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Thank you. Storyteller Orin here. Last time on

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our little show, our luminaries made final preparations

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for their journey to Sub -Sunko. Before making

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their way to the Passage of Respite to fetch

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a ride off -world on the Ruby Conquer Jewel,

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they stepped by an old inn called the Ugly Coyote,

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owned and operated by my old friend from the

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home country, Ada. Shout out to you, buddy. After

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staying the night, Jules LaRoche bit a... Tearful

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goodbye to his cherry delights, and Zebulon faced

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a disturbing ultimatum from his older brother.

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With their loved ones at their backs, our heroes

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made their way towards the ruby and the new adventure

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that awaits them. Whew! Well, look at this! I

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mean, you can't look at this, but oh my gosh,

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our setup has improved a hundredfold. The table

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has doubled in size. It is doubled in size. I

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have an actual laptop. We have actual buttons,

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real buttons. We're a real podcast now. We're

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a real podcast. We're a real podcast. And a guest.

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Yeah, we have our guest. Stomp is here with us.

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Stomp, how you doing? Hey, good. How's everybody

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doing? Oh, we are. I'm excellent. I don't know

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about these guys. Yeah. Oh, we're fucking great.

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Excellent. We're great. Very stoked to have you.

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Oh, I'm glad to be here. It's been a lot of fun.

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Thank you so much. And you guys have already

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impressed the hell out of me with all this. gear

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and setup. To do this live is killer. Very impressed.

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We had a very humble setup before you came, but

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you know, Snop was on his way, an adult was coming,

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and we had to just clean up our act a little

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bit, set up the table, get some actual buttons.

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We did forget the room divider, but I don't think

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it's that big of a deal. Well, now I want to

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get it. Now Jeremy is freaking out. Now I just

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want to get it for the bit. Oh, boy. Wow. Well,

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where do we start with this one? Stump, real

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quick here. We touched on it last time. Why don't

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you tell us a little about your podcast? Oh,

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sure. So I'm a co -host of the Sounds Like a

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Search and Rescue podcast. My co -host is Mike.

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who Mike McLaughlin from Mass Holyoke, Massachusetts.

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And a couple of years back, we came up with the

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idea of doing a show for hiking and, you know,

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touching upon search rescue and stuff like that.

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And we're like a year and a half into it and

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it's going pretty well. It's starting to stick,

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I think. Yeah. I think it's a lot of fun. I like

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to listen. I listen every week. I'm a fan boy.

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Stephen is starstruck right now. Yeah, it's neat.

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It's just nice. It's such a great community.

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So the stickers, we just found out that one of

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our stickers made it to the peak of the highest

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mountain in Scotland. So I saw that. No way.

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I saw that. Isn't that crazy? And I wonder, was

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Chris being cheeky? Was he the one who put that

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there? Or did he genuinely find? a sticker at

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the top of that mountain that he did not place.

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I hesitate, I hesitate to say, cause I don't

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want them to get locked up by Interpol. So I'll

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have to just refrain from answering that at the

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moment. That's fair. Either way though, either

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way, whether Chris was the one who put the sticker

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there or not, I think that's so cool. Oh yeah.

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Yeah. It's very cool. So yeah. Anywho. You got

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worldwide reach. Yeah, hey, when are you guys

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coming up with some merch? You're going to have

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to roll with that soon, I think. When people

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start to ask for it, I suppose. Yeah, well, I

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just asked. Hey, there you go. We got our first

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ask. We got our first ask. All right, it's happening

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then. It's got to happen. What is this, episode

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nine? It is episode, yes, episode nine. Jeremy

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knows. It's nine. It's nine. Man, wow. You know

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what we have not done yet, actually? We're nine

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episodes in, and this seems like a killer time

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to do it real quick before we get firing on all

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cylinders here. Let's talk about our history

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with tabletop role -playing, huh? Sure. I mean,

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like, we just kind of showed up, and we're doing

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this show, and nobody actually knows what we've

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done, what we know, our experiences. And we have

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our first guest here, and I'm dying of curiosity

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to know what Stomp's all about. But let's start

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with Stephen. Oh, great. Thanks for putting me

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on the spot. Yeah. Pressure. Always. Well, my

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tabletop experience really begins with David,

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with you. As a youth growing up, I played lots

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of RPGs, specifically MMORPGs. Specifically one.

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Specifically RuneScape way too much in high school.

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Almost ruined my life, but that's cool. Jeez.

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But more modern, David got me hooked on some

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tabletop role -playing podcasts, and that's really

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how I learned the game. Listening to guys like

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the Glass Cannon Podcast or Taz. What's the name

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for Taz? The Adventure Zone? The Adventure Zone.

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You know Taz, but not the full name. Yeah, it

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slipped for a second. Huh. The McElroy Brothers,

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The Adventure Zone, literally wrote the book

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on... They're hilarious. They did literally write

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the book. And then probably, I don't know, a

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year or two after I, I guess, sort of learned

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the game listening to people play the game, David

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roped me into way too many D &D campaigns. So

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I've been playing way too many D &D campaigns

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pretty regularly for a handful of years now,

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maybe three. Yeah, probably three years. Probably

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three years. That's... How I Met Jeremy, a couple

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other friends that we have. And then when we

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started this, really it was just because me,

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David, and Jeremy lived nice and close to each

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other. We wanted to play D &D together. And David

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wanted to record our games really just so that

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we could refer to them back for ourselves. And

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when we rubbed Jeremy into it, Jeremy said, oh,

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well, I've been making music for like the past

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decade or two. So I'm going to take this to a

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whole nother level. and here we are. That's kind

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of how this beast ran away. Yeah, yeah. You took

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it to the next level, Jeremy, for sure, because

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this would have just been for us. If we're going

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to do it, we're going to fucking do it. Yeah,

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here we are. Well, that's a hell of a transition

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over to Jeremy. What's your history with tabletop,

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huh? Not that long, actually. I mean, growing

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up, I played casually, but I wasn't serious about

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it. I didn't really understand it like I do now.

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I definitely hung out with the right crowd that

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would have played those games and probably did.

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I grew up doing theater and all that stuff, but

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I never really got into it. Only in the last

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five or six years, Evan and Emily actually got

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me originally thinking about it. It was something

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we kind of wanted to start doing, and then we

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kind of dabbled in it a little bit, and then

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met you guys through them, and the rest is history,

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which is this very brief history of the last

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few years. And it is now. an obsession, and I

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blame all of you. Very grateful for our dear

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friends, Evan and Emily, for bringing us all

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together. Yes, yes. That's nice. Evan was our

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original GM, actually. He ran a GURPS campaign

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for us. That's right. We played GURPS. Awesome.

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Fun as hell. That's how we all really got together.

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So shout out to Evan and Emily. How are you guys

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doing? Cheers. Hey, Stomp! My childhood was sort

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of usurped by Atari. Like the 800s. Oh my God,

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so cool. So I spent the 800 and just all that

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stuff. So any chance of playing RPG type of games

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just got thrown to the wayside for many, many

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years. And there was an occasion when I just

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got curious about it and started to purchase

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the things that I would need, like the dice and

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the Dungeon Master books with all the rules.

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And it was just literally so overwhelming that

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I just, Couldn't figure out how to get into it.

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And I was not connected to other individuals

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at the time that would have sort of nurtured

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me. And so anyway, long story short, maybe about

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a decade ago, I was doing PT for an individual

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in mass who was a brittle diabetic. And at the

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time he was blind and he was, you know, he's

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like wheelchair bound and this and that. And

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he invited me to play. And that is when I actually

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got exposed to the actual authentic game for

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real. And, like, you know, it was really nice.

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In a way, it was just nice to help somebody,

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you know, spend their time and just be distracted.

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And he couldn't play otherwise without somebody.

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So we would play, and you can only imagine what

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was going on in his mind, you know, having no

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sight and this and that. So that's my biggest

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exposure aside from this night tonight. So, yeah.

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Wow. Pretty neat. That's incredible. Wow. That's

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really powerful. He was a great dungeon master,

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too. But again, we only got a few sessions together

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before things happened medically with him and

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things. Wow. Yeah. Still, it's just such a testament

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to the power of the game. Absolutely. It means

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so much to so many people. Yeah. That's amazing.

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And I really just appreciate the fact that it's

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in the realm of the imagination, especially these

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days. You know, where everything is just in front

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of your face on a phone, like just put the phone

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down and live in your imagination, your mind.

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It's just awesome. Yeah. Yeah. It's always a

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good time. Yeah. Damn, that's really cool. Yeah.

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Theory of the mind, for sure. Yeah, exactly.

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We do a lot of that here. Yeah, we don't very

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often have a physical map pulled up. David's

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fantastic at explaining where we are in the universe

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and just using your imagination to roll. That's

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a really cool story. Yeah. So I have to follow

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up Stomp. So I think we're just going to skip

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me. That was the sweetest story. In terms of

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me, yeah, I've been curious for many, many years.

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One of my first experiences was for my own bachelor

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party. I ran a campaign. I didn't bother looking

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up any of the rules. I faked every role using

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sex dice on my phone. Nobody knew. So when the

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worms burst out of the old lady and started nibbling

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their feet for damage, they didn't catch on.

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It was great. Lick ear. Yeah. That was, it was

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a hell of a night. It's a miss. They're looking

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at me like, this thing has a lot of HP. It's

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regenerating, isn't it? Yup. Oh, you figured

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it out. Wow. You figured it out. HP, huh? That's

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a thing. So many years later, I ended up picking

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up a, I got a Curse of Strahd book, basically

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secondhand from a buddy of mine. And another

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friend of mine that worked at my parents' restaurant

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with me was having his 18th birthday. And I was

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like, hey, let's run this. Let's have fun with

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it. And we're still doing it every week. Got

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like three campaigns going on at that house.

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I have a bunch of other campaigns. I've joined

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Evan's campaign, met these, well, met Jeremy.

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I knew Steven, but met Jeremy through that. We've

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got this incredible group together. That same

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group's doing a Frostmaiden campaign. We're all

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over the place. So now it's impossible to get

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you on a hike because you're always DMing. It's

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true, but thankfully you're in most of them.

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So you don't get to hike either. I know. It definitely

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hinders my hiking. All right, so I guess with

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that, what do you think? You guys want to get

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right to it? I'm ready to play. Hell yeah. Great,

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great. Well, I don't care if you guys are ready.

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You guys can take a seat. It's the Me and Stomp.

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Who asked? It's the Me and Stomp show now. Shut

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up, Steven. Okay. No, I'm here for that. I'm

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here for that. So we're going to start this off

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a little weird because I like weird. We're going

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to start off very similar to our opening episode.

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We're going to start off on a screen of white.

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Not a fabric canvas background this time. No,

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no, we're looking at this gleaming, crystalline

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screen, perhaps a facet on the great ethereal

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diamond. And we see that same static, very colorful

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flecks of every color of the rainbow just flickering

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across the screen. We hear that same melodic

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tune. And then we hear a voice say, The Morning

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Jewel is recorded in front of a live studio audience.

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And we flash to a brightly lit room with sparse

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white walls. We see there's two chairs, Stephen,

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forged of crystal with just an unnecessary amount

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of cushioning. Very, very gaudy. Probably like

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a maroon. We see sitting in one of these chairs

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is this older dwarven woman. with tan skin and

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raven hair pulled back into a tight bun. She's

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got eyes that are dark and shrewd, with a delighted

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spark just always kind of playing in them. We

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see she's holding a long, handled pipe, just

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rustling lazily at her lips, giving off a smoke

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trail as bright purple as her silken robes. And

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we hear her say, Oh, good morning, everyone.

