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Hey, Pants People. Just want to say thank you

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for listening and thank you for your friendship.

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Check out the Discord. We'll be talking about

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the dynamic duo of the luminary legends known

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as Sunshine and Moonbeam. Sunshine and Moonbeam.

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I'm going to start with Miss Moonbeam herself.

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Now I know how much we love a mystery in our

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luminary origins. And there are a few more mysterious

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than this enigmatic warriors. Moonbeam's first

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known appearance was right here in the city,

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within the preserve of the ancestors. She was

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only a child at the time, wandering into a royal

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town in primitive fur armor. And speaking of

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her role as a princess, the thing is, she couldn't

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remember well where she was a princess of. And

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as for how she came to appear inside the Royal

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Diamond with no recollection of how she traveled

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here, well, even after years of studying, nobody

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can say. What we do know about Moonbeam is that

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she has grown to be both kind and reckless in

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equal measure, and the people of the Concord

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world love it. She's never outgrown her love

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for light battlecraft, making use of her savage

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speed and masterful maneuvers, and in battle,

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she wields a black -boned battle -made battleaxe.

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Damn it. Black bone made battle axe to bash on

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baddies. I do this to myself. These days, Moonbeam

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travels with Carcord Worlds with a luminary partner,

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Sunshine, helping souls in distress, especially

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those animal souls. She also seeks to explore

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each and every one of our worlds, holding to

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the hope that she can find her lost kingdom,

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a place she barely remembers from her early childhood.

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Holding on to those fading memories like gripping

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hard to a slippery drain, Moonbeam ever pushes

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onwards, seeking home. I, for one, wish her luck

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in her quest. Thank you, Kevin! Oh my gosh. So

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sorry I botched that eight times. I went too

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hard. I went too far. This is actually the first

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of two spotlights from Kevin that are fancy pants

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-sized versions of the characters his kids play

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in their family game of Raiden Citadel. Kevin

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himself runs. Yeah, yeah. That's awesome. It's

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so damn cool. It's always fun to compare our

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campaigns, me and Kevin, and see where we differ

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in our stories. eerily close to each other with

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our insane little touches because there's been

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a few times. It's pretty great. So yeah, not

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only is Kevin a fantastic DM and Blades of the

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Dark GM, he's also the coolest dad ever. Coolest

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dad ever. Shout out to Kevin. Stay tuned next

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week to hear about Sunshine. Oh no, do a slippery

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dream. I actually have a lot of spotlights lined

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up right now. There's even a luminary spotlight

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out there. It's really cool. It's really cool.

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And if you have one, you toss it away. I just

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want to say, if it seems like there's a lot of

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time going by and it hasn't come up yet, I promise,

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I promise it's going to get on here. It's going

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to get on here soon. There's just, there's a

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lot. I will give a heads up that I plan on giving

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priority to new fan spotlights before I do second

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luminaries or gloominaries. But I will get them

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all in here. I love being able to color this

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world with all of our brushes. It makes it really

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special. Yes. Yeah, it's a really cool way to

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enrich the world. And it makes it easier for

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you because you don't have to write all of it.

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We can rely on our friends and our fans to say,

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hey, what if this happened? It's amazing. We

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talk about it all the time. Sometimes I'm worried

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about that broken record here. Like, the other

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day on the Discord, we had a new person just

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join us, actually, on Discord. Check out the

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Discord. I'll make sure I say this right. Scipio

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Africanus joined Discord recently. You know,

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just hop right in. He's a big fan of the show.

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But it's really cool because immediately, very

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soon after joining, in the Theories channel,

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they were talking about tieflings. And saying

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like, hey, you know, I have a weird theory about

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tieflings. I think tieflings, we didn't come

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to the world as tieflings, but instead we're

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on a world that because of planar absorption

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was very close to the demonic abyss or perhaps

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the nine hells and were changed because of planar

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absorption. And oh my gosh, that's so cool. I

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was like, yeah, that's canon. That's the case.

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There's a couple of worlds there that, you know.

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had probably tiefling colonies, or human colonies

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that became tieflings over time. So that's the

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kind of stuff I just love when that comes out.

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Plot points I hadn't really considered. I hadn't

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considered the history of tieflings in the world

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setting yet, but I'm so psyched that now I have.

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Join the Discord and change the world. Join the

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Discord or Steven will kill you. Whoa. He's done

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it before. Help! Speaking of the Discord. Speaking

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of stuff happening in Discord, yeah. We held

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off on it last week. Actually, you know what?

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Put it all aside. Put it all aside. There's something

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else we've got to announce here. Something really

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exciting happened here. In Behind the Scenes

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of Fancy Pants Studios. What are we going to

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talk about? We can't out Jeremy if he doesn't

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want to share his important special. You can

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out me. Go ahead. Mr. Wolf's engaged! Fireworks.

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Fireworks. Mail time drop. Fire breath. Mealtime

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drop. Just because it's fun. Mealtime. Mealtime.

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Did somebody order a bride? I came out bad. Hang

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on. Walk it back. Walk it back. Walk it back.

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Cut that. Oh, congratulations, Jeremy. Thanks,

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man. Holy cow. Thanks, man. Super excited. Oh,

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my gosh. It's incredible. Yeah. It is incredible.

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You're glowing. Now I'm blushing. Oh, gosh. Gosh.

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It's been a good week. It's been a really good

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week. Yeah. Sorry. Hold on to that feeling, man.

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Oh, yeah. Forever. That wasn't creepy. Oh, my

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gosh. But, yeah. Congratulations. Super incredible.

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I'm so stoked. We got to go out, have drinks,

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do some stuff. Pretty soon here. Oh, absolutely.

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Absolutely. But, yeah. What was I saying before?

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Oh, yeah. But. Sorry. So, we're back to the segue

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that we segued. We had talked about doing theme

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songs for our characters. What the theme would

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be if they were to go out there doing something

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cool, but take our actual theme songs and show,

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but real life songs that we could apply to them.

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Andrew brought this idea up and we were like,

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let's do that. And then I didn't do it last week

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because I was greedy and wanted all the time.

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Do we have any theme songs in mind? Yeah. I have

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a couple. I've got a couple. I might have sort

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of misunderstood the assignment when I picked

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one for. zebulon i feel like it fits him really

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well i don't know if he would like zebulon wouldn't

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play this song if he was like out because it's

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kind of uh it talks about maybe some of the uh

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some of the darker sides of zebulon that we really

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only started to touch on you know like when he

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kind of like strong -armed oran he he wanted

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to be famous and and i don't know what he would

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have done to get that fame we didn't really get

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uh far enough to flesh it out but So I picked

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a song by the band Rivals. The name of the song

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is Fake Rich. Okay. All right. All right. Steven

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played this in the brewery the other day and

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it was awesome. I think it's a good one. Awesome.

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Do you guys want to take like two or three minutes

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and pause and listen to the song together? I'm

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down. Sure. Pants people listen along. Hell yeah.

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Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. That is Zebulon. I mean,

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you mentioned before we were watching, you mentioned

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like you could imagine a movie sort of scene

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moment of that playing if, you know, he hadn't

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gone. Yeah, if he was doing something, you know,

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maybe a little questionable. Yeah. Yeah, just

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see that song playing in the background and part

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of the chorus, the line, one of the lines is,

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is it too late to die young? Oh my gosh, yeah.

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Honestly, I got goosebumps during that line.

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That's a good pick. Great song. I hate the following

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that up. That's rough. So I'm not going to. Oh,

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gosh. Do you have any Blanche -themed songs?

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You know, I couldn't find a really good Blanche

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-themed song, so I'm going to chew on it. Maybe

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I'll bring it back at some point in a couple

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of weeks or so. That's true. Yeah, I can drop

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in when or if I find something, but for now,

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I feel like I'm really happy with the Zebulon

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song, so I'll leave it there. I do think I did

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find a good one for dance, though, if we want

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to drop that one. Oh, yeah. Well, because I was

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thinking about... I had thought that this might

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have been a decent one for Blanche because I

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really liked one of the lines in it. But then

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I was listening to it with Jeremy and I was like,

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no, you know what? This song's perfect for dance.

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Huh. It's by Lilith. I think it's just pronounced

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Czar, C -Z -A -R. The song is called Anarchy.

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Huh. So go ahead and listen to that if you're

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a dance fan. Okay. Or you just like good music.

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Okay. I'll actually segue off of that because

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one of my songs is basically the opposite of

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that. Mine are all really mainstream because

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I don't listen to a lot of music. To be honest,

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I listen mostly to podcasts and books, so I don't

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hear a lot of songs that aren't very just out

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there in the world. But I have, when I want to

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get into the zone for writing for the character

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of Atash, I do listen to Compliance by Muse.

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You mentioned this the other day. I don't know

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it specifically. Should we stop? Yeah, let's

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stop. Yeah. Uh, yeah. Uh -huh. Kind of chilling.

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Yeah. That's, that's a perfect song. It's a,

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yeah, it's, it's inspiration. So yeah, that's,

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that's one. I, that one I knew instantly. Yeah.

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Uh, I have like three other ones. I was going

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to say, they're just kind of stupid. You said

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you had something in mind for Chester. What,

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what was that? I want to know. Hang on. So it's

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stupid. Uh, for Chester, all I can think of.

