WEBVTT 00:00:02.160 --> 00:00:04.099 Hey friends, it's Jeremy. If you're enjoying 00:00:04.099 --> 00:00:06.240 the show and having fun, I'd like to ask for 00:00:06.240 --> 00:00:08.359 a brief moment of your time to leave us a rating 00:00:08.359 --> 00:00:10.740 and review on whatever platform you're listening 00:00:10.740 --> 00:00:13.779 on. And for the latest Fantasy Pants news, updates, 00:00:13.980 --> 00:00:16.519 and other random shit, be sure to check out our 00:00:16.519 --> 00:01:02.320 Instagram at FantasyPantsPod. Pursuit of good 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:06.079 lady as he faded to night. One wagon stopped 00:01:06.079 --> 00:01:09.319 dead to show a picture most foul. But it corpse 00:01:09.319 --> 00:01:14.560 of her mount in the sound of a howl. Die coyotes 00:01:14.560 --> 00:01:18.180 did come. Malzica for meat. Though the hunt would 00:01:18.180 --> 00:01:22.180 soon end in a bitter defeat. One coyote ran free. 00:01:22.359 --> 00:01:25.319 One horse torn to shreds. And hand ripped from 00:01:25.319 --> 00:01:30.280 stomach of a beast that lay dead. And it strung. 00:01:31.600 --> 00:01:41.420 Oh, it struck. It struck fucking hard. Oh, yeah. 00:01:41.939 --> 00:01:47.120 Good evening, New Hampshire! How you doing? How 00:01:47.120 --> 00:01:51.319 we doing? I'm doing all right. All right. Not 00:01:51.319 --> 00:01:54.079 as great as you're doing, apparently. I'm the 00:01:54.079 --> 00:01:57.219 third rock star. I'm feeling amazing. Uh -oh. 00:01:57.480 --> 00:01:59.599 Uh -oh, I had a second rock star. My wife's listening. 00:01:59.920 --> 00:02:01.640 Second rock star. There was two of them. Get 00:02:01.640 --> 00:02:07.340 God. Ouch. Get God. Uh -oh. Uh -oh. I'm feeling 00:02:07.340 --> 00:02:09.680 great. I'm feeling amazing. I'm feeling absolutely 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:12.439 terrific. I'm not feeling that great. That's 00:02:12.439 --> 00:02:13.659 a shame, because we're going to have a good night. 00:02:13.699 --> 00:02:16.319 We're going to have a fun, fun night here at 00:02:16.319 --> 00:02:19.240 Fancy Pants Studios. But before we get to that, 00:02:19.340 --> 00:02:21.400 I have a correction I have to make. And maybe, 00:02:21.500 --> 00:02:23.900 just maybe, Jeremy's about to have a little bit 00:02:23.900 --> 00:02:26.219 better of a night, because... Maybe. Is this 00:02:26.219 --> 00:02:28.620 a wedgie? This is a wedgie. It's a wedgie. I 00:02:28.620 --> 00:02:30.000 have a couple wedgies. Let me touch on one real 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:33.740 fast. It's a small one. Last combat. Basically, 00:02:33.780 --> 00:02:35.520 because you guys have taken a long time, my notes 00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:37.680 had planned for the coyote battle to happen around, 00:02:37.819 --> 00:02:40.939 you know, sort of later in the day. Setting sun, 00:02:41.139 --> 00:02:43.599 all that. It's going to keep full light. The 00:02:43.599 --> 00:02:45.139 fight ended up happening at night under moonlight. 00:02:45.139 --> 00:02:46.919 I kind of forgot to put that in my notes because 00:02:46.919 --> 00:02:49.719 it was sort of an on -the -fly change. And I 00:02:49.719 --> 00:02:54.099 should have rolled for, you know, obscurity. 00:02:55.460 --> 00:03:00.099 What's the fucking word? Dim light. So you had 00:03:00.099 --> 00:03:03.199 a hard time with range attacks and they got sort 00:03:03.199 --> 00:03:07.199 of far away. But hey, no worries. Because there 00:03:07.199 --> 00:03:08.840 wasn't a lot of range attacks. All the ones that 00:03:08.840 --> 00:03:10.819 happened were very close. And we established 00:03:10.819 --> 00:03:13.240 there was very, very solid, strong moonlight 00:03:13.240 --> 00:03:16.479 piercing the fog surrounding you. And I think 00:03:16.479 --> 00:03:19.159 that's just fine. Okay, so that's just a little. 00:03:19.979 --> 00:03:22.740 Little one, little one. Here's the big one. Here's 00:03:22.740 --> 00:03:26.180 a big mama -jama wedgie. It is huge. Yeah, we 00:03:26.180 --> 00:03:27.939 talked about this before, but you've got to let 00:03:27.939 --> 00:03:30.060 the listeners know this shit. This is wild. This 00:03:30.060 --> 00:03:34.259 is absolutely insane. Listeners. Sit down and 00:03:34.259 --> 00:03:35.740 hold on to your panties. Take a seat. Hold on 00:03:35.740 --> 00:03:36.919 to your pants. Jeremy, are you going to give 00:03:36.919 --> 00:03:38.780 us a big wedgie? Yeah, he's got to say it first. 00:03:39.159 --> 00:03:40.900 All right, all right. He's got to say it first, 00:03:40.960 --> 00:03:42.759 and then the wedgie is the reaction. We opened 00:03:42.759 --> 00:03:46.300 the last session on Letterkenny v. Friends, and 00:03:46.300 --> 00:03:49.969 I made a particular quote. Jeremy attributed 00:03:49.969 --> 00:03:53.370 that quote to Ross and I corrected him falsely 00:03:53.370 --> 00:03:56.530 saying it was Chandler. The quote itself was 00:03:56.530 --> 00:04:00.210 actually Ross mimicking Chandler. And so I got 00:04:00.210 --> 00:04:06.229 to give Jeremy a button. Oh my God. If you don't 00:04:06.229 --> 00:04:08.129 want it, fine. I'll keep the button. I'll take 00:04:08.129 --> 00:04:10.490 the button. No, I'll keep it. It's cool. My ass 00:04:10.490 --> 00:04:12.889 just hurts real bad. You dropped it. No, there 00:04:12.889 --> 00:04:16.600 it is. Oh, my God. Hold right to you. Thank you 00:04:16.600 --> 00:04:18.699 for the button. I'm going to use that to buy 00:04:18.699 --> 00:04:22.319 new underwear. Man, I could give less of a fuck. 00:04:25.899 --> 00:04:28.399 Hey, I got a button in dire times now, so I'm 00:04:28.399 --> 00:04:30.120 okay with it. I appreciate the button. I appreciate 00:04:30.120 --> 00:04:32.899 the button. I mean, I do wish we'd get more buttons 00:04:32.899 --> 00:04:37.939 for more relevant things. It's a fair system. 00:04:38.060 --> 00:04:40.079 Basically, you just kind of do something that 00:04:40.079 --> 00:04:43.040 pleases me or that I decide is proper, and then 00:04:43.040 --> 00:04:45.230 they give you a button. Perfectly fair, unbiased. 00:04:45.370 --> 00:04:52.250 Dance, Joker, dance. Yes, yes. Anything else 00:04:52.250 --> 00:04:53.550 to touch on, or do you want to just dive right 00:04:53.550 --> 00:04:57.310 into the death of Jules LaRoche? As long as we 00:04:57.310 --> 00:04:59.170 don't have to talk about friends anymore. Yeah. 00:04:59.449 --> 00:05:01.310 Yeah, well, let's go die. I'm good. I'd rather 00:05:01.310 --> 00:05:03.509 die. I could spend an hour telling you how wrong 00:05:03.509 --> 00:05:06.329 you are. I would rather die. Yeah. All right, 00:05:06.329 --> 00:05:08.930 then. Great. Well, let's get to it, then. Let's 00:05:08.930 --> 00:05:14.199 get right to it. Let me get that sirenscape going. 00:05:17.279 --> 00:05:21.420 Oh, jeez. You stand here amidst corpses. Two 00:05:21.420 --> 00:05:24.740 bloody horse corpses lying around gnawed to the 00:05:24.740 --> 00:05:31.800 bone. Two coyotes cut and torn, dropped. And 00:05:31.800 --> 00:05:34.040 as you stand here, as Chester screams, you see 00:05:34.040 --> 00:05:36.000 one of these stomachs, one of these coyotes' 00:05:36.100 --> 00:05:40.899 stomach starts to writhe. Wet sounds. Sorry, 00:05:40.980 --> 00:05:44.660 listeners. As you see fingers tear through a 00:05:44.660 --> 00:05:47.860 sort of cut, slit part of the stomach of this 00:05:47.860 --> 00:05:53.420 beast. And a hand leaps out, covered in blood 00:05:53.420 --> 00:05:56.100 and ichor, and goes to strike. And I want a quick 00:05:56.100 --> 00:06:00.339 initiative roll. Did you just say ickies? Ichor. 00:06:00.500 --> 00:06:04.319 What's ichor? Ichor, ichor. Ichor. I'm not familiar 00:06:04.319 --> 00:06:06.899 with this term. I think it's like gross, black, 00:06:06.939 --> 00:06:10.000 sticky stuff. Oh, okay. Okay. I mean, I'm not 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:14.240 Miriam Webster, but... I rolled good. Goddamn. 00:06:16.600 --> 00:06:18.779 You want to go first, Jeremy? No, because I'm 00:06:18.779 --> 00:06:20.379 going last. You can roll for Chester and John 00:06:20.379 --> 00:06:22.319 Franklin as well, by the way. Yeah, I got to 00:06:22.319 --> 00:06:26.839 pull up John Franklin. Zeb got a 22. Okay. Jules 00:06:26.839 --> 00:06:33.439 got a 4. Chester got a 19. 