I'm ready to go with you are I'm ready. You ready?
I'm ready. Let's do it Last time in our story,
our heroes struggled in a dire battle against
a trio of supposed villains. As folk fell on
both sides of the battle, in jewels edged close
to death, Zebedon and Chester faced down against
the total night that stood alone against them.
Their clash was interrupted, however, as a strange
gnome introduced himself as Rune Rusong. He appeared
and exposed the deadly fight as an elaborate
deception. A test of sorts. In a fit of fury,
Zebulon attacked Rune. And after learning of
his intentions to shape our heroes into infamous
luminaries, Zebulon, Jules, and Chester stormed
off. Lingering in their minds, though, is the
diamond recorder held by Rune Rusong, an apparent
key to their potential fame. Without his help
and his recordings, what hope do our heroes have
of escaping the sorry fates that await them here?
In the Radiant Citadel. Storyteller on here.
Storyteller on here. Storyteller on here. Merry
Christmas, everybody. I think, right? Is that
closer? I don't know. We have to do the maths,
and I'm not good at maths. Yeah, I don't have
a calendar in front of me. Yeah. Or a calculator.
Merry Christmas. Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho. Or Happy
New Year. And a Happy New Year. Or both at the
same time. Maybe Easter. Definitely not Easter.
I can pull up a calendar real fast. Okay, so...
Well, we're going bi -weekly right now, but I
think by then we're going to be going weekly.
Shit, so we have no idea. So I have no fucking
idea. We're not even releasing the... We are
releasing... No, we're releasing the 10th, October
10th. This could be Thanksgiving. It's episode
three. It could be Thanksgiving. Then episode
four is October 24th. Episode five is November
7th. And then this... So this is between Christmas
and Thanksgiving. So it is Christmas. It will
be Christmas season. It'll be December 5th if
we stick to bi -weekly. Close enough. Happy Christmas.
Merry Christmas. Happy holidays. Happy everything.
Happy holidays. Hey folks, future Jeremy here.
I'd just like to let you all know that literally
within an hour after we finished, we decided
to begin releasing episodes on a weekly basis.
So everyone, you are listening on Halloween.
We are great at this. It's the month! So last
time, right here on Fantasy Pants, we had quite
the battle. I'll be straight, I took my gloves
off. I was a real piece of slimy shit. Let my
enemy come back on a nat 20 death save. Breaking
all the GM rules. Yeah, you heard me. I broke
him. I don't give a shit. I really want to know
how you would have felt if you actually killed
me. Would there have been a shred of regret?
Let's just say we would have had to open another
champagne on air, beer, whatever it was. Party
time. Celebration. Celebrate the death of Jules
LaRoche. Oh, yeah. Do you have a backup character?
Jeremy? Not yet. No? But now I'm just remembering,
and I probably should have one because I could
die in a fake fight. This is D &D. It could happen
any time. Or I could stumble down the stairs
and get run over by horses. That's happened twice
to each of us, or once to each of us. It has.
It has happened. If you're rolling down one of
those stairs, bam, horses. You know it's coming
every time. You think the reasonable thing is
fall down the stairs? No. Horses. Up the stairs.
How? I don't give a fuck. It doesn't matter if
it's a marble staircase in a government building.
Natural one. Horses. Horses. Always horses. This
has to be a thing. Spiral staircase in an alleyway?
Horses. Sorry, David. Are you trying to talk?
We're talking about horses. You'll be talking
about horses real soon. Anyway, if Jeremy did
die, we'd just take him out of the show, and
we could just lock him in his room and have him
edit forever and ever. That sounds great. Sounds
wonderful. And I've got to say right here, because
we haven't really touched on this yet, but any
of the editing you're hearing in this, all the
computer work that I'm too pea -brained to understand,
it's all Jeremy. It's all Jeremy Wolf. This guy,
tireless, gets shit done. And, hey, we released.
We released episodes one and two this week. How
do you guys feel about that? That happened. Yeah,
excited to see the numbers. I mean, you know,
it's very modest, but that's what we were expecting,
and we're having a lot of fun. And I'm guessing
that half of them are my mother -in -law. She's
very excited. And that's okay. Shout out to Liz.
That's great. Howdy, Liz. The whole point of
this is to have fun. Absolutely. And bring others
into the fun. That's right. Anybody who wants
to have fun, come on in. You guys, we were talking
a little bit about where we're going to go from
here. I was wondering if we should jump a couple
days up ahead. These guys seem to have other
plans. They want to start off pretty much right
from the moment they left. So I'm thrilled as
Dungeon Master to just basically step back and
say, all right, what are you guys doing? You
set the scene. You let me know what's happening.
All right. So I suppose. Zebulon, Jules, and
Chester are all hand in hand walking away from...
No, but... We created a forever bond. Yeah, we
did decide to be friends and we're walking away
from Rune's place. Jeremy, where do you think
our characters are heading? I would imagine it's
either going to be one of two places. We're either
going back to the main... the main court area
where pretty much Jules and all the Cherry Delights
are hanging out, or we're going back to Zepp's
place. One of the two. So where the Cherry Delights
are is the something of exiles, the Hall of Exiles?
Palace of Exiles. Palace of Exiles. It's also
right around where your apartment is, because
it's right around where the Shieldbearer's home
office is, basically. Our home stays close to
work. I think it kind of depends on where. Zebulon
feels most comfortable going. Jules is going
to go anywhere the fuck he wants to go. But he's
cool anywhere. I think it's a matter of where
Zebulon wants to go. Jules, I think we're going
to need to come back here. You heard Rune. He's
got the footage of... Well, I did some pretty
cool stuff on Typhos. And he said it. You heard
him. We're a risk. And no one's going to work
with us unless we're a sure thing. And with his
paparazzi, according to me, doing, I think that
could launch us onto the luminary scene. Julius,
have you ever thought about, are we going to
be luminaries? What? I mean, that's something
you want to do? I'm not sure what else. I always
thought I'd be a shield bearer. Really? Well,
that's what my brother is. You want to be one
of them lackeys? Your brother your size? My brother,
Arhalon, no. He's a lot bigger and stronger than
I am, but I think I could make a good shield
bearer, but I don't think that's an option for
me anymore. Oh, kid, you definitely got some
fighting chops. You saved our asses back there.
Thanks, guys. Like I said, I thought I'd be a
shield bearer, and Arhalon and I would practice
and spar. He taught me a lot, but I don't think
he's going to teach me anymore. I almost got
hurt back there on Tythos, and it's not fair
to him. He's got a lot going on, and I'm just
going to do my own thing, and that might be becoming
a Luminary. They're so cool, and they're... They're
on the billboards and cereal boxes. Haven't you
ever wanted something like that? Not particularly,
no. Oh, man. I mean, kid, you got some real talent,
kid. Let me tell you. You really do. And if that's
what you want, you got to go and chase it. Me?
