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World of Ae'oene Ep. 5: Blood, Mud and Mustard
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Professor Oxenbrigg settles in and the party regroups only to be interrupted. Naevoa is seeming to hold many secrets, how many more will be uncovered?
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 and Content Warnings
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Destabilizing Foundations.
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Episode 5.
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The World of Aeon contains stories with mature themes.
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Content warnings are in the episode descriptions.
Meet the Contestants
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the World of Aeon.
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I have with me our contestants for the day...
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Yellen, you call.
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Yellen, welcome yourself to the crowd, please.
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I'm Yellen.
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I'm feeling very welcomed.
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Thank you for having me today.
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Absolutely, absolutely.
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Next Yellen, we've got none other than the big, the tall, the great Thalera.
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This little light of mine.
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Oh, hello.
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I'm Thalera.
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It is nice to meet you.
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Oh, what a great, great to have you here indeed.
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And next to the Talira, of course, the duo.
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They don't ever leave each other except they recently did.
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Wild.
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We're going to learn about that experience, but we have Calden.
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Hi.
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Hi.
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Thanks for being here, Calden.
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Happy to be here.
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I can tell.
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Thank you so much.
Humorous Prompt Responses
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All right.
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And last but not least for our final contestant, we have the wonderful, the amazing, the talented Maeve Stronghold.
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Hello.
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It's a pleasure to be here.
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Glad to have you.
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All right.
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We have our lovely contestants all with us today as they are going to give us a little bit of entertainment.
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If we could all look to the screen, we're going to be putting up a prompt and each of you all know exactly what to do with the prompt, right?
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No, no.
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That's the wrong answer, but don't worry, you'll figure it out.
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We look to the screen, prompt is going to come up, and I just need you all to give us your best reactions to what the prompt is going to say, or maybe I'll give you some instruction.
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Let's find out as the game continues.
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To the screen.
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What I'm going to have you do is we're going to go down the line.
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Please repeat the prompt, and then I'm going to give you...
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some instructions for the next person.
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We're going to start with Yellen.
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Same exact order.
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Yellen, the prompt is, I ate some strawberries today.
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I ate some strawberries today and, you know, they ate back.
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Interesting.
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Talira, give us a little more.
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Could you repeat the question?
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I ate some strawberries today.
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Could you give us a little more than Yellen gave us?
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Strawberries are good.
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Did you know that the word in giant for strawberry, it means a little lump, like from the ground?
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Interesting.
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Kalden, can you give us a little more?
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Yum, yum.
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Mmm.
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Maeve, can you give us the line?
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In your best Talira impression.
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Oh.
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Um.
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What was the line again?
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I ate some strawberries today.
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I ate some strawberries today.
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Oh my goodness.
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That was fantastic.
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We're going to continue to go around the line before I assign some points.
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One more round.
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Yellen!
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Yes, I'm here.
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What?
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Sorry.
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I ate some strawberries today.
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Can you give us your best Thalira impression?
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Okay.
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I ate some strawberries today.
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Something about giant and little lambs.
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Was that good?
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Quite proud of that.
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Audience loved it.
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Audience loved it.
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Fantastic.
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Back to Talira.
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Talira, can you... I ate some strawberries today with your best Calden impression.
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Will you see I ate some strawberries today?
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Fantastic.
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Fantastic.
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Calden, what did you think about that?
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I don't sound like that, do I?
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I cannot do your accent.
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I just come out sounding like I am constipated.
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Do I sound like I'm constipated?
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No, I do.
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Okay.
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I don't think you sound constipated.
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You just sound like you are concerned all the time.
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That might be true.
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You give me reason to be concerned all the time.
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We're going to move on.
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And with two more left, Calden, the prompt, I ate some strawberries today.
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Can you say that?
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As if you're falling from the sky.
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I wouldn't know anything about what that's like.
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I ate some strawberries today!
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Fantastic, fantastic.
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And last but not least, before we assign some point values, Maeve, I ate some strawberries today.
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If you're being force-fed.
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I don't want any more strawberries.
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No, thanks.
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I love it.
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I love it.
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Let's look to the audience.
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I think we need to make you more forceful.
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Use your voice.
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I am not hungry.
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I am not hungry.
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Fantastic.
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If we could get one more take, though.
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This is getting good.
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We're getting a little off kilter.
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I think everybody did a great job.
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Everybody's getting points across the board.
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Do I win?
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Yes.
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We'll find out next time.
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You and in my books.
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Anyway, thank you guys so much for joining us once again for another episode.
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As you can see, we've got our wonderful cast here, MJ, Rennie, Jack, and Safir here to give you guys another episode.
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So with our little intro out of the way, why don't we just get right into it?
Mystery at Nevao Tavern
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Coming back into the seasoned lumber town of Nevao, we last left our group Split, adventuring on two different, essentially, parties, especially with the dynamic duo of Talera and Calden being split apart, made for some interesting dynamics.
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And as we come back to, we're back at the Splint Stub Tavern, as Calden and Yellenhaven had an interesting and eventful little series of time together.
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You all had opened the door back into the Split Stump Tavern to find that by the time you get back, majority of the residents here had left, going back to their homes.
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A few, you see about two or three.
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One of them slumped, drunk out of their mind and having passed out on a table, his hands still on the mug.
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Two more looking tired, but sitting at a table just quietly muttering to each other under their breaths, having a...
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Quiet and civil conversation.
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And you see, actually, a man you haven't seen yet up at the Bartok talking to Bartok.
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He has a hood down, but looks like he was wearing some eccentric robes of a bluish purple color.
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Has white hair into a slight ponytail, though the hair is not super long.
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And wearing sandals.
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Talking to Bartok as you walk in.
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Well, I just need the room, yes.
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I understand you want to give me— I very much appreciate it, but I would really just need the one room for the night.
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I'm quite tired.
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It's been an event for the night.
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And you hear Bartok answering back, I must say, I've got to at least give you a meal for the night.
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You come in this late, I must— I've got to treat my— It's on the house, I promise.
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Especially you're here helping to research the incidents going on, like the other group here.
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Please, let me— Let me help.
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And I don't see Talira or Maeve.
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No.
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I'm going to do a quick check of the room to see if I notice anything destroyed.
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Because they were getting a little rowdy before we even left.
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Correct.
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The one table is still cracked in half, having not been moved.
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That has not been cleaned up yet, except some of the dust and maybe pebbles have been, but the actual...
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brunt of that stone table is still sitting there obviously it's going to take some work to move um but there's no more mess than you would expect from a rowdy tavern on you know on the end of a week at the end of a work week you know there's maybe a couple mugs there's some spills that haven't been cleaned up yet um dirty like a tavern would be at the end of the night but nothing out of the ordinary okay
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Um, Yellen, you stayed behind, right?
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Because we had agreed that I would.
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Because you're a little worse for where looking.
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Yeah, I'm behind the tavern, I believe is where I said I'd go.
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Okay, just kind of tucked in the shadows.
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Yep.
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Okay, I'm gonna see if I can like make eye contact with Bartok.
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Okay.
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Yeah, you can definitely do that.
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Catch his eye?
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He's looking at the man who is, and you're behind him, obviously.
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So yeah, he'd be able to see you come in and you'd be able to catch his eye.
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Okay, and I point out, like, are they... Welcome back, Calden.
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Calden's your name, right?
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Yes, your friends, they left a while ago, I think.
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They haven't been here in quite some time.
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Left?
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That's who you're looking for.
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Yeah, they kind of slipped out.
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There was a commotion at the window or something.
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Something about fire or something.
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And I believe they... Fire?
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Yeah.
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Like an elemental?
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Or like fire broke out?
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I'll be honest, I didn't see it.
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I was too busy.
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I had a busy night.
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I was quite all over the place.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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How long ago was that?
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Do you know?
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Oh, it's been hours.
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Hours.
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Oh, yeah.
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Absolutely.
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Okay, cool.
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Thank you.
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I'm going to go track them down.
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Probably can't be too hard to find a goliath.
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So we'll be back later.
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I would hope not.
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She is quite large.
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Yep.
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Thank you.
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Yep, no problem.
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When you get here, I'll probably be asleep.
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Bluebell might be here in my... So have a good night.
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Okay.
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Sounds good.
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I'm going to rush back to Yellen.
Night's Events Unveiled
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They're gone.
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As soon as you go to open the door to go outside, as you're reaching for the handle, the door flies open as a familiar face comes barging in.
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Alden!
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Clara!
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You're okay.
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I saw Yellen look from afar.
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He looked, um, was that singed?
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Why, where did you go?
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I came in and you were gone.
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There was a little light going floating through the town and we followed it.
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Please don't leave like that.
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Well, I didn't know where you were.
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You, I didn't know where you were.
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We said we were going to go try and talk to... What's her face?
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Um, Veruta.
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I just looked down and you were gone and at least Maeve was able to know because little light, you being gone, it would have been a crazy day.
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But, oh, little light.
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Little light was little fire sprite, apparently.
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Okay.
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There was a rift.
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A rift?
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To... Like, with elementals coming through.
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Yes, I poked my... Well, I actually walked in, and there was a forest... I glared around.
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Maeve is walking in at this point.
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I don't think we should talk about this here.
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So Talir just said that Yellen looked worse for wear, which means that she saw him.
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Are you with them then?
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From afar, yeah.
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Yeah, she saw him.
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They were like down the road and saw you guys as you were approaching the tavern.
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Okay.
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Would he have seen them when they were approaching?
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Probably not.
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Okay.
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Where is Yellen?
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We should grab Yellen.
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He's just around the corner and we should talk.
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Okay, yes.
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You tell us what you learn.
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Yeah, yeah.
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And Maeve will tell you what we learn because I don't know if I remember it.
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Let's go get Yellen and then we'll head to our room.
00:13:35
Speaker
We have a breakfast date with someone, so we should probably do that too.
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Okay, yeah, maybe.
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Let's get Yellen first.
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Well, it's the middle of the night.
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I don't think we're having breakfast right now.
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Yes, I agree.
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Sleep first, then breakfast.
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Since when did she become so food motivated?
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I don't know, but I'm good for breakfast now and breakfast later.
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That is fine with me.
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It has been a long night.
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It's been a long night.
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It's been a long night.
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I head past the door.
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This has been too many fucking times of me saying, let's go get fucking Gellan.
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As soon as you all say it's been a long night, as right after, almost like in succession, you hear from the bar top, it's been a long night.
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I must say I need to get to my room.
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The food can wait.
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I'll take breakfast in the morning.
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I'm meeting with a group anyway.
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I know that voice.
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That is our breakfast date.
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He kind of turns around hearing you at this point, having...feeling a little louder.
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That's all that mistake.
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Ah, yes, um, Delia, they finally caught up with me.
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That's who I'm talking about, see?
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Please, let me go up to my room.
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I'm just... Who is this?
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I'm quite tired.
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Tell me as we go to pick up Yellen.
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Yes.
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Have a good rest, Professor.
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Who is the old man?
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Good night.
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Thank you for your help.
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Absolutely.
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You all have a good night as well.
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Who is he?
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That is Professor.
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That tells me nothing, Talira.
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Professor Oxenberg.
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I love you so much.
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That tells me nothing.
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I adore you, Talira.
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He closed the rift.
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I need more than that.
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Do you all go out the door and around Yellen?
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Yes.
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Yes.
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I'm walking and talking.
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Walking and talking.
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You guys go around and it doesn't take very long, obviously.
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You go around the two corners of the building and find Yellen kind of hunched behind like a sack of potatoes in the back.
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Yeah, I'm just sitting there and I'm like, you can see he's resetting his nose from what it looks like.
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He's like, okay, okay.
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One, two.
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I have questions.
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I'm doing just fine.
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Let's get the hell out of here.
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Speaker
Interestingly, the broken nose, least important part.
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Speaker
What happened?
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Speaker
Who is the old man and why are we meeting with him?
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A meeting with Sarah?
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Professor, he close rift.
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He knows somebody who investigated Mistborn in Orlanus.
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He come from Orlanus and he spoke with Siobhan and his student who was Viter.
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He's friends with Siobhan?
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His student was with Siobhan.
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Okay.
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Speaker
We may need him in the conversation now.
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We're going to do breakfast.
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We have a breakfast date with him.
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Breakfast is several hours away.
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I need you to understand.
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It's been a long night.
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We have stuff to tell you now.
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I think the things we have to tell you are very important.
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Okay.
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Speaker
Let's go to the room.
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I will see if I catch up with Professor.
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Do you need me to pick you up there, Yellen?
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I think I can walk and I'm kind of like holding myself on the wall as I'm walking.
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I'll help Yellen.
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I just slid under and
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I need you guys to know that not everyone in this village can be trusted.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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And we're heading back?
Tavern Scuffle and Strange Occurrences
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When Calden says that to Lyra, just like is... And she like drops down and just starts darting her eyes around everywhere.
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Lyra, please stand up to your normal height, please.
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You're more suspicious like this.
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You're more noticeable now somehow.
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Speaker
As you guys walk back in, Bartok sees you all, especially like yelling, looking the way he is and everything.
00:17:47
Speaker
Oh, my goodness.
00:17:49
Speaker
Young man, you look like you took quite a beating.
00:17:53
Speaker
Here, let me get you something for that.
00:17:55
Speaker
I feel great.
00:17:56
Speaker
We went to the woods to pick mushrooms.
00:18:00
Speaker
It was a bit...
