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What up, suckers? No, I'll set that over. Hey,

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everybody, I bet you're really excited for the

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next episode of Fantasy Pants. Well, it's not

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coming. Ha! Gotcha, suckers, because it is the

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year anniversary. Episode 50 is out right now.

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50! Can you believe it? And next week, for our

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anniversary of the first time we sent an episode

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out to the public, to you guys, we're going to

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a rec fair! Fucking Renaissance Fair! I'm so

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excited. So we're going to take a week off. We're

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going to take a little break because we deserve

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it, damn it. So we're back. We're back next week.

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It's going to be awesome. Enjoy episode 50 and

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also enjoy this little trailer from our friend,

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Hammer of the Gods. This is Dungeon Master Rick

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here with Hammer of the Gods. Do you enjoy socially

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awkward bards? I pull out 50 gold and I put it

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in the guard's hand and say, can I go see the

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snakes now? Dungeons and Dragons, and mildly

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inappropriate humor. Haha, looks like Daniel's

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our new DM. Hi, Daddy. Did you just call me Daddy?

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I've been here for 10 seconds and we're already

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jumping straight to Daddy. Alright. And epic

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fantasy combined with alternate history and a

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splash of Greek and other ancient mythologies

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thrown in for flavor. Why do the other Olympians

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avoid Dionysus? Because all he does is whine.

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Ooh, I'm praying to death here just now. Then

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you'll love Hammer of the Gods. You can find

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Patreon at patreon .com slash ham pod. That's

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H -A -M -M -P -O -D. Zebulon Black. His body

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has been sent back to the Citadel. But he will

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be collected by Speaker Cholet. She will oversee

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preparations for a full funeral. And we will,

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of course, be streaming that live when the time

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comes. Zebulon lived as a hero. Died as a hero.

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I will mourn for him for all my years. His light

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burn bright and fast. I did not know him long

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at all, but he saved me from a great, great darkness.

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And if you knew him, if you really knew him,

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you'd understand the true tragedy of his loss.

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But I find that it helps me in these times to

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remember that our 25 worlds are made of so many

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good, brave folk. Heroes like Zebulon may fall

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on their quests, but they'll never truly be gone,

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not so long as there are others. waiting in the

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wings, ready to carry on their will and finish

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what they started. Hello, everyone. I am David

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Monroe, your host for tonight's ceremony. Come

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on. Come on. Tough crowd. Cheer. Yeah, all right.

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Big crowd tonight. Big crowd tonight. So sexy.

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Look at those eyes. Big crowd tonight. Are you

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guys ready? Are you guys ready? Sure. For the

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Fancy Pants biannual zippies. Wait, what? The

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biannual zippies? Yeah, it's biannual. It's biannual

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now. I'm lost. All right. I feel underdressed.

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I got some awards here for some very, very talented

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folk. And I want to get into it. You forgot the

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zippies. Yeah, I did. I mentioned it to you today.

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I forgot it still. I said we're doing more zippies.

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It's right on red as our top number one bit.

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People loved it. They asked for more. And damn

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it, I'm going to deliver. I'm going to deliver

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here right now with some awards for a couple

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of great players. You guys ready for this? Ready

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for this? I'm so ready. All right. It's my first

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envelope here. All right. Flip envelope in my

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hand. Okay. I should probably get some buttons

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in my hand as well. Hang on. Okay. We start with

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the perfect dramatic staging award, which goes

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to... This envelope opens. I'll do that one.

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It's better. Jeremy Wolf! Now, Jules giving into

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his rage just led to such an incredibly thrilling

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conclusion to our three -parter. I mean, that

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build -up, the hands over eyes, the use of your

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dark given powers in such a rage -fueled scene.

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Oh, Jeremy Wolf, that was beautiful. Beautiful

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character playing, and it led to some unforgettable

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gaming. Just take this button, sir. Take this

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button. Thank you. I'll take it. Beautiful man.

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Absolutely. Wow, this is the first one in, like,

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months. Now get more paper, because we've got

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another one. This one was really impressive to

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me. So here we go. The Character Focus Award

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goes to Steven Rodriguez! Oh my goodness! I never

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could have expected I would win anything. Now,

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I don't know if you know why you win this one.

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And it's actually really cool. So when I listened

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back to Hero Time 3 before we sent it out, right?

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I find myself wildly impressed by something that

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you did. Something that I thought was really,

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really cool. It may seem small, but it was a

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true showcase into the mind of an incredible

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role player. Ooh, incredible. Ooh. Hear that?

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Incredible. When Zebulon died. Do I see you blushing?

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When the moment happened, and you rolled that

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one, and, like, that was a very dramatic moment.

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And you could hear that sort of anguish, and

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just the, oh, my God, it's a one. oh fuck and

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there was like a 30 seconds 40 seconds where

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you're recovering from that and then you jumped

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to something so surprising and so delightful

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you said shoelace is going to be so pissed because

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you being the incredible fucking beast that you

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are immediately jump into the mind of crispin

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reacting to the moment instead of steven reacting

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to the moment which i thought was actually really

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cool i thought it was really cool crispin was

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still alive and i was thinking oh shit not for

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a long once dude It was great. It was such a

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good way to, like, just jump from character.

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Like, you realize what happened. You realize

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what you lost. And 30 seconds, you understood.

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But I still have a character here. I have to

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play that. And I thought that was really awesome.

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Take this button, sir. All right. Okay. All right.

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Next up, the absolute heartbreaker award. There's

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a button in here. I don't think I had a button

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before. Yeah, that was because we mistakenly

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took a button for the athletics check. Oh, right,

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right, right. Listen to our debriefed to hear

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that button get delivered. That's right. I was

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there. I remember. Yeah, well, go listen to it

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because you forgot. You forgot the zippies. I

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forgot zippies too. The absolute heartbreaker

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award goes to Jeremy motherfucking Wolf, everybody.

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Heartbreak hearts? Thanks. Need I even explain?

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Need I even explain why you're getting this award?

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The song, the scene, the raw emotion. Take two

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fucking buttons, you monster. Take two buttons.

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Honestly. Tribute for Zeb is worth two buttons.

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Just saying. Yeah. It was a lot of hard work.

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Zeb would be proud. Yeah. We got one more award

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here, folks. And what could that be? Oh, wow.

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Of course. It's the amazing new character award.

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It's going to. Give me a red. I wonder who has

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a new character. I don't know. Who could it be?

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There's so many people in this category. What

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a mystery. This is so much anticipation. Open

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it. Open it. Open it. It's Jeremy Wolf. Fuck

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you. Tell us all about your new character, Jeremy.

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What? Would you believe it? It's Steven Rodriguez.

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We've been doing so much chatting about this

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new PC, and I have to say that I absolutely love

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the ideas that you've been bringing forth. I

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am so excited, and I want you to take this a

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button. Awesome. Thank you, David. Thank you.

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You take that, sir. Are we at three a piece now?

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We are both at three buttons a piece. This has

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not happened since the first episode. So I had

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an idea. I'm going to pitch to you all. All right.

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We had talked about grabbing a whiteboard so

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that we could take notes, especially during battles

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and stuff like that. Yes. I think it might be

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helpful, useful to have like a button in, button

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out. Yep. Every episode count. So like, you know,

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is this episode 50 we're recording or 51? Episode

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50. So we'll have a 50 on the whiteboard. And

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we'll have a mark for buttons in, a mark for

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buttons out. So we can look up on the board,

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and if it's been like four episodes since anybody

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has used or given a button, we can all look at

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that and be like, hey. Yes. So we're talking

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about participation buttons now? You want participation

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buttons? I mean, according to what you said today,

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yes. We get buttons for participating. No, no.

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I just think if we have a visual reminder, we

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can all, on both sides, keep the button economy

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moving. Accountability. You're saying all sides

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and you're looking directly at me knowing that

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the power is mine. Hey, hey, hey, hey. I can't

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use buttons unless you give them to me. Welcome

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to motherfucking capitalism. Yeah. Trickle down

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my ass. I don't know if that. Yeah. All right.

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I have all the buttons. I thought it was a cool

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idea. 90 % of buttons. Yeah. One spot. Eat shit.

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I like that idea. It's a good idea. Anyway, moving

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on. Before we start, before we really, really

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start. We got to do some chunk talk. You guys

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want to get chunky in the pants? Wow. There's

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so many surprises today. I'm high energy. Dude,

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I got past holiday weekends. I'm going into the

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easy part of the year. I'm high energy right

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now. You are off the rails. I'm thrilled. I'm

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thrilled. All right, all right, all right. Chunk

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talk. You actually had some good ideas there

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talking about the whiteboard, and we actually

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had a little discussion on another sort of subject

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that we could use to streamline combats, all

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that. I think it's very important because looking

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back at the entire show, but in particular these

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last few episodes, we have a little problem,

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and that problem is actually me. I think we should

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make a change in how we run turn order. I think...

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I no longer am allowed to have the power of controlling

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and viewing that. Especially I love to have those

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early, you know, the start of the fight where

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it's like, oh yeah, and I go first. And then

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you guys shiver in your boots and pee yourselves

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every time. I love that, but we can't do that

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because I'm going to forget Jules halfway through

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and he'll miss two turns. We can't do that again.

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We got to make sure. Or you forget that Jules

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is there entirely and I come and kill you. Yeah,

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it actually has happened once. That actually

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literally happened once. So, how do you want

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to do this? Who wants to be the new turn order

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leader? Or do you want to just like have a whiteboard

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where we can write this stuff down and just sort

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of control, you know, just all view it? How do

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you want to do this? I like the whiteboard. Okay.

