WEBVTT 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:02.589 Thank you. Now I know what you're thinking, pants 00:00:02.589 --> 00:00:05.269 people. What are them pants boys up to this time, 00:00:05.370 --> 00:00:07.870 this year, this coming season? Well, I'll tell 00:00:07.870 --> 00:00:09.810 you what's up. Actually, I won't tell you because 00:00:09.810 --> 00:00:13.470 I don't know. But what you can find out is by 00:00:13.470 --> 00:00:15.869 joining our Discord, hanging out on our Instagram, 00:00:16.129 --> 00:00:17.789 checking out our YouTube. We have one of those, 00:00:17.829 --> 00:00:19.670 I think. We have a lot of cool stuff out there. 00:00:19.769 --> 00:00:21.969 And as you know, every year we're doing something 00:00:21.969 --> 00:00:25.510 else wild and crazy. SciFly coming back? Probably. 00:00:25.809 --> 00:00:28.429 Are we doing some more collabs? For sure, maybe. 00:00:28.609 --> 00:00:30.910 I don't know. Get on there. Check our stuff. 00:00:30.960 --> 00:00:33.520 stuff out, keep your eyes open, and get ready 00:00:33.520 --> 00:01:24.980 to unzip. 50 years ago, when High Tides came 00:01:24.980 --> 00:01:26.819 charging from the heavens over Angra and Sengar. 00:01:27.239 --> 00:01:29.480 Since then, all sorts of largely life heroes 00:01:29.480 --> 00:01:31.519 have sprung up from our worlds and taken our 00:01:31.519 --> 00:01:34.560 collective breath away. But, this isn't to say 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:36.340 that those heroes weren't always there, working 00:01:36.340 --> 00:01:38.359 on our worlds to protect the innocent and see 00:01:38.359 --> 00:01:41.000 justice done to wrongdoers. They've existed long 00:01:41.000 --> 00:01:43.099 before the Crystal Networks founded by Kedger 00:01:43.099 --> 00:01:45.939 Kamal. Hell, some few of our heroes today existed 00:01:45.939 --> 00:01:47.719 even before the reconnecting of our conquered 00:01:47.719 --> 00:01:50.540 worlds via the Radiant City of Hell and Platinum 00:01:50.540 --> 00:01:54.319 Knight Ari. It's one such figure. A Sun Elf, 00:01:54.319 --> 00:01:57.079 born and raised on Tithos. She lived to see Shonen 00:01:57.079 --> 00:02:00.680 connect all worlds together 250 years ago. Hell, 00:02:00.760 --> 00:02:02.659 she even helped out in the Dragon's Grand Quest. 00:02:03.120 --> 00:02:05.319 Little is known of her life before that event, 00:02:05.560 --> 00:02:08.360 and after, to be honest. Following the Radiant 00:02:08.360 --> 00:02:10.080 Zell's awakening, she kind of just vanished from 00:02:10.080 --> 00:02:12.479 popular culture. Up until the Luminary Boom began, 00:02:12.780 --> 00:02:15.900 and Diamond Recorders were everywhere. So what 00:02:15.900 --> 00:02:20.580 do we know about Arya? Well, not much. We know 00:02:20.580 --> 00:02:22.949 she's a strict uphold - of justice. Her focus 00:02:22.949 --> 00:02:25.389 as a luminary is defense of the defenseless. 00:02:25.590 --> 00:02:27.569 And she does that by putting her five -foot self 00:02:27.569 --> 00:02:29.909 and her great sword, Judgment, directly in the 00:02:29.909 --> 00:02:32.189 path of trouble. We also know that she follows 00:02:32.189 --> 00:02:34.270 certain teachings that some historians have attributed 00:02:34.270 --> 00:02:37.469 to ancient dragonkind. Though the exact source 00:02:37.469 --> 00:02:40.550 of her vows and her power is, ugh, up in the 00:02:40.550 --> 00:02:43.270 air. Perhaps her namesake armor can shine a light 00:02:43.270 --> 00:02:45.409 on these mysteries. Her time -worn mithril blade 00:02:45.409 --> 00:02:47.629 is edged in blue enamel and emblazoned with a 00:02:47.659 --> 00:02:50.259 a platinum star over a milky galaxy, a symbol 00:02:50.259 --> 00:02:52.639 my investigators have not seen anywhere in our 00:02:52.639 --> 00:02:55.939 worlds. Well, whatever our story may be, these 00:02:55.939 --> 00:02:58.360 days power can be found on the citadel occasionally, 00:02:58.680 --> 00:03:00.300 enjoying a vulgar hopper and chatting with a 00:03:00.300 --> 00:03:03.340 good old demented cloudbreaker. The two enigmatic 00:03:03.340 --> 00:03:05.000 knights seem to have a lot in common, honestly. 00:03:05.300 --> 00:03:07.900 A mysterious background, powers of righteousness, 00:03:08.020 --> 00:03:10.159 and some kind of connection to both platinum 00:03:10.159 --> 00:03:13.639 and dragons. Now thinking about it, there might 00:03:13.639 --> 00:03:21.460 be something to that. Thank you, Zila, for being 00:03:21.460 --> 00:03:23.840 a luminary to grace our collective conquered 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:27.379 worlds. And speaking of Zila, let's talk about 00:03:27.379 --> 00:03:29.659 what happened last time. I've been burning to 00:03:29.659 --> 00:03:31.599 talk about this because, to me, this is like 00:03:31.599 --> 00:03:33.620 the coolest thing about this story, this particular 00:03:33.620 --> 00:03:36.900 campaign. We've run a lot of games. I've run 00:03:36.900 --> 00:03:39.340 a lot of games with you guys. And this one has 00:03:39.340 --> 00:03:41.439 something that no other game can have because, 00:03:41.539 --> 00:03:44.490 seriously. Let's put it down there. Stephen, 00:03:44.509 --> 00:03:47.449 as Salome, was made to give a certain speech 00:03:47.449 --> 00:03:50.550 by me as the bad guys. And Stephen, as Salome, 00:03:50.550 --> 00:03:53.569 snuck a coded message into said speech that me 00:03:53.569 --> 00:03:57.270 and the bad guys both did not catch. But Stephen, 00:03:57.270 --> 00:03:59.870 as Salome's allies, the pants person community 00:03:59.870 --> 00:04:03.539 did. We're playing D &D in like four dimensions 00:04:03.539 --> 00:04:06.599 here, people. It is insane. Like, thanks to Scribble 00:04:06.599 --> 00:04:08.759 to Play, Stephen S. Salome has been contacted 00:04:08.759 --> 00:04:11.099 by Zila as Shrike, is now going to be able to 00:04:11.099 --> 00:04:12.860 connect with the rest of the main party, though 00:04:12.860 --> 00:04:15.879 I'm going to do a wee little retcon on the sequence 00:04:15.879 --> 00:04:17.079 of events that led to it at the very end of the 00:04:17.079 --> 00:04:19.540 last episode. I just want to lean hard into the 00:04:19.540 --> 00:04:21.279 super spy thriller feel of this thing. All right, 00:04:21.279 --> 00:04:23.680 so I'm doing it. Retconning. You can't stop me. 00:04:23.680 --> 00:04:25.899 I've got a button. Let's hear it. All right, 00:04:25.920 --> 00:04:28.459 we'll get there. It's not a real button. Actually, 00:04:28.480 --> 00:04:31.550 it is. I believe I got a button. when I said 00:04:31.550 --> 00:04:34.790 the thing that Andrew had us say about the... 00:04:34.790 --> 00:04:37.889 Oh, yeah. I thought he said that I said it better. 00:04:38.129 --> 00:04:40.410 He said... No, he did. Didn't we all agree? No, 00:04:40.509 --> 00:04:44.050 I'm pretty sure it was Steven. I said you up. 00:04:44.110 --> 00:04:45.990 Andrew, you're going to be hearing this... Andrew 00:04:45.990 --> 00:04:50.029 would not betray me like that. Andrew, let us 00:04:50.029 --> 00:04:52.750 know. Yeah, let's put the button on the back 00:04:52.750 --> 00:04:54.629 burner for this episode. Yeah. Well, the mage 00:04:54.629 --> 00:05:01.449 smith just lost a button. But yeah, I mean, isn't 00:05:01.449 --> 00:05:03.529 that wild? Isn't that just absolutely wild that 00:05:03.529 --> 00:05:06.189 not only this isn't a gameplay dice roll situation, 00:05:06.350 --> 00:05:09.310 this is you snuck a message past the DM. I didn't 00:05:09.310 --> 00:05:10.810 think I was going to sneak it past you. And the 00:05:10.810 --> 00:05:13.149 fanbase found it, and they were able to help 00:05:13.149 --> 00:05:16.410 you out now because I missed it. And that's wild. 00:05:16.529 --> 00:05:19.709 I wanted to get a message out. I thought I was 00:05:19.709 --> 00:05:22.160 going to have to make a roll for it. no i'm stupid 00:05:22.160 --> 00:05:24.980 i don't know i was excited but like you said 00:05:24.980 --> 00:05:26.740 it yourself the bad guys hear what they want 00:05:26.740 --> 00:05:28.560 to hear yeah i heard what i wanted to hear that's 00:05:28.560 --> 00:05:30.339 what i'm saying i i remember the next day i was 00:05:30.339 --> 00:05:31.879 saying i was shocked that you didn't catch it 00:05:31.879 --> 00:05:34.079 because you fucking wrote it i heard you wrote 00:05:34.079 --> 00:05:37.600 it i he it was close enough i just i changed 00:05:37.600 --> 00:05:41.149 like um You did. You changed... Many things. 00:05:41.189 --> 00:05:43.529 Like, almost every sentence, I changed a couple 00:05:43.529 --> 00:05:46.329 of words. So it got a little hidden. Right. And 00:05:46.329 --> 00:05:48.389 you were writing it. You opened that that night. 