00:18:01
Speaker
At this hour?
00:18:02
Speaker
Dangerous.
00:18:03
Speaker
Well, we were going to pair her with wine.
00:18:06
Speaker
And then it wasn't this late when we left.
00:18:10
Speaker
Well, you should have just asked.
00:18:12
Speaker
I would have been happy to help you all out.
00:18:16
Speaker
We didn't think that far ahead, unfortunately.
00:18:19
Speaker
Mushrooms were kind of like a decision on the way.
00:18:23
Speaker
Yeah.
00:18:24
Speaker
I see, I see.
00:18:25
Speaker
Kind of a split-second decision.
00:18:27
Speaker
And you know what?
00:18:29
Speaker
Didn't even come back with mushrooms.
00:18:32
Speaker
Oh, God, I hate it.
00:18:33
Speaker
When our ends are like that, I understand.
00:18:35
Speaker
Don't worry, I'll get you taken care of.
00:18:36
Speaker
I assume you're all heading up to your room, given the hour.
00:18:39
Speaker
I'll put something outside your room on the floor.
00:18:41
Speaker
I'll knock, and I'm going to be heading to bed anyway soon.
00:18:43
Speaker
Thank you so much.
00:18:45
Speaker
We really appreciate it.
00:18:46
Speaker
Absolutely.
00:18:47
Speaker
You all have a good night.
00:18:48
Speaker
Again, I'll get something for you, but go rest.
00:18:50
Speaker
You obviously need it.
00:18:52
Speaker
Thank you.
00:18:53
Speaker
Give him a thumbs up.
00:18:55
Speaker
We, Talira and Maeve, kind of went off and did their own thing, so we might be up a bit, you know, tending to Yalin's wounds.
00:19:02
Speaker
We don't want to be worried about noise disturbing the other guests.
00:19:08
Speaker
How far away is he from our rooms?
00:19:11
Speaker
Oh, he got a single bed.
00:19:14
Speaker
It's the furthest over.
00:19:15
Speaker
Yala ran at the top of the stairs.
00:19:16
Speaker
He's all the way on the other side.
00:19:18
Speaker
We put double beds first, so.
00:19:20
Speaker
Perfect.
00:19:21
Speaker
Okay, thank you.
00:19:22
Speaker
No problem.
00:19:23
Speaker
Have a good night.
00:19:25
Speaker
Good night.
00:19:26
Speaker
Sleep well.
00:19:27
Speaker
Good night.
00:19:28
Speaker
Good night.
00:19:29
Speaker
Sleep well.
00:19:29
Speaker
Mostly I'll kill you in the morning.
00:19:31
Speaker
Sorry.
00:19:34
Speaker
He goes back behind the bar to start gathering, prepping something for Yellen.
00:19:41
Speaker
Now you all go up the stairs.
00:19:43
Speaker
Sorry, I wanted to find out where he was sleeping, but not in like a weird... Tell us where the other guest is.
00:19:49
Speaker
So Talira gets up to the stairs.
00:19:51
Speaker
As soon as we walk into the door where we start to... Or the room where we start to discuss, she like slams the door shut.
00:19:59
Speaker
Did someone steal your mushrooms?
00:20:03
Speaker
No, we never managed to get them.
00:20:06
Speaker
I'm going to do a quick...
00:20:09
Speaker
check around the room just to make sure that nothing's changed from when we left um i feel like i asked questions about the room before you did at one point yeah if you just give me an investigation check that'll that'll do that'll do pig that'll do i guess anywhere in your rooms
00:20:32
Speaker
Because we've got two rooms.
00:20:34
Speaker
Did we agree?
00:20:36
Speaker
Did we agree for Yellen and Calden to share rooms or for Talira and Calden to share rooms?
00:20:44
Speaker
I think it was Yellen and Calden.
00:20:46
Speaker
Yeah.
00:20:46
Speaker
Yep.
00:20:48
Speaker
I think it was Yellen and Calden and then Talira and Maeve.
00:20:52
Speaker
Yep.
00:20:52
Speaker
That sounds right.
00:20:55
Speaker
I think it should probably be Talira and Calden.
00:20:58
Speaker
We just picked boys and girls.
00:21:00
Speaker
Yeah, it's OK.
00:21:01
Speaker
Talia and Calden aren't going to hook up.
00:21:05
Speaker
You don't need to worry about that.
00:21:08
Speaker
Y'all are more than welcome to discuss it in character, by all means.
00:21:10
Speaker
We're going to keep a Bible's width apart.
00:21:12
Speaker
There's going to be room for Jesus, okay?
00:21:15
Speaker
I think there was a discussion, and it was decided.
00:21:17
Speaker
Talira and Mae would sleep together.
00:21:19
Speaker
But y'all are more than welcome to discuss it again in character, by all means.
00:21:23
Speaker
But yeah, as you look around, nothing seems to have changed.
00:21:26
Speaker
You take a pretty solid look at investigating and taking your time, too, and...
00:21:31
Speaker
Everything looks unchanged.
00:21:31
Speaker
And I think I had set something up at the window so that I would know.
00:21:36
Speaker
You did.
00:21:36
Speaker
You both had the door and the window.
00:21:38
Speaker
Yeah, okay.
00:21:39
Speaker
And they weren't disturbed.
00:21:40
Speaker
Okay.
00:21:41
Speaker
See, I know I would have thought of that stuff.
00:21:45
Speaker
Okay.
00:21:46
Speaker
Okay.
Veruta's Conspiracy with Mistborn
00:21:50
Speaker
So are we going to our separate rooms or knowing that we need to discuss?
00:21:54
Speaker
Did we all go to the same one?
00:21:56
Speaker
I think we all went to the same one to discuss.
00:22:00
Speaker
I'll come into mine because I just checked mine.
00:22:03
Speaker
Mm hmm.
00:22:05
Speaker
Um, okay.
00:22:07
Speaker
So, we, Yellen and I went to go try and smooth things over with Verutha because we could tell something was strange.
00:22:21
Speaker
Um, and we did run into her and we, we wound up following her cause she was being super shady.
00:22:29
Speaker
So, long story short, tracked her through the woods to a cliff, climbed up.
00:22:37
Speaker
She had crawled into some small cave that was like barely big enough.
00:22:42
Speaker
I don't think you would have fit in it, Talira.
00:22:44
Speaker
Kind of small.
00:22:46
Speaker
And she was talking to something, someone, and
00:22:53
Speaker
She's been working with the Mistborn for an entity called Xeragog.
00:23:02
Speaker
Oh.
00:23:04
Speaker
That sounds bad.
00:23:05
Speaker
She does not like that we're here.
00:23:07
Speaker
And she was requesting it to do something soon to get rid of us.
00:23:14
Speaker
We should report her to the police.
00:23:18
Speaker
No, I don't think that's going to be helpful.
00:23:20
Speaker
It's just a thought.
00:23:23
Speaker
Okay, so from the information that I have, did that pretty well summarize it?
00:23:28
Speaker
I mean, for the most part.
00:23:31
Speaker
Anything that you want to add from what I've said so far?
00:23:35
Speaker
Yes, there are people in town working with her.
00:23:40
Speaker
She had a lackey.
00:23:41
Speaker
Yes, we ran into one.
00:23:42
Speaker
In the woods, and that's where I sustained all of these.
00:23:47
Speaker
They didn't see me, they only saw Yellen.
00:23:49
Speaker
He, like men, should fought fisticuffs, I guess, as the gods intended or something.
00:23:58
Speaker
It was not easy.
00:24:01
Speaker
And he may still be passed out in a bush.
00:24:06
Speaker
So we don't know if Arruther knows yet.
00:24:10
Speaker
Oh.
00:24:11
Speaker
But as soon as that guy's awake, I guarantee she will know.
00:24:15
Speaker
And we don't know who else is on her side.
00:24:18
Speaker
It could be most of the town.
00:24:19
Speaker
It could be the police even, which is why we...
00:24:24
Speaker
Yeah, he was one of the minors.
00:24:26
Speaker
We ran into him for a moment tonight here.
00:24:34
Speaker
So it could be anyone.
00:24:37
Speaker
We don't know.
00:24:38
Speaker
The police will never be involved in anything criminal, ever.
00:24:41
Speaker
So it won't be the police.
00:24:42
Speaker
But I can understand we shouldn't know.
00:24:44
Speaker
We should probably either leave or...
00:24:47
Speaker
Well, in that case, maybe not the real police, but there could be someone who infiltrated the police and is pretending to be part of the police force.
00:24:57
Speaker
So you can't, and we don't know who those people are.
00:25:00
Speaker
So we have to be careful.
00:25:01
Speaker
That's very true.
00:25:02
Speaker
Very, very true.
00:25:04
Speaker
Well, we met a professor who knows a lot about the Mistborn.
00:25:07
Speaker
He knows a lot about this.
00:25:09
Speaker
Apparently, everything's been destabilising and rifts have been forming up between realms and a rift formed in the primordial realm.
00:25:22
Speaker
And he was able to close it for us.
00:25:24
Speaker
He said that there was this trinket thing that he said might work.
00:25:33
Speaker
I think he, what did he call it?
00:25:37
Speaker
It was like a prison.
00:25:41
Speaker
It is similar to the giant word for prison.
00:25:45
Speaker
Let me see if I can.
00:25:46
Speaker
You're referring to Karyata.
00:25:49
Speaker
Karyata.
00:25:50
Speaker
Karyata.
00:25:54
Speaker
Kajata.
00:25:55
Speaker
It is spelled C-A-R apostrophe C-H-A-D-A.
00:25:58
Speaker
So yes, we need to find these trinkets or a trinket called the Kajata.
00:26:04
Speaker
And it can seal these rifts?
00:26:06
Speaker
Is that what he was saying?
00:26:09
Speaker
He thinks it might be being used by the Mistborn in some sort of ritual.
00:26:15
Speaker
And he thinks that they might have succeeded this time around with the missing children.
00:26:21
Speaker
I... Okay.
00:26:23
Speaker
I thought one of them was, like, partially recovered, though.
00:26:26
Speaker
Isn't that what you said, Talira?
00:26:29
Speaker
Your friend?
00:26:30
Speaker
Wait, one of what?
00:26:32
Speaker
Partially recovered?
00:26:34
Speaker
I'm... The children.
00:26:36
Speaker
Was it your friend's... Yes, um... So... Siobhan...
00:26:44
Speaker
found her daughter the way i thought i understood was that like she got her body back but um apparently her soul is there too and she is untethered okay so maybe they collect extra just in case and they didn't need all of them she's untethered
00:27:09
Speaker
Regardless, if he's here genuinely to try and solve this, then we should warn him as well.
00:27:15
Speaker
I don't know anything about this being.
00:27:19
Speaker
And actually, can we do like a religion or history check on that now that we're all together about this?
00:27:25
Speaker
Yeah, you can certainly try.
00:27:27
Speaker
Absolutely.
Druidic Circles and Conspiracy Theories
00:27:29
Speaker
Zorogog.
00:27:31
Speaker
Zorogog.
00:27:31
Speaker
Okay.
00:27:31
Speaker
Okay.
00:27:34
Speaker
Well, that's the same modifier, so it don't matter.
00:27:38
Speaker
Ah, well, that's a natural one, so I don't know anything about that.
00:27:42
Speaker
That was a five.
00:27:43
Speaker
You actually forgot things.
00:27:45
Speaker
That's a 13.
00:27:47
Speaker
Also, whenever you do roll them, you know what each of you are rolling, whether it's history or religion, because that will potentially change answers.
00:27:53
Speaker
Oh, I'm rolling religion.
00:27:54
Speaker
I've got a 10 for history.
00:27:55
Speaker
I figured you would.
00:27:57
Speaker
You rolled a 10 for history?
00:27:58
Speaker
Okay, 10.
00:28:00
Speaker
We got five.
00:28:02
Speaker
Would you consider Goliath lore and legends, religion, or history?
00:28:11
Speaker
Probably more history.
00:28:16
Speaker
Holy shit!
00:28:19
Speaker
What?
00:28:20
Speaker
I have a negative one.
00:28:22
Speaker
I rolled an 18.
00:28:23
Speaker
Yes!
00:28:24
Speaker
A 19 on the die.
00:28:30
Speaker
Halyra is having a very not normal moment where she is the smartest.
00:28:39
Speaker
The reason she was very confused is because she could feel that thought bubbling up and it was hurting her.
00:28:48
Speaker
So she couldn't pay attention while she was thinking.
00:28:53
Speaker
I love that.
00:28:53
Speaker
That's hilarious.
00:28:55
Speaker
Yellen, what did you roll for religion?
00:28:56
Speaker
13.13.
00:28:59
Speaker
13.
00:28:59
Speaker
Okay.
00:29:00
Speaker
10, 5, 13, and 18 history.
00:29:04
Speaker
Okay.
00:29:05
Speaker
Um, we'll start with... If I rolled a second roll to see what history was, it would have been a 21.
00:29:10
Speaker
So, damn.
00:29:13
Speaker
As it stands, it was a 5 for religion.
00:29:15
Speaker
Yeah, with 5 and religion, none of this has come to mind.
00:29:18
Speaker
None of it makes sense.
00:29:20
Speaker
There's no connections you can make anywhere.
00:29:25
Speaker
Maeve, was yours religion or history?
00:29:27
Speaker
I can't remember.
00:29:27
Speaker
History?