17 for John. So all 00:06:33.439 --> 00:06:34.920 of you kill this thing before it gets to me, 00:06:34.939 --> 00:06:37.800 please. Yeah, I'm sure it'll be a one round. 00:06:38.060 --> 00:06:41.100 Yeah. You see this to make Rip open. He sees 00:06:41.100 --> 00:06:43.319 his hand just immediately, as the fingers come 00:06:43.319 --> 00:06:47.579 free, just launches with a force, slooping out 00:06:47.579 --> 00:06:51.860 of the body right towards Jules. And with my 00:06:51.860 --> 00:06:57.579 21 initiative, only Zebulon is fast enough to 00:06:57.579 --> 00:07:00.959 slide in and have a turn before I land a hit. 00:07:01.220 --> 00:07:03.480 You see this thing flying, but Zebulon, you are 00:07:03.480 --> 00:07:06.759 fast. You've got those instincts. Only issue 00:07:06.759 --> 00:07:08.980 is I don't have my laptop tonight, so I don't 00:07:08.980 --> 00:07:11.399 have roll 20 up. You don't need it. Theater of 00:07:11.399 --> 00:07:14.959 the mind, baby. Okay. We got this. There's a 00:07:14.959 --> 00:07:17.060 stomach, there's a hand, there's a Jules, there's 00:07:17.060 --> 00:07:18.860 a Zebulon. We don't need anything else. Let it 00:07:18.860 --> 00:07:23.600 all fade away. So, I don't know who's next to 00:07:23.600 --> 00:07:26.459 me or if I'm next to anybody. Everyone is basically 00:07:26.459 --> 00:07:28.660 surrounding at this point. I think, like, you're 00:07:28.660 --> 00:07:30.240 staying next to Jules, and the hand is right 00:07:30.240 --> 00:07:31.819 in front of Jules, launching at him. Gotcha. 00:07:31.899 --> 00:07:34.199 So we're talking... Sneak attack. Sean Franklin 00:07:34.199 --> 00:07:36.160 is right beside you. Chester is right beside 00:07:36.160 --> 00:07:37.920 Jules. The four of you are lined up in front 00:07:37.920 --> 00:07:41.040 of this body as it erupts, basically. All right. 00:07:41.959 --> 00:07:45.660 Yeah. Then Zeb's going to take a swing at this 00:07:45.660 --> 00:07:48.819 guy, at this hand. Hopefully land some sneak 00:07:48.819 --> 00:07:50.259 attack damage. All right. Give me that attack. 00:07:53.720 --> 00:07:58.439 First swing is just a nine. Just a nine. Will 00:07:58.439 --> 00:08:01.360 not hit. It's too quick. Go for the other hand. 00:08:03.880 --> 00:08:09.139 That's 21. That will hit. All right. Two swords 00:08:09.139 --> 00:08:11.360 go out. First one misses. Second one connects. 00:08:12.259 --> 00:08:16.639 And since I'm five feet from Jules, I get my 00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:19.279 2d6 for sneak attack. Yeah, you caught this thing 00:08:19.279 --> 00:08:20.639 in the air off guard. Give me that sneak attack. 00:08:21.540 --> 00:08:26.300 This feels weird. Yeah, something's odd. And 00:08:26.300 --> 00:08:29.379 it's just a detached hand? It's literally just 00:08:29.379 --> 00:08:33.210 a hand. Looks like a human hand. And you can't 00:08:33.210 --> 00:08:34.950 see a lot of it because it's so covered in just 00:08:34.950 --> 00:08:37.950 like blood from ripping out. It's not out yet? 00:08:38.350 --> 00:08:41.169 No, it's out. But it's a hand on its own, severed 00:08:41.169 --> 00:08:46.269 at the wrist, launching out. What? Yeah. That's 00:08:46.269 --> 00:08:49.350 a really bad roll. That's a two and a three and 00:08:49.350 --> 00:08:53.230 a one. That's nine. With a nine, this thing's 00:08:53.230 --> 00:08:55.529 launching out towards Jules. Your blade hits 00:08:55.529 --> 00:09:01.419 it and cleanly severs through. Fingers. disappearing. 00:09:01.419 --> 00:09:05.000 Not disappearing. Slingers falling apart. Landing 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:08.899 in the mud all around. No blood. The sand is... 00:09:08.899 --> 00:09:11.740 How much HP did it have? Because what it meant 00:09:11.740 --> 00:09:16.320 to say was six. Still. Okay. You hit this thing 00:09:16.320 --> 00:09:18.320 with this attack, and even though you feel like 00:09:18.320 --> 00:09:21.419 you didn't connect very strongly, it was enough 00:09:21.419 --> 00:09:24.879 to just obliterate the singular hand. The fuck 00:09:24.879 --> 00:09:29.019 was that? Did you guys just see that? And Zeb's 00:09:29.019 --> 00:09:32.419 standing with one of his swords pointed at the 00:09:32.419 --> 00:09:35.799 body that it came out of. He's not letting his 00:09:35.799 --> 00:09:38.080 guard down yet. You're watching the fingers that 00:09:38.080 --> 00:09:40.039 came off the sort of main part of the hand of 00:09:40.039 --> 00:09:42.320 the ground start twitching. The hand still has 00:09:42.320 --> 00:09:44.539 a thumb on it, and it's like twitching, twitching. 00:09:44.879 --> 00:09:46.759 And then slowly the twitching starts to stop 00:09:46.759 --> 00:09:51.679 and slow, and it settles. I think Jules is still 00:09:51.679 --> 00:09:55.179 on the ground just... And then he's going to 00:09:55.179 --> 00:09:58.470 kick the hand, kick what's left of it. Fuck you. 00:09:59.629 --> 00:10:03.230 Holy shit. Jules, hey, hey, you okay? Hey, hey. 00:10:04.669 --> 00:10:06.710 Chester's grabbing onto you, just kind of trying 00:10:06.710 --> 00:10:10.529 to steady you. The fuck was that? John Franklin's 00:10:10.529 --> 00:10:12.889 poking at it with the back of his polearm, his 00:10:12.889 --> 00:10:17.269 spear, and he's just staring down. Indeed. What 00:10:17.269 --> 00:10:20.809 the fuck? Thompson, did you see that, Thompson? 00:10:21.870 --> 00:10:23.549 At this point, I'll say Thompson's just getting 00:10:23.549 --> 00:10:25.990 the horses under control, jumping off, and... 00:10:26.379 --> 00:10:30.659 Running your way. Just like, I didn't... What 00:10:30.659 --> 00:10:35.940 the hell? I see. It's worse than I thought. Oh, 00:10:35.960 --> 00:10:38.879 hang on a sec. Worse than you thought? What did 00:10:38.879 --> 00:10:41.460 you think? Tungsten, before answering, basically 00:10:41.460 --> 00:10:47.440 reaches over and puts a hand out on Jules. Just 00:10:47.440 --> 00:10:49.340 hold still, alright? And I'm going to cast... 00:10:49.340 --> 00:10:52.659 What are you doing? I'm going to cast Cure Wounds. 00:10:52.980 --> 00:10:56.240 Hey -o. Oh. Thank you, Tungsten. No reason for 00:10:56.240 --> 00:10:57.700 pulling up Sacred Flame instead of Cure Wounds, 00:10:57.720 --> 00:10:59.480 which is not helpful to me at all. Don't cast 00:10:59.480 --> 00:11:01.240 Sacred Flame on Jules. I'm going to cast Sacred 00:11:01.240 --> 00:11:06.100 Flame on Jules. Make a dex save. Well, that's 00:11:06.100 --> 00:11:09.100 six points of healing on you. Okay, that's something. 00:11:09.820 --> 00:11:13.379 Now, I can do two more if anyone needs it. Zab, 00:11:13.379 --> 00:11:18.139 you all right? Yeah, I'm somewhere around halfway. 00:11:18.259 --> 00:11:22.100 I guess I could use a little top off if you don't 00:11:22.100 --> 00:11:26.190 mind. They reach out. Ooh, way better. That is 00:11:26.190 --> 00:11:29.870 actually 10 points. Oh, damn. Damn. That's excellent 00:11:29.870 --> 00:11:32.450 for me. Chester didn't get hit, so Chester doesn't 00:11:32.450 --> 00:11:34.830 need anything. All right. I don't think so. I'd 00:11:34.830 --> 00:11:36.769 have to double -check. If John Franklin doesn't 00:11:36.769 --> 00:11:38.669 need it, I would be happy to take the other one. 00:11:38.950 --> 00:11:41.850 Oh, yeah, that's fine. John's at 13 out of 24. 00:11:41.990 --> 00:11:45.070 What are you at? 7 out of 14. Okay, yeah. Yeah, 00:11:45.210 --> 00:11:46.850 Jules looks worse, so, again, Tungsten reaches 00:11:46.850 --> 00:11:51.450 out. A warm light pulses through you, and that's 00:11:51.450 --> 00:11:54.860 going to be another 7 on Jules. All right, I'm 00:11:54.860 --> 00:11:59.480 full. So, David, should I roll an investigation? 