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Thank you. Storyteller Orin here. Folks, have

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I got a story for y 'all this evening. Word's

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just reached us that's on the Citadel of a particularly

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exciting incident that occurred on the world

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of Sub -Sunko. It seems that during its patrol

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in the Valley of Zantini, Luminary Emon Wrath

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happened upon a most terrible plot. A couple

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from Zing, who I have asked to remain anonymous,

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were being harassed by a couple of con artists

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on the Densing Road. The couple had been accused

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of releasing the stock of pangolins from the

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villain's cart and were nearly forced to pay

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in full for the loss of the creatures, who were

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secretly hiding just off the path, trained to

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return to their owners when called. It was then

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that M. Rath happened upon the scene. He immediately

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saw through the most heinous plot and revealed

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the truth to the couple, as well as a few onlookers

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that had been traveling to the market. In a rage,

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the bandits attacked our hero. Heh, a foolish

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move, as you know. Eamon Rath's zebra -blade

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techniques made quick work of the villains, as

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well as their giant pet pangolin. And while the

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bandits were killed in the battle, Eamon Rath

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allowed the pangolin to flee, a gesture that

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the good folk of Simsonko will certainly appreciate.

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In the end, justice was brought to the villains,

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and peace to their potential victims, as well

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as the poor souls that had to bear witness to

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the scene. There's been some speculation that

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Amon Arath had assistance in the fight, but I've

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been informed that this is simply untrue. What?

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I want to leave off with that just to get the

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one. We assisted. Oh, did you? Who says we didn't

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assist? Apparently not. I don't know. That's

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not what the news said. Oh. He took you that

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long? Yep. That son of a bitch. Gentlemen, how

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you doing? Doing great. Miffed. It's been a long

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time. Yeah, you caught me a little off guard

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with that one. I'm getting back into it. It's

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been a long time. Well, for us, not for the listeners.

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For us. It's been a while. We've had a couple

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of really relaxing weeks. Really relaxing. Good

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times. We all had a great time. You guys had

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a great time? I was going to say, screw you.

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It was not relaxing or a great time. Absolutely

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not. It was terrible. Jeremy and I were down

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with COVID. First time we caught it. And it was

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miserable. And I was on the couch for five days.

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Out of commission. Yeah, totally. 100%. I don't

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have to relate. I'm sure everybody knows what

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it's like. I mean, I hope they don't. I hope

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they don't. I don't wish that on anybody. Yeah.

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Nope. Like all I, my only experience as far as

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like knowing what you guys went through was being

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in a video call with Steven and it sounded like

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he was just gargling slugs. It was miserable.

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I felt so bad. That was like a weekend. I was

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like, I was feeling good at that point. Yeah.

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We're after, we're, we're more than two weeks

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now. We're like close to three weeks now. Feeling

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a lot better. Still got a little tiny bit of

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a cough. Sorry if I coughed during the app. That's

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the magic of editing. Yeah. I'll try to cough

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at convenient times for you. Yeah. Only cough

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when I'm embarrassing myself. But here's to being

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back in the room. Cheers. How many times did

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you squeeze Emin Rath into that? Intro, David.

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I think I had to do it three times. It's fun

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to say. It is. It's fun to say, and it's stressful

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to remember to say it every time. Yeah, a lot

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of fun having Stomp. Stomp, if you're listening,

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thank you. Oh, such a great time. Such a great

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time. Awesome time. Yeah, we'll have him back

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someday. Oh, hell yeah. Absolutely. And make

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sure to check him out on his podcast. Sounds

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like a Search and Rescue podcast. Sounds like

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a Search and Rescue podcast. Yes, Slasher. I

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could see the look in your eyes. You were like,

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wait a minute. I was going to get it. I know.

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This is going to take me three tries. That would

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be super close on all of them. But I appreciate

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it. But, yeah, we'll get him back because, man,

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that was some fun energy last time. Yeah, and

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all the people who have been following from that

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universe, thank you. Welcome. Been seeing a lot

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of people following us who also follow Slasher.

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So, yeah, Stomp's been plugging us like crazy,

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and it's been working. Really appreciate it.

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That's what it's all about. You guys all rock.

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Yeah, for sure. Thank you much. Well, boy, what

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do you guys think? Are we just getting right

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into it now? I don't remember how to play. I

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know. Which one's this one? That's a... D100.

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I can understand looking at some die and being

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like, all right, this is an 8 or a 10. I just

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picked up a random die and I was like, oh, I'm

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just going to be funny. Well. I think it's time

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to get right to it because we have not played

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in too long. I'm excited. You're excited. I hope

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they're excited. Let's do this thing. I want

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to start us off somewhere a little weird this

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time. I really hope all you listeners do that.

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That started in my stomach and worked all the

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way up my throat and into my mouth. I don't know.

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I'm pretty sure all of us heard that on the headphones.

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Steven fed us chili dogs three minutes ago. And

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you're going to hate him for that as much as

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we are. Yeah. If this mic picked up that stomach

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noise like that, that's money well spent right

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there. All right. We're going to open this episode

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up inside this great open room. Darkness fills

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this space. The walls and ceilings of the rooms

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are completely enshrouded in black. The only

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lights we see come in the form of flickering

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candles set in a small circle and giving off

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a dim glow of a deep red. And in this light,

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we can see three things. First, we see the vague

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outlines of massive pillars set near this display,

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their heights obscured by the empty dark above.

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Second, we can see a floor of ornate stone tiles,

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covered in drawn magical symbols and inscriptions.

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A pattern encircling the candles and the figure

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that rests in their midst. And this is the third

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thing we see. A human boy. He looks to be in

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his early teens, though tall for his age. We

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see sweat beating his forehead. We see his chest

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moving with rapid, shaky breaths. We see teeth

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gritted, eyes shut. We see Jules LaRoche. What

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does Jules look like at 13 years of age, Jeremy?

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Not a whole lot different than he does now. Doesn't

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have his stylish pompadour just yet. He's basically

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got a raggedy, dirty mop head. Bangs in his eyes

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a little bit. Ripped up overalls. All right.

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All right. Much to the dismay of his family.

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When we see this figure, we zoom in on him. Zoom

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in on Jules, on his face. And with him, we begin

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to hear the whispers. The darkness is alive with

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them. Many voices intermingling, flowing around

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the room. A cyclone of manic gibberish. And one

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voice cuts through the rest like a blade through

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soft flesh. A deep, guttural growl, sonorous

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and powerful. A king's voice. A monster's voice.

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Open your eyes, boy. Look at me. You cannot hide

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from me forever. One day you will look at me.

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You will look at me. But Jules does not look.

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Ever defiant, his eyes remain shut. He holds

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himself just like this. He wills away the torrent

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of whispers, the monsters in the dark. It isn't

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easy. It's never easy. But Jules has had years

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of practice. He sweats and breathes and trembles

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and waits and waits and waits. And one by one,

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the candles fizzle out. The red glow dies and

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the voices with it. For a moment, Jules has plunged

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into complete darkness. And then we see a crack

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of light form somewhere ahead of his body. A

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door opening into a brightly lit hall outside

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this chamber. And as this radiance fills the

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room, we can see walls of beautiful worked stone

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and gems wrap around this vast chamber. Empty,

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apart from the boy and the candles and rows of

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thick pillars running their course down the room.

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Two figures stand against the light of the doorway.

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A woman and... No, no, only one figure stands

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in the light. Only the woman. Yeah. A voice echoes

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out from that direction, though. It's not a woman's

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voice. Your progeny disappoints. Calypsania will

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be expecting more. There's no character to the

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voice. There's no... Wait, wait, wait. Was there

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a voice? It doesn't matter. The woman moves gracefully

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into the room. Her pace is near a glide. Her

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steps unnoticeable beneath the hem of her dark

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skirts. She is tall and slender, waves of shining

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golden hair hang to the sides of her face like

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curtains opening onto her cold, piercing eyes.

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She is Cerise LaRoche, Queen of Cerule, sovereign

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ruler of the world of Tithos. Jules' mother.

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Queen Cerise moved up to her son and scowls down

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in this prone form. Another failure. Her voice

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is cold steel. There's no anger, no disappointment.

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And then she speaks a command. A familiar command.

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Look at me, Jules. Look at me. I don't wanna.

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Why? Have I not given you everything, boy? Is

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this such a price to pay? It's too much darkness.

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Nothing could be worth that. My child. You don't

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understand the darkness. That's why you feel

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this way. Tell me. Look around you now at this

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room. What do you see? I see nothing but evil.

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You don't see it? I'm not playing, Jules. What

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do you see? Neither am I. I don't want to do

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this no more. You see walls, floors, a ceiling.

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You see that you are trapped. When the darkness

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falls around you, what do you see? Nothing. No

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limits. No borders. You are free in the dark

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like you cannot be in the light. There ain't

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nothing in the dark. Nothing good. Nothing I

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want. Why are you making me do this? Because

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I want you to be free, my son. This is a prison!

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It's a fucking prison! Very well. You will take

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that tone with your mother. Fuck you! I'll never

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be what you want me to be. I don't know why you

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keep trying. Yes. Of course, because you aren't

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good enough, right? Your tutors tell me time

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and time again how you fail in every subject.

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Even that prized loot I gave you. Your practice

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has been subpar, I've heard. Terrible, actually,

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was the... Yeah, I don't care about that. Good.

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Because I think it's time we take that away.

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I wanted you to feel free and happy in some way

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so you could understand what that is to lose

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in the light. But clearly you don't understand.

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It's time I took a different approach to your

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education. From henceforth, your loot will be

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taken. No. Your tutors will be exchanged for

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a harder breed. No, that's mine. That's mine.

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You gave it to me. You gave it to me. She like...

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crouches down, right down to the floor, right

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down to your face. And though you're not looking

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at her from the corner of her eye, you can see

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the delighted smile crossing her. Her lips curving

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up devilishly, and she just says, Oh, my child,

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you're right about one thing. You're not free

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yet. And until you understand, until you free

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us all, you will do everything I say. Yeah, good

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luck with that. She stands up, still smiling,

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and turns back to the door of the room and just

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says, Zavar, light the candles. I think it's

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time we try again. No. And she moves away. A

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hunchback man in a black cloak moves into the

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room. With a new set of candles, he starts laying

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down. You're just sitting on the floor watching.

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Your mother turns back to you as the candles

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light one by one. You will learn, child. You

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will open your eyes. Never. And the door closes.

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We're back. On some Sunco. There's something

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I wanted to do. I want to get into this for every

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world. And I didn't do it last time. So I want

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to... Stephen's just staring out like... That

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was pretty intense. Where are we right now? All

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right. We're on some Sunco. And we're going to

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know this because I got to do this for every

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world. I did this for Tithos and like because

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I'm just I'm just a big fan of movies, TV shows,

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all that shit. I love camera angles in my brain.

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Who doesn't? So we we cut to a scene from there,

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basically just like staring down upon this valley,

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the jagged mountain peaks surrounding it, this

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lush forest. It's a couple farmlands way off

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to the sides. A big clearing in the middle. And

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a great road journeying from the clearing over

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to another smaller clearing. The Concord Gem

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Plaza. A good ways away. And we're going to kind

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of look down at this scene. Camera sort of panning

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around. All this luscious scenery. A title card

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appears at the bottom of the screen. The Valley

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of Zantini. And beneath that. The Ruby World.

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Subsunko. And from there, we move down, down,

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down into the forest towards this great road

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between these two clearings. And we're almost

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to the major clearing here where you see some

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hustle and bustle, people putting up tents. We

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see it from afar. We're not going to focus on

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that because we're going to focus on a couple

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of figures moving down this path. And when I

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say a couple of figures, I guess I actually mean

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more than 20, because there are 18 fucking pangolins

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following these two idiots. Wait, weren't there

00:17:42.140 --> 00:17:47.559
20? I think it was 20. It was 20, wasn't it?

