Cheers, everybody. I want to talk to you real,
real, real, real, real, real fast about Reckless
Brewing Company, our sponsor. Our first real
main sponsor, who lets us do cool things, like
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New Hampshire, show up and hang out with us,
play some games. I'm running a West Marches -style
Frostmaiden campaign, so get in there, make a
character, have fun with us, and try the amazing
food that I get to have a huge part in making,
and I'm honored to do so because it is a fantastic
menu, and the beer, which I'm told is probably
okay, but Steven and Jeremy all know that's their
thing. That's really good. It's great beer. Try
the sour. Party in your mouth? It is a party
in your mouth for sure. Anyway, show up at Reckless
and have a good time. Tufts, I want to make a
brief recommendation for y 'all. Now in this
time of crystal network splendors, it can be
hard to pull your eyes from the projectors. And
remember to pick up a good book. Now reading
is a great thing. There's only so many stories
I can tell and those who don't dare, dare up
into the written world will be missing out on
so, so many more. So do yourselves a favor and
swing by the book den near the tail end of the
tree, Disco. I visited the proprietor, Penny,
many a time, and she's always happy to make a
text recommendation that fits my wants and reads.
Whether you're looking for a leisure, learning,
or a little wizardry, there's a little reason
for you to get yourself into the book den. And
don't be fooled by its humble size. Even this
shop has got it all. The selection of books inside
those walls is just outrageous. I mean, suspiciously
so, in fact. Like, seriously, what's going on
in there? Penny got that advertising money. Got
that advertising money. She made a friend in
high places. I know. Oh, man. Gentlemen. What
the fuck? We're back. It's been, what, three
weeks? For us, it's been three weeks, yeah. It's
going to be a weird energy episode, everybody,
because we're here three weeks. We have not recorded.
We all forgot how to do this. This happens all
the time. I don't know what the hell I'm doing.
I'm also halfway through a double at work, and
I've got a time limit here to get back for an
18 -top to go before they get into the kitchen.
So it's a wild ride today, gentlemen. Dude, last
Sunday, I opened up... was episode 98 oh yeah
to get it finalized ready for release on Monday
and I had not opened up a single file in about
two and a half weeks dude it's crazy it was the
trippiest thing it took me so long It took me
so long to finish it. And now we're behind. Or
not behind, but we're like. We're current with
the pants people. We're current. We're current
with the pants people. But you know what? We're
under the gun. I miss this. I miss this. I'm
so excited to get back to it. Like this is, this
is so awesome. This is so awesome. But we got
to talk because those three weeks, those two
weeks at least, some stuff went down for one
of us. So why don't you tell me about your two
week vacation there, Jeremy Wolf. Oh, I didn't
see Steven for an entire two weeks. Oh, it was
awesome. It was great. Oh, poor Germany, though.
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Germany had to endure this dumb
American for a little while. Do you remember
the Prague killings? No. Strangled by a ponytail,
they say. Wow. Keeps happening. So, you know,
pretty big city. Probably happens. I don't know
about frequently. Steven. How was your trip?
It was really, really good. There was a lot of
beer and a lot of castles. Oh, I love that second
thing. Yeah, all sorts of stuff in between. We
hit Munich Oktoberfest, which was a bucket list
item. Jeez, gosh, I don't even know where to
begin. Maybe I'll begin with my second favorite
stop, which was the... Weltenberger Abbey. Ooh,
baby. Man, I'm like, we went so many places that
I forget where everything was. So it was in Germany.
You were in three different countries, right?
Yeah, we landed in Prague, spent a couple days
there. Then we traveled to Germany. Me and David's
buddy, who we went to kindergarten with, is stationed
there. So that was kind of our home base. And
we, you know, did day trips from there. We did
a night in Salzburg, Austria, and then we hit
Prague again on our way out to fly out. Just
remind me again, because I am an idiot with geography.
Which country is Prague in? In the Czech Republic.
That's it. Okay, cool, cool, cool. Nice. Yeah.
So, and I started talking about Weltenberger
because I brought one of my favorite beers from
there to share. I mean, you're welcome to try
some, David, but I know. You won't like it. Yeah,
no, no. So I brought this to share with my buddy
Jeremy. Oh, yeah. You got the Hooli Forge. The
Hooli Forge bottle opener. What an honor. Yeah.
Oh, that sounds good. That sounds good. So this
is the oldest monastic brewery in the world.
In 2050, they'll be turning 1 ,000 years old.
Fucking wild. Yeah. Holy crap. Ooh, that sounds
delicious. David, you got to wait to cheers until
we all have liquid. I have my halfway through
a double rock star, so I'll cheers with you guys
with that. So one thing that I learned in Germany,
you know, when you cheers in German, it's Prost.
And if you do that and then you break eye contact
before you sip, you have like supposed to be
like five or seven years of bad sex. Okay, so
I had it. Okay, how do we do that with three
people? Yeah, you kind of do like a little looky
back and forth. Locking eyes, not the sex part.
All right. There it is. Let's all do this together.
Are we saying prost? Prost. Prost, okay. Prost.
Prost, gentlemen. You got to keep eye contact
with somebody. I know it's not hard with you,
David. Eyebrows, eyebrows, eyebrows. Ooh. Mm
-hmm. Ooh. Yeah, this is their Bach. I tried
a couple other beers there, of course. And I
had to bring some of this back. It was really,
it was just, oh my goodness, so delicious. The
brewery, the monastery is right on like this
big bend in the Danube River. It's like picturesque.
And we had a beautiful lunch there. I got a smoked
salmon and I was expecting like a salmon filet.
No, head to tail, full ass smoked salmon. So
I'm sitting there with, you know, a half a liter
of this Bach. And the smoked salmon in front
of me. And I didn't want to leave. So would you
say that their bach is worse than their bites?
Shit. God. And we're back, folks. Fucking ruined
it. Ruined it. No, the bach is great. And the
bites were almost as great. Okay. Okay. Do you
have a second favorite place? Well, yeah. First
was, I mean, it was. Munich Oktoberfest. Oh,
right, right. Of course. Yeah. Bucket list item.
