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I'm off to honor the Covenant Gods of God's Breath
during the Awakening Festival. While I won't
be returning to God's Breath proper, I will spend
some time here in the Citadel in quiet prayer
and celebration. To those folks in the Town of
Promise, I wish y 'all an amazing festival. I
know times have been tough in the ribbon, and
I understand the fears that prey on each and
every heart in our land. Here's hoping that the
songs and stories of our world's history will
reach the ears of the covenant gods and remind
them of the people they once saved and left behind.
Keep singing God's breath, and someday the gods
will hear you. As for the rest of you folks out
there, I'll look forward to speaking with y 'all
again in a few days. Now I know tensions are
still high right now. especially in the wake
of the speaker's rarest announcement involving
the good people of Tithos. I'll pray for them,
too, that their souls may be erased. We'll be
back soon, good folks, to keep telling our stories
and to make sure none of those we lost are ever
truly forgotten. Do it. Yeah, do it! There it
is. Oh, shit, I didn't grab a can. What the heck?
Aren't you a thirsty boy? Stand by for two seconds,
guys. Talk. Banter. Banter. Banter. We'll cut
this. We finally had black garlic. Vamp. Hurry.
Vamp. Vamp. No, Cesar, we had black garlic. I
had it. Well, yeah, but don't you think Jeremy
wants to talk about black garlic too? He only
did his opinion. They've been waiting for my
opinion and mine alone. All right. Let's hear
it. It's all right. That's it. That's all I got.
Lame. So now three people are underwhelmed. Great.
Were you also underwhelmed? No, I'm underwhelmed
by your reaction. Oh. Yes, same. How do you not
absolutely fall in love with black garlic the
first time you have it? I mean, it was good.
I mean, like, I don't know. It was weird because
it's garlic. I don't like that garlic didn't
taste like garlic. It's quite a tasty treat.
It's all right. Yeah, it's good. It's good. It
tastes like a garlicky raisin. That's not a great
description. I don't want that. I don't sit there
at home in the fucking bubble bath and say, if
only I'd... garlicky raisin right how many bubble
baths have you taken as an adult i mean like
none that's the correct answer that's kind of
what i was i mean like i i don't fault anybody
who wants to take a bubble bath i just like the
the logistics of taking a bubble bath just don't
work for me it's so hard if i had like a big
jacuzzi tub that would be wonderful sure But,
I mean, being like 6 '3", 6 '4", trying to fit
in just a regular size, fuck, gross. It just
feels gross. Your knees are tapping the ceiling.
Yeah. And you're just sitting in your own filth,
too. Yeah, that, too. I mean, the counterpoint
I've heard is, like, you don't have to be dirty
to take a bath. You can just be like, you know,
even if I took a shower this morning, I don't
know, I'm just going to relax in the bubble bath
because I think it's nice. I personally don't
think it's nice. But you're also, you're also
a man that just accumulates filth constantly
on his body. Yeah. I mean, so I'm just, I should
just take baths every like six hours. Yeah. Or
I mean, just never at all. What's the point?
Might as well just quit while I'm ahead. Yeah.
Yeah. You know? Oh God. That was, that was it,
huh? That was banter. Yeah. You know, sometimes
you just. There you go, listeners. That's all
we got for today. See you next week. We'll call
it that. The black garlic we've been building
up for months. Yeah, it's been at least like
three episodes since the last time you said,
yeah, I'm going to bring black garlic next week.
Well, yeah, because I made it to give out as
Christmas gifts. It is now after Valentine's
Day. Well, when you hype something up for too
long. You know, I was so hyped. I had this impossible
dream in my mind that could not be lived up to.
So it's really your own fault for timeliness.
I mean, a lack of it. I thought it was pretty
good. Yeah. I thought it lived up to it just
fine. Yeah. I saw the black garlic and I was
like, oh my God. And then I spread that black
garlic on a piece of ciabatta bread, ate it,
and said. Oh, my God. So, Jeremy, get this. This
is for Jeremy. This is just for Jeremy, David.
You can take your headphones off or something
if you want. For Valentine's Day, I got the pasta
roller attachment for my KitchenAid mixer. Wow.
So, I actually, the day, yeah, it was Valentine's
Day I made. I don't know how this relates to
just me and not David. Well, I'm going to get
to it. So, I made ravioli, a nice thing to do
on Valentine's Day with my Valentine's Day gift.
Now, I still have some black garlic left over,
and I plan to make black garlic pasta with black
garlic in the pasta dough. Interesting. Yeah.
Interesting. Stay tuned. I will test that out
for you. Yeah. Absolutely. David, you're not
invited. Just kidding, buddy. Just kidding. Look,
it might come down to anosmia. That's fair. Yeah.
I have anosmia. I've never had a sense of smell.
So I don't really have – I think my tastes are
a little off, which is probably a strange feature
for a career cook. But, yeah. I might have told
Jeremy this, but this is the best way I could
describe it to anybody. I was having a conversation
with David one time about his asnosmia, and the
way he put it is that – Pepsi and Dr. Pepper
pretty much taste the same to you. They taste
like really good. There's sugar and fizz. I like
that. Interesting. So I think he gets the broad
strokes of flavor. Yeah, I think that's kind
of how it's been explained to me. Interesting.
Yeah. So with that, speaking of build up, we've
been building up this new arc for an entire episode
now, gentlemen. I think that people want to see
you leave the Citadel. Move on to something new
and exciting. What do you think? You ready for
that? Let's get off this gym. I mean, my cherry
delights are in peril, so I'm a little apprehensive.
Is that the right word? Yeah, remember how awful
the last episode ended? Yeah. Sorry, I just talked
over you the whole time there. Yes, I forgot
about that. That is a situation. And one that
if you want to do something about, you're going
to need to see this quest through. Because you
finally found someone that could potentially
reveal your footage to the world. Make you luminaries,
make you protected by the sort of mass population,
by the people. You'll basically no longer be
able to be like pulled down by the speakers for
the ancestors, by Sholay, by Cirilla. It's your
only chance. But the man who could show this
footage. needs bodyguards. And if he dies on
the world of God's breath and the events to come,
what happens then? Not only do you lose your
shot, perhaps your only shot, we also lose the
narrator of our story. So I guess you might as
well just shut the podcast down at that point.
I guess I'm not going to throw away my shot.
Steven doesn't get it. David does. I missed it.
I mean, I love it. Zoom. There's a sound of that
one going right over my head. Let me guess. Hold
on. Hold on. Let me guess. Oliver Twist. Nope.
Nope. It's Alexander Hamilton. There you go.
Okay. It's a line from Alexander Hamilton. And
now we get hit with copyright. Yeah, there you
go. I was in the right genre. That's true. We
discussed last time, and let's hit me with that
sirenscape just a little bit here. Ooh, yeah.
You know, the bird sounds are weird in retrospect,
because, like, you know what? There's trees.
There's birds. Why not? Why can't there be birds,
Steven? Yeah, why is there not life on the Radiant
Citadel? There is life. Damn it, Steven. Yeah.
