WEBVTT 00:00:01.740 --> 00:00:03.980 Hey, Pants People. Have you checked out the Discord 00:00:03.980 --> 00:00:07.219 yet? We'd love to see you there. So if you find 00:00:07.219 --> 00:00:13.140 us on social media, you can link to the... That 00:00:13.140 --> 00:00:18.420 was my, like, Simspeak. I don't know. It's pretty 00:00:18.420 --> 00:01:07.469 good. It's pretty good. The power to travel freely 00:01:07.469 --> 00:01:09.829 between worlds and enter a rural town. The power 00:01:09.829 --> 00:01:12.049 to charge and arrest anybody they suspect of 00:01:12.049 --> 00:01:14.810 a criminal act. This also extends to the legal 00:01:14.810 --> 00:01:17.189 authority to take lives when they deem it necessary, 00:01:17.370 --> 00:01:19.489 though such events can be investigated and the 00:01:19.489 --> 00:01:21.609 Luminary held accountable if they were not well 00:01:21.609 --> 00:01:24.909 justified in their choice. Psychics, if you can 00:01:24.909 --> 00:01:26.969 believe it, hold pretty much the same powers. 00:01:27.170 --> 00:01:29.790 The main Calliopean, they are granted through 00:01:29.790 --> 00:01:32.370 the Luminary they sign on with. It is in many 00:01:32.370 --> 00:01:35.250 ways a demonstration of trust. The trust we place 00:01:35.250 --> 00:01:37.829 in our heroes. And our trust, that they trust, 00:01:38.049 --> 00:01:40.469 the most trustworthy of folk. Does that make 00:01:40.469 --> 00:01:43.829 any sense? A sidekick exists, more or less, as 00:01:43.829 --> 00:01:45.670 an extension of the luminary they serve. That's 00:01:45.670 --> 00:01:48.250 all. That's the main bit. Given this, we should 00:01:48.250 --> 00:01:50.489 hold sidekicks accountable for the acts of their 00:01:50.489 --> 00:01:52.549 luminaries, just as we should hold to the vice 00:01:52.549 --> 00:01:56.769 versa. And this brings me to Fisher King. You 00:01:56.769 --> 00:01:59.230 know, I've made clear my perspective on the short 00:01:59.230 --> 00:02:01.689 and vile luminary careers that belong black. 00:02:01.989 --> 00:02:04.530 I wonder what kind of ambitious, greedy soul 00:02:04.530 --> 00:02:07.290 lingers within Sean Franklin's own heart, having 00:02:07.290 --> 00:02:10.330 been chosen by the corrupt half -dragon. I tell 00:02:10.330 --> 00:02:16.830 you, I wait for the turtles of Noiri. You guys 00:02:16.830 --> 00:02:19.169 are getting smashed on that. You son of a bitch. 00:02:19.169 --> 00:02:21.150 You fucking, you guys suck. I can't believe how 00:02:21.150 --> 00:02:24.680 much you suck. Ken. What? Can we take half a 00:02:24.680 --> 00:02:26.979 step back or like a step and a half back and 00:02:26.979 --> 00:02:29.139 do like. Now I'm far from my mic though. Bird's 00:02:29.139 --> 00:02:33.800 eye view, 360 degree. I kind of want to break 00:02:33.800 --> 00:02:39.560 down the Ariat standoff in the Ugly Coyote. Oh, 00:02:39.560 --> 00:02:42.280 the Ariat standoff. Because I'm having a tough 00:02:42.280 --> 00:02:45.409 time really kind of understanding. all of the 00:02:45.409 --> 00:02:47.030 politics and everything that goes into this. 00:02:47.210 --> 00:02:48.830 Okay. Yeah. What do you want to know? Give me 00:02:48.830 --> 00:02:51.689 some questions. Honestly, there is, there's a 00:02:51.689 --> 00:02:54.449 lot. I get that. When I had to recap like story 00:02:54.449 --> 00:02:57.289 elements during the, during the last time Zip'd, 00:02:57.330 --> 00:03:00.050 I was like, oh, I see. This is that complex. 00:03:00.430 --> 00:03:02.189 It does feel like a Kingdom Hearts situation 00:03:02.189 --> 00:03:05.210 now. The problem I'm having is you're so much 00:03:05.210 --> 00:03:09.000 smarter than I am. And you expect. more out of 00:03:09.000 --> 00:03:11.699 me than i'm capable of well the problem is i'm 00:03:11.699 --> 00:03:14.120 i i started juggling with one ball and now i'm 00:03:14.120 --> 00:03:16.099 juggling 35 balls and i'm just making sure as 00:03:16.099 --> 00:03:18.060 i go and you're and you're like looking at me 00:03:18.060 --> 00:03:20.580 you're like are you keeping up and i'm like no 00:03:20.580 --> 00:03:22.419 i don't know what you're doing or how you're 00:03:22.419 --> 00:03:26.800 doing it so so okay ariat walks in the other 00:03:26.800 --> 00:03:30.580 coyote yeah we know that ariat was responsible 00:03:30.580 --> 00:03:35.840 for piloting the pearl into the Keening Glen. 00:03:35.939 --> 00:03:37.439 At the very least, you strongly suspected it. 00:03:37.500 --> 00:03:39.939 You had a very good reason to believe after looking 00:03:39.939 --> 00:03:41.479 at him, after seeing that the room was cleared 00:03:41.479 --> 00:03:44.219 out, that the piloting room, when he should have 00:03:44.219 --> 00:03:46.360 had more space in there, he had everyone evacuate 00:03:46.360 --> 00:03:48.520 so he could do something alone in there? That 00:03:48.520 --> 00:03:51.560 seemed really weird. And from there, it all pieces 00:03:51.560 --> 00:03:53.020 fell into place. It just makes sense, right? 00:03:53.219 --> 00:03:54.939 Yeah, so we're operating under that assumption. 00:03:55.439 --> 00:04:04.620 So, yes, yeah. And... So... The fall of... the 00:04:04.620 --> 00:04:07.120 planets, I'm calling them planets, I know they're 00:04:07.120 --> 00:04:09.860 not planets, whatever, the gemstones, is what 00:04:09.860 --> 00:04:13.039 the Sapphire Wyvern, formerly known as Ozen, 00:04:13.120 --> 00:04:17.439 wants. Yeah, and so the gemstones are the connecting 00:04:17.439 --> 00:04:19.360 points between the worlds, right? The worlds 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:22.040 are worlds. They are fragments of one great world, 00:04:22.180 --> 00:04:24.220 right? Imagine if it were like a puzzle. It's 00:04:24.220 --> 00:04:25.759 a puzzle. A full puzzle put together in the middle 00:04:25.759 --> 00:04:28.839 of a table. When the Ray and Sail was formed, 00:04:28.959 --> 00:04:30.740 when the pact was made that kind of bound these 00:04:30.740 --> 00:04:33.360 worlds together through the Citadel, the Sunweaver 00:04:33.360 --> 00:04:36.139 who gave their life to do this, they are now 00:04:36.139 --> 00:04:39.339 the spiraling sort of fossil shape the whole 00:04:39.339 --> 00:04:41.939 city is built on. Imagine that. A big hand slapped 00:04:41.939 --> 00:04:43.500 that puzzle. Their big hand slapped the puzzle. 00:04:43.600 --> 00:04:45.319 The pieces went flying off. They went flying 00:04:45.319 --> 00:04:48.240 off into other planes nearby. And now those planes 00:04:48.240 --> 00:04:49.959 are eating them because they're in the wrong 00:04:49.959 --> 00:04:51.399 spot. They're not where they should be. They're 00:04:51.399 --> 00:04:52.879 somewhere else because they were knocked from 00:04:52.879 --> 00:04:55.480 their original spot. Now, what you've gathered 00:04:55.480 --> 00:04:57.040 from seeking to the incarnate, when you were 00:04:57.040 --> 00:05:00.459 talking to the Bastide Caiman, the idea is the 00:05:00.459 --> 00:05:03.759 Keening Gloom through there is sort of unification. 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:05.899 Their plan was to eventually bring the worlds 00:05:05.899 --> 00:05:09.600 back. So what you might consider from that, what 00:05:09.600 --> 00:05:11.279 Fibro would probably corroborate, what he thinks 00:05:11.279 --> 00:05:15.379 his theory would be, is that when... A world 00:05:15.379 --> 00:05:17.360 is pulled when a gemstone, the connecting point 00:05:17.360 --> 00:05:19.620 for between the Radiant Seydel and a world, Radiant 00:05:19.620 --> 00:05:21.660 Seydel being what holds the worlds in their current 00:05:21.660 --> 00:05:24.439 wrong location. When that connection is broken 00:05:24.439 --> 00:05:26.220 because the gemstones are pulled into the Keening 00:05:26.220 --> 00:05:28.680 Gloom, the soul of the Sunweaver, that connection 00:05:28.680 --> 00:05:30.819 is broken, which means that puzzle piece would 00:05:30.819 --> 00:05:33.160 then be moved back to the table where it should 00:05:33.160 --> 00:05:35.480 be, right? But it's not where the other ones 00:05:35.480 --> 00:05:37.060 are. It's no longer connected through the gemstone. 00:05:37.220 --> 00:05:39.899 So here's at least part of the problem that I 00:05:39.899 --> 00:05:45.060 was. at least was having. So like you talk about, 00:05:45.160 --> 00:05:47.240 okay, yeah, slap the puzzle, blah, blah, blah, 00:05:47.300 --> 00:05:49.480 all the pieces go flying. And what I imagine 00:05:49.480 --> 00:05:52.079 is the piece that is under your hand when you 00:05:52.079 --> 00:05:54.579 actually physically slap a puzzle and all the 00:05:54.579 --> 00:05:57.360 pieces around it go flying is that the center, 00:05:57.480 --> 00:06:02.000 the auroral diamond, stays in the same place. 00:06:02.779 --> 00:06:06.000 So it's like then when you take a world like... 00:06:06.659 --> 00:06:09.139 umizu and it falls into the keen and gloom and 00:06:09.139 --> 00:06:10.600 you say it goes back to the place where it's 00:06:10.600 --> 00:06:14.800 supposed to be what i'm picturing is it being 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:19.420 reunited with the radiant citadel the the the 00:06:19.420 --> 00:06:23.160 auroral diamond where that sits i see so when 00:06:23.160 --> 00:06:26.540 these worlds fall away and go back to where they're 00:06:26.540 --> 00:06:30.100 quote -unquote supposed to be, my brain thinks, 00:06:30.199 --> 00:06:32.360 oh, they're going to be attached to the heart 00:06:32.360 --> 00:06:34.899 of this world, which is the auroral diamond. 