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The number 18 sounds familiar. I thought it was

00:17:51.299 --> 00:17:54.559
20. You took one. I took one, Jamal. Was one,

00:17:54.680 --> 00:17:59.240
was the 20th the mount, perhaps? In your haste

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to escape. You stepped on one of the pangolins.

00:18:01.740 --> 00:18:04.960
There's only 18 now. Whoa. I won't do that. That's

00:18:04.960 --> 00:18:07.980
too mean. That is dark. One wandered off, you

00:18:07.980 --> 00:18:09.440
know, having a good time somewhere. That's darker

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than the opening scene that we just did. Nobody

00:18:12.859 --> 00:18:16.359
wants to see a dead pangolin. I'm like 85 % sure

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that there were 18 pangolins following. This

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is vital. vital part of the story, and we need

00:18:22.779 --> 00:18:24.359
to make sure we double down on this. I'm not

00:18:24.359 --> 00:18:26.680
going to pause the show to check this out, but

00:18:26.680 --> 00:18:28.400
you bet your ass we're going to figure this out

00:18:28.400 --> 00:18:29.720
right when we're done recording. I want to get

00:18:29.720 --> 00:18:34.299
every fucking gold piece. Email Steven with the

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answer. So, 20 pangolins. 20 pangolins. Sure.

00:18:40.480 --> 00:18:42.960
Alright, here we go. We see Zebulon in the head.

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He's still got that feedback going, which is

00:18:45.059 --> 00:18:49.119
like almost empty now. So, we actually, we should

00:18:49.119 --> 00:18:52.470
talk about sort of sort of scale and where you

00:18:52.470 --> 00:18:55.730
guys were at the time so when you had this combat

00:18:55.730 --> 00:18:58.650
last session with with stomp uh you were about

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one mile into your two and a half mile journey

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to the valley uh at this point in time you are

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you've been traveling for about a mile and a

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half you are almost there almost free of the

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forest and into overlooking this this well we'll

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see So as you're moving along, your bag feed's

00:19:17.339 --> 00:19:19.640
almost empty. You have pangolins crowding in

00:19:19.640 --> 00:19:23.039
behind you. We see Zebulon, Chester, Jules, and

00:19:23.039 --> 00:19:29.460
we don't see Eminem. About a half mile back,

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at one point, mysteriously, you guys felt some

00:19:31.980 --> 00:19:34.519
wind on your back, and you turn around, and he

00:19:34.519 --> 00:19:41.880
was just gone. Just gone. Just gone. As mysterious

00:19:41.880 --> 00:19:44.029
as the wind, that one. He stepped into the woods

00:19:44.029 --> 00:19:46.230
to take a bio break. All you heard, like the

00:19:46.230 --> 00:19:47.549
last thing you heard, the carry on the wind was

00:19:47.549 --> 00:19:50.289
like a brief, and then he was just like, what?

00:19:50.829 --> 00:19:53.829
What? He makes goat sounds. Oh, thank God. Oh,

00:19:53.829 --> 00:19:58.849
that's right. Jesus. You can't say such a thing

00:19:58.849 --> 00:20:00.250
about a man when he's not here to defend himself.

00:20:02.390 --> 00:20:05.390
He turned around. He's like, go back there. And

00:20:05.390 --> 00:20:09.950
then, it wasn't no more. You don't know where

00:20:09.950 --> 00:20:17.130
he went. Where'd he go? I love how with negative

00:20:17.130 --> 00:20:21.930
two intelligence, Zebulon mapped it out to perfectly

00:20:21.930 --> 00:20:25.490
poke the right -sized hole in this feed bag to

00:20:25.490 --> 00:20:29.190
run out a mile and a half later. You got luck.

00:20:29.430 --> 00:20:34.009
What can I tell you? It's a lucky guy. Just enough

00:20:34.009 --> 00:20:35.930
to barely have some feed going. I don't even

00:20:35.930 --> 00:20:39.369
know what pangolins eat. Email Steven with the

00:20:39.369 --> 00:20:44.750
answer. So, you guys are... The inbox is going

00:20:44.750 --> 00:20:47.170
to be full. Just a few of you are moving up,

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and you basically come to the crest of this hill

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at the edge of this road here. You don't really

00:20:53.710 --> 00:20:55.890
see what's beyond it, beyond just trees, jagged

00:20:55.890 --> 00:20:58.529
mountain peaks, the sky above. Right now it's

00:20:58.529 --> 00:21:01.869
about 2 .30 in the afternoon, so the sun is looming

00:21:01.869 --> 00:21:04.569
high overhead. And as you move over to the top

00:21:04.569 --> 00:21:06.950
of this hill, and you see the road kind of moving

00:21:06.950 --> 00:21:10.230
downwards into this clearing down below, you

00:21:10.230 --> 00:21:14.549
see this, like, massive sight of just like people

00:21:14.549 --> 00:21:16.970
uh moving around building tents you hear like

00:21:16.970 --> 00:21:20.230
hammers going people are like constructing new

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uh new frames for tents and such in different

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places and it's it's wild because you know this

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happens every night and yeah it seems like as

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you're watching you see some tents are already

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set up but some are just like taking down stuff

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and moving it somewhere else um it's the dancing

00:21:34.450 --> 00:21:36.250
market a lot of these a lot of these stalls just

00:21:36.250 --> 00:21:37.990
move around sometimes throughout the same night

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they move multiple times um You can already,

00:21:41.859 --> 00:21:44.299
you can hear, like, vaguely hear, like, chopping

00:21:44.299 --> 00:21:47.180
of, like, you know, knives and cutting boards.

00:21:47.420 --> 00:21:49.180
I mean, from right here, the acoustics are fantastic.

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You're hearing, like, every sound. You're hearing,

00:21:50.839 --> 00:21:55.099
like, the old sparks of conversation, people

00:21:55.099 --> 00:21:58.539
yelling at other people. It all seems very jovial.

00:21:58.559 --> 00:22:01.019
It's jovial yelling. It's just a good old time.

00:22:01.140 --> 00:22:03.539
It's, you know, the workers having fun as they're

00:22:03.539 --> 00:22:07.119
just getting ready for the night. That sounds

00:22:07.119 --> 00:22:11.910
incredibly inefficient. If I was a small business

00:22:11.910 --> 00:22:15.109
owner set up at this market and in the middle

00:22:15.109 --> 00:22:17.289
of the night they were like, hey, you have to

00:22:17.289 --> 00:22:20.430
move your stall because this is the dancing market.

00:22:21.829 --> 00:22:24.349
I'd be pissed. And I'd never go back to this

00:22:24.349 --> 00:22:27.289
market. It's like the... Do we want to support

00:22:27.289 --> 00:22:31.210
this place now? It's like the Mad Hatter. Everyone

00:22:31.210 --> 00:22:33.009
just step and doing nice and someone just walks

00:22:33.009 --> 00:22:39.910
out. Change places! Just because. Okay, I guess

00:22:39.910 --> 00:22:41.589
I don't need business for the next half hour.

00:22:41.670 --> 00:22:45.910
I'll just move my whole thing. Dora's just like,

00:22:46.049 --> 00:22:48.349
can I have five of them? No, no, no, sir. I have

00:22:48.349 --> 00:22:52.329
to change places. Isn't you here? Find me later

00:22:52.329 --> 00:22:57.950
if you can. Oh, my God. This is an outrage. Yeah,

00:22:58.029 --> 00:23:01.289
it's whimsical. It's fun. Yeah, it's fantasy.

00:23:01.289 --> 00:23:04.509
What's up with a fun, whimsical world? So what

00:23:04.509 --> 00:23:05.549
do you do? You guys want to move down towards

00:23:05.549 --> 00:23:08.509
this, or you want to just head back to... The

00:23:08.509 --> 00:23:10.869
Radiant Seydel for some damn reason. Yeah, I

00:23:10.869 --> 00:23:12.190
think we should just go back. Yeah, I thought

00:23:12.190 --> 00:23:14.589
so. The way you guys... We have nothing else

00:23:14.589 --> 00:23:16.809
to see here. Nothing to do. I've got my 20 pangolins.

00:23:17.109 --> 00:23:19.529
That's reward enough. You joke, but this is how

00:23:19.529 --> 00:23:22.430
every session has been so far. I'll bet you they'll

00:23:22.430 --> 00:23:27.930
go for a good price on another world. Yeah, let's

00:23:27.930 --> 00:23:31.029
go to... I don't know. Pick a world. David? David.

00:23:31.269 --> 00:23:33.990
Where are we going next? Zing. Alright, we're

00:23:33.990 --> 00:23:35.230
turning around. We're going to Zing. And we're

00:23:35.230 --> 00:23:41.690
going to get rich. Yep. No, Zebulon's scanning,

00:23:41.869 --> 00:23:47.809
looking for a stall that might purchase pangolins.

00:23:48.150 --> 00:23:50.710
I mean, what am I looking for? Is Zebulon looking

00:23:50.710 --> 00:23:52.730
for a zoo? So at this point in time, you wouldn't

00:23:52.730 --> 00:23:55.029
really see a whole lot. You're high up and still

00:23:55.029 --> 00:23:56.950
kind of a little far off. So you just start moving

00:23:56.950 --> 00:23:58.630
down. You have that in mind. You're going to

00:23:58.630 --> 00:24:01.109
look for a stall for these pangolins. Yes. All

00:24:01.109 --> 00:24:06.490
right. A pet stall. So you're moving down this

00:24:06.490 --> 00:24:09.220
way and, like, As you start getting close to

00:24:09.220 --> 00:24:11.359
the market, as you're starting to make out figures,

00:24:11.640 --> 00:24:15.400
make out faces of people vaguely ahead, you notice

00:24:15.400 --> 00:24:19.140
your back feels very light. As you tuck on it,

00:24:19.140 --> 00:24:22.880
you realize, well, you do have low intelligence.

00:24:23.019 --> 00:24:25.240
Maybe you made that hole just a little too big.

00:24:25.480 --> 00:24:29.259
Uh -oh. And you look back at a bunch of, like,

00:24:29.259 --> 00:24:31.740
20 sets of beady eyes that are just staring at

00:24:31.740 --> 00:24:34.460
you, staring at the empty bag, staring at you.

00:24:35.160 --> 00:24:37.789
And then in this, like... torrent this rush they

00:24:37.789 --> 00:24:40.630
all just go past you almost tripping you and

00:24:40.630 --> 00:24:43.029
just start flooding down into the streets of

00:24:43.029 --> 00:24:45.630
the market into the working stalls and you just

00:24:45.630 --> 00:24:48.269
hear this uproarious cheer from all these people

00:24:48.269 --> 00:24:50.710
as they just seem like this this i mean these

00:24:50.710 --> 00:24:52.650
are sacred creatures in this world and suddenly

00:24:52.650 --> 00:24:55.029
20 penguins just come charging down into their

00:24:55.029 --> 00:24:56.710
setup this is this is an amazing omen you just

00:24:56.710 --> 00:25:00.130
hear like ah it's a good omen penguins penguins

00:25:00.130 --> 00:25:01.769
from the forest they've come to great houses

00:25:01.769 --> 00:25:06.480
those those are you know what You know, I mean,

00:25:06.480 --> 00:25:08.259
Zeb, this is quite a way to make an entrance.

00:25:08.720 --> 00:25:11.559
Easy come, easy go. I mean, look at it this way.

