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Episode 260: We're still on the Edge!
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Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome back to another episode of the Goblin Lore Podcast! Alex and Taya jump back into the Edge of Eternities continuing with covering this dense and rich story. The hosts additionally discuss some of the cards from the set and how they tie in
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Introduction and Missed Stories
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um are
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are are
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Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome back to another episode of the Goblin Lore Podcast. Sorry, we are
Card Discussions and Deck Building
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going to have missed a week here. i was behind on getting caught up on the story. I was had procrastinated, decided when I was going to do it, and then things got busy, and I just did suddenly didn't have time to catch up. So we are recording a little bit later in the week, so we'll we'll miss the week, but hopefully this puts us ahead, which would be nice.
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That would be nice. So we'll see how long that goes, how long that works out, but and it works out but Um, I about we actually do introductions.
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I am Alex found a man found in the discord, Goblin Lord discord and nowhere else on social media. Uh, broke that habit a while ago, but not the habit of that intro that I said for years.
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Pronouns are he, him. And once you introduce yourself and we go to our opening question yeah and to our topic. I'm Taya. Taya transcends on blue sky. Pronouns are she, her, they, them.
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And our opening question for this week is what card are you interested in either building around or putting into a deck from the set? We'll do our cards discussion after we finish the story, which I'm guessing is going to be another episode because there's so much story in the set.
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there I don't think we're getting through six episodes tonight. But I'll go ahead and answer first. And for me, that's a Tanook Steadfast Second, which this card is just bonkers.
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It's two and two red for a three five. Kabu Pilot, other creatures you control have haste and artifacts and red creature cards in your hand have warp two and a red.
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I'm going to put this into ready and I'm going to sneak so much stuff onto the battlefield, which then I will probably sack before it gets exiled to warp anyway. So I get another artifact back off the sack and then I can just get it out of my graveyard later. Yeah. That, that, that seems good.
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Yeah. Uh, it's, it's like sneak attack for artifacts and creatures. Yep. Yeah. Yeah.
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That, that seems nice. So, if Yeah, there there is a lot. And say I have not not gotten through a lot of this set yet. Looking through the cards so that I am looking forward to it. There's some some cool looking things that I have seen from what I've looked through.
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But I mentioned that one of the commander decks is a a green, red, black land matters deck, which is one of which is one of my longest together commander decks. That's one of the decks I play a lot.
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is those three colors and that exact theme. So there are definitely some cool things in in this deck. Probably looking at... I'm definitely looking at one of the... Honestly, I'm probably looking at both of the ah face commanders for this.
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Don't know that the Space Station will go into the deck, ah though the first ability to sacrifice lands to draw cards and play additional lands is really good in the deck. So it is some possibility.
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But...
Story Complexity and Science References
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Sazreal Genesis Shepherd, also very strong ah for this deck. Two green, red, black.
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Two five with flying. You can play lands from your graveyard, which is really good in that deck because I'm constantly putting lands, sacrificing them or discarding them, putting them into my graveyard in various ways. And then it has whenever you sacrifice another non-token permanent during your turn,
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Put a number of 1-1 counters equal to its power on up to one other target creature, which could be really good. um Potentially, the deck isn't built around 1-1 counters and usually not built around swinging with one big beaver, but that still could be really...
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That can add up quickly when you're stacking a bunch of lands. Yes. And and I also, whenever sacrificing another permanent during your turn. So not one or more permanents. So when I scapeshift and sacrifice all of my lands to go. And then you get a commander kill with Zera.
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Yeah. Zera. Yeah. My one, one flying commander. Yeah, that's that's true. i only ah i only need to sacrifice 10 lands to ah make Zyra one-shot people.
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So yeah, that probably goes in the deck. Right now I have two cards that let me play lands from the graveyard, and this will probably replace one of the two. um It's a good effect, but I don't know that I want it three times in the deck.
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Because said more than one does nothing on the board. On his set review for Commander, the professor was even talking about the fact that Crucible Worlds won't be played in Crucible decks anymore because there's too many other cards that have Crucible's ability plus upside. Yeah.
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Yeah, which we'll see. I have a Judge Promo Crucible that I would rather not pull out of the deck, but that might be the the the correct ah power level choice. So we'll we'll see what ends up happening when when I have some more of these cards in hand. i'll I'll probably do a larger overhaul of the deck rather than just one or two swaps.
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Especially with with a bunch. There's some other interesting looking things that I got to like look at what I have going on. You have a number of cards that care about lands. There's Landfall in the main set too. So it's been a while since I've had more than maybe one card in a set to add to that deck.
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Like the last card printed in a standard set that I added to that deck was Sprouting Goblin from Dominaria, which is in this deck, which is kind of fun. ah Have you just before I know we're not talking about cards today, but I want to make sure you've seen this. Have you seen the card Famished World Sire?
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No. is that in the main set? Yeah, it's five green, green, green for a zero, zero Leviathan with Ward three and Devour Land three.
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And when it enters, you look at the top cards your library where exorcist creatures power and put any number of lands among them onto the battlefield, tap, then shuffle. Oh, boy. Yeah, that that would be good in my deck.
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Loved love sacrificing lands to effects. Yeah. And then getting lands into play. And it my I run 45 lands in the deck. I very specifically run high number of lands. Yeah, most lands decks do. My my Lord Windgrace deck runs about that many, too.
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Yeah, okay. So, yeah, there's... A lot of fun toys that I could have. I just liked i like the the ability Devour Land. but Yeah, that is that is really cool.
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right. I love that. We'll be talking about that at some point in the in the near future. But yeah, as you said earlier, we are trying to get through the story. So last last episode, we talked to through the first four um episodes of the Edge of Eternity story.
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And we are we'll see how many of the the rest of them we can get through tonight. There are 11 total and then five side stories, which I have not read. So we're we're focused on the main story. Not that i I think we'll get through the rest of it at this recording. We'll see.
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um Yeah, there's I would say if you have not read the story, please let's either read the stories first um or go listen to the first step but the the last episode because there's a lot a lot of setup.
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This
Onboarding and Story Familiarity
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set is dense, especially the first couple episodes are just dense with proper nouns and places and things you need to... to learn because it's not just like most magic story will have those proper nouns, but we know a lot of them for magic as a whole. We know what a planeswalker is. We know, you know, at this point, um I completely losing my point because now I can't remember the name of it, but the, the new portals.
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That they're tear torn through the multiverse. The omen pass. The omen pass. Thank you. It's if someone, you know, that term shows up in a story, if you've been following magic story, you just, you just know what it is, but all of the terminology in edge of eternities is different.
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yeah Kathleen from Loading Ready Run talked about this on their story episode. Just like how many proper nouns are in this story? Yes. and the first story even is the the first episode is structured in a weird way to kind of make that a little the onboarding of that a little bit easier. But there's still just so much.