00:29:27
Speaker
History, 10.
00:29:28
Speaker
History with 10.
00:29:30
Speaker
Okay, I'm going to also say Sorrel Gog, Mistborn.
00:29:35
Speaker
History-wise, I'm not going to lie, this information is a pretty high DC, so I don't think 10 would get you really anything either.
00:29:42
Speaker
Oh, no.
00:29:43
Speaker
Definitely not.
00:29:45
Speaker
13 on religion will probably give you that.
00:29:49
Speaker
Actually, no, I don't think you're going to be able to get anything with that.
00:29:51
Speaker
I'm so sorry.
00:29:52
Speaker
Dang.
00:29:52
Speaker
Not so good.
00:29:53
Speaker
Yeah.
00:29:55
Speaker
But an 18 with history.
00:29:58
Speaker
That will get you something.
00:30:00
Speaker
18 history, you know that, given a lot of the information I already gave you in the last session regarding the primordial plane, the Goliath's history going very far back, especially in the juridic circles of Aeon, and having a deeper connection to that historically, but having kind of separated over time, you do know...
00:30:20
Speaker
And it kind of makes sense, and it kind of registers that you can't confirm anything, but things seem like maybe they could be connected of primordial plane elements, the way this is all kind of acting together.
00:30:32
Speaker
It all seems very natural and druid-based.
00:30:36
Speaker
like they would at least know something.
00:30:37
Speaker
The professor also mentioned a lot of information that he gathered from the Druidic circles on Aeon.
00:30:43
Speaker
And one thing that you do remember is in the process of kind of splitting and not being as involved in the Druidic circles, the Goliath tribes and the Goliath peoples, when that kind of happened, there was also a different sort of, not necessarily split, but almost a creation,
00:31:01
Speaker
that happened very far back.
00:31:03
Speaker
And that was a second set of druidic circles.
00:31:05
Speaker
And they're not of the material plane, but you can't quite remember where they took up residence or where the connection would be.
00:31:12
Speaker
But something about all these elements and the way it all interacts, it's like an itch in the back of your mind.
00:31:17
Speaker
Ah,
00:31:18
Speaker
And Talira is, like, scratching her head.
00:31:21
Speaker
Something... Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
00:31:25
Speaker
So, the Goliath, they split from, like, druidic circles, but everything is still very elemental in its form.
00:31:34
Speaker
What...
00:31:36
Speaker
If, what if this is somehow connected to druidic circles and Professor said he talked to druids.
00:31:46
Speaker
There is a second set of druidic circles, not of the material plane.
00:31:50
Speaker
Okay.
00:31:53
Speaker
Okay.
00:31:54
Speaker
And you think this being is related to that?
00:31:59
Speaker
If the elements are... And Talira makes like a shaking gesture because she can't think of the word.
00:32:07
Speaker
Destabilizing?
00:32:09
Speaker
Yes.
00:32:10
Speaker
If they are unstable and we are dealing with mirrors here, right?
00:32:15
Speaker
Material plane mirrors the elemental planes, if I understand, Professor, the right way.
00:32:23
Speaker
The Mistborn are destabilizing their connection, right?
00:32:30
Speaker
And it is pulling apart all of the other planes.
00:32:35
Speaker
So what you're saying is they're destabilizing foundations.
00:32:40
Speaker
And the name drop!
00:32:43
Speaker
Yes!
00:32:43
Speaker
And that's a wrap, guys.
00:32:46
Speaker
All right.
00:32:46
Speaker
We'll see you next week.
00:32:48
Speaker
We almost had it yesterday.
00:32:50
Speaker
I'm like, no, we cannot say the name until we are all here.
00:32:53
Speaker
That was very close.
00:32:59
Speaker
Too funny.
00:33:01
Speaker
Yes.
00:33:03
Speaker
I think that is exactly what I am saying it is.
00:33:10
Speaker
Shit is falling apart.
00:33:13
Speaker
We need to talk to the professor.
00:33:15
Speaker
Okay, yeah.
00:33:16
Speaker
If he's here genuinely to try and solve this, we need to go talk to him now because we don't know what's going to happen.
00:33:24
Speaker
And he needs to be warned about what's going on that we're aware of.
00:33:28
Speaker
It might be good to warn you guys.
00:33:31
Speaker
This additional information might be helpful to him and us if he knows more.
00:33:36
Speaker
Yes, but we should warn you that.
00:33:37
Speaker
And we also may need to leave post-haste.
00:33:40
Speaker
Yes, but we should warn you that the professor likes to talk a lot, so it may take some time.
00:33:48
Speaker
Okay.
00:33:50
Speaker
That's a good warning.
00:33:53
Speaker
Fair warning.
00:33:54
Speaker
He is very chatty.
00:33:56
Speaker
I like that.
00:33:57
Speaker
That's the thing that Maeve took and was like, I don't know about this dude.
00:34:03
Speaker
He goes on.
00:34:04
Speaker
Yeah.
00:34:08
Speaker
That feels so right for her character to be like, oh my gosh.
00:34:12
Speaker
Get to the point.
00:34:13
Speaker
It was so hard last night.
00:34:18
Speaker
And Delir was just over there like, this is so interesting.
00:34:21
Speaker
I have no idea what he's saying.
00:34:23
Speaker
Sound of a potato rotating in the microwave.
00:34:27
Speaker
I would be talking and I could just see Saphira just like,
00:34:34
Speaker
For those that don't know, I just blank faced 100%.
00:34:36
Speaker
But yeah, it's quite funny, actually.
00:34:42
Speaker
Insert loading window here.
00:34:44
Speaker
Exactly.
00:34:47
Speaker
And a very similar expression on Talira's face, but not understanding a word.
00:34:55
Speaker
Just nodding and smiling and just, yeah.
00:34:57
Speaker
Fascinating.
00:35:00
Speaker
Fascinating.
00:35:04
Speaker
yes exactly not understanding a word that's it yeah what he said oh my gosh she'd be such a good like uh hype man i guess i think she'd get along well with my other dude
00:35:25
Speaker
Oh my gosh.
00:35:26
Speaker
As he's like rambling on about some theory that he's had or whatever.
00:35:30
Speaker
And he's like excitedly writing stuff down and just kind of like bouncing stuff as he's saying it.
00:35:35
Speaker
That was his name.
00:35:36
Speaker
God, I couldn't remember it yesterday.
00:35:37
Speaker
And I was referring to you all the time just as his student.
00:35:40
Speaker
And I was like, what was his name?
00:35:41
Speaker
I was sitting there going through my notes.
00:35:42
Speaker
I was like, I know I put it somewhere.
00:35:45
Speaker
You could have just messaged me.
00:35:47
Speaker
No, I was, I was.
00:35:48
Speaker
That's too easy.
00:35:48
Speaker
I was full in character.
00:35:49
Speaker
I was, it was too late.
00:35:50
Speaker
Yeah.
00:35:53
Speaker
I didn't want to give you a hint at anything that was going on either.
00:35:56
Speaker
So I was like, I'll get it next time.
00:35:58
Speaker
But I'm already aware that Vicor is, like, going to be pretty interwoven in this.
00:36:04
Speaker
So it wouldn't have been that strange.
00:36:06
Speaker
I mean, yeah, but still.
00:36:08
Speaker
No hints until I needed to.
00:36:10
Speaker
But, yeah.
00:36:11
Speaker
So, anyway.
00:36:14
Speaker
Yeah, as you guys are kind of discussing, what's everybody's passive perception?
00:36:16
Speaker
I need to know that before I can continue real quick.
00:36:18
Speaker
I cannot remember.
00:36:19
Speaker
Pretty sure it's 14.
00:36:20
Speaker
18.
00:36:20
Speaker
It's 10.
00:36:20
Speaker
14.14.
00:36:23
Speaker
18.
00:36:23
Speaker
Kalden, you hear a thump outside.
00:36:26
Speaker
What was that?
00:36:29
Speaker
What was what?
00:36:30
Speaker
It sounded like it came from outside, outside, not in the tavern at all, like out the window.
00:36:34
Speaker
I don't know if now would be the time to remind you that I have a weapon of warning, and I and any companions within 30 feet cannot be surprised.
00:36:44
Speaker
Good to know.
00:36:46
Speaker
Okay.
00:36:46
Speaker
It doesn't sound directly outside your window, but it's definitely nearby and out there.
00:36:51
Speaker
I'm going to kind of creep over to the window and look through it.
00:36:56
Speaker
And I have like my finger up.
00:36:58
Speaker
I've already shushed everyone.
00:37:00
Speaker
What do I see?
00:37:01
Speaker
You see to the right corner, so down the set of rooms at the very end, right as you look, you see a figure land.
00:37:10
Speaker
Too dark to really make out any sort of details.
00:37:12
Speaker
It looks like they're picking up a bag that seems to be wiggling.
00:37:16
Speaker
Does the bag look to be about the length of the old man that I'd seen earlier?
00:37:21
Speaker
It's length of average male adult.
00:37:27
Speaker
Hey, guys, someone's being kidnapped right outside.
00:37:30
Speaker
The fuck?
00:37:33
Speaker
We should go now.
00:37:35
Speaker
Probably.
00:37:36
Speaker
I'm going.
00:37:37
Speaker
And Talira is already, like, pulling out the axe and is, like, opening the door ready to go.
00:37:44
Speaker
Oh, yeah, Maeve's with her straight away.
00:37:47
Speaker
Um, okay.
00:37:49
Speaker
How far is the hallway to like the end where he said that the other guy was?
00:37:55
Speaker
Yeah, like 30 or 50.
00:37:55
Speaker
They are locked, 100%.
00:37:56
Speaker
Okay.
00:37:58
Speaker
I'm going to race down the hallway and try to open doors.
00:38:02
Speaker
Are you going to beat it in or are you going to lock back in?
00:38:06
Speaker
I'm a rogue, baby.
00:38:11
Speaker
I will say, as soon as you guys open the door... Which one do you think is going to work out better?
00:38:15
Speaker
Okay.
00:38:16
Speaker
That's a fair point.
00:38:17
Speaker
When you do open the door, though, to start to race down the hallway, at this point, you see Bartok setting a thing of water down in front of the door with a small plate that has some snacks on it, as well as a cold towel.
00:38:27
Speaker
Which room was the old man in?
00:38:31
Speaker
End room.
00:38:31
Speaker
What's going on?
00:38:32
Speaker
You seem...
00:38:33
Speaker
someone's getting kidnapped outside.
00:38:36
Speaker
I race to the door that he points at.
00:38:38
Speaker
Not one of my residents.
00:38:40
Speaker
He like hops over the railing and lands like superhero pose down at the bottom of the tavern and rushes behind the bar real quick.
00:38:49
Speaker
What's your roll to lockpick the door?
00:38:52
Speaker
I got a 21.
00:38:54
Speaker
I figure you would have them.
00:38:55
Speaker
So if you don't, you can add them.
00:38:56
Speaker
But this is more of a for future use.
00:38:58
Speaker
Do you have these tools?
00:39:00
Speaker
Yes.
00:39:01
Speaker
Okay, just making sure you had them.
00:39:03
Speaker
So yeah, 21, yeah, absolutely.
00:39:04
Speaker
These are pretty simple locks.
00:39:08
Speaker
It's almost like you just shoved them in and they just... Super talented.
00:39:12
Speaker
I looked at it and it just popped open.
00:39:13
Speaker
Yeah, exactly.
00:39:16
Speaker
This is the Master Lock 241.
00:39:18
Speaker
You can open it with the Master Lock 241.
00:39:21
Speaker
Exactly.
00:39:24
Speaker
Yeah, and when you open it, the room seems like it hasn't been touched...
00:39:30
Speaker
at all except there is a staff that is that has fallen off the bed and it's just kind of like sitting next to the bed other than that like it hasn't really been touched at all i grabbed the staff okay it's uh it's like made of driftwood it's like it's like wrapping driftwood essentially okay and um and i'm gonna turn back around and and run after everyone else okay and you all are running out there's still like window open
00:39:55
Speaker
Quick question.
00:39:56
Speaker
Is there like a like a little bit of roof outside the window or the window just go straight down?
00:40:01
Speaker
It goes straight down.
00:40:02
Speaker
Oh, OK.
00:40:03
Speaker
Yeah.
00:40:03
Speaker
OK.
00:40:03
Speaker
Yeah.
00:40:05
Speaker
Y'all are racing out.
00:40:07
Speaker
And as you get around the corner of the tavern, you see that Bartok is already engaged as there must be a backdoor you didn't know about because he has two hand axes in his hand and is already engaged with this dark rubbed figure.
00:40:21
Speaker
Hey, Woos.
00:40:23
Speaker
Yes.
00:40:24
Speaker
I want you to know that if Bartok betrays us, I'm leaving.
00:40:32
Speaker
Sorry, I'm just out of... I don't know how to react to that.
00:40:37
Speaker
I like him.
00:40:41
Speaker
You better not kill him before our own...
00:40:44
Speaker
One, two, three, four, eight eyes.
00:40:49
Speaker
We will strike if that happens.
00:40:52
Speaker
Did you also just count our eyes in ones instead of two?
00:40:56
Speaker
I am channeling Talira right now, okay?
00:41:02
Speaker
Oh no.
00:41:03
Speaker
Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, eight eyes.
00:41:08
Speaker
Eight, eight eyes.
00:41:11
Speaker
Ah, ah.