You naysayer. So, you awaken there. The light
of the gem. sort of slowly begins to glow and
glow and glow until this sort of broad daylight
hits the great fossil upon which this city is
built. A city known as the Radiant Citadel, the
gateway between worlds. As you awaken, you realize
it's pretty early in the morning, probably around
7 o 'clock. And from what you heard, the jasper
gem that leaves for God's breath on this day
is going to leave around 8. Now, I will ask you
this. Is there anything you want to do here in
the ugly coyote before taking off towards the
conquered passage of respite? I mean, we get
up at 7 and it leaves at 8. I need at least an
hour and a half, two hours to get ready. I see
you wake up earlier than that. All right, we
wake up at 6. Jules is going to take his morning
poop for two hours. Scroll Twitter. I just Googled
what a Jasper gemstone looks like, and I'm pretty
sure I had one of these as a kid. They're pretty
cool. They're very cool. A blue one, specifically.
I think this one, when I was looking at it, I
saw red. That's what I was thinking. It's red
Jasper. There was a slight translucence to the
last two gemstones you went on. This one does
not have that. It's a solid, solid stone. There
are a few of those out there. It's really cool.
You're seeing these things constantly orbiting
the Citadel in the slow movement, these different
colored, brilliant gemstones that are stadium
-sized. They're always in orbit. It's kind of
amazing. It's what you see as stars in the midst
of this ethereal fog that always surrounds the
great diamond upon which the city is built. That's
pretty sweet. It's really cool. That's really
cool. It's a really, really cool idea. The blue
ones are better. Well, too bad. This is a red
one. As far as the game goes, Zebulon's just
waiting up for Jules. Okay. Yeah, I think Jules
just comes down the stairs just slowly. You know,
not really a whole lot of emotion on his face.
Just kind of ready to get down to business. Zebulon's
watching him wordlessly. I guess he's just kind
of waiting to see. how Jules is doing. He doesn't
want to pester him, but he's obviously concerned.
Yeah, I mean, I think Jules is just open to doing
what we're doing. You know, I don't think it's
something that Zebulon really needs to worry
about too much. He's just ready to do what we've
got to do. Jules, do you need a hand with anything
this morning? No, I'm doing all right. I'm doing
all right. I think, uh... Just ready to get this
done. Before we leave, Jules, um... There was
something... I've been... I've been thinking
about it. Is it okay if I ask you... Ask you
a question? Yeah, of course, Ev. Of course. What
do you... What do you know about... Demons? David,
what do I know about demons? Huh. I guess it
comes down to how much you want to reveal. You
know this. Your parents were a part of some large
organization, and they were somewhere near the
top of this organization. You know this group
was known as the Cult of the Fractured Horn?
Yes. They worship a particular demon, one that
we actually have mentioned long before on this
show, but never by name. This demon is known
as Zolmante Shab. It is the horned demon that
once did battle with Atash in the land of Ankaran
Sengar and was sealed away. The greatest foe
of the greatest luminary. And he is an idol to
your parents. It is from him that your mother
receives her dark magic. And it is him that they
were trying to give you to. through all these
occult rituals you spent growing up. You suspect...
Like as a sacrifice? You're not sure entirely
what their intentions were. You just remember
all the different rituals they made you go through.
You remember the darkness, the voices, that one
roaring voice in particular. A voice that I think
you may wonder if it was Zomateshab. Open your
eyes. The other day, you and Shelley were talking
about demons like you talk about roles. I only
know about one, Zeb. And we better pray we never
meet him. It's nothing but evil. Nothing but
death. Nothing but power. I mean, we're out here
dealing with, you know, brigands and bad guys
and the worst that... Mankind has to offer, but...
You ain't seen the worst yet. You're not even
talking about mankind. This is... That's a whole
new level. That's... That's pretty scary. Yeah,
it is. As much as I hate to think about it, I
think somewhere down the road we might have to
face them. That's what we're really wrapped up
in? Yeah. That's... That's reality. Huh. I'm...
I'm not going to force you to continue with me,
but... I guess this is quite the unexpected obstacle,
but... We've gotten through some tough times
already, so... I guess let's keep it rolling?
Thick and thin. We'll cross that bridge when
we get to it. How many more sayings can we come
up with? David, take it away. You see Chester
just like, I feel a hand pressed down your shoulders
at Milan. I'm somewhere way above. And Chester
just says, attaboy, Zeb. I'm going to like this
guy more and more every day, Jules. I think we're
all one big family now. I think as you mentioned
family, maybe like Chester and you both kind
of look around. See Fibro in the corner is still
reading like he has been. Actually, at this point,
I think he finally fell asleep, so he's just
snoring on a book on a table in the corner, just
softly snoring in his own corner here. You also
hear another voice snoring very loudly and deeply
from the back row as it's suddenly cut off as
Ader is forced awake by a very angry Jeans, who's
just like, Ader, I told you, no more of this
sleeping past 10 o 'clock business. Up now. You
want to run a business? Got to get going in the
morning, all right? Come on, come on. Oh, come
on. I was up late again, and this ain't fair.
It's like I'm arguing. The door opens up, and
a bleary -eyed aider just steps out, trying to,
like, don an apron. As he steps out, you see
Mulligan's over there, apron already tied, ready
to go, hands washed and drying in the air as
he's excited. Just begin cooking again. Begin
his prep for a new day. He wants to learn some
new dishes. You see the cherry delights, and
they're just getting along fine. I mean, there's
definitely this lingering despair around them
always, but they do have something to do now,
something to work towards, and they're doubling
down on it. And that's kind of the way I want
it to stay. Let them take care of the other coyote,
and we're going to go out, and we're going to
fix it. We're going to take care of this. And
when it comes to doubling down, I think you also
see a very eager Chester. Eyes burning, staying
beside you. Arrow slung on his back. He's just
ready to go, whatever comes. You know, I told
you before, you weaponize Jules. When you weaponize
Jules, you weaponize Chester. Hell yeah. Oh,
I love it. I think you guys hear a knock at the
door. Or, no, it's a saloon door. The saloon
door. No one knocks. The door's open. Who is
it? You see Lady Dre, in quotes, steps in. You
remember this broad shoulder, sort of husky woman
with a sort of loose, colorful, God's breath
dress. Big straw hat that you recognize anywhere.
Steps in the room and just says, Well, hi there,
folks. Y 'all ready to go? Sorry I knocked. I
forgot I was saloon door for some reason. That's
okay. It was polite. Yes, Mr. A, I'm ready to
go. All right, and hang on. So, she reveals his
usual tone. Orange looks you over. So, I got
a little trouble. I just received word that I
think I'll be all right to get through. I got
my hat and all that. No one really knows about
my alter ego, right? Even the ones high up. Kept
a good secret here. And Jules, I think you might
be okay. I got a rip for you, got a rip for Chester
here. But, Zebulon, I have a rip for you. But
they're looking for you. It'll be tough getting
you by. Oh, geez. Now, I don't know if we have
some means of sneaking you on. I can't give up
my high disguise. I need to stay incognito myself,
but... Well, it just so happens. Yeah. What?
