WEBVTT 00:00:01.109 --> 00:00:03.450 Hey, Pants people, if you love the original music 00:00:03.450 --> 00:00:06.450 we have in the podcast, you can find it all on 00:00:06.450 --> 00:00:09.890 Spotify and I think Apple and like, you know, 00:00:09.890 --> 00:00:12.750 the places you get music. Just search music from 00:00:12.750 --> 00:00:14.470 the Fantasy Pants podcast. I bet if you just 00:00:14.470 --> 00:00:16.050 search Fantasy Pants, it'll probably come up. 00:00:16.649 --> 00:00:57.299 Check it out. Varun here, with a warning for 00:00:57.299 --> 00:01:00.340 the conquered worlds. I, uh, regret to inform 00:01:00.340 --> 00:01:03.799 you that the Silent Roar has made an assault 00:01:03.799 --> 00:01:06.299 against the Sky Prison. Now, many of the details 00:01:06.299 --> 00:01:08.340 are still unknown, but it has been confirmed 00:01:08.340 --> 00:01:10.700 that a number of dangerous criminals have escaped, 00:01:10.900 --> 00:01:13.060 many of which were formerly members of the Silent 00:01:13.060 --> 00:01:15.280 Roar. Now, I know what you're thinking. How? 00:01:15.739 --> 00:01:18.010 How? How? How could the Sky Prison have failed 00:01:18.010 --> 00:01:21.030 us this profoundly? Well, we know that there 00:01:21.030 --> 00:01:23.730 was a security flaw exploited by the Singer, 00:01:23.930 --> 00:01:26.750 one that involved the gross desecration of the 00:01:26.750 --> 00:01:28.829 body of a treasured hero of the conquered worlds. 00:01:29.530 --> 00:01:32.530 More on that later. But another factor we need 00:01:32.530 --> 00:01:34.489 to face is that the Celestials are spread too 00:01:34.489 --> 00:01:37.430 thin, stationed on 22 of our worlds to watch 00:01:37.430 --> 00:01:39.769 for the return of Ozen. This is a problem that 00:01:39.769 --> 00:01:43.010 cannot be solved until he is finally apprehended, 00:01:43.069 --> 00:01:45.450 until those figures that stand behind him are 00:01:45.450 --> 00:01:49.359 dealt with. The dawn incarnates. This has to 00:01:49.359 --> 00:01:52.159 end, and it has to end soon. We need to throw 00:01:52.159 --> 00:01:54.719 our support behind Atash now, more than ever. 00:01:54.859 --> 00:01:57.379 We need to mobilize our luminaries, our shield 00:01:57.379 --> 00:01:59.760 bearers, everyone with the strength and the courage 00:01:59.760 --> 00:02:02.420 and the righteous fury to fight for our world. 00:02:02.480 --> 00:02:04.920 We need to get working to take down those that 00:02:04.920 --> 00:02:07.560 stand against our security and our freedoms. 00:02:08.120 --> 00:02:15.000 It's us or them now. Us or them. Now, I know 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:17.590 what you're thinking. There's no way. You don't 00:02:17.590 --> 00:02:19.830 know what I'm thinking. Just no possible way 00:02:19.830 --> 00:02:22.250 that these idiots are going to put a fifth arc 00:02:22.250 --> 00:02:25.710 in their arc. Well, you're right. We're probably 00:02:25.710 --> 00:02:30.310 not going to do that. Oh, my God. No. Probably 00:02:30.310 --> 00:02:33.490 not. Who knows? We're crazy over here. Yeah, 00:02:33.530 --> 00:02:35.409 we are. What were you thinking? You guys have 00:02:35.409 --> 00:02:37.330 looks in your eyes. No, no, no. I was just being 00:02:37.330 --> 00:02:41.259 funny. Hell, yeah. We got to talk. yeah but those 00:02:41.259 --> 00:02:45.599 last two episodes dude so good holy so much fun 00:02:45.599 --> 00:02:49.409 wow what a blast man uh It's just a wild thing. 00:02:49.469 --> 00:02:51.289 Like kind of a whim choice. Just go into that 00:02:51.289 --> 00:02:53.409 and have this whole side arc and anchoring guard. 00:02:53.710 --> 00:02:56.210 Bring back notable faces. Xena, the pig man, 00:02:56.389 --> 00:03:00.009 Pepper and Paloma, who you guys played immaculately. 00:03:00.210 --> 00:03:03.050 Get RZA up in here. John, it was so fun having 00:03:03.050 --> 00:03:06.009 him here. Yeah. I mean, John, if you're listening, 00:03:06.069 --> 00:03:08.050 thank you again so much for joining us. Yeah, 00:03:08.050 --> 00:03:10.050 it was a good time. For helping to break out. 00:03:10.639 --> 00:03:15.900 The pig man. Oh yeah. Uh, any thoughts you guys 00:03:15.900 --> 00:03:17.860 have any lingering emotions? I'm a little sad 00:03:17.860 --> 00:03:20.520 that I never asked you to say, uh, do a barrel 00:03:20.520 --> 00:03:23.740 roll as pepper. Like, you know, cause yeah, this 00:03:23.740 --> 00:03:26.400 is, this is all systems go, you know, star Fox. 00:03:26.599 --> 00:03:32.639 Oh yeah. Star Fox. Okay. Um, what are you guys 00:03:32.639 --> 00:03:34.599 thinking? What do you got? I was so surprised 00:03:34.599 --> 00:03:37.159 to see the pig man, and I was so unsurprised 00:03:37.159 --> 00:03:39.819 to hear you go, oh yeah, Sholay was deeper in. 00:03:39.840 --> 00:03:42.680 We couldn't get to Sholay. There's no way. After 00:03:42.680 --> 00:03:47.000 the full episode of choice, they came down to 00:03:47.000 --> 00:03:49.419 like, do we keep Sholay, or do we sacrifice Sholay 00:03:49.419 --> 00:03:52.099 to save the world? No fucking way Sholay's coming 00:03:52.099 --> 00:03:57.319 back. No way. Pig man? I was dead set on that 00:03:57.319 --> 00:03:59.800 being Shirley. And like, I like to think, I didn't 00:03:59.800 --> 00:04:01.020 really bring this up in the episode. We were 00:04:01.020 --> 00:04:02.300 wrapping things up pretty fast, but I like to 00:04:02.300 --> 00:04:04.159 think that a part of why the pig man was able 00:04:04.159 --> 00:04:06.560 to get released is he was in the higher security 00:04:06.560 --> 00:04:08.939 area and they had to make some space for the 00:04:08.939 --> 00:04:11.860 most terrifying, like the one person that, that 00:04:11.860 --> 00:04:13.759 Atash fears more than anyone else is Shirley 00:04:13.759 --> 00:04:16.000 because she's got that mind and the information 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:18.920 and the moves to get ahead of him. And so she's 00:04:18.920 --> 00:04:21.439 now in the bowels of the prison and the pig man 00:04:21.439 --> 00:04:23.779 who seems kind of harmlessly dumb gets pulled 00:04:23.779 --> 00:04:26.009 a little farther out to a further. out cell, 00:04:26.129 --> 00:04:28.129 which would be actually accessible. In a way, 00:04:28.170 --> 00:04:32.069 Sholay getting arrested led to this outcome. 00:04:32.529 --> 00:04:36.490 So, you know, one last little card to play out 00:04:36.490 --> 00:04:38.610 from her end. I mean, don't get me wrong. My 00:04:38.610 --> 00:04:42.649 want of Sholay certainly does not diminish the 00:04:42.649 --> 00:04:45.250 pig man. Right, exactly. I'm so excited to see 00:04:45.250 --> 00:04:46.930 where that goes. And then at the end of the episode, 00:04:47.050 --> 00:04:49.750 they said the thing. They're going to the citadel. 00:04:49.850 --> 00:04:52.970 Oh, shit. Oh, no. Fear is wet. Fear is wet. Mayday. 00:04:53.680 --> 00:04:59.060 I made a result. We're back. Yeah. Yeah. Towels 00:04:59.060 --> 00:05:01.399 were used. Beer was spilled. Computers were sacrificed. 00:05:01.759 --> 00:05:04.180 Or not. We'll find out. No, no, no. Computer's 00:05:04.180 --> 00:05:05.620 fine. We're back. All right. We're good. The 00:05:05.620 --> 00:05:09.620 biggest loss was the beer. Yeah. Yeah. Well. 00:05:10.100 --> 00:05:13.420 I have now put forth the rule of no drinks on 00:05:13.420 --> 00:05:18.180 the table because of me. Honestly? Look, those 00:05:18.180 --> 00:05:20.079 long, gangly arms. You can't control them. That 00:05:20.079 --> 00:05:23.459 was me. Dude, that's the first and only time 00:05:23.459 --> 00:05:26.579 it's happened in, like, three years of us doing 00:05:26.579 --> 00:05:27.660 this. Yeah, that's true. You know what I mean? 00:05:27.860 --> 00:05:30.300 That's true. It has been a lot. Honestly, pat 00:05:30.300 --> 00:05:35.459 on the back us. Yeah. Yeah. Come here, guys. 00:05:35.459 --> 00:05:37.439 I'll touch your arm back. Yeah. Bring it in. 00:05:37.480 --> 00:05:40.560 Bring it in. Well, speaking of pats on the back. 00:05:40.639 --> 00:05:42.620 Yeah, what were we talking about? I don't know, 00:05:42.680 --> 00:05:45.759 but somebody sent us a little pat on the back. 00:05:45.759 --> 00:05:48.519 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. In present form, 00:05:48.660 --> 00:05:51.860 in our new P .O. Box! Sorry, should I say that? 00:05:51.939 --> 00:05:58.100 Well done! Well done! P .O. Box. Yes. Calm down 00:05:58.100 --> 00:06:02.100 a little. The P .O. Box. The P .O. Box. What's 00:06:02.100 --> 00:06:04.800 in that thing? So now, David, you gotta figure 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:07.959 out what your reward's gonna be for the first 00:06:07.959 --> 00:06:10.420 person who... Sent somebody to the P .O. box. 00:06:10.540 --> 00:06:13.180 Oh, that's rough. I did say that. I did say that, 00:06:13.240 --> 00:06:16.779 didn't I? You did. I'm going to, tell you what, 00:06:16.819 --> 00:06:19.879 blow you a kiss right now. Oh, wow. Point me 00:06:19.879 --> 00:06:25.240 in the direction of wherever. We've got mail. 00:06:26.420 --> 00:06:28.259 Can we open that mail? I want to see what's in 00:06:28.259 --> 00:06:32.279 that mail. From Zila. It's from Zila. Yes, of 00:06:32.279 --> 00:06:33.680 course. Oh, yeah, right. I'm going to give her 00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:35.139 a present. I'll blow her a kiss. Yeah. Yeah, 00:06:35.160 --> 00:06:37.480 yeah. Don't do it. There's some cool stuff coming. 