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Hey, Pants people, if you love the original music

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the Fantasy Pants podcast. I bet if you just

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search Fantasy Pants, it'll probably come up.

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Check it out. The recent incident in Calipan

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was a frightful thing. I think we can all agree

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on that, right? And though our celestial protectors

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have seen the losses brought down to the minimum

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possible, there is yet a dark shadow that looms

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over the whole solar affair. A shadow felt all

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day long on all of our worlds. The shadow of

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Ozu Yoshikatsu, of the Storm Eye. The greatest

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evil to ever grace our worlds, who used impossible

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magics to bring the Keening Blues to bear over

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Tythos and Oizu? Could he have used that same

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power to take control of the legendary Storm

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Serpent that led the attack against Galapagos?

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I don't know, but he does have this power. And

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where? Where did he learn to wield this power?

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I mean, obviously, right? Obviously, from the

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Dawn Incarnates. Just like with Prejolay Brass

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before, the Dawn Incarnates must have imported

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dark and powerful secrets onto their servant

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and sent him forth to destroy our world. Perhaps

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I can explain the dragon's screeching roar over

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the city of Kalapag. Save Jules? The conquered

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Jules? Was the last Mokunawa of the Serpentine

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world fighting against Ozen's control? Was it

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trying to warn us against another fall into the

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gloom? We can't confirm any of this, of course,

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but... We do know this. We know that Ozen Yoshikatsu

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is out there somewhere. Unless we put our faith...

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Did I understand that right? That's some natural

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one horse shit right there. What? What? What?

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What are you talking about? That's horse shit.

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Yeah. Yeah. You have proof? I mean, I've got

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Ozen's blade. Is that proof? It's proof that

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you have the blade. It's funny, the armor. I

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didn't scalp him. Whatever happened to the armor?

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That's right, you got rid of it. You burial at

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seed Ozen's body in his armor, if I remember

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correctly. Did you just make the term burial

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at sea a verb? Yes, which is strange because

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that armor lies before you all now, it seems,

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at least a fragment of it. What's going on there?

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What's happening here on this world? Wait. What?

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I have a thing before we start. Same. I don't

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care about your thing. You have a thing too?

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Well, no, I just have more of a question. Yeah,

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you go first. Hell yeah. What's going on? Does

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Rune think that the Bacchanal was talking about

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the conquered jewels and not Jules LaRoche? It's

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propaganda. That's out there. It's natural one

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horseshit. Is it propaganda? Or, I mean, what's

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more likely? A thing yells about jewels. Is it

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Jules who? Everyone else knows. It's not on that

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world. No one thinks you're there. That's true.

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Or Jules, the common phrase for the conquered

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jewels that are this all -encompassing, very

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important sort of societal force. i think i think

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i kind of was honestly this is just kind of me

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trying to explain away like what would everyone

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think when they heard that yeah and i kind of

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like clocked the i don't know i mean i'm not

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i'm not asking because i don't think it really

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holds that much significance it's just kind of

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these are like it yeah yeah it's it's like the

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weird little nitpicks i do to myself i think

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back and i'm like someone's gonna be like hey

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david you know clearly you think about this and

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it's like we did oh i did steven you fucker hey

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i thought what do you guys do i don't know Say

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your piece and shut up. Wow. What do you guys

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think this is? What is that? Oh, I know. I know.

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But I'm going to let you reveal. These are the

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keys. What? To our very own. What? Fantasy pants.

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What? Post office box. Hit the man time. Hit

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the man time. Man time. Mail time eventually.

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When you send mail. Official mail time. Official

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mail time. There's no actual mail yet because

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I just opened the P .O. box. But yeah, I figured

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we should have a central place to send mail since

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the address that the Pants People used to have

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for Jeremy is no longer Jeremy's address. Correct.

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And the address that the Pants People had for

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me is no longer my address. So it was like. what

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if we did one central thing that we could kind

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of all access easily and blah, blah, blah, blah,

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blah. I mean, it's kind of surprising. We just

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didn't do that from the start. Yeah. Yeah. It's

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so cool. It's so official. Yeah. It's super official.

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Right. If you want to be the first person to

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send shit, like giving away prizes for the first

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letter we get. Yes. You get a button, you get

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a kiss. And a kiss. We're going to blow you a

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kiss. We'll mail it to you. To your P .O. Box.

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But I guess I can tell you where to mail it,

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right? Yeah. Yeah. It's P .O. Box 323. Ooh. P

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.O. Box 323. I like that. In Bethlehem, New Hampshire,

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03574. Nice. Yeah. I like that number. It's a

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good number. I like it. For a second, I thought

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you were going to go 321, and then I was like,

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holy shit. Oh, dude, that would have been wild,

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right? It'll be wild. Yeah. Yeah. We're repping

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the 3 -2 -3. That took a drink of water. Somebody

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Google what 3 -2 -3 area code is. Oh, sure. Where

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is it? Who do you want to know? We're taking

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it over. To what island? Oh, God. All right.

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Sorry. Now we can get back to playing the game,

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but I was excited. Back into the game? Back into

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the game. That's exciting news, though. It's

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exciting. Right? Central Los Angeles. Oh, no,

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no, no, no, no. I don't want to make like, I

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don't want to try to take anybody's. No. Yeah.

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Yeah. It's the, it's the neighborhoods such as

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Hollywood, downtown LA, Silver Lake and Echo

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Park. Oh, where we belong, baby. Oh, we're famous.

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We're famous now. Well, hold on. What gangs roll

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in that territory though? I don't think any gangs.

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Silver Lake and Echo Park are pretty cool. The

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Panthers pretty soon. So does that mean that

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we have no competition? Just the shirters. Come

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on. Just the what? The shirters. The shirters?

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Or the pantsers. Oh, God. We'll just call up

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the aldermen of those areas. Like, hey, these

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are our streets now. Yeah, we're moving in. Yeah.

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You guys want to play some games? Yes. Yeah,

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let's do it. I'm so pumped. This has been a lot

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of fun. One thing I love, we didn't really talk

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about this in the last two episodes, but one

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thing I love is I wanted to have this whole duality

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thing going with these two arcs, right? One's

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theater of the mind, one as we are. involved

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now is pure map you know uh dungeon crawl and

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what's really cool about that is we have this

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like the two settings are also so different you

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have the stormy uh archipelago right nice job

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i did it uh just rainy and it's almost like somber

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and you have this like bustling desert city state,

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gold -filled mountains all around, the dry heat

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bearing down on you. Just totally, totally different

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feels and settings for these totally, totally

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different arcs. I don't know. I'm really excited.

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In the book, these are two different arcs from

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the book, actually. Let's do a little unzipped

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now. I was going to say, I was like, save it

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for unzipped. Just a little bit. Just a little

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tiddly touch. A little taste. A teaser for 25,

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30... 50 episodes from now and we finish this

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shit. You said tiddly touch, but not tickle the

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balls. I'm going to tickle the balls right now.

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Tickle the balls next time. There you go. There

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you go. So the, the dialogue and arc is known

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as twisted roots. The sentinark is known as fools

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for golden princes. And I have in my notes, it's

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literally just called fools and roots. And I

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have two different, it's cool. Like I have the

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fools part of my notes with a big letter and

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I have the roots part of my notes. I'm kind of

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just jumping back and forth between the two of

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them. And it feels, it feels cool. I don't know.

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It's fun. I like it. I like the duality. I'm

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having a lot, I'm having a lot of fun with this.

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A lot of fun with the fact that my map right

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now is most of my notes for the fools storyline.

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Yeah, it's wild. It's cool. And let's get back

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in this dungeon crawl. We have so much, so much

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to see. You have brought light to the tiniest

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piece of this thing. And by now, I'll start putting

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this in the Discord, in the Battle Maps section.

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So check that out. It's going to get bigger and

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bigger. I'll be updating it constantly with this.

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Sweet. Hell yeah. A couple updates I just want

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to say to kind of help paint the scene. We discussed

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these... academy sort of features it's kind of

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this hardened carved mud made structure with

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sort of gilding all around it and uh we have

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the ceilings are about 30 feet high in most places

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very high ceilings this enormous palace of a

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structure the room you're standing in now is

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about uh 40 foot by 30 foot a lot of the rooms

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seem to fall around this category of these classrooms

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and I will note that there is a strip of arcane

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light that hugs the top of each wall throughout

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the school. So typically, wherever you go is

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going to be well lit. It's not some dark academy.

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It's like, but it's almost like, to me, I think

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it's almost more unsettling. Imagine you walk

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into a dark school that's totally shut down,

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right? Isn't it weird to walk into a school where

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all the lights are on, but nobody's home? I would

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be more comfortable with that than a dark one.

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I think it's comfortable, but there's something

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wrong with it because you look around and there's

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that feeling of... There should be something

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here. There should be laughing and cheering,

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you know, kids. I mean, this is a college for,

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I think, I imagine being like 16 to age 16 to

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20 are typically who's going to be in this school.

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So you'd have just like young people running

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about, you know, learning their life lessons,

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taking their first steps into adulthood and maturity

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and just dead silence. Instead, there's an arm

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on the table. An arm on the table. Akio. Look!

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Master Blanche! Look! We got rid of it! But it's

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Ozen's! A gauntlet and a vambrace. Black steel

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forged into the distinct style of the Umizen

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samurai. Blanche, you would know this armored

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piece would be called a kote on its homeworld.

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Dark gray leather covered over by interconnected

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plates of sleek metal. You can clearly see, raised

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against the surface of the back of the gauntlet,

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two letters followed by a single number. AG6.

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Oh, dude. Is that like the one? Dude. I remember.

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Yeah, I remember. I feel like this arc is so

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perfectly designed to be the ultimate PTSD flashback

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for Dresden and Blanche specifically. We'll get

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more into that. You can also see very clearly.

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I imagine, I should ask, are you, are you? We

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left it off with you kind of moving a little

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closer, I believe. Are you moving up to, like,

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look at this thing? Are you? Yeah, Blanche is

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going to put on her goggles, her do -do -do -do

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-do -do -do. Eyes of minute seeing. Eyes of minute

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seeing, yes. Which you took from Itzman Del Prado,

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the creator of the AG5. So I'd like to investigate.

