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Now I know what you're thinking, pants people.

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What are them pants boys up to this time, this

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year, this coming season? Well, I'll tell you

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what's up. Actually, I won't tell you because

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I don't know. But what you can find out is by

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joining our Discord, hanging out on our Instagram,

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checking out our YouTube. We have one of those,

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I think. We have a lot of cool stuff out there.

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And as you know, every year we're doing something

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else wild and crazy. SciFly coming back? Probably.

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Are we doing some more collabs? For sure, maybe.

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I don't know. Get on there. Check our stuff out.

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Keep your eyes open. and get ready to unzip.

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Just as I predicted, the situation on Dayalongon

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has been handled! Kalabhang has been saved! We're

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not entirely sure what set the storm giants off,

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though they look to have been following at the

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serpentine heel of Dayalongon's last Bakunawa.

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This mythical dragon named Pangilang Buon has

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long been known as a resident of the world, a

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figure of legend. We know the storm giants of

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the Deep Race have long worshipped the monster's

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kind, but we just don't know why it suddenly

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turned on the populace of Kalabhang. But no matter.

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No matter. Who cares? The Greeks have all been

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slain or sent packing thanks to the local Bonesinger

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militia and the celestial forces posted by Atash.

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We also have to give special recognition to Handsome

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Jai and Salome the Sightweaver, who were instrumental

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in the battle and its rescue efforts directly

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following. Interestingly enough, another known

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luminary appeared in the scene out of nowhere.

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One mesmerized. Ha ha ha! I have been near certain

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that Miss Yarevanka had died. But it seems her

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little disappearing act fooled us all. How very

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fortunate that she would return now. Well, I

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don't know about you guys, but my chestnuts are

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roasting. Because it's the holidays! Oh, yeah.

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And we're current, so the timing is correct.

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This is the Christmas episode. This is the Christmas

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episode. We did it right. As we record, it's

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December 19th. Yep. So, Jingle Bells. Mm -hmm.

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Jingle Balls. You know what season it also is?

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What was that? Sixth season. Yeah. Yeah. If you've

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got a respiratory illness, say, hell yeah! Hell

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yeah! So we decided, why not get into a small

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room together? Yeah, exactly. Sad little podcast

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crew today. Yeah, you'll have to forgive my voice

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today. And every day. It's been a really rough

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day. And yeah, I am sick. It's great. Well, you're

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just getting into it as I'm just getting over

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it. Yeah, today was like the first day where

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I didn't need to cough drop 24 -7. So it feels

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nice. And I've got a little pile right here.

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You do. You know what else feels nice? What's

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that? We got mail. Holy mail. Holly and Jolly.

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Holly and Jolly. Belly full of jelly. Get that

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thing open right now, Santa Claus. Don't make

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me laugh. It hurts to laugh. Wait a minute. No

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laughing tonight. I have a thing that I'm supposed

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to read as we're to be read when opening. No

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peeking. Okay. No peeking. Okay. One of you guys

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start to open this while I do the reading. You

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do. All right. I'm going to do it sensually.

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No, I'll do it. Jesus Christ. Read it. Stop,

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no. I need to hear you read it. It actually will

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be better if you open it first and then I read

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it. Okay. All right, I'll open it first. What

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am I looking at here? What is this? Guys, I see

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packaging. Oh, I see. Wait, I see. Oh, okay.

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All right. Do I talk about it? Should I talk

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about it now? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I see dice. I

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see dice. I see three sets. Three sets of dice.

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And I get first pick because I'm opening it.

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Actually, Zila has already picked which dice

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goes to which of us. Oh, Zila. We got dice from

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Zila. Hell yeah. Just in time for Christmas.

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Also, welcome to Castle Die Hard, it says in

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here. Die Hard is a Christmas movie, and so it

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all comes around. Hey, wow. That might have been

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the most controversial thing that we've said

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in the whole podcast, though. I think the company

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is Die Hard. Well, no, no, no. I'm talking about

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Die Hard being a Christmas movie. I've never

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seen Die Hard. I don't have a dog in that fight,

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but I just know that it's super controversial.

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I've never seen it, and I don't care about it.

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Wait a second. I know these. Hold on, hold on,

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hold on. I know these. Oh, the tricksy Zilla.

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Oh, the tricksy little gobliness. Oh. So Zilla

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says, keep in mind colors. David will know his.

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It matches the knives he's put into Zeb and Crispin.

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Look at this motherfucking knife. Silver with

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red spackle blood. This is the blood of Zebulon

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and Crispin right there. You see that? Fuck off.

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Get close. You'll be bloody on this too. I'm

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going to cop all over you. Jeremy's was picked

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for Jules and Dresden. Both isolated in their

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own ways, but not always alone. I knew the second

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I saw it. Oh, yeah. Holy hell. Those are beautiful.

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Stephen's colors strike magical, resonant, bringing

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change with every step. And the golden bay red

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and gold, baby. Oh, yeah, look at that. They're

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either gold or red as you look at them. It's

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like this weird, cool mirror effect. Dude, the

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D6 is a rounded D6. Oh, I love that so much.

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Oh my gosh. Get out of here. Thank you so, so

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much. What a very merry Christmas. And a very

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merry skylights. You guys remember skylights?

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We'll do it soon. Skylights. It's a holiday in

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this setting. It's going to happen. We just forgot.

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I forgot. Inside these are wild. Listen to this.

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I'm just going to roll my whole set. Dude, that

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sounds so good. Ready? Oh, yeah. Want to hear

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it? Yeah. Listen to this. Oh, it's like the scream

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of a Blanche Trudeau. These are so sick. Wow.

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Thank you. Real quick. I'm excited to play with

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these. There's a sticker pack here, too. Let's

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open these real fast. Because it's presents time.

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I'm having my Christmas now. Dude, I love the

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numbers on these, too. Yeah. Super easy to read.

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I'll be honest with you. I actually kind of had

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Christmas already today, too. You did? We lost

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power, and I didn't have anything else to do.

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Oh, no. Oh, my God. Oh, God. Are you serious?

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Oh, look. Yeah, yeah. That's a gold side, and

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then there's a red side. Ooh. And they're, like,

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so shiny. Three stickers. We each get one. There

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is the cleric dice, the wizard dice. And cherry

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dice. Oh, my God. That's super sick. That's awesome.

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I'll put these right here. Oh, my gosh. Thank

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you, Zila. Thank you, Zila. As ever. Oh, my gosh.

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That's so cool. Thank you so much. So special.

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And at Christmas. And tomorrow's my birthday.

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Yeah. It's your birthday. Happy birthday. It's

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like an early birthday, early Christmas surprise.

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Well, now all our chestnuts are roasting. This

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is great. It was a Merry Christmas, everyone.

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Are we rolling much tonight? Because Papa got

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a new set of dice. I don't know. It kind of depends.

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Maybe not. I don't know. We'll see. We'll see.

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We're in a weird night because you just got through

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the shit. Let's talk about that, by the way,

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what happened last week. Because you played the

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long game. You saved everyone. It was kind of

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nuts. You guys put the super in superheroes last

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week, right? I had some Jai's death scene right

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now. But when I started, I was like, they're

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not getting over there in time. He's going to

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die. If you had gone to help him immediately,

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I was like, yeah, he can get through this one.

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But the situation was up. I didn't think it would

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be possible to go and save everybody. I thought

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you'd have to pick certain directions to learn

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certain things and do everything. And you kind

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of just blew me out of the way. I was starting

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my death scene. Imagine you're writing a book.

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and you're filming a movie and you're filming

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or writing a death scene and you start the scene

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off and then like some rogue agent shows up in

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your scene and is like, oh no you don't. It's

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the best feeling. That's D &D. You can't. You

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start a death scene. You don't know what's going

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to happen because the actual main characters

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are totally out of your control and they're just

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doing zany shit and they whip out spells that

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have 300 foot range and you didn't even know

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spells could go that far. I didn't want to let

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you have it. I don't want to let you have it.

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I'm glad. I'm stoked. I think I remember even

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saying out loud that if I didn't do something,

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Jai was going to die that turn. Yep. End of the

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round. I could just read your... stupid fucking

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face and like hitting the exact I rolled the

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die I was like if you don't kill at least one

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of them I'm still killing Jai I want to reward

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you but I can't make it too easy you know you

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cast one spell can't make it too easy I rolled

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it was like something like some amount of d8

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like 4d8 or something for how much HP they had

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left after duoing Jai for a while they were obviously

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going to be injured quite injured and it was

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17 and you rolled exactly 17 the whole thing

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blew my mind it was so cool that's the game That's

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the game. A holiday miracle, one might say. An

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early Christmas miracle. Or was that Thanksgiving

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at the time? It feels like it's been weeks since

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we recorded. It has been two weeks. Yeah. So,

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let's get into the aftermath. Some hours have

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passed now since the grand heroic efforts that

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took place dead in the center of the capital

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city of Kalapang, of the world of Dayalaman.

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I got it right first try. You already said it

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today, though. Well, I got it right those tries,

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too. I'm on it. I have so many new words to pronounce

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tonight, and I'm going to kill every one of them

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in a good way. That sounded bad, but I mean it

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good. There have been many efforts. Childer has

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arrived. They pushed through combing the city,

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combing the rubble, saving every life they could.

