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not here again. Guys, we have some heavy, heavy
shit to get to very soon. Let's start off a little
light. Let's start off with wedgies. Because
there were some wedgies. Some very minor wedgies.
Thank you. Very minor. Yes. I don't know why
I said it like that. Very minor wedgies. So very
quickly in this last little combat, the first
sort of Notable rules wedgie was I should have
given John Franklin an attack of opportunity
when Dissonant Whispers pulled the shark away
from him the full sort of 40 feet and then it
came back the next round. We missed out on that
AOL. We talked in the episode about AOLs, the
fact that forced movement doesn't give AOLs,
but I do count Dissonant Whispers as being it
because you're using your reaction to physically
move away. It's more like you're driven out of
fear to make that move. I count that as a non
-forged. It's not being shoved, right? So I give
AOOs on Disney and Whispers. I think that makes
sense. I don't know if it's the rules. I'm pretty
sure it is. Either way, it's my rules. We've
never let that stop us. Yeah, yeah. We do all
sorts of wild shit. Another wedgie. Not even
really a wedgie, but just something to keep in
mind because I wasn't really thinking about it
in the last combat episode, but it is nighttime
right now. The whole battle should be happening
under dim light because we noted it's a very,
very open, clear, starry sky. Now you're on open
sea looking at creatures on the waves. There's
nothing to hide behind. There's nothing that
would block the view of them. And under the starlight,
I think you'd still be able to see all these
creatures. All the attacks made would... You
basically just use spells that were on site but
saves, right? There were no spell attacks shooting
away that would be a disadvantage on. Chester
was not using his bow. He was being a superhero
instead. And as far as Chester's stuff goes,
he knew where the turtles were. He dives into
the water. It'd be hard to see them, but when
he gets close, he can feel it out, move the rope.
It really doesn't change anything. None of that
changes anything. The AOO, even if it hit, wouldn't
have changed anything. I said beforehand that
Blanche is wearing her goggles at night, so...
Yeah, so anytime that would be, as far as scouting,
getting any information that would be a little
weird to get in dim light, Blanche could just
fill everybody in. It all makes sense. All checks
out. The only one that's kind of weird, still
a pseudo -wedgie, story -wedgie, little plot
hole I found. How the hell did a shark get into
the salt marshes in the first place? And I'm
just going to say, there's a river higher up
that connects to the sand dine. Or maybe there's
a sea cave. I don't care. It's one of those wide,
flat belly sharks. It's one of those. It got
there. It was there. It happened. The guys moved
to the forest, but one brought a shark through
a sea cave. Or mud. You know? I don't care. It's
a shark. It's cool. I don't care. So yeah, that's
that for that. Now that we got the chuckles out
of the way. Oh, no, no. There's more chuckles
we had. More chuckles. Kind of sort of wedgie.
Not even a wedgie. Something we got to discuss.
Something that Jeremy wanted to discuss. Jeremy,
take it away. Take it away, Mr. Wolf. Both conch
and conch are correct. They are both, in a way,
I mean, in a sense, correct. Yes. In a different
dialogue. Dialect, excuse me. I decided to Google
things. But also, over the last week, I was like,
oh, I heard conch from the SpongeBob episode.
Yes, and then you mentioned in the episode that
you heard it from a movie. Yes. In school, and
I thought of it. Exactly. Piggy as the conch.
Yep. Lord of the Flies. Lord of the Flies. Yes.
Yeah. You owe me a button, Jinx. I'm about to
give you two. Ooh. Hey, we'll get to that. We'll
get to that. So, aluminum, glassier. Conch. Who
the fuck? You know what? I'll give you 15%. Yes.
No. Fuck off. 86 or higher. No. No. Okay. So
conch is the Americanized version, right? The
only two times in my lifetime that I have heard
that term is in Lord of the Flies and then later
on in that SpongeBob episode. So that is how
I learned it. Been living under a conch all your
life? No, a conch. Professor, is this on the
test? What? I don't know. He's taking us away.
Yeah, we are not qualified to take a math test
or a language arts test. Look, it's worth noting.
I have pronounced every single word wrong since
the start of this show. I am nails on a chalkboard
to anybody who has really dived into the Monster
Manual or knows proper sort of cultural pronunciations
or dialects for every single word I've ever said.
So I don't care about conch conch. I don't care.
But I did find, we were doing our research. I
found this post on Reddit. How do you pronounce
conch conch? It just made me, it just tickled
me. I live in Miami and I'm going through college
working my way into marine biology. I have a
hatred to many people, however, who think I say
conch wrong. I've lived near the coast and usually
surround myself with people who share the same
thoughts about the ocean as I do, and we always
pronounce conch as conch. My school friends think
there's a real way to pronounce conch as conch
because of that Spongebob episode, and it makes
me furious that most of my friends are considering
that a cartoon is more logical than some with
a lifetime experience of studying marine life.
I just love this guy. He's so mad. He's so mad.
He's the angriest guy. I hate the way that...
Speaking for him, you pronounced it the way that
he didn't want it to be pronounced. I want to
make him more mad. If you're listening, guy who
posted on Reddit eight years ago, sorry. Don't
come find me. This guy's got murder in his soul.
Yes, that is that settled. I know someone else
who has murder in their soul. Oh, yes, yes. Let
the laughter die and move away because we won't
be laughing anymore from here. I don't get a
button for that segue? No. Come on. It's a good
segue, though. Give me a thumbs up. You know,
the buttons we can get. Hey, stop laughing. Serious
time. Give me some serious music, then. No, we're
not in the... Let me explain why it's serious.
Let me explain. Because everyone out there listening
visualizes it off, and they're just like, oh,
no, three attacks on Jaune. Well, that stinks.
They don't realize what we do. What I've come
to realize over this last week, that this is
really, really bad. Now, I'm making three attacks.
It has been proven to Spearmaster Malar that
Blanche Trudeau is simply indestructible, invincible,
untouchable, unstoppable. And so... How dare
you. That is exactly what I thought. Yeah, Malar
has moved on to easier prey. Hey, when a shark
faces a bigger fish, it's going to move on to
the smaller. Jean was right there, bleeding out,
injured. And I just said, I'm making three attacks.
I'm holding to that. Three attacks. Here's what
that means. If my first attack hits, and I do
enough damage to bring Jean Franklin unconscious,
then the next two attacks will be dealing essentially
just damage to his death saves. An attack on
someone who is unconscious that lands is an automatic
critical hit. And more importantly for our purposes,
an automatic two fails. If those two attacks
both hit an unconscious Jaune, instant permanent
death. This is going to be rough. The chances
aren't crazy high. I want to put it all out in
the open. We're going to roll it all right there.