00:25:11.619 --> 00:25:14.440
They're gone, but, I mean, look how many people

00:25:14.440 --> 00:25:17.440
just saw that, and you were there. Yeah, a few

00:25:17.440 --> 00:25:18.880
workers are looking at you, and they're, like,

00:25:18.880 --> 00:25:21.720
cheering you on, just like, the heralds of the

00:25:21.720 --> 00:25:27.400
penguins! That's the one. Yeah! I'm sure that

00:25:27.400 --> 00:25:29.279
they're all going to find homes with fencing

00:25:29.279 --> 00:25:33.309
yards. It's going to be so good for them. And

00:25:33.309 --> 00:25:35.289
people are running down, petting them. They're

00:25:35.289 --> 00:25:37.269
climbing on people's shoulders. People are feeding

00:25:37.269 --> 00:25:40.509
them. It just looks like you just breathe new

00:25:40.509 --> 00:25:43.349
life into this day, which is already a very jovial,

00:25:43.349 --> 00:25:47.269
happy day. It's a scene. It's a fun scene. And

00:25:47.269 --> 00:25:50.369
your pangolin, Jamal, is still tucked on your

00:25:50.369 --> 00:25:53.309
shoulder, actually, Jules. Yes. Oh, he's going

00:25:53.309 --> 00:25:54.789
to stay there. I'm keeping him. And by the way,

00:25:54.890 --> 00:25:56.869
that was a great way to get rid of all the pangolins.

00:25:59.190 --> 00:26:02.170
Kudos. Julius, you owe me ten gold for that,

00:26:02.230 --> 00:26:05.650
Pangolin. Literally. Ten gold apiece. Literally.

00:26:05.769 --> 00:26:09.029
Let me read my notes to you. How about I give

00:26:09.029 --> 00:26:11.150
you one cure wounds, and we'll call it square.

00:26:11.329 --> 00:26:13.710
Deal. These are my actual sentence and my notes

00:26:13.710 --> 00:26:16.190
highlighted right now. Pangolins rush off ahead

00:26:16.190 --> 00:26:18.690
to join the cheering, laughing crowd, breaking

00:26:18.690 --> 00:26:27.450
Steven's heart. And gaining Zebulon zero gold.

00:26:33.179 --> 00:26:38.839
So, not even a lousy butt. All right, I'm going

00:26:38.839 --> 00:26:41.880
to toss this up a gold piece. No, no, no, no.

00:26:43.279 --> 00:26:49.859
Nah, take it. Oh, as you're watching this scene,

00:26:50.019 --> 00:26:53.019
Chester kind of nudges you, Jules, and he's looking

00:26:53.019 --> 00:26:55.220
up at the pangolin on your shoulder. He's like,

00:26:55.480 --> 00:26:58.720
so, Jules, Ronson's been talking about how she

00:26:58.720 --> 00:27:01.460
wanted a pet. Looks like we got her covered,

00:27:01.519 --> 00:27:04.210
but... Yeah, we do. We got five more souvenirs

00:27:04.210 --> 00:27:12.170
to get, huh? Well... Oh, shit, you're right.

00:27:12.309 --> 00:27:14.549
You were thinking about that, right, Jules? Yeah.

00:27:15.130 --> 00:27:18.049
Yeah. Tell you what. Yeah. I got your back here.

00:27:18.450 --> 00:27:21.990
Okay. You cover everybody else. Okay. And leave

00:27:21.990 --> 00:27:27.410
jeans to me. I can take your jeans. All right.

00:27:27.789 --> 00:27:30.390
Yeah, yeah. Well, we gotta see what they got

00:27:30.390 --> 00:27:33.230
here. I don't even know. I mean, look down there.

00:27:33.269 --> 00:27:35.630
It's huge. It must have everything. Yeah, yeah,

00:27:35.630 --> 00:27:37.569
you're right. I think they got something. This

00:27:37.569 --> 00:27:39.049
campaign is going to be a real expensive video,

00:27:39.049 --> 00:27:47.809
Jules. It's very true. But right now, as you

00:27:47.809 --> 00:27:49.670
see, I think, do you guys move further down into

00:27:49.670 --> 00:27:52.529
the sort of mass of people and the working folk?

00:27:52.809 --> 00:27:55.170
Yeah, I'd say so. Keep moving forward. I think

00:27:55.170 --> 00:27:57.910
as you kind of move down a few... people, like,

00:27:58.049 --> 00:28:01.089
a half -orc and a tunic and a man next to him

00:28:01.089 --> 00:28:03.029
sort of break away from the crowd and come, like,

00:28:03.049 --> 00:28:05.170
jogging your way. They're smiling and waving.

00:28:06.309 --> 00:28:09.529
They definitely have some... They're coming to

00:28:09.529 --> 00:28:11.509
you with some intent, and they just, they step

00:28:11.509 --> 00:28:12.829
forward, and you kind of put a hand up, like,

00:28:13.269 --> 00:28:15.910
hold, travelers, hold. You're off -world, yes?

00:28:16.490 --> 00:28:19.849
Yeah. Hey, we gotta say, this, uh, what is this?

00:28:20.609 --> 00:28:23.750
Where did all these guys come from? Uh, well,

00:28:23.869 --> 00:28:27.650
we decided to bring, uh, some fun and some joy

00:28:27.650 --> 00:28:33.410
to Shipchenko to make our appearance on the luminary

00:28:33.410 --> 00:28:39.650
scene. Well. What? This is our reveal party.

00:28:39.890 --> 00:28:44.710
Just going to put it out there, huh? Well, that's

00:28:44.710 --> 00:28:49.150
exciting stuff. You may just be Ria yet, but,

00:28:49.250 --> 00:28:51.750
well, I'm afraid it's going to be a little harder

00:28:51.750 --> 00:28:54.390
than that to win over a lot of these local folk.

00:28:55.140 --> 00:28:58.440
Well, what'll win over the locals? Well, if you

00:28:58.440 --> 00:29:00.680
heard of the market games. Yeah, we were hearing

00:29:00.680 --> 00:29:02.380
about that on the way here. Yeah, yeah. What's

00:29:02.380 --> 00:29:04.440
up with that? Well, next time they come around,

00:29:04.539 --> 00:29:06.779
you guys can sign up. Fortunately, I think the

00:29:06.779 --> 00:29:09.579
roster's full for tonight, but... Really? Oh,

00:29:09.660 --> 00:29:11.380
yeah, yeah. We got a couple groups that already

00:29:11.380 --> 00:29:13.200
came in and signed up for it. It's going to be

00:29:13.200 --> 00:29:14.839
a big one. It's going to be exciting. Hey, stick

00:29:14.839 --> 00:29:17.660
around, watch them, learn a thing or two, watch

00:29:17.660 --> 00:29:20.440
some folks become Raya, and you can do the same,

00:29:20.500 --> 00:29:24.000
huh? So what's that mean? Yeah, what's... Raya?

00:29:24.539 --> 00:29:28.259
Rhea, it's our local term. Coals of the same

00:29:28.259 --> 00:29:31.240
fire is the literal meaning. But it's basically,

00:29:31.440 --> 00:29:34.299
you're one of us. A lot of our folk here, they'd

00:29:34.299 --> 00:29:38.940
love to sponsor upcoming luminaries. Well, that

00:29:38.940 --> 00:29:40.680
sounds perfect for us. They've got to be Rhea.

00:29:41.220 --> 00:29:42.960
That's sort of the close deal. They've got to

00:29:42.960 --> 00:29:45.779
be Rhea. We want folk who earn their way, who

00:29:45.779 --> 00:29:49.180
become trusted members of our family here at

00:29:49.180 --> 00:29:51.640
Dinsing. All right, well, when is the next Games?

00:29:52.440 --> 00:29:56.140
Oh, about a month from now. Oh, shit. Huh. And

00:29:56.140 --> 00:30:05.440
23 Pangolins doesn't secure us a spot? It's tough.

00:30:05.660 --> 00:30:08.559
A group's already been set up here. Honestly,

00:30:08.740 --> 00:30:12.819
a pretty famous former local kind of moved in

00:30:12.819 --> 00:30:17.640
and wrote in a group already, so... Who's this

00:30:17.640 --> 00:30:22.750
local? Her name's Rune Roussan. Oh. Yeah. Oh,

00:30:22.750 --> 00:30:27.250
I see. Could you point us in that direction?

00:30:28.049 --> 00:30:29.450
Well, that's going to be right in the center.

00:30:29.529 --> 00:30:31.529
When we set up, I think you can make it out here

00:30:31.529 --> 00:30:33.609
now. You see where there's a sort of center clearing

00:30:33.609 --> 00:30:35.170
there. The tents are staying kind of far from

00:30:35.170 --> 00:30:38.089
it. And there's three very large golden tents

00:30:38.089 --> 00:30:41.990
there. Mm -hmm. Yeah. That's the game. So when

00:30:41.990 --> 00:30:43.250
the time comes, we're all going to move into

00:30:43.250 --> 00:30:44.509
the center. There are going to be projectors

00:30:44.509 --> 00:30:46.549
showing what's going on inside the tents. Outside,

00:30:46.670 --> 00:30:49.259
it's going to be exciting. Oh, you won't believe.

00:30:49.440 --> 00:30:51.039
I'm not going to tell you right now. I'll let

00:30:51.039 --> 00:30:53.500
you surprise what we've got coming on tonight

00:30:53.500 --> 00:30:57.019
for the games. But it's something else. Well,

00:30:57.099 --> 00:31:01.799
keep your eyes out. We're actually in Rune's

00:31:01.799 --> 00:31:05.680
group. You? Oh, it's you. Oh, it's you. Oh, okay.

00:31:06.359 --> 00:31:15.900
They should be expecting us. Uh, I... Yeah. Yeah.

00:31:15.940 --> 00:31:18.440
So you're in Rune's... Which group? The former

00:31:18.440 --> 00:31:22.839
one or the later one? Yep. Okay. He's right.

00:31:23.160 --> 00:31:28.319
We gotta go sign up and figure out... Oh, yep.

00:31:28.500 --> 00:31:30.799
Thanks for... Well, here's the thing. We're still

00:31:30.799 --> 00:31:33.059
setting up, actually. We don't... Sorry, tourists

00:31:33.059 --> 00:31:35.759
can't really come in yet. There's a lot going

00:31:35.759 --> 00:31:39.779
on. So, are you like an official of the games?

00:31:40.259 --> 00:31:42.480
No, no. I'm just a guy who sets up tents. Hmm,

00:31:42.519 --> 00:31:46.000
yeah, yeah. So, if I wanted to speak to somebody

00:31:46.000 --> 00:31:49.119
who's... Like an organizer? Deb, he's just doing

00:31:49.119 --> 00:31:51.559
his job. Yeah. He's just doing his job. Yeah.

00:31:52.759 --> 00:31:55.579
Great, great, great job. The tents look, I mean,

00:31:55.599 --> 00:31:58.119
fantastic. I'll tell you what. When we're set

00:31:58.119 --> 00:32:01.160
up, head over to Madam Culp's Silk. It's one

00:32:01.160 --> 00:32:03.259
of the tents we'll have. Madam Culp tonight is

00:32:03.259 --> 00:32:05.880
going to be the main organizer for the event

00:32:05.880 --> 00:32:09.440
and actually the host of the third game. Silk?

00:32:10.119 --> 00:32:13.420
Madam Culp. Culp. Madam Culp's Silk. She sells

00:32:13.420 --> 00:32:17.259
silk. Oh. Yeah. That's a product, not a name.

00:32:17.299 --> 00:32:20.839
That's the tent name. Sure. Yes. You got it.

00:32:20.859 --> 00:32:25.200
All right. Great. Tent's made of silk? Knowing

00:32:25.200 --> 00:32:28.700
her, you'd think so. Her prices. But, hey, it's

00:32:28.700 --> 00:32:31.319
a good product. So, I hope you got loaded pockets,

00:32:31.599 --> 00:32:34.579
gentlemen. If you do, you're about to have the

00:32:34.579 --> 00:32:37.519
night of your lives. But, look, we got to set

00:32:37.519 --> 00:32:40.700
up right around 6 o 'clock. The sun sinks. You're

00:32:40.700 --> 00:32:42.140
going to see the mountains light up. Have you

00:32:42.140 --> 00:32:44.839
seen this before? My fortune. The Laupop flowers?