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It's the Ed, Edd n Eddy theme song. Minus the

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Ed, Edd n Eddy part. Just the good old sort of

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schemey junkyard fun. It's just like a cartoon

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opening. It's so goofy. It feels... What do the

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kids say? It gives Chester. Did I do it right?

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It gives Chester. Oh, I didn't know that. I don't

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know. I can't keep up. I don't know what's going

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on. I'm about to show my age. And only a few

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people out there. Put that away. Only a few people

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might get this. The Bobby's World theme song.

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A few people will get this. Or a bunch of people

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are going to Google this. Yeah, exactly. The

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Bobby's World theme song. I'll take your word

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for it. Yeah. You can be making that up. You

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guys don't remember Bobby's World? Early 90s,

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Howie Mandel. I was born in the early 90s. God

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damn it, guys. Wait, Howie Mandel had hair? Yes.

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He had full curly hair. Wow, wait. Oh, yeah.

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Holy smokes. Look that shit up. So that's Chester.

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Akio, I wanted to just say who let the dogs out

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because it's the obvious one. That's not bad.

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Honestly, I feel like you just have like a really

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corny anime opening. I don't even know which

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one. Driving West Island to Bokken's You're the

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Bravest, maybe. I don't know. Just really corny.

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Dude, I got to say, I heard this recently or

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read this somewhere. Lohang Fruit. It's still

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fruit. You know what? Who let the dogs out? It's

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fine. It's fine. That dog is out. I like fruit.

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He can open doors now. He let himself out. That's

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who. That's the movie moment right there. Akio

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learns to open the door and who let the dogs

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out starts playing. I want that. I want that

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movie moment. My last one is I'm too sexy but

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right said Fred for Jean Franklin. Nice. That's

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fine. That's fair. I stand behind that. Hell

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yeah. That's all I got. Mr. Wolf! Ah, for Jules.

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Ooh. I was having trouble, and then I thought

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of something, and then I'm like, yeah. Yeah,

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it was kind of too obvious. Yeah. What? Rage

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Against the Machine, Bulls on Parade. Mm -hmm.

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I think I've heard that one. Do you want to hear

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this, David? I don't know. It sounds familiar.

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Let's pause and we'll take a listen. Let's do

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it. Yeah, but one of the main lines that pulls

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it in is in the chorus. Okay. Rally around the

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family with a pocket full of shells. Oh, I do

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know this song. I do know this song. Okay. I'm

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hyped now, so I want to listen to it. Let's listen

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to it anyway. Let's listen to violent music.

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See you later, nerds. What a jam. Dude. Yeah.

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I love that. Just picking these themes for our

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characters, we're also just diving into the themes

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of the entire story. Yeah. Like compliance versus

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anarchy and what's it called? Bulldog parade.

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Holy shit. Like, ah. Yeah. Love it. Kind of laying

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it all out there. Yeah. Debbie Long with this

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sort of climbing. I really dig that Rivals song.

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We didn't come here to talk about music. No,

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we did not, did we? We came here to kill your

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characters. And that's what I intend to do. Great.

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So let's open. Let's open on desert dunes. Sand

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swirling beneath the shine of a brutally hot

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sun. The sky is a cloudless blue with hints of

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dawn's pink creeping up at the edge of the horizon.

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We see camels sort of traveling over dunes, pushing

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in towards a bazaar in the middle of this desert.

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The footprint of a city, but still in early adolescence.

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There's a clamor of activity as vendors set up

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shop, as travelers move down streets, eyeing

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early morning wares. We just see all these people

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gathered together. And as we kind of zoom up

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over all this, kind of half our screen still

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in the sky, and that blue, big, silvery title

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card appears. Anchor in Sengar. And beneath that

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in small letters, 257 years ago. Whoa. Oh. Holy

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shit. And we move down into that bazaar, into

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those faces, into the crowd. We see all of them

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start to stop and react. Everyone kind of looks

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up, sort of facing out one way towards us. Our

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camera sort of spins around, and we can see some

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sort of sandstorm is building up, moving towards

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us, moving towards these people. They begin to

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react, some screaming out, running away. As it

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gets closer and closer, as the Braves stand and

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watch, we can see... Something else in that storm,

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the strange movements kind of coming off the

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sides of it. Wings, it seems, beating out a great

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dark shadow, endlessly vast inside. And as it

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kind of comes to reach the town itself, the sand

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disperses as these great wings fan out into this

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form of a brass dragon. Not an ancient dragon,

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but on the verge of becoming one. And we see

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this dragon looks down upon these people, many

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of whom are cowering, some of them just dropping

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and bowing before this figure. And the dragon

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begins to shrink down into the shape of a woman.

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Xolay looks about 20 years younger now in this

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inner human guise than she does in our time.

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Though we know it is much longer than that. She

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steps slowly in the bazaar, looking at the crowd,

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what few people have still gathered there. Many

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of those are cowering, just turn and run, diving

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behind stalls or in sort of shops, hiding behind

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crates and alleys. But there are some few that

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do stay, some that meet her gaze. And she speaks

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to these. Any of you who shrink before me may

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leave. You are not who I seek. To the rest of

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you, the brave or the stupid, I come to you with

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an offer, one I intend to make at every settlement

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and anchor in Sengar. I have just made contact

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with a force from another plane. A voice from

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a gemstone contacting me from the deep ethereal.

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It is too much to speak of here and now, but

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it is imperative that I seek out this force.

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Incalculable lives can be saved if this quest

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succeeds. I am quite powerful, but I believe

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my odds will be greater yet in numbers. To even

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find a pathway through to the deep ethereal,

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I fear we will need to travel through an abyssal

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rift. Just... A few people kind of like back

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away at that. Some few that are still there just

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go and hide in shadow. And we hear one figure

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whistles. We... We pan our camera over to a man

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sort of leaning up against an alley. A man in

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his early 40s, thick curly gray beard and a mass

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of black curls on his head. Dark eyes, tan skin,

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very well built with a rectangular brick of a

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face. He wears a simple gray tab with two fine

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swords strapped to his belt. That's a dangerous

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proposition there, Miss Dragon. I must imagine

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the pay is unbelievable. I'm a dragon, Sholay

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says, eyeing this. one stranger. I've melted

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more gold with a single fart than you've spent

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in your entire life. Rich and funny. I think

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you might be an employer worthy of my talents.

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And who are you exactly? Me. I'm a demon slayer

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and a bit of a thrill seeker. Exactly the kind

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of man you need for an abyssal run. I'm also

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a fantastic lover, or so I've heard. She kind

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of growls. You hear a almost draconic growl from

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the human mouth. You may leave. You are not the

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type I'd acquire for my quest. Not the type.

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Whoa, whoa. Moves out in front of her. Not the

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type. You asked for the brave and the stupid.

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I am exactly your type. And besides, I don't

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seem to be able to see your chomping at the bit

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to join you. Can you really turn me down? And

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calculate lives and all that? Just growls. He

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sort of... rises up, gets a little taller, hands

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come together, rubbing this mischievous smile

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on his face. All right, I'll hit the pot and

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grab my things, be ready in ten. And Xolay sighs

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deeply, reaches out a hand towards this figure,

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almost disdainfully as she kind of like holds

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it before him. I am known as Xolay, Xolay the

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Brass. And Zegar grabs her hand, goes in for

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a dramatic sort of, like, kneels and goes in

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for a dramatic sort of hand kiss. He gives her

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a wink as she pulls her hand back and goes up,

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big smile on his face as he reaches her eyes

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again. Nice to meet you, Miss Shone Brass. You

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can call me Zeb. It's short for Zebulon. You

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son of a bitch. Holy shit. And we fade from this

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scene. Goosebumps. Look at those. Look at those

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goosebumps. Let us return to the future, to the

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present, to a very strange situation. Our heroes

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stand at the gates of the city -state of Ionido,

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and you have just fought? You've just survived

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a combat? You're not sure. You stand there, your

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weapons raised, looking around, two guards dead,

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two standing at alert. People behind you cowering,

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but not even sure why. In this moment, the mist

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around you dispersing and the city becoming clear

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again as fast as it was obscured. What do you

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do, gentlemen? I feel like we gotta get up there

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ASAP. Can we just book it? I think so. Get up

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towards the... The castle. The source of the

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mist, the smoke, whatever. Yeah. Do you want

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to move? Yeah, I think Blanche should start booking

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it. I'll say as you look up, you're like, imagine

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your eyes kind of catch each other. You kind

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of do a silence or a nod or whatever. You start

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to move towards the gate to do guards. Hey, hey,

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wait, wait. You're going past them. People start

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to like scream. They're not really sure. Some

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people just kind of awkwardly almost get up and

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start moving away, shuffling. Some just moving

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past the bodies, almost ignoring them. It's strange.

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You're moving past this though. You are running

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and you hear something. a scream, a roar that

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resounds all over the city. As you move, you

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look up and you see Sholay and her massive ancient

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brass dragon form is flying up over the palace

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towards the top of the hilltop. You see her circling

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the palace, letting out another one of these

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screeching roars, and it sounds to you almost

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like a mournful cry, a scream of pain. She's

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so far that you think maybe she holds something

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in each of her claws. And she drops back down

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again, vanishing from sight. The crowd behind

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you breaks into shock, sort of whisper and point

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in awe, sort of drop to their knees in their

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own sort of reverent bows. What's up? Where...