I believe I have a plus five to hit, which means
I need a 14 or higher on my first roll. I have
advantage because of my blood frenzy. He's bleeding
out. 14 or higher, though, will hit. after that
i would need a six or higher on my die damage
die damage die and that will take him out shield
dropped his ac lowered then it gets real bad
real fast yeah that's easy and even though the
chances aren't huge even though it's probably
something like hey maybe a 15 i'd say more like
a 25 even so we've been waving death flags for
this turtle without even knowing it His last
few episodes, listen back to him. That conversation
with Jules, that final, you changed me, the hug
goodbye, the please take care of sir for me.
I mean, ouch. I mean, just him being one hit
point away last episode from dropping blood frenzy.
If he'd just be able to heal one more hit point,
if he had one damage die less, one HP die more
on that level three healing word. this all would
be for naught. I wouldn't be taking advantage
on all these attacks. He might still be up. He
has high AC, but that blood frenzy is ruining
him. It's wrecking him. I mean, hell, even Steven's
joke last episode when I mentioned Jaune surrounded
and getting pierced and thinking, what was this
like for Mother? Is this how Mother went down?
Steven said, oh no, she died to a champion. Well,
guess what? Champion is here in hell. Even the
fact that this episode right here, I believe,
is episode 97. Exactly 50 episodes from the death
of Zebulon. I feel the tug of fate on my heart
and I am terrified because I do not want this
to happen because I have so many plans that are
going to be lit on fire. But you know what? It's
the game. We're going to push back the snoot
of fate. We're going to boop the snoot of fate.
I knew what I wanted to say. I didn't know quite
how to say it. So I know that I have been a touch
self -indulgent with this character lately, with
these last few episodes. But one way or another,
that stops this episode. So I'd like to take
us all back for one more Jean Franklin flashback.
We open on a sort of far -off, sort of bird's
-eye view of that familiar courtyard terrace
in the sandcastle overlooking all of the Golden
Bay. The place where Jean and Blanche met. The
place where they've come to train every day since.
I think here we're a few months into training.
Maybe just hitting the point where he's finally
allowed to wield some sort of semblance of a
spear. His form is tight. physical, what's the
word? PT? His physical training. Oh, physical
training. Yes, he's improved in so many ways.
So we're kind of zooming down just maybe here
from far off, just this string of... I wouldn't
believe what he said. As you zoom down, the words
become more clear. Can you believe it? This creature
Father brings in, this damnable LeDoux character,
he thinks he just owns the place. Father says
I need to respect him, that he's a genius with
numbers, and that someday when I rule, he might
be my own closest advisor. I think not. When
I rule, I'm going to throw him in a dungeon,
sir. Honestly, I can't tolerate the creature.
He's terrible. He's awful. He's lowborn, too.
What is Father thinking? Kind of throws a spear
down. I can't focus. I can't. I'm too furious
at this whole situation. Sorry. Sorry. Why don't
you have a seat, Master Jean? I'll teach you
a new exercise. From sitting? Okay. This one
won't be strenuous like you might expect. All
right. It'll be... Rejuvenating. Okay. I will
sit. Just kind of plops down on his little butt
shell, hitting the hard, sandy surface. Blanche
sits down across from him, and she closes her
eyes. Now, close your eyes and breathe with me.
She opens one eye to make sure he's... Breathe?
Are you going to strike me with a spear when
I close my eyes? Blanche rolls her practice spear
away. All right. No spears for this one. Okay.
Closes his eyes. Picture you're further down
on the beach. Okay. And visualize the waves coming
and going. Yes. Now breathe with the motion of
the water. As the wave comes in and washes over
you. Imagine your stress and your worries. Gather
them. Collect them like a pearl. And when the
ocean recedes, let it carry that pearl, those
worries, away with it. Now breathe in and collect.
Breathe out and release. And release. I want
you to open your eyes. And you see Jean is just
staring at you with this almost perplexed look
in his eyes. Some burning curiosity. Seems to
be meddling with his sort of peaceful thoughts
and kind of cocks his little head. I'm sorry,
sir. I never asked. Do you have kids of your
own? No, Jean Franklin, I do not. Oh. Well, I...
Sort of smiles a little bit. I think you'd be
a great mother, sir. Sorry, sorry. I should be
doing my breathing exercise. Right. Right. Again.
Eyes closed. The waves come in. And we zoom in
on his eyes. Closer and closer. And we see them
open as the camera pans back again. And the stress
comes out. We see now as they pan out, looking
at a much older Jean. We see his back set against
a wall of red brick. His eyes are determined
as they open, as all this anxiety sort of floods
out, as his fingers stop trembling on his spear.
And as he composes himself, we see his mouth
curves into an... arrogant sneer, just a mask
plastered on. He takes up his spear and he spins
around the corner of this wall and peers into
a large, open yard. You see a fountain stands
at center with a crumbling statue of Atash standing
proudly above. And here we see a battle is broken
out between a goblin who lies unconscious, a
laughing haranguan, a red -haired teen with a
sling, a tiny half -dragon wielding two swords.
and a young man with a rough cloak and a messy
pompadour. Ah, well, well, well. Looks like my
idiots did not hold up after all. That's all
right. Lucky for them, I'm here. And we see Jean
Franklin take his first steps into that courtyard,
his first steps onto a path of struggle and heartbreak,
of friendship and growth. A path of honor. A
path that led him to here. To this moment. Blanche,
I imagine when you've gone into haste, Bladesong,
this combined power, you perceive everything
more slowly. Time slows down in this moment.
Malar's spear raised. Grin, sharp and dangerous.
But your eyes aren't focused on Millar. They
look to Jean, who has looked to you. And you
see in his eyes the understanding. The knowing
that this is it. The fear. The pain. The regret.
That endless Jean Franklin uncertainty. And you
see his eyes for this brief, brief half -second
close. He breathes in. Collected like a pearl.
He breathes out. And release. And those feelings
are gone. Released into the waves. And you can
see that all that is left is courage. Three attacks.
I need a 14 or higher to hit the first one. I
have advantage. Let's go. You gotta wait for
my two buttons, though, for this first one. Are
you doing two buttons? I'm doing two buttons.
Give me some drama with it. So you got a straight
roll. Okay. Okay. Oh, you give me those two buttons.
You save those. You almost used them last time.
But you save them for the most clutch moment.
