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C2 Fallen ☁︎ Book Smart ☁︎ Episode 8
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Given a riddle by Professor Pippen, this is the first start in their adventure of finding all their deities' tokens and learning more about the Varsai Mirror
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Transcript
Pippin's Riddle Introduction
00:00:56
Speaker
Last time last where we left off was Pippin giving y'all a riddle. Ooh, riddles. And then without you guys knowing Zoe kept me on for an extra 45 minutes try and figure out said riddle. It wasn't that long. It was like 45 minutes. No, no, no, no, no. It was like 30, baby. Because I solved it rather quickly because I brute force that shit. You needed some help. I needed two hints. OK, so the riddle that Pippin gave you was, there are markers on top of me. Looking down is where you see me. There are four of me. Only one is where I am held. In the dark, I am kept. Follow my markers.
00:01:44
Speaker
and keep watch of the rigs that will try and hold you. And then she closed the door in her face because she was trying to get laid and you guys were preventing it.
Return to Antiquities Shop and Family Matters
00:01:56
Speaker
So we're going to start off with you guys going back to the antiquity shop. Briar having to leave because she's not just here for Solas, she is here to see her family also. So Briar took off, ah wished everybody the best, and was like, it's great to meet both of you, both of you, meaning Murphy and Ina. And that is sort of where we left off. You guys are back at the antiquities shop.
00:02:29
Speaker
well Other than Murph getting a snack real fast because they are now overwhelmed with the riddle that was just given to them. And I quote what they said was, okay, well, that's going to take us three months to unlock. Thank you so much. Before Pippin slammed the door in y'all's face. um
00:02:58
Speaker
So what are y'all up to? What
Riddle Solving Strategies and Map Connections
00:03:01
Speaker
are we up to? What are we doing? OK, I imagine this is how Ina, like, is going to go about things. So it's we know as I'm trying not to metagame because me as a player solve the riddle, but me as a character has solved the riddle yet. That's because you hyper fixated on it. I did not hyper-fixate on it. i really did home You absolutely hyper-fixate. You were given the riddle and then you were like, okay, time to spend the next god knows how long. and trying re it goes just like Zoe, I don't think this was meant to be like figured out today. I think it was supposed to take us a week to figure out Zoe. Zoe, Zoe's like, shut up. Shut up. Let me work.
00:03:50
Speaker
Listen, this is my fucking jam. Legend of Zelda puzzles in the fucking shrines. I'm a beast at those. Let the bitch cook, I don't know. Yeah, let me cook. Let me skimmer. You do what you want to do. I'm just going to hang back. Listen, the fact that I was able to solve it, that would I mean, I knew right away what I needed to do. So in kate I'm going to explain to the audience, the lovely listeners, how exactly I solved it. So don't give them all the storytelling details. Damn. No, no, no, no, no. I'm going to tell them like what my thought process was and how I was able to figure it out. So I heard where's the riddle.
00:04:34
Speaker
I heard four, and so I was like, okay, I have to look at the map because Ally decided to make a lovely town map for us. I do not know by the time this episode is up if this town map is up yet. It should be because last episode I was said that it would be up, so it should be up before that love, and before the episode goes up. Remember that, Ally. All I had to do was find something that there were four of and bada-bing bada-boom. Like it led me there. And then like other parts of the riddles led me to the direction that it was in. And I was like, aha. But then Ally was like, you completely forgot about something. But then I had like a 50-50 shot. And then her hints were trying to get me towards the right direction. Even though I was like, fuck that shit. I'm solving this.
00:05:22
Speaker
ah And then the the hint ended up did helping me because then it narrowed my choice. Both of you guys did not like hone in on when I and now said it like at all. Now, so now I have to write down every single word that Ali says, or else I'm never going to be able to solve any of the fucking riddles. If you honestly if you did, we would have known how many fucking temples Alcindor had. I still have not edited that episode, so I still don't know. um Okay, well, that's how I did it. Okay, so I imagine
00:05:59
Speaker
because of the way Ina is. And we discussed this after I figured out the riddle. Well, you figured out how would Ina... I figured out the portion that we needed to figure out. That's all I had to do. I just had to figure out a location. That's all I needed to know. So Ina is going to pull out, I would assume there's some kind of a map of the town. in the antiquity shop. Yeah, Solas and her family definitely have one. It's like a giant tapestry toward the back of the shop. OK, so what Ina is going to be doing, because this feels so on point, I imagine we're sitting around the antiquity shop, right? Mm hmm. OK, and currently Murfa Lurfa Ding Dong is having a snack.
00:06:54
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. So I imagine- Marth is having a snack with Sawyer right now. They're having a little talk. I imagine- They're having a little talk. They're snacking together. Nina is sitting in a spinny chair and she's just like sitting in it where like, like she's currently like upside down and just like around the world. Like she's just spinning. Like she's trying to figure this out. I imagine Solas is using books or whatever the fuck Solas wants to use to solve. And you know, she's spinning. You said books like so judgmental, even though you fucking love books.
00:07:34
Speaker
um on and I'm just shaking my hand. My newest stack that I need to put away. I just always look at books all of a sudden Zoe, books. Sorry, Ena, I came out in a second. um So. Can we role play from there? Like we're just spinning and Ina is just like humming to herself like, huh? Yeah. So it has a tome open that's shit and she's just sort of like very softly speaking to herself. So. Right. And then.
00:08:09
Speaker
Anna's chair is starting to slow. So then she points to the tiniest one, which is stage, right? Sage is the tiniest one. I think it's Sawyer, but let me make sure. Look, I have fucking notes. I will never get over that. Sorsha is seven. Sawyer is five. Sage is 11. And then there's Baby Star, who is a literal like, three year old. So
00:08:33
Speaker
Okay, so then she points to Sage, goes, I need another spin! Guess the chair has finally slipped down. Okay, let's see how hard Sage turns this motherfucker. D100.
00:08:53
Speaker
No, she rolled really well. um I think we need to use a D100 more. Never. OK, so she rolled a 16. So you are spinning. You were set off very quickly for an 11 year old. That was very fast. Yeah, I figured so spinning, spinning, spinning. Let's see. Can I roll to see if she stays on? What would that even be? That would be and I'm going to say agility. OK, agility.
00:09:31
Speaker
Well, would agility be under? We don't have an agility section. I thought we had agility. to We have accuracy, communication, constitution. and such agility That was my dexterity. okay Okay.
00:09:52
Speaker
ah I hit the wrong button. like you're not I have a plus two unless they are. No, they're having a snack with baby Sawyer. five two That's a four plus five. That's a nine plus two eleven.
00:10:13
Speaker
So Eleven, you you kind of stumble off a little bit. you You that was a little bit. Oh, and if you're wondering where Selena is, she is off this ah this afternoon. So. OK, so then at some point, I imagine. When she stops again, Ina's about to point at Sawyer and yell, young one spin me again. And then she's like holds her thought and then she sees the map, but she's upside down because she's spinning yeah and she stands up and now she's going to go and inspect the tapestry map because now she's seeing it because she's upside down and that looks weird and she wants to go look at it. Okay. Okay.
