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Hermit Chronicles Ep. 13 - Finale Part 1
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Reed Deer and Will-I are left out of missions and now need to save Caesar once again. With the help of Pixie, Clive and " The Beak" this is the start of the end.
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Transcript
00:00:00
Speaker
I'll be right back.
Introduction and Anticipation
00:00:41
Speaker
Hey everyone, welcome back to Rolling Cross the Pond. I was like, am I Animal Kingdom? Am I Hermit Chronicles? What am I right now? Welcome back to Rolling Cross the Pond, because I didn't know I am. And it's not me, it's us. But yeah, welcome back. Oh, don't push off. Push off. I'm waving. Oh, that's a sad wave.
00:01:05
Speaker
It was such a sad wave that I didn't even know he was waving. I'm your GM Jesse and I had different plans for tonight but we're gonna get to this and we're gonna have a lot of fun and it's gonna be chaotic and I'm gonna love it.
Finale Reflections and Time Travel
00:01:20
Speaker
Alright, I'm Isaac. I had no plans today.
00:01:23
Speaker
It's except trying to throw the GMs and curveballs. I'll be playing your lovable Willy. I'm Luke and I had way, way, way too many plants. All of which were too much of a curveball. But I digress. Hello.
00:01:38
Speaker
We're doing Hermit Chronicles today. And today's not the final episode, but it is the beginning of the finale. We are as of right now, this is going to be like the final few episodes of Hermit Chronicles. As far as we know, it might pick up later. Who knows?
00:01:57
Speaker
but yeah i really hope it kind of all comes together and the yeah the the whole thing it's just been a lot of fun and we've loved willie and readers and all the rest of them and i've loved caesar and all that but
00:02:12
Speaker
yeah you know things have to come to an end this wasn't a full-on campaign that we're gonna last for 30-40 episodes we already knew that coming into this but it's been a lot of fun and i can't wait to see what happens so you know like i said this is not the last episodes we're not saying goodbye just yet we might see them in a week's time two weeks time who knows but yeah really yeah enjoy this time and and let's let's see how our spies end up hashtag six seasons in a movie
00:02:42
Speaker
Yes. So, does anybody remember what happened last time? Last time. Hermit Chronicles.
00:02:52
Speaker
No, I can't do it. But last time we, these guys had found, oh, I don't even know how far I want to go back. Basically, they went back in time and then they found out King Elrass was king of everything and it was messing with their minds a bit. They couldn't really focus on everything. So piecing, piecing things together and creating a new team with Caesar to create, collect this one artifact because they need to collect that one and a different one.
00:03:20
Speaker
meeting their parent reader and their aunt for Willy and others that were a part of the team as well as they met the birds that they will meet in the future and they met so much other things and a lot of things unfolded there they were able to get the coin away from the king
00:03:40
Speaker
and in that there was a cataclysmic event that caused them to go into a TV reality and then the TVA reality also caused them to when they woke found readers parents to have not woken and but the being captured and then they entered the present time they found
Zombie Outbreak and Mystery Box
00:04:06
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that
00:04:06
Speaker
Zombie outbreak happened and there was a desecration on readers old home the sign of that and Willie broke that and Then they went on their own way and at the end Willie did end up finding the case or a little a little box that was at the bottom of the well and it's brought it out and That is the end of that time bringing it all back
00:04:32
Speaker
After all that, what is Willy doing after this amount of time? Let's say a bit more time has passed. I would say probably another three, four months, maybe even four and a half, five months have passed since your last communication with Caesar. And it's probably the longest you've had in between.
00:04:58
Speaker
I would say that at first Willie was looking forward to the downtime, spending time with his family and stuff like that. But now as time has passed, he's kind of become like, I guess like a little depressed, like he's just like, oh, I crave that sense of adventure and like going out and doing something. So he's just kind of like, it's kind of like
00:05:21
Speaker
in autopilot mode. Sure, sure. Like yeah, he like hangs out with his family and like everything's going good but like the back of his head he's like kind of wish I was still out there. Has he tried to get in contact with Caesar at all or any of the any of the other people? He does not know how. Sure.
00:05:40
Speaker
Since it's always been him at his village, the bird comes, you know, bag overhead. Like, he's always known that motion. And it's kind of like, it's kind of like a little bit of self-doubt, like, oh, am I, like, do they not need me anymore? Or like, he'll do his work and then just kind of like sit and stare at the direction where the bird usually comes from and be like, any second now,
New Lives and Familiar Birds
00:06:06
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Clive.
