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it's the median reaction timmy it's no bits timmy
timmy's never done a single bit no bits timmy
i factually have never done bits Zenny, Zenny,
I know you're in chat. Give him bits. Give him
bits, Zenny. I would like to fact check this.
The immediate bead of silence. Emma's camera
is working this week. Yeah, Emma got her camera
fixed and her voice is back and so she's more
talkative. Guys, I was there the whole time.
She's so good. She was just so still the entire
time last time. Just watching ever so patiently.
Just waiting for my turn. Just on command. Hey,
stay still. You know, she could be a statue.
It's like one of those models who pose for paintings
or whatever. You know what I mean? Yes, me. Not
the ADHD fucking. Wired ass, cocained out bit.
Thanks, Dragmire. Hi, Zenny. There's your bits.
We got bits. We got bits. 300 bits. Zenny has
the bits. Bits, bits, bits, bits. Well, now you
have the bits. Yeah, now. Oh, my goodness. Now
you're 300 bits, Tim. So now I'm legally obligated
to do 300 bits this entire session. No, no. Wait,
is that what that's about? Start counting. Yeah,
yeah, it is. Oh, no. What have you done? 300
more melodies. For the next 300 minutes, we will
be reading Emma's resume. No, please, please,
please. It's not been updated. Please. I have
300 copies of Emma's resume here. We should time
travel to the future and then read Emma's resume
back to the past. Interesting, interesting, interesting.
We decide what roles Emma has in the future.
Old Lady Marie in Fire Emblem, Breaking of Seven
Dawns. Emma, why did you play Mulan in the live
-action Mulan 2? What is this? How'd you even
get that part? Employment is problematic in the
future. Yeah. Emma changed. Yeah, but look at
her. Emma's Pocahontas in the live action Pocahontas.
Oh, no. Oh, no. Please, Scott. Emma did what?
Please, no. Not that she's detesting. Emma. Oh,
my God. Why'd you? Why'd you take that part?
Honestly, honestly, you guys instilled this fear
in me now. We check and it's like, okay, we're
reading through your resume here and we see,
looking at the future newspapers, there's a lot
of voice actor strikes going on, yet you have
a lot of roles during this. Yo, oh boy. Oh, the
strike. It says here that you are the voice of
generative AI. I'm the lead in the next Gooner
game of all time. New Tesla voice assistant.
Who can also be your girlfriend. You're dating
your car. You're dating your car. That's the
new DLC for Date Everything. You get in your
car and you start dating your car and buildings
you drive past. I'll be like, wow, you seem like
you're the main character of the story. Can I
call you MC? Fun fact, an AI actually said that.
Oh no. Why don't you go ahead and lead me to
the way. To McDonald's. I'm the navigation system
and you're dating the navigation system? If.
I'm so glad that I'm so ready to date a navigation
system. Some of us need to date a navigation
system, alright? Some of us don't know where
we are. And of course, I am joined here by my
three lovely hosts. They will now introduce themselves
by alphabetical order of the second letter of
their names. Okay, I'm first. I work in a library,
guys. I do this all day, organizing. But I am
Jenny. And to add to the Emma being a car voice
assistant bit, it's really funny to think of
them being like, oh, Emma, do you love me? It's
like, sorry, I don't know that one. Rerouting.
That's all I can attribute. Rerouting. Hi, I'm
Albert. I play Cole. And to add to the bit, I...
Hope that she, you know, the like self -driving
cars that have started going in circles. I hate
them. The Waymo. The Waymo. Anyway, that's, that's
Emma. It's, it's, uh, Emma. Emma! Emma! Emma!
Emma! Emma! Emma! Emma! Emma's like, turn left.
Turn left. Keep turning left, baby. That's right.
No, I didn't mean literally right. You have to
keep going left. Turn! You turn! You turn! I'm
not introducing myself. Please go on to Tim.
Emma will stop this car and turn it around. Yeah,
we all know who Emma is, so it's fine. We all
know. What are you doing here? I am the next
voice of your Tesla car girl. You can date Emma
as long as she's a car. That would be some lame
shit that Eli would do. Like, here, here's an
epic girlfriend for you. And I'll have a little
anime girl icon. Cybertruck 2 .0. Wait, what
car piece? If all of us were a car piece, which
are we? I don't know. So you're the navigation.
I want to be like the cup holders or something.
I'll be the cup holders. Tim would be the steering
wheel. And Jenny would be the radio. Nice. Oh,
yeah. And Emma's like, everything else. You're
getting Broadway tunes. That's it. Jenny's like,
next up. JT is the brakes. Broadway all day.
And JT is the brakes. Yes. Yes. Yes. We need
that to survive. We need that. The representation
is like gas. Yeah. JT is gas. They're fighting
all the time. JT goes, can I be the parking brake?
You are the Break Street team. Yeah. And chat
is the gas pedal. Chat is the gas. Well, do you
guys want to recap what happened last time? Emma,
how about you? Yeah, I'm gonna get to it. You
were there the whole time. I was so zeroed in
the whole time. I can just read the recap. JT,
delete that real quick. I'm going to do the recap
with your eyes closed. Spinning around with your
forehead on a baseball bat on the ground. You
were listening the whole time. The whole time?
The whole time? There was a battle with a nightmare.
A bear night. Was it a horse? Did it look like
a horse? Because it says last legs. Was it like
last four legs? Yeah, like stag antlers. Oh,
it was like a deer. And then Valora runs into
her knight, Rudra Pallavi. Is Rudra good? Is
she good or is she a problem? Rudra's awesome.
I think we like Rudra. She's working for my dad,
but she mostly works for my, she's my mom's like
best friend. Fun fact, Valora's dad is a human
trafficker. Moving on. Fun fact? Well, it was
fun. He might not human traffic, actually. Yeah,
we should do the recap. We got a lot to tell
you about, actually. He might just murder them,
to be fair. He just kills them? Unalive them?
Let's start over. Do we have to say unalive?
No! No! JT breaks. I'll start over so that I
can actually explain things to Emma. Thank you.
So Cole and Keir were battling the Mare Knight,
who was extremely, extremely powerful and does
not speak. It just communicates. It's weird.
And it's a big, big, long battle. We were going
back and forth between that and Valora. Okay,
the most BS thing about it, though. I just have
to tell you this now. We did so much damage in
the first round. We did, like, what? Like, over
200 damage. We got, like, three crits or something
in the first round. Burned a lot of abilities.
And then it says, okay, it negated all the damage
it took. in the round and gets an amount of reactions
permanently added based on the amount of damage
it negated. So the maximum of 11. I had 11 reactions
every round. Did you say 11 reactions? Yeah,
every round. Every round. And it had a reaction
that triggered on everything. It had like 20
different reactions. It had a reaction that could
change, it could invert the numbers someone rolled
on the dice. If it rolled a 1, it could make
it a 20. If you rolled a 20, it could make it
a 1, for example. Pretty bad. Pretty, pretty
bad. It sucked. But so they fight it, and they
get it to 1 HP. And it's using reactions to hold
out at 1 HP, is what Timmy explained after the
fight. But so they fought it, but they got knocked
out by it. Meanwhile, Valora was in the church
trying to look for Lucia, and then was supposed
to meet at Cole by the end of the hour. They
were going to meet at the graveyard. And so...
she realizes lucy is not in there um she gets
a chance to investigate a room where she finds
like some components of a teleportation spell
but she can't tell if it was used recently or
not because she's not very good at magic she's
just good with transportation which that's part
of it so she this dog helps her get out of by
distracting orie who was in the church and she
gets Oh, sorry. Yeah. Solanasi, not Aurier. And
so she leaves and she goes to the graveyard to
wait for Cole and runs into her knight, Rudra
Pallavi, who she's like, okay, what are you doing
at a graveyard? Like, weird place. And she's
like, oh my gosh, stop insinuating things. Like...
And so she's... She kind of explains to Rudra
that she's worried about Lucia and that she doesn't
trust Aurier. And Rudra says she doesn't trust
Aurier either. But she says she doesn't have
a reason, it's just a gut feeling. And so she
agrees to help Valora and Cole look for Lucia.
They were planning on getting Phantom to try
to track her down. And she leaves a message for
Cole in case he comes to the graveyard. So that
way he knows where they've gone. But when they
get on Phantom, the bells start ringing like
crazy from the bell tower. And Rudra's like,
I need to go up there and see what's going on.
So Valora flies her up to the top. And they see
that the lock has been picked, essentially. Which
is a really reinforced, difficult -to -pick lock.
Which is really strange. And the person who runs
away, like, teleports away. But Valora teleports
Rudra to be right on top of this person. But
then they just vanish. But then when Valora and
Phantom are flying around the outside of the
bell tower, because the knights kind of don't
want her there while they're doing this investigation,
when they realize it's not just a student pulling
a prank, that it's something strange. Phantom
picks up the scent of the guy again, of this
person again. And so we pursue into the underground
where, of course, Cole is. And by the time we
get to the cold, everything, the Mare Knight
is there. It takes on, it tells her at first,
like, you know, to leave. You shouldn't be here.
And then it takes on the form of her mother.
Ew. And Valora, Phantom is really on edge about
this. So Valora doesn't believe it or anything.
I think it started with the form of her mother,
actually. Yes. And then turned into the thing.
Yeah. It's been two weeks. Sorry, my camera's
so laggy tonight. I don't know why. Okay, we
believe in you. But then after that, there's
like these two shadowy. figures on the ground
that Valora can't make out. And the Maronite
tries to figure out what Valora wants most, and
I responded that she's just confused. She wants
to understand. And then it took an interest in
her, and instead of trying to get her to leave,
it approached her and was about to reach out
to Phantom, which caused Valora to take a swing
with her glaive at it. It being at 1 HP, it dies.
And... It leaves behind a black shard. But then
as it disappears and it turns into like, what,
like smoke or something? Yes. What was it? It
turns into smoke. Like an orb. An orb. It turns
into an orb and starts floating away. But Valora
can't pursue it because she sees Cole bleeding
out on the ground. And so she goes through all
his things looking for a potion or something.
We didn't have it. Either of us didn't have potions,
but he has a med kit. Managed to stabilize him.
And Cole mentions that he says that he was following
Valore's dad down there. And we go to try to
get him out, where Cole then gets a message from
a vanisher. who at first we're going to go down
where he heard whistling from Keir, presumably
Keir. And then when we were going to go down
there to look for her, the person writes that
he will kill her if we come any closer. Wow.
So presumably this Vanisher, another Vanisher
who Valora was initially pursuing, has Keir.
And... Who's Keir again? Keir is his assistant
girl who... is helping with the... She was the
lady who worked at the picnic basket. She's your
contact, right? Got it, got it, got it. And she
locked in. And then got kidnapped. Not enough.
Never enough. So Cola convinces Valora to leave
back the way they came in. And they find... Reinwald,
who has been let down there by a gray Pomeranian.
What is up with the fucking Pomeranians, man?
Yeah. And Cole refuses to go to a doctor, so
we were going to head back to the Olive House
to try to talk about what has happened, because
we're still not totally up to date altogether.
And that's what happened. Reinwald gave him a
little bit of healing. You know, he's fine. He's
fine. He's saying his family doesn't believe
in doctors. Is he an anti -vaxxer? Please no.
Please no. We're going to fix him. Please no.
I had a concussion. It was the best thing I could
think of. Okay. We gotta go. And, uh, real quick,
just to read out to folks what the, uh, for the
Maronite thing, in case there are future encounters,
because I'm sure people will want to know this.
I don't want to encounter him at all. I don't
want to. I don't want to. I won't win. I don't
want to. So this ability is once a day. The Maronite
can use its action to undo all of the damage
it has taken in the previous turn. The Maronite
gains additional reactions equal to the total
amount of damage divided by 10 for the rest of
the encounter to a maximum of 10. You guys just
don't damage it. You guys don't damage it. I
don't. Then it doesn't. I don't want to do this.
I don't worry, you'll like it. I'm not strong
enough. You got this. I'm a baby. I'm just a
baby. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Coughing
baby versus nuclear bomb. I killed it. So, you
know, all it took was one hit. Damn, that wasn't
that hard at all. He was just like a trickster
illusion type, you know? You know? It truly got
down to the wire, because there are some reactions
that he takes that permanently burns away that
reaction, so he can't use it anymore. But he
gets 15 reactions? 11. And it really got down
to Kuo and Kier hitting him so many times that
he kept burning reactions just to stay up at
one. And it truly got down to the wire. And Velora
showed up and it tapped him. And then she won.