00:05:48.470 --> 00:05:50.310 You didn't pre -write this. You were reading 00:05:50.310 --> 00:05:52.949 it and changing it on the fly. I saw you. Like, 00:05:52.970 --> 00:05:54.709 I saw you looking at my message. Yeah. Well, 00:05:54.769 --> 00:05:56.730 I would, like, look at the sentence and, like, 00:05:56.829 --> 00:05:59.110 because I couldn't... If I read the whole thing 00:05:59.110 --> 00:06:01.129 verbatim and I changed, like, one or two words, 00:06:01.370 --> 00:06:04.680 that would have been a huge red flag. So... I 00:06:04.680 --> 00:06:07.259 kind of like, I said the sentences in like, I 00:06:07.259 --> 00:06:08.699 mean, you know, it was the same words just in 00:06:08.699 --> 00:06:12.120 my words instead of David's words. So it was 00:06:12.120 --> 00:06:15.939 just enough of a change. I was hoping that wouldn't 00:06:15.939 --> 00:06:18.259 be picked up on immediately. It's wild. You were 00:06:18.259 --> 00:06:22.000 correct. It's wild. Yeah. Very clever. Thank 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:24.259 you. Very clever. Thank you. Let's see if that 00:06:24.259 --> 00:06:26.579 cleverness can keep on rolling because tonight, 00:06:26.779 --> 00:06:30.160 gentlemen, it's time to bring this full party 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:33.600 together. You have a contact now. You have someone 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:35.120 that can send messages between our two groups, 00:06:35.199 --> 00:06:37.439 but that's not going to be enough for me. I want 00:06:37.439 --> 00:06:39.920 to see the whole group come together so we can 00:06:39.920 --> 00:06:42.160 start planning out what's coming next. And even 00:06:42.160 --> 00:06:45.300 more so, I want to see it happen in five gameplay 00:06:45.300 --> 00:06:48.360 minutes because Dragon Quest 1 and 2 or HC2 came 00:06:48.360 --> 00:06:51.600 out today. Oh, my God. And I have to go. Oh, 00:06:51.620 --> 00:06:55.860 my God. You're going to do this, go home, and 00:06:55.860 --> 00:06:58.699 play that tonight? I'm just saying, those sentences 00:06:58.699 --> 00:07:00.800 you just said. That was part of your five minutes. 00:07:00.819 --> 00:07:02.899 How are you going to get to bed at 830? Well, 00:07:02.899 --> 00:07:05.939 David, and we'll call it there. Thank you. Perfect. 00:07:06.220 --> 00:07:10.600 You guys want to play some games? Yeah, let's 00:07:10.600 --> 00:07:13.759 play some games. Hell yeah. I'm pumped. I'm pumped. 00:07:14.399 --> 00:07:16.279 I got the fader up, so if the music doesn't go 00:07:16.279 --> 00:07:18.199 on, it's on you. Let's get some spy music going. 00:07:20.180 --> 00:07:23.220 Hey, it worked. We got it. We got it. First time. 00:07:23.420 --> 00:07:25.540 High five. Only took, what, 150 episodes? Oh, 00:07:25.540 --> 00:07:28.019 yeah. Eighth episode energy. No, we're fine. 00:07:28.319 --> 00:07:30.439 Uh -huh. That was off mic. Know what that means? 00:07:30.819 --> 00:07:33.779 No, it's going in. I think everybody understands 00:07:33.779 --> 00:07:36.240 what eighth episode energy means. Uh -huh. Uh 00:07:36.240 --> 00:07:38.779 -huh. So I'm going to do a quick retcon on the 00:07:38.779 --> 00:07:41.300 events of last time. I'm going to start us off 00:07:41.300 --> 00:07:44.920 with Salome as she was leaving the house of convalescence. 00:07:44.980 --> 00:07:48.180 Now, before, I had a voice ring into Sally's 00:07:48.180 --> 00:07:52.680 mind very suddenly, very conveniently. But spy 00:07:52.680 --> 00:07:54.980 thrillers are rarely that convenient. They're 00:07:54.980 --> 00:07:58.220 way cooler. So what instead happens is you hear 00:07:58.220 --> 00:08:01.170 a voice. an actual voice ringing out behind you 00:08:01.170 --> 00:08:05.689 from just inside the door. Hey, Lady Sightweaver, 00:08:05.810 --> 00:08:09.230 hang on. Lady Sightweaver, hey, oi. And you see 00:08:09.230 --> 00:08:13.509 this sort of burly figure in the acolyte's robes, 00:08:13.509 --> 00:08:15.290 the House of Convalescence, comes charging towards 00:08:15.290 --> 00:08:18.029 you, kind of big, bulbous nose and chin, bald 00:08:18.029 --> 00:08:20.850 head, very sweaty. You see he's holding, like, 00:08:20.870 --> 00:08:23.529 a parcel bag over one shoulder. He's got a number 00:08:23.529 --> 00:08:26.790 of envelopes in his hand. And you recognize... 00:08:27.819 --> 00:08:29.980 Duggins. I wrote that two weeks ago. Duggins? 00:08:30.459 --> 00:08:32.539 Duggins. How's it spelled? How's it spelled? 00:08:33.820 --> 00:08:40.139 It's the way you think it's spelled. The dumbest 00:08:40.139 --> 00:08:44.820 possible way. You forget it's Duggins. He is 00:08:44.820 --> 00:08:47.759 the mailroom manager of the House of Convalescents. 00:08:47.879 --> 00:08:50.720 Okay. And Salome, we never talked about this, 00:08:50.820 --> 00:08:54.370 but... Where do you live? A lot of the Celestials 00:08:54.370 --> 00:08:56.309 here live in the House of Convalescence. I don't 00:08:56.309 --> 00:08:57.850 know if we've ever discussed this, where you 00:08:57.850 --> 00:08:59.909 actually live. No, I don't think so. I didn't 00:08:59.909 --> 00:09:01.970 know that most of the Celestials lived in the 00:09:01.970 --> 00:09:03.629 House of Convalescence. It's kind of like a... 00:09:03.629 --> 00:09:06.909 It's basically before Atash really brought the 00:09:06.909 --> 00:09:08.929 Celestials into the world in a major way, right? 00:09:09.029 --> 00:09:11.629 Before the first Celestial Luminary, apart from 00:09:11.629 --> 00:09:15.789 him, came along, you, they weren't really freely 00:09:15.789 --> 00:09:18.450 allowed to roam between them because people were 00:09:18.450 --> 00:09:21.279 worried that Atash having this sort of... massive 00:09:21.279 --> 00:09:23.440 force of these very powerful Celestials would 00:09:23.440 --> 00:09:24.980 throw off the balance of power throughout the 00:09:24.980 --> 00:09:27.840 world, which, silly, right? That didn't happen. 00:09:28.240 --> 00:09:32.120 Now they're freely moving around. But before 00:09:32.120 --> 00:09:33.600 that happened, the only place they were really 00:09:33.600 --> 00:09:35.360 allowed to go on the Radiant Sid and allowed 00:09:35.360 --> 00:09:37.639 to stay freely was the House of Convalescence 00:09:37.639 --> 00:09:39.659 because they were gifted in healing magics, and 00:09:39.659 --> 00:09:41.600 this is a grand magical hospital, essentially. 00:09:42.259 --> 00:09:45.179 So there's always places for Celestials to stay 00:09:45.179 --> 00:09:47.960 in this building. You might have a place to live 00:09:47.960 --> 00:09:49.799 here. you might, now that you're a luminary, 00:09:49.960 --> 00:09:51.580 live somewhere else. You could have an apartment 00:09:51.580 --> 00:09:54.580 in a rural town. It's really your call. Yeah, 00:09:54.600 --> 00:10:00.559 I think as that power push progresses, you know, 00:10:00.600 --> 00:10:05.419 Atash got another celestial luminary in Salome, 00:10:05.500 --> 00:10:08.600 and to try and keep grabbing and grabbing and 00:10:08.600 --> 00:10:11.779 grabbing, I think she has an apartment in a rural 00:10:11.779 --> 00:10:13.299 town. Yeah, there's an apartment in a rural town. 00:10:13.299 --> 00:10:15.779 So that's where, generally, you get basically 00:10:15.779 --> 00:10:19.789 all of your fan mail. but it's been known to 00:10:19.789 --> 00:10:21.870 happen that your old address here does get a 00:10:21.870 --> 00:10:24.090 few letters. Some people just didn't get the 00:10:24.090 --> 00:10:27.090 update. Some letters sneak by and end up in the 00:10:27.090 --> 00:10:29.490 house. And so as this guy comes towards you, 00:10:29.570 --> 00:10:31.669 this is a ritual that's happened before. You 00:10:31.669 --> 00:10:34.570 come by, fan letters go to you. You get a ton 00:10:34.570 --> 00:10:36.450 of these things. He only has a small stack. This 00:10:36.450 --> 00:10:39.730 is just like your alt address, essentially. Do 00:10:39.730 --> 00:10:41.929 you reach out? Do you take the letters? Yeah, 00:10:41.970 --> 00:10:47.200 she'll turn around. Oh, looks like a light. Piled 00:10:47.200 --> 00:10:52.299 today, huh, Diggs? Duggins. Diggins? Duggins? 00:10:52.620 --> 00:10:57.879 Oh, Diggs, though. It's not bad. You've got a 00:10:57.879 --> 00:11:02.980 nickname now. Wow. I'll never wash this hand 00:11:02.980 --> 00:11:11.700 again. He hands you the letters. He leaves. Yeah. 00:11:11.759 --> 00:11:13.720 He leaves the show forever. Yeah, cordially. 00:11:16.590 --> 00:11:20.009 Fan -beloved character digs. That was me. I just 00:11:20.009 --> 00:11:23.889 literally forgot his name was Duggins. Maybe 00:11:23.889 --> 00:11:29.809 this is eighth episode of Heritage. You're looking 00:11:29.809 --> 00:11:31.190 down this small, and there's probably like five 00:11:31.190 --> 00:11:32.570 letters here. You're looking down mostly just 00:11:32.570 --> 00:11:34.590 kind of basic blank envelopes. Some of them look 00:11:34.590 --> 00:11:37.850 like they have kids writing on them. But one 00:11:37.850 --> 00:11:40.210 of them really catches your eye. It's just a 00:11:40.210 --> 00:11:42.909 little bit more ornate than the others. You see 00:11:42.909 --> 00:11:46.450 a silvery gray envelope. With a blue winged seal. 00:11:47.429 --> 00:11:50.070 There's something about it that looks special. 00:11:50.690 --> 00:11:52.990 It's different than, you know, like you said, 00:11:53.029 --> 00:11:58.450 the children's drawings. Like it's made to stand 00:11:58.450 --> 00:12:00.730 out just a little bit. There's nothing about 00:12:00.730 --> 00:12:03.929 it that looks, I guess, suspicious necessarily, 00:12:04.350 --> 00:12:07.009 but it just looks like it stands out. After receiving, 00:12:07.090 --> 00:12:09.049 even if it was, you know, a hundred of these, 00:12:09.169 --> 00:12:13.190 if one is that different, then Salome would open 00:12:13.190 --> 00:12:16.450 that one first. As she walks away from the House 00:12:16.450 --> 00:12:20.149 of Convalescence. You walk away. You open the 00:12:20.149 --> 00:12:24.769 letter and you read these words. Lady Sightweaver, 00:12:24.909 --> 00:12:27.789 I found myself captivated by your recent speech 00:12:27.789 --> 00:12:30.110 and your call to arms against the unrighteous. 