Songwoven presents Ira Brynn Dawnbreak, a level
-up advanced 5th edition actual play campaign.
Episode 26, Thrown Around. You can catch us live
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YouTube. Thanks for listening! Moment of silence.
Welcome to Ironbread Dawnbreak Songwoven. I forgot.
We're all a little kooky crazy a little bit here
at the moment. My name is narrator Tim Don Tran
and I am joined by the... Mingo, you nair for
short. Guys, it's been a tough week. What with
everything going on in the world. It was a really
crazy way for me to try and really try to spin
this and save myself. Hello, everyone. Welcome
to Dawnbreak. Welcome to Dawnwoven. Hello, everyone.
Welcome to Woven. Hello, everyone, and welcome
to Songwoven. Ira Brynn Dawnbreak. I am your
narrator, Tim Dontran, and joining the chorus
with me here today are my three fellow people.
They are humans. They can talk now. I am Jenny
and I play Valora. And also my recap command
I wrote an hour ago. Then the one time I didn't
test it, it did not save. So we have no recap
tonight. It's okay. Zenny in the chat will do
the recap bot every time you type in. The chat
will do the recap for us. Yeah. The chat knows.
So every time we type in exclamation point recap
EB. Zenni, start talking. Zenni will tell us
what happened. Thank goodness. Last time. And
I'm Emma Moscow. I'm playing Lucia. Who's completely
fine. She's really good. It's fine. Everything's
good. Everything's good. Is it me? I'm Albert.
I'm playing Cole, who is also fine. Everything's
fine. In conclusion, we're all fine. We're all
fine. Everything's so fine. Let's rank the characters
on who is the most okay at the moment. But who's
the most fine? Who's the most fine? Are you okay
or are you fine? I don't want to play favorites.
Because fine to me is like... something's wrong,
but I'm not going to tell you. Right? Like, it's
fine. Oh, no, not for me. Not for me. No, I'm
fine and nobody should question it. Exactly.
You're like, did I stutter? I said I'm fine.
I'm fine in that people should wish to be in
my shoes. You know, like, things are going that
well. Yeah. Totally. And Zenny says Melody's
the finest. And yeah, that's true. Melody definitely
is the finest. Yeah. Whether it's her own delusions
or the world's. She is. She's certainly. The
world is hers. Like Hatsune Miku. The world is
hers. Melody, the vocaloid. Do you think she
has her own vocaloid? Oh, my God. No, she'd want
to perform live. True. True. She'd make, like,
a vocal edit of herself to, like, bully her onstage
and destroy her, like, do judo flips on her onstage
in the middle of the performance. That's what
I would think. This is just to show how good
she is. She's like, the only one who's able to
defeat me is myself! It has to hype her up. Um...
So... Folks, just a little bit something off
the top. One of us here woke up from a five -minute
nap literally an hour earlier. One of us. Don't
worry. Don't guess who. And so, you know, it's
been a bit of a week for some of us here. So,
you know, because one of us here is... doing
classes and stuff. So, you know, one of us here.
One of us here. So, today's session might be
a little bit shorter than usual, but we're going
to go back to your much more responsibly, ethically
sourced programming next week. Are we not ethically
sourced? Not today, not today, but next week,
next week we will. We will be much more mindful,
much more, much more, much more like epic, mindful,
fucking epic. I don't know why I said epic. If
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Songwomen. We love to talk about ethics in the
TTRPG space because, you know... Didn't the scientists...
Because we are clearly the leaders of the ethics
committee. I don't know if you've been to Ierbrin
before, but the things that happen there are
very ethical. Yes. And this will just give you
ethical things to do to your players. The ethical
scientist over at Ira Brin TTRPGs told us that
five is the most ethical number. Confirmed. Confirmed
by actual science. The ethical scientist. The
ethical scientist. The E is for ethical. Because
morality is a formula. You just have to figure
it out. Anyways. We have a session ahead of us.
We have A5E ahead of us. So, folks, I gotta ask.
What happened last time? Oh, God. Oh, God. Well.
Last time was a heavy one. Lucia woke up and
Played pretend that she wasn't awake. In conscious
and understanding. To some people. Messing with
her. She saw a tattooed up orie. Shirtless orie.
And. Talking about. How she wants them to keep.
How she wants them to keep. This person came
in. Oh. Oh, oh, oh, oh. It paused really bad
for a sec. Okay, now she wants them to keep...
Wait, okay. Keep going. Yeah, Tad and Aurier.
And then she was like, keep going. And they're
like, no, we're going to need at least five sessions.
And you got to wait at least two days. Or within
the next two days. No more than two days. Is
when Aurier wants to do another session. of apparently
recursing Lucia. And Lucia hears the news. Dang,
the promo link just wants to spam itself. Okay,
we're not doing that on purpose. We really need
to make money. The promo's like... We noticed
your recap is missing, so I'm going to fill in.
I'm $10 ,000 in debt from running Songwoven.
I need to start making money back. $10 ,000?!
Sorry, I'm underselling it. Okay, go ahead. It's
all the Melody merch sitting in a warehouse.
Sitting in the warehouse for the Melody Bowl.
Oh, look, another promo. Oh, I know it wasn't
you, JT. It's the automated one, which isn't
supposed to go right afterwards. It's supposed
to wait for a break, but it's there. Another
promo! Anyways, so Lucia's getting recursed and
someone comes in and they're like, we can't find
Arnalda. We might need... We might need to get
more support in finding Arnalda. Don't know what
happened to him. Which secretly confirmed to
Lucia that Valora's suspicions are right and
that something fishy's going on with Arnalda.
And then... They said something about Avonlea's
business in the underground, and they need to
return the prime asset to the castle. And so,
Aurier pushed to be like, okay, we're going to
do more. I'm not waiting more than two days for
my body to start recovering from this. We're
going to keep going. And Lucia's like, I'm...
It's quietly sad. And she went to Quincy and
silently confided in him. And tried to write
down everything. Oh yes, she wrote down everything
she could remember the best she could. And fell
asleep in his bed. And meanwhile, Reinhold and
Valora were trying to be like, Cole, you go to
the doctor. He's like, no, we can't. and stuff
so they Reinwald's like demanding an explanation
so we kind of tried to skirt around some of it
without telling everything but then he keeps
he pushed a decent amount and he could tell that
I was lying and stuff like that but we told him
a lot of what happened and then decided to go
look for Lucia and when we go search for Lucia
with Phantom um they track him to the noble dormitories
and go up to quincy's room and update quincy
a little bit read the note um but aren't quite
able to make out everything quite yet and are
deciding to wait to meet in the morning when
lucia wakes up to and they're going to meet in
valora's room update everyone on the situation
and figure out what happened with lucia That
night, because obviously something happened.
Then Cole slipped off. And because he got a message
from the Vanisher who kidnapped Keir. Well, it
was disguised in Keir's handwriting, which he
successfully was able to see through and realize
it was a forgery. And saying that I shook him.
I'm in our meeting spot. Like, I'll meet you
there. And so he goes there. knowing fully well
who this is, and Curious tied up, and Belle,
the squire we met many episodes ago and met again
a few episodes ago, turns out to be this former
Vanisher. Trying to get people from a cult. Yes.
Tries to paralyze Cole so that he can talk more
safely. Doesn't quite work, but... Cole's tied
up a bit. Not anything serious, it seems like,
because he did it himself. And Belle's like,
you know, you're their tool. You don't want to
keep being used by them. And he also reveals
that their ability to go into the Nebula Sea,
which most Vanishers can only do every few days,
that is a restriction put on them. By an era.
To keep them from escaping. Me too. And. Wait
did you hear that? Yeah. I couldn't hear what
you said. I didn't say anything that was right
for me. No no. But. So. Belle reveals that that's
the limit. And that he doesn't have that. So
he can keep going into the nebulous sea. And.
Kind of proved it because he did it again in
front of him at some point. But he's not expecting
Kier to be conscious, who at Cole's signal helps
to knock him out. The two of them do a ton of
damage, knock him out. They go to get some metal
from some armor to keep him from transporting
into the Nebula C and tie him up. Cole goes home
to finally rest. And I think that's most of it.
Hmm. Time to turn on my brain. Session 26. Jamie's
favorite number. Happy 26. That is it. And I
think this ties us with Linaya. Does it? Doesn't
Linaya have 26 episodes? I think a little more.
Yeah. But thank you for the recap. As I quickly
look up the fact, we have 29 total. Oh, 29. I
knew it was close. We're getting there. We are
close. Yep. All right. In that case, Just to
tell you how good everything is right now. I
had a bit ready to go at the end of the recap.
I mind farted it completely. It's gone. So mercifully.
So a shorter session today. Mercifully. We're
going to start the game instead. But only after
Emma can solve every emoji combination we put
in the chat. I have no fucking clue what was
going on there. Right before the stream started,
me, Albert, and Jenny were posting a bunch of
emojis in the chat that were representing different
characters or something from the game. All of
them were different characters? Yes. I had no
fucking clue. I was stuck in traffic trying to
figure out, like, what is happening? Okay, what
about the one that's a knife emoji? And then
a mountain emoji. And then an arrow direction
down emoji. A mountain and a knife. Is it the
teacher who threw people off a mountain? Oh,
that's a good one. That's a good one, but no.
A mountain and a knife. It's not Vesper. The
knife went into somebody. Oh, no, it's Archie.
Is it Archie? No. Is it coal? There's a mountain
and then there's a down direction signifying
that maybe something went down the mountain.
Oh, it was, um, it was, what's his face? Who?
It was, um, the brunt of all of our jokes. Um,
starts with an R. Robin. No. Who the fuck is
it then? It's someone very close to you. Very
close to me. It wouldn't be Garvey. No. It's
not. Oh, wait. Is it Arnalda? Yes. Yes. Yes.
Then he got the chat. Then he got it. Jesus.
Did chat get it before me? It's dad. It's dad.
Damn. Damn. Then he beat me. Hey, everyone. Just
real quick. From now on going forward. Whenever
a technical hiccup happens, because today is
Evil Songwoven Day, because we're unethical,
since today is Evil Songwoven Day, whenever a
technical hiccup happens, please spam evil laughter
in the chat. And discuss your favorite war crimes.
Yes. Now, is it a character thing, or is it unethical
character stuff or unethical player stuff? That's
the question. Unethical everything. We're unethical
songwoven today. everything everything so we're
gonna get crazy so we're gonna have so it's evil
because song woven typically never ever ever
we're very clean stream we never have technical
hiccups at all we're running at 49 we're running
at 49 frames per second for some reason i have
no idea why we can't play a5e if we're gonna
be unethical true all right We're reverting back
to 5th edition for this session. One session
only. Back to Wizards we go. Hello, our DM. Hello.
Do you know a DM? No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding.
I'm kidding. I don't want, like, Wizards to come
after us. I just crossed the picket line. I just
crossed the picket line. All right, everyone.
So. So if you use code SONGWOVEN that goes into
the coast on D &D, you get it. Buy it, even if
you don't need it. Spend all your money for us,
please. Thank you. That money goes directly to
Pinkertons. Hell. The most ethical organization
to do something. We're starting our own Pinkerton
division. Songwoman, also in the chat, if you
donate bits, you get to do a gotcha poll. Oh,
no! Oh, no! Melody is the rarest. 0 .5 % for
your favorite characters, if you want them at
their best. I'm not lying, though, in that I've
been recently added to a group chat where they
all play Love in Deep Space. and I might want
to play the game too. I have a friend right now
who is really like, please hear me out. I've
been playing a game, and he's a big like, oh,
I'm going to analyze everything about a movie
kind of person. He's like, hear me out. Is it
Infinite Nikki? No, no, no. It's like I've been
playing a gotcha game. It's about betting on
horses. Wait, no, literally. a girl at the table
yesterday I went to karaoke this girl was like
cheering on this girl and it was like horse like
what my grandfather used to bet on like horse
races but they're girls running to me What does
Zenny get? Oh, okay. I used to have legit. No,
I'm not joking. I used to have like a gotcha
thing for another game where I had it like gamed
out, like the percentage rating. One star Robin.
Robin one star. No, who would really be one star?
Valora's dad. Eric. Eric and Devin. Eric and
Devin one star pulls. I'm going to roll real
quick for the gotcha. If this becomes a thing.
1 to 20 % gets you a one star character. They
are... It's just Robin. It's just Robin. I don't
know why. Poor Robin. Robin's a really, really
good fighter. He's just a super awkward guy.
Our five -star pulls are Melody. That's it. And
then four -star. It's just Melody. It's just
Melody in different outfits. Melody Beach Edition.
Melody, head of the drama. Melody, it's her different
shows that she's the lead in. Melody in My Fair
Lady. Melody in, oh, we have a hype train. We
have a hype train going. Thank you so much, everyone.
Hi, hype train. Thanks for the 21 months. Thank
you. Thank you, Oh My Why. Like, all the PCs
are only three stars, and then, like, the four
stars are, like, Rod Roddale. Zenny's pulling
again. Guys, the stream just changed. We do think
we're going to be unethical songwriters. Nothing
is quite as unethical as making children play
gambling games. We are live creating a gotcha
TTRPG game right now, right in front of us. Senny's
our player. All right, here we go. Who is Zenni
pulling for? Zenni got a five. I legitimately
rolled a D100. I got a five, so you do unfortunately
get another Robin. Kate to draw each you know
like little like art like card art that comes
up when you pull I'm in a cage we gotta make
the whole list assign rarity to everyone and
we'll come back next week or like some of the
other like one stars are like obscure NPCs that
we've spoken to like two times Kali Aldebrand.
Kali Aldebrand. Negative. The king. The king,
the doctor who showed up once. The noble who
got, who Lucia technically usurped. Oh, yeah.
Yeah, Alizon. Alizon, yeah, that would be a one
star. And nothing matters anyways because two
months later, all of them are going to be power
crept by the same characters wearing swimsuits.
half star cards for the cast themselves and the
thing that we as a corporation the song woman
corporation the thing that we are going to power
creep is the academy completely ethical with
your ethical no the pcs are like the cards that
the game gives you just for playing Yes, yes,
yes, yes, yes. You don't get additional copies,
so you can't rank them up or anything. Nope,
we're just there. We just exist. One Robin, so
let's throw up an holographic version. We're
going to add another tier rarity. No! Poor Robin.
Our poor boy. Okay. I guess while we're here,
also, I do remember the bit. Because I've actually
written it out, but I'm not sure anymore. Here.
Give me a thumbs up or a thumbs down. Well, in
this case, just say yes or no, because we have
people who listen on podcasts. I'm going to read
a character's name out loud, and you will tell
me if you would date them. Ooh, is this like
date everything gotcha pulls? Here we go. Are
we ready? I'm ready. Rod Roddale. No. Maybe.
Wait, me personally? I think he's asking us personally.
You would hate Rod Roddale. It's okay. I'd try
it. Yeah, I would say no. I'm not going to say
it's going to work out, but I'll try it. It's
not going to work out, but I'll try it. We'll
have a wild night together. All right, the game
is over. Then he says yes to Rod. The game is
over if more people say no to Rod Roddale than
yes. Okay, Robin Atlee. I would. I would date
Robin just because I'd like to fuck with him.
You know? I'm his number one fan. Oh wait, yeah,
I should be changing my answer because it's unethical.
You have to be unethical today, that's right!
Emma had the right idea with messing with Robin.
It's just, that's also like my flirting style
is to fuck with people. And Robin is just such
a prime target. You're like, yeah, I'm pretty
cool. I'd be like, wow, you are so cool. Then
he says, I can't pull Robin. Ironic. Oh god,
you're gonna wear a shirt with Robin's resume.
All the battles he's been in. Robin, you're not
like other girls, are you? And he'd be like,
no, I'm not. I'm not a girl at all, actually.
Completely over. I love him. Yeah, I'm a guy.
Yeah, I'm a dude. Yeah, I feel that. Who's next?
Okay. Arnoldo. No, that man. No. Age gap. I was
going to say not only age gap, but like that
man. Yeah, no, it's just no. Oh, my God. I thought
you said a gap. A gap. A gap. That would be.
No, he's dead. All Goffy are puppets. A gap.
True. Oh, grandpas. Oh, grandpas. He never got
to be a grandfather because his daughter died.
Yeah. Anyways. And he died. And he died. Yeah.
True. Sometimes it do be like that. Sometimes
his life is represented by a knife emoji, a mountain
emoji, and the downward arrow emoji. Yeah. I
did not see that. I did not see that. I would
have pictured like, I would have thought like
prayer hands for him or something. Pray for my
grandpa. The best thing that he did on this stream
was die. Jesus Christ, Albert. I think the best
thing he did was confess everything to Lucia.
Yeah. Do you remember any of that shit? But that's
not his fault, is it? Speaking of which. Lucia.
No, no. I would not date Lucia. No. No, I'm playing
music. I'm not getting ready. Oh, I thought you
were saying, like, would you date Lucia? And
I'm like, I would not date my own character.
I was addressing you. The game we came to play.
The game we came to play. But I also, let me
tell you why I would not date my own character.
Because she's the kind of person where you try
to get to, like, what's wrong? What's wrong?
And eventually you get so tired of asking what's
wrong that you just give up. I don't want to
be forced to go to church with her. Ooh, yeah.
Yeah, plus there's a lot of religious trauma
to work through. Yeah. It's going to be a no
for her. Lucia's going to look at me and say,
what was your favorite part of that whole thing?
And I'll be like, oh, yeah. Yeah. Banging sermon,
my man. Especially right now, current Lucia,
I would not come near her with a ten -foot pole.
Good friend, though. She's a great friend. Mare
Knight. Putting it to the public, Mare Knight.
I'm just kidding. I do have to put it out there,
just for everyone's sake. And I'm not going to
give too many things away. I'm going to be really
subtle about this. But let's just say that...
He's quite a bachelor. And we're going to have
a new season upon us. I'll leave it at that.
Oh, my wife says JC and Lucia having a conversation.
That would be a fucking nightmare. Can you imagine?
Because Lucia would be completely trying to appease
him the whole time. And NJC would just, it would
be bad, bad, just bad, just bad. Oh, yeah. Okay.
I'm going to try to find some fucking music.
This one. We were in such a mood where we could
just apparently talk all night. I'm really feeling
this new gotcha angle we got going on. Yeah.
I feel like we have a future in this. I feel
like we could really make something unethical
out of this, guys. It is such an unethical mood.
I think in my document, I had it like where if
you pulled something, there was a half and half
that you would get either a character or a weapon,
like an item of some sort. Oh, yeah. And I think
we should really maximize that potential. We
want people to get excited. I mean, could we
make like a chat command or something where you
spend channel points and you get like a digital?
I wonder if there's a way to do that. I have
to look it up. There definitely is, because I
know, what's it called, my one friend, when he
had a Twitch channel, we constantly would quote
him things he would say, and we'd add it to the
bot, and every now and then you could just say
quote, and it would just do a random thing from
the bot. So, there's definitely a way to do something
like that. Okay. Alright. You know what? Got
your rolls. 5 % chance. You get a straight up
re -roll. Today? For us? No. For me. For you!
If I fail on something, it's only if I fail.
You get to ask me to re -roll. Anyways. Lucia.
Aw, boo. Okay. I feel like there's still some
silly we need to shake off. We're going to dive
into Lucia. I know. You made a choice. You made
a choice. I'm with it. I'm here. You know what?
I think I'm going to pick up some rolls real
quick. Sorry. No, I'm kidding. Lucia. boogly
boogly boo okay lock in lock in trap lucia whether
you whether you tried to chase it or not sleep
has found you the dreams you have That night
would be classified as nightmares, not in the
sense that something fearful, something like
fear inducing, like you're being chased or anything
happened to you. But it is a constant slideshow,
a reminder of things that were once good and
now they're not. Your nightmare looks a lot what
seems to be reality at this moment. But despite
that, the fatigue currently amplified in your
body assists you with your rest. At some point,
your eyes open. as your body feels very heavy.
You feel lethargic. If you closed your eyes again,
you'd probably fall asleep in an immediate moment.
But, one thing that can bring comfort is that
at least one promise was kept to you. In the
room is the man who had promised you that he
would be there when you wake up. Currently placing
his outer student jacket on seemingly getting
ready for the day is Quincy Garvey. I think she,
like, her first reaction is, like, complete denial.
You know? Like, oh, nothing happened yesterday,
right? We're just gonna brush the slate clean.
But then just seeing him there. She says softly,
good morning. Your voice causes him... to stiffen
for a moment. Just for a simple moment. It seems
like there was a break in his typical cool composure.
Garvey just jumped. He just goes, oh, good morning.
And she'll, I assume she's still in her, like
her, Was she in her pajamas when she came over
or her clothes? Your clothes. Her clothes. Yeah.
So she looks at like, you know, her clothes that
she's had on the whole day and goes, oh, I'm
sorry. I got in your bed with my. I'm in your
bed. I'm sorry. And she's immediately like getting
sliding out going. Wow. The weird how that happens.
Any. You're not supposed to sleep with another
people's beds. Yeah, yeah, you're not supposed
to sleep with strangers. That's something that
you learn. And she's, like, literally trying
to make a break for the door. He just cuts through
all of that. He just goes, did you sleep well?
Her hand was, like, on the doorknob, ready to,
like, bolt. Just goes, relax. I... I don't want
to, though. I want to be busy. I want to be doing
something. I don't want to be thinking. I want
to be out of my head as much as possible. Because
I don't even know what's inside it anymore. I
could tell you. But... I think it's better. You
need to get the answer yourself. Um... And then
she kind of, like, itches her head a little.
