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I'm ready to go with you are I'm ready. You ready?

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I'm ready. Let's do it Last time in our story,

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our heroes struggled in a dire battle against

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a trio of supposed villains. As folk fell on

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both sides of the battle, in jewels edged close

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to death, Zebedon and Chester faced down against

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the total night that stood alone against them.

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Their clash was interrupted, however, as a strange

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gnome introduced himself as Rune Rusong. He appeared

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and exposed the deadly fight as an elaborate

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deception. A test of sorts. In a fit of fury,

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Zebulon attacked Rune. And after learning of

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his intentions to shape our heroes into infamous

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luminaries, Zebulon, Jules, and Chester stormed

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off. Lingering in their minds, though, is the

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diamond recorder held by Rune Rusong, an apparent

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key to their potential fame. Without his help

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and his recordings, what hope do our heroes have

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of escaping the sorry fates that await them here?

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In the Radiant Citadel. Storyteller on here.

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Storyteller on here. Storyteller on here. Merry

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Christmas, everybody. I think, right? Is that

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closer? I don't know. We have to do the maths,

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and I'm not good at maths. Yeah, I don't have

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a calendar in front of me. Yeah. Or a calculator.

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Merry Christmas. Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho. Or Happy

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New Year. And a Happy New Year. Or both at the

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same time. Maybe Easter. Definitely not Easter.

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I can pull up a calendar real fast. Okay, so...

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Well, we're going bi -weekly right now, but I

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think by then we're going to be going weekly.

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Shit, so we have no idea. So I have no fucking

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idea. We're not even releasing the... We are

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releasing... No, we're releasing the 10th, October

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10th. This could be Thanksgiving. It's episode

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three. It could be Thanksgiving. Then episode

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four is October 24th. Episode five is November

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7th. And then this... So this is between Christmas

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and Thanksgiving. So it is Christmas. It will

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be Christmas season. It'll be December 5th if

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we stick to bi -weekly. Close enough. Happy Christmas.

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Merry Christmas. Happy holidays. Happy everything.

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Happy holidays. Hey folks, future Jeremy here.

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I'd just like to let you all know that literally

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within an hour after we finished, we decided

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to begin releasing episodes on a weekly basis.

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So everyone, you are listening on Halloween.

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We are great at this. It's the month! So last

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time, right here on Fantasy Pants, we had quite

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the battle. I'll be straight, I took my gloves

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off. I was a real piece of slimy shit. Let my

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enemy come back on a nat 20 death save. Breaking

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all the GM rules. Yeah, you heard me. I broke

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him. I don't give a shit. I really want to know

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how you would have felt if you actually killed

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me. Would there have been a shred of regret?

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Let's just say we would have had to open another

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champagne on air, beer, whatever it was. Party

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time. Celebration. Celebrate the death of Jules

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LaRoche. Oh, yeah. Do you have a backup character?

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Jeremy? Not yet. No? But now I'm just remembering,

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and I probably should have one because I could

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die in a fake fight. This is D &D. It could happen

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any time. Or I could stumble down the stairs

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and get run over by horses. That's happened twice

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to each of us, or once to each of us. It has.

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It has happened. If you're rolling down one of

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those stairs, bam, horses. You know it's coming

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every time. You think the reasonable thing is

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fall down the stairs? No. Horses. Up the stairs.

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How? I don't give a fuck. It doesn't matter if

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it's a marble staircase in a government building.

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Natural one. Horses. Horses. Always horses. This

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has to be a thing. Spiral staircase in an alleyway?

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Horses. Sorry, David. Are you trying to talk?

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We're talking about horses. You'll be talking

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about horses real soon. Anyway, if Jeremy did

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die, we'd just take him out of the show, and

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we could just lock him in his room and have him

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edit forever and ever. That sounds great. Sounds

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wonderful. And I've got to say right here, because

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we haven't really touched on this yet, but any

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of the editing you're hearing in this, all the

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computer work that I'm too pea -brained to understand,

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it's all Jeremy. It's all Jeremy Wolf. This guy,

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tireless, gets shit done. And, hey, we released.

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We released episodes one and two this week. How

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do you guys feel about that? That happened. Yeah,

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excited to see the numbers. I mean, you know,

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it's very modest, but that's what we were expecting,

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and we're having a lot of fun. And I'm guessing

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that half of them are my mother -in -law. She's

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very excited. And that's okay. Shout out to Liz.

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That's great. Howdy, Liz. The whole point of

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this is to have fun. Absolutely. And bring others

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into the fun. That's right. Anybody who wants

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to have fun, come on in. You guys, we were talking

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a little bit about where we're going to go from

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here. I was wondering if we should jump a couple

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days up ahead. These guys seem to have other

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plans. They want to start off pretty much right

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from the moment they left. So I'm thrilled as

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Dungeon Master to just basically step back and

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say, all right, what are you guys doing? You

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set the scene. You let me know what's happening.

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All right. So I suppose. Zebulon, Jules, and

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Chester are all hand in hand walking away from...

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No, but... We created a forever bond. Yeah, we

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did decide to be friends and we're walking away

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from Rune's place. Jeremy, where do you think

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our characters are heading? I would imagine it's

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either going to be one of two places. We're either

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going back to the main... the main court area

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where pretty much Jules and all the Cherry Delights

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are hanging out, or we're going back to Zepp's

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place. One of the two. So where the Cherry Delights

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are is the something of exiles, the Hall of Exiles?

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Palace of Exiles. Palace of Exiles. It's also

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right around where your apartment is, because

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it's right around where the Shieldbearer's home

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office is, basically. Our home stays close to

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work. I think it kind of depends on where. Zebulon

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feels most comfortable going. Jules is going

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to go anywhere the fuck he wants to go. But he's

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cool anywhere. I think it's a matter of where

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Zebulon wants to go. Jules, I think we're going

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to need to come back here. You heard Rune. He's

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got the footage of... Well, I did some pretty

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cool stuff on Typhos. And he said it. You heard

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him. We're a risk. And no one's going to work

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with us unless we're a sure thing. And with his

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paparazzi, according to me, doing, I think that

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could launch us onto the luminary scene. Julius,

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have you ever thought about, are we going to

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be luminaries? What? I mean, that's something

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you want to do? I'm not sure what else. I always

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thought I'd be a shield bearer. Really? Well,

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that's what my brother is. You want to be one

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of them lackeys? Your brother your size? My brother,

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Arhalon, no. He's a lot bigger and stronger than

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I am, but I think I could make a good shield

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bearer, but I don't think that's an option for

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me anymore. Oh, kid, you definitely got some

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fighting chops. You saved our asses back there.

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Thanks, guys. Like I said, I thought I'd be a

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shield bearer, and Arhalon and I would practice

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and spar. He taught me a lot, but I don't think

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he's going to teach me anymore. I almost got

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hurt back there on Tythos, and it's not fair

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to him. He's got a lot going on, and I'm just

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going to do my own thing, and that might be becoming

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a Luminary. They're so cool, and they're... They're

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on the billboards and cereal boxes. Haven't you

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ever wanted something like that? Not particularly,

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no. Oh, man. I mean, kid, you got some real talent,

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kid. Let me tell you. You really do. And if that's

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what you want, you got to go and chase it. Me?

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It's not something that I ever aspired to be.

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But if, I don't know, if it helps my people.

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If it helps the good people prosper, I'll do

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what it takes. I'll do what I have to do. Well,

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if you help me, then maybe I could help you and

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your people. This might be something here. So

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will you help me steal the footage that Rune

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has? Chester just grins over at you. This is

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exactly the kind of shit he's down for. Because

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you heard him. He's not going to release it.

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Unless we agree to be luminaries for him. We

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need control of that footage. But he's a... He's

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a jerk. So if we... We're going to work on that.

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Yeah, were you just trying to curse, kid? I'll

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teach you good, okay? I couldn't think of a good

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enough one. The one that I thought of might have

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been a little... Too much? Piece of shit. Go

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for it. Come on. Rune's a real asshole. Jules,

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look at him. Damn. We're already corrupting the

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fella, huh? Right? He's on the right track. So

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if we can steal that footage from Rune and show

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it to a different agent, then, I mean, I don't

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know, maybe anyone in the Citadel would want

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to work with us. You may have a point, Jules.

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I mean, that Rune fella's right. Maybe it's time

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we got out of the shadows and stepped in the

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light, you know? Actually make a difference.

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Actually do something. Imagine the look on your

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parents' face. If you end up on the screen, we

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can expose them for what they are. Goddamn, Chester,

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you know my weakness. Always. Let's do it. Let's

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do it. Perfect. Okay, so, first things first.

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You each get a button. That was the button, baby.

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Strong start. I loved it. Thanks, David. Fantastic.

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Hell yeah. You probably earned them because I

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claimed a lot last session. Maybe unfairly. It

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was like 10 or 15 minutes where you didn't have

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to do any work. It's great. I took a nap. I'm

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ready to go now. So let's talk about your plan

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here. What's that, listener? The show was incredible

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for the last 10 minutes? What? Oh, David. David.

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Just leave us a like and a comment. Give me that

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button back. Let us know how much you enjoyed

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the show without David in it. See if you get

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another one in the next four sessions. Whatever,

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nerd. Yeah. What's your plan? What was your name?

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Zeb again? Zeb, right? Zebulon. Zebulon. Okay.

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Zebulon Brash. Oh, I dig it. I dig it. Jules,

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right? Yeah. Jules. And... I'm Chester. Chucky.

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Chester. No, not Chucky. No, we don't do that.

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People get stabbed for that. Jeez, you're a feisty

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one, huh? A little bit. I mean, we definitely

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got to lay out a plan here. We can't just go

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back and grab it. Well, I ain't seen any windows

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in that building. Only one way in, the way I

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looked at it. We might have to fight our way

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in. Oh, jeez. Kind of... We almost just did.

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I mean, we only saw the front of the building,

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right? All right, how about this? How about this?

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Let's go get a little bit of rest. Maybe discuss

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a little bit. Plan a little bit. Make sure we're

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ready. Yeah. Well rested. Mechanically speaking,

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a long rest. You have a pick of luck, Zebulon?

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I mean, I've tried to sneak into... Arhalon's

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diary when we were kids, but I think that's a

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little bit different than somebody's front door.

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Ooh, this guy's real nefarious, huh, Jules? Mm

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-hmm. I got some tools I can give you a rundown

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on in the meat lab. There's some real juicy stuff

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in there I'll have you know. Oh, I bet. I bet.

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So I take everyone's heading back to the Palace

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of Exile then. Have you ever read a 16 -year

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-old... Half Dragon's Diary. They hit puberty

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at 16, you know. All right. Your place and mine.

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I don't really have a place, so it's going to

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be out in the middle of all the people. My place

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isn't really an option anymore, but I do think

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that we could go visit Xena. Who that? She's

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kind of my mom. She's Arhalon's mom. Arthlon?

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Close. Arhalon. Ar. Ar. Ha. Ha. Lon. Lon. That's

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my brother. Okay. All together now. So y 'all

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got different moms? Arhalon. Arhalon. That's

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right, Chester. All right. I mean, it's a safe

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house. I'm down with it. I'm pretty sure we'll

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be safe with Xena. I mean, she is a part dragon,

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after all. I mean, how close are you to her?

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Well, I mean, I grew up with Xena, of course.

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She's eccentric. I can dig it. Yeah, it'll be

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interesting. She's safe. Where does she lean

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on the, say, political spectrum? That's not something

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that Xena's going to pay much attention to. That's

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all I need to hear. Okay. That's okay. So I think

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we could stay with Xena at least long enough

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to rest up and then come right back here and

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show this guy who's boss. I like the way this

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is going. What do you say, Chester? No, man.

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Sounds good to me. All right. So you got to start

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moving. Head off to Zima's apartment. Yeah, as

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we get closer to the apartment, I'm going to

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kind of drop back behind Zebulon a little bit.

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Chester was thinking the exact same thing. I

00:15:57.330 --> 00:16:01.029
don't know this person or this dragon. I'm not

00:16:01.029 --> 00:16:06.269
scared, more just cautious. As you drop back,

00:16:06.370 --> 00:16:09.110
Chester actually kind of like weighs you to come

00:16:09.110 --> 00:16:13.090
in close. He says, holy shit, Jules. You know

00:16:13.090 --> 00:16:16.350
who this brat is? No idea. He's a brass, Jules.