00:06:06
Speaker
you know maybe he'll even come visit have some of my mom's mushrooms again or like it's just kind of like sitting and waiting thanks for sure sure what's Reeder been up to this time Reeder is practicing like now that he knows where he got the book from trying to practice lumberjack work and just seeing if he can hunt trees it's actually kind of it's actually kind of fun
00:06:34
Speaker
How is Reeder feeling during this time? Because like I said, it's been a few months, more months than you've ever been to not do those things. He loves it, but he's finding it very hard to not have to carry it, bring it home. I wish he had some kind of wagon or something to help bring it. Now you're saying bring it home. Where is Reeder's home? Where did he settle? His home is made out of
00:07:03
Speaker
the wood he's cutting down now. Oh, okay. So as, as he's learning to cut the wood down, he's making this whole, I really had a home. So I was like, I guess I'll make it or something just in the woods. Okay. Wow. That's exciting. That's good. Yeah. I want you both to roll perception. Does, does Isaac get advantage?
00:07:24
Speaker
Cause he's waiting. I think Isaac gets advantage anyway. Or is it you that gets advantage for perception? Yeah, I get, I get advantage on like the, anything that's like, like hearing and seeing. 19. Uh, 12. Willie, you're kind of just staring off into the distance, you're hoping Clive comes. Reader, you see a rooster. Is that a rooster? A rooster you know. A rooster you- Hey roosters, do you know?
00:07:53
Speaker
You know it's the beak. You see the beak, stumbling into your forest area. Not necessarily looking for you or looking for anybody, but looking to shovel, looking quite panicked, looking concerned. And Willie, you see, you see Pixie, the bluebird, flying into your cave. And of course I would know Pixie. Yeah, yeah, of course.
00:08:17
Speaker
and Pixie just flew past me into the cave. Or is flying into the cave to CB.
Urgent Mission and Injured Arrival
00:08:22
Speaker
Yeah, she's flying in, but she's like in like a pack. All right. At first I want to be like, oh, I wasn't waiting for this, like just mushroom farming. But then like I do, do like the second look back and I'm like, oh, this isn't my bird. Something's up. So I want to like turn full attention. Okay.
00:08:44
Speaker
um and you just uh really really really yes and immediately she flies to you you see this blue bird singed along its like face one of its wings is quite damaged and you you just well we you need to you need to come with me when we need to go we need to
00:09:09
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, you look so hurt. Can I help with that at all? No, no, just wait. I mean, can you can you help? I like look back at my family.
00:09:18
Speaker
like anybody good with burns you're welcome to roll the medicine check 22 22 okay yeah i feel like i'm i'm like the families in like my big fat greek wedding where it's like windex does everything i'm like mushrooms just mushrooms and so you immediately do that and pixie gaze uh i don't know d6 let's say you get
00:09:43
Speaker
five extra hit points and the burns look a little bit like they're they're doing not great but they're they're doing okay and she's just like but we need to go we need to go all right let me grab my stuff and let's go okay and you guys take off and do you want to do you want to follow me i always always use the guide reader but he yeah
00:10:08
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, I'll follow. OK. And you can see off. Reader, you. Yeah, you see the beak. What do you what do you do? Yeah, I'll start with like putting the the axe in the tree as hard as I can, just so that it's not a weapon that so that we both know that it's a weapon that we cannot either of us use. And the intimidation. No, no, no, just the opposite.
00:10:35
Speaker
where I was like, I'm not gonna use this. Okay, persuasion? Yeah, I guess. Or performance? Antideception. Which is persuasion. So that's 17. But should I also do like in athletics to make sure that I get it? Sure, why not?
00:10:50
Speaker
If you get it in fully, I'll give you advantage. The 14. Yeah, it's a decent hit, but not like... He knows that you swung an axe into there and he understands that you're putting it there to show that, okay, that's what's going on. Like, let's talk this out. I'm not gonna use this weapon. And he's like, oh, Rita! Rita! Oh, oh, what are you doing? What are you...
00:11:18
Speaker
you what sorry go ahead go ahead you first my oh wait my team we were we were it's so good to see your face I haven't we haven't seen you in hello did you miss me oh
00:11:34
Speaker
Sorry, that wasn't like a vague thing. That was like a curious, I thought we had like a front of me thing going on. I don't hate you at all. I just, I thought you disliked me. I mean, you take my money away. So I don't fully like you, but, but, you know, our back and forth has always been, you know, something to look forward to, I guess. Like best friends. Yeah. But I'm not too fond of your cheetah friend who,
00:11:59
Speaker
You know, bamboozled me. Yeah, he's gone forever. I'm sorry. He's gone? He's gone? Where did he go? He died. He ran into the sunset and burnt. Yeah, he's gone. He exploded. Well, that makes a lot of sense because right now it seems we're being hunted. By Carl? I don't know. Carl, I thought you said he's dead.