00:11:01
Speaker
I go look at it, I now inspect it with my military lore. Murph is just sitting there eating. There's a lot riding on this. And so I was just like talking to you about this day. She's like, Oh, so good. so ah And this is while, you know, it's like freaking out about this happening. No, she's up there and she's looking at it. I saw this really real crystal on the floor and then I touch it. Is that me? It was that it was mean. It was a mean crystal. It's a mean crystal. Mr. Murphy. And there is there's a lot that was going on. And then there was like this bird in the tree. There's this bird And then Selena had her had a friend stop by. That friend looked real beefy, looked like a real beefy person. I don't know. There is a lot going on. What were you doing today? Well, we're trying to figure out a riddle and I'm having a snack. That's all I did. What's the riddle? I don't remember it word for word if I'm being honest with you. I'm just kind of letting Nina take the take the lead on this one because she's really, good you know, gung-ho.
00:12:21
Speaker
sora is soro wow Yeah, that's right. By the way, Ina has shown no entrance since trying to solve this. She's just like... Sawyer is just looking at Ina and going, I don't think that's smart for you to give that to Ina. She's more strength than when he points to his head.
00:12:42
Speaker
I'm just letting her have fun. Yeah, but how it you needs you needs to go back up, right? Shouldn't you worry about getting home? Yeah, but that's a that's a slow process where we'll get there. You don't want to go home. Maybe we'll see. Oh, you don't like home. We'll see. I got to figure out how to get back. Why don't you like home? That's a question I can't answer right now, but we'll figure it out. He starts I like slowly push his chair away.
00:13:34
Speaker
That's how you can tell because for a while there, you were just like, huh? Solace's family is really, really close to Absalom Pass, which is really wild because I don't see any real correlation between that with ah Solace. Meanwhile, you see and but Sawyer immediately start crying at the fact that you don't want to go home to your family. And you're like, oh, there it is. yeah
00:14:10
Speaker
Yeah. I'm just watching all this happen. So then, Ina for a second, because I rolled really fucking well, she rolled a six, a five and a four. And with my military lore, that's a plus two, so I got a 17 total. Hell yeah. So six, yeah, so I got a 17 total. So then I think something starts itching in the back of Ina's head. So then I think
Library and Map Exploration
00:14:38
Speaker
she go, I think Ina then like asks like out loud, like, what the?
00:14:47
Speaker
God, I gotta find Ina's voice. I know. I've been doing that other voice so much, because that's how I talk to Will now sometimes. And I'm just like, damn it, if only Ina's voice sounded like that, I feel like it would speak so much better. But that's not Ina's voice. So Ina goes, what was the riddle again? Um, Solas is very like quietly talking to herself and then goes, Oh, um, there are markers on top of me. Looking down is where you see me. There are four of me and only one is where I am. That's all I needed. And so then she starts like, so what she's going to do is this like attached to anything?
00:15:37
Speaker
Like is it like just like yeah the wall? along no It's on the wall. I wanna start doing something. I wanna start doing, what is it going to be called? Like an intrusive thought check. I wanna see if the intrusive thoughts are gonna win on this one. Can I do that? Yeah. Yeah. Okay, so what would that be? An intelligence, I guess? yeah Or willpower? Oh, god, no, it's definitely willpower. It's definitely will. I don't let the intrusive thoughts win. Okay, holy shit. Okay, so that's a six, a four, a two. So that's a 12 plus two, that's a 14. Do the intrusive thoughts win?
00:16:26
Speaker
Not today. Okay, so the intrusive thoughts answer was going to be Ina rips the tapestry. Okay, okay so she looks and then she starts now she's like, oh, and so she's um now looking for something to kind of like tack into it you know like the little pins that you would put on like a map or something yeah like or something like that so she's like now furiously running around the shop looking for tacks like opening things like emptying them out like that throwing them aside like going on to the next thing and just like what are you doing i need some tacks
00:17:09
Speaker
That cool invention that you use to hang up the posters. Sage looks at you and goes, okay. And then like got but picks up some. They're like this cute, like they're they're like pastel pink. There's some that are like the clear pink and there's like purple and then there's like a teal. She grabs them and then starts ah like what she is doing specifically, she is putting them where all of the temple locations are on there and then she starts putting them where anything else is important where the number four is put up because I'm gonna make this slow and methodical to allow her to actually solve it properly. um Okay, so now she then says to Solas again, what's the other part? What's the other part?
00:18:01
Speaker
And she's like still furiously like putting things into the wall. And then she's like, hurry, woman! So I was like, god damn it, Ina. You said the four of me. And what's next? And only one is where I am held. That makes no sense. Continue. ah In the dark is where I am kept. And then she starts like thinking like, hmm, doc, doc, doc, doc, doc, and like starts looking for things that might be about like darkness. That's going to be a cave somewhere. Continue, continue. Don't just stop. Nothing about a cave. I don't know if he just sips their tea.
00:18:46
Speaker
He's like, well, OK, then I guess I'm just I'm just here to be pretty, I guess. I point to the I point to the tea cart outside. fifty ah Follow my markers and keep watch of the rigs that will try and hold you. OK, so I'm going to give this like a 50 50 shot. So either Ina is going to think about the markers that she saw when they were coming in from the beach on the road, or she's going to think about the boats near the docks. So would this be an intelligence check? You said 50-50, right? Yeah, 50-50. Do you have a detune near you? I do. Oh, I do, I do, I do. I gotta find it in my little thingy my bar. Heads as simple, tails as boats. Okay.
00:19:46
Speaker
heads because I got a crack in. Amazing. So immediately. OK, so then she's like, this is what happens. This is what happens is you hear the word markers and suddenly you remember your first day being in Arona. where you and Murph were walking down the road to get to the um Temple of Haddon, or Rio at the time.
00:20:18
Speaker
And you remember Murph talking about the sextant, the owl, the compass and the chrysanthemum that were on the cobblestones leading to wherever. You don't really know where they're leading. They're going up. They're going up the road, though. OK, so. Oh,
00:20:48
Speaker
but Okay, so like I feel like I'm just gonna leave all the riddles to Zoey. It's gonna be a very riddle heavy ah issue that you guys are going through. Okay, so Ina then like, Ina then like starts putting it together and then I feel like she also like remembers like the rigs like beach boat and then like is looking between all of the things where there's four and then she starts and then she remembers okay the markers were at this street but the closest thing that is to a dock that would be considered a temple would be and then she like furiously starts taking like
00:21:34
Speaker
more like she's putting like more things on like pointing where like she has like up up up up up up up like where the markers were headed like where she remembers and then she's like and then she like follows the trail because I feel like at this point she was run out of like thumb tacks yeah and then so she uses her finger and then she's like and then like that little moment and then she mutters to herself I am book smart
00:22:04
Speaker
mercy these as like have you ever read a book
00:22:10
Speaker
She mutters this to herself. No one else hears this. she So then she gets this, I feel like at this point, the intrusive thoughts do win and she allows herself, I don't even have to fucking roll for this. And so she runs as quickly as she can. And as she like grabs her sword, like throws it on her back and she's like running out the door, she goes, I solved the riddle! And then it's like running as quickly as she can. Like, that's all you hear.
