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World of Ae'oene Ep. 8: Man in the Mirror
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With Verrutha dead our friends have some answers but just more questions. Some answers may be closer than they realize and some may just come from a guy in a mirror.
This is an adult show and contains explicit content.
This episode has the following content warnings: General Violence
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Our cast:
- Curtiss Woosley as the GM
- MJ Guenther as Thalira Grimstone Eku'Lanathi
- Sapheara as Maeve Strongheart
- Rennie Armas as Kaldin
- Jack Baldwin as Jellen Ykalle
Additional credits:
- Show graphics by Sentic GFX
- Show editing by Mark Hitchen
- Intro/Outro music composed by Ryan Muns, Owner/Operator of Eyes On The Moon Studios
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Transcript
Introduction to Literary Adventurers Game Show
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Destabilizing Foundations, Episode 8.
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The world of Aeon contains dark and mature themes.
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Content warnings are in the episode description.
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Welcome back to Literary Adventurers, the best game show in Aeon, where we take members of the Adventurers Guild and really put them to the test on whether they actually can have literary talents.
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Our contestants today, we have Keldin.
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Hello.
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We have Maeve from Rothdare.
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Hello there.
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All right.
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We've got Yellen, the humble and peaceful cleric.
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Hi, yeah, you know, I'm just happy to be here.
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Happy you're here as well.
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And finally, the most loud and boisterous of our contestants today, Talira Echelunathi.
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I hear my name.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm writing a poem.
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This is hard.
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You were supposed to come prepared.
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I try.
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This is hard.
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As you can see, ladies and gentlemen, as you can see, ladies and gentlemen, we have an interesting show for you today.
Keldin's Poem and Plagiarism Accusation
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We asked all of our contestants to show up prepared with a handwritten, personable poem written by them for one of their fellow adventuring party.
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What's going to happen is today we're going to listen to all those and we're going to give all of our audience here, that's you listeners, time to vote on which one's your favorite.
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And sometime in the next year or so, we'll come back and see what the results are.
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And we'll have a winner for maybe an inspiration or something.
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First up, though, let's take a listen to Calden's as he was tasked with writing a poem for Yellen.
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Uh, yeah.
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So, turn to Yellen.
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Very serious face.
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Yellen.
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I can't wait to hear it.
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You're... Was that a blush we saw?
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I knew it.
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I knew it.
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I didn't know you guys had been drinking.
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I thought you finished the wine.
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Your hair is black as night.
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Your pretty mustard eyes.
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I wonder who you are beneath that manly guise.
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Oh my god.
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Every day we see each other and I hope that you'll be fine.
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Together our love could be so true.
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Please, will you let your love be mine?
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Oh my God.
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I'm so glad you've got my mustard-coloured eyes.
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It is the most romantic thing I've ever heard!
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I'm so happy for you!
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So, okay, that was a joke.
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That was a joke.
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I wrote, yelling, yelling, blue and cool, you're so tough and nice and true something something.
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It's good we have you!
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I think I like the first one better.
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Good job.
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I don't know how we are going to follow that up.
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We just have a romance in front of us and it is so beautiful.
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Yeah, I think we should just hand out the inspiration now and move on with the day.
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Well, unfortunately, Calden, that first one, looking at our plagiarizing meter, ding, ding, ding, ding.
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We're just not sure if you wrote that.
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I changed 30% of that.
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I changed 30%.
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Wait, we're not meant to plagiarize?
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Well.
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Oh, my God.
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Um.
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All right, well, we'll let the audience decide whether... And the second one was all me, baby.
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Oh, we know.
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We know.
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Don't you worry, Kel, then I'm sure the audience does too.
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And we'll hear back from them as we go.
Maeve's Poem for Talira
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Next up, though, let's hear from Maeve as she was tasked with writing a poem about Talira.
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Well, mine is more a little sing-songy.
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Yeah.
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There once was a Goliath that went to sea.
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She sailed the ship called a skinny nini.
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She's tall and strong and during this song she would have defeated you in a brawl.
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Oh, here comes Talira so strong.
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She's the pillar of this song.
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That's the end.
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That's hilarious.
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Fantastic.
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We appreciate adding the rhythm and the sing song to it.
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Seven out of ten no notes.
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Oh my gosh.
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What a wonderful, you even got the audience bouncing their knee.
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Phenomenal.
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Oh, so your plagiarism meter didn't go off for that?
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What's plagiarism?
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It's called a parody, I believe.
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Let's take a look.
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Pan over to the plagiarism meter.
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Ooh, nope, it does look like the parody will stay off the plagiarism meter.
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Unfortunate.
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But on that note, let's get to our next contestant as we go over to none other than Talira herself.
Talira's Emotional Poem for Keldin
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She was just finishing up writing as she entered the building.
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She was tasked with writing about Calden, who she's been adventuring with for some time.
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Let's hear it.
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Here, I call song to a friend.
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You see, Goliath, we say song.
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It is really like a poem, but there is no better translation.
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It is what it is.
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How do I speak the words for a friend?
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I do not have words.
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I have my arms.
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What can I give for a friend?
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I do not have riches, but I can give safety.
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I offer my song, my shield, and a home.
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Thank you for being a friend.
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The crowd is stunned at the unexpected amazingness.
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The crowd goes wild.
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I think that is going to be a crowd favorite.
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Absolutely.
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Phenomenal poem to Lyra.
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And what a touch of true emotion we got in there.
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Let's we'll hear back from the audience in a year and see whether that ended up on the top.
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But right now, that's my personal favorite.
Yellen's Poetic Struggles
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One left.
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The humble.
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Yellin.
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Will his poem be as awkward as he is sometimes?
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Let's find out.
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It's beautiful.
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Okay, well, I've never written a poem before, so I hope this is good.
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Can I get a bass line drop, please?
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Thank you.
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Oh, Maeve, thou art so brave.
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Your lute is much better than a flute.
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And let it be known that in the world of Aeon, you're one of the greatest friends I have ever known.
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That was it.
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That was old.
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Okay, I can't keep up the bit anymore.
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Ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for joining us.
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Thank you so much for joining us.
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Oh my God, for episode eight.
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I hope you enjoyed the intro.
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I was not kidding.
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Leave a comment on the episode.
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Tell us on social media.
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Send a message.
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Whatever your favorite one was.
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That was great, Jack.
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That was phenomenal, dude.
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Leave us a message somewhere on what your favorite one was.
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And for the next year, I'm going to be tallying them.
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And we're going to come back and I'm going to be giving inspiration to the one that you've given the most votes.
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Oh my gosh.
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Either way.
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August 23rd, 2025.
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It's August 24th.
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Thank you very much.
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Oh my God.
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Well, ladies and gentlemen, I hope you enjoyed the intro.
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This was a fun one, but regardless, we've got a great story to get back
Return to Navoa and Primordial Rift
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to.
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And again, thank you for joining us.
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Let's get to it.
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Last we left off,
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We had investigated the giant, turning out to be stainless steel spike coming out of a rift from the primordial plane.
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Having been successful in closing it off, shearing off the end of this spike and creating a bit of a change in the river's flow, turned out nothing you could do about it.
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Problem for another time or another person.
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Different adventuring party.
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Yeah, someone else.
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You guys started on your way home.
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Obviously, you sat around the campfire after the first or at the first night, getting ready, relaxing, enjoying the beautiful evening here on the Genoa Peninsula coast.
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You got a message from the captain of the ship in which brought you here.
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And a dog barking.
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Um...
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Which is how we named one of the cities.
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Which is how we named one of the cities on the Genoa Peninsula that we have not been to yet.
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Oh, my God.
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And having talked with Captain... Oh, boy.
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I'm going to say the captain.
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Having talked with the captain, he was basically asking whether...
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The two weeks that he had said that he could give you, whether it was needed, because they're at a turnaround point, and if he doesn't do it now, you're going to have to wait.
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Which, of course, replying and deciding that you were indeed going to go ahead and take the full two weeks here on the peninsula, or at least this side of it.
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After that, Maeve, taking point as she does to make sure we're staying on task, going over logistics, what our goals are, a whisper creeps into the back of the mind of Calden.
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Wow!
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Wow!
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Not sure, unknowing to the rest of the party, saying, I'm getting closer.
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This prompted Kalden into a bit of a panic attack and having decided we need to go through the night, they did so, finally convincing Kalden stopping and resting was needed the next night.
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After continuing the travel on, came across a fog of poisonous smoke in the middle of the road, having killed a driver and a horse of a wagon, doing some investigating, and you ended up coming across a Tulego flowering fern.
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Ripping it out of the ground.
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Easy solution.
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Got rid of the fog.
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Road cleared, and you were on your way.
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Ending.
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as you made your way back to Nevoa.
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And that is where we begin, as you all riding on your newly acquired temporary cart and bringing Jackie back to the stables, probably the first D&D party to ever return a horse.
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The town of Nevoa is now... Calden keeps his word.
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As we enter into the midday of the 40th of Empaya in the year 1202,
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The town and day of Navoa is yours to do with what you will.
News of Araya's Death
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Well, we should be keeping our promise and burying Verutha.
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I think more importantly is finding out who this man is and what we do with him.
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We already know what we're going to do with Verutha.
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That is true.
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Where would be the best place to start?
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I think the general's stool, the hook and barrel, because it looks like they have shipments they were bringing to them potentially with all the peaches.
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Right.
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I think it might be good, Yellen, if you take point in this one.
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I feel like you are a lot easier with bad news.
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If it comes from me, it might be a bit... I do deliver bad news quite a bit, so I can do that.
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We've got to stick to our strengths.
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That is a shitty job.
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Yeah.
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Perfect.
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So let's go.
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And we make our way over.
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And indeed, as you make your way over the hook and barrel, taking the cart with you, parking it in front, actually meeting you at the front, or rather as you kind of pull up, you see as... Where are my notes?
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They're right here.
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As... Where is he?
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As Cleezal, who you all know and recognize, barrels out the wide, very wide door, of course, to this shop.
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Oh, hey, I didn't expect to see you all.
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I was expecting Araya with my shipment.
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It's funny you say that.
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Unfortunately, there was a kerfuffle with a Telago plant.
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Well, Araya is no longer with us.
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Oh.
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You said a Telago plant?
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Yes.
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Oh, man, we haven't had... Yeah, that's rough.
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It's rare that that happens, but it does happen.
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One of the parts of living here, I guess.
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But, man, that
Genasi Sightings and Verutha's Disappearance
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kind of blows.
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I've been doing business with Ryo for a long time.
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Yeah, and I don't know if it infected any of the fruits or anything that you're getting in, but we do have those.
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So, if they're still good, then...
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Man, that sucks.
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Probably best to throw him out.
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Well, I mean, that's all right.
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I appreciate you at least bringing the wagon the rest of the way.
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Man, taking his... Where's he at?
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Do you have him?
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He's in the back of the cart currently.
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I see.
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Yeah, well, thank you for at least bringing him here.
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Getting him home's gonna be...
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I'll see you taken care of.
