even know if we're responsible for trying to find out these,
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  SPEAKER_00: uh, these people trying to overthrow the council and whatnot.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's something we can do, but I do not know.
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  SPEAKER_03: I just speaks up.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, well,
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  SPEAKER_03: We have that debt collector meeting they're supposed to contact us in the next day or so.
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  SPEAKER_03: And the council is also supposed to contact us in the next day or so once they have
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  SPEAKER_03: a strike team ready to go assist Lady Wren.
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  [music]
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_03: I believe we're going to be part of that strike team.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_01: As far as I know, that's what I thought.
• 3:56
  SPEAKER_01: Right now we were just kind of like on a rest,
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  SPEAKER_01: like, you know, relax, get your energy ready for the battle type deal.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I'm all for rest.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_03: It's like lunchtime now.
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  SPEAKER_03: Maybe just passed.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's the middle of the day.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, we don't really waste our time.
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  SPEAKER_01: We went and found this place.
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  SPEAKER_01: We bought it.
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  SPEAKER_01: You guys, we've been cleaning it up.
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  SPEAKER_01: Should we go reward ourselves?
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  SPEAKER_01: Should we go out?
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I have no problem.
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  SPEAKER_00: We should go learn a little bit more about the area and the people in it.
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  [music]
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  SPEAKER_00: There's more than just that one group that tried to kill me.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, do we want to start letting people, like,
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  SPEAKER_01: are we ready to, like,
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  SPEAKER_01: Let people know that we're here to help them,
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  SPEAKER_01: or do we still got stuff to do guild-wise?
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  SPEAKER_03: I don't have, I mean, this isn't set up yet to be a fully operational guild.
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  SPEAKER_03: We need, I don't know what kind of permits or variances we need.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm unsure of even what or how to set this up.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm just doing what I know from working in a guild.
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  [music]
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  SPEAKER_00: That's where you start.
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  SPEAKER_03: However, getting the word out wouldn't be harmful.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, I just wanted to know if we were going out to meet people as ourselves or as the guild.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_01: Regardless, I'm all down for going out and meeting people.
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, if we're meeting people, we are as the guild, so yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: No reason not to.
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  SPEAKER_03: We are ourselves and the guild.
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  SPEAKER_03: There's no separation between the two, I don't believe.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are the secondhand souls.
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  SPEAKER_03: Just like there's no separation between Sue Sailing and Wakeem.
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  [music]
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  SPEAKER_03: Or his father.
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  SPEAKER_01: Shall we?
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I get that, but yes, I'm affiliated with Yakim and Sue Sailing.
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  SPEAKER_01: But if I go out and let's just say get into a bar fight,
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  SPEAKER_01: they're not going to affiliate me with Sue Sailing,
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  SPEAKER_01: and it's not going to set a bad example on Sue Sailing.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it might.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, anything's possible.
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_00: Joaquin just kind of looks at Croc,
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  SPEAKER_00: gives him like a confused look, and then just kind of like a well-meaning smile.
• 7:39
  SPEAKER_00: It's like, you're thinking too hard, Turtle Man.
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  SPEAKER_01: Am I?
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, since we've been in the neighborhood, there's already been two warehouse fires.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, but there were extenuating circumstances.
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  SPEAKER_00: It didn't have to end that way, and Lord knows we didn't bring it out.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_00: We didn't try to go that route.
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  SPEAKER_00: It just, things escalated.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like I said, anything can happen.
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_00: Well, this is true, but that doesn't mean that it has to happen again.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're just going out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  [music]
• 8:25
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just gonna be prepared for the worst.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, I'm just gonna make sure I carry some water with me.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, I don't want another fire to happen.
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I think that's very smart of you.
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_00: Good on you, Turtle Man.
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  [music]
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  SPEAKER_03: Does anyone have any opposition to going out or have alternative ideas
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  SPEAKER_03: of what they would like to do?
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_01: Can I stop around town while these guys go out to have fun?
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_03: What are you going to do around town?
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  SPEAKER_01: Just shop around town.
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  SPEAKER_03: Are you looking for anything in particular?
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  SPEAKER_01: Always shiny things.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's always a plus.
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  SPEAKER_03: You know, are you going to go out?
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  SPEAKER_03: If so, with whom?
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_02: I'll go out myself.
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_02: And I want to try to keep an eye on the guard presence and see if there's like
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  SPEAKER_02: an actual police presence in the area or not.
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  SPEAKER_03: Is this a solo operation or do you want to have accompaniment?
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_02: Doesn't matter.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm not going to be doing nothing.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm just observing.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm going to give you accompaniment.
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  SPEAKER_02: Lala is going to follow you.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_03: She has PTSD from Joaquin getting into a situation.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we'll just have a chill afternoon.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_03: So Kaida is going to stay back with the animals except for Thesson because she has
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_03: to keep Iris for the time being.
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  SPEAKER_03: So we have Joachim and Krakka that are going out on the town.
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  SPEAKER_03: We have Deedle, who's going to go shopping.
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  SPEAKER_03: And then we have Yenor,
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  SPEAKER_03: Fethin, and Lala, because Lala is going to command Puppyfish to stay home.
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  SPEAKER_03: Who are going out
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  SPEAKER_03: to do some
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  SPEAKER_03: observations.
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  SPEAKER_03: But we're going to start with
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  SPEAKER_03: Wakeem and Krakka.
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  [music]
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  SPEAKER_03: Is there any particular establishment that you would like to start at?
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  SPEAKER_03: I mean, what's in the area?
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  SPEAKER_03: There's, I mean,
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  SPEAKER_03: a lot of vendors and merchants around street merchants,
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  SPEAKER_03: mostly street vendors and merchants.
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  SPEAKER_03: There's a bunch of like
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  SPEAKER_03: Common, not common, community areas.
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  [music]
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  SPEAKER_03: So like you go out and you like you could try a bunch of different foods or drinks
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  SPEAKER_03: from various stands and whatnot,
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  SPEAKER_03: and then go and sit in one of the community areas,
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  SPEAKER_03: benches, tables and whatnot, just kind of chill.
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  SPEAKER_00: That would essentially be what I'd love to do,
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  SPEAKER_00: because that's where The normal people generally are.
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  SPEAKER_03: There's some other like buildings and that and taverns and restaurants and whatnot, but.
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  SPEAKER_03: They have guards outside of them.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_00: Really?
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, like like before.
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  SPEAKER_03: Where you,
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  SPEAKER_03: the building you were at before where it was like,
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  SPEAKER_03: you know, there were people standing outside the door that looked like guards.
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  SPEAKER_03: Similar to like the,
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_03: the two Goliaths that were useless and then you sobered them up
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  SPEAKER_03: and they were useful.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, like bouncers basically.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: Not like, like guard guards, but like door people.
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  SPEAKER_03: Uh, and then you have like the, just the street vendors and whatnot.
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  SPEAKER_03: There's some games of chance going on too, if you choose to partake.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_00: How are you feeling, Turtle Man?
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  SPEAKER_00: You feeling like you could win something?
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I'm kind of hungry at the moment,
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  SPEAKER_01: so I was thinking about maybe just grabbing so they eat and just watch the crowd
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  SPEAKER_01: while I eat.
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  SPEAKER_01: Find out, like, just feel the crowd a little bit and then maybe...
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  SPEAKER_01: Maybe gamble if I don't pick nothing up in the crowd.
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  SPEAKER_00: Apologies.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_00: Joaquin kind of looks bored as you're talking and then he's like,
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  SPEAKER_00: OK, I'm going to go do that thing over there.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he goes to one of the like the gaming areas.
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  SPEAKER_03: So Krakka, I'm going to have you make.
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  SPEAKER_03: What are you looking for in the crowd?
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  SPEAKER_03: Are you looking for something specific or are you just people watching?
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_01: Kind of just like people watching, like the monk was in the bar.
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  SPEAKER_01: He was just sitting there, chilling, just watching, not knowing if anything was going to happen.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_01: But if something did happen, then cool.
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_01: He was there.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't have anything in particular, just kind of like...
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  SPEAKER_01: Seeing who's good,
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  SPEAKER_01: like who I got good vibes off of,
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  SPEAKER_01: bad vibes, like who's being suspicious, who's being creepy, stuff like that.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_03: Alright, so that's just a general perception check.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_01: Why isn't it rolling?
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_01: There it is.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_03: Eleven.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_03: I will keep that in mind.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_03: Joachim, there's a couple of dice games going on.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_03: And there's someone standing with a giant wheel with a bunch of colors and numbers on it.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to go with the colorful wheel.
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_03: Colorful wheel?
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_03: Alright, so let me pull up... ...this
• 15:58
  SPEAKER_03: one.
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_03: Just so everyone can see it.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, but, since, Wakim,
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_03: you're the only one playing, uh, only your token goes down on this... ...here.
• 16:14
  SPEAKER_03: AS!
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_03: Lucky soul, welcome to Taiki's Wheel of Luck.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_03: Have you played before in one of our other various establishments?
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_03: Never the first time.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_00: So how do we do it?
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_03: Well, you can choose a number and a color, or you can choose a group.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_03: How many colors are there?
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_03: So black and red, like a standard roulette wheel.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_03: And numbers go from 1 to 20.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_03: You should see it as a map.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_00: I think I need to refresh.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_00: Hold on.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_03: I put it up because it's easier to visualize as a thing,
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_03: both for you all as players and everyone who is watching this.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_03: Now I can see.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so green, black, and red?
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_03: Black and red.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_03: So the green ones are not black or red.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_03: So 1 in 20 aren't black or red.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_03: You can either choose 1 or 20.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_03: You can do 2 to 10,
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  SPEAKER_03: all even numbers,
• 17:47
  SPEAKER_03: all odd numbers, 11 to 19, or you can go by blocks of 6, columns, or colors.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_03: Each one has a different payout ratio.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm betting where...
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_03: The more chances you have to win, the lower the payout is if you do win.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_00: How much do I need to bet?
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_03: The betting options are open.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_03: It starts at one gold piece and you can bet as much as you want.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_03: There's no minimum.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_00: Let's choose... Let's choose second six.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, you can put yourself there.
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_00: And I'll put up two gold.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_03: And bet two gold on that.
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_03: We're going to have... Let's see...
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_03: A couple other people come over and join you.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_03: Someone who goes all black,
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_03: someone who's going to go odd numbers,
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_03: and someone who's going to go in the second column as well.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_03: Now... Ah, yes!
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_03: Plenty of players here!
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_03: Who's feeling lucky?
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_03: Looking at everyone here.
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_03: Do you feel lucky sir?
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_00: Not feeling unlucky.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_00: So that's certainly something.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_00: Can I insight him just to see if he's like doing any hanky-panky or planning
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_00: to do any hanky-panky?
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, you can make an insight check.
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_03: However, he spins the wheel and does the click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_03: And it lands on 17.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_03: He seems like an honest guy.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_03: So, Hakeem, you lose two gold, as does
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_03: the dwarf next to you.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_00: Where did it land?
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_03: On 17.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_03: I rolled a 17.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_03: That's hilarious.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_03: You did.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_03: I thought that was funny.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_03: But that is not in the second six.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_03: So you lost your two gold.
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_03: And it's also not in the second column, so that the little dwarf man lost.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_03: The little dwarf man lost a lot.
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_03: The little dwarf man put quite a bit down on it.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_00: You okay over there,
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_03: little dwarf?
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_03: I can keep going all night.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_03: It's fine.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_03: He's a little drunk.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I'm sure you could, but the bigger question is, should you?
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_03: Again, let me have my fun.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_03: He slaps another gold sack down on the table.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_03: Again, good sir.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_00: I'll join him as well.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_00: I'll put another two gold down.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to stay second six.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_03: This person,
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_03: one of them is going to move to even and the other one is going to take a risk on
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_03: a 20.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_03: That is a nine.
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_03: Hey.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_03: So the two other individuals lose.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_03: But, uh, Joakim, you get your two gold, you get two gold back.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_03: Take that.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_03: So you have broken even.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_03: And the individual that threw a stack of gold down gets a stack of gold.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_03: I
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_03: think I'm gonna
• 23:16
  SPEAKER_00: take the bird in the hand and take a look at some other games
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_00: while also looking around for interesting people or
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_00: if anything any like commotions going on.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_03: So I'm going to also have you make a perception check.
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_00: I would also be looking for, like,
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_00: again, more of those people who were kind of inciting others against the council.
• 23:47
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, like the group that you saw or the people in the building that you were in.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_00: You said perception?
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, perception.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_03: Perception.
• 23:59
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I'm going to inspiration that because that's a natural one.
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_03: Oh.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, Krakka, as he's playing this game.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, and I'm going to hero point that.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_03: As he's playing this game, it just seems like people are being people.
