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World of Ae'oene Bonus: Thalira and Kaldin, Part 2
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FIGHT! FIGHT!! FIGHT!!! Thalira and Kaldin flex their muscles in the bog while looking for a blighted honeysuckle bramble. What kinds of creatures are lurking in the muck? How deadly are Kaldin's mind daggers? And exactly how much constrictive force can our big lady withstand?
This show is written with adult audiences in mind and contains content that may not be suitable for younger listeners.
This episode has the following content warnings: General Violence, Strong Language
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Our cast:
- Curtiss Woosley as The GM
- MJ Guenther as Thalira Grimstone Eku'Lanathi
- Sapheara as Maeve Strongheart
- Rennie Armas as Kaldin
- Jack Baldwin as Jellen Ykalle
Addtional Credits:
- Show graphics by Sentic GFX
- Show editing Rennie Armas and MJ Guenther
- Intro/Outro music composed by Ryan Muns, Owner/Operator of Eyes On The Moon Studios
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Transcript
Introduction to Aejon's World and Vampire Chickens
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Destabilizing Foundations. Bonus content of legend. We've got vampire chickens. The World of Aejon contains stories with mature themes.
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Content warnings are in the episode description.
Bonus Episode Intro: Cat Hair in a Mug
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There was a cat hair in my mug. Welcome back. I'm so sorry, I ruined your intro. Ha ha ha ha! that that That is the intro now, actually. It is, Welcome back, audience.
00:00:35
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yeah Welcome back, audience, for another bonus episode for the world of Aeon, Stories of Legend. That was hilarious. It was really gross.
Exploring Talira's Stonespeaker Clan
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ah We've got MJ and Reddy here, so we're doing another of the three-year bonus episodes. Give you guys a little little input, little eyes into what goes on in this three-year gap between our last episode, 11 and 12. If you guys remember it last week, you all got to meet Talira's Stonespeaker clan of Goliaths.
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We're going to directly continue that story for today. So if y'all don't mind, we're just going to dive right in. Let's go, equal
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As we left off last week, Calden and Talira, you were both going to leave.
Preparing the Waystone for Transport
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Gwyneth getting ready to go to the Waystone here locally at the clan that she uses to go back and forth between her home and here to help the clan as she is obviously very good friends with your mother, Talira.
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But she goes to Ready the Waystone, this time to transport you closer to Dalavat, a city that is on the way from the few-week travel from there to the bogs in southwestern Nitrotare, in which is one of the only places that you're going to be able to find this blighted plant, the blighted honeysuckle. That is one of the ingredients that the powerful Dryad Lich, known as a Squeliad, needs to try to help your mother. Last-ditch efforts here.
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As you all begin to approach the waystone that Gwynedd is currently concentrating on preparing, Lou stops you, Kalden, and kind of pulls pulls on your pant leg as our little our little Lou bear stares up at you, kind of takes her paw, smacks the side of her head.
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He makes that mental connection between him and Liu, and he includes Talira in this. Do you want to come with us, or do you want to stay here?
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I'll be honest, um, I don't know. Kelton, I, uh, can they get me here? Um... You are surrounded by an extremely powerful Goliath clan and an incredibly powerful witch and and an old, old lich, both of whom will be more helpful than us at figuring out how to get rid of those curses on you.
00:03:22
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This is the safest place I know. If you all think I'm safe here, then... I think I'd like to... think I'd like to stay, because maybe for once I can help you, instead of you just helping me.
00:03:38
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You don't need to do anything but feel safe. But I appreciate it. Lou leans up against your leg, Talira, taking a step over from Kalden, and looks up at you, meeting your eyes.
00:03:54
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Lou? Let me at least help, too. I know the loss of a mother, and I don't want you to go through that. Let me help protect you for once.
00:04:07
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Besides, you need some salmon, and bears are good at catching salmon. It's kind of what we do. Okay. Thank you.
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And, um, I have a feeling Kiro and, um, Well, Granite Fist. She trained me.
