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Thank you. Last time on Fantasy Pants, we all

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bore witness to a terrible tragedy. Our luminaries

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were on their way out of the world of Tythos,

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in the city of Cerule, being devastated by a

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storm. But they made it. On to the Concord Jewel,

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on to the Sapphire. But as they phased from that

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world back to the Citadel, well, things took

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a turn. The Keening Gloom, the massive storm

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swirling beneath the Radiant Citadel, began to

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pull at the Concord Jewel. All power was lost,

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and they were helpless, slowly drifting down

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into the Maw of the Gloom. The brave Sholay,

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Speaker of the Ancestors for Ankarin Sengar,

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one of the... Great leaders of the Radiant Citadel

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came to the rescue, but was just as helpless

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to stop the fall as our brave heroes. It was

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only when the luminary, Atash, and the big hitters,

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the top luminaries of the Citadel, came that

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things changed. Our heroes were saved, as were

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all of the refugees from Tithos. But the conquered

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jewel sunk. and was lost. What was that? My heel.

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Oh, gotcha. It happened at like the exact same

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time that you pressed the record button. I know.

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So I was like, did you knock something? I kind

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of scared the shit out of me too. Good, good,

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we got it. I don't know if the hit actually recorded.

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I wonder if everybody's just listening to us

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like, what the hell are you talking about? Well,

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Jeremy kicked the bassboard and it was very loud

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and kind of scary. Yeah. Jeremy, the birthday

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boy. Jeremy, the birthday boy. Happy birthday,

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Jeremy. Thank you. I'm almost 40 now. Nice. That's

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terrifying. Yeah, I don't know. A little bit.

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I mean, I've still got three years, but... Yeah,

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you're spring chicken. Live it up in my 30s and

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then I'll retire. Yeah, there you go. Exactly.

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Retire? Wait, what? At 40? Yeah. What do you

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do for work? Not enough to retire, but I don't

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care. I'm done. Dang. Wow. You got to have the

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mindset. Yep, that's true. You got to manifest

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that stuff. You got to have hope. The universe

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knows what I need. It will provide. Well, hopefully

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in three years you can retire at age 40, Jeremy,

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but for the rest of us. All right. Remember this,

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listeners. Support us on, I don't know, whatever

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we have to support us. And we can get Jeremy

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retired by 40. There we go. It's our Patreon

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goal. We're going to do one of those. Jeremy's

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retirement Patreon goal. What's going to be the

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perk for that one? Huh. Jeremy will fly over

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to you and give you a hug. Nah, that's too involved.

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You'll have the time. You'll be retired. Jeremy

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will take you to his next Tenacious D show. You

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saw Tenacious D yesterday or the day before.

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On a Tuesday night of all nights. Pretty cool.

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Who does a show on a Tuesday night at 8 p .m.?

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Tenacious D, apparently. Yeah. Who does a show

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in New Hampshire? Lots of people. Why? It was

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not at the pavilion. I mean, I just didn't think

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there'd be a crowd. People have fans. It was

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sold out. I think it was sold out. That's wild,

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man. It was like 9 ,000 people. Oh, yeah. That's

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come from mass. That's a big deal. That is higher

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than our state's population, I'm pretty sure.

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Yeah, it's pretty close. Yeah, close to 9 ,000.

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Well, how was the show, Jeremy? It was fun. Yeah?

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It was good stuff. Any highlights? All of it.

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I'm a big Tenacious D fan, so all of it was fucking

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fantastic. What's the other guy's name? It's

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Jack Black and Kyle Gass. Okay. Yeah. I didn't

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remember that. And they're still going really

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strong. Nice. I loved that movie. It was good

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times. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. We're talking Tuesday

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night plans. Steven, what was your Tuesday night

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like? I think I was in bed before 9. Or maybe

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right around 9. This is hot stuff. Yeah. Come

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on. I think that's right. That's right when Tenacious

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D was going on after their opener. I think I

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made some brown rice. Oh, yeah. I picked the

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raspberries in the garden. Delicious. Yeah, it

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was a real slamming night. Okay. What about you,

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David? I was remodeling a shower. Oh, that's

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right. It was hell, actually. It was awful. You

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guys are talking about your wonderful Tuesdays,

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and I'm a little jealous. A little infuriated,

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one might say, because, my gosh. I say remodel,

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but I was mostly just destroying the plumbing

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and hoping for the best. I told you, I'll bring

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over a sledgehammer and we'll have some fun.

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I did well enough on my own, actually. Me and

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my wrench. We did wonders to that plumbing, but

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that didn't mean we did calamities to that plumbing.

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But I digress. We had a pretty exciting last

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session. Yes, we did. It was a big one. People

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are abuzz. They have questions. Steven, they

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want to know how you are so bad at Dungeons &

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Dragons. Ow. The Reddit, it's gone wild over

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it. There is no Reddit. As of recording, nothing

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has been released yet. You don't need to say

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that. Damn it. All right. Let's get right to

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it. Nobody knows how bad I am at D &D yet. It's

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true. They will. But they will. And that's what's

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important to me. Jeremy, you want to hit me with

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that sirenscape? Let's get into it. All right.

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Okay. We're going to open onto two different

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scenes. We're going to see them in sort of a

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vague shadow. We see Jules. We see Jules surrounded

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by many haggard faces, stained with tears. A

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number of these low city folk with their bent

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backs. matted hair, still wearing those same

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rags, all kind of huddled together in this dark

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place where this light is flashing right under

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their faces, all of them staring into the screen

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where an image of Storyteller Orn is projected.

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And we see a similar scene in a small apartment.

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And we'll get into exactly what this looks like

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in a moment, but we see Zebulon sitting alone

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on a little couch, just staring at the same screen,

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staring at the same image, the light just flickering

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across his face. And we cut to the image of Storyteller

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Oren, looking haggard, tired, endlessly sad,

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and he just says, It's been three days. Three

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days since the Tithos incident, and I think I

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speak for all of us when I say I am still in

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shock. Tithos was once thought to be the safest

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among our worlds. It was certainly the most economically

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prosperous, most bountiful in raw minerals, the

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most populous. 200 ,000 lives. That's what the

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estimates say. A population of Tithos that remained

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when the Concord Jam was destroyed. 13 luminaries

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were on Tithos during the attack. Including the

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three known as Thelmira's Blessing. Gaius Argonius.

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Orca Tepuri. Mateo Cortez, also known as Demilich.

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They all fought bravely on that day and they

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all were lost. 22 shield bearers stayed behind

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to control the crowds. Bravely waiting for the

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next passage off. A passage that was never to

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come. But we need to look at the glimmer of light

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in all this darkness. 5 ,383 people saved by

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our shield -bearers pulled off that hill. We

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need to look at the light. But... Brothers and

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sisters of our many worlds, good citizens of

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the Gemstone Concord, I am going to be honest

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with you. The network won't like me saying this,

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but damn it. The Tithos tragedy was the result

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of nothing natural. It was an act of deliberate

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terrorism. Rosen has betrayed us all. And we

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don't know how he did it. How he tapped into

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the Keenan gloom itself. We don't know anything.

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Except that we are hurt. And we are scared. But

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as always, I choose to believe in the power of

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our luminaries. I choose to look at them and

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be inspired by their courage and their light.

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Both the seasoned veterans and the young blood.

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I will put my faith in the best of our worlds.

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But we must face the storm again. This is Storyteller

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Oren signing off. And I hope y 'all can get some

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sleep tonight. Because I know I won't. The image

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fades away and... Same sort of musical static.

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And... We are left with two distinct scenes.

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It has been three days since the Tythos incident.

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Three long days for our two heroes here. And

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I want to talk about what happened in those three

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days. I want to start with you, Zebulon. Now,

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I mentioned you are sitting in this small apartment.

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This is you and Arhalon's apartment. That's right.

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Now... I'd like you to describe what half of

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this apartment looks like. And I say half because

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roughly half the walls in this apartment right

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now are covered in red wire sticking between

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different maps and people and clippings from

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newspaper articles. And it is just this massive

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conspiracy board that belongs to your brother.

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He just stares at it. And actually, right now,

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this board is covered in... in facts about tithos

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about the incident about uh the history of of

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the storm high about the the three luminaries

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that came to save the day everything about the

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incident is all over your wall a constant reminder

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of it what does your side of the of the apartment

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look like so zebulon naturally has the smaller

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bedroom in the apartment being both the smaller

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figure and the younger brother it's a closet

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no no it's not like a harry potter situation

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it's just a smaller bedroom you know he doesn't

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have the master he doesn't have the attached

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bathroom sort of thing so on his shelves around

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the room and maybe on spare coffee tables and

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such zebulon has some little trinkets like rocks

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or maybe like some figurines or he'll buy stuff

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from merchants just little little gotsy stuff

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like a like a seashell because he's never been

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to the ocean or i don't know an acorn because

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he's never been to the forest that's that's actually

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that's awesome and i love that and do they do

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they have luminary action figures oh of course

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they have luminary action figures he would definitely

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have luminary action figures and probably a couple

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of like posters on the wall like some yeah the

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big big fold -out tapestries on the wall um you

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know mass -produced luminary posters yeah got

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a big old atash oh yeah he's got so grand he's

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got atash i love it yeah for sure oh that's awesome

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that's awesome but other than that i mean it's

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tidy i suppose you know likes to keep his bed

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made keeps the dirty laundry off the floor he

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does better than me um yeah so we see this apartment

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and we see this this lone um very small half

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dragon slash dragonborn kind of the kind of the

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combo deal uh just sitting on this couch just

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kind of watching the static and in the background

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we see arhalon He's just staring silently at

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some clippings on his wall, reaches a finger

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out and taps something, shakes his head, puts

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it back down, reaches a finger out with his one

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arm. I don't imagine that they've spoken a lot

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in these last three days. They've spoken very

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little. Arhalon has said almost nothing to you.

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It's been very quiet. Yeah. And I think... As

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we see this scene, as Ebulon's just staring out

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at this static, we sort of zoom in towards his

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eyes. And I want to take us back for just a moment

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to that day. We still see a crowd of refugees

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just all over, like this massive, moving, writhing,

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just one being, one crowd crammed into the sort

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of tail of the Citadel. We see the luminaries

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are being swarmed, the big hitters, the top six,

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the shining champions of the Citadel, of the

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worlds. Especially Atash is floating a bit off

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the ground, sort of hands palm open at his side.

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just towards the skies, and people are just,

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like, rushing over to touch him and feel his

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robes, and he just smiles down at them. And way

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off to the side of all of this, I think we see

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Zebulon staying by Sholay. Arhalon was quickly

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taken by the shield -bearers, rushed off for

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any sort of further medical aid and attention.