Hell yeah. Bucket list item. Five liters of beer
for me was truly incredible. And we didn't even
get around the fest too, too much. We saw maybe
a quarter of the whole grounds. Wow. And we had
thought about doing another day originally when
we, you know, when we arrived and we're like,
oh, yeah, we'll do, you know, today and then
we'll come back for a little bit tomorrow. But
I got my fill. Man, we went opening day and it
was like, it was butt to butt. There was not
an inch to move and you're trying to like move
through this crowd. It took us like an hour to
find a table. But it was... If I know you at
all, that sounds like your personal hell. Well,
see, normally, yeah. I normally don't like something
that's like super crowded like that. But where
I knew, well, where I thought I was only going
to go the one day, I really wanted it to be the...
biggest craziest most eventful day because then
i saw like pictures and videos from later throughout
the week and there were like empty tables and
i'm like god no i don't want empty tables at
oktoberfest i want just like butt to butt shoulder
to shoulder there was no room to move um and
it was fantastic oh yeah so you really just had
to gird your loins and face the munich wow yeah
You just – I don't even think you're listening.
I think you're just coming up with shitty puns.
I heard Munich and I was like, he can fill me
in later. I'm going to start searching the mental
web as it were. But I'm very glad to be back.
Today is Thursday. We got back on Monday. So
reentry is going pretty well. Happy to be back
at work. I guess as happy as a working person
can be. And very, very happy to be back with
my friends playing this fucking game that we
all love. Hell yeah. Hell yes. Oh, before we
continue, I have new dice I need to bless. Oh,
shit. Real quick. Okay. So two weeks ago was
my birthday, and our dear friend Meglin got me
a brand new Malachite dice set. Malachite. They
look like green tigers. They do. They do. It's
like really cool green with... Bunch of black
stripes. I love them. Oh, man. And I'm going
to bless them real quick because these will be
my primaries going forward. Yes. Bless them in
the guns of heaven. Oh, that's like a double
bless. That's like a double bless right there,
man. And we bless. Okay. Nice. Be blessed, Jeremy.
Be blessed. Proceed with the shit show. Well,
I'm thinking if you have this beautiful new dice,
then... Maybe you don't need payout. You want
to skip that part? Skip payout? Yeah, that's
fair. Who needs rewards? You want to just skip
this session? Heroic deeds. I'm not doing this
for money. Yeah, exactly. A real hero doesn't
do it for money. Steven. But I guess we'll do
payout. I just clicked the thing and they all
went away. There he is. Let's do payout. Let's
do payout. Before we get into this, let's give
you guys your well -do money. Real quick here.
Your base pay for the Zinda Arc. is 300 gold
each. Ooh. Yeah. That's your base. For the footage
you had of the Diva Luma interrogation, it's
a bonus 200 gold each. Ooh, yeah. Yeah, that
was big. Nice. And that footage was revealed
that you're the ones that solved the mystery.
They also would have caught parts of the combat,
at least the parts that were in the room. You
guys kind of flashing out there, but they know
from there the combat... So, yeah, that's some
good notoriety. And your sponsors were very happy.
In your case, Blanche, you don't have a sponsor.
So it's, again, just the Golden Bay. This is
Blanche of the Golden Bay. Let's get some Golden
Bay fish up in here, you know. Still works. Now
your money is going right to Jean and Ledoux's
pockets. Oh, my goodness. That's so trippy. speaking
of the golden bay base pay for the golden bay
arc not from actually any sponsors because this
wasn't really uh very large in the footage there's
no like there's not a lot of people that want
to hear what's going on the golden bay right
no one cares what's happening in the golden bay
uh they like you they like john but turtles as
a whole aren't super popular still they're not
like it's not that exciting to know what they're
what's happening in their sort of personal lives
uh But from Ledoux, as you kind of leave, as
you're about to head off on this journey from
the coffers of the Golden Bay, they give you,
again, 200 gold each. So a grand total of 700
gold for each of you. Nice. Hey, where's Blanche
at? Well, I started with 391. Okay. We doing
okay? Because I haven't spent too much. I'd be
at 1 ,500. Noice. Not bad. Nice. Not bad. Not
bad at all. Time to start shopping. I know, I'm
going to splurge on something stupid. Surprise!
This is a shopping episode. It's... No. It is
going to be a weird episode. Not shopping for
goods, but shopping for information. For you
have just entered the book den. This is going
to be a strange one. Tonight, despite the sort
of goofy atmosphere we're starting things off
with, I think we're going to see the revelation
of many huge sort of story and world -spanning
mysteries here. I think we're going to learn
a lot of things because Fyro and Arhalon are
onto something and they want to see if you kind
of catch up. The information you're gathering
here can help them in the last sort of bits of
their research here. So what do they know already?
And what are they going to learn? In order to
figure that out, you have to get a few books
for them. a button for anyone who remembers a
single book that you have to get from this. Nope.
Okay. Come on. I'm gonna know when you say it.
Single book. I can't. Come on. I just can't.
Alright. You have a list. You can just hand it
over. I'm not going to make you be like, okay,
now memory. What's the book called? You say the
wrong title and give you the wrong book and we
have to do this again. We're not doing that.
The books you need are Phi May Moon's autobiography,
Climbing the Mountain. That's the one. Phi May
Moon. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Of course. That's what
I meant to say. I'll tell you what. Where have
you heard the name Phi May Moon before? I'll
give you a button for that. Oh, I know that one.
Phi May Moon. Yeah, she's the teapot. Isn't she?
No. No, it's her at the booth. No. What booth?
Wait, which? Sub -Sunko. That is from Sub -Sunko.
Yeah. Ooh. Who was that in Sub -Sunko's lore?
Wasn't she the one... Wasn't Fire Moon the one
that planted all the... That's close enough.
Planted all the... That's close enough. The Lopop
flowers. That's close enough. I'll give you a
two. Fire Moon is actually male, though. Fine
May Moon is a figure in struggle lore who was
known as a Mazir Drakon. Because Fine May Moon,
during a time of strife, where enemies were basically
moving into the Valley of Zantini, before it
was a valley, Fine May Moon climbed to the top
of this mountain that's in the midst of Zantini,
called upon the spirits of the land in this act
of incredible, sort of miraculous power. drew
forth the great wall of mountains that closed
the valley off from the outside world, protecting
them from invaders and making it the safe place
it is now. And when this happened, actually,
it was noted in a book that I read, the Laopop
flowers that glow amongst the mountains appeared
then as part of this miracle. Take a button.
Okay. Yay. Sir. This is a button episode because
this is going to be a lot of me asking you questions
of things that have already happened and put
pieces together. And if you get anything right,
I'm giving you buttons. I'm going crazy tonight
because next episode is episode 100. You better
get those buttons, gentlemen, because I'm going
to light episode 100 on fire. Got me? Got me?
