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Cheers, everybody. I want to talk to you real,

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real, real, real, real, real fast about Reckless

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Brewing Company, our sponsor. Our first real

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main sponsor, who lets us do cool things, like

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Nerd Out Nights. If you're in the area of Bethlehem,

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New Hampshire, show up and hang out with us,

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play some games. I'm running a West Marches -style

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Frostmaiden campaign, so get in there, make a

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character, have fun with us, and try the amazing

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food that I get to have a huge part in making,

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and I'm honored to do so because it is a fantastic

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menu, and the beer, which I'm told is probably

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okay, but Steven and Jeremy all know that's their

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thing. That's really good. It's great beer. Try

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the sour. Party in your mouth? It is a party

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in your mouth for sure. Anyway, show up at Reckless

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and have a good time. Tufts, I want to make a

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brief recommendation for y 'all. Now in this

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time of crystal network splendors, it can be

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hard to pull your eyes from the projectors. And

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remember to pick up a good book. Now reading

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is a great thing. There's only so many stories

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I can tell and those who don't dare, dare up

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into the written world will be missing out on

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so, so many more. So do yourselves a favor and

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swing by the book den near the tail end of the

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tree, Disco. I visited the proprietor, Penny,

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many a time, and she's always happy to make a

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text recommendation that fits my wants and reads.

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Whether you're looking for a leisure, learning,

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or a little wizardry, there's a little reason

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for you to get yourself into the book den. And

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don't be fooled by its humble size. Even this

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shop has got it all. The selection of books inside

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those walls is just outrageous. I mean, suspiciously

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so, in fact. Like, seriously, what's going on

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in there? Penny got that advertising money. Got

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that advertising money. She made a friend in

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high places. I know. Oh, man. Gentlemen. What

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the fuck? We're back. It's been, what, three

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weeks? For us, it's been three weeks, yeah. It's

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going to be a weird energy episode, everybody,

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because we're here three weeks. We have not recorded.

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We all forgot how to do this. This happens all

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the time. I don't know what the hell I'm doing.

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I'm also halfway through a double at work, and

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I've got a time limit here to get back for an

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18 -top to go before they get into the kitchen.

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So it's a wild ride today, gentlemen. Dude, last

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Sunday, I opened up... was episode 98 oh yeah

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to get it finalized ready for release on Monday

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and I had not opened up a single file in about

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two and a half weeks dude it's crazy it was the

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trippiest thing it took me so long It took me

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so long to finish it. And now we're behind. Or

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not behind, but we're like. We're current with

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the pants people. We're current. We're current

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with the pants people. But you know what? We're

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under the gun. I miss this. I miss this. I'm

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so excited to get back to it. Like this is, this

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is so awesome. This is so awesome. But we got

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to talk because those three weeks, those two

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weeks at least, some stuff went down for one

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of us. So why don't you tell me about your two

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week vacation there, Jeremy Wolf. Oh, I didn't

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see Steven for an entire two weeks. Oh, it was

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awesome. It was great. Oh, poor Germany, though.

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Yeah. Oh, yeah. Germany had to endure this dumb

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American for a little while. Do you remember

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the Prague killings? No. Strangled by a ponytail,

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they say. Wow. Keeps happening. So, you know,

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pretty big city. Probably happens. I don't know

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about frequently. Steven. How was your trip?

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It was really, really good. There was a lot of

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beer and a lot of castles. Oh, I love that second

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thing. Yeah, all sorts of stuff in between. We

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hit Munich Oktoberfest, which was a bucket list

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item. Jeez, gosh, I don't even know where to

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begin. Maybe I'll begin with my second favorite

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stop, which was the... Weltenberger Abbey. Ooh,

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baby. Man, I'm like, we went so many places that

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I forget where everything was. So it was in Germany.

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You were in three different countries, right?

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Yeah, we landed in Prague, spent a couple days

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there. Then we traveled to Germany. Me and David's

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buddy, who we went to kindergarten with, is stationed

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there. So that was kind of our home base. And

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we, you know, did day trips from there. We did

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a night in Salzburg, Austria, and then we hit

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Prague again on our way out to fly out. Just

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remind me again, because I am an idiot with geography.

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Which country is Prague in? In the Czech Republic.

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That's it. Okay, cool, cool, cool. Nice. Yeah.

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So, and I started talking about Weltenberger

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because I brought one of my favorite beers from

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there to share. I mean, you're welcome to try

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some, David, but I know. You won't like it. Yeah,

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no, no. So I brought this to share with my buddy

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Jeremy. Oh, yeah. You got the Hooli Forge. The

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Hooli Forge bottle opener. What an honor. Yeah.

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Oh, that sounds good. That sounds good. So this

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is the oldest monastic brewery in the world.

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In 2050, they'll be turning 1 ,000 years old.

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Fucking wild. Yeah. Holy crap. Ooh, that sounds

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delicious. David, you got to wait to cheers until

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we all have liquid. I have my halfway through

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a double rock star, so I'll cheers with you guys

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with that. So one thing that I learned in Germany,

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you know, when you cheers in German, it's Prost.

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And if you do that and then you break eye contact

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before you sip, you have like supposed to be

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like five or seven years of bad sex. Okay, so

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I had it. Okay, how do we do that with three

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people? Yeah, you kind of do like a little looky

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back and forth. Locking eyes, not the sex part.

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All right. There it is. Let's all do this together.

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Are we saying prost? Prost. Prost, okay. Prost.

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Prost, gentlemen. You got to keep eye contact

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with somebody. I know it's not hard with you,

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David. Eyebrows, eyebrows, eyebrows. Ooh. Mm

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-hmm. Ooh. Yeah, this is their Bach. I tried

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a couple other beers there, of course. And I

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had to bring some of this back. It was really,

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it was just, oh my goodness, so delicious. The

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brewery, the monastery is right on like this

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big bend in the Danube River. It's like picturesque.

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And we had a beautiful lunch there. I got a smoked

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salmon and I was expecting like a salmon filet.

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No, head to tail, full ass smoked salmon. So

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I'm sitting there with, you know, a half a liter

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of this Bach. And the smoked salmon in front

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of me. And I didn't want to leave. So would you

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say that their bach is worse than their bites?

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Shit. God. And we're back, folks. Fucking ruined

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it. Ruined it. No, the bach is great. And the

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bites were almost as great. Okay. Okay. Do you

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have a second favorite place? Well, yeah. First

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was, I mean, it was. Munich Oktoberfest. Oh,

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right, right. Of course. Yeah. Bucket list item.

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Hell yeah. Bucket list item. Five liters of beer

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for me was truly incredible. And we didn't even

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get around the fest too, too much. We saw maybe

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a quarter of the whole grounds. Wow. And we had

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thought about doing another day originally when

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we, you know, when we arrived and we're like,

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oh, yeah, we'll do, you know, today and then

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we'll come back for a little bit tomorrow. But

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I got my fill. Man, we went opening day and it

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was like, it was butt to butt. There was not

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an inch to move and you're trying to like move

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through this crowd. It took us like an hour to

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find a table. But it was... If I know you at

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all, that sounds like your personal hell. Well,

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see, normally, yeah. I normally don't like something

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that's like super crowded like that. But where

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I knew, well, where I thought I was only going

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to go the one day, I really wanted it to be the...

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biggest craziest most eventful day because then

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i saw like pictures and videos from later throughout

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the week and there were like empty tables and

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i'm like god no i don't want empty tables at

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oktoberfest i want just like butt to butt shoulder

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to shoulder there was no room to move um and

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it was fantastic oh yeah so you really just had

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to gird your loins and face the munich wow yeah

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You just – I don't even think you're listening.

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I think you're just coming up with shitty puns.

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I heard Munich and I was like, he can fill me

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in later. I'm going to start searching the mental

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web as it were. But I'm very glad to be back.

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Today is Thursday. We got back on Monday. So

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reentry is going pretty well. Happy to be back

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at work. I guess as happy as a working person

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can be. And very, very happy to be back with

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my friends playing this fucking game that we

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all love. Hell yeah. Hell yes. Oh, before we

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continue, I have new dice I need to bless. Oh,

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shit. Real quick. Okay. So two weeks ago was

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my birthday, and our dear friend Meglin got me

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a brand new Malachite dice set. Malachite. They

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look like green tigers. They do. They do. It's

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like really cool green with... Bunch of black

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stripes. I love them. Oh, man. And I'm going

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to bless them real quick because these will be

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my primaries going forward. Yes. Bless them in

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the guns of heaven. Oh, that's like a double

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bless. That's like a double bless right there,

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man. And we bless. Okay. Nice. Be blessed, Jeremy.

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Be blessed. Proceed with the shit show. Well,

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I'm thinking if you have this beautiful new dice,

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then... Maybe you don't need payout. You want

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to skip that part? Skip payout? Yeah, that's

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fair. Who needs rewards? You want to just skip

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this session? Heroic deeds. I'm not doing this

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for money. Yeah, exactly. A real hero doesn't

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do it for money. Steven. But I guess we'll do

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payout. I just clicked the thing and they all

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went away. There he is. Let's do payout. Let's

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do payout. Before we get into this, let's give

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you guys your well -do money. Real quick here.

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Your base pay for the Zinda Arc. is 300 gold

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each. Ooh. Yeah. That's your base. For the footage

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you had of the Diva Luma interrogation, it's

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a bonus 200 gold each. Ooh, yeah. Yeah, that

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was big. Nice. And that footage was revealed

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that you're the ones that solved the mystery.

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They also would have caught parts of the combat,

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at least the parts that were in the room. You

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guys kind of flashing out there, but they know

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from there the combat... So, yeah, that's some

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good notoriety. And your sponsors were very happy.

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In your case, Blanche, you don't have a sponsor.

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So it's, again, just the Golden Bay. This is

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Blanche of the Golden Bay. Let's get some Golden

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Bay fish up in here, you know. Still works. Now

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your money is going right to Jean and Ledoux's

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pockets. Oh, my goodness. That's so trippy. speaking

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of the golden bay base pay for the golden bay

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arc not from actually any sponsors because this

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wasn't really uh very large in the footage there's

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no like there's not a lot of people that want

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to hear what's going on the golden bay right

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no one cares what's happening in the golden bay

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uh they like you they like john but turtles as

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a whole aren't super popular still they're not

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like it's not that exciting to know what they're

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what's happening in their sort of personal lives

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uh But from Ledoux, as you kind of leave, as

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you're about to head off on this journey from

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the coffers of the Golden Bay, they give you,

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again, 200 gold each. So a grand total of 700

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gold for each of you. Nice. Hey, where's Blanche

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at? Well, I started with 391. Okay. We doing

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okay? Because I haven't spent too much. I'd be

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at 1 ,500. Noice. Not bad. Nice. Not bad. Not

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bad at all. Time to start shopping. I know, I'm

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going to splurge on something stupid. Surprise!