00:06:38.279 --> 00:06:40.939 Zeal is all aware of that. And maybe we'll crank 00:06:40.939 --> 00:06:43.800 up the cool meter a little bit. We'll talk. We'll 00:06:43.800 --> 00:06:45.819 talk, Zeal. Hell, yeah. You want to pop that 00:06:45.819 --> 00:06:47.480 bad boy open, Jeremy? See what we got? Let's 00:06:47.480 --> 00:06:49.759 do it. Opal is going to help me. Oh, my God. 00:06:49.860 --> 00:06:53.759 Oh, my God. Opal. Opal is currently attached 00:06:53.759 --> 00:06:56.360 to Jeremy via a harness, and it's the cutest 00:06:56.360 --> 00:06:59.120 thing. Just a little chihuahua face poking out. 00:06:59.240 --> 00:07:01.699 She's the happiest thing in the world. Oh. Ooh. 00:07:02.240 --> 00:07:05.459 That was a good one. That was a good one. What 00:07:05.459 --> 00:07:09.680 is in that? Holy. What is in that? Yeah. Show 00:07:09.680 --> 00:07:19.139 me. No. Holy shit. Guys. I saw a glimpse. I saw 00:07:19.139 --> 00:07:23.060 a glimpse. Oh. Oh. Look at the prince. Oh, my 00:07:23.060 --> 00:07:26.199 God. Prince. Oh, look. Look at that. I'm sure 00:07:26.199 --> 00:07:28.800 you all know that Zilla has made a ton of art 00:07:28.800 --> 00:07:32.100 for the show. And we are looking at some amazing 00:07:32.100 --> 00:07:34.899 prints. Oh, dude. There's so much of it, dude. 00:07:35.240 --> 00:07:37.060 Here, take some. Oh, which one's my framing? 00:07:37.079 --> 00:07:42.699 This is so crazy. Take a look. Oh, look at this 00:07:42.699 --> 00:07:46.449 shot. This one's the, it's the whole crew here. 00:07:46.670 --> 00:07:50.370 The Jules, Blanche, Chester, and Akio all together. 00:07:51.410 --> 00:07:55.269 It's like all of them. Akio! It's all of them. 00:07:55.290 --> 00:07:58.230 It is. Oh my goodness. Well, if you want to see 00:07:58.230 --> 00:08:00.110 what we're seeing, hop on the Discord. Yeah, 00:08:00.110 --> 00:08:02.529 yeah, yeah. Go to the story. If you're caught 00:08:02.529 --> 00:08:04.230 up, if you're not caught up, be careful what 00:08:04.230 --> 00:08:06.730 you read there. And check out the threads. And 00:08:06.730 --> 00:08:10.649 there is an art zone that has all the art Aziel 00:08:10.649 --> 00:08:13.209 has made for our show. And it's... so so good 00:08:13.209 --> 00:08:16.649 wow this is awesome they're beautiful it's so 00:08:16.649 --> 00:08:18.769 i mean it's so cool to it's always so cool to 00:08:18.769 --> 00:08:21.649 see them you know when zilla sends them um but 00:08:21.649 --> 00:08:24.189 hold them yeah it's about the tactile experience 00:08:24.189 --> 00:08:27.610 yeah it's it's a whole new level thank you thank 00:08:27.610 --> 00:08:30.370 you so much zilla i'm gonna stack these off of 00:08:30.370 --> 00:08:32.509 the wet table yes yeah please keep them away 00:08:32.509 --> 00:08:36.950 from get away from your beer yeah it's cool art 00:08:36.950 --> 00:08:43.279 and it smells like beer Holy shit. Actually, 00:08:43.399 --> 00:08:45.220 David, can you put this on my desk behind you 00:08:45.220 --> 00:08:52.159 there? Yeah, I'll take those. Safe. Away from 00:08:52.159 --> 00:08:54.320 the beers and the waters and the Steven spittle. 00:08:54.779 --> 00:08:59.019 And Steven sweat. Don't forget that. Pouring 00:08:59.019 --> 00:09:00.460 off you. And then we're going to fight over them 00:09:00.460 --> 00:09:02.539 later. We are. We are. We're going to fight to 00:09:02.539 --> 00:09:04.580 the death. Last episode. Should I open roll 20? 00:09:05.289 --> 00:09:07.370 No, because we're back in the theater. Oh, that's 00:09:07.370 --> 00:09:10.169 right. A mind arc, baby. Maps, forget about them. 00:09:10.190 --> 00:09:12.970 They're gone. Let me ask you guys. We got enough 00:09:12.970 --> 00:09:14.929 pictures to look at tonight. Yeah, enough pictures 00:09:14.929 --> 00:09:18.070 to look at. Yeah, yeah. We've moved this for 00:09:18.070 --> 00:09:21.070 a while now. I guess, you know what? I'm going 00:09:21.070 --> 00:09:22.230 to ask you later. I was going to say which arc 00:09:22.230 --> 00:09:23.490 you prefer, but we've got to get through some 00:09:23.490 --> 00:09:25.129 more episodes. We haven't gotten into the meat, 00:09:25.129 --> 00:09:27.929 meat, meat of the day -long on arc yet, so we're 00:09:27.929 --> 00:09:29.289 going to get there first, and then we're going 00:09:29.289 --> 00:09:32.450 to get into it. Meat, meat, yeah. Hell yeah. 00:09:32.909 --> 00:09:34.850 So with that, do you guys want to get into it 00:09:34.850 --> 00:09:40.409 tonight? Let's play. So we resolved matters on 00:09:40.409 --> 00:09:44.289 Anker and Sengar. But we still have three tales, 00:09:44.409 --> 00:09:47.470 three arcs yet to weave. So tonight we're going 00:09:47.470 --> 00:09:50.830 to return to Daongan. But to do that, we're going 00:09:50.830 --> 00:09:55.710 to have to journey to the Radiant Citadel. That's 00:09:55.710 --> 00:09:57.309 the name of the show! That's the name of the 00:09:57.309 --> 00:10:02.179 show! And we'll call it there! And through the 00:10:02.179 --> 00:10:06.080 interior halls of the House of Convalescence, 00:10:06.200 --> 00:10:08.279 deep within the structure, far away from any 00:10:08.279 --> 00:10:10.580 exits or windows or any other easy means of escape, 00:10:10.840 --> 00:10:16.620 a battle is beginning to rage. Hey, bub. Can 00:10:16.620 --> 00:10:19.580 you show us the way to the doctor? You're gonna 00:10:19.580 --> 00:10:23.669 need one. Ooh. Our camera slides across white 00:10:23.669 --> 00:10:26.429 walls, pulling out to reveal the speaker. We 00:10:26.429 --> 00:10:29.629 see old Howlin' Longash, the Chiripor Badger. 00:10:29.730 --> 00:10:31.990 The hard -boiled dwarf wears his classic leathers 00:10:31.990 --> 00:10:34.370 of black and white in his arm with both his gauntlet 00:10:34.370 --> 00:10:37.210 claws and scimitar. We see he stands over the 00:10:37.210 --> 00:10:39.350 figure of a human guard who's been knocked down 00:10:39.350 --> 00:10:41.509 onto his butt, his back resting against the wall. 00:10:41.830 --> 00:10:43.750 The guard's helmet, shining with the notable 00:10:43.750 --> 00:10:46.590 brass of the shield -bearers, rolls against the 00:10:46.590 --> 00:10:49.379 hallway floor. The man opens his mouth to yell 00:10:49.379 --> 00:10:51.539 as a chore poor badger clocks him hard in the 00:10:51.539 --> 00:10:54.419 temple with the pommel of a scimitar. The man's 00:10:54.419 --> 00:10:58.720 head drops, body going limp. A whinny, stamping 00:10:58.720 --> 00:11:02.139 hooves, a unicorn, white fur shining with an 00:11:02.139 --> 00:11:04.200 innate radiance, gallops down the hall, light 00:11:04.200 --> 00:11:07.899 leaking from a gash along its body. No intruders! 00:11:08.419 --> 00:11:11.080 Demons! They challenge the light of justice! 00:11:11.600 --> 00:11:14.600 Another form steps up aside, howling glaive in 00:11:14.600 --> 00:11:18.419 hand, the towering figure of a goliath. We see 00:11:18.419 --> 00:11:20.519 at the butt end of this figure's glaive gives 00:11:20.519 --> 00:11:23.940 way to thick bristles of a gigantic paintbrush, 00:11:24.179 --> 00:11:28.340 crusted with old blood. with this hill chucker 00:11:28.340 --> 00:11:32.480 known as the pain brush. Oren got that one wrong 00:11:32.480 --> 00:11:39.379 because he can't read. Twice in three episodes 00:11:39.379 --> 00:11:43.100 I've had to do that. Wow, that's so funny. The 00:11:43.100 --> 00:11:44.919 dwarf and Goliath watch the unicorn speeding 00:11:44.919 --> 00:11:47.500 down the hall towards the other figures in armored 00:11:47.500 --> 00:11:52.720 brass. Their eyes meet in a knowing look. Badger, 00:11:52.740 --> 00:11:55.159 want to see how us hill chuckers got our name? 00:11:55.740 --> 00:11:59.340 Grab this. Without a word, Howland grabbed the 00:11:59.340 --> 00:12:02.200 end of Uth's glaive. The Goliath whirls around, 00:12:02.340 --> 00:12:04.779 building momentum, and launching the dwarf down 00:12:04.779 --> 00:12:14.049 the hall. Triple chuck! So awesome! Howlin' sails 00:12:14.049 --> 00:12:15.649 through the air, extending his claws, and he 00:12:15.649 --> 00:12:17.990 comes down directly on the unicorn's back, driving 00:12:17.990 --> 00:12:19.909 him deep into the celestial's flesh, and light 00:12:19.909 --> 00:12:23.250 just spills out around the blade. The unicorn 00:12:23.250 --> 00:12:28.730 fades away in a burst of light, its essence pulled 00:12:28.730 --> 00:12:32.820 away to its original plane. As the badger rolls 00:12:32.820 --> 00:12:35.059 to the floor, Uthus stomps up beside him again, 00:12:35.299 --> 00:12:37.500 the brush of his glaive driving into the fading 00:12:37.500 --> 00:12:40.399 light. The bristles glow with radiance, drawing 00:12:40.399 --> 00:12:43.320 in the quote -unquote blood of the celestial. 00:12:43.460 --> 00:12:47.159 I don't care. It works. As the two shield -bearers 00:12:47.159 --> 00:12:49.419 raise spears, taking defensive positions, the 00:12:49.419 --> 00:12:52.539 pain brush swiftly paints a shining rune into 00:12:52.539 --> 00:12:57.080 the air and chants. Blood and bone, right and 00:12:57.080 --> 00:13:01.769 rune, ancestral magic now consume. Shackles of 00:13:01.769 --> 00:13:03.769 flame burst out from the runes, shooting down 00:13:03.769 --> 00:13:05.710 the hall and wrapping around the guards. They 00:13:05.710 --> 00:13:08.230 scream out as they are bound, falling to the 00:13:08.230 --> 00:13:11.269 floor and swiftly sinking into unconsciousness. 00:13:11.610 --> 00:13:15.210 The burning shackles fade away. Howland takes 00:13:15.210 --> 00:13:18.870 in the sight with an impressed whistle. Paintbrush, 00:13:19.129 --> 00:13:23.139 you're really a painter of light. From around 00:13:23.139 --> 00:13:25.399 the corner at the end of the hall, another figure 00:13:25.399 --> 00:13:29.000 appears. One that, unfortunately, was not planned 00:13:29.000 --> 00:13:32.500 for by our heroes. A white -skinned diva with 00:13:32.500 --> 00:13:35.720 parted brown hair and a long brown coat. Through 00:13:35.720 --> 00:13:37.779 Salome's intel, you were aware of this figure, 00:13:37.960 --> 00:13:41.940 known as Hothric, or Dr. Hothric to mortal patients. 