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And there were casualties. Of course there were

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casualties, but they're brought down to... I

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guess the minimum possible, because you guys,

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I mean, right here, the dead center here, like,

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you saved lives that had no time. They could

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not wait. Jai and a family trapped beneath a

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burning shop. A woman, dead, truly dead in the

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arms of her son. If you hadn't sent that diva

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down to assist the fight, would Yara be alive

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now? Who can say, Salome, but you. Linger here

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yet, in the plaza of the Serpentine Jewel, where

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everything went down, this whole battle went

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down, and now where a huge crowd has suddenly

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gathered. You see celestials flying above, you

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know, kind of flying in this place of glory.

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They look beat to hell, your radiant allies.

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You see shield -bearers exhausted from tireless

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and fast efforts. You see so many yellow and

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black checkered vests of paparazzi guild members

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and flashing recorders. You see a lot of Dayalongos.

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This is the book that puts the resident name

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for the people of Dayalongon. Dayalongos. Dayalongon.

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Dayalongos. Everybody now, Dayalongon. No, I'm

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waiting until you mess all of those up. No, I

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think you did pretty good. I'm honest tonight.

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120%. You see most of the residents of this city,

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the natural residents of the city, are human

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with dark hair and brown skin. You see they have

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kind of radiant eyes, eyes of yellow, green,

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or brown are most common. Also, there's a lot

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of dragonborn and tieflings indigenous to this

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sort of archipelago world. You see they're kind

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of different. Many dragonborn have iridescent

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scales, and their features are a lot more serpentine

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than draconic. Uh, and many tieflings have, like,

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iridescent feathers decorating their body, kind

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of spiked up between their horns and such and

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such. And we just see all these people are gathered.

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I think we look through, we zoom down into the

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crowd, and we see one paparazzi. Uh, looks like

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some kind of, some important sash covering her

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sort of figure. Um, you know, sort of middle

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-aged woman, hair up in a bun, tight, and she's

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excitedly interviewing, you know, people. And

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you see she's, like, over there interviewing,

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uh, Jai and... Yara Ivanka, mesmerized, open

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and standing in the light at last. And there's

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cameras flashing all around. Mesmerized, your

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sudden disappearance had left us all reeling.

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Most assumed that you had been killed. Would

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you care to tell us where you've been? Mike just

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goes, hand it out. Magical Mike, I don't care.

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And she just made you and Mike. It's really like

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a spell casting focus with like a spell cast

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on it to increase voice volume. Right. Yeah.

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Yeah. It's a magic Mike. Yeah. It's a magic Mike.

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We've all seen the movie. Yeah. Yeah. We know

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what it's all about. Wait, that wasn't, that

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wasn't intentional. I thought, I thought you

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were actually like just acknowledging that. Oh

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yeah. Oh, okay. Uh, she holds it out to, uh,

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Yara, who just kind of long pause staring into

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like probably someone's camcorder. Then no. Ah,

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okay. Well, handsome Jai, they tell me you battled

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against two storm giants alone and you survived

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this encounter. He points at him and just, well,

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they almost got me. But he kind of looks up into

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the sky nearby where I believe Salome may be

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flying around. You hanging out, Salome? Yes.

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I hope. He's just looking at nothing. He looks

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up. Ah, she's trying to do something here, but

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she's gone. Yeah, Salome's up flying around with

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the rest of the celestials. And you see like

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his eyes catch yours and he just says, it seems

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justice is undying after all. The fact that he's

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looking to you is not necessarily noted. I'll

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say that was subtle, but he is making a statement.

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And you see like this kind of a murmur. And then

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the reporter sort of steps back in just like,

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so. Tell me, what is next for our new luminary

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power couple, huh? And Jai puts his arm around

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Yara and, well, we'll stick around and watch

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over things here in Kalapang and join in their

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building and relief efforts wherever possible,

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like Yara speaks of. Yes, we will be watching

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very carefully. You might say that we will have

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our eye... Honey, don't. Please. Please don't.

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Please don't, Yara. We pan away to another spot

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in all this chaos where another interviewer is

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talking to survivors of the attack. And perhaps

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your vision shifts here to Salome. You see there's

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a familiar figure being interviewed now. They

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only ever saw her half blackened by lightning

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and collapsed on the ground, I think, following

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the battle. Her wounds are healed now and a thick

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blanket covers her body. It is the woman saved

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by Jules. You see she has a very small frame,

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almost alarmingly thin, kindly features aged

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and sunken by stress. She's got some kind of

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round spectacles that she's thrown on that maybe

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had fallen off before. Neither of you noted them

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before. And she's holding the hand of her teenage

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son, who's actually, now you see, stands a bit

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taller than her. And they both just stare out

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with just bright, bright yellow eyes. Sunflower,

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petal yellow. And you were struck directly by

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the Bacchanal's lightning? And lived? You see

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she shares a look with her son and... I... Yes,

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I lived. I was saved by the Sightweaver. Incredible.

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Incredible. And do you have a message for Salve

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and the Sightweaver now? To share with us? Do

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you have any words for your hero? And he points

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the mic back to her and she does look up towards

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you. And this is very notable. Like, everyone's

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eyes follow her gaze as she looks to you. I...

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Not now, no. No, I hope that I may find a time

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to speak to my hero alone. To give proper private

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gratitude. And to offer aid in whatever endeavor

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they choose to embark upon. Especially if that

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endeavor involves pursuing Pamiel. This all happening

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beneath you, Salome. And I'll ask you, what?

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What is your immediate intention? As, like, perhaps

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time passes, she moves back into the crowd, her

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son moving with her, both nodding some reverence

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towards you. But clearly they want to speak.

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You see Jai and Yara. Most of the crowd is gathered

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around them. They start to kind of move down,

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you know, maybe helping their people out, maybe

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moving down to, like, discuss the rebuilding

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efforts. And a lot of the crowd starts to slowly

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pull away. A lot of the Celestials moving with

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them to keep watch over a kind of large public,

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you know, commotion. Salome is up in the sky

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with the rest of the Celestials, you know, pointing

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out spots where aid is still needed and helping

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to coordinate relief efforts. And she's pretending

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that she didn't really notice this conversation.

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And at a time later when things have settled

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down, most of the reporters have gone home. Salome

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will try to keep her eye on where this woman

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went and try to find her in a more quiet moment.

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Hell yeah. Actually, before we move on from this,

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we should talk about what's happened up until

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now. Because you've had time to talk to other

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Celestials, and as we talked about, you outrank

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a lot of them. Is there any information you wanted

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to gather from them, anything that they might

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know that you'd want to ask about? This might

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be a good time. Mostly my questions would be

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how everything started. where the Bakunawa came

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from, what may or may not have set the Bakunawa

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off, where the Storm Giants came from, kind of

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like what the beginning of this all looked like.

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They would let you know, and you just get this

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for free, because, again, you don't need to roll.

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You outrank them. You saved some of them. They're

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clearly going to tell you all this. They see

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you bravely fighting this thing, almost get eaten

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by it. It was about five days ago that this Bakunawa,

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who was... Known to be the last of his kind and

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thought to be dead, Pongail started attacking

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random settlements and then vanishing into the

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sky or sea before anyone can get there to sort

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of pursue. His speed is made impossible to catch,

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even for the Celestials, who are very fast. You

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remember Hyronix chasing... Oh, you weren't there.

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Jules remembers Hyronix chasing him down the

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palace corridors. These things are fast. Pongail

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is faster. You know that... It was all outer

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settlements until now. But very shortly, very,

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very shortly before your gemstone arrived, the

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city of Kalapang is kind of resting on the northern

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coast of a, hang on, is an island known as, hang

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on, Malabilak. Believable. And so the northern

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part of the city is just pure coastline. The

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dragon appeared from the skies. A storm was building

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to the north, and as it kind of came close, they

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realized it was not natural. The wind was moving

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too fast, and they began to start gathering for

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battle. They thought they could just ward away

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the creature. They flew up to meet it. What they

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didn't realize, as the storm and as the serpent

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flew into the city, the waters churned as storm

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giants poured out from the coastline, climbing

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onto the docks, rushing into the city. Storm

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giants have... enclaves here in Dyalangan, but

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they're all underwater. They are aquatic creatures.

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They have like full aquatic sort of kingdoms

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and settlements. And I guess one small clan,

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you know, they say they worshipped this creature.