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This is a shopping episode. It's... No. It is

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going to be a weird episode. Not shopping for

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goods, but shopping for information. For you

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have just entered the book den. This is going

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to be a strange one. Tonight, despite the sort

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of goofy atmosphere we're starting things off

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with, I think we're going to see the revelation

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of many huge sort of story and world -spanning

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mysteries here. I think we're going to learn

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a lot of things because Fyro and Arhalon are

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onto something and they want to see if you kind

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of catch up. The information you're gathering

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here can help them in the last sort of bits of

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their research here. So what do they know already?

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And what are they going to learn? In order to

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figure that out, you have to get a few books

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for them. a button for anyone who remembers a

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single book that you have to get from this. Nope.

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Okay. Come on. I'm gonna know when you say it.

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Single book. I can't. Come on. I just can't.

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Alright. You have a list. You can just hand it

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over. I'm not going to make you be like, okay,

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now memory. What's the book called? You say the

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wrong title and give you the wrong book and we

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have to do this again. We're not doing that.

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The books you need are Phi May Moon's autobiography,

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Climbing the Mountain. That's the one. Phi May

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Moon. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Of course. That's what

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I meant to say. I'll tell you what. Where have

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you heard the name Phi May Moon before? I'll

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give you a button for that. Oh, I know that one.

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Phi May Moon. Yeah, she's the teapot. Isn't she?

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No. No, it's her at the booth. No. What booth?

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Wait, which? Sub -Sunko. That is from Sub -Sunko.

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Yeah. Ooh. Who was that in Sub -Sunko's lore?

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Wasn't she the one... Wasn't Fire Moon the one

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that planted all the... That's close enough.

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Planted all the... That's close enough. The Lopop

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flowers. That's close enough. I'll give you a

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two. Fire Moon is actually male, though. Fine

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May Moon is a figure in struggle lore who was

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known as a Mazir Drakon. Because Fine May Moon,

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during a time of strife, where enemies were basically

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moving into the Valley of Zantini, before it

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was a valley, Fine May Moon climbed to the top

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of this mountain that's in the midst of Zantini,

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called upon the spirits of the land in this act

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of incredible, sort of miraculous power. drew

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forth the great wall of mountains that closed

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the valley off from the outside world, protecting

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them from invaders and making it the safe place

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it is now. And when this happened, actually,

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it was noted in a book that I read, the Laopop

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flowers that glow amongst the mountains appeared

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then as part of this miracle. Take a button.

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Okay. Yay. Sir. This is a button episode because

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this is going to be a lot of me asking you questions

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of things that have already happened and put

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pieces together. And if you get anything right,

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I'm giving you buttons. I'm going crazy tonight

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because next episode is episode 100. You better

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get those buttons, gentlemen, because I'm going

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to light episode 100 on fire. Got me? Got me?

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Get your buttons. I am excited for episode 100.

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I'm sad to say that I probably won't go into

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it with many buttons, but we'll see what happens.

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I was going to say, if this button episode is

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based on memory. The next book is not a book,

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but rather a scroll called Song of Our Deliverance.

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It is a God's Breath sort of based scroll. Some

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very old from their cultures, like very rare.

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There's a book called Tears of the Dragon. Which

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is a book, an amazing book about the creation

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of the Shrine of Storms. And a book called Dragon

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Bones, which is the tales of origins of dialogue

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on great serpent bridges. Yeah, Tears of the

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Dragon was the one that I was thinking of, but

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couldn't exactly get the words out. Yeah. And

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lastly, there is the Xena personally asked for

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the sequel to the romantic novel Moondust called

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The Moon in My Hands. That makes me happy. There's

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a nice hot goat waiting for you. Way too hot,

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actually. Ooh, yum. Yummy. Wait. Temperature

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hot, or is this like a sexy goat? Both. Sweet.

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So you walk in, you got your list, you walk into

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this place, and you immediately see this very

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small room, bookshelves sort of lining around

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it. There's stairs moving up, they're sort of

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blocked off. There's a desk, and behind it, sort

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of a door leading into some back room you can't

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really see, but you can assume it's pretty small.

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The shop itself is a pretty small little bookshop,

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kind of nestled between larger structures on

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the sort of end of the trade discal here. And

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behind the desk, you see an elven woman. A small

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frame with kind, curious eyes, wearing big hoop

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earrings, a formal blouse, and a knee -length

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sort of swishing skirt. She introduces herself

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to the book den, and as she kind of takes in,

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sort of curiously looks over you, doesn't recognize

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you, and perhaps she knows her usual clientele,

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she continues. This is the Book Den, your one

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-stop shop for all things literary. We have writing

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utensils, paper, and books. Oh, so many beautiful

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books. And a handful of scrolls, I think. I love,

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I love that I don't have to roleplay at all.

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That's really good voice work, David. Thank you.

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Meg, thank you so much again. You see, she kind

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of like steps around the counter and be like,

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she almost has this way of like, like, like her

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nose. sniffs at the air, and she gets kind of

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excited. A lot of electric sort of energy. She

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kind of moves around the counter, kind of stepping

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sort of gracefully towards you, and she sort

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of continues her introduction. Most people just

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call me Penny. I run this place, as I just love

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books. Can't get enough of them. I know quite

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a bit about books, so if you have any questions,

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please let me know. Thank you, Penny. Well, Matt,

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we have a list, actually, of books we are seeking.

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And Blanche hands her the list. She snaps it

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over, takes the list in, kind of reading it over.

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Eyes flickering. And keep in mind, too, you have

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books to trade in as well. I won't make you go

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over that list, but there are a number of books

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that Xena had that you can trade in to borrow

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for this. So it's not going to cost you anything

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to get these books out. That's kind of the whole

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plan. She's just reading over this list, and

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immediately her eyes kind of, she kind of cocks

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her head a little bit. And she smiles, this kind

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of warm smile, as if she recognizes the handwriting.

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And her eyes look back to you, both of you, and

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she says, Are you friends with Fibro? He's been

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one of my best customers. How many of these do

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you have? This is so fucking cool. I have so

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many of these. Dude, Meg, load me up. It's going

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to be. I'm not even going to use half of them,

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but it's amazing. Yes, we know Fibro quite well.

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Don't we, Jules? Fibro is such a dear. I've never

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met a more avid reader. Besides myself, of course.

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He's very excited. Yeah, you're not telling me

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anything I didn't know already. I'd be shocked

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if he wasn't in here all the time. And that actually

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just kind of, again, cocks her head and says,

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Where is Fibro anyway? I haven't seen him in

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a while. Did they come with us? No. Fibro sent

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us on this particular chore. He has a... that,

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well, he wants to see if we can figure out the

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same thing that he figured out. Oh, nice. I love

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this so much. This is awesome. So, do you think

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you can help us with these books? We have some

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to trade in. Yes. Yes. This is the best. This

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is the absolute best. Great sounds, poor execution,

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David. Wait, wait. Hang on. Let me... You said

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that. You have a book to show me? Very excited.

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Eyes wide. Yes, yes. Let me pull them out. And

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Blanche grabs the... You know, I was just...

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Oh, a book. She sees the book come out. Do we

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have anything of value here in these books? May

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I see what you have? Do you hand them over? I

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feel like I already handed them over. You only

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wanted to use that line. I feel like there's

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a DM somewhere screwing up this whole dialogue.

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I'm just playing. This is awesome. I'm having

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the best time right now. This is going to be

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a goddamn mess to edit. Oh, my fucking God. Oh,

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man. What do I say here? Hang on. What was the

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last question? Yeah, Blanche is curious if any

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of the books are valuable. And have you already

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handed the list over? Yes. Okay. So she has the

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list and the books we got from Xena. That's wonderful.

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She sees one title. Yes, that top book is called

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Wonderful. She kind of snatches them up from

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you and sort of... looking over them very excitedly,

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nodding, nodding, looks at your list and then

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just says, I might have something in the back.

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Give me a moment. And she nods and sort of slips

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out of the room. You hear like, I think the door,

00:22:06.990 --> 00:22:08.990
she kind of closed the back door and like you

00:22:08.990 --> 00:22:10.829
hear kind of a, she opens the back door of the

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office one thing behind the desk and you kind

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of look and you see a very sparse looking kind

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of, kind of. office right you see a door leading

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out the back room and nothing in the shit at

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least on this wall you can see kind of goes into

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under the stairs and uh as the door closes you

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kind of hear like maybe a little bit of sort

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of noise like like something moving around in

00:22:29.200 --> 00:22:31.299
there you're like what the and maybe like from

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far off you hear like some some like a voice

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or echoing out just like dewey get off the ladder

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there's a whole other person in there yeah it

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was tiny uh And you hear nothing for some time.

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So she's going around. She's getting those books

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for you. You're going to be able to moment up

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here in this room. Blanche, you're probably scanning

00:22:53.950 --> 00:22:55.390
these shelves. You can really see there are,

00:22:55.390 --> 00:22:58.569
of course, supplies for wizards. You'll find

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sort of arcane inks and quills and scrolls. You

00:23:02.569 --> 00:23:04.849
could use to write down things. Pre -done scrolls.

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So you can go and buy yourself maybe a couple

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spells if you want to. You got that new payout.

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So maybe Blanche is doing a little window shopping.

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He's kind of looking around and yum, yum, yum.

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Is that a fireball scroll I see? Kind of like

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that. Right, exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You suddenly

00:23:18.470 --> 00:23:22.150
realize, weirdly, that you're not alone in this

00:23:22.150 --> 00:23:24.769
shop. Sort of coming out from behind one of the

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bookshelves, you're surprised this form you didn't

00:23:28.289 --> 00:23:29.950
notice earlier. Maybe they're crouching very

00:23:29.950 --> 00:23:33.230
low because they are very, very, very tall. This

00:23:33.230 --> 00:23:37.210
incredibly tall man looking down at you with

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these beautiful, radiant blue eyes and sort of

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bearing just this grotesque, horrid, putrid sham

00:23:44.170 --> 00:23:48.150
of a ponytail. Oh, I was about to say, David,

00:23:48.230 --> 00:23:53.109
is that you? It one -third of the way is. If

00:23:53.109 --> 00:23:55.690
you guys remember, there's a character in the

00:23:55.690 --> 00:24:00.970
book den called Stephen J. Davids. So I need

00:24:00.970 --> 00:24:03.029
you, hang on, I need you to help voice this Eldritch

00:24:03.029 --> 00:24:04.869
Horror with me. Holy shit. I'm going to start

00:24:04.869 --> 00:24:06.950
off a sentence. You guys are going to jump in.

