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to unzip. Kejo Kamar, founder of the Crystal
Network, an architect in mind behind the most
wondrous walls of Anissa Academy. Though nestled
within the bounds of the beautiful city -state
of Anissa, the academy grounds and structure
may to stand out in their glorious image. But
our students do not come to the academy for sightseeing.
Oh, no. They come to study. and to achieve greatness.
Tomorrow's leaders, scholars, and heroes are
enrolled at the academy today. They flock to
our gilded halls to be shaped and to see their
full potential revealed to the world. We achieve
this with our state -of -the -art, no -expense
-spared magical facilities, as well as our world's
renowned instructors in all major subjects. I
myself have led many a discussion in the arts
of conjuration and architecture. And of course,
my unequal skills in these fields have lent themselves
to the Forge of UNISA Academy's truly impervious
defenses. For those precious pioneers of the
future, there is no safer place to stay. UNISA
Academy. Why does Kejo Kamal sound like if an
orc was a vampire? Yeah. Yeah. I don't know what
I was going for. I was about to say he's very
Dracula -like. I'm down with it. You know what?
I'm fine with this. A character who's existed
literally since the first episode, actually,
was mentioned in the first episode, only voiced
now at 152? Yeah, because he went at the party.
He didn't say anything. He never had a voice.
Yeah, no, he was speaking to me. I never talked
to him. I would have made the voice up on the
fly then. But no one talked to him. He's been
around. It's funny having this villain who's
been kind of around in the sort of like, you
know, side vision. What's the word for the side
of your eyes? There's a word for that. The periphery.
Boom. I love it. Around in the periphery this
entire time. Only now stepping in to your sights.
I mean, all the best villains are like that,
aren't they? No. Maybe not. I don't know. Usually
they're out there. They're doing things. He's
been doing things. Now, we've got a lot to get
to tonight because obviously a lot of information
was just revealed and some huge, huge choices
need to be made. Before we really get rolling,
we do have two very important things I want to
touch on before I forget about them. Okay? First...
the Revivify artifice gifted to the party by
sunlight. I don't think we've essentially assigned
this insanely precious item to anybody yet, right?
This thing is crazy. One time use Revivify. Bring
someone back from death so long as they've been
dead within one minute. That's crazy good. Who
is taking this thing? Who's got the goods? So
Blanche has it in her hands and she's reaching
it out and passing it to Jules. We're flying
back to that scene with the coyote. First get
it. And... she trips on a loose floorboard and
fumbles and bobbles it a little bit and it almost
falls out of her hands and Jules reaches out
and grabs it and catches it before it breaks.
Love that you're telling me what it did. Well,
we still have it. Yeah, no, that's, yeah. The
eater stumbles and falls and breaks his neck
and you have to use it right there and then to
save his life. You would love that. End flashback.
Jules has the artifact. Yes. Okay. I love it.
Second point of order. This one's a lot more
gloomy. Potentially extremely, extremely tragic.
We need to make a roll. A roll four to let it
peck. Oh, you suck. The results of this are not
going to be happening now, but should this roll
go badly sometime during this next arc, you,
the players, not the characters, will know that
Diletta Peck will be destroyed because of your
actions. Destroyed because of our actions. Just
saying. Jesus. I think it'd be fun to roll a
Matthew's Nerdy Nation Ghostbusters die. Okay.
Because on a ghost... A six, a ghost face. Everyone
in the flight effect will become ghosts. It's
fun, right? Isn't it fun? Oh, my God. David,
you are sick. But because you stayed in health,
I'm going to add a second die. We're going to
roll this. You get a ghost on both die, basically.
Boom. Oh, okay. Great. I feel pretty good about
this. If you hadn't stayed in health, it would
have been a one in six chance. I'm no mathematician.
Because staying in health is much better. Is
that like a six times six? A 31 -36? I have no
idea. I have no idea. I have no idea. One request,
though. We use ours and not David's. Oh, I think
that's fine. You can do that. You can do that.
I touched yours and I was getting my sweat on
it, but there you go. Take it. You guys roll
it. You guys roll it in your dice tower. Oh,
okay. I guess that's fine. We can each roll it.