00:06:35.040 --> 00:06:37.540 We don't see those, so they're going somewhere 00:06:37.540 --> 00:06:40.560 else. I see, I see. No, that makes sense. But 00:06:40.560 --> 00:06:42.800 in fact, it's essentially the entire opposite. 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:44.839 The auroral diamond is what broke these worlds. 00:06:44.920 --> 00:06:46.779 It's what binds them away from where they're 00:06:46.779 --> 00:06:48.259 supposed to be. The auroral diamond's in the 00:06:48.259 --> 00:06:50.040 ethereal plane, which is kind of like a sort 00:06:50.040 --> 00:06:52.600 of... intermediary plane between other planes, 00:06:52.759 --> 00:06:54.800 where what the worlds are going to is what would 00:06:54.800 --> 00:06:56.459 be called the material plane, the central location 00:06:56.459 --> 00:06:59.079 that all planes feed into creating life. So rather 00:06:59.079 --> 00:07:02.259 than taking a tabletop with a puzzle on it and 00:07:02.259 --> 00:07:05.120 slapping the puzzle, you just fucking flip the 00:07:05.120 --> 00:07:07.420 table. Essentially, yeah. The table has been 00:07:07.420 --> 00:07:09.639 flipped. The puzzle is all over the floor. Somebody 00:07:09.639 --> 00:07:12.339 has righted the table and is starting to pick 00:07:12.339 --> 00:07:16.680 the pieces up, which is gemstones falling into 00:07:16.680 --> 00:07:18.839 the Keening Gloom. And the weird thing is, as 00:07:18.839 --> 00:07:22.540 they're doing that, These people who are bringing 00:07:22.540 --> 00:07:24.399 these things back together are making it out 00:07:24.399 --> 00:07:26.759 purposefully to look like a very bad thing. They're 00:07:26.759 --> 00:07:28.560 creating the storms. Ocean was used to create 00:07:28.560 --> 00:07:31.100 the storm over each world to kind of convert 00:07:31.100 --> 00:07:32.279 this connection to the King of Gloom to make 00:07:32.279 --> 00:07:34.079 it look like the worlds are being destroyed when 00:07:34.079 --> 00:07:36.279 this happened. Atash is investigating and saying, 00:07:36.420 --> 00:07:38.199 you know, this is happening. People are dying. 00:07:38.279 --> 00:07:39.699 Maybe there's something to that. Maybe they are. 00:07:40.040 --> 00:07:42.500 Or maybe he's lying like everyone else says because 00:07:42.500 --> 00:07:45.100 Zebulon says they're not dying. In which case, 00:07:45.100 --> 00:07:47.060 why are they making it sound so bad? Why are 00:07:47.060 --> 00:07:49.180 they trying to make people scared? Let's play 00:07:49.180 --> 00:07:51.740 another game of Explain to Me Like I'm Five. 00:07:51.800 --> 00:07:53.800 Yeah, let's do it. I'm ready. The Sapphire Wyvern 00:07:53.800 --> 00:07:59.180 and Atash want two separate things, right? They 00:07:59.180 --> 00:08:01.240 both want reunification, but they want it in 00:08:01.240 --> 00:08:03.079 different ways. Am I understanding that correctly? 00:08:03.439 --> 00:08:09.199 Do they? Okay. The information that we have currently, 00:08:09.399 --> 00:08:14.120 right, doesn't Atash... Atash wants the worlds 00:08:14.120 --> 00:08:16.139 together, but he wants to do it by force, by 00:08:16.139 --> 00:08:18.079 making people play nice. Let me tell you what. 00:08:18.220 --> 00:08:20.660 All you know about Atash is this. A few things. 00:08:20.800 --> 00:08:24.439 One, he, on his own world, holds these very draconian 00:08:24.439 --> 00:08:27.699 laws where everyone must behave perfectly or 00:08:27.699 --> 00:08:30.420 they'll be going to the Sky Prison. Two, he wants 00:08:30.420 --> 00:08:32.519 to extend that to other worlds, and he wants 00:08:32.519 --> 00:08:34.440 to protect other worlds and bring his forces 00:08:34.440 --> 00:08:36.740 around wherever he can. He wants more control 00:08:36.740 --> 00:08:38.860 because he wants to bring order and bring peace. 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:41.039 And three, and this is the most important part, 00:08:41.159 --> 00:08:43.320 when he first arrived in the Concord Worlds, 00:08:43.539 --> 00:08:46.080 he was fascinated by the Sunweaver. He had no 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:47.299 connection to the Sunweaver. He's from a different 00:08:47.299 --> 00:08:49.679 plane, a celestial plane. Sunweaver, one of the 00:08:49.679 --> 00:08:51.460 Dracon who's wrapped around the Aurel Diamond. 00:08:51.960 --> 00:08:55.100 Yes. So he went to the Incarnates, who were the 00:08:55.100 --> 00:08:57.279 Sunweaver's allies, also Dracon, now bound to 00:08:57.279 --> 00:08:59.000 these gemstone forms. And he went to all of them 00:08:59.000 --> 00:09:00.750 and was saying, hey, guys. I want to help. I'm 00:09:00.750 --> 00:09:02.190 with you. We're together. What are we doing? 00:09:02.289 --> 00:09:04.669 And they're like, nah, Atash, we got this. We're 00:09:04.669 --> 00:09:07.149 going to wait, you know, a couple more eons and 00:09:07.149 --> 00:09:08.649 we'll get this figured out. They're not ready 00:09:08.649 --> 00:09:11.230 yet. And Atash is like, no, they're ready. We're 00:09:11.230 --> 00:09:13.269 going to make this happen. I will make sure it 00:09:13.269 --> 00:09:16.190 happens. And they all were upset with him. But 00:09:16.190 --> 00:09:17.649 what's interesting about that and what you probably 00:09:17.649 --> 00:09:20.429 in hindsight realize and think about is, well, 00:09:20.509 --> 00:09:22.669 one of them wouldn't be upset about that. One 00:09:22.669 --> 00:09:25.850 of the Dracon, one of the incarnates. would probably 00:09:25.850 --> 00:09:28.070 have really, really liked what Atash was putting 00:09:28.070 --> 00:09:30.929 down. Gotcha. The Sapphire Wyvern and Atash would 00:09:30.929 --> 00:09:33.450 have met if the Bastai came in to be believed. 00:09:33.549 --> 00:09:38.809 Okay, yeah. All right, so all of the posturing 00:09:38.809 --> 00:09:42.990 that Blanche did last episode was because I, 00:09:43.009 --> 00:09:45.450 Stephen, thought that the Sapphire Wyvern and 00:09:45.450 --> 00:09:48.809 Atash wanted different things, or at least wanted 00:09:48.809 --> 00:09:52.730 the same thing through different means. So Blanche 00:09:52.730 --> 00:09:57.639 was talking to... Ariat like hey I know you did 00:09:57.639 --> 00:10:01.460 a bad thing something that the Sapphire Wyvern 00:10:01.460 --> 00:10:07.759 wants I'm gonna tell your daddy who is Atash 00:10:07.759 --> 00:10:11.620 that you did a bad thing unless you give me what 00:10:11.620 --> 00:10:16.120 I want and now I'm sort of learning slash realizing 00:10:16.120 --> 00:10:20.940 that and Jeremy mentioned this earlier he was 00:10:20.940 --> 00:10:24.460 like well yeah I mean don't you think that It 00:10:24.460 --> 00:10:28.600 was just a cover. Like, Ariat did a thing so 00:10:28.600 --> 00:10:32.740 that Atash could react the way he did and gain 00:10:32.740 --> 00:10:35.820 power. I can't say yes or no, but Atash definitely 00:10:35.820 --> 00:10:37.600 made good off of what happened there. It gave 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:39.220 him a legitimate reason to do what he's doing. 00:10:39.940 --> 00:10:42.019 Yeah. The pieces are fitting together. You see 00:10:42.019 --> 00:10:43.480 that the storms are created, which causes the 00:10:43.480 --> 00:10:45.360 shield bears to have to react in an emergency 00:10:45.360 --> 00:10:47.639 situation. In an emergency situation, Arya takes 00:10:47.639 --> 00:10:49.639 control of the gemstone. That's shield bear policy. 00:10:50.019 --> 00:10:52.740 And if he's somehow using that to pull them in, 00:10:52.840 --> 00:10:54.519 then that's also part of the puzzle. It's like 00:10:54.519 --> 00:10:56.519 everything's coming together. And Atash might 00:10:56.519 --> 00:10:59.080 be using this whole thing, maybe, from what you 00:10:59.080 --> 00:11:03.159 say, to cause fear to gain power. Because when 00:11:03.159 --> 00:11:05.519 people are scared, they look to Atash. Here is 00:11:05.519 --> 00:11:08.539 another part of my... My problem and maybe where 00:11:08.539 --> 00:11:11.960 I'm getting some misunderstanding is the terminology 00:11:11.960 --> 00:11:16.320 gemstone. Like I have been sort of seeing them 00:11:16.320 --> 00:11:20.299 as meaning both the quote unquote world, like 00:11:20.299 --> 00:11:22.299 the world of Tithos. Oh, because I always call 00:11:22.299 --> 00:11:24.600 it the gemstone world. Yeah. Yeah. I see. And 00:11:24.600 --> 00:11:28.639 the like ship. that goes back and forth. That 00:11:28.639 --> 00:11:30.980 makes sense. I will often say, like, oh, it's 00:11:30.980 --> 00:11:33.100 the pearl world, Umizu. Right. It's not that 00:11:33.100 --> 00:11:34.720 the world is based on the world. They're each 00:11:34.720 --> 00:11:36.840 represented by a... They're represented by pearls. 