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So if Blanche is trying to align the positioning

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of where the smoke came from, or the mist came

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from, and where Sholay came from, how does that

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align in her vision? Like, did Sholay come from

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a different direction? Or the same direction

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that the smoke emanated from? I would say it's

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the same direction. Yeah, up at the hilltop.

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The palace, the woods beyond. You saw just like

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fog almost pool up towards the top of the hill

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and pour down. The palace and all that is very

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close to the top of the hill. Where the sort

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of rear wall of the city is and beyond that some

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dense forest. I wish I had prepped haste, but

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I didn't, so. You see this. You look up. You

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begin to move. You look at the sky where Shelly

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just vanished and then you see. Something else

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hurtling down towards you, launching down into

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the street in front of you as you move. You probably

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imagine you stop as like a comet, this boom blast

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down in the street in front of you, kicking up

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dust, people screaming, jumping out of the way,

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a large form. And as the sort of... Sand disperses.

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You see a huge masculine body sort of toned like

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crazy. Pale skin, bald head, eyes of blazing

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white light. White wings are spread wide as this

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form crashed down just before you. You see this

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figure is lightly clothed, wearing only a long

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waistcloth and braces of gold on his arms and

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legs. He also has a golden mace strapped to his

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waist. Looks deadly. It is, you know, a celestial.

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With the religion check, you can see what kind.

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Yeah, I'll take that. Mm -hmm. 23. Oh, no, four.

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23. This is known as a diva. They are less powerful

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than Pari, but they are sort of very powerful,

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typically soldiers of Atash. This being must

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have come from Ankara and Sengar. You look at

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this diva. And you also see that he's wearing

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an odd -looking harness on his chest. There's

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a figure, very short and insanely skinny, just

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strapped in facing outwards towards you. Deep

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tan skin, very large and with dark fuzz for hair

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and ears adorned with just way too many earrings.

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A head that seems to be framed in gold, silver,

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and rubies. An oversized black and yellow sun

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-patterned tunic covers most of the body. You

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see shrewd eyes take you in, surrounded by a

00:24:12.900 --> 00:24:16.319
few wrinkles. The age of this... This smaller

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figure in the harness is so hard to pin down,

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like a real 14 or 40 type, you know what I mean?

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Sure, okay. He stares at you, smiling coolly

00:24:25.240 --> 00:24:26.859
from the harness strapped to the chest of an

00:24:26.859 --> 00:24:31.559
angel, and it looks so insanely uncool. And the

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man in the harness begins to speak. Atash once

00:24:34.819 --> 00:24:37.579
said, Beware not the horned fiend who commits

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acts so vile in open sight. demon, while atrocious,

00:24:41.069 --> 00:24:43.950
is easily found and cut away. Fear! Instead,

00:24:44.089 --> 00:24:46.569
the fiend who walks amongst us with smiling masks,

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their poisonous ideologies drip from silvered

00:24:49.170 --> 00:24:51.430
tongues and spread like fire throughout populace,

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opening infernal gates within the hearts of men.

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Sort of grandiose hand gestures. It's probably

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just the weirdest fucking thing you've seen.

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Uh, wait, start with you for a second. I thought

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you'd be the latter, Jules LaRoche, Blanche Trudeau,

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but it seems I've given you too much credit for

00:25:08.490 --> 00:25:11.660
here. You have already shown your hand and your

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horns. These poor guards harassed you, inconvenienced

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you when you so brazenly cut them down. Points

00:25:19.279 --> 00:25:22.960
to the bodies at the gates behind you. But I,

00:25:23.160 --> 00:25:27.460
Ambassador Omid Pastar, am here now to see you

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hauled away. I have it under authority there

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are vacant cells waiting for you both in the

00:25:32.839 --> 00:25:37.359
Sky Prison. For your sidekicks, too. This was

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the guy we were warned about, right? This is

00:25:38.559 --> 00:25:40.400
the guy you were warned about. Uh -huh. Wait,

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were you not affected by the smoke, the mist

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that rolled through? I was indeed affected by

00:25:46.900 --> 00:25:50.640
your trick. I don't know what dark sorceries

00:25:50.640 --> 00:25:53.980
you have done, but I will find the source of

00:25:53.980 --> 00:25:56.180
this. He looks beyond like, tell me, good citizens,

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who amongst you bore witness to this murder,

00:25:58.799 --> 00:26:01.380
to these sorceries? Your bravery in speaking

00:26:01.380 --> 00:26:04.259
out will see justice done and save lives. The

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source is on the hill. We watched the smoke come

00:26:06.380 --> 00:26:11.960
down. Lies, lies. You came from the hill. Beware

00:26:11.960 --> 00:26:14.359
of who, you said? Kyle ignores, looks around,

00:26:14.460 --> 00:26:17.200
and you see people around are, like, weird. They

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are... Not looking any of you in the eye. They're

00:26:19.799 --> 00:26:21.140
shuffling out. People are moving through the

00:26:21.140 --> 00:26:23.539
gate like nothing happened. People are acting

00:26:23.539 --> 00:26:26.480
like nothing happened. And he's kind of just

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like, looks to you, kind of scoffs, looks everywhere

00:26:28.940 --> 00:26:31.839
else like, none of you! Not one! What did you

00:26:31.839 --> 00:26:33.579
do, Biles? What did you do to the populace here?

00:26:33.740 --> 00:26:36.440
Your trickery is... And a voice just sort of

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rings out from the street behind him. Good ambassador!

00:26:39.400 --> 00:26:42.200
I must earnestly request that you speak no more

00:26:42.200 --> 00:26:47.619
of this! A young man appears. You see... Small

00:26:47.619 --> 00:26:50.880
framed, youthful features, short black hair tucked

00:26:50.880 --> 00:26:55.599
into a red cap with a long yellow feather sticking

00:26:55.599 --> 00:26:58.160
out from the top. Eager, mossy green eyes run

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with red shadow stare up towards the ambassador.

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This figure's clothes are fine. A short silken

00:27:03.960 --> 00:27:06.039
robe of deep red over an undershirt and loose

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pants of bright blue. A golden phoenix design

00:27:08.819 --> 00:27:11.640
adorns the front of the robe at the waist. There's

00:27:11.640 --> 00:27:13.519
also a hefty looking bag slung over his shoulder

00:27:13.519 --> 00:27:16.829
with a number of thick scrolls attached. This

00:27:16.829 --> 00:27:19.210
tragic accident weighs heavily upon all those

00:27:19.210 --> 00:27:21.789
that stand here. Out of respect for them, and

00:27:21.789 --> 00:27:23.670
for those that have passed, we should not give

00:27:23.670 --> 00:27:27.430
way to heedless speculation. They were killed!

00:27:28.210 --> 00:27:32.730
Murdered by, if I may ask, good ambassador. How

00:27:32.730 --> 00:27:34.390
is it that you've come to believe these luminaries

00:27:34.390 --> 00:27:37.009
were harassed by the guard here? You were not

00:27:37.009 --> 00:27:38.869
here at the time of the incident. Isn't that

00:27:38.869 --> 00:27:41.529
right? And the figure in the heart is kind of...

00:27:41.529 --> 00:27:46.440
I, uh... It seemed to have jumped to some conclusions,

00:27:46.839 --> 00:27:50.440
Magistrate Kanon June. I apologize for my haste

00:27:50.440 --> 00:27:54.940
and lack of social grace. It is forgiven. This

00:27:54.940 --> 00:27:56.740
incident will be investigated by full by the

00:27:56.740 --> 00:28:00.240
magistrates of Yanito. We will act as the hand

00:28:00.240 --> 00:28:02.819
of law here. You need not exhaust yourself with

00:28:02.819 --> 00:28:05.160
this, good ambassador. You are an honored guest

00:28:05.160 --> 00:28:07.799
of the royal clan. You need not stray from your

00:28:07.799 --> 00:28:12.359
luxuries. You see, like, this lip bite, this

00:28:12.359 --> 00:28:15.799
kind of... Deep breath in from the man in the

00:28:15.799 --> 00:28:18.660
harness, from the ambassador of Anchor and Singar.

00:28:19.579 --> 00:28:25.019
Nikai just sighs. Atash once said one must not

00:28:25.019 --> 00:28:26.960
search the house of their host, for they know

00:28:26.960 --> 00:28:30.099
well the lay and ways of their domain. I will

00:28:30.099 --> 00:28:33.059
trust to your wisdom in this. Surely, justice

00:28:33.059 --> 00:28:38.200
will be done to those behind this incident. Come,

00:28:38.380 --> 00:28:42.119
we must away. And without a word, the angel's

00:28:42.119 --> 00:28:46.500
wings... unfurl with one last sort of glare towards

00:28:46.500 --> 00:28:51.160
you. The ambassador takes to the skies, swoots

00:28:51.160 --> 00:28:55.539
back towards the palace. That is so creepy. And

00:28:55.539 --> 00:28:59.440
you are left standing with this magistrate. It

00:28:59.440 --> 00:29:02.480
was called Magistrate Conan June, as the ambassador

00:29:02.480 --> 00:29:06.680
called him. He is, you see, very young for a

00:29:06.680 --> 00:29:08.240
role of this import. You would probably know

00:29:08.240 --> 00:29:09.960
going into this that the magistrates essentially

00:29:09.960 --> 00:29:12.259
kind of do everything behind the scenes in the

00:29:12.259 --> 00:29:15.220
city. They are the lifeblood of the bureaucracy

00:29:15.220 --> 00:29:19.480
that makes Yanito what it is. So he's sort of

00:29:19.480 --> 00:29:22.720
like a mayor? He's kind of like, almost like

00:29:22.720 --> 00:29:27.220
a high -ranking law official, but so much more

00:29:27.220 --> 00:29:28.660
than that, too. Like a sheriff sort of thing?