Hey, yeah, Jules can do a thing. I can do a thing.
Do a thing. And that thing is called... Invisibility.
Invisibility. We remember. I just paused David
because I said that and you looked like genuinely
confused. Like, wait, what? There's something
you could do? I was playing the character. I
was playing the character. Okay. I can make Zeb
invisible. All right. That'll work. Sneak him
on. I can't believe they're going to do that
to me. I can't believe they're going to. Actually,
let me just make sure that I didn't expend it.
Oh, no, I took a long rest anyway, so it's okay.
You don't have it for later in the day, but you'll
use it now, and that should be. I think Oren's
just nodding. Well, yeah, that'll work. Should
have trusted you all to have something up your
sleeves. As he's kind of like turning towards
the door, you see Aiders as part of his sort
of morning routine is sort of getting that crystal.
He's like he goes up to his crystal projector.
You know, the diamond still, I think he pulls
out of his pocket, he has a little diamond chip,
he slides into the slot in the back to sort of
project an image. He sort of slaps it a few times
and sparks to life on the wall. You guys see
this happening and decide, you and your tester
kind of go, hey, Jules, Zab, look at that. We
know that fellow, right? And you all turn towards
the image now projected on this sort of screen
sort of dropped on the back wall of the room.
And roll the video feed. Audio feed. The Morning
Jewel is filmed in front of a live studio audience.
We hear this voice ring out. And we are once
again staring at a room with luxurious sort of
fuchsia furniture. There's a small sort of table
set out in the middle. There's a singular large
sofa. where a dwarven woman in luxurious fuchsia
robes matching the set sits with a long pipe
resting at the edge of her lips. We see two other
chairs on the other side of this table, and we
see two, well, one familiar figure and a new
character sitting on the other side. And first
of all, Eamon Rath, it's been a little while.
Ah, yes. Let's talk about what you look like
again. Ah, yes. Well, let's begin with my illustrious
top knife. Yes. It is the crown jewel of the
Wrath family. Everybody must have the top knot
from top to bottom. So yes, I have the top knot.
And then from there, I go down to my coat, which
is made out of Silver Hills leather, which is
the best leather in the world. Yes, it's amazing.
Very, very fine. And then from there, I have
my little wooden shield, which I use because,
again, I need to move fast for this. large bulky
frame. But, yeah. And then I have this massive
long sword, which I use. It's not quite... What
is the word there? Oh, I forget the word of the
sword that knocks down legs of horses. What is
it? The claymore. Yes, a claymore. So, yes, yes,
yes. Oh, yes, yes, yes. It's similar, but it's
a little bit shorter. Yes, yes. So, yes. Here
I am. And I do have something new, which... You
may not be familiar with, but I want to get into
that later. I really dove into culture while
I was in my Sapsanko day. It's a long story,
but we will touch upon it. But I have some additions
to my top -notch, actually. Oh my god, yes! I
love this. I should state here for the listening
audience that while Stephen and Jeremy unfortunately
can't join me in voice, they are here laughing
their asses off with their headphones on listening.
So it's just important to know. And so we see
Ananath sitting there in his chair, and just
beside him we see a new character. Mike, would
you describe your character for us? I would describe
my character as nondescript. My hair is neither
long nor short. I would say that mostly I blend
in. I would say I'm neither muscular nor doughy.
I would say I'm neither tall nor short. It's
critical that I blend in and I do not draw attention
to myself. I have basic leather. Yes. Taking
after the wrath. Yes, and I would say that my
garments are primarily focused on hidden pockets.
I have a lot of tools. I have a lot of weapons,
particularly daggers, that I hide in my pockets.
Hell yeah, I... I love this image of Eamon the
Wrath just so over the top with his bald head
and white topknot and long coat and big sword.
And then next to him is just this really nondescript
figure. It's just like night and day. But it
works oh so well. Either handsome or ugly. That's
how I prefer my co -creators. Let me see on the
other side of the table. Fubo Mei, the dwarven
woman with her long black raven locks, takes
a dragmire pipe and blows it out very soulfully
and turns towards the camera staring at her and
just says, Welcome to the morning, Jewel. We
start our days off brilliantly. Well, folks,
I've got myself two handsome men in the studio
today. Luminary, I'm going to wrath this back.
And he brought his new sidekick. Sorry, your
name again? It's Pink. Please don't call me handsome.
Handsome and humble. I love it. I love it. May
I just say, he sounds like somebody from a familiar
podcast that I listen to. But I would not. I
would not go there. And actually, for anyone
who doesn't know, we already touched on Stomp,
who joined us in the show earlier on, as a podcast.
It is the Sounds Like a Search and Rescue podcast.
And we got lucky enough for his co -host, Mike,
to join us as well. We got the full package here
tonight, folks. We're going places. Yeah, we
are so grateful you guys got to join us for this.
It's always a good time. So if we may just kind
of... Alright, next section I drag, and then...
Now, Mr. Emin Rath, enough with the foreplay.
What with this talk of poachers and some sunko,
huh? Well, I just want to let everybody know
that you may be familiar with the sad events
of the night market, where I just disappeared
out of the blue. Well, I must tell you that I've
been more or less resting at the edge of the
town. Resting, keeping an eye on my two newfound
allies, Zeb and Jules. But from a distance, because
I had other things to do, I had to look for the
big old Ojo. And don't ask me to say his full
name, because there's just too much to talk about
tonight. So, yes, I was there, daily, living
in a yurt on the edge of town, resting, keeping
an eye on these people. And at night, I would
imbibe in the culture and the craft of the night
market. But during the day, I would explore the
dense jungle of Sub -Sunko. Excuse me. I burped
a little bit. So, yes. Your question was in regards
to the people of the dense vegetation in the
forest. This is a troubling, troubling event.
So I must tell you what I discovered. Must we
go there? Who? Well, the people want to know.
Emendrath, it's been the talk of the town. The
talk of all the world's towns. I'll tell you,
people are real excited about what you're up
to. And I'm guessing it's on some sunker that
you met this tasty creature, huh? Yes, yes. That's
true. That's true. Yes, absolutely. Again, I
would go out for daily expeditions trying to
find the Big O. As you know, as a young child,
I was abducted from the Silver Hills and I was
trained in the ways of the Citadel. And I was
called out again to find the Big O who has since
vanished after an unfortunate event. So during
my reconnaissance, that's reconnaissance, I stumbled
upon... A thick section of vegetation. And I
was unfortunately ambushed by unseen group of
adversaries. Hidden by thick forest. Yes, yes,
yes. Hidden by thick floor of forest. I quickly
learned, as you mentioned, that this group was
a fierce band of poachers and smugglers. Loathed
by the good folk of Sbsanko. With a little more
reconnaissance. Their name, I found out, to be...