00:13:42.669 --> 00:13:45.269 This celestial is the overseer of this wing of 00:13:45.269 --> 00:13:47.629 the third floor, but rarely comes to see his 00:13:47.629 --> 00:13:50.710 long -term care patients personally. It was only 00:13:50.710 --> 00:13:58.110 sheer bad luck that had him present in this place 00:13:58.110 --> 00:14:02.769 at its exact unfortunate point in time. Hothric 00:14:02.769 --> 00:14:05.490 is strong. Much stronger than the guards our 00:14:05.490 --> 00:14:07.789 heroes are expected to deal with. And on top 00:14:07.789 --> 00:14:10.149 of that, they would know that all D .Va have 00:14:10.149 --> 00:14:12.470 the power to commune with higher servants of 00:14:12.470 --> 00:14:16.769 their creator god. Higher servants? Like Felindora. 00:14:18.230 --> 00:14:21.570 Intruders in long -term care. Private wing. They 00:14:21.570 --> 00:14:24.330 must be here for our special guest. Two within 00:14:24.330 --> 00:14:27.990 sight. I will see them subdued. The celestial 00:14:27.990 --> 00:14:30.750 raises a golden mace towards our luminaries. 00:14:31.480 --> 00:14:33.779 I'm afraid you're on the wrong floor, heathens. 00:14:34.080 --> 00:14:36.860 Your stay in my care will only be a short one 00:14:36.860 --> 00:14:41.039 before I send you to the Sky Prison. The chore 00:14:41.039 --> 00:14:45.100 -poor badger raises his saber and chuckles. Hey, 00:14:45.100 --> 00:14:49.120 Doc, how can you be so bright and not realize 00:14:49.120 --> 00:14:54.379 you're on the wrong side? The pain brush brandishes 00:14:54.379 --> 00:14:56.000 his glaive towards the diva, the bristles on 00:14:56.000 --> 00:14:59.590 its hand, hungry for more paint. And Hothric, 00:14:59.750 --> 00:15:02.690 Mesa -lite with radiant power, dives toward the 00:15:02.690 --> 00:15:05.990 two, swinging fiercely. We cut from the scene 00:15:05.990 --> 00:15:08.509 at the sound of clashing metal. We pan away, 00:15:08.750 --> 00:15:10.889 sliding around a corner to a different, connected 00:15:10.889 --> 00:15:13.809 hallway, where another group of heroes uses this 00:15:13.809 --> 00:15:17.590 opening to move in on Storyteller Orin's room. 00:15:19.230 --> 00:15:25.289 And we are back on Dialingen. Back on the serpentine 00:15:25.289 --> 00:15:28.509 world. Back on an adventure across a serpent 00:15:28.509 --> 00:15:31.610 bridge with an ever -damned island on the horizon. 00:15:32.529 --> 00:15:39.250 But before we get into it... So let's get this 00:15:39.250 --> 00:15:40.750 timeline straightened out real quick. Hold on, 00:15:40.750 --> 00:15:42.169 hold on, hold on. Before you just brush past 00:15:42.169 --> 00:15:44.740 it, that was really fucking cool. It was cool, 00:15:44.879 --> 00:15:46.419 right? Yeah, that was really cool. What am I 00:15:46.419 --> 00:15:48.539 doing? Yeah, yeah. Thank you so much, Andy and 00:15:48.539 --> 00:15:50.940 Matthew, for providing me with those clips and 00:15:50.940 --> 00:15:54.200 those heroes. So damn cool. That was awesome. 00:15:54.480 --> 00:15:57.519 Thank you both. Yeah, thank you so much. Yeah, 00:15:57.539 --> 00:15:59.179 let's see where this goes. Shit's about to get 00:15:59.179 --> 00:16:02.840 a little crazy because the alarms are going off 00:16:02.840 --> 00:16:04.740 and the house is a convalescent. I think things 00:16:04.740 --> 00:16:06.639 are going to get a little hot over there and 00:16:06.639 --> 00:16:09.279 maybe not all our heroes are making it out. Yeah, 00:16:09.440 --> 00:16:13.100 it's always a possibility. Speaking of not making 00:16:13.100 --> 00:16:15.460 it out, let's talk about these damned heroes 00:16:15.460 --> 00:16:19.360 here. These fools wandering towards Limbacluha, 00:16:19.559 --> 00:16:23.659 the haunted island, where you believe an ancient 00:16:23.659 --> 00:16:27.240 black dragon and the top members of an ancient 00:16:27.240 --> 00:16:30.460 demon -worshipping cult, as well as just all 00:16:30.460 --> 00:16:33.600 sorts of unknown nastiness, unrested spirits, 00:16:34.179 --> 00:16:38.259 evil plants, maybe? Who knows what sort of toxic 00:16:38.259 --> 00:16:42.629 hellscape you're moving towards. Before we get 00:16:42.629 --> 00:16:48.389 into it, I've got to talk about timeline because 00:16:48.389 --> 00:16:51.009 it's kind of wild, all right? It's a little wild. 00:16:51.110 --> 00:16:55.509 I want to make sure we're clear -ish on how time 00:16:55.509 --> 00:16:57.850 is working right now, all right? Let's talk about 00:16:57.850 --> 00:16:59.909 where all these arcs are lining up. The Sensa 00:16:59.909 --> 00:17:02.450 group left on 2 p .m. day one. I'm using day 00:17:02.450 --> 00:17:04.089 one because I didn't make a calendar for this 00:17:04.089 --> 00:17:06.329 campaign because I didn't feel like I don't care 00:17:06.329 --> 00:17:10.210 about calendars. They lived on 2 p .m. of day 00:17:10.210 --> 00:17:12.769 one of this arc. Two -day journey. They went 00:17:12.769 --> 00:17:16.309 to reach Anissa. They camped out one night. So 00:17:16.309 --> 00:17:17.789 when they arrived at Anissa, it was nighttime. 00:17:18.990 --> 00:17:20.809 So when they have actually reached the back, 00:17:20.890 --> 00:17:22.710 gotten to the school, broke in, are doing stuff, 00:17:22.950 --> 00:17:25.130 they're pretty much sitting at 2 o 'clock a .m. 00:17:25.130 --> 00:17:28.730 or so on day three. And that's kind of around 00:17:28.730 --> 00:17:30.250 where we left them, right? They're about 2 o 00:17:30.250 --> 00:17:31.750 'clock a .m., day three. Yeah, we're good. We're 00:17:31.750 --> 00:17:34.140 there. The dialogue group, however, left at 3 00:17:34.140 --> 00:17:36.539 .30 on day one. They left Calipang around 8 p 00:17:36.539 --> 00:17:38.539 .m., traveled through night into the next day, 00:17:38.660 --> 00:17:41.299 found hunters in the evening of day two. They 00:17:41.299 --> 00:17:43.220 stayed about 20 hours left, travel on the bridge. 00:17:43.740 --> 00:17:45.960 They stayed overnight that night. And at this 00:17:45.960 --> 00:17:47.720 point, they will have traveled through another 00:17:47.720 --> 00:17:50.400 day. Day three, gone. Already happened. We're 00:17:50.400 --> 00:17:54.400 going to retrospect it. They are now on day four, 00:17:54.420 --> 00:17:58.640 around noon. The very night the Devil and Rue 00:17:58.640 --> 00:18:00.980 came and camped up with the hunters, the night 00:18:00.980 --> 00:18:04.839 Salome cast Geass on their leader, is the night 00:18:04.839 --> 00:18:08.380 everything has been going on on Senza. Our Citadel 00:18:08.380 --> 00:18:10.339 scenes will be placed on the morning following 00:18:10.339 --> 00:18:12.779 that night, as a part of their setup was Rue 00:18:12.779 --> 00:18:15.440 reacting to the escaped AG -6 from the Senza 00:18:15.440 --> 00:18:18.440 arc. So, that happened. And our Anchor and Sengar 00:18:18.440 --> 00:18:21.420 scenes? I don't know. We'll call it the same 00:18:21.420 --> 00:18:24.319 day. It's a big day for Justice in Dying. This 00:18:24.319 --> 00:18:25.539 is where we have to have a spot. I think that 00:18:25.539 --> 00:18:27.339 makes sense. All bunch of shit happening at once. 00:18:27.420 --> 00:18:30.019 Blow after blow after blow towards the bad guys. 00:18:30.140 --> 00:18:31.759 Yeah, you gotta overwhelm the enemy, right? Exactly. 00:18:31.940 --> 00:18:35.099 And the listeners. And the listeners. You guys 00:18:35.099 --> 00:18:38.819 love convoluted timelines as much as I do. Go 00:18:38.819 --> 00:18:40.579 watch Dark on Netflix. You'll love it if you 00:18:40.579 --> 00:18:43.980 like this shit. I also gotta talk about Geass 00:18:43.980 --> 00:18:47.549 real quick. Because... If you don't remember, 00:18:47.690 --> 00:18:50.730 because it's been six weeks, I think, the last 00:18:50.730 --> 00:18:52.549 thing that happened was Salome casting this spell 00:18:52.549 --> 00:18:54.509 on the leader of this group of dragon hunters, 00:18:54.630 --> 00:18:57.569 and they left. They just cleared out the next 00:18:57.569 --> 00:18:59.130 day. We kind of skipped over the rigmarole of 00:18:59.130 --> 00:19:01.650 what happened there, but basically this spell. 00:19:02.109 --> 00:19:05.509 uh works as this very powerful as you kind of 00:19:05.509 --> 00:19:07.309 put it it's almost like command but like super 00:19:07.309 --> 00:19:09.049 command right they have to follow a thing but 00:19:09.049 --> 00:19:11.970 the way it works typically is if you do not follow 00:19:11.970 --> 00:19:14.490 what the what the spells so the quest is that 00:19:14.490 --> 00:19:16.990 give it's given to you you take a shit ton of 00:19:16.990 --> 00:19:19.170 damage every time you go against that spell's 00:19:19.170 --> 00:19:21.970 rules um and it lasts for a long time so they 00:19:21.970 --> 00:19:24.809 they have to go In this case, I like to think 00:19:24.809 --> 00:19:26.630 that since he was half asleep during it, it also 00:19:26.630 --> 00:19:28.930 acts as a compulsion. Because it's dumb if he 00:19:28.930 --> 00:19:30.970 kind of just turns around and dies for some reason. 00:19:31.069 --> 00:19:34.329 I think he wakes up feeling this need to leave. 