00:29:28.759 --> 00:29:32.160
Kind of, yeah. The magistrates exist to basically

00:29:32.160 --> 00:29:34.599
make sure laws are followed, but also just to

00:29:34.599 --> 00:29:37.200
generally help people investigate any sort of

00:29:37.200 --> 00:29:40.700
situations. Perhaps other duties as well that

00:29:40.700 --> 00:29:42.779
aren't as out there and well -known. Right, but

00:29:42.779 --> 00:29:44.579
we would know this guy's a big deal. You know.

00:29:44.960 --> 00:29:48.920
Yeah. Allow us to introduce ourselves, Magistrate.

00:29:48.940 --> 00:29:52.980
I'm Blanche Trudeau. And I'm Jules, and this

00:29:52.980 --> 00:29:57.160
is Chester. And I am an Akita named Akio. We

00:29:57.160 --> 00:30:01.539
are troubled by the recent happenings, and we

00:30:01.539 --> 00:30:06.640
are anxious to get to the castle on the hill.

00:30:07.160 --> 00:30:09.650
We're here to meet Sholay. Yeah, all right. So,

00:30:09.690 --> 00:30:12.750
like, what's going on here? No one cares? I mean,

00:30:12.769 --> 00:30:15.170
like, what just happened? What just happened?

00:30:15.470 --> 00:30:18.130
Relax. How do I? Who's that fucking guy? We'll

00:30:18.130 --> 00:30:20.910
figure it out. That's what we do. I feel like

00:30:20.910 --> 00:30:23.670
all of our answers are going to be at Sho -Li.

00:30:24.210 --> 00:30:26.829
Yes, yes. Another magistrate will be along shortly

00:30:26.829 --> 00:30:29.549
to handle the investigation here. I've been tasked

00:30:29.549 --> 00:30:31.190
personally with escorting you to the Seat of

00:30:31.190 --> 00:30:35.410
Dragons. I am Magistrate Konon June. If you would

00:30:35.410 --> 00:30:38.980
come with me. And do we know... Is the seat of

00:30:38.980 --> 00:30:41.079
dragons where we want to go anyways? Yes, that

00:30:41.079 --> 00:30:42.859
is the palace. That is the title of the palace.

00:30:43.019 --> 00:30:46.660
Okay, great. Yeah. Very well. Lead the way. All

00:30:46.660 --> 00:30:51.440
right. Let's go. He begins to move up the street.

00:30:51.960 --> 00:30:57.059
Do you know, was there more blood shed during

00:30:57.059 --> 00:31:01.660
the blackout? I don't know. What did you experience?

00:31:02.259 --> 00:31:06.319
It would be inappropriate to speak of any...

00:31:07.109 --> 00:31:08.630
Strangeness that may have occurred in the city.

00:31:08.730 --> 00:31:11.690
There may have been accidents and incidents in

00:31:11.690 --> 00:31:13.450
various places throughout the city. Coincidences,

00:31:13.450 --> 00:31:16.269
of course, but that's neither here nor there.

00:31:16.690 --> 00:31:19.730
So this has happened before? It would be inappropriate

00:31:19.730 --> 00:31:23.490
to speak any more of this matter. At what frequency?

00:31:23.750 --> 00:31:27.670
We deserve answers. I just kind of locked forward.

00:31:28.369 --> 00:31:31.990
I apologize for the ambassador, by the way. He

00:31:31.990 --> 00:31:34.609
was simply taken in by the situation. His zeal

00:31:34.609 --> 00:31:36.369
for justice, though, it becomes him, I think.

00:31:36.670 --> 00:31:40.529
Should we not tie our blades? Tie your blades?

00:31:41.329 --> 00:31:43.710
Well, if you won't tell us the frequency that

00:31:43.710 --> 00:31:48.670
these blackouts occur, how are we to keep ourselves

00:31:48.670 --> 00:31:51.289
and everybody around us safe? He sort of licks

00:31:51.289 --> 00:31:54.910
his lips and kind of stops. I would be remiss

00:31:54.910 --> 00:31:58.509
in my duties if I were to allow you to continue

00:31:58.509 --> 00:32:03.380
feeling discomfort. But it would be wildly inappropriate

00:32:03.380 --> 00:32:07.079
to speak of matters that are not open to public.

00:32:07.220 --> 00:32:13.099
To him? Yeah. Okay, hell yeah. And she'll say,

00:32:13.259 --> 00:32:17.180
this is clearly incredibly troubling. There's

00:32:17.180 --> 00:32:20.779
a huge breach in security. What can you tell

00:32:20.779 --> 00:32:25.380
me? I can help you. Hey, your body here. It would

00:32:25.380 --> 00:32:28.240
be very inappropriate to even psychically communicate

00:32:28.240 --> 00:32:34.450
any... And you're like, go ahead and roll me

00:32:34.450 --> 00:32:35.650
insight, actually. Go ahead and roll me insight.

00:32:37.029 --> 00:32:40.329
You can both roll this. Oh, just an eight. Insight

00:32:40.329 --> 00:32:41.990
gets to roll these rolls, too, if you want to

00:32:41.990 --> 00:32:46.410
give it to him. Okay. Jules got a 14. 14's not

00:32:46.410 --> 00:32:52.829
bad. Chester got a 15. 15's better. Hey. I'll

00:32:52.829 --> 00:32:56.589
say this. Jules, anything good with Keo? No.

00:32:56.690 --> 00:33:02.039
Okay. Keo's a dog. Four. A lot of people here.

00:33:03.960 --> 00:33:08.440
I'm still confused. Me too, Akio. Why did that

00:33:08.440 --> 00:33:15.819
guy have a harness? Jules, you see... It doesn't

00:33:15.819 --> 00:33:18.059
seem there's any kind of, like, threat or nervousness.

00:33:19.940 --> 00:33:23.680
Kunan Jun just looks uncomfortable talking about

00:33:23.680 --> 00:33:26.480
anything that's going on here. Like, it just...

00:33:27.400 --> 00:33:31.059
How should I put this? It feels more like a cultural

00:33:31.059 --> 00:33:36.059
roadblock than any kind of inherent threat. And

00:33:36.059 --> 00:33:37.960
Chester, as you're kind of noticing, you're looking

00:33:37.960 --> 00:33:39.359
at him, Chester kind of nudges you with his little

00:33:39.359 --> 00:33:42.279
eye, and he's like, Jules, hey, it ain't just

00:33:42.279 --> 00:33:45.460
him. Look. And you see everyone on the street,

00:33:45.539 --> 00:33:47.819
all these people are kind of like looking around

00:33:47.819 --> 00:33:50.180
sort of weirdly, but then they might get nudged

00:33:50.180 --> 00:33:51.660
by a neighbor, and they kind of shake their heads,

00:33:51.680 --> 00:33:53.059
and they begin to move like nothing happened

00:33:53.059 --> 00:33:55.119
at all. People move past the body, almost pretend

00:33:55.119 --> 00:33:57.390
not to notice it. Like, everyone in the city

00:33:57.390 --> 00:34:00.730
is pretending whatever just happened did not

00:34:00.730 --> 00:34:03.769
happen. So are there other bodies just, like,

00:34:03.769 --> 00:34:05.609
lying around? Like, is there chaos everywhere?

00:34:05.890 --> 00:34:08.849
Do not see any other bodies. It seems like the

00:34:08.849 --> 00:34:12.050
incident, you know, the gate looks like it was

00:34:12.050 --> 00:34:14.750
one of the only places where something more violent

00:34:14.750 --> 00:34:16.469
occurred. Maybe there are other ones, but in

00:34:16.469 --> 00:34:18.030
the main thoroughfare you're looking at, you

00:34:18.030 --> 00:34:23.449
see nothing else. Okay. I mean, we're going the

00:34:23.449 --> 00:34:25.960
direction we want to go. Yeah. I'll try it one

00:34:25.960 --> 00:34:28.500
more time. We've never been here before. Just

00:34:28.500 --> 00:34:32.500
help us understand. We want to learn. I think

00:34:32.500 --> 00:34:34.880
you just see like a long sort of breath, a sigh.

00:34:34.980 --> 00:34:37.699
He stops, kind of turns around to face. He moves

00:34:37.699 --> 00:34:41.219
in a little close. You are correct. I apologize.

00:34:41.340 --> 00:34:46.460
I'm still pretty new to all of this. Look, here

00:34:46.460 --> 00:34:49.780
in Yanito, we follow strict traditions. And those

00:34:49.780 --> 00:34:53.599
traditions dictate that we put on a brave face,

00:34:53.780 --> 00:34:56.110
regardless of any... Hardships we're facing.

