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a finale to this little series, we're going to
talk about the half -elf monk, Elirova. Raised
in a temple of architecture on the world of Umizu,
Elirova spent her early years in quiet isolation.
Empathy and honesty became her guiding lights,
up until she came to realize her most terrible
truth. You see, Elirova's true -born parents
turned out to be a group of notorious, ruthless
pirates, confused and torn by this horror revelation.
Ellie Rova left her temple behind in the pursuit
of her parents and the further truths behind
her birth. With her treasured bag of holding
in hand, filled with books and blueprints, she
made her way towards rumors of vicious pirate
attacks. Early on her quest, though, she came
across a group of hobgoblin bandits and teamed
up with Daryl Twilight and the Verdant Viper
to fight them off. From there, Ellie Rova and
the others formed the luminary adventuring party
Desi Sadatase. And the rest, folks, is history.
Yeah, but... Thank you, Gwen Shepard! Is she
thick, though? It's not. Hey, let me look at
the paper. Yeah. Yeah, I want to listen back
to each of those episodes and see how you pronounced
it each time. Yeah, I'm curious to know what
the actual way to pronounce that is. Yeah, we
need to find out. Write in. If you're from...
No, keep going. You almost got it. Gabby, who's
the killer? Gabby just... Sorry. While I was
speaking right there, my wife reached over with
her greasy little goblin fingers, pressed up
on my keyboard to the point where she found the
killer of this whole thing. Maybe you'll find
it tonight. I don't know. But someone here in
this room, apart from me, knows who the killer
is. I mean, the real killer is Beezus Breath,
but... The real killer is cigarettes. Thank you,
Gwen Shepard. Write in, let us know if she's
thick. You don't have to do that. Really, thank
you, though. The whole crew. Yeah, thank you
guys so much. That was really special. I love
that you guys made it a tongue twister to torture
me. It's very fun. I mean that earnestly and
honestly. It was a good time. Guys, tonight could
be the night. Tonight could be the night that
you put all the pieces together and you find
out who is behind this thing. Gabby knows. Maybe
you'll know soon as well. But you're going to
have to be clever. And you're going to have to
make the impossible possible. I believe in you.
We're screwed. I believe in you. I think you've
got this. So let's start this off. We're really
off again? What happened the last time? What
did we end off with? We literally just did this
10 minutes ago, David. Yeah, he's teasing us.
I'm teasing. I know. I know, and I'm being a
dick. Let me do this. Let me get my nuts going.
Oh, no. Jesus. What the fuck? Hey, what do we
leave off? What happened last? Was it cool? Was
it exciting? Yeah, it was cool, exciting. Something
about a baby child. Yeah, what's the child? Oh,
yes, the child. The child. Blanche. We start
off. Yeah. Yeah, fuck you all. Yeah! He's extending
the cliffy. Stay in the cliff. Start off in the
cells. As you step in the room, Jaune takes a
hard look around. You can see the battle is flashing
through his eyes as he just takes it all in.
Probably looks at the bloodstains along the wall.
So, how? How'd they do it? How? Here. What do
you think, sir? I'm not sure yet, Tadpole. I
know it's hard to think about, but what do you
remember? What did you see? Walk me through the
events that led up to the battle. Well, very
well. I was here with that damnable ado. It's
damnable, fella. We were having a conversation.
We were probably arguing. And he was probably
wrong. And, um... Yes. Of course, maybe we had
to share some words. These stops. You weren't...
watching, sir, right? Through Turbo, you didn't...
You weren't aware of anything I was saying. It
was probably a pointless, very annoying argument,
the sort we normally get up to, so it's good
if you didn't hear it. If it's not something
you wish for me to know, then I shall not ask.
Anyway, we had a moment. It was interrupted,
though. Everything started upstairs. You know,
the big old bombs, the rumbling, all that stuff.
We had to dive back, almost got covered in dust.
As we were watching the room, that's how the
duergar just approached Xenia. She was asking
to be let go and brought upstairs, and it seemed
like Harlan was going to go along with it. And
then he just struck. Wait, it was just dust falling
from the room upstairs? You hear this, you look
up. You do see right above where the duergo would
be standing, there's a support beam running across
the top of the room. And if you remember in the
episode, the dust fell. And just after that happened,
you think back, because you put this together
yourself, you think back and you remember there
was dust covering the armor of Harlan and Grumby.