00:16:16.990 --> 00:16:20.970
He's on a shoelace. This guy's got mad famous

00:16:20.970 --> 00:16:28.250
parents. Oh, shit. That brass. Yeah. Yeah. We

00:16:28.250 --> 00:16:31.230
made a stone upon gold here. What are you talking

00:16:31.230 --> 00:16:33.889
about? We keep the kid around. We help him. Well,

00:16:34.029 --> 00:16:36.409
or we don't. Either way, we can make money off

00:16:36.409 --> 00:16:38.950
of this guy. We can get influence off of this

00:16:38.950 --> 00:16:41.590
guy. I think this is a little different, Chester.

00:16:41.950 --> 00:16:44.509
All right. Just keeping our options open. I'm

00:16:44.509 --> 00:16:46.490
feeling a little different about this one, okay?

00:16:46.990 --> 00:16:49.110
You're the boss, Jules. You know that. This might

00:16:49.110 --> 00:16:52.429
be something real good for all of us, including

00:16:52.429 --> 00:16:55.850
him. All right. All right. I'm just going to

00:16:55.850 --> 00:16:59.029
keep my eyes open anyway. All right. You do you.

00:16:59.450 --> 00:17:03.990
And you guys all move across. So you're... Let's

00:17:03.990 --> 00:17:06.710
think. I think... What are you doing trying to

00:17:06.710 --> 00:17:09.730
fucking make me get the idea of making money

00:17:09.730 --> 00:17:12.470
off of Zebulon? Fuck that shit. That name was

00:17:12.470 --> 00:17:17.339
too hard. But yeah, so... Xena's place, I think,

00:17:17.359 --> 00:17:20.140
is actually not terribly far. We once showed

00:17:20.140 --> 00:17:23.039
a flashback of Zebulon and Arhalon standing at

00:17:23.039 --> 00:17:26.059
a massive door entering deeper into the radiant

00:17:26.059 --> 00:17:29.799
citadel, into the giant auroral diamond the citadel

00:17:29.799 --> 00:17:34.799
is built around. This opening, there's a number

00:17:34.799 --> 00:17:38.480
of villas and nice townhomes and stuff built

00:17:38.480 --> 00:17:42.440
close by this. A lot of them belong to the Speakers

00:17:42.440 --> 00:17:45.440
for the Ancestors, who generally do their governance

00:17:45.440 --> 00:17:50.460
from within the diamond. Xena's house is amongst

00:17:50.460 --> 00:17:55.079
these, sort of tucked off to the side. It's kind

00:17:55.079 --> 00:17:58.000
of pushed farther back. There's actually a decent

00:17:58.000 --> 00:18:00.039
yard to this house, which is kind of strange

00:18:00.039 --> 00:18:03.319
in the Citadel. Strings had to be pulled in order

00:18:03.319 --> 00:18:05.000
to make that happen, because stuff's pretty tight

00:18:05.000 --> 00:18:09.099
together. But you do see this building. Very

00:18:09.099 --> 00:18:13.759
well kept. The lawn is well taken care of. There's

00:18:13.759 --> 00:18:15.819
a gate that you can just easily push open and

00:18:15.819 --> 00:18:18.480
walk through, and you move up to this large,

00:18:18.619 --> 00:18:22.380
upscale building. So that part of the citadel

00:18:22.380 --> 00:18:23.799
that you're talking about, that's pretty close

00:18:23.799 --> 00:18:27.079
to the Court of Whispers, right? Fairly close,

00:18:27.180 --> 00:18:30.240
yes. It's not far at all. That's convenient for

00:18:30.240 --> 00:18:34.009
us. Yeah, it is. Yeah, so if... The gate's open.

00:18:34.329 --> 00:18:36.849
Zebulon will push it open and walk up to the

00:18:36.849 --> 00:18:41.089
door and rapid tap tap on the door. Okay. I'd

00:18:41.089 --> 00:18:43.369
say we're probably about five to ten feet behind

00:18:43.369 --> 00:18:46.450
him. All right. You'll hear an answer at first.

00:18:47.069 --> 00:18:51.910
Jima! Jima! You hear like from somewhere then.

00:18:53.750 --> 00:19:02.359
Like a roar of some beast. Zebulon! You hear,

00:19:02.380 --> 00:19:05.660
like, stuff starts falling. Like a bunch of clattering

00:19:05.660 --> 00:19:08.420
from inside the house deeper in. And almost you

00:19:08.420 --> 00:19:13.980
hear this, like, cacophony of stuff falling as

00:19:13.980 --> 00:19:18.799
something rushes towards the door. And in, like,

00:19:18.819 --> 00:19:23.259
a fit of energy, kind of surprising, the door

00:19:23.259 --> 00:19:28.319
just flings open. And you see a half -dragon

00:19:28.319 --> 00:19:32.529
woman. I guess I would say she doesn't look old.

00:19:32.769 --> 00:19:34.789
Half -dragons can live for a very long time.

00:19:35.230 --> 00:19:40.009
But she's got a mature air about her. Her eyes

00:19:40.009 --> 00:19:44.869
are wide and excited, just fixed down on you.

00:19:44.950 --> 00:19:48.690
And she's large. She's not quite Arhalon size,

00:19:48.849 --> 00:19:51.230
but definitely still towers above Zebulon. She's

00:19:51.230 --> 00:19:54.190
got the brass dragon sort of crested, almost

00:19:54.190 --> 00:19:59.269
Triceratops -esque head crest. And she's just

00:19:59.269 --> 00:20:01.750
beaming. And I have to think of a voice because

00:20:01.750 --> 00:20:03.730
I didn't expect this character to come up already.

00:20:04.069 --> 00:20:09.509
I think as she opens the door, Jules and Chester

00:20:09.509 --> 00:20:12.670
kind of grab hands. They just kind of slowly

00:20:12.670 --> 00:20:17.990
back away. Zivulan reaches into the bag he packed

00:20:17.990 --> 00:20:23.190
and pulls out a few pieces of sea glass that

00:20:23.190 --> 00:20:27.119
he got from some... traveling merchant who happened

00:20:27.119 --> 00:20:30.519
to set up at the Citadel. You know, some blue,

00:20:30.740 --> 00:20:34.559
some green, some purple pieces, all smooth and

00:20:34.559 --> 00:20:38.299
soft and round and holds them up. Hey, Gina,

00:20:38.380 --> 00:20:42.519
I brought you these. She stares down at you and

00:20:42.519 --> 00:20:45.519
smoke just billows out from her mouth as like

00:20:45.519 --> 00:20:48.880
a sort of a gust of flame just lights up her,

00:20:48.900 --> 00:20:54.539
the back of her throat. She just, Zebulon! Oh,

00:20:54.539 --> 00:20:57.579
Zebulon. Oh, my sweet, my sweet. She just picks

00:20:57.579 --> 00:21:01.160
you up and grabs you, just pulls you into this

00:21:01.160 --> 00:21:03.900
ridiculously tight embrace, just swinging you

00:21:03.900 --> 00:21:06.119
around and drops you back down again. How long

00:21:06.119 --> 00:21:09.559
has it been since you've come by? Oh, Xena, it's

00:21:09.559 --> 00:21:13.619
been too long. I'm really sorry. I've just, I've

00:21:13.619 --> 00:21:16.099
been busy, you know. Oh, what's this? What's

00:21:16.099 --> 00:21:17.660
this? And she's just already ignoring you and

00:21:17.660 --> 00:21:21.099
grabbing the stuff that you get down. Oh, it's

00:21:21.099 --> 00:21:24.299
so pretty. It's so pretty. I have just the place

00:21:24.299 --> 00:21:26.519
for them. I have just the place. Oh, I have new

00:21:26.519 --> 00:21:29.700
things. I have new things. Can we come in? Can

00:21:29.700 --> 00:21:34.680
we see them? Yes. And I motion back to my friends

00:21:34.680 --> 00:21:37.680
as I say, can we? We're just still kind of sitting

00:21:37.680 --> 00:21:40.799
a little frozen. She, like, turns to you guys

00:21:40.799 --> 00:21:43.640
and just beams and turns back to Zebulon. Zebulon,

00:21:43.660 --> 00:21:48.160
who are these? These are my new friends. Zebulon,

00:21:48.160 --> 00:22:12.359
you have friends? And she just is already disappearing

00:22:12.359 --> 00:22:15.180
into the door and what you guys see looking in

00:22:15.180 --> 00:22:22.950
is just piles And piles and piles of just junk

00:22:22.950 --> 00:22:26.450
and refuse and collections. There's like different

00:22:26.450 --> 00:22:30.190
novelty, like goblets and glasses everywhere.

00:22:30.890 --> 00:22:33.630
Bottles of empty wine, just like stacked up in

00:22:33.630 --> 00:22:37.150
one corner. Just anything you could think of.

00:22:37.210 --> 00:22:39.130
Shells, like you said. I mean, the Citadel is

00:22:39.130 --> 00:22:41.109
a place where many, many things from many worlds

00:22:41.109 --> 00:22:43.789
go through. And it looks like one of everything

00:22:43.789 --> 00:22:47.170
is in this house. So Zebulon's standing to the

00:22:47.170 --> 00:22:49.829
side of the front door. Kind of ushering Jules

00:22:49.829 --> 00:22:54.890
and Chester in. He says, try not to touch anything.

00:22:55.609 --> 00:22:59.630
Which I know he can be hard, but he's kind of

00:22:59.630 --> 00:23:03.269
particular. I don't think you got to worry about

00:23:03.269 --> 00:23:07.630
any of us touching any of this. As you say, she's

00:23:07.630 --> 00:23:09.349
kind of particular. Jules, you just watch as

00:23:09.349 --> 00:23:13.549
she walks up to one pile of stuff and nods vigorously

00:23:13.549 --> 00:23:15.690
and just kind of throws the sea glass on top

00:23:15.690 --> 00:23:18.690
of it. And just nods again. She's like, perfect.

00:23:20.190 --> 00:23:22.549
It's in the middle of the room. There's no rhyme

00:23:22.549 --> 00:23:25.430
or reason to it, but it is perfect. And I think

00:23:25.430 --> 00:23:27.089
she just bustles, almost like you're forgotten,

00:23:27.170 --> 00:23:29.250
just bustles into the back. And you can just

00:23:29.250 --> 00:23:32.589
hear her in the back of the house as though you're

00:23:32.589 --> 00:23:34.509
standing right there, just like, oh, my God,

00:23:34.569 --> 00:23:36.950
there's my traveling roach. Did you see? It's

00:23:36.950 --> 00:23:39.589
green. You know I love green. It's my second

00:23:39.589 --> 00:23:42.109
favorite color. There's also a blue one. Oh,

00:23:42.210 --> 00:23:44.750
right, I put that. Hang on. And she's just going

00:23:44.750 --> 00:23:50.079
on and on. Zena, I was hoping that we could stay

00:23:50.079 --> 00:23:55.420
for just a little while. You want to stay? If

00:23:55.420 --> 00:23:58.799
that's okay. I mean, we kind of got into a little

00:23:58.799 --> 00:24:02.660
bit of a fight, Zena. Oh, no, you got into a

00:24:02.660 --> 00:24:05.839
fight? I was just hoping that we could... Did

00:24:05.839 --> 00:24:08.539
Arhalon take care of them? I raised him to be

00:24:08.539 --> 00:24:11.839
strong, you know. Hey, this little guy took care

00:24:11.839 --> 00:24:16.059
of himself. Sabula, did you? I think she actually

00:24:16.059 --> 00:24:18.079
notices a sword for the first time there. And

00:24:18.079 --> 00:24:21.619
she, unlike everyone else in your family, grins

00:24:21.619 --> 00:24:24.920
this wide. She grins. Oh, my little Zebulon,

00:24:24.920 --> 00:24:28.339
little warrior, you did. And just rubs your horns.

00:24:28.539 --> 00:24:32.619
Well, we're not done with him yet. Actually,

00:24:33.079 --> 00:24:35.700
all I know is she rubs his horns. Jules, you.

00:24:36.649 --> 00:24:38.609
Note, and it kind of goes along with Zebulon's

00:24:38.609 --> 00:24:40.730
story, his horns are very different from hers.

00:24:40.869 --> 00:24:43.609
She has that triceratops crest where he has these

00:24:43.609 --> 00:24:46.750
curved, almost ram -like horns. Okay. And you

00:24:46.750 --> 00:24:49.769
can notice that while she has that shining, reflective

00:24:49.769 --> 00:24:53.509
brass scales, his are a sort of darker matte.

00:24:53.869 --> 00:24:56.829
Okay. They're just different. We just kind of

00:24:56.829 --> 00:24:59.150
need to get our strength back up. Maybe have

00:24:59.150 --> 00:25:04.329
a snack. I have snacks. I am a little famished.