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And perhaps, you know, already they will tell

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you there was some ire being built between the

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Celestials and the Storm Giants. Some demands

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were made of them that the Storm Giants were

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not happy about. And they have no respect for

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Atash. They have no respect for law. And when

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they saw their deity driving forth into battle

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in Kalapang, they just saw it as a symbol that

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they should strike as well. Another thing that

00:20:48.509 --> 00:20:50.730
Salome would like to try to figure out, Salome

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never knew Paul, but I'm going to guess that

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she got like a lowdown from Jules when she knew

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that Paul was missing and part of their... Part

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of their mission here was to look for Paul. So

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as Jules describes Paul to Salome, how old would

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Salome know Paul to be? I believe Paul is eight

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years old. Was I wrong? Stuff is six. Paul's

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eight. I'm almost positive he's eight. I guess

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I don't need to. I think you know more than I

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do. I'll need to double check that, but I'm fairly

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certain that Paul is eight years old. So the

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next oldest would be probably going to sound

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about right. I'm asking because. Salome wants

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to ask the Celestials if they know more about

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this Bakunawa. You said that it was believed

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to be dead. And I'm going to guess that the timeline

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lines up that like maybe the last time this Bakunawa

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was seen was eight or so years ago. And then

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it recently popped up around the timeline that

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Paul went missing. Hmm. Not necessarily. What

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could they tell you? Roll me a d20. Breaking

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that D20 over there. We'll see how much they

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can tell you. Just me roll. I'll tell you how

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much they know. 19 on the die. Hell yeah. Normally

00:22:03.099 --> 00:22:06.359
they're not super locked into local sort of myths

00:22:06.359 --> 00:22:09.039
and legends. But I think it's the very one you

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saved earlier on. I would guess that this information

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is somehow readily available in this land. Yeah.

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Yeah. I think it's the one that you saved. kind

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of met you in combat, was talking to you afterwards,

00:22:21.160 --> 00:22:23.359
and has been, I guess, interviewing what he calls

00:22:23.359 --> 00:22:26.920
binukats, sort of historians of, like, local

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lore, because he wanted to understand the world.

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His name is Aloric, by the way. As Aloric is

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telling you about things, he just lets you know.

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Pong Il has not been seen for years. And so it

00:22:41.460 --> 00:22:44.160
was assumed he had died. They knew, apparently,

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he lived on an island far off, some... desecrated,

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desolate place to the south and east of this

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island here, which is, again, Malabulac. But

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it came from the north? Malabulac. But he came

00:23:02.420 --> 00:23:04.539
from the north. Yes, and you know he's been kind

00:23:04.539 --> 00:23:06.400
of coming from various directions. It's hard

00:23:06.400 --> 00:23:08.359
to lock down where he is because he's been sort

00:23:08.359 --> 00:23:11.039
of appearing out of nowhere. He travels both

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through the sea and the sky, so it's easy to

00:23:13.240 --> 00:23:16.039
lose sight of him when he dips down. And, of

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course, there is... Right, the missing foresight.

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The power, you just don't have it. But you think

00:23:23.660 --> 00:23:25.319
this doesn't line up, like his disappearance

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does not line up with Paul and his reappearance

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does not line up with Paul. Something must have

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happened five days ago. That's when he first

00:23:32.920 --> 00:23:35.180
appeared and started attacking. But the whole

00:23:35.180 --> 00:23:37.599
time they say that that same mantra, save him,

00:23:37.779 --> 00:23:41.420
was screamed over and over. Only now does anyone

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understand what it means. I'm sure you did not

00:23:43.299 --> 00:23:46.119
share exactly what. The whole save jewels thing

00:23:46.119 --> 00:23:47.599
definitely took the time through a loop. There's

00:23:47.599 --> 00:23:50.200
a lot of hot talking about that. What does that

00:23:50.200 --> 00:23:53.779
mean? You know, could it be talking about rubies?

00:23:54.539 --> 00:23:58.380
Like jewels the other way? Who knows? I do want

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to talk about Foresight real quick, though. That's

00:24:00.250 --> 00:24:01.630
another thing that I think you're catching a

00:24:01.630 --> 00:24:03.289
lot of buzz on as you're speaking with your celestial

00:24:03.289 --> 00:24:06.130
comrades. Like we said, you're used to kind of

00:24:06.130 --> 00:24:08.609
seeing this almost double image of things that

00:24:08.609 --> 00:24:10.910
might happen all the time. You know, if someone

00:24:10.910 --> 00:24:12.730
takes a step there, you see an image of them

00:24:12.730 --> 00:24:14.089
tripping, but they take a step somewhere else

00:24:14.089 --> 00:24:16.089
and they don't trip. And it's like constantly

00:24:16.089 --> 00:24:20.349
sort of overloading you with the wild variability

00:24:20.349 --> 00:24:24.410
of the future. From now, minutes, to hours, to

00:24:24.410 --> 00:24:26.549
days, and it all just surges through you, and

00:24:26.549 --> 00:24:27.930
it's so hard to pick through, and sometimes you

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see a prophecy so strong, so bold, so dangerous,

00:24:30.369 --> 00:24:32.769
that it shines through, and you know there is

00:24:32.769 --> 00:24:35.670
terrible danger. And right now, there's nothing.

00:24:35.990 --> 00:24:38.069
You feel this sense of unease and tension through

00:24:38.069 --> 00:24:41.289
all of the celestials, because there is nothing.

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But it's deeper than that, too. It's ice in your

00:24:45.930 --> 00:24:49.210
heart. That feeling of shock you felt when you

00:24:49.210 --> 00:24:51.630
saw jewels in that cage, and that... In that

00:24:51.630 --> 00:24:55.490
memory, not a vision, it stayed with you because

00:24:55.490 --> 00:24:58.369
there's something wrong here in the very air.

00:24:59.069 --> 00:25:02.289
And you have experienced this before, actually.

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Only once. During the Battle of Angkor and Sengar,

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when you first arrived into the conquered worlds.

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During that fight, you could not see. It was

00:25:13.329 --> 00:25:15.549
explained to you then that your view of the future

00:25:15.549 --> 00:25:18.450
was essentially choked beneath the pressure of

00:25:18.450 --> 00:25:22.519
a great... dominant will. A figure of immense

00:25:22.519 --> 00:25:25.619
power, his true form forever trapped in the plane

00:25:25.619 --> 00:25:29.160
of demons, with his sight focused fully on Acheron

00:25:29.160 --> 00:25:32.160
Sengar, on the battle there, and on one singular

00:25:32.160 --> 00:25:37.660
path to the future. Zomate Shab. Is he watching?

00:25:38.519 --> 00:25:43.039
Is his will pressing up here? Why? Is this his

00:25:43.039 --> 00:25:46.940
work? Is this the stirrings of another planar

00:25:46.940 --> 00:25:50.880
rift of the demonic abyss? Or could it be the

00:25:50.880 --> 00:25:52.500
work of his faithful conspirators in this mortal

00:25:52.500 --> 00:25:55.660
land? Calypsania, Cerise, the fractured horn.

00:25:56.619 --> 00:26:00.380
Something is building here. There is a future

00:26:00.380 --> 00:26:05.380
being pushed towards, and you can't see it, but

00:26:05.380 --> 00:26:09.539
you can feel the echoes of fear. That's a really

00:26:09.539 --> 00:26:12.119
scary feeling for somebody like Salome, who's

00:26:12.119 --> 00:26:15.740
used to that vision, used to that level of...

00:26:16.160 --> 00:26:17.819
I don't know if control is the right word, but

00:26:17.819 --> 00:26:19.680
not having it feels like not having control.

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You speak to the others. Like I said, you know,

00:26:22.839 --> 00:26:26.420
five days ago, these attacks started. Many years

00:26:26.420 --> 00:26:32.000
ago, 12 years ago, was the last time the great

00:26:32.000 --> 00:26:36.440
serpent, Pomniel Nangboan, was seen. And so it

00:26:36.440 --> 00:26:38.960
was assumed he had died somewhere in the desolate

00:26:38.960 --> 00:26:41.240
island. All you know about it, even with a 19,

00:26:41.359 --> 00:26:44.240
I think all he can tell you... is that it is

00:26:44.240 --> 00:26:48.180
a place known as Lembapluha, and that the residents

00:26:48.180 --> 00:26:50.980
of this world do not go there. The celestials

00:26:50.980 --> 00:26:57.960
do not fly there. How come? Because, Elder Sister,

00:26:58.140 --> 00:27:03.839
we can't. We are grounded in that place. It is

00:27:03.839 --> 00:27:08.019
a place of evil, a swamp land filled with sorrow

00:27:08.019 --> 00:27:11.559
and phantoms contained beneath the boughs of

00:27:11.559 --> 00:27:15.900
a burnt... and massive tree. It is a sight of

00:27:15.900 --> 00:27:19.220
shame for the people of this world. I don't know

00:27:19.220 --> 00:27:25.839
a lot. That woman, the one you saved earlier,

00:27:26.019 --> 00:27:30.740
I heard her speaking of you. She is known as

00:27:30.740 --> 00:27:35.619
a Binukot, a Storian. I have been meeting with

00:27:35.619 --> 00:27:38.799
ones like her. I was to meet with her soon to

00:27:38.799 --> 00:27:44.119
discuss Lembaklua. Perhaps she may help you to

00:27:44.119 --> 00:27:47.480
learn more? I will speak with her. Thank you.

00:27:48.220 --> 00:27:51.640
Will you investigate the creature? It is dangerous

00:27:51.640 --> 00:27:56.500
for our kind there. It feels wrong. I have merely

00:27:56.500 --> 00:27:59.579
traveled through the edge of the great serpentine

00:27:59.579 --> 00:28:05.259
bridge, Hope's Dagger, and as I felt the touch

00:28:05.259 --> 00:28:08.960
of that tree, of that land, of that swamp, it

00:28:08.960 --> 00:28:13.839
felt like... Being cut off from our home in true.

00:28:14.740 --> 00:28:18.619
As if death there would be death. True death.

00:28:19.220 --> 00:28:22.099
Never to return to the arms of Kameo and Pride.

