WEBVTT 00:00:00.940 --> 00:00:03.740 Hey folks, we'd like to dedicate this episode 00:00:03.740 --> 00:00:06.700 of Fantasy Pants to our dear friend, Emily, in 00:00:06.700 --> 00:00:49.310 memory of Joshie. Storyteller Orrin here. Last 00:00:49.310 --> 00:00:53.429 time I described the final leg of our hero's 00:00:53.429 --> 00:00:56.649 journey as they escaped the city of Cerule as 00:00:56.649 --> 00:01:01.409 it was consumed by storm. Jules found a way to 00:01:01.409 --> 00:01:04.989 protect his cherry delights. And though Jeans 00:01:04.989 --> 00:01:08.530 was mortally wounded, she was, in the end, saved 00:01:08.530 --> 00:01:12.969 and healed. Zebulon, on the other hand, saw his 00:01:12.969 --> 00:01:17.120 brother moving in to strike. At the storm eye 00:01:17.120 --> 00:01:21.040 himself. And upon trying to help him, Zebulon 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:24.400 was taken in by the crowds and crushed by horse 00:01:24.400 --> 00:01:29.219 and carriage in the chaos. Luckily though, a 00:01:29.219 --> 00:01:34.040 hero pulled through and awoke inside the sapphire 00:01:34.040 --> 00:01:37.599 just about to take off. Right beside none other 00:01:37.599 --> 00:01:42.959 than Jules Roche himself. Finally our luminaries 00:01:42.959 --> 00:01:51.140 meet eye to eye. What happens next? Well, I just 00:01:51.140 --> 00:01:57.480 have to see. What are you guys thinking? I guess 00:01:57.480 --> 00:01:59.019 some pretty exciting stuff happened last time. 00:01:59.140 --> 00:02:01.140 Do we want to, I don't know, do you want to chit 00:02:01.140 --> 00:02:02.640 -chat for a bit? Do you want to just dive in? 00:02:02.780 --> 00:02:07.319 I want a long rest. Oh, that's impossible. I 00:02:07.319 --> 00:02:10.580 don't think so. We're in church. Can't we rest 00:02:10.580 --> 00:02:13.120 for like five days if we want to? You can long 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:16.120 rest when you're dead. Like Zebulon almost was. 00:02:16.400 --> 00:02:20.159 Yep. That's close. But you're not. No. Because 00:02:20.159 --> 00:02:23.780 he fudged his dice rolls. That's not true. You 00:02:23.780 --> 00:02:26.860 used absolutely legal hero points. Yeah, exactly. 00:02:27.500 --> 00:02:30.020 What was I thinking? Smart use of hero points. 00:02:30.219 --> 00:02:32.219 And now you have no hero points. Wait, doesn't 00:02:32.219 --> 00:02:35.400 it reset every session? Of course not. When does 00:02:35.400 --> 00:02:37.460 it reset? Earn those motherfuckers. You can't 00:02:37.460 --> 00:02:40.340 just get them back from participation. All right, 00:02:40.360 --> 00:02:43.379 well, lots of new systems are doing that. Throughout 00:02:43.379 --> 00:02:46.599 my life, I have gotten... Many participation 00:02:46.599 --> 00:02:49.139 awards. Why should this be any different? Because 00:02:49.139 --> 00:02:54.659 I'm mean. So our generation always got shit for 00:02:54.659 --> 00:02:57.800 getting participation awards. I have a counterpoint. 00:02:58.020 --> 00:03:01.159 Whose generation was giving participation awards? 00:03:02.400 --> 00:03:05.039 Whose idea was it? We were just receiving them, 00:03:05.060 --> 00:03:07.919 right? Yep. So I didn't ask for that. Every time 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:11.659 you point one finger, you get three pointing 00:03:11.659 --> 00:03:15.870 right back at you. Wow. Wow. That was deep. Steven 00:03:15.870 --> 00:03:19.090 with the, what is that, philosophy? Yeah, there's 00:03:19.090 --> 00:03:21.069 your pre -show banter. You're welcome. Yeah, 00:03:21.090 --> 00:03:24.030 thank you, sir. It's the best yet. Yeah, well, 00:03:24.110 --> 00:03:29.689 we hit the peak at that. So I guess we're just 00:03:29.689 --> 00:03:32.990 getting into this. So let's reset the scene. 00:03:33.330 --> 00:03:36.330 Jules, we kind of just jumped to where you were 00:03:36.330 --> 00:03:40.169 from Zebulon's POV, but I want to talk to you 00:03:40.169 --> 00:03:43.330 about what happened and how you got there. um 00:03:43.330 --> 00:03:46.090 there could be a misconception that that was 00:03:46.090 --> 00:03:49.250 all very very quickly sort of or very slowly 00:03:49.250 --> 00:03:51.090 done like like basically there was a long expensive 00:03:51.090 --> 00:03:54.009 time between zebulon uh going down zebulon waking 00:03:54.009 --> 00:03:56.189 up and you being there it was actually very quick 00:03:56.189 --> 00:04:00.409 you rushed inside um people immediately kind 00:04:00.409 --> 00:04:03.689 of like took in uh jeans you know it was very 00:04:03.689 --> 00:04:06.729 obvious how how wounded she was they just grabbed 00:04:06.729 --> 00:04:11.110 her and took her aside and uh basically you're 00:04:11.110 --> 00:04:12.710 you and the cherry delights all just followed 00:04:12.710 --> 00:04:16.149 as they brought her into the sort of center sort 00:04:16.149 --> 00:04:19.540 of platform stadium right uh Yeah, I think it 00:04:19.540 --> 00:04:22.420 all happened at once. Yeah, yeah, they drop her 00:04:22.420 --> 00:04:24.720 down. I think Zeb was coming in at the exact 00:04:24.720 --> 00:04:26.980 same time. You pretty much, when you got there, 00:04:27.079 --> 00:04:30.040 when they put Jeans down and you guys all gathered, 00:04:30.120 --> 00:04:34.860 you saw this healer, this warm light, like shooting 00:04:34.860 --> 00:04:38.819 into this brass, little tiny, almost kobold -sized 00:04:38.819 --> 00:04:42.800 brass dragonborn beside where you were sort of 00:04:42.800 --> 00:04:44.959 set up to rest. And then she immediately gets 00:04:44.959 --> 00:04:47.899 up and turns to you in this dragonborn. wakes 00:04:47.899 --> 00:04:51.879 up um outside that storm is roaring you can't 00:04:51.879 --> 00:04:54.439 see anything anymore even though it's like you 00:04:54.439 --> 00:04:57.300 know you think sapphire should be somewhat see 00:04:57.300 --> 00:04:58.720 -through i think i think it's like the color 00:04:58.720 --> 00:05:00.899 the hue of blue is so strong you just you can't 00:05:00.899 --> 00:05:02.759 see anything through it um maybe just like the 00:05:02.759 --> 00:05:06.540 tiniest vaguest shadows of buildings but really 00:05:06.540 --> 00:05:08.100 nothing you can make out but you can feel the 00:05:08.100 --> 00:05:13.189 winds buffeting the side of the gem You can hear 00:05:13.189 --> 00:05:17.829 like the roaring thunder almost far off now. 00:05:17.970 --> 00:05:22.089 You feel relatively safe in this structure. Good. 00:05:22.250 --> 00:05:26.009 I'm very glad for that. Very glad for that. And 00:05:26.009 --> 00:05:30.230 Jean opens up her eyes. There's just like laughing 00:05:30.230 --> 00:05:34.670 and there's cheering. Chester takes a step back 00:05:34.670 --> 00:05:38.269 and wipes his eye a little. And Mulligan's just 00:05:38.269 --> 00:05:40.649 like, you should have seen Chester. I think he 00:05:40.649 --> 00:05:42.790 was crying when he ran. I'd never seen him run 00:05:42.790 --> 00:05:45.209 so fast. And Chester's just like, hey, Mully, 00:05:45.350 --> 00:05:49.129 there was wind in my eye. Come on. It's nothing 00:05:49.129 --> 00:05:51.810 like that. Hey, come on, guys. Come on, guys. 00:05:51.889 --> 00:05:56.069 That was intense for all of us, okay? I don't 00:05:56.069 --> 00:05:57.670 think we've ever experienced something like that 00:05:57.670 --> 00:06:03.459 before. It's got me all fucked up. And as you 00:06:03.459 --> 00:06:05.500 say this, and as they kind of, they look to you, 00:06:05.560 --> 00:06:08.439 they nod, they laugh a little, and I think you 00:06:08.439 --> 00:06:10.620 feel a sudden kind of movement in presence, and 00:06:10.620 --> 00:06:15.860 you look over, and sitting up is this Dragonborn. 00:06:16.600 --> 00:06:22.360 Who are you? I don't even think Zebulon answers. 00:06:22.920 --> 00:06:25.500 I think he just, with both hands, just like reaches 00:06:25.500 --> 00:06:30.199 out and grabs Jules by the shirt. Where's my 00:06:30.199 --> 00:06:35.620 brother? Hold on, hold on, hold on. And he's 00:06:35.620 --> 00:06:38.560 looking around like crazy, trying to find his 00:06:38.560 --> 00:06:41.379 brother. I think actually in this moment, as 00:06:41.379 --> 00:06:43.279 you're grabbing him, as you're looking around, 00:06:43.420 --> 00:06:45.939 you turn to the side and you actually see a figure 00:06:45.939 --> 00:06:48.560 kind of pushes away through some crowds. And 00:06:48.560 --> 00:06:53.879 you recognize the young man you saw outside with 00:06:53.879 --> 00:06:57.949 the diamond held up to his eye. sort of tip of 00:06:57.949 --> 00:07:00.170 the diamond, the main sort of top facet facing 00:07:00.170 --> 00:07:03.910 you, and he's just taking in both of you and 00:07:03.910 --> 00:07:06.709 smiling, laughing, like, oh, yeah, oh, this is 00:07:06.709 --> 00:07:10.410 great, oh, this is so good. Oh, man, payday. 00:07:11.110 --> 00:07:13.589 I need you actually to roll a history check on 00:07:13.589 --> 00:07:15.990 this, and Zeb, you get advantage because you 00:07:15.990 --> 00:07:23.370 live on the Citadel. Advantage didn't help. That 00:07:23.370 --> 00:07:26.870 is a 21. Okay. Wow, so Zebulon, you, for some 00:07:26.870 --> 00:07:30.410 reason, despite your advantages of your upbringing, 00:07:30.730 --> 00:07:35.110 you know nothing about this. But Jules, you're 00:07:35.110 --> 00:07:37.009 street savvy, and you probably may have seen 00:07:37.009 --> 00:07:39.569 these kind of folk around before. Mostly in the 00:07:39.569 --> 00:07:41.689 high city, probably not bopping around in your 00:07:41.689 --> 00:07:47.430 leg of the woods. So, when you DM... There are 00:07:47.430 --> 00:07:51.449 two different kinds of lore specifically, right? 