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Hey, Pants people. I'd like to take a moment

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to tell you about a D &D actual play podcast

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that I've been listening to. It's called Legends

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Reroll. GM Sean bases his game off of classic

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fantasy tales and reimagines them with a bit

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of homebrew. If you're hearing this ad now in

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episode, I don't know, it's like 116, I think,

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you probably enjoy D &D content. Guess what?

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You're going to love Legends Reroll. But maybe

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you've got a friend or a family member who's

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a little on the fence. With all the heavy D &D

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lore. Who's Strahd? Where's Faerun? Can you fuck

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a Demogorgon? Well, Legends Rerolled takes the

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game we all love and puts it in a familiar setting.

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The first campaign is called The Wizard of Boggs.

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Recognize that one? Second campaign is Malice

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in Wonderland. Ringing any bells? All four players

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in Legends Rerolled are funny, charismatic, and

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make creative plays in game. I want to give a

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special... Chef's kiss shout -out to Jake, who

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in campaign one plays Cal Broadtooth, a sort

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of hilariously down -on -his -luck Leonin. If

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any of this sounds appealing to you, look up

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Legends Rerolled on social media or your favorite

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podcast platform. One more time, that's Legends

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Rerolled. Now, Handsome Jai's origins are complicated,

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and not what you would expect. A staunch loyalist

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to Emperor Tasneem, Jai Raju led a squad of guerrilla

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soldiers against the forces of false emperors,

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determined to see Tasneem's daughter, Farusa,

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placed on the throne. After years of Taib's bloody

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civil war, Jai found himself in a desperate situation,

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separated from his squad mates and surrounded

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by overwhelming enemy forces. In this moment,

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he sacrificed himself for a display of explosive

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artificery. He died, it seemed to him, without

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seeing his mission fulfilled, bringing an end

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to the horrors of the civil war. But something

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strange happened in that explosion. Jai found

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himself not lost in the few plane of death, but...

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rather surrounded by the cavernous gem -filled

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plain of Urn. Here, he was met by a great Dao

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genie. Jai told his story true and amused. The

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genie offered him a wish. For Jai, it was an

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easy answer. The power, he said, to end the civil

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war. and Brass, the genie imbued Handsome Jai

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with his own power, forging a pact and making

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of him a warlock of the earth element. He returned

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to his world and wrought destruction upon his

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foes. It was soon after this event that Empress

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Feruza took her father's place until he finally

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found itself in uneasy peace. And with no war

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to fight, Handsome Jai was chosen to represent

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the Empire in a wholly different way, as a luminary

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of the Radiant Citadel. Handsome Jai. Controversy.

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Not a name I expected to say last episode, but

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the name that came out of my mouth. And so here

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we are, two weeks later, and a whole bunch of

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stuff is now happening, and I'm pretty excited

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about it. It's going to be crazy. It's going

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to be a little silly. We're going to have some

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fun. Okay. We're going to have some fun. Before

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we have some fun, let me ask you guys a very

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serious question. Hey, look me in the fucking

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eyes. Look at me in the eyes. Every time he says

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something serious, it's something stupid. Hey,

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shut up. Look me in the eyes. This is serious

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time for serious podcasters. I'm a genie. Shut

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up. Shut up. Shut up. I'm a genie. I'm following.

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Good. Follow. What is your one wish? I'll give

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you one wish. What's your wish? Any wish in the

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world. You get one. Now, I'm a genie, so this

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can go badly. I'm not going to be a monkey's

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paw genie. I'm not doing doll hairs. I'm not

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going to do, oh, bucks, they're male deer. We're

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not doing that. What we're going to do is make

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a wish. But the natural ramifications of that

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wish will play out, right? Not anything supernatural

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or stupid, but like, I want world peace. Okay,

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well, that might do horrible things to the world.

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Maybe that means all of the world is now void

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of human and life, right? Because how else do

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you achieve actual peace? Or, you know, maybe

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an entire world of indoctrinated souls that just

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kind of laugh the same and move around the same.

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That'd be pretty fucking crazy, right? That'd

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be weird. Wouldn't that suck? Mm -hmm. Yeah.

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Anyway, moving on. What's your one wish? I actually,

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because I'm a nerd, have thought a lot about

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this over the years. And I have crafted, I believe,

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the perfect wish. All right. Let's hear it. No,

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only yours first. Oh. I'm going to crush your

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guys' loser wishes with my cool wish afterwards.

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Well, yeah, because you've had years to think

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about it and I've had 35 seconds to think about

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it. Well, you know what? If you had any foresight

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or were a good person, you'd have thought about

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this one. I guess. Yeah. I think what I would

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want is like the ability to, to sort of be able

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to like pause time and just like sit down and

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read a book. Maybe, you know what I mean? I feel

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like that's a lot of the reasons why I don't

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do a lot of stuff that I want to do is because

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I don't have time. Like seven days in the week

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is just not enough. But if I could pause time,

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sit down, read a book, pause time, do a. I don't

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know. I love that one. You have to create a stipulation

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for it. I've thought about that one a lot too.

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You cannot age while you pause time. If you age

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while you pause time, you'll be tempted to use

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this power a lot. And over the years, your family,

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your wife, everyone will slowly age much slower

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than you. And you'll become a withered old man

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within 10 years. Yeah, I would rather not age

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while time is paused. Okay, we'll say that next

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time. I thought you said you weren't going to

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be the monkey's paw guy. Shut up. Sorry. I wish

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to retcon the name Mesmerize. Oh, good one. That's

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a bad one. I wasted mine. That's a bad wish.

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Well, too bad. That's all you get because I've

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been stuck on this for the last minute and a

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half. So I haven't thought of another thing.

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So that's it. That's it. That's it. That's all

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you got for me. That's it. Big and powerful genie.

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All right, you know what? Let me show you guys

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what a real wish looks like, okay? Sure, yeah.

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Let me show you guys real, because you're over

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there with your selfish, you know, I want to

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make time stop so I can have more fun in my life.

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Fine, you know what? You have your selfish one

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wish. I was just saying, you know you can read

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into puzzles without a wish. One reality bending

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wish. I don't have the fucking time for that.

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Jeremy, you can't talk. You just want to change

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a cool name into a bad name. I didn't say change

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it. I just said. Let me tell you the perfect

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wish. Everyone, you listening? I'm not talking

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about you guys. Everyone. You in your car. You

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at work. You doing chores. Stop what you're doing.

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Listen to this. It's the perfect wish. You cannot

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change the world in any meaningful way without

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creating a domino effect, destroying everything,

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right? I want to feed everyone. Well, somehow

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that's going to cause everything to go wrong.

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You know, markets are going to collapse. People

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are going to lose jobs. Bad things happen. So

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what if you make the world better without actually

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changing anything at all? My one wish is this.

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This is actually serious. This is a serious wish.

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It's not funny. I wish it was. So in the moment

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of death. When someone dies, kind of morbid.

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When someone dies or something dies, any animal,

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any living thing at all, I wish that there would

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be an everlasting moment, a time stop, if you

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will, and you can respect that, Stephen, of just

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pure bliss, pure joy, pure love, just to make

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every bad life worth it, every poor experience

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better. Now, stipulation, it has to happen after

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pure, full, true death. Otherwise, we're going

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to see a lot of like, hey, you know, I want to

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get that high. No, we're not doing that. Pure,

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full death. I've thought about this a lot. You

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know, I think lots of people have thought about

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this a lot, David. Okay. What are you going to

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say? Do it. Do it. Go ahead. What? What are you

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talking about? You're going to pitch a discord.

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No, you just did. I thought you were going to

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say, oh, a lot of people have thought about this

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a lot, David. How about you guys, the fat pants

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people, get on the Discord. Yes, we have a Discord.

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David, it sounds a lot like heaven. No, okay,

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but it's for a moment. You know what? Fine. You

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just get a taste of heaven. You get a taste of

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heaven and then it goes away. That's fine. Or

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it goes on forever. All I want is for happiness

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to exist for everybody for a moment. Make it

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all worth it. You can't change the world because

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then you're going to get those monkey's paw bad

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things happen that you don't expect. Butterfly

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effect. Maybe it does. Maybe it does. God, we're

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getting super serious. Maybe it does. All right?

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Just saying. Your wish is just heaven but worse.

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You know what? Not as good heaven. Better wish

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than yours. You get to see it and then you get

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to take it away. Hey, who has the best wish?

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Get in the Discord. Hey, there you go. Get on

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the Discord. I wish for you to join the Discord.

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That's our one wish, is that you join the Discord

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and tell us your one wish. God. I had one wish

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fulfilled this week. Very minor wish. We are

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working on a new computer. Old Pants Pewter,

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which I received right before, maybe he's in

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Broadswords, has passed away. Enjoyed its one

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blissful everlasting moment. Gone to genie heaven.

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Because it fell in the slush and died. So I have

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a new one now. And it's not probably as good,

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but it'll do. It's certainly not covered in slush,

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though. Yeah, but it's red, so that's kind of

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cool. It is kind of cool when it's red. Probably

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goes really fast. That adds five horsepower,

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right? It does. Ah, shit. You guys want to play

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some D &D? Yeah, I do. I'm a little nervous because

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I didn't pick a spell that I was supposed to

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pick over the course of the week. Same. We're

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doing a combat right now. Same. All right, roll

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for initiative. Roll for initiative. I'm going

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to open this up somewhere else. I'm moving time

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forward. All right? You can come at me all you

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want. It's time to turn the clock a little. I

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want to open up on the next night, following

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our conversation with Sturgeman. Things are getting

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very, very late at night at that point. I imagine

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that's where you want to go back, sleep. Maybe

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you stay in. We'll touch on this. I have a little

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thing to give you based on this, but I want to

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open up on the following night, similar time,

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maybe 10 o 'clock p .m. The hour is late, and

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we are in Aurora Town. We see our four characters,

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Blanche, Jules, Chester, and, of course, Akio

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the Akita. all moving down diamond -wrought streets,

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surrounded by great sort of diamond structures.

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Crystalline cables crisscrossing overhead, connecting

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buildings to each other in the corners. Shades

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of pulsing blue, pink, and yellow, and orange

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just lighting up the night all around. And above

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you, the inside of the auroral diamond has taken

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on the image of a star -filled sky. It is beautiful.

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Now, I imagine you've been careful to avoid going

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out during the day. If you are out during the

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day, No one's harassing you. No one's coming

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after you. Again, the paparazzi don't seem to

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be interested in you. The shield bearers don't

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seem to be interested in you. But you're definitely

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getting a lot of looks. People moving away. People

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whispering. People just being uncomfortable.