00:41:13
Speaker
So as you all run around the corner, what the fuck do you think you're doing with my patrons?
00:41:18
Speaker
Swings an axe and the dude just backs up to dodge.
00:41:21
Speaker
You see that the bag has been thrown off and there's just a man.
00:41:25
Speaker
What do you guys do?
00:41:29
Speaker
Engage.
00:41:30
Speaker
I want to sneak over to the bag.
00:41:33
Speaker
Cool.
00:41:33
Speaker
Talira is 21.
00:41:37
Speaker
Okay.
00:41:39
Speaker
What is Talira doing?
00:41:40
Speaker
Talira is taking a bounding leap when she gets close enough and tackling the guy that was trying to kidnap the old man.
00:41:50
Speaker
Okay, what's Yellen doing?
00:41:51
Speaker
I want to know what everybody's doing before I... I'm going to cast Bane on him.
00:41:57
Speaker
Good lord.
00:41:58
Speaker
Y'all are going in.
00:42:00
Speaker
Not messing around.
00:42:03
Speaker
So I need him to make a charisma save.
00:42:06
Speaker
Okay.
00:42:09
Speaker
That's a natural one.
00:42:12
Speaker
All right, so subtract a d4 from attack, roll, or save.
00:42:21
Speaker
Noted.
00:42:21
Speaker
Okay, and what is Saphira doing?
00:42:24
Speaker
Or not Saphira, I'm so sorry, Maeve.
00:42:25
Speaker
What's Maeve doing?
00:42:27
Speaker
Maeve is going to yell, stop, in the name of the law!
00:42:31
Speaker
And she's going to withdraw both her blades and ready an attack in case they don't stop, and I have a feeling that...
00:42:41
Speaker
To their results, they're probably just going to jump on them.
00:42:45
Speaker
What a dynamic this group is.
00:42:47
Speaker
Stop in the name of the law.
00:42:48
Speaker
I'm going to stealth over and figure out what this bag is.
00:42:56
Speaker
Oh my gosh.
00:42:58
Speaker
Okay, we'll start with Calvin.
00:42:59
Speaker
Calvin, as Talir is bounding forward, you stealthily manage to get over to the bag.
00:43:05
Speaker
It's like tied together, loosely.
00:43:07
Speaker
You hear the sound of what you can assume is the pressure.
00:43:12
Speaker
Very indignant.
00:43:14
Speaker
Indeed.
00:43:14
Speaker
Talir, you're going to tackle him?
00:43:22
Speaker
Yes.
00:43:22
Speaker
Roll to hit, please.
00:43:24
Speaker
Cool.
00:43:26
Speaker
So I have the Tavern Brawler feat.
00:43:28
Speaker
When I hit a creature with an unarmed strike or an improvised weapon on my turn, I can use a bonus action to attempt to grapple the target.
00:43:37
Speaker
So I would like to use that unarmed strike as I'm coming in to tackle to basically headbutt him down.
00:43:46
Speaker
Okay, so this does damage as well as grapple, correct?
00:43:48
Speaker
It does.
00:43:49
Speaker
Okay, roll to hit.
00:43:50
Speaker
It does.
00:43:51
Speaker
Sweet.
00:43:52
Speaker
Unarmed strike.
00:43:54
Speaker
Ouch, that was an 11 to hit.
00:43:55
Speaker
11 to hit.
00:43:57
Speaker
You have to remember, this isn't the guy that we just beat up, is it?
00:44:01
Speaker
Because that'd be so funny.
00:44:06
Speaker
No.
00:44:08
Speaker
came out of that he's scratched up from being in that thorn bush I rolled him into and came out ready for a second helping of beating we're gonna throw down again it's not him that would be that would be so stupid Dylan sees him and he's like oh shit here we go again um
00:44:37
Speaker
Eleven does barely miss.
00:44:40
Speaker
Oh, damn.
00:44:40
Speaker
That's okay.
00:44:41
Speaker
So as he kind of backs out of the way, you manage to catch the hood and it comes down and... Calvin and Yellen, you do recognize the face.
00:44:49
Speaker
Yeah.
00:44:52
Speaker
This stupid son of a bitch.
00:44:54
Speaker
As soon as I see him, can I be like, what are you doing?
00:44:58
Speaker
Put him down.
00:44:59
Speaker
Can I use my second attack then to punch him?
00:45:02
Speaker
Yeah, absolutely.
00:45:03
Speaker
He's beat all the hell, dude.
00:45:05
Speaker
He's looking, he looks like broken nose, black eye.
00:45:08
Speaker
I mean, he looks really bad.
00:45:10
Speaker
That's a 19.
00:45:11
Speaker
And scratched up.
00:45:13
Speaker
Okay, roll.
00:45:14
Speaker
What's your unarmed strike damage?
00:45:16
Speaker
Six.
00:45:17
Speaker
Six.
00:45:18
Speaker
Yeah, as you go to hit him, he like had backed away from the first one.
00:45:21
Speaker
And as Yellen like reacts to seeing him, he huh?
00:45:24
Speaker
And just takes one across the jaw.
00:45:27
Speaker
As you hit him, he falls back and his head falls onto a rock protruding from the ground pretty largely.
00:45:33
Speaker
And he I didn't kill him.
00:45:35
Speaker
And he falls unmoving.
00:45:37
Speaker
It wasn't me.
00:45:39
Speaker
I didn't kill him.
00:45:40
Speaker
I'm going to cast spare the dying on him if I can.
00:45:44
Speaker
Yeah, that'll work.
00:45:46
Speaker
He's not breathing at all, and as soon as you do it, you just... He's still completely unconscious.
00:45:53
Speaker
His chest expands again.
00:45:55
Speaker
Oh, thank the gods.
00:45:57
Speaker
Yeah, I kind of... That's a relief off my chest.
00:46:03
Speaker
My goodness, that's a... Considering how you did the arm wrestle in there, what a swing you got on you.
00:46:10
Speaker
I did not calibrate that well enough.
00:46:13
Speaker
I think it was quite calibrated, I gotta say.
00:46:15
Speaker
I didn't want to kill him.
00:46:17
Speaker
But what the fuck is Hess doing out here doing this?
00:46:19
Speaker
Why the... He was just in the tavern a minute ago.
00:46:23
Speaker
This is making no sense.
00:46:25
Speaker
He's the one who roughed us up a moment ago.
00:46:27
Speaker
So you're the one who did this to him?
00:46:30
Speaker
Well, yes.
00:46:32
Speaker
Good on you.
00:46:34
Speaker
He's normally quite, he likes to brawl, but he always seems to lose.
00:46:39
Speaker
Man, that would have been so embarrassing if you lost, Yellen.
00:46:47
Speaker
No one would let me forget it.
00:46:49
Speaker
He's the dogmaster around here.
00:46:50
Speaker
It's almost like a rite of passage for everybody working at the dock to have to fight the boss.
00:46:55
Speaker
And he always loses.
00:46:57
Speaker
Most of the time, yeah.
00:46:58
Speaker
Unless it's one of the young kids coming in and then he likes to gloat about beating them.
00:47:02
Speaker
He sounds like a real piece of work.
00:47:05
Speaker
Frankly, he's quite a nice guy.
00:47:07
Speaker
He does it in good faith.
00:47:09
Speaker
She looks at the bag.
00:47:10
Speaker
Yes, that's why he kidnaps all the men.
00:47:12
Speaker
Yeah, he always talks about fighting like a man.
00:47:14
Speaker
Um, I release the professor from the back so we're not just standing around him.
00:47:24
Speaker
My goodness, what the fuck is going on right now?
00:47:27
Speaker
And I hand him his staff.
00:47:30
Speaker
Oh, thank you, young man.
00:47:31
Speaker
Um,
00:47:32
Speaker
Oh, what the fuck?
00:47:34
Speaker
Is this how people are treated in a veil?
00:47:36
Speaker
I haven't been back in years and this is the first thing that happened to me.
00:47:38
Speaker
I'm sorry, you met my friends just a little bit ago.
00:47:42
Speaker
What was your name?
00:47:43
Speaker
Oh, my name?
00:47:44
Speaker
Yes, Professor Daciel Oxenbrick.
00:47:46
Speaker
What?
00:47:48
Speaker
Who is this man?
00:47:49
Speaker
Why is he still breathing?
00:47:50
Speaker
Professor comes over and have the nerve to kidnap him.
00:47:54
Speaker
Masters of Conturation at the University of Kudormany kicks him across.
00:47:57
Speaker
If you touch him, he'll definitely be dead, sir.
00:47:59
Speaker
Chin.
00:47:59
Speaker
Chin.
00:48:01
Speaker
This is awkward.
00:48:02
Speaker
You might have to spare the dying again.
00:48:05
Speaker
I'll do it again.
00:48:06
Speaker
I'm like, it's over.
00:48:07
Speaker
Leave him alone.
00:48:09
Speaker
I don't know if that'll work this time.
00:48:11
Speaker
I'm thinking of it.
00:48:13
Speaker
Well, normally unarmed strikes don't deal as much damage.
00:48:16
Speaker
They deal your strength score, I believe.
00:48:19
Speaker
But I have the feat.
00:48:20
Speaker
He had already been brought down to zero.
00:48:22
Speaker
Yeah, I think Spare the Dying just stabilizes them, right?
00:48:25
Speaker
Oh, right.
00:48:25
Speaker
Yeah.
00:48:26
Speaker
So he would take damage and go unconscious.
00:48:28
Speaker
So he'd be below zero again.
00:48:30
Speaker
Yeah, and would be in death stage.
00:48:32
Speaker
This would be his third time below zero.
00:48:35
Speaker
Third time?
00:48:35
Speaker
Or third below.
00:48:36
Speaker
He would take him at zero, yeah.
00:48:38
Speaker
Well, somebody beat the shit out of him in the woods.
00:48:41
Speaker
Not me.
00:48:42
Speaker
I don't know.
00:48:45
Speaker
I don't know who that was.
00:48:45
Speaker
I sat in a tree and telepathically cheered Yellen on.
00:48:51
Speaker
Okay, so yeah.
00:48:52
Speaker
So no, you can't steal your spare of the dying then.
00:48:55
Speaker
He's had one death save left.
00:49:00
Speaker
Indeed.
00:49:01
Speaker
Yeah, Yellen, he kind of gets mad when he does it.
00:49:06
Speaker
He's like, what's the matter with you?
00:49:07
Speaker
And he like pushes him.
00:49:11
Speaker
I kidnapped you, but it's over.
00:49:12
Speaker
It's done.
00:49:16
Speaker
Professor, we have potentially more important things to confirm for the moment.
00:49:23
Speaker
Related to him as well.
00:49:24
Speaker
We need to talk to him.
00:49:26
Speaker
He might have answers.
00:49:29
Speaker
Right.
00:49:30
Speaker
Make a point.
00:49:31
Speaker
Fine.
00:49:32
Speaker
I'm not a professional here at this, but...
00:49:34
Speaker
Regardless, when we're done with him, he should at least be in bed.
00:49:36
Speaker
We need to get inside.
00:49:37
Speaker
We don't know if anyone's waiting for him.
00:49:39
Speaker
Let's take him to our room.
00:49:42
Speaker
I've got him.
00:49:44
Speaker
Anybody can make him not dead.
00:49:48
Speaker
Or he's not dead.
00:49:49
Speaker
I got him.
00:49:50
Speaker
And Talira just, like, picks him up like a baby.
00:49:53
Speaker
So I'm going to pack into one of those little rooms.
00:49:56
Speaker
Oh, boy.
00:49:58
Speaker
Are you claustrophobic?
00:50:01
Speaker
I just enjoy my space, is all right?
00:50:03
Speaker
Well, hopefully it won't be for long.
00:50:06
Speaker
And clearly, we can't afford to wait to do it.
00:50:11
Speaker
Well, it seems like you all have quite some shit going on, if I do say so.
00:50:17
Speaker
It sounds like you do too, if you were the one being kidnapped.
00:50:21
Speaker
Yeah, it sounds like you have...
00:50:23
Speaker
Bartok now, sorry.
00:50:24
Speaker
I know their voices are somewhat similar.
00:50:27
Speaker
It did have the old man quiver.
00:50:33
Speaker
Not a quiver.
00:50:35
Speaker
But Bartok, you guys have quite a bit of shit going on, I must say.
00:50:41
Speaker
So I'm going to send Bluebell to not come and relieve me.
00:50:49
Speaker
I'm just going to lock up for the night.
00:50:51
Speaker
That sounds like a reasonable idea.
00:50:53
Speaker
There's a good plan, yes.
00:50:55
Speaker
All right.
00:50:57
Speaker
Stay safe.
00:50:59
Speaker
You as well.
00:51:00
Speaker
Thank you for your help.
00:51:01
Speaker
Yes.
00:51:01
Speaker
Thank you.
00:51:02
Speaker
I don't want to talk.
00:51:02
Speaker
Well, I'll be honest.
00:51:03
Speaker
I don't know if I'm going to sleep tonight now.
00:51:05
Speaker
We'll find out, though.
00:51:07
Speaker
Take a shot of something.
00:51:10
Speaker
Oh, yeah, that's a good idea.
00:51:12
Speaker
I like it.
00:51:13
Speaker
You are one of the best customers I had in a while.
00:51:15
Speaker
And she thumps her chair.
00:51:16
Speaker
Wow, that's crazy.