00:28:23.000 --> 00:28:25.400
Never to tell the story of Atash and his great

00:28:25.400 --> 00:28:32.519
will. Death. Salome, we do not go there. Any

00:28:32.519 --> 00:28:35.740
death for the people of this world is true death.

00:28:36.700 --> 00:28:43.160
And I will face it to save them. If I must. Perhaps

00:28:43.160 --> 00:28:47.359
we cut to you seeking out that woman and her

00:28:47.359 --> 00:28:50.599
son, still walking together, and you see their

00:28:50.599 --> 00:28:53.519
eyes are cast towards the sky, watching, hoping.

00:28:54.759 --> 00:28:56.619
And they, like, round a corner, and Salome is

00:28:56.619 --> 00:29:01.880
just standing at the end of the street. Knife

00:29:01.880 --> 00:29:03.460
out again. Stay away from him! Oh, it's you.

00:29:04.980 --> 00:29:11.799
Oh. Lady Sightweaver. Um. Excuse me, I am Nimuel,

00:29:11.900 --> 00:29:16.319
and this is Luntian, my son. We are, um, looks

00:29:16.319 --> 00:29:20.220
around. We wanted to speak with the person that

00:29:20.220 --> 00:29:23.460
saved my life. I am very grateful to meet you

00:29:23.460 --> 00:29:29.859
both. I am unsure where your savior has gone.

00:29:30.900 --> 00:29:35.519
There is a problem there, huh? Yeah, now I'm

00:29:35.519 --> 00:29:37.720
like, hold on. How do you find him? How do I

00:29:37.720 --> 00:29:41.740
find him? That's a good question. You can't find

00:29:41.740 --> 00:29:46.640
me. He's in the night. He's gone. You can't find

00:29:46.640 --> 00:29:49.339
me until I want to be found. You're just going

00:29:49.339 --> 00:29:51.400
to continue with the arc. You're just going to

00:29:51.400 --> 00:29:56.559
leave the city. I won't be wanting this for the

00:29:56.559 --> 00:29:59.920
entire next many episodes. So did any of the

00:29:59.920 --> 00:30:04.779
other Celestials really clock that Jules was

00:30:04.779 --> 00:30:07.720
here? No. There was too much going on. Jules

00:30:07.720 --> 00:30:09.039
actually moved out of the way of everything pretty

00:30:09.039 --> 00:30:11.000
quickly and into the building. There just wasn't

00:30:11.000 --> 00:30:12.319
really a point where they would have seen Jules.

00:30:12.319 --> 00:30:15.339
So from a high vantage point, is it possible

00:30:15.339 --> 00:30:18.160
that Jules, or not Jules, that Salome could have

00:30:18.160 --> 00:30:20.680
at least seen the direction that they were moving

00:30:20.680 --> 00:30:22.559
in? Yeah, you were right there when they started

00:30:22.559 --> 00:30:25.039
moving away. Okay. The question is, I don't know

00:30:25.039 --> 00:30:26.579
what direction you would have gone. You don't

00:30:26.579 --> 00:30:29.420
know this city at all. Nope. Nope. Well, I'm

00:30:29.420 --> 00:30:31.460
thinking, like, can we just, like, say that,

00:30:31.519 --> 00:30:35.160
you know, they went to some abandoned building

00:30:35.160 --> 00:30:38.380
in some... quarter of the town that Salome saw

00:30:38.380 --> 00:30:41.460
them moving towards. Steven, you know this would

00:30:41.460 --> 00:30:43.960
be a lot easier if we had a fucking map? A map

00:30:43.960 --> 00:30:46.440
would make this so much easier. You don't get

00:30:46.440 --> 00:30:50.279
town maps. I never do town maps. Deal with it.

00:30:50.860 --> 00:30:53.480
I mean, actually, what you see in this town,

00:30:53.539 --> 00:30:55.119
too, is like, I think I mentioned before, there's

00:30:55.119 --> 00:30:58.519
a lot of sort of white stone buildings with red

00:30:58.519 --> 00:30:59.960
roofs. And, you know, these are all sort of new

00:30:59.960 --> 00:31:01.799
constructs. But as you're looking at this town,

00:31:01.920 --> 00:31:05.319
you can see where the further towards the north

00:31:05.319 --> 00:31:08.099
you go and the further towards the sort of eastern

00:31:08.099 --> 00:31:11.420
side, almost like a crescent moon shape around

00:31:11.420 --> 00:31:15.319
the sort of outside of this town. It builds into

00:31:15.319 --> 00:31:19.079
like older, older structures. Many are kind of.

00:31:19.559 --> 00:31:21.059
Like I said, a lot of the areas here are just

00:31:21.059 --> 00:31:22.740
like one -story buildings. Out there you see

00:31:22.740 --> 00:31:25.200
more two -story structures, larger, almost like

00:31:25.200 --> 00:31:28.319
small noble manors or palaces. And you see a

00:31:28.319 --> 00:31:30.079
number of them are dilapidated and kind of run

00:31:30.079 --> 00:31:35.160
down. Not like ugly, but just obviously unattended.

00:31:35.579 --> 00:31:38.359
Okay. Yeah, all I can tell you, all that I know,

00:31:38.500 --> 00:31:41.700
is that the second they started running, they

00:31:41.700 --> 00:31:44.200
slipped into back alleyways and dark spaces.

00:31:45.140 --> 00:31:47.779
I don't think he knows where they're going. I

00:31:47.779 --> 00:31:49.359
mean, obviously he doesn't. The question is,

00:31:49.380 --> 00:31:50.880
do you have a way to signal? Should we slide

00:31:50.880 --> 00:31:52.440
to Jules? I mean, Jules is a way to signal where

00:31:52.440 --> 00:31:56.839
he is to just Salome. Can we? Yeah. Let's go

00:31:56.839 --> 00:31:59.640
to Jules. As you're over there, you say these

00:31:59.640 --> 00:32:02.880
words. Is there a way? Yeah. I mean, you know

00:32:02.880 --> 00:32:04.500
Salome can fly. You could do a number of things.

00:32:04.559 --> 00:32:06.259
You could, like, mark the top of a roof. That's

00:32:06.259 --> 00:32:08.279
true. If you want to meet inside, like, with

00:32:08.279 --> 00:32:11.700
something only she would understand. I like that,

00:32:11.720 --> 00:32:14.059
yeah. So we see Salome. You land down. You have

00:32:14.059 --> 00:32:15.880
this conversation. You say, like, I don't know

00:32:15.880 --> 00:32:19.859
where he is. And we kind of just. You fade over

00:32:19.859 --> 00:32:23.900
to Jules. I like the idea that it pans across

00:32:23.900 --> 00:32:27.099
the city, over the tops, and then it stops over

00:32:27.099 --> 00:32:30.440
on a small rooftop on an unassuming bar. And

00:32:30.440 --> 00:32:34.460
in one of the corners of the roof, Jules is going

00:32:34.460 --> 00:32:37.619
to take out his lute and set it to the ground,

00:32:37.680 --> 00:32:40.640
and it's going to shimmer. And then when he removes

00:32:40.640 --> 00:32:47.819
it, under it is a small, bright J -U. Oh, that's

00:32:47.819 --> 00:32:51.740
cool. Hell yeah. And then they keep moving. Okay.

00:32:52.660 --> 00:32:54.859
Kind of leaving a trail. Mm -hmm. Hell yeah.

00:32:55.799 --> 00:32:58.980
As you move, Jules, you and Arhalon and Gabriella,

00:32:58.980 --> 00:33:01.460
the two of them are locked in, kind of like full

00:33:01.460 --> 00:33:03.099
bodyguards. You're walking towards an alley.

00:33:03.180 --> 00:33:05.079
They kind of move to the side, back against the

00:33:05.079 --> 00:33:07.140
walls, turn their heads around the corner, nod.

00:33:07.740 --> 00:33:10.539
They're just locking in together. Full soldier

00:33:10.539 --> 00:33:12.259
squad. You're sort of following in their footsteps.

00:33:13.059 --> 00:33:15.849
And you begin to hear... from somewhere in your

00:33:15.849 --> 00:33:25.450
vestments, a of ascending stone. Or, what one

00:33:25.450 --> 00:33:28.410
might call a ascending sturge. Sturge stone.

00:33:28.569 --> 00:33:32.410
No, shut up. I think you called it the sturge

00:33:32.410 --> 00:33:35.150
stone in one of our texts last week. I was mistaken.

00:33:35.170 --> 00:33:38.230
Never happened. It's actually called a sturge

00:33:38.230 --> 00:33:40.690
sturge. Sturge sturge. Sturge sturge. Sturge

00:33:40.690 --> 00:33:46.200
sturge stone stone. The sturging sturge. Oh,

00:33:46.220 --> 00:33:48.500
my God. I think it's Sturgeon. Is it Stone of

00:33:48.500 --> 00:33:50.640
Sending or Sending Stone? I think it's Sending

00:33:50.640 --> 00:33:54.039
Stone. It's the other way around. We've been

00:33:54.039 --> 00:33:57.599
calling it the Sending Stone. The Sturgeon of

00:33:57.599 --> 00:33:59.200
Sturgeon goes off. What do you want to do about

00:33:59.200 --> 00:34:02.160
it? He's going to pull it out and listen. You

00:34:02.160 --> 00:34:05.700
pull it out. We're moving in the shadows still,

00:34:05.740 --> 00:34:07.220
and he's got it up to his ear as they're kind

00:34:07.220 --> 00:34:09.159
of going. His eyes are darting this way and that,

00:34:09.300 --> 00:34:11.880
but he also has this going in his ear. I think

00:34:11.880 --> 00:34:13.460
you were waiting for this particular message.