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Everyone's accountable? Well, I mean, I can handle

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the whiteboard. I think if we have the whiteboard

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right there on the closet door area. Okay. Well,

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whatever happens, we'll say this. Or we could

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just put it right there so we don't have to like

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walk back and forth. Sure. Yeah, we can. Yeah,

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whatever happens. We'll find a place. I have

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one out there. More than me is going to know

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the turn order. That's the big thing. More than

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me has to know the turn order. Because I'm a

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goof. I want clean combats. Alright, sounds like

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a good change. Alright, cool. So we got that.

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That's out of the way. Now we have more funny

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chunk. Well, fun chunk. Not funny. Good stuff.

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I don't like the chunk thing, man. We gotta have

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chunk. There's chunk, baby. Mechanical chunk.

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The words fun and chunk just don't sound good

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together. You have a new character coming. We

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can discuss starting gold and your starting items

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if you want to discuss them when that comes up,

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right? We can save some junk for later. Yeah,

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a little chunk now, a little chunk later. Save

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a little chunk for the drive home, baby. I always

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say that. All right, so let's move on to first

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things first. Zebulon's gold has gone to Jean

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Franklin. As Zebulon's sidekick, he's holding

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on to it. Does that just make sense? Zebulon

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has a boatload of gold, I think. That's all with

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Jaune now, and we're going to resolve that in

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a little bit. I think he had like six platinum

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or something like that. That's pretty good. Yeah.

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Damn. He was stacked. And we also discussed item

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distribution between the two groups that went

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their separate ways. Before we get to that, though,

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we have to add more items. There's so much going

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on last time. I didn't want to break up the flow.

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But you actually did gain some rewards from Moreno.

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We can say these got delivered before the ceremony,

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maybe after it, during the downtime, before we

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actually picked up on that scene following the

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song. But let's talk about what you actually

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gained from your heroic endeavors and from the

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sacrifice that was made. So, first of all, jewels.

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There was an antidote to give from Moreno, which

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actually is not a real thing. uh in dnd 5e but

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i don't care it's such a fancy catch -all term

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i just assumed it existed but it all kind of

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falls under the umbrella of lesser restoration

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which doesn't even have potions it just has like

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scrolls it's stupid i don't like it there should

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be a way to heal poison with a simple thing instead

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just have the anti -toxin to stop it and those

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exist And I'm keeping it. And you have one. Not

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anymore because I took it. Hell yeah. You're

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no longer in the poison condition. That part

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of it is gone. And Serenade will come back to

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bite you again. But that poison condition only

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affects you on the initial gain. Only the exhaustion.

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I still get it that night. Because basically

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there's the sickness and there's the curse. The

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curse is still lingering. It's much harder to

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get rid of. But the sickness, gone. But that's

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disadvantage gone. Yes. Gone. You're fully cured

00:14:02.009 --> 00:14:05.029
of that. Sweet. Nice. Speaking of lesser restoration.

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You gain two scrolls of it. These can only be

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used if it's on your class spell list. And I

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believe this is Jules, Crispin, and Ramin. Maybe

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I actually didn't check wizard. So I'll double

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check on that one. But a number of you can use

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these. You could look it up. Just type in lesser

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restoration. Now, these are basically going to

00:14:27.039 --> 00:14:30.799
be able to heal paralyzed, poison, blindness,

00:14:30.960 --> 00:14:35.169
deafness. So pretty big deal. Okay, looking into

00:14:35.169 --> 00:14:38.269
it, not wizards. So just Jules, Crispin, and

00:14:38.269 --> 00:14:41.330
Ramin can use these. But they bring it if you've

00:14:41.330 --> 00:14:42.809
got two of them, and they can heal a number of

00:14:42.809 --> 00:14:44.789
status effects. So hang on to that. You also

00:14:44.789 --> 00:14:48.669
gain one potion of growth, which allows you to

00:14:48.669 --> 00:14:52.129
cast basically like the ability to... Gosh, what's

00:14:52.129 --> 00:14:54.309
the word? There's a weird spell name for it.

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But basically, you can grow and do extra 1d4

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damage, gain a bunch of extra weight, all that

00:14:57.649 --> 00:14:59.570
stuff. You'll grow one size category. So if you're

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medium, you'll be a large creature. Enlarge.

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Enlarge reduce. So you can cast enlarge on yourself

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with a potion of growth. They also bring out

00:15:06.789 --> 00:15:09.389
a potion of greater healing, one of them, to

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distribute amongst your groups here. I was just

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bellyaching about the 100 gold piece price tag

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on that. There's also one more thing they bring,

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and this is something that I'm not going to get

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whole into it, but basically they approach you

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directly, Jules, and they deliver to you a treasure

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of the old Moreno family that once ruled this

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home back when the old city was, yeah, the old

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city was San Simeon City back when this was kind

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of a big deal. This is an actual rare artifact

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and something that they've been holding onto

00:15:38.559 --> 00:15:41.159
for a long, long time. Oh, dang. And they're

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gifting it to you in honor of the sacrifices

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that all of you made for... They're people in

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need. You see it's a silver ring with a smiling

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skull adorning the front. I want you to roll

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an insight check, actually. It's only a six.

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Okay. With your passive, all you know is while

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they give it to you out of, like, gratitude,

00:16:01.110 --> 00:16:04.970
there's something else behind that. You're going

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to give it to me and I don't even know how to

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use it? They will tell you what it is. This is

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a ring of mind shielding. Oh. Let me describe

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this. So while you wear this ring, you are immune

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to magic that allows other creatures to read

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your thoughts, determine whether you are lying,

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know your alignment, or know your creature type.

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Creatures can telepathically communicate with

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you only if you allow it. You can use an action

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to cause a ring to become invisible until you

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use another action to make it visible. Until

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you either remove the ring or die. So this ring,

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you can wear it, no one knows you have it, and

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it protects you from mental assault. And here's

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a wild thing that I actually just saw. If you

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die while wearing this ring, your soul enters

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it unless it already houses a soul, and you can

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remain in the ring or depart for the afterlife

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up to your whim. As long as your soul is in the

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ring, you can telepathically communicate with

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any creature wearing it. What? A wearer can't

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prevent this telepathic communication. Damn.

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You can haunt somebody. I can haunt the shit

00:17:02.789 --> 00:17:06.829
out of whoever kills me. Hey, so was Crispin

00:17:06.829 --> 00:17:10.390
nearby to roll insight when that ring was gifted?

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Go ahead. Okay. Nevermind. You're being weird

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about it. Something was weird. I mean, I put

00:17:18.529 --> 00:17:19.930
two and together this, this is a ring that protects

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you from like external forces. And maybe word

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has gotten around that some fucked up stuff happened

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in that, in that, uh, that manner. But Hey, it

00:17:28.769 --> 00:17:31.849
seems like a useful tool. Now, uh, we have a

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lot of items here to sort of distribute and figure

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out what you're going to do with. Let's do that.

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Now top of the episode, let's figure out who's

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getting what. And, uh, we'll go from there. Okay,

00:17:40.930 --> 00:17:43.490
cool. Well, I mean. This is you guys. I can't

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tell you what to do. The ring of mind shielding

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should obviously go to Jules. Yeah. Okay. I mean,

00:17:50.130 --> 00:17:52.069
do you want to split up the scrolls of Lester

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restoration between Jules and Crispin? So we're

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giving those, both the restorations are going

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to Jules and Crispin. Yeah. One to Jules, one

00:18:00.269 --> 00:18:03.470
to Crispin. Hell yeah. Ring to Jules. So then

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that's just a potion of growth and a potion of

00:18:05.730 --> 00:18:09.069
greater healing. Yes. Potion of growth sounds

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like. Something Crispin would need. I don't know

00:18:12.380 --> 00:18:14.440
about need, but it sounds like something that

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at least a damage dealer, either Crispin or Dresden,

00:18:17.259 --> 00:18:20.220
would make some crazy use from. That's true.

00:18:20.839 --> 00:18:22.539
Dresden could be really dangerous with that.

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I don't care. Who'd they go to? All right, and

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roll it down. Tell the audience. The Potion of

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Growth went to Dresden. Hell yeah, I like that.

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Potion of Greater Healing, then. Let's roll a

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die for it. Roll a die for it, I like that. I've

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had this. Oh, the Peak of Minor Destiny, okay.

00:18:38.440 --> 00:18:41.880
Or we could roll a die. I'm not, I'm not good

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at making decisions. Here's the hard thing with

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the pick. You have four characters right now.

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So if you can decide which one of you gets, which

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player gets it, then you decide which character.

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Yeah. And I think it would be, it would be weird

00:18:53.380 --> 00:18:56.339
for this new PC to come in and take a piece of

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the loot. Oh, that makes sense. Yeah. Cause this

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is before this is when they're already distributing

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it before you even get there. So roll a D four

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and reroll fours. One can be Jules. Two can be

00:19:05.740 --> 00:19:09.269
Crispin. Three can be Dresden. Okay. Here we

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go. It's a four. It's a four again. Jesus. It's

00:19:16.289 --> 00:19:22.250
a two. All right. That was Crispin. Okay. Two

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more things real quick. Sending stones. I'm assuming

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that the one that Zebulon had has now gone back

00:19:26.829 --> 00:19:28.589
to Crispin, so Dresden and Crispin both have

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a sending stone. Yes. So you can communicate.

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The two groups can communicate with each other.

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That's cool. Yeah, that'll be sweet. Great. I'd

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also... like to point out that i think jules

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picked up the uh the recording diamond yes on

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the way out you have their diamond that group

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has a diamond yes great okay um one more thing

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all the debulons like you know magical stuff

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i think would also go to jean franklin uh the

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immovable rod it's in his hands but he would

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offer it to whoever because it's a tool to help

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get this done and Everyone right now is working

00:19:58.759 --> 00:20:00.920
towards carrying on Zebulon's will to see this

00:20:00.920 --> 00:20:04.119
mission succeed. Yeah, I mentioned earlier that

00:20:04.119 --> 00:20:06.559
I really would like to have the immovable rod

00:20:06.559 --> 00:20:09.079
go to Crispin. I think he could do some really

00:20:09.079 --> 00:20:10.480
cool shit with that. I think your item should

00:20:10.480 --> 00:20:12.079
probably go to one of Jeremy's characters, actually.