00:07:51.569 --> 00:07:53.470 You have the lore where you're really sitting 00:07:53.470 --> 00:07:55.509 there and you're putting thought into the world 00:07:55.509 --> 00:07:57.889 and you're thinking about mechanics and, oh, 00:07:57.970 --> 00:07:59.329 the way magic did this. Oh, and when history 00:07:59.329 --> 00:08:01.970 did this, that pushed for this to change. And 00:08:01.970 --> 00:08:04.769 you're just kind of like maddeningly writing 00:08:04.769 --> 00:08:07.930 down this sort of convoluted, you know, kind 00:08:07.930 --> 00:08:10.509 of more realistic sort of lore. And then there's 00:08:10.509 --> 00:08:12.610 those times where the lore kind of writes itself 00:08:12.610 --> 00:08:18.050 because stupid. I'm curious. And I like those. 00:08:18.509 --> 00:08:27.930 So, Jules. What? So, Jules, on the world of Hellenoa, 00:08:27.930 --> 00:08:34.250 there was once this very famous bard, per se, 00:08:34.350 --> 00:08:38.029 who essentially studied in the lives of other 00:08:38.029 --> 00:08:41.590 icons. He's sort of like the father of modern 00:08:41.590 --> 00:08:48.129 biographies, right? Okay. Basically used other 00:08:48.129 --> 00:08:52.230 people as inspiration for his own art, tracing 00:08:52.230 --> 00:08:55.070 their lives and lineages and just trying to get 00:08:55.070 --> 00:08:57.970 all the information possible. And he artwork 00:08:57.970 --> 00:09:00.750 and he pictures anything he could compiled of 00:09:00.750 --> 00:09:04.570 many great, great people in the history of Palanoa. 00:09:05.970 --> 00:09:09.490 So this man known as the father of modern biography 00:09:09.490 --> 00:09:15.600 is known as Razio Ricci. In our current age, 00:09:15.879 --> 00:09:21.940 this focus on, I guess, like, the biographies 00:09:21.940 --> 00:09:24.820 of these great people has been sort of re -inspired, 00:09:24.820 --> 00:09:28.320 re -ignited by, well, the luminary movement, 00:09:28.419 --> 00:09:31.320 the luminary craze. And luminaries in particular 00:09:31.320 --> 00:09:35.419 are just sources or focuses for these people, 00:09:35.539 --> 00:09:39.120 this particular guild that believes and follows 00:09:39.120 --> 00:09:42.659 Razio Ricci's teachings. They are generally always 00:09:42.659 --> 00:09:45.179 wearing, like, black and yellow checkered sashes, 00:09:45.220 --> 00:09:48.039 and they always have one of these diamonds on 00:09:48.039 --> 00:09:50.679 hand, usually on loan from the guild itself, 00:09:50.799 --> 00:09:56.460 which is titled, you know, in reverence to the 00:09:56.460 --> 00:09:59.200 great creator, the great father of biography, 00:09:59.519 --> 00:10:06.679 the Guild of Paparazzi. Oh, my. Hold on. Was 00:10:06.679 --> 00:10:10.009 that from you or from the book? Is that from 00:10:10.009 --> 00:10:11.649 you or from the book? Wizards would not write 00:10:11.649 --> 00:10:13.309 something that terrible. I was going to say. 00:10:13.450 --> 00:10:15.370 Don't worry. That was pretty bad. It was pretty 00:10:15.370 --> 00:10:24.470 bad. It's pretty bad. Oof. Yeah. So here we are. 00:10:24.570 --> 00:10:26.149 We're going to leave that in there, huh? Oh, 00:10:26.169 --> 00:10:32.830 absolutely. This is lore, baby. Whoa. Whoa. It 00:10:32.830 --> 00:10:36.649 takes all kinds. Yeah, man. Takes all kinds of 00:10:36.649 --> 00:10:38.230 colors. Sometimes you got to have these beautiful, 00:10:38.309 --> 00:10:41.070 vibrant reds and oranges and blues and whatever. 00:10:41.250 --> 00:10:43.009 And sometimes you got to just take shit brown 00:10:43.009 --> 00:10:45.549 and spread all over the artwork. Sometimes you 00:10:45.549 --> 00:10:47.470 got to have a paparazzi in there. You got to 00:10:47.470 --> 00:10:49.990 have a lot of paparazzi in there. Oh my goodness. 00:10:50.029 --> 00:10:52.529 And this paparazzi has got his eye on you two. 00:10:52.730 --> 00:10:56.470 All right. So that's just the thing that happened. 00:10:56.529 --> 00:10:58.409 You don't need to address it. People generally 00:10:58.409 --> 00:11:01.350 don't address them. Paparazzi are kind of a nuisance. 00:11:01.690 --> 00:11:03.629 But he seemed very interested in you two for 00:11:03.629 --> 00:11:05.830 some reason. Do I just automatically notice him? 00:11:05.909 --> 00:11:09.429 Can I just notice him? Yeah. Okay, cool. I notice 00:11:09.429 --> 00:11:12.570 him and I'm going to kind of take... Shit. I 00:11:12.570 --> 00:11:13.809 don't know what I'm wearing. I have a hood, so 00:11:13.809 --> 00:11:17.470 I assume I have a cloak. Yeah. Perfect. I'm going 00:11:17.470 --> 00:11:19.870 to kind of put my cloak around Zeb and me and 00:11:19.870 --> 00:11:23.330 as much of the group as I can. Okay. There's 00:11:23.330 --> 00:11:24.889 no way Zebulon's going to allow it to happen. 00:11:24.970 --> 00:11:26.490 I think he's just going to get up and... I think 00:11:26.490 --> 00:11:28.350 he's going to realize that I can't get any information 00:11:28.350 --> 00:11:30.309 about my brother out of this guy and get up and 00:11:30.309 --> 00:11:33.580 go look for a shield bearer. All right. Zebulon, 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:34.919 just so you're trying to get this cloak around 00:11:34.919 --> 00:11:36.559 him, Zebulon just sort of fights his way out, 00:11:36.600 --> 00:11:38.980 pushes his way back, and starts trying to run. 00:11:39.039 --> 00:11:41.480 Do you do anything? No. I'm going to look to 00:11:41.480 --> 00:11:43.899 Chester and just say, what the hell was that? 00:11:49.779 --> 00:11:53.100 So, Zebulon, I'm going to start with you here. 00:11:53.919 --> 00:11:56.419 As you're moving away, actually, you guys feel 00:11:56.419 --> 00:12:01.750 a sudden kind of lurch as... you can feel the 00:12:01.750 --> 00:12:04.350 jewel being lifted up. And actually, that's something 00:12:04.350 --> 00:12:07.049 I got a little off in the first session, so it 00:12:07.049 --> 00:12:09.250 doesn't really change anything at all, but the 00:12:09.250 --> 00:12:11.889 jewel would normally appear and then descend, 00:12:12.190 --> 00:12:15.850 and then ascend back into the sky about 500 feet, 00:12:15.929 --> 00:12:18.649 and then disappear. Oh, that sounds so awesome. 00:12:18.730 --> 00:12:20.909 Yeah, it's very cool. Yeah, so when you first 00:12:20.909 --> 00:12:22.269 would appear at Zebulon, you would appear up 00:12:22.269 --> 00:12:25.429 in the sky, you know, staring almost down at 00:12:25.429 --> 00:12:28.929 these gigantic towers, and then just... whoo, 00:12:28.929 --> 00:12:30.990 descended down, landed in the plaza, all that. 00:12:31.389 --> 00:12:34.230 Changes nothing as far as, you know, canonicity. 00:12:34.690 --> 00:12:36.990 Okay, but you are able to stare down at the city, 00:12:37.029 --> 00:12:39.090 though? You were able to look down at the city, 00:12:39.149 --> 00:12:41.750 yeah. Okay, then yeah, Zebulon's just going to 00:12:41.750 --> 00:12:43.809 rush to, I don't know, do we call it a window? 00:12:45.149 --> 00:12:47.149 There's really no opening now, actually. When 00:12:47.149 --> 00:12:50.470 they begin lifting, when this thing starts lifting 00:12:50.470 --> 00:12:54.909 up, they've closed off the main sort of one opening. 00:12:55.029 --> 00:12:58.559 It's just like sealed. by the same sort of sapphire 00:12:58.559 --> 00:13:01.639 you're now just inside this locked in gem okay 00:13:01.639 --> 00:13:04.440 so when we could stare down when we first came 00:13:04.440 --> 00:13:05.779 in it's because the door was open so i think 00:13:05.779 --> 00:13:07.340 you're probably pushing in that direction towards 00:13:07.340 --> 00:13:09.360 the door yeah and you're you're rushing towards 00:13:09.360 --> 00:13:13.470 that door and then you see like um It's closed 00:13:13.470 --> 00:13:15.870 off. You can hear people screaming like, there's 00:13:15.870 --> 00:13:17.850 still people out there. What are you doing? There's 00:13:17.850 --> 00:13:20.190 still people. And Sealbearer's just like, we 00:13:20.190 --> 00:13:22.429 can't take anymore. We've hit mass capacity. 00:13:22.509 --> 00:13:24.169 We'll come back. We'll come back. This is our 00:13:24.169 --> 00:13:27.309 first wave. We need to go quickly. And you just 00:13:27.309 --> 00:13:29.610 hear like the wind buffeting the side of the 00:13:29.610 --> 00:13:32.330 sapphire. Maybe you even wonder, you know, how 00:13:32.330 --> 00:13:34.649 many are going to make it. This storm is getting 00:13:34.649 --> 00:13:38.529 worse by the second. But that's not your concern 00:13:38.529 --> 00:13:41.889 right now. Your concern is your brother. But 00:13:41.889 --> 00:13:43.970 as you're moving in that direction, still in 00:13:43.970 --> 00:13:46.610 the area where all these wounded folk are, you're 00:13:46.610 --> 00:13:48.730 hearing less people screaming out. And through 00:13:48.730 --> 00:13:54.870 that din, you hear something else. Sort of a 00:13:54.870 --> 00:13:58.350 harsh woman's voice. You hear it just entering 00:13:58.350 --> 00:14:01.990 the conversation. Whatever else you can remember, 00:14:02.309 --> 00:14:08.090 while it's still fresh, I understand. It's your 00:14:08.090 --> 00:14:11.250 brother's voice. It's coming from somewhere to 00:14:11.250 --> 00:14:13.789 your left. All right. You're going to run there. 00:14:13.909 --> 00:14:15.529 All right, so you just push those people, and 00:14:15.529 --> 00:14:18.950 as you open up, you see there's a ring of shield 00:14:18.950 --> 00:14:21.649 bearers surrounding your brother who's kind of 00:14:21.649 --> 00:14:23.990 turned to the side. You're catching from, you 00:14:23.990 --> 00:14:28.809 know, one side of his face as he is sitting down 00:14:28.809 --> 00:14:33.370 on, like, I don't think what they would have 00:14:33.370 --> 00:14:36.159 him to sit on. I guess. People are going to need 00:14:36.159 --> 00:14:37.879 to, like, take a seat in this area. They have, 00:14:37.940 --> 00:14:40.399 like, emergency medical stuff. A sapphire seat. 00:14:40.820 --> 00:14:43.679 Or maybe just even a conjured... I don't know. 00:14:43.799 --> 00:14:46.460 I don't know if that sounds wonderful or painful. 