00:11:36.919 --> 00:11:38.879 So not only is there a pearl gemstone that connects 00:11:38.879 --> 00:11:39.960 them, the incarnate made of pearls... The pearl 00:11:39.960 --> 00:11:42.220 gemstone that connects them is the ship that 00:11:42.220 --> 00:11:44.879 travels back and forth. Yes, as well as the incarnate 00:11:44.879 --> 00:11:46.240 is made of pearls, so that's kind of part of 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:48.419 that, too. Right. So I kind of just assumed that, 00:11:48.460 --> 00:11:51.419 like, the physical makeup of the world of Tythos 00:11:51.419 --> 00:11:54.480 was of that gemstone. No, no, no, no, no. Like, 00:11:54.480 --> 00:11:58.139 if you dug down... 10 feet to hit bedrock and 00:11:58.139 --> 00:12:01.019 be like, oh, look at this fucking sapphire. Now, 00:12:01.039 --> 00:12:02.460 it's worth noting that... Oh, dude, I thought 00:12:02.460 --> 00:12:04.519 that same thing. See? Yeah, I thought that same 00:12:04.519 --> 00:12:06.039 thing. No, that's not true. I mean, whenever 00:12:06.039 --> 00:12:08.500 you referred to the gemstone, I still always 00:12:08.500 --> 00:12:10.960 assumed that you were referring to the ships, 00:12:11.000 --> 00:12:13.679 the transports. I figured that the gemstone ship 00:12:13.679 --> 00:12:15.399 that goes back and forth was like a piece of 00:12:15.399 --> 00:12:16.940 the world. I'm glad we talked about this. Where 00:12:16.940 --> 00:12:20.379 did the gemstones come from? Who knows? They 00:12:20.379 --> 00:12:22.970 came from... Imagine the Citadel. The ethereal 00:12:22.970 --> 00:12:25.330 plane. Now, here's the thing that I should note, 00:12:25.389 --> 00:12:26.649 though, too. Part of why I call it the gemstone 00:12:26.649 --> 00:12:29.809 world is because on every world, the gemstone 00:12:29.809 --> 00:12:31.590 that connects them to their incarnate, the gemstone 00:12:31.590 --> 00:12:34.789 type, and to their actual conquered jewel that 00:12:34.789 --> 00:12:37.690 moves between the worlds, that wholly binds the 00:12:37.690 --> 00:12:39.230 world to the citadel. The jet. We're going to 00:12:39.230 --> 00:12:41.809 call it the jet. The jet. I like it. Also, any 00:12:41.809 --> 00:12:44.230 gemstone of that type on that world, even a mundane 00:12:44.230 --> 00:12:47.090 gemstone, a sapphire on Tythos, will be used 00:12:47.090 --> 00:12:49.929 to see the transmissions coming from the diamond. 00:12:50.009 --> 00:12:52.490 So that's how you see the actual... network. 00:12:52.610 --> 00:12:54.769 And there are just as many naturally occurring 00:12:54.769 --> 00:12:57.629 sapphires on the world of Tythos as there are 00:12:57.629 --> 00:13:00.529 on the world of God's breath because geology. 00:13:00.990 --> 00:13:03.250 Yeah. Huh. So, like, remember I mentioned way 00:13:03.250 --> 00:13:05.909 back when, the turquoise gemstone is that of 00:13:05.909 --> 00:13:08.370 Anker and Sengar. Right. Sholi first heard about 00:13:08.370 --> 00:13:10.330 the Citadel through a message through a turquoise 00:13:10.330 --> 00:13:13.110 gemstone. This is because that is the turquoise 00:13:13.110 --> 00:13:14.889 world, and turquoise gemstones, all turquoise 00:13:14.889 --> 00:13:17.149 gemstones on that world will receive a broadcast 00:13:17.149 --> 00:13:19.029 through the Citadel. But there's still just as 00:13:19.029 --> 00:13:21.470 much turquoise on any other quote -unquote world. 00:13:21.710 --> 00:13:23.970 This is actually why Tithos was so prosperous, 00:13:24.029 --> 00:13:27.269 because Tithos had gemstone mines that did really 00:13:27.269 --> 00:13:28.990 well, and they were able to sell gemstones of 00:13:28.990 --> 00:13:30.730 all types to all worlds, and gemstones are very 00:13:30.730 --> 00:13:32.840 valuable. To all the worlds because they transmit 00:13:32.840 --> 00:13:34.440 the crystal network. I thought it was just because 00:13:34.440 --> 00:13:37.100 of an abundance of sapphire. No, it's all of 00:13:37.100 --> 00:13:39.100 them. Tythos was the main gemstone and porter 00:13:39.100 --> 00:13:41.379 of all the worlds. It was huge because it allowed 00:13:41.379 --> 00:13:43.019 people to actually view the network, which is 00:13:43.019 --> 00:13:45.120 a major part of the industry of all the worlds. 00:13:45.240 --> 00:13:46.860 I love that we're just finding this out now. 00:13:47.460 --> 00:13:51.039 115 episodes in. I'm glad we're doing this. Holy 00:13:51.039 --> 00:13:52.759 shit. I actually have been thinking a lot about 00:13:52.759 --> 00:13:54.879 having episode intros where I just go over something. 00:13:54.980 --> 00:13:56.879 In the Discord, I've had times where people were 00:13:56.879 --> 00:14:01.120 like, hey, break down the entire Zomate Shab, 00:14:01.320 --> 00:14:05.149 Fractured Horn, LaRoche. and I'll just do a whole 00:14:05.149 --> 00:14:06.669 thing on it. And I'm like, I should really say 00:14:06.669 --> 00:14:09.129 this on the show. Or the Zebulon's whole family 00:14:09.129 --> 00:14:11.450 line, the Sholay Brass family line. Really important 00:14:11.450 --> 00:14:15.190 stuff that I drop breadcrumbs of over 200 episodes 00:14:15.190 --> 00:14:17.669 or 100 episodes, whatever. You said in the what? 00:14:17.750 --> 00:14:21.889 Where do you hear all this? The disco. No. No. 00:14:22.450 --> 00:14:26.889 Hell yeah, Jeremy. Take a button. No. Give me 00:14:26.889 --> 00:14:33.549 a button. But yes, okay. A lot of stuff. I hope 00:14:33.549 --> 00:14:37.769 people are still listening. Yeah. I think I have 00:14:37.769 --> 00:14:41.669 a slightly better understanding. But always do 00:14:41.669 --> 00:14:44.110 that. Be able to do this because I realize, as 00:14:44.110 --> 00:14:46.190 I said, this is a very wildly complicated thing. 00:14:46.269 --> 00:14:47.850 It makes a lot of sense to me, but I realize 00:14:47.850 --> 00:14:50.049 when I say it out loud, I'm like, wait, this 00:14:50.049 --> 00:14:52.710 is a lot. Yeah, but so I realized that I just 00:14:52.710 --> 00:14:55.730 walked into a sword fight in the Ugly Coyote. 00:14:56.210 --> 00:14:58.090 With like one of those, you know, when you go 00:14:58.090 --> 00:14:59.490 to a Chinese restaurant, you order a Mai Tai 00:14:59.490 --> 00:15:01.389 and the cherries come on that little plastic 00:15:01.389 --> 00:15:05.429 sword. Yeah. I was brandishing that like it was 00:15:05.429 --> 00:15:07.769 a freaking 10 foot long claymore. I was like, 00:15:07.830 --> 00:15:10.629 I'm going to tell Atash on you. Well, what I 00:15:10.629 --> 00:15:13.529 saw that as is you were making a feint, right? 00:15:13.750 --> 00:15:16.590 Making a strike to see how Aria would react because 00:15:16.590 --> 00:15:18.669 you don't know this. You could have surmised 00:15:18.669 --> 00:15:21.250 that Atash might be working, but like through 00:15:21.250 --> 00:15:23.389 your conversation, through his confidence, maybe 00:15:23.389 --> 00:15:24.990 you're getting a little more sure that like, 00:15:25.029 --> 00:15:27.559 okay. This might be a full connection. This is 00:15:27.559 --> 00:15:29.639 worse than I could have possibly imagined. Like 00:15:29.639 --> 00:15:31.480 this could be just Blanche trying to gather information 00:15:31.480 --> 00:15:33.659 because right now that's what you guys need to 00:15:33.659 --> 00:15:36.019 do. Gather information. The world's turned against 00:15:36.019 --> 00:15:38.379 you. A lot of shit has gone really, really bad. 00:15:38.820 --> 00:15:40.879 Forces are moving and gaining power faster than 00:15:40.879 --> 00:15:44.779 you can stop them. Yeah, faster than we can comprehend 00:15:44.779 --> 00:15:46.980 because I feel like I know less now than I did 00:15:46.980 --> 00:15:51.299 two episodes ago. Well, maybe this episode can 00:15:51.299 --> 00:15:54.100 change that. Okay. Okay. Wait, we're going to 00:15:54.100 --> 00:15:56.639 play? We're going to play. Oh, yeah, we've got 00:15:56.639 --> 00:15:58.200 a game to play. We've got 10 more minutes here. 00:15:58.399 --> 00:16:01.120 Yeah, exactly. Yeah, literally, what are we at? 00:16:01.759 --> 00:16:04.240 Actually, yeah, this is the longest actual banter 00:16:04.240 --> 00:16:05.700 we've had in a little while. We're at 16 minutes. 00:16:05.980 --> 00:16:09.500 Woo! Damn. We'll call it. Actually, it might 00:16:09.500 --> 00:16:11.539 not be exactly 16 minutes after I cut things 00:16:11.539 --> 00:16:14.399 and edit down. It also might not exactly be banter 00:16:14.399 --> 00:16:17.980 either. I think it's a pretty relevant show. 00:16:19.200 --> 00:16:24.090 So hopefully... It's lore. As banter. Yeah, yeah, 00:16:24.090 --> 00:16:26.210 yeah. Exactly. Lore in the, yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:16:26.230 --> 00:16:28.070 If you want more of this, more lore recaps and 00:16:28.070 --> 00:16:30.289 question answering and all that for banter, hit 00:16:30.289 --> 00:16:33.230 us up on the Instagram. Join our Patreon. There 00:16:33.230 --> 00:16:34.649 we go. Guess what? We don't have one. It's for 00:16:34.649 --> 00:16:38.070 free. Yeah. Just don't go on our Discord. We 00:16:38.070 --> 00:16:42.990 don't want you. Hey. Hey. That's free too. The 00:16:42.990 --> 00:16:49.360 door is still. Closing behind Arya. We're picking 00:16:49.360 --> 00:16:51.259 up right where he left off. Dude, I wanted to 00:16:51.259 --> 00:16:54.200 cast Hold Person so bad. Would have been a scary 00:16:54.200 --> 00:16:57.379 move. He wanders out into the night and you are 00:16:57.379 --> 00:17:00.960 left in this sort of silence. You had this very 00:17:00.960 --> 00:17:04.339 intense conversation last time. You had this, 00:17:04.359 --> 00:17:07.819 I guess, a true stalemate. You basically said, 00:17:07.960 --> 00:17:09.539 hey, I'll destroy you if you destroy me. I know 00:17:09.539 --> 00:17:12.539 things about you. You can make things up about 00:17:12.539 --> 00:17:16.569 me. You have some power here. And the end. After 00:17:16.569 --> 00:17:19.450 a rousing speech from Jules, that was phenomenal, 00:17:20.230 --> 00:17:24.950 he just walked away silently. But there are still 00:17:24.950 --> 00:17:27.769 questions lingering behind him in his shadow. 