Bunny, you should mention getting answers. Uh...
I have... a companion... on a higher plane. God?
Um... I don't think he's a god. No, because I
think I would know. Okay, so do you know their
name? You're being a little... Does Lucia know
about fey or demons or any of that? Or is that
completely out of her realm of understanding?
I mean, you could have like a basic understanding
but like like up to you but like yeah you you
get that um i think arnaldo would tell you like
give you read stories about it for you okay so
she would just um go once again and then she
uh writes out e r i ari no no no no look look
e and then what's next Yeah, R. R, uh -huh. And
then what's the last one? I. Yeah, this person
that's just in my head all the time and has helped
me out in the past in exchange for, you know,
some stuff. In exchange for some stuff. You do
realize you're going to have to be a bit more
detailed about this because it seems a little
shady, right? I'm trying, but I can barely remember.
To be honest. Okay, well. But I asked him to
get me the records of my memories. This is someone
who couldn't do that? I don't know. I was kind
of pulling at straws because Ayun hasn't answered
me. Ever. Okay, well. Speaking of people that
you should be talking to. Your friends came by
last night. They want to check up on you. I didn't
know if you wanted them to know about your little
list over there. But they read it. I read it
too. It's okay. It's probably better. That they
do know. That you all know. I mean... Technically,
I'm a liability. On my eyes. You didn't even
know what I was going to say. Alright, go ahead.
What I was going to say is... I am precious cargo.
What? Are you mimicking me? Almost as if I know
what you're going to say. No, you don't know
what I'm going to say. You just literally repeated.
You're actually just mimicking. Garvey! And she's
going to smack him on the side of his arm. Just
a playful whack. Dodge. Come on! Come back here!
And she's going to try to throw another one.
Dodge. Dodge. Just, uh... Listen, it's none of
my business. Anything that's going on and...
I can tell, like, a lot's going on. But... You
know, if you ever need help, I'm glad you reached
out to me. Anything you need, anything at all,
just let me know. She smiles and goes... Yeah,
no, thank you For last night It's no problem
for me I just hope you let me do the same for
you I'll keep that in mind And I mean it you're
always there when something goes wrong Which,
I think in your case, it's all the time. All
the time! Yeah, so it'd be nice to return the
favor once in a while. You and Valora together,
something's always going wrong. Alright. Just
in a different way. Hmm, it's perspective. I
think you're coping. Not kidding. But you're
right. I have to keep thinking that things are
gonna be okay. They're gonna be okay. We have
people we need to help. It looks like he wants
to say something more, but... He just goes...
Class is pretty soon, so maybe we should clean
up for breakfast. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You were
going to say something, so maybe tell me later
since you're shoving me out. Oh, wait. I'm leaving.
Are people gone? Yeah, everybody went to class
already. You're late. And then she sprints. Yeah,
I'm going to ruin your weirdo. And he just closes
the door behind you. As you run out, and you
see that it's early morning, and people are just...
going to like breakfast um as you rush out of
Garvey's room uh and uh and uh as you as you
rush on out you do realize oh yeah why are you
here you're like you're in a noble dorm you haven't
woken up here uh before so it feels strange at
the very least you do know where Valora's room
is if I could borrow some of Valora's clothes.
Hopefully she doesn't mind. Sorry, Valora. And
she's gonna go to Valora's room. Quincy was supposed
to tell her to meet me there. Like, come on,
Quincy. We're all gonna meet there tomorrow.
Can't trust men to do anything. I know. The door
opens up and Quincy just goes, hey, by the way.
What? What? You should go meet up with Valora.
She's worried about you. I was going to her room
anyway. Go back in there. Stop talking to me.
I'm going to go to her room. Stop talking at
me. It makes it weird. Why am I going to feel
I need my clothes? Here. He... I'm not wearing
your clothes. Nope. Not doing that. Reaches into
his pocket. He didn't let me finish. And he hands
you... He holds up a key. He goes, here. You
have Valora's key to her room? Yeah. Thank you.
Is this what he said? He'd see me first. She's
looking at you really odd. Why do you have Valora?
He throws it at you. Okay. Well, now I'm gonna...
Got it. Okay. That's pretty weird. She shouts
through the door. Did everyone have... Did people
have a key to my room? I don't know how I feel
about that. She heads off to Valora's room. Um,
so, um, Valora. Now, before we get into this,
with you specifically, we had to address something
last night. Quickly. Yeah. Adjust something.
As you go back to your room, in the middle, the
very, very middle of the night, A little thing
of contention that you had that was brought up
by parts of the group was this black glass -like
shard that you had retrieved after you struck
the Mare Knight. And as you're just kind of like
passively in your room, maybe thinking or trying
to go to sleep, you do feel, while within its
presence, there is a strong magical potentiality
coming from it. She wanted to try to investigate
it and understand it as best she can, not being
like a magic user or anything. wanted to try
to get a just investigate it before she went
to bed this shard now that you have a chance
to like experience it it is smooth and glass
like on the outside um but even though even though
it does have the appearance of glass um and it
and it looks like it's broken off the jagged
ends aren't actually sharp at all the thing is
cool to the touch As you look into it, you swear
things are sort of moving on the inside. It's
like smoke. Do you want to look deeper into it?
Yeah. As you continue to look deep into it, There
is something that swirls inside, almost as if
it reacts to you looking at it. And after spending
a minute and holding it closer, it begins to
swirl even more. There is movement going on inside.
It seems like the longer you look, the more it
moves. Are you going to continue? I think she's
just really curious about it because before it
was only really moving when she wasn't looking.
So she's kind of interested that it seems to
be reacting. So. As you continue to look into
it, all of a sudden, creeping through your point
of contact, creeping into your skin, you feel
goosebumps. Your hair begins to raise. And you
begin, as you kind of look up, you begin to see
phantom images. small faint outlines of what
seems to be people walking about. As the visual
starts, the auditory begins. Who's keeping watch
on the gate tonight? I think it's Gordon tonight.
I had to check the schedule. Some voices that
sound starkly... They're very distant. It's very
echoey. But... And you're beginning to wonder
where you're at. But as your question reaches
for an answer, something pulls into it. Like,
all of a sudden, it's clarity. Like, you know
it. This is the Underground. I think that actually
gets her because, like, she was wanting to, like,
kind of stop when it made her hair kind of stand
up on end a bit, but it's like, oh, this might
tell me more about what happened, and now she's
curious. And all of a sudden, a hand grips your
shoulder. Oh, okay. Like, it slams onto your
shoulder. And just, um... And you hear... And
you begin to hear... Grace? Your body stiffens
out. It feels like you're being puppeted. Your
body's not moving, but you feel like the... Sort
of like a metaph... In a metaphysical sense,
your body's straightened out. Can you hear? Yes,
sir! He just goes... Just... You don't have to
stiffen up so much. I'm just saying you're taking
watch tonight. Yes, of course. You're stationed
up by the waterfall. It's a voice that's speaking
directly to you. It feels like you are being
addressed. And more importantly, as the voice
belonging to Grace speaks, your mouth moves along
with it. You're not making the sounds, but your
mouth is moving along with the words. Give me
a wisdom save. No, charisma save, sorry. Okay,
that's better. Um, I was like, oh, she was gonna
back off, but now it's like, wait, wait, wait,
wait, wait, what's going on? I wanna know. I
rolled an 11, though. Wait, do I have... Do I
have Lucia's reroll still? Um... We'll just say
yes. I didn't think I used it. 23. There comes
a sudden surge of energy. Clarity. You see the
location. It pops in for only a second. A person's
life flashes in front of you. You and the perspective
of that person. The moment they're born, when
they had a home -cooked meal from their mother,
the time they pushed their brother and their
brother cried and they made their brother swear
not to tell them. It's multiple flashes of brief
moments. Before the moment where you see in the
last one, a long, drawn -out moment. Where you
see this individual staring down that dark -clad,
armor -clad individual that you struck. And the
last thing you see is this knight. This knight
that you saw floating around. Who had confronted
you. Oh you had confronted. Who had taken on
the image of your mother. Slashes at this individual.
With a sword. At that moment. You feel like.
Staring into this. Something was encompassing
you. But at this very last moment, maybe the
suddenness of the attack made you jump. But the
shard falls to the ground, and you are pulled
out of this stupor. Okay, I think with that,
She just kind of pushes it under the bed with
her foot for now. I'll pick it up tomorrow. And
decides to drop it at that because it is pretty
still pretty freaky. Absolutely. And you go to
sleep? Yeah, she tries to go to sleep. I'm going
to have to ask you to make a con saving throw
for me. Con? Oh, I have proficiency in that at
least. 16. That night you toss and turn in your
sleep. With something in the room, it feels colder
than usual. And you swear you hear whispers throughout
the night. But eventually, the noise turns to
a knock on the door. And as you awake, fully,
It feels like it was just an hour, but as you
look up to the clock, it's morning. Okay. She
just pushes herself up real quick and goes to
unlock her door and see who it is. And at the
door is Lucia. She's like, she was just about
to put the key in and she goes, Oh, Lucia! Hey,
hey, hey! Yes, yes, I'm up! I'm awake! And I
was wondering if I could borrow some clothes
because we're late for class! What? That's crazy!
There's no way we're late yet, I mean. I just
woke up and plus, wait, wasn't Quincy supposed
to come up here too? He said he was coming and
he also gave me this key. Why does he have a
key to your room? As she's like already like,
you know, like walking in. Wait, what is that?
Is that actually a key to my room? She goes there
and holds out her hand. I don't really know.
She drops it in your hand. She tries it in the
door. I thought it was your key. And she started,
like, going to, like, your wardrobe. And, you
know, she's just not grabbing anything but, like,
peeking through. I thought it was weird, too.
But you want to know something? Sometimes you
don't got to question things when it comes to
your friends. You know what I'm saying? So, anyway,
let's see what we got here. I mean, we have similar
uniform anyways, so. That's true. Yours is a
little more, like, official, though. Like, it
looks kind of, I'm going to feel, like, super
strong in mine. You don't have a lot of flowy
stuff. And she's. I don't know if Laura needs
to roll insert if she even needs to, but you
know she's nervous, which is why she's trying
to fill the space with just chatter and fluff.
She goes, um, Cole and I think Reinwald are gonna
come by too. Cool! Great! Nice! We were hoping
we could find out what happened last night. We
tried to go to the church to watch you, but when
we got there, the church was closed, and we snuck
in, but there was... You weren't there. Or Aurier.
Yeah, Valara, I don't even remember trying to
go to the church. I'm kind of. And you see like
her shoulders, like before she was, you know,
like flittering around and now her shoulders
have drooped a little. And her face has fallen,
but also relaxed as she lets her guard down.
I don't even know really what's real and what's
not. If that makes sense. Like in what way? Like...
Oh, and she takes out the piece of paper. Garvey
said you guys read this, right? Yeah, but we
weren't completely sure about everything. Well,
this is all I heard. In the room. That's as good
as I got. And then... I'm in this kind of like...
This kind of like, um... Arrangement? Pact? I
don't know. With this other being who's not a
god, for sure. Not a god. Not like someone from
the church? No, no, no, no. Someone who has access
to my mind. Careful. You don't want to tell anybody
our little secret, do we? Who is... In your mind?
I... Never mind. I think I was just... You see
her face is scrunched up. Like, she's trying
so hard. Lucia, at this point, I wouldn't doubt
anything. Like, nothing that has happened this
month has been normal in the slightest. Lucia,
I trust in you. Play it off. Just play it off
cool. Yeah, Valora, I'm kind of... I don't know
if the voices in my head are real or if they're
planted in there. Like... Like when Avanya said
she'd modify our memories? Yeah. I don't know
what's real anymore. I see. Yeah. Um... I was
worried about that too. And... By the sound of
it, I mean, when Quincy gets here, talk, but,
like, it sounds like something might have happened
to Quincy like that, too. What do you mean? Maybe.
Well, like, that, when he, you know, went into
the woods and got hurt the other night. Yeah.
And he told me it felt kind of weird, and we
were talking about it again last night, and we
wondered, He didn't think that he would do that,
but he remembers it. But then Cole said that
he saw Quincy not in the woods that same night.
Like, by around the church. Oh my gosh, and I
think she has to sit down at this. Has all of
our memories been compromised? I mean, maybe.
Do you feel strange? Do you feel different? Um...
Do you have gaps? No, I don't... I mean, I have
been writing everything down. But... That's the
thing, too. If they're modifying your memory,
and they know your memory, and they know where
you hid it, and then they can go and... tear
that up or whatever, but... Um... I haven't noticed
anything yet, but I mean, I wouldn't be surprised
at this point. Well, I don't know what to do.
Well... You're not going alone with Orie for
anything ever again. Honestly, I don't think
you should be alone at all. Right now. How can
I be your retainer, though? I should step down.
That's... Lucia, that's like... The furthest
thing from my worries right now. No, but it's
important with everything that's happening with
the blue wolves and the fractures that we're
already seeing, and... I don't know if I can
support you if I can't even remember where I
was yesterday. Well, I mean, the truth is...
The retainer ship stuff shouldn't even, I mean,
kind of does. It doesn't really have much to
do with the blue wolf stuff either. That's all
much more political than a typical, like, Ivor
Brynn thing. I think we're kind of all out of
our depth in a way. And, I mean, better to be
all out of our depth together, right? I guess
I just really worry that I'm a really big deficit
to you right now. Like, I'm, it's, it's, and
I'm not saying this. To be weird or anything,
but, like, this is... I don't know what's wrong
with me. I don't know what I did. Oh, I... I'm
sure it's nothing, you... Lucia, I... Knock on
the door. Interrupts. She goes to the door. As
you open the door, it's Quincy, standing there.
Oh, hey, Quincy. I figured you might let yourself
in. It's polite to knock. Oh, you're right. Okay,
come in. He walks in. Which is what I did do
before even trying out the key, might I add.
You have a key? You gave it to me. I mean, you
are the retainer, so that makes sense. She's
gonna just throw... If she's on Valora's bed,
she just pushes her face into her pillow and
just... Don't worry, Lucia. I trust you over
him any day. You see her, she's still flopped
forward on the bed -facing pillow, but she gives
you a thumbs up. Unwise, but okay. So, just waiting
on Cole and Ryan. Oh yeah, Phantom's in here.
I forgot. She turns her head to the side. Hi,
Phantom. Phantom matches your energy and flops
next to you. She starts giving him gentle pets
and goes, Phantom, have your memories been wiped
too? Blinks. No! I don't think that... I think
he's fine. Clint just idly just starts petting,
like, Phantom while he just goes, Alright, so
just waiting for those two others? Yeah. Okay.
But, anyways, she says real quick, Lucia, like,
I don't know what's going on either, but I'm
not going to leave you to deal with it alone.
Like, retain her or not. We're friends, right?
She immediately sits up. Of course we're friends!
But Valora, this is like, the king is involved!
There's an organization! It's been going for
years! We don't know what we're up against! I'm
supposed to just focus on my problems and hope
you're okay? Well, yeah! She looks at Quincy.
I don't want to burden you guys. Well, you're
not. The people who are hurting you are maybe,
yeah, but that would burden me whether I was
trying to help you or not. It'd be so much worse
if I couldn't even try to help you. and i just
thought that i have to well hope she can handle
it you know how stressful that would be like
it's like i mean like you you're a healer you
imagine someone needs to be healed or something
and they're like oh no no no i don't i don't
want to burden you with it i'll get better on
my own and then you're just standing there watching
them maybe recover maybe get infected or something
like maybe it'll be totally fine but maybe it
won't you know wouldn't you want to do something
i don't want to sound confusing and i do mean
this genuinely lucia And I think you'll understand
this, but people do feel burdened by not being
burdened by you. That's really confusing. And
then she's just gonna give Valora a hug. She
hugs her back. She's just resting her chin on
her shoulder. My dad's gone, Valora. So I'm really
glad that I have you. Well, I mean, we still
don't know that for sure. But, I mean, I told
you what I thought, that something fishy was
going on, but we don't know what happened. I
think he's gone. She pulls back. Okay, so...
Game plan. While I pillage your wardrobe. Okay.
Um... What a gentleman! Who steals... Who has
a key to Valora's room, and yet turns... You're
weird! And she just throws... Like... Takes,
like, a sweater and just whips it across the
room. Is this what you meant by that you were
gonna see me first today? Me? Oh, wait. No, wait.
He's still denying. He's still denying that he
ever had a key to my room. You're really weird.
Nerd. This is the guy with bones in his closet.
What? She's halfway pulling her arm through,
like, a jacket. Why do you have bones in your
closet? Isn't that a metaphor? Skeletons in your
closet? Yeah, that's true. He's got skeletons
in his closet. I can easily give you the answer
to every question. That's why he has them there.
Yeah. That's so weird. And she's, like, pulling
her hair back, you know, because it's dirty and,
you know, whatever. It's normal to me. To Lucia
in Valora's crop top. I was going to say, like,
Lucia's in, like, a crop top, like, really cool,
like, pants, right? Like, heavy, chunky, like,
all Valora fit on Lucia, which just looks a little
out of place. It's twin day. Minus the gold.
Because I think you're not allowed to. No, no,
no. Lucia is dressed as a badass. Questionably.
Just to clear things up in the room. I'm just
saying this in general. Your friends are smarter
than you think. If something's wrong with you,
If something's going on, people will know. People
see it in the way how you act. The creases in
your face. It's the little things that you don't
think your friends would have noticed. She feels
her forehead for creases. That's true. It does
not register that it might be about her at all.
I know you don't owe your friends any explanation.
There are some things you should keep to yourself,
but it's a good thing to let people help. That's
all I'm saying. Well, whenever you guys need
help, you better not push me away. Same to you.
I don't think anyone could push you away. That's
true. I'm like a leech. A leech? A leech. A leech
is the other thing. Yeah, like a leech. What,
Quincy? Leech. I said the same goes for you,
Valora. Well, yeah. Okay. That's it. Are you
hiding something, Valora? Not really. I mean,
I have stuff to update you on, but that's what
I think we're going to do. Cole and Reinwald
get here. Are they here to get the chicken forever?
And she opens the door and peeks out. Well. How
was your night? Do you think? Oh, you know, well,
my night went well. It was great. I got back.
after a night of hard work, you know, sometimes,
you know, working a nine -to -five is real hard,
you know, because you've got to pick up your
co -worker's slack a lot. But, you know, I think
there's a sweet pleasure in putting in a good
day's long hard work, you know what I mean? Doing
a good job. It's something he likes, you know?
Especially when your coworkers don't do a good
job and you gotta just fix it all. You know?
But, you know, it makes it all the sweeter when
you do a good job. So, anyway, so... When your
coworkers fuck it all up for you. Here is that
coworker who goes to the back on her break and
smokes weed. Definitely. Definitely. Definitely.
Anyway, so, you know, come... I walk home, you
know, alone under the stars. It's pretty nice.
I get to look up at the stars. It's quiet. I'm
not thinking about anything at all. I promise
you that. And when I finally get back to the
Olive House, you know, is the front door locked?
It is not. Did someone lock it? Well, that's
a danger right there. Do I sense there's somebody
waiting up? If I peek in a window, is someone
waiting in the living room for me? You don't
see anything of that sort for now. Okay. All
right. Well, yep. In we go. That's great. Yahoo.
Yahoo. I'm going in. I'm sneaking in. You know,
it's like when I was little and I used to sneak
out of the house and my siblings and we'd, you
know, go run through the fields and stare at
the stars and stuff together. It was real nice.
And then we'd sneak back in and we didn't want
our mama to know. So that's what I'm doing. I'm
sneaking back in, trying to be quiet. That's
my corn bowl. Okay. The night passes for you.
You know, I'll write a letter back home. There's
a lot to write about. There's a whole lot to
write about. We'll talk about that later. The
morning comes. In your room, placed squarely
in your room there by Reinwald is already a fresh
replacement. I promised it. I've gotten for you.
How'd it get in my room? How does this boy keep
getting in my room? Does he have a key? Quincy
gave it to him. Does everyone have a key to everywhere?
Okay, I should... Let me clarify. When you came
into the house, in front of your door was a uniform.
All right, perfect. Just to be safe, as soon
as I'm in my room, I'm just going to go ahead
and reinforce this lock. Real quick. Got it.
Increases the DC by 10 to pick it. You could
just do a manual arcane lock. That's kind of
sweet. I mean, I need to make a check, but you
know. Do that. Okay, go ahead. Okay. uh that's
what uh i don't know what the locks dc is but
is a thieves tools check this is an irobrin lock
so therefore it is a 10 i'm just kidding it's
like a it's it is a 18 18 all right i have a
plus oh fun fact this is an this is actually
true the noble dormitory the lock picks the checks
are 20 the the commoners are 12 the dcs on their
doors Love that. Great. That's a 24 total. So
my lock DC is 28. All right. VP finds a way.
VP finds a way. So now in a fresh uniform, you
awake to the sound of conversation going on outside
of the door. There is a smell of coffee. There
is some food that has already been cooked, it
smells like. Another voice that you're not that
familiar with, but you have heard before, but
you just haven't heard much of it before, is
present in the room. Yeah, that is... What's
her face? Starts with an M. Yeah, Milia. Milia.
Milia Carazzo. Is she the new one? Yeah. She's
the older. Third year? Yes. I'll make sure. Am
I? Question. I got a nice long rest, right? Yes.