Wow. Well, that was anticlimactic. But it still
begs more questions. How'd they do it? How'd
they lace the, I mean, you assume now, Someone
must have laced the pillar. I'm going to wave
your investigation rolls on this. As you kind
of look down, you have your glasses, you look
down and across the floor and you see bits of
dust are lacing it. Oh, I see. So you're not
saying that it was just an accident that it went
off and dust fell through the floorboards. It
was set there so that the explosion would set.
Yes, you would know from the map that this is
actually not set directly below the ballroom.
It's actually closer to where the salon is right
beside the ballroom. So dust falling in the ballroom
would not fall down here. What happened was someone
had set the pillar, laced the top of it, you're
realizing, with this dust. And when the bomb
went off and the place shook, it fell down. It
was planned to be simultaneous. Hmm. Okay. So...
Is there anything that Blanche can gleam from,
like, climbing up and looking at the... I mean,
like, that's stupid. Maybe not. There's two options.
Someone came into this cellar beforehand and
left it there. In that case, they would have
had to have known people were going to be in
the cellar, in this exact room, in these cells,
in that spot, before anyone came into the building?
Right. Well, I mean, yeah, if the plan was to
get the heirs arrested... That could be the case.
It very well could be the case. Yeah. That would
imply then that someone who maybe was part of
the staff or a family already here or someone
who made very, very swift work somehow unnoticed
upon entering. Right. But it would have been
pretty weird if someone came down here, you know,
between the events of entering the building,
that one hour period where you were in the billiards
room. Yeah. Again, I'm having a hard time ruling
out Amos near. Do you want to investigate the
pillar? Yes, I would like to. Well, yeah, that's
another thing is getting up there is going to
tell Blanche how somebody else would have gotten
up there. Jaune's going to assist you by sort
of helping you, heaving you up. I'm going to
give Paul the help action. He's just going to
let you on his shoulder so you can kind of get
a closer look at everything. Okay, piggyback
ride from Jaune. Yeah. Let me double check my
investigation here. And I have my advantage from
my little goggly glasses. 18. You are lifted
up. You sort of climb your way, sort of maybe
you climb onto the pillar and you're kind of
holding onto it, sort of standing on John's uplifted
arms, just barely reaching the top of this room.
And I knock Beezus' breath all into his face.
You see the pillar probably has some remains
of dust on it. Maybe you do see some glimmer
of pink mixed among it. Maybe not all of it fell.
It looks like a good amount, a good portion was
used here. As you investigate the spot, you realize,
one, this pillar has been disturbed. You don't
think someone had climbed up here before you.
As you kind of put your hand down, even where
the dust has kind of fell off, there's still
a distinct sort of small light layer that you
can wipe away as you touch. It has not been cleaned
in some time. Larissa has been lacking in this
room. But what you do realize, maybe you reach
up and knock on the ceiling. You get the sound
from the boards above that it might be hollow.
Hollow floorboard. Okay. So there might be something,
a crawl space between the first floor and the
ceiling above you now in the cellar. You see
like maybe a small knot hole in the wood just
above where things are being poured down. It's
as if someone had been in the space above slowly
letting the poison fall, setting the trap. Okay.
Is there a loose board to move? I wouldn't say
there's a loose one. Okay. Can I break your way
through? Yeah, I was going to say, how about
we make one? Okay. All right. Give me a strength
check. Athletics. Oh, I thought that was a 10.
It's a 16 plus 3, 19. Okay. You crack the board,
slide it to the side, crack another one. You
move a few of these. You know, as you're kind
of peering up into this crawl space above, looking
out into the dusty darkness between floors. First
thing you notice, it's pretty tight quarters
in here. You would not be able to fit with your
shell to move around. Oh, okay. So whoever was
up here. Does not have a shell. Does not have
a shell. Hey, you know what? You rule out too.
You probably didn't think it was De Pere or Ledoux,
but like you can rule out De Pere and Ledoux
perhaps. Right. You peek around. I think you
do see in the dust there is someone has been
moving through here. Gotcha. Someone has disturbed
it. Someone had moved through this place, which
means they either climbed up from somewhere in
the cellar or climbed down from somewhere on
the first floor. Right. It would be hard to go
far, perhaps. With determination, anything's
possible, but... Sure. Can Blanche get a direction
of travel, or is it in all directions? That's
a good question. I mean, if it's dusty up there...
