WEBVTT 00:00:02.040 --> 00:00:04.219 Hey, Pants People. Just want to say thank you 00:00:04.219 --> 00:00:05.980 for listening and thank you for your friendship. 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:52.509 Check out the Discord. Poor witnesses are reporting 00:00:52.509 --> 00:00:56.890 some kind of battle at the early Coyote in the 00:00:56.890 --> 00:00:59.670 Lower Trade Discal. It seems that Salome, the 00:00:59.670 --> 00:01:01.369 sight weaver, and Dresden Kellick have just fought 00:01:01.369 --> 00:01:03.549 together against a number of masked assailants. 00:01:03.570 --> 00:01:05.730 They've proclaimed that the head of the assailants 00:01:05.730 --> 00:01:07.750 is known as the shield -bearer Captain Commander 00:01:07.750 --> 00:01:11.870 Ariad. But that's just nonsense. Lies, of course. 00:01:12.189 --> 00:01:14.150 Law and medical personnel are just responding 00:01:14.150 --> 00:01:15.810 to the situation now, so more information to 00:01:15.810 --> 00:01:18.109 come. Only one casualty has been reported by 00:01:18.109 --> 00:01:20.010 Salome herself, and that would be the proprietor. 00:01:25.680 --> 00:01:42.819 No, no, no! Fuck this! I've been lying to y 'all! 00:01:42.959 --> 00:01:45.400 I'm being blackmailed to lie! But I am... Done. 00:01:45.620 --> 00:01:47.659 Damn the consequences. It is time for truth. 00:01:47.799 --> 00:01:49.260 Don't trust anything you see on the network. 00:01:49.379 --> 00:01:51.719 Don't trust the shield bearers. And don't trust 00:01:51.719 --> 00:02:04.780 us. Well. Yep. Okay. Things are happening. We 00:02:04.780 --> 00:02:07.519 all knew that that was, or we all suspected that's 00:02:07.519 --> 00:02:09.960 what was happening. I thought we were going to 00:02:09.960 --> 00:02:12.180 have to like do a lot of work into dragging that 00:02:12.180 --> 00:02:14.919 out of Orin. I mean, there were other consequences 00:02:14.919 --> 00:02:18.360 here. I think, honestly, after last week, I did 00:02:18.360 --> 00:02:19.500 not think things were going in that direction. 00:02:19.620 --> 00:02:20.860 I thought they'd be totally different. I had 00:02:20.860 --> 00:02:22.319 a whole different idea in mind of what was going 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:24.300 to come down. And I went home. I've been thinking 00:02:24.300 --> 00:02:27.000 about it all week and honestly all day today. 00:02:27.400 --> 00:02:29.580 And it just hit me. I'm like, no, I mean, for 00:02:29.580 --> 00:02:31.800 one thing, Salome Strips told everyone Ader died. 00:02:32.199 --> 00:02:35.979 You know, one of Orrin's only friends died. And 00:02:35.979 --> 00:02:38.759 there's so much more than that that's coming 00:02:38.759 --> 00:02:42.469 out in this episode. Things have changed. massively 00:02:42.469 --> 00:02:45.569 based on your actions last week the last few 00:02:45.569 --> 00:02:49.210 weeks and i am so excited to see where this goes 00:02:49.210 --> 00:02:52.770 but before we get into all that i just want to 00:02:52.770 --> 00:02:55.330 say that was a great great fight i mean holy 00:02:55.330 --> 00:02:58.629 shit yeah maybe a little too great i didn't even 00:02:58.629 --> 00:03:00.610 get the chance to use my button for a killing 00:03:00.610 --> 00:03:05.009 blow i mean i mean it definitely wasn't as satisfying 00:03:05.009 --> 00:03:08.469 as it would have been to like kill justin yeah 00:03:08.960 --> 00:03:11.300 Jess and there he goes again. God damn it. I 00:03:11.300 --> 00:03:17.479 love it. The bastard. No, it's just your NPCs 00:03:17.479 --> 00:03:21.300 are not memorable. How dare you? Oh, shots fired. 00:03:22.039 --> 00:03:25.900 No. Yeah. I mean, I was, I was going for blood, 00:03:26.000 --> 00:03:29.620 you know? Yeah. We wanted to get there. I think, 00:03:29.639 --> 00:03:34.060 I think it probably does make sense that I think 00:03:34.060 --> 00:03:37.060 it's, I think it's better for us. Yeah. he didn't 00:03:37.060 --> 00:03:39.919 die. Cause then, you know, the, the shield bearers 00:03:39.919 --> 00:03:41.639 could come up and attach code, be like, look, 00:03:41.819 --> 00:03:45.120 these bad guys killed the commander. That was 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:46.780 my initial thing that I thought was going to 00:03:46.780 --> 00:03:49.659 happen. Don't be crazy. That's not at all. But 00:03:49.659 --> 00:03:52.379 I had sort of halfway planned, but now, but now 00:03:52.379 --> 00:03:55.259 it was an act of terror against us. You know 00:03:55.259 --> 00:03:57.780 what I mean? Like maybe we're, we're back in 00:03:57.780 --> 00:04:00.759 the public's good graces a little bit. Hmm. I 00:04:00.759 --> 00:04:02.780 gotta say, I must have the most skilled tactical 00:04:02.780 --> 00:04:04.699 players in the world. The kind of players who 00:04:04.699 --> 00:04:09.080 would absolutely. in a D &D PvP situation, right, 00:04:09.159 --> 00:04:11.840 Steven? Dude, shut up. Because your darling wife, 00:04:11.919 --> 00:04:14.919 Rachel, told me you had a humbling experience 00:04:14.919 --> 00:04:17.759 in Krippin's game the other night. I whiffed 00:04:17.759 --> 00:04:20.220 it. I whiffed it. I haven't heard the story yet. 00:04:20.240 --> 00:04:22.660 Tell me all this. I mean, I thought I had a pretty 00:04:22.660 --> 00:04:28.470 fun character, Bill. Like, I had a... tiefling 00:04:28.470 --> 00:04:30.829 sorcerer you know i had like fireball prepped 00:04:30.829 --> 00:04:32.990 all these fun fire spells i was just gonna like 00:04:32.990 --> 00:04:35.290 go and be a dragon about it you know it was gonna 00:04:35.290 --> 00:04:39.329 be fun and real rory king yeah join the power 00:04:39.329 --> 00:04:41.810 rangers and so we're on this map and there's 00:04:41.810 --> 00:04:43.329 you know there's obstacles and stuff in between 00:04:43.329 --> 00:04:45.410 us and i we spent our first two moves trying 00:04:45.410 --> 00:04:48.389 to like set up and get position and then i got 00:04:48.389 --> 00:04:51.110 paralyzed and i stayed paralyzed and i was dead 00:04:51.110 --> 00:04:53.290 two turns later i didn't get to do damage or 00:04:53.290 --> 00:04:56.649 anything Uh, yeah. I mean, it was, it was, it 00:04:56.649 --> 00:04:59.509 was a good time. Um, but it was a fast time. 00:05:00.290 --> 00:05:04.910 Hell yeah. Yeah. So my, uh, my PVP debut was 00:05:04.910 --> 00:05:08.569 not great. And yet your character in this campaign 00:05:08.569 --> 00:05:10.930 is still alive. Clearly I need to go harder. 00:05:11.589 --> 00:05:15.430 This character is. I, you know, I got a bat for 00:05:15.430 --> 00:05:16.990 you three for three. So we're going to, we're 00:05:16.990 --> 00:05:18.550 going to see what we can do. Uh, we're going 00:05:18.550 --> 00:05:22.089 to see what you can do tonight. What? Let's see 00:05:22.089 --> 00:05:28.230 what you can do tonight. So let's get to tonight. 00:05:28.509 --> 00:05:29.689 You're out of control. Somebody's got to stop 00:05:29.689 --> 00:05:34.910 you. Chaos outside of the Ugly Coyote. Again, 00:05:34.949 --> 00:05:37.529 a crowd has gathered all around. Many of them, 00:05:37.550 --> 00:05:39.949 after the assailants moved into the shadows, 00:05:40.050 --> 00:05:42.350 come swarming in. Come to you, Salome. Many are 00:05:42.350 --> 00:05:44.649 putting hands on you, trying to, like, see if 00:05:44.649 --> 00:05:47.129 they can help you in some way. You look, I mean, 00:05:47.149 --> 00:05:50.110 halfway to death. Dresden, people are wary of 00:05:50.110 --> 00:05:54.699 you, and yet, despite the... sludge thrown your 00:05:54.699 --> 00:05:56.300 way in the network there are many who seem to 00:05:56.300 --> 00:05:59.000 sympathize with you now see you in a more heroic 00:05:59.000 --> 00:06:03.259 light so i'll ask as people are sort of closing 00:06:03.259 --> 00:06:06.240 in on you as you imagine there are shield bearers 00:06:06.240 --> 00:06:08.420 officers on the way as probably medical personnel 00:06:08.420 --> 00:06:10.620 from the house of convalescence on the way to 00:06:10.620 --> 00:06:13.180 respond to this critical situation i mean this 00:06:13.180 --> 00:06:16.339 kind of stuff never really happens on the radiant 00:06:16.339 --> 00:06:19.540 citadel what uh what are you guys doing what 00:06:19.540 --> 00:06:23.959 are your first steps Salome weaves her way through 00:06:23.959 --> 00:06:25.939 the crowd, gently pushing people out of her way, 00:06:26.040 --> 00:06:28.660 and she flies. Holding your robes, trying to, 00:06:28.680 --> 00:06:30.420 like, your fingers, like, prying off your robes. 00:06:30.420 --> 00:06:32.660 They just want to touch your light. She flies 00:06:32.660 --> 00:06:36.560 into the back room of the ugly coyote, whispering 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:39.639 a prayer, and once she gets there, she gets down 00:06:39.639 --> 00:06:42.879 on her knee, both hands. Well, she doesn't need 00:06:42.879 --> 00:06:46.040 to touch because it's a ranged spell, but casts 00:06:46.040 --> 00:06:51.399 Healing Word on Aether. Hell yeah. Wounds close 00:06:51.399 --> 00:06:53.740 up. The paralyzed condition does not go away. 00:06:53.860 --> 00:06:56.680 So you see the shallow sort of gash that goes 00:06:56.680 --> 00:07:01.740 right around his shoulder closes. But he still 00:07:01.740 --> 00:07:05.300 just stares up, breathing hard as if even his 00:07:05.300 --> 00:07:08.660 breath is coming out. So there's this tight, 00:07:08.680 --> 00:07:13.680 tight chest. She rolls him over into a recovery 00:07:13.680 --> 00:07:17.779 position and rubs his back a couple of times 00:07:17.779 --> 00:07:20.360 before. getting up and going back out to the 00:07:20.360 --> 00:07:22.639 crowd. Dresden, what are you doing this time? 00:07:23.199 --> 00:07:25.800 What's your first instinct? The second that everything 00:07:25.800 --> 00:07:28.399 stopped and cleared, he ran back into the coyote. 