Did my max HP go back up? Yes, it did. Oh, hallelujah.
It would really suck if it did not. Oh, I need
to roll my AC. I'll ask later, actually. All
right. I'll make my way out. As you make your
way out, as soon as you open the door, you come
out to see everybody around the table. Tula is
seated. You see Milia seated very prim and proper,
straight up on a chair. Immediately see you.
Reinwald. looks to you and ryanwood always stands
in sort of like in a sort of like proud way like
he has a chair out he doesn't even think about
it he has a chair like slid out and he has one
he has one foot placed on top of it that that's
just kind of how he stands and it's it's not
it it's not uh it's not weird to him um that's
how it is um milia goes oh good morning uh cool
right Correct. Yeah. She stands up and walks
over to you. And she just, you know, offers her
hand, of course. Very, very cordial. She bows
her head to you. She just goes, now we get to
give like a proper introduction on each other.
I'm Amelia Carozella. If there's anything you
need to know about the school at all, please
let me know. You got it. I'm staying in that
room over there. I have an open door policy.
If my door is open, you can come in and ask me
about anything. But if the door is closed, just
knock. You got it. Open door. Your friends have
been telling me much about you. Well, all good
stuff, I hope. Kind of look over at the others.
Give them a little... It's late. It goes, shoo
-hoo. Shoo -hoo. Shoo -hooed morning, I should
say. shahood morning to you too dula ryanwell
goes morning friend good sleep after after last
night yeah yeah no it was great it was great
uh millie just goes i was just being told how
it was not it was not cut to like the confessional
Cole just staring into the side. Cole sat like
laid on the bed and stared at the ceiling for
like four hours. Um, Millie just goes, your friends
were just telling me about all of a sudden the
door, uh, the door opens up. It opens up really
fast and slam and like, it like hinges and slams.
Uh, you see your knight. uh tyra salomo uh kind
of like push open the door and she goes holy
i didn't mean to do that hard oh we're supposed
to and she uh and she as she just kind of walks
in you just kind of like stay out of attention
uh she just goes good morning everyone oh this
again ah you loosen up okay i know I kind of
like this, actually. Because we had a chat yesterday.
Everyone copy him. Everyone just kind of like
looks at each other. Amelia also is like, and
then just goes, now do it. Come on. Just goes,
and she just goes, she looks at you and she just
goes. What's your name again? Cole, sir. Yes,
I knew that. Well, Cole, I admire the initiative.
Good on you. He goes, and I want everyone to
follow along with whatever Cole is doing. From
now on, until the end of time in perpetuity.
No, I'm kidding. You don't have to be so... You
don't have to be so stiff around me. But in here,
in Anor, you are going to have... Just to get
along with the sort of like, you know, our culture
and everything. I don't know if you guys do things
differently with knights from your place, but
here, no matter what, you call them sir. It says
you will address me by Sir Salomo. I worked really
hard for this title. Yes, sir. He just goes,
sorry I'm here so late, y 'all. I was kind of,
I was waiting for my squire this morning and
he didn't show up. He usually shows up like very
early in the morning and cleans up around the
place. But I thought, oh man, I'm gonna have
to send a guard out for him because he's usually
so, he's usually so like prim and proper about
it. I don't know. All right, everyone take a
seat. Is that in order, sir? Yes, everyone take
a seat now. As everyone takes a seat. Okay, so...
More proper introductions. Welcome to Onor, everyone.
Even though you've been here for a bit now. Sorry
the situation with your... you know you're higher
up it's been a little it's been a little all
over the place uh i mean the school everything
going on behind the scenes a little all over
the place too but it seems like things are finally
settling and we can settle some confusions uh
i'll go ahead and say that karazo here has been
here she's a third year she's about to graduate
so she knows the ropes so if you need anything
uh from her you can talk to her if you need anything
from me apart from these morning meetings because
i'll i'll address you every morning except for
days that we don't go to you don't go to school
with this sunday i hope someone told you that
part at least um i'll be meeting you every morning
to talk to get updates about um like your progress
at school um if there's any questions you have
about me um but like rather i would i would rather
want you guys to like know about learn about
norse culture and everything through actually
interacting with the people of nor i'm i'm here
too but i don't want to be like the you know
the the guide to like to everything the whole
part of this program is for you guys to be integrated
for you guys to really get in deep with the with
the people uh and such so um people from All
walks of life are here. Just treat them with
respect, and they'll treat you with respect.
So, I'm going to go ahead and do Roko, just so
I can get everyone's name. Koel? Yes, sir. Yep.
I love that. Reinwald Aston. Here. Chula Evangel.
Shoo -hoo. No, that's new. Okay, I like that.
Amelia Carazzo. Yes, sir. All right. Good. All
right. So it seems like three of you are in the
Silver Alliance class at the moment. From what
I know, the actual professor is currently out
at the moment. He's just dealing with a few things
there. But he's a really, really good guy. He's
one of my best friends, actually. And currently,
my husband is filling in his shoes to teach the
class. And be honest, what do you guys think
about him? Is he doing a good job or what? I
think he's doing a finest job as he can with
what he's been given. It's a tough situation
in the suddenness of it all. Very good job, sir.
Okay, good. Good, good, good. And I guess while
I'm trying to get a more stricter formula out,
because I had a long night last night with my
husband, because we had to figure out a couple
of things. She's really dropping to my husband.
The housing situation here. My husband and I
were up late last night. We were trying to figure
out the bed integrity, but she just goes, she
just goes, so typically in the morning, I'm going
to do these morning presses, and then I'm going
to do something with you all. One of these days,
we're going to, I'm going to do some physical
training. With you. My physical training has
been, you know, it's a regimen that's been given
to me by Rodan Sharp. Really great guy. I think
maybe some of you have met him already. And Ryan
goes, yes, I believe all of us have already been
quite experienced with Sharps at the height of
his program. We have training with him today,
sir. Oh, perfect. What level are you guys? Level
three. Okay. So you're not there at the top yet,
but you guys are doing really good. That was
the highest that was offered, sir. Oh, he's being
merciful. Okay. Later on in the year, there will
be more levels because he personally evaluates
everyone. It'll be great. But it seems like you
guys are at a really good level. We're going
to start my physical training in the mornings
next week. We start with stretches, just light
stuff. Maybe I'll show you some of my personal,
like, sword stuff because, you know, we're also
going to have, like, a teacher -student thing
going on. Yeah. And you guys are learning stuff
and everything? Good in class? She's really good
at this, you think? All right, perfect. Yes,
sir. All right, perfect, perfect. Good, good,
good, good, good. All right, well, I'm going
to see everyone's doing. Okay, we're going to
get to know each other a lot more throughout
these years. I'm in the Knight's Hall. If ever
outside of school hours, you need me. Yeah, any
questions at all? And people begin to ask their
questions and do their personal stuff, but if
you have anything, you say it. Sir Salomo, you
mentioned you had a squire? yeah who are they
if we ever need to if we ever see them if we
ever need to get in touch with you and can't
find you oh yeah um for this uh for this year
in particular uh there's they are a busy body
around campus so you can see them i don't know
often they do a lot of cleaning and they just
kind of apply themselves their name is her name
is bell Who is missing? Oh, no. I had a feeling.
Oh, no. I actually have some plans to take him
here sometime to introduce you guys and help
some things out and maybe lead physical training.
You guys are going to love him. Can't wait to
meet him, sir. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. uh i assume
he probably got maybe maybe some kind of like
evil wizard kidnapped him or like he fell into
like five bear traps or something because he's
late today but you know i'll worry about that
later i'm just kind of i'm kind of more i'm kind
of excited more than anything and uh mama goes
My gods, I hope you find him soon. Like, I'm
not too worried about it. Okay, uh... Well, you
guys already had breakfast. And I believe that'll...
That's just sort of an introductory thing. I
think we're done for today. People showed you
around school. You guys know where everything
is and all the war and stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, great. Alright, awesome. Well, I'm going
to say goodbye for today. And just for tomorrow,
just tell me a thing you learned in class today.
Yes, sir. While I figure out a more rigid structure.
All right. Awesome. All right. I'll take it easy.
And she walks away. She's strict. And Rhino Wall
just goes, is that what you gathered from that?
I mean, she's just a real intense knight, you
know what I mean? Millie just kind of like chuckles
and just goes, you... Is she like... Is she like
a lot of knights from your... Well, I never met
a knight before. Oh, never? Well, I mean, the
first time I met a knight was here. Well, no,
wait. I guess, did those count as knights? I
maybe met a knight. I'm not sure. I don't live
in the city. Flashback, the first knight you
met got gored by a war beast. I'm thinking, as
far as my cover story, would the rich guy, would
there have been knights? involved with that at
all the rich guy that sponsored me and then um
like um that is that place traditionally doesn't
have uh knights in that sort of kingdom he had
like bodyguards and yeah but not gotcha okay
now the first night i met was would have been
here we don't really have knights in east room
i don't think i mean maybe we do not in the country
oh oh okay well we're on from um sylvan it's
Nighthood Abound, though it's a much more prestigious
title because we don't have land -bearing nobles
there. It's more all owned by, all under one,
all in one domain entrusted to the royal family.
And then Reinwald, Reinwald just goes, oh, blast,
I just remembered. Um, me and Cole have to be
somewhere early in the morning. Oh, that's right.
We do have some stuff we gotta get done. Oh,
yeah, of course. Um, well, like I said, glad
to meet you. I hope you all have a good day in
school, and yeah. Uh, she just goes, he just
goes, but I didn't mean to interrupt you. It
was very nice, it was very nice meeting you.
You're going to make, you're going to make a
grand night. I'll certainly try. My apologies,
but we have to be off now. Very well. And Tula
just goes, Don't worry, Miria. I will listen
to everything you say. Please, start from the
beginning. Tula, please. Have fun, you two. We'll
see you later. See you at training. Then we got
the acorn lead later. Oh, maybe I'll drop by
and, you know, see how you guys are on up with
that. Yes, but I'll look at the time. I'll meet
up with our companions. We should go. Um, the
two of you walk off. um as you go as you go off
rama goes might have been a bit rude to cut that
short but we are cutting close to our time speaking
of which before we get into that how are you
well i'm doing good i'm doing right as rain did
that i feel better than a pig in mud right now
Right. Cool, I just want to... I just want to
let bare, but, um... Did you go out for a walk
last night? Well... Yeah. I'll be honest, yeah.
Just a little bit. I wanted to clear my head.
It was kind of a busy day. It was. I don't have
to say that I'm here for you. I hope that's something
you just know. But feel free when you go take
a walk. Perhaps, to ease my mind more than anything,
perhaps you can allow me to accompany you next
time. Yeah, that sounds nice, Randwald. Right.
Come on, let's be off. Make a deception check
for me real quick. Everything is fine. I feel
great. How long can Cole roll this high? Is this
concealing emotions? Definitely. Okay. I'm feeling
great. Life is great. Natural 20 for a 30. God
fucking damn it. Not today. Not today. Okay,
do I try? Natural trying for a 30. Of course
I try. Let me check, because he has an ability
called Seek Truths. How long can he keep it up?
In addition, after you have made a successful...
There we go. He succeeded on you... No, he succeeded
on Valora. He hasn't. He hasn't succeeded against
you, right? No. Okay. Not to my knowledge. Ten.
Ten. No. Okay. And as you're going towards the
crowded morning, Ira Brynn, oh, it's so nice
out today. Now, a lot of blue wolves out. You
don't see them. You make your way into the noble
dorm. And what you see when you get to the top
floor. before you head down to Flora's room,
is a head of pink hair sticking out of the door.
Lucia. As you check outside of the door, where
you were looking - I thought we were walking
past Melody's room, and - Oh my god! You see
Lucia sticking her head out. Lucia, when you
stuck your head out, you immediately see them,
like, on cue, like they stepped, uh, they stepped
onto the last step. Oh! Speak of the devils!
Hi, guys! And she pokes back in. Howdy. Good
morning. Good morning. Come on in. As you walk
in, the door's closed. There's a whole phantom
in here. Yeah, I didn't want to send him back
last night, so... He fits, kind of. You got like
a... You have a whole balcony with like a...
Two double door... Look how big it is! Oh, yeah.
My window goes out, too. They made a little perch
for him, but I'm not sure he could get through
the window. I might need to make it a little
bigger or something. Come in and out. Make it
easier. Um... Well, how'd you guys sleep? Fine.
I almost did well. Good. Um... And you? Yeah,
I was alright. By the way, Timmy... How does
she look? She hasn't done anything with her hair
yet. She literally woke up like this. It's bad.
What's the bag eyes situation? Does it look like
she slept? Did she gain another point of fatigue,
Timmy? Did she get a long rest? Yes, you did.
Okay, so I did get to clear a level of strife
and my fatigue? Yes. Yay! Are you back to normal?
That means my tenacity point goes away, too.
No, I have one level of strife still. Okay. Because
I had two. So, ironically, semi -better than
yesterday. What happened yesterday? Well, I mean,
that's what we're here to talk about, I guess.
Okay, so, I know, Lucia, um, you know, so, something
happened last night, and Reinwald happened to
find us, and obviously you found Quincy, and
like I told you, um, I told her, by the way,
Quincy, about what you thought, about, um, about,
um, I told you what... I told you what... Sorry,
I got distracted by the chat. I told you what
you found about... What you thought about...
Maybe... Two nights ago. With... Not feeling
right about... What happened in the woods, supposedly.
And Cole seeing you. But... I don't know. Maybe
we... Should all kind of start from the beginning,
she asks Lucia. Because this is kind of a Lucia
call, but she's not sure if she gets what she
means. The beginning. Um. Well. Um. Think of
my mind right now as a patchwork quilt. It has
a lot of beautiful squares. Like I can remember
all of you guys, clearly. And I can remember
where my room is. And I can remember certain
things from my childhood, right? But then there
are kind of like holes in that quilt. Like a
rat has eaten through the blanket multiple times.
And now the blanket is starting to tear. And
as it's starting to tear... So does, uh, my mind.
Because what really is real in this blanket,
or has it been not real this whole time? Uh,
I've heard of you said something. I've heard
of you said something and it didn't come out,
so I don't know. Oh no. I said, so what you're
saying is we should put some mouse traps down?
Oh, yeah. Maybe we should put some mouse traps
down. Man, there was good timing on that, and
I was muted. I'm sad. Everyone laughed, so I
went, okay, good. It landed. I was laughing because
of the awkward silence. I was like, oh, I landed.
Yay. I was like, I'm uncomfortable. She goes,
basically what I'm trying to say is if what I
heard while I was pretending to be asleep in
that room, wherever that room may be, for years,
my memories have been tempered with and trifled
with. For some reason, I have a couple of theories
as to why, but not officially. And so I'm going
to do my best to start at the beginning and tell
you what I remember. But I also want to make
folks aware, she gestures to the folks in the
room, that I'm not sure if this is true or not.
Because if people can erase memories, who's to
say they can't fabricate new ones for me? It's
a very interesting thing to feel like I'm not
safe in my own mind. I mean, we've had people,
but we had someone threatened to change our memories,
too. So, I mean, it's definitely, I mean, that's
definitely possible is the thing. And there was
that Avanya lady who, like, wanted to kidnap
you, so. Who? I don't remember that, do I? Avanya?
Yeah. You remember Vanya, yes. Oh, I do remember
her, okay. You remember the underground stuff,
right? Yes. Okay, yeah, yeah. Right. There's
a lot of memory wiping, and especially if what
we think happened to you, Garvey, the other day.
Who's to say that not everyone's memory here
has been tampered with in some way, shape, or
form? Hmm. Well. I feel fine. I have to say.
If they're tampering a bunch of Nobles' memories,
then how it's going to be brought down on this
whole school. If they really are bold enough
to do that. That's what I'm saying. I wouldn't
put it past them. Would they do that to the whole
school? I mean, this may be dumb, but what if
just... we revealed everything to the whole school
kind of thing. Not that we have a lot to reveal
right at the second, but would they be able to
do anything about it? I think I'd be killed.
I don't know about that. Maybe like, maybe like,
hung? No. As a symbol? That's why they're doing
this. Oh, that's right. They can't kill me. Ooh,
so I'm kind of immune. Except for the... Well,
you know, she says because she realizes she shouldn't
reveal it without saying, without Lucia's permission.
She nods. The what, Valoria? The curse. Do I
remember the curse? You're not supposed to. Okay,
that part, you actually don't know. Because that
part was... No, no, no, no. Sorry. I'm sorry.
You have everything for the underground when
you learned about the curse. Right. But then
the curse got removed, right? You do know that
the person... To remove the curse, the person
who put it on you had to die. You don't know...
You don't have the memory of... Arnaud is speaking
to you about that. Right. And revealing everything
that he knew and your parents and everything.
But I do know that the curse is gone, right?
No. I don't know that. You don't know that. No.
I think the only one in the room who knows it
is. Is you. Okay. So I don't know that. And she
goes, right. The curse. I'm not allowed to leave
the country. Otherwise I explode. Reinwald does
like a double take. We learned this last week.
It's kind of complicated. I think Quincy didn't
know it either. Yeah. Quincy's like... Oh, Quincy
just goes... Okay. So... So now we need to...
So... With all this out there and a curse that
apparently kills you when... If you leave, do
you know why? These people want to get you yeah,
why why do they want to kidnap you or keep you
or uh? Why are you such a hot commodity? I mean
nothing. I mean you're cool, but oh, thanks.
I don't think I'm well. Thanks Cole I think you're
cool, too. I'm probably cuz of my powers Your
powers being Are you comfortable sharing that?
She says, or... She says, I'm comfortable. I
don't know if I can. Remember? It took me forever
to tell you. Yeah, that's true. Well, maybe I
can. Yeah, you say it. You say it. I'll see if
it works. Because we're the only two who know
in theory. Cole knows, but we don't know you
know, right? She's got her fingers crossed. So,
Lucia can see the future. Did it work? And, uh...
You see there's a look of, like... Kind of like...
Like, of course, you see Reinwald is kind of,
like, stunned by it. And even Quincy kind of,
like... Kind of like, you know, they're reacting
properly to this. And he goes... Like... A scrivener.
Like a... Like divination. Yeah, but, like, really
intense. And it's not like casting a spell? No,
no. It's just like part of me. It's like... Did
I tell Valor about the cyborg that I met? No.
No. So, do you know what I'm going to do right
now? Or what I'm going to do next? Does she?
You could rewind time. You could rewind time.
I was going to say, She'll go, she'll go, do
I know what you're going to do next? And she
watches. You know, everyone write down like a
six digit number. Can she read numbers? I can
read numbers. Thank you very much. Everyone write
down a six digit number. And... Okay. Quincy
goes, can it be just one digit? And show her.
I mean, between zero and... Just a number. Okay,
she gets it. She takes out a paper. A number?
Okay. Alright. I know this sounds like a magic
trick, but like... Everyone plays your game and
they fucking write a number down. Okay, I did
it. Valora doesn't write down a number. Valora
writes down a word. And then... Okay, I guess...
Okay, Lucy. Because she's like... It's like,
okay, I guess we have to... Show... I don't know
how it works, actually. Are you able to see what
it is? She's just kind of standing there. Okay,
you know, guess. Guess. I can't really get, it's
like, it's not that I can, ah, here. Okay, hold
on, hold on. So if we reveal it and then you
go back in time. Yes, yes, that one. Then you
point it back. Then you'll show. Yes, yes, so
quickly show. Someone's going through a lot of
effort to protect this in particular. There he
goes. I think we're safe. Quincy's like, we're
fucked. So, we gotta show you, and then, wait.
Show me, and then I'm gonna go back, and I'll
tell you what it was. What? Just show me! Alright.
Call room 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. I wrote down phantom.
That's my six digit number. Oh, this says phantom,
by the way. Okay, okay, okay. Garby? Uh, Quincy
wrote down nerd. That's not... I don't even know
what that is. That's not a number. That's rude.
That's his nerd. It's rude? And then... He just
turns and he writes something else. He writes
number one on top. Okay, hold on. That's my nerd
one. And then what did Reinwald write down? Reinwald
wrote down seven. Okay, and then she rewinds
time. It's like... So, okay, write down the number.
Okay, are you ready? We haven't written anything
yet. I know exactly what you're going to put,
though. I haven't thought about what I was going
to write, though. Oh my gosh, just hurry up and
do it so I can tell you. Okay, she writes down.
Everyone follows along. Is everyone done now
so I can tell you? You know what, for funsies...
I'm gonna use Detect Thoughts. Detect Thoughts?
Oh, okay. So, Lucia makes a wisdom save? Let
me pull up my... Ah! My character sheet! Where
did it go? Sorry. It vanished. Vanished. Vanisher.
Convenient. Isn't that interesting how that happens
that way? Okay, wisdom, wisdom, wisdom, wisdom,
wisdom, wisdom, wisdom, wisdom, save. Ooh, I
got a 21 in wisdom. Ooh, that's a failure. Is
it? That's a failure. 12, yeah, there's no fucking
way. She's running through everyone's, what they
wrote down. So, let's see. Unaccessible, blah,
blah, blah. I get surface thoughts, and then
I could dig deeper. I don't think I'm going to
because this is not important enough for me to
do that. You do feel that she has really confident
know -hows on like what, who wrote what. And
she's just impatient. She just really wants to,
she's just excited to like share with the class.