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Don't worry about it.
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All right.
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I've done, but I did business with him for a long time.
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I could at least, I own that.
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I am very sorry.
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It's all right.
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It's all right.
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You know, friends, they're great, but when they go, you just got to accept it.
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So, well, either way, appreciate you bringing the cart the rest of the way.
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I'll get it.
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I'll get it.
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I'm packing and I'll, I'll, I'll get his body and I'll, I'll prep it and I'll get it sent back home.
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We don't know if the peaches are edible anymore.
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Yeah, Yellen mentioned that.
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It's all good.
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I'll probably just throw them out.
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It's understood.
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Yeah, I mean, it sucks, but it is what it is, you know.
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You have to account for loss doing business.
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If you throw them out, is there the risk of someone digging them out of the trash and eating them?
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Oh, no, I'll bury them.
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Yeah, no, I don't fuck with the poison from them plants.
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It's not the first time we've dealt with it.
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Not going to be the last.
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He must have fallen asleep on the way over here.
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He tends to...
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He has a pretty grueling route and he tends to let his horse kind of guide him through the night and he'll fall asleep at the, at the reins.
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It must've been what happened.
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Have there been any Genasi newcomers in the last several days?
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Um, no, no, I mean, not that I know of.
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Um, I mean, I generally see them almost everybody is they all come through my shop at some point.
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So I think I would remember.
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We don't,
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Only Genasi, I think, in the town is Verutha and Yari, and of course, Yari's family.
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No, actually, I take that back.
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Tammy Flickerfall, she's here.
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She's a water Genasi.
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And Fana.
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I forgot about those two, but yeah, I mean, they're all accounted for.
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I haven't seen anybody new.
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Have you seen Verutha lately?
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No, actually.
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They say, and I didn't mention it, it's been in the better part of a week or more, actually.
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Actually, yeah.
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I mean, I tried going over there for a... See if I could switch out some of those little mini potions that weren't selling for some new ones.
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And her house is all locked up.
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So I figured maybe she was going out collecting stuff like she does sometimes.
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Well... Curious.
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Yeah, yeah.
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I mean, I'm sure she'll come back at some point.
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I'm sure she'll come back.
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She'll show up one way or another.
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Yeah, yeah, she always does.
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She's handy like that, you know?
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She's all into them natural ways and also being real educated and shit, so she's comfortable in the woods.
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I ain't scared, so I'm sure she's fine.
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Well, thank you so much for your help.
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Sorry we had to deliver bad news.
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Oh, it's all good.
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You know, the fact that y'all at least brought it here, that's better than some people do, so I appreciate that.
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Oh, and I know it's been a little over a week yelling.
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I wish you wouldn't have, but I will admit, my son's been in probably the best mood I've seen him in a long time, so I guess thank you.
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No, yeah, of course.
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It's got a place of honor back in our rooms, so...
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Right, right.
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Okay.
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I'm sorry.
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Deception check.
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Well, yeah, well, y'all, you can, like I said, you can leave the car here.
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I'll take care of it.
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It's no worry.
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And frankly, for the fact that y'all did that, if you want to grab a ration or two or some food from the shop, you can have it on the house.
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Thank you so much.
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I appreciate that.
Reporting to Myrna about Verutha
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Calvin, can you get the bags that we've left in the back?
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Yeah.
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Oh, the bags.
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I can help too.
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I am strong.
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Yes.
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I'm going to go considering stuff might have poison on it and shit.
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I'm going to go grab my gloves and I'll be right back.
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So y'all just leave it to me.
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No worries.
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Sounds good.
00:20:06
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Thank you.
00:20:07
Speaker
Thank you.
00:20:08
Speaker
Did we wrap the bodies at all?
00:20:11
Speaker
And this is why we should have got rid of the cops first.
00:20:15
Speaker
I imagine we would have wrapped the bodies before.
00:20:18
Speaker
With what?
00:20:19
Speaker
I feel like that's a safe one.
00:20:21
Speaker
Like having random bodies just like staring out at you as you're traveling.
00:20:26
Speaker
Didn't even close their eyes.
00:20:28
Speaker
Eyes wide open.
00:20:29
Speaker
Just staring at us.
00:20:31
Speaker
I feel like you're asking to be haunted if you don't at least wrap the box.
00:20:34
Speaker
Yeah, yeah.
00:20:37
Speaker
We should still just possibly remove the thing.
00:20:43
Speaker
Sorry, I just read the chat.
00:20:45
Speaker
Yeah.
00:20:45
Speaker
Yeah.
00:20:46
Speaker
No.
00:20:46
Speaker
Yes.
00:20:48
Speaker
Might be Beth.
00:20:49
Speaker
So he thinks that there's only one body.
00:20:53
Speaker
Unless we would like to announce it to everyone that Verruta was... I think they deserve to know.
00:21:02
Speaker
Oh, absolutely.
00:21:02
Speaker
Do we have like a mayor or someone we can talk to?
00:21:07
Speaker
We will, I think... Maybelline, I believe.
00:21:11
Speaker
Or is like the town elder.
00:21:14
Speaker
Right.
00:21:16
Speaker
Martha.
00:21:18
Speaker
Marina.
00:21:19
Speaker
Marceline.
00:21:25
Speaker
Maybelle.
00:21:27
Speaker
Yes, we should go find the elder.
00:21:30
Speaker
Take our bags with us.
00:21:33
Speaker
Yes, I will.
00:21:34
Speaker
I will.
00:21:36
Speaker
Big bag.
00:21:37
Speaker
I will take the biggest bag.
00:21:40
Speaker
Alright, where are you guys going to try to find Myrna?
00:21:50
Speaker
Doesn't she like to look at ducks?
00:21:53
Speaker
She hangs out a lot at the other... Words, man.
00:22:03
Speaker
Words are rough.
00:22:04
Speaker
English is hard when it's your only language.
00:22:09
Speaker
We should go to the... We'll go past the duck lake and go to the Apothecaries.
00:22:18
Speaker
Where did the duck lake come from?
00:22:20
Speaker
I don't know.
00:22:21
Speaker
It's here now.
00:22:22
Speaker
I remember the ducks.
00:22:25
Speaker
It's in there now.
00:22:27
Speaker
Yeah, there's a small pond with ducks.
00:22:28
Speaker
There's a duck lake.
00:22:30
Speaker
You know what?
00:22:31
Speaker
I'm going to steal it from Avatar.
00:22:32
Speaker
It's got turtle ducks.
00:22:33
Speaker
Amazing.
00:22:36
Speaker
Absolutely.
00:22:38
Speaker
Uh...
00:22:39
Speaker
Yeah, y'all walk by there.
00:22:42
Speaker
Myrna's not out feeding the turtle ducks.
00:22:45
Speaker
What do turtle ducks eat?
00:22:52
Speaker
Great question.
00:22:53
Speaker
Worms.
00:22:55
Speaker
Okay.
00:22:57
Speaker
Yeah, we'll go with that.
00:23:03
Speaker
Yeah, you guys go on, though, and you get out, you get across town to Yari Mosgrove's house that you are very comfortable and aware of.
00:23:13
Speaker
Yari Mosgrove, the apothecary, or not the apothecary, but the herbalist.
00:23:18
Speaker
Yeah, you end up making your way over there.
00:23:21
Speaker
And sure enough, doors wide open just as you left it.
00:23:25
Speaker
Ivy growing on the side, very nice garden and herbs growing everywhere.
00:23:29
Speaker
Looking very wild, but also kept.
00:23:32
Speaker
Organized chaos.
00:23:34
Speaker
Yeah, and doors wide open, but out on the porch you do see Etten, her wheelchair-bound husband.
00:23:44
Speaker
Just kind of sitting there with a roll in his mouth.
00:23:52
Speaker
Oh!
00:23:54
Speaker
Hey, how's it going, guys?
00:23:56
Speaker
Hello, Etten.
00:23:58
Speaker
Is Yari in?
00:24:00
Speaker
Oh, yeah, of course.
00:24:01
Speaker
She never leaves.
00:24:02
Speaker
She's in there talking about Myrna right now.
00:24:06
Speaker
Perfect.
00:24:07
Speaker
Well, we have some news that might be good for business, but we need to tell her.
00:24:13
Speaker
Oh, yeah, no, go on in.
00:24:15
Speaker
No worries.
00:24:16
Speaker
I'm just enjoying my day.
00:24:19
Speaker
As he takes a big old drag.
00:24:24
Speaker
We enter.
00:24:26
Speaker
As you all walk on in through a cloud of smoke.
00:24:32
Speaker
Yeah, you walk in, and sure enough, right there in the front, Yari and Myrna are in the front room where you all had sat last time.
00:24:40
Speaker
Just seem to have a nice conversation, and Lenara walks around the corner with a little tray with a couple vials on it that have, like, a paste in them.
00:24:48
Speaker
As you walk in, she walks in, and Yari goes, oh, oh, oh, hey, welcome back.
00:24:54
Speaker
How's everything been?
00:24:55
Speaker
Did you guys figure anything out?
00:24:56
Speaker
No.
00:24:58
Speaker
Lenar, hand those to me, Lenar.
00:25:00
Speaker
Please make yourself home.
00:25:00
Speaker
Um, yes, we do have news.
00:25:06
Speaker
Um, Milani, you're technically the one who hired us, right?
00:25:17
Speaker
I mean, what was it, a lord who sent us?
00:25:19
Speaker
What was it?
00:25:21
Speaker
What was it, Talira?
00:25:23
Speaker
Talira thinks really hard.
00:25:25
Speaker
What?
Convincing Myrna of Verutha's Betrayal
00:25:26
Speaker
Who it was.
00:25:27
Speaker
I'm trying.
00:25:28
Speaker
I am also blanking out on who sent us because I can't find the notebook that I had the notes in.
00:25:35
Speaker
It was a lord who finally was like, we need to do something about these kids dying.
00:25:41
Speaker
But Calden wasn't actually involved in the Adventurers Guild, so he doesn't have the details on that.
00:25:48
Speaker
Right.
00:25:48
Speaker
Because we picked up the quest at a bar.
00:25:53
Speaker
Yeah.
00:25:54
Speaker
Yeah.
00:25:55
Speaker
You were at the Adventurers Guild in Sessions, which is, audience, I'm sorry you don't get to hear that.
00:26:01
Speaker
But it was the Adventurers Guild where the contract was posted.
00:26:05
Speaker
The contract would be on, there would be a copy at the Adventurers Guild and a copy on one of you.
00:26:11
Speaker
Who would have the contract?
00:26:13
Speaker
Maeve 100% would.
00:26:14
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:26:15
Speaker
Yeah, Maeve.
00:26:16
Speaker
Okay, so Maeve has the contract, so she could get it out and get the details if you wanted to.
00:26:20
Speaker
Whenever you mentioned not Myrna's name, but in reference to her, she did not respond whatsoever, by the way.
00:26:29
Speaker
So we have important information regarding missing children occurring in the future and who was responsible and aiding in their abductions.