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You haven't seen him since you escaped from the

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sapphire. But Sholay sought you out. And you

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just see her staring towards this scene, staring

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towards Atash, eyes narrowed. And she just, just

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under her breath, but you hear it just says,

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Always. It's always like this. Every time. Do

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you say anything? Do I know what she's talking

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about when she says every time? I don't think

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you do. Go ahead and roll me a, uh... Go and

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roll me a history check on Atash. Oh, she's talking

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about Atash. Gotcha. 17. That's pretty good.

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Okay. You know this much. The Luminary Movement

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began a little over 50 years ago. This is when

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the, just very soon after the sort of broadcasting

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abilities of the Sid -El were discovered, and

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the Crystal Network was sort of early on being

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founded, people were basically able to watch.

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this worldwide news network, world's wide news

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network, sorry, that connected every world in

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a way that's never, ever been done before, that

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was never theorized to be possible before. And

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very soon after this discovery, Ankur and Singhar

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was placed in a massive amount of danger. You

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see, this demon, this horned demon led this horde.

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of demons out of a rift in the abyss, all just

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pouring into the world. And the people were desperate.

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They could not fight back. And Xole, she wanted

00:17:33.720 --> 00:17:36.339
so badly to help, but they just didn't have the

00:17:36.339 --> 00:17:39.039
resources at the time. The Citadel needs to manage

00:17:39.039 --> 00:17:42.099
all of these worlds. And she was trying to rally

00:17:42.099 --> 00:17:44.579
an army between all the worlds she could, but

00:17:44.579 --> 00:17:47.619
trying to get them to work with a different world,

00:17:47.660 --> 00:17:50.150
one that's not, you know, It's not their own.

00:17:50.190 --> 00:17:53.049
That's just totally alien to them. It was impossible.

00:17:53.930 --> 00:17:56.309
And the shield -bearer forces under her control

00:17:56.309 --> 00:17:59.289
were nothing compared to this horde. And she

00:17:59.289 --> 00:18:01.990
just had to sit by and watch, helplessly, as

00:18:01.990 --> 00:18:06.190
her world was torn apart. Until a miracle happened.

00:18:06.430 --> 00:18:10.470
Until the heavens opened up. Until the first

00:18:10.470 --> 00:18:14.289
recording of a larger -than -life hero saving

00:18:14.289 --> 00:18:17.619
the day happened. Because one of those diamond

00:18:17.619 --> 00:18:20.460
recorders, a diamond blessed by the Radiant Citadel,

00:18:20.619 --> 00:18:24.660
by the Auroral Diamond, captured the moment when

00:18:24.660 --> 00:18:29.140
Atash dropped from the heavens with his angel

00:18:29.140 --> 00:18:32.299
companions and led the forces of Ankur and Singhar

00:18:32.299 --> 00:18:35.640
back against the Horned Demon, driving the darkness

00:18:35.640 --> 00:18:39.859
away. Since then, Atash has ruled Ankur and Singhar.

00:18:40.059 --> 00:18:42.140
He's been given free reign to essentially rule

00:18:42.140 --> 00:18:45.009
how he wants. Despite what the Citadel and what

00:18:45.009 --> 00:18:47.769
Sholay says. And there are many who believe his

00:18:47.769 --> 00:18:52.710
rule to be a little draconian. But nobody, nobody

00:18:52.710 --> 00:18:56.329
can say that Atash is not the greatest luminary.

00:18:56.549 --> 00:19:00.569
The most powerful. The Hand of the Sunweaver.

00:19:00.809 --> 00:19:02.650
Sounds like a whole lot more than just a luminary.

00:19:02.890 --> 00:19:06.230
He's big. And many heroes wanted to emulate this.

00:19:06.490 --> 00:19:10.230
Wanted to be that big, grand, day -saving badass.

00:19:10.890 --> 00:19:14.119
And... More of these scenes are recorded on various

00:19:14.119 --> 00:19:16.900
worlds and more heroes came to light. One of

00:19:16.900 --> 00:19:20.599
the first being Ozen Yoshikatsu of Umizu. In

00:19:20.599 --> 00:19:23.839
an early episode, I think I said Yonido. My notes

00:19:23.839 --> 00:19:27.940
are a disaster. It's Umizu. But yeah, he was

00:19:27.940 --> 00:19:29.859
one of the first to sort of follow in on Tasha's

00:19:29.859 --> 00:19:32.019
footsteps to be recorded saving the day in a

00:19:32.019 --> 00:19:35.960
big way and to become this world's wide phenomenon.

00:19:36.339 --> 00:19:40.299
But you know that Shoei has always despised the

00:19:40.299 --> 00:19:44.269
luminary movement. You don't know entirely her

00:19:44.269 --> 00:19:46.410
reasoning. She's never been clear with you. But

00:19:46.410 --> 00:19:49.210
you talked about these figurines you have. And

00:19:49.210 --> 00:19:50.950
Shirley does not visit you often, but I think

00:19:50.950 --> 00:19:53.970
when she does, you hide those figurines. I think

00:19:53.970 --> 00:19:55.990
when she's around, you don't talk about the luminaries.

00:19:56.049 --> 00:19:58.869
I think it's a very uncomfortable sort of knowing.

00:19:58.950 --> 00:20:01.230
She's aware that you have this admiration for

00:20:01.230 --> 00:20:05.210
them, for Atash. She doesn't talk about it. Not

00:20:05.210 --> 00:20:08.230
normally. It's a whole lot for a natural 17.

00:20:08.910 --> 00:20:11.089
I was looking for a DC -15 just to get some background

00:20:11.089 --> 00:20:14.150
on the luminaries, Atash, all that. We needed

00:20:14.150 --> 00:20:16.910
it. The people needed that good roll. I liked

00:20:16.910 --> 00:20:19.930
it. Yeah, we need that leeway in other rolling

00:20:19.930 --> 00:20:24.789
situations. But you're kind of like reflecting

00:20:24.789 --> 00:20:27.869
on all of this as you see Sholay just glaring

00:20:27.869 --> 00:20:29.589
towards Atash. And then you see your eyes just

00:20:29.589 --> 00:20:33.210
flicker right down to you. And I think you feel

00:20:33.210 --> 00:20:36.809
cold as that gaze hits you. Yeah, especially

00:20:36.809 --> 00:20:39.680
if... You said that she sought me out. I think

00:20:39.680 --> 00:20:43.319
that in itself makes Zebulon fairly nervous.

00:20:43.720 --> 00:20:45.619
Yeah, I mean, imagine you're probably over here

00:20:45.619 --> 00:20:47.920
watching all this, kind of admiring the luminaries,

00:20:47.920 --> 00:20:49.940
and suddenly you just kind of feel a presence

00:20:49.940 --> 00:20:52.960
next to you. And Sholay's just stood there silently

00:20:52.960 --> 00:20:55.599
for a while, and you know she has something to

00:20:55.599 --> 00:20:59.140
say, and you know she's just waiting. She's a

00:20:59.140 --> 00:21:00.920
politician. She knows how to make people uncomfortable.

00:21:01.420 --> 00:21:03.079
Yeah, she's making me uncomfortable. Well, she's

00:21:03.079 --> 00:21:06.079
making Zebulon uncomfortable. She's making...

00:21:06.509 --> 00:21:09.289
me uncomfortable. Jules uncomfortable and he

00:21:09.289 --> 00:21:10.849
doesn't know what the hell's going on. He's not

00:21:10.849 --> 00:21:13.690
even here. He's wherever the hell he is and he's

00:21:13.690 --> 00:21:19.710
like, oh, shit's going down. She glances over

00:21:19.710 --> 00:21:22.450
to you and stares at you for a moment and then

00:21:22.450 --> 00:21:28.009
just finally says, so, why were you here? Why

00:21:28.009 --> 00:21:31.250
were you on Tythos? I was just trying to help.

00:21:31.950 --> 00:21:36.549
Why? You thought that you Could do good for these

00:21:36.549 --> 00:21:40.029
people. You thought that you could make the situation

00:21:40.029 --> 00:21:43.349
better by being there? Well, it's the right thing

00:21:43.349 --> 00:21:48.710
to do. No, it isn't. The right thing to do is

00:21:48.710 --> 00:21:52.750
to let the Shieldbearers do their jobs. Are you

00:21:52.750 --> 00:21:56.930
a trained Shieldbearer, Zebulon? Well, not yet,

00:21:56.990 --> 00:22:00.930
but I could learn to become one. I don't think

00:22:00.930 --> 00:22:05.299
you could. I don't think you could learn to follow

00:22:05.299 --> 00:22:12.480
orders like your brother does. People were dying.

00:22:12.839 --> 00:22:17.359
They were. I don't think that's why you went.

00:22:17.680 --> 00:22:20.019
You didn't know the situation. You just knew

00:22:20.019 --> 00:22:23.619
there was danger. And you knew the luminaries

00:22:23.619 --> 00:22:27.519
were rallying. Didn't you? I just wanted to help

00:22:27.519 --> 00:22:37.210
Arlon. Is that right? I... I admire him. You

00:22:37.210 --> 00:22:42.049
should. Not because he's strong or big or brave,

00:22:42.089 --> 00:22:47.690
but because he's sensible, Zebulon. Do you understand

00:22:47.690 --> 00:22:52.710
that? Do you understand how to be sensible? Because

00:22:52.710 --> 00:22:54.829
I'll tell you I'm very disappointed, not just

00:22:54.829 --> 00:22:57.990
in you, but in your brother. Because in bringing

00:22:57.990 --> 00:23:01.259
you... To Tithos, he did something very, very

00:23:01.259 --> 00:23:06.779
not sensible. I asked him. It's not his fault.

00:23:07.420 --> 00:23:10.920
I don't agree, but we will deal with that matter

00:23:10.920 --> 00:23:14.299
later. I'm speaking with you now. And I want

00:23:14.299 --> 00:23:17.819
you to understand one thing. She gestures her

00:23:17.819 --> 00:23:22.220
finger out towards Atash. That is not for you.

00:23:22.839 --> 00:23:27.569
It's not for you. Do you understand? Because

00:23:27.569 --> 00:23:30.890
you know nothing of this world. And that's my

00:23:30.890 --> 00:23:34.130
fault, perhaps. I've kept you cooped up. I've

00:23:34.130 --> 00:23:38.190
kept you safe. Far be it for me to try to keep

00:23:38.190 --> 00:23:42.309
my family safe. But now I have raised these fools

00:23:42.309 --> 00:23:47.430
who go around doing what they please, following

00:23:47.430 --> 00:23:50.309
who they please, and never thinking for a moment.

00:23:54.380 --> 00:23:56.160
She presses a hand to her forehead and just kind

00:23:56.160 --> 00:24:00.799
of rubs. You're not going to be like them. No

00:24:00.799 --> 00:24:03.640
brass will ever be a luminary. You understand

00:24:03.640 --> 00:24:14.059
this. Right? No brass. Right. Good. I want you

00:24:14.059 --> 00:24:19.579
to go home now. I want you to stay home. I will

00:24:19.579 --> 00:24:23.220
have food sent. I'll have your needs covered.