00:34:56.150 --> 00:35:00.309
And we do not pry into the business of our neighbors.

00:35:01.070 --> 00:35:06.550
Whatever shames or tragedies occur, we push onwards.

00:35:06.650 --> 00:35:09.769
We ignore them. And there is, you can see it's

00:35:09.769 --> 00:35:14.110
holding something back. And it says, there may

00:35:14.110 --> 00:35:18.389
be a great shame in all of this that we will

00:35:18.389 --> 00:35:24.750
not look into. We will ignore it. We must. But

00:35:24.750 --> 00:35:26.909
I am eager to see. I was on my way here when

00:35:26.909 --> 00:35:30.829
nothing happened. Something nothing happened.

00:35:31.250 --> 00:35:33.710
So I want to make sure everything's okay at the

00:35:33.710 --> 00:35:35.449
Sea of Dragons. If that's okay with you, I'd

00:35:35.449 --> 00:35:39.010
like to proceed as fast as possible. Sure. Yes,

00:35:39.010 --> 00:35:43.329
that's our main objective as well. We saw Sholay

00:35:43.329 --> 00:35:46.969
in the sky. At least we know she's okay. That

00:35:46.969 --> 00:35:51.980
was strange. How's that? I'm surprised Shirley

00:35:51.980 --> 00:35:53.480
would show herself in that form. That's what

00:35:53.480 --> 00:35:56.460
concerns me greatly. The people here are... We

00:35:56.460 --> 00:35:59.619
revere dragons, but we are also... There are

00:35:59.619 --> 00:36:03.460
some fresh wounds in the memories of many of

00:36:03.460 --> 00:36:07.420
those that reside here. We had an incident involving

00:36:07.420 --> 00:36:11.480
a red dragon some nine years ago that still haunts

00:36:11.480 --> 00:36:14.659
many of us. I'm surprised she would choose to

00:36:14.659 --> 00:36:16.380
do something like that. It must have been drastic.

00:36:16.960 --> 00:36:19.659
Speaker Shirley Brass of Anchor and Syngar is...

00:36:20.920 --> 00:36:24.320
Generally, very careful in her dealings with

00:36:24.320 --> 00:36:28.579
any of her allies, other speakers, other dignitaries.

00:36:29.300 --> 00:36:31.860
We should press onwards. Yes, double time. If

00:36:31.860 --> 00:36:34.880
that's unusual, let's go. And Casper's full of

00:36:34.880 --> 00:36:37.360
jogging. You go jog. Again, people just kind

00:36:37.360 --> 00:36:41.920
of look away as you move. They see your hurriedness,

00:36:41.940 --> 00:36:47.099
and they do not look at you. They sort of keep

00:36:47.099 --> 00:36:51.679
their heads away. is a strange place here. You're

00:36:51.679 --> 00:36:53.480
starting to understand why some refer to this

00:36:53.480 --> 00:36:58.260
city as the City of Secrets. I imagine as you're

00:36:58.260 --> 00:37:01.599
moving, your mind might flash back to that sort

00:37:01.599 --> 00:37:04.980
of confrontation you had with Omid Pastar. You

00:37:04.980 --> 00:37:08.659
had a note warning you that this figure was going

00:37:08.659 --> 00:37:12.019
to try to make you look bad, to prove you as

00:37:12.019 --> 00:37:15.639
the monsters you were, and... I think Blanche,

00:37:15.679 --> 00:37:17.880
with your intelligence, would put together the

00:37:17.880 --> 00:37:22.900
pieces. He did call you out for essentially attacking

00:37:22.900 --> 00:37:25.539
these guards who had harassed you. How would

00:37:25.539 --> 00:37:28.079
he have known that? Right. Unless he planted

00:37:28.079 --> 00:37:30.000
the bug himself. Do you remember? They acted

00:37:30.000 --> 00:37:32.659
weird. They were coming at you, trying to search

00:37:32.659 --> 00:37:35.579
you. It seemed needlessly aggressive. He also

00:37:35.579 --> 00:37:38.400
either knew when it was going to happen or could

00:37:38.400 --> 00:37:41.719
control when it happened. Possibly. Yeah. I mean,

00:37:41.719 --> 00:37:43.769
because he... I mean, think about it. You just

00:37:43.769 --> 00:37:47.030
say, oh, hey, city guard, just like hold these

00:37:47.030 --> 00:37:50.389
guys up at the door. I mean, that means that

00:37:50.389 --> 00:37:52.110
he at least knew that it was going to happen

00:37:52.110 --> 00:37:55.929
around the time we're at the gates, right? You

00:37:55.929 --> 00:37:58.429
know, if it happens, you know, every couple of

00:37:58.429 --> 00:38:00.369
days, every couple of weeks, every couple of

00:38:00.369 --> 00:38:02.710
months, then there's no way that he could have

00:38:02.710 --> 00:38:05.829
known that holding us up there was going to cause

00:38:05.829 --> 00:38:08.650
this. I will say the other thing you might flash

00:38:08.650 --> 00:38:12.940
to is it's possible, I will say at least, that

00:38:12.940 --> 00:38:16.039
his intention did not involve this, but rather

00:38:16.039 --> 00:38:17.980
that you would do something foolish when confronted

00:38:17.980 --> 00:38:20.960
by the guard and he'd be there to catch it. Such

00:38:20.960 --> 00:38:23.800
as casting invisibility on the entire party and

00:38:23.800 --> 00:38:25.260
running away. Yeah, I was definitely about to

00:38:25.260 --> 00:38:31.860
do that. I was absolutely about to do that. With

00:38:31.860 --> 00:38:34.000
that warning paired with that first sort of initial

00:38:34.000 --> 00:38:36.639
thing, you would know, I need to be very wary

00:38:36.639 --> 00:38:38.719
of this person because this is a person who will

00:38:38.719 --> 00:38:41.139
set traps. This is a person who will do anything

00:38:41.139 --> 00:38:43.780
to catch you. There is a, you could see that

00:38:43.780 --> 00:38:47.940
zealous heat. That almost creepy. And you know,

00:38:48.079 --> 00:38:50.599
like, Sholi is here. Sholi is the Speaker for

00:38:50.599 --> 00:38:52.579
Anker and Sengar. But Sholi has been the Speaker

00:38:52.579 --> 00:38:55.400
for Anker and Sengar for, you know, 250 years

00:38:55.400 --> 00:38:57.880
almost. Since she founded the Speaker for the

00:38:57.880 --> 00:38:59.519
Ancestors. Since she founded the Radiant Citadel.

00:39:00.039 --> 00:39:02.519
She does not, she speaks for Anker and Sengar,

00:39:02.619 --> 00:39:04.800
but she is a representative more or less of the

00:39:04.800 --> 00:39:08.500
Citadel itself. Anker and Sengar sort of went

00:39:08.500 --> 00:39:11.480
on without her. Ah, Tasha's taking control. And

00:39:11.480 --> 00:39:13.260
while they both represent the same world, they

00:39:13.260 --> 00:39:16.300
are entirely different sides of a coin. Can you

00:39:16.300 --> 00:39:19.099
give me the guy's name again? Omid Pastar. Omid.

00:39:19.539 --> 00:39:23.179
Omid Pastar. So, like, the people of Ionito are

00:39:23.179 --> 00:39:26.099
super, like, uncomfortable not talking about

00:39:26.099 --> 00:39:30.119
this blackout incident. But Omid's not from Ionito,

00:39:30.219 --> 00:39:32.340
so he would have no problem talking about it.

00:39:32.519 --> 00:39:34.559
He was trying to. He mentioned the sorcery you

00:39:34.559 --> 00:39:37.099
committed over the city. Yeah, I just have such

00:39:37.099 --> 00:39:40.690
a... Until I know more about this, I want to

00:39:40.690 --> 00:39:43.849
connect the two so bad. Yeah. It just seems too

00:39:43.849 --> 00:39:45.349
perfect that we were at the right place at the

00:39:45.349 --> 00:39:50.050
right time. Yeah. It's strange. And you move

00:39:50.050 --> 00:39:52.489
through these crowds of people, many looking

00:39:52.489 --> 00:39:55.130
perplexed. You see no more bodies, no more scenes

00:39:55.130 --> 00:39:58.889
of tragedy or combat until you're moving past

00:39:58.889 --> 00:40:03.090
these winding streets, all these buildings close

00:40:03.090 --> 00:40:07.449
together, a full metropolis. You finally reach

00:40:07.449 --> 00:40:10.829
this great sort of red palace, red, blue, gold

00:40:10.829 --> 00:40:15.329
flags fluttering off of it. There's a great ornate

00:40:15.329 --> 00:40:18.090
serpentine dragon sort of carved in the walls

00:40:18.090 --> 00:40:24.050
just above. It is immaculate and huge. And you

00:40:24.050 --> 00:40:26.869
have no time to enjoy it as you are just rushed

00:40:26.869 --> 00:40:29.829
jogging through the gate. And here as you get

00:40:29.829 --> 00:40:31.630
into the palace, you see a little more activity.