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But here you are. No people around now. Except

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for down the street ahead as you approach your

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destination. There you see quite a large line

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of peoples are snaking out into the street, all

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moving towards one structure, a multi -story

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penthouse, sort of rectangular in shape, again,

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fully diamond -wrought. This one seems to be

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shining brighter than the others around it. As

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people are funneled in, a door slides open ahead.

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You can barely hear some very loud, very pulsing,

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vibrant... music. Because you are approaching

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what is called Handsome House. The penthouse

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of Handsome Jai and the center stage for the

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greatest parties ever known to the Concord worlds.

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And this one's been going on for days. Will be

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going on for days. These things do not end. And

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as you move to enter this line, as you move towards

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the chaos and the music and the lights, I want

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to flashback real quick. To one night ago, to

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the inside of the pale moonlight, as you're all

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sitting around that fancy cooking table, the

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beautiful water tanks, fish tanks all around

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the edges of the room, everything is sort of

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darkened and Sturge Man, still helmet off, sits

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with you, probably way too comfortable, arms

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kind of around Blanche and Jules, like right

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in between you two, as he continues his sort

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of line there. Have you heard of the luminary

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Handsome Jai? Rune has Handsome Jai on the hook,

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like he does a lot of people. It would be tough

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to get Rune or his people now that they are allied

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with Antaj. I would expect celestial protection,

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of course, but Jai is not nearly so hard to reach.

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His place in the rural town Handsome House is

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pretty much open to anyone. From what I've heard,

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there is some kind of secret room, a VIP lounge,

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where Jai regularly meets with Rune's goblin

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to receive orders and make payments. The goblin

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has some kind of secret key in. I've never been

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in there myself, though I can't say more than

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that. I also don't know exactly what dirt Rune

00:14:10.830 --> 00:14:14.029
has on Jai. Only that has to do with the Taib

00:14:14.029 --> 00:14:16.789
civil war. Handsome Jai was a major player during

00:14:16.789 --> 00:14:20.929
that horrid affair. Perhaps he too has done...

00:14:21.440 --> 00:14:24.539
dark things in the name of something greater.

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And he kind of looks over at you, Jules, and

00:14:28.580 --> 00:14:31.059
I think like you see this, his face for a second

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kind of takes this neutral, thoughtful expression.

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He nods. I suppose I cannot judge him, just as

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I cannot really judge Atash. I had been concerned

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over Atash utilizing runes, particular talents,

00:14:47.559 --> 00:14:50.820
but... I think our old friend, Chef Fyodor, would

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agree that you must break eggs to make omelette.

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No? If the end justifies the means, then. Kind

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of leaves that dangling. He stands very suddenly,

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like right up in the seat, kind of like leaps

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up. He's kind of like standing crouched on the

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sort of back of the seat. Kind of looks out the

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windows, nods. I will return to Nuari now. My

00:15:19.509 --> 00:15:22.610
sister, wise as she is, will need my secret counsel

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to best usher our world into a brighter tomorrow.

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I... I don't think I like what you're doing,

00:15:31.110 --> 00:15:33.909
Jules. I know that you have a right to clear

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your names, all of you, to reach the source of

00:15:36.330 --> 00:15:39.730
these lies, but Rune is an agent of Atash now,

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a finger of the Sunweaver's hand. No, I don't

00:15:43.429 --> 00:15:46.250
like what you're... doing, but nonetheless, I

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will not stand in your way. I... I owe you that

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much at least. I only hope you show the proper

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discretion in your current mission. Well, just

00:15:57.950 --> 00:16:00.870
like you, we won't do anything that we don't

00:16:00.870 --> 00:16:05.210
think is right. Good. I couldn't ask for any

00:16:05.210 --> 00:16:10.590
less. Any more. Now then, take care, my friends.

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And... Just sort of moving and stepping backwards.

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You see this figure almost seems to just phase.

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Of course he does. Into the shadows. No sound

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heard. And you just kind of feel the presence

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is gone. And so I have skipped time forward to

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this moment to Handsome House. To a big ol' romping

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Handsome House party. I both hate that and love

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it. I have a question. Yeah. Aren't we supposed

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to go meet Sholay? That is... Oh, yeah, that's

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actually later tonight, isn't it? It's 11 o 'clock?

00:16:48.850 --> 00:16:50.750
It's 9 o 'clock now. Okay. Two hours. We're the

00:16:50.750 --> 00:16:53.029
first ones there. That seems fine. Yeah, it seems...

00:16:53.029 --> 00:16:55.169
No, this party's been happening for days. Oh,

00:16:55.169 --> 00:16:57.389
gotcha. It's 8 .30. I don't care. I don't care

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anymore. I don't care. Actually, you know, that's

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probably why you're here. You know you have to

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meet Sholay afterwards. It's kind of like, hey,

00:17:02.129 --> 00:17:04.509
let's slot in, you know, our romp in a handsome

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house, meet Jai, maybe try to catch Goblin, find

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out when the time is, and try to catch Trace.

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You kind of line it all up so you can show up

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in rural town, do all your things at once, you

00:17:14.259 --> 00:17:17.000
know, knock out that shopping list. Now, because

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I skipped fine time forward, two things. Flashbacks

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are back in effect. You had a whole day to prep

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for this. You had time to get ready for this.

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And I'm going to get each of you a free one since

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I'm kind of, you know, I did this. I kind of

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put you in this position where, you know, maybe

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you might have done something, but I want to

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just do things. So free flashback for each of

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you. Nice. Beyond that, a button for more further

00:17:41.859 --> 00:17:45.779
flashbacks. And I have one more thing. One more

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thing I meant to do like two episodes ago and

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then one episode ago and it never happened and

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I want to do it tonight because tonight it might

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matter. I want to level you guys up to seventh

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level. Hell yeah. Oh yeah. So let's talk about

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seventh level, gentlemen. Let's talk. I'll real

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quick. Just to let you know what the sidekicks

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have got going on. The two that are with you

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now, Chester now has 46 HP. He also has gained

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an ability called Ambush. He has a plus two bonus

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to initiative rolls, and he gets advantage of

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any attack rolls against any creature that hasn't

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taken a turn in combat yet. So if he goes before

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somebody, advantage on the attack. That's great.

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He's more likely to go before somebody. And very

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similarly, Olakio is now sitting at a whopping

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53 HP. And has a little thing called Battle Readiness,

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which is just straight advantage on initiative

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rolls. Nice. That's great. Nice. Hey, Chester's

00:18:40.950 --> 00:18:44.230
sheet is gone from mine. Nuts. You switched it

00:18:44.230 --> 00:18:47.650
to Arhalon. That did happen. Okay, right. Yes,

00:18:47.750 --> 00:18:49.589
I'll give it back. I'll give it back. Arhalon's

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not here. He's still hanging out. See you later,

00:18:52.829 --> 00:18:54.049
Arhalon. See you later, Arhalon. We'll get you

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back later. Also, I actually had a curiosity.

00:18:57.849 --> 00:18:59.690
Chester's with you now. You were planning on

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potentially getting that sidekick paperwork filled

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out. Did you do it? Did it happen during this

00:19:03.920 --> 00:19:06.420
day span since we last saw you guys? Yeah, I

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think so. I think Chester's been annoying the

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shit out of Jules to get it done as quick as

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possible. I mean, you were on your way to Rolton.

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You've been hanging out here for a minute before,

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and it's like, come on, Jules, just real quick.

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We'll go in there. We'll fill out the paperwork.

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I'll be a sidekick. Come on. Yeah? Yeah. Yeah,

00:19:18.660 --> 00:19:21.180
all right. So he's, like, beaming right now.

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He's got a little sidekick license. He's, like,

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flipping between his fingers, make it disappear.

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It's another hand now. Ooh, what's that behind

00:19:27.099 --> 00:19:30.299
your ear? Yeah. Chester. Yeah, what? If you die,

00:19:30.519 --> 00:19:33.839
I'm going to kill you. Oh, no. All right, no.

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No death. I got it. So as awkward as the social

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arena has been around us, imagine how awkward

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it is in the Radiant Citadel equivalent of the

00:19:47.940 --> 00:19:52.670
DMV. Like showing up to get... Hey, a license.

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Actually, this is what you think too. Chester

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gets a psychic license. He's over there all excited.

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You're watching this bladge and you kind of feel

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like a presence beside you. And you just looked

00:20:01.490 --> 00:20:06.490
at these big puppy eyes looking at you. A sidekick.

00:20:07.190 --> 00:20:10.890
Is there any reason we can't make Akio a sidekick?

00:20:11.190 --> 00:20:15.890
The fantasy DMV definitely. raises some eyebrows,

00:20:16.250 --> 00:20:20.230
they go over some rules, hit the books real fast,

00:20:20.470 --> 00:20:22.970
talk to their managers, and they're like, I mean,

00:20:23.089 --> 00:20:28.890
yeah, he's awakened, so full sapience, full rights

00:20:28.890 --> 00:20:33.730
as a person, yeah. It can be done. I mean, there

00:20:33.730 --> 00:20:36.750
is after all a fairy dragon sidekick, handsome

00:20:36.750 --> 00:20:39.630
Jai has one, so I guess there's really rest in

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set. What is this? Ruff, what does a sidekick

00:20:46.640 --> 00:20:51.319
do? Well, now you have the ability to freely

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travel between the worlds and Blanche hooks his

00:20:54.019 --> 00:20:57.259
sidekick license on like a dog tag on his collar.

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He's lost, returned to. The master of defense.

00:21:01.839 --> 00:21:08.380
Aw, Akio. So Akio also just very happily jingling

00:21:08.380 --> 00:21:12.720
on the collar. You guys are moving down the street

00:21:12.720 --> 00:21:17.450
towards... Handsome House. Are we going to roll

00:21:17.450 --> 00:21:19.250
HP? Yeah, are you going to skip out of level

00:21:19.250 --> 00:21:22.190
again? Oh, right. I'm doing that. Yeah, I forgot.

00:21:22.650 --> 00:21:24.970
I did my part. He was looking for music, wasn't

00:21:24.970 --> 00:21:26.410
he? Yeah, he was. He was looking for Handsome

00:21:26.410 --> 00:21:29.710
House music. Damn, I was. All right, well, music's

00:21:29.710 --> 00:21:32.509
gone. We'll get back to that. Let's do HP. Let's

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do HP. I guess you guys could have more HP. Wow.

00:21:36.970 --> 00:21:39.170
Let's do HP, and let's talk about your level

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ups. I imagine you guys probably haven't picked

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spells yet, because I only gave you four weeks.