00:24:25.039 --> 00:24:28.099
For the time being, you will not leave until

00:24:28.099 --> 00:24:33.599
I send a message allowing you to. I think it's

00:24:33.599 --> 00:24:37.680
time I take a more direct approach to your upbringing,

00:24:37.900 --> 00:24:42.220
Zebulon. What should I do? Watch the network.

00:24:43.519 --> 00:24:46.859
Watch your brother. Maybe learn something. I

00:24:46.859 --> 00:24:49.599
don't care what you do. Maybe meditate quietly

00:24:49.599 --> 00:24:52.400
and think about how much of a fool you've been

00:24:52.400 --> 00:24:58.269
today. How? I'll try not to burden you anymore,

00:24:58.450 --> 00:25:03.390
shall I, Grandmother? She just gives you a short,

00:25:03.509 --> 00:25:07.710
terse nod, turns around. You see her just, like,

00:25:07.730 --> 00:25:13.329
walk over to the edge of the citadel and transforms

00:25:13.329 --> 00:25:19.309
from her petite female figure into a massive,

00:25:19.390 --> 00:25:24.170
gargantuan brass dragon and just... with one

00:25:24.170 --> 00:25:28.990
flap of her wings just takes off. Hewn, I won't

00:25:28.990 --> 00:25:36.069
be your problem any longer. And with that, we

00:25:36.069 --> 00:25:40.369
just phase back through those eyes, looking at

00:25:40.369 --> 00:25:42.789
the static to Zebulon in his apartment three

00:25:42.789 --> 00:25:46.210
days later. And I want to ask you now, is there

00:25:46.210 --> 00:25:47.710
anything else that's happened in these three

00:25:47.710 --> 00:25:49.690
days that you've been asked to just stay at home?

00:25:50.509 --> 00:25:55.359
Zebulon has been... Zebulon's been quietly preparing

00:25:55.359 --> 00:25:58.740
and packing to leave when he thinks the time

00:25:58.740 --> 00:26:05.500
is right. Wow. He wants to get out of his family's

00:26:05.500 --> 00:26:11.000
way. Wow. He not only feels like he's been an

00:26:11.000 --> 00:26:14.759
unfair burden to his brother, but he also thinks

00:26:14.759 --> 00:26:19.400
that it's time for him to earn his own freedom

00:26:19.400 --> 00:26:25.000
and independence. Damn. And it's so sad because

00:26:25.000 --> 00:26:27.420
you live with your brother in this small place

00:26:27.420 --> 00:26:30.940
and he hasn't said a word. He hasn't noticed

00:26:30.940 --> 00:26:33.740
anything. He's just been staring at that wall

00:26:33.740 --> 00:26:36.440
when he's awake. Every once in a while, he just

00:26:36.440 --> 00:26:42.579
mumbles, Shadrakhan, Shadrakhan, who are you?

00:26:42.900 --> 00:26:47.900
What are you? Just taps at various pieces on

00:26:47.900 --> 00:26:53.759
his wall. And wow. um i'll tell you one more

00:26:53.759 --> 00:26:56.680
thing that's happened in this span of time zebulon

00:26:56.680 --> 00:27:00.519
is now level two hey yeah uh anything particularly

00:27:00.519 --> 00:27:03.460
exciting about that to share like uh for instance

00:27:03.460 --> 00:27:05.920
your class i don't think we've gotten into this

00:27:05.920 --> 00:27:09.599
yet um yeah i've revealed zebulon's class have

00:27:09.599 --> 00:27:12.140
you okay yeah all right all right uh nothing

00:27:12.140 --> 00:27:16.059
really exciting happened for uh level two rogue

00:27:16.059 --> 00:27:19.920
here but um We do need to roll hit points. Oh,

00:27:20.059 --> 00:27:22.519
that's right. Yeah. You want to do it now? Yeah,

00:27:22.599 --> 00:27:25.420
I want to do it now. Okay. All right. So what

00:27:25.420 --> 00:27:27.339
we're going to do for the first few levels here.

00:27:27.519 --> 00:27:29.900
Yeah. Maybe for a while. I don't know. We're

00:27:29.900 --> 00:27:31.859
going to see how balance feels. But right now,

00:27:31.880 --> 00:27:33.160
I'm going to let you roll with advantage. You're

00:27:33.160 --> 00:27:34.900
going to roll one, and I'm going to roll one,

00:27:34.940 --> 00:27:36.720
and you take the higher. Okay. And how do you

00:27:36.720 --> 00:27:40.220
feel about re -rolling ones since we're only

00:27:40.220 --> 00:27:43.299
two characters? Tell you what. You're such a

00:27:43.299 --> 00:27:47.539
garbage character. Wow. And player. Ouch. Then

00:27:47.539 --> 00:27:49.500
I'm going to allow it. Okay. I mean, it kind

00:27:49.500 --> 00:27:53.299
of feels like a win, but... All right. I'm just

00:27:53.299 --> 00:27:57.319
going to roll my d8 now. I got a five. Five is

00:27:57.319 --> 00:28:01.119
pretty good. Can I get better than a five? Six.

00:28:01.279 --> 00:28:02.920
That's a six. Pretty good. That's better than

00:28:02.920 --> 00:28:04.420
a five. Okay. All right. I'm going to take it.

00:28:04.460 --> 00:28:06.940
Take that six hit points. All right. Well, that's

00:28:06.940 --> 00:28:11.019
Zebulon. I want to slide it over to old Jules

00:28:11.019 --> 00:28:14.549
LaRoche now. Jules, your situation is a lot more

00:28:14.549 --> 00:28:17.130
complicated to get into than Zebulon's. Quite.

00:28:18.410 --> 00:28:23.190
You are currently in this large sort of domed

00:28:23.190 --> 00:28:27.170
building. There's many sort of sub rooms and

00:28:27.170 --> 00:28:29.210
buildings all around it. It's called the Palace

00:28:29.210 --> 00:28:33.410
of Exile. It exists on the Citadel. Okay. It

00:28:33.410 --> 00:28:35.670
is generally where refugees are sent. There's

00:28:35.670 --> 00:28:37.549
a whole history to this place. We don't need

00:28:37.549 --> 00:28:40.299
to get into it. Right now, though, I mean, this

00:28:40.299 --> 00:28:44.700
used to be a very, very esteemed place. They

00:28:44.700 --> 00:28:46.519
used to take good care of people that were sent

00:28:46.519 --> 00:28:54.500
this way. But, I mean, 5 ,383 refugees, most

00:28:54.500 --> 00:28:58.619
of which had to be funneled right here. The world's

00:28:58.619 --> 00:29:01.079
in a tough place right now. I mean, we just talked

00:29:01.079 --> 00:29:03.359
about this. Typhos was the most populous, most

00:29:03.359 --> 00:29:06.640
economically stable world, the safest world.

00:29:08.740 --> 00:29:11.240
constant lurking dangers, mysterious dangers

00:29:11.240 --> 00:29:16.299
in like every other world in the setting. People

00:29:16.299 --> 00:29:18.960
can't just take refugees. Even a hundred is a

00:29:18.960 --> 00:29:21.259
lot to ask. I don't know how safe it was. That

00:29:21.259 --> 00:29:23.640
depends on your definition of safe. It does.

00:29:24.680 --> 00:29:28.180
But as far as the people here know, it was, well,

00:29:28.339 --> 00:29:31.140
it was paradise. Yeah, that's a thin veil though.

00:29:31.740 --> 00:29:33.880
When you are the most economically prosperous

00:29:33.880 --> 00:29:38.960
world, you're allowed certain allowances. The

00:29:38.960 --> 00:29:43.759
law is not looking too closely to the civil rights

00:29:43.759 --> 00:29:46.960
of the folk on Tythos. Lots of things can hide

00:29:46.960 --> 00:29:50.700
in the darkness. Oh, yeah. I think you're thinking

00:29:50.700 --> 00:29:52.279
about that a lot, Jules. You're thinking a lot

00:29:52.279 --> 00:29:56.240
about how maybe the Citadel treats people equally,

00:29:56.319 --> 00:30:00.759
you know, out in the open. Maybe the shield bearers

00:30:00.759 --> 00:30:03.319
took everyone they could. That doesn't change

00:30:03.319 --> 00:30:08.619
the fact that only 362 Of these refugees were

00:30:08.619 --> 00:30:12.819
from the low city. Drop in the bucket. Doesn't

00:30:12.819 --> 00:30:15.119
change the fact that for your entire life, you

00:30:15.119 --> 00:30:17.740
and your people, the people you chose to belong

00:30:17.740 --> 00:30:21.539
with, were treated like dirt. The governing body

00:30:21.539 --> 00:30:25.480
of the Radiant Citadel, overlooking and caretaking

00:30:25.480 --> 00:30:30.579
for all worlds, just ignored it. Let the royals

00:30:30.579 --> 00:30:34.779
of Tythos do what they wanted. You are... It's

00:30:34.779 --> 00:30:37.299
resting amongst a large group of your people.

00:30:37.359 --> 00:30:41.480
I mentioned the 200 or 362. They're all basically

00:30:41.480 --> 00:30:45.279
together here. Normally you'd come to this place.

00:30:45.319 --> 00:30:47.759
People would have their own rooms. They'd be

00:30:47.759 --> 00:30:50.700
well taken care of, well fed, all of that. Right

00:30:50.700 --> 00:30:53.640
now, it's just like chaos. There's this large

00:30:53.640 --> 00:30:59.099
sort of main dorm room, domed room that is just.

00:30:59.740 --> 00:31:02.099
packed full of people there's tents everywhere

00:31:02.099 --> 00:31:05.259
and you've noticed that this same sort of uh

00:31:05.259 --> 00:31:07.500
segregation you faced all your life has been

00:31:07.500 --> 00:31:09.519
kind of happening naturally here too all the

00:31:09.519 --> 00:31:11.960
low city folk with their their bent backs and

00:31:11.960 --> 00:31:15.980
their weeping sad eyes and their just their broken

00:31:15.980 --> 00:31:21.460
lives are are here they're here with you all

00:31:21.460 --> 00:31:25.319
packed together in one corner it's a dome room

00:31:25.319 --> 00:31:31.930
in one Pie slice. There we go. Got it. Got it,

00:31:31.930 --> 00:31:38.089
Stephen? Yeah, okay. So Stephen is currently

00:31:38.089 --> 00:31:41.009
destroying Jeremy's room. Nothing to see here.

00:31:41.490 --> 00:31:45.150
There's everything to see here. So, yeah, let's

00:31:45.150 --> 00:31:49.769
talk about your situation here because you've

00:31:49.769 --> 00:31:51.809
been eating. You've been getting all the food

00:31:51.809 --> 00:31:56.089
and water you've needed. Mulligan has been complaining

00:31:56.089 --> 00:31:59.329
a lot. He'd like a little more. Yeah, I was going

00:31:59.329 --> 00:32:02.250
to say, how many rolls did he get? Oh, I mean.