Yeah, it would be pretty dusty. It would be pretty
dusty. Give me a second investigation check on
this one. This is kind of a new scene to look
at, and this could be pretty cool. First roll
is a two, so the second one better really do
something. 19. There's no direction of travel.
What exactly does that mean? It means there's
no direction of travel. There's just... Marks
everywhere? There's marks right there. And that's
it? And that's it. Okay, so what's directly above
us? Right above you now would be the salon. Can
Blanche see light through the ceiling above the
floor of the salon? Oh, that's a good question.
I don't... I think the floors of the main floor
are going to be very well made. I don't think
there would be much more seams between them.
Jaune, pass me your spear. Oh. Slides a spear
up to you. She uses the butt end. She starts
poking around above her head to try to find something
loose. Poke, poke, poke. Doom, doom, doom, doom.
Board. There's something on it, but it feels
loose. Okay. So the length of the spear between
the... The board, the loose board and the beam
that Blanche is standing on. Can she wedge it
in there? I'm just trying to like, so when I
walk up to the salon, when Blanche walks up to
the salon, I want her to be able to see this.
I don't want to do a whole nother role. No, I'm
into it. And I'm also leaving John's weapon behind.
So that's stupid. So I'm not doing that. Okay.
You can, I think you can have a rough idea of
where it might be kind of just orienting yourself.
Okay. Sure. All right. You already rolled very
high on looking over the map, so we'll say that
you just kind of get an idea. Jean, we're going
to the salon. Oh, sir. I thought you'd never
ask. Not that salon. The salon upstairs. Oh,
it's a mystery thing. Yes. Okay, and Blanche
is going to make haste for the salon. Jules,
we're back upstairs. There was a child. Samira
continues. Her knuckles are white. You see a
small trickle of blood run down her palm where
her fingernails are digging in. This hurts her.
There was a child there. In the trees. I couldn't
say much about them. It was just a dirty, pathetic
thing. I couldn't even tell the gender. But they...
Hold on. They looked like... They looked like
her. Like Proud Eden. I knew the others would
see the child killed, so I urged them into the
night to flee, to run. It's them, isn't it? They're
back. They know who killed their mother. I don't
know. She ran. She? They. He said earlier, I
couldn't determine the gender. I couldn't determine
the gender. Oh, okay. I meant to tell you, I
was thinking of Proud Eden. Okay. They ran. What
is the... Remind me of the time span between
now and then. I'm trying to figure out if this
child survived, how old it would be. 16 years.
16 years. Okay, so... How old did the child look?
Young, maybe four, five. They could have been
small for their age. They were tiny. They could
have been even older. Tiny? How old is Diva Luma,
I wonder? Diva Luma would be in her early 20s.
Oof. Did she have early access to the building?
Oof. That's the thing. Oof. From what you've
seen, she didn't. And she was in the room with
you the entire first hour. Oh, she was. So how
could she be the one? Yeah, but wasn't that...
Where were we being held? The billiard room.
Okay, so that... Far off on the western... No,
eastern. Uh, wait. Wasn't she in the salon, though,
getting ready? She was in the salon during the
in -between time. Fucking thing. That was good.
Take a button. I actually did something. Take
a button. She was in the salon. That's where
she was getting ready. That's true. And she definitely
has access to her own pyrotechnics. Yep. That's
also true. But... How would she get to the bottle?
Invisibility. Yeah, but she's a bard? Her class
is undefined. From fighting her, she has the
qualities of an assassin. When you saw her, invisibility
was extremely short -lived. So she's trained
to get in and out of places. Sure. The bottle
of wine could have been Fyodor. She could have
provided it. He could have placed it. Yes. She
could have made the order for it to be sent.
You could always ask. I wonder if she's written
it on anything. I don't know what happened. They
ran and I don't know what happened. I thought
they would just, I don't know, disappear. A bad
memory lost. And then my son died. And it's my
fault. I'm sorry. Thank you for talking to me.
And Jules will get up and open the door. Chester,
in this moment of tenderness, takes her by the
hand. Hey, come on. It's all right. We're going
to figure this out, okay? We're going to figure
this out. Thank you. Leg leads her outside. Closes
the door and just whistles. Oh, shit, Jules.
What do you think? Well, Jules is going to open
the door right back up. Fyodor. Hmm? Let's chat
for a second. Thought I will. Yes, I will have
chat with you. Fyodor walks in the room. Jules,
how long will this take? I am cook with no kitchen.