00:20:15.700 --> 00:20:18.700
Come on, Jules is in mourning here. He needs

00:20:18.700 --> 00:20:25.460
all the... Zeb also takes the rod. zeb also does

00:20:25.460 --> 00:20:28.019
have the um the charisma amulet which i really

00:20:28.019 --> 00:20:32.359
don't have any oh right um it gives you the auto

00:20:32.359 --> 00:20:38.019
12 to charisma which could work on but um i feel

00:20:38.019 --> 00:20:41.799
like oh we're name dropping oh shit yeah can

00:20:41.799 --> 00:20:44.210
you believe that you can bleep that Actually,

00:20:44.210 --> 00:20:46.809
I can. Yep, I can. It's so funny. They're going

00:20:46.809 --> 00:20:48.750
to be just like, which could work on fuck, but.

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Oh, I will give up the immovable rod, to be honest.

00:20:54.009 --> 00:20:58.089
I forgot. Crispin has a six charisma. Wow. Oh.

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You can have them both. They're both your items.

00:21:00.750 --> 00:21:03.049
I know, but it just doesn't feel like. Why would

00:21:03.049 --> 00:21:04.910
that feel bad? All right, fine. I'm going to

00:21:04.910 --> 00:21:06.349
take all the toys. You earned and bought that

00:21:06.349 --> 00:21:07.710
shit. I'm going to take all the toys. They're

00:21:07.710 --> 00:21:11.650
your toys. You can have them. No one's fighting

00:21:11.650 --> 00:21:12.769
with you about this. I just feel bad. I feel

00:21:12.769 --> 00:21:15.569
greedy. I want to share with my friend Jeremy.

00:21:15.829 --> 00:21:18.230
Your character died. It's okay to like. Question

00:21:18.230 --> 00:21:20.750
though. Question though. Yeah. Did Zeb still

00:21:20.750 --> 00:21:23.049
have the doll on him or did he give it to, he

00:21:23.049 --> 00:21:24.849
gave it to one of the Cherry Delights, right?

00:21:24.869 --> 00:21:26.730
Yeah, I'm going to take the doll too. I'm just

00:21:26.730 --> 00:21:29.549
fucking kidding. If he still, I don't remember

00:21:29.549 --> 00:21:32.349
if he gave it to like one of the Cherry Delights.

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I don't recall him doing that. I think he has

00:21:34.170 --> 00:21:35.849
it. If he didn't, Jules is going to take it.

00:21:36.009 --> 00:21:39.440
Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Sorry, Crispin. No, no,

00:21:39.440 --> 00:21:41.259
no, that's totally fine. I think that's a great

00:21:41.259 --> 00:21:44.319
compromise. I think that's a fair trade. Steven

00:21:44.319 --> 00:21:46.440
looks so angry. He's going to strangle you across

00:21:46.440 --> 00:21:48.400
the table. He wanted that doll for Crispin. Everything

00:21:48.400 --> 00:21:50.440
for Crispin. All right, I think that's everything,

00:21:50.539 --> 00:21:52.359
right? Yeah, I'm just writing a couple things

00:21:52.359 --> 00:21:54.299
down here. Great. As far as starting gold goes,

00:21:54.380 --> 00:21:57.480
that comes up later, which means that right now,

00:21:57.579 --> 00:21:59.500
I think we're ready to start. No, wait, one more

00:21:59.500 --> 00:22:01.940
thing. It's a weird thing. You're about to head

00:22:01.940 --> 00:22:04.980
into the desert, Jules. We can sell this next

00:22:04.980 --> 00:22:06.539
time we meet up with these characters because

00:22:06.539 --> 00:22:07.960
we're not going to focus on them for a bit. They're

00:22:07.960 --> 00:22:09.900
on a long journey, but we're going to need to

00:22:09.900 --> 00:22:12.480
talk about traveling rations and like water,

00:22:12.559 --> 00:22:14.079
how much you took out with you. You know, you're

00:22:14.079 --> 00:22:16.160
going out into the borderlands. We've really

00:22:16.160 --> 00:22:17.680
gotten to this before, but we should make sure

00:22:17.680 --> 00:22:20.200
you have like food for this potentially multi

00:22:20.200 --> 00:22:22.740
-day, you know, journey. How much do I need to

00:22:22.740 --> 00:22:25.960
spend to make sure that I have? Honestly, not

00:22:25.960 --> 00:22:29.640
a lot. Pretty negligible amount. So I will say

00:22:29.640 --> 00:22:31.599
let's resolve this off screen and just talk about

00:22:31.599 --> 00:22:33.599
it and we'll get that figured out. Yeah. Cool.

00:22:33.619 --> 00:22:35.099
That's fine. I just want to make sure it's out

00:22:35.099 --> 00:22:36.980
there so people know that we're going to calculate

00:22:36.980 --> 00:22:38.980
that, figure it out. We don't need to bog everyone

00:22:38.980 --> 00:22:41.680
down. We don't have enough junk already. We can

00:22:41.680 --> 00:22:44.920
afford to lose some junk. Minor confidence. It's

00:22:44.920 --> 00:22:46.640
called the amulet of minor confidence. Chunky.

00:22:46.880 --> 00:22:49.740
All right. So you guys want to get back into

00:22:49.740 --> 00:22:53.119
the story? Yeah, I'll play. All right. All right.

00:22:53.940 --> 00:22:57.519
Move from the chunk to the smooth. Jesus, I just

00:22:57.519 --> 00:23:01.039
don't like it. I'm not done. Let's move back

00:23:01.039 --> 00:23:03.799
in time once again. Let's move back to the previous

00:23:03.799 --> 00:23:06.779
night, not long after Jules and Zebulon have

00:23:06.779 --> 00:23:10.400
fallen asleep in the Sandy Hill Inn. They pan

00:23:10.400 --> 00:23:12.519
away from the doors of the inn, out to the still

00:23:12.519 --> 00:23:15.579
lively streets of Fiesta Town, where Jean Franklin

00:23:15.579 --> 00:23:19.299
moves through these streets in the early hours

00:23:19.299 --> 00:23:23.980
of the night. He looks frantic, desperate, as

00:23:23.980 --> 00:23:26.059
he approaches a low building near the jewel gate

00:23:26.059 --> 00:23:30.000
that opens onto the western borderlands. I don't

00:23:30.000 --> 00:23:31.099
like this track as much as I thought I would.

00:23:31.680 --> 00:23:33.720
Seemed good at first. Yeah, it took a pretty

00:23:33.720 --> 00:23:37.579
dark turn. It's quite ominous. Look who's back.

00:23:39.579 --> 00:23:45.940
Will this old track hold faithful? He approaches

00:23:45.940 --> 00:23:48.220
a low building near the jewel gate that opens

00:23:48.220 --> 00:23:50.720
onto the western borderland, facing the conquered

00:23:50.720 --> 00:23:54.559
jewel port town of Manzanares. We see light shine

00:23:54.559 --> 00:23:56.160
through the windows of this building, which is

00:23:56.160 --> 00:23:58.519
made mostly of nondescript white painted walls.

00:23:59.160 --> 00:24:01.500
There's a flag hanging above the door, revealing

00:24:01.500 --> 00:24:05.220
25 colored stripes with a white envelope in the

00:24:05.220 --> 00:24:08.000
middle. The emblem of the Concord World's Postal

00:24:08.000 --> 00:24:10.440
Station. Standing just outside this building,

00:24:10.839 --> 00:24:12.740
Jean Franklin shakes the last gold pieces from

00:24:12.740 --> 00:24:15.200
his purse, grimacing as they fall into his palm.

00:24:15.480 --> 00:24:18.259
He then pulls out a sheet of parchment, an ink

00:24:18.259 --> 00:24:21.180
jar, and a quill from his pouch, kneels down

00:24:21.180 --> 00:24:22.880
on the dirty pavement in the light of the nearby

00:24:22.880 --> 00:24:27.200
windows, and frantically begins to write. We...

00:24:27.690 --> 00:24:30.329
pinned down to the letter. As he holds it up,

00:24:30.349 --> 00:24:35.490
finished. And we read. Dearest Ledoux, I have,

00:24:35.690 --> 00:24:38.130
through no fault of my own, come into some financial

00:24:38.130 --> 00:24:41.009
hardship during my excursion off -world. Normally

00:24:41.009 --> 00:24:43.490
I'd be loath to request a donation from Father's

00:24:43.490 --> 00:24:45.390
coffers, but I find myself engaged in important

00:24:45.390 --> 00:24:49.130
work and require more funds immediately. Naturally,

00:24:49.190 --> 00:24:50.990
it would be best if Father remained unaware of

00:24:50.990 --> 00:24:53.390
my situation. He does worry ever so much for

00:24:53.390 --> 00:24:56.119
me. You can send the gold, my usual allowance,

00:24:56.220 --> 00:24:59.500
to Sanctian City. To an inn known as Sandy Hill.

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Or, if after tomorrow, to an inn known as the

00:25:02.640 --> 00:25:11.119
Limp Cactus. Kind of like, moves down the page

00:25:11.119 --> 00:25:15.759
and then... I hereby... It's scribbled out. Your

00:25:15.759 --> 00:25:19.759
role as... Scribbled out. I know we have our

00:25:19.759 --> 00:25:22.339
differences and rarely ever see eye to eye, but...

00:25:22.339 --> 00:25:27.170
Scribbled out. Please help me. I am in dire need.