So that's why Velora gets two levels. That was
easy. Leveled up. She did. It is Fire Emblem
coded. I got like 10 experience and she got a
good three levels out of it. And I got the loot.
And the loot too. Damn. Dilute the glory. Bragging
rights. It's everything. You're the fucking Nemi
in this situation. Nemi? Nemi. She's from Sacred
Stones. She's an archer. She's really not good.
Not good? Oh no! She's one of the units that
you baby. Here you go. Here's this kill. I saved
your life, by the way. I'll just remind you.
I saved your life. Loki, that was me with Ingrid
in three houses. I was like, here you go, baby.
Here you go. Right there. Here you go, dummy.
Here's your level up. Here you go. And if you
get one level in luck and nothing else, I'm gonna
smash your head into a bench. Throw you to the
front lines! Kaspar is my favorite dancer. Not
because he sucks normally, but because being
a dancer just unlocked all his potential. And
he just was so happy to do it. Oh, Kaspar? Oh,
gotcha. Okay. All we human are all we dancers.
I liked making Felix dance because he hated it.
I love the idea of the dancing so angrily. Go
again! All right, everyone. Are we ready? I guess
so. If I be. That's right. That's right. That's
really beautiful music. I can't hear it. I need
to turn mine up. Is there any playing that way?
Damn. Okay, well, I'm going to find a way to
play it. Lucia. Your vision swims for a moment.
It's like... It's the feeling of being plunged
underwater. Surfacing and plunging underwater
over and over again. Small cuts of scenery cuts
through your mind. The golden wheat fields of
home. A home which is here, in Anor. How things
gently sway in the breeze, and how usually these
easy sights were accompanied by the gentle guidance
of your father. Your father. From time to time,
you hear voices. Different excerpts throughout
your life. Maybe repeated phrases from Arnolda
that you can very confidently replicate. Words
of encouragement. of praise, but then it is interdispersed
with the sounds of distant and incomplete voices.
I need to remind you, if you even harm a single
hair on her head, or hear his voice, cold as
steel, Another voice. Let's just get this going.
Get this going as soon as possible, and we need
to return her. And... Lucia, for some reason,
you're beginning to recall a few things. Have
you been in a situation like this before? And
something becomes primed inside of your mind.
Your consciousness flutters. And I'll just ask
you. Do you want it to fade? My unconscious?
Or my memories? You're within your mind at this
moment and you feel like your faculties began
to like Like falter as if you're going to fall
asleep No, she doesn't want to fade And just
like that not wanting it to It's like Something
pries open. Your eyes still closed. And everything
still just barely coherent. There is a slight
burning I would describe it more as a discomfort
instead of painful. Feeling at your back. You
are prone on your back. As your eyes open just
briefly and already and you can and You can go
ahead and tell me throughout this if Lucia reacts
to anything or if she's remaining calm. Already
you find yourself in the presence of multiple
individuals around you. And in a room that is
unfamiliar, you see a figure immediately to your
side. Aurier. Her... Shirt off, back turned towards
you. You see decorated all across her body. Old
healed gashes and scars. Each of varying age.
And she has new ink written on her body. She
is seething through her teeth. She seems in...
She seems she is in pain, but holding it through.
Multiple people talking around you. One of them
saying, I think we're done for the day. We can't
continue this further. We're going to have to
return her. And Aurier just goes, how many more
sessions of this? Please understand, Executor,
we don't exactly have all of our faculties here
at this moment. Answer the question. Optimistically,
I can't say... I can't say less than five. We
can't exactly space these out farther as well.
And then Aurier goes, if she keeps disappearing
just from the rank of the student roster, then
people are going to get suspicious. Oh, that's
exactly what the memory changes are for, Executor.
Valusia. Despite things swimming, you remember.
You fell asleep earlier. Aurier sang a song,
and you fell asleep. And Ori goes, well, give
me the details of the memory changes. Well, yeah,
still, we just completed them. We have an itemized
list of them, provided for you for reading tonight.
A door opens to the room. Just goes, Grace, did
you find him? We don't know where he's at. It's
as if he just disappeared. Usardi is gone. And
then... The voice just goes... I see. Gather...
It says, put together a new package. It says,
put together a new package within the inner circles
of the castle. Enhanced security package in regards
to finding Lusardi. We need to find him as soon
as possible. Bring this up. Push this up to everybody.
Yes, sir. And then the person walks away and
closes the door gently. And the voice goes, Executor,
we're gonna have to... We've concluded today's
business. We can't go any further. World of Wailing
goes. We can pack. We can pack a few more hours,
can't we? My body can still take it. Yes. It's
televised. Besides, we have... We also have some
business here in regards to... Avonlea's businesses
in the Underground. We need to return... We need
to return to the castle with our prime asset.
Right now, the most pertinent thing that we must
do... Return... has returned Lucia her room she's
going to wake up a little groggy in pain but
hopefully the narrative that we set fits in nicely
at this can Not opening her eyes, keeping them
closed, but in her mind, can she call out to
ERA? What in your mind do you say specifically?
Can you get me that list? Easy. I can feed you
the whole damn story if you want. Just the list,
please. You got it. Be quiet now. Let's not spoil
any surprises. You see Oriya get up, and she
snakes her arms underneath your form and lifts
you up. Her strength falters, and she puts you
down, heaving breaths. She just goes, I understand
that you... She's precious to you, executor,
but you are going to have to let other people
handle her. Nori just goes, don't. Don't touch
her. The person just lets out a very heavy, like,
sigh. Goes, very well. Take it at your own pace,
then. I need to remind you that you did this
to me. It's not a painless process. You did state
that you could handle more. And Ori just lets
out a scoff. As she attempts one more time. Obviously
with a lot of effort. Lifting you up. And carrying
you off. You are placed onto something cold.
The ground. It just goes... If it's anything,
we can have a day of grace. I would not like
to go for more than two days without properly
accentuating the lines. Very well. Aurier takes
the moment to put her clothes back on. She is
her usual composed self. She steps next to you
onto the circle. And you see the man's face now.
A small spectacled face. Looks like... Not exactly
the spitting image. But does summon feelings
of Eric Avonlea. Ew. I would say a more gentler,
like, face. But just different enough. Light
swells, and then you are bamfed. You hear the
sounds of winds and leaves rustling. You can
feel disparate leaves brush against you as the
winds pass. You're in a foresty area. Borea picks
you up. And begins to walk. And it's not long.
I would say three to four minutes before you
see Ira Brynn. You're already on the level of
the dormitories. Aurier walks to the first floor
window of your room, which now in hindsight seems
very convenient. She lifts up your window, and
you are gently guided into your room. You are
placed onto your bed. A blanket is placed over
you. And... Much in the sense of a feeling that
mimics Arnolda. She hooks some hair out of your
face to clear it. She stays for a moment to watch.
And then she exits your window. You were cognizant
of all of that. I think she says out loud softly
to the room. He knows she's talking to him. How
many times has that happened? the quiet empty
doesn't respond as every faculty returns to you
now there a slight stinging becomes apparent
at your knee on your knee reach my hand down
There's a scrape a Patch placed over it, but
you know what scrapes are And as the man said
You do feel Sore As if your body has been placed
through exercise that you weren't aware of. I
think she's going to slowly get up. Shuffle a
little over to her, probably has a small desk
in her room. pull out a pad and pen, and crudely,
and not elegantly, start trying to write down
what she remembers. And the last sentence she
writes is, Who am I? And she just sits and stares
at that line. Oh, sorry. That got me bad. RP
card down. That got me bad. All right. Everyone
else was really good, guys. I missed this game.
As soon as you guys started talking, I was like,
God, I fucking love this table. I love you guys
so much. So, so much. The potheads, I'm doing
a bit hard. We're doing all hearts. Or the little,
the tiny one that the kids do nowadays. The K
-pop. Is that the K -pop heart? Wait, it's a
K -pop heart? I don't know. I just thought it
was baby heart. I just saw Squid Game doing this.
I was like, what's that? It's the Squid Game
heart. Alright. As you write and finish, I'm
just so tired. But now, with a million questions
in your head, That you just don't have the energy
to to have to have to answer The clock reads
late 11 What is Lucia going to do I think she's
going to pack up her notes and try to go to one
of the few places she feels safe. Does she know
where Garvey's room is? Absolutely. So she'll
head there. You head into the dormitories. into
the noble dormitories. And naturally, you find
Garvey's room. Despite everything in your mind,
your body knows the way. A gentle knock at the
door. He has responded immediately with, What
was it? She can't even speak. She just clutches
her blanket closer around her and just softly
knocks again. At the gentler knock, in kind,
the door opens quietly and fully. Quincy Garvey
stands before you. Looking at you up and down.
And immediate. It was a soft look from the start.
Let's go. Do you want to come in? Clutching.
the notes in her hand even tighter she just softly
nods and without even saying anything just curls
into his body and tries to get as small as she
can and softly starts to cry but no tears come
out because she's so tired he closes the door
as you curl into him he's so he's so firm and
he always he always does smell a pleasant pine
smell it's a comforting warm it's a comforting
warmth it's something that's firm and you can
lean on then he just goes just ask you for permission
can i put my um Can I put my arm around you and
guide you somewhere? She nods ever so softly.
All right. This is my hand. And a gentle hand
puts its place around your shoulder. Yes. And
I'm moving. And he guides you across the room.
Every motion gentle, every motion asking for
permission, basically. Make me cry. I got my
glasses so you can't see. Your form follows his
as the both of you sit on the bed. He doesn't
say anything. Doesn't ask any questions of any
sort. You can tell that he's simply just there
for you and he's just letting you have a moment
to get out whatever. And it's just patience.
Waiting for you. Patience with you, which is
something that seems to be rare. Has been getting
more and more rare. And I think even though she
wants to talk, just being held in a warm embrace,
that gentle, soft presence that's unassuming,
unselfish, I think she falls asleep. You fall
asleep. And he just goes, maybe he felt it. It's
paying attention. It's a level of detail being
paid attention to you. That's appreciated. He
just goes, I'll be here when you wake up. Can
you sleep? And you fall asleep. And then Yara
in your head goes, So, what's that all about?
Good morning, bitch! Cue fandom tracking Lucia
sent to Quincy's door. Oh my god. The walk of
shame. It's not what it looks like, guys. Not
yet. Not yet! Not tonight. Not tonight! Let me
write down some notes. Updating. I was going
to say, if Garvey wasn't there, Valora was right
next on the list. It went Garvey, Velora, Cole.
So. Velora. Cole. Cole. Your ascent out of the
depths is rapid. Cole, you are still... It is
night and day. As soon as you step into the warmer
drafts of the upper air. You feel a pleasant
feeling ripple throughout your body. You forgot
just how cold it was down there. As you hit night
air, Cole, you are also privy to the sight that
everybody's gone. Everybody that you saw in here,
every corpse that you saw is gone. Only that
it's clean. Was it dark when I came down here?
Yes. Okay, so it's still dark. And as you come
out towards the top, a Reinwald who has been...
having an arm around you. Velora's been, right,
Velora's been helping him as well? I put him
on Phantom. Oh, that's right. Alright. So Raul's
just walking by Phantom then. Um, as you come
out into the night air, um, Reinwald, uh, goes,
right, now that I have a, you have some better
light out here. Wait. Let me take a closer look
at you, friend. We should get back to the Olive
House first. I don't think we should be near
here. We're not supposed to be down there. Right.
Let's make quick tracks then. Alright. No dogs
allowed. If it was up to me. I certainly think
companions can be allowed. A lot of you walk
over to the Olive House. This place is so...
Everything's so quiet at night right now. Save
for one person on their porch just drinking whatever,
but they don't seem to pay attention. They're
just kind of idle at the moment. Look, a dragon.
Look at that, son! Rhywald opens the door slowly
as if expecting someone, but opens to an empty
room. It seems like Tula has gone. in to rest.
And you all walk in. Phantom just kind of like
plops, sits on the outside. Get called down.
Reinwald immediately goes and grabs a medical
kit. Just places it on the table. Alright, well...
I'm just letting you know, first of all, I don't
think you're going to finesse your way out of
talking me out of looking after your serious
wounds. Uh, you know... I feel a lot better after
what you did before. It really should be a doctor.