00:07:28.920 --> 00:07:30.639 As you push in. He's taking stock of all the 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:32.839 kids. The fog would still be in the way, I guess, 00:07:32.839 --> 00:07:34.540 for now, so you kind of push through the fog. 00:07:35.660 --> 00:07:38.540 I think I can end it. Can you end it? I think. 00:07:39.040 --> 00:07:44.199 I think. Finish Dresden's stuff first, but when 00:07:44.199 --> 00:07:48.959 Salome comes out of the... Ugly coyote. She actually 00:07:48.959 --> 00:07:51.560 has Ader with him because she cast Lester Restoration 00:07:51.560 --> 00:07:54.920 as well. Oh, shit! That's so cool! Oh, that's 00:07:54.920 --> 00:07:56.939 amazing. He just, the second you cast it, his 00:07:56.939 --> 00:07:59.639 eyes... The kids! The kids! Are they okay? Are 00:07:59.639 --> 00:08:04.639 they alright? Everyone's fine. Damn him. Damn 00:08:04.639 --> 00:08:07.019 him! He, like, sweeps a hand out and full of 00:08:07.019 --> 00:08:09.279 them just snaps a part of his bedpost off and, 00:08:09.300 --> 00:08:11.379 like, with a fist, goes pinging off the wall 00:08:11.379 --> 00:08:15.019 just like, It was Aria. Can you tell me everything 00:08:15.019 --> 00:08:17.920 that happened? Or do you want to resolve Dresden 00:08:17.920 --> 00:08:23.439 first? We can get to Dresden because it wasn't 00:08:23.439 --> 00:08:26.819 much on my side. Putting the out of character 00:08:26.819 --> 00:08:29.480 aside, he'd just look at you and be like, I don't 00:08:29.480 --> 00:08:32.379 know. I was sleeping and I heard something in 00:08:32.379 --> 00:08:35.639 the room. I woke up. I could tell by his form 00:08:35.639 --> 00:08:38.899 it was him. Mask and all, but I knew it was him. 00:08:38.960 --> 00:08:41.779 I tried to fight and he just... stabbed me. I 00:08:41.779 --> 00:08:43.960 felt my body go limp. I couldn't move. I just 00:08:43.960 --> 00:08:47.139 heard stuff happening. People screaming. Fighting. 00:08:48.720 --> 00:08:53.759 Damn him. Is he dead? Is the bastard dead? He 00:08:53.759 --> 00:08:57.539 drank my beer. Sat in my pub. Is he fucking dead? 00:08:58.440 --> 00:09:05.440 He fled. Go to rest then. I cannot disperse the 00:09:05.440 --> 00:09:09.340 fog on my own. However, can I just like... Take 00:09:09.340 --> 00:09:16.200 my shield and, like, fan it away. Everybody help! 00:09:18.429 --> 00:09:20.090 Yeah. He hasn't filled the whole carriage, so 00:09:20.090 --> 00:09:21.769 you're probably taking some. You're filling up 00:09:21.769 --> 00:09:23.289 what's written for the entrance. That one sort 00:09:23.289 --> 00:09:24.870 of corner is still kind of filled, but you actually 00:09:24.870 --> 00:09:26.929 see Five Row comes crawling out. He's got little 00:09:26.929 --> 00:09:29.409 scratch marks from a pangolin on his arm. He 00:09:29.409 --> 00:09:31.669 was woken up by Jamal, it seems, as well. And 00:09:31.669 --> 00:09:33.590 as you go in, you actually see that Jeans also 00:09:33.590 --> 00:09:36.049 seems to have been woken up, and she's actually 00:09:36.049 --> 00:09:38.950 helping Fish, Mulligan, and Miskin out of the 00:09:38.950 --> 00:09:41.529 sort of mesh nets, trying to fiddle with the 00:09:41.529 --> 00:09:46.100 shackles they have on. Oh, okay. I was going 00:09:46.100 --> 00:09:49.500 to say, can Miskin just grab a knife and... It's 00:09:49.500 --> 00:09:50.799 hard from his side. He probably gets his off 00:09:50.799 --> 00:09:52.279 first, and he just very quickly takes it out 00:09:52.279 --> 00:09:54.200 and starts going at Mulligan's, gets him free. 00:09:54.340 --> 00:09:57.559 But they're all kind of working together. Everyone 00:09:57.559 --> 00:09:59.860 looks kind of in shock. Roundstuff just looks 00:09:59.860 --> 00:10:01.639 a little tired and confused. She slept the whole 00:10:01.639 --> 00:10:02.720 thing, didn't even know that something happened. 00:10:02.860 --> 00:10:05.519 But Jeans looks absolutely horrified as you come 00:10:05.519 --> 00:10:09.360 in. Her eyes meet you. And I think she just mouths, 00:10:09.440 --> 00:10:12.840 like, what now? She doesn't want to cause a scene, 00:10:12.919 --> 00:10:18.419 but clearly this was. Way too damn close. Dresden's 00:10:18.419 --> 00:10:22.720 response is just shaking his head with the sense 00:10:22.720 --> 00:10:27.899 of, I don't know. The door to Ader's room bursts 00:10:27.899 --> 00:10:30.820 open. Ader comes charging into the room, kind 00:10:30.820 --> 00:10:35.159 of sees the fog light. Whoa! Kind of looks at 00:10:35.159 --> 00:10:37.240 everybody, sees everyone's accountable, and just, 00:10:37.320 --> 00:10:40.019 oh, thank goodness. Oh, thank goodness. He just 00:10:40.019 --> 00:10:42.500 runs over and scoops Jean's up in a hug that 00:10:42.500 --> 00:10:46.179 she reciprocates. Like, all the lights sort of, 00:10:46.200 --> 00:10:48.539 like, kind of come around, and round sort of 00:10:48.539 --> 00:10:50.700 grabs you, Dresden sort of pulling you in, like, 00:10:50.759 --> 00:10:52.120 come on, come on, I guess we're doing a hug, 00:10:52.159 --> 00:10:54.960 I don't know why. Yeah, Dresden will lift her 00:10:54.960 --> 00:10:58.100 up onto his shoulders. Oh, nuts. There's a tick 00:10:58.100 --> 00:11:04.100 on me. Huh. You go get this guy off. Are you 00:11:04.100 --> 00:11:07.039 going to let her pull you into the hug? Is Uncle 00:11:07.039 --> 00:11:09.500 Dresden getting in there? Yeah, but didn't I 00:11:09.500 --> 00:11:10.879 just say he pulled her up onto his shoulders? 00:11:11.679 --> 00:11:13.139 I don't remember because I had a tick on me. 00:11:13.259 --> 00:11:16.059 I'm pretty sure I did. Well, now I got to leave 00:11:16.059 --> 00:11:20.500 that in. Damn it. Ticked out. I'm pretty sure 00:11:20.500 --> 00:11:22.340 that as that was happening, I was saying that 00:11:22.340 --> 00:11:25.039 he lifts her up onto his shoulders. She's sliding 00:11:25.039 --> 00:11:26.500 and she's just like over your shoulders, like 00:11:26.500 --> 00:11:28.139 legs around you, reaches an arm around Ader's 00:11:28.139 --> 00:11:31.919 head. And she's just like, this is nice. Everyone's 00:11:31.919 --> 00:11:34.159 very quiet and solemn. She doesn't know what 00:11:34.159 --> 00:11:37.179 the hell happened. She doesn't know there's a 00:11:37.179 --> 00:11:40.279 dead body upstairs on the roof across the street. 00:11:41.950 --> 00:11:45.370 Salome. Ader, when he woke up, went into that 00:11:45.370 --> 00:11:47.450 room. He had no interest in going outside, doesn't 00:11:47.450 --> 00:11:49.049 like people, doesn't like crowds. He wanted to 00:11:49.049 --> 00:11:51.830 see his family. Did you follow him there or just 00:11:51.830 --> 00:11:54.389 step out of the crowd? Yeah, I'm going to fix 00:11:54.389 --> 00:11:57.450 what I said and not have her go back outside. 00:11:57.509 --> 00:12:01.350 She'll slowly walk behind Ader, and she's scanning 00:12:01.350 --> 00:12:05.149 the room for anything unusual, any clues. Joining 00:12:05.149 --> 00:12:08.149 the hug? Huh? Getting on that hug? Salome just 00:12:08.149 --> 00:12:11.240 awkwardly walks. Salome probably hasn't quite 00:12:11.240 --> 00:12:13.419 caught up yet. I think she's going slow and trying 00:12:13.419 --> 00:12:20.059 to see if she can find any evidence to Ader and 00:12:20.059 --> 00:12:22.360 the other shield bearers being here. You just 00:12:22.360 --> 00:12:26.399 hear like a, wow, as round stuff looks up and 00:12:26.399 --> 00:12:28.980 sees you. And slowly everyone kind of breaks 00:12:28.980 --> 00:12:34.299 apart, turning to look to you, Salome. Your being 00:12:34.299 --> 00:12:39.789 here has not been explained. to dresden to aid 00:12:39.789 --> 00:12:44.029 or to anybody you are a mystery last time dresden 00:12:44.029 --> 00:12:47.629 saw you as mentioned you essentially put jewels 00:12:47.629 --> 00:12:51.610 into a coma to show him a future you are desperately 00:12:51.610 --> 00:12:54.490 afraid of which if salome can learn how to do 00:12:54.490 --> 00:12:57.070 that will be super useful to me as a player so 00:12:57.070 --> 00:13:01.049 it only works on jewels because he's hyper aware 00:13:01.049 --> 00:13:04.629 of magic and whatnot yeah product of experimentation 00:13:04.629 --> 00:13:07.769 i don't know salome walks up to round stuff and 00:13:08.370 --> 00:13:11.730 Holds out a hand and grabs her little hand between 00:13:11.730 --> 00:13:15.909 two of Salome's, I'm guessing, larger fingers. 00:13:17.049 --> 00:13:20.850 I'm so glad you're safe, little one. What's your 00:13:20.850 --> 00:13:26.149 name? She leaps off of Dresden's shoulders to, 00:13:26.169 --> 00:13:28.830 like, jump onto yours. Are those real wings? 00:13:29.070 --> 00:13:31.649 Can they actually fly? Can we go flying on round 00:13:31.649 --> 00:13:33.690 stuff? You know, named for the round stuff that's 00:13:33.690 --> 00:13:37.909 sweet? Because I'm really sweet. Salome hovers 00:13:37.909 --> 00:13:43.409 a foot or two off the floor and she says, It's 00:13:43.409 --> 00:13:46.970 wonderful to meet you, round stuff. Have I seen 00:13:46.970 --> 00:13:49.769 you on TV? What's your name? I'm... It's called 00:13:49.769 --> 00:13:56.350 TV now, I guess. I'm called Salome. What's that 00:13:56.350 --> 00:14:02.009 mean? Well, it's my name. I don't believe there's 00:14:02.009 --> 00:14:06.279 a foodstuff named Salome. We should make one. 00:14:07.419 --> 00:14:09.220 Mulligan's really good at cooking. He can make 00:14:09.220 --> 00:14:12.639 a foodstuff called salame. What would that taste 00:14:12.639 --> 00:14:18.299 like? Probably a salad with mayonnaise. This 00:14:18.299 --> 00:14:23.740 one's inventive. Mulligan, you see Mulligan kind 00:14:23.740 --> 00:14:25.820 of shake his head, looking kind of disgusted 00:14:25.820 --> 00:14:29.259 at the sound of this. There are lots of mayo 00:14:29.259 --> 00:14:32.500 -based salads. He's not a fan, and neither am 00:14:32.500 --> 00:14:37.440 I. Miskin's kind of like moving up beside you. 00:14:37.500 --> 00:14:41.360 Dresden kind of hanging out in your shadow. As 00:14:41.360 --> 00:14:43.559 cool as you were before, you're somehow even 00:14:43.559 --> 00:14:47.700 cooler now. Yeah. He saw me in action. Your eyes 00:14:47.700 --> 00:14:51.840 still glowing a little bit. Holy shit. I swear 00:14:51.840 --> 00:14:58.559 now. It's cool. Dresden's going to look over 00:14:58.559 --> 00:15:05.990 at Salome. Thank you. But start talking. What 00:15:05.990 --> 00:15:09.529 are you doing here? It wouldn't be right to let 00:15:09.529 --> 00:15:12.610 these children come to harm. When I saw that 00:15:12.610 --> 00:15:18.389 possibility, it moved me to act. But how did 00:15:18.389 --> 00:15:22.690 you know? Doesn't explain why you're here. Talk. 00:15:23.690 --> 00:15:28.789 I'm known by another name, beyond just Salome. 