00:14:46.879 --> 00:14:49.419 Yeah, right? It sounds terrible. Yeah. Opulent, 00:14:49.419 --> 00:14:54.039 but uncomfortable. Most opulent things are... 00:14:54.039 --> 00:14:55.960 The shield bearers didn't bring, like, folding 00:14:55.960 --> 00:14:57.940 metal chairs or anything? Yeah, what's it called? 00:14:58.059 --> 00:14:59.919 They conjured up something. Some kind of chair. 00:15:00.019 --> 00:15:01.500 Some kind of seat form. So he's just, like, resting 00:15:01.500 --> 00:15:04.600 on that. Yeah, we're in like a stadium with like 00:15:04.600 --> 00:15:07.679 stadium seating. He's a big guy. He's huge. Yeah, 00:15:07.779 --> 00:15:10.019 but the stadiums are on the side. He's still 00:15:10.019 --> 00:15:11.340 in the wounded area, which is kind of in the 00:15:11.340 --> 00:15:13.860 middle. They have different bedrolls lined out. 00:15:14.159 --> 00:15:15.799 We'll just say it's a fucking rolled up bedroll. 00:15:15.899 --> 00:15:17.539 Yeah, we're spending way too much time deciding 00:15:17.539 --> 00:15:22.759 what he's sitting on. This is world building. 00:15:23.100 --> 00:15:25.820 Good world building. How much more episode do 00:15:25.820 --> 00:15:27.379 we have? Because we have about 40 minutes. We 00:15:27.379 --> 00:15:29.120 could really hash this out. Well, what I was 00:15:29.120 --> 00:15:30.779 thinking is we could do a 45 -minute after show 00:15:30.779 --> 00:15:32.860 where we talk about what he's sitting on. Ooh, 00:15:33.000 --> 00:15:36.559 that's good. We'll just go out and buy all the 00:15:36.559 --> 00:15:38.320 things we can buy. We'll buy a sapphire seat 00:15:38.320 --> 00:15:40.159 somewhere. We'll give them all a try, and we'll 00:15:40.159 --> 00:15:41.620 decide which one's the most comfortable, which 00:15:41.620 --> 00:15:44.899 one's the most realistic and settled. This is 00:15:44.899 --> 00:15:49.159 good stuff. Sit it or quit it. All right, we 00:15:49.159 --> 00:15:51.019 got to move. We have to move on. Where are you 00:15:51.019 --> 00:15:55.279 going to sit your fantasy pants? Damn it, Jeremy. 00:15:55.460 --> 00:15:58.799 You can't make this into a good bit. You can 00:15:58.799 --> 00:16:06.629 try. You did, but... Alright. He's sitting there, 00:16:06.649 --> 00:16:08.289 he's surrounded by shieldbearers, and you see 00:16:08.289 --> 00:16:11.950 he's being interviewed by this large, copper 00:16:11.950 --> 00:16:16.950 -skinned female orc in shieldbearer armor. You 00:16:16.950 --> 00:16:19.789 know the people Arhalon works with, so you recognize 00:16:19.789 --> 00:16:24.710 Deputy Commander Meng Kong. So Arhalon just, 00:16:24.830 --> 00:16:28.330 I understand. And you hear her just say, and 00:16:28.330 --> 00:16:35.269 your shirt was him. The Storm Eye. It was Oshin 00:16:35.269 --> 00:16:40.549 Yoshikatsu. Yes. He's like, he sounds so tired, 00:16:40.850 --> 00:16:44.590 Zebulon. He looks exhausted. He looks almost 00:16:44.590 --> 00:16:48.950 like that glittering sheen to his scales has 00:16:48.950 --> 00:16:54.590 kind of faded, like yours. He's just kind of 00:16:54.590 --> 00:16:57.149 staring down. He's got like one... clawed hand 00:16:57.149 --> 00:17:00.129 rubbing at his his eyes i think as soon as zebulon 00:17:00.129 --> 00:17:04.089 sees him he'll yell out arhalon and start to 00:17:04.089 --> 00:17:09.230 run over to him okay um arhalon looks in your 00:17:09.230 --> 00:17:13.690 direction and despite like like for the first 00:17:13.690 --> 00:17:16.730 moment you just see these weary weary eyes and 00:17:16.730 --> 00:17:19.029 he's still like most of his body is facing you're 00:17:19.029 --> 00:17:20.869 seeing from the side just his head turns towards 00:17:20.869 --> 00:17:25.400 you and he looks endlessly tired And then he 00:17:25.400 --> 00:17:31.099 looks furious. He just puts one hand up in like 00:17:31.099 --> 00:17:33.839 a stop motion and just turns away from you and 00:17:33.839 --> 00:17:39.420 looks back at the deputy commander. The shit 00:17:39.420 --> 00:17:44.819 that I do. Just says, I'm sure, I'm absolutely 00:17:44.819 --> 00:17:50.700 sure it was Ozen. He let me live. He was content 00:17:50.700 --> 00:17:57.329 with what he took. The others, though, the luminaries, 00:17:57.509 --> 00:18:05.750 they're gone. I don't know why, but he was focused 00:18:05.750 --> 00:18:15.430 on them. He said something. And we as an audience 00:18:15.430 --> 00:18:18.930 are going to, like, zoom away from this scene 00:18:18.930 --> 00:18:22.269 for a moment. You know, movie style. I want to 00:18:22.269 --> 00:18:25.950 go into... A POV that's not ours, just because 00:18:25.950 --> 00:18:28.910 it's fun. Cinematic. I just want to leave it 00:18:28.910 --> 00:18:32.109 where Zebulon is standing there now witnessing 00:18:32.109 --> 00:18:36.289 all this, just totally crushed and slack -jawed. 00:18:36.289 --> 00:18:40.289 Like, he's had emotional whiplash. Yeah. Still 00:18:40.289 --> 00:18:43.789 doesn't entirely know what's going on, but I 00:18:43.789 --> 00:18:46.930 guess his heart is sort of even broken. That's 00:18:46.930 --> 00:18:49.670 terrible, and I feel really bad because I'm going 00:18:49.670 --> 00:18:53.279 to break it more. Great, thanks. That's so sad. 00:18:53.900 --> 00:18:57.839 We cut back to the plaza, to the storm, to the 00:18:57.839 --> 00:19:02.319 people running around screaming. We see Arhalon 00:19:02.319 --> 00:19:06.519 is lying on the cobbles, teeth gritted. We see 00:19:06.519 --> 00:19:09.680 his greatsword is lying just beyond him, the 00:19:09.680 --> 00:19:14.200 blade resting right beside the armored foot of 00:19:14.200 --> 00:19:19.900 Ozen Yoshikatsu. As the samurai spins around, 00:19:20.759 --> 00:19:24.279 and turns, um, you basically bring another attack 00:19:24.279 --> 00:19:26.200 towards the two luminaries beyond. You hear a 00:19:26.200 --> 00:19:29.460 roar of a thunderclap, um, as he, like, spreads 00:19:29.460 --> 00:19:31.420 his sword out horizontally, and there's, like, 00:19:31.420 --> 00:19:36.259 these waves of sound just blast, uh, Gaius Argonius 00:19:36.259 --> 00:19:39.799 and Demulich off their feet, and they go sprawling 00:19:39.799 --> 00:19:42.160 under the cobbles as well. There's a huge gap 00:19:42.160 --> 00:19:44.619 now, uh, in the crowd around you. People have 00:19:44.619 --> 00:19:47.839 moved away from this, this fight. But Arhalon, 00:19:47.859 --> 00:19:50.869 he sees that when, when, when Ozen turns away, 00:19:50.950 --> 00:19:53.710 he sees an opening, and he lunges for the handle 00:19:53.710 --> 00:19:57.730 of his blade. Eyes blazing, and Ozen spins around 00:19:57.730 --> 00:20:00.529 in an instant again, feet quickly moving into 00:20:00.529 --> 00:20:03.109 a different stance, and he raises his katana 00:20:03.109 --> 00:20:07.069 high. And we pan up from Arhalon, we don't see 00:20:07.069 --> 00:20:11.029 him now, we just see Ozen as he brings the katana 00:20:11.029 --> 00:20:15.869 down in a vertical arc. The blade flashing, crackling 00:20:15.869 --> 00:20:20.890 with lightning. Then we hear that same scream, 00:20:20.930 --> 00:20:25.349 that wail the Zebulon heard as his consciousness 00:20:25.349 --> 00:20:30.390 faded away last session. As it cuts off, Ozen 00:20:30.390 --> 00:20:34.750 fixes a single blue eye, the one uncovered eye 00:20:34.750 --> 00:20:37.150 of his mask on the figure below him, and just 00:20:37.150 --> 00:20:42.410 says, Apologies, Shieldbearer. I gain little 00:20:42.410 --> 00:20:46.990 from your slaughter, though. He whirls back towards... 00:20:47.289 --> 00:20:50.529 The battle -worn Demulich and Gaius both slowly 00:20:50.529 --> 00:20:55.130 climbing to their feet and says, As for you luminaries, 00:20:55.130 --> 00:21:02.450 well, what I do, I do for Shadrakhan. And we're 00:21:02.450 --> 00:21:07.029 back in the sapphire. Arlon relaying this phrase, 00:21:07.329 --> 00:21:12.529 these words, to the deputy commander. And as 00:21:12.529 --> 00:21:15.720 he says them, Everyone kind of, like, goes quiet. 00:21:15.799 --> 00:21:18.579 Everyone just stands and waits, and Arlan finally 00:21:18.579 --> 00:21:22.819 turns back towards you again, Zeb. But this time 00:21:22.819 --> 00:21:27.099 he turns his full body back towards you. And 00:21:27.099 --> 00:21:33.319 you see that his right arm is gone. Do it. Cleaved 00:21:33.319 --> 00:21:38.319 off. Oh, my God. Burnt, black flesh, or I guess 00:21:38.319 --> 00:21:41.160 scales, where it had been, all going, like, way 00:21:41.160 --> 00:21:44.589 down his side. And he kind of slowly gets to 00:21:44.589 --> 00:21:48.190 his feet, puts a hand out to, like, ward off 00:21:48.190 --> 00:21:49.730 the others. They sort of, like, run to him, like, 00:21:49.730 --> 00:21:51.509 no, no, don't get up, don't. He puts his hand 00:21:51.509 --> 00:21:56.089 out, and he marches towards you, towering over 00:21:56.089 --> 00:22:03.029 you like he always does. I told you. I told you 00:22:03.029 --> 00:22:09.509 to stay in the sapphire. I told you! If Ariad 00:22:09.509 --> 00:22:15.559 had not saved you... You'd be dead and left down 00:22:15.559 --> 00:22:17.859 there. You know this, right? You understand? 