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Episode 5 – Long Gone.
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Hello, damn it!
Hello everyone and welcome back to Songwovem, the Black Guards Gallery.
Where Timmy can't count.
It's a struggle.
Help me.
Of course I am your humble narrator who can't count, which is really unfortunate in a TTRPG
where there's a lot of numbers.
Tim Don Tran.
And of course, what is a narrator without his motley crew?
Say.
Nope, not gonna give you this time.
Say.
Motley crew, say hello!
Ahoy!
Hello!
Ahoy!
Say, Motley crew, ahoy!
Hello!
Ahoy, hello.
Don't kill us, please.
What's he gonna do?
I'm not scared.
Well, someone's already dead, okay?
Yeah, we know why you're not afraid.
It's a scene, right?
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With that said, I don't believe we have any announcements at the top of the stream, so
I believe we can just go right on ahead.
There is an announcement though.
Chiefs, yay!
So there actually is, is that we are taking a break from our Sunday game.
Since this comes out late, anyways, we'll have already been active for a couple weeks,
but we are continuing the Lanaya Expedition after Blackguard's gallery is over.
So in a few weeks...
This adventure has to conclude, sadly.
But there will be more adventures in the future with more people, different assemblages of
different motley crews.
We're in this one a long old baby.
But anyways...
That day is not today!
Who knows?
Let's dive into yet another session of Events Level Up D&D.
In the last session, we came hot off the heels of the initial encounter with Zachariah and
the Vice Admiral of the Leviathan Legion, Brando Caligaris.
Zachariah had mixed feelings of vengeance and anger towards this seemingly stranger
he's never met before.
And after acting on it by plunging a sword through the chest of Brando, Brando revealed
for there to be a warding bond, which seemingly transfers pain between certain individuals.
After hearing the scream of his partner, Darryl, from above, Zachariah rushes to his aid, getting
prepared to rescue Darryl in a sword.
But there seem to have been magical contingencies in place for Darryl to not be stolen away
from the grips of the Leviathan Legion.
After which so, Deacon Kalinda, which is Daphne's brother, who is a loser, made his way out
towards the front to go and confront the crew of people who were coming to try and rescue
Zachariah from this predicament.
In the same time frame, Humphrey and Clarence, who have been shopping, encounter a strange
older man strapped with a gun who sort of tersely spoke with them for a brief moment.
And one eyed Jane, who was gambling in a warehouse in these non-rigged games, was ambushed by
multiple gunmen looking to capture her, and seemingly knew a bit about her past.
The encounters came to a head after Daphne banished Deacon to another realm.
Humphrey and Clarence escaped with one eyed Jane and Brooke from the gunmen, and the group
split with Daphne and Captain Aura rushing back into Aelor's to go and find Zachariah
and possibly confront Deacon.
It was during this rescue attempt Zachariah was transported alongside Brando to the outskirts
of town, where he was surrounded by multiple unmarked wagons and people in leather strapped
armor, all heavily armed.
And it was there that a maxim was uttered.
And it was there that where the stakes were finally come to be fully realized.
After a tense confrontation, Zachariah was let go with the life of his partner now hanging
in the balance.
After that he regrouped with Captain Aura and Daphne, who had both observed that, oh,
he has a huge hole in his chest, where typically people should die if they have one of those.
And we ended the session last when one eyed Jane acquired a non-consensual friendship
with Micah, one of the gunmen who tried to capture her.
And after a brief fun time torture session, she extracted information from him concerning
what her intentions were.
And a name came out of his mouth before the very life was slapped out of his head.
Raelyn Preston.
And we ended the session last with one eyed Jane pacing the room, figuring out who exactly
she is.
And with that, Hylasian.
You have been manning the pardon for a bit now.
I'm sailing away begrudgingly at the order of your captain.
You have Kenway, your very reliable eagle, sea eagle, a seagull, I'm just gonna call
him eagle from now on.
Your very reliable eagle watching over him and your only form of communication between
you and a separate party at the moment.
You have been focused on manning the ship, you're very objective minded, you are.
As one eyed Jane is talking, brought a stranger, unconscious stranger onto the ship, but Clarence
and Humvrey, one eyed Jane are all dealing with that.
Brooke has been in the front with you, just keeping an eye out and just kind of just standing
there alongside you, just leaning against the rail of the ship.
It's at this moment when you hear the flapping of wings coming near to you.
As you look up towards Kenway, Kenway perches onto your shoulder and telepathically communicates
to you that Captain Aura is ready to be picked up.
That's when you begin to turn the ship towards A. Loris, following the commands of Kenway.
Yeah, I immediately, I have a moment after Kenway rests on my shoulder and tells me that
I lean my head toward Kenway and we just make contact before I steer the ship and start
returning any crew member who may be in the vicinity of where I am.
The children would inform them of, we're picking up the captain now, just so they know
that, you know, to be prepared for whatever may come.
We do not know what we're going to find at the port once we return, so be prepared for
anything.
Following the utterances of Kenway, you're actually being led to a bit off port, away
from the port and seemingly towards shore.
Captain Aura, Daphne, and Zachariah, it gets to a point when Kenway comes flying back to
you.
This guy needs treats afterwards.
He's been flying a lot.
Yeah, he gets snacks and squishies.
He leads you off the beaten path away from the town where all of the chaos is and you
are now standing on a sandy, a standing store bereft with rocks and multiple, next to a
really sharp cliffside.
It's at this point that you see the pardon begin to crest over the horizon and comes
towards you.
I will say that Humphrey and Hilgen are both present on the boat at the moment.
Is One Eye Jane still within the inner parts of the boat?
So everyone sees the pardon beginning to come in for you three, the other three to board.
The six of you can regroup on the same boat once more.
Question DM, it's a narrator.
Would we have had time to grab extra supplies while we waited for the ship to come pick
us up or would we have just waited?
I guess this is a question for Daphne and Zachariah too, or would we just waited by
shore for the ship to come get us?
I think that chaos is very localized.
I don't think they necessarily are looking for us specifically.
I would have been fine to get more supplies in the time personally.
Yeah.
Zach also would be interested in possibly rubbing that observatory that Brenda paid
for.
Yeah, but if we are going to run out of Daphne is like, is like you need to button your shirt
up.
Because I was saying like we might have gotten bandages to cover the gaping hole in Zach's
chest perhaps not to freak people out.
And I've also would have liked to seeping.
I would have also loved to have picked up a volleyball.
Yes, you can pick all of those up.
So bandages and a volleyball.
We have a special rule, a special house rule.
This is roleplay money so you don't take anything away from your thing.
So yeah, you definitely gathered those supplies.
Just for clarification, last session you mentioned that Clarence and I already had gathered hundreds
of gold worth of supplies as well for food only.
Yeah, which can feed your crew of like 80 people easy.
Okay, just making sure.
You've gathered like you were almost at the bottom of your list.
You were fine.
Just a rum missing.
Sorry guys.
No, that was the first thing you had.
That and the coffee.
But he doesn't have to tell us that.
Yeah, you guys don't know.
We don't know that.
So Zachariah, you do pass the Caligaro Observatory.
As the thoughts of like, man, I want to rub this shit out of the place.
The old man fucking sucks.
Possibly the catching eye of Daphne who side glares you.
Gestures that, yeah, we need to get a move on.
There might be some like stuff that could help with navigation.
Maps and all that stuff, right?
If you go quickly.
Sounds good.
Otherwise, we're leaving you.
Okay, I just I walk up and I just kick the door down.
You kick the door down?
Yeah.
You just kicked the door?
Yeah.
I told you to go quick.
Ripped.
You could just.
I'll say that it's a fairly nice observatory.
They just got recently built, but something about you adding your little tinge of chaos
to it when you kick the door down and a part of the wood from the door flies off.
You see that an Elven woman who who first of all, this place is it's very nice.
There's a very large sort of like a glass dome that sort of like magnifies out into
the sky, which is, you know, looking out towards the stars and such.
This place is chock full with like new books and very nicely built.
You kick down the door and immediately this this this almost blue skinned Elvin Elvin
woman just immediately tenses up and looks towards you with wide eyes.
I follow through and go, oh, sorry, I tripped.
Whoopsies.
You tripped.
Yeah, tripped.
Yeah, sorry.
Yeah.
Oh, whew.
Make a deception check for me, please.
It's hard to trip when you're this strong.
Yeah, 14.
Take off your shirt.
Just take off your shirt.
Yeah.
Six.
Fucking damn it.
She's going to say, um.
Sorry.
That was a fire.
I don't know if it's a little.
A lot going on right now.
Um.
It is very obvious.
She's very nice.
She goes, are you OK?
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm fine.
Thanks.
Um, do you need medical help?
Kind of look back to the two out there.
Um, no, I'm I'm fine.
I'm just need a place to sit for a second if you don't mind.
This place looks really nice.
Um.
Yes.
Um, yes.
Feel free to shelter from the fire that's across town.
You can stay here if you wish.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Aura signs to Daphne.
Why is he taking so fucking long?
You see, you guys do see.
Probably flirting with someone.
You guys do see Zachariah, like kicked out the door and it's like, oh.
And everything happening.
Oh dear.
Um, yeah.
There's a bench over there.
Sure.
I suppose with the chaos you wouldn't.
This is a place of learning, but I suppose.
I'm all about learning.
Enlighten me.
Tell me things.
Well, let.
If you can get.
Two or?
Two or sounds good.
No, no, no.
Just give me a one moment.
I need to look at the door.
And she, she, she, she just kind of like, she just kind of like walks towards like the
door and she starts like picking up, like picking up like the wooden like stuff that
like flew everywhere.
I'm going to quickly scan in the room.
What do I think I could pick?
I could, I could pocket.
Um, well immediately there's like this, there's like all the books and stuff, but there's
the stuff on her, like seemingly like her desk.
Um, star chart specifically from her.
Yeah.
She's, um, you get the feeling that she's really innocent.
She's just here to be really cool and look at stars.
Um, I don't want to take her stuff.
I want to take the observatory stuff.
So that's all this.
There's a lot of boring stuff.
Then there's like books.
There's just like star charts and stuff, but like stuff that you know from, from Navig,
from navigating.
Um, I, um, I, I'll have to say like, she said this was a public place of learning.
So and you know, stuff like places like that, they don't have to take, uh, really.
That's fair.
Okay.
She just goes, um, what, what's your name, sir?
Humphrey Humphrey.
Yeah.
That's a very whimsical name.
Um, all right.
Uh, Humphrey, my name is, uh, Aladris Alamora.
Aladris.
It is nice to meet you.
And I'll like take her hand and, you know, charm a bit.
Oh, um, Alamora you said?
Yes.
Uh, she, she just brings her, her hand kind of like shoots back and she, she's holding
her hand now.
Okay.
Um, well, a tour of the place then.
Yeah.
Sounds good.
No.
Um, don't worry about all of this, um, it'll, it'll be fixed.
I thought the doors were very heavy, but I don't know.
I, I just sort of, it gave, oof.
I was, you, you, you tripped into it, right?
Yeah.
There wasn't a deliberate effort to break down the door.
Cause I feel like that's more.
I think I'm heavier than I, I look, I think is probably what it is.
And my mom always used to tell me.
Okay.
In Zach's head, he's going to hear Zachariah, I'm going to give you to the count of five.
Five.
Wait, she's skipping over four.
Three.
Um, come right over here.
Yeah, right over here.
I'm just going to just, as soon as she turns her back, I'm going to just quickly grab something
right out the door.
You can grab something.
There's like a small like globe of like the world of Sandalor.
Like that's, you know, on.
Oh yeah.
Daryl, Daryl like that.
Yeah.
I'll just, I'll just whoop whoop and then out the door quietly, quietly.
Well over here we have, um, Plax dedicated to, she turns around and you're gone.
The outline of you is there, but you're just gone.
And everyone sees, um, uh, Daphne, Zachariah's claim is like, yeah, I'm going to rob this
place.
He's running out with like a little globe.
Um, let's go back towards.
Was it worth it?
A woman inside.
Let's go.
You run, you run.
This is when Kenway finally found you, finds you guys.
And he gives you, he, he gives you a look that basically says like, I know, I know.
Blame Zachariah.
Or a sign.
Sorry.
No.
Kenway never accepts an apology.
And now we fast forward to the shore when the pardon arrives, a properly banished Zachariah,
um, now in, now present.
So as soon as the pardon comes to, um, you see, uh, Clarence and Humphrey offer the hands
out and help you onto the boat.
Because I had a lot of fun while we were gone.
Or tosses up the volleyball, hits it at Clarence and then she'll sign.
We're going to need your best net Clarence when we get back on ship.
Um, and, uh, you hear like, ah, this is a young man's game.
Good thing I have, boom, he hits it up.
That's what took you guys so long.
Yes.
I thought we should have a new game to play when we get back on board.
Um, all right.
Sure.
You're going to see Hilden Wazir from the helm with a very not amused expression as
he, once everybody is on board, just turns the ship and starts their way back.
Yeah, I'll help him.
I kind of like get the anchor back up and yeah.
Um, there's a very small moment when everyone's onto the ship.
Um, Clarence just pats you on the shoulder, like very small pats, uh, Zachariah, because
it's good to have your back, Zach.
Um, and walks past you telling everyone else.
Um, I will say that, uh, Humphrey, you're helping put up the ship and getting ready
to sail back towards the end.
Used the car.
Um, who is the first one who's going to go towards like the inner parts of the, uh, the
ship?
Actually, um, I'm casting detect magic.
Um, and she is going to make a rounds like around the ship, recasting the spell as needed
because she wants to make sure they're not being scryed on in general.
Beyond the magic that you already tend to know is, you know, how in your group, you
don't sense anything else, scrying, nothing.
Yeah, she goes all around the ship.
And you can cast that at will, right?
That's a, that's a free.
Yep.
Okay.
Got it.
So, uh, I do have to ask Daphne, uh, Captain Aura and Zach Zachariah, who among you would
just immediately like step into like, um, there's, there's the middle part of the ship
that has like the small like scope.
This was, this would used to be, uh, like, uh, some, a ship belonging to a part of the
Navy who navigated using the star.
So they have their own like little observatory, um, there, but that's, that's also like,
well, the chairs are and stuff.
Who's the first one of you three that goes into, uh, that part?
Is it where everyone else has gathered?
Like where is this above deck?
It's this, this is like, um, it's, it's in a part.
Everyone else is seemingly gathered outside.
Hillsian is a Hillsian Humphrey and Clarence are all like, um, by the, um, by the helm.
Um, like I said, it's a, it's a fairly, it's a, it's a, it's a much smaller ship than
didn't use the car.
The only reason why I'm asking is because who among you is going to be the first one
to walk into that part and see that when I didn't torture the guy.
Yeah.
I was, I was saying, like the search, like she's moving around.
She probably definitely would be the one to find it.
Yep.
Yeah.
Um, Daphne, um, in the middle of your investigation, you're thinking like, okay, I got to find
like, are we being spied on and such.
You opened the door, uh, to the, uh, to the inner part to see one eye Jane pacing around
the room.
The door is like, what, what I Jane, uh, out of your stupor, you, you see, uh, the door
open up and you see Daphne about to walk in.
But the way the door opens, she can't see like Micah in the chair.
Uh, so she's just standing in the doorway.
If she walks in past the, where the door is, she's going to see it.
I'll step up to the door.
Oh, Daphne.
Nice to see you back.
I assume Zechariah and our captain are safe and sound.
Good.
Glad to hear it.
Um, do you need help out there?
Possibly.
Oh, I'm just checking all the rooms to make sure there's no magic being cast on the ship.
I mean, I can vouch for no magic in here.
It is A-okay in this room specifically.
While I walk with you to the other rooms.
An escort.
She looks, Daphne definitely looks at one I Jane suspiciously.
Can I just check in here?
Wait, why am I asking?
