Songwoven presents...
Ira Brinn Dawnbreak.
A level-up, advanced 5th edition, actual play campaign.
Episode 4.
On the Cusp.
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Hi Power Bottoms, it's me, Tim Don Tran, your narrator for Songwoven.
I am a bear who is gonna go on a tear right here.
And of course, with me today are my two other co-hosts.
Two other hosts.
Calling yourself the bear doesn't mean that the audience will choose you.
Although, to be fair though, Tim is the...
I would choose Tim the Bear.
I mean maybe if he doesn't open with Power Bottoms.
The Power Bottoms wasn't helping his cause?
What else do I call our fans?
You know how people call their fans stuff?
Like Critical has Critters, Dimension 20 has Dimensioners, they don't call their fans anything.
I was gonna say what are they called?
The Red Sox calls their fans losers.
What do you guys call your...
What should we call our fans?
I've been thinking about it all last week and it's like...
What about Weavers?
Hmm?
What about Weavers?
Hey fellow Weavers!
Hello Weavers!
Hello Weaves!
I love that!
What's up Weaves?
Wait, I love that though.
I think I know what you're thinking.
I love that.
Anything but Power Bottoms.
Omay says we are trolls.
Chat trolls.
What's up trolls?
Chat trolls.
Chat gremlins.
Can we not do that?
It's trademarked.
Troll for perception.
We could say things like that, yeah.
Troll for perception.
Yeah.
The trolls have like a chat toll.
I think...
The troll toll!
The troll toll isn't that bad though.
I see some of you nodding.
Who do you see?
I saw you.
I saw some of you nodding here.
Some of you!
Where's the nodding coming from?
There is an overlap within the TTRPG community as well as the BDSM community.
However, not for the stream.
The bosom community?
The person who can't hear me.
I wonder what the person who listens on their Alexa thinks.
The person who listens on your Alexa please talk to us.
We're so sorry.
Give us a suggestion.
We look at our analytics, we see you, we want to hear you.
We want to know what you think.
Are you a power bottom?
Yeah let us know.
No!
Email us at contactsongwolf at gmail.com.
No, no, no, no.
There's some things we should not know.
I've been on some new medication recently so I think the chemical makeup of my entire
being, of my anatomy has changed.
Last night I had a crazy dream.
I was driving on the road, which is already crazy, and I was stopped and pulled over by
a cop, and the cop said, sir you can't be drinking and driving.
And I looked at my hand and I was holding a jar of like, pregnant, of fucking, uh.
Pregnant?
Uh.
Let me drink some water real quick.
Prego?
You were drinking prego?
I was drinking prego.
Wait Tim, that's terrifying.
Like they say drink and drive but it doesn't apply to pasta, it doesn't apply to like tomato
sauce.
No that's absolutely horrific.
I would have arrested you then and there.
No you wouldn't have, I would struggle.
That's terrifying.
You were just drinking plain prego sauce?
I turned into a bone windmill.
You would not get close to me, you'd be scared.
You mean my owner, Whirlwind?
Yeah exactly.
Can't stop me.
Okay I was not drinking pregnant sauce, I was drinking prego sauce.
The sauce wasn't prepared to reproduce.
I was like what the fuck is pregnant sauce?
It's a sauce that makes you go mmmm, it makes you fall.
It makes a belly go fuck, no no no no.
I'm cutting you off, I'm cutting you off.
No no.
I'm cutting you off.
I'm cutting you off Tim.
Things happen when your disc is herniated, this is the person that's become everyone
everyone exercise proper lifting techniques.
Lift with your legs not with your back.
Exactly.
Be the powerful person you are.
Fuck!
So last episode on our reprint, a lot happened.
Many things happened.
I'm so genuinely concerned.
Good to keep going or do you need to cut off?
I was going to say should we just say, and that's tonight's stream.
Thanks so much for coming.
And that's tonight's stream ladies and gentlemen.
That's tonight's stream.
What if today's session was super awesome.
I always want you guys to find a terrasque.
No no no.
So thanks for coming everybody.
So thanks for coming.
This is our fun.
I think it would be very kooky and hilarious if people came to the stream, people came to the VOD and questioned why is the stream 40 minutes long?
Why is this one so much shorter?
It's more like why is it 25 minutes long?
Velour you look out your freaking window.
It's a big it's TMI.
I would win.
Roll initiative.
Oh yeah level three.
We're good.
We can handle this.
We're ready.
Exactly.
Retainer and the retainer.
Anyways that is Emma Remusco.
That is Jenny Sherard.
We are the trio that make up the song woven conglomerate.
Song woven.
We are the conglom.
The conglomeration.
Yeah the conglom.
The glamourous conglom.
Anyway.
Flash episode.
Last time.
Lots of things happened.
We had a party.
Speaking of.
Sorry go ahead.
No no no go for it.
You're going to regret this.
You're going to say power bottoms again.
Speaking of power bottoms.
No no actually no.
We were talking earlier like we were talking like this is going to be like our most this
is probably going to be like our most like personal like romantic like campaign ever.
Maybe.
The most like forward I think because we did Black Guards.
Black Guards had a lot of like romantic relationships right.
It did but it was more like I felt like it was either pre-established ones or like well
actually no Black Guards was very well it was also more players right.
There were more people.
Yeah it was definitely player definitely player ones.
And people rushed it because we knew it was going to be over.
I think too at a set time.
So if people did something they were making moves they weren't doing the long game like
some campaigns where they're like oh do they like each other.
I don't know for 20 sessions.
Because they didn't have that time.
We couldn't slow burn it.
I was going to say we speed run to slow burn that's for sure.
It was the most like romantic campaign we've ever done.
By the way watch Black Guards if you have it's really good.
Everyone who's a part of that is awesome.
Except for that one.
Anyways.
But yeah it was like gosh I forgot what I was going to say.
No I don't remember what I was going to say.
Prego.
No I'm just kidding.
So yeah this campaign it's already like we were already like looking at all the prospects.
We were talking about all the like the NPCs already and it feels like it feels like with
Quincy and Marcellus already people are already like ooh.
Oh chat was shipping people.
I talked I talked to our friend I talked to our friend Brandon.
And he hasn't watched any of these episodes.
But I told I told I told him like everything about what about what was going on.
And he's like oh they're oh they're both flyers.
Oh and they're and they're both so they're both dramatic ass people.
He didn't say exactly like that.
But like the mind was already in fucking shipping in shipping mode.
Well especially since this is a fire album fire album inspired campaign.
One of the main mechanics is like dating right.
Like it's like matching up with someone and marrying and creating another lineage.
It's like in other games like you're having kids right.
And then you play the kids and they kind of play down the line right.
I cannot lose you therefore we fight so much better together.
But it makes losing you so much worse.
What was that from.
Oh that was just me.
That was me talking.
That's just me stating what that mechanic is about.
But gosh yeah there's so much more so much more to come guys.
Keep you guys fed to keep the slippers fed.
Yeah so we and if we're folks who didn't tune in last time we had the party.
Valora found out that her dad had made a deal with Graham's family.
And after Valora appropriately bitch slapped him as he should have been.
Slow mo.
Yeah we got to know Quincy Garvey who is a sweet bean of a grumpy grumpy smart boy.
Oh and the side is it simple or cyber cyber cyber the cyber visited which was wild.
Valora had a dance off with Marcellus and was jealous is and challenged to a race.
And Valora and Marcellus are going to go hand to hand.
They're going to fight maybe kiss TBD.
Super brain is activated.
The cyborgs hold Lucia that house Avonlea was going to fall.
Which is not the best thing.
She doesn't know my future.
Share with the bingo card open.
That's what I'm missing.
I don't need my bingo card yet.
They kind of they kind of do have to what people fall all the time fall asleep.
You never know what kind of fall in there.
And after this lovely Valora and Valora took Lucia up on Phantom and they were flying in the sky much like a Disney moment with the fireworks going off and then there was an airship and mine.
The airships yours and people have like slowly accepted Lucia as the retainer because what Valora says goes.
Although Lucia is real fucking dumb.
And then Arnalda is not well.
He's sick.
Very sick.
But he refuses.
Very sick.
He basically is like nope.
You've got to you've got to go to school.
You've got to go to school.
And Lucia agreed because she knows that it is it has been told foretold to her in her visions that she has to help Valora.
And so now they're on their way to school school school school or school back to school time.
It's back to school shopping.
That's what we'll do this episode.
We'll do a back to school shopping for one deal on iron daggers.
This season make sure you're the coolest.
Get a five pack of vulnerabilities.
And we'll throw it in the convoy.
And we'll throw in a short spot in the graveyard for you.
The silver lion merch is popping off this school year.
Someone's saying again.
What's the fucking saying?
Gosh someone.
Witness Valor.
Witness Valor on a frickin baseball tee.
You know what the look on.
Oh gosh.
There's a bunch.
There's a bunch of noble kids and every every every noble house has like a motto.
And Avonlea is whispers to thunder.
And that's cool.
Because because he turned your whispers into it travels across the realm.
Whoa.
So cool.
And it's like it'd be really unfortunate if like every.
Can you imagine like if it was in the modern times people will be watching Iro Brin.
It's like yeah.
They're going to be like here's our fantasy teams.
Here's who's going to win the school year.
School year.
But then what if a kid die.
If a kid in the noble house dies then the other children get like a 90 percent discount.
Oh no.
Imagine being able to say you graduated from Iro Brin the same way someone says I graduated from Yale.
Oh it's an Ivy.
It's an Ivy.
It is the Ivy.
It is the Ivy and if you survive it's even more impressive.
Not dead.
Typically the students don't die at Iro Brin.
Typically.
They don't send you to they don't send you to war.
You know typically.
The less you know the better.
It's like fuck man.
These people this war academy is like there's no wars going on.
So I guess we kind of have to start one.
These kids teach these kids a lesson.
That's what happened last time on Iro Brin Dawnbreak.
And next time what's going to happen is this segue into what's happening right now because we're starting the high octane adrenaline fueled series of Iro Brin Dawnbreak.
The shopping episode.
The back to school shopping episode.
Every item that they shop for is sponsored.
Please please please please.
Sponsored by Blood Bath and Beyond.
Oh my god wait Blood Bath and Beyond.
They need their dorm gear.
They need their dorm stuff.
We have to coin that.
I'm sorry we have to.
Blood Bath and six feet below.
Blood Bath and Beyond.
That has to be someone clip that.
Someone please clip that.
Alright with that said.
We have gone past a few days.
Traveled beyond.
Traveled in time further into the future where it's getting closer to the promised time to deliver ourselves to Iro Brin Officers Academy.
For the both of you it's been an awfully busy few days as you begin ramping up to a paramount responsibility.
Now Velora you have had the luxury of knowing about your position a few months even a confident guess a few years ago.
And of course there is confidence in your end.
However Lucia it's been a bit more chaotic for you.
Two days before we make our way to Iro Brin.
We settle in on the town of Voran Adam.
A sweeping cityscape sprawling with high rise buildings.
Multiple pairs of wings soaring about the air.
This is a city.
This is one of the biggest cities in the entirety of the Kingdom of Onor.
Even bigger than the crown city of Tokor.
You see multiple.
We come in on a sweeping green hill and the large walls that encapsulate the city.
Pigeons carrying messages from the cities many of sort of flock houses.
A network of houses that are designed to send messages all throughout the kingdom with all different kinds of birds and messenger animals.
All specially trained by the very own house Avonlea.
We sweep through the many the city's many districts.
The many markets and places of business.
People's livelihoods established, staked at every corner of the place.
This is Onor at its most modern, at its most advanced.
But of course beyond all of that we see Pulsekeep.
A massive keep.
Old in time but has been upkept through attention to detail and care by those living in house Avonlea.
And even though the city is bustling and people are running about everywhere.
It looks from up above it looks like ants rushing around in a mound.
There is nothing ever more abuzz, more beating than that located in the very heart of Ornatum.
It is morning.
Valora, there's a knock on your door.
She gets up and answers it.
As you answer it you see Fatima.
A tiefling woman, one of the heads of your house.
This white blanched tiefling with completely white eyes.
She's been working with you for quite some time now.
She just goes, hello my lady, just coming here because your mom wants to see you.
Alright, thanks. I was just about to head down.
Oh, your mother's about at the moment. She's already gone to work. You know how she is.
Oh yeah. Which means I don't know where she is right now.
Well, I'll find her.
Alright, do you need anything? Of course, any, anything. Breakfast is made down below I think.
I told the people to get on that a bit sooner.
I've got it. Thank you.
Actually, this is again, my lady. Big day coming up. Rushes off.
I like that music.
And you go to find your mother?
Yeah.
You begin making your way through the gilded halls of the keep.
And you know that the moment you step out of your doors, things become busy.
You see Ali, a young man, one of the stable masters of your place, kind of makes his way to your side.
As you make your way down, he walks by your side and immediately you are swarmed by the hecticness of the work of your place.
Multiple people moving about, clipboards and all kinds of papers about.
Ali, a tanned young man, comes up and he says, oh, hi, my lady. Do you know where your mother is at the moment?
That's what I'm wondering too.
And then you see Charles, another half-elven man, just goes, oh, hello, young lady.
Do you know where your mother is at the moment? She needs to sign something. Can you sign this actually?
I don't think I can.
And you see, and as you're walking out of your keep going to where you think your mother might be,
there's just so much commotioning happening around you.
Commotioning.
Everything is commotioning at once.
You see some handlers on the side. It gets thrown off a horse. There's this huge, shy horse.
It throws off a person. You hear people go, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
And the board, there's like a tumble, like a tumble back foot lands on his back in the mud.
You okay?
Yep. Yep. Sorry about that.
Have you tried to stand yet though?
On the horse? I guess I haven't tried that yet.
No, no.
I didn't know you were supposed to stand on it.
No, no, no, no, no, no. Don't stand on the horse.
She looks around to see if there's someone more experienced helping them. She assumes that they're watching.
And as you're looking around to find someone, you are immediately set upon by, you see another servant of the house, you see Arad, another young man coming up.
My lady, this way, this way.
Um, I'm, I take it you are the path to my mother?
Yes. I represent my lady. I can help you find your way through this chaos.
Well, that would be fantastic.
Yes. Please do not stand on the horse. I can't believe I have to say that.
All right. This way, this way, please. This way, please.
He just goes, as he's walking alongside you, he goes, had a good day this morning? Good breakfast?