00:22:18.359 --> 00:22:23.779 He's so afraid. He's standing at his brother's 00:22:23.779 --> 00:22:28.680 feet. You can't do these things, Zebulon. Because 00:22:28.680 --> 00:22:33.500 I'm not strong enough to... And he just cuts 00:22:33.500 --> 00:22:36.279 off and turns away. Just go! We will talk about 00:22:36.279 --> 00:22:45.000 this at home. I have more report to give. I'm 00:22:45.000 --> 00:22:49.539 sorry. He just turns away, doesn't respond, and 00:22:49.539 --> 00:22:57.559 just stomps away from you. Wow. Wow. Jules, it's 00:22:57.559 --> 00:23:02.539 cut to you. I don't know about that. I don't 00:23:02.539 --> 00:23:07.140 know if I can go on with this session now. That 00:23:07.140 --> 00:23:11.160 was intense. It was intense. So you're still 00:23:11.160 --> 00:23:14.019 there with the cherry delights. I think all of 00:23:14.019 --> 00:23:16.259 them are basically just, as you see this figure 00:23:16.259 --> 00:23:19.420 runs off and then Zebulon runs off, you turn 00:23:19.420 --> 00:23:22.680 back and everyone's just surrounding and almost 00:23:22.680 --> 00:23:26.240 just bothering Jean as she's trying to lie there. 00:23:26.640 --> 00:23:28.519 Chester's trying to ward them away. And then 00:23:28.519 --> 00:23:31.980 I think Paul's just kind of quietly standing 00:23:31.980 --> 00:23:34.319 at her side. Yeah, I'm going to kind of come 00:23:34.319 --> 00:23:36.829 in. chew everybody away a little bit. Guys, guys, 00:23:36.869 --> 00:23:38.609 guys, give us some space, give us some space. 00:23:39.130 --> 00:23:44.809 And then, I'm gonna get down. And grab her and 00:23:44.809 --> 00:23:47.589 hold her and be like, ah, ah, James, how are 00:23:47.589 --> 00:23:51.109 you doing? How are you doing, James? You clear 00:23:51.109 --> 00:23:53.210 him out and she's just over there like, oh, thanks, 00:23:53.289 --> 00:23:55.089 Jules. And then you just rush down like, alright, 00:23:55.670 --> 00:23:58.769 yep, okay. Yep, that is exactly what's happening. 00:23:59.319 --> 00:24:01.400 She's stunned for a second, and they just feel 00:24:01.400 --> 00:24:03.799 her little arms wrap around you and just hold 00:24:03.799 --> 00:24:07.180 so tight. Jane, you just scared me. You scared 00:24:07.180 --> 00:24:08.980 me. How are you doing? How are you feeling? And 00:24:08.980 --> 00:24:12.539 suddenly you feel more arms all around your body 00:24:12.539 --> 00:24:15.519 as everyone else just swarms in, just hugging 00:24:15.519 --> 00:24:18.559 your legs, hugging around your hips. The only 00:24:18.559 --> 00:24:20.460 one you look up and see Miskin's kind of just 00:24:20.460 --> 00:24:24.839 watching from 15 feet away, a little too far 00:24:24.839 --> 00:24:28.509 away. Yeah, I see him watching, and I just look 00:24:28.509 --> 00:24:32.309 over to him and give him a little wink. He nods, 00:24:32.309 --> 00:24:34.630 then, like, shiftily kind of looks both ways. 00:24:35.069 --> 00:24:36.750 You know, it's like... And then somebody walks 00:24:36.750 --> 00:24:39.609 in front of him, and then he's gone. He's gone. 00:24:40.650 --> 00:24:44.029 He's comfortable basking in your warmth, a warmth 00:24:44.029 --> 00:24:52.569 he cannot have. I don't know how... What? I don't 00:24:52.569 --> 00:24:54.970 know how I feel about all this positivity and 00:24:54.970 --> 00:24:56.670 wonderfulness when I know what's happening with 00:24:56.670 --> 00:24:58.569 Zebulon. Yeah, I'm still dealing with it. But 00:24:58.569 --> 00:25:00.710 I don't know what's happening with Zebulon. I 00:25:00.710 --> 00:25:02.609 will say one more of the chariot of lights is 00:25:02.609 --> 00:25:07.009 also not involved in this. You see Fibro, the 00:25:07.009 --> 00:25:12.589 sort of tall and lanky half -elf. He's also kind 00:25:12.589 --> 00:25:14.769 of standing apart from the circle, and he looks... 00:25:15.680 --> 00:25:18.259 And he's, like, looking down at his, like, pages 00:25:18.259 --> 00:25:20.619 of notes, which ones he could recover that he's 00:25:20.619 --> 00:25:22.220 finally kind of pulled out of his bag. And then 00:25:22.220 --> 00:25:24.619 you see him kind of look at you, Jules, and he's 00:25:24.619 --> 00:25:29.299 got, like, this look in his eye of concern, curiosity. 00:25:29.640 --> 00:25:31.660 Something is burning in his mind, and I think 00:25:31.660 --> 00:25:35.140 you know exactly what it is. I'm going to get 00:25:35.140 --> 00:25:37.519 up and go over to him. Okay. And the rest sort 00:25:37.519 --> 00:25:40.140 of lets you leave the hug. I mean, they just 00:25:40.140 --> 00:25:42.960 resume the hug with you gone. I think that's 00:25:42.960 --> 00:25:46.400 what happened. Please wait. Just buried in orphans. 00:25:48.940 --> 00:25:52.099 I'm going to walk over. Something on your mind 00:25:52.099 --> 00:25:59.259 there, Fibro? Yeah. Jules, we all saw what you 00:25:59.259 --> 00:26:02.200 did back there. I mean, and the others, maybe 00:26:02.200 --> 00:26:05.980 they forgot. I don't know, but I sure as hell 00:26:05.980 --> 00:26:08.680 didn't. Jules, that was magic, and I've never 00:26:08.680 --> 00:26:12.400 seen you do that before. You went invisible, 00:26:12.539 --> 00:26:16.039 and you put your hand out and killed that thing? 00:26:18.740 --> 00:26:21.500 It's a side of me I'm not exactly proud of, okay? 00:26:22.200 --> 00:26:25.640 I don't like to show it. But how did you learn? 00:26:25.720 --> 00:26:29.279 All my life, I've wanted to learn magic, and 00:26:29.279 --> 00:26:32.440 you could just do it all along? You could have 00:26:32.440 --> 00:26:35.819 told me. You could have shown me. Call it a curse 00:26:35.819 --> 00:26:40.789 on my parents. I think... This spark of recognition 00:26:40.789 --> 00:26:42.769 enters his eyes and he'd sort of nod slowly. 00:26:43.650 --> 00:26:51.289 Oh. Oh, it's that sort of art, then. Yeah. Right. 00:26:52.970 --> 00:26:58.230 Okay. I'll do it if I have to. But I hope I never 00:26:58.230 --> 00:27:00.849 have to again. You saw what happened out there. 00:27:01.549 --> 00:27:04.450 And I don't know what we're gonna do now, Jules. 00:27:05.470 --> 00:27:08.700 I mean, it's - great. The change is fine, and 00:27:08.700 --> 00:27:12.180 I'm happy. Everyone should be happy, but we lost 00:27:12.180 --> 00:27:16.180 our home. And you know how it is for us low folk. 00:27:16.259 --> 00:27:19.079 What are they going to do with us now? We might 00:27:19.079 --> 00:27:22.619 need you. We might need you to use it again, 00:27:22.700 --> 00:27:25.259 and more. I can show you. I have notes. If you 00:27:25.259 --> 00:27:29.740 have the spark in you, if you have the talent, 00:27:29.839 --> 00:27:33.859 I can let you borrow them. You might learn something. 00:27:35.019 --> 00:27:37.619 Actually, I... I did kind of borrow a little 00:27:37.619 --> 00:27:41.279 bit from you here. I think, uh... Oh! I think 00:27:41.279 --> 00:27:43.720 you lost these. You got some! He, like, whips 00:27:43.720 --> 00:27:44.940 the papers out of your hand. He's just like, 00:27:45.039 --> 00:27:47.460 oh, my gosh. Oh, you're missing this one. Yes, 00:27:47.619 --> 00:27:49.640 yes, yes, yes, yes. I was looking so hard for 00:27:49.640 --> 00:27:52.759 it. Jules! And he hugs you, too. Ah, I just, 00:27:52.799 --> 00:27:55.480 uh... I hope you don't mind, though. I, uh... 00:27:55.480 --> 00:27:58.240 I did a little bit of quick glancing over on 00:27:58.240 --> 00:28:01.059 him. Just, uh... You know, maybe something will 00:28:01.059 --> 00:28:04.799 come in handy down the road. Yeah, study him 00:28:04.799 --> 00:28:07.079 any time. My stuff is your stuff. You know that. 00:28:07.160 --> 00:28:09.980 Always. Sounds good. I appreciate that, Fibro. 00:28:11.299 --> 00:28:16.079 Hey, um... It's one more thing. Shoot. It's not 00:28:16.079 --> 00:28:19.619 a big deal, but... Mika looks over and sees everyone 00:28:19.619 --> 00:28:25.200 else is busy. Joel, something's up. That... That 00:28:25.200 --> 00:28:27.359 wasn't no natural storm. I said it before, but 00:28:27.359 --> 00:28:31.319 that was... That was weird. Nope, that was something 00:28:31.319 --> 00:28:35.240 else entirely. Maybe it's nothing, but when I 00:28:35.240 --> 00:28:36.819 was on the ground there and I was looking for 00:28:36.819 --> 00:28:41.119 my pages, I found something else, too. He reaches 00:28:41.119 --> 00:28:44.200 into a pocket and he pulls out a piece of, like, 00:28:44.319 --> 00:28:46.000 cobblestone. Maybe it looks like from the road 00:28:46.000 --> 00:28:48.359 or something. And he, like, holds it out to you 00:28:48.359 --> 00:28:50.839 and it looks plain. And then he shifts it over 00:28:50.839 --> 00:28:54.940 to the bottom side. And you see, like, inlaid 00:28:54.940 --> 00:28:59.059 on this stone some very faded but pretty, like, 00:28:59.059 --> 00:29:03.650 recognizable arcane runes. You see one that almost 00:29:03.650 --> 00:29:07.730 looks like a very stylized shape of a man. Almost 00:29:07.730 --> 00:29:10.069 like a stick figure, but surrounded by all sorts 00:29:10.069 --> 00:29:14.190 of swirling patterns. And he just holds this 00:29:14.190 --> 00:29:17.529 up, and he's like, I have been looking at this. 00:29:19.349 --> 00:29:24.049 And nothing in my notes really relates, but it's 00:29:24.049 --> 00:29:27.450 weird, right? I'm going to grab a phone. You 00:29:27.450 --> 00:29:32.470 see it's in this almost gold -colored... Kind 00:29:32.470 --> 00:29:35.329 of like chalkish paint. Can I roll some kind 00:29:35.329 --> 00:29:40.450 of check on it? Roll me Arcana. That is an 18. 