00:25:04.829 --> 00:25:07.529
And then we'll be on our way, Gina, I swear.

00:25:07.789 --> 00:25:10.970
I'll get a goat. I'll get a goat. I have goats

00:25:10.970 --> 00:25:14.250
in here somewhere. Maybe, Gina. Should I just

00:25:14.250 --> 00:25:19.690
say goats? Humans. Maybe. Crackers. Carrots.

00:25:20.309 --> 00:25:24.390
What else do we have? Cheese. Carrots. I have

00:25:24.390 --> 00:25:28.210
those. Can I help you? I'll find them. You chat,

00:25:28.410 --> 00:25:31.369
chat, chat. Have fun. You're friends. And you're

00:25:31.369 --> 00:25:35.700
tough. It's tough. And she just runs off excitedly

00:25:35.700 --> 00:25:38.279
and just like burrows into a pile and is like

00:25:38.279 --> 00:25:40.299
looking for something. As you guys are like sort

00:25:40.299 --> 00:25:42.859
of talking, you can just hear like piles come

00:25:42.859 --> 00:25:45.400
crashing down in a bag. I mean, it's funny because

00:25:45.400 --> 00:25:47.099
you go into this house and there's no real furniture.

00:25:47.200 --> 00:25:51.079
It is like an empty building with just piles

00:25:51.079 --> 00:25:55.299
everywhere. But like you would know Zebulon and

00:25:55.299 --> 00:25:57.099
Jules, you probably would kind of, it's pretty

00:25:57.099 --> 00:26:01.990
basic knowledge that dragons are hoarders. This

00:26:01.990 --> 00:26:05.349
feels more like a dragon's hoard than a typical

00:26:05.349 --> 00:26:07.650
actual living situation. There is no furniture,

00:26:07.769 --> 00:26:10.809
but like the legendary great dragons of lore,

00:26:11.130 --> 00:26:14.829
Xena must just rest upon her treasures. And her

00:26:14.829 --> 00:26:19.470
treasures just happen to be everything. But I

00:26:19.470 --> 00:26:20.690
think you guys have, and I think she managed

00:26:20.690 --> 00:26:23.829
to find you something to snack on, crackers and

00:26:23.829 --> 00:26:27.730
whatnot. A little old. Not too old, though. They're

00:26:27.730 --> 00:26:30.500
edible. Just a little stale. More than a little

00:26:30.500 --> 00:26:36.140
stale. But you guys have some time to sort of

00:26:36.140 --> 00:26:38.660
talk things over. And at some point she does

00:26:38.660 --> 00:26:42.759
randomly bring out a flame -roasted goat. Jeez.

00:26:42.980 --> 00:26:45.539
You don't know at what point that happened. I

00:26:45.539 --> 00:26:46.799
think at one point you were just talking and

00:26:46.799 --> 00:26:49.539
you kind of heard like a... In the background.

00:26:49.779 --> 00:26:53.700
Shit. Is that safe to eat? Well, I mean, it's

00:26:53.700 --> 00:26:57.440
cooked pretty thoroughly. I don't know how much

00:26:57.440 --> 00:27:01.650
you know about... Dragon's breath. Yeah, that's

00:27:01.650 --> 00:27:05.710
what concerns me a bit. It's going to be okay.

00:27:05.849 --> 00:27:13.029
It's actually pretty delicious. Okay. I'm going

00:27:13.029 --> 00:27:16.569
to trust you on this. And so as you all kind

00:27:16.569 --> 00:27:18.309
of rest down, there's no table, but you find

00:27:18.309 --> 00:27:21.009
a pile of stuff. You can lay like a flat. I think

00:27:21.009 --> 00:27:23.119
maybe there's a top of a table. no legs. You

00:27:23.119 --> 00:27:26.240
slide over a pile and you all sit around it.

00:27:26.259 --> 00:27:28.259
And Xena's just sitting there and she's not speaking

00:27:28.259 --> 00:27:30.279
at all. She's just watching you guys excitedly

00:27:30.279 --> 00:27:32.720
as you, as you talk and plan. And Zebulon, you

00:27:32.720 --> 00:27:34.880
know, it doesn't matter. You can say whatever

00:27:34.880 --> 00:27:37.960
you want in front of her. She'll forget by tomorrow

00:27:37.960 --> 00:27:40.059
anyway, this whole plan you're coming up with.

00:27:40.140 --> 00:27:42.140
I also don't think that anyone would believe

00:27:42.140 --> 00:27:45.759
Xena, even if she did remember and cohesively.

00:27:46.259 --> 00:27:49.880
It doesn't sound like it. Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean,

00:27:50.509 --> 00:27:52.789
As someone who is taken advantage of by his family,

00:27:53.630 --> 00:27:56.190
Zebulon feels like he's sort of doing that now.

00:27:56.730 --> 00:28:02.990
But he also knows that while Xena's not his birth

00:28:02.990 --> 00:28:06.009
mother, he knows that she does love him and she

00:28:06.009 --> 00:28:09.390
does want him to succeed and be safe. So there's

00:28:09.390 --> 00:28:14.170
a tang of guilt, but he knows that if he's done

00:28:14.170 --> 00:28:16.009
Xena wrong in any way, he'll make it up to her

00:28:16.009 --> 00:28:19.690
because there is love there that is family. Yeah.

00:28:20.539 --> 00:28:23.220
Yeah. The day turns to night and you guys have

00:28:23.220 --> 00:28:24.859
a place to stay. You guys have a place to plan.

00:28:25.160 --> 00:28:28.099
You have a place to rest for the day. So before

00:28:28.099 --> 00:28:30.099
you get your long rest, is there anything else

00:28:30.099 --> 00:28:32.480
you want to do to prepare for your nighttime

00:28:32.480 --> 00:28:36.519
excursion back into the Court of Whispers? Hey,

00:28:36.539 --> 00:28:42.460
Chester. Zebulon points to a locked wooden chest

00:28:42.460 --> 00:28:46.299
nearby. You want to show me those tools you got?

00:28:46.420 --> 00:28:49.859
I love this scenario because you can say, Jebulon

00:28:49.859 --> 00:28:51.859
points to, and there's nothing that won't be

00:28:51.859 --> 00:28:58.299
in this fucking room. Thanks for artistic license,

00:28:58.539 --> 00:29:02.480
DM. Yeah. It's just like anything, anything.

00:29:05.059 --> 00:29:09.059
He's like, oh, yeah, sure. He pulls out his thieves

00:29:09.059 --> 00:29:11.420
tools and I think gives you a quick rundown.

00:29:12.279 --> 00:29:13.960
All right, yes, you just finesse it in just like

00:29:13.960 --> 00:29:16.960
this, right? Now give it an easy turn and listen

00:29:16.960 --> 00:29:22.079
for it. You hear that? There you are. Hey, you

00:29:22.079 --> 00:29:25.059
made it look pretty easy, Chester. Give it a

00:29:25.059 --> 00:29:27.539
shot. And he hands you, I think this is second

00:29:27.539 --> 00:29:29.180
luck, Chester, because fucking why not? There's,

00:29:29.180 --> 00:29:31.240
of course, this one next to it. Yeah, of course,

00:29:31.259 --> 00:29:32.920
there's plenty of them. Chester's a whiz. You're

00:29:32.920 --> 00:29:35.960
learning from the best here. Gee, cool, thanks.

00:29:36.920 --> 00:29:39.400
And, I mean, I'll make a sleight of hand roll.

00:29:39.619 --> 00:29:44.160
Yeah, sleight of hand. Ooh. It's an 18. You,

00:29:44.180 --> 00:29:49.400
at first try, pop it open. Just like, damn. Kid

00:29:49.400 --> 00:29:52.240
runs fast, Jules. It's a natural. Yeah, he is.

00:29:52.500 --> 00:29:55.279
I think I might have a hand for this. I shouldn't

00:29:55.279 --> 00:29:58.579
have wasted that decent roll, but I guess we'll

00:29:58.579 --> 00:30:00.839
see what happens. Just later this morning. You're

00:30:00.839 --> 00:30:04.599
just warming up. It's just a warm -up roll. I'll

00:30:04.599 --> 00:30:06.900
tell you what. You can keep those. I got more

00:30:06.900 --> 00:30:10.200
stored away. Hey, thanks, man. And you have Thieves'

00:30:10.200 --> 00:30:12.970
Tools. Ta -da. You're finally becoming a rogue.

00:30:13.309 --> 00:30:16.130
That's right. The least roguish rogue. Yeah,

00:30:16.130 --> 00:30:19.809
I know. Mechanically, a level two rogue would

00:30:19.809 --> 00:30:21.490
have had thieves tools, but. This archetypical

00:30:21.490 --> 00:30:28.529
edgy rogue. I think that's really all Zeb needs

00:30:28.529 --> 00:30:30.789
to do before a long rest. All right. Yeah. I

00:30:30.789 --> 00:30:34.029
think we're just going to, what, plan on going

00:30:34.029 --> 00:30:37.089
just back there and searching the room, you think?

00:30:37.369 --> 00:30:41.009
Yeah. Sounds good. Go back and try to bust in.

00:30:41.049 --> 00:30:43.490
I mean, we should definitely be prepared for

00:30:43.490 --> 00:30:47.509
some type of resistance, just in case. Might

00:30:47.509 --> 00:30:50.329
not be nobody, but there might be somebody. Well,

00:30:50.349 --> 00:30:52.589
yeah, we know this guy's got at least three goons.

00:30:52.970 --> 00:30:55.769
I don't know if they sleep there, but we'll find

00:30:55.769 --> 00:31:00.970
out. Yep. All right. So you guys take a long

00:31:00.970 --> 00:31:03.890
rest, reset yourselves. We're going to just move

00:31:03.890 --> 00:31:05.369
across town. We're going to move back to the

00:31:05.369 --> 00:31:06.950
Court of Whispers. We're going to move back to

00:31:06.950 --> 00:31:10.890
this large brick building surrounded by a large

00:31:10.890 --> 00:31:13.950
brick wall, a big courtyard leading up to it,

00:31:14.009 --> 00:31:16.410
a big old broken fountain in the midst of that

00:31:16.410 --> 00:31:19.069
courtyard, except now it is, wait, I was going

00:31:19.069 --> 00:31:23.069
to say lit by night, but let's say at nighttime

00:31:23.069 --> 00:31:25.250
in the Radiant Seydel, the auroral diamond's

00:31:25.250 --> 00:31:28.269
light dims down to the point where it's much

00:31:28.269 --> 00:31:30.720
darker. Oh, I like that. Yeah, it fits. So it's

00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:33.440
the same 24 -hour schedule of day, basically.

00:31:33.440 --> 00:31:37.279
It's like an ambient nightlight. Yeah, so whatever

00:31:37.279 --> 00:31:40.779
color the diamond is shining, it always dims

00:31:40.779 --> 00:31:44.480
at night. I'm envisioning like a salt lamp. Maybe

00:31:44.480 --> 00:31:46.579
with a little bit of a pinker hue than orange.

00:31:46.940 --> 00:31:51.599
Yeah, tonight it's a pink salt lamp. Pink Himalayan

00:31:51.599 --> 00:31:55.099
salt lamp. So soothing. And under the soothing

00:31:55.099 --> 00:31:58.369
light, we see three heroes. Moving on to the

00:31:58.369 --> 00:31:59.970
scene, let's just say you're approaching from

00:31:59.970 --> 00:32:03.730
the front towards that opening in the courtyard,

00:32:03.950 --> 00:32:08.829
and I want you to all roll perception checks.

00:32:09.349 --> 00:32:15.049
Oh. Oh, boy. Okay. I can't see mine, but it looks

00:32:15.049 --> 00:32:17.549
like a seven or a two. Yeah, you got a seven

00:32:17.549 --> 00:32:20.710
there. I rolled the same with my passive, which

00:32:20.710 --> 00:32:23.069
is a nine. Okay, you also can roll for Chester

00:32:23.069 --> 00:32:25.190
as well. Dear God, Chester, please. Oh, Chester,

00:32:25.329 --> 00:32:27.740
yes, please. Does he get any modifiers, or is

00:32:27.740 --> 00:32:29.480
he just super basic? He has good perception,

00:32:29.519 --> 00:32:31.539
actually. Probably better than both of us. Let

00:32:31.539 --> 00:32:34.359
me check real quick. I believe he has perception

00:32:34.359 --> 00:32:40.759
is a plus four. Oh, Chester, baby, our ringer.