00:34:14.840 --> 00:34:17.909
Because... You and old Sturgy had a deal you

00:34:17.909 --> 00:34:21.090
made recently following that. An extra reward

00:34:21.090 --> 00:34:24.730
for your DC 30 persuasion check you made on him.

00:34:24.789 --> 00:34:28.530
Yeah, yeah. As you hear a voice rings out. All

00:34:28.530 --> 00:34:33.210
clear, Julesy. The coyote remains under my protection.

00:34:33.750 --> 00:34:37.190
Your friends here will never see me, yet they

00:34:37.190 --> 00:34:41.650
will never be out of my sight. And that's what

00:34:41.650 --> 00:34:44.510
you hear. You can respond if you want. I don't

00:34:44.510 --> 00:34:47.190
think he needs to. Hell yeah. He just wanted

00:34:47.190 --> 00:34:49.690
that acknowledgement and that confirmation. Yeah.

00:34:50.909 --> 00:34:53.170
Periodically. You may have pulled all your fighting

00:34:53.170 --> 00:34:57.349
forces out for these vital quests, but with Sturgeman

00:34:57.349 --> 00:35:00.130
on the line, he has, I will say he's done some

00:35:00.130 --> 00:35:02.869
research, he's done some investigating, opened

00:35:02.869 --> 00:35:07.869
his mind up towards your side, towards your line

00:35:07.869 --> 00:35:10.650
of thinking. I mean, when you start digging into

00:35:10.650 --> 00:35:12.829
what Atash has been up to, what Rune's been up

00:35:12.829 --> 00:35:17.039
to, It gets ugly pretty damn fast. But for now,

00:35:17.099 --> 00:35:20.179
he's happy to wait to continue his investigation

00:35:20.179 --> 00:35:22.619
and putting the puzzle pieces together while

00:35:22.619 --> 00:35:24.679
also watching over the Cherry Delights and making

00:35:24.679 --> 00:35:29.559
sure nothing comes to harm them. I think you

00:35:29.559 --> 00:35:32.699
feel very secure as you slide the stone away.

00:35:33.280 --> 00:35:37.360
Perhaps movement above catches your eyes, Jules.

00:35:38.480 --> 00:35:41.559
You glance up and you see Gabriel Arhalon stop

00:35:41.559 --> 00:35:45.219
and slide and look up to see Salome following

00:35:45.219 --> 00:35:50.719
your trail. Salome, are you carrying a small

00:35:50.719 --> 00:35:57.360
woman? No, no, no. Here's how I picture it. Salome

00:35:57.360 --> 00:35:59.739
says to this woman, you know, something to the

00:35:59.739 --> 00:36:02.420
effect of, I know which direction they went.

00:36:02.539 --> 00:36:04.480
I don't know exactly where they are. So I'd like

00:36:04.480 --> 00:36:06.340
to think that Salome and this woman are walking.

00:36:06.989 --> 00:36:10.329
in that part of town, you know, discussing things.

00:36:10.670 --> 00:36:15.309
And because maybe of Salome's observant feet

00:36:15.309 --> 00:36:18.210
or something like that, she can see on one of

00:36:18.210 --> 00:36:21.030
these rooftops a soft glow coming from the corner

00:36:21.030 --> 00:36:24.530
of the roof. She flies up to investigate, sees

00:36:24.530 --> 00:36:27.449
the first mark of the trail, and then the two

00:36:27.449 --> 00:36:29.969
of them, you know, between Salome dropping down

00:36:29.969 --> 00:36:33.170
and walking and flying up to see, they make their

00:36:33.170 --> 00:36:35.480
way together. Hell yeah. And you're moving out,

00:36:35.539 --> 00:36:37.679
I will say, a lot of the public's been pulled

00:36:37.679 --> 00:36:39.800
in the other direction, where handsome Jaya and

00:36:39.800 --> 00:36:41.559
Yara are doing the thing. Every time he gets

00:36:41.559 --> 00:36:47.420
a lady, it explodes. So, yeah. And as you are

00:36:47.420 --> 00:36:49.880
moving along, you see Jules and the gang. You

00:36:49.880 --> 00:36:52.199
jump up at one point, look down. As you're flying,

00:36:52.320 --> 00:36:54.360
you see the whole group in an alley just by the

00:36:54.360 --> 00:36:58.539
main thoroughfare. And you know that this woman,

00:36:58.760 --> 00:37:03.860
Nimuel, is right there, too. What do you want

00:37:03.860 --> 00:37:05.559
to do? How do you want to set this up? Give me

00:37:05.559 --> 00:37:08.780
a scene, damn it. Give me a scene. Salome will

00:37:08.780 --> 00:37:14.159
fly down to Jules and the rest, and as she lands,

00:37:14.340 --> 00:37:18.059
she'll tell Jules, the woman you saved is here

00:37:18.059 --> 00:37:22.019
to speak with you. She's on the street. Shall

00:37:22.019 --> 00:37:25.719
we meet inside and keep this private? The fuck,

00:37:25.760 --> 00:37:30.119
did you carry her here? We walked together. I

00:37:30.119 --> 00:37:32.420
saw the light from the, and I flew up and...

00:37:34.409 --> 00:37:36.389
We don't need the whole story. Where is she?

00:37:36.730 --> 00:37:44.630
Are we safe? Yes, most of the excitement is on

00:37:44.630 --> 00:37:47.869
the other side of town where Jai is. You know,

00:37:47.869 --> 00:37:51.510
he pulls the camera's attention. I was going

00:37:51.510 --> 00:37:53.349
to say you guys are heading to like the eastern

00:37:53.349 --> 00:37:55.730
side of town, which is more quiet. The western

00:37:55.730 --> 00:37:57.710
and northern sides of town are like way more

00:37:57.710 --> 00:38:00.929
busy right now. Up where the coastline is. I

00:38:00.929 --> 00:38:03.860
have the impression that some... around here

00:38:03.860 --> 00:38:09.139
may be amenable to our cause. All right, I'll

00:38:09.139 --> 00:38:13.139
listen. And Salome will go back to the street.

00:38:13.820 --> 00:38:17.179
Oh. Fetch. What was her name again? Nimuel. Nimuel?

00:38:17.400 --> 00:38:20.719
Did you keep the teenager, too? I'm going to

00:38:20.719 --> 00:38:23.059
leave that up to Nimuel. Oh, yeah, Luntian's

00:38:23.059 --> 00:38:25.300
there. That's her son? That's her son, yeah.

00:38:25.320 --> 00:38:27.480
Okay. Long hair kind of covering his eyes, and

00:38:27.480 --> 00:38:32.079
he looks almost very awkward and nervous. Insight

00:38:32.079 --> 00:38:34.280
check. Is this kid cool? Yeah, roll a check.

00:38:34.500 --> 00:38:38.480
Roll a check. Jules is looking from the alley.

00:38:39.260 --> 00:38:42.300
Only an eight. He looks sketchy. He looks kind

00:38:42.300 --> 00:38:46.699
of sketchy. Sixteen. Jules saved his mom and

00:38:46.699 --> 00:38:49.659
he stabbed Jules. He stabbed him. He feels really

00:38:49.659 --> 00:38:51.880
bad. Okay. He's like not sure how to face and

00:38:51.880 --> 00:38:53.460
talk to Jules because he just kind of stabbed

00:38:53.460 --> 00:38:54.980
him and then never said anything else to him.

00:38:55.940 --> 00:38:58.329
And... Thanks for saving my mom. Sorry about

00:38:58.329 --> 00:38:59.789
stabbing you. Basically, yeah, he doesn't really

00:38:59.789 --> 00:39:01.349
know how to approach that topic, and you see

00:39:01.349 --> 00:39:03.010
he's kind of just playing with his hands and,

00:39:03.030 --> 00:39:06.110
like, picking that, like, scabs there. It's all

00:39:06.110 --> 00:39:12.329
good. He kind of raises a fist up. Thanks, and

00:39:12.329 --> 00:39:16.510
I'm sorry for what I... No apology necessary,

00:39:16.769 --> 00:39:19.929
buddy. He has a little smile under his long,

00:39:20.030 --> 00:39:22.849
dark bangs, and he kind of takes a shuffling

00:39:22.849 --> 00:39:26.239
step back to let his mother, who... He kind of

00:39:26.239 --> 00:39:28.760
fixes the glass up higher and knows, like, I,

00:39:28.800 --> 00:39:32.760
I, Jules LaRoche, you, um, I don't know how you

00:39:32.760 --> 00:39:35.099
did it. I was, I died. I was dead, dead. I could

00:39:35.099 --> 00:39:39.739
feel that I was dead, dead. I felt myself go.