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She'll be going. You'll be just fine. I'm glad to hear it. um She looks back but back over to you, Keldon. If I'm safe here, means you're not as safe out there.
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Be careful.
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Yeah.
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Thanks.
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We'll be back in no time.
Travel through the Waystone
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At that moment, Gwynedd stands up and gets off of her knees and pulls her arms out wide as this large, perfectly rounded stone begins to glow with not runes like someone may expect, no, these are markings that don't seem man-made.
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They are markings that would appear naturally almost like roots of a tree that grow through the ground and spread, both to connect with other trees and plants and also as a network of collecting nutrients and minerals.
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It's a similar kind of outstretched glowing pattern from the top of this rock down into the ground, as if this rock itself was living and that it was reaching into the ground to connect with something.
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As it does, this glowing aura begins to just be breathe from this rock. Gwynedd continues to hold her her arms outstretched as if she was reaching around this rock giving it a hug, and looks to both of you.
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It's time. Let's go. Okay. Let's go. All right. Just ah prepare yourself. It takes a long time to get used to how this travel is.
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Just kneel down and put your hands on the Okay. Kaladin does so. You kneel, put your hands on the rock, as soon as both of you do, comfortably not moving, Gwyneth brings her arms together in a clap, and everything goes black.
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And feels as if you're not in a void, because a void gives the inclination that there's nothing. that you are without material, that you are without life, without breath, without meaning, without energy.
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No. It is black, it is dark, but you have meaning, you have energy, you have matter. And it feels as if you're traveling with the planet, with the Earth, with the plants and the animals.
00:06:49
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You are a part of nature. And it's not instantaneous, it takes time. And you can feel that it's taking time. Time is passing. And sure enough, after what feels like several days of not loneliness, you're connected to everything, it's almost several days of like of a feeling of fulfillment, you rematerialize with hands on a different rock and immediately feel like you need to throw up.
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Well, this part sucks. Oh, I hate this feeling so much. Oh,
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but You okay? Okay. Breaths. Breathe in. o gods.
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Oh, you fuck. Um, which which way did we need to go from here? um
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Which way? Ha ha ha ha ha! towards luckily It was Dalavat and then... Dalavat, which luckily you remember both ah from the map and also from Talira just having a good sense of direction that we have established.
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That you know that to the northwest is Dalavat. And in fact, you can see the road that you are next to, that this this extremely unassuming, not glowing whatsoever, this rock that you have your hands on that you just stood up from is just an unassuming...
Cultural Exchange in Dalavat
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weirdly round rock on the side of a dirt road. And you're next to a very large river that seems to be moving extremely slowly, but does have some sort of flow to it.
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you can As you look around, you can see the ecosystem, the climate, and everything that you are around has vastly changed as you were just on the side of a mountain on the northern half of the lunar major mountains, I believe.
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And now you're next to this extremely wide, slow-moving river full of different tall grasses and marshy kind of material. The the ground seems a little softer under your feet. And as soon as you're looking around being like, I think we need to go that way around the corner of the tree line, you hear the sound of a horse whinnying and c clomping and through the the loose dirt.
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Well, I think we need to go that way, but let's see who's coming. Maybe yeah we might be able to hitch a ride? And sure enough, right around the corner, not just one, not just two, not just three, but four, five, six wagons begin to come around full of a variety of different horses. You start to hear the sound of lutes playing as realize this is a caravan.
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Hell yeah. And they greet you wonderfully and and allow you passage on their caravan through Dalavon. learning that this is a caravan of hired by merchants, but full of adventurers of different kinds that all help these merchants to acquire really rare arcane components found only in this region.
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As you go through Dalla Vat, coming in one side of the city through the giant stone wall that surrounds it, the city existing upon a large hill, not very steep, just large and wide.
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You go through Dalavatt seeing a culture you've never seen before. variety of people, all fairly welcoming, but living just a different life. You come out the other side, seeing the marsh turn into swamp in the distance.