00:51:17
Speaker
She broke a table.
00:51:19
Speaker
Yeah.
00:51:19
Speaker
Yeah.
00:51:22
Speaker
But all in good fun, all in good fun.
00:51:24
Speaker
He's going to go in the back door that you now see is like covered by some like ivy on the back of the tavern and start closing everything up.
00:51:38
Speaker
Well, let's go back to your rooms, as you said, and figure out what exactly this man was kidnapping.
00:51:46
Speaker
I'm surprised you fit in the bag.
00:51:48
Speaker
Don't say anything happen all the way.
00:51:50
Speaker
I don't know if that's a compliment or not.
00:51:54
Speaker
No one does.
00:51:57
Speaker
All right, you all make it back inside, up to your rooms, with the unconscious man, Hess, as you now know his name to be.
00:52:04
Speaker
We're bringing him with us.
00:52:06
Speaker
I thought you all said you were bringing him up there to... Yeah, Talira picked him up, and she was going to tie him.
00:52:13
Speaker
Talira has a pet.
00:52:14
Speaker
That's a good idea.
00:52:15
Speaker
Tie him up.
00:52:16
Speaker
Figured we could... Oh, my gosh.
00:52:20
Speaker
She's going to teach him how to box her.
00:52:21
Speaker
Damn, boy.
00:52:22
Speaker
Oh, that's a different kind of Talira.
00:52:24
Speaker
He's going to be with us for the remainder of the campaign.
00:52:27
Speaker
Oh, no, he's going to wake up with brain damage.
00:52:33
Speaker
She's going to lick his own eyeball like...
00:52:36
Speaker
He's got all that CTE from the fight with Yellen and now this one.
00:52:42
Speaker
He loses fights often.
00:52:44
Speaker
He's already had brain damage.
00:52:48
Speaker
Oh my gosh.
00:52:49
Speaker
That's how Verutha convinced him to follow her.
00:52:53
Speaker
Because his brain just doesn't track conversations for very long.
00:53:00
Speaker
Guess we'll find out.
00:53:01
Speaker
So you guys tie him up and everything.
00:53:03
Speaker
Well, not anymore anyway.
00:53:04
Speaker
He's still very unconscious until something were to be done or I think it's like an hour he gains a hit point.
00:53:10
Speaker
So what are you all going to do?
00:53:12
Speaker
Splash some water on his face.
00:53:14
Speaker
Well, before we say anything.
00:53:17
Speaker
No, I don't want to wake him up yet.
00:53:20
Speaker
Let's.
00:53:21
Speaker
I want to talk to the professor while he's asleep.
00:53:23
Speaker
That.
00:53:23
Speaker
Yeah, that's a good idea.
00:53:24
Speaker
Thank you.
00:53:26
Speaker
I'm here.
00:53:26
Speaker
What can I do for you?
00:53:31
Speaker
Well, hold on.
00:53:32
Speaker
If we're tying him up, I need to check those knots.
00:53:36
Speaker
Okay, who's tying them?
00:53:39
Speaker
Talira initially was, but she will let Calden, because she knows Calden will check the knots anyway.
00:53:48
Speaker
And retie them.
00:53:48
Speaker
Okay.
00:53:49
Speaker
If needed, I'll have you roll for how good they're tied.
00:53:54
Speaker
If needed.
00:53:55
Speaker
Talira can just tug them tight.
00:53:57
Speaker
Just so you know, I cannot roll below a 21.
00:54:01
Speaker
Okay.
00:54:02
Speaker
For sleight of hand, for stealth, because I have expertise in them and the rogues, whatever, to where I can't roll below a 10 for that.
00:54:10
Speaker
And then they're plus one.
00:54:12
Speaker
I can't roll below a 21 for those.
00:54:14
Speaker
Just so you know.
00:54:15
Speaker
Good to know.
00:54:16
Speaker
Good to know.
00:54:18
Speaker
Now, don't you go making my stealth checks higher because of that.
00:54:24
Speaker
No, I would never.
00:54:26
Speaker
No metagaming DM.
00:54:28
Speaker
It's not fair.
00:54:29
Speaker
I would never do that.
00:54:31
Speaker
Who do you take me for?
00:54:34
Speaker
A typical DM.
00:54:36
Speaker
Well, no.
00:54:40
Speaker
Me never.
00:54:42
Speaker
No, I wouldn't.
00:54:43
Speaker
I would never do that.
00:54:46
Speaker
Okay.
00:54:46
Speaker
Oh, my goodness.
Zorogog's History and Current Phenomena
00:54:56
Speaker
The professor is kind of like sat in like the one chair that's in here and is kind of leaned back a little bit.
00:55:01
Speaker
He's like, a long night has been.
00:55:03
Speaker
Does the name Zerogog mean anything to you?
00:55:09
Speaker
Zergog?
00:55:10
Speaker
Zergog.
00:55:13
Speaker
Yes, it does.
00:55:15
Speaker
What would you have?
00:55:16
Speaker
What need would you have with Zergog?
00:55:19
Speaker
What is it?
00:55:21
Speaker
Zorgorg is a separatist, you could call it, group of the druidic groups in the primordial plane.
00:55:29
Speaker
Like an extremist group, my dear.
00:55:31
Speaker
So it's not just one person, it's a group?
00:55:35
Speaker
Yes, quite a group.
00:55:37
Speaker
It's gained quite a following over the amount of time they've been around, although they've been quiet for a long time.
00:55:44
Speaker
They're here.
00:55:45
Speaker
They're what?
00:55:47
Speaker
They're in this village.
00:55:50
Speaker
They're here.
00:55:50
Speaker
That's... In what way?
00:55:52
Speaker
How could you be so sure?
00:55:54
Speaker
You see, they were quite large and had a lot of popularity before the split.
00:55:59
Speaker
The apothecary Verruta, she's part of them.
00:56:02
Speaker
Oh, the bitch.
00:56:02
Speaker
The cold bitch.
00:56:04
Speaker
Hesse is working with her as well.
00:56:05
Speaker
We ran into him when we found out this information.
00:56:08
Speaker
She's been lobbying for help to get rid of all of us because we are trying to discover what's going on with the Mistborn and they've been aiding the Mistborn.
00:56:19
Speaker
That's quite interesting.
00:56:23
Speaker
Zorogog, I'm here in the veil.
00:56:28
Speaker
Talera, Maeve, do you remember the conversation we had earlier tonight where I was talking about the Karyatha and theories that really had no foundation to stand on?
00:56:39
Speaker
And now you have foundation.
00:56:41
Speaker
It sounds like they are destabilized.
00:56:44
Speaker
Yes, I mean, that is the whole thing.
00:56:46
Speaker
Yes, absolutely, but...
00:56:49
Speaker
Looking for a connection for the Carriata and what's happening and the fact that they have gone missing for so long ago.
00:56:58
Speaker
Well, that would be it.
00:56:59
Speaker
Well, you understand that Carriata, I have assumed that they're named this, correct?
00:57:05
Speaker
But I might be wrong on that.
00:57:06
Speaker
They may have a name that is different.
00:57:08
Speaker
I just have made assumptions based on some of the things that I had read.
00:57:12
Speaker
The word Carriata, it's got to by itself, getting into things, regardless.
00:57:18
Speaker
When you go back in the history before the split, so much of that knowledge was lost.
00:57:23
Speaker
From what I could gather, it doesn't exactly even make sense.
00:57:26
Speaker
I think they actually was purposefully lost.
00:57:30
Speaker
But the little bits we can put together from what we can find, at least what I've been able to find with the help of my students and my own research, it
00:57:39
Speaker
The soil god believed in the return of the primordial entities, the primordial deities, and that's what made them such an extremist group, although they were loved, but pray splits.
00:57:51
Speaker
The knowledge is gone, and what exactly why?
00:57:56
Speaker
There was maybe a war of some sort, but we...
00:57:59
Speaker
Supposedly there was this storm that lasted 500.
00:58:01
Speaker
There's so much we don't know of pre-split.
00:58:04
Speaker
So much knowledge was lost in the cataclysms that took place.
00:58:08
Speaker
But before the split, they were loved for a reason or another and had played a big part in some massive war event that had happened.
00:58:15
Speaker
And part of that reason was that they were believing that the Ganassi were the true descendants
00:58:21
Speaker
of the primordial deities.
00:58:24
Speaker
We're not quite sure whether that could be true or not.
00:58:26
Speaker
They are very based in elemental characteristics, so it could be true, but that is, it is a mystery lost to time.
00:58:33
Speaker
But they were wanting to bring it back.
00:58:35
Speaker
In fact, their leader, Tophet, I believe was his name, believed in bringing back these primordial deities.
00:58:43
Speaker
Him, Tophet, no longer alive by any means, although I wouldn't be surprised if he has descendants that may be alive.
00:58:49
Speaker
I don't even know who the current leader is.
00:58:50
Speaker
Like I said, since the split, their importance and...
00:58:54
Speaker
has waned quite a bit.
00:58:57
Speaker
So to hear that they are involved here is quite surprising.
00:59:00
Speaker
But that does provide another connection now with humanity in the connection between the primordial plane and here.
00:59:08
Speaker
And maybe lead us to maybe a bit of understanding of more of these karyatas or if they're named something different of why things have been destabilizing since their disappearance.
00:59:21
Speaker
And maybe they have a connection to the primordial deities, considering the Zorgog are involved.
00:59:26
Speaker
What is a Zorgog?
00:59:29
Speaker
It's a group.
00:59:29
Speaker
The Zorgog is an extremist group that had split off from the Atheim.
00:59:32
Speaker
The Atheim being the druidic circles of the primordial plane.
00:59:37
Speaker
Okay.
00:59:38
Speaker
They were tasked, they had tasked themselves with protecting the balance of the elements, essentially, which all originate in the primordial plane, the mirrored plane of Aeon.
00:59:51
Speaker
Okay.
00:59:52
Speaker
Talira is doing the smiling and nodding thing.
00:59:57
Speaker
With all this... Makes so much sense!
01:00:01
Speaker
Is what she just exclaims.
01:00:03
Speaker
I'm glad you could see the light.
01:00:04
Speaker
Yes, exactly.
01:00:07
Speaker
With that in mind, I know where she was communing.
01:00:12
Speaker
Should we go back there?
01:00:16
Speaker
Um, well, communing, you say?
01:00:20
Speaker
In what way?
01:00:22
Speaker
She was communing with a contact.
01:00:25
Speaker
I couldn't see.
01:00:25
Speaker
I could only hear it.
01:00:27
Speaker
Well, if I do remember correctly, the bitch, Verruthah, she's a water gnossy, correct?
01:00:34
Speaker
If my memory serves me right.
01:00:35
Speaker
I've been to Nevoa once before.
01:00:37
Speaker
It's been quite some time.
01:00:40
Speaker
She is.
01:00:42
Speaker
Yes, she is a water ganasi.
01:00:43
Speaker
If I realized that, I would have been suspicious of her from the start.
01:00:50
Speaker
Fuck.
01:00:53
Speaker
Oh, well.
01:00:54
Speaker
Whoops.
01:00:55
Speaker
It's okay.
01:00:55
Speaker
I got there, guys.
01:00:56
Speaker
I figured it out.
01:00:58
Speaker
Details get lost, or maybe I just didn't say it and I should have.
01:01:01
Speaker
I don't know.
01:01:02
Speaker
But one of our listeners can go back and...
01:01:05
Speaker
Let's find it for us.
01:01:06
Speaker
It was probably written in the notebook that I can't find.
01:01:09
Speaker
Of like the first two episodes notes.
01:01:12
Speaker
Yep.
01:01:13
Speaker
I'm in the same boat.
01:01:16
Speaker
Well, if she's communing, if I remember correctly, she is a gonosie.
01:01:22
Speaker
If she's communing with the primordial plane, then...
01:01:25
Speaker
That would make sense if, I don't know much about her by any means, but if her family is one of the newer family lines to have crossed across the plains, which does not happen very often anymore, as I had explained to them, most of the Ganazi here are fairly old family lines, as the ability to travel between for...
01:01:47
Speaker
Millennia essentially has been difficult, to say the least.
01:01:51
Speaker
I mean, maybe not for me, but for the people who are less magical in client than I am.
Kidnapping Plot Considered
01:01:56
Speaker
I wonder if we should have let them continue kidnapping him so that we could find out where they were taking him.
01:02:04
Speaker
No, well, that would be quite rude of you to have let that happen.
01:02:07
Speaker
You wouldn't have been injured.
01:02:08
Speaker
But then we could have all been where they wanted you to be, and that might have been more helpful.
01:02:14
Speaker
Well, that may have been true, but I would have been put in harm's way.
01:02:17
Speaker
Well, don't get me wrong, I couldn't find myself out of that situation if I wanted to, but I knew you were coming to save me.
01:02:25
Speaker
I'm sure one of us can just get into the bag and pretend he just fell asleep and wake him up, and then he'll continue kidnapping us.
01:02:34
Speaker
Yes, and I'm sure someone here has something like a modify memory spell.
01:02:42
Speaker
So that he'd just forget getting killed twice.
01:02:46
Speaker
Don't look at me.
01:02:47
Speaker
I can't do that.
01:02:48
Speaker
The only modification of memory I can do is a sharp hit on the head.
01:02:55
Speaker
Um... Nope.
01:02:56
Speaker
Let me work on him.