00:32:45.780 --> 00:32:49.019
Never. No, not yet. Oh, so the mountains around

00:32:49.019 --> 00:32:50.900
us are loaded with these flowers, these laopop

00:32:50.900 --> 00:32:52.440
flowers, and when the sun sets, they begin to

00:32:52.440 --> 00:32:54.359
glow. You're going to watch the mountains almost

00:32:54.359 --> 00:32:56.180
look like they're catching on fire. And when

00:32:56.180 --> 00:32:58.579
that happens, that's the signal for us to light

00:32:58.579 --> 00:33:01.259
up our little event here. I mean, you're going

00:33:01.259 --> 00:33:03.079
to smell it, you're going to see it, it's going

00:33:03.079 --> 00:33:07.720
to blow your minds. That's six. So, do you know

00:33:07.720 --> 00:33:13.319
what the games are? Let's just say it's going

00:33:13.319 --> 00:33:22.700
to be spicy. and soupy, and maybe even a little

00:33:22.700 --> 00:33:26.839
silky. Hmm. That means nothing. I'm sorry. That's

00:33:26.839 --> 00:33:28.920
nothing. That's quite confusing. That was a nothing

00:33:28.920 --> 00:33:30.799
statement. Anyway, you'll find out. I'm going

00:33:30.799 --> 00:33:33.579
to leave. Wait out here. Wait on the hill. I

00:33:33.579 --> 00:33:35.180
don't care where you wait, but you got to wait

00:33:35.180 --> 00:33:39.200
outside for now. Six o 'clock. All right? Okay.

00:33:39.420 --> 00:33:42.500
See you at six. All right. You'll know when to

00:33:42.500 --> 00:33:45.339
come. You'll see it. You'll feel it. You can

00:33:45.339 --> 00:33:47.339
come on in with everybody else and have the night

00:33:47.339 --> 00:33:48.960
of your lives. But I've got to get back to work

00:33:48.960 --> 00:33:50.819
because I'm going to get kicked in the butt.

00:33:50.920 --> 00:33:52.779
See you later. And he just turns around and runs.

00:33:53.700 --> 00:33:56.299
And there's another guy with him that was also

00:33:56.299 --> 00:34:00.660
there. Just goes, see you. And runs too. I forgot

00:34:00.660 --> 00:34:05.160
there was a guy. Don't give me that look. Was

00:34:05.160 --> 00:34:08.739
that important? No. Not even remotely. He was

00:34:08.739 --> 00:34:10.920
the bad guy all along. I hope the listeners are

00:34:10.920 --> 00:34:12.440
going to enjoy the rest of the episode. Just

00:34:12.440 --> 00:34:15.920
us being bored on the outside. Yeah, so everyone

00:34:15.920 --> 00:34:17.880
sits down and fiddles his thumbs. Yeah, let's

00:34:17.880 --> 00:34:19.739
go have a picnic. You can do that. This is like

00:34:19.739 --> 00:34:21.780
Skyrim. You can just set a time here. You can

00:34:21.780 --> 00:34:24.019
just, you know, wait. Two and a half hours. Boom.

00:34:24.340 --> 00:34:25.940
Oh, this is a two and a half hour episode now.

00:34:26.019 --> 00:34:30.099
Okay. It's too bad, Jules, that my hour fortune

00:34:30.099 --> 00:34:34.579
kind of skittered away. Yeah? Well, whose fault

00:34:34.579 --> 00:34:38.619
was that? Well, I guess I miscalculated the size

00:34:38.619 --> 00:34:42.360
of the hole in the feed bag. And they, uh...

00:34:42.599 --> 00:34:44.599
It kind of lost interest with me. But, I mean,

00:34:44.639 --> 00:34:48.460
to be fair, even if I got them all the way here,

00:34:49.380 --> 00:34:55.880
it wouldn't have lasted until 6 o 'clock. That's

00:34:55.880 --> 00:35:00.059
a good way of looking at it. That's true. Positivity,

00:35:00.099 --> 00:35:02.940
man. All right, all right. I can dig it. Are

00:35:02.940 --> 00:35:05.300
there other people out here waiting with us?

00:35:05.579 --> 00:35:09.000
Not yet. You guys took a really early gem in,

00:35:09.059 --> 00:35:10.960
basically. So, you know, I mentioned the last

00:35:10.960 --> 00:35:13.659
episode. Two episodes ago, actually, that there's

00:35:13.659 --> 00:35:16.760
a later gem coming in sort of in the evening,

00:35:16.860 --> 00:35:19.320
somewhere close to like 4 o 'clock. That would

00:35:19.320 --> 00:35:21.360
get here around just after opening. So you said

00:35:21.360 --> 00:35:23.400
that there was one road, though, right? Yes,

00:35:23.460 --> 00:35:25.980
one road, one main road leading to the dancing

00:35:25.980 --> 00:35:28.639
market. And it was a crowded gem that we came

00:35:28.639 --> 00:35:31.659
in on. We had to wait in line. So we're the only

00:35:31.659 --> 00:35:33.380
ones that have to wait outside? Where did the

00:35:33.380 --> 00:35:35.750
rest of the people go? So a lot of them actually

00:35:35.750 --> 00:35:37.869
kind of hung out back there before taking their

00:35:37.869 --> 00:35:40.150
travel. All the ones that took carts, a lot of

00:35:40.150 --> 00:35:42.429
them were merchants that came down here. They

00:35:42.429 --> 00:35:45.329
might be actually in there doing some pre -selling

00:35:45.329 --> 00:35:48.050
to the market staff beforehand. But they're still

00:35:48.050 --> 00:35:52.150
kind of part of the game. But still, so we're

00:35:52.150 --> 00:35:55.150
still the only two off -worlders that are not

00:35:55.150 --> 00:35:58.510
directly involved in the production of the market?

00:36:00.679 --> 00:36:03.800
Hey look around you see like this 13 more people

00:36:03.800 --> 00:36:05.360
coming out the trailer. Hey, what's going on?

00:36:05.440 --> 00:36:08.519
We're late We had to pee for 20 minutes. All

00:36:08.519 --> 00:36:11.539
right, let's go talk to them. It's a little more

00:36:11.539 --> 00:36:17.059
realistic. I Mean a crowd definitely begins to

00:36:17.059 --> 00:36:18.940
form over there even the merchants that had that

00:36:18.940 --> 00:36:20.400
they're selling come stepping out They can't

00:36:20.400 --> 00:36:22.380
really hang out forever and people begin to sit

00:36:22.380 --> 00:36:24.980
around and like lay out, you know blankets to

00:36:24.980 --> 00:36:27.440
like wait on and this is a lot of just like Hanging

00:36:27.440 --> 00:36:29.139
out and lazing out on the hill just letting the

00:36:29.139 --> 00:36:32.539
Sun beam down everybody, taking in the smells

00:36:32.539 --> 00:36:35.400
of the forest and just the buzzing of the cicadas.

00:36:36.179 --> 00:36:38.659
It's a good time. Did I say that wrong? You're

00:36:38.659 --> 00:36:40.420
giving me a smile. No, no, no, no. All right.

00:36:40.460 --> 00:36:42.460
I think that's fine. I think I would say it's

00:36:42.460 --> 00:36:45.300
cicada, but I think cicada. Honestly, it sounds

00:36:45.300 --> 00:36:48.159
beautiful. Yeah, I kind of like that version.

00:36:48.320 --> 00:36:54.199
All right. Are there any cicadas nearby? I mean,

00:36:54.199 --> 00:36:56.320
roll a perception check. All right, let me grab

00:36:56.320 --> 00:37:05.789
my... What sound do they make? It's so relaxing.

00:37:06.369 --> 00:37:11.949
It's better than expected. Time's up by a thousand.

00:37:12.010 --> 00:37:16.369
You have the dulcet tones of the Insane Night

00:37:16.369 --> 00:37:23.670
Market pre -open. There it is. Alright. So. You

00:37:23.670 --> 00:37:26.230
guys are waiting out on this hill, just looking

00:37:26.230 --> 00:37:28.349
down upon the market. As time goes by, more people

00:37:28.349 --> 00:37:31.090
will join you. Bit by bit, not very many at this

00:37:31.090 --> 00:37:33.889
point. After a time, it sort of stalls until

00:37:33.889 --> 00:37:37.929
the next gem comes in. But you're watching down,

00:37:38.090 --> 00:37:41.409
and you can see as this market starts to take

00:37:41.409 --> 00:37:44.750
form. You see hundreds of these temporary stalls

00:37:44.750 --> 00:37:47.550
and tents and vendor carts just fill this space.

00:37:48.650 --> 00:37:52.139
You see that these shops surround those... Ava

00:37:52.139 --> 00:37:56.440
mentioned three great golden tents resting in

00:37:56.440 --> 00:38:04.039
a sunken plaza. And as you watch and wait, the

00:38:04.039 --> 00:38:09.639
sun begins to sink. The sky burns with an evening

00:38:09.639 --> 00:38:13.320
light, and even that fades away. And just around

00:38:13.320 --> 00:38:17.719
six o 'clock, darkness overtakes the sky. Stars

00:38:17.719 --> 00:38:21.690
light up above. And the mountains begin to glow.

00:38:22.630 --> 00:38:25.190
You can see it, like these mountains just covered

00:38:25.190 --> 00:38:27.949
in these shimmering lights all around, matching

00:38:27.949 --> 00:38:31.389
the stars above, burning and beautiful. And as

00:38:31.389 --> 00:38:34.449
you take this in, as the sun dips below the horizon,

00:38:34.710 --> 00:38:38.329
the Dinsing Night Market also twinkles to life,

00:38:38.550 --> 00:38:43.030
gradually igniting in a dazzling display. and

00:38:43.030 --> 00:38:45.809
the smells of food carts filled with potstickers,

00:38:45.889 --> 00:38:48.650
coconut desserts, spiced meats, sticky buns,

00:38:48.789 --> 00:38:53.010
and more drift amid the bright bouquets of glowing

00:38:53.010 --> 00:38:55.710
flowers and magical lights and the shapes of

00:38:55.710 --> 00:39:00.449
vendors' wares and whimsical mascots. Crowds

00:39:00.449 --> 00:39:03.489
of shoppers wander the stalls, drawn by the colors

00:39:03.489 --> 00:39:10.329
and the smells and the music. It's, uh, what's

00:39:10.329 --> 00:39:17.659
something else? Man, that's something else. That

00:39:17.659 --> 00:39:22.380
sounded so beautiful. Oh, my God. His chest are

00:39:22.380 --> 00:39:27.019
reading it all off. It's something else. So while

00:39:27.019 --> 00:39:29.760
we've been sitting there, I think Zebulon's been

00:39:29.760 --> 00:39:35.739
picking up little plants and some flowers, and

00:39:35.739 --> 00:39:38.380
he's just kind of got like a handful of stuff

00:39:38.380 --> 00:39:42.730
that he's been inspecting. Trying to find something

00:39:42.730 --> 00:39:45.110
to take home with him. I don't think any flowers

00:39:45.110 --> 00:39:46.849
are going to make the trip, though, because they're,

00:39:46.849 --> 00:39:49.690
you know, perishable. Chester's sort of taking

00:39:49.690 --> 00:39:52.170
that in, just like, what are you doing? Well,

00:39:52.210 --> 00:39:54.809
I mean, I've never seen anything like this. I

00:39:54.809 --> 00:39:56.369
mean, you have money, right? Like, you can just

00:39:56.369 --> 00:39:59.030
buy stuff down there. Well, yeah, but, I mean,

00:39:59.050 --> 00:40:02.409
look at this, um, look at this bug. Money can't

00:40:02.409 --> 00:40:04.730
buy a bug. I mean, it probably can down there.

00:40:04.789 --> 00:40:08.289
I mean, I imagine, eh. Hey, you've been quiet

00:40:08.289 --> 00:40:12.690
up there, big guy. You all right? Yeah. Yeah.