00:24:07.349 --> 00:24:09.430
Okay? Ready? You got this? No. We're all doing

00:24:09.430 --> 00:24:11.349
this together. No. It's going to be bad. Let's

00:24:11.349 --> 00:24:20.839
try it. Hello. My name is Stephen J. Davis. Oh,

00:24:20.940 --> 00:24:24.660
this is awesome. This is the most awkward moment

00:24:24.660 --> 00:24:34.779
of my life. I love this so much. I need more

00:24:34.779 --> 00:24:40.960
beer. Yeah. He just stares through you with these

00:24:40.960 --> 00:24:43.779
wide... wonderfully blue eyes you're lost and

00:24:43.779 --> 00:24:46.180
they're hypnotic they're you feel warm you feel

00:24:46.180 --> 00:24:48.480
at home like you're enveloped in a beautiful

00:24:48.480 --> 00:24:51.559
hug oh so steven j david's got your eyes yeah

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thank you by the way also also has blue eyes

00:24:56.259 --> 00:25:00.559
by the way huh huh he said i also have blue eyes

00:25:00.559 --> 00:25:03.000
by the way yeah but they look like gray next

00:25:03.000 --> 00:25:07.660
to me uh and so we can avoid having to do that

00:25:07.660 --> 00:25:10.980
all the time uh Stephen J. Davids waves a hand

00:25:10.980 --> 00:25:18.039
and just says, Goodbye. And leaves. And he bites

00:25:18.039 --> 00:25:20.400
his own tongue off and leaves. Stephen, why didn't

00:25:20.400 --> 00:25:23.000
we just take part in that? We could have said

00:25:23.000 --> 00:25:26.279
no. We could have said no. You're not getting

00:25:26.279 --> 00:25:30.730
a button for that. In the books, even David is

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actually an author that there's basically a side

00:25:32.990 --> 00:25:34.650
quest where they can join you. They were looking

00:25:34.650 --> 00:25:36.950
for some, some inspiration. They can join you

00:25:36.950 --> 00:25:41.210
on some quests and sort of hang out. And if you

00:25:41.210 --> 00:25:43.029
see something really impressive from you, then

00:25:43.029 --> 00:25:44.529
you should just fill their sort of objective

00:25:44.529 --> 00:25:46.089
as they can go and write about your exploits.

00:25:46.329 --> 00:25:48.029
I wouldn't do that, but I don't want to make

00:25:48.029 --> 00:25:50.880
us do this all the time. Because I really want

00:25:50.880 --> 00:25:55.160
to have the amalgamated voice for this monstrosity

00:25:55.160 --> 00:25:57.000
of a human. You can't do any more of that. Okay.

00:25:57.079 --> 00:26:00.539
All right. He leaves. He bangs his head on the

00:26:00.539 --> 00:26:04.420
door because he's as tall as Jeremy. This is

00:26:04.420 --> 00:26:12.440
true. It's true. Okay. You see that soon after

00:26:12.440 --> 00:26:17.559
this very strange encounter, you hear more. sliding

00:26:17.559 --> 00:26:20.619
in that back small room uh after sort of settle

00:26:20.619 --> 00:26:24.259
seems to settle the door opens and uh penny comes

00:26:24.259 --> 00:26:27.559
out with just an arm full of books one on top

00:26:27.559 --> 00:26:30.400
actually is not a book it is again a scroll looks

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very old and weathered and like the way she's

00:26:33.740 --> 00:26:35.400
handling these you can see it's like these are

00:26:35.400 --> 00:26:38.200
precious precious books i think she almost looks

00:26:38.200 --> 00:26:40.000
nervous like doesn't want her to hand them over

00:26:40.000 --> 00:26:43.099
to you but you know she's thinking maybe she's

00:26:43.099 --> 00:26:44.900
like looking over at that at that paper the list

00:26:44.900 --> 00:26:46.980
is on top it's just looking at the handwriting

00:26:46.980 --> 00:26:49.960
and kind of nodding like well if it's fibro um

00:26:49.960 --> 00:26:54.859
but she moves over and she will say something

00:26:54.859 --> 00:26:59.039
pertaining to how i'm going to give you these

00:26:59.039 --> 00:27:03.660
books something that sounds kind of like no no

00:27:03.660 --> 00:27:07.269
we got this Here's what I found. Hey, that's

00:27:07.269 --> 00:27:09.490
the perfect line. Nice. In fact, it's just even

00:27:09.490 --> 00:27:11.529
more exciting. It's just like this. Oh, let me

00:27:11.529 --> 00:27:14.750
tell you what I know. Yeah. I know. It doesn't

00:27:14.750 --> 00:27:17.569
work as well. Tell me what you know. What did

00:27:17.569 --> 00:27:20.970
you find? Let me tell you what I know. Uh -huh.

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Yes, I'm waiting. And then she heads to the books

00:27:23.650 --> 00:27:29.210
and says, Here's what I found. Okay. Thank you.

00:27:29.269 --> 00:27:31.990
How did you find these all so quick? Your office

00:27:31.990 --> 00:27:36.740
looks... Quite sparse back there. I don't appreciate

00:27:36.740 --> 00:27:42.339
your tone. Well, I didn't mean to offend. I'm

00:27:42.339 --> 00:27:46.019
just impressed at your organizational abilities,

00:27:46.279 --> 00:27:53.720
I suppose. How nice. Penny, you said, right?

00:27:53.779 --> 00:28:03.400
How long has your shop been here, Penny? I surprisingly

00:28:03.400 --> 00:28:08.519
don't know much about that. You don't know how

00:28:08.519 --> 00:28:11.000
long your shop has been here? How long have you

00:28:11.000 --> 00:28:16.079
been the proprietor of it? No. Jules walks up

00:28:16.079 --> 00:28:19.079
to Penny and pokes her forehead. Are you real?

00:28:20.200 --> 00:28:27.480
Sorry. No. She says that and her eyes close and

00:28:27.480 --> 00:28:33.259
open and you see reptilian eyes oh god she's

00:28:33.259 --> 00:28:37.099
a lizard man oh geez for a brief moment like

00:28:37.099 --> 00:28:38.980
like a glamour is starting to go away and she

00:28:38.980 --> 00:28:41.980
smiles this sort of like you know kind of almost

00:28:41.980 --> 00:28:44.359
challenge of a smile uh but she's into the books

00:28:44.359 --> 00:28:49.799
slides them right across to you um oh okay well

00:28:49.799 --> 00:28:55.099
um are we supposing this is a even exchange of

00:28:55.099 --> 00:29:02.099
books yeah i do like that Okay, that, um... Well,

00:29:02.240 --> 00:29:04.059
I mean, that's agreeable to us, isn't it, Jules?

00:29:04.839 --> 00:29:08.539
Yeah, sure. Now, if we have any issues with these

00:29:08.539 --> 00:29:11.440
books, what is your return policy like? Have

00:29:11.440 --> 00:29:18.660
a great day. Wow. Wow. She's already walking

00:29:18.660 --> 00:29:21.160
away. She's got one of your books, one of your

00:29:21.160 --> 00:29:24.299
new books in hand. Very excited. It's the one

00:29:24.299 --> 00:29:28.779
about brewing tea. It's a huge, dense book, and

00:29:28.779 --> 00:29:30.480
she looks way too excited about this book that's

00:29:30.480 --> 00:29:36.259
like a solid foot wide. It's huge. She sort of

00:29:36.259 --> 00:29:39.420
drops on the desk with a whomp and folds it open.

00:29:40.140 --> 00:29:42.519
Hey, it's fall. I get it. I can actually feel

00:29:42.519 --> 00:29:44.140
it in my throat right now. I could use some tea.

00:29:45.359 --> 00:29:47.039
She kind of looks up at you again as if she's

00:29:47.039 --> 00:29:49.619
surprised you're still here and says, Thanks

00:29:49.619 --> 00:29:56.579
for stopping by. Yes, thank you for... Your hospitality.

00:29:57.519 --> 00:30:02.380
Yeah, it's been a pleasure. Stop by anytime.

00:30:03.420 --> 00:30:04.900
And, like, she's, like, not looking. At this

00:30:04.900 --> 00:30:06.359
point, her nose is straight down the book, and

00:30:06.359 --> 00:30:07.960
she says that and kind of waves. And she was,

00:30:08.019 --> 00:30:08.960
like, she was, like, the moment there where she

00:30:08.960 --> 00:30:11.079
kind of seemed, like, almost like she got a little,

00:30:11.220 --> 00:30:13.480
you know, on edge. But then she jumped right

00:30:13.480 --> 00:30:15.640
back to full friendly. It seemed like this went

00:30:15.640 --> 00:30:17.400
well. You're walking out like you don't really

00:30:17.400 --> 00:30:20.400
know, but she seems very pleased to have these

00:30:20.400 --> 00:30:22.740
new books in hand. Over her shoulder, Blanche

00:30:22.740 --> 00:30:29.660
says, okay, we might. oh my gosh and with that

00:30:29.660 --> 00:30:32.700
uh you guys stroll out of the book den i want

00:30:32.700 --> 00:30:35.519
to once again thank you meg that was such an

00:30:35.519 --> 00:30:37.740
absolute blast that was so much fun that was

00:30:37.740 --> 00:30:40.400
cool uh oh my gosh that was so much fun we just

00:30:40.400 --> 00:30:42.079
got to get david a soundboard so we can do that

00:30:42.079 --> 00:30:44.299
again i know right right right oh my gosh so

00:30:44.299 --> 00:30:47.390
uh Yeah, the Book Den, guys. Check it out. It's

00:30:47.390 --> 00:30:50.470
a zine. It's got all sorts of tables filled with

00:30:50.470 --> 00:30:52.109
different books. I've used a lot of them here

00:30:52.109 --> 00:30:53.950
in the podcast, which has been really, really

00:30:53.950 --> 00:30:56.670
cool to just book this out and have these because

00:30:56.670 --> 00:30:58.269
it just helps to flavor your world in a huge

00:30:58.269 --> 00:31:00.750
way. And we're scratching the surface here. There's

00:31:00.750 --> 00:31:02.289
a lot of secrets to be found. What's going on

00:31:02.289 --> 00:31:04.009
with Penny? What's behind that door? Where'd

00:31:04.009 --> 00:31:06.130
you get all these books? Where are they storing

00:31:06.130 --> 00:31:10.029
them? Who's Dewey? Who is Dewey? Find out by

00:31:10.029 --> 00:31:13.519
grabbing your copy of the Book Den today. Hashtag

00:31:13.519 --> 00:31:16.640
who is doing. Hashtag who is doing. Yeah, that's

00:31:16.640 --> 00:31:19.420
from our friend Meg at Hungry Familiar. Yes.

00:31:19.619 --> 00:31:21.539
She's all over social media. You can find her

00:31:21.539 --> 00:31:24.200
on our page if you follow us. If you're really

00:31:24.200 --> 00:31:26.240
lucky, she'll teach you how to play Pathfinder.

00:31:26.819 --> 00:31:31.680
Yeah, exactly. See you like every fourth Monday

00:31:31.680 --> 00:31:35.460
night. Yeah, when our schedules miraculously

00:31:35.460 --> 00:31:41.720
align. Oh, beautiful. Okay. And with that...

00:31:42.539 --> 00:31:46.559
You leave the book den behind. Blanche is coming

00:31:46.559 --> 00:31:49.539
back later for scrolls. Penny, what time do you

00:31:49.539 --> 00:32:00.339
close? The door opens to close. David closed

00:32:00.339 --> 00:32:04.119
his audio file holder. The shop's closed now.