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Welcome to the morning jewel. We always start

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our day brilliantly. I'm your humble host, Fubo

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May. And today we have quite an incredible guest

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sitting with us, Mr. Eminrath, and she gestures

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to the chair beside her. And what does this guy

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in this chair look like? Stomp? Well, we have

00:14:38.879 --> 00:14:43.139
an individual that might be a little bit about

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five feet or so, and a nice white full -grown

00:14:48.500 --> 00:14:51.580
beard. No hair on his head except for that. tail

00:14:51.580 --> 00:14:55.399
in the back that's popping out there. And he

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has a three -quarter length jacket for protection.

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And he dons a lengthy sword, which is pretty

00:15:03.639 --> 00:15:07.059
cool. It's sort of a long sword, not so much

00:15:07.059 --> 00:15:10.799
a claymore, but somewhere in between. And for

00:15:10.799 --> 00:15:13.500
speed of movement, he's carrying a light wooden

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shield, which he knows will not offer too much

00:15:16.279 --> 00:15:20.570
protection, but it lets him move speedily. Okay.

00:15:20.850 --> 00:15:23.570
Yeah. All right. Yeah. Yeah, and just coming

00:15:23.570 --> 00:15:26.570
on arm, showing off all your gear, looking pristine

00:15:26.570 --> 00:15:31.830
on this morning talk show. Yes, yes. And Fubo

00:15:31.830 --> 00:15:33.769
May, she just kind of looks at you and just says,

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well, stop, we got a lot of questions for you

00:15:36.149 --> 00:15:40.169
here today, but I think every woman or, you know,

00:15:40.210 --> 00:15:42.750
some male folk, of course, on every world in

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the Concord wants to know the first thing on

00:15:45.370 --> 00:15:49.259
their minds, is there a Mrs. Eminrath? First

00:15:49.259 --> 00:15:54.639
of all, me name is not Stomp. Me name... Me name

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is Emin Roth. Emin Roth. My apologies. My apologies,

00:16:01.879 --> 00:16:06.820
dude. I was thinking of somebody else. The name

00:16:06.820 --> 00:16:10.240
is Emin Roth, and it's in the R. It's in the

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R for the Roth. Very important. Very important.

00:16:15.259 --> 00:16:21.789
Oh my god, I love this. My apologies, Mr. M.

00:16:21.929 --> 00:16:26.149
Rath. Thank you. I will forgive you this time.

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Oh, dear. That may have been a veiled threat,

00:16:31.250 --> 00:16:32.929
folks, but we love it here. Look at that chin

00:16:32.929 --> 00:16:37.350
line. So, Mr. M. Rath, you hail from the Silver

00:16:37.350 --> 00:16:41.169
Hills on Moor, yes? Silver Hills, yes. The beautiful

00:16:41.169 --> 00:16:44.389
Silver Hills where I grew up with me Papa Rath,

00:16:44.389 --> 00:16:49.340
Rath, and me Mama Rath. Who's that? Was that

00:16:49.340 --> 00:16:54.480
the names? Yes. Well, yes. Of course that was

00:16:54.480 --> 00:16:57.559
the names. That's the proper name. It's the wrath.

00:16:58.539 --> 00:17:02.340
Yes, yes. As far as I know. My siblings were

00:17:02.340 --> 00:17:05.680
goats, so I do not know about anything else beyond

00:17:05.680 --> 00:17:13.259
that. And I do have a nervous tick. If I get

00:17:13.259 --> 00:17:15.559
nervous, I tend to make goat noises. So just

00:17:15.559 --> 00:17:18.859
be careful. Don't push me too far. Oh, we're

00:17:18.859 --> 00:17:21.519
going to push you so far on the show today, Mr.

00:17:21.740 --> 00:17:30.519
Emin Roth. Roth. I'm trying. Takes a long suck

00:17:30.519 --> 00:17:34.480
for a pipe. Blows it out. Well, Mr. Emin Roth,

00:17:34.759 --> 00:17:38.019
I know you must be expecting this, so I think

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we'll get out of the way now. You were formerly

00:17:40.779 --> 00:17:44.779
a protege and sidekick of an Ozen Yoshikatsu,

00:17:44.859 --> 00:17:48.000
you know. You know the Storm Eye. Yes, yes, the

00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:51.559
big O. Yes, and you're, of course, aware of the

00:17:51.559 --> 00:17:54.400
situation on Tythos and what happened, what he

00:17:54.400 --> 00:17:59.119
did. Sadly, sadly, this is a troubling development,

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and this is why I'm here. I can only talk about

00:18:02.140 --> 00:18:06.000
it superficially, because it's just devastating.

00:18:06.440 --> 00:18:11.019
And you were, uh... nearly a luminary in the

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past, almost full -blown, and now you're back.

00:18:13.519 --> 00:18:16.160
We see you're back after a bit of a hiatus for

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many years. Yes, yes, yes. Is Ozen to blame for

00:18:19.039 --> 00:18:23.400
this, too? Ah, yes and no. It's a long story.

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I will tell you, there was one day up on the

00:18:26.339 --> 00:18:30.740
Silver Hills at the homestead where I was ready

00:18:30.740 --> 00:18:34.039
to slide down on my sword down to the lower village

00:18:34.039 --> 00:18:38.789
to get provisions, and I was abducted. by the

00:18:38.789 --> 00:18:43.210
Big O. And I was taken away to a training camp

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for much of my adolescent life. I say I imagine

00:18:47.170 --> 00:18:50.589
this was on Umizu, yes. Yes, yes, of course,

00:18:50.650 --> 00:18:56.650
yes. So, I fell into servitude for the Citadel

00:18:56.650 --> 00:19:02.809
under the stern, strict guidance of Mr. O. But,

00:19:02.809 --> 00:19:06.809
eventually, I just burnt out. I had to get away.

00:19:07.390 --> 00:19:09.730
And I went back to the Silver Hills with me Papa

00:19:09.730 --> 00:19:15.109
Rath and me Mama Rath. Well, we all know Mr.

00:19:16.269 --> 00:19:19.490
Olsen. He was a very tense, very strong man,

00:19:19.589 --> 00:19:22.650
but I imagine he was a very strict tutor. Oh,

00:19:22.769 --> 00:19:26.750
yes, but not so much as my Papa. Ah. Yes, and

00:19:26.750 --> 00:19:29.769
may I tell you that my Papa had a curious, curious

00:19:29.769 --> 00:19:31.910
little thing. He would spy on the neighbors.

00:19:32.680 --> 00:19:34.680
I don't know if you know this. He would spy on

00:19:34.680 --> 00:19:36.460
the neighbors. He would spy on the neighbors.

00:19:36.579 --> 00:19:40.339
And this is very strange. So I know you've spoken

00:19:40.339 --> 00:19:43.299
about this before, but he is also known as Papa

00:19:43.299 --> 00:19:59.269
Razzi. Get out of town. You stole my thunder

00:19:59.269 --> 00:20:02.029
on the last episode and I had to fit it in somewhere.

00:20:06.549 --> 00:20:18.109
I can't fucking believe it. High five. So yeah.

00:20:19.809 --> 00:20:21.970
And this is the thing we actually haven't touched

00:20:21.970 --> 00:20:24.329
on this. Out of character, you're a half -elf.

00:20:24.730 --> 00:20:26.869
Yes. So we assume if your father's the elf, he's

00:20:26.869 --> 00:20:32.609
probably very, very old. So this all actually

00:20:32.609 --> 00:20:39.230
checks out. I thought so. So much better than

00:20:39.230 --> 00:20:42.829
I ever could have expected. Yeah, you and I are

00:20:42.829 --> 00:20:44.569
out of this show. That's it. Yeah, you're out.

00:20:44.630 --> 00:20:47.309
Sorry, guys. We just got to sit back for this

00:20:47.309 --> 00:20:49.250
one. It's David and Stomp hour. Stomp, where

00:20:49.250 --> 00:20:50.569
are we recording from now on? Because we don't

00:20:50.569 --> 00:20:56.099
need to be here. Stomp has his own studio. Oh,

00:20:56.119 --> 00:21:01.160
man. We're big time now. So that's it. I went

00:21:01.160 --> 00:21:05.380
back home, and then I saw the news on the Citadel

00:21:05.380 --> 00:21:09.059
Network, and I had to come back. It was a duty.

00:21:09.220 --> 00:21:12.099
It was obligating. We're very glad to have you

00:21:12.099 --> 00:21:15.589
back. We need her. We need young blood, old blood,

00:21:15.630 --> 00:21:17.970
whatever blood we can get back in the luminary

00:21:17.970 --> 00:21:21.849
front. We're facing so many tragedies, and Tythos

00:21:21.849 --> 00:21:25.170
is just the tip of the iceberg. Yes, yes. It's

00:21:25.170 --> 00:21:28.309
hell out there. I heard you're going on your

00:21:28.309 --> 00:21:31.990
first major patrol then. Correct, correct. Going

00:21:31.990 --> 00:21:35.089
to Sbsanko, yes? Sbsanko, yes. That's what I

00:21:35.089 --> 00:21:37.910
understand. I have to assess the damage to the

00:21:37.910 --> 00:21:43.069
community and... To the reputation of the luminaries,

00:21:43.170 --> 00:21:47.230
actually. You know? Clearly, their reputation

00:21:47.230 --> 00:21:51.569
has been trashed. That's very bold. It's very

00:21:51.569 --> 00:21:54.509
bold. It's very good. Very just. And she, like,

00:21:54.529 --> 00:21:57.730
puts her hand out on your knee and just... It

00:21:57.730 --> 00:22:05.390
taps me on my knee. Well, any of you folks down

00:22:05.390 --> 00:22:07.630
at Sonsonko, I want you to keep your eyes out

00:22:07.630 --> 00:22:10.609
for... Mr. Emin Rath here, because he's going

00:22:10.609 --> 00:22:11.829
to be there, and he's going to be keeping you

00:22:11.829 --> 00:22:15.170
safe. But moving on, folks, our show needs to

00:22:15.170 --> 00:22:17.029
focus on other matters, and we're going to talk

00:22:17.029 --> 00:22:21.109
about them. And we scroll away from that image

00:22:21.109 --> 00:22:24.869
on that screen. We start to pan down, down, down.

00:22:25.009 --> 00:22:28.690
We see maybe another screen showing the, I talked

00:22:28.690 --> 00:22:30.630
about it last time, but like a departure and

00:22:30.630 --> 00:22:33.210
arrival list for the Conqueror Jewels moving

00:22:33.210 --> 00:22:34.990
in, and people, you know, getting on them. Basically,

00:22:35.069 --> 00:22:37.210
you can see at an airport, you see the very top

00:22:37.210 --> 00:22:42.319
of the list. So Sosanko arrived now, uh, boarding

00:22:42.319 --> 00:22:44.900
now, I guess would make more sense. And, uh,

00:22:45.099 --> 00:22:48.019
I will say just to, just to help future me out,

00:22:48.099 --> 00:22:50.180
um, way down at the bottom of the list, there's

00:22:50.180 --> 00:22:52.579
actually another, another shipment, uh, from

00:22:52.579 --> 00:22:54.440
Sosanko. They're, they're, they're boarding again,

00:22:54.519 --> 00:22:59.180
but this is far later this evening. Um, so, you

00:22:59.180 --> 00:23:00.640
know, you guys, you wanted to move, you wanted

00:23:00.640 --> 00:23:02.599
to get on this, on this, on this Ruby. And, and

00:23:02.599 --> 00:23:04.660
at the, at the time you knew that this was the

00:23:04.660 --> 00:23:09.720
most recent or most, uh, soon -to -be ship out,

00:23:09.880 --> 00:23:12.599
but there is one later this evening. It's only

00:23:12.599 --> 00:23:15.220
important to me. Anyway, so. No, that could be

00:23:15.220 --> 00:23:17.359
important to us. Could be important to you. Something

00:23:17.359 --> 00:23:18.660
to think about. You can see it now. We're going

00:23:18.660 --> 00:23:20.559
to take this story away from you again. Appreciate

00:23:20.559 --> 00:23:24.359
the details. There we go. So before we get to

00:23:24.359 --> 00:23:28.720
these idiots, Stomp. Yes. Take a button. Oh,

00:23:28.779 --> 00:23:32.000
hell yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Hell yeah. Great

00:23:32.000 --> 00:23:35.559
intro. Here's your button. Dude, like. I didn't

00:23:35.559 --> 00:23:37.640
know what to expect because you were, like, texting

00:23:37.640 --> 00:23:40.700
us. You were like, oh, man, this and that. Dude,

00:23:40.819 --> 00:23:44.400
fan, like, hats off. Fan -freaking -tastic. That

00:23:44.400 --> 00:23:47.019
was an absolutely perfect debut. We're so happy

00:23:47.019 --> 00:23:51.059
to have you. Cool. This is excellent. Yeah. I'm

00:23:51.059 --> 00:23:53.869
trying to be shameless. No, dude, no shame around

00:23:53.869 --> 00:23:58.990
this table. I'll throw my shame away immediately

00:23:58.990 --> 00:24:02.470
to make everyone feel better. So speaking of

00:24:02.470 --> 00:24:05.250
shame, was that like Crystal Network Terry Gross

00:24:05.250 --> 00:24:07.390
with a cigar? I don't know who Terry Gross is.