00:29:40.789 --> 00:29:46.549 18. Wow, okay. Yeah, all right. You're looking 00:29:46.549 --> 00:29:51.829 at this, and it seems like it might be a fragment 00:29:51.829 --> 00:29:56.190 of something far, far greater. A rune perhaps 00:29:56.190 --> 00:30:00.940 used in some kind of conjuration magic. I think 00:30:00.940 --> 00:30:03.779 you also realize that the stylized man figurine 00:30:03.779 --> 00:30:07.779 kind of is a part of the spell that helps shape 00:30:07.779 --> 00:30:13.940 the conjured being. Whatever it was, was roughly 00:30:13.940 --> 00:30:16.759 humanoid -shaped. I think that's all you can 00:30:16.759 --> 00:30:18.380 gather from this small piece. I'm going to look 00:30:18.380 --> 00:30:24.700 down and say, holy shit. Jules? You haven't shown 00:30:24.700 --> 00:30:27.509 anybody else this, have you? No, no, you're the 00:30:27.509 --> 00:30:29.950 first. I wasn't sure it meant anything. Do you 00:30:29.950 --> 00:30:34.970 mind if I hold on to this? Yeah, of course. It 00:30:34.970 --> 00:30:36.569 might be pretty important. I want to keep it 00:30:36.569 --> 00:30:41.450 safe. And I'm going to put it in my pocket. So 00:30:41.450 --> 00:30:42.809 you put it down, you reach your hand into your 00:30:42.809 --> 00:30:45.009 pocket, and you put it there, and suddenly you 00:30:45.009 --> 00:30:49.869 just feel like another hand grab your wrist. 00:30:50.769 --> 00:30:55.170 A small hand, but cold and firm and shaking. 00:30:56.240 --> 00:30:58.819 And you look down and you see Paul is there. 00:30:59.319 --> 00:31:02.640 He's looking at you with these wide, scared eyes. 00:31:02.859 --> 00:31:06.240 And before you even have a chance to ask, you 00:31:06.240 --> 00:31:13.039 feel like the light entering this place as the 00:31:13.039 --> 00:31:17.200 jewel ships planes. And immediately as the light 00:31:17.200 --> 00:31:23.059 fades, the whole thing shakes. Zebulon, where 00:31:23.059 --> 00:31:25.420 you are watching this with Arhalon, you have 00:31:25.420 --> 00:31:28.680 done this at least one time now, and you've never 00:31:28.680 --> 00:31:37.519 heard of turbulence on a conquered jewel. And 00:31:37.519 --> 00:31:40.359 there's a lot of like, what's going on? People 00:31:40.359 --> 00:31:45.119 are like panicking, staring around. Again, everything 00:31:45.119 --> 00:31:47.480 shakes. You guys are like barely keeping to your 00:31:47.480 --> 00:31:51.359 feet. And the... Sort of light, the natural light 00:31:51.359 --> 00:31:58.279 that fills the walls of this gem fades away. 00:31:58.779 --> 00:32:02.420 And then the tint, the bluish color, fades away 00:32:02.420 --> 00:32:07.240 with it, leaving only this clear crystal. And 00:32:07.240 --> 00:32:10.220 you are staring out at the ethereal plane. You're 00:32:10.220 --> 00:32:12.819 staring out, Jules, for the first time at the 00:32:12.819 --> 00:32:16.500 radiant citadel. Your eyes are... are taken in 00:32:16.500 --> 00:32:23.160 by this massive, shining diamond. Still glowing 00:32:23.160 --> 00:32:26.279 with this alert red color, with this great sort 00:32:26.279 --> 00:32:29.019 of fossil wrapped around it, with buildings and 00:32:29.019 --> 00:32:32.680 people all over it. I knew this existed, but 00:32:32.680 --> 00:32:37.539 whoa. And then you feel that tug again, that 00:32:37.539 --> 00:32:42.039 scared hand, and you hear Paul just say, Storm. 00:32:43.000 --> 00:32:47.660 And he points down. And you look down, and you 00:32:47.660 --> 00:32:52.380 can see, far below the citadel, the Keening Gloom. 00:32:52.400 --> 00:32:56.480 You can see an almost mirror copy of the very 00:32:56.480 --> 00:33:00.119 storm you saw in the sky above Tythos, except 00:33:00.119 --> 00:33:07.140 bigger. This swirling cyclone. And then you. 00:33:08.119 --> 00:33:12.339 And Zebulon, you. And I think pretty much every 00:33:12.339 --> 00:33:17.180 single person on this sapphire realizes at the 00:33:17.180 --> 00:33:20.420 same time that that cyclone is getting bigger. 00:33:20.839 --> 00:33:26.180 Because you're rapidly getting closer. Oh my 00:33:26.180 --> 00:33:33.880 god. You are about 500 feet away from the docking 00:33:33.880 --> 00:33:37.240 port of the Citadel. And you are watching that 00:33:37.240 --> 00:33:41.849 port vanish above you. Holy shit. As the jewel 00:33:41.849 --> 00:33:45.230 is sinking. And not just sinking, but like shaking 00:33:45.230 --> 00:33:50.609 constantly. Like it's being pulled. So much for 00:33:50.609 --> 00:33:56.029 that long rest. Yeah. Shit never ends. This is 00:33:56.029 --> 00:33:58.849 horrible. So we're going down. We're going into 00:33:58.849 --> 00:34:00.869 the storm. You are going into the storm. And 00:34:00.869 --> 00:34:02.730 let me ask you, what do you guys do in this moment? 00:34:02.910 --> 00:34:05.509 I mean, the thing is, you must realize, I mean, 00:34:05.529 --> 00:34:08.960 this thing is sealed. You can open a door. What 00:34:08.960 --> 00:34:10.579 are you going to do? You're 500 feet away from 00:34:10.579 --> 00:34:13.619 land. Right. And rapidly losing it. Below you, 00:34:13.679 --> 00:34:17.199 all that waits is the gloom. What do you do? 00:34:18.380 --> 00:34:21.900 I mean, I call over the chariot of lights. They 00:34:21.900 --> 00:34:25.860 all just rush to you. Jules! Jules, what's happening? 00:34:26.139 --> 00:34:28.079 All right, guys, stay together. Stay huddled. 00:34:28.119 --> 00:34:30.039 I don't know what the hell's happening. We got 00:34:30.039 --> 00:34:32.239 a better chance if we stay together, okay? Chance 00:34:32.239 --> 00:34:33.719 against what? I don't... You see that thing? 00:34:33.760 --> 00:34:36.159 I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what's 00:34:36.159 --> 00:34:39.309 happening. I don't know. This is, this is crazy. 00:34:39.510 --> 00:34:41.429 Everything is crazy. And then I think like, like 00:34:41.429 --> 00:34:43.210 Jean's kind of maybe grabs him aside. It's like, 00:34:43.250 --> 00:34:48.369 Chester, it's okay. He kind of breathes in, calms 00:34:48.369 --> 00:34:51.289 down a little. Miskin kind of appears out of 00:34:51.289 --> 00:34:53.750 the crowd and then kind of stands with you all. 00:34:53.829 --> 00:34:55.929 Maybe even gets closer this time. Maybe even 00:34:55.929 --> 00:34:59.210 he looks scared, which is rare. I just pictured 00:34:59.210 --> 00:35:01.949 him doing this little like, little shy, little 00:35:01.949 --> 00:35:06.460 shuffle over. Sorry, listeners, you couldn't 00:35:06.460 --> 00:35:08.739 see that. It was thoroughly awkward. It was a 00:35:08.739 --> 00:35:16.300 shuffle. It was adorable. Oh, shit. Zebulon. 00:35:17.780 --> 00:35:20.860 Zebulon. Let's roll on over to you now. We see 00:35:20.860 --> 00:35:22.760 the Cherry Delights all standing together, and 00:35:22.760 --> 00:35:27.679 now you're still standing in shock. And the shield 00:35:27.679 --> 00:35:29.619 bearers around Arhalon are just like up, and 00:35:29.619 --> 00:35:31.699 Adam Arlen's like, what? What is this? What's 00:35:31.699 --> 00:35:34.679 happening? Someone get Ariat! And I think the 00:35:34.679 --> 00:35:37.420 deputy commander's already booking it out of 00:35:37.420 --> 00:35:40.500 there. The other guard are kind of up and talking, 00:35:40.619 --> 00:35:43.320 but they're trying to calm people around them. 00:35:44.260 --> 00:35:46.320 Healers are rushing to them. Like, what is this? 00:35:46.320 --> 00:35:48.719 What's going on? People are scared. We're trying 00:35:48.719 --> 00:35:50.679 to figure this out. We're discussing this right 00:35:50.679 --> 00:35:52.659 now. We'll get back to you, all of you. Please, 00:35:52.739 --> 00:35:55.099 please, peace. Calm people. We'll figure this 00:35:55.099 --> 00:35:58.320 out. What do you do? That was Arhalon saying 00:35:58.320 --> 00:36:00.550 all that? That was a guy that sounds like Arhalon. 00:36:00.630 --> 00:36:02.389 Okay, gotcha. He likes to do Arhalon impressions. 00:36:02.690 --> 00:36:04.869 And you said Arhalon walked off. He's gone. He 00:36:04.869 --> 00:36:08.250 sat back down. Like right next to me? He's close 00:36:08.250 --> 00:36:10.409 to you still, yeah. Okay. He actually, I think 00:36:10.409 --> 00:36:12.329 during all this, he does look over at you and 00:36:12.329 --> 00:36:18.530 you see like guilt and fear. You see a lot of 00:36:18.530 --> 00:36:25.610 fear. I think at this point, Zebulon still hasn't 00:36:25.610 --> 00:36:29.590 gotten over all of this. And I think now he just 00:36:29.590 --> 00:36:34.030 doesn't want to be a burden anymore, I guess. 00:36:35.110 --> 00:36:39.710 You said Ariat ran off somewhere? The deputy 00:36:39.710 --> 00:36:45.329 commander did. Okay. Ran off towards the direction 00:36:45.329 --> 00:36:48.929 of the cockpit of this crystal, which is where 00:36:48.929 --> 00:36:51.250 you would assume Ariat was. You remember he piloted 00:36:51.250 --> 00:36:53.659 you here? Normally that wouldn't be his duty. 00:36:53.800 --> 00:36:56.920 There are actual certified pilots for these jewels. 00:36:57.119 --> 00:36:59.980 There's a name for them. It's in my book. I'll 00:36:59.980 --> 00:37:02.780 have to check that later. Because it's weird. 00:37:03.059 --> 00:37:06.400 But Arya took over control for the sake of this. 00:37:06.440 --> 00:37:09.760 He's trained in using them. So if you're looking 00:37:09.760 --> 00:37:12.719 for him. Yeah, you know what? Let's see what 00:37:12.719 --> 00:37:17.880 happens. Maybe Arhalon follows after Mankat. 00:37:19.360 --> 00:37:22.090 See what's going on in the cockpit. See how far, 00:37:22.190 --> 00:37:25.829 yeah. Yeah. What did I say? You said Arhalon. 