00:19:34.390 --> 00:19:36.750 And if he breaks that need to leave, then it 00:19:36.750 --> 00:19:38.950 starts to hurt. But his mind is telling him, 00:19:38.990 --> 00:19:41.009 whatever reason there is, you have to go. You 00:19:41.009 --> 00:19:43.210 have to leave. You're going to die. You're all 00:19:43.210 --> 00:19:46.089 going to die. This is a bad plan. It doesn't 00:19:46.089 --> 00:19:47.710 matter what happened to your ancestors. You've 00:19:47.710 --> 00:19:50.849 got to go. And so they peace out. Basically, 00:19:50.970 --> 00:19:52.869 you're well cast in the sleeping leader of the 00:19:52.869 --> 00:19:54.509 hunters. It basically had him command them all. 00:19:55.430 --> 00:19:57.630 So, that makes sense, right? It's compulsion, 00:19:57.769 --> 00:20:00.990 especially if the subject's kind of unaware at 00:20:00.990 --> 00:20:03.289 the time. Yeah. And the only thing the spell 00:20:03.289 --> 00:20:04.650 says is the creature needs to understand the 00:20:04.650 --> 00:20:08.589 words spoken. So, boom. Just want to put that 00:20:08.589 --> 00:20:10.630 out there because it's really cool. I also want 00:20:10.630 --> 00:20:13.589 to know, Salome, if you told the others about 00:20:13.589 --> 00:20:16.849 your role in the hunters' choice to flee. Or 00:20:16.849 --> 00:20:18.940 did they just... Last time we saw it was Chester 00:20:18.940 --> 00:20:21.500 going, holy shit, as they just walked away. Is 00:20:21.500 --> 00:20:23.920 that because he's saying, holy shit, you pulled 00:20:23.920 --> 00:20:26.579 that off? Or holy shit, what just happened? Yeah, 00:20:26.599 --> 00:20:28.519 I think it was holy shit that just happened. 00:20:28.759 --> 00:20:32.700 She definitely didn't offer up that information. 00:20:33.220 --> 00:20:36.420 Okay. Another quick thing. I was, like, thinking 00:20:36.420 --> 00:20:40.200 about it today. Because the last time we were 00:20:40.200 --> 00:20:43.619 with this group, you were pronouncing it G -E 00:20:43.619 --> 00:20:45.559 -O -S. I was pronouncing it G -E -O -S. And I 00:20:45.559 --> 00:20:47.529 was like, how do you pronounce it? Apparently 00:20:47.529 --> 00:20:49.930 you're supposed to pronounce it Gesh. No. Because 00:20:49.930 --> 00:20:53.009 it's like some Gaelic word. That's illegal. I'm 00:20:53.009 --> 00:20:57.890 just putting it out there. Look, you cast Gesh? 00:20:59.130 --> 00:21:01.789 I don't like it either. I don't like it either. 00:21:02.009 --> 00:21:04.690 What's our ruling on this? Mr. Wolf, do we cast 00:21:04.690 --> 00:21:07.859 Gesh? Gaios? Give me the week to research it. 00:21:07.980 --> 00:21:12.200 Okay. Get in the Discord. Yeah, get in the Discord. 00:21:12.700 --> 00:21:15.240 I'm going to say Gaios because that's what I 00:21:15.240 --> 00:21:17.559 said first. I would like to note, though, probably 00:21:17.559 --> 00:21:20.519 just for a little flavor. I think Jules doesn't 00:21:20.519 --> 00:21:24.839 know exactly what went on, but he's looking around 00:21:24.839 --> 00:21:27.099 a little shifty because he knows that was a little 00:21:27.099 --> 00:21:30.500 too. Sure. Well, also, Jules being a caster. 00:21:30.680 --> 00:21:33.519 Exactly. Understands the power. He senses that 00:21:33.519 --> 00:21:36.349 something happened. I'm going to roll something. 00:21:36.349 --> 00:21:38.930 I don't think he can really pinpoint it. I'm 00:21:38.930 --> 00:21:40.230 going to roll a dice. But he knows you're the 00:21:40.230 --> 00:21:42.049 only one that could do something, really. Right. 00:21:42.150 --> 00:21:44.630 Yeah, Salome is a little bit of an anomaly to 00:21:44.630 --> 00:21:48.130 even jewels. Right. Dice has been rolled. Perhaps 00:21:48.130 --> 00:21:49.670 somebody else is a little more aware of them. 00:21:50.049 --> 00:21:59.430 Anyway, let's get back into it. You've been moving 00:21:59.430 --> 00:22:01.269 around. You traveled another day. You woke up 00:22:01.269 --> 00:22:03.569 the morning of. They fled. It's been a whole 00:22:03.569 --> 00:22:06.029 day since, just traveling along this bridge, 00:22:06.049 --> 00:22:08.750 just nonstop, the waves crashing beneath you, 00:22:08.849 --> 00:22:12.390 birds flying above, and you're just moving, you 00:22:12.390 --> 00:22:16.130 know, sort of back and forth on this long, slithering 00:22:16.130 --> 00:22:20.029 -shaped bridge. It's just endless, endless walking 00:22:20.029 --> 00:22:23.109 as the morning breaks to afternoon, breaks to 00:22:23.109 --> 00:22:25.910 evening, to dusk. You camp again, you wake up, 00:22:25.910 --> 00:22:28.109 and you begin your next day, you know, your last 00:22:28.109 --> 00:22:32.309 day. Throughout that day, that past you know 00:22:32.309 --> 00:22:34.190 what chester's just been acting kind of odd you 00:22:34.190 --> 00:22:36.369 know nervous not taking meals at all not taking 00:22:36.369 --> 00:22:40.430 breaks just muttering to himself a lot the last 00:22:40.430 --> 00:22:42.470 two nights he seems to be sort of barely sleeping 00:22:42.470 --> 00:22:44.170 he gets up a lot throughout the night to go on 00:22:44.170 --> 00:22:46.410 walks on the bridge he probably was away when 00:22:46.410 --> 00:22:49.990 you cast your spell salome His mood just seems 00:22:49.990 --> 00:22:52.329 to fluctuate wildly throughout the day. At some 00:22:52.329 --> 00:22:54.329 point, he's just kind of ranting on and on, just 00:22:54.329 --> 00:22:56.029 full of this sort of nervous, brooding energy. 00:22:56.130 --> 00:22:57.869 Just, huh, those fellas are going to be waiting 00:22:57.869 --> 00:22:59.990 for us, aren't they? Aren't they going to let 00:22:59.990 --> 00:23:02.269 Amato's death slide too easy, huh? That might 00:23:02.269 --> 00:23:05.130 have been a little reckless of me. Shit, shit. 00:23:05.470 --> 00:23:07.069 Well, if we survive the Weeping Paths, we'll 00:23:07.069 --> 00:23:08.750 have to deal with that, right? You know, if, 00:23:08.930 --> 00:23:11.430 if. You know, we're going to have a lot easier 00:23:11.430 --> 00:23:12.970 going through the paths if we kept those meat 00:23:12.970 --> 00:23:16.700 shields. Just saying. None of the times. He's 00:23:16.700 --> 00:23:19.259 back to his usual goofy self, just all smiles. 00:23:19.700 --> 00:23:22.579 Hey Jules, if we find Paul over there, you think 00:23:22.579 --> 00:23:25.019 it'll let us ride him back home? We'll certainly 00:23:25.019 --> 00:23:27.380 be crossing this bridge again. I just hope he 00:23:27.380 --> 00:23:28.539 doesn't forget about his family now that he's 00:23:28.539 --> 00:23:31.940 some big shot storm dragon, right? Right? It 00:23:31.940 --> 00:23:36.759 just seems strange. He looks a little different 00:23:36.759 --> 00:23:38.720 too. Just, you know, getting a little paler, 00:23:38.720 --> 00:23:41.900 just more nervous, almost like clammy. And maybe 00:23:41.900 --> 00:23:44.059 it's just these weeping paths. He's been talking 00:23:44.059 --> 00:23:46.759 about them. Went to this place before. Went through 00:23:46.759 --> 00:23:51.220 once to reach Bethelang Puno. Found the entrance 00:23:51.220 --> 00:23:53.500 to the cavern. As he said, he turned knowing 00:23:53.500 --> 00:23:56.839 he could not face us alone. He went back. And 00:23:56.839 --> 00:23:59.859 those trips made a left of mark on him. He goes 00:23:59.859 --> 00:24:01.400 on and on about the terrors you're going to see 00:24:01.400 --> 00:24:04.779 there. Just do what I say, alright? Stay in my 00:24:04.779 --> 00:24:07.160 steps. Be real careful. Don't wander off. And 00:24:07.160 --> 00:24:08.819 if I say something, if something's happening, 00:24:08.960 --> 00:24:10.980 right? Just follow my lead. Just play it cool. 00:24:11.980 --> 00:24:15.490 Just, uh, yeah. Play it cool. What are we walking 00:24:15.490 --> 00:24:20.690 into? The stuff I saw, Jules. The spirits there, 00:24:20.730 --> 00:24:24.309 Roman. Crazy. You know? I mean, they were burned. 00:24:25.250 --> 00:24:31.410 It's like hell on earth. What? What's what? What's 00:24:31.410 --> 00:24:36.130 what? Earth's... Earth's an element, right? It's 00:24:36.130 --> 00:24:39.329 fine. I don't care. It's like hell over there, 00:24:39.329 --> 00:24:43.289 alright? You're on. The morning of day four, 00:24:43.450 --> 00:24:45.450 you know you're getting close to your destination. 00:24:46.549 --> 00:24:48.309 You've all been traveling on this bridge with 00:24:48.309 --> 00:24:50.150 no access to clean water, and so I have to assume 00:24:50.150 --> 00:24:52.569 everyone is just incredibly stinky. There's five 00:24:52.569 --> 00:24:55.549 stinky heroes on a quest to a stinky swamp island 00:24:55.549 --> 00:25:03.789 beneath a big stinky tree. As you're moving, 00:25:03.849 --> 00:25:06.309 I think at some point, Arhalon's been kind of 00:25:06.309 --> 00:25:08.990 watching just this sort of strange, manic behavior, 00:25:09.089 --> 00:25:11.009 and you can see him kind of like, his eyes falling 00:25:11.009 --> 00:25:13.910 on him. oh boy he kind of moves up aside and 00:25:13.910 --> 00:25:19.349 he's so trickshot huh that's it's very cool a 00:25:19.349 --> 00:25:25.910 rather hot moniker a hot mon if you will what 00:25:25.910 --> 00:25:30.890 the chest is just staring at him just this big 00:25:30.890 --> 00:25:34.890 awkward smile you know sometimes during flights 00:25:34.890 --> 00:25:37.230 of fancy i've often wonder what my name would 00:25:37.230 --> 00:25:42.680 be right to walk the luminary path I think, yes, 00:25:42.859 --> 00:25:46.200 I think sword -bearer would be my pick. My brother, 00:25:46.279 --> 00:25:49.180 he would have thought that was cool. It harkens 00:25:49.180 --> 00:25:50.819 back to my time as a shield -bearer. It honors 00:25:50.819 --> 00:25:55.319 my past. Yeah, yeah, why not honor the job you 00:25:55.319 --> 00:25:58.680 had when you tore my family apart, huh? Uh, I, 00:25:59.839 --> 00:26:02.519 uh, yeah, I'm actually glad you brought that 00:26:02.519 --> 00:26:07.259 up, Trickshot, um, Chester. I was in a dark place 00:26:07.259 --> 00:26:10.240 after that day. I was haunted by my part in that 00:26:10.240 --> 00:26:12.660 tragic sea, by my jealousy towards my brother, 00:26:12.740 --> 00:26:17.500 by my insecurities, and I felt only rage, apathy, 00:26:17.500 --> 00:26:20.599 and I took lies when I could have shown mercy. 