WEBVTT 00:00:01.770 --> 00:00:04.450 Hey, Pants People. Here's a trailer for Minds 00:00:04.450 --> 00:00:06.929 Never Matter, a podcast by Hilarity Save RPG. 00:00:08.929 --> 00:00:12.910 I have never had students cause so many issues 00:00:12.910 --> 00:00:15.570 at the Adventuring College of Alona, especially 00:00:15.570 --> 00:00:19.969 in their first year. So tell me, why is it always 00:00:19.969 --> 00:00:22.289 this group standing in front of me when something 00:00:22.289 --> 00:00:25.170 goes wrong? Sarthelion, you threw a knife at 00:00:25.170 --> 00:00:28.960 a student on the first. day you pull out your 00:00:28.960 --> 00:00:32.539 knife and it goes flying and it kind of sticks 00:00:32.539 --> 00:00:36.259 into the wall of the entrance a student standing 00:00:36.259 --> 00:00:39.159 there it looks like cecily you punched a cop 00:00:39.159 --> 00:00:41.420 the other the other officer you just hear one 00:00:41.420 --> 00:00:43.500 of the ravens run past you and they go it was 00:00:43.500 --> 00:00:46.840 cecily cecily beat up a cop pogo kidnapped a 00:00:46.840 --> 00:00:52.299 student and pogo tracks him down grabs him and 00:00:52.299 --> 00:00:55.630 puts him in the lecture hall and amelia You try 00:00:55.630 --> 00:00:58.229 to kill a party member in front of everyone on 00:00:58.229 --> 00:01:02.009 family day. She takes the glass and presses it 00:01:02.009 --> 00:01:04.370 where an artery would be. Not to mention Frederick 00:01:04.370 --> 00:01:06.909 in the corner over there is the reason that there's 00:01:06.909 --> 00:01:11.010 no green tea anywhere on campus. Wait, where'd 00:01:11.010 --> 00:01:15.650 Sarthelion go? A chicken leg? Really? Where did 00:01:15.650 --> 00:01:18.989 you even get one this size? It's Wastokian! I 00:01:18.989 --> 00:01:21.670 didn't do it. I was over here doing my own bad 00:01:21.670 --> 00:01:24.900 thing. I mean, I wasn't doing nothing. Both of 00:01:24.900 --> 00:01:29.239 you, stay right there. Sarthelion, don't you 00:01:29.239 --> 00:01:31.819 get any closer to him. You all already killed 00:01:31.819 --> 00:01:33.920 one of his party members, and we can't handle 00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:38.280 another death on campus. I don't get paid enough 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:42.480 for this. If you want to keep up with our not 00:01:42.480 --> 00:01:44.980 -quite -heroes misadventures, listen to the Minds 00:01:44.980 --> 00:01:47.200 Never Matter podcast each Wednesday wherever 00:01:47.200 --> 00:01:50.579 you listen to podcasts. Or drop us a follow on 00:01:50.579 --> 00:02:37.020 Instagram at hilaritysaveRPG. Thank you. Captain, 00:02:37.060 --> 00:02:39.639 Treasure Hunter, Tactician, Arch of Perth, the 00:02:39.639 --> 00:02:42.620 Crusader, Obstinate, Arbiter of Order, and Wolf 00:02:42.620 --> 00:02:44.639 from Perth, the Dragon Slayer, Bull -Bearing 00:02:44.639 --> 00:02:46.800 Bounty Hunter. These three had certainly made 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:48.900 their mark on the Concord world, bringing incredible 00:02:48.900 --> 00:02:51.199 esteem to their family name. and letting their 00:02:51.199 --> 00:02:53.280 great shadows fall over the youngest and least 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:56.699 known of the siblings, young Hiram Byrne. Now, 00:02:56.699 --> 00:02:58.319 Hiram preserved an important role in the conquered 00:02:58.319 --> 00:03:00.900 worlds, that of a spotter for the Shieldbearers. 00:03:01.060 --> 00:03:03.039 This had little to impress his far -reaching 00:03:03.039 --> 00:03:05.020 family, though, especially given his inclination 00:03:05.020 --> 00:03:07.840 towards the workings of artificery. Often, Hiram's 00:03:07.840 --> 00:03:09.960 magical tinkering could be a point of strife 00:03:09.960 --> 00:03:11.759 between him and his siblings, a sign of weakness 00:03:11.759 --> 00:03:14.419 to them. That all changed when Hiram left the 00:03:14.419 --> 00:03:16.620 Shieldbearers following an incredible arcane 00:03:16.620 --> 00:03:19.280 breakthrough. You see, Hiram had created an armor 00:03:19.280 --> 00:03:21.360 apparatus capable of storing magical energy, 00:03:21.520 --> 00:03:23.099 which could then be channeled into destructive 00:03:23.099 --> 00:03:25.919 force, or imbued into commonplace items to give 00:03:25.919 --> 00:03:28.560 them uncommon power. The moment this technology 00:03:28.560 --> 00:03:30.620 was revealed to the Concord worlds, Hiram's life 00:03:30.620 --> 00:03:33.039 was entirely changed, and his own religion was 00:03:33.039 --> 00:03:36.370 born. His telltale glow with the incredible artificery 00:03:36.370 --> 00:03:39.129 he wields. A meteoric rise in his shining reputation 00:03:39.129 --> 00:03:41.530 soon led Hiram to the path of a luminary and 00:03:41.530 --> 00:03:45.229 the title of Sunshine. Nowadays, Sunshine has 00:03:45.229 --> 00:03:47.310 found a new family for himself. He travels the 00:03:47.310 --> 00:03:49.870 Concord worlds with Moonbeam, the enigmatic princess. 00:03:50.370 --> 00:03:52.509 The two of them face danger after danger together, 00:03:52.830 --> 00:03:55.689 seeking lives to save, stories to tell, and even 00:03:55.689 --> 00:04:00.169 more incredible magics to wield. Thank you again, 00:04:00.270 --> 00:04:04.840 Kevin. Part two of that spotlight. So cool. So 00:04:04.840 --> 00:04:07.020 cool. I am sure the adventures being played out 00:04:07.020 --> 00:04:10.159 on that family table must be incredible. Yeah, 00:04:10.180 --> 00:04:13.419 sounds like a lot of fun. I was like, Kevin himself 00:04:13.419 --> 00:04:15.740 on Discord even said that this coming arc, Yanito, 00:04:15.939 --> 00:04:17.800 was one of his favorite ones in the book. I think 00:04:17.800 --> 00:04:20.420 his second favorite, actually. And personally, 00:04:20.500 --> 00:04:21.980 my favorite. That's because I didn't read the 00:04:21.980 --> 00:04:27.540 whole book because I'm a bad DM. Got to a point 00:04:27.540 --> 00:04:28.920 reading the book and I was like, eh, it's probably 00:04:28.920 --> 00:04:30.699 it. We won't get any farther than that. We're 00:04:30.699 --> 00:04:32.420 fine. We're good. Well, Kevin, I hope you're 00:04:32.420 --> 00:04:35.300 nicer to your players than Dave is about to be 00:04:35.300 --> 00:04:38.160 to us. I hope so. Especially since they're children. 00:04:39.480 --> 00:04:42.300 I mean, you guys, you're kind of children. When 00:04:42.300 --> 00:04:44.040 you really think about it. I walked right into 00:04:44.040 --> 00:04:46.839 that one. So I was going to do another lore band 00:04:46.839 --> 00:04:49.860 here. You know, lore bands. I really wanted to 00:04:49.860 --> 00:04:51.540 get into the whole brass family line. I actually 00:04:51.540 --> 00:04:53.319 came up with the Discord a while back. Mr. Scalia 00:04:53.319 --> 00:04:56.379 Iguana asked some clarification ages ago on the 00:04:56.379 --> 00:04:58.540 brass family tree. And honestly, it was really 00:04:58.540 --> 00:05:00.379 kind of enlightening to put that out there and 00:05:00.379 --> 00:05:02.040 kind of get a refresher in the world of what's 00:05:02.040 --> 00:05:04.220 kind of going on with all that. But I'm not going 00:05:04.220 --> 00:05:05.420 to do that this week. I'm going to do it next 00:05:05.420 --> 00:05:08.259 week. Do you know why? Do you know why I'm going 00:05:08.259 --> 00:05:10.620 to wait? Do you know why I'm going to wait? Why 00:05:10.620 --> 00:05:11.560 are you going to wait, David? Because I've got 00:05:11.560 --> 00:05:15.269 news for you, pants people. Uh -oh. Mr. Wolf's 00:05:15.269 --> 00:05:20.170 married! Yeah! It's mail time! Woo! Fire them 00:05:20.170 --> 00:05:25.269 off! Fire them off! Mail time! Big package in 00:05:25.269 --> 00:05:34.149 the pants! You got a big package? Congratulations, 00:05:34.350 --> 00:05:40.540 Jeremy! Thanks, man. So last week it was like, 00:05:40.560 --> 00:05:42.500 man, we got to get together and like have drinks 00:05:42.500 --> 00:05:45.720 and celebrate Jeremy's engagement. Yeah. And 00:05:45.720 --> 00:05:50.779 then we got together. Yeah. So, so tell a story. 