00:24:07.509 --> 00:24:11.990
Oh, come on. I was just being, I don't know.

00:24:12.210 --> 00:24:14.710
Barbara Walters, maybe? I don't know people.

00:24:15.170 --> 00:24:19.410
Jesus. Tough crowd. Very sheltered. I have to

00:24:19.410 --> 00:24:22.529
sit in my little home office and read D &D books

00:24:22.529 --> 00:24:24.710
all day. Do you know how long I had that paparazzi

00:24:24.710 --> 00:24:27.369
joke? I've had that for about two weeks. Dude,

00:24:27.390 --> 00:24:31.190
I'm sitting at the basin because I had some time

00:24:31.190 --> 00:24:33.630
to kill, parked at the basin, and I'm listening

00:24:33.630 --> 00:24:35.369
to the new episode when you guys started talking

00:24:35.369 --> 00:24:38.619
about that. I'm like, are you kidding me? Are

00:24:38.619 --> 00:24:42.240
you kidding me? You're taking my joke. Oh, so

00:24:42.240 --> 00:24:45.160
you came up with it independently? I came up

00:24:45.160 --> 00:24:49.079
with it. Yeah. I was so wild. So it's Papa Roth.

00:24:49.759 --> 00:24:52.220
Yeah. Paparazzi. I was trying to come up with

00:24:52.220 --> 00:24:56.589
jokes. Ages. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's fantastic.

00:24:57.069 --> 00:24:59.269
That makes it even better. See, I thought you

00:24:59.269 --> 00:25:01.809
two were coordinating on the paparazzi. No, not

00:25:01.809 --> 00:25:05.109
at all. I was like, what? What a twist. I never

00:25:05.109 --> 00:25:07.150
saw it coming. I thought you listened to that

00:25:07.150 --> 00:25:09.109
episode before you got here and just kind of

00:25:09.109 --> 00:25:10.849
slipped that in under the radar. No way, no.

00:25:11.049 --> 00:25:14.089
It's like I've got a Samsung Note here with all

00:25:14.089 --> 00:25:16.349
details about things I was going to do with that.

00:25:16.490 --> 00:25:19.349
Oh, my God. This is fate. This is so funny. This

00:25:19.349 --> 00:25:23.900
is fate. Good stuff. Oh, my God. This is what

00:25:23.900 --> 00:25:26.180
the game is all about. Yeah, man. It's just shit

00:25:26.180 --> 00:25:29.900
like this. Absolutely. Yeah. So we see that list

00:25:29.900 --> 00:25:33.140
of, you know, conquer, jewel departures, arrivals,

00:25:33.140 --> 00:25:34.880
all that, and we keep panning down and down and

00:25:34.880 --> 00:25:38.599
down, and we hit the streets of the Radiant Citadel

00:25:38.599 --> 00:25:42.859
on that stony fossil, and we zoom in to two figures.

00:25:43.460 --> 00:25:46.180
Three figures, actually. One of them is small.

00:25:46.319 --> 00:25:50.339
It's Ebulon. He's trailing behind. Catch up,

00:25:50.359 --> 00:25:53.259
Zebulon. Smaller than the child who is Chester.

00:25:53.779 --> 00:25:57.859
And we see these three are moving down the street,

00:25:57.960 --> 00:26:01.799
right down the steps towards the Conqueror Jewel.

00:26:01.819 --> 00:26:04.099
And let's take it up with you guys. What's going

00:26:04.099 --> 00:26:07.799
on? You breathed like you had something to say.

00:26:07.920 --> 00:26:14.400
I didn't. It just felt right. It felt appropriate.

00:26:17.909 --> 00:26:21.509
I don't think, at least to start, I think Jules

00:26:21.509 --> 00:26:25.309
and Chester are kind of walking in silence a

00:26:25.309 --> 00:26:28.130
little bit. They're a little scared, a little

00:26:28.130 --> 00:26:31.869
nervous. So we know that Zebulon's not very intelligent.

00:26:31.970 --> 00:26:35.230
I'd like to think that he has some sort of small

00:26:35.230 --> 00:26:37.289
amount of emotional intelligence and he's picking

00:26:37.289 --> 00:26:39.950
up that you and Chester are a little nervous,

00:26:39.990 --> 00:26:42.809
a little uncomfortable to leave the planet. So,

00:26:42.829 --> 00:26:45.890
you know, Jules, this is only my second time.

00:26:46.240 --> 00:26:48.880
Leaving the Citadel. The first time was when

00:26:48.880 --> 00:26:52.079
I went to Tithos. When did you go to Tithos?

00:26:53.460 --> 00:26:59.660
Well, we met on the Sapphire. Coming back. After...

00:26:59.660 --> 00:27:06.539
That was your first time? Yeah. At Storm. That's

00:27:06.539 --> 00:27:12.099
no way to see Tithos. So... You were all... From

00:27:12.099 --> 00:27:19.309
there. Yeah. I'm really sorry. It's nothing.

00:27:20.089 --> 00:27:25.069
I mean, I hope that you all can find a place,

00:27:25.170 --> 00:27:28.829
a home here on the Radiant Citadel or one of

00:27:28.829 --> 00:27:31.910
the other worlds, but I know that nothing will

00:27:31.910 --> 00:27:37.349
ever replace Tithos for you and all those little

00:27:37.349 --> 00:27:41.549
guys. I mean, if I'm being honest, Zebulon, Tithos

00:27:41.549 --> 00:27:43.190
wasn't much of a home to us either. I mean, we

00:27:43.190 --> 00:27:46.500
loved it, you know? But we weren't exactly treated

00:27:46.500 --> 00:27:51.619
like royalty there. Not at all. We didn't even

00:27:51.619 --> 00:27:54.140
have a set home. We just kind of roamed the streets.

00:27:54.519 --> 00:27:59.339
That's called irony. No, home is where your friends

00:27:59.339 --> 00:28:03.119
are. Yeah. We'll be all right. We'll be good.

00:28:03.279 --> 00:28:07.500
We got each other. So you guys didn't lose any

00:28:07.500 --> 00:28:12.099
family in the... We lost people, yeah. Yeah,

00:28:12.099 --> 00:28:16.680
I mean, it's old mickin'. Little Sue? I mean,

00:28:16.720 --> 00:28:21.059
I could list them for hours. I knew a lot of

00:28:21.059 --> 00:28:27.279
folk in the city, but... Go ahead. He goes on,

00:28:27.400 --> 00:28:33.940
well, there's Bob the Rat, Bill the Mouse. Oh,

00:28:33.960 --> 00:28:37.400
Bill was still on there. He was still on there.

00:28:37.420 --> 00:28:38.980
Yeah, I checked. Of course, he was the first

00:28:38.980 --> 00:28:42.279
one I looked into. Yeah. And, uh... Of course

00:28:42.279 --> 00:28:44.480
there was Matt. I'm sorry. I'm crying. I can't.

00:28:44.579 --> 00:28:47.440
I got to stop right here. That's the end of the

00:28:47.440 --> 00:28:49.019
list. That's the end of the list. I can't anymore.

00:28:50.940 --> 00:28:56.700
But just know there was a lot. No, Zeb. We'll

00:28:56.700 --> 00:29:01.200
be good. You take the bad times and you let them

00:29:01.200 --> 00:29:05.160
make you stronger. So, Jules, I'm excited to

00:29:05.160 --> 00:29:08.579
go on this new adventure with you and Chester

00:29:08.579 --> 00:29:13.990
to Shipshunko, but... There's just one quick

00:29:13.990 --> 00:29:16.990
thing that I feel like I should tell you about.

00:29:17.109 --> 00:29:21.910
I heard my brother's report about what happened

00:29:21.910 --> 00:29:27.430
on Tythos. And Ozen Yoshikatsu, he said that

00:29:27.430 --> 00:29:35.609
what he was doing was for somebody named Shadra

00:29:35.609 --> 00:29:40.819
Khan. Shadra what? What? He said... What I do,

00:29:40.940 --> 00:29:44.980
I do for Shadra Khan. Do you know who that is?

00:29:45.799 --> 00:29:47.980
I was kind of hoping that you knew. Fuck no.

00:29:48.759 --> 00:29:51.279
Justin? It doesn't sound like a Tithos name.

00:29:51.440 --> 00:29:54.900
I don't know it. Well, I just thought that I

00:29:54.900 --> 00:29:58.680
should rope you guys in. That's all I know. That's

00:29:58.680 --> 00:30:00.619
all I know about what happened on Tithos. That

00:30:00.619 --> 00:30:03.660
was from Omizu, right? Maybe it's someone on

00:30:03.660 --> 00:30:07.359
Omizu? Yeah. I'm not super familiar. They got

00:30:07.359 --> 00:30:10.789
a king and queen like us? I don't know, to be

00:30:10.789 --> 00:30:12.710
honest. I ain't really studied up on the other

00:30:12.710 --> 00:30:15.930
worlds. Probably should have been, given this.

00:30:16.630 --> 00:30:18.730
I figured the DM's character would know a little

00:30:18.730 --> 00:30:22.809
bit about... This is my high wisdom character.

00:30:23.390 --> 00:30:25.650
I have a different high intelligence history

00:30:25.650 --> 00:30:29.309
proficient character. He's just not in your party

00:30:29.309 --> 00:30:36.609
yet. You can ask him questions. Why don't we

00:30:36.609 --> 00:30:41.430
keep our ears open? Keep our eyes open. Maybe

00:30:41.430 --> 00:30:43.829
we'll be lucky enough to meet somebody on Shemshedco

00:30:43.829 --> 00:30:47.190
who has a little more insight. Well, anybody

00:30:47.190 --> 00:30:49.450
apart from here, they've got to know more than

00:30:49.450 --> 00:30:52.630
us. And I think you're hearing this, this idea

00:30:52.630 --> 00:30:56.829
that there was some other figure behind all this,

00:30:56.849 --> 00:31:00.869
Jules. And again, maybe you just feel that fragment

00:31:00.869 --> 00:31:04.470
of the cobblestone just resting against your

00:31:04.470 --> 00:31:07.690
back, that strange sort of arcane runes written

00:31:07.690 --> 00:31:13.089
on it. and you move down the stairs. Am I physically

00:31:13.089 --> 00:31:16.730
feeling something from it, or is it... I think

00:31:16.730 --> 00:31:19.130
you just feel it touching you. It's like you're

00:31:19.130 --> 00:31:21.950
thinking of it. It's like, you know, there's

00:31:21.950 --> 00:31:24.509
a lot of pieces to this puzzle, and you're holding

00:31:24.509 --> 00:31:26.390
one. I think it was a movie moment where the

00:31:26.390 --> 00:31:29.069
camera would just pan onto that pocket or that

00:31:29.069 --> 00:31:31.890
part of here. Yeah, it just pans down. Hey, hey,

00:31:31.910 --> 00:31:33.950
listener, don't forget about this part of the

00:31:33.950 --> 00:31:39.069
storyline. Look, I'm used to running campaigns

00:31:39.069 --> 00:31:42.769
with Steven, and Steven has a goldfish memory,

00:31:42.950 --> 00:31:45.269
so I'm pretty used to just dropping hints. It's

00:31:45.269 --> 00:31:49.029
really bad. It's so bad. The hints are much appreciated.