00:25:27.670 --> 00:25:30.009
My friends here will soon die without some assistance,

00:25:30.130 --> 00:25:32.750
and I can't say that gold will help, but I will

00:25:32.750 --> 00:25:36.670
do anything, try anything to save them. I will

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even toss aside my pride before you. Your servant

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in this, Jean Franklin Montelio, heir to House

00:25:43.470 --> 00:25:45.630
Montelio, lord of the Nine Pools and bearer of

00:25:45.630 --> 00:25:50.329
the banner of the Golden Bay, and proud sidekick

00:25:50.329 --> 00:25:54.859
to Zebulon Black. As we... Look down at this

00:25:54.859 --> 00:25:57.680
letter. We see the cobbles beneath just fade

00:25:57.680 --> 00:26:00.700
away as we move in time, move in space to a different

00:26:00.700 --> 00:26:02.980
world. And we see the letter now clutched in

00:26:02.980 --> 00:26:06.400
older hands, green -skinned, toughened and calloused

00:26:06.400 --> 00:26:08.740
as these fingers tighten on the page. We can

00:26:08.740 --> 00:26:11.359
hear the sounds of rolling waves in the background.

00:26:13.920 --> 00:26:20.079
Black screen. And we open again on Moreno, on

00:26:20.079 --> 00:26:24.529
the interior of this manor -turned -church. as

00:26:24.529 --> 00:26:27.130
a figure has appeared in the doorway sort of

00:26:27.130 --> 00:26:32.890
beyond the sort of sicked out, the ill and lying

00:26:32.890 --> 00:26:36.789
sleeping forms of the Sereno victims, various

00:26:36.789 --> 00:26:40.109
robed peoples moving between them, administering

00:26:40.109 --> 00:26:42.809
medicine, trying to keep them asleep, keep them

00:26:42.809 --> 00:26:46.809
from getting any sicker. And sort of beyond this

00:26:46.809 --> 00:26:50.490
and the light of this doorway, we see a darkened

00:26:50.490 --> 00:26:52.619
silhouette. That's just appeared. That's just

00:26:52.619 --> 00:26:55.279
spoken. What'd they say again? Remind the listeners.

00:26:55.720 --> 00:26:59.480
There you are, tadpole. And Jean Franklin, who's

00:26:59.480 --> 00:27:03.039
facing away from this, his eyes go wide, mouth

00:27:03.039 --> 00:27:05.619
dropped, and he kind of turns his head to look

00:27:05.619 --> 00:27:09.460
and turns immediately back towards Dresden and

00:27:09.460 --> 00:27:12.599
Romaine. Just back straight, shoulders squared,

00:27:12.859 --> 00:27:14.900
feet apart. Show no weakness or she'll smell

00:27:14.900 --> 00:27:16.960
it like a shark smells blood. Okay? All right?

00:27:17.400 --> 00:27:20.430
You understand? Okay. This is serious. All right.

00:27:21.089 --> 00:27:24.349
He raises a spear, lets the banner kind of unfurl.

00:27:24.410 --> 00:27:26.470
Again, you see the blackfish leaping against

00:27:26.470 --> 00:27:29.750
the red sky above golden waters as he spins around

00:27:29.750 --> 00:27:33.829
and just forms this tall pose, this hard salute

00:27:33.829 --> 00:27:36.470
spear in the air. Sir, I'm surprised to hear

00:27:36.470 --> 00:27:39.349
you, sir. See you here, sir. Did Father send

00:27:39.349 --> 00:27:42.130
you to take me home? And he turns towards the

00:27:42.130 --> 00:27:44.390
figure at the doorway, who I imagine now is moving

00:27:44.390 --> 00:27:47.599
into the room. And I would love, love. A description

00:27:47.599 --> 00:27:49.779
of this new character. All right, all right.

00:27:50.000 --> 00:27:53.680
This new character, much like Jean Franklin,

00:27:53.839 --> 00:27:58.819
is a tortle. Where Jean's skin is vibrant and

00:27:58.819 --> 00:28:05.460
green, this character's skin is a little grayish,

00:28:05.519 --> 00:28:09.359
faded with age. Unlike most tortles, she also

00:28:09.359 --> 00:28:15.059
has a thin head of hair, white and gray and silver,

00:28:15.299 --> 00:28:20.000
short, almost like a pixie, but shorter. And

00:28:20.000 --> 00:28:21.599
I might say that turtles don't have hair, but

00:28:21.599 --> 00:28:23.799
they're not usually aristocratic douchebags either.

00:28:23.859 --> 00:28:25.619
So, hey, we're doing things fun in this world.

00:28:25.799 --> 00:28:28.339
Sorry, keep going. My turtle has hair. Your turtle

00:28:28.339 --> 00:28:33.059
has hair. I love it. She walks tall and straight

00:28:33.059 --> 00:28:38.799
and unrigid, very flowing. Her movements all

00:28:38.799 --> 00:28:44.019
have purpose. And she approaches Jaune and the

00:28:44.019 --> 00:28:47.619
group, and she addresses Jaune. Now, I was not

00:28:47.619 --> 00:28:51.259
sent by your father. I intercepted your message

00:28:51.259 --> 00:28:56.660
to him. You intercepted it. So, so, Ledoux never

00:28:56.660 --> 00:28:59.180
saw the letter. Father never saw the letter.

00:28:59.440 --> 00:29:02.839
Neither saw the letter. I emptied my coffers

00:29:02.839 --> 00:29:07.259
and came to offer you my aid. Sir, thank you.

00:29:08.319 --> 00:29:11.869
Oh. And at this point, you're like, you're basically

00:29:11.869 --> 00:29:13.369
staying right beside them. And Jean Franklin

00:29:13.369 --> 00:29:16.490
just kind of turns back to Dresden. I mean, forgive

00:29:16.490 --> 00:29:19.470
me, my new allies of the Save Jewels Committee.

00:29:19.730 --> 00:29:22.390
I should make proper introductions. Save Jewels

00:29:22.390 --> 00:29:25.549
Committee. I am Jean Franklin Montelio, heir

00:29:25.549 --> 00:29:27.809
to House Montelio, future Lord of the Nine Pools

00:29:27.809 --> 00:29:30.609
and bearer of the banner of the Golden Bay. And

00:29:30.609 --> 00:29:34.470
this, this is Master of Defense, Blanche Trudeau.

00:29:35.130 --> 00:29:38.730
Yes, it's a pleasure. She bows. But you should

00:29:38.730 --> 00:29:41.119
call her sir. Right, sir. Call me what you're

00:29:41.119 --> 00:29:43.700
comfortable saying, dear. Good to meet you, Blanche.

00:29:44.640 --> 00:29:47.039
Likewise, sir. I thought you would have some

00:29:47.039 --> 00:29:48.960
witty remark coming back from John Franklin with

00:29:48.960 --> 00:29:50.579
him calling him Blanche, but okay. He's just

00:29:50.579 --> 00:29:51.900
staring at Gabe, kind of looking back and forth.

00:29:54.940 --> 00:29:59.119
He's too nervous to speak. John, I believe I

00:29:59.119 --> 00:30:02.140
have some catching up to do with you. I'd like

00:30:02.140 --> 00:30:08.019
to know the situation here. Yes, yes, sir. I

00:30:08.019 --> 00:30:10.720
guess first we should talk about the money. I

00:30:10.720 --> 00:30:13.299
should tell you, I have come to hold the remaining

00:30:13.299 --> 00:30:18.299
coin belonging to my friend. We just... He looks

00:30:18.299 --> 00:30:20.519
over towards the altar and maybe you don't understand

00:30:20.519 --> 00:30:23.339
the significance of what he means, but maybe

00:30:23.339 --> 00:30:26.059
you catch an idea of it. You know that lives

00:30:26.059 --> 00:30:28.920
were in the balance. I could imagine even that

00:30:28.920 --> 00:30:33.579
in her travels, Blanche would have seen something

00:30:33.579 --> 00:30:36.259
on the Crystal Network and... Oh, yeah, of course.

00:30:36.279 --> 00:30:38.640
She read Zebulon's name in the letter. Yeah.

00:30:39.640 --> 00:30:42.119
And people will be talking about the ceremony

00:30:42.119 --> 00:30:43.859
happening here. That's probably what led you

00:30:43.859 --> 00:30:47.559
to this place. Yeah. She even reaches out and

00:30:47.559 --> 00:30:51.160
puts a hand on Jon's shoulder. I am sorry for

00:30:51.160 --> 00:30:56.740
your loss. I hope it is the last. I don't know

00:30:56.740 --> 00:30:59.400
what to do now, sir. I have been lost for some

00:30:59.400 --> 00:31:03.289
time. He was my guide. Him and Jules, who yet

00:31:03.289 --> 00:31:05.130
stands to die from the demon's curse that affects

00:31:05.130 --> 00:31:08.450
him. Serenno. There's so much to tell you, sir.

00:31:09.210 --> 00:31:13.069
First, will you take this? The gold that I hold.

00:31:13.150 --> 00:31:15.690
I cannot be trusted with it. I paid a ways ahead

00:31:15.690 --> 00:31:18.589
of the pale moonlight on the Citadel, and I gave

00:31:18.589 --> 00:31:20.549
almost all the rest to some families on God's

00:31:20.549 --> 00:31:23.829
breath. I'd sent only days ago. I didn't think

00:31:23.829 --> 00:31:26.630
I would need it. I was a fool. I would like you

00:31:26.630 --> 00:31:28.609
to keep me in check for now. Keep the allowance

00:31:28.609 --> 00:31:31.819
you have brought, and keep this. And he transfers

00:31:31.819 --> 00:31:34.759
to Blanche all of Zebulon's gold. Nice, nice,

00:31:34.779 --> 00:31:38.700
nice. Smooth. I will keep this for you. I will

00:31:38.700 --> 00:31:40.819
keep this for you. Yeah, I don't know where I

00:31:40.819 --> 00:31:43.160
got... I'm mixing up characters in different

00:31:43.160 --> 00:31:45.619
games. It wasn't six platinum. That's a different

00:31:45.619 --> 00:31:50.279
game. Zebulon had 91 gold. Okay. Yeah, it seemed

00:31:50.279 --> 00:31:52.279
like a lot, but I wasn't doing mental calculations.