00:12:30.330 --> 00:12:33.490 Your dedication to justice has earned my undying 00:12:33.490 --> 00:12:36.429 loyalty. Like a lark singing out against the 00:12:36.429 --> 00:12:39.309 unworldly screeches of the unworthy, your silver 00:12:39.309 --> 00:12:41.990 steps echo in the minds of those who would follow 00:12:41.990 --> 00:12:45.049 your light. If you seek to reach the like -minded, 00:12:45.190 --> 00:12:48.169 show your wings on the northern balcony of the 00:12:48.169 --> 00:12:50.490 House of Condolescence this night so that words 00:12:50.490 --> 00:12:53.750 of your admirers can reach your mind. A secret 00:12:53.750 --> 00:13:00.750 admirer. Wait. Stop it. What are you doing? He 00:13:00.750 --> 00:13:03.370 records himself all the time doing this. That 00:13:03.370 --> 00:13:10.029 was an episode! That is so cool. That's really 00:13:10.029 --> 00:13:13.929 cool. Thank you again, Zila, for playing Shrike 00:13:13.929 --> 00:13:19.289 in our episode here. Jeez, so that's tonight. 00:13:19.409 --> 00:13:23.929 What time is it now? We'll kind of keep things 00:13:23.929 --> 00:13:25.610 close to where the other group was. The other 00:13:25.610 --> 00:13:27.639 group wasn't sort of... Evening time as well, 00:13:27.779 --> 00:13:30.179 when we last saw them on Teletopex, we'll say 00:13:30.179 --> 00:13:32.179 it's actually getting late now, probably about 00:13:32.179 --> 00:13:36.740 7 .30 p .m. Salome will spin on her heels, you 00:13:36.740 --> 00:13:39.720 know. Oh, you know, must have forgot something, 00:13:39.980 --> 00:13:43.120 you know. Was busy with visions and whatnot and 00:13:43.120 --> 00:13:46.980 just slipped my mind. I mean, you have a negative, 00:13:47.279 --> 00:13:49.360 what do you have, a six intelligence stat? You 00:13:49.360 --> 00:13:52.759 know, things slip. Exactly, yeah. Dumber than 00:13:52.759 --> 00:13:55.779 Zebulon. Wait, really? Yeah. Really? Actually. 00:13:55.980 --> 00:13:59.259 Yeah. No shit. That was a really bad roll. Okay. 00:13:59.379 --> 00:14:03.139 We just kind of played off as ditzy. Yeah. Yeah. 00:14:03.779 --> 00:14:07.240 You spin around and you move back towards the 00:14:07.240 --> 00:14:11.419 building. That cloud of prophecy is one message 00:14:11.419 --> 00:14:14.200 sort of breaking through. One thing you must 00:14:14.200 --> 00:14:17.879 do. You felt so alone just a short while ago 00:14:17.879 --> 00:14:22.100 and now a spark of hope. You make your way onto 00:14:22.100 --> 00:14:25.600 that balcony that night, and that is when, as 00:14:25.600 --> 00:14:27.700 you stand in this place as requested, you feel 00:14:27.700 --> 00:14:31.220 that voice in your mind that brings us to the 00:14:31.220 --> 00:14:36.539 end of our last episode. You are told that a 00:14:36.539 --> 00:14:39.299 message can be sent wherever you need, and you 00:14:39.299 --> 00:14:43.940 send a message out to Blanche and Jules. Man, 00:14:43.980 --> 00:14:47.860 I gotta say, this way of getting the message 00:14:47.860 --> 00:14:51.659 out... The way the message was received and everything 00:14:51.659 --> 00:14:58.679 requires so much more trust. You know, I didn't 00:14:58.679 --> 00:15:01.240 really think about it in the last episode when 00:15:01.240 --> 00:15:03.340 it was just someone popped in my mind and said, 00:15:03.379 --> 00:15:06.860 hey, say a message if you want. But yeah, now 00:15:06.860 --> 00:15:08.340 that I've had a little time to think about it, 00:15:08.379 --> 00:15:12.840 I'm realizing just how scared Salome probably 00:15:12.840 --> 00:15:17.450 is thinking that, you know, is this a trap? Am 00:15:17.450 --> 00:15:21.850 I being tested again? She's got pretty high passive 00:15:21.850 --> 00:15:23.669 insight, so that's how I'm going to play it off. 00:15:23.950 --> 00:15:27.049 You know, Steven, the player, knows that, or 00:15:27.049 --> 00:15:29.809 I'm pretty sure that Shrek's a good guy. Pretty 00:15:29.809 --> 00:15:34.509 sure. Who can say? Who can say? But yeah, so 00:15:34.509 --> 00:15:37.549 she goes up and opens her wings on the north 00:15:37.549 --> 00:15:40.929 balcony, right? Yeah, northwest. That's the message. 00:15:41.470 --> 00:15:46.059 Yeah. That's a really cool image. And we'll fade 00:15:46.059 --> 00:15:49.639 out on that image. Wings outstretched, we pan 00:15:49.639 --> 00:15:52.919 away from the house of convalescence, Salome 00:15:52.919 --> 00:15:56.179 standing tall like a decoration on the edge of 00:15:56.179 --> 00:16:02.299 a wedding cake. And we move back to Tletepec. 00:16:03.139 --> 00:16:05.379 I told you there would be a time cost to you 00:16:05.379 --> 00:16:07.440 being here. That time cost will be one week. 00:16:07.820 --> 00:16:11.519 I want to open up one week later when you receive 00:16:11.519 --> 00:16:15.889 this message. Does that sound reasonable? I think 00:16:15.889 --> 00:16:20.370 so, yeah. I think Blanche was training people 00:16:20.370 --> 00:16:22.549 in that week, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Jules was... 00:16:22.549 --> 00:16:25.590 No, he was helping with training, too. Yeah, 00:16:25.590 --> 00:16:27.450 yeah. He did some magical training. It's cool. 00:16:27.549 --> 00:16:29.370 See, this is kind of going multiple ways. Like, 00:16:29.370 --> 00:16:31.570 you have the magical know -how, Blanche. Even 00:16:31.570 --> 00:16:34.370 though this is more wild, you know, druidic magic, 00:16:34.549 --> 00:16:36.409 it's a little different than your cup of tea. 00:16:36.889 --> 00:16:38.690 There's still some crossover. But another thing 00:16:38.690 --> 00:16:40.750 I think that's really helpful is... I've been 00:16:40.750 --> 00:16:42.620 thinking about this. you're probably doing a 00:16:42.620 --> 00:16:44.919 lot of running drills and working on mobilizing 00:16:44.919 --> 00:16:47.620 forces quickly and efficiently, the kind of stuff 00:16:47.620 --> 00:16:49.519 you would do in the Golden Bay. Because this 00:16:49.519 --> 00:16:51.840 is also like, it's not just about knowing what 00:16:51.840 --> 00:16:54.000 you have to do. It's about having scouts in better 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:55.879 places, knowing when these are going to happen 00:16:55.879 --> 00:16:58.340 ahead of time. They wanted to rely on Pari's 00:16:58.340 --> 00:17:00.960 prophecy so that if one of the volcanoes that's 00:17:00.960 --> 00:17:03.740 far outside of their general range is about to 00:17:03.740 --> 00:17:06.220 go off and release another surge to set off another 00:17:06.220 --> 00:17:09.109 ash rise, don't. If there's enough scouts in 00:17:09.109 --> 00:17:11.369 place, if you have a strategic kind of formation 00:17:11.369 --> 00:17:14.470 built on this map, and if you can mobilize forces 00:17:14.470 --> 00:17:16.849 as fast as possible, get messages through as 00:17:16.849 --> 00:17:19.269 fast as possible, there will be no problems, 00:17:19.349 --> 00:17:22.150 right? I mean, hopefully. That's the plan, at 00:17:22.150 --> 00:17:25.109 least. So yeah, Blanche would have the military 00:17:25.109 --> 00:17:28.990 know -how and would help the people here set 00:17:28.990 --> 00:17:32.470 up a network like that. Hell yeah. I can only 00:17:32.470 --> 00:17:35.490 imagine just... A week passes and we just see 00:17:35.490 --> 00:17:39.369 a montage of training. Perhaps we see some, the 00:17:39.369 --> 00:17:42.569 days are filled with just like these sweaty drills 00:17:42.569 --> 00:17:45.549 and reading over books and Zopa's showing you 00:17:45.549 --> 00:17:49.650 like various sort of gestures and moves and words 00:17:49.650 --> 00:17:51.990 of power as she's using her magic. You're kind 00:17:51.990 --> 00:17:54.150 of taking that and teaching other people, instructing 00:17:54.150 --> 00:17:56.029 them. There's classes built in the middle of 00:17:56.029 --> 00:17:58.430 these tents, just makeshift sort of classrooms 00:17:58.430 --> 00:18:01.390 outside of it. We maybe, we see nighttimes where 00:18:01.390 --> 00:18:21.769 you're once again enjoying like these love. I 00:18:21.769 --> 00:18:22.990 don't know if he's playing. You don't get anything 00:18:22.990 --> 00:18:26.009 going on right now. Getting married. Well, getting 00:18:26.009 --> 00:18:27.990 the actual, we didn't talk about this. The, uh, 00:18:28.109 --> 00:18:31.940 in two days? Three days? Three days. You're having 00:18:31.940 --> 00:18:34.759 your actual full ceremony for your wedding, Mr. 00:18:34.799 --> 00:18:40.019 Wolf. Yeah. On top of new job and all the madness 00:18:40.019 --> 00:18:42.259 in the world. And you're DJing a Halloween party 00:18:42.259 --> 00:18:44.720 tomorrow. Yeah. But you couldn't do a song for 00:18:44.720 --> 00:18:49.279 the pants people? No. I'm ashamed. But at least 00:18:49.279 --> 00:18:52.039 we gave them a little mid -ep band. Yeah. Hey, 00:18:52.079 --> 00:18:56.000 that's true. No, I don't think. Join the Discord. 00:18:58.480 --> 00:19:02.319 Join the Discord, though, for real. Hey, you 00:19:02.319 --> 00:19:05.299 guys in the Discord? All right, you're good. 00:19:05.519 --> 00:19:12.160 You passed Stephen's test. So just so the fans 00:19:12.160 --> 00:19:13.700 people fucking know what just happened, I got 00:19:13.700 --> 00:19:15.339 my two friends from Michigan in the room here. 00:19:17.099 --> 00:19:19.319 And they're on the Discord. We got winning guests 00:19:19.319 --> 00:19:24.740 tonight. No, I don't think Jules is playing. 