I don't want to let go. Let's do it. Six on the
die. My insides are shaking right now. The moment
of courage. Holy shit. The spear flashes out,
and Jaune hangs it away. Holy shit. Okay, I get
two more attacks, but that was the big one. That
was the one that mattered. I have advantage of
these next two, but that was the one. Well, yeah,
because now, like, the same thing. Like, you
can hit this one, then two death saves on the
next one, and then it's up to Jaune's roll. Yeah,
still dicey, but it's not instant. Or there's
the other Sahagin. It's true. I don't think you
guys are going to be heroes. For all those reasons,
I'm also giving you two buttons. What? You have
two buttons? Holy shit. Oh, my God. He parries
the first one. His eyes set in a hard... Spear
comes at him again. A four on the die. Oh, my
God. He's probably going to stay up. Oh, my God.
Oh, my God. Last attack, this time with advantage.
Let's go. Whoa, the first roll's a one. And a
14. That's what I needed. Yeah. Exactly. Okay.
I get one time. Will this bring him unconscious,
though? I need a six or higher on this D8. Six
or higher on the D8. Is that a two? That's a
two. That's a two. Whoa. Sean takes five points
of damage. He does not go unconscious. Holy shit.
Wow. It's going to take us. I will never financially
recover from the loss of these buttons. Oh, and
with that, eyes full of courage, all the stress
released. The battle continues. Right, that's
the thing. We're not out of it yet. As those
blades, the spears miss, Malar steps back, snarls
towards you, Blanche. I will not fail here. You
thought yourself invincible, didn't you, Blanche
Trudeau? But I have found your weakness. Spearmaster
Malar will pierce your heart! Lucky for you,
I taught him well. Yes. She taught me everything.
But that's his turn, and the shark is dead. That's
going to be Chester. The turtles on the map are
gone. Let's say they're beelining out of there
as this turn starts. So remind me who's left.
We have the champion. And one more. And then
one more Sahagun. Yes, Chester would need to
go. He can only go 50 turns, so he really can't
reach, even with a dual move. I mean, he's still
just going to keep going. Okay. Toward the fight.
He's just all the way over, trying to get up
close to the Sahuagin that's left, ready to make
his move. Daggers are flashing in the brief,
dim starlight, filtering through the top of the
waves. Hell yes. Jules, that's you. You've seen
already, at least through Blanche, that this
Malar. Stan has no chance against her. But he's
changed the focus of his strikes. Jaune is not
out of the water yet. This guy needs to go. And
there's one other Sohagin with him. So, as a
bonus action first off, I'm going to cast level
3 Healing Word onto Jaune. Yeah! That's pretty
damn good. 3d4 plus 4. That's 13. Excellent.
13 more. That's a couple of hits. Yeah. You know
what, Jeremy? We saved John. We saved John. Cheers.
Imagine the world without those buttons. Oh,
my God. You have been evil all week. Reminding
us every day. Guess what's coming. I knew you
were going to try dropping the two buttons. I
knew you had two buttons. It's so funny because
one of the buttons was because you laughed when
I said buzz nuts. some buzz nuts who feels like
a buzz nut now who feels like a buzz nut now
and i gotta be perfectly honest i didn't remember
that i had two buttons until we got here today
whoa because like jeremy and i were talking about
it jeremy's like do you have anything you can
like pull out of your pocket like blah blah this
and that and i was like man i don't have a lot
of like spells and you know it's not blanche's
turn until later i've only got one button and
then i looked in my cup Today, before we started
recording, I texted Jeremy. I said, holy shit,
I've got two buttons, too. It's amazing. But
now, the button board is cleared. Yeah. Yeah.
You've got to finish this thing. Okay. And then
Jules is going to cast Vicious Mockery onto the
champion. Okay. Oh, that's a good move. Okay.
Yeah. That's a wisdom save? That is a wisdom
save. It's actually a 20 on the die. Oh, god
damn. 20 with the die. Sorry, 19 on the die.
Plus one wisdom. Oh, god. Yes. Yeah, that passes.
Very good roll. Shit. He's too angry to hear
your words. What do you say? You got the worst
voice I ever heard. No, you're wrong. I'm not
mad at all. Man, David really phoned it in on
that one. This is normal for Sahagin. Okay, anything
else to do in Jules? No. All right. You're still
hanging out. I think you move from Manta 6 to
Manta 4. You're on the edge of Manta 4, kind
of watching things as Chu and Roinalda are kind
of moving in, surrounding this champion. Jaune
on the other side. Chester's moving up behind
the other, lesser Sohwagin that's kind of behind
Jaune. It's all coming together. Bodies floating
everywhere. Big, sharp, floating blood soaking
through. Black in the moonlight. That's going
to be Jean Franklin. All right. Well, Jean Franklin.
Jean Franklin is going to open up and hold on,
hold on, hold on, hold on. I was trying to see
if there's a good place to move, but there's
really not. Because if I try to slide into flanking
against the champion, I'm going to. I'm going
to move out of the other Sahagin's square. Let's
discuss. No, there's not much to discuss. I'm
going to have Roinalda attack the champion first.
Okay. That makes sense. So plus three, I believe.
Yeah, plus three to hit, plus one to damage.
Okay. Natural one for Roinalda. Damn it, I was
reading it upside down and I thought it was an
eight. But it says, oof. She splashes a little
water in Sean's eyes. Waiting for this for a
whole night. You're in an open ocean here. And
all it goes to, like, strike. Nerds, you seahorse.
God. Blast in your face. How did he do it? How
did he do it? She takes the dead. Two damage.
Oh, God. Yeah, the seahorse kind of pecks her
and her tramples. I don't know what seahorses
look like anymore. I don't know what seahorses
look like anymore. What does that mean? I'm just
giddy. I'm just a giddy soul because that did
not go. Yeah. Fucking take a button. Wait, what?
That's pretty good. Giddy up. Giddy up? That
made me laugh. He said, I'm pretty giddy. And
I said, giddy up in reference to all the horse
talk. That's funny. All right. Thank you. I'm
glad for the button. Me too. I'm glad for the
button. Me too. I just feel like I say funny
things sometimes. It doesn't matter how stupid
I have to be to get it. If I get a button, I
get a button. Be more likable. All right. John
Franklin's going to shove this spear into this
champion twice. Okay. Let's see about that. 16
for the first. 16 hits. Excellent. Nice. I'll
do the damage first. Just in case. Six damage
on that first attack. Okay. Second attack. That's
an 18 on the die. Oh, yeah. Six more damage.
That's on the champion? That's on the champion.
That's pretty good. He's looking pretty rough
now. He's still up. He's still vital, but...
There's some good, these counterattacks. He's
sort of like turning towards you, Blanche. Jaune
gets two good swift jabs in. Hell yeah. Okay.
And with that. Hold on. I have a question. What
do you want? Nevermind. It's too much to ask.
