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That was actually a breaking news alert 00:02:12.750 --> 00:02:14.770 on the network. Wow. Da -ding, da -ding, da -ding, 00:02:14.770 --> 00:02:17.250 da -ding, da -ding. But it sucks! And then, boom, 00:02:17.310 --> 00:02:20.469 back to your regularly programmed content. Today. 00:02:21.039 --> 00:02:22.580 I talked about this last week and I don't want 00:02:22.580 --> 00:02:24.139 to go and take a bunch of time with it because 00:02:24.139 --> 00:02:26.080 I have other things we're doing and I don't want 00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:27.780 to dawdle so hard. It'd be slow everything down, 00:02:27.900 --> 00:02:30.379 but I want to talk with the brass family. We 00:02:30.379 --> 00:02:32.560 talked about this last time. Horace, Scalia, 00:02:32.560 --> 00:02:34.439 Guana, way back when the discord asked the question, 00:02:34.539 --> 00:02:36.639 Hey, what's going with the show lay sort of family 00:02:36.639 --> 00:02:38.419 line. What's going with the brass family sort 00:02:38.419 --> 00:02:40.919 of tree. And I want to do a little lore band 00:02:40.919 --> 00:02:43.219 today and talk about that with you guys. Oh, 00:02:43.280 --> 00:02:44.819 okay. If you have any questions, you know, if 00:02:44.819 --> 00:02:46.639 you guys have any and put this out there, because 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:47.979 I think it's important to have refreshers because 00:02:47.979 --> 00:02:52.900 I tend to just like say an off comment 2300 episodes 00:02:52.900 --> 00:02:55.400 ago and then expect you to remember it. And I 00:02:55.400 --> 00:02:59.419 know you don't. So let's talk about the Brass 00:02:59.419 --> 00:03:02.759 family. Sholay. as you know, was the sort of 00:03:02.759 --> 00:03:05.900 main pretender of this family, a full brass dragon 00:03:05.900 --> 00:03:08.439 from the world of Ankaran Sangar, who's taken 00:03:08.439 --> 00:03:11.680 on the surname Brass to better fit into the politics 00:03:11.680 --> 00:03:13.800 of the popular species of the Citadel. There 00:03:13.800 --> 00:03:15.919 might also be some influence from a certain man 00:03:15.919 --> 00:03:18.800 in her past, who we'll talk about now, because 00:03:18.800 --> 00:03:22.520 Sholay, spoiler alert, had relations with a human. 00:03:23.150 --> 00:03:26.210 adventurer named Zebulon to have a half -dragon 00:03:26.210 --> 00:03:28.610 child. A child that, at this point in the show, 00:03:28.669 --> 00:03:30.270 I will say, is steeped in some mystery. From 00:03:30.270 --> 00:03:32.189 what we've seen throughout all the events we've 00:03:32.189 --> 00:03:34.770 seen up to this point, this figure does not exist 00:03:34.770 --> 00:03:37.650 in records or memory. It's Min Del Prado had 00:03:37.650 --> 00:03:40.110 notes about this scribbled in a rough hand. You 00:03:40.110 --> 00:03:41.650 guys have mentioned, you've asked about this 00:03:41.650 --> 00:03:44.030 child, but you're in character, and your character's 00:03:44.030 --> 00:03:45.770 mind's almost blanked out the second you asked 00:03:45.770 --> 00:03:47.389 it. Like, in moments of rare inspiration, you 00:03:47.389 --> 00:03:50.389 remember something is wrong, but you can't quite 00:03:50.389 --> 00:03:52.270 pin down what it is. Something has happened. 00:03:52.330 --> 00:03:55.870 to you, to everyone. It was like slipping away 00:03:55.870 --> 00:03:58.389 as they were remembering it. Exactly. It's very 00:03:58.389 --> 00:04:00.409 strange. It's a very strange, like there's a 00:04:00.409 --> 00:04:03.710 magic spell being cast and recast and recast 00:04:03.710 --> 00:04:06.689 and shaped and changed all the time. It's strange. 00:04:07.669 --> 00:04:11.509 But we can infer that this child had a relationship 00:04:11.509 --> 00:04:15.110 with the brass half -dragon, Xena, also from 00:04:15.110 --> 00:04:18.019 Anchor and Sengar. And they had a son. the half 00:04:18.019 --> 00:04:21.540 dragon, Arholon Brass. Now, he has two halves, 00:04:21.660 --> 00:04:23.420 make another half. I don't know. Kind of makes 00:04:23.420 --> 00:04:25.300 sense to me, right? Wait, could you explain that 00:04:25.300 --> 00:04:27.959 again? Yeah. So, a dragon, a human, makes a half 00:04:27.959 --> 00:04:29.879 dragon. Yeah, sure. A half dragon, a half dragon, 00:04:30.019 --> 00:04:33.120 makes a half dragon? I don't, yeah. Yeah, that 00:04:33.120 --> 00:04:33.920 sounds right. Makes sense, right? That sounds 00:04:33.920 --> 00:04:35.620 right. That's cool to me. Yeah. All right. So, 00:04:35.660 --> 00:04:37.720 we're breaking logic now. Now, let's go into 00:04:37.720 --> 00:04:40.279 weird semi, no, there's no logic here. It's just 00:04:40.279 --> 00:04:43.449 weirdness now. Because... This mystery child 00:04:43.449 --> 00:04:45.509 of Sholay's, it would seem, had a relationship 00:04:45.509 --> 00:04:48.250 with another figure. And that would be the full 00:04:48.250 --> 00:04:52.189 black dragon, Calypsania. Calypsania. Calypsania, 00:04:52.230 --> 00:04:58.649 the current head. Thank you. Of the fractured 00:04:58.649 --> 00:05:03.389 horn. Those who worship the dracon -turned -demon 00:05:03.389 --> 00:05:08.160 Zomateshab. And this... birth this relationship 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:11.300 resulted in the nearly impossible birth the part 00:05:11.300 --> 00:05:15.480 black part brass part human zebulon named after 00:05:15.480 --> 00:05:17.879 his grandfather and due to the nature of this 00:05:17.879 --> 00:05:20.959 parentage a chromatic animentalic uh zebulon 00:05:20.959 --> 00:05:22.639 was born much smaller than typical with dual 00:05:22.639 --> 00:05:24.180 dark scales and wings that could not support 00:05:24.180 --> 00:05:27.620 flying also by this logic uh a full and a half 00:05:27.620 --> 00:05:31.420 equals a half i don't care i don't care i'm making 00:05:31.420 --> 00:05:35.019 shit up uh i also uh just you know typically 00:05:35.689 --> 00:05:38.129 Half dragons typically live about double the 00:05:38.129 --> 00:05:41.470 age of their non -dragon parent. I just kind 00:05:41.470 --> 00:05:43.189 of said that half dragons live to be about 500 00:05:43.189 --> 00:05:46.329 years, like half the age of a normal dragon, 00:05:46.410 --> 00:05:49.769 which can go over 1 ,000. So Zebulon, had he 00:05:49.769 --> 00:05:51.550 been played by someone competent, he might have 00:05:51.550 --> 00:05:58.160 been 500 years old. Yeah, great. Yep. So, if 00:05:58.160 --> 00:05:59.759 I'm being honest here, this lore, a lot of this 00:05:59.759 --> 00:06:01.879 lore, resulted from me realizing that the description 00:06:01.879 --> 00:06:04.439 we gave of Zebula in Episode 1 did not actually 00:06:04.439 --> 00:06:07.480 match the profile of Brass Dragon, most notably 00:06:07.480 --> 00:06:10.019 the horns. The description we gave actually fit 00:06:10.019 --> 00:06:12.560 a black dragon's horns and the sort of matte 00:06:12.560 --> 00:06:15.240 scales. All of it felt really fitting for that, 00:06:15.319 --> 00:06:17.339 and so it kind of just... off in the universe 00:06:17.339 --> 00:06:19.180 from there. We made it work. We made it work. 00:06:19.480 --> 00:06:20.740 And honestly, you made some pretty interesting 00:06:20.740 --> 00:06:23.279 lore, but that's, any questions? I want to give 00:06:23.279 --> 00:06:25.759 a quick rundown because if you haven't figured 00:06:25.759 --> 00:06:27.720 it out from everything that's been said in the 00:06:27.720 --> 00:06:30.800 last episode and all the flashbacks we're doing 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:33.040 and all that, it's all coming up. It's important 00:06:33.040 --> 00:06:36.240 now. It's important shit. I am very excited to 00:06:36.240 --> 00:06:38.180 get into the, I mean, I know that we don't have 00:06:38.180 --> 00:06:39.860 Zebulon anymore, but I'm really excited to get 00:06:39.860 --> 00:06:42.600 into that sort of Zebulon lore. I can't wait 00:06:42.600 --> 00:06:44.920 to figure out what's going on with Calypsoania. 00:06:45.120 --> 00:06:47.910 Yeah. and Zebulon's father it's amazing like 00:06:47.910 --> 00:06:50.230 it's so sad to not have Zebulon in the arc that 00:06:50.230 --> 00:06:53.149 like a million years ago I designed for Zebulon 00:06:53.149 --> 00:06:55.430 but like in a way it's so fine too because I 00:06:55.430 --> 00:06:57.689 love that this character is echoed through the 00:06:57.689 --> 00:07:01.189 story well after death but wouldn't it be so 00:07:01.189 --> 00:07:03.649 fucking cool if Zebulon were here to be let's 00:07:03.649 --> 00:07:06.870 bring Zebulon back yeah no never how many buttons 00:07:06.870 --> 00:07:08.870 to bring Zebulon back how many fan buttons to 00:07:08.870 --> 00:07:11.629 take to bring Zebulon back I don't think there's 00:07:11.629 --> 00:07:14.290 a number no I don't think there's a number. It 00:07:14.290 --> 00:07:16.509 wouldn't be right. It wouldn't be right. No. 00:07:17.509 --> 00:07:20.009 But yeah, so that's the whole kind of breakdown 00:07:20.009 --> 00:07:22.189 right there. Any questions, ask me in the Discord. 00:07:22.389 --> 00:07:23.470 I'll answer them. Maybe I'll answer them next 00:07:23.470 --> 00:07:25.889 episode. Thank you again, Horace, for bringing 00:07:25.889 --> 00:07:27.870 this up in the first place. And actually, to 00:07:27.870 --> 00:07:29.670 go off of this real quick, that was my little 00:07:29.670 --> 00:07:31.970 lore rant. Now for a little bit of fun rant. 00:07:32.470 --> 00:07:34.930 Because Horace asked me another question recently. 