I'm going to check in here real quick.
Okay.
Um, just.
Yeah, you know what?
Okay.
And I'll just open the door and step back.
She walks in.
Did she see now?
This place is a beautiful.
It's a beautiful place when it's, um, like, like, like books, desk, star navigation,
chat.
It's a really nice ship.
Um, you usually see that, but now you see a bruised man, uh, bloodied from the leg
down, um, tied up, uh, and for some reason he's both blindfolded and gagged.
Do you believe I found him like this when we got back to the ship?
Who is this?
Um, a new friend of mine.
Who is this?
Okay.
Fine.
You caught me.
I did a light kidnapping.
I was worried, you know, Zachariah was missing and then you guys were like, no, you know,
he's not gonna be without us.
And I, you know, I follow my captain's orders, but to be fair, no orders were explicitly
given about not kidnapping anyone.
And I thought, Hey, maybe this guy would have information on what happened to Zachariah
if you guys didn't find him.
So did you learn anything?
Yeah.
Um, see, uh, well, um,
he re- this is Micah.
That's his name.
Um, he learned from Van Colton.
No, sorry.
He learned that there was a bounty to be had here.
And but he was after not one of us, someone named Van Colton.
Um, he received a tip through an informant and the informant name was Hearn, a merchant
that, uh, yeah.
Am I, do I recognize any of those names to me?
Give me a culture check.
Culture check?
Yeah.
Let me see.
I'm guessing courtly manners doesn't help with my culture check.
Submit.
24.
Let's go.
Van Colton is a name that strikes you immediately.
That's the name of the man who killed the previous Aenarian emperor.
Shot him dead right in his chambers.
Okay.
She goes, Van Colton was here at the same time of us?
Yeah, apparently.
Well, I guess I should get the captain.
Yeah, sure.
Um, you know, but he already gave like all the information he had available, so I think
we could just leave him as he is for now.
Well, it'll be up to her what to do with him.
He's awake.
I'll just stand guard because as you can see, he's awake now and who knows what Micah's
capable of, so I'll just stand guard.
See, he's really excited to be in my presence even longer.
We've built up a really good rapport.
So she is.
I guess you've always had a way with making friends with people who seem to hate you.
Yeah, they say about me.
I'll go get the captain.
No, no.
Oh, Micah, I'm so happy you're awake.
We can talk even more about your riveting history.
When she leaves, I turn to Micah and I squat down in front of him again.
Listen here, if you breathe a word of that name to anyone else on this ship, I will not
hesitate to end you.
Do we understand each other, Micah?
Okay.
Good boy.
And I'll pat him on the head and then wait for the captain to come.
While this has been happening, Aura has taken one of Humphrey's fishing nets, strung it
across from the starboard, made a volleyball net, and has assigned each of the kobolds
as team captains to pick their team captain for a volleyball match.
When you get back to the ship, you're on the pardon for now.
Oh, damn it.
We're not there yet.
Never mind then.
Then she is trying to avoid looking at anyone and she is just playing with her dice and
big smile, big smile.
No fear.
Never fear.
Captain One-Eyed Jane took a friend.
Oh, she signs.
Yay.
How exciting.
Someone from...
Oh, I must meet them.
Of course.
Not actually a friend.
I assumed as much, but I might as well meet them too.
Yeah.
I thought you should know she's just going to leave you that way.
So Aura, we see Aura peek her head in and see this gagged and bound man.
Captain One-Eyed Jane nods to One-Eyed Jane, walks up and she'll sign, what's your name
to the man sitting in the chair?
I assume the blindfold's been taken off.
Yeah.
She'll reach up and pull the gag down.
My name is Micah.
Wonderful.
Essential sign.
What has many keys but can't open a single lock, Micah?
I suppose if I answer right, you're not going to let me go.
You're going to have to take a chance.
Humor me.
Repeat it again.
What has many keys but can't open a single lock?
Timmy's cheating.
A guy with the wrong key ring.
Zachariah's just in the background.
Has many keys but can't open a single lock.
He looks at One-Eyed Jane with a look this...
He looks at the both of you guys, both of the other people behind Captain.
They're like, is this person serious right now?
She's total serious expression, not even...
I don't know.
I'll just say...
What?
Piano.
Yes, Kev typed it in the chat and he was right.
It's a piano.
And she'll sign a piano.
So many beautiful songs and notes can be played on one simple instrument.
I wonder what your song might be.
And I wonder if it ends today.
Will you continue to do harm to my crew?
I think I've been given ample warning.
Well done.
And considering...
If you were...
Go ahead.
If you were looking for Van Colton, then how did you come across One-Eyed Jane?
I just make this gesture to him.
We were told...
About One-Eyed Jane.
He does make a face like One-Eyed Jane, like looking at her.
By your informant.
By our informant, yes.
Seeing.
Learn, Lovell Crowe.
Or as eyes widen a bit, but it's her face is passive.
Interesting.
We're a group of bounty hunters from the Inerid Empire.
We work independently, but we do a good job of typically tracking down and finding who
we're looking for.
And Branda was the one who paid you for this job.
Probably not directly.
Smart move, Daphne.
Can you swim?
He kind of like postures his leg up to the front, which has a stab wound in it.
Daphne, can you do us a favor and grab our healer for a moment?
We'll just take a look back.
This is very frustrating for me because I don't have all the things I want on this tiny ship,
but that's fine.
If you're going to throw me overboard, I'll make do as long as you free me of my restraints.
I was going to give you some Swimmy's.
Will that be enough?
Swimmy's.
Swimmy's, sir.
And she, she, she signs little.
Would that be substantial enough for you to make it to shore?
It depends.
What's a Swimmy?
Something our Artificer made on board.
It's a brilliant invention that helps keep one afloat.
And it will be embarrassing enough that should your compatriots discover you, I shall have
pride in that enough knowing that you have dealt a poor hand to my crew.
She gestures to one eye, Jane.
Would you like the Swimmy's or not?
It's your choice.
It would be awfully kind of you.
Okay, can we grab the extra Swimmy's and then let's give them a heave overboard unless there's
anything else you want to ask.
Can I heave them overboard?
You absolutely may.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
I'll go get the Swimmy's, I guess.
Just hearing a pirate cruise a Swimmy's for so many times.
I have to imagine Aura was just like, so exciting.
As Daphne goes to retrieve the Swimmy's.
Micah goes, Boreas, right?
Captain Aura.
She smiles.
Shouldn't be too surprised.
Many people are gunning after you.
You got a ton of bounties hanging around on that ship.
I'm quite popular, I know.
I actually haven't.
What's going on?
I'm so detached and you see that she kind of starts to play a little like you.
She's such a small, tiny woman.
You know, she's just a dainty little like halfling and she goes, I really have a hard
time, you know, with so many people after me.
Do you know what's happened to him?
He's gone.
I assume the news ain't really going to move you.
Your father's been taken in.
He's going to be executed.
Oh, why?
It's not fair.
He just kind of like leans back in the chair and he just goes, I am sure you will find
out.
But you want the fast track back to him?
Me and my crew will take you.
Oh, would you?
Oh, I've always wanted to try to be a mercenary.
You all are so heroic and, you know, roguish.
It's so fascinating.
I mean, it's so hard running a crew.
I miss palaces and jewels and gowns and dresses.
Will your swimmies be enough for you?
More than enough.
You say it will be enough is what he said.
He goes more than enough.
More than enough.
Wow.
So strong to beat against the ocean waves like that.
Quick question.
Are you communicating to him telepathically?
And she's signing so one-eyed Jane can also see what she's saying as well.
It is a fun sight.
It's like you're doing that and it's like.
Yeah, because sign is very expressive.
So he could Jane could definitely see that she's like all of a sudden, like very coy,
you know, and she'll sign.
Tell me what would I get if I joined you?
A nice visit to your bar.
A nice, real easy rest of your life in your head.
He goes, you ever hear the name Raelyn Creston before?
He can talk telepathically.
She'll.
She'll go.
Wow.
An easy life.
That sounds so exciting.
I'm just so tired eating all of this fish stew.
I want banquets.
I want balls.
Oh, and I'd love to see the Crestons again.
I punch him in the face.
You hear all you have to do is look.
I'm sorry.
My hands spasm.
You know how you get like just like a body twitch sometimes like, hey, I don't know what
happened.
All that continues.
That's all you'd offer me, though.
He's unconscious.
Fucking idiot.
Back with the.
She or goes, put them on him.
It's fucking annoying.
All right.
She looks to one eye, Jane.
And in your head, she you will hear.
You said your name is one eye, Jane.
When you stepped onto my ship.
That is what you are to me.
I'll just kind of like.
Nod.
So do we throw him overboard with the floaties on like while he's unconscious or like I've
never actually thrown anyone overboard.
No, no, no.
One moment.
Or is going to, you know, just, you know, do definitely climb up to his face and backhand
him.
Oh, no.
What happened?
You have a booboo on your face, but we have your swimmies for you.
Just please throw me in the ocean already.
Would you like to go swimming?
Would that be a better or do you want to hang out with us a little longer?
I think it could be fun.
Apparently we're playing volleyball later.
I think I've had my fill of the black cards.
At this point, her hand will shoot forward.
She will grab his chin roughly and in his head, he'll he will hear.
Did you really fucking think you could tempt the captain of the black guards gallery?
And thank you for playing along.
I hope you've enjoyed our stay with my crew.
Enjoy your swim.
When I Jane, she signs and hops off.
Yeah.
Um, when I Jane will kind of start like untying him, putting the floaties on him.
And in this room, is there like a piece of paper and like a bag or something?
Oh, definitely.
Yeah.
Okay.
So before she throws them overboard, she's going to write a note.
And she's going to like attach it around his neck because hopefully the floaties will like
help keep the yeah.
And then she's going to bring him to the side of the ship.
And before she throws him over, she's going to say to him, I know you're probably going
to be in contact with the Crestons soon after this, so you might as well deliver a message
for me.
Pleasure doing business with you.
And then she just got the second time when I Jane has thrown someone off a ship.
It's a theme of this game.
Zach would just end up here on the deck and he just watched Jane just walk out with this
dude and just eat the body over with floaties.
I feel like at this point, this is just canon and every time it happens all the time.
Oh yeah.
Everyone gets a pair of floaties because it's embarrassing because it's embarrassing enough.
Not just that.
It's just the one I Jane throwing people over.
So that's it.
We don't need to play.
It's just
We're not throwing people off a plank.
No, we have swimmies.
You do see as he's floating away with the swimmies on, he's actually going back towards
the shore and you do hear a very small like, oh, these things are awesome.
He's swimming away.
Changing a mercenary's life once we made a time.
He's going to come back for us.
We're going to be in the middle of the season.
We just like see these floaties above the water.
I'm going to make the swimmies scary for you guys.
One blown bloody swim.
You like floats in front of them.
Guys become a game, that's that's the title screen.
It's the water and a single bloody float.
But yeah, yeah, Zachariah, you're caught up in your own thoughts at the moment.
And then you hear someone get thrown off the side of this ship and one I Jane.
Zachariah, good to see you're alive.
Safe.
Yeah.
Let us go back to my journal.
It's always such a pleasure talking to you.
I'll say I don't know if you want to say anything.
Oh, Humphrey.
Hey, hey.
Oh, I guess I don't want to say hi to Humphrey.
I'm going to do some push ups.
I just go opposite side of the ship doing push ups.
Humphrey just watches her actively avoid him and then like, OK, just knows why and makes
his way towards the helm with where Hildjian well, the place where the steering wheel is.
I don't know.
Yeah, you got it.
As soon as you approach, Hildjian reaches for his belt and he unhooks and hands you
a couple of rabbits that he was able to hunt before he had to rush to eight.
And he just says, apologies, I could not bring more.
The situation was a little precarious.
Well that's like five and thirty minutes.
Well you've given me seven once in 30 minutes, so not your best, but don't worry, it'll
do.
I just have to use them fresh.
I don't really have cooling.
He kind of pockets them in the bag of holding and then kind of not meeting your eyes, just
kind of like wanders behind you, like just looks out on the sea and then.
You know, I would never disobey the captain's orders.
But today, leaving them behind was very hard.
I know.
I. It is hard to follow orders against what you feel in your gut is different than what
you are ordered to do.
I. I found a different life when I found Ora.
It is hard to imagine what would become of any of it.
If I were to lose him.
Yeah, I feel the exact same way.
Today if you and Clarence wouldn't have called the shot, I'm not sure if I would have.
Not sure if I would have gone on the ship.
I suppose that is why he trusted me to do it, despite my own judgment.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, you always got an eye on them.
Maybe let us also know if they're safe and everything, because I'm not sure about the
others, but I felt very uneasy.
Not to die, and I believe that whatever it is that we're about to face in the days, months,
perhaps years to come, is going to put us in situations like this time and time again.
And we will have to struggle between whatever our emotions want us to do and what might
be the right thing to do.
I guess I'm afraid of making the wrong choice one day.
It is no right choice or wrong choice.
There is only choice.
You choose the path in the wilderness.
You might step on the snake.
It's not the snake's fault.
It's not your fault.
It's the most comfortable thing.
All right.
Apologies.
I know that it is not the most comforting thing.
Well, no, I appreciate it.
Most comforting thing isn't always the truth.
I appreciate it.
Just wanted to kind of check in.
How long until we're at the adjuster car?
In your stick car?
Not long.
I would assume.
Not long.
Is it in view at this point?
No.
OK.
Damn it!
I would say that Hilgen has a moment when he looks up.
Kenway's been flying.
He's been track and then he just responds.
Not long.
OK.
I'll check in with the others.
Do you need anything?
Drink?
Food?
You good?
I will make sure to get us to the bot first.
Then I will tend to myself.
All right.
And Amphrey just wanders off.
OK.
All right.
I think we need to...
If the new stick car is not within sight, we need to have a debriefing.
I have one thing that I want to do before anything else happens.
Is...
I have to check up name while you're saying it.
Is Ordelia with us on the...
OK.
Like the inner circle right now, right?
Yeah, it's the inner circle and Brooke.
OK.
And Clarence.
Clarence is the inner circle.
Clarence is part of the inner circle.
You respect an original crew member!
Oh my lord.
I'm just saying, sometimes it's time for you to retire.
I'm also going to say, Tim, that obviously, Hilgen is using his far sight perception throughout
this whole time on top of Kenway and his ability to keep themselves navigating smartly.
I gotcha.
I always assume that Hilgen has all the tools necessary to do everything optimally.
Everything!
The helmsman.
OK, Emma.
Go on.
Sorry.
No, no.
Or we'll just, you know, tap Sakurai on the back of the knee, look to Daphne and go,
I think we need to fill everyone in on the information we gathered.
Yes, this would be a good time.
Just...
And this goes for the foreseeable future, too.
Anytime an important conversation's happening, even if you don't want me involved for some
reason, tell me so I can make sure that we're not being listened to.
Make sure you let the crew know as well.
I will.
Shit's casting detect magic again.
Nothin'.
Yep.
She just keeps it for if they're gonna talk.
Or we'll make sure that she's in view of everyone so I can see her sign.
And she'll actually take off her hat, put it down on the deck and run a hand through
her hair and start to sign, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, everyone.
That wasn't very fun.
I'm going to have to ask each of you, as we move forward with the information that we
continue to gather, that you trust that not only is each of your safety, and she points
to every single person on board, whether they're looking at her or not, is of the utmost importance
to me, as is my own.
We've gained some intel that a certain little rat on our ship has been gathering information
on us for the past...
She signs to Daphne two months.
Years.
You see, as you guys mentioned that Humphrey's eyes go wide, and you know, just like in Ghibli
movies when the hair kind of starts to stand up and he's just like controlling himself
from another before he gets an outburst.
We are dealing with a very intelligent and dangerous person.
This is nothing new to us.