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_03: As the afternoon goes on.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_03: The more people fill this area.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_03: But people are just, there's no one that's standing out to you, really.
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_03: Raka.
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, Joachim,
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_03: with a 29,
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_03: however,
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_03: you have a bit more awareness as you're walking around and actually mingling
• 24:50
  SPEAKER_03: with people.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_03: Um...
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_03: You see that dwarf is still playing the roulette game as you walk away.
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_03: He had- he kept both sacks of gold down and it looks like he lost.
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• 25:20
  SPEAKER_03: There's some guards patrolling through the area.
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_03: Though, one set of guards,
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_03: their uniforms are a little... You can't quite put your finger on it.
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_03: They look...
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_03: They're the right type of uniform, but something just seems off about them.
• 25:48
  SPEAKER_00: Right type of uniform in the area.
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_00: So who are they dressed as?
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_00: Like, they're dressed as guards and guards?
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_00: Guards were, this is, which city, apologies, which city are we in?
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_03: You're in Keldis.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_03: So they just look like the city guards.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 26:09
  SPEAKER_03: The uniforms are the right uniform,
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_03: but something just feels off about the uniform,
• 26:13
  SPEAKER_03: like it's unkempt or not, something's wrong with it.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_00: Does it feel fake?
• 26:23
  SPEAKER_03: You're too far away to get that level of detail.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna see if I can do my best to stay,
• 26:33
  SPEAKER_00: you know,
• 26:33
  SPEAKER_00: concealed a bit,
• 26:34
  SPEAKER_00: but also get close enough to kind of suss this out a little bit,
• 26:38
  SPEAKER_00: because this doesn't, this feels kind of funny.
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, they're off in the distance,
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_03: so you have to leave the game area and move through the crowd.
• 26:50
  Okay, I should do that.
• 26:52
  SPEAKER_03: Make a stealth check if you're trying to remain stealthy.
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_00: I think I have something.
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_00: I do.
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_00: I have Boots of Elvenkind, so I can move Stealthy Advantage.
• 27:11
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to, yeah.
• 27:25
  SPEAKER_00: I'll Hero Point that as well, because I want to stay cute.
• 27:29
  SPEAKER_00: Go ahead, roll your d6.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, well, dirty 20.
• 27:42
  SPEAKER_03: I do feel,
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_03: with the amount of people that are coming into the area as
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_03: the afternoon grows later, I do feel pretty hidden.
• 27:59
  SPEAKER_03: Though with the awareness that you know guards or individuals
• 28:05
  SPEAKER_03: in guard-like positions have, it's always possible that you could be sought out.
• 28:13
  SPEAKER_03: You don't leave the crowd, you stay in the crowd.
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_03: You can either break yourself to get closer,
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_03: or you can stay in the crowd and get slightly more but still limited level
• 28:27
  SPEAKER_03: of details.
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_00: Let's see how much detail we can get from within the crowd.
• 28:38
  SPEAKER_03: The uniforms are unkempt.
• 28:46
  SPEAKER_03: Now that you're a little closer, do you see what was off about them?
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_03: They're not as crisp and tucked in and clean looking.
• 29:01
  SPEAKER_00: But do they look like... Can I tell whether or not they're official uniforms?
• 29:07
  SPEAKER_03: They look like official uniforms.
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_00: They do?
• 29:10
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 29:11
  SPEAKER_00: Just unkempt.
• 29:12
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_00: And what about the guards themselves?
• 29:17
  SPEAKER_03: They're walking and facing away from you.
• 29:21
  SPEAKER_03: So it's hard to tell.
• 29:27
  SPEAKER_00: I would try and...
• 29:30
  SPEAKER_00: Stealthily follow them.
• 29:33
  SPEAKER_03: You would have to leave the crowd so there's not much areas to stealth in this, to follow them.
• 29:43
  SPEAKER_01: If I noticed Hakeem leaving my field of view,
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_01: I would have continued to follow, but from a distance.
• 29:50
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I would just bounce another stand and,
• 29:52
  SPEAKER_01: like, buy a drink or something and then hide out there and, you know.
• 29:56
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 29:57
  SPEAKER_03: You can do that.
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_03: There are like,
• 30:05
  SPEAKER_03: because they're leaving the crowded area now,
• 30:08
  SPEAKER_03: so it's going to be harder to remain hidden.
• 30:12
  SPEAKER_03: Any of them
• 30:13
  SPEAKER_00: are there?
• 30:14
  SPEAKER_00: There's just two.
• 30:16
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, yeah, I'll, again,
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_00: staying as stealthily as I can,
• 30:21
  SPEAKER_00: I would follow them,
• 30:24
  SPEAKER_00: giving them enough of a wide berth so that I'm not up on them,
• 30:29
  SPEAKER_00: but yes, I would follow them.
• 30:44
  SPEAKER_03: Instead of continuing down the main road, they walk down an alley.
• 30:54
  SPEAKER_00: I, again, cautiously follow them.
• 31:00
  SPEAKER_00: I want to see where they're going.
• 31:02
  SPEAKER_03: Are you following them down the alley or just to the entrance?
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_00: To the entrance of the alley and then kind of peeking down the alley to see where they go.
• 31:14
  SPEAKER_03: They're kind of just stopped in the center of the alley and muttering to each other.
• 31:20
  SPEAKER_03: Can I hear what they're saying or no?
• 31:30
  SPEAKER_03: No, it's a they're whispering.
• 31:31
  SPEAKER_03: They're like 20 feet down the alley and whispering.
• 31:39
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not trying to get any closer then.
• 31:42
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just... ...watching to see what they do.
• 31:45
  SPEAKER_00: These unkempt guards.
• 31:52
  SPEAKER_03: There they are.
• 31:53
  SPEAKER_03: I was looking for the correct dice.
• 32:04
  SPEAKER_03: There's a... ...small flash.
• 32:08
  SPEAKER_03: From down the alley, from between.
• 32:15
  SPEAKER_03: A small flash.
• 32:19
  SPEAKER_03: And then between them you see, like, Crystal.
• 32:29
  SPEAKER_03: It glows rapidly, and then it stops.
• 32:37
  SPEAKER_03: And it glows rapidly again at random intervals, and then it stops.
• 32:48
  SPEAKER_03: It does it again.
• 32:50
  SPEAKER_03: And you see them both nod their heads, and then it stops, and then it stops glowing completely.
• 32:59
  SPEAKER_00: Can I bust Detect Magic?
• 33:03
  SPEAKER_00: Well, you said how far away are they?
• 33:05
  SPEAKER_03: About 20 feet down the alley, so maybe 25 feet from you.
• 33:12
  SPEAKER_00: Oh no, that's Detect Magic 30 feet.
• 33:15
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, your Detect Magic's 30 feet.
• 33:18
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 33:18
  SPEAKER_03: We always get that mixed up.
• 33:20
  SPEAKER_00: We do.
• 33:22
  SPEAKER_00: Detect Magic, please.
• 33:25
  SPEAKER_03: That was a...
• 33:28
  SPEAKER_03: The stone,
• 33:29
  SPEAKER_03: specifically,
• 33:30
  SPEAKER_03: because you can hone in on objects within that range, is enchantment magic.
• 33:40
  SPEAKER_03: It's very similar to the stone that you use,
• 33:44
  SPEAKER_03: or similar to the magic of the stone that you guys use to talk to Lady Ren.
• 33:51
  SPEAKER_00: Who are they talking to?
• 33:59
  SPEAKER_00: How far away are they?
• 34:03
  SPEAKER_03: They're 20 feet down the alley, so they're 25 feet from you.
• 34:21
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 34:23
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 34:25
  SPEAKER_00: We're not in combat, right?
• 34:27
  SPEAKER_03: No.
• 34:27
  SPEAKER_03: Krakka, are you still keeping your distance from Joaquim?
• 34:31
  SPEAKER_03: Or are you getting closer as he's at the end of this alley?
• 34:37
  SPEAKER_01: I'm still keeping my distance.
• 34:40
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I don't even...
• 34:41
  SPEAKER_01: I'm trying to make it so that nobody even knows I'm following.
• 34:45
  SPEAKER_01: But if Joaquim sees me following, then it's fine.
• 34:48
  Okay.
• 34:51
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, no, you're not in combat,
• 34:52
  SPEAKER_03: Joaquin,
• 34:53
  SPEAKER_03: but we're gonna pause there for you and Krakka,
• 34:58
  SPEAKER_03: and we're gonna go over to, uh, Deedle.
• 35:14
  SPEAKER_03: Just going out shopping.
• 35:16
  SPEAKER_01: Yep, just trying to find some, like, little trinkets or gems.
• 35:22
  SPEAKER_03: It's the same area that Akka and Joaquim went to, just the opposite side of the street.
• 35:28
  SPEAKER_03: So one side of the street is like drinking food vendors and the other side
• 35:31
  SPEAKER_03: the street is various merchants.
• 35:34
  SPEAKER_03: And then in the middle is the common area and the games of chance.
• 35:40
  SPEAKER_03: You find many merchants selling gems and jewels and shiny objects
• 35:47
  SPEAKER_03: and mysterious items of Do I
• 36:06
  SPEAKER_01: see any of the guys hanging about the area?
• 36:08
  SPEAKER_01: Are you traveling?
• 36:11
  SPEAKER_03: You see Croc and Wakim across the way.
• 36:14
  SPEAKER_03: They kind of get some food and drink at a table,
• 36:19
  SPEAKER_03: and then Wakim kind of rushes off to a game of chance.
• 36:26
  SPEAKER_03: As you're producing merchants.
• 36:29
  SPEAKER_01: We'll go over and get some food.
• 36:31
  SPEAKER_01: Food sounds like a good idea.
• 36:33
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 36:37
  SPEAKER_03: Here, we'll grab various different types of food.
• 36:41
  SPEAKER_03: Meat dishes, vegetable, fish dishes.
• 36:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 36:49
  SPEAKER_01: Grilled street food, tacos.
• 36:53
  SPEAKER_03: So, you, are you, I don't know what my internet went out.
• 36:57
  SPEAKER_03: You find food.
• 37:00
  SPEAKER_03: Are you sitting with the guys,
• 37:03
  SPEAKER_03: or I guess are you sitting with one of them,
• 37:04
  SPEAKER_03: or are you going back to the merchant's deedle?
• 37:08
  SPEAKER_01: I'll go hang out with Krakka.
• 37:13
  SPEAKER_03: So Krakka, you have Dietl with you now also.
• 37:19
  SPEAKER_03: Would you follow Krakka as he follows Rakim?
• 37:22
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 37:25
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 37:27
  SPEAKER_03: So you witness all of this as well?
• 37:32
  SPEAKER_03: Not necessarily what Wakim is seeing,
• 37:34
  SPEAKER_03: but you witness Krakka following Wakim, who looks to be following a guard patrol.
• 37:44
  SPEAKER_03: However,
• 37:45
  SPEAKER_03: to you and Krakka,
• 37:48
  SPEAKER_03: the guard patrol looks very similar to the guard patrol that you guys ran across
• 37:54
  SPEAKER_03: with Yenor.
• 37:57
  SPEAKER_03: The sketchy one.
• 37:59
  SPEAKER_03: Ah...
• 38:01
  SPEAKER_03: That's why we're calling, thank you guys.
• 38:07
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, but yeah.
• 38:09
  SPEAKER_03: We're gonna pause there since you're with them.
• 38:17
  SPEAKER_03: And we're gonna hop over to... Inor.
• 38:27
  SPEAKER_03: Do that.
• 38:49
  SPEAKER_03: You are searching
• 38:54
  SPEAKER_03: for the
• 38:58
  SPEAKER_03: suspicious people?
• 39:01
  SPEAKER_03: The guards?
• 39:03
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and I want to take note of any
• 39:08
  SPEAKER_02: Any of their patrol routes that I notice and see if there's any actual guards
• 39:15
  SPEAKER_02: or police that walk around and patrol.
• 39:21
  SPEAKER_03: But just around your guild or in this the whole area in general
• 39:26
  SPEAKER_02: and like the whole area.
• 39:33
  SPEAKER_03: So there are guards that actually patrol.
• 39:37
  SPEAKER_03: And you,
• 39:38
  SPEAKER_03: over the course of this time that you've been observing,
• 39:42
  SPEAKER_03: which it's been a couple hours between getting drinks and whatnot for them.
• 39:45
  SPEAKER_03: And we came going off playing some games.
• 39:51
  SPEAKER_03: Every.
• 39:51
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
• 39:56
  SPEAKER_03: Half hour or so.
• 39:57
  SPEAKER_03: You.
• 40:06
  SPEAKER_03: See a guard patrol, an actual guard patrol.
• 40:12
  SPEAKER_03: Some of them have two guards, some of them have three guards.