00:21:43.809 --> 00:21:47.730
Nope. Yeah. I forgot. No, I haven't yet. I forgot

00:21:47.730 --> 00:21:50.430
six times. Well, but also, you said that we had

00:21:50.430 --> 00:21:52.630
time to prepare for all of this. And then you

00:21:52.630 --> 00:21:55.750
said we might need it. Yeah. So, like, maybe

00:21:55.750 --> 00:21:57.490
we can pause for five or ten minutes and I can,

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like, prep my spells now that I know what we're

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going into. Nah. No? Nah, yeah, you can't. Fine.

00:22:02.230 --> 00:22:03.809
Of course you can. Of course you can. I'm not

00:22:03.809 --> 00:22:07.569
so mean. I'm not so mean. Okay. I'm going to

00:22:07.569 --> 00:22:10.990
roll hit points. I'm going to roll my d6. Blanche

00:22:10.990 --> 00:22:14.539
started off. Level six with 44, I think we figured

00:22:14.539 --> 00:22:20.539
out the other day. Makes sense to me. Five. Six.

00:22:21.099 --> 00:22:26.160
Wowee. Pazowie. Up to 50 HP. Nice. Excellent.

00:22:26.440 --> 00:22:28.319
It's going to be tough to kill that one. All

00:22:28.319 --> 00:22:31.759
right. Jules is starting at 52. 52. I don't know

00:22:31.759 --> 00:22:38.180
why we got this. D8? D8, sir. Four. Three. Goddamn.

00:22:39.440 --> 00:22:41.940
All right. Steven took my good luck. Anything

00:22:41.940 --> 00:22:44.680
you want to share about this level up? Anything

00:22:44.680 --> 00:22:46.539
cool going on? I know your spells are out there

00:22:46.539 --> 00:22:48.640
still, but any new class features? Anything cool

00:22:48.640 --> 00:22:51.539
like that? The only exciting thing for Blanche

00:22:51.539 --> 00:22:55.400
is a fourth level spell slot. Okay. Yeah, that's

00:22:55.400 --> 00:22:58.099
the exact same thing that Jules got. We don't

00:22:58.099 --> 00:23:00.180
have fourth levels yet. Is that new? No, that's

00:23:00.180 --> 00:23:02.660
new. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, there's crazy stuff in

00:23:02.660 --> 00:23:04.299
here. What is that going to be like? Banishment's

00:23:04.299 --> 00:23:07.890
in here. Blight is in here. Control water is

00:23:07.890 --> 00:23:10.470
in here, dimension door, a bunch of stuff. I

00:23:10.470 --> 00:23:13.769
only have one slot for fourth, but it's got everything

00:23:13.769 --> 00:23:17.569
from... Take your time. It's got cure wounds,

00:23:17.730 --> 00:23:21.029
dispel magic, dissonant whispers, all the good

00:23:21.029 --> 00:23:24.190
stuff. All the uses. All the uses. Exciting,

00:23:24.190 --> 00:23:27.029
sexy. Healing word, fourth level. Yeah, buddy.

00:23:27.230 --> 00:23:30.230
4D, 4 plus 4, 60 feet. There's going to be some

00:23:30.230 --> 00:23:31.869
wild stuff. There's going to be some wild stuff

00:23:31.869 --> 00:23:35.140
at the fourth level. Sweet. Hell yeah. Do we

00:23:35.140 --> 00:23:36.779
want to pause for a couple minutes and pick spells?

00:23:37.220 --> 00:23:40.440
If you want to, sure. Do you have spells? Is

00:23:40.440 --> 00:23:44.480
there spells? Yes. I've prepped my spells for

00:23:44.480 --> 00:23:46.779
the day. We picked a fourth level spell each.

00:23:47.079 --> 00:23:48.420
Am I going to get to know what those are or are

00:23:48.420 --> 00:23:50.259
you going to surprise me? Absolutely not. Okay.

00:23:50.559 --> 00:23:53.740
Let's keep it silent. I love it. I love it. I

00:23:53.740 --> 00:23:55.319
think we picked some pretty fun ones that will

00:23:55.319 --> 00:23:58.660
be fun to whip out when the time is right. Yeah.

00:23:58.880 --> 00:24:01.500
All right. Whip it out. Speaking of whipping

00:24:01.500 --> 00:24:05.130
it out. It's time to enter the wildest rager

00:24:05.130 --> 00:24:07.029
of a party you've ever seen in your lives. You're

00:24:07.029 --> 00:24:12.529
stepping up to the main line leading into the

00:24:12.529 --> 00:24:16.930
sort of opening door. Probably a couple of sort

00:24:16.930 --> 00:24:18.910
of bouncers hanging out outside. They're always

00:24:18.910 --> 00:24:22.210
on retainer here. You guys hear it. A thrum of

00:24:22.210 --> 00:24:25.910
energy. Just like regular rippling out through

00:24:25.910 --> 00:24:29.490
the streets. Every house near here hates Handsome

00:24:29.490 --> 00:24:32.900
John. or they're at the party one of the two

00:24:32.900 --> 00:24:35.180
it's like one of those like uh you know those

00:24:35.180 --> 00:24:38.579
like youtubers who are like 20 and they're millionaires

00:24:38.579 --> 00:24:40.740
and they have these beautiful houses and it's

00:24:40.740 --> 00:24:42.599
just a constant party and all the like old rich

00:24:42.599 --> 00:24:44.279
people who live in the neighborhood hate them

00:24:44.279 --> 00:24:47.619
you actually see like a sign above the door here

00:24:47.619 --> 00:24:51.259
promoting uh karagar concoctions alchemy for

00:24:51.259 --> 00:24:56.349
all to see uh the current uh um What's the word?

00:24:56.390 --> 00:24:58.910
Patron for Handsome Jai. Kargar's the capital

00:24:58.910 --> 00:25:01.710
of Taib, the city of the new empress, and Kargar

00:25:01.710 --> 00:25:06.990
Concoctions is the highest sort of alchemy concoction,

00:25:06.990 --> 00:25:10.009
whatever, purveyor throughout all the worlds.

00:25:10.190 --> 00:25:12.670
You know, a lot of good stuff going there. Handsome

00:25:12.670 --> 00:25:15.329
Jai's got the hookup to all the great magic hems.

00:25:15.869 --> 00:25:17.849
And there's probably some pretty fun stuff going

00:25:17.849 --> 00:25:21.069
on inside, too, involving those chemicals. You're...

00:25:21.339 --> 00:25:22.440
Moving up, what do you want to do? Do you want

00:25:22.440 --> 00:25:25.920
to go in the back of the line as you kind of

00:25:25.920 --> 00:25:27.940
start stepping out of the shadows into the sort

00:25:27.940 --> 00:25:31.960
of flashing lights that really show this house

00:25:31.960 --> 00:25:34.900
is separated from the others? People look back

00:25:34.900 --> 00:25:38.859
and see you, Jules LaRoche, Blanche Trudeau,

00:25:38.980 --> 00:25:41.599
getting absolutely destroyed on the network.

00:25:41.680 --> 00:25:43.660
And there's definitely some people moving away,

00:25:43.740 --> 00:25:46.500
some people whispering. How do you want to approach

00:25:46.500 --> 00:25:48.779
this thing? Dude, I just had this cool image

00:25:48.779 --> 00:25:51.380
in my head with this music that's going. Just

00:25:51.380 --> 00:25:54.680
the four of us emerging from the shadows. You

00:25:54.680 --> 00:25:57.079
got Jules and Chester, and then you got Blanche

00:25:57.079 --> 00:26:01.119
with Akio just, like, looking fierce. The music's

00:26:01.119 --> 00:26:05.839
really loud. Oh, goddammit. Whoa, hey, come on,

00:26:05.839 --> 00:26:09.519
be cool. Hey, dog. Right? Akio, whatever. Be

00:26:09.519 --> 00:26:13.400
cool. Jules, be cool. You're always cool. Blanche,

00:26:13.400 --> 00:26:16.059
be cool. Blanche already has her earplugs in.

00:26:17.949 --> 00:26:20.769
I'm always cool. Oh, do you have more of those,

00:26:20.829 --> 00:26:25.049
Ruff? Yeah, Blanche flops Akio's ears over, hooks

00:26:25.049 --> 00:26:28.970
him up with some earplugs. Oh, my God. Jules'

00:26:29.069 --> 00:26:31.789
lute starts to go like a strobe light. Oh, oh,

00:26:31.829 --> 00:26:36.109
shit. People see that? Nod a little bit. Yeah.

00:26:36.589 --> 00:26:38.269
Someone's like, hey, this guy's came to party.

00:26:40.609 --> 00:26:42.710
Well, I guess we're not going in through the

00:26:42.710 --> 00:26:46.480
back door. No back door. Oral townhouses are

00:26:46.480 --> 00:26:49.019
locked up tight, generally speaking. There's

00:26:49.019 --> 00:26:53.859
almost no door. You have to reach up, rub a pattern

00:26:53.859 --> 00:26:56.539
on the actual door, hit a certain pattern, and

00:26:56.539 --> 00:26:58.579
usually there's a passphrase, and it'll slide

00:26:58.579 --> 00:27:01.680
open. So it's hard to get in somewhere here.

00:27:02.039 --> 00:27:03.619
Except for this place, because this place is

00:27:03.619 --> 00:27:07.000
open to anyone looking to have a good time. Well,

00:27:07.119 --> 00:27:09.259
we're not going in under disguise or anything

00:27:09.259 --> 00:27:12.200
at this point, so might as well just step in

00:27:12.200 --> 00:27:14.000
line. Do you want to flashback and do disguises?

00:27:14.059 --> 00:27:15.930
I'll let you. It's going to be hard when you're

00:27:15.930 --> 00:27:18.789
a turtle. Yeah, exactly. There are two turtle

00:27:18.789 --> 00:27:20.789
luminaries and very few other turtles go to the

00:27:20.789 --> 00:27:23.730
Citadel. Yeah, it's going to take us like the

00:27:23.730 --> 00:27:26.230
rest of the 30 minutes of this episode to figure

00:27:26.230 --> 00:27:27.809
out what we're all going to be wearing, what

00:27:27.809 --> 00:27:30.529
Akio's going to be wearing. Yeah, exactly. What

00:27:30.529 --> 00:27:32.470
color my mustache is going to be. I have a bow

00:27:32.470 --> 00:27:37.230
tie. Yeah, that's a great disguise. I mean, we

00:27:37.230 --> 00:27:40.390
should just walk in like we own the place. Okay.