However, she looks at Zach.
We are playing a different game.
Strategy is not about being one step ahead of your opponent.
Rather, it's about being open to the possibilities that surround them.
I'm not going to try to plan anyone's next move, especially Brando's.
But what I can offer and give you all is the information that we have gathered and the
facts that we know.
One thing is certain.
There is something at the bandy wallop.
That Brando, one of the most brilliant strategists I've seen in quite a while, wants desperately
more than anything else.
Treasure, no.
Something more.
Something connected.
And she signs to Zach.
And his partner.
She says that.
Zach, the compass that you've been holding very firmly in your hand, it jolts.
Once.
And that's it.
Does it ping my magic?
It does.
She immediately just signs to stop just in case.
But it's just like a quick thing.
She
No, typically, when a detect magic detects magic, it tells you the school of magic.
This one in particular, you actually can't discern.
Which is at first.
But it's gone.
Did you do some- yeah.
Did you do something with the compass?
No.
I felt a bit of magic from it, but
It's not normal, though.
They didn't read through the spell the same way as normal.
Something we say trigger it.
Or is this normal Zachariah?
I don't know.
We should try going through the words again, maybe.
It directs bandy wallop.
Also it was signed.
So question the- wait, does the compass read sign?
Cuz Darryl.
Cuz Darryl knows sign language, right?
Whoa.
I can't say anything.
Yeah.
Repeat the last thing you signed.
Yep.
Or we'll sign out her last sentence.
Nothing.
Nothing?
Nothing.
I signed Darryl.
Nothing.
Maybe it's triggered by emotion.
So because when Zachariah first heard this sentence, he would react emotionally different
than the second time.
Darryl Jinn is going to turn to Zachariah.
Tell us about your partner.
Um, well, what do you- what do you wanna know?
If you had to tell a story about him.
Well, um, Darryl is one of the most brilliant minds I know.
He could talk for hours on any subject.
Kinda like Clarence, only I can stand him.
He wanted to be a lorekeeper.
That was his plan.
It was his hope.
And the bandy wallop, he named it that.
He said it was a whimsical word.
He said it meant, I think, far away.
Far away place or something like that.
He was excited to go see it.
I don't know what's there.
He said a lot.
And I only have so much brain to keep it in, but I don't know, it's some sort of ancient
island, lost in a war with some gods, I don't- something like that.
Darryl's the one who knows all this stuff.
When did he find the compass?
He didn't find it.
I did.
There was this wizard, some, I don't know, magic librarian guy, I don't know, over in
the Solarian Empire.
He had a storehouse full of stuff.
I took my pickings and we sold most of it to me against me, but the half of the compass
was part of that.
I don't know, when I found it, I got the feeling that Darryl would like it.
He did.
And he was just able to figure out what it was, what it was connected to.
Like I said, he is brilliant.
We should never find out this thing.
The other child has a moment considering, he communicates with Kenway, or Kenway to
make sure to be flying ahead and keep an eye on the Injusticar as he then addresses the
group.
It could be also the possibility that if the compass manifested magic, that it may not
be because of the compass itself, but whatever may be connected to it, wherever that may
be.
That's a good point.
I would scry, but I'm tapped out.
Or is gonna telepathically say to Zack, I will respect what you want, but it might benefit
the group to show them your wound.
Zachariah, you at this moment, another jolt, your heart murmurs and weakens for a moment.
When I showed the compass to Darryl, we had, I guess, visions.
When I first came on board, I showed it to you, but I get the feeling they weren't nearly
as vivid as when we first felt them.
You both had visions?
I don't know what they meant, but Darryl said it was...
I don't know, fighting a dragon, I remember.
A whole island full of ruins.
That's what Darryl was most excited to go see.
From the details to me, fighting a dragon on an island, something about gods and things,
that might be too vague, but knowing about where this thing is, is there a possibility
that I might know of some story or historical event?
Dragon was at black scales, if that helps.
It's a story as old as time.
You definitely know this, there's no role necessary.
When arcane knowledge was gifted to humanity for the first time, there were many gods who
did not want humanity to have that power.
There are those who would want that to happen for humanity to ascend.
This was the war on secrets, many gods versus many other gods, and those gods instilled
their will, the quote unquote bad side.
This is actually where the black guards' name come from, paladin warriors lifted from the
hells to fight humanity.
But alongside, who commanded these black guards were these powerful dragons.
All the details fall in line, for the most part.
It's vague, but it's strong.
So this place is theoretically an ancient battleground of the war on secrets.
That's what you all were seeking?
I guess, I don't know, Daryl's a history nerd, so I just wanted to see it.
Are you saying that there is a possibility that this compass can point to the cradle
of magic, arcane magic?
What?
Are we gonna have to fight gods?
I don't think, I don't...
Easy, easy.
You spoke of visions of this, which reminds me of the tales from the secret war, when
the compass seems to be creating energy, and it is a compass.
Yeah, yeah, I'll get points in there.
And narrator, when Zacharias compass thrummed again with Jaffe, have you noticed that?
Because she detects magic up?
I would say, yeah, and it's a bit more noticeable for everyone keeping observation.
And it thrummed when Aura telepathically said, you should choke them your wound, right?
Yes.
Okay, so it thrummed again.
It could be crazy correlation, it could be coincidence, but...
Yeah.
Hilden is going to look at Zacharias and look at the compass, tilt his head.
Have you thought of asking it to show you what it wants to show you?
I mean, it's not really a good conversation, partner.
I've tried, yeah, I mean, I talked to it.
It's an object, though, so...
Have you asked it?
Show me.
You do that?
Yeah.
Wake up.
At that, like genuine question, Zacharias, you go faint all of a sudden.
And everyone watches as the compass slowly comes to light for a moment and then stop.
It slides out of Zacharias hand.
And you see as it actually comes to light, the wound underneath the bandage, it lights
up as well.
And Zacharias falls unconscious.
I'll try to catch him before he falls on the ground.
I'm ripping off the bandages.
I'm just trying to see what the fuck is going on.
Hilden, how close are we to the Inusikar?
And by this point, you see Kenway's coming back.
He's coming back in a hurry.
What is, what am I sensing from Kenway?
There is urgency.
What a role to do.
Does my far sight give me anything with my perception right now?
I'm going to say, like, as you're getting closer to where you thought where the Inusikar
was once before, there is nothing there.
But there is splintered wood hanging, floating in the streets.
There a battle has happened here.
The lifting air of smoke that came from cannons is hanging in the air.
You know, you know the sights and smells of what happens after a ship battle has occurred,
a ship battle has happened where the Inusikar once was.
And now the Inusikar is completely gone.
So you first are going to see, Hilden looks up as he senses Kenway and then his eyes look
ahead and they seem like glossy as he just looks past the sight of anybody else.
And you just hear him, Humphrey take the helm.
And first you guys see Hilden like let go of the helm without even waiting for Humphrey
to grab it.
And he starts walking slowly and then faster, faster, faster all the way to the front of
the ship.
And he's standing there for a moment looking up at Kenway, looking up, looking far ahead.
And then he looks down and he turns around to look at the crew and he is just looking
at everyone with the Inusikar has gone.
What do you see, Hilden?
Nothing.
In fact the wood floating here, you see bits of wood that's unfamiliar to the Inusikar.
But then you see little shards that you know the make of your ship.
It's made of very strong material.
Most of the scraps in here are not the Inusikar.
But there are some signs that yes the Inusikar was hit.
Hilden would rely most of the wood and the damage that I see on the water is not from
ours.
There is some, but not most.
There are no bodies.
We have Coco to thank for that.
Alright everyone.
And you just hear a laughter.
Like bordering on Mania erupt from this very small creature.
And she goes back to the wound on Zachariah's chest.
You see when Eugene has caught Zachariah and Clarence is kneeling next to Zachariah.
And he just goes stay with me boy.
Please.
I need you to be with me.
Okay?
Just talking to an unconscious Zachariah.
What is the compass doing during this time?
Yeah I was going to grab the compass.
You grab the compass?
And I say give it back.
Make a wisdom saving throw.
I fucking will.
Give Zach back.
Now.
Give him back!
I'll sub-sub!
I'm going to puke.
Come on Aura.
I know I know I'm trying guys.
I'm trying to save him I promise.
Wait hold on.
Hold on hold on hold on hold on.
Let me look at all the.
Hold on hold on.
So this is a wisdom saving throw.
Am I resisting being charmed frightened paralyzed poisoned stunned or put to sleep?
I don't think it's any of those things.
Okay hold on I got more.
Resist getting visions.
Am I?
Welcome to advanced with addition everyone.
As I puke is this anything to do with the frightened condition?
No it doesn't it's not.
Is this anything?
I'm sorry.
It's like your tax paying helper it's like do you have this?
Okay what about that?
I have one second wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait
does this wisdom save have red hair and glasses?
Like where would more?
Creatures cannot magically read my thoughts no I'm lying or discern my creature type and
I can only be communicated telepathically if I allow it.
The end.
Don't worry.
Okay.
I'm really sorry but it looks like we're gonna have to take that eight.
Okay okay it's okay.
Aura you have a whole.
I'm gonna say that Hylian is.
Was that in that one?
I'm an off link that was a nat one right?
No it was a seven.
Just damn it.
Okay.
I'm going to say Hylian is very at the ready as soon as he sees Aura going for the compass.
Okay.
Give it to me.
We joked about it but I think Kev was right I think all of y'all are dead.
Give it to me.
Okay I'm gonna get there I'm getting.
Alright Aura as soon as you bend down and your hand reaches towards the compass whatever
finger touches it first it binds to it like electricity for a moment.
It's like when you touch a current and all of a sudden your hand tenses up and you and
your whole arm and muscle begins to freeze.
Everyone watches as Aura's eyes glaze over as a holy as a holy sort of like divine light
fills her fills her mind.
Captain Aura you immediately your vision your vision swelters and you and you hear nothing
but your heartbeat in your chest right now as your as this sort of like really fast sort
of like movie plays in front of your eyes.
You everything happened everything happened so fast you see you're standing on an island
you see people building a building a building a statue.
Details I can't really give you because like I said it's going by so fast.
There is there's a large there's a large temple there's a large temple with the with the symbol
of a person with wings on their back currently emblazoned in the very middle very middle
of the door.
It's being worked on by it's being worked on by a bunch of very like by a by a by a
mixture of by a mixture of people but they seem very very very like nomadic in like their
appearance why why eyes and you're like like some ink on their faces and body.
You see you are you are granted like a view of the ocean with the sun hanging overhead
and it crackles in your mind and as soon as it crackles suddenly appearing in front of
you see a large black dragon flying creating a silhouette directly in front of the sun.
There is the there is the vision of people melting the very same people in this living
on this island.
People trying to people trying to fight this the statue that was built crumbling as the
dragon crushes it beneath its mighty claws.
You see that you see that it attempts to ram itself into the this large vault gate that
these people have built in the midst of all this in the midst of all this chaos your sight
shoots back out with a with a wide view of this island hanging in the middle of the ocean.
You see that it begins to the whole thing begins to rumble and it begins to sink below
system systemically below the below the ocean.
You see this black dragon attempts to fly away but these but these tendrils of light
shoot out from this from the ocean and wrap itself around this dragon and drags it back
down as this dragon you hear going no no.
As it as it's as it's clutched and and brought down towards the island.
The entire island sinks and the dragon continues to in its defiance yell no as its sink blows
the water.
Now we know.
And with that Captain aura falls unconscious.
I drop Zachariah to go catch the captain.
He'll know he'll do he'll do would have been there.
Okay good.
There's no there's no way yeah.
Hildre would have as soon as she went to still drop stack it would have died.
He got dropped to try to catch the captain I'm like oh.
Clarence reaches out to try to catch Zach but it's too late.
Shit I'm sorry.
Yeah.
So Hildre would have would have been there to to to catch or and he would have just.
Or a zoo catcher Humphrey Kenway.
You see you see Kenway in the horizon flying all the way back towards you.
And you get a ping.
Hildre you get a ping that says basically Kenway found in Yusticar.
I'm going to have a moment when I tilt my head look and then I call to Humphrey.
Humphrey follow Kenway.
You found it in Yusticar.
And I just.
Yeah my attention is just my attention is back on on aura.
Is that a compass open?
Yeah I was going to say do I still have a wound in my chest when they take the bench?
Oh yes you do.
Is it still glowing?
Not only is it glowing but you know when you're like in a particularly hot place and there's
like heat vapors and kind of like it kind of like disturbs the image of like things in
the view in the far of you.
You see Zachariah's entire body like vapors waves.
Oh no no no no no no.
And as Humphrey does the Akira motorcycle like like like drift beginning to follow beginning
to follow Kenway.
We go into Zachariah's mind.
Zachariah it's cold.
And typically gravity ensures that a piece of your body is always touching something.
So it's a really strange feeling when all you're doing right now is floating.
You're floating but you're conscious.
And you are cold you're impossibly cold.
There's no heat in your body whatsoever.
As you are falling going up remaining still you don't know.
As you open as you close your eyes and see the darkness that provides and open it up
see that it's the same you hear the sound of waves gently crashing onto a beach.
I guess I focus on that.
You do.
You focus on that.
And you hear ever since you've ventured out of Arkansas you've ventured onto many different
parts of the world.
You've heard a thousand different waves a thousand different places.
But these ones stand out to you.
As you focus on these waves and you're trying to think why do they sound so familiar.
The next time you blink you're you are prone on the ground looking up at a tent that you've
constructed.
As you sit up you are currently situated on a beach a palm trees above the waters gently
creeping up the shore and one lone hermit crab walking across the sand.
It's a very familiar image but one thing that is lacked that made this image memorable in
the first place.
Daryl is not there sitting in the water.
It is just you in the tent on the beach.
I run over and I'm going to just kind of scoop it up sand and all.
Hermy nice to meet you.
It's at this point you feel again it's deja vu a feeling that's very similar to what you
had before but it's different.
When you step near that inn and you felt that hatred spike through your body for the first
time when you briefly encountered Brando you felt hatred vengeance.
It started from the heart creep through all the way through your fingertips to your toes
to your head.
It's the same pathways before it's the same feeling but it's not intense.
It's warmth just pure warmth.
Warmth that a body that is alive and running should just give you.
And much like a dim light bulb sputtering on as you're holding Hermy in your hand a
small orb of light very similar to the ones that was in the compass begins to flick on
in front of you floating in the air.
For some reason you feel like it's weak and it's struggling but eventually it becomes
a dim light dim orb of light hanging in the air and it starts to become the outline of
a person.
And you hear a voice speaking in slush deal that you understand.
Zachariah.
Hermy no wait.
Please put Hermy on my shoulder.
Yes hello.
Who are you?
Please sit down.
We have so much to talk about.
And with that we're gonna go on break.
We have so much to talk about after I finish my tea.
Guys I have the best hermit crab fun fact.
By the way that I have to share with everyone.
Before we go on break.
Do they actually like to travel?
Before hermit crabs go to a new shell or if they find a shell that is way too big for
them they wait in front of the shell for other hermit crabs to arrive and then they kind
of align themselves in size like descending until the biggest crabs takes the first shell
and then the second biggest takes the shell of the first one and it goes like until the
last one has like a new shell.
Yeah did you know that hermit crabs aren't actually hermits?
They live significantly shorter lives if they're alone.
Like significantly shorter.
Am I the only one stressed out from this session?
I don't know why would you be stressed.
I mean what is there to be stressed about?
Well I mean you got a volleyball.
Like everything's gonna be okay.
Clearly.
Volleyball is a stress toy and it has popped by this point.
Alright everyone.
See you in ten minutes.
Unbreak.
Okay.
Good job.
And we're back.
Dang it.
Uh.
Jenny congratulated me for counting down from playing.
I didn't freeze this time.
We're probably just little things.
That's how you support your partner everyone.