• 40:25
  SPEAKER_03: However,
• 40:27
  SPEAKER_03: every so often,
• 40:28
  SPEAKER_03: specifically around the building that got set on fire,
• 40:33
  SPEAKER_03: like that area,
• 40:35
  SPEAKER_03: And like near the alleys,
• 40:37
  SPEAKER_03: you see very specifically a two man guard patrol,
• 40:43
  SPEAKER_03: but their uniforms are a little unkempt.
• 40:52
  SPEAKER_02: So two man guard patrol
• 40:57
  SPEAKER_02: around
• 41:00
  SPEAKER_02: alleys and the burnt building.
• 41:04
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, the area where the burn building was.
• 41:08
  SPEAKER_02: That's like a little square, right?
• 41:10
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 41:16
  SPEAKER_02: Do I notice anything off about that?
• 41:21
  SPEAKER_03: You could make an insight check.
• 41:25
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 41:25
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 41:35
  SPEAKER_02: 26.
• 41:45
  SPEAKER_03: Seems as though
• 41:49
  SPEAKER_03: there are some
• 41:53
  SPEAKER_03: individuals who have either stolen or been given guard uniforms.
• 42:04
  SPEAKER_03: They don't actually follow the guard schedule.
• 42:25
  SPEAKER_02: So they don't follow any schedule that I can see.
• 42:33
  SPEAKER_02: Their uniforms are unkempt because they're not their uniforms.
• 42:39
  SPEAKER_03: Like they don't fit correctly?
• 42:40
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, they don't fit correctly.
• 42:42
  SPEAKER_03: They're not tucked in.
• 42:44
  SPEAKER_03: Some of the pins are crooked.
• 42:45
  SPEAKER_02: They're sloppy.
• 42:46
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 42:48
  SPEAKER_02: See, that says something about them as a people.
• 43:02
  SPEAKER_02: Can I try to focus on the sloppy guards?
• 43:10
  SPEAKER_03: Sure.
• 43:12
  SPEAKER_03: Roll a d100 to figure out which ones you're focusing on.
• 43:15
  SPEAKER_03: 25.
• 43:30
  SPEAKER_03: You find a
• 43:36
  SPEAKER_03: three-man sloppy guard patrol.
• 43:39
  SPEAKER_02: Oh.
• 43:42
  SPEAKER_03: Out of the norm.
• 43:49
  SPEAKER_02: What they doing?
• 43:50
  SPEAKER_03: They're going down alley.
• 43:56
  SPEAKER_02: Is it one of those dark, suspicious alleys?
• 43:58
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_03: There's no street lights or torches or anything down it.
• 44:10
  SPEAKER_03: It's tucked out of the way of the main thoroughfare.
• 44:15
  SPEAKER_02: Are they the only ones in the alley?
• 44:17
  SPEAKER_03: I mean,
• 44:19
  SPEAKER_03: you're you're not close enough to see unless you're making your way up to the edge
• 44:26
  SPEAKER_03: of the alley.
• 44:27
  SPEAKER_02: I'll try to pretend like I'm walking past.
• 44:32
  SPEAKER_03: Make a deception or performance check.
• 44:41
  SPEAKER_02: I think this is the first deception check I've ever rolled.
• 44:46
  SPEAKER_02: Twenty five.
• 44:46
  SPEAKER_03: OK.
• 44:50
  SPEAKER_03: Two of the guards are standing at either one at either end of the alley.
• 44:57
  SPEAKER_03: Looking out.
• 44:59
  SPEAKER_03: So as you look down the alley, you make eye contact with one of them.
• 45:03
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 45:05
  SPEAKER_03: As you're walking past,
• 45:07
  SPEAKER_03: the taller third individual is in the alley,
• 45:10
  SPEAKER_03: kind of facing sideways to both of them.
• 45:14
  SPEAKER_03: And you see this glowing thing in his hand.
• 45:18
  SPEAKER_02: Like a sending stone?
• 45:20
  SPEAKER_03: You walk past it because you're walking.
• 45:24
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 45:24
  SPEAKER_03: So you can't tell.
• 45:27
  SPEAKER_02: Do I hear anything?
• 45:29
  SPEAKER_03: Nope.
• 45:47
  SPEAKER_02: How long does this last?
• 45:49
  SPEAKER_02: Up to an hour.
• 45:50
  SPEAKER_02: Can I cast new visibility on myself?
• 45:54
  SPEAKER_03: You can, yes.
• 45:56
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 45:57
  SPEAKER_03: Lala's just gonna hide in the shadows.
• 46:01
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, she's good at that.
• 46:04
  SPEAKER_03: So you're invisible.
• 46:16
  SPEAKER_02: The Heart of Annoyance recharges on a long rest, right?
• 46:20
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, yes.
• 46:23
  SPEAKER_02: I'm not gonna go fully down the alley.
• 46:26
  SPEAKER_02: How long is he, Ali?
• 46:30
  SPEAKER_03: Well, it's like a...
• 46:36
  SPEAKER_02: No, that won't work.
• 46:39
  SPEAKER_02: Either way, I can't have two concentration spells.
• 46:41
  SPEAKER_03: You cannot.
• 46:48
  SPEAKER_02: I'll try to get a little close to see what is glowing in his hand.
• 46:53
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, so you're sneaking past the one guard.
• 46:57
  SPEAKER_03: You need a stealth check for that.
• 47:00
  SPEAKER_03: With advantage, because you're invisible.
• 47:07
  SPEAKER_02: 30, 20.
• 47:09
  SPEAKER_03: Make that a 30, because Talala is going to use past without a trace.
• 47:13
  SPEAKER_03: Does she have that available?
• 47:15
  SPEAKER_03: She used it once already.
• 47:18
  SPEAKER_03: Let me double check her.
• 47:26
  SPEAKER_03: She used it already, so no, it is a 20.
• 47:29
  SPEAKER_03: Because she used that to help you guys get out of there.
• 47:32
  SPEAKER_02: I might have hero points.
• 47:35
  SPEAKER_03: I was just going to give you a little boost if I could, but I can't.
• 47:40
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I've got all of my hero points.
• 47:42
  SPEAKER_02: That's a d6, yeah?
• 47:43
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 47:48
  SPEAKER_02: 25.
• 47:53
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 47:54
  SPEAKER_03: And the stone glows.
• 47:59
  SPEAKER_03: And it flashes and then stops.
• 48:02
  SPEAKER_03: And then you see the person talking into it.
• 48:05
  SPEAKER_03: Then it flashes again and stops.
• 48:07
  SPEAKER_03: Then you see him talking into it.
• 48:09
  SPEAKER_03: Then it flashes again and stops.
• 48:11
  SPEAKER_02: I can't hear anything.
• 48:12
  SPEAKER_03: How close are you getting?
• 48:15
  SPEAKER_02: Like close enough to see it.
• 48:16
  SPEAKER_02: Like what the object is.
• 48:18
  SPEAKER_03: You can see it without being close enough to hear because he's not talking loudly.
• 48:25
  SPEAKER_02: Can I get like 20 feet?
• 48:28
  SPEAKER_02: Like close to him?
• 48:29
  SPEAKER_02: I should be able to hear within 20 feet, right?
• 48:31
  SPEAKER_03: You could hear muttering.
• 48:38
  SPEAKER_02: Like 15 feet then.
• 48:40
  SPEAKER_02: I'll scooch.
• 48:44
  SPEAKER_03: It's talking.
• 48:47
  SPEAKER_03: Kind of distorted.
• 48:49
  SPEAKER_03: And then he's talking into it.
• 48:51
  SPEAKER_03: Also kind of distorted.
• 48:56
  SPEAKER_02: Not because of distance.
• 48:57
  SPEAKER_03: No.
• 49:01
  SPEAKER_02: Interesting.
• 49:11
  SPEAKER_02: What?
• 49:14
  SPEAKER_02: Why would I think that is distorted?
• 49:18
  SPEAKER_03: Probably some kind of magic.
• 49:29
  SPEAKER_02: Gonna have to ask Ida about that.
• 49:32
  SPEAKER_02: Is it a sending stone?
• 49:34
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 49:35
  SPEAKER_02: Like a regular sending stone?
• 49:38
  SPEAKER_03: There's only one type of sending stone.
• 49:40
  SPEAKER_03: It's a stone that can be used to send and receive messages.
• 49:43
  SPEAKER_02: Listen, some of these guys have some weird shit.
• 49:47
  SPEAKER_02: They're turning drugs into power sources for machines.
• 49:52
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
• 49:53
  SPEAKER_03: A tall individual that just puts it in his pocket.
• 49:57
  SPEAKER_02: Mm-hmm.
• 49:59
  SPEAKER_03: And he looks... in your...
• 50:05
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna, like, press against the wall.
• 50:08
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 50:11
  SPEAKER_02: He's... Like, past me?
• 50:16
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, he's not looking at you at you, but he's looking...
• 50:21
  SPEAKER_03: any kind of...
• 50:27
  SPEAKER_03: to hood up.
• 50:34
  SPEAKER_03: His face gets hidden when he puts the hood up.
• 50:37
  SPEAKER_02: Like magic?
• 50:39
  SPEAKER_02: Or just like in shadow?
• 50:41
  SPEAKER_03: You can't tell.
• 50:42
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 50:44
  SPEAKER_02: Did I recognize him?
• 50:48
  SPEAKER_03: Make a history check.
• 50:54
  SPEAKER_02: So that's a I've seen him before.
• 50:56
  SPEAKER_02: I have inspirations, right?
• 51:00
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 51:05
  SPEAKER_03: Natural 20.
• 51:07
  SPEAKER_03: Everyone gets an inspiration.
• 51:10
  SPEAKER_02: Does that mean I just keep mine?
• 51:12
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, the one you just used.
• 51:13
  SPEAKER_03: You don't have to remove and add back.
• 51:20
  SPEAKER_03: He does look a little familiar.
• 51:41
  SPEAKER_02: Like, like, in what way?
• 51:51
  SPEAKER_02: Is he the one that was being an ass?
• 51:55
  SPEAKER_03: You don't know what the one hooded figure looked like.
• 52:01
  SPEAKER_03: You've only seen him with the one in your dream,
• 52:04
  SPEAKER_03: which was also the one that came to you by the warehouse.
• 52:10
  SPEAKER_03: You've never seen his face.
• 52:12
  SPEAKER_02: So the hood reminds me of?
• 52:15
  SPEAKER_03: That.
• 52:17
  SPEAKER_03: But this person's face, you feel like you've passed before.
• 52:27
  SPEAKER_03: Maybe not seen him in a while.
• 52:32
  SPEAKER_02: Like from Zatha?
• 52:39
  SPEAKER_03: Like someone you've worked for.
• 52:44
  SPEAKER_02: Worked for a lot of people.
• 52:55
  SPEAKER_02: I saw a close enough picture of his face that I could probably recreate it, right?
• 53:00
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 53:02
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 53:05
  SPEAKER_02: Show Kaida.
• 53:14
  SPEAKER_02: Was his uniform sloppy too?
• 53:16
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 53:17
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know that any of my previous employers would be sloppy.
• 53:33
  SPEAKER_03: Now you hear him.
• 53:35
  SPEAKER_03: All right.
• 53:36
  SPEAKER_03: Those plans in motion.
• 53:42
  SPEAKER_03: We have to get to them before they get To their destination.
• 53:49
  SPEAKER_03: This was the reason for our infiltration.
• 54:04
  SPEAKER_03: And you see the other two guards kind of salute.
• 54:08
  SPEAKER_03: And then they all walk off of the alley.
• 54:12
  SPEAKER_02: So he's in a position of power.
• 54:19
  SPEAKER_02: And I didn't hear anything that would indicate who he's talking about.
• 54:23
  SPEAKER_03: No.
• 54:23
  SPEAKER_02: Because it was all distorted.
• 54:27
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 54:30
  SPEAKER_03: Shadow wisp comes out next to you.
• 54:36
  SPEAKER_03: Just right next to your head.
• 54:37
  SPEAKER_02: I back away from the
• 54:41
  SPEAKER_03: shadow wisp.
• 54:50
  SPEAKER_03: Individual comes out of the shadow.
• 54:52
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 54:57
  SPEAKER_03: Individual, you do recognize.
• 55:01
  SPEAKER_02: Oh god, is he a pain in the ass?
• 55:06
  SPEAKER_03: I have to find him.
• 55:08
  SPEAKER_03: I have to find him.
• 55:22
  SPEAKER_03: Forget which one it is.
• 55:26
  SPEAKER_03: This is... a problem.
• 55:32
  SPEAKER_03: I believe it's...
• 55:35
  SPEAKER_02: With Reena Hargon?
• 55:44
  SPEAKER_03: One of the exiled tribal council members.
• 55:53
  SPEAKER_03: From the city of fear day that is coming out of the shadows.
• 56:02
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 56:04
  SPEAKER_02: I'm still invisible.