00:17:28.569 --> 00:17:31.650 Dance still being held at the barracks. That 00:17:31.650 --> 00:17:33.849 invitation still opened Jules. Are you going 00:17:33.849 --> 00:17:36.970 to go visit her? And if you do, what are you 00:17:36.970 --> 00:17:39.289 going to say? Are you going to let her go away 00:17:39.289 --> 00:17:42.690 for what she did? Or will you try to talk her 00:17:42.690 --> 00:17:46.400 into playing ball? With the shield there is with 00:17:46.400 --> 00:17:49.740 Atash. It's a tough choice, I imagine, because, 00:17:49.779 --> 00:17:54.160 I mean. I haven't decided yet. You know? Nope. 00:17:54.220 --> 00:17:58.599 I guess we'll see what happens. Beyond that, 00:17:58.700 --> 00:18:00.400 you know you have a meeting with Sholay tomorrow 00:18:00.400 --> 00:18:04.440 night at 11 p .m. in Oraltown at her lair, which 00:18:04.440 --> 00:18:07.339 is her home, her manor. But she's a dragon. It's 00:18:07.339 --> 00:18:10.980 her lair. What would you want to do in the meantime? 00:18:11.920 --> 00:18:13.819 You can look into other things, too. Orin definitely 00:18:13.819 --> 00:18:15.819 was a weird thing that happened. Maybe you can 00:18:15.819 --> 00:18:18.779 find a way to get to Orin, figure out what's 00:18:18.779 --> 00:18:20.539 going on there. I don't know. You know what the 00:18:20.539 --> 00:18:24.819 worst part is? I haven't taken the time to prepare 00:18:24.819 --> 00:18:27.380 my spells for the day. We can all just go to 00:18:27.380 --> 00:18:30.099 the beach, do a beach episode. A beach episode! 00:18:30.680 --> 00:18:33.099 Wouldn't that be so nice? I'll pack a picnic. 00:18:33.380 --> 00:18:39.190 Relax, open a picnic basket, catch some... rays 00:18:39.190 --> 00:18:42.309 and some waves and not worry about any of this. 00:18:42.369 --> 00:18:45.750 Oh my God. I just had this image of Blanche sunbathing. 00:18:45.950 --> 00:18:48.849 Yeah, dude. You know, the Blanche Baywatch again. 00:18:51.369 --> 00:18:56.849 Um, has Jules checked in with Fibro yet? Uh, 00:18:57.029 --> 00:18:58.829 Fibro has been around. He was there talking to 00:18:58.829 --> 00:19:00.849 Arhalon the other day. He's been here just kind 00:19:00.849 --> 00:19:03.369 of researching, but. Yeah, I mean, the Jerry 00:19:03.369 --> 00:19:05.369 Lights are all here. They've been, you know, 00:19:05.369 --> 00:19:07.170 kind of present. They're happy to have you back. 00:19:07.309 --> 00:19:10.029 They're delighted to have Dresden around. He'd 00:19:10.029 --> 00:19:14.750 never like, I think he only ever met Miskin and... 00:19:15.049 --> 00:19:17.529 um round stuff on sansatyan as well as chester 00:19:17.529 --> 00:19:19.569 before sansatyan so the others haven't really 00:19:19.569 --> 00:19:21.789 known their their secret protector their guardian 00:19:21.789 --> 00:19:23.849 angel within the tower way back when you know 00:19:23.849 --> 00:19:25.690 so i think they've been thrilled to finally meet 00:19:25.690 --> 00:19:27.990 dresden round stuff when she's awake is climbing 00:19:27.990 --> 00:19:30.470 all over dude i was just gonna say i imagine 00:19:30.470 --> 00:19:32.630 that round stuff is generally always like on 00:19:32.630 --> 00:19:34.930 dresden like on his shoulders but he's going 00:19:34.930 --> 00:19:37.750 around his normal business just not even acknowledging 00:19:37.750 --> 00:19:39.829 that she's there she doesn't realize her be there 00:19:39.829 --> 00:19:42.490 she's Going down his arms and up his shoulders. 00:19:42.690 --> 00:19:45.210 Got like a little monkey or something you got 00:19:45.210 --> 00:19:47.769 going around. Little bird on your shoulder. And 00:19:47.769 --> 00:19:49.269 occasionally when he needs a break, he just puts 00:19:49.269 --> 00:19:50.970 an echo in place. And she jumps on that and he 00:19:50.970 --> 00:19:56.150 walks out of the room. Just standing there. Yeah. 00:19:57.170 --> 00:20:01.049 I should note one thing. Ader sort of comes out 00:20:01.049 --> 00:20:04.470 from the back room after. Oh, how are you already 00:20:04.470 --> 00:20:06.809 gone? Oh, it's for me. And kind of grabs the 00:20:06.809 --> 00:20:12.900 money greedily. Stuff's in a bag. Well, there's 00:20:12.900 --> 00:20:14.519 something I want to talk to you about real quick 00:20:14.519 --> 00:20:18.440 while I got you here. This place has probably 00:20:18.440 --> 00:20:20.880 just had a huge target painted on it, right? 00:20:21.039 --> 00:20:22.839 I mean, everyone knows y 'all are staying here. 00:20:23.220 --> 00:20:26.279 Everyone kind of sort of hates y 'all. Sooner 00:20:26.279 --> 00:20:27.440 or later, there's going to be trouble. I have 00:20:27.440 --> 00:20:30.920 to imagine there's going to be trouble. So we 00:20:30.920 --> 00:20:34.490 need someone around to take care of. I can fight. 00:20:34.569 --> 00:20:37.289 I can rumble a bit, but I'm not. I'm no armed 00:20:37.289 --> 00:20:40.150 luminary. And he just kind of looks at the three 00:20:40.150 --> 00:20:44.369 of you, Blanche, Jules, and Dresden like, oh, 00:20:44.509 --> 00:20:46.589 is there anyone willing to, I guess, stick around 00:20:46.589 --> 00:20:49.569 next time y 'all are out on whatever crazy quest 00:20:49.569 --> 00:20:51.750 you're on and keep an eye on the kids. I'm in 00:20:51.750 --> 00:20:56.589 front of the kids. Do you study real estate much, 00:20:56.609 --> 00:21:03.240 David? No, what? So what I'm getting at is like 00:21:03.240 --> 00:21:07.539 in world, what does a place like the ugly coyote 00:21:07.539 --> 00:21:12.759 cost? This is a piece of property. Okay. The 00:21:12.759 --> 00:21:15.259 building itself, not going to cost a whole lot. 00:21:15.359 --> 00:21:17.160 It's, it's, you know, it's somewhat ramshackle. 00:21:17.160 --> 00:21:19.200 It's older. The kind of property that someone 00:21:19.200 --> 00:21:20.900 new coming in and probably like level and build 00:21:20.900 --> 00:21:24.019 something new. That's better. But this is property, 00:21:24.180 --> 00:21:25.579 even if it's at the end of the trade discount, 00:21:25.680 --> 00:21:27.779 the tail end, the cheapest area you can find 00:21:27.779 --> 00:21:30.400 on the Radiant Citadel. This is property on the 00:21:30.400 --> 00:21:33.220 Radiant Citadel. Any business owner worth anything 00:21:33.220 --> 00:21:35.519 wants property here. How Ader managed to afford 00:21:35.519 --> 00:21:37.460 a place in the Radiant Citadel is already kind 00:21:37.460 --> 00:21:41.240 of crazy and a little suspicious. You have to 00:21:41.240 --> 00:21:44.460 imagine, at least like the property, costs a 00:21:44.460 --> 00:21:47.079 ton. I can't put a number on it right now, but 00:21:47.079 --> 00:21:49.279 more than you have, more than you're going to 00:21:49.279 --> 00:21:50.900 have for a long time. Okay, sure. All right. 00:21:51.690 --> 00:21:54.430 Very limited space on this giant fossil. Yeah. 00:21:54.509 --> 00:21:57.890 Okay. Should I be worried about that money that 00:21:57.890 --> 00:22:00.509 Aedir just took? No, it was just the money. Okay. 00:22:01.470 --> 00:22:03.269 You saw my money twice. I should bring out money. 00:22:04.109 --> 00:22:07.289 Payout, guys. After that last arc, obviously, 00:22:07.630 --> 00:22:10.309 time to make some money, right? You get nothing. 00:22:10.509 --> 00:22:12.109 I was going to say. Everyone hates you. There's 00:22:12.109 --> 00:22:15.160 no payout. You got sword and a cool new loot. 00:22:15.460 --> 00:22:17.660 Peppers, Peppers is bankrupt. Okay, yeah, Jules 00:22:17.660 --> 00:22:19.400 is going to reach across the bar then and take 00:22:19.400 --> 00:22:21.559 that money out of Vader's pocket. No, no, please. 00:22:21.839 --> 00:22:26.759 That's mine. Yeah, I mean, honestly, your sponsors 00:22:26.759 --> 00:22:28.599 are not doing well. No money came to you this 00:22:28.599 --> 00:22:30.220 last week after everything that's going on. It's 00:22:30.220 --> 00:22:32.299 just like, it's kind of a standstill right now. 00:22:32.759 --> 00:22:36.480 This is a weird system. Come at me, pants people. 00:22:36.720 --> 00:22:38.319 They're not getting rewarded. They got some cool 00:22:38.319 --> 00:22:42.140 shit. I will say, though. One of you did get 00:22:42.140 --> 00:22:46.839 a substantial reward. 2 ,000 gold to the post 00:22:46.839 --> 00:22:50.680 -mortem. Post -mortem. Post -mortem. Almost. 00:22:51.019 --> 00:22:54.279 Post? After? The very, very dead -killed Crispin 00:22:54.279 --> 00:22:58.059 Dubois, all to be sent, and sent probably with 00:22:58.059 --> 00:23:01.079 Arhalon, through Arhalon, to his Warren. they 00:23:01.079 --> 00:23:03.920 will be very prosperous. One last huge, I mean, 00:23:03.940 --> 00:23:06.299 all like donations coming in. Crispin's still 00:23:06.299 --> 00:23:08.880 being heralded as the hero who tried, who tried 00:23:08.880 --> 00:23:11.660 to stop what happened and fell. People believe 00:23:11.660 --> 00:23:14.420 he died fighting Ozen. So he's not even getting 00:23:14.420 --> 00:23:16.240 that from Sholay. He's just getting that from 00:23:16.240 --> 00:23:19.839 like crowdfunded. Probably some from Sholay, 00:23:19.880 --> 00:23:21.019 some are crowdfunded. It's a bit of everything. 00:23:21.240 --> 00:23:23.940 Yeah. But I'll say 2 ,000 gold. Would it be more 00:23:23.940 --> 00:23:25.980 like going to his pocket? Maybe Sholay will give 00:23:25.980 --> 00:23:28.400 more. 2 ,000 gold that you know of publicly. 00:23:28.599 --> 00:23:31.220 Yeah. His pockets are. Dead and not breathing, 00:23:31.259 --> 00:23:33.420 though. Yeah. But I'm just saying, money went 00:23:33.420 --> 00:23:35.700 to the Warren. Okay. That's very nice of you. 00:23:35.859 --> 00:23:38.279 I didn't do anything. Glad to see you still have 00:23:38.279 --> 00:23:39.940 those muscles. I tried to stop them, honestly. 