Yeah, I just don't want the DMs to die. You gave
a week up. You stayed by your choice and helped
out. I think it's only fair you get to die for
this. Okay. So you roll your die. If you fail,
that world will die. I got a five. I got a one.
All right. Not a single ghost. Not a single ghost.
But five plus one equals six. The world explodes
anyways. Okay. Wow. Yeah. All right. So there
was, yeah, some chance. I feel good about that,
though. Okay. All right. I wanted to see what
happened. I wanted to see what happened. What
you've taught them. We'll see them through for
now, at least. I mean, this is not a problem
that's going to go away. This planar absorption
is only getting worse as time goes on. Something
has to be done. Maybe you're the ones to do it.
Who knows? But there are other problems to face
first. Yeah, I just don't know that planar absorption
is going to be solved on a local level like that.
You know, I think it needs to be solved on a
more global scale. Good thing we're heroes. It's
a good thing. Yeah. Let's see what our heroes
are up to. It's time to set the scene. I'm going
to need you guys to help me here. You had your
conversation with Beauregard. We can flash back
to that. If there's anything else you want to
ask in the moment in the pale moonlight. But
now I want to gather everyone. I want to see
a scene with Blanche. Jules, Salome, Dresden,
Gabriela, Arlon, Akio, and Jean Franklin. Where
would this take place? I mean, at the Coyote,
right? Yeah. Is there a way for Salome to move
freely and carefully into the Coyote without
being noted? Can Jules just cast Invisibility
on her? You could meet somewhere outside of it.
How about you roll a stealth check for me with
advantage? Thanks to Fog Cloud, it just so happens
to be a foggy night that would provide cover
for Salome to fly in. All right, all right. Advantage
and a plus two. Okay, cool. Fog Cloud, jewels
meet with you, you get invisibility, boom. Makes
it even easier to slide to the city. 16 on the
plus one, so 17. 17, okay, 17 is fine. You're
just kind of avoiding passive eyes. You're not
necessarily being watched, Salome. You are very
well trusted, but you are a public figure of
some renown. So if you were to go into a slum
with a coyote, especially with the past you have
now with the place, people would notice. Yeah.
But nobody notices as some fog blows off a nearby
rooftop and as the not -saloon doors maybe open
on their own a little bit and close. And inside
the coyote, dimly lit, all the shutters dropped.
We see our full group. Is Beauregard here? I
think he's earned our trust, right? Yeah, I'd
say so. We like Beauregard. Then we'll say, around
the table, we see the whole crew, including Beauregard.
I think we see maybe, like... A few drinks around.
John's got a nice fine wine in hand. Gabrielle
with a straight tequila. Beauregard is at the
bar with a martini. Shaken, not stirred. Blushy.
He's over here for you. And now you have a choice
to make. A few choices, actually. In roughly
three and a half weeks, there will be an assault.
on the Dawn Incarnates, and should they be wiped
out, Atash will have full ability, the Sapphire
will have full ability, to take the minds of
all the people in all the worlds. I imagine,
sort of in this interim, Salome, you'd been looking
into Orin, and I think it's fair to say you've
gained some intel, and I think you can have given
that intel. You know, stuff about Orin's whereabouts,
the guards that surround him, the general layout
to the House of Convalescence. That can go to
Beauregard. That can go to Shrike. And either
way, through these connections, that information
we continue to pass along to other allies that
may use it, for there is a third arc playing
out in this coming future. One for the pants
people, not for you. Oh, damn. You get to help.
All right. For you, there are two paths, each
of them impossibly dangerous. Path one leads
to Senza. To retrieve a command phrase from the
mind of the world's most accomplished wizard
by breaking into the world's most illustrious
magical academy. You know that Keji Komal is
involved with everything. His touch felt on Tythos
and Sansatyan, on Omizu and the Shrine of Storms,
and you know he'll be ready for some trouble.