• 56:06
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 56:07
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 56:14
  SPEAKER_03: He turns and whispers to a shadow.
• 56:25
  SPEAKER_03: Tell them to move up the timeline.
• 56:31
  SPEAKER_03: A shadow disappears.
• 56:47
  SPEAKER_03: And he turns to another shadow.
• 56:50
  SPEAKER_03: And it forms this amalgamous face.
• 56:55
  SPEAKER_03: And he looks at it.
• 56:55
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, I understand.
• 57:00
  SPEAKER_03: We only have one chance at this.
• 57:02
  SPEAKER_03: We got to take them out.
• 57:04
  SPEAKER_03: If we don't, we need to.
• 57:08
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, I know.
• 57:09
  SPEAKER_03: We need to stop the city of Keldes.
• 57:15
  SPEAKER_02: Isn't Keldes where we are?
• 57:16
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 57:17
  SPEAKER_02: And they want to stop wherever it is Keldes is doing.
• 57:22
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 57:23
  SPEAKER_02: Keldus isn't currently doing anything.
• 57:25
  SPEAKER_03: That you have been made privy to.
• 57:31
  SPEAKER_03: And yes, Keldus is doing something.
• 57:37
  SPEAKER_03: They're currently gathering a strike force to go send relief aid to Lady Wren.
• 57:43
  SPEAKER_03: They're also mobilizing the military for potential exercises along their border.
• 57:50
  SPEAKER_03: Because of conflicts between the two northern nations.
• 57:58
  SPEAKER_03: This is a lot.
• 58:01
  SPEAKER_03: Your enemies don't stop just because you stop focusing on them.
• 58:07
  SPEAKER_02: So I have to get to Malachi, though.
• 58:10
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 58:12
  SPEAKER_02: I'm going to just stay crouched against my wall.
• 58:17
  SPEAKER_03: A shadow.
• 58:19
  SPEAKER_03: Just...
• 58:26
  SPEAKER_03: And then it goes... And then it kind of just...
• 58:31
  SPEAKER_03: It's...
• 58:32
  SPEAKER_03: It...
• 58:33
  SPEAKER_03: There's nothing there, and it's just kind of trying to figure out why it's feeling resistant.
• 58:39
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 58:40
  SPEAKER_02: Can I, like...
• 58:42
  SPEAKER_02: Shift... Away...
• 58:45
  SPEAKER_02: Slowly...
• 58:46
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, you can.
• 58:47
  SPEAKER_03: It tries following you, and then another shadow, more shadows are gathering around there.
• 58:52
  SPEAKER_03: And then the exiled tribalman is looking towards his shadows that are trying
• 58:59
  SPEAKER_03: to figure out what's going on there.
• 59:04
  SPEAKER_02: Let me look up what invisibility does real quick.
• 59:13
  SPEAKER_03: Find it.
• 59:13
  SPEAKER_03: It doesn't make you incorporeal.
• 59:16
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 59:19
  SPEAKER_02: So I'm not muffled or anything either?
• 59:21
  SPEAKER_03: No, but your stealth check makes you stealthy.
• 59:28
  SPEAKER_02: Can I try to slip out of the alley quickly?
• 59:35
  SPEAKER_03: Sure, make an athletics check.
• 59:43
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, why that roll with advantage?
• 59:50
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, that would be a 13.
• 59:50
  SPEAKER_02: I'm going to hero point that.
• 59:57
  SPEAKER_02: I'll inspiration it because I got a free inspiration.
• 1:00:02
  SPEAKER_03: Do you have rage marked off?
• 1:00:07
  SPEAKER_03: It could think you're raging.
• 1:00:12
  SPEAKER_02: It is.
• 1:00:15
  SPEAKER_03: No, it's supposed to be.
• 1:00:21
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that's fine.
• 1:00:22
  SPEAKER_03: It's because it thinks you're raging, unless it's one of the barbarian features.
• 1:00:34
  SPEAKER_03: 14.
• 1:00:34
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I'm going to hero point that.
• 1:00:43
  SPEAKER_02: 17.
• 1:00:45
  SPEAKER_03: You are able to make it out of the alley before the shadows figure out what was there.
• 1:00:50
  SPEAKER_02: Awesome.
• 1:00:54
  SPEAKER_03: And then you see Lala, who has Nosferatu drawn.
• 1:01:03
  SPEAKER_02: I'm just gonna...
• 1:01:04
  SPEAKER_02: I'm still invisible, right?
• 1:01:06
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 1:01:07
  SPEAKER_02: If I speak, she can hear me.
• 1:01:09
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 1:01:11
  SPEAKER_02: I'm just gonna say, let's go.
• 1:01:13
  SPEAKER_02: I will have grabbed your hand as I'm saying that.
• 1:01:18
  SPEAKER_03: Ah.
• 1:01:23
  SPEAKER_03: Give me a heart attack.
• 1:01:25
  SPEAKER_02: Still alive.
• 1:01:26
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 1:01:28
  SPEAKER_02: Let's leave.
• 1:01:29
  SPEAKER_02: Now.
• 1:01:29
  SPEAKER_02: Quick.
• 1:01:32
  SPEAKER_03: As you run the direction you are going,
• 1:01:35
  SPEAKER_03: you come across the square where you see Joaquin peeking down an alley.
• 1:01:41
  SPEAKER_03: He's like 50 feet in front of you.
• 1:01:45
  SPEAKER_02: I'll go up to and also peek down the alley.
• 1:01:49
  SPEAKER_03: Well, we're going to pause there.
• 1:01:53
  SPEAKER_03: And we're going to do a quick break and we'll be back here momentarily.
• 1:01:59
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• 1:02:39
  SPEAKER_03: Akeem, the guards begin walking out of the alley towards you.
• 1:02:47
  SPEAKER_00: Do they see me yet?
• 1:02:49
  SPEAKER_03: Not yet.
• 1:02:50
  SPEAKER_00: As they start walking out of the alley, I would cast Darkness kind
• 1:02:58
  SPEAKER_00: of in between them.
• 1:02:59
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 1:03:04
  SPEAKER_00: And then I guess I would kind of say...
• 1:03:11
  SPEAKER_00: You know, you guys were kind of making things a little bit weird with the...
• 1:03:16
  SPEAKER_00: With the messy uniforms, I mean,
• 1:03:18
  SPEAKER_00: I know that that's not Keldesian standard,
• 1:03:22
  SPEAKER_00: but now doing all this shady stuff in the alleyway, this doesn't bode well for you.
• 1:03:29
  SPEAKER_00: And as I say that, I'm also going to summon a shadow next to me.
• 1:03:33
  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to summon a shadow in the darkness.
• 1:03:37
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 1:03:42
  SPEAKER_00: And then I will continue saying,
• 1:03:48
  SPEAKER_00: So who were you guys talking to there?
• 1:03:53
  SPEAKER_00: I will, as one of them starts talking, I will have my shadow
• 1:04:04
  SPEAKER_00: shade.
• 1:04:08
  SPEAKER_00: So we'll summon him with the extra attack and we'll have him do the shade whip.
• 1:04:19
  SPEAKER_00: On the one that's not answering.
• 1:04:24
  SPEAKER_00: What is that?
• 1:04:26
  SPEAKER_00: It's Dex save DC 70?
• 1:04:33
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 1:04:36
  SPEAKER_03: Let me get your shadow out here.
• 1:04:44
  SPEAKER_03: There it is.
• 1:04:52
  SPEAKER_03: He said DC 17.
• 1:05:04
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, he does succeed.
• 1:05:18
  SPEAKER_00: I'm wondering, because I'm also doing this in pure darkness he can't see.
• 1:05:24
  SPEAKER_00: Would I be able to have him do that at disadvantage?
• 1:05:29
  SPEAKER_03: You're not sure if he can see or not.
• 1:05:35
  SPEAKER_00: I'll try it again.
• 1:05:39
  SPEAKER_03: Look, you've got the wrong idea here.
• 1:05:46
  SPEAKER_00: Then give me the right one.
• 1:05:51
  SPEAKER_03: As the second one goes out,
• 1:05:55
  SPEAKER_03: Shadowy Chen will shoot out from your darkness and grasp your shadow.
• 1:06:03
  SPEAKER_00: And grasp my shadow?
• 1:06:05
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 1:06:09
  SPEAKER_03: He's found us.
• 1:06:11
  SPEAKER_03: You need to leave this area right now.
• 1:06:13
  SPEAKER_03: You are in danger.
• 1:06:18
  SPEAKER_00: Explain what's going on.
• 1:06:22
  SPEAKER_03: We have infiltrated this group to try and stop them from doing something.
• 1:06:30
  SPEAKER_03: We're not sure what yet.
• 1:06:38
  SPEAKER_00: Can I insight check him?
• 1:06:40
  SPEAKER_00: You can.
• 1:06:44
  SPEAKER_00: Let's insight check him.
• 1:06:46
  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to use a luck to roll this advantage.
• 1:06:55
  SPEAKER_00: I'll use an inspiration to roll this.
• 1:07:02
  SPEAKER_00: 18.
• 1:07:07
  SPEAKER_03: He is sincerely scared and telling the truth.
• 1:07:18
  SPEAKER_00: So you said that there's tendrils wrapped around my shadow?
• 1:07:22
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 1:07:24
  SPEAKER_00: I will dismiss my shadow.
• 1:07:29
  SPEAKER_00: They haven't seen me yet, right?
• 1:07:30
  SPEAKER_00: Because they're in my darkness or what?
• 1:07:32
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 1:07:34
  SPEAKER_03: You assume they have not because they're in the darkness.
• 1:07:38
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 1:07:38
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'm going to assume they haven't seen me.
• 1:07:40
  SPEAKER_00: I will dismiss my shadow.
• 1:07:45
  SPEAKER_00: And I will say...
• 1:07:49
  SPEAKER_00: I'll be watching you.
• 1:07:51
  SPEAKER_00: And then I will dismiss my darkness,
• 1:07:53
  SPEAKER_00: but then I will keep an eye on them stealthily to see what they do next.
• 1:07:59
  SPEAKER_03: Your darkness does not dismiss.
• 1:08:04
  SPEAKER_00: Now, specifically, like I drop concentration on it.
• 1:08:10
  SPEAKER_03: Darkness does not dismiss.
• 1:08:13
  SPEAKER_00: Am I still holding concentration or it's just new darkness?
• 1:08:17
  SPEAKER_03: It's just the darkness is just still there.
• 1:08:23
  SPEAKER_00: Very interesting.
• 1:08:25
  SPEAKER_00: A face appears in the darkness.
• 1:08:29
  SPEAKER_03: And as this happens, Yenor, you run up to a king.
• 1:08:37
  SPEAKER_03: You see a face in darkness.
• 1:08:41
  SPEAKER_03: Like forming out of the darkness.
• 1:08:45
  SPEAKER_02: Like what Cleef Reena Hardon was talking to?
• 1:08:49
  SPEAKER_03: I forget if that's the one that has the shadows,
• 1:08:51
  SPEAKER_03: but yes, like what the tribal person was talking to, yes.
• 1:08:55
  SPEAKER_02: Does Vakim look like he sees it?
• 1:08:57
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 1:08:59
  SPEAKER_00: Is he talking to it?
• 1:09:04
  SPEAKER_00: Do I recognize it too, or is it just Inor that recognized it?
• 1:09:09
  SPEAKER_03: It's just Inor that recognized it because she saw it previously,
• 1:09:14
  SPEAKER_03: like within the past few minutes.
• 1:09:18
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, my eyes are just kind of going wide-eyed looking at this.
• 1:09:26
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you for delivering me, the rats.
• 1:09:36
  SPEAKER_00: Who is this thing talking about?
• 1:09:37
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 1:09:39
  SPEAKER_03: You and, you know, it would be beneficial to follow you all around.
• 1:09:48
  SPEAKER_02: Can it see me?
• 1:09:50
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, it's looking at you.
• 1:09:51
  SPEAKER_02: I'm invisible.
• 1:09:54
  SPEAKER_02: So it can see invisibility.
• 1:09:56
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 1:10:00
  SPEAKER_00: So again, it's just a face on top of this darkness orb.
• 1:10:11
  SPEAKER_03: And then you hear screaming inside the darkness.
• 1:10:17
  SPEAKER_03: Raka and Deedle, you would also be witnessing this as well if you got closer.
• 1:10:23
  SPEAKER_00: I would ask it, what the hell are you?
• 1:10:27
  SPEAKER_03: I'm just a messenger.
• 1:10:30
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 1:10:34
  SPEAKER_03: Here to say thank you.
• 1:10:36
  SPEAKER_03: We'll find the rest of their rats soon.
• 1:10:42
  SPEAKER_03: Can't have anyone stopping what is inevitable.