00:07:35.629 --> 00:07:37.970 One I wanted to bring up to everybody here. Which 00:07:37.970 --> 00:07:40.720 is... We do a lot of voices in this show. You 00:07:40.720 --> 00:07:44.379 guys stick to the same voices a lot. He's curious. 00:07:44.639 --> 00:07:47.439 Do your voices ever slip out in your modern day 00:07:47.439 --> 00:07:49.040 and your common conversations? You're walking 00:07:49.040 --> 00:07:50.600 around doing your thing. Do you ever just slip 00:07:50.600 --> 00:07:52.199 into a voice accident? You say something like, 00:07:52.220 --> 00:07:55.019 like you guys know if I ever say the word Chester, 00:07:55.160 --> 00:07:58.279 I say it in the hard Chester. I can't say Chester. 00:07:58.540 --> 00:08:00.819 That's so weird. I hate that. Please don't ever 00:08:00.819 --> 00:08:02.300 say that again. I'll never do it again. I hate 00:08:02.300 --> 00:08:05.779 it. It's Chester. And on top of that, John Franklin 00:08:05.779 --> 00:08:08.220 is obviously my spicy bedtime voice. So there's 00:08:08.220 --> 00:08:10.420 that. Yeah. I've heard it. Yeah, of course. Oh 00:08:10.420 --> 00:08:15.120 yeah, you have. No, I can't say that happens 00:08:15.120 --> 00:08:18.939 to me. Not yet, at least. You just go hard lisp 00:08:18.939 --> 00:08:23.920 out of nowhere or nasally blanch, you know. I 00:08:23.920 --> 00:08:26.300 don't think so. If I do, I've never noticed it. 00:08:26.399 --> 00:08:28.439 You know, I like to make a funny voice sometimes 00:08:28.439 --> 00:08:32.539 and say things in a silly way. But I don't know. 00:08:32.539 --> 00:08:35.240 I'll pay attention to that now. Jules has come 00:08:35.240 --> 00:08:37.700 out every once in a while, but not obviously 00:08:37.700 --> 00:08:39.740 to where anybody would have really noticed it. 00:08:39.899 --> 00:08:45.460 I'll just say a word and be like. Who said that? 00:08:45.639 --> 00:08:47.480 Yeah. Do you ever drop a dress and then we get 00:08:47.480 --> 00:08:49.340 real mad and you're just like, that's it, now 00:08:49.340 --> 00:08:51.100 I'm angry, Jimmy. I'm going to cut you open, 00:08:51.259 --> 00:08:53.460 yeah. Only when we're play fighting at work. 00:08:54.179 --> 00:08:58.440 Yeah, yeah. I've heard that, yeah. Oh, hell yeah. 00:08:59.019 --> 00:09:02.460 Well. Before we get going, though, I want to 00:09:02.460 --> 00:09:05.840 talk about what we got today. Oh, yeah. Oh, it's 00:09:05.840 --> 00:09:09.139 God today. Yes, of course, Steven. Wait, wait, 00:09:09.159 --> 00:09:10.850 wait, wait. Wait, wait, wait. Technically, this 00:09:10.850 --> 00:09:13.669 kind of came in a package to us, right? Technically. 00:09:14.509 --> 00:09:20.850 We can do it. Mail time! Kind of, sort of, mail 00:09:20.850 --> 00:09:23.250 time. It's a mail time, baby. It's a mail time, 00:09:23.389 --> 00:09:25.509 baby. All right. So, like, super fast backstory. 00:09:26.149 --> 00:09:29.990 I was trying to find a dice maker who we could 00:09:29.990 --> 00:09:32.789 get fantasy pants dice made with someday. You 00:09:32.789 --> 00:09:36.700 know, a D20. What? Right? watch out for that 00:09:36.700 --> 00:09:39.940 and so i put a thing out on instagram i was like 00:09:39.940 --> 00:09:42.779 hey uh tag new england dice makers i want to 00:09:42.779 --> 00:09:44.480 i want to try to find somebody geographically 00:09:44.480 --> 00:09:48.100 close to us and lo and behold somebody from the 00:09:48.100 --> 00:09:52.480 town next over popped up and was like hey uh 00:09:52.480 --> 00:09:56.759 i make dice uh turns out we we are sort of loosely 00:09:56.759 --> 00:09:59.809 connected with this person we know like their 00:09:59.809 --> 00:10:02.210 family sort of thing. I mean, it's a small town, 00:10:02.289 --> 00:10:05.269 small area, blah, blah, blah. So I was like, 00:10:05.330 --> 00:10:08.610 I was texting with Emily of stag moon studio. 00:10:09.490 --> 00:10:13.470 And I was like, Hey, would it be weird if I like 00:10:13.470 --> 00:10:15.690 bought some dice today? Like, do you want to 00:10:16.350 --> 00:10:18.710 Either come here and meet me at work or I can 00:10:18.710 --> 00:10:20.950 meet you somewhere in Littleton. And she was 00:10:20.950 --> 00:10:23.990 like, yeah, I can come over around one o 'clock. 00:10:24.289 --> 00:10:27.370 Showed up with a box full of dice. Hell yeah. 00:10:27.590 --> 00:10:29.590 And we were like sitting there looking at it. 00:10:29.610 --> 00:10:33.090 I was checking them all out. And we each scooped 00:10:33.090 --> 00:10:35.669 a set for the three of us. We did. We did. Yeah. 00:10:35.789 --> 00:10:38.049 So I've got this wicked cool. I actually didn't 00:10:38.049 --> 00:10:40.149 ask her what this set was called. I just gave 00:10:40.149 --> 00:10:43.220 her. uh dealer's choice i said you know whatever 00:10:43.220 --> 00:10:45.659 you're proud of right now whatever you're super 00:10:45.659 --> 00:10:50.639 stoked on and uh so i got this really cool light 00:10:50.639 --> 00:10:54.299 blue set like translucent yeah it looks it looks 00:10:54.299 --> 00:10:56.419 like you you captured a bit of the deep sea in 00:10:56.419 --> 00:10:58.779 your your dye there and there's like gold threads 00:10:58.779 --> 00:11:01.299 inside of it it's a it's a really really cool 00:11:01.299 --> 00:11:03.960 set is a blessing right there look at that right 00:11:03.960 --> 00:11:07.779 the golden bay that's perfect yeah i like it 00:11:07.779 --> 00:11:11.699 because it could it could look oceanic for Blanche, 00:11:11.699 --> 00:11:14.279 but it's also because of the gold in it and it 00:11:14.279 --> 00:11:17.080 gives me sort of an ethereal feeling. It could 00:11:17.080 --> 00:11:20.259 work for Salome as well. So that's why I picked 00:11:20.259 --> 00:11:22.720 this set. Salome, a character we might see a 00:11:22.720 --> 00:11:24.940 little bit of soon. A little bit. We'll see. 00:11:25.059 --> 00:11:28.779 We'll see. Yeah, I got this, call it Goblin Mode 00:11:28.779 --> 00:11:31.500 on the side. Check this out. It's so cool. You 00:11:31.500 --> 00:11:35.360 said Stag Moon. That explains the two on the 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:37.759 D2 token is a pretty awesome little stag head 00:11:37.759 --> 00:11:39.100 with a moon over the top. That's really cool. 00:11:39.519 --> 00:11:41.720 Yeah, it's sort of light green, makes it some 00:11:41.720 --> 00:11:44.360 brown, a little bit of almost like goldish coloring 00:11:44.360 --> 00:11:47.340 here and there. It's very Goblin Mode -ish. I 00:11:47.340 --> 00:11:49.320 like it. Yeah, really cool marbling. It's pretty 00:11:49.320 --> 00:11:53.279 cool. Yeah, yeah. It feels just solid. This thing. 00:11:53.480 --> 00:11:55.370 Hang on. You can hear it talking to me. It's 00:11:55.370 --> 00:11:57.110 going to whisper. It's going to roll 20s. 20s 00:11:57.110 --> 00:11:59.450 all night. It's what it says. Oh, I can't wait. 00:11:59.610 --> 00:12:02.370 Yeah, sure. Sure. What do you got over there, 00:12:02.389 --> 00:12:05.789 Jules? I got a really cool, it's like the base 00:12:05.789 --> 00:12:10.750 is like a metallic gray, and it looks like blue 00:12:10.750 --> 00:12:14.029 and purple, like metallic splatters. It does 00:12:14.029 --> 00:12:16.370 look cool. I think it's called Ritual. Ritual 00:12:16.370 --> 00:12:18.230 was the name of the set. It looks like almost 00:12:18.230 --> 00:12:22.210 cyberpunk -y -ish. But, like, the numbers are, 00:12:22.289 --> 00:12:24.490 like, the old, like, Norse style. Yeah. Yeah. 00:12:24.610 --> 00:12:26.429 It's pretty cool. It looks very magical. Very 00:12:26.429 --> 00:12:29.309 magical. Yeah. When I told Emily that you were 00:12:29.309 --> 00:12:30.990 interested in that set, she was like, oh, yeah, 00:12:31.049 --> 00:12:32.750 that's the last one of those. What? She's like, 00:12:32.750 --> 00:12:34.909 I don't have that master anymore, blah, blah, 00:12:35.009 --> 00:12:37.169 blah. Whoa, that's crazy. Yeah. I think Jeremy 00:12:37.169 --> 00:12:40.090 got the last ritual set. And that is so perfect 00:12:40.090 --> 00:12:43.110 for Jules. It is. The look is just. Yeah. It's 00:12:43.110 --> 00:12:45.250 what I imagine his cloak looks like. You know 00:12:45.250 --> 00:12:48.070 what I mean? Oh, yeah. Oh, yes, that's right. 00:12:48.330 --> 00:12:51.730 New dice means... Keep it away from me. Keep 00:12:51.730 --> 00:12:55.190 it away from me. Oh, it's the opposite of holy 00:12:55.190 --> 00:12:56.570 water. Oh, yeah, I'm going to bless... I'm going 00:12:56.570 --> 00:12:58.649 to bless it in the dice tower. Oh, there you 00:12:58.649 --> 00:13:01.669 go. I'm sure there's a thing, but I'm not. I 00:13:01.669 --> 00:13:07.889 need water from a prison toilet. Max security. 00:13:08.370 --> 00:13:11.830 All right, let me do mine now. Okay, my dice 00:13:11.830 --> 00:13:13.370 are soaked. All right, David, you're fucked. 00:13:13.549 --> 00:13:16.759 I don't know. Mine whispered to me. My little 00:13:16.759 --> 00:13:20.240 goblins whispered their sweet, sweet deals to 00:13:20.240 --> 00:13:22.639 me. So we're going to roll these bad boys tonight? 00:13:23.179 --> 00:13:27.620 Probably. Honestly, I know we're rolling at least 00:13:27.620 --> 00:13:31.200 one of those, I think, tonight. Oh, baby. Before 00:13:31.200 --> 00:13:35.700 we get to that, and I hope you're not tired of 00:13:35.700 --> 00:13:38.139 these yet, because we've got a couple more. A 00:13:38.139 --> 00:13:41.139 couple more what? A couple more scenes. Oh, these 00:13:41.139 --> 00:13:46.269 are amazing. By the way, you. crushed it last 00:13:46.269 --> 00:13:50.269 week. Sorry. Thank you. I realized that my music 00:13:50.269 --> 00:13:52.450 wasn't plugged in, so I was reaching over awkwardly. 