00:26:44
Speaker
And it's not pretty news.
00:26:47
Speaker
Oh, and Yari kind of looks to Myrna.
00:26:51
Speaker
Myrna finally looks at you all, slightly annoyed.
00:26:58
Speaker
Well, spill it out already, I guess.
00:27:01
Speaker
The more answers we can get, the quicker the better.
00:27:05
Speaker
Is this information you want us to just give out here now?
00:27:09
Speaker
Well, how sensitive is it?
00:27:12
Speaker
It's still an ongoing investigation.
00:27:14
Speaker
One of your members is... One of your village members is dead.
00:27:19
Speaker
Oh.
00:27:23
Speaker
Because she was responsible for all of this.
00:27:27
Speaker
Lenara, honey, do you mind... Do you mind going outside and taking Eddin for a stroll?
00:27:34
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, sure, that's fine.
00:27:37
Speaker
Lenara kind of puts down the tray of these, like, salves and...
00:27:41
Speaker
Walks out and is like, oh, hey, Lenar, what's up?
00:27:43
Speaker
Oh, oh, got it.
00:27:45
Speaker
Oh.
00:27:46
Speaker
Okay, fine, fine.
00:27:46
Speaker
Okay.
00:27:49
Speaker
Hear that muffled as the door had closed behind her.
00:27:52
Speaker
All right, I don't mind Yari hearing us.
00:27:56
Speaker
She, frankly, is a confidant for me and gives me quite a bit of advice.
00:28:01
Speaker
So, feel free to talk your mind.
00:28:05
Speaker
The good news is there shouldn't be any more missing children from now on.
00:28:11
Speaker
That's fantastic.
00:28:12
Speaker
Wow.
00:28:13
Speaker
How do you know?
00:28:15
Speaker
How do you know what was causing it?
00:28:17
Speaker
Varuta was in collusion with a cult.
00:28:21
Speaker
She is dead now.
00:28:24
Speaker
Yari goes.
00:28:25
Speaker
You see Yari immediately.
00:28:27
Speaker
I fucking knew it.
00:28:29
Speaker
Validation!
00:28:33
Speaker
Yari's over here like, Myrna, I've been telling you something's weird with her.
00:28:38
Speaker
She's shady.
00:28:42
Speaker
Myrna then turns to her.
00:28:46
Speaker
You have been telling me that, but listen, she was a member of this community just like everyone else.
00:28:51
Speaker
Family members for lineages.
00:28:54
Speaker
You understand, honey, I couldn't just turn on her.
00:28:58
Speaker
I had no reason for suspicion.
00:29:01
Speaker
But Yari did, and Yari's suspicions were what led us to her, and they proved fruitful.
00:29:09
Speaker
Well, I'm glad that Yari could have been so helpful.
00:29:13
Speaker
And thank you so much for being said now.
00:29:14
Speaker
She could have been if you had listened to her.
00:29:17
Speaker
However, we solved your problem.
00:29:19
Speaker
You are welcome.
00:29:21
Speaker
Well, I must say, as much as I appreciate it, without proof, I can't just believe you.
00:29:28
Speaker
As much as I would like to.
00:29:31
Speaker
In the station I am, I just sadly cannot do that for...
00:29:35
Speaker
When I announce it to people, they will ask for answers that I don't have unless you give them to me and show me.
00:29:44
Speaker
Can we zone of truth again?
00:29:48
Speaker
Do you have speak with dead?
Discussion of Evidence and Witnesses
00:29:51
Speaker
She just immediately turns to Yari.
00:29:56
Speaker
Is the professor who came into town still here?
00:30:02
Speaker
Oh, yes, Dashiell Oxenberg, what a handsome man.
00:30:06
Speaker
Yes, he is still.
00:30:07
Speaker
He may very well have a witness.
00:30:11
Speaker
Is a witness proof enough for you?
00:30:14
Speaker
You have four right here, so just curious.
00:30:18
Speaker
I mean, it may work, but you can see, like, you had mentioned the professor, and she's, like, very distracted right now.
00:30:26
Speaker
Let me tell you something about the professor 30 years ago.
00:30:28
Speaker
Yeah, something about the professor is that Verutha attempted to have him kidnapped because he could get in her way.
00:30:36
Speaker
Interesting.
00:30:37
Speaker
Thankfully, we were there and we stopped it.
00:30:41
Speaker
If we could get some proof, if I have Yara here as a...
00:30:46
Speaker
witness as well although yore would be personally emotionally involved in this um it may be better to get someone else so on that note let me guys team huddle the fuck do we care about this veruth is dead yeah
00:31:05
Speaker
We don't need to be involved in this justice system bullshit for them.
00:31:10
Speaker
She's already dead.
00:31:10
Speaker
What are they going to do?
00:31:12
Speaker
Kill her again?
00:31:14
Speaker
Let me fix this up.
00:31:16
Speaker
I go up to Myrna.
00:31:19
Speaker
Verutha was promptly executed in the name of... How do I know that it was just?
00:31:26
Speaker
You adventurers always get ahead of yourselves wanting to take the law into your own hand.
00:31:30
Speaker
You think a paladin from Rothdari would murder someone?
00:31:35
Speaker
I think you're a part of the Adventuring Guild and therefore I don't trust you fully.
00:31:42
Speaker
Then why did you contact the Adventuring Guild to take care of this?
00:31:46
Speaker
Oh, I did not.
00:31:47
Speaker
Although I do think it was still the best course of action because we were in a situation where we could not- Well, then we took care of it.
00:31:51
Speaker
You know what?
00:31:52
Speaker
We fulfilled our contract.
00:31:54
Speaker
End of story.
00:31:55
Speaker
Okay?
00:31:57
Speaker
Well, fine.
00:31:58
Speaker
I wasn't going to go here, but I'll go here since you're getting emotional.
00:32:01
Speaker
Where are the children's bodies?
00:32:03
Speaker
Are they alive?
00:32:04
Speaker
Are they dead?
00:32:04
Speaker
No, the children are not alive.
00:32:05
Speaker
They're dead.
00:32:06
Speaker
They are dead.
00:32:08
Speaker
And where's your proof and where are the bodies?
00:32:11
Speaker
There are no bodies.
00:32:12
Speaker
They were used as a source of power for a ritual.
00:32:17
Speaker
Their bodies were used as a source of power?
00:32:20
Speaker
Their souls.
00:32:21
Speaker
Their spirits were.
00:32:23
Speaker
Oh, their souls.
00:32:24
Speaker
I guess that makes more sense.
00:32:26
Speaker
Well, if the souls were used, then wouldn't the husks of the bodies be left?
00:32:30
Speaker
kind of turns to Yari and sorry for being so blunt.
00:32:33
Speaker
Um, you know, your daughter, um, anyway, to the point, what does your contract say?
00:32:43
Speaker
May I read it?
00:32:45
Speaker
I did not write it up.
00:32:45
Speaker
It was done by the Lord of Creole.
00:32:47
Speaker
We simply asked for help.
00:32:48
Speaker
And for once they finally listened after the thousand years of us asking, I pull it out and quickly give it a read first before handing it over to double check what it says.
00:33:00
Speaker
It does say the goal is to find who did it, bring them back dead or alive, and also find the children dead or alive.
00:33:15
Speaker
I don't know that our purpose for telling her was to be like, checked off, we finished our mission.
00:33:21
Speaker
I figured we would still be going to the other town to continue.
00:33:27
Speaker
Oh, 100%.
00:33:27
Speaker
Because we know that there's a bigger problem here.
00:33:29
Speaker
We were just letting her know that like, hey, if she was dead because she was responsible, here's her body.
00:33:37
Speaker
Right.
00:33:39
Speaker
She does not understand that.
00:33:40
Speaker
I will hand it to her and be like, we have not finished the mission as of yet.
00:33:46
Speaker
We are still on the third.
00:33:47
Speaker
Sorry, I must remember.
00:33:49
Speaker
We are not done.
00:33:51
Speaker
We found it.
00:33:54
Speaker
We're trying to figure out the rest of the story because she opened up something much worse.
00:33:59
Speaker
And I don't know what it is.
00:34:01
Speaker
We need to find it out.
00:34:03
Speaker
This problem was always bigger than your little village.
00:34:07
Speaker
You were just a part of it.
00:34:09
Speaker
Well, of course, Ronis was also a big part of it.
00:34:12
Speaker
Ma'am, we are telling you as a courtesy,
00:34:16
Speaker
that we have the culprit behind who is kidnapping children here so that you know what to do with her body.
00:34:25
Speaker
We are continuing with Omidshin, and we will be leaving your village soon so that we can get to the bottom of this, find the actual bodies of the children, and stop the larger threat.
00:34:36
Speaker
She kind of like, when you said ma'am, she kind of like was taken back for a moment.
00:34:42
Speaker
Sorry, my customer service happened.
00:34:44
Speaker
No, that was good.
00:34:45
Speaker
I love it.
00:34:47
Speaker
She kind of took it, like was taken aback for a second and kind of just like came into it and like almost like a, okay, respect type of, I can respect that.
00:34:57
Speaker
Obviously, you mean business.
00:35:01
Speaker
All right.
00:35:03
Speaker
As long as you all continue on, I see no reason to argue with you.
00:35:08
Speaker
I appreciate you for what you've done and delivering the body.
00:35:10
Speaker
And I will send a message to the Lord that the body of at least one involved has been delivered.
00:35:19
Speaker
I don't know exactly what that does for your contract because it is with him, but I will do the due diligence to make sure that you are at least recognized for that.
00:35:27
Speaker
You said you have Veruta's body.
00:35:31
Speaker
Yes.
00:35:33
Speaker
Okay.
00:35:37
Speaker
If you could do me a favor and take it to my home, just put it by my back door.
Search of Verutha's Home
00:35:44
Speaker
It is secluded.
00:35:45
Speaker
Nobody will see it.
00:35:45
Speaker
And I will take care of the rest.
00:35:48
Speaker
And as a reminder, the professor himself is a partial witness and he likely has an actual witness with him.
00:36:02
Speaker
Oh.
00:36:04
Speaker
Good to know.
00:36:06
Speaker
Well, if you all are doing nothing... Ruka, I think his name was?
00:36:09
Speaker
Oxenbrig?
00:36:12
Speaker
Oh, no, the witness.
00:36:17
Speaker
Where did I put my note?
00:36:18
Speaker
No, not Ruka.
00:36:20
Speaker
He's the one who likes to bake.
00:36:21
Speaker
Hass.
00:36:22
Speaker
Hass, yes.
00:36:24
Speaker
Oh, the guy who likes to bake.
00:36:27
Speaker
Hessel Joran.
00:36:29
Speaker
Oh, um... He's a witness, you say?
00:36:34
Speaker
I am to understand that he was perhaps forced to aid her under duress.
00:36:41
Speaker
Correct.
00:36:42
Speaker
Interesting.
00:36:43
Speaker
He may be a squirrel.
00:36:47
Speaker
Are you all done with your investigation with him?