00:19:25.369 --> 00:19:27.609 you know, this loot in a, in a fun kind of showy 00:19:27.609 --> 00:19:29.589 way. I think there's a couple of nights where 00:19:29.589 --> 00:19:31.809 he kind of sits to himself, like next to a fire 00:19:31.809 --> 00:19:34.690 or something and just, you know, gives a little 00:19:34.690 --> 00:19:38.109 soft lament, you know, of his sadness and his 00:19:38.109 --> 00:19:40.670 stress and his anxiety and his despair of what's 00:19:40.670 --> 00:19:43.049 coming. I think you like, we see that you're 00:19:43.049 --> 00:19:45.369 playing this out. We just, sadly, we see the, 00:19:45.410 --> 00:19:47.509 your fingers moving the strings, Jules, the eyes 00:19:47.509 --> 00:19:49.349 closed, lost to it. And by the time you like 00:19:49.349 --> 00:19:52.349 come to realize. There's a bunch of watchers 00:19:52.349 --> 00:19:54.609 around you, and they're all, like, openly weeping. 00:19:54.650 --> 00:20:03.950 Oh, God. That's beautiful. A week passes. There 00:20:03.950 --> 00:20:06.769 will be a roll. It won't happen yet, but there 00:20:06.769 --> 00:20:08.750 will be a roll to see if anything goes down on 00:20:08.750 --> 00:20:11.950 Tletepec without celestial reinforcement. But 00:20:11.950 --> 00:20:15.269 I will, as I promised, drop the difficulty of 00:20:15.269 --> 00:20:18.029 that roll, drop the percentage. You have helped 00:20:18.029 --> 00:20:21.019 in a major way. And you feel that. You feel a 00:20:21.019 --> 00:20:26.160 surge of confidence in the Watchers. Maybe it 00:20:26.160 --> 00:20:28.420 will help. Can I just point out really fast, 00:20:28.660 --> 00:20:31.140 because you were just talking about rules, and 00:20:31.140 --> 00:20:33.519 you're fiddling with a button. The button economy 00:20:33.519 --> 00:20:35.319 is really broken right now. We have no buttons, 00:20:35.339 --> 00:20:36.740 and we have not had a button in, like, weeks. 00:20:36.900 --> 00:20:40.099 Oh, really? Oh, that's hilarious. I should do 00:20:40.099 --> 00:20:42.599 something cool with some boy. Yeah, right. Fucking 00:20:42.599 --> 00:20:48.059 try harder. Yeah. I have a button from Andrew 00:20:48.059 --> 00:20:50.740 right here for me, so... I still don't think 00:20:50.740 --> 00:20:58.039 you do. I think I speak for Andrew now. I think 00:20:58.039 --> 00:20:59.799 you feel your time here is nearly at an end. 00:21:00.640 --> 00:21:05.099 Perhaps it's one evening, just after one of your 00:21:05.099 --> 00:21:08.559 very somber performances, Jules, Blanche, perhaps 00:21:08.559 --> 00:21:11.119 you are sitting nearby. On this evening, the 00:21:11.119 --> 00:21:13.559 watchers are... I think you pushed them extra 00:21:13.559 --> 00:21:15.460 hard that day. Most people are asleep earlier 00:21:15.460 --> 00:21:18.549 than you. They just like ran them through it 00:21:18.549 --> 00:21:20.650 and they're just passed out. I think it's just 00:21:20.650 --> 00:21:23.250 the two of you and Akio all sitting by the fire 00:21:23.250 --> 00:21:26.069 at this point. Zopa's moved on to check into 00:21:26.069 --> 00:21:28.869 something or other. And as the fire before you 00:21:28.869 --> 00:21:32.450 is beginning to die down to just smoldering embers, 00:21:32.450 --> 00:21:36.910 and you know that your path is calling you elsewhere, 00:21:37.069 --> 00:21:40.970 the two of you very suddenly hear a voice in 00:21:40.970 --> 00:21:45.000 your minds. Luminaries LaRoche and Trudeau. I 00:21:45.000 --> 00:21:47.799 have a message from the Sightweaver. With your 00:21:47.799 --> 00:21:54.140 regards, Shrike. The voice continues on and speaks 00:21:54.140 --> 00:21:58.099 the exact message Salome spoke last time, essentially 00:21:58.099 --> 00:22:02.380 revealing herself as an ally to you and asking 00:22:02.380 --> 00:22:07.299 for you to set a place to meet. The next step 00:22:07.299 --> 00:22:10.960 of your journey has become apparent. So what 00:22:10.960 --> 00:22:13.750 are you going to do about it? Do you think we 00:22:13.750 --> 00:22:17.410 can trust her, Jules? I think at this point we 00:22:17.410 --> 00:22:20.670 gotta look into anything. We'll give it a chance. 00:22:21.829 --> 00:22:25.390 But if I smell anything fishy, we're getting 00:22:25.390 --> 00:22:29.329 the fuck out of there. Well, we can choose the 00:22:29.329 --> 00:22:32.009 meeting place. Just don't choose the fish docks. 00:22:34.069 --> 00:22:36.529 There's no ocean. Lance, let's go to the fish 00:22:36.529 --> 00:22:39.190 docks. Just don't choose the pale moonlight. 00:22:40.089 --> 00:22:43.750 So wait, so we're... If we go off of Tlalepic... 00:22:43.750 --> 00:22:47.369 Once you get back to the Radiant Citadel, your 00:22:47.369 --> 00:22:50.589 passports will be revoked. At this point, you 00:22:50.589 --> 00:22:52.950 know that. The announcement came. Basically, 00:22:53.390 --> 00:22:54.769 it doesn't matter. They're not going to take 00:22:54.769 --> 00:22:56.569 anything from you, but if you were to go... Like, 00:22:56.650 --> 00:22:59.230 everyone has free passage from their world to 00:22:59.230 --> 00:23:01.549 the Citadel. The Citadel does not require a passport. 00:23:01.690 --> 00:23:03.890 Anyone and everyone can be there. It is open. 00:23:03.970 --> 00:23:06.490 The gates are always open. But leaving your home 00:23:06.490 --> 00:23:08.210 world to a different one, that's where it gets 00:23:08.210 --> 00:23:12.130 dicey. And right now, your home world is Tythos 00:23:12.130 --> 00:23:15.650 Duels. You have not been officially placed anywhere 00:23:15.650 --> 00:23:21.930 else. So you will be stuck there. Blanche, I 00:23:21.930 --> 00:23:23.609 mean, you have a home to go back to, kind of. 00:23:23.869 --> 00:23:27.289 But you know that Noari has essentially been 00:23:27.289 --> 00:23:30.549 overtaken by Atash's forces. No need for a master 00:23:30.549 --> 00:23:36.170 defense, especially now. Isn't our way into... 00:23:37.659 --> 00:23:40.660 Handsome Jai's place, doesn't that happen on 00:23:40.660 --> 00:23:42.619 the Radiant Citadel? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 00:23:42.619 --> 00:23:45.319 yeah. The way it works, yes. The stone, the multicolored 00:23:45.319 --> 00:23:48.640 stone that brings you, essentially a key that 00:23:48.640 --> 00:23:52.819 brings you into his, what's it like, jinn? His 00:23:52.819 --> 00:23:55.180 lamp? Yeah, his lamp, his sort of little pocket 00:23:55.180 --> 00:23:57.700 dimension he has, his meeting grounds, his lair 00:23:57.700 --> 00:24:02.720 of looves. Not a place you... Pretty gross in 00:24:02.720 --> 00:24:06.829 there, but you can enter it. whenever you want, 00:24:06.869 --> 00:24:09.970 as long as you're on the same plane. So you cannot 00:24:09.970 --> 00:24:11.329 do it if you're on a different world from him. 00:24:11.369 --> 00:24:12.609 But if you're on the Citadel, where you know 00:24:12.609 --> 00:24:15.549 Handsome Jai's probably partying, then you can, 00:24:15.650 --> 00:24:18.049 from anywhere on the Citadel, activate that stone 00:24:18.049 --> 00:24:23.789 and appear there. Yeah, so for Jules, he can 00:24:23.789 --> 00:24:26.410 either stay here on Toledopec, which would not 00:24:26.410 --> 00:24:30.069 be super good, or go back to the Radiant Citadel, 00:24:30.230 --> 00:24:31.650 because that's the only place that he can really 00:24:31.650 --> 00:24:35.420 travel to. So it doesn't make sense for Blanche 00:24:35.420 --> 00:24:39.440 to try to go home to Noiri because she wouldn't 00:24:39.440 --> 00:24:43.140 be able to go with Jules. So it's pretty obvious. 00:24:43.279 --> 00:24:44.940 The only place we can go is the Citadel. Right. 00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:47.119 And while we're on the Citadel, we have enough 00:24:47.119 --> 00:24:49.079 allies that we can find a place to meet with 00:24:49.079 --> 00:24:53.619 Salome. And Blanche is thinking, handsome Jai's. 00:24:54.059 --> 00:24:56.720 Yeah. This is a subtle place. That's it, right? 00:24:56.799 --> 00:25:00.190 You'll be inside a lamp on a table. Probably 00:25:00.190 --> 00:25:02.769 entirely unseen. I mean, we worked fucking hard 00:25:02.769 --> 00:25:06.529 to get that spot, so... We could go to Handsome 00:25:06.529 --> 00:25:11.130 Jai's secret love room. Are you ready for round 00:25:11.130 --> 00:25:15.950 two? No! No, Roof! Please! Please, Roof! I can't 00:25:15.950 --> 00:25:19.250 dance again! We won't be... I still haven't recovered! 00:25:19.670 --> 00:25:22.130 No, no, no. That was worse than the fire dragon 00:25:22.130 --> 00:25:23.990 thing! Akio, not this time around. It's okay. 00:25:24.170 --> 00:25:26.609 We'll be in the lamp, Akio. Don't worry. Okay. 00:25:26.829 --> 00:25:33.900 Yeah. Roof. He just rolls over. And so we know 00:25:33.900 --> 00:25:35.920 that we can now pass that message on to Shrike, 00:25:36.059 --> 00:25:39.279 and Shrike will... You feel that connection is 00:25:39.279 --> 00:25:41.359 still essentially open, like waiting for any 00:25:41.359 --> 00:25:43.900 kind of response. This is a ability called Psychic 00:25:43.900 --> 00:25:46.220 Whispers. It can be open for up to a few hours, 00:25:46.240 --> 00:25:48.240 essentially, with whoever she chooses. And then 00:25:48.240 --> 00:25:50.160 she can go back and deliver that message to Salome. 