Get your buttons. I am excited for episode 100.
I'm sad to say that I probably won't go into
it with many buttons, but we'll see what happens.
I was going to say, if this button episode is
based on memory. The next book is not a book,
but rather a scroll called Song of Our Deliverance.
It is a God's Breath sort of based scroll. Some
very old from their cultures, like very rare.
There's a book called Tears of the Dragon. Which
is a book, an amazing book about the creation
of the Shrine of Storms. And a book called Dragon
Bones, which is the tales of origins of dialogue
on great serpent bridges. Yeah, Tears of the
Dragon was the one that I was thinking of, but
couldn't exactly get the words out. Yeah. And
lastly, there is the Xena personally asked for
the sequel to the romantic novel Moondust called
The Moon in My Hands. That makes me happy. There's
a nice hot goat waiting for you. Way too hot,
actually. Ooh, yum. Yummy. Wait. Temperature
hot, or is this like a sexy goat? Both. Sweet.
So you walk in, you got your list, you walk into
this place, and you immediately see this very
small room, bookshelves sort of lining around
it. There's stairs moving up, they're sort of
blocked off. There's a desk, and behind it, sort
of a door leading into some back room you can't
really see, but you can assume it's pretty small.
The shop itself is a pretty small little bookshop,
kind of nestled between larger structures on
the sort of end of the trade discal here. And
behind the desk, you see an elven woman. A small
frame with kind, curious eyes, wearing big hoop
earrings, a formal blouse, and a knee -length
sort of swishing skirt. She introduces herself
to the book den, and as she kind of takes in,
sort of curiously looks over you, doesn't recognize
you, and perhaps she knows her usual clientele,
she continues. This is the Book Den, your one
-stop shop for all things literary. We have writing
utensils, paper, and books. Oh, so many beautiful
books. And a handful of scrolls, I think. I love,
I love that I don't have to roleplay at all.
That's really good voice work, David. Thank you.
Meg, thank you so much again. You see, she kind
of like steps around the counter and be like,
she almost has this way of like, like, like her
nose. sniffs at the air, and she gets kind of
excited. A lot of electric sort of energy. She
kind of moves around the counter, kind of stepping
sort of gracefully towards you, and she sort
of continues her introduction. Most people just
call me Penny. I run this place, as I just love
books. Can't get enough of them. I know quite
a bit about books, so if you have any questions,
please let me know. Thank you, Penny. Well, Matt,
we have a list, actually, of books we are seeking.
And Blanche hands her the list. She snaps it
over, takes the list in, kind of reading it over.
Eyes flickering. And keep in mind, too, you have
books to trade in as well. I won't make you go
over that list, but there are a number of books
that Xena had that you can trade in to borrow
for this. So it's not going to cost you anything
to get these books out. That's kind of the whole
plan. She's just reading over this list, and
immediately her eyes kind of, she kind of cocks
her head a little bit. And she smiles, this kind
of warm smile, as if she recognizes the handwriting.
And her eyes look back to you, both of you, and
she says, Are you friends with Fibro? He's been
one of my best customers. How many of these do
you have? This is so fucking cool. I have so
many of these. Dude, Meg, load me up. It's going
to be. I'm not even going to use half of them,
but it's amazing. Yes, we know Fibro quite well.
Don't we, Jules? Fibro is such a dear. I've never
met a more avid reader. Besides myself, of course.
He's very excited. Yeah, you're not telling me
anything I didn't know already. I'd be shocked
if he wasn't in here all the time. And that actually
just kind of, again, cocks her head and says,
Where is Fibro anyway? I haven't seen him in
a while. Did they come with us? No. Fibro sent
us on this particular chore. He has a... that,
well, he wants to see if we can figure out the
same thing that he figured out. Oh, nice. I love
this so much. This is awesome. So, do you think
you can help us with these books? We have some
to trade in. Yes. Yes. This is the best. This
is the absolute best. Great sounds, poor execution,
David. Wait, wait. Hang on. Let me... You said
that. You have a book to show me? Very excited.
Eyes wide. Yes, yes. Let me pull them out. And
Blanche grabs the... You know, I was just...
Oh, a book. She sees the book come out. Do we
have anything of value here in these books? May
I see what you have? Do you hand them over? I
feel like I already handed them over. You only
wanted to use that line. I feel like there's
a DM somewhere screwing up this whole dialogue.
I'm just playing. This is awesome. I'm having
the best time right now. This is going to be
a goddamn mess to edit. Oh, my fucking God. Oh,
man. What do I say here? Hang on. What was the
last question? Yeah, Blanche is curious if any
of the books are valuable. And have you already
handed the list over? Yes. Okay. So she has the
list and the books we got from Xena. That's wonderful.
She sees one title. Yes, that top book is called
Wonderful. She kind of snatches them up from
you and sort of... looking over them very excitedly,
nodding, nodding, looks at your list and then
just says, I might have something in the back.
Give me a moment. And she nods and sort of slips
out of the room. You hear like, I think the door,
she kind of closed the back door and like you
hear kind of a, she opens the back door of the
office one thing behind the desk and you kind
of look and you see a very sparse looking kind
of, kind of. office right you see a door leading
out the back room and nothing in the shit at
least on this wall you can see kind of goes into
under the stairs and uh as the door closes you
kind of hear like maybe a little bit of sort
of noise like like something moving around in
there you're like what the and maybe like from
far off you hear like some some like a voice
or echoing out just like dewey get off the ladder
there's a whole other person in there yeah it
was tiny uh And you hear nothing for some time.
So she's going around. She's getting those books
for you. You're going to be able to moment up
here in this room. Blanche, you're probably scanning
these shelves. You can really see there are,
of course, supplies for wizards. You'll find
sort of arcane inks and quills and scrolls. You
could use to write down things. Pre -done scrolls.
So you can go and buy yourself maybe a couple
spells if you want to. You got that new payout.
So maybe Blanche is doing a little window shopping.
He's kind of looking around and yum, yum, yum.