00:31:49.829 --> 00:31:51.809
It's just like how I'm trained. It's just like,

00:31:51.930 --> 00:31:53.569
all right, it's been two minutes. I'll probably

00:31:53.569 --> 00:31:55.950
drop another hint. I think that works really

00:31:55.950 --> 00:31:58.930
well for quote -unquote radio, though. Yeah,

00:31:58.970 --> 00:32:00.390
it works well. You've been training me all this

00:32:00.390 --> 00:32:02.230
time. It's what it is. That's what I'm here for.

00:32:02.390 --> 00:32:06.599
That's what it's been. So you guys are moving

00:32:06.599 --> 00:32:08.859
down these steps, and up ahead you do see there's

00:32:08.859 --> 00:32:12.559
a line forming. So this line of basically tortoises

00:32:12.559 --> 00:32:15.960
is basically, I'd probably say it's not hugely

00:32:15.960 --> 00:32:18.819
long yet. Sipsunko isn't crazy popular. They're

00:32:18.819 --> 00:32:21.299
loading wagons and luggage and stuff first, and

00:32:21.299 --> 00:32:22.779
then there's just like... Did you just say a

00:32:22.779 --> 00:32:26.839
line of basically tortoises? Tourists. Oh, tourists.

00:32:26.940 --> 00:32:28.859
Yeah, it's all tortoises all the way down. You

00:32:28.859 --> 00:32:30.920
don't know what's... Oh, this is going to take

00:32:30.920 --> 00:32:38.200
forever. God! Take this button. Oh, yeah. I will.

00:32:38.480 --> 00:32:43.920
Nice. 100%. Nice. I know. And it's like, you

00:32:43.920 --> 00:32:46.900
guys think probably after last session's incredible

00:32:46.900 --> 00:32:49.119
RP, you'd get some buttons, right? You'd think.

00:32:49.160 --> 00:32:52.119
You would think. But I forgot. Yeah. And there's

00:32:52.119 --> 00:32:54.000
just nothing we could do about that now. Asshole.

00:32:54.180 --> 00:32:55.759
Look at all these buttons in my hand. I just

00:32:55.759 --> 00:32:57.579
can't. You've got zero buttons in your hand.

00:32:57.700 --> 00:33:00.519
You did it before? Yeah, I did. I set a bad precedent.

00:33:01.019 --> 00:33:06.160
Never again. Steven said so. Want some buttons,

00:33:06.220 --> 00:33:09.019
Steven? Fucking earn them. All I want is buttons

00:33:09.019 --> 00:33:13.839
on here. That's all I want. Do something cool.

00:33:14.319 --> 00:33:18.319
So you guys are moving down. You kind of reach

00:33:18.319 --> 00:33:19.799
the end of this line. You can see way, way up

00:33:19.799 --> 00:33:22.740
ahead. You're swiftly moving, and there's a number

00:33:22.740 --> 00:33:24.819
of guards kind of like lined up in front of the

00:33:24.819 --> 00:33:27.720
actual ramp leading up into the jewel itself.

00:33:28.920 --> 00:33:31.160
There's a man in like robes. They're like these

00:33:31.160 --> 00:33:35.980
brilliant white robes. That's actually like taking

00:33:35.980 --> 00:33:38.259
a fare or checking writs, things like that. You

00:33:38.259 --> 00:33:41.140
know, with the writs you have, it looks like

00:33:41.140 --> 00:33:43.839
the fare has been paid. You're all set to go

00:33:43.839 --> 00:33:48.420
through. So you just got to show them. But you

00:33:48.420 --> 00:33:51.859
only have two, and you have a Chester. Something

00:33:51.859 --> 00:33:56.640
you ought to think about. Yeah. So, Jeremy, add

00:33:56.640 --> 00:33:58.839
a character, a little bit of table talk. Do you

00:33:58.839 --> 00:34:00.519
want to just jump into it, or do you want to

00:34:00.519 --> 00:34:02.599
talk about it? I'm going to make him invisible

00:34:02.599 --> 00:34:04.319
and just send him on his way. We'll meet him

00:34:04.319 --> 00:34:08.619
inside. I think he's going to be getting on easier

00:34:08.619 --> 00:34:11.539
just going and doing his thing. All right. I

00:34:11.539 --> 00:34:13.320
mean, I can't argue with that. However, for some

00:34:13.320 --> 00:34:15.840
reason, long rest is not working on here because

00:34:15.840 --> 00:34:19.420
I didn't do that last time. I currently cannot

00:34:19.420 --> 00:34:23.940
expend my invisibility spell. You definitely

00:34:23.940 --> 00:34:26.519
have rested. We have rested. So we'll call it.

00:34:27.019 --> 00:34:29.340
Maybe we should go with D &D Beyond on this.

00:34:29.760 --> 00:34:33.420
Maybe you just don't have it. Maybe now. Maybe

00:34:33.420 --> 00:34:37.119
now. So, yeah, you reach out. What do you say?

00:34:37.239 --> 00:34:39.420
I'm just going to kind of turn around, give Chester

00:34:39.420 --> 00:34:41.420
a little tap, and be like, meet you in there,

00:34:41.460 --> 00:34:44.280
bud. What do you mean? Oh, my gosh. Have fun.

00:34:44.599 --> 00:34:48.539
Whoa. Quiet. You know what I get up to like this?

00:34:48.679 --> 00:34:50.539
Shut up. You know, they can still hear you. They

00:34:50.539 --> 00:34:53.000
can still hear you. We're so close. Right. Sorry.

00:34:53.500 --> 00:34:55.360
Go do your thing. We'll meet you inside. Meet

00:34:55.360 --> 00:34:59.550
you inside. He's a big guy. And Chester. you

00:34:59.550 --> 00:35:00.989
can hear like a pitter patter of feet. You see

00:35:00.989 --> 00:35:02.809
someone go, Oh, like, like someone just brushed

00:35:02.809 --> 00:35:07.650
against there. Uh, someone's behind. I'd also

00:35:07.650 --> 00:35:10.309
not. Okay. Chester. I'd also like to include

00:35:10.309 --> 00:35:12.710
that this happened before we got up to really

00:35:12.710 --> 00:35:15.849
in eyesight of whoever's. Sure. Yeah. You got

00:35:15.849 --> 00:35:18.150
a little ways in the line. Um, so you send them

00:35:18.150 --> 00:35:20.190
on his way. And, uh, then I think maybe you do

00:35:20.190 --> 00:35:21.789
this right before you even hit the line. Then

00:35:21.789 --> 00:35:23.590
you kind of step up from there. That way you're

00:35:23.590 --> 00:35:25.829
not right next to a bunch of people. Right. And,

00:35:25.949 --> 00:35:29.280
uh, you guys move up and you are. In line, and

00:35:29.280 --> 00:35:31.760
you look up ahead. You look at the man in front

00:35:31.760 --> 00:35:35.199
of you. About five feet tall. Head mostly bald,

00:35:35.280 --> 00:35:38.960
except for a snow white top knot. Sort of ponytail

00:35:38.960 --> 00:35:43.900
on the back. And I want you, Zebulon, to roll

00:35:43.900 --> 00:35:47.199
me. You know what? Actually, I don't need you

00:35:47.199 --> 00:35:49.519
to roll this to me. Or for me. Because we established

00:35:49.519 --> 00:35:52.880
you worked with Ozen Yoshikatsu. And Zebulon,

00:35:52.920 --> 00:35:55.659
in the first session. Zebulon knows what's up

00:35:55.659 --> 00:35:58.000
with Ozen Yoshikatsu. Nat 20. Yeah. Yeah, nat

00:35:58.000 --> 00:36:01.139
20 to history check on Ozen. Even in the back,

00:36:01.139 --> 00:36:02.400
you're kind of looking. I think you're staring

00:36:02.400 --> 00:36:05.019
at this head for a moment, kind of like quizzically,

00:36:05.099 --> 00:36:08.300
and then you're like, oh my gosh. Oh my gosh.

00:36:08.719 --> 00:36:12.699
This is Emonrath. It's Emonrath in front of you,

00:36:12.739 --> 00:36:15.860
in line, right now. So I'm trying to decide.

00:36:15.900 --> 00:36:20.559
I think Zivulan's a little starstruck. He's trying

00:36:20.559 --> 00:36:23.179
to decide if he should talk to Emonrath first.

00:36:23.710 --> 00:36:26.730
Or we should talk to Jules first. Okay. He's

00:36:26.730 --> 00:36:27.650
going to look over the back of his shoulder.

00:36:28.170 --> 00:36:32.550
Jules, look in front of us. And that's Emin Rath.

00:36:33.369 --> 00:36:41.949
Do you know who that is? No. He? Emin Rath. You

00:36:41.949 --> 00:36:45.230
got to take a peek? No, listen. Listen, Jules.

00:36:45.789 --> 00:36:50.849
Emin Rath. He learned under Yoji Kasu. What?

00:36:59.219 --> 00:37:01.280
Come on, man. Do you want a stealth roll or something?

00:37:02.739 --> 00:37:04.739
Oh, no. He knows exactly what's happening. He's

00:37:04.739 --> 00:37:08.539
right in front of you. I think he's heard everything.

00:37:08.920 --> 00:37:11.980
Every single whisper. Passive perception is a

00:37:11.980 --> 00:37:16.500
thing. Let me look at his. It's high enough.

00:37:16.639 --> 00:37:21.309
Oh, my God. Evan Roth, you hear these guys dorking

00:37:21.309 --> 00:37:24.130
out over you behind you. What do you do? I ignore

00:37:24.130 --> 00:37:29.190
them. Just like the real Stomp would. I'm looking

00:37:29.190 --> 00:37:36.070
for a peaceful commute. Okay, hold on. Am I cool?

00:37:36.210 --> 00:37:39.269
Do I look cool? And Zebulon's, like, touching

00:37:39.269 --> 00:37:45.369
his horns and his wings. Do I look cool? Yeah,

00:37:45.389 --> 00:37:48.269
sure. Okay, okay, hold on, hold on. Hold on a

00:37:48.269 --> 00:37:51.380
sec. And he taps Emin Rath on the shoulder. What

00:37:51.380 --> 00:37:57.179
are you doing? What are you doing? Hello? Are

00:37:57.179 --> 00:38:05.880
you Emin Rath? I mean, I'm just, I'm a fan. It's

00:38:05.880 --> 00:38:12.579
okay, son. Emin Rath. Rath. Sorry. Get it right.

00:38:12.760 --> 00:38:14.800
I usually say it right. It's just, it's hard

00:38:14.800 --> 00:38:20.469
to whisper the rolling R. Yes, yes. What can

00:38:20.469 --> 00:38:25.130
I do for you today? My name's Zebulon. I'm Zebulon

00:38:25.130 --> 00:38:29.289
Brass. This is my friend. This is Jules LaRose.

00:38:30.090 --> 00:38:34.690
Yes, yes. Hello. You two are familiar. Well,

00:38:34.710 --> 00:38:40.489
well, my grandmother is Sholay the Brass Dragon,

00:38:40.690 --> 00:38:43.050
and his parents... Excuse me, hold on. What?