00:10:21
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As you know, you've got a couple week hike into the box. Talir, if I remember correctly, you have a certain feature that allows you to find your way in the wilderness and things a little better, correctly? I sure do. Let me ah pull up that character sheet here and I can tell you exactly what it is.
00:10:42
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It is... I feel like I'm in the moment. I got to keep it there so I can continue. No, you're good. audience I have my hand just up and raised. Just like ready.
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ah but You're Van of Whiting to nothing. Indeed. it's it's the The feature is called Wanderer. You have an excellent memory for maps and geography, and you can always recall the general layout of terrain, settlements, and other features around you. In addition, you can find food and fresh water for yourself and up to five other people each day, provided that the land offers berries, small game, water, and so forth.
00:11:19
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Fantastic. And indeed, you remember back before you all had left, there had been a little bit of time that we did not roleplay, that Gwynedd and specifically the Scoliad created this all illusionistic map allowing for three d image of terrain and in a top-down way of the entire region of the southwest corner of Nichotari.
00:11:42
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pointing out certain roads and certain terrains to stay away from, and you're able to guide yourself and Kalden in the direction you need to go. Now, the direction you need to go obviously isn't an exact. You know that this blighted honeysuckle that you're looking for It's not known where it's at. You just know the environment in which you can find it. and That it is located northeastern of Hidat, I believe is the town, in those bogs somewhere.
00:12:09
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You have a search upon you, and it's going to take time. And you have several weeks to even get there in the first place. As you continue along this hike for several weeks, something I want to ask both of you, is there... and during this hike, do you have any certain discussions that are highlighted, or is it just the normal Kalden, Talira, being good buddies along this way, just making sure to really pay attention, keep alive, survive?
00:12:35
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Most of it is just going to be their normal everyday Talk? Talira wants to ask questions, but she is not sure how to bring anything up.
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Does she try? a little, but she definitely does not push. What does she try to ask? So, it's pretty clear the thing that
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At Lou is either similar or even the same as who had you. Is there anything I need to know to protect you?
00:13:21
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Um...
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I... ice I think for now it's more important to we focus on your mom and... and Lou. and Okay. Okay.
00:13:35
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All right. And you continue on. I did the all right thing again. You guys just called me out on that. That's crazy. That's crazy. I'm catching it real time. There we go. Audience, they're calling me out on all my little habits.
00:13:48
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ah um All right. As we continue. I did it again. That's crazy.
00:13:55
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you're going to get so self-conscious about every single habit you have. I really am. Literally, the only reason we call you out is because we listen to it for hours. I know. Hours in editing. For anybody that doesn't listen to our credits at the end, ah you're talking to MJ and Renny, who also happen to be the people who edit the show now um and have been for a while. so Rip. Yeah.
00:14:20
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but They listen me talk a lot. Anyway, as you all continue on after said conversation, you make your way into
A Chaotic Encounter with a Vampire Chicken
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the swamps and the swamps continue for so long, kind of going in between swamp and marsh and swamp and marsh until you get to a point where the swamp starts to become even more acidic. The trees die down as far as size go and you get into more of the barren bog land.
00:14:48
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Trees still exist in portions and in spots where the swamp kind of begins to meet with the bog and in in ways, providing certain spots that aren't maybe aren't as navigatable and maybe a little more dangerous, but sometimes unavoidable.
00:15:03
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And sure enough, as you go through one of these spots, the trees get a little thicker as ivy and dead amalgamations of flora hang from barely live branches.
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You hear a rustling. In what direction from us? How close by? It's a bit in the distance. Less than 100 feet. Do we both notice it right away?
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i would I would say probably yes. Does it have a sense of danger? Does does the rustle have a sense of danger to it? Is there a sense of danger emanating from my axe?
00:15:41
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Oh. And then you can say ass. No. Is there a sense of danger emanating from my ass? But not that kind. Healthy digestive system.
00:15:59
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Too many beans, dude. No. No, not currently, at least. But as the rustling continues, it turns less rush ah rustling and it gets a little louder and changes sound as you're able to kind of locate it a little bit better. As you look and see there's a mud mound in the distance kind of in between a couple different trees.