Path two leads to Diolamon. Retrieve a child
from the clutches of the fractured horn, somehow
avoiding the ire of the ancient black dragon
Calypsania, and the serpentine Bakunawa known
as Pangil Nangbon. One that may control Paul,
and one that Paul may be controlling? It's so
hard, Sholi's information is more guesswork than
anything. There's so much you don't know, but
you know it will be dangerous. On either path,
you must move in secret, avoiding the public
eye, and especially the eyes of shield bearers
and celestials. Even getting off -world will
be a trial that you must face. But now here,
as we open upon this meeting, you must decide
who is going where. Well, I guess, first, if
you're going, then who is going where, and then
how you are getting there. No pressure. Yeah,
no pressure. Well, the first point, I think we
want to do both. Yeah, I think so. We are agreeing
to both quests. They're both too important to
not do one or the other. One may fail, and we'd
need the other one as a backup. Yep. As for who's
going where, Jules, I can't help but assume you'll
be going after Paul. You know I ain't doing anything
else but that. then will you trust me to oversee
our operation on Senza? Absolutely. What are
the two worlds? I'm getting them mixed up. Dyalongon.
Dyalongon. Dyalongon and Senza. Dyalongon is...
Dyalong... Senza is... Kejo Kamal in the Academy.
Dyalongnong? Dia long on. Dia long on. D -A -Y
-A -W -L -O -N -G -O -N. Okay. That helps less.
Dia long on. It's hard. Dia long on. What do
you think about Dresden coming on that trip with
you? I can't imagine who I'd trust my back to
more than Soldier Boy. What do you think? I'll
do what's got to be done. I'm with you, Blanche.
May I help with the boy? This is so awesome.
Please. Yes. Shall we do this draft style? Can
I? Wait. Jeremy, can you do it? Are you able
to? Quick request. Yeah. The next two lines I
say, can you add them to happen at the same time?
Wait, what? You keep this in the show, but can
you add these next two lines I say to happen
at the exact same time? Yeah. Of course I'm going
with Blanche. What? There we go. Hell yeah. And
you see Jean and Akio glaring at each other with
full -heated daggers across the table. Actually,
Akio's under the table. Is there any reason why
Jean and Akio couldn't go together? No, that
was my thought. The problem is, which one? That's
the problem. Well, I think Jaune has at least
a little bit of healing. So the sense of party
has no healing. Okay, yeah, no, no. Go, go. Yeah.
I guess we can do Jaune and Akio. Shut up, I'll
take you both. But if there's any more of this
bickering, then no more questing for you, either
of you. What? Yes, Master Bat. You ought to pick
me fast. He kind of coughs and looks away awkwardly,
realizing he was bickering. I think which leaves
Arhalon and Gabriella to die along on. I think
Gabriella's... Yeah, you got it right. Nice.
Gabriela's hand reaches your shoulder, Jules.
Of course. I will be by your side. Whatever happens,
we are together. And Arlan just kind of... Yes,
this is good. I... I delivered the child into
the arms of the enemy. Finally, I can make good
on what I did. Finally, I can fix this. You know
I don't blame you. That is why you are too good,
Jules. No such thing. I can travel amongst the
worlds freely, but none of you have such a privilege
any longer. Is there a proposal for how to get
you all off -world? If there's any way I can
help, just... Say the word, I have a number of
false identities, but I cannot take anyone with
me. Is Handsome Jai cool with us enough to maybe
do the transporting in the lamp? That is potentially
a really, really good idea. All right, so get
this. Wow -life. If we can get Jai to... If we
can get handsome Jai to lend the lamp to Salome
here, she can carry it openly. And if... And
if Boregard here is free to travel, then perhaps
this could help. And Blanche will pull out an
item called a portable hole. and throw it on
the floor. So it's, you know, it is what it sounds
like. It's a fine black cloth folded up to the
dimensions of a handkerchief, and it unfolds
into a circular sheet six feet in diameter. So
the trouble with the portable hole is that something,
someone who breathes can survive for up to ten
minutes. Inside of it. I'm wondering, though,
I'm not sure exactly how long it'll take to dive
into the hole, pack it up in Beauregard's pocket,
board the jewel to censor and make the trip and
get out of sight. But, well, Jeanne and I have
a particular skill for holding our breath. I
can't even find a way to use that. Fuck yeah.
Perhaps if needed, we could, she looks at Dresden.