The Snake Eaters. The Snake Eaters? Why, I've
heard of the Snake Eaters. They cross all the
worlds, don't they? From what I understand, yes,
they do, yes. Their trade? Regional subsanctifona.
Yes. Can you say that three times fast? Regional
subsanctifona. Regional subsanctifona. Regional
subsanctifona. Which is highly valid throughout
the realm. So, yes, I was ambushed. Amazing.
I'm sorry to ambush your comments, but I was
ambushed myself. And that's where I met my new
protoday, Bink, which is here next to me. And
I can't thank him enough for saving me because
the snakeages deal in terrible... Terrible poisons.
Terrible craft. Poison, you say? Yes. Very deadly
poison. Yes, and I think you're very lucky to
have met me because I have a particular set of
skills. Yes, do tell, do tell, do tell. Well,
you see. Please, please. So my background is
that of somebody who knows the insides and the
outsides of the jungle as well as the town. Because
I have a particular focus on obtaining goods
as needed. And I also will sometimes help people
out if they're dealing with snake eaters. Yes.
And... All right, yeah, first it sounded mighty
suspicious, but now that you're talking about
helping people out, it sounds a little better.
Well, I mean, I wouldn't say that I was doing
it as a way to be nice. Eamonrath happens to
have a lot of valuable possessions on him, and...
Initially, my thought was that I may abscond
with some of those. Yes, yes. Honey, we are broadcasting
this to a live audience. I just want to make
sure you have that. I have to say, I have been
checking my pockets recently. Just in case. It's
a love -hate relationship. But with all... Gotta
hit those R's hard, huh? But with all new relationships...
You must be cautious until you become familiar.
Yeah. Yeah. Well, I would say that I've sort
of given up on my current life and the circumstances
that have happened that caused me to have to
sort of change my alliances and friendships.
And I thought that it would be a good idea to
sort of move forward and get in with him and
see what he's got going on. So, so far it's been
a mixed... mixed bag right now. Hmm. What do
you mean by that, my friend? Well, I'm waiting
to get rich. Listen, I know it's been a little
tight in the hammock, but is there more to it
than the tightness of the hammock? Well, I think
that's one of the issues, is that I'm not a hammock
person. I'm a tent person. Ah, yes, yes, I see.
Well, when you're in the jungle, you must do
what you must do. But, again... I thank you for
everything you've done for me. And tell everybody
what you're doing now. Are you joining me? Are
you learning the ways of the Citadel? I am joining
you, and I'm learning the ways, and I'm also
teaching you the ways of the Dagger and Sleight
of Hand. Yes, yes, which is very tricky, very
tricky. Yes, it is. Yes, very tricky. Yes. A
trade of skills, that's very exciting. Yes, well,
they will come in handy because, you know, my
skills, his skills will come in very, very good
use because we are on a new mission. Our original
mission is to find the big O, the big O. But
now we must continue to infiltrate, disband these
so -called snake eaters, okay? Yes, that's what
our mission is now, moving forward. Right. And
Bink cannot throw. By trying to teach him how
to throw a dagger, he throws... I don't know.
How would you say you throw? Bink? Or Emin Roth?
Emin Roth. I'm not used to the dagger. I'm used
to the sword and the shield. And rolling on the
ground when I need to, to avoid other daggers
and things. But I've never thrown them. I've
been on the receiving end of them. Which is tough.
That sucks being on the receiving end of a dagger.
Well, there's nothing wrong with knowing your
way around a big weapon, am I right? Yes, true,
true. Yes, yes. That's what big men are all about.
What kind of discussion is this? Hopefully it's
explicitly rated. Yes, yes, yes. Anyway. Uwe
just winks at you from across the table. So you
mentioned this deadly poison, huh? Yes, and apparently
it's derived from rattlesnake venom. Can you
believe this? Rattlesnake venom. Likely. Rattlesnake?
Yes, yes, yes, which is very hard to find. I
mean, you have to dig deep. They do not come
out into the air or the... upper ground of subsancto
they stay deep deep deep so you have to go deep
and you find the snakes and you get the venom
and like oh hold on hold on hold on hold on i'm
an expert in poisoning so i'm trying to explain
something to you okay okay i'm sorry i'm getting
carried away do you know that you do not need
to find snake poison I did not know that. Because
I know how to make poison out of plants. Oh,
damn. Really? Yes, I'm an expert poisoner. I
see, I see. So we can actually find some plants.
Do you know what kind of plants we can find to
get poison? No. Take a guess. We probably shouldn't
tell the whole wide world how to make poison.
Seems like a really dangerous topic. Well, everybody
should know how to make poison. Yeah. What if
you need to kill somebody? My show might get
shut down. There's one twist to this story that
I must mention. They have intertwined the venom
from Subsanko from venom from elsewhere, and
the venom that they have intertwined, very much
like a strange DNA thing, is from the world of
God's Breath. Rattlesnake venom from God's Breath,
you say? Yes. So that... I see. So you're thinking
this might be where these snake eaters may be
working from? At least another arm of this organization?
Yes. This may very well expand beyond Sipsanko
and broaden out to the greater realm. So we shall
see. But that is our mission at the moment. Wow.
So any of you folks watching from God's breath,
you watch out for poachers in your jungles or
your forests, whatever you have here. And, uh...
Yeah, be careful. Sorry. Damn it, Jeremy. Oh,
my gosh. Now... Wait, wait, just have stretches,
stretches out. Another drag, a pipe, and a...
Now, I have one last question for you both before
we go to break. And I really hate to ruin our
fun with talk of tragedy, but the people will
be wondering. Just last night, the speakers for
the Ancestors have acted on the will of the Incarnates,
and finally made the heartbreaking decision to
declare the deaths of all those lost on Tythos.
This, of course, includes the very man you were
searching for, the primary suspect behind these
terrible events, your former mentor, Hojin Yoshikatsu.
Do you - I have not heard this. Tell me, do you
feel he's truly dead and gone? This is new to
me. Again, I've been in my yurt world, and I
have not had access to communications with the
Citadel on a regular basis. This is impossible.
Impossible. It's a travesty. I do not understand.
I will have to reserve judgment. It could be
an opportunity. It's too soon, Bink. Too soon.
Sorry. There's some suspicious talk happening
on my show. Before any more crimes are committed,
we should probably cut to commercial, but thank
you both so much for coming on. You're very welcome.
It's always good to see you, fool. Thank you
for welcoming me. Oh, anytime, darling. Anytime.
Thank you so much. And we're back. We zoom out
from this image, and you guys just watched. Goofiness
ensues. Goofiness. That was awesome. It was a
lot of fun. Or in her early days, shaking her
head, just like, that show gets more off the
rails every day. Dad, I'm in wrath. It's been
busy. Excuse me, I'm in wrath. Yeah, Joel, it's
just, I'm in wrath. Wrath. I got it now. I got
it. I promised I won't fuck it up again. And
how about that bank guy? Yeah. Where'd he come
from? I don't know. This guy just came out of
nowhere. Yeah. I don't know. It's kind of impressive,
to be honest. I like his style of humor. Or Lady
Dress is kind of staring. I don't like the mention
of God's breath there. Poachers in the rattle.