And your captain.
Okay.
But we last stuffed off.
You're on a beach?
Exactly.
We're at the beach.
You see the um.
You see the spirit seemingly just this outline of a person sit down on a rock.
I mean it's enough space for two people to sit on.
Um.
He just goes.
Zachariah.
Correct?
Yes.
Um.
I'm sorry.
For this burden I've placed on you.
You probably have so many questions.
On who you are.
And how you're here.
Yeah I was on a ship and now I'm here.
Not here.
The ship sink?
No?
Okay.
How you're on the material plane.
How you're breathing.
I mean um.
I mean one time Darryl explained how breathing works to me.
Um.
You know yourself a lot about biology.
So I like I know how that works.
Like the lungs and stuff I think.
Zachariah.
You've died.
Um.
No?
Please.
Take a seat.
I'll expound further.
My name is Noe.
I am.
I am what's been keeping your heart beating for the past six months.
Take a seat.
This is the only time I'll be able to talk with you.
I'm going to tell you now that you don't have much time left.
And I'm so sorry that I don't have more power to keep you going.
I wish a person like you could live a thousand lives.
You and your friend.
Your partner.
He is the reason why we have decided to lead you to our home.
We can.
We were waiting for someone with a good heart.
To lead.
Let's start from a smaller place.
I am Noe.
And you see that he reaches up.
And this warmth that you've always felt before.
This warmth reaches towards your arm.
Your left arm.
And he goes, this is Demetrius.
He reaches towards your right arm.
This is Xenia.
Your left leg.
This is Jacinta.
And your other leg.
And this is Ray.
How many names?
Demetrius.
You don't have to write these down.
No, I got it.
What was that last name?
Rhea.
He goes, right now you are the last, the very last living spirit.
Of the people of Honlussa.
You are our memories.
Our loves.
Our story.
I've never been there.
I don't understand how.
You have something that's been there.
Something that we've created so long ago.
So that someone may find us again.
And remember us.
And tell our story.
Someone worthy of the thing that we have left behind.
On that island is everything that we were.
The only proof that we've ever existed in this world.
Footsteps, right?
Yes.
Footsteps.
Small and big.
Young and old.
Zachariah, we are a waning force.
We have, when we created this compass we've, we were in a dire situation.
You've seen it.
The dragon.
And Arath, the gloom.
Do I have to fight that?
Is that a thing that is going to have to happen?
When we get there.
I am unsure what's happened to my home since my departure.
But it is in my hopes that the underwater has become its tomb.
It's in this moment that you see a woman dressed in colorful clothing with dark skin walk,
part the trees and walk out towards the water with a bucket on top of her head.
Her face is completely like wiped out.
It's gone.
It's staticky.
And it's, it's almost like a glitch in a video game where she kind of stutters back and forth
and she's gone.
That's weird.
Dimitrius knew that he had loved someone, but he cannot remember her face or even the
true shape of her.
We have been giving ourselves of everything so you can have every memory.
Soon we'll forget ourselves entirely.
What you have with your partner, Daryl, is precious.
And if there's anything we want to do, we want to preserve the future as well.
Because soon we'll just become a part of you.
But even then we will go.
I'll write as much down for you.
I'll lose my ability to read.
Well, other people can read it.
That is very kind of you, Zachariah.
But I am not your concern.
We have left something ineffable.
The culmination, the will of all of our people is on that island.
A divine spark.
The thing that one needs to walk the path of divinity.
And that man, that man Brando Caligaris, he seeks it.
We know.
We feel his intentions.
He seeks it for himself.
Oh, I just gotta steal it first is what you're saying, right?
I'm good at that, though.
If you will...
What do I do with it?
I'm not certain.
The higher steps of godlyhood is beyond me.
We simply knew that whoever, whoever were to inherit the divine spark, they would know
what to do with it.
We can't pawn it.
All right, this is a little new.
Okay, got it.
Got the spark.
Don't let him have it.
Amazing, F.
And now I have to give you the unfortunate news.
The reason why I can only speak with you now, and never again.
Why you might never speak with anyone ever again.
We have remained dormant for a long time.
When you placed that compass together, we were unleashed once again into the world.
The limited time we have to guide whoever, whoever we deemed worthy to our home.
But when you placed us together, that villain encroached upon you.
He...
He killed you.
He threw you in the waves.
But luckily we were able to reach you.
And make ourselves to make you.
But our power is waning.
You don't have much time left.
You have ten days.
And this is the narrator talking.
But in Level Up Advanced 5th Edition, I spoke about this in the first session, they introduced
a new condition, called Doomed, where you will die in a certain allotted amount of time
that the narrator has allowed.
Albert, it's with a very heavy heart that I bestow this equip condition upon you.
And you have ten days.
Okay.
Cool.
How far are we?
How far are we from the...
Are we ten days away, or?
Just eleven.
If you sailed straight there.
If you sailed completely straight with no messes whatsoever, no problems.
Of course there won't be any.
Like five days.
Okay, alright, alright.
Five extra days.
We have given you everything.
To save your partner, to ensure that the will of ours, the will of all of us is not used
for a nefarious purpose, but it is a burden that you did not ask for.
Enough for that.
I'm so sorry.
I'll see you at dawn.
I was going there anyway, so...
Thank you.
You are fulfilling the wish of a thousand people that were forgotten thousands and thousands
of years ago.
That is the kindest thing that I think anyone could ever possibly do.
And you see his form begins to dim, and the outline of his body begins to shiver.
Wait, so you guys were in the compass, right?
So you've been watching me?
You like just seen everything?
The rest of us are in the compass.
The five of us are puppeteering you.
Oh, oh.
Puppeteering is not the right word.
I'm sorry.
I'm disappearing now.
Okay, I guess...
I'm gonna leave.
I wish I could explain more.
If you have any quick question, I can answer, but...
I mean, what should I...
Quick, give me...
What next?
What do now?
Advice.
Go?
I know that, but...
He's like, okay, you need...
Quicker.
I need an idea.
How do I get Daryl away from Brenda?
Anything you can think of.
If you were there, you saw what he did.
Any information you have.
I'll give you one gift, and you will know how to use it.
But your cleverness will have to triumph over his.
And is there anything else you want to say?
He just goes, thank you once more.
And he's...
His image is gone.
Zachariah, one time, and you can only do this once.
You can cast a ninth level counterspell.
But you feel like once you do that, you use a lot of the power that is keeping you alive.
What's this U of me, Hermy?
Hermit crap, Hermit crap.
I don't know what sounds that make.
Hermy's eye stalks just kind of move.
You remember more now.
The memory of what exactly happened to you when you died is now clear.
You had just pieced the compass together.
You had received the second half from a dragon turtle.
But it is wild that you were next to this dragon turtle that a fleet of ships encroached
on you.
They were friendly at first.
It was Brando Caligaris.
He was affiable.
And he was kind.
And he was curious.
And Darrow did not trust him.
You remember sounds of cannons as the fleet of ships fired on the dragon turtle.
You were captured.
You and Darrow.
You were beaten.
Just you.
Because you've attempted to escape.
You've attempted to help your partner.
By Deacon.
It's the same song, again, Brando telling him to don't do it.
Stop what you're doing.
Trying to control him.
And Brando bringing him over out of sight to speak with him.
But what you see now is an eagle's eye view of what Brando said.
We only need one of them.
Kill that one and don't throw him overboard.
We just need the one with the brains.
Deacon comes back.
And the faded wound occurs when you are stabbed in the chest.
And you see Brando again, a devil in plain clothes, going, no!
What are you doing?
To Deacon.
He said don't throw him overboard?
He said kill him, throw him overboard.
We don't need him.
And now he's completely acting.
And the sound of Daryl fades as your vision returns to black.
Everyone else.
Humphrey, you are following Kenway.
And I'll say that in this time, questions are being asked.
Hylosian, you are cradling Aura in your arms.
Everyone's trying to keep anyone safe.
Is anyone like, when I Jane Daphne, you are with two unconscious people.
Yeah.
You said we see Zachariah fading earlier?
Yeah, his image is shimmering.
Yeah.
I wanted to pick him up and get him as far away from the compass as possible because
I don't want to touch the compass after what happened to Aura.
And since the compass is probably lying away from Captain Aura now, right?
She probably dropped it.
Or is it still attached to her?
I would probably try to find something like a bag and a dagger.
I'm trying to scoop up the compass and put it somewhere safe.
I'll just put it in my pocket, but I don't want to touch the compass.
Okay.
Yeah, I'll say you safely get it using different apparatus.
Yeah, okay.
I'll just put it in my pocket.
And then...
Oh, I actually, I forgot I have this spell.
It's opened, right?
Right now it's open, yes.
I use Mage Hand to close it.
Nothing happens.
She just continues trying to get Zachariah away from it to see if it has any effect.
For you, Humphrey, we'll get back to that in a bit.
Humphrey, you see a large ship in the distance.
Unmistakable.
The biggest ship you've ever saw.
Been used to car in the distance.
Everyone sees it as well.
Finally, some relief.
As you get closer to the ship, you see that there are scorch marks on the side of the
ship.
There are little holes that you see people are currently repairing right now.
The crewmen are...
All 80 plus members of the crew are currently in repair mode.
And you see one of the crew sees you.
You see they prepare to swivel cannons.
They aim it towards you.
And they're like, halt, halt!
And then there's a sense of recognition.
And then he just goes, Captain's back!
What's the name of our healer guy?
Uh, Phil?
No.
What?
Ravi.
Ravi?
Um, Jeff?
Ravi.
Jerry!
John?
John!
What'd I John?
Yeah, as we get closer, I'll screen over to the other ship that they should get Ravi
ready to look after the people.
You see much of the crew members, some of them have been bandaged now, throw ropes down
to tie the two ships together.
They throw a rope ladder down.
But the sight of the unconscious captain sends a wave of confusion to everyone.
Jasper, who was one of the people who threw it down, goes, what happened?
What happened to the captain?
Hildren is going to carry Aura in his arms as he moves to cross to the Injusticar, whispering
to her, she didn't leave me right now, I'm going to kill you myself.
And he hops to the car as he explains, she fell unconscious.
Long story.
Where is Ravi?
By this point, everyone's getting on and transporting everyone onto the ship.
Do not touch the compass, she says.
First thing.
And as soon as you say where's Ravi, and everyone, your voice cuts through the murmuring, everyone's
asking questions, this is probably the first time anyone's seen the captain unconscious,
which understandably gets people a little bit fearful.
You see Ravi, the steely demeanor dwarf, kind of like pushing the crowd.
He goes, all right, I'm here.
He sees the two unconscious people.
He just goes, let me look at him.
Hildren is going to gently place Aura down for Ravi to examine, and as soon as that happens,
he just turns to the rest of the crew as he's like, I need to know what happened.
Who attacked you?
As he does that though, she goes to Ravi, goes, I think Zachariah is the source of it.
I think solving Zachariah's problem will solve Aura's.
It has something to do with the compass.
Aura touched it, and she ended up like this.
You see Ravi very tentatively goes up to the both of them, as you lay them both prone.
Jasper looks at you, Hildren, and he just goes, Hunter ships coming from the south.
I don't think they're Navy.
They just started firing on us.
I think they belong to another crew.
Are they still around?
No.
We fended them off.
They had multiple wooden ships.
They had a flag with a snake on it.
That's all I could get.
Do I recognize that flag?
You can give me either a history or a culture check.
Do any of us recognize it?
Yeah, anyone who can hear.
They win against sadist rule.
History wars and empires, does that help?
I'm afraid not here.
This was a culture or a history check.
It's a culture or a history check.
I'm so erosion.
Oh, goodness.
I'm so sorry.
Double ones?
For the both of you, there's other things on your mind at the moment, but there's a
thousand different things to think about.
But for you, Daphne, you know your pirates.
You definitely know the pirates that are associated with the sadist boot.
This crew, a new one is known as the eternal smile.
Oh, fuck these guys.
Oh, we're going to wipe that off their faces so fast.
And they have a captain named, you know, the captain's name, but not much about him.
Captain John.
Fuck you, John.
And that's it.
Fuck you.
She.
Yeah, she she'll communicate.
Because Hildrein was the one asking.
She goes, that's the eternal smile.
They're new to the sadist boot.
I don't know much about them.
With people like gathering and murmuring and stuff, too, she will also just turn into the
they like go back to repairs or wherever their stations were.
She tells them to go back to them.
People need to be dispersed.
I'm going to say that Hildrein is using his gloves of climbing and swimming.
He's just going to go to the tallest mass and he's going to start climbing to the bird's
nest using Kenway to check the perimeter.
He's going to look over to Robbie and look at the unconscious people and at Daphne as
he just.
What?
Look out for them.
And he starts climbing and he'll climb to the bird's nest having Kenway patrol the perimeter.
And as he does that, he's going to cast a fog cloud around the ship.
OK.
I will I will say, Hildrein, it's very unusual for you.
These people have to have tracked you, but you've been doing such an amazing job at keeping
your tracks.
It's very hard to track.
Yes.
But seemingly through all through all else, perhaps after like a few hours after you left,
these ships found and in terms of the ambush you.
Unless it was like a random act of violence, there has to be something extraordinary going
on as well.
I was.
I didn't ask earlier, so if you want to say no, it's fine.
But I was going to ask earlier when we saw some of the wreckage, if they weren't like
sunk ships, it was just debris.
I wanted to know if it was possible for me to take some of it so that I could find out.
In retrospect, yeah, we could do that.
OK.
Would.
No, Daphne, since since when are they a pirate group?
Years, months.
Are they a new crew altogether or just new to the sadist booth?
They are.
They are the newest ones to the sadist boot.
They were noted.
Like, the thing is, like the very clearness and like not much is known about them.
So like you can't honestly say.
She is.
I don't know much about them.
But they are the newest to the sadist boot.
That's the only reason probably know anything about them is that they joined.
One knew we were going to.
The intertown name here.
Did somebody also tip off?
This group about where we were.
I don't.
We know that Brando knew.
But I don't know why he would want us to come under attack.
Also just to bring this up, just in case is relevant either now or later, I have an ability
called kindred spirit, which into I intuitively sense when another wilderness expert is nearby.
My passive perception is increased by five to detect hidden or invisible creatures within
30 feet of me.
And I just instantly detect whether any creature I can see is proficient with stealth or survival.
The obvious obvious people on the ship.
There's Jasper who kind of like is the same with you when it comes to the tracking and
such.
But if you're looking for anything like too suspicious, there's not like there's not
anyone here that you would that you would find it strange.
Okay.
So after that, obviously climbing up trying to get that bird's eye view both from myself
using my far side and can way around that I'll be there just trying to see if there's
anything that I can spot above the fog cloud in the distance.
I'll go ahead and say like with your like immaculate sight, like it's just the ocean
around you at the moment.
But like you can't trust it right now.
You have to keep a diligent eye out towards the bottom.
Jasper goes.
This had happened a few hours ago.
This but judging judging where they're coming from, they're coming from the south.
Clarence goes from the south.
And this is look of like, like thinking before he goes.
So we had someone waiting for us at the so we had people waiting for us at the harbor.
And as soon as as soon as we left, there's people from people from the south ambushed
in used to car.
He kind of like there's a there's a there's a clenched fist before he thinks he goes.
We were trying to something.
Yes.
They're coming from the south and then they're pushing us north.
That was my thoughts is that they clearly weren't going to win.
And it's clearly a stupid thing to do on their end, then they were probably trying to lure
us into a specific position.
I wouldn't want to call them fools, but it seems like everything that's been happening
here has been deliberate.
We should have never come here.
Damn it.
At this point, you see Rob, Robby has been tending to the folks.
I'm still doing my detect magic, by the way, just so you know.
I got you.
I'm keeping that in mind.
But you see that he's kind of like he pats Zacharias chest for a moment and he's like
unbunt and like sees the bandage.