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Okay. Give me that. Oof. Oh, yeah. That's a 23.

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Okay. I'll give you the obvious first, and I'll

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kind of expand from there. As you go over, you

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can see very clearly that a complex magical inscription

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covers the inside of these plates. And you can

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see this because someone has been taking this

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armored arm apart. Tickering tools line the counter,

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a few more spread across the workshop floor.

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You see a forearm plate has been pulled up from

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the leather sleeve beneath it, a small pointed

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silver tool resting against it. Would you have

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proficiency in any kind of magical sort of tinkering

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tool? I don't know if you'd know what an arcano

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cutter would be, but... Not under my tools under

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proficiency, no. Needless to say, you see a tool

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that's been used to sort of dismantle this thing.

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You see a notebook sits beside the arm. A great

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number of pages have been torn violently from

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it and spread across the floor along with a broken

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quill. The black ink drips from the sandy southern

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wall where a bottle was smashed. And by some

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working of chance, the plot looks like a long,

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screaming face. But maybe that's just my take

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on this imaginary Rorschach test. Steven probably

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sees a penis. Did you write that? Sounds like

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you were reading that. I did write that. I was

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proud of that one. You are looking. With your

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eyes minutely seeing, what do you want to look

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at? You see the arm. A lot of what's here is

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pretty clear. You see there's pages all over

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the floor. One of them looks like it's smaller,

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crumpled. Do you want to examine the arm closer?

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Do you want to examine the pages around? What

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do you want to look at? Well, I want to do both.

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I want to... Well, you can't. This room blows

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up in five seconds! First, I want to examine

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the pages. I can... hopefully get the group's

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help to, to put them back in order. And the,

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the lens metaphorically, the lens that I'm looking

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through is like, is this something that somebody

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like maybe Dresden could like slip their arm

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into and enhance their ability? Oh, Oh, okay.

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That is interesting. Dresden goes up and tries

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to put his arm in it. Bad time to take a sip.

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We almost had a spit tank. Oh, shit. Do you actually?

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No. Okay, make sure. Let's put the notes together

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first. So you reach down, you're starting to

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grab the notes, putting them together, and as

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you're, like, flipping these over, perhaps, like,

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scanning them as you're going, you just see that

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these notes here are scrawled in this sort of

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large, awkward print. Many points on the page

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have been torn where too much pressure was placed

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on the writing quill. Let me take that again.

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Fuck! Leave it in. Shut up! You see, it's strange,

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right? This is like... An almost childlike script,

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just all scribbled in huge, swooping hand. Too

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much pressure, too much strength put through

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the paper, except the scripture itself is just

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extremely complicated notes taken from an analysis

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of that armor piece. You can see all the various

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scriptures on the inside sort of banding around.

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It has been sort of rewritten here with various

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notations that perhaps, as a wizard, you might

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be able to make out and somewhat understand with

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an arcana. to check oh yeah but as you're before

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you take that check there's one other thing you

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do see i mentioned that crumpled up paper you

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see on the floor and you kind of reach that and

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you immediately feel it and it's not the same

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material something firmer as you kind of unfold

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it you see it's a diamond taken photograph You

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immediately recognize the jockish Prince Symbone,

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grinning wide and carrying a halfling girl on

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his shoulders. See, her skin is a light tan,

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and she has black hair and two tails hanging

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over her shoulders. There are wide -rimmed glasses

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resting on her butt and nose. Though she has

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posed with arms crossed and a childish pelt,

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there's just no mistake in the smile fighting

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to break out on her face. And on the back, you

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see, there is a little bit of writing. Much more

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neat writing. Me and my idiot. The O of the word

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idiot has been turned to a goofy, stylistic,

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smiley face. What was her name again? He referred

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to her as Z. Z, right. I believe if he said the

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full name, I'm pretty sure he did, that would

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be Song Wenzi. Blanche will show the picture

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around. This is Z. I can't imagine that she's

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anything but innocent in all of this. Let's keep

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an eye out for her and the rest of the top five,

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whatever they were called. And so you pocket

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the picture? Throw it away? Burn it? No, she'll

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hold on to the photo. Hell yeah. What happened

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here? What happened to Z? Why are these students

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still here? Right, and why was the photo crumbled

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up and thrown on the ground? That's something

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that somebody would do when they're upset. And

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you look around this room, pages ripped out and

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thrown on the floor, a bottle of ink smashed,

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a quill snapped. Someone was upset in here. Right,

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but why the picture? Why the picture? Why, indeed.

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You begin to take the pages, put them together.

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This is going to take you some time to read through.

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Are you willing to spend maybe 30 minutes in

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this room? What do you think? Fuck. No. No? Can

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we skip to... Maybe doing the Arcana check on

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the armor first. That will take some time as

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well, but it will take less. Honestly, I would

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say the notes might be easier in some ways to

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gather information from because it's taken what's

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essentially the cylindrical scripture written

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all around the inside. You can pick up with your

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eyes of a new seeing, but on the notes, they're

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already kind of like annotated and someone who

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clearly knows artificery has broken down the

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main points for you. It just takes time to sort

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of put this together and read through what's

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honestly also just pretty rough handwriting.

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I mean, do we split up and try to do it that

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way? Oh, God. You could do that. I like that.

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Even just like close by? Yeah. Do we just take

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the full -ass time? Oh, I like this a lot. Well,

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a part of me thinks that maybe Blanche should

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start reading a little bit and then Dresden.

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we'll just kind of walk to the hallway and just

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go down a little bit, you know, still, still

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within close distance. Voice reach. Yeah. Yeah.

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Voice reach. That makes sense. That makes sense.

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I know what you mean. So close enough where they

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can, they don't have to yell. Sure. They can

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still just kind of talk in a loud voice and hear

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each other. Hey friends, editor Jeremy here.

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Earshot. That's the term I was looking for. Fucking

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earshot. Yeah. Hell yeah. I think that's the

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plan. I think as Blanche goes to, Put these papers

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together. Akio is kind of moving in, helping

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but not helping, kind of shoving with his nose

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some papers towards you and kind of sniffing

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around the room. And there's a somber air to

00:19:35.319 --> 00:19:39.000
him. He just keeps glancing over at the vambrace,

00:19:39.019 --> 00:19:42.920
the gauntlet, and just puttering back and forth.

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Jaune sees Dresden moving out. Dresden, I'll

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be by your side. And as you step out into the

00:19:51.779 --> 00:19:57.980
hall, let's... Follow our warriors, Dresden and

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Jaune. You guys are pushing southwards. You are

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in the sort of now the long bar of the T, and

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you see as you go down south, the hallway kind

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of opens up into sort of a small sort of cube.

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As you step lower, you see, surprise, surprise,

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more doors. Whoa. Three of them, in fact. What

00:20:20.359 --> 00:20:23.299
a fun house this is. Fucking love doors. You

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see one hallway on the western wall and two directly

00:20:28.160 --> 00:20:30.779
on the southern wall of this long hall you step

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down. Okay. Dresden will go down to this door.

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And then he'll nod over to Jean Franklin to go

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down to this door. And then he will, with his

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hands, go one, two. And then they both open the

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door at the same time. Before the doors open,

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can we see what's down the other hall? Because

00:20:52.549 --> 00:20:54.769
when Dresden went down here. That's true. Yeah,

00:20:54.930 --> 00:20:57.769
good point. Thank you. Thank you. As Dresden

00:20:57.769 --> 00:20:59.910
reaches the end of the hall, you see next to

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one of those doors. Another door. Another long

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hallway. You also see what looks like a number

00:21:03.990 --> 00:21:07.430
of free work tables, just these four long tables,

00:21:07.549 --> 00:21:10.130
chairs all down them. Again, a place where you

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can just imagine being filled with students all

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locked into their studies or personal projects.

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Okay, we need to be careful going this way because

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now we're starting to wiggle our way towards

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the front entrance. where all the commotion is

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happening and where everybody is. I will say

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the commotion that was there before is gone.

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Okay. But there's still a lot of guards at the

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front entrance. I don't want to fuck with getting

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anywhere near that. Yeah. Okay. So yeah, it still

00:21:35.910 --> 00:21:38.029
stands. We both open the doors at the same time.

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We don't go in. We just open them. Jaune, push

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the door in. It's magic stuff. Spell supplies?

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I don't... He kind of looks into this room, and

00:21:50.710 --> 00:21:52.789
that's all he really says. You can't see in there.

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You don't know what's going on. Sure. You open

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your door, and you're staring at some kind of

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office. You see a number of, like, interesting

00:22:03.769 --> 00:22:05.750
works of artificery, kind of just, like, small,

00:22:05.869 --> 00:22:09.069
almost prototype contraptions, unfinished, lining

00:22:09.069 --> 00:22:11.789
a back wall. You see, like, there's an actual

00:22:11.789 --> 00:22:16.329
kind of chair and desk right by the doorway.

00:22:17.820 --> 00:22:19.720
The desk itself just has a number of like, just

00:22:19.720 --> 00:22:22.299
looks like, what's the word I'm looking for?

00:22:24.900 --> 00:22:28.680
Prototype scriptures. Like blueprints? Blueprints,

00:22:28.700 --> 00:22:30.240
thank you. Semantics? Semantics, blueprints,

00:22:30.240 --> 00:22:32.420
those are both great words. Cool. No button for

00:22:32.420 --> 00:22:33.960
you though. Fuck you. Because it took too long.

00:22:34.039 --> 00:22:36.640
Fuck you. It just took too long. You see a number

00:22:36.640 --> 00:22:39.359
of schematics kind of piled up on this desk.

00:22:40.059 --> 00:22:43.240
You do see, too, on the desk, there is one interesting

00:22:43.240 --> 00:22:46.740
thing. A dagger is just jutting up from the wood.

00:22:47.940 --> 00:22:50.859
Interesting dagger. It's got this, it's silver.