And also Jaune's been healed now. I was, one
of my thoughts, like if Jaune was in a real bad
way, I was like, maybe I'm just going to have
Rowan Alda like grab him and drag him away. But
I don't think that's needed. Might not be needed.
But he's still over there. He opened himself
up, and now this other Swaggin's coming in to
attack. He moved into flanking. See, I knew I
should have... Advantage of the plus two. ...moved
Roinalda there. Ah, so stupid. Actually misses
with an eight and a five. Oh, my God. It's not
even flanking. Come on. Second one will hit.
Okay. Oh, boy. Eight points of damage. Okay.
It's not great, but it's not... One spear thrust
gets through. And that's Blanche. Okay. Blanche
and Chew, I should say. Yeah. All right. Yeah,
that's true. I'm going to go Chew first. That
plus three to hit. That's just nine for Chew?
No. Okay. Blanche realizes... That she doesn't
need haste anymore. She doesn't need that boost
to AC. Oh. So she's going to drop it. What? It's
a bonus action. She's going to cast Shadow Blade.
Oh. Dim light. Oof. I did say it. Oof. Pure blackness
in your hand. Flickering in the night. So now
she'll just have two attacks. But she'll get
to make them with advantage. And she'll get a
pretty serious damage boost. That's pretty good.
Minus one to hit, though, because it's no longer
her magical weapon. But that's okay. Still a
pretty good bonus. Let's see. The first roll
for the first attack was just a 14. I hope that
hits, because the second one was lower. 14 on
the champion? 14 on the champion. Does not hit.
No, no, no, no. Okay, okay. One more attack.
The first roll was a natural two. This is really
not great. I thought Blanche was going to end
this here and now. Wait. What? Could you possibly
bother me with... What? Blanche is going to reach
to her chest and she's going to touch and activate
her clockwork amulet. What? When you make an
attack roll while wearing the amulet, you can
forego rolling the d20 to get a 10 on the die.
So that's the thing, is I already made one roll
towards this attack. I'll let you do it as your
second sort of, you know, it's your second roll.
It's the second roll on the second attack. It
would be a set 10 on the second attack, yeah,
for advantage. Yeah, yeah, I think I'm fine with
that. So plus 7. So it's a 17. So it's a 17.
We'll hit. You're about to strike and you can
see his guard is up. What does it look like when
you touch the sand? How does it change this future?
Yeah, the blade in her hand, the dark shadowy
blade, it ripples like water and just moves ever
so slightly. into better alignment with this
champion that's so cool and connects and the
spear spear is ready to like block you and all
of a sudden you're just you just flicker your
hands will lower and this thing strikes out that
is amazing so shadow blade damage is 3d8 okay
15 Now he's looking pretty bad. Okay. All right.
He's up still. Still up. Now we're like back
in the same. Yes. Certainly. Yes. Wow. And you
know what's stupid? What? Blanche could have
moved one step down to be in flanking for that
first attack. What would that have given you?
A plus two. It was 14. It would have been 16.
It would have hit. I'm going to give it to you.
I'm going to give it to you because I did a similar
thing last episode where I was, after I did it,
I moved. Because you allowed me to do that, which
is what got Jean bloodied in the first place
and caused all of this. I'm going to let you
do this now. Okay. I'm hopefully going to kill
him then. Two good rolls so far. Another 15.
Still up. Oh, no. Oh, no. Now we're back in the
same scenario. Not as injured, though, but still
up. He is. Oh, him. No, Jean is still as injured
now. He's back to nine. Jean is literally back
to the exact same spot that he was at. Oh, my
God. Really? It's the same. It is the same exact.
Jesus. It's all over again, and we have no buttons.
Jean's still going to maybe probably die. This
is. Hey, I think giddy up was worth two buttons.
Holy shit. I can't believe. We're back here again.
Some last rally, some last fight, and then it
just wasn't enough. I so thought we were going
to do damage and kill him. I thought we were
going to get him. Holy shit. I am out of third
level spell slots. Like... This is really, really
bad. Okay. Let's roll in the open. A smile shared.
This last... Hurrah together, two spear blows
into the foe. I passed on your attack, so I do
not have disadvantage on my first one. Otherwise,
I would have... Damn. Damn. Damn. Fifteen. I
guess we'll see if I crit. Nope. Six. Or higher.
Seven. I thought we were out of the woods. Fire
of courage is ember, and you watch it go out
as he loses consciousness. First attack. Golden
spear sinks down beneath the waves. The shield
lost. Jaune is open. Wait! What? Blanche drops
her sword. What? Into the ocean. What the fuck?
There. You got what you wanted. Now come for
me. What the fuck? Regain your honor and fight.
That's... Holy shit. That's a really cool move.
I just dropped a plus one longsword into the
ocean. Holy shit. Plus a silver sword and a golden
spear sinking below the waves. Jaune is sinking
with them. I didn't think of that. Oh, it's really
cool. I need someone to have check, though. Would
this be performance, perhaps? I'll allow it.
Persuasion or performance. I think performance,
because you're doing a pretty cool theatrical
bit to drop the sword. Yeah, I guess I don't
know the difference between performance and persuasion,
but I have a plus three in performance. Persuasion's
more fitting, but I think you can spin performance
for it as you're really kind of building the
gravitas, the drama of this, throwing the sword
to the side. I don't hate it. Check to determine
how well you can delight an audience with...
Music, dance, acting, storytelling, or similar
form of entertainment. I'm an audience, and I
was delighted. I know. All right, persuasion.
Persuasion. That's just a plus zero, so straight
up. I always forget our rule on this. Can I give
Stephen my button? Blanche, my button? You guys
are in the same scenario. I'll allow it, but
you say something, too. That's cool. Ooh, like
a help action? Yeah, I'm giving you a help action
button, basically, in this moment. A reaction
help action. That's how we'll take your button.
Blanche has her bardic. I'm going to use her
bardic. You do bardic? I honestly probably should
have used it on my attacks to get the extra electricity
damage. Oh, man. I don't know if that would have
put him over the edge. Oh, my God. Okay. You
know what? Yeah. Bardic. That's really good.
Well, and as she's doing that, Jules will say,
what's the point of living or dying without your
honor? Button. And Bardic. And Bardic. The golden
moat surrounding Blanche seems to coalesce. So
wait, stand by. Double check with the moat. So
for an ability check... What? For an ability
check, the inspiration die can be rolled again.
And choose which one to use. Advantage on...
Advantage and... Advantage on the bardic. Advantage
on the bardic. I mean, this is going to be a...
So how are we going to... Holy shit. This has
got to be a DC 15. DC 15. DC 15. So am I getting...
You only get the bardic for one of the rolls.