It's not something that I ever aspired to be.
But if, I don't know, if it helps my people.
If it helps the good people prosper, I'll do
what it takes. I'll do what I have to do. Well,
if you help me, then maybe I could help you and
your people. This might be something here. So
will you help me steal the footage that Rune
has? Chester just grins over at you. This is
exactly the kind of shit he's down for. Because
you heard him. He's not going to release it.
Unless we agree to be luminaries for him. We
need control of that footage. But he's a... He's
a jerk. So if we... We're going to work on that.
Yeah, were you just trying to curse, kid? I'll
teach you good, okay? I couldn't think of a good
enough one. The one that I thought of might have
been a little... Too much? Piece of shit. Go
for it. Come on. Rune's a real asshole. Jules,
look at him. Damn. We're already corrupting the
fella, huh? Right? He's on the right track. So
if we can steal that footage from Rune and show
it to a different agent, then, I mean, I don't
know, maybe anyone in the Citadel would want
to work with us. You may have a point, Jules.
I mean, that Rune fella's right. Maybe it's time
we got out of the shadows and stepped in the
light, you know? Actually make a difference.
Actually do something. Imagine the look on your
parents' face. If you end up on the screen, we
can expose them for what they are. Goddamn, Chester,
you know my weakness. Always. Let's do it. Let's
do it. Perfect. Okay, so, first things first.
You each get a button. That was the button, baby.
Strong start. I loved it. Thanks, David. Fantastic.
Hell yeah. You probably earned them because I
claimed a lot last session. Maybe unfairly. It
was like 10 or 15 minutes where you didn't have
to do any work. It's great. I took a nap. I'm
ready to go now. So let's talk about your plan
here. What's that, listener? The show was incredible
for the last 10 minutes? What? Oh, David. David.
Just leave us a like and a comment. Give me that
button back. Let us know how much you enjoyed
the show without David in it. See if you get
another one in the next four sessions. Whatever,
nerd. Yeah. What's your plan? What was your name?
Zeb again? Zeb, right? Zebulon. Zebulon. Okay.
Zebulon Brash. Oh, I dig it. I dig it. Jules,
right? Yeah. Jules. And... I'm Chester. Chucky.
Chester. No, not Chucky. No, we don't do that.
People get stabbed for that. Jeez, you're a feisty
one, huh? A little bit. I mean, we definitely
got to lay out a plan here. We can't just go
back and grab it. Well, I ain't seen any windows
in that building. Only one way in, the way I
looked at it. We might have to fight our way
in. Oh, jeez. Kind of... We almost just did.
I mean, we only saw the front of the building,
right? All right, how about this? How about this?
Let's go get a little bit of rest. Maybe discuss
a little bit. Plan a little bit. Make sure we're
ready. Yeah. Well rested. Mechanically speaking,
a long rest. You have a pick of luck, Zebulon?
I mean, I've tried to sneak into... Arhalon's
diary when we were kids, but I think that's a
little bit different than somebody's front door.
Ooh, this guy's real nefarious, huh, Jules? Mm
-hmm. I got some tools I can give you a rundown
on in the meat lab. There's some real juicy stuff
in there I'll have you know. Oh, I bet. I bet.
So I take everyone's heading back to the Palace
of Exile then. Have you ever read a 16 -year
-old... Half Dragon's Diary. They hit puberty
at 16, you know. All right. Your place and mine.
I don't really have a place, so it's going to
be out in the middle of all the people. My place
isn't really an option anymore, but I do think
that we could go visit Xena. Who that? She's
kind of my mom. She's Arhalon's mom. Arthlon?
Close. Arhalon. Ar. Ar. Ha. Ha. Lon. Lon. That's
my brother. Okay. All together now. So y 'all
got different moms? Arhalon. Arhalon. That's
right, Chester. All right. I mean, it's a safe
house. I'm down with it. I'm pretty sure we'll
be safe with Xena. I mean, she is a part dragon,
after all. I mean, how close are you to her?
Well, I mean, I grew up with Xena, of course.
She's eccentric. I can dig it. Yeah, it'll be
interesting. She's safe. Where does she lean
on the, say, political spectrum? That's not something
that Xena's going to pay much attention to. That's
all I need to hear. Okay. That's okay. So I think
we could stay with Xena at least long enough
to rest up and then come right back here and
show this guy who's boss. I like the way this
is going. What do you say, Chester? No, man.
Sounds good to me. All right. So you got to start
moving. Head off to Zima's apartment. Yeah, as
we get closer to the apartment, I'm going to
kind of drop back behind Zebulon a little bit.
Chester was thinking the exact same thing. I
don't know this person or this dragon. I'm not
scared, more just cautious. As you drop back,
Chester actually kind of like weighs you to come
in close. He says, holy shit, Jules. You know
who this brat is? No idea. He's a brass, Jules.
He's on a shoelace. This guy's got mad famous
parents. Oh, shit. That brass. Yeah. Yeah. We
made a stone upon gold here. What are you talking
about? We keep the kid around. We help him. Well,
or we don't. Either way, we can make money off
of this guy. We can get influence off of this
guy. I think this is a little different, Chester.
All right. Just keeping our options open. I'm
feeling a little different about this one, okay?
You're the boss, Jules. You know that. This might
be something real good for all of us, including
him. All right. All right. I'm just going to
keep my eyes open anyway. All right. You do you.
And you guys all move across. So you're... Let's
think. I think... What are you doing trying to
fucking make me get the idea of making money
off of Zebulon? Fuck that shit. That name was
too hard. But yeah, so... Xena's place, I think,
is actually not terribly far. We once showed
a flashback of Zebulon and Arhalon standing at
a massive door entering deeper into the radiant
citadel, into the giant auroral diamond the citadel
is built around. This opening, there's a number
of villas and nice townhomes and stuff built
close by this. A lot of them belong to the Speakers
for the Ancestors, who generally do their governance
from within the diamond. Xena's house is amongst
these, sort of tucked off to the side. It's kind
of pushed farther back. There's actually a decent
yard to this house, which is kind of strange
in the Citadel. Strings had to be pulled in order
to make that happen, because stuff's pretty tight
together. But you do see this building. Very
well kept. The lawn is well taken care of. There's
a gate that you can just easily push open and
walk through, and you move up to this large,
upscale building. So that part of the citadel
that you're talking about, that's pretty close
to the Court of Whispers, right? Fairly close,
yes. It's not far at all. That's convenient for
us. Yeah, it is. Yeah, so if... The gate's open.
Zebulon will push it open and walk up to the
door and rapid tap tap on the door. Okay. I'd
say we're probably about five to ten feet behind
him. All right. You'll hear an answer at first.