Okay. All right. I like focus on that while I
write mine down. Okay. Ready? Are we ready? Here
we go. Rigel, you wrote down the number seven.
Quincy. You called me something called a nerd,
but you put the number one on top of it. Valora,
you didn't even write down a number. You wrote
down Phantom. And Cole, you wrote 1, 2, 3, 4,
5, 6. Best show ever won. Wow. Fancy. Ta -da!
So you can just, like, see the future? That's
incredible. Well, sometimes I get premonitions
in my sleep, but I can rewind time, too. What
else have you seen? I'm focusing on the surface
thoughts while I'm asking these questions. All
the dead blue wolves. Flashing through her mind.
I can't. There's just a lot. You know, this is
the first time I've had you actually prove it
too. I think. I mean, I believed you, but. Laura's
been the first to know. Have you seen our futures
too? Cold dead flashes in her mind. Uh -huh.
I don't know if it's real. We think it can be
changed. Yes. Why would she get visions if there
wasn't a way to fix it? Why should she be able
to go back in time and kind of change it? That
just seems like it's meant to change things.
As if you are... You're meant to change it, yes.
Yes, clearly a dune has given me a higher purpose,
and whatever is happening here, people are trying
to use it for bad. And that's why we think the
Ministry put her with one of the Hedkothis, instead
of putting her in with the other, um, the other
of the Foror Society, for example. Um, and...
We think they must know, and I think that's why
this curse was put on her, because I don't know
where else it would be. I still don't know why
her dying rather than leaving the kingdom is
better, but maybe because they would intend to,
I don't know, like, they're the ministry, they'd
be the people who could resurrect her. Well,
it's a power that would be, you know, kind of
dangerous if it fell into someone else's hands,
you know what I mean? It shouldn't be in anyone's
hands. Like, she's not like a weapon for people
to use, you know? Well, no, but that's what it
sounds like they want it for. Yeah. Well, I don't
know. Joke's on them. I'm a healer. Nice try.
I want to fix stuff, not make it worse. Yeah,
well, information can be kind of dangerous is
all. I can't imagine the burden that's been placed
upon you from this gift that you have. There's
no burden at all. I mean, given, you know, the
way things have... Okay, I guess we don't know
what's happened with the holes in your memory,
but doesn't it seem like it's probably related?
Yeah, but why would they keep trying to mess
with my memory? I mean, if they keep... At some
point, if you keep erasing years and years of
my memories, at some point, like... How can a
person function? And at that point, how can I
be their little toy soldier if I can't even function?
It's just... It's just another form of them trying
to exert control. Ow! I mean, if you found out
something that they didn't want, then they'd
have to erase it, right? You didn't know that
they were using you for your talent? You didn't
have an inkling of that, really, until last week,
right? Or how valuable... And it explains some
things, too, when I found out, because initially
my dad was... really upset when I picked her
as retainer. And then he had a long talk with
the council for the king and everything. And
he came back saying that she was a good choice.
I think he knew before me. That's what I think.
I thought about it since you told me. And I think
that's why I think he knows you're important
in some way. And I mean, and that's why they
told Todd Katwalder to protect you. And that's
why they sent they sent Aurier Vorulane here
with you? Because why would they send that just
for some random... No offense, but like, you
know, a random cleric girl from a small village.
They don't send a high executor. And every year
I do go to the castle to visit with Kali. Kali?
Aldebrand? Yes. Kali Aldebrand? Every year. Did
I know this? Did I know this? That she meets
with Kali all the time? You don't know this specifically.
I don't think she told me this either. I don't
remember. So I'm saying she didn't. Probably
didn't because the more Valora talks, the more
she's like, oh, maybe that's important, right?
What the hell is Kali all the time with you?
She just wants to know what her future is like,
and it's kind of the same every time except this
last time. What'd you say? Everything was on
fire. I mean, that tracks for an Aldebrand, I
suppose. Are they like... Is she one of the Mark
people? Oh, yeah. Aldebrand's a very influential
house in the Folger. Um... She's... I mean, she's
really on the forefront of the war with Anera.
Ruthless. She guards part of the border. Ruthless.
Commits... Constantly commits war crimes. Absolutely
awful beyond measure. Oh, yeah, but we're not
supposed to talk about that. No, I can. I know.
No, she's awful. There were, like, fire petals.
They're not fire. They're flower petals. In the
air with the embers, too. And a guy wrapped in
bandages. What kind of guy wrapped in bandages?
Is this in the vision with Kali? Mm -hmm. It's
not. It's not. That's your dream. That's a recurring
dream. Kali's vision was the throne, but then
there was, like, the sound of, like, a horse.
Oh, that's right. That's right. Sorry, sorry,
sorry. I take it. Reverse, reverse. I rewind
this. Emma, rewind. Rewind time. I rewind time.
She goes, Yeah, in Kali's vision, there's like
a sound of a horse and the throne. Normally,
she sees a throne, but this time it was different.
I just see a lot of fire all the time. In my
dreams, too. It's different, you say. So, things
can be changed. Or they get worse. I just froze
so bad. I'm so sorry, guys. What did you say?
Ranwell goes, so it was different. Yes. So perhaps
that's proof that fate can be changed. Yes. Or
it gets worse. I'm... Worse or not, it still
changes, yes. Yeah. Yes, Valora. Most of the
things I've seen, I... want to change. And I
think the reason I've been given those visions
is so that I do change them. Right. Go ahead.
No, no, no, you. No, no, please insist. No, I
don't. I don't. I forgot. He goes. Me too. Um,
okay. Same brain. Oh my god, these two are the
same wavelength. They don't even know how similar
they are. Oh, wait. Are you frozen again? Are
you okay? Okay, I just saw your message. It was
like, um, okay. Um. That's so funny. Well, that
goes to the point of what happened last night.
So, we think this is why they cursed her and
I guess we were only having more proof that maybe
it was the Ministry that did it. Or... I mean,
I guess we don't know that for sure, but I mean,
she's been connected to the Ministry her life.
I don't know, but they sent Aurier. And you were
going to meet Aurier last night. Yeah, but Aurier...
In the church. Aurier was also, like, arguing
with the people in the room. Like, she wasn't
happy with them. No, but she's still working
with them, right? Yeah, but, like, she... It
seemed like she didn't want them to keep doing
this stuff. Okay, but like, what stuff? Do you
know? What else did you hear? She said sessions.
Sessions to do what? Lucia, can we take a look
at your back? I could. In, like, the closet or
something. We can fix the room. Just turn around.
Just turn around. Yeah, that's what I did. Like
this. Gentlemen, everyone. Phantom, make a wall.
Just a little pause in the air. And she'll show
her back to Valora. Is it still bad? Do I see
any markings or anything? Fresh ink. There is
scarring. It's... It's definitely, because you've
seen it before, the ink is as if it's fresh.
It's just being written over. And I recognized
some of the words last time. Is it the same words?
Yes. But not the whole thing? Not the whole thing.
Not as strong as it was before. The aligning
is also different, too. It's as if... The whole
thing got erased and someone's trying their hand
at something new again. They're trying to do
it again. Redraw it. Some words are in completely
different places. It's different than last time
and there's not as much. It looks new. It's like
you have scars on your back. What? It's different.
But there's the same words when we saw the curse
before. but they're, like, in different places
in some places, and there's not as much, it's
not as strong. She's trying to peek? She's like,
do you think that's what the sessions are? Like,
tattooing sessions? Wait. Okay. So we don't know
where Arnalda is. Oh, no, wait, I don't know
that Arnalda's connected to the curse. She's
the one who doesn't know, never mind. Um, she
goes, so, but why would they have to do it? I
don't see any signs of the original curse, but
I couldn't see them before either until Avanya.
Maybe the curse is really old and it needs to
be re -upped or something. Yeah, like the ink
runs out or something and that's why. I mean,
Avanya even couldn't get rid of the curse though,
but I guess that makes sense. She might have
tried to mess with it a little bit. So maybe...
Can we turn around? Yeah. Go for it. You can
go sit down, Phantom. Quincy goes, Alright, so
just to lay everything out for everyone. So...
Just have a good idea of how serious this is.
Lucia came here with a high executor. That itself
was a big deal. High executor of Rural Luin.
For those outside of our country, there are a
holy order of warriors dedicated to the ministry.
High executor or head executor is one of their
prime positions. He's basically one of their
top warriors. The fact they sent someone along
like that with her is telling it in itself already.
If they are going around and they're screwing
with people's memories, if they're screwing with
mine, it's just Orvalores. And they're definitely
screwing with Lucia's. This means that they're
doing something... They're doing something risky
and they're willingly taking a huge risk. And
if it ever gets out, it'll be on them. But they
have means of controlling information. Probably
has something to do with the consortium. I didn't
even think of that. Yeah. The whatsa? Who's the
whatsa? They're like elite mages. Mostly based
in Stravai. They work directly with Lord Moonglaive,
the Lord Paramount of the South. They do a great
deal of controlling information. You think that
guy that was walking around with the acid burn
on his face? And the robes and everything? Yeah.
In the spell book that you picked up. Me? Who?
What? Cole. Guess he might have dropped it. Yeah.
I got it. Right here. Or maybe a different person.
Reinwald goes, a quick second, but is this a
widely known thing that the Consortium is an
organization that controls information? And Quincy
goes, no. Well, I mean, not like that, no. I've
never heard of that. I just knew they were, like,
elite mages. But I know about it. But it makes
sense that they could. How do you know about
it? Eye connections. I see how my dad... I sneak
around when my dad works. Your dad is connected
to the consortium? Yeah. They're all family,
yes. Consortium are shady bastards. His dad works
directly with the king. The point I'm trying
to make, before we continue, this is very serious.
It says... information gets out of the wrong
person here they're gonna do everything they
can to cover it up this is something that goes
into this is something that has the interest
of some very deeply powerful people that maybe
we don't know about we need to keep this on down
low it's like a whole government cover -up kind
of thing and this isn't the only threat too Evania,
the person we were talking about who discovered
the curse, she outright admitted she's from Manera
and she's been sent here to get Lucia. She's
trying to take her out of the kingdom. The only
reason she hasn't done it is because of the curse.
I don't know how much good I'll be to people
if I'm blown up. Well, we're not gonna let you
blow up. Quincy goes, good chance they don't
want you. Like that either. No, they probably
want your free information then. Was I supposed
to be at Ira Brynn? Probably not. I mean, there
was a big talk about it after I picked you. And
they decided ultimately it was okay if you came
with Oriette, sounds like. Like, if you had this
thing, Like a precious necklace. You'd want to
keep it hidden, then put it in, I don't know,
the middle of a big jewelry store? How did you
end up being Valora's retainer? Oh. That's a
funny story. Yeah, it is. Well, basically, I
ran into her on the street. She goes to go get
the door. As you open it, The face and... You
were greeted with the face that, Valora, it kinda
shocks you. Unless you haven't seen it quite
a while. Dressed in Iroban uniform. Hair slicked
back like before. Graham Alizon. Oh! Oh, shit.
She almost is speaking of and then stops herself.
Aldazan? Oh, am I interrupting something? Oh,
I mean, we're just, you know, making some plans
for the Melody Bowl. I don't know if you saw
the posters. Yeah, I did. You made it to Ira
Brint. Yes, I start class today. Oh, good. And
I just thought I'd... see you and just offer
a greeting and it seems like I have myself covered
for additional people. Yeah, bully any servants
recently? Quincy goes, yeah, you suck. I said
I was going to start fresh with you and see now
that you're at Ivor Brynn. And see... If we've
learned anything from what happened, but... I'm
not going to mess this up. Sorry. You were...
Go on. You were talking. Then I can't decide
for anyone else, she says, but... For me... We're
starting from base zero, okay? Understood. I'm
glad, and I won't let you down. Good. Does the
most awkward little wave to the other people
in the room. Lucia's arms are crossed. You know
Quincy and Lucia, and this is... Cole and Reinwald.
Hello there. This is Graham Aluzon. He's from
Voronatum, where I'm from. Yes, I come from a...
I come from a... He just realizes he shouldn't
just straight up say, I come from a rich family.
I come from a notable... affluent family in the
area. And me and Valora here are quite... We've
met. We've acquainted. Well, it sounds like you're
just meeting right now for the first time. Oh,
in a way. I mean, yes, actually. Ah, the new
gram. Exactly. I am excited for the first day
of class. She's slightly judging that he hasn't
apologized to Lucia or anything, even though
she's right here and he's only talking to me
again, but she's not going to say anything about
it this time yet. She just goes, all right, well,
looks at you and only you, Valora, just goes,
I'll see you later. Gross! Yeah, you'll see all
of us later since we're all going to be in the
Silver Alliance class. All of house members are
spending time with us. Right, right, right. And
your retainer, of course. You can expect to see
her. Retainer. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Retainer. Why'd
you grit your teeth like that? What was that?
You just grit your teeth when you said that.
That was weird. No, no, no, no. There's no...
There's no feeling of, listen, whatever. Your
fist, like, balled up, too, a little bit. No,
no, it didn't. And Quincy goes, it did. And Ryan
goes, it did, though, yes. Graham just goes,
whatever happened in the past is in the past.
I will follow you. Let's look to the future then.
I look forward to it. Catch you on the flip.
Quincy goes, you can go now. On the flip side.
Yes, the other side. Which is the side that it
flips to. Have a good rest of your morning. See
you in class. Shuts the door. There is our other
one -star poll, everyone. Yeah, there it is!
Rob was like, why am I with this guy? Fuck this
guy. This character tried to slap a servant,
for folks wondering. She goes very quickly, okay,
he was supposed to be my retainer. Lucia ran
into me and was like, I'm meant to help you,
and at the time I didn't get it, but now I kind
of get it. It's because of her fortune -telling
stuff that she can do. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I had a vision, I had a vision. Then, like, right
at the last second, he, like, struck, was about
to strike a servant, and then Lucia ran in and...
and stopped him and he was like threatening them
and stuff and so i totally dropped him and um
i didn't know who to pick all of a sudden though
and i almost picked quincy she points at quincy
but then i couldn't find him in the audience
and so i didn't do that so i picked i picked
lucia in front of everybody randomly and kind
of surprised everyone including her and including
myself and yeah that's basically that would be
that would be why they couldn't turn it down
I mean, you made such a big scene at choosing
her, right? Yeah. I mean, that's a big part of
it. I'm sure. I still don't think if they didn't
want it to happen, it wouldn't happen. I think
they just rolled with it. The king can reject
my choice. Yeah, but it would be weird if he
just... It would have been very embarrassing
for everyone, yeah. It would have been weird
if he was like, no, you can't have that person.
Because then you ask why, and he has to be like...
Because I hate pink hair. I don't know. I mean,
to be fair, typically retainers aren't commoners
and everything. So, I mean, it was unconventional
in general. I think it's great. Clearly. Ryanwell
goes, clearly she chose well. Yes, she did, because
Valora made a good example of how the commoners
and the royals can work and coexist together.
Well, more than that, I felt more confident in
that moment picking someone who I didn't know,
but who my first impression of her was that,
okay, maybe she was a little bit weird and I
didn't quite get it. But then, like, my second
impression, it was kind of weird. You are weird.
But then my second impression was that... I think
I'm very friendly. Was that she would put herself
in danger to help someone who she didn't know.
Oh, always. Well, it was like it was meant to
be. A prophet picked them. Yeah, but that wasn't,
I didn't see that in any of my visions. Well,
do you typically see stuff like that? no, I'm
just thinking that we were talking earlier about
how, like, well, we can't change what's set in
the future, but I don't think any of this was
in my future. Well, it seemed like you knew something,
because you were like, you're like, I'm here
to help you. I'm meant to help you, and that's
what I thought was really weird. I saw a vision
of a wyvern at sunset, and I had really good
feelings about it. Do you ever think that maybe...
Never mind. Maybe what, Cole? Nothing. It's nothing.
Anyway. No, hey. This is a scary time for us.
There's a lot going on. You should feel like
you can say whatever you want. No, it's... Okay,
fine. Ever think that maybe... It's kind of like
a... Like, self -serving prophecy kind of thing?
What do you mean? I really, I should stop talking.
I really should stop talking. Like, oh, like
I did this for myself kind of thing? No, no,
that's not what I mean. But anyway, we got class
soon. Like, because we want it to be so, it happens?
Or you see it, and then it makes you do it? Something
like that? Like, you wouldn't have... been that
heavy -handed introducing yourself to me if you
hadn't seen the vision already. But that's not
why I picked you. And we still met because I,
there was someone stealing her pocket watch and
I ran out and that's when I met her. There was
a huge freeze. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, guys. Evil
song woven. Evil song woven. The unethical song
woven. Evil. Evil. So, I'm sorry. I guess it's
not self -serving. More self -fulfilling, I guess,
is what I would say. Yeah, like you see it and
so it makes you want to do it or do what happens.
Yeah, but then I have seen things that I don't
want to happen and I'm going to make sure they
don't happen. Sometimes... I'm going to stop.
Sometimes what? Really, we should get going.
I think we got class soon. We do have class soon
and also we are uncovering anything crazy. Conspiracy?
I think I missed breakfast and dinner yesterday.
Oh my gosh. You need to eat. We have Level 3
training today. Oh, gods. Are you kidding me?
I still have to do that? I think you should stay
at Level 1 if I'm being totally honest. It's
up to you, Lucia. It's up to you, Lucia, but
I think all of us are Level 3, right? Oh, well,
that's because you're... Never mind. If you're
going to push yourself, maybe push yourself to
level two, not three first. But you have trouble
with level one. I think you might need to work
up to it a bit longer. No, no, no. I finished
level one. I'm good. Hey, we're going to go back
to this. Cole, you were saying something earlier,
then you cut yourself off. Go ahead. I was saying
level three, Lucia, I think you could do it if
you put your mind to it, and you can always drop
back down if it's too much. Plus, if you don't
want me to die, I can't technically die during
it, right? I'm kind of, like, immune. Yeah. You
can't die during that. Okay, but anyways. I think
right now we need to know. Lucia, you cannot
be alone with Aurier. Or really, probably ever.
Like, I think we always need to be with her.
Agreed. Because there's, what, something happening
within two days? How do I go to the bathhouse?
I think you can do that. How do I go to the bathroom?
I think you can do that. I can go with you for
that. Oh gosh, guys. This is feeling more like
babysitting than a covert operation. I don't
think we mean like you're never alone. I think
it's just more like somebody's in the house with
you or something. You know what I mean? You don't
sleep alone. No one kidnaps you in your sleep.
You don't go off the orier alone. And we followed
you right to the church and we still lost you.
Like, I think they teleported you somewhere.
I found signs of a teleportation circle. Okay,
okay, okay, okay. Staying with one of you guys
at all times. Yeah, we have like a slumber party
every night kind of thing. Yeah, you can stay
here if you want. I mean, your room is really
nice. It's like the size of, it's bigger than
my house. Yeah, and going up and down the stairs
would be like, you know, part of the physical
training too. That would be helpful. Also, since
we know we lack... Since we know that... I think
we should do frequent check -ins, so that way
we know if somebody did kind of lose their memories,
we're always kind of... Somebody else will be
able to fill them back in. Do you think that
you guys will get targeted at all? Because you're
in my memories now? Because they'll see it? I
mean, that's kind of what I was saying. We tell
enough people about this. How... How much can
they do if there's... We can't. I get it. I get
it, but, like, we can't... It is way too dangerous
to talk to any... I mean, even this number of
people knowing, I think, is scary already. Quincy
goes, they have covered up much more for way
less. Alright, so we only talk about this in
private. Yes. Oh, maybe we can have, like, a
keyword. That way, if we want to, like, if we
want to talk about it, we can, like, be like,
hey, let's, um, you know, I really feel like
melons today. And then we nod, and then we go
off somewhere private, and then we can talk.
It doesn't have to be melons. I'm just, you know.
Okay, so melons is the phrase. It doesn't have
to be melons, but it could do melons. I, yeah,
let's have some melon, or want some melon? Oh,
melon sounds so good right now. Let's go, guys.
Maybe we could switch up the fruit based on the
severity, right? Like code strawberry? Yeah,
code strawberry is like the worst. Code blueberry
is like, we're okay. And I think they're all
starting to walk for breakfast. Yeah, let's leave.
Oh, and as people are heading out... um i think
she's trying to remember like shoot wait what
did i do with the shard and then she remembers
she kicked it under the bed and she goes to grab
it real quick because she doesn't want to leave
it like under her bed you go to grab it yeah
back to the thing uh timmy yes did i feel like
there was anything no secret in her room okay
that was enough specifically okay just in case
she didn't even know yeah yeah i would have i
would have definitely dm'd you it would be really
exciting but no Because I need to like pry up
some floorboards or something. And they hid like
a scrying orb or something under there or something.
Because we already know they try to do that with
Lucia's room with the mold. That's right. The
mold. Except you're the only one who knows that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. I don't know it. Yeah,
no, I know it. Before you walk around, let me
make something. I'll make something clear first.
I know everyone, to most everyone here, I'm not
a... the most confident factor, but I swear to
you that I will act with utmost integrity when
it comes to all of this. My sword and my shield
are yours. Mine are yours too, except I don't
have a sword and shield, but I'm right with you.
Right. Right. He smiles. Um, and, uh, he just
goes, I'm not exactly sure the depths of conspiracy
and what exactly I've been, what I've brought
myself into, but just know that I will do what
I can to see justice and good be done and prevail
in the situation, no matter what. Oh, trust me.