Am I rolling this die three times? You're rolling
the bardic roll. You die, you get to roll twice,
take the higher. Your roll, you get to roll twice,
take the higher. Both dice have advantage. Oh,
okay. Yes. The D20 and the DA have advantage.
Yes. Malar. Holds for a second, looks up, hears
your words. Jaune is like starting to barely
sink to the surface, but he still has a spear
propped. He can just drive it through Jaune.
But he hesitates for a moment at your words.
What will he do? His fingers quivering upon the
spear. He wants this. So do I get to choose which
roll to use the bardic die on? Yes. Or do I have
to choose it as I roll it? You roll both and
take the higher of both. Yes. But since now we
know the outcome. Okay. Yeah. I'd probably say
you'd... All right. Better than 50 -50 anyway.
Probably have to decide before you roll the d20.
Probably about a 15 % chance. All right. Here's
the first d20. 12 on the die for the first. 17
for the second. Nice. You don't even need to
use your bardic. Don't need to use a bardic.
You can save that shit. Yeah. Okay, yeah. No,
what are you thinking? No, no, no. I'm just trying
not to be too cheesy. No, this is fine. Honestly,
I would have sat higher DC, but dropping your
sword's a really, really cool move. Yeah, I just
lost my sword. I was thinking about dropping
it on the manta, and then I was just like, I
need to go all out. I need to sacrifice something
for this. The thing is, you played to my character.
That's what's important. You played it well.
Malar doesn't care about Jaune as much as he
cares about you. He knew your name, and you would
not remember his. You're the one he wants to
kill, but you were too strong. He couldn't get
to you. But now, now you look open. No more haste.
No more blade song. You dropped your sword. It's
not singing anymore. Oh. I'm taking your blade
song away. It's part of this. I'm going to tag
you twice, Blanche. As it slowly sinks. connects
with the golden spears that go down. Jaune begins
to fall under the waves. His eyes blur, taking
in the sight of the stars. Sort of blurred through
the haze of his own blood as he gets farther
and farther and farther away. He is sinking,
but there on the surface, Millar snaps out towards
you, Blanche. That was, honestly, that was a
really, really, really cool move. I fucking really
like that a lot. Take a button. Sweet. That was
really... Really cool. I'm attacking you twice.
I didn't think it was going to work. Only one
hit with an 18 on the die. Never mind. I was
going to be an asshole and cast shield, but I
don't want him to turn away now. It's awesome.
You kind of see your weakness is that you're
too strong. And people will just ignore you if
you don't let them get in there. It's only four
damage. It strikes in, rips into you. But it
draws blood and you see he gets excited. His
eyes grow. His fins spread out. The blood frenzy
taking over again now towards you. Um, holy shit.
And that's Chester. Chester is currently under
the water, moving towards it. Chester, I think,
would see a small ambient light of a golden spear
and shield as they kind of, you know, lightly
magical might glow in the darkness, and he probably
sees Jaune sort of sinking. But he also sees
the Sahuagin at the top of the water he's next
to. He has a couple options here. Question. Yeah.
My sword, Chester. Get my sword. That's what
I was thinking. I'm not fucking kidding you.
I'm not kidding you. Yeah, but what about Jean,
though? Well, he can't do anything to save Jean,
but what I was thinking is grabbing the sword
and then just kind of holding Jean. He has to
pick one or the other. Well, it's going to be
Jean. He's in the light of the blades. I'll say
he can... I'm sorry, I said that very aggressively.
No, he's close enough now. He's 15 feet away.
He can see Jean, and with 15 feet, he can move
to Jean. Yeah, he's going to go and grab Jean.
He could actually bring Jean to the surface.
Yeah. He has 15 more feet. He could bring him
to a little lower if he wanted to get away from
the guys. Yeah, somewhere else. If he's able
to get away from that skirmish right there, then
he's going to. Chester swims to the water. He
sees that vague shadow of Jean, grabs onto the
shell, and just kind of swims, pushes Mario down,
kind of pushing to the south, away from this
wagon where they're kind of now focused in on
Blanche. He takes Jean to the side and the two.
Break the surface, John, still unconscious, but
at least he is not lost into the darkness. As
his weapon, his shield, and blanched sword continue
to sink, sink into the abyss. Okay. That's another
great move. Hey, hey, hey, it's all right. Hey.
Oh, shit, shit. Can you perform CPR and give
him one HP? No. It's your turn, Jules. Wait,
could he roll to stabilize him? He would have
to double move in order to get where he was.
Okay. So no actions left. All right, so Jules
can reach Blanche's Manta Ray, right? You could
command yours to follow it, yes. Okay. I'm going
to do that. Yeah, it will follow into the steps
of Blanche's. That's what it knows to do. And
yours slides up right behind you. Okay. And then
Jules is going to hop onto the Manta Ray, Blanche's.
Okay. He's going to cast Bardic Inspiration onto
himself as a bonus action. Okay. Then he's going
to cast level two, Dizno Whispers. On the champion
or the other guy? On to the champion. Okay. Mist
covers his eyes, his ears, his mouth. Fail. Seven.
Yep. So you take 4d6. Oh, my God. This guy just,
like, that's really good. Yeah. He just strikes.
Now, now, my spear shall pierce your true blood
today. The mist sort of covers him. I think in
this mist, what he sees is you, Blanche. You
carving through Swoggin. Maybe he's seen it time
and time again. You on the field of battle. Fish
cut to bloody ribbons. Warriors he respected.
And he's just, no, not me! She won't get me!
No! 17. Jules, you stand beside Blanche and this
manta, the two of you standing tall together,
and we shift from our perspective to his perspective,
where he sees in this mist, Blanche Trudeau stands
besides Blanche Trudeau, two of them standing
together, spears out, and you're Blanche Trudeau,
the one that covers you, the nightmare, this
creature's greatest fear. slides out with a blade
and pierces deep. You see blood pours out from
between his eyes, out his ears, out his mouth.
He's screaming these gurgling screams. He sinks
beneath the surface and dies. To the remaining
Sahagin, Blanche holds her two hands out and
they start to crackle with blue energy as if
she's about to cast Witch Bolt. And she says
to him, flee now and tell this story. Oh yeah,
no, no, yep, I'm out. Yeah, no, you guys are
great. Nope, nope, nope, I'm out. See ya, buh
-bye. He's gonna fucking, he's out of here. He's
like half dead already. Everyone else is dead.
He's gone. Then Blanche, if we're out of combat
now, wants to hop onto Roanalda and walk across
Roanalda or run across Roanalda and give Jaune
her last potion of healing greater. You know,
it wouldn't, your turn wouldn't happen. So yeah,
you would still, it would still happen before
his roll. So yeah, out of combat, your turn.