00:32:02.609 --> 00:32:05.549
They got to give a minimum four. I mean, there's

00:32:05.549 --> 00:32:07.410
some rolls. He's gotten like maybe two today.

00:32:07.809 --> 00:32:10.589
That's horse shit. Yeah, well. This is a travesty.

00:32:10.589 --> 00:32:12.789
This will not stand. There's a lot of travesties

00:32:12.789 --> 00:32:16.130
happening. That will not stand, man. And yeah,

00:32:16.170 --> 00:32:18.549
I want to talk about your few days. But first,

00:32:18.589 --> 00:32:20.470
I want to talk about you. You're sitting here.

00:32:20.529 --> 00:32:22.710
You're watching this broadcast. You're watching

00:32:22.710 --> 00:32:25.349
the static. And the light is still just kind

00:32:25.349 --> 00:32:28.289
of reflecting onto your face and onto the faces

00:32:28.289 --> 00:32:32.549
of the cherry delights all around you. Jeans

00:32:32.549 --> 00:32:36.430
is pretty much fully recovered. But there's just

00:32:36.430 --> 00:32:40.529
this heavy sadness to them. Your world is gone.

00:32:40.589 --> 00:32:42.950
And maybe it wasn't the best world for you, but

00:32:42.950 --> 00:32:47.690
it's the only one you had. And now you're almost

00:32:47.690 --> 00:32:51.269
prisoners. You can't just go off to another world.

00:32:51.329 --> 00:32:52.970
The Citadel doesn't allow you to just leave.

00:32:53.609 --> 00:32:56.910
They're going to place you somewhere. And until

00:32:56.910 --> 00:32:58.990
that time, the shield bearers have been watching.

00:32:59.849 --> 00:33:02.710
They've been watching your folk extra close.

00:33:02.950 --> 00:33:05.769
I've been watching them too. I watch, I learn.

00:33:06.089 --> 00:33:08.630
I think right now we just see Jules sitting there

00:33:08.630 --> 00:33:13.589
under like some great tarp with a bunch of people

00:33:13.589 --> 00:33:16.109
kind of crammed in behind him. We zoom in on

00:33:16.109 --> 00:33:21.910
Jules' eyes and we move back to that moment.

00:33:22.569 --> 00:33:26.150
Three days ago, you just saw the conquered jewel,

00:33:26.349 --> 00:33:29.970
the sapphire, disappear into the maw of the storm.

00:33:30.809 --> 00:33:34.029
And immediately, the refugees of Tythos have

00:33:34.029 --> 00:33:37.329
all been kind of wrangled up in one way, lined

00:33:37.329 --> 00:33:40.130
up, basically just the shield bearers getting

00:33:40.130 --> 00:33:42.069
to work to try to control the situation, try

00:33:42.069 --> 00:33:45.829
to move you to a place you can belong, I guess.

00:33:47.789 --> 00:33:49.529
I want you to roll a perception check for me,

00:33:49.569 --> 00:33:51.569
because you're going to see a few things, but

00:33:51.569 --> 00:33:53.390
how many you see is going to depend on this check.

00:33:53.609 --> 00:33:55.529
Because I like to think that Jules, while he's

00:33:55.529 --> 00:33:58.589
being lined up, is keeping his eyes open, is

00:33:58.589 --> 00:34:02.829
watching. That's a 10. Okay, all right. With

00:34:02.829 --> 00:34:07.230
a 10, you see a couple things. First of all,

00:34:07.230 --> 00:34:10.690
you see that somewhere in the chaos escaping

00:34:10.690 --> 00:34:14.469
this... The sapphire, when you're being pulled

00:34:14.469 --> 00:34:17.349
off by the luminaries, either taking the bridge

00:34:17.349 --> 00:34:19.929
out or going through the portals made by Fu Liling,

00:34:20.110 --> 00:34:24.349
Chester managed to scrounge up a little something

00:34:24.349 --> 00:34:27.849
for you. Oh. Something you recognized in your

00:34:27.849 --> 00:34:30.829
past because a lot of your parents' riches were

00:34:30.829 --> 00:34:33.650
brought aboard the sapphire and did not make

00:34:33.650 --> 00:34:38.489
it off. But one did. Chester presents you with

00:34:38.489 --> 00:34:44.210
a loot. What's this loot look like? It's a fine

00:34:44.210 --> 00:34:47.909
piece of work. It's pretty damn fine. It's not

00:34:47.909 --> 00:34:50.230
something that I would necessarily have chosen,

00:34:50.289 --> 00:34:53.289
you know, now. It was kind of, you know, just

00:34:53.289 --> 00:34:55.309
kind of forced upon me when I was a kid, you

00:34:55.309 --> 00:34:57.969
know. A little too fine ornate for the current

00:34:57.969 --> 00:35:00.489
Jules LaRoche? A little bit, a little bit. Jules

00:35:00.489 --> 00:35:07.070
LaRoche wanted to play Batuba. Yeah, no, my parents

00:35:07.070 --> 00:35:10.360
gave it to me when I was six. So I didn't really

00:35:10.360 --> 00:35:12.400
have a choice in the matter, but like I said,

00:35:12.460 --> 00:35:15.059
it's beautiful. No, it's made from some really

00:35:15.059 --> 00:35:18.400
fine Atagwin Dreamwood. Ooh, Atagwin Dreamwood,

00:35:18.440 --> 00:35:20.619
huh? Yeah, pretty hard to get, pretty hard to

00:35:20.619 --> 00:35:22.760
get. Oh, yeah, that's some nice stuff. You know,

00:35:22.800 --> 00:35:26.119
I like the design, you know. It's down in the

00:35:26.119 --> 00:35:28.860
main part of it. It's got these really nice dark,

00:35:28.920 --> 00:35:32.420
like, midnight blue, purple, black swirlies,

00:35:32.440 --> 00:35:35.519
and it's got a lot of glitter, too, which I kind

00:35:35.519 --> 00:35:38.469
of like. It's pretty fun. It's pretty fun. Like

00:35:38.469 --> 00:35:40.989
in the finish, the glitter? Yep. Nice. Like when

00:35:40.989 --> 00:35:42.409
you're looking at it, it kind of looks like,

00:35:42.409 --> 00:35:44.289
I don't know if you've ever read that science

00:35:44.289 --> 00:35:46.929
fiction novel about that guy, Vincent van Gogh.

00:35:49.429 --> 00:35:51.849
It kind of looks like that. There's a thing in

00:35:51.849 --> 00:35:54.429
there that he does called Starry Night. It kind

00:35:54.429 --> 00:35:59.090
of looks like that. So question about the glitter.

00:35:59.469 --> 00:36:02.909
Is the glitter in the finish or is it in the

00:36:02.909 --> 00:36:05.329
dream wood? Oh, it's the dream wood, baby. Yeah.

00:36:05.929 --> 00:36:09.039
I like the sound of that. I like the idea of,

00:36:09.039 --> 00:36:13.539
like, maybe the way that dreamwood grows, it,

00:36:13.619 --> 00:36:18.380
like, as it reaches a certain age, it compacts

00:36:18.380 --> 00:36:22.139
its own resin into these little, like, glitter

00:36:22.139 --> 00:36:26.119
-like flakes throughout the wood. That's about

00:36:26.119 --> 00:36:28.840
right. That's about right. And we'll learn later

00:36:28.840 --> 00:36:31.320
on the world of Atagua has some connections to

00:36:31.320 --> 00:36:35.039
the Feywild, and this wood definitely sort of...

00:36:36.139 --> 00:36:41.219
materializes that connection. It sort of blooms,

00:36:41.219 --> 00:36:43.539
or these trees grow, where the connection with

00:36:43.539 --> 00:36:46.440
the Feywild is felt the strongest in the deepest

00:36:46.440 --> 00:36:52.440
heart of the woods, forests of Ottawa. So I guess

00:36:52.440 --> 00:36:55.099
now that we're talking about my loot, I guess

00:36:55.099 --> 00:36:59.679
I can let you all know that Jules here, I'm a

00:36:59.679 --> 00:37:05.260
bard. Got that... Got that little creative spark

00:37:05.260 --> 00:37:09.320
in me, a little fun, a little mischievous. Huzzah!

00:37:09.539 --> 00:37:14.380
A little bit of music. The hills are alive with

00:37:14.380 --> 00:37:18.860
the sound of the jewels. Oh, gosh. Oh, no. So,

00:37:18.860 --> 00:37:23.960
yes, I do have to ask, does Jules get level two

00:37:23.960 --> 00:37:27.260
as well? Jules absolutely hits level two. Fuck

00:37:27.260 --> 00:37:30.900
yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we're going to go over,

00:37:31.000 --> 00:37:34.159
like, those... few days you'll have and sort

00:37:34.159 --> 00:37:38.179
of what works into that. But yeah, so you get

00:37:38.179 --> 00:37:40.440
that loot. I think Chester hands it off to you

00:37:40.440 --> 00:37:44.019
and just says, Jules, this is the one, right?

00:37:44.260 --> 00:37:46.239
You mentioned this a few times and I saw it on

00:37:46.239 --> 00:37:49.639
the wagon. This is yours, right? Oh shit, that

00:37:49.639 --> 00:37:51.920
made it? Yeah, it looks like your folks were

00:37:51.920 --> 00:37:54.519
taking it off. Why did they even save this thing

00:37:54.519 --> 00:37:56.639
anyway? I mean, I bet it sells for a pretty penny.

00:37:56.860 --> 00:38:00.179
Oh yeah, you're right. Always thinking about

00:38:00.179 --> 00:38:02.719
the money. They got no other reason to keep it.

00:38:02.780 --> 00:38:05.599
It doesn't mean shit to them. Still, we didn't

00:38:05.599 --> 00:38:08.039
sell it yet, right? Had all these years. Well,

00:38:08.039 --> 00:38:09.179
they're not going to get a chance to because

00:38:09.179 --> 00:38:12.940
I'm taking it back. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Sneak

00:38:12.940 --> 00:38:15.519
it right by the guard. The big guy, as he kind

00:38:15.519 --> 00:38:17.500
of like says that he like his eyes flicker down,

00:38:17.579 --> 00:38:19.900
he sort of scans around and you see like, you

00:38:19.900 --> 00:38:22.099
know, different forces of the shield bears are

00:38:22.099 --> 00:38:24.300
moving in to kind of move your group. I think

00:38:24.300 --> 00:38:26.139
you've all been kind of like placed in different.