00:40:32.360 --> 00:40:34.340
People moving around a little more frantically,

00:40:34.400 --> 00:40:36.679
people who seem like they're trying to keep their

00:40:36.679 --> 00:40:39.019
minds sort of, you know, not lock eyes with anybody

00:40:39.019 --> 00:40:42.039
else, but their faces look harried as they kind

00:40:42.039 --> 00:40:43.900
of move forward. They don't look comfortable.

00:40:44.960 --> 00:40:48.219
But the magistrate does not stop, does not, you

00:40:48.219 --> 00:40:49.800
know, speak to anybody, just pushes past, past,

00:40:49.840 --> 00:40:52.239
past, deeper into the palace itself, and you

00:40:52.239 --> 00:40:54.739
find yourself moving through a grand sort of

00:40:54.739 --> 00:40:59.099
room lined with pillars towards some large opening

00:40:59.099 --> 00:41:04.099
at the end. Guards, a green dragonborn and a

00:41:04.099 --> 00:41:06.980
human bearing, again, these long pole arms and

00:41:06.980 --> 00:41:11.900
light sort of armor, pull open the door into

00:41:11.900 --> 00:41:14.960
this throne room. Magistrate, were those people

00:41:14.960 --> 00:41:17.699
uncomfortable because of Sholay's dragon form?

00:41:18.420 --> 00:41:21.960
If Speaker Sholay Brass of Anchor and Syngar

00:41:21.960 --> 00:41:25.980
made an error... That is not something we should

00:41:25.980 --> 00:41:28.420
dwell upon. She is an honored guest of Queen

00:41:28.420 --> 00:41:30.880
Jean Mee, and we will not do her the dishonor

00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:33.719
and disrespect of considering her acts to be

00:41:33.719 --> 00:41:36.900
any kind of mistake. But we could see their faces

00:41:36.900 --> 00:41:39.059
were uncomfortable. Yeah, and he looks uncomfortable

00:41:39.059 --> 00:41:41.380
too. It's like he's trying to, you can tell,

00:41:41.480 --> 00:41:44.400
it's like he's lacing his words with an undertone

00:41:44.400 --> 00:41:47.920
of like, hey, come on, don't ask. Gotcha. He

00:41:47.920 --> 00:41:51.500
doesn't seem rude. He just seems focused, very

00:41:51.500 --> 00:41:55.090
driven. You say that and he kind of pushes open

00:41:55.090 --> 00:41:57.869
the door. He's like, we should, I should introduce

00:41:57.869 --> 00:42:02.670
you to Queen Jinmi, to the clan of dragons. I

00:42:02.670 --> 00:42:06.090
would advise that you don't speak of anything

00:42:06.090 --> 00:42:11.090
embarrassing or shameful. Would it be? The answer

00:42:11.090 --> 00:42:15.889
is probably yes. Small smile. My question is,

00:42:16.070 --> 00:42:20.150
would it be wise, would we be able to find Sholay

00:42:20.150 --> 00:42:23.940
before we meet the queen? I was advised to bring

00:42:23.940 --> 00:42:25.920
you here first. I'd like to hear from Queen Jean

00:42:25.920 --> 00:42:28.960
-Mi what has been happening. I think as like

00:42:28.960 --> 00:42:30.539
you saying that you see people start rushing

00:42:30.539 --> 00:42:33.099
out behind it, like another magistrate comes

00:42:33.099 --> 00:42:34.960
moving out, a flood of sort of servants behind,

00:42:35.179 --> 00:42:37.099
and they're rushing down the hallway, kind of

00:42:37.099 --> 00:42:39.519
almost bowling him over. He kind of stops, looks.

00:42:39.900 --> 00:42:41.639
I would really like to know what is happening.

00:42:41.780 --> 00:42:43.599
When we're done with the queen, do you know where

00:42:43.599 --> 00:42:47.500
we can find Sholay? I don't, but I will find

00:42:47.500 --> 00:42:54.300
out. Okay. I guess we're being railroaded. This

00:42:54.300 --> 00:42:55.760
figure, he wouldn't know. He wouldn't actually

00:42:55.760 --> 00:43:02.119
know. I'm just kidding. Hot dog. Arbitrary intros

00:43:02.119 --> 00:43:05.760
all to side characters episode. Here we go. Door

00:43:05.760 --> 00:43:10.280
opens and you look into this. incredibly just

00:43:10.280 --> 00:43:13.780
opulent throne room. A single great sort of throne

00:43:13.780 --> 00:43:17.820
on the other end. Gold and red, blue tapestries

00:43:17.820 --> 00:43:20.239
against all over the room. A lot of them bearing

00:43:20.239 --> 00:43:23.219
that same sort of golden phoenix emblem. Again,

00:43:23.300 --> 00:43:25.840
sort of dragon based sort of decor lining the

00:43:25.840 --> 00:43:29.280
edges. You see along the right edge of this room,

00:43:29.380 --> 00:43:32.000
there's an elderly dragonborn just sits holding

00:43:32.000 --> 00:43:35.190
a steaming cup. You see his scales have faded

00:43:35.190 --> 00:43:38.489
with age to a near brown. He's also a touch overweight,

00:43:38.750 --> 00:43:41.289
covered with a very loose, light blue robe. Horns

00:43:41.289 --> 00:43:43.429
adorn his head. A number of them bear golden

00:43:43.429 --> 00:43:46.949
rings sort of in the horns. He seems to be staring

00:43:46.949 --> 00:43:49.170
in concentration at a game board of some kind.

00:43:49.690 --> 00:43:52.110
Fine, shining wood marked with a grid of tiny

00:43:52.110 --> 00:43:55.389
squares. Small, smooth stones, black and white,

00:43:55.469 --> 00:43:58.469
cover the board in an intricate pattern. Blanche,

00:43:58.570 --> 00:44:02.070
you're a tactician. I wonder if you have any

00:44:02.070 --> 00:44:05.269
interest in, like, games of strategy oh totally

00:44:05.269 --> 00:44:07.510
yeah if blanche gets a look at the game board

00:44:07.510 --> 00:44:10.269
yeah so you would recognize she's familiar with

00:44:10.269 --> 00:44:13.030
the game at least you recognize baduk uh also

00:44:13.030 --> 00:44:15.570
known as go okay sure sure so you're looking

00:44:15.570 --> 00:44:18.710
at this and you see this this figure is uh staring

00:44:18.710 --> 00:44:22.670
down like um kanan june just says i'll introduce

00:44:22.670 --> 00:44:24.969
you to the heads of our royal clan this is uh

00:44:24.969 --> 00:44:27.489
young g uncle of the queen who serves in an uh

00:44:27.489 --> 00:44:31.420
uh advisory position in the city and Young Gi,

00:44:31.519 --> 00:44:34.199
the old Dragonborn, gives us the slightest nod

00:44:34.199 --> 00:44:36.679
of acknowledgement. His eye is never leaving

00:44:36.679 --> 00:44:38.519
the board, but his clawed finger reaches out

00:44:38.519 --> 00:44:41.159
to tap at a white stone. Kind of falls back,

00:44:41.199 --> 00:44:43.179
and it's an old sort of puzzle. It's like he

00:44:43.179 --> 00:44:44.559
has this all set up here, just trying to solve

00:44:44.559 --> 00:44:47.900
for the right way to all the correct moves. It's

00:44:47.900 --> 00:44:51.940
a master's gambit. Can I roll to see if Blanche

00:44:51.940 --> 00:44:54.559
can come up with a move? I would love that. This

00:44:54.559 --> 00:44:56.079
is going to be, I think, just a straight intelligence

00:44:56.079 --> 00:44:58.019
check, unless you pitch something different.

00:45:00.199 --> 00:45:03.000
No, I think intelligence works fine. I don't

00:45:03.000 --> 00:45:04.559
know if any other skills necessarily would let

00:45:04.559 --> 00:45:06.599
you. I don't know if anything specifically works

00:45:06.599 --> 00:45:13.000
for games, but tell us in the Discord. 16. 16.

00:45:14.420 --> 00:45:17.239
You can't tell exactly what the right move here

00:45:17.239 --> 00:45:20.320
is, but you can see that he's about to fall into

00:45:20.320 --> 00:45:22.880
a trap with the piece he's touching. So it's

00:45:22.880 --> 00:45:24.000
like, you don't know the right move, but you

00:45:24.000 --> 00:45:27.619
know he's about to make the wrong move. Yes,

00:45:27.659 --> 00:45:31.400
yes, right, I should. Don't fall into the scout's

00:45:31.400 --> 00:45:35.860
trap. Tricked as old as time. And he kind of

00:45:35.860 --> 00:45:39.059
narrows his eyes and he looks up, kind of blinks

00:45:39.059 --> 00:45:40.860
a little bit, and he kind of points to two more

00:45:40.860 --> 00:45:47.159
pieces of the back. Quite right. Quite right.

00:45:47.699 --> 00:45:51.840
You play? I have. Not for a while. Yes, yes.

00:45:51.980 --> 00:45:55.199
Good. Good. We will have a game then. Later.

