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People! Just want to say, real quick, the obvious,

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thank you so much for being here right now, listening

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to this show. You're the best. You, individually,

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right there, the one on top of two, me and you.

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You're the best. Enjoy. talk lately around the

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return of the mysterious singer of Anker and

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Syngar. I suppose it is only right that I tell

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you that these rumors are unfortunately true.

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I weep for the poor souls of the turquoise world

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who must live in constant fear once more. Now

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for those of you who are not in the know, the

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singer was a legendary terrorist that took command

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of a group of criminals known as the Silent Roar

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nearly 50 years ago. They first appeared after

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Atash saved their world from demonic threats,

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apparently holding some issues with his subsequent

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rule. Under the singer's leadership, the Silent

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Roar caused untold chaos and were responsible

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for the planar release of many, many Celestials.

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Atash was halted time and time again from taking

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certain precautions against further demonic threats.

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It was a sorrowful time for the angels. But around

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33 years ago, it was said the singer was killed,

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or at the very least, chased away. There was

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an incident, all entirely classified by the governing

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bodies of Anchor and Cingar, where the Silent

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Roar was very nearly disbanded. Following that,

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the singer vanished and the Silent Roar saw little

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success as they went off to lick their wounds.

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For all these years, we barely heard a thing

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from the criminal gang. But now, just recently,

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they've stepped back into the spotlight with

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a singer at their head once more. But why? Why

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now? Has all this justice -in -dying madness

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inspired even more criminality? All we can say

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for sure, as the singer, whoever they may be,

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is certainly plotting something terrible. Now

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I know what you're thinking. There's no way,

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simply no way, that these idiots are going to

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put a fourth arc in this arc. They'll be mad.

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Insane, even. Well, to that I say, welcome to

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Fancy Pants and welcome to Anchor and Sengar.

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Yeah. Yeah, we're doing it. We're going there.

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And while we're doing welcomes... Let's welcome

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our special guest to the show tonight. You might

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know him as Crow's Nest Craft, but we know him

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simply as the Mysterious Mr. Crow. Or John is

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good, too. Do you prefer John or the Mysterious

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Mr. Crow? What's your... John is fine. Are you

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sure? I'm sure. Damn. All right. Well, we tried.

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So a little backstory here. We were collabing

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with John. Eight months ago, nine months ago

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on a Sci -Fi stream series. But that kind of

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ended when my computer had a heart attack. I

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had a kind of a panic attack. So this week we

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were going to get together and record a continuation

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of that little Monster of the Week adventure.

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But of course the winds of whimsy kind of caught

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me up in a storm. And now we're doing something

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absolutely crazy instead. And if you don't like

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it, it was Steven's idea. So John. Yeah. Tell

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us. the pants, maybe a little bit about who you

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are, what you do. I think we talked about you

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on the show a bunch of times already, but still,

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let's get back into it. All right. Let's hear

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it from the horses, the crows mouth. all right

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uh from the crows yeah yeah sure um i'm john

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i uh live near these guys more or less and i

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run a channel on youtube tiktok and instagram

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that is mostly miniature painting and making

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uh terrain and stuff like that out of cheap supplies

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so how's it going if you haven't seen my stuff

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So, yeah. What else do you want to know about

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me, David? Anyone who's up there. We've talked

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about it on the show, but we have an ugly coyote

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made in miniature. It's on the Place of Honor

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on the shelf behind me right now. There's a video

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about making that. You want to see the ugly coyote

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built? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wood panel. Wood panel.

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Is it brick? Is it brick? It is brick. Brick

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by brick. Then you've got to check out. John's

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channel. You want to see me and Steven get taught

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how to do some cool crafts? Because we don't

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know anything because we're dumb. Yeah, Steven's

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not up yet. Oh, wait. Spoilers for Steven. Keep

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your eyes on the channel. You heard it here first,

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folks. Yeah, yeah. Oh, but yeah, check it out.

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Have a good time. Learn how to make some cool

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crafts and have fun. Hell yeah. Welcome, John.

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thanks do you guys want to have some fun tonight

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you want to get into it tonight yeah what are

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we doing uh do tell david so much there's so

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much uh And honestly, better than telling you

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anything, rather than getting into describing

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of it, let's just dive right into a scene and

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give nobody any idea what the hell is going on.

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Perfect. I don't know what the fuck is going

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on. We love to be convoluted. Proof that it was

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not my idea. Yeah, I did not like that you lumped

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Stephen and I in as the idiots at the beginning.

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You're the idiot that came up with this. Yes.

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But you know what? I had fun. Black screen. We

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see a title card. Appears. Five weeks ago. Yeah.

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I'm doing this. You are trapped in a nightmare.

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You cannot move, speak, scream, hear. You can

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only feel the cold crystal that encases you.

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And you can see time. It moves wrong. The mind

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does not comprehend everything locked in horror

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and helpless fury as it is. It's all a haze,

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a blur, moments bleeding into each other as your

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reality is just slowly being torn apart before

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you. You see the winding streets of the Radiant

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Citadel, a parade on a busy thoroughfare, a parade

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in which you are the star. Cheering crowds surround,

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watching as you are dragged on and on and up

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and up towards the turquoise conquered jewel

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which hovers docked in a passive respite, waiting

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eagerly to take you away. Another street in a

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bustling desert bazaar. Through the space between

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buildings you can make out a vast area of rolling

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dunes. There's something else as well. A shadow

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in the blue sky. Tall spires give the shadow

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the look of a grand palace. And you know it is

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Zendayane Saab's The Sky Prison. Your soon -to

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-be -home for lifetimes. Horror churns at your

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guts. Outside of you, something shifts and you

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are angled towards the sky. The sun is so bright

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it shines into your eyes with the crystal. It...

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burns that you cannot look away. The occasional

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shadow against the light brings moments of relief,

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winged celestials flying above your guards and

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your captors. You watch them circling within

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the sunlight as you move on and on. And you catch

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the moment when they stop circling. When their

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shapes dart downwards with alarm shaking. You

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have stopped moving. The light burns your eyes

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with no reprieve now until a large figure appears

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above you and it looks like a monster. A hulking

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humanoid form with the head of a lion, body cut

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and bleeding in several places, eyes dark. A

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black cloth is drawn over your prison, plunging

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you into darkness. You cannot move, speak, scream,

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hear, or see. You can only feel the cold crystal

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that encases you. And then, suddenly, that is

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also gone. There's a voice. Easy. Easy now. You're

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free. It'll be a minute before you can talk and

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move, but you're free. The silent roar has saved

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you. Torchlight. You're looking into a large

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open space, walls of canvas. See crates are piled

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up all around. You see racks filled with weapons,

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shells filled with foodstuffs. And you see people.

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A small militia packed into this space. Hardened

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folks, battle -scarred and well -armed. Among

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them stands that same lion man you saw before.

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And John, would you better describe the physical

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appearance of this figure for me? He is a large...

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lion man uh blackened eyes he has uh kind of

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like some darkened growths around where scars

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should be on his like mostly bare upper body

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except by he's adorned with a large black leather

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um like apron that is just constantly bleeding

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Oh, my God. Which is a wondrous item, by the

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way. It's a real, like, a D &D. It's called the

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Butcher's Bib, and it's awesome. Dude, it's awesome

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on you in particular, too. Yeah, so it's, like,

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this giant, and he's got, like, kind of, like,

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this smell, like, a fungal smell to him, I think,

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just, like, pollutes the room around. But, like,

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not in, like, a really, like, rotting way, but

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in a walking through a nice, like, forest, and

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you have, like... the underlay of mushrooms growing

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in a, like, moist environment. And he's got,

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like, you know, for the most part, not wearing,

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like, he's wearing pants and that apron, and

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I'm like, that's it. He's got a ring on his finger,

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but he's, like, pretty happy with his appearance.

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He looks a bit older, but whereas, like, a living...

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Being or something that's entirely living is

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like, you know, youthful and the skin is nice

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and like, you know, has a little bit of elasticity

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to it. He's like fully like aged as if leather

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almost. So he's like, he looks old, but in the

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way that like a sack looks old. So it was like

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really like a mummy. Freaking awful. I mean,

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he looks like. I don't think you notice a lot

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of that unless you're really close to him. He

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just looks like a giant, muscular lion man with

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all these scars. But as you start to look close,

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it's like he's almost carved out of old leather

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and mushrooms. We have tokens for our characters

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tonight, and we just have a picture of Leomon

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from Digimon. Fuck yeah, man. It's so good. It's

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so right. What inspired this guy, because I'm

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a little bit of a weeb, is Leomon from Digimon.

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and Princess Mononoke, where they have the rotting

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boar that bites. I think it kind of fucked me

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up when I watched it. Because the food pulled

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into the maggots. Yeah, so I was doing that,

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but with mushrooms. So should I say what kind

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of class I'm playing? What do you guys usually

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do with that? Go right ahead. He's a barbarian,

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Path of the Beast. Um, I believe I did five levels

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of that. And then, oh, should I say how many

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levels I am? You can say levels. Okay. I don't

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know how kosher that is. And then he's split

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with a, um, what's it called? Uh, the druid.

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Um. Circle of Spores. Circle of Spores, dude.

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And that's like six levels of that. So he let

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me be very strong for you guys. Yeah, beefy boy.

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Beefy boy. You are going to need all of that

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stuff. Oh, no. Hooray. Hooray. So you see this

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figure standing amongst this crowd. And you.

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You, the other yous, the Stephen and Jeremy,

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who are they playing? We'll find out. You feel

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movement begin to return to you. You can turn

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your heads. You can see that you are placed within

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a line of others, and you recognize those beside

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you, other former prisoners of the Celestials.