00:38:27.690 --> 00:38:29.570
You know, large clusters of shield -bearers kind

00:38:29.570 --> 00:38:33.050
of gathering folk and, you know, groups to lead

00:38:33.050 --> 00:38:34.849
further into the city, but rather than marching

00:38:34.849 --> 00:38:37.610
a massive line of thousands of people at once,

00:38:37.610 --> 00:38:39.469
they're taking them bit by bit, letting them

00:38:39.469 --> 00:38:41.650
settle in the Palace of Exile, where you've been

00:38:41.650 --> 00:38:44.630
informed you'll be residing for the foreseeable

00:38:44.630 --> 00:38:48.750
future, and that a representative from the Speakers

00:38:48.750 --> 00:38:51.789
for the Ancestors will be overseeing where you

00:38:51.789 --> 00:38:54.849
all go. Nobody's going to dictate that but me.

00:38:55.010 --> 00:38:58.400
Oh. Afraid that's not necessarily true, Jules,

00:38:58.400 --> 00:39:00.539
because that perception check will show you one

00:39:00.539 --> 00:39:04.400
more thing. I think you do see your folks, see

00:39:04.400 --> 00:39:06.199
your parents, kind of like, at some point, like,

00:39:06.260 --> 00:39:08.079
during all the chaos, I think you finally, from

00:39:08.079 --> 00:39:10.800
far off, you'd see them. They're led by a group

00:39:10.800 --> 00:39:12.659
of shield bearers, kind of on their own. There's

00:39:12.659 --> 00:39:15.340
another group kind of trailing behind them, a

00:39:15.340 --> 00:39:20.880
bunch of, looks like folk from Senza, all, like,

00:39:20.940 --> 00:39:23.989
sort of dressed in... Very different sort of

00:39:23.989 --> 00:39:26.889
flowing robes than the general style of dress

00:39:26.889 --> 00:39:30.409
from your world, all with very dark skin, very

00:39:30.409 --> 00:39:32.530
close -cropped hair. You remember that there

00:39:32.530 --> 00:39:35.949
was architects from Senza mentioned to you earlier

00:39:35.949 --> 00:39:38.829
on. This is where Chester had made a little bit

00:39:38.829 --> 00:39:41.389
of a score early this morning. And what feels

00:39:41.389 --> 00:39:45.550
like a hundred years ago, he'd found these people

00:39:45.550 --> 00:39:48.030
and done some pickpocketing, done some fine work,

00:39:48.309 --> 00:39:51.389
made a little cash. Always doing fine work, that

00:39:51.389 --> 00:39:54.420
Chester. But you see them trailing after your

00:39:54.420 --> 00:39:58.960
parents and your parents go and meet with a figure

00:39:58.960 --> 00:40:02.820
that rushes over and sort of grabs your father

00:40:02.820 --> 00:40:07.800
in a hug. I think your father is, he looks enraged

00:40:07.800 --> 00:40:11.019
and his cheeks redder than usual. He's sweating

00:40:11.019 --> 00:40:13.940
more than usual, which is incredible. That's

00:40:13.940 --> 00:40:17.860
not possible. His clothes are soaked with it.

00:40:17.940 --> 00:40:20.119
He might be crying, blubbering a little bit.

00:40:20.300 --> 00:40:22.000
I mean, this has been a big day for him. Nah.

00:40:22.400 --> 00:40:24.960
You don't think so? No. I'll tell you one thing,

00:40:25.000 --> 00:40:27.739
though. Your mother. They lost all their, like,

00:40:27.739 --> 00:40:31.599
worldly possessions. Yeah, but they'd never show

00:40:31.599 --> 00:40:33.800
it to anybody else but themselves. Okay. All

00:40:33.800 --> 00:40:37.099
right. They wouldn't show it. Wow. Unflappable.

00:40:37.139 --> 00:40:38.699
Because I'm guessing there's not, like, a central

00:40:38.699 --> 00:40:42.019
banking system. No, but they cry alone. They

00:40:42.019 --> 00:40:45.699
cry alone. All alone. If your mother even cries.

00:40:46.079 --> 00:40:48.000
I think when you see her, she's just got that

00:40:48.000 --> 00:40:52.349
same hateful gaze. She's looking around. That

00:40:52.349 --> 00:40:55.530
gaze never drops. Oh, yeah. And right now that

00:40:55.530 --> 00:40:59.329
gaze is met by essentially the exact same gaze

00:40:59.329 --> 00:41:01.590
coming back from this figure that has met them.

00:41:02.550 --> 00:41:05.949
Now, I don't think you've seen Cirilla LaRoche

00:41:05.949 --> 00:41:10.190
for years and years and years because she has

00:41:10.190 --> 00:41:13.389
been a speaker for the ancestors, the speaker

00:41:13.389 --> 00:41:17.449
for Tythos on the Citadel for, well, a lot of

00:41:17.449 --> 00:41:19.590
your life. That bitch. What does she look like?

00:41:20.119 --> 00:41:25.179
I don't know. Don't put me on the spot. I will

00:41:25.179 --> 00:41:27.480
say, I think she looks similar to your mother

00:41:27.480 --> 00:41:31.159
with the same cold eyes, maybe similar hair,

00:41:31.260 --> 00:41:33.119
but close cropped. She looks like she's trying

00:41:33.119 --> 00:41:36.519
to be my mother. Okay. Down to the way she does

00:41:36.519 --> 00:41:40.400
her hair, even her nails. Wow. Okay. To her,

00:41:40.420 --> 00:41:44.719
my mother is a god. Yeah, so just this much younger

00:41:44.719 --> 00:41:47.530
version of your mother. charges out, maybe hugs

00:41:47.530 --> 00:41:49.650
your father, hugs your mother, and I think you're

00:41:49.650 --> 00:41:52.269
even thinking this is just a show. You know?

00:41:52.710 --> 00:41:55.670
They wouldn't be displaying this familial love

00:41:55.670 --> 00:41:57.769
out in the open normally, but it looks good.

00:41:57.989 --> 00:42:00.389
It looks damn good. There's paparazzi guild members

00:42:00.389 --> 00:42:03.869
are, you know, got their diamond recorders watching

00:42:03.869 --> 00:42:06.389
them. It's all for the press. Oh yeah. All for

00:42:06.389 --> 00:42:08.530
the press. Gotta get on the front page. They

00:42:08.530 --> 00:42:13.539
are eating it up! Um... Yeah, so you're witnessing

00:42:13.539 --> 00:42:16.539
that, and I think this cold dread suddenly hits

00:42:16.539 --> 00:42:19.800
you because you realize that the speaker for

00:42:19.800 --> 00:42:23.519
the ancestors that's going to be deciding where

00:42:23.519 --> 00:42:29.219
your people go from here is Cirilla, your cousin.

00:42:29.679 --> 00:42:32.019
I don't think I've ever been more truthful in

00:42:32.019 --> 00:42:35.039
saying this than I am now, but now it's personal.

00:42:35.380 --> 00:42:39.659
Yeah, and the thing is, surrounded by shield

00:42:39.659 --> 00:42:43.289
bearers, In a foreign place? A world between

00:42:43.289 --> 00:42:47.150
worlds? Worlds that you have no access to? Without

00:42:47.150 --> 00:42:51.170
her say so? In this situation, Jules, you can't

00:42:51.170 --> 00:42:56.670
hide anymore. And you can't fight. And I think

00:42:56.670 --> 00:43:00.070
as you're thinking this, you see a man walks

00:43:00.070 --> 00:43:05.710
past your parents and speaks to the group of

00:43:05.710 --> 00:43:09.090
them, to Cirilla and to them both. And as he

00:43:09.090 --> 00:43:12.110
turns, Towards you, you see the blue and white

00:43:12.110 --> 00:43:15.489
tabard of your family. And you see Jensen Kellig.

00:43:16.809 --> 00:43:22.050
And he points right at you. Oh, horse shit. I

00:43:22.050 --> 00:43:23.250
told you you should have killed that motherfucker.

00:43:23.590 --> 00:43:26.050
People have been seeing. I mean, the press has

00:43:26.050 --> 00:43:29.210
been on you. And Jensen just kind of like points

00:43:29.210 --> 00:43:31.269
towards you. And you just kind of see Cirilla.

00:43:31.489 --> 00:43:35.389
Is he pointing toward me or actually? I mean,

00:43:35.389 --> 00:43:37.750
I guess right in your direction. You don't know

00:43:37.750 --> 00:43:42.170
exactly, but eyes do look over towards that way.

00:43:42.769 --> 00:43:46.269
And you see at the exact same moment, like twins,

00:43:46.590 --> 00:43:49.829
like looking at someone in a mirror, you see

00:43:49.829 --> 00:43:54.250
Cirilla and your mother's eyes just both narrow.

00:43:55.730 --> 00:43:58.989
And they both just kind of turn and go along

00:43:58.989 --> 00:44:00.630
with their shield -bearer guard and go deeper

00:44:00.630 --> 00:44:03.769
into the city. And I'm just sitting there. I'm

00:44:03.769 --> 00:44:06.320
not going to do anything. And we are going to

00:44:06.320 --> 00:44:08.840
fade away from that moment back into your eyes,

00:44:09.079 --> 00:44:11.840
through them, and to the eyes of a Jules Roche

00:44:11.840 --> 00:44:15.199
three days in the future, still waiting for any

00:44:15.199 --> 00:44:18.980
sort of news. A number of the people, naturally

00:44:18.980 --> 00:44:22.139
the highest first, have found places to go, but

00:44:22.139 --> 00:44:24.579
what will be left for you and yours when the

00:44:24.579 --> 00:44:28.659
time comes? A farm out in the rattle? On God's

00:44:28.659 --> 00:44:32.519
breath? Some mine on Senza? We'll find our way.

00:44:33.190 --> 00:44:36.570
We're going to prosper once again, one way or

00:44:36.570 --> 00:44:40.710
another. As this broadcast cuts off, Jules, you

00:44:40.710 --> 00:44:44.309
feel eyes sort of lingering on your neck, on

00:44:44.309 --> 00:44:46.730
the back of your head. And if you turn, you see

00:44:46.730 --> 00:44:49.829
that it's not just the Cherry Delights, but all

00:44:49.829 --> 00:44:52.289
of these people. They're all looking to you.

00:44:52.730 --> 00:44:54.489
They're all waiting for you to say something.

00:44:55.010 --> 00:44:58.889
Is there anything you want to say? I don't know

00:44:58.889 --> 00:45:02.440
what the hell just happened here. And guys, I

00:45:02.440 --> 00:45:03.760
gotta be honest, I don't know what the future

00:45:03.760 --> 00:45:07.079
holds. Right now we don't have much control.

00:45:07.800 --> 00:45:13.000
Even me. But I do know that I look around to

00:45:13.000 --> 00:45:16.699
all of you people here and I see nothing but

00:45:16.699 --> 00:45:22.179
strength and resilience. The desire to live,

00:45:22.199 --> 00:45:29.139
prosper and be happy. Whatever the cost. That's

00:45:29.139 --> 00:45:33.719
what goodness is. And that's all I see here is

00:45:33.719 --> 00:45:38.380
goodness. And goodness, it's going to prevail.