That's where they find the rattlesnakes, at least.
Makes you wonder. Well, yeah, that's why it's
named that way. Like the poison. Oh, okay. Yeah.
I get it now. Yeah. Well, it shouldn't matter
to us. We'll be skipping through quickly. Yeah,
nothing to worry about. I'm sure we'll be real
safe. You actually see Chester's staring out.
His eyes are still locked on the screen, though
now it's just playing an ad for Marfil Ironworks.
It's a mighty pig man on the screen, just like,
buy a mafia! Just some silly... Chester's staring
out with this sort of somber look to him. What's
up, Chester? Huh? What's up? What's up? Did you
hear that, Jules? I did. They declared them dead.
I didn't know. Everyone? I mean, I guess I figured,
but... I know when you actually hear it, when
you actually face to face with it, it's different.
I hadn't really, I don't know, processed? I hadn't
really thought about it. It's so much been going
on. It's all happened so fast. I know. Trust
me, I feel it too. But we got to keep moving
forward, okay? Yeah. This is not going to end
unless we keep moving forward. For everyone.
Everyone we lost. For everyone. He pushes his
bow up a little tighter on his shoulder. He stands
a little taller. And his eyes, looking almost
close to breaking into tears, just immediately
harden. The warrior's eyes. He gives you a nod
and turns towards the door. Zebulon's also looking,
you know, really forlorn. They skipped right
over the part. About how to make poison out of
plants. That could have been so useful. Your
names were also mentioned very briefly and never
touched on. It was like so close, but so far
away. Well, yeah, that's right. You did mention
this. Yeah, but like just Zeb. So like no one
would really know, which I love. He said my nickname.
He said my nickname. The saloon door bursts open
again. You see a panting Jean Franklin. Sorry,
I overslept. My bed was too comfortable. Oh,
man, and here I thought we were going to have
to go wake you up manually. At the pale moonlight,
it was too comfortable and clean. I find that
very hot to believe. That's because you're an
idiot. Now let's go. Sorry, did you say cold
and inhospitable? So I take it your group heads
out? Yeah, I think so. Do you sleep? Of course.
Okay. The other two step forward. I think Jean's
actually stored in the back of the room. And
she's kind of looking at you. She's still angry.
I'm going to fix this, okay? She glances. Her
gaze turns from you. She looks over at Chester.
Then back at you. No one else, Jules. We lose
no one else. You understand? We're losing. No
one. She nods, just keeps her eyes locked on
you, and then finally, almost ashamedly, looks
down towards the floor. Mulligan just has to
feed you. Uh, so, uh, pretty good food on God's
breath. Don't worry, we'll bring some back for
you. Oh boy, alright. I mean, an eater can make
pretty much anything here. It's a specialty,
but still, you know, authentic Godsworth cuisine.
Yeah, we gotcha. Oh, alright. Don't worry. Fibro
snoring in the corner and Lady Dre just turns.
All right now. Hang on. All right now. Ready
to go, sugar? I'm ready. I'm ready, Spice. Thanks
for the concern, Jeans. You work your way. Door
opens and closes. Ader waves you a good goodbye.
Um, so there's a few passing words with, with,
uh, Lady Dre and you're back out in the streets.
What are those few passing words? You don't hear
them. You're too far away. Can I roll? Damn it.
Perception. Yeah, you can roll perception. 14.
Uh, as you're kind of moving away, you just kind
of hear from the back of the room where, uh,
where the two guys are speaking. Just like, No,
no, yeah, I'm sure about them. Don't you worry,
they're tough. They'll get you through. And,
hey Dre, just, it just ain't their problem, you
know? Hang on, sorry. Just ain't their problem.
I'd hate to see them get mixed up in something
bad. But, I like them fine. They're good folk.
I'll do what I can to make sure they get back
alright. Yeah, Oren, yeah. And, uh, take care
of yourself, too. I don't like the look in your
eye. Okay, I'm satisfied. They almost break away
from each other then. All right, I'll let you
off the hook now. Thank you. Thank you so much.
You monster. You guys step out into the streets
of the Citadel. You begin to work your way up
the trade disc all once more. Much happier mirror
of a scene from a few days ago. And as your party
just works around the crowd, people just running
around cheering and applauding and just having
a great old time. It's always a good time here
on the Radiant Citadel. You up the coil, up the
coil around two times, and you hit just around
where the Passes of Respa is. What's up, Steve
Elm? Before we get too close, Jules, do you want
to do the... And Zebulon makes, like, hand motions
trying to somehow. Jeremy, the player, is very
confused right now. Talking about invisibility.
Oh, okay. Zebulon's thinking that he's maybe
being watched as soon as they leave the ugly
coyote. Okay, so, yeah. All right, so, yeah,
as we leave the saloon doors. Let's go into this
shop over here. All right, let's go take a peek.
Yeah, let's go do a little shopping before we
leave. I ain't got some gold, but I think you
got some less, so let's go. Yeah, exactly. All
right, let's go. And what shop are we going into,
David? There's a shop of fine zing dishes, like
china, fine china. Perfect. Yeah, and you go
in there, and there's all sorts of flowery, beautiful.
Yeah, I mean, there's no one in here because
nobody wants that. So we're going to act like
we're looking at the shelves. Oh, my gosh, customers.
Oh, my goodness. Look that way. Look that way.
I have customers? What's that? What's that? Look,
there's a bull. What? What's that? God, why would
you go? What's that? What is that? What is that?
Look that way. Roll me a check. A persuasion
check. Hold on. There's an old lady here. I clearly
gave the help action. Fine. Take the help action
for the bull comment. Okay. Look away. What's
that? What'd you get? I got a 20. 30 -20. Oh,
what? Oh. And I poke Zeb. When she turns around,
Zeb goes invisible. Turns around. Oh, no. I lost
a customer again. Sorry. He had to go take a
poop. Oh. It happens every time. You're going
to buy anything? I just wanted to look, just
window shopping. And then the bell on the door
jingles as Zebulon leaves the store. What the
hell? You guys leave. Thank you, bye. Oh, God.
This is quite exquisite. Oh, sorry, we have to
go. You guys all leave. Zebulon is no longer
with you. You can see, but you know his presence
is lingering just behind or in front somewhere
as you continue your way up. Now. Actually, as
you're reaching, you're passing the Palace of
Exile, you do see a number of shield bearers.
They almost like clock jewels, and they kind
of look eyes sort of narrowed. I kind of move
my hood a little more over my face. But their
eyes are looking past you and around, scanning,
and they seem to relax when they don't see a
certain half -dragon with you. Did we just mechanically
do a right thing? Holy shit. And you see one
more thing, too. You're reaching the Passage
of Respite, which is like you see this kind of
stairs leading down to that sort of open, almost
like U -shaped crest of a fossil, like the head
of this ancient creature, whatever it may be,
where the gems will move in to be docked on.