00:22:51.420 --> 00:22:55.240
There's a black pearl just, like, molded into

00:22:55.240 --> 00:23:00.680
the grip of it. It's kind of cool. Okay. Is there

00:23:00.680 --> 00:23:03.039
anything that it's stabbed to? Is there a note

00:23:03.039 --> 00:23:06.740
or anything? I'd say it's right sort of beside

00:23:06.740 --> 00:23:09.589
all the other papers. Not disturbing them, but

00:23:09.589 --> 00:23:12.450
just kind of pressed in almost proudly into a

00:23:12.450 --> 00:23:14.750
slot. Not like it was jammed in roughly, but

00:23:14.750 --> 00:23:16.569
there's like a slot on the desk where this thing

00:23:16.569 --> 00:23:21.029
looks to be almost displayed. Huh. The slot carved.

00:23:22.049 --> 00:23:26.470
Okay. Would an investigation check get me anything?

00:23:26.789 --> 00:23:33.950
Yeah. Okay. I mean, a good one. Yeah. Yeah. 11.

00:23:34.509 --> 00:23:37.769
With an 11? Yeah. I will say. There is magical

00:23:37.769 --> 00:23:39.769
inscription on this dagger. It is a magical dagger

00:23:39.769 --> 00:23:41.369
of some type. You don't know what the effect

00:23:41.369 --> 00:23:44.269
is. You don't know what it does. But maybe Blanche

00:23:44.269 --> 00:23:48.529
will. Yeah. Okay. Dresden is going to manifest

00:23:48.529 --> 00:23:52.670
his echo at the dagger. Yep. And the echo will

00:23:52.670 --> 00:23:57.950
take the dagger out of the slot. Nothing happens.

00:23:58.450 --> 00:24:01.609
He's holding the dagger. He's going to command

00:24:01.609 --> 00:24:04.430
the echo to put it in the... Can the dagger wiggle

00:24:04.430 --> 00:24:07.059
in the slot? It's pretty firmly in place. It's

00:24:07.059 --> 00:24:09.619
pretty firmly in place. Okay. It's carved perfectly

00:24:09.619 --> 00:24:12.960
to fit it. Okay. So in that case, the echo will

00:24:12.960 --> 00:24:16.319
continue holding the dagger. You rolled investigation

00:24:16.319 --> 00:24:18.019
on the dagger. Do you want to investigate anything

00:24:18.019 --> 00:24:20.380
else in here? What was up against the back wall

00:24:20.380 --> 00:24:23.019
there? Uh, just number of, it looks like unfinished

00:24:23.019 --> 00:24:25.940
prototype. Uh, just kind of like, like, like

00:24:25.940 --> 00:24:28.480
almost like it looks like pieces of armor, pieces

00:24:28.480 --> 00:24:31.059
of some larger projects, some, some weird half

00:24:31.059 --> 00:24:33.839
circle and metal with like bands of, of, uh,

00:24:33.980 --> 00:24:36.460
crystal dust kind of solidified along it. And

00:24:36.460 --> 00:24:37.920
it looks like it doesn't really do anything.

00:24:38.019 --> 00:24:39.660
It's not, but maybe it was supposed to be a part

00:24:39.660 --> 00:24:41.359
of something larger. If you look at the, the,

00:24:41.359 --> 00:24:43.460
the schematics, you might see that exact thing,

00:24:43.599 --> 00:24:47.160
uh, popping out amongst many other pieces. Okay.

00:24:47.740 --> 00:24:49.339
Can I just roll a general check for the room?

00:24:49.820 --> 00:24:54.279
Yeah, absolutely. That one was even worse. That's

00:24:54.279 --> 00:24:57.579
a seven. It's not going to do shit. When we're

00:24:57.579 --> 00:24:59.000
doing this sort of thing, too, I will allow you

00:24:59.000 --> 00:25:02.640
to take time. If you take 20 full minutes while

00:25:02.640 --> 00:25:04.500
Blanche is doing her thing, you could get a decent

00:25:04.500 --> 00:25:06.859
look. Yeah, he's going to call Jean over, though,

00:25:06.920 --> 00:25:09.279
before he goes in and does this. They're going

00:25:09.279 --> 00:25:12.400
to do this together. Hell yeah. I will say Jean

00:25:12.400 --> 00:25:15.000
was in the room for a moment. He walks out with

00:25:15.000 --> 00:25:18.140
a number of, like, a few pouches of various things.

00:25:18.200 --> 00:25:20.279
He has a few vials of, like, different colored

00:25:20.279 --> 00:25:23.839
inks. He's like, I've seen Sat use these for

00:25:23.839 --> 00:25:26.940
inscribing things in a book. Might be useful.

00:25:27.539 --> 00:25:30.079
Kind of tucks it away. He's going to help you.

00:25:30.140 --> 00:25:32.819
He's helping you out. No, does he not know what

00:25:32.819 --> 00:25:35.089
ink is? He doesn't know what magical things are.

00:25:35.089 --> 00:25:37.309
Is he not literate? I'm going to tell you, what

00:25:37.309 --> 00:25:40.170
Jaune found in that room would be about 200 golds

00:25:40.170 --> 00:25:42.710
worth of wizard supplies you could use. Oh, shoot.

00:25:43.069 --> 00:25:44.509
You know, you just spend a certain amount of

00:25:44.509 --> 00:25:46.809
money to take spells. Yeah, I do. This would

00:25:46.809 --> 00:25:49.150
be specifically for that. 200 gold count towards

00:25:49.150 --> 00:25:52.410
that. I'll give it to you. Jaune's not an idiot.

00:25:52.509 --> 00:25:53.849
He can help you with that. He's seen you do your

00:25:53.849 --> 00:25:57.359
thing. You take your time. Yeah. moving through

00:25:57.359 --> 00:25:59.220
this room and again you just moving these schematics

00:25:59.220 --> 00:26:01.440
you see a lot of interesting like ideas for like

00:26:01.440 --> 00:26:04.059
magical items uh uh you know it looks like they're

00:26:04.059 --> 00:26:05.680
trying to create their own sort of animated shield

00:26:05.680 --> 00:26:09.259
much like the one jean has uh you see like like

00:26:09.259 --> 00:26:11.579
almost like uh there's probably a page that has

00:26:11.579 --> 00:26:13.759
something very similar to the apparatus of the

00:26:13.759 --> 00:26:18.539
crab that you once piloted in uh in umizu I was

00:26:18.539 --> 00:26:19.839
just going to say, it's still on my sheet. Whatever

00:26:19.839 --> 00:26:22.640
happened to that? It's gone. I was going to whip

00:26:22.640 --> 00:26:25.359
it out. Got whomped on. Just carrying it in your

00:26:25.359 --> 00:26:27.180
back pocket. Yeah, exactly. You do have a T -Rex

00:26:27.180 --> 00:26:28.700
in your pocket, I'll remind you. That's true.

00:26:29.000 --> 00:26:32.220
Jaune does, at least. And what you do find, though,

00:26:32.299 --> 00:26:33.700
as you're going through the stack, is there's

00:26:33.700 --> 00:26:36.119
one thing that matches an item that is fully

00:26:36.119 --> 00:26:42.099
complete that you have. You see a sheet, a schematic

00:26:42.099 --> 00:26:46.670
for a dagger of blindsight. Shit. A dagger. That

00:26:46.670 --> 00:26:48.529
does not sound good right now. No, that's great.

00:26:48.730 --> 00:26:50.349
No, it's actually pretty cool. What this does

00:26:50.349 --> 00:26:54.029
is if you are to attune to this dagger, quite

00:26:54.029 --> 00:26:56.109
simply, just by attuning to it, you don't need

00:26:56.109 --> 00:26:58.009
to draw it out as long as it's on your person

00:26:58.009 --> 00:26:59.869
somewhere. You could be sheathed as long as you've

00:26:59.869 --> 00:27:01.970
attuned to this dagger. Essentially, the magic

00:27:01.970 --> 00:27:04.869
is more placed in the black pearl set in the

00:27:04.869 --> 00:27:08.319
pommel. you would gain blind sight out to a range

00:27:08.319 --> 00:27:11.960
of 30 feet, which means you can see when blinded.

00:27:11.960 --> 00:27:14.500
You can see when you're in obscuring, like heavy

00:27:14.500 --> 00:27:16.119
mist or anything like that. You would just be

00:27:16.119 --> 00:27:18.920
able to see in darkness. 30 feet? 30 feet, you

00:27:18.920 --> 00:27:20.680
would see everything going on around. Isn't normal

00:27:20.680 --> 00:27:24.960
blind sight like 10 feet? It's very cool. That

00:27:24.960 --> 00:27:28.920
is... Whoa. Bonkers. It's a very cool thing.

00:27:29.259 --> 00:27:32.539
You could see why it was so proudly placed upon

00:27:32.539 --> 00:27:35.019
this desk. Yeah. The sort of the first sort of

00:27:35.019 --> 00:27:37.819
master craft of this, whoever this office belonged

00:27:37.819 --> 00:27:39.880
to, probably the instructor in artificery here.

00:27:40.059 --> 00:27:45.380
Woof. I think that would be enough time at this

00:27:45.380 --> 00:27:47.480
point that Blanche, you've probably just about

00:27:47.480 --> 00:27:50.140
finished your work since you took your time to

00:27:50.140 --> 00:27:52.359
go through the room reading all that. You've

00:27:52.359 --> 00:27:55.779
put these pages together. And I'll tell you what

00:27:55.779 --> 00:27:59.779
you know. As you would expect, this armor piece

00:27:59.779 --> 00:28:04.559
belongs to some kind of automaton, much like

00:28:04.559 --> 00:28:10.579
the AG -5s, the 3s and 4s, all the armored guard

00:28:10.579 --> 00:28:13.460
units you saw in Saint -Étienne. This one's a

00:28:13.460 --> 00:28:15.720
little different. You're reading through and

00:28:15.720 --> 00:28:18.099
you see that just what you know from the hand,

00:28:18.240 --> 00:28:21.099
the dexterity gifted by this incredible script

00:28:21.099 --> 00:28:23.299
looks to be f***ed. far, far beyond what you

00:28:23.299 --> 00:28:24.980
remember from the AG -5s and Sansation. It's

00:28:24.980 --> 00:28:27.180
just the hands are much more dexterous, capable

00:28:27.180 --> 00:28:31.059
of more fine -tuned and quick movements. You

00:28:31.059 --> 00:28:33.420
also see that this arm has been crafted to act

00:28:33.420 --> 00:28:35.900
as some kind of arcane focus, and that's what

00:28:35.900 --> 00:28:37.720
you can tell. Basically, it doesn't really give

00:28:37.720 --> 00:28:40.079
any combat bonuses, but you could wear it and

00:28:40.079 --> 00:28:44.420
use it as an arcane focus. Whoa. Pull me an Arcana

00:28:44.420 --> 00:28:51.200
check. Don't fuck this up, Blanche. Ho, ho, ho!