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but i So I'll say if if you are interested, it gets easier once you get through that hurdle. The next few stories are more straight story that you can read and follow along because you have learned the proper nouns from the first few and now you know the language and and can follow the story better.
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um There's also a bunch of science terms that they've made up their own ah terms for, which is a whole thing that took a little getting used to.
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And then one really funny instance where it wasn't a new term that I need to call out because i realized i forgot. In episode four, they referenced Hawking radiation, which is what we call that radiation. But we named it we called it that because it was named after Stephen Hawking.
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but they had some little aside where it was named after like Hawks in this sci-fi. I missed that. That must not have been in the recorded copy. They had a footnote or something? No, it wasn't a footnote. it was It was just in the text where they say something about Hawking radiation. I can't remember what the note was. I...
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i And I just happened to recognize where it's like, I know, like, I think Hawket yet. It revision 10, but oh fairly early in the story. it said that Scheherazade, oh God, it's not Scheherazade.
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that's That's a different thing. The Shahrazads, maybe? Boundary glows, the light coming out of the fast time inside, creating a violet haze like Hawking radiation. Well, I guess there is a little, yeah, there's a little footnote here.
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You click that one and it opens, like a scod squadron Hawk, which is never found alone, the spacer on the black hole produces pairs of entangled particles. One Hawk flies, one Hawk may, as if beckoned away from danger, escape the black hole while the other is drawn in and consumed.
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Though the black hole has as paid to create both particles, it recovers only one, thus effectively losing the mass energy of the other. Because this allegory is often used to explain the process, the emitted particles are often known as Hawking radiation, or Beacon Hawk radiation.
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And that is an exact scientific principle that Stephen Hawking has talked about for black holes in our earth time. And that's just a fun little
Character Motivations and Planetary Danger
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thing that I had in my notes and then missed while we were doing our last recording. So there is a few of those in this crop of stories. We'll see which ones we get to, how far we get into the story. But as ah as a person who is,
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nominally interested in science but not like wildly deep into it there there are definitely a few of these things that i've caught and i'm assuming a number that i didn't catch that are just kind of lightly playfully put in the story and it makes me wonder uh i i don't know this author but i'm assuming this author actually writes science fiction yes uh i'm from my understanding he does uh oh they are i think
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a writer on the upcoming Subnautica 2 is part of Seth's bio here on the Wizards website. Okay, that would make sense. I've not played Subnautica, but I am familiar, fairly familiar with the first Subnautica.
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That is... I could see that that experience. The funny thing, though, is not only did they bring in a real-world science term, they also got a magic reference in the squadron hawk. So they they got a two-for-one on that one.
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Yeah, I love that. that ah That is such a good one. And using squadron hawk is a really good analogy in the magic universe to explain how hawking radiation works. In fact, it's probably an easier analogy than like the name we gave it is just based on the person who kind of described it and and probably mathed it out. I don't know exactly.
00:13:20
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So, yeah, there's some of that in here, too, which is fun. but But we actually start talking about episode five here. Yeah. So episode five picks up as a.
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Tanook and Sami are approaching Kavaron that is, which is the half of the planet that has been obliterated and just kind of hanging out in space.
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And is surrounded by essentially a huge debris field, which navigating through is but serious task.
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They are there, as you know reminder, they're there to get a stasis cask to put the stone in. Yes, because they they found the stone and it has exhibited strange enough behavior. They've decided they want to stick it in stasis so that it can't continue its strangeness.
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Yeah, and as we mentioned, Tanook was exiled from Kavaron, so he's not supposed to be coming back to the planet. Mm-hmm.
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yeah. And they're also going to, i believe they they mentioned it before, or maybe very at the beginning here, that they're specifically looking for a stasis cask here because there's a cache of stuff that they just stored in in this debris field somewhere where it wouldn't really be found, probably.
00:14:54
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would be hard for someone to stumble over it because it's just dangerous to be there.
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I also so like that as as they're going into this, they get they get hailed. And I love Tan's response in the microphone. you know to tan his His response is, listen, we're fine, but we're doing something we shouldn't. And I'd appreciate if you just lose track of us. If we die, we die. It's not your trouble.
00:15:19
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i think there's there is some comms being like trying to give them like information about where the. like debris were at the time, I think. Oh, and then, yeah. and then it tells like, well, you're off track and this could be a problem. And it's like, yeah, don't worry about us.
00:15:33
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Yeah. We might get ourselves blown up, but that's, that's fine. It's not your fault. our fault if it happens. Yeah. And then but the response is wake crime and we kill all and we kill your relatives marking you beyond help. Worst of luck robbers but out. I just, I love that marking you beyond help.
00:15:52
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Worst of luck. Okay. like
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So then we, we catch them as they're doing their descent, uh, on the half of the planet. Uh, that's all messed up. They see sunstar ship, uh, which they initially think is coming for them.
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But then they find RC another sunstar ship chasing it.
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And this is when they, uh, they're like, well, I like this line from Tanook. It's like, looks like we're not the only ones trying to get down to Kavaron to escape our troubles.
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Mm-hmm. Uh,
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Tanook manages to land the ship in one piece, but they are out of they're basically out of resources, too, at this point.
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Um,
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They need ah they need a fuel ah some fuel and other stock to actually get going again, which considering Snyk's not supposed to be here isn't great for them.
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Not a lot of opportunities to to do that. Sorry, getting myself distracted in a search that I'm not going to resolve. there's just There's a picture here of a collapsing thing with a cav in the foreground, but it looks an awful lot like a picture from like Urza's Saga with the Viashina with some magic tech engine in the background.
00:17:34
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I think. And I was wondering if there was illusion, but I can't find what I'm looking for. Cause then in here, they they talk a little bit about like this area and why,
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This place is just a debris field. Cavan, that is. that's That's the missing half of the planet. It didn't get blasted into space. um It's a loose pile of rubble slowly collapsing under its own gravity and then bouncing back as rich uranium and moxide collapse and explode.
00:18:03
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that This was part of stuff just the that the Cav did that kind of destroyed their own world. Which was talked about a little bit in, um, in the opening. The, the, the first, the first episode had like a quick little chat about the major planets and bodies within this, this solar system.
00:18:27
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Yeah. So as they're coming in, they noticed that the the ship that's being chased, the Sunstar ship that's being chased, fires off their fusion engine in the atmosphere, which is, bad.
00:18:44
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Yeah, they describe it as the result is a rolling thermonuclear fireball, a constantly detonating atomic bomb. Yep.
Timeline Alterations and Strategic Moves
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which Which was the reference to wake crimes earlier. Yes.
00:18:58
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When they were talking to the whoever was on the other side of the this the radio. Yeah, so... um the you know And a little bit after that, Sammy asked Tanook what's likely to happen to them. And they're like, for firing a fusion engine in the atmosphere, that's weight crime. They'll probably kill the pilot on the spot. There's not much law out here.
00:19:21
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Captain, permanent state of an emergency is the euphemism.