00:05:50.899 --> 00:05:53.839 So yeah, it's a whole story. So we got engaged 00:05:53.839 --> 00:05:55.019 and then we're like, okay, what are we going 00:05:55.019 --> 00:05:56.639 to do for a wedding? We can, let's, let's do 00:05:56.639 --> 00:05:58.000 it in the fall. Let's do it. Like we landed on 00:05:58.000 --> 00:06:00.279 November 2nd. So we're like, great. And then 00:06:00.279 --> 00:06:02.949 we were like, wow. we kind of want to get married 00:06:02.949 --> 00:06:05.410 earlier. So, okay, what about if we do a wedding 00:06:05.410 --> 00:06:07.509 in the fall and then we do like a small little 00:06:07.509 --> 00:06:10.129 dinner with family and then we legally get married 00:06:10.129 --> 00:06:14.670 at that. And then like a day or two later, well, 00:06:15.170 --> 00:06:16.829 we had, yeah, we had originally scheduled the 00:06:16.829 --> 00:06:19.730 game night between us. You know, you guys and 00:06:19.730 --> 00:06:21.050 Gabby and Rachel were going to come over, we're 00:06:21.050 --> 00:06:23.970 going to play games and stuff. And Abby, one 00:06:23.970 --> 00:06:26.850 day it was just like, Hey, what if we get married 00:06:26.850 --> 00:06:30.790 at game night? And I'm like, you're talking like, 00:06:31.160 --> 00:06:34.519 Wedding bomb them? I'm like, yeah. Full wedding 00:06:34.519 --> 00:06:37.100 bomb. Yep. And from that moment, we were locked 00:06:37.100 --> 00:06:41.879 in. We hit up your brother, Steven, David. Other 00:06:41.879 --> 00:06:44.339 David. My brother. My brother, who is also named 00:06:44.339 --> 00:06:47.680 David. Who is ordained. And he showed up and 00:06:47.680 --> 00:06:50.339 married us on the spot in the kitchen. And it 00:06:50.339 --> 00:06:52.620 was awesome. It was wild. We ended up not playing 00:06:52.620 --> 00:06:54.899 any games. No games that night. Yeah. No games. 00:06:54.920 --> 00:06:58.870 We just hung out. We gave speeches, cut Walmart 00:06:58.870 --> 00:07:01.029 cookies. David gave a speech as Chester. It was 00:07:01.029 --> 00:07:04.810 great. Oh, my gosh. I just love the, like, well, 00:07:05.009 --> 00:07:06.709 I'm just kind of far off. I'd love to get married 00:07:06.709 --> 00:07:11.329 sooner. Let's do it in one week. Oh, dude. It 00:07:11.329 --> 00:07:13.930 was awesome. And Abby gets all the credit for 00:07:13.930 --> 00:07:18.670 doing it that night. She felt so welcomed. by 00:07:18.670 --> 00:07:20.769 the family here. We like Abby a lot and we're 00:07:20.769 --> 00:07:22.810 glad to have her around. It's not even just this 00:07:22.810 --> 00:07:26.350 family. Abby is also a certified super pants 00:07:26.350 --> 00:07:29.490 person. Yeah. Oh, absolutely. Andrew starred 00:07:29.490 --> 00:07:32.009 in the wiki. Abby's been firing on all cylinders. 00:07:32.069 --> 00:07:34.629 Holy shit. So like, yeah, the wiki's been majorly 00:07:34.629 --> 00:07:37.730 updated. Abby's swimming in buttons. I'm terrified 00:07:37.730 --> 00:07:41.670 of that. She just absolutely like plowed the 00:07:41.670 --> 00:07:43.689 entire show in like, what, like two or three 00:07:43.689 --> 00:07:45.389 weeks? It was crazy. Really fast. Yeah. Wait, 00:07:45.389 --> 00:07:47.689 was it two or three weeks? It was really fast. 00:07:47.720 --> 00:07:50.139 Yeah, really fast. And all the shows are archived 00:07:50.139 --> 00:07:52.079 with information on every single episode. Oh, 00:07:52.079 --> 00:07:54.639 yeah. It's fucking wild. That's its own incredible 00:07:54.639 --> 00:07:56.879 feat. She's doing stuff with our transcripts 00:07:56.879 --> 00:07:58.160 and everything. I'm still trying to get over 00:07:58.160 --> 00:07:59.540 the incredible feat of listening to the whole 00:07:59.540 --> 00:08:01.939 show in two or three weeks. I don't even have 00:08:01.939 --> 00:08:03.959 the mental capacity to process the wiki. She's 00:08:03.959 --> 00:08:05.240 not even the only one that's done that, though. 00:08:05.300 --> 00:08:09.589 I know. I know. I know. Oh, it's crazy. But yeah. 00:08:10.430 --> 00:08:12.529 Congratulations, Jeremy. Congratulations, Abby. 00:08:13.110 --> 00:08:16.569 Here, here. Abby's in the Discord, too. Get in 00:08:16.569 --> 00:08:22.269 the Discord. Say hey to Abby. Get in Discord. 00:08:22.410 --> 00:08:25.410 You're wedding bombed. Damn. So we'll do a lore 00:08:25.410 --> 00:08:27.889 ban next week because there's so much cool stuff 00:08:27.889 --> 00:08:32.529 going on. And we have a lot of pretty cool, pretty 00:08:32.529 --> 00:08:34.669 crazy, pretty scary stuff to get to tonight, 00:08:34.789 --> 00:08:38.570 don't we? No. Don't we? No. We broke the rule. 00:08:38.789 --> 00:08:42.710 We broke the rule. What's the rule? Don't split 00:08:42.710 --> 00:08:44.289 the party. Never split the party. You did split 00:08:44.289 --> 00:08:46.570 the party. Yes. The number one rule. Yes, indeed. 00:08:46.710 --> 00:08:49.110 We always break that rule. I hope nobody... And 00:08:49.110 --> 00:08:51.509 it always goes perfectly. I hope nobody's going 00:08:51.509 --> 00:08:54.669 to take advantage of this situation. Nobody dies, 00:08:54.889 --> 00:08:59.629 ever. I hope. Before we get to that, let's get 00:08:59.629 --> 00:09:04.309 to something else. We open on a... twisted landscape, 00:09:04.509 --> 00:09:06.889 an expanse of black stone broken suddenly by 00:09:06.889 --> 00:09:09.330 spire -shaped mountains rising up like curling 00:09:09.330 --> 00:09:12.950 spines at the back of some great beast. The edge 00:09:12.950 --> 00:09:15.610 of the sky here is burning with orange, just 00:09:15.610 --> 00:09:18.289 fading to a shifting green miasma as it rises 00:09:18.289 --> 00:09:22.490 high above. No stars, no sun, no cycle of day 00:09:22.490 --> 00:09:25.309 and night, just a constant burning, violent flame 00:09:25.309 --> 00:09:28.009 giving way to swirling chaos that covers over 00:09:28.009 --> 00:09:34.049 this malign land. The land of demons known as 00:09:34.049 --> 00:09:37.490 the Abyss. As we look over this cursed land, 00:09:37.549 --> 00:09:44.049 a title card appears. 257 years ago. We see a 00:09:44.049 --> 00:09:46.909 party of six wandering through a shallow natural 00:09:46.909 --> 00:09:49.750 trench that splits across the stony, lifeless 00:09:49.750 --> 00:09:53.490 landscape. It's a grim, quiet procession. Warriors 00:09:53.490 --> 00:09:56.210 all, the best and bravest of Anchor and Sengar. 00:09:56.509 --> 00:09:58.450 But their stoic demeanors look to break before 00:09:58.450 --> 00:10:00.970 the horrors that await them. All directions. 00:10:01.830 --> 00:10:05.149 At the lead of this party, we see the demon slayer, 00:10:05.250 --> 00:10:08.009 Zebulon. He holds a map before his face, shifting 00:10:08.009 --> 00:10:10.110 it as he mutters quietly to himself, and just 00:10:10.110 --> 00:10:12.590 behind him we see Sholay in her human guise, 00:10:12.629 --> 00:10:16.350 peeking slyly over his shoulder, and her face 00:10:16.350 --> 00:10:21.029 kind of turns to a grimace. This? This is the 00:10:21.029 --> 00:10:24.169 map you're so proud of? It looks like a child's 00:10:24.169 --> 00:10:27.169 scribbles! Zebulon just freezes and looks back 00:10:27.169 --> 00:10:30.330 sheepishly. Oh, damn. Well, there's a reason 00:10:30.330 --> 00:10:32.429 I was keeping it to myself. It's homemade, you 00:10:32.429 --> 00:10:34.929 see. I'd been considering an adventure like this 00:10:34.929 --> 00:10:38.590 before, so I've done some hard interrogating 00:10:38.590 --> 00:10:41.549 during my demon hunts. I can assure you, it will 00:10:41.549 --> 00:10:43.570 get us through. I know for a fact that this area 00:10:43.570 --> 00:10:47.629 is generally avoided by the residents here. Hmm, 00:10:48.110 --> 00:10:51.049 Shirley muses. Well, I suppose it has served 00:10:51.049 --> 00:10:54.669 us so far. Only the one incident so far and easily 00:10:54.669 --> 00:10:58.379 handled. And Zebulon smiles proudly and goes 00:10:58.379 --> 00:11:00.539 back to reading it over. So there was a moment 00:11:00.539 --> 00:11:04.019 of silent walking and then... Did the demons 00:11:04.019 --> 00:11:09.059 tell you why? Hmm? Turns back to her. Why they 00:11:09.059 --> 00:11:11.860 tend to avoid this region? I assume there's some 00:11:11.860 --> 00:11:18.379 reason. Well, I, uh... Huh. And a voice sort 00:11:18.379 --> 00:11:22.350 of breaks the silence. Storm! A voice crying 00:11:22.350 --> 00:11:24.029 out from just ahead. All eyes in the group shoot 00:11:24.029 --> 00:11:26.649 up to see a lanky young woman, a scout from their 00:11:26.649 --> 00:11:29.529 party, sliding down into the trench. A storm 00:11:29.529 --> 00:11:31.909 surging this way. It looks bad, and it's unbelievably 00:11:31.909 --> 00:11:34.129 fast. It'll be on us in... And she trails off 00:11:34.129 --> 00:11:36.850 as the wind begins to whistle around, kicking 00:11:36.850 --> 00:11:39.909 up black clouds of abyssal sand. Chole's eyes 00:11:39.909 --> 00:11:42.409 begin to shift, orange, her body suddenly expanding 00:11:42.409 --> 00:11:46.289 into her draconic form. Quickly, beneath my wing! 00:11:47.200 --> 00:11:49.519 No, Miss Shola, you'll be sworn not undercover 00:11:49.519 --> 00:11:52.059 of the storm. Hurry, hurry. Everyone sort of, 00:11:52.059 --> 00:11:54.200 she like spins around. The group of heroes gather 00:11:54.200 --> 00:11:56.620 together as a great shadow of her wings cover 00:11:56.620 --> 00:12:00.899 all of them. Lightning cracks above as a storm 00:12:00.899 --> 00:12:06.039 hits. This sickly violet pulse in the black cloud. 