00:28:51.369 --> 00:28:57.869
pretty good 28 oh my god okay there's something

00:28:57.869 --> 00:28:59.910
that even the uh you're looking at like notes

00:28:59.910 --> 00:29:02.470
and even the writer was confused about what exactly

00:29:02.470 --> 00:29:04.730
these pieces meant i think there was like like

00:29:04.730 --> 00:29:06.569
some theory crafting uh written in kind of the

00:29:06.569 --> 00:29:09.309
the the the the you know top parts of the page

00:29:09.309 --> 00:29:11.730
and kind of scrawled around the actual sort of

00:29:11.730 --> 00:29:14.049
rewrites of the inscriptions. But as you're looking

00:29:14.049 --> 00:29:17.549
at this, you're looking at these particular inscriptions

00:29:17.549 --> 00:29:19.809
of conjuration and abjuration, the way they're

00:29:19.809 --> 00:29:22.890
woven together, and you're seeing something that

00:29:22.890 --> 00:29:24.789
maybe even the writer of these notes did not

00:29:24.789 --> 00:29:27.970
see, that these particular bits of the script

00:29:27.970 --> 00:29:31.069
are meant to trap something within the shell

00:29:31.069 --> 00:29:34.089
of the armor. Now, whatever that something is,

00:29:34.839 --> 00:29:37.480
You can see it is gone from this piece. The inscription

00:29:37.480 --> 00:29:41.279
is now inert. But put together, it would have

00:29:41.279 --> 00:29:45.619
been incredibly, incredibly strong. Binding something

00:29:45.619 --> 00:29:49.079
to the metal. But that's all you can tell from

00:29:49.079 --> 00:29:53.019
the arm. I mean, probably the sapphire binding

00:29:53.019 --> 00:29:54.559
Ozen's body, right? That's my first thought,

00:29:54.660 --> 00:29:58.140
yeah. I will say this too, actually. You rolled

00:29:58.140 --> 00:30:03.180
really high there. This isn't Ozen's armor. It's

00:30:03.180 --> 00:30:07.509
crafted to look... exactly like it. Someone copied

00:30:07.509 --> 00:30:10.130
it perfectly, but this is newer. Oh, the 5. The

00:30:10.130 --> 00:30:13.089
plate is new. The AG6, though. Kids. They're

00:30:13.089 --> 00:30:15.990
putting the kids in the armor. Is that what you

00:30:15.990 --> 00:30:21.329
think? It's almost obvious now. Can Blanche study

00:30:21.329 --> 00:30:26.250
it in any way? Or from the time she spent studying,

00:30:26.430 --> 00:30:31.869
can she see any way to reverse engineer it? To

00:30:31.869 --> 00:30:36.500
deactivate it? Any sort of weakness, like to

00:30:36.500 --> 00:30:41.700
magically hack this armor, so to say? Man, I

00:30:41.700 --> 00:30:47.880
like this a lot. You cannot. But I want to give

00:30:47.880 --> 00:30:50.259
you something, because 28 is a very high roll.

00:30:51.000 --> 00:30:54.700
You had that thought. Is it the kids? Is it the

00:30:54.700 --> 00:30:58.450
five? Is it the kids? And you go back. And you're

00:30:58.450 --> 00:31:01.130
looking through and you go to the armor piece

00:31:01.130 --> 00:31:05.069
itself and your finger moving down. You see there

00:31:05.069 --> 00:31:09.710
was a spot of mist inscription carrying heavy

00:31:09.710 --> 00:31:15.109
implication. A touch of necromancy interwoven

00:31:15.109 --> 00:31:18.549
with the conjuration and abjuration. You realize

00:31:18.549 --> 00:31:22.009
what this thing is supposed to trap. A soul.

00:31:23.269 --> 00:31:26.869
Huh. Does Blanche feel like it would trap her

00:31:26.869 --> 00:31:31.410
soul if she put it on? No. It is broken. Okay.

00:31:31.509 --> 00:31:34.750
It would need to be full and whole to function.

00:31:35.890 --> 00:31:38.529
Whatever soul was trapped within this armor has

00:31:38.529 --> 00:31:43.329
passed on. You feel sure of that. But you have

00:31:43.329 --> 00:31:47.910
to wonder, where is the rest? Her right arm is

00:31:47.910 --> 00:31:52.430
her dominant arm, her sword arm. And her left

00:31:52.430 --> 00:31:55.460
arm, her casting arm. Is what you'll slide into

00:31:55.460 --> 00:32:01.720
the armor. You slide it in. It's large. But I

00:32:01.720 --> 00:32:03.960
imagine the proportions of a tortle are a little

00:32:03.960 --> 00:32:06.660
larger than that of... Like, you're short, but

00:32:06.660 --> 00:32:09.400
I imagine your actual hands... Yeah, you're stout.

00:32:09.440 --> 00:32:11.960
Your hands are a little bigger. I think, quite

00:32:11.960 --> 00:32:14.779
fittingly, this plate designed off of Ozen's

00:32:14.779 --> 00:32:17.339
own armor feels like it fits you like a glove.

00:32:18.640 --> 00:32:23.089
Nothing happens, but you feel... your magical

00:32:23.089 --> 00:32:25.150
sort of power welling up within it, and you realize

00:32:25.150 --> 00:32:30.670
you can cast spells using this gauntlet. Interesting.

00:32:31.490 --> 00:32:35.069
I don't know if it'll help, Akio, but I have

00:32:35.069 --> 00:32:40.009
a feeling. Let's regroup and continue. He's like

00:32:40.009 --> 00:32:42.490
looking at you for a long time, looks at the

00:32:42.490 --> 00:32:45.910
gauntlet you're wearing, and something just settles

00:32:45.910 --> 00:32:49.630
in his eyes. He gets up and... moves outside

00:32:49.630 --> 00:32:52.089
just as he's moving outside uh you two move outside

00:32:52.089 --> 00:32:55.009
imagine you're finishing up your investigations

00:32:55.009 --> 00:32:58.809
as well dresden and at this point i've taken

00:32:58.809 --> 00:33:04.329
the the uh dagger myself and i have the uh the

00:33:04.329 --> 00:33:07.450
inscriptions with me hell yeah and i'll just

00:33:07.450 --> 00:33:10.450
hand it to blanche not not the dagger but the

00:33:10.450 --> 00:33:12.750
inscription yeah hell yeah yeah so you guys can

00:33:12.750 --> 00:33:17.099
see though though and blanche is kind of um multitasking

00:33:17.099 --> 00:33:24.140
as she's scrolling, reading the page. She's passing

00:33:24.140 --> 00:33:29.559
off info to Dresden. The Amas designed when full

00:33:29.559 --> 00:33:36.140
to trap a soul. I have a hunch that maybe, maybe

00:33:36.140 --> 00:33:38.579
it's being used to trap the five, perhaps to

00:33:38.579 --> 00:33:42.619
use their magical powers against us, no doubt.

00:33:43.400 --> 00:33:48.680
I hope I'm wrong, but... It's evil. Evil magic.

00:33:49.819 --> 00:33:54.220
Sir, actually, I managed to gather some materials

00:33:54.220 --> 00:33:56.220
for you that I think you'll find quite useful

00:33:56.220 --> 00:33:58.380
while the dog was lazing about. Did you get anything

00:33:58.380 --> 00:34:04.180
for Master Blanche's dog? I did not, Roof! Master

00:34:04.180 --> 00:34:06.779
Blanche, I'm so sorry! Akio did exactly what

00:34:06.779 --> 00:34:10.639
I instructed him to do. Thank you, Jean. He hands

00:34:10.639 --> 00:34:14.210
you over the supplies. Uh... Blanche wants to

00:34:14.210 --> 00:34:16.949
check this last door that's between these two

00:34:16.949 --> 00:34:19.530
before we move on. Hell yeah. You have one last

00:34:19.530 --> 00:34:23.789
door at the end of the hallway. You open it up

00:34:23.789 --> 00:34:26.449
and you just see another smaller private workshop.

00:34:26.550 --> 00:34:30.309
Just a single table. Again, like walls filled

00:34:30.309 --> 00:34:32.889
with various artificery tools. Looks like someone

00:34:32.889 --> 00:34:34.869
could rent this out if they want to have a secret

00:34:34.869 --> 00:34:37.230
project. But this entire wing looks to be all

00:34:37.230 --> 00:34:42.380
artificery. Before we pass by... Blanche just

00:34:42.380 --> 00:34:45.920
wants to check to see if there's a name tag anywhere

00:34:45.920 --> 00:34:48.920
on this office where Dresden found the dagger,

00:34:49.119 --> 00:34:52.360
either on the desk or something. If there's something

00:34:52.360 --> 00:34:56.420
to say whose office this was. Yes. Or is, I guess.

00:34:57.400 --> 00:35:03.179
Office of Ross Cujo. Okay. Noted. I'm going to

00:35:03.179 --> 00:35:04.539
write that down because I made it up just now.