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A figure steps out from the militia crowd, a

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human man, middle -aged, with tan skin, long

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white eyebrows, droop beneath a purple turban,

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framing a stern, stony face. You're coming to

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your senses. Good. Good, be at ease. It's the

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same voice that spoke to you before. He turns

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away from you, raising his hands in a reverent

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gesture very suddenly. The singer will speak

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with you now. Be respectful. Know that it is

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by her command that you have been saved. And

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at these words, at the sound of approaching steps,

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chatter ceases all around. All eyes fall on a

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figure moving into the space. Huge, powerful

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build. A maw of razor teeth. Great, extending

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wings. Scales of gleaming brass. Get out. Heya.

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Um, hello. Hello there. Okay. We're bringing

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it all out tonight. Oh my god. Wow. Alright.

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I know. You all must be very confused right now.

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You must remember being detained by celestials.

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Your bodies being imprisoned in crystal. Your

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fate some lifetime spent in the sky prison. Your

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minds and souls rotting away as your bodies remain

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fresh in captivity. I've been told it's horrible.

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Like a lucid nightmare out of your control. It's

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something I can understand. I can understand.

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Some of you. might recognize me. You might know

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me as the world's known me as Xenobras, wife

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to Erethelon Brass. You all know him. But I was

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not always Xenobras. Once, I was called the singer.

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Fifty years ago, I founded the Silent Roar and

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stood to defy Atash as he settled into power

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here on Angor and Sengar. Thirty -three years

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ago, I made a grave error and was nearly caught,

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exposed. Only the intervention of Sholay Brass

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saved me from Arthash's clutches. But the singer

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had to go. Disappear. And Sholay was willing

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to help me with that. She had only one condition.

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A small smile on the half -dragon's lips. Just

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a date. With her son. And so Xena fell in love

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with Arathelon and became... A Brass. And she

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was so happy for many years. All the worlds know

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what happened to Arathelon, though. What they

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cannot know is what his erasure did to me and

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to my mind. He was my life for so long. The magic

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of the serial cannot explain his absence easily,

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and so he just restricted my thoughts entirely.

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When the magic was lifted, my mind restored.

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I had lost everything. My husband was rightfully

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murdered and erased. My youngest son. My wonderful

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little Zebulon was killed. My elder son gambles

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with death every day. Too righteous to be talked

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down. Too much his father. Even my mother -in

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-law, my savior, has been locked away. Forever.

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Deep breath. The eyes open, becoming fierce.

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There was nobody left to protect me. And nobody

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for me to protect. Not Azina. But I remember

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now that I was not always Xena. I am the singer.

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And I have chosen to return to the fight. And

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now you all have a choice too. I tell you all

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this because I need you to understand. I know

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the horror of being trapped in your own mind,

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bound by magic for years. It is a fate you have

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been saved from by the silent roar. But I want

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to be very clear here. You are not free. You

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are criminals now. thrown away by the governing

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powers of our worlds. But me? I've always loved

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collecting unwanted things. Those of you who

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wish to help me fight back, to clear your name

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so you may feel free again, you will be welcome

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among my ranks. Those of you who do not will

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be well cared for in my prison. You have seen

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me, so you cannot leave here under our current

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regime. But I promise we are far more humane

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than our adversaries in the sky. I will give

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you all some time to think. To make the wise

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choice. In the meantime, I will roast us a goat!

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There it is. We see the delicious sort of watching

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in horror as the half -dragon retreats. Oh, Sunweaver,

00:17:28.019 --> 00:17:30.960
not again. We don't have to eat it, do we? Everybody

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eats. Will you see how she... Everybody eats.

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Just like shivering. It's like war -hardened

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freedom fighters. See, our camera slides back

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to finally reveal our POV character. Or characters.

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So first, let's reintroduce Pepper. Named for

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his volatile temperament he has, a kit, Pepper

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grew up in the town of Promise, his family having

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strayed from the war ends of the nightwater swamps.

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All went well for the young Haringan until a

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certain incident caused him to lash out and attack

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some folks. And, uh, what do you think this was,

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Jeremy Wolf? Pepper ran into his old schoolyard

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bully. And even after they've graduated, he's

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still on that shit. He fought back in self -defense,

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but who's going to believe Pepper? Nobody. He's

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got that temper everyone knows about, and so...

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So he beat the shit out of him. But it was incomplete

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self -defense. Oh, no! It's even sadder! So desperate

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to escape the clutches of the local law, Pepper

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fled to the Radiant Citadel, where he fell victim

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to the manipulations of a certain gnomish agent.

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Following some conflicts with our main party

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of heroes, Pepper was convinced to leave Rune's

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employ when he was even given his own business

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to run as a sunko. Pepper's Peppers! The proud

00:19:00.369 --> 00:19:03.569
sponsor of Luminary, Jules LaRoche. But of course,

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even this new life was stripped from the poor

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fella when the Celestials used his criminal record

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as an excuse to shut his store down and have

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him sent to the Sky Prison. So we see one of

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our two characters here. He turns to the side

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and looks. And let's introduce Paloma. Reintroduce

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Paloma. Born as Pancho to a family of proud blacksmiths,

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Paloma has never been one to feel restrained

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by society. She shaped her own identity and lived

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a happy life growing up in a Saint -Étienne that

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never heard of the Radiant Citadel. She lived

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in Saint -Étienne City when it was Los Cavallanes.

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It was the old city. She saw everything happen.

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She's an elderly dwarf about 300 years old. She

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saw the connecting of the worlds, the founding

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of the network. She watched uneasy as her city

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grew and shifted into a hub for tourism. Then

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she watched in horror as Marvel Ironworks came

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along and seized power, pushing her community

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into their empire of labor. And having watched

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enough, Paloma took on a new calling, becoming

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a head of the underground revolution. And let

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me ask you, Stephen, was there a particular incident

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that caused Paloma to join the good fight? Yeah,

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it wasn't Paloma's own suffering under Marfil.

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She's strong enough that she could find her way,

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she could make it. What pushed her over the edge

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was seeing her friends and neighbors struggle.

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Small businesses close. Yeah. Children be put

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to work. That was too much. And so she... formed

00:20:35.369 --> 00:20:37.890
this rebellion. And after recruiting a certain

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team of heroes, Paloma hatched a scheme to see

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the leaders of Marfil and of Santatian City unseated.

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Looking towards a bright new horizon for her

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world, the elderly dwarf turned Marfil's resources

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into Freedom Ironworks and became the proud sponsor

00:20:52.589 --> 00:20:56.049
of luminary Dresden Kellig. But when a conspiracy

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to use their magical forges and armaments brought

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celestial forces to their doors, the leaders

00:21:01.250 --> 00:21:03.529
of Freedom Ironworks found themselves to be anything

00:21:03.529 --> 00:21:08.269
but butt free. And around these two are heroes,

00:21:08.650 --> 00:21:12.049
secondary heroes, actually, I should say sidekicks

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for tonight, a sidekick stat block's going on.

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We see a few other recognizable faces. We see

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the loyal, one -armed Grindy, the fierce mixed

00:21:20.509 --> 00:21:23.690
Margus Ruba, no longer a king of coin. And ahead

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of this group, who are slowly coming to their

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senses, the lion man lingers, watching. It becomes

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clear to you that this figure was one that had

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fought to save you. You also might recognize

00:21:35.630 --> 00:21:39.329
this figure as a long -time luminary, the one

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that has not seen much spotlight in recent years.

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And have we talked about your name? Have you

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shared the... Like the full name? Full name.

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I know we mentioned you way back in the spotlight,

00:21:50.970 --> 00:21:52.829
but... I think so. If you want to introduce the

00:21:52.829 --> 00:21:56.109
character, bring him up now. Here we have...

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So we have RZA. Which I said Risa, because Oren

00:22:01.190 --> 00:22:04.650
is bad at names. That's all right. It's Risa,

00:22:04.789 --> 00:22:09.230
and his last name is Horicium, which I think

00:22:09.230 --> 00:22:13.170
is a type of mushroom. Nice. And he goes by Lion's

00:22:13.170 --> 00:22:17.970
Mane. I love that. Oh, yeah. Just for a little

00:22:17.970 --> 00:22:21.150
bit of a pun there. Yeah, perfect. So, yeah,

00:22:21.230 --> 00:22:25.920
Lion's Mane. Yeah. Yeah. The room is starting

00:22:25.920 --> 00:22:29.720
to fill with acrid sort of smoke. Some kind of

00:22:29.720 --> 00:22:33.099
heat wafting from the back somewhere that you

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can't quite see. As you guys are sort of aware,

00:22:37.539 --> 00:22:40.299
you can fully kind of move. You feel your throats

00:22:40.299 --> 00:22:43.660
opening up and you can speak. Anything you want

00:22:43.660 --> 00:22:45.039
to say, though? The only one that's kind of,

00:22:45.079 --> 00:22:47.180
everyone else is kind of trailing back. A lot

00:22:47.180 --> 00:22:48.279
of people are actually, you see them kind of

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like ducking and running away as like the dinner

00:22:50.599 --> 00:22:53.940
is being prepared. I think Rizzo's the hard -boiled

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enough to just kind of stand his ground. So you