00:39:39.820 --> 00:39:43.280
I was staring into the fugue plane, the mists

00:39:43.280 --> 00:39:47.019
of, all I could think was, I was leaving my boy

00:39:47.019 --> 00:39:51.860
behind. But now you're not. And it's over. Not

00:39:51.860 --> 00:39:56.010
for us. No, no, no. Here. In Dayalongan, we have

00:39:56.010 --> 00:39:59.530
this tradition. It's called utang ning lu. It

00:39:59.530 --> 00:40:04.909
is a life debt. When you save a life, you gain

00:40:04.909 --> 00:40:08.130
family. And anything we can do for you, anything

00:40:08.130 --> 00:40:11.949
at all, please, we will do it. My entire clan,

00:40:12.190 --> 00:40:16.230
from this day forth to the end of our days, will

00:40:16.230 --> 00:40:20.050
serve at your request. I can't help in many ways.

00:40:20.070 --> 00:40:22.010
I have no political power, but I am a binakut.

00:40:22.090 --> 00:40:26.400
I have some... Ability to recall information.

00:40:26.579 --> 00:40:30.019
I know much of the laws, traditions, culture,

00:40:30.199 --> 00:40:33.260
history, poetry, songs. You're a songwriter.

00:40:33.380 --> 00:40:35.699
I can help you with that. I can tell you so much.

00:40:36.059 --> 00:40:41.980
And I heard you called to Pangil. You said, what

00:40:41.980 --> 00:40:44.239
did he say? He kind of turns and the boy kind

00:40:44.239 --> 00:40:48.559
of, I'm here. He said, I'm here, Mom. I'm here.

00:40:49.340 --> 00:40:53.059
Did you seek the last Bakunawa, Jules LaRoche?

00:40:54.000 --> 00:40:58.980
Do you know where I can find them? I do. I want

00:40:58.980 --> 00:41:00.340
you to roll something for me, actually, real

00:41:00.340 --> 00:41:04.420
quick, Salome. I want you to roll for me. Give

00:41:04.420 --> 00:41:07.239
me a perception check, I think, will work for

00:41:07.239 --> 00:41:09.980
this. I think it's more just like perceiving

00:41:09.980 --> 00:41:11.739
a memory and thinking of something. What's your

00:41:11.739 --> 00:41:15.760
passive? My passive is crazy, I think. Okay.

00:41:16.519 --> 00:41:21.440
That was a 15 rolled. I'll say a 15 would be

00:41:21.440 --> 00:41:23.869
good enough for this, anyway. Okay, yeah, I'm

00:41:23.869 --> 00:41:25.670
not familiar enough with my... Oh, yeah, my passive

00:41:25.670 --> 00:41:28.929
perception is 19. Jesus. When you talk to Aloric

00:41:28.929 --> 00:41:33.670
the Diva, he talked about Limbacluha, this cursed

00:41:33.670 --> 00:41:37.489
land. Very specifically, he mentioned a massive

00:41:37.489 --> 00:41:40.550
tree. And maybe now you're thinking this through.

00:41:40.610 --> 00:41:42.909
You say those words, I do, as it connects in

00:41:42.909 --> 00:41:46.849
your mind. The vision of Paul. That great cavern

00:41:46.849 --> 00:41:50.010
where he was trapped, where Jules, this phantom

00:41:50.010 --> 00:41:52.880
of Jules was trapped. There were massive roots

00:41:52.880 --> 00:41:57.719
hanging from the ceiling as if from a giant tree.

00:41:58.159 --> 00:42:02.800
Wow. I mean, the only reason that I, Stephen,

00:42:02.840 --> 00:42:05.199
thought that Salome would figure out that that

00:42:05.199 --> 00:42:07.880
was the place to go was just because, you know,

00:42:07.880 --> 00:42:12.059
because of the evil, because of the Zalmante

00:42:12.059 --> 00:42:15.280
Shab connection. She'd felt this before at the

00:42:15.280 --> 00:42:18.860
rift. And so she knows that Zalmante Shab is

00:42:18.860 --> 00:42:22.400
involved in this somehow. With the whole Paul,

00:42:22.559 --> 00:42:26.619
Cherry's a light connection being kidnapped by

00:42:26.619 --> 00:42:29.599
them. So it was like, just like, you know, like

00:42:29.599 --> 00:42:31.380
obviously that's the next place we have to go.

00:42:32.159 --> 00:42:37.239
But she, oh, can she share the memory with Jules?

00:42:38.039 --> 00:42:42.480
Whoa. Oh man, you've done something like that

00:42:42.480 --> 00:42:46.420
before. You know what? Yes. Great. You, you,

00:42:46.460 --> 00:42:50.500
yes. It was only through your connection to Jules

00:42:50.500 --> 00:42:52.699
that you were able to do it before. I think it

00:42:52.699 --> 00:42:55.260
makes sense that you can do it again. This was

00:42:55.260 --> 00:42:57.179
something that was meant for Jules. You feel

00:42:57.179 --> 00:43:00.059
that. It was meant for him, but you had bardic

00:43:00.059 --> 00:43:03.260
inspiration at the time. You drew it to yourself.

00:43:04.500 --> 00:43:07.579
She holds out her hand, sort of looking at Jules

00:43:07.579 --> 00:43:10.739
knowingly, saying with her eyes, you know what

00:43:10.739 --> 00:43:14.380
to expect. We've done this once before, Jules

00:43:14.380 --> 00:43:17.480
LaRoche, but I have something important to show

00:43:17.480 --> 00:43:20.519
you. Am I intruding? This feels really personal.

00:43:20.679 --> 00:43:24.639
Can I be here? You're doing great. Okay, great.

00:43:24.719 --> 00:43:31.179
Thank you. And Jules will reach out. Memory in

00:43:31.179 --> 00:43:33.800
your mind like a flash. Paul's hand reaching

00:43:33.800 --> 00:43:36.679
out behind bars, reaching towards you. Jules,

00:43:36.760 --> 00:43:42.300
you but broken and beaten, barely alive, tortured.

00:43:43.340 --> 00:43:47.340
And you see the sickness of your mother's design.

00:43:48.500 --> 00:43:51.639
That's how she would break him. She would use

00:43:51.639 --> 00:43:57.099
you. Use your image. Torture you before him until

00:43:57.099 --> 00:44:02.460
he snapped. There is an island. The Pari, the

00:44:02.460 --> 00:44:07.139
Celestials, cannot fly there. La Magla, right?

00:44:07.360 --> 00:44:09.739
Oh, sorry. This is not my part still. I'm gonna...

00:44:09.739 --> 00:44:15.519
Go on. There was a local militia. What were they

00:44:15.519 --> 00:44:19.050
called? The Bonesinger Militia? The Bonesinger.

00:44:19.050 --> 00:44:22.090
They were mentioned earlier, yes. How can we

00:44:22.090 --> 00:44:26.030
get to this island? Could we utilize the Bonesinger

00:44:26.030 --> 00:44:29.090
Militia? Do you have any connection to that group?

00:44:29.570 --> 00:44:33.389
I don't know. I wouldn't really directly get

00:44:33.389 --> 00:44:35.050
any help from them. There's honestly not a lot

00:44:35.050 --> 00:44:37.750
of them, and they're probably going to be busy

00:44:37.750 --> 00:44:41.710
here, but I can help you get there. You can't

00:44:41.710 --> 00:44:45.269
take the sea. I don't know if you know much about...

00:44:45.400 --> 00:44:48.719
but the sea here is bad. Rough waves, whirlpools

00:44:48.719 --> 00:44:50.860
everywhere. You can barely take a ship from port

00:44:50.860 --> 00:44:53.300
to port. Only close to the islands where it's

00:44:53.300 --> 00:44:56.719
somewhat calm, but between islands, no. But we

00:44:56.719 --> 00:45:03.019
have the sky bridges made by the ancient Bakunawa,

00:45:03.179 --> 00:45:06.800
the great ones. Oh, so much bigger than Pangil

00:45:06.800 --> 00:45:09.260
even. Their bones are built into these bridges

00:45:09.260 --> 00:45:14.320
that span miles and miles, days of travel. They're...

00:45:14.750 --> 00:45:16.309
If you haven't seen them, you're going to be

00:45:16.309 --> 00:45:21.230
blown away. But there's one hope stagger. It

00:45:21.230 --> 00:45:26.730
leads from, I'll never remember this name, ever.

00:45:27.869 --> 00:45:31.829
Malabulic on the southeastern coast towards Lomboklahud.

00:45:31.869 --> 00:45:34.489
It's almost never traveled now, but of course,

00:45:34.510 --> 00:45:38.030
the Bonesingers will maintain the bridges no

00:45:38.030 --> 00:45:41.150
matter what. The other celestial, was it Leoric

00:45:41.150 --> 00:45:44.780
or? Something like that? Aloric. Aloric. How

00:45:44.780 --> 00:45:47.920
far did he say he got on that bridge? He basically

00:45:47.920 --> 00:45:50.920
had just reached the edge of the bridge, stepping

00:45:50.920 --> 00:45:53.000
onto the landmass, and he felt his wings give

00:45:53.000 --> 00:45:56.139
out. Okay. So he got to the far end. You can

00:45:56.139 --> 00:45:58.320
get to the island, and then at that point...