00:35:06.159 --> 00:35:11.889
So, not important. I know it's going to come

00:35:11.889 --> 00:35:16.050
up later on. I'm like, wait a minute. Yeah, what

00:35:16.050 --> 00:35:19.849
do you want to do now? Dresden, I'll watch your

00:35:19.849 --> 00:35:25.289
back. Shall we go to the next door? You have

00:35:25.289 --> 00:35:28.010
two options here. You can keep moving forward,

00:35:28.090 --> 00:35:30.369
keep moving towards the entrance, through the

00:35:30.369 --> 00:35:34.070
classrooms. Or that smell of magic and metal

00:35:34.070 --> 00:35:38.300
to the north. The door not opened. I don't know

00:35:38.300 --> 00:35:39.699
what we'll find further in, but I don't know

00:35:39.699 --> 00:35:42.860
that we're ready for that door. Yeah, I think

00:35:42.860 --> 00:35:46.039
Dresden will continue walking through this open

00:35:46.039 --> 00:35:48.840
space here. Okay. And as he passes the door,

00:35:48.840 --> 00:35:52.679
he'll just give it an open. As the door opens

00:35:52.679 --> 00:35:55.920
up, you just see this. sort of wide classroom.

00:35:56.199 --> 00:35:59.440
I say wide, but 30 by 30. You see there's chairs

00:35:59.440 --> 00:36:01.960
all down along the walls, all facing each other.

00:36:02.079 --> 00:36:05.860
And the sort of middle is like very open space.

00:36:07.019 --> 00:36:10.219
You see a number of like spell circles are lying

00:36:10.219 --> 00:36:12.480
in the middle of the room. At a glance, I'll

00:36:12.480 --> 00:36:16.639
say, Blanche, you can see a script based on the

00:36:16.639 --> 00:36:20.820
school of illusion in these circles to help sort

00:36:20.820 --> 00:36:24.369
of create more potent illusion work. You can

00:36:24.369 --> 00:36:26.949
tell this seems to be a class based on the School

00:36:26.949 --> 00:36:30.150
of Illusion. People would probably sit across

00:36:30.150 --> 00:36:32.650
each other from the room and be casting out,

00:36:32.710 --> 00:36:34.190
probably following the instruction of the teacher

00:36:34.190 --> 00:36:35.690
who would cast one thing, and then everyone would

00:36:35.690 --> 00:36:37.550
have to cast the same in their circles, precision

00:36:37.550 --> 00:36:41.329
and movement and all the fine details being their

00:36:41.329 --> 00:36:45.769
grade. All right. Nothing that warrants further

00:36:45.769 --> 00:36:48.590
investigation, though. Yeah. Nothing you see.

00:36:49.389 --> 00:36:51.650
Okay. Let's continue to the end of the hall.

00:36:52.809 --> 00:36:55.929
So you move all the way down to the end? Yeah,

00:36:56.010 --> 00:36:58.889
I think Dresden will peer around the corner first.

00:36:59.530 --> 00:37:03.170
As you go, you see the hall once again. The first

00:37:03.170 --> 00:37:06.809
T drops down, goes long past those work tables,

00:37:07.110 --> 00:37:11.309
and then opens up again into another elbow, pushing

00:37:11.309 --> 00:37:15.309
north to a wider hallway, 30 foot wide, with

00:37:15.309 --> 00:37:19.590
one door right across from you, one door just

00:37:19.590 --> 00:37:22.869
north of you, another door north of that. A door

00:37:22.869 --> 00:37:24.630
across from that and a door at the very top.

00:37:24.730 --> 00:37:27.429
So you see suddenly five doors open to you. So

00:37:27.429 --> 00:37:30.630
I think Dresden will look back to Blanche and

00:37:30.630 --> 00:37:33.409
do like the little, you know, silent SWAT team

00:37:33.409 --> 00:37:35.610
type thing. He'll take his eyes and be like,

00:37:35.610 --> 00:37:38.210
you go there with his fingers pointing across

00:37:38.210 --> 00:37:42.710
the hallway. And what he's trying to do is telling

00:37:42.710 --> 00:37:44.570
her to go to the other side and they will all

00:37:44.570 --> 00:37:47.630
walk up the hallway and open each door. Open

00:37:47.630 --> 00:37:51.199
doors as we go. Okay. She takes one side with

00:37:51.199 --> 00:37:53.380
the key. I'll take the other. Yeah. I think we

00:37:53.380 --> 00:37:55.880
should probably like do just do like instead

00:37:55.880 --> 00:37:58.460
of doing them at the same time, do like a like

00:37:58.460 --> 00:38:01.579
door on one side of the alternate. Exactly. Yeah.

00:38:01.619 --> 00:38:04.000
Yeah. So that if we find trouble, right, we're

00:38:04.000 --> 00:38:05.820
all ready for it. Yeah. All right. Who goes to

00:38:05.820 --> 00:38:08.360
the first door? Oh, you just moved John Franklin

00:38:08.360 --> 00:38:10.159
into the first door. So that's Blanche. Oh, that's

00:38:10.159 --> 00:38:13.159
Blanche. Okay. Nevermind. Whoa. Blanche. Blanche

00:38:13.159 --> 00:38:16.639
because it's a little closer. Let's mess it up,

00:38:16.699 --> 00:38:23.900
dude. Blanche and Akio move to the door and you

00:38:23.900 --> 00:38:31.719
open up into a wide lecture hall. You see benches

00:38:31.719 --> 00:38:35.699
all like surrounding one stage at the front with

00:38:35.699 --> 00:38:39.340
a kind of podium and a giant chalkboard behind.

00:38:40.000 --> 00:38:43.400
It's the grandest classroom you've seen so far.

00:38:44.360 --> 00:38:48.059
Anything super important on the chalkboard? Oh,

00:38:48.059 --> 00:38:52.480
yes. Cool. Very important. I will say, firstly,

00:38:52.559 --> 00:38:55.219
as you scan the room, you notice telltale signs,

00:38:55.440 --> 00:38:57.960
probably like instructions along the wall and

00:38:57.960 --> 00:39:00.400
various, again, like the basic sort of principle

00:39:00.400 --> 00:39:05.079
to inscription work of conjuration. You realize

00:39:05.079 --> 00:39:09.340
this is Keja Kamal's own classroom. What you

00:39:09.340 --> 00:39:13.809
focus on, of course, is that chalkboard. We can

00:39:13.809 --> 00:39:16.690
just roll over the 28 Arcana check, right? That's

00:39:16.690 --> 00:39:18.929
how it works, yeah. You don't need Arcana. It's

00:39:18.929 --> 00:39:23.769
very clearly written here. Big letters. Final

00:39:23.769 --> 00:39:29.630
exam. And beneath that, you five are my pride.

00:39:29.909 --> 00:39:33.849
But tragically, only one can graduate and become

00:39:33.849 --> 00:39:37.489
my legacy. The other four will serve as trials

00:39:37.489 --> 00:39:39.909
and will bring your full potential to surface

00:39:39.909 --> 00:39:44.699
in your new forms. These are the rules. Each

00:39:44.699 --> 00:39:46.780
of you has a fragment of an inscription circle

00:39:46.780 --> 00:39:50.340
implanted into your thoracic cavities. They are

00:39:50.340 --> 00:39:53.639
all identical. When four of these are placed

00:39:53.639 --> 00:39:56.139
around the rim of the Pool of the Faceless, the

00:39:56.139 --> 00:39:59.579
pathway to my workshop will be opened. You will

00:39:59.579 --> 00:40:04.360
receive your diploma and your army. The Academy

00:40:04.360 --> 00:40:08.659
is your battleground. You may destroy it. The

00:40:08.659 --> 00:40:11.019
New World will have no use for its esteemed alumni.

00:40:12.000 --> 00:40:15.480
Fear no commotion. You will not be bothered.

00:40:16.219 --> 00:40:20.780
I am sorry to all of you. I'm about to create

00:40:20.780 --> 00:40:23.380
a world that will waste your talents and all

00:40:23.380 --> 00:40:27.380
of my time mentoring you. I can only offer this

00:40:27.380 --> 00:40:31.260
compensation. A chance for one of you to lead

00:40:31.260 --> 00:40:35.079
us all into a new age. And to those that will

00:40:35.079 --> 00:40:39.380
die, take heart. You will surely strengthen your

00:40:39.380 --> 00:40:44.539
peers with your final efforts. Happy graduation.

00:40:46.019 --> 00:40:49.639
Uh -huh. Uh -huh. You're starting to realize

00:40:49.639 --> 00:40:53.500
what you are walking into here. There is a killing

00:40:53.500 --> 00:40:55.559
game happening within the halls of this school.

00:40:56.519 --> 00:41:04.559
Wow. Okay. And when he says inside the cavity.

00:41:06.809 --> 00:41:11.730
Blanche's, or Stephen, rather, is thinking in

00:41:11.730 --> 00:41:14.650
the armor's cavity, right? It's not like in their

00:41:14.650 --> 00:41:17.809
actual physical body. Do you know what I can

00:41:17.809 --> 00:41:21.570
say? Fuck me. Find an armor. Check its cavity.

00:41:22.469 --> 00:41:24.090
Dresden, I think it's time to go back to the

00:41:24.090 --> 00:41:26.429
room. I think we need to know what we're up against.

00:41:26.750 --> 00:41:31.550
Whoa. Holy shit. Okay. There's magic and metal

00:41:31.550 --> 00:41:36.559
in there. Okay. Does that make sense? Am I crazy?

00:41:36.639 --> 00:41:38.900
Am I wrong? I don't know what you're thinking,

00:41:39.000 --> 00:41:44.619
but I'll follow you. If there are more pieces

00:41:44.619 --> 00:41:47.599
like this, and she holds up her arm, maybe we

00:41:47.599 --> 00:41:51.320
can get some more information. I mean, if it's

00:41:51.320 --> 00:41:56.659
AG -6s, it'll slow us down. We'll have to fight

00:41:56.659 --> 00:41:59.119
them. You be careful with that fucking thing.

00:42:00.099 --> 00:42:04.239
I don't know what it does yet, but I don't think

00:42:04.239 --> 00:42:07.150
without the full suit... It would harm me. That's

00:42:07.150 --> 00:42:10.429
what I'm betting on, at least. Let's make haste.

00:42:10.630 --> 00:42:14.230
Will you agree with me? Is that our next best

00:42:14.230 --> 00:42:18.389
move? If that's what you feel like, then I'm

00:42:18.389 --> 00:42:23.550
here. I want to try and save these kids. They're

00:42:23.550 --> 00:42:27.750
just kids. This isn't how they should be taught.