00:12:26
Speaker
That would be scary, yes. That he exploded and came back to hunt you. That would be super terrifying. But not hunt. He's coming. We're being hunted. Yeah, to hunt you. Yes. A zombie coming after you to hunt you would be... No, no. Look, my team, we were on this mission. We were on this job. We were going to take this pearl from the wooly mammoth.
00:12:50
Speaker
And my team, they just slowly stopped being able to communicate with me. We used this, and he like pulls this thing out of his ear and it's like, it looks like just a rock to you, but it has like these little things poking out. And he's like, but yeah, they kept losing signal and the contraption here, this radio, it was just cut out. And then I started.
00:13:16
Speaker
What are you doing here? Why are you close by? To here. I live here. Where's your house? Stranger danger. Strange? I guess I know you, so it wouldn't be a stranger. Come with me. Let's go home. And as you turn around and you say that, you see Clive fly in in front of you. He's like,
Escape and Conspiracy
00:13:40
Speaker
sir! Reader! It's just a certain person.
00:13:43
Speaker
That's the bad guy. What are we doing? He's not the bad guy. And he actually doesn't have any burns or any marks on him. No sign that he's ever been distressed. No sign that he's been in any harm. Do we have a mission to find a pearl?
00:13:58
Speaker
No, we're on the run now, sir. Our location has been compromised. Caesar had us all evacuated. They were taking us out one by one. We don't understand what's going on. I don't need to know Caesar. I mean, Pixie.
00:14:20
Speaker
I, he, she, she got, he got me out. She saved me, but we got, you know, I think the beak is a part of it. Can he hear him? Yeah. Yeah. He's right there. My best friend here is also my best friend. You can go along well because I, he, he seems to, why do I have
00:14:41
Speaker
He seems to also be hunted by something. Okay, well then we had to go. It could be the same thing. Do we need a place to go? Yes, we have the place. We have a secure location. We have a secure location. You have to come with us. You have to come with you. We need to leave him. Why? I like him. He's cool. If you trust him, I trust you. I know Willy trusts you and I will stand by him. And I didn't know if Pixie made it out and that's why I've come to you and we're gonna go find Willy and then we'll meet. We'll all meet at the location.
00:15:11
Speaker
But I'll take you to the location first and then I'll go out and find Willy. Don't know if he's gonna be okay, but we gotta go. How close are we to my place? You're there, you're at your place. We're inside? Is there an inside? There is... At this point I would say that there's walls. Okay, sure, you're inside. But yeah, I'll say to the beak that you can stay here if you need to rest and hide and I guess I gotta go see ya.
00:15:37
Speaker
uh he he he can't can i can i can i come with you what is it what is hunting you better better numbers i don't i i don't know it was like uh it was like a shadow can i rule inside to see if he knows sure great i guess that's 10 from a breed yeah he he looks very afraid okay i i don't know if i should
00:16:03
Speaker
You know what, I do like, do I have any bags that we've ever just had? Just to make sure he doesn't know what the location is. It's up to you. Roll, roll. Uh, investigation. Or Willie, Willie, would you have given out some, something? Yeah. Then roll. Yeah. Roll investigation with advantage. It's got one and then a total of 22. No, 20.
00:16:25
Speaker
Yeah, what does he have, Willie? I would say you have quite a lot of sacks that some of you are using for your wood, some of you are using for the hemp. You're using a lot of the rope, the rugs. You're pretty decked out by Willie's family. I would say I gave you a messenger bag that has a lot of different compartments on the inside. Yeah, some known, some secretive.
00:16:52
Speaker
If that's the case, I'll put on the messenger bag and then put the hemp bag on his head, the beaks head, and then we'll walk together to location. I don't know. How does, how does, and I'll ask Clive this.
00:17:04
Speaker
but like how do you normally take Willy a secret location? Is it just follow? I don't actually, he's never asked, oh he asked me once if he could follow but since then I just go and he kind of comes along with me sometimes, sometimes. Okay, I just want to know if I was weird for like follow up by Pixie if she's like, I don't know, she seems kind of weirded out by me, I don't know why. No, no, we're here to guide you. So come on, we need to go, sir. Right, right, let's go.
00:17:33
Speaker
And so you guys both take off and you end up in Winterhold. In... It is called Winterhold at this point. It is called Winterhold at this point, yes. Okay, just double check it. And you are in Coffee Coffee and Daggers. And so first, actually roll a d6 for me, both of you. Is this something I would also roll for the beak?