00:32:05.700 --> 00:32:15.440
Must be time for a siesta. Must be. Some, like,

00:32:15.539 --> 00:32:21.920
singing bullshit. I don't think we need to focus

00:32:21.920 --> 00:32:25.480
on the immediate scenes that follow this, right?

00:32:26.059 --> 00:32:31.619
You return to Xena's. You enjoy a slow, slow,

00:32:31.700 --> 00:32:34.680
slow roasted goat. Man, that was a sexy goat.

00:32:34.880 --> 00:32:39.119
Oh, man. It is, like, crisp, black, burnt. When

00:32:39.119 --> 00:32:40.900
you get it, Xena's been kind of just roasting

00:32:40.900 --> 00:32:42.859
it for the last hour while you've been away.

00:32:43.039 --> 00:32:46.420
Go chips. And you all kind of split that. Everyone

00:32:46.420 --> 00:32:49.579
in it, well, she watches. Perhaps, like, she

00:32:49.579 --> 00:32:51.660
just wants to sort of hang out. And it's like,

00:32:51.859 --> 00:32:55.890
oh, Xena, we have things we have to... So anyway,

00:32:55.950 --> 00:32:58.809
we can, oh, Zena, actually, we've got this book

00:32:58.809 --> 00:33:01.829
for you. And hands over the moon in my hands.

00:33:01.990 --> 00:33:04.549
And Zena just kind of, oh, my goodness. I've

00:33:04.549 --> 00:33:06.910
been reading so long. Oh, thank you. Thank you.

00:33:07.250 --> 00:33:09.430
She snatches it up and kind of scurries off to

00:33:09.430 --> 00:33:13.089
read. She flies, flies down. You hear like a

00:33:13.089 --> 00:33:15.089
comet like smash somewhere on the other side

00:33:15.089 --> 00:33:16.569
of the place. She probably landed in one of those

00:33:16.569 --> 00:33:19.730
broken sofas we've talked about. Blanche, as

00:33:19.730 --> 00:33:22.750
politely as she can. Picks up her napkin and

00:33:22.750 --> 00:33:25.230
deposits whatever is left in her mouth into the

00:33:25.230 --> 00:33:32.349
napkin. Jules is loving it. It's food. Our home

00:33:32.349 --> 00:33:33.789
was doing one of those, like holding it up and

00:33:33.789 --> 00:33:36.190
turning its head sideways. And just dropping

00:33:36.190 --> 00:33:40.930
it behind his shoulder. Very delicious, mother.

00:33:40.950 --> 00:33:46.589
Thank you, mother. We look at takeout later.

00:33:47.529 --> 00:33:52.900
She is a very sweet lady. Very sweet. She is

00:33:52.900 --> 00:33:56.279
what she is. Good woman, but... She should be

00:33:56.279 --> 00:33:59.099
locked out of a kitchen, though. Yes, yes. It's

00:33:59.099 --> 00:34:02.660
strange. I remember growing up. She was different.

00:34:03.140 --> 00:34:06.259
She didn't collect like this. Back when me and

00:34:06.259 --> 00:34:10.579
Zeb were young, she was... Well, people change

00:34:10.579 --> 00:34:14.679
over time. He kind of looks down towards those

00:34:14.679 --> 00:34:18.119
books, and Fibro's just, like, hungry for them.

00:34:18.159 --> 00:34:21.670
His, like, hands are sort of shaking. No, I was

00:34:21.670 --> 00:34:23.309
just going to ask, did something change her?

00:34:23.869 --> 00:34:31.349
You asked Carhalon? Something... Blinks. No.

00:34:32.110 --> 00:34:37.150
No, nothing. No. Can I roll something on that?

00:34:37.409 --> 00:34:39.110
Yeah, roll something on that. What do you want?

00:34:39.690 --> 00:34:49.869
Give me... Ooh. Insight. Okay. 18. He's not lying.

00:34:50.670 --> 00:34:53.510
But he did think of something, and then he forgot.

00:34:54.289 --> 00:34:57.590
In that instant, he forgot. We talked about this

00:34:57.590 --> 00:34:59.389
before. There's strange things happening. And

00:34:59.389 --> 00:35:00.730
actually, I thought I should talk about it with

00:35:00.730 --> 00:35:03.510
you guys, too, because I didn't really bring

00:35:03.510 --> 00:35:06.409
this up. I think it is important. You all looked

00:35:06.409 --> 00:35:10.190
at those files. You all saw that line about Itzmin

00:35:10.190 --> 00:35:14.869
noting down on sort of paper Zebulon. He was

00:35:14.869 --> 00:35:20.480
sired by Calapsania's mate. But he couldn't remember

00:35:20.480 --> 00:35:24.500
anything about Zebulon's father. And it's like

00:35:24.500 --> 00:35:27.380
he wrote this down in a blur really fast before

00:35:27.380 --> 00:35:30.739
something happened. Once those files were down,

00:35:30.820 --> 00:35:33.139
like Arhulan had a full panic attack. Something

00:35:33.139 --> 00:35:34.940
happened to him there. And once those files were

00:35:34.940 --> 00:35:37.300
put away, you also don't remember the panic attack.

00:35:37.480 --> 00:35:38.980
You don't remember what caused it. You don't

00:35:38.980 --> 00:35:41.380
remember that line. You don't remember anything

00:35:41.380 --> 00:35:46.539
about that. Like it just slips away. That's okay.

00:35:47.239 --> 00:35:49.960
Sometimes... Things that happen in our childhood,

00:35:50.099 --> 00:35:54.460
it's tough to remember them. Yes. Yes, yes, of

00:35:54.460 --> 00:35:58.119
course. Yes. But it's a matter for a different

00:35:58.119 --> 00:36:00.880
time now. Now, the books, please, please, can

00:36:00.880 --> 00:36:03.860
we get to the books? I'm sorry, this is all fascinating

00:36:03.860 --> 00:36:07.400
stuff, but that is more fascinating stuff. Okay,

00:36:07.460 --> 00:36:10.579
Fibro, why don't you walk us through exactly

00:36:10.579 --> 00:36:13.619
what we're looking at here. All right. We've

00:36:13.619 --> 00:36:16.239
been doing a lot of research, right? We're focusing

00:36:16.239 --> 00:36:18.409
on... Books, basically, sources that lead us

00:36:18.409 --> 00:36:20.750
to speak of two different things, two major factors

00:36:20.750 --> 00:36:22.269
that our research is taking us to right now.

00:36:22.389 --> 00:36:24.289
And I will get to why we're looking into these

00:36:24.289 --> 00:36:26.170
things, but first, I need you to help us look

00:36:26.170 --> 00:36:29.070
into these, okay? Now, what we're looking into

00:36:29.070 --> 00:36:33.210
are legends and lore, as old as we can get, about

00:36:33.210 --> 00:36:37.789
the deities of our various worlds. And any mentions,

00:36:37.909 --> 00:36:43.230
any looks to you, Jules, of strange, giant fossils

00:36:43.230 --> 00:36:48.760
in connection with... and supernatural events.

00:36:49.460 --> 00:36:53.119
Now, these books here should have a lot for us.

00:36:53.679 --> 00:36:55.519
Me and Arlon, we're going to dive in. We're going

00:36:55.519 --> 00:36:56.559
to start reading. We're going to put our notes

00:36:56.559 --> 00:36:59.780
down. If anyone wants to join us, it's a battle

00:36:59.780 --> 00:37:02.940
of its own, right? I do have advantage on investigation

00:37:02.940 --> 00:37:06.480
with my spectacles, so perhaps I can help. You

00:37:06.480 --> 00:37:10.480
do indeed. Strange giant fossils. Yes. Wasn't

00:37:10.480 --> 00:37:12.920
there something that was... You've had multiple

00:37:12.920 --> 00:37:14.880
instances of these. This is Jeremy talking. Yes.

00:37:14.920 --> 00:37:17.019
No, this is good. Talk. This is where we're going

00:37:17.019 --> 00:37:18.579
to get into the media things. Wasn't the entire

00:37:18.579 --> 00:37:22.380
Citadel on a giant fossil or made up of a giant

00:37:22.380 --> 00:37:26.920
fossil? It is indeed. There is one strange giant

00:37:26.920 --> 00:37:29.300
fossil. Huh. Let's keep going. Can you think

00:37:29.300 --> 00:37:32.519
of another one from our story? They all over

00:37:32.519 --> 00:37:34.920
the place. That's the only one I can think of.

00:37:35.320 --> 00:37:38.840
It was a fossil in the mine of San Satyan. Let

00:37:38.840 --> 00:37:42.639
me say it. Sorry, yes, there's one more. And

00:37:42.639 --> 00:37:45.480
there's one more wherever Jules was being held

00:37:45.480 --> 00:37:49.360
when he was being tortured or whatever. The Tower

00:37:49.360 --> 00:37:51.659
of Authority, Pillar of Authority, was built

00:37:51.659 --> 00:37:56.599
with these... giant fossils into it. When you

00:37:56.599 --> 00:37:59.239
were given your powers, your childhood powers,

00:37:59.440 --> 00:38:00.840
when that demonic influence was placed in you,

00:38:00.940 --> 00:38:04.480
your hand was driven over the point of a fossilized

00:38:04.480 --> 00:38:08.219
claw in the uppermost reaches of the tower. There

00:38:08.219 --> 00:38:12.019
was a piece of this fossil that during an incident

00:38:12.019 --> 00:38:14.599
with Dresden got embedded into him and it gave

00:38:14.599 --> 00:38:16.440
him this strange power. He made a wish in that

00:38:16.440 --> 00:38:20.500
moment to protect Jules, to turn people away.

00:38:21.210 --> 00:38:23.210
And in that moment, suddenly this power developed

00:38:23.210 --> 00:38:24.849
in him that could give him a distraction. That

00:38:24.849 --> 00:38:28.449
could create this echo. As if some great power

00:38:28.449 --> 00:38:31.610
responded to his wish. I've just got one question

00:38:31.610 --> 00:38:34.650
after that. Yeah. This is for both me and Steven,

00:38:34.710 --> 00:38:39.269
actually. Yeah. Button? Dang it. At this point,

00:38:39.349 --> 00:38:42.750
one button you guys can choose who gets it between

00:38:42.750 --> 00:38:45.889
the two of you. Oh my god. Yeah. Quick roll off?

00:38:46.269 --> 00:38:52.440
Sure. Fuck it. I'll roll a die. Tree. Mine didn't

00:38:52.440 --> 00:38:57.380
go through. That counts as zero. Natural one.

00:38:57.599 --> 00:38:59.199
Oh, my goodness. How did I win with a three?

00:38:59.360 --> 00:39:01.239
How did you win with three? Take that button.

00:39:01.440 --> 00:39:04.360
Because... I'm almost at the max. I'm going to

00:39:04.360 --> 00:39:09.940
cap out. So, yes. The Citadel itself. I was wondering

00:39:09.940 --> 00:39:11.900
if you would grab that onto there. Oh, fuck yeah.