00:22:46
Speaker
he She furiously running, like full dash sprint, like using all of her fucking movement to follow, to just go where she knows where the riddle leads. Murphy grabs Solas and is like, yep, I guess we're going. Solas still has the toe in her hand and goes, I don't know what just happened. Okay, so Ina is now running in the direction. By the way, um Kyle, but while you're grabbing, while Murphy's grabbing Solas, Solas looks at Sage and goes, call Solana!
00:23:23
Speaker
that
00:23:28
Speaker
Okay, so for those who are looking at the map, you do not have to if you do not want to. So essentially, the city of Arona is in the shape of a bean. I need you guys to know every time- I'm so happy you guys just don't see it how I see it because every time I look at it, I go, this is a womb. And then I go back to pass the womb and- I see it as a kidney bean. Yeah, I saw it as a bean. I don't know where you're getting the womb from. Okay, so- The colors, like a straight up, the organ, the kidney.
00:24:02
Speaker
Imagine like the way that a being curves in on itself right about almost in the middle, but not quite of where that curve is, um is where the antique shop is. And so Ina is now running south. She is running as fast south as she can to the southernmost library of Izmin. because it is near the docks, it is near the place where the markers were, and there are four of her libraries. That is how Ina solved the riddle. And so she's running, and then she stops in front of the library, and she's like, and then she says again, like, to herself, I am book-smart, and then does like a little happy dance.
00:24:51
Speaker
Do you go into the library or do you wait? for um me she ah She doesn't know what to do after this point so she is waiting for her friends to catch up to her. Ina solve the riddle but doesn't know what to do with that knowledge. um so After about, I don't know, let's say like five minutes, because it's and we don't we don't run as fast as Ena does. ah Murph. Especially because I have proficiency in running. so Five minutes later, Murph and Solas show up. Solas is breathing very heavily. Solas doesn't run. Solas goes to the club and gets drunk and reads books. That's Solas' entire deal. Murph, on the other hand, I'm not sure about Murph's state.
00:25:43
Speaker
I mean, like, dexterity is their big thing, right? And so it makes sense that they can run. Running is Constitution, my dear. Is it? ah ah Constitution is a plus one. So, you know what? Can I roll to see her entire name? I would say you're not bad at running. Can I roll to see how tired I am? Yeah. Oh, OK, that's a 16.
00:26:13
Speaker
ah Yeah, you're good. You're pretty okay, Solas. I'm not breathing heavy at all. Yeah, no, you're fine. Solas is like. I still have my tea in my hand.
00:26:31
Speaker
And then Ina turns around and points at the library and goes, I solved the riddle. Okay, are you going to elaborate or? Yes so back at the shop when I was doing the spinny's because I was trying to have the funds with the littlest not the littlest one but the big littlest one and when I was spinning I stopped and then I saw this big tapestry and on that tapestry I then had to remember okay hmm hmm what was what is important about this and then when Solis was saying this about there are markers and when you see me and that didn't make no kind of sense and then when they said four of me and that's when I told them shush shush shush I got it now and so then I start putting pins in places and then I had to figure out okay if there was four something and it has to do with something with the gods it had to be something tied with the gods yes so as I was putting things together boop boop boop boop boop I then came to the realization that when we first stepped onto the beaches lovely lovely little muffler for ding dong that when Solas then again started talking about stuff with a duck and then used to tell me stupid about going to a cave, caves don't make sense we're in a city and then
00:27:44
Speaker
When they said the markers, I remember that there were markers, and then about the rings, meeting close to ships and docks, and then I was able to figure out, boom, boom, this is the place where we need to find the shit. Okay. I don't know what we're looking for, though, but I solve the riddle, and I then go, I deserve a compliment, because I did hear from one person sibling that I'm not very book smart.
00:28:16
Speaker
So is it in the library or? I don't know. I just figured out where it was. OK, but we need more information. I mean, we can go and ask the way finders, but they're not very friendly. of OK, so specifically, we're looking for the tokens, right? Yeah. And supposedly a token is in this place. Supposedly. Okay. What's the, what's the like overall thing that we're looking for? We're looking for a, we're looking for the Versailles Mirror. No, you're not. They said the Versailles Mirror is how people travel between worlds. Yeah, I thought that's what we were looking for. Cause you mentioned that last time. We're looking for the tokens that will lead us to the Versailles Mirror. You did it.
00:29:13
Speaker
That's what we're looking for. Yes. Overall, we're looking for the Versailles Mirror, but we're trying to find the tokens.
Quest for Tokens and Library Mysteries
00:29:20
Speaker
Yes. And we need two tokens apiece from each god. No. Major god. No, just one token apiece? OK. I couldn't remember if we said one or two. So that is what we're looking for. We're looking for a token of Izmin as of right now. Because this is the place where Izmin's token is located. We're outside of the library right now. We are outside of the library right now. He's going to go into the library. OK, now all if you guys remember this lore, all the different followers of each god have a different name. Is means are the way finders.
00:30:05
Speaker
Yes, I'm trying to find the PDF. And our pens.
00:30:15
Speaker
I don't think you to think so.
00:30:21
Speaker
ah ah No, actually, but I did save it. odd by because I was about to say I was trying to look for it because I knew I had it somewhere. You're looking for what again? the I was going to look up the specifically the symbols of Izmin because that's where my brain is going. Because if it was something that is like a token of hers, because again, we don't know if it's something that we earn. We don't know if it's a physical thing. Me as a player brain is thinking, okay, what are the things that tie yourself to Izmin and what would be important to her? And I can't remember off the top of my head all of the things that are her tokens.
00:31:08
Speaker
You guys go into the library. Solace did say that some of the wayfinders aren't particularly friendly. So that is your award. yeah And all of the wayfinders are mortals that follow is mean. Correct. From what you can tell. Yes, correct. From what we know. Yeah. OK. Ah, so we go in, Ina's awed by all the boots. Oh, yeah, it's like, so it's like a
00:31:43
Speaker
white, gray, black marble that's like surrounded the entire area, like within the floors, within the pillars. um It's very much a Beauty and the Beast style library, except like huge, much bigger. This is one the smaller of Izmin's library. So it is big, but it's not like huge. um You see people that have ah sort of more like
00:32:15
Speaker
I wouldn't say they have robes on like you would expect, like where tomes and everything would be. The library has like little homages to Izmin. So there's like copper banisters, there's different gears as like decoration. There are little like steam powered devices that like help people get books. There is maps along like, and there's maps along big structures of walls, there's tables that have different maps set up almost kind of like if you were to watch people play ah like war or something like that, just like they're just all like, all upon the actual
00:33:04
Speaker
world. It's like this giant circular table of like the world of Zinal. There's different sextants, there's different biographies, there's different encyclopedias. These are libraries of non-fictional knowledge. So it's all stuff that has happened within the world and what's happened or what's happening within the world. These aren't libraries filled with like fun fantasy novels. These are libraries filled with documentaries and encyclopedias and dictionaries and thesaurus and different world travels and all of that fun stuff.