Jima! Jima! You hear like from somewhere then.
Like a roar of some beast. Zebulon! You hear,
like, stuff starts falling. Like a bunch of clattering
from inside the house deeper in. And almost you
hear this, like, cacophony of stuff falling as
something rushes towards the door. And in, like,
a fit of energy, kind of surprising, the door
just flings open. And you see a half -dragon
woman. I guess I would say she doesn't look old.
Half -dragons can live for a very long time.
But she's got a mature air about her. Her eyes
are wide and excited, just fixed down on you.
And she's large. She's not quite Arhalon size,
but definitely still towers above Zebulon. She's
got the brass dragon sort of crested, almost
Triceratops -esque head crest. And she's just
beaming. And I have to think of a voice because
I didn't expect this character to come up already.
I think as she opens the door, Jules and Chester
kind of grab hands. They just kind of slowly
back away. Zivulan reaches into the bag he packed
and pulls out a few pieces of sea glass that
he got from some... traveling merchant who happened
to set up at the Citadel. You know, some blue,
some green, some purple pieces, all smooth and
soft and round and holds them up. Hey, Gina,
I brought you these. She stares down at you and
smoke just billows out from her mouth as like
a sort of a gust of flame just lights up her,
the back of her throat. She just, Zebulon! Oh,
Zebulon. Oh, my sweet, my sweet. She just picks
you up and grabs you, just pulls you into this
ridiculously tight embrace, just swinging you
around and drops you back down again. How long
has it been since you've come by? Oh, Xena, it's
been too long. I'm really sorry. I've just, I've
been busy, you know. Oh, what's this? What's
this? And she's just already ignoring you and
grabbing the stuff that you get down. Oh, it's
so pretty. It's so pretty. I have just the place
for them. I have just the place. Oh, I have new
things. I have new things. Can we come in? Can
we see them? Yes. And I motion back to my friends
as I say, can we? We're just still kind of sitting
a little frozen. She, like, turns to you guys
and just beams and turns back to Zebulon. Zebulon,
who are these? These are my new friends. Zebulon,
you have friends? And she just is already disappearing
into the door and what you guys see looking in
is just piles And piles and piles of just junk
and refuse and collections. There's like different
novelty, like goblets and glasses everywhere.
Bottles of empty wine, just like stacked up in
one corner. Just anything you could think of.
Shells, like you said. I mean, the Citadel is
a place where many, many things from many worlds
go through. And it looks like one of everything
is in this house. So Zebulon's standing to the
side of the front door. Kind of ushering Jules
and Chester in. He says, try not to touch anything.
Which I know he can be hard, but he's kind of
particular. I don't think you got to worry about
any of us touching any of this. As you say, she's
kind of particular. Jules, you just watch as
she walks up to one pile of stuff and nods vigorously
and just kind of throws the sea glass on top
of it. And just nods again. She's like, perfect.
It's in the middle of the room. There's no rhyme
or reason to it, but it is perfect. And I think
she just bustles, almost like you're forgotten,
just bustles into the back. And you can just
hear her in the back of the house as though you're
standing right there, just like, oh, my God,
there's my traveling roach. Did you see? It's
green. You know I love green. It's my second
favorite color. There's also a blue one. Oh,
right, I put that. Hang on. And she's just going
on and on. Zena, I was hoping that we could stay
for just a little while. You want to stay? If
that's okay. I mean, we kind of got into a little
bit of a fight, Zena. Oh, no, you got into a
fight? I was just hoping that we could... Did
Arhalon take care of them? I raised him to be
strong, you know. Hey, this little guy took care
of himself. Sabula, did you? I think she actually
notices a sword for the first time there. And
she, unlike everyone else in your family, grins
this wide. She grins. Oh, my little Zebulon,
little warrior, you did. And just rubs your horns.
Well, we're not done with him yet. Actually,
all I know is she rubs his horns. Jules, you.
Note, and it kind of goes along with Zebulon's
story, his horns are very different from hers.
She has that triceratops crest where he has these
curved, almost ram -like horns. Okay. And you
can notice that while she has that shining, reflective
brass scales, his are a sort of darker matte.
Okay. They're just different. We just kind of
need to get our strength back up. Maybe have
a snack. I have snacks. I am a little famished.
And then we'll be on our way, Gina, I swear.
I'll get a goat. I'll get a goat. I have goats
in here somewhere. Maybe, Gina. Should I just
say goats? Humans. Maybe. Crackers. Carrots.
What else do we have? Cheese. Carrots. I have
those. Can I help you? I'll find them. You chat,
chat, chat. Have fun. You're friends. And you're
tough. It's tough. And she just runs off excitedly
and just like burrows into a pile and is like
looking for something. As you guys are like sort
of talking, you can just hear like piles come
crashing down in a bag. I mean, it's funny because
you go into this house and there's no real furniture.
It is like an empty building with just piles
everywhere. But like you would know Zebulon and
Jules, you probably would kind of, it's pretty
basic knowledge that dragons are hoarders. This
feels more like a dragon's hoard than a typical
actual living situation. There is no furniture,
but like the legendary great dragons of lore,
Xena must just rest upon her treasures. And her
treasures just happen to be everything. But I
think you guys have, and I think she managed
to find you something to snack on, crackers and
whatnot. A little old. Not too old, though. They're
edible. Just a little stale. More than a little
stale. But you guys have some time to sort of
talk things over. And at some point she does
randomly bring out a flame -roasted goat. Jeez.
You don't know at what point that happened. I
think at one point you were just talking and
you kind of heard like a... In the background.
Shit. Is that safe to eat? Well, I mean, it's
cooked pretty thoroughly. I don't know how much
you know about... Dragon's breath. Yeah, that's
what concerns me a bit. It's going to be okay.
It's actually pretty delicious. Okay. I'm going
to trust you on this. And so as you all kind
of rest down, there's no table, but you find
a pile of stuff. You can lay like a flat. I think
maybe there's a top of a table. no legs. You
slide over a pile and you all sit around it.
And Xena's just sitting there and she's not speaking
at all. She's just watching you guys excitedly
as you, as you talk and plan. And Zebulon, you
know, it doesn't matter. You can say whatever
you want in front of her. She'll forget by tomorrow
anyway, this whole plan you're coming up with.
I also don't think that anyone would believe
Xena, even if she did remember and cohesively.
It doesn't sound like it. Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean,
As someone who is taken advantage of by his family,
Zebulon feels like he's sort of doing that now.
But he also knows that while Xena's not his birth
mother, he knows that she does love him and she
does want him to succeed and be safe. So there's
a tang of guilt, but he knows that if he's done
Xena wrong in any way, he'll make it up to her
because there is love there that is family. Yeah.