01:02:58
Speaker
We could just put some booze around him, I'm sure.
01:03:01
Speaker
Oh, yes.
01:03:02
Speaker
Whisper into his ear right now.
01:03:03
Speaker
We do have a wizard.
01:03:06
Speaker
You were so kind.
01:03:08
Speaker
As he sees, like, a couple of guys looking at him.
01:03:12
Speaker
Like I mentioned, I'm the Masters of Contribution.
01:03:16
Speaker
That's the School of Enchantment.
01:03:17
Speaker
I haven't spent much time there myself.
01:03:21
Speaker
In my younger years, I really delved at first into my niche profession.
01:03:27
Speaker
You know what, that's true.
01:03:29
Speaker
I've heard that, like, enchantment requires more charisma.
01:03:36
Speaker
Well, I see what you're trying to do.
01:03:39
Speaker
That's a nice try.
01:03:43
Speaker
But if we do need help, I might be able to.
01:03:47
Speaker
It would take time.
01:03:49
Speaker
Mind you, I would have to travel back to the University of Cunyorm, and I haven't slept, which I would need to do to teleport back.
01:03:54
Speaker
But I could do that, and potentially...
01:03:57
Speaker
bring someone who could be, I think they'll already know that the kidnapping didn't work.
01:04:03
Speaker
That would make sense.
01:04:05
Speaker
Yes.
01:04:05
Speaker
Um,
01:04:07
Speaker
But thank you for the offer.
01:04:10
Speaker
I'm here to help.
01:04:11
Speaker
But more than anything, I'm here to do my own research.
01:04:13
Speaker
How can we be certain that if you go back to your room and go back to bed, you'll be safe this time?
01:04:19
Speaker
Although I'm suspicious that she doesn't have too many allies if she sent the same very much still beat up guy to kidnap you.
01:04:30
Speaker
That is true.
01:04:31
Speaker
Given the weakness of the fellow, I'll be honest, I don't think I'm in too much danger.
01:04:35
Speaker
They caught me by surprise that time.
01:04:37
Speaker
It won't happen again.
01:04:39
Speaker
If you stay close to me, you will not be surprised.
01:04:44
Speaker
Are you going to stand guard for him?
01:04:48
Speaker
I can.
01:04:48
Speaker
I would very much appreciate that.
01:04:50
Speaker
I can make it worth your while.
01:04:51
Speaker
I can pay you.
01:04:54
Speaker
Okay.
01:04:54
Speaker
I mean, I will set up chair in your room and I will stay by door.
01:05:00
Speaker
I can... I could get behind that.
01:05:04
Speaker
It would be all right with me, yes.
01:05:06
Speaker
Do you have earwax?
01:05:08
Speaker
Do you have wax for your ears?
01:05:14
Speaker
Does your ear produce earwax?
01:05:20
Speaker
I'm just curious minds.
01:05:26
Speaker
I was thinking of beeswax for his ears.
01:05:33
Speaker
Talira asking, came out, do you have earwax?
01:05:41
Speaker
I do produce earwax just like most people.
01:05:44
Speaker
That's disgusting.
01:05:45
Speaker
No, I mean, do you have wax you can, like, put in your ears?
01:05:50
Speaker
I snore.
01:05:50
Speaker
Oh, um, I, um, I'll figure something out, I'm sure.
01:05:56
Speaker
Yeah, I'll be all right.
01:05:57
Speaker
No worries.
01:05:59
Speaker
But we'll get to that.
01:06:02
Speaker
The fact that she could be connected to Zolgog means she's a recent family line to Aeon, or at least we can make the assumption.
01:06:10
Speaker
It's quite, quite interesting.
01:06:12
Speaker
I wonder how they could have gotten over here.
01:06:14
Speaker
And more so, how they were communicating across the plains is also... Makes me wonder if she's truly just an apothecary.
01:06:23
Speaker
But if she had to go to a site to do it, then maybe she has learned a ritual that could potentially allow communication.
01:06:30
Speaker
And if she can do that, then maybe she could even... Although it'd be quite difficult, even for someone like her, to be able to travel between the planes.
01:06:39
Speaker
Perhaps she traveled there to be alone and not viewed easily.
01:06:47
Speaker
Right.
01:06:47
Speaker
Versus needing a place to commune specifically?
01:06:53
Speaker
It could be a mixture of both, honestly.
01:06:56
Speaker
I would say that I don't know.
01:06:57
Speaker
But this does really boggle my mind as far as my research goes, because now I know Zorkog may be connected to the Mistborn, and that is a connection that I would have never made on my own.
01:07:10
Speaker
We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you the crisp.
01:07:17
Speaker
Nice.
01:07:18
Speaker
Very good.
01:07:19
Speaker
Maybe we should all do one.
01:07:25
Speaker
Not as nice.
01:07:26
Speaker
Didn't have the bubbles.
01:07:27
Speaker
Oh my god.
01:07:31
Speaker
Mid.
01:07:32
Speaker
Mid.
01:07:32
Speaker
Disappointed!
01:07:35
Speaker
Disappointed!
01:07:38
Speaker
I'll find the one in a sec.
01:07:40
Speaker
Hold on.
01:07:41
Speaker
Let's see if we can get this.
01:07:42
Speaker
They'll pay for this.
01:07:44
Speaker
Oh.
01:07:46
Speaker
So the... Came through, but the crack at the end, it didn't come through.
01:07:51
Speaker
I gotta try again.
01:07:51
Speaker
Yeah, I didn't get into this.
01:07:53
Speaker
You're over on Audacity, though.
01:07:55
Speaker
Just for it?
01:07:57
Speaker
Oh, that was a good one.
01:07:58
Speaker
That was much better.
01:07:59
Speaker
That was a good one.
01:07:59
Speaker
Much better.
01:08:00
Speaker
Good job.
01:08:02
Speaker
Jax is over here, like, has a whole thing of cans.
01:08:03
Speaker
He's not...
01:08:05
Speaker
I have a mini-fridge right here.
01:08:06
Speaker
At least you guys have recorded yours.
01:08:08
Speaker
Mine was... And now we return to our regularly scheduled programming.
01:08:18
Speaker
Okay.
01:08:22
Speaker
Yeah, let's get back to it, shall we?
01:08:24
Speaker
Where were we?
01:08:26
Speaker
I don't know.
01:08:27
Speaker
We were talking to...
01:08:32
Speaker
Professor Dachshul Oxenberg?
01:08:36
Speaker
Dachshul Oxenberg, yes.
01:08:38
Speaker
Should we have a mini-nap at least, or a sleep whatsoever?
01:08:44
Speaker
Yes, he was going to bed.
01:08:46
Speaker
Talira said that she's going to keep watch.
01:08:51
Speaker
I'll just have the room to myself then.
01:08:53
Speaker
We need Talira to be able to get some sleep, though, so I'm guessing we're going to need to take turns.
01:08:59
Speaker
Or he could just sleep in the same room as us.
01:09:03
Speaker
I will not be doing that.
01:09:04
Speaker
I do prefer to have my own room.
01:09:06
Speaker
I don't think that's right.
01:09:07
Speaker
I believe you also would prefer not to get kidnapped.
01:09:10
Speaker
Is that right?
01:09:11
Speaker
They would not get the best of me this time.
01:09:13
Speaker
I will make sure of that.
01:09:16
Speaker
Well, it seems like it becomes our problem if they do.
01:09:22
Speaker
You could just let them kidnap me then.
01:09:25
Speaker
But how would we know that they've kidnapped you until you're already gone and dead?
01:09:29
Speaker
Well, he said you just let them kidnap him, so it sounds like we can go to bed.
01:09:33
Speaker
Perfect.
01:09:34
Speaker
Good night.
01:09:35
Speaker
I very much appreciate you saving me, but I will pay somebody if they would like to help guard my room.
01:09:40
Speaker
I do have the ability to do that.
01:09:41
Speaker
It is okay.
01:09:42
Speaker
Calden, I trust you will be okay at the room?
01:09:47
Speaker
I will stay with Professor.
01:09:50
Speaker
Yes, yes, I'll be fine.
01:09:52
Speaker
Okay.
01:09:53
Speaker
Okay.
01:09:54
Speaker
Well, as much as I would love to keep talking about my research, because it is my favorite subject to talk about, I do, I would like to finally get some sleep.
01:10:03
Speaker
I feel like I'm going to start dozing off on my own.
01:10:07
Speaker
Good night.
01:10:08
Speaker
Well, you leave the wait.
01:10:12
Speaker
And Talira will stay with them, knowing she can also fall asleep because she can't be surprised by anything.
01:10:18
Speaker
That was the shortest conversation we have ever had with him.
01:10:24
Speaker
It helps if you cut him off.
01:10:26
Speaker
Apparently.
01:10:27
Speaker
It does.
01:10:29
Speaker
And it also helps when he wants to leave.
01:10:31
Speaker
Oh, just wait until he has a good night's rest.
01:10:33
Speaker
Oh, no.
01:10:34
Speaker
Yes, so I'm also going to go to bed.
01:10:39
Speaker
Okay, sleeping arrangements.
01:10:42
Speaker
What is happening?
01:10:43
Speaker
I'm going in mine and Lyra's room.
01:10:47
Speaker
So I'll stop in rooms.
01:10:48
Speaker
Okay, cool.
01:10:48
Speaker
I'll go with Yela.
01:10:51
Speaker
Yep.
01:10:52
Speaker
And then sleep.
01:10:54
Speaker
And then where do we want to keep our tied friend here?
01:11:02
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
01:11:02
Speaker
Where is he?
01:11:04
Speaker
I guess he'll stay with me.
01:11:05
Speaker
Okay.
01:11:07
Speaker
Everybody's taking a nap?
01:11:09
Speaker
Yep.
01:11:11
Speaker
I'm also going to once again set up little things so I know, like tampering things with the window and door.
01:11:19
Speaker
Sounds good to me.
01:11:21
Speaker
You all managed to find some rest, given everything that's happened.
01:11:24
Speaker
It's maybe a little on edge, maybe takes some of you longer than others, but except for Talira.
01:11:29
Speaker
Talira falls asleep right away, knowing how she is.
01:11:38
Speaker
You just hear that from the other room.
01:11:39
Speaker
My goodness, she was right.
01:11:41
Speaker
I need to find something.
01:11:42
Speaker
Yeah.
01:11:45
Speaker
Um, and you all are able to get restful sleep throughout the rest of the night with, uh, what, at least what's remaining without being woken up until you do end up getting a knock at the door, um, waking you up right at the end of the 10 hour mark.
01:12:02
Speaker
So you just managed to get a long rest.
01:12:05
Speaker
Which door?
01:12:06
Speaker
Whose door?
01:12:07
Speaker
One door.
01:12:08
Speaker
Would definitely be the wizard's professor's door, since he was the one who was kidnapped.
01:12:14
Speaker
And you hear Bartok from the other side.
01:12:16
Speaker
Everybody all right in there?
01:12:18
Speaker
You make it through the night all right?
01:12:21
Speaker
We're good, thank you.
01:12:24
Speaker
I'm sorry, I didn't catch that.
01:12:25
Speaker
Say it again.
01:12:28
Speaker
Caught her mid-shoots.
01:12:28
Speaker
She's getting the wax out of her mouth.
01:12:30
Speaker
She's in my face.
01:12:31
Speaker
Yeah, she's getting your wax.
01:12:38
Speaker
We are good.
01:12:38
Speaker
Thank you.
01:12:40
Speaker
Glad to hear no more events throughout the night.
01:12:42
Speaker
I just got to hear him like huff a little bit and everybody wakes up.
01:12:51
Speaker
Did you stuff the mouth of Hesse as well or did you just tie him up?
01:12:56
Speaker
That is a good question.
01:12:58
Speaker
I believe we're all looking to Thalera for the answer to this.
01:13:01
Speaker
So here's the one who tied him up.
01:13:04
Speaker
Yeah, I was going to say Calden.
01:13:05
Speaker
I think Calden tied him up, didn't?
01:13:06
Speaker
Yeah, Calden.
01:13:07
Speaker
Calden can't read it.
01:13:09
Speaker
Or check them.
01:13:11
Speaker
Oh, okay.
01:13:12
Speaker
Whichever one you all would rather have.
01:13:14
Speaker
Oh, see, I thought we had established that Talira was about to tie him up, then Kalden was like, I need to check, you know, whoever, who's tying him up, I'll need to check the knots, and Talira was just like, okay, you do it.
01:13:27
Speaker
Okay, sure.
01:13:28
Speaker
Yeah, I would have gagged him.
01:13:29
Speaker
So, would Kalden have stuffed his mouth?
01:13:30
Speaker
You would have gagged him?
01:13:32
Speaker
Okay.
01:13:32
Speaker
Yeah, you wake up.
01:13:33
Speaker
Yeah.
01:13:34
Speaker
So, also given, Kalden, you probably wake up before Bartok wakes everybody up, at least by like a hair, you know?
Regrets and Redemption
01:13:42
Speaker
And when you wake up, surprisingly, it's not from Hess having woken up and started making a bunch of noise, you do find he is awake, but you find he is quietly sobbing and crying to himself.
01:14:00
Speaker
Is it your pride?
01:14:05
Speaker
You were, I mean, pretty thoroughly beaten three times.
01:14:11
Speaker
That's pretty embarrassing.
01:14:13
Speaker
I get it.
01:14:17
Speaker
Is it the pain?