00:32:40.839 --> 00:32:42.619
He's going to come in clutch in a lot of different

00:32:42.619 --> 00:32:45.319
ways. Well, yeah, depending on your roll. So

00:32:45.319 --> 00:32:48.119
that's 18. So you guys are moving towards this

00:32:48.119 --> 00:32:49.559
thing, and Chester suddenly goes, hey, hey, hey,

00:32:49.559 --> 00:32:53.799
whoa, whoa. Listen, listen. What's up? And you

00:32:53.799 --> 00:32:55.519
all sort of go quiet, and you can hear, like,

00:32:55.519 --> 00:32:59.160
suddenly muttering, just like, If I see that

00:32:59.160 --> 00:33:01.920
little tiny dragon this again, I'll make a lizard

00:33:01.920 --> 00:33:05.819
stew, I will. Stupid, fancy little dragon this.

00:33:06.200 --> 00:33:10.819
Oh, fire. Trace wants a rain match, he does.

00:33:11.079 --> 00:33:13.619
Trace needs to catch him up and make a stew,

00:33:13.680 --> 00:33:17.680
he does. You hear the grumbling of a familiar

00:33:17.680 --> 00:33:21.980
goblin. Ah, they're still here. Shit. You hear

00:33:21.980 --> 00:33:24.019
this. Sounds like it's coming from the other

00:33:24.019 --> 00:33:25.900
side of the courtyard. Sounds kind of far away.

00:33:26.839 --> 00:33:28.480
If you want to take a look, you can roll stealth.

00:33:28.740 --> 00:33:31.079
The other side, are you talking like not the

00:33:31.079 --> 00:33:33.180
side of the building or not the side that we're

00:33:33.180 --> 00:33:36.019
on? Basically, the only way into this building

00:33:36.019 --> 00:33:37.660
is the main door at the edge of the courtyard

00:33:37.660 --> 00:33:40.880
you saw earlier. You are standing just outside

00:33:40.880 --> 00:33:44.619
the courtyard where there's a brick wall surrounding

00:33:44.619 --> 00:33:47.900
it, only one opening. So you hear someone from

00:33:47.900 --> 00:33:51.400
probably around where the door is. Only one voice.

00:33:51.839 --> 00:33:54.720
Alec Chester pointed it out to you. I kind of

00:33:54.720 --> 00:33:56.359
want to make Chester invisible and send him in

00:33:56.359 --> 00:33:59.519
there. To do what, though? I don't know. Well,

00:33:59.539 --> 00:34:06.660
I mean, we want to get the orc. No, goblin. Gerblins.

00:34:06.799 --> 00:34:09.780
We want to get the goblin away from the door.

00:34:10.440 --> 00:34:15.340
And he's looking for Zebulon. So Zebulon could

00:34:15.340 --> 00:34:19.699
make himself known and draw the goblin out. What

00:34:19.699 --> 00:34:22.940
if we open the door and we stand to the sides

00:34:22.940 --> 00:34:28.320
so they can't see us? And I cast a minor illusion

00:34:28.320 --> 00:34:33.000
of Zebulon. Okay. A little further out the door.

00:34:33.239 --> 00:34:35.099
Oh, shit. You have that? And we slip in behind.

00:34:35.480 --> 00:34:37.179
So we would have to sneak. Fuck yeah, I have

00:34:37.179 --> 00:34:39.619
that. So we would have to sneak into the courtyard

00:34:39.619 --> 00:34:43.519
first. then cast Minor Illusion. Do we? I'm just

00:34:43.519 --> 00:34:45.639
saying we stay outside of the door, and I cast

00:34:45.639 --> 00:34:47.360
Minor Illusion a little. Well, because then this

00:34:47.360 --> 00:34:49.019
guy's going to come out of the courtyard, and

00:34:49.019 --> 00:34:51.039
he's going to see us. Not if we're standing to

00:34:51.039 --> 00:34:52.400
the side of the door, and he's running after

00:34:52.400 --> 00:34:55.960
Zebulon. I'm into it. I don't know. Just a thought.

00:34:56.360 --> 00:34:59.119
I'm into it. I got shit we can use in these situations.

00:34:59.239 --> 00:35:03.659
The Minor Illusion thing is key, and that's just...

00:35:03.659 --> 00:35:07.679
Yeah, it's a sound or an image. Oh. Well, sound

00:35:07.679 --> 00:35:10.639
will work fine. It says of an object. I mean...

00:35:10.639 --> 00:35:13.239
I think I would count it. I think that's fine.

00:35:13.639 --> 00:35:15.559
Yeah, it's cool as hell. Yeah, especially if

00:35:15.559 --> 00:35:17.940
it's just a sound. It must be no larger than

00:35:17.940 --> 00:35:20.500
a five -foot cube. How tall is Zebulon? Oh my

00:35:20.500 --> 00:35:22.139
god, that actually makes Zebulon's shortness.

00:35:22.639 --> 00:35:25.780
I think you're smaller than five feet. Yeah,

00:35:25.820 --> 00:35:29.639
but not a five -foot cube. When you cube five,

00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:32.000
that's, like, smaller. No, no, I believe it's

00:35:32.000 --> 00:35:35.230
five -foot -like. Five foot tall. Five by five

00:35:35.230 --> 00:35:38.170
by five. Yes. Gotcha. All right, fuck it. If

00:35:38.170 --> 00:35:41.329
you'll allow it. I absolutely will allow it.

00:35:41.349 --> 00:35:44.570
This is fun as hell. All right, so I'm going

00:35:44.570 --> 00:35:47.409
to cast an image of Zebulon. Let's say... There's

00:35:47.409 --> 00:35:49.590
no door. It's just an open gateway. So you're

00:35:49.590 --> 00:35:51.690
just opening in the brick wall. So you can just

00:35:51.690 --> 00:35:54.329
do it. You're going to have to lure them out.

00:35:54.429 --> 00:35:56.429
You're going to have to yell. Okay. So yeah,

00:35:56.510 --> 00:35:58.929
I'll cast, I'd say, what? 10, 15 feet behind

00:35:58.929 --> 00:36:02.039
us. Sure. I mean, even just through the opening,

00:36:02.219 --> 00:36:03.780
you know, if they're on the other side of the

00:36:03.780 --> 00:36:07.900
gate. We need them to go out of the gate far

00:36:07.900 --> 00:36:09.900
enough so that we can slip in behind them. Right.

00:36:09.900 --> 00:36:13.940
So if the gate's here and there's like a five

00:36:13.940 --> 00:36:16.159
foot opening or whatever, and if we're hiding

00:36:16.159 --> 00:36:18.960
along the wall here. Right. Zebulon's about right

00:36:18.960 --> 00:36:21.159
back here. Or even if it just walks by, if it

00:36:21.159 --> 00:36:23.760
starts to walk by, sticks its head in and then

00:36:23.760 --> 00:36:26.219
keeps going sort of thing. I like that. Leading

00:36:26.219 --> 00:36:29.400
them the opposite way, away from us. Right. I

00:36:29.400 --> 00:36:32.789
like it. I like it. Okay. So to the timing of

00:36:32.789 --> 00:36:38.230
the illusion sticking its head into the gate,

00:36:38.650 --> 00:36:43.650
Zebulon will shout out and say, come and get

00:36:43.650 --> 00:36:47.210
me, you stinking goblin. What? Wait, what? Who?

00:36:47.369 --> 00:36:50.349
You just hear like a voice like that. Stupid

00:36:50.349 --> 00:36:52.349
little dragons. It's him. It's him. I know. It's

00:36:52.349 --> 00:36:55.409
him. I know. I know. Trace knows. And he looks

00:36:55.409 --> 00:36:58.960
up and he sees. What does he see, Jules? He sees

00:36:58.960 --> 00:37:04.099
Zebulon walking right by. You all, I imagine,

00:37:04.179 --> 00:37:06.159
tuck back into the wall, kind of keeping yourselves

00:37:06.159 --> 00:37:10.699
small, as you hear this goblin fucking tear through

00:37:10.699 --> 00:37:15.300
this courtyard. Just bursts out of view and just

00:37:15.300 --> 00:37:17.500
charges. He goes in the street, and he stops

00:37:17.500 --> 00:37:19.840
for a second, because I imagine you see this

00:37:19.840 --> 00:37:22.579
thing goes by and vanishes, and he stops. He

00:37:22.579 --> 00:37:27.019
looks both ways, and then he just goes. And he

00:37:27.019 --> 00:37:29.679
just charges down the road. It doesn't vanish.

00:37:29.840 --> 00:37:32.659
It lasts for one minute. How far can it go? 30

00:37:32.659 --> 00:37:34.559
feet. Okay, so you just have this thing go 30

00:37:34.559 --> 00:37:36.420
feet, but even around the corner? Yeah, it'll

00:37:36.420 --> 00:37:37.920
go as far as it can go. Yeah, just go and have

00:37:37.920 --> 00:37:40.719
it around the corner, and he fucking tears down

00:37:40.719 --> 00:37:42.920
that corner. You see him just skid around it

00:37:42.920 --> 00:37:45.679
and just charge out of sight, and the way seems

00:37:45.679 --> 00:37:50.500
open. Yeah, as soon as the goblin's away from

00:37:50.500 --> 00:37:53.659
us, Zebulon's going to run to the door. All right,

00:37:53.659 --> 00:37:56.059
let's move, let's move, let's move. Okay, you

00:37:56.059 --> 00:37:58.559
guys charge up into the courtyard. You cross

00:37:58.559 --> 00:38:02.719
it. You go to the door. What do you do? Can we

00:38:02.719 --> 00:38:04.300
roll another perception check at that door? Yeah,

00:38:04.300 --> 00:38:05.940
exactly. I want to roll another perception at

00:38:05.940 --> 00:38:10.500
the door. You may roll another perception. It's

00:38:10.500 --> 00:38:14.340
a 15 and a 13. But I'm a minus one, so it's 14.

00:38:14.420 --> 00:38:19.360
14, 13. Jester's got a 12. All right, hope it's

00:38:19.360 --> 00:38:22.909
not a DC 15. So you put your ears up against

00:38:22.909 --> 00:38:25.309
the door. I'll say, first of all, you don't notice

00:38:25.309 --> 00:38:27.030
anything. You don't notice any kind of traps,

00:38:27.250 --> 00:38:29.010
anything like that. You do notice, I think, with

00:38:29.010 --> 00:38:31.590
the slightest touch. Door seems to be locked.

00:38:32.230 --> 00:38:35.070
The lock seems simple enough, you know, about

00:38:35.070 --> 00:38:37.769
the same as the chest you opened earlier. With

00:38:37.769 --> 00:38:40.190
a 14, that was Chester? Or that was you? No,

00:38:40.210 --> 00:38:42.530
that was Zebulon. Zebulon. Zebulon. With a 14,

00:38:42.530 --> 00:38:45.030
you do hear very, very faintly from the other

00:38:45.030 --> 00:38:57.039
side, like a... And he's asleep. We're going

00:38:57.039 --> 00:39:03.219
to have to do this very quietly. That's not exactly

00:39:03.219 --> 00:39:06.980
my fourth day, but we'll give it a shot. Why

00:39:06.980 --> 00:39:10.559
don't you stay and be a lookout? You have other

00:39:10.559 --> 00:39:13.079
spells that could be of use. Just then, I will

00:39:13.079 --> 00:39:17.539
stay out here. And here. Let me make you invisible.

00:39:18.159 --> 00:39:20.539
Does the whispering transfer well into audio?

00:39:21.360 --> 00:39:23.469
I don't know. We're going to find out. Okay.

00:39:23.610 --> 00:39:27.050
Do you want to check? I think it does. I'm pretty

00:39:27.050 --> 00:39:29.090
sure it does. All right, sounds good. I think

00:39:29.090 --> 00:39:31.550
we're fine, but let's stop the recording and

00:39:31.550 --> 00:39:34.409
double check, because you got me freaking out

00:39:34.409 --> 00:39:37.050
about it. Sounds good. We can get a little closer,

00:39:37.070 --> 00:39:41.650
too, when we whisper. And we're back, folks.

00:39:41.809 --> 00:39:44.869
Whispering is okay for the recording. It picks

00:39:44.869 --> 00:39:47.550
it up just fine. Let's continue with the story.

00:39:48.090 --> 00:39:51.559
Hey, Jules, what do you want me to do? to make

00:39:51.559 --> 00:39:54.380
sure that he stays safe. All right. Okay, that

00:39:54.380 --> 00:39:58.619
goblin comes back. We clock him. We clock him.

00:39:59.039 --> 00:40:03.179
Gotcha. All right, Zeb, do your thing. I give

00:40:03.179 --> 00:40:06.219
you a little poke. You get invisible. And from

00:40:06.219 --> 00:40:09.639
the invisible air, do you guys have any idea

00:40:09.639 --> 00:40:12.639
where somebody might hide a diamond recorder?