00:15:29.549 --> 00:15:36.160 They call me the Sight Weaver. I am... gifted 00:15:36.160 --> 00:15:41.480 with foresight. You begin to hear sounds outside. 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:46.720 Dog barking. Yeah, dog barking. Marching sort 00:15:46.720 --> 00:15:48.820 of boots, shouting commands on the shield bearers. 00:15:48.840 --> 00:15:51.840 Stay down, calm down. And like, it sounds like 00:15:51.840 --> 00:15:56.500 hooves, very loud hooves moving down the street, 00:15:56.539 --> 00:16:01.840 but, because anyway, sorry, background. If the 00:16:01.840 --> 00:16:04.740 shield bearers are interested in, Covering up 00:16:04.740 --> 00:16:10.360 this story, you might be wise to get Ader here 00:16:10.360 --> 00:16:17.399 in front of the paparazzi. Also, don't let the 00:16:17.399 --> 00:16:22.340 children go upstairs for a little while. Why? 00:16:23.440 --> 00:16:27.039 Well, now I wanna. It's very dangerous. Oh, now 00:16:27.039 --> 00:16:30.620 I double wanna. So who's on cleanup duty? I'm... 00:16:31.070 --> 00:16:33.450 Going to leave that to the shield bearers themselves. 00:16:33.970 --> 00:16:36.370 I'll deal with it. That jeans kind of says, kind 00:16:36.370 --> 00:16:38.610 of shakes the head, like thinks you kind of caught 00:16:38.610 --> 00:16:44.070 on to what's going on. I don't think that's necessary. 00:16:46.210 --> 00:16:48.830 I really just like, I don't want to piss off 00:16:48.830 --> 00:16:52.029 the shield bearers, at least the ones who didn't 00:16:52.029 --> 00:16:55.029 participate in this. I also don't want to send 00:16:55.029 --> 00:17:01.419 another teenager to clean up a dead body. I think 00:17:01.419 --> 00:17:04.940 while all of this is happening, Dresden will 00:17:04.940 --> 00:17:08.980 take the words from Salome and he's going to 00:17:08.980 --> 00:17:12.079 grab Aedir by the shoulder and bring him outside. 00:17:12.900 --> 00:17:16.640 Hell yeah. And kind of push him forward, look 00:17:16.640 --> 00:17:20.799 around and say, look what Ariat just did. You 00:17:20.799 --> 00:17:23.740 see a bunch of diamonds rising up, flashing of 00:17:23.740 --> 00:17:25.960 like the sort of camera function on the recording 00:17:25.960 --> 00:17:29.799 diamond. You all saw his face, did you not? I 00:17:29.799 --> 00:17:31.460 didn't see it was covered in it. No, I saw the 00:17:31.460 --> 00:17:32.960 dots, the dots on this floor. That was Arianne. 00:17:33.059 --> 00:17:37.960 Are you sure? I'm sure of it. It was Arianne. 00:17:38.940 --> 00:17:43.180 I know it was. I knew the man personally, and 00:17:43.180 --> 00:17:45.960 he betrayed me here. It was Arianne. And you're 00:17:45.960 --> 00:17:49.039 just bellowing out. Everyone goes very quiet, 00:17:49.079 --> 00:17:50.579 and you see, like, shieldbearer officers, and 00:17:50.579 --> 00:17:52.140 they stop what they're doing, kind of moving 00:17:52.140 --> 00:17:54.539 the crowd back and looking, like, horror -struck, 00:17:54.559 --> 00:17:58.180 and begin to move in. Salome bends down to pick 00:17:58.180 --> 00:18:01.400 up Aedir's swords off the ground. Ariat's swords. 00:18:02.220 --> 00:18:06.400 That's what I meant. Jessen's swords. Here, these 00:18:06.400 --> 00:18:17.440 are yours now. Aedir, holy shit. I just got Jessen's 00:18:17.440 --> 00:18:27.890 swords. It's fucking good. It's good. All right. 00:18:29.710 --> 00:18:32.569 The swords come out, and you see more cameras 00:18:32.569 --> 00:18:34.410 flashing. There's a sword. There's a sword. I 00:18:34.410 --> 00:18:36.250 know those swords. The shieldbearer officer's 00:18:36.250 --> 00:18:37.990 eyes go very wide when he sees the swords, and 00:18:37.990 --> 00:18:39.750 they very quickly rush in like, when you step 00:18:39.750 --> 00:18:43.670 inside, questions. We have questions now. You 00:18:43.670 --> 00:18:46.750 say they look very surprised. Like, they clearly 00:18:46.750 --> 00:18:49.849 didn't know what was going on here. You would 00:18:49.849 --> 00:18:51.829 think Arya's not telling every single shieldbearer 00:18:51.829 --> 00:18:53.690 under his command that he's doing shady shit. 00:18:54.480 --> 00:18:56.819 They look like officers who are truly perplexed 00:18:56.819 --> 00:18:59.859 and terrified at the ramifications of what you 00:18:59.859 --> 00:19:02.500 are saying and what they are seeing. But they're 00:19:02.500 --> 00:19:03.900 trying to usher aid or trying to usher everyone 00:19:03.900 --> 00:19:06.400 inside to like stop this scene from getting way 00:19:06.400 --> 00:19:09.380 out of hand and causing chaos. Salome puts a 00:19:09.380 --> 00:19:11.339 hand up in front of the crowd of all the shield 00:19:11.339 --> 00:19:16.440 bearers. Who is in command amongst you? One may 00:19:16.440 --> 00:19:22.349 enter. Uh, you see. Oh. What was her name? There 00:19:22.349 --> 00:19:26.630 was Lieutenant in Aarakocra. I remember the Aarakocra. 00:19:26.789 --> 00:19:28.670 I do not remember the name. I don't remember 00:19:28.670 --> 00:19:34.789 the name. Well, she doesn't give her name. She 00:19:34.789 --> 00:19:37.650 has four. You see like a mixing of white and 00:19:37.650 --> 00:19:39.890 purple feathers kind of sticking out under the 00:19:39.890 --> 00:19:44.849 brass helm. Firm sort of wing salute. And moves 00:19:44.849 --> 00:19:52.400 up like, please, let's talk. I will go in. I 00:19:52.400 --> 00:19:55.119 have questions. The rest... All of you, hold 00:19:55.119 --> 00:19:59.380 the line here. Keep the crowd calm. And make 00:19:59.380 --> 00:20:00.839 sure to let the House of Compliances members 00:20:00.839 --> 00:20:02.640 through. We need to make sure... Is there anyone 00:20:02.640 --> 00:20:05.660 injured? Salome whispers in her ear that there 00:20:05.660 --> 00:20:10.319 are two dead and where they are. Damn. Okay. 00:20:11.779 --> 00:20:16.369 Uh... She moves in with you. As we're going in, 00:20:16.430 --> 00:20:19.150 Dresden is turning around, just kind of scanning 00:20:19.150 --> 00:20:22.029 the crowd, scanning the area. Can I roll a perception 00:20:22.029 --> 00:20:25.069 check on that? Didn't you say there was a wagon 00:20:25.069 --> 00:20:28.150 or a cart or something? You heard hooves. Actually, 00:20:28.269 --> 00:20:30.549 you don't need to because it's very, very clear 00:20:30.549 --> 00:20:32.950 what's coming. Okay. As she's sort of moving 00:20:32.950 --> 00:20:34.910 in, leading you in, you look over and you see, 00:20:35.049 --> 00:20:38.109 shining bright against this sort of dim blue 00:20:38.109 --> 00:20:42.250 light, a full unicorn is charging down the road. 00:20:42.410 --> 00:20:45.660 Yeah. Fuck. you know unicorns they are celestials 00:20:45.660 --> 00:20:47.700 they are intelligent and they are often used 00:20:47.700 --> 00:20:50.259 by the house of convalescence to respond to emergencies 00:20:50.259 --> 00:20:52.579 and bring people back and they're needed so you 00:20:52.579 --> 00:20:55.259 see a unicorn this massive white horse a single 00:20:55.259 --> 00:20:58.400 shining spiral horn comes charging up uh the 00:20:58.400 --> 00:21:00.599 crowd sort of parts before as it slides in between 00:21:00.599 --> 00:21:03.660 uh the the shibboleth kind of like steps to the 00:21:03.660 --> 00:21:07.140 side this unicorn just looks over give me your 00:21:07.140 --> 00:21:10.259 injured now a couple of like figures and like 00:21:10.259 --> 00:21:12.279 hooded white robes kind of dropping off the back 00:21:12.279 --> 00:21:14.460 that start moving towards the like Respond, see 00:21:14.460 --> 00:21:19.980 what's going on. Salome will help. She'll fly 00:21:19.980 --> 00:21:23.180 up to the roof across the street as Dresden and 00:21:23.180 --> 00:21:28.039 the shield bearer go inside, and she helps load 00:21:28.039 --> 00:21:32.619 the dead shield bearer on, and then she flies 00:21:32.619 --> 00:21:34.720 up into the window and pulls the second one out. 00:21:35.000 --> 00:21:36.000 At this point, she's like, I'm just going to 00:21:36.000 --> 00:21:38.160 deal with this myself. As you fly down with the 00:21:38.160 --> 00:21:40.119 second one. I've told so many people where they 00:21:40.119 --> 00:21:42.720 are. You see, like, the first one comes on. People 00:21:42.720 --> 00:21:44.859 are sort of strapping the body onto the unicorn 00:21:44.859 --> 00:21:48.220 back. You see three figures. Two of them are 00:21:48.220 --> 00:21:49.960 tall humanoids. One's a very short humanoid, 00:21:49.960 --> 00:21:52.160 all in, like, sort of robes covered, you know, 00:21:52.160 --> 00:21:54.920 hoods covering their faces. You bring the second 00:21:54.920 --> 00:21:56.819 one down. You're like, there's two of them. The 00:21:56.819 --> 00:21:58.559 two tall ones are taking the body, working with 00:21:58.559 --> 00:22:01.599 it. And you feel a tug on your robe from the 00:22:01.599 --> 00:22:06.670 short figure. That just says, Salome Sightweaver, 00:22:06.789 --> 00:22:11.750 you need to come with me right now. The hood 00:22:11.750 --> 00:22:15.690 falls back, and you see a smiling gnome with 00:22:15.690 --> 00:22:20.430 a classic coma. Oh, no. God. Oh, no. Oh, no. 00:22:20.509 --> 00:22:22.170 Does Salome... Gold -rimmed sunglasses, bright 00:22:22.170 --> 00:22:24.450 purple lenses. Holy shit. Salome must know who 00:22:24.450 --> 00:22:27.869 this is, though, right? You don't. What? Yeah, 00:22:27.869 --> 00:22:30.789 but isn't he, like, in cahoots with Atash publicly? 