00:45:58.320 --> 00:46:03.920
Gotcha. It's a dangerous place, though. In Snakesong,

00:46:04.039 --> 00:46:08.500
local dialect, Lumbakalham means veil of tears.

00:46:09.239 --> 00:46:11.980
It was once the holiest place in all of Dayalongan,

00:46:11.980 --> 00:46:15.719
home to Bathalang Puno, a temple city nestled

00:46:15.719 --> 00:46:18.699
within the roots of a colossal tree, a banyan

00:46:18.699 --> 00:46:24.460
tree, also known as Bathalang Puno. It was said

00:46:24.460 --> 00:46:27.360
to be where islanders' souls went after death,

00:46:27.579 --> 00:46:30.179
all of us eventually rejoining the tree, becoming

00:46:30.179 --> 00:46:33.579
a leaf in its branches. Centuries ago, during

00:46:33.579 --> 00:46:37.059
a war between islanders, Invaders to Mumbakla

00:46:37.059 --> 00:46:39.539
burned the great tree and razed Bethelangpuno,

00:46:39.699 --> 00:46:43.039
killing untold people and spirits. And in the

00:46:43.039 --> 00:46:45.659
aftermath, Mumbakla became a cursed, cursed place

00:46:45.659 --> 00:46:47.860
where spirits seethed in the land, spreading

00:46:47.860 --> 00:46:50.900
corruption across the islands. This was hundreds

00:46:50.900 --> 00:46:57.159
of years ago. But still, it is dangerous. Feral

00:46:57.159 --> 00:47:01.260
spirits walk the marshes. No one goes there now.

00:47:02.260 --> 00:47:06.690
But Pong Hill. He was said to have lived there,

00:47:06.809 --> 00:47:12.269
perhaps trying to restore this land. The last

00:47:12.269 --> 00:47:14.789
anyone had seen him, he had traveled that way.

00:47:15.570 --> 00:47:17.530
But it's been 12 years, and we have not heard

00:47:17.530 --> 00:47:20.769
from Pangil. I assumed he had been killed. Perhaps

00:47:20.769 --> 00:47:25.349
the poison of the land had taken him. It's darkness.

00:47:26.070 --> 00:47:28.489
And she kind of looks to the sky. You see, like,

00:47:28.489 --> 00:47:32.469
great pain on her face. She says, maybe it did.

00:47:33.360 --> 00:47:35.860
For him to come here and attack us like this.

00:47:36.820 --> 00:47:42.000
He was said to be sweet and wise. He killed me.

00:47:42.880 --> 00:47:46.880
His lightning. But if you want to go there, then

00:47:46.880 --> 00:47:50.380
yes. You'll need to travel to the southeast until

00:47:50.380 --> 00:47:54.139
you see the bridge. You truly can't miss it.

00:47:55.039 --> 00:47:57.920
It takes nearly a day travel to reach it and

00:47:57.920 --> 00:48:00.699
about two days travel to cross it. It's big.

00:48:02.090 --> 00:48:05.969
Our path is clear, Jules LaRoche. We will save

00:48:05.969 --> 00:48:12.230
the last Bakunawa. I hope you can. It is a sad

00:48:12.230 --> 00:48:16.289
thing to even have one last one. But for us to

00:48:16.289 --> 00:48:20.090
feel the wisdom of Palm Hill again, have him

00:48:20.090 --> 00:48:23.389
break the storms above our skies and help our

00:48:23.389 --> 00:48:27.750
people, it would be a miracle. You and your people

00:48:27.750 --> 00:48:32.460
deserve a miracle. I mean... I've already experienced

00:48:32.460 --> 00:48:37.639
one. You see she full blushes. And you kind of

00:48:37.639 --> 00:48:44.659
hear a, hmm, from behind of Gabriella. So she's

00:48:44.659 --> 00:48:51.059
the jealous type, is she? Run, Jules, run. Spread

00:48:51.059 --> 00:48:56.559
the word. Gather as many people as you can. Just

00:48:56.559 --> 00:49:00.679
as I'm dying. And then here. There's this, like,

00:49:00.719 --> 00:49:03.059
look of confusion as she, like, she hears you

00:49:03.059 --> 00:49:04.739
say that and her eyes go wide and she looks to

00:49:04.739 --> 00:49:08.699
Salome. And I think she sees you. What's your

00:49:08.699 --> 00:49:10.579
expression? Are you stoic? I mean, obviously

00:49:10.579 --> 00:49:12.280
you're not reacting, but, like, do you expect

00:49:12.280 --> 00:49:14.000
a celestial hearing that? It's like, oh, my God,

00:49:14.019 --> 00:49:20.000
oh, no. And she kind of calms. Justice undying.

00:49:20.760 --> 00:49:23.250
Justice undying. Sorry for putting you in a weird

00:49:23.250 --> 00:49:25.969
spot. No, no, no. Salome kind of almost always

00:49:25.969 --> 00:49:29.309
wears a very stoic expression. So I think her

00:49:29.309 --> 00:49:33.590
non -reaction speaks just as loud as a confirmation.

00:49:35.190 --> 00:49:40.849
Hell yeah. And so I ask, do you depart from this

00:49:40.849 --> 00:49:43.570
city? Anything else you want to do before? No.

00:49:43.730 --> 00:49:45.289
Yeah, I mean, it's not like we're going shopping

00:49:45.289 --> 00:49:48.849
or anything. Yeah. Yeah, we are on the path.

00:49:49.289 --> 00:49:51.929
Hell yeah. I think knowing the way around the

00:49:51.929 --> 00:49:54.789
city, Nimuel and Lungtian kind of offer to guide

00:49:54.789 --> 00:49:57.409
you and, you know, bring you to maybe a very

00:49:57.409 --> 00:50:00.349
unknown or exit point or like a crack in the

00:50:00.349 --> 00:50:01.969
wall you can slide through so you're not seen

00:50:01.969 --> 00:50:04.449
by guard jewels. I think they immediately catch

00:50:04.449 --> 00:50:06.329
the vibe. You don't want to be seen. You know,

00:50:06.349 --> 00:50:08.710
obviously, everyone knows your license was stripped.

00:50:09.090 --> 00:50:12.980
They clearly knew who you were. So, so. march,

00:50:13.039 --> 00:50:15.420
you know, another travel down the alleys. I think

00:50:15.420 --> 00:50:18.119
as you're moving, Gabriella is staying real close

00:50:18.119 --> 00:50:22.440
and kind of a little between you and Imuel. Oh.

00:50:23.159 --> 00:50:25.320
I guess it wasn't clear what I was doing. When

00:50:25.320 --> 00:50:29.260
I went, he was doing kind of like the dark hero

00:50:29.260 --> 00:50:32.440
thing where he's like, okay. And just flicks

00:50:32.440 --> 00:50:33.880
his cape and leaves. Flicks his cape and leaves.

00:50:34.000 --> 00:50:36.280
Oh, you're leaving. Oh, okay. Oh, he left. Oh,

00:50:36.280 --> 00:50:40.699
so Jules is gone. Yeah. Oh, yeah. So, yeah. Like,

00:50:40.699 --> 00:50:43.940
he's giving people a time of day, but he is going.

00:50:44.000 --> 00:50:45.719
When he gets what he needs, he's going. Hell

00:50:45.719 --> 00:50:47.539
yeah. So maybe they point out to you, like, there's

00:50:47.539 --> 00:50:48.940
one other way you can get out of here. So you

00:50:48.940 --> 00:50:50.300
don't have to, unless you have a plan to walk

00:50:50.300 --> 00:50:53.519
past the guard at the gate. Okay. So they point

00:50:53.519 --> 00:50:55.079
it out of the way. Nimuel catches up and says,

00:50:55.199 --> 00:50:57.059
actually. Actually, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,

00:50:57.059 --> 00:50:58.340
wait. Yeah, do what you got to do to make that

00:50:58.340 --> 00:51:02.980
happen. That way. Jules is gone. Can I just give

00:51:02.980 --> 00:51:07.019
you a quick instruction? Yes. And before we leave,

00:51:07.179 --> 00:51:10.440
Nimuel. Jules, Gabriella, gone. Arlan's kind

00:51:10.440 --> 00:51:15.300
of hanging out. Other flyer. Shall we, when we

00:51:15.300 --> 00:51:19.460
return, we may need to leave this world in secret.

00:51:20.079 --> 00:51:23.340
As you know, Jules cannot travel in the open.

00:51:23.639 --> 00:51:26.719
Of course. If there is something that you can

00:51:26.719 --> 00:51:31.079
set up for us in these days to come, we would

00:51:31.079 --> 00:51:34.519
be very grateful. Life debt. Yeah, of course.

00:51:34.840 --> 00:51:37.280
There's a, you'll find it on the path as you

00:51:37.280 --> 00:51:40.190
leave. You'll be passing through a great sort

00:51:40.190 --> 00:51:43.670
of meadowlands and about three quarters of a

00:51:43.670 --> 00:51:45.489
mile outside the city on the southeastern trail,

00:51:45.590 --> 00:51:48.309
I think you'll see a large slanted rock, hard

00:51:48.309 --> 00:51:50.369
to miss as long as you're viewing it in daylight.