01:14:20
Speaker
We didn't heal you.
01:14:21
Speaker
That's true.
01:14:22
Speaker
You do have a broken jaw.
01:14:23
Speaker
I don't know why we gagged you.
01:14:24
Speaker
You have a broken jaw.
01:14:25
Speaker
You probably can't talk anyway.
01:14:31
Speaker
I get up.
01:14:36
Speaker
Ruthless.
01:14:38
Speaker
I get up.
01:14:39
Speaker
I wash my face.
01:14:42
Speaker
Rebraid my hair.
01:14:44
Speaker
You know, check all that stuff.
01:14:47
Speaker
Put my circlet back on.
01:14:49
Speaker
Kind of wander over.
01:14:53
Speaker
I un-gag him.
01:14:55
Speaker
Did you sleep well?
01:14:57
Speaker
I'm so sorry.
01:15:00
Speaker
Why'd you do it?
01:15:01
Speaker
I've made such mistakes.
01:15:04
Speaker
Why'd you do it?
01:15:07
Speaker
How's your jaw?
01:15:10
Speaker
I'll be honest, I've had worse.
01:15:12
Speaker
Oh, good night's sleep.
01:15:14
Speaker
You were saying?
01:15:15
Speaker
Um, yeah, Veruta, she's just promised me so many things.
01:15:22
Speaker
I just feel like I've just been making mistake after mistake.
01:15:25
Speaker
Who else has she made promises to?
01:15:29
Speaker
As far as I know, I'm the only one.
01:15:30
Speaker
For now, all right.
01:15:34
Speaker
She always just told me.
01:15:36
Speaker
A little bad for the greater good.
01:15:37
Speaker
If I helped her, my son wouldn't go missing.
01:15:40
Speaker
Well, but she's working with the people that made him go missing, so... I know.
01:15:48
Speaker
But I still have my son.
01:15:49
Speaker
She at least held up her end of the bargain.
01:15:52
Speaker
I just feel like we went too far.
01:15:55
Speaker
And your buddy, he was... He fought me like such a man.
01:16:00
Speaker
He didn't deserve it.
01:16:03
Speaker
Oh.
01:16:04
Speaker
That's true.
01:16:04
Speaker
Yellen is one of the manliest men I know.
01:16:10
Speaker
Calden can barely get that out of me.
01:16:13
Speaker
He really was.
01:16:17
Speaker
He's so macho.
01:16:19
Speaker
I look up to him.
01:16:21
Speaker
Literally and figuratively.
01:16:22
Speaker
He's a little taller than me.
01:16:24
Speaker
I think I do too now.
01:16:25
Speaker
Well, you want to be someone he's proud of.
01:16:31
Speaker
I hope my wife doesn't find out.
01:16:34
Speaker
Well, she might need to.
01:16:37
Speaker
If you want to be someone that Yellen can be proud of as a man, you're going to have to come clean.
01:16:44
Speaker
I don't know if I'm strong enough to do that.
01:16:49
Speaker
I think you are.
01:16:50
Speaker
You're the kind of man who gets back on his feet to prove himself again.
01:16:57
Speaker
You don't let a little beating keep you down.
01:16:59
Speaker
I think you can.
01:17:03
Speaker
I do do that.
01:17:04
Speaker
I do get back up every time.
01:17:08
Speaker
That's its own strength.
01:17:12
Speaker
Fuck yeah, it is.
01:17:15
Speaker
So if I untie the rest of these, you good?
01:17:19
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, I'm good.
01:17:21
Speaker
All right.
01:17:22
Speaker
Insight check, just in case.
01:17:25
Speaker
Yeah, go for it.
01:17:27
Speaker
Now, this one I can roll below a 21.
01:17:31
Speaker
However, I rolled a nat 20, so it's a 25.
01:17:34
Speaker
Hell yeah.
01:17:37
Speaker
It is really hard to tell if this dude is just really good at faking it or if this is just pathetically genuine.
01:17:45
Speaker
But you kind of see through it and know that this is pathetically genuine.
01:17:53
Speaker
And he's probably felt like this for a while and just been trying to do the manly thing of pushing it down into the box.
01:18:02
Speaker
And yeah, that's what you're getting out of that.
01:18:06
Speaker
All right.
01:18:07
Speaker
I untie him.
01:18:09
Speaker
I go, should we get some breakfast?
01:18:12
Speaker
I'd like that, yeah.
01:18:14
Speaker
All right.
01:18:18
Speaker
I don't know where Farut is at.
01:18:21
Speaker
Did you tell her that you ran into us last night in the woods?
01:18:28
Speaker
No, I did not.
01:18:30
Speaker
Okay.
01:18:31
Speaker
That would have been embarrassing.
01:18:34
Speaker
You know what?
01:18:34
Speaker
I think I believe her because of that.
01:18:38
Speaker
She would have been even more angry at me.
01:18:41
Speaker
So, no.
01:18:43
Speaker
I just tell her I got into another fight at the bar because it's believable.
01:18:49
Speaker
And also true now, so... Well, yeah, yeah, I guess you got a point.
01:18:58
Speaker
Regardless, she's not happy and she's panicking, so...
Lighthearted Breakfast Banter
01:19:01
Speaker
Why is she panicking?
01:19:03
Speaker
Well, I know that I kind of come off as a bumbling idiot, but I put up that facade sometimes.
01:19:16
Speaker
And to let, I know more than I let on a lot.
01:19:19
Speaker
I am a bumbling idiot.
01:19:21
Speaker
Don't get me wrong.
01:19:23
Speaker
But I think it's fairly obvious to see that considering that I've mentioned her and you guys caught me and your buddy was in the woods, you were following her.
01:19:34
Speaker
You have suspicion of her.
01:19:35
Speaker
She's not stupid.
01:19:36
Speaker
She understands that and knows.
01:19:38
Speaker
So, yeah.
01:19:40
Speaker
All right.
01:19:41
Speaker
Let's go get breakfast.
01:19:44
Speaker
Is Yellen going to be there?
01:19:46
Speaker
Probably.
01:19:48
Speaker
Do you not want him to be?
01:19:49
Speaker
No, I'd like to sit next to him.
01:19:53
Speaker
I can sit you next to him.
01:19:59
Speaker
It's so hard to
Strength Amidst Turmoil
01:20:00
Speaker
give you a straight place.
01:20:01
Speaker
Not Talira's pet.
01:20:03
Speaker
Besties!
01:20:06
Speaker
Yellen's pet.
01:20:08
Speaker
Yellen's pet.
01:20:12
Speaker
It's his idol.
01:20:13
Speaker
I hope we're...
01:20:15
Speaker
Bardock's always been really good to me.
01:20:16
Speaker
I hope you can forgive me.
01:20:19
Speaker
Well, I imagine he's none too pleased with you attempting to squander off with one of his paying guests.
01:20:28
Speaker
You'd be right.
01:20:30
Speaker
But you're right.
01:20:31
Speaker
Mainly the thing to do is live up to it.
01:20:33
Speaker
Yes.
01:20:34
Speaker
You've got to be a real man.
01:20:36
Speaker
Yes.
01:20:38
Speaker
Be someone that Yellen is proud of.
01:20:40
Speaker
Let's
Ritual Success and Its Impact
01:20:41
Speaker
go out there and start the journey.
01:20:43
Speaker
Stands up and fixes himself, writes his shoulders back.
01:20:48
Speaker
I just don't know if I can do it.
01:20:50
Speaker
It's okay.
01:20:51
Speaker
Emotions aren't unmanly.
01:20:56
Speaker
Everything comes through the bar.
01:20:57
Speaker
My wife's going to find out.
01:21:01
Speaker
I'm not saying there won't be consequences for your choices.
01:21:03
Speaker
You're going to have to make some hard decisions now.
01:21:08
Speaker
Some of them may be to move.
01:21:11
Speaker
Because your son is no longer under Verutha's protection.
01:21:15
Speaker
Well, actually, he kind of smiles a bit, like seeming like somewhat relieved.
01:21:25
Speaker
I don't need her protection anymore.
01:21:30
Speaker
He can't be taken now.
01:21:31
Speaker
They don't need him.
01:21:33
Speaker
Oh, they won't be doing these anymore?
01:21:35
Speaker
I mean, no.
01:21:38
Speaker
What else do you know?
01:21:40
Speaker
Why don't they need to do the ritual anymore?
01:21:42
Speaker
It succeeded.
01:21:43
Speaker
Yeah, exactly.
01:21:44
Speaker
I figured you knew that.
01:21:46
Speaker
What did it do when it succeeded?
01:21:49
Speaker
It made it where they don't have to do it every year anymore.
01:21:52
Speaker
They cut their tie.
01:21:54
Speaker
By cutting their tie, they can sustain themselves here without needing access to the primordial plane?
01:22:03
Speaker
the primordial, if that's where they're from, I guess I listen in when I can, but for Ruth, it keeps me at a distance.
01:22:10
Speaker
But I did overhear that they cut the tie, so that's what they've been trying to do.
01:22:15
Speaker
That's good to know.
01:22:17
Speaker
If there's anything else that you know that could be helpful to us, we'd really appreciate it.
01:22:21
Speaker
We don't want any more people to get hurt.
01:22:24
Speaker
Whatever they were doing was requiring child sacrifices, and that's not okay.
01:22:31
Speaker
Um, I do know one more thing.
01:22:34
Speaker
But you gotta... I checked the fucking window so he's not about to get, like, sniped.
01:22:42
Speaker
Yeah, you can give me a perception check.
01:22:46
Speaker
26.
01:22:48
Speaker
Um... You can see space.
01:22:49
Speaker
Yeah, no kidding.
01:22:52
Speaker
There seem to be five...
01:22:55
Speaker
Beings staring down at you.
01:22:59
Speaker
No, you look outside and I mean, the town seems to be starting their day.
01:23:04
Speaker
You start seeing people move around, getting on horses.
01:23:07
Speaker
You see carts of lumber start to be pulled to the docks, things like that.
01:23:12
Speaker
But it is a little less than usual as the weekend has started.
01:23:16
Speaker
Hence why the tavern was so busy last night.
01:23:18
Speaker
You do see as well, though, there is a cart that is pulling into town from the road.
01:23:23
Speaker
tavern sits on.
01:23:24
Speaker
It sits on the main throwaway in and out of town, trade route-wise.
01:23:30
Speaker
But you can't see anything that seems suspicious.
01:23:34
Speaker
Okay.
01:23:34
Speaker
I still, like, kind of position us at an angle to where it'd be difficult to, like, see us through the window.
01:23:41
Speaker
Okay.
01:23:42
Speaker
If I tell you this, I need you to be on my side of... I don't want to be implicated.
01:23:48
Speaker
I don't want to be connected to this specific, what...
01:23:52
Speaker
I don't know how much I
Secret Plans and Messages
01:23:53
Speaker
can prevent you from being implicated with Farutha as you were caught by people, not us.
01:23:59
Speaker
However, we can recommend that the professor take you with him for protection.
01:24:08
Speaker
He kind of pauses and starts to really sit and think real deep for a moment.
01:24:17
Speaker
This isn't going to go well for me.
01:24:19
Speaker
He looks up at you, and when he meets your eye this time, there's a level of strength he didn't have before there.
01:24:25
Speaker
Level of constitution.
01:24:26
Speaker
I'll give you this last piece of information.
01:24:29
Speaker
You can sneak me on the boat leaving this morning.
01:24:32
Speaker
Okay.
01:24:33
Speaker
Know the schedule inside and out.
01:24:34
Speaker
I make it.
01:24:35
Speaker
Do you want a message sent to your wife and child about your disappearance?
01:24:40
Speaker
That's exactly what I was going to follow up with.
01:24:42
Speaker
I'll write a note if you could deliver it to them.
01:24:45
Speaker
Yes.
01:24:47
Speaker
The only reason it was successful is because there was a fifth kid as a backup that we were told to get this year, even though it was an off year for us.
01:24:57
Speaker
And the reason we got away with it this year is that family left town like a couple of them do for a few days.
01:25:04
Speaker
We figured out where they were going and set a trap in their cart.
01:25:08
Speaker
Is the family dead?
01:25:11
Speaker
No.
01:25:12
Speaker
Just the child?
01:25:13
Speaker
We set the activation for the teleportation circle.
01:25:16
Speaker
Further up your soul.
01:25:18
Speaker
Your energy.
01:25:19
Speaker
And the we was just you and Veruta?
01:25:23
Speaker
We're the only two in town.
01:25:24
Speaker
Alright.
01:25:25
Speaker
There is one in Arlanas, though.
01:25:27
Speaker
I know you're heading that way.
01:25:29
Speaker
Do you know who?
01:25:31
Speaker
Yeah.
01:25:32
Speaker
The elder there.
01:25:34
Speaker
Mayer.
01:25:35
Speaker
The mayor's in on it there.
01:25:36
Speaker
Okay.
01:25:38
Speaker
Okay.
01:25:39
Speaker
I will hold true to my word.
01:25:41
Speaker
And I will get you out on that boat.
01:25:45
Speaker
Do you still want to eat first?
01:25:48
Speaker
You're pretty roughed up.
01:25:49
Speaker
I... I can't let Bartok see me.
01:25:52
Speaker
Tell him I said sorry.
01:25:53
Speaker
Okay.
01:25:54
Speaker
And tell Yellen I respect him for last night.