Is that a fireball scroll I see? Kind of like
that. Right, exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You suddenly
realize, weirdly, that you're not alone in this
shop. Sort of coming out from behind one of the
bookshelves, you're surprised this form you didn't
notice earlier. Maybe they're crouching very
low because they are very, very, very tall. This
incredibly tall man looking down at you with
these beautiful, radiant blue eyes and sort of
bearing just this grotesque, horrid, putrid sham
of a ponytail. Oh, I was about to say, David,
is that you? It one -third of the way is. If
you guys remember, there's a character in the
book den called Stephen J. Davids. So I need
you, hang on, I need you to help voice this Eldritch
Horror with me. Holy shit. I'm going to start
off a sentence. You guys are going to jump in.
Okay? Ready? You got this? No. We're all doing
this together. No. It's going to be bad. Let's
try it. Hello. My name is Stephen J. Davis. Oh,
this is awesome. This is the most awkward moment
of my life. I love this so much. I need more
beer. Yeah. He just stares through you with these
wide... wonderfully blue eyes you're lost and
they're hypnotic they're you feel warm you feel
at home like you're enveloped in a beautiful
hug oh so steven j david's got your eyes yeah
thank you by the way also also has blue eyes
by the way huh huh he said i also have blue eyes
by the way yeah but they look like gray next
to me uh and so we can avoid having to do that
all the time uh Stephen J. Davids waves a hand
and just says, Goodbye. And leaves. And he bites
his own tongue off and leaves. Stephen, why didn't
we just take part in that? We could have said
no. We could have said no. You're not getting
a button for that. In the books, even David is
actually an author that there's basically a side
quest where they can join you. They were looking
for some, some inspiration. They can join you
on some quests and sort of hang out. And if you
see something really impressive from you, then
you should just fill their sort of objective
as they can go and write about your exploits.
I wouldn't do that, but I don't want to make
us do this all the time. Because I really want
to have the amalgamated voice for this monstrosity
of a human. You can't do any more of that. Okay.
All right. He leaves. He bangs his head on the
door because he's as tall as Jeremy. This is
true. It's true. Okay. You see that soon after
this very strange encounter, you hear more. sliding
in that back small room uh after sort of settle
seems to settle the door opens and uh penny comes
out with just an arm full of books one on top
actually is not a book it is again a scroll looks
very old and weathered and like the way she's
handling these you can see it's like these are
precious precious books i think she almost looks
nervous like doesn't want her to hand them over
to you but you know she's thinking maybe she's
like looking over at that at that paper the list
is on top it's just looking at the handwriting
and kind of nodding like well if it's fibro um
but she moves over and she will say something
pertaining to how i'm going to give you these
books something that sounds kind of like no no
we got this Here's what I found. Hey, that's
the perfect line. Nice. In fact, it's just even
more exciting. It's just like this. Oh, let me
tell you what I know. Yeah. I know. It doesn't
work as well. Tell me what you know. What did
you find? Let me tell you what I know. Uh -huh.
Yes, I'm waiting. And then she heads to the books
and says, Here's what I found. Okay. Thank you.
How did you find these all so quick? Your office
looks... Quite sparse back there. I don't appreciate
your tone. Well, I didn't mean to offend. I'm
just impressed at your organizational abilities,
I suppose. How nice. Penny, you said, right?
How long has your shop been here, Penny? I surprisingly
don't know much about that. You don't know how
long your shop has been here? How long have you
been the proprietor of it? No. Jules walks up
to Penny and pokes her forehead. Are you real?
Sorry. No. She says that and her eyes close and
open and you see reptilian eyes oh god she's
a lizard man oh geez for a brief moment like
like a glamour is starting to go away and she
smiles this sort of like you know kind of almost
challenge of a smile uh but she's into the books
slides them right across to you um oh okay well
um are we supposing this is a even exchange of
books yeah i do like that Okay, that, um... Well,
I mean, that's agreeable to us, isn't it, Jules?
Yeah, sure. Now, if we have any issues with these
books, what is your return policy like? Have
a great day. Wow. Wow. She's already walking
away. She's got one of your books, one of your
new books in hand. Very excited. It's the one
about brewing tea. It's a huge, dense book, and
she looks way too excited about this book that's
like a solid foot wide. It's huge. She sort of
drops on the desk with a whomp and folds it open.
Hey, it's fall. I get it. I can actually feel
it in my throat right now. I could use some tea.
She kind of looks up at you again as if she's
surprised you're still here and says, Thanks
for stopping by. Yes, thank you for... Your hospitality.
Yeah, it's been a pleasure. Stop by anytime.
And, like, she's, like, not looking. At this
point, her nose is straight down the book, and
she says that and kind of waves. And she was,
like, she was, like, the moment there where she
kind of seemed, like, almost like she got a little,
you know, on edge. But then she jumped right
back to full friendly. It seemed like this went
well. You're walking out like you don't really
know, but she seems very pleased to have these
new books in hand. Over her shoulder, Blanche
says, okay, we might. oh my gosh and with that
uh you guys stroll out of the book den i want
to once again thank you meg that was such an
absolute blast that was so much fun that was
cool uh oh my gosh that was so much fun we just
got to get david a soundboard so we can do that
again i know right right right oh my gosh so
uh Yeah, the Book Den, guys. Check it out. It's
a zine. It's got all sorts of tables filled with
different books. I've used a lot of them here
in the podcast, which has been really, really
cool to just book this out and have these because
it just helps to flavor your world in a huge
way. And we're scratching the surface here. There's
a lot of secrets to be found. What's going on
with Penny? What's behind that door? Where'd
you get all these books? Where are they storing
them? Who's Dewey? Who is Dewey? Find out by
grabbing your copy of the Book Den today. Hashtag
who is doing. Hashtag who is doing. Yeah, that's
from our friend Meg at Hungry Familiar. Yes.
She's all over social media. You can find her
on our page if you follow us. If you're really
lucky, she'll teach you how to play Pathfinder.
Yeah, exactly. See you like every fourth Monday
night. Yeah, when our schedules miraculously
align. Oh, beautiful. Okay. And with that...
You leave the book den behind. Blanche is coming
back later for scrolls. Penny, what time do you
close? The door opens to close. David closed
his audio file holder. The shop's closed now.
Must be time for a siesta. Must be. Some, like,
singing bullshit. I don't think we need to focus
on the immediate scenes that follow this, right?
You return to Xena's. You enjoy a slow, slow,
slow roasted goat. Man, that was a sexy goat.
Oh, man. It is, like, crisp, black, burnt. When
you get it, Xena's been kind of just roasting
it for the last hour while you've been away.