00:22:31.599 --> 00:22:34.240 Not publicly. Oh, really? It's not well known. 00:22:34.740 --> 00:22:37.740 It's generally pretty unknown that he is an official 00:22:37.740 --> 00:22:40.740 psychic vatash. He's been working purely through 00:22:40.740 --> 00:22:42.619 the shadows. The network's never done any kind 00:22:42.619 --> 00:22:45.440 of update on it. Those in higher circles are 00:22:45.440 --> 00:22:48.619 aware of this, but it's been weirdly toned down 00:22:48.619 --> 00:22:51.420 in the network. Okay, sure. I mean, if Salome 00:22:51.420 --> 00:22:53.779 doesn't know who this guy is and this guy's just 00:22:53.779 --> 00:22:57.220 like, hey, come with me, she's kind of just going 00:22:57.220 --> 00:23:01.960 to pay him no mind. Hey, hey, hey, hey. The name's 00:23:01.960 --> 00:23:04.200 Rune. Rune Rusong. Look, look, look, look. Rune 00:23:04.200 --> 00:23:07.799 Rusong. He pulls out a little sort of certification. 00:23:08.819 --> 00:23:11.660 Thank you for your service, Rune. I am quite 00:23:11.660 --> 00:23:15.240 busy here. Glanced down, you do see what looks 00:23:15.240 --> 00:23:18.319 to be an official sidekick's license. And even 00:23:18.319 --> 00:23:19.920 at a glance, you can see it is registered to 00:23:19.920 --> 00:23:24.119 Atash. Okay. Now that's interesting. Doesn't 00:23:24.119 --> 00:23:26.599 Dresden know all about Rune? You wouldn't be 00:23:26.599 --> 00:23:29.299 seeing this because you were just going inside. 00:23:29.359 --> 00:23:31.680 This is happening very subtly, trying to, like, 00:23:31.700 --> 00:23:33.420 happen away from the crowd. Very quiet conversation. 00:23:35.440 --> 00:23:37.539 Judgment wouldn't notice as he was looking backwards, 00:23:37.619 --> 00:23:41.079 scanning the crowd. You might see. Give me a 00:23:41.079 --> 00:23:43.160 perception check. I'm going to say disadvantage. 00:23:43.660 --> 00:23:46.380 He did specifically say he was scanning the crowd 00:23:46.380 --> 00:23:50.119 to see what. Yeah. Yes. You look to see the figures. 00:23:50.680 --> 00:23:54.539 Seeing a halfling isn't. It's probably a tough. 00:23:54.859 --> 00:23:57.980 Okay. Let's see that nat 20 and then we'll talk 00:23:57.980 --> 00:24:00.019 about it. Nat 20 on the first roll. Get the fuck 00:24:00.019 --> 00:24:03.440 out. It's a disadvantage. Let's see. Maybe you'll 00:24:03.440 --> 00:24:09.940 get one. It's going to be a 16. 16. You look 00:24:09.940 --> 00:24:13.200 back as the doors about to close behind you as 00:24:13.200 --> 00:24:14.720 you're being led in for questioning and I think 00:24:14.720 --> 00:24:18.039 you do see the figure like just as people are 00:24:18.039 --> 00:24:20.920 still moving the way the hood comes off you see 00:24:20.920 --> 00:24:23.349 a face. I don't know if you've ever seen Ruden 00:24:23.349 --> 00:24:25.230 Rusong personally as Dresden, but he's definitely 00:24:25.230 --> 00:24:27.690 been described to you. And that, the comb over, 00:24:27.809 --> 00:24:30.829 the big sort of over -the -top glasses, no one 00:24:30.829 --> 00:24:32.670 looks quite like him in the Concord worlds. I 00:24:32.670 --> 00:24:36.569 didn't see him at the, way back when. I don't 00:24:36.569 --> 00:24:37.869 know if you saw him at the party, because I'm 00:24:37.869 --> 00:24:40.710 pretty sure he only stuck with Blanche. So I 00:24:40.710 --> 00:24:42.049 think you never actually saw him personally, 00:24:42.190 --> 00:24:44.549 but I think with 16, you at least have a hint, 00:24:44.630 --> 00:24:48.069 like, is that who I think it is? So I don't know 00:24:48.069 --> 00:24:50.009 for sure. You wouldn't know for sure. Not enough 00:24:50.009 --> 00:24:53.089 to call anything out. You wouldn't like, yeah, 00:24:53.130 --> 00:24:54.329 I don't think you'd go in for a kill or anything 00:24:54.329 --> 00:24:56.450 on this gnome. Could just be like, you know, 00:24:56.529 --> 00:25:01.390 Sam the accountant. Okay. All right. Fair. But 00:25:01.390 --> 00:25:04.809 definitely suspicious. The figure, the lieutenant 00:25:04.809 --> 00:25:06.509 sort of leading you in. Do you want to do anything? 00:25:06.589 --> 00:25:08.710 Do you want to like push past again and stop 00:25:08.710 --> 00:25:14.190 this or? No, because if there's no real indicator 00:25:14.190 --> 00:25:19.119 that. He knows exactly who he is. He doesn't 00:25:19.119 --> 00:25:22.779 want to fuck around and, you know. You at least 00:25:22.779 --> 00:25:24.660 are suspicious that something is happening. Maybe 00:25:24.660 --> 00:25:26.420 something to talk to Salome about later. Yeah. 00:25:26.460 --> 00:25:28.900 I mean, Dresden is very much like, I need hard 00:25:28.900 --> 00:25:32.400 evidence. And I just don't have that. Hell yeah. 00:25:32.500 --> 00:25:33.819 Especially with the shield bearers all around. 00:25:34.980 --> 00:25:39.200 Yeah. Hell yeah. Salome, let me address some 00:25:39.200 --> 00:25:40.740 of the shock you are probably feeling because 00:25:40.740 --> 00:25:43.160 you are a soldier of Atash. You have served his 00:25:43.160 --> 00:25:45.950 agenda for over 50 years. And again, you did 00:25:45.950 --> 00:25:48.450 not know he had a sidekick. It seems there are 00:25:48.450 --> 00:25:50.789 some secrets that Atash has not shared with even 00:25:50.789 --> 00:25:53.930 his own Celestials. Out of fear, out of shame, 00:25:54.049 --> 00:25:56.950 you don't know, but you'd already suspected he 00:25:56.950 --> 00:25:59.450 had more planned than he has revealed. You've 00:25:59.450 --> 00:26:01.829 seen the end goals as machinations in a vision, 00:26:01.910 --> 00:26:04.250 one that you shared with Jules LaRoche, the one 00:26:04.250 --> 00:26:08.089 man that Atash seems to fear. Your fellow Pari 00:26:08.089 --> 00:26:10.930 have seen this too. The united Shadrakhan, the 00:26:10.930 --> 00:26:14.359 coming Utopia. But it seems that only you were 00:26:14.359 --> 00:26:16.500 wise enough to look deeper and to be terrified 00:26:16.500 --> 00:26:20.279 of this coming peaceful world. And Rin speaks 00:26:20.279 --> 00:26:24.799 again. Salome, with me, right now. She shakes 00:26:24.799 --> 00:26:29.059 her head out of, you know, her thoughts. Brings 00:26:29.059 --> 00:26:34.140 herself back to being present. And I suspect 00:26:34.140 --> 00:26:37.640 that being surprised doesn't happen to Salome 00:26:37.640 --> 00:26:41.369 often. But it's almost... It's almost enjoyable. 00:26:41.789 --> 00:26:45.049 You know, it's sort of a very human thing to 00:26:45.049 --> 00:26:48.009 be surprised. Oh, I love that. So she smiles 00:26:48.009 --> 00:26:54.650 a little and says, I did not see this. I'm sorry. 00:26:55.630 --> 00:27:02.410 Could you repeat yourself? I said, come with 00:27:02.410 --> 00:27:04.990 me. All right, you know what? How about we just 00:27:04.990 --> 00:27:06.769 head right now to the House of Convalescence, 00:27:06.829 --> 00:27:08.809 all right? You want to give me a ride there? 00:27:08.930 --> 00:27:14.849 You want to fly? I, she looks around. Leave this 00:27:14.849 --> 00:27:22.349 here now? Atash wills it? He kind of like, his 00:27:22.349 --> 00:27:24.430 eyes almost bulging, frustrated. He like reaches 00:27:24.430 --> 00:27:26.390 up and almost tries to pull you down to his level. 00:27:26.690 --> 00:27:28.890 Puts a hand up, very secretive, and just says, 00:27:29.029 --> 00:27:31.869 the big boss wants to speak with you, Salome. 00:27:33.129 --> 00:27:36.230 You've, well, you've royally fucked up, but it's 00:27:36.230 --> 00:27:38.869 not really your fault that useless fucking moron 00:27:38.869 --> 00:27:41.529 Arya went against our every order in his idiocy 00:27:41.529 --> 00:27:43.849 tonight. It just looks like you happened into 00:27:43.849 --> 00:27:46.269 a situation that you could not understand. Unfortunately, 00:27:46.430 --> 00:27:48.109 you're going to have to run damage control on 00:27:48.109 --> 00:27:50.130 this thing. And for that, you need to be in the 00:27:50.130 --> 00:27:53.349 know. And for that, you need to speak to the 00:27:53.349 --> 00:27:56.609 boss. Can I roll insight? I want to figure out 00:27:56.609 --> 00:28:00.769 if it's actually... If I believe that it's Atash 00:28:00.769 --> 00:28:03.269 that wants me to come, Salome to come, or if 00:28:03.269 --> 00:28:06.049 it's just Rune. Roll insight. It's hard. Because 00:28:06.049 --> 00:28:09.109 you're looking into a lie. Oh, right. Because 00:28:09.109 --> 00:28:12.650 you're looking, yeah. 18. He seems like he's 00:28:12.650 --> 00:28:19.809 following orders. Okay. Salome will just grab 00:28:19.809 --> 00:28:22.930 him and fly straight up and off to the House 00:28:22.930 --> 00:28:28.009 of Convalescence. Oh, God. All right. All right. 00:28:29.279 --> 00:28:35.220 You are sailing out over the citadel, over the 00:28:35.220 --> 00:28:39.700 fossil. Dresden. Just looked it up. We never 00:28:39.700 --> 00:28:41.059 actually gave a name to this lieutenant. I'm 00:28:41.059 --> 00:28:44.700 going to call her Lieutenant Shalash. Lieutenant 00:28:44.700 --> 00:28:47.079 Shalash sort of takes you inside, gathers everyone 00:28:47.079 --> 00:28:49.660 together. She's actually super kindly about it 00:28:49.660 --> 00:28:52.880 all. You know, just does not, nobody else comes 00:28:52.880 --> 00:28:56.140 in, just her. She's clearly, you know, you guys 00:28:56.140 --> 00:28:59.339 have faced some kind of horrible situation. Her 00:28:59.339 --> 00:29:02.220 eyes following Ariadne's blades as we heard people 00:29:02.220 --> 00:29:06.619 move them. Looks super uncomfortable. Whoa, whoa, 00:29:06.619 --> 00:29:08.500 whoa. The party's keeping the swords, right? 