The City of Glass was not always in this state.
It was once, not too long ago, sealed beneath
the surface, a subterranean labyrinth under the
old town of Yellowrock. It was there, in those
depths, in the City Obscured, that I obtained
my lengthened life. We had come upon a mirrored
organ of some long -dead Leviathan. Within its
fractal surface I saw all possible permutations
of my life. A clear reflection of my own prescient
abilities made physical in front of me. I was
overcome suddenly with a terrible hunger, and
before my allies could dissuade me, I had slit
the organ and drank deeply of its glittering
bile. I feasted on possibility itself. I felt
other versions of myself screaming and begging
for mercy as I consumed their destiny. And as
my body became bloated with stolen vitality,
for a moment it was as if I had died. A brief
shadow overcame me as if the god of death had
come to punish me for my transgressions. And
yet, the moment passed, and I remained, or so
I believed at the time. I had not thought at
first I would need to use so much of this vitality.
More years have passed than I had hoped from
whence we started this task. I now feel that
in those lives which I consumed, there was something
tainted. There was traces of the undone there,
pieces which erode me even with the gift of everlasting
life. I find parts of myself changed, mind and
body sculpted slowly into a crueler form. My
long -loyal servant, Downfall, will be the face
of our operation for now, until I can find some
manner of subduing myself and my temptations.
His own miraculous gifts have given him far less
trouble than my own, it seems. But I do not want
you to worry. When the final step comes, when
it is time for us to plunge our hands into the
heart of this city, I will be there. We both
will. and we can finish what we started in that
foreign time all those years ago. Okay. Hello!
Welcome back to All That You Know. Today, we're
going to return to the City of Glass. As always,
I am the Game Master, and you can call me Colin,
if you're sweet on me. Joining me today are Brian.
Hi, my name is Brian, and I'm playing Booker
Page, the Incarnadine. Ewan. Hello, I'm Ewan.
I am playing Halo, the Witch. Zach. I'm Zach.
I'm playing Ledger Grey, the Deathwalker. And
Adam. Hi, I'm Adam. I'm playing Bailey Cormac,
the Junk Mage. Ooh, I just love these folks.
Let's talk beats and fallouts. What your character
is pursuing and what they are suffering from.
Booker, what are your beats? What are your fallouts?
Yeah, my current major beat is learner possess
something that lessens the control your masters
have over you, which I think we're on a good
start with that book we got last session. Miner,
forge a friendship or romantic relationship with
an NPC. That's a new one. And Booker currently
has the fallouts foreboding. Fortune miner, beyond
the sky, darkling stars dance eternal over thy
world. This can be upgraded to a crisis. Look
forward to that. And the second is Dark Cravings
Teeth. I'm still hungry for teeth. So next time
we visit a haunt or attempt to refresh your blood
or mind stress, I need to go eat some teeth.
That's good. Halo, tell me about your beats in
Fallout. My beats are that I would like to terrify
or intrigue either one an NPC with my obsession
related to the next beat. Meaning that I want
to destroy a haven, returning the land to Mother,
which is what I named the city last episode.
And I have no fallout. I'm feeling great. Ledger.
Must be nice. I wouldn't say that these are the
things that Ledger wants, but these are the things
that I as the player want Ledger to do. The first
is perform a truly reprehensible act on behalf
of your masters. That's a major. I feel like
he had the opportunity to do that last time,
but he decided not to, and instead he completed
his minor, which was to make friends with an
NPC. He made friends with that other Deadwalker
right before he was brutally killed in one of
the worst ways imaginable. And then my second
active beat is do a favor for someone to gain
leverage over them, and that is a minor. Bailey,
where are you at? I got two active beats. Both
of them are major. The first one is take major
supplies fallout, and the other is destroy a
haunt to learn more about your task. And I have
no fallouts. Nice. Oh, yeah, I should probably
clarify. I also have no fallouts because Ledger
traded that staff to get his teeth craving, I
guess, bewitched out of him. It's a little unclear
what exactly that guy was doing, but it worked.