Okay, great. Jump over to Roanalda. Doesn't need
to roll. Roll another slide for the two of you.
Come together to save Jaune. Chester holds him
up as you pour the potion in. I... I'm alive.
12 healing. I rolled three ones out of two on
44 here. And yet 12 will be enough because the
fight is over. And despite every odd, Jean Franklin
lives. This isn't a test. This isn't a drill.
It's not a drill. We're here. It's... We're here.
Over. I think... I think we need to move into
a montage here. There's so many events that we
should see, but perhaps... Let me ask this first.
Do you want to try to go find the weapons lost?
Jean's kind of breathing out. You... Save me
again. All of you, I... Thank you. Thank you.
I thought that was it. I saw... I saw my mother.
It smiles. Thank you. And it's done. We saved
them, right? They're gone. The turtles, I can
see them. They're kind of looking towards the
shore. They must have gone to shore. I can't
make them out, but they... We did it. We really
did it. We won. All the training. We have done
since you were a child, and I could never get
that bullheadedness out of you. And maybe a single,
like, strong, like, dude tear falls from Blanche's
eye. But I'm so glad you're alive, Jaune. And
she hugs him, pulls him in for a deep embrace.
I knew you shouldn't have come, but I couldn't
stop you. No, you couldn't have. I'm glad I came.
You're too important now. This is... We can't
do this again, this sort of thing. Right, right.
My lord. The time now must be, gosh, 3 a .m.
for the coronation. The coronation, that's tomorrow
at sunset. I have to go, I have to... I have
to go. I must make plans, repair. I... This is
my path now, right? I... I have to go. And sort
of weakly starts to get up, sort of swimming
over towards Roanald, kind of climbing up onto...
Sir, I... You should check on things. The eighth
pool. Check on the master of offense. Make sure
the Sir Hwagen threat's been quelled. I can't
let you travel alone. Not now. Very well. Then
we... We all go together. The spear. The sword.
I... They're gone, aren't they? Check your ring,
Jean. Oh, I see. I, um... Kind of... A moment.
He dives into the water. He casts the spell.
Locate object. Yeah, locate object. Yes, yeah,
yeah, right, right. We talked about this before.
Talked about it for the last episode, I think.
Yes, yeah. Okay, I mean, I can't believe that
spell. That spell. I mean, otherwise, I would
take that sword away. I know, it's like, it's
almost a shame because I love the beautiful picture
of the silver sword and the golden spear sinking
to the bottom of the ocean. But it's like, yeah,
I kind of already said we have locate object.
It would be weird to just ignore that. I mean,
let's not take away your awesome things. You've
earned those awesome things. You've earned the
right to keep them. Jaune, you just see them
swimming down. And we see the very bottom where
they've kicked up a little bit of silt. You see
maybe lying an X sort of crossed over. The golden
spear. So cool. The silver sword. Jaune grabs
them both and kicks off. Maybe leaves a shield
behind. I don't care. Maybe puts the shield on
his back or something. Fine. It's like a 50 gold
shield or whatever. As he breaks the surface.
Your blade. Master defense. Thank you, Jean.
As he mounts his manta and looks to all of you,
just smiling. Now then, let us return. I have
much to discuss with the lords, with my financial
advisor, and the other lot. But you should all
rest. It's been a long and trying night. And
we have a long ways back to go. He sets off.
You see that as you pass, you pass and check
on the turtles who are all working their way
up the Sendine River. They're all unharmed. They're
moving fine. They'll be okay. You know they'll
be okay. Okay. Go to the eighth pool and fight.
No, I'm just kidding. Just kitten turtles. What
are kitten turtles? Okay. You journey through
the night. By the time you reach, The Golden
Bay, the sun is now rising over a shining sea.
As you dismount your mantas, there's a party
of lordlings sort of immediately upon seeing
you. They all kind of rush down, eager to get
a hold of Jean. Le Doulois, sort of chief amongst
them, and as Jean kind of dismounts, like, wait
a moment, guys, I must... There's much to attend
to with all this. I have to... I have to be king.
I... I'll see you this evening, perhaps? For
the coronation? I'll come find you. It's closed
off to most folk, but of course, of course I'll
let you in. You have to be there. We wouldn't
miss it for the world, John. We'll be there.
Great. Great. Great. I, um... I guess that'll
be... that, then. Sort of sad look towards you,
Jules. Towards the... the path to luminary and
he sort of nods and oh jules is gonna nod too
it's uh kind of one of those reassuring nods
like this is okay jean turns away begins to move
sort of up the up the long sort of hillside towards
the sandcastle i think as he moves you can see
a moment where his hands very discreetly lock
with ledus who looks just Like he's been up all
night, just bags under his eyes. He's been terrified.
And they're gone. Let's... Let's cut ahead some
time. You've spent your day in some rest, hearing
reports. The Master of Offense, Kalt Shavak,
led the remaining, the extra shell guard that
came in from the Golden Bay. They decimated the
Zahwagin forces at the Eighth Pool. They'd already
been broken. Their line had been broken. They
could not sort of regain their footing, and they
were driven off. Well, one of the greatest slaughters
of the Sahuagin you've seen, Blanche. You know
from experience that they don't have a huge fighting
force. They won't attempt something like this
again, you think. Not for a long while. They'll
need time to lick their wounds after this massive
loss. Not one tortle taken to be sacrificed.
An absolute win. For the nine pools. So you can
rest easy throughout this day. The legend of
Blanche Truro lives on. I think perhaps you guys
have rooms in the sandcastle. Blanche, I know
you have your own, of course. Jules, you must
have a guest room. I would say maybe in the same
hall nearby. They'd make sure to place you close
together. Maybe, like, you're in the barracks,
Blanche. So Jules would be, like, giving his
own sort of spot in the barracks as well. Some
of the soldiers are all kind of out in the Eighth
Pool kind of helping to rebuild, helping to patrol,
keeping things there. There's still sort of a
lighter guard here. Harlan's around. Maybe you
give him a high five at some point. He did lead
some duergar here to help sort of hold the place.
And he's sort of hanging out, too, until the
coronation. We'll exchange war stories. Apparently
he's been having a lot of meetings with Ledoux
and then the gang. And that's the other thing.
There's been a lot of buzz today. You haven't
seen Jean at all throughout this day. You've
gotten some sleep, woken up, had some meals,
chatted, got filled in. Jean has been nowhere
to be found. And all you know is that he's been
locked in with Ledoux and some of the other major
lords and his other advisors for the entire day.