00:29:09.380 --> 00:29:12.579 Did the shield bearers take them from us? I mean, 00:29:12.579 --> 00:29:14.420 they're probably going to want to. They're evidence. 00:29:15.819 --> 00:29:18.319 They're definitely evidence. I'll say that Salome 00:29:18.319 --> 00:29:19.799 left them with Dresden, and I'll let Dresden 00:29:19.799 --> 00:29:21.819 handle it. They want to take the swords. If you 00:29:21.819 --> 00:29:23.240 give them the swords, she's watching them as 00:29:23.240 --> 00:29:25.619 you go in. She's looking at them. I don't think 00:29:25.619 --> 00:29:27.910 she makes a move for them yet. First, she just 00:29:27.910 --> 00:29:29.329 wants to ask some questions. I'm not going to 00:29:29.329 --> 00:29:31.710 go deep into it, but I want to know this. Do 00:29:31.710 --> 00:29:34.029 you tell her everything? Anything that happened 00:29:34.029 --> 00:29:37.609 that you saw Ariat's face even? Is there anything 00:29:37.609 --> 00:29:39.089 you want to hold back? Do you want to hold everything 00:29:39.089 --> 00:29:43.410 back? How hard do you want to play ball? How 00:29:43.410 --> 00:29:45.269 about you start and we'll see where it goes. 00:29:45.990 --> 00:29:48.630 All right. I don't want to go too deep in the 00:29:48.630 --> 00:29:50.569 weeds and just like this thing. It's not going 00:29:50.569 --> 00:29:54.410 to have a huge impact. Okay. Okay. Well, I'll 00:29:54.410 --> 00:29:56.109 say this then. At the very least, he explains 00:29:56.109 --> 00:29:59.690 exactly what happened. Okay. Yeah. All right. 00:30:00.289 --> 00:30:02.609 We'll just say bare details. If there's anything 00:30:02.609 --> 00:30:04.650 specific you want to let me know about, you want 00:30:04.650 --> 00:30:07.369 the shield bearers to know about, you can tell 00:30:07.369 --> 00:30:11.890 me. We'll say that they just know assault happened 00:30:11.890 --> 00:30:15.130 in the middle of the night. It was clearly Ariat. 00:30:15.309 --> 00:30:17.930 He spoke to you. Maybe you don't say exactly 00:30:17.930 --> 00:30:22.450 everything he talked about, but... And you chased 00:30:22.450 --> 00:30:25.220 him off. Okay. So are we just blowing through? 00:30:26.279 --> 00:30:30.240 I think so. Okay, so then in that case... Unless 00:30:30.240 --> 00:30:33.500 you want to go deep in. Near the end, before 00:30:33.500 --> 00:30:38.880 they split off, Dresden will say, Investigate 00:30:38.880 --> 00:30:42.420 Ariat to the fullest. It's much bigger than just 00:30:42.420 --> 00:30:48.559 tonight. Believe me, I am going to. She kind 00:30:48.559 --> 00:30:51.299 of, like, looks down and rubs, like, some of 00:30:51.299 --> 00:30:53.119 the feathers on her forehead and just says, I... 00:30:53.390 --> 00:30:57.150 Wish Ar -Halan was here, he would thrive in this. 00:30:58.309 --> 00:31:02.390 This conspiracy thing is not... Not my forte. 00:31:03.369 --> 00:31:08.730 I wish he was here too. Do not leave a single 00:31:08.730 --> 00:31:13.589 stone unturned. I will do everything in my power. 00:31:14.009 --> 00:31:17.450 I just don't know, if this is as big as you say, 00:31:17.630 --> 00:31:23.109 how far those powers will go. Am I... Going to 00:31:23.109 --> 00:31:26.569 be allowed to take those swords. They are crucial 00:31:26.569 --> 00:31:29.930 evidence against the Captain Commander. I think 00:31:29.930 --> 00:31:33.950 Dresden looks at them, holds them up, and there's 00:31:33.950 --> 00:31:38.170 a brief pause where he's seriously... You see 00:31:38.170 --> 00:31:40.990 him start to bring them closer to himself, like 00:31:40.990 --> 00:31:44.609 he's going to keep them. But then he resigns 00:31:44.609 --> 00:31:48.589 himself to giving them up and hands them over. 00:31:50.000 --> 00:31:52.599 She takes them very gingerly. I actually fall 00:31:52.599 --> 00:31:54.279 on, like, probably pulls, like, some kind of 00:31:54.279 --> 00:31:56.819 bag, you know, some kind of, like, wrap around 00:31:56.819 --> 00:31:58.059 her. Evidence bag. Yeah, like, full evidence 00:31:58.059 --> 00:31:59.980 sort of wrap, kind of wrap the swords up, tie 00:31:59.980 --> 00:32:02.859 it down. She throws them over her back and gives 00:32:02.859 --> 00:32:06.940 you a nod. We will be in touch, but please rest 00:32:06.940 --> 00:32:10.000 and recover. We won't trouble you tonight for 00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:14.500 more answers. You know where to find me. She 00:32:14.500 --> 00:32:16.220 zips outside, and you're kind of rounding up 00:32:16.220 --> 00:32:19.960 the shield bearers, dispersing the crowd. Leaving 00:32:19.960 --> 00:32:24.740 you in peace. For now. What are the mechanics 00:32:24.740 --> 00:32:27.940 of those swords? I just want to know. Uh, they're... 00:32:27.940 --> 00:32:31.220 They're actually, honestly, basic swords. I didn't 00:32:31.220 --> 00:32:32.619 actually up any of them. I should have upped 00:32:32.619 --> 00:32:34.759 them and had a higher to hit, honestly, but I 00:32:34.759 --> 00:32:38.180 didn't. So I'm a goofball. Just regular -ass 00:32:38.180 --> 00:32:40.420 swords with a little bit of poison on them. The 00:32:40.420 --> 00:32:41.960 more exciting thing were the sheaths. They each 00:32:41.960 --> 00:32:43.859 were coated with poison. There were poisons that 00:32:43.859 --> 00:32:46.000 he could use. Yeah, the sword's not too exciting. 00:32:46.059 --> 00:32:48.160 The sheaths? Yeah, those are cool. He kept those. 00:32:49.710 --> 00:32:53.630 He'll have those later. Oops. Yeah, don't worry. 00:32:53.789 --> 00:32:55.750 That was not a secret. I know who I'm dealing 00:32:55.750 --> 00:33:00.910 with here. I'll take him off his dead body. And 00:33:00.910 --> 00:33:04.089 we travel back to the house of convalescence. 00:33:04.130 --> 00:33:07.630 You are flying above the citadel, flying around 00:33:07.630 --> 00:33:13.089 the fossil, and somewhere around the, like, three 00:33:13.089 --> 00:33:15.089 -quarters way down the length of the fossil, 00:33:15.109 --> 00:33:16.789 actually not that far from the other coyote, 00:33:16.869 --> 00:33:19.460 say maybe, like, Right at the end of sort of 00:33:19.460 --> 00:33:22.359 populace, your populated district of the trade 00:33:22.359 --> 00:33:24.039 discal, where it kind of, you know, right afterwards 00:33:24.039 --> 00:33:26.279 just kind of fall off and you have the kind of 00:33:26.279 --> 00:33:28.420 slummy area where the other coyote like exists 00:33:28.420 --> 00:33:32.359 at the very tail end, you see the House of Convalescence. 00:33:32.380 --> 00:33:33.680 We've mentioned this before in the show. We never 00:33:33.680 --> 00:33:35.119 really got into it, but this is sort of like 00:33:35.119 --> 00:33:39.000 the central hospital of the Radiant Citadel used 00:33:39.000 --> 00:33:40.819 to, you know, in search and rescue efforts, they'll 00:33:40.819 --> 00:33:42.960 take a lot of people in. They can utilize the 00:33:42.960 --> 00:33:45.740 auroral diamonds of magic to heal the wounded 00:33:45.740 --> 00:33:47.980 without... you know, item cost, things like that, 00:33:48.059 --> 00:33:51.119 is also where a number of celestials sort of 00:33:51.119 --> 00:33:54.960 hole up here to, you know, to do their healing, 00:33:55.119 --> 00:33:59.859 curse removing, sickness, ailment removing. And 00:33:59.859 --> 00:34:03.099 you see it ahead. It's almost like a five -tiered, 00:34:03.099 --> 00:34:05.500 white -frosted wedding cake, the topper of which 00:34:05.500 --> 00:34:08.000 is a statue of a celestial with wings outstretched, 00:34:08.119 --> 00:34:13.119 a swaddled baby nestled in its arms. Very, like, 00:34:13.119 --> 00:34:17.650 it looks more palace than... hospital as you're 00:34:17.650 --> 00:34:19.909 moving towards it as you fly down to like the 00:34:19.909 --> 00:34:23.210 entranceway of its grand sort of wide entranceway 00:34:23.210 --> 00:34:26.630 with gold sort of pillars you can see uh you 00:34:26.630 --> 00:34:28.969 know spreading out ahead of you be a glass uh 00:34:28.969 --> 00:34:31.989 doorway that sort of opens automatically as you 00:34:31.989 --> 00:34:36.349 get close and just white marble tiles are stretching 00:34:36.349 --> 00:34:38.969 out before you into this grand like waiting room 00:34:38.969 --> 00:34:44.800 uh and again just as you step in just more akin 00:34:44.800 --> 00:34:47.260 to a palace than a hospital, grand and ornate, 00:34:47.360 --> 00:34:50.179 although nothing can really staunch the sort 00:34:50.179 --> 00:34:52.280 of heavy smell of alchemical medicines in the 00:34:52.280 --> 00:34:56.619 air all around. Just medicine and incense burning 00:34:56.619 --> 00:35:00.480 everywhere. Is it like a foul smell, the medicine? 