• 1:10:47
  SPEAKER_00: As it's talking, I would be...
• 1:10:49
  SPEAKER_00: I would cast Detect Magic.
• 1:10:55
  Okay.
• 1:11:00
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, it's just...
• 1:11:02
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, probably Invocation Magic.
• 1:11:04
  SPEAKER_03: It's Communication.
• 1:11:09
  SPEAKER_00: Is it coming from a specific source?
• 1:11:13
  SPEAKER_03: You can't tell.
• 1:11:21
  SPEAKER_00: I don't really know what to do here.
• 1:11:24
  SPEAKER_00: I can't tell the source.
• 1:11:27
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, the only other thing I can think of since being very cryptic,
• 1:11:36
  SPEAKER_00: the only other thing I can think of to do right now is do my single day thing
• 1:11:44
  SPEAKER_00: of trucing to at least see what this thing really looks like.
• 1:11:59
  SPEAKER_03: You do true seeing and you see
• 1:12:06
  SPEAKER_03: just a void.
• 1:12:14
  SPEAKER_00: Just an ominous void.
• 1:12:16
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 1:12:16
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 1:12:19
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 1:12:24
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think there's anything else I can do here.
• 1:12:27
  SPEAKER_00: It's a void.
• 1:12:29
  SPEAKER_03: Light in the distance of the void.
• 1:12:39
  SPEAKER_03: Focus on said light with your true seeing?
• 1:12:44
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 1:12:50
  SPEAKER_03: It zooms you into said light.
• 1:13:00
  SPEAKER_03: You see this large,
• 1:13:06
  SPEAKER_03: very large, almost,
• 1:13:11
  SPEAKER_03: rolled like humanoid.
• 1:13:21
  SPEAKER_00: Is it just kind of like a, like a humanoid shape?
• 1:13:25
  SPEAKER_00: Is it like, is there a color to it or is it all like Black or...
• 1:13:33
  SPEAKER_03: It is...
• 1:13:36
  SPEAKER_03: You can't tell, like,
• 1:13:38
  SPEAKER_03: the color of its skin,
• 1:13:40
  SPEAKER_03: but it has four arms and eight wings, and it is wearing very elegant armor.
• 1:13:50
  SPEAKER_00: Four arms, eight wings, elegant armor,
• 1:14:00
  SPEAKER_00: Can I make out its face?
• 1:14:06
  SPEAKER_03: Its face is obscured.
• 1:14:12
  SPEAKER_03: And then you see in front of it
• 1:14:16
  SPEAKER_03: many smaller beings
• 1:14:19
  SPEAKER_03: that share various traits with it.
• 1:14:25
  SPEAKER_03: And then behind this individual is this very large rainbow scaled dragon.
• 1:14:37
  SPEAKER_03: Why does that sound familiar?
• 1:14:39
  SPEAKER_03: And then you see
• 1:14:46
  SPEAKER_03: individual cast out
• 1:14:49
  SPEAKER_03: to the abyss, to the void.
• 1:14:53
  SPEAKER_00: What, by the By the Rainbow Dragon?
• 1:14:57
  SPEAKER_03: No.
• 1:14:59
  SPEAKER_03: Not by anything in particular, just passed out, separated, maybe forgotten.
• 1:15:09
  SPEAKER_00: Sounds like an acid trick.
• 1:15:14
  SPEAKER_00: I don't really know how to quantify everything that I've been seeing right now.
• 1:15:24
  SPEAKER_00: I guess from the outside it would just look like Joachim is frozen while he tries
• 1:15:30
  SPEAKER_00: to process all of this.
• 1:15:35
  SPEAKER_03: Then you see
• 1:15:44
  SPEAKER_03: the void
• 1:15:46
  SPEAKER_03: fractured pieces of Cosmos
• 1:15:52
  SPEAKER_03: the edges
• 1:16:03
  SPEAKER_03: Messed out.
• 1:16:06
  SPEAKER_03: Individuals falling through, moving through.
• 1:16:10
  SPEAKER_03: It's hard to tell now what's going on.
• 1:16:15
  SPEAKER_03: And then you feel individuals staring through you with this seething rage.
• 1:16:26
  SPEAKER_03: And you see him standing in front of an orb.
• 1:16:33
  SPEAKER_03: In some kind of ruined temple.
• 1:17:02
  SPEAKER_03: And then you're shunting out of your true sight from focusing in on that.
• 1:17:17
  SPEAKER_00: If I'm back seeing normally again, what am I seeing right now?
• 1:17:24
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, you're still seeing true sight, but it is just a face in a void.
• 1:17:33
  SPEAKER_00: I would ask it again.
• 1:17:35
  SPEAKER_03: What are you?
• 1:17:38
  SPEAKER_03: I thought you just went on an adventure to figure that out.
• 1:17:47
  SPEAKER_00: I'd rather hear what you say rather than tell you what I saw.
• 1:17:57
  SPEAKER_03: Not one for riddles and the like, are we?
• 1:18:01
  SPEAKER_00: Not particularly, no.
• 1:18:03
  SPEAKER_00: Make my brain hurt.
• 1:18:07
  SPEAKER_03: I am, as some refer to me, the Forgotten Son.
• 1:18:19
  SPEAKER_03: Not to be mistaken with the Forgotten Son.
• 1:18:24
  SPEAKER_03: You get to figure out which son is which.
• 1:18:33
  SPEAKER_00: I just kind of squint my eyes, but I'm making mental notes of all of this.
• 1:18:47
  SPEAKER_00: Well, if you've been forgotten, then we probably prefer to just forget you again.
• 1:18:54
  SPEAKER_03: I'm not going to be forgotten this time.
• 1:19:01
  SPEAKER_03: And then the darkness vanishes from in front of you.
• 1:19:11
  SPEAKER_03: The two guards.
• 1:19:16
  SPEAKER_03: What about the two guards?
• 1:19:19
  SPEAKER_03: They vanished with the darkness.
• 1:19:21
  SPEAKER_03: They're gone.
• 1:19:22
  SPEAKER_03: OK.
• 1:19:22
  SPEAKER_00: They're gone.
• 1:19:23
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 1:19:24
  SPEAKER_00: I pause for a moment.
• 1:19:25
  SPEAKER_00: I look at you, Noor.
• 1:19:28
  SPEAKER_00: I don't see anything.
• 1:19:30
  SPEAKER_00: But then I kind of whip out the book, the Zilganoff book, and I will cast Legend Lore.
• 1:19:39
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 1:19:42
  SPEAKER_03: You don't use that very frequently, so I have to look and see.
• 1:19:46
  SPEAKER_03: I
• 1:19:53
  SPEAKER_03: think you've used that maybe once before.
• 1:19:55
  SPEAKER_00: I believe so.
• 1:19:59
  SPEAKER_00: It has been used, but it's not pretty good.
• 1:20:21
  SPEAKER_03: What are you naming or describing?
• 1:20:25
  SPEAKER_00: Based on I'm trying to relay as much of what this entity has just told me.
• 1:20:31
  SPEAKER_00: Refer to himself as the Forgotten Son, not to be confused with the Forgotten Son.
• 1:20:38
  SPEAKER_03: Which son is which?
• 1:20:43
  SPEAKER_00: I guess I'm hoping that Zilganov can help me suss out Witch, because I do not know.
• 1:20:49
  SPEAKER_03: Are you asking for help to suss out Witch before finishing the casting of Legendlore?
• 1:20:56
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 1:20:58
  SPEAKER_01: Huh.
• 1:21:00
  SPEAKER_03: You want more information for free?
• 1:21:08
  SPEAKER_00: I think that whatever this entity is might be worth something to you if you want it.
• 1:21:16
  SPEAKER_00: And if you want me to go after it, I need more information.
• 1:21:21
  SPEAKER_00: Especially if it's abducting and killing random people.
• 1:21:25
  SPEAKER_03: I'm not I don't care about the random people, abductions, that's fine.
• 1:21:31
  SPEAKER_03: I used to do that.
• 1:21:39
  SPEAKER_03: However, sending you on a hunt for this entity intrigues me.
• 1:21:51
  SPEAKER_03: Even as old as I am,
• 1:21:55
  SPEAKER_03: There have only ever been whispers of
• 1:22:01
  SPEAKER_03: the forgotten son.
• 1:22:07
  SPEAKER_03: Tricky name.
• 1:22:11
  SPEAKER_03: Double entendre.
• 1:22:17
  SPEAKER_03: He is both forgotten and the son, but also a son.
• 1:22:26
  SPEAKER_03: So either way, you can't be right or wrong.
• 1:22:35
  SPEAKER_03: He did that on purpose.
• 1:22:44
  SPEAKER_03: He gave you a riddle of a name that can neither be correct or incorrect.
• 1:22:55
  SPEAKER_00: You entities just like to play your stupid games for no reason.
• 1:23:01
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not surprised that you all stay trapped in whatever hell dimensions you all.
• 1:23:06
  SPEAKER_03: I don't think he's trapped anymore.
• 1:23:13
  SPEAKER_03: Also may mean that he is somewhat mortal.
• 1:23:22
  SPEAKER_00: Is there a way for me to track him?
• 1:23:26
  SPEAKER_00: He seems to emit darkness abilities.
• 1:23:35
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, see what the spell tells you.
• 1:23:38
  SPEAKER_03: I can give you some more direction and guidance on it.
• 1:23:47
  SPEAKER_03: Would expect you to do all you can to hunt down the entity.
• 1:23:56
  SPEAKER_00: Again, Hunting down is one thing, but I need to be able to track him.
• 1:24:01
  SPEAKER_00: If he's just going to pop up randomly, there's no hunt to be had.
• 1:24:11
  SPEAKER_03: Legend Thor, with the added information that you have.
• 1:24:16
  SPEAKER_03: The Forgotten Son, or The Forgotten Son,
• 1:24:22
  SPEAKER_03: has very limited references.
• 1:24:26
  SPEAKER_03: It's more...
• 1:24:31
  SPEAKER_03: Whisper down the alley type and less written or recorded resources of history.
• 1:24:45
  SPEAKER_03: What can be gathered is one of the old gods who has since been forgotten in modern times
• 1:24:57
  SPEAKER_03: had
• 1:25:00
  SPEAKER_03: A child that was abandoned or forgotten or both.
• 1:25:08
  SPEAKER_03: No one agrees on what or how and left
• 1:25:16
  SPEAKER_03: in the
• 1:25:19
  SPEAKER_03: realm beyond.
• 1:25:34
  SPEAKER_03: The splintered Cosmos.
• 1:25:40
  SPEAKER_03: This is most likely where
• 1:25:44
  SPEAKER_03: he grew and got warped and changed.
• 1:25:50
  SPEAKER_03: And if it is true that he has escaped and is mortal,
• 1:25:55
  SPEAKER_03: he could both be stopped and defeated,
• 1:25:59
  SPEAKER_03: but he could also become the bringer of ruins.
• 1:26:08
  SPEAKER_03: More specific information,
• 1:26:12
  SPEAKER_03: there aren't very many islands to be had here on Aetheros.
• 1:26:19
  SPEAKER_03: And even less that would not be already heavily either inhabited or patrolled.
• 1:26:29
  SPEAKER_03: There are a few candidates.
• 1:26:32
  SPEAKER_03: Some of the frozen isles, mainly to the south.
• 1:26:37
  SPEAKER_03: Could have abandoned temples that could house individuals.
• 1:26:44
  SPEAKER_03: Maybe in the thick jungles of some of the lesser populated pirate isles.
• 1:26:52
  SPEAKER_03: Or the mysterious island of Ryugo to the north of the continent you're currently on,
• 1:27:01
  SPEAKER_03: near and on the other side of Litvaultia.
• 1:27:18
  SPEAKER_03: Zilganoth speaks to you again.
• 1:27:20
  SPEAKER_03: That
• 1:27:23
  SPEAKER_03: all the information that I have and are able to grant you on this individual
• 1:27:29
  SPEAKER_03: or creature.
• 1:27:35
  SPEAKER_03: Packing him would be challenging.
• 1:27:41
  SPEAKER_03: However, if we can Get one of his associates.
• 1:27:45
  SPEAKER_03: Maybe we will have a better chance at
• 1:27:49
  SPEAKER_03: blocking down his trail or his location.
• 1:28:02
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I don't know if we can't track him.
• 1:28:05
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know how to track one of his associates.
• 1:28:09
  SPEAKER_00: I was following.
• 1:28:12
  SPEAKER_00: Just a couple of shabby-looking guards who are apparently infiltrating another...
• 1:28:21
  SPEAKER_00: who are apparently infiltrating...
• 1:28:22
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 1:28:29
  SPEAKER_03: Maybe your friends do.
• 1:28:36
  SPEAKER_03: Maybe.