00:13:53.109 --> 00:13:56.509 I was like, oh, crap. I'm on camera. Thank you. 00:13:56.529 --> 00:13:58.470 Yeah, it was a lot of fun. You guys, you guys 00:13:58.470 --> 00:14:00.649 crushed it. No, dude, you carried last week. 00:14:00.750 --> 00:14:02.950 That was amazing. Really, someone should have 00:14:02.950 --> 00:14:04.649 given you a button, I think, for that. Yeah, 00:14:04.850 --> 00:14:06.669 somebody should have. Oh, man, that speech, the 00:14:06.669 --> 00:14:10.149 loose cannon speech. It was amazing. I used a 00:14:10.149 --> 00:14:12.070 button. I'm not maxed right now. You can still 00:14:12.070 --> 00:14:14.009 give me a button for that speech. Yeah, put loose 00:14:14.009 --> 00:14:15.850 cannon in the new trailer. That's crazy. I mean, 00:14:15.870 --> 00:14:19.080 dude. That became the title. That became the 00:14:19.080 --> 00:14:22.120 title of the episode. And one might say that's 00:14:22.120 --> 00:14:29.500 reward enough. Really fast, we've also got a 00:14:29.500 --> 00:14:32.000 new pod dog in the studio. Yes, we do. Tokus, 00:14:32.019 --> 00:14:35.799 champion of Valinor is here. And he's sprawled 00:14:35.799 --> 00:14:38.240 out with his legs out like a frog. Did he fart? 00:14:38.440 --> 00:14:42.100 Yeah, he probably farted. He is deadly. He's 00:14:42.100 --> 00:14:46.009 deadly. I wouldn't know. He's having a good time. 00:14:46.049 --> 00:14:47.529 I smell like a kitchen right now. He's just like 00:14:47.529 --> 00:14:50.470 looking at my face. Having a party down there. 00:14:51.950 --> 00:14:54.070 Yes, but yeah. Honestly, guys. Incredible episode. 00:14:54.190 --> 00:14:57.230 You guys killed it. I'll be more receptive to 00:14:57.230 --> 00:14:58.970 buttons in the future. Maybe. Who knows? Hopefully. 00:14:59.509 --> 00:15:02.350 I hope. Hey. I'm going to remember this, David. 00:15:02.450 --> 00:15:03.990 Perhaps you'll thaw this frozen heart someday. 00:15:04.529 --> 00:15:06.710 I don't know. I take it back. You suck, Lassie. 00:15:10.789 --> 00:15:14.029 We open on a scene of a... Black and white. We 00:15:14.029 --> 00:15:17.269 see a white shore, ice covered by a fine powder 00:15:17.269 --> 00:15:20.230 of snow, and the black waves of a vast sea that 00:15:20.230 --> 00:15:24.950 crash against it. Rolling hills rise deeper inland, 00:15:25.090 --> 00:15:27.929 and on top of one nearby, beneath the cold light 00:15:27.929 --> 00:15:31.950 of the sun, we can see some ice -built dome structures 00:15:31.950 --> 00:15:36.049 forming a small settlement. And over all of this, 00:15:36.070 --> 00:15:43.809 a title card appears. 257 years. There's a sound 00:15:43.809 --> 00:15:46.750 like a static buzz, a ripping, and a rush of 00:15:46.750 --> 00:15:50.889 wind. A hole appears in the reality of this world 00:15:50.889 --> 00:15:54.610 like a green haze, and we see shadows piling 00:15:54.610 --> 00:15:57.850 out. Nine adventurers from Anchor and Sengar 00:15:57.850 --> 00:16:01.690 looking rough, armor scorched, cloaks torn and 00:16:01.690 --> 00:16:04.090 specked with dried blood. As they step out into 00:16:04.090 --> 00:16:05.889 the falling snow, they begin to drop, breathing 00:16:05.889 --> 00:16:08.490 hard and marveling at the crashing waves and 00:16:08.490 --> 00:16:12.110 flakes falling from the sky. One of those humans, 00:16:12.370 --> 00:16:15.789 Zebulon, is the last to step out, his blade in 00:16:15.789 --> 00:16:18.809 hand. He spins around towards an open rift and 00:16:18.809 --> 00:16:22.830 screams, Sholay! We're through! Come on! And 00:16:22.830 --> 00:16:25.129 we see the hole in space warps, tearing again, 00:16:25.190 --> 00:16:28.009 growing and growing as Sholay steps out in her 00:16:28.009 --> 00:16:30.730 full draconic form. Her tail appears first, the 00:16:30.730 --> 00:16:33.309 rest of her moving backwards. As her head breaks 00:16:33.309 --> 00:16:35.629 free of the hole, we see she is spewing a gout 00:16:35.629 --> 00:16:39.879 of flame into the abyss beyond. And as her flames 00:16:39.879 --> 00:16:41.960 stop, as she pulls herself fully free of the 00:16:41.960 --> 00:16:45.299 land of demons, the hall begins to shrink and 00:16:45.299 --> 00:16:48.519 shrink. And Shirley takes a deep breath of winter 00:16:48.519 --> 00:16:51.259 air. The one on the party shouts, drawing Blade 00:16:51.259 --> 00:16:53.340 and turning back, Shirley, how many are left? 00:16:53.500 --> 00:16:55.500 It's not closing fast enough. They'll come through. 00:16:55.980 --> 00:16:58.299 And Zebulon speaks in answer, no, no, no, they're 00:16:58.299 --> 00:17:00.899 bound forms. They're bound to the abyss. It's 00:17:00.899 --> 00:17:02.960 much harder for them to pass through there than 00:17:02.960 --> 00:17:06.400 it is for us. We should be safe. We should be 00:17:06.400 --> 00:17:10.059 safe at last. The others let this sink in, and 00:17:10.059 --> 00:17:11.880 the shadow of smiles begin to appear on their 00:17:11.880 --> 00:17:15.200 faces. Not only is Ebulon's smile true, looking 00:17:15.200 --> 00:17:18.799 all around, eyes filled with wonder. Is this 00:17:18.799 --> 00:17:22.619 really another world? It's so strange. An entire 00:17:22.619 --> 00:17:25.599 world of ice and snow. A river that stretches 00:17:25.599 --> 00:17:28.579 to the horizon. Points to the ocean beside him. 00:17:28.619 --> 00:17:32.119 This world is stranger even than the abyss. A 00:17:32.119 --> 00:17:35.160 damn mite colder, too. Then you see this place 00:17:35.160 --> 00:17:37.079 is somehow connected to Anchor and Sengar, Sholay. 00:17:38.079 --> 00:17:40.440 Beside him, Sholay has shrunk down to her human 00:17:40.440 --> 00:17:42.480 form, looking just as haggard as the rest now. 00:17:43.180 --> 00:17:46.619 We shall see. She pulls a small bag from her 00:17:46.619 --> 00:17:48.700 waist and begins to sift through its contents. 00:17:49.539 --> 00:17:52.380 What are you doing there, Miss Sholay? Going 00:17:52.380 --> 00:17:55.099 through my collection of gemstones. Now that 00:17:55.099 --> 00:17:57.480 I've reached this world, another world of the 00:17:57.480 --> 00:18:01.180 immaterial plane, I should be contacted. Why 00:18:01.180 --> 00:18:03.750 so many stones? I thought the aliens... Spoke 00:18:03.750 --> 00:18:07.390 to you through a turquoise. Just sighs. That 00:18:07.390 --> 00:18:10.190 they did, on anchor in Sengar. That particular 00:18:10.190 --> 00:18:12.210 type of stone is only connected to our world, 00:18:12.269 --> 00:18:15.549 though. This world, however, is... Ha! There 00:18:15.549 --> 00:18:17.950 it is. She pulls out a brownish -yellow stone 00:18:17.950 --> 00:18:20.950 which seems to glow with some innate image. A 00:18:20.950 --> 00:18:25.410 topaz. Jolay smiles. You do know your treasure, 00:18:25.450 --> 00:18:29.029 yes, a topaz, which makes this... The world of 00:18:29.029 --> 00:18:32.130 Lacunasic. Now hush, I must confer with the voice. 00:18:33.250 --> 00:18:36.730 Strange, it's a different one this time. She 00:18:36.730 --> 00:18:40.190 stops and she's listening for a long while. As 00:18:40.190 --> 00:18:42.710 she kind of turns her attention towards a stone, 00:18:42.789 --> 00:18:44.529 a voice recalls it from the crowd of heroes. 00:18:44.950 --> 00:18:47.910 We've been noticed! Look! The man points to a 00:18:47.910 --> 00:18:49.710 nearby hill where a small group of humanoids 00:18:49.710 --> 00:18:52.069 gather outside of their ice -filled homes. Some 00:18:52.069 --> 00:18:53.809 move down the hill towards the party, and in 00:18:53.809 --> 00:18:55.569 the rush we see their fern -lined hoods fall 00:18:55.569 --> 00:18:58.269 over their backs, revealing purple skin and horns 00:18:58.269 --> 00:19:01.470 adorning their heads. Demons! Hold! Hold! Zebulon 00:19:01.470 --> 00:19:04.529 shouts. They're not demons. Just tieflings. Probably 00:19:04.529 --> 00:19:06.190 humans that lived too long near this abyssal 00:19:06.190 --> 00:19:09.130 rift. We've evicted them at home, too. Don't 00:19:09.130 --> 00:19:10.630 let your guard down, but don't be hostile either. 00:19:11.130 --> 00:19:13.309 This is their home. They have plenty of reason 00:19:13.309 --> 00:19:15.029 to be scared of us now. Let's not give them any 00:19:15.029 --> 00:19:17.950 more. Affirmations sound all around, and the 00:19:17.950 --> 00:19:22.369 group begins to calm. Except for Tolkis, champion 00:19:22.369 --> 00:19:24.470 of Valinor, who's there, and he's not happy. 00:19:27.049 --> 00:19:29.029 Zebulon turns to catch an approving nod from 00:19:29.029 --> 00:19:31.529 Xole, and seems to finish with her communication 00:19:31.529 --> 00:19:34.750 with the Topaz. She moves close to him, speaking 00:19:34.750 --> 00:19:38.930 softly, words only for him. Come, let us greet 00:19:38.930 --> 00:19:41.329 our neighbors in the material plane. We should 00:19:41.329 --> 00:19:44.410 all rest and mourn those lost. It would also 00:19:44.410 --> 00:19:46.349 be best to resupply and gather more allies before 00:19:46.349 --> 00:19:49.670 our next stop. Zebion just scratches his head. 00:19:49.829 --> 00:19:55.630 And, uh, what is our next stop? The... Plane 00:19:55.630 --> 00:20:01.529 of Water. Ah. Well, shit. I'm almost afraid to 00:20:01.529 --> 00:20:04.930 ask this, but this quest of yours is... Far from 00:20:04.930 --> 00:20:07.930 over, isn't it? And Chewie just turns, gives 00:20:07.930 --> 00:20:10.769 him one last kind of... Half -smile, her eyes 00:20:10.769 --> 00:20:13.390 seem to glimmer with some innate mischief, and 00:20:13.390 --> 00:20:17.490 she says, My dear human, our journey together 00:20:17.490 --> 00:20:23.269 has only just begun. And we're back. Tulkus is 00:20:23.269 --> 00:20:26.109 climbing on Jeremy. He's all over Jeremy. He 00:20:26.109 --> 00:20:29.190 loves Jeremy. He's all over Jeremy. It's so funny. 