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Hello, all you beautiful pants people. Just wanted

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to pop in to say thank you so much. Thank you

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for listening. Thank you for being our friends.

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And thank you for making this journey so meaningful

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and worthwhile. is always welcome in the spotlight.

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But there are those few luminaries whose more

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brutal tendencies towards the criminals they

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face can actually boost their popularity, build

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their brand, so to speak. And among this crowd,

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few stand out so well as Zubir Rubyfist. Now,

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there was no one about Zubir's early life, apart

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from the fact that he was the last of his clan.

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Lost in the subterranean cities of Rotham, Zubir

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sought his family and discovered another. of

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Rotham were near a myth of the good people of

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that world. Terrifying fighters, powered by pure

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rage and seeking only glory in battle. Known

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for using their bodies and their very armor as

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weapons, these warriors were said to reside in

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the darkest, most dangerous corners of their

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world. How Zubin had found them, how he impressed

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them enough to learn their art, we don't know.

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What we do know is that Zubit has used those

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arts to swiftly climb the luminary ranks. Even

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the most heinous of villains run in fear when

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they see his signature spiked armor and bladed

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gunwale. When the frenzy takes him, when he's

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blessed by his armor's haste, and he charges

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his foe. Let's just say there's a lot of footage

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of Zubit that we can't show on the network. So

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if you're one of those that's bored by the regular

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stories of luminary do -gooders, then you are

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someone with a little more edge. The tales of

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Spike Juggernaut are sure to be a gold vein.

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Did you guys see what I did there? I got it.

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I got the joke. I see what you did there. I see

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what you did there. Yeah, it's a golden dice.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. I got the joke. Podcaster.

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Nice. Yeah. Give it a try someday. I don't know.

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Thank you, Sue Beard. I wish we could do more

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for the intro, because I honestly got a ton of

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information on this character. It's awesome.

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This is a character who's been through one hell

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of a journey, and I wish I could really spotlight

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more of that. But I got the origins, and I got

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the fighting with your armor and a blade gauntlet.

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That's the coolest shit I've ever heard in my

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life. Yeah, it's awesome. So I am delighted to

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put Zoobeard into this world, hanging out over

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there, just brutalizing some villains on Rotham

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and beyond. Yeah, we hear a lot about not just

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Zoobeard, but... of all sorts of people on the

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Discord server. It's really cool to see just

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how in -depth some of these people... Well, yeah.

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Sorry. No, for real, though. Do it. If you're

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listening and you care, get on the Discord server.

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Come on. It's all force. Threaten them. Use threats.

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Use violence. Get on the Discord server or Zoobeard

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Rubyfist is going to do what Zoobeard Rubyfist

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does. That's scary. Oh, shit. But my point was

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it's really cool to see stuff like that because

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we see it all the time. There's so much game

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talk. There's so much game talk and I love it.

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We get a lot of pictures of maps of steps for

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game night, little stories from games. It's awesome

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because that's what it is. I just love to be

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able to talk about games. I have a lot of games

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that aren't this one. And I love talking about

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them so much. So yeah, it's, it's cool. It's

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cool. Get in this corridor. Super is going to

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break your knees. Yeah. So I was supposed to,

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uh, have mail time. What is it? The thing. Fuck.

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I didn't load it. Son of a bitch. Right here.

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Wait, pause. Oh, that was awesome. Oh, man. So

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hyped now. It doesn't get old. So hyped. It doesn't

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get old. So hyped. What do you got? I was so

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ready for it this time. You're so ready for it.

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I was so ready for it this time. You just reached

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over and pressed it. It was nothing. Time perfectly,

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I imagine. Yeah, absolutely. Steven, do we have

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mail? Steven, tell us this awesome mail, Steven.

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No, I forgot the mail at home. Steven, we played

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the thing. Well, I'll tell you about the mail

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at home. I bought stickers. I bought stickers

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from Chelsea the Selkie. Oh, hell yeah. Her Etsy

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shop. That's awesome. Yeah, they're cool. Describe

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them in detail worthy of a thousand words. That's

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what a picture's worth. There's a beholder and

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there's a mimic and there's one other thing that

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I'm having trouble remembering. If only you had

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them physically in front of you. But it's something

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fantastical and awesome. Segue from, well, not

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segue from, we're kind of staying on the same

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subject. Okay. David is going to be streaming

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with Chelsea on December 6th. Oh my goodness,

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I am? Or the 9th. Wait, what? So the 6th or the

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9th. I don't remember. Whatever's that Saturday.

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That's happening? It's a thing? You said it was

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a thing. Oh, I didn't know if it was approved.

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Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

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You were the one who approved it. Wait, wait,

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wait. I'm in, I'm in. No, I'm in. I'm excited.

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This will be cool. I just didn't know. Yeah,

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what's up? Why am I just hearing about this now?

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We've talked about it a long time ago, and we

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shelved it, and now we're picking it back up.

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All right, I kept you in the dark on songs. This

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is okay. No, I think we all talked about it together,

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but it was like two months ago. Nope. Were we

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drunk? Is my mic cut? I don't hear me. There

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I am. Hey, it's me. You get to hear the sausage

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get made tonight. I know. I know. Oh man. We

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were in a, we were in a rough place today. We're

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in rough, rough business. Um, speaking of streaming.

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Oh, nevermind. This isn't, this isn't getting,

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no, this is getting, this is getting released

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on the 13th. I'm live streaming again on the

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sixth with the even footing crew. Oh shoot. Yeah.

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So if you listened last week, cool. If not. At

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this point, the video will be up on YouTube.

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Dude, seriously, check it out. It was hilarious.

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Guy Normalman, is that the character? Yes. So,

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so funny. If you like Legos, you're going to

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like Guy. Guy likes Legos. Oh, yeah. Yeah. All

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right. All right. All right. All right. Anything

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else? Any big news? Oh, I'm sure there might

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be, but. Think about that. While I address a

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couple of quick wedgies. Because we got to do

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the wedgies. We got a big fight. Fight means

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wedgies because we are professionals and we mess

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up all the time. Is that the next drop we can

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work on? A wedgie drop? Yes. Just like somebody.

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I mean, you do a great wedgie scream. That's

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true. A clothes ripping sound and a Jeremy wedgie

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scream. It's got to be a Jeremy scream. Yeah.

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Just keep that. With like a thousand echoes.

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Yeah, just a little. With a fart on the end?

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There's so much force with it, man. It's going

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to move everything out of there. I'm always down

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for a little fart. Oh, yeah. These are actually

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pretty cool because they're wedgies that didn't

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really hurt anything because there's little ways

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around them. The biggest thing on this. The best

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wedgies are the ones that don't hurt. The best

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wedgies are the ones that don't hurt. Put it

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on a t -shirt. Ramin has Serenno. He's at negative

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four. We didn't... Remember that during the fight

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itself? No. But here's the thing. He only had

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two actual attacks that would have mattered,

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this would have factored for. That was the two

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guiding bolts. The first one would have hit anyway.

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Yes. And the second one would not have hit the

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light, but Ramin does have an ability that was

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unused called Blessed by the Sunweaver? Yes.

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Yes. I believe that lets you add, essentially

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you would add a die to a roll that you could

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have chosen, and that would have... Yeah, I think

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it's like 2d4. Yeah, I would have nullified that.

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Yeah, absolutely. So I just assume that's been

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used. We'll just burn that up, and then Ramin

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is totally fine. If you had remembered the negative

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4, you would just drop that on that roll, I imagine,

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because that's just kind of, you know, how that

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would go. So that was the one wedgie, and I don't

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think there's much more except for one other

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one. This is a pretty funny one, and this is

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actually pointed out by... Is this one from Andrew?

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Yes. Andrew fully forged our Discord, pointed

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this out, and I love this. While the spell enlarge

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slash reduce lasts for a minute, a potion of

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growth lasts for 1d4 hours. And you can't just

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uncast it or break concentration. So Blanche

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is just enormous for a while. And that's just

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something we're going to deal with. Blanche,

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you're just big. Do you want me to roll that

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right now? Roll it right now. Roll it right now.

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This is awesome. Yeah, it's great. You're coming

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down from this fight and you're just still under

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medication. It's still happening. You're not

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coming down. One. One hour. Oh, that's the least

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funny number. That's good, because out of the

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box, it was four. Out of the box, it was four.

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But hey, rules is rules. Rules is rules. Good

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or bad, out of the box doesn't count. Yeah, fine.

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I'll allow it. I've lost some good rolls that

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way, but I'm honest. You are honest. You're an

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honest soul. Speaking of honesty, I got a question

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for you guys. We do a lot of homebrew rules here

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in Fantasy Pants and in all my campaigns because

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I just like to mix things up and do some weird

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stuff. Not a lot, but some. We're somewhat heavily

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homebrew, probably compared to other groups.

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So I want to talk to you guys about it a little

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bit because I think homebrew rules are important

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to discuss here and there when you're using them.

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And I want to ask how you guys feel about our

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bonuses and minuses system, which is, if you

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don't remember, basically if we go beyond advantage.

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will say, you can't stack advantage, basically.

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You can't roll three d20 and take the highest.

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That's kind of crazy powerful. So instead, when

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there's a secondary advantage on advantage, we

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add a bonus. And that does stack. It's a plus

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two. It's a plus two, plus two, you get a plus

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four, you get a plus six advantage. It's pretty

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confusing, I think. And that's kind of why they

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don't stack advantage. They don't have rules

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for this in the book. But I like it because it

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makes cool maneuvers like, I don't know, blowing

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up skylights actually... matter a lot more. It

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means that you're not just going to say, hey,

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you know, that was really cool you did that thing,

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but he's already kind of, he's got his hands

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on the ground or whatever, so you're going to

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get advantage anyway and the other thing didn't

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matter. What do you think about that? Is it too

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confusing to have these bonuses and minuses?

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The plus twos and negative twos? Well, what are

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the negative twos coming from? What's the minuses

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for? Oh, stack disadvantage. And then some things

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like being invisible will give you a bonus on

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stealth, checks. So you have plus two for that

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because, you know, a little something, something

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extra. Being invisible needs to be buffed, I

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think. Flanking is a plus two because flanking

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with advantage just undoes a lot of other abilities.