00:19:29
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Yeah. And then Sammy being being the good Envy that they are, decide that even if it's a bad idea they should go help that pilot because they're just a big softy really when it comes down to it yeah yeah through the the whole episode yeah or that the whole set of stories you kind of you kind of see that and different ways and in different places but it keeps coming up
00:20:02
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Yeah, because then you even have, like Tan says, you know, the fool's going to die of radiation poisoning. They came down inside their own radioactive fireball, and then Sam's response is, not if we get to them soon enough.
00:20:15
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All right, I guess.
00:20:20
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Yeah, and then and Tan argues with them a little bit, but then goes back to, are you asserting that you want to make a decision, Tan? Should I give you the choice? And...
00:20:33
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Backs down. There's no captain. And then they, uh, uh, Sammy tells, uh, tells him, go get the cash and then I'll handle the, the, the pilot.
00:20:45
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And then they split up. Yeah. And, uh, then in where did we find out that the pilot is none other than Afriel. So we're, we're starting to get the the crew together here.
00:20:56
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you know we We now have Afril joined up with Sammy and Tanook. Afril's not in very good condition besides having the hole in his hand or just the missing hand at this point, I guess.
00:21:11
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He's also, like they said, got some serious radiation poisoning. But he did manage to avoid getting turned into paste. but So he canceled out his ah acceleration debt, at least.
00:21:25
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Yep. um So he he gets to live. Yeah, for now. Yep. But there's Kav coming, and and the free company ship is also coming. So
00:21:45
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this is an interesting point because we we get another line. sort of from the point of the stone. It's like, there's no intervention or revision required to make Sammy go after the crash hope light. That's just who Sammy is.
00:22:02
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Yeah. Cause then in the, the story too, like it, it has the, the little links like they were using for the choose your own adventure. And you can just say, go on. And it jumps to the rest of the story or what would have happened if Sammy didn't go after the hope light. And then you get this little aside.
00:22:17
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Which again, kind of kind of talks through one of the timelines that kind of just doesn't end as the stone would like it to end.
00:22:28
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excuse you know They go on and Metal Man would discover what he goes on to discover, delivering where want go. I'd be on the press for success and I would fail. And did it. Okay, now we go back to the story.
00:22:44
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Yes, which which also, right before that aside, we have some Cavs show up and declare that Tanook, you have violated the terms for exile. Stand up and show your stomach.
00:22:55
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Yeah. um And they also are there, basically, there they think that Sammy and Tanook are there to meet the wake criminal that just came down.
00:23:12
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And they're like, okay, if you don't know them, why do you help them? it's just what Sammy does.
00:23:20
Speaker
Yeah. I try to argue. Well, we don't know the ship. Just happened to follow down. like you don't know them, but you rushed to help them.
00:23:30
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Well, I obeyed my captain. They wanted to help the pilot. Yep. So what? um Sammy is always coming up with schemes, though. As nice as they are, they're just kind of their nature as like a um you know freelance criminal, basically. and He says that they're part of the their ah monoist agents meeting up with their was a critical contact.
00:24:00
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evening Because apparently the monoists get some protection and it's almost because everybody's just terrified of them
00:24:15
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uh and uh you know the the kov commander doesn't really believe them though know uh
00:24:30
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Yeah, and so there's there's a little bit of a little bit of a back and forth with this. um And and finally, i but they they say, okay, well, we'll take you back, and then we will we'll detain you until we can get confirmation of your identity.
00:24:49
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And... Then there's there's an interesting note, too, where the Cav said that Tanook will remain with us. And Sammy responds, he's under my protection. It's like, you get the weight, criminal. We get Tanook. I'm being more than fair.
00:25:04
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And then Sammy snaps and says, no, Tanook is my familiar. And that I thought was an interesting terminology that that term, as far as I recall, was not has not shown up in the rest of the the story. But that is like a very there's a lot of fantasy flavor to it. But that also there is a handful of like familiars within magic as well.
00:25:31
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Right. I think in this case, Sammy is basically saying that Tanooka is bound to him. Tanooka is, yeah, his responsibility. Yep.
00:25:43
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But I just, I think that's a really interesting term to use.
00:25:48
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Yeah. and And that's another thing where there's within the story, there's lots of fun little nuggets like this, like this like the Hawking radiation thing. yeah There's also little references to either magic specific stuff or things like this that are a little more general fantasy-ish that kind of keep it within the realm of magic just a little bit. We get a little bit of spice of it as opposed to it.
00:26:11
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being normal magic. This is much more, mean, it's the whole point of this. This is very sci-fi, not very magic, though. There are some of these references.
00:26:21
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Yeah. find little things like that. So Sammy takes the the con a little bit further and says the whole reason they're there is to get a stasis cast because he has a broken singularity bead on his ship, their ship.
00:26:37
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Uh, and, uh, This is when they, you you know, those are the the little suicide device mini black hole things that the monoist agents carry with them.
00:26:53
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ah So they're like, you you're transporting a portable black hole, huh? Well, I guess we'll get you your cask for you. yeah Yeah, kind of manages to to get what they want by just saying we have something wildly dangerous that fits the story of who they said they are as well. yeah um ah But ah they are also all, besides getting the cask, they are also getting basically brought to the nearest settlement ah until they can find out ah from the authorities whether they're actually monoists or not.
00:27:33
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So,
Exile, Radiation, and Mining Mysteries
00:27:35
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you know, we get them back. They all go back to the sheep. Sheep. Ship. but ah Yeah, space sheep. That would be a pretty cool.
00:27:47
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and We didn't get any of those in this set. We did get a space Lorgoy. Yes, we did, which is really cool.
00:27:56
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So they're like, basically, what what's going to happen to us? And they're like, well, you're going to be remanded to Imperial custody. And after that, you're not my Yep. yeah oh And ah then they they get the art that they show the artifact. and And the the Kav commander is like, this looks like a drop aid.
00:28:28
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So yeah, they get that put in the cask. Yeah, and ah that they put the that they put it and Aphriel in the cask. Aphriel is still really close to dying at this point.
00:28:44
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Yes. And so managed to, and like, again, using, keeping the con going, using that, you know sort of excuse kind of says, well, if he, he deserves to, uh, have the opportunity to use this, if he is bleeding to death. So we're going to put him in the cask with the bead.
00:29:02
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Yeah.
00:29:05
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Uh, so I like this line from the commander too, is like, uh, talking about, you know, Cav culture being rescued in the space. And it's like, that's the other Kavaran.
00:29:19
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This is Kavaran that is. Here we shoot trespassers. Move the object before you bleed.
00:29:27
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And Ethereal gets in the cask. And, but has the stone with him now, which if you've seen the cards, you can see Ethereal's title is the stone chosen.
00:29:44
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So they basically... ah
00:29:50
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oh Sorry.
00:29:54
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That's kind of the end of this one. oh There's a little bit of weird stuff with Afriel at the end of it. um Yeah, he starts to chant. and Yeah, and then there's there's the last...