00:25:50.160 --> 00:25:52.859 So if you have a meeting ground and a time, Salome 00:25:52.859 --> 00:25:56.920 will have to figure it out, but... Sure. Very 00:25:56.920 --> 00:26:00.299 well. Blanche is going to look to Jules as she 00:26:00.299 --> 00:26:04.960 often does. What's the thing called? How would 00:26:04.960 --> 00:26:09.420 I describe it to Salome? I mean, I guess it's 00:26:09.420 --> 00:26:13.599 Handsome Jai's lamp, right? She'd have to go 00:26:13.599 --> 00:26:18.119 to Handsome Jai. Right. If we just say, yeah, 00:26:18.200 --> 00:26:21.680 we'll just send her to Handsome Jai and he'll 00:26:21.680 --> 00:26:24.279 set up the rest, I guess. Yeah. Hell yeah. What 00:26:24.279 --> 00:26:28.140 time do we want to do? I don't know that it matters, 00:26:28.200 --> 00:26:30.539 right? It doesn't? Not to me. Do it in a month. 00:26:30.619 --> 00:26:34.400 Do it one month from now. No. Fuck off. Tonight. 00:26:34.500 --> 00:26:35.619 Let's do it tonight. Yeah, let's do it tonight. 00:26:35.720 --> 00:26:37.740 Okay. Nothing pressing coming up in two months. 00:26:37.960 --> 00:26:41.619 Oh, sorry. One month and three weeks. Tonight. 00:26:43.259 --> 00:26:48.619 On the Citadel. Find Handsome Jai. He'll point 00:26:48.619 --> 00:26:53.099 you in the right direction. Hell yeah. And that 00:26:53.099 --> 00:26:58.819 presence. retreats from your minds. Do you want 00:26:58.819 --> 00:27:02.039 to cut to that meeting, then? Any other things 00:27:02.039 --> 00:27:03.279 you want to do here on Thought Effect before 00:27:03.279 --> 00:27:08.359 you leave? I want to shop. Go back to the map 00:27:08.359 --> 00:27:10.880 shop! Zopa taught me a bunch of new fire spells, 00:27:11.019 --> 00:27:16.119 right? Yeah, no. Yeah, I mean, Jules doesn't 00:27:16.119 --> 00:27:18.740 have anything that he'd want to do here. If Blanche 00:27:18.740 --> 00:27:20.460 does, Jules will hang behind. You just have to 00:27:20.460 --> 00:27:24.740 play the sound effect for the travel. Oh yeah, 00:27:24.859 --> 00:27:27.240 yeah, you gotta do that. And the, the, whatever 00:27:27.240 --> 00:27:29.960 it is. What's it? It's the cool one. It's the 00:27:29.960 --> 00:27:33.740 black one. Black. Onyx? Is it Onyx? I don't know. 00:27:33.920 --> 00:27:36.839 It might be Onyx. I'm listing Black Rocks. Obsidian 00:27:36.839 --> 00:27:42.039 Conquer Jewel rises up. And you're on it. I'm 00:27:42.039 --> 00:27:53.740 waiting for your cue. And... Vanishes. Just a 00:27:53.740 --> 00:27:57.220 short while later, in the dimly lit Ugly Coyote, 00:27:57.319 --> 00:28:01.480 surrounded by the Cherry Delights, Dresden, Jean, 00:28:01.759 --> 00:28:05.460 Gabriela, Arhalon, all your sidekicks. Not officially, 00:28:05.619 --> 00:28:10.119 but, you know. All watching on, you draw out 00:28:10.119 --> 00:28:12.480 the stone, this multicolored stone that feels 00:28:12.480 --> 00:28:18.220 like this throbbing warmth. Why did you look 00:28:18.220 --> 00:28:23.039 at me and laugh? Because it was funny. Handsome 00:28:23.039 --> 00:28:25.539 Gize, love stone. Handsome Gize, throbbing warm. 00:28:25.680 --> 00:28:28.119 Is that the title of the episode? There it is. 00:28:28.200 --> 00:28:32.880 There it is. Oh, no. And in this sort of prismatic 00:28:32.880 --> 00:28:36.019 array of light, almost like a mist over, oh, 00:28:36.079 --> 00:28:40.420 you're just enveloping you. You vanish again. 00:28:42.099 --> 00:28:46.519 We cut to Salome. Let's not, let me go through 00:28:46.519 --> 00:28:49.960 the whole. Shimadurong. You are a luminary. You 00:28:49.960 --> 00:28:53.140 are persuasive. Shimadurong. It's a word. Look 00:28:53.140 --> 00:28:56.559 it up. I think it's Dutch. I think all we need 00:28:56.559 --> 00:29:00.099 to do to establish Salome's involvement is one 00:29:00.099 --> 00:29:05.019 very quick scene as she stands in a room full 00:29:05.019 --> 00:29:10.140 of raving people just standing in a place surrounded 00:29:10.140 --> 00:29:14.720 by just pink cloud that smells of cinnamon. And 00:29:14.720 --> 00:29:18.140 as this plump fairy dragon reaches out a finger, 00:29:18.220 --> 00:29:24.220 it says... Oh, come on. Oh, my God. Fuck. It's 00:29:24.220 --> 00:29:25.880 a con save, right? We don't need to go there. 00:29:26.339 --> 00:29:29.220 We just need to make sure. I just need to understand 00:29:29.220 --> 00:29:30.779 that Salome went through all that, too, because 00:29:30.779 --> 00:29:33.900 it's funny for me. I want to check it out. That 00:29:33.900 --> 00:29:38.059 should do. 18. You are... That's pretty good. 00:29:38.180 --> 00:29:40.059 No, it wasn't a DC 20? I don't remember the DC. 00:29:40.259 --> 00:29:44.200 Damn it. It's 20 now. You're seeing things. You're 00:29:44.200 --> 00:29:47.160 going on a journey. Salome's going to be late 00:29:47.160 --> 00:29:51.400 to the appointment. Jules and Blanche, you've 00:29:51.400 --> 00:29:59.339 been waiting for two hours. When Salome materializes 00:29:59.339 --> 00:30:01.400 within the room as well. I think you saw her 00:30:01.400 --> 00:30:03.539 approaching Handsome Jai. I think there wasn't 00:30:03.539 --> 00:30:05.559 nearly as much hub -a -loo. There was no mimic 00:30:05.559 --> 00:30:09.559 fight. Chairs, musical chairs. She probably got 00:30:09.559 --> 00:30:10.839 pranked. It was kind of serious business. She 00:30:10.839 --> 00:30:13.519 got pranked once and they got serious. And Handsome 00:30:13.519 --> 00:30:18.380 Jai, when he realized you were here to meet with 00:30:18.380 --> 00:30:21.380 the two figures inside the lamp, lets you in. 00:30:23.799 --> 00:30:27.680 For the first time. Let me ask. Is Dresden coming 00:30:27.680 --> 00:30:33.220 too? Fuck. He knew Salome. He knew Salome, but... 00:30:33.609 --> 00:30:36.430 That leaves the coyote well exposed. Which I 00:30:36.430 --> 00:30:38.549 think we as people know probably nothing's going 00:30:38.549 --> 00:30:41.769 to happen. Right. No, yeah. I mean, in the game. 00:30:41.789 --> 00:30:43.329 You have Arhalon, Jaune, and Gabriela. That's 00:30:43.329 --> 00:30:45.109 true. Oh, fuck. Yeah, yeah. Okay, that changes 00:30:45.109 --> 00:30:48.250 things. That changes things. Okay. Yeah, you 00:30:48.250 --> 00:30:52.069 know, we disgusted the coyote and we took Dresden. 00:30:52.210 --> 00:30:54.769 Hell yeah. And in this moment, Jules is going 00:30:54.769 --> 00:30:56.049 to look over to Blanche and say, Hey, Jules, 00:30:56.069 --> 00:31:00.569 why don't you... Wait, how did that happen? He's 00:31:00.569 --> 00:31:03.160 going to... He's going to turn to Blanche, look 00:31:03.160 --> 00:31:05.700 over at Salome, and say, Hey, Blanche, why don't 00:31:05.700 --> 00:31:10.200 you take this one? Steven's the only one who 00:31:10.200 --> 00:31:12.140 has not talked to himself in this whole fucking 00:31:12.140 --> 00:31:14.440 campaign. Is that true? Yes. That can't be true. 00:31:14.559 --> 00:31:16.500 You have not talked to yourself. Jeremy, turn 00:31:16.500 --> 00:31:21.940 off our mics. So Salome will nod to Dresden. 00:31:23.700 --> 00:31:28.519 Greetings, Blanche and Jules. I am still a little 00:31:28.519 --> 00:31:33.160 high, but... I was drinking. I almost lost my 00:31:33.160 --> 00:31:42.299 laptop. It's wonderful to finally meet you all. 00:31:42.539 --> 00:31:45.539 Well, no, she met Jules before. Yeah, but she 00:31:45.539 --> 00:31:48.059 kind of met him. She slapped a prophecy and put 00:31:48.059 --> 00:31:49.680 him in a coma. Right, yeah, that was awesome. 00:31:49.920 --> 00:31:51.880 It was a really good meeting. Did Jules know 00:31:51.880 --> 00:31:56.339 who she was before that? No. Okay, so then Jules 00:31:56.339 --> 00:31:59.019 has this really dumbfounded look on his face 00:31:59.019 --> 00:32:02.329 like, That's you? Maybe, like, because you've 00:32:02.329 --> 00:32:03.950 seen her probably on the network, but... Okay, 00:32:04.029 --> 00:32:05.529 okay. But, like, at the same time, it's probably 00:32:05.529 --> 00:32:07.250 different seeing her in person and realizing, 00:32:07.369 --> 00:32:11.670 oh, that's the power of that. Yeah. I am sorry 00:32:11.670 --> 00:32:15.490 about the first time we met. Yeah, that was pretty 00:32:15.490 --> 00:32:20.829 fucked up. I... It was unintentional. My message 00:32:20.829 --> 00:32:27.130 was, as it is now, one of grave importance. Well, 00:32:27.130 --> 00:32:32.880 you... mention something about... It's not the... 00:32:32.880 --> 00:32:34.720 Ah, shit. It's not the speakers for the... It's 00:32:34.720 --> 00:32:38.059 not the ancestors. It's the... Is this Blanche 00:32:38.059 --> 00:32:39.480 talking or Salome talking right now? No, this 00:32:39.480 --> 00:32:41.539 is Stephen talking. Oh, shit. So I got lost in 00:32:41.539 --> 00:32:44.140 it. Hold on. Why can't I think of the name? Like 00:32:44.140 --> 00:32:46.440 the Jasper tree and stuff? Oh, the Incarnates. 00:32:46.640 --> 00:32:48.920 Incarnates. The Don Incarnates. I will never... 00:32:48.920 --> 00:32:51.339 I will never ever remember Don Incarnates for 00:32:51.339 --> 00:32:54.759 some reason. Do Incarnates then. Okay. You mentioned 00:32:54.759 --> 00:32:57.660 something about the Incarnates. Being in danger? 