00:23:39.940 --> 00:23:46.940 Nice ones. Tried to stop them. Well, Ada, like 00:23:46.940 --> 00:23:50.299 I said last episode, we don't want to burden 00:23:50.299 --> 00:23:54.279 you or put you out. Would it be best if we were 00:23:54.279 --> 00:23:58.099 to leave? Let you resume business as usual? No, 00:23:58.099 --> 00:24:00.640 people know you go here. I'm still gonna... Look, 00:24:00.799 --> 00:24:03.759 I think it's best you stay here. But that one 00:24:03.759 --> 00:24:06.240 of you maybe kind of always stays here, if you 00:24:06.240 --> 00:24:12.799 catch my drift. We need security here. This shouldn't 00:24:12.799 --> 00:24:18.859 be your worry, Ada. I'm humbled and apologetic. 00:24:18.900 --> 00:24:22.460 This is not your problem. There are enough of 00:24:22.460 --> 00:24:27.779 us that... We can see the children are safe. 00:24:29.099 --> 00:24:36.640 If you want or need to leave... Oh, no! I don't 00:24:36.640 --> 00:24:39.660 want to leave my... You see he kind of looks 00:24:39.660 --> 00:24:41.539 a little nervous in the words, almost like he's 00:24:41.539 --> 00:24:44.039 a little affronted, and he looks and his eyes 00:24:44.039 --> 00:24:46.940 fall on round stuff climbing on Dresden and on 00:24:46.940 --> 00:24:49.779 Miskin hiding behind a chair and on... Maybe 00:24:49.779 --> 00:24:52.420 he leans back towards the door where Mulligan's 00:24:52.420 --> 00:24:53.819 humming to himself while he's cooking and he's... 00:24:54.160 --> 00:24:57.759 I, um, I ain't leaving the kids. I know that 00:24:57.759 --> 00:25:02.559 you care about them. Is there a safer place where 00:25:02.559 --> 00:25:05.480 you can take them? They're a target here just 00:25:05.480 --> 00:25:08.500 as much as we are. If someone's coming after 00:25:08.500 --> 00:25:11.160 us, I'm afraid they're going to find them. It's 00:25:11.160 --> 00:25:13.299 all public knowledge. Jules has people here. 00:25:13.460 --> 00:25:17.140 Dresden has people here. But I think it's okay. 00:25:17.200 --> 00:25:19.500 I don't expect a lot to come after us. Just maybe 00:25:19.500 --> 00:25:23.079 some folk are going to cause some trouble. My 00:25:23.079 --> 00:25:25.480 alarm's going off. Hang on. Speaking of trouble. 00:25:26.980 --> 00:25:28.799 No, it needs a little more time in the oven. 00:25:29.019 --> 00:25:30.819 What are you doing? Get out of my kitchen. Sorry, 00:25:30.960 --> 00:25:38.119 sorry. It's my alarm for the... Anyway. I hope 00:25:38.119 --> 00:25:43.559 that catches on the mic. Okay, so Ader's not 00:25:43.559 --> 00:25:45.220 going anywhere. Ader's not going anywhere. He 00:25:45.220 --> 00:25:48.200 wants someone to stay here. This is DM David 00:25:48.200 --> 00:25:52.220 zipping open the story and pointing to Dresden 00:25:52.220 --> 00:25:54.539 and saying, get out. Get out of here. I don't 00:25:54.539 --> 00:25:56.059 want you hanging out with Jules. There's three 00:25:56.059 --> 00:25:58.160 of you. I can't have Jules. Wait, why would Dresden 00:25:58.160 --> 00:26:00.160 leave if someone needs to be here all the time? 00:26:00.240 --> 00:26:02.220 No, what I mean is get out of the party. I don't 00:26:02.220 --> 00:26:03.799 want Jeremy to have two characters walking around. 00:26:03.900 --> 00:26:06.640 Oh, okay. This is DM David creating an excuse 00:26:06.640 --> 00:26:10.730 to push gently Dresden to stay. Or Jules, one 00:26:10.730 --> 00:26:12.930 of the two. I mean, no, Dresden is already locked 00:26:12.930 --> 00:26:15.230 in. Okay. Yeah. All right, hell yeah. He's staying. 00:26:15.430 --> 00:26:19.309 Okay, cool. Steven's like, we get all the arguments 00:26:19.309 --> 00:26:23.730 from like, Steven, I just want... Please. Okay, 00:26:23.930 --> 00:26:27.349 I understand now. We will chain Dresden to the 00:26:27.349 --> 00:26:31.329 door. Thank you, I really appreciate that. What 00:26:31.329 --> 00:26:37.130 the fuck is this? What are you doing? I like 00:26:37.130 --> 00:26:42.519 the way you talk, says Miskin. Oh, my God. This 00:26:42.519 --> 00:26:48.440 is my thing. What? No. What? Damn. Oh, I shouldn't 00:26:48.440 --> 00:26:51.119 swear. Sorry. I'm a child. Oh, we need to have 00:26:51.119 --> 00:26:53.380 an entire conversation with Dresden and Fiskin. 00:26:53.619 --> 00:26:55.700 Wait, are we talking like this now? Who's who? 00:26:56.019 --> 00:26:59.660 Who are you? Ader's got a cold now. You know 00:26:59.660 --> 00:27:01.140 that Spider -Man comic where everybody's pointing 00:27:01.140 --> 00:27:07.299 at each other? Second episode, guys. Just... 00:27:07.529 --> 00:27:09.650 Be aware. Why did we do this? Second episode, 00:27:09.730 --> 00:27:14.250 folks. All right. Refocus. Yeah. We're here. 00:27:14.529 --> 00:27:17.809 Dresden is staying at the Coyote. Yeah. To protect 00:27:17.809 --> 00:27:20.410 the babies. Keep everyone safe. Someone needs 00:27:20.410 --> 00:27:21.809 to stay here. If you guys, everyone's going to 00:27:21.809 --> 00:27:23.509 wander out, say, to go to meet Sholay, go do 00:27:23.509 --> 00:27:25.410 whatever you're going to do. Someone should stay 00:27:25.410 --> 00:27:27.309 here is what he's saying. Right. So we're going 00:27:27.309 --> 00:27:30.009 to meet Sholay, but in like 24 hours. We have 00:27:30.009 --> 00:27:31.490 three luminaries and one of them should stay 00:27:31.490 --> 00:27:33.710 behind if things happen. That's all. So what 00:27:33.710 --> 00:27:36.250 do we do between now and the 24 hours? What other 00:27:36.250 --> 00:27:40.130 allies do we have? Where is Sturgeman? Is he 00:27:40.130 --> 00:27:43.630 on Noiri? Probably. Last you saw on the network, 00:27:43.690 --> 00:27:45.950 he was on Noiri. He'd been investigating Amos 00:27:45.950 --> 00:27:49.450 Nier's very sudden death, which Jules would rightfully 00:27:49.450 --> 00:27:52.430 know was... Killed him. Yeah. Sturgeman killed 00:27:52.430 --> 00:27:54.529 him, put Larissa in charge. Larissa brought Atash 00:27:54.529 --> 00:27:58.029 in. They're trying to make Noiri better. But 00:27:58.029 --> 00:28:01.289 in doing so, they handed it over to someone who... 00:28:01.500 --> 00:28:04.279 I guess you guys don't fully trust. Right. Another 00:28:04.279 --> 00:28:06.900 ally you have, I don't know if there's a way 00:28:06.900 --> 00:28:08.000 you can get a hold of them. For one thing, you 00:28:08.000 --> 00:28:11.000 do have the Sturge Stone. Say it. Say it. Oh, 00:28:11.259 --> 00:28:14.259 I forgot. No way, is it sending Sturge? Sending 00:28:14.259 --> 00:28:18.940 Sturge. I forgot about that. No. Damn it. So 00:28:18.940 --> 00:28:20.720 you can call upon him. That's kind of what I'm 00:28:20.720 --> 00:28:23.359 trying to dig up is like, who are our allies? 00:28:23.480 --> 00:28:27.319 Who can we contact? We have Sturge Man as an 00:28:27.319 --> 00:28:31.720 ally. We have the Sturge Stone. We have... Never 00:28:31.720 --> 00:28:37.799 Eyes as a... You know Never Lies? Never Lies, 00:28:37.839 --> 00:28:39.740 sorry. How do you know Never Lies? When did you 00:28:39.740 --> 00:28:43.819 read Never Lies? Yeah, I wonder. But do we have 00:28:43.819 --> 00:28:49.480 any idea where Never Lies lies or how to get 00:28:49.480 --> 00:28:52.819 a hold of them? You do not. Okay. Maybe you can 00:28:52.819 --> 00:28:55.660 find a way. It's a hard thing. You can investigate 00:28:55.660 --> 00:28:57.779 anything here, but we'll put it on here what 00:28:57.779 --> 00:29:01.289 you know so far. You can go visit dance. You 00:29:01.289 --> 00:29:03.990 can, I mean, I don't know. That's the thing, 00:29:04.049 --> 00:29:07.089 is it's really, like, the moves that we have 00:29:07.089 --> 00:29:11.589 are Jules' moves. We have go visit dance or talk 00:29:11.589 --> 00:29:14.690 to our arguably most powerful ally, Sturgeman. 00:29:14.809 --> 00:29:17.390 Yeah. The other option is you could try to figure 00:29:17.390 --> 00:29:18.829 out what's really going on with Orn and Jules. 00:29:18.910 --> 00:29:22.730 Well, I was just about to bring up, Stephen, 00:29:22.809 --> 00:29:25.089 I don't remember if you had said this on mic 00:29:25.089 --> 00:29:29.569 or off mic. Who's mic? Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, 00:29:29.829 --> 00:29:31.849 I think that was the beginning of last episode. 00:29:32.029 --> 00:29:34.970 We were like, yeah, Kiana is probably being held. 00:29:35.069 --> 00:29:39.170 It was my guess. I based off of the insight check 00:29:39.170 --> 00:29:43.690 that we did off of the TV Orin. Yes. Right now, 00:29:43.890 --> 00:29:47.230 I am leaning towards one of those two. Either 00:29:47.230 --> 00:29:54.529 looking into this Orin thing and Kiana or Sturgeman. 00:29:55.190 --> 00:29:58.130 And I kind of want to... check in with Sturgeman. 00:29:58.549 --> 00:30:00.450 That's a great idea. Because that seems like 00:30:00.450 --> 00:30:04.730 the safest of the options. Yeah. I think if we 00:30:04.730 --> 00:30:07.029 were to try to go meet up with Orin, I would 00:30:07.029 --> 00:30:13.109 need to prepare spells. Yeah. That's a difficult, 00:30:13.230 --> 00:30:16.769 if not impossible, task to get counsel with him 00:30:16.769 --> 00:30:22.269 right now. Okay. So what is the plan then? You 00:30:22.269 --> 00:30:25.289 have all these leads out there lingering. What 00:30:25.289 --> 00:30:27.559 do you want to do? Now, you know that Sholay 00:30:27.559 --> 00:30:30.059 can't be a thing until tomorrow. Dance could 00:30:30.059 --> 00:30:31.680 be any time if you're interested in talking to 00:30:31.680 --> 00:30:35.380 her. Sturge Man, again, any time. You have the 00:30:35.380 --> 00:30:39.579 Sending Sturge. Yes. Jules is going to pull out 00:30:39.579 --> 00:30:42.539 the Sending Stone that's connected to Sturge 00:30:42.539 --> 00:30:44.579 Man. No, don't you fucking take this from me. 00:30:44.619 --> 00:30:46.319 I need this. At least call it the Sturge Stone. 