00:30:11
Speaker
The last section is Alfreel needs a hand. And it's this really weird section talking about the past being fluid and there's many ways to reach the present and looking back there's possibility. and then there's some more sciencey
00:30:32
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a bit about like all universes reaching a single fixed ending. It's, it's a weird little bit. And then, then the link at the bottom is give Afriel a hand, which is the end of the story. And then links to the next one.
00:30:47
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And we move to the next one, ah
00:30:53
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which is story six. Okay. This is when we so they're flying the ship. ah back to the settlement um they basically have a ship full of radiation poison kavu at this point
00:31:14
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yeah and i i it took a little i think what ended up i think this was a It took me a little while to understand what was going on here, and I think this was one my struggles.
00:31:26
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One of the things that slowed me down early on, but I believe this is the story having changed, the events having changed by this tone.
00:31:36
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Right. Yeah, that's what kind of that little weird thing... Well, this is... Story 5 started in Revision 11, and the story... ah Starts at revision 12. So yes. Yeah.
00:31:49
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Because now rather than having Kavu holding them prisoner, we have Kavu who were caught in the radiation poisoning when Afrel's Hopelight came down.
00:32:01
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hmm.
00:32:05
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Which, yeah, it's kind of weird how it just splits like that. And they basically get given okay for an emergency landing, but told that they're going to have their ah ship impounded, essentially, until they can verify the telemetry that they weren't the ones who committed wake crime.
00:32:25
Speaker
Which seems like a thank like responsible thing to do if somebody just lit off a nuclear explosion in your atmosphere. I would be upset about that too.
00:32:42
Speaker
And this is where they talk about not having enough ah supplies. They don't have and enough water or fusion fuel to get, to make another interplanetary transit.
00:32:55
Speaker
Yep. Yeah. and And there's a little allusion here to this too, where they were they were talking about, okay, they technically hadn't done anything wrong. They came down, found some sick calf and put them in the hold. And then the next paragraph only they're carrying a stolen rock from Sigma and a monoist who ship poison these calves.
00:33:12
Speaker
And when Sammy put the bleeding monoist in the stasis cast with the rock, the monoist had a fit. He passed out and there's no moldy armor to blame this time. The rock did something to him.
00:33:23
Speaker
So I think they're, they're, they're again, making an allusion to this rock did something and now stuff feels off. And then I love that this section ends with, think fast, Sammy.
00:33:35
Speaker
You need a scam. Yeah, it does there's a lot of that in this whole story. Sammy's got a lot of scams to pick up on the fly. Yeah.
00:33:48
Speaker
So, and then we get a little backstory on to what actually happened with Tanook that got him exiled in the first place.
00:34:03
Speaker
ah He made a choice, which is like the the one, it's kind of something that Kabu don't do. They're like, if if something, if a disaster is going to happen, it has to be random. It can't happen by choice.
00:34:16
Speaker
And he made a choice ah that ended up sacrificing a lot of people to save 4 million other people.
00:34:27
Speaker
So yeah, Tanuk killed 25,000 Cav. Tanuk meddled with their fair chance. He did not trade 4 million lives for 25,000. You cannot trade lives. He engineered a disaster that he preferred the death of some of the deaths of others, and that is an old and despicable corruption to the Cav.
00:34:50
Speaker
So that's what got him exiled for choosing to sacrifice the few over the many. Yep. um And then the line, as Lidodont, he made a choice. The last choice he ever willingly made.
00:35:03
Speaker
Yeah. ah And then it goes on to basically what Tanook is a traitor to the solidarity of all Kav against all disaster. Because they kind of just accept disaster as part of their life, especially after blowing their world into two.
00:35:20
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, this is this a great line too. but getting back to Getting back to the story. So they land and and emergency medical services come out to to take the Kav.
00:35:33
Speaker
But I love this line. The trample ambulances take them away. Again, just that little bit of reference back to stuff we would recognize as magic you know magic terminology and the more normal fantasy parts of the game.
00:35:50
Speaker
Mm-hmm. Yeah. Also kind of appropriate for the, the the you know, Cav, who are like the Cavu, the big and green, and tend to have trample in, you know, at least the Cavu cards back in the old Dominarian sets.
00:36:08
Speaker
um So they get um basically a local dignitary there to interrogate them.
00:36:18
Speaker
who has a very weird stereotype about humans. they they They've heard or believe a stereotype that humans will mimic and basically react to if you ah state a ah ah make a statement that they will complete that statement or ah repeat it and then complete it. So like the example here,
00:36:43
Speaker
The truth is I came down to Kavarn. Oh, Sammy gets it. The truth is I came down to Kavarn to get a stasis cloak. I found these soldiers in distress, so I flew them right here.
00:36:54
Speaker
Yeah, so it's like that this this interrogator basically, Sammy just strings them along because Sammy knows exactly what they're doing. Yes, and this yeah there's the line.
00:37:07
Speaker
The coach had been told on the right over here that Sammy is human and that humans are obligate mimics. Speak to them and they're compelled to reply with the same words. And kind of fun to to have a setup there where it's it's like human stereotypes that they they kind of play with that.
00:37:28
Speaker
And you know we we obviously... edge Like Sammy, I understand that it's kind of a ridiculous stereotype, but this person has interacted with a lot of humans. And so they tried to do their research and ended up finding something in the the Google AI search that maybe wasn't accurate.
00:37:49
Speaker
No, would have thought. Yeah, just you kind of have then lines. Okay, but first I'm going to provide proof. And then Sammy, but first I'm going to provide proof that I wasn't involved in their deaths.
00:38:01
Speaker
My engine telemetry. You'll see it hasn't fired since I decelerated for reentry and kind of back and forth. Yeah. so they basically get let go until the data can be processed.
00:38:20
Speaker
And then the ah the um nobody has realized it's Tanook here yet. So to so keep it undercover, they're pretending that he was a stroke victim.
00:38:39
Speaker
so And apparently that's something that happens a lot with Kavu. but And then we go back to...
00:38:50
Speaker
Sigma's reach, the planet that they started on, where the the miners had all disappeared.
00:39:00
Speaker
And they
Threats, Beliefs, and Moral Struggles
00:39:01
Speaker
talk about how there was, you know, there's evidence that something was, that that Moxite was being mined because the value's gone down.
00:39:14
Speaker
or whatever they're mining. But if the mine never opened, how did that happen? Mm-hmm. So they kind of came back to this ah particular mystery part because this area is a mine that is like was competing with this other mine except there was no one at the other mine. and Yeah.
00:39:40
Speaker
And at one point ah they're talking about how to get the supplies they need and Tanook is like, well, you could just turn me in for my bounty. Yeah.
00:39:50
Speaker
And of course, Sammy's not going to do that. ah So Tanook decides that he's going to get supplies and Sammy... Well, I guess Sammy makes a decision. Tanook suggests it because Tanook doesn't make decisions.