00:40:13.320 --> 00:40:17.420
He might have a safe in there. A safe. Or some

00:40:17.420 --> 00:40:20.820
type of lockbox where he keeps it. Maybe he's

00:40:20.820 --> 00:40:24.559
nice then. Maybe... Ah, shit. Maybe he keeps

00:40:24.559 --> 00:40:28.059
it on him. I don't know. Your guess is as good

00:40:28.059 --> 00:40:30.539
as mine. None of these sound like really convenient

00:40:30.539 --> 00:40:32.900
options for me. I mean, this whole thing isn't

00:40:32.900 --> 00:40:35.380
convenient, but... It might get lucky. He was

00:40:35.380 --> 00:40:37.559
expecting us to come inside, right? If he had

00:40:37.559 --> 00:40:40.820
this stuff ready for us. Maybe it's on his desk.

00:40:41.639 --> 00:40:46.659
Could. Could be. I'll leave that... I'll leave

00:40:46.659 --> 00:40:49.059
that executive decision -making to you when you're

00:40:49.059 --> 00:40:51.320
in there. Well, I guess there's nothing to do

00:40:51.320 --> 00:40:55.340
now but to sneak in. All right. Let's pick that

00:40:55.340 --> 00:40:58.400
lock. Yep. Just going to roll, slide a hand.

00:40:59.340 --> 00:41:04.440
Ooh, 15 plus 7, 22. Real quiet, real smooth.

00:41:04.599 --> 00:41:07.599
Nice. Nice roll, Zab. Nice roll. Yeah, that was

00:41:07.599 --> 00:41:12.239
a good one. I'm saving that button. Saving that

00:41:12.239 --> 00:41:13.980
button for when it really, really counts. Yep.

00:41:14.099 --> 00:41:16.840
I should mention that when he actually goes in

00:41:16.840 --> 00:41:21.050
and gets in, Chester and I are moving kind of

00:41:21.050 --> 00:41:22.449
off to the side. We're not just going to stand

00:41:22.449 --> 00:41:24.090
right out in the middle of the door. We're going

00:41:24.090 --> 00:41:26.550
to kind of stand to the sides. Into the shadows?

00:41:26.869 --> 00:41:32.570
Yeah. Okay. Yep. Sweet. Sounds good. So what

00:41:32.570 --> 00:41:35.070
does Zebulon see when he gets into the front

00:41:35.070 --> 00:41:37.889
door? You push open this door, and you look into

00:41:37.889 --> 00:41:41.889
this very dimly lit room. I think there's a magical

00:41:41.889 --> 00:41:45.090
lighting in here, but it's set real low, so you

00:41:45.090 --> 00:41:48.769
can barely make out this room. It's basically

00:41:48.769 --> 00:41:50.449
just kind of open entrance way. There's some

00:41:50.449 --> 00:41:54.750
like old kind of ripped couches off to the sides,

00:41:54.789 --> 00:41:57.389
almost like a waiting room. There's like a classic

00:41:57.389 --> 00:41:59.110
sort of like little table filled with all sorts

00:41:59.110 --> 00:42:01.909
of Radiant Sid, Elle magazines. You know, you

00:42:01.909 --> 00:42:04.710
see like a couple luminaries on the cover. And

00:42:04.710 --> 00:42:09.550
you see there's a spiral staircase in the back

00:42:09.550 --> 00:42:14.590
left corner going up to a second floor. It's

00:42:14.590 --> 00:42:17.880
very simple, very small staircase. There is a

00:42:17.880 --> 00:42:22.199
door heading off to the right and a door heading

00:42:22.199 --> 00:42:25.599
off to the left and another door all the way

00:42:25.599 --> 00:42:27.659
in the back. Now the door heading off to the

00:42:27.659 --> 00:42:31.340
left is cracked open and you hear the snoring

00:42:31.340 --> 00:42:33.719
coming from there. Just realized if we wanted

00:42:33.719 --> 00:42:35.599
to take a really darker turn, you could probably

00:42:35.599 --> 00:42:41.380
kill this guy really easily. I don't know what

00:42:41.380 --> 00:42:44.039
that would mean for the grander story. Don't

00:42:44.039 --> 00:42:45.739
just straight up assassinate someone. You could

00:42:45.739 --> 00:42:53.940
go for it. Which door is closest to this? I'm

00:42:53.940 --> 00:42:56.320
going to call it an interview couch. I would

00:42:56.320 --> 00:42:57.739
say that's the one in the far back of the room.

00:42:58.320 --> 00:43:05.059
Okay. My thought process being that if Rune is

00:43:05.059 --> 00:43:08.500
interviewing someone to be a luminary and they

00:43:08.500 --> 00:43:10.880
decide to move forward, He's not going to be

00:43:10.880 --> 00:43:15.380
like, okay, come up the spiral staircase with

00:43:15.380 --> 00:43:17.820
me and seal the deal. You know what I mean? My

00:43:17.820 --> 00:43:20.019
guess is that it's going to be the door closest

00:43:20.019 --> 00:43:24.380
to that initial meeting spot where he's going

00:43:24.380 --> 00:43:29.420
to have his work office. So Zebulon wants to

00:43:29.420 --> 00:43:34.460
go to that back door and try to get inside the

00:43:34.460 --> 00:43:37.000
room. I think you're passing by that door that's

00:43:37.000 --> 00:43:39.139
slightly open. You just got something here like

00:43:39.139 --> 00:43:49.409
a... 20 carats. Sorry. Would I get mechanical

00:43:49.409 --> 00:43:54.349
advantage if I were able to close the door and

00:43:54.349 --> 00:43:56.550
potentially muffle any sound that I would make?

00:43:57.510 --> 00:44:00.909
I believe so, yeah. I think you recognize the

00:44:00.909 --> 00:44:03.050
voice inside as the voice of another one of these

00:44:03.050 --> 00:44:07.309
brutes that attacked you. The Haringon. Oh, it's

00:44:07.309 --> 00:44:12.199
not even... Gotcha. Yep. Okay. Go ahead and roll

00:44:12.199 --> 00:44:13.420
stealth if you want to close the door, though,

00:44:13.500 --> 00:44:15.539
because it sounds like there's more guards, but

00:44:15.539 --> 00:44:19.239
one of them is sleeping at least. Yeah. I think

00:44:19.239 --> 00:44:23.019
I would rather take my chances. No, you know

00:44:23.019 --> 00:44:27.320
what? Screw it. I'm going to roll stealth to

00:44:27.320 --> 00:44:30.179
try and shut the door. If you do this, I will

00:44:30.179 --> 00:44:33.699
drop. I will basically give them mechanical disadvantage,

00:44:34.000 --> 00:44:36.440
which means it's a negative five to passive perception.

00:44:36.460 --> 00:44:40.509
Okay. Now it's worth it. Now it's worth it. I

00:44:40.509 --> 00:44:43.349
think this is the time to use the button. Okay.

00:44:43.469 --> 00:44:45.090
I think this is the time to use the button because

00:44:45.090 --> 00:44:47.730
I can use, if I use the button now and I succeed,

00:44:47.969 --> 00:44:51.530
then I get that, I impose that disadvantage the

00:44:51.530 --> 00:44:53.929
whole time I'm in there. Okay. So this is the

00:44:53.929 --> 00:44:57.289
smart move, I think. So here's my button. I'll

00:44:57.289 --> 00:44:59.550
take that button gladly. I'm rolling twice to

00:44:59.550 --> 00:45:04.639
shut a fucking door. Okay. Thank. God, because

00:45:04.639 --> 00:45:07.960
the first roll was a crit fail, natural one.

00:45:08.079 --> 00:45:13.039
Oh, my God. Could you imagine? Second roll, 7

00:45:13.039 --> 00:45:16.280
plus 7 is 14. Okay. So I don't feel great about

00:45:16.280 --> 00:45:19.099
this. Okay. But I feel way better. It's better

00:45:19.099 --> 00:45:22.059
than... Than a natural one. Yep. Critical fail.

00:45:22.679 --> 00:45:26.159
You look to this door real quiet, and you grab

00:45:26.159 --> 00:45:29.300
the door, and you go to close it. And just as

00:45:29.300 --> 00:45:31.139
it, like, goes to click in the lock, I think

00:45:31.139 --> 00:45:33.679
that's the tiniest... It was a DC -15, wasn't

00:45:33.679 --> 00:45:36.460
it, you son of a bitch? Just the tiniest squeak.

00:45:36.920 --> 00:45:39.559
And you just sit there for this frozen moment,

00:45:39.679 --> 00:45:47.539
and you just hear... 20 more carrots. Nothing

00:45:47.539 --> 00:45:54.099
else. Holy shit. I just, uh... Holy shit. I just

00:45:54.099 --> 00:46:01.550
pooped my pants. Okay, happy one. Okay, Chevron.

00:46:02.530 --> 00:46:05.670
Now, Steve and the player has an understanding

00:46:05.670 --> 00:46:11.090
that maybe these other two doors down here are

00:46:11.090 --> 00:46:14.030
other bedrooms where other people are sleeping.

00:46:14.550 --> 00:46:19.489
So Zeb's going to go over and roll perception

00:46:19.489 --> 00:46:22.489
at each door. Try to see if he can hear anybody

00:46:22.489 --> 00:46:26.550
sleeping, snoring inside. Okay. I'm going to

00:46:26.550 --> 00:46:28.909
roll my own dice for something real quick. And

00:46:28.909 --> 00:46:32.789
smirk at the result. I got two good rolls. I

00:46:32.789 --> 00:46:35.030
mean, it's a minus one to perception, so I got

00:46:35.030 --> 00:46:38.030
a 16 and a 15 total. You don't hear anything,

00:46:38.110 --> 00:46:41.989
but you look at one of those doors, and either

00:46:41.989 --> 00:46:45.469
one of those would give you knowledge that one

00:46:45.469 --> 00:46:47.530
of these doors actually has a glyph of warding.

00:46:47.550 --> 00:46:49.090
The one off to the right of the room, not to

00:46:49.090 --> 00:46:51.650
the back of the room, has a glyph of warding

00:46:51.650 --> 00:46:55.130
kind of like around the handle. So it looks like

00:46:55.130 --> 00:46:57.369
if you were to open that, some magic shit would

00:46:57.369 --> 00:47:03.820
happen. Huh. Oh, no. So is that to protect himself

00:47:03.820 --> 00:47:09.059
or to protect his equipment? And Zebulon would

00:47:09.059 --> 00:47:11.500
have no way of disarming a glyph of warding,

00:47:11.539 --> 00:47:14.699
would he? Because it's magical. You could roll

00:47:14.699 --> 00:47:19.239
Arcana. Yeah. Give it a shot. That's not going

00:47:19.239 --> 00:47:22.380
to happen. And if you'd rolled bad, bad things

00:47:22.380 --> 00:47:25.860
would happen. Yeah. So the door that doesn't

00:47:25.860 --> 00:47:29.619
have the glyph of warding. If I try the door,

00:47:29.699 --> 00:47:32.539
is that one locked? You go to try the door. It's

00:47:32.539 --> 00:47:35.599
unlocked. I don't need to keep making stealth

00:47:35.599 --> 00:47:39.599
rolls. I think... I think Zebulon's going to

00:47:39.599 --> 00:47:42.280
have to go upstairs. Because I'm not going in

00:47:42.280 --> 00:47:45.340
the room with the Glyph of Warding. I didn't

00:47:45.340 --> 00:47:49.019
hear anything behind the second door. Well, you

00:47:49.019 --> 00:47:51.579
know what? I didn't hear anything behind the

00:47:51.579 --> 00:47:54.579
second door. You didn't. And it's unlocked. It's

00:47:54.579 --> 00:47:59.409
unlocked. It's by all the interview stuff. Okay.

00:48:01.230 --> 00:48:03.190
Zebulon's going to sneak into that room. All

00:48:03.190 --> 00:48:06.010
right, I'll roll over your general stealth, and

00:48:06.010 --> 00:48:11.650
you'll push it open, and you see a desk in the

00:48:11.650 --> 00:48:15.349
back corner of a large sort of round room, this

00:48:15.349 --> 00:48:19.510
kind of big ornate desk. There's not a whole

00:48:19.510 --> 00:48:22.670
lot else in here except for just way too much

00:48:22.670 --> 00:48:25.920
decor. It is maybe the tackiest room you've ever

00:48:25.920 --> 00:48:28.280
seen in your life. Sounds like Rune, the Rune

00:48:28.280 --> 00:48:30.639
that we know. I think you walk in this room and

00:48:30.639 --> 00:48:34.539
there's animal pelt rugs, but it's all of them.