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It just makes every fight a flank fest. Exactly.

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That's the thing. If you automatically get advantage

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from flanking, then that's all that you're going

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to get. I've played that way, and it's easier

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but less fun. Yeah, I learned quickly that flanking

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is not as fun as giving a little extra. And then

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you could flank, get the plus two, and also get

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advantage in another way. It just makes things

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a little more exciting. I don't have any problems

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with that. The system? Why? Do you have problems

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with the system? No, no. I just want to make

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sure we're touching base, because homebrew rules

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are, you know, they're a mixed bag. The game's

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designed the way it is for simplicity's sake,

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and sometimes that can feel very lacking. Hell,

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even things like, like Andrew pointed out, that

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when monsters stat blocks, was this Andrew? That

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when monsters stat blocks, they double their

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damage? Oh, yes. He was talking about larger

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weapons or something like that. Yeah, with spell

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legs enlarged, your weapon's larger. So, like,

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if you were a monster, say, and you were, like,

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one size category larger, you'd be doing double

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damage, essentially. Right. But Blanche gets

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bigger, and you're doing an extra D4, like, and

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nothing. Right. Which feels really bad, but it's

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also balanced. And, like, there's that hard thing

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where it's, like, you want things to feel good.

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You want things to feel like they make sense

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in the narrative and in the world. Yeah. But

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you also got to find a balance, and that's where

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homebrew rules can be tricky. So I want to make

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sure we're talking about them. I mean, I guess

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I agree that 10 -foot Blanche, because, I mean,

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like, this potion that we used, is a very valuable

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thing yeah something that we're not going to

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come by often i don't know what the like book

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price is on it but to gain 1d4 extra damage for

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an hour feels a little small and you will never

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see another potion again well right exactly i

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think you said it jokingly but i think i meant

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it uh but yeah yeah so it's one of those things

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yeah yeah take it as you go um Think about things

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and always think very carefully. There's times

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where I almost rule on something and then realize,

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wait, that's crazy and we'll break the whole

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game. Wait, wait, wait. Yeah. Are you saying

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that this system's not perfect? It's very much

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not perfect. Holy shit. Yeah. Blasphemy. It's

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a system developed in the mind of a madman. Yep.

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Not perfect. So we do what we can to. make it

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our own and fun. And hope all you guys listening,

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hope you guys like it. Hope it's fun for you

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guys because it's fun for us. Most important

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is that we're having fun because we're having

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fun and everyone else is fun too. And we thanked

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Andrew on the Discord server, but hey, again,

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thank you so much. That was a good catch and

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a lot of fun. And thanks again, Andrew, for being

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on the Discord server. Your kneecaps are safe.

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Zoobeard Rubyfist will not be showing up unless

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you want to. I bet he'll have a beer with you.

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Yeah. I bet. I bet. Um, let's get into it. We're

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going to play a game. I'm ready to play. I'll

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play a game. You stand in the pig pen surrounded

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by all sorts of workout equipment, fitness, whatever's,

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uh, Hector at the stands is just like staring

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at you guys in awe. Um, actually, no, he's down.

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He's down. He's down at the end of the ring,

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uh, holding John Franklin's head, who is once

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again, just fully passed out. Um, Sean's out

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of the episode. He worked really hard. Okay,

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that's easy. And Ramin's kind of like tending

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to him off to the side as... Is he alive? Yes,

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yes, he'll be okay. Very well. Leave him there

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for this episode. I should tend to him. I will

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leave the episode as well. And Ramin just walks

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out of the place. We don't need either of you

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tonight. Things will go a lot quicker and smoother

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that way. Blanche, you were leaning over at the

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end of the ring before, but like Pigman just

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kind of spoke to you. Once again, just going

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on about how excited he is to show off his maybe

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new sidekick to the bosses, the men up top. So

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I did you kind of turn around. Dresden, you're

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still in the ring. You guys just did a predator

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handshake or something. Whatever it was, it was

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really cool. It was really cool. There was a

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lot of like forearms and muscles. It was a handshake

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between two badass men. Hell. Yes. They like

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slap skin and a little bit of sweat sprayed everywhere.

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That's how you know it's good. Pigman just kind

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of like reveling in the moment. You can see this

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almost like he's just so thrilled. All this pent

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up energy is kind of finally leaving him. He

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almost looks like he's like stretching. He kind

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of does this long sort of... I feel pretty good.

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I feel really good. I might be able to sleep

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now. Honestly, I was kind of, you know, what

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they say, I was kind of blue -balled a little

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earlier not doing a fight. That's naughty. I'm

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sorry. Marvel wouldn't let me say that out loud.

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I didn't get to do a fight earlier. I didn't

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know it was going to be that kind of fight. Blanche

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in the ring sits crisscross applesauce and leans

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up against the ring support. So Marfil filters

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what you're able to say, do they? Oh, I mean,

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you know, I gotta go out to the public. I'm supposed

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to be good with the kids. They always say, hey,

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big man, all about the kids, all about the kids.

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And so I shouldn't say anything naughty because

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the kids won't like that. I understand, I understand.

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Well, who gives you all those rules? You know,

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a number of folk, whoever spokesman they bring

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down. I'm just trying to learn the important

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names around here. Usually it's Mary. Mary comes

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by a lot. But I don't think she's important.

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She's just kind of the, I think she's the pig

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man, the pig man person. You know what I mean?

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She's got a handle on her. I think I like a couple

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of those that just try to keep me in check. Sometimes

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I give them trouble. Like the invitations, I

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think Mary's going to get in a little trouble.

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Marfil seemed kind of relieved when everyone

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didn't show up for the fight. Because I promised

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these invitations in public, I couldn't really

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take them back. That didn't work out. But now

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I'm bringing you guys, and I don't care what

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they say, because I've got a new sidekick now.

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This is going to be really cool. I'd be happy

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to hear your imitations. No, no, no, invitations.

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Oh, invitations. I can do imitations. Okay, I'll

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hear them. All right, I'm going to do you. I

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like imitations. How was that? That wasn't bad.

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Can you imitate Mary? Mary, oh, um. Okay, I mean...

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Pigman, you shouldn't say that. Pigman, you gotta

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be more careful. No more body... I shouldn't

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have said that one out loud. Sorry, sorry. It's

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okay, you're among friends. Yeah, I am, aren't

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I? I can't wait. We're gonna have a good time.

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I mean, I'll be honest with you. I mean, this

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party, I mean, it's... So dull. It's going to

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be so boring. Just a bunch of fancy robes sitting

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around a table of a little garden party. And

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I got to do all sorts of feats of strength and

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whatnot and impress them. You know, everyone

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wants to see the pig man. But. But it's important.

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I mean, it's important. I get it. I mean, Marfil's,

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well, they're expanding. You know, they're doing

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some big cool stuff, Mary told me. Like, they're

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going to move into the old city. They're actually

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going to expand the ironworks out. They're going

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to create, like, you know, sort of camps for

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the people there. Really going to help up living

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conditions by creating sort of their own sort

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of walled -in kind of camp areas to live in.

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And then you can go right from the works back

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to their camp homes and, you know, have some

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works right there. It's going to be good. It's

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going to be good. And the guardian armors, they're

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going to start expanding those to other worlds,

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you know? Highest bidders can get a sort of line

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of them themselves, and those things are tough.

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They have me fight them when they make new models,

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and they get stronger every time, I'm telling

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you. So, yeah, it's a big party. They're getting

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all sorts of new investors coming in from off

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-world. I think this is the first time in years

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it's had people at his manor. Even I haven't

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been there very much. Wow. The God Amas, certainly

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they can't beat you. Can they? Oh, of course

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not, of course not. I mean, enough of them might

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give me some trouble. How many do you think?

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How many would it take to beat me? Yeah, if you

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had to guess. Oh, man, that's a home pretty strong.

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Well, how many would it take to beat me? Oh,

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to beat you? Well... Be honest. Hmm, it might

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depend. If you don't get the jump on them, I

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think even one might give you some trouble. They're

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very strong then. They're tough. Yeah, they're

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tough. And they don't really think themselves.

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They just listen to orders. And I mean, they're,

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you know, they're impressive. I mean, that's,

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that's, it's been, I mean, it's his own model,

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just like the forges, just like everything. It's

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been Del Prado. They say every brilliant new

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forge or, or, or mining technique or, or, yo.

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Artificery all starts as a blot of ink in Nitzman's

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notebook. Well, I would like to know who is the

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battle tactician who gives them their orders.

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That's a very impressive feat, certainly. Oh,

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I don't know. Must be someone from the Tressina,

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right? I think. I mean, they're police in the

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city. The Tressina would have to handle that,

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I think. Yes, that's very interesting. The Tressina,

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huh? What, what? Hold on. Can you give me like

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one minute to read something? That's very interesting.

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The Tressen, what, what? I'm still doing Blanche,

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see? Sorry. Are they the ones that trained you?

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Oh, no, no. I've always been strong. As long

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as I can remember. I've been the strongest guy

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in the whole world. Even when you were really

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young? Well, yeah. When I was... What were we

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talking about again? It's all right. It's all

00:21:03.160 --> 00:21:05.730
right. Okay. I was just impressed by your skill.

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Oh, yeah. And I was curious how you attained

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it. Yeah, yeah, no, I... And, like, his eyes

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just keep fogging over as he just kind of stares.

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I... And, like, there's a weird moment. And his

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voice almost cracks and changes. Did I have a

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brother? Did I have a... Did I have a... Huh?

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What? Sorry. What was going on again? Well, we

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were talking about the party tomorrow. Oh, the

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party, yeah. You were telling me what to expect

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and who I should meet. Oh, it's going to be so

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dull. It's going to be so boring. But it's all

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right. We'll have fun. We'll have fun. Is the

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Tressa not going to be there? Oh, yeah. I think

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some of them at least. The big ones. The ones

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I've met. Oh, Donya Estella. Oh, she'll be there.

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You know she'll be there. Estella will be there?

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Estella will be there. Yeah, Donya Estella's

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a big one. She's always hovering around Hitsman.