00:45:55.929 --> 00:45:58.329
I think there are a lot more important things

00:45:58.329 --> 00:46:01.630
happening right now, actually. Kind of wearily

00:46:01.630 --> 00:46:05.170
turns his head back and looks down. And sort

00:46:05.170 --> 00:46:08.550
of everyone sort of watching you as he kind of

00:46:08.550 --> 00:46:10.989
goes down, almost sort of politely, but quivering

00:46:10.989 --> 00:46:14.130
with like eager energy. Kunan Jun's like, okay,

00:46:14.230 --> 00:46:18.010
all right, great. And of course, there is, and

00:46:18.010 --> 00:46:21.090
of course, there is Her Majesty Queen Jin Mi

00:46:21.090 --> 00:46:23.030
kind of points over to the throne itself. And

00:46:23.030 --> 00:46:25.940
you see this incredibly. regal dragon mode woman

00:46:25.940 --> 00:46:27.900
is sort of watching all this with amusement her

00:46:27.900 --> 00:46:31.300
expression is but right now also, like, there

00:46:31.300 --> 00:46:34.500
is definitely worry in her wide eyes. Her scales

00:46:34.500 --> 00:46:36.480
are a vibrant red. These red, gold, and blue

00:46:36.480 --> 00:46:38.280
makeup covers the features of her face, adding

00:46:38.280 --> 00:46:41.500
to her air of majesty. A long robe of blue with

00:46:41.500 --> 00:46:43.900
red and white trim, multiple golden phoenix designs,

00:46:43.940 --> 00:46:46.619
runs down over her feet. Between her two horns

00:46:46.619 --> 00:46:48.639
and her head, tendrils run like hair down her

00:46:48.639 --> 00:46:50.659
back, painted with accents of blue and gold as

00:46:50.659 --> 00:46:53.780
well. A fine golden chain adorned with tiny sapphires

00:46:53.780 --> 00:46:55.880
wraps around her horn and dangles by her face.

00:46:56.340 --> 00:46:59.440
It is difficult to tell her age. You've previously

00:46:59.440 --> 00:47:02.039
heard from Arhalon that she is 60, yet she looks

00:47:02.039 --> 00:47:05.420
shockingly young. And, uh, Kanan -June starts

00:47:05.420 --> 00:47:07.980
forward. Your Majesty bows down almost to the

00:47:07.980 --> 00:47:10.400
floor like, I have brought your honored guests,

00:47:10.619 --> 00:47:14.179
the friends of Sholay Brass, Xena Brass, and

00:47:14.179 --> 00:47:18.119
Arhalon Brass. Yeah, Blanche does, uh, mimics,

00:47:18.119 --> 00:47:21.940
uh, the magistrate's bow. She looks to you, looks

00:47:21.940 --> 00:47:24.619
to you, Blanche, looks to you, Jules. Do you

00:47:24.619 --> 00:47:28.630
bow? Jules will give a, uh, Kind of a half bow.

00:47:29.389 --> 00:47:32.030
More of like a nod with kind of moving his torso

00:47:32.030 --> 00:47:34.289
forward a little bit. Chester does the same.

00:47:34.389 --> 00:47:36.590
I think from underneath his bow, like under his

00:47:36.590 --> 00:47:38.570
legs, you can see Jun kind of has a slightly

00:47:38.570 --> 00:47:41.349
disapproving gaze towards you, both of you. Yeah,

00:47:41.389 --> 00:47:43.510
I think Chester probably goes full eyes down,

00:47:43.730 --> 00:47:46.369
but Jules doesn't break eye contact when he does

00:47:46.369 --> 00:47:49.849
it. Akio fully lays down. Oh, I could use a rest.

00:47:52.090 --> 00:47:55.070
Simply eyes turned towards Akio, curious eyes,

00:47:55.190 --> 00:47:58.900
but she focuses on you. Blanche and Jules, who

00:47:58.900 --> 00:48:01.619
kind of clearly come at the forefront here. And

00:48:01.619 --> 00:48:06.159
that air of concern she shows grows, and she

00:48:06.159 --> 00:48:10.239
stands slowly. There has been an incident here

00:48:10.239 --> 00:48:15.219
at the palace. I... You were brought to my company

00:48:15.219 --> 00:48:18.360
under Sholay's wing. On top of that, good Xena

00:48:18.360 --> 00:48:20.500
and her son have said such wonderful things of

00:48:20.500 --> 00:48:23.880
your company and friendship. It is only right

00:48:23.880 --> 00:48:26.630
that you are informed. Just a short while ago,

00:48:26.710 --> 00:48:33.070
we had a situation. Arhalon and Xena collapsed

00:48:33.070 --> 00:48:38.489
suddenly, screaming. They are in a near catatonic

00:48:38.489 --> 00:48:41.869
state, like they are suffering a horrible nightmare.

00:48:42.090 --> 00:48:44.190
I have my physicians take them away immediately,

00:48:44.210 --> 00:48:46.869
and they are being tended to by the very best

00:48:46.869 --> 00:48:51.769
Yanito can offer, I assure you. Xole, she has

00:48:51.769 --> 00:48:55.309
done something strange. She... Lost her mind.

00:48:56.150 --> 00:48:58.909
Grabbed them, tried to run. Spun around, came

00:48:58.909 --> 00:49:03.670
back. She... She's near gone mad. She's taken

00:49:03.670 --> 00:49:07.530
over the rear ballroom of the palace. Sent everyone

00:49:07.530 --> 00:49:11.409
else out. Sits solitary. No one can approach

00:49:11.409 --> 00:49:15.610
her. She is in some kind of rage. I don't understand

00:49:15.610 --> 00:49:19.070
it. And where is Ahuan? He is with his mother

00:49:19.070 --> 00:49:23.909
in bed. They are unwell. May we see them? Of

00:49:23.909 --> 00:49:26.670
course, yes. Of course, you are honored guests

00:49:26.670 --> 00:49:31.130
here. I am so sorry to give you such news as

00:49:31.130 --> 00:49:35.750
you arrive. I truly... Xena is a close friend

00:49:35.750 --> 00:49:38.389
of mine, has been for many years. It troubles

00:49:38.389 --> 00:49:39.849
me greatly that this should happen in my own

00:49:39.849 --> 00:49:43.829
halls to a treasured friend. Blanche is going

00:49:43.829 --> 00:49:46.570
to cast Message again into the magistrate's mind

00:49:46.570 --> 00:49:52.820
and ask him, would it be a terrible... snafu

00:49:52.820 --> 00:49:56.780
for me to ask the queen about the time skip it

00:49:56.780 --> 00:49:59.780
might be considered inappropriate for someone

00:49:59.780 --> 00:50:02.079
of your station to approach the queen with such

00:50:02.079 --> 00:50:07.340
a query but i will approach the subject with

00:50:07.340 --> 00:50:13.360
a sensitive prod i trust your discretion uh he

00:50:13.360 --> 00:50:15.039
finally kind of he's still bowing kind of finally

00:50:15.039 --> 00:50:19.510
sets up for his bow and uh your majesty By some

00:50:19.510 --> 00:50:22.010
coincidence, there was an incident at the city

00:50:22.010 --> 00:50:24.289
gate as well. Two guards have tragically fallen.

00:50:25.050 --> 00:50:30.929
And there's the long pause. What? What? And she's

00:50:30.929 --> 00:50:33.550
kind of like, looking sort of strangely. And

00:50:33.550 --> 00:50:35.969
you hear a voice from the corner. You hear like

00:50:35.969 --> 00:50:38.369
a clack as a stone moves on the board. And then,

00:50:38.429 --> 00:50:41.769
right, right, right. What a coincidence indeed.

00:50:42.349 --> 00:50:45.570
A dragon gone mad and two half -dragons in torment.

00:50:46.380 --> 00:50:49.000
Could their plight have to do with Baraki, I

00:50:49.000 --> 00:50:52.039
wonder? And a fall, sort of like something heavy

00:50:52.039 --> 00:50:56.340
falls over this room. Queen nods. Magistrate

00:50:56.340 --> 00:50:58.559
Kunanjun, once you have finished here, I'd like

00:50:58.559 --> 00:51:00.599
you to look into any other accidents that have

00:51:00.599 --> 00:51:03.019
occurred within the city. Outside of it as well,

00:51:03.059 --> 00:51:05.400
there is a construction project, I remember,

00:51:05.599 --> 00:51:09.400
happening in the Tiger District. Hwang Jong -soon's

00:51:09.400 --> 00:51:12.239
company? I imagine you know of it. I would have

00:51:12.239 --> 00:51:15.579
you check on them. Look into any other potential...

00:51:17.320 --> 00:51:20.940
Accidents. Of course, your majesty. Kind of bows.

00:51:21.860 --> 00:51:24.039
But first, I should attend to our guests. They

00:51:24.039 --> 00:51:28.019
are concerned for their friends. Of course. Of

00:51:28.019 --> 00:51:32.980
course. So we have a name for it, at least. Muraki,

00:51:33.099 --> 00:51:36.139
that's what you heard. Right. I don't know. Obviously,

00:51:36.219 --> 00:51:38.760
we don't know if that's the name of the happening

00:51:38.760 --> 00:51:41.940
or whatever is causing the happening. There was

00:51:41.940 --> 00:51:44.820
a correlation with dragons going on in the mind

00:51:44.820 --> 00:51:47.980
of the... The uncle of the queen, Young Gi. I

00:51:47.980 --> 00:51:50.260
also figured out I probably could have used investigation

00:51:50.260 --> 00:51:52.900
instead of intelligence, and with my eyes of

00:51:52.900 --> 00:51:54.320
my night seeing, I might have had advantage.