Go chips. And you all kind of split that. Everyone
in it, well, she watches. Perhaps, like, she
just wants to sort of hang out. And it's like,
oh, Xena, we have things we have to... So anyway,
we can, oh, Zena, actually, we've got this book
for you. And hands over the moon in my hands.
And Zena just kind of, oh, my goodness. I've
been reading so long. Oh, thank you. Thank you.
She snatches it up and kind of scurries off to
read. She flies, flies down. You hear like a
comet like smash somewhere on the other side
of the place. She probably landed in one of those
broken sofas we've talked about. Blanche, as
politely as she can. Picks up her napkin and
deposits whatever is left in her mouth into the
napkin. Jules is loving it. It's food. Our home
was doing one of those, like holding it up and
turning its head sideways. And just dropping
it behind his shoulder. Very delicious, mother.
Thank you, mother. We look at takeout later.
She is a very sweet lady. Very sweet. She is
what she is. Good woman, but... She should be
locked out of a kitchen, though. Yes, yes. It's
strange. I remember growing up. She was different.
She didn't collect like this. Back when me and
Zeb were young, she was... Well, people change
over time. He kind of looks down towards those
books, and Fibro's just, like, hungry for them.
His, like, hands are sort of shaking. No, I was
just going to ask, did something change her?
You asked Carhalon? Something... Blinks. No.
No, nothing. No. Can I roll something on that?
Yeah, roll something on that. What do you want?
Give me... Ooh. Insight. Okay. 18. He's not lying.
But he did think of something, and then he forgot.
In that instant, he forgot. We talked about this
before. There's strange things happening. And
actually, I thought I should talk about it with
you guys, too, because I didn't really bring
this up. I think it is important. You all looked
at those files. You all saw that line about Itzmin
noting down on sort of paper Zebulon. He was
sired by Calapsania's mate. But he couldn't remember
anything about Zebulon's father. And it's like
he wrote this down in a blur really fast before
something happened. Once those files were down,
like Arhulan had a full panic attack. Something
happened to him there. And once those files were
put away, you also don't remember the panic attack.
You don't remember what caused it. You don't
remember that line. You don't remember anything
about that. Like it just slips away. That's okay.
Sometimes... Things that happen in our childhood,
it's tough to remember them. Yes. Yes, yes, of
course. Yes. But it's a matter for a different
time now. Now, the books, please, please, can
we get to the books? I'm sorry, this is all fascinating
stuff, but that is more fascinating stuff. Okay,
Fibro, why don't you walk us through exactly
what we're looking at here. All right. We've
been doing a lot of research, right? We're focusing
on... Books, basically, sources that lead us
to speak of two different things, two major factors
that our research is taking us to right now.
And I will get to why we're looking into these
things, but first, I need you to help us look
into these, okay? Now, what we're looking into
are legends and lore, as old as we can get, about
the deities of our various worlds. And any mentions,
any looks to you, Jules, of strange, giant fossils
in connection with... and supernatural events.
Now, these books here should have a lot for us.
Me and Arlon, we're going to dive in. We're going
to start reading. We're going to put our notes
down. If anyone wants to join us, it's a battle
of its own, right? I do have advantage on investigation
with my spectacles, so perhaps I can help. You
do indeed. Strange giant fossils. Yes. Wasn't
there something that was... You've had multiple
instances of these. This is Jeremy talking. Yes.
No, this is good. Talk. This is where we're going
to get into the media things. Wasn't the entire
Citadel on a giant fossil or made up of a giant
fossil? It is indeed. There is one strange giant
fossil. Huh. Let's keep going. Can you think
of another one from our story? They all over
the place. That's the only one I can think of.
It was a fossil in the mine of San Satyan. Let
me say it. Sorry, yes, there's one more. And
there's one more wherever Jules was being held
when he was being tortured or whatever. The Tower
of Authority, Pillar of Authority, was built
with these... giant fossils into it. When you
were given your powers, your childhood powers,
when that demonic influence was placed in you,
your hand was driven over the point of a fossilized
claw in the uppermost reaches of the tower. There
was a piece of this fossil that during an incident
with Dresden got embedded into him and it gave
him this strange power. He made a wish in that
moment to protect Jules, to turn people away.
And in that moment, suddenly this power developed
in him that could give him a distraction. That
could create this echo. As if some great power
responded to his wish. I've just got one question
after that. Yeah. This is for both me and Steven,
actually. Yeah. Button? Dang it. At this point,
one button you guys can choose who gets it between
the two of you. Oh my god. Yeah. Quick roll off?
Sure. Fuck it. I'll roll a die. Tree. Mine didn't
go through. That counts as zero. Natural one.
Oh, my goodness. How did I win with a three?
How did you win with three? Take that button.
Because... I'm almost at the max. I'm going to
cap out. So, yes. The Citadel itself. I was wondering
if you would grab that onto there. Oh, fuck yeah.
That's the only one that I could remember. We'll
circle back to that. Man, I deserve that button
because I remembered all three. You did. You
did. Hey, good. Stuff. You guys want to start
reading? Yeah, I mean, I'd love for our characters
to read. Yeah. Okay. Okay, let's do some reading.
I'm not going to make you roll investigation,
actually. What the hell? No, no, because honestly,
at this point, yours is high enough, your passive
would annihilate this. Okay, sure, gotcha. Talking
about reading the book. Yeah. It's literally
written down. It's more going to be, like, speed
-based, right? Like, finding things fast. Oh,
okay. But, I mean, like, honestly, you're going
to do this fast. You're going to be able to do
this pretty quick. It's going to take a couple
days still of, like, kind of going back, hanging
out here. We see a montage of reading, sleeping,
reading. Perhaps Jules returns to the coyote
at night, but Blanche is just, like, with her
glasses, just passing out. Maybe we can go back
to the pale moonlight and sit. Well, hang on.
Jules isn't going back to the coyote to sleep.
He's drinking. He's going back to the coyote
to drink. He's going back to the coyote for a
couple drinks. He's just been reading books all
day. And so you read. Time passes. Notes are
etched. Various strings are added to the conspiracy
board. Different things written down. Pages are
sort of taken on there. Actually, they're not
written pages of the books. That'd be horrifying.