Oh my gosh. Share some of our breath. Fuck. Oh
my God. John looks to Akio. No, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no. I am not kissing that dog. I was
going to suggest like. Oh, wait, no. Sir! Oh,
shit. Tell me I'm not kissing that dog! I wouldn't
call it a kiss. Sir! Just a puff. I'm a married
man, sir. I don't want to kiss a dog! All right,
so kiss me. Akio goes, Blanche. I would love
to kiss Master Blanche. He just jumps up and
does a tongue. Wait, no! This is worse somehow!
I'll kiss the dog! Blanche looks to Dresden.
Y 'all are missing out. F. Nah, man. So that
is my proposition. I spent the last of my gold
on this portable hole with sort of this little
plan in mind. What do you think, DM? How do the
mechanics hold up? I think this makes sense.
You can hold your breath for, what's it, an hour?
Yes, each turtle can hold their breath for an
hour. So if you're sharing breath, you just store
the oxygen. You have that much. You have an inner
tank. Is that how that works? I guess we assume.
I'm just thinking that it's probably the same
amount of breath. They just go into a sort of
pseudo -hibernation where they use it less. But
I'm guessing that if they can hold in themselves
enough breath to last for an hour, and that is
equivalent to, or well, I mean, I don't know
if it's going to give you a whole other 10 minutes,
but even just to get a couple extra minutes.
I think 10 minutes is going to be super tight.
20 minutes might be work. I think getting to
the line, I mean, obviously the transfer itself
is instant. It's just the going through line,
getting in there. You want to get in the hole
as late as possible. I was going to say, could
they time it to where they're basically, he's
just kind of running saying, wait, wait, wait,
hold up, hold up. Sure, yeah. I mean, that's
pretty cool. I think Beauregard. comes over and
he pulls out like a briefcase. He just has a
full, full like a trench coat briefcase. He unlatches
it and you see it's an empty briefcase and he
kind of is measuring it up in the hole itself.
Like it's a big old briefcase. It's like, maybe
it just like barely fits so he can like open
the hole. You could jump in, you could close
the briefcase and carry you across as luggage.
I love it. That's so brilliant. I mean, yeah.
I mean, there's defenses around this kind of
thing, but, like, you would know, I'm going to
tell you this right now, because you are, Salome
would know that there are a number of Pauri that
have true sight automatic. So illusions and visibility,
things like that, they can just see right through
them. This so fully bypasses that. It's like,
I mean, maybe they'll be like, oh, there's some
magic in that briefcase, but that's not weird.
It's a magical world. Uncommon. Yeah, exactly.
They don't check every single person that goes
through. It's not like a, you know, they're just
going to zoop over to the next world. Super common
to have magic on you. Yeah. So you got me. That's
clever. Cool. Now the other plan has one possible
hang up. Okay. Jai's cooperation. Jai's cooperation.
Without jumping into a whole thing, I will tell
you that if you confer with Jai, you can literally
just like activate your stone, zoop over to his
like lamp world real fast. You see he's just
sitting over there. It's him and Neverlies are
just kind of like. Doing the googly eyes on one
of the couches. Yeah, and actually, it's much
bigger. Whoa! Is it Jules that comes over to
talk to him? Yeah, I think so. Oh, hey, Jules.
I got to figure out how to make you knock. I
was almost naked. What's up? Hey, this is kind
of awkward, given the situation you're in right
now. Everything's awkward. I need to ask a big
favor. Yeah, what's that favor? Can I borrow
this place? You do. You're here, Brett. Yeah,
you do that a lot. It's actually a problem sometimes.
It's just like the land of love. You know, sometimes
I just want to, yeah. I wouldn't be asking you
if it wasn't really, really dying. How long do
you, I can leave if you need some time here.
I need to take the lamp. Whoa, whoa. I'm going
somewhere to do something. I can't, I can't get
rid of the lamp. Look, me and the lamp, we're
like connected. I know, I get it. But if I'm
not able to take this for just a little bit,
party's over. Party's? The party can't be over.
I see like a slender white finger. Something
touches his lips. He's speaking and never lies.
If Jules is asking. It is important. I think
you should help him. And I will reward you. I
never lie. And I promise you, when I get back
with it, we're going to throw a fucking rager
to end all rages. I promise. I love what you're
saying. It's just, I can't, the lamp, it's kind
of packed and the thing, and I can't really leave
the world. You can't leave the same world as
me. Just zoom back to me. It's the whole, but
I, okay. What if I took you myself? I can move
around a little bit. I can carry you where you
gotta go. We're going somewhere very, very dangerous.