00:37:26.130 --> 00:37:28.809 It's like, you don't get to decide. See how much 00:37:28.809 --> 00:37:31.409 you look up to your big brother? I know, for 00:37:31.409 --> 00:37:33.730 real. He's like, thank you, David. I'll be taking 00:37:33.730 --> 00:37:36.030 over Arhalon now. I'm going to play Arhalon now. 00:37:36.090 --> 00:37:42.329 I'm playing them both. No, yeah. I don't imagine 00:37:42.329 --> 00:37:44.230 that anything useful could come out of this, 00:37:44.329 --> 00:37:48.409 but I think Zebulon doesn't want to be near his 00:37:48.409 --> 00:37:52.980 brother right now. Maybe some small part of him 00:37:52.980 --> 00:37:55.219 thinks that maybe there's something I can do 00:37:55.219 --> 00:37:58.599 to help. Yeah, hell yeah. I actually love this. 00:37:58.780 --> 00:38:02.059 So you bolt after. I think as you're moving by, 00:38:02.119 --> 00:38:04.519 maybe you faintly just see Arhalon. He's watching 00:38:04.519 --> 00:38:06.960 you. You run past him because Mekong went the 00:38:06.960 --> 00:38:09.800 other direction. And he almost reaches a hand 00:38:09.800 --> 00:38:12.219 out. Just like, wait, wait. And you just kind 00:38:12.219 --> 00:38:16.489 of. Into the crowd before he can really you don't 00:38:16.489 --> 00:38:18.690 even hear him But he just like reaches out and 00:38:18.690 --> 00:38:20.570 like we as the audience kind of look back and 00:38:20.570 --> 00:38:24.429 see his hand just like lingering and like His 00:38:24.429 --> 00:38:27.250 eyes almost look tearful. Hey, do me a favor 00:38:27.250 --> 00:38:29.829 and just like quit breaking my heart and tonight. 00:38:30.150 --> 00:38:36.969 Nah. Yeah, nah Um And you rush you follow up 00:38:36.969 --> 00:38:40.539 my Kong man Kong and you Basically, you're moving 00:38:40.539 --> 00:38:41.820 through this crowd. You move to the other side 00:38:41.820 --> 00:38:43.960 of this great sort of stadium where there's ramps 00:38:43.960 --> 00:38:46.400 built up for wagons to move goods down. Normally, 00:38:46.460 --> 00:38:51.139 right now, it's pretty much all people. And you 00:38:51.139 --> 00:38:53.159 see that sort of just beyond there, there's kind 00:38:53.159 --> 00:38:57.179 of this slight opening in the jewel, which leads 00:38:57.179 --> 00:38:59.940 to just this small room, a number of, like, crystal 00:38:59.940 --> 00:39:02.940 artifices, knobs and such, just, like, sticking 00:39:02.940 --> 00:39:04.960 out of the platform. And still, everything is 00:39:04.960 --> 00:39:06.780 see -through right now. This crystal is, like, 00:39:06.980 --> 00:39:09.960 see -through. And you're still... And remember, 00:39:10.139 --> 00:39:12.659 you started off and you were, like, at the very 00:39:12.659 --> 00:39:16.000 tip -top head of the fossil, the serpentine fossil 00:39:16.000 --> 00:39:18.480 around the Citadel. At this point, you're, like, 00:39:18.480 --> 00:39:21.960 down to the lower neck. It's a serpent. You're 00:39:21.960 --> 00:39:26.900 down, like, almost to the first coil. Maybe at, 00:39:26.960 --> 00:39:30.099 like, the two -thirds mark of this thing falling 00:39:30.099 --> 00:39:32.559 down towards, like, the bottom of this diamond. 00:39:32.619 --> 00:39:35.179 It's not great. Gotcha. And once you're below 00:39:35.179 --> 00:39:38.440 the fossil, what do you do? There's nowhere to 00:39:38.440 --> 00:39:42.260 go to. Even now, 500 feet distance is not something 00:39:42.260 --> 00:39:46.280 you can do anything about. Right. You rush over 00:39:46.280 --> 00:39:48.159 to this room and you see there's a guard kind 00:39:48.159 --> 00:39:49.940 of around it as people are also trying to rush. 00:39:50.039 --> 00:39:52.099 You're almost being blocked off by a bunch of 00:39:52.099 --> 00:39:57.199 people, civilians. And as Ming Kong gets close, 00:39:57.420 --> 00:39:59.519 the shield bearers move over and sort of push 00:39:59.519 --> 00:40:01.059 these people out of the way. Like, move, move, 00:40:01.199 --> 00:40:06.199 move. We need the space. And Ming Kong sort of 00:40:06.199 --> 00:40:08.260 moves into the room. And I think the last you 00:40:08.260 --> 00:40:11.219 see is Arya, like, sweating. His bald head's 00:40:11.219 --> 00:40:13.320 sweating, just turns towards her. His hands on 00:40:13.320 --> 00:40:16.300 the, like, moving over these, like, crystal hard 00:40:16.300 --> 00:40:20.539 faces, and nothing is happening. And then the 00:40:20.539 --> 00:40:24.199 crowd moves back in the way as the shield bearers 00:40:24.199 --> 00:40:26.139 kind of, like, part and move back in front of 00:40:26.139 --> 00:40:29.980 the door. But then you hear something. You hear 00:40:29.980 --> 00:40:34.300 gasps. You hear, what is that? Look, look up. 00:40:34.639 --> 00:40:39.199 Up there, at the docking bay. and eyes all turn 00:40:39.199 --> 00:40:44.139 up, and you turn your head up, too, as you see 00:40:44.139 --> 00:40:48.019 a figure lunging off of the sort of crescent 00:40:48.019 --> 00:40:50.380 moon head of the serpent, of the fossil, where 00:40:50.380 --> 00:40:55.659 normally the crystal would dock. You see a gigantic, 00:40:55.719 --> 00:41:01.639 a gargantuan brass dragon, and Steven is nodding 00:41:01.639 --> 00:41:03.800 because he knows exactly what's happening here. 00:41:05.679 --> 00:41:11.539 Grandma's home. Oh, shit. Yeah, coming to save 00:41:11.539 --> 00:41:15.400 the day. You see this dragon comes flying, arcing 00:41:15.400 --> 00:41:20.460 down, wings like pushed back as it slides around 00:41:20.460 --> 00:41:21.900 to the side of the gem where it would normally 00:41:21.900 --> 00:41:24.139 be like a door. And people were just like, Charlotte, 00:41:24.320 --> 00:41:26.739 Charlotte. A lot of like screaming, cheering 00:41:26.739 --> 00:41:32.119 as her claws rake around the side of the once 00:41:32.119 --> 00:41:35.019 sapphire towards where the opening would be. 00:41:35.039 --> 00:41:38.300 And she like. puts a paw onto it. Um, shield 00:41:38.300 --> 00:41:40.659 bears kind of rush around to the sides, activating 00:41:40.659 --> 00:41:42.539 the mechanisms to like cause like the crystal 00:41:42.539 --> 00:41:46.059 to sort of part and show lay bursts in and immediately, 00:41:46.199 --> 00:41:51.340 um, assumes human form. Oh, that's not what I 00:41:51.340 --> 00:41:52.340 thought. I thought she was gonna try to like 00:41:52.340 --> 00:41:57.780 pull the gem up. It's a big gem, right? Think 00:41:57.780 --> 00:42:01.639 of the weight of like this many people. Well, 00:42:01.699 --> 00:42:04.300 but I kind of assumed that like we were in sort 00:42:04.300 --> 00:42:08.070 of like a, a minimal gravity sort of situation, 00:42:08.190 --> 00:42:10.369 and I thought that it would just be the dragon 00:42:10.369 --> 00:42:14.670 versus the storm. It's a weird situation, because 00:42:14.670 --> 00:42:19.449 gravity... I think here there is full -on gravity 00:42:19.449 --> 00:42:21.010 in the Seydel, right? Like, if you were to fall 00:42:21.010 --> 00:42:21.489 into the Seydel, you'd fall into the gloom. Let's 00:42:21.489 --> 00:42:23.789 get into the physics of it. We actually should, 00:42:23.849 --> 00:42:25.329 like, a little, but just tiny, tiny bit of physics. 00:42:25.590 --> 00:42:27.510 If you fell off the Seydel, you'd fall into the 00:42:27.510 --> 00:42:30.150 gloom. I think the gloom almost creates an atmosphere 00:42:30.150 --> 00:42:33.730 of gravity. The gems normally wouldn't move, 00:42:33.829 --> 00:42:37.409 though. They stay locked in place. So it is weird 00:42:37.409 --> 00:42:39.309 it's being pulled. So you might be onto something 00:42:39.309 --> 00:42:41.010 there, because the fact this thing is falling, 00:42:41.050 --> 00:42:44.449 it's not falling. They don't fall. They have 00:42:44.449 --> 00:42:47.090 weightlessness in that way, but it's being pulled. 00:42:49.090 --> 00:42:51.909 But Sholay, I think initially is moving to the 00:42:51.909 --> 00:42:56.530 controls. She is a hold, and she has a mastery 00:42:56.530 --> 00:43:00.590 of arcane arts that is unmatched in the worlds. 00:43:00.730 --> 00:43:03.099 Well... It's matched by some folk, but not by 00:43:03.099 --> 00:43:04.920 many. She's like, get out of the driver's seat, 00:43:04.940 --> 00:43:06.659 you bum. Basically, yeah, she just marches, she 00:43:06.659 --> 00:43:08.460 pushes through the crowd, people out of the way, 00:43:08.539 --> 00:43:12.860 and very swiftly, suddenly, you just see Shole 00:43:12.860 --> 00:43:16.800 appears, and she's, like, moving towards, like, 00:43:16.840 --> 00:43:18.860 the crowd in the way, and they sort of part for 00:43:18.860 --> 00:43:21.380 her, and as they part, I think only one figure 00:43:21.380 --> 00:43:24.159 is just standing in awe, stands between her and 00:43:24.159 --> 00:43:31.889 the door, and she sees you, Zebulon. Her eyes 00:43:31.889 --> 00:43:36.289 widen and narrow, and she says nothing to you 00:43:36.289 --> 00:43:38.550 and just keeps walking past you. The fuck did 00:43:38.550 --> 00:43:45.570 I do? Oh, my God. And walks straight into the 00:43:45.570 --> 00:43:49.469 chamber, and you're still falling. People still 00:43:49.469 --> 00:43:51.909 crowd on the way again. Can I try to sneak in 00:43:51.909 --> 00:43:54.329 behind her? Yeah, you want to? Yeah, definitely. 00:43:56.190 --> 00:43:58.329 Let's say we're doing another crowd check, acrobatics. 00:43:58.530 --> 00:44:00.530 And if you want to view it stealthily, we're 00:44:00.530 --> 00:44:03.710 going to roll a stealth check as well. Holy shit. 00:44:04.090 --> 00:44:06.409 It's like you broke some family code or something. 00:44:06.429 --> 00:44:09.269 Yeah, I don't know why everyone's so pissed at 00:44:09.269 --> 00:44:14.349 me. All right, so acrobatics to 20. Dirty 20. 00:44:14.769 --> 00:44:17.030 Yeah, you get through the legs of the crowd, 00:44:17.230 --> 00:44:19.170 push your way in, and you're right behind. Roll 00:44:19.170 --> 00:44:26.980 stealth. 