Yeah. The day turns to night and you guys have
a place to stay. You guys have a place to plan.
You have a place to rest for the day. So before
you get your long rest, is there anything else
you want to do to prepare for your nighttime
excursion back into the Court of Whispers? Hey,
Chester. Zebulon points to a locked wooden chest
nearby. You want to show me those tools you got?
I love this scenario because you can say, Jebulon
points to, and there's nothing that won't be
in this fucking room. Thanks for artistic license,
DM. Yeah. It's just like anything, anything.
He's like, oh, yeah, sure. He pulls out his thieves
tools and I think gives you a quick rundown.
All right, yes, you just finesse it in just like
this, right? Now give it an easy turn and listen
for it. You hear that? There you are. Hey, you
made it look pretty easy, Chester. Give it a
shot. And he hands you, I think this is second
luck, Chester, because fucking why not? There's,
of course, this one next to it. Yeah, of course,
there's plenty of them. Chester's a whiz. You're
learning from the best here. Gee, cool, thanks.
And, I mean, I'll make a sleight of hand roll.
Yeah, sleight of hand. Ooh. It's an 18. You,
at first try, pop it open. Just like, damn. Kid
runs fast, Jules. It's a natural. Yeah, he is.
I think I might have a hand for this. I shouldn't
have wasted that decent roll, but I guess we'll
see what happens. Just later this morning. You're
just warming up. It's just a warm -up roll. I'll
tell you what. You can keep those. I got more
stored away. Hey, thanks, man. And you have Thieves'
Tools. Ta -da. You're finally becoming a rogue.
That's right. The least roguish rogue. Yeah,
I know. Mechanically, a level two rogue would
have had thieves tools, but. This archetypical
edgy rogue. I think that's really all Zeb needs
to do before a long rest. All right. Yeah. I
think we're just going to, what, plan on going
just back there and searching the room, you think?
Yeah. Sounds good. Go back and try to bust in.
I mean, we should definitely be prepared for
some type of resistance, just in case. Might
not be nobody, but there might be somebody. Well,
yeah, we know this guy's got at least three goons.
I don't know if they sleep there, but we'll find
out. Yep. All right. So you guys take a long
rest, reset yourselves. We're going to just move
across town. We're going to move back to the
Court of Whispers. We're going to move back to
this large brick building surrounded by a large
brick wall, a big courtyard leading up to it,
a big old broken fountain in the midst of that
courtyard, except now it is, wait, I was going
to say lit by night, but let's say at nighttime
in the Radiant Seydel, the auroral diamond's
light dims down to the point where it's much
darker. Oh, I like that. Yeah, it fits. So it's
the same 24 -hour schedule of day, basically.
It's like an ambient nightlight. Yeah, so whatever
color the diamond is shining, it always dims
at night. I'm envisioning like a salt lamp. Maybe
with a little bit of a pinker hue than orange.
Yeah, tonight it's a pink salt lamp. Pink Himalayan
salt lamp. So soothing. And under the soothing
light, we see three heroes. Moving on to the
scene, let's just say you're approaching from
the front towards that opening in the courtyard,
and I want you to all roll perception checks.
Oh. Oh, boy. Okay. I can't see mine, but it looks
like a seven or a two. Yeah, you got a seven
there. I rolled the same with my passive, which
is a nine. Okay, you also can roll for Chester
as well. Dear God, Chester, please. Oh, Chester,
yes, please. Does he get any modifiers, or is
he just super basic? He has good perception,
actually. Probably better than both of us. Let
me check real quick. I believe he has perception
is a plus four. Oh, Chester, baby, our ringer.
He's going to come in clutch in a lot of different
ways. Well, yeah, depending on your roll. So
that's 18. So you guys are moving towards this
thing, and Chester suddenly goes, hey, hey, hey,
whoa, whoa. Listen, listen. What's up? And you
all sort of go quiet, and you can hear, like,
suddenly muttering, just like, If I see that
little tiny dragon this again, I'll make a lizard
stew, I will. Stupid, fancy little dragon this.
Oh, fire. Trace wants a rain match, he does.
Trace needs to catch him up and make a stew,
he does. You hear the grumbling of a familiar
goblin. Ah, they're still here. Shit. You hear
this. Sounds like it's coming from the other
side of the courtyard. Sounds kind of far away.
If you want to take a look, you can roll stealth.
The other side, are you talking like not the
side of the building or not the side that we're
on? Basically, the only way into this building
is the main door at the edge of the courtyard
you saw earlier. You are standing just outside
the courtyard where there's a brick wall surrounding
it, only one opening. So you hear someone from
probably around where the door is. Only one voice.
Alec Chester pointed it out to you. I kind of
want to make Chester invisible and send him in
there. To do what, though? I don't know. Well,
I mean, we want to get the orc. No, goblin. Gerblins.
We want to get the goblin away from the door.
And he's looking for Zebulon. So Zebulon could
make himself known and draw the goblin out. What
if we open the door and we stand to the sides
so they can't see us? And I cast a minor illusion
of Zebulon. Okay. A little further out the door.
Oh, shit. You have that? And we slip in behind.
So we would have to sneak. Fuck yeah, I have
that. So we would have to sneak into the courtyard
first. then cast Minor Illusion. Do we? I'm just
saying we stay outside of the door, and I cast
Minor Illusion a little. Well, because then this
guy's going to come out of the courtyard, and
he's going to see us. Not if we're standing to
the side of the door, and he's running after
Zebulon. I'm into it. I don't know. Just a thought.
I'm into it. I got shit we can use in these situations.
The Minor Illusion thing is key, and that's just...
Yeah, it's a sound or an image. Oh. Well, sound
will work fine. It says of an object. I mean...
I think I would count it. I think that's fine.
Yeah, it's cool as hell. Yeah, especially if
it's just a sound. It must be no larger than
a five -foot cube. How tall is Zebulon? Oh my
god, that actually makes Zebulon's shortness.
I think you're smaller than five feet. Yeah,
but not a five -foot cube. When you cube five,
that's, like, smaller. No, no, I believe it's
five -foot -like. Five foot tall. Five by five
by five. Yes. Gotcha. All right, fuck it. If
you'll allow it. I absolutely will allow it.
This is fun as hell. All right, so I'm going
to cast an image of Zebulon. Let's say... There's
no door. It's just an open gateway. So you're
just opening in the brick wall. So you can just
do it. You're going to have to lure them out.
You're going to have to yell. Okay. So yeah,
I'll cast, I'd say, what? 10, 15 feet behind
us. Sure. I mean, even just through the opening,
you know, if they're on the other side of the
gate. We need them to go out of the gate far
enough so that we can slip in behind them. Right.