It was really bad, Cole. We really don't need
to see a doctor. It was bad. We weren't supposed
to be down there. We're going to get in so much
trouble. Okay, so let's just say that we were
training. No. Look, Valora, there was bad stuff
down there. Like, a lot of stuff happened. We
should really focus on that. I mean, yeah, but
also I need to make sure you're okay. I'll be
fine. I'll be fine. You know, you ever get in
a couple scratches? I got into a fight with a
cat once and it was way worse than that. And
then you go, oh, a cat is worse than that. Like,
no, that's not how that works. Mr. Whiskers was
a real scary cat. Mr. Whiskers! the cousin of
mr mittens mr mittens is a villain in another
game you guys don't know mr mittens he is awful
he's bad you'll never know mr mittens velar um
i don't know what happened down there really
after that thing knocked me out but um Kinda
like look awkwardly over at Reinwald. And Reinwald's
just like, go on. From the face. Well, um...
You know what's down there, right? Your father
was down there and I think he was... He was working
with that thing to... Um... Get rid of some people
down there. Like. But why? I don't know. And
like, what is that thing? Like, I don't even
know. It was like. It was like my it disguised
as my mom. And then it switched. Out into something
else. And then it tried to. Approach me and I.
And I hit it and it. Disappeared. I mean like.
Turned into like this orb thing. And floated
away. But I was more focused on you. Than catching
up with it. I couldn't even see you at first.
Yeah it was like. This weird shadowy thing, it
kind of made it hard to see. I think your dad's
working with it, is what I'm saying. The master
at arms? Yeah. I saw him. He, like, told that
thing to kill someone. There were a lot of dead
people down there. Yeah, there were bodies all
over there. I don't know where they went. I didn't
see anything. Yeah, I know. It was spotless down
there. I don't know why. I saw that thing pick
up somebody and slam them into the ground until
they were just like a puddle. Maybe it didn't
actually... Maybe it was an illusion when it
pretended to be my mom. It didn't know that I
was there at first. He was just talking with
it. After he left, I don't think he saw me. He
had turned and he went further deeper in and
then that was when the thing noticed me. So he
left and then... I don't know what's going on
down there, but I don't think it's good. There's
more she wants to say, but she knows Reinwald
doesn't know everything that they know. And so
she's holding back right now. He just goes. Am
I an obstacle in this conversation at the moment?
What? No. I mean... I think knowing things probably
will put you in some danger. So... If you don't
want to be put in any danger, you should probably
leave. It's not like I knew my dad was doing
any of this for one thing, just to be clear.
Like, I know he's like an asshole and comes up
with some stupid bad ideas, but I didn't think
he'd do anything like this or work with something
like that. You know that lady that, um... You
know, the like... The one that made us shush.
You know what I mean? The real angry looking
one. The one with the cat? Oh, yeah. Yeah, allow
me to make things clear. Uh -huh. I understand.
talking in such ways and the need to protect
others but there's your burdens and my burdens
both of you and if something is going on here
where justice needs to be dispensed please let's
not delay well believe me you know about as much
as we do I mean, he just stumbled into that.
I stumbled into that, for that matter. I didn't
come until... Yeah, I didn't know that's what
I was gonna see down there. Um... Alright, uh,
so there was this drow lady, and she got turned
into a puddle by that thing. Wait, what? Avanya.
She got turned into a puddle? She got smashed
bits. It was not good. Wait, I didn't know that!
Yay! We're learning in real time! What the fuck?
When I got down there, the thing was like holding
her in the air and Eric, sorry, your dad, he
said to do it or whatever and then it like, And
then it noticed you and it attacked you? Yeah.
Luckily, he was already gone. So... I don't know
what their relationship is. I don't know how
they work together. But it kind of took an order
from your dad. I only ended up down there because
if I was on Phantom, I was going to go look for
you. Yeah, sorry. I would have doubled back,
but I was worried I'd lose him. Well, then the
bell tower started going crazy. Yeah, I kind
of heard that. We flew up there. I flew up there
with my knight. there was someone up there and
they'd like must have picked the lock up there
which should be crazy difficult but like when
she went to go after him he well i teleported
her to where he to get ahead of him in the tower
finally run away um but then he just vanished
like out of nowhere but then when i was getting
ready to like go fly i look around the tower
um Phantom caught his scent again. And it led
you down there? Down there. Huh. At first I thought
maybe it was that thing or something, but...
I don't know. I don't know where he went. I mean...
The guy just vanished? Yeah, just like... Not...
Like, his scent was gone. Phantom was trying
to track him. Did... Did you see anything identifiable
or anything on this person? Um... Was he wearing...
He was wearing, like, a cloak, right? Was he
wearing a mask? Yes. Oh, no, the person was wearing
a cloak hood up. Yeah. That was it. No, no mask.
I couldn't make anything out, really. They...
cloak on and they got away too fast but they
didn't like just teleport somewhere they like
or go invisible because vander would have been
able to he lost the scent and then suddenly got
it again and then he caught it in down in the
down at the and just then in the middle of your
conversation Um, Cole? A warm feeling at the
chest. Imperceptible, but you know what that
means. Um. A heart attack? What do you mean?
What does it mean? Uh. Excuse me. I gotta use
the bathroom. After all that. Um. I'll just take
a minute. I'm gonna go to the bathroom. Wait.
Is it IBS? Rybo walks up to you. And he hands
you the healing kit. I'll wash some stuff out.
Right. And you... What was it, Dora? Alright,
I pull out the... The letter appears. And it
says... I've escaped. Returning to... This...
checking off Pursuer, and then I will return
to my usual faculties. Does this handwriting
match Keir's? Yes. Or does it match the other
person? Does it, like, really match, or does
it look like somebody trying to match it? Under
scrutiny, go ahead and give me an investigation
check. Oh, I don't know why that's invisible
or why that's that, but that's a 29. It's a really
good attempt to match Keir's. But you've seen
it enough. Someone with intent. It's been slowly
written. It's not Keir. I think I'm going to
write a message to the direct... Well, I can't
because I don't have my stuff on me. I'm in the
bathroom with just a med kit. Yeah, I have your
stuff in my bag, which I will give back to you,
of course. I just haven't thought of it yet.
It would be weird to get it from the bathroom
right now, so... By the way, can I, like, have
my stuff? Goes back into the bathroom. All right.
Well, there's nothing I can do at the moment
besides stew on that and work on bandaging up
any places that I don't want to be seen. You
begin to bandage yourself up. Well, that's happening
on the outside. Ryan Wald is with you, Valora.
This goes. And just so we can account for all
things, how are you doing? I mean... This is
how I thought my night would go, no. But, like,
I'm not hurt, so... There's that. That's good,
at the very least. It just... The thing approached
me, but... But you... That was it. Retreated?
Apparently. Left behind this, she pulls out the
black shard. And I like tilt his head at it.
He walks a bit closer to it. He just goes, may
I take a closer look? Sure, just I don't know
what it is. He leans in. Towards it. He has his
hands to his side. He just goes. It looks like
it's. The only material that I could I could
probably compare this to is obsidian. I don't
know any other glass like dark substance. No,
it's weird though like look away from it He does
and you see he does like a little double take
and does it again Strange Um And he just kind
of like, as he just goes, Are you sure it's alright
for you to be holding that at the moment? Well,
I mean, what else am I supposed to do with it?
Like, and if anything, this could be evidence
or might give us a clue into what that thing
was or what's going on. Hmm. If it is evidence
of something, then that something might know
that you have it. At this moment. That's true.
What if I were to hold on to it for you? Well,
how is that any better? It hasn't seen me, has
it? Sure, but like... You're saying, oh, it's
too dangerous for you, so I should take it and
put all the danger on me instead, basically.
It's not that you're untrusted, it's simply the
circumstances at hand. I don't think the circumstances
make it any safer for you to have than me. It's
as I stated earlier, Felora. Something saw you...
Something saw you in the area, to take it. I...
Seemingly, I wasn't a factor in the area while
things were going on. I would think that... Less
likely, I would be pursued. Sure, but I think
I have it. I understand. I'm a stranger still.
And you don't trust me. Well, yeah, more than
that, if it is something that it wants back or
something, I don't want to put you in danger
with it. It seems like we're all... In... Inordinate
amounts of danger, anyway. So... I'll hang on
to it, then. For now. Yes. But... Do keep in
mind that I am willing. I will. And not to force
anything, but I would also appreciate it if...
Elucidation on my part. I feel as if not knowing
would also put me in danger as well. Not knowing
what? Like, I... About the situation. That's
the thing. I don't have a lot I can tell you
about the situation. Just anything. then it's
fine if you don't if you don't know all the answers
just anything that's happened or anything or
anything that you know that's all not that i
mean i know i've told you everything i know thank
you i don't know about cole I'll do my best to
get all the information out of him yet. Just
to be clear, just because I know he is insightful,
but I don't know if he's looking for it right
now. She hasn't told him everything she knows,
so that's a lie. Make a deception check, then.
Oh, Velor be lying. I just don't want to cheat
him out of it. I rolled a 14. Because I had to
roll a disadvantage still. Unfortunately, she
is not an Aeroginasi twink or twunk, so Reinhold's
one feature doesn't apply. Damn, we need more
twinks in this game. He gets expertise dice against...
I'm trying to turn up my mic. Let's see... Okay.
He's gonna go ahead and... This music is so fucking
ominous. Okay, he adds an additional... One second,
because he has Seek Truths as an ability. If
he calls Valora out, this is gonna be so uncomfortable!
Okay, so that's become a 14. To match me? And
then he's going to use Intrepid to add another
Expertise die. What if I use Intrepid to add
an Expertise die? Clash! Clash! All right, let's
both roll D4s. Wait, yeah, I do have Intrepid.
Let's both roll D4s. All right, check this out.
Two. Or... No! That's a smart boy. He's calling
on her bullshit. I want to have his arm crossed.
You see, he does this exact look to you. Alright.
Thank you. It just goes... I imagine you have
a lot on your mind if... If a break is needed.
We don't have to do the tournament tomorrow.
I don't know, I... I want to do it. I think it's
a bad idea to let anyone know that anything's
wrong. You know? I agree. If my dad is doing
something... In that case, you can rely on me
to... To try and uphold any sense of normalcy
for you. Thanks. I happen to be a handy combatant,
after all. I'm excited to see... By this point,
Coral, you can go... You can be finished if you'd
like. Would you like to come out? I think I'd
try and listen in on their conversation to see
what's happening a little bit before I come out.
But it sounds like they're just talking about
the competition. I will come out. Eyes are on
you immediately. I'm patched up. I used to patch
up my siblings and stuff when we got into scrapes
and stuff, so. Yes, against cats, correct? Well,
cats and, you know, I used to go hunt with my
dad, so, like, you know, sometimes you get into,
like, a, you know, a twig or a... A twig? Yeah,
or, like, I remember my brother one time fell
down a hill and he, like, rolled a bit, got all
scraped up. Just flashbacks to Melody earlier
today. With the fucking stairs! My sister fell
down the stairs once. But that's okay, because,
you know, I could fall down the stairs and I'd
be fine. It seems like everything in your life
has prepared you for whatever had transpired
tonight. Because you did say the cat was worse.
I mean, I wasn't awake for very long with this
one, so I guess it could have been worse. The
cat didn't knock me out, I guess. Yeah, it looked
pretty worse. I don't think I have to see the
cat to know that it looked worse. It was a real
big cat. Anyway. Like a mountain lion? No. Like
a cat? Yeah. A big cat. Let's move on from...
Let's move on. Yeah. We've lost the plot. Anyway.
Laura, you got my stuff? Oh, yeah. I put it in
this bag here. Go get Phantom's saddlebag. Hand
him all his poisons that she doesn't know are
poison. All mixed up. Yeah, those go back in
my actual bag real quick. Oh, wow. You took everything
out. Why do you have the spell book? I found
it while I was down there. I don't know any magic,
no, but I found it while we were down there.
When I was making my way down, like I said, there
were all these bodies and stuff. I almost tripped
over this and I thought I could check it out
later. See, it's like filled with glyphs and
stuff. I don't know what any of this means. She
tries to flip through and see if she can make
sense of how advanced of a spell book this looks
like. But she's not a magic user, but hoping
from her dad she can compare or try. You do know,
like, Draconic, right? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I do know Draconic. Um... I will say that, like...