My hands miss the feeling of pan. I get it. The
smell of the omelette. I get it. Do me this favor,
though, okay? Was it tasty? It was fucking delicious.
You're the only one who had. It was so delicious,
I almost stopped and left the fight because I
wanted to eat all of those omelettes. I love
hearing this. This is good news for me. For real.
This is good news for me. All right, let's get
down to brass tacks. Yes. The tax or brass? The
wine that you served. The one that was sent to
Miller Horror's room? Yes. It was Larissa who
brought, but yes, I am aware of this. That's
the only thing you saw was Larissa bringing you
the wine. Well, yes, I made the fruit platter
and she brought the wine. We put it on the platter
and it goes upstairs. Did you see where the wine
came from? From cellar, of course, from wine
cellar. The stairs are... The main stairs to
Sailor for Wine is just by kitchen, so I can
see everyone that goes in and out. And who did
you say all went down there? You mean all day?
All day. Everyone inside. It was me here and
there. Larissa goes down, she cleans it, checks
it. Ezra goes down, of course. Amos checks on
everything. Everyone goes, it is a popular place.
It is in there, after all. Ezra went down? Yes,
Ezra. He went down today, yes. Just him? Him
alone. Only once. Twice. Twice he went down.
Just before you come in. Was he bringing anything
down or carrying anything up? I was very busy.
I do not remember. I, um, kind of grumbles and
you start thinking, rubbing his head. I feel
like he did have something. Something he brought.
And he looks you in the eye. In something he
brought. Beck. Blanche. Fuck you. You move into
the salon. Yes. As you go here, you also turn
around the corner. I will say this. As you turn
the corner towards the salon, the kitchen stands
open as well. You know you have a contact waiting
outside you could speak to on the way or afterwards,
whatever order. So you're saying I don't have
to wait until 7 o 'clock? No. Fjodor hinted to
you very strongly that somebody is out there
right now. that because of everything that's
going on outside, all the hubbub, his contact
is there. Maybe just trying to get information,
waiting for someone to appear in the window.
Okay, so as we're walking by the kitchen, Blanche
is going to stop Jean. Oh, thank goodness. Yes,
I'm so hungry. Do not enter the kitchen. Fuck.
Jean, I'm going to disguise myself as Fyodor
and enter the kitchen. What? I need you to stay
out of sight. Do you understand? Yes, sir. Of
course, sir. I shall hold the line here. Blanche
is going to cast Alter Self. Oh, that's really
cool. To make herself look just like Amos. Not
Amos Nier. That would be not what I want. Like
Theodore the Cook. Hell yeah. And she's going
to walk over to the window. You walk over to
the window. You peek out of it. Sure enough,
there is a somewhat notable figure. I mean, there's
a crowd all around this place, but just kind
of right sort of leaning up against the fence,
almost not looking as inconspicuous as before,
kind of staring out towards the building, eyes
sort of wide, like they're just willing themselves
to be seen. You see this, you see dark skin wrapped
in a gray cloak and hood just a wiry build, youthful
features. This is the contact. And they see you.
And there is just this relief that floods. Now,
message is basically just, there's no word limit,
right? It's just back and forth, constant? Yeah,
I can read it if you'd like. I think it's fine.
I think it's just whispering and then you hear
it. The mouth begins to move silently way over
there. And in your ears, though it's right beside
you, you begin to hear words. Fyodor. Oh, thank
goodness, Fyodor. What is happening in there?
No, never mind. You need to get out now. I'm
sorry. I'm just looking through to see if I can
change what I sound like. That's a good point.
You're whispering, so I think it's like your
voice. You just kind of disguise your voice.
It'll be a deception check. It's going to be
hilarious for you to try. Oh, no. Nope. You decide
what you look like, including your height, weight,
facial features, sound of your voice, hair length,
coloration, blah, blah, blah. This is pretty
like. That's really cool. Yeah. This is perfect
for this situation. Okay. You are now a big Russian
man. Yeah. Well, sorry. Quote, unquote, Russian.
David Russian. I'm bad at everything, but. Hmm.
Now I need to think of the perfect thing to say.
They said you need to get out of there. Yeah.
How can you help me out? Oh, that's good. I was
surprised. Hell yeah. Fuck yeah. How do I get
out of here? I don't know. I don't know. Maybe
if you just, maybe if you just tell them, look,
we don't know what's happening in there, but
a number of us, a number of us, get out for emphasis,
like bloodletters, have surrounded the place.