00:18:00
Speaker
No. Four. One. So somehow maybe it's because reader you might have been closer or what but you both end up in Winterhold in Coffee and Coffee and Daggers at the exact same time.
Reunion and Urgency
00:18:14
Speaker
Like you both see each other around all these different things and Pixie and Clive see both of you. Will you see Chicken a rooster with a sack over their head?
00:18:30
Speaker
I'll just look at it and be like, oh, a new member of something. And, and Clyde is like, sir. And he like flies directly into you and he gives you this major hug. And Pixi is always on the back just like slowly pulling out all the air just like, yes. And Pixi kind of hops over to your reader and she's like, huh, you made it.
00:18:57
Speaker
Are you okay? I mean like I'm not like it's fine. I like superficial anything, but you okay? Like it looks cool. I guess I'm not you okay? I I I can I might hold him in there that I'm going to make him else again, but yeah
00:19:14
Speaker
We gotta get inside. Okay, high five. She raises a wing and gives you a high five. Let's go. And you guys both go in and you see this bat, like, appear and they're like...
00:19:28
Speaker
Ah, welcome to coffee a coffee and daggers help me help you and just like is posing like with their wings out like what do you recommend let's give a house special you want the house special well we have free coffee over here we have a lot of different battle items whichever you need and as you're doing this conversation Clive and Pixie are just stop it okay stop we need to we need to go into that
00:19:56
Speaker
Caesar sent us and yes commander Caesar sent us and uh I i was just i'm just gonna lift the bag up because it's like he knows where we are who Caesar like she's like at this point just i want to i want to slowly shuffle over to the free coffee and just like pour myself a cup that coffee would go great inside my animal kingdom willy mug there you go at our store right now wonderful product places
00:20:24
Speaker
Is that the one with the daggers daggers and coffees logo on it? No, it's the one with me on it. No, sorry. The light is, there we go. Nice. It's so cool that we do have like a daggers daggers and coffees logo mug. We should sell the coffee too. Oh, we should. And daggers.
00:20:43
Speaker
Instead of coffee stirrers, we'll have those little plastic swords. Oh, that would be intense. That would be nice. So the shop owner is, I need a password. And then they're going to roll. As they're doing that, I want to just throw at you off and say, oh, sorry, what was your name? I don't think I caught it. Oh, my name is Jeffrey. Jeffrey, cool. I knew you were going to ask as soon as I didn't say it.
00:21:12
Speaker
Has it always been Jeffrey? That's a little personal. Okay. Why do you need to know? There was like a story.
00:21:21
Speaker
Well, obviously there's a story, but I don't need, I don't, I mean, you seem very much in a rush.
Secret Entrance and Passageway
00:21:27
Speaker
And as you're doing it, he's like, he says, they both, they're like, Pippin! And he's like, ah, yes, all right, wonderful. I wanna, like, while I take like a very loud sip and I lean towards you, you'll be like, I'm glad they remembered because I didn't. Wait, we used to know this? No, I thought you always said the password when we came in here.
00:21:50
Speaker
So none of us has said the password. It's always been them saying the password. We've just been standing here silent. Unless we happened to us. Did we used to know the password before we went back in time and changed it? Possibly. I don't know. Come on, guys. Let's go. Okay. Yes. My brain hurts a little now. And as... Is the beak still there?
00:22:11
Speaker
The beak is still with you. He's kind of, let's see, he's kind of got his feet. He's kind of like understanding his place and he's walking behind everyone and not saying anything and keeping his hands to himself. Like he knows he's basically out of everything, out of hope or any luck. So he's kind of just with you guys. And the bat flies you over to a wall, not a wall, like a, like,
00:22:40
Speaker
like a bookshelf of daggers and he pulls on one of them and it opens downwards like it just falls into itself and he's like yeah trying to get that back up is it's impossible for my little batons but Caesar usually comes up and helps out so hopefully he'll show up at some point
00:23:04
Speaker
So we're walking through there. Is there a way for us to kind of pick it up behind us? Yes. I was like, we are two big guys. Roll investigation. 16. Did he get rid of it? Yeah. That's how usually Caesar does it. He kind of like lifts it behind him as he walks through. So yeah, you guys are welcome to do that. And so roll strength check for
00:23:32
Speaker
one of you rolled advantage. I'll watch. I'll watch as Willy's playing up and if he needs help. Okay, great. I start with a 12. Not too bad. I will help him. Okay. I don't know if Isaac, are you gonna roll for that or should I? Oh, what's what's your strength modifier percentage? It's about what's your modifier? Can I just say is if yeah, like four, three, three,
00:24:01
Speaker
Oh, okay. Well, I'm a 3-2. I'll roll for it. I just didn't know if that was like metagaming if I just said no. Okay, that's a 19. 19. Yeah, you, you lift it pretty like you stumble at the beginning, you're like, Oh, it's like it's more of a balancing thing than like a heavy thing. You kind of add some cream around my finger. Sorry, guys.