00:12:06.600 --> 00:12:09.220 The wind tears at Shola and she grits her teeth 00:12:09.220 --> 00:12:14.360 and growls. for there's a long moment, a feeling 00:12:14.360 --> 00:12:16.799 of eternity, for surely as rocks crash against 00:12:16.799 --> 00:12:19.360 her scaled form, wind carving across her body, 00:12:19.440 --> 00:12:23.259 but she holds and holds and holds, and suddenly 00:12:23.259 --> 00:12:26.519 there is calm. She snaps her eyes open and looks 00:12:26.519 --> 00:12:30.139 up into the cyclone, and an eye in this hurricane. 00:12:30.919 --> 00:12:34.960 She looks up and sees something in the dark, 00:12:35.139 --> 00:12:40.500 a shadow in the clouds, long and coiled all around 00:12:40.500 --> 00:12:44.070 her. Now, in our last episode, I made quite an 00:12:44.070 --> 00:12:46.169 exaggeration describing Sholay's shape in the 00:12:46.169 --> 00:12:49.570 sandstorm as endlessly vast. Now, adult breast 00:12:49.570 --> 00:12:52.450 dragons are big, right? And she's bigger than 00:12:52.450 --> 00:12:55.250 most of them. But, but, that distinction, endlessly 00:12:55.250 --> 00:12:59.669 vast, should belong instead to this. A great 00:12:59.669 --> 00:13:03.370 serpent, enormous beyond imagining, dwarfing 00:13:03.370 --> 00:13:08.110 even Sholay's true body. And the clouds and darkness 00:13:08.110 --> 00:13:09.950 above the shape of its head begins to resolve. 00:13:11.019 --> 00:13:13.879 and flashes of violet, draconic glowing eyes, 00:13:14.259 --> 00:13:18.340 a razor -filled maw, all adorned by a crown of 00:13:18.340 --> 00:13:23.039 pointed horns. And Sholay freezes her eyes wide 00:13:23.039 --> 00:13:25.179 and wet, her mouth open in a stuttering whimper. 00:13:25.440 --> 00:13:30.019 And this thing that looks down at her looks down, 00:13:30.220 --> 00:13:34.720 staring for a long moment until it turns away, 00:13:34.879 --> 00:13:39.580 fading back into the darkness of the cloud. The 00:13:39.580 --> 00:13:45.500 ground rumbles, shaking as it slithers. She only 00:13:45.500 --> 00:13:48.419 jumps a little as a voice speaks right beside 00:13:48.419 --> 00:13:53.519 her ear. He's... he's real. Her eye shifts to 00:13:53.519 --> 00:13:55.500 see that Zebulon now rests on her shoulder, having 00:13:55.500 --> 00:13:58.240 climbed out from the cover of her wings. The 00:13:58.240 --> 00:14:00.120 man looks for all intents and purposes like he's 00:14:00.120 --> 00:14:02.480 about to piss himself, a voice cold with shock. 00:14:03.419 --> 00:14:09.480 He? They... speak of him. The demons. I thought 00:14:09.480 --> 00:14:11.419 he was just some legend. He's not like them. 00:14:11.720 --> 00:14:14.120 Some kind of ancient dragon from Angkor and Sengar, 00:14:14.299 --> 00:14:16.960 they say. Changed by centuries trapped in the 00:14:16.960 --> 00:14:20.080 abyss. Thus the horns. I always assumed they 00:14:20.080 --> 00:14:22.639 were mistaken. That a purple worm somehow got 00:14:22.639 --> 00:14:25.120 through the rift. But that... That was no worm. 00:14:25.799 --> 00:14:30.059 And Sholay's eyes linger in the sky. Do they 00:14:30.059 --> 00:14:34.919 have a name for him? They do. They call him... 00:14:34.919 --> 00:14:40.399 Zomateshab. His... Words, she continues, just 00:14:40.399 --> 00:14:44.440 eyes far off. Did they hold any meaning to you? 00:14:45.679 --> 00:14:52.480 Words? I didn't hear words. I see. Then I think... 00:14:52.480 --> 00:14:57.200 I think he spoke to me directly in my mind. And? 00:14:57.899 --> 00:14:59.879 Zabon just looks at her, eyes starved. What did 00:14:59.879 --> 00:15:03.190 he say? Then he notices her beginning to brace, 00:15:03.309 --> 00:15:05.450 looking back as the storm wall begins to close, 00:15:05.570 --> 00:15:08.070 and again. The beaten Cholet braces herself for 00:15:08.070 --> 00:15:09.970 a second wave, and Zebulon, seeing the danger, 00:15:10.049 --> 00:15:11.929 begins to slide from her shoulder, hearing her 00:15:11.929 --> 00:15:14.269 shaking voice behind as he dives out of the reach 00:15:14.269 --> 00:15:19.769 of the storm's fury. He said, My kin think me 00:15:19.769 --> 00:15:26.129 blind, but my eyes are open. And we pan from 00:15:26.129 --> 00:15:28.960 there to the present. to the palace of Yanito 00:15:28.960 --> 00:15:32.299 called the Seat of Dragons, and to the very opened, 00:15:32.320 --> 00:15:37.340 determined eyes of Jules LaRoche. That was awesome. 00:15:38.919 --> 00:15:42.600 I hope people like these, because, spoiler, there's 00:15:42.600 --> 00:15:44.940 going to be a lot of them. I have so much work 00:15:44.940 --> 00:15:47.559 to do this arc. I enjoyed it. I'm excited for 00:15:47.559 --> 00:15:48.759 the rest of them. I think this is important. 00:15:48.899 --> 00:15:50.159 I think these are all going to be very important 00:15:50.159 --> 00:15:52.340 in the end. Get in the Discord and tell us what 00:15:52.340 --> 00:15:54.179 you think. Yeah, tell us in the Discord, please. 00:15:55.299 --> 00:15:56.840 It's one of those things I'm not so sure about. 00:15:59.529 --> 00:16:02.950 Jules, you move through curving halls, standing 00:16:02.950 --> 00:16:06.169 by walls of red and blue. The gold -painted form 00:16:06.169 --> 00:16:08.330 from Great Serpent, definitely long, decorates 00:16:08.330 --> 00:16:10.429 the wall on your right, a constant companion 00:16:10.429 --> 00:16:12.870 as you move through the seat of dragons, eastern 00:16:12.870 --> 00:16:15.330 wing. I hope it was east. I didn't go back and 00:16:15.330 --> 00:16:17.769 check. I think you went west. I know Blanche 00:16:17.769 --> 00:16:20.409 went west. Boom, there you go. Okay, cool. Eastern 00:16:20.409 --> 00:16:24.710 wing. You are also, of course, accompanied by 00:16:24.710 --> 00:16:27.639 Magistrate Conan June. who, I think it's, as 00:16:27.639 --> 00:16:29.019 you're sort of moving, moving, you kind of slide 00:16:29.019 --> 00:16:31.220 around a corner, and you're sort of pushing, 00:16:31.340 --> 00:16:34.519 not eastern, but, you know, towards the sort 00:16:34.519 --> 00:16:36.840 of back of the palace. And Conan, dude, sort 00:16:36.840 --> 00:16:39.879 of continues, like, uh, the entrance to the ballroom 00:16:39.879 --> 00:16:41.639 the queen spoke of is just ahead, just around 00:16:41.639 --> 00:16:44.279 the corner. Are you sure about this, Jules? She 00:16:44.279 --> 00:16:47.129 made a sound. I mean, not that I would make any 00:16:47.129 --> 00:16:51.809 kind of comment about the mental stability of 00:16:51.809 --> 00:16:53.929 Speaker Sholay Brass of Anchor Ensign Carr, because 00:16:53.929 --> 00:16:55.590 that would be wildly inappropriate of me, but 00:16:55.590 --> 00:16:57.669 I... Anything else you can tell me about what 00:16:57.669 --> 00:17:00.389 just happened? I don't know anything, honestly. 00:17:00.429 --> 00:17:04.529 I just got back, but... This makes me a little 00:17:04.529 --> 00:17:09.289 nervous. I'll be fine. Yeah. Trust Jules. He's 00:17:09.289 --> 00:17:14.890 got it. All right. You turn that corner. And 00:17:14.890 --> 00:17:17.609 you do see down the hall there is a large sort 00:17:17.609 --> 00:17:20.910 of closed doorway, like a double door that's 00:17:20.910 --> 00:17:22.849 leading to some grand expanse of room beyond, 00:17:22.910 --> 00:17:26.009 but you also see that this hallway is not empty. 00:17:26.809 --> 00:17:32.230 You see that diva angel, pale -skinned, well 00:17:32.230 --> 00:17:36.069 -muscled, huge, and standing before him, you 00:17:36.069 --> 00:17:39.789 see Omed Pastar, looking exceptionally tiny and 00:17:39.789 --> 00:17:43.250 skinny when he not mounted his angel harness. 00:17:45.259 --> 00:17:48.619 who sees you, and immediately flashes this bright 00:17:48.619 --> 00:17:52.640 smile. Atash once said the words of a fool are 00:17:52.640 --> 00:17:55.200 as fire, burning down the most immaculate of 00:17:55.200 --> 00:17:57.339 bridges with little effort, only through great 00:17:57.339 --> 00:17:59.240 effort can these flames be quelled and bridges 00:17:59.240 --> 00:18:04.839 rebuilt. And so I shall make my effort now. And 00:18:04.839 --> 00:18:07.180 he begins to approach you, Jules, hand outstretched. 00:18:07.299 --> 00:18:09.940 I feel we got off to the wrong foot, Jules LaRoche. 