00:36:50
Speaker
As far as we're aware, he's told us everything he knows.
00:36:55
Speaker
We could question him more if you would like.
00:36:59
Speaker
We were going to go over to Veruthers to look for additional evidence.
00:37:04
Speaker
for her collusion.
00:37:06
Speaker
I see.
00:37:07
Speaker
Well, you continue on however you see fit, but if necessary, we will go gather Hess and keep him contained until we can also get our own answers and decide what to do with him.
00:37:21
Speaker
If you could do me a favor and write down everything you've told me and anything else that's been left out, I would appreciate that.
00:37:28
Speaker
And sign it, all of you.
00:37:31
Speaker
That would help me with my proceedings with the town.
00:37:37
Speaker
Can I perception check her to see if she's being shady?
00:37:40
Speaker
Insight?
00:37:41
Speaker
Yeah.
00:37:41
Speaker
Insight check, yeah.
00:37:43
Speaker
If you want insight.
00:37:44
Speaker
Yeah.
00:37:46
Speaker
Just because I have trust issues.
00:37:50
Speaker
Just kidding.
00:37:52
Speaker
I'm the most trusting person in the world.
00:37:54
Speaker
That was a night one.
00:37:55
Speaker
That's certainly not true.
00:37:56
Speaker
I got a 25.
00:37:57
Speaker
Fuck yeah.
00:38:03
Speaker
I'm more curious about what she wants to do with the body.
00:38:07
Speaker
That's part of what we would be sussing out with the insight.
00:38:11
Speaker
Yeah.
00:38:12
Speaker
I swear we know what happened to the kids' bodies.
00:38:15
Speaker
I forgot.
00:38:15
Speaker
I swear someone said something.
00:38:17
Speaker
Anyway.
00:38:18
Speaker
We don't fully know what's up with the bodies.
00:38:21
Speaker
We know that they used their, like, energy.
00:38:25
Speaker
Yeah.
00:38:26
Speaker
To fuel the ritual.
00:38:27
Speaker
That was an 11 for insight.
00:38:31
Speaker
You can tell, like, when you first met her, she was a little more, I don't know if aloof is the right word, but she wasn't taking this quite as seriously.
00:38:37
Speaker
Like, they've asked for help from their Lord for so long, and they've finally been given it, but it's like, is it even good help?
00:38:44
Speaker
Very, essentially not hopeful for the situation, so she didn't really treat you guys with as much respect or near as much seriousness, and now, given what you have said and everything, that demeanor has drastically changed.
00:38:58
Speaker
So definitely seeming like she is now much more serious and treating this as the leader of a town would treat it with the level of respect and seriousness it deserves.
00:39:12
Speaker
Okay.
00:39:15
Speaker
We should probably ask the squirrel a bit more questions regarding the children before we leave.
00:39:22
Speaker
The squirrel.
00:39:22
Speaker
Okay.
00:39:25
Speaker
Well, was it a ferret?
00:39:26
Speaker
What did he turn him into?
00:39:27
Speaker
Something small and furry.
00:39:29
Speaker
Yeah.
00:39:30
Speaker
They kind of all look the same to me.
00:39:33
Speaker
We should also go to Veritha's shop.
00:39:38
Speaker
One, for what Calden said of seeing if there is any physical evidence that we can pick up.
00:39:44
Speaker
Clues for ourselves or anything that's helpful to them if we happen to come across it.
00:39:49
Speaker
But that's definitely not our...
00:39:52
Speaker
primary goal.
00:39:54
Speaker
And then also to see if we can rate it.
00:39:57
Speaker
Technically, as the owner is deceased and she does not have a close next of kin.
00:40:06
Speaker
Legally speaking, these things should be up for grabs.
00:40:09
Speaker
Legally speaking, your possessions go to the person who murdered you.
00:40:15
Speaker
No, yeah, that checks out.
00:40:16
Speaker
I'm looking at the laws right now.
00:40:20
Speaker
This is a man of the cloth.
00:40:21
Speaker
He knows what he's talking about.
00:40:22
Speaker
A rich woman, apparently.
00:40:23
Speaker
That's right.
00:40:27
Speaker
Okay.
00:40:27
Speaker
Well, this is a
Strategizing Next Steps
00:40:28
Speaker
lot to take.
00:40:28
Speaker
And if you could please write that down.
00:40:30
Speaker
Again, all of you sign it.
00:40:32
Speaker
Yes, we do.
00:40:34
Speaker
And deliver it with the body.
00:40:36
Speaker
I'm going to go.
00:40:39
Speaker
Oh, we have it here.
00:40:40
Speaker
Prepare what is needed.
00:40:43
Speaker
Right.
00:40:43
Speaker
Well, you can do that.
00:40:44
Speaker
And after you write all of your information, I'm going to leave now because I now have preparations I vastly need to take care of as my day has now gotten much more complicated.
00:40:52
Speaker
Not that it shouldn't be.
00:40:53
Speaker
Mind you, I'm not saying you did anything.
00:40:55
Speaker
So sorry.
00:40:58
Speaker
I just do have a lot to take care of now where I had an open day.
00:41:01
Speaker
It is now my schedule is full for the next three days.
00:41:04
Speaker
Speaking of which, Yari, if you could please cancel my appointment tomorrow.
00:41:10
Speaker
You'll have a good day, and I look forward to hearing more from your investigation, I guess, as you find more.
00:41:17
Speaker
Thank you.
00:41:19
Speaker
She just kind of like awkwardly stands up and goes to leave.
00:41:24
Speaker
Do you have parchment and ink that we could use?
00:41:27
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:41:28
Speaker
No, absolutely.
00:41:31
Speaker
Drop the body.
00:41:32
Speaker
The door closes.
00:41:36
Speaker
The door closes.
00:41:38
Speaker
And as soon as the door closes from Myrna leaving, Tariq goes, I fucking knew it.
00:41:43
Speaker
You were right.
00:41:44
Speaker
You were right.
00:41:47
Speaker
God, I need to trust my instincts more.
00:41:49
Speaker
You always follow your gut.
00:41:51
Speaker
Always.
00:41:53
Speaker
Unless you've eaten milk.
00:41:55
Speaker
My condolences.
00:41:58
Speaker
Thank you.
00:42:01
Speaker
I still have hope at least.
00:42:03
Speaker
Maybe I could give her a proper burial, you know?
00:42:07
Speaker
We'll do what we can to find her body.
00:42:10
Speaker
I appreciate that.
00:42:13
Speaker
Did you, were you here?
00:42:15
Speaker
I don't know where you all have been for the past week, I assume, doing your thing, but did you all hear about the young lad that was taken from while they were out of town?
00:42:28
Speaker
Camping like a lot of us do?
00:42:31
Speaker
We did.
00:42:33
Speaker
They arrived shortly before we left.
00:42:38
Speaker
Yeah, yeah.
00:42:38
Speaker
That's sad.
00:42:40
Speaker
I thought we were... I thought we were lucky this year.
00:42:44
Speaker
I guess not.
00:42:45
Speaker
He was.
00:42:46
Speaker
Boris and Jamie... Boris and Jamie aren't taking it well.
00:42:50
Speaker
That's for... I mean, who would?
00:42:51
Speaker
It was a fail-safe for them.
00:42:54
Speaker
Yeah.
00:42:55
Speaker
They're such nice people.
00:42:56
Speaker
They didn't deserve that.
00:42:58
Speaker
You're yelling?
00:43:00
Speaker
Are you okay?
00:43:01
Speaker
Yeah.
00:43:03
Speaker
Yeah, no, they are nice people.
00:43:08
Speaker
Insight check.
00:43:11
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know if I would necessarily be actively inciting that.
00:43:15
Speaker
17.
00:43:15
Speaker
All right.
00:43:18
Speaker
But my passive would be 14.
00:43:21
Speaker
Normally, Ellen's not as like, yeah, that's great.
00:43:25
Speaker
I don't even know what I would roll against it.
00:43:28
Speaker
Yeah, did Yellen tell us about that?
00:43:31
Speaker
What happened?
00:43:31
Speaker
I guess deception because he's saying, yeah, they're great people.
00:43:35
Speaker
No, he just said that he knew them.
00:43:38
Speaker
No, he had mentioned that.
00:43:39
Speaker
And he didn't really say anything else.
00:43:41
Speaker
No, no, it's because he freaked out when he sold them.
00:43:46
Speaker
Right.
00:43:47
Speaker
To start with.
00:43:49
Speaker
What did you get?
00:43:49
Speaker
Ready?
00:43:51
Speaker
17.
00:43:53
Speaker
Oh, no.
00:43:54
Speaker
What am I?
00:43:55
Speaker
Yeah, no.
00:43:57
Speaker
Yeah, 17.
00:44:00
Speaker
Okay.
00:44:00
Speaker
Well, I'm probably thinking they're nice people then.
00:44:06
Speaker
Hmm.
00:44:06
Speaker
Okay.
00:44:07
Speaker
All right.
00:44:09
Speaker
He's a genuine guy.
00:44:10
Speaker
Yellen's a genuine guy.
00:44:11
Speaker
I'm just telling the truth, bro.
00:44:12
Speaker
I'm telling it as I see it.
00:44:14
Speaker
Well, I hope you all can at least get the bodies for everyone back.
00:44:19
Speaker
I mean, Doris and Jamie's son, maybe since it was so recent, maybe they didn't end up being used.
00:44:25
Speaker
I mean, if I'm going to have any hope, I guess that would be it.
00:44:33
Speaker
but either way thank you I really do appreciate it if you want anything else from me just you just let me know obviously you all have been pretty effective you know you've been here for just over a week and already found all this out so I mean you obviously must be good at what you do
00:44:59
Speaker
Let's see.
00:44:59
Speaker
What's your next steps?
00:45:01
Speaker
Look through Yari's things, I think.
00:45:04
Speaker
Yari?
00:45:04
Speaker
Varutha?
00:45:05
Speaker
Varutha?
00:45:05
Speaker
I'm right here.
00:45:09
Speaker
Sorry.
00:45:09
Speaker
I was thinking of you because you're in Paris.
00:45:11
Speaker
No, it's okay.
00:45:12
Speaker
Of course.
00:45:12
Speaker
It's stressful.
00:45:13
Speaker
It's been a stressful week.
00:45:15
Speaker
It's a Lloydian slip.
00:45:19
Speaker
What's that?
00:45:20
Speaker
I'm sorry.
00:45:20
Speaker
I'm not super educated.
00:45:23
Speaker
Lloyd was a professor of like mental psyche stuff and it doesn't matter.
00:45:33
Speaker
Oh, okay.
00:45:35
Speaker
Interesting.
00:45:36
Speaker
I'll try to remember that.
00:45:38
Speaker
It's when you're thinking of something and so you accidentally say instead of the thing you wanted to say.
00:45:43
Speaker
I see.
00:45:43
Speaker
I do it all the time.
00:45:44
Speaker
Okay.
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00:45:49
Speaker
Anyway, I'm sure Lenara's going to be back soon.