00:38:45.090 --> 00:38:49.289
I'm listening. I'm Brass Wagon. Close. Really

00:38:49.289 --> 00:38:55.130
close. Dragon. Ah, I see. You know Sheolay. Pardon

00:38:55.130 --> 00:38:59.110
me, pardon me. Yes, yes. She's, yeah. Wow. So

00:38:59.110 --> 00:39:01.570
we're, and Zipulon's kind of like looking around,

00:39:01.650 --> 00:39:04.309
like back and forth, like motioning to the area.

00:39:04.610 --> 00:39:09.849
We're on the same, the same passage to Shipchenko.

00:39:10.130 --> 00:39:17.940
Shipchenko, yes. With the famed Emon Wrath. Wow,

00:39:18.059 --> 00:39:20.239
I have so many questions. I have so many questions.

00:39:21.440 --> 00:39:27.000
Shoot. Yeah, okay. I think that's a good... Well,

00:39:27.019 --> 00:39:31.599
thank you for whatever this was. I don't want

00:39:31.599 --> 00:39:34.300
to bother you. But it was really a pleasure.

00:39:34.679 --> 00:39:40.039
Big fan, again. Big fan. Your name is Zeb? And

00:39:40.039 --> 00:39:44.260
Jules? That's us, yeah. He's Jules, I'm Zeb.

00:39:44.400 --> 00:39:47.230
I have a feeling we may meet again. Have a good

00:39:47.230 --> 00:39:52.570
day. Did you hear that? It's so good because

00:39:52.570 --> 00:39:55.449
he says that coolly and turns around and is still

00:39:55.449 --> 00:40:00.409
standing there because you're in a line. It's

00:40:00.409 --> 00:40:02.889
just like, all right, well. But then Zebulon

00:40:02.889 --> 00:40:05.489
is so stoked and he turns back around and is

00:40:05.489 --> 00:40:07.829
to Jules. He's like, oh my God, that was so cool.

00:40:08.070 --> 00:40:11.190
And Jules is just, all right. Face and palm.

00:40:12.670 --> 00:40:15.900
I have like, I have, oh, he can. Ocean cards.

00:40:17.099 --> 00:40:19.679
But I didn't think to bring anything. Like, I

00:40:19.679 --> 00:40:23.000
didn't think I'd see one of Ocean's protégés.

00:40:23.119 --> 00:40:26.800
Like, what are the odds? Probably pretty good

00:40:26.800 --> 00:40:32.599
at this point in time. So, do you think I should

00:40:32.599 --> 00:40:37.840
ask him about, I mean, what Ocean did? I don't

00:40:37.840 --> 00:40:40.599
want to. Let's take it one step at a time. I

00:40:40.599 --> 00:40:43.920
don't want to. Maybe we'll just get on. Is that

00:40:43.920 --> 00:40:50.030
rude? He hears everything you're saying. He's

00:40:50.030 --> 00:40:53.909
just standing there staring forward and listening

00:40:53.909 --> 00:40:55.869
to everything you're saying. I feel like Jules

00:40:55.869 --> 00:40:58.070
just needs to take a step back. He's just going

00:40:58.070 --> 00:41:00.710
to let whatever's going to happen happen. Okay,

00:41:00.730 --> 00:41:04.010
well. He's got no control over it. Zebulon's

00:41:04.010 --> 00:41:05.409
really trying to keep his cool. I think he's

00:41:05.409 --> 00:41:08.269
going to try to stand and be civil on the line.

00:41:08.869 --> 00:41:12.150
Zebulon, for being that uncool for that long

00:41:12.150 --> 00:41:15.719
and playing it amazingly. Take a button. I mean,

00:41:15.739 --> 00:41:18.519
as per usual, it kind of feels like a win when

00:41:18.519 --> 00:41:22.320
you give me a button, but I'll take it. That's

00:41:22.320 --> 00:41:25.239
good. That's good. I had fun. We all had fun.

00:41:25.800 --> 00:41:27.880
You always seem to give me a button with, like,

00:41:27.900 --> 00:41:32.739
a slight diss. Yeah. Can't let you get too big

00:41:32.739 --> 00:41:34.800
for your britches there, Steven. Thanks. Just

00:41:34.800 --> 00:41:36.860
because you have nice, big, gigantic calves doesn't

00:41:36.860 --> 00:41:41.079
mean you can feel good about yourself. We'll

00:41:41.079 --> 00:41:44.329
fix that. Let's get on this goddamn ship. See,

00:41:44.349 --> 00:41:45.789
I'm okay with you taking all the shit. We're

00:41:45.789 --> 00:41:48.989
not just doing the line for the entire session?

00:41:49.250 --> 00:41:51.989
Do you want to roll for cue? Well, I was just

00:41:51.989 --> 00:41:54.389
going to ask about that, actually. Like, can

00:41:54.389 --> 00:41:57.170
I have an action or do something? Whatever you

00:41:57.170 --> 00:41:58.650
want to do. Yeah, you let me know. Well, I just

00:41:58.650 --> 00:42:00.409
want to get out of turn. I mean, is there an

00:42:00.409 --> 00:42:03.070
order to turns or no? Not yet. If we're in, like,

00:42:03.070 --> 00:42:05.550
direct combat. Okay. Because I was thinking it

00:42:05.550 --> 00:42:08.429
would be cool to just use my ranger power. disappear

00:42:08.429 --> 00:42:11.230
and jump up in front of the line. Get away from

00:42:11.230 --> 00:42:14.070
these two fans. Oh my god, yes. I want to get

00:42:14.070 --> 00:42:16.869
away from the two fans. Roll me a stealth check.

00:42:16.989 --> 00:42:20.309
I have your stealth right here. It's a plus three.

00:42:21.050 --> 00:42:28.289
So a d20 plus three. Four. So that'd be... It's

00:42:28.289 --> 00:42:32.530
pretty low. Low is bad, high is good. So I can

00:42:32.530 --> 00:42:35.409
jump ahead maybe a couple people. So you guys

00:42:35.409 --> 00:42:38.460
are watching and like... And the rat very coolly

00:42:38.460 --> 00:42:42.320
starts to slide ahead in line. And so it's like,

00:42:42.400 --> 00:42:45.639
excuse me, sir. He's just bumping through. And

00:42:45.639 --> 00:42:47.920
he just ignores him, bumps through people, shows

00:42:47.920 --> 00:42:49.400
them out of the way. And then he's just like

00:42:49.400 --> 00:42:52.119
ahead in line, standing still. And you just watch

00:42:52.119 --> 00:42:57.719
this absolute flailing attempt to sneak away.

00:42:58.159 --> 00:43:00.820
That's too funny. That's classic. Was I too much?

00:43:01.199 --> 00:43:06.869
I don't think I'm in a rat place to be. Too close.

00:43:07.150 --> 00:43:10.010
It was a little awkward. All right, well. Just

00:43:10.010 --> 00:43:13.309
a little bit. If I ever get another chance, if

00:43:13.309 --> 00:43:15.449
I ever get another chance, I'm going to be cool.

00:43:16.309 --> 00:43:18.550
You play it cool as a cucumber, man. Jules, you

00:43:18.550 --> 00:43:23.670
take the lead. Jules. No. Next time. Next time.

00:43:23.690 --> 00:43:26.670
So I don't mess it up. You take the lead. Thanks,

00:43:26.710 --> 00:43:30.289
man. I just don't think it says it. I think it

00:43:30.289 --> 00:43:33.289
just shrugs it off. And with that, you look ahead

00:43:33.289 --> 00:43:35.510
and you see Emonrath has reached the front of

00:43:35.510 --> 00:43:38.730
the line. You're that close now. And Emonrath

00:43:38.730 --> 00:43:42.510
is ushered inside. Basically, you have a full

00:43:42.510 --> 00:43:44.889
passport. You are a luminary. And I think you

00:43:44.889 --> 00:43:48.690
just flash your passport and they... Now, if

00:43:48.690 --> 00:43:53.010
I'm coming from the Citadel, do I have some documentation

00:43:53.010 --> 00:43:55.969
about everybody that was on scene on the other

00:43:55.969 --> 00:43:59.750
planet? Like, what I know about these two individuals?

00:44:00.639 --> 00:44:02.320
You wouldn't know about these two, no. Like a

00:44:02.320 --> 00:44:04.840
CAA type of guy. Okay, all right. Yeah, you would,

00:44:04.900 --> 00:44:07.239
if you're going into, for a particular mission,

00:44:07.500 --> 00:44:09.059
they would give you a whole dossier about what

00:44:09.059 --> 00:44:11.539
you're going into, what you need to know. Your

00:44:11.539 --> 00:44:13.800
mission is very vague as it is. It's basically

00:44:13.800 --> 00:44:16.920
just to kind of help, you know, reignite, you

00:44:16.920 --> 00:44:18.739
know, people's sort of hope and luminaries, people's

00:44:18.739 --> 00:44:21.219
spirits. You're there to basically be a presence.

00:44:21.460 --> 00:44:24.039
Gotcha. Especially because you're this, you're

00:44:24.039 --> 00:44:27.099
this like anchor to Ozen's past, to when he was

00:44:27.099 --> 00:44:29.619
considered this incredible hero. And I think,

00:44:29.929 --> 00:44:32.050
People want to see you out there. People want

00:44:32.050 --> 00:44:34.250
to see you especially out there just kind of

00:44:34.250 --> 00:44:38.730
showcasing that everything Ozen has touched hasn't

00:44:38.730 --> 00:44:42.030
gone corrupt, you know? So, yeah, basically you're

00:44:42.030 --> 00:44:44.230
just told, you know, head down to Sonsonko, patrol

00:44:44.230 --> 00:44:47.050
the roads, hit up the night market, come back,

00:44:47.050 --> 00:44:49.829
you know, when you can. And that's your mission

00:44:49.829 --> 00:44:54.530
right now. Copy. Just be present. So you reach

00:44:54.530 --> 00:44:56.989
the front, you flash your passport, and you vanish

00:44:56.989 --> 00:45:01.510
into... the Grand Ruby Stadium inside the Conqueror

00:45:01.510 --> 00:45:03.869
Jewel. Find yourself a place to sit and await

00:45:03.869 --> 00:45:07.769
departure. And just a few minutes later, the

00:45:07.769 --> 00:45:12.449
two of you reach the white -robed mage who's

00:45:12.449 --> 00:45:13.849
sort of handling these things and just looks

00:45:13.849 --> 00:45:19.070
up. Yes, sir. Can I help you? You guys are fair.

00:45:19.889 --> 00:45:23.869
Can I see your passports? Passports? Oh, here,

00:45:23.989 --> 00:45:25.869
I've got them. Sorry, sorry. Here, I've got them.

00:45:26.519 --> 00:45:28.780
Zeb pulls them out of his pockets and hands one

00:45:28.780 --> 00:45:33.219
to Jules and hands the other to his two. He's

00:45:33.219 --> 00:45:36.360
eyeing you. I think you still look super scruffy,

00:45:36.360 --> 00:45:38.980
Jules, and this guy's kind of eyeing you. But

00:45:38.980 --> 00:45:44.820
he looks down at the paperwork. It's rainy, tropical,

00:45:45.340 --> 00:45:50.940
the usual. I'm not making eye contact. Oh, wow,

00:45:51.059 --> 00:45:54.989
yes. It all looks good. I ain't got the stamp

00:45:54.989 --> 00:45:57.710
of approval right here. Well, you must know people,

00:45:57.849 --> 00:46:02.949
Mr. Ah, Jules Laroche. Interesting. Is it unusual

00:46:02.949 --> 00:46:09.230
for everyone's wits to be in order? Well, it's

00:46:09.230 --> 00:46:14.010
not unusual. It's just... Well, never mind. And

00:46:14.010 --> 00:46:16.269
he just hands you the red, still kind of staring

00:46:16.269 --> 00:46:19.309
at you. As I grab it, I say, yeah, never mind.