00:39:12.340 --> 00:39:14.719
That's the only one that I could remember. We'll

00:39:14.719 --> 00:39:17.059
circle back to that. Man, I deserve that button

00:39:17.059 --> 00:39:19.619
because I remembered all three. You did. You

00:39:19.619 --> 00:39:24.320
did. Hey, good. Stuff. You guys want to start

00:39:24.320 --> 00:39:26.880
reading? Yeah, I mean, I'd love for our characters

00:39:26.880 --> 00:39:30.739
to read. Yeah. Okay. Okay, let's do some reading.

00:39:31.320 --> 00:39:32.800
I'm not going to make you roll investigation,

00:39:32.980 --> 00:39:36.019
actually. What the hell? No, no, because honestly,

00:39:36.239 --> 00:39:38.000
at this point, yours is high enough, your passive

00:39:38.000 --> 00:39:40.699
would annihilate this. Okay, sure, gotcha. Talking

00:39:40.699 --> 00:39:43.039
about reading the book. Yeah. It's literally

00:39:43.039 --> 00:39:44.800
written down. It's more going to be, like, speed

00:39:44.800 --> 00:39:46.639
-based, right? Like, finding things fast. Oh,

00:39:46.659 --> 00:39:47.800
okay. But, I mean, like, honestly, you're going

00:39:47.800 --> 00:39:48.900
to do this fast. You're going to be able to do

00:39:48.900 --> 00:39:49.880
this pretty quick. It's going to take a couple

00:39:49.880 --> 00:39:51.780
days still of, like, kind of going back, hanging

00:39:51.780 --> 00:39:54.079
out here. We see a montage of reading, sleeping,

00:39:54.300 --> 00:39:56.039
reading. Perhaps Jules returns to the coyote

00:39:56.039 --> 00:39:57.699
at night, but Blanche is just, like, with her

00:39:57.699 --> 00:39:59.860
glasses, just passing out. Maybe we can go back

00:39:59.860 --> 00:40:03.599
to the pale moonlight and sit. Well, hang on.

00:40:06.159 --> 00:40:08.940
Jules isn't going back to the coyote to sleep.

00:40:09.019 --> 00:40:11.769
He's drinking. He's going back to the coyote

00:40:11.769 --> 00:40:12.650
to drink. He's going back to the coyote for a

00:40:12.650 --> 00:40:15.010
couple drinks. He's just been reading books all

00:40:15.010 --> 00:40:21.030
day. And so you read. Time passes. Notes are

00:40:21.030 --> 00:40:23.809
etched. Various strings are added to the conspiracy

00:40:23.809 --> 00:40:26.989
board. Different things written down. Pages are

00:40:26.989 --> 00:40:28.670
sort of taken on there. Actually, they're not

00:40:28.670 --> 00:40:29.769
written pages of the books. That'd be horrifying.

00:40:30.130 --> 00:40:36.210
You'd be killed. They're Xeroxed. So let's talk

00:40:36.210 --> 00:40:39.420
about... Oh, man. Let's take it in turn. We'll

00:40:39.420 --> 00:40:43.719
start with mentions of fossils. We'll move on

00:40:43.719 --> 00:40:46.099
from there. You want to know what Stephen's interested

00:40:46.099 --> 00:40:52.800
in? What? Mentions of turquoise. Ooh. Tears of

00:40:52.800 --> 00:40:55.800
the Dragon. A book about the founding of the

00:40:55.800 --> 00:40:58.480
Shrine of Storms on the island nation of Umizu,

00:40:58.559 --> 00:41:00.880
which is also the world of Umizu. Basically,

00:41:00.900 --> 00:41:02.659
the world of Umizu is one great island surrounded

00:41:02.659 --> 00:41:05.800
by water until it hits the edges of that world's

00:41:05.800 --> 00:41:09.219
ethereal barrier. You read that a great draconic

00:41:09.219 --> 00:41:11.380
sage once lived amongst the people of Omizu,

00:41:11.380 --> 00:41:14.579
ruling them and caring for them all. The sage's

00:41:14.579 --> 00:41:17.019
spirit after death lingers ever in its grave.

00:41:17.360 --> 00:41:20.579
The shrine of storms, causing the world to ever

00:41:20.579 --> 00:41:23.500
mourn their death. Thus you have the long seasons

00:41:23.500 --> 00:41:26.159
of rain. Modern depictions of this being portray

00:41:26.159 --> 00:41:28.019
it in the form of a dragon turtle, but buried

00:41:28.019 --> 00:41:29.800
deeper in histories of Omizu, one might find

00:41:29.800 --> 00:41:33.059
the sage portrayed as a fish -like serpent. It

00:41:33.059 --> 00:41:35.880
is mentioned... in some places, like very vague

00:41:35.880 --> 00:41:39.719
references, that the bones of this being, of

00:41:39.719 --> 00:41:42.420
this great sage, rest within the Shrine of Storms.

00:41:42.440 --> 00:41:45.940
And there is a poem that kind of ends off this

00:41:45.940 --> 00:41:48.159
book. The final line, when translated to Citadel

00:41:48.159 --> 00:41:52.039
Common, reads, It's bones black and diamond strong.

00:41:52.719 --> 00:41:56.360
It's tethered soul an ever -swirling storm. Cool.

00:41:56.440 --> 00:41:58.800
So that's the body and that's the soul. What

00:41:58.800 --> 00:42:02.809
you got? What you got, Jeremy? Okay. First thought

00:42:02.809 --> 00:42:06.570
that came to mind was the Maw. The Maw. Or do

00:42:06.570 --> 00:42:11.650
you mean the Maw... Not on... Not on... Below

00:42:11.650 --> 00:42:14.710
the Citadel? Yes. The Keening Gloom. The Keening

00:42:14.710 --> 00:42:17.590
Gloom. Yeah, the storm. Yes, the storm beneath

00:42:17.590 --> 00:42:22.050
the Citadel. Also... Take a button, sir. His

00:42:22.050 --> 00:42:24.449
luminary name, too. That's quite interesting.

00:42:25.030 --> 00:42:29.690
Speak of the Storm Eye? Yeah. Take this. A storm

00:42:29.690 --> 00:42:31.949
knight who now is the keeper of the Shrine of

00:42:31.949 --> 00:42:33.650
Storms, or at least it was before things happened.

00:42:33.750 --> 00:42:36.250
This is a very, very sacred place. Very few are

00:42:36.250 --> 00:42:37.869
allowed to really kind of free roam in there.

00:42:39.269 --> 00:42:43.050
You read that. Moving on. In the world of Dayalongon.

00:42:43.530 --> 00:42:46.030
I definitely said that super wrong. I am so sorry.

00:42:47.969 --> 00:42:51.650
Dayalongon. The sky bridges there, one of the

00:42:51.650 --> 00:42:54.070
famous marks of this world, are various islands

00:42:54.070 --> 00:42:57.050
connected by these grand, almost serpentine bridges

00:42:57.050 --> 00:43:01.329
that seem to weave like a moving snake, right?

00:43:02.889 --> 00:43:04.989
These sky bridges, maintained by an order known

00:43:04.989 --> 00:43:10.789
as the Bone Singers, are made with great black

00:43:10.789 --> 00:43:13.010
fossilized bones embedded within the stone, much

00:43:13.010 --> 00:43:18.039
like they were on Tythos and the towers. Latent

00:43:18.039 --> 00:43:19.860
magic of the fossils apparently feed into the

00:43:19.860 --> 00:43:21.739
stones and allows them to shape to impossible

00:43:21.739 --> 00:43:25.320
forms and stand ever against the ravages of time.

00:43:26.199 --> 00:43:29.519
Again, just like the towers. Too tall to make

00:43:29.519 --> 00:43:32.900
sense. And yet maybe there was some magic pulsing

00:43:32.900 --> 00:43:35.599
through them. Something very powerful, very potent.

00:43:36.219 --> 00:43:37.920
That actually goes on. There's actually a lot

00:43:37.920 --> 00:43:40.280
of lore surrounding the creature in Dyalon. These

00:43:40.280 --> 00:43:45.019
beings that these villains are made of are referred

00:43:45.019 --> 00:43:51.659
to. as the ancient Bakunawa. Apparently, serpents

00:43:51.659 --> 00:43:54.099
of their ilk can still be found rarely on the

00:43:54.099 --> 00:43:57.139
world, though they're much smaller cousins to

00:43:57.139 --> 00:44:00.099
the grand serpents of legend, which were seen

00:44:00.099 --> 00:44:04.980
as gods to the people way, way back before history

00:44:04.980 --> 00:44:10.340
really was written. So, sorry, this is my just

00:44:10.340 --> 00:44:15.760
random crackpot conspiracy theorist mind. Yeah.

00:44:16.000 --> 00:44:20.800
I mean, my... The way that you just described

00:44:20.800 --> 00:44:24.960
everything, I'm having a thought of, like, there

00:44:24.960 --> 00:44:27.719
was something or a bunch of somethings that at

00:44:27.719 --> 00:44:31.460
one point just completely exploded and separated.

00:44:32.000 --> 00:44:36.320
Right, yeah. The body is the Concord Worlds.

00:44:36.360 --> 00:44:39.400
Yeah, exactly. And the soul is the Keening Gloom.

00:44:39.420 --> 00:44:42.699
Exactly. So what happens when everything follows

00:44:42.699 --> 00:44:45.699
Tithos into the Keening Gloom and everything

00:44:45.699 --> 00:44:48.920
is together once again? Yeah. What I do, I do

00:44:48.920 --> 00:44:55.820
for Shadrakhan. What is Shadrakhan? Do you know?

00:44:56.019 --> 00:45:00.079
I mean, I'm guessing it's the place that the

00:45:00.079 --> 00:45:03.199
worlds are going when they fall in, or are they

00:45:03.199 --> 00:45:06.400
pulled into the Keening Gloom? We'll get back

00:45:06.400 --> 00:45:09.579
to that. Uh, another small reference you find

00:45:09.579 --> 00:45:12.420
is in that book, Climbing the Mountain. Uh, written

00:45:12.420 --> 00:45:15.260
by Fimey Moon. It talks about how Fimey Moon,

00:45:15.300 --> 00:45:17.559
upon reaching the mountain's top, discovered

00:45:17.559 --> 00:45:21.300
a black fossil jutting out from the top, which

00:45:21.300 --> 00:45:24.119
he communed with, which allowed him to perform

00:45:24.119 --> 00:45:27.119
this incredible magic, raising up the land around

00:45:27.119 --> 00:45:29.900
it, which tracks with everything you know about

00:45:29.900 --> 00:45:32.260
Mazir Drakon. Paul used the fossil. Channel to

00:45:32.260 --> 00:45:36.460
the fossil. Uh, Crispin used the fossil. This...