00:33:50
Speaker
Different technologies, different sciences, different engineering, that's what all of this knowledge is.
00:33:58
Speaker
When you see the one of the wayfinders, they are dressed in sort of like a, like a lot of them have this outfit on. It's like a brown khaki, almost like cargo pant where they have like a button down white shirt. Some have sleeves, some don't. And some of them have like suspenders to like imitate like overalls. And that's sort of like the look to them. ah They're all wearing either combat boots or like looks of like comfortable ballet flats, none of them look like they would like stay in the library. They all look like they have this adventurous spirit, but they're all very much in the library.
00:34:44
Speaker
And if you look at some of them, they all have like little ah owls and a little section on there. on their like shirts or on their suspenders, whatever they're wearing with it. So I have the PDF pulled up. So the symbols of is mean are ships, navigational maps, sextants, owls, ducks, starlings, and chrysanthemums. Okay.
00:35:19
Speaker
I turn to Solis and I go, were you able to figure out what might possibly be a token? and I mean tokens mean so many things so it could mean anything but also there's more to this riddle than this is the place where it is so it really and depends on if one of the wayfinders want to help us. And that's going to be a lot to ask because there's a reason why they travel. They don't like people. So. OK, so and Murph has been around to almost every domain and you've like stopped in. It means.
00:36:08
Speaker
a discovery domain quite a few times. Ismeen is very standoffish except for and except when it comes to her um sort of, I can't think, except when it comes to like her inventions or when it comes to like discovering new land. Anything else she like does not really like other people. There's only like, a there's only like two other deities that she vibes with and she doesn't really talk to anybody else. Just so like you're aware that you would already have that information. Question. Yes. Do the markers from the street come into the library? Give me a perception. I think I'm getting it.
00:37:00
Speaker
i a perception check. Okay, that is a 6, a a 3, so a 6, a 5, so that's 11 plus 3, that's 14 plus 115. you would see them go up to that large round table that sort that has the ah sort of like actual world full world of Zinal on it and you would see someone buy it by like the last one that looks like um an owl and they're just putting down notes while looking at the map and just continuously doing that.
00:37:47
Speaker
So essentially it leads up to the table and that is it. um Yeah, and it's more of like a down to the table because it goes into what I would consider like a conversation. You know what i yeah mean what I mean by up to the table, like it doesn't lead anywhere else. No. Okay. So Ina is going to start, she's going to have her head down and starts following the symbols. due do to distributetorte to
00:38:17
Speaker
until she gets to the table and then realizes she is at a map. yeah Okay, so hear me out. okay So it says only one is where I'm held. So there are markers on top of me looking down as where you see me. So that is telling us where the place is. There are four of me and only one is where I'm held. I feel like the next part of the riddle is going to tell us either how to get to the place where the token is or how to earn the token. And so it says in the dark, I am kept follow my markers and keep watch of the rigs that will try and hold you. So it has to do with something maybe with nighttime or being in complete darkness.
00:39:01
Speaker
you know, like because for a split second, I immediately thought of the cave of two lovers from Avatar where if you turned off all the lights and then the glowing crystals showed you the way, like that's what I'm thinking, but I might be completely fucking off because I don't think, because we're like in the middle of the day, right? It is the middle of the day. Are the libraries open 24 seven?
00:39:30
Speaker
I think the in the dark where I am kept is like not talking about a physical place, but like a secret, you know, like a secret that could be a location or something like that. And then like follow the markers could be leading us to the library and there's probably like a restricted section or something like that. Well, after it says there are four of me and only one is where I am held that pointed us to the library. So I feel like the next half is going to explain. How many sections of the library are there? From what you can tell, the library is just like one giant, like almost circle. Circle. OK.
00:40:18
Speaker
um
00:40:21
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Ina is at the map. She's going to use her military lore again to look over the map and ah and observe it. OK. OK, so I just looked at the map. There are four Izmin libraries. Yes. Kyle is now solving the riddle. Yeah. Did you already get to this point? Yes, Kyle, we have a library. We are at the library right now. I know. I'm like, I don't know if this is the right one. Oh, are you drunk? I'm tired. I just woke up. Ina is going to look at the map. And then while she's doing this, Murph can do what Murph would like to do. I don't want to take control. I don't know. This is your thing this episode. Murph is just here. Yeah, but I'm not the character to solve riddles. Neither am I.
00:41:17
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Okay, next time I level up, obviously I'm gonna have to put it in an intelligence because your baby girl has been doing a lot with brain power the past couple of episodes. I'm also distracted by my cat because she can't, she tries to bunny kick, but she can't. Okay, holy shit. She kinda does like a little. I just earned myself a stunt point. I got two sixes and a five and I earned a stunt point. Okay. So I got 12 of five, that's 17 plus military lore, 19 total. Fucking makes sense.
00:41:54
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So um what were you trying to do with this role? Exactly. I'm observing the map and seeing if it's different because I would imagine up in the Citadel. The difference is this is the entire world of Zinalo and the one inside the integrity shop was only Arona. Yes. So I imagine Ina has also extensively like studied maps of the world being with Alcindor. And so she is looking for differences in the map, because I imagine Alcindor's maps are constantly updating. Like I imagine that might be the one difference maybe with Izmin. Like Alcindor's is ah constantly updating in ways where it's like, okay, like if there are there any wars that are going on that Ina would know about? Not currently. But I feel like
00:42:50
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Alzheimer's are constantly updating and maybe like his maps are maybe like a few like a like maybe like his maps are maybe like a few minutes behind his means like whatever his map gets updated it's because hers have already updated you know what I mean and so I imagine these look like the most up-to-date okay so she is looking for something that I don't know, like I guess it depends upon what you decide as the DM, ah but have it coincide with the riddle as she's observing. I guess that's what she's looking for. Because this is the world of Zinal and not just Arona, there's a lot more to look at, which means you're seeing more of Astridale than just Arona, meaning you sort of went out rather than back in.
00:43:47
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Um, yeah, but it's it's more zoomed out. So you're not really like seeing anything that would help you within this map because it's more of the world of Zinal rather than. Okay, so then can I notice anything new compared to the maps that I saw before I left? You know, what does it feel to take a look to? Because I think Murphy's been like just like observing, um you know, this whole time. Yeah. And like are there any changes? And I feel like once you notice, she steps up to the map like that instantaneous like ramrod, straight back thing happens to her again.
00:44:29
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um The wayfinder who is currently studying the map turns to you, Murph, when you walk up and goes How can I help you? Hello. um We're looking for a map. Nothing specific, because I don't know.
00:44:50
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Well, um, she points to the map that is in the center of you. And it's like, this is all of Zenol. It gets updated whenever anything changes within Zenol through, um, the crystal technology. There it's at the bottom of the table. Um, it's through crystal hologram. That's why everything is like moved up and you can like see different, Mountain paths and everything. Are you looking for anything specific? I mean, yeah. But has anything like big changed recently? Um, meaning, name I don't know, just like has the map updated recently to like a significant degree degree or even like a mildly significant degree? No, nothing's really
00:45:43
Speaker
changed from what I can tell. um From Ina's role, could she tell? No, okay she's going to say there's been some weather that's been acting up around the McCarty Isles that might like shift some things later. But as of right now, no, there isn't anything really crazy. What do you know about the weather just kind of off topic? Also, I was about to I was about to ask like where like do we have like locations of where all the storms were the really weird storms?