00:27:40.769 --> 00:27:43.309
Act like we belong. You begin to move up. People

00:27:43.309 --> 00:27:46.170
are going to say, strobe light Luke going, people

00:27:46.170 --> 00:27:48.569
start to slide out of the way, parting like the

00:27:48.569 --> 00:27:51.990
Red Sea or whatever as you move up towards the

00:27:51.990 --> 00:27:56.190
door. Bouncer kind of takes a long look. What

00:27:56.190 --> 00:27:59.430
are you here for? Obvious recognition in his

00:27:59.430 --> 00:28:03.829
eyes. Just big, big dude. Well, I think we could

00:28:03.829 --> 00:28:09.369
use a night to unwind. Huge, pearly smile cracks.

00:28:10.089 --> 00:28:14.230
You came to the right place, sister. And the

00:28:14.230 --> 00:28:18.289
door slides open. As Blanche walks past this

00:28:18.289 --> 00:28:20.910
guy, she hands him a breath mint. And she winks.

00:28:21.269 --> 00:28:23.750
She winks at him like, you know, a knowing glance.

00:28:23.849 --> 00:28:27.029
She's like, this will make you go wild, son.

00:28:30.380 --> 00:28:34.380
You step into boom flashing lights a wave of

00:28:34.380 --> 00:28:37.720
churning dancing people music. Absolutely Blaring

00:28:37.720 --> 00:28:40.559
you move through just catch on the sort of barest

00:28:40.559 --> 00:28:42.259
voices around you see like this little floor.

00:28:42.279 --> 00:28:44.920
Yeah, Rufus There's actually a second floor balcony.

00:28:45.039 --> 00:28:47.660
People are dancing. There's like liquid spraying

00:28:47.660 --> 00:28:51.019
down over you is like bottles are going There's

00:28:51.019 --> 00:28:52.900
a quarter people in the corner. There's like

00:28:52.900 --> 00:28:54.319
one back room You can kind of make out people

00:28:54.319 --> 00:28:56.779
are just super sort of like benched out all over

00:28:56.779 --> 00:28:58.700
like couches all over the place and there you're

00:28:58.700 --> 00:29:00.759
passing like side rooms people just Like, totally

00:29:00.759 --> 00:29:03.299
down. There are naked people sitting on naked

00:29:03.299 --> 00:29:05.599
people all over the place. There's a pile in

00:29:05.599 --> 00:29:07.059
the corner. You don't want to go near that corner.

00:29:07.160 --> 00:29:08.400
Get out of that corner. Don't even look at that

00:29:08.400 --> 00:29:11.180
corner. Akio's like, oh, I smell weird things

00:29:11.180 --> 00:29:15.180
in that corner. You pull them away. You keep

00:29:15.180 --> 00:29:17.400
moving. I can't forget to label this episode

00:29:17.400 --> 00:29:20.920
as explicit. It's going to get worse. It's going

00:29:20.920 --> 00:29:23.960
to get worse. Oh, God. Buckle up. But you start

00:29:23.960 --> 00:29:26.140
catching, like, voices around you. You know,

00:29:26.140 --> 00:29:27.660
again, people whispering, people looking. But

00:29:27.660 --> 00:29:29.480
as you kind of step in, people also seem to kind

00:29:29.480 --> 00:29:32.359
of, like, calm and nod. Like, oh, no, they're

00:29:32.359 --> 00:29:34.839
here. We don't bring the outside in here. This

00:29:34.839 --> 00:29:36.619
is where we party. And they're kind of, like,

00:29:36.640 --> 00:29:40.059
nod, you know, keep moving, keep grooving. And

00:29:40.059 --> 00:29:41.920
just hear, like, all around, like, woo -hoo,

00:29:42.099 --> 00:29:46.980
yeah! Come on, let's dance again. Oh, yes, that

00:29:46.980 --> 00:29:53.099
is radical. Just voices around. What are you

00:29:53.099 --> 00:29:55.140
laughing about? What are you laughing about?

00:29:55.319 --> 00:30:00.440
I heard it. It's just like the interpretation

00:30:00.440 --> 00:30:04.779
of what a rager is like through the eyes of somebody

00:30:04.779 --> 00:30:07.720
who very clearly doesn't ever go to raging parties.

00:30:08.019 --> 00:30:10.900
This is the ragiest party. You think you know

00:30:10.900 --> 00:30:12.880
what a rager is? You don't, because it's this.

00:30:12.980 --> 00:30:14.940
I got a rager right now just thinking about this.

00:30:16.460 --> 00:30:27.329
Oh, yeah. That was so radical. This music is

00:30:27.329 --> 00:30:29.730
totally tubular. I was doing something there.

00:30:31.170 --> 00:30:33.990
Come on. Oh, my God. Jeremy caught it. It's so

00:30:33.990 --> 00:30:37.029
funny. Yeah, I caught it. You caught it. What?

00:30:37.130 --> 00:30:41.130
What'd you catch? Radical. Radical. What's the

00:30:41.130 --> 00:30:43.509
significance of the word radical in that weird?

00:30:43.549 --> 00:30:44.690
Tell him, David. He already forgot our live show.

00:30:44.710 --> 00:30:48.390
Tell him, David. Jules, because Jeremy recognized

00:30:48.390 --> 00:30:49.930
it, I'll say Jules immediately whips his head

00:30:49.930 --> 00:30:52.799
around because you're like, There's one person

00:30:52.799 --> 00:30:54.859
I've heard say that in that exact accent many

00:30:54.859 --> 00:30:58.519
times before. Tanya Ivanka. Gotcha. The younger

00:30:58.519 --> 00:31:02.619
sister of Mesmerize. Huh. Perhaps you're looking

00:31:02.619 --> 00:31:04.599
around that direction, Jules. You're trying to

00:31:04.599 --> 00:31:08.519
catch who that voice belonged to. And you know

00:31:08.519 --> 00:31:13.059
Tanya is very young, especially for an elf. And

00:31:13.059 --> 00:31:14.079
you're trying to find someone like that, probably

00:31:14.079 --> 00:31:15.660
someone short. And you do see a young woman,

00:31:15.740 --> 00:31:18.690
but this one... maybe in her early 20s, pale

00:31:18.690 --> 00:31:21.369
skin, pretty with wavy blonde hair and a bright

00:31:21.369 --> 00:31:23.410
green dress. But there is something about her

00:31:23.410 --> 00:31:26.789
that looks very familiar. And it's the early

00:31:26.789 --> 00:31:31.589
20s in looks, elf ears, so older than that possibly.

00:31:32.410 --> 00:31:34.690
Elves are weird. It's hard to really age them.

00:31:34.990 --> 00:31:37.210
Do you want me to roll something about it? You

00:31:37.210 --> 00:31:39.690
don't need to. You caught it as a person. I want

00:31:39.690 --> 00:31:42.029
to say, like, you realize. You see that and you're

00:31:42.029 --> 00:31:44.799
like, okay, something weird's here. What do you

00:31:44.799 --> 00:31:46.839
want to do? Everything crazy all around you.

00:31:46.900 --> 00:31:50.539
Chester's just like, holy shit. Can I go? Chester,

00:31:50.579 --> 00:31:53.220
no, you cannot. All right. Well, all right. No,

00:31:53.259 --> 00:31:56.680
you cannot. Fine. Hey, it's fine. Sidekick 101.

00:31:56.799 --> 00:31:59.160
You stay by my side. By your side. Hey, that

00:31:59.160 --> 00:32:02.019
makes sense. Yeah, it does. We'll get to the

00:32:02.019 --> 00:32:04.819
kicking part later, huh? Yeah. Don't make me

00:32:04.819 --> 00:32:08.519
revoke your license. No, hey. I will stay by

00:32:08.519 --> 00:32:12.660
your side. He was just like yelling really loudly,

00:32:12.720 --> 00:32:17.299
howling. What are you doing? Jules walks over

00:32:17.299 --> 00:32:20.259
to her. You walk over. I think she's facing away

00:32:20.259 --> 00:32:22.720
from you. And he just feels like a presence.

00:32:22.819 --> 00:32:24.240
I guess there's a lot of presence all around,

00:32:24.400 --> 00:32:27.000
but he just kind of feels you move up. And she

00:32:27.000 --> 00:32:30.619
turns an eye towards you. And you see, oh, shit.

00:32:31.819 --> 00:32:41.190
And looks away. What's up? Oh, hello. Hi. What

00:32:41.190 --> 00:32:43.109
are you doing here? I don't know who you are.

00:32:43.230 --> 00:32:46.210
Do you look familiar? You're a luminary, yes?

00:32:46.789 --> 00:32:50.990
Of the network. Is she trying to, like, not...

00:32:50.990 --> 00:32:53.730
She looks super fidgety and awkward. Like, oh

00:32:53.730 --> 00:32:55.890
shit, they clocked me. Is she just a kid who's

00:32:55.890 --> 00:32:58.069
trying to enjoy a party? Or is she here for,

00:32:58.109 --> 00:33:00.869
like, some legit reason and she's trying not

00:33:00.869 --> 00:33:04.069
to get, like, figured out? What brings you here?

00:33:04.789 --> 00:33:08.950
I'm just having fun. I am... You might say new

00:33:08.950 --> 00:33:11.490
to the Citadel, so I have come here to enjoy

00:33:11.490 --> 00:33:19.049
myself alone and no one else is with me. You're

00:33:19.049 --> 00:33:22.130
going to roll a dice? Yes. Roll insight about

00:33:22.130 --> 00:33:25.910
it? Yes. Roll insight. You don't need to roll

00:33:25.910 --> 00:33:29.089
high at all. It was a three on the die. Oh my

00:33:29.089 --> 00:33:32.250
god. Plus one. Did that hit it with the... I

00:33:32.250 --> 00:33:35.589
mean... Was it that low? No. His face perked

00:33:35.589 --> 00:33:38.029
up when I said plus one. You can't gather more

00:33:38.029 --> 00:33:40.769
about it, but you're just thinking like, okay,

00:33:40.849 --> 00:33:43.509
there's, I mean, clearly there's something going

00:33:43.509 --> 00:33:48.029
on here. So then after she says that, Jules will

00:33:48.029 --> 00:33:51.890
say, okay, and he'll slowly turn back around

00:33:51.890 --> 00:33:56.170
and he'll turn his head back. I've got my eyes

00:33:56.170 --> 00:34:00.529
on you. She kind of gawks for a second and kind

00:34:00.529 --> 00:34:03.369
of looks around. Oh, one minute. She's like,

00:34:03.470 --> 00:34:05.230
let me do this one, this top one. She's like,

00:34:05.250 --> 00:34:08.389
I'll be right back. I have to see the room. Appreciate

00:34:08.389 --> 00:34:10.610
the mesmerized joke. It was good. It was great.