00:45:55
Speaker
She kind of looks over at Vertha's body.
00:45:58
Speaker
I take it that's her?
00:46:00
Speaker
That is her.
00:46:01
Speaker
Yes.
00:46:04
Speaker
There's a warning.
00:46:06
Speaker
It is in two pieces.
00:46:09
Speaker
It should be.
00:46:09
Speaker
Probably more.
00:46:12
Speaker
Well,
00:46:14
Speaker
We promised for her surrender we'd bury her in her backyard.
00:46:18
Speaker
You can put her in more pieces.
00:46:21
Speaker
I'm not going to be involved in that.
00:46:25
Speaker
No, I promised that.
00:46:26
Speaker
I lied.
00:46:27
Speaker
Do whatever you want with her.
00:46:29
Speaker
Well, either way, I'm going to be giving my distance.
00:46:34
Speaker
Regardless.
00:46:36
Speaker
Yeah, I've got a lot to process.
00:46:40
Speaker
Y'all, good luck on the rest of the investigation.
00:46:43
Speaker
I hope you find...
00:46:45
Speaker
the rest of it.
00:46:46
Speaker
Thank you.
00:46:47
Speaker
I am sorry.
00:46:50
Speaker
We did not have better news for you.
00:46:54
Speaker
Hey, some news is better than no news.
00:46:57
Speaker
So I appreciate it.
00:47:00
Speaker
All right.
00:47:01
Speaker
Well, you'll have a good rest of your day.
00:47:02
Speaker
Um, I'm going to step in the back.
00:47:06
Speaker
Um,
00:47:08
Speaker
She quietly gets up and kind of walks in the back of the house as soon as she rounds the corner and you hear a thud.
00:47:17
Speaker
Maybe a few whimpers of a cry.
00:47:21
Speaker
He should leave.
00:47:23
Speaker
Give him privacy.
00:47:26
Speaker
Yeah, I think that's the best idea.
00:47:28
Speaker
Should we go to Verruthas next?
00:47:31
Speaker
Well, I suppose we should drop off the body.
00:47:34
Speaker
Where are we dropping the body?
00:47:37
Speaker
Yari had brought out some parchment and an ink.
00:47:40
Speaker
Oh, yeah, we need to do... She had done that while talking with you.
00:47:45
Speaker
Sweet.
00:47:45
Speaker
Well, I would write up the report.
00:47:48
Speaker
And my super neat, amazing cursive handwriting.
00:47:53
Speaker
All right.
00:47:53
Speaker
Do I go drop off the body in the report then?
00:47:57
Speaker
Yes.
00:47:58
Speaker
Desks at mommy's.
00:48:01
Speaker
Yeah, you see that...
00:48:03
Speaker
About the center of town, there's like a small kind of path that can at least just a little bit up the hill.
00:48:12
Speaker
I say little, I do mean it's not very far, but it's slightly up on the hill.
00:48:17
Speaker
And there's a pretty nice house.
00:48:19
Speaker
It's not very big, but it's very well taken care of.
00:48:24
Speaker
It's like a very well like mix of large stone that's been mortared together with log cabin on top.
00:48:31
Speaker
And
00:48:32
Speaker
Around the back, it's very wooded.
00:48:34
Speaker
Around the perimeter with a little yard with some flowers and things like that.
00:48:41
Speaker
And a nice little water feature.
00:48:42
Speaker
And there's a bush slightly out from the wall right next to her back door that you could put the body behind.
00:48:48
Speaker
Well, the lady's got time on her hands.
00:48:52
Speaker
This is very quiet.
00:48:53
Speaker
I imagine we put it there.
00:48:55
Speaker
I put a recommendation in the report, too, to bury the body in the children's cemetery.
00:49:01
Speaker
Okay.
00:49:04
Speaker
All right.
00:49:04
Speaker
You all head to Veritha's next?
00:49:06
Speaker
Yes.
00:49:08
Speaker
Mm-hmm.
00:49:09
Speaker
All right.
00:49:10
Speaker
As you head over there, it is... Nobody is around.
00:49:14
Speaker
It's like late afternoon or so probably right now.
00:49:17
Speaker
And you over there, nobody's around.
00:49:18
Speaker
It's locked up literally exactly as you left it, even though it's been a little over a week.
00:49:25
Speaker
On our way over while we're walking.
00:49:27
Speaker
The only difference probably would be like a couple empty vials of maybe used things that have been left on the porch.
00:49:34
Speaker
If I'm unlocking it, I rolled a 29 for sleight of hand.
00:49:38
Speaker
Okay, that would work.
00:49:39
Speaker
And Maeve, what were you trying to say?
00:49:42
Speaker
Sorry.
00:49:42
Speaker
It's all good.
00:49:43
Speaker
It was beforehand, but we've started rolling, so it's all good.
00:49:47
Speaker
No, if you want to do something beforehand, that's fine.
00:49:49
Speaker
No, it's all good.
00:49:52
Speaker
Alright, as you unlock the front door and it swings open, you are presented with the home in which you have been in now twice already.
00:50:01
Speaker
Exactly, it has left it very hurriedly gone through to pack very quickly, leaving things on the floor.
00:50:07
Speaker
It doesn't appear changed literally whatsoever since you were here last.
00:50:12
Speaker
Okay, so... Evidence, if we find any...
00:50:18
Speaker
Nice.
00:50:20
Speaker
Evidence, if we find any that's helpful for the, I don't know, weird trial so that people believe it or something.
00:50:28
Speaker
But what we need to be looking for is any clues as to where we would need to go next, for sure.
00:50:41
Speaker
And also potions.
00:50:43
Speaker
She's not going to use them.
00:50:46
Speaker
Is this true?
00:50:48
Speaker
Technically, it's not stealing if she's dead.
00:50:51
Speaker
It is only ransacking.
00:50:53
Speaker
Indeed.
00:50:54
Speaker
That's right.
00:50:55
Speaker
Well, she has no moral high ground.
00:51:00
Speaker
This is 100% above board.
00:51:03
Speaker
Absolutely.
00:51:04
Speaker
As you all start to investigate the home, I will need some investigation checks for all that are looking for things.
00:51:09
Speaker
25.
00:51:09
Speaker
I will look for things.
00:51:11
Speaker
I don't know if I'm going to find things, though.
00:51:16
Speaker
15.
00:51:16
Speaker
I don't know if I'm going to find anything either.
00:51:18
Speaker
Holy shit, I might actually find something.
00:51:20
Speaker
I rolled an 18.
00:51:21
Speaker
Nice.
00:51:22
Speaker
Nice.
00:51:24
Speaker
Huh.
00:51:25
Speaker
What'd you roll, Yellen?
00:51:28
Speaker
Five.
00:51:30
Speaker
I'm just kind of standing in the middle of the room like, wow, this place really was going through fast, huh?
00:51:35
Speaker
That's crazy.
00:51:38
Speaker
Kalden's like picking out specific things because I rolled a 25, like picking out literally everything that he listed that we would need.
00:51:44
Speaker
He goes, yep, definitely, yep.
00:51:48
Speaker
I'm more looking for evidence over ransacking.
00:51:50
Speaker
It's a nice carpet she had.
00:51:55
Speaker
Sure.
00:51:56
Speaker
What was your roll, Maeve? 15.
00:52:00
Speaker
15, okay.
00:52:02
Speaker
I'll start with Kalden.
00:52:03
Speaker
Your roll was pretty high if I remember correctly, right?
00:52:05
Speaker
25, yeah.
00:52:06
Speaker
That's what I thought, yeah.
00:52:08
Speaker
With a 25, you end up finding a small door
Debate over Using Magic Circle
00:52:15
Speaker
underneath the stairwell, looking as if it's a closet.
00:52:19
Speaker
And as you're looking through it, it mostly is just a supply closet.
00:52:24
Speaker
You see a broom in there, a mop.
00:52:26
Speaker
some extra dishware and maybe extra vials that she's not currently using and things like that.
00:52:33
Speaker
Nothing crazy.
00:52:35
Speaker
But while investigating, you notice as you pull out a container of salted meat for storage, there's a small little indention in the wall.
00:52:55
Speaker
Talira and Maeve
00:52:57
Speaker
You both together while searching very quickly and easily were able to find a very, very large cash.
00:53:04
Speaker
She has like an office that is catty corner from the kitchen.
00:53:09
Speaker
It is where you all had been.
00:53:11
Speaker
It's like right off the living room and it very much leads for like from the entrance area into that, which normally is kind of like roped off during business hours.
00:53:20
Speaker
So that leads to the office.
00:53:21
Speaker
It's where you guys were previously.
00:53:23
Speaker
While in there, very quickly noticing that there are public displays of some potions, which are some general, like, very easy-to-make ones that you guys could grab.
00:53:33
Speaker
You see that there is, like, a little hatch, almost, in the floor behind her desk.
00:53:45
Speaker
Oh.
00:53:46
Speaker
Interesting.
00:53:47
Speaker
Where are my other notes?
00:53:49
Speaker
Oh.
00:53:49
Speaker
Can I investigate it to see if there's any traps with this story?
00:53:55
Speaker
You can.
00:53:55
Speaker
And while you're doing that, we'll go back to Kelden.
00:53:58
Speaker
What does the indention look like?
00:54:02
Speaker
Like, does it look like something should be slotted in?
00:54:05
Speaker
It looks like a very thin... Like, if you were to take literally a razor blade and very carefully cut in a square, that amount of gap between the two pieces of paper...
00:54:20
Speaker
that would be how thin there is like a slice in the wall in a square.
00:54:26
Speaker
Okay.
00:54:26
Speaker
Something maybe could be pushed in and could put on there.
00:54:28
Speaker
Maybe the wall pushes in there.
00:54:30
Speaker
It could be a variety of things.
00:54:32
Speaker
Can I further investigate this specifically to try and like figure that out or?
00:54:38
Speaker
Give me another roll.
00:54:41
Speaker
Okay.
00:54:41
Speaker
17.
00:54:41
Speaker
17.
00:54:42
Speaker
Yeah.
00:54:43
Speaker
As you're kind of investigating it, you go to,
00:54:46
Speaker
You go to push on it, and as you push one corner, the other corner pops out, and you're able to grab it.
00:54:51
Speaker
And you slowly kind of peel it out without breaking any of the covering, essentially.
00:54:58
Speaker
And behind it is a sigil.
00:55:04
Speaker
What does it look like?
00:55:07
Speaker
It looks like three intersecting ovals with a...
00:55:18
Speaker
It's very, I don't know what the proper word to use.
00:55:21
Speaker
It's not tribal, but it's, I don't know what the correct description of the type of, I guess, art style the symbol is, but you can tell it looks like a wave in the middle of three intersecting ovals.
00:55:37
Speaker
Like cutting through them, or...?
00:55:40
Speaker
Like it's three intersecting ovals.
00:55:43
Speaker
Like it's a triad of ovals.
00:55:44
Speaker
And in the center, it's like a three oval Venn diagram where in the center it has like a cresting wave.