00:20:29.410 --> 00:20:32.809 Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. That was intense. That 00:20:32.809 --> 00:20:36.589 was intense. I feel like I need a cigarette after 00:20:36.589 --> 00:20:42.319 that. It'll hold him off. Let's open in the library 00:20:42.319 --> 00:20:46.519 of the Seat of Dragons. Not far down the hall 00:20:46.519 --> 00:20:48.500 from where that infirmary was, which, you know, 00:20:48.519 --> 00:20:50.420 was like a, well, it probably was a servant's 00:20:50.420 --> 00:20:51.579 quarters. Maybe this is somewhere they would 00:20:51.579 --> 00:20:54.380 visit frequently in their off time. A place open 00:20:54.380 --> 00:20:57.400 to guests as well, of course. Let me find you 00:20:57.400 --> 00:20:59.460 here, Blanche, with a Keo. What are you doing 00:20:59.460 --> 00:21:03.349 right now? as our camera sort of pans down the 00:21:03.349 --> 00:21:06.109 ceiling, down rows of books on heightened sort 00:21:06.109 --> 00:21:08.950 of balconies, down to maybe a base area where 00:21:08.950 --> 00:21:12.970 you stand. Blanche is trying to find the shelves 00:21:12.970 --> 00:21:14.930 that aren't visited frequently, maybe something 00:21:14.930 --> 00:21:17.710 in the back of the library, sort of like the 00:21:17.710 --> 00:21:22.609 banned books section. I'm also guessing that 00:21:22.609 --> 00:21:27.190 if there is... If there's anything written about 00:21:27.190 --> 00:21:30.130 these secrets or the secret secrets that they're 00:21:30.130 --> 00:21:31.650 probably not even going to be out in the open. 00:21:31.769 --> 00:21:36.650 Maybe they're behind a false painting or something 00:21:36.650 --> 00:21:39.329 like that. She's checking for like secret doors 00:21:39.329 --> 00:21:41.930 or something. That's pretty fun. That's pretty 00:21:41.930 --> 00:21:44.690 fun. I will say that you are absolutely correct 00:21:44.690 --> 00:21:46.950 that there would not be anything out in the open. 00:21:47.049 --> 00:21:51.119 Sure. But I really like your thought here. Maybe, 00:21:51.140 --> 00:21:53.019 I know they're not in the open, maybe there is 00:21:53.019 --> 00:21:54.079 a secret door. Why don't you want me to do an 00:21:54.079 --> 00:21:55.740 investigation check? Okay, she's wearing her 00:21:55.740 --> 00:21:58.680 eyes of minute seeing. So I think that gives 00:21:58.680 --> 00:22:01.240 her advantage on investigation, right? That would 00:22:01.240 --> 00:22:02.680 give her advantage on this, yes. Because you're 00:22:02.680 --> 00:22:04.160 kind of looking for any sort of creak in the 00:22:04.160 --> 00:22:13.460 wall, anything that looks... 14. You don't see 00:22:13.460 --> 00:22:16.059 anything. Damn. Which, maybe there is nothing. 00:22:16.380 --> 00:22:18.859 Maybe there's nothing to see. There's a hope. 00:22:19.940 --> 00:22:22.319 So what does it look like as you're searching? 00:22:22.920 --> 00:22:26.720 Paint me a picture here, Mr. Rodriguez. Well, 00:22:26.779 --> 00:22:30.079 she goes over to whichever bookshelves are the 00:22:30.079 --> 00:22:34.339 dustiest. And I'm guessing that's maybe in either 00:22:34.339 --> 00:22:37.339 a corner somewhere or the back part of the library. 00:22:37.579 --> 00:22:40.940 So she's looking through these dusty... Achoo! 00:22:41.039 --> 00:22:47.420 Ah, it's so dusty over here! Ruff! And she's 00:22:47.420 --> 00:22:50.079 also looking around at the furniture, the wall 00:22:50.079 --> 00:22:51.980 hangings, whatever. That's what she's investigating 00:22:51.980 --> 00:22:54.960 to try to find anything hidden and secret. But 00:22:54.960 --> 00:22:59.059 she's also trying to figure out, like we established 00:22:59.059 --> 00:23:05.839 last session, she kind of had an idea that a 00:23:05.839 --> 00:23:10.440 spell along the lines of protection from good 00:23:10.440 --> 00:23:14.160 and evil. might help. She's trying to figure 00:23:14.160 --> 00:23:17.099 out something more powerful. So if she's not 00:23:17.099 --> 00:23:21.240 having luck finding secret books, then she's 00:23:21.240 --> 00:23:22.799 flipping through the ones that are there. More 00:23:22.799 --> 00:23:25.539 general. Arcana. Okay. Alright, you know what? 00:23:25.559 --> 00:23:27.920 Give me an Arcana check. Let's say you do your 00:23:27.920 --> 00:23:29.599 quick legs world look. You're looking in the 00:23:29.599 --> 00:23:32.019 back. You know, probably some of the spells on 00:23:32.019 --> 00:23:34.319 other books on magic are real dense stuff. They're 00:23:34.319 --> 00:23:36.400 probably in with the dusty books. Not fun. No 00:23:36.400 --> 00:23:38.599 pictures. Not rolling great so far. That's a 00:23:38.599 --> 00:23:43.289 14 as well. You don't see anything, nothing that 00:23:43.289 --> 00:23:45.230 really stands out to you. Maybe it's just, I 00:23:45.230 --> 00:23:46.849 mean, this library, I will say this, as you're 00:23:46.849 --> 00:23:49.650 going through, you see that there's not a lot 00:23:49.650 --> 00:23:53.069 on magic in here. And there's surprisingly not 00:23:53.069 --> 00:23:56.109 that much on like the deeper history of Yanito. 00:23:56.250 --> 00:23:59.210 It's almost like this library was scrubbed clean 00:23:59.210 --> 00:24:02.809 of anything that could be useful to you in this 00:24:02.809 --> 00:24:05.329 moment. Maybe we see that you're over there and 00:24:05.329 --> 00:24:07.029 you're looking through some of these back books. 00:24:07.109 --> 00:24:10.440 And so you're not really out in the open. When 00:24:10.440 --> 00:24:11.960 you hear the door to the library open again. 00:24:13.339 --> 00:24:16.119 Blanche spins around to see, or looks towards 00:24:16.119 --> 00:24:19.460 the door. You see wandering in is Magistrate 00:24:19.460 --> 00:24:23.680 Conan June, followed by Jules LaRoche. I'll tell 00:24:23.680 --> 00:24:26.160 you, Jules, immediately after your sort of meeting 00:24:26.160 --> 00:24:28.539 with Shelley as you came out, the Magistrate 00:24:28.539 --> 00:24:31.119 was a little worried about Blanche being unattended, 00:24:31.220 --> 00:24:32.539 wanted to kind of, you know, wrap you guys up. 00:24:32.680 --> 00:24:35.759 He was supposed to be the one to like... you 00:24:35.759 --> 00:24:37.740 guys around, and maybe he didn't trust that young 00:24:37.740 --> 00:24:40.960 Guy would not pester Blanche to annoyance, the 00:24:40.960 --> 00:24:45.220 honored guest of Queen Jean Mee, and so he kind 00:24:45.220 --> 00:24:48.599 of half -dragged you, like, we really should 00:24:48.599 --> 00:24:52.140 go and make sure Blanche Trudeau is keeping well. 00:24:52.640 --> 00:24:56.160 Yeah, we should. As you would have moved with 00:24:56.160 --> 00:24:58.779 Kun on June, going down the halls, kind of letting 00:24:58.779 --> 00:25:01.059 that last conversation with Sholay sort of resonate 00:25:01.059 --> 00:25:03.400 through you. You're probably past the throne 00:25:03.400 --> 00:25:06.240 room. You can hear doors closed. You can hear 00:25:06.240 --> 00:25:08.519 the heightened voice of the ambassador, Omid 00:25:08.519 --> 00:25:11.559 Pastar, who is complaining very openly about 00:25:11.559 --> 00:25:15.240 Sholay and her, this wrathful, uncouth behavior 00:25:15.240 --> 00:25:18.319 from a speaker. How strange, how wrong. But the 00:25:18.319 --> 00:25:21.039 magistrate kind of urges you past as that's a 00:25:21.039 --> 00:25:23.880 private matter between those two. I realized 00:25:23.880 --> 00:25:25.539 also while you guys were talking that Blanche 00:25:25.539 --> 00:25:29.359 doesn't know anything about the secrets of the 00:25:29.359 --> 00:25:31.140 city and whatnot. So she was just looking for 00:25:31.140 --> 00:25:33.529 magic books. Not looking for secret books. No, 00:25:33.529 --> 00:25:36.970 you might know. Remember, I believe it was Young 00:25:36.970 --> 00:25:39.970 Gi who told you to seek out the city's namesake. 00:25:40.150 --> 00:25:43.869 Why is it called the City of Judgment? He also 00:25:43.869 --> 00:25:46.190 warned you away that there are some secrets so 00:25:46.190 --> 00:25:48.089 dangerous he does not want you to find. If you 00:25:48.089 --> 00:25:51.210 are on the right track, you may become enemies. 