00:34:10.809 --> 00:34:14.250
I love it. I love it. I think I'll give you a

00:34:14.250 --> 00:34:17.570
button. You're hesitant. You're hesitant. I'm

00:34:17.570 --> 00:34:19.090
not even going to stick out my hand. You're halfway

00:34:19.090 --> 00:34:22.139
there. I feel like you earned it. for recognizing

00:34:22.139 --> 00:34:24.179
the voice. Thank you. That's the other half.

00:34:24.239 --> 00:34:26.420
Thank you. That's the other half. That's pretty

00:34:26.420 --> 00:34:28.340
good. I was surprised that you didn't do it then.

00:34:28.699 --> 00:34:30.539
You're right. You know what? I was just too excited.

00:34:32.159 --> 00:34:34.840
If you're excited, you feel a presence move right

00:34:34.840 --> 00:34:38.039
up behind you. A hand kind of grabs you. I think

00:34:38.039 --> 00:34:41.940
just out of reflex, Jules reaches up and grabs

00:34:41.940 --> 00:34:45.269
the wrist. faces because the wrist is actually

00:34:45.269 --> 00:34:47.469
very small. There's like an illusioning place

00:34:47.469 --> 00:34:49.489
to make her look just a little bit taller. Like

00:34:49.489 --> 00:34:54.269
a foot taller or so. Um, you know who I am then.

00:34:54.809 --> 00:34:57.489
Hi. It's nice to see you again, Jules. What are

00:34:57.489 --> 00:35:04.010
you doing here? Okay. Well, uh, um, it is fine.

00:35:04.110 --> 00:35:06.829
You are friends with my sister, yes? Yes, she

00:35:06.829 --> 00:35:09.150
told me. You are collaborators in the battle

00:35:09.150 --> 00:35:11.530
against the Runera Song. I found her, by the

00:35:11.530 --> 00:35:13.820
way. She is alive. But you knew that. She told

00:35:13.820 --> 00:35:16.619
me you knew that, so thanks for telling me. Slugger.

00:35:17.900 --> 00:35:23.639
I kid, it's fine. You had orders. So, Yara's

00:35:23.639 --> 00:35:27.440
here. She's here tonight, right now. In fact,

00:35:27.519 --> 00:35:30.619
she's in the VIP lounge. She was chosen by, you

00:35:30.619 --> 00:35:33.539
know, him, Handsome Jai. She's waiting it out.

00:35:33.579 --> 00:35:36.559
The goblin, Rune's goblin, Therese, he's coming

00:35:36.559 --> 00:35:39.940
tonight to meet with Handsome Jai. And Yara,

00:35:40.079 --> 00:35:42.559
she's gonna send Rune a message. She's going

00:35:42.559 --> 00:35:49.480
to kill him. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Uh -huh. And she's

00:35:49.480 --> 00:35:52.099
looking at him super excitedly, just like, she's

00:35:52.099 --> 00:35:53.860
going to kill him right here tonight in the VIP

00:35:53.860 --> 00:35:57.280
room. So it's good. I'm just sort of waiting

00:35:57.280 --> 00:35:59.599
it out now for her. What time is Trace getting

00:35:59.599 --> 00:36:03.420
here? 10 .30, I believe, is the usual time. Yara

00:36:03.420 --> 00:36:05.519
had some dealings with them back in the day,

00:36:05.539 --> 00:36:07.440
so she knows a bit of Rune's schedule, and it

00:36:07.440 --> 00:36:09.900
does not change much. Is it earlier than 10 .30

00:36:09.900 --> 00:36:11.860
because you originally prepped 10 o 'clock, but

00:36:11.860 --> 00:36:14.260
we decided it was more like 8 o 'clock because

00:36:14.260 --> 00:36:18.519
we have to meet Xole at 11? 10 o 'clock. I was

00:36:18.519 --> 00:36:24.019
wrong about the time. How did Yara get into the

00:36:24.019 --> 00:36:27.739
VIP room? Well, she put the moves on Handsome

00:36:27.739 --> 00:36:31.880
Jai. He always picks one to, you know. Like these

00:36:31.880 --> 00:36:34.260
kinds of moves? And Blanche starts to, like,

00:36:34.300 --> 00:36:40.650
really awfully robotically dance? No. Not remotely.

00:36:42.230 --> 00:36:44.630
Well, how do you think we could get back there?

00:36:45.610 --> 00:36:48.670
Oh, you want to help? I mean, Sister does not

00:36:48.670 --> 00:36:50.929
need help. She has poison and drugs and all the

00:36:50.929 --> 00:36:53.289
things she would need to keep Handsome Jai, you

00:36:53.289 --> 00:36:57.309
know, distracted and end the goblin. But if you

00:36:57.309 --> 00:37:00.429
want to go, she... I did not see where she went,

00:37:00.469 --> 00:37:03.269
to be honest. I did not see the room. I've been

00:37:03.269 --> 00:37:05.230
looking around for it. I cannot find it, but...

00:37:05.519 --> 00:37:08.079
I know she was going there with Handsome Jai.

00:37:09.760 --> 00:37:13.239
There was a lizardfolk, one of his sidekicks.

00:37:13.559 --> 00:37:17.440
They call them party lords here. Sexy Evan, that's

00:37:17.440 --> 00:37:22.719
the name. Sexy what? Evan. Sexy Evan? Evan. Evan?

00:37:23.559 --> 00:37:28.219
Yes. So, correct me if I'm wrong, we want Trace,

00:37:28.219 --> 00:37:31.659
right? Yeah, I'm not like... I'm just going along

00:37:31.659 --> 00:37:34.000
to get to the VIP lounge. Yeah, I'm just trying

00:37:34.000 --> 00:37:36.599
to think of what Jules is going to do. Okay.

00:37:37.500 --> 00:37:41.440
I think we have to at least play along long enough

00:37:41.440 --> 00:37:44.980
to get into the VIP lounge, and then we can do

00:37:44.980 --> 00:37:46.960
our... I'm also thinking in the direction of

00:37:46.960 --> 00:37:49.320
not even letting Trace get to the VIP lounge.

00:37:50.539 --> 00:37:52.440
Doesn't he have a secret key to get in, though?

00:37:53.400 --> 00:37:55.460
He's got a secret key, so he probably isn't...

00:37:55.460 --> 00:37:57.019
I thought there was only a front door. I thought

00:37:57.019 --> 00:37:58.539
there was only a front door. There's only one

00:37:58.539 --> 00:38:00.590
front door. Maybe he's in the room. Where's the

00:38:00.590 --> 00:38:02.309
VIP lounge? That's the real question. Right.

00:38:02.469 --> 00:38:05.409
God, so yeah. I just don't want to get in another

00:38:05.409 --> 00:38:11.190
fight with mesmerized. Well, last time. I think

00:38:11.190 --> 00:38:14.530
we can. And handsome Jai. I'm thinking and hoping

00:38:14.530 --> 00:38:19.150
that we can avoid a fight. Yeah. Yeah. So we

00:38:19.150 --> 00:38:22.889
just got to get there before Trace arrives. Yes.

00:38:23.030 --> 00:38:29.050
And control the scene. Where's the room at? I

00:38:29.050 --> 00:38:30.969
want to... Catch up a little bit and maybe lend

00:38:30.969 --> 00:38:33.369
a hand. I don't know where the room is, but I

00:38:33.369 --> 00:38:36.929
could tell you where sexy Evan is. I saw him.

00:38:38.050 --> 00:38:41.710
He kind of looks around. It's probably so weird

00:38:41.710 --> 00:38:43.809
for her because she looks a little taller than

00:38:43.809 --> 00:38:46.690
she is. So he's trying to kind of raise a hand

00:38:46.690 --> 00:38:49.139
up and sort of point this way. It kind of points

00:38:49.139 --> 00:38:51.119
towards maybe the northwest or back corner of

00:38:51.119 --> 00:38:53.719
this whole establishment. I mean, probably in

00:38:53.719 --> 00:38:56.380
the northeast, you see there's a dancing floor.

00:38:56.559 --> 00:38:59.179
Everyone's gone kind of wild over there. Sort

00:38:59.179 --> 00:39:00.500
of in that direction, things seem to be a little

00:39:00.500 --> 00:39:03.539
more sparse, a little calmer. There's maybe some

00:39:03.539 --> 00:39:05.340
tables set out. People are just kind of sitting

00:39:05.340 --> 00:39:08.219
back, drinking. I have a little bit of an idea

00:39:08.219 --> 00:39:12.739
that might help. Uh -huh. Chester. Oh, yes, good.

00:39:12.920 --> 00:39:16.280
Do you think you can put an ear to the ground

00:39:16.280 --> 00:39:19.039
and... Try to learn what sort of things someone

00:39:19.039 --> 00:39:22.079
can do that would catch the attention of Handsome

00:39:22.079 --> 00:39:25.179
Jai and get them admitted to the VIP lounge?

00:39:26.099 --> 00:39:27.880
Yeah, you want me to take a second and do my

00:39:27.880 --> 00:39:30.380
thing? Do your thing, Justin. All right, hey,

00:39:30.539 --> 00:39:33.320
stay cool. But hey. What? You come right back

00:39:33.320 --> 00:39:36.679
to my side. Be right back, yeah. All right, hey.

00:39:37.400 --> 00:39:41.840
No indulging. What, Jules? No indulging. Gotta

00:39:41.840 --> 00:39:45.019
fit in. Gotta be cool. All right, hey, no indulging.

00:39:45.059 --> 00:39:48.079
No indulging. Psychic. Blanche hands him one

00:39:48.079 --> 00:39:50.460
of her breath mints. There you go. This will

00:39:50.460 --> 00:39:54.500
help you fit in. What? She, like, takes it and

00:39:54.500 --> 00:39:55.980
puts it in the center of her tongue like she's

00:39:55.980 --> 00:39:57.420
taking drugs or something like that. She's like,

00:39:57.519 --> 00:40:03.320
it looks really cool, doesn't it? Gives you a

00:40:03.320 --> 00:40:06.000
wink. And just kind of measures in her crowd.

00:40:06.559 --> 00:40:11.119
I think, Tanya, I wish you luck, but I should

00:40:11.119 --> 00:40:14.349
continue sort of my perusing as well. I want

00:40:14.349 --> 00:40:15.929
to be ready for my sister when she comes back.