So if the gate's here and there's like a five
foot opening or whatever, and if we're hiding
along the wall here. Right. Zebulon's about right
back here. Or even if it just walks by, if it
starts to walk by, sticks its head in and then
keeps going sort of thing. I like that. Leading
them the opposite way, away from us. Right. I
like it. I like it. Okay. So to the timing of
the illusion sticking its head into the gate,
Zebulon will shout out and say, come and get
me, you stinking goblin. What? Wait, what? Who?
You just hear like a voice like that. Stupid
little dragons. It's him. It's him. I know. It's
him. I know. I know. Trace knows. And he looks
up and he sees. What does he see, Jules? He sees
Zebulon walking right by. You all, I imagine,
tuck back into the wall, kind of keeping yourselves
small, as you hear this goblin fucking tear through
this courtyard. Just bursts out of view and just
charges. He goes in the street, and he stops
for a second, because I imagine you see this
thing goes by and vanishes, and he stops. He
looks both ways, and then he just goes. And he
just charges down the road. It doesn't vanish.
It lasts for one minute. How far can it go? 30
feet. Okay, so you just have this thing go 30
feet, but even around the corner? Yeah, it'll
go as far as it can go. Yeah, just go and have
it around the corner, and he fucking tears down
that corner. You see him just skid around it
and just charge out of sight, and the way seems
open. Yeah, as soon as the goblin's away from
us, Zebulon's going to run to the door. All right,
let's move, let's move, let's move. Okay, you
guys charge up into the courtyard. You cross
it. You go to the door. What do you do? Can we
roll another perception check at that door? Yeah,
exactly. I want to roll another perception at
the door. You may roll another perception. It's
a 15 and a 13. But I'm a minus one, so it's 14.
14, 13. Jester's got a 12. All right, hope it's
not a DC 15. So you put your ears up against
the door. I'll say, first of all, you don't notice
anything. You don't notice any kind of traps,
anything like that. You do notice, I think, with
the slightest touch. Door seems to be locked.
The lock seems simple enough, you know, about
the same as the chest you opened earlier. With
a 14, that was Chester? Or that was you? No,
that was Zebulon. Zebulon. Zebulon. With a 14,
you do hear very, very faintly from the other
side, like a... And he's asleep. We're going
to have to do this very quietly. That's not exactly
my fourth day, but we'll give it a shot. Why
don't you stay and be a lookout? You have other
spells that could be of use. Just then, I will
stay out here. And here. Let me make you invisible.
Does the whispering transfer well into audio?
I don't know. We're going to find out. Okay.
Do you want to check? I think it does. I'm pretty
sure it does. All right, sounds good. I think
we're fine, but let's stop the recording and
double check, because you got me freaking out
about it. Sounds good. We can get a little closer,
too, when we whisper. And we're back, folks.
Whispering is okay for the recording. It picks
it up just fine. Let's continue with the story.
Hey, Jules, what do you want me to do? to make
sure that he stays safe. All right. Okay, that
goblin comes back. We clock him. We clock him.
Gotcha. All right, Zeb, do your thing. I give
you a little poke. You get invisible. And from
the invisible air, do you guys have any idea
where somebody might hide a diamond recorder?
He might have a safe in there. A safe. Or some
type of lockbox where he keeps it. Maybe he's
nice then. Maybe... Ah, shit. Maybe he keeps
it on him. I don't know. Your guess is as good
as mine. None of these sound like really convenient
options for me. I mean, this whole thing isn't
convenient, but... It might get lucky. He was
expecting us to come inside, right? If he had
this stuff ready for us. Maybe it's on his desk.
Could. Could be. I'll leave that... I'll leave
that executive decision -making to you when you're
in there. Well, I guess there's nothing to do
now but to sneak in. All right. Let's pick that
lock. Yep. Just going to roll, slide a hand.
Ooh, 15 plus 7, 22. Real quiet, real smooth.
Nice. Nice roll, Zab. Nice roll. Yeah, that was
a good one. I'm saving that button. Saving that
button for when it really, really counts. Yep.
I should mention that when he actually goes in
and gets in, Chester and I are moving kind of
off to the side. We're not just going to stand
right out in the middle of the door. We're going
to kind of stand to the sides. Into the shadows?
Yeah. Okay. Yep. Sweet. Sounds good. So what
does Zebulon see when he gets into the front
door? You push open this door, and you look into
this very dimly lit room. I think there's a magical
lighting in here, but it's set real low, so you
can barely make out this room. It's basically
just kind of open entrance way. There's some
like old kind of ripped couches off to the sides,
almost like a waiting room. There's like a classic
sort of like little table filled with all sorts
of Radiant Sid, Elle magazines. You know, you
see like a couple luminaries on the cover. And
you see there's a spiral staircase in the back
left corner going up to a second floor. It's
very simple, very small staircase. There is a
door heading off to the right and a door heading
off to the left and another door all the way
in the back. Now the door heading off to the
left is cracked open and you hear the snoring
coming from there. Just realized if we wanted
to take a really darker turn, you could probably
kill this guy really easily. I don't know what
that would mean for the grander story. Don't
just straight up assassinate someone. You could
go for it. Which door is closest to this? I'm
going to call it an interview couch. I would
say that's the one in the far back of the room.
Okay. My thought process being that if Rune is
interviewing someone to be a luminary and they
decide to move forward, He's not going to be
like, okay, come up the spiral staircase with
me and seal the deal. You know what I mean? My
guess is that it's going to be the door closest
to that initial meeting spot where he's going
to have his work office. So Zebulon wants to
go to that back door and try to get inside the
room. I think you're passing by that door that's
slightly open. You just got something here like
a... 20 carats. Sorry. Would I get mechanical
advantage if I were able to close the door and
potentially muffle any sound that I would make?
I believe so, yeah. I think you recognize the
voice inside as the voice of another one of these
brutes that attacked you. The Haringon. Oh, it's
not even... Gotcha. Yep. Okay. Go ahead and roll
stealth if you want to close the door, though,
because it sounds like there's more guards, but
one of them is sleeping at least. Yeah. I think
I would rather take my chances. No, you know
what? Screw it. I'm going to roll stealth to
try and shut the door. If you do this, I will
drop. I will basically give them mechanical disadvantage,
which means it's a negative five to passive perception.
Okay. Now it's worth it. Now it's worth it. I
think this is the time to use the button. Okay.
I think this is the time to use the button because
I can use, if I use the button now and I succeed,
then I get that, I impose that disadvantage the
whole time I'm in there. Okay. So this is the
smart move, I think. So here's my button. I'll
take that button gladly. I'm rolling twice to
shut a fucking door. Okay. Thank. God, because
the first roll was a crit fail, natural one.