00:42:28.570 --> 00:42:31.349
Then let's not waste any more time. And Tresden.

00:42:32.289 --> 00:42:35.940
Yeah. About face. Double move. Back to the door.

00:42:36.619 --> 00:42:41.619
This is... This is a really, really cool turn.

00:42:42.920 --> 00:42:45.019
And I really like the way you're playing it up.

00:42:45.039 --> 00:42:49.239
I want to give you a button. Hell yeah. Do I

00:42:49.239 --> 00:42:52.579
get a button for green? I'm going? Nah, I dropped

00:42:52.579 --> 00:42:54.019
my dice. Now I'm sad. We should have had about

00:42:54.019 --> 00:42:57.059
700 at this point. Yeah, I know. Right? We should

00:42:57.059 --> 00:43:00.219
do a zippy soon, huh? I want to do a reverse

00:43:00.219 --> 00:43:01.960
zippy where you give me a bunch of buttons. Nope.

00:43:02.159 --> 00:43:06.849
Damn it. You going to the door? Yeah. Oh, shit.

00:43:07.030 --> 00:43:10.909
Yeah, Dresden will lead the way. And when they

00:43:10.909 --> 00:43:16.550
get there, he'll again mime one, two, three,

00:43:16.610 --> 00:43:20.070
and then... So everyone turns around, moves back

00:43:20.070 --> 00:43:21.750
to the hall, back towards where your entrance

00:43:21.750 --> 00:43:24.750
came through, moves to the door where Akio smelled

00:43:24.750 --> 00:43:29.489
magic and metal. Then he confirms as he reaches

00:43:29.489 --> 00:43:31.329
it, just sniffs your gauntlet, sniffs at the

00:43:31.329 --> 00:43:38.519
door. it's faint rough but it's there master

00:43:38.519 --> 00:43:43.420
flange it's there faint could mean that it's

00:43:43.420 --> 00:43:47.219
not a it's not a complete unit another piece

00:43:47.219 --> 00:43:54.360
perhaps and then dresden opens the way forward

00:43:54.360 --> 00:43:59.579
another antechamber what you see here is some

00:43:59.579 --> 00:44:02.630
kind of storage room Creeps with various odd

00:44:02.630 --> 00:44:04.949
equipment. Spherical objects built of leather

00:44:04.949 --> 00:44:07.670
and others of heavy iron. Like pieces from an

00:44:07.670 --> 00:44:10.769
unknown sporting game or something. You see steel

00:44:10.769 --> 00:44:13.070
mesh nets stacked in the corner. There are also

00:44:13.070 --> 00:44:17.110
racks of blunted swords and spears. You see mannequins

00:44:17.110 --> 00:44:19.809
made of strong steel. And one wall is just stacked

00:44:19.809 --> 00:44:22.949
with wide targets of a similar make. And you

00:44:22.949 --> 00:44:28.070
see two doors. Both along the northern wall.

00:44:28.539 --> 00:44:30.420
Oh, there's two. I missed the second one. Yeah,

00:44:30.460 --> 00:44:33.760
one I'd say is at the very northern end of the

00:44:33.760 --> 00:44:36.480
eastern wall. With those doors on the other side,

00:44:36.559 --> 00:44:39.360
this gives me the feeling that it's like the

00:44:39.360 --> 00:44:42.039
mudroom for a magical house of horrors. Right.

00:44:42.699 --> 00:44:46.480
Leather balls. They must be playing quibbage,

00:44:46.619 --> 00:44:53.519
which is slightly different. Slightly different

00:44:53.519 --> 00:44:56.639
from what? From the trademarked version. What

00:44:56.639 --> 00:45:01.920
are you talking about? Do you want Akio to make

00:45:01.920 --> 00:45:05.059
a check here? Yeah, I want Akio to sniff with

00:45:05.059 --> 00:45:09.590
advantage because of his... I want to say, by

00:45:09.590 --> 00:45:11.309
the way, it's pretty fucked up that you're like,

00:45:11.409 --> 00:45:13.369
our primary means of doing things is by having

00:45:13.369 --> 00:45:17.309
the dog smell every room when the GM can't smell

00:45:17.309 --> 00:45:21.409
and doesn't know what it is. You gave me this.

00:45:21.429 --> 00:45:23.010
I don't know what it is. If anyone's over there

00:45:23.010 --> 00:45:25.690
like, Magic Emile doesn't smell anything, I don't

00:45:25.690 --> 00:45:28.130
know that. You gave me the stat block. I don't

00:45:28.130 --> 00:45:30.130
care. You gave me the stat block. Yeah, well,

00:45:30.230 --> 00:45:31.409
I'm going to give you a headache. Dude, you've

00:45:31.409 --> 00:45:36.150
got the smell of magic all wrong. I smell like

00:45:36.150 --> 00:45:42.880
magic. You know what I'm saying? Eighteen. He

00:45:42.880 --> 00:45:47.940
sniffs at the eastern door. He sniffs at the

00:45:47.940 --> 00:45:55.260
northern door. And he looks back to you. It's

00:45:55.260 --> 00:46:00.519
both! Shit. Now there's a conundrum. Wow, Dresden.

00:46:01.300 --> 00:46:04.840
East or north? Akio's at the east one right now?

00:46:05.320 --> 00:46:09.590
Yeah. Dresden will walk over silently, move slowly

00:46:09.590 --> 00:46:16.949
past Akio, wave Blanche and John over, and he

00:46:16.949 --> 00:46:20.449
will slowly crack the door. The eastern door.

00:46:20.849 --> 00:46:24.230
The eastern door. Opens. Give me a second. Holy

00:46:24.230 --> 00:46:29.130
shit. Oh no, there's a red X. What is that? Yes,

00:46:29.309 --> 00:46:32.849
you guys see. That's a dead person. That's the

00:46:32.849 --> 00:46:35.880
first student. The one that we first run into,

00:46:35.940 --> 00:46:40.619
at least. Okay. You open up into a very large

00:46:40.619 --> 00:46:44.699
room. It looks like some kind of gymnasium or

00:46:44.699 --> 00:46:47.099
inside courtyard. The supplies behind you suddenly

00:46:47.099 --> 00:46:50.179
make a lot more sense. This huge space, like

00:46:50.179 --> 00:46:54.440
70 by 110 feet, it just opens up before you.

00:46:54.840 --> 00:46:57.000
You see there is a ceiling hanging above you,

00:46:57.039 --> 00:46:58.880
but the tile -carved mud of the halls and other

00:46:58.880 --> 00:47:00.579
rooms that you've been sort of moving around

00:47:00.579 --> 00:47:03.519
in have been replaced here by a ground of gravel.

00:47:04.280 --> 00:47:06.579
You see more of those wide targets stand against

00:47:06.579 --> 00:47:08.440
the western wall just beside the entrance you've

00:47:08.440 --> 00:47:11.039
approached from. There are scorch marks covering

00:47:11.039 --> 00:47:13.280
one target. Streaks on the surface of another

00:47:13.280 --> 00:47:15.980
are slightly warped and bent. While these are

00:47:15.980 --> 00:47:17.880
obviously older marks, there are much fresher

00:47:17.880 --> 00:47:20.280
forms of damage all around the room. Gravel scattered

00:47:20.280 --> 00:47:23.159
in large gashes, small scorch marks and dents

00:47:23.159 --> 00:47:26.559
in the walls. But your eyes would likely not

00:47:26.559 --> 00:47:28.380
be drawn to all this, because at the center of

00:47:28.380 --> 00:47:32.300
the room you see something else. You see where

00:47:32.300 --> 00:47:36.730
that arm came from. A nearly full suit of armor,

00:47:36.969 --> 00:47:40.309
Ozen's armor, complete with a lightning bolt

00:47:40.309 --> 00:47:45.010
and everything. The full mask lies motionless.

00:47:45.750 --> 00:47:50.090
Is there a human arm sticking out of the black

00:47:50.090 --> 00:47:55.510
space? There is not. Simply missing. And from

00:47:55.510 --> 00:48:01.269
Blanche's arcana check, she figured out that

00:48:01.269 --> 00:48:05.380
putting on the full suit, would try to trap her

00:48:05.380 --> 00:48:08.920
soul if it can come back together again i will

00:48:08.920 --> 00:48:10.940
say immediately looking at this you realize that's

00:48:10.940 --> 00:48:13.219
not a concern you have to have because this armor

00:48:13.219 --> 00:48:18.760
has been heavily heavily damaged it's obvious

00:48:18.760 --> 00:48:21.980
firstly because it's covered in some kind of

00:48:21.980 --> 00:48:24.820
web The thick strands reaching far out, covering

00:48:24.820 --> 00:48:27.679
maybe 20 feet of the floor of this room. The

00:48:27.679 --> 00:48:29.420
armor looks to be trapped beneath all this white

00:48:29.420 --> 00:48:31.119
webbing, and you can see a number of puncture

00:48:31.119 --> 00:48:33.420
wounds, like spear tips, have been driven through

00:48:33.420 --> 00:48:36.360
the metal. There are also welts bludgeoned into

00:48:36.360 --> 00:48:38.360
the helm and back, like something very hard was

00:48:38.360 --> 00:48:42.639
smashed against it over and over. Do you want

00:48:42.639 --> 00:48:46.099
to take a closer look? Dresden, I don't know

00:48:46.099 --> 00:48:48.739
if this was just for training, or if this was

00:48:48.739 --> 00:48:52.380
one of the students. Let me take a closer look

00:48:52.380 --> 00:48:56.539
and then I'll come right back. Dresden will again

00:48:56.539 --> 00:48:59.699
manifest his echo next to Blanche. And the echo

00:48:59.699 --> 00:49:02.679
will go with... Hell yeah. Yeah. I just want

00:49:02.679 --> 00:49:04.860
to do this quickly and move on to the next room.

00:49:04.960 --> 00:49:07.260
Yeah, because Dresden is very close to quickly

00:49:07.260 --> 00:49:08.920
spinning around and opening that other door.