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• 1:28:57
  SPEAKER_00: If he's not sharing anything else,
• 1:29:00
  SPEAKER_00: I would probably end the conversation and then snap back to what's happening here.
• 1:29:08
  SPEAKER_00: And then basically just tell Unora that we've got a bit of a problem
• 1:29:12
  SPEAKER_00: and relay everything on my end that has happened to her.
• 1:29:17
  SPEAKER_00: That I tracked these shabby looking guards,
• 1:29:19
  SPEAKER_00: followed them to this alleyway where they proceeded to use what I assumed
• 1:29:25
  SPEAKER_00: to be some sort of sending stone to communicate with another group
• 1:29:29
  SPEAKER_00: or some other individual.
• 1:29:31
  SPEAKER_00: I have no idea.
• 1:29:32
  SPEAKER_00: I have no idea what was said.
• 1:29:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um...
• 1:29:36
  SPEAKER_00: I then cast darkness and proceeded to speak to these guys who then relayed to me
• 1:29:43
  SPEAKER_00: that I had it backwards,
• 1:29:45
  SPEAKER_00: that they were in fact infiltrating this shadowy contingent of the Keldesian Guard
• 1:29:54
  SPEAKER_00: and were then consumed by this shadowy entity that she then saw.
• 1:30:04
  SPEAKER_00: I would then explain to her, you know, try explain to her what I saw when I use true seeing.
• 1:30:13
  SPEAKER_00: If it helps,
• 1:30:14
  SPEAKER_00: I will use Minor Illusion to create an image of the entity as I saw it
• 1:30:21
  SPEAKER_00: through true seeing.
• 1:30:24
  SPEAKER_00: And yeah, basically just tell her that I have no idea what the fuck this is all about.
• 1:30:33
  SPEAKER_00: And this is all tits up and crazy.
• 1:30:37
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah.
• 1:30:39
  SPEAKER_03: Haka and Deedle are also around you at this point.
• 1:30:45
  SPEAKER_03: They have moved closer to you once the darkness was up.
• 1:30:51
  SPEAKER_00: Wonderful.
• 1:30:52
  SPEAKER_00: So you all can get filled in on the crazy bullshit of a new dark god.
• 1:30:59
  SPEAKER_00: New dark god's son...
• 1:31:02
  SPEAKER_00: If I'm remembering Zilganoff's info correctly.
• 1:31:08
  SPEAKER_03: Didn't say it was a dark god.
• 1:31:09
  SPEAKER_03: He just said it was a forgotten son.
• 1:31:15
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I'm putting the dark connotation on there based on what this thing just did.
• 1:31:22
  SPEAKER_00: If it wasn't dark before, it's goddamn dark now, I would assume.
• 1:31:27
  SPEAKER_00: If it's just kind of murking a couple of guards outright and hunting down Quote-unquote rats.
• 1:31:38
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, this is definitely not what I would consider to be a good entity.
• 1:31:45
  SPEAKER_01: So why are we still in the darkness?
• 1:31:49
  SPEAKER_03: You're not.
• 1:31:49
  SPEAKER_03: The darkness is gone now.
• 1:31:51
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, okay.
• 1:31:52
  SPEAKER_01: So the entity went away, the darkness went away?
• 1:31:55
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 1:31:56
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 1:32:01
  SPEAKER_02: Do I recognize, uh,
• 1:32:31
  SPEAKER_03: Do you not have a history modifier?
• 1:32:44
  SPEAKER_00: No, I have nothing for history.
• 1:32:47
  SPEAKER_00: That's impressive
• 1:33:02
  SPEAKER_00: Is it?
• 1:33:02
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, why would he remember?
• 1:33:08
  SPEAKER_02: I don't have a single skill with no modifier.
• 1:33:14
  SPEAKER_03: Thirteen?
• 1:33:15
  SPEAKER_01: Mm-hmm.
• 1:33:18
  SPEAKER_03: It's like, it's the scratch of your brain.
• 1:33:22
  SPEAKER_03: It's right there.
• 1:33:25
  SPEAKER_03: But you can't put your finger on it.
• 1:33:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, he just looks extremely frustrated.
• 1:33:31
  SPEAKER_02: Can I try to help him?
• 1:33:33
  SPEAKER_02: It looks like maybe one of my bosses at one point.
• 1:33:39
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, if it's your boss, it's your boss.
• 1:33:46
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know your bosses.
• 1:33:50
  SPEAKER_03: Help ferry her around to various areas.
• 1:33:52
  SPEAKER_03: So you do have some contact with them, just not as much.
• 1:33:55
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you're my boat boy.
• 1:33:58
  SPEAKER_00: Some.
• 1:33:59
  SPEAKER_00: I don't talk to these people.
• 1:34:02
  SPEAKER_00: You just ride the boat.
• 1:34:05
  SPEAKER_02: Who knows?
• 1:34:05
  SPEAKER_02: Maybe you tried to sleep with one of them.
• 1:34:09
  SPEAKER_00: I'd remember that.
• 1:34:10
  SPEAKER_00: This is not hidden.
• 1:34:17
  SPEAKER_03: Actually, you all would have at least had a conversation with him.
• 1:34:28
  SPEAKER_02: So with Dee and Krakka?
• 1:34:30
  SPEAKER_03: And in airship.
• 1:34:32
  SPEAKER_02: Oh.
• 1:34:35
  SPEAKER_02: Wait.
• 1:34:39
  SPEAKER_02: The hand.
• 1:34:44
  SPEAKER_02: Is it?
• 1:34:46
  SPEAKER_01: Not quite.
• 1:34:47
  SPEAKER_02: The fist.
• 1:34:49
  SPEAKER_01: Well, no,
• 1:34:49
  SPEAKER_01: it wasn't the iron fist because he wasn't on the airship,
• 1:34:52
  SPEAKER_01: but it was his right hand man, which I think
• 1:34:55
  SPEAKER_03: was the iron man.
• 1:34:56
  SPEAKER_03: Was on the airship very briefly.
• 1:35:00
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 1:35:01
  SPEAKER_03: And then he disappeared after it crashed.
• 1:35:04
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 1:35:05
  SPEAKER_03: And no one's seen him in a while.
• 1:35:07
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 1:35:08
  SPEAKER_02: Is that the man I saw?
• 1:35:12
  SPEAKER_03: Looks, he's a little raggedy, but he looks pretty close.
• 1:35:17
  SPEAKER_02: So like it could be him if he hasn't shaved and done his hair?
• 1:35:21
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 1:35:24
  SPEAKER_01: I know who would be able to tell us.
• 1:35:28
  SPEAKER_02: Kyda might.
• 1:35:30
  SPEAKER_01: Somebody's niece.
• 1:35:34
  SPEAKER_02: Remember, we aren't sure if
• 1:35:38
  SPEAKER_01: she actually
• 1:35:39
  SPEAKER_02: is.
• 1:35:40
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, fuck it.
• 1:35:41
  SPEAKER_02: Let's go show her.
• 1:35:44
  SPEAKER_01: You know, because if it is him and she doesn't recognize, then she's lying.
• 1:35:53
  SPEAKER_01: But we don't really know if this is him.
• 1:35:55
  SPEAKER_01: But if it is, then let's just try it.
• 1:36:02
  SPEAKER_03: Assuming that you're having these conversations as you're walking back
• 1:36:04
  SPEAKER_03: to your guild hall as a collective.
• 1:36:07
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, why not?
• 1:36:14
  SPEAKER_03: Somebody who hasn't made a perception check, make a perception check.
• 1:36:18
  SPEAKER_03: I guess that would leave Deedle or Lala.
• 1:36:21
  SPEAKER_02: Did I make one?
• 1:36:23
  SPEAKER_03: Earlier.
• 1:36:24
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 1:36:26
  SPEAKER_03: Joakim and Krakka both did as well.
• 1:36:30
  SPEAKER_03: So D, if you want to make one.
• 1:36:42
  SPEAKER_03: There's a lot of background noise.
• 1:36:44
  SPEAKER_01: Can somebody roll for me?
• 1:36:46
  SPEAKER_03: My computer just went down.
• 1:36:49
  SPEAKER_03: That's always a good time.
• 1:36:51
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 1:36:52
  SPEAKER_03: I will roll for you.
• 1:36:52
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you.
• 1:36:54
  SPEAKER_03: Let's see what you get for perception.
• 1:37:00
  SPEAKER_03: Plus nine.
• 1:37:01
  SPEAKER_03: Nineteen.
• 1:37:04
  SPEAKER_01: Not bad.
• 1:37:05
  SPEAKER_01: Not bad.
• 1:37:06
  SPEAKER_03: You get the sense that you are being either watched or followed.
• 1:37:19
  SPEAKER_01: Keep peeking over my shoulder and around to see if I notice anybody eyeballing me up.
• 1:37:29
  SPEAKER_03: You don't notice anybody,
• 1:37:32
  SPEAKER_03: but anywhere where there's shade or shadows,
• 1:37:36
  SPEAKER_03: it feels like there's something staring at you from them.
• 1:37:40
  SPEAKER_01: Eh.
• 1:37:40
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna tell Croc of that.
• 1:37:49
  SPEAKER_01: Oh?
• 1:37:52
  SPEAKER_01: It just feels like we're being watched by something, not someone.
• 1:38:03
  SPEAKER_01: Should we split and meet up at the guild?
• 1:38:08
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that sounds like a plan.
• 1:38:10
  SPEAKER_01: Followed?
• 1:38:12
  SPEAKER_01: That sounds like a plan.
• 1:38:20
  SPEAKER_01: I'll get a little closer to either Yakimi or whoever I'm next to and whisper
• 1:38:25
  SPEAKER_01: the little plan to them.
• 1:38:27
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 1:38:29
  SPEAKER_01: I'm going to head back.
• 1:38:34
  SPEAKER_03: So what came in,
• 1:38:35
  SPEAKER_03: you know,
• 1:38:35
  SPEAKER_03: you are informed that Deedle felt like you were being watched or followed
• 1:38:43
  SPEAKER_03: by something in the shadows.
• 1:38:49
  SPEAKER_03: And then the plan is to split up and meet at the guild hall.
• 1:38:56
  SPEAKER_01: So like groups of two.
• 1:38:59
  SPEAKER_00: Do I sense that same entity?
• 1:39:03
  SPEAKER_00: In the shadows?
• 1:39:05
  SPEAKER_03: You do not, no.
• 1:39:07
  SPEAKER_03: No.
• 1:39:10
  SPEAKER_03: Feels more like the thing that had tendrils grab your shadow.
• 1:39:18
  SPEAKER_03: Which is different from the entity that was in your shadow.
• 1:39:24
  SPEAKER_00: Different from the...
• 1:39:25
  SPEAKER_03: You know the feeling of it.
• 1:39:29
  SPEAKER_02: So I feel it?
• 1:39:31
  SPEAKER_03: You feel it after it's pointed out.
• 1:39:33
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 1:39:39
  SPEAKER_02: I can take Lala and find a different way back.
• 1:39:42
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 1:39:45
  SPEAKER_01: Like, basically just, like, split the houses.
• 1:39:48
  SPEAKER_01: Like, you go down one street,
• 1:39:49
  SPEAKER_01: we go down the other,
• 1:39:50
  SPEAKER_01: and we just look down the alleyway to make sure we see each other and...
• 1:39:55
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
• 1:39:58
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 1:40:00
  SPEAKER_03: You do so.
• 1:40:03
  SPEAKER_03: And you all still feel like you're being watched and followed.
• 1:40:09
  SPEAKER_03: From the shadows.
• 1:40:17
  SPEAKER_03: Joaquim, is your detect magic still up?
• 1:40:23
  SPEAKER_00: At the moment, no, but I can turn it on.
• 1:40:26
  SPEAKER_03: I was just curious if it was still up or not.
• 1:40:30
  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 1:40:32
  Okay.
• 1:40:42
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just gonna make sure that I stay out of the shadows.
• 1:40:46
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna stay in the light.
• 1:40:48
  SPEAKER_03: It's not too dark yet.
• 1:40:52
  SPEAKER_01: Like even the shadow over,
• 1:40:55
  SPEAKER_01: like as I'm walking down,
• 1:40:56
  SPEAKER_01: like the shadow overcasts on the street,
• 1:40:58
  SPEAKER_01: I'm going to make sure I walk in the light path.
• 1:41:01
  SPEAKER_01: Just because it's creeping me out.
• 1:41:08
  SPEAKER_03: So then feeling like you're being watched,
• 1:41:09
  SPEAKER_03: do you make it back to your guild hall without incident?
• 1:41:28
  SPEAKER_03: I just got the door open.
• 1:41:30
  SPEAKER_03: She's just cleaning up and around inside.
• 1:41:40
  SPEAKER_03: Chris is running around with a feather duster pretending to dust.
• 1:41:47
  SPEAKER_03: Welcome back.