You'd be killed. They're Xeroxed. So let's talk
about... Oh, man. Let's take it in turn. We'll
start with mentions of fossils. We'll move on
from there. You want to know what Stephen's interested
in? What? Mentions of turquoise. Ooh. Tears of
the Dragon. A book about the founding of the
Shrine of Storms on the island nation of Umizu,
which is also the world of Umizu. Basically,
the world of Umizu is one great island surrounded
by water until it hits the edges of that world's
ethereal barrier. You read that a great draconic
sage once lived amongst the people of Omizu,
ruling them and caring for them all. The sage's
spirit after death lingers ever in its grave.
The shrine of storms, causing the world to ever
mourn their death. Thus you have the long seasons
of rain. Modern depictions of this being portray
it in the form of a dragon turtle, but buried
deeper in histories of Omizu, one might find
the sage portrayed as a fish -like serpent. It
is mentioned... in some places, like very vague
references, that the bones of this being, of
this great sage, rest within the Shrine of Storms.
And there is a poem that kind of ends off this
book. The final line, when translated to Citadel
Common, reads, It's bones black and diamond strong.
It's tethered soul an ever -swirling storm. Cool.
So that's the body and that's the soul. What
you got? What you got, Jeremy? Okay. First thought
that came to mind was the Maw. The Maw. Or do
you mean the Maw... Not on... Not on... Below
the Citadel? Yes. The Keening Gloom. The Keening
Gloom. Yeah, the storm. Yes, the storm beneath
the Citadel. Also... Take a button, sir. His
luminary name, too. That's quite interesting.
Speak of the Storm Eye? Yeah. Take this. A storm
knight who now is the keeper of the Shrine of
Storms, or at least it was before things happened.
This is a very, very sacred place. Very few are
allowed to really kind of free roam in there.
You read that. Moving on. In the world of Dayalongon.
I definitely said that super wrong. I am so sorry.
Dayalongon. The sky bridges there, one of the
famous marks of this world, are various islands
connected by these grand, almost serpentine bridges
that seem to weave like a moving snake, right?
These sky bridges, maintained by an order known
as the Bone Singers, are made with great black
fossilized bones embedded within the stone, much
like they were on Tythos and the towers. Latent
magic of the fossils apparently feed into the
stones and allows them to shape to impossible
forms and stand ever against the ravages of time.
Again, just like the towers. Too tall to make
sense. And yet maybe there was some magic pulsing
through them. Something very powerful, very potent.
That actually goes on. There's actually a lot
of lore surrounding the creature in Dyalon. These
beings that these villains are made of are referred
to. as the ancient Bakunawa. Apparently, serpents
of their ilk can still be found rarely on the
world, though they're much smaller cousins to
the grand serpents of legend, which were seen
as gods to the people way, way back before history
really was written. So, sorry, this is my just
random crackpot conspiracy theorist mind. Yeah.
I mean, my... The way that you just described
everything, I'm having a thought of, like, there
was something or a bunch of somethings that at
one point just completely exploded and separated.
Right, yeah. The body is the Concord Worlds.
Yeah, exactly. And the soul is the Keening Gloom.
Exactly. So what happens when everything follows
Tithos into the Keening Gloom and everything
is together once again? Yeah. What I do, I do
for Shadrakhan. What is Shadrakhan? Do you know?
I mean, I'm guessing it's the place that the
worlds are going when they fall in, or are they
pulled into the Keening Gloom? We'll get back
to that. Uh, another small reference you find
is in that book, Climbing the Mountain. Uh, written
by Fimey Moon. It talks about how Fimey Moon,
upon reaching the mountain's top, discovered
a black fossil jutting out from the top, which
he communed with, which allowed him to perform
this incredible magic, raising up the land around
it, which tracks with everything you know about
Mazir Drakon. Paul used the fossil. Channel to
the fossil. Uh, Crispin used the fossil. This...
you're starting to realize these Mazir Drakon,
these people, what they are, people who can speak
to and communicate with whatever dead beings
these are. Beings that's souls, that's magical
sort of energy, seem to linger within their corpses
long after death. That's mostly what you read
on as far as the fossils go, but there's more
to read. As Farber pointed out, he wanted you
to read about the various deities of the worlds.
You start off with Song of Our Deliverance. It's
a scroll from God's Breath, and it's basically
a very, very early, early, early piece of the
Awakening song. There's a copy of it, but even
the copies of this thing are old and ancient
because it's very hard to find them. Mostly,
these things end up on God's Breath themselves,
where the Proclaimers... Oh my gosh, I remember
that. The Proclaimers... Take a button. They
take care of them. Now, the Covenant Gods, you
know, historically saved the gods from obliteration
by some forgotten enemy and brought them to the
world of God's breath where they could live in
peace. Though we've seen that this peaceful land
has hardly remained so over time. The covenant
gods are described, we've said this before, as
being very tall and thin, typically depicted
as large humanoids. But the last line in the
song is very interesting. New hills to grow,
safe from strife and sin. Our gods did fly, twisting
on new wind. Strange way to describe a humanoid's
movements. Maybe more... Draconic. Maybe more...
Draconic. Or angelic. Or angelic. It could be.
Oh. But as you think about it, you think of like
the... You mentioned this... You hear about these
serpentine forms that have been referenced before,
right? Yeah. And like... Memories begin to flash.
Things not found in the pages of these books,
but found within the depths of your mind and
your experiences as you've traveled these worlds.
Pieces of a puzzle you did not know you were
putting together. You did not know you were solving.
Jules, when you saved Jean Franklin from the
spiders on Danatu, you remember a cave shrine
with a luminescent wall painting of some massive
rainbow serpent on Danatu. You remember your
journey. with your friend and former sailslayer
racing companion, Tonya, a .k .a. Radicalize,
introducing you to Paraka, the secret, piscine,
serpentine, draconic god of Arnikek beneath the
windless lake under the ice, this dead form,
but still fully formed in a storm thundering
around it, buried deep within the ice. And as
these things sort of like, you know, hit you,
other connections begin to form, connections
that may very well rattle, your perception of
these worlds. You think about the Moreno? Is
it Moreno? The church estate in Saint -Étienne?
It sounds right. I believe it sounds right. There
was Moreno, there was Rosas. It's Moreno then,
yeah. So Moreno was this estate that was turned
into this makeshift church to La Catrina. You
remember seeing that image on the wall of this
woman, like very dark woman, sort of standing
over this entire room. But you remember clearly,
that there was a serpent coiled around her neck,
a very strange feature that seems to be following
that deity all over. You remember there's even
talk, maybe if you find this in a book, or if
I ever mention this, that there's talk that La
Catrina still rests, they say, beneath the city
of Saint -Étienne, where the miracle of the Night
of the Remembered is most poignant, where it
really, really hits. And this whole time, I'm
in wrath. has been hunting snake eaters. Yeah,
get it right, Steven. That was good. You nailed
it. You like that pronunciation? Snake eaters.