And as you're moving down the steps into that
last spot, you see... Both of you, I'll say,
with your passive perception, see a very familiar
figure standing off to the side of the stairs,
still holding that bad arm. I didn't mention
it in the last few episodes, but one arm is still
totally dead. Everything Arhalon did was this
non -primary arm, just throwing people around.
But you see Arhalon just standing and watching
people moving by. Zebulon, you know your brother.
I don't think you even need to roll to see just
how tired he looks. I mean, you've never seen
him so deflated, so small. His shield -bearer
armor seems to not fit him at all right now.
There's something about his posture. He's just
standing, and he's watching everyone that passes
by in the crowd, his eyes sort of wide and wild.
But he does not see you. And I think, honestly,
actually, let me ask you, Jules, are you going
to, like, try to keep yourself? I mean, you clock
him from far away. You could have the option
of kind of pushing to the other side into the
crowd to get around him. Is that something you
want to do? Your cloak's already up over your
head, you said. Yeah, I think I'm going to try
to avoid his gaze. Okay. I don't think I'm going
to go through any extreme measures to do so.
Okay. I mean, I have a writ. Yeah. And I'm with
people that, he has not seen before. Yeah. I
mean, I'm not worried about anything with Arhan
seeing me, but I would just rather him not at
this moment. And you're still one amongst many
right now, so it's pretty easy for you to tuck
behind some folks, behind a large crowd. You
move past him. You see him just still scanning
eyes, crossing every person, moving back and
forth. He looks like he's like... holding himself
up on a sort of post beside him. Almost like
he can barely stand on his own. And you move
down the steps as the Jasper comes to dock. We'll
skip the line business this time unless you guys
want to have an extended roleplay scene in line
again. No, we're good? Alright, great. I guess
it depends on who we see in the line. You see
nobody. Any interesting hairstyles? No, so you
move forward. Actually, I should state, we did
have that earlier scene. We actually had intended
to potentially bring in our friends from Sounds
Like a Search and Rescue podcast here. Technicalities
didn't really work out, so we decided to go for
a little cameo instead, and hopefully we can
get them in soon. No promises, but... Yeah. We're
trying. You unfortunately do not see Bink and
Eminem in this line as you begin to board the
Jasper. As you reach the top, it's all very,
very by the book. I think, like, Sabian, you
sneak by. Go ahead and roll a stealth check for
the hell of it. Oh, great. Yeah, this couldn't
go terribly wrong at all. Why does he need to
roll a stealth check? Because it's funny. If
he fails. There's no reason. He's fucking invisible.
All right. Well, that's definitely a pass. That's
a... Twenty -seven? Twenty -six? You have the
best seat already on the jewel. You are already
on it. You're comfortable. You're like the first
person on. Just get right by the line. As you
step on jewels, like the hand of the man in white
kind of letting everyone aboard sort of reaches
out just like, Oh, excuse me. I don't believe
you. And then Leia Dre's just like, I want to
take a look at this, honey. And he just snatches
a paper out of her hand, reads over it. Eyebrows
raised. Please, after you, sir. Thank you. He's
staring very quizzically like, Do you mean ma
'am? Talking to Jules. I knew he was talking
to me. After you as well, ma 'am. Ma 'am. So
you guys all board the jam. Take your seats.
for the sake of sound effects. You can see the
gem begin to rise out from the plaza as everyone's
boarded. Everything's secured. All the carts
and everything going to Promise for the Awakening
Festival is all ready and set in the middle stage
of this great stadium Jasper Jewel. Begins to
rise from its place. Reaches about 500 feet away
from the Seattle proper and then... A flash of
light spreading out from the walls, overtaking
your vision. And you are somewhere new. As a
jewel descends down in the... Yes! The gem walls
spread open. You look out. and you're basically
resting at the top, you have another one of those
small, like, stages, sort of stone stages set
up for the jewel to sort of come down on, a big
sort of ramp leading up to the door, and everyone
starts to funnel down, funnel off. I think you
guys were pretty early on, so you guys all climb
down slowly amongst the crowd that spreads out
around you and starts moving down a sort of dusty
trail, moving down the hill. Despite the fact
there's a great festival here, there's not as
many people as you'd expect coming to God's Breath.
It's, uh, it's not. as full as you'd think it
would be. You're, like, looking, you're standing
at the top of this hill, looking down amongst
many other rolling hills around. Leidre steps
down. You know, actually, before I get to this,
before we get to the meat of this, I want to
bring up one thing. It's something I've been
meaning to bring up for a while now, and I just
keep nerfing the time, never really works out,
but I think it's kind of important. I'll be quick.
A while back, maybe, like, 12 episodes ago, I
gave an inaccurate description of the way the
book portrays these worlds. Misunderstanding
on my part, because in the book, they're not
necessarily worlds. They're simply various civilizations
that could take place in the same world or a
few of them on the same world, some on different
worlds. It's very kind of up to interpretation,
but there's basically just various civilizations
connected via this, and the distance between
them physically could be whatever. I had the
impression it was all just different worlds,
and so I made some complaints about the sizes
of these worlds relative to what I think they
should have been. From my perspective for this
story, they are separate worlds. And they are
essentially separate demi -planes, you would
say. Each world essentially exists on sort of
a plane. Not really a round sort of world. We're
flat earthers here, I guess. Yeah, so the Earth
is flat. Of course. God's worth is flat. And
I will not take an argument. Basically, these
sort of flat planes extend out in every direction,
almost in a giant circle. And every world follows
the same pattern. And at the edge of these planes,
you see like an ethereal mist, much like that,
that covers the ethereal plane where the diamond
is from, where you guys just came from, borders
each world. So it just kind of, each world sort
of vanishes into the ethereal plane. Traveling
beyond that point, you'll just kind of get lost
and no one really does. It's very dangerous to
move past the borders of each world. So interesting.
God's breath is flat and gems spray us. Yeah.
It's pretty good. If you weren't maxed out on
buttons, you might have gotten one right now.
Oh, shit. There's a max? There's three. Unless
Jeremy sings, apparently. Then you get four.
You fucked that up. I did. I did. I just didn't
say anything. But yeah, so each world's a flat
circular plane vanishing into ethereal mists
at its edges, fading into the ethereal plane
that lingers between all worlds. That's all I
want to say. My interpretation, not the book's
interpretation. I was wrong. Sorry, writers.
You guys are amazing. Keep it up. So. Where'd
the music go? There it is. Keep it in. Yes. Patience,
Jeremy. Patience. As you step down, Lady Dre
just turns back to you. Now, now. Let me give
you all the tour. And she kind of spreads her
arms out in front of her. And you look down over
these verdant rolling hills with large expanses
covered in uniform lines of farmland. There are
a number of these patches you see where there's
no green to be seen. Just the brown of broken,
dead soil. Fences run between barns and houses
that dot these hills. It's a few of the closest
dwellings you see that look worse for wear. Possibly
abandoned. Just like spreading out here and there
on these hilltops. And Leydre just says, This
here's the ribbon. And, oh, that way's Nightwater
Cove. You see a short ways to the south of where
you stand. There's a large bay. Nearly closed
in by a ring of land and a few islands that spread
out across the water. In the midst of this, you
see colorful buildings are dotting these islands,
seemingly raised on stilts high above the water.