00:18:10.000 --> 00:18:13.190 I was... Taken aback by the strange circumstances 00:18:13.190 --> 00:18:15.930 I had witnessed earlier, coincidence they were, 00:18:16.069 --> 00:18:19.950 kind of gestures towards the magistrate who nods 00:18:19.950 --> 00:18:23.269 sort of awkwardly, nervously. And the ambassador 00:18:23.269 --> 00:18:25.569 continues, I had hoped to speak to you alone, 00:18:25.710 --> 00:18:30.430 to apologize and to offer my condolences. He 00:18:30.430 --> 00:18:33.089 offers a hand to shake and very clearly eyes 00:18:33.089 --> 00:18:36.630 your gloved right hand as he does so. There'll 00:18:36.630 --> 00:18:38.950 be a time to chat, but right now I need you to 00:18:38.950 --> 00:18:42.839 step aside. I gotta talk to Sholay. I see you 00:18:42.839 --> 00:18:45.480 don't raise a hand or anything. No. Your kind 00:18:45.480 --> 00:18:49.200 of eye twitches just a little bit. I see. Very 00:18:49.200 --> 00:18:51.000 well. I just wanted to express to you how deeply 00:18:51.000 --> 00:18:53.640 sorry I am for the incarceration of Gabriela 00:18:53.640 --> 00:18:57.220 Cortez. I've heard that you two had some budding 00:18:57.220 --> 00:19:01.160 relations. A shame. Well, for you, I mean. For 00:19:01.160 --> 00:19:04.430 the world. Well... Miss Cortez struck a speaker 00:19:04.430 --> 00:19:06.890 for the ancestors, one of her people's saviors. 00:19:06.930 --> 00:19:09.109 She started this movement against Atash, against 00:19:09.109 --> 00:19:11.809 peace itself. I mean, Atash once said the quality 00:19:11.809 --> 00:19:13.990 of one's heart is best reflected in the company 00:19:13.990 --> 00:19:16.990 it chooses to beat for. And given her relationship 00:19:16.990 --> 00:19:19.509 with you, I must assume she worshiped the same 00:19:19.509 --> 00:19:22.529 demonic forces. You got a point here? Again, 00:19:22.609 --> 00:19:25.910 just twitch as he kind of quiets. And his smile 00:19:25.910 --> 00:19:30.289 looks so forced, like stained glass kind of creaking. 00:19:30.450 --> 00:19:35.650 Looks up to you. I just wanted to say that personally, 00:19:35.849 --> 00:19:38.750 I do not feel sorry over Gabriella's fate. In 00:19:38.750 --> 00:19:41.670 truth, I do not use these words lightly, but 00:19:41.670 --> 00:19:44.329 in truth, I am ecstatic to see that justice is 00:19:44.329 --> 00:19:48.190 coming for the bitch. And he looks you dead in 00:19:48.190 --> 00:19:51.869 the eyes and smiles. Do you feel something stirring 00:19:51.869 --> 00:19:55.509 next to you? You motherfucker! No. Chester. Chester, 00:19:56.369 --> 00:20:01.569 shut up. And Ahmed's just staring at you. Jules 00:20:01.569 --> 00:20:04.529 stares back. Good for fucking you. Step aside. 00:20:05.130 --> 00:20:09.589 You see, like, a vein appears on his little head. 00:20:10.630 --> 00:20:15.250 Very well. Very well. My guy is not going to 00:20:15.250 --> 00:20:19.670 take the bait. Yes! Jules! I love this! I love, 00:20:19.730 --> 00:20:21.589 I, part of this, I wanted to do this because 00:20:21.589 --> 00:20:24.450 I knew that Jules in episode one would have fucked 00:20:24.450 --> 00:20:29.849 it up. Oh, shit. And that's character growth. 00:20:30.069 --> 00:20:32.950 Uh -huh. And he's just kind of like, very well. 00:20:33.009 --> 00:20:37.170 And he gets to decide. Hyronix turns to the angel. 00:20:37.289 --> 00:20:42.230 We should take our leave. The good allies of 00:20:42.230 --> 00:20:47.029 the Citadel are busy, it seems. We'll chat later. 00:20:47.690 --> 00:20:54.009 Sure. And Jules and Chester just walk off. Oh, 00:20:54.009 --> 00:20:56.289 my gosh. I think the magistrate kind of just 00:20:56.289 --> 00:21:00.680 nods to him. He does not look pleased. And you 00:21:00.680 --> 00:21:03.880 see the two figures, the angel and the tiny man, 00:21:04.039 --> 00:21:07.299 begin to sort of move down the hall, moving away. 00:21:08.359 --> 00:21:12.359 Kunan Jun just looks to you. I... Thank you. 00:21:12.519 --> 00:21:15.420 I'm so sorry for that. That was uncalled for 00:21:15.420 --> 00:21:19.460 on so many levels. I... I'm not the biggest fan. 00:21:19.640 --> 00:21:23.779 I shouldn't... Relax, relax, relax. You're good. 00:21:24.599 --> 00:21:28.660 You should know... Anchor and Sengar has a, uh... 00:21:28.920 --> 00:21:31.200 trade contract with Hauri, ensuring that we are 00:21:31.200 --> 00:21:33.519 the foremost source of lumber for the desert 00:21:33.519 --> 00:21:36.859 world. And we do make good use of the glassworks 00:21:36.859 --> 00:21:40.680 at Grinzingar. We have a very important partnership 00:21:40.680 --> 00:21:44.059 with the good ambassador in that way, but his 00:21:44.059 --> 00:21:46.799 words do not reflect our opinions of any matter. 00:21:47.339 --> 00:21:49.200 Not that I'm disparaging the good ambassador. 00:21:49.299 --> 00:21:50.980 That would be wildly inappropriate for me as 00:21:50.980 --> 00:21:54.920 a magistrate. Relax. I don't know how. I truly 00:21:54.920 --> 00:21:57.559 don't know how. All right, well, I'm going in. 00:21:58.190 --> 00:22:01.049 Uh, well, no, really not. Wait, should I come 00:22:01.049 --> 00:22:04.529 with you? Would it be helpful if I... No. Are 00:22:04.529 --> 00:22:09.710 you sure? Just us. Us? Jules, I'm in. Hey, I'm 00:22:09.710 --> 00:22:13.049 in. You stay by the door. All right, but I got 00:22:13.049 --> 00:22:17.970 your back. Do not do anything unless I explicitly 00:22:17.970 --> 00:22:23.210 tell you to do it. Okay, yeah. Yeah. Following 00:22:23.210 --> 00:22:26.990 orders. Sidekick, right? All right. You're going 00:22:26.990 --> 00:22:30.759 in. Yeah, that's what I came here for. You move 00:22:30.759 --> 00:22:34.259 to those double doors. Jester kind of comes up 00:22:34.259 --> 00:22:37.440 beside you. One last sort of scornful look down 00:22:37.440 --> 00:22:40.279 the hall to the corner where the ambassador has 00:22:40.279 --> 00:22:43.839 just turned and looks back to you. All right, 00:22:43.920 --> 00:22:51.039 let's go. And the two of you push the doors open 00:22:51.039 --> 00:22:59.210 into darkness. Blanche. Oh, boy. You are moving 00:22:59.210 --> 00:23:02.589 down the western sort of wing of the palace. 00:23:02.609 --> 00:23:04.670 Similar red -blue walls surround you. Similar 00:23:04.670 --> 00:23:08.529 paintings of long golden serpents kind of adoring 00:23:08.529 --> 00:23:11.930 them. Absolutely majestic, this place. Opulent 00:23:11.930 --> 00:23:15.069 in every way. Though this view is completely 00:23:15.069 --> 00:23:19.190 lost on your guide here, who is very slowly tip 00:23:19.190 --> 00:23:22.769 -tapping ahead of you, kind of hands in motion 00:23:22.769 --> 00:23:26.349 as if he's playing a boddock right now. Oh, right, 00:23:26.450 --> 00:23:29.269 right. Scout's trap. You were right about the 00:23:29.269 --> 00:23:31.769 scout's trap, but I do wonder what the actual 00:23:31.769 --> 00:23:35.490 solution would be. Perhaps you may offer me your 00:23:35.490 --> 00:23:39.710 aid when there's time. Yes. Yeah, and Blanche 00:23:39.710 --> 00:23:43.720 is just offering sort of... menial game conversation 00:23:43.720 --> 00:23:48.180 you know like oh what level do you play at um 00:23:48.180 --> 00:23:51.319 there i looked into like the i read like a go 00:23:51.319 --> 00:23:53.539 rule thing for like five minutes today that's 00:23:53.539 --> 00:23:56.660 awesome and just like i haven't yet well so you 00:23:56.660 --> 00:24:00.559 know more than i do the the most interesting 00:24:00.559 --> 00:24:02.440 thing i read so far in like the beginner's guide 00:24:02.440 --> 00:24:06.839 is like if you go second the two players against 00:24:06.839 --> 00:24:09.880 each other they decide on a point value to give 00:24:09.880 --> 00:24:14.490 as to make up for going second because it's such 00:24:14.490 --> 00:24:17.269 a big disadvantage. Oh, huh. So, you know, she's 00:24:17.269 --> 00:24:18.930 like, they're trying to plan, you know, like 00:24:18.930 --> 00:24:22.849 what should the point value be and stuff like 00:24:22.849 --> 00:24:25.230 that. Making conversation. Can you remind me 00:24:25.230 --> 00:24:27.009 of this guy's name one more time? I listened 00:24:27.009 --> 00:24:30.309 to it today, but. Young Gi. Young Gi. Young Gi 00:24:30.309 --> 00:24:33.089 is the uncle of the queen. So he is of the dragon 00:24:33.089 --> 00:24:37.650 clan, but not a royal. He serves, I think the 00:24:37.650 --> 00:24:40.960 magic did say he serves in a kind of, What's 00:24:40.960 --> 00:24:43.160 the word here? What's the word here? Like an 00:24:43.160 --> 00:24:45.160 advisory role? Thank you. Advisory role for the 00:24:45.160 --> 00:24:48.519 queen. But he said it with kind of a bit of a 00:24:48.519 --> 00:24:51.420 hesitation, stutter. Okay, so he's like the black 00:24:51.420 --> 00:24:54.420 sheep of the court? Yeah, he's kind of just moving 00:24:54.420 --> 00:24:56.859 along. And then I think at one point he's, you 00:24:56.859 --> 00:25:01.140 do know your games, right, right. Blanche, Blanche, 00:25:01.140 --> 00:25:04.059 you said it was? That's correct. Blanche Trudeau. 