00:55:51
Speaker
Okay.
00:55:52
Speaker
And then I also found what looks to be a door under the stairwell.
00:55:59
Speaker
This is in there.
00:56:01
Speaker
This was found behind.
00:56:02
Speaker
Oh, okay.
00:56:02
Speaker
I went in.
00:56:03
Speaker
Okay.
00:56:04
Speaker
Okay.
00:56:04
Speaker
Yeah.
00:56:04
Speaker
You went in and while investigating in there is where you found.
00:56:09
Speaker
I take the sigil.
00:56:11
Speaker
Okay.
00:56:11
Speaker
When you take it, it leaves an indention where it was sitting.
00:56:18
Speaker
That's how it was just sitting in the wall like that.
00:56:21
Speaker
Okay.
00:56:23
Speaker
It was like the wall was perfectly carved out for it to fit in there.
00:56:27
Speaker
Correct.
00:56:28
Speaker
And there was like a cover placed just carefully over it.
00:56:30
Speaker
Okay.
00:56:32
Speaker
To hide it.
00:56:33
Speaker
Put that in my pocket.
00:56:36
Speaker
I'll put that in my pocket.
00:56:38
Speaker
The other two, what was your investigation to check it for traps?
00:56:44
Speaker
21.
00:56:44
Speaker
21.
00:56:44
Speaker
Good thing you checked.
00:56:47
Speaker
Sure enough, as you go to check it and you're like kind of checking the lock on this hatch, as there is like a little lock on there, as you slowly kind of try to mess with it, not trying to fully unlock it, but just trying to say if it doesn't make any weird sounds as you kind of try to rotate it or do anything, is it more than just a simple lock?
00:57:08
Speaker
You're kind of listening ear against it, and sure enough, you hear sounds as you try to turn it.
00:57:13
Speaker
You hear sounds from a different point in the hatch as if something would be attached to it by a string.
00:57:19
Speaker
Okay.
00:57:21
Speaker
I've come back up and have rejoined them.
00:57:28
Speaker
Calden, you're good with your fingers, aren't you?
00:57:34
Speaker
That's just what she said.
00:57:38
Speaker
Some have said so.
00:57:41
Speaker
Well, I hope so.
00:57:42
Speaker
This latch is trapped.
00:57:45
Speaker
Okay.
00:57:46
Speaker
It's booby trapped.
00:57:49
Speaker
Booby.
00:57:51
Speaker
I don't have tools specifically for that, but I can... Does anyone have tools to untrap booby traps?
00:58:01
Speaker
Yes.
00:58:03
Speaker
Does anyone have booby trap tools?
00:58:05
Speaker
No, but he has thieves tools.
00:58:08
Speaker
Are you a rogue without thieves tools?
00:58:10
Speaker
Oh, never mind.
00:58:11
Speaker
I do have thieves tools.
00:58:13
Speaker
You do have booby trap tools?
00:58:17
Speaker
No booby tools?
00:58:18
Speaker
Oh, no.
00:58:23
Speaker
I step aside for the master.
00:58:25
Speaker
31.
00:58:25
Speaker
31.
00:58:27
Speaker
Yeah, as you're kind of playing around the lock.
00:58:31
Speaker
Yeah.
00:58:33
Speaker
You made two.
00:58:33
Speaker
Yeah.
00:58:34
Speaker
As you're as you're playing with the lock.
00:58:38
Speaker
Like it seems like a normal lock at first, as far as like the way the key would mess with the tumbler.
00:58:45
Speaker
But with knowing what they told you, something's different after investigating for a minute.
00:58:49
Speaker
You end up literally just pushing.
00:58:51
Speaker
You take to kind of take on a needle and push it directly in.
00:58:54
Speaker
There seems to be a button.
00:58:56
Speaker
at the back of the lock.
00:58:57
Speaker
So this would have taken a custom key to push a button to release something to where it doesn't turn the thread.
00:59:04
Speaker
And you're able to then pick the rest of the lock.
00:59:08
Speaker
Good work.
00:59:10
Speaker
I didn't blow us up, which is always a plus.
00:59:14
Speaker
Always a plus.
00:59:15
Speaker
See, I knew you were good with your fingers.
00:59:21
Speaker
After you unlock it, you're able to pull up, and the hatch does not lead to a basement, actually.
00:59:24
Speaker
What comes up is an entire shelving unit.
00:59:29
Speaker
Magically lit with much more expensive-looking potions.
00:59:34
Speaker
Whoa.
00:59:35
Speaker
That is what I am talking about.
00:59:38
Speaker
This is great.
00:59:40
Speaker
Excellent job there.
00:59:42
Speaker
Does anyone know what these do?
00:59:44
Speaker
Are they labeled?
00:59:45
Speaker
I have no idea.
00:59:47
Speaker
Can we try to identify them at all?
00:59:49
Speaker
Are they labeled?
00:59:51
Speaker
They are not labeled.
00:59:53
Speaker
Bitch.
00:59:56
Speaker
There's no potion that's a skull and crossbones that's actually a llama or anything.
01:00:03
Speaker
A llama?
01:00:04
Speaker
He's supposed to be dead!
01:00:07
Speaker
Right.
01:00:08
Speaker
The poison.
01:00:09
Speaker
The poison for Cusco.
01:00:10
Speaker
The poison for Cusco.
01:00:12
Speaker
Cusco's poison.
01:00:15
Speaker
Pull the lever, Kronk!
01:00:17
Speaker
Wrong lever!
01:00:19
Speaker
Wrong lever!
01:00:22
Speaker
Why do we even have that lever?
01:00:32
Speaker
Yeah, no, they are not labeled, unfortunately.
01:00:37
Speaker
Should we take these back to Yari and ask, or are you guys able to kind of like suss it out?
Valuable Potions and Questioning Hess
01:00:43
Speaker
I'm not especially good with magic.
01:00:46
Speaker
I mean, we could try, but I feel like taking them to Yari might be a good idea.
01:00:50
Speaker
Or you could just give a little... A little taste test?
01:00:55
Speaker
Well... And then we will have a llama situation.
01:01:06
Speaker
Oh, no!
01:01:06
Speaker
None of the potions previously would have turned us into a llama, but one of them absolutely does now.
01:01:11
Speaker
Yeah.
01:01:12
Speaker
Oh, absolutely.
01:01:14
Speaker
Don't blame me, though.
01:01:15
Speaker
Just blame yourselves.
01:01:17
Speaker
It's true.
01:01:18
Speaker
We goof in.
01:01:19
Speaker
We goof into our detriment.
01:01:22
Speaker
Indeed.
01:01:24
Speaker
Depression.
01:01:25
Speaker
What's our plan?
01:01:26
Speaker
Is anyone doing arcana checks?
01:01:28
Speaker
Yeah, I will arcana check.
01:01:31
Speaker
I will fail.
01:01:32
Speaker
Actually, no.
01:01:34
Speaker
I'll give you botic inspiration.
01:01:38
Speaker
I'm sure you can figure it out.
01:01:40
Speaker
Four, right?
01:01:43
Speaker
Is it four or six?
01:01:45
Speaker
I think it's a D6.
01:01:46
Speaker
Oh, natural 20.
01:01:49
Speaker
Oh, shit, yeah!
01:01:51
Speaker
He knows all of them.
01:01:54
Speaker
You know, I didn't see these before when we came in, but now I really know what they are.
01:02:00
Speaker
Not in the natural light anymore, and the face, the sun face.
01:02:04
Speaker
Yes.
01:02:07
Speaker
Yeah, okay, so you kind of like try to get a sense for what magical effect these are going to give.
01:02:13
Speaker
You start to reach out, you kind of start to meditate on them.
01:02:16
Speaker
And reach out not divinely like a lot of your other powers may do.
01:02:20
Speaker
You try to legitimately just use your connection with the arcane and your practiced abilities.
01:02:29
Speaker
You start trying to kind of suss them out.
01:02:31
Speaker
You can immediately see there are three that have the same looking jar that they are in, and they are all three Greater Healing Potions.
01:02:40
Speaker
That's pretty good.
01:02:41
Speaker
They're up on the top shelf.
01:02:44
Speaker
There are two other shelves below it, with the middle one holding two thinner vials that are very slightly different.
01:02:55
Speaker
And you can't, even a natural 20, because it's not your specialty, I won't fully give you what each of these are, but you do know they're potions of some sort of giant strength, but they are not the same.
01:03:07
Speaker
Okay.
01:03:08
Speaker
And how many of those were there?
01:03:10
Speaker
There's two.
01:03:12
Speaker
I don't know which kind of giant strength each one is, but they are not the same.
01:03:16
Speaker
And at this point, you kind of get the sense the reason they're not labeled is because the jar or vial they're in equals what they are.
01:03:26
Speaker
And then you go to the third one, and there are four different jars down at the very bottom.
01:03:32
Speaker
One, even with a natural 20, you got no idea, but it is completely black with a gold sparkle floating in it.
01:03:41
Speaker
You have another one that is... This is the poison of...
01:03:54
Speaker
Or Kuzco.
01:03:56
Speaker
It is the poison for Kuchu.
01:03:58
Speaker
Kuchu?
01:03:58
Speaker
Kuchu?
01:03:59
Speaker
Yeah, totally.
01:04:07
Speaker
It's the poison.
01:04:08
Speaker
The poison for Kuchi.
01:04:11
Speaker
The Kuchi.
01:04:13
Speaker
No, no, don't even.
01:04:15
Speaker
Oh, no.
01:04:17
Speaker
The poison of a storm snake.
01:04:20
Speaker
And that's two.
01:04:22
Speaker
There's two more.
01:04:25
Speaker
Another one is a potion of invisibility.
01:04:30
Speaker
And another one is a potion of water breathing.
01:04:33
Speaker
Wonderful.
01:04:34
Speaker
What is a storm snake?
01:04:37
Speaker
Would you know?
01:04:38
Speaker
Is a better question.
01:04:40
Speaker
Would Talira know?
01:04:42
Speaker
Look, no one.
01:04:43
Speaker
Thinking of all your backstories.
01:04:47
Speaker
It's not like it's a it's very only found in one region of the planet.
01:04:54
Speaker
I don't think anyone here would know about them.
01:04:59
Speaker
This is a storm snake.
01:05:02
Speaker
Not even in books?
01:05:04
Speaker
I mean, maybe.
01:05:06
Speaker
If you want to try, you could roll me a history check, but I mean, it'd have to be a really high check to get any information because it's just so niche to one specific place.
01:05:17
Speaker
Is a 14 high enough?
01:05:21
Speaker
Unfortunately, no, I don't think it is.
01:05:23
Speaker
Talira actually rolled a 16, also probably not high enough.
01:05:30
Speaker
What are you rolling?
01:05:31
Speaker
No.
01:05:34
Speaker
They were rolling history to see if they can maybe by chance have any information on Storm Snake.
01:05:38
Speaker
I'll roll it for funsies.
01:05:40
Speaker
I don't think 16 would be high enough.