00:24:23
Speaker
coffee. There you go. And they're like, ah, no problem. Okay. And you kind of, you see this staircase in front of you. Going up or down? Down. Down. Head down. Okay. You head down. And as you head down, I need deck saves. That was a tad weird of a question.
00:24:44
Speaker
What do you do when you come to a set of stairs and nothing else? It's an eight. Thankfully it was a nine, but a negative one on my next stairs. 30-20. And then as you take your first step, Willie, the rest of the area basically comes into a slide. It collapses on itself and it turns into a slide. And you get shot down this slide.
00:25:10
Speaker
and but reader you kind of grasp things let me roll for now also the beak flies between your legs reader and you're kind of left up there by your lonesome because the other two have flown down i want to know that the lily is sliding down like this usually this deep voice all of a sudden you just hear a whippee is this supposed to happen are you okay lily is it a trap down there
00:25:38
Speaker
I'm gonna I'm gonna just start one two okay I got both my arms one two I got both my legs but I'm pretty good I want you to roll either yeah another deck save Willie just Willie that is a net 20 but I do have the negative one model that's all right it's a net 20 net isn't that 20 exactly
00:26:02
Speaker
I slide, do a backflip, and I just land. Yes. You slide, you jump over this wall you didn't realize was there. And then, like you just said, you do this backflip, and then you land perfectly fine, and the beach smacks into this wall. Well, I'll say what I say. That was not pleasant. Sarge and Pixie were ahead of me, correct? Yeah, Clive and Pixie.
00:26:30
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I want to turn to them and be like, did you see that? Did you see that? Let's see. Yes. Yeah. Yes. That was, that was incredible. Thank you. Well done, sir. Nice to meet you. I have no clue how I did that. It's pure luck. Pixies, like, of course, we're about to come down. Well, is it safe? I don't want to, like, crush somebody if that's a possibility. Like, is everyone out of the way and not
00:27:00
Speaker
like between a wall that I will crush immediately as soon as I reach the beak but beak are you all right ow that's funny yes you can roll inside to see but no one else is talking he's on the other side of the wall I'm still standing there holding my pose 14 14 you can tell that it's pretty much directly at the bottom of the slide
00:27:24
Speaker
I don't hurt him. No, go for it. So exciting. So you roll another next slide. Not 20.
00:27:36
Speaker
Beautiful. I cannot see it. Oh, there you go. Yeah. Man, okay. So we're great. We've been in the spies for like this entire time. We're just used to stuff like this. Luke, do you mind me narrating what Reader does? Go ahead. Okay. I want Reader, once again, just another wee jumps over the wall. Another backflip lands next to me. We're both posed with our hands in the air.
00:28:02
Speaker
we grab each other's hands and then we go for the bow and and we just we just we just live in pixie and we're just like that wasn't playing it's just how good we are yeah this is a team dynamic right here and pixie and Clive are just clapping and whistling and yeah yeah oh and then you just hear ow and can somebody help me over the wall
00:28:26
Speaker
help him. He's my ward. Sure. So you help him over. I'm not gonna have you roll for that. It takes some time but you got him over. And you see around you a very brick, very
Discovery and Questions
00:28:41
Speaker
not tight well for you guys it might be tight but it's it's spacious enough for you to move like you can see in front of you but it's like 100 feet in front of you like there's so much around but it's all lit up it's but it's like bricks all around the muddy ceiling kind of like your cave but a little bit more tight
00:29:03
Speaker
willy like my cave but built for someone who's smart yeah exactly and and the there's like a really rickety old table and a few chairs around and a bit of parchment here and there and if you want to know more let's roll insight or investigation or insight 16 what are you rolling for reader yeah just generally like because
00:29:32
Speaker
socially, he sees that Willie is looking around. So he's like, ah, yes, I am also looking around you for exactly. But 18. 18. I will say that's perception rather than insight. Because it's more investigation, but okay, investigation, sure. So for your insight, Willie, you kind of get the feeling and like the understanding that this used to be like one of Caesar's solo
00:29:56
Speaker
mission briefings like this is where he used to go to like help those around the winter hold if he was you know in a like in a very quick situation he knew he could come here so in that you see a bed you see parchment with some plans on it here and there uh but it's very old school like there's no tech around there's no yeah
00:30:21
Speaker
None of the modern stuff you guys have. You see in a far corner, deep in this cave, in this basement, in this camp, or whatever you call it, you see deep in there a white, disheveled, dusty, dirty, very, very beat up lion. Recognizable? Very recognizable, as you know, he's the only one of his kind. As Caesar. But he's passed out. You also see, like, the exit.