We're trying to figure out what's going on, and
we need information. We do. But more importantly,
we've been doing our own investigating at the
edges. And, Fyodor, there's a visa nearby. We
brought in cantata leaves to check. They burn
in the presence of rage spirits, and they burn
bright. Normally, they don't venture into the
city. It's got to be hiding its form somewhere
inside, likely weighing on the call of its master.
They can be bound to those who know the way to
bind them. But it's in there. Does Blanche know
what a visa is? Did we talk about this before?
All you've heard is they're jungle raid spirits.
You don't know a whole lot. Here's what's helpful.
Fjodor is from Arnikek. Okay. It wouldn't be
weird for Fjodor to ask. Well, that's exactly
what I was getting at. Yeah, I just didn't want
to know if it was a waste of time for Fjodor
to ask. I am getting scared. Tell me, what is
this visa? How do I stay away from it? I think
Blanche would know a little bit, but not. A lot
of specifics. Okay. Being from Noir, but yeah,
just... Sorry, you're foreign. They're spirits.
Spirits are those killed in the deep jungle.
Especially those who carry a burning rage within
their hearts. They can command and lead a number
of lesser specters. They're dangerous. They can
force people to move on each other, to strike
each other. They can instill burning rage in
others in the area. As I said, they can be bound.
They're used by... Jungle witches. Some say they're
used for poison. Some say they're used for other
such tasks. Whatever's going on, you gotta get
out. They're all fighting in here amongst themselves.
How do we appease the spirit? I don't know. It
explains so much, though. The revolutionary,
the attack on the prince. That wasn't us. We
didn't mean to do that. The bloodletters wouldn't
have done that. We're peaceful. But Abiza...
It could have inspired that rage. Someone is
doing this to us, pinning this on us. Would Ibiza
make the sign? Sign? The symbol. The blood leather
symbol. A blood leather symbol appeared. Oh,
wait. I fucking remember. She did it. Zenya did
it. Zenya did it. Shit, I remember. Never mind.
I am forgetting. I am... No, I understand. It's...
It's so chaotic in here. It must be. It must
be. How'd the omelets turn out? They... I mean,
you should... This horrible lady spilled them
everywhere. I'm so sorry. You must have cried
so much. I know how sensitive you are. I'm not
over it. I know. If I cannot get out of here,
what is your plan? We don't have one. We can't
get through the silent verse. Our numbers are
not strong. We're not fighters. Fyodor, you're
on your own in there. But we want to keep you
safe. We want to keep everyone safe. Whatever
happens, we don't want to see the kings of coin
hurt or dead. For one thing, they'll blame it
on us. And for the other, it's not how we want
to make a change. But someone does want them
dead. I'm sure of that now. I have friend inside.
Here. I think we can trust. You're going to do
the walk downstairs. They are investigating from
the inside. And if there is grave need, may I
send help to you? Yes. Yeah, of course. Yes.
You will know her by her shell. The fuck does
that? Oh, tortles. Gotcha. She is tortles. No,
I hear you. It makes sense. You could have just
said that. Excellent houseguest. I must go. I
cannot stay away for long. You move away from
the window? Yes. Be careful, Fjodor. You're gone.
Moving from the glass. into the kitchen, moving
towards Jaune, and perhaps feeling something
cold run down your shell as you realize there
is one other guest in this palace, unknown. Something
long dead, something supernatural, waiting for
the time to strike. Jules! This isn't going to
be near as funny now because the moment has way
passed, but it's been in my head since this happened,
so I have to say it. You said, how do we appease
the spirit? And all that I can think about is
how do we appease the visa? We have an episode
title. Take another button. Fuck it. Take a button.
There you go. Take a button. That's pretty good.
That's pretty good. Thanks. Damn. That's you,
Jules. Fyodor. Actual Fyodor. He just had two
Fyodor scenes in a row. Weird. Right. You gotta
remind me, what was the last thing he said? Uh,
fuck. Hang on. Oh, fuck. Yeah, okay. I remember
now. Oh, good. I forgot. No, I don't. Shit. Hang
on. He was saying that you were saying. Oh, Azra.
Azra. Was bringing something back. Looked like
he was bringing something back. He brought something
out. He brought something. back, just before
you came. What was he bringing? I did not see.