01:05:43
Speaker
No.
01:05:45
Speaker
That is what you're able to find.
01:05:47
Speaker
What do you do from here?
01:05:50
Speaker
Imagine Kalden with invisibility.
01:05:52
Speaker
Ooh.
01:05:55
Speaker
I don't think you need it.
01:05:56
Speaker
Just stating that fact.
01:06:01
Speaker
Fair, you know.
01:06:02
Speaker
I think you are the person of invisibility at this point.
01:06:08
Speaker
If you drink Kalden's blood, you become invisible.
01:06:12
Speaker
Yeah, it's just Kalden's blood in that bottle.
01:06:13
Speaker
Yeah.
01:06:17
Speaker
So Calden doesn't bleed because his blood is invisible.
01:06:20
Speaker
Yeah, you can't see Calden bleed.
01:06:21
Speaker
Talira secretly has the goal of becoming a dampier, knowing just to be able to use Calden's blood for invisibility.
01:06:28
Speaker
Who does?
01:06:30
Speaker
I said Talira secretly has the goal of becoming a dampier.
01:06:36
Speaker
You're still in heavy armor.
01:06:37
Speaker
You'd still... They'd be able to hear you.
01:06:41
Speaker
You'd just be invisibly loud.
01:06:44
Speaker
The invisible sound of pots and pans noises.
01:06:47
Speaker
It's just echoing throughout the room.
01:06:51
Speaker
With the information you've now found here, given what you have found, what do you do now?
01:06:57
Speaker
Investigate the squirrel.
01:07:03
Speaker
We should go ask her some questions.
01:07:07
Speaker
Also, we got a bit distracted by the potions, but I pull out the sigil.
01:07:14
Speaker
So I found this perfectly squirreled away.
01:07:20
Speaker
I'm assuming it's the sigil for the organization she's in because of the water element to it.
01:07:30
Speaker
I'm going a bit Australian.
01:07:31
Speaker
You did.
01:07:35
Speaker
I couldn't tell.
01:07:35
Speaker
You did there.
01:07:37
Speaker
If that helps, I couldn't tell.
01:07:39
Speaker
It's water that throws me because I've heard her say water enough times that when I'm trying to do something that's just slightly similar.
01:07:48
Speaker
No, Cleo.
01:07:50
Speaker
No.
01:07:53
Speaker
Oi, no.
01:07:55
Speaker
No, Cleo.
01:07:57
Speaker
The condensation.
01:08:00
Speaker
It's possible that if we go to the cave that she had been receiving correspondence from, that we would require this to access information.
01:08:12
Speaker
And there may be more information there.
01:08:13
Speaker
Who knows?
01:08:16
Speaker
She may have destroyed it.
01:08:18
Speaker
I doubt she's destroyed it.
01:08:21
Speaker
With how much of a hurry she was in, I also doubt it, but we never know.
01:08:26
Speaker
Yeah.
01:08:28
Speaker
Well, we shall go there then, I guess.
01:08:30
Speaker
And then we'll go interrogate a squirrel.
01:08:32
Speaker
Alrighty.
01:08:35
Speaker
It took a minute to remember why we were talking to a squirrel and then it hit.
01:08:41
Speaker
Okay.
01:08:42
Speaker
I am less confused now.
01:08:44
Speaker
I'm glad.
01:08:45
Speaker
I'm fairly certain it's a ferret.
01:08:47
Speaker
They're different.
01:08:48
Speaker
They're all the same.
01:08:50
Speaker
Are you all leaving the house then or are you further investigating here?
01:08:55
Speaker
Is there additional investigation checks to be made?
01:08:58
Speaker
Because we can.
01:09:01
Speaker
I mean, I'd be wanting to search this place from top to bottom.
01:09:05
Speaker
Yeah, that would have been my intention.
01:09:06
Speaker
Anything in her bedroom, any journal, anything?
01:09:11
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, given the prior investigation checks, some other things I could probably give you.
01:09:15
Speaker
Yeah, some other things I could probably give you is like a journal of hers, like you had mentioned.
01:09:19
Speaker
Yeah.
01:09:21
Speaker
Anything that might – you kind of let's start to flip through it a little bit, and anything even remotely referring to anything to do with this investigation is very vague, not really giving you any details.
01:09:33
Speaker
But the journal is also very easy to find, just classically in a bedside table.
01:09:38
Speaker
Is there any invisible ink written?
01:09:40
Speaker
If you can figure out a way to check that, maybe.
01:09:42
Speaker
But –
01:09:43
Speaker
A couple of things you could find is like a recipe book for both food and you find a separate one for like some basic potions.
01:09:51
Speaker
If you wanted to bag that.
01:09:52
Speaker
But it really honestly kind of seems like she leads a very simple life.
01:09:57
Speaker
There's not a lot to the house.
01:09:59
Speaker
Past tense.
01:10:01
Speaker
True.
01:10:02
Speaker
Fair.
01:10:02
Speaker
She lives a very simple life now.
01:10:04
Speaker
We've made it even simpler.
01:10:10
Speaker
Okay.
01:10:10
Speaker
Are we?
01:10:11
Speaker
Yeah, it's not much.
01:10:13
Speaker
Find a really nice kitchen knife.
01:10:16
Speaker
I'll take that.
01:10:17
Speaker
Let's see.
01:10:20
Speaker
Manage inventory.
01:10:21
Speaker
Can I add a kitchen knife?
01:10:25
Speaker
Yeah, you could also, if like something else you could find here that might be useful for you guys is probably like a medicine kit.
01:10:30
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
01:10:32
Speaker
Like a healer supplies.
01:10:33
Speaker
You could find those here.
01:10:35
Speaker
I would grab some actually.
01:10:40
Speaker
A healer's kit.
01:10:42
Speaker
Yeah, a healer's kid, for sure.
01:10:43
Speaker
And you can also, because I think this might be something Tiller might want, but you definitely can find booze here as well.
01:10:51
Speaker
If you didn't catch the hint, she was a very lonely woman.
01:10:58
Speaker
How would we like to partition out the potions?
01:11:05
Speaker
Do you want to keep these mystery ones in altogether?
01:11:09
Speaker
Or should we each have one, perhaps?
01:11:12
Speaker
Well, there's only two.
01:11:15
Speaker
There's only two that were, or three that we're not 100% certain about, and only one that we don't have any idea, right?
01:11:24
Speaker
Yes.
01:11:25
Speaker
Yes, correct.
01:11:27
Speaker
Well, the healing potions, at least we should determine who's getting them.
01:11:32
Speaker
I think Phalyra should definitely get at least one or two of them.
01:11:36
Speaker
I think Yellen should have one since he is a healer.
01:11:39
Speaker
If he goes down, it's hard for him to heal.
01:11:43
Speaker
That is true.
01:11:44
Speaker
Yes.
01:11:45
Speaker
And Maeve, you seem like you take hits a lot, judging by your armor.
01:11:54
Speaker
Yeah, it needs a polish.
01:11:57
Speaker
So you should get one too.
01:11:59
Speaker
Okay.
01:12:01
Speaker
And Kalden, you don't get hit.
01:12:04
Speaker
I seek not to.
01:12:06
Speaker
It hurts when you get hit.
01:12:07
Speaker
I'm telling you, you don't get hit.
01:12:10
Speaker
Oh.
01:12:10
Speaker
I won't get hit.
01:12:14
Speaker
I will endeavour to not get hit.
01:12:17
Speaker
Um...
01:12:19
Speaker
Until we find out more about the storm snake and what that poison might be, I don't think we should use it.
01:12:30
Speaker
As well as this black potion.
01:12:33
Speaker
Yari might be of some help with it.
01:12:37
Speaker
Do we wish to go speak with Yori first?
01:12:39
Speaker
She might still be needing a moment.
01:12:42
Speaker
Yes, I think she needs her time.
01:12:44
Speaker
It would be best to either continue with our investigation, either at your rendezvous point or with this girl.
01:12:57
Speaker
Talira, Gwynedd may be of assistance too.
01:13:01
Speaker
We'll be heading in her direction once we leave here.
01:13:05
Speaker
Yes.
01:13:06
Speaker
She would actually be a very good person to talk to.
01:13:10
Speaker
Are we heading to the cave that Yelen and I tracked her to before?
01:13:16
Speaker
Yes, your liaising point.
01:13:18
Speaker
Especially if you have that weird little sigil thing.
01:13:23
Speaker
Yes, I do.
01:13:25
Speaker
Do I need to roll survival to try and, like, remember where it was?
01:13:31
Speaker
I would say yeah.
01:13:32
Speaker
It's been a little over a week.
01:13:33
Speaker
Yeah, I would say so.
01:13:37
Speaker
15 probably takes you a little longer than you would like to admit to get everybody there.
01:13:43
Speaker
I'm not lost.
01:13:43
Speaker
I'm just... Yeah, like there's a couple of times where you've lost it and you kind of like, you try not to, you know, you may not try to look confident type of thing and you pick it back up, but probably lost it more times than you would probably admit to anybody.
01:13:59
Speaker
But you do get there.
01:14:01
Speaker
I think Calvin is still pretty antsy as well, so...
01:14:06
Speaker
Right, which makes sense.
01:14:09
Speaker
But yeah, you all manage to find your way and you stare up at this large cliff side, this cliff face rather, of stone wall.
01:14:18
Speaker
And sure enough, now that it's a little brighter out, you can see the little lip in which you had hung off of that has a small opening.
01:14:25
Speaker
You can't see the opening from here, obviously, but you know where it's at.
01:14:28
Speaker
Mm hmm.
01:14:30
Speaker
Okay.
01:14:32
Speaker
I can go up and... How high up is it?
01:14:36
Speaker
Oh, Lord, I gotta remember how high we had decided.
01:14:41
Speaker
It was a bit.
01:14:44
Speaker
I think it was a height to where if I wanted to use a rope to help Yellen get up, I could have, right?
01:14:52
Speaker
I believe so.
01:14:52
Speaker
I think so.
01:14:53
Speaker
I think so, and we just chose not to.
01:14:55
Speaker
I think it was around 30-ish feet, if I remember correctly.
01:14:59
Speaker
Between 30 and 60, I think.
01:15:00
Speaker
Okay.
01:15:02
Speaker
And the opening to the little cave was not large enough for Talira to get through, correct?
01:15:08
Speaker
No.
01:15:09
Speaker
No, definitely not.
01:15:11
Speaker
Okay.
01:15:12
Speaker
Talira, you simply can't get in.
01:15:16
Speaker
You're too you.
01:15:18
Speaker
But if Maeve or Yellen would like to come with me, I can tie off a rope to assist you in getting up.
01:15:28
Speaker
Otherwise I can go on my own.
01:15:31
Speaker
I think it might be too dangerous to go alone.
01:15:35
Speaker
Here, take this, just in case.
01:15:38
Speaker
And Talira will hand you the potion.
01:15:42
Speaker
You just told me not to get hit.
01:15:45
Speaker
Well, I am not there to take the hit for you.