He just starts laughing, like points, like, does
he forget? He doesn't know who I am. Look at
me. And he'll reach down and grab a water or
whiskey or whatever liquid is on the table and
chuck it in his face. Wake up. Look at me. Look
at me. If that's the only way, I need you with
me. So I think that he would just need to get
you to the port. So then you can pop out. How
are we going to get back? I don't know. Yeah,
exactly. You might want to go through. There
will be guard probably on the jewel as well,
perhaps even watching it. Celestials are now
in all the worlds. In the main cities where the
ports are, you got to be careful there too. I
mean, there's ways around that. You can just
get stealthy, but he's just kind of looking at
you, water dripping down his face, eyes kind
of wide, and you see they blink a few times and
beginning to like uncloud. For real. If this
doesn't happen, there will be no more parties.
Ever. Anywhere. Everything gone. Like the war.
Like the war. Sober for a day. For a day. Never
lies high to everything. I can do that. Thank
you. And those eyes of his just like firm. They
are the eyes of a soldier again. I didn't expect
him to come along with us. Yeah, that was...
Yeah, I was not expecting that. That is wild.
That was a much better outcome. Like, if he was
there, I could have caused problems if he was...
Actually, you know what? God, you got me. Oh,
man, I should have made you all check. But it
was cool. You're cool. I can't... It makes sense.
It makes sense. All right. I mean, you kind of
sold it with never lies. Yeah. I love how he
acted so surprised. He persuaded himself in that
one. Sometimes even David can do the right thing.
Now, please leave because we're going to get
busy. Oh, please go ahead. Then he comes right
back. Whoa. When is the jewel leaving? That's
a good question. Let's say this. If you're trying
to catch the first Jules, the sense of Jules
leaves in two hours. Dayong and Jules leaves
in three and a half. All right. Jules reappears.
Hey. You got two hours and 50 minutes. To get
sober? Holy shit. I am on a lot of stuff. All
right. Drink water and... Meet the ugly dog?
Yeah. All right. Yeah. We'll see you there. Yeah.
Yep. Hell yeah. So as said, Senza would be the
first one to go. So let's get ready for that.
How do you want to do this? Any last words to
say? Any goodbyes before you take off for this
life -threatening quest? This is Blanche, Dresden,
Akio, and Jean. I think Dresden and Jules. Share
a long embrace. And then they'll pull apart and
Dresden will hold Jules' shoulders. Kill them
for me. For us. No fucking course, man. This
is it. It's about to be over. Holy shit. This
is it. Once there's space, Blanche will walk
to Jules. Jules, I... I know you can do this.
I must admit I feel a little nervous leaving
your side and taking Soldier Boy with me. I know
he's in good hands. You're sure that we can trust
the Celestial? I do. Well, all the same, you'll
have Ahalan and Gabriella with you. They'll keep
you safe, too. You'll keep them safe. I mean...
You know, nobody could ever replace Zebulon.
And then you waltzed in, and you became another
one of my best friends. I trust you with my life.
I trust you with all their lives. Praise for
Red -Tide Blanche. You see, you get me, Jules.
And I'd like to think that I get you too. And
I think that's why this works so well. And I
think that's why I know that the absence of this
boy has caused you so much pain. Bring him back.
I know you can do it. You and me, we got this.
And Blanche reaches out for one of those really
cool forearm handshakes. Jules obliges. I'll
see you on the other side. I'll see you soon.
Our camera slowly pans around the two of you.
And we see Jean -Francois in tears rolling down
his... Group hug! Get in here, dog! And Kiyo...
He has a big old dog hug on the other side. Jesus.
It's a big pig pile. As you begin to part, I
think you can hear Arhalon, having stepped away
from the rest of the group, has gone to Fibro.