00:48:35.179 --> 00:48:37.760
It's every one. We'll stitch together to make

00:48:37.760 --> 00:48:40.780
one gigantic, god -awful, super animal pelt rug.

00:48:40.980 --> 00:48:44.239
It's all the animals. It's all the animals. It

00:48:44.239 --> 00:48:47.139
is just... As if this guy wasn't detestable enough.

00:48:50.699 --> 00:48:54.190
It's like fuzzy dice. A couple of fuzzy D20s

00:48:54.190 --> 00:48:56.769
hanging from the edge of the desk. I don't know.

00:48:56.849 --> 00:49:00.150
It seems like a good tacky thing. Yeah, it's

00:49:00.150 --> 00:49:03.750
definitely tacky. Now I want fuzzy D20s for my

00:49:03.750 --> 00:49:06.769
car. Yes, that sounds awesome. They got to make

00:49:06.769 --> 00:49:08.670
them somewhere. If they don't sell that, we're

00:49:08.670 --> 00:49:13.730
cutting this. Yep. Guess what you also see? Tell

00:49:13.730 --> 00:49:16.670
me. Sitting right out in the middle of the desk

00:49:16.670 --> 00:49:21.369
is the gleam of a diamond. Oh, my God. Even Zebulon

00:49:21.369 --> 00:49:26.880
knows. It can't be this easy. This is just child's

00:49:26.880 --> 00:49:30.940
play. And he doesn't see anything. There's not

00:49:30.940 --> 00:49:34.800
like a stack of these diamond recorders around

00:49:34.800 --> 00:49:38.079
where it could be mistaken for a different one?

00:49:38.400 --> 00:49:42.099
You don't see any. Huh. There's a number of papers

00:49:42.099 --> 00:49:44.159
on the desk as well, all kind of spread out neatly.

00:49:44.880 --> 00:49:47.699
You can't make it out from here, though. Okay.

00:49:48.599 --> 00:49:51.199
Zebby and Lana would like to approach the desk.

00:49:51.690 --> 00:49:53.969
to get within arm's reach of the recorder and

00:49:53.969 --> 00:49:57.090
to also see what's on these papers. I'll say

00:49:57.090 --> 00:49:59.289
the room's also pretty dark, except for there

00:49:59.289 --> 00:50:01.610
is another one of those dimly lit lamps, just

00:50:01.610 --> 00:50:03.750
like magic lamps on the desk. Yeah, there is.

00:50:04.269 --> 00:50:06.929
Shining down with just a little bit of light

00:50:06.929 --> 00:50:09.550
over just the papers and such you see, and that's

00:50:09.550 --> 00:50:12.889
what's catching you. Your eye is the light shining

00:50:12.889 --> 00:50:16.650
off of this diamond. This is really difficult

00:50:16.650 --> 00:50:19.650
because Jeremy, as a player, really wants to

00:50:19.650 --> 00:50:22.599
discuss your options here. But I really can't,

00:50:22.599 --> 00:50:25.340
because I'm not in there with you. I can't say

00:50:25.340 --> 00:50:28.360
shit. Well, let's see what the papers say, and

00:50:28.360 --> 00:50:29.860
then we might have some out -of -character stuff

00:50:29.860 --> 00:50:32.199
to say about it. Yeah, I mean, my initial reaction

00:50:32.199 --> 00:50:33.719
was you should fucking take the papers, too.

00:50:34.280 --> 00:50:37.159
I don't care what they are. Take them. Yeah,

00:50:37.219 --> 00:50:41.760
maybe. You move up to the papers, and as you

00:50:41.760 --> 00:50:43.780
reach over to the desk, as your hand reaches

00:50:43.780 --> 00:50:46.420
out for the diamond, as your eyes fall onto the

00:50:46.420 --> 00:50:50.199
text, we cut outside for a moment. You bastard.

00:50:51.599 --> 00:50:54.980
Shit. Hey, only two more perception checks, Jeremy.

00:50:55.139 --> 00:51:03.800
Oh, dear Lord. That's a nine. Nat 20. Nat 20.

00:51:03.860 --> 00:51:09.380
Okay. Who's the Nat 20? Chester. So you guys

00:51:09.380 --> 00:51:13.380
are hanging out, basically just waiting. I think

00:51:13.380 --> 00:51:15.260
that you left the door open, right? When Zebulon

00:51:15.260 --> 00:51:17.000
went in. You're kind of standing off to the side

00:51:17.000 --> 00:51:21.539
to the door. Yes. We're going to need a definitive

00:51:21.539 --> 00:51:24.139
answer, Jeremy. I feel like we would have closed

00:51:24.139 --> 00:51:26.860
it. Not all the way. Like faux closed? Yeah.

00:51:27.179 --> 00:51:29.619
Enough to make it look like it was actually still

00:51:29.619 --> 00:51:31.599
closed. Not like it's fucking wide open. Just

00:51:31.599 --> 00:51:33.519
so it doesn't latch? Yeah, just so it doesn't

00:51:33.519 --> 00:51:36.659
alarm anybody that comes back and sees it. Gotcha.

00:51:37.659 --> 00:51:39.599
That's good. Because as you're standing there,

00:51:39.639 --> 00:51:41.659
Chester suddenly puts a finger up and says, Oh

00:51:41.659 --> 00:51:45.760
shit, Jules, listen. And a moment later you hear,

00:51:45.980 --> 00:51:50.150
Stay below. Dragons is gonna lie again. He'll

00:51:50.150 --> 00:51:52.469
be back, says he will, but I'm not getting far

00:51:52.469 --> 00:51:54.269
for this. Chester and I are immediately gonna

00:51:54.269 --> 00:51:58.730
run up to the sides of the gate. Okay. Like,

00:51:58.730 --> 00:52:00.889
what are you thinking? On the insides of the

00:52:00.889 --> 00:52:02.610
gate. Oh, like to the opposite side of the courtyard?

00:52:02.869 --> 00:52:04.969
Yes. Okay, you need a little stealth for this,

00:52:05.030 --> 00:52:06.369
just because you're gonna be moving pretty quickly

00:52:06.369 --> 00:52:08.849
there while he's also moving, so yeah, to see

00:52:08.849 --> 00:52:12.010
if you make sound while you're crossing. It's

00:52:12.010 --> 00:52:14.849
pretty open, you know, cobble, so no rustling

00:52:14.849 --> 00:52:19.840
grass or brush, but... Is that the same roll

00:52:19.840 --> 00:52:22.920
twice? Yeah, we got a seven and a ten. Okay.

00:52:24.360 --> 00:52:26.659
Chester also gets proficiencies. He gets a plus

00:52:26.659 --> 00:52:28.940
two on his, on top of the... On top of the four?

00:52:29.539 --> 00:52:31.579
Oh, no, just the four, sorry. Yep. Seven and

00:52:31.579 --> 00:52:34.900
a ten. Okay. Okay, just making sure. So... He

00:52:34.900 --> 00:52:36.679
was trying to give you an out. I was trying to

00:52:36.679 --> 00:52:40.619
help. So, you go to move across, and I think,

00:52:40.619 --> 00:52:43.920
like, you hit, like, there's a loose cobble,

00:52:44.019 --> 00:52:46.139
and, like, you hit that, and you hear, like,

00:52:46.199 --> 00:52:49.539
the cobble comes up, and... slides across the

00:52:49.539 --> 00:52:51.400
stone. Okay, that's fine, but we're still running

00:52:51.400 --> 00:52:53.260
to the sides of the gate. Yep, you get over there,

00:52:53.300 --> 00:52:54.219
but you just kind of hear in the other side,

00:52:54.260 --> 00:52:56.820
like, what's that? Hey! Okay. It's a dragon,

00:52:56.840 --> 00:53:00.260
as it is. It gots inside. And you see, a moment

00:53:00.260 --> 00:53:03.940
later, this figure running into the area. The

00:53:03.940 --> 00:53:05.840
moment he gets in, I'm taking off my burlap sack

00:53:05.840 --> 00:53:09.619
and throwing it over him. Oh, my God. What is

00:53:09.619 --> 00:53:12.099
Chester doing? Is he assisting? Is he going to

00:53:12.099 --> 00:53:13.940
give you help action? Chester would have a rope,

00:53:14.000 --> 00:53:17.090
would he not? Yeah. He does second story work.

00:53:17.329 --> 00:53:19.250
So I'm going to throw the Burlap Sack over this

00:53:19.250 --> 00:53:21.429
guy, hold it down over his head as tight as I

00:53:21.429 --> 00:53:23.650
can, and Chester's going to come in and wrap

00:53:23.650 --> 00:53:26.289
him up. All right. You're going to have a strength

00:53:26.289 --> 00:53:28.809
competition with this goblin. Okay. But you're

00:53:28.809 --> 00:53:30.849
going to get advantage because Chester's giving

00:53:30.849 --> 00:53:39.210
you the help action. Perfect. Thank God for advantage.

00:53:40.409 --> 00:53:42.849
Oh, that's right. Yeah, great. You have one more

00:53:42.849 --> 00:53:46.050
chance. Why do I forget about advantage literally

00:53:46.050 --> 00:53:48.489
about five seconds after you say I have advantage?

00:53:48.590 --> 00:53:50.289
This is like the second time this has happened.

00:53:50.329 --> 00:53:52.050
Well, that's another one that would have been

00:53:52.050 --> 00:53:53.170
a nat one. I'm just in the moment. Yeah, it was

00:53:53.170 --> 00:53:55.449
a nat one. That would have been bad. Chester's

00:53:55.449 --> 00:53:59.230
got your back. Now this is the roll. Always 20.

00:53:59.590 --> 00:54:03.110
Much better. It's a nat 19. So I love this because

00:54:03.110 --> 00:54:06.670
I think you grab this guy, and I think with that

00:54:06.670 --> 00:54:08.190
natural one, we're going to kind of play this

00:54:08.190 --> 00:54:10.150
out where suddenly you kind of feel him start

00:54:10.150 --> 00:54:13.710
fighting back like tremendously strong. I think

00:54:13.710 --> 00:54:16.130
I kind of have an oh shit moment. Yeah, I think

00:54:16.130 --> 00:54:17.130
you have an oh shit moment. You're being pushed

00:54:17.130 --> 00:54:18.989
back and this sack's coming off and then Chester

00:54:18.989 --> 00:54:22.670
comes through with a rope and as he kind of wraps

00:54:22.670 --> 00:54:23.929
his rope around him and pulls him, I think he

00:54:23.929 --> 00:54:26.610
trips the goblin who falls over and then you

00:54:26.610 --> 00:54:28.190
kind of regain your strength and the two of you

00:54:28.190 --> 00:54:30.889
together just jump on this guy and you tie this

00:54:30.889 --> 00:54:33.610
sack tight and you just have this wriggling figure

00:54:33.610 --> 00:54:35.329
in the middle of the courtyard that you're both

00:54:35.329 --> 00:54:37.750
standing over. As we're pulling him down, I actually

00:54:37.750 --> 00:54:41.190
grab Chester's knife and when we get him down,

00:54:41.289 --> 00:54:43.789
I'm going to say, Don't say a word or I'll slit

00:54:43.789 --> 00:54:48.210
your fucking throat. No, please. Shut up. Holy

00:54:48.210 --> 00:54:52.130
shit. Dude, stay quiet. I'll stay quiet. I'll

00:54:52.130 --> 00:54:55.670
stay quiet. I will, I will. I know, just relax

00:54:55.670 --> 00:54:59.969
for a couple minutes. Just relax. Holy shit.

00:55:00.050 --> 00:55:04.849
Dude, these guys are fucking, like, street dudes.