00:22:55.819 --> 00:22:58.279
guys see Rizzo's still there. You guys want to

00:22:58.279 --> 00:22:59.579
say anything? You want to take these character

00:22:59.579 --> 00:23:03.559
voices for a spin? Paloma watches somebody who's

00:23:03.559 --> 00:23:07.480
in the, shit, not silent verse. I said the wrong

00:23:07.480 --> 00:23:10.779
thing. Silent Roar. There's two Silents. That's

00:23:10.779 --> 00:23:14.819
in the book. Paloma watches somebody from the

00:23:14.819 --> 00:23:17.740
Silent Roar walk by and she looks up and asks,

00:23:17.900 --> 00:23:23.240
anything to smoke around here? I think assuming

00:23:23.240 --> 00:23:27.960
Paloma's looking up at RZA will clear his throat

00:23:27.960 --> 00:23:33.279
and just be like, yeah. And he will go through

00:23:33.279 --> 00:23:40.420
his very bloody pouch in his apron and just dig

00:23:40.420 --> 00:23:43.140
around in the butcher's bin. And he does have

00:23:43.140 --> 00:23:46.500
a jar of whatever. Oh, thank God they're in a

00:23:46.500 --> 00:23:52.589
jar. Yeah. Learn my lesson. He, like, opens the

00:23:52.589 --> 00:23:54.549
jars. Like, envelopes just don't work the way

00:23:54.549 --> 00:23:56.589
that they should. Gross. Especially with this

00:23:56.589 --> 00:23:59.170
thing. And he, like, yeah, he opens a jar up,

00:23:59.269 --> 00:24:01.289
and there's just, like, hand -rolled cigars in

00:24:01.289 --> 00:24:03.869
there. Oh, my God. Like, leaf cigars. It's good

00:24:03.869 --> 00:24:06.410
stuff. No, he's definitely a smoker. I mean,

00:24:06.470 --> 00:24:10.950
a guy that is the lion version of, like, just

00:24:10.950 --> 00:24:15.200
an old 60 -year -old man. that is really into

00:24:15.200 --> 00:24:18.059
working out. But he has his one vice, and yeah,

00:24:18.119 --> 00:24:20.720
for sure, cigars. And it's funny, at this point,

00:24:20.759 --> 00:24:22.660
as you reach out with a cigar, and I imagine

00:24:22.660 --> 00:24:24.099
you're reaching for it, you have this moment

00:24:24.099 --> 00:24:26.920
of deep connection here, because we have two

00:24:26.920 --> 00:24:31.279
souls that both old figures, figures who have

00:24:31.279 --> 00:24:32.519
been around for a long time, both of you have

00:24:32.519 --> 00:24:34.440
been around for probably a similar amount of

00:24:34.440 --> 00:24:37.049
time, right? I don't know if he would be that

00:24:37.049 --> 00:24:39.049
old. Yeah, actually, yeah. But, like, you've

00:24:39.049 --> 00:24:41.230
both been the heads of sort of revolutionaries.

00:24:41.230 --> 00:24:42.309
Oh, for sure. You've been working with them.

00:24:42.329 --> 00:24:44.990
You've been with the Silent Roar for a while.

00:24:45.130 --> 00:24:48.690
You worked with Xena back when she was the singer

00:24:48.690 --> 00:24:52.950
originally, before everything went bad. Yeah,

00:24:52.970 --> 00:24:54.730
so I think he would, like, clear his throat and

00:24:54.730 --> 00:24:57.509
hand over, like, a cigar to her, assuming that's

00:24:57.509 --> 00:24:59.390
what she's asking to smoke. He's like, if that's

00:24:59.390 --> 00:25:01.089
not good enough, I got more stuff in here, too.

00:25:01.349 --> 00:25:03.849
Thank you, honey. Thank you. Paloma, by the way.

00:25:04.250 --> 00:25:07.769
Nice to meet you. RZA. And he's like a little

00:25:07.769 --> 00:25:10.890
nervous for what you'd expect a giant lion man

00:25:10.890 --> 00:25:15.890
to be. So he's like, it's like, it's very nice

00:25:15.890 --> 00:25:17.970
to meet you. You can tell he doesn't talk to

00:25:17.970 --> 00:25:21.329
people more than the people that are around him

00:25:21.329 --> 00:25:23.809
all of the time and mostly just get spoken to.

00:25:24.210 --> 00:25:27.430
So he's just like, how's it going? And like,

00:25:27.450 --> 00:25:29.930
just like gives over a couple of cigars. And

00:25:29.930 --> 00:25:32.670
it's like, if you guys have any questions, I'm

00:25:32.670 --> 00:25:36.680
like one of the other, you know, I guess uppers

00:25:36.680 --> 00:25:39.220
here. So if you can ask me a question, I'm a

00:25:39.220 --> 00:25:42.599
little bit easier to talk to. You wouldn't be

00:25:42.599 --> 00:25:45.500
able to tell by the looks, but. Yeah, it looks

00:25:45.500 --> 00:25:47.859
like you had a pretty rough day, hon. Oh, fucking

00:25:47.859 --> 00:25:53.160
years. Yeah. But yeah, no, believe it or not,

00:25:53.299 --> 00:25:57.380
I'm the personality around here currently. You

00:25:57.380 --> 00:26:03.839
hear the back. I am really excited about the

00:26:03.839 --> 00:26:07.460
goat, though. So if we could get this going,

00:26:07.599 --> 00:26:10.480
would a giant, rotting lion man not want to eat

00:26:10.480 --> 00:26:13.920
a roast goat? I mean, come on. But no, yeah,

00:26:13.960 --> 00:26:15.599
he's like, I'm really excited about the goat.

00:26:15.700 --> 00:26:19.160
So the guys made decisions. I guess I could come

00:26:19.160 --> 00:26:22.539
back. I mean, I'm kind of supposed to be equally

00:26:22.539 --> 00:26:27.240
terrifying and also waiting for you to either

00:26:27.240 --> 00:26:31.299
tell her that you're in or out. I mean, you being

00:26:31.299 --> 00:26:34.670
terrifying aside, I'm in. Yeah, we pan over to

00:26:34.670 --> 00:26:41.490
Pepper. Pepper's got this just wide -eyed look

00:26:41.490 --> 00:26:52.970
of terror. Pepper is just frozen in fear. This

00:26:52.970 --> 00:26:58.349
is not right. Something's wrong. Nothing's right.

00:26:58.549 --> 00:27:01.630
Nothing's right. Who are you? Out of the skillet

00:27:01.630 --> 00:27:04.589
and into the fire, kid. Who the fuck does that

00:27:04.589 --> 00:27:10.210
mean? Bad to worse. Bad to worse. Oh my god,

00:27:10.230 --> 00:27:16.329
this is awesome. This is all wrong. I'm not supposed

00:27:16.329 --> 00:27:22.730
to be here. Well, welcome, kid. And he's like

00:27:22.730 --> 00:27:26.099
very awkwardly like, you know. an adult that's

00:27:26.099 --> 00:27:28.859
not used to talking to kids going up to him and

00:27:28.859 --> 00:27:33.240
treating him as if he's a child be like so you're

00:27:33.240 --> 00:27:36.660
part of a revolution possibly now would you like

00:27:36.660 --> 00:27:40.920
to you know not be in prison anymore uh pepper

00:27:40.920 --> 00:27:45.140
will turn to paloma why is it talking fight a

00:27:45.140 --> 00:27:47.359
flight why does it talk well i mean what do you

00:27:47.359 --> 00:27:52.970
mean why do why do i talk I mean, you're a talking

00:27:52.970 --> 00:27:55.650
rabbit. Is it crazy that a talking lion exists?

00:27:55.650 --> 00:27:58.329
That's not crazy at all. But a talking lion is

00:27:58.329 --> 00:28:02.509
crazy? Yes, where am I? I mean, I don't think

00:28:02.509 --> 00:28:04.490
I can tell you that unless you give me an answer

00:28:04.490 --> 00:28:07.009
if you're, I mean, in or out. If it'll get me

00:28:07.009 --> 00:28:10.549
out of here, then yes. Yeah, okay, sick. He's

00:28:10.549 --> 00:28:13.029
dead, he's dead. That's all I need to hear. Yeah,

00:28:13.029 --> 00:28:17.950
all right, that's it. You hear a voice, a singing

00:28:17.950 --> 00:28:24.599
voice, loud steps get closer. They already ate.

00:28:25.220 --> 00:28:31.339
More for us. Hey, good news. They're in. Oh,

00:28:31.339 --> 00:28:33.710
good. Yeah, sick. We don't have to lock him up.

00:28:33.829 --> 00:28:36.009
All right. I'll take one of the legs, please.

00:28:36.329 --> 00:28:40.950
These other people, like you, kind of recruiters

00:28:40.950 --> 00:28:43.269
that are talking to others. And you see Margus

00:28:43.269 --> 00:28:45.170
and Grindy, obviously, also in. They're kind

00:28:45.170 --> 00:28:47.849
of moving in. I think everyone starts to slide

00:28:47.849 --> 00:28:50.730
in slowly to this platter that drops down. This

00:28:50.730 --> 00:28:53.849
huge, two -handing overhead, this huge silver

00:28:53.849 --> 00:28:56.650
platter puts it down. And it's just this absolutely

00:28:56.650 --> 00:28:59.769
charred to the bone. The bones are black goat.

00:28:59.849 --> 00:29:02.539
Oh, my God. Jeez. Paloma's been smoking for over

00:29:02.539 --> 00:29:05.559
a hundred years, but even this is like, this

00:29:05.559 --> 00:29:07.240
is going to taste like ash. The look of frozen

00:29:07.240 --> 00:29:10.680
fear is on Pepper's face again. She grabs a piece

00:29:10.680 --> 00:29:14.519
of charred meat on a bone and uh -oh, here comes

00:29:14.519 --> 00:29:20.640
the airplane. Stop it, I love this. Paloma leans

00:29:20.640 --> 00:29:23.359
over to Lion's Mane. What's the food like in

00:29:23.359 --> 00:29:27.240
the prison? I don't think that they feed you.

00:29:27.599 --> 00:29:31.019
Our prison or the other one? Oh, we do feed you.

00:29:31.099 --> 00:29:33.960
It's pretty similar to this, actually. Picture

00:29:33.960 --> 00:29:38.940
this in stew form. Blackened stew. Somehow worse.

00:29:39.759 --> 00:29:45.720
Somehow worse. I don't think it's that bad. It's

00:29:45.720 --> 00:29:50.019
bad. Let's go on a bit of a montage here. I want

00:29:50.019 --> 00:29:53.680
to do a montage of the next five weeks as we

00:29:53.680 --> 00:29:58.269
catch up to Modern Today. I'll put some stuff

00:29:58.269 --> 00:30:00.170
out there. I always see some brief glimpses of

00:30:00.170 --> 00:30:02.650
training efforts with a silent roar, like Pepper

00:30:02.650 --> 00:30:05.349
maybe learning to better wield his rage or maybe

00:30:05.349 --> 00:30:08.589
his panic, as it were, as he kind of comes to

00:30:08.589 --> 00:30:11.690
get used to this strange new situation he finds

00:30:11.690 --> 00:30:14.849
himself in. We'll see Paloma just sparring with

00:30:14.849 --> 00:30:18.950
style. We see Margus and Grindy, they go to the

00:30:18.950 --> 00:30:20.950
streets using their charisma and guile to sort

00:30:20.950 --> 00:30:23.529
of head up recruitment efforts outside of the

00:30:23.529 --> 00:30:26.619
kind of... I guess, mission -based structure.