00:30:51
Speaker
in a way that you see a light at the end. I'll walk over and try to take care of him. Just see if Caesar's all right. He's like still alive just so that Willy has a reason to be like, oh cool he is there. And also make sure there isn't us. So you're calling them he's here or are you just coming to him first before you say anything? I think it would be something that like would be a long lines of like, oh Caesar! But be like, oh crap, look at him. But
00:31:21
Speaker
I think I would gravitate towards that. I think the rest of them as well, because they didn't roll very well. We're all go to Caesar because it was always like, hey, we need to go back. And Caesar's usually the apex of all this, the big head of everything. So if anybody had information, it would be Caesar.
00:31:41
Speaker
but seeing him like that. And you said he's passed out right now. Yeah, he's passed out now. I want to ask Clive and Dixie, like, what happened? Like, can you give us details?
00:31:51
Speaker
they look at they look at you and well first we need to close this exit so they go and do that make sure it's hidden so it takes a few minutes to do that uh if they want to do that i will cast mold earth oh perfect okay great and just like seal it up great okay perfect oh it's always good handy to have you around just we need to be we need to be safe we get you know this okay
00:32:17
Speaker
And they take a breath. They look first at the beak. Do we trust him? Can we trust him? I was going to say that I'm going to immediately make sure he's alive and back off as if I wasn't really touching anything, just to not signify that there is something right there that he should do. Ah, so you didn't say anything to another? I went, oh, Caesar.
00:32:40
Speaker
Oh, they would understand what I was talking about. Check if he's alive and then immediately back off and be like, hey, beak, that was my just giving him my lunch order. Very good kind of salad. Caesar, what's going on over there? And he's going to roll. What's everybody looking at this new door? I made older, but good job. Just just to be safe. He is alive.
00:33:03
Speaker
uh no one's no one's checked anything so i'll do a medicine check that's a sick willie you don't you're not sure if he's alive yeah you don't necessarily think he's dead but you're like it's like it's like 90 40 like he's probably dead but is it is it like when like a kid or like an animal is like
00:33:23
Speaker
super asleep and you like you wiggle them and they're just like flopped over and you're you have that small amount of panic before you see either. Yeah, exactly. Let me see if. Oh, Clive thinks he's dead. Like he just comes and say, let me check, let me check. He does this like military training. He does like different things. And he's like, I'm sorry. He's like, are you sure? I don't know. I see. He's breathing. Look, look. And no, that's just after effects.
00:33:52
Speaker
What do we do if he's not around? Like who's in charge? Well, I mean Caesar's never been in charge. Yeah, but like who is the information person? He's God. So we need to find somebody who can communicate with the God. With the keeper?
00:34:10
Speaker
I mean, we could pray to her, I guess, but... I want to take out my sickle and, like, cut off, like, a section of his fur. Like, not enough to, like, leave a pattern, but just, like, like, I just have my own, like, little tuff. He was molting, and you just got that little part where... Yeah, I just got, like, a handful of fluff.
00:34:28
Speaker
and just like tie it with like a small like piece of like hemp twine and like put it in my bag and then i want to take out my hand axe and just like stand as tall and like broad shouldered as possible i just want to say who did this sorry go ahead yeah all right we we're not sure we
00:34:49
Speaker
We weren't... Caesar was... Caesar's been having a hard time since the past, you know? He's an old man now. He lived all those years. You know, you guys, he's talked to us, and, you know, we... He's pretty... Like, we are believers in the keeper. We honor, we follow the keeper. The keeper speaks to us, to God, and guides us. That's how we met you in the first place. The keeper brought us to you, and so maybe we can talk to him.
00:35:18
Speaker
But the Keeper never tells us the missions or the artifact areas or anything else. She just says, you know, we're bound here. But anyways, anyway, that's a precise one. So we spent a lot of time with Caesar and so we're at the main base and Caesar is showing us this weird.