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And it becomes a little more ferocious. And somehow, I don't know what this, I don't even know how to describe the sound other than serrated. And weirdly enough, you hear some clucks thrown in there.
00:16:30
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Hmm. Serrated clucks. Serrated clucks. Now we all know what that sounds like. I don't know. I'm still stuck on Talira's ass like being so great. Like the clapping of it is alerting the flora and fauna.
00:16:49
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Oh my God. The clapping of of her ass cheeks. Not her ass is not serrated. that would be wild. That would be so wild.
00:17:02
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I don't even want to imagine what that would look like. Oh, no. I just, ah, why is my brain like this? That's so funny. I just imagine.
00:17:15
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What I just pictured was, like, a Microsoft Paint issue, like, image of my Hero Forge to Lyra, but just instead of her butt, it's just, like, jagged lines.
00:17:30
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Like pixel art? Yeah, pixel art. Okay. That's hilarious. Yeah. right. Okay. Yeah. Sorry. So good to get back into it. As you guys hear this and you take notice and and see the direction very quickly, paying no attention to you.
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In fact, you don't really notice until it's past you. And again, your axe never gives you any warning. You see a slimy sort of reptilian creature almost slither across the top of the shallow waters that surround this kind of swampy bog.
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Its wide, thin web claws extend out from its slender body, it races towards the sound you just heard. Neither of you able to get a really good idea of what exactly this is, other than you can you can tell it's reptilian and amphibious in some manner.
00:18:21
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And the other thing you can probably notice is that this movement isn't normal for this thing. You can tell there's almost a sense of panic. Kalden, you specifically, you get you get the sense that you recognize having a love for animals in a way that you've had before.
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You can recognize one of the mother animals in panic.
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Oh. I think... I think maybe her nest is being attacked. If we're near a nest, we should probably also be careful.
00:18:54
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Good thinking, yes. You continue on, finding as many footfalls that you're not going to sink into, trying to go through this more swampy area of the box. Holy shit! Is that a vampire chicken?!
00:19:10
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serrated clucks. The serrated clucks.
00:19:13
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somehow appearing similar to a chicken explaining the clux that you heard small the serrated clux the serrated collects with small almost like small hints of orange under its feathers it's beak you get ah you get a just a blur of it seeing that it is indeed a serrated be I thought you were talking about the sound of the clocks also being orange. And I'm like, how do you hear orange? I hear orange. I am a synesthetic. But like, how does anyone, how do I describe orange to someone else?
00:19:45
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Wild. I don't, you know, great question. What's also crazy, though, is the fact that it's also the size of Talira. And it's coming barreling through the mud towards the road and both of you at lightning speed.
00:20:00
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Oh, holy shit. Holy shit. Is that a vampire chicken? I told you they're real. and right redy knew that And right behind it is the reptile that you saw running towards its nest just moments ago.
Defending Against Camilodiles
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Move.
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Yeah, she moves. Move.
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It blindly runs directly into you, Kaldon, knocking you off your feet, sending blood splatter and yolk off of its beak from the eggs that it was just consuming, and continues on as if you did not exist, just plowing through this obstacle.
00:20:38
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And it's quickly out of sight. Fuck! Ow. The slithering lizard gives up as it nears you all, not not caring and not wanting to be around any other potential predators, and goes back to what is left of its nest.
00:20:51
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I probably should have also moved. Are you okay? Yeah. It's my pride more than anything. Actually, I might be bruised.
00:21:02
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Ugh. That'll heal at least. It'll put some color on you. You're really pale, you know. i don't think ah purple skin is my color.
00:21:13
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ah Good point. That's fair. When I blush, I blush purple, but i that's I'm Goliath. I have gray skin. As you all have a moment of trying to gather yourself, having this conversation, assuming that the danger is gone, it is in fact There's a little bubbling of water the shallow water. As it's near Kalden, the water bubbles, and you don't see it until it moves as a large creature lunges and snaps with long-toothed jaws at you.