00:30:28.259 --> 00:30:31.980
We see gifts bestowed on our new recruits. A

00:30:31.980 --> 00:30:35.099
fine magical maul for Pepper. Magical cutlass

00:30:35.099 --> 00:30:37.359
and dagger for Paloma. It's worth noting that

00:30:37.359 --> 00:30:39.619
Silent Roar has a pretty massive store of magic

00:30:39.619 --> 00:30:41.480
items to be given out mission to mission. These

00:30:41.480 --> 00:30:43.700
are yours to keep. But if you go on certain missions,

00:30:43.779 --> 00:30:47.119
you might be equipped with certain pretty powerful

00:30:47.119 --> 00:30:50.000
stuff to kind of get you through. Speaking of

00:30:50.000 --> 00:30:51.819
missions, I imagine we see a few carried out.

00:30:52.299 --> 00:30:54.440
We see Pepper and Paloma probably supporting

00:30:54.440 --> 00:30:58.700
the ferocious RZA as, you know, kind of a small

00:30:58.700 --> 00:31:02.380
squad unit. And you guys give me some ideas.

00:31:02.480 --> 00:31:03.859
What kind of missions do you have going on? What

00:31:03.859 --> 00:31:06.880
kind of scenes might we see? I'm not sure what

00:31:06.880 --> 00:31:09.720
the landscape is like. Yeah. Are we only in the

00:31:09.720 --> 00:31:12.160
desert planet? Right. Yeah, mostly you're sticking

00:31:12.160 --> 00:31:14.740
on Anchor and Sengar. This is where the hall

00:31:14.740 --> 00:31:17.380
of celestial activity really is and where you're

00:31:17.380 --> 00:31:19.940
stricken at the heart of Atash's original kingdom.

00:31:20.559 --> 00:31:22.500
So you're seeing, if you sit outside, you see

00:31:22.500 --> 00:31:24.960
a desert world. There are some, if you look to

00:31:24.960 --> 00:31:27.740
the kind of far, far west of what they call the

00:31:27.740 --> 00:31:30.039
Burning Dunes, there are a few snow -capped mountains,

00:31:30.240 --> 00:31:32.539
a range that seems to block everything, but most

00:31:32.539 --> 00:31:36.319
of this world is just harsh, unrelenting, unforgiving

00:31:36.319 --> 00:31:40.119
desert. There are a number of towns and bazaars,

00:31:40.119 --> 00:31:43.200
outposts built around Oasis, sort of throughout,

00:31:43.380 --> 00:31:45.319
like, dotting the map. And you'll probably be

00:31:45.319 --> 00:31:48.619
taken to many of them, as Celestial Rule is kind

00:31:48.619 --> 00:31:51.380
of all -encompassing here. Everything belongs

00:31:51.380 --> 00:31:54.920
in Natasha's fist. If there's, like, a spot close

00:31:54.920 --> 00:31:58.890
by, like, some sort of almost... So they're like

00:31:58.890 --> 00:32:02.170
the celestial presence is like kind of full force

00:32:02.170 --> 00:32:05.329
out here? I guess I'll say it is and isn't because

00:32:05.329 --> 00:32:09.630
it used to be much heavier. But more recently,

00:32:09.630 --> 00:32:11.430
they've been spreading pretty thin. They've been

00:32:11.430 --> 00:32:14.230
sending celestials to every of the 25 worlds.

00:32:14.250 --> 00:32:17.450
So where there was this overwhelming, overbearing

00:32:17.450 --> 00:32:19.410
sort of policing force here, they've actually

00:32:19.410 --> 00:32:23.079
been scattered, you know, into 20... How many

00:32:23.079 --> 00:32:24.720
worlds are there now? How many did they kill?

00:32:24.799 --> 00:32:27.859
Two? Three different directions. So I feel like

00:32:27.859 --> 00:32:31.920
a few of them could be something like either...

00:32:32.240 --> 00:32:35.200
a fantasy traffic stop pretty much where they're

00:32:35.200 --> 00:32:37.220
just trying to like flag down anyone that might

00:32:37.220 --> 00:32:40.200
have ties to the silent roar and then have three

00:32:40.200 --> 00:32:43.380
actual like members come in and just bust it

00:32:43.380 --> 00:32:46.839
up um if there's any sort of like retrievement

00:32:46.839 --> 00:32:49.880
missions that the celestials are on like trying

00:32:49.880 --> 00:32:52.519
to take their magical items from them i don't

00:32:52.519 --> 00:32:54.480
know i do imagine i'm just seeing this all in

00:32:54.480 --> 00:32:56.380
like comic panel form with just like some pepper

00:32:56.380 --> 00:33:05.089
doing a pow The flying bunny kick. We're going

00:33:05.089 --> 00:33:07.109
to call that on it. 22 different worlds because

00:33:07.109 --> 00:33:11.089
the world of Tledebek is still holding out thanks

00:33:11.089 --> 00:33:13.410
to your efforts. So if anyone with a sharp beard

00:33:13.410 --> 00:33:15.230
wanted to get me, ha! You're welcome. You didn't

00:33:15.230 --> 00:33:19.430
get me. Anyway. Any other scenes you want to

00:33:19.430 --> 00:33:22.990
just dive into the modern day? I think that Paloma

00:33:22.990 --> 00:33:26.630
is going to at least try to be operating as Lion

00:33:26.630 --> 00:33:29.809
Mane's... scout through all this. I like that.

00:33:29.829 --> 00:33:31.549
She's at least a little sneaky. That's kind of

00:33:31.549 --> 00:33:34.849
where her strengths are. Hell yeah. For sure.

00:33:35.089 --> 00:33:37.289
Pepper's taking up the second line. I think you

00:33:37.289 --> 00:33:40.690
can see him in the montage early on. He's just

00:33:40.690 --> 00:33:42.990
the guy that comes in and gets the last hit.

00:33:43.829 --> 00:33:46.650
He's like, I did something. But then he gets

00:33:46.650 --> 00:33:47.970
a little more involved later, but he's still

00:33:47.970 --> 00:33:51.279
very much... I think Lion's Mane, considering

00:33:51.279 --> 00:33:55.339
barbarians, would probably try to be like, all

00:33:55.339 --> 00:33:58.259
right, you can be upset, but you've got to harness

00:33:58.259 --> 00:34:03.640
it in a way. Giving him some tips as someone

00:34:03.640 --> 00:34:06.160
who's tried to balance his rage over the years.

00:34:06.180 --> 00:34:08.500
Yeah, that's awesome. And get a little bit more

00:34:08.500 --> 00:34:13.719
control over it. And kind of keep him near him

00:34:13.719 --> 00:34:18.289
during the raids. But if you see the way that,

00:34:18.309 --> 00:34:21.309
like, Lion's Mane rages out, I think it would

00:34:21.309 --> 00:34:24.449
probably terrify him again. It turns into a giant

00:34:24.449 --> 00:34:28.409
fungus infested. Oh, my God. Yeah. Because you

00:34:28.409 --> 00:34:30.050
get, like, a fungal form made out of mushrooms.

00:34:30.210 --> 00:34:33.389
So it's a giant mushroom. That's so weird. Hardened

00:34:33.389 --> 00:34:36.809
mushroom with huge claws and a tail. That's right.

00:34:37.150 --> 00:34:38.670
It's insane. I remember all this from Spotlight,

00:34:38.670 --> 00:34:40.769
but now it's like, oh, my God. I can't wait to

00:34:40.769 --> 00:34:42.869
see it. Well, the classes are so fun to smash

00:34:42.869 --> 00:34:46.159
together. It's like in every single fight, there's

00:34:46.159 --> 00:34:48.219
at least one moment where you have to slap Pepper

00:34:48.219 --> 00:34:52.440
out of the fear. Wake back up, kid. Come on.

00:34:55.500 --> 00:35:00.199
Paloma has an intimidating leader feature where

00:35:00.199 --> 00:35:03.320
she can yell insults at people to make them roll

00:35:03.320 --> 00:35:05.780
better. Essentially a re -roll. Not roll better,

00:35:05.860 --> 00:35:09.380
a re -roll. That's fun. And it's been pretty

00:35:09.380 --> 00:35:11.500
cute to watch this mentor -mentee relationship.

00:35:14.159 --> 00:35:19.139
Rules so hard. And we see this group over these

00:35:19.139 --> 00:35:22.380
five weeks getting stronger, getting better equipped,

00:35:22.659 --> 00:35:26.539
getting to know each other, to rely on each other,

00:35:26.579 --> 00:35:31.579
becoming a true squad. And we cut to present

00:35:31.579 --> 00:35:38.559
day. We cut to a vast cemetery set into the sands

00:35:38.559 --> 00:35:41.840
of the desert. Rows and rows of ornate tombs

00:35:41.840 --> 00:35:44.219
and sarcophagi, most carved of gray and white

00:35:44.219 --> 00:35:47.940
marble. We see two plaques side by side against

00:35:47.940 --> 00:35:50.860
an enormous monument of brass. And as our camera

00:35:50.860 --> 00:35:52.960
slides past, we see they are marked with the

00:35:52.960 --> 00:35:58.159
same name. Zebulon Brass. And looming high above

00:35:58.159 --> 00:36:00.679
this resting ground of the dead, hundreds of

00:36:00.679 --> 00:36:07.460
feet... My throat. I need beer. That'll help.