00:11:59.679 --> 00:12:04.139 Should I roll medicine on this weird, creepy, 00:12:04.200 --> 00:12:07.500 dead zombie hand? This would actually fall under 00:12:07.500 --> 00:12:13.200 religion. Huh, just as bad. I'm curious to know 00:12:13.200 --> 00:12:16.919 what Tungsten has to say about this. What's Tungsten's 00:12:16.919 --> 00:12:19.379 religion bonus? You can actually give me a few 00:12:19.379 --> 00:12:21.240 things. Religion will give you information on 00:12:21.240 --> 00:12:23.039 the creature in general. Investigation will give 00:12:23.039 --> 00:12:25.480 you a little extra information on the scene and 00:12:25.480 --> 00:12:29.519 situation. Things like that. Where is sound pukey 00:12:29.519 --> 00:12:32.860 girl when you need her? Little religion joke. 00:12:34.080 --> 00:12:37.799 Jewel's got a 12 on religion. Yeah, I got, like, 00:12:37.860 --> 00:12:43.200 nothing, so. Damn it. Jules, with a 12, and maybe 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:45.299 this is something that you're somewhat accustomed 00:12:45.299 --> 00:12:48.940 to anyway, because of your upbringing, but you 00:12:48.940 --> 00:12:53.500 do recognize this was an undead creature. Sometimes 00:12:53.500 --> 00:12:55.340 these things can be attributed to necromancers, 00:12:55.419 --> 00:12:58.299 basically sort of a lesser summon to dead, known 00:12:58.299 --> 00:13:01.100 as a crawling claw. The hand is something severed, 00:13:01.100 --> 00:13:04.139 but brought back to life and able to act on its 00:13:04.139 --> 00:13:07.940 own. What the hell is an undead doing here? Tungsten, 00:13:08.059 --> 00:13:12.720 what's going on? Tungsten's just staring down 00:13:12.720 --> 00:13:16.720 at it. What do you know about this? Right. Sorry. 00:13:17.600 --> 00:13:21.360 And sorry I couldn't help back there. I had to 00:13:21.360 --> 00:13:23.220 keep the horses from stampeding. I don't know 00:13:23.220 --> 00:13:25.299 if y 'all know, but horses and check can be very 00:13:25.299 --> 00:13:27.919 dangerous things. Oh, we know. All right, yeah. 00:13:28.519 --> 00:13:32.039 But hey, and they do pull up the diamond again. 00:13:32.299 --> 00:13:37.899 I got it, if that matters. I mean, as long as 00:13:37.899 --> 00:13:41.059 we get out of here, that'll be a great help. 00:13:41.309 --> 00:13:46.750 but no insight as far as what the hell is this 00:13:46.750 --> 00:13:51.330 thing? I got insight. It's nothing concrete, 00:13:51.750 --> 00:13:54.570 nothing to tell us exactly what we're dealing 00:13:54.570 --> 00:13:57.429 with here, but have y 'all ever heard of the 00:13:57.429 --> 00:14:02.710 Shadowfail? V -E -I -L? F -E -L. Shadowfail. 00:14:03.750 --> 00:14:06.789 It's a lot to get into here, but I'll explain 00:14:06.789 --> 00:14:09.330 when we get moving again. First things first. 00:14:09.960 --> 00:14:14.059 And Tungsten looks over at the horse corpse. 00:14:14.419 --> 00:14:17.740 The one laid out against a stone about 30 feet 00:14:17.740 --> 00:14:19.960 off from where you stand off the side of the 00:14:19.960 --> 00:14:23.700 trail. Where blood is splattered black in the 00:14:23.700 --> 00:14:27.759 moonlight. That looks fresh. Probably Lady Drys. 00:14:28.299 --> 00:14:31.799 Well, she couldn't have gotten far then. And 00:14:31.799 --> 00:14:33.840 Tungsten begins to move towards that corpse. 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:36.960 You guys want to make any checks? Tungsten will 00:14:36.960 --> 00:14:41.080 assist you in any check you make. So one of you 00:14:41.080 --> 00:14:43.799 will have advantage. Survival would be a good 00:14:43.799 --> 00:14:46.419 pick here, or investigation, potentially. Yeah. 00:14:47.139 --> 00:14:50.919 Zebul roll investigation. See if we can find 00:14:50.919 --> 00:14:57.200 anything to actually follow. Jesus. No good for 00:14:57.200 --> 00:14:59.840 Zebulon. So investigation will tell you more 00:14:59.840 --> 00:15:02.299 about what happened to the horse itself. Survival 00:15:02.299 --> 00:15:03.720 will let you see if there's any tracks. You can 00:15:03.720 --> 00:15:05.500 roll survival as well. Okay, perfect. I just 00:15:05.500 --> 00:15:08.019 rolled a nat 20 on investigation. Oh, nice. You 00:15:08.019 --> 00:15:09.879 can take advantage on survival because Thompson's 00:15:09.879 --> 00:15:11.860 looking for tracks as well. That's very generous. 00:15:12.879 --> 00:15:16.240 You only get one. Oh, my God. What's that? Another 00:15:16.240 --> 00:15:19.960 20. Holy crap. So you're not going to say it? 00:15:20.350 --> 00:15:22.210 Yeah, we're both covered in crit. Oh, there you 00:15:22.210 --> 00:15:25.710 go. Thank you. I was waiting. You know I couldn't 00:15:25.710 --> 00:15:28.129 keep going without it. A couple of crit. Yeah, 00:15:28.129 --> 00:15:29.669 that was kind of like when you go in the bathroom 00:15:29.669 --> 00:15:31.789 and you have, like, crit wars. And you, yeah, 00:15:31.830 --> 00:15:34.509 you take a crit with your buddy. Yeah. I regret 00:15:34.509 --> 00:15:37.850 everything. So much regret. One cheek apiece. 00:15:37.970 --> 00:15:41.629 So, so much regret. Start with investigation. 00:15:42.649 --> 00:15:45.029 You can tell that this thing was killed by the 00:15:45.029 --> 00:15:47.870 same coyotes that attacked you. Uh, the horse 00:15:47.870 --> 00:15:51.029 was apparently torn. Looks like it had been traveling 00:15:51.029 --> 00:15:53.690 on the road. Um, when these things attacked, 00:15:53.889 --> 00:15:55.509 it probably, they probably came in from the South, 00:15:55.549 --> 00:15:56.990 which made this thing veer off to the North. 00:15:57.070 --> 00:16:00.450 It got closed in. Um, and you could see basically 00:16:00.450 --> 00:16:02.110 the way the blood splatter was like surrounded 00:16:02.110 --> 00:16:04.490 by these things all kind of jumped on it together 00:16:04.490 --> 00:16:07.509 and ate the corpse down to the point where there's 00:16:07.509 --> 00:16:09.830 mostly bone. There's some meat low, low down, 00:16:09.929 --> 00:16:14.909 but it is, um, fresh kill with your twenties 00:16:14.909 --> 00:16:18.529 at Mulan. You and Tungsten do find tracks, boot 00:16:18.529 --> 00:16:21.289 tracks. It looks like they leapt over the stone 00:16:21.289 --> 00:16:23.730 itself, over the boulder to the other side, and 00:16:23.730 --> 00:16:26.809 very subtly start to move into, like, brush, 00:16:27.029 --> 00:16:29.509 into where tracks can be lost. How high was that 00:16:29.509 --> 00:16:32.009 boulder? It wasn't huge. And, like, whoever did 00:16:32.009 --> 00:16:35.529 it was on horseback when they jumped off. The 00:16:35.529 --> 00:16:38.789 horse went down. The rider basically, like, grabbed 00:16:38.789 --> 00:16:41.210 onto stone, leapt over, landed on the other side, 00:16:41.309 --> 00:16:44.440 and moved away. And you do not see. Dire coyote 00:16:44.440 --> 00:16:47.639 tracks following that path. Looks like they managed 00:16:47.639 --> 00:16:53.500 to basically lose the dire coyotes at the cost 00:16:53.500 --> 00:16:57.559 of the mount. And actually, very quickly, when 00:16:57.559 --> 00:17:02.139 you see that, Tungsten smiles and says, You know, 00:17:02.159 --> 00:17:06.039 I had a hunch. I knew it. Would you know that 00:17:06.039 --> 00:17:08.579 Lady Dre was alive? And Tungsten just looks at 00:17:08.579 --> 00:17:10.319 you with this sort of knowing smile and says, 00:17:11.180 --> 00:17:14.150 Little big for women's feet, ain't they? Well, 00:17:14.170 --> 00:17:19.289 I think that's kind of rude. Yeah. I don't spend 00:17:19.289 --> 00:17:21.589 too much time looking at their feet. I mean, 00:17:21.609 --> 00:17:24.910 my feet are pretty small. People come in all 00:17:24.910 --> 00:17:27.250 shapes and sizes. I think we need to sit down 00:17:27.250 --> 00:17:30.109 and have a conversation. All right. Say what 00:17:30.109 --> 00:17:34.930 you will. Say what you will. We just did. You 00:17:34.930 --> 00:17:36.049 want to say something. What are you going to 00:17:36.049 --> 00:17:41.289 say? I cut you off. So you said these tracks 00:17:41.289 --> 00:17:44.430 continued on. The direction they continued, is 00:17:44.430 --> 00:17:48.569 it a direction that the horse could follow? It 00:17:48.569 --> 00:17:51.569 looks like it is traveling parallel to the road, 00:17:51.589 --> 00:17:54.190 but off the main road where they can stay secret. 00:17:54.750 --> 00:17:58.849 Heading towards Cradle Lace Lake. So Lady Dre 00:17:58.849 --> 00:18:03.069 is continuing on. I mean, at this point, we could 00:18:03.069 --> 00:18:08.890 probably catch him. You say him. I said PM. I 00:18:08.890 --> 00:18:12.630 said PM. Catch them. Catch them. Well, now that 00:18:12.630 --> 00:18:15.430 whole thing has to stay in there. So the listeners 00:18:15.430 --> 00:18:17.369 don't actually think that you said him. You can 00:18:17.369 --> 00:18:18.750 probably catch him. Because it sounded like him 00:18:18.750 --> 00:18:23.269 to me. Say him! Just like glaring at you. Did 00:18:23.269 --> 00:18:28.049 you say it? Gotcha! Real gotcha journalism at 00:18:28.049 --> 00:18:31.730 its finest. Tungsten moves away from there, too, 00:18:31.809 --> 00:18:34.829 and moves over to the fallen horse in front. 