• 1:41:48
  SPEAKER_03: Did you have a relaxing time?
• 1:41:51
  SPEAKER_03: I don't.
• 1:41:59
  SPEAKER_03: To all of you, because you guys knew you guys were all going out.
• 1:42:04
  SPEAKER_03: She didn't know what you were doing.
• 1:42:07
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, no, it wasn't.
• 1:42:10
  SPEAKER_00: It wasn't relaxing.
• 1:42:15
  SPEAKER_00: And then again,
• 1:42:15
  SPEAKER_00: I would explain everything to her and ask her her thoughts on the whole situation.
• 1:42:24
  SPEAKER_03: Well, I don't have my library here,
• 1:42:27
  SPEAKER_03: but there were some ancient texts that referred to a old belief system.
• 1:42:35
  SPEAKER_03: What was his name?
• 1:42:37
  SPEAKER_03: Something, someone's or something's path of creation.
• 1:42:41
  SPEAKER_03: It'll come to me eventually.
• 1:42:45
  SPEAKER_03: It is theorized that this path of creation is the start of all
• 1:42:53
  SPEAKER_03: belief systems.
• 1:42:58
  SPEAKER_03: Old, new, forgotten, all of them started with this path of creation.
• 1:43:14
  SPEAKER_03: There's so much going on right now that it's take me time
• 1:43:17
  SPEAKER_03: to compile more detailed information on the subject, especially without a library.
• 1:43:37
  SPEAKER_01: Did y'all still have that creepy feeling the whole way back?
• 1:43:43
  SPEAKER_02: Yep.
• 1:43:46
  SPEAKER_01: Do we still have that creepy feeling?
• 1:43:49
  SPEAKER_01: No.
• 1:43:55
  SPEAKER_00: It was like eyes in darkness.
• 1:44:07
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, can I minor illusion the man in Sea of Kaida knows him?
• 1:44:22
  SPEAKER_03: He seems familiar.
• 1:44:39
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, so let's see.
• 1:44:43
  SPEAKER_03: That's, uh, Dickhead, what's his face?
• 1:44:50
  SPEAKER_02: Fuck.
• 1:44:52
  SPEAKER_03: Iron Hand.
• 1:44:53
  SPEAKER_03: Or no, not him.
• 1:44:54
  SPEAKER_03: The other one.
• 1:44:55
  SPEAKER_03: Who's the Iron Hand's boss?
• 1:44:58
  SPEAKER_02: The Iron Fist?
• 1:44:59
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, him.
• 1:45:00
  SPEAKER_03: Dickhead, what's his face?
• 1:45:01
  SPEAKER_03: You never liked working for him, but he paid well.
• 1:45:07
  SPEAKER_03: That's gotta be him.
• 1:45:09
  SPEAKER_03: He looks like he aged like a decade.
• 1:45:15
  SPEAKER_02: Being evil doesn't make you pretty.
• 1:45:18
  SPEAKER_03: I'm not entirely sure that he's evil.
• 1:45:21
  SPEAKER_02: He's not nice either.
• 1:45:23
  SPEAKER_03: Just because you're not nice doesn't mean you're evil.
• 1:45:26
  SPEAKER_02: No, but when you're nicer, you age better.
• 1:45:29
  SPEAKER_02: Proven fact.
• 1:45:30
  SPEAKER_03: That's fair.
• 1:45:31
  SPEAKER_03: Not when you're a dickhead.
• 1:45:37
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that's definitely him.
• 1:45:38
  SPEAKER_03: It has to be.
• 1:45:39
  SPEAKER_02: So it's not the Iron Hand, it's the Iron Fist?
• 1:45:43
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 1:45:43
  SPEAKER_02: Is there a difference?
• 1:45:45
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 1:45:46
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, I wasn't sure if I had those separate.
• 1:45:48
  SPEAKER_03: Iron Fist Emnek.
• 1:45:50
  SPEAKER_02: Fist Emnek.
• 1:45:56
  SPEAKER_03: Hand is his second in command.
• 1:45:59
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, so the fist is in charge.
• 1:46:02
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 1:46:02
  SPEAKER_02: And the fist is the one that we saw.
• 1:46:04
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 1:46:07
  SPEAKER_02: On the airship.
• 1:46:11
  SPEAKER_03: Briefly, you did most of your talking to the Iron Hand.
• 1:46:14
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 1:46:15
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 1:46:16
  SPEAKER_02: And then.
• 1:46:19
  SPEAKER_02: Who I just saw was the fist.
• 1:46:23
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 1:46:24
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 1:46:26
  SPEAKER_02: Does.
• 1:46:29
  SPEAKER_02: Little girl.
• 1:46:30
  SPEAKER_03: Iris.
• 1:46:31
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 1:46:32
  SPEAKER_02: Does Iris react to anything?
• 1:46:36
  SPEAKER_03: She's currently running around with a feather duster.
• 1:46:38
  SPEAKER_02: I'm having a giant floating head in my hand.
• 1:46:41
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, it's a small, it's minor illusion, so it's a small floating head.
• 1:46:48
  SPEAKER_03: You have to get, she's...
• 1:46:49
  SPEAKER_02: Hey, Iris!
• 1:46:50
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah?
• 1:46:51
  SPEAKER_02: What's this?
• 1:46:53
  SPEAKER_03: Do you need me to clean it?
• 1:46:55
  SPEAKER_03: And it just... Wow.
• 1:47:02
  SPEAKER_03: Keeps doing it over and over.
• 1:47:03
  SPEAKER_02: I yank it back.
• 1:47:05
  SPEAKER_02: Who is this?
• 1:47:06
  SPEAKER_02: Do you know this?
• 1:47:08
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that's uncle.
• 1:47:14
  SPEAKER_02: Can I cast detect thoughts on her?
• 1:47:16
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 1:47:17
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I do so.
• 1:47:18
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 1:47:22
  SPEAKER_02: It's just swish noises.
• 1:47:26
  SPEAKER_02: Can I try to probe deeper?
• 1:47:27
  SPEAKER_02: Sure.
• 1:47:30
  SPEAKER_03: You have to make a wisdom check.
• 1:47:36
  SPEAKER_02: I thought that she had to.
• 1:47:39
  SPEAKER_03: I guess she makes a wisdom saving girl.
• 1:47:44
  SPEAKER_03: You probe deeper.
• 1:47:45
  SPEAKER_02: What
• 1:47:48
  SPEAKER_03: are you looking for?
• 1:47:50
  SPEAKER_02: Any remembrance of her uncle?
• 1:47:54
  SPEAKER_03: She misses him.
• 1:47:56
  SPEAKER_03: She hasn't seen him.
• 1:47:57
  SPEAKER_03: She doesn't know how long it's been.
• 1:47:58
  SPEAKER_02: Any memories?
• 1:48:04
  SPEAKER_02: Feeding his face would trigger some, I would hope.
• 1:48:08
  SPEAKER_03: Hanging out in his office with him.
• 1:48:10
  SPEAKER_02: So she has actually been in his presence?
• 1:48:14
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, he's been at her house at some point.
• 1:48:18
  SPEAKER_03: He was the one that...
• 1:48:24
  SPEAKER_03: Helped her family.
• 1:48:28
  SPEAKER_02: Another dead son.
• 1:48:29
  SPEAKER_02: Didn't help very much.
• 1:48:30
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, with money.
• 1:48:32
  SPEAKER_03: She remembers him throwing sacks on the table and then leaving.
• 1:48:37
  SPEAKER_02: Doesn't help much.
• 1:48:38
  SPEAKER_02: They're dead now.
• 1:48:41
  SPEAKER_02: And now I'm the one buying her clothes and food.
• 1:48:43
  SPEAKER_02: I
• 1:48:50
  SPEAKER_03: see him.
• 1:48:53
  SPEAKER_02: Maybe.
• 1:49:03
  SPEAKER_03: She goes back to running around with her feather duster.
• 1:49:11
  SPEAKER_02: We should go find General Malachi.
• 1:49:15
  SPEAKER_03: It is becoming evening.
• 1:49:23
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know that this should wait.
• 1:49:32
  SPEAKER_03: Does anyone have any alternatives, objections, other ideas?
• 1:49:39
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, we...
• 1:49:40
  SPEAKER_00: Do we still have that Sending Stone?
• 1:49:44
  SPEAKER_03: You do, but it only goes to Lady Wren.
• 1:49:47
  SPEAKER_00: Lady Wren can speak to Malachan.
• 1:49:50
  SPEAKER_03: You assume.
• 1:49:52
  SPEAKER_03: We do.
• 1:49:53
  SPEAKER_00: They are part of the same council.
• 1:49:56
  SPEAKER_00: They have each other's ears.
• 1:49:58
  SPEAKER_03: Lady Wren is not on the Kaldesian council.
• 1:50:04
  SPEAKER_01: Who has more of a connection with the Iron Fist, Lady Wren or the council?
• 1:50:13
  SPEAKER_03: That would be a question for either Wakimian or Kaida.
• 1:50:19
  SPEAKER_03: Who are you asking?
• 1:50:21
  SPEAKER_01: The group.
• 1:50:22
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I just asked it out loud as we're talking.
• 1:50:25
  SPEAKER_03: Who would like to answer?
• 1:50:33
  SPEAKER_02: Probably Kaida.
• 1:50:36
  SPEAKER_02: But I don't think either of them would because he works under the Onyx Accord, I believe.
• 1:50:46
  SPEAKER_03: Unfortunately, the Iron Hand is part of the Ashanian-Escionage Division.
• 1:50:55
  SPEAKER_03: He has allies everywhere, but he doesn't really work closely with anyone.
• 1:51:01
  SPEAKER_03: He plays his cards close to his chest.
• 1:51:13
  SPEAKER_03: He would probably be more likely to ally himself with the Keldesian Council before
• 1:51:18
  SPEAKER_03: the tribes of Arlegia only because they reside on the same continent as
• 1:51:26
  SPEAKER_03: the Keldesian Council.
• 1:51:30
  SPEAKER_03: They being Eshania.
• 1:51:35
  [music]
• 1:51:45
  SPEAKER_03: Is up to you all.
• 1:51:49
  SPEAKER_03: Are you going to send a message to Lady Ren or are you going to go try
• 1:51:52
  SPEAKER_03: to hunt down General Malachi?
• 1:52:02
  SPEAKER_02: They could go to the council building or we could let Lady Ren know to have
• 1:52:09
  SPEAKER_02: to tell him to meet us at the council building.
• 1:52:15
  SPEAKER_00: I think that Lady Red knowing would only be beneficial.
• 1:52:25
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, do you want to let her know then?
• 1:52:27
  SPEAKER_02: I
• 1:52:42
  SPEAKER_03: think you have a stone.
• 1:52:44
  SPEAKER_02: No, it's in the group.
• 1:52:46
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, so anyone can pick up the Sending Stone, whoever wants to.
• 1:52:57
  SPEAKER_03: Usually it's been Lala, but the team has also done so and so as you know.
• 1:53:02
  SPEAKER_01: We'll grab it.
• 1:53:08
  SPEAKER_03: You get the Sending Stone.
• 1:53:09
  SPEAKER_03: What is it that you say?
• 1:53:15
  SPEAKER_01: We might need help.
• 1:53:21
  SPEAKER_03: I'm sorry, who is this?
• 1:53:24
  SPEAKER_03: Who's we?
• 1:53:30
  SPEAKER_01: Some people you may know.
• 1:53:31
  SPEAKER_03: This is a restricted channel.
• 1:53:35
  SPEAKER_03: I'm not sure how or why you are transmitting over this.
• 1:53:53
  SPEAKER_03: This is a restricted channel.
• 1:53:56
  SPEAKER_03: Please give this back to the individual you took it from.
• 1:54:02
  SPEAKER_02: This connects to Lady Ren, yes.
• 1:54:07
  SPEAKER_03: Depends on who's asking.
• 1:54:08
  SPEAKER_03: I cannot give out classified information.
• 1:54:18
  SPEAKER_02: Detective Grey Breeze and the Second Hand Souls.
• 1:54:23
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, you are one of the priority contacts.
• 1:54:26
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 1:54:27
  SPEAKER_03: This is Lady Wren's direct line.
• 1:54:30
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 1:54:31
  SPEAKER_03: Lady Wren is currently on the battlefield.
• 1:54:35
  SPEAKER_02: Of course she is.
• 1:54:37
  SPEAKER_02: Do you have a direct line to General Malachi?
• 1:54:41
  SPEAKER_03: I don't have a direct line to anyone.
• 1:54:42
  SPEAKER_03: I just watch all of these stones until one of them glows.
• 1:54:46
  SPEAKER_02: Is there a stone there that goes to General Malachi?
• 1:54:49
  SPEAKER_03: Not that I'm aware.