00:25:04.099 --> 00:25:07.140 Blanche Trudeau, yes, you know your games. And 00:25:07.140 --> 00:25:12.500 so I must wonder what game you play, what move 00:25:12.500 --> 00:25:15.619 you make by asking me to guide you to your destination. 00:25:16.380 --> 00:25:18.720 Uh, well... His eyes look to you and there's 00:25:18.720 --> 00:25:22.859 like a sparkle in them. I surmised, Master Yungi, 00:25:22.920 --> 00:25:28.279 that you might be forward with me about the smoke 00:25:28.279 --> 00:25:30.180 that comes from the mountain and its effects. 00:25:30.900 --> 00:25:38.509 Uh, smoke... I... The... Time jumps, lapses in 00:25:38.509 --> 00:25:42.509 memory. Ah, right, right. You spoke of it earlier, 00:25:42.670 --> 00:25:46.970 the Buko something. What do you call it? Oh, 00:25:47.569 --> 00:25:53.049 I spoke the name of Baraki. Baraki. Perhaps a 00:25:53.049 --> 00:25:56.970 connection, but not a word for this. I don't 00:25:56.970 --> 00:26:01.349 have a word for this phenomenon. Perhaps you 00:26:01.349 --> 00:26:06.599 could explain to me who Baraki is. Maybe we can 00:26:06.599 --> 00:26:12.519 work it out together. Right, right. Baraki. Well, 00:26:12.519 --> 00:26:17.960 nine years ago now, there was a red dragon that 00:26:17.960 --> 00:26:20.559 came upon a city from the southeastern valleys, 00:26:20.740 --> 00:26:24.960 launched a sudden assault on Yanido, laying waste 00:26:24.960 --> 00:26:28.559 nearly to an entire district, the Phoenix District 00:26:28.559 --> 00:26:32.559 as it was known. My royal niece, Queen Jean Mee, 00:26:32.640 --> 00:26:36.089 faced this monster on her own. And so it repelled 00:26:36.089 --> 00:26:40.650 an incredible feat, proving her mastery of dragonkind 00:26:40.650 --> 00:26:43.210 and the purity of our clan's draconic heritage. 00:26:43.250 --> 00:26:46.690 I dare say she channeled our great Meru, our 00:26:46.690 --> 00:26:50.829 great founder. But even though Baraki's massacre 00:26:50.829 --> 00:26:54.890 was swiftly ended, the damage was done. Now the 00:26:54.890 --> 00:26:57.569 Phoenix District has been divided into nearby 00:26:57.569 --> 00:27:00.809 herring and turtle districts, and its center 00:27:00.809 --> 00:27:04.549 has been made into a park. The Park of the Elders, 00:27:04.569 --> 00:27:07.470 they call it, which celebrates the heroic achievements 00:27:07.470 --> 00:27:11.369 of my niece and honors the lives taken by the 00:27:11.369 --> 00:27:14.970 battle. We still feel our scars and our hearts 00:27:14.970 --> 00:27:18.309 and our land from the fight. So Queen Jean -Mi 00:27:18.309 --> 00:27:22.650 can single -handedly take on, like, an adult 00:27:22.650 --> 00:27:25.349 red dragon? Apparently. Damn. You mentioned something 00:27:25.349 --> 00:27:28.130 about, like, Master Dragonkind wielding the blood 00:27:28.130 --> 00:27:30.910 of Meru. It sounds like a whole crazy fairy tale, 00:27:30.990 --> 00:27:33.000 but it's... Apparently it happened nine years 00:27:33.000 --> 00:27:38.980 ago. Huh. Interesting. Uh, okay. Wow, the Phoenix 00:27:38.980 --> 00:27:43.259 District. Yes, as it was. How many districts 00:27:43.259 --> 00:27:46.539 are in the city? Did not exactly rise from the 00:27:46.539 --> 00:27:51.079 ashes, as one might say. I would say there is 00:27:51.079 --> 00:27:54.079 the Phoenix District, there is the Turtle District, 00:27:54.200 --> 00:27:57.420 the Herring District. I understand there's construction 00:27:57.420 --> 00:28:00.599 happening in the Tiger District? Ah, yes, good. 00:28:00.759 --> 00:28:02.539 I'm glad, because I forgot the last district's 00:28:02.539 --> 00:28:05.079 name. It's a good thing you didn't. I was going 00:28:05.079 --> 00:28:07.099 to go look it up, but there's another one. And 00:28:07.099 --> 00:28:11.180 also, yes, the Tiger District. It's outside the 00:28:11.180 --> 00:28:15.039 city, actually. Behind the palace, up on the 00:28:15.039 --> 00:28:17.240 top of the hill is where they're building it, 00:28:17.259 --> 00:28:20.799 expanding out to cover the very top. It is still 00:28:20.799 --> 00:28:24.039 early in the making, but it is currently being 00:28:24.039 --> 00:28:28.500 built upon. What did he say they're building 00:28:28.500 --> 00:28:31.660 there? Just an expanded district. But you do 00:28:31.660 --> 00:28:33.859 remember the queen, after they talked about the 00:28:33.859 --> 00:28:37.059 mist and the guards. Yeah, she sent that guy 00:28:37.059 --> 00:28:38.660 up to the Tiger District. She said to go check 00:28:38.660 --> 00:28:40.339 out the Tiger District, check out the construction 00:28:40.339 --> 00:28:43.819 site, which seemed weird. Right. What correlation 00:28:43.819 --> 00:28:47.960 there? So Baraki was defeated in the Phoenix 00:28:47.960 --> 00:28:50.960 District. Yeah. How close is the Phoenix District 00:28:50.960 --> 00:28:54.500 to the Tiger District? You made your way through 00:28:54.500 --> 00:28:55.900 the city. You probably had, like, things pointed 00:28:55.900 --> 00:28:57.579 out to you. Or I'm sure there's a map or something. 00:28:57.839 --> 00:29:01.079 It is kind of in the mid -layer of the city, 00:29:01.200 --> 00:29:04.380 upper mid -layer. So not quite together, not 00:29:04.380 --> 00:29:09.440 quite close, but it does seem strange. So tell 00:29:09.440 --> 00:29:13.680 me about the timeline of this. What do you call 00:29:13.680 --> 00:29:17.640 it, this smoke that causes lapses in memory, 00:29:17.880 --> 00:29:25.640 time skips? I have no word for it. I remember. 00:29:26.339 --> 00:29:29.920 Do you remember when it started? Well, just today. 00:29:30.279 --> 00:29:33.380 Today was the first time? Yes, I remember I was 00:29:33.380 --> 00:29:36.599 sitting there. I had moved a piece that I could 00:29:36.599 --> 00:29:40.660 not remember moving. Fascinating stuff. And I 00:29:40.660 --> 00:29:43.460 thought at first that I had finally lost my mind 00:29:43.460 --> 00:29:47.460 to age, but no, no, it seemed more magical in 00:29:47.460 --> 00:29:50.299 nature. Given everybody's reaction, I assumed 00:29:50.299 --> 00:29:55.099 that they were... Used to it. Conditioned to 00:29:55.099 --> 00:29:58.380 it. Nobody speaks of it. Even though this is 00:29:58.380 --> 00:30:01.160 the first time it's happened, nobody is curious 00:30:01.160 --> 00:30:05.460 to find out why. Something does set in his eyes. 00:30:06.480 --> 00:30:11.140 Some hardness. I feel like I'm playing on only 00:30:11.140 --> 00:30:14.579 half a board here, youngie. There are some things 00:30:14.579 --> 00:30:18.869 we are not supposed to speak of. When it comes 00:30:18.869 --> 00:30:23.650 to our fair city of judgment, for one, it's very 00:30:23.650 --> 00:30:29.549 namesake. No, this strangeness is new, but there 00:30:29.549 --> 00:30:33.349 has always been strangeness of sorts in Yanido. 00:30:34.109 --> 00:30:36.809 Well, certainly you don't want me to play with 00:30:36.809 --> 00:30:40.369 this big of a handicap. Is there a way I could 00:30:40.369 --> 00:30:44.269 hear about these secrets? Roll my persuasion 00:30:44.269 --> 00:30:46.970 check. I'm going to give you something for very 00:30:46.970 --> 00:30:49.809 high and something for, like, a moderately decent 00:30:49.809 --> 00:30:52.069 roll. I'm going to give you a button. Whoa, okay, 00:30:52.269 --> 00:30:57.470 okay. I like it. I like it. Good thing, because 00:30:57.470 --> 00:31:00.710 the first roll is a natural one. Oh, my gosh. 00:31:01.190 --> 00:31:08.470 A horse. It's a four. All right. Four. Damn. 00:31:08.529 --> 00:31:12.930 You are a sharp player, Blanche Trudeau. Right, 00:31:12.990 --> 00:31:17.059 right, perhaps. You will seek some answers on 00:31:17.059 --> 00:31:22.180 your own. But I will say the magistrates know 00:31:22.180 --> 00:31:26.480 much of this strangeness more than I do. What 00:31:26.480 --> 00:31:29.460 answers I can give would be unfulfilling, I think. 