Oh, not yet. I mean, since I guess I slept in a little bit.
Oh dear, getting all your rest in before going to Iren, huh?
Well, today is probably the one chance I get, right?
Yeah, because it seems like your, it seems like your mother is taking all of the, all of that stress from you.
Okay, so trying to guilt trip me, I see.
Oh, I didn't say anything.
It's like Gatsky, girl boss?
Um, he goes, all right, your mother is over there doing her, doing her walk, doing her walk around the yard.
And she points and you see your mother walking around with Rean Suryashka following her.
And she is just, she's just like immediately like, okay, sign something and then keeps walking.
And you see the two people that are with you like, oh, oh, my lord, and starts running towards her.
She just lets them do their thing and then walk behind.
And you see Ered just goes, are you sure you don't want, you sure you want to approach your mother without a document in hand?
She's signing things all morning.
Oh, yeah, I could get an autograph handy for the next person who asks.
Well, good one, bye lady.
Video wink and walks away as you as you make your way to your to your mother.
And she just goes, I know who that is, my peripheral vision.
And she she shoves a clipboard in someone's in someone's chest and goes,
Laura, good morning. Good morning.
Make your case ahead. Walk and talk, walk and talk.
All right.
She starts she starts walking as you begin to walk through as you begin to walk through the span.
This large this large field dedicated to your many efforts and training and training flying mounts.
This is this is truly where the heart of House Evelyn of the Spirit survives.
You're not required to do this, but it's been something that your family's been doing ever since they were basically,
you know, created.
You see Griff you see griffins and and mostly Pegasi of flock of flocking about people training, doing anything, washing these animals.
And a big part of it is also appeasing them, feeding them.
They don't kick our ass.
See, you see, you see, you see a Pegasi sniff food, sniff food that someone's offering and then raises it raises its nose up offended.
And you know that person now, you know that person is now going to have a really hard time with that Pegasi.
While they're walking and she spots it, she goes, she just says,
Oh, gosh, what was I going to.
She yells out across from like she goes, if you start with a little sugar cube, she takes it.
Oh, like a pony.
This this person takes a sugar cube and raises it.
And then you see the Pegasi opens one eye, looks at it, eats it and then looks back up.
It just turned its nose away.
And you see mom just goes, oh, yeah, glider is a bit of a grudge holder, but she'll work with you eventually.
Keep going. Keep going.
Dessert before, well, breakfast, I guess.
And you hear the and you hear the man, the man taking care of it.
Oh, so they're just like children. And then you see the you see the Pegasi all just like.
I'm scared of the Pegasi.
There is a death. They're going to hurt me.
You'll get better.
Going to hurt me. This way, this way, this way.
This is a good thing. Everybody who works at the house has well established health care.
OK. All right.
Big day ahead.
Did you go through my daughter?
Did you go through my list of everything that you need to pack up and get ready?
Oh, yeah. I mean, I started packing last night.
All right. Good. And everything's all packed and ready to go.
You have two days and you know, you know what they say, you know, never late.
Yeah, I I've got it covered.
Well, you don't want to be scrambling at the very, you know, at the very end before you go, like looking for a spear or or anything.
And you have to get one of those loners from Irvine.
And I just have to say that, you know, that's not the type of one from home.
I I'm sure if I forget something, I'll I'll make do.
Well, well, well, well, Bonnie, Bonnie walking or running over to the other.
Are these horses? Are these horses going to Aurora?
Yes, my Lord. Oh, OK.
Don't use cloven shire horses. They don't do well in the soul.
You're going to want to get Kikura horses, shire horses.
OK, they're going to do a lot better. OK. Yes, my Lord. Thank you.
Thank you. Anyways. OK. So yours. So OK.
You make your way on through the list and everything. Yes. Yes, yes, yes. OK. OK. OK. OK.
You don't have to worry. I know. I know you're worried, but you don't have to worry about it.
I'm not worried. I'm not worried. I know you and you can do all kinds of things and you do what you say and you're very reliable.
And you're finished with everything, right? The entire list.
Well, basically that you eat. No, it's a lower because I wasn't going to be working with the pegasi today.
So it's my day to sleep in. Yes, it is. Yes, it is. OK.
Oh, gosh. Cora Cora.
She's usually in this spot of the span. It's OK. I'll find her.
So the Laura, my daughter, the daughter of mine, who I love so much.
Oh, gosh. Pinches both your cheeks, stretches it really quickly.
She even makes time to do the daughter of mine, my own daughter, my spawn, my spawn.
She's she she just goes, OK, I made something for you. It's in the kitchen.
By the way, your dad has already made his way off.
You know, your dad already made it made his way off. So it's going to be you and me today.
So and I'm pretty sure that Lucy is coming in today.
I think that's what that's what the ministry told me that they said that soon.
If that's true, I can handle all of that and you don't have to.
OK. Hey, let's do some. OK. I thought of the treasure.
You have to spending money at the ready now.
Typically, it's not really smiled upon for a Lord to send their child to Arab
in with a whole bunch of money because they want people to, you know, kind of self-sustained themselves and everything.
The nepotism.
I mean, you're going to be well taken care of.
You're not going to you don't have to spend money because all you need to be settled.
But like just in case I will be sending you to Arab with two thousand gold, if that's OK, you know, you know, it's OK.
It's OK. Just a little bit of spending money.
OK. Of course.
Is that too is that too little?
Just just a touch, just a touch of two K gentle smattering of two K the one percent.
Ladies and gentlemen, we're lords and also have a thriving business on top of that.
Chats as petty cash to get you have two thousand gold waiting for you.
The treasurer will need you to sign off on it. OK. OK.
Confirming what I'm saying. That's a good thing. That's a good thing.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
I love you, by the way.
I love you, too. You check everything off your list.
No, no, no, no, no.
She's looking at her list. She's halfway down.
And then you see she pulls up on it and there's like two more pages that she hasn't gone through.
You probably could have slept in today, too.
Funny.
I'm serious. Is everything going to just like stop if you take a little break?
I mean, yeah, I do have I do have trained people who can really upkeep everything.
People who can be people who can manage Beatrix is doing absolutely amazing.
It says, you know, you know, the Beatrix Sixters were trained right here at the OK.
Never mind.
Oh, by the way, I heard some news about Irobrin.
I've been keeping, you know, your father got me keeping an eye on the comings and goings of Irobrin.
And it turns out you're going to have two Cadwalladers there.
I also found out why the Cadwallader family wasn't at the ceremony.
Oh, Lord Cal... Lord Cadwallader was passed out drunk, drank way too much.
It's just before before the ceremony.
Yeah, yeah. And so the whole family didn't show up.
Well, I guess that tracks.
Yeah. So two, two Cadwalladers.
Yeah. The youngest daughter and the eldest son, who's actually been at...
Who's already been at Irobrin for a few years. He's a third year.
Oh, OK. Yeah. Yeah.
So there's a throughed Cadwallader and the oldest son, Todd Cadwallader.
You made him... you made him a Cadwallader?
You made Todd a Cadwallader?
I was going to choose responding character, but that warrant is stopping.
That warrant is stopping. I don't understand. I don't understand.
I nearly killed a Cadwallader in another game.
I only stopped because Thor literally told me to.
And Todd Caliballader. So there you go. I don't know much about them.
I heard Todd's been doing really good, though.
Yeah, I haven't. I haven't met them. I don't think. Except for maybe when I was younger.
Your father did say that Todd was a little bit of a bad boy. So maybe, you know.
Yeah, but what constitutes bad boy to dad?
Is it like, is it like, oh, no, he he wore a black undershirt instead of a white one?
No, that's not that strict.
To the cafeteria.
Yeah. I mean, I mean, he might have smirked a bit too much, something like that, you know.
Anyways, um, everything I hear is so much more exciting.
You're going to meet so many people.
Okay, only two quick two quick kisses.
Mwah mwah kisses you both cheeks.
A third one. Kiss you on the forehead. Okay, now stretching it.
Check. Check.
Yep. Yep. Give three kisses to my daughter.
Um, oh gosh.
All right.
She stops for a moment, just pauses.
She just goes, gosh, I'm going to miss you so much.
I'm not going to be that far away.
No, we're not going to be here like every day.
I mean, that's also true.
Otherwise, okay, we're coming across a phantom's little place over here.
I got to feed phantom too.
Yeah, you do.
I'm super excited too.
I tried to make requests about phantoms staying in a special women's candle and they accepted my request.
So they built them. They built it for him. They built him something.
Did you like, did you give like the specs for that? Absolutely. Absolutely.
Okay. Then I'm sure it would be good.
I was wondering if I'd have to get him to like sneak into my room or something.
I bet he could do it if the lights are off, you know.
I think he could scare away anyone who witnessed it.
Just have him snarl.
Oh gosh, remember when he was young and he would just really cloak in with the night and people kept tripping over him every time he snuck into the keep.
Okay.
I'm going to do my rounds.
You take care of phantom and everything and we'll meet up and later.
Get everything settled.
Well, see you when I see you. See you when I see you.
You walk walks off.
And he and you hear go balustrary.
This. I told you that Pegasus did not like bananas.
Brandon, what are you doing?
You make your way to the special, the special, the special little area where the where the flying mounts of the house are are well kept.
It has a has a wide view.
It has a wide view of the place.
There are it isn't.
It is an open kind of like situation.
Like these mounts are like took like, yeah, you have free range, free range to fly around to do whatever you wish.
And they're trained well enough to know where their home is and where to stay.
Making a making a way through making a way through the place.
You you hear it as soon as you walk up to it.
The trademark sounds of of phantom scampering to his feet upon upon hearing about sniffing your scent.
Good morning.
Makes his way over to you puts his puts his head in your in your chest.
And she'll get him all taken care of morning routine.
Let him out.
As everything gets as everything is situated.
Very quickly, we're going to head on over to another awakening.
My second character.
Today, Jenny will be right with herself.
Jenny's second character.
Please describe yourself as you wake up in front of a mirror.
I am a figment of my imagination.
I am me and I am the Lucia.
I get the sad music.
This is your theme.
This is your established theme.
It's called daisies.
Oh, yeah, that is. Oh, this is the pretty one.
This is cute. Very cute.
The past few days for you has been hectic and more of an internal internal sense.
Yes, there was the shopping.
Yes, there was like getting getting everything ready.
Orie has been so incredibly incredibly useful and incredibly useful.
A point of information for any question you might have had because she had graduated I have been before too.
And over the past few days, Arnolda, the goatee who had taken who had taken deep care of you has cared for you very deeply ever since you stepped first into the soil of Noor.
He has on that day, there was some concern over his health.
Well, he's dead now. I'm kidding.
I was like, Tim, I swear to Christ, if he's dead, he will live forever.
Every time Tim brings up Arnolda, I'm like, he's dead.
He killed him.
He took him from me.
Now I have nothing left.
I say, no joy.
I say, no, then I was like, it's over.
It's done.
He's gone.
He's fucking dead.
That's it.
But he's not a PC.
Oh, that's it.
My one NPC gone dead.
You have your bag ready to go.
And Ori has gifted you a small dagger to put at your head and has trained you has trained you a little bit in the proper holding and what the business and does and how to wear it properly and how to not to accidentally stab somebody or myself.
Little bits of Ori now being in your life now more than ever.
And Arnolda not having any of the fainting spells he's had recently things in the past few days have gone have gone well for him.
You also awake to slight tapping on your door.
You awake pedal.
I think she's like, had a hard time sleeping, what with the vision she had at the ball, which were wild.
And she's been trying to piece them all together and also being told by this cybo, who she's never met before that there's one another one of her kind, and to that the house that she's just been pledged to serve and help is going to fall.
Oh, her nights have been incredibly restless, like really struggling.
Really trying to figure out like how you know how to move forward so I think she kind of like rolls out of bed, you know, I'm awake, I'm awake, I'm awake.
Arnolda opens up the door.
And
you believe it every time.
Because the problem with TGP Jesus that were conditioned to experience pain and trauma.
Happiness.
I'm just like experience.
He's going to take him from me.
Why suffer alone when we can suffer together.
As he does as he opens up the door.
He opens up the door he goes, I'm going.
He goes,
and as you roll out of bed he just goes,
to this big day.
Yeah, I thought that the ball was the big day but the days just keep getting bigger and bigger, you know and and then then we we we rise to the challenge, and we we we meet the challenge head on, like boats do.
Yeah, it's boats.
Yeah, like the boat thing you tell me I you know we're meant to sail and go into dangerous, really dangerous waters that we're not exactly sure how to how to paddle through but that's what we're made to do so we got to do it anyway even if we don't know what we're doing.
You will.
I have to learn a lot quicker. She like kind of looks right at him.
I'm going to be honest.
I'm kind of.
I'm weighing over my head.
You.
He sits down on the bed and and paths to space next to him.
She kind of curls up immediately into his side.
You are making a carnal mistake that many in your boots and make.
What's that.
See I'm already messing up and she starts banging her head lightly on his shoulder.
He, he puts a finger up to interrupt the banging, so you just drill into his job at his finger.
You are codifying all of your expectations on yourself and burdening your learning.
With the made up burden of time of deadlines. When in fact, learning happens much like how life occurs. It's natural. It happens naturally. You can't quicken it. It's just simply comes to you.
When you see into the future, all you can think of are deadlines.
And I kept seeing them at the ball.
Destruction and.
I was told.
I was told by one of me.
One of me.
He.
He moves a piece of hair under your face.
You know what I believe.
All father.
The Allfather yes.
But us as people.
Have such an almighty.
Power.
The power to inflict so much change in the world.
That perhaps.
The future can never be set in stone properly.
That's true. I was able to change it one time.
You do so.
So many more times.
You were given glimpses of potential, but that's all they are potentials.
The future only changes when people do.
And if you're going to be working towards.
Stopping those.
Unpreferable futures that you are presented.
Then they will have to change.
You really think I can do it.
I know you can.
You're doing it right now.
I think you're doing it right now.
The greatest predictors of.
Then seers and whatnot. I think.
I don't think they can predict the future.
I think what they're doing is that they're predicting people.
Is very often throughout history, people do not change. And when people do not change.
It is very easy to see what can become of the world and what they do.
He just nods.
I spoke.
To a healer this morning.
You could.
Okay. And did they give you something.
You see that he's thinking for a moment staring out into the.
To the openness of your room.