00:46:23
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A lot of them have been yeah going off the coast of, uh, like, Astrodale going through Arona to, uh, let me see, going through Arona to, I believe the city of Cillestia. And what was the name of those aisles that they mentioned? The McCarty aisles. McCarty aisles. Like, Bacardi. Yeah, like Bacardi. Correct. ha Because alcohol. Mm-hmm. So whether near the... I totally drink the alcohol. Okay, Ena.
00:47:05
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um I don't know, I guess I will study the map to see if there's anything new that I haven't seen before. Okay, I'm pulling up the map of Zinal right now. It's the one that looks like I was on acid when I made it, but it is a map of Zinal, so... OK. Give it a second to figure it shit out. For some reason. Roll 20. I have to stop Murphy. from I'm throwing on roll 20. It's just taking a moment on roll 20 to show up.
00:47:41
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So, yeah, um the ah yeah, so she's just like, yeah, there's some weird things happening in the like the McCarty Isles, but That's about it. Nothing's really shifted. That's what you're asking. Are you looking for like a project? Are you what is this for exactly? OK, so Ina knows that the things led up to the table, right? She knows this. She is now going to look under the table and under the map.
00:48:22
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You see several crystals, a table that are producing magical energy to make the map work.
00:48:37
Speaker
Sorry, this map is taking forever. No, no, you're good. Why do I feel like it's like. Because the markers led up to this spot. Like I like the thought of what you said earlier, Kyle, about it possibly being like a secret. Well, because like the whole thing with the mirror is that nobody's supposed to talk about it, right? Yeah, but this is the riddle for us to find the token, not to find the riddle. Or to solve the mirror. That's still part of my point, though, is because nobody's supposed to know about the mirror. Nobody's supposed to talk about the mirror. The tokens are supposed to lead to the mirror, but if you're not supposed to look or talk to the mirror, then everything around this thing is a secret.
00:49:21
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and
00:49:24
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so
00:49:28
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i feel I put it in Discord just because it's taking forever in Roll20s. Has Murph physically said out loud like something to do with a secret or has it just been Kyle? No, Murph has said nothing about what to do with the secret and she's asking what exactly he's like asking about. Like, is he asking about four? Was he asking about four? Cause my brain just thought of something for like a hot second. Okay. But Ina doesn't know that it's possibly maybe something to do with the secret, which led me to this area of this train of thought. So I can't say shit. So
00:50:15
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I think what Murphy's going to say is going to be something on the lines of, um, I'm trying to do like historical research on like the gods and like relics and stuff like that for a college, you know, college, like, yeah, college project. Yeah. So, um, do you have like a historical second section or even like, uh, I mean, the entire thing's kind of a historical section if you get what I'm talking about. You got me on that one. Do you have anything on like relics of the gods? Relics should be in. The.
00:51:01
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should be on the section on the left. Um, is there any specific God that you're trying to look for relics for or is that this mirror is like an is mean mirror, right? No, it's just for people to travel between worlds. It could be used for anybody. It's not tied to a specific God. That's what Alan said. It's just the way it's rumored to have been able to go like how people would travel from the citadel to zenal that was the entire point of the mirror right now you're looking too far into the future kyle i'm telling you that right now you need me thinking about the token not the mirror i know but aren't the tokens also relics the tokens are relics we don't know what the token means
00:51:54
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yeah i don't know that something I guess what my train of thought is, if I can find any in like books on the mirror itself, maybe I can like do backwards research where I start at the end and work to the beginning, if that makes sense. Yeah, you can go and try and find books on the mirror.
00:52:17
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I guess ah Murphy's also going to ask, do you so like I like going above and beyond. Do you have like a restricted section by chance? um I mean, even if we did, why would I tell you about it? I don't know. Maybe because you're nice and you want to help me get like a really good grade on this project. She closes her book and says, since when have way finders ever been known to be? And she put she like quotes her fingers. Nice. That's fair. And I never met is mean, but I bet you she puts the mean in her name, huh? I mean, I haven't met any one of us, which I would be considered people, people like we don't we're not.
00:53:05
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I don't know you like that and you don't know me like that. So what makes you think I'm going to, you didn't even tell me your name. I didn't tell you my name. Why would I tell you if we had a restriction section? breath This conversation, I just want to ask a real question, a real quick question. What was just the last marker symbol before it stopped at the table? Owl.
00:53:32
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Ina, in the middle of this conversation, randomly now decides to turn and goes, why are your books on birds?
00:53:44
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Specifically owls. Murphy steps back. Ina, like big, big tough Ina is now coming in. Scary guard dog privilege now. Um.
00:54:00
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like specifically So is like reading a tone behind you guys, by the way, like she's just like reading shit and just like trying to figure other things out in her head. um She goes, um they're over on the right. They're different. birds for different regions if that's what you're looking for. I'm looking specifically and is it like what type of owl specifically or is it just all owls? All owls. All owls. We're just gonna like crack a joke and do an elbow jab at the person and just be like you don't have a restricted section on birds do you? They hate you.
00:54:41
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Murphy is quietly cracking up in the back. You know, does like a quick little like, um thank you for your time, a follower of Ismene, go in peace, may the way be with you, and then awkwardly like walks over towards the books on owls. Okay, now keep in mind within every section there are about five to six wayfinders. Okay. Ina is looking at the floor again. Are there any markers on the floor yeah in the owl section? Damn it. Fuck. Okay. Ina is now. Can I do like a perception check to see if there's any like, I don't know, books that are specific to, or like books that stand out. All owls come out in the nighttime, right? yeah
00:55:40
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in the dark. yeah me perception on check nursing thank you correct It's a good thing I'm pretty good at perception. yeah ah Perception seeing right? The rigs that we'll try to do. I feel like that's a 15. All books from your vantage point right now look like books. OK, Kyle, does this part keep watch of the rigs that will try and hold you? Does that sound like possibly like a trap? Probably. I mean, that's what I assumed it was from the beginning. OK, I'm assuming so and that part is literal. In the dark, I am kept. Follow my markers. OK, so what was the specific order again of the markers like when we first came up out of the beach?
00:56:30
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Like was there a specific way? Going toward the library or going away from the court? Going towards the library, like what was the pattern? Chrysanthemum, sextant, compass, owl. Okay, you would typically use a sextant in the dark. What was the third one again? Chrysanthemum. Sextant. Yeah, I got those two, third one. alcohol Compass and then owl.
00:57:07
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Sextants you would typically use. to chart the stars and that's how you would navigate, right? That's what a sextant is used for, correct? Okay, so in the dark. Maybe it's in the night sky and the stars lead the way. In the dark I am kept. Akatar. Yeah, right. In the dark I am kept.
00:57:32
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I feel like that's gonna tell us where it is. In the dark I am kept, follow my markers. It led to a bird, which was the last one and that wasn't it. After the owl comes the compass, right? Which is the map.