00:31:29.680 --> 00:31:34.819 I have come to live a luxurious, simple life 00:31:34.819 --> 00:31:41.220 here, not bothered by what dangers await outside 00:31:41.220 --> 00:31:44.819 these palace walls. I'm afraid the magistrates 00:31:44.819 --> 00:31:47.480 are much more tight -lipped than you are. You 00:31:47.480 --> 00:31:51.960 have been assigned young Kun Anjun, yes? He has 00:31:51.960 --> 00:31:57.079 greeted us and said as much, yes? He is young 00:31:57.079 --> 00:32:01.380 and he is sharp. Perhaps a blade you may turn 00:32:01.380 --> 00:32:08.039 upon your foes here. Perhaps you can make him 00:32:08.039 --> 00:32:12.200 speak true. How do I gain his trust? He's... 00:32:12.640 --> 00:32:15.700 He blocked me out at every pass. I tried to speak 00:32:15.700 --> 00:32:20.599 with him telepathically, and even still, I was 00:32:20.599 --> 00:32:26.180 blocked out. You come to this city seeking to 00:32:26.180 --> 00:32:30.920 help. Perhaps that will be enough. But I will 00:32:30.920 --> 00:32:34.960 warn you away, Blanche Trudeau. There are some 00:32:34.960 --> 00:32:42.049 secrets you should not seek to unbirth. Dangerous 00:32:42.049 --> 00:32:45.789 secrets. Secrets that could crumble the very 00:32:45.789 --> 00:32:53.470 city you stand in. I do not wish to become foes 00:32:53.470 --> 00:32:58.549 in anything other than Bardock. Forgive me if 00:32:58.549 --> 00:33:05.230 I overstepped. Boldness is a fair strategy. I 00:33:05.230 --> 00:33:10.430 respect it. Most others will not. Okay, seek 00:33:10.430 --> 00:33:12.789 answers with discretion from the magistrates. 00:33:13.130 --> 00:33:16.970 Oh, I can't believe I rolled a four and just 00:33:16.970 --> 00:33:23.250 added like two episodes onto this arc. I think 00:33:23.250 --> 00:33:25.029 he will do one last little musing though. It's 00:33:25.029 --> 00:33:30.490 like, yes, whether I, Baraki has anything to 00:33:30.490 --> 00:33:33.769 do with this matters. I simply found it interesting 00:33:33.769 --> 00:33:38.299 that upon the arrival. of the dragon sholey the 00:33:38.299 --> 00:33:43.579 half dragons they would come to be affected so 00:33:43.579 --> 00:33:47.539 deeply in such a different way from us but it 00:33:47.539 --> 00:33:54.259 may be nothing it may be nothing at all now here 00:33:54.259 --> 00:33:57.460 we are he turns to a door you see like and actually 00:33:57.460 --> 00:33:58.839 as you're moving closer you have this conversation 00:33:58.839 --> 00:34:00.640 people are sort of rushing past you servants 00:34:00.640 --> 00:34:02.740 moving with like blankets and various sort of 00:34:02.740 --> 00:34:07.099 like uh you know uh sort of vials of liquids 00:34:07.099 --> 00:34:09.699 and medicines and medical supplies just rushing, 00:34:09.760 --> 00:34:12.800 rushing past, and they're rushing into this larger 00:34:12.800 --> 00:34:17.119 chamber that you're moving into. All right. You've 00:34:17.119 --> 00:34:20.300 been most helpful, Master Yungi. I appreciate 00:34:20.300 --> 00:34:23.039 your escort, and I look forward to that game. 00:34:23.440 --> 00:34:28.619 Yes. Do not make me wait long. Maybe I'll have 00:34:28.619 --> 00:34:33.500 some more bold questions for you then. I'll have 00:34:33.500 --> 00:34:39.849 to win. I think for answers. Right, right. I 00:34:39.849 --> 00:34:44.570 accept that challenge. You push into the room. 00:34:44.710 --> 00:34:48.230 Blanche is going to head into the room. You move 00:34:48.230 --> 00:34:53.090 into this room, into this infirmary. You see 00:34:53.090 --> 00:34:55.309 robe positions are moving between beds. You see 00:34:55.309 --> 00:34:57.869 two large shapes dominate two beds in the far 00:34:57.869 --> 00:34:59.309 back. You're kind of looking at this longer, 00:34:59.449 --> 00:35:02.869 you know. Longland is a wide room with beds sort 00:35:02.869 --> 00:35:05.630 of lining all the way up. It looks like maybe 00:35:05.630 --> 00:35:08.530 it was some kind of general quarters for maybe 00:35:08.530 --> 00:35:12.269 like serpents or, you know, militia here in the 00:35:12.269 --> 00:35:15.409 Seat of Dragons, but it's been turned into a 00:35:15.409 --> 00:35:18.849 makeshift infirmary. And I speak not only of 00:35:18.849 --> 00:35:21.610 those two shapes in the back, which you can see 00:35:21.610 --> 00:35:23.070 brass wings are falling over the side of the 00:35:23.070 --> 00:35:24.809 mattress. You can see, you know, based on just 00:35:24.809 --> 00:35:27.090 like the general features under the blankets, 00:35:27.210 --> 00:35:30.070 these clearly belong to Arlon and Xena. But they 00:35:30.070 --> 00:35:32.929 are not alone in this room, no. There are a number 00:35:32.929 --> 00:35:35.449 of figures laying in rows of beds, leading to 00:35:35.449 --> 00:35:38.570 them. Bloodstained sheets covering some groaning 00:35:38.570 --> 00:35:41.590 or whimpering people. Some sheets fully cover 00:35:41.590 --> 00:35:43.849 bodies that are not moving. The chests are not 00:35:43.849 --> 00:35:47.230 breathing. The wounds you can see, as well as 00:35:47.230 --> 00:35:50.389 the panic in the eyes of the servants and physicians 00:35:50.389 --> 00:35:53.510 within the chamber, they're all fresh. Fresh 00:35:53.510 --> 00:35:56.710 panic, fresh blood. There was an attack here, 00:35:56.869 --> 00:36:02.510 too. Huh. Blanche wants to grab somebody walking 00:36:02.510 --> 00:36:06.550 by. I'm sure they're in a rush. You, what happened 00:36:06.550 --> 00:36:09.090 to you? She's going to project like an air of 00:36:09.090 --> 00:36:10.989 authority. You know, it's like the, you know, 00:36:10.989 --> 00:36:12.230 if you walk around carrying a clipboard, everybody 00:36:12.230 --> 00:36:13.449 thinks you belong sort of thing. You should have 00:36:13.449 --> 00:36:17.050 a clipboard. Just act like you belong. Place 00:36:17.050 --> 00:36:21.289 looks at you wide with panic and mouth opens 00:36:21.289 --> 00:36:25.610 to answer and the eyes slowly kind of like close 00:36:25.610 --> 00:36:30.659 as if like suspicious and then We had a number 00:36:30.659 --> 00:36:34.039 of unfortunate accidents happening at once here 00:36:34.039 --> 00:36:37.900 in the palace. I'm sorry. I must attend. Move 00:36:37.900 --> 00:36:42.079 us away. Huh. Okay. So kind of everybody's on 00:36:42.079 --> 00:36:45.000 notice about us, I guess. Interesting. Nobody 00:36:45.000 --> 00:36:47.440 in this room is talking about what happened. 00:36:47.480 --> 00:36:49.599 They're just talking about what to do about it. 00:36:50.079 --> 00:36:53.260 You know, give me that. Give me that vial. Cover 00:36:53.260 --> 00:36:55.699 that wound now. We got to put pressure. Put pressure. 00:36:55.800 --> 00:36:58.019 You know, just that's the kind of chatter you're 00:36:58.019 --> 00:37:05.070 hearing. Okay. So can Blanche see where Xena 00:37:05.070 --> 00:37:07.389 and Arhalon are? Yeah, they're at the very back. 00:37:07.829 --> 00:37:10.170 What does she see when she goes up to Arhalon? 00:37:10.289 --> 00:37:13.230 You move past the other people moving, you move 00:37:13.230 --> 00:37:15.250 past these beds, past everyone working on the 00:37:15.250 --> 00:37:18.789 wounded. You move to the back. You don't see 00:37:18.789 --> 00:37:23.090 wounds here. No blood on the sheets. Just two 00:37:23.090 --> 00:37:26.869 figures lying. Sort of their faces popping out 00:37:26.869 --> 00:37:29.489 from their sheets, and they're just sweating. 00:37:30.329 --> 00:37:33.989 Their eyes are closed, but their brows are working 00:37:33.989 --> 00:37:39.550 as if they're groaning, growling. Arhalon, Xena. 00:37:44.349 --> 00:37:47.110 Blanche is going to try to cast Message on Arhalon. 00:37:47.389 --> 00:37:49.429 Message requires a whisper back, though, correct? 00:37:49.610 --> 00:37:52.230 It's more of a, it's not into the mind, actually. 00:37:52.289 --> 00:37:55.070 It's more of like a very quiet words to the ear. 00:37:58.110 --> 00:38:00.630 Here's the message and can reply in a whisper 00:38:00.630 --> 00:38:03.070 that only you can hear. But it might be a more 00:38:03.070 --> 00:38:05.070 personal way of speaking. Yeah. Still interesting. 00:38:05.230 --> 00:38:07.730 Sure, yeah, I guess she'll try and just say, 00:38:07.889 --> 00:38:11.480 you know, Ahalan, can you... Can you hear me? 00:38:11.559 --> 00:38:19.380 Can you give me some sign? Just like pain, pain. 00:38:19.539 --> 00:38:22.539 Akio just like moves up on like two paws on the 00:38:22.539 --> 00:38:24.440 side of the bed, just like looking into his eyes. 00:38:24.719 --> 00:38:28.079 What is wrong with them? All right, here's another 00:38:28.079 --> 00:38:31.440 idea. Blanche is going to cast protection from 00:38:31.440 --> 00:38:34.739 evil on him. What does that do exactly? I'm curious. 