I practice that at night sometimes. I'm in a
wrath. Ooh. I'm going to give you a button for
that. It sounds like a nice way to relax. All
right. I'm going to give you a button for that,
and I'll tell you why. Yeah. You maybe mentioned
this, like, as you're kind of looking at the
board. I'm maxed, by the way. Ooh, you're maxed.
Okay, good to know. Max buttons. I was going
to say, we are back to three, right? Yes, yeah,
back to three max. Okay. You say this, and you're
putting it on the board, and Fyro looks up and
even says, That's fascinating. I was doing a
lot of translation work on the phrase Shadrakhan
and whatever sort of ancient language this comes
from, which we still don't really know exactly
where the source is, or at least we think we
know, and looks to Arhalon who nods. But the
word Drakhan as a separate entity could mean
many things. There are many cultures where its
translation would be snake. Hmm. Perhaps. Even
that name is derived from something so much older.
I didn't think you'd see that connection. Good
shit. Good shit, Steven. There's snakes everywhere.
You should give me the button you would have
given him. That way we're both max. Or honestly,
what you can say is I would give you a button
because that's going to give me that little dopamine
rush. Even if I don't get the button. I'm going
to fuck with you here. Because you're thinking
about this. You're thinking about, like, snakes
in these various worlds, these grand serpentine
fossils that seem now like they're popping up
in every world. In some cases, they are connected
to the very deities of those worlds. Didn't we
battle a giant fucking snake, too? You did. I
mean, that's just happenstance. That's cool.
That was the start of God's Breath, I think,
right? It was God's Breath. And, like, yeah.
Yeah. And not these characters' knowledge, but,
like, God's Breath is where Crispin came across
something. Buried deep. Was that perhaps one
of the Covenant gods? Where else, Blanche? I'll
give Jeremy about it. Where else would you note
a twisting form that may or may not be a god?
Perhaps not all fossils are obviously fossils.
Perhaps they're buried beneath something else.
This is very blink and you'll miss it. Yeah.
I'm trying to think. Did we see anything under
the ground? when Crispin did Toad form thing,
but Blanche wasn't there, so I'm thinking it
was something with Blanche, because you said...
I did say Blanche. You did say Blanche. Huh.
Your investigation's high enough, you'll get
this anyway. Okay. Do you connect these dots?
Do you want to hear what I'm going to say? Steven,
I want that last button. Well, do you have a...
No. Okay. I don't. I just wanted to... He's going
to say it, and it's going to be like, oh, my
fucking God. Yeah, exactly. Is there a hint option?
Can I phone a friend? I don't have any. I'll
give you a hint. I'll give you a hint. It's fun.
You hear stories, twisting forms with these,
like, you hear, like, you know, most of these
are just draconic sort of mouths and heads, right?
What would it look like if perhaps in some world,
head and body were somehow separated? imagine
a world where there is this twist this fossil
of a grand maw and elsewhere oh something oh
yeah yeah um right exactly yeah the uh the sahagin
um the maw from fucking we save people from it
and not just the maw kondorala is a twisting
coral reef what is the base of kondorala you
think about the form kondor takes this grand
spire and you think about it like that's Just
like the Citadel. Sure, yeah. This twisted spiral
form wrapping around it. It's like a number of
these. Like that thing you saw in Arnikek. Now
the question is... Was Kondorala once... Like
in the Maw, were they once one being split over
time? Perhaps like the Maw, which doesn't seem
to show any kind of magic, doesn't hold it. But
Kondorala, the body, maybe holds some powerful
magic still within. Which is like exactly the
opposite of how you would guess. If the head
and body were separated, you would think that
the mind would be the one that's... Perhaps the
heart? You can't really say. It's hard to know.
You read this and you're like, holy shit. The
real question, though, is was that close enough
for a button? He got the maw. He got the maw.
Ooh, I got the waffle cone. I'm going to give
you half a button. That means something to us.
I see you mildly impressed one more time to give
you a full button. I need to be mildly impressed
one more time. Everyone thinks I'm soft now.
They're like, David's gone soft. David, look
at me. That's not impressive. I was mildly impressed.
Jeremy hit the gritty. Yes, I did. I can shimmy
too. I can shimmy. Oh, shimmy, shimmy Cocoa Puffs.
Pass it to me now. You're starting to gather
all this information. You kind of realize all
these things, all these pieces coming together.
So let me ask you this. What conclusions can
you draw from this? Different worlds all have
these same fossils. Different worlds all have
allusions to deities that seem to share commonalities.
They're all connected in a much bigger way. Yeah.
Physically and magically. Yeah. What is Shadrakhan?
I mean, the collection of the whole, maybe? The
world of serpents. That's what it was translated
as. And you were told before. Isn't that strange?
Is that what all of this was before? It is what
it is? As you say this, perhaps, Fibro and Arhalon
look to each other and smile. Take this button.
You were told long ago Shadrakhan is supposed
to be the world of spirits, but it made no sense
because... The spirits lived among the people
in Sub -Sunko. So, that would mean Shadrakhan
would have to be the same world. And you realize
now how there was no contradiction there. Because
every world is Shadrakhan. Fyro will go in to
sort of fill you in on more. Part of what got
them into this, learning this, looking into the
grand histories of all worlds, no world's actual
defined history goes beyond a thousand years
ago. They all tend to linger around between 850
and sort of 980 years, basically. It seems like
every world had something happen that kind of
started the actual major recorded written history.
Some grand event, perhaps a war, perhaps a natural
cataclysm, but something occurred in history
for every world began around that 1 ,000 -year
mark. I mean, given that, you know, like you
just explained how this... world is the same
as the country. It's like an island nation sort
of thing. Yeah. Given that these are all, all
these concords are, it seems like they're a piece
of a whole. So, I mean, it seems like a thousand
years ago is when they split. And you said a
very interesting thing earlier. Sorry. No, no,
you continue. Then I'll say what I'm going to
say. It's a very interesting thing earlier about
what happens when you go through the Keen and
Gloom. Right. Do you go back? Yes. To form into.
The hole. A very weird, very strange thought.