17 for stealth. Okay. So you push to 00:44:26.980 --> 00:44:28.579 the door. I think at this point, there's a point 00:44:28.579 --> 00:44:30.579 in time where someone rushes over like, Charlie, 00:44:30.760 --> 00:44:32.380 what are you going to? And like one of the guards 00:44:32.380 --> 00:44:34.300 like moves forward to push them out of the way. 00:44:34.360 --> 00:44:37.139 And you kind of like swiftly dart right. And 00:44:37.139 --> 00:44:39.659 then this guy turns away and into the room. And 00:44:39.659 --> 00:44:42.199 you are suddenly in this small, like piloting 00:44:42.199 --> 00:44:44.840 chamber, this small, like, like, you know, fully 00:44:44.840 --> 00:44:47.400 crystallized. You see like a big platform in 00:44:47.400 --> 00:44:50.219 front of a, it's not like a cockpit, like a sitting 00:44:50.219 --> 00:44:53.179 cockpit standing, but yeah. And it's you and 00:44:53.179 --> 00:44:58.699 Kong. uh, Ariat and Sholay. And nobody sees you 00:44:58.699 --> 00:45:00.820 yet. They're all. Yeah. He'll just, he'll just 00:45:00.820 --> 00:45:03.980 stand back against the wall up by the door. I'm 00:45:03.980 --> 00:45:06.780 imagining. Yeah. Like I can't imagine they're 00:45:06.780 --> 00:45:08.179 going to turn around and look back at all. I 00:45:08.179 --> 00:45:09.380 think they're going to be looking at the controls 00:45:09.380 --> 00:45:11.440 and out the, out the glass or not the glass out 00:45:11.440 --> 00:45:14.320 the window, whatever the wall. It's funny. Cause 00:45:14.320 --> 00:45:16.280 it's like, you have these things where you expect 00:45:16.280 --> 00:45:18.860 them to be kind of off screen and suddenly they're 00:45:18.860 --> 00:45:21.320 very much on screen. And it's like, I guess I'm 00:45:21.320 --> 00:45:25.179 role -playing this now. Okay. Throw my notes 00:45:25.179 --> 00:45:28.519 away. It's fine. It's good times. You're welcome. 00:45:28.739 --> 00:45:31.940 You just hear Shoalite just like, you're right. 00:45:32.300 --> 00:45:39.159 This is unusual. It's not responding at all. 00:45:39.340 --> 00:45:41.980 The words, you didn't, the words aren't making 00:45:41.980 --> 00:45:46.639 a difference. What happened exactly? We left 00:45:46.639 --> 00:45:50.500 Tithos. We phased. And that was it. The moment 00:45:50.500 --> 00:45:53.800 was phased into existence here. It's like we 00:45:53.800 --> 00:45:56.239 were caught in a storm. The gem lost all its 00:45:56.239 --> 00:45:58.699 power. None of the artifices are working here. 00:45:59.079 --> 00:46:03.619 No words are working. And there's a moment of 00:46:03.619 --> 00:46:07.219 silence. And then you hear Homing Kong just say, 00:46:07.420 --> 00:46:14.239 Well, what do we do? And Ariat just nods his 00:46:14.239 --> 00:46:19.039 head and says, As many as we can get off. We 00:46:19.039 --> 00:46:21.400 take as many as we can get off. We go. We go. 00:46:22.239 --> 00:46:27.579 It's all we have. Xole, you can fly them. No 00:46:27.579 --> 00:46:29.639 one else here can do it. You need to take these 00:46:29.639 --> 00:46:33.179 people, whatever you can take, and get to the 00:46:33.179 --> 00:46:37.559 Citadel. And Xole is just a thousand yards staring 00:46:37.559 --> 00:46:40.900 out towards the Citadel, which is slowly sinking 00:46:40.900 --> 00:46:44.380 away. You're about halfway down it now. He just 00:46:44.380 --> 00:46:52.159 nods. I can stop this. And she just spins around 00:46:52.159 --> 00:46:55.699 and starts running. I think she sees you, Zebulon, 00:46:55.860 --> 00:46:58.820 at the door then. And she, like, looks at you. 00:46:58.940 --> 00:47:02.900 And she actually, I think maybe sees how scared 00:47:02.900 --> 00:47:07.980 you are. And you can see she just forces on this 00:47:07.980 --> 00:47:11.760 small smile towards you. And says again, but 00:47:11.760 --> 00:47:16.039 this time directed towards you, I can stop this. 00:47:16.940 --> 00:47:20.880 And she rushes back out of the chamber. There's 00:47:20.880 --> 00:47:25.780 like, there's nothing that I can conceive of. 00:47:27.139 --> 00:47:30.579 There's no way that I can think to help. There's 00:47:30.579 --> 00:47:32.860 no way that I can think to help. A moment later, 00:47:33.000 --> 00:47:37.079 you see, and Jules, you see this ancient brass 00:47:37.079 --> 00:47:41.280 dragon comes flying out, remains like that, that 00:47:41.280 --> 00:47:44.599 massive dragon form swirls under the stone, and 00:47:44.599 --> 00:47:49.199 you just kind of see like, It tries to push against 00:47:49.199 --> 00:47:52.880 the crystal. Pushing and pushing. And I think 00:47:52.880 --> 00:47:54.380 this is happening right below you. You're in 00:47:54.380 --> 00:47:55.880 the middle. I think you and the chariot of lights 00:47:55.880 --> 00:47:59.619 are seeing this so close just beneath you. Hold 00:47:59.619 --> 00:48:03.000 on tight, guys. Hold on tight. Shit's happening. 00:48:03.460 --> 00:48:12.840 Sholay is just... Like pushing up wings. As hard 00:48:12.840 --> 00:48:16.869 as they can. Flapping. Flapping. And for a moment, 00:48:17.030 --> 00:48:22.989 everything kind of steadies. And then starts 00:48:22.989 --> 00:48:26.610 to drop again. You can see her straining and 00:48:26.610 --> 00:48:30.170 straining. And I think you realize then that 00:48:30.170 --> 00:48:33.889 there is nothing that's going to stop this. Jules, 00:48:34.110 --> 00:48:37.090 as you stare down at this, you feel, again, another 00:48:37.090 --> 00:48:42.070 hand clutch yours. It's Jean's. She's stood up. 00:48:43.309 --> 00:48:47.150 And you see Chester has one of her hands. Fibro 00:48:47.150 --> 00:48:50.650 has one of his. Mulligan has one of his. Paul 00:48:50.650 --> 00:48:54.150 has one of his. Miskin has one of his. Roundstuff 00:48:54.150 --> 00:48:58.130 has one of his. And she reaches up and takes 00:48:58.130 --> 00:49:01.269 your other hand. I'm just gonna sit on the floor. 00:49:03.570 --> 00:49:07.329 With all of them around. Yeah. You're all just... 00:49:07.329 --> 00:49:11.940 This might be it, guys. I don't... I don't know 00:49:11.940 --> 00:49:14.880 how we're going to get out of this one. I have 00:49:14.880 --> 00:49:19.079 a question, David. Yeah. What can we see if we 00:49:19.079 --> 00:49:22.280 look down at this storm? You just see an open 00:49:22.280 --> 00:49:26.139 maw, just a black, black abyss. You just see, 00:49:26.159 --> 00:49:29.260 like, swirling clouds and lightning flashing 00:49:29.260 --> 00:49:31.219 against the storm wall here, and you're basically 00:49:31.219 --> 00:49:33.699 being pulled right into, like, this looks almost 00:49:33.699 --> 00:49:37.239 like endless darkness that exists within it. 00:49:38.019 --> 00:49:43.349 Hmm. Does anybody know? what actually is in there? 00:49:43.429 --> 00:49:46.230 I would love for you guys to roll arcana checks 00:49:46.230 --> 00:49:48.230 on this, actually. Or history. Both will work. 00:49:48.429 --> 00:49:51.110 Because we know that it was threatening, but 00:49:51.110 --> 00:49:54.010 I haven't heard anything about what it actually 00:49:54.010 --> 00:49:59.170 is. So maybe I'll take it from a... We'll roleplay 00:49:59.170 --> 00:50:04.909 it, maybe. Yeah. So I'm in the pilot room with 00:50:04.909 --> 00:50:10.590 Mankind and... Ariat. Ariat. Deputy Commander 00:50:10.590 --> 00:50:15.389 Man Kong and Captain Commander Ariat. You're 00:50:15.389 --> 00:50:17.449 with the literal brass. Get it? Because I wear 00:50:17.449 --> 00:50:20.289 brass armor. Oh, man. I should have given you 00:50:20.289 --> 00:50:22.929 a moment to do the bottom chick. I'll paste it 00:50:22.929 --> 00:50:25.070 in right there. No, I'm not going to paste it 00:50:25.070 --> 00:50:27.110 in right there. That's just going to happen as 00:50:27.110 --> 00:50:32.130 it happened. Commander Ariat, you heard my brother's 00:50:32.130 --> 00:50:37.530 story. But so am I. He doesn't want to kill regular 00:50:37.530 --> 00:50:40.579 people. He only wants to kill the luminaries. 00:50:41.300 --> 00:50:44.739 We don't know what's down there, but... It might 00:50:44.739 --> 00:50:49.119 not mean... Yes. Ariat just fixes you with this, 00:50:49.119 --> 00:50:54.300 like... Long, quiet look. And he stands up and 00:50:54.300 --> 00:50:57.699 he walks over to you. And he puts a hand on your 00:50:57.699 --> 00:51:03.639 head and says... It's a shame. I, um... When 00:51:03.639 --> 00:51:07.550 I pulled you out of there... I hoped I'd really 00:51:07.550 --> 00:51:10.190 been saving you. But all I did was save you for 00:51:10.190 --> 00:51:14.389 this. We don't know much about the Keening glue. 00:51:15.769 --> 00:51:20.190 But there have been tests. And nothing and no 00:51:20.190 --> 00:51:22.510 one that has ever been pulled into the storm 00:51:22.510 --> 00:51:26.210 has ever come back. It's assumed they were torn 00:51:26.210 --> 00:51:31.369 apart. Don't spread this around. Why would he 00:51:31.369 --> 00:51:37.599 spare Arhan just to let him die like this? I 00:51:37.599 --> 00:51:40.900 don't know how he managed to use the gloom in 00:51:40.900 --> 00:51:43.920 this way. It was there in the sky. I saw it. 00:51:43.980 --> 00:51:47.639 You saw it. That was the Keening gloom on Tythos. 00:51:49.340 --> 00:51:52.940 It could be unrelated to the storm eye. It doesn't 00:51:52.940 --> 00:51:56.480 seem likely, but it could be the theory of planar 00:51:56.480 --> 00:52:01.000 absorption. It's like he can control it. And 00:52:01.000 --> 00:52:04.820 I think Arya just stares you for a moment and 00:52:04.820 --> 00:52:07.590 looks up. Once, like, he's thinking this thought 00:52:07.590 --> 00:52:12.230 over, and he just sort of shakes his head and 00:52:12.230 --> 00:52:17.590 steps out of the room with one last, um, I'm 00:52:17.590 --> 00:52:20.250 sorry. And you can hear him just step outside. 00:52:20.369 --> 00:52:23.769 He's like, people, people, it's okay. We're working 00:52:23.769 --> 00:52:26.630 this out. Don't panic. Nobody panic. It's fine. 00:52:26.789 --> 00:52:29.929 And, like, trying to do what he can out there 00:52:29.929 --> 00:52:32.670 because there's nothing that can be done in this 00:52:32.670 --> 00:52:36.599 cockpit anymore. And Jules, you are sitting on 00:52:36.599 --> 00:52:41.219 the floor. Zebulon, you are in the cockpit. I 00:52:41.219 --> 00:52:44.380 guess watching all this, watching your grandmother, 00:52:44.699 --> 00:52:48.360 as you call her, just fighting and fighting and 00:52:48.360 --> 00:52:54.159 weakening and not making a difference. And suddenly, 00:52:54.300 --> 00:53:00.519 a bright light bathes everything from above. 