While beautiful in the shimmering light of the
sun, there's this off -putting darkness to the
cove's water. At the furthest point you can see,
it nearly looks like an inky, inky black. I'll
say, like, to everything you see around you,
there's this strange feeling to all of it. And
this is coming from an arachnophobe here. But
I'll say that God's breath, it feels akin to
looking at a fresh spider web glinting with morning
dew. It's also so raw and natural in its beauty.
But there's this lingering feeling of something
ever -present. Some creeping dread. A predator
in the shadows. Just out of sight. Waiting. Somewhere
far at the edge of your vision you can see, like,
woods and fog. And that, that there is promise.
Laidra, I just brace you from this thought, this
reverie, pointing down at a town resting just
a short ways from you. It'd be like a half mile
right at sort of the edge of that bay. Festival
merriment, music, and a constant low singing
echo up to greet your ears. This sort of rough,
various sort of cuts, different songs sort of
blending together in this. You can't make out
the words, but you find this sort of united,
many voices sort of gathering together in some
beautiful, beautiful song. Though rustic and
simple in appearance, Promise looks to be more
city than town at this point. While its buildings
are relatively small, few looking to be larger
than two stories, there are a great, great many
of them. You see dirt roads between buildings
packed with moving, dancing, chattering figures,
horses trotting between them, pulling wagons
down the larger thoroughfares. You see colorful
cloths and banners running along every roof,
window, and balcony. A large wooden fence circles
all this activity with gaps here and there to
allow entrance. And you also see there's an open
plaza on the town's northeastern edge and along
the edge of the Nightwater River that cuts across
Promise and runs into the nearby cove. A mess
of colorful carts and celebrating figures can
be seen resting in this plaza. And it's from
here that the majority of the sounds of festivities
seem to resonate. You can see a choir of godsfolk
singing in low tones, their voices mingling into
a constant, rhythmic thumb. So I, uh, I take
it you guys are heading that way as related to
a sort of gesture like, Well, I don't know where
Kiana's at. As you know, she kept a secret, but...
I'm known to the people around here. They think
I'm an off -worlds merchant. So, uh, I'm a little
popular. Not like Orin is. I can ask around.
Well, I suppose we should, um, follow your lead.
Yeah, you're, uh, you're the one that knows this
place. Well, alrighty then. Enjoy the festivities.
I want to get down. I'll start asking around
town, see what I can find out. You guys just
enjoy yourselves. I'll find you. Okay. Don't
worry. We'll just go off on our own and explore
this new world. And you guys begin to move down
the hill. It's a short walk, and I think as you
get closer and closer, the singing gets louder
and louder. You can start making out words. It's
like snippets of song, talking about various
little stories. It sounds like stories of people
who had lived here, people who still live here,
stories of the land's history, told in small
songs that kind of combine together to create
this larger, full song that encompasses everything
that's ever happened in the world of God's Breath.
Lady Dre kind of looks back. Oh yeah, I should
probably explain. This here is what's called
the Awakening Song. Kind of the whole point of
the festival. We all sing about our collective
history together. Sort of answering each other
song for song and telling our story so the gods
may hear it. And hopefully return. Remembering
what they left behind. It sounds futile, I know,
but... Well, I love a good story. Every place
has got their traditions. I don't judge. And,
uh, you guys push down towards the town? As you
get closer even more, the smells of roast rabbit
and hog, hominy, rice and gravy, and corn -prone
greets your noses. Oh, it's amazing. You can
see figures in colorful attire dancing around
every corner. And Lady's Ray finally reaches
the gates of town and looks back. Now I got some
gone tax in town I'm going to go speak to. Like
I said, y 'all enjoy yourselves and don't worry.
You're going to stand out pretty well. I'll find
you just fine. All right, we'll see you around
then. on the tip of her straw hat. She whips
her out and turns away. You see people go, some
people in the corner, Lady Dre, yeah! Lady Dre,
yeah, how you doing? Hey, Lady Dre. People are
just so excited. And she's just running around,
giving hugs, high fives, and just moving away
from you. And you stand at the gate of promise,
these great sorts of wooden buildings staying
in front of you, or two stories or so, not great,
but many, many buildings, many people. You are
staring at just like this crowded, crowded thoroughfare.
A lot of the smells and singing are resonating
to you from an area to the east of where you
stand as you're moving in from the south, where
just sort of pretty close to the front of the
town, there's an open plaza that you saw from
above that a lot of the festivities are mostly
focused on. Well, I guess we should probably
head to the center here. As well, I'm down to
experience the local culture. Lady Dre said that
we should explore. What do you think, Chester?
Oh, yeah. This is awesome. Does anyone care what
I think? Because this place looks... All right,
fine, fine, fine. Yes, let's go. Sure. He doesn't
push them through town. I think, like, the locals
are... You know that the people of God's Breath
are not... entirely happy with the situation
with the Citadel. They don't like the idea of
this sort of centralized government sort of uniting
all their worlds. They're very, very fiercely
independent. That being said, they love to show
off their home and culture to anyone coming to
buy. And I think as I see you, there's a lot
of just, yeah, hey, how you doing? Come on, hey,
come here, come here. A lot of high fives and
just like, people are just weirdly friendly,
super friendly. Oh, hey, hey. What's going on?
Hey. As you kind of get closer to the plaza,
suddenly a little girl in a pink dress just dances
in your way. Excuse me. Would y 'all like a dolly?
What? Y 'all want a dolly? And she kind of reaches
out and she's got these little straw dolls. And
she almost pulls up a little... crate beside
her. She kind of reaches down and sort of drags
it down the middle of the road. People are like,
hey, hey, moving around her. And she starts pulling
up these small straw figurines of various, like,
looks like God's folk dressed up in their sort
of local attire. Sure, yeah. I'll take a few.
Y 'all want one of yourself? I can make one of
you. Oh, well, that would be swell. Seven cup
of pieces and I'll make it and you can come back.
That sounds great to me. Yeah, let's call it
a deal. Alright, y 'all want one too? Yeah, we'll
take one. I'll take one and one to Chester here,
too. She's just up and down. All right, yeah,
I can do that. And you know what? You know what?
Fuck it. I'll chip in for John Franklin here,
too. One for each of us. Yeah. I don't need a
dollar. Well, you're going to get it. All right,
fine. Yes, yes. He's like looking around with
this absolute distaste at everything he's seen
around him. Just, ugh, ugh, ugh. Come on, John.
You smell that food. It's terrible. Just give
it a shot. Everyone's friendly to you. Everyone
who sees John Franklin gives him a wide berth.