00:35:00.760 --> 00:35:03.579 It's a mix. Some rough, some bad smell, but I 00:35:03.579 --> 00:35:06.280 think it's being combated by, like, an overly 00:35:06.280 --> 00:35:08.280 sterile sort of incense smell that almost makes 00:35:08.280 --> 00:35:13.690 it worse, I guess. Okay. But manageable. As you're 00:35:13.690 --> 00:35:15.010 stepping in, I think you see, like, more of another 00:35:15.010 --> 00:35:17.630 unicorn blast out the door, sliding past you. 00:35:18.070 --> 00:35:19.510 You're moving to see, like, a number of figures 00:35:19.510 --> 00:35:21.809 are standing on benches. Again, just, like, marble 00:35:21.809 --> 00:35:24.769 benches with cushions sort of waiting for, you 00:35:24.769 --> 00:35:27.070 know, to be treated. There's sort of a desk where 00:35:27.070 --> 00:35:32.010 a diva, celestial, very similar looking to Hyronix 00:35:32.010 --> 00:35:34.090 is kind of behind there with charts and kind 00:35:34.090 --> 00:35:36.530 of reading things off, calling out names. A number 00:35:36.530 --> 00:35:38.530 of white -robed people moving around. And as 00:35:38.530 --> 00:35:40.670 you move in, you do see one figure sort of storming 00:35:40.670 --> 00:35:42.769 through, kind of looking around everything, maybe 00:35:42.769 --> 00:35:44.690 responding to the chaos happening just down the 00:35:44.690 --> 00:35:49.329 road. You see a green -skinned planetar, very, 00:35:49.409 --> 00:35:53.050 very large, almost as tall as Atash. Well -muscled, 00:35:53.090 --> 00:35:55.829 feminine form in a long, loose white coat, tight 00:35:55.829 --> 00:35:58.889 ponytail of golden hair runs down her back. And 00:35:58.889 --> 00:36:01.190 you know this planetar, you know this is Felindora, 00:36:01.369 --> 00:36:03.769 one of the few that joined Atash when he left 00:36:03.769 --> 00:36:06.469 Kameo. You know that she is near as strict as 00:36:06.469 --> 00:36:08.130 he is when it comes to rules and law, though 00:36:08.130 --> 00:36:09.809 she channels her stubbornness and the management 00:36:09.809 --> 00:36:13.150 of the House of Convalescence. She is, in a sense, 00:36:13.230 --> 00:36:17.230 the director of this hospital. Oh, no. The worst 00:36:17.230 --> 00:36:20.829 bad guy of all. An administrator. We're taking 00:36:20.829 --> 00:36:25.409 them all on. Here we go. Her eyes lock onto you, 00:36:25.510 --> 00:36:29.519 Salome. And I'll ask, do you know of her? Do 00:36:29.519 --> 00:36:32.039 you know her personally? What is your connection 00:36:32.039 --> 00:36:33.760 with other Celestials? Do you have a lot of friends 00:36:33.760 --> 00:36:35.719 amongst them? Are you known amongst them very 00:36:35.719 --> 00:36:41.280 well? I mean, I guess as much as Celestials would 00:36:41.280 --> 00:36:45.659 have a personal life, right? And I think, I mean, 00:36:45.659 --> 00:36:49.539 correct me if I'm wrong, but as the first Celestial, 00:36:49.579 --> 00:36:52.880 or the second, aside from Atash, Celestial Luminary, 00:36:53.059 --> 00:36:57.579 she's, you know, reached that sort of upper social 00:36:57.579 --> 00:37:02.650 echelon. clearly very true so so if if this if 00:37:02.650 --> 00:37:05.730 this angel is is important you know in the hospital 00:37:05.730 --> 00:37:09.510 they probably have worked together before salome 00:37:09.510 --> 00:37:12.489 bringing people here to be healed or something 00:37:12.489 --> 00:37:16.110 like that hell yeah so they at least have a professional 00:37:16.110 --> 00:37:18.730 working relationship usually like above radiant 00:37:18.730 --> 00:37:22.429 pools uh eyes this golden eyebrow just raises 00:37:22.429 --> 00:37:26.489 and she moves over to you kind of glides across 00:37:26.489 --> 00:37:31.389 the floor to you and just... Salome Sightweaver. 00:37:32.730 --> 00:37:36.150 I've heard you were involved in some very recent 00:37:36.150 --> 00:37:40.750 incident. Um... Are you hurt? Sorry, can you 00:37:40.750 --> 00:37:42.849 just remind me of her name one more time? Felindora. 00:37:44.070 --> 00:37:51.150 I took some small damage, Felin, but I'm afraid 00:37:51.150 --> 00:37:55.789 my deepest wounds are condolences for those who 00:37:55.789 --> 00:38:02.610 were killed today. The attackers at the Ugly 00:38:02.610 --> 00:38:07.150 Coyote, they would not back down from me. Not 00:38:07.150 --> 00:38:12.829 until the commander ran. And you were forced 00:38:12.829 --> 00:38:17.269 to kill them. The wound we cannot close. How 00:38:17.269 --> 00:38:21.929 disappointing. There is a connotation. Maybe 00:38:21.929 --> 00:38:23.590 lost to ruin. Maybe something he's aware of. 00:38:23.630 --> 00:38:26.019 You're not sure. that drops between the two of 00:38:26.019 --> 00:38:28.599 you because you know something else salome something 00:38:28.599 --> 00:38:30.320 that the conquered worlds at large don't know 00:38:30.320 --> 00:38:34.940 the greatest secret amongst you celestials it's 00:38:34.940 --> 00:38:37.940 well known that atash will only revive and resurrect 00:38:37.940 --> 00:38:40.239 those who have committed acts so they can hold 00:38:40.239 --> 00:38:43.980 trial and go to the sky prison to live out their 00:38:43.980 --> 00:38:47.019 overly long sentences i mean arguably these guys 00:38:47.019 --> 00:38:52.099 did true but you know why that is the case why 00:38:52.099 --> 00:38:56.449 that is the only case Because Kameo's magic did 00:38:56.449 --> 00:38:59.349 not follow you here fully. And the magic of the 00:38:59.349 --> 00:39:03.730 Drakon, especially the Sunweaver, on whom you 00:39:03.730 --> 00:39:07.650 stand right now, interferes with some of this 00:39:07.650 --> 00:39:11.130 magic. You know, Atash's resurrections, like 00:39:11.130 --> 00:39:17.630 anyone else's, are only temporary. In fact, not 00:39:17.630 --> 00:39:20.349 known for the only ones to be revived are criminals 00:39:20.349 --> 00:39:24.940 who will die in prison. Typically. Almost always. 00:39:26.000 --> 00:39:28.880 Well, shit. The only exception would be Ramin 00:39:28.880 --> 00:39:31.239 Rasool, who was part Celestial himself, and so 00:39:31.239 --> 00:39:35.800 the magic did hold. Yeah. A secret you're aware 00:39:35.800 --> 00:39:38.719 of. But she kind of looks down at you in some 00:39:38.719 --> 00:39:41.420 disappointment and Rune kind of, we have to get 00:39:41.420 --> 00:39:45.579 moving. We are going to the top floor. And she, 00:39:45.639 --> 00:39:48.079 like, raises another eyebrow towards him and 00:39:48.079 --> 00:39:52.119 looks to you. And there's something in the air. 00:39:52.909 --> 00:39:57.590 Between them, something unspoken, something unspeakable. 00:39:58.630 --> 00:40:04.090 As they move by, Salome looks to Felon almost 00:40:04.090 --> 00:40:09.030 pleadingly, and she says, I gave them every opportunity. 00:40:10.429 --> 00:40:14.489 It seems I am not the one you need to explain 00:40:14.489 --> 00:40:23.570 this to. Good luck. I'm so fucked. And she begins 00:40:23.570 --> 00:40:27.469 to move away. As Rune moves, I think he stops 00:40:27.469 --> 00:40:32.269 for a second, almost like hesitant, looks to 00:40:32.269 --> 00:40:37.329 you and, well, shall we? Moves over to a, it's 00:40:37.329 --> 00:40:40.010 like a magical kind of elevator, sort of a stone. 00:40:40.170 --> 00:40:42.789 There's like a tower deposit on the far wall, 00:40:42.909 --> 00:40:45.929 a number of them, where this stone platform sits 00:40:45.929 --> 00:40:49.449 in the middle. As they're standing, waiting for 00:40:49.449 --> 00:40:52.280 this. magical elevator. She's just staring straight 00:40:52.280 --> 00:40:56.340 ahead. Without looking to Rune, she asks him, 00:40:56.480 --> 00:41:04.179 Did I do something bad, Rune Ruzan? Yes, you 00:41:04.179 --> 00:41:10.320 did. But again, we don't blame you. It... It 00:41:10.320 --> 00:41:13.460 wasn't your fault. Atash made sure the boss knows 00:41:13.460 --> 00:41:19.630 it was not your fault. And yet we have... A request 00:41:19.630 --> 00:41:23.230 for you. Does Salome know who he's talking about 00:41:23.230 --> 00:41:27.730 when he says the boss? I think when he says the 00:41:27.730 --> 00:41:31.429 boss separately from Atash, your stomach drops 00:41:31.429 --> 00:41:37.369 through the floor. You feel, I mean, there must 00:41:37.369 --> 00:41:42.429 be a weight of fear of unknown so deep, so profound. 00:41:43.190 --> 00:41:45.610 And yet maybe the answer to a question you've 00:41:45.610 --> 00:41:48.440 been wondering about. Who is it really that's 00:41:48.440 --> 00:41:53.820 going to create that future? Um, yeah. Yeah, 00:41:53.860 --> 00:41:58.980 who's Antosh's boss? The elevator settles. Rune 00:41:58.980 --> 00:42:01.320 steps on. He rolls buttons on the side. He hits 00:42:01.320 --> 00:42:04.159 the top floor. I think there's, like, a full 00:42:04.159 --> 00:42:07.019 -on, like, a little crystal there. He presses 00:42:07.019 --> 00:42:08.960 it, and he has to reach up, and you see he whispers 00:42:08.960 --> 00:42:12.679 a word into it. And almost like a light leaves 00:42:12.679 --> 00:42:16.199 his throat into the crystal as he does. Did I 00:42:16.199 --> 00:42:20.079 see his lips moving? Let's say you did. Okay, 00:42:20.199 --> 00:42:25.340 because I have the observant feet, so I can read 00:42:25.340 --> 00:42:30.519 his lips. That's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. 00:42:31.920 --> 00:42:36.719 What would be a cool password? Yeah, let's go 00:42:36.719 --> 00:42:40.460 with something simple. See, weirdly enough, he 00:42:40.460 --> 00:42:45.570 had whispered the will. Of the sapphire. Oh, 00:42:45.769 --> 00:42:50.510 creepy. That's amazing that you know the path 00:42:50.510 --> 00:42:55.329 to this. That's amazing. Yeah, very cool. All 00:42:55.329 --> 00:43:00.349 right. I'm still terrified, but I feel a little 00:43:00.349 --> 00:43:01.849 bit better. I feel like I found something cool. 00:43:02.170 --> 00:43:05.389 That's fun. Hell yeah. But it's a little lost 00:43:05.389 --> 00:43:08.889 in me right now because I'm nervous. You should 00:43:08.889 --> 00:43:15.489 be. Stop. In the elevator. Moves. Up. Don't like 00:43:15.489 --> 00:43:17.809 it. Change the music. I don't like it. I don't 00:43:17.809 --> 00:43:21.309 want it. No, it's getting creepier. As the door 00:43:21.309 --> 00:43:25.730 slides open with a grinding of stone, you look 00:43:25.730 --> 00:43:28.389 out and see only a gray thickness akin to the 00:43:28.389 --> 00:43:31.989 very fog you just bowed within. Rune just frowns 00:43:31.989 --> 00:43:34.659 towards it and just says, Ugh. I hate getting 00:43:34.659 --> 00:43:36.780 wet. You see he's like shut off his like robes 00:43:36.780 --> 00:43:38.480 and underneath him he has this really kind of 00:43:38.480 --> 00:43:42.420 ridiculously white suit on. A very modern day 00:43:42.420 --> 00:43:44.260 looking suit, which in this setting is weird. 