00:45:37.320 --> 00:45:38.940
you're starting to realize these Mazir Drakon,

00:45:39.019 --> 00:45:40.940
these people, what they are, people who can speak

00:45:40.940 --> 00:45:43.559
to and communicate with whatever dead beings

00:45:43.559 --> 00:45:47.099
these are. Beings that's souls, that's magical

00:45:47.099 --> 00:45:50.900
sort of energy, seem to linger within their corpses

00:45:50.900 --> 00:45:54.440
long after death. That's mostly what you read

00:45:54.440 --> 00:45:56.860
on as far as the fossils go, but there's more

00:45:56.860 --> 00:45:59.739
to read. As Farber pointed out, he wanted you

00:45:59.739 --> 00:46:02.840
to read about the various deities of the worlds.

00:46:03.559 --> 00:46:05.559
You start off with Song of Our Deliverance. It's

00:46:05.559 --> 00:46:07.659
a scroll from God's Breath, and it's basically

00:46:07.659 --> 00:46:11.860
a very, very early, early, early piece of the

00:46:11.860 --> 00:46:14.500
Awakening song. There's a copy of it, but even

00:46:14.500 --> 00:46:17.059
the copies of this thing are old and ancient

00:46:17.059 --> 00:46:19.599
because it's very hard to find them. Mostly,

00:46:19.639 --> 00:46:22.280
these things end up on God's Breath themselves,

00:46:22.420 --> 00:46:26.199
where the Proclaimers... Oh my gosh, I remember

00:46:26.199 --> 00:46:28.619
that. The Proclaimers... Take a button. They

00:46:28.619 --> 00:46:32.380
take care of them. Now, the Covenant Gods, you

00:46:32.380 --> 00:46:35.690
know, historically saved the gods from obliteration

00:46:35.690 --> 00:46:38.150
by some forgotten enemy and brought them to the

00:46:38.150 --> 00:46:39.610
world of God's breath where they could live in

00:46:39.610 --> 00:46:42.269
peace. Though we've seen that this peaceful land

00:46:42.269 --> 00:46:46.030
has hardly remained so over time. The covenant

00:46:46.030 --> 00:46:48.210
gods are described, we've said this before, as

00:46:48.210 --> 00:46:51.269
being very tall and thin, typically depicted

00:46:51.269 --> 00:46:54.190
as large humanoids. But the last line in the

00:46:54.190 --> 00:46:56.909
song is very interesting. New hills to grow,

00:46:57.130 --> 00:47:01.769
safe from strife and sin. Our gods did fly, twisting

00:47:01.769 --> 00:47:05.409
on new wind. Strange way to describe a humanoid's

00:47:05.409 --> 00:47:09.309
movements. Maybe more... Draconic. Maybe more...

00:47:09.309 --> 00:47:16.010
Draconic. Or angelic. Or angelic. It could be.

00:47:16.289 --> 00:47:19.230
Oh. But as you think about it, you think of like

00:47:19.230 --> 00:47:21.670
the... You mentioned this... You hear about these

00:47:21.670 --> 00:47:24.349
serpentine forms that have been referenced before,

00:47:24.530 --> 00:47:27.469
right? Yeah. And like... Memories begin to flash.

00:47:27.550 --> 00:47:30.550
Things not found in the pages of these books,

00:47:30.610 --> 00:47:32.769
but found within the depths of your mind and

00:47:32.769 --> 00:47:35.409
your experiences as you've traveled these worlds.

00:47:35.489 --> 00:47:37.710
Pieces of a puzzle you did not know you were

00:47:37.710 --> 00:47:40.030
putting together. You did not know you were solving.

00:47:40.710 --> 00:47:43.210
Jules, when you saved Jean Franklin from the

00:47:43.210 --> 00:47:45.170
spiders on Danatu, you remember a cave shrine

00:47:45.170 --> 00:47:47.449
with a luminescent wall painting of some massive

00:47:47.449 --> 00:47:52.329
rainbow serpent on Danatu. You remember your

00:47:52.329 --> 00:47:55.159
journey. with your friend and former sailslayer

00:47:55.159 --> 00:47:57.739
racing companion, Tonya, a .k .a. Radicalize,

00:47:58.000 --> 00:48:03.320
introducing you to Paraka, the secret, piscine,

00:48:03.320 --> 00:48:06.760
serpentine, draconic god of Arnikek beneath the

00:48:06.760 --> 00:48:08.840
windless lake under the ice, this dead form,

00:48:08.900 --> 00:48:12.639
but still fully formed in a storm thundering

00:48:12.639 --> 00:48:16.739
around it, buried deep within the ice. And as

00:48:16.739 --> 00:48:18.199
these things sort of like, you know, hit you,

00:48:18.300 --> 00:48:20.699
other connections begin to form, connections

00:48:20.699 --> 00:48:23.960
that may very well rattle, your perception of

00:48:23.960 --> 00:48:29.400
these worlds. You think about the Moreno? Is

00:48:29.400 --> 00:48:32.860
it Moreno? The church estate in Saint -Étienne?

00:48:33.099 --> 00:48:34.820
It sounds right. I believe it sounds right. There

00:48:34.820 --> 00:48:36.699
was Moreno, there was Rosas. It's Moreno then,

00:48:36.719 --> 00:48:38.820
yeah. So Moreno was this estate that was turned

00:48:38.820 --> 00:48:42.059
into this makeshift church to La Catrina. You

00:48:42.059 --> 00:48:43.380
remember seeing that image on the wall of this

00:48:43.380 --> 00:48:49.719
woman, like very dark woman, sort of standing

00:48:49.719 --> 00:48:52.199
over this entire room. But you remember clearly,

00:48:53.050 --> 00:48:55.230
that there was a serpent coiled around her neck,

00:48:55.329 --> 00:48:58.510
a very strange feature that seems to be following

00:48:58.510 --> 00:49:01.269
that deity all over. You remember there's even

00:49:01.269 --> 00:49:03.110
talk, maybe if you find this in a book, or if

00:49:03.110 --> 00:49:06.190
I ever mention this, that there's talk that La

00:49:06.190 --> 00:49:09.369
Catrina still rests, they say, beneath the city

00:49:09.369 --> 00:49:13.590
of Saint -Étienne, where the miracle of the Night

00:49:13.590 --> 00:49:15.909
of the Remembered is most poignant, where it

00:49:15.909 --> 00:49:20.469
really, really hits. And this whole time, I'm

00:49:20.469 --> 00:49:23.530
in wrath. has been hunting snake eaters. Yeah,

00:49:23.530 --> 00:49:25.050
get it right, Steven. That was good. You nailed

00:49:25.050 --> 00:49:27.730
it. You like that pronunciation? Snake eaters.

00:49:27.730 --> 00:49:30.829
I practice that at night sometimes. I'm in a

00:49:30.829 --> 00:49:33.030
wrath. Ooh. I'm going to give you a button for

00:49:33.030 --> 00:49:34.550
that. It sounds like a nice way to relax. All

00:49:34.550 --> 00:49:35.710
right. I'm going to give you a button for that,

00:49:35.789 --> 00:49:37.389
and I'll tell you why. Yeah. You maybe mentioned

00:49:37.389 --> 00:49:39.150
this, like, as you're kind of looking at the

00:49:39.150 --> 00:49:41.809
board. I'm maxed, by the way. Ooh, you're maxed.

00:49:41.809 --> 00:49:43.429
Okay, good to know. Max buttons. I was going

00:49:43.429 --> 00:49:45.250
to say, we are back to three, right? Yes, yeah,

00:49:45.269 --> 00:49:47.730
back to three max. Okay. You say this, and you're

00:49:47.730 --> 00:49:49.949
putting it on the board, and Fyro looks up and

00:49:49.949 --> 00:49:55.389
even says, That's fascinating. I was doing a

00:49:55.389 --> 00:49:57.849
lot of translation work on the phrase Shadrakhan

00:49:57.849 --> 00:50:00.230
and whatever sort of ancient language this comes

00:50:00.230 --> 00:50:02.190
from, which we still don't really know exactly

00:50:02.190 --> 00:50:05.289
where the source is, or at least we think we

00:50:05.289 --> 00:50:08.929
know, and looks to Arhalon who nods. But the

00:50:08.929 --> 00:50:11.409
word Drakhan as a separate entity could mean

00:50:11.409 --> 00:50:14.570
many things. There are many cultures where its

00:50:14.570 --> 00:50:20.920
translation would be snake. Hmm. Perhaps. Even

00:50:20.920 --> 00:50:23.500
that name is derived from something so much older.

00:50:24.000 --> 00:50:25.780
I didn't think you'd see that connection. Good

00:50:25.780 --> 00:50:28.199
shit. Good shit, Steven. There's snakes everywhere.

00:50:29.019 --> 00:50:30.880
You should give me the button you would have

00:50:30.880 --> 00:50:33.900
given him. That way we're both max. Or honestly,

00:50:34.019 --> 00:50:36.099
what you can say is I would give you a button

00:50:36.099 --> 00:50:37.739
because that's going to give me that little dopamine

00:50:37.739 --> 00:50:40.659
rush. Even if I don't get the button. I'm going

00:50:40.659 --> 00:50:42.079
to fuck with you here. Because you're thinking

00:50:42.079 --> 00:50:43.659
about this. You're thinking about, like, snakes

00:50:43.659 --> 00:50:45.940
in these various worlds, these grand serpentine

00:50:45.940 --> 00:50:48.219
fossils that seem now like they're popping up

00:50:48.219 --> 00:50:51.300
in every world. In some cases, they are connected

00:50:51.300 --> 00:50:54.940
to the very deities of those worlds. Didn't we

00:50:54.940 --> 00:50:58.400
battle a giant fucking snake, too? You did. I

00:50:58.400 --> 00:50:59.900
mean, that's just happenstance. That's cool.

00:51:00.239 --> 00:51:02.079
That was the start of God's Breath, I think,

00:51:02.119 --> 00:51:03.619
right? It was God's Breath. And, like, yeah.

00:51:04.239 --> 00:51:06.739
Yeah. And not these characters' knowledge, but,

00:51:06.780 --> 00:51:08.980
like, God's Breath is where Crispin came across

00:51:08.980 --> 00:51:13.460
something. Buried deep. Was that perhaps one

00:51:13.460 --> 00:51:17.639
of the Covenant gods? Where else, Blanche? I'll

00:51:17.639 --> 00:51:20.360
give Jeremy about it. Where else would you note

00:51:20.360 --> 00:51:25.099
a twisting form that may or may not be a god?

00:51:25.840 --> 00:51:28.619
Perhaps not all fossils are obviously fossils.

00:51:28.860 --> 00:51:30.780
Perhaps they're buried beneath something else.

00:51:31.519 --> 00:51:34.219
This is very blink and you'll miss it. Yeah.

00:51:34.360 --> 00:51:38.119
I'm trying to think. Did we see anything under

00:51:38.119 --> 00:51:43.030
the ground? when Crispin did Toad form thing,

00:51:43.190 --> 00:51:46.130
but Blanche wasn't there, so I'm thinking it

00:51:46.130 --> 00:51:47.550
was something with Blanche, because you said...

00:51:47.550 --> 00:51:53.230
I did say Blanche. You did say Blanche. Huh.