00:49:09.099 --> 00:49:12.300
Very quick. Yeah, exactly. You step forward,

00:49:12.380 --> 00:49:15.739
carefully moving around the webbing. Step into

00:49:15.739 --> 00:49:20.260
it and you reach down. Do you want to roll Investigation,

00:49:20.400 --> 00:49:23.099
Arcana? What are you looking to roll here? Well,

00:49:23.119 --> 00:49:25.360
I think I'd like to roll Investigation first.

00:49:25.699 --> 00:49:29.380
Okay. To try and suss out if this was just a

00:49:29.380 --> 00:49:32.679
training dummy. Yeah. You know, an AG6. Or if

00:49:32.679 --> 00:49:35.460
this was a suit that one of the five was wearing.

00:49:35.960 --> 00:49:39.199
And upon their death, they disappeared or something.

00:49:39.320 --> 00:49:40.860
They got sucked into the suit. I don't know.

00:49:42.659 --> 00:49:45.380
So, eyes of minute seeing down. She's taking

00:49:45.380 --> 00:49:52.730
a look at the suit of armor. 21. 21. It's clearly

00:49:52.730 --> 00:49:55.909
the same one that the arm piece you have came

00:49:55.909 --> 00:49:59.130
from, which means it is a full AG6 unit. The

00:49:59.130 --> 00:50:02.809
inscription had been active, but had become deactivated

00:50:02.809 --> 00:50:06.449
when it was destroyed. Taking a closer look at

00:50:06.449 --> 00:50:08.949
this, looking through, you realize, first of

00:50:08.949 --> 00:50:12.269
all, I think you push open the sort of chest,

00:50:12.349 --> 00:50:14.690
the thoracic cavity, as it was described before.

00:50:14.849 --> 00:50:19.420
You don't see anything inside, but... Perhaps

00:50:19.420 --> 00:50:22.900
it was already taken. You see, there's not space

00:50:22.900 --> 00:50:24.719
enough inside this armor. A lot of it's actually

00:50:24.719 --> 00:50:28.460
pretty solid. It's just like, you know, the mechanical

00:50:28.460 --> 00:50:31.000
workings of the artificery kind of fill a lot

00:50:31.000 --> 00:50:34.320
of the space. It couldn't have held a physical

00:50:34.320 --> 00:50:40.820
body, but it can hold a soul. Huh. You think

00:50:40.820 --> 00:50:45.219
back to the AG -5s. They had fatal flaws. They

00:50:45.219 --> 00:50:48.440
had to act on the command of others or follow

00:50:48.440 --> 00:50:50.579
just some base instincts. And if there was heavy

00:50:50.579 --> 00:50:52.679
magic in the area, remember their sort of whole

00:50:52.679 --> 00:50:54.719
network would just get fried. They would stand

00:50:54.719 --> 00:50:56.840
still. That gave you an opportunity to act there.

00:50:57.440 --> 00:51:00.920
What if there was an armored guard that could

00:51:00.920 --> 00:51:03.760
command, that could serve as a field commander

00:51:03.760 --> 00:51:08.380
that didn't suffer from the same issues that

00:51:08.380 --> 00:51:14.639
could lead units like that? What if? A soul was

00:51:14.639 --> 00:51:18.420
bound to armor. It's a stranger looking down

00:51:18.420 --> 00:51:22.380
at Ozen's own armor, his own mask with nothing

00:51:22.380 --> 00:51:27.599
behind it. You notice the hand is closed. The

00:51:27.599 --> 00:51:30.480
other hand is curled around something. And as

00:51:30.480 --> 00:51:32.159
you look at it, you see there's just like this

00:51:32.159 --> 00:51:36.380
small, thin glass stirrer, like one might use

00:51:36.380 --> 00:51:39.039
in workings of sensitive alchemical projects.

00:51:39.719 --> 00:51:43.190
And you notice that the... Armor itself, with

00:51:43.190 --> 00:51:47.150
that check, where the puncture wounds are, there's

00:51:47.150 --> 00:51:52.670
a liquid, a light maroon spurts of it just around

00:51:52.670 --> 00:51:55.670
the wounds. Like coming from the outside or coming

00:51:55.670 --> 00:51:59.630
from the inside? Mostly on the inside. Like it

00:51:59.630 --> 00:52:03.309
was from the outside pushed to the inside from

00:52:03.309 --> 00:52:06.969
whatever created those puncture wounds. Blanche

00:52:06.969 --> 00:52:11.559
will pick up the stir. Is there any? Red on it?

00:52:12.219 --> 00:52:18.019
No. Looks like something on it. Like a faint,

00:52:18.059 --> 00:52:23.619
thick brown, dried up kind of oil. Something

00:52:23.619 --> 00:52:27.980
being worked on. Something being worked on? But

00:52:27.980 --> 00:52:33.579
not here. Okay. She'll pocket it and run out

00:52:33.579 --> 00:52:38.039
of the room. Okay. Leaving that body behind.

00:52:38.280 --> 00:52:41.250
I don't know if... The students have already

00:52:41.250 --> 00:52:44.469
been sacrificed, or if they're being remotely

00:52:44.469 --> 00:52:47.429
controlled, but it's not their bodies in the

00:52:47.429 --> 00:52:56.170
suits, it's their souls. It's like a stampede.

00:52:58.110 --> 00:53:00.130
I hope that hurt that so we can keep that in.

00:53:00.250 --> 00:53:02.949
That was a stampede of three dogs outside their

00:53:02.949 --> 00:53:04.329
room running by. That was a stampede of three

00:53:04.329 --> 00:53:06.969
tiny dogs. It needs to be expressed how small

00:53:06.969 --> 00:53:09.389
these dogs are. That's true. A pug, a chihuahua,

00:53:09.389 --> 00:53:11.550
and a chihuahua -dachshund mix. You walk out

00:53:11.550 --> 00:53:15.949
of the hall and horses galloping through. My

00:53:15.949 --> 00:53:21.489
guess is it's time to go O -U -T. Anyways. Anyways.

00:53:22.949 --> 00:53:27.090
Blanche runs up to the next door. If there's

00:53:27.090 --> 00:53:30.590
another magical aura in here, perhaps it's another

00:53:30.590 --> 00:53:34.530
suit. We should check it out. Dresden stares

00:53:34.530 --> 00:53:38.349
at Blanche in the eyes and doesn't avert his

00:53:38.349 --> 00:53:41.010
gaze at all as he walks to the door, puts his

00:53:41.010 --> 00:53:46.889
hand on the handle, opens it, and peers in. He

00:53:46.889 --> 00:53:51.309
broke his gaze from Blanche to me, just in case

00:53:51.309 --> 00:53:55.010
that needed to be. He's opened the door and no

00:53:55.010 --> 00:53:56.590
one's looking in. I don't want to create some

00:53:56.590 --> 00:53:59.250
serious plot holes here, man. Sniper just takes

00:53:59.250 --> 00:54:04.449
you out. One thing you notice, actually, as you

00:54:04.449 --> 00:54:07.809
open the door, and you don't notice until it's

00:54:07.809 --> 00:54:10.170
creaking open, but there's inscription along

00:54:10.170 --> 00:54:13.070
the edge of the door and along the edge of the

00:54:13.070 --> 00:54:17.110
door frame. Okay. Would Dresden benefit anything

00:54:17.110 --> 00:54:20.079
by... rolling. You certainly could, yeah. You're

00:54:20.079 --> 00:54:22.880
opening up, you see that, and you stop. You guys

00:54:22.880 --> 00:54:24.719
roll, perhaps, to see what's going on there.

00:54:24.860 --> 00:54:26.940
Give me Arcana. Yeah, Blanche would definitely

00:54:26.940 --> 00:54:31.659
want to roll Arcana to try to read. No, not with

00:54:31.659 --> 00:54:36.480
a natural one. Oh! Um... Crescent, you hear horses.

00:54:37.960 --> 00:54:43.719
Blanche got a 27. Oh, shit. Uh, 27. Uh, immediately,

00:54:43.980 --> 00:54:45.800
Blanche, you're taking this in, and you're like,

00:54:45.940 --> 00:54:49.590
interesting. This is the workings of a silence

00:54:49.590 --> 00:54:52.389
spell. Not one necessarily keeping everything

00:54:52.389 --> 00:54:54.869
in the room sound, but one that keeps this room,

00:54:54.929 --> 00:54:58.969
basically turns this room into an entirely noise

00:54:58.969 --> 00:55:01.289
-canceling space, right? Like, you wouldn't hear

00:55:01.289 --> 00:55:02.929
anything happening outside the room. You wouldn't

00:55:02.929 --> 00:55:04.030
hear anything outside the room happening inside

00:55:04.030 --> 00:55:07.090
the room. Only when the door is closed will the

00:55:07.090 --> 00:55:08.510
circuit be complete. So the second that door

00:55:08.510 --> 00:55:11.389
is open, you realize that silence spell is broken.

00:55:11.969 --> 00:55:14.789
Okay. Do you continue pushing that door open?

00:55:16.190 --> 00:55:20.250
Yeah. Mm -hmm. Yes. Yeah. Yes. Are there, like,

00:55:20.329 --> 00:55:23.849
any broken rock pieces or anything lying around?

00:55:24.769 --> 00:55:26.250
I'm looking for something that could function

00:55:26.250 --> 00:55:28.269
as a doorstop. You see, again, there's those

00:55:28.269 --> 00:55:30.289
iron balls and various things in here. There's,

00:55:30.289 --> 00:55:32.929
like, spears, like, you know, padded spears and

00:55:32.929 --> 00:55:34.250
swords and such. There's plenty of things you

00:55:34.250 --> 00:55:36.389
could grab in this room that you're in now. Okay.

00:55:36.949 --> 00:55:39.409
So you kind of slide something underneath. Yeah.