I'm gonna make sure everyone and her eyes unsubconsciously
flick to Cole's. Makes it out of here okay. Cole
is looking at you. It's like eye contact. Lucia?
Please rely on me to help do the same. Guide
me however you fit. You see fit. Aye aye. Oh
gods, I didn't even get to update you on what
we did last night. What did you do last night?
Is this a code melon? Cold melon? We'll talk
about melons later. Perhaps this can be a night
meeting? Yeah, sounds good. I mean, yeah. Before
we do have class. Yeah. Alright. Don't worry
about it. Not yet. It's fine. Okay, I am worried
about it, but I'm gonna wait till tonight for
you to tell me. Quincy goes, Lucy, what'd you
do with that thing, by the way? Hmm? That thing.
Oh, um... Weird thing you picked up. Oh, I have
it. Um... What thing? Uh... I tried to look into
it last night. Like, tried to... I just kind
of... It's... I mean, that's kind of a lot, too.
It's kind of creepy. Um... Want me to hold on
to it? Is it a weapon? No, it's... I think I'm
fine. I'll keep it. I'll keep it for now. It's
just like... It's this little shard thing she
tells Lucia. Oh. Do you need to cast a tech magic
on her or something? Oh, I mean, we could do
that. The bell rings. Alright, let's go. Later
night, maybe. No breakfast again. It's okay.
And you see both Quincy and Reinwald reach into
something. They're both, like, almost on cue
at the same time. Reinwald just goes, here, I
do still have some rations, if that'll suffice.
And Quincy just goes, I have some berries. They
were saying that at the same time. They're both
the group dad. It's like looking into a mirror
with these two. I think I'll be good till lunch.
Just have a really big lunch. Yeah. Alright.
Go, go, go, go, go! We have to pretend like nothing's
wrong! Correct. Quincy just goes, perhaps we
should all start screaming nothing's wrong. I'm
joking. Nothing is wrong! I'm joking. I'm just
going to link arm with Lucia and start walking.
As you all walk out of the dormitory and you're
all walking up towards class, you guys see Robin
Atlee. He has his hands up and he just goes,
Damn. I can go for a melon right now. He's walking
to class. Where did he come from? Was he listening?
Did I hear anyone? No, definitely. You know a
thousand percent this is just Robin by himself.
He said that. He just said that out loud. He
isn't even hanging out with anyone. He just said
that. He's just Robin. He's walking to class.
While we're on the way to class, I'm still arm
linked with Lucia as we're walking. Just so we're
a little ways away from the group. Lucia, question.
Yeah. There was a lot going on. Yeah. Have you
seen anything to do with us? Even if I did, it
doesn't matter because it's not going to happen.
Well, you know, it'd be nice to know is all.
You know what I mean? Just in case. It's not
gonna happen, Cole. So there's no need to know.
I promise. You sure? I'm sure. Okay. Well, if
you're sure. Just, uh, you know, if you do say
anything about me, let me know. I just, you know,
I'm curious. That's all. I've seen a lot of things.
I mean, sometimes in my dreams, I see things
that don't even make sense. Like what? There's
this guy wrapped all in bandages and... It doesn't
mean it's gonna happen. What kind of guy in bandages?
I don't know. He seemed really scary. Kind of
upset. Maybe he was burned underneath them? There's
a lot of fire. Again. Could you kind of make
out his build or anything like that? Uh... Tall?
Not like a halfling or a gnome? Like a half -orc
kind of guy? Uh... I think that's too big. More
like person -sized human. Probably. I don't know.
He was a rapt. Hmm. Remember anything else about
him? He said he was coming to get me. Haha. Like
he was talking to you? Uh... Kind of? I don't
know if he was talking to me or at me or... Yet
again, sometimes dreams are just dreams and sometimes
visions are visions and it's really hard to tell
one from the other. Zilak. Scary, I guess. Yeah.
Alright, well, if I see anyone like that, or
if you see anyone like that, you know, we'll
make sure he doesn't get you. We're just gonna
run the other way. I'm just gonna run the other
way. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But everyone's gonna be
okay. Mm -hmm. I mean, am I right? This is melon
-having weather, right, guys? Does everyone know?
She clings to Cole's arm. It's kind of more kind
of more green beans. Green beans are pretty good.
What about grapes? I like grapes. It's just like
the nice cozy weather, your soup and green beans
when you get home, you know? But like a cold
soup. A cold soup? Yeah, have you ever had cold
soup? No. There's some good cold soups. Why is
soup cold? Is that like a soup that you leave
without too long? No, no, no, not like room temperature,
like cold. I'm kidding, I know what cold soup
is. Are we sitting in class now as we're all
- No, no, you're waiting outside. You're waiting
outside. I've had cold soup, but it wasn't very
good. Anyways, B, you're going down today. B?
V. It's the first letter of my name. Yeah, exactly.
I know that. B is the first? Who's B? Rob. That's
me. B. That's the guy who's going to turn us
to Valora. Kick your ass, scrawny. Your name
starts with an R. Yeah, but he has a B in the
middle. He has a B in the middle. Rob. B. Mm
-hmm. Mm -hmm. It's B, though, not B. It's not
Robine. It's Robine. I'm Robin, but everyone
calls me Robbie. When did we call you Robbie?
Well, my friends call me Robbie. So are we calling
you Robbie? I mean, you can call me Robin or
Robbie, but I'm saying friends call me Robbie.
Robbie it is. But she calls me B because we have
kind of like an extra layer of friendship going
on. Like a rivalry kind of thing. Oh yeah, a
rivalry. But she's not going to win. Or, like,
equal on the battlefield kind of thing. So if
you call him Robin, that means you're not friends.
Well, okay, hold on. Friends do call me Robin,
too, is the thing. Oh. You know the gif of the
woman with math in the air? Yeah. With Robin's
name. Lucy discovers nicknames. The door opens
to the classroom. And the first thing you see
is Lucian. Lucian Florian Finch. Walk out. The
first time you've seen them since Grantham. The
professor has excused himself from class. He
walks out with two chairs. And he just goes,
This sounds like... Everybody's here today. Hello.
Good morning, everyone. Oh, good morning. Good
morning. Anybody wants to help me with these
chairs and put it in a nice, perfect circle outside?
I can help the chairs. We're having a little
outside activity for everyone today. I love activities!
As she goes to get the chairs. There it is. I'll
help. It's good to hear you again, Lucia. Hello!
Hello! Good morning! How is Professor Grantham
doing? He's still... He's doing better. He's
doing much better. He's allowing me to resume
my duties as assistant professor for Professor
Onsgar in the meantime. Oh, good. By the way,
Professor Onsgar, between you and me, because...
I heard he was up all night last night. Isn't
he? the married guy as she puts the chair up
yeah yeah he's married oh that's i see yes i
could tell he's deeply married anyways deeply
married as opposed to surface level married she's
still going up and putting the chairs around
i shouldn't he goes yes to me is marcellus here
yet marcellus is here yes Okay, I'm going to
move more chairs than he does, but I don't say
anything about it. I'm just going to get more
than he does. He sees you grab a chair. I'm grabbing
multiple chairs at once. He just goes, oh, it's
fine. It's fine. You don't have to do it. I can
do all of this, really. No, I've got it. No,
no, no. It seems like you need help. No, I've
got it. It seems like you deeply need assistance.
So, therefore, I am going to grab two chairs.
Do you think I need assistance? By the way, good
morning. Good morning, everyone. Good morning.
Yes, Valora, I am giving you my assistance. Marcellus,
you've done too much. You should take a break.
You should take a break, Marcellus. Oh, perhaps
you should take a break. I'll lead her. Eileen,
over to Lucia. Are you sure they're not kissing?
I thought, listen, she's Lissandra, but I thought
there's just something there. And Lucia's intent
on making this circle perfect. She's trying to
stack more chairs than Marcellus has, but she's
not as strong as him and it's getting taller.
Oh, here, let me help you with that. He grabs
it from the bottom. No, she hits him. Stop. He
ignores it. I've got it. No, she goes to push
him. Make an athletics check. I think the Acorn
League has already started. I don't think they're
even up against each other in the Acorn League
is the thing. We're not against each other at
all? He's in the singles, yeah. Nine. Let's see.
Oh my god, it's a mid -off. It's a mid -off.
But with advantage, he has a one. Nat one. Okay,
okay. The first number is a ten. The first number
is a ten. Okay, I know, I know. He just goes...
He just goes... Okay, no, you first. He just
goes, back off, squirt. As he completely slopes
you off and grabs the chairs and begins putting
them down. He needs to make a charisma saving
throw. Lucia? You were focused on a perfect circle.
Because of their competition, it is definitely
not a perfect circle. It is jagged. Marcellus,
charisma save. With a 9 and a 10, have the rest
of the students already finished the rest of
the circle and we're just waiting on the two
of them to finish whatever this is? They have
muscle through way. Everyone's waiting for them
to put down the chairs. Christmas save! I did!
Oh, sorry, I didn't see it. I think that's a
failure. Because I think my DC's... Sorry, I
didn't see it. I only saw the athletics. I'm
pretty sure that's a failure. I think my DC's
15. And... Isn't it? One second, one second.
Sorry, I should have this in an easier spot,
but I always forget. Yeah, plus proficiency,
plus 5. Alright, he's gonna use two cushion points
to re -roll. The fuck? He's not letting the...
He has a tournament later. He succeeds. 20, not
natural. Okay, he feels him about to shift through
space as he stole her chairs. And then he resists
it. And he just goes, oh, one of your usual tricks,
I see. She starts just taking off chairs off
his stack and putting them down quickly. As you
put one chair down, he puts his hand on top of
it and just goes, that counts for me. No, it
doesn't. I did it. I'm the one who put it down.
I even stacked them. I stacked them and I put
it down. We're waiting on you. Are you guys done
yet? You look over, you see the whole class is
just standing. Well, I would be done. I would
have been done by now. I would have been done
if someone didn't slow me down. You literally
took the chairs from me. Can we just be done?
Can we be done? Yes, Valora. Can we be done?
What do you mean, yes, Valora? This is your fault.
This is your fault. This is your fault. She puts
down a chair and points at you. Can I just go
fix the rest of the chairs while the two of them
bicker? As you go pick up the chair, Marcellus
looks at you and goes, Marcellus looks at you
and goes, Those are the ones that are kind of
for me, by the way. They didn't. You literally
just put your hand on top of them. I did it.
I think Lucia and I have done more chairs than
you guys, by the way. They've ruined everything
I touch, she says, as the circle has been destroyed.
Okay, but who? And then you, walking out of the
classroom, you see Sir Ansgar, who just goes,
can we please do? A much more complete job of
setting up the chairs, please. I tried, sir.
Thank you. Valora keeps putting them down, but...
Marcella's also... He's side -eyeing him. Marcella's
also, and as soon as you side -eye him, you see
him picking it up. He goes faster. I'm gonna
go faster, though. Lucia leans over to Cole and
goes, You just gotta let them do whatever they're
doing. Quincey in the background goes, There's
like two dogs playing. Just let them tire themselves
out. Two dogs? I don't know about that. Yeah,
two toddlers. Sorry. I don't even know this because
I'm too focused on Marcellus. Marcellus is too
focused on you. The two of you end up putting
the chairs up. And as the two of you are done,
Tarantula just goes, All right. Everyone, please
take a seat. Today we're going to be learning
about equipment maintenance. Avonlea, Edivane,
you may take your seats. She sits down. As the
two of you walk away at a range, Marcellus goes,
I put more. And then walks away from me. Oh my
god. Everyone saw that that wasn't true, but...
Atlee. Robin Atlee. Who put down more? Stop.
Marcellus, it's time for class. Marcellus goes,
I'll ask you later then, Atlee. okay um in class
this hat i will say um before we before we go
ahead and conclude um lucy as you take a seat
um and uh you know people begin to fall into
stuff around you you see making her way, uh,
up to you. Uh, just kind of, like, pointing at
a seat next to you. Tamsin. She goes, hey, um,
sorry, can I take, can I take this one? Is this
one taken? Well, cause she was during the Valora,
um, Marcellus debacle. She'd been reading from
her, like, she'd been trying to read from a book,
so she, so Tamsin catches her, the cat, oh, yeah,
come on, Tamsin, come here. If Valora notices,
I think she's going to spring up and go like,
oh, actually, if it's okay, I was going to. Oh,
okay. We'll just switch. I take yours then? Yeah.
Okay. Do I notice that? Do I notice that that's
weird? She doesn't want Tamsin right next to
Lucia. She's in the brain mind of trying to protect
Lucia right now. And Tamsin is a no -go for her
right now. You could think that's weird. Definitely.
As Valora sits down, Lucia puts her book up a
little so Zona can read her mouth, and she says,
everything okay, Valora? Yeah. I will say to
you, Lucia, Tamsin does feel... You get a natural
feel of people. Tamsin has always been a sort
of outlier, but right now she's... From your
natural sixth sense, Tamsin feels in line with
everyone at the moment. Laura, do you want to
tell me about this later? Tell you about what?
You seem kind of uncomfortable around Tamsin.
I mean, you know why? Do I? Do I remember why?
Pomeranian? Do I remember that? You told her
about it. Oh, yeah, but that's not something
to be scared of. From what I saw, Lucia, it definitely
is all the worm stuff. She's saying it behind
the book. I mean, yeah. The worm stuff is a lot,
but she's just a girl like us. I don't... For
the record, I'm sat next to Lucia on the other
side, and I'm listening to the entire thing.
Yes, correct, correct. You feel a tap on your
shoulder? Mm -hmm. And you see Tamsin. Oh, hi,
Tamsin. Hi, sorry. I don't know why, but my memory's
been a little spotty the last few days. Do you
have any written notes for... Like class? Yeah,
yeah. Uh... Sorry, I shouldn't have asked. houses
from the actual house. They've been here longer.
But I think these last few days will just be
fine. Do I sense that she is lying through her
teeth? Is there something else going on? Why
does she want my notes? What does this weirdo
want with my notes? What does she want with my
handwriting? Tamsin's just a girl. Inside...
This is a straight thing for me. 16. So this
is the thing, Cole. Oh, immaculate. Well, his
real notes are immaculate. Cole, here's the thing.
He doesn't write, actually, a lot of notes in
class. It freaks you out more that this is her
being honest. Cole, generally, I don't think
writes many notes. I think he spends more time
helping Lucia write her notes in class. And I
think, like, A lot of the stuff is stuff that
Cole already knows very well already. So... I
don't really have much on me, but I could tell
you about it. I could kind of go over the lessons
if you want. Oh, no, it's fine. I could just
try to find somebody. Thank you, though. You
all right? Oh, yeah. I just get a little... It
just gets a little difficult for me to pay attention
sometimes. You got like brain worms or something,
right? Like brain worms or something? I get this
sometimes. Is that what they call it where you're
from? Yeah. It's like, you know, when you just
get your thoughts are kind of scrambled a little
bit. That's really fun, actually. But the class
is about to start. And you see Tula just goes,
shoo -hoo. Over here. Yeah, I can make a call.
Yeah, Tula's got real good notes. Oh, thank you,
thank you, thank you. Um... And... Corwell was...
The last time she, like... You made any sort
of contact with her, your brain went fried. That
time, nothing happened. Hmm. As Tamsin takes
a seat next to Tula, you see that both of them
are already... already gabbered it up um uh it's
like oh hello there you are my name is damson
like tula such as it just goes i don't want to
remember like the way you talk it's cute like
it's really like you've been helping me um and
you start talking okay you also feel because
you you you've you've seen just how disturbing
it's been It just feels normal. Hmm. Okay. Unfortunately,
I don't think I've gotten a short rest since
I used that feature, so I can't try it again
right now. Okay. I don't know. I've got my attention
on her. But after that, your attention has to
shift because people are headed to Whetstones
and you are ready to take a class on maintaining
equipment. Oh, I've never done this before. It's
not too hard. The day goes by. Your physical
exercise, your physical training has you with
rodent sharp. Does Lucia want to try level three?
Cole suggested she do it, so. So we're going
to do this quick. Lucia, you think, oh, this
is nice and easy, and he's such a nice guy. As
you all get into your physical training gear.
And you are with... You're kind of making your
way there. All of the really fit people that
you know are definitely in this part of the class.
And you see there's a sense of dread from some
individuals for what's about to come. Fair warning,
this can get a little tense, but I don't think
it's too bad. No, it's all about mindset, right?
It's thinking positive. Ronan goes... For all
of you who think that we're going to have just
a repeat of last week, there is no earthly way
that that is a sustainable way to train people.
That was just a way to just kind of like slough
off the chaff, to try to get people situated
with their levels. And now I know exactly what
everyone's capable of. Valora whispers to whoever
she's by, she's like, I don't believe him. And
Thrude is like, yeah, something's going to happen.
He's going to snap or something. Stretching while
he talks. Lucia goes, oh, this is great. Perfect.
Make sure you do your stretches. And Rodan goes,
all right, everyone. For this one, we're going
to have a partner. Everyone, please pick a partner.
Shall we? Let's do it. We're in the Acorn League.
Might as well start. Thrut looks at you, Valora,
just goes, you and me? Sounds good. Alright,
let's do it. So, Rodan goes, I heard everyone.
Everyone chose a partner? Alright, look into
the eyes of your partner. And stand with the
fact that after today, you are never going to
see them again. I'm just kidding. What? We're
going to do some strength training with a partner.
We're going to go ahead and head over here. We're
going to practice. We're going to do some drills,
and then we're going to stand next to a pit,
and one of you is going to try to shove the other
into it. Well, I know how this is going to go,
she says. Yeah, yeah. I can... Listen, Valora,
I can, like... Like... I want to make this, like,
good for you. Well, you know, I gotta, you know,
I gotta try my best, and that's what I'm gonna
do. Yeah, you're gonna try your best. Like, it
sucks because, like, I can't, like, I can't lose,
you know? Like, I have to do it, you know? I
mean, it's highly improbable that you lose. Extremely.
Yeah, those are the words for it, yeah. And Marcellus
goes, I could do it. So he goes, yeah, never
say never. Excuse me, what? I could snap you
like a twig. He goes and nearly snaps Marcellus.
Yeah, you're pretty strong, Marcellus, but I
mean... Just points that through. Looks at him
skeptically. You want to say that again? No,
since I've made a mistake of some kind. As the
physical training goes, let's just do a quick
athletics check. Just to get this through really
fast. Cool. What I'm great at. Eleven. This is
going to go great for me. This is athletics.
Yes. Okay. A six. Expertise die on this. Twenty.
So, Lucia, Cole, you guys want to quickly play
out just a summary of your guys' little shoving
match? Yeah, Lucia's pissed. She's like, why
would you make a joke about not seeing someone?
Like, that's not funny. Things happen all the
time. Like, that's wrong. Let's start. And then,
boom! I think I have a, I think Cole has a 20,
right? I think... I don't think he's just gonna
immediately shove her into the pit. I think he
just lets Lucia push him into the pit. Like,
yeah. Cole hasn't said anything since he made
that comment. Would I notice that? Make, uh,
Cole, make a performance check. A performance
check? Yeah, Lucia, make an insight. Okay. Meanwhile,
on our side, Valora... Trying to push. Unless
she wanted to go first. I imagine she'd let me
go first. Yeah, she's definitely letting you
go first. It's almost embarrassing, because you're
just trying, and she's just standing there. Okay,
she tries to get a running start. No movement
whatsoever. Leans her whole body. Like just an
inch. I'd consider an inch like a success right
now. Like she steps back. She gets pushed. I'm
sorry. I'm so sorry. You shouldn't apologize
for being good. No, it's not me. It's my stupid
blood. I'm sure it's not just that. I mean, yeah,
I've trained, but like... Alright, I'm just gonna
go ahead and... One finger. So, you were saying,
Emma? You were looking at your own voice or something?
What's expertise? Because I have expertise in
this. We do... It's a D4 or you get a plus...
Or it's a flat plus two. That's what we do. Then
I... 18 beats 17. Ooh. Oh. Just barely. I think
Kolek doesn't, like, just, like, immediately
just, like, fall into the pit, but, like, will
definitely pretend to, uh... to, like, be shoving
back against her, but he's not putting... He's
just trying to, like... Make it... He's letting
her win, but he's not making it obvious. So I
know he's letting me win. Do I know that he hasn't...
Do I notice, though, that he hasn't said anything
this whole time? Um, this trick is just for,
like, the performance of, like, him letting you
win. Oh, okay, so I knew that... Okay, so I knew
that he let me win. Yeah, that's... And then
she goes, Cole! Don't do that! She says... as
he's in the pit. Yeah. How far deep is the pit?
Oh, it's not much. There's no damage. Oh, okay.
Alright. Cole could land on his feet. I don't
think he does. Cole! I'm not gonna learn if you
treat me with kitty gloves. Sorry about that.
Just, you know, I didn't get a lot of sleep last
night, you know. No, let's do it again, and do
it fair. Come on. I hop back up. No, seriously,
come on. I got a train. Alright, well, she's
calling me on it, so... If she actually wins
this time, she won't believe it. She'll be like,
stop lying to me! 18. Outclassed. A three. A
three. Okay. I don't even push her. I just pick
her up. I go low, up onto the shoulder, turn,
and just kind of gently plop her out. She sees
that as a tactic, and then she's like, maybe
I can copy that. She's like, throw the tray again.
All right, come on. I'm ready. Okay, and she
runs and tries to pick her up. Athletics. Okay.