00:38:34.820 --> 00:38:38.269 Okay. Until the spell ends, one willing creature 00:38:38.269 --> 00:38:39.869 you touch is protected against certain types 00:38:39.869 --> 00:38:42.489 of creatures, aberrations, celestials, elementals, 00:38:42.530 --> 00:38:50.170 fey, fiends, and undead. It gives creatures of 00:38:50.170 --> 00:38:52.769 those types of disadvantage on attack rolls against 00:38:52.769 --> 00:38:56.349 the target. The target can't be charmed, frightened, 00:38:56.429 --> 00:38:59.070 or possessed by them. And if the target is already 00:38:59.070 --> 00:39:01.150 charmed, frightened, or possessed by such a creature, 00:39:01.190 --> 00:39:04.030 the target has advantage on any new saving throws 00:39:04.030 --> 00:39:07.030 against the relevant effect. Let me check one 00:39:07.030 --> 00:39:11.789 thing. Oh, yeah. It's very interesting. I looked 00:39:11.789 --> 00:39:15.929 it up. That is not a high enough level spell 00:39:15.929 --> 00:39:19.969 for this. There are spells that could do something 00:39:19.969 --> 00:39:23.530 here. So does Blanche have any way of knowing 00:39:23.530 --> 00:39:27.190 that that spell was on the right track? It's 00:39:27.190 --> 00:39:29.710 just not powerful enough? Maybe. And it's on 00:39:29.710 --> 00:39:31.610 the right track is even hard to say. But I think 00:39:31.610 --> 00:39:34.050 there's... What I will say, I like where you're 00:39:34.050 --> 00:39:36.880 going with that a lot. I think for a moment after 00:39:36.880 --> 00:39:41.420 you cast it, Arlan's eye snaps open, kind of 00:39:41.420 --> 00:39:50.440 whirls around madly, locks onto you. And it closes 00:39:50.440 --> 00:39:52.739 again. It's almost like he's been seized and 00:39:52.739 --> 00:39:55.539 pulled back into whatever horror he's experiencing. 00:39:56.900 --> 00:40:01.719 Is Young Gi still at the door? I'll say he left. 00:40:01.780 --> 00:40:04.929 I think he saw... the scene inside and kind of 00:40:04.929 --> 00:40:08.070 backed away like it's just horrible and he's 00:40:08.070 --> 00:40:13.230 kind of a sheltered old man i will say beside 00:40:13.230 --> 00:40:17.690 you you see akio's just like looking down at 00:40:17.690 --> 00:40:23.610 this master master blanche can i speak my mind 00:40:23.610 --> 00:40:26.230 please akia i would expect nothing less of you 00:40:26.230 --> 00:40:30.289 his claws dig in a little bit to the sheets you 00:40:30.289 --> 00:40:34.170 see he's shaking Master Arhalon, selflessly and 00:40:34.170 --> 00:40:36.929 bravely, fought our side when we confronted Master 00:40:36.929 --> 00:40:39.929 Ozen's body. He was instrumental in our victory 00:40:39.929 --> 00:40:43.070 within the Shrine of Storms. He probably saved 00:40:43.070 --> 00:40:46.929 my life. All our lives. He is a brave warrior. 00:40:47.829 --> 00:40:52.570 He deserves a better fate than this. I... I want 00:40:52.570 --> 00:40:56.690 to help him and his mother. No matter what, I 00:40:56.690 --> 00:40:59.829 want to help them, Master Blanche. Is that okay? 00:41:02.789 --> 00:41:04.809 Absolutely. Akio, I believe there may be an arcane 00:41:04.809 --> 00:41:11.909 solution. How good is that nose of yours? It's 00:41:11.909 --> 00:41:13.369 not what it once was when I was a young pup, 00:41:13.489 --> 00:41:16.230 but it will get us by. Do you think you could 00:41:16.230 --> 00:41:18.769 smell out the library? There must be one in this 00:41:18.769 --> 00:41:21.110 palace. Books. Do you have a book on you, just 00:41:21.110 --> 00:41:23.949 to remind me? Yeah, Blanche will pull out... 00:41:23.949 --> 00:41:25.650 Give me your spell book. Sure. Oh yeah, she'll 00:41:25.650 --> 00:41:31.090 pull out her spell book. I will return. Gone. 00:41:31.349 --> 00:41:34.289 He's like running. I was just going to follow 00:41:34.289 --> 00:41:39.389 him. So basically what I want to do is I want 00:41:39.389 --> 00:41:43.769 to roll Arcana about it. Try to like figure out 00:41:43.769 --> 00:41:48.250 what sort of spells could work with this. Oh, 00:41:48.250 --> 00:41:50.469 okay. Yeah. And I'm hoping that something like 00:41:50.469 --> 00:41:54.130 extra books or a library will maybe give me a 00:41:54.130 --> 00:41:56.829 boost to that check or something. Okay. Maybe 00:41:56.829 --> 00:41:59.519 you go to follow Akio? Yeah. I'll say. Right 00:41:59.519 --> 00:42:03.780 when you do, one of the physicians sort of walks, 00:42:03.940 --> 00:42:07.260 I guess like you see right behind you, just young 00:42:07.260 --> 00:42:12.059 man, dark hair, very close cut, very stern, sad 00:42:12.059 --> 00:42:18.019 face, just Blanche Trudeau, right? Yes, that's 00:42:18.019 --> 00:42:24.659 correct. I have been told of you. Some of the 00:42:24.659 --> 00:42:27.900 servants were very worried about you. Lady Xena, 00:42:27.940 --> 00:42:33.920 when she came in, I, uh, I'm sorry, this is stupid. 00:42:34.840 --> 00:42:36.460 And he kind of moves over to, like, the side 00:42:36.460 --> 00:42:37.920 of her bed, and he lifts up, like, a little, 00:42:37.960 --> 00:42:41.920 like, sort of ornate little box, like, you know, 00:42:41.920 --> 00:42:46.739 almost like a to -go box. Okay. Um, Lady Xena... 00:42:46.739 --> 00:42:51.960 Is it goat? No, no. There was mention of goat, 00:42:52.079 --> 00:42:57.000 but, uh, the dessert last night... She insisted, 00:42:57.159 --> 00:43:00.239 all but a bite goes to you. When you arrived, 00:43:00.260 --> 00:43:01.719 it was too good, she said, not to share with 00:43:01.719 --> 00:43:10.119 friends. I am sorry to tell you this. We've been 00:43:10.119 --> 00:43:13.099 monitoring the two of them. Their vitals are 00:43:13.099 --> 00:43:17.780 fading. It is slow. We don't understand what's 00:43:17.780 --> 00:43:20.840 happening. It's nothing natural at all. How much 00:43:20.840 --> 00:43:23.860 time do you think they have? At this point, it's 00:43:23.860 --> 00:43:27.349 hard to tell. We'll assume days, but not many. 00:43:27.730 --> 00:43:31.670 Two, maybe three. Thank you, Doctor. That should 00:43:31.670 --> 00:43:34.750 be enough. And you go after Akio. Yeah, I'll 00:43:34.750 --> 00:43:41.670 take the cake, though. A little golden icing 00:43:41.670 --> 00:43:44.590 on this little, like, almost like a fudge lava 00:43:44.590 --> 00:43:46.809 cake. It's all splooshed out everywhere because 00:43:46.809 --> 00:43:48.690 she took one bite and was like, I'm going to 00:43:48.690 --> 00:43:54.340 save this. Yeah. Which way is the library? kind 00:43:54.340 --> 00:43:55.840 of points down the hall in the opposite direction 00:43:55.840 --> 00:43:58.380 where you... Maybe if you kept going... Oh, I 00:43:58.380 --> 00:43:59.699 thought you were going to say the opposite direction 00:43:59.699 --> 00:44:01.880 that Akio went. I was like, oh, that stupid dog. 00:44:02.179 --> 00:44:05.139 That's so funny. No, you went the right way. 00:44:06.179 --> 00:44:09.159 Don't nerf Akio that way. Oh, that west. And 00:44:09.159 --> 00:44:15.199 you leave. Going to the library. Going to go 00:44:15.199 --> 00:44:21.119 do some studying. Okay. Okay. And... Jewels. 00:44:21.800 --> 00:44:26.300 Oh, boy. we pan back to you the other wing of 00:44:26.300 --> 00:44:30.780 this palace as you open a door a little dim light 00:44:30.780 --> 00:44:37.340 sort of pools into this great massive space it 00:44:37.340 --> 00:44:43.360 is a full open ballroom grand and gigantic huge 00:44:43.360 --> 00:44:46.840 like you know cathedral size ceilings just like 00:44:46.840 --> 00:44:50.739 it feels like You are walking into a massive 00:44:50.739 --> 00:44:53.880 cavern into the lair of some great beast. It 00:44:53.880 --> 00:44:57.159 is entirely dark, but as you step in, as the 00:44:57.159 --> 00:45:00.000 little light sort of goes into the room, you 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:02.760 can feel something very large, a great shadow 00:45:02.760 --> 00:45:09.820 moving. The light shines on the legs of tables 00:45:09.820 --> 00:45:13.340 splintered, glassware shattered against the wall. 00:45:14.250 --> 00:45:16.309 You see craters almost taken out of the wall 00:45:16.309 --> 00:45:18.469 from the insides. There's something been thrashing 00:45:18.469 --> 00:45:23.789 about. Small points of like burned cinders in 00:45:23.789 --> 00:45:27.570 the carpet. The very edge of a chandelier smashed 00:45:27.570 --> 00:45:34.929 and burned in the room center. Do you close the 00:45:34.929 --> 00:45:40.309 door behind you? Do you leave? No, no. I think 00:45:40.309 --> 00:45:44.519 Jules will leave the door cracked. Okay. But 00:45:44.519 --> 00:45:46.000 he's not going to leave it wide open. So you're 00:45:46.000 --> 00:45:48.480 standing in near darkness. Yeah, and he's going 00:45:48.480 --> 00:45:50.539 to push Chester against the wall next to the 00:45:50.539 --> 00:45:56.860 door. Fucking stay put. Yeah. He has his misdirection 00:45:56.860 --> 00:46:01.860 in hand. Put that away. Jules! Put it away. His 00:46:01.860 --> 00:46:05.280 hand twitches on it. There's something in his 00:46:05.280 --> 00:46:09.659 eyes, just determined. And he blinks. And, yeah, 00:46:09.800 --> 00:46:12.039 smiles. Of course, yeah, of course, put it away, 00:46:12.139 --> 00:46:14.900 yeah. You got this. Jesus fucking Christ. Peace. 