And he snaps to you for a moment. His eyes do.
And his eye and his lips slowly curls into a warm smile.
The one he always has.
And he just goes.
That's just like.
That's like fainting spell.
I inside check that. Yes, you may.
Stop lying to me.
Lies.
That's going.
Lies. That's going to be a 14.
28. Why the fuck does he have a plus 12.
He rolled double.
Jesus Christ.
28. No chance.
The warmness of his.
The warmness of his eyes.
And.
Has always been.
He's always been a purveyor of.
Of truths.
Even those that are.
Even even those that are just convenient.
But you feel.
That there is there is some confidence to be had.
Though innately.
Also someone who's grown up with him.
And they.
And innately you do know that he's told.
Convenient lies.
Small ones.
And.
He's.
I really think I should stay to take care of you.
But.
You really want me to go.
Course.
I ask you just one question though.
Of course anything.
You want to know.
I want to know what happened to me, dad.
Like how.
Fish.
Needs water.
How the feathers of a bird.
I will miss you as of.
We are worlds apart.
But you know my heart is strong.
And even though it will not have the surge of energy.
To.
Bring it beating and bragging every morning.
It was still beat.
And it will wait for you.
To hear every story.
You have to tell me.
She just flings her arms around his neck and just gives him a big hug.
I love you.
I love you too.
I'm scared.
I know.
But you can be brave now.
She'll pull back and kind of like.
Blink away misty eyes and goes.
That's right.
After all the gods are watching out for us.
Of course.
I mean.
They're watching out for us.
Everything will happen as it's intended to be.
Perhaps this is why I was created to begin with.
Perhaps.
But.
That is something.
That is a question.
That is a maximum statement that you are going to have.
To discover more.
The chisel away at.
Now.
For Wayne will.
Expect you at the gates in about an hour.
So.
This is going to write me right.
Going to write me right.
Of course.
Make sure you make sure to put your honey in your tea because your throat tends to hurt in the morning and make sure that your pillowcase is always flipped on the other side because sometimes the feathers poke out on the other one and you need to make sure that the neighbor makes sure that you get fresh water from the well because I won't be able to holler in the morning and I want to make sure you have clean water to make your tea as well to splash your face in.
Is he crying.
Oh no.
Yeah.
Oh no.
This is Emma panicking.
It's okay.
Don't make it.
I know I know but like dad tears makes Emma nervous.
She's going to quickly like grab a handkerchief and quickly you know dab his face and now she's comforting him.
Behind his ear and goes.
Yeah yeah yeah those really pesky allergies.
Well here's the thing with those allergies.
Anytime we have a lot of breaks at school sometimes right and the high holidays.
I'll have all these stories to tell you about how I've, you know passed on the teachings of our gods to these people who maybe they don't even know they don't even think about themselves to a higher power.
So I can help you know educate them and give them a sense of self and purpose in this entire orchestra of a world.
I know you could do that because you've certainly done it for me.
Ouch Tim.
Fuck you.
Ouch.
I was just listening I like to in an opportune time to do the condom style.
He doesn't when we're in pain.
And she'll, you know, gently squeeze his hand like take his hands and ears clasp them tight.
Boats were made to float.
I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna swim through these waters like that little boat that we had I'm gonna fly.
Just you wait.
Well ideally if you have a boat you don't swim.
That's true but I did see a flying ship the other day and so I'm going to be the ship that flies.
I guess you'd want to have to deal with waters or a harbor and any of that those cases then.
You know just you wait I'm going to show these city kids.
I'm going to show them what Lusardis can do.
As she's full on anime protag you know.
I sparkling glittering fists up in the air.
As he is overwhelmed by as he is overwhelmed by the sheer animatis as he as he also feels power.
Power of you.
Rock Lee and Guy sensei doing the little.
Um.
Hmm.
He just goes.
Well before you do that we have to get angry inside of you so.
Why don't we have breakfast.
Before you go.
Yeah.
Keep us standing nice and strong as we get on the road and I'm going to learn how to how to how to fight and how to how.
As she kind of like overthrows her shoulder.
Oh yeah.
Maybe we're going to I know how to hold a knife though that's really I mean dagger not a knife a dagger.
It is a knife though but it's a dagger I don't know why it's the same thing.
Hand on your shoulder and a healing energy courses through his hands and goes into your.
Just stick with the healing yeah I think I'll stick with that for now.
Um or a will give you the information to.
For you to write to me for me to receive your.
So.
Every every single day every single morning every single night I'm going to tell you everything that's going on and then I'm going to tell it to you again when I come back for the holidays.
Of course I would love that time with that time with like more sparkles and more movement so that you can see and I can act out the scenes for you of what happens at school.
Of course of course.
Perhaps maybe bring back some friends as well.
Oh yeah.
I mean if the world would want to come.
Perhaps.
This is I would love to I would love nothing more than to host her.
And then I made another friend too.
Oh yes.
His name is Quincy.
Very serious but secretly funny.
Secretly funny.
Funnier than me.
Oh.
No one can be funnier than you.
Anyone can be funnier than me.
Funny you're looking.
I'm not funny looking.
She kind of pouts.
Red cheeks.
He he presents.
Nothing special.
It's the same humble array of foodstuffs that you eat.
You would eat in the morning.
No ceremony or anything.
It's just breakfast.
Yeah.
It's what it has been traditionally before everything changes.
The two of you.
The two of you began to eat.
And of course the clock.
Time ever marches on and the clock is the ever reminder.
And then when breakfast is up.
It's time to go.
He just goes.
You have everything packed.
She slings her knapsack over her back and slaps down a list of
instructions for the neighbor that she's made two copies of.
One to keep in the house and one to give that is mailed to the
neighbor in case Arnalda tries to hide it or get rid of it.
Because he wants to take care of himself on his own.
So two copies have been sent out of things that need to be done
while she's gone.
As she swings her knapsack over, slaps the list on the table, she
goes, take care of yourself, okay?
You've got one less mouth to feed.
One less mouth to enrich me with stories.
Just wait till you see my letters.
Of course.
Let me walk you to the front.
Okay.
And now she's actually like after having the pep talk, now she's
like getting excited.
It's like first day of school jitters, right?
Gone are like, you know, the tears and now it's just pure
excitement, like going off to camp.
It's relaxing music.
It's camp music.
And then as you leave, he dies.
As he dies.
He opens the door to the front.
You see that he puts in your bag, he puts in your bag, he
puts in your bag, he puts in your bag, he puts in your bag,
he puts in your bag, he puts in your bag a couple of jars of
jam at home.
And his death certificate as he dies.
His death certificate as he dies.
They're really on top of it around here.
Listen, the church records are always, the church records are
always up to date.
He puts a couple of jams in your bag.
And I'm going to give you a little bit of spending money,
a little bit from the savings.
No, I don't need it.
I can make it there.
It's alright.
Just something for you.
Just as a personal level, there's a wonderful town nearby
called Havan.
They have wonderful everythings there, wonderful fixtures you
can spend what you like.
I should probably get some books, some notebooks and
scrolls.
Oh, I have to go back to school shopping.
I've never even gone to school.
So how can I go back to something I've never been to?
There's multiple wonderful deals that can be had at Havan.
There's this wonderful individual called Anna.
Once I got a 10 for one special from her.
She's in every Iroprinth game.
I was going to say she's, oh my god, like the games.
But it's different than the games because we spell her name backwards.
Oh, I see.
It's really different.
Avoiding that copyright.
Avoiding that copyright is backwards.
Can't sue us.
I wonder if I should hold up a corp.
No, no, no.
It's backwards.
It just goes, is this place called the Draft?
Three horses for the price of two.
Wow.
That's a lot.
I don't think I even know if I need one horse.
That's a lot.
Yeah.
You will take it.
You will hold out your hand and you will accept this gift for me.
Fine, but I'm buying you something cool when I get to school like a school t-shirt or something.
She holds open her hand.
I want our stories.
And this is genuinely a lot of money to you.
He puts three gold pieces in your hand.
GM said you're poor.
It's genuinely a lot of money to farmlanders.
That is three years of salaries for a farmer.
She goes, ow.
You're fucking rolling in it now.
She's genuinely like, I'm going to get mugged.
You're going to mug me when they see how much I have.
Keep it close.
Okay, okay.
And she's hiding it under her skirts and petticoats in various pouches.
She's like, I promise, I know how long it took you to raise this to get all this money, so I promise I'll spend it well.
But, my god, three gold?
Yes, three gold.
You're saying it too loud.
People might hear you.
Shake me on the streets.
You walk out into the streets.
The three gold pieces are given.
Big wave.
Big wave to everybody as you pass by.
You see that there is a procession of people.
From my little town?
Your little part of the town.
You see that people were waiting outside.
Stop.
All the families have been outside.
You see little hands, big hands.
Everybody from every house waving you off.
You hear, bye, your little part goes, we'll miss you.
I'll miss you guys too, but I'll make you proud.
You see someone trying to say, Lucy, yeah, Lucy.
But it doesn't happen.
Everyone's just cheering.
She goes, thank you, because she knows that they tried.
And you are eventually brought to the front gates.
Or you see a small procession of ministry soldiers and ory.
She wears her typical like, like ministry regalia.
But you see that it's accompanied with a few, a few soft pads of, of modified leather armor.
And you see a rapier, a rapier by her side.
She's never looked like it.
But from the past few days where she's been training you, you've learned just how.
Like you've gotten a glimpse at her true, like, perhaps battle ability.
She's incredibly agile.
She's, she's a badass bitch.
She's cool coming, she smiles, she's sitting, she's on top of a horse.
And she just goes.
Good morning, Eikon.
Good morning, Oriane.
I have three gold.
I'm rolling in it.
I might get mugged because of the immense wrath I have on my person.
I promise that won't happen to you while I'm around.
See, Dad?
She nudges Arnalda.
Maybe fine.
Arnalda, you're spoiling her now.
Well, it's a special day.
A special three years.
Because you have to kill the lily a few times.
Oriane holds her hand down to you to pull up onto the horse.
I think she like rushed forward in her excitement, pauses halfway, turns back to look at Arnalda.
Runs back quickly, throws her arms around him into a big hug.
I'll write you soon.
And then before she can get too sad or think too much about it, she sprints over and grabs Oriane's hand and gets up onto the horse.
Paws you up.
Are you going to be learning to ride one of these soon enough?
Oh, wow. Yeah, I learned how to, well, I got to ride Phantom. Did you know that?
Yes, I did hear about that.
Yeah, it was so cool. And I'm there, peg a side with wings that I can fly to. And she's just kind of like clinging like a little spider monkey around her.
Fair winds, Godman.
And you see Arnalda, who now when you turn to him, you see that in this composition, he his back is standing to the entirety of the city, no one's around him.
It, um,
perhaps the loneliest you've ever seen him.
Throughout all of that, he still smiles.
He just goes,
I'll see you again.
See you soon. And I think in that moment she like sends up a prayer.
Like prayer of protection.
I just like, please, please keep him safe.
He dies.
And that's what kills him.
The gods are like, you know what?
You know what? Fuck you.
We're gonna fucking kill him actually.
Thanks for your prayer. Not.
I love doing the opposite of mortal prayers.
That's how you get them.
That's how you get these fuckers.
That's how you snag them. That's how you drag them in.
That's how you get these assholes.
Awful.
He waves at you.
As Aurea goes,
Formation with me.
And the horses began to move away.
Arnaud stands there the whole time.
As long as the both of you can see each other,
as long as the both of you retain any color in your visions,
the both of you remain until he becomes so small in the distance
that the city, that the sight of the city engulfs the little thought that he is.
And the whole time, he smiled.
We cut to where you are not looking.
Oh no! Does he die?
As Aurea sees,
As Aurea sees you off,
eventually his arm brings back to his side.
I see that sad little sigh.
Two armored, silvered men
don't make their appearance,
don't make their appearance unknown. They walk in heavy armor.
And a large man,
swarthy in appearance, dark circles under his eyes, orange hair.
He is rather, he has rather rotund years of drinking.
Walks up to him.
His hand reaches for the hammer on his hip and he just holds it.
And, oh no, the doesn't turn.
He just goes,
You don't want to do that.
He just, he turns towards the man. He just goes,
Lord Cadwallader.
Goes,
And you see the man he addresses.
Just goes,
Come with me.
He just,
And Aurea just goes,
As you recommend, you take your hand off that hammer. The moment you swing it, it'll be your biggest mistake.
He goes,
So, rumors are true then?
He goes, You want to find out?
He goes,
And on all of this goes,
I've taken more heads than drinks you've had these past few weeks, dear.
Please tell me he was a badass in his past life. Please.
You don't scare me.
You're nothing but a ghost.
Ghosts should frighten you, my lord.
The king wants to see me?
Yeah.
He does.
Hmm.
Lead the way.
Hmm.
Ornaldah moves,
Eventually reaching Castle Jiml.
Um.
And as he reaches the gates, Lord Cadwallader turns to him and just goes,
You know where to find him.
He goes, I do.
I wouldn't trust myself to follow you anyhow, out of drinks you've had.
Watch your mouth, old man.
I'm gonna fuck this guy up.
Watch your tone, my lord.
I wish I killed him.
Yeah, I'm gonna fight him in the streets.
He's strong, strong, like crazy.
I don't care, he's a bitch.
Ornaldah makes his way through the venerated halls and now have fallen silent.
He walks to the throne room to find King Walter Lunen sitting on the throne.
Walter is looking off to the sides in the throne room.
He just goes,
The place hasn't changed months since your earlier visits.
Ornaldah?
Hm. What have you noticed?
This can't change much about history.
I see the paintings on the wall.
This...the defeat of giants. The defeat of the Ash Tyrant.
Why did you...
After all this time...
Why did you...call me here?
The king looks to him.
He has one eye that was once soft, now intense.
And he just goes,
Kneel.
And we're going on break!
The heck?
Okay, so cool, I've gotta assassinate the king.
The list is gonna keep growing.
He's writing down a hit list like, okay.
There you go.
You're supposed to die of old age, Timmy.
Oh, we want him dead.
He's going, listen, I'm so pumped for the Arnoldah backstory.
He's been around the block a few times.
He's like Arnoldah the arson, like the most kills confirmed.
I had suspicions once you said, why does he have plus 12?
I was like, well he has high wisdom, but that means he also has a high proficiency modifier.
Yes!
High charisma, maybe.