00:31:52.279 --> 00:31:54.119
It was a totally different campaign that I was

00:31:54.119 --> 00:31:57.099
even thinking of, so... Never mind. Cheater.

00:32:00.319 --> 00:32:02.599
So money's transferred and he's just staying

00:32:02.599 --> 00:32:07.619
tall. Sir, I don't know what you're planning.

00:32:07.740 --> 00:32:11.240
If you want to return to the Golden Bay, to Noiri,

00:32:11.319 --> 00:32:15.079
but there's still something I have to do here.

00:32:15.480 --> 00:32:19.799
I came here, Jean, to keep you safe. And that's

00:32:19.799 --> 00:32:22.680
what I intend to do. I thought you'd be mad at

00:32:22.680 --> 00:32:24.839
me. I didn't finish my training. I just up and

00:32:24.839 --> 00:32:29.599
left. You're not angry. I'm happy to have the

00:32:29.599 --> 00:32:32.480
opportunity to continue your training. I promise,

00:32:32.599 --> 00:32:35.200
sir. I promise I'll tell you everything. In time.

00:32:35.500 --> 00:32:39.039
But right now, time is what we don't have. Yes,

00:32:39.039 --> 00:32:47.920
yes, catch me up off screen. Sir, Jules is sick

00:32:47.920 --> 00:32:50.960
and we have to move now. We must save my only

00:32:50.960 --> 00:32:54.380
remaining friend, my new luminary, for whom I

00:32:54.380 --> 00:32:56.869
have attached myself. Right, and he looks to

00:32:56.869 --> 00:32:58.930
you, Dresden. As he says, like, Blanche turns

00:32:58.930 --> 00:33:03.869
to Dresden. Ah, you're the luminary. Wait, what?

00:33:04.269 --> 00:33:09.750
A misunderstanding has occurred. Wait, what?

00:33:10.789 --> 00:33:13.650
No, no, no, no, no, no. We actually find ourselves

00:33:13.650 --> 00:33:16.109
in a rare lack of luminaries in this little party.

00:33:16.289 --> 00:33:20.430
Hope that's no trouble for us. But, well, where

00:33:20.430 --> 00:33:23.130
do we proceed? We're to investigate the city.

00:33:23.230 --> 00:33:26.009
There's a strange creature, a demon, that has

00:33:26.009 --> 00:33:29.650
been making these people ill. We've gotten some

00:33:29.650 --> 00:33:31.369
information that it may be the rulers of the

00:33:31.369 --> 00:33:33.549
city, the Treznor, who are behind these attacks.

00:33:33.890 --> 00:33:35.569
And all we know of this creature is it takes

00:33:35.569 --> 00:33:38.349
the form of an owl. It can transform itself into

00:33:38.349 --> 00:33:41.410
a larger, more demonic humanoid entity if it

00:33:41.410 --> 00:33:44.609
needs to, but it could be attacking people in

00:33:44.609 --> 00:33:46.990
secret throughout the city and into the borderlands

00:33:46.990 --> 00:33:50.549
as well. It's bad here, sir. These people here,

00:33:50.690 --> 00:33:53.130
and you've got gestures towards all the L in

00:33:53.130 --> 00:33:55.990
the room, they're all victims. And every single

00:33:55.990 --> 00:33:59.849
one of them will die before long. The rest only

00:33:59.849 --> 00:34:03.230
serves to hold off the inevitable death that's

00:34:03.230 --> 00:34:05.210
coming for them. But every night they grow weaker,

00:34:05.289 --> 00:34:08.550
this demon is killing them. And it's here, in

00:34:08.550 --> 00:34:11.190
the city. Uh, Dresden will kind of nudge over

00:34:11.190 --> 00:34:13.989
to John Franklin. Salazar might be a good place

00:34:13.989 --> 00:34:18.159
to start. Yes, that's right. Dance, she mentioned

00:34:18.159 --> 00:34:21.760
it. Well, I'll follow your lead then. You in,

00:34:21.840 --> 00:34:26.199
Blanche? I'd be... I'd be happy. Let's roll.

00:34:26.900 --> 00:34:34.099
Let's kill an owl. Let's, uh... Kill an owl.

00:34:34.199 --> 00:34:38.780
Okay. I can't talk with any personality in Dresden's

00:34:38.780 --> 00:34:44.530
voice. And we see this newfound group, fully

00:34:44.530 --> 00:34:47.869
together, moving out into the streets of Los

00:34:47.869 --> 00:34:51.949
Cavalanes. We open back on these streets, and

00:34:51.949 --> 00:34:54.570
we are moving towards Salazar. Now we've touched

00:34:54.570 --> 00:34:57.010
on the three main estates that you're going to

00:34:57.010 --> 00:35:01.289
see in the old city. We have Moreno, which is

00:35:01.289 --> 00:35:03.269
the religious district. If you're leaving there

00:35:03.269 --> 00:35:06.489
now, you've kind of befriended them. Rosas, ruled

00:35:06.489 --> 00:35:09.769
by Serapio, the criminal sort of underbelly of

00:35:09.769 --> 00:35:13.750
the city. And then somewhere between them and

00:35:13.750 --> 00:35:16.889
to the north, sort of on the edge of the triangular

00:35:16.889 --> 00:35:19.590
-shaped city, like up against the wall, there's

00:35:19.590 --> 00:35:22.989
the larger Salazar estate. Seemingly innocuous,

00:35:22.989 --> 00:35:26.929
just tenants for many, many, many lost and poor

00:35:26.929 --> 00:35:30.510
souls. And yet, from what you've heard, Salazar

00:35:30.510 --> 00:35:33.670
seems to hold a secret. And that's where you

00:35:33.670 --> 00:35:37.309
are going. I think as you hit the streets, I

00:35:37.309 --> 00:35:39.730
think there's sort of this natural dropping back.

00:35:40.190 --> 00:35:42.190
Between Jean Franklin and Blanche. Something

00:35:42.190 --> 00:35:44.949
that the tortle himself, the young tortle, seems

00:35:44.949 --> 00:35:47.510
to be kind of pushing for, trying to find time

00:35:47.510 --> 00:35:52.590
alone. And as a space is created between the

00:35:52.590 --> 00:35:57.210
two sort of groups in this party, Jean turns

00:35:57.210 --> 00:36:02.030
towards you, Blanche. Sir, can I speak with you

00:36:02.030 --> 00:36:04.809
on a more personal matter? Well, yes, of course.

00:36:05.289 --> 00:36:07.730
I don't want to get into all the nitty gritty

00:36:07.730 --> 00:36:10.869
of it. Because it's not important here, but in

00:36:10.869 --> 00:36:15.309
essence, I left home to preserve law and order.

00:36:15.510 --> 00:36:19.969
To hold to my oaths. But I found my journey difficult.

00:36:20.590 --> 00:36:23.110
Totals I have known aren't of particularly popular

00:36:23.110 --> 00:36:26.329
peoples amongst the conquered worlds. I did not

00:36:26.329 --> 00:36:28.090
realize how much that would factor into my attempts

00:36:28.090 --> 00:36:32.210
to bring certain truths to light. I strove to

00:36:32.210 --> 00:36:34.889
become a luminary then. To force myself into

00:36:34.889 --> 00:36:39.199
the spotlight. In my desperation, I found myself

00:36:39.199 --> 00:36:42.780
play -acting as a villain for a criminal agent.

00:36:43.260 --> 00:36:46.320
When I first met my new allies, I nearly killed

00:36:46.320 --> 00:36:48.559
them. I was going to heal them, of course, but

00:36:48.559 --> 00:36:52.719
they did not know that. I did wrong. That's aggravated

00:36:52.719 --> 00:36:55.340
assault, maybe even attempted murder. I broke

00:36:55.340 --> 00:36:59.460
the law, sir, and they took me in anyways, mostly

00:36:59.460 --> 00:37:02.119
out of necessity, but we soon found ourselves

00:37:02.119 --> 00:37:04.619
involved in events that sentenced a murderer

00:37:04.619 --> 00:37:09.119
to lives. in the Sky Prison. And I was so proud

00:37:09.119 --> 00:37:12.440
of that. My nose poised so high in arrogance

00:37:12.440 --> 00:37:15.340
that I didn't see the cruel irony lying at my

00:37:15.340 --> 00:37:19.239
feet. Not until a later event, when Jules let

00:37:19.239 --> 00:37:21.960
a goblin, another servant of that criminal agent,

00:37:22.039 --> 00:37:25.980
go free after an attack. And I wanted him to

00:37:25.980 --> 00:37:30.760
go free. Because I saw myself in him. Does...

00:37:30.760 --> 00:37:34.340
Does that make me a terrible person, sir? Does

00:37:34.340 --> 00:37:36.320
this change in the very pillars of my beliefs

00:37:36.320 --> 00:37:41.400
make me weak? And he looks to you. Master defense,

00:37:41.679 --> 00:37:43.880
Blanche. Cool, you had a long time to write that,

00:37:43.920 --> 00:37:47.559
but that's fine, I'll just... Well, I'm not reading

00:37:47.559 --> 00:37:48.900
my notes, that was off the top of my head. What

00:37:48.900 --> 00:37:53.000
are you talking about? I hoped you would want

00:37:53.000 --> 00:37:57.199
to talk about why you left home. And I'll leave

00:37:57.199 --> 00:38:01.619
that up to you on your own time. As far as...