He goes, what happened?
What happened to him?
He starts like undoing the bandages.
Don't worry about that.
It sounds crazy, but don't worry about that.
Not what you want to tell about your healer.
Before he looks over to Captain Aura, grabs her face for a moment.
And as soon as he touches her face, Captain Aura, you wake.
Gets up, immediately looks around and signs Zach.
Goes over, crawls over and just gently takes his face in her hands and sends a message.
Zachariah, you're not done yet, kid.
Come on.
Make a legitimately make a charisma check for me.
May I use anything?
Throw on an expertise dive for me.
Straight charisma.
Come on, or you've been rolling like fucking shit.
14 plus expert T, which is a D6 or D4 guys.
You little bitch.
That's a D1.
15 is DC.
So that was really good.
Zachariah, a lot's been explained for the past few months, your strange feelings and
your coming and goings, how you feel like you've been really forgetful and how you've
been feel like you've been being pulled from place to place.
It says there was always this magnetic draw to Captain Aura.
And strangely enough to Roland as well, people with strong personalities, people with very
strong and magnetic personalities are always have this sort of like draw to you for these
past six months.
And you hear a voice in your head that's familiar.
Captain Aura.
And you feel your entire form flying, pulled, pulled with a sharp tug.
And you awake.
Captain, hi.
Sunshine.
One second, Ravi.
You are on the news, but Ravi like bends down next to you and looks at you.
He casts his, you see, he puts like a small ball on the tip of his finger and casts a
light on it and he shins it in your eye and your left eye.
Oh, OK.
He just goes, all right, look to the left.
I feel I feel fine.
No, no, look, look to the left.
He goes to the right.
Wait, no, this way.
Look to the right.
This way.
Whatever.
He's OK.
Whatever.
Ravi takes off the ball of light.
He hears that Aura gets up and dusts her hat off, puts it on.
All right.
Looks at this, checks in on everyone, looking at checking in on everyone, seeing how everyone's
doing, what's going on?
Concern.
Yeah, super concern.
Of course, thousands of concern.
Aura signs, I have a volleyball.
There's holes in the ship.
We have to fix that first.
There's a dragon waiting for us, too.
Compass.
It's on.
Oh, you had it, didn't you?
Yeah, it's in my pocket.
OK.
It's it's safe.
Are you sure you should be?
I don't think anyone should touch it right now.
I'll be fine.
That's when Aura went out.
I agree with both of them.
We let's just get ourselves situated and get rested and then get debriefed.
But right now, that compass has been the source of a lot of our confusion.
Let's just figure everything out first.
Can we can we sail and talk?
Where will we sail to?
Do we keep pushing north?
Is everyone OK?
Eldia is going to join everyone as soon as he or heard Aura's voice.
He climbs down, keeps getting way above.
Jasper goes, a few injuries, but no casualties.
Did I did I hit did I sleep fight?
There is no need.
We were attacked by the Eternal Smile.
The dumb name for it.
A ship.
A terrible name.
Yeah, a crew.
A pirate crew in the status boot.
Did Deacon name it?
I don't think you'd ever.
It'd be the Eternal Smile.
Yes.
But I feel like I missed stuff.
I think it's fine.
You spoke of a dragon.
It seems pretty important to circle back to.
I saw many things.
Of which I think, and she looks to Zachariah.
Zach would have more information than I.
OK, we pick up a destination first and start.
I think we should sail.
I think it is a good idea to sail.
I don't want to stay here.
We're open targets.
We need to keep moving.
Jasper goes.
In that case, I'll slowly bring us up northwest so that way we're not in the same place, but
we're not going anywhere.
Is that right?
How far did the bandy wallop from here?
Five days.
She looks at him.
Is that on our way northwest, or is it south?
It's north.
It's moved north.
Very well.
Where's the lighthouse?
Fuck the lighthouse.
The lighthouse is, if you're asking me, it's northwest.
It's Indian area and empire.
If you go, if it's like, yeah, if you go all the way north, you can, it still makes progress
towards Afros Harbor.
OK, I guess we just said we can discuss it.
Back.
Captain?
Did you see what I saw?
Probably.
That's probably what I saw the first time.
I mean, you do articulate it to the others, please.
Dragon Island sunk battle.
That's not enough.
You have to understand that is not enough.
Riddle again.
OK.
Yeah.
All right.
There was there was they were building a temple.
It was like a people.
They had like tattoos and stuff.
White eyes and they were building a temple.
There was like a winged statue and then a dragon attacked and they fought it.
And then the entire island sunk and the dragon got dragged down with it.
There were this light things.
Does that track, Captain?
G'nod's.
There's something important there that I, Brenda, wants.
Do you know what it is?
Kind of.
A spark.
A spark of what?
Divinity.
Right.
Yeah, like God shit.
Divine spark.
Yeah, I think he wants to ascend or something.
That's probably bad.
For everyone.
And how is it?
The compass leads to there for some reason.
Yeah.
And it's connected to you still for some reason.
Yeah, weird that.
Suppose I know what they must do.
Is the thing we're supposed to be doing fighting dragons or?
That's to be dead by now, right?
No, I think we're just going to go there and just kind of take it before he gets it.
Yeah, like last month our biggest problem was like bar fights and now we're dealing
with divinity and dragons.
He knows we're ahead of him.
He wants us ahead of him.
I doubt we just go there and just take something.
They were able to track us.
If they're able to track us and we go there, then we are leading them there.
It is something we must embrace and accept if we are to follow through.
We are not going to just be looking for this.
We will have to fight them.
I do not think that we will escape.
Should we follow through?
Yes.
Why?
Because we have Darryl.
Well, I'm following through, I suppose.
Is that a good enough reason?
We can get Darryl a different way, doing this seems like the stupidest way to get Darryl,
to be frank.
Can we do it quickly?
I do have to ask what other ways do we have to go get Darryl?
It's not, I think, easier than doing exactly what Brando wants.
Unfortunately, if Brando realizes that we are not doing what he desires, then Darryl
has no value.
And also if there is might and power in this place, it is only a matter of time that somebody
else chooses to find it or Brando finds another way to find it.
Well, we know Brando already knows how to get there.
He just wants us to clear the way, make it easier.
Just does it trap with me?
Does Brando know where the bandy-welp is?
The rat?
So...
I drew like eight different paths there, probably watched the whole thing.
So we can't trick him.
It just doesn't...
It doesn't make sense to me.
I still don't know why he needs us specifically to do this.
If he knows how to get there, he would just go there.
Maybe the compass is a key?
I don't know.
The whole place is underwater, isn't it?
Yeah, maybe it's got to come back up.
I don't know.
Zack?
When did you hear about this divine spark?
Um, just...
Now?
I think?
From...
Uh...
No way.
Who is...?
Is there something right here?
Okay, and who are they?
People from An Lusa, I guess.
I think they're in the compass.
Ancient souls.
They need help.
And they need you to lead us there.
Yeah.
To stop Brando from getting the spark.
Did they tell us what to do with it once we have it?
They said that whoever it's meant for will know.
All right, everyone.
Hat is... don't tilt it down.
None of you signed up for this, and she's signing this.
Fast.
Quick.
I'm going to allow, on our trip to the north, to anyone who would like to step off the ship
a chance to disembark safely.
None of you signed up for this.
But given what we have given with little information, this is a serious matter.
I... and she looks at Hildren.
Looks back to the group and signs.
I was once told that if I want to fight and make waves, I have to go to the sea.
This is bigger.
There are people who have been erased, like the 171 wood elves who were murdered by the
Navy.
Our own people have been erased.
Do you remember their names?
I do.
Byron Krogglegladal, Gerhart, Maxine Ansel Hesper.
These names are ours.
And no matter who writes them or how they write this tale, I will make sure that they
are remembered.
She turns to Zachariah, takes off her hat, and says, I cannot lead a group of people
into this.
If I go with you, I will not be your captain.
I will be your friend.
Thank you.
Orra?
If I may, Captain.
One of the crew... one of the... that can step up.
An orc man.
Armando.
He goes...
But I think I speak for everyone when I say this is exactly what we signed up for.
And there is a low like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah from the crowd.
And another one, a half wing, another decan.
Nellie makes her way up.
When we stepped on the ship, we made a blood oath.
That we will forever be the Black Guards.
And you see that there's a resounding agreement.
Like yeah, yeah.
And one more person comes up.
Germaine.
A human man.
All these nameless NPCs that are just hanging in the background are now stepping up.
And it just goes, what kind of pirates would we be?
If we were to just the trail off at the start of a very great adventure and abandon our
captain and when she needs us most.
Just, we're Black Guards to the very end.
And with that, people began stamping their feet.
Not one set of feet isn't moving.
This resounding agreement.
I will say that Captain Orr, when you gave the suggestion in the first place, you were,
there was looks of like muted shock and there were some looks of like almost like they were
offended.
How dare you?
How dare you give someone an off when they have devoted themselves to someone as great
as you.
As great as this, this idea of freedom.
And it beats around you.
Like a fast beating heart.
The real heart of the Black Guards, this idea, it beats on the ship around you as you hear
your crew cheer and whoop and yell.
I would like to look at each member of the Inner Circle starting with One Eye Jane.
I look at the energy on the ship and I'm definitely stamping my feet along with it.
And that'll be like a little salute to you and say, I fought a dragon before and he was
a real dick.
Let's do it again.
Is that how you lost your eye?
Yes.
I was new at.
I look to Daphne.
Daphne has been thinking.
Like thinking a lot, a lot new information.
And then she sees you looking at her and she just goes, well, of course.
I just need to figure out how we're not going to die.
She's still thinking about it.
I'll make sure of it.
I look to Humphrey.
He also is also part of the stomping choir.
I'll be loyal until the bitter end.
I'll be there until my last breath.
Such a night.
Let's be honest, without me, you guys would be just fucked.
Dead.
I don't know what you guys would be eating.
She looks to Clarence.
I followed you through so much worse.
I followed you through clouds of blood, through blood, through smoke, through shit.
My own bones ache.
I'm losing my hearing.
But that's, I suppose, the price you pay when you follow something you really believe in
and you want to protect it and you want to nurture it and you want to see it all the
way through.
I'm a pretty religious person, Captain, and I pray a lot.
But I don't think there's anything I worship more than I worship what we have built all
here together.
And I am going to make sure that everyone here is going to make it through.
I'm with you all the way to the very end.
Until we can die on that nice sweet grassy knoll together.
With the sun hanging over us so we can look at it and remember all the good times we had.
And she looks to Hildren and she doesn't sign, but in his head he'll hear, I can't leave
anyone behind.
Because I know what it feels like to be found.
If you're going to be mad at me, you only have yourself to blame for that.
Hildren is leaning on the rail by the helm.
A crewmate just handling the helm for an hour.
He's just leaning, has been watching the whole thing, hearing everybody.
He's just still leaning there and looking at her.
The speech and the mentions of his fallen elf comrades, still resounding.
And his face at first is unreadable as he hears her in his mind.
And there's a shift from that to slight concern, then consideration.
And he looks at her first seriously when she talks about being angry about himself.
And he signs as he says, I am furious.
And then he slightly smiles.
And he just adds, he signs, let's make some waves.
This she will grab a hat, put it, put it actually, she'll hold the hat out to Daphne and she
will sign to everyone.
Black guards, my comrades, my friends, my family.
I took this position long ago.
Hildren and Clarence were kind enough to go along with me.
But we do not take here.
It is earned.
And so I ask you, my friends, I leave it to you.
Would you do me the ultimate honor?
The greatest joy of my life, something I should have never been gifted.
Would you entrust me to be your captain?
I ask this of all of you.
Fuck yeah.
And there's like the padding, the ship's actually like shaking.
Are we still doing that thing where we trade roles every week?
Do we have to say that every week when we get it?
We never did that.
Before we get too much further away from it.
I thought we were just going back and forth between Jane and her.
Timmy, when everyone started to like stomp their feet, I actually wanted to look if someone
was just starting to stomp because of everyone else around them or if there was a person
that only stomped because of the people around them or if there was like everyone inertly
stomped from their own motivation, from their own, from themselves.
It is a bit-
I'm looking for the rat.
It's a bit difficult.
We already had it.
I'll say it's a bit difficult because it's a lot of people and you're searching for like
a split second reaction.
But like, go ahead and give me an insight check, but the DC is like really high.
I like those words.
Yeah, but people are stomping.
People are throwing their hats in the air.
Would you say that includes detecting lies?
Throw it on there.
Yeah.
Let's say yes.
I'm waiting for the person to be like, oh, and then they start stomping as well.
Come on.
26.
Oh, the DC was 25, baby.
Let's go.
Okay.
It's a mixture.
And like, if you've ever been to a theater before, like people clap and it's like, oh,
wait, I should clap too.
It could be that.
It is dotted throughout.
People like sort of initially like stomping and then another group starts like, oh yeah,
we should start doing it.
But it's like groups of people dotted throughout the crowd.
I will say that the only person, one of the only people that you don't see doing it is
Brooke.
She's just like, but that's just who she is as a person.
She does start like snapping her fingers though, along with everyone.
Among those people starting later, was there or Delia?
Oh, or day.
Yes.
Or daily is there, but she is like jubilant.
She's like, like clapping and when people started stomping, she was like, oh, and she
starts, she starts stomping too.
Like it's Delia started late because she was writing the entire speech down.
She is writing things down.
She's clapping with her feet, but you can tell like with your 26 insight, you can tell
that she's just having an absolute blast that she's like reverent of what's going on.
Okay.
That's all.
Thank you.
Hey, we're going to keep that 26 insight though.
All right.
We're gonna keep it in the gun.
All right.
I'll tell you information when it comes at that 26 insight is staying.
It's too good to let it go with that one.
We'll keep it there.
Okay.
You're constantly keeping an eye out.
I have my nose for trouble as well, which means that if we were to fail the insight
check, I can actually use my inspiration to get the information.
What else do you have?
You want to think in my bops?
I got plenty.
I asked Victor like, Oh, tell me everything you have.
And he handed me the entire level of advanced fifth edition like book, the whole thing.
He has a fever is actually the Cody M. Just knows.
I will say like after that, the jubilation of the uproar immediately you hear a voice
cut through.
And of course his voice is really distinct.
You hear you hear Roland go says you guys came back with supplies, right?
Where are the fucking drinks?
Come on.
Oh my God.
It's the first day and I just started like putting up bottles.
Snatch it.
People are snatching it right up.
Yeah.
I also say like slept up in the moment.
I don't know if the captain will kill me, but I do throw her up in the air for like
a hip hip hooray moment.
Well, or like flies like a flying squirrel.
And because it's one I Jane overboard.
I give out the bottles.
I take one for myself and as I do the captain to the captain, I want to say fuck that to
us to the black cards, fear the freedom of hearts, fear the black cards.
Navigator Helmsman chart a court so that we we may reenact a story of old.
I think the black guards should have some fun with the dragon, no less.
Aye Aye Captain.
As you take your drinks and everyone gets it and Daphne, it's like it's like this is
not the time to do all this.
Like we might be repairs, please.
Like people should be repairing stuff and maybe we shouldn't be loud because we just
had like a ship battle.
But no, everyone's like, nah, fucking people.
My reasoning is that people are going to find us.
They're going to find us.
Fuck it.
We both.
Good for morale.
Very quickly.
I'll say for this.
Let's see, like Daphne, real quick.
This is important.
Where are you right now?
Where are you going to go?
Are you going to go below deck and start getting people to repair the ship?
Probably but she is doing the detect magics and everything again.
She's going to want to make a round after she does like let people breathe a bit and
then OK, do this.
Do that.
You know.
OK.
Yes, OK.
I'm going to get to you in a bit.
But for now, for everyone else, the alcohol is spread out like immediate.
Like this happens a lot on the ship when there's a cause for celebration.