Oh, my God. Could you imagine? Second roll, 7
plus 7 is 14. Okay. So I don't feel great about
this. Okay. But I feel way better. It's better
than... Than a natural one. Yep. Critical fail.
You look to this door real quiet, and you grab
the door, and you go to close it. And just as
it, like, goes to click in the lock, I think
that's the tiniest... It was a DC -15, wasn't
it, you son of a bitch? Just the tiniest squeak.
And you just sit there for this frozen moment,
and you just hear... 20 more carrots. Nothing
else. Holy shit. I just, uh... Holy shit. I just
pooped my pants. Okay, happy one. Okay, Chevron.
Now, Steve and the player has an understanding
that maybe these other two doors down here are
other bedrooms where other people are sleeping.
So Zeb's going to go over and roll perception
at each door. Try to see if he can hear anybody
sleeping, snoring inside. Okay. I'm going to
roll my own dice for something real quick. And
smirk at the result. I got two good rolls. I
mean, it's a minus one to perception, so I got
a 16 and a 15 total. You don't hear anything,
but you look at one of those doors, and either
one of those would give you knowledge that one
of these doors actually has a glyph of warding.
The one off to the right of the room, not to
the back of the room, has a glyph of warding
kind of like around the handle. So it looks like
if you were to open that, some magic shit would
happen. Huh. Oh, no. So is that to protect himself
or to protect his equipment? And Zebulon would
have no way of disarming a glyph of warding,
would he? Because it's magical. You could roll
Arcana. Yeah. Give it a shot. That's not going
to happen. And if you'd rolled bad, bad things
would happen. Yeah. So the door that doesn't
have the glyph of warding. If I try the door,
is that one locked? You go to try the door. It's
unlocked. I don't need to keep making stealth
rolls. I think... I think Zebulon's going to
have to go upstairs. Because I'm not going in
the room with the Glyph of Warding. I didn't
hear anything behind the second door. Well, you
know what? I didn't hear anything behind the
second door. You didn't. And it's unlocked. It's
unlocked. It's by all the interview stuff. Okay.
Zebulon's going to sneak into that room. All
right, I'll roll over your general stealth, and
you'll push it open, and you see a desk in the
back corner of a large sort of round room, this
kind of big ornate desk. There's not a whole
lot else in here except for just way too much
decor. It is maybe the tackiest room you've ever
seen in your life. Sounds like Rune, the Rune
that we know. I think you walk in this room and
there's animal pelt rugs, but it's all of them.
It's every one. We'll stitch together to make
one gigantic, god -awful, super animal pelt rug.
It's all the animals. It's all the animals. It
is just... As if this guy wasn't detestable enough.
It's like fuzzy dice. A couple of fuzzy D20s
hanging from the edge of the desk. I don't know.
It seems like a good tacky thing. Yeah, it's
definitely tacky. Now I want fuzzy D20s for my
car. Yes, that sounds awesome. They got to make
them somewhere. If they don't sell that, we're
cutting this. Yep. Guess what you also see? Tell
me. Sitting right out in the middle of the desk
is the gleam of a diamond. Oh, my God. Even Zebulon
knows. It can't be this easy. This is just child's
play. And he doesn't see anything. There's not
like a stack of these diamond recorders around
where it could be mistaken for a different one?
You don't see any. Huh. There's a number of papers
on the desk as well, all kind of spread out neatly.
You can't make it out from here, though. Okay.
Zebby and Lana would like to approach the desk.
to get within arm's reach of the recorder and
to also see what's on these papers. I'll say
the room's also pretty dark, except for there
is another one of those dimly lit lamps, just
like magic lamps on the desk. Yeah, there is.
Shining down with just a little bit of light
over just the papers and such you see, and that's
what's catching you. Your eye is the light shining
off of this diamond. This is really difficult
because Jeremy, as a player, really wants to
discuss your options here. But I really can't,
because I'm not in there with you. I can't say
shit. Well, let's see what the papers say, and
then we might have some out -of -character stuff
to say about it. Yeah, I mean, my initial reaction
was you should fucking take the papers, too.
I don't care what they are. Take them. Yeah,
maybe. You move up to the papers, and as you
reach over to the desk, as your hand reaches
out for the diamond, as your eyes fall onto the
text, we cut outside for a moment. You bastard.
Shit. Hey, only two more perception checks, Jeremy.
Oh, dear Lord. That's a nine. Nat 20. Nat 20.
Okay. Who's the Nat 20? Chester. So you guys
are hanging out, basically just waiting. I think
that you left the door open, right? When Zebulon
went in. You're kind of standing off to the side
to the door. Yes. We're going to need a definitive
answer, Jeremy. I feel like we would have closed
it. Not all the way. Like faux closed? Yeah.
Enough to make it look like it was actually still
closed. Not like it's fucking wide open. Just
so it doesn't latch? Yeah, just so it doesn't
alarm anybody that comes back and sees it. Gotcha.
That's good. Because as you're standing there,
Chester suddenly puts a finger up and says, Oh
shit, Jules, listen. And a moment later you hear,
Stay below. Dragons is gonna lie again. He'll
be back, says he will, but I'm not getting far
for this. Chester and I are immediately gonna
run up to the sides of the gate. Okay. Like,
what are you thinking? On the insides of the
gate. Oh, like to the opposite side of the courtyard?
Yes. Okay, you need a little stealth for this,
just because you're gonna be moving pretty quickly
there while he's also moving, so yeah, to see
if you make sound while you're crossing. It's
pretty open, you know, cobble, so no rustling
grass or brush, but... Is that the same roll
twice? Yeah, we got a seven and a ten. Okay.
Chester also gets proficiencies. He gets a plus
two on his, on top of the... On top of the four?
Oh, no, just the four, sorry. Yep. Seven and
a ten. Okay. Okay, just making sure. So... He
was trying to give you an out. I was trying to
help. So, you go to move across, and I think,
like, you hit, like, there's a loose cobble,
and, like, you hit that, and you hear, like,
the cobble comes up, and... slides across the
stone. Okay, that's fine, but we're still running
to the sides of the gate. Yep, you get over there,
but you just kind of hear in the other side,
like, what's that? Hey! Okay. It's a dragon,
as it is. It gots inside. And you see, a moment
later, this figure running into the area. The
moment he gets in, I'm taking off my burlap sack
and throwing it over him. Oh, my God. What is
Chester doing? Is he assisting? Is he going to
give you help action? Chester would have a rope,
would he not? Yeah. He does second story work.
So I'm going to throw the Burlap Sack over this
guy, hold it down over his head as tight as I
can, and Chester's going to come in and wrap
him up. All right. You're going to have a strength
competition with this goblin. Okay. But you're
going to get advantage because Chester's giving
you the help action. Perfect. Thank God for advantage.