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You know, I think she spends a lot of time just

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kind of keeping an eye on him. Oh, I see. I think

00:22:01.099 --> 00:22:02.339
it's kind of important. I think a lot of the

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ones seem to, you know, like her a lot and listen

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to her a lot, so. She keeps an eye on him, you

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say, huh? Well, she's always around. You know,

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every time I've been to the manor, anytime anyone's

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been to the manor, I feel like Donya Estella's

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there, too. Maybe she lives there. I don't know.

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Well, I'd just like to know how to comport myself

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at the party. Who does Marfil tell you to be

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on your best behavior around besides Stella?

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Well, let's see. So Estella will be there. She's

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important. Estella, I'm sorry. Estella, yeah,

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yeah. Don't get her name wrong. She's mean. She's

00:22:35.849 --> 00:22:39.109
like a mean grandma. Oh, no. Yeah, yeah, no.

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She's rough. You don't want to get in her bad

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side. She's yelled at me a couple times. Can

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you believe it? No one yells at me. Apart from

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her. You'll probably see Donna Ponko. He's around.

00:22:52.880 --> 00:22:54.819
He likes to drink a lot. We drink together sometimes.

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He's all right. He's, you know, he doesn't, he

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doesn't do much. He just likes to drink and enjoy

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himself. He's always at the parties. And, oh,

00:23:02.440 --> 00:23:04.839
Donya Zico, she'll be around for sure. She likes

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to talk to all the off -worlders. She's kind

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of like the, you know, the spokesperson for the

00:23:11.519 --> 00:23:13.660
Tress in this order. She really gets out there

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to other worlds and, you know. Dresses up nice

00:23:16.980 --> 00:23:19.299
and all that. She's funny. She's funny. She's

00:23:19.299 --> 00:23:21.240
really nice. If you talk to her, she's really,

00:23:21.259 --> 00:23:22.920
really, really nice. Oh, well, I'll keep my eye

00:23:22.920 --> 00:23:25.160
out for her. No, like, don't you, Stella. She's

00:23:25.160 --> 00:23:29.700
not nice. Oh. Well, that's a little scary. Yeah,

00:23:29.819 --> 00:23:32.799
yeah. I'm excited. We're going to have fun. We're

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going to have fun. You guys, I mean, how are

00:23:34.119 --> 00:23:36.220
you feeling? You guys excited for this? Do you

00:23:36.220 --> 00:23:40.460
need anything from me? Oh, well, I'm, hmm. I

00:23:40.460 --> 00:23:42.720
suppose I am a little nervous. Do you think they'll,

00:23:42.720 --> 00:23:44.579
uh... Do you think they'll like us? Do you think

00:23:44.579 --> 00:23:47.299
they'll accept us at the party? Oh, yeah. I mean,

00:23:47.339 --> 00:23:49.140
what's I say? I mean, they're not going to be

00:23:49.140 --> 00:23:50.900
very happy that I brought you because it's very,

00:23:51.119 --> 00:23:53.539
very private, you know, to all the big people.

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But, I mean, they don't like to taste. They know

00:23:57.140 --> 00:23:59.859
to me too, too much because, you know, I'm the

00:23:59.859 --> 00:24:02.200
pig man. Because you're kind of a big deal. I'm

00:24:02.200 --> 00:24:04.299
kind of a big deal, yeah. Sometimes I forget.

00:24:05.700 --> 00:24:09.480
Hang on. Hang on. He kind of stops for a second.

00:24:10.220 --> 00:24:13.549
Hey, Hector. And Hector kind of looks up. And

00:24:13.549 --> 00:24:16.630
Pigman sort of like almost like crawls over to

00:24:16.630 --> 00:24:18.950
him. And through the sort of ring, he's like

00:24:18.950 --> 00:24:24.750
whispering something. And Hector's like, eyes

00:24:24.750 --> 00:24:28.910
light up, like astonished and wide. And he looks

00:24:28.910 --> 00:24:31.890
over the both of you and gets this huge smile

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on his face and just nods and turns around to

00:24:34.390 --> 00:24:37.809
Pigman and says, yes, I think so. All right.

00:24:37.829 --> 00:24:40.299
Yeah, go ahead. Just go for it. It's fine. It's

00:24:40.299 --> 00:24:41.920
fine. I'll clear it with Marfil or whatever.

00:24:42.059 --> 00:24:44.019
I don't care. And Hector just runs out of the

00:24:44.019 --> 00:24:49.160
room very excitedly. Well, I must say, Pigman,

00:24:49.240 --> 00:24:52.819
you have me curious. Oh, just do it. This will

00:24:52.819 --> 00:24:56.690
be fun. So... Every once in a while, Marfo runs

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these little promotions and stuff, right? Like

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they make a new product and they want me to,

00:25:01.049 --> 00:25:04.069
you know, sample it or show it off or sometimes

00:25:04.069 --> 00:25:05.789
they'll go to events and I'll give it out. It's

00:25:05.789 --> 00:25:08.509
kind of an advertisement. Well, they got some

00:25:08.509 --> 00:25:11.029
new stuff that they just gave me to check out.

00:25:11.109 --> 00:25:13.509
And I think maybe, I mean, the two of you lasted

00:25:13.509 --> 00:25:15.829
in the ring. You were still in the ring when

00:25:15.829 --> 00:25:19.410
I got, you know, a little tired. So I think,

00:25:19.410 --> 00:25:22.720
I think you heard it. Oh, oh, there he is. Hector

00:25:22.720 --> 00:25:24.359
comes back in, you know, maybe a moment later.

00:25:24.500 --> 00:25:26.279
He says he didn't have to go too far for this.

00:25:26.339 --> 00:25:27.579
He kind of heard some bustling, maybe a room

00:25:27.579 --> 00:25:31.240
just outside. And he comes out with, it looks

00:25:31.240 --> 00:25:34.039
like a sort of cloth covering, maybe like a large

00:25:34.039 --> 00:25:38.980
sort of, what do you call it? A dibbida? A platter?

00:25:39.519 --> 00:25:42.019
I guess. Not really, but we'll go for that. Kind

00:25:42.019 --> 00:25:43.460
of like a platter. It's just like something he's

00:25:43.460 --> 00:25:45.079
carrying, you know, something on. Oh, a dibbida.

00:25:45.240 --> 00:25:46.980
Okay. A dibbida. A dibbida. So he comes over

00:25:46.980 --> 00:25:50.059
with a dibbida, and he slides it. through the

00:25:50.059 --> 00:25:51.660
ring and just kind of looks over and kind of

00:25:51.660 --> 00:25:54.900
looks to you guys, steps back, and he looks excited.

00:25:55.160 --> 00:25:57.539
What's on the dibbida? What's the dibbida? It's

00:25:57.539 --> 00:25:59.259
covered. You guys want to go over and pull it

00:25:59.259 --> 00:26:01.480
open? Blanche, go see what's under the dibbida.

00:26:02.339 --> 00:26:04.119
He gets the dibbida covering the dibbida, so

00:26:04.119 --> 00:26:06.099
you got to pull up the dibbida to see what's

00:26:06.099 --> 00:26:08.400
underneath. All you see is two long -looking

00:26:08.400 --> 00:26:12.039
lumps. Ooh, weapons maybe? Lumps, you say? Yeah,

00:26:12.039 --> 00:26:16.700
Blanche is going to check it out. All right,

00:26:16.740 --> 00:26:18.200
get ready. Just brace yourselves. It's going

00:26:18.200 --> 00:26:20.950
to be cool. You pull it up and you're struck

00:26:20.950 --> 00:26:27.069
by brilliant gleaming steel. You see a long sword

00:26:27.069 --> 00:26:31.910
and a war pick. Oh, what? Wait, what? You see

00:26:31.910 --> 00:26:34.690
they both have like this sort of almost pig snout

00:26:34.690 --> 00:26:37.960
design like in the sort of handles of them. And

00:26:37.960 --> 00:26:39.059
I think immediately as you look at them, as you

00:26:39.059 --> 00:26:40.900
see the sort of incantations scribble down like

00:26:40.900 --> 00:26:43.240
the blade and around like the sort of the pick

00:26:43.240 --> 00:26:45.900
of the war pick, you realize these are plus one

00:26:45.900 --> 00:26:51.559
magic weapons. Oh, yeah, baby. Yeah, this is

00:26:51.559 --> 00:26:53.559
the, check them out. This is part of the new

00:26:53.559 --> 00:26:55.779
Mighty Pigland magic weapon line they're releasing.

00:26:55.980 --> 00:26:57.799
I mean, this is top dollar stuff. But like I

00:26:57.799 --> 00:26:59.380
said, they gave it to me to kind of, you know,

00:26:59.440 --> 00:27:00.740
I have a couple of samples. I got, you know,

00:27:00.740 --> 00:27:02.519
one of different, I don't have a spear. Sorry,

00:27:02.640 --> 00:27:05.279
little guy. He's knocked out. He looks at Sean.

00:27:06.140 --> 00:27:08.500
But yeah, please, please. I mean, come on. You

00:27:08.500 --> 00:27:11.640
guys are, we're friends, right? My gift. My gift.

00:27:12.079 --> 00:27:15.579
Yes, Pigman. Yes. We are friends. And this is,

00:27:15.579 --> 00:27:19.779
this is quite exclusive. So Jeremy, a little

00:27:19.779 --> 00:27:23.099
bit of table talk. The question that you were

00:27:23.099 --> 00:27:26.220
planning to ask to wrap things up. Yes. I think

00:27:26.220 --> 00:27:29.779
I have an idea that's going to do the same thing,

00:27:29.779 --> 00:27:33.440
but maybe a little bit better. Oh, okay. So if

00:27:33.440 --> 00:27:36.099
you have anything else you want to say. I had

00:27:36.099 --> 00:27:38.220
that and what I asked earlier, which definitely

00:27:38.220 --> 00:27:40.299
just got a lot of information from that, too.