00:53:02.250 --> 00:53:10.769 Everyone looks up once more. Sorry. This is supposed 00:53:10.769 --> 00:53:17.329 to be serious. Everyone looks up and you see 00:53:17.329 --> 00:53:22.710 far above you the shape of a man with these great 00:53:22.710 --> 00:53:27.710 wings appearing in the sky in this brilliant 00:53:27.710 --> 00:53:31.719 light. And then again, Arcing down a new figure, 00:53:31.739 --> 00:53:36.119 a new hero. And every, every one of you, both 00:53:36.119 --> 00:53:39.659 of you, everyone on this fucking jewel recognizes 00:53:39.659 --> 00:53:45.820 Atash. Hand of the Sunweaver. The first and greatest 00:53:45.820 --> 00:53:49.199 of the luminaries. And you see it's not just 00:53:49.199 --> 00:53:52.840 Atash. You see the heavy hitters suddenly like 00:53:52.840 --> 00:53:56.960 flying down beside him. Suddenly you see a woman. 00:53:59.530 --> 00:54:02.969 A dwarven woman wearing long embroidered dark 00:54:02.969 --> 00:54:07.090 blue robes. And you see she pulls this really 00:54:07.090 --> 00:54:13.510 simple yet elegant teapot from her sleeve. And 00:54:13.510 --> 00:54:17.590 she turns and pours this magical energy out of 00:54:17.590 --> 00:54:20.150 it. Like this light that encompasses her. That 00:54:20.150 --> 00:54:23.320 encompasses this gigantic... bear -chested man 00:54:23.320 --> 00:54:27.039 in sort of a goofy -looking pink pig mask, a 00:54:27.039 --> 00:54:31.880 luchador from San Sitian, Fu Lingling from Xing, 00:54:32.099 --> 00:54:37.840 cast fly on herself and her companion, and turns 00:54:37.840 --> 00:54:41.480 to another one, a man in red leather armor with 00:54:41.480 --> 00:54:47.980 sort of a big mosquito nose -like mask, and sort 00:54:47.980 --> 00:54:51.530 of these red leather cape. uh, Sturgeman. No 00:54:51.530 --> 00:54:54.030 one knows where Sturgeman is from. Everyone knows 00:54:54.030 --> 00:54:58.090 he's awesome, though. Um, and as these figures 00:54:58.090 --> 00:55:01.849 fly down towards the kind of land on top of the 00:55:01.849 --> 00:55:04.550 jewel, um, you see actually the Fululing sort 00:55:04.550 --> 00:55:07.230 of arcs away and turns back towards the tail 00:55:07.230 --> 00:55:10.829 of the Citadel, which you're almost equal with 00:55:10.829 --> 00:55:13.550 right now, about to lose your last bit of, like, 00:55:13.570 --> 00:55:16.289 horizontal land you could ever potentially reach. 00:55:16.829 --> 00:55:19.730 Um, You see as she moves over there, two more 00:55:19.730 --> 00:55:21.949 figures stand at the edge of the tail. You see 00:55:21.949 --> 00:55:26.030 Jai, or Handsome Jai, as they call him. This 00:55:26.030 --> 00:55:32.469 half -elf warlock. I guess you would know these 00:55:32.469 --> 00:55:35.829 figures very well. Handsome Jai is a half -elf 00:55:35.829 --> 00:55:41.079 Earth Genie Dao warlock from Taib. Just this 00:55:41.079 --> 00:55:43.679 handsome playboy dressed in a beige kurta wrapped 00:55:43.679 --> 00:55:46.639 in colorful checkered shawl. And he, too, is 00:55:46.639 --> 00:55:50.300 just, like, standing at the edge of this fossil, 00:55:50.599 --> 00:55:52.780 the very tail. And he raises his hands up in 00:55:52.780 --> 00:55:55.559 an incantation. You see this stone bridge begins 00:55:55.559 --> 00:55:58.579 to, like, form itself in front of him towards 00:55:58.579 --> 00:56:03.929 you. You see next to him a tiefling woman. Crimson 00:56:03.929 --> 00:56:07.369 skin with pure white garments, very simple looking. 00:56:07.929 --> 00:56:11.469 Three long braids down her back. Zopa reborn 00:56:11.469 --> 00:56:16.250 from Teletepec. Wildfire Druid, again, just like 00:56:16.250 --> 00:56:18.030 him, is creating this other sort of stone platform. 00:56:18.130 --> 00:56:21.010 Not in a bridge -like arc, but rather just this 00:56:21.010 --> 00:56:24.789 great sort of platform, much tighter to the building, 00:56:24.889 --> 00:56:27.650 but sort of in your direction, which Fu Ling, 00:56:27.849 --> 00:56:31.309 the mage, lands down on and begins to cast some 00:56:31.309 --> 00:56:35.849 spell. Ariat flies down beneath you, beneath 00:56:35.849 --> 00:56:38.730 Sholay. And you can see her just turning this 00:56:38.730 --> 00:56:41.469 weary gaze towards him. And rather than facing 00:56:41.469 --> 00:56:44.090 the gem itself, he turns towards a storm. And 00:56:44.090 --> 00:56:46.309 with a voice that sounds like a thousand voices 00:56:46.309 --> 00:56:50.210 piled on each other, you just hear him say, Storm 00:56:50.210 --> 00:56:56.030 of Malice, be gone! And this incredible... I 00:56:56.030 --> 00:56:57.750 think this is the part in the movie where the 00:56:57.750 --> 00:57:01.969 bass fucking hits. As like this... arc of light 00:57:01.969 --> 00:57:05.210 just blasts from his hands down towards the storm 00:57:05.210 --> 00:57:08.269 and you feel like like as he's shaking as he's 00:57:08.269 --> 00:57:11.369 holding us off you feel the jewel just slow to 00:57:11.369 --> 00:57:15.909 a stop um and he's just resting there he's go 00:57:15.909 --> 00:57:21.750 save them i'll hold it off and shoelace just 00:57:21.750 --> 00:57:24.510 like immediately looks down at him nods flies 00:57:24.510 --> 00:57:28.010 up and begins taking people on her back and i 00:57:28.010 --> 00:57:31.360 think what happens next Uh, we're not going to 00:57:31.360 --> 00:57:33.460 dwell on for too long because as fucking awesome 00:57:33.460 --> 00:57:35.860 as these heroes are, they are not the heroes 00:57:35.860 --> 00:57:40.199 of our story. But we see like a montage of, uh, 00:57:40.340 --> 00:57:42.519 we see, uh, these, this bridge is finished being 00:57:42.519 --> 00:57:45.280 built out right to like the opening gate of the 00:57:45.280 --> 00:57:48.760 Sapphire and people begin to like move towards 00:57:48.760 --> 00:57:50.920 it. We see Sturge man fly out. He's got, uh, 00:57:50.980 --> 00:57:53.300 these immovable rods that he likes placing along 00:57:53.300 --> 00:57:57.329 both sides of the bridge. And Fleury went so 00:57:57.329 --> 00:57:59.050 fast, you can't even make it out. He's tying 00:57:59.050 --> 00:58:02.829 ropes amongst them and creating this long railing 00:58:02.829 --> 00:58:04.809 system so no one's falling off. People start 00:58:04.809 --> 00:58:08.050 rushing in in a single -file line. It's a thin 00:58:08.050 --> 00:58:10.590 wall going 500 feet, but they are rushing across 00:58:10.590 --> 00:58:15.570 it, slow going because they can't overbear the 00:58:15.570 --> 00:58:20.769 weight. And as this is happening, we see... Fululing 00:58:20.769 --> 00:58:23.489 finishes her spell, the dwarven mage finishes 00:58:23.489 --> 00:58:25.969 her spell on the sort of platform created by 00:58:25.969 --> 00:58:29.510 her for by the druid and you see this like sort 00:58:29.510 --> 00:58:34.110 of opalescent fog like a doorway appears a circular 00:58:34.110 --> 00:58:37.150 door that also appears inside the citadel as 00:58:37.150 --> 00:58:39.750 well and people start moving towards that we 00:58:39.750 --> 00:58:42.940 see the mighty pig man is joining shoaling, grabbing 00:58:42.940 --> 00:58:45.539 people and flying them back and forth between 00:58:45.539 --> 00:58:47.800 the, uh, in the Citadel. He's great with the 00:58:47.800 --> 00:58:49.699 kids. They're, they're scared to go on the bridge. 00:58:49.699 --> 00:58:53.360 And he's just like, come on kids. Uh, pig man 00:58:53.360 --> 00:58:55.380 will take you over. And he does that for the 00:58:55.380 --> 00:58:58.760 kids. They love it. They love it. Uh, he carries 00:58:58.760 --> 00:59:01.940 them. And you just see like, ah, Tosh, just holding 00:59:01.940 --> 00:59:06.579 this thing back, snarling as he, his, his shimmering 00:59:06.579 --> 00:59:09.429 white eyes. I mean, you, and actually, This is 00:59:09.429 --> 00:59:11.150 the first time you've probably ever seen Atash 00:59:11.150 --> 00:59:14.789 in person. He does not come to the Citadel often. 00:59:14.849 --> 00:59:17.409 He does not leave Ankarin Singhar, where he rules, 00:59:17.590 --> 00:59:21.269 often. But you just see this, like, well -muscled, 00:59:21.289 --> 00:59:26.750 incredibly majestic solar angel. You see his 00:59:26.750 --> 00:59:32.550 eyes are just pools of radiance. You see he's 00:59:32.550 --> 00:59:34.489 got, like, this pretty, pretty nice close -cropped 00:59:34.489 --> 00:59:39.760 beard. He's got kind of long sort of brown hair. 00:59:39.900 --> 00:59:43.679 He's got like red crimson robes that just billow 00:59:43.679 --> 00:59:49.380 as he flies about. He's the coolest. So I think 00:59:49.380 --> 00:59:52.059 we're just going to like move past this montage 00:59:52.059 --> 00:59:54.579 of everyone moving out. Everyone's like leaving 00:59:54.579 --> 01:00:00.480 this jewel. And all of you are resting on the 01:00:00.480 --> 01:00:03.900 tail of the fossil. Everyone grouped up together. 01:00:04.380 --> 01:00:07.099 It's probably been... you know, just, just only 01:00:07.099 --> 01:00:08.980 like a few minutes, maybe 10 minutes have passed 01:00:08.980 --> 01:00:12.280 during all this. And you watch as Atash, the 01:00:12.280 --> 01:00:14.559 last people funnel through the bridge, the last 01:00:14.559 --> 01:00:18.179 people like move through the door and Atash finally 01:00:18.179 --> 01:00:24.000 releases his light and wearily sort of moves 01:00:24.000 --> 01:00:26.980 away as the jewel begins getting pulled again. 01:00:27.059 --> 01:00:32.820 And you watch as the gateway to Tythos is gone. 01:00:35.150 --> 01:00:36.110 And we'll call it there.