00:45:38.400 --> 00:45:44.219
You trust me. We'll get through this. We're all

00:45:44.219 --> 00:45:46.260
going to come out better on the other side. You

00:45:46.260 --> 00:45:50.599
see, like, these tearful eyes. You see people

00:45:50.599 --> 00:45:54.320
smiling. You see people nodding, fists pumping

00:45:54.320 --> 00:45:58.360
into the air. Someone's just like, patrols, we

00:45:58.360 --> 00:46:00.579
lost Tithos, we lost everything. And someone's

00:46:00.579 --> 00:46:04.699
like... Nah, you don't get it. We're Tithos.

00:46:05.179 --> 00:46:08.239
That's what he's saying. We're Tithos. And we

00:46:08.239 --> 00:46:11.880
lived on. Jules is Tithos. And he's going to

00:46:11.880 --> 00:46:14.639
lead us. You all still got a spirit, don't you?

00:46:15.119 --> 00:46:18.159
It's all you need. Yeah. And it's just like,

00:46:18.199 --> 00:46:21.619
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The Cherry Delights all

00:46:21.619 --> 00:46:25.019
just come in with like, yeah. And then Miskin

00:46:25.019 --> 00:46:28.940
in the corner just kind of nods. Batman grunt.

00:46:30.329 --> 00:46:32.030
I have emotion, but I'm not going to show it.

00:46:32.929 --> 00:46:35.630
I think Jeans comes over to your side and puts

00:46:35.630 --> 00:46:37.530
one arm around you. Chester comes around, puts

00:46:37.530 --> 00:46:39.869
his other arm on your other side. And the three

00:46:39.869 --> 00:46:41.570
of you are just standing there. I'm going to

00:46:41.570 --> 00:46:43.869
kind of put my hands on their heads, but I'm

00:46:43.869 --> 00:46:46.170
not doing it in like a condescending way. Just

00:46:46.170 --> 00:46:49.769
kind of like, yeah. And on this sort of upscale

00:46:49.769 --> 00:46:54.550
note, we're going to fade away on day three here.

00:46:55.369 --> 00:46:58.869
But what I do want to talk to you about now is...

00:46:59.550 --> 00:47:01.130
It's what you've been doing for these last few

00:47:01.130 --> 00:47:04.269
days because you are level two now. And I think

00:47:04.269 --> 00:47:06.750
another big change came with this level two.

00:47:06.789 --> 00:47:10.409
And that is you have gained access to more magic,

00:47:10.489 --> 00:47:13.570
not just the innate magic of your family, but

00:47:13.570 --> 00:47:15.889
the magic that was both granted to you by you

00:47:15.889 --> 00:47:21.289
regaining the loot and by gaining the pages of

00:47:21.289 --> 00:47:26.670
Fibrosis' collection. Yes. I did take a look

00:47:26.670 --> 00:47:29.400
at Fibro's notes the last few days. I'm kind

00:47:29.400 --> 00:47:31.980
of reading, studying. Somebody's got to do something,

00:47:32.039 --> 00:47:34.679
and up until now, I didn't have the tools to

00:47:34.679 --> 00:47:38.320
deal with it. Yeah, you had to just watch genes

00:47:38.320 --> 00:47:41.639
bleed out. You couldn't do anything. That was

00:47:41.639 --> 00:47:45.579
the first one I learned. First page I read. That's

00:47:45.579 --> 00:47:47.880
awesome. I just think that was... Cure wounds.

00:47:48.260 --> 00:47:50.400
That'll do as well. Awesome. Never going to let

00:47:50.400 --> 00:47:53.000
that happen again. I think maybe on the first

00:47:53.000 --> 00:47:56.079
day, or first or second day, however long it

00:47:56.079 --> 00:47:57.679
took you to really kind of get this nailed down.

00:47:58.159 --> 00:48:00.800
You had like some incident. I think like some

00:48:00.800 --> 00:48:03.500
fight broke out amongst people in your quadrant

00:48:03.500 --> 00:48:06.800
and someone got really hurt. Got like broken

00:48:06.800 --> 00:48:09.639
glass sticking out from like right under his

00:48:09.639 --> 00:48:12.199
shoulder, like collarbone. And he's just like

00:48:12.199 --> 00:48:14.800
bleeding. And then you just rush over. People

00:48:14.800 --> 00:48:16.539
are like screaming. They're worried. And I think

00:48:16.539 --> 00:48:19.289
you just put your hands on him and bam. What

00:48:19.289 --> 00:48:21.510
the hell kind of fight? Practice makes perfect.

00:48:21.929 --> 00:48:25.849
This is a tense situation, man. Yeah, I guess.

00:48:25.949 --> 00:48:28.090
They're using glass as weapons. I mean, like,

00:48:28.090 --> 00:48:31.289
but like, yeah, you got people, thousands of

00:48:31.289 --> 00:48:34.250
people all shoved into this tiny area. There's

00:48:34.250 --> 00:48:36.090
like some gardens around this place that have

00:48:36.090 --> 00:48:37.969
like, you know, tents everywhere. That's where

00:48:37.969 --> 00:48:40.630
the higher folk are staying. I think inside the

00:48:40.630 --> 00:48:43.889
main domed area is largely the lowest of the

00:48:43.889 --> 00:48:46.409
high city folk and the low folk because, I mean,

00:48:46.429 --> 00:48:50.179
you're not outside. You're kind of in this stuffy

00:48:50.179 --> 00:48:54.699
chamber. You're a lot less free feeling. It's

00:48:54.699 --> 00:48:58.139
just really tense in here. But let's talk about

00:48:58.139 --> 00:49:00.139
level two. What's going on with that? Yes, please.

00:49:00.400 --> 00:49:03.539
Let's talk about that. Yeah. Can I roll for HP?

00:49:03.880 --> 00:49:06.179
You can roll for HP. Thank you. And we're going

00:49:06.179 --> 00:49:07.800
to give you, even though you're a good character,

00:49:07.980 --> 00:49:10.940
the same benefit we gave Zebulon. I won't stop

00:49:10.940 --> 00:49:14.239
that. I'm going to hand you a die anyway, David,

00:49:14.340 --> 00:49:16.300
because I'm a nice guy. Yeah, he's a nice guy.

00:49:16.320 --> 00:49:17.460
He's got that going for him. I told you, goodness

00:49:17.460 --> 00:49:20.739
will prevail. Welcome back to you in spades.

00:49:21.760 --> 00:49:23.659
So why don't you go ahead and roll yours first?

00:49:24.860 --> 00:49:27.420
That's a damn d20. That would be incredible.

00:49:27.579 --> 00:49:31.119
Wow. Let's roll a d20 for HP. Wait, what is it,

00:49:31.179 --> 00:49:35.579
a d8? Yes. Make sure I got a d8, not a d12 like

00:49:35.579 --> 00:49:38.539
last time. Cool. So when the time comes, go ahead

00:49:38.539 --> 00:49:43.929
and roll your d8 first. All right. It's a three.

00:49:43.989 --> 00:49:45.690
Please roll higher than that. Oh, boy. This is

00:49:45.690 --> 00:49:52.130
wild. All right. Ready? Oh, no. Oh, no. Three

00:49:52.130 --> 00:49:55.130
HP. Plus con. Not cool. Which is probably zero.

00:49:55.349 --> 00:49:56.590
I don't know. I don't have it pulled up right

00:49:56.590 --> 00:49:58.550
now. All right. So we're going to call it three

00:49:58.550 --> 00:49:59.909
for right now, and then I'm going to go and check.

00:50:00.769 --> 00:50:04.250
Yeah, it's zero. Okay. All right. I don't know

00:50:04.250 --> 00:50:05.670
if you want to talk about what spells you gained,

00:50:05.710 --> 00:50:07.190
or you want to leave them a surprise. We know

00:50:07.190 --> 00:50:09.349
one of them. Oh, we're going to surprise. Okay.

00:50:09.429 --> 00:50:11.500
All right. We're going to surprise. All right.

00:50:11.579 --> 00:50:13.780
I know we did Zebulon already, but I think it's

00:50:13.780 --> 00:50:15.840
really important that you understand the context

00:50:15.840 --> 00:50:19.340
behind my comments towards him by Stephen. Stephen,

00:50:19.480 --> 00:50:22.260
I want you to just real quick here. You asked

00:50:22.260 --> 00:50:25.139
to roll stats. Yep. Yeah. I want you to read

00:50:25.139 --> 00:50:27.519
me off your stat numbers one by one in case we

00:50:27.519 --> 00:50:30.420
don't have the number rolling episode up. Okay.

00:50:30.599 --> 00:50:32.820
Yeah, that'll be fun for everybody. We're going

00:50:32.820 --> 00:50:35.099
to know. All right. Yeah. So we rolled stats.

00:50:36.079 --> 00:50:39.380
I'll start left to right. Yeah. It starts out

00:50:39.380 --> 00:50:44.320
all right. I assigned a 10 to strength, so it's

00:50:44.320 --> 00:50:47.599
a plus zero. 16 to dex, so I got a plus three

00:50:47.599 --> 00:50:49.340
there. Oh, good character, good character. A

00:50:49.340 --> 00:50:52.139
10 to constitution, which is a plus zero. Oof,

00:50:52.139 --> 00:50:54.699
okay. Then things start to get a little rough.

00:50:56.099 --> 00:50:59.420
I rolled a six for intelligence, which gives

00:50:59.420 --> 00:51:04.940
me a negative two. A five for wisdom, which gives

00:51:04.940 --> 00:51:08.750
me a negative three. And a nine for charisma,

00:51:08.849 --> 00:51:11.130
which gives me a negative one. I didn't realize

00:51:11.130 --> 00:51:13.530
that they could be that bad. Ladies and gentlemen,

00:51:13.610 --> 00:51:17.809
your hero. Zebulon. So good, though. It's so

00:51:17.809 --> 00:51:24.130
right. Wow. Okay. Great. So you rolled your HP.

00:51:24.250 --> 00:51:26.130
We talked about you're a bard. You're level two.

00:51:26.230 --> 00:51:29.070
You got some spells you're hiding on me. Yeah.

00:51:29.090 --> 00:51:31.389
I like it. I mean, I'm pretty sure I told them

00:51:31.389 --> 00:51:33.230
to you before, but I'm banking on the fact that

00:51:33.230 --> 00:51:36.159
you also forgot what they all were. I have so

00:51:36.159 --> 00:51:37.059
many things. I mean, I know you can actually

00:51:37.059 --> 00:51:40.099
go in and take a look. I have so many things

00:51:40.099 --> 00:51:41.960
in my brain. But this is a gentleman's game of

00:51:41.960 --> 00:51:45.900
trust. Don't worry. I have absolutely no idea.