00:36:09.110 --> 00:36:12.190
Hundreds of feet in the air, we see the Sky Prison

00:36:12.190 --> 00:36:15.590
in all of its glory. A rounded structure built

00:36:15.590 --> 00:36:17.789
on a platform of rough white crystal looking

00:36:17.789 --> 00:36:21.110
to all the world like a cloud in the sky. Limestone

00:36:21.110 --> 00:36:25.349
walls form a daunting fortress. Towers jut towards

00:36:25.349 --> 00:36:28.369
the heavens, topped with rounded turquoise bulbs

00:36:28.369 --> 00:36:31.269
pointed at their apex. We see grand mosaics of

00:36:31.269 --> 00:36:33.670
yellow stones form images of blazing suns around

00:36:33.670 --> 00:36:36.110
the fortress, matching red banners waving the

00:36:36.110 --> 00:36:39.320
same emblem. We see no windows in the structure's

00:36:39.320 --> 00:36:42.420
walls, only a few stone doorways carved into

00:36:42.420 --> 00:36:46.179
the sides. And no stairs connect them, for this

00:36:46.179 --> 00:36:49.440
fortress belongs only to the masters of the sky.

00:36:49.800 --> 00:36:53.519
And we see such figures moving about. There are

00:36:53.519 --> 00:36:56.760
celestials of the humanoid form, divas, pari,

00:36:56.780 --> 00:36:59.019
you know these guys. Their number, one might

00:36:59.019 --> 00:37:01.940
note, are relatively few here, and all concentrated

00:37:01.940 --> 00:37:04.840
around the doors of the palace proper. But there

00:37:04.840 --> 00:37:08.420
are other, less humanoid guardians as well. Figures

00:37:08.420 --> 00:37:11.900
dancing around and below the fortress. Noble

00:37:11.900 --> 00:37:14.960
pegasi that travel in flocks, darting around

00:37:14.960 --> 00:37:18.739
with immaculate grace. Great winged mammoths

00:37:18.739 --> 00:37:22.659
with shining golden fur. Their forms are simple,

00:37:22.699 --> 00:37:24.739
almost like the fantasies of children. They could

00:37:24.739 --> 00:37:26.860
look like harmless stuffed toys, were it not

00:37:26.860 --> 00:37:29.699
for their massive forms and trumpeting call.

00:37:31.239 --> 00:37:35.019
Hollyphants, they are called. Hanging amidst

00:37:35.019 --> 00:37:38.800
all of this, stationary in the air, we see the

00:37:38.800 --> 00:37:43.139
chief guardian of this place. A massive winged

00:37:43.139 --> 00:37:47.440
lion, adorned by golden bands and jewels, grey

00:37:47.440 --> 00:37:49.960
-furred with intricate turquoise patterns covering

00:37:49.960 --> 00:37:53.739
the body. His white mane is gloriously braided,

00:37:53.820 --> 00:37:57.079
spilling out from a handsome golden crown. His

00:37:57.079 --> 00:38:00.619
wings, a breathtaking mix of pink, white, and

00:38:00.619 --> 00:38:04.780
orange. He is a gray Arlen, sphinx of valor.

00:38:04.980 --> 00:38:07.940
He who lingers between the land and the sky prison,

00:38:08.179 --> 00:38:11.380
guardian of the dead below and the damned above.

00:38:11.599 --> 00:38:17.480
And he is your target. Cool. Awesome. Great.

00:38:18.619 --> 00:38:21.139
We pan away from this scene, away from the sky,

00:38:21.239 --> 00:38:23.300
prison in the cemetery, trapped within the shadow

00:38:23.300 --> 00:38:27.300
of the sun. We pan across burning dunes to a

00:38:27.300 --> 00:38:31.199
place surrounded by a sea of sloping sand. And

00:38:31.199 --> 00:38:35.480
we see three figures perched upon three flying

00:38:35.480 --> 00:38:41.489
carpets. RZA. Paloma. Pepper. You are about to

00:38:41.489 --> 00:38:44.610
engage in the most dangerous task you have ever

00:38:44.610 --> 00:38:50.869
attempted. Very likely a suicide mission. How

00:38:50.869 --> 00:38:52.369
do you all carry yourselves in this moment of

00:38:52.369 --> 00:38:57.550
calm before the storm? RZA is sitting like crisscross

00:38:57.550 --> 00:39:01.889
applesauce on the flying carpet, and he is calmly

00:39:01.889 --> 00:39:04.789
flipping the pages over in a book, and he is

00:39:04.789 --> 00:39:07.210
just reading. What book is this? I gotta know.

00:39:07.289 --> 00:39:11.440
Sorry, I'm making it up. God, what is the fantasy

00:39:11.440 --> 00:39:15.739
version of fantasy novels? Like, what would he

00:39:15.739 --> 00:39:20.420
be reading? I guess sci -fi. I guess he's reading,

00:39:20.440 --> 00:39:22.780
like, God, people going to space? That's crazy.

00:39:24.179 --> 00:39:28.280
That's insane. Time travel? Nuts. He's reading

00:39:28.280 --> 00:39:31.719
some, I just picture it as a gas station or an

00:39:31.719 --> 00:39:35.340
airport novel. And he's just staying a little

00:39:35.340 --> 00:39:37.920
calm, smoking one of his cigars while he's doing

00:39:37.920 --> 00:39:39.880
it. And he's just kind of sitting there, crisscross

00:39:39.880 --> 00:39:44.099
applesauce, chilling out. So mega chill. Yeah,

00:39:44.179 --> 00:39:47.760
just really, before he has to rage out, just

00:39:47.760 --> 00:39:51.079
really hanging out the whole time. Flips a page

00:39:51.079 --> 00:39:53.320
over. You see as they get close, he probably

00:39:53.320 --> 00:39:57.039
put it in a... a wax paper bag to keep it from

00:39:57.039 --> 00:40:02.119
getting covered in blood. How about you, Paloma?

00:40:02.199 --> 00:40:04.699
How you doing? How are you facing all of this

00:40:04.699 --> 00:40:11.139
imminent death? Paloma's crouched on her carpet.

00:40:13.320 --> 00:40:17.760
She looks like, you know, poised to make a move

00:40:17.760 --> 00:40:23.199
in any direction. And she's kind of in... Some

00:40:23.199 --> 00:40:26.699
sort of, like, resigned disbelief, like, this

00:40:26.699 --> 00:40:28.500
is really the best crew they could find for this

00:40:28.500 --> 00:40:32.639
mission. We can hear the mission. Us, this is

00:40:32.639 --> 00:40:37.920
it. But yeah, we're the suicide crew. Yeah. And

00:40:37.920 --> 00:40:41.079
hearing that, Pepper, what are you... Pepper

00:40:41.079 --> 00:40:43.400
is sitting there very tense, very wide -eyed,

00:40:43.420 --> 00:40:48.539
very just frozen again. However... He is a little

00:40:48.539 --> 00:40:50.440
more composed this time. He's able to kind of

00:40:50.440 --> 00:40:52.860
rein it in. Oh, shit. He's trembling a little

00:40:52.860 --> 00:40:56.559
bit, but he's not. He's keeping it under control.

00:40:57.079 --> 00:40:58.820
You're a ways away because you're looking towards

00:40:58.820 --> 00:41:00.679
the sky. You know what you're facing. You know

00:41:00.679 --> 00:41:03.559
what's coming. In fact, let me tell you what

00:41:03.559 --> 00:41:05.659
you're actually dealing with here because this

00:41:05.659 --> 00:41:09.320
is crazy. Before we get into the mission, though,

00:41:09.340 --> 00:41:10.739
before we actually talk about it, what I want

00:41:10.739 --> 00:41:14.579
to do before I forget is tell you this. This,

00:41:14.639 --> 00:41:18.369
these, these are four buttons. This is your button

00:41:18.369 --> 00:41:20.929
pool. I'm giving you a button pool tonight. You

00:41:20.929 --> 00:41:23.829
get to decide who gets these buttons. How do

00:41:23.829 --> 00:41:25.530
you want to divvy these things out? Oh, we're

00:41:25.530 --> 00:41:28.010
divvying them out ahead of time? Oh yeah, you

00:41:28.010 --> 00:41:30.769
gotta do it ahead of time. Yeah, I'm mean. I

00:41:30.769 --> 00:41:35.050
want you to fight. Alright. Somebody gets three

00:41:35.050 --> 00:41:37.630
buttons, somebody gets one button. I don't want

00:41:37.630 --> 00:41:39.110
any buttons. I want John to have two buttons.

00:41:39.170 --> 00:41:42.510
Holy schmoly. I'm the character that probably

00:41:42.510 --> 00:41:45.269
doesn't matter to the story beyond this. I don't

00:41:45.269 --> 00:41:47.920
need three buttons. He gets two. Sure. All right,

00:41:47.980 --> 00:41:50.219
2 -1 -1. We've got to keep the beefy boy alive.

00:41:50.519 --> 00:41:53.679
Okay, I like it. I like it. You are all going

00:41:53.679 --> 00:41:55.000
to die. I feel like we need to keep Pepper alive.

00:41:55.139 --> 00:41:57.039
He's like a fan favorite. Oh, dude, for sure.

00:41:57.079 --> 00:41:59.280
David has no qualms killing fan favorites. I

00:41:59.280 --> 00:42:01.179
know, he's going to kill him. Deeply gunning

00:42:01.179 --> 00:42:03.500
for Pepper. I cannot wait. Jeremy hasn't had

00:42:03.500 --> 00:42:06.659
a character die yet. It's coming. Oh, he already

00:42:06.659 --> 00:42:09.119
killed one rabbit, so what's two? Yeah, exactly.