01:15:48
Speaker
I climb up and... Is there anywhere for me to tie off the rope?
01:15:54
Speaker
Doesn't look like it.
01:15:55
Speaker
You would have to create a spot.
01:15:58
Speaker
There's nowhere for me to tie it off.
01:16:00
Speaker
Do you think you'd be able to get up?
01:16:04
Speaker
Do you need me to hold the rope?
01:16:07
Speaker
You're down there.
01:16:08
Speaker
I am tension.
01:16:17
Speaker
I can try to hold it, but I don't trust myself to be strong enough to hold your guys' weights.
01:16:24
Speaker
Not that you guys are fat or weigh a lot.
01:16:28
Speaker
It's just not my strong suit.
01:16:31
Speaker
I should be good to climb.
01:16:34
Speaker
Is it an athletics check?
01:16:35
Speaker
Athletics check to climb up?
01:16:37
Speaker
Yes.
01:16:40
Speaker
Athletics is based on strength, and I think this would be more of a dexterous activity, so I would say acrobatics would be more accurate.
01:16:49
Speaker
I thought athletics was specifically for climbing.
01:16:52
Speaker
Yes.
01:16:53
Speaker
If that is true, then I can...
01:16:57
Speaker
If that is the case, then by all means.
01:17:02
Speaker
If that is the case, I will eat my words.
01:17:03
Speaker
I could see athletics or acrobatics both.
01:17:05
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, it does take a lot of strength to pull yourself up, so I would say either.
01:17:10
Speaker
Cool.
01:17:13
Speaker
25.
01:17:13
Speaker
I scale.
01:17:16
Speaker
Yeah, you're able to get up there at your normal climbing speed for sure.
01:17:20
Speaker
You climb up as effortlessly as Calvin.
01:17:24
Speaker
You don't actually climb.
01:17:25
Speaker
You make a singular jump.
01:17:32
Speaker
You climb up onto Talia's shoulders and then leap off of her.
01:17:38
Speaker
And then you land like a Marvel superhero.
01:17:42
Speaker
Yes!
01:17:44
Speaker
And then you nearly fall off because this is a very thin ledge.
01:17:47
Speaker
Superhero pose.
01:17:50
Speaker
I'm going to head in.
01:17:52
Speaker
Kaelin, are you coming or are you staying down there?
01:17:55
Speaker
I'll stay down here for now.
01:17:57
Speaker
Athletics and also acrobatics are neither my strong suit, so I prefer not to fall off the cliff.
01:18:01
Speaker
I can probably hold the rope for you if you would like to come up.
01:18:06
Speaker
I think it's a good idea to not leave Tilly alone, if possible.
01:18:10
Speaker
Okay, we'll do that.
01:18:12
Speaker
I'll stay here.
01:18:15
Speaker
I start crawling in.
01:18:16
Speaker
I follow behind.
01:18:18
Speaker
To follow behind, Maeve, you probably have to take off your armor.
01:18:22
Speaker
Because you do, if I remember correctly, wear pretty bulky armor, if I'm correct, right?
01:18:25
Speaker
It's not that bulky, but yeah, I guess.
01:18:29
Speaker
I guess.
01:18:30
Speaker
Is it a chain or is it like chain mail or is it?
01:18:32
Speaker
No, it's a plate.
01:18:34
Speaker
Then yeah, you'd have to take it off.
01:18:36
Speaker
You can guard the entrance.
01:18:39
Speaker
And if I die, I guess you can pull my dead body out.
01:18:45
Speaker
No, I will take off.
01:18:49
Speaker
I feel like this is a fucking trap.
01:18:50
Speaker
That's fine.
01:18:51
Speaker
Give me two seconds.
01:18:54
Speaker
Cool.
01:18:55
Speaker
I take off my armor and I carve a shield of faith onto myself.
01:19:04
Speaker
Oh, nice.
01:19:04
Speaker
Okay.
01:19:08
Speaker
Okay.
01:19:10
Speaker
Sounds good to me.
01:19:12
Speaker
All right.
01:19:13
Speaker
As you both crawl through this little tiny crevice, getting into this little cave, even as you go to stand up, you can't stand up.
01:19:21
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You have to hunch down, kind of halfway bent as you walk.
01:19:25
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And as you walk to the back, it does start to widen in height a bit, allowing you to start to stand up.
01:19:32
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But it's not very deep.
01:19:34
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whatsoever which calvin you had expected that given that you were able to hear the way you did and sure enough it takes a very slight right curve against the back wall this curved back wall there seems to be a like a small little table with a mirror set up on it and on the table carved on this wooden table kind of makeshift table carved into it there seems to be a magic circle
01:20:02
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Do I see any indentations or like markings within the sigil that's on the table that would indicate my sigil goes there?
01:20:16
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So the way magic circles work,
01:20:19
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As I've explained before, they're like an electrical circuit.
01:20:21
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And in this case, they follow from a power source, which you see that symbol in the middle, and it kind of goes through this intricate design and circuitry.
01:20:33
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And most spells require components, and those components will have slots in the circuitry.
01:20:40
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The verbal and somatic components that require just regular casting allow you to do it without a magic circle.
01:20:48
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Whenever the magic circle is used, physical components take the place of those or
01:20:55
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you have to stand within the magic circle to then give it these components.
01:21:01
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In this case, it's a smaller one and it doesn't require that or circumvent it somehow.
01:21:06
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But what you do notice is on the right and left of this table, there's a little small piece of quartz, a little collection of hair of some sort, maybe a troll or an ogre or something like that.
01:21:18
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And on the left side,
01:21:20
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There is a very small bottle of alcohol.
01:21:27
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And sure enough, if you kind of like look through the circuitry, even if you don't have to know like too much about all of this, like magic circles and the way they work to know and identify kind of where there's like little these little circles that identify where a component needs to be placed.
01:21:44
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And sure enough, you see there's enough spots for the quartz and there's one extra that seems to be a little bit bigger of a circle that your sigil might be able to fit in.
01:21:54
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I believe we could activate the circle, which she was using to communicate with, I believe, higher-ups.
01:22:01
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My question is, do we believe that it's worthwhile to activate it, potentially get a moment to see them, but also have them see us and to know what we look like?
01:22:13
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We could... I've got... I've got an idea.
01:22:16
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Yeah.
01:22:19
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And I pull out my mask that I have hidden.
01:22:24
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Okay.
01:22:24
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We don't have to give them our identity.
01:22:27
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Yeah.
01:22:27
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So I wouldn't be able to, like, change what I look like, but I could stand out of the way.
01:22:32
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Okay.
01:22:33
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And since my armor is gone... True.
01:22:36
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Your distinguishing characteristic of your armor is missing.
01:22:40
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Yeah.
01:22:41
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Now I just... I'm just a fella.
01:22:45
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Okay, uh, I put on my mask.
01:22:48
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And it's like a whole different person.
01:22:51
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Wow, who is this in front of me?
01:22:53
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What?
01:22:54
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What happened?
01:22:54
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Who is this?
01:22:55
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Where'd Maeve go?
01:22:58
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It's okay, I'm right here.
01:23:00
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Who are you?
01:23:05
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Talira!
01:23:09
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What?
01:23:10
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Did I hear my name?
01:23:12
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Somebody replaced Babe!
01:23:15
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Oh my gosh.
01:23:16
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Somebody replaced Babe.
01:23:20
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Okay.
01:23:22
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So it's pretty simple, you said, for us to activate, to put the things.
01:23:29
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Yeah.
01:23:30
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You essentially, you can put those there and then you kind of have to kickstart magic circle.
01:23:35
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So you'd have to channel a little bit of your own arcane energy into it to like start the power source essentially.
01:23:40
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But then as long as everything's done correctly, it should take over.
01:23:44
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There is generally in most magic circles, there are large enough for you to stand in.
Magic Energy Manipulation
01:23:47
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In this case, there's a slot that you'd have to put a hand in.
01:23:50
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That way you can direct the energy and control it.
01:23:52
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Okay.
01:23:55
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Yeah, I do have... I have one that... I have Detect Magic, but it's from the... It's also a ritual cast, so I can do that.
01:24:08
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So you're going to do Detect Magic?
01:24:12
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Yep.
01:24:13
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Like to detect magic or to like channel energy into the magic circle?
01:24:17
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Just channel energy.
01:24:18
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Oh, yeah.
01:24:19
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No, you don't have to do that.
01:24:20
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Like you can, if you have the ability to use magic, you can channel like your own energy to like do things.
01:24:25
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Yeah, yeah.
01:24:26
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That's not a problem.
01:24:26
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I'll do that.
01:24:27
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Yeah.
01:24:28
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So as you do that, it kickstarts this magic circle.
01:24:33
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This ritual starts and you watch as the energy from this power source, power sigil in the middle kind of starts moving throughout the
01:24:43
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the circle filling it, filling it like a circuit would.
01:24:46
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And it passes through the components and kind of changes color as it does.
01:24:50
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And it comes back out to the front and you see that it has almost like an arrow kind of kind of pointing to the mirror.
01:24:57
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And as soon as it fully fills the
01:24:59
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Not like a picturesque face, but more like a weak, uncharacteristic, almost like a hologram, except that's not what
Unexpected Communication through Mirror
01:25:11
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it is.
01:25:11
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It's almost like something's kind of pushed out from the mirror.
01:25:13
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It lacks a lot of characteristics of a face.
01:25:16
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Shows up.
01:25:18
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Veruta, I didn't expect to hear from you.
01:25:23
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Veruta sent me in hip place.
01:25:26
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And that's where we're going to end today.
01:25:30
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Oh, man.
01:25:33
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Ah.
01:25:34
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Oh, shit.
Cliffhanger and Episode Conclusion
01:25:37
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Dun, dun, dun.
01:25:38
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Dun, dun, dun.
01:25:39
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Cliffhangers.
01:25:41
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Cliffhangers.
01:25:43
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Episode eight.
01:25:45
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In the books.
01:25:47
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Boom.
Host's Closing Remarks and Credits
01:25:50
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audience thank you so much for listening um a little bit of cliffhanger we left you off on today uh i'm not gonna lie i almost edited without talking to you guys so sorry but either way appreciate you guys for uh listening cast hope you guys enjoyed hell yeah oh yeah that we recorded today it's been fun always is uh regardless um i am out of time unfortunately i hope you guys enjoyed it and we will see you next time in episode nine get so close to ten i'm so excited there baby yes
01:26:21
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Either way, you all, thank you so much.
01:26:23
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We'll see you next time at the World of Aeon.
01:26:33
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We want to say thank you to our cast, myself, Curtis Woosley as the GM, MJ Gunther as Talira Grimstone Eklanothi, Sephira as Maeve Strongheart, Rennie Armas as Kelden, and Jack Baldwin as Yelena Call.
01:26:46
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Additional thank you to our graphics by Sintiq GFX, our editing by Mark Hitchin, and our intro and outro music composed by Ryan Lund's owner and operator of Eyes on Lund Studios.