00:35:40
Speaker
it was he was oh come on just just tell him he was he was he was he figured out how to do this weird dance he's he's getting it and he'd like they try to show you it's like one foot he's like on one foot and he's hopping and he's like he's trying to do this sideways flip and but he looked like he's got this weird silly face on
00:36:04
Speaker
and then as this is going on we all of a sudden just there was a bomb that went and then another one and then and then this oh and you know what now that i think about it they had these symbols on their on their sleeve but there was there was about seven of them and they just got us off guard
00:36:23
Speaker
or or was there but but i think he got away kylie kayla i'm not 100 sure her codename or her name anymore yeah she she was at home we caesar's been doing missions with or and they've been trying to do covert things we didn't want with all the stuff that happened to you we wanted to give you space and and yeah they and clive just kind of sites went like not whimpering but coward
Revelations and Tension
00:36:49
Speaker
ain't like yeah they
00:36:50
Speaker
They cornered me. It was me versus like three or four of them. I didn't know what to do. And I was accepting my fate, Sarah's. And then Pixie, that brave, brave Pixie grabbed me and I escaped. And I thought she was gone, Sarah's. I thought it was over for her. And so I thought, okay, the best thing to do is to find Reader because I know he's not going to have anybody.
00:37:16
Speaker
and at this point the beak is overhearing this and oh those they took out my teammate we were on this heist and they took out first it was first they took out betty and then and it wasn't even like a like a sleep door anything they literally took
00:37:33
Speaker
her head off with just a few blows and it was an instant yeah it was yeah just scared yeah and i i stumbled upon reader but anyways and then so then i think magic collectors and artifact thieves or whatever were being hunted by someone not sure
00:37:53
Speaker
I want to like spread out my wings and like cover readers head. So we have like a little cone of silence. Okay. And I'll be like, is what he's saying is true, like how he stumbled upon you. As far as I know, yeah. He looked rather disheveled and just kind of approached. Though he is at, he was acting a lot more friendly than I thought he would. But he's not recognizing, of course, but. Oh, oh, by the way, Carl exploded. Oh, just like, like I mutter that under my breath too. So I remember.
00:38:23
Speaker
It seems like, you know, the enemy of my enemy is our friend and we're going to have to work together. Avenge Caesar. Hopefully, since he survived this and our other friends who were just kind of taken aback by the explosion, they didn't really have much information. So it's looking like he's our best lead at this moment.
00:38:44
Speaker
Oh, but he did say something about like a shadow figure hunting him. He mocked my accent a bit, but it was mostly just saying that hunting is being hunted by a shadow figure. Let's question this man a little bit more. Take down my feathers. I want to do like an intimidation kind of glare at him. I'm gonna get my information. Okay, roll intimidation. This goes in my favor. 21.
00:39:11
Speaker
Ooh, he pees himself. Yeah, yes. Hello? I might be a vegetarian and I value all life. But right now that dead man, I value his life more than yours. So you're going to help us give information to avenge him. There's a dead man? Don't worry about that part. I need you to tell Reader all the information you have.
00:39:34
Speaker
yeah yeah i mean i'll tell you anything i don't know if i'll be my child but i i'm businessman i i don't i i mean i ran once i saw my team taken out where were you in this we were in the thinking of lies actually he doesn't actually say that
00:39:57
Speaker
He's like, we were in the coast near the mountain. Can I roll insight? Sure. He's not telling you everything. I want to lay my hand axe on his shoulder.
00:40:10
Speaker
And once again be like, I'm a vegetarian. Sometimes I wonder what chicken tastes like. He goes, okay, okay. Look, I wasn't near reader. Okay. Okay. Okay. Honestly, honestly. Yeah. Oh, you hear, you hear me, right? Okay. Honestly, I, we were in the coast. We were in a coast. We were, we were in the red water territories area.
00:40:33
Speaker
we were we were told it was a hidden gem in the desert and and so we ended up going there and that was a few months ago and i've been held captive by these i want to say guards i'm not 100 sure i think i think i want to say royalty royal guards maybe from
00:40:55
Speaker
King Darren, I don't know. They had the royal symbol on their shoulders. But then they told me that they were gonna go after Caesar's team. And if I wanted to live and not end up like my team, because I did, like, Betty did get her head cut off. That wasn't a lie. I just... You said... What? Wait, didn't it, like, explode, didn't she say that?
00:41:20
Speaker
No, it was, it was, no, you said Carl's head got blown off. Oh, the entirety of. Oh, right. Totally unrelated. Unrelated, but, oh, maybe it is. Anyways, so they, they told me to bump into a reader. And so, so yeah, so, so I'm, I'm here. I'm supposed to gather information. So it's a gathering where you are. And I'm gonna, uh, I'm supposed to sneak away at some point and then tell them.