He just puts off this very off -putting air,
especially to these friendly locals. He just
does not want to be there. Wait, he puts off
or off -puts? Nah. Zebulon slaps him on the shoulder.
You know, John, we're going to have a lot easier
of a time if you just relax a little. Look at
them. There's culture all around. All of this.
It's so rich. No, no, no. I'm rich. I knew that
that's where that was going the instant you said
it. These people are clearly the opposite of
rich. That's why they're here in this backwaterville.
But it doesn't matter. We're here for a purpose.
You know, just because it's not your culture
doesn't mean it's not just as meaningful. You
could learn something from these people. I think
before we leave this world, you're going to get
into this place. You're going to like it just
a little bit. His arms are folded looking at
you, just like, well, we'll see about that. And
you guys continue to move as you step just a
little farther beyond the girl. I think she exchanged
her name. She says, as you're going like, oh,
my name's Hannah, by the way. If y 'all want
to find me, I'll be right here, okay? Thanks,
Hannah. Have fun. And you move away, you move
into this great sort of open plaza where you
see like down to the south, there's this open
stage. You see a number of people dressed in
these similar sort of purple garbs are singing.
This is constant different songs, but they sort
of mingle together note by note. Just an actual,
well, everyone in the town is singing these snippets.
These people seem like they're the official kind
of choir of the Awakening Festival, kind of in
this nonstop thrum of just singing, singing,
singing. As you make out the words, you hear
more and more little micro -stories of different
people who were and are, and maybe even stories
of people growing up and what they might do in
this crazy world. I'm not even sure how these
stories are chosen, how these songs are made,
but it's really quite something. You're standing
there just looking around at all this, all these
people just like so delighted and excited, and
I'd like you to make a perception check. And
you may make one for your... Both of us? Yes,
everyone. Sidekicks included. Chester doesn't
have a bonus to perception, right? It's just
flat. No, he does. He has a plus two. Okay. Actually,
he has a plus four. Oh shit, so he had a 30 -20.
Okay, great. Jules got a 13. 13. 19 on the die,
so 18 for Zebulon. And 17 for Jean. Okay. So
actually, Jules, you're taking in all these sights.
I imagine the song is really kind of drawing
you in. And you don't really notice this, but
as you're looking around, I think Zebulon, Jean
Franklin, and Chester's eyes all kind of fall
on something a little off -putting. You see,
amongst all these folk dancing and running and
just... generally just cheering and having a
great time, there's a few folks who are just
standing still. Weirdly still. And it's this
that makes them stand out from the crowds. They
look to be God's folk like the rest, with their
dark skin and curly, sort of dark, or either
dark brown or black hair. But their leather armor
and hunting gear distinguish them from the farmers
and villagers abound. You see that their belts
are lined with knives and holding sheathed scimitars.
You see bows and quivers hanging from their backs,
much like Chester's. And you see that their garments
are torn and dirty over their armor. Standing
still amongst the moving, bustling crowd, heads
down, and straw hats covering their faces. They
could be scarecrows. Unmoving and silent. They
stand at the edge of this plaza, just beside
a rather... Strange wagon carriage. Large. Block
-shaped. Heavily reinforced. The kind of wagon
one might use to store dangerous cattle. Or something
worse. Jules excluded. You guys do anything?
Um... I feel like Zebulon probably notices that
Jules is looking in the other direction and he
sharply follows him. Jules, hey. What? What do
you think? What do you think's up with those
guys over there? The hell? It just... Something
doesn't look right. No, something's definitely
not right. Is anybody else around us? A ton of
people are around you. People are constantly
moving between you and them, so you're kind of
losing them for a second and seeing them again.
Still unmoving. Does anybody else around us seem
to notice? You start to see people stop and look
kind of quizzically at them here and there. A
lot of people are just caught up in the reverie,
and they're not... really seeing everything around
them, but there are a few that stop and there's
some whispers behind you. I will say you see
one man kind of like looking sort of concerned,
just starts to move towards them. I think as
he moves towards them, Jules is going to kind
of start wrapping around back. Okay. Just kind
of slowly walking, kind of getting a different
angle. All right, so you're moving kind of around
the back of the wagon, basically? Yes, it's still
wide. Moving towards the edge of the plaza in
a wide arc. Yeah, like I said, just more kind
of getting a different angle on it. I'm going
to say Chester's going to see you, clock you,
and start moving along with you. He's got his
bow. He doesn't draw it because he doesn't want
to look overly malicious here, but he's got his
hands on it as he's moving around beside you.
Zebulon, what are you doing? My initial thought
was to be a little more confrontational, but
seeing Jules and Chester go off into the background,
I also think Zebulon's going to find a place
to hide behind a barrel or a bush or something
and just watch and wait. We don't know this world.
We don't know these people. Yeah. You guys start
to move away and jump right in. What? What? What
are they upsetting you? Just say something. Excuse
me. You there. Excuse me. You walked away. Fucking
Christ. And he begins to march up towards them.
You see the other guy that's walking kind of
stops and looks over at him. Kind of like picks
a step back. Letting Jean -Francois take the
lead. As he kind of moves right up towards these
figures. I call foul, David. I call foul. You
can always count on Jean to forward the story.
Everyone walked away for him. I had to do something.
He gets about halfway to them, and as he's yelling,
you do see, finally, some reaction. You see their
eyes as their heads snap up. You see eyes that
are filled with blood that just can't seem to
spill out. Instead, it just seems to swirl and
churn in place. Jules, You were moving behind
this thing, and you and Chester both noticed
something else at the same time, something very
disturbing. You noticed that the bar locking
the back of the wagon has already been removed.
And just as you see this, the men, sort of standing
at the wagon's side, open their mouths in unison,
just let out this bestial war cry. One of them
takes the scimitar. from its sheath and begins
to smack at the back of the wagon hard, rapidly,
hacking. The crowd around you suddenly just goes
quiet, plunging into silence. The choir stops
singing. Everyone's eyes suddenly turn towards
this moment, this scene. And as the singing stops,
you all watch as the wagon door drops open, pushed
by some force inside. And in the new quiet, you
hear a sound. The folks around you begin to break
away and scream. It's a gigantic, 30 -foot -long
rattlesnake slithers out of its confinement,
its ravenous eyes falling first on Jean Franklin.
And it hisses. And we'll call it there! I have
a song as well, actually. Do you want to know
the song? It's a beautiful... Absolutely. All
the world's want to know the song. It's a beautiful
Sipsango folk song that I memorized during my
time there. Now, there's two parts, so it's very,
very simple. I must have everybody participate.
So, your part is... Oh, oh, oh, oh. Okay. Can
you do that? Can you repeat after me? I can do
that. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Yeah? Let me hear it. Okay,
one more time with the motion. Okay, perfect.
Now, stop. Now, ready? Here comes the song. Here
we go. So... That's the folk song. It's just
wonderful. That's the whole song. Yes, it's culture.