00:38:01.900 --> 00:38:05.079
popularity of the tortle people, well, it kind

00:38:05.079 --> 00:38:08.699
of goes hand in hand with what you're saying

00:38:08.699 --> 00:38:11.699
and the changes you're seeing in yourself. We

00:38:11.699 --> 00:38:15.380
can't control how others act and how others see

00:38:15.380 --> 00:38:21.719
us, but we can control how we act, Tadpole. And

00:38:21.719 --> 00:38:28.559
someday, your little tail will shrivel up and

00:38:28.559 --> 00:38:32.780
your... Arms and legs will grow, and I'm seeing

00:38:32.780 --> 00:38:36.699
that in you, John. Our world is not black and

00:38:36.699 --> 00:38:41.639
white. You're starting to see in color. Holy

00:38:41.639 --> 00:38:45.360
shit. Cheers to that. Hey. Cheers to that. We

00:38:45.360 --> 00:38:46.539
have this little rule on our show we've had for

00:38:46.539 --> 00:38:50.360
a while, right? Where we have buttons, and the

00:38:50.360 --> 00:38:53.159
max is three. But in this arc, we have two separate

00:38:53.159 --> 00:38:55.820
parties of two separate characters. So I'm going

00:38:55.820 --> 00:38:59.199
to change... Just for now, the limit to five.

00:38:59.460 --> 00:39:01.119
Oh, my goshness. And I'm giving you a button.

00:39:01.679 --> 00:39:06.519
Take a button. Whoa. Oh, my goshness. I mean,

00:39:06.579 --> 00:39:09.239
if there was ever a speech that was worthy of

00:39:09.239 --> 00:39:10.960
a button, that was it. I'm excited to spend them.

00:39:10.980 --> 00:39:14.780
Holy shit. I'm ready to spend them, baby. I think

00:39:14.780 --> 00:39:17.480
John just looks down. He's kind of looking at

00:39:17.480 --> 00:39:24.079
his hands. Seeing in color. Growing. Yes. I find

00:39:24.079 --> 00:39:26.579
it odd that I still retain my oath -sworn powers

00:39:26.579 --> 00:39:29.800
to uphold the principles of honor and law, but

00:39:29.800 --> 00:39:33.800
maybe this explains it. Maybe having my sworn

00:39:33.800 --> 00:39:36.239
oath be a contradiction that I didn't understand.

00:39:36.639 --> 00:39:39.079
Maybe understanding is what I need. Maybe...

00:39:39.079 --> 00:39:42.420
I don't know. I don't understand this oath still,

00:39:42.519 --> 00:39:46.380
but I will seek to. I thought the two ideas so

00:39:46.380 --> 00:39:48.639
connected, but I'm starting to see how opposing

00:39:48.639 --> 00:39:51.300
they are. Honor's source lies in the hearts of

00:39:51.300 --> 00:39:53.949
good... people, while law stems so often from

00:39:53.949 --> 00:39:56.730
oppressive and corrupt. And I had been looking

00:39:56.730 --> 00:39:59.590
to Zebulon and Jules to help me grow, to help

00:39:59.590 --> 00:40:01.050
me determine the answer to this contradiction,

00:40:01.230 --> 00:40:05.909
but they are both gone now. And I'm alone. Early

00:40:05.909 --> 00:40:11.489
in our lives, Sean, we have a lot to learn. As

00:40:11.489 --> 00:40:16.889
we grow, as you grow, you will too have things

00:40:16.889 --> 00:40:21.389
to teach. I'm... Looking forward to learning

00:40:21.389 --> 00:40:26.590
from you, John. He looks up at you and we see

00:40:26.590 --> 00:40:30.809
this rare, total smile. I guess looks over at

00:40:30.809 --> 00:40:31.829
you. I mentioned you're probably about the same

00:40:31.829 --> 00:40:35.789
height. Yeah, yeah. I didn't picture Blanche

00:40:35.789 --> 00:40:38.989
being any taller. And yeah, I think there's a

00:40:38.989 --> 00:40:41.949
feeling of height difference. There's a feeling

00:40:41.949 --> 00:40:45.750
of size difference as he just looks to you with

00:40:45.750 --> 00:40:49.280
the absolute expression of a student. So happy

00:40:49.280 --> 00:40:55.599
to learn. So happy to be heard. And I'm happy

00:40:55.599 --> 00:40:59.739
to see that even through all this stress and

00:40:59.739 --> 00:41:04.199
troubles, that we managed to keep decent posture.

00:41:08.579 --> 00:41:13.000
We pan forward through like a small crowd to

00:41:13.000 --> 00:41:17.619
another duo walking up the street. Now, I haven't

00:41:17.619 --> 00:41:20.579
officially done this yet, but Dresden, I'm going

00:41:20.579 --> 00:41:24.659
to assign you Ramin's stat block as a sidekick,

00:41:24.699 --> 00:41:27.500
mechanical sidekick on D &D Beyond. Ooh, baby.

00:41:28.039 --> 00:41:30.400
Ramin will be yours in this arc to control in

00:41:30.400 --> 00:41:37.659
combats. Ramin, you're mine. What? I don't know

00:41:37.659 --> 00:41:40.599
what to say. You had a good time. Oh, my God.

00:41:41.670 --> 00:41:43.409
I think you two are walking up the street as

00:41:43.409 --> 00:41:47.949
well. I think he's looking towards the very bold,

00:41:48.289 --> 00:41:51.389
very quiet Dresden. It's kind of exciting. He

00:41:51.389 --> 00:41:54.090
wants to start a conversation. He opens his mouth

00:41:54.090 --> 00:42:00.849
and stops, turns away. So, Dresden, the weather

00:42:00.849 --> 00:42:04.710
is fair. Is the weather not fair? I'd call it

00:42:04.710 --> 00:42:07.190
a little fair, sure. Yes, yes, it's quite fair,

00:42:07.269 --> 00:42:11.800
yes. Good. Common ground, it's so nice. to have

00:42:11.800 --> 00:42:14.239
this. Well, now that you've, uh, made things

00:42:14.239 --> 00:42:18.000
thoroughly awkward, sounds like there's something

00:42:18.000 --> 00:42:21.420
you want to say. Oh, I just want to get to know

00:42:21.420 --> 00:42:24.039
you. I, I, I, we've talked only briefly. Uh,

00:42:24.219 --> 00:42:26.300
well, mostly I talked when we were waiting for

00:42:26.300 --> 00:42:29.440
Serapio to, to invite us in for a meeting, but,

00:42:29.519 --> 00:42:33.820
um... What do you want to know? If, uh, if Jules

00:42:33.820 --> 00:42:38.079
trusts you, then I trust you. Huh. Huh. What's

00:42:38.079 --> 00:42:40.519
your relationship with Jules? You... You seem

00:42:40.519 --> 00:42:43.000
very close to him, but... We grew up together.

00:42:43.659 --> 00:42:47.960
In very similar but different ways. That's very

00:42:47.960 --> 00:43:00.559
vague. But mysterious. I like it. He's beaming.

00:43:00.599 --> 00:43:03.219
He's so excited. He's thrilled to have a conversation.

00:43:03.599 --> 00:43:07.510
You're a curious guy. Oh, yes. Yes. Very. Very

00:43:07.510 --> 00:43:09.389
curious. And this world. I mean, there's so much

00:43:09.389 --> 00:43:11.269
here to be... I didn't mean curious in that way.

00:43:11.469 --> 00:43:17.809
Oh. But really, really, have you heard much about

00:43:17.809 --> 00:43:21.070
San Satyan? The various magics here? No, I haven't

00:43:21.070 --> 00:43:24.210
heard much. It's truly incredible. Think, think,

00:43:24.230 --> 00:43:26.690
what are instructions given by dance? Where to

00:43:26.690 --> 00:43:29.489
go to Salazar? To speak with an Olvidado? Do

00:43:29.489 --> 00:43:32.230
you know much of the Olvidados? Absolutely nothing.

00:43:32.630 --> 00:43:36.190
Oh, oh, oh. So, Ovidado is apparently a word

00:43:36.190 --> 00:43:38.150
here that means forgotten. For they are forgotten

00:43:38.150 --> 00:43:41.889
by death. That's the idea. So, the Night of the

00:43:41.889 --> 00:43:42.929
Remembered is coming up. You know the Night of

00:43:42.929 --> 00:43:44.289
the Remembered, correct? Right? You know that?

00:43:44.849 --> 00:43:47.710
I've heard the term. You don't know? Oh, he's

00:43:47.710 --> 00:43:52.489
thrilled. Like, shaking. How does one get forgotten

00:43:52.489 --> 00:43:55.190
by death? What does that mean? This is good.

00:43:55.289 --> 00:43:58.079
This is good. So... Tomorrow night marks the

00:43:58.079 --> 00:44:01.099
start of this great event. The night of the remembered.