00:30:46.420 --> 00:30:48.279 No. The Sturge Stone is so much better than the 00:30:48.279 --> 00:30:50.480 Sending Sturge. Say it. Sturge Stone. What's 00:30:50.480 --> 00:30:52.759 that? You don't have one of those. The sending 00:30:52.759 --> 00:30:55.039 stone that's connected to Sturge, man. You don't 00:30:55.039 --> 00:30:56.839 have one of those either. Come on, give me this. 00:30:56.839 --> 00:30:59.319 Come on, please. Please, Jules, please. I'll 00:30:59.319 --> 00:31:01.640 give you this if you give me a button. No. No 00:31:01.640 --> 00:31:03.920 way. That's a fair trade. Damn it. Sturge stone. 00:31:05.799 --> 00:31:08.599 It's a better name for the item. Butthole's a 00:31:08.599 --> 00:31:16.000 better name for you. Anyway. Hey, serious show. 00:31:16.859 --> 00:31:20.640 I don't know if there's much to say. Through 00:31:20.640 --> 00:31:23.700 the stone. Right. So he's just going to pull 00:31:23.700 --> 00:31:29.799 it out. What out? The stir stone. You up? It 00:31:29.799 --> 00:31:32.619 is late, too. It's like, at this point, it's 00:31:32.619 --> 00:31:34.500 probably, I don't know, like 10 o 'clock. Yeah. 00:31:34.980 --> 00:31:36.880 Wait, it's Jules that has it, right? Yep. Oh, 00:31:36.880 --> 00:31:38.940 yeah, yeah, yeah. I got really confused for a 00:31:38.940 --> 00:31:45.640 second. Need information. Can we talk? It goes 00:31:45.640 --> 00:31:52.609 silent. Then. opening up a line, and not in the 00:31:52.609 --> 00:31:54.970 usual Sturge Man voice you expect, but in that 00:31:54.970 --> 00:31:59.210 sort of almost chipper, you just hear, the pale 00:31:59.210 --> 00:32:04.809 moonlight, two hours, and it goes dead. Oh, baby. 00:32:04.950 --> 00:32:08.029 Oh, awesome. Hell yeah. Awesome. The pale moonlight 00:32:08.029 --> 00:32:10.849 you know has been closed down currently, so perhaps 00:32:10.849 --> 00:32:14.650 a very private place to talk. That's great. I 00:32:14.650 --> 00:32:17.069 guess two hours gives us enough time to drink. 00:32:19.659 --> 00:32:23.000 Speaking of, I'm dry. Oh, my goodness. Look at 00:32:23.000 --> 00:32:26.579 that. My pan's empty. Gives us enough time to 00:32:26.579 --> 00:32:31.160 secure the location. Is that a pertinent thing, 00:32:31.339 --> 00:32:34.259 a smart thing to do right now? Yeah. Yeah, I 00:32:34.259 --> 00:32:37.380 think so. Keep the place safe. Yeah, I love how, 00:32:37.440 --> 00:32:40.200 like, there's just this whole shadows cast over 00:32:40.200 --> 00:32:42.839 the entire story now. Like, you just feel unsafe 00:32:42.839 --> 00:32:46.039 all the time. Yeah, for real. I knew following 00:32:46.039 --> 00:32:48.920 the events of... umizu things are gonna get a 00:32:48.920 --> 00:32:52.480 lot darker in the show and i'm i'm i'm i'm digging 00:32:52.480 --> 00:32:55.519 it you know you have that as a last hail mary 00:32:55.519 --> 00:32:59.019 you have the um the memorial zebulon cross blades 00:32:59.019 --> 00:33:00.759 right uh i think actually i forgot to mention 00:33:00.759 --> 00:33:02.460 i think even just like blazing on the bottom 00:33:02.460 --> 00:33:06.079 of it uh like on a plaque just says justice undying 00:33:06.079 --> 00:33:10.500 um yeah and i think i think at this point dresden 00:33:10.500 --> 00:33:14.819 has brought down most of like the bedding and 00:33:14.819 --> 00:33:18.339 blankets From the kids' rooms. Hey, those are 00:33:18.339 --> 00:33:20.400 my blankets. And set them up, like, in the booths 00:33:20.400 --> 00:33:22.819 and stuff. Are we... Oh, my gosh. Are we doing 00:33:22.819 --> 00:33:25.180 a campout, but in the downstairs inside? Yeah, 00:33:25.200 --> 00:33:28.200 we're having a sleepover. Oh, my gosh. I've never 00:33:28.200 --> 00:33:30.400 had a sleepover before. Well, except every night 00:33:30.400 --> 00:33:32.700 for my whole life. But this is exciting still, 00:33:32.880 --> 00:33:38.279 too. Yeah, from here on out, they're all sleeping 00:33:38.279 --> 00:33:40.799 in the same room. In the main room. Hell, yeah. 00:33:41.859 --> 00:33:44.119 Chester's, uh... I think he was kind of coming 00:33:44.119 --> 00:33:45.599 around for all of this, and you kind of, you 00:33:45.599 --> 00:33:47.220 just feel, like, up against you, like, just very 00:33:47.220 --> 00:33:49.759 close, like, so, uh, big old secret meeting, 00:33:49.839 --> 00:33:50.740 huh? I wasn't there for the first one, right? 00:33:50.799 --> 00:33:55.460 So I'm in, right? I'm in? I'm in? I'm in. Sidekick, 00:33:55.579 --> 00:33:58.160 right? Yeah, you're in. And then you feel a pressure, 00:33:58.220 --> 00:34:01.799 like, up against you. Master Blanche, I would 00:34:01.799 --> 00:34:06.430 also like to be in her of. Well, then I guess 00:34:06.430 --> 00:34:09.050 I won't be casting invisibility before Sturgeman 00:34:09.050 --> 00:34:12.550 gets there since there are now four of us. Big 00:34:12.550 --> 00:34:14.369 puppy dog eyes looking at you. I should tell 00:34:14.369 --> 00:34:17.050 you, Akio, he's been sleeping a lot. I think 00:34:17.050 --> 00:34:18.369 he's been really down and depressed. He's been 00:34:18.369 --> 00:34:20.769 a lot of times sleeping. But whenever he is awake, 00:34:20.969 --> 00:34:25.349 he is two feet behind you at all times. The clattering 00:34:25.349 --> 00:34:28.090 of dog paws just follows you everywhere you go. 00:34:28.329 --> 00:34:30.349 You'll like go sit in the privy and just outside. 00:34:30.860 --> 00:34:33.719 Oh, Master Blanche, it's been quite some time. 00:34:33.820 --> 00:34:36.280 Are you okay? Do you need help? We have got to 00:34:36.280 --> 00:34:38.039 trim those nails. Do you need help in there, 00:34:38.099 --> 00:34:40.599 Master Blanche? David, you sound like Danny when 00:34:40.599 --> 00:34:44.920 I go into the bathroom. Like Akio made one choice 00:34:44.920 --> 00:34:46.440 for himself, and that choice was to dedicate 00:34:46.440 --> 00:34:49.840 his life to a new master. We got to work on him 00:34:49.840 --> 00:34:53.420 still, but he is essentially just your shadow 00:34:53.420 --> 00:34:57.500 now. So I kind of see a little bit of time passing, 00:34:57.599 --> 00:35:02.500 and the four of us, hanging out waiting in the 00:35:02.500 --> 00:35:04.619 pale moonlight. Fuck that place. So you guys 00:35:04.619 --> 00:35:06.480 show up, I will say it's like totally abandoned. 00:35:07.139 --> 00:35:09.320 You kind of maybe sneak around the back. You 00:35:09.320 --> 00:35:10.539 know, I'm not going to, we won't go the whole 00:35:10.539 --> 00:35:12.480 thing, but you can break in, go in, keep it nice 00:35:12.480 --> 00:35:14.840 and quiet. You have spells, you have magic. I'm 00:35:14.840 --> 00:35:16.440 sure you have a way of doing it that it doesn't 00:35:16.440 --> 00:35:19.639 need to take up more time. I'm imagining Blanche 00:35:19.639 --> 00:35:24.079 looking through Turbo's eyes, Bird's eye, around 00:35:24.079 --> 00:35:27.690 the... the perimeter of the pale moonlight. I 00:35:27.690 --> 00:35:30.130 forgot about turbo. Give me, you guys are sitting 00:35:30.130 --> 00:35:32.650 at a table. I bet it's one of those like, like 00:35:32.650 --> 00:35:37.840 full on stove top tables. Like hibachi chef style 00:35:37.840 --> 00:35:40.260 tables. Oh, yeah. Pimlin's got hibachi chef stuff. 00:35:40.280 --> 00:35:42.380 It's great. We were sitting down around one of 00:35:42.380 --> 00:35:45.420 those in this sort of wide area. The room is 00:35:45.420 --> 00:35:48.019 mostly dark, but I think there's some glowing 00:35:48.019 --> 00:35:51.599 stone in the bottom of some aquariums that line 00:35:51.599 --> 00:35:53.940 up inside the room. See these bluish glow and 00:35:53.940 --> 00:35:56.179 fish kind of swirling around. And that's all 00:35:56.179 --> 00:35:57.699 you're kind of seeing, the only light on the 00:35:57.699 --> 00:36:01.800 sides. Turbo's above, flying, watching the streets. 00:36:01.960 --> 00:36:04.179 Give me a perception check from Turbo. Dude, 00:36:04.219 --> 00:36:05.880 this is giving me serious Jurassic Park vibes. 00:36:06.420 --> 00:36:09.500 the scene where they're sitting and eating ice 00:36:09.500 --> 00:36:14.900 cream. I hope Baragod's all right. Somebody's 00:36:14.900 --> 00:36:16.440 going to know what I mean out there. I hope he's 00:36:16.440 --> 00:36:20.579 keeping those magic fingers safe. You said perception? 00:36:20.900 --> 00:36:24.980 Yeah. 11. Okay. Turbo does not see anyone coming. 00:36:25.179 --> 00:36:26.159 Yeah, of course he doesn't. You hit that two 00:36:26.159 --> 00:36:27.780 -hour mark, you don't see it. You're just floating, 00:36:28.119 --> 00:36:31.579 flying. Again, like, you know, nothing really 00:36:31.579 --> 00:36:34.960 stands out out there. What I love about the stealth 00:36:34.960 --> 00:36:38.039 role I just rolled is it was a crit with a character 00:36:38.039 --> 00:36:40.579 with incredibly high stealth. So as you're all 00:36:40.579 --> 00:36:43.920 just sitting there, almost like out of nowhere, 00:36:44.340 --> 00:36:46.739 he's just sitting in the middle of all of you. 00:36:48.059 --> 00:36:51.000 You asked for me. Helmet fully off, just the 00:36:51.000 --> 00:36:54.219 red leather suit. Again, this very clean -shaven, 00:36:54.280 --> 00:36:58.440 almost boyish face, dark skin, wide eyes, and 00:36:58.440 --> 00:37:00.900 this kind of pearly, bright smile. Just suddenly 00:37:00.900 --> 00:37:04.130 right in the middle of all of you. Hello. Jules. 00:37:04.309 --> 00:37:19.769 Ah, Jesus. Whoever. I don't think he's in this 00:37:19.769 --> 00:37:22.269 pantheon. The name of a famous luminary. Oh, 00:37:22.269 --> 00:37:28.750 no. Ah, Blanche Trudeau and Chester, of course. 