00:27:40.440 --> 00:27:43.039
Yeah. And I'll just, just to recap for everybody

00:27:43.039 --> 00:27:44.299
listening, because I know we're doing a lot of

00:27:44.299 --> 00:27:48.180
shifting here and there. Like, your basic mission,

00:27:48.380 --> 00:27:51.299
you know, even at this point, is to learn more

00:27:51.299 --> 00:27:53.359
about Serenno and what's causing it. You know

00:27:53.359 --> 00:27:55.559
there's some sort of demon that can chip to an

00:27:55.559 --> 00:27:58.180
owl that's been moving around the city and outside

00:27:58.180 --> 00:28:01.420
the city, making people deathly sick. You know

00:28:01.420 --> 00:28:04.000
that it's targeting people, seemingly, you know,

00:28:04.000 --> 00:28:06.299
people who are against the Trezina. It cannot

00:28:06.299 --> 00:28:10.059
be accidental. This is weaponized. And you know

00:28:10.059 --> 00:28:13.140
that this party is one of your best chances to

00:28:13.140 --> 00:28:15.240
learn more about the Tressina, to learn about

00:28:15.240 --> 00:28:17.559
their deal with Marfil. What happens when you

00:28:17.559 --> 00:28:19.980
get there is entirely up to you. There's no mission

00:28:19.980 --> 00:28:22.380
objective. It's just do what you can to learn

00:28:22.380 --> 00:28:25.920
more. This is a once -in -a -lifetime opportunity,

00:28:26.039 --> 00:28:30.119
and you managed to get in. So whatever you need

00:28:30.119 --> 00:28:32.039
to know before going in, you might be able to

00:28:32.039 --> 00:28:35.490
get more from Paloma, but... The pig man's also

00:28:35.490 --> 00:28:37.529
probably your best source of information you

00:28:37.529 --> 00:28:39.690
have right now on what you're going to face.

00:28:39.829 --> 00:28:44.029
So that's what you know. Yeah. The pig man's

00:28:44.029 --> 00:28:46.089
just look at you guys like, oh, look at that.

00:28:46.230 --> 00:28:49.490
When you come in sporting Marfil steel, oh, man,

00:28:49.609 --> 00:28:51.009
they're going to like you a lot. They're going

00:28:51.009 --> 00:28:52.569
to like you a lot, I think. Oh, that's great.

00:28:52.690 --> 00:28:59.970
That's very reassuring, pig man. Oh, man. This

00:28:59.970 --> 00:29:02.549
is going to be fun. All right. Steven's a little

00:29:02.549 --> 00:29:06.359
nervous for this one. Blanche is going to look

00:29:06.359 --> 00:29:10.119
up at the pig man and she's going to say, pig

00:29:10.119 --> 00:29:14.220
man, I'd like you to finish that Mary impersonation

00:29:14.220 --> 00:29:17.440
that you were doing earlier. And she's going

00:29:17.440 --> 00:29:24.440
to cast suggestion. Tell me a little bit about

00:29:24.440 --> 00:29:29.480
suggestion. Okay. You suggest a course of activity

00:29:29.480 --> 00:29:32.609
limited to a sentence or two. and magically influence

00:29:32.609 --> 00:29:34.829
a creature you can see within range that can

00:29:34.829 --> 00:29:37.329
hear and understand you. Here's the one sentence

00:29:37.329 --> 00:29:40.569
that might fuck me. Creatures that can't be charmed

00:29:40.569 --> 00:29:43.529
are immune to this effect. We don't exactly know

00:29:43.529 --> 00:29:47.170
what the pig man is. You and I have some guess

00:29:47.170 --> 00:29:50.509
that he's not natural or human or whatnot. Right.

00:29:51.109 --> 00:29:53.950
Do you want me to keep reading? No, I think we're

00:29:53.950 --> 00:29:56.369
good. Oh, God. We got enough. I don't know if

00:29:56.369 --> 00:29:59.950
that's good or bad. Right. Oh, shit. The hard

00:29:59.950 --> 00:30:01.869
thing is, are you doing this in any way stealthily?

00:30:01.950 --> 00:30:04.210
Is he seeing you do this? I mean, he's going

00:30:04.210 --> 00:30:07.109
to be suggested regardless, but like, what you

00:30:07.109 --> 00:30:08.789
need to be worried about is will he understand

00:30:08.789 --> 00:30:11.829
what happened? He's very simple. There's nothing

00:30:11.829 --> 00:30:14.730
in here that says, you know, kind of like friendship

00:30:14.730 --> 00:30:18.569
or anything or whatever. Components. VSM? What

00:30:18.569 --> 00:30:24.069
do you got? Verbal and material. Okay. So you

00:30:24.069 --> 00:30:26.690
say this and then you do say an incantation of

00:30:26.690 --> 00:30:28.710
some sort. You will have to do that out loud.

00:30:29.519 --> 00:30:31.619
but you rolled very high on insight on the pig

00:30:31.619 --> 00:30:35.220
man before. Yeah. He's not very smart. Yeah.

00:30:35.579 --> 00:30:37.799
He might not understand what this means. Right.

00:30:37.839 --> 00:30:39.740
My thought was that, I mean, I don't know this,

00:30:39.859 --> 00:30:43.299
but I was just guessing that, like, the suggestion

00:30:43.299 --> 00:30:46.779
was the verbal component of it, but I don't know

00:30:46.779 --> 00:30:49.259
that. You know, like, you can't suggest something

00:30:49.259 --> 00:30:52.660
without saying something. Interesting. Interesting.

00:30:53.539 --> 00:30:55.440
I know what we're going to do. Because there

00:30:55.440 --> 00:30:57.480
are other spells that say that the target knows.

00:30:58.720 --> 00:31:00.900
Yes, Friends does do that. And there's nothing

00:31:00.900 --> 00:31:02.859
in here about that. Charm Person does that. I

00:31:02.859 --> 00:31:05.519
think you're right. I think you're right. And

00:31:05.519 --> 00:31:06.960
I thought about doing it when Hector was out

00:31:06.960 --> 00:31:09.019
of the room, but Hector's an inside man. Yeah,

00:31:09.079 --> 00:31:11.279
he's with you. He likes the pig man. It seems

00:31:11.279 --> 00:31:13.019
like he authentically likes the pig man. Right.

00:31:13.140 --> 00:31:16.299
But he also isn't trying to get information because

00:31:16.299 --> 00:31:18.279
he even said, don't ask about Marfil. Don't tell

00:31:18.279 --> 00:31:20.519
him about Marfil doing bad things. Yeah. Okay.

00:31:20.599 --> 00:31:23.440
You asked about finishing that thought. Because

00:31:23.440 --> 00:31:26.029
he started to say something about a body. It's

00:31:26.029 --> 00:31:31.089
a 14 wisdom save. All right, let me do a save.

00:31:31.150 --> 00:31:34.430
That makes sense. And I have one button, but

00:31:34.430 --> 00:31:35.829
I don't think that's enough to give you disadvantage,

00:31:36.210 --> 00:31:42.210
so. It is not. He looks at you with his gigantic

00:31:42.210 --> 00:31:46.490
brown eyes, this light, soft brown color, and

00:31:46.490 --> 00:31:51.410
those eyes almost sleepily begin to close. What?

00:31:52.069 --> 00:32:00.539
Oh, Mary. Yeah, Mary said, you can owe more bodies.

00:32:01.299 --> 00:32:07.619
Sometimes when I get excited, sometimes when

00:32:07.619 --> 00:32:15.220
I get excited, people die. My heart covers it

00:32:15.220 --> 00:32:20.579
up, but I didn't mean to kill nobody. I didn't

00:32:20.579 --> 00:32:35.019
mean to kill. What? What languages do you guys

00:32:35.019 --> 00:32:40.380
speak? Fuck me. Fuck. Aquan and common. Okay.

00:32:41.039 --> 00:32:45.799
Common and abyssal. Okay. You don't recognize

00:32:45.799 --> 00:32:48.859
the words, but I will let you roll a history

00:32:48.859 --> 00:32:50.359
check to see if you, you won't know what he's

00:32:50.359 --> 00:32:52.279
saying, but you might know the language based

00:32:52.279 --> 00:32:54.619
on just like hearing. Bits and pieces. You know,

00:32:54.660 --> 00:32:55.880
you could tell what French is even though you

00:32:55.880 --> 00:33:02.220
don't speak French. Exactly. Yeah. 22. 16. With

00:33:02.220 --> 00:33:05.839
a 22. He's speaking giant. Huh. Interesting.

00:33:06.380 --> 00:33:10.940
Interesting. Interesting. Okay. He's 11 feet

00:33:10.940 --> 00:33:14.319
tall. He's 11 feet tall. Yeah. He sort of snaps

00:33:14.319 --> 00:33:17.779
out of it. I sort of blink. I want you to roll

00:33:17.779 --> 00:33:21.460
a D100 for me. Oh, no. Oh, no. Why did I ever

00:33:21.460 --> 00:33:24.180
buy this D100? Let me know if you get below 20.

00:33:26.660 --> 00:33:32.359
87. What are we talking about again? You were

00:33:32.359 --> 00:33:35.559
telling us about these swords. Oh, yeah. They're

00:33:35.559 --> 00:33:37.119
really cool, yeah. Those are awesome swords.

00:33:37.319 --> 00:33:41.160
Blanche is hefting hers. The balance is, wow,

00:33:41.380 --> 00:33:45.140
I mean. Yeah. Quite impressive. Why am I crying?

00:33:45.559 --> 00:33:48.940
I'm sorry. That's weird. My eyes are leaking.

00:33:49.059 --> 00:33:51.019
Must have been all the excitement from the...

00:33:51.549 --> 00:33:53.809
the fight. I bet it was the excitement. I bet

00:33:53.809 --> 00:33:55.329
it was. You guys were the best. You guys were

00:33:55.329 --> 00:33:57.029
the best. No one's ever cried in the ring before.

00:33:57.230 --> 00:34:00.210
Oh, man. It was such a beautiful combat. It was

00:34:00.210 --> 00:34:01.250
a really beautiful combat. It was beautiful.

00:34:01.309 --> 00:34:03.210
I was hugging you at the end. I was breaking

00:34:03.210 --> 00:34:05.369
bones, I thought, and you were fine. You're tough.

00:34:05.630 --> 00:34:07.970
You are tough. This bond is unbroken. What the?

00:34:08.130 --> 00:34:09.989
What was the thing? The thing with the thing?

00:34:10.130 --> 00:34:12.230
The shadowy guy? That guy's cool. What's his

00:34:12.230 --> 00:34:14.050
name? Is he around? What's his name? I'll teach

00:34:14.050 --> 00:34:18.010
you. Whoa. I'll teach you. Whoa. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

00:34:18.150 --> 00:34:21.440
I'm curious, though. Huh? From one brute to another.