This was Burnt Face Man's. as you kind of like
as you kind of like look at that you you discern
like yeah it's draconian but it's also mixed
with some other things so you you make out like
letters you make out like words and you can kind
of like extrapolate but there are like some really
advanced something else that's really mixed up
in here but um you read one of the you read you
read one of the like the one of the times you
can as you can like flipping through and it's
you're getting like a p o like a pow something
um and then like there's a you can you understand
you understand there's a colon um and then before
that you can make like an r You got past the
pow word and you go to the next word and you
can make it like a D at the end. Pow. Erd. There's
a colon. They do their colons like that in Draconic.
Huh. Anyway. Yeah. So, any luck on Lucia, by
the way? No, I got sidetracked. Ah, same. I thought
they might have been related, but... Well, if
you're okay, maybe I should still go look for
her. Hey, um... Ronwalt, you haven't happened
to see Lucia or that Orie lady, right? Those
two. I have seen Vorlawin today, but that was
early in the morning. Same. We were supposed
to meet Lucia, and she didn't show up. That's
why I got Phantom. I'm going to try to track
her down. Can I ask to search with you? Do you
know if she has anything on her person? Perhaps
we can have... Perhaps we can have a scrivener
or anything of the sort locate her. Oh, uh, well,
okay, so the problem is we don't want to get
the school, or the ministry, or the faculty,
or the Nats, or anyone involved. Okay, yeah,
I lied. When I came to pick up Cole, we were
going to try to look up for Lucia at the church
because she was meeting with Aurier, and we think
Aurier's hiding something from her about her
dad. And she wanted us to keep an eye on her
and make sure everything was okay. And then she
wasn't there and the church was locked down.
And so we can't tell anyone. Because it would
be suspicious. But we need to find her. Right.
Yeah, we think... We think the church is doing
something to her. We don't know what. I'll have
to admit. This isn't the first time I've attended
Academy and was... I've headlonged into some
kind of conspiracy. This is all your fault. You're
saying it follows you? Sorry, I shouldn't be
joking. This is pretty bad. No, no, it does seem
to. This is really fucking bad, by the way. That
means you know what to do when this kind of comes
up. Oh, goodness. I wouldn't exactly call myself
an expert or anything. Alright. Well... I suppose...
It's just... Something that's common... Something
common with my previous experience is that...
With anything, really, is that we just search
for answers. I swear... I swear I won't let this
get out... I won't let this get out to anyone.
If we're going, I'm going to go get changed again
real quick since I'm all, these clothes are kind
of ruined. Okay. Very well. I'm going to hurry
into my room. Coel? Yeah? Don't think that if
you are understanding your injuries, don't think
that I will not. lift you and carry you up to
the infirmary myself. Well... I mean... I'm not
trying to understate my injuries. I'm just...
I think you're overstating them. You know what
I mean? Better to overstate. I'm fine. I'm fine.
That's not to understate. I'm over it about Lucia
right now. I'll be fine. I'm walking. Anyway,
I hurry into my room. I get changed, and then
I start shorthand writing a message to the director
immediately. Okay. I am... Shorthand, I'm trying
to keep things brief, and I don't want to go
into everything, but I will say another Vanisher
detected on campus. They... Kier's status is
unknown but they are pretending to be her and
are requesting they requested to meet up at the
at her safe house right yes so they are aware
so the safe house is compromised yes um uh you
know just giving giving a quick quick brief um
uh more info coming and um I will send that first.
But I need orders. Okay. As you write that, it's
sent off. Yeah. Quick. I could get other students
involved. If I want backup and I could probably
play it off, but it might compromise. So need
orders, suggestions, whatever. Okay. Whatever
they prefer me to. And while I wait for a reply,
I will be getting changed. Okay. While that's
going on, Valora, Reinwald doesn't say anything
particular. Just describing the scene. If you
want to say anything or engage in anything. I
was going to say, I was like, I feel like he's
going to try to push himself. I do feel like
he is. I do feel like he would, yes. Don't worry.
I'll be keeping a close eye on him. Maybe he
looks like he's not doing well or something happens.
Can you be in charge of bringing him back and
I'll keep looking? You can rely on me, yes. Thanks.
You look tired yourself, Evan Leia. Oh, I mean,
yeah. It's been a long night, hasn't it? Oh,
yeah. There's Melody and then... I keep hearing
about this person. Yeah, she would like that.
Well, let's get Phantom Hall ready. I'll do my
best to ensure that we at least get a restful
night of sleep tonight. Hopefully, we get satisfactory
results. who wants to be fine lucia of course
she gets phantom ready to go um i would also
include that they don't know that i don't that
i know that they were pretending to be her and
that so the message they sent So they're not
aware yet. I could try to just contact and find
out what they want, or I could keep that ruse
up. Yes. Call you, get a letter. Get a letter
back. Capture and identify. identify and immediately
report this person's identity. Do so with discretion.
Your life is the most critical here. It is the
most important. So basically, Kier's life isn't.
So she said it's up to me, basically. Yeah. Don't
rush to save Kier. Not that you would. Just like,
just like, play, play safe. Play safe. Alright,
I get changed. Come on out. Alright. Question.
During the course of bandaging up, chatting,
whatnot, will we have short -rested? I'll say
yeah. And... That's real important. Give me a
performance or a deception check. Okay. Is this
concealing emotions? This is definitely a thousand
percent concealing emotions. Okay. Natural 20
for a 30. Jesus Christ. Freaking... What? And
not natural 20. A red one. Yep. I would have
disadvantage if I rolled anyways. The mask is
back on, baby. Let's go. Let's go. The phantom
of the drama club is here. One vanish is locked
in. One of us is locked the fuck in. Boss, boss,
I tried. Oh, boy. I have to roll hit days real
quick. I love how all last session I was saying,
like, what we do, boss, what we do, boss, and
then you come to the session and wait, what do
we do, boss? What do we do, boss? I believe that's
called manifesting. All right. Okay, now I'm
in music that I don't know territory. I got my
teleports back, because short rest. So where
are we searching first? I... will take Phantom...
I think we should start at the church. Like,
near the church. And... try to keep enough to
the ground that Phantom can catch a scent. Hopefully.
Alright. Um... What are the chances they left
the campus? Ugh. Well, if they did, they can't
get that far. Except unless they teleport. Yeah,
they did. That reminds me. I did find what looked
like a teleportation sigil. Well... I don't know
if they used it, but... Well, then they could
be, I guess, literally anywhere. What about in,
like, Hafan? It could be. Do you think it'd be
safer to be doing whatever they're doing in Hafan
than on the campus? Maybe, but... I think we
should start at the church, because we don't
know if she even made it there. Alright, yeah,
well, I guess we'll check out there first. Perhaps...
Would it make better time if we split off into
different areas? Perhaps I can go to her farm
and I know we shouldn't include anyone from the
faculty or this distrust in regards to the official
circles here, but perhaps I can find a scrivener
of service in her farm. I don't know. Because
I don't know who can be trusted with that. Right.
Let's go ahead and try the church first, then.
Try the church first, then. If we can't find
a smell, maybe we'll pivot to Fafon. Valora has...
I believe I said that Valora's already started,
just started working with Phantom on the finding
Lucia. Or did I say that she hadn't gotten there
yet? Sorry, what was that again? So, you know
how she trains Phantom to find specific people
who she knows? I can't remember if I said that
she hadn't gotten to start that yet with Lucia,
or if she said she just started that. Yeah, she
just started. She's been doing it. She's been
working on that training with him, so she'll
give him the command. And see if he... See how
he wants to start. But she'll kind of guide him
to the church a little bit. Unless he catches
something. As you're going to the church, he
has his nose to the ground right before you reach
the church. And he's locked into something. I
have to spend a thing. Put this back up. Because
I went down. Okay. Yeah, he's locked onto something.
Going towards the church? He starts sniffing.
It started as you walk by the commoner's dorm.
And he starts sniffing, and he starts walking
towards the... He starts walking towards the
noble dormitory. Well, he caught something. I
don't know if it's from earlier in the day, though,
but we may as well check first. Phantom politely
sits by the door to the dormitory. He's giving
you the look like, am I allowed in here? Can
I go in? He's a little big, but she's just going
to be like, She wants to know. So she goes, Aksun,
yes. Some genuine excitement. As he... He's very
smart. He kind of like puts one claw on the door
handle and just opens it and walks in. He's very
smart. Shouldn't have taught him how to open
doors. That hated that. Yeah. He starts walking
up the stairs. And you see someone was walking
down. And you just hear, a student. Sorry. No
pets in here. It's not a pet. No pets in here?
I thought he was like, oh my god, it's Valora
Evan Leia. But he's like, no, you're a fucking
pet. Get out. phantom of course trained not to
legend of continuing on the case as he walks
as he walks by you see the noble kind of like
the student the student kind of like squished
up against the wall just goes oh no please don't
eat me why okay you beast i lean over and i whisper
it's the poisonous stinger that's more dangerous
than his butt so watch out for the tail And then
he sees the tail come by. He just goes, Call.
What? I mean, it's true, but. Oh, my Valhalla.
Oh, my Valhalla. Oh, my Odin. I don't know if
he's going to make it there. She mutters as they
go by. Be scared of a trained wyvern. Some warrior
death. I must write a letter to my parents about
this. As soon as you walk by. You see Phantom
goes and stops by a door with a plaque on it
that says Garvey. Quincy Garvey. And then points
at the door. Get a load of this. She knocks on
the door. The door opens gently. And then you
immediately see the first thing that you see
is Quincy finger over his lips. And then he registers
that you, Cole, Reinwald, and Phantom are here.
And then he just goes, okay. Is Lucia here? He
opens the door. Gently. As you see her like.
Completely like tucked in. Into his bed. And
he just goes. She. Wanted over here. Seemed.
Seemed distraught. Did she say anything about
what happened? No. Okay. Well, at least she's
here. Oh, gosh. You didn't fall out any more
trees, right, Quincy? No. Today? Okay. Let's
check. Her... Her back's hot. Her back was really
hot. Her back? Yeah, back. Her back was hot.
I look over at Valora. Like a fever, she asks.
She gets it, but she's asking Quincy. Something
like that. No warmth. Nothing too warm on her
head or anything. Okay. She's here. I've been
watching. Quincy, just double check. Last night,
you're... Sure you were walking around in the
woods? Looks back to see for a second and he
kind of looks at both sides of the hallway. Then
he just goes. I'm not entirely sure. And then
kind of looks at you, Valora, with a look of
like, we had that chat earlier. I don't know
if we want to let these guys in on it. I... I
didn't tell him. Unless she did. I don't remember.
She's not trying to lie. She's not trying to
lie. That's all. Lucia was supposed to meet Aurier
at the church. And she wanted us to keep an eye
on her to make sure everything was okay. But
when we got there, the church was locked down
and she wasn't there. Okay. Got it. a girl, so
it's less weird if you do it. Do you want to,
like, check her back? I think... I thought you
were going to ask about periods. If you'll excuse
me here, I apologize. As a man, I think that
we should wait until she's awake before we do
anything. As a man? I apologize, but as a man,
They're... She's trying to think of how to say
it without saying it. Because they don't know.
Two of these people do not know. Laura's like...
There's a possibility... It... Won't be there
when she wakes up. Does anyone here know how
to, like, see magic stuff? Oh, yeah, like, there's,
like, a spell for that. Yeah, anyone know how
to do that? Reinwald. Reinwald goes, Well, I
can, but... I can. Can you do it right now? Just
sense magic. Yeah. You see that he just kind
of like... He gusses his hands together for a
moment as he just closes his eyes. A small flash
of divinity seems to course through his eyes
for a second. As he opens them, he goes, Yes.
I do sense it. From her? Yes. Very much so. What
you feeling? What kind of... What kind of juju
is it? The juju is... Rather... Rather intense.
Oh boy. I can't exactly... I actually can't discern
what kind of magic it is. He's getting a horrible
vibe from the Black Shard, too. It just goes,
and there is something else here, yes. He looks
at you for a brief moment, Valora. Very intentional
eye contact, and then he just goes, but I can't
tell exactly what that is, either. It's a very
swift moment of eye contact, and then back. Um...
Are you getting anything from Quincy? No. Okay.
I'm magical myself. Alright. This goes... It's...
Okay, so... It just goes... Rather, it is faint.