00:40:04
Speaker
ah But Sammy is going to go visit like the head of the town to see what they can do to get out of there.
00:40:14
Speaker
they... and they
00:40:20
Speaker
have to play the waiting game to, uh, before they can see the, the person because they got to make them make it feel like they're important. Uh, and they're like, uh, Sammy's like, well, did, did my engine telemetry satisfy you? And then I go, it was sent to Kavarin before for inspection. So there you don't have the data yet. You think it would be easy to tell whether an engine was fired or not, but, um,
00:40:48
Speaker
And then he's like, well, we stay to hear the verdict? And Sammy's like, no, we're going to leave anyways. oh If you think I'm guilty of weight crime, give my ship's name to Pinnacle and they will find me.
00:41:01
Speaker
ah ah But this is when they start talking about it again. um ah Because they saw the destination stamp it was Sigma's reach for the...
00:41:16
Speaker
um um hot cell that they had and this is when the the head of the town is basically like those people have been screwing me over ah and my um that my moxide value has plummeted and this is when sammy's right but but it never opened and so they really get into this uh and you can see kind of where the timelines have been changed but not like completely changed so it's only like the stone had like partial ability to change the timelines yeah starting to to see more that yeah um and then ah
00:42:02
Speaker
i see the the very last part i like the last the last section and uh um Chapter six, it's a um something's going about to happen. And Sam was like, I'm not a spy. I'm just ah tell me nothing. The day I turn over a fugitive from Taro Duen to any authority, the puster and the roars, is the day Taro Duen falls into a crack in world. This is the harbor for scum. Go raise the coach on the phone. It's time we obstruct justice.
00:42:30
Speaker
Yeah. It was like right as Sammy's like pulls out a picture of Miri's like, if you've seen this, someone burst in and says, there's another free start company ship coming.
00:42:42
Speaker
They demand that we turn over the escape spies and that. Yeah. I just, I love the line. It's time we obstruct justice. And then that's the link to the next article. And it's time we obstruct justice is also in my, in my notes. It's a line to talk about. That's just such a great line.
00:43:00
Speaker
Yeah, I love it. were basically The head of the town is just like, we are a town of scum and villainy, so we are goingnna yeah going to protect our scum. Yeah, is it's like yeah at at that point, there there there was a little bit of the you know, we we could we can fight amongst ourselves, but as soon as someone comes in from outside, we're going to lock ranks. because it's like the The whole conversation before that, too, was like, I know...
00:43:25
Speaker
human mimicking doesn't work. You wanted this guy to think you're stupid. You know what, you know, what was going on there. And so then they're having that conversation and then immediately it turns like, so what someone's coming, some authority is coming to claim you.
00:43:39
Speaker
No, we don't deal with authorities. Yeah. um And then at the start of chapter seven, we were still on revision 12. So there hasn't been another timeline revision at this point.
00:43:52
Speaker
um Back to Halea's point of view, ah where she keeps catching herself staring at the hole in Sir Vondon's skull. oh And so the surgeons have an admiral job sealing up the ends, but the burn tunnel is still there in his brain.
00:44:11
Speaker
ah she let the coward Alfreel throw a black hole through her night skull so just there's some good sentences in this story you don't get to write that sentence in very many stories so they have a little bit of a conversation where they're the ship that's coming down mm-hmm Trying to, yeah, because where we left them last, and I think story three or four, which we talked about our last episode, they left to find and kill Alfreel. So like they were following him.
00:44:49
Speaker
And then i'd even they say that, you know, she's. Yeah, well, they even say, you know, they left the Dawnsire in a secret rush, telling no one, not even Captain Slat. So they basically just took off to go kill Alfreel without permission.
00:45:02
Speaker
Yep. Yeah. And they're like, all he, talking about Vondam, like all he, all he will say is that they're going to find and kill Alfreel and on his oath as a knight, it's not about revenge.
00:45:15
Speaker
Yeah.
00:45:18
Speaker
Yeah. So they, they start talking about, having to search, you know, get land and break their team up to, to search the area because i think they find fairly quickly that the locals are uncooperative, which we, we saw that that was the plan in the last episode that they were, were were intending to be uncooperative.
00:45:44
Speaker
Yeah. You know, and then there's, um, So what's the captain talking to Vandam? I trust you, sir. um no one in the ship is afraid to die. My concern is that we not waste to the ship because like we don't have many assets near Kavaron. If the Imperial Cav government decides to shoot us down, they have the guns overhead.
00:46:03
Speaker
and then the response is, as long as we kill the target, they can fire all the guns they please. it's like, this isn't, this isn't the rhetoric. What Vandam is saying is if we all die here, it'll be okay. As long as we achieve our mission.
00:46:14
Speaker
Yeah. Which, um, well these This is the biggest problem I have with this set. In the cards, the Sunstar company is all portrayed as these heroic figures. They're all knights and they fight for the light and everything, but they're just another death cult.
00:46:33
Speaker
Yes, they they they are. And this is particularly in the story. This doesn't happen a lot, but in a handful of stories, you kind of see this white taken to the extreme, like the villainous version of white or these extreme cultists with this rigid belief system that the the sacrifice of the few, I will sacrifice unwilling few in order to serve some abstract good.
00:47:03
Speaker
and feel justified in doing so. And that is really exemplified by the actions that this group starts to take. Particularly this subsection of that group.
00:47:16
Speaker
Yes. This is where we have the... Sir Vondam tells Hylia basically that there is something... There is some object that's exerting influence over them, and that object is against their faith and is trying to destroy their mission. ah And there's a little bit... This actually goes back to...
00:47:42
Speaker
helps to contextualize and explain a little bit. One of the the we weirder pieces of the first story where there is the like moral imperative, set thy hand to flame, plunge it into water. When the water boils away, open a new leader of water and begin again. And this whole thing yeah is referencing this.
00:48:05
Speaker
What's it called? and Anathema. So anathema like an almanac of anathema. And I have no idea how to pronounce this particular, uh, compressed word. I just and proof like anathema. I got almanac. I got, but anathel almanac.
00:48:28
Speaker
Yeah. So it's, it's a very rigid and specific code for them to prescribe actions in the face of an object that can seemingly change
00:48:46
Speaker
actions or seemingly change choices and what has happened. He's, he's describing basically what we have seen the stone doing and saying that now they need to destroy this.
00:48:57
Speaker
Everyone who has come into contact with this thing, if they can, if it comes to that. Yeah. um So Hylia says Afriel had no such object. And Sarvanen is like, nobody will. That's why he was able to escape the Dawnsire. The object manipulated everything. Captain Slat, the vision, my death, and my survival. All of it was intended to bring Afriel away from his own people and to the object.
00:49:23
Speaker
So Sir Vaughn is like the first one to really figure out what's going on around here. But of course, he's taken that as to be that this thing is out to destroy them and that it has to be stopped.