00:40:13.710 --> 00:40:17.150
Just taking it all in. Ever seen anything like

00:40:17.150 --> 00:40:21.210
it, Chester? No, not in Tithos. All the people,

00:40:21.389 --> 00:40:25.750
all the smiles. The smells. Yeah. Holy shit,

00:40:25.769 --> 00:40:28.250
the smells. Oh, yeah. Are any of these flowers,

00:40:28.550 --> 00:40:31.329
these, what are they called? The laupop flowers.

00:40:31.449 --> 00:40:32.889
Laupop. They'd be farther up on the mountains.

00:40:32.909 --> 00:40:35.070
Okay, they're not, like, close enough to... No.

00:40:35.690 --> 00:40:38.480
Damn. They'll sell them in the market. Oh, yeah?

00:40:38.559 --> 00:40:40.840
You can see some glowing amidst the market. Yeah,

00:40:40.860 --> 00:40:42.139
you can see bouquets of them. There he goes.

00:40:42.219 --> 00:40:45.579
Oh. Yeah. Look at the flowers. Look at the flowers.

00:40:48.159 --> 00:40:53.300
That's so incredible. My God. It's 6 o 'clock.

00:40:54.519 --> 00:40:57.500
It's coming alive. Let's go. Oh, my God. Look

00:40:57.500 --> 00:41:00.239
at all those lights. You guys ever seen anything

00:41:00.239 --> 00:41:11.889
like it? Last one there is a rotten toe. Hey.

00:41:13.030 --> 00:41:14.809
Actually, are you sort of like starting to go

00:41:14.809 --> 00:41:17.250
and move? Yeah. I think as you do, you hear Chester's

00:41:17.250 --> 00:41:19.690
kind of, hey, Jules, as you kind of get up, Jules.

00:41:19.829 --> 00:41:23.789
What's up? Speaking of lights, that lute of yours.

00:41:24.429 --> 00:41:29.309
Yeah? Well, it's glowing. The fuck? Yeah. It

00:41:29.309 --> 00:41:32.449
does that? What the hell? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I forgot

00:41:32.449 --> 00:41:36.570
it does that. Totally knew that. Totally knew

00:41:36.570 --> 00:41:40.000
that it was going to do that. Yeah, no, no, it's

00:41:40.000 --> 00:41:42.019
got a little magic in it. It's nothing like too

00:41:42.019 --> 00:41:45.019
powerful, you know. I specifically didn't want,

00:41:45.159 --> 00:41:47.659
you know, that much power in something, you know.

00:41:47.719 --> 00:41:49.860
Gets in the wrong hands, but, you know, just

00:41:49.860 --> 00:41:51.500
something fun, just something flashy. It glows

00:41:51.500 --> 00:41:53.960
the color of my moods, you know. Color your moods,

00:41:53.960 --> 00:41:57.960
huh? Yeah. Right now it's looking kind of yellow.

00:41:58.639 --> 00:42:04.199
What's that mean? Oh, that means I'm happy. Come

00:42:04.199 --> 00:42:05.559
to think of it, I've never seen it glow that

00:42:05.559 --> 00:42:10.079
color before. Huh. This is bringing something

00:42:10.079 --> 00:42:12.780
out, man. This is good. I've been wondering.

00:42:12.880 --> 00:42:15.179
I mean, I've heard you strumming it here and

00:42:15.179 --> 00:42:16.579
there, tuning it, but can you actually play that

00:42:16.579 --> 00:42:19.980
thing? Fuck yeah, I can play it. My parents never

00:42:19.980 --> 00:42:23.440
knew. They knew I was good at it, and oh, it

00:42:23.440 --> 00:42:26.019
would have been over for me. You hadn't tricked,

00:42:26.059 --> 00:42:30.179
huh? Hell yeah. I studied privately, you know,

00:42:30.179 --> 00:42:32.519
on my own, taught myself, and got pretty damn

00:42:32.519 --> 00:42:36.159
good at it. From, like, way down the trail. Prove

00:42:36.159 --> 00:42:41.840
it! Yeah, you know what? Prove it. All right.

00:42:41.980 --> 00:42:45.199
No. All right. Let me see if I can even tune

00:42:45.199 --> 00:42:47.239
this goddamn thing up. Hold on. It's so old.

00:42:47.739 --> 00:42:52.340
Let's see. Nope. That ain't it. Nope. No. That

00:42:52.340 --> 00:42:54.639
ain't it. Yeah. Oh, there it is. There it is.

00:42:54.679 --> 00:42:56.960
Okay. All right. There it is. No. What about

00:42:56.960 --> 00:43:00.900
this one? Let's try this. No. Down. I'm blown

00:43:00.900 --> 00:43:03.099
away. I'm blown away right now, Jules. Shut up.

00:43:03.159 --> 00:43:07.039
All right. All right. Down. Down. Okay. All right.

00:43:07.079 --> 00:43:09.130
All right. Hold on. Let me try one thing here.

00:43:09.250 --> 00:43:13.449
Ready? Let's check this. Oh, shit. Oh, yeah.

00:43:13.510 --> 00:43:15.389
That was something else. That was a little embarrassing.

00:43:15.590 --> 00:43:17.630
Yeah. All right. Hold on. Hold on. I think I

00:43:17.630 --> 00:43:20.070
got it. Oh, wait. All right. There we go. I got

00:43:20.070 --> 00:43:23.030
it. There's home base. Okay. All right. Let's

00:43:23.030 --> 00:43:26.969
try this. That's something. That's notes. Okay.

00:43:27.590 --> 00:43:30.090
Whoa. Okay. I think I got it back now. Okay.

00:43:30.170 --> 00:43:33.210
I think I got it. All right, I'm starting to

00:43:33.210 --> 00:43:35.469
feel it. Are you feeling it, Chester? I'm feeling

00:43:35.469 --> 00:43:38.630
something. How about you, Zeb? You feeling it?

00:43:38.730 --> 00:43:41.750
I can feel it! I can feel it! All right, that's

00:43:41.750 --> 00:43:45.289
what I like to hear. You ready, Chester? I think

00:43:45.289 --> 00:44:33.000
so. Let's go! Chester is that when the sun goes

00:44:33.000 --> 00:44:37.019
down we get up and we do it all over again because

00:46:14.570 --> 00:46:20.030
Jess still got it. Holy shit! Was that you, Josh?

00:46:20.829 --> 00:46:26.969
Yeah. Dude, that was so fucking incredible. High

00:46:26.969 --> 00:46:33.250
five. Oh my god. Steven's face was exactly what

00:46:33.250 --> 00:46:38.909
I imagined it would be. That was wild. That was

00:46:38.909 --> 00:46:42.889
wild. Surprise. And it kept getting better and

00:46:42.889 --> 00:46:48.849
better. And better. Because I knew that you said

00:46:48.849 --> 00:46:50.590
something like, oh yeah, there's a surprise here,

00:46:50.710 --> 00:46:52.610
blah, blah, blah, whatnot, this and that. And

00:46:52.610 --> 00:46:54.989
I've been in the dark for like three weeks. David

00:46:54.989 --> 00:46:56.869
had some inkling, I think, of what was happening.

00:46:57.190 --> 00:46:58.710
You knew exactly what was happening. I knew what

00:46:58.710 --> 00:47:01.210
was happening. I threw you off. I was the fucking...

00:47:04.199 --> 00:47:07.340
And so then you started the tuning, and I was

00:47:07.340 --> 00:47:09.960
like, all right, cool. All right, this is fun.

00:47:10.099 --> 00:47:12.659
Fun little bit. And then it just, like, exploded

00:47:12.659 --> 00:47:17.860
into this incredible epic. Dude, that was epic.

00:47:18.360 --> 00:47:21.019
Fellas, cheers to Jeremy. Hell yeah. Amazing.

00:47:21.019 --> 00:47:23.239
Hell yeah. So that's what I was doing on that

00:47:23.239 --> 00:47:25.619
week off, and then. That's why I couldn't do

00:47:25.619 --> 00:47:27.480
anything else because I was very focused. You

00:47:27.480 --> 00:47:30.719
did that with COVID? Hyper -focused. It was before

00:47:30.719 --> 00:47:32.679
COVID. Oh, my God. Yeah, that's right. It was

00:47:32.679 --> 00:47:37.730
the one week before. Oh, man. Wow. Jeremy. Take

00:47:37.730 --> 00:47:40.570
these three buttons. Oh, yeah. Three buttons.

00:47:40.570 --> 00:47:43.829
I will take three buttons. Well deserved. Well

00:47:43.829 --> 00:47:46.570
deserved. This is my jar, right? Yeah. Yeah,

00:47:46.690 --> 00:47:48.690
you take the button jar. You take the whole button

00:47:48.690 --> 00:47:53.070
jar. You earned it. That was special. That was

00:47:53.070 --> 00:47:55.949
special. I hope we see more of those. Wow. I

00:47:55.949 --> 00:48:00.110
think so. Aye. I need more of those. I'm a goddamn

00:48:00.110 --> 00:48:03.050
bard. We have to have more. We need more of those.

00:48:03.170 --> 00:48:05.889
Oh, my gosh. Incredible. Incredible. Wow. How

00:48:05.889 --> 00:48:09.010
do we follow that up? Yeah, I know. For real.

00:48:09.090 --> 00:48:13.030
I brought chili dogs tonight. I know. I was shitting

00:48:13.030 --> 00:48:14.349
my pants the whole time I was singing that. I

00:48:14.349 --> 00:48:21.610
guess we're kind of even, right? Oh, man. So,

00:48:21.789 --> 00:48:27.719
yeah, the song sort of begins to fade. Zebulon,

00:48:27.760 --> 00:48:29.400
you're just frozen in your tracks looking back.

00:48:29.780 --> 00:48:32.860
Chester's just staring up. Oh, my gosh. He looks

00:48:32.860 --> 00:48:36.960
delighted, astonished. Like, he's blown away.

00:48:37.559 --> 00:48:40.039
Just the biggest smile I've ever seen on Chester's

00:48:40.039 --> 00:48:43.380
face. His big gap -toothed grin is, like, gleaming

00:48:43.380 --> 00:48:45.900
in the lights. And you realize that it's, like,

00:48:45.920 --> 00:48:50.000
weirdly quiet. And he looked down, and even down,

00:48:50.119 --> 00:48:52.820
like, you know, towards the side in the market

00:48:52.820 --> 00:48:55.039
that kind of took this in. You have a crowd of

00:48:55.039 --> 00:49:00.440
people just... stopping and gawking um other

00:49:00.440 --> 00:49:02.039
folk that were heading into the market on down

00:49:02.039 --> 00:49:04.840
the road stop and gawk and like for a moment

00:49:04.840 --> 00:49:07.500
here jules you are the center of everyone's attention

00:49:07.500 --> 00:49:12.019
i'm gonna i'm gonna pull both zab and chester

00:49:12.019 --> 00:49:14.739
in with me and little side hugs so we can all

00:49:14.739 --> 00:49:18.420
three bask in everybody's views and as you guys

00:49:18.420 --> 00:49:21.119
move in as you're like pulled inside you you

00:49:21.119 --> 00:49:25.150
you hear the applause begin just slow clap and

00:49:25.150 --> 00:49:33.849
a whistle and then and like they're going wild

00:49:33.849 --> 00:49:36.889
and Zebulon this is the first time you've ever

00:49:36.889 --> 00:49:40.070
really felt a crowd just it's not even for you

00:49:40.070 --> 00:49:42.650
necessarily but but they're aiming towards you

00:49:42.650 --> 00:49:44.929
and like you look up at Jules and you're like

00:49:44.929 --> 00:49:48.449
bashing in this the light of this and Jules kind

00:49:48.449 --> 00:49:50.190
of steps forward a little bit you want us in

00:49:50.190 --> 00:49:55.909
the games You want us in the games? You want

00:49:55.909 --> 00:49:59.769
us in? All right. What does the crowd say? All

00:49:59.769 --> 00:50:03.469
right. Well, you tell them. You tell them you

00:50:03.469 --> 00:50:06.010
want us in. All right. And you see people just,

00:50:06.050 --> 00:50:07.590
like, start scooting around and moving back into

00:50:07.590 --> 00:50:11.010
the market. And soon everything kind of begins

00:50:11.010 --> 00:50:15.539
to move again. People are. resuming their activities,

00:50:15.780 --> 00:50:17.820
but there's an air of cheeriness in the market

00:50:17.820 --> 00:50:21.739
that it's higher than even before. People are

00:50:21.739 --> 00:50:23.719
just dancing with their step, and as they move,

00:50:23.719 --> 00:50:26.079
you can hear the tune being whistled here and

00:50:26.079 --> 00:50:27.920
there, hummed over there. People are singing

00:50:27.920 --> 00:50:30.119
the words wrong, because they only heard it once.