00:34:21.639 --> 00:34:24.840
Yeah? I know we all got our reasons for why we

00:34:24.840 --> 00:34:28.980
do things. But why the mask? I mean no offense

00:34:28.980 --> 00:34:32.340
or disrespect, I'm just curious. One successful

00:34:32.340 --> 00:34:36.840
brute to another. I'm a luchador. You know, a

00:34:36.840 --> 00:34:38.559
luchador's gotta have his mask. Never can see

00:34:38.559 --> 00:34:41.079
under it. That's how it goes. Insight checks.

00:34:47.869 --> 00:34:51.550
crit my fucking pants holy shit give it to me

00:34:51.550 --> 00:34:54.730
okay you ask that question you stare him down

00:34:54.730 --> 00:34:57.329
and as he says that he's kind of laughing and

00:34:57.329 --> 00:34:58.630
you see he kind of like puts a hand up and almost

00:34:58.630 --> 00:35:01.789
like like like tightening the mask like without

00:35:01.789 --> 00:35:03.670
really thinking about it his eyes go a little

00:35:03.670 --> 00:35:05.730
wide and you see like his fingers are shaking

00:35:05.730 --> 00:35:08.150
just a bit and you have to wonder for a second

00:35:08.150 --> 00:35:11.949
what could scare the pig man something about

00:35:11.949 --> 00:35:15.269
losing this mask is absolutely terrifying to

00:35:15.269 --> 00:35:18.489
him Yeah, no, I'm a luchador. I gotta keep my

00:35:18.489 --> 00:35:21.050
mask. It's like identities, you know. And I'm

00:35:21.050 --> 00:35:22.869
a luminary, too, so sometimes luminaries like

00:35:22.869 --> 00:35:25.309
to stay secret, you know. That's how we do it.

00:35:26.050 --> 00:35:29.210
Oh, I get that. I get that. Yes, yes, it's best

00:35:29.210 --> 00:35:31.690
to keep your true identity hidden. Yeah, yeah,

00:35:31.730 --> 00:35:34.130
yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, I am the pig man. I

00:35:34.130 --> 00:35:36.070
mean, the mask is me. I am me. I'm the pig man.

00:35:36.190 --> 00:35:40.110
There's no, there's nothing under the mask. I'm

00:35:40.110 --> 00:35:44.309
very scared to ask any more questions. Yeah.

00:35:44.389 --> 00:35:46.670
Did we get enough? I'm okay. Did we get enough?

00:35:46.690 --> 00:35:48.809
I think we got enough. I think we got enough.

00:35:49.190 --> 00:35:51.710
Well, tomorrow, our party begins, you know, a

00:35:51.710 --> 00:35:54.769
little before sundown. How about you guys come

00:35:54.769 --> 00:35:58.650
meet me here? Say, oh, boy. How about four o

00:35:58.650 --> 00:36:00.889
'clock? Oh, and we can go in together. You mean

00:36:00.889 --> 00:36:02.510
it, Pigman? Of course, yeah. You got to come

00:36:02.510 --> 00:36:03.949
with me. Otherwise, the Guardian Armors will

00:36:03.949 --> 00:36:06.989
kill you. It'll be good. You'll be torn to shreds

00:36:06.989 --> 00:36:08.510
in a minute. Well, are there going to be enough

00:36:08.510 --> 00:36:11.190
to kill me there? Oh, man, there'll be enough

00:36:11.190 --> 00:36:14.550
to kill you and then kill five of you. Not me,

00:36:14.610 --> 00:36:20.130
though. I'm tough. Yep. I'm sorry. I just tried

00:36:20.130 --> 00:36:27.619
to Dresden laugh. Dude, do it again. I think

00:36:27.619 --> 00:36:30.280
that's the noise that I should make when Crispin

00:36:30.280 --> 00:36:39.719
is a hyena. Oh, fuck. Okay. No personality. Well,

00:36:39.760 --> 00:36:41.980
heck, don't send me the way out if you guys,

00:36:42.019 --> 00:36:44.039
you know. But, yeah, come on back tomorrow. You

00:36:44.039 --> 00:36:46.519
can use the main door and all that. I'll be expecting

00:36:46.519 --> 00:36:50.639
you. Four o 'clock, big man. See you then. I'll

00:36:50.639 --> 00:36:52.739
see you there. Gives you a thumbs up. He just

00:36:52.739 --> 00:36:55.579
kind of falls backwards. Asleep. And he's like

00:36:55.579 --> 00:36:57.320
already starting to fall asleep in the middle

00:36:57.320 --> 00:37:02.159
of the ring. Hector, dim the lights. Yeah, Blanche

00:37:02.159 --> 00:37:05.260
is ready to scoop up her student and get the

00:37:05.260 --> 00:37:08.079
fuck out of here. You're scaring Sean. Sean's

00:37:08.079 --> 00:37:11.280
just full out. Well, Blanche is still large,

00:37:11.480 --> 00:37:13.619
right? Yes. Oh, that's right. You're large for

00:37:13.619 --> 00:37:15.300
an hour. So yeah, you'll have time to make it

00:37:15.300 --> 00:37:16.820
all the way back being large. So yeah, you just

00:37:16.820 --> 00:37:20.079
pick him right up easily. Ramin's just like,

00:37:20.159 --> 00:37:23.820
is there room on the other shoulder? No, it's

00:37:23.820 --> 00:37:25.699
okay. I'll walk. He's like, no, I'm still definitely

00:37:25.699 --> 00:37:28.019
ill. Blanche will carry him. Oh, oh my goodness.

00:37:28.440 --> 00:37:32.940
Wow. Thank you. On the other shoulder. You guys

00:37:32.940 --> 00:37:34.880
are moving. Actually, thankfully, the walls of

00:37:34.880 --> 00:37:37.679
this house are sized for pig men. So this time

00:37:37.679 --> 00:37:38.739
you don't go through the servants. You would

00:37:38.739 --> 00:37:39.920
have a hard time getting through. So he just

00:37:39.920 --> 00:37:41.900
leads you to the front door, lets you step out.

00:37:42.320 --> 00:37:44.420
into the night of Fiesta Town. Oh, my God. There's

00:37:44.420 --> 00:37:48.300
so much to process from that. Yeah, we should

00:37:48.300 --> 00:37:50.500
just call it there so that we have a week to

00:37:50.500 --> 00:37:55.900
think about this. Well, on that note, you guys

00:37:55.900 --> 00:37:58.179
will have some time to think about this because

00:37:58.179 --> 00:38:01.440
I think it's nearly time, unless you have other

00:38:01.440 --> 00:38:03.619
plans, anything you want to do to set up, I think

00:38:03.619 --> 00:38:05.719
it's nearly time to move away from this group

00:38:05.719 --> 00:38:07.659
and head back out into the Borderlands. That

00:38:07.659 --> 00:38:10.500
sounds like a great idea. Yeah. Okay. I'm scared

00:38:10.500 --> 00:38:13.059
to do anything more with pig men. So let's just

00:38:13.059 --> 00:38:15.079
kind of zip -zop -zoop over to maybe you guys

00:38:15.079 --> 00:38:20.300
are back in Salazar. Somehow, Giant Blanche,

00:38:20.360 --> 00:38:22.000
you just barely shrunk down enough to get into

00:38:22.000 --> 00:38:23.619
the tunnels. I think Giant Blanche had a hard

00:38:23.619 --> 00:38:25.300
time getting down those tunnels. Yeah, they were

00:38:25.300 --> 00:38:27.139
chit -chatting for a while. Yeah, and it was

00:38:27.139 --> 00:38:30.079
a long walk back. So you were dropped down just

00:38:30.079 --> 00:38:33.079
in time to work your way in. People help you

00:38:33.079 --> 00:38:36.019
with Jean Franklin. They move him to a bed. Paloma

00:38:36.019 --> 00:38:39.739
is astonished. Just, I was just... I'll tell

00:38:39.739 --> 00:38:41.699
you, I was just sowing seeds out there. I didn't

00:38:41.699 --> 00:38:43.619
think anyone would actually, you know, land.

00:38:44.000 --> 00:38:46.400
You're seriously in. You're going to the party.

00:38:47.039 --> 00:38:51.199
We're in. Wow. That's... We'll debrief tomorrow

00:38:51.199 --> 00:38:53.059
about it. This is big. This might be the biggest

00:38:53.059 --> 00:38:54.900
thing that's ever happened for the revolution.

00:38:55.579 --> 00:38:58.480
We have people on the inside. And with all those

00:38:58.480 --> 00:39:00.380
big names there, they can't risk embarrassment.

00:39:00.980 --> 00:39:03.280
You're going to have power there. This is good.

00:39:04.119 --> 00:39:06.000
I'm going to think about this. You guys should

00:39:06.000 --> 00:39:08.300
rest. Quite important. You, like, woke up not

00:39:08.300 --> 00:39:09.980
that long ago, but you're already just beat to

00:39:09.980 --> 00:39:12.400
hell. She used all of her second -level spell

00:39:12.400 --> 00:39:16.119
slots. Wow. Yeah. And you still, like, your KO

00:39:16.119 --> 00:39:17.440
points are knocked down. I think you're still,

00:39:17.500 --> 00:39:19.440
like, sort of woozy and tired. Yeah, that's right.

00:39:19.579 --> 00:39:22.940
She's down to... I can't remember. I have too

00:39:22.940 --> 00:39:25.980
many notes over here. Okay. Hell yeah. So you

00:39:25.980 --> 00:39:28.420
guys move. Get set up in your rooms. And now,

00:39:28.460 --> 00:39:29.920
before we switch over, I think there's something

00:39:29.920 --> 00:39:32.719
very important we need to do. You have Sending

00:39:32.719 --> 00:39:37.090
Stones. And they're going to reset at dawn. So

00:39:37.090 --> 00:39:38.929
I think maybe before, I don't know if you guys

00:39:38.929 --> 00:39:40.530
go right to sleep, if you guys stay up for a

00:39:40.530 --> 00:39:43.269
while and talk about things. But at some point

00:39:43.269 --> 00:39:46.090
this evening, before dawn, Dresden, if you want

00:39:46.090 --> 00:39:49.469
to send a message to Crispin. Yes. Okay. Yes.