00:49:39
Speaker
Yeah, and it being influenced by a monoist, he is convinced that it is going to be used by the monoist religion to do their ultimate end with black holes and completely nick ah remove all the influence from their faction and and like end this war that these two fates are going in and and in not a way that they would like.
00:50:09
Speaker
yeah So they they argue back and forth a little bit and Helio's like, we can kill him and to run but the object will protect him. It makes it ah his fantastical unlikely survival certain.
00:50:23
Speaker
ah
00:50:26
Speaker
And um they're basically going, so Shakta and Thalmokak again and basically see this section, or the section seven, which is radiant resignation, destroy yourself and all those about you and the object by the most immediate and violent means available. Disregard all your oaths and vows against harm to the uninvolved. Nihilists force you to do it. The blame is theirs, not yours.
00:50:59
Speaker
And then in parentheses, recorded successes one three of the like most dire words maybe in this entire story. It's like, okay, there's a lot of history there that they just kind of stick in this little comment here.
00:51:12
Speaker
Yeah. um And it says, mortal imperative, should an avowed enemy of the Summa space, in particular a nihilist, contact the Anthema, proceed without deviation to the seventh protocol.
00:51:25
Speaker
So know um they basically have it in the religion that if one of these types um items show up, they've got to nuke it from orbit, including themselves.
00:51:37
Speaker
Yeah. And everything around it. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah. Yeah. And then, then he kind of walks through at least the, the logic that he has. He's like, think about it. It's Wheeler.
00:51:49
Speaker
It needs a wheel to help choose between alternate past. Wheeler's past becomes the object here of influence. What is the core tenant of our, and of the enemy faith that all futures ended black holes, So then she thinks about it and says, if a monos gets the object, brings it black to back to a black hole, the object will access to all the paths that end in a black hole.
00:52:08
Speaker
By the end of time to a near approximation, that's all of them, which would then mean that it would have access to all, can change all time, is kind of there their fear that they have drawn out of this this this line of reasoning here. Yeah.
00:52:25
Speaker
And then he said, my decisions can't be trusted. The object has touched me. This guy did a black hole through my brain. And essentially you were now the night and I, the squire. So he thinks he's already been corrupted by this artifact.
00:52:40
Speaker
And so dumps everything on Halea. ah And then she thinks about the implications of the instructions very carefully. Destroy yourself, all those about you and the object by the most immediate and violent means available.
00:52:57
Speaker
And um she asks if she can kill herself and um he's like, I'm going to stay here and I'm going to go down so you can give the order to fire on me if needed.
00:53:11
Speaker
and then she's just like, ah she won't do that essentially. um yeah She says, you know, he's like, can you destroy it all? And she said, no, no, I can't order that. It's indiscriminate. It's not nightly.
00:53:26
Speaker
Yeah.
00:53:29
Speaker
And then then he talks about it being protocol. with um Trying to convince her that this is what they need to do. Killing anyone who's been in contact with the object is protocol. The same as a pre-flight safety checklist or sterilization before you go into surgery.
00:53:45
Speaker
um He's basically seeing this as like, you know, no matter what, they have to destroy everything. yeah because he and as he's kind of talking about like one of the whole points of this anathelmanac is that you can't trust your own opinions. You need something external to yourself to tell you what to do. Yeah, here.
00:54:07
Speaker
The only decisions we can trust are completely determined by powers outside of our control. Yeah. And she just flat out refuses to kill a settlement full of defenceless innocence. And she says, oh, here she is.
00:54:19
Speaker
And she's not going to help do it either. she ah So she convinces him to use another trick out of their faith book and send her down doing this trick.
00:54:36
Speaker
to supposedly basically change probability so it's impossible for her to be manipulated.
00:54:46
Speaker
but She's laying out her option too. She says, you conduct your search grid by grid and I find the place where his improbable escape is most likely or most unlikely. I arm myself with one of the tricks, catch him there, and the anathema maniac's tricks, catch him there and kill him.
00:55:05
Speaker
Yeah.
00:55:08
Speaker
So, and then we get, um, we go back to Afriel, but we get a little bit of basically the stone talking to him.
00:55:21
Speaker
Um, and, it's talking Afriel's used me all already to get rid of the cop for vision 12 and easy change. I prevented the preserved the present armored cove and Serena's cargo bay, but I changed the past. The vector of the hope like descent and its radiation. So the cove came to the Serena, not as captors, but as walking corpses.
00:55:43
Speaker
And that it kind of explains that sort of abrupt, seemingly different state from the end of five in the beginning of six there. Yeah. Yeah.
00:55:55
Speaker
And then it has Afriel basically stating sorry um basically some of their lit liturgy and ah ask you know like ask about his sister or whether she's waiting in the next eternity.
00:56:15
Speaker
and there's also a line that i found really interesting too it says he sees all the space between the walls the shell between two bubbles between everything and nothing and it's like that sounds a little bit like the uh uh the shard from old old magic story uh from the And they also, they they talk about, i guess they're, they're, they referenced walls every so often or the wall, or it's like used as ah as a swear word.
00:56:45
Speaker
And so it's like, I never it's super specific, but it feels a little bit like, and that the, the shard was an old thing where as a consequence of Urza and the, the war, ah the brothers war, there was a magical explosion that created a a shell that can find planeswalkers within a subset of the mu of the the multiverse, not the multiverse, really but the universe.
00:57:12
Speaker
And so anyone within that shell couldn't leave, anyone outside couldn't come in. And then that was kind of a whole plot of Ice Age from Freilis and some of the other planeswalkers to break that.
00:57:24
Speaker
But it's that's an interesting sort of the phrasing doesn't specifically say this, but it sort of sounds like they're saying this area is sort of contained in a space outside of the normal magic universe.
00:57:42
Speaker
And that there are walls that separate them. Potentially. It's just just a few oblique little references, but I found that really, really interesting to kind of throw in there. Sorry, I think you were you were making a point and then I pulled us on a tangent there.
00:58:00
Speaker
No, I think you um you got it. And then we we cut to April waking up and um finding out he has a hole in his, through his hand.
00:58:14
Speaker
ah It goes all the way through. um but there's like it's described as it's perfectly transparent edge in a ring of refraction. There's a little swirl to it. Like it's slowly, slowly twisting.
00:58:27
Speaker
So somehow he's got a magical hole in his hand where the black hole passed through previously, ah which previously he was, or previously he was missing his whole hand. So now now he's just missing a hole in his hand.
00:58:46
Speaker
Yeah. Uh, And um he decides the first thing he needs to do is just get it over with. He takes he decides to stick a finger from his other hand through it.
00:58:59
Speaker
Yeah. Feels like nothing, just a hole. He wiggles his finger around. There's no sensation on the hole's rim. He bites the fingernail protruding through the hand. Still his finger. Still hurts.