00:50:30.159 --> 00:50:31.780
They don't quite understand them, so they're

00:50:31.780 --> 00:50:34.440
singing the wrong words, but they are in it,

00:50:34.539 --> 00:50:37.659
Jules. Me too. That's making my lute glow even

00:50:37.659 --> 00:50:41.780
more. It's fucking golden yellow now. Just this

00:50:41.780 --> 00:50:46.300
shining yellow. glow coming off of him, moves

00:50:46.300 --> 00:50:49.460
towards the market, and we all move inside, and

00:50:49.460 --> 00:50:52.539
what do you guys want to do first here? Well,

00:50:52.579 --> 00:50:55.860
is there a way that I can gauge whether people

00:50:55.860 --> 00:50:57.760
actually were able to get us into the games,

00:50:57.800 --> 00:50:58.860
or is that something we're going to have to wait

00:50:58.860 --> 00:51:00.340
for? You'll probably need to go to the center

00:51:00.340 --> 00:51:02.800
where the tents are. Yeah. Or go talk to Matt

00:51:02.800 --> 00:51:05.480
and Colt, one of the two. Can we kind of go back

00:51:05.480 --> 00:51:07.639
just a tad and just say that at some point I

00:51:07.639 --> 00:51:11.179
talked to somebody or I yelled out our names

00:51:11.179 --> 00:51:14.219
to people that were passing by? so that they

00:51:14.219 --> 00:51:15.820
know our names, so that they can go and talk

00:51:15.820 --> 00:51:17.780
to people. Yeah, I kind of love the idea that

00:51:17.780 --> 00:51:20.420
they don't, like, these guys out here, you gotta

00:51:20.420 --> 00:51:21.940
put them in the game. The guy with the loot,

00:51:22.019 --> 00:51:23.940
the guy with the loot. The loot guy, and the

00:51:23.940 --> 00:51:30.639
little dude, and the other littler dude. I'm

00:51:30.639 --> 00:51:32.239
just saying that as long as we can say that something

00:51:32.239 --> 00:51:34.679
like that happened. Yeah, no, definitely. You

00:51:34.679 --> 00:51:36.179
know your descriptions, at least, are out there.

00:51:36.280 --> 00:51:38.320
I think it's almost funnier if your names aren't.

00:51:40.619 --> 00:51:44.239
I dig it. I dig it. Jules, we gotta go see Madam,

00:51:44.360 --> 00:51:48.280
uh, Silk. Madam Silk. Madam Culp, idiot. Uh.

00:51:49.159 --> 00:51:53.800
She sells silk. Come on. Keep up. She's not very

00:51:53.800 --> 00:51:55.679
polite. Keep up, Zed. She's not very polite.

00:51:55.900 --> 00:52:00.960
But, uh, let's go to Cole. Madam Cole. Culp?

00:52:01.659 --> 00:52:05.300
C -O -L -P? Yeah, how is it spelled? I don't

00:52:05.300 --> 00:52:10.079
know. I'm Jester. I don't spell things. How did

00:52:10.079 --> 00:52:12.280
you say Justin you're my sidekick I rely on you

00:52:12.280 --> 00:52:18.880
shit like this He's like hey he's probably supposed

00:52:18.880 --> 00:52:21.519
to be around how do you spell madam Culp? Oh,

00:52:21.599 --> 00:52:23.559
it's okay. You won't be there you go see guys.

00:52:23.579 --> 00:52:26.300
He asked people not me Yeah, you did you got

00:52:26.300 --> 00:52:29.119
us the answer there you go see well shit. So

00:52:29.119 --> 00:52:32.820
Chester. I'm speaking of the sidekick thing Did

00:52:32.820 --> 00:52:37.519
you record any of that? Oh shit Jules? I'm sorry.

00:52:37.619 --> 00:52:40.639
I didn't record it Can you do it again? Like,

00:52:40.659 --> 00:52:52.900
right now? Nah, I'm out of energy. Darn it! Man,

00:52:52.920 --> 00:52:56.340
a pool is low. He really had me going. I was

00:52:56.340 --> 00:53:00.480
like, oh, shit. I was pulling the fake diamond

00:53:00.480 --> 00:53:06.000
out of my fake pocket. All right, so you guys

00:53:06.000 --> 00:53:08.719
are moving around to the tents. You're passing

00:53:08.719 --> 00:53:11.079
some interesting places. I mean, you're going

00:53:11.079 --> 00:53:14.579
around, you see, you know, there's like the Spicy

00:53:14.579 --> 00:53:17.139
Brothers stall that has like these neon pepper

00:53:17.139 --> 00:53:22.739
signs just hanging up above it. You see Vaz Lucky

00:53:22.739 --> 00:53:26.900
Amulets, just like a shop that's like this charms

00:53:26.900 --> 00:53:28.880
and curios all lining the shelves. You got like

00:53:28.880 --> 00:53:31.300
necklaces hanging all around, like beads, like

00:53:31.300 --> 00:53:32.900
almost like a bead curtain around the shop, but

00:53:32.900 --> 00:53:35.059
they're all... holding a price tag, and you're

00:53:35.059 --> 00:53:36.219
just moving around through all these stalls,

00:53:36.440 --> 00:53:38.739
peeking around here and there, smelling the food,

00:53:38.900 --> 00:53:42.679
hearing the music, and at one point you turn

00:53:42.679 --> 00:53:45.800
a corner and you see a pretty large -looking

00:53:45.800 --> 00:53:50.280
tent. Madam Culp's silk. You see basically just

00:53:50.280 --> 00:53:54.440
like this tent is lined on the outside with a

00:53:54.440 --> 00:53:57.099
bunch of luxurious silk garments kind of hanging

00:53:57.099 --> 00:54:01.500
off of various mannequins. And you see there's

00:54:01.500 --> 00:54:03.400
a large sort of sign there. It shows actually

00:54:03.400 --> 00:54:07.719
some kind of worm, it looks like, lit up in neon

00:54:07.719 --> 00:54:11.099
with a spray of neon silk shooting out from it.

00:54:11.659 --> 00:54:14.960
And then it's open. Light's on. You guys want

00:54:14.960 --> 00:54:21.880
to go in? Yes. As long as there are no stalls

00:54:21.880 --> 00:54:26.619
between us and that stall that are selling the

00:54:26.619 --> 00:54:31.780
Laopop flowers. Okay. If there are, Zebulon wants

00:54:31.780 --> 00:54:33.900
to stop at that one first. I mean, I might even

00:54:33.900 --> 00:54:36.440
get in on that, too. Yeah. All right. So you

00:54:36.440 --> 00:54:38.739
guys are looking around. And actually, just a

00:54:38.739 --> 00:54:40.380
short, a few tents before Madame Culp's, you

00:54:40.380 --> 00:54:43.619
do see there is a tent that's purely illuminated

00:54:43.619 --> 00:54:46.199
by the Laopop flowers, the bouquets that are

00:54:46.199 --> 00:54:50.280
hanging all around it. And just, like, the flowers

00:54:50.280 --> 00:54:53.000
are arranged in such a way at the top of the

00:54:53.000 --> 00:54:58.099
tent to spell out Fies, P -H -I, Fies Flora.

00:54:59.059 --> 00:55:02.000
Jules, the flowers. The flowers. No way. Jules,

00:55:02.059 --> 00:55:04.800
Chester, flowers. No way. Let's go. Can we go

00:55:04.800 --> 00:55:06.800
before we go to... Let's go take a look. Let's

00:55:06.800 --> 00:55:08.219
go take a look. Before we go to Culp's. Yeah.

00:55:08.599 --> 00:55:11.940
All right. You go in. You see a brown -skinned

00:55:11.940 --> 00:55:16.519
human woman dressed up in just this real, really

00:55:16.519 --> 00:55:19.340
overly colorful clothing. There's, like, bits

00:55:19.340 --> 00:55:21.719
of Laopop petals sort of woven into the garment,

00:55:21.780 --> 00:55:24.179
so her clothes are kind of alive, and she almost

00:55:24.179 --> 00:55:27.750
dances and sways up to you and just... Oh my

00:55:27.750 --> 00:55:30.070
gosh. Oh my gosh, it's you. You're the singer,

00:55:30.130 --> 00:55:33.170
right? The bard from earlier? Oh, yeah. Yeah,

00:55:33.210 --> 00:55:37.130
I've been all night. You know, I... Oh, wow.

00:55:37.369 --> 00:55:41.130
I hope you come by. And I'm his friend. Yeah,

00:55:41.170 --> 00:55:45.369
this is my friend, Zeb. Zebulon Black. And she

00:55:45.369 --> 00:55:47.309
looks down and she goes, Oh, hi there, little

00:55:47.309 --> 00:56:01.719
Zeb. How much? Do you like flowers, little guy?

00:56:02.739 --> 00:56:05.159
Okay, that... I'll even say that's a little insulting.

00:56:05.519 --> 00:56:08.199
That's a little insulting. Oh. Just a little

00:56:08.199 --> 00:56:11.440
bit. I'm sorry, I, uh... No, it's okay. No, it's

00:56:11.440 --> 00:56:14.280
okay. I'm a paying customer. Hey. No, are you

00:56:14.280 --> 00:56:16.980
a... I'd like to be. I just assumed you were

00:56:16.980 --> 00:56:20.619
a little young. Uh, because you're not a kobold.

00:56:20.699 --> 00:56:23.500
You're a half -dragon. I can see that you were...

00:56:23.500 --> 00:56:27.199
That's right. How old are you? Well, that's none

00:56:27.199 --> 00:56:29.760
of your business now, is it? I'm sorry, little

00:56:29.760 --> 00:56:33.019
fella. I didn't mean to be rude. Jules, I'm not

00:56:33.019 --> 00:56:42.639
buying any flowers here. How tall is this lady?

00:56:42.780 --> 00:56:46.860
I feel like this place has already changed Jules

00:56:46.860 --> 00:56:50.880
because he is now feeling sorry for Zebulon and

00:56:50.880 --> 00:56:55.030
wants to really just... Come on, dude. He's got

00:56:55.030 --> 00:56:57.889
to get a win. Five foot three. Okay. So we're

00:56:57.889 --> 00:57:00.489
around the same height. Yeah, but you're a half

00:57:00.489 --> 00:57:01.989
dragon. I'm a little shorter. You're a little

00:57:01.989 --> 00:57:04.949
half dragon. I mean, you are small for your kind.