00:32:58.539 --> 00:33:06.319 Yes. Arthash is assembling an army. Well, the 00:33:06.319 --> 00:33:12.279 sapphire is assembling an army to destroy the 00:33:12.279 --> 00:33:17.019 other incarnates and take complete control over 00:33:17.019 --> 00:33:22.819 the diamond and our worlds. An army of... An 00:33:22.819 --> 00:33:30.230 army of who? An army of... Celestials, the Shieldbearers, 00:33:30.309 --> 00:33:37.170 and definitely two others. Come on. Look at this 00:33:37.170 --> 00:33:42.430 button. Stop. You can do it. No, wait. You're 00:33:42.430 --> 00:33:45.849 one of them. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The 00:33:45.849 --> 00:33:49.670 Luminaries at Lodge? You don't know the last 00:33:49.670 --> 00:33:51.569 one. I don't think I remember the last one. The 00:33:51.569 --> 00:33:53.970 last one is a secret, something that Kejo Kamala 00:33:53.970 --> 00:33:56.789 is working on. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, didn't 00:33:56.789 --> 00:34:00.170 you mention robots? Or not robots? Didn't you 00:34:00.170 --> 00:34:03.430 mention something like that? No. I mentioned 00:34:03.430 --> 00:34:06.569 that there are parts being sent from metalwork 00:34:06.569 --> 00:34:09.190 parts being sent. So maybe you could surmise 00:34:09.190 --> 00:34:11.409 something, but it could be weapons, armor, you 00:34:11.409 --> 00:34:16.269 don't know. And a secret fourth army being, I'm 00:34:16.269 --> 00:34:22.289 assuming, assembled by... Kejo Kamal? Well, uh, 00:34:22.389 --> 00:34:25.449 how are the few of us in this room going to fight 00:34:25.449 --> 00:34:29.929 a four -sided army? Yeah, this is all stuff we 00:34:29.929 --> 00:34:33.110 know. You bringing something to the table here? 00:34:33.710 --> 00:34:36.889 Gonna give us an idea of what to do? My hope 00:34:36.889 --> 00:34:43.469 is that with your help, your popularity, perhaps 00:34:43.469 --> 00:34:49.389 we could turn some factions of each group. Haven't 00:34:49.389 --> 00:34:53.289 you heard the news, though? Our popularity has 00:34:53.289 --> 00:34:56.329 turned into notoriety. Ooh. I like that line. 00:34:56.550 --> 00:34:59.869 Button? I like that. You know what? He should 00:34:59.869 --> 00:35:02.070 take a button. Fuck yeah. Button on his back. 00:35:02.090 --> 00:35:05.070 Fuck yeah. I'll just grab one. You guys are killing 00:35:05.070 --> 00:35:11.610 it. In this case, being notorious, as you put 00:35:11.610 --> 00:35:17.469 it, is your strength. There are those who seek 00:35:17.469 --> 00:35:22.420 rebellion. Against the powers that be, your justice 00:35:22.420 --> 00:35:27.119 undying movement being chief amongst them. There 00:35:27.119 --> 00:35:31.460 are others who will flock to your cause. That 00:35:31.460 --> 00:35:35.559 is just the tipping point. So how do we mobilize? 00:35:36.679 --> 00:35:40.679 Well, I was hoping we could all come up with 00:35:40.679 --> 00:35:46.599 a strategy. I may be able to convince some, at 00:35:46.599 --> 00:35:51.170 least few. Celestials, that Atash is traveling 00:35:51.170 --> 00:35:58.869 down a dark path. As for the luminaries, you're 00:35:58.869 --> 00:36:07.909 somewhat of a popular figure amongst them. It's 00:36:07.909 --> 00:36:11.869 true, Jules. We have many friends among the luminaries, 00:36:11.869 --> 00:36:14.610 some of the highest ranking. They're all scared 00:36:14.610 --> 00:36:19.730 to come out. Well... Aren't you scared? Dresden's 00:36:19.730 --> 00:36:21.429 been really quiet. I'm always fucking scared. 00:36:21.909 --> 00:36:34.550 Yeah, I know. I'm just listening. I don't think 00:36:34.550 --> 00:36:39.949 that our type, luminaries, are dispersuaded by 00:36:39.949 --> 00:36:43.070 being scared. The right thing to do is often 00:36:43.070 --> 00:36:46.619 scary. Super random, but... What if we sent out 00:36:46.619 --> 00:36:49.420 an invite to... Handsome Jai's on our side, right? 00:36:49.980 --> 00:36:52.579 Well, we don't necessarily... Is he? Do we know? 00:36:52.619 --> 00:36:56.039 He's helping you. Okay. But he's... He probably 00:36:56.039 --> 00:36:57.679 doesn't know what's going on in this room right 00:36:57.679 --> 00:36:59.840 now unless he's listening. Right. You see he's 00:36:59.840 --> 00:37:01.800 out there. He looks down occasionally, but his 00:37:01.800 --> 00:37:03.780 eyes are totally fucked up. He's on something 00:37:03.780 --> 00:37:07.039 heavy. Ah, fuck. Handsome Jai, he's on your side, 00:37:07.159 --> 00:37:10.559 but he's not someone you can rely on at all. 00:37:10.760 --> 00:37:12.800 Because my first thought was maybe let's make 00:37:12.800 --> 00:37:15.170 this headquarters. Because God forbid that we 00:37:15.170 --> 00:37:18.909 have a stable ally. Yeah. It's never going to 00:37:18.909 --> 00:37:23.530 happen. They're either in jail or... Well, yeah, 00:37:23.590 --> 00:37:25.989 that's the thing is like, you know, obviously 00:37:25.989 --> 00:37:29.809 Sholay's gone. Handsome Jai is Handsome Jai. 00:37:29.949 --> 00:37:33.369 And we can't put out a public call. No. Because 00:37:33.369 --> 00:37:35.010 that's just going to be... We're going to have 00:37:35.010 --> 00:37:38.269 to... Yeah. The way I'm seeing it is it's grassroots, 00:37:38.550 --> 00:37:40.949 right? You go to one person, you talk to them, 00:37:41.050 --> 00:37:42.750 they talk to two people, they talk to two people, 00:37:42.769 --> 00:37:45.429 they talk to two people sort of thing. I think 00:37:45.429 --> 00:37:47.230 something else that might also be kind of going 00:37:47.230 --> 00:37:49.090 through your minds right now, not Salome, but 00:37:49.090 --> 00:37:52.289 the other three, is Sholay's message. There is 00:37:52.289 --> 00:37:56.070 that too. She has allies, right? She has allies 00:37:56.070 --> 00:37:58.969 and she has made you essentially a promise. If 00:37:58.969 --> 00:38:02.610 you lay low and await further instruction, she 00:38:02.610 --> 00:38:05.880 may have something. To offer you. I'm not saying 00:38:05.880 --> 00:38:07.679 you have to do that. I'm not saying you should 00:38:07.679 --> 00:38:12.340 do that. But... I mean, asking around and, like, 00:38:12.400 --> 00:38:14.920 feeling people out can still be sort of laying 00:38:14.920 --> 00:38:17.980 low. We can. Yeah, we can. We're not raising 00:38:17.980 --> 00:38:21.079 banners yet. Jules, correct me if I'm wrong. 00:38:21.199 --> 00:38:25.860 Don't you have a way to call on Sturge men? Oh, 00:38:25.860 --> 00:38:30.869 shit. I do. With the Sturge stone? No, it's Ascending 00:38:30.869 --> 00:38:40.670 Sturge. That's awful. They're the Handsome Jack's 00:38:40.670 --> 00:38:45.170 throbbing form. Both luminaries give you the 00:38:45.170 --> 00:38:51.349 weirdest tones. So Sturge Man is, just to recap, 00:38:51.449 --> 00:38:53.769 because it's been a while. He was 100 % in our 00:38:53.769 --> 00:38:57.739 corner. He's a really complicated one. He likes 00:38:57.739 --> 00:39:01.139 you because you helped him. He is an Atash fanatic. 00:39:01.239 --> 00:39:05.820 He believes in seeing law upheld. Yeah, he's 00:39:05.820 --> 00:39:09.659 like lawful good. He's between you both. He's 00:39:09.659 --> 00:39:11.920 kind of like the way I look at Sturgeman is he's 00:39:11.920 --> 00:39:13.980 like the middle brother who hates it when little 00:39:13.980 --> 00:39:16.380 brother and big brother are fighting. Yeah. Well, 00:39:16.500 --> 00:39:19.619 so that's the thing is like if we can make Sturgeman 00:39:19.619 --> 00:39:24.429 see that what Atash is doing is... um not lawful 00:39:24.429 --> 00:39:26.889 you know what i mean maybe in some fucked up 00:39:26.889 --> 00:39:29.469 sense it's good but if i call out to him could 00:39:29.469 --> 00:39:32.789 he get here like now not here because here's 00:39:32.789 --> 00:39:35.369 a place yeah yeah that's very hard to get to 00:39:35.369 --> 00:39:37.809 sure well but even if we like even if we come 00:39:37.809 --> 00:39:40.550 up with like a i don't know a list a plan whatever 00:39:40.550 --> 00:39:44.170 yeah of people that we can talk to like let's 00:39:44.170 --> 00:39:48.409 go over who who else are our big allies um aside 00:39:48.409 --> 00:39:50.989 from our sidekicks you know and the big man is 00:39:50.989 --> 00:39:54.320 gone You know, a number of like fan luminaries, 00:39:54.340 --> 00:39:55.800 we call them other luminaries that are part of 00:39:55.800 --> 00:39:58.539 the Justin Dine movement would be, are around. 00:39:58.739 --> 00:40:01.800 They will help in the ways they can. But as you 00:40:01.800 --> 00:40:04.760 were warned long ago, if you are seen mobilized, 00:40:04.780 --> 00:40:06.059 and that's why they're very subtle with their 00:40:06.059 --> 00:40:09.260 touch, Atash might take a more direct approach 00:40:09.260 --> 00:40:12.679 to squashing you. Do we have any way of contacting 00:40:12.679 --> 00:40:15.519 Zopa? You could have set that up. Because as 00:40:15.519 --> 00:40:18.280 far as like active luminaries, is it really just 00:40:18.280 --> 00:40:21.019 Sturgeman and Zopa? You know, Zopa, the one thing 00:40:21.019 --> 00:40:22.949 is, She's not going to leave to let it back while 00:40:22.949 --> 00:40:26.550 there's a chance the ash rise could come. How 00:40:26.550 --> 00:40:31.550 are we going to fight for, like, the end of all 00:40:31.550 --> 00:40:34.190 battles? Like, the battle to end all battles. 