If you would just, every few days perhaps, check
her residence. I don't want her to wonder where
I am when she comes home. I'll check on Xena
Arhalon. I'll see if I can find her. Thank you,
Fibro. Huge pat on the back that almost knocks
him off his chair. Oh, sorry. All right. All
right. And perhaps one begins to move into position
to get ready to take their leave. And we start
with the Sensa group. Moving up the trade disc,
I'll up the great fossil spiraling past the barracks
of the shield bearers towards the passage of
respite. Where up ahead you can see, like a star
plucked out of the sky, the amber concord jewel
gleaming golden resin catching the light of the
auroral diamond comes to slide down. You move
up towards the line. How do you want to do this?
before you catch less to your sight. This is
the time -sensitive one. It's going to be a lot
of tabora guard to get you through fast. Everyone,
remember the breathing exercises I taught you.
Stay calm. Lower your heart rate. Picture it
in your minds. Take one last breath, and we'll
jump in. Tap Sean or I if you need some air.
We just need ten minutes. A little longer than
ten minutes. Aye, sir. And with that, everybody
takes a breath and hops into Beauregard's suitcase.
Holy shit. You hop in the suitcase, and as you
vanish into the blackness, as you feel yourselves
falling, perhaps you hear very distantly the
click as it closes behind you, sealing you in
here. You do not hear outside the holes. You
do not see. Perhaps the rest of you are watching
from afar, making sure everything goes well.
As Beauregard stands up, pats himself off, kind
of takes one little fishy breath into his big
fishy lips. And then you see his face just change
into this, like, look of absolute just... hurried.
Like, maybe I think you were waiting until almost
the last of the line was on, just about to take
off, because you know you need to have no line,
and he just bursts out just running, wait, wait,
wait! I am, I have a gift for Empress Anaya.
My master was, no, please, please, wait. He's
charging through the line. Celestials come moving
down. I think, like, you don't catch what he
says from afar as you see Apari drops down in
front of a few others, come to meet him. And
you see he just kind of, like, makes even hurried
words. They seem like they want to pull him aside.
He's kind of gesturing with fins, like, like
very outraged. And eventually you see, like,
one figure. Looking almost just completely frazzled,
shrugs and opens away. He pulls out some identification.
He's showing it around and they just back off.
And he charges onto the Amber just as it begins
to close. And we watch as the Amber departs.
Our characters in darkness holding their breath,
sharing their life as the Amber takes the sky
above the city of hell. And vanishes. We'll get
back to them. Soon. But our focus is going to
linger. On the Dia Long Long group. Not long
after that. Handsome Jai. Arrives. You see he
looks. Like Handsome Jai. And is. I think this
moment of sheer disappointment, you move back
from there, back towards the ugly coyote, or
the ugly dog, as some call it, and you see Answer
Jai stumbling down the street. Oh, hmm, there,
hey, hey, I was looking for you guys. I was going
to grab a drink in the ugly dog. You want a drink?
We still got an hour, right? Yeah, at this point,
yeah, we'll say you have about an hour. Okay.
As the saloon doors open again, I think Arlon
stays out, kind of like a modern situation. Sure.
Then again, you sort of move in, and you watch
as that drunken, just act, fully melts from his
face. Nice. All right. We have T -minus 60 minutes
to get you off this rock, right? Yep. All right.
Easy peasy, get in the lamp. Tosh watches my
movements somewhat, but it's not too weird for
me to leave world. I like to party, you know,
elsewhere sometimes, so. Salome had a hand out,
ready to cast Lesser Restoration. Oh, shit. You
can put that away. Do you think you and I walking
together would gather more or less attention?
The way my past goes, they're going to think
you're my fourth wife. Let's keep it easy. I
shall join them in the lamp. You realize when
you think about that possibility, and there would
be so much paparazzi absolutely everywhere. Whenever
he's got somebody new with him, it's like the
biggest deal. Someone on his arm. Yeah, exactly.
Hell yeah. Do you guys go in the lamp? Jules
will look to Salome. You ready? Now or never.
Let's go. Swan dive into the lamp. Akio and Jean,
do you follow? Wait, no. I got backwards. Arlon.