He painted on you. Yeah, yeah. He painted the
bat out of you. Ledger probably still, he didn't
wash that paint off, so he's just got, like,
the half -smudged, like, worn -over -an -entire
-night -of -combat, like, voodoo paint kind of
smeared on his face. That's pretty sick. Oh,
yeah, what pattern's it in? I want to know. I
think it's, like, lines. Yeah, it was a cool
pattern before, now it's all fucked up and smudgy,
because he probably, like, rubs his face absently.
And where was it painted on him, though? Was
it, like, around the eyes? His jaw down to neck,
because it was a malady of the throat. Ah. Because
my throat just wanted those teeth. It did. Okay.
I'm going to try to go over everything that happened
in that very long last episode. And I've tried
to rewrite this multiple times to get it to be
concise and short. But that's just not going
to happen. So you're just going to have to listen
to me talk for a little bit. Last time, you had
a very memorable evening in the town of Calamity.
Headed directly to the far side of town, you
met with your benefactor, or you met with a representative
of your benefactor, a weird robed guy by the
name of Downfall. He told you to leave after
you gave him a bug, and then you'd be briefed
in the morning, but you can stay the night there.
You went back into town. A lot of shit happened.
Bailey caused a scene when a fellow student from
the academy recognized him and tried to get him
to give up on his quote -unquote research in
the City of Glass. Booker gave a mark of debt
to a librarian and discovered a book on demons,
which he mentioned as his beat. Bailey and Booker
tried to get the friendly man to go to Albright
Manor, but scared him off. He insisted he had
to leave town and that your benefactor, Albright,
could not be trusted. And he asked that Bailey
throw Albright off of his trail and that he'd
make it worth your while if you did. Meanwhile,
Ledger dropped off his stolen control rod and
immediately received new orders to kill a man
by the name of Ticker. Got complicated. Ledger
ended up letting Ticker go, seeing that his deathly
companion wasn't into it. And after all of that
occurred, you returned to the manor to get some
rest. In the night, Halo felt himself called
into the manor's basement, where he found an
impossible replica of his birthplace, which is
not supposed to be in the manor's basement. And
Halo underwent a ritual to give the City of Glass
a new name, which is Mother. At the end of that
ritual, Halo discovered that the lamp he carried
the one he had been born from, had been partially
restored during his trance state, I guess you
could call it, and it now bears three numbers
on it. Halo, what are the numbers you chose?
Numbers are zero, zero, zero. Oh my god. Now,
we are in the present. It is the next morning,
and two things have happened. One is that the
library has burned down, or I guess rather it's
been burned from inside because it's a stone
building. The next is that Ticker Gray has been
killed by someone else and his body has been
displayed outside of the inn. These things are
not immediately known to you because you're in
the manor, which is on a hill far above the city.
But you would probably notice some smoke coming
from town. And as you awaken, there's a knock
at your doors as some servants come to bring
you downstairs. So they don't talk to you. There's
kind of gesture for you to follow. Yeah, I think
Ledger will. So Ledger hasn't seen the dude all
crucified up? Nope. Okay. Yeah, then he's probably
in a pretty cheery mood. So he'll tip his hat
to the guy and maybe flick him a single tooth
from his bag by way of like a tip and then follow.
Very polite. Are we in the Albright Manor right
now? You are in the Albright Manor. You've awoken
in your room. Where are our rooms? Are they on,
like, a long hall? How likely am I to bump into
Ledger at this point? I imagine you have all
been not knocked up. Though they do call it that
in Europe, just so you know. Really? They do.
What? Oh, no. You've all been simultaneously
been knocked up. You've got these handsome, burly
servants. Anyway, we're woken up. I see Ledger
down the hall. I jog down to him. And I'm like,
hello. Good morning, Halo. Do you think we'll
see Albright today? I have my doubts we will
ever see him at this point. Hmm. And it was me
and Ledger that overheard the guy saying that
Albright could not be trusted. I... I think that
was Booker. Yeah, I don't think we even were
aware of that. He said that Virgil Albright cannot
be trusted. Dropped the full name. Okay, was
that good? Just getting it straight. Which characters
have which information? Halo doesn't have his
lamp. And he doesn't mention anything about what
happened to him last night. He's just like, hmm,
well, I hope that we do see Albright. I have
my suspicions about the man. Part of me wonders
if he's... Even real. What is real? Now that
is a damn fine question and one that I believe
myself to be woefully incapable of answering
at this time. He smiles. That's okay. I'll ask
someone else. Booker leaves his room looking
really well rested. Damn, you feel great. You
feel spry as hell. You feel ten years younger.