00:40:34.329 --> 00:40:37.050 How are we going to convince these people, hey, 00:40:37.150 --> 00:40:40.829 I know that your thing matters, but we're fighting 00:40:40.829 --> 00:40:44.110 the war to end all wars right now. Maybe there's 00:40:44.110 --> 00:40:47.010 a way. What's a... You just don't know it yet. 00:40:47.210 --> 00:40:50.289 Whatever happened to, I mean... Forgive me if 00:40:50.289 --> 00:40:52.090 I'm being fucking stupid and just completely 00:40:52.090 --> 00:40:54.750 forgot what happened. Whatever happened to Xena? 00:40:54.969 --> 00:40:56.909 You don't know. She disappeared. She just vanished. 00:40:57.670 --> 00:40:59.710 No one knows. Arholon has been looking into it. 00:40:59.750 --> 00:41:03.309 A new conspiracy board. It is a decidedly empty 00:41:03.309 --> 00:41:06.030 board. Okay. Even Arholon is starting to realize 00:41:06.030 --> 00:41:10.050 he doesn't know much about Xena. She's long lived. 00:41:10.329 --> 00:41:14.010 He's known her as a mother for these last... 00:41:14.630 --> 00:41:16.829 30 -some -odd years of her life. Like, you know, 00:41:16.829 --> 00:41:19.829 before him, she was with his father for some 00:41:19.829 --> 00:41:22.409 time. He remembers all that now, but he doesn't 00:41:22.409 --> 00:41:25.530 know anything about her, really. Okay. Salome, 00:41:25.690 --> 00:41:29.429 Jules told me about the vision you shared with 00:41:29.429 --> 00:41:35.269 him. Is there any way to share your vision further, 00:41:35.469 --> 00:41:40.349 either on an individual level or perhaps to a 00:41:40.349 --> 00:41:43.440 recording diamond? You would know it would not 00:41:43.440 --> 00:41:46.719 work on a recording diamond. Okay. That needs 00:41:46.719 --> 00:41:48.960 to be very much a physical capturing of light 00:41:48.960 --> 00:41:53.199 and sound. But there could be more to what you're 00:41:53.199 --> 00:41:55.800 saying there. It is a thing with the party stat 00:41:55.800 --> 00:41:58.820 block. I never gave you this because it's crazy. 00:41:59.420 --> 00:42:02.079 But they actually, in their stat block, can share 00:42:02.079 --> 00:42:05.159 visions with people to disorient them and put 00:42:05.159 --> 00:42:08.099 almost a negative effect on them. So that's kind 00:42:08.099 --> 00:42:10.849 of what I was working off of with that. Maybe 00:42:10.849 --> 00:42:12.670 we'll add that to your sheet on this next level. 00:42:12.730 --> 00:42:15.210 I think it's a lot to ask. I really was just 00:42:15.210 --> 00:42:19.170 curious to know if there was a way to do something 00:42:19.170 --> 00:42:22.610 with the network. I'm not asking that. I'm just 00:42:22.610 --> 00:42:24.449 saying the only reason that I went down that 00:42:24.449 --> 00:42:26.789 conversational pathway was because I was super 00:42:26.789 --> 00:42:28.570 curious and wanted to know. But if I get something 00:42:28.570 --> 00:42:31.550 out of it, that's fantastic. Roll me an Arcana 00:42:31.550 --> 00:42:36.269 check. Okay, great. For Salome? Salome or Blanche. 00:42:36.989 --> 00:42:44.360 Or and. Or and? Okay, I'll do and. Blue, my treasured 00:42:44.360 --> 00:42:47.460 ground die will be for Salome, who actually has 00:42:47.460 --> 00:42:50.780 a really lousy arcana because her intelligence 00:42:50.780 --> 00:42:53.619 is low. And then my gray duck die will be my 00:42:53.619 --> 00:42:58.059 Blanche. Oh my god, it's awful. There's both 00:42:58.059 --> 00:43:07.920 so bad. 11 for Salome and 12 for Blanche. I can't 00:43:07.920 --> 00:43:11.460 give you a lot. All I can tell you is this. You 00:43:11.460 --> 00:43:13.320 know for a fact recording diamonds wouldn't be 00:43:13.320 --> 00:43:15.400 able to record any kind of memory. That's just 00:43:15.400 --> 00:43:18.380 not a thing they can do. Memory, vision. But 00:43:18.380 --> 00:43:22.820 there might be something you can do. You just 00:43:22.820 --> 00:43:26.139 know that the auroral diamond is a transmitter. 00:43:26.400 --> 00:43:29.659 Right. But what it transmits, what it's transmitting 00:43:29.659 --> 00:43:34.150 to is minds. But you don't know how it works. 00:43:34.170 --> 00:43:36.570 You don't know the deeper way to make anything 00:43:36.570 --> 00:43:41.510 happen with that. But maybe, maybe there's a 00:43:41.510 --> 00:43:47.070 way to send a prophecy, a Pahri prophecy, to 00:43:47.070 --> 00:43:53.150 everyone. We have seen what Sholay was capable 00:43:53.150 --> 00:43:59.610 of doing with the auroral diamond. I can't claim 00:43:59.610 --> 00:44:05.360 to understand the diamond. Intricately, but I 00:44:05.360 --> 00:44:10.539 suppose there's not an impossibility that it 00:44:10.539 --> 00:44:14.039 could be done. Given the type of magics that 00:44:14.039 --> 00:44:18.079 Jules is connected to. Yeah. Could he figure 00:44:18.079 --> 00:44:22.320 out a way to tap into this? I think we'd need 00:44:22.320 --> 00:44:24.699 to get approval from the incarnates. Is that 00:44:24.699 --> 00:44:27.300 how it works? Okay. So I'll tell you this. If 00:44:27.300 --> 00:44:29.099 you want to cast a spell from the master node, 00:44:29.219 --> 00:44:33.400 which is how Sholi erased memory itself. And 00:44:33.400 --> 00:44:37.079 potentially how Atash plans to dominate all the 00:44:37.079 --> 00:44:39.139 peoples of all the worlds or the Sapphire through 00:44:39.139 --> 00:44:42.380 Atash. That would require all the incarnates. 00:44:42.460 --> 00:44:44.239 Like every incarnate needs to approve on that. 00:44:44.300 --> 00:44:46.380 Every living incarnate needs to approve on that. 00:44:46.500 --> 00:44:49.139 And then that includes the Sapphire. But. Or 00:44:49.139 --> 00:44:51.880 does it? Or does it? Or does it? That's a good 00:44:51.880 --> 00:44:54.500 question. That's a good question. Oh, shit. But 00:44:54.500 --> 00:44:58.550 the network itself just transmits. sounds and 00:44:58.550 --> 00:45:00.590 images to people's minds. You know that it's 00:45:00.590 --> 00:45:02.849 to the minds now. What you're seeing when you 00:45:02.849 --> 00:45:06.110 see the light array on the wall, you only hear 00:45:06.110 --> 00:45:07.690 it when you look at it because what's really 00:45:07.690 --> 00:45:10.329 happening is this image is happening inside your 00:45:10.329 --> 00:45:14.570 head. Perhaps there's a lesser way to just send 00:45:14.570 --> 00:45:16.750 prophecy images through. You know it wouldn't 00:45:16.750 --> 00:45:18.190 be controlling anyone's minds. It wouldn't be 00:45:18.190 --> 00:45:19.929 wiping anyone's memories. It wouldn't be that 00:45:19.929 --> 00:45:22.570 powerful, but there could be a way. The problem 00:45:22.570 --> 00:45:26.699 is, Jules, I'll give you this. Your power likely 00:45:26.699 --> 00:45:29.099 wouldn't do that. Your power seems to be that 00:45:29.099 --> 00:45:33.420 of connecting to people, connecting to alternate 00:45:33.420 --> 00:45:36.320 planes. You know that the power of the auroral 00:45:36.320 --> 00:45:39.380 diamond is essentially just like the soul of 00:45:39.380 --> 00:45:42.519 the Drakon, once known as the Sunweaver, dead 00:45:42.519 --> 00:45:45.900 and having imbued this great thing with all of 00:45:45.900 --> 00:45:48.639 his most mighty magic. This was essentially the 00:45:48.639 --> 00:45:50.139 closest thing the Conqueror Worlds have had to 00:45:50.139 --> 00:45:55.059 a one true, absolute god. And you know... The 00:45:55.059 --> 00:45:56.760 only people who seem to be able to touch the 00:45:56.760 --> 00:46:00.320 power of the Dracon are those known as Mazir 00:46:00.320 --> 00:46:03.800 Dracon. Crispin maybe could have done something, 00:46:03.840 --> 00:46:08.380 but Crispin is a corpse. Sorry, Steven. You're 00:46:08.380 --> 00:46:10.880 an asshole. But there's another Mazir Dracon 00:46:10.880 --> 00:46:14.039 out there, Jules. Yep. Yeah. And Sholay knows 00:46:14.039 --> 00:46:15.860 where he is. Who we haven't been able to find 00:46:15.860 --> 00:46:19.420 for like 100 episodes. Yeah. So wait, if we lay 00:46:19.420 --> 00:46:20.980 low, she's going to give us his location, though. 00:46:21.320 --> 00:46:23.820 We don't know that. Yeah. I mean, she knows it, 00:46:23.840 --> 00:46:25.219 though. She knows where he is. You know she had 00:46:25.219 --> 00:46:28.059 people looking into it, but it's a hard thing. 00:46:28.239 --> 00:46:31.039 You have two different, like, potential ways 00:46:31.039 --> 00:46:32.619 of moving forward, and it seems like any way 00:46:32.619 --> 00:46:34.960 you look at it, you're missing some pieces of 00:46:34.960 --> 00:46:36.800 the puzzle. You can keep pushing. You can try 00:46:36.800 --> 00:46:38.099 to get Sturgeon on your team. There's things 00:46:38.099 --> 00:46:41.380 you can do, for sure. You also can try to improve 00:46:41.380 --> 00:46:44.900 yourself, gather more equipment, gain more power, 00:46:45.000 --> 00:46:47.480 train yourselves, because obviously a fight to 00:46:47.480 --> 00:46:52.039 end all fights is coming. Fuck. Jaws, the Incarnates, 00:46:52.099 --> 00:46:55.119 could we go to them? Could we bring Salome to 00:46:55.119 --> 00:46:58.739 them and see if they would let us? Probably be 00:46:58.739 --> 00:47:01.380 a little suspicious. Hasn't been widely known 00:47:01.380 --> 00:47:03.960 on the network, but at least not in our intros. 00:47:03.980 --> 00:47:06.059 But I think you would know that by this point, 00:47:06.119 --> 00:47:11.039 after the whole event with Sholay and obviously 00:47:11.039 --> 00:47:12.559 the Incarnates having helped her do what she 00:47:12.559 --> 00:47:15.760 did. Oh, they're like on lockdown. Access outside 00:47:15.760 --> 00:47:17.639 of Rural Town in the Preserve of the Ancestors 00:47:17.639 --> 00:47:20.139 is on lockdown. You would be noted if you tried 00:47:20.139 --> 00:47:21.539 to get out, probably. Maybe you could do it, 00:47:21.599 --> 00:47:22.920 but I'm just saying it'll be a little harder. 