High curls.
Charisma.
Well, you probably haven't seen anything about that for a while, so hey!
When we return, you will come back to our dear leader and retainer.
We'll be right back!
Hello again, Power Bottoms!
Welcome back!
Stop!
We're back, Weavers!
Again!
We're back, Weavers!
Weavers!
How would you define Power Bottoms?
I'm just kidding.
A powerful person.
This is, no, that's not what that is!
In the southern hemisphere.
Who constantly takes part in thoughtful, kind acts.
That's not what this is.
A DM.
A DM?
A DM.
DM is technically a service top.
You know what, you're right.
Thank you.
You don't know what that means, but it's okay.
I'm going to Google it.
No, don't Google it!
Not now!
Not live!
Please not live!
Don't be live!
I have my rabbit hole to go into tonight after this stream.
Please don't, just go to bed, Tim.
Just go to bed.
Rest your mind, rest your eyes, rest your soul.
There's going to be a funky new Google document in my drive tonight.
You don't need it.
I promise you, you don't need it.
New Pinterest board just dropped.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, we don't want to see those different boards.
It's got vampires on it.
Never mind.
Anyways, where were we?
Buffy.
It's Buffy themed.
Hello everyone and welcome to Song Loving Ivar Brin Dawnbreak.
And I'm Tim Don Tran.
This is the start of the session.
And of course I'm being joined by my two people ever.
Who are they?
Can you say your names?
Yo, we're doing intros again?
What do you mean again?
Arnolda dies.
No!
Stop banging it over my head.
Don't sass me.
Don't ever sass me again.
Don't attend.
I'll kill him, I'll kill him.
I have him right here.
Emma was about to pull out a draw four on me and was like, man, Arnolda is not feeling
too good right now.
She puts the card back.
Dude, I'm so sorry.
She puts the car back
On the road run the road to school on the road
Winsy music I love the music this session Tim. It's so good
Oh
No
This music perfect music
Prolicking through the fields
So
By the way for any of you who saw the tweet on song wolf in and that was quickly deleted he
Keep quiet
Wait, hold on. Did you DM me that let me check? No, no, no, that wasn't it wasn't that one. Oh, okay
I was like cuz that one was rough
Hmm I know what and I was like, what did I do?
so
Valora
As breakfast as breakfast is finished as the as the as a day
As it as it that goes on the door to the you you're in this huge in this huge dining hall
Normally there is a smaller dining hall for a humbler there's you have two dining halls. That's you have two dining rooms
That's how that's a new dining room
Which any hope you want which dining room you want to eat in which dining room do you want to go to Jesus Christ?
Follow me on the floor in front of the TV
You as you
As you finished up your as you finished me as you finish with your meal and today's a special occasion
You see that there was a huge sprint, but prepared for you today by by the chefs
and
Says and of course imported stuff. Oh, it's the best stuff
Breakfast is usually pretty is usually a pretty simple affair something quick and easy to get you off your feet
But since you're sleeping in the chefs thought hey, let's let's throw a little party for
For the lady here. Also, I feel like the definition
I feel like the definition of sleeping in in this house is still like like six or seven
Because wow the stables
Oh, that's a good point so that's yeah, they have to get up early. Oh, that's a nightmare
Ironically, she will get to sleep in more at I would probably I would cry
I bet someone I bet I bet Lord Ivan Leia has told someone
About how how much she sleeps and they told her like my lord. Um, and in common language we call that napping
Um
You see eventually Rudra Pallavi sir Pallavi
Who always cars a figure in any room? She's in walks into the room and she sees you
As she goes
No, Dana's almost here. Oh
Has she been spotted yes
Come on all right, let's go. Let me know at the gate
And
As you come closer she flicks like the corner of your the corner of your lip is a really harsh flick better
I didn't my face wasn't dirty. Sure. Whatever. I bet she was easy to spot with the pink hair
This is not true
All right, then keep your secrets
The Lord of the Rings quote
Keep your secrets tell me her hair is pink damn it
You make your way into of or an atom
I'm being in being a gulf and being a gulf into the streets
You are a common sight here
So it's not a celebratory thing, but you do get you get you do get friendly waves
all the same and then you see people you and then as you're making way to make a perception check for me
Perceive what you can find
Six
That's not very high my passive is 14
She don't see shit
You don't see shit whoa
You rolled a six also who's wait, who's he rolling for so
You see you see somebody kind of like make throw away you see somebody make their way up to you
and
You see you see you see in an older sort of like half-orc gentleman um
you know as a Brunta a
Man who runs his when he runs a Smith around here, and he just goes hello my lady. Hello my lady
Oh, and as he steps forward towards you ruja of course car was like makes kind of like
He makes a little like steps in front of you just a little bit, and he immediately stops
this
Hi, I was just uh
Just when I heard you were back at time you're ready to tell her Brynn
I was I spent some time making something for you to thank you in your house for everything you've done for me and my business
Oh
That's really kind of you
Yes
and
He just goes
He was
And you see a younger half-orc
Fork lady come on come up behind him holding a something that's wrapped and sort of like
Very ornate. It's a fairly. It's fairly large. It spans a good like few feet
He just goes
Hello my lady um
Just me and my father have decided to
Create this for you looks to her father, and he starts mouthing the words
And the greatest gratitude of
Here gives up if any just gives it to you oh
Ah she takes it
Looks
As you look at it you unwrap it
Yeah, you unwrap it you see that in your hand is a
Spear um it is a spear it is a spear but instead of like the the usual pointy edge the edge is curved
It could like curve like a blade
With the serrated edge, which is well, that's a bit hard
Oh, wow you're so timely you know my mom was just saying I can't forget my spear
Spear at home, and I hadn't packed yet, so
This is fantastic. Thank you so much
Of course of course um
You see we just do his pocket he was in our connoisseur
I hope you'll excuse me because I I am on a mission
Right now, but I was glad I got a chance to stop and talk to you. She hands it to
Ruda takes it and starts walking
He goes
Have a good one
my lady
She gives a wave and keeps going
Just collecting spears as she goes
She looks at Ruda like I did better that time right?
You're improving
I spotted it in advance this time
Eventually make it to the front gate where we go over to Lucia
Lucia
Arnalda
Come
You see his corpse stretched out before you
It made it here before you did
They shot it in a cannon
My corpse was faster than you
You oughta do better
You failed me
I told you I was gonna race you
That's awful
I win
It's so fucking morbid
I win dude
I win broski
I'm a winner
You've been traveling on the back of Orier's horse for a good bit now
It's been a few hours
As the hours gone and the conversation between you and Orier grows
It's been a failed few hours
But you've seen fields and stretches of grass and rivers that you've never seen before
You have journeyed through villages and other towns of varying sizes
Very small and humble compared to Tokor
Some villages only the size of your little part of Tokor where all of you live
Eventually
As you near Vorran Adam
Knowing you're near because Orier told you
Orier looks at you and eventually goes
Lucia
Have you ever ridden a horse before?
Once or twice, yeah
Hmm
Well if you don't know you're definitely going to learn while you're at Irobrin
Yeah that's what's been said
I'm gonna learn a lot of stuff I'm sure
Hmm
What kinds of things?
Do you have any questions for me?
Um
You know
I do
Um
How much do I have to
How good do I have to be with the knife?
I mean the dagger?
Well you can come as you are
You'll definitely learn while you're there
Right but like all these other kids have probably had a lot of time to train in certain things
So how far behind am I?
And you can be honest with me
To be honest with you
Yeah
They are in the skies and you are in the dirt
No
But
Yup that's about right
You will learn
I'm a retainer I have to
I have to do Velora and our house proud
Well don't forget that a big part of battle is also rendering care onto others and to your allies that have been hurt
And I can do that I can do
I can definitely do that
Yes I can
Yes there is so I'll be totally good with that
And we're gonna stick to our strengths play to our strengths
We're gonna make friends with our house members
And what are the other houses again?
Ahem
Well you know your house
The Silver Lion's house
The house based in the central constituent region
The crowning region of Onor
He just goes
Well if you're sending me over exposition I might as well
There is the Black Boar's house
That house is composed of students from the eastern constituent region the Grand Folger
They're known to be a stubborn lot but they're quite hardy individuals
Okay so they seem like a nice house
From my time there they were definitely a remunctious lot
But a lot of them have gone on to do a few great things
I was in the same I was attending the academy at the same time as Kali Aldebrand
What houses were you guys in?
Well she was in the Black Boar's house
I was in I was in Silver Lion's
Oh
But
Because we were allies nonetheless
They can be your opponent at times but they are not your enemies
Hmm
Are there any houses that I should kind of watch out for?
Ideally they are all of since they are all your companions
There's friendly competition here and there yes but ultimately you are there in the spirit of cooperation
Good point we're all working together
Kali Aldebrand
Just top of her class
Because we have we have grown to be become friends throughout the years after her time at Erebron
I see the expression is immediately changed
Lucia keeps her mouth shut
Red flag red flag
Yep yep Lucia keeps her mouth fucking shut
She just goes she's very thankful for you
You know
I'm grateful for you guys I don't I wouldn't have been able to get even this far without your help and sponsorship
Gladly
We'll gladly do it again
And of course there is the western
And of course there are the blue walls from the northern constituent region of Anor
Aurora
They're quite a hearty bunch as well they've been known to grow up learning how to use a sword in their hand before they
Before they learn how to wield a pen
Oh okay so they're frontline fighters
Hunters
Some of the fastest people I've seen are from that house
Okay so we got the speedsters from the blue wolves we've got the black boars with the heartiness
Well those are I wouldn't want to generalize there's a very unique roster of people
But you know I guess I am generalizing because this is how they grew up
We can't generalize people based on the houses they put into
That's not how it works
There was some magical piece of clothing that told everyone where they belonged
Hmm you're evil you get to go in there
This is where we put all the evil twelve year olds
Houses are simply people of where they come from their geolocation where they are located in the kingdom
So you're going to get all kinds of people from all walks of life in every house
The Kanakan people however are the one percent
And of course the golden moose represents the west
The west consitutored region of Kanaka
A place of splendid wealth and trade you know that they have
They typically have the best equipment around
And they come from a culture of celebration
They're good parties
They do
When I was around whenever it was a student's birthday it gave them reason to take the day off and celebrate
Wow that's really nice of them
It was banned
Oh nevermind
And of course the crimson griffins who represent the southern constituent region of Stravae
Many magical institutions are based in Stravae and that reflects in the student body and their skill sets
Might have a lot of peers in that house since I'm a caster
I think you'll find many friends in many places
Especially if you're going to be directly helpful to others
That's true
How many students are like me?
Like you?
Yeah like scholarship kids
Hmm not very many
How many is not very many
I must say that you are an exceedingly rare case
To receive scholarship from a lord to go into Irabren it's
Well it has to be an extremely exceptional case
So there are no other common folk there?
Oh there are certainly common folk there but they have to pay the entrance fee
How much?
I believe it's somewhere upwards to the tomb of 4500 gold pieces the last time I was there
She almost has a heart attack right then and there the light fades
The world goes dark for a moment and she comes back to
Come back come back come back
I don't want to fail don't die
Wow that's a lot of money
How many common kids are there?
Hmm I know that the most commoners are in the black boars house
Due to the leaders efforts of sponsoring many people
I believe she sponsored about 50 students to come to the academy
So I imagine the black boars would be many
So I guess that since I'm going to be the lores retainer
It's important for me to know who the heads and retainers are of these other houses
And have good relationships with them
Certainly and if you want me to exposition about that I also will
But before I do that look up ahead as she points you see Vora and Adam
Don't we see Valora?
No not yet you see the makings of Vora and Adam
You see a man on a griffon directly flies overhead
He's wearing goggles over his eyes and you see him quickly
There's a little wave down at your procession
He's like oh god I gotta tell Pallavi about this
I saw the pink hair
I saw her I saw her
Her hair was so pink holy shit that's all I knew
I thought it was like is that cotton candy growing in the fields?
No it's her fucking hair
What the fuck?
I almost ate it
AHHHHH
And you see massive spiders, towers, wings flying in the air
You remember the figure that a phantom carved in the air
Now you're seeing multiple of those falling about spinning in circles
Spinning around doing flips
All kinds of things
And a massive cityscape before you
As you move closer tents, tents, tents are pitched on the outside
I infected him
As you get closer to the city you see tents are pitched on the outside
You see people are fucking shuckling their wares
Whatever
You know, shuckling
As the commotioning is happening
You see eventually standing at the very head of the gates
A tall half elven woman who you've seen before
Very frightening woman
Is it Kali?
No
It's Rucha Pallavi
And next to her
Velora
VELORA
Like almost toppling off the horse to wave because you're a familiar face
In a very unfamiliar place
She waves back
Wait for you to get closer
And the two of you get closer
Um, Orië holds a hand out to you to dismount your horse
She like awkwardly gets off but scrambles off so she like sprints up with like hands on her knapsack straps you know tightly
As she jumps up in front of Velora and goes
Are you so excited for our first day of school?
I am so excited
And I'm glad you made it here well
Uneventful, uneventful trip I'm guessing
No, no problems at all
And you should see the amount of cash I got packing on me
Like I could have gotten mugged
Yeah
Well it's a good thing you had the executor with you
I don't think anyone gets mugged around an executor I'd hope
No one gets around Orië that's for sure
Did you know she was a member of the black boar's house?
Silver lions
Oh nevermind that was someone else
Kali Alderbrand
Kali Alderbrand that's the one right? She was the silver lion's member with us
You got it
I did it now I did it right
I'm gonna learn all of this for Laura so that I know everyone's name in every single house so that I can directly reference it in case we need to know that cause I'm your retainer I need to know those things
I'm glad you're excited I mean we'll get to meet everyone when we're there you know
We'll meet the other leaders and retainers and um I mean like I know a bit about some of them and um the other silver lions
You have to make alliances too right? I mean it's all about working together as a school kind of thing
Well yeah I mean I don't know if I'd call it like alliances well there is like the mock battle first thing when we get there not first first thing but pretty soon
What?
Oh well they have like this big it's not a big deal they're gonna have the opening ceremony when we get there and then we'll have a few days and then they have at the end of the first week they have this big fight between all the houses that's just in
It's just a friendly
A friend how do what?
Friendly battle
A friendly fight?
How do you friendly fight someone with friendly feelings?