00:44:01.599 --> 00:44:03.960
The souls of the dead family members and loved

00:44:03.960 --> 00:44:06.179
ones return from the plains of the afterlife

00:44:06.179 --> 00:44:08.599
during these next few nights. But you just said

00:44:08.599 --> 00:44:11.820
they were forgotten. No, no. Some of them stay

00:44:11.820 --> 00:44:13.579
afterwards, essentially getting a second life,

00:44:13.639 --> 00:44:16.300
forgotten to be reclaimed by death. Those are

00:44:16.300 --> 00:44:18.280
the Olvidottas we see in our everyday. Those

00:44:18.280 --> 00:44:21.239
are the skeletal figures and some specters that

00:44:21.239 --> 00:44:23.639
you'll see here and there around the world. They're

00:44:23.639 --> 00:44:26.760
rare, but isn't that fascinating? Death. forget

00:44:26.760 --> 00:44:30.780
someone. I mean, I was one of the rare few who

00:44:30.780 --> 00:44:33.679
has come back from death, so to me this is, I

00:44:33.679 --> 00:44:37.039
mean, it's like seeing myself and many people

00:44:37.039 --> 00:44:41.000
here in this world. Isn't that cool? I don't

00:44:41.000 --> 00:44:44.119
know. I'm trying to give Dresden some personality,

00:44:44.119 --> 00:44:46.820
but I don't fucking know. All of a sudden he's

00:44:46.820 --> 00:44:49.880
thrust into this. I just love the deadpan character

00:44:49.880 --> 00:44:52.380
and the very excitable friendlier on me. It's

00:44:52.380 --> 00:44:54.829
the best. It's just silly pairing. That's why

00:44:54.829 --> 00:44:57.269
I love these two stuck together. Where I come

00:44:57.269 --> 00:45:00.130
from, dead is dead. So I may have a thing or

00:45:00.130 --> 00:45:04.489
two to learn here. It's amazing. Dance explained

00:45:04.489 --> 00:45:08.090
a bit of it to me. Basically, the living will

00:45:08.090 --> 00:45:10.449
leave gifts at decorative altars for their loved

00:45:10.449 --> 00:45:13.789
ones. She called these ofrendas. Ofrendas, that's

00:45:13.789 --> 00:45:16.489
right. This ritual activates some latent magic

00:45:16.489 --> 00:45:18.449
in the city, which is apparently the work of

00:45:18.449 --> 00:45:22.369
La Catrina, the deity or spirit they worship

00:45:22.369 --> 00:45:27.429
back at Moreno. Her power lingers in this land,

00:45:27.590 --> 00:45:30.090
and the souls of the dead will return to life

00:45:30.090 --> 00:45:32.190
throughout the city for a few nights. They take

00:45:32.190 --> 00:45:35.110
on either strange skeletal bodies, or in some

00:45:35.110 --> 00:45:38.550
cases just become pure specters. I'll then explain

00:45:38.550 --> 00:45:40.730
that the magic only works for those of Sansation

00:45:40.730 --> 00:45:44.250
heritage. There's a... how do you say it? There's

00:45:44.250 --> 00:45:47.989
a spark in their souls. A magic left by La Catrina

00:45:47.989 --> 00:45:50.909
for the people long ago. Unfortunately, this

00:45:50.909 --> 00:45:53.210
magic does not let the dead remember the afterlife

00:45:53.210 --> 00:45:55.980
beyond the fugue plane. Which is a shame. When

00:45:55.980 --> 00:45:57.380
I died, I only ever reached the fugue plane.

00:45:57.480 --> 00:46:00.000
I never had a chance to reach the beckoning light.

00:46:00.800 --> 00:46:03.380
Oh, but I'm glad to be alive. I am. I'm so glad.

00:46:03.780 --> 00:46:06.760
Just curious for what the sun ever holds me beyond

00:46:06.760 --> 00:46:08.719
that light. Aren't you curious about death? Aren't

00:46:08.719 --> 00:46:11.199
you curious about all of it? I mean, I know dead

00:46:11.199 --> 00:46:15.599
is dead, but is it? What lingers beyond? Don't

00:46:15.599 --> 00:46:18.139
you wonder? Show me something different and maybe

00:46:18.139 --> 00:46:23.369
I'll come around to it. But dead is dead. Oh,

00:46:23.369 --> 00:46:25.869
tomorrow night you're in for the surprise of

00:46:25.869 --> 00:46:28.710
your life then. And I say maybe at this point,

00:46:28.730 --> 00:46:33.849
you're moving up towards the sort of estate of

00:46:33.849 --> 00:46:37.710
Salazar. So we find ourselves outside Salazar.

00:46:38.010 --> 00:46:41.409
We see a large looking estate covered in various

00:46:41.409 --> 00:46:43.690
tents and small sort of wood frame buildings.

00:46:43.829 --> 00:46:45.530
Look like they've been sort of roughly put up

00:46:45.530 --> 00:46:48.539
by the locals here. Just this. It looks like

00:46:48.539 --> 00:46:50.579
the actual older buildings here, the stonework

00:46:50.579 --> 00:46:52.900
buildings, are much smaller than what you've

00:46:52.900 --> 00:46:55.800
seen at Rosas and Moreno. But there are a lot

00:46:55.800 --> 00:46:58.260
of them. Many different smaller homes dotting

00:46:58.260 --> 00:47:00.219
this, like small villas dotting this larger,

00:47:00.699 --> 00:47:05.039
sort of hilly expanse that takes up a good little

00:47:05.039 --> 00:47:08.760
portion of Los Cavalanes. There's an obvious

00:47:08.760 --> 00:47:10.880
sort of path moving in from the main street past

00:47:10.880 --> 00:47:13.679
some gates that seems to snake up towards one

00:47:13.679 --> 00:47:16.860
particular building, the largest of the lot.

00:47:17.730 --> 00:47:21.309
and you just see people everywhere. You see no

00:47:21.309 --> 00:47:23.309
sign here that this could be some sort of revolution

00:47:23.309 --> 00:47:26.610
main base. I mean, everyone here just looks just

00:47:26.610 --> 00:47:30.070
as weak, just as downtrodden as everyone else

00:47:30.070 --> 00:47:32.769
you've seen throughout this city. You're sure

00:47:32.769 --> 00:47:37.309
this is where we're meant to go, Tadpole? I think.

00:47:37.909 --> 00:47:40.690
Dan said tell us, all right? Are we at the door?

00:47:40.969 --> 00:47:43.949
You're at the gate moving in. Is there somebody

00:47:43.949 --> 00:47:46.090
at the gate or at the door? At the main building.

00:47:46.480 --> 00:47:51.780
At the main building. Okay. Up there. And Dresden

00:47:51.780 --> 00:47:55.940
points to the main building. If you say so. It

00:47:55.940 --> 00:48:00.219
doesn't seem to be... I was going to say something

00:48:00.219 --> 00:48:04.820
mean. I agree. It does not seem to be. Let's

00:48:04.820 --> 00:48:08.920
go. I was going to say there doesn't seem to

00:48:08.920 --> 00:48:12.099
be much of value here. And I was like, that doesn't...

00:48:12.099 --> 00:48:17.110
You just got here. How dare you? Lives are valuable.

00:48:17.769 --> 00:48:22.789
You monster. All right. So we're all moving down

00:48:22.789 --> 00:48:25.829
the path, passing these people, this sort of

00:48:25.829 --> 00:48:27.610
central building getting larger and larger as

00:48:27.610 --> 00:48:30.309
you get close until you reach the front. You

00:48:30.309 --> 00:48:33.909
see a number of stone steps moving up towards

00:48:33.909 --> 00:48:36.489
this large, dilapidated building, single story

00:48:36.489 --> 00:48:39.730
but wide. And at the very top of the steps, as

00:48:39.730 --> 00:48:41.190
it kind of moves into like an entrance hall,

00:48:41.389 --> 00:48:45.369
you see a naked Olvidado. sitting at this sort

00:48:45.369 --> 00:48:48.110
of door's edge and reading a book. See, it's

00:48:48.110 --> 00:48:51.449
like a blackbound and very worn book. There's

00:48:51.449 --> 00:48:53.309
colorful paints that seem to decorate the bones

00:48:53.309 --> 00:48:56.230
of this figure. And they just flip through pages.

00:48:57.050 --> 00:49:01.269
I think Dresden will push forward. I think the

00:49:01.269 --> 00:49:03.989
second you move towards them, they turn their

00:49:03.989 --> 00:49:06.550
head up to you. Slight creaking of bone as they

00:49:06.550 --> 00:49:09.670
do, and their sort of eyeless holes stare deep

00:49:09.670 --> 00:49:15.150
at you. Are you looking to die? Only the dead

00:49:15.150 --> 00:49:23.809
are free. Figure nods. Come. And slowly gets

00:49:23.809 --> 00:49:27.210
to their feet. Follow. And they move into the

00:49:27.210 --> 00:49:30.889
building. Dresden starts moving up. Yeah, Blanche

00:49:30.889 --> 00:49:32.829
is following behind. I'm also very proud that

00:49:32.829 --> 00:49:34.590
I remembered that. Good job. I've been waiting

00:49:34.590 --> 00:49:36.969
for it since the first time you said it. I stuck

00:49:36.969 --> 00:49:39.550
it in my head. You move into the structure inside.

00:49:40.710 --> 00:49:43.389
move down this sort of hallway, again, just lined

00:49:43.389 --> 00:49:48.309
with people, move into a room, tucked to the

00:49:48.309 --> 00:49:50.789
left and around a corner. As you step inside,

00:49:50.969 --> 00:49:53.070
there's just a number of figures all around the

00:49:53.070 --> 00:49:57.250
room covered in those, it's called a rebozo,

00:49:57.329 --> 00:49:59.170
basically just like this real long blanket -like,

00:49:59.349 --> 00:50:04.250
what's the word? Almost like a longer scarf.

00:50:04.489 --> 00:50:06.010
But anyway, they're just kind of like huddled

00:50:06.010 --> 00:50:07.989
in various corners. And I want you to do a perception

00:50:07.989 --> 00:50:10.800
check as you enter this room. First Blanche roll.

00:50:11.300 --> 00:50:15.239
Oh, yeah. I'll let you do the honors first. A

00:50:15.239 --> 00:50:20.440
12. You said perception? Yes. 11 on the die,

00:50:20.559 --> 00:50:24.280
plus one, 412. I'll say with a 12, you both immediately

00:50:24.280 --> 00:50:28.159
catch that these figures look far less emaciated

00:50:28.159 --> 00:50:33.159
than the others, and there's a bit of bulk underneath

00:50:33.159 --> 00:50:36.750
these, like, rebozos, perhaps weapons. As they

00:50:36.750 --> 00:50:38.389
don't look at you, they stare towards the ground,

00:50:38.469 --> 00:50:41.230
but you get the impression they are keenly watching

00:50:41.230 --> 00:50:43.349
you from the corners of their eyes, keenly listening

00:50:43.349 --> 00:50:46.010
at every word you say, every sound you make.