00:18:35.890 --> 00:18:41.210 Shit. I'm really sorry, Tungsten. This isn't... 00:18:41.609 --> 00:18:44.890 This isn't what we wanted. Just, like, quiet 00:18:44.890 --> 00:18:50.390 for a moment. Then... What am I... What am I 00:18:50.390 --> 00:18:54.789 doing? I mean, I want this song so bad. But... 00:18:54.789 --> 00:18:59.829 This is bad, isn't it? This is real bad. Um, 00:18:59.849 --> 00:19:03.690 yeah, Tungsten, this is... This isn't safe, what 00:19:03.690 --> 00:19:08.170 we're doing. That's why we're here. And Lady 00:19:08.170 --> 00:19:10.369 Dre, she's in real trouble. And maybe more than 00:19:10.369 --> 00:19:14.250 that. This points the severed hand off behind 00:19:14.250 --> 00:19:17.130 the wagon. This ain't isolated, is it? This is 00:19:17.130 --> 00:19:20.069 something big. Well, I guess we don't really 00:19:20.069 --> 00:19:23.210 know that yet. But, Thompson, we're out here 00:19:23.210 --> 00:19:28.170 risking our lives. This isn't to be taken lightly. 00:19:28.789 --> 00:19:34.349 They just nod. Right. Okay. I'm a proclaimer 00:19:34.349 --> 00:19:37.630 of the Covenant Gods. First and foremost, I need 00:19:37.630 --> 00:19:40.210 to offer aid and succor to those in dire straits. 00:19:40.309 --> 00:19:45.309 I... I want this story, and... No, no. When this 00:19:45.309 --> 00:19:47.549 is over, if y 'all want to tell me everything, 00:19:47.670 --> 00:19:49.289 you can. If y 'all want to tell someone else 00:19:49.289 --> 00:19:53.769 everything, you can. It's fine. But I'm with 00:19:53.769 --> 00:19:57.049 ya. If y 'all have me, I'm with ya, because this 00:19:57.049 --> 00:20:00.549 is my job. You are not obligated to risk your 00:20:00.549 --> 00:20:03.630 life to go with us. I'm afraid we disagree on 00:20:03.630 --> 00:20:07.990 that. We can't guarantee your safety. That's 00:20:07.990 --> 00:20:11.740 fine. Though... Then looks back at the wagon. 00:20:12.140 --> 00:20:15.099 Only one mount. We ain't all riding anymore. 00:20:16.259 --> 00:20:19.539 Percy here can pole on its own, but not a four 00:20:19.539 --> 00:20:23.500 wagon, just empty. Well, I guess we better hurry 00:20:23.500 --> 00:20:28.400 to try to catch up. Um, Tungsten, can you speed 00:20:28.400 --> 00:20:32.059 ahead and try to catch up to Lady Dre and maybe 00:20:32.059 --> 00:20:34.779 slow her down? Honestly, with just one mount, 00:20:34.960 --> 00:20:37.490 I think we're all going the same pace. On these 00:20:37.490 --> 00:20:40.130 roads, you see the roads are rough, just filled 00:20:40.130 --> 00:20:43.910 with holes, filled with water. Even walking is 00:20:43.910 --> 00:20:47.269 not going to be fun. What if we leave the carriage 00:20:47.269 --> 00:20:52.390 here? You just go on horseback. We can. It's 00:20:52.390 --> 00:20:58.390 your call. I just feel like my human side feels 00:20:58.390 --> 00:21:00.329 like the carriage provides some sort of safety. 00:21:00.910 --> 00:21:02.930 some sort of shelter, but... You're not wrong. 00:21:03.150 --> 00:21:04.950 If you want to take a long rest again, you might 00:21:04.950 --> 00:21:06.650 want to keep this carriage. Yeah, that's fair. 00:21:06.849 --> 00:21:10.049 And with Lady Dre being, what, three or four 00:21:10.049 --> 00:21:13.930 hours ahead of us, I'm not sure if just Tungsten 00:21:13.930 --> 00:21:16.470 alone is going to catch up to her, and even then, 00:21:16.509 --> 00:21:19.490 what is Tungsten going to do? It was just an 00:21:19.490 --> 00:21:22.109 option. Yeah, no, no, no. One that I'm still 00:21:22.109 --> 00:21:25.730 wrestling with, but it feels like the smartest 00:21:25.730 --> 00:21:29.009 option is to just travel together with the carriage. 00:21:29.369 --> 00:21:33.769 I think you're right. All right, I can stand 00:21:33.769 --> 00:21:37.950 out front and lead the way, make sure everything's 00:21:37.950 --> 00:21:43.109 safe. Jaune, maybe you can take up the rear. 00:21:44.009 --> 00:21:48.049 Very well, I shall do so. Spins a spear. He's 00:21:48.049 --> 00:21:50.670 in serious mode. He's very happy to get off that 00:21:50.670 --> 00:21:55.190 damn wagon. No more throw -ups or throws -ups? 00:21:55.369 --> 00:21:59.660 Much happier on his two feet. And so? The wagon 00:21:59.660 --> 00:22:02.960 begins to move. Tungsten bids a final goodbye 00:22:02.960 --> 00:22:08.200 to their fallen horse. Just like, sorry, Audrey. 00:22:09.500 --> 00:22:11.559 You're a good mountain, good lady. I'll bury 00:22:11.559 --> 00:22:16.220 you later. I promise. Begins to lead the remaining 00:22:16.220 --> 00:22:20.380 horse. Zebulon scouting ahead. John Franklin 00:22:20.380 --> 00:22:24.259 at the rear. Jules and Chester, I imagine, walking 00:22:24.259 --> 00:22:29.809 side by side with the wagon. Yeah. I think we're 00:22:29.809 --> 00:22:32.730 on the same side. Okay. As each other. Hell yeah. 00:22:33.329 --> 00:22:36.069 As we move tungsten, again, quiet for a moment, 00:22:36.130 --> 00:22:39.690 getting their thoughts together, then, now, this 00:22:39.690 --> 00:22:41.230 ain't something they make mention of on that 00:22:41.230 --> 00:22:44.029 fancy crystal network of yours, right? I think 00:22:44.029 --> 00:22:45.789 it ain't something the speakers for the ancestors 00:22:45.789 --> 00:22:48.490 want in the open. Paints a dangerous lie in all 00:22:48.490 --> 00:22:51.710 the worlds, not just mine, not just God's breath. 00:22:52.170 --> 00:22:55.750 You mean this has been happening and speakers 00:22:55.750 --> 00:22:58.579 know about it? Oh, they know. They gotta know. 00:22:59.299 --> 00:23:03.039 Most of us here know. The rattle ain't just some 00:23:03.039 --> 00:23:06.099 dangerous place just because. Like all things, 00:23:06.240 --> 00:23:10.079 there's a reason for it. Now, I mentioned the 00:23:10.079 --> 00:23:13.460 Shadowfell. This is another plane. It's a plane 00:23:13.460 --> 00:23:16.059 overlaying the material plane we all live on, 00:23:16.160 --> 00:23:18.940 right? Every one of our worlds all exist in a 00:23:18.940 --> 00:23:22.299 plane known as the material plane, where all 00:23:22.299 --> 00:23:25.880 other planes of existence sort of coalesce. You 00:23:25.880 --> 00:23:29.420 have the elemental planes. Fire, water, air, 00:23:29.539 --> 00:23:32.500 and earth. They feed into us. They feed into 00:23:32.500 --> 00:23:36.240 this world here. Give it shape and form. You 00:23:36.240 --> 00:23:39.880 have the higher planes, ideals. Evil, chaos, 00:23:40.099 --> 00:23:43.240 law, and good. And they feed into this world 00:23:43.240 --> 00:23:46.460 as well, into the hearts of all men, women, all 00:23:46.460 --> 00:23:50.980 folk, all monsters. There's other planes too, 00:23:51.059 --> 00:23:55.740 strange ones. Feywild, where... Strange, magical 00:23:55.740 --> 00:24:00.319 whimsy rules all. Brilliant color paints the 00:24:00.319 --> 00:24:05.420 sky. And the opposite. The Shadowfell. The land 00:24:05.420 --> 00:24:09.539 of nightmares. A dark world overlaying our own. 00:24:10.539 --> 00:24:12.680 Normally these planes ain't something you can 00:24:12.680 --> 00:24:15.880 easily reach out and touch, right? Crossing them 00:24:15.880 --> 00:24:18.460 is hard. Especially here in these worlds of ours. 00:24:18.579 --> 00:24:21.880 But for some reason God's breath seems to be 00:24:21.880 --> 00:24:26.690 merging. With the shadow veil slowly overtaken. 00:24:27.269 --> 00:24:30.490 I told you before, the rattle was smaller. This 00:24:30.490 --> 00:24:32.970 farm we're heading to was in the ribbon before. 00:24:34.049 --> 00:24:37.349 But it's spreading out. And you've seen how the 00:24:37.349 --> 00:24:40.410 soil in our lands isn't growing. A lot of people 00:24:40.410 --> 00:24:43.849 say it's because of the shadow veil. The land 00:24:43.849 --> 00:24:47.009 of death seeping into our ground. Even with our 00:24:47.009 --> 00:24:50.009 safest nightwater cove. If you really look at 00:24:50.009 --> 00:24:52.150 those waters, you see how dark they are. You 00:24:52.150 --> 00:24:57.119 see their... Hiding things. Dark things. So if 00:24:57.119 --> 00:24:59.019 this is happening, why isn't anybody doing anything 00:24:59.019 --> 00:25:02.380 about it? Yeah, how come they haven't sent luminaries 00:25:02.380 --> 00:25:06.240 to come deal with this? What's to say this is 00:25:06.240 --> 00:25:10.279 just going to stop with God's breath? Now, I 00:25:10.279 --> 00:25:12.359 can't speak too much for the other worlds, but 00:25:12.359 --> 00:25:17.119 from what I understand, this ain't just a God's 00:25:17.119 --> 00:25:20.319 breath problem. It might not be the Shadowfell, 00:25:20.380 --> 00:25:23.140 but... I've heard word that the other worlds, 00:25:23.319 --> 00:25:27.480 they're getting changed too. By other planes. 