00:21:40
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Kalden... ah Is... Cal... Okay. What is the position between Calden and Talira versus the water? Like, is she it is behind is she behind him as far as where the water is?
00:21:55
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No, it is water, Calden, Talira, tree. In a line, essentially. He wants to somehow shove her out of the way while also moving.
00:22:09
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So you're going to move forward to Talira trying to shove her away from the water, like into the tree or I guess to the side of the tree? It's just like out of the path of where this thing is moving.
00:22:22
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Okay. It's mainly, it mainly has lunged from directly behind you as you somehow were able to notice it in time. I heard the noise. So Keldon hears something. does Do I feel any sort of ah thing?
00:22:39
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Yes. As Keldon is lunging towards you, narrowly avoiding the snap of this creature that you see. As it as it snaps, you can see the camouage its perfect camouflage of its of its scaled reptilian torso already beginning to change color again.
00:22:56
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Calden realizes why he lunged at you, not realizing before, but rather in real time, before he could even think. He just reacted as he noticed an eye blink on the tree behind you. As basically the same creature, just a different one, lunges off the side of this tree, snatching its large crocodile-like jaws across you, just nicking your armor.
00:23:17
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Calden luckily saving you, and ah at this point you were distracted, and you're feeling your your axe pulse. So I felt the axe go, and um and and as this is going, Talira is about to say, Oh shit, something wants us, are we running?
00:23:37
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Ah, Calden! Oh shit! And as quickly as it started, these what are known as Camilodiles scurry into the water and disappear, not able to be seen.
00:23:51
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As quickly as they lunged, they're gone again.
00:23:55
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um I think best to be super on our guard now. I think so, yes.
00:24:06
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And as you all continue on guard, through the swamps, into into the bogs, you find that the the kind of mixture of the two different ecosystems begin to to fade as it becomes just boggy.
Approaching the Dangerous Honeysuckle
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As you... on guard taking watches as much as needed. few days of searching these bogs, finding nothing. And finally, it's almost as if a deity presented it to you.
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In the middle of the bog, there seems to be ah a risen area, a little mound of dirt that seems like less soaked with water, almost like it's dry because the plant's using it. You see a ah bush blighted in black,
00:24:54
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Yet, these golden honeysuckles glowing off of it. As if... Saying fuck you to nature itself.
00:25:04
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Is this it? I think that's it. It has to be it. That's the only thing it can be. I'll be honest, I wasn't sure we were going to be able to find I mean, they said it was here, so... But yeah. How do we...
00:25:20
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ah Did he say it needed to be fresh? I don't remember. It's been so long. How do we...
00:25:27
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um We should have brought a spell for that. Fuck! And there is you all have finally found it, yet to approach it. Trying to figure out exactly what to do from here on out.
00:25:41
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I have to ask, do you approach it? Knowing what we know about this area and the amount of care we have had to take with maneuvering, Kaladin is going to be doing like a pretty thorough look around and kind of like hold his hand in front of Talira like, okay, we need to make sure that we're not about to die going to grab this flower. Good move because Talira absolutely would have taken a step towards that flower.
00:26:12
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And as you do that, Talir, you also, being almost reminded by this from Kalden, to have a sense of sense of caution. One thing you remember, as you start to think cautiously about this area, you start to put two and two together, where are you on the map?
00:26:26
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And you think, maybe, you might be in the Firebomb Mudlands. Hmm. And upon remembering that, there were a few things, creatures per se, beasts, monsters of the region that you may need to be worried about. And one of those was different forms of giant snakes.
00:26:45
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Cool.
00:26:49
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Cool, cool. Nice. I like giant snakes. They kill you easily. They're fun. Now, are these the venomous kind or the strangle you to death kind? Yeah, yeah. A solid mix.
00:27:01
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Cool. Nice. Love it. Different, you know, see different different ones. Yep, yup yep, yep. Do we get the vibe of any around, perchance? Do we sense any snakes or snake-like behaviors? we hear any snakes? Where are you currently standing?