Oh, that's right. Yeah, great. You have one more
chance. Why do I forget about advantage literally
about five seconds after you say I have advantage?
This is like the second time this has happened.
Well, that's another one that would have been
a nat one. I'm just in the moment. Yeah, it was
a nat one. That would have been bad. Chester's
got your back. Now this is the roll. Always 20.
Much better. It's a nat 19. So I love this because
I think you grab this guy, and I think with that
natural one, we're going to kind of play this
out where suddenly you kind of feel him start
fighting back like tremendously strong. I think
I kind of have an oh shit moment. Yeah, I think
you have an oh shit moment. You're being pushed
back and this sack's coming off and then Chester
comes through with a rope and as he kind of wraps
his rope around him and pulls him, I think he
trips the goblin who falls over and then you
kind of regain your strength and the two of you
together just jump on this guy and you tie this
sack tight and you just have this wriggling figure
in the middle of the courtyard that you're both
standing over. As we're pulling him down, I actually
grab Chester's knife and when we get him down,
I'm going to say, Don't say a word or I'll slit
your fucking throat. No, please. Shut up. Holy
shit. Dude, stay quiet. I'll stay quiet. I'll
stay quiet. I will, I will. I know, just relax
for a couple minutes. Just relax. Holy shit.
Dude, these guys are fucking, like, street dudes.
Scrappy. Yeah, holy shit. So. Wow, and let's,
uh, wow. Do you think this is the first time
that Jules has ever put a knife to somebody's
throat? No. I didn't think so either. I got to
be honest, it surprised me. Wow. I couldn't think
of anything else to do. It's intense. It fits
because I feel like we don't know the depths
of Jules' street life and the Cherry Delight's
street life. I feel like we see them and it's
all very... Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
bubblegum and sing song. Yeah. But when it all
comes down to it, this group is going to do whatever
the fuck it takes to survive. And I guess sometimes
that's putting a knife to a dude's throat. When
it comes down to it, Oliver Twist was dark as
fuck. It was a lot of child slave labor. It was
bad. In Oliver Twist. No, well, we bleed for
our own. Hell yeah. Back inside you reach the
desk and you look down and you see well you see
a lot of things Zebulon firstly You see that
well, there's a diamond of course that I don't
know if you want to do anything with it I'll
tell you this actually you should know how these
things work generally speaking if you were to
like say activate one of these diamonds uh normally
that would require like different words simple
phrase words if it's if it's a diamond that's
been um enchanted by the auroral diamond that's
where a recording diamond is basically um that
has to be a diamond worth at least 300 gold and
it's enchanted and then you can record by saying
record you can stop by saying stop you can transfer
by saying transfer to other diamonds or to the
citadel itself and you can play by saying play
and you could see what happens it's projected
out of the uh sort of top lens the the the sort
of crystals that uh the projectors that the crystal
network uses these diamonds can slot into them
the diamonds themselves only work on the citadel
different gems have to work on different worlds
on tythos for instance a sapphire world only
sapphires would showcase um but basically you
do it it would like uh the diamond from the citadel
would would transfer out or transmit out images
that would play off of the gem for each world.
So just sapphire in the sapphire world would
capture any images or automatically play any
images that were transmitted from the auroral
diamond. It's a lot. We'll ramp up to it. So
the diamond you have here, you could play it,
and it won't actually make any sound because
you don't hear anything from these projections.
But when your eye catches them, when you see
them, the sounds equated with it will basically
essentially play in your mind. And you will hear
everything so long as your eyes linger on the
image. That's how these transmissions work. So
let's deal with that after I learn about what's
on the papers. The first set of papers are actually,
it looks like, almost like applications. There's
three different applications. The top of the
paper says... Tanatha's sidekick agency. You
see there is one filled out by the Tortle Knight
of Zinda, Jean Franklin. You see there's one
filled out by the Haringan Berserker of God's
Breath, Pepper. And you see there's one filled
out by the Goblin Warrior of Atagua. Trace. All
right. So I'm going to leave those duly noted.
There's more papers, too. Oh, I thought you said
there were three papers. So there's those three,
but there's other stuff, too, I'm saying, apart
from this. I'll let you finish. On top of that,
there are also two writs of passage to the world
of Sibsonko. And they're made out for Zebulon
Brass and Jules LaRoche. All right. And I think
there's also another paper that's just a quick
rundown, you know, a map and sort of a brief
summary rundown of a place known as the Densing
Night Market. And you realize that this was all
stuff laid out for you should you have had that
meeting. It's still there. Maybe Rune Rasaan
was being hopeful the meeting could still happen.
But you don't know what his intentions were,
though, to send you to this place. Zebulon's
going to grab the map, the two writs of passage,
and he's going to lean into the diamond and say,
Transfer. Do you have a diamond on you? Isn't...
Sorry, in order to bring it to the Citadel, you
have to touch it to the main studio. Oh, well,
that's totally different than just saying transfer.
Sorry, you can transfer images between different
diamonds. I thought it was like Wi -Fi, like
on the Citadel. You can say transfer. It's the
fantasy cloud. Okay, well, now you're going to
make me steal this diamond. Yeah. For 300 gold,
this is a real theft. Isn't that what we were
doing? Well, I know, but if I had the option
to just transfer it without stealing this...
Bad dude's diamond. Yeah. He's going to take
it. Zebulon's not as fearless as Jules and the
Cherry Delights. This is his moment, though.
All right. This is what starts it all. Zebulon's
going to scoop the diamond, the map, and the...
Are they writs or writes? Writes of passage?
Writs of passage? I thought it was like writs.
Writs crackers of passage? W -R -I -T -S? Writs?
Oh, God, no. I want some writs crackers. I thought.
I could be wrong. Email Steven and let us know.
I just thought, like, a rite of passage is...
Anyways, I'll take those. So you just snatch
basically everything important off the desk.
Everything important. Okay. And move to leave.
You turn around. Great. Shit. And immediately
see there's a figure standing in the doorway.
And the figure says, Well, isn't that interesting?
I'm still invisible. Yep, but he just saw a bunch
of shit disappear off the desk. Oh. Okay. Okay.
I did not intend to kill anyone, I assure you,
but I had certain orders, and I really needed
the work. It's not an excuse. Are you still there?
Sibulon's going to use cunning action to dash
out of there. Okay. He's right in the middle
of the door, so you'll need to lock her back
to kind of weave past him. Oh, shit. I'll make
that roll. Oh, no. What's your roll? It was a
bad roll. Okay. It was a nine. That's with a
plus five. Yep. Four plus five. Oh, no. You go
to run out of there, and I think you try to move
past this tortle, and I think he sort of turns
just at the same time. It's the tortle. That's
the voice. Tortle? It is. I assumed it was rune.