00:39:49.730 --> 00:39:52.070
Okay. What time are you going to do it? Before

00:39:52.070 --> 00:39:54.809
it's going to reset. Okay. So maybe like right

00:39:54.809 --> 00:39:56.769
before dawn, before you maybe like fully go to

00:39:56.769 --> 00:39:58.869
sleep. Yeah. Maybe like just as we're like laying

00:39:58.869 --> 00:40:02.760
down. Okay. Kind of like. In bed. It's like texting

00:40:02.760 --> 00:40:06.380
his buddy. Yeah, texting in bed. I got the covers

00:40:06.380 --> 00:40:09.579
over me, a little flashlight. Kicking your legs.

00:40:09.659 --> 00:40:13.760
Oh my goodness. W -U -U -2. Do you think she

00:40:13.760 --> 00:40:18.000
likes me too? I'm trying to think what Crispin's

00:40:18.000 --> 00:40:22.800
name is in your phone. Okay. I'm cool with pausing

00:40:22.800 --> 00:40:26.179
this if we decide we want to table talk a little

00:40:26.179 --> 00:40:31.679
bit. You guys want to table talk? No. What? Okay.

00:40:32.739 --> 00:40:34.519
If there's anything that I'm missing, because

00:40:34.519 --> 00:40:36.579
it's not going to be the full 26. Yeah, I think

00:40:36.579 --> 00:40:39.880
it's pretty straightforward. Yeah. Okay. Dresden

00:40:39.880 --> 00:40:41.900
will lift up the stone. You kind of activate

00:40:41.900 --> 00:40:43.960
it, and it's sort of like the mouths in the stone

00:40:43.960 --> 00:40:50.920
open. Befriended pig man. Infiltrating Marfil

00:40:50.920 --> 00:40:57.639
investor party tomorrow. All powerful players

00:40:57.639 --> 00:41:08.059
in. One space. Tressana may be in control. We'll

00:41:08.059 --> 00:41:15.300
send more info after party. Wow. Perfect. 24.

00:41:15.659 --> 00:41:18.960
What do you think? Excellent. That's awesome.

00:41:19.079 --> 00:41:21.360
You say these words, and the stone in the mouth

00:41:21.360 --> 00:41:23.739
starts to open and close, and you almost hear

00:41:23.739 --> 00:41:28.159
this whispering sound effect. behind your words,

00:41:28.179 --> 00:41:31.619
almost like a weird static as you speak. And

00:41:31.619 --> 00:41:36.019
we pan, follow this whispers, follow this voice.

00:41:36.079 --> 00:41:39.539
We follow deep into the stone, into the darkness

00:41:39.539 --> 00:41:44.179
inside. And then we pan out of an ear carved

00:41:44.179 --> 00:41:47.699
into a very similar stone being held by Crispin

00:41:47.699 --> 00:41:48.840
Dubois. I was gonna say, I was like, it better

00:41:48.840 --> 00:41:53.119
be fucking Crispin. You, uh, you, you were sleeping,

00:41:53.280 --> 00:41:56.269
uh, downstairs of the pub. Um, You arouse in

00:41:56.269 --> 00:41:59.889
the very, very early hours by the... It's almost

00:41:59.889 --> 00:42:01.909
like the way the cell phone rings. You just kind

00:42:01.909 --> 00:42:03.630
of hear this whispering tone, and you kind of

00:42:03.630 --> 00:42:06.449
grab it, pick it up, and the mouth begins to

00:42:06.449 --> 00:42:10.650
open. Sorry, that's my creepy ringtone. It's

00:42:10.650 --> 00:42:13.050
on you. Everyone else sleeps through it. I downloaded

00:42:13.050 --> 00:42:16.190
it on Halloween. I actually will say one thing.

00:42:16.469 --> 00:42:19.170
You wake up. To answer this, you look over. You're

00:42:19.170 --> 00:42:20.449
probably like, oh, is everyone else awake too?

00:42:21.030 --> 00:42:22.550
Dance and Jules are still sleeping in different

00:42:22.550 --> 00:42:26.219
parts of the room. Arhalon's gone. Fuck. Jesus

00:42:26.219 --> 00:42:28.440
Christ. He's going to go kill somebody. And you

00:42:28.440 --> 00:42:33.639
get that message. Okay. Can you refresh us? That's

00:42:33.639 --> 00:42:37.099
not my message. Yeah, that was four words. Can

00:42:37.099 --> 00:42:41.940
you refresh us real quick about 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,

00:42:41.980 --> 00:42:46.239
6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. I'll stop counting. What

00:42:46.239 --> 00:42:50.840
are you? Refreshers about the name of the places

00:42:50.840 --> 00:42:53.079
that we're going. I don't have that map up. Okay.

00:42:54.400 --> 00:42:57.260
I believe you are heading to the reason or peak.

00:42:57.360 --> 00:42:59.690
So basically. Real quick recap for you guys,

00:42:59.789 --> 00:43:00.929
because again, we're switching around a lot.

00:43:00.969 --> 00:43:03.010
It's been weeks, yeah. You guys have been looking

00:43:03.010 --> 00:43:05.570
for Miskin. You heard about a demon killing the

00:43:05.570 --> 00:43:07.050
bounty hunters after him. You assumed, hey, maybe

00:43:07.050 --> 00:43:09.469
it's the same demon. Either way, there might

00:43:09.469 --> 00:43:10.889
be information on Miskin out there where the

00:43:10.889 --> 00:43:12.809
bounty hunters are all gathering. You came, you

00:43:12.809 --> 00:43:15.510
killed, you conquered, you found Arhalon. Arhalon's

00:43:15.510 --> 00:43:17.610
also seeking for Miskin. Arhalon has been killing

00:43:17.610 --> 00:43:20.150
the bounty hunters and Arhalon has learned that

00:43:20.150 --> 00:43:22.829
Miskin may have last been seen at a farmhouse

00:43:22.829 --> 00:43:24.929
not far from where he was initially supposed

00:43:24.929 --> 00:43:29.210
to be. located or spotted, which is a town called

00:43:29.210 --> 00:43:31.489
Hollow. He was supposed to be moving east from

00:43:31.489 --> 00:43:34.070
that town, and east of that town, there are a

00:43:34.070 --> 00:43:36.909
number of farmhouses. The one that Arhalan suspects

00:43:36.909 --> 00:43:40.269
Miskin was at has been essentially destroyed,

00:43:40.389 --> 00:43:43.550
the entire family killed. He has no way of tracking

00:43:43.550 --> 00:43:45.349
from there, but he has reason to believe Miskin

00:43:45.349 --> 00:43:48.750
was there before the killing, and not after.

00:43:49.260 --> 00:43:51.000
That is down at the base of what's called the

00:43:51.000 --> 00:43:54.500
Ruisanor Peaks. And people believe that the deaths

00:43:54.500 --> 00:43:56.579
were caused by ettins who come down from the

00:43:56.579 --> 00:43:59.079
mountains and essentially just every once in

00:43:59.079 --> 00:44:00.440
a while commit some murders, do some terrible

00:44:00.440 --> 00:44:02.500
things. Usually they take livestock. Usually

00:44:02.500 --> 00:44:04.940
it's very minor. This was very aggressive. So

00:44:04.940 --> 00:44:07.199
your current plan is to head towards the peaks,

00:44:07.360 --> 00:44:10.920
towards that farmhouse tomorrow, traveling sort

00:44:10.920 --> 00:44:14.360
of south and west and seeing what you see. Unless

00:44:14.360 --> 00:44:15.960
you have other plans. If you want to just go

00:44:15.960 --> 00:44:18.199
north and see what's over there. Go ahead. I

00:44:18.199 --> 00:44:20.539
don't care. I'll make it up. Nope. It's a dragon.

00:44:20.679 --> 00:44:23.300
That's fine. Okay. Crispin will send his message.

00:44:24.199 --> 00:44:28.860
Found Ahalon. Seeking Miskin together. Heading

00:44:28.860 --> 00:44:33.800
to last point. Ettin's attacked. Man, I feel

00:44:33.800 --> 00:44:36.880
like that's all I need to say, but yeah. I think

00:44:36.880 --> 00:44:39.960
he got the point across. Yeah, you got it. Cool.

00:44:40.480 --> 00:44:44.239
So you send your message. Stone dies down in

00:44:44.239 --> 00:44:47.360
your hand. And you have pretty high passive perception,

00:44:47.480 --> 00:44:50.630
correct? Yeah, I think so. As you're kind of...

00:44:50.630 --> 00:44:52.769
I don't have his page open yet because I was

00:44:52.769 --> 00:44:55.130
playing Blanche. Oh, yeah. Sorry. We're switching

00:44:55.130 --> 00:44:58.550
it up. We're back. Passive perception is 17 for

00:44:58.550 --> 00:45:02.289
Crispin. You hear from up the stairs. You're

00:45:02.289 --> 00:45:04.329
currently in the basement of the pub. You hear

00:45:04.329 --> 00:45:08.349
a... Sounds like something scraping, wood scraping

00:45:08.349 --> 00:45:10.769
against wood. Someone sort of panicking. Yeah,

00:45:10.829 --> 00:45:13.750
Crispin's running up there. Okay. God damn it.

00:45:13.769 --> 00:45:15.389
This is not going to... You're moving pretty

00:45:15.389 --> 00:45:18.800
quickly? Yeah. So as he moves up, Jules, you

00:45:18.800 --> 00:45:21.559
kind of slowly begin to blink awake as well,

00:45:21.679 --> 00:45:24.239
hearing the sounds of Crispin moving. Dance as

00:45:24.239 --> 00:45:26.699
well, just pops up. Yeah, I don't think it's

00:45:26.699 --> 00:45:29.300
slowly waking. I think Jules is pretty well attuned

00:45:29.300 --> 00:45:32.480
to things where he can wake up very quickly if

00:45:32.480 --> 00:45:34.320
something's going on and be ready. Used to bad

00:45:34.320 --> 00:45:37.400
shit. Yeah. Okay. Crispin, you break through

00:45:37.400 --> 00:45:38.920
the top of the stairs. You push open the door

00:45:38.920 --> 00:45:41.340
that has been closed behind Arhalon's up there.