I was not paying that close attention, but he
was being strange about it, I think. I am sorry
I cannot be of more help, but... And you're sure
it was just him? I mean, at the time, yes. Other
people have gone in and out. Loritza and Amos,
of course, they are going in and out for wines,
but Azra was strange. If he is bringing a wine
out, why would he not drink? For this wine he
brought, why bring it back? Strange. Strange.
Can I go make dinner now? Yeah, go make dinner.
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Flashback! No one leaves the
room! But Blanche says no one leaves the room!
I'm not serious. Oh, are you done with Fjodor?
Yeah. He stands up, the whole couch creaks in
this huge form as he moves towards the door.
Well, I am hoping it was of help to you. I'm
sorry I can't be of more. No, you gave me some
good stuff. Oh, good, good. Well, good luck.
And he just leaves. Numb in the scene, he's out.
Well, what are you thinking? Asra's being weird,
but Asra's dead. So, what's that matter? David,
what do we know about Asra in terms of... He
was a playboy. He was obnoxious, spoiled rich
kid. So he had no friends. I mean, he had a lot
of friends. He had his money. Quote -unquote
friends. Yeah, quote -unquote friends. You know,
he's a big fan of Diva Luma. Roll me an intelligence
check. Doesn't need to be a high one. 13. Your
mind flashes back to when you first arrived.
Came in through the gates. Spoke to DiPiero,
spoke to Ledoux. And you turned to see, you heard
some obnoxious laughter. You saw Azra was speaking
with Diva Luma. And he went immediately kind
of running back inside as she kind of waved him
off. She approached you and mentioned something
about how sending them off on little errands
keeps them busy. Azra, you know, was running
things in and out for Diva Luma. And I think
a thought crosses your mind. Not saying this
is anything that happened, but it could make
sense to put yourself in a killer's shoes. Azure,
dear, what kind of wines do you have? Do you
have jelly black classic noir? I'd love to smell
it. At the moment of this realization, Jules
opens up the door. Harlan, put those manacles
back on Diva. Oh, no. Diva Luma just looks up.
Her eyes are red -rimmed. She's been... Crying.
What are you... What are you saying? Harlan.
I'm sorry. Oh, right. I mean, fine. Let's put
it on. It's just for safety. I understand. I
do. You want to speak to me now? You and me both
luminaries. We know it's just for safety. It's
fine. It's fine. Don't forget Blanche is periodically
checking in with Turbo. Blanche, you see this?
This is happening just when you get back from
the kitchen. You look up and you see Devaluma
Manacles begins to be moving into the room. Now
you know the salon is... Fuck the salon. We go
now. John, run. And she starts to run back to
Amos Neer's room. Okay, you're on your way, Devaluma.
I love that Blanche just said, fuck the salon.
John's, no! You move into... The interrogation
chamber. Harlan won't look you in the eyes. Just
stay. Or would you rather speak to her alone?
Stay outside the door. All right. Listen. Will
do. Will do. Door closes and Diva Luma just sitting
there, just looking like beside herself. Oh.
This is either a foolish mistake or we got her.
She's like, slowly starting to cry. I think we
got her, but she can also call the bees that's
at her side. And you're in the room alone. I
know. Jules, before you get started, whatever
you want to say, I just want to thank you. I
want to thank you so much. I killed Asra. I killed
him. The Prince of Coin and a fan. And I would
have killed others. I would have killed you if
you hadn't stopped me. Please, I don't know if
you've felt this before. Do you know what it's
like to lose control over your body? To do horrible
things? And I think, Jules, in that moment, for
a brief second, your mind flashes back. I do.
To Nusserul, to Moreno, to your hand covering
the eyes of Jessenth Kellig, to power flowing
through him, to Zebulon's corpse. You blink and
you're... Looking at Diva Luma, a woman who looks
for all the world like her heart has been shattered.
It's terrible. Jules? Chester's looking at you.
He doesn't know what to do. I think he's kind
of not following your track entirely, and he's
not sure what's happening now. Where do you come
from? What? I'm curious. You seem to know all
about me. I don't know anything about you. Chester's
like a slight sort of sobbing, struggling chuckle.