De Piero, nothing to do with it. De Piero has
been booted from any matters of state as far
as Jean is concerned. You know he's been shut
in his room as well. Oh, so De Piero shut up
too. Yep. And so it's around, it's almost at
sunset when perhaps all of you together in Blanche's
room discussing, you know, decompressing, discussing,
you hear a sort of quiet knock at the door. You
probably expect some guard to be leading you
towards the coronation, but as the door opens,
I imagine you allow it to open. Yeah. Yes. Yeah.
Maybe Blanche uses Mage Hand to open the door.
As you wind the door open, you see Jean himself
is standing there, smiling kind of awkwardly.
All right. It's time. Blanche stands up and walks
over to shake his hand. You've done well, my
lord. You've really grown up to be somebody that
I can be proud to know. Please, I... You deserve
this, John. Oh, well, I mean, yes, I suppose
I do, but... There it is. I still can't forgive
what Father and what I did to you. I hate that
I must ask you this, but I have one more request
of you. Master defense, if you'd hear it. I'm
working on the forgiveness part, and of course
I will hear your request. Well, during important
ceremonies for us total folk, as you know, it
is custom for one's mother to walk them down
the aisle. My mother has passed, so I had hoped.
Of course. I... Of course, Sean. Great. Good.
Then I guess let's get this over with. I still
can't believe it's really come to this. let's
go he gets to lead you down the halls wow as
you push down into like the out of the barracks
or a hallway into the sort of grand hallway that
leads up towards the throne room you see uh the
door in the throne room is closed off there's
some chatter coming from the behind the doors
as jean sort of leads up two guards are standing
at the door nod to him they'll open the door
and it's time for me to uh enter though Do the
announcing and all that inside, so... Stop slouching,
John. Oh, sorry, yes. Stand tall. Well, I have
to ask, what, um... What's next? I... You must
understand, John, I... I have to find Ozen. I
have to... I have to learn more. You believe
he still lives? If he does... He'll have... I
don't know. Something. Maybe... Maybe not answers,
but more questions, perhaps? I have to know.
Very well. And Jules, is this your quest as well?
To understand what happened to Tythos? Perhaps
these answers lie with Ozen, if he still lives.
If he knew of something, some conspiracy, that
letter spoke of it. At this point, everything's
connected. And I'm going with Blanche. But Jules
and John, I... I don't know where to look. I
don't know where to begin. I suppose when we
get back to the Citadel, we'll have to do some
research together. You're coming to the Citadel?
I'm sorry to say that I lied to you again, sir.
You too, Jules. I hope you'll forgive me. It's
just a small thing. You see, I forced a very
recent and abrupt change in plans. This is not
my coronation. And with that, the door creaks
open. Look, goosebumps. And you take in the familiar
sight of the Montelio throne room. A small crowd
of minor tortal lords surrounds a red carpet
over a sandy floor, reaching out and touching
the base of the throne. You see that nobody currently
rests in the throne, but two figures stand before
it. Poiret, the head priestess of Condorala here
in the Golden Bay. And Ledoux Lemoyne, looking
for all the world like he's going to pass out
from a combination of anxiety. Oh my god. and
John looks to you all. You see, this is my wedding.
Oh, my God! Though I can't believe I'm marrying
him. Despite this comedy, you can see this eager
smile on your pupil's face. You can see the tears
stubbornly swimming in his eyes. Thank you for
being here. All of you, it really does mean the
world. You see, the two and I, we plotted it
out last night, well, during the day. A Montelio
must rule, so... We'll make him a Montelio. To
his credit, he really doesn't want to rule, but
he's willing to take it on for me. And for you,
sir. God, he's just a perfect ass, isn't he?
Both Blanche and Steven are like stunned, speechless.
I just don't know what to say. Blanche is trying
to play it cool. Trying not to look too surprised.
I'm like trying not to cry over here. Well, this
is a doubly happy day indeed. Triple happy. Sean,
this is so wonderful. Yes, well, it's something.
You get like the horns blaring inside. Ah, that's
our cue. That better not be another war horn.
No, it sounds like it. No, the war horn's three
bows. That is the four boobs. It's different.
He gets scared at first. Three boobs for war.
Four boobs for wedding. That's our cue. George,
if you stand back to the back, we must move to
the front. Do I look good? Blanche adjusts his
whatever he's wearing. Little tortle bow tie.
Yes, he's got a bow tie on. He's just like, that
was weird he was wearing that. Oh, thank you.
Remember, chin up. You look great. Yes, posture
is everything. You must be formal. I'll follow
your lead, my lord. Your arms lock. As this moment's
happening, and they're about to walk down the
aisle, Jules will grab his lute and just kind
of, from the lute, they will shoot just glittery,
shimmery haze that just covers the entire aisle
going forward to the altar. You see LeDoux just
steps back and kind of blows away. It just kind
of covers his mouth. You see he's like about
to openly start crying because he can't see who
it is. And Jean's like, thank you, Jules. Of
course, buddy. All right. And arm in arm, you
take your first steps. Now here we'll see a montage.
We see Jean led to the front, goes up the steps
as you land. You kind of move off to the side
in a place of honor as the turtles take each
other's hands and stare into each other's eyes.
And the head priestess begins her formal speech
and cuts to Piero standing in the back corner
of the room, half hidden behind a pillar of hardened
sand, back bent and watching on with a face drained
of all emotion. We see Chester's gap tooth showing
clearly and his giant grin. See, he's very quickly
tried to comb his hair, like crazy red hair back,
and it's like only half succeed. It's kind of
starting to stick out again. He's just thrilled.
We see Jules. And how does Jules look as he's
watching this? He's doing something very, that's
very rare. He has a big, shit -eating grin on
his face. And... He even got the Midnight Prince
to smile. He even got the Midnight Prince. And
we see Blanche. How's Blanche look? If you didn't
know it, you would think that Blanche was a cement
statue. She's just standing at, I don't know,
whatever military terms are. Parade rest, I think,
is maybe a word that I've heard before or a term
that I've heard before. And she's just doing
everything she can to stand exactly the way she
thinks she should be standing at this moment.
And her eyes haven't left Jaune. And finally,
on the silver screen inside of our collective
minds, we watch as Paré closes her book and steps
back. And these two turtles finally share a long
and lovely kiss. There's a moment of silence
as they break away from each other as Jean smiles
towards his husband and slowly turns away and
towards the assembled crowd. He just steps out
towards you all. I know all of you may be surprised
by the sudden change in my intentions. I will
do my best to explain. You see, I have recently
stared into the face of death. And in this moment,
I have seen my own foolishness. For so long,
I have agonized over my choices, over how I can
best do the right and honorable thing. My questions
became a prison to me, but in what I thought
was my last moments, I decide to break free of
this agony, to finally heed the words of Jules,
of the master defense, Blanche, and even my own
husband, this standable ado. It's just, what
the shrugs. From now on, I will simply do as
I wish. Follow my own will. If I am a good person,
and I have decided that I am, then my own will
is the right path. It must be. I will trust my
instincts, and my instincts tell me that the
path of honor does not end upon this throne,
but rather follows at the heels of one who has
been severely wronged by the family she served.