00:46:20.289 --> 00:46:24.739
And he looks at you, and... And you're one of

00:46:24.739 --> 00:46:28.400
Sholay's, yes? You're one of the brass? A little

00:46:28.400 --> 00:46:32.699
Zebulon? Zebulon, anyway. Oh, yeah, of course.

00:46:32.800 --> 00:46:37.880
Sorry. And you have any Bridges' handout? Yes.

00:46:38.460 --> 00:46:43.719
Takes it. Let's see. Hmm. Yes, but how did you

00:46:43.719 --> 00:46:48.380
get that signature? I'm sorry, did you... Does

00:46:48.380 --> 00:46:51.500
your grandmother know that you're planning a

00:46:51.500 --> 00:46:55.300
trip, Zebulon? I mean, I assume Sholay knows

00:46:55.300 --> 00:46:58.179
everything that happens on the Citadel. Do I

00:46:58.179 --> 00:47:02.380
need Sholay's express permission? No, no, you

00:47:02.380 --> 00:47:05.139
clearly don't. And he's staring at the paper.

00:47:05.219 --> 00:47:06.860
Like, he's really impressed. You must have gotten

00:47:06.860 --> 00:47:09.079
some clearance with someone pretty high up. And

00:47:09.079 --> 00:47:11.460
I think it hits you in this moment. Like, that

00:47:11.460 --> 00:47:13.739
Rune Rusang fella's got some serious connections.

00:47:14.599 --> 00:47:16.539
Because this guy seems surprised that the two

00:47:16.539 --> 00:47:20.960
of you are getting off -world. But you are getting

00:47:20.960 --> 00:47:22.780
off -world. And he gives you your writ, and he...

00:47:23.199 --> 00:47:25.260
points the way. He's like, please enter. We'll

00:47:25.260 --> 00:47:29.079
be departing shortly. Enjoy your time in Sipsunko,

00:47:29.179 --> 00:47:31.960
gentlemen. Thank you. Thank you so much. And

00:47:31.960 --> 00:47:38.940
you keep moving on. It's just like, you're so

00:47:38.940 --> 00:47:43.099
delighted. We're going to have such a hard time

00:47:43.099 --> 00:47:46.719
getting off world next time. Yeah, it's hard

00:47:46.719 --> 00:47:49.920
to say what's going to happen next time. So,

00:47:50.039 --> 00:47:53.900
I think as we walk in, I'm going to kind of be

00:47:53.900 --> 00:47:55.920
just taking a peek around at the entrance there

00:47:55.920 --> 00:47:58.760
at least, seeing if I can see Chester up ahead

00:47:58.760 --> 00:48:02.659
inside. Roll me a perception check. Oh, yeah.

00:48:02.760 --> 00:48:06.500
What's Chester going to do? This is a scary thought,

00:48:06.599 --> 00:48:13.739
but it's up to David. 18. 18, and that's total?

00:48:14.280 --> 00:48:17.159
Total. Yeah, so with an 18, I think you walk

00:48:17.159 --> 00:48:18.679
in, you're looking around, and you're kind of

00:48:18.679 --> 00:48:20.719
like scanning around for Chester, and you know

00:48:20.719 --> 00:48:23.460
it's going to be hard to see him. And you see

00:48:23.460 --> 00:48:25.940
something kind of interesting. You look up towards

00:48:25.940 --> 00:48:29.440
the very center. There's a sort of dip ramp that

00:48:29.440 --> 00:48:32.059
leads down into the sort of open area in the

00:48:32.059 --> 00:48:33.579
middle. That's where all the luggage and wagons

00:48:33.579 --> 00:48:36.380
and shit will go, where the medical tents were

00:48:36.380 --> 00:48:38.840
staged back when you were leaving Tithos. So

00:48:38.840 --> 00:48:41.019
you look down at this, and you see there's this

00:48:41.019 --> 00:48:44.460
big sort of open wagon with a bunch of sacks

00:48:44.460 --> 00:48:47.360
of grains and such heading in towards Sipsunko.

00:48:48.219 --> 00:48:50.139
As you're looking at it, you see that there's

00:48:50.139 --> 00:48:52.179
an impression in one of the sacks that seems

00:48:52.179 --> 00:48:54.780
to move slightly, like someone's lying around

00:48:54.780 --> 00:48:56.960
and kind of rolling around on it. You do a stretch,

00:48:57.159 --> 00:49:00.260
and you're like, okay. It's the first one that

00:49:00.260 --> 00:49:02.159
you immediately see, so it's like you figure

00:49:02.159 --> 00:49:04.400
Chester got comfortable in the first spot he

00:49:04.400 --> 00:49:07.460
could. I breathe a hefty sigh of relief. Hell

00:49:07.460 --> 00:49:10.440
yeah. Chester made it, Zeb. We're good. All right,

00:49:10.440 --> 00:49:13.360
so we're all on the ruby. All right. And there's

00:49:13.360 --> 00:49:16.280
no reason to dawdle here. You get comfortable,

00:49:16.360 --> 00:49:19.300
and you... You wait it out for just a bit longer,

00:49:19.420 --> 00:49:23.659
and then somewhere you don't see, the words are

00:49:23.659 --> 00:49:28.360
spoken. The ruby moves away very smoothly from

00:49:28.360 --> 00:49:32.820
the dock, 500 feet out. The light becomes brilliant,

00:49:33.099 --> 00:49:37.800
blinding, and you shift from the ethereal plane

00:49:37.800 --> 00:49:42.199
to the material plane on the world of Subsunko.

00:49:42.719 --> 00:49:45.139
And again, you're about 500 feet in the air.

00:49:46.549 --> 00:49:49.050
Moves down. Everything's closed up. You don't

00:49:49.050 --> 00:49:51.929
really see what's going on outside. Eventually

00:49:51.929 --> 00:49:54.590
you kind of settle. The door opens and everyone

00:49:54.590 --> 00:49:58.510
starts to funnel out. I wonder what Evan Rath

00:49:58.510 --> 00:50:02.590
is up to here on Shevchenko. Do you think he's

00:50:02.590 --> 00:50:08.210
doing something really cool, Jules? I don't know

00:50:08.210 --> 00:50:13.230
what to say to that. What do you think Evan Rath

00:50:13.230 --> 00:50:20.349
is up to? You don't need to fill the space. Oh,

00:50:20.409 --> 00:50:22.070
I wasn't even doing that, not on purpose anyway.

00:50:22.389 --> 00:50:25.510
Okay, cool. I just need to open up this document.

00:50:25.710 --> 00:50:28.710
I found a really comfortable place to sit, and

00:50:28.710 --> 00:50:32.369
it's in a wagon. And as I was sort of moving

00:50:32.369 --> 00:50:35.170
around, trying to find a comfy spot to sit on,

00:50:35.309 --> 00:50:38.710
I rustled somebody that I couldn't see. Hey,

00:50:38.949 --> 00:50:45.539
watch it! Oh, shit. No one here. I'm a sheep.

00:50:45.719 --> 00:50:51.500
What is this? Who are you? Something slides out

00:50:51.500 --> 00:50:56.400
of the wagon and something runs away. What was

00:50:56.400 --> 00:51:07.019
that? I do not know. I always knew Chester was

00:51:07.019 --> 00:51:10.460
a coward. Everyone's funneling out and you guys,

00:51:10.519 --> 00:51:14.349
I assume, join the herd, so to speak. Move out.

00:51:14.650 --> 00:51:17.349
Move around. Chester, where are you? You here,

00:51:17.409 --> 00:51:20.550
Chester? And you just kind of suddenly feel like

00:51:20.550 --> 00:51:23.510
a tap, tap. Hey, I hear Jules. I'm with you.

00:51:23.789 --> 00:51:28.909
Quick, punch me in the leg. He punches you in

00:51:28.909 --> 00:51:31.329
the leg. There you go. You're not invisible anymore.

00:51:31.949 --> 00:51:37.530
Oh. Hey, look at that. That's a weird condition.

00:51:39.839 --> 00:51:43.920
I don't make the rules. So I can tap you and

00:51:43.920 --> 00:51:45.639
it's fine, but if I punch you, I turn invisible

00:51:45.639 --> 00:51:47.699
again. I don't know how magic works. It's weird.

00:51:49.980 --> 00:51:53.039
I don't know either. I should have rolled an

00:51:53.039 --> 00:51:57.340
unarmed attack. But I don't need to roll because

00:51:57.340 --> 00:52:02.119
I'm Chester. So you guys are... You guys move

00:52:02.119 --> 00:52:04.320
down the ramp. And the first thing that really

00:52:04.320 --> 00:52:07.780
hits you is the heat. and the humidity, something

00:52:07.780 --> 00:52:10.099
neither of you have ever really felt in this

00:52:10.099 --> 00:52:12.619
way. Not on Tithos, which is generally pretty

00:52:12.619 --> 00:52:15.719
temperate, and not on the Radiant Citadel, which

00:52:15.719 --> 00:52:18.639
realistically is just room temperature all the

00:52:18.639 --> 00:52:21.139
time. It's the only room that's actually room

00:52:21.139 --> 00:52:24.219
temperature. Yeah, right? It's just like never

00:52:24.219 --> 00:52:28.860
changing. You feel the air is just thick with

00:52:28.860 --> 00:52:32.579
earthy and floral scents, probably. I don't have

00:52:32.579 --> 00:52:34.619
a sense of smell. I don't know. That sounds about

00:52:34.619 --> 00:52:36.280
right. Does that sound right? This episode brought

00:52:36.280 --> 00:52:40.400
to you by anosmia. Did I say that right? I think

00:52:40.400 --> 00:52:44.900
so. I think it's anosmia. Huh. Yeah. Could be

00:52:44.900 --> 00:52:48.659
wrong. Tell us in the comments. Yeah. I think

00:52:48.659 --> 00:52:50.320
you're close. The podcast comments, sure thing.

00:52:50.940 --> 00:52:54.280
You hear the buzzing of cicadas, a tuneless song

00:52:54.280 --> 00:52:57.159
that surrounds you in all directions, frequently

00:52:57.159 --> 00:52:59.460
accompanied by the squawks and calls of various

00:52:59.460 --> 00:53:04.869
tropical birds. From the jewel, you're just met

00:53:04.869 --> 00:53:07.170
by the sight of a large clearing in the midst

00:53:07.170 --> 00:53:09.849
of a rainforest. Very thick trees all around.

00:53:10.289 --> 00:53:12.530
There's a large circle of packed earth below

00:53:12.530 --> 00:53:14.809
your feet. As you reach the bottom of the ramp,

00:53:14.929 --> 00:53:17.989
that slopes up to the ruby's doorway. At the

00:53:17.989 --> 00:53:20.309
fringes of this large dirt plaza is just a circle

00:53:20.309 --> 00:53:22.449
of tents. There's small shops offering wares,

00:53:22.449 --> 00:53:26.170
treats, information, and places to rest for travelers

00:53:26.170 --> 00:53:28.849
between worlds. I'll say right now the sun is

00:53:28.849 --> 00:53:31.179
growing. Well, yeah, it's probably like right

00:53:31.179 --> 00:53:34.440
in the middle of the sky, right? It's just around

00:53:34.440 --> 00:53:36.079
noon here as well. I'm going to say that all

00:53:36.079 --> 00:53:38.480
the Concordia locations share a time zone. So

00:53:38.480 --> 00:53:40.239
wherever you leave the Radiant Citadel, that's

00:53:40.239 --> 00:53:41.199
going to be the time of day. You're going to

00:53:41.199 --> 00:53:43.159
be wherever you go. They all just happen to.