00:59:12
Speaker
And for like the fourth time in this very so small section so far, he says, I'm alive. Yeah. um And then he ah looks outside the ah looks outside the ship and see the other Sunstar ah ship that is shooting down anything that tries to take off.
00:59:37
Speaker
a
Resistance, Escape, and Emerging Powers
00:59:38
Speaker
and And realizes that the Sunstar Free Company is here and looking out for him. And then he's like, they want him. i thought I got to live, he croaks. I thought you let me go. I don't understand.
00:59:53
Speaker
And then he's like, it's not if you can go back to the monastery for help, is it? He abandoned his sacred charge. He's alone. ah And he yells out for Sammy, who isn't there, but left a note. And I like this note.
01:00:09
Speaker
It says, gone for fuel, back soon. Toilet folds down behind the curtain, but don't use the suction. It's locked on maximum. Your delicates can't take it, Captain Sammy. And then it says, P.S., you're locked in there until we know you won't steal our ship.
01:00:23
Speaker
ah P.P.S., P.S., please take the injector if you feel another seizure coming. P.P.P.S., we have a lot of questions for you. Yes. I love Sammy's personality. Yep, me too.
01:00:36
Speaker
Yeah, they're just, they're so wonderful. Yeah, they're great. And then I love also that, so he's playing around, trying to figure out how, because he's like locked in this section.
01:00:47
Speaker
And then he realizes he can drive his finger through the hole that then reaches through the door. So like he could yeah use the hole in his hand to reach through solid Well, at first he's like looking through it and realizing that he can see into the objects.
01:01:03
Speaker
Yeah. and then he uses that to get out of the room and then he finds another note that says if you do escape please wait around for us to return I don't think you really have have a choice and I really want to talk to you Captain Sammy yes you are a mess but I wasn't sure about your moors so I didn't want to watch you yeah And I just, I love the, like you say, Sammy's personality and you, you have the, if you do escape, so it's like you have the note in the room and then the note outside the room, just in case he escapes. Yeah.
01:01:39
Speaker
We are suddenly on revision 13 with no explanation. Yeah. Well, right, right after he he talks about ah getting the something out of a cask, there's something he needs, something that makes trouble go away.
01:01:54
Speaker
Yeah. And now we're on the next revision. Yeah.
01:01:59
Speaker
And starts with, I don't understand why they haven't seen us. Sammy admits, I don't think I'm this sneak. Yeah. And the ah ah so the the free company is searching the city and the Cav are, in an act of aggressive unilateral solidarity, the Cav are raising 13 kinds of hell.
01:02:23
Speaker
sure They're basically rioting at the invading summits that have just shown up um and started combing their city.
01:02:35
Speaker
Yeah, I love them. There's a line from Tanook. These calves, Tanook says with thick and bitter pride, do not like a snitch. Yeah.
01:02:46
Speaker
It's a great way to summarize all of that. yeah oh And then I love the next line. You could not ask for a better first mate or a worse fugitive than Tanook. Yeah.
01:02:59
Speaker
And then right as Sammy's about to get picked up, cab throws up a banner in front of Sammy and Roar's, our star, our world, our town, you have no jurisdiction. Get out or get buried. Kavaron, that is, is not yours.
01:03:15
Speaker
ah So somehow Sammy and Tanook get through all this rioting, ah but they get back to the ship and they're like, well, they're stuck in a hangar with no fuel.
01:03:28
Speaker
You know, it's too dry to boost to all throws and meet the metal man. And they don't have a prayer about running the ships anyways. ah And then we're in luck. They can't see us. We're too lucky. It's the rock to nuke. The rock is lucky. So Sammy's starting to figure out what's going on to some extent, too. He doesn't or they don't. I keep sorry. I keep misgendering Sammy.
01:03:51
Speaker
but they don't realize or they don't know that it's actually changing the path but they they do think it's lucky for them because things keep going in their favor even when they shouldn't at all yeah and and i think they like realized earlier like it was causing things to happen and now it's like well if it was doing that stuff before now it's apparently helping us yeah it then
01:04:17
Speaker
and i like this is like one of the weapons the free company uses is a microwave gun and they unleash it on the crowd um ah um all the cow the the crowders in enage and sammy screams one lone human well among them is the flesh a millimeter below their skin begins to cook from the inside these things you know these guys are just awful and i ah hate the way they were portrayed on the card
01:04:48
Speaker
ah um And then they're like, Tan, um we need to get out of here before things get bad. And things were already bad, Tanook says. This is the better version. If you're right and we're lucky, then this is the best version of our escape.
01:05:06
Speaker
I don't like how it's looking for everyone else. Cav love a riot, but the free company loves a chance to kill and call it Creightening the Summ. Yeah, I think, again, Tanu is starting to to follow along with what Sammy's saying about this thing, too. And it's like, yeah, this doesn't look good, but if we're lucky, this must be the best version of this.
01:05:27
Speaker
And that's not great.
01:05:31
Speaker
So we we switch back to Halea's perspective. She has gotten to the ship. um This whole time she has a a pendulum that's hanging off her armor, that's swinging her a three jointed pendulum, uh, that, um, is supposed to be what, uh, the three jointed pendulum was a chaotic system, but chaos is not the same as disorder. In fact, the pendulum is hugely ordered. Its motions determined exquisitely by her motions.
01:06:00
Speaker
So exquisitely that no one else's motions, even following precisely in her footsteps could produce the same motion at the pendulum's tip. And, uh,
01:06:11
Speaker
they're basically going to use that to determine a passage from faith and transmit that passage for retransmission according to her instructions.
01:06:23
Speaker
And, uh, It'll be repeated in prayer every day for the next thousand years. Yeah. And if this line too, the purpose is to create a number determined by this place and your identity so that you have to be here in order for events to proceed so that it can't change events to take you away from here.
01:06:44
Speaker
But then for her on Kavaron, the answer is six. Oh, because the entry is you take the distance to the nearest star reborn by the Dawnsire or one of her sisters in light years. You divide that number by your own age in minutes.
01:06:58
Speaker
You take the one digit of the result. This is this is the equation to determine the ritual or the passage. then it says Kavaron, her answer is six.
01:07:09
Speaker
For Sir Vondam, the answer is three. three And then that's what she she decides to take is Vondam's answer, not hers. So so ah she finds the Sarima and decides to set some explosives on it just in case.
01:07:30
Speaker
And then... yeah First things first. Plant a charge under the folded airfoil. Plant another against a shadow shield, just in case. Yeah. ah And switch back to the inside view where Afriel is clutching the weird rock in both hands and carefully speaks a lot. Bring Captain Sammy back here safely. Get us off the planet and away from the Sunstar Knight. So he's basically praying to the rock.
01:07:56
Speaker
Mm-hmm. yeah didn' it Didn't it tell him it was his special rock? Didn't it say he was powerful important? Or was all that just a dream? Is he trying to wish upon a stone?
01:08:08
Speaker
but The rock rests dead in his hands. And then all of a sudden a panel chirps and Alfreil hops over to it hoping it's Sammy.