00:45:41.420 --> 00:45:43.579
And as you move out, you're the first to see

00:45:43.579 --> 00:45:47.099
that Arhalon has... His hands are on the throat

00:45:47.099 --> 00:45:50.760
of the bound prisoner, the second of the boys.

00:45:51.579 --> 00:45:54.420
His mouth is working, but no sound is coming

00:45:54.420 --> 00:45:57.440
through. Just a... It's Ahalan just like, you

00:45:57.440 --> 00:46:02.500
fucking swine! Did you think you were going to

00:46:02.500 --> 00:46:05.860
get away with it? Did you think? Please don't,

00:46:05.860 --> 00:46:10.019
Ahalan. And at this point, Jules and Dance are

00:46:10.019 --> 00:46:14.260
behind you. Eterna turns around. Someone has

00:46:14.260 --> 00:46:17.679
to do the dirty work here. I can't stop you.

00:46:18.139 --> 00:46:21.500
But Zebulon wouldn't do it this way. Zebulon

00:46:21.500 --> 00:46:25.960
is dead because of killers like him. We can cut

00:46:25.960 --> 00:46:28.679
him free and he'll just go on and kill someone

00:46:28.679 --> 00:46:31.739
else. Or do we have time now to bring him into

00:46:31.739 --> 00:46:35.679
the Sky Prison? To take him to the Speakers for

00:46:35.679 --> 00:46:39.079
the Ancestors? Come now. We can't leave him with

00:46:39.079 --> 00:46:42.010
these townsfolk. He may not be much. But he's

00:46:42.010 --> 00:46:44.949
enough to tear them apart. Do not forget he was

00:46:44.949 --> 00:46:49.289
hunting a child. You're right. Of course you're

00:46:49.289 --> 00:46:54.610
right. Crypt titans. Of course I'm right indeed.

00:46:55.590 --> 00:46:59.690
If you kill him, I can't help you. And when you

00:46:59.690 --> 00:47:02.570
get back to the Citadel, they'll take you in

00:47:02.570 --> 00:47:06.150
too. And Sholay will be without both of her grandkids.

00:47:07.530 --> 00:47:14.110
Sholay. I knew it. I knew it. I fucking knew

00:47:14.110 --> 00:47:17.190
it. Hired to protect Zebulon. That's what you

00:47:17.190 --> 00:47:21.250
said. Your job was to protect Zebulon. She put

00:47:21.250 --> 00:47:24.710
you up to it, right? Grandmother. What are you

00:47:24.710 --> 00:47:26.929
to her, hmm? There's no use in denying it now.

00:47:27.550 --> 00:47:31.250
I was hired to protect Zebulon. And you, Jules.

00:47:32.030 --> 00:47:35.369
You spoke to her that day in the manor. In Xena's

00:47:35.369 --> 00:47:38.369
house. I wasn't there. I don't hear the words

00:47:38.369 --> 00:47:41.400
traded. Too busy selling off your children to

00:47:41.400 --> 00:47:44.420
die. You got a problem with Sholay? She's my

00:47:44.420 --> 00:47:49.440
grandmother. I love her. And I fear her. Because

00:47:49.440 --> 00:47:53.039
I'm smart. If you were smart, you'd step away.

00:47:53.460 --> 00:47:57.460
Get away. If you're being used by her. Zebulon.

00:47:58.300 --> 00:48:03.860
Zeb fought for peace and for light. Zeb fought

00:48:03.860 --> 00:48:07.139
for himself. Zeb fought for the spotlight. He

00:48:07.139 --> 00:48:12.059
has killed people. Maybe more than you. I've

00:48:12.059 --> 00:48:18.739
killed people. But always in self -defense. Never

00:48:18.739 --> 00:48:25.860
helpless, bound people. If you're so smart, you'll

00:48:25.860 --> 00:48:29.900
put him down. That's real strength. To be the

00:48:29.900 --> 00:48:33.139
good that you're fighting for. In the face of

00:48:33.139 --> 00:48:36.559
your own anger. Whether you feel slighted or

00:48:36.559 --> 00:48:40.789
not. He's kind of grinding his teeth. Good. If

00:48:40.789 --> 00:48:44.869
good is the elimination of evil. Have we said

00:48:44.869 --> 00:48:46.869
enough to roll persuasion on this bad boy? I'll

00:48:46.869 --> 00:48:49.170
allow it. He's not. Go ahead and roll persuasion

00:48:49.170 --> 00:48:51.030
and take advantage. Whoever wants to take the

00:48:51.030 --> 00:48:54.230
help action. Did you say advantage? Yes. It's

00:48:54.230 --> 00:48:56.050
your help action for Crispin. If you want to

00:48:56.050 --> 00:48:58.170
roll it. Perfect. Yes. Yeah, you have a higher

00:48:58.170 --> 00:49:00.309
charisma. I do. Make dance roll. I do. That reminds

00:49:00.309 --> 00:49:02.469
me, David. At some point, we do need to add that

00:49:02.469 --> 00:49:06.170
talisman that Zebulon had onto Crispin's sheet.

00:49:06.329 --> 00:49:15.239
Okay. 17. Hands shaking. He slowly begins to

00:49:15.239 --> 00:49:17.440
bring the body down the chair, legs touching

00:49:17.440 --> 00:49:21.139
the floor. You want to wipe out evil. But if

00:49:21.139 --> 00:49:24.039
you do it this way, you're only wiping out one

00:49:24.039 --> 00:49:26.699
bit of evil. Because you're becoming the evil.

00:49:27.679 --> 00:49:31.440
You're stepping in to replace it. I'm becoming

00:49:31.440 --> 00:49:35.420
the evil. Me. Have you looked in the mirror lately,

00:49:35.559 --> 00:49:37.699
Jules? Have you looked down at your fucking arm?

00:49:37.739 --> 00:49:41.539
Every fucking day. But fine, if it's so important

00:49:41.539 --> 00:49:45.440
to you that this whelp lives. What happens now

00:49:45.440 --> 00:49:48.920
is all of your responsibility. He may well die

00:49:48.920 --> 00:49:51.039
in the morning. The townspeople will do with

00:49:51.039 --> 00:49:55.380
him what they will. Their own justice. If there's

00:49:55.380 --> 00:50:00.619
any justice at all, he will die. He turns away,

00:50:00.800 --> 00:50:04.780
looks back to you again, and I would heed my

00:50:04.780 --> 00:50:08.349
warning. Grandmother will toss you aside, used

00:50:08.349 --> 00:50:11.190
up and wrung out. Step over your corpse, she

00:50:11.190 --> 00:50:14.750
moves on to her next assets. Her next victims.

00:50:15.789 --> 00:50:20.269
Sholay has hired hundreds. Gained hundreds of

00:50:20.269 --> 00:50:24.010
allies over her years in command. Yet she stands

00:50:24.010 --> 00:50:27.369
alone today. What does that mean to you? Hmm?

00:50:28.269 --> 00:50:30.349
Sholay and I aren't married, I'm just doing a

00:50:30.349 --> 00:50:33.849
job. And I'll move on when it's done. But until

00:50:33.849 --> 00:50:37.360
then... I intend to see it done. You are still

00:50:37.360 --> 00:50:41.719
coming with us in the morning, right? The child

00:50:41.719 --> 00:50:46.519
must be saved. That much we can agree on. So

00:50:46.519 --> 00:50:48.820
let's focus on that. He actually looks kind of

00:50:48.820 --> 00:50:51.119
down for a second, and something enters his eyes

00:50:51.119 --> 00:50:54.380
that's like a weird kind of... Roll insight to

00:50:54.380 --> 00:50:59.679
see if you can kind of catch what this is. Just

00:50:59.679 --> 00:51:03.639
an eight. Just a three. Okay. There's a strange

00:51:03.639 --> 00:51:05.480
look in his eyes. He can't quite catch what it

00:51:05.480 --> 00:51:08.940
exactly means, but he's almost like mumbling

00:51:08.940 --> 00:51:13.380
at the floor, just like, Jules, his name. What

00:51:13.380 --> 00:51:18.619
is the child's name? I never asked. His name

00:51:18.619 --> 00:51:24.559
is Miskin. Miskin Muddlehopper. Miskin Muddlehopper.

00:51:25.960 --> 00:51:31.079
Miskin must be saved. He will be saved. I'm going

00:51:31.079 --> 00:51:34.730
to do what I couldn't do for Zapp. Garhalon just

00:51:34.730 --> 00:51:38.409
walks away. Starts moving towards a door. Then

00:51:38.409 --> 00:51:42.309
he stops. Door partway open. The dark is still

00:51:42.309 --> 00:51:46.789
on us. Rest. When the sun hits the sky, we go.

00:51:47.909 --> 00:51:55.210
I'm ready. Steps out and then... Doors swinging.

00:51:55.690 --> 00:51:58.590
As his massive form just steps out into the night.

00:51:59.110 --> 00:52:03.619
Man, we're so awesome. First things first. Take

00:52:03.619 --> 00:52:06.639
some buttons. Some? That was a really cool moment.

00:52:07.900 --> 00:52:11.960
You argued well. You made Arhalon walk away.

00:52:12.179 --> 00:52:14.360
Yeah, Arhalon didn't kill somebody. He didn't

00:52:14.360 --> 00:52:16.059
kill somebody, and he walked away. You still

00:52:16.059 --> 00:52:17.539
see the door sort of vaguely swinging. I feel

00:52:17.539 --> 00:52:22.179
like we win the game there. Credits roll. I can't

00:52:22.179 --> 00:52:24.880
remember which of the twins at the moment survived,

00:52:25.059 --> 00:52:26.719
so I'm going to at least say the twin, the boy

00:52:26.719 --> 00:52:31.099
in the chair just kind of... Thank you. Thank

00:52:31.099 --> 00:52:33.920
you. Thank you. Stop. Yeah, Crispin puts the

00:52:33.920 --> 00:52:39.500
gag back in him. You'll be somebody else's problem

00:52:39.500 --> 00:52:42.219
in the morning. I think behind you, Jules, you

00:52:42.219 --> 00:52:45.039
feel a hand on your shoulder. I do not trust

00:52:45.039 --> 00:52:49.340
him. I do. Then you are a fool, Jules LaRoche.