00:42:09.280 --> 00:42:11.079
The thing is, I didn't choose this character,

00:42:11.159 --> 00:42:16.260
so... Call me Elmer Fudd because it's wabbit

00:42:16.260 --> 00:42:18.980
season. I mean, you're going to have to contend

00:42:18.980 --> 00:42:21.739
with Jules if you kill Pepper. I'm killing him

00:42:21.739 --> 00:42:25.780
too. But counter to my killing wishes, you each

00:42:25.780 --> 00:42:27.440
are going to start this combat with a potion

00:42:27.440 --> 00:42:29.630
of superior healing. You each get one. Nice.

00:42:29.690 --> 00:42:32.090
Cool. Keep that in mind. You also have some magic

00:42:32.090 --> 00:42:36.469
items provided. Pepper, I gifted you a wand of

00:42:36.469 --> 00:42:40.510
fireballs matching your fiery nature or temperament.

00:42:40.849 --> 00:42:42.789
So that might be helpful, a little ranged option.

00:42:43.150 --> 00:42:47.369
Colum, what did you end up taking? The ring of

00:42:47.369 --> 00:42:49.650
obscuring. I think that's a good idea. So it's

00:42:49.650 --> 00:42:52.730
not a ring though, right? Oh, yes. Yeah, yeah,

00:42:52.750 --> 00:42:56.380
yeah, yeah. So during the five weeks. Paloma

00:42:56.380 --> 00:43:00.440
found a different supplier for cigars and she

00:43:00.440 --> 00:43:03.599
got a cigar of obscuring. That's so awesome.

00:43:03.860 --> 00:43:06.400
I thought it was going to be a piercing. And

00:43:06.400 --> 00:43:14.599
she was also given a returning dagger from the

00:43:14.599 --> 00:43:21.320
silent roar. Hell yeah. Okay. Okay. With that,

00:43:21.320 --> 00:43:25.139
we see our characters on their carpets. All kind

00:43:25.139 --> 00:43:28.900
of. waiting, waiting. We kind of pan out and

00:43:28.900 --> 00:43:32.960
we see that each carpet has a hook driven through

00:43:32.960 --> 00:43:35.300
it and a long line that leads down to the ground

00:43:35.300 --> 00:43:38.400
below. We see cone -like devices looking almost

00:43:38.400 --> 00:43:42.039
like brass bells rest against the sand. Boomhalers,

00:43:42.179 --> 00:43:45.900
they are called. Every few moments, these boomhalers

00:43:45.900 --> 00:43:51.260
buzz and shake violently. Dan, it's Dan. They

00:43:51.260 --> 00:43:53.760
vibrate into the desert floor and the desert

00:43:53.760 --> 00:43:57.000
vibrates back. This is so funny. This is deeply

00:43:57.000 --> 00:44:00.440
connected to what our Monster of the Week monster

00:44:00.440 --> 00:44:02.860
was. Remember the vibrating box with the switch

00:44:02.860 --> 00:44:05.320
on it? Those deep cuts that listen to the monster.

00:44:06.340 --> 00:44:08.139
Vaguely. You don't remember nine months ago?

00:44:08.760 --> 00:44:11.320
Anyway. Was it only nine months ago? It was worms.

00:44:11.500 --> 00:44:14.260
So anyway. It was two years ago. Is it the Mongolian

00:44:14.260 --> 00:44:15.920
death worm? It was Mongolian. John New Edwards.

00:44:16.039 --> 00:44:17.900
It was Mongolian death worm. These are bigger

00:44:17.900 --> 00:44:20.360
than those. These are much bigger than those

00:44:20.360 --> 00:44:23.039
because we see the first purple worm breaks the

00:44:23.039 --> 00:44:28.010
surface in a cloud of dust. It is far from you

00:44:28.010 --> 00:44:30.590
yet, maybe 300 feet out. It just begins driving

00:44:30.590 --> 00:44:33.449
itself towards you with reckless abandon, desperate

00:44:33.449 --> 00:44:37.230
to stop those insufferable vibrations. This creature

00:44:37.230 --> 00:44:40.369
is gigantic beyond belief. It's segmented carapace

00:44:40.369 --> 00:44:43.230
covered in spines. It's great opened maw lined

00:44:43.230 --> 00:44:46.090
with point and venom -coated teeth shows only

00:44:46.090 --> 00:44:49.650
a deep blackness within. The second worm appears

00:44:49.650 --> 00:44:53.289
about 100 feet behind that and joins the charge.

00:44:53.329 --> 00:44:56.760
A third appears just behind that. and you know

00:44:56.760 --> 00:45:03.519
it is time to act. Zeno's plan is frankly insane.

00:45:04.940 --> 00:45:08.519
Is it lure three purple worms into a giant lion's

00:45:08.519 --> 00:45:11.239
lair? Pretty much. You're using these boomhalers

00:45:11.239 --> 00:45:13.760
to lead whatever word you can get. It looks like

00:45:13.760 --> 00:45:15.639
three purple worms are coming now towards the

00:45:15.639 --> 00:45:18.760
Sky Prison and cause a scene of pure chaos in

00:45:18.760 --> 00:45:21.059
the cemetery below. This will pull the guardian

00:45:21.059 --> 00:45:23.559
beasts, the Celestials, into the fray and give

00:45:23.559 --> 00:45:25.900
you a chance to strike at the leader of the guard,

00:45:26.159 --> 00:45:30.039
Grealin, a figure powerful enough and fast enough

00:45:30.039 --> 00:45:32.739
to pose a major threat to extraction efforts.

00:45:33.719 --> 00:45:36.719
Meanwhile, Xena is going to lead a group to break

00:45:36.719 --> 00:45:39.519
into the Sky Prison itself. With Celestial forces

00:45:39.519 --> 00:45:41.679
posted on every world, the prison sees a much

00:45:41.679 --> 00:45:45.489
lighter guard these days. maybe just light enough

00:45:45.489 --> 00:45:48.489
to allow for the extraction of a few key revolutionary

00:45:48.489 --> 00:45:52.409
figures. It's worth noting that the doors and

00:45:52.409 --> 00:45:54.050
security systems of the prison are designed to

00:45:54.050 --> 00:45:57.650
only open at the touch of a celestial. Thankfully,

00:45:57.809 --> 00:45:59.809
it turns out that half -celestials stay pretty

00:45:59.809 --> 00:46:02.449
well preserved after death. And the unfortunate

00:46:02.449 --> 00:46:05.030
deceased Ramin Rasool certainly won't miss his

00:46:05.030 --> 00:46:10.110
hands. Oh! Jesus Christ. What? A lot inspired,

00:46:10.389 --> 00:46:13.889
perhaps, by the late, late Koli Jr. Wow. Can

00:46:13.889 --> 00:46:17.630
I take your hand? Wow. Oh. Holy shit. Pretty

00:46:17.630 --> 00:46:19.710
convenient that Ramin was entombed so close,

00:46:19.710 --> 00:46:21.510
just beneath the fortress with all the honored

00:46:21.510 --> 00:46:23.590
dead of Angkor and Sengar. And you guys thought,

00:46:23.630 --> 00:46:26.349
this is being with a sweet, sweet lady. She's

00:46:26.349 --> 00:46:28.530
cutting hands off. She's taking hands. I think

00:46:28.530 --> 00:46:32.590
we just officially had the darkest moment. I

00:46:32.590 --> 00:46:38.369
think it can get darker. And with all of that

00:46:38.369 --> 00:46:43.190
said, we're caught up. It is time to do or die.

00:46:43.349 --> 00:46:44.949
And in the doing, it's probably also going to

00:46:44.949 --> 00:46:49.610
be dying. So let's go! Oh, God. So, let's get

00:46:49.610 --> 00:46:52.909
into roll 20. If you don't need to roll 20, it's

00:46:52.909 --> 00:46:54.389
not mandatory, John. I don't want 20 becoming

00:46:54.389 --> 00:46:57.489
a Stephen. Sorry. I have, yeah, I have roll 20

00:46:57.489 --> 00:47:00.239
up so we can... Because we're doing a good old

00:47:00.239 --> 00:47:03.699
classic Fancy Pants chase sequence. But this

00:47:03.699 --> 00:47:08.019
one's going to be a little weird. See, these

00:47:08.019 --> 00:47:10.739
worms, you've got to let them get close enough,

00:47:10.880 --> 00:47:13.420
right, that they can stay on the line. You are

00:47:13.420 --> 00:47:16.280
not just running. You're also fishing. So sick.

00:47:16.320 --> 00:47:18.300
Jesus Christ. The first thing I'm going to ask

00:47:18.300 --> 00:47:20.880
is how close you let them get before you begin

00:47:20.880 --> 00:47:23.519
to fly away. And know that your answer will determine

00:47:23.519 --> 00:47:29.159
how many worms you manage to reel in. Okay, well,

00:47:29.320 --> 00:47:33.960
I'm a fan of close, but without knowing a lot

00:47:33.960 --> 00:47:36.360
of the mechanics, I don't know how close. You

00:47:36.360 --> 00:47:38.900
want to roll a check about that? Sure, yeah.

00:47:39.400 --> 00:47:47.139
I'll allow animal handling or nature. Anyone

00:47:47.139 --> 00:47:48.760
can roll these. You're trying to get an idea

00:47:48.760 --> 00:47:50.699
of how deep these vibrations are, how far they'll

00:47:50.699 --> 00:47:52.940
travel, how much instinctually these creatures

00:47:52.940 --> 00:47:56.340
will follow after them. Cool. That's intelligence.

00:47:57.280 --> 00:47:59.059
Yeah, straight intelligence if you don't have

00:47:59.059 --> 00:48:02.559
anything in those two. Yeah, it's only seven

00:48:02.559 --> 00:48:05.300
for Pepper. So you're just blind guessing? Any

00:48:05.300 --> 00:48:09.659
rolls to make still? Pull them a rolled 15. 15.