Well it's training you know
Oh okay
Basically
Oh yeah it's just practice
Yeah
Okay
And
That seems make sense
The silver lions do have kind of a track record of winning but I think last year I heard that the black boars won
Oh and we want to make sure we win this one?
Oh yeah but we'll worry about that later too but you said alliances and I was like you know you could put your alliance brain to work when we get there too because I think alliances are helpful for that
Oh like we team up with another house during the mock battle?
Yeah but we'll worry about it later you guys
This is so political
Here I can help show you around
Oh are you guys hungry or?
If you're hungry I'm hungry I'm ready to do whatever you need me to do I am your retainer and I'm here to retain
Well today we just get to relax or shop or whatever you need are you all packed up for?
Yeah she turned and shows her knapsack
Well good
We can check um I can give you my mom's list across reference too and we can get anything else you need
Oh a list yeah yeah yeah
What do you got?
My mom is a little over thorough to be honest like um oh it's um I think I have it and what am I she's reaching through her pockets and that's something too is that she looks very different from the from the ball she's way more relaxed looking
Or chill yeah
Her hair is a lot less um clean like it's it's a little bit messier and stuff and um without her gloves on you can see her Aeon mark on her left hand um she almost looks like a tattoo when it's not active
So cool
She was oh um it's I mean you'll get used to seeing them a lot of people have Aeon marks that I remember in
Oh how many oh like most people have them?
No no no no I mean basically all the Aeon marked houses almost their kids come to Irobran but Aeon marks are still pretty rare among I mean practically none of the common folk will have them and um there'll be nobles who don't have them too so still not that many
Well yeah they don't well you've got the best one so we'll be totally fine
It's true
I think it is the best
I know it's
She pulls out her list and her mom's probably too long packing list and she goes this is what my mom said but we don't need everything everything
That's that's that's that's the candlesticks? Why do we um wax all of these?
I mean we can always get them there too we don't need all of it all of it I mean like I only packed um Richard don't tell my mom I only packed like half of this stuff
Where's your stuff?
Oh well I've got it I've got it in my room right now you know we should put your stuff down let me show you around
Okay
She just kind of like tightens her little backstrip pack that's all she has with her three gold coins
She is um so Stables first pointing to the um horses
Yeah I gotta learn how to ride
And you definitely will with me
I'm excited you're a good teacher
I do I do a lot of um of that in particular though I guess a lot of times when I'm helping people I'm helping them learn to fly for the first time but it's not so different
You're so cool
But um how was your trip?
It was great I mean I'm just really excited I was like just asking Orie about like the houses and really just trying to get as much information in my head as I can and I think my best asset to you will be like healing and support that I can really do well like really really well um and yeah I I I'm just I wanna do good I'm gonna do good I'm gonna do really good I promise cause I'm your retainer and I retain you super well
It's I I'm glad that you're that you're um excited about it
I'm terrified
Okay that's what I was getting but I didn't want to scare you
I'm really really scared and I'm terrified and I hate her and she's kind of like just like vibrating a little bit
Well it's believe me you don't have I mean I'm not going to say it's not scary to do something new cause it is
But it's also going to be a lot of fun and not everything all the time is going to be all like serious you know it's not always like plan and strategy and alliance and fighting and everything like we'll be able to go and have fun and learn and especially I mean you've never been to Voron Adam before and we have two days here
What do you like to do for fun? I don't know anything so lead the way
Absolutely
And she'll she'll get them all settled with the horses and stuff but the thing is about going around Voron Adam is it's like especially around her that her keep it is a very there there's a lot to see even just like her her home here
It's a huge city yeah and like even just like the even just their house it's kind of crazy so like they can go to like the horse stables first and where they have it all set up and things and it looks like I mean I would say it's not like run of the mill even because like it is a nice stable and there's a lot of pasture and all that but then
But then they can go show and see like I imagine what you're going to take to see though I'm looking at my list to see what the heck everything is freaking called. I have a six page document in front of me
Six page? Jesus!
Yeah thank you Timmy
I've got a shack and I'm happy with that
But after they get the horses settled she'll be like well do you want to go see the Pegasi stables?
My goodness yes and maybe maybe once I learn to ride a horse I can I gotta be in the air I gotta be in the air
Okay yes I'd like to see the Pegasi
Alright and they
I thought this had a special name I don't think it does
I know we have the windspan fields but is that separate or is it the same?
It's the stables and stuff that are on the fields
Okay so we're going to the windspan fields which is basically super private like it's only the Avonlea's and a few people who work with them can go in
And it's where they train and where they train the flying mounts and everything and Timmy had a cooler description than I did when he made this up
No it's good
No I'm serious though you described it really cool and it's been months and I don't remember
No I like you think it sounds cool Jenny you did a good job
No I'm saying I genuinely don't remember everything
No I genuinely don't remember what we're doing
Yeah the windspan fields are the ones that are known as the span is this huge stretch of private land basically
Multiple stations are multiple stables and such are dotted throughout each segmented it's this highly effective highly organized stretch of land where basically these animals are trained
And of course just the structure of it as Velora is taking you through it as you see how everything runs like a machine through this place it is the structure is just awe inspiring
And you learn that huh Velora has been a part of this ever since you were born
Like that's why yeah right it's like
You are walking by some stables you see some of the pegasi are being tended to you see one of them looks at you and kind of like narrows his eyes at you
So specifically kind of like nervously moves behind Velora
Oh he he just likes to that's how he likes to size people up
Oh yeah hi
Do you want to meet the pegasi
No I'm good
I can help you win them over a bit
Please that one's glaring at me
All right um well she's a lot friendlier in my opinion she gives her a sugar cube says here you can give her that she really likes sweets
Oh uh here you go
Kind of like gently holds it out
It's it
Good I think we're friends now
No
See the eyebrows never mind we are peers
No acquaintances
Okay we are acquaintances now that's good I'll take that
They can be a little
So the pegasi are fantastic and they know that they are
They know that they are desirable and deserving of respect and so as long as you treat them with respect usually they'll
They'll come around to you but they don't they don't warm up to people so fast as a lot of other animals
It's okay I can understand that
I'll win them over one day
Maybe
It's okay you don't even if they're like try to intimidate you you don't have to like completely
Completely go subservient stay on a horse I'll just stick with the horses on the ground I think I think I meant to stay on the ground maybe
You know we actually
When we match people with pegasi when they're interested in purchasing them they
They'll stay here for a while to find a compatible match and also see if they're
Capable of caring for them properly and whatnot
So it can be a pretty big ordeal to actually match someone to a mount and it's especially difficult when they want like tons like I mean like places like Irabrin
Have many that are meant to be used by many people and not just like one person to bond with but
I mean we prefer making sure that they're bonded to a specific rider because they can be I mean they're the best when
When they're matched well
Most students ride pegasi
I think everyone learns I mean it doesn't have to be a Pegasus I think they also have griffins and wyverns at Irabrin
Wow wow
And horses of course
Right there's a riding unit and a flying unit I know
So you'd be in the flying unit so I have to be with you right so I will fly
No I mean like a subject in class will do both
Oh oh wow wow okay wow wow wow okay we're gonna learn wow okay we're gonna learn a lot okay okay cool okay
Everyone gets to learn a bit of everything like if I mean like I've never cast a spell on my life well except for one
You never cast a spell?
Well I have some that I can cast just like innately I just kind of know how to
Cause that's how I was born
I can help you with that no problem
Yeah but what I'm saying is like everyone gets to do a bit of everything at Irabrin and learn a little bit of everything
That's good cause then we get to know what our peers you know are coming from and we understand where they're coming from
Mmhmm
Um
But yeah so I'll be totally new to the magic thing and obviously you're not
New to everything else
So
I think we'll be okay
I was curious like how long have you been learning magic is it all just healing magic?
Um I mean I know a couple other things for protection just because you know it's important in case you're you know out in the woods alone and you never know
So like I was taught basic stuff but ever since I could first hold a prayer
I see
Well that's really impressive of me it never really like clicked right with me
I tried a little bit I mean I'm sure I could get it but
I just didn't keep pursuing it really
My dad tried to push it for a little bit
Yeah I had Alnalda to help me and a lot of it just came from you know
Worship and I mean like trust, trust in the gods
They would supply with me the resources that were necessary needed to cast a spell
They make sure to pray every morning and night and you know in between and yeah that's where my magic comes from is just their belief in me and my belief in them
And do you pray to a specific god or many?
I do well we pray I pray to all of them but I've got I've got a special one
How do we pray? Is it a dune? A dune? A dune?
A dune
Dune right? A dune, dune
Dune's always been my favorite
She is one of innocence of youth of vitality
I think she's one of the younger gods too
Oh
Yeah
You know like people always say like you can like predict like what someone like what somebody's like deity is and stuff and I've never been that good at that but I can kind of see it
Ah yeah I mean
I think it's important that like I know this is kind of silly but
When I was learning about all the gods you don't really hear much about her
You know like you hear all about like the Allfather you hear all about Thor all about Freya you know like we have all those stories and
Dude you don't hear that much and I remember thinking well if you don't hear that much about her maybe she could
Might help to have someone who listens wants to know more about her
That's a really interesting way to look at it I mean like I
If I'm being totally honest I don't know as much about like I mean like I've heard of basically all of them but
It's you're right like there is a big focus on
I mean like the big names and everything but
I guess the ministry you'd think the ministry would push the other ones out a bit more
Yeah
Maybe it's a funny thing
You ever prayed?
Oh um well yeah
Which gods do you like to pray to?
Oh well um I mean
I mean like
Yeah the Allfather and
Can I insight check this?
Yeah don't make an insight check
She's taking a long time
Ori is also listening like
Hmm
13?
Um
I don't
I mean it's not a
Lialized thing
She's taking her sweet sweet time
I think they're the same modifier
But um
I rolled an 8 but she like
I mean like it's just like it's not that she hasn't like prayed before or anything
It's not her faith
It's not like she's outright lying it's just it's not like a regular like focus
Yeah
And I think
Lucia clocks this and goes
You know
I think when it comes to faith it's like any
Resource that we have in this world
Any tool and people should feel free to use it
However or
You know how and how much of it as much as they need or want
Yeah for sure
I mean like yeah
It's great to have faith in the gods and everything too
But it's great to have faith in other things like
I put a lot of faith in phantom when I'm flying
It's not the same kind of faith I guess but
Yeah
You know
Um
Oh yeah you
So you you said that
One of your big jobs was like watching boats
I was wondering what that was about
Um
Or like a boat master
Nope I wish no
Okay um
She's like kind of awkwardly trying to make sure the pegasi don't over here
Maybe you want
Maybe you want to go to a next star next spot maybe
Or I tell you that one
Oh yeah let's
She's watching the side eyes
Well that's the thing too is that the pegasi actually are pretty um like
Like they are pretty connected to the gods too
Aren't they Timmy
Yeah
Which I think I think velour gets reminded that as they're walking
She'll go
She'll bring it up and she'll go like
Oh well you know um
That is something
The pegasi and everything is that the um
They they have a pretty strong connection to the gods and the Valkyries
And what not
They're spies
She'll go
Punches
Punches you out there
Punches me in the mouth
I mean I don't know if I'd say that but I
I know I know lots of people who
Who fly
Are very focused on like the Valkyries and
Stuff like that
Wow
Valkyries
But the boat thing
Oh um that was
Okay so
My dad had this saying
About how like boats
Aren't meant to stay in a harbor they're meant to like go out to sea
Or they're meant to float or something and
And I
I got confused and I
I was trying to tell you that like
I'm supposed to
Go out into the world kind of thing
And it just is a whole
Jumble and
Mass of words
Cause I was panicking and
Yeah
Oh I thought
Okay cause I definitely
Thought you said something like you were like a
Boat master or something and I
I wish I was
I was trying to figure out what kind of boats if you lived there
Because I mean there's
I wish because then I would have
Another skill set um
But I don't I really don't
Um
Just got my magic
And my
Chipper spirit
Well we'll get to go not
We won't get to go like
Proper sailing
But I think we'll get to do a lot better sailing
On the way to Irobrin
That would be so cool I've actually
Never been on like a big boat
I've made a raft before and put it out into the lake
But I've never been on like a boat boat
My parents said we can take
The airship to Irobrin
Yep and
I haven't ridden on it yet so it'll be
My first time
That's so cool oh my god
Trying not to freak out um
She'll go and then she'll look
To you and go
Oh um
Wait how's your
How's your house doing
Oh well I mean
We're doing great I mean
My mom's been pretty busy
Uh I know you heard this stuff about
Like the deal
If that's what you're worried about but like
We didn't need
What my dad was bargaining for
Anyways
I mean we've been doing great
I mean this
The pegasi and everything is kind of separate
To my house's duties
This is just kind of like the family business
Per se oh
Yeah like everything like
Nothing
Everything's good nothing
You know
Seemed off or odd and everything
Everything's good
The
I mean yeah we've been doing great
It seems like better and better every year
Good
Good great
Perfect good
Okay um where to next
Well um there's the griffins
Over here
She's still kind of being like
It's really weird to ask
Hey Donna don't think too much
About it
What why do you ask was it the stuff
My my dad said
Um
Uh
Um uh
Uh
I
Um
Okay so
You
Have I hold on Jenny did I tell you I could see the future yet
Have you nope
No okay
You've been saying things like
I saw you
And I
I'm supposed to help you
I haven't actually said
Um
Okay I don't know if this is uh
But Laura I have something important to tell you
But maybe we should do it later
Because today is about fun
Right
Well um
Yeah I mean
It's if you need to tell me
Something you can tell me but
If you don't want to
That's fine too
No I do want to I just
I just want to tell you
That I'm going to ruin this day that you set up
It's
Believe me you're not
Going to ruin anything
If it's something you need to tell me you can tell me
And I mean
I just don't want you
If you're worried about something
You know
But you don't have to if you don't
No
Okay so that that when
Valora says you don't have to she like grabs
Your hands and holds them tightly and goes
I can't see them
My lady
I was waiting for you
Oh my lady
As you hear a voice call out
To both of you in the distance
As your hand was grabbed and you
Ready to speak you hear my lady
As you see Jashon Dandasto
The master of coin and home
Aurora and Adam
A man from Kanaka
He wears a lot of tan skin he wears robes
He always makes the point to be fashionable
To be different from everybody else
He approaches and goes
I was here to talk about you
About your big day but then I see
Somebody else here someone who strikes
Quite the
Impressive
Quite an impressive image
Amongst all of these people
I'm her retainer
Hi
Ah yes Lucia correct
Yes yes
And this is
Jashon Dandasto
Dandasto
The one and only
The Italian music in the background is killing me
My people
He also went to Irobran
Actually with my parents
Were you also in the silver lions
Oh I was in the golden moose but
But me and her
Parents worked a lot together on a lot of different missions
So we really grew together
Wow so many
People went to Irobran
It's wild
Yes yes
That entrance fee was no joke but it was
Worth 80
Percent of the fee
I would say
You've made it back working for my family
Yes I did in multiple
Folds but I didn't want to be
Too sentimental I didn't want to be
I didn't want to be complimenting of the price
That's true it is pretty egregious
Well nice to meet you Lucia
Nice to meet you too
The life
The life the pure
Lifeblood and the heart of
House Avelia is in your
Hands
Your shoulders
Completely on you
I'm kidding I'm kidding
I'm kidding
She's already scared
Just like
Eyes wide and like
She's trying so hard to laugh it off
Hey hey hey hey hey
I was just
Busting your chops
It's slightly on you
But it's on everyone else
If she dies they'll blame it on everyone else
They'll blame it on
You're gonna die
I should like
Full on pivots to Valora
I'm kidding I'm kidding
Is it normal for house leaders to die?