00:25:51.549 --> 00:25:54.369 Yeah, he said the magistrates know. Magistrates 00:25:54.369 --> 00:25:57.180 know. Yep, that's right. Jules, after you would 00:25:57.180 --> 00:25:58.720 have wandered past there, you would have moved 00:25:58.720 --> 00:26:01.319 past the infirmary. I didn't say I walked past 00:26:01.319 --> 00:26:05.859 there. Oh, shit. I'm kidding. Okay. Roll for 00:26:05.859 --> 00:26:07.619 initiative. I was going to say, I really wanted 00:26:07.619 --> 00:26:11.680 to say something, but no. That's his game. It's 00:26:11.680 --> 00:26:13.759 not smart. It probably hits you in the eyes, 00:26:13.920 --> 00:26:16.079 and then your magistrate just turns to you with 00:26:16.079 --> 00:26:19.079 a very pleading, like, don't go in there face. 00:26:19.599 --> 00:26:22.119 It's the queen and the ambassador. We don't want 00:26:22.119 --> 00:26:24.559 to intrude on this. Half praying, like, no, no, 00:26:24.579 --> 00:26:28.019 no, please, please. Chester's ready to go in 00:26:28.019 --> 00:26:30.019 that door. Chester's stupid, but he's smart, 00:26:30.099 --> 00:26:32.420 too. Chester's just stupid. You probably have 00:26:32.420 --> 00:26:34.720 to drag him away. Oh, yeah, you know what? I'll 00:26:34.720 --> 00:26:39.539 show him. Pull him away. You move past the infirmary, 00:26:39.539 --> 00:26:41.940 and I imagine you want to... Do you want to step 00:26:41.940 --> 00:26:46.119 in to see Arlon and Xena? No, but I think as 00:26:46.119 --> 00:26:49.460 they walk past the doors, Jules will stop for 00:26:49.460 --> 00:26:53.079 a brief moment, turn toward the door. and just 00:26:53.079 --> 00:26:55.180 stand there for a beat. You probably are going 00:26:55.180 --> 00:26:56.920 to, it's almost like he's going to go in, and 00:26:56.920 --> 00:26:58.960 then he's stopped by somebody who, you know, 00:26:58.980 --> 00:27:00.640 oh, Blanchard, oh yes, she went down the hall 00:27:00.640 --> 00:27:03.640 to the library, followed the rushing dog of hers. 00:27:03.799 --> 00:27:06.200 And so, you know, Blanchard's not here, Blanchard's 00:27:06.200 --> 00:27:09.019 down the hall. Yeah, yeah. Hell yeah. Okay. And 00:27:09.019 --> 00:27:13.500 so we are back in the scene. Jules moving into 00:27:13.500 --> 00:27:15.619 the library, followed by, or Conan June leading 00:27:15.619 --> 00:27:18.500 you in, Chester behind you. Blanch, you are kind 00:27:18.500 --> 00:27:21.759 of hiding in the back. Do you come on out? Yeah, 00:27:21.920 --> 00:27:26.059 Blanche walks around and, you know, starts talking 00:27:26.059 --> 00:27:30.599 to Jules immediately. Jules, I saw Ahalan and 00:27:30.599 --> 00:27:34.099 Xena. I believe there's an arcane solution, but 00:27:34.099 --> 00:27:37.440 I can't quite put my finger on the spell. I came 00:27:37.440 --> 00:27:40.720 here to see if I could find some clue, some hint 00:27:40.720 --> 00:27:44.960 as to what could awaken them, but I've had no 00:27:44.960 --> 00:27:48.259 luck as of yet. What was the word that Sholay 00:27:48.259 --> 00:27:53.279 said? Gwishin. Gwishin. Can you remind me of 00:27:53.279 --> 00:27:57.180 the exact sentence she said around that? Oh, 00:27:57.220 --> 00:28:01.839 I believe she told you. Her mind was scrambled. 00:28:01.859 --> 00:28:04.759 She could not speak of these matters, but urged 00:28:04.759 --> 00:28:08.759 you to investigate the magistrates, to learn 00:28:08.759 --> 00:28:12.859 of the Gwishin, and after that, to learn of the 00:28:12.859 --> 00:28:16.140 Dragon Clan's lie. And only then, with those 00:28:16.140 --> 00:28:18.359 two pieces, can you learn of the lie behind the 00:28:18.359 --> 00:28:22.200 lie. and know what she has done. I pull Blanche 00:28:22.200 --> 00:28:26.339 to the side. Actually, Conan Junester walks awkwardly 00:28:26.339 --> 00:28:29.200 up to you guys. He pushes him back. Oh, I'm not. 00:28:29.299 --> 00:28:32.039 Okay, yeah, that's fine. He explains all of that. 00:28:33.500 --> 00:28:35.279 Not that I wouldn't want to intrude on a matter 00:28:35.279 --> 00:28:38.180 that's not of my own. I am concerned about the 00:28:38.180 --> 00:28:40.460 secrecy a little bit, but of course, no, I wouldn't 00:28:40.460 --> 00:28:41.400 want to intrude. That would be inappropriate. 00:28:41.640 --> 00:28:43.779 Give us a fucking second. No, wildly inappropriate. 00:28:43.839 --> 00:28:46.460 I apologize. Jules explains all that. I'll pet 00:28:46.460 --> 00:28:50.559 your dog. Do you have any idea? Have you heard 00:28:50.559 --> 00:28:54.339 that word before? Gwishin. I haven't heard Gwishin. 00:28:54.480 --> 00:28:59.839 I heard a new name myself. Yungi told me of Baraki, 00:28:59.940 --> 00:29:03.660 who was a red dragon. He attacked the Phoenix 00:29:03.660 --> 00:29:07.279 District some nine years ago. It's said that 00:29:07.279 --> 00:29:11.079 the red dragon was killed single -handedly by 00:29:11.079 --> 00:29:15.190 Queen Jingmi. I have a hard time believing that's 00:29:15.190 --> 00:29:19.049 possible. If it is, then maybe part of these 00:29:19.049 --> 00:29:24.910 secrets are some overpowering control over dragons. 00:29:27.289 --> 00:29:30.369 Something here, something in this city isn't 00:29:30.369 --> 00:29:33.730 letting the dragons behave properly. Right there 00:29:33.730 --> 00:29:36.910 on the tail. Oh, right there. It's a sweet spot. 00:29:36.990 --> 00:29:40.890 You got it. We can see that with Sholay today. 00:29:41.869 --> 00:29:46.950 And maybe to a lesser extent with Ahalan and 00:29:46.950 --> 00:29:50.829 Xena being half dragons, perhaps whatever's affecting 00:29:50.829 --> 00:29:55.769 Xole is affecting them less. Wait, are there 00:29:55.769 --> 00:29:58.390 any other dragons here? Oh yeah, did we see any 00:29:58.390 --> 00:30:00.069 other? Yeah, are there any other dragons here? 00:30:00.069 --> 00:30:01.910 Half dragons walking around or anything? I would 00:30:01.910 --> 00:30:03.490 say you've seen no half dragons. You've seen 00:30:03.490 --> 00:30:05.130 a lot of dragonborn, but they seem like they're 00:30:05.130 --> 00:30:07.970 entirely, nothing weird's happened to them. Okay. 00:30:08.509 --> 00:30:10.170 The queen's a dragonborn. There's a lot of dragonborn 00:30:10.170 --> 00:30:11.910 guards. Dragonborn are really populous in this 00:30:11.910 --> 00:30:14.450 world, actually. So can we talk about the difference 00:30:14.450 --> 00:30:18.069 between a half -dragon and a dragonborn? Yes, 00:30:18.190 --> 00:30:22.789 we can. Is there a mechanical difference? Mechanical 00:30:22.789 --> 00:30:25.069 difference? I mean, half -dragons are... They're 00:30:25.069 --> 00:30:27.569 far more dragon -blooded. They live longer. They 00:30:27.569 --> 00:30:30.109 have wings. They are half of a dragon. Yeah, 00:30:30.130 --> 00:30:32.130 they have wings and all that. They carry a lot 00:30:32.130 --> 00:30:35.690 of a dragon's raw power. Dragonborns are more 00:30:35.690 --> 00:30:39.890 like humans who are sort of almost like, it's 00:30:39.890 --> 00:30:41.670 like a demon versus a tiefling, right? Tieflings 00:30:41.670 --> 00:30:44.309 are more like humans changed and influenced by 00:30:44.309 --> 00:30:47.930 tieflings. Dragonborn may be humanoids or humans 00:30:47.930 --> 00:30:49.930 that have been sort of influenced by sort of 00:30:49.930 --> 00:30:53.170 draconic magic and turned into this race of just 00:30:53.170 --> 00:30:56.500 like more. you know, draconic looking humanoids, 00:30:56.559 --> 00:30:58.380 but they're not, they don't carry nearly as much 00:30:58.380 --> 00:31:01.220 of that sort of draconic ancestry and power except 00:31:01.220 --> 00:31:04.099 for perhaps Queen Jean Mee, who apparently is 00:31:04.099 --> 00:31:07.779 a descendant of Meriu, the dragon that founded 00:31:07.779 --> 00:31:11.160 the city and apparently holds more power. That's 00:31:11.160 --> 00:31:16.579 the story. I don't buy it. That's, that's what 00:31:16.579 --> 00:31:18.460 I'm thinking. I don't think that she's descended 00:31:18.460 --> 00:31:24.490 from a dragon. Um, so. We know that we need to 00:31:24.490 --> 00:31:28.130 investigate what's happening to the dragons here, 00:31:28.289 --> 00:31:32.950 and we need to do it while staying on Queen Jinmi's 00:31:32.950 --> 00:31:36.250 good side and impressing her on top of that. 00:31:37.369 --> 00:31:42.730 I might have blown it with Yun -Gi. I can try 00:31:42.730 --> 00:31:47.170 again while playing Go, but I think I insulted 00:31:47.170 --> 00:31:50.230 the queen's uncle I ruled pretty poorly last 00:31:50.230 --> 00:31:57.150 episode. Oh, shit. But he did tell me to talk 00:31:57.150 --> 00:32:00.869 to the magistrates. He told me that the magistrates 00:32:00.869 --> 00:32:04.890 know the secrets, or at least a secret, that 00:32:04.890 --> 00:32:06.750 everybody's so close -lipped around here. I don't 00:32:06.750 --> 00:32:08.950 know how we're going to... Do you think you can 00:32:08.950 --> 00:32:12.549 pull anything out of Kunanju? How has your relationship 00:32:12.549 --> 00:32:15.509 developed in the time we've been separated? Not 00:32:15.509 --> 00:32:20.339 a whole lot. Yeah, it was... Stephen knows that 00:32:20.339 --> 00:32:23.460 you were mostly talking to Sholay, not... Mostly 00:32:23.460 --> 00:32:26.440 talking to Sholay, and yeah, just kind of put 00:32:26.440 --> 00:32:33.339 him in my periphery. But, I mean, he seems like 00:32:33.339 --> 00:32:38.759 he wants to talk. So he seems very eager to talk, 00:32:38.819 --> 00:32:42.220 but he's scared to. Kunanjun, could please, one 00:32:42.220 --> 00:32:44.859 more, I just need to confer with my partner here, 00:32:44.920 --> 00:32:46.920 and then we're going to rope you in on... Well, 00:32:46.920 --> 00:32:50.420 no, I really have to go. I have to go. I figure 00:32:50.420 --> 00:32:52.960 you guys are comfortable here. I was tasked by 00:32:52.960 --> 00:32:54.940 the Queen to a different objective. I have to 00:32:54.940 --> 00:32:57.079 investigate the Tiger District situation. So 00:32:57.079 --> 00:32:58.700 if you guys are comfortable here, if you're chatting 00:32:58.700 --> 00:33:00.920 and having a good time, just don't wander from 00:33:00.920 --> 00:33:02.660 the palace. The Sea of Dragons will be okay, 00:33:02.700 --> 00:33:05.720 right? I need a couple favors of you first. Oh, 00:33:05.740 --> 00:33:10.740 well, then carry on. Carry on. I'll wait. Please 00:33:10.740 --> 00:33:15.470 pet me more, okay? I've found that... The fastest 00:33:15.470 --> 00:33:18.410 way to get somebody to trust you is to ask them 00:33:18.410 --> 00:33:22.609 for a favor. I love this image of the scene so 00:33:22.609 --> 00:33:28.269 much. It creates a bond quickly. All right. Maybe 00:33:28.269 --> 00:33:31.769 I can help you with my plus ten persuasion. That's... 00:33:31.769 --> 00:33:34.809 Yeah, hold on to that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I like 00:33:34.809 --> 00:33:40.509 all of it. Kunan Jun. Oh, yeah, yeah. I pride 00:33:40.509 --> 00:33:46.089 myself as a... a bit of an expert in the arcane, 00:33:46.190 --> 00:33:51.470 and I believe that what's afflicting our friends 00:33:51.470 --> 00:33:57.529 could be cured with a spell. I am trying to ascertain 00:33:57.529 --> 00:34:02.910 what magics I could use, we could use, to help 00:34:02.910 --> 00:34:05.690 revive them. Do you know of any books in this 00:34:05.690 --> 00:34:10.510 library, in this city, any powerful mages who 00:34:10.510 --> 00:34:21.110 could... Could help? You want to roll a check? 