01:25:58
Speaker
That was a good fight.
01:26:00
Speaker
He's a true man.
01:26:02
Speaker
Um, I'll have to get paper for your note.
01:26:07
Speaker
I don't have any.
01:26:08
Speaker
Yeah, um, can you bring up some, maybe, blood from something that Bartok's slaughtered?
01:26:16
Speaker
Um, I need some mud and any kind of condiments he may have and a little bit of alcohol.
01:26:25
Speaker
Uh, why?
01:26:27
Speaker
I gotta get on the boat without people knowing it's me.
01:26:34
Speaker
How much of these things are you needing?
01:26:37
Speaker
Those are gonna be kind of suspicious.
01:26:39
Speaker
Just a tiny bit.
01:26:42
Speaker
I just gotta make myself look different.
01:26:44
Speaker
Okay.
01:26:46
Speaker
You'd be surprised at what I can do with some of that use as makeup.
01:26:52
Speaker
You'd be surprised what I can do with a little blood, mud, and mustard.
01:26:59
Speaker
Actually, you know what?
01:27:00
Speaker
Is that your new catchphrase?
01:27:01
Speaker
I take that back.
01:27:02
Speaker
That is a great catchphrase.
01:27:03
Speaker
That's a really good catchphrase.
01:27:06
Speaker
Before you do that, actually, I may not need it.
01:27:09
Speaker
Can you... I'm going to wait here.
01:27:12
Speaker
Can you all see if there's any suspicion around town about me missing?
01:27:19
Speaker
Or if Verruta has spread any lies, if she thinks I've turned, anything like that.
01:27:24
Speaker
If nobody suspects much, I can get on the boat.
01:27:26
Speaker
That's not a problem.
Morning Routines and Camaraderie
01:27:30
Speaker
I poke my head out.
01:27:32
Speaker
Have you guys gotten up yet?
01:27:34
Speaker
Oh yeah, so Jelen and I are just chilling.
01:27:37
Speaker
I'm like, what's your favorite breakfast food?
01:27:40
Speaker
In the room or are you downstairs?
01:27:43
Speaker
I think we're just waking up.
01:27:45
Speaker
Yeah, Jelen's doing a get ready with me, telling the whole story of the night before.
01:27:51
Speaker
He's sitting on the bed, cross-legged, full armor plan, and like, continue.
01:27:59
Speaker
He's like, anyway, then he punched me in the liver seven times and... What?
01:28:08
Speaker
No, he didn't, girl.
01:28:10
Speaker
Nuh-uh.
01:28:11
Speaker
And then what happened?
01:28:13
Speaker
I show the makeup I'm using to cover up the bruises.
01:28:17
Speaker
And anyway, then I hit him in the head with my horns and it still hurts a little bit.
01:28:24
Speaker
And you can't even see the swelling?
01:28:27
Speaker
Yes, and Kalden was very kind not to kill him.
01:28:30
Speaker
I know it was tempting because, you know, he was attacking us.
01:28:33
Speaker
And we all know Kalden is just bloodthirsty.
01:28:42
Speaker
He's really shown that to be the case.
01:28:46
Speaker
Just itching to murder.
01:28:47
Speaker
Y'all haven't known each other very long, to be fair.
01:28:54
Speaker
I don't know him very well, but I know he pulls knives out of his mind or something like that.
01:29:00
Speaker
That sounds like a terrible place to store knives.
01:29:06
Speaker
Oh, my God.
01:29:06
Speaker
I would not recommend.
01:29:08
Speaker
No, yeah, I wouldn't think so either, but it seems to work for him.
01:29:11
Speaker
I'm surprised he can think at all.
01:29:13
Speaker
Well, he is rather sharp.
01:29:14
Speaker
You hear like a...
01:29:19
Speaker
Hello.
01:29:19
Speaker
Hello, come in.
01:29:20
Speaker
Hey, guys.
01:29:23
Speaker
Can I... Can you come here?
01:29:25
Speaker
Do you have knives in your brain?
01:29:29
Speaker
Sorry?
01:29:30
Speaker
What do you mean?
01:29:34
Speaker
Don't worry about it.
01:29:35
Speaker
Let's go.
01:29:37
Speaker
Pesses up and we've been talking.
01:29:41
Speaker
Talira, are you awake?
01:29:43
Speaker
You hear the door like creak open as she pokes her head out.
01:29:48
Speaker
Are you decent?
01:29:49
Speaker
Calden?
01:29:49
Speaker
Is that you?
01:29:51
Speaker
Yes.
01:29:52
Speaker
You can... Hi.
01:29:54
Speaker
He waves.
01:29:54
Speaker
Oh, good.
01:29:55
Speaker
Yes.
01:29:55
Speaker
We are awake.
01:29:57
Speaker
Good.
01:29:57
Speaker
Can you... Can you come here?
01:30:00
Speaker
Yes.
01:30:00
Speaker
Should I grab Professor?
01:30:02
Speaker
You go right ahead.
01:30:02
Speaker
I've got a bit of morning routine to do.
01:30:07
Speaker
I understand.
01:30:08
Speaker
Have a good shit.
01:30:10
Speaker
Like she read my mind.
01:30:11
Speaker
Wow.
01:30:13
Speaker
Second ship of the campaign.
01:30:24
Speaker
She closes the door and walks over.
01:30:26
Speaker
We have some time.
01:30:28
Speaker
Yeah, what is going on?
01:30:29
Speaker
Okay, so I've been talking to Hess.
01:30:34
Speaker
He looks at Jan.
01:30:35
Speaker
Big fan of you, by the way.
01:30:37
Speaker
Just so you know.
01:30:41
Speaker
Maybe he likes your makeup.
01:30:43
Speaker
It's because you're so manly.
01:30:46
Speaker
Oh.
01:30:46
Speaker
What?
01:30:49
Speaker
I like how you're all so confused.
01:30:57
Speaker
Well, I'm flattered, I suppose.
01:31:01
Speaker
So, sorry that I did this without you guys.
01:31:04
Speaker
I kind of made a deal with him and he exchanged the information he knows about Veruta for our help to leave.
01:31:14
Speaker
So,
Strategic Planning with Humor
01:31:16
Speaker
he wants us to suss out whether Veruta's like onto him or whatever for betraying her.
01:31:21
Speaker
And he maybe needs, but isn't sure yet, some blood and some mud and mustard.
01:31:30
Speaker
What's the mustard for?
01:31:31
Speaker
So he can get on a boat.
01:31:34
Speaker
Is it?
01:31:38
Speaker
Okay.
01:31:39
Speaker
Also parchment, ink and a quill.
01:31:42
Speaker
That makes sense.
01:31:43
Speaker
That's to write a letter.
01:31:44
Speaker
Totally normal.
01:31:45
Speaker
Yeah, that's what I'd expect you would need for that.
01:31:49
Speaker
Unless he wants to use the blood, the mud and the mustard to write the letter, but I don't think he does.
01:31:53
Speaker
I think he wants it to get on a boat.
01:31:55
Speaker
I mean, he's the harbormaster.
01:31:56
Speaker
I don't know what... Fair for the passage?
01:32:00
Speaker
I don't know.
01:32:00
Speaker
He said he doesn't need much.
01:32:02
Speaker
How much muster does he need?
01:32:03
Speaker
Not a very expensive passage muster.
01:32:05
Speaker
Not much, he said.
01:32:07
Speaker
Have you seen those seeds?
01:32:08
Speaker
They are very tiny.
01:32:10
Speaker
So, as helpful as he's been, I think it's safest if someone still just keeps an eye on him while the rest of us are doing the other things.
01:32:19
Speaker
Where should I go?
01:32:21
Speaker
Should I guard or should I come with?
01:32:23
Speaker
That is up to everyone.
01:32:25
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I vote not me because I've been talking for, gosh, a long time.
01:32:29
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So long.
01:32:31
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If people were to sit and listen for some reason to this conversation, just like third parties, I've been talking a long time.
01:32:39
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Like the gods?
01:32:40
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Yeah.
01:32:41
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Yes.
01:32:42
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If the gods were watching for entertainment purposes, I think maybe I've been talking a long time.
01:32:49
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That's pretty screwed up to watch us for entertainment purposes.
01:32:52
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You know what?
01:32:53
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I wouldn't put it past gods.
01:32:54
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I don't know.
01:32:55
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I think I'm pretty funny.
01:32:57
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I think you're hilarious, Talira.
01:32:59
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I'm not.
01:33:00
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Well, thank you.
01:33:01
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Maybe you, then.
01:33:03
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Yes.
01:33:03
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Okay, if you all can handle yourselves, I know you can.
01:33:07
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You protected Yellen.
01:33:09
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And Yellen's very manly.
01:33:11
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He'll be fine on his own.
01:33:14
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I think I can do all right.
01:33:16
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Yellen is the manliest of men.
01:33:18
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Exactly.
01:33:19
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Yellen is the manliest person we have in our group.
01:33:22
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And it's definitely not Talira.
01:33:24
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No, not at all.
01:33:28
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Yellen is like, I don't want to start a feud with Talira.
01:33:35
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And you know what?
01:33:35
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That's so mad.
01:33:37
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Talira looks down and she's like, what?
01:33:39
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I am not mad.
01:33:40
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I am not mad.
01:33:45
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I just want breakfast.
01:33:48
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Let's go get breakfast and mustard and then we can figure out blood and mother mother.
01:33:54
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I don't know where to get mustard from.
01:33:56
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Well, if I order my steak, it comes very bloody.
01:33:58
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Maybe some of that blood?
01:34:00
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You have steak for breakfast?
01:34:02
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That's not a bad idea.
01:34:04
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What about maybe like a black pudding?
01:34:07
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It has blood in the sausage.
01:34:08
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Oh, yes.
01:34:10
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I'm very iron deficient.
01:34:11
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I need dip blue.
01:34:13
Speaker
You look iron deficient, so that makes sense.
01:34:17
Speaker
What?
01:34:18
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Pale.
01:34:18
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Pale.
01:34:34
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You look iron deficient.
01:34:36
Speaker
What?
01:34:37
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I'm crying.
01:34:41
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Oh my god.
01:34:47
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That was so funny.
01:34:49
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Damn.
01:34:50
Speaker
Maeve's really coming into her own.
01:34:51
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She's trying to make friends and she's getting comfortable.
01:34:57
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It suits you though, so it's okay.
01:34:59
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It's genetics.
01:35:03
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That makes sense.
01:35:04
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Oh my god.
01:35:07
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Lots of people are pale.
01:35:08
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It's not that weird.
01:35:16
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I think we found a mystery of Calvin's.
01:35:25
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Does Kalden not like spicy food?
01:35:27
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Does Kalden not like sun?
01:35:30
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Oh my gosh.
01:35:32
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It's okay.
01:35:32
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We'll fix that.
01:35:33
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First Bartok.
01:35:34
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Kalden has extremely pale eyes.
01:35:37
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The sun hurts his eyes, okay?
01:35:39
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He doesn't want
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to be in it.
01:35:40
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He can't see.
01:35:41
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Oh my gosh.
01:35:45
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I'm crying.
01:35:46
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That is so funny.
01:35:50
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Well...
01:35:52
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So funny.
01:35:54
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So I assume a couple of you guys are going to get breakfast and then maybe further stuff and one of y'all is going to stick with Pess, correct?
01:36:03
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Yes.
01:36:04
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Yeah, Talira would ask for a giant breakfast to be brought up for her as well so she can eat while hanging out.
01:36:13
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Yeah, I'll make sure that gets to you.
01:36:15
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Well, I think that is going to be a good spot to end then because I checked the time on how long we've been going.
01:36:23
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And we've had, for instance, our last episode was a little on the long side.
01:36:26
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So I do think we're going to end here and start here as we kind of try to figure out what's going on with Verutha and maybe try to smuggle tests out of this town.
01:36:38
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And yeah, figure out what's for breakfast.
01:36:42
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Oh, my goodness.
01:36:43
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That was so funny.
01:36:45
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On that note, for everybody watching, thank you again for being here for another episode of Destabilizing Foundations.
01:36:52
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We got to name drop it this episode, which was awesome.
01:36:56
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No title card.
01:36:57
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I know.
01:36:58
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That's crazy.
01:36:58
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I hope you guys enjoyed yourselves.
01:37:03
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Cast, I hope you guys enjoyed the session today.
01:37:07
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Finally got to see everybody back together, which was awesome and fun.
01:37:11
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So we'll see you all in two weeks for our next episode drop.
01:37:15
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As far as the audience goes, as far as all of us cast members, who knows when we'll see each other, but we'll find out as we see you guys next time.
01:37:23
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See you.
01:37:24
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Bye.
01:37:30
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Thank you to our cast, myself as the GM, MJ Gunther as Delira Grimstone, Echelun Nathi, Saphira as Maeve Strongheart, Rennie Armis as Calden, and Jack Baldwin as Yelling a Call.
01:37:40
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Additional thanks to our graphic artist, Scentic GFX, our show editing by Dominic, and our intro and outro music composed by Ryan Munz, owner and operator of Eyes on the Moon Studios.
01:38:01
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Thank you.
01:38:38
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I'd like to use Petrie Hornswoggle's metal and gem polish.
01:38:41
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Polishes the poshest of surfaces.
01:38:44
Speaker
What?
01:38:44
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I use that too.
01:38:45
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No way.
01:38:46
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Oh my gosh.