00:40:16.389 --> 00:40:19.010
But if you can find me, I will do what I can

00:40:19.010 --> 00:40:22.369
to help you. How do you plan to prepare for when

00:40:22.369 --> 00:40:25.829
she comes back? What's your plan? Basically to

00:40:25.829 --> 00:40:28.769
run if we need to run. Okay, I'm confused by

00:40:28.769 --> 00:40:31.969
your plan. Seems like there isn't really much

00:40:31.969 --> 00:40:35.449
of one. The best plans, the most radical plans,

00:40:35.730 --> 00:40:40.750
are no plans. We are figuring that out. Do we

00:40:40.750 --> 00:40:44.090
want to walk to that back corner? Yeah. See if

00:40:44.090 --> 00:40:46.949
we can talk our way in. Yeah. I have an idea.

00:40:47.469 --> 00:40:51.809
Okay. All right. It's stupid. Not in like a,

00:40:51.849 --> 00:40:54.769
this is going to get us hurt way. Just, it might

00:40:54.769 --> 00:40:57.550
be stupid. Okay. That's great. You guys are sliding

00:40:57.550 --> 00:41:01.010
through. Strobilites shining down on you. Again,

00:41:01.050 --> 00:41:02.690
people starting to kind of part ahead of you.

00:41:03.349 --> 00:41:05.789
Akio's kind of clicking. I think you see he starts

00:41:05.789 --> 00:41:08.570
like grooving a little bit. Like, oh, it is infectious

00:41:08.570 --> 00:41:13.840
help. My head is bobbing. No, you're fitting

00:41:13.840 --> 00:41:17.199
right in. Oh, good. I don't see any of the dogs

00:41:17.199 --> 00:41:22.099
here. And you guys move. Move out of sort of

00:41:22.099 --> 00:41:24.199
like the main sort of thoroughfare here. You

00:41:24.199 --> 00:41:25.559
kind of slide out to the side where there's a

00:41:25.559 --> 00:41:27.420
little less people, less traffic, you know, kind

00:41:27.420 --> 00:41:30.739
of bumping uglies with everyone you pass. Definitely

00:41:30.739 --> 00:41:33.599
like there's a few sort of people kind of seeing

00:41:33.599 --> 00:41:37.219
you, Jules. And oh my gosh, is that? It is. I

00:41:37.219 --> 00:41:41.849
can fix him. I can fix him. Oh my God. Just sort

00:41:41.849 --> 00:41:44.869
of whispering your way. You slide towards, away

00:41:44.869 --> 00:41:47.449
from the sort of crowd, away from the eyes, towards

00:41:47.449 --> 00:41:48.929
this back area where you stand and you see like

00:41:48.929 --> 00:41:51.750
a number of tables and benches. People are just

00:41:51.750 --> 00:41:55.289
kind of sort of hanging out here, taking their

00:41:55.289 --> 00:41:57.030
drinks. I mean, it's probably like, imagine every

00:41:57.030 --> 00:41:59.750
party. I mean, because I know parties. I know

00:41:59.750 --> 00:42:02.730
that every party has got a sort of chill section

00:42:02.730 --> 00:42:04.889
for when you want to just kind of sit down and

00:42:04.889 --> 00:42:07.690
put your arms around people or something. I see

00:42:07.690 --> 00:42:10.300
it in TV shows. I don't know. I don't care. I

00:42:10.300 --> 00:42:17.320
don't care. I don't care. As you're moving through

00:42:17.320 --> 00:42:21.179
this area, your eyes are drawn towards one particular

00:42:21.179 --> 00:42:23.980
figure. I think there's a bit of a crowd sort

00:42:23.980 --> 00:42:26.579
of built up in a circle around this one. Maybe

00:42:26.579 --> 00:42:29.699
there's a card game being played at a table and

00:42:29.699 --> 00:42:32.460
someone just smashes the table and kind of steps

00:42:32.460 --> 00:42:34.559
away. And as they move out of the way, you kind

00:42:34.559 --> 00:42:39.570
of see a lizard folk. With pale gray, almost

00:42:39.570 --> 00:42:42.329
white scales, huge muscular arms judging out

00:42:42.329 --> 00:42:46.050
from kind of a portly body, kind of a bright,

00:42:46.190 --> 00:42:50.809
easy smile. This figure just kind of sits, you

00:42:50.809 --> 00:42:53.690
know, clawed hands holding cards or dropping

00:42:53.690 --> 00:42:56.429
on the table. And with sort of a cheer, everyone

00:42:56.429 --> 00:42:59.489
kind of, you know, laughs along, cheers along.

00:43:00.230 --> 00:43:03.389
And this figure's eyes kind of look up, sort

00:43:03.389 --> 00:43:07.210
of dark amber eyes that catch the two of you.

00:43:08.019 --> 00:43:10.139
widen just a little and then kind of one claw

00:43:10.139 --> 00:43:17.179
raises and gestures you over. We're in. You don't

00:43:17.179 --> 00:43:20.039
need to say it, Blanche. It's a lot cooler if

00:43:20.039 --> 00:43:24.019
we just do it. Yeah, Blanche is definitely following

00:43:24.019 --> 00:43:30.719
Jules' lead here. I love that. What does it look

00:43:30.719 --> 00:43:32.460
like as you guys are moving around? I'm curious

00:43:32.460 --> 00:43:35.280
how your general demeanor is in this place. Dude.

00:43:35.789 --> 00:43:39.070
I feel so badass right now. I just think Jules,

00:43:39.150 --> 00:43:41.369
he's like fucking Neo walking through the club.

00:43:41.409 --> 00:43:45.530
Oh, God, yes. Like, yeah. He's just badass. Oh,

00:43:45.530 --> 00:43:50.050
my gosh. I love it. I love it. Blanche doesn't

00:43:50.050 --> 00:43:52.230
know quite how to fit in. Like, she's looking

00:43:52.230 --> 00:43:56.329
around a little too much. You only get a couple

00:43:56.329 --> 00:43:58.750
of, like, aren't you a little old to be here?

00:43:58.869 --> 00:44:03.190
No. Every time she's met with that sort of interaction.

00:44:03.980 --> 00:44:05.460
She pulls her breath mints out and she's like,

00:44:05.539 --> 00:44:09.599
have you had these? They're from Noiri. Do you

00:44:09.599 --> 00:44:12.280
think you can party with the master of defense?

00:44:12.639 --> 00:44:16.440
Oh, shit. Oh, shit. And she's like handing these

00:44:16.440 --> 00:44:19.579
out. It's just like such a big grandma energy.

00:44:19.820 --> 00:44:22.699
She's handing out breath mints. Well, not with

00:44:22.699 --> 00:44:27.340
the... I know. I know. As you guys are moving

00:44:27.340 --> 00:44:30.260
in, one thing you might want to do, actually,

00:44:30.280 --> 00:44:32.539
is make a history check on this figure. This

00:44:32.539 --> 00:44:34.320
is a figure of some note that you might know

00:44:34.320 --> 00:44:37.519
about. Just kind of this sort of general luminary

00:44:37.519 --> 00:44:42.639
history. Only an eight. I also got an eight.

00:44:42.719 --> 00:44:45.340
Oh, my God. You don't know. You don't know this

00:44:45.340 --> 00:44:46.639
figure. Of course we don't. You don't know a

00:44:46.639 --> 00:44:48.800
lot about Handsome Jai. I guess he's just not

00:44:48.800 --> 00:44:53.280
really tuned in. Not really my scene. You guys

00:44:53.280 --> 00:44:56.699
move up. the crowd sort of parts and the figure

00:44:56.699 --> 00:45:00.260
again just this big almost predatory smile uh

00:45:00.260 --> 00:45:03.039
taking you in kind of gestures towards the other

00:45:03.039 --> 00:45:04.920
side of the table it's like a bench table you

00:45:04.920 --> 00:45:06.280
know he's on one side there's one side there

00:45:06.280 --> 00:45:08.079
cards are kind of thrown out but he sort of cleans

00:45:08.079 --> 00:45:10.099
up the cards and slides them into a very very

00:45:10.099 --> 00:45:12.900
easily into a deck you guys been playing mancala

00:45:17.329 --> 00:45:22.789
That sounds like a Blanche line. I came to the

00:45:22.789 --> 00:45:26.150
club to play Mancala. I still have no idea what

00:45:26.150 --> 00:45:35.210
Mancala is. Jules LaRoche. Take a seat. Looks

00:45:35.210 --> 00:45:40.610
over. Blanche Trudeau. You're as beautiful as

00:45:40.610 --> 00:45:45.389
they say. Looks at your weird tortle hair. Tell

00:45:45.389 --> 00:45:49.190
me. Talk is cheek. And she hands him a breath

00:45:49.190 --> 00:45:54.750
mint. Jules takes a chair. I'm glad you cut that

00:45:54.750 --> 00:46:00.309
off. He doesn't say what he's going to say. It's

00:46:00.309 --> 00:46:01.969
fine. It's good. It's better this way. I'm sure

00:46:01.969 --> 00:46:05.510
it wasn't going to be creepy. No, no. Jules takes

00:46:05.510 --> 00:46:08.869
the chair and turns it around and sits with his

00:46:08.869 --> 00:46:10.929
arms over the bed. Oh, shit. Roll performance.

00:46:11.670 --> 00:46:15.539
There's a bench, but you know what? Okay. Fine.

00:46:15.539 --> 00:46:18.119
He takes the bench. He takes the bench and turns

00:46:18.119 --> 00:46:20.360
it around. Everyone gets out of the way as you

00:46:20.360 --> 00:46:28.400
kind of slowly get up and slide. So dumb. So,

00:46:28.559 --> 00:46:32.500
what brings you two out here? Not many luminaries

00:46:32.500 --> 00:46:34.679
come out this way, not apart from, you know,

00:46:34.760 --> 00:46:38.920
the man himself. Do we need an excuse to come

00:46:38.920 --> 00:46:44.780
party? No, not at all. Just curious. I'm... Sexy

00:46:44.780 --> 00:46:48.679
Ivan. Lord of Games, they call me. Handsome Jai's

00:46:48.679 --> 00:46:53.920
sidekick. Oh, okay. Good to know. Wait a minute.

00:46:53.980 --> 00:46:56.500
Didn't we hear earlier something about a pixie?