No it's not people generally die
At Irobrin
People die at Irobrin?
People do die yes but not many
It's not a regular thing
It's definitely not a regular thing
I will make sure you
Never and true points to Valora
Die and that no one in our
House ever dies
I will make sure of that too
People die
She's like really like in shock
One time when I was at Irobrin
One of our own house members
We were on a mission
He says he got
He says he got just absolutely
Spear through the gut
Like just a big spear
I'm kidding
Yeah I feel like
You might be kidding a little too much
He was healed
It was good
Well she's a healer
So yes
That means everyone's going to love you
Okay okay
I thought you were going to say something
I'm not going to do it again unless it's
Funny
But everyone says everyone's going to
Love you you are going to hate everyone
Everyone's going to come up to you and ask you for healing
And then you
You're going to
You're going to learn
The worst side of everyone
Everyone's really needy
Why does Valora keep jumping off
Her wyvern from sixty
Feet in the air and asking for me to heal her
Exactly
I've been doing that lately
No that doesn't bother me at all that's what I've
Been designed to do
I wouldn't say designed to do
Oh I'm beginning to
Understand the energy now
Yeah like that's my
Purpose
Well that's for you to deal with Valora
Um
Just like Deshawn
The fucking music I can't
We're sitting in an Italian
We're sitting we're on like a gondola in Venice
Let me show you
Let me show you the pasta
Pasta el golio
What did you like what did you like
Shrigadelle
That's French
But it has Italian cooking in it
No
I'm sure they make spaghetti once
No
Oh bread
Yeah they make bread
Got it
Okay
Oh baguettes
French
What is wrong with you
He's just he's just Euro
Eurocentric
I don't see any borders
He's all of Europe in one
I don't see borders
If you walk across the borders you won't see him
That's what I'm saying
I don't see borders
Anyways um
He goes
Anyways um
Valora I have a little test
I need you to sign something real quick
While I have you your mother
Has decided to give you a boon of
Three thousand gold pieces
She added another thousand
Yeah this happened very recently
This morning
You've seen Lucia's soul
Has passed in the anime way
And she's passed out
Breathe Lucia breathe
Oh no
Did you say you had three thousand
On her
Yeah my dad well my mom said she was going to send me
With two thousand golds
In case I needed anything in Hefond
She's having a stroke
Ori there's Leon hands on you
Yeah
On her temple and her skull
Because
Um
Valora I have a question for you
Of the school supplies
How much money does
The school supplies normally cost
I don't know what it normally
Costs but Lucia I'm not
Going to make you buy anything
I'm covering it for you
What do you mean
No
You have my own money
But you're my retainer
What do you mean
That's my responsibility
You fund everyone in our house
No but I mean
I'm bringing you it's my responsibility
Well then I'll pay you back
It's really not a big deal
It is a big deal
It's a lot of money
It's not going to come up
To that much and really like
It's just a normal expense
It's not
It's not something you owe
Valora
She reaches into her pocket and pulls
Out her three gold coins
It took us three years
To make
Where's the rest
This was a gift
From my dad
And she shoves it back in her pocket
Oh
I'm not going to say what
All of us think
It's
He's the master of coin
For our house so he's been
Which is a pretty big task with
The business
And it's
You really don't have to worry about it okay
Well
And she turns the master of coin
It took us three years to make that
So I just want you to understand
She turns to Valora
That it means a lot to me
And I will pay you back
I appreciate that
But I have to tell you again it
It means a lot to you but like
To me it's
It's
It's not a big deal
And if I can do that for you because it's not
As big of a deal to me
I would really like it if you'd let
Me do it
Still I'm just in your debt
And I'll make it back up to you as your retainer
To be a gift
Her eyes narrow
Nyeoww
And just slips
You already gave me a gift
Remember?
An apple?
It doesn't count
Oh now what I can give you though
And she digs into her bag for one of her jams
It should be a good trade off
This stuff is better than
Gold
Then that'll put us even then
After I make sure you have all your supplies
Perfect
See? She turns to the master of coin
Prove-a-see
And add that to your records, Jashawn
Economically
Um
Priceless?
No
Um but
Sentimentally, sure you can say that
No no no that's what I was told is priceless
Although I can't go on the record
But
It's
Oh it's so cute Jenny
The star of jam
Is listed as priceless
Can't sell that for priceless
That's not the price
But
Priceless isn't the price
Exactly, it is less price
But
I'll keep it
I'll keep it on profile
I'll keep it note
Well
Where to next?
Where do you think we should go next
Jashawn if I was giving the
Full tour
Oh the full tour you only have all day
Um
Well you're going two days
Don't you?
Technically you have tomorrow too but
You'll have all these nerves inside of your chest
No
I can see it
I can see it in you
I can hear it
Today's a fun day
Exploring Valora's hometown
Which is already incredible
Well there's always a hearken market
If you want to spend that gold anywhere
A hearken market
Is where all the people
Have stopped their old livelihoods and things like that
Um you could show her
The flock houses
That would be you know the old
Tourist tour you know
I'm sure there's more places in the keep you can show her too
Yeah I need to give her a proper
Tour where she's staying and everything too
Have you cleaned your room? You can show her
Your room
Okay I keep my room pretty nice
Yeah you know yeah
It was just a little bit of a mess with all the traveling
Yes yes yes yes yes
I can clean your room
Or your retainer
You have a lot
I appreciate that
I don't know isn't that something a retainer would do?
No
No not normally
No okay
I mean like a retainer
I mean not that cleaning work
Is undignified in any ways
It's a very
It's a very important part of
Keeping anything functioning
Um
But that's a totally separate kind of job
Ah
Okay
What am I supposed to do?
Well
Um
The biggest things would be I guess
You'll be
Covering when
When I can't
She's taking out a small pad of paper and
Is quickly jotting down
Word for word everything you say right now
You know and I mean your number one job
Is learning
Cause first and foremost you're a student
Learning okay and then what else?
Well we'll get more when we get to
Ira Brann
I know but
I just want to make sure I'm doing
It right for you cause everyone
Else is knows what they're talking
About and knows what they're doing and I want to make sure I don't
Come off as silly
I guarantee you
Then
Everyone else
Isn't gonna know what they're doing it's new
It's gonna be new to everyone
Really? Yeah
Phew
I thought I was the only one
I mean I guess technically the upper classmen
Will know what they're doing but among all the first years
That's just a normal first year experience
I guess of not
Really knowing what they're doing and we're all in it
Together
Oh
In this together
Together
Just Sean were you nervous on your
First day at Ira Brann? Oh yes
Oh absolutely
Yes you should have seen
You should have seen your mom actually
Oh was she
Nervous? Oh those
For the first couple of months she was
She was flocking about like
She was a bird with wet feathers
Lord was?
Yeah but she grew
More confident
She grew more confident eventually
I can't imagine your mom
Being anything but confident
She always seems to be in control
Oh you should see her when she's
Only half way through her checklist
At noon
Oh boy
Imagine that could be stressful
She always finds a way
Actually that's
I'm sure you'll see her later but
She's working right now
What are you most excited for
Velora?
Honestly
Mostly meeting more people
Getting to hang out with people
And have friends
Yeah exactly I mean like
It's not like I
I mean I have friends and I've met people
But like there's not very many people
Who I can
Hang out with around my age
Like consistently
Here
I get that
And my dad used to throw a fit
When I so much as
Try to befriend the stable
Other stable boys my age
Why?
Oh yeah
Well
He stopped hiring them
That young at that point but
Oh
It's just
It's all you know focus
And everything my mom
Doesn't agree with him though
Yeah
It's kind of isolating
I guess growing up huh
Well I mean
In a way
But like you know like I said
I have friends I can travel
I just you know when you have to travel
To hang out with people and stuff
It just happens a little less frequently as well
Yeah
You probably have a lot of friends you're
You're leaving behind though huh
Um
Yeah
Well it'll be
Exciting to come back
And
Show them what you've learned
Maybe on a Pegasus
Yeah
A
Big ol' party with everyone
Well I should
Oh did you want me
Signed?
Oh yeah
I have it right here
The fucking
The whiplash
Oh wait I had something to do
The whiplash
Yeah you know I have it right here I'm on my break though so
You know the rug will rush
Oh the signs
Maybe you should enjoy your break
Yeah you know
What maybe I will
Just oh and
Hello my lady what's your name?
Ori
I am a head executor of the Vajandi
Oh
Nice to meet you
Oh god
What's up
Oh god poor Ori
Ori just goes
Splinks
I was hoping if I didn't introduce her by name
And he
And he voice Lucia
It was great to meet you
Hey you going to be
Nervous? That's fine
That's completely natural
But I think you'll learn to love it
And I think you'll definitely make friends
Especially if you have young
Laura here
Who's around with you
I'm so lucky
I know I'm already in the best house
With the best leader
You know it already
Alright
You must be impartial to your
Your alumni house
A little bit yeah
Cause I've been paying
Attention I hear about
I hear the leader has been making
Waves
But I'm always waiting for you
Well I'll see you
Again before I leave I'm sure
Two days
Yes you will
Alright have a
Good rest have a good rest
Of the day hunting Oliver and Adam
I
I think we will
He leaves
I really should show you where you'll be staying
Oh yeah that'd be great
Back to the sad music
That would be great
What the fuck is this song
Well
Let me show you the keep
And she goes
By the way what happened with
You and that guy on the dance floor
The other day
Oh Marcellus he's actually gonna be in our house too
Oh is he
Yeah um
Edivane I had met his parents before
They're on the king's council
What's his story
Well
I mean I don't know him that well
I know his parents
But um
So apparently he flies a Pegasus
Named Maximus
And he thinks that
He is faster than me
So
He spoke that way to our house leader
You hear Rude just go
Just a little chuckle
She goes well
Pretty bold of him
It is
But you know
If he has to learn a lesson
First hand
Which he will
Or he gets deleted from the game
Or I end him
Here and now
Or he goes was that a threat
Are you gonna kill someone
You didn't hear anything
Remember how we talked about people being killed in this game
Um
He'll go okay so
People in our house we have Marcellus
Edivane
Oh Quincy's in our house too right
Quincy Garvey
Um we also
Oh I heard today that we
Will have the
Cat-volaters
In our house
The who? Thruud
Thruud? Thruud
Thruud
Thruud? Thruud?
Would you would know
Um Lucia is the name of
Thor's daughter
Oh absolutely named
And um
And the house cat-volater who lives in
T'kor who you
You know respect definitely
Who are known as the hammer of
The hammer of the king
They have an aeon mark that's believed to be
Bestowed upon Thor himself
She gasps out loud
They're in our house?
Um Thruud I think she'll be
A first year with us
Cause she's the youngest
And Todd is a third year
But I haven't really met them
So who's in the
First year house with us?
Yeah so Thruud
Quincy
Um Marcellus
Um trying to think if I know
Anyone else who's coming
So there's gonna be looking at the list
That guy is a commoner
So I won't know him
Um It's too poor for me
To know
I only know the nobles
I won't know her because
She's a commoner
Um
Probably don't know him
Yeah
So okay it's five so there's
Five
Those are the people I know there'll be more
For sure How many people are normally in a house
Do you know?
Um Timmy
How many are there?
It can be upwards of 30 to 40
Oh shit Per year or all years?
All years
Oh what's per year?
Hmm?
It's per year like how many
Like how many of like our classmates
Are we expected to meet? Oh okay
Um it's about 30
It's about 30-40 per year
Um
So it's gonna be like over 100 students
Mostly nameless people in the crowd
So like about like 10
People in the first year
No no like 30, 30 people
Oh wow
Oh that's big why did I think it would be smaller
Silver Lion is definitely the smallest
Though I'd say like closer to like
15-20 a year
But the other houses definitely have more people
That's a lot of NPCs holy shit
Yep each of them are named
And have back stories so get ready
Holy fuck
No they're not, no they're not
I'm just gonna be like
I'm gonna ask every single one a very
Insightful questions about their back story
The second I meet them
My name is Flanagan
Ad blocker
Ad blocker?
Looking at my screen
Flanagan Ad blocker
Oh it's Flanagan or Raymore
Oh I'm glad that we already know some people heading in
Yeah
Oh and I'm pretty sure
The blue wolves and
The crimson griffins leaders are also gonna be
First years which also means their retainers
Probably will be too
Doesn't always but usually they're the same year
So maybe we should align ourselves
With them for the mock battle
No cause that's actually exactly
What I was thinking because okay so
Yes cause with the mock battle
Here's the thing is I know that they
Start in the positions of the regions
And so the silver lions are always in the middle
Which can kind of suck in a way
Yeah wait that's kind of like right in the center
Of to get like let's not be that of us
Yeah and so then like if you have
Aurora
And um Stravai
Beneath
Then we could all just collapse on
Either the boars
Or the moose
That's brilliant
Velora
Well it depends if they want to do that but
Maybe since their first years they'll be more inclined
To work together
Wait then what hap
What happens when there's only
Three houses standing left
Well we have to turn on each other
Eventually
Oh
But we can think about that
When we get there you know
Yeah yeah that's that's that's
That's future us problems
Speaking of the future
I'm kidding
By the way
She totally forgot
Oh yeah she'll go
Oh yeah wasn't there something you wanted to
Say earlier
My lord um my lady
Can I see you for a moment
I'll see what is calling you over
Yeah what do you need
Stravai meant to say something um I was just
Wanted to get your and you leave
Um see you for a second
Uh
This is a lot
Lucia
Yeah
Make a wisdom save
Oh no
No
I'm gonna get
In trouble
If I freak out
Thirteen
That is a fail
What does that mean
I'm gonna be the weirdo
At school
That's what that roll's for
Roll to get ostracized
Roll for reputation
Roll for how much they want to bully you
Okay thirteen bullies
Gonna make new NPCs
I'll find you
You hear that
Nelda?