00:47:23.619 --> 00:47:26.380 Is it something where we could, like, send somebody 00:47:26.380 --> 00:47:29.900 in there that wouldn't raise suspicion and then 00:47:29.900 --> 00:47:33.340 let them know that we want to come in? The problem 00:47:33.340 --> 00:47:34.679 is the Incarnate are the ones keeping you out. 00:47:34.880 --> 00:47:37.480 It's the Celestials and the Shieldbearers. Fuck. 00:47:37.639 --> 00:47:39.440 Oh, I was going to say, maybe somebody who wants 00:47:39.440 --> 00:47:41.639 to become a Luminary, but all of our sidekicks 00:47:41.639 --> 00:47:43.920 are also... Wait a second. Could they activate 00:47:43.920 --> 00:47:45.460 it out to us and then we send it back to them? 00:47:46.019 --> 00:47:49.599 No, what? They can't direct? Like through the 00:47:49.599 --> 00:47:56.400 node? No. The way it works is they have to essentially, 00:47:56.559 --> 00:47:58.699 in the center of a rural town, there's this great 00:47:58.699 --> 00:48:00.579 crystal amphitheater. The master node is there. 00:48:00.840 --> 00:48:05.360 A person, I called it once a mortal. Technically, 00:48:06.480 --> 00:48:09.360 I should say, immortals could be the ones to 00:48:09.360 --> 00:48:10.960 activate this too, as long as they're not one 00:48:10.960 --> 00:48:13.579 of the incarnates, one of the Drakon. They have 00:48:13.579 --> 00:48:16.170 to activate it. The incarnates cannot make any 00:48:16.170 --> 00:48:18.789 powerful moves like that. It is one last step 00:48:18.789 --> 00:48:21.590 of the Sunweaver. Mortals and incarnates alike, 00:48:21.889 --> 00:48:26.070 Dracon and humanoids alike, must agree on the 00:48:26.070 --> 00:48:28.909 big next course forward. So he's given us a million 00:48:28.909 --> 00:48:32.230 reasons why we can't go and do that. No, no, 00:48:32.250 --> 00:48:34.369 that's stupid. What the fuck is that thinking? 00:48:35.949 --> 00:48:41.590 Maybe, though, perhaps the network itself, if 00:48:41.590 --> 00:48:44.590 we could get Salome to the network. Do you think 00:48:44.590 --> 00:48:47.630 you might be able to try to broadcast something? 00:48:48.170 --> 00:48:51.730 I was going to say, where's Oren? Oren is in 00:48:51.730 --> 00:48:56.409 the House of Convalescence. Okay, okay. I could 00:48:56.409 --> 00:49:01.670 try. I don't know the inner workings of the network. 00:49:03.050 --> 00:49:11.230 Perhaps someone who does could help us? Are you 00:49:11.230 --> 00:49:17.039 suggesting a jailbreak? It's merely one of many 00:49:17.039 --> 00:49:21.320 options on the table. Like, I don't know. I don't 00:49:21.320 --> 00:49:24.159 know what we would do if we snuck into the network 00:49:24.159 --> 00:49:28.320 and we'd all be looking around with all these 00:49:28.320 --> 00:49:31.460 crystals and stuff and be like, I don't know. 00:49:31.639 --> 00:49:34.099 What do we do? We get caught at Sky Prison immediately. 00:49:34.420 --> 00:49:41.539 Right. Yeah. But Salome has ways in and out of 00:49:41.539 --> 00:49:46.639 the House of Convalescence. Yeah, you have options. 00:49:47.760 --> 00:49:50.900 You have listed a few of them. Sturge Man, you 00:49:50.900 --> 00:49:52.719 want to talk to him. You want to get the word 00:49:52.719 --> 00:49:55.380 out to more luminaries. You want to look into 00:49:55.380 --> 00:50:00.360 freeing Orin, see what might be involved in such 00:50:00.360 --> 00:50:03.099 a feat. It's actually around this time, I think 00:50:03.099 --> 00:50:05.679 I put it in a loose place, sort of in the canon 00:50:05.679 --> 00:50:07.679 of time. It's actually right around this time 00:50:07.679 --> 00:50:11.900 that our message from earlier, if you haven't 00:50:11.900 --> 00:50:14.969 seen the second, unzipped, recent unzipped. Check 00:50:14.969 --> 00:50:17.170 it out. Listen to the very first start. Because 00:50:17.170 --> 00:50:21.010 Beauregard, our old friend, is now taking different 00:50:21.010 --> 00:50:23.230 luminaries associated with justice and dying 00:50:23.230 --> 00:50:29.289 aside and telling them, tasking them with freeing 00:50:29.289 --> 00:50:33.070 Orin, amongst other things. Many agents working 00:50:33.070 --> 00:50:36.489 towards one goal. Perhaps we will see these paths 00:50:36.489 --> 00:50:40.630 come together. You have things to look into. 00:50:41.329 --> 00:50:46.769 You have... My brain died. It's happened a lot 00:50:46.769 --> 00:50:50.929 to me tonight. You have matters to attend to. 00:50:51.210 --> 00:50:53.469 So I want to be straight with you on something. 00:50:54.110 --> 00:50:59.010 I need one month to pass for certain things to 00:50:59.010 --> 00:51:02.989 happen. I have my reasoning. So I'm going to 00:51:02.989 --> 00:51:06.170 make you guys a pretty sweet deal. While you're 00:51:06.170 --> 00:51:08.679 looking into these matters. You're going to find, 00:51:08.760 --> 00:51:11.440 Salome, as you dig deeper into the House of Convalescence, 00:51:11.440 --> 00:51:16.460 you find there is heavy security around Oren. 00:51:17.480 --> 00:51:19.519 Perhaps someone that knows too much, perhaps 00:51:19.519 --> 00:51:21.400 someone that has too many fans, too many people. 00:51:22.500 --> 00:51:25.340 Someone like that is dangerous. And you're seeing 00:51:25.340 --> 00:51:28.300 this is not a one -person job, but as you gather 00:51:28.300 --> 00:51:32.639 intel, as you come closer and closer, you may 00:51:32.639 --> 00:51:37.250 yet find a way to help in freeing him. Jules, 00:51:37.329 --> 00:51:39.630 you get a hold of Sturge, man, and he is willing 00:51:39.630 --> 00:51:44.289 to meet. He's currently locked in some very difficult 00:51:44.289 --> 00:51:48.909 situations in Rotham. It'll be some time before 00:51:48.909 --> 00:51:52.630 he can get back to you. Say about a month. About 00:51:52.630 --> 00:51:56.730 a month, weirdly, as the crow flies. Weird. As 00:51:56.730 --> 00:51:59.630 the Sturge flies. I'm sorry, I missed that. Just 00:51:59.630 --> 00:52:03.030 four and a half weeks. It's a big thing. It's 00:52:03.030 --> 00:52:08.699 a whole big matter. buried alive um if you give 00:52:08.699 --> 00:52:12.099 me a month if you spend some time training and 00:52:12.099 --> 00:52:14.980 preparing as surely requested and if you've been 00:52:14.980 --> 00:52:17.920 asked time reaching out we can flash back to 00:52:17.920 --> 00:52:19.519 other goals i'll give you each a free flashback 00:52:19.519 --> 00:52:22.099 as part of the deal oh all right flashback yeah 00:52:22.099 --> 00:52:24.619 hell yeah i'll give you that flashback and i'll 00:52:24.619 --> 00:52:26.519 give you something else really nice in return 00:52:26.519 --> 00:52:29.880 i will give you And they're going to call me 00:52:29.880 --> 00:52:32.059 crazy. They're going to call me generous. They're 00:52:32.059 --> 00:52:35.119 going to call me the humblest soul this side 00:52:35.119 --> 00:52:37.519 of Mississippi. But I don't care what they say. 00:52:38.940 --> 00:52:42.559 I'm going to give you a full party level up. 00:52:43.519 --> 00:52:49.760 Ninth level for everyone. And I'll just spend 00:52:49.760 --> 00:52:52.579 all of your money on magic items. No restrictions, 00:52:52.719 --> 00:52:55.300 but price. All right? You can have it all. All 00:52:55.300 --> 00:52:59.780 the power in the world. Because I made you kind 00:52:59.780 --> 00:53:01.139 of underleveled for what's going to happen at 00:53:01.139 --> 00:53:02.840 the end of this thing. And it's a bold story 00:53:02.840 --> 00:53:05.460 decision going up. We're running two arcs at 00:53:05.460 --> 00:53:06.900 the same time, essentially. It's a weird thing 00:53:06.900 --> 00:53:08.519 I'm doing. And because of that, you're going 00:53:08.519 --> 00:53:10.400 to be underleveled. So I want to give you something. 00:53:10.519 --> 00:53:13.800 I'm a nice guy. I'm a nice guy. You're already 00:53:13.800 --> 00:53:16.199 going to be too weak for it. So I'm going to 00:53:16.199 --> 00:53:19.139 make you a little less too weak for it. And cards 00:53:19.139 --> 00:53:21.980 on the table, right? We already leveled up your 00:53:21.980 --> 00:53:23.639 sheets. You already signed my devil's contract. 00:53:23.780 --> 00:53:27.570 It's over. Give me the souls. Give me the souls. 00:53:27.590 --> 00:53:28.869 We didn't know what you were doing. You said 00:53:28.869 --> 00:53:32.769 level up. Right. Go ahead. Level up. That's the 00:53:32.769 --> 00:53:34.909 thing. What if we say no? What happens if we 00:53:34.909 --> 00:53:40.829 say no? I kill you. I accept your deal. God damn 00:53:40.829 --> 00:53:47.190 it. Very wise. Are you sure? Give me a week to 00:53:47.190 --> 00:53:51.690 think about it. No, a month. Yeah, give me about 00:53:51.690 --> 00:53:56.500 a month to think about it. Give me that button 00:53:56.500 --> 00:53:59.239 and I'll accept your deal. All right. Not a month. 00:53:59.280 --> 00:54:01.719 How about we'll go with your earlier offer? I'll 00:54:01.719 --> 00:54:06.639 give you a week to think about it. Exactly one 00:54:06.639 --> 00:54:11.380 week. So tune in on Monday to find out what they 00:54:11.380 --> 00:54:13.260 say. Because we'll call it there!