00:51:53.570 --> 00:51:54.909
Your investigation's high enough, you'll get

00:51:54.909 --> 00:51:57.630
this anyway. Okay. Do you connect these dots?

00:51:57.829 --> 00:51:59.650
Do you want to hear what I'm going to say? Steven,

00:51:59.710 --> 00:52:02.050
I want that last button. Well, do you have a...

00:52:02.050 --> 00:52:05.829
No. Okay. I don't. I just wanted to... He's going

00:52:05.829 --> 00:52:07.309
to say it, and it's going to be like, oh, my

00:52:07.309 --> 00:52:11.170
fucking God. Yeah, exactly. Is there a hint option?

00:52:11.349 --> 00:52:14.190
Can I phone a friend? I don't have any. I'll

00:52:14.190 --> 00:52:15.449
give you a hint. I'll give you a hint. It's fun.

00:52:16.349 --> 00:52:19.630
You hear stories, twisting forms with these,

00:52:19.650 --> 00:52:21.110
like, you hear, like, you know, most of these

00:52:21.110 --> 00:52:25.269
are just draconic sort of mouths and heads, right?

00:52:25.789 --> 00:52:28.650
What would it look like if perhaps in some world,

00:52:28.849 --> 00:52:33.340
head and body were somehow separated? imagine

00:52:33.340 --> 00:52:36.559
a world where there is this twist this fossil

00:52:36.559 --> 00:52:41.440
of a grand maw and elsewhere oh something oh

00:52:41.440 --> 00:52:45.940
yeah yeah um right exactly yeah the uh the sahagin

00:52:45.940 --> 00:52:50.219
um the maw from fucking we save people from it

00:52:50.219 --> 00:52:54.159
and not just the maw kondorala is a twisting

00:52:54.159 --> 00:52:58.960
coral reef what is the base of kondorala you

00:52:58.960 --> 00:53:00.579
think about the form kondor takes this grand

00:53:00.579 --> 00:53:03.079
spire and you think about it like that's Just

00:53:03.079 --> 00:53:05.480
like the Citadel. Sure, yeah. This twisted spiral

00:53:05.480 --> 00:53:07.860
form wrapping around it. It's like a number of

00:53:07.860 --> 00:53:10.599
these. Like that thing you saw in Arnikek. Now

00:53:10.599 --> 00:53:13.920
the question is... Was Kondorala once... Like

00:53:13.920 --> 00:53:16.360
in the Maw, were they once one being split over

00:53:16.360 --> 00:53:18.940
time? Perhaps like the Maw, which doesn't seem

00:53:18.940 --> 00:53:21.400
to show any kind of magic, doesn't hold it. But

00:53:21.400 --> 00:53:24.300
Kondorala, the body, maybe holds some powerful

00:53:24.300 --> 00:53:26.380
magic still within. Which is like exactly the

00:53:26.380 --> 00:53:28.980
opposite of how you would guess. If the head

00:53:28.980 --> 00:53:32.099
and body were separated, you would think that

00:53:32.099 --> 00:53:34.400
the mind would be the one that's... Perhaps the

00:53:34.400 --> 00:53:36.860
heart? You can't really say. It's hard to know.

00:53:37.079 --> 00:53:42.219
You read this and you're like, holy shit. The

00:53:42.219 --> 00:53:45.300
real question, though, is was that close enough

00:53:45.300 --> 00:53:48.739
for a button? He got the maw. He got the maw.

00:53:49.260 --> 00:53:51.179
Ooh, I got the waffle cone. I'm going to give

00:53:51.179 --> 00:53:54.019
you half a button. That means something to us.

00:53:54.139 --> 00:53:55.780
I see you mildly impressed one more time to give

00:53:55.780 --> 00:53:59.219
you a full button. I need to be mildly impressed

00:53:59.219 --> 00:54:02.039
one more time. Everyone thinks I'm soft now.

00:54:02.179 --> 00:54:04.780
They're like, David's gone soft. David, look

00:54:04.780 --> 00:54:09.400
at me. That's not impressive. I was mildly impressed.

00:54:09.719 --> 00:54:13.719
Jeremy hit the gritty. Yes, I did. I can shimmy

00:54:13.719 --> 00:54:17.179
too. I can shimmy. Oh, shimmy, shimmy Cocoa Puffs.

00:54:17.900 --> 00:54:22.750
Pass it to me now. You're starting to gather

00:54:22.750 --> 00:54:24.289
all this information. You kind of realize all

00:54:24.289 --> 00:54:26.409
these things, all these pieces coming together.

00:54:26.849 --> 00:54:29.550
So let me ask you this. What conclusions can

00:54:29.550 --> 00:54:33.070
you draw from this? Different worlds all have

00:54:33.070 --> 00:54:36.269
these same fossils. Different worlds all have

00:54:36.269 --> 00:54:41.230
allusions to deities that seem to share commonalities.

00:54:41.550 --> 00:54:45.050
They're all connected in a much bigger way. Yeah.

00:54:45.610 --> 00:54:50.289
Physically and magically. Yeah. What is Shadrakhan?

00:54:51.280 --> 00:54:54.579
I mean, the collection of the whole, maybe? The

00:54:54.579 --> 00:54:56.960
world of serpents. That's what it was translated

00:54:56.960 --> 00:54:59.500
as. And you were told before. Isn't that strange?

00:54:59.519 --> 00:55:03.539
Is that what all of this was before? It is what

00:55:03.539 --> 00:55:08.400
it is? As you say this, perhaps, Fibro and Arhalon

00:55:08.400 --> 00:55:12.579
look to each other and smile. Take this button.

00:55:12.760 --> 00:55:16.920
You were told long ago Shadrakhan is supposed

00:55:16.920 --> 00:55:20.119
to be the world of spirits, but it made no sense

00:55:20.119 --> 00:55:22.119
because... The spirits lived among the people

00:55:22.119 --> 00:55:26.280
in Sub -Sunko. So, that would mean Shadrakhan

00:55:26.280 --> 00:55:28.820
would have to be the same world. And you realize

00:55:28.820 --> 00:55:32.380
now how there was no contradiction there. Because

00:55:32.380 --> 00:55:37.139
every world is Shadrakhan. Fyro will go in to

00:55:37.139 --> 00:55:39.239
sort of fill you in on more. Part of what got

00:55:39.239 --> 00:55:41.760
them into this, learning this, looking into the

00:55:41.760 --> 00:55:45.280
grand histories of all worlds, no world's actual

00:55:45.280 --> 00:55:48.500
defined history goes beyond a thousand years

00:55:48.500 --> 00:55:51.329
ago. They all tend to linger around between 850

00:55:51.329 --> 00:55:56.010
and sort of 980 years, basically. It seems like

00:55:56.010 --> 00:55:58.190
every world had something happen that kind of

00:55:58.190 --> 00:56:00.750
started the actual major recorded written history.

00:56:00.889 --> 00:56:03.909
Some grand event, perhaps a war, perhaps a natural

00:56:03.909 --> 00:56:06.909
cataclysm, but something occurred in history

00:56:06.909 --> 00:56:09.610
for every world began around that 1 ,000 -year

00:56:09.610 --> 00:56:13.570
mark. I mean, given that, you know, like you

00:56:13.570 --> 00:56:17.710
just explained how this... world is the same

00:56:17.710 --> 00:56:20.070
as the country. It's like an island nation sort

00:56:20.070 --> 00:56:23.090
of thing. Yeah. Given that these are all, all

00:56:23.090 --> 00:56:25.130
these concords are, it seems like they're a piece

00:56:25.130 --> 00:56:28.230
of a whole. So, I mean, it seems like a thousand

00:56:28.230 --> 00:56:32.269
years ago is when they split. And you said a

00:56:32.269 --> 00:56:34.869
very interesting thing earlier. Sorry. No, no,

00:56:34.869 --> 00:56:36.170
you continue. Then I'll say what I'm going to

00:56:36.170 --> 00:56:39.269
say. It's a very interesting thing earlier about

00:56:39.269 --> 00:56:41.110
what happens when you go through the Keen and

00:56:41.110 --> 00:56:44.349
Gloom. Right. Do you go back? Yes. To form into.

00:56:45.159 --> 00:56:48.619
The hole. A very weird, very strange thought.

00:56:49.179 --> 00:56:50.559
I won't say if it's right or not, I'll just say

00:56:50.559 --> 00:56:53.440
it's interesting. So then my stupid brain now

00:56:53.440 --> 00:56:57.980
is sitting here wondering, everybody who's living

00:56:57.980 --> 00:57:01.280
right now, it almost seems to me like we have

00:57:01.280 --> 00:57:05.940
two separate groups of people. Groups that know

00:57:05.940 --> 00:57:08.940
this history and whether they're trying to avoid

00:57:08.940 --> 00:57:12.059
going back to it or trying to get back to it.

00:57:12.340 --> 00:57:15.400
And then maybe we have another group. Who don't

00:57:15.400 --> 00:57:17.239
give a shit about that, but just want to harness

00:57:17.239 --> 00:57:20.219
that power and take that power and use it for

00:57:20.219 --> 00:57:23.059
something new. I mean, one thing gets you here

00:57:23.059 --> 00:57:25.780
for sure as you hear this. The idea that you

00:57:25.780 --> 00:57:27.739
can't be the only ones to stumble upon this.

00:57:27.800 --> 00:57:29.739
People have had to discover this before, so why

00:57:29.739 --> 00:57:31.260
isn't this out there? Why doesn't the world know?

00:57:31.519 --> 00:57:34.460
People are stopping this. Like you said, there

00:57:34.460 --> 00:57:36.699
are people controlling this information. Why?

00:57:37.199 --> 00:57:40.019
Why? Well, Ozen certainly is out of it, and why

00:57:40.019 --> 00:57:44.329
would Ozen want to bring back the... World of

00:57:44.329 --> 00:57:48.590
serpents? That can't be a better existence for

00:57:48.590 --> 00:57:52.570
us, right? For our world now? Do any of us really

00:57:52.570 --> 00:57:57.210
know anything about that, though? Fibro, do we

00:57:57.210 --> 00:58:01.630
know what it was like? He shakes his head. Whatever

00:58:01.630 --> 00:58:05.610
readings we can find that speak of before, there's

00:58:05.610 --> 00:58:08.230
so, so few, almost nothing that speaks of before

00:58:08.230 --> 00:58:11.809
this thousand years, whatever happened pre -this

00:58:11.809 --> 00:58:17.639
time. But they don't reference evil. They worshipped

00:58:17.639 --> 00:58:22.599
the great serpents, the Bakunawa. They were good.

00:58:23.320 --> 00:58:27.000
I mean, we've only had good experiences with

00:58:27.000 --> 00:58:29.960
the deities of old, right? All of them, even

00:58:29.960 --> 00:58:31.559
the ones we don't have any evidence for, such

00:58:31.559 --> 00:58:34.719
as the Sunweaver, still revered now, even though

00:58:34.719 --> 00:58:37.800
the Sunweaver has not, I guess, lingered upon

00:58:37.800 --> 00:58:41.099
the worlds in so, so long. Well, we know that...