Eleven. She doesn't move. It's like, no, I don't
want this to be discouraging. That was good.
That was good. That was better. I don't know
about that. No, it was. I think Cole looks over
at what's happening over there and just watches
it. Okay, maybe if you try closing your eyes
and standing on one foot. I mean, sure. I mean,
if that helps you. I don't know how applicable
that's going to be when people are fighting you.
No, no, no, it's not. I'm just kind of curious
if I could. I mean, I'm more curious about how
strong you are, you know? Okay. I have a question.
While Cole is watching those two, can Lucia snake
her hand from the pit and go sneak attack? and
try to grab Cole by his ankles. I have a passive
21 perception. And she yelled sneak attack. So
the thing is, I don't think we roll stealth.
I just think it's a matter of you let her do
it. No, I just... I lift my foot up and then
I gently step on her hand. Very gently, not to
hurt her. And I don't look down, I just like...
Foot up. Step down. Cole, why aren't you talking?
Hmm? Sorry. Like I said, just tired. I'll turn
and I'll help her up. She stands up, dusts herself
off. It's okay to be sad. I'm not sad. I'm fine.
Oh yeah, with a big smile on your face. You're
super fine. I just think you need to, come on,
step up your game. Let's go. My eyes are closed
now. No. Okay. Right now you're doing, I need
you to do better than Valora over there. She's
really strong, guys. That shouldn't be Arcana.
That should be Athletics. Picks you up with one
hand. Better easily. This is really easy for
you. I'm like, you need like a better partner.
I'm not the one for you here. I'm sorry. I'm
really sorry. You know, I mean, who's going to
push you? We got to find someone who can push
you. Jeez. And Robin goes, all right. This is
a job for me. You need to be a six. You need
to be a six. Lucio goes, okay, okay, hold on.
No one said anything about me. And she's going
to quickly throw a sacred flame. Okay, I'm going
to make a next save then. 17. I just tilt my
head. Come on, Cole. This should go without saying,
but this is a physical activity and therefore
magic should be thrown at your opponent. Well,
sir. And now she's revved up. Some of us can't
be super strong. Some of us need to find different
ways, and then she's gonna try to - Which is
what training is for? Which is what training
is for? She's gonna fling a guiding bolt at Kulnest.
And roll it at Krolnest. Let's see if we have
a... Tell them we have the other way. Hold on,
hold on, what was guiding bolt? Oh, did 16 miss?
Yeah. As you throw the guiding bow, Koala dodges.
Valora, as you're dealing with Rude, is like,
we need to find somebody who's strong. And Robin
just goes, well, I just took out everybody who
was competing with me, so therefore I should...
As the guiding bow strikes him. Oh, no. Lucia,
you got Robin. No. Sorry, Robin. I'm trying to
get Cole. Well, okay, hold on. I'm not done yet.
And she very much fire emblem, you know, her
call out. She's still going. She's not even checking
on me. And she's like, all right, Cole, get ready.
I push her. Good thing Marcellus and I didn't
team up because we both know how that would go.
Yes, I was just seeking you out. Was it because
you know that I would defeat you handily? This
here was a nat 1 athletics. It was only a 5 -2.
Cole does not put much energy. He's just like,
she's like, okay, this time I... On her back,
she goes... And she's struggling to get back
up and go again. I don't think it'd be as handedly
as you think, Marcellus. I mean, yeah, you're
pretty strong. I mean, I'm kind of more, like,
fast, but that might make it hard for you to
get me, too. Oh, please. You're... I think you
are very easily raspable. Okay. Very graspable.
Well, I don't know about that. I don't know.
What the heck does that even mean? As you see,
Lucia hasn't climbed. Lucia's trying to climb
on Cole's back to see if she can drag him down
backwards. Is anyone gonna fucking help me? I've
got gaming balls right to my fucking chest. Thrut
goes, here, I can help. Picks him up with one
hand. He just goes, whoa! So he goes, all right
then, shall we? If you insist. I mean, if you're
going to grasp me like that. Yes, I'm going to
grasp you. I'm going to grapple you. That's exactly
our competition. She's laughing. She's trying
not to. I'm going to put my hands on you. This
is the competition. Okay, okay. Jeez. Oh, jeez.
To you, too. All right, let's do this, then.
All right. Take your best shot. I will. He goes.
I rolled a 15. That's the best I've done. 23.
Darn it. I mean, I should have seen that, but
he is plus 5. So, you see, as the two of you
push, you collide against his... He has a very
hard... He is a very solid person. And before
you know it, he, with a few measured shoves,
puts you in the hole. Okay, okay. I'll be graceful
and hold out a hand to you. She just gets up
and goes, And then goes to shove him in. Making
athletics. Revenge. Okay. Check this out. Another
15. I keep rolling doubles of my athletics. He
rolled a nat 1! As you just come in with a surprise,
he goes, you know, there was some alternatives
to your technique that you could have done. You
could have... Oh! What alternatives? Was I any
better? You know? Alright, alright. Point for
you. At least I'm gracious. At least I'm gracious
enough to admit defeat. Oh, I hold up my hand.
Here. He gets up. He doesn't take your hand.
I think Lucia is piggybacked on Cole. She goes,
Don't worry, Cole. I'm not giving up yet. Ronan's
watching with a whistle, ready? And Koala's just,
like, standing there, like, the grip is not right,
so she's not really choking him. Koala, what's
going to be your response? She's kind of tired
herself out. Yeah, can I... I'm gonna leap 15
feet in the air and just, like, fall, like, jump
down the pit with her, but, like, do, like, a
flip so we, like, fall down headfirst kind of
thing. Oh, screaming. So, Lucia, you are all
of a sudden way off the ground. Screaming, screaming.
I use my light on my feet thing to just shoot
into the air. Screaming. Um, as you see, a screaming
meteor falls from 15 feet in the air into the
pit. Ew. Totally. While we're falling, can I
break from her? Like, pull her off me? Yes. Or,
like, can I flip her, like, around into my arms?
Aw. Because of the maneuver, I'm going to say
you have advantage on your athletics. I assume,
Lucia, you are still trying to do the approximation.
She's just trying to hold on. She's fucking terrified.
She's in the air. It's only a seven. Cole's not
putting a lot of effort into this. This is like
bare effort. And Lucia, go ahead and make a...
Contending athletics. Athletics? Okay. Okay.
So you're staying on with your life. I think
as he jumps, she goes, I'm not giving up on you,
Cole! Okay. Well, I was going to not land prone
because I can just do that. But I think if she's
not letting go. I'll just fall to the ground.
We'll just take the fall damage. No! Okay, it's
gonna be 2d6. The both of you take five points
of falling damage. I didn't let go. Jeez, are
you okay? Are the two of you alright? That seems
like quite a fall. I've fallen from farther.
It's all good. I did it. I didn't let go. Mm
-hmm. I just kind of like pat your arm that's
like here. You are much like your leader in the
fact that you just can't let go. Yes. What does
that mean? Witness valor! Wait, what do you mean
by that? Please not again. Please, two of you,
please, please. My head is ringing. Let what
go? Let's finish our little competition, shall
we? I mean, okay, but I don't think things are
going to go much better for you than last time.
For me? No, last time you had a little thing
that we call a cheap shot. I know, you promised
grasping. You've hardly done it. Well, I promise
in the next - She's teasing him, but he doesn't
even realize it. I promise in the very next one
there will be a lot of grasping. What are you
guys talking about? Stop! It's very oddly romantic!
I don't know. What? Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa. I'm just kidding. Oh my gosh. He's
right in the face. That's what it sounded like,
though, Marcel. That's what it sounds like. That's
not what I meant. No, no, no, no, no, no. I know,
I know, I know. That's not what you meant, but
that's what it sounds like. Grasping as in grappling,
as in just... Yeah, grasping is grasping all
over each other. That's weird, Marcellus. That's
not what I meant. Oh, no. And then she shoves
him. Athletic with advantage. Advantage. 14.
Oh, darn it. He got 21. Twice. As you shove him,
even when he retaliates, he's like, he's like,
no, not there. And then he just kind of hip tosses
you and throws you into the pit. Oh, darn it.
Okay. Like that. That's what I meant. He has
some grasping. I'm going to find another pod.
Mom, let's see it. Let's keep going. Okay. Well,
here's the thing, Cole. And she's fully picked
up. Covered in dirt. Don't be disheartened. Okay?
Mm -hmm. I'm going to be a really good partner
for you. All right, everyone. We're switching
partners. Crap! Language. Shoot! There you go.
All right. You're with... You're with her. You're
with her. Cole points you to Valora and Lucia
points you to Throod. I thought he was going
to do a spawner by skill level at this point
after watching us, but no. He's just like more
suffering. All right. Is it still pit pushing
or is it something else? It's still pit pushing.
God damn it. All right, Cole. All right. Let
us go. And this could be in the background. As
we could just... I don't know, though. I want
to see who wins between us. Okay. He wins. 14
versus 22. Yeah. I think you, like, go at me,
and I do, like, a dip and, like, spin kick to
sweep the leg kind of thing. And then I elbow
shoulder you right off. You're pretty strong.
Oh, my gosh. Ronomo's a whistle like that. It
just goes two points to Coel. Wait, there's points
now? Yes. There's always been points. There was
two points because of how impressive that was.
Oh. In the background, you see Lucia is trying
to cartwheel into Thru to somehow push her into
the pit. Through just through just like the whole
time. It's just like Hey, listen, I don't want
you to feel bad about any of that Okay, hold
on hold on one more time one more time she's
gonna get a running start, okay Like I'm imagining
Lucia like jumping into the air to try and like
do like a front kick but Throod does not move
so she just launches herself backwards off the
platform. That's what happens. And you just see
constant like cartwheeling slash weird like barrel
rolling she's doing everything. Meanwhile Throod
the whole time is like oh yeah you know it's
really nice to meet you um I know you're putting
in a lot of effort. I can feel I can really feel
it. Um, sorry if my brother did anything. Nah,
is Todd doing okay? I sent him a letter! And
she, like, flings over again. Um, like, if you
need anything, like, anything at all, you know?
Just for, like, me as a person. You know? Yeah,
no, for real, like, I think you're really cool.
I sent your brother a letter to let him know
that we're cool. And she's trying to go in again.
As you come in that time, with just, like, the
palms stretched out right on your midsection,
she just lifts you up, like, very easily. And
just puts you on her shoulder. Feet kicking in
the air. Just to give you an idea of what I can
do. That's super impressive. And she tries to
go in for... Lucia is awful, but she's not going
to stop trying. Tries to go in for a back headlock.
She just goes, okay, here you go. And she just
gently puts you down. What do you think, Valor?
Well, I think I can get you. I mean, you're pretty
good. No, I mean about Lucia. see ya. Oh. Um,
you're right. Just, like, lock hands with me
so we can talk while we do this. Okay, okay,
okay. We just pretend we're pushing. Anyways.
Um, yeah. She... I mean, yeah, her in third.
That's not gonna happen. Yeah. But, you know,
she's trying really hard. Yeah, she's trying.
She might be sending a melody. I don't know about
that, but... I mean, melody can't be that strong,
right? She's got, like, a set of armor. I don't
know if Lucia could move if she put armor on,
I'm being honest. Hmm. I'm making athletic checks,
Lucia. Oh my god. Lucia, nat 20. Nat 20. Eventually.
Eventually. Can fate be changed? Can fate be
changed? No. No. Eight. Eight. At this point,
she's just like... She's just hanging. 17. With
a 4 on the die. Okay. This is pissing me off.
I'm pissed off about the situation. Let me teach
you. Double leg take me down. Do a double leg.
Put your arms around my legs and then just...
Why did I piss you off? I didn't mean to piss
you off. No, you didn't piss me off. You didn't
piss me off. I hate that. I hate that I'm just
standing here. My blood's just getting me by.
Just... I'm doing no work and yet I'm standing
above people. Ready? Watch this. Think of a number.
Think of a number. Okay. Now tell me the number.
Nine. Reverse this time. Tell me the number from
one to ten. Okay. It's nine. That's cool. Yeah.
Yeah. Just because I'm that strong, I'm in your
head. Pushes you. I look at Valora in the face.
She's going to be in for a world disappointment.
I get the feeling. Do you think she did it again?
Just now? With like the numbers thing? I can't
even tell. Partner switch! Says, Flora, you're
Lucia Kowal, you're with, um, let's see... You're
a Throod. A little circle here. Well, howdy,
Throod. I don't know if we really met. What was
that? I don't know if we met, officially, so,
uh, offhand. Yeah, um, takes her hand. You see
she's using, like, two fingers to, like... Jellygrass,
she's being so gentle. Hey, nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you, too. Um... Sorry about that.
I'm just gonna point over my shoulder at Lucien.
No, no, no, no, no, no. She was doing her best,
and that's really all I can ask for when people
like her. Lucia, if you did that thing again
with Rude, I think you should have, like, picked,
like, a way higher number. Because, like, 1 to
10, it's still, like, only, like, a 1 in 10 chance.
You know, it'd be way more impressive if it was
higher. Do you guys know Capoeira? Yes! Lucia
is doing that in front of Valora. And Robin goes,
hey, I know that! Robin, you're distracting me!
Anyway, give me Valora. You're doing it wrong.
Your stance is really wrong. You're not sliding
with your feet. Robin! Okay, are you pushing
me first or am I pushing you? Make your move.
It's your call. Okay. I roll a 14. Oh no. You
can beat me. We both have plus zero. That's true.
That's true. I think with Capoeira, it has to
be acrobat. Okay, no, no, no. This is 17 on the
die. Yeah! So what happened? So what does Valora
try to do? Valora's done a lot of 14s. Oh my
gosh. I just tried to push her and I'm like,
wait, why isn't this actually like... The power!
You're really focused. Oh my gosh. She grabs
you around your stomach. and suplexes. I cannot
be the weakest person here. Robin goes, that's
not friendship, that's a belly -to -belly suplex.
You're really focused, Lucia. Oh my gosh. I crave
blood. Well, she's locked in. Victory! She screams
at the sky. I thought I would beat Lucia. If
I'm being totally honest. She wipes dirt across
her face. She's going full like man versus wild.
Okay, wait, wait, wait. Again, again, again.
She's going to want to come back for level three
again. This is fun. This is probably the best
one for her. This is enrichment. She would not
have survived the last one. Out of everybody
here, Lucy, they need to PVP the most. And Drew
just goes, screw it. All right, hey, I'm just
going to stand here. I'm going to, like, just,
like, push me. Just, like, do something. That's
it? You're not going to push back? No. No, just
come on. Come on. Let's go. All right. I'm just
going to stand a certain way and just, you know,
it's going to be hard, but just I'm rooting for
you. I... As she stands there, I look over her.
I study her to see what would be the best way
to strike her, to try and knock her off balance.
Because I know she's too strong for me to do
anything. So this is a matter of trying to...
Her stance? She's strong, but she's not battle
knowledgeable. Her stance is off. She's not as
strong as it could be down there. Okay. Um, so
then, yes. All right. So then, yeah, I will,
I will, um, I like look her over, uh, uh, and
I, I, I just noticed like her, her feet position
are a little off and I, I go, all right. And
I will, I will go to, as I go to kind of shoulder
check her, I will slip my leg, my foot kind of
around her, her leg to try and, you know, give
me that little bit of extra, to try and topple
her. Advantage and add a plus five. Okay. Jesus.
So it's going to be this plus plus five. So that's
going to be a 21, 26 total. Hell yeah. Lucia,
Valoraz, you're just kind of like trying your
hand at each other. Lucia's just craving blood.
You watch as you watch as a cool come in and
just do like, come in, come and just like, and
you see, you see genuinely it tips, uh, it tips
through it off balance and she falls flat. I
think I like, as I, as I like hit her, I also
like do like a kind of hop in the air to like
do like a flip onto her shoulders to like give
it an extra, like to, to push her down, like
pull her down the rest of the way. And with that
move, as she's taken down, she goes, holy shit.
And you push her. And with just that, she rolls
off the pit. Cole, what the fuck? Oh, my gosh.
Wow. Her stance was off. Did no one notice her
stance was off? I had her stand on one leg, and
I couldn't push her. Well, I mean. Okay. Okay.
Okay. Okay. Damn, dude. She kind of, like, reaches
up to, like, grab you. She just kind of tugs
you towards her for a second. She just grabs
your hand and she shakes you. She just goes,
that was good. That was great. Well, when you
position your feet, you got to, you know, I'll
kind of position my feet how she should have
been standing. Oh, I was just standing. Yeah,
no, I mean, if you're going to try and, like,
brace, you got to. Okay, I see why they picked
you over in East Rune. They put me through some
pretty intensive drills. I just want everybody
to know that I legitimately did try to stand.
I didn't give that to him. He did that. It's
years of wrestling with my siblings. Yeah, I
have a lot of experience with that, too. Hey,
well, uh, this goes partner switch. Next victim.
Cracks knuckles. Come here, Robin. Like roundhouse
kick him or something. Okay, you and Robin make
athletic check. This will be the last one. Alright.
Is he still glowing? He's not still glowing.
He's not. It'd just be funny if he was. The thing
is, Robin is very good at this kind of stuff,
so he shouldn't suck complete ass. But because
you said that, he's gonna roll. Yeah, I... What's
it call it? I very much, like, I do it when he's
not ready. He goes... That's a 13. Alright, hey,
man. I'm just letting you know that I... This
is when you start. So he has a thing where he
can change his... athletics student acrobatics.
Okay. So as soon as... So as soon as you... I
will use saving face to add three to that. Okay.
That's a 16. He does have a plus two to it because
of expertise. Oh, got it. So you can save the
save face. Okay, got it. So possibly in the most
smoothest Robin has ever seen, as you come in,
he just kind of sidesteps, hand on the back,
and sweeps the lake from the back. Like, very
seamless. Cool. I will use my... Rather than
fall into the pit, I use feather on the wind.
Nope, not that. I use... Light on the feet. When
somebody would knock me prone, I can use my reaction,
and then I get to move five feet in my choice.
So if he goes to knock me off, I just flip back
to in position. Oh, Cornball, you got some tricks.
All right, come on. Get in that pit. Well, you
got to knock me into the pit first. Hey, he just
goes, oh, well. Hey, just letting you know, after
I'm done wiping the floor with Valora in the
first round, you and me, we have to make a promise
to meet in the final round. All right. To be
honest, I feel like I'm going to put in work
for two people. I don't know. VP seems a little
intense. I can't get a read on that guy at all.
Exactly. I think he's a wild card. He knocked
on my door this morning, and I opened it. He
was like, good morning. I can't wait for the
fight today. Yay. And then he walked away. He
didn't wait for me to talk to him or anything.
Yeah, that sounds about right. I'm going to kick
your ass now. All right. I wish I had some rope.
And he's going to do... He's coming in. Okay.
Ten. Five. I get to flip again. It's just a reaction,
so I just can't be knocked into the pit. So literally,
it's just... You find out, okay, Robin's actually...
He talks a lot of shit for that, but he backs
it up. He's actually really good. Yeah, like,
anytime he goes to push me off, I, like, grab
onto his arm and, like, swing around. Or, like,
there's, like, a little bit of a breeze that
allows me to just barely not fall down into the
pit. What the fuck? Get in the fucking pit! You
gotta do it. Like, I don't know what to tell
you. This time he's going to try to grapple.
Okay. 22. All right. I think he's got me then.
All right. This time... Wait, do I? Wait a second.
One second. I might have a thing with grappling
too. Let me double check real quick. No, I actually
probably don't. No, I don't. I'm good. This time,
finally, Robin grabs you, tumbles you in, and
lifts you up and just kind of, like, just kind
of, like, finally, like, freaking the end of
Star Wars Episode VI just throws you in with
complete triumph, like, completely triumphant.
I land on my feet down there, but I give him
a thumbs up. I win. Okay, screw it. Come on,
let's get you up. You did real good. I just jump
up. In the background, yet again, I'm not trying
to pull focus, but you see a chibi Lucia chomped
on someone's arm, just swinging from it. I was
like, I don't know how effective this is going
to be. You're not pushing me. You're just biting
me. Lucia beat me, Marcellus, and I beat you,
so she might get you. She's next. I call her
next. You know, if you think about it, Robin,
if you think about it, Robin, you got me into
the pit, and Throod didn't get me into the pit,
so you're kind of stronger than Throod if you
think about it. Yeah, I don't think I... I wouldn't
say that much, actually. I think maybe... I think
you should take on Throod. Yeah, come take me
on, Robin. Robin! B! B! B! Robin! B! B! Robbie!
B! Alright, fuck it. Alright, yeah. I'm gonna
take you down. Yeah. I love getting this man
into terrible situations and then walking away.
What if he wins? You know what? Cornball believes
in me. I believe in you! I'm gonna fuck this
girl up! I believe in both of you. Maybe you
shouldn't say it like that. Sounds a lot meaner.
You're going in the pit. Druid 17. Robin is sent
into another pit. Like, not in the one that's
around, but just sailing across. Lucia, there's
a shadow over you as you see Robin flies into
another. She's still chomped on Marcel's arm.
That's unsanitary. Lucia, this is unsanitary.
Please stop chomping me. Full -on unhinged tiny
animal. Contending athletics check. This has
sucked up so much of our attention. We are loving
this for some reason. Oh, for Lucia, it's a full
-on distraction from the horrors of her mind.