00:53:43.260 --> 00:53:45.280
I mean, not happen to. It's magic. It happens

00:53:45.280 --> 00:53:47.300
this way. It's very convenient. They all share

00:53:47.300 --> 00:53:49.900
a time zone. I like that, and I'm a fan of that.

00:53:50.099 --> 00:53:54.139
But yeah, so as you're moving down here, as you're

00:53:54.139 --> 00:53:55.699
going down to this plaza, seeing these tents

00:53:55.699 --> 00:53:57.539
all around, you're immediately faced with this

00:53:57.539 --> 00:54:00.300
wide road cutting south through the thick rainforest.

00:54:00.840 --> 00:54:03.019
You see there's a pretty large signpost hanging

00:54:03.019 --> 00:54:06.059
over the road, marking that this is the way to

00:54:06.059 --> 00:54:09.860
the Dinsing Night Market, which stands about

00:54:09.860 --> 00:54:13.019
two and a half miles in that direction. You see

00:54:13.019 --> 00:54:15.739
tourists ahead of you are charging ahead, hopping

00:54:15.739 --> 00:54:19.019
into horse -drawn carts piloted by chatty kobolds

00:54:19.019 --> 00:54:21.739
and gnomes, or you see rickshaws. You know rickshaws?

00:54:22.300 --> 00:54:24.719
Yeah, of course. You see rickshaws. Two wheels.

00:54:25.039 --> 00:54:26.920
Two wheels, right? Two wheels on a bar? Yeah,

00:54:27.079 --> 00:54:30.920
being pulled by these humanoids. You see there's

00:54:30.920 --> 00:54:33.360
a Swiss exchange of money. Between folks, you

00:54:33.360 --> 00:54:35.320
see, like, orcs and well -built dragon boards

00:54:35.320 --> 00:54:38.219
and humans in loose, colorful attire just, like,

00:54:38.280 --> 00:54:41.280
pulling these rickshaws down the road. And as

00:54:41.280 --> 00:54:43.059
you step down, you see, like, pretty much every

00:54:43.059 --> 00:54:46.719
vehicle is just gone instantly. Zebulon's doing

00:54:46.719 --> 00:54:49.139
his best to keep an eye on those vehicles. He's

00:54:49.139 --> 00:54:51.760
pretty curious to know where Emonrath is going,

00:54:51.880 --> 00:54:54.639
and he wants to get a beat on that dude. Em and

00:54:54.639 --> 00:54:57.579
Rath, you were kind of taking it easy inside.

00:54:58.019 --> 00:55:01.300
And I think like when they start to move the

00:55:01.300 --> 00:55:03.079
wagon, you kind of are broken out of maybe a

00:55:03.079 --> 00:55:05.860
slight nap. And you're, oh, oh, shoot. So you're

00:55:05.860 --> 00:55:08.440
a bit late getting out there. And so you, like

00:55:08.440 --> 00:55:11.760
these goons, missed a ride. You're going to have

00:55:11.760 --> 00:55:15.260
to walk, unfortunately. You step out and you

00:55:15.260 --> 00:55:16.639
see that most of the people on the jewel have

00:55:16.639 --> 00:55:21.710
already either taken a wagon or a rickshaw. powering

00:55:21.710 --> 00:55:23.349
down the road, or there's folks who are running

00:55:23.349 --> 00:55:24.929
over to different stalls. There's, like, information

00:55:24.929 --> 00:55:27.610
booths and stuff they're, you know, dorking out

00:55:27.610 --> 00:55:31.710
over. And you're kind of left, Snay, next to

00:55:31.710 --> 00:55:35.269
these two guys. Not really sure where to go next.

00:55:35.909 --> 00:55:39.070
Yep. I'm here to assess the community and see

00:55:39.070 --> 00:55:42.070
what's going on. See the damage that was made

00:55:42.070 --> 00:55:47.409
and check out the roads and sort of... Test the

00:55:47.409 --> 00:55:49.909
mood of the populace. If there's a place to do

00:55:49.909 --> 00:55:51.590
that, it's going to be the Dinseng Night Market.

00:55:51.650 --> 00:55:55.769
That's the main sort of hubbub of culture and

00:55:55.769 --> 00:56:00.030
civilization here in Sipsunko. So I decide to

00:56:00.030 --> 00:56:02.710
walk. I mean, that's going to give me the most

00:56:02.710 --> 00:56:06.690
information in the community. And I'll be amongst

00:56:06.690 --> 00:56:09.449
the people and see what's going on. All right,

00:56:09.469 --> 00:56:11.170
and you make it your way towards the trail to

00:56:11.170 --> 00:56:14.650
walk. It may be grown just a little bit, either

00:56:14.650 --> 00:56:16.730
externally or internally, when you realize that,

00:56:16.829 --> 00:56:19.670
well, you're just happening to be paced at the

00:56:19.670 --> 00:56:23.909
same speed and leaving at the same time as Zebulon.

00:56:24.309 --> 00:56:28.510
Zebulon's trying so hard to be polite. Like,

00:56:28.530 --> 00:56:31.610
he sees Emon Wrath coming out of the Conqueror

00:56:31.610 --> 00:56:36.489
Jewel, and he can see that all the wagons and

00:56:36.489 --> 00:56:40.300
all the rickshaws are gone. And then when he

00:56:40.300 --> 00:56:44.340
sees Em and Rath go down the same path that Zebulon

00:56:44.340 --> 00:56:47.340
has the map for, it's like that weird thing where

00:56:47.340 --> 00:56:49.380
you're walking behind somebody and you're trying

00:56:49.380 --> 00:56:53.380
not to exactly match their pace. And it's so,

00:56:53.400 --> 00:56:56.119
it's so awkward. I think every once in a while,

00:56:56.179 --> 00:57:04.440
I just kind of laid over to Zebulon. Play it.

00:57:04.579 --> 00:57:06.639
Cool. Do you think he's going to the night market

00:57:06.639 --> 00:57:10.530
too? I mean. This looks like the only place this

00:57:10.530 --> 00:57:16.369
trail goes to. Well, all right. George. What?

00:57:16.710 --> 00:57:20.969
Be cool, okay? I'm cool. I'm cool. I don't know

00:57:20.969 --> 00:57:25.329
about you. Hey, Emin. Oh, you fucking fanboy.

00:57:26.969 --> 00:57:32.429
Emin Rash. Yes? Are you going to the... We're

00:57:32.429 --> 00:57:34.989
going to the Dim Shing Night Market. You are?

00:57:35.409 --> 00:57:37.820
Are you going... Where are you going? This is

00:57:37.820 --> 00:57:42.360
fantastic, because I do not know my way to the

00:57:42.360 --> 00:57:45.199
location. Look, look, look, look, look. And Zebulon

00:57:45.199 --> 00:57:48.619
runs over and shows Emon Rath the map that he

00:57:48.619 --> 00:57:51.280
has of the Dinzing Night Market. I was like,

00:57:51.340 --> 00:57:53.400
with that, you also have a map of General Subsunko,

00:57:53.460 --> 00:57:55.039
which I have on your tablet here. That's kind

00:57:55.039 --> 00:57:57.619
of what I figured. And let me, so you guys are

00:57:57.619 --> 00:58:00.860
right a little ways up the road from here, two

00:58:00.860 --> 00:58:02.199
and a half miles, but you see that there's only

00:58:02.199 --> 00:58:04.719
one road that leads to it. And maybe you keep

00:58:04.719 --> 00:58:07.300
that to yourself, because like, The path there

00:58:07.300 --> 00:58:10.719
is very clear and obvious. Emonrath cannot get

00:58:10.719 --> 00:58:13.599
lost on this path. I'm just putting that out

00:58:13.599 --> 00:58:16.559
there so you know. Especially because, I mean,

00:58:16.659 --> 00:58:20.139
Zebulon, like we have established as a fan, and

00:58:20.139 --> 00:58:23.619
knows that Emonrath is a ranger and can probably

00:58:23.619 --> 00:58:27.519
figure out his way through the one path. Emonrath

00:58:27.519 --> 00:58:29.280
could probably get lost in the woods and still

00:58:29.280 --> 00:58:31.500
make it to the Insignite Market. But he's still

00:58:31.500 --> 00:58:33.400
going to share every bit of info he's got. I

00:58:33.400 --> 00:58:37.550
mean, it's Emonrath. It's M and Rath. Sorry,

00:58:37.570 --> 00:58:43.329
sorry. It's M and Rath. Rath. So this is good

00:58:43.329 --> 00:58:47.269
timing. Is it, um... I mean, I don't know. Do

00:58:47.269 --> 00:58:50.610
you mind if we go with you to, um... I mean,

00:58:50.610 --> 00:58:54.210
we're going to the same place. I agree. You're

00:58:54.210 --> 00:58:56.489
more than welcome to join me on the road. Oh,

00:58:56.489 --> 00:58:59.070
it's such a relief. Thank you, really. This is

00:58:59.070 --> 00:59:01.789
really cool for me. There you go. I'm going to

00:59:01.789 --> 00:59:03.170
be cool. I'm going to be cool. There you go.

00:59:04.289 --> 00:59:07.610
George, be cool. You don't have to tell me twice.

00:59:08.730 --> 00:59:11.869
So the three of you, four of you, Chester's invisible.

00:59:12.150 --> 00:59:15.989
He's visible now. You all walk together. Chester's

00:59:15.989 --> 00:59:17.590
kind of just groaning and rolling his eyes at

00:59:17.590 --> 00:59:20.050
Zebulon's antics, looking at you, Jules. Just

00:59:20.050 --> 00:59:22.610
like, ah, these guys. Come on. Yeah, I kind of

00:59:22.610 --> 00:59:25.389
give him a look of, you know, just let him do

00:59:25.389 --> 00:59:29.769
it. Let him do his thing. Like the child, the

00:59:29.769 --> 00:59:32.210
15 -year -old is rolling his eyes at you and

00:59:32.210 --> 00:59:36.679
your childishness. Poor Zebulon. And you guys

00:59:36.679 --> 00:59:38.440
are moving down the road. And this is where I

00:59:38.440 --> 00:59:41.179
need to take a quick second to bring up some

00:59:41.179 --> 00:59:46.019
stuff about worlds. Now, Journey to the Radiant

00:59:46.019 --> 00:59:49.639
Citadel is an amazing book. Amazing adventures.

00:59:49.780 --> 00:59:53.119
Amazing settings. I have a gripe with it. Asterisk.

00:59:53.199 --> 00:59:55.119
I have a gripe with it. And I have to gripe this

00:59:55.119 --> 00:59:58.449
real quick. Okay? So... I understand why this

00:59:58.449 --> 00:59:59.929
is the case. They need these Avengers to fit

00:59:59.929 --> 01:00:01.730
into any setting. They need you to be like, hey,

01:00:01.869 --> 01:00:04.289
it's Forgotten Realms. If you travel, you know,

01:00:04.289 --> 01:00:07.250
six miles away from whatever land, you know,

01:00:07.250 --> 01:00:11.389
the sunless sea, there's the Valley of Sosunco

01:00:11.389 --> 01:00:13.489
hanging out there, right? It makes a lot of sense.

01:00:14.250 --> 01:00:18.409
It doesn't make a lot of sense as a world. So

01:00:18.409 --> 01:00:20.449
I had to get a little creative with this because...