But it's something that's been consistent with
people of a noble, people of a marked bloodline,
I find. Valora feels the same way as well. So
I can be tracked with a detect magic spell? Well,
it's very faint. And Quincy just goes, you could
be tracked in a million other ways. Okay, but
like... The volume of her voice. Not like special
ways. It's too late at night for this right now,
Quincy. You're shouting. I'm not. Alright, you
two. Alright, guys. Alright. You're shouting.
Alright. So... So clearly they did some to her.
I'll have to talk to her in the morning. I have
a question. Yes. Tim, would they have seen the
paper, her notes? Oh, yeah. I don't know why
I'm still whispering. Quincy might have. Quincy
goes, there is something else you did. She came
here with a blanket and she scribbled some, she
had some notes. I didn't look at it. I didn't
want to pry. Okay. Can we pry? It might be relevant.
You could ask her in the morning. I guess. No,
do it now! Or, but if they keep people's memories
keep getting foggy, maybe we should do it now.
Quincy, can we come in so we're not out in the
hallway with the dragon? It's a wyvern. Well,
I'm just interested in, um, actually. And then
Quincy just goes, Okay, but... Be... Okay, but...
Be quiet. Don't wake her. She needs rest. I'm
looking at you, Valora. What? I've been so...
You're shouting. You're shouting right now. I'm
not. Silence is golden. Ew. Alright, let's just
go inside. Come on. Come on. You got room for
a dragon in here, right? Why ever. Completely
different. And he just... And he just... And,
um... He just kind of, like, looks at Phantom.
He just goes... Of course you're allowed. Come
on. Kind of, like, fits in. But does come in.
Luckily it's a noble bedroom, so they have a
room. Thank you. Much more of a space. Good job,
Phantom. By the way, she needs to reward him
for finding Lucia, but also do not go tap Lucia
and do not grab her. A lot of times when she
sends, she teaches this so that she can send
him to go pick them up and bring them back to
her. Like a little rag doll. You see, he was
about to do it. She's like, all done, all done.
Good job. Quincy opens up his closet door and
he pulls out a giant bone with two hands. Why
do you have that? What the fuck? Oh, you'll love
that. In situations like this. He offers the
bone to... He goes, may I? Yeah. You're such
a boy scout. I'm prepared for everything. You're
shouting. Do you just say that any time I say
it? You're hurting my ears. And then you see
Phantom very quietly, very slowly taking the
bone. You know the dog with its tree, you know?
Yeah. Tim, while we're in here, while they're
talking, I'm scanning around the room. I'm using
my sense for secrets just to see if he's got
any like... If I'm getting a feeling that he
has things hidden in his room. Bombs. Bombs,
any trap doors. It doesn't tell me where. There
might be something to look for here. Two bear
traps, another blanket right next to Lucy. Photos
of his ex -fiance, Melody Fidelio. It's just
you sense that there are secrets. I just tell
you that there are secrets. I hit the ping button,
and it glows, so I know there's something, but
it doesn't give me a direction or where. I just
know there's something. You pass a perception
check in Baldur's Gate. Yeah, so I know there's
something. Now I just need to go look for it.
It does proc Cole's famous voice line. Hmm, there's
something here. There must be something in here.
There are secrets here. Okay, cool, cool, cool,
cool, cool. There are traps about. There are
traps about. Step carefully. Fix traps and secrets
to our unusual features. Okay, cool, cool, cool.
Okay. Okay. So you do sense them. Do I tell you?
Oh, let me look. Sorry. No, it just, it tells
me that I know there is something nearby worth
investigating, but not what or where it is. It's
just so that way I don't spend 10 minutes searching
an empty room. I spend one minute searching and
like looking around an empty room. And then I
go, there's nothing here. I can just move on
to the next room. Okay. That's perfect. That's
smart. I didn't even realize that's what that
was for. That's wonderful, actually. It's for
when you do a dungeon crawl, so you don't spend
30 minutes checking every individual wall. I'll
be past this door. Can I open the door? There
is a secret here. There's a secret here. I just
need to find it. Yeah. Okay. Cool, cool, cool.
Quincy goes ahead and just kind of like soothes
out Lucia's paper. And Emma, can you go ahead
and tell us what's written on it? Oh, yeah. So
basically, what she most recently would have
remembered was her falling asleep, right? Or
was it her waking up? Yes. You were with Aurier.
She sang a song and you were induced into sleep.
You know it. You know that you were like induced.
That she was put to sleep, right? Yes. So she
had written that. She had written when she woke
up, it was in a room with multiple voices. Writing
out the voices she knew. Also, didn't they say
your majesty at one point? So wasn't it assumed
that the king was there? No. They did say to
bring their target back to the palace. That's
what it was. Avonlea's target. It said that Arnaldo
was missing. It says that Aurier was upset and
asking how many more times they had to do this.
To which Lucia has basically assumed that memory
wipe of some sort. she also mentioned that uh
that they've been trying to not make it as noticeable
because the faculty will notice but they said
i think five more times right they said they
can do it five more times um at least yeah at
least five more times in two days in two days
um we just gotta keep her busy for two days and
then i'm trying to think of anything else Because
also I, Emma, was like trying to like draw anything.
Oh, and then she probably will have wrote that
she spoke to E -R -I and asked him to get the
notes of all her past memories. So that's in
there too. Do I know the name E -R -I? No. Did
she spell it E -R -I? Oh yeah, I guess it's also
probably not spelled correctly. It's not spelled
correctly, correct. anyone know what she was
trying to write when she wrote yes it looks like
it says airy so yeah do we know an airy airy
or airy like was it airy but no what is it about
then you guys are on something if you say it
more you will figure it out it's like earring
or something oh maybe i And Marimo goes, perhaps
it's someone named Eri. Eri. Do we know an Eri?
And then the last line you guys would get to
is her asking, who am I? Quincy frowns at that
pretty bad. She remembered enough to write this.
And they didn't realize that she was remembering
things? Or she wrote this down and was able to
sneak it? Maybe. does that mean that whatever
they were doing just didn't work i mean i think
they would know if it wasn't working or maybe
she hit this note before they did it maybe but
i don't know it it sounds like what she's writing
i don't know And then Reinwald goes, perhaps
it is best to wait for her to awake so that she
can properly explain all of this. Cole... I think
Cole will kind of meander a little bit, just
kind of in thought. And we'll get... close to
Lucia, but he's not going to wake her. But just
once he's in range, he'll like kind of just kind
of like stare at the wall, kind of like thinking,
pretending, you know, he's just kind of lost
in thought. And I'm going to use detect thoughts
on Lucia to see what's going on in the brain
right now. So this is just going to be surface
thoughts, right? Yeah, she does have a really
weird dream. Yeah, I was going to say that's
interesting because I don't know. There is a
wisdom saving throw, though. So she might just
pass it. Wisdom save, please, Lucia. It's interesting
because in a dream, it would be subconscious
thoughts, right? That's fascinating. Okay, wisdom
save. Beep, beep, beep. I can read numbers and
letters. 25. All right, so I don't get anything.
Fuck it. Ride won't elbow drops. I'm kidding.
I'm kidding. Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Okay.
So, yeah, nothing. Okay. Well, she's here. She's
safe for now, at least. It sounds like they need
to... I guess do this five more times at least.
We just gotta keep her busy, right? So they can't...
We just have to keep her busy every day. Forever.
Sleepovers every night. Yeah. Does Dragmire have
a re -roll? Sorry guys, I'm reading the chat.
Used it already. God damn it, Dragmire! It was
for Nat 20, which was cinematic. That was awesome.
Oh, that's right. Quincy, Quincy goes, we can't
let them do it again. Why don't you guys, when
she wakes up, why don't you guys come up to my
room and you guys, she looks at Cole and Reinwald.
You could meet me there in the morning too, if
you want. And we try to catch up on what happened.
I believe we're all due for a night's rest, anyways.
Well. Shall we split for the night, then? Unless
you want to sleep over in my room. I won't stop
you, Coyle. No, um, I'm fine. Um... Uh... Today
was a lot. So, I'll just see you in the morning.
Okay. Shall we then? And walks out. Thanks for
looking after her, Quincy. No thanks, Nathan.
Well, you're getting it anyway, so... Whether
you need it or not. Okay, well thank you, then.
She shrugs. And she looks... Goes to go out of
the room and... Look at the others. And be like,
oh, do you guys need a ride first? Or... Or do
you want to walk back? It's fine. I'll walk back.
And get some rest. You had... You seemed tired
all day, so... Oh, a little. Question... Wait.
Anyone know what happened to that dog? Oh, right.
It just... It must have been gone at some point
when we were walking back. I can't believe it.
I haven't kept my... mind about it. Those Pomeranians
are surprisingly slippery. Noted. Well... Good
night. Good night. Get some rest. for helping
luck of course no need to thank me well that's
too bad because you're gonna get it anyway because
it's flora okay somebody take a thanks around
here gosh is it that hard you're shouting I don't
know why, but I saw that animated in my head.
Very, very, like, detailed lip movements. Yes,
yes. And you know it. So, Ryan, where's Cole?
You going? Yeah. I think Cole, like, pauses for
a little bit, just kind of staring at Lucia for
a little bit before eventually he'll turn. Began
to make his way out as well Quincy goes Due to
velour I just goes I meant it when I said things
I Was about to say well, I didn't really do much
but then I realized I need to not be a hypocrite
so You're welcome I'm going to be here for her,
but I know it's very, very nice to know that
you're looking out for her, too. Well, she's
my retainer. That's my job. Well, I mean, it's
not, of course. You're not doing it because it's
your job. I'll see you in the morning. Yeah,
I see you first. I hope not knock on my door
like a normal person. For some reason, you don't
know what it means. He just shrugs at it. Okay.
No, there's a door. Come on Phantom. Bentham
looks up from eating the bone. Gets up. You can
bring it. Unless this is going to be a Quincy's
room bone only. Like, you can have it when you're
at Quincy's room. I have more bones. Okay. Why
does he have giant bones in his closet? Is anyone
questioning this? It's a skeleton in his closet.
I knew there was a secret in his closet. He connects
with people who have parts, remnants of things
in their dorm rooms, like Tamsin and now Quincy.
Phantom turns to you, Valora, and just goes,
this bone tastes awfully a lot like Robin. That's
how I know I'm tired. I think the Phantom's talking
to me. I bring him upstairs to my room. He's
gonna sleep in my room tonight. Even though it's
not a lot. Phantom, of course, gives you the
look like, Am I allowed in? There's like the
triple take. Come in, come. He comes in happily.
Kind of, like, sniffs your bed and, like, lays
in it ready to, like, get, like, looking at you,
like, come here, let's go. He's way too big for
this bed. Remember when my mom made, like, they
had to make the special bed sheets for him? But
she, she's gonna do, she was already planning
on doing this, but Lucia reminded her that she
should probably be more urgent. She's going to
try to write down everything she knows. And that
along with the map she'd made, I think she hid
in the pants pocket of one of her casual clothes
that she has hanging in the closet. Because it'd
be something if she lost her memory, she would
stumble upon naturally, but hopefully people
won't think to check. And it won't just go to
the wash like a uniform. Gotcha. And you turn
in for the night? Mm -hmm. Go lay with Phantom.
Okay. Cole. Oh, no. Sad music. You begin to make
the steps down of Irobrin, walking alongside
Reinwald. He waited for me? Shit. Of course.
Of course he's waiting for you. Why wouldn't
he wait to walk you home? As you make your way
towards the bottom in silence, question mark?
Yeah. Reinwald, when you get to a quiet part
in front of all of us, he goes, Call, my friend.
I understand being trepidatious, and I understand
being... I understand hiding the truth in order
to protect people. I understand this. Which is
why I won't push. But I'll have you know that
I live by a certain quote. Be neither timid nor
arrogant. And I hope that the time we spent together
that I have proven to be neither of those. Oh,
you're a good guy, Randall. I'm telling you this
because I'm wanting to help. Innocent people
are being hurt. If what I heard is correct. And
the very blood of my body boils at that. Well,
I mean... I guess there's some stuff you don't
know, but it's kind of Lucia's to tell, you know,
so... Right. But, uh... Hey, Ranwald? Yes, my
friend. I guess I have a lot to think about today.