00:50:46.849 --> 00:50:49.969
And the Ovidado moves to the other side of the

00:50:49.969 --> 00:50:53.309
room and reaches towards, it looks like an old

00:50:53.309 --> 00:50:58.150
-looking sort of fireplace built in. And there's

00:50:58.150 --> 00:51:00.349
a sound of, like, something unlatching as they

00:51:00.349 --> 00:51:02.670
reach around to, like, some of the bricks and

00:51:02.670 --> 00:51:09.510
a grinding of stone. As this fireplace essentially

00:51:09.510 --> 00:51:13.949
pulls open, revealing a set of stairs moving

00:51:13.949 --> 00:51:20.710
down beneath Salazar, beneath the grounds. Dude,

00:51:20.829 --> 00:51:25.110
Blanche like just showed up and is like, all

00:51:25.110 --> 00:51:27.070
right, Jean, I'm going to help you with whatever

00:51:27.070 --> 00:51:31.809
it is that you're doing. So he takes her to essentially

00:51:31.809 --> 00:51:36.010
like the slums into this house. And now there's

00:51:36.010 --> 00:51:38.789
a creepy secret staircase. Men who are armed.

00:51:39.869 --> 00:51:43.389
A full -ass skeleton. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, because

00:51:43.389 --> 00:51:44.550
she doesn't know about the Elvidado. Well, I

00:51:44.550 --> 00:51:45.989
mean, I don't know if she knows about the Elvidado,

00:51:46.050 --> 00:51:51.869
but there is a whole lot of trust here. It's

00:51:51.869 --> 00:51:57.070
awesome. The Elvidado turns back to you. I am

00:51:57.070 --> 00:52:02.869
Rufina. It is good to meet you, hero of Moreno.

00:52:03.590 --> 00:52:08.349
Hero of Nusserul, we've been expecting you. People

00:52:08.349 --> 00:52:13.349
died. We're no heroes. More will die before this

00:52:13.349 --> 00:52:17.429
ends. But when it does, when we stand upon the

00:52:17.429 --> 00:52:23.909
hill, we will all be heroes. Paloma waits below.

00:52:24.869 --> 00:52:28.849
And they start to walk out of the room. And you're

00:52:28.849 --> 00:52:31.650
staring down those steps. You see the flickering

00:52:31.650 --> 00:52:34.840
light of torchlight. from tunnels below. I think

00:52:34.840 --> 00:52:36.659
without even a second thought, Dresden starts

00:52:36.659 --> 00:52:39.599
walking down, and he doesn't even look back.

00:52:39.619 --> 00:52:42.059
He's kind of expecting everybody else to follow.

00:52:42.820 --> 00:52:45.460
Yeah, Blanche will wait for Jean and Ramin to

00:52:45.460 --> 00:52:49.219
go, and she'll take up the rear. And then, yeah,

00:52:49.280 --> 00:52:53.539
Jean and Ramin both boldly follow Dresden, and

00:52:53.539 --> 00:52:56.300
as Blanche starts to move down those steps, the

00:52:56.300 --> 00:53:03.170
light from above is... Gone as that fireplace

00:53:03.170 --> 00:53:06.389
is replaced. The entrance once again hidden.

00:53:07.070 --> 00:53:10.650
You stare down a long tunnel with various sort

00:53:10.650 --> 00:53:13.269
of snaking paths. But it doesn't take you long

00:53:13.269 --> 00:53:16.349
to realize where you must go for up ahead there's

00:53:16.349 --> 00:53:20.909
a brighter light. A larger open chamber. You'd

00:53:20.909 --> 00:53:23.050
imagine you're staring towards probably the very

00:53:23.050 --> 00:53:26.489
center of this large estate. Center of the grounds

00:53:26.489 --> 00:53:30.980
where beneath this hill. Something has been hidden.

00:53:31.039 --> 00:53:34.559
Something has been waiting. Do you move down

00:53:34.559 --> 00:53:37.619
the tunnel? Yeah, what's the light situation

00:53:37.619 --> 00:53:40.920
like down here? Torchlight. Torchlight. You said

00:53:40.920 --> 00:53:42.519
that. Yeah, just flickering torchlight. It's

00:53:42.519 --> 00:53:44.880
not gray. I mean, it's not that you can see clearly.

00:53:45.579 --> 00:53:49.099
Except for Dresden. He only has one eye. Rude.

00:53:49.300 --> 00:53:52.159
He matter. If you lead, I'll follow, soldier

00:53:52.159 --> 00:54:00.969
boy. Dresden just gives a... He turns back around

00:54:00.969 --> 00:54:06.190
and keeps walking. Hell yeah. You move down the

00:54:06.190 --> 00:54:10.170
tunnel towards this main room, and as it sort

00:54:10.170 --> 00:54:13.369
of opens up before you as you reach it, you see

00:54:13.369 --> 00:54:19.090
walls lined with weapons, armor, various people

00:54:19.090 --> 00:54:23.750
on various sides training for combat. Somewhere

00:54:23.750 --> 00:54:28.110
in the center of this, you hear a voice, a very

00:54:28.110 --> 00:54:32.099
similar voice. Well, not to you, Blanche. And

00:54:32.099 --> 00:54:34.960
not even to Jean Franklin, but definitely to

00:54:34.960 --> 00:54:38.780
you, Dresden. Oh, God. Yes, that is the report

00:54:38.780 --> 00:54:43.420
from Moreno. I came as soon as I could. I believe

00:54:43.420 --> 00:54:46.000
I tried sending Jules this way. He may come.

00:54:46.340 --> 00:54:49.159
They may be the ones to help us. He recognized

00:54:49.159 --> 00:54:53.599
Grindy, and he is speaking with someone. You

00:54:53.599 --> 00:54:56.800
see this bronze -skinned, elderly, dwarven woman.

00:54:57.369 --> 00:54:59.230
who gives off this sort of strange impression

00:54:59.230 --> 00:55:02.630
of both style and strength. Two white hairs spill

00:55:02.630 --> 00:55:05.349
down from a wide -brimmed hat on her head. Her

00:55:05.349 --> 00:55:08.110
upper body is wrapped in a pink rebozo, her lower

00:55:08.110 --> 00:55:10.369
body covered by a sturdy leather skirt and heeled

00:55:10.369 --> 00:55:12.670
boots. There's a deadly -looking dagger with

00:55:12.670 --> 00:55:15.070
a curved hilt, shaped in the design of a gleaming

00:55:15.070 --> 00:55:19.230
black scorpion tail, resting at her belt. And

00:55:19.230 --> 00:55:22.429
she's just staring at Grindy, far -off expression

00:55:22.429 --> 00:55:25.869
sort of rubbing at her chin. Then her eyes flicker

00:55:25.869 --> 00:55:29.940
up. towards the group that has just moved in

00:55:29.940 --> 00:55:32.639
through the entrance tunnel. I think her eyes

00:55:32.639 --> 00:55:35.500
immediately fall to you, Dresden, and she beckons

00:55:35.500 --> 00:55:38.199
you. Yeah, so you seem like the main character

00:55:38.199 --> 00:55:42.780
here. Yeah. You're known is why. You're like

00:55:42.780 --> 00:55:46.579
a person that they know of from the actual attack.

00:55:46.920 --> 00:55:49.940
Jean Franklin was not there. Ramin was basically

00:55:49.940 --> 00:55:52.760
uninvolved. Same with you, Blanche. So Dresden

00:55:52.760 --> 00:55:55.380
will just take a couple steps forward silently.

00:55:56.219 --> 00:55:58.079
You all can go. I'm not saying that you guys

00:55:58.079 --> 00:56:01.300
can't. Yeah, I mean, Blanche is really just kind

00:56:01.300 --> 00:56:03.000
of playing like second fiddle here. She's following

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behind. So Dresden in the lead, Jean, Blanche,

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and Armin kind of come up behind. You approach

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this figure. Grindy turns. Master Dresden, it's

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good to see you back. Jules, he told me a bit

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about you back in the old days, and thank you

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so much for everything you've done for us. I

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sincerely hope. You're not done fighting for

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us yet. This is Paloma. This is the leader of

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the Sansatyan Rebellion. And he kind of, like,

00:56:33.900 --> 00:56:36.460
sort of gestures to her and then almost sort

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of shrinks back, giving space to this meeting.

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Then you stare gruffly at each other, no one

00:56:44.199 --> 00:56:46.780
saying the first words. I'm trying to think of

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what to say. We need to know everything. I agree.

00:56:52.380 --> 00:56:55.099
You do need to know everything, but you're going

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to have to help us for that information. You

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mind if I light up a smoke, honey? I don't give

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a shit. She takes out a fat cigar, kind of offers

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one to you as well, to anyone who's willing to

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take. Blanche holds out her hand. That was awesome.

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That was awesome. Paloma just nods, smiling.

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She just walks right up. Lady, after my own heart,

00:57:25.500 --> 00:57:31.159
please take. Light up. Blanche lights her cigar

00:57:31.159 --> 00:57:34.699
up on the flame that Paloma provides. Yeah, just

00:57:34.699 --> 00:57:41.159
got the flame out. Breeze it in. I can't say

00:57:41.159 --> 00:57:45.239
I know half of you, but if you're part of this

00:57:45.239 --> 00:57:48.000
group, then I think you'll be helpful for us.

00:57:48.840 --> 00:57:50.739
So let's talk about how we're going to overthrow

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the Trezina. And Blanche chokes on her smoke.

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We'll call it there.