00:48:10.519 --> 00:48:14.800
15's not bad. With a 15, you would think that

00:48:14.800 --> 00:48:17.500
you'd want them, if you want to get all three

00:48:17.500 --> 00:48:21.119
of them, you'd want to probably start off with

00:48:21.119 --> 00:48:22.880
the first one, seeing how far away from each

00:48:22.880 --> 00:48:24.380
other. Like the first one, we only get to land

00:48:24.380 --> 00:48:28.690
50 feet away from you. No more 50 feet because

00:48:28.690 --> 00:48:31.429
the other ones are sort of drawing back. They're

00:48:31.429 --> 00:48:34.929
farther off. If you move now before it gets that

00:48:34.929 --> 00:48:39.590
close, they might lose interest. Well, I was

00:48:39.590 --> 00:48:41.949
briefed before we left, and I think we need to

00:48:41.949 --> 00:48:44.510
let them get within 50 feet of us if we want

00:48:44.510 --> 00:48:48.090
all three. Is that what you want? Starting off

00:48:48.090 --> 00:48:53.920
on the 50 line? Pepper, lion? Yes, sure. Sorry,

00:48:53.980 --> 00:48:59.139
looking at spells. So, even though you're on

00:48:59.139 --> 00:49:00.880
carpets and not necessarily running, the way

00:49:00.880 --> 00:49:02.300
this is going to work is I'm assuming, kind of

00:49:02.300 --> 00:49:03.619
going to do with the rod of flying, that you

00:49:03.619 --> 00:49:07.280
are just using your dash to recklessly fly and

00:49:07.280 --> 00:49:09.719
keep a hold on it. If you can dash as a bonus

00:49:09.719 --> 00:49:11.679
action, you have access to your actions. Otherwise,

00:49:11.880 --> 00:49:13.539
you only have access to bonus actions during

00:49:13.539 --> 00:49:15.920
the chase. If you use an action, you have disadvantage

00:49:15.920 --> 00:49:20.099
on your next roll. Your rolls will be acrobatics.

00:49:20.380 --> 00:49:22.929
You're going to take a plus six to them. based

00:49:22.929 --> 00:49:26.090
on the move speed of 60 that the carpet of flying

00:49:26.090 --> 00:49:28.949
has. You each have your own carpet. The worms

00:49:28.949 --> 00:49:31.269
are 50 feet behind you. They're going to move

00:49:31.269 --> 00:49:35.449
after you. If one touches you, it will destroy

00:49:35.449 --> 00:49:39.090
your boom hailer and also kick your ass. If all

00:49:39.090 --> 00:49:41.550
three boom halers are destroyed before the end

00:49:41.550 --> 00:49:44.630
of these five rounds, no worms will follow you.

00:49:45.309 --> 00:49:47.969
So, with all of that figured out, with all that

00:49:47.969 --> 00:49:51.730
understood, I'm going to roll a check. Create

00:49:51.730 --> 00:49:54.289
our baseline. We're going to be rolling yours,

00:49:54.769 --> 00:49:56.829
be basing it off of what I roll. Let's see how

00:49:56.829 --> 00:50:00.389
it goes. Okay. Everyone give me your acrobatics

00:50:00.389 --> 00:50:05.110
checks with a plus six. It's a nat 20 and a waste

00:50:05.110 --> 00:50:11.289
of it, I think. Maybe not. Maybe not. Harper's

00:50:11.289 --> 00:50:16.670
got a dirty 20. Dirty 20, okay. 15. 15, all right.

00:50:17.070 --> 00:50:19.550
Do you need the full number? Yeah, I actually

00:50:19.550 --> 00:50:21.550
need the full number. Is it acrobatics right

00:50:21.550 --> 00:50:22.630
here? Oh, you know what? I actually don't need

00:50:22.630 --> 00:50:24.329
the full number. You, with a crit either way,

00:50:24.449 --> 00:50:28.050
you gain 30 feet on it. All right, sick. So you

00:50:28.050 --> 00:50:31.010
are now 80 feet ahead. That's huge. Pepper, no,

00:50:31.070 --> 00:50:33.449
sorry, I moved Pepper. Well, but I don't want

00:50:33.449 --> 00:50:35.889
to be that far ahead, right? It's okay now. They're

00:50:35.889 --> 00:50:37.250
kind of chasing after you. You kind of got them

00:50:37.250 --> 00:50:39.670
on the move. Don't leave, at this point, don't

00:50:39.670 --> 00:50:41.250
leave the scale. Stay with 100 feet. But you

00:50:41.250 --> 00:50:43.030
have, you get them in close. They're kind of

00:50:43.030 --> 00:50:45.230
hooked on you. They're charging now, full force.

00:50:45.369 --> 00:50:49.760
And you kind of zoom to 80 feet ahead. Pepper,

00:50:49.860 --> 00:50:53.760
with a 20 dirty, you move up 10 feet. Just barely

00:50:53.760 --> 00:50:56.139
edging this thing out. Paloma, you start to move

00:50:56.139 --> 00:50:59.940
backwards just a bit. Oh, no. Only 10 feet back,

00:51:00.000 --> 00:51:02.380
but you're falling behind. That's 40 feet. That's

00:51:02.380 --> 00:51:07.500
round one. Oh, my God. A 15? Oh, yeah. I rolled

00:51:07.500 --> 00:51:13.079
low. Next round. All right. Acrobatics checks.

00:51:14.099 --> 00:51:16.150
Acrobatics, the plus six. Let's see what you

00:51:16.150 --> 00:51:18.750
got. Will you fall into the maw of the worm?

00:51:18.789 --> 00:51:20.190
Will you die before you even reach the combat?

00:51:20.489 --> 00:51:23.630
Oh, crap! Oh, that's 30 feet ahead. So you're

00:51:23.630 --> 00:51:26.329
just falling back, and you feel it, and you just

00:51:26.329 --> 00:51:30.409
blast, surging forward. Hell yeah. That is a

00:51:30.409 --> 00:51:34.630
19. A 19, okay. With a 19, Pepper manages to

00:51:34.630 --> 00:51:37.510
once again get a little bit ahead. They're both

00:51:37.510 --> 00:51:38.949
Paloma and Pepper reaching that 70 -foot -away

00:51:38.949 --> 00:51:41.289
line, kind of once again side -by -side. RZA.

00:51:41.570 --> 00:51:46.420
12. With a 12. they're mediocre actually yeah

00:51:46.420 --> 00:51:49.619
you only fall back let me check this is it's

00:51:49.619 --> 00:51:51.179
very much depends on what my what i wrote here

00:51:51.179 --> 00:51:55.800
five or under difference is 10 feet okay uh with

00:51:55.800 --> 00:51:58.059
a 12 with against my 17 you only go back 10 feet

00:51:58.059 --> 00:52:01.119
now everybody is the 70 foot line uh everything's

00:52:01.119 --> 00:52:04.500
going pretty good you're just like looking back

00:52:04.500 --> 00:52:08.380
at the worms sliding towards you slowly gaining

00:52:08.380 --> 00:52:10.019
but they're staying on you they're staying on

00:52:10.019 --> 00:52:12.940
you you look ahead to see how far away you are

00:52:12.940 --> 00:52:15.599
from your goal, see the sky prison, that obelisk

00:52:15.599 --> 00:52:17.239
in the sky, you're moving towards it. When you

00:52:17.239 --> 00:52:21.079
look ahead, what you see is a wall of billowing,

00:52:21.079 --> 00:52:27.219
blowing sand. Those damn sudden sandstorms of

00:52:27.219 --> 00:52:31.239
Anchor and Sangar always messing you up. You

00:52:31.239 --> 00:52:34.880
are now locked in a sandstorm, and you're rolling

00:52:34.880 --> 00:52:38.030
with disadvantage. But not me, because I'm not,

00:52:38.070 --> 00:52:39.730
you know, flying. Isn't that great? Isn't that

00:52:39.730 --> 00:52:42.630
awesome? So let's keep going. With disadvantage

00:52:42.630 --> 00:52:46.130
on your rolls and me just doing my thing. And

00:52:46.130 --> 00:52:55.829
it finally rolled good. Oh, no. It sounds bad.

00:52:56.409 --> 00:53:00.389
What's going on over there? What'd you get, Pepper?

00:53:00.869 --> 00:53:05.659
First roll was a 10. Second roll. It was a natural

00:53:05.659 --> 00:53:11.539
one, so. So Paloma has Dash as a bonus action.

00:53:12.760 --> 00:53:16.900
Her lowest roll was a 15. Can she use her bonus

00:53:16.900 --> 00:53:20.400
action to try and help Pepper along? I'll give

00:53:20.400 --> 00:53:22.440
you a help action. For Pepper for the next round,

00:53:22.559 --> 00:53:24.559
is how I'll put it. Okay. So you're using a help

00:53:24.559 --> 00:53:26.000
action as your action because you're dashing.

00:53:26.079 --> 00:53:28.900
Yeah, I like that. You action, you see Pepper's

00:53:28.900 --> 00:53:31.119
falling behind. Pepper, you drop 30 feet back.

00:53:31.360 --> 00:53:35.800
Oh, no! Oh, no! The maw, open maw. Wait, wait,

00:53:35.820 --> 00:53:37.900
wait, wait. And Paloma, you look back, what do

00:53:37.900 --> 00:53:40.719
you say? This is, like, mean? Yeah, kind of.

00:53:41.639 --> 00:53:43.059
You're going to have to get out of this yourself,

00:53:43.260 --> 00:53:46.260
kid. I ain't pulling you out of that mouth. Did

00:53:46.260 --> 00:53:53.500
you just hear that? What? You said 15? 15. Okay,

00:53:53.599 --> 00:53:57.780
you still move back 10 feet. You're actually

00:53:57.780 --> 00:54:00.199
also... Whoa, that's 20. Huh? You're at... Oh,

00:54:00.219 --> 00:54:02.840
yeah, you're right. Wait. I was at 70. Sorry.

00:54:02.920 --> 00:54:06.079
You put me at 50. I... Hang on. I think I messed

00:54:06.079 --> 00:54:09.099
with the way this goes. Sorry, you're right.

00:54:09.139 --> 00:54:12.440
No, it's 20 feet. My bad. It was 10 feet. It's

00:54:12.440 --> 00:54:15.579
five. It's every five... You go back 10 more

00:54:15.579 --> 00:54:18.179
feet. So you go back 10 feet. You're at 50. I'm...