Hand on your shoulder, immediately. I think Cole,
like... like kind of tightens at that for a moment
like just for a moment like instinctively before
like forcing himself to relax to kind of keep
his at the tightening his hand recoils um no
that wasn't that was my my apologies no it's
okay uh sorry yeah Just a little sore, that's
all. You don't have to speak in regards to it
now. I'll be a patient companion when it comes
to you. Thanks very much. Cool. I guess I kind
of already know what you're... The answer would
be if I asked this question. If someone was in
danger, you'd do anything you could to help them,
right? Of course. Yeah, I knew it would. Here.
I can... I cannot stand by the wayside and allow
injustice to occur in front of me. This is not
even... It's not... Yes, it is the responsibility
of nobility in order to do that, but... It is
simply the right thing to do. You can bet that
I guide myself on these sort of things. But you
are not here to be scolded. I just want you to
know hope is one step behind a clear conscience.
Keep moving forward. And do what you know is
just. I'll always be one step behind you. Look
back and see hope. Mm -hmm. I got that. Aww.
Alright, well, I had a real long day, so I need
a little bit. Of course. Thanks, Harrow. He goes
in first. Good night. Never, Harrow. You can
just see... Oh, Albert. Oh, buddy! It's okay.
Are you gonna kill him? Please don't do that,
Albert. No. What's it call it? No. God damn it.
Is Reinwald a vanisher? Are you gonna kill him?
Please don't kill him, Albert. No, we're getting
my stuff and I'm going to fucking Huffond tonight.
God damn it. Keir needs help. All right. I'm
doing this to figure out who it is. I'm not doing
this to save Keir. I don't care about Keir. This
is just to figure out who it is. Right, right,
right. Because your character does not have feelings.
Right, right. Just doing this. No feelings. Well,
you did take a short rest. I'm healed. Do you
know that Vanishers don't have feelings? I'm
just going there to find out who this is. That's
all. Give me one moment. Tula was mysteriously
missing. Yeah, I was gonna say, where the fuck
is - Tula. Shuhu. Shuhu. Shuhuko. All right.
Nope, nope. That's Delphine. Nope, that's Delphine's
freaking theme. I shouldn't have played that.
I don't want the Delphine theme right now. Why
is Delphine's theme funny? Delphine would make
everything worse. I thought it was today is gonna
be the day I throw it all back to you. We're
going to the Apollyon. Don't want the world to
see me. Because I don't think that they'd understand.
It's divorce dad rock. Ryan Wald guilted me into
it. Are you wearing a Hunger Games shirt? He's
just a nice boy. Timmy? Oh no. Is it a Hunger
Games shirt? It looks like a Hunger Games shirt.
It looks like a Hunger Games shirt. Believe it
or not, this is a wrestling shirt. Oh. Did I
get the feeling this person knows who I am? Like
them seeing me, you know, not in a disguise or
anything is not new information? Do I get that
feeling? Actually, you can surmise that they
have something on you. You can get that from
the whistling. Okay. At the very least, like,
been around you, heard your whistling. Okay.
All right. I can't put on my cloak and mask because
it's covered in perfume and glitter. Right now,
I haven't had a chance to wash it. Cole has not
had a chance to just sit down. Really. Well,
armed with what you have, you make your way to
the Apollyon. Light barely holds up the details
of the building to any scrutiny. Before I go
in, like a little down the street, I'm going
to kind of hold my arm and wince a little bit.
I'm going to cast Detect Poison and Disease just
so I have that active. Okay. That way I know
what to look out for. My unstable poison for
this rest is Lucid Render. Okay. And I have slotted
it into my normal dagger. Prepare it as much
as you can be. You make your way up to Kira's
room. This... Your detect... You detect poison
and disease. Pings immediately. You sense, like,
the location of it and stuff, right? Yeah, it
tells me... Um... You detect the presence of
poisons, poisonous creatures, and disease by
making a perception check on success. You identify
the type of each poison or disease within range.
Typically noticing identifying opportunities
by DC 10 check blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah. I guess I'm looking for specifically
if any of it is moving like it's like if somebody
has some on their person and they're like yeah
like I'm not like I know she's got plenty of
it in the room. It's more of is somebody in there
and they have it on them. Okay make a perception
check. This is plus just the stains. That's a
10, which I guess identifies a poison or disease.
Cannot sense that. Yeah, that's a low roll. It's
an action. So I guess I'm just kind of continually
doing it as I'm making my way through My passive
would be 15 or 17 but You have the spell up,
okay, so let's see So you so wait there's a there's
a minimum that you if you roll under right uh
so it's um i'm gonna have to stay for like two
more seconds sorry i can do it as an action just
every round so i'm just repeatedly like just
concentrating on it and and trying to do it just
as i'm walking like down the hallway kind of
thing okay yeah um I'll give you one more roll.
19. The common poisons that she uses is pinged
in there. But there is one of an uncommon affliction
that you identify as a wounding type of poison.
It is a vent. It is a vent or her poison. Yes.
But it wasn't one that... Sorry about that, people.
But it wasn't one that you knew that Cure was
carrying. This one that you recognize is, um,
a co -auto poison, a co -auto venom. Okay. Oh,
what does this do? One second, I realized I had
something in my... Don't you know co -auto poison
does? You make a saving throw to a con saving
throw. And on failure, you become poisoned for
the next 24 hours. And when you're poisoned in
this way, you're also knocked unconscious. Okay.
And you sense another poison. Okay. Let's see.
One second. You sense a true ecore. A paralyzing
poison. Both contained within the same area.
Is it like... to the side of the door as soon
as I go in kind of thing? It's not. It's localized
entirely within the basement area, climbing down
the ladder. All right. I'm real quick checking
if I have anything that will help. I don't have
any more of the ones that give me the extra bonus
on con saves. I don't think any of this helps.
Nope. Okay. Well, I'm ready for it, so... I know
this person doesn't have their... They can't
pull me into the nebulous sea. Because they've
done that already today. I can't get away with
it either. Because mine is also on cooldown.
Alright, I'll open the passageway. Open up the
door. The room is empty. You go to the basement
door. concentrating on where it is just ready
in case they like jump out to swing at me i'm
i'm ready i'm hoping they'll talk they'll just
talk and won't immediately jump me but you open
it up and you head down yeah but i'm ready to
like parry if i need to as you make your way
down You see Kier's form bound to a chair. She's
seemingly unconscious. And as you make your way
forward, you hear... Don't make a sound. Don't
make sudden movements. Unless the both of you
are dead. You still have a limiter on you. I
can keep pulling people into the sea whenever
I want. Do I know what that means? Do I know
about limiters? No. Okay. Wait, did Reinwald
go with... No. Does that... Is that a... Yeah,
Keir's unconscious down here. Can I insight check?
Is that some weird bluff that he's doing? Yeah,
go ahead. Okay, and also have I heard this voice
before is the other question. Yes, but it's a
little different now. 19. No bluff. He just goes,
don't turn around. Rope. A rope is thrown in
front of you. Tie yourself. I don't want to hurt
you if I don't have to. Well, it was... It was
you ringing the bell, right? Put it on and we'll
talk. I kneel down to reach for the rope very
slowly to kind of grasp it. What is it you want?
Robon first. And how do I know you're not just
going to kill me first? As soon as it's done.
Do you want to find out? begin, I guess, to tie
my hands. I'd like to tie it in a way that it
looks very well tied, but if I really need to,
I could kind of undo it. Make a slight of hand
check. I'm going to use my inspiration on that.
Not 20 to hit. 23 is what I would get. As soon
as you're done tying it, and it's tied on where
it looks strong and it's loose, you've done it
very well. You feel something small into your
back. A very small incision. You take two points
of piercing damage, make a con save. Okay. Is
this a poison? It is a poison. And it's coming
from behind me? Yes. Is this a range? Is that
why it's two points? Okay. This is a poison.
And it crit. That should be... Oh, it didn't
add my... That should be a 20. Okay. So you save,
so you still have movement. And you feel this
poison. It's threatening to take away movement.
It's a paralytical poison that's coursing through
you. Alright, now. I thought we were talking.
Insurance. On your knees. I'll nail down very
slowly. Is the voice coming from behind me now?
Yes. He probably went into the sea. He just goes,
I can't believe it. You of all people. You hear
footsteps as this person slowly walks around
your front. You see this individual, Steps out
of the shadow. And makes his way in front of
you. A small, like a badanic, covering the bottom
portion of his mouth. He has a hood up. Just
goes. Tell me, what's your name? You don't already
know? I want to hear it from you. Well, want
to tell me your name? We could trade. He tugs
the mask downwards. Takes off his hood. And standing
before you. Bell. I knew he was suspicious as
fuck. And we're gonna go on break. I fucking
knew he was suspicious as fuck. I knew it. I
knew it with his fucking bear traps. I knew it.
He was too friendly. That's what I discovered.
When I used my detect thoughts on him. Back at
the graveyard. And Timmy was like. We gotta talk
in secret. Yeah cause he was giving you. Yeah
Bell's the bear trope. Cause he was like being.
Like you were looking at it. Like he was giving
you dodgy answers. Yeah yeah yeah. So is he also
a vanisher? Or is he against the vanisher? No
he's a vanisher. He is also a vanisher. He is
a vanisher. That's what I discovered. There,
I was like, uh -huh, he's from an area, he's
a vanisher, blah, blah, blah. Okay, I got it,
I got it, I got it. This is more in line with
how he acts in Ira Brin, too, because I met him
in a different game. Really? I just thought he
was so traumatized that he turned different later,
but nope. It's been like this the whole time.
Yeah. All right, everyone, we'll be back in 10
minutes. We'll see you then. Woo -ha! The winds
have been whispering of what's to come, but every
time the words are bound to leave my tongue,
some obstacle arises, some unstoppable force.
My deepest fear awakens, fate's unstoppable course,
but there's so much I still don't see. I never
thought your second in command would be in the
mountains where they train the elite. It wasn't
amongst all this nobility. You with your end
mark of passage and speed, with riches and power
in your family tree. Justice strains all your
loyalty Desire and duty is the balance between
The winds have been whispering of what's to come
Foreboding whispers, whispers to thunder Your
castle walls crumble in one by one Against the
blood -red sky you ride on fandom I fight for
what's right Some may call me naive Taken from
war, raised in idols' ministry Two silver lions
from different packs I shut off my shelter and
there's freedom at last I pray what I've seen
does not have to be known everyone for me that
felt like really quick i didn't that was that
was 12 minutes i that felt like like a moment
as bad that did not feel like 12 minutes to me
we were talking about k -pop demon hunters oh
i have to watch it i wish i had food in my face
i listened to jenny just showed me a song from
it i was like okay yeah i get it this is about
i'd be i have to watch it i've seen so many fucking
spoilers everywhere Yeah, I think I know the
entire plot, but... Yeah, I haven't seen it exactly.
It's mostly about watching it for the visuals
plus music, in my opinion. The story's not anything
crazy crazy, you know? Like, it's good. It's
not bad. It's pretty predictable, you know? Well,
it's playing everywhere. I know better than to
listen to people on r slash shitty movie details.
But all I know about it is stuff from Jenny and
people complaining about... They post single
frames. of shots from that movie. And they're
like, guys, this is horrible. They do so much
goofy stuff anyways. And it looks, it's visually
really cool. And then like the choreography,
it's fun. It's just fun. Hell yeah. The music
has beat out like real bands. BTS, yeah. It'd
be like BTS' most listened to song, wasn't it?
It's for all time listens, I think. I think also,
the girl group in it is the music is done by
an actual girl group, I'm pretty sure, right?
I don't know about the boys, but the girl group
at the very least, I know. I heard that the boy
group was done by demons, like actual demons.
Which I would get. I'd be over that. K -pop Demon
Hunter is the highest -carding soundtrack of
2025. And it's been out for like two weeks? They
were blasting it everywhere. At Anime Expo, they
were blasting it at the CrossFit, at the end
of my street. Everywhere. When Jenny gave me
the synopsis of what it was, I was instantly
sold on it. Yeah, it's fun. K -pop group and
the rival K -pop group is a bunch of demons.
I am into it. I want to see it. Anyways. Tell
me everything okay Bell stands in front of you
cool He has a one of One of the vanisher knives
in hand he just goes Well, that's who I am. My
honest identity. It's not your name. No, it is.
It's not what you always went by, at the very
least. I'm past that. I'm sure you are. And you
can be too. They're using you. Is that what you
wanted to talk about? No. Not at first. Why are
you here? Why are you at Arab Run? I'm here to
rescue that one. Look kind of past his shoulder.