00:55:39.530 --> 00:55:42.730
Dresden will just grab a fucking sword and just,

00:55:42.809 --> 00:55:46.469
like... Hell yeah. Squeeze it in there so it

00:55:46.469 --> 00:55:51.809
stays open. And you push on, looking into a band

00:55:51.809 --> 00:55:56.130
room. This chamber, 40 foot by 50 foot, looks

00:55:56.130 --> 00:55:58.940
to be dedicated solely to the bardic arts. You

00:55:58.940 --> 00:56:01.239
see a huge gold -painted piano sits along the

00:56:01.239 --> 00:56:03.539
eastern wall. You see instruments of all sorts

00:56:03.539 --> 00:56:06.019
resting on racks on the edges of the room. Brass

00:56:06.019 --> 00:56:09.420
horns, trumpets, tubas, etc. Smaller wind instruments,

00:56:09.599 --> 00:56:12.880
a myriad of drums, sitars, bagpipes, just a cultural

00:56:12.880 --> 00:56:16.019
melting pot of music makers. A series of stringed

00:56:16.019 --> 00:56:18.159
instruments hangs on low racks, looking entirely

00:56:18.159 --> 00:56:21.000
unique to you. Round bat with a great many strings

00:56:21.000 --> 00:56:23.480
traveling up the long rod. And you may or may

00:56:23.480 --> 00:56:26.179
not recognize these as a kora, an instrument

00:56:26.179 --> 00:56:29.550
created by Sensen's long ago. You see that the

00:56:29.550 --> 00:56:31.409
center of the room is just a large open space

00:56:31.409 --> 00:56:33.929
with stacks of gold -trimmed chairs and stands

00:56:33.929 --> 00:56:36.570
along the northern wall for students to move

00:56:36.570 --> 00:56:38.469
around and set themselves where they want to

00:56:38.469 --> 00:56:41.210
practice. It looks like one might expect from

00:56:41.210 --> 00:56:44.789
Anissa Academy. An extravagant, no -expense -spared

00:56:44.789 --> 00:56:48.610
music room just packed with options. The only

00:56:48.610 --> 00:56:53.449
thing that seems odd is a five -by -five -foot

00:56:53.449 --> 00:56:55.809
container pressed against the western wall of

00:56:55.809 --> 00:56:59.010
the room. It's just notable in its plainness.

00:56:59.170 --> 00:57:02.110
Just a box of thick metal with hinges indicating

00:57:02.110 --> 00:57:04.409
it should open from the top and a latch that

00:57:04.409 --> 00:57:06.750
can be used to lock it closed from the outside.

00:57:07.750 --> 00:57:11.090
You also see a series of small holes carved into

00:57:11.090 --> 00:57:13.429
the top. It's pretty obvious that this thing

00:57:13.429 --> 00:57:15.309
does not belong in here as it sits in front of

00:57:15.309 --> 00:57:17.590
a rack of wind instruments. You even see the

00:57:17.590 --> 00:57:20.590
snapped edge of a flute broken beneath the weight

00:57:20.590 --> 00:57:23.710
of this box. And you see from the doorway that

00:57:23.710 --> 00:57:27.619
this is about. 25 feet from you into the room.

00:57:27.840 --> 00:57:31.760
Okay. My first thought is air holes. Right, same.

00:57:32.400 --> 00:57:36.280
What size are these, what I'm thinking to be

00:57:36.280 --> 00:57:41.119
air holes? Small. Just, you know, maybe like

00:57:41.119 --> 00:57:44.920
a half an inch. A pinprick, a dime, a quarter.

00:57:45.219 --> 00:57:47.980
A number of half inches. It looks like air holes

00:57:47.980 --> 00:57:49.760
feels like a very accurate assessment. Okay.

00:57:50.400 --> 00:57:53.920
But we would need air in here. Roughly the size

00:57:53.920 --> 00:57:58.139
of a... dime or a penny? Whatever half inch would

00:57:58.139 --> 00:58:01.360
be probably a dime. A half inch is probably bigger

00:58:01.360 --> 00:58:03.219
than a dime or a penny. A box with potential

00:58:03.219 --> 00:58:06.360
air holes is in a room that you can't hear from

00:58:06.360 --> 00:58:10.119
the inside. Big enough that a bat could fit through.

00:58:11.039 --> 00:58:13.900
Oh! Blanche is going to send a turbo in. Oh!

00:58:14.260 --> 00:58:16.800
A bat could fit in there? Oh! Wait, what? A half

00:58:16.800 --> 00:58:22.699
inch? No. Half inch? Oh no. Inch? No. You know

00:58:22.699 --> 00:58:25.469
what an inch looks like? Uh -huh. A bat can't

00:58:25.469 --> 00:58:28.550
fit. No. A bat's quite... There's no way a bat

00:58:28.550 --> 00:58:30.170
can fit in there. Quite larger. Hang on a second.

00:58:30.809 --> 00:58:36.170
Okay. A dime is .7 inches. So we're off by...

00:58:36.170 --> 00:58:39.409
A bat can fit in a dime? Yeah. What? Wait, what?

00:58:39.570 --> 00:58:41.570
Damn, that's crazy. Well, no, your bat can't

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fit in there. Give me a tray like amorphous and

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I'll give it to him, but nah. I just started

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Googling what size hole can a bat, but it auto

00:58:49.789 --> 00:58:55.139
-completed to a moose. A half inch. If it was

00:58:55.139 --> 00:59:00.320
a moose, on the other hand, you'd be fine. Oh,

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my God. Yeah. A bat could fit through as tiny

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as a quarter inch to three -eighths inch. Oh.

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Holy shit. Turbo can go through this. Turbo can

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go through this, which is roughly the size of

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a dime or a nickel. Let me look at Turbo using

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their flexible bodies to squeeze into existing

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cracks, gaps, and openings. If this bat has amorphous,

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it's fine. Hang on a second. What does amorphous

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mean? Dude, they don't create their own holes,

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but exploit minute structural weaknesses. It's

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a bat, bro. I see nothing in here. So homeowners

00:59:32.800 --> 00:59:35.900
need to inspect for even the smallest imperfections.

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It can do the same thing that a bat can do, right?

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Dude, there's a... There's a YouTube video of

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a bat fitting through a hole the size of a dime.

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The pants are looking riot. I'm not letting your

00:59:45.909 --> 00:59:48.869
bat sneak into every tiny crack in this campaign.

00:59:49.190 --> 00:59:51.710
There's no way. That's craziness. I'm sorry.

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Okay, then what Blanche wants to do is she wants

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to... Then give him a button. Get a worm instead.

00:59:55.909 --> 00:59:58.969
Fucker. She wants to get like a torch or something.

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Jeez. And peek into the holes with a light source.

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You're going in the room then? Oh, God. I thought

01:00:06.489 --> 01:00:08.210
we were in the room. You opened the door to the

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room. Then you were going to throw a bat in there

01:00:10.030 --> 01:00:11.269
or some shit. Hold on. Now I don't know if I

01:00:11.269 --> 01:00:14.670
want to go in the room. Yeah. Wait. Can Turbo

01:00:14.670 --> 01:00:19.070
at least look through the hole? Yeah. Okay. Cool.

01:00:19.550 --> 01:00:21.789
Turbo goes in the room. Turbo goes in the room.

01:00:22.150 --> 01:00:27.570
Turbo goes in the room. You son of a bitch. Oh.

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It triggered something. In looking in the hole,

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Turbo sees an armored form. pressed down, sitting,

01:00:37.619 --> 01:00:44.760
suddenly looks up. As this happens, Turbo witnesses

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this form through your eyes, I imagine, hands

01:00:48.099 --> 01:00:54.079
snapping in this very, very fast pattern, a somatic

01:00:54.079 --> 01:00:58.380
gesture. The moment this happens, the rest of

01:00:58.380 --> 01:01:02.440
you, Turbo included, would see this room begins

01:01:02.440 --> 01:01:07.900
to come to life. did you ever play super mario

01:01:07.900 --> 01:01:12.199
64 yes now you have to remember a very particular

01:01:12.199 --> 01:01:15.719
piano no in that game no you'll remember the

01:01:15.719 --> 01:01:18.260
piano a piano in the haunted boo mansion that

01:01:18.260 --> 01:01:19.880
when you go back comes to life for the fuck you

01:01:19.880 --> 01:01:22.079
up it's the it was a nightmare fuel for me as

01:01:22.079 --> 01:01:24.019
a child and for probably so many of you listening

01:01:24.019 --> 01:01:26.619
well I played more GoldenEye than I did Super

01:01:26.619 --> 01:01:29.699
Mario. Imagine a GoldenEye piano because this

01:01:29.699 --> 01:01:32.380
piano is made of gold. And as this gesture goes

01:01:32.380 --> 01:01:34.000
off, as you're looking at this, as Turbo lands

01:01:34.000 --> 01:01:36.480
on the cage, as this figure snaps to look at

01:01:36.480 --> 01:01:40.389
you. A number of instruments. You see the piano.

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Legs begin to move. It opens up. A loud clamor

01:01:45.710 --> 01:01:47.710
sounding as it begins to move towards you. You

01:01:47.710 --> 01:01:50.190
see two of the tubas rise up the rack and be

01:01:50.190 --> 01:01:53.369
turned towards you. You hear notes blowing out.

01:01:53.449 --> 01:01:55.530
Your ears are sort of blown in. You are actually

01:01:55.530 --> 01:01:58.230
deafened, I will say, immediately as this begins.

01:01:58.369 --> 01:02:00.349
All of you are under the deafened condition.

01:02:00.510 --> 01:02:04.900
You see two of those koras. rise from their own

01:02:04.900 --> 01:02:09.300
racks, and you are facing down a small army of

01:02:09.300 --> 01:02:12.079
instruments that turn towards you and all the

01:02:12.079 --> 01:02:14.739
clamor, the figure in the middle sort of hiding

01:02:14.739 --> 01:02:19.059
out, and they rush you. All right, give me a

01:02:19.059 --> 01:02:20.780
line. Give me a tagline. What's a cool musical

01:02:20.780 --> 01:02:25.460
line? It's music time. No, it's... No, the overture's

01:02:25.460 --> 01:02:29.159
over. It's time for the show. The overture's

01:02:29.159 --> 01:02:32.000
over, and it's time for the show! We'll call

01:02:32.000 --> 01:02:34.389
it there! Ha ha ha!