No you don't
It was
Just a disembodied voice
In your head
I'll find you
Who?
Who are you?
My lady
Is that you?
I'm no lady I'm just Lucia
Where are you?
I'm with Velora
Who are you?
And then Velora you're eventually
Are done signing off
On this
Signing off and helping this person
And you look back to see
Lucia
Talking to herself out loud
With Rujah and Orië there
Yeah
Rujah was with you but Orië is
Kind of like giving a little
Side eye
Lucia
Who are you?
Tap on your shoulder and then you just snap out of it
Ah
Hi yeah hi
You
Maybe you should settle down and
Find your room
Oh okay
I was just waiting for
Velora to come back and then someone
And then she looks around
And like
See that there's no one right it's just those two
Yeah
Um
Yeah
As she kind of locks eyes with Orië and kind of like catches on
That oh fuck
Oh shit
Not again
Yeah I should probably lie down
You know
Sorry
Um people keep wanting
Help with stuff um once we get out
Of here that should be less common
Though I usually work in
In here
You're really busy I mean this is your home and you are
The lady of this house
Um speaking of house
I'm a little tired
Velora would you mind if you
Showed me where I could put my bags
Down and stuff
Yeah yeah let me show you
Your
Room will be
In the keep so we'll have to
Go this way okay
She says go in you make your way
Into the keep it has a draw
Bridge that there used to be a moat
There but your mom decided to put something
That's more welcoming eventually
Um there used to be a moat
There
Well that's the castle
You see little
You see these little stone alligators
Where you know mom's sense of humor
Just located where the moat used to be
But it's now
You know the 90's mom aesthetic where they had like the
Chickens like everyone had like
Ceramic chickens
That's what this is
You
You see a sign that says survive
Thrive
Survive
Survive thrive vibe
I can't I can't
Oh no
As you move into
What feels like
A castle like you can't believe
Somebody this is a place you live in
Um this is like
Huge fortified walls
Which huge like
Huge slips in the walls where like people can like
Shoot out of like forts you see
Books um
And then you move past into these vast
Open halls you move through
One dining hall and then you move through another
One wait why are there two
Well I mean sometimes
If we have a lot of people over they put the
Kids in that one
The kid
Table the kid dining room
The kid dining room
Definitely if it's really big
You see
Painting depictions of all the lords
Of the uh of the houses
Lined up on one all and of course you see
Um one that says
Sabine Avonlea
Um which
Looks like a much younger version
Of the um
Says of Valora's mother
She looks like you
I don't know
People people are saying that
I think it's the hair
And um you do see underneath
Her uh she
She's she's the only one that has
A little addendum at the bottom
It says Sabine Avonlea
And it has the year she was born
With the dash and
There's nothing yet where
Nothing yet after the dash
And on the bottom it says
In parentheses
Cloudbreaker um
Cloudbreaker Avonlea
What's a cloudbreaker?
Oh it's from her flying
Oh!
Ruger goes only the best flyers
Gained the title of cloudbreaker
Wow
Do you want that title? She looks to Valora
Oh of course
She looks
At Ruger because I'd say I'm already there
Overconfidence is a slow
And insidious killer
My lady You've seen me fly
You're good
For flying? I mean like
I don't think
Like officially or anything
I'd have to think about it
Oh I can always make up other ones too
Yeah I mean people give like nicknames
Related to their flying all the time
Cloudbringer
I feel like that'd be more like a mage
You know like a really powerful druid
Oh I've ever met a druid before
I have actually
No actually I met
I actually stayed with a
What's it called
A group of druids
In the Folger
For a while
They live in this
They live in this part of the Folger
Where it's like the winds are so hostile
That basically nobody lives there
And it's like the air is so
Charged electrically
I went there to try to teach
Phantom how to fly better with the heavy winds
Yeah my dad
So I was supposed to be staying with
The Vialazone house in the unskilled rise
And then I kind of ditched them
Because my dad hadn't approved my
Camping trip
And he came back
He came back, he cut it short
I only got to stay a couple weeks
Where else have you been?
Oh well I mean like all over the kingdom
Like what? What did it look like?
What were the people like?
Well you know Kanaka is really cool
Really?
Yeah if you go all the way to the west they have these beaches
And stuff and
There's this like
There's even like the islands off of
Kanaka are really beautiful too but I haven't gotten
To go there very much
I've only seen those in books
Is the water that blue?
Oh it's way more than I
Saw in the books
More? Yeah on a sunny day
It reflects
The sky like perfectly
And if you get up to like the really
Like fancy parts
Where like all the nobles go on
Their big vacations and stuff too
It's really pretty but
I actually kind of preferred it more further
To the south
What's in the south?
Well I just kind of liked the
It's a lot busier
It's less like kind of artificially
Like secluded for the noble vacations
And it's like they have these
Like really bustling port towns
And that's where actually the only time
I've seen airships
Are over there
Also
Regular ships too
I mean Strava is pretty cool
There's the
There's the moonlit chasm
What's that?
Well it's this big chasm that
Reflects the light of the moon at night
So it shines really really bright
Oh I'm sure
That's beautiful
It really is
It's really cool
I mean you know Strava has all the magical anomalies
And some of them are more
Entertaining than others but that's a pretty cool
In my opinion
Wow wow wow wow wow
Do we get to go on field trips?
Oh yeah
That's actually a big part
At Iribrin is we go travel to other
Other regions
To do our missions
That's so cool
I'm so excited and she immediately
Without warning just flings her arms
Around and gives you a big hug
Thank you thank you thank you for choosing me
To be your retainer
It'll be a lot of fun
She like kind of like
Pulls back and like
It's gonna be incredible
We're gonna see beaches and
Blue waters and then
Moon chasms and then
So many different things
And when you can fly
When you can fly a lot that opens up to you
My gosh
I mean I was in
I was leaving Aurora the morning
Of the big ceremony
What was Aurora like?
Oh well where we were
Was pretty secluded and well
Snowy cold
Snow? You saw snow?
It's
It's very very snowy
Up there I mean like
A lot of the villages are a lot more
Secluded because of it that's
Everyone there can hunt
And they're used to like big monsters and stuff
I fought a Yeti while we were there
Ruta saw it
Ruta didn't see it happen but she
Was nearby
I didn't realize how big the world was
And that's just the kingdom
Are there other schools like ours?
I don't know if I've heard of anything
Quite like Iret Britten I mean there are
Big schools
Other places
Even here
Stravae has Solivagan Academy
Which is a pretty
Big magic school but
I know overseas and what not they have
Pretty big schools too but I don't think
They
I think our kingdom is pretty unique in having
The five regions
So defined
And lorded over separately
That it is pretty
Unique being able to
Have a dedicated place where
A lot of people come from
Not just from the closest
Areas around them to go to the school but
All over the kingdom
There's so much to see
Eventually
You get to
You get to this room
Where you know
You know Lucia is going to be studying
And as you director
You
The door opens
And Lucia
Legitimately
This room is a little
Bit bigger than the entirety of your
House
Your little shack
Your little cabin
It is a vast expansive room
A king size bed
Crowns a part of the wall
Where a big
Two pane window
Curtains drawn
Show a big view of the
City on the outside
Multiple
Are there going to be other people sleeping with me?
I don't know
We have the executors
From just next door
See the bed for one person?
I mean you could fit more than one
But it's just you
Didn't you?
Alright Tim I cut you off
No no that's good
And
I'm not too far
Away from here
It's a couple
Turns away
I could show you if you needed it but
Yeah there's
You can usually find lots of the staff around
Pretty easily
And anyone would be willing to help you with anything you need
So
What else does the room look like Tim?
Oh it's just well appointed
It's like
In your shack you had like a little chest
A little dresser
You didn't have exactly the closet
I had my little corner I'm sure
There are like three dressers
Two gilded chests
There is
Like two different desks for you to sit
To sit on
I just have my
Tiny backpack
She puts her tiny
Hangs her tiny backpack up
In one of the dressers and goes
Well, all unpacked
She turns
Back to Valora
It's probably kind of smart to pack light
I mean we're getting uniforms and everything at school anyways
Well that's a good idea
That way people won't
It's harder to tell us apart
If we're commoners or whatever
If we're all in the same uniform right?
I mean
Yeah but like basically everyone knows
And they don't even have a sleep
In the same building
What?
Yeah they separate the common folk from the nobles
I'm your retainer
I should be with you
It's not like you can't come there
But yeah I don't think it's
I think it's
I don't think it's right either
It's one of those things from
The more traditional days of the school
That hasn't really left
Well that's okay because
I'll get to know
A bunch of other commoners
In our class
Yeah that's true
And from the other classes
That's true and I'll be able to
Make alliances and learn from them
Well you know that is
It is a fair point too
Of like someone needs help
With something like outside of school hours
You're a lot closer to them
If you're in that dormitory
And we all kind of understand each other
I'm sure they're nervous just like I am
Oh yeah
I'm sure they are
But I think it's gonna be
Gonna be good
I have good feelings
I know we're gonna do right
I'm gonna make sure it's right
And
Don't worry about
What I was gonna tell you earlier
That can come another time
If you're sure
Yeah
Yeah I don't think we have anything to worry about
This
For Luane
I don't know
For Luane
Goes
It did sound awfully important
Lucia
Anything
You're worried about
Most things that people worry about
Are things that
We can make better
Or that we can
Grow through
That's how I've always seen it
So whatever you're worried about
We'll work through it
We'll get through it
And
Our destinies are ours to map
She kind of like
Thinks at you in confusion
When you say destinies are ours to map
Very softly
So that almost only
Velora can hear
She says
No they aren't
Well that's just how I feel
I'm not sure
Well that's just how I see it
Um
Can I show you something
And she's gonna try to take Velora away from the other two
So that they have a bit of quiet
Yeah
Um
Laura
Remember how I said all that stuff
About how I'm supposed to help you
And stuff and stuff
Yeah
I was kind of told to
By your goddess
Or your
The gods
Send me messages sometimes
And not only that
Not only that
I can see the future
Executor
That puts you off
I'm never gonna be able to tell her
This is literally how
The cybals work too
Is like the cybals will try to tell you things
Sometimes and it will literally
Like thunder over them in the unsealed
Rhymes and stuff
Wait that's so cool Tim that's so smart
So she literally can't tell you every time
She tries to tell you she can't
I'm so glad that Jenny
Remembers that small detail
From so long ago
No I clocked it the second time I was like
Yeah that's what's happening isn't it
Wait guys that's so cool and also so
Smart and also I'm sorry for giving Tim
Random heart attacks where he has to
Interrupt
He can like eat a secluded room
He's like mad at me
The door rips open
You hear from the outside, Executor
He says hello nice to meet you
As you see Sabine Avonlea
The lord of house Avonlea
Welcome to Ori and give her a hand shake
It's an honor to have you
And looks inside the room
And just goes
And waves to you
Lucia
Hello lord
You guys giving her a tour of the place?
Yeah
Showing her where she's staying
For a couple nights
Beautiful, thank you very much
For letting me stay here
Oh of course, of course
You can have anything in the house
Feel free, don't even ask you know
Oh and here! And she quickly goes
And digs into her little nap sack
I was told if you're staying at someone's
House you always have to bring
A gift of thanks
And she takes out one of the jars of jam
And goes, I promise you
It is the
As jam you'll ever have
Freshly picked and sourced
I'm told they're priceless
She giggles
Our master of coin was unwilling
To mark it down as such
Oh what a joy kill
I know, that's what I said
She goes
Well if it's priceless then I can't eat it
Right? I have to keep it in the jar
No, no! Of course you can eat it
Well I'll save it for very special
Occasions then
Thank you so much Lucia
Thank you
We've learned a lot haven't we
She looks at Valora
The stables and your
Your cloud breaker
That's incredible and that you went to
School just like us and you were
Nervous like us and you turned out
Really cool
Dashaun said some things
Dashaun
Well yeah, I was nervous
You know, but you know it was
I think some of the best three years
And most stressful, but best
Fun, I met the most people
I made some long lasting friends
Um
I'm gonna enjoy it
You're gonna be nervous
But don't worry, everyone else
Is nervous, even the people who have
Been there before
Well, I feel
A lot better knowing that
If they're not nervous I'll try
To scare them
She goes, nah you, I'm sure
You and Phantom could
Yeah you know, he's
Real sweet but he can put on a real scary
Face if he wants
I mean just think of that boy that you stopped in the alley
Oh, yeah
That's not a big deal
She was so brave
He stole my pocket watch and she shows
Her pocket watch that she was given
And she came to my help
Immediately and she didn't even know who I was
I wasn't even her retainer then
Mr. Random Citizen
That's why she's the best house leader
Sounds like my daughter
Okay, aw
Awkward mom
Take it, take it
By the way
I made you a peanut butter and
Chili sandwich
It's in the kitchen
You can eat it whenever you want
Well thanks, I mean it's
I was gonna eat eventually
I forgot to take the crust off, I'm sorry
I really don't
I'm fine with that
The crust is the best part
She sobs one too lone tear
From all the bread she's bought
Over the years
Oh I forgot
You were poor, I'm kidding
I'm kidding, I'm kidding
I'm all that dies
Right out the door
We've got a lot of
Chopping the new tomorrow I guess, right?
Oh yeah, um
Ballora
You know I usually don't go
Through your stuff, ever
Oh Evan you went through
My packing? Wow
Candles are important
They're gonna have candles there
But you need to
Bring your own
For your own lighting to put in your room
Yeah but I can
I know they have candles at student services
For sure
But you should bring
Your own
To carry them around and things like that
The ones that they have at student services aren't the best
Oh my god
This is literally the college talk
It's literally moving into the dorms
And I bet you didn't find
My other bag that I packed
But already got on the airship
What if the candles are in there?