00:26:21.220 --> 00:26:23.240 And I was careless with my own life as well. 00:26:23.279 --> 00:26:26.960 I felt like I was drowning, like watching myself 00:26:26.960 --> 00:26:30.720 sinking away in a dark ocean, no matter how hard 00:26:30.720 --> 00:26:32.720 I could kick and paddle the idea of breaking 00:26:32.720 --> 00:26:35.980 the water's surface felt. He's just at the edge 00:26:35.980 --> 00:26:38.900 of the bridge, staring down at the swirling whirlpools 00:26:38.900 --> 00:26:43.299 and harsh waves. But then, when Crispin and Jules 00:26:43.299 --> 00:26:45.660 found me, and after, when Zeb returned, I... 00:26:45.660 --> 00:26:48.539 Hey, hey, we don't gotta do this, alright? I'd 00:26:48.539 --> 00:26:51.660 actually highly prefer if we didn't. I'll get 00:26:51.660 --> 00:26:55.240 to the point. I faced an impossible truth on 00:26:55.240 --> 00:26:58.160 Howery. The truth about my father, my grandmother, 00:26:58.420 --> 00:27:01.079 all of it. My own mother has vanished, and I 00:27:01.079 --> 00:27:04.700 have no way to track her down. I... Should be 00:27:04.700 --> 00:27:08.119 broken. I should have broken by now, but I haven't. 00:27:08.119 --> 00:27:11.299 Instead, I feel lighter and stronger. And I just 00:27:11.299 --> 00:27:14.779 want you to understand one thing. That the hardest 00:27:14.779 --> 00:27:16.680 part of falling down is realizing that it isn't 00:27:16.680 --> 00:27:20.039 so hard to stand again. To open your heart again. 00:27:20.920 --> 00:27:24.400 Especially when you are not alone. And if you 00:27:24.400 --> 00:27:28.140 ever want to talk about anything, I'm obliged. 00:27:29.039 --> 00:27:33.319 Sorry, I'm happy. Happy to oblige. Trick shot. 00:27:34.559 --> 00:27:41.640 Um, yeah, uh, sure thing, sword bearer. Big awkward 00:27:41.640 --> 00:27:44.700 smile, and Chesla kind of saunters away from 00:27:44.700 --> 00:27:48.039 that. I think we see another moment on the bridge. 00:27:48.940 --> 00:27:51.519 Salome moving, and as you're, again, you're getting 00:27:51.519 --> 00:27:55.920 closer to this sense of rot. You feel your wings 00:27:55.920 --> 00:27:58.039 are starting to stiffen, and every once in a 00:27:58.039 --> 00:27:59.819 while when you glance at them, they look almost 00:27:59.819 --> 00:28:03.210 spectral. Phantasmal, like they're losing their 00:28:03.210 --> 00:28:06.069 essence. The closer you get to whatever lies 00:28:06.069 --> 00:28:09.690 ahead, you feel a presence just suddenly beside 00:28:09.690 --> 00:28:13.410 you. Gabriella's grace always taken, filled by 00:28:13.410 --> 00:28:16.130 surprise. Have you been seeing more visions of 00:28:16.130 --> 00:28:21.269 Jules? Very demanding. Right in your face. My 00:28:21.269 --> 00:28:25.730 visions have stopped on the bridge. I see. Does 00:28:25.730 --> 00:28:29.230 that mean it's not happening? Or not going to 00:28:29.230 --> 00:28:32.660 come true? And Jules, you're awake. I think she 00:28:32.660 --> 00:28:34.440 waited until you're kind of maybe moving ahead. 00:28:34.619 --> 00:28:36.420 Chester like ran over and is like chatting with 00:28:36.420 --> 00:28:38.160 you and you're, you know, kind of back and forth 00:28:38.160 --> 00:28:40.599 and, you know, slapping each other. Kind of just, 00:28:40.660 --> 00:28:43.000 you know, back to the jovial old brothers for 00:28:43.000 --> 00:28:47.980 a moment. I hope not. I would like to stop that 00:28:47.980 --> 00:28:50.779 from happening. Have your visions ever not come 00:28:50.779 --> 00:28:53.359 true? Can they be stopped? Is that how it works? 00:28:53.440 --> 00:28:57.599 I don't... I'm here because of a vision that 00:28:57.599 --> 00:29:01.319 I saw. I will not choose to resign myself to 00:29:01.319 --> 00:29:04.720 that future. Has it ever happened before that 00:29:04.720 --> 00:29:06.960 Salome has seen a vision that hasn't come true? 00:29:07.700 --> 00:29:10.900 You tell me. I think it'd be very rare, but maybe 00:29:10.900 --> 00:29:14.299 under some circumstances. I mean, here's the 00:29:14.299 --> 00:29:15.759 thing. You know when horrible things are going 00:29:15.759 --> 00:29:19.160 to happen. There'd be no point to the power of 00:29:19.160 --> 00:29:20.740 prophecy if you couldn't change them, right? 00:29:21.000 --> 00:29:24.200 Yeah. It's hard. Yeah. Like she could have just, 00:29:24.240 --> 00:29:27.559 you know, sat on her hands after seeing... The 00:29:27.559 --> 00:29:31.660 vision of Atash's world. Yeah. And maybe your 00:29:31.660 --> 00:29:35.599 actions will change that future. Maybe. Maybe 00:29:35.599 --> 00:29:40.039 they can change Jules' future. I think, ultimately, 00:29:40.480 --> 00:29:46.559 Jules' fate is in his own hands. Maybe not. The 00:29:46.559 --> 00:29:49.039 other night I saw something. You did something 00:29:49.039 --> 00:29:50.759 to make those hunters turn back. I saw you get 00:29:50.759 --> 00:29:54.000 up, go to the tents. The next day they were gone. 00:29:54.779 --> 00:29:58.480 You made them leave. Yes? Some kind of angel 00:29:58.480 --> 00:30:02.660 power? I am wondering if I am going to have you 00:30:02.660 --> 00:30:06.700 use this power on Jules to send him away. Just 00:30:06.700 --> 00:30:09.480 the two. Jules will hate us, but he will forgive 00:30:09.480 --> 00:30:11.339 us, I hope, when we come back with information 00:30:11.339 --> 00:30:14.380 on what happened to Paul. I know it's wrong. 00:30:14.579 --> 00:30:17.559 Mateo believes... I believe that freedom is the 00:30:17.559 --> 00:30:21.500 most important thing a person can have. But if 00:30:21.500 --> 00:30:24.160 we see this quest through to its end, what if 00:30:24.160 --> 00:30:27.849 it does lead to this vision? I needed to protect 00:30:27.849 --> 00:30:32.970 those boys. I need to protect Jules. I will not 00:30:32.970 --> 00:30:37.309 betray his trust like that. Without him, we will 00:30:37.309 --> 00:30:42.730 surely die. We may die with him. If he becomes 00:30:42.730 --> 00:30:45.710 a thing you've been seeing, we will die because 00:30:45.710 --> 00:30:48.670 of him. Does that mean it's not worth trying? 00:30:49.269 --> 00:30:54.089 I don't know. It's strange. We are fighting fate 00:30:54.089 --> 00:30:56.670 itself, and... Who knows if in the fighting of 00:30:56.670 --> 00:31:00.630 fate, we are falling in the fate's trap? It's 00:31:00.630 --> 00:31:03.730 just frustrating to not know. Do we even have 00:31:03.730 --> 00:31:07.490 choice? Is there freedom? When the future can 00:31:07.490 --> 00:31:10.690 be set in these ways, I... Would that change 00:31:10.690 --> 00:31:14.789 how hard you're willing to fight? No. I will 00:31:14.789 --> 00:31:19.970 fight with everything I have. As will I. Her 00:31:19.970 --> 00:31:24.259 eyes, like, go back to jewels. Standing by Chester, 00:31:24.319 --> 00:31:26.400 the two walking side by side. Maybe at this moment 00:31:26.400 --> 00:31:28.680 you kind of like feel something, Jules, and you 00:31:28.680 --> 00:31:32.019 kind of glance back. Let them fight as well. 00:31:32.920 --> 00:31:39.779 They choose to be here. Okay. Jules, what is 00:31:39.779 --> 00:31:42.359 going through your mind? I've seen a bit of what 00:31:42.359 --> 00:31:44.579 everyone else is thinking here. What is Jules 00:31:44.579 --> 00:31:47.759 thinking? There's so much. You know that your 00:31:47.759 --> 00:31:50.470 mother... likely lies ahead. Paul is some kind 00:31:50.470 --> 00:31:53.490 of dragon creature. You don't really fully understand 00:31:53.490 --> 00:31:56.509 why, but the answers lie beyond this cursed land. 00:31:56.849 --> 00:32:00.329 Chesta's back, but he's still different. Something's 00:32:00.329 --> 00:32:03.210 still wrong with him. And there's so much happening. 00:32:03.230 --> 00:32:06.849 Everything that has made you who you are, it's 00:32:06.849 --> 00:32:10.710 all coming to a head here and now. And that presence 00:32:10.710 --> 00:32:16.509 within you and behind you, you can feel it reveling. 00:32:18.529 --> 00:32:23.069 Excited. Every step closer. I think by this point, 00:32:23.109 --> 00:32:27.549 he's kind of on autopilot. He's going through 00:32:27.549 --> 00:32:30.390 the motions, and right now he might be playing 00:32:30.390 --> 00:32:34.529 around with Chester and whatnot. But he's kind 00:32:34.529 --> 00:32:39.710 of a shell, and it's empty. It's dark. Nothing 00:32:39.710 --> 00:32:43.690 feels right. I don't know. I think the best way 00:32:43.690 --> 00:32:47.490 I can describe it is it's similar to Frodo. toward 00:32:47.490 --> 00:32:50.009 the end of the journey, where his eyes are just 00:32:50.009 --> 00:32:56.349 wide and void of anything, really. There's like 00:32:56.349 --> 00:32:58.390 so much prodding from Chester, I imagine. Yeah, 00:32:58.430 --> 00:33:02.470 and he's, I don't know. Emotionally, he's like 00:33:02.470 --> 00:33:06.769 he's underwater trying to run. Big guy. Big guy. 00:33:06.809 --> 00:33:10.650 Hey, hey, big guy. What? Whoa, look. What are 00:33:10.650 --> 00:33:12.630 you spacing out? Look, look ahead. What? It's 00:33:12.630 --> 00:33:16.200 coming out. You all kind of glance up ahead to 00:33:16.200 --> 00:33:18.200 see the mist on the horizon as it begins to part, 00:33:18.440 --> 00:33:23.200 revealing a gigantic tree, thousands of feet 00:33:23.200 --> 00:33:25.960 tall, its highest branches hidden by clouds. 00:33:26.460 --> 00:33:30.160 The great tree's bows? Bows? How do you pronounce 00:33:30.160 --> 00:33:34.000 that? Bows. Get me. I thought it was bows. Bows 00:33:34.000 --> 00:33:36.240 of a tree? Bows or bows of a tree? Bows. Oh. 00:33:36.640 --> 00:33:38.779 Blue boughs. I don't know. The great tree's boughs 00:33:38.779 --> 00:33:41.700 are bent and mostly barren and lifeless. A few 00:33:41.700 --> 00:33:46.339 gigantic leaves you see are falling down. I thought 00:33:46.339 --> 00:33:49.680 you were saying like a bode. Like a bode brace. 