00:25:28.619 --> 00:25:31.279 Jules, I want you to make me a history check. 00:25:33.299 --> 00:25:36.220 That's a 14 on the die plus two, 16. I was looking 00:25:36.220 --> 00:25:40.859 for a 15. Oh, nice. Score. This actually rings 00:25:40.859 --> 00:25:43.839 a bell with you. This conversation. And your 00:25:43.839 --> 00:25:46.220 mind wanders back to maybe something you've overheard 00:25:46.220 --> 00:25:51.099 from your parents. How fortunate they were. On 00:25:51.099 --> 00:25:58.980 Tithos. Because Tithos lands were abundant with 00:25:58.980 --> 00:26:02.039 minerals, with gemstones, with mines filled with 00:26:02.039 --> 00:26:05.940 all sorts of gems, diamonds and the like. The 00:26:05.940 --> 00:26:08.180 exact gems that the crystal network is sort of 00:26:08.180 --> 00:26:10.380 based on, what it's founded on. Each world has 00:26:10.380 --> 00:26:12.579 a corresponding gemstone that needs to be mined 00:26:12.579 --> 00:26:15.859 and shipped to that world in massive quantities 00:26:15.859 --> 00:26:18.579 to create the projectors that... gain signal 00:26:18.579 --> 00:26:21.359 from the auroral diamond itself. And recording 00:26:21.359 --> 00:26:24.759 diamonds? You need a good, solid 300 gold at 00:26:24.759 --> 00:26:27.099 least worth diamond to basically transform into 00:26:27.099 --> 00:26:32.019 that. And all this stuff. Tythos was the primary 00:26:32.019 --> 00:26:34.900 supplier for all the worlds. And you remember 00:26:34.900 --> 00:26:37.759 hearing your parents talk about how they were 00:26:37.759 --> 00:26:42.240 gifted all this by a connection to the elemental 00:26:42.240 --> 00:26:45.819 plane of Earth. The supply of gemstones would 00:26:45.819 --> 00:26:49.259 almost like refresh in time. It never stopped. 00:26:49.940 --> 00:26:52.119 While God's breath seems to have gotten the raw 00:26:52.119 --> 00:26:56.180 end of the deal, Tithos maybe also had a similar 00:26:56.180 --> 00:26:59.220 situation, a similar connection to one of these 00:26:59.220 --> 00:27:04.220 outer planes. And Tithos made good on it. I mean, 00:27:04.279 --> 00:27:08.119 you've seen the city of towers. And from what 00:27:08.119 --> 00:27:11.059 you heard, this is what made that economy possible. 00:27:11.799 --> 00:27:15.750 So, if... Typho's had a connection to the Earth 00:27:15.750 --> 00:27:19.390 plane. If God's Breath has a possible connection 00:27:19.390 --> 00:27:23.009 to the Underfell. Uh -huh. Shadowfell. Shadowfell. 00:27:23.150 --> 00:27:29.450 Uh -huh. And we ran into those awful, horrible, 00:27:29.650 --> 00:27:35.289 miserable fey on Subsunko. Uh -huh. That's three 00:27:35.289 --> 00:27:41.150 worlds, three planes. Hey, uh, Steven, take this 00:27:41.150 --> 00:27:45.089 button. Good stuff. The Feywild does have a connection 00:27:45.089 --> 00:27:49.769 to Sapsunko. And actually, I want you to roll 00:27:49.769 --> 00:27:51.410 a history check as well, Zebulon. Oh, this will 00:27:51.410 --> 00:27:54.970 go well. Two on the die, minus two. Never mind. 00:27:55.450 --> 00:28:00.690 Never mind. History what? It's like, it's great, 00:28:00.730 --> 00:28:04.150 because Zebulon himself was essentially told 00:28:04.150 --> 00:28:09.789 something earlier in the show. R -I? History. 00:28:11.789 --> 00:28:15.049 Yeah, so you hear all that. Ward goes quiet for 00:28:15.049 --> 00:28:20.410 a moment. Just nods. I don't know how it stops. 00:28:21.390 --> 00:28:25.730 And we've had occasional undead wandering out 00:28:25.730 --> 00:28:31.470 from the rattle. But those men with bloody eyes, 00:28:31.630 --> 00:28:34.609 that was new. That was something bad. Is it somebody 00:28:34.609 --> 00:28:37.470 doing this, or is this just happening? You know? 00:28:38.490 --> 00:28:41.740 It's hard to say. I mean... I believe there are 00:28:41.740 --> 00:28:44.339 good presences out there watching out for us, 00:28:44.380 --> 00:28:47.200 and maybe there's evil ones too. I mean, the 00:28:47.200 --> 00:28:49.980 Covenant Gods, they brought us here to these 00:28:49.980 --> 00:28:53.240 lands so long ago, and I won't believe that they 00:28:53.240 --> 00:28:56.900 knew this was coming. I think this is something 00:28:56.900 --> 00:28:59.839 they hadn't foreseen. And that's why we make 00:28:59.839 --> 00:29:02.880 our songs and our stories, because we hope to 00:29:02.880 --> 00:29:05.460 bring them back. I'm glad we're here, Julie. 00:29:05.619 --> 00:29:10.410 Maybe we can figure it out. I mean... I'm not 00:29:10.410 --> 00:29:13.150 going to say that we're the cream of the crop, 00:29:13.269 --> 00:29:18.450 but I just don't understand how the other luminaries, 00:29:18.450 --> 00:29:24.210 how Atash, how Sholei, can let this go on if 00:29:24.210 --> 00:29:26.730 they know about it. Feels like we're the only 00:29:26.730 --> 00:29:30.210 ones trying to do something about it. It's not 00:29:30.210 --> 00:29:35.230 fair. It's legitimately very strange because 00:29:35.230 --> 00:29:39.130 something like this should be out there. We have... 00:29:39.450 --> 00:29:41.769 You live in a society with this network that 00:29:41.769 --> 00:29:45.589 connects all worlds, where information can be 00:29:45.589 --> 00:29:49.549 shared freely between all worlds. Why weren't 00:29:49.549 --> 00:29:53.109 you aware of this? Send them all over, for sure. 00:29:53.849 --> 00:29:56.930 I guess we just really have to find Lady Drag, 00:29:57.009 --> 00:30:00.029 because I'd like to know what she has to say 00:30:00.029 --> 00:30:03.890 about all this. Thompson just nods. Gotta find 00:30:03.890 --> 00:30:08.210 her. Some stories, they deserve an ending, and... 00:30:08.809 --> 00:30:12.589 They look at you just right into your eyes and 00:30:12.589 --> 00:30:18.309 say, and good folk, they deserve to move on. 00:30:19.130 --> 00:30:22.150 When you find Lady Dre, y 'all should tell her 00:30:22.150 --> 00:30:24.690 that. Well, that sounded kind of cryptic. What 00:30:24.690 --> 00:30:27.630 did you mean by that? I was trying to sound cool. 00:30:27.710 --> 00:30:30.809 Why do y 'all call it out? It just sounded like 00:30:30.809 --> 00:30:32.089 you knew something more than you were letting 00:30:32.089 --> 00:30:35.930 on. Yeah. I mean, I got my suspicions about Lady 00:30:35.930 --> 00:30:40.089 Dre. Y 'all can keep hiding it. Well, I think 00:30:40.089 --> 00:30:41.990 that was part of the deal that we made a couple 00:30:41.990 --> 00:30:45.410 episodes ago. You still haven't told us what 00:30:45.410 --> 00:30:48.849 you know. You know, people... Sure, people deserve 00:30:48.849 --> 00:30:53.109 to move on. But they... God damn it, now I'm 00:30:53.109 --> 00:30:57.609 trying to be serious. Steven! Damn it, Steven! 00:30:59.210 --> 00:31:03.920 Give me that button back! Hey! Zebulon asked 00:31:03.920 --> 00:31:06.779 them, said, hey, we'll share our story with you 00:31:06.779 --> 00:31:09.900 if you tell us about Kali, Kali Sr. And that 00:31:09.900 --> 00:31:16.740 never happened. So, anyways. Sure, people deserve 00:31:16.740 --> 00:31:20.339 to move on. But it's pretty fucking sad that 00:31:20.339 --> 00:31:25.019 they have to move on. That this life can't be 00:31:25.019 --> 00:31:29.119 a place to stay. But it seems like it's getting 00:31:29.119 --> 00:31:32.970 ruined by something. Or someone. Well, that's 00:31:32.970 --> 00:31:35.670 a metaphysical argument that I am not emotionally 00:31:35.670 --> 00:31:38.029 or mentally prepared to have. Come on, Zeb. Let's 00:31:38.029 --> 00:31:41.650 get super serious. Come on. We have not had a 00:31:41.650 --> 00:31:43.789 deep discussion yet. Let's go get high. I'm going 00:31:43.789 --> 00:31:45.549 to be honest. I'm going to be honest. I think 00:31:45.549 --> 00:31:51.750 that the fleeting life is what makes it all so 00:31:51.750 --> 00:31:55.390 special. You're totally missing what I'm saying, 00:31:55.430 --> 00:31:58.210 though. The fact that if the afterlife is better, 00:31:58.349 --> 00:32:01.730 they deserve to move on to get away from this. 00:32:02.220 --> 00:32:05.740 Oh, okay. I took it differently. Zebulon took 00:32:05.740 --> 00:32:09.220 it differently. This is going to be so much fucking 00:32:09.220 --> 00:32:13.180 fun to edit. God. Jesus Christ. Leave it in. 00:32:13.819 --> 00:32:19.500 Hi, Post. We're just going to turn a two and 00:32:19.500 --> 00:32:21.539 a half hour long episode because we just say, 00:32:21.559 --> 00:32:23.440 fuck it, we're not cutting anything. We're just 00:32:23.440 --> 00:32:27.700 like trying to have like a half -baked philosophical 00:32:27.700 --> 00:32:31.079 argument. Oh, God. I just can't have a philosophical 00:32:31.079 --> 00:32:35.720 argument with six intelligence, so. Okay. I can 00:32:35.720 --> 00:32:38.319 sell you on religion. Y 'all looking for that? 00:32:38.519 --> 00:32:41.619 Higher power to look into. Covenant God, they 00:32:41.619 --> 00:32:45.700 might have found. We'll talk later. And you're 00:32:45.700 --> 00:32:48.660 moving on. No, we're going to sit down. Okay. 00:32:49.900 --> 00:32:54.880 Sit down and talk. We're moving on. Come on, 00:32:54.880 --> 00:32:58.039 Tungsten, preach. And they preach as you move 00:32:58.039 --> 00:33:03.339 on. Dense wood becomes less dense. Trees become 00:33:03.339 --> 00:33:07.440 sparse as grassland once again starts to overtake. 