00:37:29.000 --> 00:37:31.980 I never did thank you, Blanche, personally, for 00:37:31.980 --> 00:37:35.480 what you did for me and my family. Well, we're 00:37:35.480 --> 00:37:39.880 hoping that thanks can come now in the form of 00:37:39.880 --> 00:37:41.880 some information or some advice. Why is there 00:37:41.880 --> 00:37:50.440 a dog? Allow me to introduce Akio, the last student 00:37:50.440 --> 00:37:56.460 of Ozen Yoshikatsu. Ah, Ozen Yoshikatsu, I am 00:37:56.460 --> 00:38:00.960 sorry. It must be hard for you both, having such 00:38:00.960 --> 00:38:05.719 a monster as a master. Well, allow me to explain. 00:38:06.539 --> 00:38:12.039 And she'll kind of fill Sturgeman in about the 00:38:12.039 --> 00:38:18.840 true identity behind... You lay it all out. Right, 00:38:19.039 --> 00:38:21.860 Jeremy? Are you doing this? This guy is one of 00:38:21.860 --> 00:38:24.440 our most powerful allies. Yes. He's one of the 00:38:24.440 --> 00:38:28.300 top luminaries. I don't... I mean, like... Him 00:38:28.300 --> 00:38:30.579 and Sholay, I feel like they need to know the 00:38:30.579 --> 00:38:35.079 truth. Yes. Should we listen first? That's a 00:38:35.079 --> 00:38:38.179 good point. I would like Jules to ask first. 00:38:38.619 --> 00:38:42.280 Okay. What are you seeing out there? What are 00:38:42.280 --> 00:38:46.880 you hearing? Oh, such wonderful things. I should 00:38:46.880 --> 00:38:49.940 thank you again for your work with Larissa. I 00:38:49.940 --> 00:38:52.579 don't know if you heard, but Jules, I did it. 00:38:52.699 --> 00:38:57.179 I did it. Killed him with my own hands. The bastard 00:38:57.179 --> 00:39:00.639 finally died. And I made sure it hurt, too. I 00:39:00.639 --> 00:39:04.659 promise it hurt. We'll talk about Ozen later. 00:39:05.519 --> 00:39:10.360 But now, Noari is safe. The bastard kings of 00:39:10.360 --> 00:39:15.260 coin with their merchant monarchy. Making people 00:39:15.260 --> 00:39:18.320 into prophets. They'll be unseated soon enough. 00:39:19.440 --> 00:39:22.159 Atash will make sure everyone is fed. Everyone 00:39:22.159 --> 00:39:25.139 is happy. He'll take care of them all. Holy shit, 00:39:25.179 --> 00:39:28.280 dude. That was so close. My God. To spilling 00:39:28.280 --> 00:39:32.079 the beans. Oh, my God. I mean, he was the one 00:39:32.079 --> 00:39:34.159 that he got Larissa in. Larissa got Atash in. 00:39:34.340 --> 00:39:36.619 But he doesn't seem to see you as bad as enemies. 00:39:36.739 --> 00:39:38.480 He seems like, from what you're getting from 00:39:38.480 --> 00:39:40.699 this, he isn't to make he's in on anything. He's 00:39:40.699 --> 00:39:43.519 just an Atash fanboy. That's kind of the vibe 00:39:43.519 --> 00:39:44.960 you're getting. Because he didn't, if he was, 00:39:44.980 --> 00:39:47.539 I mean, maybe he's. playing you, but if he was 00:39:47.539 --> 00:39:49.780 a part of whatever this is, would he show up 00:39:49.780 --> 00:39:54.380 here so amiable? Right. Yes, I, I'm seriously 00:39:54.380 --> 00:39:58.139 so close. Yes, I, I, I am so thrilled. The worlds 00:39:58.139 --> 00:40:01.139 are, they're evolving, following the tragedy 00:40:01.139 --> 00:40:05.980 of Umizu. But very soon, we'll see no more tragedies, 00:40:05.980 --> 00:40:10.760 no more corrupt systems of rule, just justice. 00:40:12.049 --> 00:40:14.409 Isn't it wonderful? Remember that time where 00:40:14.409 --> 00:40:16.090 David was like, hey, I'm going to do you guys 00:40:16.090 --> 00:40:18.690 a favor, and I know how I'm always giving you 00:40:18.690 --> 00:40:20.489 enemies. I'm going to give you this really powerful 00:40:20.489 --> 00:40:23.630 ally. Guess what's happened to this really powerful 00:40:23.630 --> 00:40:25.909 ally? He's drinking the Kool -Aid and falling 00:40:25.909 --> 00:40:29.690 in line. Oh, my God. Maybe you can change that. 00:40:29.829 --> 00:40:32.070 I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, that doesn't 00:40:32.070 --> 00:40:35.030 feel like it's worth the risk. No. Oh, yeah, 00:40:35.170 --> 00:40:38.190 yeah. That's great. I kind of just want to say 00:40:38.190 --> 00:40:42.099 fuck this and go. Well, okay. What can we get 00:40:42.099 --> 00:40:45.000 out of this? I was so sorry to hear what happened 00:40:45.000 --> 00:40:48.019 to you, though. That is unbelievable that would 00:40:48.019 --> 00:40:52.139 happen to you. The... Which part? I know for 00:40:52.139 --> 00:40:55.059 a fact. I have reported on it that you had nothing 00:40:55.059 --> 00:40:58.000 to do with Diva Luma's murders. I cannot believe 00:40:58.000 --> 00:41:03.559 that bastard Oren would dirt you up like that. 00:41:03.900 --> 00:41:06.900 Do you believe Kedja Kamal put him up to it? 00:41:07.559 --> 00:41:11.519 Kedja Kamal? He founded the Crystal Network, 00:41:11.860 --> 00:41:15.920 didn't he? Yes, he might have some power there, 00:41:16.059 --> 00:41:21.380 perhaps. Perhaps. We... Do you think Auron could 00:41:21.380 --> 00:41:24.659 be in trouble? Perhaps he was coerced to say 00:41:24.659 --> 00:41:28.159 these things? Surely the greatest detective in 00:41:28.159 --> 00:41:32.219 the Concord worlds will have some opinions on 00:41:32.219 --> 00:41:36.380 the matter. I could certainly look into it, if 00:41:36.380 --> 00:41:41.090 that is your request. A favor for a favor. He's 00:41:41.090 --> 00:41:45.469 talking about repaying us the favor? Okay. He 00:41:45.469 --> 00:41:47.789 owes you one. He could look into this, tell you 00:41:47.789 --> 00:41:52.150 what's going on. I think so. That seems agreeable. 00:41:53.070 --> 00:41:57.389 The children, they said they haven't seen Kiana 00:41:57.389 --> 00:42:01.349 in some time now. We'd like to know that she's 00:42:01.349 --> 00:42:07.800 safe. Kiana. That's, yes, the niece. I'll look 00:42:07.800 --> 00:42:10.380 into it. This is... Thank you for bringing this 00:42:10.380 --> 00:42:12.500 to my attention. If there was some injustice 00:42:12.500 --> 00:42:16.619 going on, I will see to it that it is resolved. 00:42:17.480 --> 00:42:22.019 I'll return in two hours. That's very fast. He's 00:42:22.019 --> 00:42:31.940 already gone. Empty your room. What? Do you guys 00:42:31.940 --> 00:42:34.360 wait two hours? Do you want to play some Mancala 00:42:34.360 --> 00:42:37.369 or something? I am hungry. Yeah, can you teach 00:42:37.369 --> 00:42:42.630 me? I must use the bathroom. Master Blanche, 00:42:42.670 --> 00:42:47.289 I need a walk. So, point of order. Can Akio open 00:42:47.289 --> 00:42:50.869 doors and let himself out? No. Are you for real? 00:42:51.289 --> 00:42:55.449 Yeah. The doors of the Shrine of Storms are automatic. 00:42:55.550 --> 00:42:57.650 He's never opened a door before. He has to know 00:42:57.650 --> 00:43:01.920 how. He can quick draw a sword. He can quick 00:43:01.920 --> 00:43:03.880 draw a sword. It doesn't cost him an action. 00:43:04.059 --> 00:43:05.920 You can spend the next two hours showing him 00:43:05.920 --> 00:43:09.840 how to open a door. Okay. Honestly, honestly 00:43:09.840 --> 00:43:19.679 worth it. A high level martial artist at least 00:43:19.679 --> 00:43:23.579 needs to know how to open a door. You're teaching 00:43:23.579 --> 00:43:25.119 him how to open doors. I just figured out what 00:43:25.119 --> 00:43:27.639 we're going to do. It's so easy. Our lives are 00:43:27.639 --> 00:43:30.300 at stake. Blanche is going to spend two hours 00:43:30.300 --> 00:43:34.119 teaching her sidekick how to open a door. You 00:43:34.119 --> 00:43:35.219 think it's that pretty quick? It takes about 00:43:35.219 --> 00:43:39.039 15 minutes. Oh, I see. I've never opened one 00:43:39.039 --> 00:43:40.880 of these before. The ugly coyote has those saloon 00:43:40.880 --> 00:43:43.059 doors. Everyone should have saloon doors. Oh, 00:43:43.340 --> 00:43:45.699 they're so cool. Well, now it'll take me about 00:43:45.699 --> 00:43:47.980 15 minutes to explain the rules of Mancala, and 00:43:47.980 --> 00:43:49.940 we'll have like an hour and a half to play at 00:43:49.940 --> 00:43:53.739 least a couple of games. Perfect. Perhaps we 00:43:53.739 --> 00:43:56.840 cut to... Some time later. No, no. We got to 00:43:56.840 --> 00:43:59.900 go through. Oh, we're doing this. Okay. No, no, 00:43:59.940 --> 00:44:02.559 no. All right, Steven. Explain all the rules. 00:44:02.619 --> 00:44:05.019 I haven't played Mon Cala since I was in like 00:44:05.019 --> 00:44:10.500 sixth grade. All right, I'll tell you. We cut 00:44:10.500 --> 00:44:13.320 to an hour later. Hour and a half later. Two 00:44:13.320 --> 00:44:15.400 hours. Two hours. Whatever. Two hours. No, no, 00:44:15.460 --> 00:44:17.119 no. Fifteen minutes to train the dog. Fifteen 00:44:17.119 --> 00:44:18.619 minutes to train everybody else in the game. 00:44:18.619 --> 00:44:20.480 Stop it. Hour and a half of playing the game. 00:44:21.000 --> 00:44:22.659 He's actually late. Fifteen minutes later than 00:44:22.659 --> 00:44:26.780 that. Oh, my God. Yeah. Cards all over the table. 00:44:27.840 --> 00:44:29.900 Not a card game. Not a card game. What? Shit. 00:44:30.340 --> 00:44:33.440 Wait, what am I playing? Ah, shit. Well, I win. 00:44:33.960 --> 00:44:37.659 Fork it over. Chester's gathering up his cards. 00:44:39.599 --> 00:44:42.760 Playing his own game for like... So stupid. For 00:44:42.760 --> 00:44:51.190 like two hours. And suddenly... Out of nowhere, 00:44:51.190 --> 00:44:53.369 just right in between you all again. I rolled 00:44:53.369 --> 00:44:55.010 over that crit stealth check because I love that 00:44:55.010 --> 00:44:57.130 so much. I think honestly, you just got to hear 00:44:57.130 --> 00:44:59.650 like, I'm back from the ceiling. You look up 00:44:59.650 --> 00:45:02.070 and he's hanging from the ceiling like a bat. 00:45:02.269 --> 00:45:04.809 What world changing information did you possibly 00:45:04.809 --> 00:45:08.789 gather while we played Mancala? He flips and 00:45:08.789 --> 00:45:14.409 lands down. Well, I didn't dig too deep, but 00:45:14.409 --> 00:45:17.730 I can tell you a few things that may be of interest 00:45:17.730 --> 00:45:23.199 to you. Firstly, Kiana is fine. I saw her personally. 