Doesn't look... No. I'm going to give you that
one. I want to let you know that your friend
spilled everything to me. And if your information
does not cross with her information, then I know
you're lying. And if I get one more lie, I'm
going to kill one of you. That is why I'm here
right now. I could have just let her die. But
for some weird reason, I felt like I should come
get her. You should really work on your forgery,
by the way. You don't care about her. You're
haunting me. No, actually. I didn't know about
you being here until this morning. He'll just
back into his side as he just kind of like takes
a... An idle position. So you're not here for
me. No. In fact, I hadn't even let them know
you were here yet. Still weighing whether I wanted
to or not. Wasn't relevant. But this... Oh, I
can't do it. But this... Oh, maybe I have to
now. I don't know. We're still dealing with questions
in regards to you. Tell me one more time. Keep
this in mind. I have information from your friend.
Why are you here? Did we get another short rest
while we were in? I'm afraid not. Okay. Damn
it. Do I think he's bluffing on the he got information
out of her? Make an insight check. I think he
is. I think he is. And if he did get information,
she lied. 19. We got to do rollies. Oh, he rolled
a 19. Okay. Wait, wait, wait. I'm just checking
one thing. Is Kier within 30 feet of me? Yes.
I'm using saving face, which allows me to add
one for every ally that's within 30 feet of me
up to maximum of three. So I actually got a 20.
Okay. In that case. Wow. Jesus Christ. Ah! I'm
scared. I'm scared! I'll message you. To maintain
the... I'm scared! The tension. He's lying. How
about we make a deal? I don't tell them exactly
who you are. I'll tell you what we're here for.
And you let us go. And you have time to get away.
No deals. Believe it or not, it's not exactly
the best thing to deal with a transfer student's
demise. However, she's a different case. Talk
fast. Now. No more stalling. They said I could
just let her die, but... We're looking into that
underground area underneath the school. Make
a deception check. Is this concealing emotions?
I'm afraid not. I'm going to use my inspiration
to when I... Well, actually, wait. Is it a fail?
I guess he has to roll first. It is a fail. Okay.
I'm going to use my inspiration feature misdirection.
Whenever you or an ally you see fails a deception
check, you can use reaction to undo any consequences
of the fail check. Okay. And it's only one time
use? Inspiration. Oh, inspiration. Okay, got
it, got it, got it. Yeah, it's my inspiration.
Here's Gus. Regards to the... To what? The operations
of the royal family, or... You saw that creature
down there? You did, didn't you? It can see into
the sea. I know what it is. Oh, really? Yes.
What is it? We're not focused on that right now.
What were you sent here for? What were you investigating
down there? It's following Eric Avonlea. Director
Valkorin, when I had and had you sneak in here,
forged an entire story for you, went through
the trouble of infiltrating a prestigious military
academy in the heart of enemy territory. For
what, a whim? Quite a lot of things, actually.
Information on All the students here? That's
helpful. Dart on any sort of noble family. They're
going to be running the... These students are
going to be running the show eventually. And
whatever little secret they got going on down
underneath Iribryn, I'm sure that's something
they wouldn't want to get out. Something we're
keeping away from our eyes and ears. You see,
I believe you. But they sent you. They sent vanishers.
Who are you meant to disappear? Who are you meant
to vanish? That's the express purpose that they
made you for. If they wanted information, they
could have sent anyone else, but they sent you.
I'm gonna get an information too. And then once
they know, I deal with what needs to be done.
I know who you are. What we're made for. I'm
not going to let you harm a single student here.
A single innocent soul. You got it? Well, certainly
not my aim. Let's be honest. I don't think most
of the ministry, the faculty, I don't think they're
exactly innocent. Silent at that. Before he just
continues, he just goes... This one talks about...
Gothi disappearing. Was that you? And keep in
mind... Your friend told me everything. So I
know the answer already. Nah. What about those
students that you were cleaning the grave of?
Don't. You're answering my question. He's gripping
the knife dagger. I don't have any more inspiration.
I'm looking at my resources real quick before
I say what I say. Make a perception check for
me first, though. Oh, is she awake? Did she wake
up? And she's gonna go like, oh, stop. I'm locked
in, boss. I'm locked in, boss. 26 perception.
Favorite number? Your... I wonders for a moment.
You see Kier already awake. She's been feigning
being unconscious. Her hands are... You see the
binds behind her just very loosely? It's already
loosened. She's just waiting. Does she have a
weapon anywhere near her that I can see? No.
But with your 26 perception, I'll tell you this.
Would I know if he could, like, yoink the attunement
from her? You don't have to do this. You know.
They're using you. Once they draw you up, they'll
throw you away. You don't have to do this. There
is life. After this, they try to convince you
that there's no higher calling. Do you think
this is it? Lying all the time? Being told to
kill people and then doing it? There's more to
this. You know, Like I said, I wasn't here for
you. But the fact that I found you all the same,
I really think you could just run away. You're
famous with the Vanatures. Same with mine. And
that's not something you can change. Whether
you like it or not. The ties from here come off.
She's ready at literally any your command. What
did you mean by limiter? When they implanted
the magic inside of us, the conduit, the conduit
to go into the nebula sea, they implanted A large...
They embedded a large stone into us to limit
how much we can do it. They didn't want us to
disappear. They didn't want us to run away. You
have it in you, I know it. They have a thousand
other leashes on you. Do you remember any family?
Or did they take you while you were that young?
Have you ever thought about what they've done
to you? Do you really forgive all of that? Or
you don't know. Look, um... I don't really have
a choice. Let me help you. There is... something
here. There's no point in trying to fight against
fate. Yes, there is. If you don't agree with
something, you fight against it. I'm sorry, but
I think your fate's catching up to you. And I
just, like, nod. The knife disappears from his
hand as Kier rushes up and goes in for a stab.
You see Bell turns around, ready to defend. At
the same time, I want to also try and slip my
hands out as well. Razor -sharp instincts. Your
hands are out. Kira goes in. Oh, boy. I'll consider
this a surprise. Crit. Oh, nat 20. That's a nat
20. That's my girl. He's just gonna go into this
nebula scene. But Belle's trying to free y 'all
from a cult. So, like... Can I use my... My,
uh... 14 already. And then... I'm sorry, let
me calculate this real quick. 14... Um... 56.
So 70 points of damage. Jeez. So Kira does 70
points of damage. She comes from behind as soon
as his attention's off me. I want to use my reaction
to also... Absolutely, go ahead. I'm not using
my king knife. I'm using the regular... My regular
dagger for this. With advantage. Okay. 17 to
hit unless Kira wants to add anything to it.
Kira's going to go ahead. She doesn't have any
more of her ability. 17? Yeah. Oh, wait. Are
we flanking? If it's flanking, 19. Yes. Then
let's hit. Okay. This is the one that has the
lucid render poison on it. So damage is going
to be six piercing and nine. I'm making it psychic
damage to to erase his memory just in case he
gets the fuck away. And he needs to make a constitution
saving throw 14. Is the save. 16. Okay, so he
passes, so nothing. So as the two of you strike
him from here from the front, and you with the
newfound opening from behind. I'm trying to non
-lethal it. You see Bell, the air escapes from
his lungs as he just And he goes limp from your
strike. As he crumbles into the ground. Immediate.
The violence was fast, impactful, and immediate.
He didn't have time to fully come to terms with
what had happened. Kier pulls out her dagger.
Right. Bastard. Right. I just kind of, like,
step over him. There's information we can gather.
We're not acting hasty. Again, alright. And I'm
gonna kneel down and I'm disarming him of everything
that he's got. Um... He doesn't have all of the
Vanisher accoutrements. But whatever he does
have, you do notice that they're modified. They
had to be maintained. There are some parts of
the Vanisher equipment where they're handled
by other people. You are known to handle most
of your own stuff, but stuff like the dart launchers
and stuff. He is... He has handled his own things.
And you see that there's already a story here.
Yeah, he probably hasn't been called in for a
very, very long time. Yeah, I collect everything.
Do I know? I mean, I guess I'm moving him over
there and we're tying him up to the chair now.
Do I have... I don't know what this limiter...
I don't know the details of this limiter, but...
Do I have any idea how I could prevent him from
just popping into the sea once he's up? Um, you
could encase him in, like, um, you could put,
like, iron, like, uh, put, like, iron around
him, like, fetch some armor and put him in heavy
armor. Okay. Um, like, Kira's already gotten,
Kira's already, like, getting him placed out
and tying him up. Alright, we need to make sure
he can't go into the sea once he wakes up. I'll
handle this. I think you've handled enough already,
Kare. You need to return to the academy. I can
handle this. Did I tell you to wait earlier today?
Did I? Yes. Just working on tying the knots repeatedly.
Probably too tight that I need to, but Cole's
irritated. I can run a report. I don't think
the, uh, the director is all too pleased with
you. I didn't give her all the details yet, and
I'm still figuring out what I'm gonna say. Understood.
I didn't have to come save you, you know. Just
keep that in mind. You have my gratitude. I hope
I have your obedience next time too. Yes. Are
you alright? Yes. Let's get some more around
him and then we'll... Figure out what they're
doing. There was mercy in his heart. It lended
to my... status. Weakness. It costed him. Let's
get him armored up. Right. I'll launch him. Just
go get the armor. I'll be back swiftly. Runs
off. A moment passes. She had to head out to
go get it. Belle remains unconscious but stabilized.
What's Cole thinking? If you want us to give
insight into that, you don't have to. I think
normally when Cole is alone... What we've seen
is anytime he's like, you know, gotten out of
sight, he's like gotten into his room or something
like that. The like kind of cheery vibe just
drops into just like a kind of deadpan, almost
like numb face. But I think he's just like intensely
in thought right now. Today's been a very difficult
day. I think he's not even just like sitting
in silence. I think like he like sits and then
he gets up and he paces and stuff, which is not
what he normally does. He keeps like looking
over at Bell. Kind of thinking. And then, swifter
than you think, you hear the door open to the
top. The basement door opens. You already see
Kier, who checks to see you. She brings a heavy
set of armor down. Does it look like she knocked
some guy out and took it from him? Or is this
new? It's new. Okay. You're guessing... No, you've
actually seen this before. It's a store display.
Okay. Good work. She places it and the two of
you get it on him. Tie him up. I am using every
bit of rope that we possibly have. This man is
bound in the legs, arms, hands, to the chair,
to the bottom of the chair, to the back of the
chair. Gag him. No one has ever been more restricted
of anything in their entire lives. As Cole's
doing it, he's mumbling to himself about how
Bell's work has gotten sloppy. That we were able
to untie that so quick. I think he's mostly like
trying to like talk to himself about like you
know he hasn't been since he ran away. He's you
know he's gotten sloppy. It's not as good. He
remains quiet while you talk. Eventually you
get it over him and he just goes... I don't know
when he'll wake. But it's good that he... But
it's good that he brought himself to the best
possible location for us. This is the one, by
the way, that I was, uh, I told you about. Hmm.
Seemed like we had not to worry about. Oh, we
had plenty to worry about. Some fucking shadow
thing that can reach into the, uh, the sea. Never
seen anything like that before. No. I had to
figure out how I'm going to tell the director
about it. They cleaned up the place, by the way.
What happened? When did you wake up? Give me
a report on that. He had turned into my wounds.
A foolish endeavor. He woke me. And then he...
And then he saw... That asked me questions. Where
were you when he woke you? I was still within
the caves. Down below. But not near... That creature?
When I had fallen, I had felt myself being pulled
away. Hmm. Doesn't make any sense. He knocked
me unconscious. I think... I think he knows who
we are. Perhaps he had tapped into our correspondence.
I don't think he knew this morning, at the very
least. We should be sure to be more cautious
with our correspondences going forward. We should.
They cleared the, um... The place. When I woke
up. Bodies were all gone. Gone. Do you think
perhaps they've tapped into the same gifts that
we have? I don't know. It... I think... Whatever
that thing was, I think it messed with time a
little bit. The Evan Leia girl found me. And
things had already been cleared up by then. She
killed it, too. Guess we had it on its last leg.
Good fighting skills, by the way. Thank you.
There's definitely a girl that she'd know about
your... ...identity. Not that I know of. Certainly
hope not. Very well. This whole situation, I'm
sure didn't help it. Which is why I told you
to wait. But... Correct. Now you sharpen on it
now. Of course I will attempt to rectify my mistakes.
I'm glad you're okay. Cole freezes for a moment.