00:52:49.500 --> 00:52:58.480
Do you trust me? Of course not. That's why I'm

00:52:58.480 --> 00:53:01.309
here, to protect you. And with that, she kind

00:53:01.309 --> 00:53:03.110
of turns and begins going back down the stairs.

00:53:03.349 --> 00:53:07.949
Fuck. Yeah, she just moves down to like kind

00:53:07.949 --> 00:53:09.789
of, you know, you're some like packing some stuff

00:53:09.789 --> 00:53:12.750
downstairs. What do you do in the immediate aftermath?

00:53:14.550 --> 00:53:21.269
I hate Facebook so much. Okay. Yeah, you're going

00:53:21.269 --> 00:53:22.809
downstairs. She's back. I think a moment later,

00:53:22.849 --> 00:53:24.289
she sees you're kind of reappearing at the bottom

00:53:24.289 --> 00:53:27.429
of the stairs. And I feel like a satchel with

00:53:27.429 --> 00:53:30.619
her. And she goes, we're leaving soon. But there's

00:53:30.619 --> 00:53:32.760
something I must do. I'll be back shortly, I

00:53:32.760 --> 00:53:36.159
promise. And she just brushes past you and moves

00:53:36.159 --> 00:53:39.320
out the back door into the town. I really want

00:53:39.320 --> 00:53:42.139
to follow her. Do you follow her? But then she

00:53:42.139 --> 00:53:46.159
can't trust me even more. Jules, I can't get

00:53:46.159 --> 00:53:49.019
this thought out of my head. And Crispin points

00:53:49.019 --> 00:53:52.400
over to the pooch's body. That armor looks like

00:53:52.400 --> 00:53:56.039
a nice fit for you. I forgot there's armor on

00:53:56.039 --> 00:53:59.320
there that we didn't take yet. In fact, actually,

00:53:59.360 --> 00:54:01.000
let me just tell you right now, because I'm sure

00:54:01.000 --> 00:54:05.320
this thing you will do at some point. Okay. If

00:54:05.320 --> 00:54:07.079
you guys, do you guys take a look at the bodies?

00:54:07.880 --> 00:54:11.199
Yeah. The pooch has 48 gold on his person. Woof.

00:54:11.420 --> 00:54:13.320
Each of the boys has 20 gold on their person.

00:54:13.380 --> 00:54:16.099
Yeah, on purpose. No, I did not. I missed that.

00:54:16.159 --> 00:54:18.760
That was good. That was good. You're a podcaster

00:54:18.760 --> 00:54:24.880
too now. He has his pota blade. It's basically

00:54:24.880 --> 00:54:27.239
a short sword, but like a gauntlet blade. Not

00:54:27.239 --> 00:54:31.250
magical. Um, and very bloody. Uh, yes, there's

00:54:31.250 --> 00:54:33.369
three hand crossbows across all of them and 40

00:54:33.369 --> 00:54:35.989
bolts between all of them. Two daggers, two sets

00:54:35.989 --> 00:54:38.650
of leather armor, all this non -magical. And

00:54:38.650 --> 00:54:42.190
on the pooch, one set of plus one magical leather

00:54:42.190 --> 00:54:44.250
armor. If you wear this, it's leather armor,

00:54:44.329 --> 00:54:46.969
but it gives you a bonus plus one. Cool. Yeah,

00:54:46.969 --> 00:54:50.489
it's good stuff. Um, so yeah, if there's no other

00:54:50.489 --> 00:54:56.289
objections, Jules will silently go down. Oh,

00:54:56.329 --> 00:54:57.670
it's studded leather, sorry. It's magic plus

00:54:57.670 --> 00:55:00.989
one studded leather armor. And unceremoniously

00:55:00.989 --> 00:55:06.670
rip off the armor. Dan sits to the side, Arlan

00:55:06.670 --> 00:55:09.349
sits to the side. You're getting this new magical

00:55:09.349 --> 00:55:11.789
armor. You feel it. I mean, like, it's nice material.

00:55:11.849 --> 00:55:14.750
It's just a sort of dark armor that just, I mean,

00:55:14.809 --> 00:55:17.170
I think you, you know, that stylish part of you

00:55:17.170 --> 00:55:18.429
realizes, hey, this is going to look really nice

00:55:18.429 --> 00:55:22.730
on that cloak. But as you're doing that, Crispin,

00:55:22.750 --> 00:55:26.210
you're... Eyes follow the door. You see the vague

00:55:26.210 --> 00:55:29.690
swinging of it. Arholon's outside. And I'll ask

00:55:29.690 --> 00:55:31.369
you, is there anything you want to do here in

00:55:31.369 --> 00:55:33.849
this moment? Did Arholon go outside and leave,

00:55:34.110 --> 00:55:36.010
or? He stepped outside. He didn't say what he

00:55:36.010 --> 00:55:38.130
was doing, but I think you might get the impression

00:55:38.130 --> 00:55:42.550
that he's cooling down. Okay, shit. Then let

00:55:42.550 --> 00:55:45.250
me peek at the map real fast. Is that a dragonfire

00:55:45.250 --> 00:55:47.610
joke? That's the wrong map. There's a back door,

00:55:47.670 --> 00:55:49.469
if that's what you're asking. Okay, yeah. Yeah,

00:55:49.510 --> 00:55:51.710
Dance went out that door. Well, but Dance is

00:55:51.710 --> 00:55:53.889
leaving. And Crispin heard that she's leaving,

00:55:53.969 --> 00:55:59.230
so I'm not leaving. But my head's all, I need

00:55:59.230 --> 00:56:02.150
a little air. And Crispin heads out the back

00:56:02.150 --> 00:56:06.630
door as well, sits on the stoop, and as he watches

00:56:06.630 --> 00:56:09.710
Dance leave, if she's visible, I don't know.

00:56:09.750 --> 00:56:10.929
Yep, you see her just kind of vanishing into

00:56:10.929 --> 00:56:13.130
the town. She starts talking to some people,

00:56:13.190 --> 00:56:15.070
and they start leading her away, and she's moving

00:56:15.070 --> 00:56:17.190
deeper in town, talking to people. Huh, interesting.

00:56:17.590 --> 00:56:20.889
All right, note that. And Crispin's going to

00:56:20.889 --> 00:56:26.409
pull out. A small handcrafted wooden pipe and

00:56:26.409 --> 00:56:29.230
a little pouch out of his other pocket. Put some

00:56:29.230 --> 00:56:32.570
herbs in there and start to smoke. And what he's

00:56:32.570 --> 00:56:36.730
really doing is casting augury. So it's not tea

00:56:36.730 --> 00:56:38.309
this time, it's smoke? It's not tea this time.

00:56:38.389 --> 00:56:42.250
Holy shit. He's the most old man. It's awesome.

00:56:42.409 --> 00:56:44.050
Drinking his tea and smoking his pipe. It's one

00:56:44.050 --> 00:56:45.769
of the weirdest ways to cast. I love this. Yeah,

00:56:45.809 --> 00:56:49.070
it's like anything can be augury. Also, be careful.

00:56:49.150 --> 00:56:50.969
Don't get too stoned. It's all about the herbs.

00:56:51.449 --> 00:56:53.429
Okay. There are certain herbs that work for tea.

00:56:53.630 --> 00:56:55.389
Uh -huh. There are certain herbs that work for

00:56:55.389 --> 00:56:58.730
smoking. Uh -huh. And this herb that he has on

00:56:58.730 --> 00:57:03.409
him. Marijuana? No. Okay. Just a regular old

00:57:03.409 --> 00:57:06.489
run -of -the -mill smoking thing that's going

00:57:06.489 --> 00:57:10.030
to make him see something else. Marijuana. Call

00:57:10.030 --> 00:57:16.869
it what you will. He smokes it and puffs it,

00:57:16.989 --> 00:57:20.570
and as he's blowing it into the air, he asks,

00:57:21.449 --> 00:57:24.190
What are we going to find in these mountains?

00:57:25.489 --> 00:57:29.170
You, this is your intention. What will we find

00:57:29.170 --> 00:57:32.190
in the mountains? You say it out loud, you feel

00:57:32.190 --> 00:57:35.369
it in your heart. You let the smoke trickle out

00:57:35.369 --> 00:57:38.269
of your pipe. You cast this before, and I think

00:57:38.269 --> 00:57:40.230
you cast it a few times now in your travels on

00:57:40.230 --> 00:57:42.690
other worlds, and you've always had that same

00:57:42.690 --> 00:57:46.829
feeling. That shifting of the earth that only

00:57:46.829 --> 00:57:51.210
you can feel as something below. Something outside

00:57:51.210 --> 00:57:55.650
of you is responding. You feel it again now.

00:57:56.510 --> 00:58:03.789
Close. The ground shakes. You blow out the smoke

00:58:03.789 --> 00:58:06.269
into the air. You can feel almost like the wind

00:58:06.269 --> 00:58:07.869
begins to kick up. And again, just the sound

00:58:07.869 --> 00:58:11.789
above you of distant storms, distant thunder.

00:58:11.889 --> 00:58:16.190
Yet the sky is clear. Just a twilight sky filled

00:58:16.190 --> 00:58:19.079
with stars. It's a smoke as it curls up towards

00:58:19.079 --> 00:58:21.760
a starlight. The strange wind begins to take

00:58:21.760 --> 00:58:29.559
it and shift it. Wheel and woe. You nod, expecting

00:58:29.559 --> 00:58:33.880
this. But the wind comes again. A second change.

00:58:33.960 --> 00:58:36.480
A second tremor beneath you. A second clap of

00:58:36.480 --> 00:58:42.619
phantom thunder. Another scene in the smoke.

00:58:43.139 --> 00:58:49.210
You see two figures. looking humanoid, tall,

00:58:49.449 --> 00:58:52.110
and then a smaller one in between them. The two

00:58:52.110 --> 00:58:55.369
ones have their sort of stick -like hands outstretched.

00:58:55.989 --> 00:58:58.309
The small one reaching up and holding them, and

00:58:58.309 --> 00:59:01.170
you see this, this symbol, and you know in your

00:59:01.170 --> 00:59:05.489
heart, family. And we'll call it there.