00:33:49.920 --> 00:33:51.880 Oh, a bode brace. Something like that, yeah. 00:33:52.079 --> 00:33:55.519 The great tree's bode boughs are bent. Sorry, 00:33:55.619 --> 00:33:57.980 the great tree's bode boughs are bode. And mostly 00:33:57.980 --> 00:34:04.970 bode barren. I think it's besh. That's pretty 00:34:04.970 --> 00:34:08.590 good. You got three buttons? No, I've got zero 00:34:08.590 --> 00:34:14.150 buttons. That made me laugh. So the sky bridge 00:34:14.150 --> 00:34:16.730 descends onto a sizable island overgrown with 00:34:16.730 --> 00:34:19.550 tangled swamp vegetation and covered in a haze 00:34:19.550 --> 00:34:24.329 tasting of ash. And that sickness just permeates. 00:34:25.250 --> 00:34:29.250 You keep moving and so soon you find yourselves 00:34:29.250 --> 00:34:33.909 descending. The bridge finally lowering down 00:34:33.909 --> 00:34:36.670 to meet the Swamp Land. As you begin to move 00:34:36.670 --> 00:34:41.909 down Salome, their wings become entirely spectral. 00:34:43.150 --> 00:34:45.610 That wrongness just pushes through them. You 00:34:45.610 --> 00:34:49.210 try to flap them, and they move. You can feel 00:34:49.210 --> 00:34:51.429 them, the limb they always were, but they do 00:34:51.429 --> 00:34:56.150 not touch the air. Your light, your essence, 00:34:56.329 --> 00:35:00.670 is being choked by something so counter to you. 00:35:02.000 --> 00:35:05.280 This marsh, this island, just rejects your celestial 00:35:05.280 --> 00:35:10.119 light. You step down, your feet so used to treading 00:35:10.119 --> 00:35:15.300 on, just stamping stone and brick. Squish into 00:35:15.300 --> 00:35:20.340 muck. The ash -heavy air closes in, decay and 00:35:20.340 --> 00:35:23.480 ruin all around, from the murky water flowing 00:35:23.480 --> 00:35:26.059 through the endless swamp to the mildewed vines 00:35:26.059 --> 00:35:29.380 and the rotting roots of swollen mangrove and 00:35:29.380 --> 00:35:33.280 banyan trees. And you. Look out at the quagmire. 00:35:34.619 --> 00:35:39.019 All right. Okay. Got about a day's travel here. 00:35:39.619 --> 00:35:42.219 We can either camp here for the night or push 00:35:42.219 --> 00:35:46.039 through. We'll reach the end late. We'll reach 00:35:46.039 --> 00:35:51.019 it. Push through in one day? When we get out 00:35:51.019 --> 00:35:52.920 there, I wouldn't want to camp. Just saying. 00:35:53.579 --> 00:35:58.079 What are the risks? This place. It's teeming 00:35:58.079 --> 00:36:00.980 with things. Things you can't always even see. 00:36:02.090 --> 00:36:05.469 It feels like... Like it knows you're here and 00:36:05.469 --> 00:36:08.070 that you don't belong. Like the island knows. 00:36:08.650 --> 00:36:11.650 I don't know. It's hard to explain it, but you'll 00:36:11.650 --> 00:36:15.449 find out. Just remember, do as I say. Alright? 00:36:15.570 --> 00:36:17.369 I've been through twice. I've seen things and 00:36:17.369 --> 00:36:21.349 I know how to bypass them. I'll take lead. Alright? 00:36:22.190 --> 00:36:27.690 I don't want to camp, Jules. What say you? We 00:36:27.690 --> 00:36:31.980 keep moving. Alright. You've only traveled for 00:36:31.980 --> 00:36:34.300 about four hours today, so you're not terribly 00:36:34.300 --> 00:36:36.820 tired. Oh, yeah, definitely. It's a long journey 00:36:36.820 --> 00:36:40.059 through the swamp, but at the end of it, it'll 00:36:40.059 --> 00:36:42.500 be late. But you don't think you'll be entirely 00:36:42.500 --> 00:36:47.960 exhausted. All right, let's go. He starts looking 00:36:47.960 --> 00:36:49.920 around, moving through a brush, and he's, ah, 00:36:49.940 --> 00:36:53.139 here. And I think he points down, and you see 00:36:53.139 --> 00:36:57.639 a track sort of moving into the swamp. And for 00:36:57.639 --> 00:36:59.769 a second, you're kind of like... they don't really 00:36:59.769 --> 00:37:03.969 look like Chesta's boots. They look a little 00:37:03.969 --> 00:37:06.110 different, a little bigger, a little warped, 00:37:06.130 --> 00:37:09.809 thinner. Then you realize, as he takes a step 00:37:09.809 --> 00:37:12.590 down, that he's leaving those same tracks. You 00:37:12.590 --> 00:37:15.329 remember he has these specialized boots, the 00:37:15.329 --> 00:37:17.610 boots of false tracks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That 00:37:17.610 --> 00:37:21.570 make it so he can leave different kinds of tracks 00:37:21.570 --> 00:37:23.610 behind him that aren't his own. It seems like 00:37:23.610 --> 00:37:25.989 he just does it passively, almost carefully, 00:37:26.170 --> 00:37:30.619 wherever he goes. All right. being to move to 00:37:30.619 --> 00:37:32.139 the swamps. And I think Chester's kind of just 00:37:32.139 --> 00:37:34.579 reminding you of various things, kind of going 00:37:34.579 --> 00:37:36.119 over some of the local lore you heard when he 00:37:36.119 --> 00:37:39.320 was just combing through the cities and listening 00:37:39.320 --> 00:37:41.820 in, doing Chester things. Yeah, so the tree, 00:37:41.940 --> 00:37:43.820 Baflang Puno, used to be a religious haven, right? 00:37:44.059 --> 00:37:46.360 A dwelling place for Bakunawa and a place where 00:37:46.360 --> 00:37:48.119 the people of the islands could seek their wisdom? 00:37:48.659 --> 00:37:50.460 After the numbers dwindled, an army of raiders 00:37:50.460 --> 00:37:52.539 from Laguna came and brought fire to the island. 00:37:53.039 --> 00:37:55.440 Burning the forest, the temple city, the citizens, 00:37:55.699 --> 00:37:59.369 the tree? They say the island just never forgot, 00:37:59.570 --> 00:38:01.630 but it still feels the pain of that burning. 00:38:02.010 --> 00:38:04.230 The dead here, they just don't rest easy. The 00:38:04.230 --> 00:38:06.210 tree itself, it just sits on top of some huge 00:38:06.210 --> 00:38:09.409 cavern, right? It's the holy sanctum of the city, 00:38:09.469 --> 00:38:12.530 the lair of the Bacchanawa, which obviously now 00:38:12.530 --> 00:38:17.030 the lair of Calapsania. Carlin kind of speaks 00:38:17.030 --> 00:38:23.920 up. I've been thinking. If Paul... is this last 00:38:23.920 --> 00:38:26.880 Bakunawa and it's not the Pong -il that everyone 00:38:26.880 --> 00:38:29.840 believes to be, then do you think the real Pong 00:38:29.840 --> 00:38:32.760 -il has already been killed? They said he hadn't 00:38:32.760 --> 00:38:36.320 been seen in years, right? Before now? If Calypsania 00:38:36.320 --> 00:38:40.480 has taken its lair as her own, then it only stands 00:38:40.480 --> 00:38:42.380 to reason she slayed the poor creature, right? 00:38:43.280 --> 00:38:47.639 Do you not think they are one in the same? You 00:38:47.639 --> 00:38:50.719 think Paul has put his mind inside the creature? 00:38:51.440 --> 00:38:54.929 But... How? How could he have done this, or become 00:38:54.929 --> 00:38:57.530 it at all? How at all is any of this possible? 00:38:58.170 --> 00:39:01.349 And doesn't it feel too convenient, in a way? 00:39:02.590 --> 00:39:06.469 We are being lured here. It's a trap. You know 00:39:06.469 --> 00:39:11.010 it's a trap, right, Jules? And as she looks at 00:39:11.010 --> 00:39:13.889 Jules, and Salome, as you look to Jules, you 00:39:13.889 --> 00:39:17.690 see a burned necrotic creature with horns jutting 00:39:17.690 --> 00:39:20.539 up from his skull. The creature looks entirely 00:39:20.539 --> 00:39:24.840 at home in these desecrated lands. I know what 00:39:24.840 --> 00:39:32.139 I heard. You're moving on. Pressing through the 00:39:32.139 --> 00:39:36.960 marsh. That ashy haze begins to sort of coalesce 00:39:36.960 --> 00:39:42.960 and thicken. And hours pass. This place is too 00:39:42.960 --> 00:39:50.280 quiet. So, so silent. It's verdant in a way. 00:39:51.440 --> 00:39:53.719 Rotten, but verdant, and yet there's not a single 00:39:53.719 --> 00:39:59.139 beast, bird, insect, anything you can hear. A 00:39:59.139 --> 00:40:01.639 land touched by death that never came to life 00:40:01.639 --> 00:40:07.900 again. And it's just so wrong. It's because it's 00:40:07.900 --> 00:40:13.480 so silent that you can hear it mingling with 00:40:13.480 --> 00:40:25.829 the very calm, very stale wind. She has to just 00:40:25.829 --> 00:40:30.150 stop. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Okay, they're coming. 00:40:30.250 --> 00:40:32.269 All right, I know these guys. Listen carefully. 00:40:32.710 --> 00:40:34.309 They're going to come by. They're going to want 00:40:34.309 --> 00:40:35.570 to ask you some questions, right? They want to 00:40:35.570 --> 00:40:38.030 make sure you're dead. Just play along with what 00:40:38.030 --> 00:40:40.590 I do. All right? All right? You can hear the 00:40:40.590 --> 00:40:45.150 voices kind of a little louder. A low limb from 00:40:45.150 --> 00:40:48.710 the great tree collapsed onto me, breaking my 00:40:48.710 --> 00:40:54.420 bones to dust. I am so sorry. And you begin to 00:40:54.420 --> 00:40:59.440 see them, shapes, coalescing gray spectral figures, 00:40:59.679 --> 00:41:05.760 sort of made of the ashy mist around you, moving 00:41:05.760 --> 00:41:10.900 past you. I was bound to a stake and roasted 00:41:10.900 --> 00:41:15.280 alive. My family watched my skin crackle and 00:41:15.280 --> 00:41:21.860 burn away. I am so sorry. Many voices at once 00:41:21.860 --> 00:41:27.360 booming. And those figures suddenly stop. The 00:41:27.360 --> 00:41:32.159 wind halts. It goes silent again. And they just, 00:41:32.179 --> 00:41:36.880 for a long moment, just stare at you. Chester 00:41:36.880 --> 00:41:39.820 puts a hand up like, don't do anything. How are 00:41:39.820 --> 00:41:41.380 you reacting to this? Just these strange figures 00:41:41.380 --> 00:41:43.500 all around you, almost like a full circle now 00:41:43.500 --> 00:41:45.039 at this point. You see them layered and layered 00:41:45.039 --> 00:41:48.619 and layered going back. These ghosts, these ashen 00:41:48.619 --> 00:41:53.590 things. Jules is just slowly... circling around, 00:41:53.730 --> 00:41:57.869 looking at him side to side. He pays no attention 00:41:57.869 --> 00:42:00.269 to Chester's hand. He's waving his hand, covering 00:42:00.269 --> 00:42:03.929 his mouth, trying to gesture something, but not 00:42:03.929 --> 00:42:06.329 saying a word, trying to stay as quiet as possible. 