00:57:05.469 --> 00:57:08.969
Yeah, well, would a little guy carry around swords

00:57:08.969 --> 00:57:13.789
like these and armor like this? He points down

00:57:13.789 --> 00:57:16.070
to your armor, which is like this oversized leather

00:57:16.070 --> 00:57:18.429
armor that looks ridiculous and hilarious on

00:57:18.429 --> 00:57:28.619
you. Yeah, but it increases my armor class. Trust

00:57:28.619 --> 00:57:32.840
me, this kid ain't no small kid. How about we

00:57:32.840 --> 00:57:34.739
leave it at that? He ain't no small kid. Trust

00:57:34.739 --> 00:57:37.679
me. Yeah, yeah, don't worry about that. He's

00:57:37.679 --> 00:57:39.559
a little testy because he hasn't had a nap this

00:57:39.559 --> 00:57:43.820
afternoon. So he's just pushing you away. So

00:57:43.820 --> 00:57:48.670
you sell these flowers, huh? Were you talking

00:57:48.670 --> 00:57:51.309
to yourself? Yeah. I thought you were going to

00:57:51.309 --> 00:57:53.230
swap voices. I thought someone would mercifully

00:57:53.230 --> 00:57:56.409
jump in so I wouldn't have to. You just asked

00:57:56.409 --> 00:57:58.389
yourself, do you sell these flowers? I was trying

00:57:58.389 --> 00:58:00.210
to get things back on the rails, damn it. That

00:58:00.210 --> 00:58:03.090
just took them way off. You've punished me too

00:58:03.090 --> 00:58:07.949
much. You monsters. Fine, yeah, get out of the

00:58:07.949 --> 00:58:09.489
room. It's just me now. I'm going to talk to

00:58:09.489 --> 00:58:13.150
me. Zebulon doesn't want to continue this conversation.

00:58:13.489 --> 00:58:16.070
Zebulon feels insulted, to say the least. Why,

00:58:16.090 --> 00:58:17.429
yes, I do sell these flowers. Are you interested

00:58:17.429 --> 00:58:19.190
in the Laopop flowers from the mountains? Why,

00:58:19.230 --> 00:58:20.650
yeah, I think we are interested in the Laopop

00:58:20.650 --> 00:58:22.110
flowers from the mountains. All we do is... I

00:58:22.110 --> 00:58:24.269
was interested in the Laopop flowers from the

00:58:24.269 --> 00:58:29.269
mountains. Until you decided to call me a little

00:58:29.269 --> 00:58:32.789
guy. All right, how much are they? How much are

00:58:32.789 --> 00:58:37.929
they? Well, uh, tell you what. I... Obviously

00:58:37.929 --> 00:58:40.349
insulted your friend there, and I really want

00:58:40.349 --> 00:58:44.190
to... Well, I was very impressed earlier with

00:58:44.190 --> 00:58:45.590
what you did. And also, you're the two that brought

00:58:45.590 --> 00:58:48.789
the pangolins in, right? Yeah. At least you mean.

00:58:48.889 --> 00:58:51.510
He brought them in. Oh, it was you. Oh, that's

00:58:51.510 --> 00:58:53.409
so sweet. I didn't mind Rafi. And she points

00:58:53.409 --> 00:58:55.010
down, you see there's a pangolin nestled in a

00:58:55.010 --> 00:58:57.769
flower bed. That'll be ten gold. I'm selling

00:58:57.769 --> 00:59:02.250
them for ten gold apiece. Zeb. We're getting

00:59:02.250 --> 00:59:04.710
places. We're getting places. Tell you what.

00:59:05.489 --> 00:59:08.710
I'll give you each a bouquet. for free. A gesture

00:59:08.710 --> 00:59:13.409
of goodwill. Are we good? And she reaches way,

00:59:13.530 --> 00:59:15.150
way, way, way down to you to shake your hand.

00:59:21.250 --> 00:59:25.090
I, Stephen, the player, genuinely need a second

00:59:25.090 --> 00:59:28.570
to think about this. Listeners, you can't see

00:59:28.570 --> 00:59:31.670
this, but for about the last five minutes, the

00:59:31.670 --> 00:59:34.449
player Stephen has been sitting with his elbow

00:59:34.449 --> 00:59:39.079
on the table with This biggest excuse me pose.

00:59:39.440 --> 00:59:43.139
I am feeling sassy. Very much into it. It's such

00:59:43.139 --> 00:59:46.480
a Zebulon pose. You're like truly RPing in posture

00:59:46.480 --> 00:59:53.239
right now. You look very pesky. I feel like in

00:59:53.239 --> 00:59:56.280
the last 11 episodes, I can pretty quickly decide

00:59:56.280 --> 01:00:00.219
how is Zebulon going to react to this. I'm having

01:00:00.219 --> 01:00:02.820
a tough time right here. Okay, well, I guess

01:00:02.820 --> 01:00:05.480
you don't want to shake hands. She pulls her

01:00:05.480 --> 01:00:10.360
hand away. All right, all right. We'll take the

01:00:10.360 --> 01:00:11.980
flowers and we'll get out of here. All right,

01:00:11.980 --> 01:00:14.980
all right. All right, she gives each of us a

01:00:14.980 --> 01:00:17.960
glowing bouquet. Come on, come on, come on. I

01:00:17.960 --> 01:00:20.659
hope you have a pleasant evening. Oh, you too,

01:00:20.860 --> 01:00:26.119
honey. Yeah. All right, I just pull Zeb and Chester

01:00:26.119 --> 01:00:30.869
away. I liked her. Zebulon kicks the tent flap

01:00:30.869 --> 01:00:35.050
on his way out. The tent flap. She was nice,

01:00:35.070 --> 01:00:39.789
huh, Jules? Yeah, I think so. All right. So we're

01:00:39.789 --> 01:00:41.869
on to Granny Silk, huh? Got to get in those games.

01:00:45.110 --> 01:00:48.050
Relax, Zebulon. Hold on. You need to... And he's

01:00:48.050 --> 01:00:51.269
just... Zebulon's like shaking it off. We're

01:00:51.269 --> 01:00:53.449
on to bigger, better things. Let's go have fun.

01:00:53.590 --> 01:00:57.719
Let's go have a little fun. Fine. You pull the

01:00:57.719 --> 01:01:00.539
angry Zebulon away and move just a few stalls

01:01:00.539 --> 01:01:03.880
down to where you see this glowing worm, this

01:01:03.880 --> 01:01:07.619
glowing silkworm, over a tent just filled with

01:01:07.619 --> 01:01:11.500
just shells and shells and shells and hangers

01:01:11.500 --> 01:01:15.400
full of silk garments and curtains and whatever

01:01:15.400 --> 01:01:17.480
other luxuries you'd get. Sheets? I don't know.

01:01:18.219 --> 01:01:24.619
Does she have a hood and cloak? You do see a

01:01:24.619 --> 01:01:26.719
nice hood and cloak. What's your favorite color

01:01:26.719 --> 01:01:29.300
hood and cloak? Let's go blue and black. You

01:01:29.300 --> 01:01:31.559
see blue and black. Oh, shit. Almost matches

01:01:31.559 --> 01:01:35.739
your loot perfectly. It is beautiful. And it's

01:01:35.739 --> 01:01:40.320
only 150 gold. Goddamn. Yeah. When Zebulon walks

01:01:40.320 --> 01:01:43.139
in, he kind of adjusts his posture, puffs his

01:01:43.139 --> 01:01:45.760
chest out, holds his arms out a little bit, puts

01:01:45.760 --> 01:01:49.940
his chin up. He's Zeba. Why don't you go find

01:01:49.940 --> 01:01:53.570
all those penguins? Well, I think they... pretty

01:01:53.570 --> 01:01:57.329
well scattered around the night market here.

01:01:57.869 --> 01:02:01.809
I was trying to get some money for one, and you

01:02:01.809 --> 01:02:07.730
X -nayed on that. I defused a situation. I did

01:02:07.730 --> 01:02:15.710
not feel like that situation was defused! I was

01:02:15.710 --> 01:02:18.250
made fun of until we left! Whatever, I'll get

01:02:18.250 --> 01:02:20.869
another cloak sometime later. Can I help you,

01:02:20.909 --> 01:02:23.050
gentlemen? As you're kind of having this, like,

01:02:23.239 --> 01:02:25.480
sort of brief spat uh you say look over and there's

01:02:25.480 --> 01:02:29.300
this elderly uh sort of tan skin gnomish woman

01:02:29.300 --> 01:02:31.880
uh with her gray hair sort of pulled up in this

01:02:31.880 --> 01:02:35.159
almost spirally bun um wearing just a fine silk

01:02:35.159 --> 01:02:37.880
garment and she's taking you in with her uh spectacled

01:02:37.880 --> 01:02:44.239
eyes silk silk um i do so silk hello madam it's

01:02:44.239 --> 01:02:50.860
cold colt hello madam colt yes that is my name

01:02:51.789 --> 01:02:54.050
You aren't causing trouble in here, are you?

01:02:54.090 --> 01:02:59.309
Are you here to buy or here to lollygag? We're

01:02:59.309 --> 01:03:01.150
sent to you actually to see about joining these

01:03:01.150 --> 01:03:04.909
games. We're actually here to compete. Oh, and

01:03:04.909 --> 01:03:08.170
she takes a look at your loot. I have heard of

01:03:08.170 --> 01:03:15.650
you a lot. I'm his friend. I understand you have

01:03:15.650 --> 01:03:19.260
a desire to... Enter the games tonight. Yeah,

01:03:19.280 --> 01:03:23.760
we were excited to join in. Well, Rune saved

01:03:23.760 --> 01:03:27.760
a spot for us. Did he? He saved a spot for you.

01:03:28.820 --> 01:03:30.639
That's the reason we're here. She pulls a ledger

01:03:30.639 --> 01:03:32.599
out of her pocket. All right. And your names,

01:03:32.659 --> 01:03:34.679
then? Trying to remember the Haringon's name

01:03:34.679 --> 01:03:41.099
real hard. You know what? It's Ebulon. Oh. Oh.

01:03:41.260 --> 01:03:45.679
Oh. And you must be Jules, then. Yeah, that's

01:03:45.679 --> 01:03:51.659
me. Actually, yes, yes. I'm so sorry I didn't

01:03:51.659 --> 01:03:54.199
realize it was you were the ones Rune had sent,

01:03:54.320 --> 01:03:56.579
the first group. I'm going to do a quick aside

01:03:56.579 --> 01:03:59.960
to Zeb. We're actually on there. What the fuck?

01:04:00.179 --> 01:04:02.219
Well, yeah, he was going to send us here. Remember,

01:04:02.300 --> 01:04:05.440
we stole the stuff. Oh, yeah, you're right. I

01:04:05.440 --> 01:04:07.420
forget some things in previous episodes sometimes.

01:04:07.619 --> 01:04:10.000
Thanks for the reminder. I have a low intelligence,

01:04:10.059 --> 01:04:11.619
so I'm just going to pretend that you remember

01:04:11.619 --> 01:04:15.900
the whole time. Oh, yeah, I remember. Oh, good.

01:04:16.059 --> 01:04:19.159
Yeah, Rune sent this. Yeah, he did. Yeah. It's

01:04:19.159 --> 01:04:24.300
weird that you said it that way. So, and she,

01:04:24.320 --> 01:04:25.400
like, goes and, like, sort of knocks her up here.

01:04:25.539 --> 01:04:28.280
Uh -huh, uh -huh. And you must be one of the

01:04:28.280 --> 01:04:31.820
unknown extras that's coming in. And she points

01:04:31.820 --> 01:04:34.820
to Chester. Uh, yeah, yeah, that's me. I'm Chester.

01:04:35.239 --> 01:04:36.840
All right, Chester. I'll put your name down.

01:04:36.900 --> 01:04:38.860
And the other? Has the... Is supposed to be a

01:04:38.860 --> 01:04:43.699
team of four? Is on his way. Has the second group

01:04:43.699 --> 01:04:46.440
arrived yet? Oh, no, not that I've seen. No,

01:04:46.539 --> 01:04:50.940
no. Were there? I'm so embarrassed. I forgot.

01:04:51.199 --> 01:04:55.900
I forgot the guy's name. What was it? Something

01:04:55.900 --> 01:04:59.699
with a G or a J. Can you remind me? She gives

01:04:59.699 --> 01:05:03.320
you this kind of like shrewd smile and says,

01:05:03.619 --> 01:05:07.340
I'm not going to give you information on your

01:05:07.340 --> 01:05:09.539
competition tonight, if that's what you're asking.

01:05:09.800 --> 01:05:12.449
Well, I mean, they're... Friends of Rune's, aren't

01:05:12.449 --> 01:05:15.429
they? The second group? I suppose. It is strange.