00:58:41.559 --> 00:58:44.719
Less than savory things can be done in his name.

00:58:44.739 --> 00:58:48.699
And, well, it seems that some of these ancient

00:58:48.699 --> 00:58:51.920
powers can be harnessed for evil. Is that not

00:58:51.920 --> 00:58:55.460
right, Jules? Yeah, I know that firsthand. Is

00:58:55.460 --> 00:58:59.420
the insinuation that this world of serpents was

00:58:59.420 --> 00:59:06.699
somehow without evil? I suppose our quest continues,

00:59:06.820 --> 00:59:10.820
for we do not know everything. But there is...

00:59:11.050 --> 00:59:14.150
One thing I found very interesting. You asked

00:59:14.150 --> 00:59:17.530
why someone would want to return things to the

00:59:17.530 --> 00:59:20.250
way they were. So I ask you, Blanche Trudeau,

00:59:20.289 --> 00:59:23.449
you are studied in magic and the planar arts.

00:59:24.130 --> 00:59:27.389
What would happen if a world was broken in some

00:59:27.389 --> 00:59:31.030
strange way, its pieces in the material plane

00:59:31.030 --> 00:59:34.670
split apart, its fragments dislocated from their

00:59:34.670 --> 00:59:38.389
set planar location in space? Well, I suppose

00:59:38.389 --> 00:59:41.179
if... You can also roll for this, too. If what

00:59:41.179 --> 00:59:45.659
was left had any notion of what's going on at

00:59:45.659 --> 00:59:49.079
all, that it would try to pull itself back together,

00:59:49.260 --> 00:59:54.280
wouldn't it? Perhaps. And I theorize a little

00:59:54.280 --> 00:59:57.880
deeper on that, too. Think, what would happen

00:59:57.880 --> 01:00:00.659
if these pieces pulled from where they're supposed

01:00:00.659 --> 01:00:03.619
to be are invading where they are not supposed

01:00:03.619 --> 01:00:07.519
to be, dislocated against the borders of the

01:00:07.519 --> 01:00:11.420
other planes? Shadowfell, the Feywild, the Fugue

01:00:11.420 --> 01:00:13.420
Plane, the Demonic Abyss, the Celestial Planes,

01:00:13.420 --> 01:00:17.699
the Elemental. Retaliation by whoever's space

01:00:17.699 --> 01:00:21.679
they were invading. Retaliation or absorption.

01:00:22.760 --> 01:00:24.940
And it hits you again now. Planar absorption.

01:00:24.940 --> 01:00:28.119
The theory of planar absorption. Fuck. And think

01:00:28.119 --> 01:00:30.250
about that. All these worlds that face these

01:00:30.250 --> 01:00:32.530
mysterious crises. Arnakhek with the ever winds.

01:00:32.550 --> 01:00:35.070
The plane of wind. God's breath with the rattle.

01:00:35.389 --> 01:00:39.070
Shadowfell. Danatu with the spiders. Also Shadowfell.

01:00:39.150 --> 01:00:41.190
All these worlds that see supernatural miracles.

01:00:41.409 --> 01:00:42.909
Tythos with its incredible abundance of valuable

01:00:42.909 --> 01:00:45.710
gemstones. The plane of earth. Sansatyan with

01:00:45.710 --> 01:00:47.769
his residents returning from death. The fugue

01:00:47.769 --> 01:00:53.389
plane. There's an entire war happening all around

01:00:53.389 --> 01:00:59.980
us. Every world faces certain doom. Eventually,

01:00:59.980 --> 01:01:02.000
when they are pulled into a place they are not

01:01:02.000 --> 01:01:05.679
supposed to be. That, looks to Arhalon, who like

01:01:05.679 --> 01:01:08.519
nods, kind of gulps this. That is our theory,

01:01:08.659 --> 01:01:13.380
yes. That, kind of slams a fist against the board

01:01:13.380 --> 01:01:18.260
or the wall. That is what we must fight to stop.

01:01:19.179 --> 01:01:22.280
That and so much else. You see it now, right?

01:01:22.659 --> 01:01:27.099
This is big. This is huge. Yet we cannot go forward

01:01:27.099 --> 01:01:28.840
with this, right? We can't tell anybody. They

01:01:28.840 --> 01:01:31.760
will come after us. I don't know who they are,

01:01:31.800 --> 01:01:35.840
though I suspect... Cal stops. I suspect Grandmother's

01:01:35.840 --> 01:01:39.860
a part of it. What do you suspect her aims are?

01:01:40.719 --> 01:01:44.820
Sholay can't possibly wish to see plain absorption

01:01:44.820 --> 01:01:49.699
run through its path and see the disillusion

01:01:49.699 --> 01:01:55.289
of these worlds, can she? She must be working

01:01:55.289 --> 01:01:58.510
to stop it, right? Maybe she can help us. Grandmother's

01:01:58.510 --> 01:02:00.769
ambitious. Maybe we can help her. I believe she

01:02:00.769 --> 01:02:03.849
has the good of the world at heart, but she will

01:02:03.849 --> 01:02:07.250
do dark things. I know she will do dark things

01:02:07.250 --> 01:02:11.570
if she thinks they are right. To what end? Can

01:02:11.570 --> 01:02:14.250
you remind me of what we know about, if anything,

01:02:14.550 --> 01:02:18.369
about their father? That's a thing. You only

01:02:18.369 --> 01:02:21.489
know that you can't. It's like something is stopping

01:02:21.489 --> 01:02:24.300
you from remembering it. Okay. As players, you

01:02:24.300 --> 01:02:25.719
remember the line that Itzman wrote that said,

01:02:25.840 --> 01:02:29.420
what did Sholay do? Right. But as characters,

01:02:29.500 --> 01:02:32.840
that's gone. It was just my thought because Sholay

01:02:32.840 --> 01:02:37.019
seems like she knows everything. I'm going to

01:02:37.019 --> 01:02:39.039
take that thought and continue it on. Okay. There's

01:02:39.039 --> 01:02:41.119
a reason why Sholay thinks that might seem like

01:02:41.119 --> 01:02:44.260
she knows everything. Because Sholay, it's buried

01:02:44.260 --> 01:02:45.920
in lore. It's very important. Sholay's the one

01:02:45.920 --> 01:02:47.699
that discovered the signal. She founded it. Right.

01:02:47.820 --> 01:02:50.820
Because she came to discover a certain group.

01:02:51.779 --> 01:02:55.380
Beings that may hold all the arcane and planar

01:02:55.380 --> 01:02:57.380
knowledge of all this world. Do you remember

01:02:57.380 --> 01:02:59.840
what those beings are, gentlemen? I remember,

01:03:00.019 --> 01:03:02.199
I know. It was through a turquoise stone, wasn't

01:03:02.199 --> 01:03:03.760
it? I know exactly. A turquoise stone, which

01:03:03.760 --> 01:03:08.940
would be connected to... Perhaps? The dude that

01:03:08.940 --> 01:03:12.579
was in... The guys that we went to see. You said

01:03:12.579 --> 01:03:14.340
their names earlier. You got it. You said their

01:03:14.340 --> 01:03:16.500
names earlier. The Incarnates. The Incarnates,

01:03:16.500 --> 01:03:20.539
yes, yes, yes. The Dawn Incarnates. And Blanche.

01:03:21.179 --> 01:03:25.300
You just became a luminary. By custom. Oh. You're

01:03:25.300 --> 01:03:26.619
supposed to meet with one of those guys, aren't

01:03:26.619 --> 01:03:29.239
you? Nice, nice. Yeah. I guess my next question

01:03:29.239 --> 01:03:33.320
then is, this lore, did it come from Sholay or

01:03:33.320 --> 01:03:37.360
an outside party? That's hard to say. Okay. There's

01:03:37.360 --> 01:03:40.380
so much still to figure out. So much still to

01:03:40.380 --> 01:03:42.920
learn. What does this all have to do with Ozen?

01:03:43.400 --> 01:03:46.480
Who seemed to know this, that line, what I do,

01:03:46.519 --> 01:03:49.579
I do for Shadrakhan. It seems to imply that Ozen

01:03:49.579 --> 01:03:52.989
knew everything. But when? Or at least more.

01:03:53.690 --> 01:03:57.869
Now. Ozen knows something, Jules. And I have

01:03:57.869 --> 01:04:01.250
to find out what it is. We have to find out what

01:04:01.250 --> 01:04:06.190
it is. I go wherever you go. Cool. If I may.

01:04:08.309 --> 01:04:10.170
That's the coolest thing that Blanche has ever

01:04:10.170 --> 01:04:13.389
said. Let me take that line to use as a transition,

01:04:13.610 --> 01:04:16.690
a voiceover, echoing. Say it again. But just

01:04:16.690 --> 01:04:18.590
do like a cool like. Go, go, go. Yeah, make it

01:04:18.590 --> 01:04:22.260
cooler. Do that. What did I say? I go wherever

01:04:22.260 --> 01:04:26.260
you go. Go, go, go, go. I go wherever you go.

01:04:26.360 --> 01:04:29.320
Go, go, go, go, go. And we cut to the inside

01:04:29.320 --> 01:04:35.659
of the radiant... Shut up, it's cool. We cut

01:04:35.659 --> 01:04:38.320
to the inside of the radiant citadel proper,

01:04:38.480 --> 01:04:42.099
the preserve of the ancestors, this grand sort

01:04:42.099 --> 01:04:44.280
of natural display and amalgamation of the climates

01:04:44.280 --> 01:04:48.960
of all the worlds. Perhaps a microcosm of what...

01:04:49.130 --> 01:04:52.889
Shadra Khan once was. What are the incarnates?

01:04:52.889 --> 01:04:55.230
So close to it now. It's all coming together

01:04:55.230 --> 01:04:58.170
and you are standing here. Maybe at the end within

01:04:58.170 --> 01:05:01.829
this sort of miniature salt marsh up against

01:05:01.829 --> 01:05:04.110
the grand sort of ocean. It's just moving into

01:05:04.110 --> 01:05:07.670
like this sort of bay. It's very, very hot where

01:05:07.670 --> 01:05:10.670
you stand. Very tropical. And you stand upon

01:05:10.670 --> 01:05:12.789
white pristine beaches very similar to those

01:05:12.789 --> 01:05:15.989
of the Golden Bay looking out. And then with

01:05:15.989 --> 01:05:23.170
a crashing of water. A grand beast made of bastite

01:05:23.170 --> 01:05:26.570
gemstones or of red mauled with bits of mossy

01:05:26.570 --> 01:05:31.750
green. A great caiman, much like Tickalosh, rises

01:05:31.750 --> 01:05:39.349
up and faces you. The sound of a low storm rumbling

01:05:39.349 --> 01:05:45.429
in the air around. And we will see you all. In

01:05:45.429 --> 01:05:48.730
episode 100. Because we'll call it there.