He reaches into his pocket and he's going to
pull out the message that the director had sent
him. That said, she didn't care if I got Kira
or not, basically. There's that look of like,
it's just professional understanding. Just deadpan
understanding. I don't know if I'm going to be
able to do it again, so let's just be on her.
Again, you have my gratitude. I won't fail you.
I won't fail the Empire. Speaking of which, another
detail I must discuss. When I was fading on the
ground, I had noticed Avanya's form. It was dissipating
into snow. Alright. Well. Guess we gotta stop.
I guess that job's not actually done yet. I'm
glad I didn't report it that it was. The same
spell the director uses. The fact that the, uh,
that, uh, Eric Evan Leia knows who she is is
gonna make this more complicated. Yes. Or easier.
Could be either. Who knows? Later. Yeah. The
words that he was saying about the empire, about
finding means beyond it. You know it as much
as I do. You see it, how he wears it. Our loyalty
is like armor. Nothing pierces through. The words
of a weak, weak individual. With no belief. Nothing
to stand for. And nothing to die for. If anything,
it only continues to further and solidify my
belief. And I wonder if it's doing the same for
you. The director's not here, we don't need to
praise the Empire, not 24 -7. What matters is
we get the job done. Make an insight check. Coaster's
trying to, like, brush it off. She's gonna report
your ass to HR! Especially since you already
saved her. She was already judging you for that
when she was talking about Belle being weak and
that's how she got away. 24. I think you gotta
kill her. The narrowing of the eyes. Cole's trying
to play it more off as like I think you gotta
kill her. Like we don't need to talk about this
right now. You don't need to prove anything to
me is how he's trying to like play it off. Less
him voicing his own opinions. Yeah. But she still
did not, like, you can tell that it's very subtle,
but she did not receive that well. She just goes,
Very well. I'll keep watch over him. I'll report
to you as soon as he wakes. I will not fail you.
We will not fail the Empire. No, we won't. Let's
try to keep things to one mission a day. You've
earned reprieve. Tomorrow I have a competition
to pretend in, so I'll be busy. Very well. Keep
them gagged, keep them murmured. Must well. Can
you leave? Yeah, um... Fuck, I don't have the
thing that Valora took. I really wanted to show
it to Kira so she could look through it. There
was a thing, by the way, that that thing dropped.
Some sort of black shard. The heavenly girl has
it. I'll see if I can borrow it from her. See
if we can figure out what it is. She said once
it died, it turned into like a little orb and
flew off. Oh, a small sigh through her nose as
she goes. So there's potential that it's still
around. Very much. Great. I can only hope that
I was able to get rid of any knowledge of us
from it. But who knows? Never run into something
like that before. I'll have to write my report.
See what the director knows. If Anor has access
to something like that, it's big problems for
the Empire. They're villains. Anor's shit. I
don't like it here. No, it's like... We're villains?
Please. Please, girl. We're not together. No,
Anor is shitty. I don't like Anor. Anora is bad
too, but... Anora is pretty fucking rough, fam.
Actually, it's... We have to thank them for everything
they've given us. They gave us this life, guys.
Hashtag thanks. I love being brainwashed by a
fucking cult. Okay. Actually, as I turn to leave,
question. Yes. That thing, it was able to...
speak to me in my head. Was it doing that to
you too? Yes. It shouldn't have been able to.
Pull off the ring. What did it say to you? You
see, she's normally so composed, but she flinches
when you ask. It's showing the gauge if this
even did anything to it or not. Let it show you.
It made me re -experience events throughout my
life. Vividly. But despite that, I maintained
my composure and stuck to the task. Cut. It was
mostly when I was being inducted into the program.
How'd that go for you? The others showed me the
faces of the people I've harmed. It maintained
importance on my brother. And my sister. But
I don't regret any of it. Alright. Get some rest.
He nods. I leave. As you leave, walking the dusty
streets of the outer brooms of a faun, walking
is just another form of pacing. As you make your
way back, Ira Brynn. And that's where we're gonna
put a pin on this for now, people. Jesus Christ.
What the fuck? Guys, this place is awesome. I
killed my brother and my sister to be in a position
like this. Isn't that sweet? She's reporting
his ass to HR. You can't tell me she's not. Here's
the thing. She reports my ass to HR. I tell HR
what a fuck up she is. I now have to play in
another game the Vanisher's HR manager. I don't
care about... Listen, I don't care about the
war crimes. So what did you say about the Empire
specifically? Did you... Did you not praise the
Empire? Did you not praise the Empire? Did you
not do our pledge of Empire allegiance? I'm saying
that what I'm saying is that pledging feel to
the Empire is performative. I'm trying to get
the job done right now, which actually helps
the Empire. You have to keep your disposition
no matter what task you're doing. Did you do
that in proximity to your co -worker? No! No.
My eyes are on the mission. Unlike yours, whose
eyes are seemingly on, I don't know, rising the
ranks or something. Or something. On the glory
of the empire, actually. I'm telling her, focus
on the mission. He's saying lock in. Your opinions
don't fucking matter, Kier. What matters is results.
You're susceptible to Anor brainwashing. No,
Anor's shit. You know how it be. Anor's shit.
The good people are at an era. People up top.
That's why we do these things. That's why we
kill and slaughter because we are the... The
good guys. You can't spell slaughter without
laughter. Playing a political game with fucking
Kier. Of like, of like, I'm trying to stay neutral
because I do have opinions, but I don't want
to make my opinions known. And she's like, but
why did you save me? Why weren't you just cutthroat?
Because. You're getting soft. Because you're
an asset that I would like to not sacrifice.
I like it when you say it like that. Yeah, okay.
She's like, okay, heard, heard. At the very least,
she was very grateful. She should be. But she
pointed a bell like, hey, this bitch was weak.
This bitch had mercy. We don't have that. That's
why we're the best. No, I did not. Nothing about
you. I definitely didn't show any mercy to Kira.
Definitely didn't. Like, mercy, forgiveness,
weakness. That's a skill issue. All modern day
Vanishers. I don't know who. Mean girls. When
Albert went into, like... pulling rank against
her, I immediately strained out. It was like
I was being yelled at. That was like a fifth
of what I wanted to say to her before she got
us into that. I'm not mad. I thought I wasn't
going to get... I had so much to say, but I was
like, right now, I don't have time for this.
Let's tie this fucking guy up. Hey, boss, but
I... I did kind of lock in though, didn't I?
Yeah, that's why Cole was like, good fighting
skills. Yeah, you complimented her too. There
were bits where you just kind of looked like
disappointed dad. I was tired and angry. When
you put your head in your face and everything.
Here's the thing. When it came to the combat,
Kier did lock in. She did. And now you know she's
going through all that. She's like, yeah, I just
saw me killing my siblings again. Anyway, back
to the Empire. I definitely don't regret it at
all. Not even a hint. A tear rose down her face.
Tear Kier. Kier killed her brother. Oh my gosh.
The seeds are being planted, maybe. What's going
on with Coel? What's the little storm? What's
going on in his mind? He says you can't change
fate. He keeps saying that. The mission is what's
in his mind. But can it be changed, uwu? No,
it can't. It can't, because that guy, we weren't
even here for that fucker, and yet we ended up
catching him. He just delayed it. I'm not going
to say... It will. He's in the future game, so...
I was like, if they kill him, how does that work
in the future game? He can't die. He's got plot
armor. Here said he doesn't have the armor that
we have, actually. So... Our loyalty is an armor,
you know. That's our armor that we have. Plot
armor is 18 AC, by the way. I guess we did just...
Maybe we just put plot armor on him so that way
he couldn't use his vanish thing. I think this
supports my theory that Lucius was also a vanisher.
Because Bells had made it sound like there were
other ones who... I am sure there's more here.
Because I don't think Belle was the guy that
I saw with the mask back at Brindle Hill. Yeah.
You know what? I want there to be more. Just
because it proves that Eric Avalaya is complete
shit at his job. Yeah, true. He's really shit.
I threw a dagger and did like... two damage to
him, and he went, oh, good heavens, and ran away.
He got hit. He got fucking stabbed from an unseen
attacker. Of course he could. He's like, why
would someone hit me with all these bodies lying
around me? He tries to mansplain to the king's
safety coordinator about what he thinks would
be better ideas to the king's safety coordinator.
Eric knows best. My question is, what does Sabine
see in him? What did she see in him? What am
I missing here? He used to write her poems. And?
Okay, but wait. It was a rock and twink. Her
simulacrum being destroyed. Simulacrum costs
a lot of money. She might not be able to make
another one so easily. So... He's got a great
jawline, Dragfire says. Because I'm literally,
like, is it, like, one of those stories where
it's, like, you marry your partner and you've
been, like, dating for eight years and you're
madly in love and then, like, four years later,
it turns out they're actually a serial killer?
Like, is that the vibe? I will say, when Valora
has asked the, like, Jashon and Rudra, who both,
Jashon is the master of coin at their house,
and he went to Iribren. With Sabine and Eric.
They have said that. He's changed. And I think
it's kind of happened. Some point after Valora
was born. He got really intense with Valora.
Hmm. So he used to be cool. And now he just likes
to kill people. Well. Sometime it be like that.
Well fine. The answers to all of these cool,
nifty questions in the next session. All of them
in the next session. We'll answer all of it.
All of the answers. All at once. I should ask
a really big question now, so that way he has
to do it. No, no, no. All questions before this
one. We'll know who all the other Vanishes are.
I wonder who all the other Vanishes are. No,
no, no, no, no, no, no. Cut it, cut it, cut it,
cut it. They will all be answered. Cut it, cut
it, cut it. How do we save Lucia? No, no, no,
no, no, no. We got Acorn League. Acorn League!
Maybe, if we get past breakfast. It has been
a wild spiral. It has been a wild two days. The
date was yesterday. The date was yesterday? The
theater was yesterday. The theater club, Melody
Fidelity being introduced. That was all yesterday?
Your father dying? Yeah. Oh, I'm... Your father
tripping and falling off that cliff? Yeah, totally.
That's what happened. Lucy's gonna crash out.
She's gonna crash out. Two days. We're at two
days. What is that? She's gonna crash out. Oh,
yeah. In the morning, you have level three training.
She's gonna crash out. Well, um... Focus all
those negative feelings and put it into your
exercise. You got this? At level three. You're
going to dodge all those flaming guillotine pendulum
blades. Here we go. Here we go. Yeah. Well, you
know, in my mind, I'm like, I got to get to the
time skip. I got to get to the time skip. there
has been no i've done one time skip and and now
we're catching up you know cole wasn't lying
when he said that he might not have reported
him if he didn't pull this but he did which means
he he kind of has to at this point now she tasked
you with identifying him yeah yeah it was what's
it called like cole already knew who it was He
just wasn't sure if he was going to let people
know or not. What if he was right? You can be
saved. Probably not. Almost like he's trying
to help you guys be freed from a cult. He's not
right. Should you be talking about that? Me?
Because what's your character doing right now?
She's spiraling is what's happening. At least
she's more receptive to being freed from the
cult, I think. That's true. She's more open to
it. Valora needs to be freed from the cult. I'm
fine. What cult is Valora in? I'm not in any
cult. I don't need to be freed from that. Look,
I'm working for a good purpose, alright? Yeah,
I like you guys. I like you assholes. I care
about the people. All right. All right, everyone.
We're going to say goodnight for now. I want
to send you off. We're all going to say it at
the same time. Ready? Three, two, one. Glory
to the Empire! Can't be changed. Just deal with
what you got. You can't change it. It's called
Songloven at EMPublishingRPG. Sometimes you're
destined for shit and there's nothing you can
do about it. Wipe until it bleeds. Ew! Ew! Is
that how I'm talking about your bum? We're gonna
see you next time! Bye! Bye. That's the Empire's
motto. The winds have been whispering of what's
to come, but every time the words are bound to
leave my tongue, some obstacle arises, some unstoppable
force. My deepest fear awakens, fates unstoppable
course, but there's so much I still don't see.
I never thought a second in command would be
in the mountains where they train the elite.
You with your end mark of passage and speed With
riches and power in your family tree But injustice
strains all your loyalty Desire and duties, the
balance between The winds have been whispering
of what's to come Foreboding whispers, whispers
to thunder Your castle walls crumbling one by
one Against the blood -red sky Right on fandom
I fight for what's right Some may call me naive
But nothing can put Out the flame in me The goddess
of spring A life that she brings Taken from war
Raised in us