00:34:21.349 --> 00:34:25.889 You see a war playing out. Kunon Jun wants somebody. 00:34:26.010 --> 00:34:28.110 Eyes are going to go towards you. Look down, 00:34:28.170 --> 00:34:32.010 look back up. Wants the help, but secrets, secrets 00:34:32.010 --> 00:34:37.369 everywhere, right? Yeah. I can try to roll persuasion. 00:34:38.010 --> 00:34:40.030 Anyone who will help action? Yeah, I'm trying 00:34:40.030 --> 00:34:42.530 to think of what to say, though. We all got to 00:34:42.530 --> 00:34:45.489 trust each other right now. Do you know why they 00:34:45.489 --> 00:34:49.969 really sent us here, Kun Anjun? Well, I know 00:34:49.969 --> 00:34:56.530 that Queen Jin Mi is, of course, some would say 00:34:56.530 --> 00:34:59.329 that she's tied to the speaker for the ancestors 00:34:59.329 --> 00:35:02.630 of, you know, our world. Of course, that is a... 00:35:02.630 --> 00:35:06.869 Queen Jin Mi is part of it, but we are fixers. 00:35:06.869 --> 00:35:11.289 And she motions to herself in jewels. Possibly 00:35:11.289 --> 00:35:14.739 the best the Radiant Citadel has. We're here 00:35:14.739 --> 00:35:20.440 to help. And if you won't cooperate, then I'm 00:35:20.440 --> 00:35:23.360 not sure even we can fix what's going on here. 00:35:24.380 --> 00:35:25.940 Roll a check. Either one of you can roll. You 00:35:25.940 --> 00:35:28.960 can roll with advantage. I'll let Jules roll 00:35:28.960 --> 00:35:30.260 it with your help, actually, if you want to. 00:35:30.400 --> 00:35:32.239 Yeah, that would be ideal. You're both in on 00:35:32.239 --> 00:35:34.179 this. You're both in on this scene. Yeah. If 00:35:34.179 --> 00:35:36.099 there's a scene where one person has more rapport 00:35:36.099 --> 00:35:38.099 with the character, I'll give it to them as the 00:35:38.099 --> 00:35:39.679 rolling one, like with the handsome Jai. But 00:35:39.679 --> 00:35:41.420 in this case, you both have built some rapport 00:35:41.420 --> 00:35:43.280 here, so I think it makes sense for... Either 00:35:43.280 --> 00:35:49.900 of you to roll it. First roll was a 10. All right. 00:35:50.079 --> 00:35:57.579 Second roll was a 19. For 29. 29! Okay. Holy 00:35:57.579 --> 00:36:03.199 shit. You say those last words, and you see the 00:36:03.199 --> 00:36:08.079 magistrate kind of fixes you, and something interesting 00:36:08.079 --> 00:36:11.139 enters his eyes, almost like a... You almost 00:36:11.139 --> 00:36:13.360 see the light bulb going over his head, and he 00:36:13.360 --> 00:36:16.639 gets this almost sly look. So you were telling 00:36:16.639 --> 00:36:18.980 me that you are currently dissatisfied with my 00:36:18.980 --> 00:36:22.880 experience in being your guide, which would mean 00:36:22.880 --> 00:36:25.000 it would be quite remiss of me not to find a 00:36:25.000 --> 00:36:27.880 way to acknowledge and address your dissatisfaction, 00:36:27.880 --> 00:36:30.579 even if it means potentially skirting the edge 00:36:30.579 --> 00:36:32.260 of something that could be maybe considered inappropriate. 00:36:33.500 --> 00:36:37.679 Is that what you're saying? Yes. In a professional 00:36:37.679 --> 00:36:41.199 manner, that's exactly what I'm saying. Sorry, 00:36:41.239 --> 00:36:43.119 give me 30 minutes while I piece of shit loads 00:36:43.119 --> 00:36:47.199 Discord so I can turn it off. This... Oh my god, 00:36:47.239 --> 00:36:51.280 it won't even open. I hate this laptop. We're 00:36:51.280 --> 00:36:52.300 just going to keep hearing Discord. I don't know. 00:36:53.280 --> 00:36:56.719 I can't open it. I'm so angry. I'm so angry all 00:36:56.719 --> 00:37:01.099 the time. It's going to open. Oh, there goes 00:37:01.099 --> 00:37:05.440 my note. It's gone now. Alright. He just nods. 00:37:07.800 --> 00:37:11.679 Well, you're asking about higher -level magic 00:37:11.679 --> 00:37:14.539 users, those that are versed in the strange magics 00:37:14.539 --> 00:37:17.880 of this world, perhaps magic unique to this world 00:37:17.880 --> 00:37:20.860 that may or may not be affecting Xena and Arhalon 00:37:20.860 --> 00:37:24.239 Brass, as well as Xole Brass, I assume. There 00:37:24.239 --> 00:37:26.340 could be someone who might have access to these 00:37:26.340 --> 00:37:29.340 magics. There are a type of people, the higher 00:37:29.340 --> 00:37:33.139 -level magistrates, are known as spirit arbiters, 00:37:33.219 --> 00:37:37.969 and they deal in unique, Occult rituals, and 00:37:37.969 --> 00:37:41.969 I may or may not be a spirit arbiter in training. 00:37:42.170 --> 00:37:47.269 Early phases, but I have some understanding of 00:37:47.269 --> 00:37:51.110 some strange magics. And who's training you? 00:37:51.389 --> 00:37:55.190 Oh, some of the higher level arbiters. Not one 00:37:55.190 --> 00:37:59.989 in particular? Not one that would be at all interested 00:37:59.989 --> 00:38:05.090 in skirting propriety in even speaking to you. 00:38:05.960 --> 00:38:08.599 Whatever you might say, but I might be able to 00:38:08.599 --> 00:38:15.159 help. Well, that's very honorable of you, magistrate. 00:38:15.699 --> 00:38:18.900 That almost makes me look more nervous. I'm going 00:38:18.900 --> 00:38:25.760 to place the feather on his hat. Perhaps it could 00:38:25.760 --> 00:38:32.019 be worthwhile to... Of course, if you are not 00:38:32.019 --> 00:38:36.320 satisfied with... my role as your host, uh, I 00:38:36.320 --> 00:38:39.219 could offer to, uh, continue in the role until 00:38:39.219 --> 00:38:42.940 I become satisfactory. And you could follow me 00:38:42.940 --> 00:38:44.940 around while I conduct my own investigation. 00:38:45.019 --> 00:38:47.619 So long as you absolutely promise not to pay 00:38:47.619 --> 00:38:49.900 any attention at all to anything you see or that 00:38:49.900 --> 00:38:53.199 I do, or that you hear, or that happens or, uh, 00:38:53.400 --> 00:38:58.860 anything. Cool. You promised you're, you're, 00:38:58.860 --> 00:39:00.179 you're getting it right. It's like, it's like, 00:39:00.179 --> 00:39:02.989 yeah, yeah. Yeah. Jules turns to Blanche. Did 00:39:02.989 --> 00:39:07.389 you hear anything just now? I'm simply impressed 00:39:07.389 --> 00:39:10.070 with the morals of this man, and I believe he 00:39:10.070 --> 00:39:13.550 will someday make a great... What's the higher 00:39:13.550 --> 00:39:15.949 magistrate called? Spirit Arbiter. Spirit Arbiter. 00:39:16.050 --> 00:39:18.969 I'm thinking someday he will make a fantastic 00:39:18.969 --> 00:39:24.030 Spirit Arbiter. Is he like a big smile? Almost 00:39:24.030 --> 00:39:27.230 like weirdly prideful, kind of kicks the ground 00:39:27.230 --> 00:39:30.420 a little bit. You know... Queen Jean picked me 00:39:30.420 --> 00:39:33.179 when I was very young so that she had a vision 00:39:33.179 --> 00:39:36.480 that one day I would help save the city. Well, 00:39:36.579 --> 00:39:39.099 I hope that we're here to help you do just that. 00:39:39.719 --> 00:39:41.699 You know what I've always wanted to see since 00:39:41.699 --> 00:39:44.880 we got here, Jules? What's that? The Tiger District. 00:39:45.920 --> 00:39:47.880 Doesn't it look beautiful from the city? Looks 00:39:47.880 --> 00:39:53.739 fantastic. Funny. I wonder if we'll... You know, 00:39:53.920 --> 00:39:56.679 it actually happens I have a task of my own in 00:39:56.679 --> 00:39:58.500 the Tiger District. It is quite beautiful. No 00:39:58.500 --> 00:40:01.719 shit. Do you mind if we... What a coincidence. 00:40:01.940 --> 00:40:04.840 Could we follow along? It would be wildly inappropriate, 00:40:05.179 --> 00:40:06.920 I think, if I didn't take you along at this point. 00:40:07.039 --> 00:40:09.659 I can assure you we will get up to trouble if 00:40:09.659 --> 00:40:12.659 you leave us unattended. That's all I need to 00:40:12.659 --> 00:40:17.900 hear. You are now duty -bound to take us to the 00:40:17.900 --> 00:40:22.579 Tiger District. Then we should go. And we go. 00:40:23.279 --> 00:40:27.260 We go. Yeah, we go. Hell yeah. And so you leave 00:40:27.260 --> 00:40:29.880 the Seat of Dragons behind. When you arrived 00:40:29.880 --> 00:40:31.440 in this world, it was early morning. I'd say 00:40:31.440 --> 00:40:33.639 it was probably around 7, 8 o 'clock in the morning. 00:40:33.980 --> 00:40:36.400 It took some time climbing up the hill through 00:40:36.400 --> 00:40:38.139 the city, switchbacking up to reach the palace. 