00:42:06.929 --> 00:42:10.369 Salome's just standing behind Chester. And one 00:42:10.369 --> 00:42:15.710 figure finally speaks. You do not feel dead. 00:42:16.670 --> 00:42:24.000 You do not feel dead. Tell us. How did you die? 00:42:26.360 --> 00:42:31.239 And they turn. So they turn to Arhalon first. 00:42:31.860 --> 00:42:34.079 Arhalon's kind of just looking around, just kind 00:42:34.079 --> 00:42:37.199 of nudges him, like, gives him a quick nudge 00:42:37.199 --> 00:42:42.719 and a wink, and Arhalon, oh, I was killed by 00:42:42.719 --> 00:42:45.880 my monster of a father. He drained my life away 00:42:45.880 --> 00:42:50.619 so that I might join his side in death. I am 00:42:50.619 --> 00:42:56.190 so sorry. They looked at Chester. Yeah, actually, 00:42:56.230 --> 00:42:58.210 a couple weeks ago, you guys, you already... 00:42:58.210 --> 00:43:02.449 I am so sorry. Oh, sweet, all right. Guess I'm 00:43:02.449 --> 00:43:06.789 good to go. Turned to Gabriella. How did you 00:43:06.789 --> 00:43:10.110 die? Someone asked me a stupid question, so I 00:43:10.110 --> 00:43:14.869 broke them in half. Silence. Oh, and then I had 00:43:14.869 --> 00:43:21.949 a heart attack. Silence. And I died. I... I'm 00:43:21.949 --> 00:43:28.610 so sorry. Attention shifts to Jules. It's like 00:43:28.610 --> 00:43:30.469 this strange, like all the heads, almost like 00:43:30.469 --> 00:43:34.969 shadows overlaying. Their facial features just 00:43:34.969 --> 00:43:36.829 turn towards you, and yet they do not move their 00:43:36.829 --> 00:43:39.829 bodies at all. It's almost like stop motion, 00:43:39.909 --> 00:43:46.670 the way they move around. How did you die? Well, 00:43:46.710 --> 00:43:49.909 I was going to say heart attack, but... What 00:43:49.909 --> 00:43:57.949 she said. Common killer. Common killer. My mother 00:43:57.949 --> 00:44:06.630 killed me. I am so sorry. Heads turn to Salome. 00:44:07.710 --> 00:44:16.050 How strange. Can you die? Heads all cocked to 00:44:16.050 --> 00:44:19.889 the side facing a celestial. An immortal being. 00:44:21.449 --> 00:44:26.130 Salome is going to try to play along. I was crushed 00:44:26.130 --> 00:44:31.469 under a pile of rubble. In your case, I need 00:44:31.469 --> 00:44:33.329 you to roll a persuasion check. Jesus Christ. 00:44:33.690 --> 00:44:36.170 No, sorry. Deception check will be the one. Jules 00:44:36.170 --> 00:44:37.889 gives her a look like that's the best you could 00:44:37.889 --> 00:44:41.150 come up with. You're a celestial. They're like, 00:44:41.309 --> 00:44:44.230 they can believe you got your story. It was magic 00:44:44.230 --> 00:44:46.630 rubble. It was magic rubble. It was magic rubble. 00:44:46.670 --> 00:44:50.119 Magic rubble. I want to. How do you kill a celestial? 00:44:50.119 --> 00:44:52.860 I meant to correct myself earlier. I didn't have 00:44:52.860 --> 00:44:54.880 zero buttons. I had one button. So I'm going 00:44:54.880 --> 00:44:59.199 to give you one. And I now have one. Hell yeah. 00:45:01.179 --> 00:45:06.480 Oh boy. Be a good one. Neither of them are good. 00:45:06.880 --> 00:45:12.079 Okay. First roll was a three. Second roll was 00:45:12.079 --> 00:45:16.579 a four. No modifier. Sorry, let me just get some 00:45:16.579 --> 00:45:20.139 dice real fast. Get my hands on some dice. You 00:45:20.139 --> 00:45:22.719 guys got any D6s over there? You can't have my 00:45:22.719 --> 00:45:25.159 D6. Just give me all of them. I'll roll a few 00:45:25.159 --> 00:45:29.539 times. You say this. They're just kind of looking 00:45:29.539 --> 00:45:34.019 at you. And you see like places where the mist 00:45:34.019 --> 00:45:37.739 parts on their faces. It's not my fault. As their 00:45:37.739 --> 00:45:44.280 mouths open and scream. And a number of them 00:45:44.280 --> 00:45:48.280 just run at you and just begin to burst into 00:45:48.280 --> 00:45:51.800 flame as their bodies wrap around you. The flames 00:45:51.800 --> 00:45:54.980 burn and sear you and you feel their pain. You 00:45:54.980 --> 00:45:59.460 feel how they died. And it feels like, hang on. 00:46:07.059 --> 00:46:10.760 Make a wisdom saving throw for me, please. Because 00:46:10.760 --> 00:46:14.630 it's going to feel like. 40 points of fire damage. 00:46:14.889 --> 00:46:19.190 Of fire damage? Jesus Christ. Hang on. I've got 00:46:19.190 --> 00:46:24.530 a, it's a dirty 20. Okay. Halved. You, these 00:46:24.530 --> 00:46:27.489 things just wrap around you. You feel them searing 00:46:27.489 --> 00:46:29.809 you, and you are suddenly living through their 00:46:29.809 --> 00:46:32.590 last moments, hearing their screams. I think 00:46:32.590 --> 00:46:35.650 your throat opens up as if you're screaming in 00:46:35.650 --> 00:46:37.949 this direction, and it's about to bubble out. 00:46:38.050 --> 00:46:40.030 You're feeling them burn, and then you kind of 00:46:40.030 --> 00:46:43.079 realize, you see through it. You're not them. 00:46:43.260 --> 00:46:47.579 This is not your death. They are in agony, forever 00:46:47.579 --> 00:46:51.079 in agony. And maybe you are so sorry, but you 00:46:51.079 --> 00:46:56.699 are not affected fully. You just take, sorry, 00:46:56.820 --> 00:47:00.000 it was 40 points, 20 points of fire damage. Yeah. 00:47:00.059 --> 00:47:09.860 Yeah. Ouch. And they are gone. Chest really hurts. 00:47:09.920 --> 00:47:12.969 It's long. Breath out. Oh. You all right? Hey, 00:47:13.130 --> 00:47:15.829 that could have gone a lot worse. What the fuck 00:47:15.829 --> 00:47:22.849 was that? Yeah, they do that. Get ready. It gets 00:47:22.849 --> 00:47:26.429 a lot worse. How long ago did these people die? 00:47:27.710 --> 00:47:31.550 I think it was, I'm trying to remember now. I 00:47:31.550 --> 00:47:33.170 want to say, I think it was 200 years. Was that 00:47:33.170 --> 00:47:37.050 before or after Celestials came to the Radiant 00:47:37.050 --> 00:47:41.650 Citadel? It was before. So it's only been here 00:47:41.650 --> 00:47:45.150 for about 50 years. And they recognize a Pari 00:47:45.150 --> 00:47:48.550 angel flying around. They recognize something 00:47:48.550 --> 00:47:53.150 that cannot die. Bitch. They just feel energy. 00:47:53.250 --> 00:47:58.150 That's not like theirs. Chester. Yeah. You got 00:47:58.150 --> 00:48:00.469 to give us more time to prepare. Sorry. Yeah. 00:48:00.489 --> 00:48:02.309 You got to fucking let us know what's coming 00:48:02.309 --> 00:48:04.789 up. All right. Yeah. The DM just thought it'd 00:48:04.789 --> 00:48:08.559 be funny. If you didn't know. Well, too bad I'm 00:48:08.559 --> 00:48:10.559 asking you, so now you've got to tell us. All 00:48:10.559 --> 00:48:13.500 right, hey. I'll be more careful. I didn't think 00:48:13.500 --> 00:48:14.860 they'd come. They're usually farther in than 00:48:14.860 --> 00:48:18.599 that. They must have wandered away. It's weird. 00:48:19.099 --> 00:48:23.420 Will we encounter more? Them? I don't know. Maybe. 00:48:24.380 --> 00:48:27.539 There's more, all right. Hey, they're the nice 00:48:27.539 --> 00:48:29.500 ones. They're the ones you can get away with. 00:48:29.519 --> 00:48:32.659 I had to run a lot to escape some of these things. 00:48:32.739 --> 00:48:38.309 They get nasty. I will be drinking a greater 00:48:38.309 --> 00:48:46.349 potion of healing. I got it almost all back. 00:48:46.429 --> 00:48:52.869 17. Not bad. How can I trick them if we see them 00:48:52.869 --> 00:48:57.949 again? I guess get a bit of lie? Is that how 00:48:57.949 --> 00:49:02.420 you can die? Can you die? Do you die? And you 00:49:02.420 --> 00:49:05.480 know, the only way you can die is if you go back 00:49:05.480 --> 00:49:08.179 to your original plane and are killed there. 00:49:08.820 --> 00:49:12.940 That would be on Kameo. Yeah. Here, I can't die. 00:49:13.599 --> 00:49:17.840 I can only leave. Well, I guess we just gotta 00:49:17.840 --> 00:49:19.940 hope we don't find them again. Look, they're 00:49:19.940 --> 00:49:21.920 going that way, we're going this way. So, uh, 00:49:22.079 --> 00:49:23.960 maybe on the way back, we gotta deal with them, 00:49:23.980 --> 00:49:27.800 but... Well, that's a then problem, right? Yes, 00:49:27.960 --> 00:49:32.289 we'll push forward and... Deal with them later. 00:49:33.250 --> 00:49:38.610 Then you continue, moving along. Perhaps another 00:49:38.610 --> 00:49:43.130 half an hour passes, and Chester's just even 00:49:43.130 --> 00:49:45.210 more on alert than before, really watching out, 00:49:45.329 --> 00:49:46.710 trying to get a little bit ahead of you guys. 00:49:47.349 --> 00:49:50.309 You see the moment he just kind of freezes in 00:49:50.309 --> 00:49:53.210 the trail. Your feet all sort of squish in the 00:49:53.210 --> 00:49:58.349 muck as you all stomp dead. He kind of glances 00:49:58.349 --> 00:50:02.159 back and sort of... He does a come here, quiet, 00:50:02.260 --> 00:50:05.840 sort of gesture, like a careful drawing of the 00:50:05.840 --> 00:50:09.039 fingers. The mist is beginning to sort of dissipate 00:50:09.039 --> 00:50:12.260 as you're moving ahead, and you see what he sees 00:50:12.260 --> 00:50:15.380 as you get close. You're moving through this 00:50:15.380 --> 00:50:19.980 thin path. It looks like the trees have almost 00:50:19.980 --> 00:50:23.400 parted to give you an almost easier way through. 