00:55:05.909 --> 00:55:10.309
Scrappy. Yeah, holy shit. So. Wow, and let's,

00:55:10.309 --> 00:55:13.409
uh, wow. Do you think this is the first time

00:55:13.409 --> 00:55:15.590
that Jules has ever put a knife to somebody's

00:55:15.590 --> 00:55:18.809
throat? No. I didn't think so either. I got to

00:55:18.809 --> 00:55:23.130
be honest, it surprised me. Wow. I couldn't think

00:55:23.130 --> 00:55:26.610
of anything else to do. It's intense. It fits

00:55:26.610 --> 00:55:30.869
because I feel like we don't know the depths

00:55:30.869 --> 00:55:35.309
of Jules' street life and the Cherry Delight's

00:55:35.309 --> 00:55:37.710
street life. I feel like we see them and it's

00:55:37.710 --> 00:55:40.519
all very... Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

00:55:40.519 --> 00:55:44.460
bubblegum and sing song. Yeah. But when it all

00:55:44.460 --> 00:55:48.820
comes down to it, this group is going to do whatever

00:55:48.820 --> 00:55:52.619
the fuck it takes to survive. And I guess sometimes

00:55:52.619 --> 00:55:54.559
that's putting a knife to a dude's throat. When

00:55:54.559 --> 00:55:56.500
it comes down to it, Oliver Twist was dark as

00:55:56.500 --> 00:56:01.699
fuck. It was a lot of child slave labor. It was

00:56:01.699 --> 00:56:05.880
bad. In Oliver Twist. No, well, we bleed for

00:56:05.880 --> 00:56:09.949
our own. Hell yeah. Back inside you reach the

00:56:09.949 --> 00:56:13.050
desk and you look down and you see well you see

00:56:13.050 --> 00:56:18.869
a lot of things Zebulon firstly You see that

00:56:18.869 --> 00:56:21.329
well, there's a diamond of course that I don't

00:56:21.329 --> 00:56:22.949
know if you want to do anything with it I'll

00:56:22.949 --> 00:56:25.510
tell you this actually you should know how these

00:56:25.510 --> 00:56:27.630
things work generally speaking if you were to

00:56:27.630 --> 00:56:31.119
like say activate one of these diamonds uh normally

00:56:31.119 --> 00:56:32.980
that would require like different words simple

00:56:32.980 --> 00:56:35.460
phrase words if it's if it's a diamond that's

00:56:35.460 --> 00:56:38.300
been um enchanted by the auroral diamond that's

00:56:38.300 --> 00:56:41.159
where a recording diamond is basically um that

00:56:41.159 --> 00:56:43.659
has to be a diamond worth at least 300 gold and

00:56:43.659 --> 00:56:46.179
it's enchanted and then you can record by saying

00:56:46.179 --> 00:56:49.619
record you can stop by saying stop you can transfer

00:56:49.619 --> 00:56:52.400
by saying transfer to other diamonds or to the

00:56:52.400 --> 00:56:56.099
citadel itself and you can play by saying play

00:56:56.099 --> 00:56:57.980
and you could see what happens it's projected

00:56:57.980 --> 00:57:01.219
out of the uh sort of top lens the the the sort

00:57:01.219 --> 00:57:03.960
of crystals that uh the projectors that the crystal

00:57:03.960 --> 00:57:06.440
network uses these diamonds can slot into them

00:57:06.440 --> 00:57:10.300
the diamonds themselves only work on the citadel

00:57:10.300 --> 00:57:13.480
different gems have to work on different worlds

00:57:13.480 --> 00:57:16.099
on tythos for instance a sapphire world only

00:57:16.099 --> 00:57:19.000
sapphires would showcase um but basically you

00:57:19.000 --> 00:57:21.420
do it it would like uh the diamond from the citadel

00:57:21.420 --> 00:57:24.929
would would transfer out or transmit out images

00:57:24.929 --> 00:57:27.730
that would play off of the gem for each world.

00:57:27.909 --> 00:57:30.449
So just sapphire in the sapphire world would

00:57:30.449 --> 00:57:33.269
capture any images or automatically play any

00:57:33.269 --> 00:57:36.889
images that were transmitted from the auroral

00:57:36.889 --> 00:57:41.670
diamond. It's a lot. We'll ramp up to it. So

00:57:41.670 --> 00:57:45.250
the diamond you have here, you could play it,

00:57:45.289 --> 00:57:48.630
and it won't actually make any sound because

00:57:48.630 --> 00:57:51.550
you don't hear anything from these projections.

00:57:52.440 --> 00:57:55.340
But when your eye catches them, when you see

00:57:55.340 --> 00:57:58.300
them, the sounds equated with it will basically

00:57:58.300 --> 00:58:00.719
essentially play in your mind. And you will hear

00:58:00.719 --> 00:58:02.719
everything so long as your eyes linger on the

00:58:02.719 --> 00:58:07.280
image. That's how these transmissions work. So

00:58:07.280 --> 00:58:11.019
let's deal with that after I learn about what's

00:58:11.019 --> 00:58:13.480
on the papers. The first set of papers are actually,

00:58:13.699 --> 00:58:17.420
it looks like, almost like applications. There's

00:58:17.420 --> 00:58:19.300
three different applications. The top of the

00:58:19.300 --> 00:58:24.679
paper says... Tanatha's sidekick agency. You

00:58:24.679 --> 00:58:30.079
see there is one filled out by the Tortle Knight

00:58:30.079 --> 00:58:34.460
of Zinda, Jean Franklin. You see there's one

00:58:34.460 --> 00:58:40.199
filled out by the Haringan Berserker of God's

00:58:40.199 --> 00:58:44.500
Breath, Pepper. And you see there's one filled

00:58:44.500 --> 00:58:51.739
out by the Goblin Warrior of Atagua. Trace. All

00:58:51.739 --> 00:58:56.099
right. So I'm going to leave those duly noted.

00:58:56.260 --> 00:58:58.360
There's more papers, too. Oh, I thought you said

00:58:58.360 --> 00:59:00.239
there were three papers. So there's those three,

00:59:00.260 --> 00:59:01.559
but there's other stuff, too, I'm saying, apart

00:59:01.559 --> 00:59:04.300
from this. I'll let you finish. On top of that,

00:59:04.460 --> 00:59:08.699
there are also two writs of passage to the world

00:59:08.699 --> 00:59:13.619
of Sibsonko. And they're made out for Zebulon

00:59:13.619 --> 00:59:18.190
Brass and Jules LaRoche. All right. And I think

00:59:18.190 --> 00:59:19.530
there's also another paper that's just a quick

00:59:19.530 --> 00:59:23.489
rundown, you know, a map and sort of a brief

00:59:23.489 --> 00:59:26.289
summary rundown of a place known as the Densing

00:59:26.289 --> 00:59:30.809
Night Market. And you realize that this was all

00:59:30.809 --> 00:59:33.269
stuff laid out for you should you have had that

00:59:33.269 --> 00:59:38.130
meeting. It's still there. Maybe Rune Rasaan

00:59:38.130 --> 00:59:39.889
was being hopeful the meeting could still happen.

00:59:40.329 --> 00:59:42.969
But you don't know what his intentions were,

00:59:43.010 --> 00:59:46.070
though, to send you to this place. Zebulon's

00:59:46.070 --> 00:59:48.710
going to grab the map, the two writs of passage,

00:59:48.989 --> 00:59:52.570
and he's going to lean into the diamond and say,

00:59:52.809 --> 00:59:57.989
Transfer. Do you have a diamond on you? Isn't...

00:59:58.269 --> 01:00:00.309
Sorry, in order to bring it to the Citadel, you

01:00:00.309 --> 01:00:03.090
have to touch it to the main studio. Oh, well,

01:00:03.090 --> 01:00:04.909
that's totally different than just saying transfer.

01:00:05.389 --> 01:00:07.469
Sorry, you can transfer images between different

01:00:07.469 --> 01:00:09.550
diamonds. I thought it was like Wi -Fi, like

01:00:09.550 --> 01:00:12.389
on the Citadel. You can say transfer. It's the

01:00:12.389 --> 01:00:14.489
fantasy cloud. Okay, well, now you're going to

01:00:14.489 --> 01:00:18.590
make me steal this diamond. Yeah. For 300 gold,

01:00:18.710 --> 01:00:21.150
this is a real theft. Isn't that what we were

01:00:21.150 --> 01:00:23.670
doing? Well, I know, but if I had the option

01:00:23.670 --> 01:00:26.030
to just transfer it without stealing this...

01:00:26.429 --> 01:00:29.650
Bad dude's diamond. Yeah. He's going to take

01:00:29.650 --> 01:00:34.010
it. Zebulon's not as fearless as Jules and the

01:00:34.010 --> 01:00:35.969
Cherry Delights. This is his moment, though.

01:00:36.710 --> 01:00:39.849
All right. This is what starts it all. Zebulon's

01:00:39.849 --> 01:00:43.250
going to scoop the diamond, the map, and the...

01:00:43.250 --> 01:00:46.849
Are they writs or writes? Writes of passage?

01:00:47.010 --> 01:00:48.929
Writs of passage? I thought it was like writs.

01:00:49.110 --> 01:00:51.750
Writs crackers of passage? W -R -I -T -S? Writs?

01:00:51.909 --> 01:00:54.429
Oh, God, no. I want some writs crackers. I thought.

01:00:55.119 --> 01:00:59.400
I could be wrong. Email Steven and let us know.

01:00:59.539 --> 01:01:01.519
I just thought, like, a rite of passage is...

01:01:01.519 --> 01:01:04.159
Anyways, I'll take those. So you just snatch

01:01:04.159 --> 01:01:05.699
basically everything important off the desk.

01:01:06.019 --> 01:01:10.300
Everything important. Okay. And move to leave.

01:01:10.820 --> 01:01:15.519
You turn around. Great. Shit. And immediately

01:01:15.519 --> 01:01:18.500
see there's a figure standing in the doorway.

01:01:18.719 --> 01:01:23.480
And the figure says, Well, isn't that interesting?

01:01:24.349 --> 01:01:26.650
I'm still invisible. Yep, but he just saw a bunch

01:01:26.650 --> 01:01:31.389
of shit disappear off the desk. Oh. Okay. Okay.

01:01:54.219 --> 01:01:57.500
I did not intend to kill anyone, I assure you,

01:01:57.639 --> 01:02:01.239
but I had certain orders, and I really needed

01:02:01.239 --> 01:02:06.480
the work. It's not an excuse. Are you still there?

01:02:07.760 --> 01:02:11.199
Sibulon's going to use cunning action to dash

01:02:11.199 --> 01:02:15.340
out of there. Okay. He's right in the middle

01:02:15.340 --> 01:02:16.500
of the door, so you'll need to lock her back

01:02:16.500 --> 01:02:19.960
to kind of weave past him. Oh, shit. I'll make

01:02:19.960 --> 01:02:24.780
that roll. Oh, no. What's your roll? It was a

01:02:24.780 --> 01:02:28.719
bad roll. Okay. It was a nine. That's with a

01:02:28.719 --> 01:02:34.420
plus five. Yep. Four plus five. Oh, no. You go

01:02:34.420 --> 01:02:37.300
to run out of there, and I think you try to move

01:02:37.300 --> 01:02:39.519
past this tortle, and I think he sort of turns

01:02:39.519 --> 01:02:42.119
just at the same time. It's the tortle. That's

01:02:42.119 --> 01:02:45.840
the voice. Tortle? It is. I assumed it was rune.

01:02:45.880 --> 01:02:48.199
No, this was a tortle. Um, so you go to move

01:02:48.199 --> 01:02:49.619
past this totally and I think you like collide

01:02:49.619 --> 01:02:52.159
and he like moves in one way. Maybe he like hatches

01:02:52.159 --> 01:02:54.119
onto something, like some movement to his left

01:02:54.119 --> 01:02:56.059
and he just immediately brings an arm out and

01:02:56.059 --> 01:02:58.840
you'll have run into his arm and he's pretty

01:02:58.840 --> 01:03:00.480
bulky. So you can almost bounce off of him. It's

01:03:00.480 --> 01:03:04.860
like, wait, wait, wait, look. I should also mention

01:03:04.860 --> 01:03:08.239
at this juncture that the spell does not end

01:03:08.239 --> 01:03:10.539
when being touched. So you still, you're still

01:03:10.539 --> 01:03:13.260
invisible. So I don't know which one of them

01:03:13.260 --> 01:03:17.619
you are, but listen. I don't want to work for

01:03:17.619 --> 01:03:22.159
this criminal anymore, right? His intention was

01:03:22.159 --> 01:03:25.420
to send one of us with you. That's why our applications

01:03:25.420 --> 01:03:30.900
are on the table. My name is Jean Franklin Mondelio.