No, this was a tortle. Um, so you go to move
past this totally and I think you like collide
and he like moves in one way. Maybe he like hatches
onto something, like some movement to his left
and he just immediately brings an arm out and
you'll have run into his arm and he's pretty
bulky. So you can almost bounce off of him. It's
like, wait, wait, wait, look. I should also mention
at this juncture that the spell does not end
when being touched. So you still, you're still
invisible. So I don't know which one of them
you are, but listen. I don't want to work for
this criminal anymore, right? His intention was
to send one of us with you. That's why our applications
are on the table. My name is Jean Franklin Mondelio.
I am, without doubt, the greatest and most noble
warrior you could possibly have on your side
if you're planning anything big. I know that
you people have influence, otherwise... Rune
would not be interested in you. I'm not interested
in Rune. I won't say anything. Just these steps
to the side. If you are in need of extra hands,
come and find me. And Zebulon walks over to the
desk and he takes the map of the night market
and drops it on the desk. And he says, If you
have any nobility at all, go take the map. And
then he waits for Jean Franklin to move towards
the map, and then he'll leave the room at the
opening. Okay. And he actually already had moved
to the side to let you pass. I know, but it wasn't
as dramatic as what I wanted to do. So he slowly
walks in, and he's walking towards it, and he's,
like, speaking to the air because he has no idea
where you are at this point. So he's kind of
turning his head this way and that. I know what
his intentions were. I know why he's sending
you there. You could use the information. You
don't need to work with Rune to get it. I just
want a simple sidekick's wage. It's not much.
Mostly I need the, uh... Well, I need to... I
need to be seen. I need to be known by the people.
But my people aren't very popular. And something
about my personality intimidates everyone around
me. If... If you want to know more, just seek
me out. And he goes to the map and picks it up.
Meet us there at sundown next day. Where? He
runs out of the room. He's holding a map to the
night market. Okay. Okay. So, ooh, that means
you have a set plan for when you're doing this.
Holy shit. All right. And you go to leave. Yeah,
you pass the haranguan who's still just snoring
away in the room. Uncomfortably, you hear the
name Sholay. Oh, Lady Sholay, please, you mustn't.
Oh, wow. Oh, gross. And you pass that character.
That's my grandmother. And you step out to the
courtyard and immediately see a scene of Jules
and Chester leaning over this goblin all bound
up in a sack with their knives out. So I'm going
to run up onto the scene on the far side of all
of them, lean down to the goblin and say, If
you want to be famous, don't say a fucking word.
And then I'll tap Jules and Chester on the shoulders
and run. And we get up and go. We leave him there,
bound and with the sack over him. All right.
And I'm fully aware that I just left my cloak.
Yeah. But your shield, essentially. No, not the
shitty sack cloak. It was integral to the character.
I don't really think I have a choice, though.
Maybe I'll get it back if he comes. All right.
With John Franklin. I don't know. Who knows?
Who knows? But... All I know is three thieves
now are leaving this place behind and disappearing
into the night, once again heading away from
this place and deeper into the Citadel. I think
once we get around a few corners, especially
when Chester and Jules say that the coast is
clear, Zebulon's going to want to duck into some
back alley and watch the footage on the diamond.
Okay. Something mechanically that I just thought
of. You're invisible for an hour. I think on
command you can turn it off, right? You can become
un -invisible, I think. I don't know. It doesn't
say that. I think you can. I think so. It's like
you just attack the wall real quick. Then you
stab the wall. I'm going to punch Jules in the
belly. Punch Jules. I mean, yeah, we could play
that out. Turn me back, damn it. All right. Yeah.
We'll, we'll say that happened. Yeah. You go
and you, you play the recording. I think you
just see, um, cause you don't think you have
the fine tune of this thing to like know how
to like get to certain parts yet. Um, so I think
you're kind of watching through this, this, and
you see a lot of like chaos on Tythos and Jules,
you're watching this too. And it's probably really
hard to see because you're watching people high
and low city, both, uh, folk, both being killed
by, by these electric creatures. I imagine I
see people I know. Yeah. Yeah. Now, I said that
these things can be transferred over. So it's
interesting because you're seeing an eclipse
that aren't all in one stream. It's like different
images. But basically, you're seeing a lot of
devastation on Tythos. You see a moment where
one of these things actually appears. The lightning
strikes down. You see the cobbles explode out
from beneath it. And this thing is standing there.
And I think at that, Jules, you feel the presence
of that fragment that was given to you. By fibro.
You feel it in your bag. Like it's just touching
the back of your spine. God, this is, it feels
gross. I'm sorry, Jules. I just wanted to see
if we got the goods. Yeah, it looks like we did.
We cut to a moment where you see from a perspective
of like some person staying between two like
high stone towers, maybe like standing in kind
of an alley, looking across this large expanse
to where a number of smaller buildings line,
just line up and you see the cherry delights
all fanned out. You see one of these creatures
goes charging towards them and you see jewels
just vanish, reappear behind it, reaches a handout
and this thing. fucking explodes like a fucking
90s, what do you call them, like disco toy. Holy
shit, Jules, you got some hits in too. How was
that? We see Zebulon at the top of the ramp.
You see one of these creatures comes forward,
and he just kind of weaves to the side and just,
whoa, whoa, whoa, an X pattern right through
this thing, and again, just like in a burst,
just almost like the energy just leaks out of
it into the fucking ether. We see him shit his
pants afterwards. Was that you, Zeb? Is it okay
if I call you Zeb? It was pretty cool, wasn't
it? That was pretty badass, I gotta say. What
was that movie you did? We'll talk about it later.
Was that like Kung Fu? Another time. And we actually
hear, I think, after Zebulon, you strike this
thing down and you like... strike kind of a pose
and maybe i don't think you notice the shakiness
in your legs as you're watching this um and you
can hear like cheering and people like oh someone's
shoulder is in there and people are just like
losing their minds at this and the footage cuts
soon after let's get out of here i uh i guess
i'm not gonna be the only superstar around here
jules roach but yeah i think you just say that
and maybe you guys Are you going to call it a
night and head? Where do you go back to sleep?
Because you haven't checked in with the Cherry
Delights in a while. Actually, you know what?
There is one more thing I forgot to mention that
is on the recording you see. Just after Zebulon,
you see one more clip. And I think, Jules, you
breathe a hefty sigh of relief when you see in
the mouth of the alley a man in leather, a big
brutish man in leather is moving away from you,
exposing his back as he's limping out. And you
don't kill this man. And he gets away. We got
the good stuff. This is going to launch us to
the front of the line. I never cared about being
at the front of the line. But if it'll help my
people, I'll go along with you. We can do this
together. Well, with your help, Jules, I think
we can really make something out of me. We'll
make a man out of you yet. So? Jesus Christ.
We'll call it there.