People drink, people sing songs, they sit in circles on top of the deck.
They start they start like fires and barrows and they warm up around it.
It becomes like this place becomes a floating festival ground in an instance.
This crew is really good at doing that.
But you but a tradition that happens and maybe a tradition that happens is that Clarence
gets people to sing and and Roland is always the one who writes the instrument accompaniment.
He makes his own songs as everyone's on top of the as everyone's on top of the ship.
You see Roland who becomes like a celebrity basically when a party is happening.
Just goes, all right, all right, everyone.
How beat up is he?
He you actually do see that he is swollen really bad on the right half of his face,
but he still has a smile on his face in the very in the very center part of the ship where
there's a large circle.
You see like multiple people gathered drinking.
Roland is at the very the crown of the circle and he has and he has a lute and he goes.
All right, everyone.
I've written a song for the strongest one out of all of us.
Brook.
Brook who is sitting in the circle just immediately like kind of like like looks up a bit and
she shrinks because so many people are looking at her.
Leave her alone.
Hey Roland, it's about Brook.
I think you'll get it when the song begins to start, but we're going to go around the
circle and you guys are going to go ahead and I don't know.
I think you'll get it sooner.
I think you I think you'll get that just soon enough.
And it's he he he began stomping his foot in rhythm like, you know, beat beat and he
waits for everyone else to go along and he goes and he goes, all right, sailing the ocean.
She's every fool's bane.
Beware the watch of one eye, Jane.
Cross her and you'll witness acts most profane.
And you see people are picking it up.
But where the watch of one eye, Jane.
And he points downwards.
And you see the person next just an NPC just stands up and goes, a genius.
I heard she invented new levels of pain.
Beware the watch of one eye, Jane.
And it goes around the circle.
Get in her way and she'll put you in your lane.
Beware the watch of one eye, Jane.
And it keeps going.
You'll stay out of her way if you have half a brain.
Beware the watch of one eye, Jane.
Don't even draw your sword.
It'll all be in vain.
Beware the watch of one eye, Jane.
It keeps going until it comes around.
And you see it's coming around to Brooke.
The person before Brooke goes, the limits of man for her.
There are no restraints.
But where the watch of one eye, Jane.
And he goes again, he goes, the strongest of us all.
They long be her reign.
Beware the watch of one eye, Jane.
But where the watch of one eye, Jane.
Everyone's saying that.
It's a she shanty.
But when it comes to Brooke, she looks up and you see everyone's looking at her and
everyone's stopping their feet.
And there's that pressure that she usually shrinks away from.
And she just goes, she clears her throat.
And as soon as she clears her throat, a silence befalls everyone.
She's not running away.
It seems she's thinking.
And she just goes, I fought her once before.
And really, she was quite tame.
And a whisper, beware the watch of one eye, Jane.
I had her on the ground, beaten.
And to that, she has no refrain.
Beware the watch of one eye, Jane.
Accosted by gunmen, she set a building aflame.
She went back into the blaze to grab some coin, which is really quite insane.
I had to go back and save her so she wouldn't become a stain.
But at the end of the day, I've proven that one eye, Jane is plain.
Beware the watch of one eye, Jane.
Beware.
Does the rest of the crew just start doing diss tracks the rest of the way around the
circle?
It seems like they just decided that's the end.
They're just wrapping it up.
And with that, Brooke just stands up.
And she looks at you one eye, Jane.
And she gives you this look.
And she walks.
She walks away.
She goes looks for Daphne to go do work around the ship.
I will try to cut her off before she gets to Daphne.
I'll try to slip out.
Okay.
As you slip out, you know, laughter shared around everyone is a fine song about one eye,
Jane.
That's when Roland goes, all right, everyone.
You all know this one.
There will come a soldier who carries a mighty sword.
And he just, that's a popular song in the ship.
They start singing that as when Jane, you leave the party to go be with, to go cut off
Brooke.
I'm going to say as I'm heading out, sorry, that Hilden has been this whole time at the
helm making sure that everything is functioning properly and keeping an eye on everything
especially since they were tracked last time.
So he's going to be extra cautious throughout this silent time of his as his avatar has
to depart.
Gotcha.
All right.
Bye.
Bye, Victor.
See you next week.
See you next week, everybody.
I can't wait.
Bye.
Stay safe.
Bye.
What giant plot drop are we going to do as soon as he leaves this time?
Oh, sorry.
Gone.
Before, before when I Jane heads off, or is going to toss a rhyme her way and in her head
she'll hear although Raylan Creston and she may be one in the same, beware the watch of
one-eyed Jane.
I'll just look at you and I'll tip my head to you and I'll tap the eye, wink and then
go to tech to Zachariah.
Yeah, and then I will go to try to cut off Brooke and I'll put my hand on her shoulder.
You know, fighting with you.
You continue to impress me, I will say.
I must admit you have some pretty unusual tactics or whatever you call them.
I mean, when I had you on the ground, you started saying really weird things.
That you're beautiful.
It tricked me the first time.
Not this time.
You know, we might die.
Fighting dragons or divine beings.
But I'll tell you a secret.
They might say I'm the strongest one on the ship.
But I think that honor goes to you.
She shakes it off, she goes.
For someone so strong, this tactic of flustering someone is pretty unbecoming.
Flattery and lies are not gonna work on me.
It's not a lie.
She realizes.
I'm flirting with you.
She thinks about the beautiful thing.
The moment you say I'm flirting with you, you see that she's already realizing about
your beautiful comment and stuff.
She thought that was just a trick.
But now as she's slowly beginning to realize, she looks at you, her eyes quickly dart from
side to side and looks you right in the eye.
Are you serious?
And she's like, you see she's actually like, like red is starting to color her cheeks.
And she just turns and she walks very fast.
I'll just call out after her.
I'm a patient woman.
And I love the chase.
That was not your best line.
And I'll just walk back to the group.
That's really the first time you ever seen Brooke really flustered where she fled.
And that we go to Daphne.
I will say as she is gathering people to work from you know, when they could be having fun,
this is not characteristic of Daphne, but she is going to note who does and she wants
to plan to since they just restocked to try to get like their favorite food or snack or
something for them because she just doesn't.
It's not characteristic of her at all.
But she's like, she's like everyone else is celebrating and then these people are actually
working and she's, I guess, feeling a certain way.
The celebrations are happening above, but like people down here, they have their drinks and
they're laughing and they're working, but you are being you are abiding by them very
well and being very considerate.
Because you are like, and taking notes down and just like very successfully like giving
people's like, giving people's preferences.
There's a tap on your shoulder.
Usually Brooke just kind of appears behind you and and says your name, but this is the
first time she's tapped you on the shoulder.
She's kind of a little bit okay.
You look like you ran here.
She's a little fidgety with her hands.
Because yeah, I'm I'm I'm fine.
I'm fine.
I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm
What's wrong?
No, no, I I forgot what I was going to say.
Um, uh, real quick, you you fought a lot of battles with stupid people before, right?
Yeah, but this person, this, they're really, they're really bad at dying.
But there's but they should be good at dying because they're stupid.
But like, what I'm trying to say is have any of them ever said weird things to you in the
middle of you fighting them?
She kind of looks at Brooke.
Um, why?
Sorry.
Has any of them ever said something really stupid?
A lie that's like you're beautiful to try and throw you off track?
I can't say I've heard that one.
This sounds very specific.
It's from a book I've read.
A book?
But anyways, I that's not important.
That's I came here to ask you if
Is this about what happened the other day?
I didn't see what happened.
I just
What?
The end.
I mean, one night Jane's been very confusing.
I don't mean she is.
I can see through her lies.
Those are flimsy enough as it is, but she I don't know.
She's been saying a lot of weird things to me lately.
And I don't quite understand.
And I thought that you would know better than me.
I I can't say that.
I do.
I think you should trust your judgment, though you're smart.
I don't.
The reason why I'm asking is because I've never had anyone talk to me like that before.
And I don't know what it's like to receive those kinds of words.
I don't know what to do with them.
But I suppose I'll just figure it out.
One night Jane told you you're beautiful and now you're confused.
She also said a couple of other stupid things.
Daphne's kind of shocked that she's telling her all this more than anything.
She called me beautiful and then she called me the strongest, which isn't right.
She threw a big guy off the side of a ship.
And also she's...
I just don't know.
She says they're not a lie.
She wasn't lying.
Wow.
It's not like...
It's not like people becoming closer for whatever reason is unheard of, especially stuck on
a ship together.
Just maybe keep it to yourself.
Should you do anything?
I just thought she hated me.
That's all.
And I hated her too, but...
Can you tell me what to do?
Here, I'll...
She picks up a hammer.
Yeah.
She is...
I can't say I know her very well, but I never got the impression she hated you.
She makes a face at that.
I mean, you were competing with each other, weren't you?
Competing?
No.
Yes.
She says...
Yes, I was.
That doesn't...
I mean, sure, people compete with each other when they don't like each other, but I feel
like it's more likely when they actually want to impress the other person in some way.
Over there, he still needs more help.
I'm on it.
This is the most emotive and confused you've ever seen Brooke.
She's just kind of shocked.
And she came to you with everything.
And she just walks away hammer in hand.
Sorry, Brooke.
I'm not...
She doesn't say this, but I'm not the person to ask about relationship advice.
Goodness.
In Brooke's mind, it's just like, you are the smartest person.
I'll just go to you.
I was going to you already.
Before we continue on, is there anything else anyone wants to do?
Or I wanted to check in real quick with Zach.
Oh, no, but let Kev go first.
I also want to check in with Zach.
Would you go first?
Oh, wait, no, hold on.
You go together.
I also want to check in with Zach.
I'm kidding.
I need to check in with Zach real quick.
Do you want it to be one on one, Kev?
Because if you want, you go first.
No, no, no.
OK.
It's fine.
We can go together.
OK.
Now she'll see Humphrey and she'll try to pick his pocket, Humphrey's pocket for Toffee
while they're walking over.
Humphrey just drinks and like not even looking, just grabs the hand.
Nope.
It's in the bag of holding.
Can't reach it.
Shit, I'm too small.
Real quick, as you're holding it up, as you're holding up and Clarence sees it, he looks
at you, Aura, and he goes, what word, when you add two letters to it, becomes shorter?
Aura flips around and goes, hold that thought, we have to talk to Zachariah.
He just goes.
Never fun, is it?
And he just goes, he goes short.
Oh, fuck you.
He puts him off.
He laughs and he drinks.
I'll throw Aura like a toffee.
Hey!
One to new one.
And at that point, also Humphrey stops drinking and puts his bottle back into the bag of holding.
And with Aura in tow, he approaches Zachariah and just says, hey there.
So this person called me beautiful.
No, okay, I'm kidding.
And Zachariah looks up from his book, the whole party and that whole song, he was pulling
an ordeal and just writing down all of the lyrics and just everything that's been happening
on the ship.
Humphrey kind of hunkers down next to you, doesn't really meet your eyes, but just kind
of sits next to you, grabs some dried meat from the bag of holding and like, here, before
you forget.
How do you keep...
Sorry.
I'm good.
Thank you.
I'll leave them here.
Just one thing I wanted to ask in case, because I don't know how the next days will go.
Your partner, Darryl, was it?
Yeah.
What's his favorite food?
Oh!
We didn't really have a lot growing up.
So can be anything.
We're fully stocked.
We were big on leftovers.
Okay, we're plenty of that, but...
Just a big vegetable guy.
We didn't have a lot of fresh vegetables growing up.
He's also not big on meat.
He likes animals a lot.
Kind of fits with what I had in mind.
Do you mind if I combine that with something that I wanted to cook for a long time?
Sure.
Nice.
It'll be a Castel special.
Awww.
Aura knows who that is.
And she just gives you a little small smile.
All right.
Do you want to talk to him too, right?
That was everything I had.
Oh, hi.
Hi.
Aura, Captain.
Which do you prefer now?
She has a big smile on her face and she goes, well, Zack, look what you've done.
And her arm gestures to the merrymaking.
Did you know the smallest ripples can often create the largest waves?
Oh, it's a metaphor, not a riddle.
Okay.
Yes.
You were asked whether your love for your partner was enough.
Tell me.
And she looks at everyone.
Back to you.
Does that look like it's enough?
Yeah.
I didn't ask you.
Yeah, you did.
I don't know.
Do you know that you guys were the first ship I tried?
Really?
Yeah.
I mean, I just, I don't really know how I got there.
I just kind of wound up on the port.
Oh, well, I honestly, if I'm going to be quite honest, your shirt was unbuttoned and that's
what first draws to you as a candidate.
I don't want that to taint the memory that we're sharing right now.
I'm just throwing it out there.
You wouldn't be the first.
For me it was comparison.
The person before that was Roland and so it was like a level up.
You know what?
Roland puts a lot of effort into his community theater performances.
All right?
And I think we need to respect the shows that he puts on and entertains the crew.
He is a lovely young man.
He has a redeeming quality.
In the background you hear, how does a bastard orphan son of a...
Sounds like I need to write that one down.
He's a brilliant writer actually.
The vocals are a little questionable, but his writing is fantastic.
I feel like he and he and he get along.
And then...
And Aura has this big smile on her face as she signs, I didn't get a chance to ask you.
Would you mind Zach?
What was the question?
She looks up at her hat.
I just slowly reach over and take it.
Is that...
Was that the question?
She goes, no, but I like this better.
Oh, okay.
I'm going to go get fucked and she's going to go find someone.
Daphne, we're changing the name of the ship.
As you say, you're changing the name of the ship.
For some reason, but there's no question.
It's like, yeah, that's better.
Captain!
And pointing at you.
And then you hear one voice in the back go, oh, oh shit, he's here.
And you hear the voice roiling.
He's like, he's here.
Oh my God, he's arriving.
There's this loud voice and you're like, everyone's like, this tension being built up.
And then you see the crowd beginning to part.
And then you see walking through the crowd.
A small orange tabby cat.
Pound cake.
Who everyone's like, oh, cat!
And he just kind of like lays on his back to wait for someone to start rubbing.
It's like that one dog at a party, like at a house party.
I'm free, I'm captain now.
Bring him to me.
I'm so glad I'm not there right now.
Captain, Captain!
Captain!
You are the puppet master.
Humphrey moves because you told him to.
That's just crazy.
You go over to Pound Cake who's having his belly rubbed by a thousand people.
And you pick him up.
He looks at you.
All the trust in the world and love in his eyes as you pick him up.
All right, let's get you.
Come here, little one.
I'll bring him over to Zachariah.
He rubs his head against your cheeks.
All right.
I'm gonna get your food.
Yeah, food.
I agree.
It's next to you, I put it there before.
Thank you.
Look to your left.
Something to wash it down?
Yeah, sure.
Yeah.
I just kind of like lock eyes with you.
Anything else?
Feed me?
Ew!
All right, you're over to Zachariah.
Okay, this is too much.
Here, I'll put the hat back on.
Or his hat.
Still, she's gone!
Oh, never mind.
Okay, I'm getting on that one.
I'm getting on that one.
I'm just trying.
Wow, okay.
I feel powerful.
You have a boyfriend!
Well, I meant the food.
What did you think?
All right.
I got stuff to do.
I wanted to be fed grapes and stuff.
Yeah, I got to go.
You hear, you hear.
Zachariah, you hear?
We'll do it.
As you look and you see the two kobolds ready.
He's a butt head.
For some reason, one of them already has a leaf fan.
Okay, fine.
All right.
Yeah, I'm here for it.
That is a man with 10 days to live.
Oh, that's cool.
That is a man with 10 days to live.
As I walk away, I'm looking for Armand.
Armand?
Armand Haas.
Armand, you would probably surmise, he's one of the people who, he's the main fixer-upper
of the ship.
You head below deck to find where you would, of course you would find him.
He is a one-man working crew.