From this day forward, my quest is Blanche Trudeau's
quest. My spear is hers to command. So I will
not be ruler of the Golden Bay, nor will I be
known as Zinda's Seventh King of Coin. No, no,
no, no. There is only one title that interests
me. I am Jean Franklin Montelio, luminary of
the Radiant Citadel, and the one who shall be
called the Fisher King. Oh, that's cool. There's
a slight sort of applause as Jean kind of takes
it all in. Also just stunned looks all around,
like people are kind of wondering what's going
on in this proclamation. Just applause mixed
with... Jean sort of waves Ledoux forward. Now,
it's your turn. Yes, I suppose I should hereby
make my first proclamation as ruler. Um, shivers
a little bit. Jean -Tropez gives another rub.
Yeah, sorry, thanks. You see, I fear that us
torturers have been having it both ways for too
long. We stick rigidly to our own laws and codes,
yet wish to introduce ourselves into the politics
of Zinda and Noari at large. Now, I have been
speaking with the remaining kings of coin during
this last ten day, and I have formulated a strategy
to build firmer bridges between ourselves and
our Zindanese allies. My first step in this plan
is, well... is that I intend to invite the Silent
Verse permanently into the Golden Bay, in the
Nine Pools region, and extend their jurisdiction.
We will, in turn, spread the Shellguard to the
harbors of Zinda, where they will work with the
Silent Verse to combat piracy in the region.
We will work together here. Of course, Captain
Harlan Burnshadow of the Silent Verse will take
command of the Shellguard, so he may more naturally
intertwine them within the ranks of his own clan.
And I fear, in this case, I must... Well, I must
officially retire Master Defense Blanche Trudeau
with full honors. The nine pools in the Golden
Bay are forever indebted to her. I'm not of any
part with the port in her future endeavors, but
I'm sorry to say, Blanche Trudeau, you're off
the leash. Off the hook. I should have said hook.
Damn, it's a fishing thing. No, it's fine. It's
fine. I don't know how to feel. I don't know
how to feel. Blanche's head is swimming. It's
very obvious this is... a move made because they
don't want you to feel guilty about leaving and
they want you to go. You can see that in both
their eyes. It's like they've made a, they made
a plan that fully allows the master defense to
step away and builds bridges with his window
while they're at it. The more you think about
it, the more it's, it's a good plan. Yeah. Blanche's
head is swimming. Cause Steven's head is swimming.
I don't know how to think about this. I don't
know how to feel about this. Oh wow. What does
it mean? John, what does it mean? See, Jean and
Ledoux sort of wave everyone away. The sort of
speech part over, everyone kind of breaks away.
There's refreshments out in the dining hall,
please. We'll gather there for the first dance
and all the blah, blah, blah. Go, go, go, go.
Blanche, Jules, Chester, you stay here. Please.
Everyone sort of funnels out, leaving just you,
Ledoux, and Jean, who moves up to you. I think
Blanche finds a seat, and she takes a sit. And
she's kind of like staring into the distance.
She's thinking about all the work she put in
to get here, to earn this. And she wants to go
to find Ozen, but she always thought she'd have
something to come back to. And what does it mean?
And is it honorable? It's full honors. I mean,
this means you would have a title here. This
retirement is... It's not, you're not being pushed
away. You're being retired into a glorious position.
You could take up any position you want here
if you desire it, but you're no longer bound
by honor to stay. It's purely just them letting
you go. I think you look up and you think about
this, all the work you put in, all these years.
But as you think about the work you put in, you
think about the training, the work you put into
Jean, to this person. And you know, no matter
what happens, There will always be a place for
you, a role for you in the Golden Bay. She puts
a hand up to her forehead. I'm sorry, Jean. It's
just so much right now. I can't make heads or
tails of all of this. Everything's happening
so fast. I just need a moment, please. Maybe
a drink. Is there... She looks to the back of
the room. I don't know if there's like someone
like with the, you know, at a wedding. I do.
Would you mind? Of course. I'll be back with
something. Not jelly wine, but something different.
Just runs off. Something bubbly. Bubbly. Yes,
bubbly. I will get something bubbly. It's gone.
It's just John and you. I know. I know. It's
a lot. It's a lot. I'm sorry to blindside you.
That'd be kind of fun to surprise you with it
all, but. It certainly is. A surprise. I don't
know if I should thank you or punch you or maybe
both or... Wow. I can't believe... I can't believe
how everything has changed so fast. Yes, and
these changes, I'll have to see them through,
make sure it all works out. The doer's coronation
coming up, I'll have to kind of show him how
to... Get a little backbone and state. He's a
little low easily, that one. But I suppose I
could teach him, beat it to him like you did
with me, sir. I will need some time here. A couple
weeks, maybe. But I will be coming back to you.
I'll be following at your heels. I will help
you find your master. Jules, I will be your luminary
partner again. I just need a little time. You
do what you gotta do, man. I'll be here. I don't
know what we'll find when we... When we return
to the Citadel, I... Jean, if I know where to
go, I can't promise that I'll wait. That's fine.
Because I will find you. I will always find you.
Just like you found me. In Saint -Etienne. In
the waters of the... the sea. I want to be there
for you, for all of you, like you've always been
there for me, and I will. It feels like years
ago, that happened. Ah, as I do. He swings back
in with a bubbly glass and then, uh, Jean, um,
they're looking for us for the dance. Oh, blast.
His eyes. Take your time, take your time. Um,
he looks to you, Blanche, to give you the drink.
You start drinking it down. He looks to you,
Jules, to Chester. I just, um, come here. Wraps
his arms around all of you, pulls you with this
big, total hug. A Jean -initiated hug, wow. A
Jean -initiated, I'm gonna find you, okay? Jules
says, no, no, no, no, no, get away from me. As
he pulls back, he just sort of smiles again.
I'm married. Let's go. Let's celebrate. Let's
celebrate. As Blanche finishes the bubbly, I
think that may have settled my legs enough for
a dance. Jules? And she holds her hand out. Oh,
shit. Oh, shit, yeah. Come on, let's all go.
Let's groove. Jules looks over to Blanche. Yes,
sir. And with that, we see our motley crew of
five, Ledoux and Jean holding hands, being the
way. Blanche and Jules coming behind, and Chester
sort of dancing it out, cheering, following it
up, laughing. Leave the room. And head away to
celebrate together. And we'll call it there.