I won't say if it's right or not, I'll just say
it's interesting. So then my stupid brain now
is sitting here wondering, everybody who's living
right now, it almost seems to me like we have
two separate groups of people. Groups that know
this history and whether they're trying to avoid
going back to it or trying to get back to it.
And then maybe we have another group. Who don't
give a shit about that, but just want to harness
that power and take that power and use it for
something new. I mean, one thing gets you here
for sure as you hear this. The idea that you
can't be the only ones to stumble upon this.
People have had to discover this before, so why
isn't this out there? Why doesn't the world know?
People are stopping this. Like you said, there
are people controlling this information. Why?
Why? Well, Ozen certainly is out of it, and why
would Ozen want to bring back the... World of
serpents? That can't be a better existence for
us, right? For our world now? Do any of us really
know anything about that, though? Fibro, do we
know what it was like? He shakes his head. Whatever
readings we can find that speak of before, there's
so, so few, almost nothing that speaks of before
this thousand years, whatever happened pre -this
time. But they don't reference evil. They worshipped
the great serpents, the Bakunawa. They were good.
I mean, we've only had good experiences with
the deities of old, right? All of them, even
the ones we don't have any evidence for, such
as the Sunweaver, still revered now, even though
the Sunweaver has not, I guess, lingered upon
the worlds in so, so long. Well, we know that...
Less than savory things can be done in his name.
And, well, it seems that some of these ancient
powers can be harnessed for evil. Is that not
right, Jules? Yeah, I know that firsthand. Is
the insinuation that this world of serpents was
somehow without evil? I suppose our quest continues,
for we do not know everything. But there is...
One thing I found very interesting. You asked
why someone would want to return things to the
way they were. So I ask you, Blanche Trudeau,
you are studied in magic and the planar arts.
What would happen if a world was broken in some
strange way, its pieces in the material plane
split apart, its fragments dislocated from their
set planar location in space? Well, I suppose
if... You can also roll for this, too. If what
was left had any notion of what's going on at
all, that it would try to pull itself back together,
wouldn't it? Perhaps. And I theorize a little
deeper on that, too. Think, what would happen
if these pieces pulled from where they're supposed
to be are invading where they are not supposed
to be, dislocated against the borders of the
other planes? Shadowfell, the Feywild, the Fugue
Plane, the Demonic Abyss, the Celestial Planes,
the Elemental. Retaliation by whoever's space
they were invading. Retaliation or absorption.
And it hits you again now. Planar absorption.
The theory of planar absorption. Fuck. And think
about that. All these worlds that face these
mysterious crises. Arnakhek with the ever winds.
The plane of wind. God's breath with the rattle.
Shadowfell. Danatu with the spiders. Also Shadowfell.
All these worlds that see supernatural miracles.
Tythos with its incredible abundance of valuable
gemstones. The plane of earth. Sansatyan with
his residents returning from death. The fugue
plane. There's an entire war happening all around
us. Every world faces certain doom. Eventually,
when they are pulled into a place they are not
supposed to be. That, looks to Arhalon, who like
nods, kind of gulps this. That is our theory,
yes. That, kind of slams a fist against the board
or the wall. That is what we must fight to stop.
That and so much else. You see it now, right?
This is big. This is huge. Yet we cannot go forward
with this, right? We can't tell anybody. They
will come after us. I don't know who they are,
though I suspect... Cal stops. I suspect Grandmother's
a part of it. What do you suspect her aims are?
Sholay can't possibly wish to see plain absorption
run through its path and see the disillusion
of these worlds, can she? She must be working
to stop it, right? Maybe she can help us. Grandmother's
ambitious. Maybe we can help her. I believe she
has the good of the world at heart, but she will
do dark things. I know she will do dark things
if she thinks they are right. To what end? Can
you remind me of what we know about, if anything,
about their father? That's a thing. You only
know that you can't. It's like something is stopping
you from remembering it. Okay. As players, you
remember the line that Itzman wrote that said,
what did Sholay do? Right. But as characters,
that's gone. It was just my thought because Sholay
seems like she knows everything. I'm going to
take that thought and continue it on. Okay. There's
a reason why Sholay thinks that might seem like
she knows everything. Because Sholay, it's buried
in lore. It's very important. Sholay's the one
that discovered the signal. She founded it. Right.
Because she came to discover a certain group.
Beings that may hold all the arcane and planar
knowledge of all this world. Do you remember
what those beings are, gentlemen? I remember,
I know. It was through a turquoise stone, wasn't
it? I know exactly. A turquoise stone, which
would be connected to... Perhaps? The dude that
was in... The guys that we went to see. You said
their names earlier. You got it. You said their
names earlier. The Incarnates. The Incarnates,
yes, yes, yes. The Dawn Incarnates. And Blanche.
You just became a luminary. By custom. Oh. You're
supposed to meet with one of those guys, aren't
you? Nice, nice. Yeah. I guess my next question
then is, this lore, did it come from Sholay or
an outside party? That's hard to say. Okay. There's
so much still to figure out. So much still to
learn. What does this all have to do with Ozen?
Who seemed to know this, that line, what I do,
I do for Shadrakhan. It seems to imply that Ozen
knew everything. But when? Or at least more.
Now. Ozen knows something, Jules. And I have
to find out what it is. We have to find out what
it is. I go wherever you go. Cool. If I may.
That's the coolest thing that Blanche has ever
said. Let me take that line to use as a transition,
a voiceover, echoing. Say it again. But just
do like a cool like. Go, go, go. Yeah, make it
cooler. Do that. What did I say? I go wherever
you go. Go, go, go, go. I go wherever you go.
Go, go, go, go, go. And we cut to the inside
of the radiant... Shut up, it's cool. We cut
to the inside of the radiant citadel proper,
the preserve of the ancestors, this grand sort
of natural display and amalgamation of the climates
of all the worlds. Perhaps a microcosm of what...
Shadra Khan once was. What are the incarnates?
So close to it now. It's all coming together
and you are standing here. Maybe at the end within
this sort of miniature salt marsh up against
the grand sort of ocean. It's just moving into
like this sort of bay. It's very, very hot where
you stand. Very tropical. And you stand upon
white pristine beaches very similar to those
of the Golden Bay looking out. And then with
a crashing of water. A grand beast made of bastite
gemstones or of red mauled with bits of mossy
green. A great caiman, much like Tickalosh, rises
up and faces you. The sound of a low storm rumbling
in the air around. And we will see you all. In
episode 100. Because we'll call it there.