00:46:57.219 --> 00:47:01.179
Yeah. Was his sidekick? Handsome Jai actually

00:47:01.179 --> 00:47:07.159
has many sidekicks. Oh. His old squad mates from

00:47:07.159 --> 00:47:10.579
back in the Civil War days have all become sidekicks

00:47:10.579 --> 00:47:19.320
for him now. In this modern era. Partying. Back

00:47:19.320 --> 00:47:24.099
in my day, everyone only had one sidekick. Oh,

00:47:24.139 --> 00:47:26.420
wait a minute. We have multiple sidekicks. Yeah,

00:47:26.420 --> 00:47:28.099
we do. We just use one at a time. You actually

00:47:28.099 --> 00:47:32.340
don't register. Oh, fuck. Yeah. You each only

00:47:32.340 --> 00:47:34.059
have one registered sidekick, interestingly enough.

00:47:34.219 --> 00:47:35.860
Though you have multiple that you kind of use

00:47:35.860 --> 00:47:39.519
mechanically, not narratively. Sure. Yeah. We're

00:47:39.519 --> 00:47:41.340
getting caught in the weeds. Caught in the weeds.

00:47:43.900 --> 00:47:46.320
You see also, like, just before him on the table,

00:47:46.380 --> 00:47:47.659
there's one side you see the cards, and on the

00:47:47.659 --> 00:47:50.659
other side there's this, like, an oil lamp emitting

00:47:50.659 --> 00:47:54.820
this, like, rainbow pulsing kind of flame. Kind

00:47:54.820 --> 00:47:57.860
of casting this entire table, and then especially

00:47:57.860 --> 00:48:01.559
sort of bright light. How old is Handsome Jai?

00:48:02.000 --> 00:48:03.760
Handsome Jai's quite young. Handsome Jai would

00:48:03.760 --> 00:48:09.860
be in his late 20s, early 30s. Okay. Half elf,

00:48:09.920 --> 00:48:13.250
actually. So he's older. Older than that, yeah.

00:48:13.449 --> 00:48:17.570
We grew tired of partying with all the teeny

00:48:17.570 --> 00:48:21.630
boppers, and we thought that maybe we could enjoy

00:48:21.630 --> 00:48:24.909
the company of some peers. Yeah, dead drugs were

00:48:24.909 --> 00:48:28.889
a little too hard for this one. Hey, these, she

00:48:28.889 --> 00:48:31.510
shakes a little, will knock you on your ass.

00:48:32.050 --> 00:48:36.349
I think he just looks at the two of you and just

00:48:36.349 --> 00:48:41.550
kind of goes under the table and lies down. All

00:48:41.550 --> 00:48:44.869
right. So what are you looking for? Playing some

00:48:44.869 --> 00:48:48.909
games? That's sort of my thing, but if you're

00:48:48.909 --> 00:48:52.510
looking for, I mean, stronger stuff, Floutfember

00:48:52.510 --> 00:48:56.289
in the back room there, there's nothing stronger

00:48:56.289 --> 00:49:00.250
than his breath. Or, well. Is that a sex thing?

00:49:02.250 --> 00:49:07.230
No, no, that's the other room. I'm just not sure

00:49:07.230 --> 00:49:12.139
what you're insinuating. You'll find out. Jules,

00:49:12.179 --> 00:49:13.340
I don't know, or Jeremy, I don't know how to

00:49:13.340 --> 00:49:16.440
ask for the back room without sounding like a

00:49:16.440 --> 00:49:20.519
total narc. It's like narc city over here. Where

00:49:20.519 --> 00:49:23.619
did the real cool people go? People like us.

00:49:24.219 --> 00:49:27.460
You wanted the VIP room. Let's cut to the chase.

00:49:27.679 --> 00:49:30.159
We brought a dog and a teenager, if that helps.

00:49:36.559 --> 00:49:42.019
I'm afraid I can't help you. Handsome Jai's taking

00:49:42.019 --> 00:49:47.059
some company. I... It wouldn't be cool for me

00:49:47.059 --> 00:49:50.579
to interrupt, right? Okay, so what do we have

00:49:50.579 --> 00:49:53.239
to offer that would be worth an interruption?

00:49:53.659 --> 00:49:56.900
Are you able to go in there still? Do you have

00:49:56.900 --> 00:50:02.380
access? I could ask for access. You're the sexy

00:50:02.380 --> 00:50:06.059
guy. Who do you have to ask for access? I'm a

00:50:06.059 --> 00:50:10.269
sidekick. Handsome Jai's... My squad leader.

00:50:10.449 --> 00:50:14.289
My captain. I'd ask him. Does Handsome Jai know

00:50:14.289 --> 00:50:18.889
that we're here? By now, he probably does. Give

00:50:18.889 --> 00:50:24.090
me an insight check on the last one. Just a 10.

00:50:26.110 --> 00:50:29.869
15. 15 will just do it. Oh, thank goodness. What

00:50:29.869 --> 00:50:33.010
he says, by now, he probably does. Uh -huh. His

00:50:33.010 --> 00:50:38.170
eyes slide down to the table, to the lamp. him

00:50:38.170 --> 00:50:41.190
back up to you. Jules wants to pick up the lamp

00:50:41.190 --> 00:50:44.969
and say something into the lamp. I bet you don't

00:50:44.969 --> 00:50:46.769
need to pick it up. I bet you could just... Well,

00:50:46.869 --> 00:50:48.449
I know, but he wants to pick it up for effect.

00:50:50.170 --> 00:50:52.929
Jules will pick up the lamp. Is there a diamond

00:50:52.929 --> 00:50:58.510
or a mic? It's just magic. No diamond. No mic.

00:50:59.309 --> 00:51:01.510
Actually, I'll say, you reach over the lamp and

00:51:01.510 --> 00:51:04.630
I immediately... Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hand

00:51:04.630 --> 00:51:09.719
goes out. This scaly, You get burly hand. Am

00:51:09.719 --> 00:51:11.579
I crazy in thinking that he's listening through

00:51:11.579 --> 00:51:14.300
this? No, he's watching. He's watching or listening

00:51:14.300 --> 00:51:16.460
through it. But I think trying to pick it up

00:51:16.460 --> 00:51:18.820
is... Give me an Arcana check either if you can.

00:51:19.280 --> 00:51:21.360
Okay. This is fun. As you're kind of looking

00:51:21.360 --> 00:51:23.159
down this, you see like the very defensive part

00:51:23.159 --> 00:51:25.500
of your way because the lamp is almost like moved

00:51:25.500 --> 00:51:29.500
over. 19. 16. I think a 19 will clinch this for

00:51:29.500 --> 00:51:33.480
you. 16. You realize... There's something more

00:51:33.480 --> 00:51:34.960
to this, at least, Jules. Something more to that

00:51:34.960 --> 00:51:37.579
lamp. But Blanche, as you look down at this,

00:51:37.739 --> 00:51:41.119
pieces begin to fall together. Handsome Jai's

00:51:41.119 --> 00:51:46.119
a warlock of the genie. Ah. Oh, shit. The lamp

00:51:46.119 --> 00:51:50.099
is the VIP room. Yep. Gotcha. Yep. And it's being

00:51:50.099 --> 00:51:52.639
guarded. Okay. The lamp sort of slides back.

00:51:52.719 --> 00:51:56.039
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I can't let you do that.

00:51:56.199 --> 00:51:58.320
Again, we don't want to interrupt them. If they

00:51:58.320 --> 00:51:59.659
don't want to be interrupted, they're not listening.

00:52:00.320 --> 00:52:03.329
I'm just imagining that. Handsome Jai would probably

00:52:03.329 --> 00:52:06.309
be upset if he didn't know a couple of VIPs walked

00:52:06.309 --> 00:52:09.610
through the front door. Big smile. You want to

00:52:09.610 --> 00:52:13.010
be VIPs? You want to be someone that Handsome

00:52:13.010 --> 00:52:16.829
Jai can't miss out on? Someone maybe worth bothering

00:52:16.829 --> 00:52:20.750
him over? He kind of thinks for a second, smiles

00:52:20.750 --> 00:52:23.250
again, just this never, yeah, this is constantly

00:52:23.250 --> 00:52:26.050
growing, you know, draconic lizard folk smile

00:52:26.050 --> 00:52:29.590
that's just a little too long, too arched. The

00:52:29.590 --> 00:52:32.989
Midnight Prince. has other late -night engagements,

00:52:33.090 --> 00:52:35.409
and he could walk out of this room and it would

00:52:35.409 --> 00:52:38.730
be your fault. Yet so far, all you've done is

00:52:38.730 --> 00:52:42.849
bring your bad mojo in with you. Now, come on,

00:52:42.869 --> 00:52:44.210
I'm tuned into what's going on. Does Yara know

00:52:44.210 --> 00:52:46.730
we're here, too? Like I said, I can't say for

00:52:46.730 --> 00:52:48.110
sure. If they're watching, they're watching.

00:52:48.170 --> 00:52:51.869
If they're not, they're not. They can see what's

00:52:51.869 --> 00:52:54.110
going on out here if the blinds aren't drawn,

00:52:54.210 --> 00:52:57.349
if you know what I mean. Closed. Are drawn. What's

00:52:57.349 --> 00:53:00.059
the one? I think drawn is close. All right, cool.

00:53:00.199 --> 00:53:02.139
Thanks. Hey, that was cool of you to answer that

00:53:02.139 --> 00:53:05.760
question for me. You're on the right track. Why

00:53:05.760 --> 00:53:07.599
are you pointing to me? He did it. She did it.

00:53:08.159 --> 00:53:12.139
Let me tell you what. You bring some life to

00:53:12.139 --> 00:53:16.320
this party. You impress me, the other sidekicks.

00:53:17.039 --> 00:53:20.840
I'll let you in. At least I'll get Jai's attention.

00:53:21.679 --> 00:53:25.920
I could do that much. Man, I might have a stupid,

00:53:26.159 --> 00:53:31.139
crazy, Okay. Yeah, I mean, if you can find a

00:53:31.139 --> 00:53:34.199
way around this, do it. He's basically putting

00:53:34.199 --> 00:53:38.360
out there, hey, impress the three party lords,

00:53:38.360 --> 00:53:40.559
the sidekicks, but if you got something else.

00:53:40.699 --> 00:53:41.940
If you got something else, I'm eager to hear

00:53:41.940 --> 00:53:43.519
it. I got something viral. I think I got something

00:53:43.519 --> 00:53:46.559
viral. What does that even mean? Okay. You're

00:53:46.559 --> 00:53:49.539
too old. Damn. Blanche gets down. We're doing

00:53:49.539 --> 00:53:52.079
party lingo. I forgot. Blanche gets down on her

00:53:52.079 --> 00:53:54.739
hands and knees and looks under the table. Whoa.

00:53:56.860 --> 00:54:01.760
Akio. Yes, yes, master. That's that dancing you

00:54:01.760 --> 00:54:05.780
were doing earlier. Let's go to the floor and

00:54:05.780 --> 00:54:10.539
show them something extra special. Okay. What?