00:40:38.219 --> 00:40:40.019 You've been here for a little while. I'm going 00:40:40.019 --> 00:40:41.440 to say at this point in time, it's probably close 00:40:41.440 --> 00:40:45.820 to maybe noon. As you're leaving this place behind, 00:40:46.000 --> 00:40:47.739 as you're stepping back out into the streets 00:40:47.739 --> 00:40:50.360 of the upper hill, upper city, as you move out 00:40:50.360 --> 00:40:53.579 and you can look down, down this hill, down these 00:40:53.579 --> 00:40:55.820 switchbacking streets and the roofs of buildings, 00:40:56.019 --> 00:40:59.219 on citizens marching to and fro, on the gates 00:40:59.219 --> 00:41:02.460 down below where it looks, you know, you see, 00:41:02.579 --> 00:41:04.539 it's hard to make anything out, but you assume 00:41:04.539 --> 00:41:06.500 at this point the bodies from this morning have 00:41:06.500 --> 00:41:09.199 been cleared up. Traffic is moving in as normal. 00:41:09.760 --> 00:41:11.940 Everything seems to have returned to some calm. 00:41:12.429 --> 00:41:14.650 What time was that this morning? That was 9 o 00:41:14.650 --> 00:41:16.889 'clock. Okay, so it's been about three hours. 00:41:17.130 --> 00:41:20.070 It's been about three hours. You can see beyond 00:41:20.070 --> 00:41:23.349 the gate fields and plains stretching out and 00:41:23.349 --> 00:41:25.969 out and out with small copses of trees, you know, 00:41:25.989 --> 00:41:29.809 sort of lush forest far in the distance. It is 00:41:29.809 --> 00:41:33.269 a beautiful, beautiful world. And you turn from 00:41:33.269 --> 00:41:37.829 that, turn uphill as you push through the... 00:41:38.090 --> 00:41:41.030 The last of the district we're sitting in now, 00:41:41.210 --> 00:41:47.989 which I believe this is the Herring District? 00:41:48.429 --> 00:41:51.349 Shit, let me check. Okay, so it looks like the 00:41:51.349 --> 00:41:53.349 Sea of Dragons, the way I kind of have this mapped 00:41:53.349 --> 00:41:54.449 out, it's a little different because I wanted 00:41:54.449 --> 00:41:55.829 to have a hill because it looked cooler if I 00:41:55.829 --> 00:41:57.289 missed a couple down it. That's literally why 00:41:57.289 --> 00:42:01.570 I changed the city of the map. So, Sea of Dragons 00:42:01.570 --> 00:42:04.030 really sits on the line between... what would 00:42:04.030 --> 00:42:06.170 be considered the Herring District and the Turtle 00:42:06.170 --> 00:42:07.750 District. Now, that's kind of almost like, imagine 00:42:07.750 --> 00:42:09.550 a vertical split in the upper part of the hill, 00:42:09.630 --> 00:42:12.130 and half of it is one, half it's the other. Once 00:42:12.130 --> 00:42:13.809 upon a time, there was the Phoenix District that 00:42:13.809 --> 00:42:16.989 was kind of a lower part of, just below these 00:42:16.989 --> 00:42:18.469 and kind of in the central part of the city. 00:42:18.849 --> 00:42:20.840 That was... As you know, Wiped Out, even looking 00:42:20.840 --> 00:42:22.639 down, you see a lot of new construction. You 00:42:22.639 --> 00:42:25.679 see a lot of sort of gaps in construction. You 00:42:25.679 --> 00:42:27.800 know, nine years has changed a lot, but there 00:42:27.800 --> 00:42:29.800 was apparently somewhat of a massacre there. 00:42:30.300 --> 00:42:32.139 And somewhere in the middle of that, there is 00:42:32.139 --> 00:42:35.400 a sort of open green with a statue you can see. 00:42:35.480 --> 00:42:39.139 That would be the Park of the Elders. As you 00:42:39.139 --> 00:42:41.460 go lower and lower from there, you reach the 00:42:41.460 --> 00:42:44.639 Haytay District, which is kind of your opening 00:42:44.639 --> 00:42:45.980 with the lower district of the city, which a 00:42:45.980 --> 00:42:48.940 lot of the trade is done in. But you're now turning 00:42:48.940 --> 00:42:52.369 up. towards the top of the hill, towards the 00:42:52.369 --> 00:42:54.550 Tiger District, which is being sort of built 00:42:54.550 --> 00:42:57.849 into the forests at the hilltop. The Sea of Dragons 00:42:57.849 --> 00:42:59.989 is quite close to this. You move past a few of 00:42:59.989 --> 00:43:01.809 newer construction, you move past some guard 00:43:01.809 --> 00:43:04.650 posts, you move to another gate in the wall, 00:43:04.750 --> 00:43:07.949 this one a lot smaller, less guarded than the 00:43:07.949 --> 00:43:11.309 lower one because it is far less used. As you're 00:43:11.309 --> 00:43:13.389 going here, you see no passerbys really going 00:43:13.389 --> 00:43:15.449 through the gate, no major trade or anything 00:43:15.449 --> 00:43:17.829 like that, no farmers moving into the market. 00:43:18.309 --> 00:43:22.409 It's just... wagons of supplies and wagons of 00:43:22.409 --> 00:43:25.349 lumber coming in from the outside. This is where 00:43:25.349 --> 00:43:27.949 everything is sort of in construction. Everything 00:43:27.949 --> 00:43:31.909 is still being made. And Magistrate leads you 00:43:31.909 --> 00:43:35.510 through. No words spoken. Just people see Magistrate 00:43:35.510 --> 00:43:38.610 go by and they nod and turn away. He's obviously 00:43:38.610 --> 00:43:40.929 up to some business and it's not any business 00:43:40.929 --> 00:43:43.789 of theirs. Yeah, I think Blanche is trying to 00:43:43.789 --> 00:43:48.010 stay inconspicuous. Because she doesn't want 00:43:48.010 --> 00:43:52.250 to... I don't know if we're going someplace where 00:43:52.250 --> 00:43:55.449 the magistrate shouldn't be taking us, but he's 00:43:55.449 --> 00:43:57.929 just taking us because he's cooperating. So she 00:43:57.929 --> 00:44:00.210 wants to stay quiet as a church mouse and not 00:44:00.210 --> 00:44:02.469 draw attention to herself. There might be eyes 00:44:02.469 --> 00:44:04.590 that look to you two, kind of a little confused, 00:44:04.769 --> 00:44:06.610 and then they just see who's leading you and 00:44:06.610 --> 00:44:09.690 they turn away, shrug, whatever. It's just like 00:44:09.690 --> 00:44:11.670 if you act like you belong, people will think 00:44:11.670 --> 00:44:15.690 you belong. So shoulders back, chest out, just 00:44:15.690 --> 00:44:20.690 walking. Naturally. You're moving, moving. You 00:44:20.690 --> 00:44:24.849 move out of the gates, through copes of trees 00:44:24.849 --> 00:44:27.730 that have been cut down. The roots have been 00:44:27.730 --> 00:44:29.949 pulled up, and you see larger areas where the 00:44:29.949 --> 00:44:32.610 bases of buildings have been built. Very few 00:44:32.610 --> 00:44:34.630 fully constructed yet. This is all very, very 00:44:34.630 --> 00:44:38.809 new, very raw. You're going down this... What 00:44:38.809 --> 00:44:40.889 will one day be a street, you assume, between 00:44:40.889 --> 00:44:43.980 these sites? And as you're kind of reaching the 00:44:43.980 --> 00:44:45.619 end of this, you kind of move out of the city 00:44:45.619 --> 00:44:48.019 and start pushing. The top of the hill, from 00:44:48.019 --> 00:44:49.519 the bottom of the hill, is east to west, right? 00:44:49.840 --> 00:44:54.179 So the top is towards the west of where the Concord 00:44:54.179 --> 00:44:56.219 Jewel was, where the gate was. So you're now 00:44:56.219 --> 00:44:58.500 moving out the western gate to the top of the 00:44:58.500 --> 00:45:02.079 hill and going south. And as you sort of move 00:45:02.079 --> 00:45:05.940 to the south, you begin to hear shouting up ahead 00:45:05.940 --> 00:45:08.099 in this district where you see another one of 00:45:08.099 --> 00:45:11.300 these sort of... base is being constructed. You 00:45:11.300 --> 00:45:13.440 know, a stone base kind of on this sort of somewhat 00:45:13.440 --> 00:45:15.579 muddy soil terrain trying to build something 00:45:15.579 --> 00:45:18.059 strong that can hold. You just hear someone just 00:45:18.059 --> 00:45:22.239 like, Doc's nipples! What? What could possibly 00:45:22.239 --> 00:45:23.719 go wrong now? What are you talking about? What 00:45:23.719 --> 00:45:27.420 is your problem? What? Sorry, boss! Sorry, boss! 00:45:27.579 --> 00:45:29.260 People just running away. You just hear, yeah, 00:45:29.320 --> 00:45:32.500 like, something's happening over there. Yikes. 00:45:32.780 --> 00:45:35.719 Did he just say Doc's nipples? Or Dog's nipples? 00:45:36.099 --> 00:45:40.360 Who knows? Magistrate, did he just say dog's 00:45:40.360 --> 00:45:43.639 nipples? I think ox nipples. Oh, ox nipples. 00:45:43.840 --> 00:45:46.780 Going down soon. She's, um... She's excitable. 00:45:46.860 --> 00:45:49.360 Let me handle the talking. In fact, remember, 00:45:49.519 --> 00:45:50.800 no paying attention to anything that happens 00:45:50.800 --> 00:45:54.219 from here on out at all. Great, cool. I'm sorry, 00:45:54.320 --> 00:45:57.000 did you say something? Should we stay out of 00:45:57.000 --> 00:46:01.980 sight? Are we... Well... Of course, if you're 00:46:01.980 --> 00:46:03.800 out of sight, you could be causing trouble elsewhere, 00:46:03.940 --> 00:46:06.800 which would not be great. Unfortunately, you'll 00:46:06.800 --> 00:46:08.960 need to stand somewhere within hearing range 00:46:08.960 --> 00:46:12.619 of everything that I'm saying and doing, but 00:46:12.619 --> 00:46:14.260 you're going to promise not to hear anything, 00:46:14.380 --> 00:46:17.159 so it's okay. Yes, understood. All right. Good. 00:46:17.880 --> 00:46:20.619 Good. You're sort of moving down. You see, like, 00:46:20.860 --> 00:46:25.239 some large, like, large muscled construction 00:46:25.239 --> 00:46:28.340 worker bald head runs past you, weeping openly. 00:46:33.400 --> 00:46:38.780 You see this very small framed woman, kind of 00:46:38.780 --> 00:46:42.599 shorter, dark hair, kind of pulled back, dark 00:46:42.599 --> 00:46:46.880 green eyes, tan skin. She's just kind of wearing 00:46:46.880 --> 00:46:50.980 a construction apron, you know, just all the 00:46:50.980 --> 00:46:53.880 tools, nails, everything kind of like loaded 00:46:53.880 --> 00:46:56.960 under her belt. And it's just like probably heavier 00:46:56.960 --> 00:47:03.429 than she is. Just like, oh, oh good, a magistrate. 