00:46:15.039 --> 00:46:22.000 All that. Don't say a word. Don't move. Yeah. 00:46:22.800 --> 00:46:27.400 Easy. He is like visibly quivering. You turn. 00:46:27.559 --> 00:46:31.599 I will turn the car around. I'll turn this. I'll 00:46:31.599 --> 00:46:33.780 turn this room around. I will turn this arc around. 00:46:34.239 --> 00:46:39.119 Get back on that gem. And Jules takes a couple 00:46:39.119 --> 00:46:40.800 steps forward. Straight into blackness. More 00:46:40.800 --> 00:46:46.079 into the room. I think, you know, just for funsies, 00:46:46.079 --> 00:46:52.619 he's going to cast light on his glove. Magical 00:46:52.619 --> 00:46:55.360 light fills the space. Almost like a spotlight 00:46:55.360 --> 00:46:57.300 as you're hearing your glove forward. Flashes 00:46:57.300 --> 00:47:00.340 over the room. And in the sort of great shadow 00:47:00.340 --> 00:47:06.019 beyond, you see Sholay. The ancient brass dragon 00:47:06.019 --> 00:47:11.150 in all her majesty. You see eyes. staring into 00:47:11.150 --> 00:47:14.590 you, boring into you like flames. And you see 00:47:14.590 --> 00:47:17.230 blood runs down her back and neck where great 00:47:17.230 --> 00:47:22.250 gashes sort of like line all over her. Our scales 00:47:22.250 --> 00:47:25.670 have been torn from flesh. Old scars peek out 00:47:25.670 --> 00:47:31.550 beneath these fresh wounds. She just, why have 00:47:31.550 --> 00:47:37.679 you come? Tell me what's going on. Orb snaps 00:47:37.679 --> 00:47:41.079 out. Table goes crashing towards you. Smashes 00:47:41.079 --> 00:47:44.320 against the wall. Not terribly far from Chester. 00:47:45.199 --> 00:47:51.360 Leave! I was a fool. I have made an error that 00:47:51.360 --> 00:47:55.380 cannot be undone. I was so desperate to fight 00:47:55.380 --> 00:48:00.900 back. Tell me what happened. Bit of phylaeum. 00:48:01.820 --> 00:48:08.170 Backlights the teeth. Your role is done. I release 00:48:08.170 --> 00:48:13.190 you from contract. I have contacts, agents. Seeking 00:48:13.190 --> 00:48:18.230 out signs of the child. You'll know in time where 00:48:18.230 --> 00:48:22.949 you must go. My final boon to you, Jules Laroche. 00:48:23.030 --> 00:48:28.909 Your payment in full. Leave. Take it and go. 00:48:29.980 --> 00:48:32.519 That's not an answer to my question. You will 00:48:32.519 --> 00:48:38.019 have no answer. You can't. What? You can't understand. 00:48:38.639 --> 00:48:45.500 Try me. What fucking happened? Gout of flame 00:48:45.500 --> 00:48:50.179 just burns across the wall. You see her claws 00:48:50.179 --> 00:48:52.219 reach up to the side of her head and start digging 00:48:52.219 --> 00:48:54.059 into it like something is wrong. You see in her 00:48:54.059 --> 00:49:02.400 eyes something is wrong with her. Relax and come 00:49:02.400 --> 00:49:04.780 down to my level. Roll me a check here. What 00:49:04.780 --> 00:49:06.699 do you want me to do? Oh, fuck. Yeah, roll me 00:49:06.699 --> 00:49:08.800 a check. What do you want? Probably persuasion, 00:49:08.800 --> 00:49:12.000 I guess. Okay. This is the kind of situation. 00:49:13.099 --> 00:49:14.760 It's going to take some high rolls to make a 00:49:14.760 --> 00:49:18.760 lot of head roll. Very high rolls. How about 00:49:18.760 --> 00:49:21.340 a 25? That's pretty good. That's pretty damn 00:49:21.340 --> 00:49:28.420 good. She seems to, like, shrink just a little 00:49:28.420 --> 00:49:32.409 bit. Still something in her eyes that's not quite 00:49:32.409 --> 00:49:38.369 right. And just... She lowers her head down towards 00:49:38.369 --> 00:49:42.670 you. She does not change form. This city is damned. 00:49:43.429 --> 00:49:47.289 They do not know it. They cannot know it. But 00:49:47.289 --> 00:49:50.630 everyone will die. And there's nothing we can 00:49:50.630 --> 00:49:56.659 do. Why? They will die. Ah, Lord. Seen them, 00:49:56.780 --> 00:49:58.860 they will die, they will die, and there's nothing 00:49:58.860 --> 00:50:03.219 I can do! Just screams. Smashes against another 00:50:03.219 --> 00:50:10.960 table. Jules doesn't flinch. I fought for so 00:50:10.960 --> 00:50:14.880 long. Sacrificed so much to create a perfect, 00:50:15.000 --> 00:50:19.639 peaceful world for my family, for his family. 00:50:20.579 --> 00:50:24.309 But now I've watched them all die. Outlived by 00:50:24.309 --> 00:50:28.090 everyone I have ever loved. My family is dead, 00:50:28.150 --> 00:50:32.730 so who? Who have I been fighting for? You need 00:50:32.730 --> 00:50:39.929 me. And we need you. It's not your fight. You 00:50:39.929 --> 00:50:44.610 can't understand, please. Zebulon loved you. 00:50:44.889 --> 00:50:51.010 So please, please, please, someone, someone needs 00:50:51.010 --> 00:50:54.340 to live. If Zebulon was still here, he'd be right 00:50:54.340 --> 00:50:58.860 by my side. He's not. This is all our fight. 00:50:59.719 --> 00:51:05.000 Look, let me in. I know you think I'm a misfit, 00:51:05.139 --> 00:51:09.739 a fuck -up, a loose cannon. I honestly think 00:51:09.739 --> 00:51:12.739 that about myself. But a loose cannon's not a 00:51:12.739 --> 00:51:14.480 bad thing if you're pointed in the right direction. 00:51:15.820 --> 00:51:26.590 Let me in. She moves closer to you. Her face 00:51:26.590 --> 00:51:28.769 coming so close to yours, you can feel Chester 00:51:28.769 --> 00:51:33.690 tensing somewhere behind you. Roll me a persuasion 00:51:33.690 --> 00:51:37.329 check. This will be a multi -tiered check. Okay. 00:51:37.429 --> 00:51:40.070 Different results. Okay. For different numbers. 00:51:40.849 --> 00:51:44.530 Button. You have a plus ten currently? Correct. 00:51:44.789 --> 00:51:52.260 Okay. A button needed because the first roll 00:51:52.260 --> 00:51:54.820 was a natural one. Oh my God, both of you. Yeah, 00:51:54.820 --> 00:52:00.099 twice tonight. Second roll. The horse is narrowly 00:52:00.099 --> 00:52:06.579 sidestepped. Second roll was a 16 plus 10 for 00:52:06.579 --> 00:52:10.199 26. Pretty good. Okay, okay. This face comes 00:52:10.199 --> 00:52:15.039 so close to you. You feel intense heat washing 00:52:15.039 --> 00:52:20.000 over you like a breath. blowing your cloak billowing 00:52:20.000 --> 00:52:23.260 behind you as you stand, Jules. You see your 00:52:23.260 --> 00:52:25.239 light from your hand and you're also being lit 00:52:25.239 --> 00:52:28.559 by a flame in the throat of this massive monster 00:52:28.559 --> 00:52:32.079 before you. As this is happening, Jules will 00:52:32.079 --> 00:52:36.619 also just say, I'm not afraid. I'm right here 00:52:36.619 --> 00:52:43.280 with you. And you see tears run down those eyes 00:52:43.280 --> 00:52:47.539 before you, shining in your light. And she says, 00:52:47.699 --> 00:52:57.920 you are so much like him, my husband. I... Something's 00:52:57.920 --> 00:53:05.820 wrong with me, too. It's all coming apart. I 00:53:05.820 --> 00:53:09.639 can't tell you because you'll forget. Everyone 00:53:09.639 --> 00:53:18.820 forgot. But I can tell you pieces. You need to 00:53:18.820 --> 00:53:23.639 learn the secret of the city. First, you need 00:53:23.639 --> 00:53:28.019 to learn about the Gwishin. The magistrates know. 00:53:29.699 --> 00:53:32.820 It's a piece you need to understand the rest. 00:53:33.659 --> 00:53:39.119 Learn of the Gwishin. Find the lie they are telling. 00:53:39.760 --> 00:53:45.820 The Dragon Clan's lie. And then, only then... 00:53:46.380 --> 00:53:51.719 Can you know the lie behind the lie? And you 00:53:51.719 --> 00:53:59.519 will know what I have done. And she kind of almost 00:53:59.519 --> 00:54:05.079 reels back like pain. Her eyes, please go! Mind 00:54:05.079 --> 00:54:08.519 is faltering, please! I don't want to hurt you! 00:54:08.980 --> 00:54:16.019 Not you! Jules will slowly... Start backing out 00:54:16.019 --> 00:54:20.679 of the room. Still facing her. We will talk again 00:54:20.679 --> 00:54:28.480 soon. We will talk. Keep control. For Zebulon. 00:54:30.000 --> 00:54:34.659 Zebulon. Claw reaches back again to press in 00:54:34.659 --> 00:54:38.840 and then halts in the air and lowers back down. 00:54:39.739 --> 00:54:48.710 For Zebulon. Can you leave? Yeah. And we'll call 00:54:48.710 --> 00:54:49.090 it there.