He is repairing a huge hole in the ship.
He's very diligent in his work.
But you see him in the middle of fixing a big hole in the ship.
All right.
I'll just tap him on the shoulder.
I wait until he's finished with the big stuff and then as soon as there's a point in time
where he's not doing anything, I'll tap him on the shoulder.
I cough really loud so people don't get scared.
You see he's such a diligent and fantastic work.
Armand Haas is this dark-skinned man.
He has a really big toothy smile and large glasses.
His right arm is actually a prosthetic arm that he fashioned for himself.
And for the crew members who have prosthetic limbs on this ship, he's probably made it
for them and maintains them for them.
Oh my god, him and Dennis would be buddies.
Yeah, they would.
But Armand, as soon as you, he's wiping his feet and he's looking at the work he's done.
And he has, of course, a big smile on his face as you cough loudly.
He jumps only a little bit but no yell as he looks towards you.
He goes, oh Humphrey, sorry I didn't see you there.
Don't worry, that happens to everyone.
I have a question for you.
Yeah, anything you need.
Now, I'll like pull out a dagger from like my boot and I just kind of swirl it on my
finger.
So, you're all about like enchanting stuff, you know, repairing things and making it better.
You think you could make me one of those returning things that when I throw it, it comes back
to me?
Easy.
Yes, of course.
Oh, that would be lovely.
I can have that for you by tomorrow morning.
All right, how much do you need?
No, nothing.
Don't worry about it.
Are you sure?
Yes.
Yeah, of course.
All right.
As you wish.
Thank you very much.
I might come up to you later for something else, but that's it for now.
I've got a quick question for you, Frigg.
Sure.
Did you get into any little scuffles while you were out on the pardon?
Not on the pardon.
Not on the pardon?
Yeah, we had a little kerfuffle on Aloris.
Is that right?
Yes.
We were on Aloris, right?
Yes.
We were on Aloris.
We got ambushed.
There were people shooting in a casino.
Whole town was burning after that was finished.
It was crazy.
How long were you guys there?
Goodness.
Like 30 minutes.
It was crazy.
Well, yeah, it went down really quick.
We split up for gathering resources and all of a sudden, I think Jane got attacked inside
a warehouse and Clarence and I met a weird person.
Didn't attack us though, but we heard the gunshots and we made our way there.
Yeah.
I got one guy really good.
He didn't see it coming.
They never do.
Gone in a flash.
That is true.
It seems like whenever you guys go, events just kind of always happen.
You guys are very terribly interesting people is what I'm saying, but the reason why I was
asking is because the pardon didn't get damaged at all, right?
No, the pardon is fine.
Oh, right.
Yeah.
I mean, there's some splinters in the common room that's from Jane interrogating that one
person.
Great sword and all, but just minor scratches.
I wouldn't want to mess with Jane.
I mean, did you hear that song out there?
Yeah.
They kind of skipped me.
I was, or you were downstairs.
It doesn't matter.
Did people see you?
I don't know.
Maybe.
I don't know.
I was sitting right next to them.
What would you have said?
Oh gosh, I wrote it down somewhere.
Where is it?
Oh, you know where it was like, it was like, I don't remember the other rhymes, but it
was something along the lines of the brand new Rust Knots Captain Spain and then beware
the watch of one night Jane.
Wear the watch of one night Jane.
He does the thing.
Yeah.
I planned it in my head for like two minutes and then didn't come up.
Well, Captain, here's what I want you to do.
They ever start singing the song again?
You bring me along and no one's ever going to skip you.
That's very nice of you.
Thank you.
And also I want to ask you a favor.
Do you know how to steer a ship?
Well, you should ask Hildren about that more.
I just had the steering wheel for like an hour before.
I was going to ask one night Jane because I heard that she steered, she steered a ship
all by herself through a storm created by a god.
Yeah, I remember that.
Yeah, she told me about that.
I don't want to tell Hildeshen this secret, this little secret project that I was cooking
up because Hildeshen's very scary.
I want to surprise Captain Aura and also Daphne would say no.
So do you want lessons from me?
How can I help you?
Can you drive?
Okay, so I've been working on the pardon for a few months now and I'm really close to making
it into an airship.
I don't know how to drive a boat.
If tomorrow morning under the secrecy of everyone when everyone's sleeping, I was wondering
if you could help me test drive.
Yes, we can make that happen.
All right.
It's just gonna know how good that'll be in the future.
It's just gonna be you, me.
I'll probably bring one night Jane along because you know her expertise with everything in
general and also the Kobolds.
Okay, you sure about the Kobolds?
They've been helping me the whole entire time.
And it's already functional?
It can already fly?
I put the ley lines on there already.
It has the same makeup as a Salarian Empire airship.
I just had to funnel, I just had to mimic a wind elemental gem and get things working.
I have everything I need.
I just need to put it on and the thing is going to fly.
My gosh, you're a genius.
This is amazing.
You'll save our asses.
This is incredibly helpful against what we're going to face in the future.
Yes, I'll definitely help you with that.
And I've seen enough of Hildren's steering and stuff and I think I can do it.
I can help you out.
I'm scared.
Thank you Humphrey.
And he's always very amicable.
He takes your hand already.
Doesn't offer his hand away free to hand.
He takes your hand and takes you by the shoulder and kind of like shakes you a bit.
He's very youthful and he's so happy.
And he just goes, just like everyone else up there, I'll do anything for this gang.
You're a good guy.
I'll take out another bottle of rum from the bag of holding and share it with the others
downstairs.
He takes it.
He looks at it.
Is this water?
No.
It's rum.
I can't drink this.
It dulls the senses.
Okay.
Anything else I can bring you?
You guys are working diligently.
Oh no, it's fine.
I'll get something myself after I'm done.
Okay.
Thank you very much.
Of course.
Remember, 5 a.m. in the morning.
All right.
And I'll make my way back up without a drink in hand.
All right.
Can I do one more thing before the night is over?
Yeah.
So like when there's like in the throes of celebration, I want to like kind of slip off
for a moment.
And Shane's a little bit tipsy at this point, feeling really good, maybe a little bit emotional.
And she's going to try to find like a quiet part of the ship if it's possible.
Yeah, probably the barge.
Yeah.
So she'll go there.
And she is going to pray and she's going to just close her eyes and put her hands together
a little bit drunk.
And she speaks in draconic.
Okay.
Haven't done this in a while.
Hello there, dear.
It's me.
I know you don't usually answer to anything I ever say to you.
That's usually how God's work.
I finally.
I'm happy.
And I know I still don't know whether you're a curse to me or blessing.
But if you're listening, I could really use some guidance into how to survive.
I mean, people are talking about drag and gods and stuff, and you're a guide.
So maybe you can give me, you know, just a servant.
Some tips.
Maybe you could smite down Brando or my family.
You know, just bare minimum stuff.
I'm not asking for riches or anything or even freedom or anything like that.
Just like.
Just keep an eye out for me.
I would really appreciate that.
And she'll kind of like be tearing up a little bit and like get a hold of herself.
Well, pleasure as always.
Great talking to you.
Roll me a D100.
I love what this happens.
51.
You get an inspiration point.
Could be just you.
It's getting your emotions up.
Could be just you.
Yeah.
Down here in the barge, all by yourself, song distant.
Your words came out.
They went somewhere.
What are they good for?
And then I'll go back up to the ship and get drunk.
And as you're heading as you're heading back up, you you someone bumps into you as you're
crowded, but someone bumps into you.
And you hear, oh, excuse me.
Sorry.
As you see a woman, she's a she's a she's a very pale, like tiefling woman who you did
not see on the ship before.
You feel she's dressed rather nicely.
White dress gloves and very like, like she's just to go to like a bar.
Like very puffy, like white hair.
It's just but it's like it's like you're you're in like the doorway to to go to the
barge.
So it's only the two of you.
But you see the people behind her.
She just goes, excuse me, this way to the bottom.
Yeah.
Do you want me to escort you down?
Sure.
OK, let's go.
Your name?
That's a tough one.
Actually, you know what, I understand that sentiment.
Can I ask you something real quick?
I want to talk to the first mate.
As well.
Do you know what she is?
Yeah, I can go get her.
Can I ask?
I mean, she's so busy, so I need to tell her who is calling upon her requesting her presence.
I'll tell you what.
OK, I'll tell you what.
She'll know.
She'll just know.
And you can come along too.
I heard what you were saying down there.
Oh, did you?
I'll wait.
And she moves past.
You're not a.
You guys probably hear it.
I'm not a.
You guys probably hear a kind of a shout come from up on the deck.
I now proclaim both of you first mates.
The two Kobolds are like, yes.
I'm still also downstairs somewhere.
We can say we can say yes for certain care.
What he knows is that different person on the ship that you are going to have to give
me a perception check.
OK.
Yeah, in the chat, I've got money
on Daphne's Patreon.
Where are my stats?
Oh, they're...
Perception.
Would this be scent based if it's
a new person?
Scent based?
I'm sorry.
21.
Here's what you noticed, Humphrey.
Let me tell you exactly what you noticed.
One of the people was working on the ship.
You were going to head back up.
You just don't talk to him with Armand.
This person has been working alone,
and they had a little newspaper cap on,
and they were just nailing away.
You turn to walk,
it's just business as usual.
But then as you turn around,
you witness one-eyed Jane
like opening a door to the barge
about to head up.
This person gets up,
the very smallest motion,
grabs the tip of her hat,
and suddenly their entire form just
very quietly just shifts.
Just like that.
So effortless.
Effortless.
Oh my god.
And walks to bump into one-eyed Jane.
There's that brief exchange,
and then she heads down into the barge.
Okay. I follow them stealthily.
A little bit of a distance,
so I can hear what they're saying.
Alright. And one-eyed Jane,
you're gonna go get Daphne?
Yeah, I'm just gonna kind of like
watch them walk away for a moment,
and just kind of like...
to not panic everybody,
I'm just gonna do like a speed walk of like,
I'm not suspicious, I'm still fine.
Why is she speed walking?
I'm kidding, no one does that.
Yeah, you speed walk to go try and find Daphne.
Thanks.
Yeah, you find her.
Daphne, um, Daphne, you need to...
I'm just gonna put my arm around you
and just start pulling you away.
You need to come with me,
there's a creepy lady requesting your presence.
Who?
She said he would know who she is.
She's dressed really nicely,
and she has white fluffy hair.
Daphne, you feel the heat inside of your body.
Just a moment.
It blooms for a moment.
And you have Eldritch Blast, right?
No.
Okay.
I have Eldritch Scythe.
As soon as One Eye Jane says like,
oh, you know who she is, and you're like,
no, I don't,
you feel the tinge of like magical energy
at your fingertips crackle for a moment.
Involuntarily.
She still has her detect magic up.
Is there anything that makes, that she notices?
Through everything?
Said who?
Through everything.
Like, all the magic already happening on the ship.
Someone's like doing like illusory spells on the top deck.
And for some reason, like, a lot of the magic spiked when,
when, when Zachariah was deeming someone as a new first mate.
You're beginning to realize that maybe that doesn't have to,
that doesn't correlate with what's going on at the top.
There is illusory magic.
Okay.
But One Eye Jane is real.
Yeah, she's real.
She's the realest one.
All right, be cautious.
I just put my fists up.
Always.
And I head that way.
I'm falling.
I'm already there.
Yeah.
He's like, all according to plan.
The unknowing third party of how he's falling along.
I feel like he's doing it super nonchalantly, like right behind her,
but like exactly in the same pace that she steps.
He's also stepping.
And when she turns around, he's also like turning like with her.
It's like, and then just like continuing.
I will have to say, not for, not to, not to, not to, not to, not to,
not competing with Daphne or One Eye Jane, but give me, give me a self check.
I love those.
Watch me fuck it up now.
I'm getting, I'm getting too cocky.
Daphne's patrons are going to be like, fuck you.
I'm going to get pegged down a bit.
Wait, what was my specialty?
I didn't write anything about my patron.
Which is the problem with Tim.
That wouldn't include anonymity, I guess.
Anonymity is only when I'm like trying to be someone else or be not Humphrey.
36 anyway.
Don't worry.
Um, fails.
Not 19.
No one has ever said to a 36 before.
Sorry.
DC was 40.
Well, I could do it if it's anonymity.
Maybe.
Well, yeah, I would say that succeeds.
You follow them down into the barge with Daphne and One Eye Jane.
You are both tentative, just carefully stepping down.
You see, as you're making your way down the steps, you see that this person,
I'll say for you, Daphne, you also see this person, a white tiefling,
dressed very nicely in like suit, like spotless clothing, heels and like,
you know, like, um, what, like a co-op, white haired and like a necklace
and white dress gloves.
She's prepared like a very like this had to have suddenly appeared.
You've taken stock before.
You've never seen this table before.
You've never seen these chairs.
You've never seen the you have never seen the fancy glassware in front of her.
You have never seen the bottle of wine of Humphrey.
You have never seen the bottle of wine that she's pouring into two cups.
They are not the only illusion that you detect is from from her.
As she watches you come down, she's she there is this very elegant smile
that glides across her face.
Some of my sword, but I don't hold it just at my side.
No, no, no need.
Who are you?
Who am I?
Is her her finger rests between her and a lot of fingers.
And she just goes, I'm someone who's made a promise to you.
I don't know it yet, but I'm the cupid of things that you never got.
The things that you struggle to say.
The saints of the paint that was left in the pot.
Every time that you fumbled on the laugh in the back.
I point my sword at her.
She's not putting up with this.
Daphne.
I'm here to help you.
Which is a surprising statement considering that I've helped you your entire life.
I've made a promise, a deal.
I would give you a family so much power.
Doing anything harmful to you would go against the deal.
Show your truth, Harm.
She steps, she sits up.
She gestures for a moment, she goes, wine.
No?
She's just waiting.
She places her hands to the side of her face.
And digs in for a moment.
You see the magical energy beginning to crack around her.
The air around her begins to crack as she peels back.
And Humphrey, you're seeing all of this.
The door has closed behind you without you closing it.
My sword as soon as she starts tearing off her face.
Ironically, Daphne's sword lowers a bit at that because she's doing what she asks.
As her face peels back, it reveals that she's a much, her form begins to shift and shape differently.
She starts to actively become bigger.
Where she was once like a few inches higher than you, taller than you, she is now a much bigger woman.
Like nine feet tall, pure red skin, yellow eyes, large curling horns.
And just like, but still white hair.
But she's, but despite that, she's still wearing fanciful, fancy clothes.
She's still dressed to the nines, basically.
She goes, is it better, dear?
Do not call me that.
Daphne, it is.
Fine.
You can call me Delphine.
If you do want to make up names.
But honestly, you could call me whatever you want.
You've been calling on me your entire life.
Can I roll insight for detecting lies?
Sure.
I know Daphne gets what she's implying.
It's just a matter of if it's true.
Um, could specialty? Yes. 23.
These circumstances are absolutely extraordinary.
It's so strange.
Something that has been present your whole life now given form on this, on the news to carve all places.
Plainly. Not, not just to an audience of you, but one I, Jane is here as well.
Um, but this, but as far as you can tell, like, um, beyond, like you're, you're calm.
But she's telling the truth.
She lets the sword disappear.
She knows she might, maybe shouldn't, but to at least give the impression of a level of trust.
I always liked you more than your brother.
It's not hard.
It's very easy.
But you're smart. He isn't. Sorry.
Hello there, one eyed Jane.
Still just holding my sword.
Um, I want to look to Daphne.
Is this friend or foe?
I don't know.
You know what's a little known thing about prayers when I Jane?
This.
Devils can hear them too.
Okay. Um.
Okay.
Well, that's embarrassing that he would admit that I was praying Daphne don't, you know, judge me for that, but okay.
It's going to be very.
Why are you here?
I'll admit.
I'll admit Daphne.
Things have been, things have been terribly draw.