00:57:52
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And there was nothing going past the table for the markers, right? Okay. And it led like, essentially like imagine like, Hold on, like, God, fuck, I don't have anything to, like, draw. Hold on. I'm going to go over to the map. OK, so I'm going to draw really quick. So how dare imagine this is the entrance so library, right? And then the markers just led straight. And then the table. Right. I can't see where you're drawing. yeah I'm drawing underneath of the map. Oh, oh, fuck.
00:58:30
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I'm not doing that if she, okay. I thought you were gonna draw on the map. I'm drawing underneath of it. But essentially that's how it was, right? Like here's the entrance, like entrance. And then it just went straight and then table. Yeah. Okay. Oh God, I feel like we're so close. I keep seeing Ally make faces and she's like, they're on it. They're fucking on it, but they're headed in the wrong direction. The one right before the- So we can't use fucking video cams. We started it during this season and was like, fuck. I'm on the poker maze. Now the one immediately after was chrysanthemum, but you use a sextant to navigate in the dark. In the dark is where, in the dark I am kept. Follow my markers.
00:59:24
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and the So there has to be a section on sextants and navigation because there's literally a section for everything. And which direction did the weight for the owls go from the table? It was to the right, right? It was this way. It was straight on. It was straight on? Okay, hold on. Let me delete. Let me delete. Let me di delete. OK, so the section for the owls was straight, straight ahead from the table. So the owl was right here at the base of the table. Oh, so from where we came in. That's where the owl came in. But where were the owl section?
01:00:12
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That way. That way. OK, so I was right. um Ina then goes back to the table and then asks the mean lady, ah the mean person. ah a I think they're mean. I think they just don't like Murphy. And then comes back and goes, thank you very much for helping me solve my owl problem. Can you please tell me? And then she looks down at the floor again and then she goes, can you tell me where the chrysanthemum section is?
01:00:45
Speaker
Is there something you just want to ask me? like I'm asking you where your chrysanthemum section is. We don't have a plant section that's up in the northern, ah the like northeast library. OK, do you have a section on sextants?
01:01:07
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That's in the south. That's in the east. The Western Library, the Southwestern Library. Yeah, that's in the Southwest Library. Do you have a section on compasses?
01:01:26
Speaker
Is there something you want to ask me? I feel like if I ask you, you're going to ask questions and I have a hard time with what is called lying.
01:01:42
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Solas looks up at that and goes, I'm sorry. She's just like, we're currently looking for something. I've been in my own book. I'm so sorry. Hi, I'm Solas. And she like takes her hands and goes, Amory. Amory. Amory or Amory? A-E-R-Y. Yeah, so like Emory, but with AIM, with AI in the front. I was going to say like Avery, but with an M. Yeah. And an I. Emory. Emory is a um sort of tall, lengthy, has red, curly hair. Human.
01:02:39
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um They have cute little freckles that like spot their that spot their cheeks. They are a little bit on the ah curvier side and they look at Solus and she just goes, you're a follower of Absalom and Solus goes, and you're a follower of Izmin. Wonderful to meet you. So sorry about my friends here. ah we are working on a project and it does have to do more is mean I don't know why they're being so cryptic about it. who She goes, mm hmm. She goes, we're just is there anything like different about this library? Is it like is there like something secretive within it that's different from the like other libraries? And she goes,
01:03:36
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I mean, technically there is seeing as we're the only library that has the ah holographic crystal map and she goes, okay, ah that's great. That's wonderful. Thank you so much for letting us know that because yeah. ah or anything particular you're looking for. um Well, there's these wonderful things called um the deities and gods. Goddesses, all, you know, all of them, all of their tokens. And we were just wondering if there was like something to do with that. And we figured going to a place of Izmin where its discovery and knowledge about all things would be the best place to do it. And seeing as
01:04:20
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all of Izmin's markers really locate to this library, we thought this would be the best place to start rather than the other three. And she goes, Hmm, okay.
01:04:34
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And she like looks at both, both you know, both Ena and Murph, and she goes, Okay, I give a little wave.
01:04:44
Speaker
I think when Ina hears about the, like, hearing Solas ask, like, is there anything different? And they said the map, realizing that the map lights up. She then asks the question, can the map be turned off? I mean, yeah, you just have to sort of take off one of the crystals and then like replace it kind of like a battery. Is there also a way because there's like lights on in this place, right? And there's like windows and shit. It's a lot of natural light currently. Is there also a way to cover up all the windows with curtains or possibly? You're noticing big curtains everywhere. Yeah, they're like big gold curtains. Do you mind if I do something real quick? It depends on what you are going to do.
01:05:37
Speaker
I would like to turn off the map and I would also like to close all the curtains and see if anything in particular glows.
01:05:50
Speaker
I just can't do it without permission because you seem to be the person who's in charge. I mean, I'm hardly in charge. I'm more of a just like person that watches over things. But you're in charge of and then she points at the map, the map. And like, that's the map. I'm one of the watchers of the map. But I wouldn't say I'm in charge of
01:06:22
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Ena is mean children do not talk. Ena then goes, do I please have your permission? And she yells it a little too loud. Like she just wants this conversation to stop.
01:06:47
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Amory rolls her eyes and goes, let me call someone. And you see her like pick up a like walkie talkie looking device. And it's just like,
01:07:01
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Sheldon, I need you at the sextant. This turns off.
01:07:09
Speaker
All of a sudden, this like this cutie cutie-looking dwarf motherfucker comes down. How cute we talking here, baby girl. He has rosy little cheeks, and like the biggest beard in his beard has like these little glittery things that look like stars. And he has bushy eyebrows. He's walking in at a very stocky four foot two. and ah he He has, like, the full-on suspenders on with, like, the cargo pants and everything. His button-up shirt's a little bit unbuttoned, so you see, like, the little bit of chest hair, and he goes, ha! How can I help you? Yeah, nope. Never mind. Nope. she I was like, ew. Me in particular, I was like, ew. Nope. That boy is nope. I guess I'll walk up, since Murphy hasn't done a lot this episode.
01:08:10
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it's He's just they they've just been kind of like, you know Hi, um hi my name is Murphy we're your students and we're trying to do a project based on the tokens of the gods and we need information and we're trying to see if we can like sort of fiddle with the map in a way that won't like break it but we need to we We want to like try to figure something out. Ina is inching towards ah the windows. She is going to be, as soon as they give permission, she will close all the curtains. I mean, are you going to open them right back up, right? Well, yeah, we're going to open the windows back up. We're going to put the you know map back how it was.
01:09:00
Speaker
Yeah, no problem. I just need to warn everybody in the actual library who is looking at books currently right now, because that would be a real bummer if they are reading something and then suddenly it all gets dark, you get it? Yeah, no, that's fair. Okay. ah And Amory just like has her arms crossed and he's just looking at Sheldon and Sheldon looks at her and goes, Amory, go and do that announcement that we're closing the windows. Turn on the sextant. And she's like- what now? Sextant.
01:09:34
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ha I did it!