00:51:51.010 --> 00:51:54.070
I will find a way. I'll leave a message. I'll

00:51:54.070 --> 00:51:56.329
be there in person. Something. Just find that

00:51:56.329 --> 00:52:00.130
place and wait for me or seek out my message

00:52:00.130 --> 00:52:03.510
and I'll find a way. I promise I'll get you back

00:52:03.510 --> 00:52:07.559
safe and unseen. So we know the days it takes

00:52:07.559 --> 00:52:11.380
to travel. Yeah. So if we add those up and then

00:52:11.380 --> 00:52:13.780
a little bit of time in between, maybe Salome

00:52:13.780 --> 00:52:15.539
can tell her, you know, meet us there in six

00:52:15.539 --> 00:52:19.219
days time. Yeah. Or leave us a message or something.

00:52:19.440 --> 00:52:24.519
Hell yeah. Cool. Takes it in. And good luck.

00:52:25.760 --> 00:52:29.059
Protect him, Salome. He's a very special man.

00:52:29.179 --> 00:52:33.320
I don't think he needs my protection, but I will

00:52:33.320 --> 00:52:39.750
give it all the same. Hell yeah. And you. Take

00:52:39.750 --> 00:52:42.030
to the skies, perhaps, or maybe stay sweeping

00:52:42.030 --> 00:52:45.610
low towards the building tops. Arlon falling

00:52:45.610 --> 00:52:49.289
in behind you, beating wings as you catch up

00:52:49.289 --> 00:52:53.690
to dashing, quick footsteps. You work your way

00:52:53.690 --> 00:52:57.969
through the old structures, pillars carved into

00:52:57.969 --> 00:53:01.630
draconic faces, and... You find yourself at a

00:53:01.630 --> 00:53:04.389
point in the gate where there is a sort of notable

00:53:04.389 --> 00:53:07.110
kind of opening, a crack or a surface entrance,

00:53:07.369 --> 00:53:14.630
and you leave the city behind. You step out into

00:53:14.630 --> 00:53:17.150
this vast meadow. At this point, it's getting

00:53:17.150 --> 00:53:20.469
dark. The moon is rising. You see moonlight reflecting

00:53:20.469 --> 00:53:24.210
off of a number of white flowers, like tiny white

00:53:24.210 --> 00:53:28.699
flowers, just way off into the distance. where

00:53:28.699 --> 00:53:30.699
they touch the ocean somewhere you cannot see

00:53:30.699 --> 00:53:33.840
in the darkness. You're moving, probably not

00:53:33.840 --> 00:53:36.739
directly on the path, but as you kind of, perhaps

00:53:36.739 --> 00:53:38.460
like we're noted with instructions where to go,

00:53:38.539 --> 00:53:41.980
kind of parallel to the path, just walking through

00:53:41.980 --> 00:53:45.880
meadow under that moonlight, letting the city

00:53:45.880 --> 00:53:55.860
gates fall behind you. Salome. Salome. It hits

00:53:55.860 --> 00:54:02.030
you. In a heartbeat. Like a grip tightening around

00:54:02.030 --> 00:54:06.550
your chest. The moon feels so much brighter suddenly.

00:54:07.550 --> 00:54:12.690
Vividly silver. Everything has a almost dreamlike

00:54:12.690 --> 00:54:17.190
cast. It's not an unfamiliar sensation if this

00:54:17.190 --> 00:54:19.989
is what it's like. Sometimes these visions, the

00:54:19.989 --> 00:54:22.309
strong ones, the ones that resemble a future,

00:54:22.409 --> 00:54:29.159
dangerous and true. And inevitable. But nothing's

00:54:29.159 --> 00:54:32.300
changed. You look around and you see the meadow

00:54:32.300 --> 00:54:35.380
stretching on and on. All under the silver light

00:54:35.380 --> 00:54:39.079
of this moon that's just too bright. Almost malignant

00:54:39.079 --> 00:54:42.880
as it just pours down on you with some kind of

00:54:42.880 --> 00:54:46.079
gravity that wants to push you deeper down into

00:54:46.079 --> 00:54:50.420
the soil. You're shaking. Because you know something's

00:54:50.420 --> 00:54:55.179
wrong and you don't see what it is. Jules. All

00:54:55.179 --> 00:54:57.800
you see is Salome kind of suddenly stopping and

00:54:57.800 --> 00:55:02.179
looking very nervous, very awkward. Do you do

00:55:02.179 --> 00:55:05.739
anything? Yeah, he'll stop. And he'll walk up

00:55:05.739 --> 00:55:09.699
to her. And he'll grab her shoulders. You okay?

00:55:10.900 --> 00:55:14.659
Hands. Grab your shoulder, Salome. You hear that

00:55:14.659 --> 00:55:17.900
voice in your mind. The hands that touch you

00:55:17.900 --> 00:55:22.039
as you look to see them are black and necrotic.

00:55:22.920 --> 00:55:29.840
Both. You turn to regard Jules LaRoche and realize

00:55:29.840 --> 00:55:35.639
something has changed. Jeremy, once you described

00:55:35.639 --> 00:55:37.460
for me the look of corruption covering Jules'

00:55:37.599 --> 00:55:41.800
hand, now I would like you to describe for me

00:55:41.800 --> 00:55:45.480
what it will look like when you have fallen,

00:55:45.639 --> 00:55:50.159
when you have become fully corrupted and taken.

00:55:51.059 --> 00:55:55.239
What does Jules... the demon avatar of the horned

00:55:55.239 --> 00:55:59.579
lord look like? Jesus Christ. You're supposed

00:55:59.579 --> 00:56:03.880
to warn me about this so I can put something

00:56:03.880 --> 00:56:09.400
together. Goddamn. You and your sick mind. Beauty

00:56:09.400 --> 00:56:13.519
of improv. You can only think about this kind

00:56:13.519 --> 00:56:14.880
of thing when you're sick, right? I think if

00:56:14.880 --> 00:56:17.059
we're looking, yeah. Give me some flu, fever

00:56:17.059 --> 00:56:20.880
dream bullshit here. His skin, everything turns

00:56:20.880 --> 00:56:25.449
black. and his skin starts melting off. Oh, God.

00:56:26.070 --> 00:56:29.590
And it goes all the way down to his bones, and

00:56:29.590 --> 00:56:31.510
as it gets to the last little bit, everything

00:56:31.510 --> 00:56:39.369
kind of catches fire. He got himself. Yeah. Don't

00:56:39.369 --> 00:56:41.469
forget about the respiratory illness. And it

00:56:41.469 --> 00:56:43.570
just kind of scorches the rest of the skin that's

00:56:43.570 --> 00:56:45.769
on his bones. Holy shit. And what's left is just

00:56:45.769 --> 00:56:50.150
black, smoldering bones with embers and ashes

00:56:50.150 --> 00:56:53.230
all over them. And his head is... Have you ever

00:56:53.230 --> 00:56:56.610
watched Tales from the Crypt? No. Sure. Yeah,

00:56:56.750 --> 00:56:59.010
that guy. The Crypt Keeper? The Crypt Keeper.

00:56:59.090 --> 00:57:02.829
His head is very much like a dead thing with

00:57:02.829 --> 00:57:08.349
stringy hair sticking out everywhere. If I may

00:57:08.349 --> 00:57:15.329
add one small detail, we see the bones of your

00:57:15.329 --> 00:57:18.610
skull begin to rise up at two points as two...

00:57:19.880 --> 00:57:25.239
curved horns indicative of a very dangerous god

00:57:25.239 --> 00:57:31.260
rise up gleaming in the silver light. You were

00:57:31.260 --> 00:57:33.579
a part of the battle for anchor in Sengar Salome.

00:57:33.699 --> 00:57:37.039
You watched as Atash locked blades with a humanoid

00:57:37.039 --> 00:57:41.340
being of immense power. An avatar of Zolmateshav.

00:57:41.940 --> 00:57:44.920
You don't know who this previous avatar was before

00:57:44.920 --> 00:57:48.519
the possession and transformation. I don't believe

00:57:48.519 --> 00:57:52.039
anybody who lives in these worlds now does, perhaps

00:57:52.039 --> 00:57:59.059
Calypsania, but you did see the figure post -transformation,

00:57:59.179 --> 00:58:02.880
and they look so much like this premonition of

00:58:02.880 --> 00:58:07.860
Jules. But you take in this figure, eyes wide

00:58:07.860 --> 00:58:13.019
with horror at the inevitable future. What does

00:58:13.019 --> 00:58:17.610
our concerned Jules continue saying? Hmm? Just

00:58:17.610 --> 00:58:19.469
give me some cool lines to come out on. You know,

00:58:19.469 --> 00:58:21.150
like, hey, you okay? You okay? You know, because

00:58:21.150 --> 00:58:22.730
you were starting saying that. I don't know,

00:58:22.750 --> 00:58:25.610
like, just imagine, just cinematic, boom. You

00:58:25.610 --> 00:58:27.050
know, Salome's staring at you, and you're just

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kind of talking. Just give us a cool outline.

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Well, I was going to take her hand and put it

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onto him. Do it. All right, yeah. And Jules takes

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Salome's hand into his hand. Salome. Hopefully

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being able to see what she's seeing. And Salome

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says, very quietly, Jules might only even notice

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that she's saying anything if he watches her

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mouth. And she says, Jules, your horns. And we'll

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call it there.