00:47:03.690 --> 00:47:06.809 Which is what I need right now. What in the tiger 00:47:06.809 --> 00:47:08.969 -humping, goose -pissing could go wrong now? 00:47:09.010 --> 00:47:14.230 What? What? What? What? Uh, LinkedIn soon. I 00:47:14.230 --> 00:47:15.849 see everything's coming along swimmingly out 00:47:15.849 --> 00:47:18.829 here. I, uh, was simply asked by the queen. I'll 00:47:18.829 --> 00:47:20.409 get out of your way very soon. Just a big glare. 00:47:20.769 --> 00:47:23.829 Really soon. Um, but I had a few questions. And 00:47:23.829 --> 00:47:26.570 who are these? Hmm? Who was on my site that I 00:47:26.570 --> 00:47:30.460 didn't request or give access to? Hmm? Hmm? Who 00:47:30.460 --> 00:47:32.699 are you? Points to you, Blanche. Can you just 00:47:32.699 --> 00:47:35.539 spell the name for me real fast? Hwang Jun Soon. 00:47:35.639 --> 00:47:40.940 So that's H -W -A -N -G space J -U -N dash S 00:47:40.940 --> 00:47:45.599 -O -O -N. We are simply here to observe and help 00:47:45.599 --> 00:47:48.079 the magistrate in his day -to -day operations. 00:47:48.239 --> 00:47:52.139 We are guests of the queen. Her eyes fall onto 00:47:52.139 --> 00:47:56.460 your blade. Capable guests. How capable are you? 00:47:56.940 --> 00:48:01.070 How can I help you? We've had some attacks. Tigers 00:48:01.070 --> 00:48:05.269 in the area earlier today killed two of ours, 00:48:05.329 --> 00:48:09.769 injured three more. Killed two! And Magic's just 00:48:09.769 --> 00:48:13.170 kind of writing this down. I see. And this happened... 00:48:13.170 --> 00:48:17.510 Would this have occurred, perhaps, at around 00:48:17.510 --> 00:48:20.590 nine o 'clock this morning? A strange silence 00:48:20.590 --> 00:48:25.710 between them, then. Yes. Yes, it did. Kunan Jun, 00:48:25.809 --> 00:48:29.820 is this... Is this area, this district, large 00:48:29.820 --> 00:48:32.139 enough to support a population of tigers? Are 00:48:32.139 --> 00:48:36.679 they wild? Are they escaped, perhaps? He's, we 00:48:36.679 --> 00:48:39.960 do have tigers in the forest around here, though 00:48:39.960 --> 00:48:42.380 I don't think they, and Huntington soon sort 00:48:42.380 --> 00:48:44.900 of interrupts, like, there are, there is a den 00:48:44.900 --> 00:48:49.360 to the north of here. We're not allowed to construct 00:48:49.360 --> 00:48:53.679 over there because they are dangerous. It's their 00:48:53.679 --> 00:48:56.110 forbidden land. We don't go there. Hwang Jung 00:48:56.110 --> 00:48:59.130 -soon, that man who ran off crying like a little 00:48:59.130 --> 00:49:05.369 baby. Do you know where he's going? Probably 00:49:05.369 --> 00:49:08.250 home to bed. I fired him. Would you do him the 00:49:08.250 --> 00:49:12.530 kindness of not letting him travel alone? Kind 00:49:12.530 --> 00:49:15.030 of almost like expression of, oh, shit. Like, 00:49:15.090 --> 00:49:19.030 oh, right. Yes, of course. We probably should. 00:49:19.769 --> 00:49:23.769 In whiteness. Begins to overtake you all. God 00:49:23.769 --> 00:49:29.409 damn. Fuck hell. Let's change the music. Oh my 00:49:29.409 --> 00:49:35.969 god. Do you use any spell slots? Yeah, I'll burn 00:49:35.969 --> 00:49:38.269 a second level spell slot. Whoa, a second level? 00:49:38.489 --> 00:49:41.769 Yeah. That's pretty good. Yeah, I know. Hell 00:49:41.769 --> 00:49:43.610 yeah, okay. Anything else going on here? Any 00:49:43.610 --> 00:49:48.210 abilities? All out buttons. Not yet. I'm not 00:49:48.210 --> 00:49:49.650 going to do that yet. I'm not desperate enough 00:49:49.650 --> 00:49:52.469 for that. I'm going to see what the spell slot 00:49:52.469 --> 00:49:54.449 does for me and take it from there, I think. 00:49:54.650 --> 00:49:56.730 Yeah, I'll do a first level. First level? Yep. 00:49:56.849 --> 00:50:00.210 Hell yeah. That's really good. Second level and 00:50:00.210 --> 00:50:04.670 a first level. Nothing else. That will be plus 00:50:04.670 --> 00:50:08.050 30 to your D100 roll. Okie dokie. 20 for the 00:50:08.050 --> 00:50:10.050 second level, 10 for the first level. All right. 00:50:10.530 --> 00:50:12.989 I like that. Any abilities you want to use? Any 00:50:12.989 --> 00:50:15.409 misdirection casts? Anything like that? Might 00:50:15.409 --> 00:50:17.489 add little bits for other things if you have 00:50:17.489 --> 00:50:19.030 them. Bardic Inspiration, I can give you a plus 00:50:19.030 --> 00:50:25.449 five on that. No. Okay. You have a plus 30. All 00:50:25.449 --> 00:50:28.530 right, let's see what plus 30 gets us. Come on, 00:50:28.530 --> 00:50:36.769 baby. 48 plus 30 is 78. I imagine it still stands 00:50:36.769 --> 00:50:40.190 that Blanche and Akio are your frontliners? Correct. 00:50:40.690 --> 00:50:46.940 Okay. 78, huh? Oh, just shy of 80. I know, but 00:50:46.940 --> 00:50:50.079 it's way better than 48. A damn shame. Yeah. 00:50:50.340 --> 00:50:52.559 God damn it. I should have used Broderick Inspiration. 00:50:52.920 --> 00:50:56.019 Fuck. That would have given another plus five. 00:50:56.519 --> 00:51:00.179 Fuck. I would have broke 80. The mist retreats. 00:51:01.019 --> 00:51:04.639 Huang Junsun is gore before you. Splattered upon 00:51:04.639 --> 00:51:09.139 your leg. Blood on your boots. No. Body torn 00:51:09.139 --> 00:51:12.710 to pieces. This is what you see, Blanche, blinking. 00:51:13.989 --> 00:51:18.010 Blinking through the pain. You are covered in 00:51:18.010 --> 00:51:21.789 blood. Claw marks, gashes running down your body. 00:51:22.230 --> 00:51:24.909 You have taken 25 points of damage. Holy shit. 00:51:24.969 --> 00:51:28.329 We got a C+. We got a C+. What the fuck? Did 00:51:28.329 --> 00:51:30.449 you say 25? This is worse than the first one. 00:51:30.550 --> 00:51:33.269 What the fuck? And one of them was a crit. Oh 00:51:33.269 --> 00:51:35.289 my god. You feel as though you took a critical 00:51:35.289 --> 00:51:38.429 hit during the combat that just occurred. What 00:51:38.429 --> 00:51:41.179 the fuck? Blanche, fuck. You feel a form huddling 00:51:41.179 --> 00:51:43.260 behind you, the form of Magistrate Conan June, 00:51:43.340 --> 00:51:45.559 and you realize the four of you have surrounded 00:51:45.559 --> 00:51:50.559 the magistrate. You look to your side. Akio is 00:51:50.559 --> 00:51:54.219 barely just kind of like standing there, sword 00:51:54.219 --> 00:51:57.480 in hand, blood dripping from his muzzle, blood 00:51:57.480 --> 00:52:00.719 dripping from his sword. He looks so weary, so 00:52:00.719 --> 00:52:03.099 tired, wincing in his own pain. He's taken 24 00:52:03.099 --> 00:52:07.199 points of damage. Oh my. Holy shit. You're doing 00:52:07.199 --> 00:52:11.219 okay. Only eight points for you. You're taking 00:52:11.219 --> 00:52:13.000 a nice little gash, but you're standing strong, 00:52:13.239 --> 00:52:15.500 kind of holding, perhaps holding the Sturge sword 00:52:15.500 --> 00:52:17.739 out again before your loot's in your hand this 00:52:17.739 --> 00:52:20.860 time. I think just, you know, casting some magic 00:52:20.860 --> 00:52:22.900 through it. You did cast the first level spell 00:52:22.900 --> 00:52:26.880 slot, so yeah. Chester, beside you, misdirection, 00:52:26.880 --> 00:52:29.679 locked and loaded. You see like an arrow shot. 00:52:29.900 --> 00:52:32.300 It is puncturing out one of these sort of building 00:52:32.300 --> 00:52:36.119 bases away from him. Chester's taken 16 points 00:52:36.119 --> 00:52:39.070 of damage. He looks... A huge scratch is carved 00:52:39.070 --> 00:52:41.449 right across him, another one down his back. 00:52:42.530 --> 00:52:46.010 He's just kind of, shit, what the fuck? What 00:52:46.010 --> 00:52:50.309 the fuck? You see tracks in the mud around you. 00:52:51.190 --> 00:52:53.429 Tracks that look like animal tracks that were 00:52:53.429 --> 00:52:59.190 not there before. Perhaps tiger tracks. We focus 00:52:59.190 --> 00:53:03.989 for now on Blanche. Blanche blinking down at 00:53:03.989 --> 00:53:07.300 the bloody body before her. And as you look at 00:53:07.300 --> 00:53:11.340 this body blanch, your eyes lower, you realize 00:53:11.340 --> 00:53:15.820 that one point of damage that you took is from 00:53:15.820 --> 00:53:17.840 this cut of your arm. I mean, you wouldn't know 00:53:17.840 --> 00:53:19.880 from the number wise, but you just, you realize 00:53:19.880 --> 00:53:22.159 like some of what hurts is this fresh wound you 00:53:22.159 --> 00:53:26.739 see on your sort of lower arm. Clean and concise. 00:53:27.739 --> 00:53:31.500 Your quill is in your hand. This blood dripping 00:53:31.500 --> 00:53:34.500 off its tip onto a blank page of your spell book. 00:53:35.610 --> 00:53:39.409 It is your blood, you realize. From a cut you 00:53:39.409 --> 00:53:40.849 may have made yourself, maybe before all this 00:53:40.849 --> 00:53:43.610 started, you were ready to do something, to write 00:53:43.610 --> 00:53:47.110 something. You had an idea because you have pretty 00:53:47.110 --> 00:53:49.110 high intelligence. I'm giving you this. This 00:53:49.110 --> 00:53:52.210 makes sense to me. This is a Blanche move. You 00:53:52.210 --> 00:53:53.429 look down at the book in your hands and you see 00:53:53.429 --> 00:53:55.849 that blood -ridden words. Follow that quill's 00:53:55.849 --> 00:53:58.769 tip. And you want to know what those words say? 00:53:59.269 --> 00:54:02.250 You know what they say? Yeah. Then tune in next 00:54:02.250 --> 00:54:05.199 week. Fuck you! Goddamn.