00:51:46.320 --> 00:51:49.320
And I will never find a time to go into your

00:51:49.320 --> 00:51:52.480
character page and look at it. It'll be a pleasant

00:51:52.480 --> 00:51:55.420
surprise. I'll be happy to. It won't be pleasant

00:51:55.420 --> 00:51:58.980
for me. No, it won't. It won't. That's the game,

00:51:58.980 --> 00:52:03.309
I guess. Is the morning of the fourth day. The

00:52:03.309 --> 00:52:06.010
constant kind of guard that's been sort of all

00:52:06.010 --> 00:52:08.809
over the place, keeping an eye on you and yours,

00:52:09.010 --> 00:52:11.469
Jules, they've kind of faded off. They're not

00:52:11.469 --> 00:52:14.610
really as invested anymore. The resources can't

00:52:14.610 --> 00:52:18.090
just all be pooled in one spot. I think you guys

00:52:18.090 --> 00:52:20.570
haven't done anything to warrant it for some

00:52:20.570 --> 00:52:22.769
time. There'll be a couple scuffles here and

00:52:22.769 --> 00:52:26.150
there, but they're sort of getting more lenient,

00:52:26.150 --> 00:52:28.570
and you think, okay, if I needed to, I could

00:52:28.570 --> 00:52:30.949
get out of here, explore the Citadel. Leaving

00:52:30.949 --> 00:52:34.079
the Citadel is... Almost impossible without any

00:52:34.079 --> 00:52:40.519
kind of writ. But Zebulon, you wake up. I think

00:52:40.519 --> 00:52:42.619
Arhalon's out. He's actually on leave currently

00:52:42.619 --> 00:52:43.980
from the Shieldbearers, which is why he's been

00:52:43.980 --> 00:52:45.920
around a lot, but he's also just been out on

00:52:45.920 --> 00:52:49.719
constant walks. He didn't say a word to you.

00:52:49.760 --> 00:52:51.539
He just wasn't there when you woke up this morning.

00:52:51.760 --> 00:52:54.460
Well, then Zebulon's had three full days. This

00:52:54.460 --> 00:52:58.900
seems like as good a time as any to sneak out

00:52:58.900 --> 00:53:02.980
and make his leave. Okay. So in your case, Zebulon,

00:53:03.059 --> 00:53:06.039
you go and you grab your stuff and you're going

00:53:06.039 --> 00:53:09.699
to sneak out. And I think you go up to the door

00:53:09.699 --> 00:53:14.340
and you realize that there is an envelope under

00:53:14.340 --> 00:53:18.920
your door. All right. You'll pick it up and open

00:53:18.920 --> 00:53:21.719
it. You pick this sort of envelope. There's no

00:53:21.719 --> 00:53:23.860
writing on it at all, no seal. And you just kind

00:53:23.860 --> 00:53:28.960
of open it and you just see an opportunity awaits

00:53:28.960 --> 00:53:35.630
you. Come down to the Court of Whispers. Go to

00:53:35.630 --> 00:53:41.210
address 574. Enter the courtyard. Proceed to

00:53:41.210 --> 00:53:44.750
the back. I'll be waiting. And I'm going to guess

00:53:44.750 --> 00:53:47.809
it's not in the handwriting that I recognized?

00:53:48.289 --> 00:53:50.349
Not that you recognize, and there is no signature.

00:53:51.590 --> 00:53:55.630
Okay. Well, I guess Zebulon has a place to go,

00:53:55.690 --> 00:53:58.110
at least for now. Yeah, there you go. He's going

00:53:58.110 --> 00:54:02.739
to head straight there. Jules. When you kind

00:54:02.739 --> 00:54:04.760
of wake up and start your day, there's a bit

00:54:04.760 --> 00:54:07.559
of a kerfuffle as someone's kind of rushing through

00:54:07.559 --> 00:54:11.119
to meet you. It's Low City Folk, a younger boy,

00:54:11.239 --> 00:54:16.000
probably 14. Okay. Sort of ratty and dirty, and

00:54:16.000 --> 00:54:23.639
he knows you. His name is Jamal. You did not

00:54:23.639 --> 00:54:27.159
think of a name previous. Before this session,

00:54:27.239 --> 00:54:30.659
did you? You can't prove anything. You've seen

00:54:30.659 --> 00:54:32.519
him before, here and there, and he kind of rushes

00:54:32.519 --> 00:54:35.760
up and he's like, Hey Jules, I got this letter

00:54:35.760 --> 00:54:41.159
for you. Some fella dropped it off on the outskirts

00:54:41.159 --> 00:54:44.000
there. Do you know who it was? Who it was from?

00:54:44.280 --> 00:54:46.119
Nah, I ain't seen him before. I barely got his

00:54:46.119 --> 00:54:47.980
face, he was wearing a cloak. Did he say anything?

00:54:48.599 --> 00:54:50.860
He just said, give this to Jules LaRoche. He

00:54:50.860 --> 00:54:53.960
said he needs to see it now. How did this sound

00:54:53.960 --> 00:54:57.179
when he said it? He was like, give this to Jules

00:54:57.179 --> 00:55:00.480
LaRoche. He needs to see this now. Then he left.

00:55:00.699 --> 00:55:04.599
Is that his exact cadence? Yes. I need to know

00:55:04.599 --> 00:55:06.579
the inflections. We'll do this a little more

00:55:06.579 --> 00:55:10.360
like... Just take the letter. Fine. I gotta get

00:55:10.360 --> 00:55:12.539
breakfast. Alright, go get some breakfast. Most

00:55:12.539 --> 00:55:15.659
important meal of the day. He's gone. So, uh...

00:55:15.659 --> 00:55:22.940
I forgot it was fucking... It was around stuff.

00:55:24.019 --> 00:55:27.719
Yeah. I was trying to figure out who said that,

00:55:27.739 --> 00:55:29.760
but it was around stuff, wasn't it? Is it round

00:55:29.760 --> 00:55:32.760
stuff? Is it round stuff? This is Jamal. No,

00:55:32.780 --> 00:55:38.340
I know. I'm talking about the callback. That

00:55:38.340 --> 00:55:39.699
might have been something you said. I can't remember.

00:55:40.199 --> 00:55:43.579
All right, so I'm going to kind of... I think

00:55:43.579 --> 00:55:46.880
it was Chester 2 round stuff. Oh, it was. It

00:55:46.880 --> 00:55:48.500
was a callback. It wasn't meant. It was just

00:55:48.500 --> 00:55:51.480
me being repetitive. Episode 1. Darn it. I mean,

00:55:51.760 --> 00:55:56.320
sorry. That was a callback, and I'm smart. We'll

00:55:56.320 --> 00:55:57.920
go with that. Yeah, cut that one in. We'll go

00:55:57.920 --> 00:55:59.179
with that. Look at everything and just put that

00:55:59.179 --> 00:56:04.199
in. I'm probably going to do that. And humble.

00:56:04.760 --> 00:56:06.800
Nah, keep it. It's all right. All right. So I'm

00:56:06.800 --> 00:56:10.119
going to look down at the letter. The fuck is

00:56:10.119 --> 00:56:12.440
this? And in your case, it says something a little

00:56:12.440 --> 00:56:14.019
bit differently. All right. I'm going to open

00:56:14.019 --> 00:56:16.559
it. Almost the exact same, except rather than

00:56:16.559 --> 00:56:19.480
saying, I have an opportunity for you, it just

00:56:19.480 --> 00:56:23.599
says, I know a way you can help yourself and

00:56:23.599 --> 00:56:26.130
your people. And proceeds to tell you the same

00:56:26.130 --> 00:56:29.130
address, which I already forgot, in the Court

00:56:29.130 --> 00:56:42.449
of Whispers. Smart. And humble. Shut up. Okay.

00:56:43.670 --> 00:56:46.389
I'm going to lean over and look at Chester and

00:56:46.389 --> 00:56:51.590
say, I'll be right back. Jules, you ain't going

00:56:51.590 --> 00:56:54.739
without me, you know. All right, come on. Let

00:56:54.739 --> 00:56:57.960
me get you back. You got me, Chester. Come on,

00:56:57.960 --> 00:57:01.139
let's go. All right. Chester kind of like hops

00:57:01.139 --> 00:57:03.599
down with you. He turns over and he's like, James,

00:57:03.699 --> 00:57:06.800
you're in charge. Me and Jules, we got to check

00:57:06.800 --> 00:57:10.679
something out. And let me give you Chester's

00:57:10.679 --> 00:57:14.519
stat sheet. Oh, stat sheet for Chester. I'll

00:57:14.519 --> 00:57:17.059
be voicing Chester, but you'll be playing him.

00:57:17.119 --> 00:57:21.340
It's very simple right now. Ooh, I love it. What's

00:57:21.340 --> 00:57:25.139
Chester got going on? He's better than me. What?

00:57:25.619 --> 00:57:29.719
He's better than me. He's not that good. He's

00:57:29.719 --> 00:57:32.400
better than me. Chester is a level one sidekick,

00:57:32.460 --> 00:57:35.019
very simplified currently. He doesn't have any

00:57:35.019 --> 00:57:36.800
negative stats. Oh, yeah, he has no negative

00:57:36.800 --> 00:57:38.639
stats. No negative stats. Sidekicks generally

00:57:38.639 --> 00:57:41.480
don't. You guys are special. He's got a plus

00:57:41.480 --> 00:57:44.440
two in dex, plus one in constitution. Wisdom

00:57:44.440 --> 00:57:47.800
is plus two. I'm minus two. I'm willing to be

00:57:47.800 --> 00:57:50.019
wise. He's the wisest one in the group. He's

00:57:50.019 --> 00:57:53.289
the wisest one in the group. I mean. You don't

00:57:53.289 --> 00:57:58.090
got shit for charisma over me, but did you roll

00:57:58.090 --> 00:58:02.449
him? There's set sidekick stats. Oh. So, nah.

00:58:02.670 --> 00:58:08.610
Well, let's swap stats. But hey, he's going to

00:58:08.610 --> 00:58:11.309
have less abilities. No magic, pretty simple.

00:58:11.409 --> 00:58:14.130
And right now he just has a sling and a knife.

00:58:14.570 --> 00:58:18.070
Okay. Oh yeah, I imagine in the last three days

00:58:18.070 --> 00:58:21.929
I gave him his knife back. He just lost it. You

00:58:21.929 --> 00:58:24.989
get back to him broken. Three days later. Broken

00:58:24.989 --> 00:58:28.510
and bloody. So you guys move out, and I think

00:58:28.510 --> 00:58:30.289
both of you in your own way. And I'll say your

00:58:30.289 --> 00:58:32.829
apartment's actually pretty close to the, because

00:58:32.829 --> 00:58:35.150
the shield bearers generally hole up right around

00:58:35.150 --> 00:58:37.690
the Palace of Exile as well. That's why there's

00:58:37.690 --> 00:58:40.190
so many swarming the area. They have sort of

00:58:40.190 --> 00:58:43.170
like their headquarters kind of sort of off to

00:58:43.170 --> 00:58:45.909
the side of it. And on the other side of it is

00:58:45.909 --> 00:58:48.889
where Arhalon has his little apartment so he

00:58:48.889 --> 00:58:50.809
can stay close to work. Keep an eye on things.