00:45:23.199 --> 00:45:26.719 She's staying in Oren's apartment. I spotted 00:45:26.719 --> 00:45:28.280 her through the window. She seems to be under 00:45:28.280 --> 00:45:33.019 no duress or any form of stress at all. There 00:45:33.019 --> 00:45:35.300 goes that theory. But there is an interesting 00:45:35.300 --> 00:45:39.400 thing to note. It seems Oren was visited just 00:45:39.400 --> 00:45:45.760 two days ago by an old friend of mine and yours, 00:45:45.860 --> 00:45:49.960 Jules. Who? Get the fuck out. My old partner, 00:45:50.119 --> 00:45:55.219 Rune Rusong. Now, I have broken ties with Rune 00:45:55.219 --> 00:46:00.980 as of late. My own ambitions have taken my full 00:46:00.980 --> 00:46:04.059 focus away from whatever devious little plots 00:46:04.059 --> 00:46:08.059 the little gnome has. But yes, it seems he has 00:46:08.059 --> 00:46:10.699 found himself in a very interesting position. 00:46:10.739 --> 00:46:13.019 But I have learned something else as well. Something 00:46:13.019 --> 00:46:17.119 that does cause me some confusion. I have to 00:46:17.119 --> 00:46:20.019 imagine Rune's acting on his own, but there's 00:46:20.019 --> 00:46:23.440 been a serious lack of wisdom in a recent decision 00:46:23.440 --> 00:46:29.480 made by someone I greatly respect. You see, Rune's 00:46:29.480 --> 00:46:34.880 song has very secretly been signed on as a sidekick. 00:46:36.199 --> 00:46:40.659 Atash's sidekick. Whoa. So when we were at the 00:46:40.659 --> 00:46:45.960 party on Sanctian... Rune fled when he knew that 00:46:45.960 --> 00:46:47.940 Atash was coming. This had to have happened afterwards. 00:46:48.440 --> 00:46:53.099 Yeah. So at that point, Rune and Atash were at 00:46:53.099 --> 00:46:57.440 least not on the same side. Yeah. So what happened 00:46:57.440 --> 00:47:02.619 to bring them together? You could ask. What happened 00:47:02.619 --> 00:47:07.139 to bring them together? That I cannot say, though 00:47:07.139 --> 00:47:10.579 I do have one working theory. You remember the 00:47:10.579 --> 00:47:14.719 whole incident of Sansatyan, I imagine? Now, 00:47:14.760 --> 00:47:18.420 I will tell you true. I was working with Arthash 00:47:18.420 --> 00:47:21.800 quite closely in that assault. I was there, actually. 00:47:22.199 --> 00:47:26.119 I helped bring down the foul pigman, the bastard 00:47:26.119 --> 00:47:32.260 creature. And I was there when Arthash used connections 00:47:32.260 --> 00:47:35.599 he had within the Crystal Network to bring down 00:47:35.599 --> 00:47:38.039 the Crystal Network to get the surprise jump. 00:47:38.429 --> 00:47:43.289 on the cult members of the party. You see, Atash 00:47:43.289 --> 00:47:46.570 used, well, burned all the resources he had on 00:47:46.570 --> 00:47:49.570 the network. After that happened, Speaker Sholay 00:47:49.570 --> 00:47:53.929 Brass was quick to fire anyone who was deemed 00:47:53.929 --> 00:47:56.210 potentially responsible for the network going 00:47:56.210 --> 00:48:00.730 down, and so Atash did not have anyone serving 00:48:00.730 --> 00:48:04.869 him within the network's organizations, right? 00:48:05.309 --> 00:48:09.000 But Rune has all sorts of connections. Perhaps 00:48:09.000 --> 00:48:12.340 Atash sought him out, needing someone who can 00:48:12.340 --> 00:48:15.039 help the Pulsam Strings move things along behind 00:48:15.039 --> 00:48:20.880 the scenes. But why? Why would Atash ever want 00:48:20.880 --> 00:48:25.079 to disparage your names? Well, they stopped. 00:48:25.659 --> 00:48:28.440 Well, there was the incident of the morning jewel. 00:48:28.539 --> 00:48:31.980 That was... I can understand your reservations 00:48:31.980 --> 00:48:33.840 on Tantitian, but that was foolish, Jules. You 00:48:33.840 --> 00:48:37.210 shouldn't have done that, but... I should have, 00:48:37.309 --> 00:48:40.570 but continue. The eyes go wide for a second, 00:48:40.610 --> 00:48:43.449 and he kind of just shrugs like, to each his 00:48:43.449 --> 00:48:46.329 own. I will not hold your politics against you. 00:48:47.449 --> 00:48:53.809 Yes, I could see, potentially, Atash wanting 00:48:53.809 --> 00:48:56.150 to make sure such an incident does not occur 00:48:56.150 --> 00:48:59.949 again. If he was to disparage your reputations, 00:48:59.949 --> 00:49:04.469 absolutely bury you in rumors and lies. Auron 00:49:04.469 --> 00:49:07.289 would be a good way to do that in Rune. Whatever 00:49:07.289 --> 00:49:11.130 dirt he has on Auron, perhaps he made that happen. 00:49:11.730 --> 00:49:16.449 So Sholay has some pull as to who works at the 00:49:16.449 --> 00:49:21.849 network. Artash has no love there. Went around 00:49:21.849 --> 00:49:27.369 Sholay, connected with Rune Rusong to find some 00:49:27.369 --> 00:49:32.030 connection and leverage at the network. Once 00:49:32.030 --> 00:49:35.179 he burned all of his... hard -won loyalist within 00:49:35.179 --> 00:49:37.739 the network, he would have to find a cheap and 00:49:37.739 --> 00:49:41.539 easy way to regain it. I do not care for the 00:49:41.539 --> 00:49:44.440 insinuation, the possibility that Atash would 00:49:44.440 --> 00:49:47.320 work with Rune and engage in blackmail. I'm sure 00:49:47.320 --> 00:49:49.539 he must not know Rune's methods. He must not 00:49:49.539 --> 00:49:53.500 know. Perhaps I will find a way to tell him. 00:49:54.280 --> 00:49:58.539 But yes, Rune does have connections all throughout 00:49:58.539 --> 00:50:01.530 the Crystal Network. After an hour and a half 00:50:01.530 --> 00:50:06.090 of Mancala, I believe that leaves us 22 hours 00:50:06.090 --> 00:50:14.690 to find and kill Rune. Oh, shit. No, seriously, 00:50:14.809 --> 00:50:19.349 though. Should we follow this lead to Rune? Is 00:50:19.349 --> 00:50:23.849 that foolish? When has pursuing Rune or having 00:50:23.849 --> 00:50:27.099 contact with Rune ever... Done us good. Done 00:50:27.099 --> 00:50:29.340 us any good. Yeah, literally never. Also, we 00:50:29.340 --> 00:50:31.579 don't really have any leverage over Rune other 00:50:31.579 --> 00:50:35.619 than just killing him. There is one possibility, 00:50:35.860 --> 00:50:38.340 though. I mean, we can't kill a luminary sidekick 00:50:38.340 --> 00:50:41.420 now. He has all the... He's an extension of Autos' 00:50:41.500 --> 00:50:44.519 own power, which means he wields the power, whatever 00:50:44.519 --> 00:50:48.199 Autos would have to, to charge and arrest. If 00:50:48.199 --> 00:50:50.300 he was still just Rune, I'd be down to kill the 00:50:50.300 --> 00:50:53.119 fucker. What about... What about... What's his 00:50:53.119 --> 00:50:57.429 name? Not... Not Pepper. Who was the other runes 00:50:57.429 --> 00:51:01.190 goon? Trace. The goblin. The last you saw of 00:51:01.190 --> 00:51:04.409 Trace, you freed him. Yes. You told him. Oh, 00:51:04.550 --> 00:51:08.570 dude. Trace owes us. Dude. Trace owes us. Dude. 00:51:08.590 --> 00:51:10.710 That's pretty cool. There's one other one, too. 00:51:10.750 --> 00:51:12.670 Another puzzle piece that you now kind of hit. 00:51:13.269 --> 00:51:15.369 While you don't know where she is, how to find 00:51:15.369 --> 00:51:19.670 her. Never lies. Mesmerize. Did you just? Did 00:51:19.670 --> 00:51:23.449 you just reveal the identity of Never Lies? Oh 00:51:23.449 --> 00:51:28.030 my god, I messed up. David, I had no idea. Spoilers! 00:51:28.489 --> 00:51:33.610 On the network, she said outwardly that she is 00:51:33.610 --> 00:51:37.349 hunting both Atash the liar and he who works 00:51:37.349 --> 00:51:40.090 for him, basically pulling strings behind the 00:51:40.090 --> 00:51:42.389 network. She was referring, you realize in this 00:51:42.389 --> 00:51:46.230 moment, to Rune. She is after Rune. She's disguising 00:51:46.230 --> 00:51:50.519 herself in this Very, very well done, well thought 00:51:50.519 --> 00:51:55.260 out persona. But she is on the same trail you 00:51:55.260 --> 00:51:58.940 are. Perhaps if you follow that trail, you'll 00:51:58.940 --> 00:52:02.920 find her too. Statchman, who does Rune keep close 00:52:02.920 --> 00:52:07.699 to him these days? Well, I mean, he has more 00:52:07.699 --> 00:52:10.219 power than he ever had before. I wouldn't know. 00:52:10.699 --> 00:52:13.320 He always had that goblin, the curious fellow 00:52:13.320 --> 00:52:16.699 around. And there are a few luminaries he still 00:52:16.699 --> 00:52:20.960 holds some sway over. A shame Mesmerize had to 00:52:20.960 --> 00:52:24.360 go. I still don't know what happened to her. 00:52:24.880 --> 00:52:28.940 Kind of curious a little. But I imagine now he 00:52:28.940 --> 00:52:33.460 may have some celestial allies as well. Can we 00:52:33.460 --> 00:52:37.460 tease any other names out of you? Interesting. 00:52:38.219 --> 00:52:40.579 Does the greatest detective in the world have 00:52:40.579 --> 00:52:43.159 the ability to turn up names of known associates 00:52:43.159 --> 00:52:47.659 of Rune Roussan? I don't know all of them. I 00:52:47.659 --> 00:52:52.940 do know one, though. One other. And, to his credit, 00:52:53.079 --> 00:52:56.820 it's another one of the big ones. Tell me, he 00:52:56.820 --> 00:52:59.280 kind of like cocks it to the side, have you ever 00:52:59.280 --> 00:53:03.500 heard of the name Handsome Jai? And we'll call 00:53:03.500 --> 00:53:03.940 it there.