00:41:49
Speaker
Where is your, where are you supposed to, how are you supposed to signal them or like meet them? And he like pulled out the earpiece and he's like, they'll tell me through this. I'm going to put out my hand. I'm only going to ask once. Okay. Okay. Like he's already shaken. He's like shaking so hard. He's like, it's not on, is it? It is on. Are they listening to us now? I, as far as I know, yes. Hello. They didn't say anything. Okay.
00:42:19
Speaker
It could be the same rules as artists where you have to have it in just throwing that out there. If that might be the solution to the puzzle is that you have to put it in your ear to hear them. What do you guys have a code word or anything like that? I don't, I don't know. They just said that they would contact you. Yeah. Cool. I want to reach in my bag and pull out some of the rope and say, reader, tie them up.
00:42:42
Speaker
proven proven later you'll you'll earn a freedom did they say how much time is gonna go by for this or are they just gonna contact you at undisclosed time they didn't tell me a time and he's like backing up to whatever reader is he's willingly getting his feathers 20 22 by the 22 for oh rope time okay yeah
00:43:04
Speaker
I'm going to put the earpiece in my other ear and see if I could hear it. You hear something you've never heard before, which is static. Like this is, this is a machine. It's not magic. This is technology. All right. So this, is this kind of like, would this give me familiar vibes as like the Timebot?
Technology and Strategy
00:43:24
Speaker
Like exactly. Kind of similar to the Timebot or like the rodent that you saw in the museum. Okay.
00:43:32
Speaker
really smart enough to know that these are puzzle pieces. It just doesn't know how to figure out the puzzle. You can roll in sight and see. Yeah. And also what happened to like Pounce? I'll ask, I'll ask what happened to Pounce?
00:43:46
Speaker
Well, the pounce was... I don't know exactly what happened to pounce, but as it was being captured, and they basically said they've taken my team, whether that means alive or dead, I'm not sure, but the rest of them, like, they took our equipment, that head piece, that ear piece that you have, that used to be our equipment, and they commandeered it, and they're using it against us now. But everyone's alive except for Betty.
00:44:14
Speaker
correct i i don't know when you're a team i don't know as far as you know at least as far as i know i think they're all dead but i i only saw betty die would any of them possibly still have veneer people if they're alive yeah we we don't i mean we we we we live together we we don't have very large range it's only it's not magical or anything i don't know how people what what people would come up with that but it's a it's a technology that
00:44:44
Speaker
that we made so we can communicate during a job. So as long as we're near each other, we have it on, otherwise we... And where were you supposed to run away to or were you just supposed to run away a safe distance? You mean, you mean when... When you were supposed to signal them? I was just supposed to go somewhere quiet so you don't know they're coming. If it helps, it's only about a 500 foot radius.
00:45:10
Speaker
Well, we already know that this place that we're in right now is compromised since the previous attack. And they were hoping that you would take him in reader. And of course they knew about this place already. So it's possible to have it surrounded. They might be on the outskirts of town or something, waiting for him to get close enough to talk and send them in. Sorry, that's 500 radius between the earpieces.
00:45:34
Speaker
Yes. So they can't be within 500 meters right now. Since I'm just getting static. Yeah. Yeah. So we have a window possibly. Yeah. I feel like we have two options. One, we could run or two, since we know they're coming, we could set up as much of an ambush as possible. Personal vote. As a pacifist who can run really fast, that's my vote.
00:45:59
Speaker
But as much as I would like to be in a good fight right now, I feel like our duties are bound to figuring like getting to the bottom of all this. So I'm ingredients with you. How about you, Pixie and Clef? As you say, how about you? Pixie like perks up.
00:46:15
Speaker
Cookie! Anybody? Cookie! Oh, the old cookies? Yeah, they... Caesar, Caesar, Caesar found out that they, they, they heal. We, we can, you can use that on Caesar. How we think him... But yes, I still have old cookies. I'm not keeping them around as a memento at all. Or maybe just my mom made this bag too big and I just can't find stuff at the bottom. Do you always carry them with you or?
00:46:43
Speaker
Were you just expecting to see the birds today? I always have the same bag, you know? It's durable. Until it rips, I'm not gonna get a new one. My mom ate it. Anyway, give me a cookie. I just wanna like, like a lady dumping out her purse, just like turn my bag over.
00:47:00
Speaker
And there's just like a random half eaten mushrooms and bits and bobs, twigs, bowling ball. Yeah. A bunch of expired coupons for tacos, several rocks, some darts. And finally you get the cookie and she's able to get, she shoved the cookie in and some of the cookies healing properties. Do heal Caesar for two health and you hear him coughing.
00:47:32
Speaker
Oh.