00:54:18.179 --> 00:54:23.980
Who made these rules? Damn it, Steven. Paloma

00:54:23.980 --> 00:54:26.280
at 50 feet. Pepper at 40 feet. This thing's getting

00:54:26.280 --> 00:54:30.940
closer. RZA. That was a 10 total. 10 total, which

00:54:30.940 --> 00:54:34.039
puts you back with Paloma. Not crit bad, but

00:54:34.039 --> 00:54:36.599
this thing's gaining on you suddenly. You can't

00:54:36.599 --> 00:54:38.260
even see it. You look back and you just hear...

00:54:38.260 --> 00:54:41.000
You might be able to vaguely... Pepper's probably

00:54:41.000 --> 00:54:43.260
just far enough back to vaguely make out this...

00:54:44.139 --> 00:54:47.619
Scoop and maw through the bits of sand rushing

00:54:47.619 --> 00:54:50.900
over you. Next round. Two more to go. You're

00:54:50.900 --> 00:54:53.760
getting close. You know that fortress is close.

00:54:54.039 --> 00:54:56.559
And I rolled better than ever before. Oh, no.

00:54:57.199 --> 00:54:59.679
Are we still at disadvantage? Oh, of course you

00:54:59.679 --> 00:55:01.239
are. Great, great, great, great, great. You think

00:55:01.239 --> 00:55:03.039
I'm nice? Ooh, first roll's good, though, so.

00:55:03.260 --> 00:55:06.039
I'm going to eat you all. Fuck. Oh my goodness.

00:55:06.139 --> 00:55:08.619
Wow, that's the same roll twice, which is...

00:55:08.619 --> 00:55:13.679
No, no, no. 26. I needed a second to count anyways,

00:55:13.880 --> 00:55:17.280
so... Jesus Christ. I rolled a natural 20 first.

00:55:18.460 --> 00:55:21.980
Yeah. Yeah, second roll was a 2 for 10. Wait,

00:55:21.980 --> 00:55:25.960
but what does Paloma give to Pepper? So then

00:55:25.960 --> 00:55:27.860
you do that 20, because you would have gotten

00:55:27.860 --> 00:55:30.139
your first roll. Oh, so it took away the disadvantage.

00:55:30.480 --> 00:55:33.119
Great, excellent. So you say to Pepper, Pepper!

00:55:34.610 --> 00:55:37.889
Surges ahead to 70 feet again. Paloma with a

00:55:37.889 --> 00:55:41.869
25. Bunch of little bunny pellets dropping on

00:55:41.869 --> 00:55:46.590
the sand. I'm sorry, I'm scared. Paloma, you

00:55:46.590 --> 00:55:49.670
actually moved back 10 feet. With a 26? Yep.

00:55:49.730 --> 00:55:52.789
Jeez, dude, you suck. I got 28. Hey, you're only

00:55:52.789 --> 00:55:56.710
43 away. Dude, I rolled a 17. RZA, how you doing?

00:55:57.369 --> 00:55:59.409
Am I done it wrong the first few times? Am I

00:55:59.409 --> 00:56:04.340
adding my... decks to it as well. Yes, your acrobatics

00:56:04.340 --> 00:56:06.960
plus the plus six. Mine plus six plus whatever

00:56:06.960 --> 00:56:10.599
I roll. Yes. That's like 21. 21, okay. Also,

00:56:10.860 --> 00:56:14.340
oh sorry, over five. You actually go back 20

00:56:14.340 --> 00:56:17.900
feet to 30 feet away. I know, I'm rolling crazy.

00:56:18.000 --> 00:56:21.960
That crit was amazing. This thing's going fast

00:56:21.960 --> 00:56:25.539
and you just blast ahead. Pepper looks back now

00:56:25.539 --> 00:56:29.789
and feels really guilty. Oh, but that puts us

00:56:29.789 --> 00:56:31.809
in our last round. As you're moving, you're sliding

00:56:31.809 --> 00:56:33.889
in. You begin to see something around you, kind

00:56:33.889 --> 00:56:38.090
of down below you, structured. And you realize

00:56:38.090 --> 00:56:40.489
you're reaching the very edge of the cemetery.

00:56:40.510 --> 00:56:42.889
You're seeing the far -off graves, vague shapes

00:56:42.889 --> 00:56:46.190
in the sand. You're so close. Let's give us one

00:56:46.190 --> 00:56:48.570
more. And you're actually all in pretty good

00:56:48.570 --> 00:56:52.869
shape, unless John rolls a one. In which case,

00:56:53.510 --> 00:57:01.650
we're just getting munched. 22 for Paloma. 22.

00:57:01.650 --> 00:57:05.250
You move back 10 feet, just a little closer.

00:57:05.610 --> 00:57:08.170
Pepper? That was a 15 for Pepper. The second

00:57:08.170 --> 00:57:11.829
roll is another crit, but Pepper's still starting

00:57:11.829 --> 00:57:13.769
back 10 feet. You're 50 feet away. Back where

00:57:13.769 --> 00:57:16.829
you started. This thing is gaining. Riz, you're

00:57:16.829 --> 00:57:21.750
the closest to the maw. 21. 21. Actually is not.

00:57:22.280 --> 00:57:25.239
Bad. It puts you only 10 feet. Just barely edging

00:57:25.239 --> 00:57:27.380
out. You're 20 feet ahead of this thing. And

00:57:27.380 --> 00:57:30.039
with that, as you're all just moving, moving,

00:57:30.179 --> 00:57:34.219
none of your, what do you call them? Boom. They're

00:57:34.219 --> 00:57:41.019
in the book. Boom. Boom. Boom. I can't do the

00:57:41.019 --> 00:57:44.539
boom hour. I mean, either. Boom. You're close.

00:57:46.159 --> 00:57:51.369
Boom. You're. still making that racket behind

00:57:51.369 --> 00:57:54.670
you, and you move on the end of our fifth round

00:57:54.670 --> 00:58:01.690
out of the sand and into more chaos. All hell

00:58:01.690 --> 00:58:05.409
is breaking loose around you as the sandstone

00:58:05.409 --> 00:58:08.909
falls behind, begins to dissipate as if touching

00:58:08.909 --> 00:58:12.889
a magical field, and you are sliding into the

00:58:12.889 --> 00:58:18.039
cemetery proper. You see as the worms... Break

00:58:18.039 --> 00:58:21.239
out behind you swarms of Celestials Pegasi and

00:58:21.239 --> 00:58:25.860
in Harley fence gonna dive down a lot as they

00:58:25.860 --> 00:58:28.260
die there's a sound that echoes down from the

00:58:28.260 --> 00:58:31.800
fortress above like a thousand trumpets blaring

00:58:31.800 --> 00:58:36.400
in unison You see the white crystal that carries

00:58:36.400 --> 00:58:38.900
a sky prison flash with a bright light, and the

00:58:38.900 --> 00:58:41.619
entire prison is obscured by an arcane mirage.

00:58:41.760 --> 00:58:45.440
Thick white clouds fill the sky for a mile around.

00:58:45.579 --> 00:58:48.579
The sounds of trumpet sort of vanishes as if

00:58:48.579 --> 00:58:53.119
muffled by the cloud cover. You know that somewhere

00:58:53.119 --> 00:58:57.570
up there, Xena is making her move. Behind you,

00:58:57.650 --> 00:59:00.170
the purple worms crash through the cemetery,

00:59:00.309 --> 00:59:02.469
sending chunks of marble flying with sprays of

00:59:02.469 --> 00:59:05.090
sand. You begin to slide upwards, knowing now

00:59:05.090 --> 00:59:07.489
that your mission is accomplished. Maybe even

00:59:07.489 --> 00:59:09.130
cut the boo -halers. You keep the boo -halers.

00:59:09.150 --> 00:59:10.409
You're cutting them off. Do you want to have

00:59:10.409 --> 00:59:14.030
them on you as you move up, away from the surface

00:59:14.030 --> 00:59:18.349
towards the sky? Is there any reason to keep

00:59:18.349 --> 00:59:20.230
them? That's up to you and your imaginations.

00:59:21.289 --> 00:59:24.349
Sure, I guess I'll keep them. Ooh. Yeah, you

00:59:24.349 --> 00:59:25.869
can reel them in, yeah. Yeah, sweet. Yeah, fuck

00:59:25.869 --> 00:59:27.409
it, yeah. Just so we have a rope if we need it.

00:59:27.510 --> 00:59:29.190
I love that. You're kind of reeling over the

00:59:29.190 --> 00:59:31.550
shoulder as you're sliding up, the three of you

00:59:31.550 --> 00:59:34.750
moving, and you see the Fjordwarn just crashing

00:59:34.750 --> 00:59:36.449
down below through the cemetery, chunks of marble

00:59:36.449 --> 00:59:38.789
flying, sprays of sand, and they are met with

00:59:38.789 --> 00:59:41.269
an immediate resistance. Pegasi and Hollyfinch

00:59:41.269 --> 00:59:44.849
dropping en masse to engage with them. Threaten

00:59:44.849 --> 00:59:47.469
the worms, fight back. They're hissing, echoing

00:59:47.469 --> 00:59:50.800
through the air above. And ahead of you and above

00:59:50.800 --> 00:59:54.719
you, the guardian sphinx, Grelin, hovers in the

00:59:54.719 --> 00:59:58.940
open sky, eyes locked on you, his mighty wings

00:59:58.940 --> 01:00:03.639
beat once, and suddenly he is surging towards

01:00:03.639 --> 01:00:06.579
you, and you hear something echoing through the

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air, and you realize he is laughing. Yes! Glory!

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Oh yes, I've not had a hunt in ages. Make it

01:00:19.260 --> 01:00:23.199
fun for me, enemies of righteousness. I'll make

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sure there's enough of your bodies left to rock

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away once all is done. And we'll call it there.