01:03:31.380 --> 01:03:35.219
I am, without doubt, the greatest and most noble

01:03:35.219 --> 01:03:37.619
warrior you could possibly have on your side

01:03:37.619 --> 01:03:41.159
if you're planning anything big. I know that

01:03:41.159 --> 01:03:44.239
you people have influence, otherwise... Rune

01:03:44.239 --> 01:03:47.260
would not be interested in you. I'm not interested

01:03:47.260 --> 01:03:51.659
in Rune. I won't say anything. Just these steps

01:03:51.659 --> 01:03:56.699
to the side. If you are in need of extra hands,

01:03:56.820 --> 01:04:02.719
come and find me. And Zebulon walks over to the

01:04:02.719 --> 01:04:06.400
desk and he takes the map of the night market

01:04:06.400 --> 01:04:12.119
and drops it on the desk. And he says, If you

01:04:12.119 --> 01:04:16.920
have any nobility at all, go take the map. And

01:04:16.920 --> 01:04:19.880
then he waits for Jean Franklin to move towards

01:04:19.880 --> 01:04:23.599
the map, and then he'll leave the room at the

01:04:23.599 --> 01:04:26.480
opening. Okay. And he actually already had moved

01:04:26.480 --> 01:04:28.519
to the side to let you pass. I know, but it wasn't

01:04:28.519 --> 01:04:30.539
as dramatic as what I wanted to do. So he slowly

01:04:30.539 --> 01:04:34.420
walks in, and he's walking towards it, and he's,

01:04:34.440 --> 01:04:35.940
like, speaking to the air because he has no idea

01:04:35.940 --> 01:04:37.760
where you are at this point. So he's kind of

01:04:37.760 --> 01:04:40.219
turning his head this way and that. I know what

01:04:40.219 --> 01:04:42.599
his intentions were. I know why he's sending

01:04:42.599 --> 01:04:46.619
you there. You could use the information. You

01:04:46.619 --> 01:04:49.940
don't need to work with Rune to get it. I just

01:04:49.940 --> 01:04:53.500
want a simple sidekick's wage. It's not much.

01:04:53.760 --> 01:04:56.719
Mostly I need the, uh... Well, I need to... I

01:04:56.719 --> 01:04:59.880
need to be seen. I need to be known by the people.

01:05:00.099 --> 01:05:03.760
But my people aren't very popular. And something

01:05:03.760 --> 01:05:08.059
about my personality intimidates everyone around

01:05:08.059 --> 01:05:13.500
me. If... If you want to know more, just seek

01:05:13.500 --> 01:05:15.840
me out. And he goes to the map and picks it up.

01:05:16.099 --> 01:05:19.860
Meet us there at sundown next day. Where? He

01:05:19.860 --> 01:05:21.900
runs out of the room. He's holding a map to the

01:05:21.900 --> 01:05:30.300
night market. Okay. Okay. So, ooh, that means

01:05:30.300 --> 01:05:32.260
you have a set plan for when you're doing this.

01:05:32.280 --> 01:05:37.440
Holy shit. All right. And you go to leave. Yeah,

01:05:37.480 --> 01:05:39.880
you pass the haranguan who's still just snoring

01:05:39.880 --> 01:05:42.239
away in the room. Uncomfortably, you hear the

01:05:42.239 --> 01:05:46.659
name Sholay. Oh, Lady Sholay, please, you mustn't.

01:05:46.679 --> 01:05:50.300
Oh, wow. Oh, gross. And you pass that character.

01:05:50.659 --> 01:05:55.400
That's my grandmother. And you step out to the

01:05:55.400 --> 01:06:00.099
courtyard and immediately see a scene of Jules

01:06:00.099 --> 01:06:03.780
and Chester leaning over this goblin all bound

01:06:03.780 --> 01:06:06.420
up in a sack with their knives out. So I'm going

01:06:06.420 --> 01:06:10.559
to run up onto the scene on the far side of all

01:06:10.559 --> 01:06:15.539
of them, lean down to the goblin and say, If

01:06:15.539 --> 01:06:19.079
you want to be famous, don't say a fucking word.

01:06:19.699 --> 01:06:23.139
And then I'll tap Jules and Chester on the shoulders

01:06:23.139 --> 01:06:29.519
and run. And we get up and go. We leave him there,

01:06:29.659 --> 01:06:33.190
bound and with the sack over him. All right.

01:06:33.269 --> 01:06:37.090
And I'm fully aware that I just left my cloak.

01:06:38.050 --> 01:06:41.769
Yeah. But your shield, essentially. No, not the

01:06:41.769 --> 01:06:46.909
shitty sack cloak. It was integral to the character.

01:06:46.929 --> 01:06:48.769
I don't really think I have a choice, though.

01:06:49.190 --> 01:06:54.250
Maybe I'll get it back if he comes. All right.

01:06:54.369 --> 01:06:57.030
With John Franklin. I don't know. Who knows?

01:06:57.369 --> 01:07:01.599
Who knows? But... All I know is three thieves

01:07:01.599 --> 01:07:05.400
now are leaving this place behind and disappearing

01:07:05.400 --> 01:07:08.019
into the night, once again heading away from

01:07:08.019 --> 01:07:12.059
this place and deeper into the Citadel. I think

01:07:12.059 --> 01:07:15.960
once we get around a few corners, especially

01:07:15.960 --> 01:07:19.639
when Chester and Jules say that the coast is

01:07:19.639 --> 01:07:23.519
clear, Zebulon's going to want to duck into some

01:07:23.519 --> 01:07:27.039
back alley and watch the footage on the diamond.

01:07:27.900 --> 01:07:31.280
Okay. Something mechanically that I just thought

01:07:31.280 --> 01:07:36.920
of. You're invisible for an hour. I think on

01:07:36.920 --> 01:07:40.039
command you can turn it off, right? You can become

01:07:40.039 --> 01:07:41.960
un -invisible, I think. I don't know. It doesn't

01:07:41.960 --> 01:07:45.380
say that. I think you can. I think so. It's like

01:07:45.380 --> 01:07:47.980
you just attack the wall real quick. Then you

01:07:47.980 --> 01:07:49.639
stab the wall. I'm going to punch Jules in the

01:07:49.639 --> 01:07:53.079
belly. Punch Jules. I mean, yeah, we could play

01:07:53.079 --> 01:07:58.780
that out. Turn me back, damn it. All right. Yeah.

01:07:58.840 --> 01:08:00.739
We'll, we'll say that happened. Yeah. You go

01:08:00.739 --> 01:08:02.579
and you, you play the recording. I think you

01:08:02.579 --> 01:08:04.460
just see, um, cause you don't think you have

01:08:04.460 --> 01:08:06.840
the fine tune of this thing to like know how

01:08:06.840 --> 01:08:09.340
to like get to certain parts yet. Um, so I think

01:08:09.340 --> 01:08:10.780
you're kind of watching through this, this, and

01:08:10.780 --> 01:08:13.059
you see a lot of like chaos on Tythos and Jules,

01:08:13.119 --> 01:08:14.739
you're watching this too. And it's probably really

01:08:14.739 --> 01:08:17.779
hard to see because you're watching people high

01:08:17.779 --> 01:08:21.119
and low city, both, uh, folk, both being killed

01:08:21.119 --> 01:08:24.600
by, by these electric creatures. I imagine I

01:08:24.600 --> 01:08:28.380
see people I know. Yeah. Yeah. Now, I said that

01:08:28.380 --> 01:08:30.479
these things can be transferred over. So it's

01:08:30.479 --> 01:08:31.640
interesting because you're seeing an eclipse

01:08:31.640 --> 01:08:34.300
that aren't all in one stream. It's like different

01:08:34.300 --> 01:08:38.260
images. But basically, you're seeing a lot of

01:08:38.260 --> 01:08:40.720
devastation on Tythos. You see a moment where

01:08:40.720 --> 01:08:43.279
one of these things actually appears. The lightning

01:08:43.279 --> 01:08:45.920
strikes down. You see the cobbles explode out

01:08:45.920 --> 01:08:47.840
from beneath it. And this thing is standing there.

01:08:48.560 --> 01:08:53.539
And I think at that, Jules, you feel the presence

01:08:53.539 --> 01:08:57.640
of that fragment that was given to you. By fibro.

01:08:58.340 --> 01:09:00.479
You feel it in your bag. Like it's just touching

01:09:00.479 --> 01:09:04.939
the back of your spine. God, this is, it feels

01:09:04.939 --> 01:09:07.840
gross. I'm sorry, Jules. I just wanted to see

01:09:07.840 --> 01:09:10.039
if we got the goods. Yeah, it looks like we did.

01:09:10.960 --> 01:09:13.779
We cut to a moment where you see from a perspective

01:09:13.779 --> 01:09:16.699
of like some person staying between two like

01:09:16.699 --> 01:09:19.100
high stone towers, maybe like standing in kind

01:09:19.100 --> 01:09:22.039
of an alley, looking across this large expanse

01:09:22.039 --> 01:09:24.260
to where a number of smaller buildings line,

01:09:24.479 --> 01:09:28.100
just line up and you see the cherry delights

01:09:28.100 --> 01:09:30.859
all fanned out. You see one of these creatures

01:09:30.859 --> 01:09:32.819
goes charging towards them and you see jewels

01:09:32.819 --> 01:09:37.239
just vanish, reappear behind it, reaches a handout

01:09:37.239 --> 01:09:40.729
and this thing. fucking explodes like a fucking

01:09:40.729 --> 01:09:46.050
90s, what do you call them, like disco toy. Holy

01:09:46.050 --> 01:09:49.550
shit, Jules, you got some hits in too. How was

01:09:49.550 --> 01:09:53.810
that? We see Zebulon at the top of the ramp.

01:09:53.869 --> 01:09:55.130
You see one of these creatures comes forward,

01:09:55.189 --> 01:09:57.310
and he just kind of weaves to the side and just,

01:09:57.369 --> 01:09:59.989
whoa, whoa, whoa, an X pattern right through

01:09:59.989 --> 01:10:02.069
this thing, and again, just like in a burst,

01:10:02.130 --> 01:10:04.630
just almost like the energy just leaks out of

01:10:04.630 --> 01:10:07.750
it into the fucking ether. We see him shit his

01:10:07.750 --> 01:10:13.529
pants afterwards. Was that you, Zeb? Is it okay

01:10:13.529 --> 01:10:16.430
if I call you Zeb? It was pretty cool, wasn't

01:10:16.430 --> 01:10:21.390
it? That was pretty badass, I gotta say. What

01:10:21.390 --> 01:10:26.670
was that movie you did? We'll talk about it later.

01:10:26.869 --> 01:10:31.149
Was that like Kung Fu? Another time. And we actually

01:10:31.149 --> 01:10:33.590
hear, I think, after Zebulon, you strike this

01:10:33.590 --> 01:10:36.069
thing down and you like... strike kind of a pose

01:10:36.069 --> 01:10:38.029
and maybe i don't think you notice the shakiness

01:10:38.029 --> 01:10:41.470
in your legs as you're watching this um and you

01:10:41.470 --> 01:10:45.310
can hear like cheering and people like oh someone's

01:10:45.310 --> 01:10:46.989
shoulder is in there and people are just like

01:10:46.989 --> 01:10:50.750
losing their minds at this and the footage cuts

01:10:50.750 --> 01:10:55.829
soon after let's get out of here i uh i guess

01:10:55.829 --> 01:10:57.829
i'm not gonna be the only superstar around here

01:10:57.829 --> 01:11:00.829
jules roach but yeah i think you just say that

01:11:00.829 --> 01:11:03.609
and maybe you guys Are you going to call it a

01:11:03.609 --> 01:11:05.289
night and head? Where do you go back to sleep?

01:11:05.350 --> 01:11:06.149
Because you haven't checked in with the Cherry

01:11:06.149 --> 01:11:08.649
Delights in a while. Actually, you know what?

01:11:08.670 --> 01:11:10.270
There is one more thing I forgot to mention that

01:11:10.270 --> 01:11:13.909
is on the recording you see. Just after Zebulon,

01:11:13.970 --> 01:11:17.109
you see one more clip. And I think, Jules, you

01:11:17.109 --> 01:11:20.710
breathe a hefty sigh of relief when you see in

01:11:20.710 --> 01:11:23.770
the mouth of the alley a man in leather, a big

01:11:23.770 --> 01:11:27.130
brutish man in leather is moving away from you,

01:11:27.250 --> 01:11:32.550
exposing his back as he's limping out. And you

01:11:32.550 --> 01:11:38.289
don't kill this man. And he gets away. We got

01:11:38.289 --> 01:11:44.010
the good stuff. This is going to launch us to

01:11:44.010 --> 01:11:46.649
the front of the line. I never cared about being

01:11:46.649 --> 01:11:49.289
at the front of the line. But if it'll help my

01:11:49.289 --> 01:11:53.630
people, I'll go along with you. We can do this

01:11:53.630 --> 01:11:57.350
together. Well, with your help, Jules, I think

01:11:57.350 --> 01:12:08.650
we can really make something out of me. We'll

01:12:08.650 --> 01:12:15.909
make a man out of you yet. So? Jesus Christ.

01:12:20.710 --> 01:12:21.710
We'll call it there.