• 1:54:51
  SPEAKER_03: I do not know who General Malachi is.
• 1:54:54
  SPEAKER_03: I am a communication soldier.
• 1:54:58
  SPEAKER_03: I just finished boot camp last week.
• 1:55:04
  SPEAKER_02: Well, all right, Greeny.
• 1:55:06
  SPEAKER_02: Is there any for the Keldus Council?
• 1:55:12
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, we have this big red one that says don't touch unless emergency.
• 1:55:19
  SPEAKER_02: Is that the only one?
• 1:55:22
  SPEAKER_03: These aren't labeled.
• 1:55:27
  SPEAKER_03: Someone stole all the labels.
• 1:55:32
  SPEAKER_02: This is really bad.
• 1:55:34
  SPEAKER_02: Do you have a superior there?
• 1:55:37
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 1:55:38
  SPEAKER_02: Can I talk to them?
• 1:55:40
  SPEAKER_03: To go find them.
• 1:55:42
  SPEAKER_02: So he's not there.
• 1:55:44
  SPEAKER_03: You hear a thunk.
• 1:55:52
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, that's a hell of an initiation.
• 1:55:56
  SPEAKER_01: Here you go.
• 1:55:56
  SPEAKER_01: I come out of boot camp.
• 1:55:57
  SPEAKER_01: Here's your first duty.
• 1:55:58
  SPEAKER_01: And they take all the name tags away from the phone calls.
• 1:56:06
  SPEAKER_03: Listen, you new recruit.
• 1:56:08
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I know you've graduated.
• 1:56:09
  SPEAKER_03: This is ridiculous.
• 1:56:10
  SPEAKER_03: Why aren't any of these labeled?
• 1:56:12
  SPEAKER_03: I don't care what they did.
• 1:56:13
  SPEAKER_03: Relabel them.
• 1:56:14
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know what they did.
• 1:56:16
  SPEAKER_03: Which one is it?
• 1:56:17
  SPEAKER_03: It's that one.
• 1:56:18
  SPEAKER_03: You didn't hang it up.
• 1:56:19
  SPEAKER_03: No, I did not hang it.
• 1:56:20
  SPEAKER_03: I just sat down.
• 1:56:24
  SPEAKER_02: Excuse me.
• 1:56:25
  SPEAKER_03: This is the commanding officer.
• 1:56:30
  SPEAKER_02: Thank fucking God there's an adult.
• 1:56:33
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, technically, we're all adults.
• 1:56:35
  SPEAKER_03: We don't send children to battle or we're not.
• 1:56:37
  SPEAKER_02: He's not battling.
• 1:56:38
  SPEAKER_02: He's manning a phone.
• 1:56:40
  SPEAKER_03: Wait, someone needs to man the communication lines.
• 1:56:43
  SPEAKER_02: Do you have a communication line for General Malachi?
• 1:56:47
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, we do.
• 1:56:49
  SPEAKER_03: It's for emergencies only.
• 1:56:51
  SPEAKER_02: Kind of an emergency.
• 1:56:55
  SPEAKER_02: Is it the big red one that says do not touch?
• 1:56:58
  SPEAKER_03: No, that one is to alert everyone at the same time.
• 1:57:02
  SPEAKER_02: Well, we don't need that.
• 1:57:04
  SPEAKER_03: That one also gets broken.
• 1:57:06
  SPEAKER_02: You have to break glass in case of emergency?
• 1:57:09
  SPEAKER_03: No, we have to break the crystal itself.
• 1:57:12
  SPEAKER_03: And it just sends out an SOS alert.
• 1:57:17
  SPEAKER_02: That sounds useful.
• 1:57:18
  SPEAKER_02: Could you let General Malachi know that he needs to meet the second hand souls at
• 1:57:24
  SPEAKER_02: the council meeting at the council hall like now?
• 1:57:31
  SPEAKER_03: I can process your request and send that message out at the next earliest convenience.
• 1:57:39
  SPEAKER_02: And how long would that be?
• 1:57:44
  SPEAKER_03: Without Lady Ren's approval, it would take a couple of days.
• 1:57:49
  SPEAKER_02: This is kind of an emergency.
• 1:57:51
  SPEAKER_02: Yenor would be trying to be convincing right now.
• 1:57:54
  SPEAKER_03: Make a persuasion check.
• 1:58:05
  SPEAKER_02: That's really bad.
• 1:58:08
  SPEAKER_02: I'll roll an inspiration.
• 1:58:11
  SPEAKER_02: That's not better.
• 1:58:13
  SPEAKER_02: Inspiration.
• 1:58:21
  SPEAKER_02: I'll take the 18.
• 1:58:22
  SPEAKER_02: Jesus.
• 1:58:29
  SPEAKER_03: Well, you are a priority contact.
• 1:58:32
  SPEAKER_03: I really don't like doing paperwork.
• 1:58:39
  SPEAKER_02: You don't have to write a dime.
• 1:58:40
  SPEAKER_02: You just gotta pick up the stone.
• 1:58:42
  SPEAKER_03: You hear the door slam open.
• 1:58:45
  SPEAKER_03: Excuse me, Commander.
• 1:58:47
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, yes.
• 1:58:50
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, ma'am.
• 1:58:55
  SPEAKER_03: Get back out there.
• 1:58:58
  SPEAKER_03: Let the kid do his job.
• 1:59:00
  SPEAKER_03: He can't do his job.
• 1:59:01
  SPEAKER_03: They took all it.
• 1:59:01
  SPEAKER_03: Well, then I will relabel them.
• 1:59:04
  SPEAKER_03: Just go.
• 1:59:06
  SPEAKER_03: Grumbles and folks off.
• 1:59:09
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you, ma'am.
• 1:59:11
  SPEAKER_03: She pays the phone.
• 1:59:14
  SPEAKER_03: Hello, Investigator Greybreeze.
• 1:59:17
  SPEAKER_02: Who is this?
• 1:59:19
  SPEAKER_03: It's Lady Ren.
• 1:59:20
  SPEAKER_02: Hello, Ren.
• 1:59:23
  SPEAKER_03: I have incompetent people working for me.
• 1:59:26
  SPEAKER_03: All the competent ones are on the front lines.
• 1:59:28
  SPEAKER_03: I apologize.
• 1:59:29
  SPEAKER_02: We have noticed.
• 1:59:31
  SPEAKER_02: Could you pick up Malachi's Sending Stone and tell him that he has to meet us at
• 1:59:37
  SPEAKER_02: the council building?
• 1:59:38
  SPEAKER_03: So we don't have a Sending Stone for Malachi.
• 1:59:40
  SPEAKER_03: I just sent him a message in his brain.
• 1:59:44
  SPEAKER_02: Then he lied.
• 1:59:44
  SPEAKER_02: He said you did have one for Malachi.
• 1:59:47
  SPEAKER_03: We have one for the council building, but it just goes to the chambers.
• 1:59:52
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know if he's there, so that probably wouldn't have helped.
• 1:59:56
  SPEAKER_02: He's useless.
• 1:59:57
  SPEAKER_03: Also, we have intel that there might be a counselor that is seeking more power.
• 2:00:06
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 2:00:10
  SPEAKER_02: Do we think it's Malachi?
• 2:00:12
  SPEAKER_03: No, but I can't send a general message to the council chambers.
• 2:00:16
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, no.
• 2:00:17
  SPEAKER_02: You got Malachi, though?
• 2:00:19
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, we were on.
• 2:00:23
  SPEAKER_03: Some security meetings together.
• 2:00:25
  SPEAKER_03: I'm sure I can warm a message into his brain.
• 2:00:31
  SPEAKER_02: Don't make it too deep.
• 2:00:36
  SPEAKER_03: What do you need?
• 2:00:38
  SPEAKER_02: Tell him to meet us at the council building.
• 2:00:41
  SPEAKER_03: When?
• 2:00:42
  SPEAKER_02: Now.
• 2:00:43
  SPEAKER_03: Are you there now?
• 2:00:45
  SPEAKER_02: Well, it's not like he can teleport.
• 2:00:47
  SPEAKER_02: Damn.
• 2:00:49
  SPEAKER_03: Well, if he's in the council building, he'll come outside and be like, where the fuck are they?
• 2:00:55
  SPEAKER_02: It'll take us, what, like 20 minutes to walk there?
• 2:00:58
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 2:00:58
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 2:00:59
  SPEAKER_02: Tell him to meet us there in 20 minutes.
• 2:01:03
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 2:01:03
  SPEAKER_03: Is there any other information I need to know?
• 2:01:17
  SPEAKER_02: I'll tell her about what happened in the alley real quick.
• 2:01:24
  SPEAKER_02: And about the Iron Fist?
• 2:01:25
  SPEAKER_03: Well, it's good to know that some of our allies are still trying to solve this mystery.
• 2:01:32
  SPEAKER_03: I
• 2:01:36
  SPEAKER_03: will inform our
• 2:01:39
  SPEAKER_03: spies that they let
• 2:01:44
  SPEAKER_03: the tribal councilmen flip through the cracks.
• 2:01:56
  SPEAKER_02: Do we think the Iron Fist is actually here?
• 2:02:01
  SPEAKER_03: No one's seen him.
• 2:02:06
  SPEAKER_02: Since when does he do shady shit himself?
• 2:02:12
  SPEAKER_03: When the enemy is as powerful or more so than he is.
• 2:02:21
  SPEAKER_03: Any adversary that can coordinate multiple attacks across continents is worthy
• 2:02:27
  SPEAKER_03: of his attention.
• 2:02:29
  SPEAKER_02: Fair.
• 2:02:31
  SPEAKER_03: Plus they took down one of his airships.
• 2:02:33
  SPEAKER_03: He was very unhappy about that.
• 2:02:37
  SPEAKER_02: The man does love his boats.
• 2:02:41
  SPEAKER_02: Is there a way to find him?
• 2:02:44
  SPEAKER_02: To track him?
• 2:02:48
  SPEAKER_02: I didn't think so.
• 2:02:51
  SPEAKER_03: Man's a mystery.
• 2:02:53
  SPEAKER_02: Well, I have his niece, so...
• 2:02:56
  SPEAKER_03: He doesn't have any family.
• 2:03:00
  SPEAKER_02: That you're aware of.
• 2:03:04
  SPEAKER_03: No, he had them killed.
• 2:03:09
  SPEAKER_02: He had them killed, huh?
• 2:03:13
  SPEAKER_03: They were gonna overthrow the government.
• 2:03:15
  SPEAKER_02: Well, you know, I...
• 2:03:19
  SPEAKER_02: He might not have succeeded...
• 2:03:25
  SPEAKER_03: There was something happening.
• 2:03:28
  SPEAKER_03: There was powers that couldn't be controlled, and it was a threat to the
• 2:03:36
  SPEAKER_03: government.
• 2:03:38
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, well, I don't think he was as thorough as he meant to be.
• 2:03:42
  SPEAKER_01: Is that why she was afloat?
• 2:03:48
  SPEAKER_02: It could very well be.
• 2:03:50
  SPEAKER_03: Anyway, if he does have family surviving, Let's keep that a secret.
• 2:03:59
  SPEAKER_02: The council knows.
• 2:04:06
  SPEAKER_03: Let's start keeping it a secret from right now.
• 2:04:13
  SPEAKER_01: But the council knows of her, but do they know that she is, you know?
• 2:04:23
  SPEAKER_03: No one ever told Them who she's related to.
• 2:04:27
  SPEAKER_03: Just that she was weird.
• 2:04:32
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, I thought we had mentioned.
• 2:04:34
  SPEAKER_03: No, you just said she can do her name is this.
• 2:04:37
  SPEAKER_03: She does this and then she ate Tessin and then threw Tessin up.
• 2:04:47
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, let's keep this information a secret until we can
• 2:04:53
  SPEAKER_03: Get a trusted counsel together.
• 2:04:55
  SPEAKER_02: Do you know how he had them killed?
• 2:04:59
  SPEAKER_03: No.
• 2:04:59
  SPEAKER_02: No?
• 2:05:00
  SPEAKER_02: You don't know specifics?
• 2:05:01
  SPEAKER_03: I do not.
• 2:05:02
  SPEAKER_03: This is just a rumor.
• 2:05:04
  SPEAKER_03: It's not confirmed.
• 2:05:07
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 2:05:08
  SPEAKER_03: But nothing ever is with espionage.
• 2:05:12
  SPEAKER_02: Well then it wouldn't be espionage.
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  SPEAKER_03: Good luck.
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  SPEAKER_03: Stay safe.
• 2:05:19
  SPEAKER_03: And uh...
• 2:05:25
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 2:05:26
  SPEAKER_03: She just hangs up the line.
• 2:05:30
  SPEAKER_02: Well, damn.
• 2:05:33
  SPEAKER_02: We should start walking now.
• 2:05:36
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