Terribly, terribly so.
But so much interesting things have been happening up here and I've picked up wind of something of great interest to me.
Now for me, you have a bit of my power and you've been doing quite a lot with it.
I've been keeping up with my end of the deal, but I haven't been keeping tabs on you your entire life.
So I've been a bit negligent.
But the reason why I'm here is big simply because I want to help.
Because she's her form shifts back down so you guys can actually like look at her at eye level.
She's the same form as before.
She sits in the chair and she sits down grabbing a glass of wine.
As she grabs it, you see that it's the wine sheen's like a quick flash of like purple.
And she just goes.
I want what's on, on Lusa.
Of course you do.
And you want this crew to live.
You want the power looking at you, looking at you when I Jane, you want the power to keep what makes you happy.
Oh gosh, you're evil.
That's a bit unfair.
Not every stereotype you hear about devils and the fiends are true.
That's how I'm dressed.
I'm pristine.
Why?
Well, I guess you were trying to tell me why.
You want what's on her, on Lusa.
I think that at least I think that we need help in order to not die.
I don't think that you need help.
In fact, I think you're one of the most capable people I've ever sponsored.
But it can't hurt to have guarantees.
What?
You don't seem like a fair trade to me.
I understand.
I'd love to help you.
I can give you a nice weapon, maybe buffer you up a little bit.
Maybe give you an edge against your brother.
But goodness, you don't need that.
He's got enough going on on his side.
I've made myself.
I don't need any help now.
Get him.
Very true.
But you don't want to walk to vanity?
To find spark in my hands puts a lot of power in yours.
I...
I'm not interested in power.
But you're interested in keeping this life that you've earned.
And I don't need you to do that?
You think that's true?
If you're going to go through all this trouble.
All that magic goes away?
Wouldn't that be going back on a deal?
You're right.
Despite everything, I cannot take away anything from you.
But I can add.
You should have thought this out better.
I thought it out as much as I possibly could.
Consider this a feeler.
And consider the fact that I'm interested.
And that if you ever call my name and you pour me a glass of wine.
I'll consider arriving and speaking again.
The same goes for you as well, won't I, Jane?
I'm good.
We don't need you.
Well, until next time then.
She lifts the tablecloth and the table disappears.
The glasses of wine.
And as she sits up, the chair disappears as well.
I'll see you too soon.
You'll hope.
I wish.
She turns and she walks towards the end of the barge where there are no doorways.
And she's gone.
And drop my sword and turn to Daphne. I am so sorry. I didn't.
I just had a moment, a lapse in judgment. I don't, I'm not that religious. I didn't know that. Hey, you know, a little prayer can summon devils or demons.
Yes, I feel horrible. I am never doing that again.
I, when I Jane.
I don't think your prayer brought her here.
It seems like she was seeking me out regardless.
Okay. That's the fool. Makes me feel way better that I didn't summon her.
I'm gonna put my sword away.
I'm honestly offended by that proposition.
But you guys made the right decision.
Sword resummoned.
What the fuck? I'm free.
Sorry. I saw a weird person that I didn't know walking, bumping into you.
They were doing the repairs before and then there was like illusion magic.
So I just kind of sneaked in just to keep an eye out in case anything happens.
Sorry.
Wasn't really a moment where I could ask.
No, it's good that you're keeping such a vigilant eye.
How much do you actually see Humphrey on this ship?
Well, it's a story for another time.
You probably don't want to know.
Yeah, I really don't.
Yeah, enough. But I try to keep my nose out of things.
No.
That was...
I've never...
I have never actually spoken with her or communicated with her in any way.
Really?
She's the patron of your powers?
Apparently. And I believe her about that.
So was it your parents then that made a deal if you didn't do it?
I don't know every detail. It wasn't all told to me.
But from the rumors and what I had gathered,
before I was born, my father made a deal with a demon.
That's why I ended up this way.
She's a very badass, by the way, I gotta say.
Most people don't feel that way, but...
I mean, sometimes I wish I had horns. I could just make headbutting a lot easier, you know?
You're pretty cool.
Yeah.
Thanks.
Do you know the drawback? Or what it costs?
What do you have to pay? There's always two sides to a contract like that.
There's nothing for me.
Well, as far as I know, it's my father's deal.
He didn't think it would turn out this way. The cost...
The cost might have been my mother.
It might have been, in some ways, me.
I don't know. But...
I'm offended, she would think, that I would take that.
Yeah, who would take such a ridiculous deal?
So we have Brando, your patron.
Who else do you think is gonna come to us with requests of divine power?
No more, right?
Well, we've...
...spent no one from Anera yet.
Seems like only a matter of time with the company we keep.
What if we, like...
...push them against each other?
And while they're battling out...
I am a little bit.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
But I think there is some idea to be found in that statement.
Just get them all over here fighting, right?
Just everybody who's after the divine power, we put them over here while we go get it.
And...
We never discussed what we're doing with the divine power.
That's something I was wondering too.
Yeah.
If we get it, does...
Does Zachariah become a god?
I don't know if I can handle Zachariah becoming a god.
I really don't want to see his face everywhere.
I'm very excited, he already overstepped the line.
Yeah, I'll go squee!
Go let the former First Mate know that she needs to swab the decks!
I can't see him being a good god.
Yes, sir!
I mean, I think all the gods are kind of shady, but that's another conversation for another time.
I have a lot to think about.
Yeah.
It's a good thing you guys didn't choose the deal.
You're plenty strong without it.
Some of the strongest people I've ever met.
If not the strongest.
The last thing I want is...
To have everything handed to me.
That's what... That's how Deacons lived.
It won't be me.
Very good.
I'm so lucky that you guys are on the same ship with me.
It's my crewmates.
When I Jane tears up a little bit.
We're lucky to have you.
She is going to venture out just a little bit.
There's a slight pause, she goes, Ambrook.
My blush.
God, what a woman!
She's so beautiful and strong and...
She's so funny.
Amazing and wonderful.
I'm drunk.
I gotta go to sleep or something.
I dream about Brooke.
I do have to ask, and you could just answer, whatever.
When you tear up, do you tear up in both eyes?
Yes.
So the rest is collecting under the eye patch.
The eye patch should take it away.
Do you think that it soaks the eye patch?
You know what?
One day Jane's a little bit drunk.
And she feels vulnerable.
And so she's tearing up and she lifts up her eye patch a little bit to wipe away her tears.
And...
You see an eye.
Stephanie's not that surprised, to be honest.
How closely do you look at the eye though, that's the question.
Yeah, she definitely looks since it's there and she's never seen it.
Same.
Well, since you guys look closer, there is something very striking.
Something about an eye, of course.
Of course she has two eyes.
She's not the best liar.
Doesn't surprise you.
But for curiosity's sake, both of you look at the eye.
But you do notice something that's very, very striking.
Embedded seemingly on the inside of her eye that was hidden behind the eye patch at all times
is this strange insignia.
And Humphrey, Daphne, you definitely know what this is.
Humphrey, this is a big part of the society that you grew up in.
And Daphne, you studied up on these.
A dragon mark.
And that's a very big thing for Kev's sake because this is very big for Jenny.
But dragon marks are mystical sigils, like a birthmark born person.
Basically they're in a bloodline that's blessed by a god and gives them abilities that gives them an edge over the common folk.
That is House Creston's dragon mark.
It's on the eyelid, right? Not on the eye patch.
It's in the eye.
It's part of her pupil.
And this dragon mark particular grants you immense strength.
You know this.
You notice at the top of your head, Humphrey.
Okay.
I don't give it too much attention.
Or at least I don't show that I noticed.
You have a dragon mark.
What?
Humphrey's like, keep it chill. Daphne's like, bitch what?
Slap my eye patch over my eye.
Oh, what? He's a dragon mark.
You're right. That would be crazy.
I must have just imagined it.
I didn't want to say it, but I saw it too.
I just slapped my hands on both of your shoulders.
Guys, you can't tell anybody that I'm Raiden Creston. It's a really big secret, okay?
I won't tell anyone.
Okay.
It's like, ooh, ooh.
Yeah.
Can you assure us that it doesn't come to bite us in the ass later on?
I doubt it.
I mean, there may or may not be like one or two houses after me.
But everybody on this ship has powerful families after them, right?
We all, many of us, have a past that will come back and bite us.
So it's really of no concern to me.
Okay.
But I am a pirate, okay? Just so we all understand each other.
I did grow up with sharks and was born on a full moon under the storm.
And I've fought dragons and gods.
You don't have to pretend like you're a more qualified pirate or whatever than you are.
I'm a pirate for the past six months on the greatest crew on the Riverian Ocean.
That's not nothing.
One day Jane hugs you and picks you up.
She's surprised.
Damn right!
You're being squeezed. Oh, God, you're popping.
That doesn't matter.
It's now what you do with it, with your future.
I was trapped in a dungeon before they picked me up.
Not exactly like the pirate experience, you know?
You hug Daphne and then I hug Humphrey and pick him up.
Yeah!
I let it happen.
I will say that after these particular hugs, both of your bodies feel numb.
It feels awkward to walk for a bit, but you're standing.
Alright.
Really strong.
Any more secrets where we should get out now?
I can do the icebreaker if you guys want.
So, well, I was a cook before for House Castell.
People know that already.
But since what Micah said, there's bounty hunters now looking out for us.
And they said they want me only alive and unhurt.
Which means maybe they finally figure out that I didn't poison the royal family.
Which is a good thing, I guess, but...
Doesn't seem like they'd care to capture you then.
Yeah.
They're not exactly about making amends in Anera.
I don't know. It's...
Maybe Castell has something to do with it.
I also think I met Van Colton.
If that rings any bells for you guys.
You saw him?
I think so.
And I describe what the person that I had the standoff with looked like.
The thing that gives it away?
The hat?
Get rid of the hat?
Twine wrapped around it? No, he wants them to know.
Yeah, I saw him while gathering supplies with Clarence.
And to be honest, I think I had a bit too much of a lip, but I had to bluff.
I couldn't gauge his strength. I don't know if I could have taken him or not.
Do you know anything about him? Is he famous? Is he strong?
He killed an emperor, so there's that.
No.
Great.
I mean, who hasn't?
All right. Well, I had Clarence with me, so maybe we could have taken him.
I don't know.
Yeah. He wasn't aware of my bounty, but he let me go.
He didn't engage in combat or anything of the sort.
He was quite civil.
He didn't exactly turn it up bounty himself.
Anyways.
True.
Yeah, that's me. No devils, no deals, no divinity, no dragons.
Just a cook.
And a lot of unnecessary drama, to put it lightly.
Oh, I hear a few things here and there.
Well, I should probably either get back to making rounds, making sure we're not being watched, or actually get some rest.
As soon as you say actually get some rest, the door to the barge crashes open.
As you see Coco has you squee as a battering ram to ram open the door.
And then the both, he puts them back up and he's dizzy. Coco looks at you and goes, you swab the decks.
She just goes, fix the door.
Captain says, where to do for us, mate?
I'm Daphne, sorry. The socks got demoted like that.
I'll take my, I'll take my leaf. And before Humphreys leaves, he grabs Jane by the shoulder and whispers to her ear.
If you love something, make sure you don't let it go.
And then he moves on. Onto the party. Away from whatever happened.
Who's the captain tonight? She immediately picks up on what's going on.
The, the both look at each other at the same time, at the very same time.
The all powerful, almighty Zach, wacky Zachy.
She summons her sword.
I'll whisper to Daphne, please don't let him be a god. I really just, I don't think the world can handle this.
Oh, I finally have an excuse. She says, looking at her sword and she heads that way.
As you summon the sword, they immediately start picking up the door.
She's going to Zachariah with Senataph, her sword.
Immediately after I see the kobolds run off, I want to find Ordelia.
Okay.
Hey Ordelia, listen, don't have very long to talk because I'm going to need to hide soon.
But from your sins.
No, I think that I have a story for you.
One of a lifetime.
You know how much I love those.
Ten days.
You'll know within ten days.
I'll talk to you more later. I don't really have time, but do not ask anyone else about the story.
Or you won't get it.
You have my heart all a-flutter now.
Yes, of course.
And if for some reason I don't get to tell you the story before the ten days is up, you can ask Darryl.
I would love nothing more.
I think he'd love to sit and chat.
I'm going to take off. I'm going to climb up into the crow's nest and I am cutting the rope and pulling it up with me.
Do you think that'll stop me?
Daphne, you make your way out. You see the captain, you see captain Zach cutting the rope.
Holding the rope.
Immediately, Zach, you see him look down. Daphne's holding a sword and looking right at you.
Swab the deck.
I'm going to take off my gloves and give it to Daphne.
There are the gloves of climbing and swimming.
You can just return that to me in the morning.
I'm going to go sleep this off and pretend nothing ever happened tonight.
Just leave you to it and go to bed.
She puts on the gloves.
Did he already cut the rope? Or is he in the process of doing it?
I guess I just pull it up. I don't need to cut it. I'll just pull it up.
She's going to be even more mad if you cut the freaking rope.
There's a second mast, right?
Yeah.
Okay, good to know.
I haven't had a short rest, have I?
It'd be fun to just dimension door up there.
We can say that it's been now and then. It's been pretty light on activity.
Okay.
I dimension door to the top.
You're holding the rope and then you're, she just shunts.
Hi Daphne.
Are you going to run or?
Me? Run? Never. I jump down the hole.
On the way down, can I kick off the mast and try and put some distance?
Yeah, I would say definitely. He's making the artful getaway from you right now.
There was a punishment I was saving for Roland with my sword. Tiny, tiny unhealable cuts in between the fingers.
She just yells down.
Wow. That sucks for Roland.
She lets the sword disappear and she just, she lets him, she lets him leave.
That's a warning for later.
You do hear, as you say that, the people hear it and you hear, oh, and Roland goes, wacky, Zacky's in trouble.
Uh oh, uh oh, you better run on the double. And then you see people just join in. People know the song.
Uh oh, uh oh, you better run on the double because Daphne's here and now you're in trouble.
Which is a song you've never heard before, Daphne. People know this.
She's just like, you're just lucky it's not you, she yells down to Roland.
Even when I'm not in trouble, I'm in trouble.
That's a load of rubble that I'm in trouble. He's like sounding it through and people are like, nah, no.
Come on, keep talking Roland, do what you do best. Talk too much.
She lets him run away. She lets him run away, purposefully.
And with that, we're going to call it there.
After the encounter with the mysterious, I mean, I suppose not very mysterious now, a Delphine.
She's very concerning. A couple of revelations and...
I'm going to lock myself in my quarters, by the way, because I am the captain. So that one has a working door.
You mean the game in rec room?
And after the terminations are set in stone, and for some people for life, we are going to call it there.
Yeah, wow, guys.
I was going to do a cliffhanger in the middle of a sentence with Delphine.
She's like, I'm interested in the spark. And I heard it on my finger.
I was going to be like, OK, that's the end of the session. It was going to be the end.
And you were like, yeah, that's what I thought. I was like, OK, I guess I better continue this conversation.
And then you guys started talking and it was awesome. And I didn't want to cut it off.
So we just...
Kev had a nice line. You were going to end it. And I was like, but...
Yeah, you guys make it hard to end a game.
Anyways, I go kill Zachariah again right now. You know, same spot, already weak.
There's a lot going on, y'all.
OK, guys, this hasn't been a campaign. It's been a pleasure.
Ew, no, you are, Ordelia.
No, I'm not.
Yes, you are.
No, I'm not, Ordelia.
You are. That's a self-insert on PC, everyone.
No, it's not. Ordelia is a self-insert.
So Ordelia is a spy. We know that, right?
She's just having fun.
Good job, everyone.
We act like this is the end. We have more games to come.
I love this session. I love this session.
All right. With that said, thank you so much for watching.
We'll see you next week.
Bye-bye.