01:05:15.489 --> 01:05:17.349
I don't know why Rune sent two different groups

01:05:17.349 --> 01:05:20.530
to compete. You were scheduled some time ago,

01:05:20.610 --> 01:05:24.789
but more recently he... Well, he paid quite a

01:05:24.789 --> 01:05:27.550
fine to get a second group in last minute as

01:05:27.550 --> 01:05:30.090
a competition. It's not normally done, but...

01:05:30.090 --> 01:05:32.570
You must understand that it's going to be really

01:05:32.570 --> 01:05:35.969
embarrassing when we see them again and we have

01:05:35.969 --> 01:05:42.000
to say, Oh, hey, buddy. Hey. Friends? How's life?

01:05:42.159 --> 01:05:45.840
How's your wife? I don't even remember their

01:05:45.840 --> 01:05:48.119
names. It's gonna get real awkward real fast.

01:05:48.820 --> 01:05:51.820
I'm just asking for a little help. Roll persuasion.

01:05:55.079 --> 01:06:01.000
Ooh. Eight. A little help indeed. You will see

01:06:01.000 --> 01:06:03.760
them when the time comes. I'm sure you'll find

01:06:03.760 --> 01:06:08.099
them around. They are, uh... Well, a few of them

01:06:08.099 --> 01:06:10.480
are quite famous. You'll know them by reputation,

01:06:10.719 --> 01:06:13.900
but I still think I should keep my lips sealed

01:06:13.900 --> 01:06:16.619
on the matter as the coordinator for the event.

01:06:16.679 --> 01:06:19.739
You understand? This is very honorable of you.

01:06:20.340 --> 01:06:24.980
Yes, it is. Are you going to buy anything? I

01:06:24.980 --> 01:06:29.340
don't think we can afford anything. Her eyes

01:06:29.340 --> 01:06:32.619
are kind of narrow. Do you have any keychains?

01:06:32.880 --> 01:06:37.300
Little odd for a room to send you with no money

01:06:37.300 --> 01:06:43.489
to the market. Rune's... Have you met Rune? Well,

01:06:43.590 --> 01:06:45.449
he grew up here. He was a boy in the market.

01:06:45.590 --> 01:06:49.030
I knew him as a child. Did you know him as a

01:06:49.030 --> 01:06:53.190
cheapskate? You, she narrows her hours deeply.

01:06:54.269 --> 01:06:58.130
I'd watch your tongue, half -dragon. Insulting

01:06:58.130 --> 01:07:01.849
our family is no way to become rare in the market.

01:07:02.190 --> 01:07:06.250
It's just our relationship, you know, we're jokers.

01:07:07.070 --> 01:07:11.400
He... He calls me little guy. I call him cheapskate.

01:07:11.780 --> 01:07:15.019
Big laughs. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. She's writing

01:07:15.019 --> 01:07:18.000
something down in her notebook. Well, the games

01:07:18.000 --> 01:07:21.260
are at 9, as you must know, in the center of

01:07:21.260 --> 01:07:24.860
the center stalls. So if you would come down,

01:07:24.940 --> 01:07:27.739
maybe at 8 .30, and we could get you prepped

01:07:27.739 --> 01:07:30.659
up and ready. It's going to be a very large public

01:07:30.659 --> 01:07:33.340
event. Quite the spectacle. You want to be on

01:07:33.340 --> 01:07:37.170
your game for it. Game, right. And how... How

01:07:37.170 --> 01:07:40.369
exactly should we prepare for? Well, just be

01:07:40.369 --> 01:07:41.869
ready to wow the crowd. Whatever you need to

01:07:41.869 --> 01:07:44.530
do. Look the part. And she kind of glances at

01:07:44.530 --> 01:07:46.369
you, Jules. I mean, you're looking pretty ratty.

01:07:46.730 --> 01:07:48.829
And kind of gives you like an eyebrow raise and

01:07:48.829 --> 01:07:50.389
looks at Chester and gives him a double eyebrow

01:07:50.389 --> 01:07:53.469
raise. Don't look at me. You got all this stuff

01:07:53.469 --> 01:07:57.269
here, but the price is too damn high. What do

01:07:57.269 --> 01:08:01.130
you expect me to do? Well. You got any seconds

01:08:01.130 --> 01:08:06.480
that you sell at a discounted price? Something

01:08:06.480 --> 01:08:08.159
that, I don't know, maybe the manufacturing wasn't

01:08:08.159 --> 01:08:11.920
perfect. Yeah, where's the equivalent of a fantasy

01:08:11.920 --> 01:08:14.699
thrift shop? She actually does kind of gesture,

01:08:14.860 --> 01:08:17.939
well, if you go to the polar opposite side of

01:08:17.939 --> 01:08:22.239
the market from here, you'll come across crazy

01:08:22.239 --> 01:08:25.439
doona downs, cloaks, capes, and curtains. Cheap

01:08:25.439 --> 01:08:28.479
and chipper. I hate the name. So when you're

01:08:28.479 --> 01:08:31.560
getting insulted, we just leave. But when I'm

01:08:31.560 --> 01:08:34.100
getting insulted, you and Chester really like

01:08:34.100 --> 01:08:42.220
the lady, huh? I mean, we can... Do you like

01:08:42.220 --> 01:08:45.859
her? I don't think she likes me, so... Thank

01:08:45.859 --> 01:08:48.460
you for your hospitality. I'll be seeing you

01:08:48.460 --> 01:08:51.760
later for the competition. 8 .30. I think you'll

01:08:51.760 --> 01:08:55.859
particularly enjoy the third game, as it is mine

01:08:55.859 --> 01:09:02.220
in creation. And it's a secret? Oh, yes. Okay.

01:09:04.619 --> 01:09:07.500
See you there. We're going to go somewhere else.

01:09:08.260 --> 01:09:11.140
And you guys leave the store? Yep. All right.

01:09:11.199 --> 01:09:13.039
So you guys step out of the stall. You go back

01:09:13.039 --> 01:09:15.319
into the hustle and bustle outside. As time's

01:09:15.319 --> 01:09:17.300
been moving, I mean, like, this place is getting

01:09:17.300 --> 01:09:20.659
more and more packed and crowded. You see more

01:09:20.659 --> 01:09:22.720
pangolins running across the path and people

01:09:22.720 --> 01:09:24.979
just, like, cheering every time. It's become

01:09:24.979 --> 01:09:26.819
almost a game to just, like, see how many pangolins

01:09:26.819 --> 01:09:29.140
you can count as they... as they wander around

01:09:29.140 --> 01:09:30.859
the market. You actually do see, as you're leaving

01:09:30.859 --> 01:09:32.539
Madame Culp's, you saw, like, in the corner,

01:09:32.600 --> 01:09:35.420
there was one pangolin all nestled into a nest

01:09:35.420 --> 01:09:38.579
of silk garments that just kind of, like, tore

01:09:38.579 --> 01:09:41.239
off the wall and turned into something right

01:09:41.239 --> 01:09:44.399
out of her sight line. He's chewing it up to

01:09:44.399 --> 01:09:49.000
make a little nest. Yeah, he's... As pangolins

01:09:49.000 --> 01:09:52.800
maybe do, who knows? Mysterious creatures. Science

01:09:52.800 --> 01:09:54.600
has yet to discover. Nobody knows anything about

01:09:54.600 --> 01:10:00.630
them. There's one panglologist listening to this.

01:10:00.710 --> 01:10:06.109
It's just like, actually, oh, I ought to. Pangolins

01:10:06.109 --> 01:10:10.670
roost in trees. Pangolins hang upside down like

01:10:10.670 --> 01:10:15.689
possums. And bats. Yeah, and bats. I thought

01:10:15.689 --> 01:10:20.229
you were going to go bats first. So pangolin

01:10:20.229 --> 01:10:25.329
guano is very valuable. So you guys are... There

01:10:25.329 --> 01:10:28.390
you go. We can make money then. Yeah. We could.

01:10:28.789 --> 01:10:30.449
That's the real farm. No, I got it tomorrow.

01:10:30.710 --> 01:10:34.350
We got endless amounts of money. So you guys

01:10:34.350 --> 01:10:37.930
start moving away and you're walking down the

01:10:37.930 --> 01:10:42.909
market square. Turn around a corner and faintly

01:10:42.909 --> 01:10:48.390
from somewhere in the distance you just kind

01:10:48.390 --> 01:10:52.939
of hear some kind of uproar. Just like... I told

01:10:52.939 --> 01:10:57.039
you this is no way to sell seafood. If you knew

01:10:57.039 --> 01:10:59.420
who I was and who my father was, you would understand

01:10:59.420 --> 01:11:02.520
that I truly can claim the title of Prince of

01:11:02.520 --> 01:11:04.819
Seafood. Thank you very much. And you know, and

01:11:04.819 --> 01:11:07.359
just like you're screaming and you hear echoing

01:11:07.359 --> 01:11:09.460
over from there. You just hear like, no, you

01:11:09.460 --> 01:11:12.260
have a good night, madam. In fact, have a bad

01:11:12.260 --> 01:11:17.150
night. I hope you slip on a fish and die. Who

01:11:17.150 --> 01:11:19.189
comes up with that stuff? You hear, like, people,

01:11:19.310 --> 01:11:21.970
ow, oh, ah. It's like a figure's pushing through

01:11:21.970 --> 01:11:25.149
a crowd. You see a group of people close to you,

01:11:25.170 --> 01:11:27.010
so they just get, like, pushed, you know, split

01:11:27.010 --> 01:11:32.250
inside. So that's how it's here. It's Cleft and

01:11:32.250 --> 01:11:36.829
Twain. Give me a second. Wait, what? That's what

01:11:36.829 --> 01:11:40.609
you were trying to say? You see a group of people

01:11:40.609 --> 01:11:44.670
gets pushed apart. There we go. This is Tortle.

01:11:46.000 --> 01:11:47.720
I didn't really describe this guy. Let me actually

01:11:47.720 --> 01:11:52.619
go a little into detail about him. You see this

01:11:52.619 --> 01:11:55.579
turtle with vibrant green scales decorated with

01:11:55.579 --> 01:11:57.600
flecks of yellow along his face and down the

01:11:57.600 --> 01:12:01.279
back of his neck. You see there's a banner kind

01:12:01.279 --> 01:12:04.720
of hanging off of his spear, actually. Like,

01:12:04.720 --> 01:12:06.319
he's got this full metal spear and the turtle

01:12:06.319 --> 01:12:07.779
tip of it has a banner hanging off of it. You

01:12:07.779 --> 01:12:11.130
see it's a banner of a golden... It basically

01:12:11.130 --> 01:12:13.890
kind of looks like these golden waves under a

01:12:13.890 --> 01:12:15.869
red sky with a black silhouette of a leaping

01:12:15.869 --> 01:12:20.069
fish. You see he's wearing this, like, red trousers

01:12:20.069 --> 01:12:22.850
and, like, these red gold -trimmed sleeves that

01:12:22.850 --> 01:12:24.329
are kind of connected by these, like, golden

01:12:24.329 --> 01:12:26.850
chains, but no actual, like, clothing because,

01:12:27.010 --> 01:12:28.449
you know, the shell sort of provides his main

01:12:28.449 --> 01:12:30.989
armor. So just kind of whatever he can do to

01:12:30.989 --> 01:12:33.069
cover his, you know, whatever's not covered by

01:12:33.069 --> 01:12:36.659
the scales and armor already. As this turtle

01:12:36.659 --> 01:12:38.380
pushes his way through the crowd and his sort

01:12:38.380 --> 01:12:41.859
of blue eyes take you in, they narrow, and he

01:12:41.859 --> 01:12:45.760
just smiles this haughty, confident smile, sort

01:12:45.760 --> 01:12:47.960
of plunges his spear into the dirt, looking you

01:12:47.960 --> 01:12:52.579
guys over and says, well, well, well, look what

01:12:52.579 --> 01:12:56.380
we have here. And we'll call it there.