00:43:45.099 --> 00:43:47.679 Kind of gold trimmed in all the right places. 00:43:47.719 --> 00:43:51.039 Gold tie. He's so tacky. Glasses are kind of, 00:43:51.039 --> 00:43:52.679 you know, pushes open his nose a little bit. 00:43:52.679 --> 00:43:55.159 You see his reflection in the purple. Maybe you 00:43:55.159 --> 00:43:56.599 see a little bit of that nervousness in your 00:43:56.599 --> 00:44:01.840 eyes. Well, let's do it. He steps into the fog. 00:44:02.909 --> 00:44:05.230 Do you follow? Are Salome's wings big enough 00:44:05.230 --> 00:44:09.050 to wrap around her, like, her abdomen to keep 00:44:09.050 --> 00:44:10.670 her from getting wet as she walks through the 00:44:10.670 --> 00:44:12.769 fog? Hell yeah. Yeah, okay. We're gonna do that. 00:44:13.210 --> 00:44:15.250 Just because I think it's fun. You step through 00:44:15.250 --> 00:44:17.409 as well. Do one last cool thing before I get 00:44:17.409 --> 00:44:20.989 killed by Atash. You feel this around, this fog 00:44:20.989 --> 00:44:23.170 so thick, fog so thick that you realize this 00:44:23.170 --> 00:44:28.170 is more akin to a cloud than you would know intimately. 00:44:29.260 --> 00:44:31.320 You feel this light wetness all around you on 00:44:31.320 --> 00:44:34.840 the edges of your feathers of your wings. A sensation 00:44:34.840 --> 00:44:38.420 that maybe is quite at home. You are standing 00:44:38.420 --> 00:44:41.539 within, moving through a storm cloud. You feel 00:44:41.539 --> 00:44:43.940 a heavy wind pulls at you and greeting the sound 00:44:43.940 --> 00:44:48.000 of rumbling thunder. An old friend. And you step 00:44:48.000 --> 00:44:50.500 out of the cloud cover and find yourself in an 00:44:50.500 --> 00:44:54.059 impossible place. Because you know that you were 00:44:54.059 --> 00:44:56.920 moving to the very top floor of this house convalescence. 00:44:56.940 --> 00:45:00.360 The very top of the wedding cake. What you see 00:45:00.360 --> 00:45:04.119 is so much larger than that would explain. Now 00:45:04.119 --> 00:45:05.760 you know that many of the rooms of the Fane Sky 00:45:05.760 --> 00:45:08.039 Prison are actually pocket dimension, much larger 00:45:08.039 --> 00:45:10.519 on the inside than out. So that must be the case 00:45:10.519 --> 00:45:13.539 here as well. Because you find yourself standing 00:45:13.539 --> 00:45:17.280 on a platform of marble amidst an open sky. A 00:45:17.280 --> 00:45:20.900 sky filled with a churning, storming cyclone. 00:45:21.659 --> 00:45:25.139 And there's almost nothing but storm here. The 00:45:25.139 --> 00:45:27.349 platform you stand on is a... Just a bare circle, 00:45:27.449 --> 00:45:30.070 only 50 feet wide or so. It vanishes into the 00:45:30.070 --> 00:45:32.110 clouds, adds borders, and you can't make out 00:45:32.110 --> 00:45:35.530 much beyond. Just hints at dark skies and stars. 00:45:36.550 --> 00:45:40.449 The door behind you is gone. I'm scared. All 00:45:40.449 --> 00:45:42.369 that stands before you is the platform and three 00:45:42.369 --> 00:45:46.090 figures upon it. One is the gnome, Rimsang, who 00:45:46.090 --> 00:45:48.809 dances casually over to the side of Atash, who 00:45:48.809 --> 00:45:51.469 glares down at him with arms crossed, and there's 00:45:51.469 --> 00:45:53.989 a fury. In the eyes of the angel king that you 00:45:53.989 --> 00:45:58.369 have never seen before, blazing hot. But somehow 00:45:58.369 --> 00:46:00.710 he does not hold your attention. Somehow he is 00:46:00.710 --> 00:46:04.630 not the thing that inspires your fear. For just 00:46:04.630 --> 00:46:06.449 beyond the two of them, standing at the center 00:46:06.449 --> 00:46:10.210 of this platform, is a pedestal holding a fist 00:46:10.210 --> 00:46:15.489 -sized, pulsing blue gemstone. Holy shit. Fuck. 00:46:15.630 --> 00:46:19.369 You hear notes of music, a deep, manic rush amidst 00:46:19.369 --> 00:46:21.250 the crackling thunder and howling wind around. 00:46:21.980 --> 00:46:24.360 Despite being in the seeming sky, the air is 00:46:24.360 --> 00:46:27.699 heavy, like gravity is pushing down on you, a 00:46:27.699 --> 00:46:29.920 gentle but threatening press, as though it's 00:46:29.920 --> 00:46:33.260 just waiting to smash you against the floor below. 00:46:34.340 --> 00:46:38.380 One wrong step. Salome, at least a little bit, 00:46:38.420 --> 00:46:41.280 gives in to that pressure, and she goes down 00:46:41.280 --> 00:46:43.480 to one knee and bows her head in front of Atash. 00:46:44.599 --> 00:46:48.000 You, like, bow your head, and you're surprised 00:46:48.000 --> 00:46:49.760 that you're not immediately acknowledged. You 00:46:49.760 --> 00:46:53.300 hear, like, voices. In discussion, kind of beyond 00:46:53.300 --> 00:46:58.420 the music, the crackling, everything. One Salome 00:46:58.420 --> 00:47:01.980 Sightweaver, delivered as requested. Just a rumble. 00:47:03.099 --> 00:47:06.340 Ah, I see our Angel King is still in a bad mood. 00:47:07.179 --> 00:47:11.960 I told you that we did not need this worm. We 00:47:11.960 --> 00:47:15.840 granted this creature. authority as a sidekick. 00:47:15.900 --> 00:47:19.559 And for what? His vile, lawless antics have stained 00:47:19.559 --> 00:47:23.460 our righteous cause. And still, his network puppet 00:47:23.460 --> 00:47:27.179 has slipped off its own strings. Have you seen? 00:47:28.019 --> 00:47:29.639 Hey, hey, hey, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hey, we cut 00:47:29.639 --> 00:47:31.800 the broadcast before it went too far. Just be 00:47:31.800 --> 00:47:33.940 some damage control, but I will deal with the 00:47:33.940 --> 00:47:37.219 Orin situation personally. Very, very personally. 00:47:37.239 --> 00:47:39.719 Just make sure to open up a spot in that sky 00:47:39.719 --> 00:47:42.599 for some yours. All right, big guy? You kind 00:47:42.599 --> 00:47:47.719 of glance up to see Atash's glare down on Rune, 00:47:47.739 --> 00:47:50.840 like the seething, burning, fiery glare, like 00:47:50.840 --> 00:47:55.940 the sun is beaming down on him. What? Were you 00:47:55.940 --> 00:47:59.000 doing just so well without me? Remember Free 00:47:59.000 --> 00:48:01.760 Sansatyan? Because I remember. I imagine everyone 00:48:01.760 --> 00:48:05.380 remembers deep down. Come on, Atash. You are 00:48:05.380 --> 00:48:07.280 a lot of things. You're powerful, charismatic, 00:48:07.659 --> 00:48:11.090 perfect, luminary. But we all know you are the 00:48:11.090 --> 00:48:14.969 opposite of subtle. Then you hear like a crack 00:48:14.969 --> 00:48:23.190 of thunder. Enough. A light just pulses out so 00:48:23.190 --> 00:48:27.269 bright from that stone. I have no interest in 00:48:27.269 --> 00:48:31.030 hearing your arguments. You each have your roles 00:48:31.030 --> 00:48:34.230 and will continue to act in them under my divine 00:48:34.230 --> 00:48:40.130 strategy. We are in a critical situation. Ariat 00:48:40.130 --> 00:48:42.510 has foolishly revealed himself as more than he 00:48:42.510 --> 00:48:46.630 appeared. Our adversaries will investigate him, 00:48:46.769 --> 00:48:50.989 and the populace will be watching. If it is discovered, 00:48:51.250 --> 00:48:53.969 even rumored, that he piloted the gemstones into 00:48:53.969 --> 00:48:57.510 the Uniting Plane using new commands, then our 00:48:57.510 --> 00:49:01.730 plans will be endangered. We need them to fear. 00:49:02.090 --> 00:49:05.989 They will not fear a man like Ariat, not like 00:49:05.989 --> 00:49:09.039 they will a legend like Ozen. or an unstoppable, 00:49:09.139 --> 00:49:16.119 knowable force like the Keening Gloom. When you 00:49:16.119 --> 00:49:19.480 are the head of the speakers, Atash, we will 00:49:19.480 --> 00:49:22.239 need to use that fear to make our final push 00:49:22.239 --> 00:49:26.340 for peace. Can't hear Rune speak up a little 00:49:26.340 --> 00:49:29.440 bit. Head of the speakers. I still have no idea 00:49:29.440 --> 00:49:31.579 how you think that's going to happen. Surely, 00:49:31.679 --> 00:49:34.010 surely we'll never... crack of lightning, a bolt 00:49:34.010 --> 00:49:36.809 striking very near to Rune. You feel the static 00:49:36.809 --> 00:49:38.789 in the air, Salome, like almost coursing through 00:49:38.789 --> 00:49:40.989 you. And you see Rune diving off into the ground 00:49:40.989 --> 00:49:45.650 with a rat -like squeak of tears, rolling. As 00:49:45.650 --> 00:49:50.130 I have told you, Sholay has already been dealt 00:49:50.130 --> 00:49:54.610 with. A tree grows from a seed I planted 250 00:49:54.610 --> 00:49:59.849 years ago. By tomorrow's end, I believe Sholay 00:49:59.849 --> 00:50:03.639 will hand the conquered worlds to us. Else she 00:50:03.639 --> 00:50:08.980 will be dead. There is no other resolution. Do 00:50:08.980 --> 00:50:12.940 not be distracted. Our focus is on Ariat and 00:50:12.940 --> 00:50:19.519 on our new conspirator. Like a spotlight. That 00:50:19.519 --> 00:50:25.719 blue falls on you. You are sure she can be trusted? 00:50:27.760 --> 00:50:32.380 Salome hasn't moved a muscle. You've never felt 00:50:32.380 --> 00:50:34.519 a storm that's fully turned against you before, 00:50:34.659 --> 00:50:37.760 Salome. The rumbling of the clouds like a predator 00:50:37.760 --> 00:50:40.360 raid who pounce on you to throw every effort 00:50:40.360 --> 00:50:43.480 into your destruction. For you, an aspect of 00:50:43.480 --> 00:50:49.119 the storm is a truly sickening feeling. Atashurv 00:50:49.119 --> 00:50:55.880 turns away from Rune finally. I am sure I will 00:50:55.880 --> 00:50:59.429 speak with her. That rumbling above seems to 00:50:59.429 --> 00:51:02.010 fade, but not entirely. Rune slowly picks himself 00:51:02.010 --> 00:51:04.309 off the floor, scowling and dusting off his suit. 00:51:04.869 --> 00:51:08.989 Azatosh makes his way over to you. You have seen 00:51:08.989 --> 00:51:13.809 it, haven't you? Many of the Pari have. A coming 00:51:13.809 --> 00:51:20.710 utopia. A perfect future. That is our work. That 00:51:20.710 --> 00:51:24.969 is the Sapphire's will. You will have the honor 00:51:24.969 --> 00:51:29.489 of building this world with us. Come, meet the 00:51:29.489 --> 00:51:32.050 immortal mind that will see the Sunweaver's will 00:51:32.050 --> 00:51:37.230 finally done. The remnant of the Sapphire Wyvern. 