00:33:07.980 --> 00:33:10.779 And that road you're riding on, the farther you 00:33:10.779 --> 00:33:12.460 go, gets less and less maintained. It starts 00:33:12.460 --> 00:33:15.839 getting pretty rough and rugged. And soon you're 00:33:15.839 --> 00:33:17.779 essentially just pulling through like straight 00:33:17.779 --> 00:33:21.779 grassy field. Tungsten just nods. All right. 00:33:22.599 --> 00:33:26.079 This is it. Let's watch that farmland. Keep up 00:33:26.079 --> 00:33:28.740 this rise and when we crest it, you'll see the 00:33:28.740 --> 00:33:31.829 lake. Here's hoping our quarry's still there. 00:33:32.609 --> 00:33:38.289 You guys stay here. What? I can't hear. I'm behind 00:33:38.289 --> 00:33:40.410 the wagon. It looks like you're talking. John. 00:33:40.609 --> 00:33:44.690 John. Oh. John, just come closer if you can't 00:33:44.690 --> 00:33:50.630 hear. Yes, sorry. Here I am. That's the sound 00:33:50.630 --> 00:33:54.430 of turtle feet. I wasn't going to acknowledge 00:33:54.430 --> 00:33:58.720 it, but you acknowledged it. I was hoping that 00:33:58.720 --> 00:34:01.500 Jeremy would just cut that part. I saw you acknowledge 00:34:01.500 --> 00:34:06.980 it with your face. Leave it in. You guys stay 00:34:06.980 --> 00:34:11.480 here. I'll go take a peek over the hilltop. Sure, 00:34:11.559 --> 00:34:14.980 you don't need backup. John, John, John. Zeb's 00:34:14.980 --> 00:34:19.300 got this. He's got it. One word, one scream and 00:34:19.300 --> 00:34:21.099 we'll be there. Well, I mean, you're going to 00:34:21.099 --> 00:34:23.260 be able to see me. I'm going to be like, it's 00:34:23.260 --> 00:34:27.159 like a couple hundred feet, right? Anyway, go. 00:34:27.920 --> 00:34:31.219 All right. I'm going to roll stealth for Zeb. 00:34:31.340 --> 00:34:35.460 Go ahead and roll stealth. Hell yeah. 21. You 00:34:35.460 --> 00:34:38.880 continue up the rise. Let me stop the wagon moving 00:34:38.880 --> 00:34:41.420 noise because we don't need that now. The wagon 00:34:41.420 --> 00:34:45.019 is still. You continue up the rise. All around 00:34:45.019 --> 00:34:49.179 you see the meadow. It seems like it's turned 00:34:49.179 --> 00:34:52.119 into. You can imagine basically where this was 00:34:52.119 --> 00:34:56.340 once filled out farmland. You can see the rows 00:34:56.340 --> 00:34:59.760 and rows of vegetation, of wheat, of corn spread 00:34:59.760 --> 00:35:04.699 out all around you. As you get down low and look 00:35:04.699 --> 00:35:09.199 over the rise, you see the hill slopes downwards. 00:35:10.400 --> 00:35:15.619 And you see this great black pool resting in 00:35:15.619 --> 00:35:19.039 the middle of this land. The road looks like 00:35:19.039 --> 00:35:21.860 it moved right down. The semblance of road you 00:35:21.860 --> 00:35:25.440 can see right down into. this pool. And you remember 00:35:25.440 --> 00:35:28.260 the stories about Cradle East Lake. Once a brilliant 00:35:28.260 --> 00:35:32.300 farmhouse in the land itself opened up and swallowed 00:35:32.300 --> 00:35:35.579 it. Dropped into a sinkhole filled with water. 00:35:35.980 --> 00:35:41.159 A large family inside held back by the matron 00:35:41.159 --> 00:35:45.000 of the family who did not want to be apart. They 00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:50.019 all died there. And as you stare down at this 00:35:50.019 --> 00:35:57.820 cold, At this glassy, still water. As the wind 00:35:57.820 --> 00:36:03.139 blows past you. Maybe it's your imagination, 00:36:03.179 --> 00:36:12.599 but you just hear a hint of a scream. And right 00:36:12.599 --> 00:36:15.880 at the base of the road, where it meets the water 00:36:15.880 --> 00:36:21.340 and vanishes, you see a figure kneeling at water's 00:36:21.340 --> 00:36:29.639 edge. straw hat by their side. Just still staring 00:36:29.639 --> 00:36:35.219 out away from you towards the water. And it's 00:36:35.219 --> 00:36:40.360 still pitch dark around or it would be if it 00:36:40.360 --> 00:36:42.639 wasn't for these great massive moon hanging overhead. 00:36:42.920 --> 00:36:46.139 And that lake actually glows brilliantly in this 00:36:46.139 --> 00:36:48.079 light as it's basically just catching it in the 00:36:48.079 --> 00:36:50.320 middle of the sky. That's what you can make out 00:36:50.320 --> 00:36:52.219 the shape as a silhouette basically against that. 00:36:52.939 --> 00:36:57.099 So Zeb will turn around and hand motion, you 00:36:57.099 --> 00:37:00.300 know, like a follow, and he's going to move as 00:37:00.300 --> 00:37:05.519 quick as he can towards the figure. Move down, 00:37:05.599 --> 00:37:07.159 you wave to them, and you start moving down to 00:37:07.159 --> 00:37:11.539 the figure? Yeah. Cress at the top of the hill. 00:37:12.139 --> 00:37:15.800 John Franklin, Chester, Jules, Tungsten, all 00:37:15.800 --> 00:37:19.099 look down at the sight, Zebulon. You're moving 00:37:19.099 --> 00:37:24.920 down to this figure. What do you do? Um, if Zebulon 00:37:24.920 --> 00:37:29.579 gets close enough, he'll put a hand on their 00:37:29.579 --> 00:37:34.239 shoulder. You can feel, like, a great stiffness 00:37:34.239 --> 00:37:38.679 just melting under your hand. The voice just 00:37:38.679 --> 00:37:44.239 says, You weren't supposed to come. Not here. 00:37:44.940 --> 00:37:51.059 I thought you might just head back home. With 00:37:51.059 --> 00:37:54.789 all due respect, Miss Oren, you don't know us 00:37:54.789 --> 00:38:00.809 very well. Oren. The man turns his head, and 00:38:00.809 --> 00:38:04.750 he's not Storyteller Oren. He looks similar, 00:38:05.030 --> 00:38:08.130 but there's a number of subtle changes that spell 00:38:08.130 --> 00:38:11.110 out the story. This is a different man. There's 00:38:11.110 --> 00:38:13.789 his nose a touch smaller, his cheeks more full, 00:38:13.989 --> 00:38:18.809 his eyes larger, more watery, more weary. He 00:38:18.809 --> 00:38:21.619 looks up at the wagon coming down. As it catches 00:38:21.619 --> 00:38:25.320 the light, squints for a second. Maybe catches 00:38:25.320 --> 00:38:28.739 the sight of a rainbow scarf and nods. Proclaim 00:38:28.739 --> 00:38:31.679 a war, I found you. I take it if you came here, 00:38:31.900 --> 00:38:35.219 they probably told you about this place. Maybe 00:38:35.219 --> 00:38:39.039 told you the songs. Yeah, um, I don't think we 00:38:39.039 --> 00:38:42.699 would have found this place without them. And 00:38:42.699 --> 00:38:47.280 if you know the songs, you know me. The name's 00:38:47.280 --> 00:38:53.579 Coley. Coley Sr. This is where my boy died. It's 00:38:53.579 --> 00:38:57.099 nice to finally really introduce myself to y 00:38:57.099 --> 00:39:03.260 'all. We had some suspicion. The sound of the 00:39:03.260 --> 00:39:07.920 wagon grows louder as you guys are about halfway 00:39:07.920 --> 00:39:09.320 down the hill. Actually, when you get around 00:39:09.320 --> 00:39:12.900 that point, Tungsten pulls the reins, the horse 00:39:12.900 --> 00:39:16.840 stops dead, and Tungsten looks at you. This ain't 00:39:16.840 --> 00:39:20.369 my place. I want this story. Maybe I'll get it, 00:39:20.389 --> 00:39:23.889 but I ain't gonna force it. Y 'all go to the 00:39:23.889 --> 00:39:29.130 man. I'll be here. I give them a nod. I turn 00:39:29.130 --> 00:39:31.550 to Chester and John Franklin. Come on, let's 00:39:31.550 --> 00:39:37.750 go. All