Jules. Funny time to shoot the shit, but yeah,
okay. I was raised in the elucidarium, the Bard
College here in Zinda. I grew up there. I learned
everything from them. It's how I'm the person
I am today. Well, who was your mentor? Anybody
I know? Probably not. I'm the most famous person
to come from there, but I had many mentors. Do
you have a favorite one? Lady Bellana. She was
kind. She taught me the, uh... Very foot -heavy
dancing style that I use. No, I mean, you've
got to have flair. Yeah, you've got to have flair,
right? Yeah, of course. Yeah. We're luminaries.
Yeah, absolutely. We even fight the style, you
know? Absolutely. I get that. As you're having
this conversation, I think we'll start to hear
the door opens outside. Blanche, you and John
step in. It'll be around this time that you'd
make it up here. John, just... I think when I
hear... When Jules hears that... He's going to
open up the door. D 'Vilma snaps and looks around.
You go to the door, stand up, open it. Blanche,
Jean. When Blanche comes into the room, you can
hear the sound of her blade song activate. And...
What is this? Whoa, Blanche, what's going on?
What's that? What are you doing? Hold on just
a damn second. Are we missing one thing? No,
what we're missing is that Blanche doesn't have
any of the information that Jules has. Blanche
doesn't know that there was a child. You each
have half of this sort of puzzle, right? Yeah.
But what you do know is that somebody that was
in the salon had perhaps an accident. That's
where you found the thing was. But you would
know. I think you still have reason to be concerned,
Blanche, because you... know that whoever was
in the salon likely was the one that poisoned
the duergar. Sure. You have a reason to suspect
Diva Luma right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What you
don't know, again, the impossible puzzle, I feel
like I was acting on some of the information
that Stephen had, but Blanche did not. Yeah,
but you don't know. Fair. Roll me an intelligence
check. Okay. But can you also tell me that if
Blanche saw... Diva Luma getting manacled again
that she wouldn't think what the fuck is going
on. Okay, yeah, sure. Right, exactly. Because
she knew that Diva Luma was in the salon. She
got the information about the visa. Right. So...
Roll with advantage. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I
was only like half listening. What am I rolling?
We'll call it just a straight intelligence. We're
kind of testing your memory here. Roll with advantage,
though, as your master's words, his information,
his advice in the last episode kind of flows
from your mind. Make the impossible possible.
First roll, all told, was only a 14, so let's
see what happens. 16. With a DC 15. Oh, baby!
You assume over in the story, as you're on your
way up, your mind is flashing. Make the impossible
possible. And the pieces come together. You don't
have the exact confirmation that Jules has, but
the idea hits your mind. Diva Luma could have
been here before, out in the jungle before everything.
She could have poisoned the caiman. She could
have killed Missy Moane. Diva Luma couldn't have
had access to the wine bottle. But then you remember
Azra Nir going in and out. You remember Azra
Nir bringing things to her, taking them away,
and that same thought hits you. Did she ask for
the bottle? Maybe just to open it, to smell it,
taste it? In that one moment, one pinch in the
bottle. There was exactly one person, one person
in this house that could have done this. Someone
who was both outside and had access to inside
via a foolish accomplice. Okay, so I'm not going
to rewind on the blade song. She pops in with
the blade song, bonus action. Her action, she
points her sword at Divaluma and casts True Strike.
Whoa. What's this look like? So it's the sound
that Bladesong makes. And then she just levels
the sword, accusatory, at Divaluma. And she asks,
where is the Biza? What are you talking about?
What's going on? What's happening here? You were
in the salon. You found a loose or made a loose
floorboard to poison the duergar. You put Beezer's
breath in your own pyrotechnics and somewhere
there's a Beezer. She's mad. Jules, what? Who
is proud Eden to you? How should I resolve this?
I'd like intimidation check from Blanche with
advantage from Jules. You're leveling the sword.
I think you should make the check. First one's
a 19 on the die. Second's a natural one, so that's
22. We'll go with a one. That's not how advantage
works, actually. I can just edit the episode
so that you say disadvantage. Yeah. Disadvantage.
I put it there. Sword is leveled. Who has browed
Eden to you? Tears falling down. A smooth face.
And then those eyes. Every bit of sorrow fades
from them in an instant. Brows curling down.
Mouth. Curving up into a wicked sneer. Completely
different features. Completely different person.
Well, I'll be damned. Proud Edon is my mother.
And I'm proud to be her daughter. Every step
of the way, you two. I swear, you two. I would
have had the turtle twice. Jaune just steps back,
like, kind of horrified. I would have had Xenia.