01:09:42
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So the map is not turned on right now. Got it. So ah she rolls her eyes and makes the announcement. Hello, everybody in the Izmin Southern Library. This is a warning that the sextant is about to be turned on so all lights will be turned off for the duration of the next 10 minutes. ah Please put your markers in your books or check out and go outside with your books until the time is up. Thank you.
01:10:18
Speaker
and That's when he gives all of the other wayfinders in the library like a thumbs up and all of them close the blinds to which everything gets completely dark. and then see a little You see little stars start to appear within the library. I feel like it had to do with stars. I don't know why. See, I knew it had to deal with something. Didn't say that it had to do something with the dark and that it was going to be like that Avatar episode?
01:10:57
Speaker
So Murphy's going to go over and turn the map on. I need you guys to give me a perception while everything's dark. OK, so it's just so we don't like bust our ass trying to walk through the dark. Well, I think it's like us looking for the thing. Like if anything in particular stands out, I mean, regular perception or seeing, seeing for you, you know, basic perception for me. it So 17 for me. And, you know, what did you get? I rolled decently well. That's a five, a five, that's a 10, four, 14 plus one 15. Descent.
01:11:36
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Let's see how well. He knows what we're pretty damn good this episode, if I might say. So am I. Turns out we don't roll well during battles, we roll well in puzzles.
01:11:54
Speaker
I do feel that the next time we level up, I am going to be increasing my intelligence. I've been using a lot of intelligence this game, like the Pascal. OK, so. So. um Yes, all the stars start appearing and the entirety of. The. Of the library looks like a night sky, but Murph and Ina.
Discovering the Glowing Stone and Negotiation
01:12:25
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You notice something to your periphery, which is also glowing.
01:12:33
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And it's not a star, per se. It's a stone on the floor. I kind of turned to Sheldon and I'm like, how long has that been there? Oh, that. Yeah, like that's just the way to tunnels.
01:12:54
Speaker
Eena then gets this crazed look in her eye and she whispers to herself again, I am book smart. And she starts vibrating and starts running towards the stone. I think that's our cue. This is exactly what we needed. Thank you. Oh, okay. Yeah, no problem. Is there anything else I can help you? Why is she running toward the floor right there? Okay, so she- She's excited. We were essentially given this like riddle by our professor. Ina's doing her happy dance on top of the stone and then she turns and she goes, you don't happen to know anything about rigs in the tunnels, do you?
01:13:45
Speaker
I mean, first, nobody can really get into the tunnels without a wayfinder to let them in. So ah memory I Emery. I go back to my my previous statement. We were given a riddle, and that's the project. We have to solve it. It involves finding stuff, and we need to get in the tunnels. Your riddle for your class involves finding ancient relics? It's a history class. Our professor's pretty eccentric. I can't explain it beyond that. I want Emery to come with us. um So. Emery.
01:14:26
Speaker
Amory, sorry. I thought of Amory for a second, because my one character in The Sims is called Amory. I don't think Murphy should be the one to ask Amory to come. I know. That's why Ina's going to be the one that goes... If you got somebody needs to come, you just need like a key to get down there. Okay. So Ina then turns. to Amory and after like doing like do do do do do and then here's needs a key needs a wayfinder turns and then go and then straightens herself up and goes and walks up to Amory and then says I would really appreciated my newfound friend Amory for you to allow us entrance into your tunnels. And why would I do that?
01:15:16
Speaker
I have money to give you if that would help. You are a wayfinder of Izmin, correct? yeah I pride myself on being one, yeah. You pride yourself in knowing knowledge and information? Yeah. In exchange, I will give you one piece of information.
01:15:42
Speaker
I know no one else knows. I doubt you have anything that I would actually want. I wouldn't discount so quickly. We've we' we've been around the block. We know a couple of things. Ina then like puts out her hand and she goes, if you shake on it, I will tell you something that no one else knows and that I think you'll find is what I like to call the tits.
01:16:12
Speaker
You have to give me context of this information or else I am not doing anything because what if it's just like a stupid factoid about you? I don't want to know anything about you.
01:16:26
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OK, asking player asking DM. If I were to divulge. Information like what information could I give about the Citadel specifically? I think that's up to you. You know what I mean? I feel like that would be up to Ena, yeah. No, I'm sitting there and I'm thinking, what would a wayfinder of Izmin not know about the Citadel? Picture them as mortals who've never been to the Citadel. There's a godly pretzel stand, man, that goes around the Citadel.
01:17:07
Speaker
<unk> Okay. And Amory is like tall, woman, curvy, red hair, human. Yeah. Okay. Merida, but curvy. Yeah. Merida, but curvy. Same height as Ina or smaller than Ina? ah How tall is Ina again? Ina's like fucking six-two, baby. Oh, smaller than Ina. Oh, she she's five-eleven. She's five-eleven. She's a big girl. Yeah, she's like five. She's like five-six. Okay, so then Ina then bends down and still with her hand out, bends down and whispers in Amory's ear, I have information about the Citadel. And then bends back up.
01:17:56
Speaker
If it's something everybody knows, I'm going to create a trap to kill you. Okay. ah What would be something that you wouldn't know? What would be something that you wouldn't know? I think there's something from specifically Elsin there's domain. Okay. um Cause do they know, well like would Ina be aware to a point of how much the mortals know about the gods? I mean, yeah, you would. They know that there's different domains within the Citadel. They know that there's different gods. They know that there's different children of each god. Do they know that Alcindor changes age and shit? Yes, that is normal lore. Okay. um I'm going to scroll down to Alcindor,
01:18:52
Speaker
that cheeky bastard. What if it's like a social thing, like, you know, the fact that Alcindor and Robantheus are trying to look for successors? Maybe that's what I tell her. That, that like, starts the... Well, Alcindor's not looking for a successor. Alcindor likes power for himself, baby. But I i mean, it could be if Murphy is okay. Like, obviously, like... I'm thinking of one of two things. Either one, do they know that Robanthus is trying to find a successor? Is that like well-known knowledge? No. Nobody in the Citadel knew. Nobody in the Citadel knew? I thought it was in the Citadel knew. It was small circles that knew. Yeah, it was small. It was more within the group of the gods and Robanthus' children where that was known. But I feel that Eno would not want to share information about Murphy.
01:19:49
Speaker
Well, so Murphy is, Murphy's there and like knows what Eda's trying to do, right? Yeah, but I think, okay, so this is what I'm thinking. So I'll pull Eda aside. I wanted to either say that two of the children of the Citadel are missing or that information about Robantis. So then she then bends up and then she goes, is it enough? And she goes, will you shake on it? Like? I'm real quick. She's talking to Amory. I'm gonna pull Ina aside. But she's gonna ask after she's confirmed, like, are you gonna do this for me if I give you this information? Yeah, real quick. That's what she wants to do. Murphy wants to pull Ina aside and just be like... She wants to confirm if she wants the information or not, and then she's gonna ask for permission. Okay.
01:20:41
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Um...