right. Let's go. You guys move down the 00:39:37.750 --> 00:39:44.030 hill and join Zebulon and Cully. Nice to meet 00:39:44.030 --> 00:39:51.349 you, Cully. Likewise. Is this a safe place for 00:39:51.349 --> 00:39:56.690 us to talk? No. I don't think anywhere is safe 00:39:56.690 --> 00:39:59.309 for me right now. That's why I didn't want you 00:39:59.309 --> 00:40:02.429 coming. I've got enough people killed in my life. 00:40:02.489 --> 00:40:06.510 I don't need to kill y 'all two. What did you 00:40:06.510 --> 00:40:08.110 really think we were going to do when you wrote 00:40:08.110 --> 00:40:12.250 off? A man can hope, right? Maybe y 'all would 00:40:12.250 --> 00:40:14.949 see reason. Though if you're keeping company 00:40:14.949 --> 00:40:20.139 with Ada, y 'all can't be that reasonable. Just 00:40:20.139 --> 00:40:23.059 like an empty laugh. Do you want to explain to 00:40:23.059 --> 00:40:27.679 us exactly what's going on here and why being 00:40:27.679 --> 00:40:30.940 around you is so dangerous? Well, I can't say 00:40:30.940 --> 00:40:36.000 nothing for sure. Honestly, when I saw that footage 00:40:36.000 --> 00:40:39.860 y 'all fighting, those men screaming my name, 00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:43.719 all I knew to do was to run here because it's 00:40:43.719 --> 00:40:46.400 got to be here. The answers have got to be here. 00:40:46.860 --> 00:40:49.849 I was planning on looking around. Though when 00:40:49.849 --> 00:40:53.849 I got here, I just fell to my knees, frozen. 00:40:54.789 --> 00:40:59.369 But y 'all came after me. Y 'all deserve to know. 00:41:00.170 --> 00:41:03.889 So let me do what I do best. Let me tell y 'all 00:41:03.889 --> 00:41:08.070 a story. When I was a young man, I was a bit 00:41:08.070 --> 00:41:10.690 of an adventurer. I liked stories of heroes, 00:41:10.949 --> 00:41:16.650 travelers. Yeah, I had ambitions of becoming 00:41:16.650 --> 00:41:19.880 a luminary. And I knew my way around, you know, 00:41:19.940 --> 00:41:25.360 the woods, the plains. But I thought I'd change 00:41:25.360 --> 00:41:28.260 when I had a kid. But the wanderlust came back. 00:41:29.039 --> 00:41:33.840 And my Susanna, she was fine with it. Raised 00:41:33.840 --> 00:41:36.619 our boy mostly on her own. And I wasn't there 00:41:36.619 --> 00:41:41.199 when the sickness took her. Or my sister. But 00:41:41.199 --> 00:41:45.039 I came back after. And suddenly I was guardian 00:41:45.039 --> 00:41:48.340 of not just my own boy. But to Lila's girl as 00:41:48.340 --> 00:41:52.019 well, Kiana. And I didn't lie. Those two were 00:41:52.019 --> 00:41:58.940 best friends. Cully. Cully Jr. And Kiana. And 00:41:58.940 --> 00:42:01.920 I tried being a good dad. I did. I tried being 00:42:01.920 --> 00:42:05.000 present. But I wanted to get out there again. 00:42:06.019 --> 00:42:08.920 And I heard tales of this place. Cradle Laced 00:42:08.920 --> 00:42:13.340 Leg. I mean, the songs. How do you not look into 00:42:13.340 --> 00:42:17.789 it? How do you not go? So I took them. Both of 00:42:17.789 --> 00:42:23.250 them here. To this damned cursed place. It was 00:42:23.250 --> 00:42:24.789 supposed to be just a little day trip, right? 00:42:24.909 --> 00:42:27.650 A little fun adventure. I thought I could work 00:42:27.650 --> 00:42:29.889 my way around the wildlife here. I'd been doing 00:42:29.889 --> 00:42:33.110 it for years. And I took my eyes off them for 00:42:33.110 --> 00:42:39.510 a second. Just a fucking second. I swear. Just 00:42:39.510 --> 00:42:42.650 wanted to take in the marvels of this land. And 00:42:42.650 --> 00:42:45.989 then I heard a screaming. Keona screaming bloody 00:42:45.989 --> 00:42:49.840 murder. And my boy was gone at the lake's edge, 00:42:49.900 --> 00:42:54.019 just gone. I dug into that muddy water. I screamed. 00:42:54.300 --> 00:42:58.699 I flailed. I fought. And when Keanu and I, when 00:42:58.699 --> 00:43:00.619 we gave up and we walked on, we didn't speak 00:43:00.619 --> 00:43:03.179 a damn word the entire trip back to Promise. 00:43:04.380 --> 00:43:07.219 I don't think we could have. Our throats were 00:43:07.219 --> 00:43:10.980 just raw, bloody meat. And I left after that. 00:43:11.059 --> 00:43:15.000 I couldn't stand the glass nor the pity and looks. 00:43:15.949 --> 00:43:20.269 The whole pile later, he just opened an inn on 00:43:20.269 --> 00:43:23.250 the Citadel, and I went to stay with him. I tried 00:43:23.250 --> 00:43:25.750 taking Keanu, but she wouldn't have it. She wanted 00:43:25.750 --> 00:43:30.630 nothing to do with the Citadel or with me. And 00:43:30.630 --> 00:43:32.489 I can't blame her, because I was supposed to 00:43:32.489 --> 00:43:36.369 be there. I was supposed to protect them. Instead, 00:43:36.510 --> 00:43:39.030 she had to watch her best friend and her cousin 00:43:39.030 --> 00:43:45.840 die. I never came back as Carly, not here. I 00:43:45.840 --> 00:43:48.780 found out in one of my adventures, and I became 00:43:48.780 --> 00:43:54.840 Orin on the Citadel. And I became Lady Dre once 00:43:54.840 --> 00:43:57.000 a year back here for the Awakening Festival. 00:43:58.219 --> 00:44:03.920 Only Kiana knows about the hat, about my real 00:44:03.920 --> 00:44:10.639 identity. Kiana, I know where she is. I got that 00:44:10.639 --> 00:44:14.280 information, and I've got to go to her. I have 00:44:14.280 --> 00:44:17.780 to. And I understand you guys can leave because 00:44:17.780 --> 00:44:21.340 something is hunting for me. You've seen that. 00:44:22.300 --> 00:44:25.280 I don't know if it's some demon hunting me down 00:44:25.280 --> 00:44:30.000 for the sins of my past or it's my boy. But I 00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:34.579 gotta go. We came with you for a reason. We'll 00:44:34.579 --> 00:44:39.840 follow through. Right, Zeb? What's your reason, 00:44:39.920 --> 00:44:45.179 Jules? You son of a bitch. What's your reason? 00:44:46.420 --> 00:44:52.800 To help him. I make good on my promises. Zip? 00:44:53.880 --> 00:44:57.639 Mr. Oren, this is a lot more than you'd let us 00:44:57.639 --> 00:45:03.320 to believe. Oh no. I'd hoped. I'd hoped Kiana 00:45:03.320 --> 00:45:07.679 was just... God, this sounds awful, but... I'd 00:45:07.679 --> 00:45:11.719 hoped she was just... Going mad. Something I 00:45:11.719 --> 00:45:16.880 could deal with. I'll do my best to keep you 00:45:16.880 --> 00:45:21.480 safe, Mr. Oren, or whatever you'd like to be 00:45:21.480 --> 00:45:28.179 called, but I just want to be paid in kind. He 00:45:28.179 --> 00:45:35.480 looks at you. What do you want? I want a sponsorship. 00:45:52.409 --> 00:45:57.090 I do. That's where you were going. The way that 00:45:57.090 --> 00:46:01.250 you were leading up to it. I got really scared 00:46:01.250 --> 00:46:08.730 for a second. Huh. He just kind of like stares 00:46:08.730 --> 00:46:14.780 you for a moment, then just chuckles. Y 'all 00:46:14.780 --> 00:46:17.980 know we might all die out here, right? Hell yeah, 00:46:18.179 --> 00:46:20.599 yeah. Whatever you need, I can get it. When we 00:46:20.599 --> 00:46:23.500 get back, I swear, I'll get you on the network. 00:46:24.440 --> 00:46:27.699 And if I can get you more money, use my influence, 00:46:27.820 --> 00:46:31.880 I'll do what I can to back you up. It takes real 00:46:31.880 --> 00:46:35.659 stones to do what y 'all doing here. Y 'all are 00:46:35.659 --> 00:46:40.519 real luminaries. Just curious, how did you get 00:46:40.519 --> 00:46:45.960 your influence? Honestly? Look, I spun some tales 00:46:45.960 --> 00:46:50.679 at Ada's pub. Got a little popular. Ada hated 00:46:50.679 --> 00:46:54.280 it. He didn't want people at his pub. He tries 00:46:54.280 --> 00:46:57.739 to keep it as desolate and quiet as he can, but 00:46:57.739 --> 00:47:00.300 started bringing people in. I think we changed 00:47:00.300 --> 00:47:04.199 that for him. Yeah, it surprises me. He must 00:47:04.199 --> 00:47:09.889 like those kids. But, yeah, I got found. They 00:47:09.889 --> 00:47:12.349 brought me into the network, tried me out, and 00:47:12.349 --> 00:47:14.989 folk of the worlds, y 'all know God's breath 00:47:14.989 --> 00:47:17.289 doesn't exactly play kind with all the other 00:47:17.289 --> 00:47:20.150 worlds out there. Sort of a mystique to us, like 00:47:20.150 --> 00:47:24.769 the way we talk. So, it was easy, honestly. I 00:47:24.769 --> 00:47:29.969 told stories. I got hired. I got famous. And 00:47:29.969 --> 00:47:33.630 all this, justice of the lake, fade to the background. 