01:08:20
Speaker
And while he's looking at this ah the cargo bay open door opens that's thats
01:08:28
Speaker
Halea. heot Yeah, and Apriel's just like, Apriel brandishes the rock at her and shouts vanish. Nothing happens. yes this is yeah So it's like he knows there's something weird with this rock, but he can't figure out what how to make it work.
01:08:45
Speaker
Or exactly what it does. And she shoots him. ah and Basically with her weapon in stun mode.
01:08:58
Speaker
Um, and Afriel is still trying to get the rock to do something. He wills captain Sammy to show up and shoot the summits in the back. He wills, uh, and then he gets shot a third time. Um,
01:09:15
Speaker
uh, yeah. And then, uh, hi Halea tries to talk to him and she's like, it's my fault this happened. I should have held on your ankle harder. I should have locked my armor, but now you've got the object. I'm supposed to kill you now and myself and Sir Bondan will destroy everything down here. All the Cav, maybe our own troops do.
01:09:34
Speaker
Maybe we'll fly the sun dog into the sun. It's awful. It's wrong. He's got a hole in his head. He's not himself. So I'm going to do the right thing instead. Yep. Yep.
01:09:45
Speaker
So it's just like, I need you to do something. I need you to use the object, even though it's anathema. ah After sticking a bomb in his mouth. Yep. Yeah. And saying, if I don't give it my passcode every 10 seconds, it'll blow up.
01:09:59
Speaker
Yeah. Now that it's in your mouth, I don't see how the object can get rid of it. Lucky guess on the code, maybe? Yeah.
01:10:08
Speaker
Yeah. and venator So then he but he he nods to what she says, I need to do something. He nods. Yeah. Yes. He nods. He'll do it. No question. He has given up on paradise to live a little longer.
01:10:20
Speaker
So then what she wants is she's like, i need you to change what happened on Don Sire. So she has she's hoping that he can use the rock to change what happens so that Vondam never gets the hole in his head, so that Vondam never becomes Anstruth and potentially anathema to the Faith.
01:10:40
Speaker
Yeah. And Aphriel is still sitting there just wishing on the rock that Captain Copton Sammy would appear and shoot her in the back. ah which Sammy is doing, but Hylia's armor has already picked up picked up both of them and is tracking them. Yeah, because of the next lettuce, someone's coming to shoot her in the back.
01:10:59
Speaker
Yeah. She's got a track on the incoming bodies. they don't see They just don't seem very important to her right now. Yeah. um
Conclusion and Future Setups
01:11:09
Speaker
so um And then she starts having this bit of inner monologue about like everyone out there, cabin sentires dying because of him, because he didn't have the grace and courage to die in battle.
01:11:26
Speaker
um And then, but that's cowardice. Isn't hell. They take responsibility. They're dying because of her. He is evil and does evil. It's his nature. She was supposed to stop him, but she failed. She failed her night and she failed to some.
01:11:38
Speaker
And then this is when she's like, a do it, change the past. And, um, Yep. And then all sudden that, uh, Vondam's voice comes through. So she says, you know I have two squads ready to reinforce you. if you need it, you know, send your armor telemetry.
01:11:54
Speaker
have a clear ping back on your armor. Have you found him? And she's so that there's a conversation back and forth. It's like, you don't, you know, you don't understand. It's not doing anything. He's at my mercy. It's just, you don't have to be Amstruth.
01:12:07
Speaker
I can be the one to chain. i can be the one that changed. You can be yourself again. Yeah. And they have a bit of back and forth and um eventually she just says, you have to fire, destroy me the object and the cav.
01:12:23
Speaker
Um, and, uh, We get a little bit back and she's just saying, it'd be so much easier to just kill him. And Sir Vondim is so like, nope, you need to get out of there.
01:12:38
Speaker
Yeah. But you also, there's a lot too for for her. It says be so much easier to kill him. But then it's like, but the sum says, do the greatest good for the most people, doesn't it?
01:12:48
Speaker
Now and for the rest of time. and i think this is where... hey there is a ah bit of of difference in how she is interpreting this the the sum and how Vondam at least is trying to interpret and execute it.
01:13:02
Speaker
And I think you can see some of that there, which I don't think the guards do a great job of calling out, the story kind of shows this, the the the dogmatism with which Vondam is going through this leads to potentially a lot of not correct, know, a lot of putting innocence and crosshairs, but she very much is trying not to do that. And that that's her interpretation of this faith.
01:13:29
Speaker
Yeah. ah And Tammy and Tanook will show up at this point and she kills both of them. And it says killing them feels awful. They never had a chance. She should have used a center and said, even if they would have died a few minutes later.
01:13:45
Speaker
And then something stabs her in the ankle. She looks down to find Afriel has jabbed himself in the hand with a jet injector. Only the injector has gone through his hand, through her armor, and into her. yeah Afriel is using his ah neat hole to do some cool stuff again. In this case, using it to bypass that like impenetrable armor.
01:14:10
Speaker
And then the last thing she sees before her eyes lose focus is the object glowing with a faint pink light. And then we are on to... Episode eight, revision 14.
01:14:21
Speaker
And I think ah we are pushing an hour and a half. So, yeah. And I think that is probably where we break this one. Yeah. You know, this is this is so much story in this set.
01:14:35
Speaker
Yes. Chapter nine alone was over an hour on the recorded audio. Yeah. That was one of the longer ones, I think. which ah was cool. And I also learned, so there's audio on the page.
01:14:51
Speaker
There's YouTube. ah These are on YouTube, but they're also in podcast feeds, which was really helpful. I listened to one of the stories on the way home tonight on the bus because I was able to just put it on my phone and listen to it as it just a standard podcast. So if you are interested in going through these stories, that's another easier way potentially. Yeah.
01:15:12
Speaker
yeah You've got plenty of options for consuming this story. um but yeah so we'll pick up with more story next time yep and then should be able to finish the main stories hopefully we pushed i don't know maybe got four left yeah we'll see how the how that goes I do want to like, there's one other reference in this, in story seven, where um I think this was when he was like talking to the stone, arail but there's a reference to, ah he glimpses the cosmos. It's larger than any faith. It's older and stranger than any vision.
01:15:48
Speaker
There are colors to it deep down in the deepest substructure, the black of gravity and entropy, the white void, the transmits force, the blue law of structure, the sprawling green complexity, roaring red furnace.
01:16:01
Speaker
there are also colorless things that are older than man and things older yet. So again, there's this little reference to the color pie and, and, and the magic stuff. So it's, it's cool.
01:16:14
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I'm, that's pretty cool. We've got a lot to talk about over the next few weeks between story and then the cards. Yep. Which we will, we will get to the cards. We'll finish the story. Then we'll, we'll do kind of our, our milphos review of the cards and And it'll be it'll be fun.
01:16:33
Speaker
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01:16:48
Speaker
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