00:54:10.780 --> 00:54:14.099
So if Akio gets up and walks over to the dance

00:54:14.099 --> 00:54:18.519
floor, Blanche is going to cast haste on him

00:54:18.519 --> 00:54:21.780
for extra movement speed, make him move super

00:54:21.780 --> 00:54:25.420
fast. Now, before you do this. Uh -huh. I love

00:54:25.420 --> 00:54:27.539
this idea. I think it's really cool. Yeah. I

00:54:27.539 --> 00:54:29.119
want to make sure you're doing this for the right

00:54:29.119 --> 00:54:30.900
audience. He basically said like, hey, if you

00:54:30.900 --> 00:54:34.369
impress the other people. You want to make sure

00:54:34.369 --> 00:54:36.230
you're impressing one of these people with this,

00:54:36.289 --> 00:54:38.429
right? Sure. I kind of assume that everybody's

00:54:38.429 --> 00:54:40.829
watching the dance floor. This place is huge.

00:54:41.230 --> 00:54:43.869
It's a huge penthouse, multiple rooms, upper

00:54:43.869 --> 00:54:47.590
balcony. There is a sort of major dance floor

00:54:47.590 --> 00:54:49.230
on the other side, and perhaps there's someone

00:54:49.230 --> 00:54:50.750
there to impress. I think this is a really cool

00:54:50.750 --> 00:54:52.369
idea. I want to see this happen. I want to make

00:54:52.369 --> 00:54:53.829
sure it happens in the right context to make

00:54:53.829 --> 00:54:56.969
this fucking go. Sure. Well, if I can pull this

00:54:56.969 --> 00:55:01.190
off at the main dance floor, then... Like, even

00:55:01.190 --> 00:55:03.969
if somebody's not watching, I'm thinking and

00:55:03.969 --> 00:55:06.670
hoping that the reactions of other people will

00:55:06.670 --> 00:55:11.789
draw attention. Okay. So... So, yeah, that makes

00:55:11.789 --> 00:55:15.630
sense. I like that a lot. Akio, are you telling

00:55:15.630 --> 00:55:18.590
him to go dance? Well, kind of, sort of. We're

00:55:18.590 --> 00:55:20.309
sitting there, we're huddling up at the edge

00:55:20.309 --> 00:55:22.210
of the dance floor, and Blanche is trying to,

00:55:22.230 --> 00:55:24.670
like, explain, like, you know, do this, do that,

00:55:24.670 --> 00:55:27.969
blah, blah, blah, whatnot. And... Basically what

00:55:27.969 --> 00:55:29.789
I'm trying to do is make like a breakdancing

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dog. So I'm going to use the haste spell and

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Blanche is also going to use like mage hand on

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the side to like help spin him. Dude, while you

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do that. Yeah. Jules from his hands is creating

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a mist. Hell yeah. Out onto the floor and he

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turns his loot and it begins like making lasers

00:55:47.929 --> 00:55:52.050
across. So DJ dance dog. Yeah, exactly. I love

00:55:52.050 --> 00:55:54.469
it. So I'm going to do a few things with this.

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First of all, sexy having over there. You just

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kind of get up and walk away? Yeah, I mean, something

00:56:01.199 --> 00:56:04.980
like, well, all right, let's see how much attention

00:56:04.980 --> 00:56:08.320
we can grab and change these bad vibes around,

00:56:08.619 --> 00:56:11.820
as you say. While Jules is standing there around

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the dance floor, he's constantly looking over

00:56:13.900 --> 00:56:16.320
in that direction, though. Okay. He's not taking

00:56:16.320 --> 00:56:19.119
his eyes off him. All right, yeah, I think he

00:56:19.119 --> 00:56:23.659
kind of smiles, nods as you kind of leave. and

00:56:23.659 --> 00:56:25.800
those eyes do seem to follow you. I mean, of

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course, broken up by people, crowds as you kind

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of get farther and farther away, you're kind

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of moving. Let's say this is like the, you know,

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the kind of southeastern side of the room and

00:56:34.739 --> 00:56:36.039
you're kind of moving up towards the, I think

00:56:36.039 --> 00:56:37.699
it's the northwestern where people are kind of

00:56:37.699 --> 00:56:40.119
gathering up. A lot of the dancing is happening.

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You see a lot of people scantily clad, a lot

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of, I think it was like a higher sort of stage

00:56:44.500 --> 00:56:47.079
point. A number of people are sort of belly dancing

00:56:47.079 --> 00:56:50.719
up there, kind of getting into it. You move to

00:56:50.719 --> 00:56:54.019
the dance floor and You do all this stuff. I

00:56:54.019 --> 00:56:55.440
actually want to make this more of a... I want

00:56:55.440 --> 00:56:57.239
to make a roll here, right? Okay. I want a performance

00:56:57.239 --> 00:57:01.139
check from Akio. Okay. I want advantage for haste.

00:57:01.139 --> 00:57:05.000
Thank you. I want a plus two... This is hard.

00:57:05.719 --> 00:57:08.480
I want two performance checks. One from Jules,

00:57:08.539 --> 00:57:11.139
because of your smokescreen, your magic. One

00:57:11.139 --> 00:57:13.500
from Akio. And I want Akio to take advantage

00:57:13.500 --> 00:57:15.739
and plus two for the effects you're doing. Do

00:57:15.739 --> 00:57:18.500
you want to just tell me the plus for Akio? Because

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I have Jean Franklin as my sidekick. Oh, shoot.

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Oh, right, because I was on Christmas sheet.

00:57:23.369 --> 00:57:26.250
Whoops. I mean, first roll was a 17 on the die.

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For performance, it's going to be flat. Not a

00:57:33.010 --> 00:57:35.429
charismatic dog. Second roll was an 18, but it

00:57:35.429 --> 00:57:38.889
was a plus two, so that's a dirty 20. Yeah, Jules.

00:57:38.909 --> 00:57:42.969
With my misty mountain die. Jules also got a

00:57:42.969 --> 00:57:45.969
dirty 20. All right. Hell yeah. Okay. That's

00:57:45.969 --> 00:57:51.650
solid. The crowd goes wild. uh everyone just

00:57:51.650 --> 00:57:54.510
i mean keo is just again he's really in the thrum

00:57:54.510 --> 00:57:55.969
of the music now and so you see you kind of just

00:57:55.969 --> 00:57:58.630
like let's just go loose haste is kind of activated

00:57:58.630 --> 00:58:00.250
and i think at first he doesn't know how to use

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this and then he's kind of just leaning into

00:58:02.289 --> 00:58:04.230
it uh at one point he does fully just kind of

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fall over and then you just kind of way mage

00:58:07.010 --> 00:58:09.230
hand grab his tail and he's already kind of moving

00:58:09.230 --> 00:58:10.769
so the mage hand you know pound limit doesn't

00:58:10.769 --> 00:58:15.429
matter you're just sliding him he's and now people

00:58:15.429 --> 00:58:22.610
are just Fog hits the floor. Everyone sort of

00:58:22.610 --> 00:58:25.389
oohs and aahs. You look at the stage and you

00:58:25.389 --> 00:58:27.769
see where they've been belly dancing. I think

00:58:27.769 --> 00:58:30.090
there's a number of figures just kind of going,

00:58:30.170 --> 00:58:32.150
and they all kind of slowly kind of stop, and

00:58:32.150 --> 00:58:34.170
they're all watching one of them sort of in the

00:58:34.170 --> 00:58:36.949
center. You can be in a notice now, one that

00:58:36.949 --> 00:58:40.090
sort of stands out. You see a yuan -ti. I don't

00:58:40.090 --> 00:58:42.130
know if you've heard of these before. They're

00:58:42.130 --> 00:58:45.920
essentially snake folk. So you see like tan skin,

00:58:46.059 --> 00:58:48.840
stretched sort of narrow facial features, thick

00:58:48.840 --> 00:58:52.940
black hair. The eyes that were kind of like lost

00:58:52.940 --> 00:58:55.320
and sort of dancing reverie kind of crack open.

00:58:55.480 --> 00:58:58.639
You see they are this bright yellow. This is

00:58:58.639 --> 00:59:00.820
like a lower body of a serpent that extends from

00:59:00.820 --> 00:59:02.960
her black skirt, though her upper body is mostly

00:59:02.960 --> 00:59:07.179
just like full female humanoid. You'll see a

00:59:07.179 --> 00:59:09.460
gnarly scar runs from her chin all the way down

00:59:09.460 --> 00:59:13.570
to the base of her long neck. But she... You

00:59:13.570 --> 00:59:18.269
notice, kind of looks down, cocks a head, smiles

00:59:18.269 --> 00:59:21.050
slightly, begins to slither down as Akio's movements

00:59:21.050 --> 00:59:23.050
kind of suddenly sort of slow and he kind of

00:59:23.050 --> 00:59:27.789
panting, gets back. What happened? Ruff? What

00:59:27.789 --> 00:59:32.130
was that? I don't know what that was. And Blanche

00:59:32.130 --> 00:59:36.530
runs over and pets him. You are breakdancing,

00:59:36.650 --> 00:59:44.159
I believe. I broke something. Ruff? The figure

00:59:44.159 --> 00:59:46.460
sort of slides up to you and everyone else kind

00:59:46.460 --> 00:59:49.780
of like whispers and sort of steps away. And

00:59:49.780 --> 00:59:52.199
she looks to you. You see she's very tall and

00:59:52.199 --> 00:59:53.980
she kind of like props up on her like lower sort

00:59:53.980 --> 00:59:56.659
of snake body, kind of towers over even you,

00:59:56.800 --> 01:00:06.880
Jules. I'm cute Callie, lord of the dance. Your

01:00:06.880 --> 01:00:12.940
dog has moved. and she kind of snaps her fingers,

01:00:13.039 --> 01:00:15.159
and you see all the other, like, dancers slide

01:00:15.159 --> 01:00:17.239
down as well. A number of them are Yuan -Ti,

01:00:17.260 --> 01:00:18.260
a number of them are just full, like, human.

01:00:18.800 --> 01:00:20.980
They begin to move up sort of behind her. They

01:00:20.980 --> 01:00:24.059
form a line behind her, and she looks to you,

01:00:24.179 --> 01:00:26.639
Jules, looks to you, Blanche, looks down at Kiyo

01:00:26.639 --> 01:00:31.400
and says, I wonder if you can keep up with mine.

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And we'll call it there. So it's a dance -off.

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It's a dance -off! With your pants on!