00:47:35.050 --> 00:47:38.320 Well, after this, um... Hopefully you can stay 00:47:38.320 --> 00:47:44.880 famous and we can share in that too. Yeah. He's 00:47:44.880 --> 00:47:50.079 open. He stands up, turns back to you with eyes 00:47:50.079 --> 00:47:55.519 running with tears, wrinkled cheeks, puts out 00:47:55.519 --> 00:48:00.079 a hand. At the same time, Zebulon goes to shake 00:48:00.079 --> 00:48:08.489 his hand. He asks, So, um, where's Kiana? Shakes. 00:48:08.489 --> 00:48:11.929 Not too far, actually. If we cut north from here, 00:48:12.090 --> 00:48:16.630 keep moving up, we'll find the collection of 00:48:16.630 --> 00:48:19.289 farms I know she's working for. I don't know 00:48:19.289 --> 00:48:22.449 which one exactly she's on, but folk there will 00:48:22.449 --> 00:48:26.889 know. The one that she said Cully was at? She 00:48:26.889 --> 00:48:30.130 said he was coming. And if he came from somewhere, 00:48:30.409 --> 00:48:34.130 he must have been here. If y 'all want to take 00:48:34.130 --> 00:48:39.260 a look around, I'd... I meant to once I got distracted. 00:48:40.019 --> 00:48:44.239 Can I roll a check on perception? Yeah, if you 00:48:44.239 --> 00:48:46.780 want to look around. Again, this will be like 00:48:46.780 --> 00:48:48.619 before. You can roll investigation. You can roll 00:48:48.619 --> 00:48:50.900 survival. Both of those will give you some information. 00:48:51.940 --> 00:48:53.559 Here's what's going to happen. Tungsten, I'll 00:48:53.559 --> 00:48:58.659 say, moves down now. And there's no words between 00:48:58.659 --> 00:49:01.719 Tungsten and Oren. Just like a respectful nod 00:49:01.719 --> 00:49:05.500 on both sides. But they will assist you. Both 00:49:05.500 --> 00:49:08.079 of them will assist one of you. So you guys can 00:49:08.079 --> 00:49:10.079 take... Basically how this works is you can also 00:49:10.079 --> 00:49:12.820 roll for your sidekicks in these cases. Only 00:49:12.820 --> 00:49:14.699 two people are going to get advantage from the 00:49:14.699 --> 00:49:16.239 help action that I'm going to give with my two 00:49:16.239 --> 00:49:18.659 NPCs. You can also have your sidekicks potentially 00:49:18.659 --> 00:49:22.119 give the help action to one another or however 00:49:22.119 --> 00:49:25.300 you want to set this out. You can make a total 00:49:25.300 --> 00:49:27.860 of four checks here, two of which will have the 00:49:27.860 --> 00:49:30.619 help action. Survival and investigation will 00:49:30.619 --> 00:49:38.769 both be the ones to try for. Okay. Second natural 00:49:38.769 --> 00:49:41.809 20. What the fuck? On investigation. How are 00:49:41.809 --> 00:49:46.389 you guys so good? Same goddamn check. And Sakura 00:49:46.389 --> 00:49:49.730 Blossom might not be perception, but it's investigation. 00:49:52.590 --> 00:50:00.949 Old men can investigate too. Lots of good old 00:50:00.949 --> 00:50:06.369 investigators. Sherlock Holmes. Yeah, yeah. House. 00:50:06.590 --> 00:50:09.909 Doctor Who sometimes. Doctor Who, depending on 00:50:09.909 --> 00:50:17.050 the season. Sometimes, yeah. House? Yeah. I was 00:50:17.050 --> 00:50:23.070 not expecting that. Oh, fuck. Okay. All right. 00:50:25.230 --> 00:50:30.449 On a natural 20 investigation, I want to give 00:50:30.449 --> 00:50:33.530 you everything. So don't worry about other rolls. 00:50:33.769 --> 00:50:36.969 Oh, yeah. Let's skip some. For real. Fuck, yeah. 00:50:37.349 --> 00:50:39.949 It's a nat 20. Okay, yeah, that's fine. It just 00:50:39.949 --> 00:50:41.829 makes sense. It is a lot of rolls. I'll take 00:50:41.829 --> 00:50:43.409 it. It's a lot of rolls. You're going to make 00:50:43.409 --> 00:50:46.030 those rolls. Hold on. Our audience wants one 00:50:46.030 --> 00:50:49.889 for all the marbles. Go make a roll. Not one 00:50:49.889 --> 00:50:52.650 roll. I just want to get in on it as well. It's 00:50:52.650 --> 00:50:56.190 a 20. Jeremy gets a button. All right. Oh, yeah. 00:50:56.409 --> 00:51:04.739 Three minus two. You dirty one. And I helped. 00:51:06.760 --> 00:51:08.599 I wish it was a one so I could have done horses, 00:51:08.619 --> 00:51:10.280 but it's all right. It's all right. It's fine. 00:51:10.400 --> 00:51:12.000 You guys kept the wagon with you, which means 00:51:12.000 --> 00:51:13.840 you kept the horse around, and that makes me 00:51:13.840 --> 00:51:17.340 delighted. That makes you exceptionally dangerous. 00:51:17.719 --> 00:51:22.840 Oh, so, so dangerous. Yeah. Jules. Yes. You, 00:51:22.920 --> 00:51:25.719 without even having the help of anybody, that 00:51:25.719 --> 00:51:29.260 was your first roll, you start moving along the 00:51:29.260 --> 00:51:34.019 edge of the water. And you see something very 00:51:34.019 --> 00:51:38.699 strange. You see marks where it looks like something 00:51:38.699 --> 00:51:43.300 started to crawl out from the lake, running up 00:51:43.300 --> 00:51:47.199 the muddy shore. And you see there's many somethings. 00:51:48.099 --> 00:51:53.860 Streaks in the mud, like fingers pulling themselves 00:51:53.860 --> 00:52:00.489 quickly up the shore. As they kind of reach just 00:52:00.489 --> 00:52:02.909 maybe like 15 feet or so away from the water, 00:52:03.030 --> 00:52:07.989 these marks, these fingers, disappear into deep 00:52:07.989 --> 00:52:12.309 burrows. Like snake holes or gopher holes going 00:52:12.309 --> 00:52:16.809 deep into the ground. And this is on the northern 00:52:16.809 --> 00:52:22.150 side of the lake, heading north. You also see, 00:52:22.309 --> 00:52:26.250 in the midst of all of these, something large. 00:52:27.199 --> 00:52:30.380 came out of this lake. Must have been the size 00:52:30.380 --> 00:52:34.940 of a man. You see many, many prints like this 00:52:34.940 --> 00:52:38.579 all coming together, dragging something. And 00:52:38.579 --> 00:52:41.460 the way these marks are splayed out around this 00:52:41.460 --> 00:52:44.960 dragged form makes you think that there's many 00:52:44.960 --> 00:52:49.800 hands pulling it. The form itself is unnatural 00:52:49.800 --> 00:52:53.440 from what you can tell. Something shambling, 00:52:53.760 --> 00:52:59.610 writhing. And it, too, vanishes into a burrow 00:52:59.610 --> 00:53:04.349 heading north. And that's what you know. Jules 00:53:04.349 --> 00:53:09.309 is going to call up. Guys? Guys? What is it? 00:53:09.989 --> 00:53:12.570 What do you got over there? Hey, Jules, what's 00:53:12.570 --> 00:53:14.710 up? You're going to want to see this. All right, 00:53:14.710 --> 00:53:19.010 I'm coming. Come on. I'm also coming. Chester's 00:53:19.010 --> 00:53:22.449 running over. Oh, he sounds like John Franklin. 00:53:25.350 --> 00:53:32.130 Turtle feet on the shore. Look. Oren and Tungsten 00:53:32.130 --> 00:53:36.530 both step over. Look down at it. Eyes following 00:53:36.530 --> 00:53:40.329 the line of marks where they disappear into the 00:53:40.329 --> 00:53:45.230 ground. Into burrows. Those eyes flicker to the 00:53:45.230 --> 00:53:50.889 north. Right. Is that where we're going? It's 00:53:50.889 --> 00:53:55.139 where he's waiting for us. Let's go. And Oren 00:53:55.139 --> 00:54:00.480 just, without a word, begins to march solemnly 00:54:00.480 --> 00:54:04.780 under the stars up the coast, across the farmlands 00:54:04.780 --> 00:54:09.619 of Cradolace Lake. I imagine you come too? Yeah, 00:54:09.679 --> 00:54:14.940 Zeb looks down at this pretty large burrow. Whatever 00:54:14.940 --> 00:54:19.559 creature crawled into it must be fairly sizable. 00:54:21.289 --> 00:54:24.349 and he thinks about what's waiting for him back 00:54:24.349 --> 00:54:29.389 home. And he, yeah, he rushes to catch up, and 00:54:29.389 --> 00:54:34.429 he walks right by Oren's side, right by Coley's 00:54:34.429 --> 00:54:38.550 side to protect him. Jules is no stranger to 00:54:38.550 --> 00:54:42.809 the darkness. He pulls right up. Chester, by 00:54:42.809 --> 00:54:45.809 your side. John Franklin hanging in the rear 00:54:45.809 --> 00:54:50.489 as before. Spear out. Nervous look in his eye. 00:54:51.309 --> 00:54:56.170 In Tungsten, with the carriage rattling as it 00:54:56.170 --> 00:55:00.429 goes off -road and across rough farmland. And 00:55:00.429 --> 00:55:05.389 this somber party begins towards the north. Towards 00:55:05.389 --> 00:55:12.349 Cully Jr. And the horrors that await. And we'll 00:55:12.349 --> 00:55:12.769 call it there.