Oh, God. I'm going to have a hard time in this
arc. Why did I do this? Arlon and Gabriela. Follow
Arlon. Come back inside. I'll nod to his allies
in the coyote. Defy, bro. Your experience is
different from the other group because you are
not lost in breathless darkness. You are in a
very well -stocked... sort of bar lounge it's
entirely comfortable as you can kind of sit back
and relax and you're seeing through the great
sort of uh crystalline like stone turned translucent
walls as handsome jai you know goes up and you
can immediately feel the moment he steps out
of the coyote and his step goes from steady to
stumbling and he's working down the road he's
making a good show of it uh there's some stops
in the way as fans come to talk to him and scream
and he's kind of just like peace and yeah Yeah,
you know, just posing for some recording, recording
diamonds and moving along. And there's absolutely
no reason. Yeah, I made you make it through.
No one's going to stop him. There's a couple
of, well, when Pothipari comes down to question
him, you know, where you're going, he's just
being difficult on purpose. Whoa, hey, man. I'm
heading out to die along, and those guys can't
chill, you know? Have you seen the sticks? Never
mind. You wouldn't get it. The sticks? Yeah,
it's just straight -laced. You're the party now,
I guess. You're straight as a boot. You wouldn't
know. But, man, let's just say I'm going to be
seeing visions, too, real soon. I'm going to
go on the rock now, and you can see, as this
is happening, the serpentine jewel. begins to
slide into place. You see that sort of light
green, mottled dark blue stone drops down and
lands. The passage of respite. Handsome Jai's
a luminary. Everyone lets him through first.
Everyone knows he stumbles past the crack. Thank
you, thank you. Whoa, hey, sorry, didn't mean
to touch you. Whoa, thank you. I like to think
that Jules and Blanche are holding their breaths
in there as well because of the stank. Jules
and Salome, anyway. Oh, yeah. Oh, my gosh. Who
did I say? You said Jules and Blanche. Did I
say Blanche and Salome? Get ready for so much
of this, past people. No, it's going to be great.
As you step onto the Serpentine Conqueror jewel,
it rises up and vanishes. Linger on the Citadel
for a moment longer. Both gems gone. All heroes
vacated. We see the long fossils stretching around
the auroral diamond. We see the people moving
on the streets. Shield their soldiers, mingle
among them, standing at stations. And we see
the panic rise as alarms along the Radiant Citadel
begin to blare as red lights... Shine, the crystal
taking on that great red hue that signifies an
emergency is happening. But where? Jules Salome.
You are in a strange place. You are, in essence,
in a stone in a stone. You are in this lamp,
seeing outside of it. The lamp itself, the inside,
takes on this almost cavernous appearance. And
so for the facets of this, you know, it looks
like a gemstone made translucent by magic. Though
from the outside, all people see is an oil lamp
and handsome Jai's hands. He never goes anywhere
without it. And beyond that, you can see just
the serpentine walls of the Concord Jewel, the
crowds all around, and sort of a... A restless,
uneasy, quiet. It's always scary to fly. And
you kind of catch it. You don't feel it, but
you catch it as everything shifts just a little
bit, and people around begin to shift with it,
like the gemstone is shaking, as if struck by
some turbulence. And you can hear just muted
sounds, like muted explosions. Amidst a mingling
of this constant fluctuating hum that seems to
resonate through the crystalline walls and through
the walls of your own container. And as the gem
drops lower, as the sounds get louder, you realize
what that hum really is. Screaming. You catch
the moment when the door to the gemstone opens.
The pilot of the gem, seemingly unaware of the
danger outside, you can see in that brief moment
when it opens, a flash of white light blasts
before the door out of the gemstone, accompanied
by a crack of thunder. Screams. You see smoke
billowing in as many of those screams rescrescendo
and they're just abruptly cut off. You can see
two shield there, a security for the serpentine
gem, move to block off the exit, and then just
scream it back, Close the door! Close the door!
Retreat! Retreat! Kalapag is under attack! And
you watch in horror as your only way out begins
to slide closed and suddenly halt. As a massive
hand, hard and calloused and indigo -skinned,
crackling with electric power, locks the sliding
gemstone door and pries it open wide again. A
wild eye of frosty blue light peers into the
conquered jewel, and the vicious grin amidst
a white beard gleans out. A storm giant. And
behind the happy monster, more screams echoing,
enjoying the panic scream of the crowd inside
the gem. Bayou! It's Bayou! Quiet! Oh, God! Daddy!
And over all of it, a voice from the sky outside,
a voice like booming thunder humming through
the very marrow of your bones. And we'll call
it there.