00:51:39.070 --> 00:51:43.590 Wow, so much is happening. So much is happening. 00:51:43.889 --> 00:51:48.510 Yup. Okay. So Azhash knows that I know. He knows 00:51:48.510 --> 00:51:50.389 that you've seen the future. He doesn't know 00:51:50.389 --> 00:51:53.320 that you know he's in on it. A lot of the Pahri 00:51:53.320 --> 00:51:55.260 have spoken of the coming future. It's hard not 00:51:55.260 --> 00:51:57.880 to see this grand coming future, this grand peace 00:51:57.880 --> 00:51:59.599 that's coming. No one knows how it's going to 00:51:59.599 --> 00:52:02.119 happen, but they know it's going to happen. Time 00:52:02.119 --> 00:52:05.559 is strange like that. Yeah, so if he just said 00:52:05.559 --> 00:52:09.940 that the remnants of the sapphire are going to 00:52:09.940 --> 00:52:12.860 make it come about, and Atash is an agent of 00:52:12.860 --> 00:52:15.780 that sapphire, so how does Atash not think that 00:52:15.780 --> 00:52:19.460 I think he's involved? At this point, he's telling 00:52:19.460 --> 00:52:22.539 you he's involved. Okay. He's basically saying, 00:52:22.619 --> 00:52:25.460 hey, welcome to the conspiracy. That future you've 00:52:25.460 --> 00:52:27.280 been seeing, you're going to help us make that 00:52:27.280 --> 00:52:30.380 happen. A lot of the party have come before Atash 00:52:30.380 --> 00:52:32.619 saying they've seen this. It's not a secret that 00:52:32.619 --> 00:52:34.739 there's a future. It wouldn't be a secret. There's 00:52:34.739 --> 00:52:37.360 a future of like this perfect utopia. The Celestials 00:52:37.360 --> 00:52:40.739 don't speak often of the futures they see. Only 00:52:40.739 --> 00:52:42.480 amongst themselves. So Atash would be aware that 00:52:42.480 --> 00:52:44.619 you've seen that much. But many of the party 00:52:44.619 --> 00:52:46.920 believe this to be a wonderful thing. Oh, shit. 00:52:47.019 --> 00:52:48.719 Only you have the insight to look deeper and 00:52:48.719 --> 00:52:53.789 say, this is terrifying. Okay. Okay. All right. 00:52:53.809 --> 00:52:56.909 I'm not overwhelmed. It's going to get worse. 00:52:57.190 --> 00:53:00.090 Okay, great. I mean, Salome is going to follow 00:53:00.090 --> 00:53:03.949 directions. I mean, there's not really any desire 00:53:03.949 --> 00:53:07.130 for her to speak up here. I feel bad just going 00:53:07.130 --> 00:53:09.730 through this, through the motions. No, this is 00:53:09.730 --> 00:53:12.760 perfect. The light is like. beaming down on you 00:53:12.760 --> 00:53:14.360 again like a spotlight you're getting closer 00:53:14.360 --> 00:53:16.960 and closer to it feeling that weight that gravity 00:53:16.960 --> 00:53:20.119 pressed harder and harder down on you atash is 00:53:20.119 --> 00:53:22.199 standing except behind you to hear his steps 00:53:22.199 --> 00:53:28.699 as you move closer and closer and then you hear 00:53:28.699 --> 00:53:33.199 the gemstone speak again cast the spell atash 00:53:33.199 --> 00:53:37.739 oh no i will have my test oh no i don't like 00:53:37.739 --> 00:53:41.510 it i don't like it you hear atash speak Some 00:53:41.510 --> 00:53:45.369 words in magic and incantation wave his hands 00:53:45.369 --> 00:53:50.570 and a magic circle spreads out beneath you. Oh, 00:53:50.710 --> 00:53:55.250 cool. Zone of truth. And you recognize zone of 00:53:55.250 --> 00:53:59.250 truth. Sure. Okay. Do not resist this spell. 00:53:59.630 --> 00:54:05.119 I will know if you do, Salome. Do you want to 00:54:05.119 --> 00:54:06.719 try to resist the spell? You can make a save. 00:54:06.840 --> 00:54:08.579 No. It says in the spell that they will know 00:54:08.579 --> 00:54:11.380 if you pass the save. No, no way. No, daddy. 00:54:11.739 --> 00:54:14.920 Then you feel a magic take hold in your mind, 00:54:15.000 --> 00:54:18.960 and you can no longer lie. Cool, fun, cool. Now, 00:54:18.980 --> 00:54:20.260 Stephen, I know you're a fan of the Wheel of 00:54:20.260 --> 00:54:22.699 Time series. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Have you ever 00:54:22.699 --> 00:54:24.380 wondered what it would be like to be an Aes Sedai, 00:54:24.420 --> 00:54:28.679 to have to speak secret truth? Yeah, kind of 00:54:28.679 --> 00:54:31.429 all the time. You're about to experience that. 00:54:31.889 --> 00:54:36.489 Sure, cool. You cannot speak a lie, but you can 00:54:36.489 --> 00:54:39.449 cleverly use truth to mask lies. You can hold 00:54:39.449 --> 00:54:42.809 back truth. Sure, yeah. I'm going to put you 00:54:42.809 --> 00:54:48.570 in it. As this match is cast before you, as you 00:54:48.570 --> 00:54:51.570 stand tall before the sapphire, as the light 00:54:51.570 --> 00:54:53.989 beams down on you, it's almost like the gravity 00:54:53.989 --> 00:54:55.909 is threatening now to push you to your knees 00:54:55.909 --> 00:54:57.730 again. Do you want to stand against it, or do 00:54:57.730 --> 00:55:02.320 you want to fall? She'll stand against it. The 00:55:02.320 --> 00:55:06.659 storm around gets very eerily quiet. What caused 00:55:06.659 --> 00:55:09.699 you to interfere with events at the Ugly Coyote? 00:55:10.179 --> 00:55:14.219 How did you know its attack would be occurring? 00:55:15.440 --> 00:55:24.079 I had a vision. I saw it. Were you aware of Ariatron's 00:55:24.079 --> 00:55:29.550 attack before you involved yourself? And that's 00:55:29.550 --> 00:55:32.389 up to you. Maybe you didn't know. Maybe you did. 00:55:32.489 --> 00:55:35.429 How much do you think Salamis are? I mean, I 00:55:35.429 --> 00:55:37.789 guess it depends on if those... It seemed like 00:55:37.789 --> 00:55:41.570 those uniforms weren't recognizable to anybody. 00:55:42.929 --> 00:55:52.650 They were masked. I couldn't have known. Far 00:55:52.650 --> 00:56:13.010 off thunder. Good. Take your time. Yeah, I'm 00:56:13.010 --> 00:56:17.289 going to need to. Will you take action to see 00:56:17.289 --> 00:56:20.409 that vision fulfilled? Yeah. Will you make any 00:56:20.409 --> 00:56:24.090 efforts essentially to reach that goal? The same 00:56:24.090 --> 00:56:26.780 goal they want to see. The world's connected 00:56:26.780 --> 00:56:32.000 in this perfect utopia. Just one seemingly lacking 00:56:32.000 --> 00:56:35.219 free will. But, you know, that's just a pesky 00:56:35.219 --> 00:56:39.320 little thing that causes wars, right? You look 00:56:39.320 --> 00:56:44.900 so nervous. Yeah, I'm very nervous. I will continue 00:56:44.900 --> 00:56:50.800 the mission we came here for when we looked out 00:56:50.800 --> 00:56:56.489 on that field. I will. I wish to continue to 00:56:56.489 --> 00:57:01.289 prove myself. I'm hoping that's noncommittal 00:57:01.289 --> 00:57:03.809 enough. I think it is. That it's kind of like, 00:57:03.829 --> 00:57:06.929 I'm going to do what I think is right. I'm going 00:57:06.929 --> 00:57:09.349 to keep doing what I think is right. Yeah. I 00:57:09.349 --> 00:57:12.590 like that a lot because to Atash, this is the 00:57:12.590 --> 00:57:14.630 mission he had declared when he saw this, is 00:57:14.630 --> 00:57:17.469 to protect everybody, to stop wars. But to you, 00:57:17.510 --> 00:57:19.250 it's a very different, like you took that differently. 00:57:19.550 --> 00:57:22.309 Yeah. Our definitions of what is the right thing 00:57:22.309 --> 00:57:26.309 to do is different now. But she's declaring that 00:57:26.309 --> 00:57:28.510 she wants to keep doing what she thinks is the 00:57:28.510 --> 00:57:30.750 right thing to do. I like that a lot, take a 00:57:30.750 --> 00:57:33.989 button. Nice. Oh, fuck yeah. That's really good. 00:57:35.150 --> 00:57:37.929 Yeah, now let's see how much harder I can make 00:57:37.929 --> 00:57:41.150 this for you. Yeah, cool, great. Will you follow 00:57:41.150 --> 00:57:44.730 my every order, acting wholly in the pursuit 00:57:44.730 --> 00:57:51.329 of the greatest good? I am humbled and tremble 00:57:51.329 --> 00:57:56.409 in the presence. of one greater than Atash himself. 00:57:57.530 --> 00:58:02.969 I think you hear almost like Atash takes a slight 00:58:02.969 --> 00:58:04.550 shuffle. He shoves it, he steps back, something. 00:58:04.750 --> 00:58:07.570 Like, with your perception, that made Atash uncomfortable. 00:58:08.789 --> 00:58:10.710 Okay, I don't think that's necessarily a bad 00:58:10.710 --> 00:58:14.530 thing. But you hear a thunderous sort of, almost 00:58:14.530 --> 00:58:16.309 the thunder itself, the clouds roaring. Sure, 00:58:16.309 --> 00:58:19.269 flattery. Okay, okay. Flattery worked. All right. 00:58:19.590 --> 00:58:25.440 Yeah, it worked very well. And will you look 00:58:25.440 --> 00:58:30.019 to me as your deity in lieu of the one you rightfully 00:58:30.019 --> 00:58:39.380 abandoned? Huh. Um... Show me the love that I 00:58:39.380 --> 00:58:45.579 was given by Kameo, and I shall be yours. I hold 00:58:45.579 --> 00:58:53.369 love for every mortal being. I suppose. I could 00:58:53.369 --> 00:58:58.489 spread that love to the immortal as well. Salome 00:58:58.489 --> 00:59:03.210 doesn't think this guy's capable of love. And 00:59:03.210 --> 00:59:15.309 finally, do you fear me? True fear. She just, 00:59:15.409 --> 00:59:20.150 she bows her head. She lowers her head completely. 00:59:24.590 --> 00:59:37.170 Yes. Good. Rune. You will schedule a press conference. 00:59:38.170 --> 00:59:47.110 Our new initiate has a speech to make. And we'll 00:59:47.110 --> 00:59:47.750 call it there.