01:00:20.889 --> 01:00:23.190
Imagining a scenario where you have this entire

01:00:23.190 --> 01:00:25.289
world, this whole civilization connected to the

01:00:25.289 --> 01:00:26.949
Radiant Citadel, and there's nothing outside

01:00:26.949 --> 01:00:30.750
of it. Now, in the map, in the book, the world

01:00:30.750 --> 01:00:34.269
of Sun Sunco that you're exploring is four miles

01:00:34.269 --> 01:00:37.909
by four miles. And I hate that. It's a really

01:00:37.909 --> 01:00:41.650
small world. It's very, very small. It's really

01:00:41.650 --> 01:00:44.349
not, you're not even exploring. You're just taking

01:00:44.349 --> 01:00:49.500
a mild walk. So I've changed it. I've added a

01:00:49.500 --> 01:00:51.440
zero, and I'm going to do this basically every

01:00:51.440 --> 01:00:54.639
map. It's 40 by 40 miles in this valley, and

01:00:54.639 --> 01:00:56.380
there's a lot of world outside this valley, but

01:00:56.380 --> 01:00:58.480
this is the main hub of civilization. In fact,

01:00:58.559 --> 01:01:00.659
rather than being the valley world of Sbsunko,

01:01:00.800 --> 01:01:05.679
I will tell you that this valley you're in is

01:01:05.679 --> 01:01:08.340
known as the Valley of Zantini in the world of

01:01:08.340 --> 01:01:11.940
Sbsunko. Okay, gotcha. Yeah, so a lot of these

01:01:11.940 --> 01:01:14.179
locations, like the world will be named after

01:01:14.179 --> 01:01:17.820
a city in the world. making some changes because

01:01:17.820 --> 01:01:22.119
clearly, you know, it's set, it's designed for

01:01:22.119 --> 01:01:25.599
playing in forgotten realms and not as well designed

01:01:25.599 --> 01:01:28.880
for playing as the Radiant Citadel and portals

01:01:28.880 --> 01:01:31.400
to different worlds and such and such. So just

01:01:31.400 --> 01:01:33.519
want to put that out there. These worlds are

01:01:33.519 --> 01:01:35.860
small in general though. They're almost more

01:01:35.860 --> 01:01:38.420
like pocket dimensions. They are not globes.

01:01:38.460 --> 01:01:42.119
They have an end. There's a lot to unpack with

01:01:42.119 --> 01:01:44.440
that and I'm not going to bring it up now because

01:01:44.440 --> 01:01:48.179
we got things to do. But there's a lot going

01:01:48.179 --> 01:01:49.679
on with these worlds, and we'll touch on them

01:01:49.679 --> 01:01:51.179
later. If you have questions, there's information

01:01:51.179 --> 01:01:53.539
booths at every world. You can go talk to people

01:01:53.539 --> 01:01:56.219
there, and I have to give you answers. I know.

01:01:56.280 --> 01:01:58.039
We kind of walked right by the information booth.

01:01:58.139 --> 01:01:59.719
You did. You did. So I figure I should at least

01:01:59.719 --> 01:02:02.440
tell you a little bit about the valley, and you'll

01:02:02.440 --> 01:02:04.840
know nothing else because you're fools. And boom,

01:02:04.980 --> 01:02:07.420
here you are. Let me take a quick pee, if you

01:02:07.420 --> 01:02:08.519
don't mind. That's actually perfect because I'm

01:02:08.519 --> 01:02:12.940
about to end this episode. You're going to call

01:02:12.940 --> 01:02:14.420
me out? I'm going to call you out. I thought

01:02:14.420 --> 01:02:16.750
there was going to be no banter. Well, we're

01:02:16.750 --> 01:02:20.969
still in the episode. Are we recording? Yeah.

01:02:21.570 --> 01:02:25.550
Are you talking about mid -ep banter? It's not

01:02:25.550 --> 01:02:28.369
banter. Okay, so we need to take a quick break,

01:02:28.389 --> 01:02:30.750
like four minutes before we end this episode,

01:02:30.929 --> 01:02:33.070
because Steven had to pee. So I just want to

01:02:33.070 --> 01:02:36.489
use this moment to address Steven's incredibly

01:02:36.489 --> 01:02:40.090
small and incredibly active bladder. I think

01:02:40.090 --> 01:02:43.500
three out of four of us peed. During that break.

01:02:44.119 --> 01:02:49.019
That's correct. We hike. We're in the White Mountains

01:02:49.019 --> 01:02:51.519
in New Hampshire. We go on a lot of hikes. I

01:02:51.519 --> 01:02:53.480
cannot tell you how many times me and Steven

01:02:53.480 --> 01:02:55.920
have driven to a hiking parking lot. We'll be

01:02:55.920 --> 01:02:57.659
two minutes down the road from the actual site.

01:02:57.719 --> 01:02:59.739
He'll pull over, get out of the car and pee because

01:02:59.739 --> 01:03:01.679
he can't take it. Get back in the car. We'll

01:03:01.679 --> 01:03:03.360
drive those two minutes, pull over to the parking

01:03:03.360 --> 01:03:05.579
lot. He'll get out of the car and rush over to

01:03:05.579 --> 01:03:09.519
pee again. You know what? No. I think Stomp knows

01:03:09.519 --> 01:03:11.539
exactly what I'm talking about. Stomp does know

01:03:11.539 --> 01:03:13.940
what you're talking about. Get this. It's pre

01:03:13.940 --> 01:03:18.119
-hydrating, man. If you don't drink half a gallon

01:03:18.119 --> 01:03:21.480
of water before a hike, you're not trying. I

01:03:21.480 --> 01:03:23.780
don't drink half a gallon of water before a hike,

01:03:23.840 --> 01:03:26.699
actually. How about two liters? What's a gallon?

01:03:26.800 --> 01:03:30.320
A gallon's four liters, right? I drink about

01:03:30.320 --> 01:03:32.800
two rock stars before a hike. You're the brewer,

01:03:32.960 --> 01:03:41.780
man. You tell me. Yeah, right? Got him. Zing.

01:03:42.019 --> 01:03:44.679
Zing. Don't make us do math. I don't know the

01:03:44.679 --> 01:03:46.659
liter to gallon conversion, but I'm pretty sure

01:03:46.659 --> 01:03:49.340
it's four. Hold on. Let me pull up my cellular

01:03:49.340 --> 01:03:53.320
device. All right. Perfect. Better late than

01:03:53.320 --> 01:03:58.960
never. Dead late. All right. You numbskulls are

01:03:58.960 --> 01:04:02.039
walking down a road. You're moving down this

01:04:02.039 --> 01:04:06.239
big, wide road. All around you, just this dense,

01:04:06.340 --> 01:04:09.219
dense tropical rainforest. 3 .78 liters to a

01:04:09.219 --> 01:04:12.500
gallon. Thank you, Steven. Thank you so much.

01:04:12.880 --> 01:04:18.260
That was pretty fucking close. Round her up.

01:04:19.079 --> 01:04:23.619
It's a four. Sorry, you were trying to describe

01:04:23.619 --> 01:04:28.639
Subsenko. Yeah, yeah, I was. I was. Tropical.

01:04:28.739 --> 01:04:31.949
Oh, wait. We're not done with episode... No,

01:04:31.989 --> 01:04:33.269
we're still in the episode. No, we're still in

01:04:33.269 --> 01:04:36.110
9. We're doing it right now. We're ending it.

01:04:36.170 --> 01:04:38.090
Right here. Right now. Okay. Are there porta

01:04:38.090 --> 01:04:40.610
-bodies along the way? Zebulon has to run off

01:04:40.610 --> 01:04:43.010
into the forest and piss on... God, I could only

01:04:43.010 --> 01:04:48.670
hope. A fire ant crawls onto him. Yeah. Sub -Sanko's

01:04:48.670 --> 01:04:52.090
foliage season? Or what? There are actually some

01:04:52.090 --> 01:04:54.730
pretty cool floral stuff happening on Sub -Sanko.

01:04:55.190 --> 01:04:57.329
But only at night, so you're not seeing it. Well,

01:04:57.349 --> 01:04:59.309
Sub -Sanko is an Asian -based world, isn't it?

01:04:59.559 --> 01:05:02.719
What I've always heard is our region here in

01:05:02.719 --> 01:05:04.760
New Hampshire and there's, I guess, a region

01:05:04.760 --> 01:05:07.579
somewhere in China that supposedly the two of

01:05:07.579 --> 01:05:11.079
them have the best foliage. Interesting. Yeah.

01:05:11.179 --> 01:05:13.980
But the region in China doesn't have the reds

01:05:13.980 --> 01:05:15.559
and the oranges like we do here in New Hampshire.

01:05:15.739 --> 01:05:17.980
They just have the yellows and the golds. They

01:05:17.980 --> 01:05:21.400
might just come up in the world of zing. Zing.

01:05:21.420 --> 01:05:23.380
That's really interesting. Yeah. That's what

01:05:23.380 --> 01:05:24.420
I've always heard. I don't know if there's any

01:05:24.420 --> 01:05:28.539
truth to it because I haven't done my own digging.

01:05:29.159 --> 01:05:31.500
It makes sense, though. Secondhand knowledge.

01:05:34.239 --> 01:05:39.659
The more you don't know... That was a bird. They're

01:05:39.659 --> 01:05:43.760
birds. I'm gonna let you... And you're walking

01:05:43.760 --> 01:05:47.239
around hearing birds do that sound. And, uh...

01:05:47.239 --> 01:05:51.099
So are you guys walking in silence? Are you talking

01:05:51.099 --> 01:05:53.219
about fucking the leader conversion with each

01:05:53.219 --> 01:05:55.559
other? What's happening here? I think Jules is...

01:05:55.559 --> 01:05:58.500
Jules is walking quietly. He's looking around.

01:05:58.940 --> 01:06:01.480
Kind of nervously because he doesn't know what

01:06:01.480 --> 01:06:03.760
the hell this place is. He's never been anywhere.

01:06:04.119 --> 01:06:06.739
Jules, what the hell was that bird? I'm pretty

01:06:06.739 --> 01:06:10.699
sure it's four liters to a gallon, right? Four

01:06:10.699 --> 01:06:14.619
liters. I'm pretty sure it's four. How do you

01:06:14.619 --> 01:06:22.760
know that was a bird? It sounded like a void

01:06:22.760 --> 01:06:30.000
to me. Was it not a void? I think we need to

01:06:30.000 --> 01:06:34.039
assess this. Dude, I just had like three almost

01:06:34.039 --> 01:06:39.400
spit takes at you guys saying Boyd. Thank you,

01:06:39.400 --> 01:06:44.699
Stomp, for trying to move on beyond Boyd. All

01:06:44.699 --> 01:06:48.000
right. All right. Let's get back on this road

01:06:48.000 --> 01:06:51.719
because we are all over the place. We are on

01:06:51.719 --> 01:06:53.780
this road. You're traveling down it. Any chat

01:06:53.780 --> 01:06:55.159
that's going on or are you guys kind of just

01:06:55.159 --> 01:06:57.650
moving along smoothly? We already did liters

01:06:57.650 --> 01:07:00.230
to gallons. Did liters to gallons. Debulon is

01:07:00.230 --> 01:07:03.269
just going on and on and on to Emin Rath about,

01:07:03.349 --> 01:07:05.909
I guess, anything and somehow that turned into

01:07:05.909 --> 01:07:09.570
liters to gallons. Did you know that a milligram,

01:07:10.030 --> 01:07:13.730
excuse me, a milliliter and a gram is the same

01:07:13.730 --> 01:07:17.269
thing? One gram weighs the same as a milliliter?

01:07:17.449 --> 01:07:21.150
Really? Yeah, it's pretty, I mean, I think it's

01:07:21.150 --> 01:07:25.059
kind of cool. Anyway, this conversation is cut

01:07:25.059 --> 01:07:30.340
off abruptly as somewhere around the corner ahead,

01:07:30.500 --> 01:07:35.139
you see the road store takes a quick turn. So

01:07:35.139 --> 01:07:36.539
all you see is a bunch of trees ahead of you,

01:07:36.559 --> 01:07:39.400
but you hear a voice echoing down this path.

01:07:39.820 --> 01:07:44.000
And it says something like, Thieves! Criminals!

01:07:44.739 --> 01:07:50.800
You've ruined me! And we'll call it there. Holy

01:07:50.800 --> 01:07:51.099
shit.