00:58:50.949 --> 00:58:52.110
So you guys actually are pretty close to each

00:58:52.110 --> 00:58:54.489
other, though I do not believe you see each other

00:58:54.489 --> 00:58:58.429
as you both make your way down the spiral of

00:58:58.429 --> 00:59:01.829
the Citadel. Here we go. So right now you're

00:59:01.829 --> 00:59:03.670
like on the, you know, we'll just say the neck

00:59:03.670 --> 00:59:06.090
of the serpent, and you're working your way down

00:59:06.090 --> 00:59:08.530
towards, let's just say, the sort of main body,

00:59:08.789 --> 00:59:11.110
kind of like the lower back of it, where the

00:59:11.110 --> 00:59:13.650
Court of Whispers is. Now this is a place where

00:59:13.650 --> 00:59:17.699
information is bought and sold all over. This

00:59:17.699 --> 00:59:20.960
is a place where spies gather intelligence. This

00:59:20.960 --> 00:59:24.039
is a place where people, they basically, like,

00:59:24.059 --> 00:59:27.659
luminary tales are traded, where the paparazzi

00:59:27.659 --> 00:59:31.039
go to, like, really sell their pictures, videos,

00:59:31.460 --> 00:59:35.940
stories, intel. And it is a buzzing, buzzing

00:59:35.940 --> 00:59:37.940
market. There's criers all over the place trying

00:59:37.940 --> 00:59:39.940
to sell, you know, different newspapers and whatnot.

00:59:40.500 --> 00:59:42.300
Yeah, if you're looking for information anywhere

00:59:42.300 --> 00:59:44.360
on the Radiant Citadel, this is where to go.

00:59:44.860 --> 00:59:47.000
You guys have a location in mind, and you know

00:59:47.000 --> 00:59:48.480
where you're heading. So you work your way through

00:59:48.480 --> 00:59:51.099
the crowds, and eventually you move to a less

00:59:51.099 --> 00:59:54.400
populous area. A little more, uh, I wouldn't

00:59:54.400 --> 00:59:57.400
say run down, but just something sort of shady

00:59:57.400 --> 01:00:01.219
about it. And you find this sort of open courtyard

01:00:01.219 --> 01:00:05.400
that's like this brick, um, wall. Kind of, kind

01:00:05.400 --> 01:00:08.440
of, uh, a little scuffed up. Maybe there's a

01:00:08.440 --> 01:00:12.780
tiny bit of graffiti on one side of it. Um, kind

01:00:12.780 --> 01:00:14.539
of faded, like it's tried to been washed off,

01:00:14.639 --> 01:00:17.659
but then, uh, didn't quite finish it. And you

01:00:17.659 --> 01:00:20.000
see just beyond this, you know, where there's

01:00:20.000 --> 01:00:21.820
like an opening in this wall, there's a, there's

01:00:21.820 --> 01:00:24.599
a large sort of expansive courtyard, a fountain

01:00:24.599 --> 01:00:26.159
in the front that just doesn't seem to be working

01:00:26.159 --> 01:00:28.820
in any way anymore. And, uh, that's where you're

01:00:28.820 --> 01:00:30.880
supposed to be. And I think you basically come

01:00:30.880 --> 01:00:32.780
in one direction, Jules, cause you're kind of

01:00:32.780 --> 01:00:34.880
both can take different, different routes through

01:00:34.880 --> 01:00:36.980
the court of whispers to reach this place. And,

01:00:36.980 --> 01:00:39.139
uh, Debulon, you turn the corner the other way

01:00:39.139 --> 01:00:42.980
and you see each other. Again. Hey, it's you.

01:00:43.159 --> 01:00:46.039
So we did come at the same time. I mean, you

01:00:46.039 --> 01:00:49.000
left at the same time, but Zebulon tripped and

01:00:49.000 --> 01:00:51.059
fell and it took him like 20 more minutes. So

01:00:51.059 --> 01:00:53.679
you have 20 minutes earlier, I guess. If we were

01:00:53.679 --> 01:00:55.619
coming down the same way, would I not have seen

01:00:55.619 --> 01:00:59.539
him stumbling down? Nah. Continuity, man. We

01:00:59.539 --> 01:01:03.599
just discussed this before the session. Continuity.

01:01:03.860 --> 01:01:06.139
Zebulon left earlier than you, but got lost.

01:01:06.900 --> 01:01:12.090
Because he has six wisdom. Okay, that makes sense.

01:01:12.469 --> 01:01:15.469
Six intelligence, five wisdom. Oh, okay, even

01:01:15.469 --> 01:01:18.670
better. He got lost for 30 minutes in the city

01:01:18.670 --> 01:01:20.230
he's grown up in his entire life. I didn't even

01:01:20.230 --> 01:01:23.889
get to roll for it. Just let me finish the episode!

01:01:33.309 --> 01:01:36.849
You're gonna find it. I don't care how you got

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there at different times or at the same time

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and didn't see each other. It happened, damn

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it. All right, Stephen, we'll roll with it this

01:01:41.429 --> 01:01:43.429
time. All right. I'll roll with it this time.

01:01:43.429 --> 01:01:45.989
Yeah, I'll let it fly this time. I'm going to

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put my foot on you. I'll put it right on you.

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Oh, it's you two from the school, right? Yeah,

01:01:56.710 --> 01:02:02.630
from upstairs. What are you doing out here? To

01:02:02.630 --> 01:02:06.199
be honest, I don't know. Gotta let in. Asked

01:02:06.199 --> 01:02:10.039
me to come down here. Hey, Jules. Do we trust

01:02:10.039 --> 01:02:15.380
this shrimp? I mean, just a little guy. I don't

01:02:15.380 --> 01:02:17.219
see anything wrong with him. What do you call

01:02:17.219 --> 01:02:23.860
a shrimp? Chester's not, like, huge either. Zebulon's

01:02:23.860 --> 01:02:27.239
just looking up at him. What do you call a shrimp?

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All right. Your call. Don't worry about it. I

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think we're good. So... Pulls out his envelope.

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You got one of these letters, too? Yeah. And

01:02:38.849 --> 01:02:40.849
Zebulon's kind of looking around, like, looking

01:02:40.849 --> 01:02:45.030
at Chester. Where's yours? I'm with him. Always,

01:02:45.130 --> 01:02:49.469
right, big guy? Fist bump. Fist bump. Mic bump.

01:02:49.610 --> 01:02:55.090
Fist bump to mic bump. Go home, Chester, you're

01:02:55.090 --> 01:02:59.750
drunk. Well, then, it kind of looks like it's

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just us. Do you have any idea who sent yours?

01:03:02.670 --> 01:03:06.039
No, I... I've got no idea. We should probably

01:03:06.039 --> 01:03:08.960
find whoever's waiting for us. We should, but

01:03:08.960 --> 01:03:10.519
I don't know who to look for. We should walk

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back. Is there anybody standing around us? Nope.

01:03:14.480 --> 01:03:16.380
Not that you see. I mean, there's people, I guess,

01:03:16.400 --> 01:03:19.320
wandering the streets here and there. Normal

01:03:19.320 --> 01:03:23.639
perception? Yeah, I do. Yeah. Can jewels do the

01:03:23.639 --> 01:03:27.739
same? Absolutely. I roll a 15. 15's pretty good.

01:03:27.960 --> 01:03:30.119
That's a 16. Oh, you got a negative one. I got

01:03:30.119 --> 01:03:33.300
a negative one. Yeah. I roll a three. What's

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my dice say? 14. Okay, thanks. Oh, Chester. I

01:03:37.349 --> 01:03:39.670
just put that together. Was that supposed to

01:03:39.670 --> 01:03:44.150
be a secret? No, no. The secret Chester perception

01:03:44.150 --> 01:03:46.769
roll in the middle of the table. You roll Chester.

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Go ahead and roll Chester. Chester's yours. I

01:03:51.090 --> 01:03:54.369
don't want to know what you just rolled. That

01:03:54.369 --> 01:03:59.409
doesn't matter. He got a nine. Okay. Good. So.

01:03:59.900 --> 01:04:02.639
You guys look around, and yeah, there's just

01:04:02.639 --> 01:04:05.519
some folks moving around here and there. You

01:04:05.519 --> 01:04:07.820
don't notice anything out of the ordinary. Nothing

01:04:07.820 --> 01:04:10.199
that strikes you as strange. And you know the

01:04:10.199 --> 01:04:11.500
note said to head to the back of the courtyard.

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You see a door back there, beyond the fountain.

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Maybe this is it. He gestures to the door. Looks

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about right. You ready? I guess. And Zebulon

01:04:24.079 --> 01:04:26.719
walks up and knocks on the door. So you guys

01:04:26.719 --> 01:04:32.190
walk in towards the door. And you're just passing

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the fountain when behind you from the only opening

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into this courtyard that you just entered, you

01:04:39.949 --> 01:04:44.070
hear a voice ring out. Well, well, well, look

01:04:44.070 --> 01:04:49.050
who stumbles in. Oh, tasty lady looks, doesn't

01:04:49.050 --> 01:04:52.349
it? We're going to eat you up once we beat you

01:04:52.349 --> 01:04:56.150
up. And you see this goblin is standing there.

01:04:56.599 --> 01:04:58.539
Um, and like this sort of rough leather armor

01:04:58.539 --> 01:05:02.400
with a scimitar and a shield. Uh, he's just pulling

01:05:02.400 --> 01:05:04.659
this sort of cloak off his head. And you see

01:05:04.659 --> 01:05:07.340
next to him there's this bunny person, a rabbit

01:05:07.340 --> 01:05:10.760
person, a haranguan. Um, bare chested with just

01:05:10.760 --> 01:05:13.840
trousers and like bare feet. Kind of like whapping

01:05:13.840 --> 01:05:16.719
this big beater club down to one hand. And they

01:05:16.719 --> 01:05:22.400
just like, uh, yeah, we're gonna eat ya. We're

01:05:22.400 --> 01:05:24.480
gonna eat ya. We're gonna eat ya. Yep. What the

01:05:24.480 --> 01:05:27.559
shit is this? That guy doesn't sound too confident.

01:05:29.559 --> 01:05:32.659
The goblin just begins to move in towards you

01:05:32.659 --> 01:05:36.139
and just says, right, better get ready, mate,

01:05:36.280 --> 01:05:43.880
because here we come. And they both charge. And

01:05:43.880 --> 01:05:47.039
we'll call it there. Stand back, motherfuckers.

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That's harmony.