00:27:18
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On solid ground? I don't know. and We're in a bog. Nothing's solid. It's kind of like marshy and squishy. i don't know. The closer you are to like tree roots. Oh, that's fair. You know, I would say, I mean, at some point you all are going to cautiously approach this bush, correct? Yeah. Oh, absolutely. are we completely covered in like dried mud at this point?
00:27:40
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Probably up to like mid-course, oh yeah. Nice, fun. Love to see it. Yeah, absolutely. um I'll say, is when you do finally, cautiously approach this blighted bush, you don't notice any snakes yet by any means, but your axe begins to pulse.
00:27:57
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Something wants us, um, let's keep an eye out. Watch my back? If you watch mine. All right, as you move forward and you get to this bush, the water all around you begins to move.
00:28:14
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Oh shit. Oh fuck. All right, back. Not only that, but the mud that you had just walked through that you thought almost looked like a walking path, moves as it begins to fall around a body that is rising.
00:28:29
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What the fuck is that? Snake? How close did I get to the flower? are you If you're the one leading, you got two. Okay. I'm going to grab it real fast.
00:28:43
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All right. You're going to try to rip off just one honeysuckle? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Whatever. Whatever I can. Okay. well We'll say you managed to get two or three in a very quick succession. Okay.
00:28:59
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and very But in the same manner, very quickly as these things, whenever they're ready to attack, snakes don't move slowly. As you see this massive slithering body rising ahead comes out of the water as you are face to face with the
Battle with the Titanoboa
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Titanoboa.
00:29:14
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As it continues to move and tighten in around you, rising up around this blighted bush. Talira rushes in and picks Kalden up.
00:29:27
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yeah As she goes giant and she like basically scruffs Kalden by whatever she can grab of him and moves him out of the way.
00:29:45
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All right, so to be able to get Kalden out of the way of being constricted, it will require Kalden to be thrown as it is rising around. I believe I can fly. All right, get that ready for a tough landing, Kalden.
00:30:00
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And she politely hucks him. Politely. With all due respect, yeet. Yeet. fantastic Kobe.
00:30:15
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Kobe for accuracy, yeet for distance. There we go, there we go. Kaladin is yeeted out of the incoming constrit constriction as very quickly after that, Talira, you yourself in this giant form are constricted. This thing being so massive that in your giant form, your body is not able to be seen, only your head.
00:30:35
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shit but there are All right. Well, it's a good thing. ah She's strong AF. She's drunk. She is going to, as this thing is closing around her, she's making sure she has her axe up and in front of her chest and just starts, you know, you know that scene from Kill Bill in ah Kill Bill 2 when she's in the coffin and she's just like,
00:31:05
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yeah Yes. That moment with, just yeah, getting herself out of this boa, just death by a thousand little cuts. Okay. As you're sitting there trying to get it, it's making just tiny little, it's not like this this boa, it has like titanium skin or anything. You're absolutely doing damage, but as it's continuing to slither and constrict, you're not doing a damage in the same spot. So it is quite literally like death by a thousand little cuts. It's little chunkier, chunkier, chunkier, chunkier.
00:31:33
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Calden, what are you doing? Calden has also thrown several of psychic daggers at this thing. Yeah. And is on his way to come back, negating Talira's throwing of him. And of course, as as this thing is like closing in, i'm I'm sure her legs are fairly constricted. She's still like pushing out with her chest and her shoulders and you know all of that good stuff, trying to- Fantastic. Yeah.
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As you're doing that, Kaladin, you throw those those psychic daggers at it, you find that they're they're doing quite a bit of damage. This thing is not super intelligent, not super wise, it is a beast, and so any kind of saving throws that it would have to make, it it it very quickly starts failing. As this thing reels back and you hear a loud hiss, almost like a like ah like a steam engine hiss, is is what it's going sound similar to.