00:51:54.880 --> 00:51:57.900
Ooh. Do it again. He moved that piece, and he

00:51:57.900 --> 00:51:59.019
was looking at another piece, and he's like,

00:51:59.239 --> 00:52:05.579
oh, right, right. No, that's 14. Tricky puzzle.

00:52:05.900 --> 00:52:10.039
Tricky puzzle. Maybe it will play later. Oh,

00:52:10.099 --> 00:52:14.610
perhaps. Perhaps. He's, like, saying it passively

00:52:14.610 --> 00:52:16.889
like he doesn't know what you just said, fully

00:52:16.889 --> 00:52:20.190
sort of staring down the board. So the magistrate's

00:52:20.190 --> 00:52:23.690
going to take us to? Yes. Do you want to say

00:52:23.690 --> 00:52:25.210
your abides to the queen or do you want to ask

00:52:25.210 --> 00:52:30.289
a roach? It's tricky. Again, you are here as

00:52:30.289 --> 00:52:34.730
diplomats, I guess. Right. And this entire mission,

00:52:34.849 --> 00:52:37.469
remember, this is a critical mission that Shelly

00:52:37.469 --> 00:52:40.519
has you on. And right now. Every other piece

00:52:40.519 --> 00:52:42.360
in her puzzle, including Shelly herself, seems

00:52:42.360 --> 00:52:45.159
to have already fallen away from this. Like,

00:52:45.199 --> 00:52:47.699
obviously there's a lot going on. There is an

00:52:47.699 --> 00:52:50.380
ambassador out to get you. There is a mist that

00:52:50.380 --> 00:52:53.019
tried to kill you. You're not sure. It's weird.

00:52:53.079 --> 00:52:55.739
A whole city ignoring some strange supernatural

00:52:55.739 --> 00:52:59.760
happening. But on top of it all, you need this

00:52:59.760 --> 00:53:03.860
woman, this Dragomore woman, to join Shelly's

00:53:03.860 --> 00:53:07.340
side or greater tragedies are going to occur

00:53:07.340 --> 00:53:08.579
without the help of the Conquered Worlds. Right.

00:53:09.230 --> 00:53:13.030
So let me share, Jeremy, my sort of three -step

00:53:13.030 --> 00:53:16.809
thought process. Sure. I kind of want to get

00:53:16.809 --> 00:53:21.230
to Arhalon to see if what he's going through

00:53:21.230 --> 00:53:24.369
is similar to what Blanche watched Jules go through

00:53:24.369 --> 00:53:28.369
after the Salome interaction. Because he was

00:53:28.369 --> 00:53:32.130
down for how long? That's a good, oh my gosh,

00:53:32.130 --> 00:53:35.349
yeah. And this just happened. So it's fresh on

00:53:35.349 --> 00:53:38.730
her mind. Then, you know, I'd like to try to

00:53:38.730 --> 00:53:42.650
figure out maybe some way to bring Sholay back

00:53:42.650 --> 00:53:47.170
to normality. And, you know, whether or not we

00:53:47.170 --> 00:53:50.050
find a way to do that, I feel like Blanche now

00:53:50.050 --> 00:53:55.210
has an in with this guy playing Go. And he seems

00:53:55.210 --> 00:53:58.730
to be willing to talk about, what was the word?

00:53:59.010 --> 00:54:03.730
Name? Buraki. Buraki. So I'm hoping that Blanche

00:54:03.730 --> 00:54:06.000
can find a time to sit down. get more information

00:54:06.000 --> 00:54:08.960
about Baraki. It's like you're seeing the one

00:54:08.960 --> 00:54:11.659
person here that seems to have no consideration

00:54:11.659 --> 00:54:16.500
for politeness in this culture. He just wants

00:54:16.500 --> 00:54:18.340
to play his game and will just say whatever comes

00:54:18.340 --> 00:54:20.219
to his mind. And it's like, okay, that's immediately

00:54:20.219 --> 00:54:22.780
a potentially useful tool. You can speak his

00:54:22.780 --> 00:54:27.500
language, and I think Blanche can. Yeah. So Blanche

00:54:27.500 --> 00:54:31.780
wants to, in the best way that she can pick up,

00:54:31.900 --> 00:54:37.159
find a way to excuse herself. from the queen's

00:54:37.159 --> 00:54:40.099
presence. And the magistrate basically said,

00:54:40.159 --> 00:54:41.800
like, I want to lead you, so you could just hold

00:54:41.800 --> 00:54:44.039
him. If you don't say anything else, he gets

00:54:44.039 --> 00:54:46.780
up, bows one more time, and begins to leave,

00:54:46.940 --> 00:54:50.739
waiting for you to follow. Can you follow? Jules

00:54:50.739 --> 00:54:53.059
really wants to go to Jolene. Are we splitting

00:54:53.059 --> 00:54:55.280
up? Split the party? Split the party, bro? Split

00:54:55.280 --> 00:55:01.960
the party, bro? I think so. What? Jules, aren't

00:55:01.960 --> 00:55:05.099
you, aren't you coming? Leave me the sholey.

00:55:06.219 --> 00:55:08.679
Well, I'm supposed to watch both of you and guide

00:55:08.679 --> 00:55:10.960
you as your guide. Well, if I can... All right,

00:55:11.000 --> 00:55:13.039
well, we'll do Blanche first and... Hold on,

00:55:13.079 --> 00:55:15.139
hold on. My point's still, I'm sorry you're passing

00:55:15.139 --> 00:55:17.659
by. It's like, our guests are troubled. Would

00:55:17.659 --> 00:55:21.780
you please lead Blanche Trudeau to Arhalon and

00:55:21.780 --> 00:55:25.119
Xenobress? What was the go guy's name? Oh, Young

00:55:25.119 --> 00:55:29.340
Gi. Ooh. Perhaps Master Young Gi wouldn't mind

00:55:29.340 --> 00:55:32.280
escorting me to see my friends. Two birds, one

00:55:32.280 --> 00:55:35.820
stone. I like this a lot. Here, click. If you're

00:55:35.820 --> 00:55:40.219
not too keen on finishing your game... Right,

00:55:40.219 --> 00:55:44.920
right. A guide. Slowly stands up. It's kind of

00:55:44.920 --> 00:55:47.800
like a slow... Stand, almost like it hurts. You're

00:55:47.800 --> 00:55:51.420
creaking, and it's not the... No, I really wish

00:55:51.420 --> 00:55:58.739
I had haste. Right, right. I will guide you,

00:55:58.840 --> 00:56:03.800
but we will have our game later. Is that a promise

00:56:03.800 --> 00:56:08.539
or a threat? I like just a jab as you slowly

00:56:08.539 --> 00:56:11.559
come here. It's over. Way too late. Ha! Jabs

00:56:11.559 --> 00:56:14.139
you in the arm. We like each other already. Yes,

00:56:14.360 --> 00:56:19.440
you're fun. Now, where are we going? Western

00:56:19.440 --> 00:56:24.199
Ring, room AB. Ah! Which direction is that? West!

00:56:24.340 --> 00:56:29.079
Ah! Oh, no. Okay. He wanders. He begins to start

00:56:29.079 --> 00:56:32.579
slowly down the hallway moving. He goes the wrong

00:56:32.579 --> 00:56:37.019
way. He starts going east. No, no. Oh, western

00:56:37.019 --> 00:56:40.800
west. Yes. All right. Spins and moves around.

00:56:41.340 --> 00:56:43.340
And like you see as he's moving, his hands are

00:56:43.340 --> 00:56:46.860
kind of like pretend moving pieces. Oh, cool.

00:56:46.860 --> 00:56:49.500
He's just fully kind of zoned in. You're like,

00:56:49.579 --> 00:56:54.380
okay, this guy is very single -minded. You begin

00:56:54.380 --> 00:56:58.519
to follow down one hallway. towards Arhalon,

00:56:58.659 --> 00:57:01.340
towards Xena, towards two friends in distress.

00:57:01.800 --> 00:57:05.280
As you begin to move, the magistrate turns to

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you, Jules, and Chester. Akiyo, I'll say, is

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right on your heel. Should I carry him? He seems

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like he's going to die. Why don't you stay close,

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just in case he has a need for support. He just

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stops dead in the hallway. Your dog talks. Right,

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right. Begins to move again. And he's slowly

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pawing behind. You go down one hallway. Meanwhile,

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Jules, magistrate, turns to you, nods grimly.

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I don't like this, Sholay. Sorry, I should nod.

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It would be inappropriate for me to say anything

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about Sholay Brass, Speaker of Anchor and Cengar,

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but I do hope your conversation with her is helpful.

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You are... He looks really kind of nervous saying

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this. Sure you're safe? I'll be just fine. Okay.

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He begins to move down the other hall. Chester,

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by your side. You see his hands are itching to

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reach for misdirection, but he pulls them forward.

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No weapons, not yet. And so our party begins

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to move to the east, to the west, and to answers

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to this. troubling new mystery. And we'll call

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it there.