Oh, one over you. Marcellus rolled one over you,
too. Okay, into the pit you go, you beast. Oh,
Marcellus has, like, A bonus to all these checks,
too, because he's watched people do them already.
Yeah. Loser. I'm not done yet. Pulls a hand out
towards you. Takes the hand. Tries to pull him
in. Yeah. Athletics with advantage. You rode
one over him tells me that this was not the intention
of this exercise No, it's not I'm well people
have fun All right everyone stop Five laps around
school. Let's go Immediately. Immediate transition.
I'm way better at this. Not better than me. I'm
obviously better than you at this. Sud's going.
They start fighting. As soon as he said it, I
just immediately start running. Lucia is jogging
with a limp. Tula is ahead of everyone. I'm pushing
Marcellus to a really hard pace. Marcellus, at
some point, tries to take you down. Like, physically?
Yeah. We're running, Marcellus. Ronan says, Ronan
blows a whistle. There is nothing against pushing
your fellow classmate. What? You can just push
me? Do I lap Lucia? by the way yeah okay she's
talking with a limp you absolutely lap her yeah
after i like when i like lap her for the first
time i will i will slow down and just run alongside
of her um i will say at some point lucy is running
with a limp someone else through notices um as
you're about to like run alongside her through
just kind of like runs to the side lucy just
scoops her up no no i can do it myself um Kind
of kicking and screaming. You're running on a
lip. You shouldn't run on that. I'm going to
have to learn. I'm in level three. Just move
your arms. Move your arms so you're still getting
exercise. My size is attempting to throw Flora
into a pit. Okay, but he has to catch me. Well,
to be fair, I was trying to kind of pace him
by just running just ahead of him rather than
running as fast as I could. Can I make acrobatics?
Acrobatics, yes. 26. Ah, my favorite number.
Mm -hmm. She just moves. He doesn't fall on top
of you, he just completely whiffs it and sails.
And I was staying back to try to get you to run
faster. I'm trying to be nice to you. I would
be way ahead by now. I was also being kind to
you as well. Oh, were you? Just run ahead. She
just speeds to be right in front of him. No matter
what Pacey does, she goes right in front of him.
And eventually, Lucia, you're put down eventually,
but what you went through was hell. Everything
is how... We get to the end of the day, everyone's
really tired and breathing really hard. Run feels
good for me. I took a kind of leisurely one,
so... I'm tired from the pushing, though. I think
Cole's fine. This is just the beginning. Just
you wait. I'm not done yet. So how's level three?
I think I'm concussed. You did pretty good, Lucia.
Well, we have a fighting competition after this.
The sky is red. And it smells like popcorn. Someone
heal her. Throw those laying hands on you. Good
job, everyone. It's pretty good. Pretty good.
I think you're getting faster, Marcellus. Well,
as much as I hate to say it, you are much, much
faster than me, and I'm glad I have someone to
work up to. I think you'd both be faster if you
just ran and didn't argue all the time. We're
not arguing. We're just... I mean, I'm not arguing.
I'm not arguing either. We're not flirting. Well,
I mean, except for the, you know, the grasping.
The grasping was not, no, no, no, no, no. That
was not what I meant. Everyone, that's not what
I meant. I don't know. I thought you were just
really forward. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.
Oh, my gosh. Marcellus, I'm kidding. Okay, yes,
yes, I've heard that. All right, Lucia, you and
me, we're going to be facing VP. And Robin in
the finale. Nuh -uh. No, you're not. I saw Robin
first. Yeah, we are. Robin goes, yeah, we are.
I'm just saying. In his wildest dreams. Valora,
Robin beat me. And I beat Throod. And you couldn't
beat Lucia. But this isn't a strength competition.
I think it literally was. Look at these guns.
No, but the acorn league. The Acorn League isn't
a strength competition. No, it's not, but I mean,
I've seen Robin fight. Handle the power. And
VP, I don't think anyone's seen him fight. Lucy's
doing that in the background. All of this entire
section, it's been in the background, correct?
In the anime episode, it's in the background,
right? It's very much Armstrong in Fullmetal
Alchemist. Tiny pink girl. The tiny pink girl,
yes, with nothing to flex. Well, I don't know
about Reinwald. Sorry. I was going to say, I
don't know about Reinwald, but I think we're
going to be pretty good. Well, of course, I'm
going to put my all into it. Me too. And I know
my partner is going to do the same. Oh, yeah.
He's going to put his Ryan all into it. Yes,
and you're going to put all aura. Yeah. Yes.
She gets a high five. High fives you. Eileen,
over to Lucia. I hope their fighting is better
than their pun skills. It's pretty horrific.
Valora, you agree. They both think they're awesome
right now. They both. It wasn't bad. It was pretty
good. Well, you survived it, Lucia. And I won!
You did? Yeah. Yeah. Isn't that cool? Alright,
everyone. Time for the final part. You were going
to spar until the other person's unconscious.
What? I'm kidding. Training's over next week.
Blows a whistle. Good job, everyone. Lucia? Yes,
sir. Good job. You put you all into it. That's
all I'm asking for. Thank you, coach. Thank you,
coach. And, yeah. Robin just kind of, like, pops
his back. He just goes, damn, I can't believe
I'm getting this after what happened last night.
What happened last night? Yeah, like, so I got
ambushed in my freaking room. What? Yeah, so,
okay, what happened was yesterday I was like,
okay, so I went to go talk to Melody to, like,
you know, get an idea of, like, what's exactly
her beef with you. Oh, I don't know. Yeah, I
don't know either. The thing is, they thought
I was a spy, and then they kidnapped me. They
tied me up in her room. By the way, she has a
bottom floor to her room. What? Robin, are you
okay? Yeah, I'm fine. Okay, so some dude in a
mask or some... That's what the glitter is. Well,
not a dude. I don't know what they are, but some
guy or person showed up and saved me, and we
had to fight Melody's stepbrother. The Phantom
of the Drama Club. Sound like that? Yeah, I think
I heard about him. The Phantom of the Drama Club,
yes! Okay, get this. So we fought Charles. We
fought Charles Fidelity. And this Phantom guy
beat him. But what happened was, it's like...
So we beat him and tied him up. We both left.
Okay, well, apparently... They only remember
me doing all that stuff? Oh, you're making this
up. No, I'm not. She knows he's not, but she
says it. No, no, no. They came to my room, and
they, like, they threw glitter in my face, and
then they tied me up, and then they started,
like, they started, like, doing some kind of,
like, mental thing to me, and they were playing
word games. Well, the thing about the drama club
is a ghost, so that would make sense why they
wouldn't remember. No, that wasn't a ghost. It
was an actual person. Why do you remember, not
him? No, we're not doing this. I'm not crazy.
Maybe it was a weird... Whatever, you're the
Phantom, Robin. Are you the phantom of the drama
club? Are you the phantom? Okay, okay, hold on.
All three of you, it's so quick. This is your
secret identity? No, no, no, I don't - Oh, that's
pretty cool, Robin. I don't dress up like a -
That's so cool. Anyway, I had to take a big shower
this morning because I think it was glitter Robin.
Something was on me, but I covered it up. Yeah,
there's a lot. See, I would have gone with something
like the Red Robin or something like that for
- That's too easy. I don't dress up. He's got
to hide his identity, though. We'd all guess
it was Robin. Well, no, you spell it differently.
I'm not some weirdo who dresses up in some weird
costume and beat up criminals. But that sounds
so cool. And they saved you. How lame would it
be? I mean, yeah, it was kind of cool. Well,
Robin, regardless if you're the Phantom or not,
thanks for doing that. Yeah, I'm not the Phantom
and she winks. I'm not. Yeah, totally. I got
you. I won't spill anything. I'm not the fucking
Phantom. I'm serious. I'm being really serious.
He's not. Guys, he's not the Phantom of the drama
club. I don't like that tone. You're implying
shit. I'm not implying anything. Why was Melody's
brother so threatened by you? Because I came
there and I was like, yeah, I'm a friend of I'm
a friend of Lucia and I just want to know Yeah,
what's your problem with her? If if if if you
ever say if ever interact with melody, you're
not friends with me It's safer for you that you
said they that they they went after you like
last night. What did they do? Yeah, they, like,
threw glitter in my face. First of all, it was
that Robert guy. He just yelled, surprise, and
then threw glitter at my face. And then he threw
the bucket that they held the glitter in at my
face. Like the Orc guy? That Robert? Yeah, yeah,
the Orc guy. Okay. There's so many Rods and Robs.
Yeah, Rod, Rod, Rod, Rod. And then Rod Roddale,
like. He put me in a bag chokehold and I took
him down. But then there was like three other
people and they all piled on top of me. Wow,
that's a lot of people. And then I said something
like, yeah, we're going to do to you what we
did to Bondo. And I'm like, I don't know any
of your lore. I don't know what you're talking
about. Who's Bondo? I don't know who Bondo is.
Are you okay, Robin? That's like straight up.
bullying the way you put it, to be honest. Wait,
so why did they come after you? Just because
they thought you beat up... They thought I beat
up Charles. Okay, but it was me and the phantom
dude. Person. I keep... I don't mean to, like...
You and them. Yes. Melody was there, too? No.
Okay. Yeah. It was crazy. They did let me go
eventually. They started playing, like, improv
games, like, in my room. I said, get the fuck
out. Oh, gosh, that's scary. That's really scary.
Were they playing, like, Zip Zap Zop? I can't
imagine it. That's awful. I don't give a fuck
about your Zip Zap Zop. Wait. I'm imagining them
playing Zip Zap Zop, but whenever they get to
Zop, they punch Robin in the face. You go in
a circle and say your name and have a dance move
with it? And so you have to go around the circle
and copy everyone's name with a dance move? And
they did this stupid fucking game where they
had to count to ten, but if they tried to say
it in a group, they couldn't say it at the same
time, and they kept fucking up at one. This is
my worst nightmare. Did they pretend to host
a house party and then make you choose all the
different people they were secretly and then
you had to guess or whatever? Yeah, okay, no,
I have some dirt too, yeah. Dirt? Okay. Go ahead.
What's the dirt? No! Oh, they just gave you a
role in that. No, no, no. I know what they have
crushes on and stuff. Oh, really? Like who? Oh,
like... One of them's really in the Quincy. I
don't see it. Which one? Who? The fucking Don't
Rate Me Bitch. Which is an awful name, by the
way. It's not her real name. duh obviously you
said that was follow -up no don't worry me oh
okay door dorothy got it no not what i said either
okay door me okay you got it there you go door
me okay um All right. Who else do they have crushes
on? Yeah, who else? What the fuck? This is not
the point. Hold on, hold on, hold on. We're going
up against Melody in the Melody Bowl, so we're
going to need to know these infamous things.
Is Dory any friends with Melody? Yeah. Yeah,
that's like her goon. Yeah, basically more that.
Quincy could get some information for us, technically.
Our heads all turn towards Quincy. Quincy, did
you hear that? You look over to see Quincy's
walking away body. He's walking away. Come back,
come back, come back. It's like his feet are
like statues. It's like stone. Here, I'll help.
I'll support. You're all about information, right?
This is the perfect thing. Why are you tugging
me so much? We need to go on a date with the
Harmony. It doesn't have to be a date. It doesn't
have to be a date. You can just talk to her.
That's extreme. That's a lot. Well, I mean, yeah.
I did say I would do anything to help. And you
weren't there at the drama club when we went,
so you can make it up this way. So we agree that
after I do this, I get three favors from Valora?
Yeah. Why me? Wait. They both agree. We are in
agreement. Okay. Robin just goes, honestly, like,
I don't know. What about, is Rod Roddale actually
into Melody? Oh, yeah. What about Robert? What
about Robert? Huh? What about Robert? No, Robert
cried a lot. He just cried? Is he not into anyone?
No, he's fucking... He started, like, oversharing
about his career, and he started wiping his tears
on my shirt in my closet. Bitch. Okay, okay,
okay, Robin, focus. Other crushes. Crushes. We
need income. What else? What else did you find
out? Yeah, what did you find out? I found out
someone... You guys have some different energy
right now. Okay, listen. The Melody Bowl is coming
up and we need to get... I know some of the upcoming
competitions that's going on in the Melody Bowl.
Alright. There's going to be a cooking contest.
Okay. And a dancing contest. Can't do that. It's
going to work on that. And the dance crew and
the cook crew have to be the same. They have
to be the same crew. crew. I thought it just
won. We have to build a crew. Oh, no, you have
a team, remember? Oh, that's right. Okay, well,
you guys are on my team, obviously. No, I'm going
to be on Melody's team, and I'm going to betray
her. Remember? Valora, that's terrifying. Valora,
that's dangerous. We will have to win by any
means necessary. Listen, you don't need to be
her, like, underling. This is when I'm on a team.
I'll be on the lookout for Valora, because you...
Because we don't want her to be charmed and actually
fall into the lady's side. No risk. I can't believe
you would say that to me. I should punch you.
Is that Robin saying that? No, that's Quincy.
That's Quincy? I should punch you. Then do it.
Okay, okay. Just because I should. Cooking competition.
Same as the dance competition. Okay, what else?
Okay, they were talking a lot about this Bondo
person. Who is Bondo? I have no idea, but apparently
they did something to him. They did it to me.
And they were like, we're not threatened by the
cooking competition because Bondo's not around
anymore. Bondo. Okay, so we need to find this
rumored Bondo. What else? He's a good cook. Bondo
can cook. And he can dance. And he can dance.
He's a devil threat. Okay, what else? There's
also something called... How many eggs am I thinking
of? Yeah. Oh, trust me. I got that one on lock.
No, no, no. It's not like... It's not a... It's
the most intense game. It's not like a freaking
like, okay, how many eggs am I thinking of? You
guessed a number. It's like a really physical
contest. There's like an obstacle course. You
have to guess the eggs while running through
an obstacle course? I don't know. Robin, we need
to know this information. Lock in, Robin. Have
we considered kidnapping her dog? No, no, no.
That's pretty bad. The dog's gone. This was like
a Pomeranian. It was gone. What color? Like a
dark color. Right. Yeah. Uh -huh. Like Tamsin's
color. Yeah. Interesting. All right. All right.
So she lost her dog. All right. So she's not
a good pet parent. Yeah. I look to Valora. Well,
yeah. Anyways, what else? Shit. By this point,
I was just trying. They were so focused with
their, like, spin the bottle game. They were
playing spin the bottle while you were tied up?
They emptied one of my fucking health potions
from my mercenary days, and they used it to spin
the bottle. I got so pissed. I was like, why
didn't you do it with the bottle? You didn't
have to empty the bottle to do that, you assholes.
Wait, so they were just in your room kissing
each other? Yes! Did they kiss you? No! Oh, okay.
They asked, but I said no. Oh, well, that's sweet
of them. No, it's fucking not. They beat me up.
They went to my fucking room. They threw glitter
in my face. They hit me with a bucket, and then
they tied me up. We're laughing, but this does
sound like Drama Kids. And they play improv games.
Cool. Hannah, if only the phantom was there to
save you then. Out of curiosity, he couldn't
be. Out of curiosity, when they were kissing,
did they get, like, kind of into it? I don't
fu - Cole! Cole, why do you always, you always
want to know about the kissing? This is real
important to know. You freak. I don't think so.
You're a freak. Cole, who are you kissing? Yeah,
who are you kissing, bro? No one. How are you
doing it? Mm -hmm. Yeah. Okay, if you were kissing
someone, how much would you kiss them? Yeah,
answer your leader. She's not my leader today.
Answer V. No, I am your leader today because
you did the Silver Lions. Yeah, but not today.
Not in the Acorn League. We're on opposite teams.
Yeah, but today you were in my class. You couldn't
beat me in a fight before, so I'm just saying.
That doesn't make me less of your leader. Anyway,
so what else did they say? What did you see?
Have you ever pissed anyone? Anyway, so... Back
in Valora's... What do you do? In Melody's room,
what else did you say? Do you put your tongue
in there, or do you just go... What? I've never...
I've never kissed someone before. Okay, well,
for the first time, don't start with the tongue.
Hey, don't do that. Not the first. Not like that.
Your first time. What conversation are we having?
Which one? Melody's room. What else did you see
when you were in there? She had guns. She makes
her own bullets. She has bombs. I think the Phantom
took a bunch of potions. I think. Here's a mannequin
that looks like you, Lucia. She's practicing
on it. Wow. She has ninja stars. I'm kidding.
When you went there, did she say anything when
you first got captured by them? But like the
first time you got captured, not the second time.
Well, no. As soon as I identified that I was
Lucia's friend, she had really good form. She
judo flipped me and knocked me into her room.
And then she held me in an arm bar for like an
hour. Oh, wow. Weird. That's kind of weird. I
mean, she's weird. Yeah, she is. She's awful.
And then she left and then you beat up her brother
and escaped? No, the phantom. She winks again.
The phantom beat up her brother. Don't, don't,
don't. I'm not the phantom. I know you're not.
I'm not going to let anyone know. You don't have
to keep saying that. I'm not the phantom. for
real i guess yeah i know i know he's not he's
not guys don't worry he's not the phantom i get
that she's upset at what i did and you know i
Probably should have done it in a better way.
But I really don't understand. I really don't
understand. She pointed a live gun at you. That
did happen. I guess I just don't know. Multiple
times. And she almost threw a bomb on a random
spot off a phantom. And she held me on an armbar
for an hour. Listen, Robin, this is more about
Lucia right now. Yeah. Anyways, what were you
saying, Lucia? No, that's awful, Robin. I'm just
saying, maybe this is a cry for help. You are
so sweet. But I think she's ready to kill you.
I don't think that's like a cry for help. Yeah,
and speaking of cries for help, they taped my
mouth shut, so there is no cries for help on
my end. Robin! Yeah. Well, sorry that happened.
I just, I don't know what, I don't. If only the
phantom were there. I'm going to kick your ass.
For real. It's all right. You know, sometimes,
Robin, you got to like, you have to, you have
to really honestly good on you for like, pretend
to get captured that second time. Yeah, and you
don't have to defend your identity in front of
us. I mean, like, we all know how to keep a secret.
I will remove your duodenum, okay? You guys are
not doing this to me. Why did you pull a book
out and flip through it before you said that
word? You, like, pulled out a little thesaurus
and flipped through it. I know what a duodenum
is. You know I've killed people before? I'm the
only one who's probably killed a person before.
I'm sure you have, Robin. Why are you talking
about killing people? I know you're a mercenary,
but like, yeah. Guys, should we go to the faculty
about this? And the duodenum is the first part
of your small intestine. All right. Why are you
looking at that little book in your hand while
you're saying that? Shut up. I mean, I don't
know if we need to go to the faculty if Robin's
okay. I mean, do you think we should? If this
is this serious, right? I know it's funny and
stuff, but if someone's this dangerous, I don't
know. I think the school knows she's dangerous.
She's so rich. She's so rich, Lucia. That's the
problem. Lucia. Todd again. But Todd got sent
home! Yeah, but only because he did this stuff,
like, super publicly, and people took him seriously,
and he actually sent, like, that master at arms
to the infirmary. Yeah, he attacked the faculty.
Melody doesn't attack the faculty, to my knowledge.
So if she attacked one of the faculty, then she'd
get sent home? I don't know, maybe. Maybe. Whoa,
what is... What are people planning here? I see
there's a silence and there's a silence I don't
like. Well, anyways, I should go talk to Reinwald
before I lose him. I'm going to go talk with
Lucius. I'll be back. Reinwald and I need to
figure out for the Acorn League so that I can
take you down. B. What was it called again? What
was the intestine thing again? Duodenum. And
your duodenum. Yeah, cool. I'm going to kick
your ass or whatever. Yeah, whatever. I'm going
to show you my rope technique in the fight, and
you're going to be screwed. Okay, this is just
like Marcellus earlier. What do you mean, Marcellus?
I'm not a weirdo like the both of you. You guys
are both weird. You're kind of weird, too. I'm
not weird. I don't know. I mean, I've never done
rope things, but, you know. I'm not weird. He
says quietly to himself. I'm not weird. Valora,
do you think in a fight, do you think your dad
or Melody would win? I'm not weird. I've never
seen Melody fight. I mean, you've seen her cartwheel
or something, right? Can your dad do a cartwheel?
I don't think so, actually. All right. I've never
seen him do it. And he's so opposed to everything
I'm good at that I bet he has zero acrobatic
ability. Alright. But, I mean, he's a pretty
decent mage. I'm not weird. Oh my god. The fact
that you keep saying that, Robin. Robin, I think
you should go meet with VP. You gotta get ready.
Yeah, I am. Alright. Did he stay where you were
meeting him? No. I'm just gonna go to the meetup
place. I'm gonna go to the Acorn League. Okay.
Alright, I'm gonna find Raymald. I'll go get
Lucia. Oh, look. You're already there. Oh, wait.
She was going to Lucius. Lucia's going to Lucius,
yeah. You head over to Lucius. Lucius. Is that
the great, grand, clear voice of Lucia I hear?
Yes. Hello, Lucia. Lucious, I have a question
for you. I might have answers. Would you be willing
to be beat up by Melody Fidelity so we can send
her home? This seems rattle -loaded, and I am
excited to learn about the context of this. Hear
me out, Lucious. I am. I would love to. I'm serious.
Hear me out. So, it is a well -known fact that
Melody has a lot of money here at this school.