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As it reels back and it constricts further to allow itself more of its body to use as a neck so it can try to strike at you. Oh, that's fine. The next time it tries that and Talira cuts, she is going to activate one of her giant runes to do some additional fire damage to it. Fantastic. What do you do, Kelton? As its mouth, like, opens, he's actually going to take one of his real daggers that he has, and he wants to chuck it into that thing's mouth.
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Hell yeah. Fantastic, and you do it as it slides on down its gullet. At first, not seeming like it's doing anything, but then you start to like see like little shivers at certain parts of its body as it's constricting tighter and tighter as it's starting to poke within it, as if it would be taking damage every round, for instance. As the axe on fire it lights into the side of this Titanopoa, it finally takes enough damage and enough pain where it begins to loosen just enough for Talira to be able to push out with her elbows. Fuck. yeah And as she gets herself free of the boa, she takes her axe and just whacks at the head.
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Fantastic. Any last, any last attacks from Kaldun as well? A few more psychic daggers as he is moving out of the way of where the head is facing as quickly as he can, but he wants to get over to Talir to like try and help her get out.
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Not that he can carry her weight at all. As you are rushing to Talira, it actually goes to make a strike at you, and as it does, you notice throw a psychic dagger, and it almost like stops in its tracks as it has to reel back from the immense amount of pain that hits its head, and in that
Returning from the Bogs
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moment, it it it happens to reel back towards Talira, allowing the axe to find home in the base of its skull, as it finally falls limp as you get there, Galdon, and you all have made it out alive.
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I think that is line end on.
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how about we leave that sounds like a good plan um i'd like to get these back to mom but are you okay i'm fine are you okay i'm fine i've seen worse we'll unpack that later
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i think that is a great line to end on I think right there is where we're going to end this.
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Oh my gosh. As you all have survived the encounter with the great Titanoboa, surprisingly, not as strong as it seems, really ruling the ecosystem in that like specific area, just basically on size for the most part.
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Great job, guys. And we'll pick up right where we left off in another bonus episode coming to you soon. Audience, thank you so much for listening, and we will see you next time. Goodbye.
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We would like to thank our cast, myself, Curtis Woosley, as the GM, MJ Gunther as Talira Grimstone Echilinathi, Saphira as Maeve Strongheart, Renny Armas as Calden, and Jack Baldwin as Yelan Yacol.
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Additional thanks to Scentic GFX for our graphics, to MJ and Renny here for our show editing, and our intro and outro music composed by Ryan Moons, owner operator of Eyes on the Moon Studios.
Galette's Elemental Rebirth Plot
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you
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Our mind's eye takes us to a plane that is not of the material. No, it is a plane of the primordial. One might say a primordial mirror of the material.
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Our mind's eye takes us to a scene that is many miles from the edge of the Sea of Wildfire to a town, an outpost, mind you, off the edge of the mountainside, finding some sort of shelter.
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Within a large limestone igloo, the sound of a chest rustling open is heard as a fiery red-skinned ganasi makes his way through the door. Mm, Galette, glad to see you're awake.
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I've got some good news for you. Our gal, Verutha. I've been informed she will no longer be providing her services for us. A gray-skinned genasi with vibrant blue fire emitting out of the top of his head in the shape of almost a mohawk rises up off of one knee from opening this chest, holding a sword that appears to be broken off.
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Just half a foot above the hilt, the hilt being of radiant, fire-enchanted gold, emitting heat visibly. This man turns to Gliengassi, who just entered within his igloo.
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Ah, Veruth is gone. Glad to hear it. I believe now we can finally take the next steps towards the resolution of my father's plan. This ganasi, called Galette, reaches back down into the chest to grab a sheath that he pulls out and places this broken sword into. The sheath adorned with the finest engravings of flame patterns seen in all the lands.
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As if it's living. And just above the roar of the ever-burning flames of this region, you can hear the whisper of this Ganassi speaking to the sword. Don't worry, the elements will be reborn in your honor, father.
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And our mind's eye retreats from the scene as the roar of those flames continues forevermore.