All seven. The complete collection. You fucking
too. So what happens now? I can call in the Beezer.
You know what's here now. I can kill everyone
outside. Or you can let me walk. You think you
have the power here, but I think you need to
understand that... And you watch as she just
kind of smoothly... It's actually in the stat
block. Let me double check this. In her stat
block, I think she cannot be... She can like...
legendary action escape from uh let me go check
this you know yeah while you're checking that
quick side note i said it right from the beginning
i don't trust you when we were meeting when we
were meeting people in my notes here diva luma
has double asterisk here oh take a button i'm
just saying you can't do this um escapes non
-magical restraints and ends the grapple condition
on itself as a legendary action. This is something
that, yeah, another one of those sleight of hand
parlor tricks that have served her so well. You
just see the restraints kind of, usually they're
just twirling a finger and they're kind of just
spinning in the air. Like I said, I have more
power than you think. Power to kill everyone
outside this room right now. You're the only
ones who know. I think she's bluffing. This lady
just went down. We knocked her unconscious. She's
had a short rest. What Blanche wants to know,
David, and I don't know, maybe, I'm hoping that
there's a role about this. Blanche wants to know,
wants to try to recall more about Beezas. Like,
if we kill Diva Luma, like, does the Beeza, like,
go free? Is it, like, some being that's being
controlled? You're onto, like, the Beeza's the
bigger threat here. Oh, a thousand percent. Yeah.
Yeah. Not worried about fighting her. Right.
It's figuring out. Give me a roll. Yeah. Are
you thinking like arcana? Arcana or religion.
Okay. For an undead, it'll be a little easier
on religion, but arcana actually, I think in
this case, I'll actually make the same because
these are very much tied to more occult witchcraft.
I'm close to using a button, but I'm just going
to roll it because I've got a pretty good arcana.
Actually, that's kind of where religion is. 23.
20. Wait. Steven, again, I couldn't tell whether
that was good or bad. Yeah, sorry. His grumpiest
roller. Yeah, 23. 23. In the case of something
like this, this is a rage spirit fueled from
what you've heard by just like pure malice. If
you kill its anchor, it's very likely to just
go on a full rampage. Diva Luma is like the only
thing keeping the visa. From slaughter. I thought
it was going to be the opposite. We kill the
anchor, that's the only rage in the room. I'm
glad I asked the question. I was just about to
go in. So what do you say, fellas? Are you going
to let me go? Or do you want to meet my mother?
We will not let you go. Haven't you had enough?
No. There's still two more. You can't have them.
I will. You've already seen how far I'll go.
My determination, I would have died in that fight.
I meant to. Would you die? Because I knew I would
have killed every single one of them with it.
I don't care if you kill me now. You'll just
be the murderers who killed one of the world's
most beloved luminaries. If you survive my mother.
You would die for that? These people took everything
from me. Stole the flower. Murdered my mother
in cold blood. Sent me off to die in the woods.
If I hadn't crawled my way into the city, found
my way into the elucidarium, been accepted, I'd
be a corpse too. But they're precious children.
No. Fuck them. Why did your mother want the children
in the first place? She wanted blood. This was
a response. They killed to defend, and I will
die to defend today. My mother was a predator.
Like I'm a predator. Like that caiman you fought.
Like the sharks out in the ocean. Blood's what
we know. It's natural to us. And it's not wrong
to pursue what your instincts drive you to pursue.
But they lied. They turned around on their deal.
They didn't know the price. Yet they reaped the
rewards. Here they are, richer than ever. Richer
off my mother's corpse. The houses sold in her
blood. The blood was her responsibility. She
called for it. And their blood's yours. Because
if you don't let me go, it will spill. You're
not leaving. So co -I master defense. I don't
see any fucking way around this, dude. It's like,
yeah, everyone in this room, it's just Chester,
Jaune, back into the wall, horrified. Jules,
like, what's Jules' expression right now? I want
to get a freeze -frame picture of this moment,
as Diva Luma's just sitting on the couch, still
twirling the manacle, still looking for all the
world, like she has all this control. Her face
contours somewhere between, like, this divine
sort of sadistic pleasure and this... Deep -seated
malice. What's Jules doing? Do you know who I
am? Really? Do you know where I come from? Oh,
man. You sure you want to fuck with that? She
turns to you. I know exactly who you are, my
lord. Oh! And we'll call it there.