It is also so that, you know, it's really hard
to send her home. We also know from sources such
as myself and other students here that Melody
is not the most, um, uh, uh, uh. she's kind of
dangerous. And I don't mean like in a war school
way. I mean in a way where like, I don't think
she's well. So, much like how Todd was sent home
because he attacked the Master -at -Arms, do
you think there's a way where you could potentially
take a hit in some way, shape, or form that would
send her home? Potentially. Oh! Why don't I report
this to the faculty? Because the faculty's not
going to do anything, Lucius. I'll walk right
into the board. You'll walk... What do you mean
you'll walk right into the board? No, I'll just
walk right into the board and tell them the importance
of... If she's threatening students and threatening
the student population. No, but they're not going
to do anything. Lucius, you know that. She's
got so much money. That is the sad state of affairs
of this place, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. So if there's
you or maybe another professor who could like,
I don't know, take a hit. Well, while I do enjoy
your forward thinking on this, and I myself love
a little bit of espionage. Tell you what, if
you got a plan, you let me know. All right? Okay.
You know where my house is. Okay. I'll think
on it. Keep it secret. What are we talking about?
I will. Ah! Cole! Shh! Secrets. Hello, Cole.
Howdy. Someone called you Cornball earlier. Is
that offensive? Let me know. I can curb that
right quick. Who did it? Oh. Robin? Yes. The
shrill one. He brags all the time. The man has
a fragile ego. Yeah, he does. But he's got a
good heart. Yeah. He does. He tried to help.
He has some skills. They're there. Well, Lucia,
you and I have a little agreement. Thank you,
sir. I'm saluting. Thank you. Of course. Cole's
also saluting. And hey, both of you. Thank you
both for the help the other day with the professor.
I hope he's okay. Anytime. Yeah. It's history
to tell, but it's around this point of time where
usually usually something happens along like
this and you simply need to break. He works very
hard. He's a very hardworking man. He'll be back
soon enough. He's committed to you. To all of
you. And your safety. And your futures. I appreciate
that. And you have to see that you all share
a very good heart. Yeah. I think we tried. All
right. You be off. It says I have to clean the
field and put up the equipment. Best of luck.
Of course. Are you doing it alone? Yes. Is this
for the Acorn League or this is for something
else? This is the earlier training before you
all went off the charp. Gotcha, gotcha. Wait,
did you dig all those pits yourself? No. Okay.
Not a good must admit, not a good pit digger
myself. Unless you drop lines. If you ever need
one, Doug, you should ask Robin. He's real good
at digging holes. Digging a hole for himself,
yes. And digging deeper. I'll tell him to dig
the biggest grave for himself. He'd probably
do it. No graves, no graves, no graves. No graves.
No, we don't need those. You're right, we don't.
All right. You should be off. Goodbye, sir. All
right, Lucia, we got training to do. Oh, cool.
I thought we were done. Well, no, we haven't.
This is fighting training. You have what? Never
mind. No, what is it? No, you should be off.
Maybe another time. He starts picking stuff up.
He holds out the stick to feel out for things,
and he picks it up. I have not gotten a short
rest yet, have I? He knows. He knows. He knows
that Cole knows. He knows. He knows what? You
know that Cole's a Vanisher? That's my guess.
Because he's also a Vanisher? I bet Belle and
Lucius are both former Vanishers. Reformed Vanishers?
Alright, let's see it. Well, in that case, let's
get ready. Can I get some breakfast, please?
Oh yeah, we didn't eat anything before all that.
Just toast. Just something, please. I think it's
more lunch at this point. Please, something.
Alright, let's get you some food, and then we
gotta go over strategy. Okay. Valora, Reynrold
goes. Hi, Reynrold. I thought we should talk
before for the Acorn League. I promise I don't
suck as much at everything as I sucked today
in physical training. Says, I wouldn't take that
as any measure of... of any true ability of yours.
I'm your partner through and through. Don't worry.
We're going to do this. We're going to put in
our very best. You're like... You're like a poem.
You know, like in... You know, like those epic
poems where the heroes all talk like all perfect?
That's what you talk like all the time. Well,
thank you, but... I must admit, you must also
be commended, Valora. You are the one who came
up... And that's what they would say, too. You
are the one who came up with that... I must commend
you, because I would have never thought about
that Reinwald wordplay you brought upon earlier.
Well, you figured out mine, too, so I didn't
even think of that one. But I must admit, I had
to work on the Backbones of Giants for that one.
Well, I mean, I guess it's just the indication
that we are going to be a solid team. Yes, I
do believe so. No, but seriously, what do you
do? You're like a herald. I saw it from last
night. Yes, a herald. I was like, thank goodness.
So, if you're ever injured, feel free to ask
for healing. I'm more than willing to give it
out freely. Well, hopefully. Ideally, I just
try to... stick away in general um and i'm fast
i go for opportunities that other people miss
i'll have phantom of course i tend to stay like
i try to stay just out of their reach but i have
a glaive so it's pretty long and so i can usually
still kind of get up with them you know and but
i don't that can sometimes be bad when i'm with
a partner because then it might mean that my
partner is endanger more. I can try to keep people
off of you still. No, it's rather quite fun.
You said you go after opportunities. Well, when
they're focused on you, trying to keep you within
their reach, I can take that. Perhaps I can take
the opportunities that are not presented to you
because they're focused on you. And vice versa.
It's like they give up on me and try to get you.
Okay. I feel like we have something. And what
do you fight with, again? Like, weapons -wise?
Oh, a large... It's a bit of a departure from
my family, but I fight with a two -handed sword.
Oh, okay. Nice. Well... We really gotta beat
Robin now because of all the bragging I've been
doing, so... He's very braggadocious, isn't he?
I'm afraid it's going to be his downfall. But
not mine. Not my downfall. If there's anything
that I quite enjoy doing, it's humbling individuals
who think too highly of themselves. Good, good.
Alright, well. You want to do anything before
the Acorn League? Or grab lunch or whatever?
Oh, we can grab lunch. Sure. Certainly. Alright.
Sounds like a plan. Right. This way? The two
of you walk off. Alright. Before we wrap up everything
for this game, Lucia, Cole, are the two of you
doing anything else? I think they're just strategizing.
Okay. They're strategizing. Cole is trying to
put the mask back on while we're doing that.
As the two of you are sort of like walking off,
now the both of you on your own, class being
dismissed and all. Cole, Lucia. You see, as you're
sort of like walking down, something... Everyone's
like dressed up in like... Like, defining garbs,
like, yeah, you know they're from Ireland because
of, like, what they wear. There's a very strict
uniform policy. There's an individual that you
see, a woman with, like, long brown hair tied
up in multiple different points. It still looks
spiky. She wears glasses and she's wearing robes.
She's standing within, like, onto the side, like,
in the recreational area. You see that she's
pondering, like, deeply hand on her chin she
went like she's wearing like um it's sort of
like professory kind of get up um but not really
it's like brown like jacket and robes um and
you see you see next to her are two individuals
who are just kind of like playing cards on a
table and they're just sitting by the two men
it's just sitting there and she just goes And
you hear this as you walk by. She just goes,
I need someone with great alacrity for research.
Someone who can juggle things. She says that.
Cole, can you juggle? I could try. Have I seen
this person before? You have not. Okay. I mean,
I could certainly try. I'm really bad at juggling.
Do you want to? Do you want me to talk to the
lady? I don't know. I mean, is she a professor
here? I don't even know if we should get involved.
She's wearing, like, professor garbs? It's not
the actual, like, professor garbs, but it does
look. She looks scholarly. I should have said
that. She looks scholarly. Is there anything,
like, colors that might identify them to a particular
house? None. Is she a criner? I don't even know
what that is. Someone that can juggle? Hmm. What
if she's like a recruiter for the Melody Vault
or something? Oh my gosh, that's awful. Talent
scout. You, over there. Oh no. Do any of you
have any Do any of you have any distinct ability
of an alacrity of any sort. No most notably hand
dexterity. Might we ask who is asking? Riven
Kreiner, yes. I knew it! And Lucia, you know
the Aeon -marked people? This is an Aeon -marked
house. Oh! Which mark is it? A mark of making.
Um, may we ask for what reason? Sorry. What was
that? Lucy asked, Mimi asked for what reason?
I'm attempting to develop research for in building
our very next, in constructing our very next
proprietary magical item. This will assist individuals
in augmenting the uses of their hands. Flexibility.
Flexibility. Instincts. Perhaps you can catch
something that you didn't even know you had to
catch. If I look at Cole well, Cole is very dexterous.
Yeah, I mean, I guess I'm a little bit. Very
well. I will make do with this. I will pay you
for your time. Oh, that's good, Cole. You get
paid. I mean, I haven't taken a job yet. How
much time do you need? What do you need from
me? This will be a few minutes. I will pay you
500 gold pieces for your troubles. Wow! Whoa!
Whoa! Alright, well, um... Sure. 500 gold pieces
are a magical knick -knack of my design. Of my
family's design, really. You've got a magical
thingy. Do I have to decide now? You will decide
when the task is done. sure what do you mean
payment payment will be instituted at completion
of the task sure please how can i help please
wear this she holds she reaches into a bag she
pulls out a seems like a seems like a like a
wire like metal work that will go on over people
a person's hands please hold out your hands you
see arcane day lines uh like laced throughout
I'm taking notes on this, like, in my head. This
is something that I would like to report. So
from what you know of them, the Criner is an
Aeon Mart house. They specialize in artificery.
They are responsible for the making of many,
like, new, like, magical items. A lot of crazy
stuff. They make, like, arcane cannons, too,
and stuff. And you said this was Mark of Making?
Yes. The Mark of Making... Let me see. The Lords
of River's End in the Grand Folger. So Mark of
Making. Okay. Right. Put these on. It says, These
will record the very outlines of your movement.
They're going to record every twitch, every movement,
every moment of alacrity. As you put them on,
your hands just feel bigger. Clank, clank, clank.
It's heavy. Alright. Now. So, now. I have these
rolling pins. Says, please juggle two of them
at once. Just juggle them? Yes. Go, Cole, go!
Please put on... Rolling pin? Yes, please, begin.
Okay. Just... Okay? Sure. Okay, yeah. Yeah, I'm
looking over, like, how these things are... Not
that I'm not necessarily super arcane -ly, you
know. known but i'd like to like just take note
of anything i can on these things as i'm okay
doing this um so i'm saying the juggling part
is going to be easy you're going to be able to
do that part um but as long as these things go
make a um so make go ahead and give me you're
not going to do arcana you're not um so you're
just you're just looking at them from the outside
yeah i'm just trying to see like This is something
that I want to be like, okay, this is what they're
working on there. I want to be able to do a report
on this if I can. Got it. So go ahead and make
an investigation check as you're doing it. Okay.
Investigation. This is plus a... This is plus
six. Natural 20 for a total of 31. So from what
you know, this is just recording your movements
to make an imprint. She's using this to record
your movement, to condense it into something,
to put into something. You don't know the logistics
of it. But you think that she's trying to do
something that records your movement specifically.
um and maybe he's copying it or maybe giving
the ability to spread it around or something
of the sort okay i don't think i want that um
i would like to juggle but i would like to make
it not the cleanest juggle like i'd like to i
guess make it look clean but Like try and like
move my fingers a little bit to just mess with
the data make it before bits a little bit Okay
This shouldn't be the plastic so it's just it's
a 16, okay She doesn't like I wanted to like
I want the pins to be doing the correct thing
But I want to be you know switching my hands
and stuff just just a little bit to like mess
with the data good perfect Can you please walk
around as you do so? To show that you have balance
as you juggle. Sure. Yeah, I'll do that. Perfect.
Now I will throw more items into the foray. Oh,
boy. Oh, boy. This is a carton of eggs. Throws
it in. Jesus. Impressive. Impressive. Yes, yes,
yes. All right. Now. this this right here is
a water steel dagger and throws it um now now
we're introducing sleight of hand checks okay
sleight of hand this is a plus four expertise
base on this uh that's gonna be a 23 perfect
just perfect perfect now I have hired these two
men over here to shoot at you with crossbows.
Please be prepared. Excuse me? She whistles,
and you see the two men. They look over. They
put down the cards. They reach under the table.
They pull out crossbows. They stand up. Am I
supposed to dodge them? Yes, please. All right,
everyone, fire. Oh, boy. And they aim their crossbow
bolts at you. Please make a acrobatics check.
Okay. That's going to be a 27. I just want to
leap into the air over it all. While I'm in the
air, I want to do a weird flourish to mess with
the data more once I'm a little bit more out
of sight since I'm in the air. Like, do, like,
a, like, twist. I want to, like, catch one of
them and hold it a little bit longer than I need
to. Kind of thing. You do, like, it's a legitimately,
like, a very beautiful dodge with the flourishes
and such. Two crossbow bolts, two plus two crossbow
bolts kind of, like, intersect as you kind of,
like, dodge over them. As you sort of, like,
land beautifully while maintaining a balance
of the items. She claps her hands. And she just
goes, but only three claps, because the flourish
will surely mess with the data at hand. Impressive
work. I wouldn't want that to happen. All right.
Once more. Once more? All right. Says, I'm going
to fire. Says, I'm going to fire a crossbow bolt
at you, and your duty is to catch it before it
strikes you. Okay. Sure. Hey, boss. That seems
like a little much. We didn't make those other
kids do it. Yes, but I feel like this is the
one. He's the chosen one. I feel like he's chosen
for this. I don't know how I feel about that
word. You, what's your name? I'm neglected to
ask at the very top, and I should have done that.
Cole. That's a bit too cool. Do you agree? Sure,
why not? He agrees. Hand me the crossbow bolt.
Load a plus three bolt into it. Alright. I'm
now going to shooteth you. Five seconds. One,
two, three, four, five. Can I try and, like,
the dagger that i'm juggling can i try and like
toss the dagger into the air to like deflect
it a little bit so it like pops into the air
yeah it's like just like pop it kind of hit it
so it like does like a that and then i'll catch
it make an attack roll um all right this would
be i guess with a dagger i'm gonna use my inspiration
because that would be really bad one Nat 20.
Nat 20. What a recovery. Yeah, I like... And
then while maybe her eyes are up, I try to mess
with the data a little bit more real quick. It
allows that, definitely. As you fuck with it
completely. She looks at you as the boat is deflected
upwards. And you see it sails off into another
part of the... You know when the baseball goes
off? Mm -hmm. Am I supposed to go catch that?
No, Thomas is going to retrieve that one for
me. Okay. If anyone's struck by it, pay them
500 gold pieces. Yeah. Got a boss as he walks
away. Robin. And you hear Robin go, fuck, what
the fuck? He said, did that hit you? He just
got 500 gold. Did that hit you? Like, no, it
almost hit me. All right, I don't got to pay
you then. You don't have to pay me. You almost
hit me, bro. I can imagine it didn't hit him.
It, like, knocked over his food onto him. So
he's got, like, burning, like, soup or something
on his lap. But it technically didn't hit him.
This cold soup stains. He just goes, impressive.
Wildly impressive. A tear rose down her face.
I see. Thank you for this data. Do I stop juggling
now? Yes, you may stop. I'm not going to make
you do it for an hour like I did the others.
An hour? You said five minutes. When I'm like...
I guess taking it off, I, like, kind of put the
stuff together. Can I try and, like, with the
dagger also just kind of, like, press into, like,
the metal or, like, scrape something just as
I'm taking them off so it's not noticeable? I
guess land a hand check. Ow. Uh, 21. So as you
press into it a bit, it malforms the shape of
the... Just very slightly. She quickly comes
over and she moves to take it off of you. But
you've already done what you... Even very minor.
These things are very sensitive and you know
it. She takes it off. She just goes, Thank you
for this. What is your name again? Cowl. Yes,
I knew that. Now, select your reward for this.
Oh, wow. 500 gold's a lot, but I mean, I get
paid. How much do I... Question. Tim, how much
do I get paid every month? What's my funding
that comes in every month? Oh, God, I forgot.
It's an idea. We'll figure it out later. I'm
going to take the magical trinket. That's more
fun. What am I going to use money on? I'm not
like my foolish brother who gave away our house
coin, a magical house coin, to some random street
urchin. He almost killed me. Pulls out a coin.
He goes, here, take this. I thought I was getting
an item and not money. It's a coin. Yes. The
coin itself is magical. What does it do? It says,
once you ever feel like you need to do something
that requires any edge of luck or some sort,
the coin summons misfortune or fortune. It is
direct. It is powerful. And it does work. So
it's lucky or unlucky. Yes, you must flip the
coin. There's humor to it, you see. You may laugh
now. What? Huh? Yes. Very well. I love this item.
It's so fun. So it is an item. So once a day,
you can choose to flip a coin. It's a 1d2. And
on a 1, it's a natural 1. It's a critical failure.
And on a 2, it's a natural 20. It's a success.
Okay. But I'm visibly flipping a coin. You do
have to visibly flip the coin, yeah. Okay, all
right. Important to know. But it's a part of
a roll. It's part of an action, part of a bonus
action, whatever rolls. A d20. Got it, got it,
got it. I was just thinking about, like, oh,
I could use this on, like, a deception check,
but it'd be weird if I'm, like, pulling out a
coin while I'm lying. If you just start flipping
a coin randomly while you talk now, it wouldn't
even be weird. Get everyone accustomed to it.
I'm going to call it the lucky or unlucky coin.
So this is 1D2, 1 natural 1, 2. Imagine the zeros
at the end of the natural 20. Okay. So it turns
whatever I'm doing into a nat 1 or nat 20. Once
a day. I'm going to do it before you roll. Before
I roll. Okay. Yes. You decide. I always used
it. I used it in very serious situations, even
if I knew I had a really low chance of success.
I'm like, I'd rather have a 50 -50. And I was
actually against Vanishers, where I did this,
and it worked. It always works out really well
for Irie. It's really good. And now the Vanisher
has the Vanishing Point. Okay. I was satisfied
with the terms of... This is the conclusion of
our meeting. Sure. Sounds good to me. Very well.
I must go find my next volunteer. You should
talk to this guy named Robin. He's really dexterous.
Thomas, go find this Robin. I need more things
on that. I could find multiple Robins. Tiefling
guy, really cool. He goes by Robbie. Sometimes.
I'm going to go to every Tiefling and ask him
if their name's Robin. He's part of the Silver
Lions. Alright. I'm on it, boss. This color uniform.
Oh, yep, yep. I needed that. Alright, that's
good. Alright, I'm off. Thank you, Thomas. And
thank you. Cole. Cole. Cole. Thank you, Cole.
It's Connell, actually. Thank you, Connell. Oh
my god. Alright. And you walk away from this
strange encounter. Let's go. With a new coin
in hand. Yay. Interesting. And with that... I
flip it now, just to see what pops up on it.
Alright, roll a 1d2. 1 is bad? Yes. feel awesome
for some reason uh hmm as you're walking it's
like yeah this is a nice groove like everything
feels amazing you find there's a platinum piece
on the ground hmm all right cole does not know
how to feel about this i mean feel awesome apparently
but it's disconcerting that he feels awesome
Changing fate. He don't like. He does not pick
up the platinum piece and just keeps walking.
Lucy, you see the platinum piece. Wow. And a
platinum piece to your inventory. Yeah, he like
pauses. He looks at it, frowns and just keeps
walking. I'm rich. What the fuck is that? And
Lucia better be a lot of money. That's a lot
of fucking money. She's over the moon. Oh, my
wife says, imagine Lucia with that coin. She
can rewind time and flip the coin again, which
is so true. That would be so... Because she can
re -roll things when she rewinds time. I dropped
my notebook. It's true, but it's not hers. It's
not hers, though. It's not hers to have. So...
So, Cole, after walking away with something that
quantifies, something that not only quantifies,
but also changes luck, magic is very strange.
You walk away with a new powerful tool in the
toolkit. As everybody gets ready for the Acorn
League. It doesn't sound cool. The Acorn League.
It doesn't sound cool to say. No, not really.
We babies. We first years. We just a baby. As
we bring the session to a close. Yay. Good job.
It's going to be a short session guys. Five hours
later. We were going to end it. And we were like.
Let's just be a little silly and roll a few athletic
checks. Let's push people into a hole. And it
was the whole thing. Yeah, the hole. I was legitimately
going to end it like, okay, here's a quick rundown
of the training, and then we're going to start
the eight -quarter league. And then that all
happened. Push me into the hole. And then Lucia's
here like, wait, how do you kiss? I've never
kissed a new one. How do you do it? Short session,
five hours with no break. On that note, we go
to sleeps. Yes. Yes. My friend Unethical Songwoman
has come to an end for today. To an end. It wasn't
ethical to say it'd be short and then go long
and no break. That's true. That's true. No union
sanction break. No union breaks. Now, if you
want a company... If you want a company that
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your order. Heck yeah. And we're back. And we're
back, baby. Guys, I gotta admit, being unethical.
It was kind of awesome. The gotcha pulls? Not
gonna lie, I kind of low -key loved our gotcha
pulls. I didn't. Our only viewer who participated
rolled two Robins. Oh, Robin. Oh, Robin. Oh,
Robin. Oh, Robin. Everyone agrees. Yeah, we're
just a bully. Poor Robin. No, I'm cool. Look
at me. AKA the Phantom, but not. I'm going to
kick your ass. It's going to try. All right,
everyone. We're about to head off. Bye -bye.
We'll see you next time. See you. Bye. Bye. is
some unstoppable force my deepest fear awakens
fate's 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 amongst all this nobility 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 duty is 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, you ride on fandom.
High five for what's right.