00:50:24.159 --> 00:50:26.019 You don't know if Chester somehow made this path 00:50:26.019 --> 00:50:28.019 his way. coming before, but you get the feeling 00:50:28.019 --> 00:50:30.079 he didn't. There's many, many times where he's 00:50:30.079 --> 00:50:33.500 seen different options, and he's sat for a second, 00:50:33.619 --> 00:50:36.360 nodded, then taken one of three different ways. 00:50:36.800 --> 00:50:38.820 You get to assume it's almost like a labyrinth 00:50:38.820 --> 00:50:41.579 through the sort of close, sort of stretching 00:50:41.579 --> 00:50:45.559 branches of these trees, through the swamps that 00:50:45.559 --> 00:50:48.960 could pull you down forever. But as you move 00:50:48.960 --> 00:50:51.019 up beside him, you see that the path ahead is 00:50:51.019 --> 00:50:54.880 obstructed. There's a tree. Sitting right into 00:50:54.880 --> 00:50:56.920 it, right where the path seems to kind of widen 00:50:56.920 --> 00:51:01.139 out, you see this small, scorched banyan tree, 00:51:01.260 --> 00:51:07.599 blackened, bark sort of flaking away. And you 00:51:07.599 --> 00:51:10.159 see two corpses are hanging from the branches, 00:51:10.460 --> 00:51:14.239 their flesh entirely blackened by burning, making 00:51:14.239 --> 00:51:17.480 their races, ages, and genders completely indistinguishable. 00:51:18.280 --> 00:51:19.980 You just know that one of them is notably tall, 00:51:20.099 --> 00:51:23.670 and the other is notably short. And Chester just 00:51:23.670 --> 00:51:27.050 whispers, Look, this was not here before, right? 00:51:27.730 --> 00:51:29.369 We can't get around it. We gotta go off path. 00:51:30.610 --> 00:51:33.610 It's dangerous. Any way you can help us to not 00:51:33.610 --> 00:51:36.929 fall through the swamp? What does it mean to 00:51:36.929 --> 00:51:40.789 go off the path? I don't know. I didn't do it 00:51:40.789 --> 00:51:43.690 because I'm smart. I'm smart enough to know that 00:51:43.690 --> 00:51:48.329 that is bad. He points to that tree just sitting 00:51:48.329 --> 00:51:53.539 there, the figures slowly swinging. Caught in 00:51:53.539 --> 00:51:59.460 a wind that you do not feel. I can cover them 00:51:59.460 --> 00:52:03.760 in fog. All right, yeah. We just loop around 00:52:03.760 --> 00:52:09.000 a little careful -like. Yes. Let's do it. Pass 00:52:09.000 --> 00:52:15.900 carefully. And she'll cast Fog Cloud. Just looking 00:52:15.900 --> 00:52:19.179 at marks down where the tree is. All right. My 00:52:19.179 --> 00:52:23.199 steps. Exactly, all right? So I'm in. He wordlessly 00:52:23.199 --> 00:52:27.639 nods. He begins to move ahead. With the fog cloud 00:52:27.639 --> 00:52:31.559 obscuring you, he kind of slides around. It kind 00:52:31.559 --> 00:52:33.500 of opens up where the tree is. He's sliding around 00:52:33.500 --> 00:52:35.420 very close. He's putting his hands out. You can 00:52:35.420 --> 00:52:37.599 feel the branches sort of prickling you. You 00:52:37.599 --> 00:52:40.880 are right at the edge of the trail. You feel 00:52:40.880 --> 00:52:43.420 yourselves like something, some great malice 00:52:43.420 --> 00:52:48.480 pressing on you as you push beyond. This long, 00:52:48.719 --> 00:52:53.900 tense moment. Every step sounds so loud. You 00:52:53.900 --> 00:52:55.300 know it's right there. It's right there beside 00:52:55.300 --> 00:52:57.519 you. It's branches practically hanging over you. 00:52:57.519 --> 00:53:03.980 Those bodies swinging. And you're stepping out 00:53:03.980 --> 00:53:08.739 to the other side of the fog cloud. Oh. Holy 00:53:08.739 --> 00:53:14.590 shit. Alright. Come on. Justin moves. very quickly 00:53:14.590 --> 00:53:17.389 now, and you begin to move quickly, and a natural 00:53:17.389 --> 00:53:19.869 fog begins to kind of start rolling in around 00:53:19.869 --> 00:53:23.250 you as you move. It'll be 10 minutes past, and 00:53:23.250 --> 00:53:24.809 you're leaving that behind. You're feeling pretty 00:53:24.809 --> 00:53:39.789 good. And here. Something large is moving in 00:53:39.789 --> 00:53:43.579 the fog, coming from behind you. moving around 00:53:43.579 --> 00:53:47.360 you somewhere off the path. You all turn a corner 00:53:47.360 --> 00:53:52.119 and you see a scorched tree ahead with two corpses 00:53:52.119 --> 00:53:57.579 hanging from its branches. Holy shit. I don't 00:53:57.579 --> 00:53:59.719 know what this is. I don't know what this is. 00:54:01.159 --> 00:54:08.239 It just stands there waiting. The tree was walking. 00:54:08.659 --> 00:54:14.380 We heard the... It feels like that's the case. 00:54:15.340 --> 00:54:30.659 Jeez. You can try. I wouldn't. What are you suggesting? 00:54:32.360 --> 00:54:36.099 I don't know why. Do we kill it? Just kill the 00:54:36.099 --> 00:54:38.579 tree. It's not a big deal, right? Your sword 00:54:38.579 --> 00:54:45.050 is fire, yes? I suppose it is fire. Do we face 00:54:45.050 --> 00:54:48.150 it down or try to move ahead again? We heard 00:54:48.150 --> 00:54:51.789 it move. It was fast. I don't know. I don't know. 00:54:52.889 --> 00:54:58.630 Jules? Salome? I would rather try and avoid the 00:54:58.630 --> 00:55:03.849 fight. So on the sides of the path, does it look 00:55:03.849 --> 00:55:07.369 like if we could get the tree off the path, it 00:55:07.369 --> 00:55:09.389 would... It could maybe, I don't know, get stuck 00:55:09.389 --> 00:55:11.889 or at least slowed. You heard it go off the path 00:55:11.889 --> 00:55:14.050 before. Oh, okay. It's going to move quick off 00:55:14.050 --> 00:55:15.989 the path. It moved around you and came up ahead 00:55:15.989 --> 00:55:18.610 of you again. The path is also kind of snaking, 00:55:18.650 --> 00:55:20.030 so you're kind of like where you're having to 00:55:20.030 --> 00:55:22.590 curve along. It's able to kind of shoot straight. 00:55:23.269 --> 00:55:26.210 Was the insinuation that this was the same tree 00:55:26.210 --> 00:55:30.849 that we snuck around? Yep. Oh. You look at it, 00:55:30.889 --> 00:55:32.730 it's the exact same tree. Same bodies, one short, 00:55:32.869 --> 00:55:39.280 one tall. It is the same tree. Huh. Do we try 00:55:39.280 --> 00:55:44.280 to speak with it? It seems like it could have 00:55:44.280 --> 00:55:47.980 snuck up behind us, but it chose to be seen. 00:55:48.340 --> 00:55:50.679 Well, the dead here, they want to be seen, all 00:55:50.679 --> 00:55:54.699 right? The fucking freaks. The angry and just 00:55:54.699 --> 00:55:58.739 taking out everyone. Let's see it. What do you 00:55:58.739 --> 00:56:01.900 think, Jules? Have you ever spoken to a dead 00:56:01.900 --> 00:56:04.739 tree before? Well, you know what they say, this 00:56:04.739 --> 00:56:07.699 is the first time for everything. Can Jules ready 00:56:07.699 --> 00:56:12.420 an action? Yes, you can. Cool. Do I need to tell 00:56:12.420 --> 00:56:15.019 you which one I'm doing? You can leave it a surprise. 00:56:15.280 --> 00:56:17.960 How about this? Tell me the trigger. Because 00:56:17.960 --> 00:56:20.579 normally if something happens, then it unlocks 00:56:20.579 --> 00:56:22.559 your reaction to cast whatever you're doing. 00:56:22.679 --> 00:56:23.880 Don't tell me what you're doing because it's 00:56:23.880 --> 00:56:25.739 fun. Just tell me what needs to happen for it 00:56:25.739 --> 00:56:29.079 to happen. It animates and attacks? Okay, perfect. 00:56:29.719 --> 00:56:34.460 Perfect. Okay. You all move up to it. No scaring 00:56:34.460 --> 00:56:38.199 fog this time. Yeah, I think we at least want 00:56:38.199 --> 00:56:41.500 to get close enough to try and call out or something. 00:56:42.059 --> 00:56:44.340 It's still like, it's like late in the day now, 00:56:44.440 --> 00:56:48.760 probably something like 5 p .m. And the light 00:56:48.760 --> 00:56:51.880 from the sky as it's dimming, it just like, the 00:56:51.880 --> 00:56:54.699 treetops, the scarab branch just seems to like 00:56:54.699 --> 00:56:57.320 filter it out. It looks almost kind of wrong 00:56:57.320 --> 00:57:00.440 and gray. But then it's light enough to see, 00:57:00.599 --> 00:57:03.599 to witness as you come and approach this thing. 00:57:04.719 --> 00:57:08.000 You walk closer. How close do you get? Let's 00:57:08.000 --> 00:57:10.519 say you're about 80 feet back now, kind of just 00:57:10.519 --> 00:57:11.860 around a corner. Oh, I wasn't even thinking that 00:57:11.860 --> 00:57:17.340 close, but I guess maybe half the distance, up 00:57:17.340 --> 00:57:23.139 to 40. Hell yeah. You get 40 feet away. Allies 00:57:23.139 --> 00:57:26.880 moving in behind you. Gabriela close to Jules. 00:57:27.000 --> 00:57:29.440 Arhalon staying next to Salome. Chesta kind of 00:57:29.440 --> 00:57:32.380 actually starts moving a bit behind, has his 00:57:32.380 --> 00:57:41.360 crossbow drawn. How did you die? Movement. Ashy 00:57:41.360 --> 00:57:43.719 bark begins to fall from the front of the tree. 00:57:44.500 --> 00:57:49.300 You see, the bark begins to tear itself open. 00:57:50.239 --> 00:58:08.079 Two eyes and a mouth. Jagged. Rips. Bodies drop 00:58:08.079 --> 00:58:10.239 from the tree, the rope that held them vanishing 00:58:10.239 --> 00:58:12.300 in a burst of shadowy smoke, and you see that 00:58:12.300 --> 00:58:15.559 smoke coalesces around these burned forges. They 00:58:15.559 --> 00:58:18.179 become spectral as well. They open their own 00:58:18.179 --> 00:58:24.239 mouths, jaws snapping too wide, screaming out. 00:58:25.079 --> 00:58:29.480 They begin to rush towards you as the tree's 00:58:29.480 --> 00:58:34.980 roots behind snap up and step. into the muck 00:58:34.980 --> 00:58:37.119 as it opens its mouth wide again and screams 00:58:37.119 --> 00:58:44.739 again, I BORED! And we'll call it there!