Oh convenient
Oh yeah just pack it on the airship
Two days before
Oh yeah
When you can't fit anything else in a bag
Get the candles
This is my last warning to you miss
Get some candles
She's gonna be
Every holiday is gonna be
Sent different designer candles
But I'm not gonna get as many
As it says
Certainly I don't need looks at the listing
Okay point at
Anything I'll tell you why it's important
Oh my gosh
Okay
Why do I need
Bedsheets when they
Already have them there?
Because the bedsheets you carry here
Can remind you of home and you're gonna miss home
So you should have them
In your room whenever you miss
Home and plus the ones we have here
Are comfortable and the ones they have
At the academy they do wash them
But sometimes you know you can't
Really trust them sometimes
Fair fair fair fair okay
But challenge me
Did you really have to put hat on here?
Yes I never wear hats
Okay some days might be really sunny
You know I know you like to have the sun
In your face and get the circadian
Rhythm but like
You never know when the occasion
Might come like this is so many social occasions
Are you keeping note of this
Lucia? Cause you're also
You're also filling out this list
You know that right?
Oh oh
Um
Yeah yeah yeah
Oh yeah and she's uh
Pads of paper and starts
Jotting notes confusingly down
My daughter is going to help you go through this
List for you too
Oh thank you
But I've got everything
I brought everything I need in my bag
So
You can't be too prepared
You're not gonna check through her bag are you?
You can!
She goes and gets her knapsack out of the closet
No no no no no no no no no no
It's okay it's okay
No you're more than welcome to
I mean I have I have you know
A change of clothes
I have
My jammy shirt
Yeah? You're so nice
It's okay
Oh and well and this is my
Favorite thing and she shows her pocket watch
Aw
Yeah my dad bought it special for me
Oh it's really nice
Oh the make
I recognize the maker
Do? Yeah yeah yeah
Can you turn it around?
Yeah and she flip it around
You see there's a
She looks closer you see engraved there's a small
E oh bitch
There's a small E
And the lord back
Hands me
Takes my watch
You stupid bitch
It's a ploy to steal my watch
I get a new mic stand
So I have
I have
But I still fucking hate my mic
God damn it
You see that there's a small
There's a small E on the
On the back
She just goes
Ellis I knew it
I recognized it
What's Ellis?
Oh Ellis is a watch maker in
America he makes all kinds of
He makes all kinds of watches
The fact that you have one of his watches
They go for like thousands
Ow I don't
How do you
Now she's like how the fuck did he get that
Did he steal it? They're usually like
Watches given to Lawrence and stuff
He's the best around
I could tell because of the metal
It had a real nice sheen to it
Well I'm glad we
Got the big pocket
Jeez
She's sliding it back
In her pocket she's like did my dad
Fucking steal this
I killed a man
They ever found his body yet?
Lord Kiddwallard is dead bitch
Call an ambulance but not
For me
You have something real precious on you
It reminds me of
When I am
Yeah clocks
It goes over their heads completely
Yeah it's like
It's like
It's like yeah it's a fucking watch
You dumbass
No shit
Who would have put those two together
Yeah clocks man
Yeah that's what they do
That's what a fucking clock does
It goes
Alright well I'm gonna leave you both
To it's whatever you're doing
You know bonding and such
Don't yeah
I just keep
I mean it's good to see you
I'm glad you got to
But we keep getting interrupted it feels like
Oh sorry
No no no
It's just busy around here
Yeah it is
But I should leave you both to it
Thank you for all your help
Of course and you know
Join us for dinner tonight
Of course which dining room?
We're gonna go to the more private one
Cause it's just us you know
The more private one is the kids one?
The smaller one yeah
Oh okay got it
It's necessary
No it makes complete sense
It makes complete sense
Okay it's not the kids one
It's still a really nice place
It's a lot closer together
It's more you know homely
Yeah home
She stands in a room that is the size of her home
She's like
Very homely yes absolutely
And of course if you need like
If you need sheets anything
You can talk to the head of her house
They can get you anything you'd like
You need food snacks whatever
Just talk to them
Thank you thank you so much
Alright I'll leave you two alone then
Goodbye and she
Curties awkwardly
Halfway through the checklist
Fun shoulder shuffle as she shuffles away
That was a big check for her I'm guessing
Your mom really
Really loves you a lot
Oh yeah she's great
She's a great lord
She's super cool
Yeah
Oh where
Where were we
Again we were talking about
Okay we were talking about
We were talking about
Oh gosh
We were talking about
You said something about the gods
Would Lucia have caught on by now
I'm so clumsily
The end of arcane
Why do I hear skin
Do you think Lucia would have caught on by now that she's not going to be able to fucking get this out
You can try it again
You might have the theory in your head
She's like this is the fourth third third time right
Yeah
It's odd
Um
What I would really like to tell you
I've
Been trying to tell you
Timmy's ready
He's like don't do it Lucia
Don't do it
This time the interruption is from a real person
Timmy gets into the game
Take a hit
And stuff about destiny
You were saying
Sometimes
I think fate does play a role in things
I mean
I think about it
If I hadn't have stopped Graham
We would never have met
Sure but is that like
Fate or is that
She's like
She's nodding
Like very
It's you and your choices
No because
You chose to intervene
Because I had a second chance
What do you mean
Laura
I can see into the
Future
What
I was able to say it
She's like
As she says it she waits for someone
She actually ducks
Because she thinks someone's going to come storming in the room
And when they
Someone fucking sucker punches her
When she doesn't she
Um
I used to think it was just because I worshiped the gods
But I learned last night at the party actually
That I'm not alone but
You can see the future
It's like
I'm not alone
It's like
Like a magic thing
Like spells or
No it just happens
I saw a vision of you
And I saw
I've been seeing a lot of fire and
Distraction and
I know that
I know that I'm supposed to help you
I'm just
I'm just worried
Um
Tim's cutting on his fucking fingers
I don't know what
Can she insight check
Oh
Lucia says
I can see
As
Time vaults backwards
And you feel it Lucia
Velora is intently listening to you
What you were saying
I can see how well
You're loved
Well sure
Yeah I mean
My mom's pretty great
But that's not what you want to do
You know
But that's not what you wanted to
Talk about was it
I promise
I'm gonna do everything I can
I know
I can tell
I can tell that about you already
Like I said
Even if some possibilities
Are thrown our way
We're the ones
That get to make the choice
Yeah
That's
You know if
Life is
Seeking out challenges
Or having them thrust upon you
But
Overcoming them
That's a lot easier to do when you're not alone
Yeah
So I know it's not gonna stop you
Being worried about everything but
I'm worried too a little bit
I'm more excited to be honest
But I'll probably get nervous
Once I get there
But we're not alone
She's just smiling
At you
Well
Can she
To me
Can she do an insight check
Just to see if that like
Has actually like
Just for like a general sense of how
She seems to be feeling
Give me that shit
Like if it helped or not
Give me that check
Boom boom boom
Gotta get that
That one
Nooooo
We've had not great roles all night
Ouch
You don't
Know her too much
As if now
You're still figuring out
Lucia at the moment
Um
But the
But the sudden
Though the sudden
Down like up and down did feel
Strange
It's as it
You reckon maybe
Wasn't too off beat
But
It definitely was something that
It definitely was something to think about
She has love
And
You know
I know you don't know me that well yet but
Um
You know I'm happy to talk about
Anything and
I'm
Sure we'll get to know each other
A lot better real soon
Thank you for
Yeah
Um so
If the bed's not
Filling right or something they can get you like
Oh no
It's perfect
I was just gonna freshen up a little
Before dinner just to
You know clean up and
Settle and
So I can make sure to
Well I can make sure that I'm ready to talk to your dad
He's one of my big fans I know
Oh no you won't have to talk to him
He's not here
Oh why isn't your dad here
Oh well
Um he's actually
Already off to work
Oh do you not get to
See your dad a lot
Well
Actually the past
Couple years I haven't very
Much because he's
The master of arms at Iverbrin
So
He'll be more in my future
Our future
Your dad's our teacher?
No
No no no no no no
He's just like in charge of
Like coordinating the nights who work
For the school and stuff
And I think it's basically
A desk job
She's
Lucy is like
Hmm
I'm
I've already made it super clear to him
I'm not dealing with him
At Iverbrin
He's all
You're gonna have to
No it's not that
He's a master of arms
Not like he's our teacher
Hey your dad
Loves you in his own way
Right?
I mean
That's what my mom would say
So
Don't worry about it
Okay well
If ever you want to talk about anything
Give me your retainer
That's what I'm here to do
Believe me my dad
No it's like
He's always been like this
I mean not completely but
It's just
Did it change recently or something?
No no it's
I mean when I say he's always been like this
He's always been kind of
Controlling you know
And I'm
I am completely pissed off
At him for what he did
The deal thing?
Yeah that's gotta take the cake
For some of the worst he's done
Is Graham gonna be at school?
Actually yes
My dad told me
That
His smoothing out his
Deal was our family sponsoring
Him to come
So he'll be going and
He'll in a way
Represent our house
A little bit
So that's
But I'm
You know I'm willing
To give him another chance
I think we can be
Friends
If he
If he starts
Willing to like
Actually make things right like his mom says he is
Stuff and try to become a better
Person I'll give him that chance
I'll let him start fresh
I think that's a great idea
And I think things are gonna
Change when we all get there and I'm sure
I'm sure
I look forward
To getting to know Graham better
In a different way in a better way
Hopefully
Yeah
Well
I kinda told you what I needed to
Um
So
I'm
Gonna just unpack
My pack
And yeah
If you need anything
I'm right here okay
If you need anything well
I probably won't be right right here but
Somebody could find me pretty easily
Okay
Just let me know when to come down for dinner and I'll be right there
And Rudra too
Rudra too
Rudra can help you with anything you need
Thank you I appreciate that
She'll be coming with us
Oh good
Another familiar face
Solemn nod
This woman
Who was intimidating to you
Before
Is now like
Now there's comfort
Yeah she's just
She's the silent but
Respectfully silent
Stoic kind
Yeah
I'll
I'll let you relax a bit
And um
My room
Just points it out
But I won't be there for now I'll be later
If you need me later or something
Alright
Valora
Thank you
Everything
Thank you for
For doing this
It
Is
My destiny
Well um
Won't be long
And
So I'll see you at dinner
See you at dinner
Um shopping dinner
And what not
But instead
What are we going to focus on
Is what occurs that night
In another
Place
In an era
An era
Fire
A small fire
Crackles
A
A small plume
In a field of darkness
We are
Naturally drawn
To it and in this sea of
Black this small orange
Tint flickers
On and off again
A man
Is crouched next to the fire
A hammer
Uh laid
To his side he is on his knees
He is wrapped
In bandages
White bandages
He looks
Wrapped
All through his arms
His head his neck his fingers
Everything is wrapped
He looks much like a mummy
He has his eyes closed
As he just simply
Meditates
Another man
Walks up to him
A human man
Uh someone of a commoner
Make short short stub brown hair
Tired eyes
He just goes
There you are
Looking for you
Walks up to him
And just goes
You know uh
You gotta start convincing me
About this little hobby of yours
Hending off from everyone to go
Stay out of fire you know there's a big fire
We have back at camp
And then
We go
I just need time
Is all
Yeah
All of us do
I've uh
Gotta assume it's some sort of
Calming ritual or stuff before a big battle
I recommend it's a lot better than uh
Drinking
And stuff so I ain't faulting you there
I guess it's something sort of like that yeah
Yeah
What else can it be
Uh grunt okay
Well I ain't gonna force
Anything out of ya
Just you know big battle tomorrow and all
For the empire
He just goes
What is a country but a life sentence
Alright that's the way of putting it yeah
Well I ain't gonna get philosophical
Right before a battle I think that's the worst time too
Cause then I ain't gonna sleep tonight
Well put though I'll remember that
That's haunting actually
Alright well
I'm gonna go
Alright well
I'll leave you to it
I saw something
The man turns back around
Are you gonna share
With me
Cause
I love this NPC he's us
You've been an awfully private person
I ain't gonna try to soil it or anything
I just want to hear what you have in your mind
And ask each other where have you been
Okay I'm following along yeah
I have been lost
And every time I look into the flame
To my wounds
I see you
Me?
No
Oh okay
I just thought you were telling me something
Is that fire there?
I don't see anything
When can I say your name
And have it mean only your name
And not what you left behind
Who are we talking about here
You got this whole
Nice vibe thing going on
But like I'm sorry I keep asking questions
Sorry but I'm confused
Her name is Lucia now
I'll find you
Petal
And that is where we're gonna end
This session
Wait is Petal
Her real name?
I don't know
How would I know
Did her not know
I don't know
How would I know
Did her steal the nickname from your
Actual dad who he stole you from
I was gonna say that's
Gonna be wild
That messed up
I don't know anything
There's a gun what do you know Timmy
Wait
Wait wait wait
No no no
That's ooh
Ooh
Spicy
Tortured father figure
What's going on
Right before battle
In an era
War baby let's go
I'm still fighting with Kali Aldebrand
Level burns
Messed up
Yeah people usually die
Maybe the fire is still going
Or school
Question mark
Let's go
Yay
Let's go to school
Runs with dagger in mouth I'm gonna be late for more school
You're gonna be late for more school
It's like the toast
Yeah I'm gonna be late for more school
Oh gee
I didn't have time to pack my knife
Senpai-kun
Have you filled out your war crime list yet
Oh darn
I was put on the wrong
Geneva Accords section
In my class we call them
Geneva suggestions
Cool kids
Oh boy
What are all these mysteries gonna turn out
What's all this information gonna be
Who knows
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Dun dun dun dun
I've been trying to import his personality
You know
On your voice bank
I'm gonna be the poison in the system
This is how we defeat it
It has to impersonate me
And then it wouldn't want to
And then it will
That's not true
Because an AI won't call you a power bottom
That's fair
That would be such a good prank though
I make an AI replica of Timmy
And then I'm like oh Timmy I thought you were already here
We already started the session
And make the AI talk
Tim arguing with his AI self
Truly post apocalyptic
Truly Orwellian
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Next time
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Guys, oh it's fucking damn shit
Okay
I smacked
The mic
The camera
My camera cover
Anyways y'all
Thank you so much for watching
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Next time
Bye