01:20:45
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Amory rolls her eyes and just sort of takes Ina's hand. She goes, okay, give me one second, and then turns, and then goes over towards Murphy, and she goes, okay, I just, and to Murphy and Solas, and goes, okay, I just made a deal, she, Amory, will let us into the tunnels. If we give her a piece of information, I told her I'd tell her something about the Citadel, and then I look over at Murphy, and I go, not everybody knows about Robantheus, a wanting a, heh heh, a. She's seeking. You can say the words. I know. And she's like whispering. She's not everybody knows it. No, nobody knows that. But I don't think it'll hurt that mournals know, because what are they going to do with the information other than spray it? Are you okay with me telling that information?
01:21:35
Speaker
Don't say that I'm supposed to be the successor, but like. No, I would never. Yeah, just like that. You can't, I'll leave it to your judgment if you want to talk about the two missing children or if you want to talk about the successors. Which one do you think would get us more leverage and information? Because we might need to use her again in the future. Because if I'm being quite honest, Sheldon gives me the heebie jeebies. Now I like Sheldon. And then I look over at Sheldon. Is he doing anything weird? He's staring off at the stars, going, wow, so weird. Weird to you, normal to me. um I don't care. would You use your discretion if you want to talk about the gods if or if you want to talk about the missing kids up to you. OK. Ina then turns and walks back and she goes, OK, I have two pieces of information. If I tell you one, will I be able to save the other for a later time to use as a favor of my liking?
01:22:36
Speaker
Give me the information now. I let you into the tunnels. Would you like both pieces of information is what I'm asking. I mean, sure, I'll take whatever information. Well, I'll tell you one piece of information first and then we'll see if that's enough. Murphy's gonna walk up and be like, how about you tell him the one thing and then I tell him about the thing that, you know, is more. No, no, no, because if we need to use her later, I want to make sure we don't give up all the pieces of information that we have.
01:23:08
Speaker
Just starting to turn into Johnny Depp. Just do the one thing about ah just tell her about the kids. Just make it easy. So then she leans down and she goes to you promise that you will not tell anybody this new piece of information that I am about to tell you. Sure. Then she leans in real close and she goes God, children are missing from the Citadel and they're walking on, Cenol. And then leans back up.
01:23:43
Speaker
But which children? Because there are children that are allowed to just come down here. I've heard it's a rumor. And then she leans in again and she goes, the child of Alcinda and the heir for Robantheus.
01:24:06
Speaker
So she kind of hints at the new piece, the other piece of information because she said the child of Alcindor and the heir of Romandus. And she goes heir, like she's confused about that one. And then, you know, then says again, if you agree to another favor in the future, I will explain the other part of that information. Oh, OK. Because Eda's books smart. She's she knows how to get stuff out of people.
01:24:43
Speaker
ah She goes.
Journey into the Tunnels
01:24:46
Speaker
Fine. um Let's go. And she run. She goes over to the stone. This map, by the way, is still not going on to roll 20. I've been trying for the last like 20 minutes, guys. The map is and all. Yeah. Is it like hiding underneath of the other map? No, it's like not even uploaded. I like looked in my recent uploads and everything and it's not even there. And I've tried uploading it like four times now. So I'm probably going to have to exit out and come back in and try again. To the secret tunnel! Secret tunnel. Secret tunnel. Through the library. Secret, secret, secret, secret tunnel. Are you proud of me, Ally? Yeah.
01:25:34
Speaker
So she puts in a sex. She puts in her, not her sex, bitch. She puts in a sex. puts in the sex. You see you pull out her ah owl pin that she has on her chest and she puts it directly into the center of the glowing stone and the moment she does that very narrow stairs start going down and she goes
01:26:09
Speaker
Don't get lost. And she turns away as you guys descend. OK, we don't have any. It's like dark, dark in there, right? We have right now. You're right. How many torches? We have our phones that have flashlights. I don't have a phone. It's because we can't trust you. You guys aren't fucking letting me speak, so you guys will fucking never know, I guess. Sorry. Sorry. Um, there are glowing crystals on the wall for as of right now. So they're, they're like going down into the depths.
01:26:48
Speaker
Okay. Uh, I feel, do we, who wants to be in the lead? I'll go first. Why not? Okay. I got a decent perception. I can yeah about say you have ah you have the seeing perception. I have the hearing perception. So just so you guys know, so you understand the depth of this place, you know, when it's really, really hot. And it just you it feels really hot outside because it's the summer, but then you go underground and it starts getting cooler and cooler and cooler the farther down you get. Yes. You start getting that sensation. Oh, thank God. At least one of my characters is cold right now. You're calling yourself a character?
01:27:40
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. What are your stats?
01:27:46
Speaker
but thank Dumb fuckery. Yeah. Buffoonery. So I imagine this will be the walking order. I imagine Murphy Solis Ina.
01:28:04
Speaker
Murphy's going to do a seeing perception check to see if there's anything that is potentially dangerous. ah Can I give him like an advantage of some sort by reminding him about the rigs?
01:28:19
Speaker
Sure, but like that there's potentially traps. So with the glowing crystals in the wall, you notice that though you guys are going underground, However, all the walls still seem to be like marble and pristine like they were in the library.
01:28:40
Speaker
OK, I want to do a scene check. I think the biggest reason why I want to do the scene check is I want to see if I can figure out like how old this place is. There's probably an ancient. Yeah. Or would that be? I would do a scene check to check for traps, baby boy. Intelligence. Yeah, I'm going to check for traps, I guess.
01:29:04
Speaker
Whoo, that's a 13. There's nothing right now. It seems pretty clear. Can I do an intelligence check to see if I can like learn anything about this tunnel? Sure. That's a 10. it's a tunnel Right now, it just seems like stairs going down to the tunnels. You don't think this is the actual tunnels. Murphy turns around to the other two and is like, guys, I think this is just stairs going down to the tunnel.
01:29:40
Speaker
This isn't the actual tunnel. ah but They start laughing and then walk down the stairs. After another about a minute or two walk. You know, you know, though, like then leans in and tells Willis, I think he needs to get more books, Ma. I didn't get that I was being sarcastic. no
01:30:12
Speaker
So. After about a minute or two of you guys walking, you end up in this very open space that the moment you walk in, fires start lighting up around you within this open space. Okay, so fires open up in this space and then something happened on the map. What the fuck is this? You see three spaces. I can't tell what this is. It just looks like white marble and then brown spot, brown spot, brown spot. Those brown spots are three tunnels. OK, so where are we? In the marble, I assume. Yep. So for everybody who cannot see it.
01:31:01
Speaker
I just put up a map on Roll20 for my players because I don't know if you guys remember, but Zoe said, Ali, can you show stuff so I actually know what the fuck is going on? Because it's hard for me to see in my head. No problem, Zoe. I got it for you. So I've created a map. I will show you guys this map once they are done navigating this fun little tunnel hell that I've created for them. But as of right now, they are seeing three passageways through this entire area.
01:31:36
Speaker
And that is where we'll end it. It's amazing. Oh my God, I love this. See?
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Speaker
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01:33:15
Speaker
our cinders are constantly updating and maybe like yeah his maps are maybe like right you like a foothold like maybe like his maps are maybe like a few minutes behind his means. like