That was a real prediction because Booker hasn't
had a night's sleep like that. As far as he can
remember. Fuck me neither, man. Hell yeah. Now
Bailey's going to pop out from the door ahead
of you guys. And he jumps out and he's holding
an orange. And he says, think fast! And he throws
it at Halo. Does that mean Halo's going to die?
His mouth opens up instantaneously and swallows
it. Does he really? No, he does grab it with
some preternatural speed. Ooh. Bailey says, nice
catch! And he has another orange. And then he
kind of joins the group and says, I only have
two. And he starts eating his. You're running
dangerously low on fresh fruit, Bailey. I know.
You are led down to the dining room, unless you
have any other business to attend to. But it
sounds like you don't. No, we don't. Okay. You
arrive in the dining room. Unfortunately, all
the fresh fruit is gone. Someone's pilfered it.
I don't want to play anymore. I was going to
ask. There's only an assortment of crusty breads
with no value in system. I'm sorry. I thought
you were going to say with no butter and I was
about to fucking scream and peek my microphone.
What's the difference? I'm not going to tell
you. Downfall is standing on the other side of
the... table, which may or may not have butter
on it. He's wearing the same stale pink robes
as before, which obscure his figure, and he waits
for you to all enter and remain silent as you
take your places. That one's kind of a hard sell
for Ledger, because he's such a fucking loud
mouth, but he probably walks over to the table
and grabs, like, the biggest piece of bread and
rips it in half with his hands and sends crumbs
all over the floor and takes a big bite, and
he's like, Morning! Strong silent type. Ledger
will also sit. No, go ahead. I was going to say
he will also sit and do the same thing he does
anytime he sits down, which is like lean dangerously
back in his chair, like tips it up on its back
legs so it could fall over at any moment. Excellent.
Downfall is very still as you enter, almost like
he's not even really there. And then as you have
all come in, he kind of shakes a little bit and
he says. Down to business, then. Yes? Yes. I
have spoken with the founder. The insect you
brought me belongs to one of the very first expeditions
that we sent out. And judging by the state of
this friendly man of yours, that expedition was
a partial success. It is paramount that we ally
ourselves with him without arousing any suspicions
or hostilities. How did that task go? I have
heard you made contact with him in the city,
the town, last night. We did. We spoke to him.
Did he not show up? No. We directed him right
here. Are you sure? Did he leave servants outside
to see? I am sure. Maybe he changed his mind.
Told him there was a job here. Yeah, I even offered
him the money, too. Doesn't make any sense. Did
you say something to him before he left, Bailey?
Oh, nothing. I just told him about the opportunity.
Are you sure you didn't see anyone come over
here? He raises a hand. Not in like an I have
a question way, in a enough of this kind of way.
And he says, while... The friendly man does change
things somewhat. Your main task is going to remain
the same. I'm sure you will have opportunities
with him in the future, given that it is plain
now that he has fled the city. He may be on to
us. We... What we need you to do is to chart
a course to Last Candle, which is the final town
before the city of... Glass gives way to the
spine's impossible influence. The old routes
have been lost as the city has shifted. I believe
you four will be good enough choice for this.
And he produces an iridescent beetle about the
size of a fist, very similar to the one that
Halo had before it climbed over to downfall.
And it skitters across the table and walks up
in front of you. I want to know. What makes it
look different from the last beetle? What's noticeable
about it? I think it has a different pattern
on its wings. It's more streaked instead of just
a golden, shiny, scarab -like situation. It walks
over to us? Yeah, Halo looks at it and says,
Hey, this isn't my beetle. No, and neither was
the last one. Okay. This isn't my friend. Ledger
puts his hand down on the table in front of the
beetle as if inviting it to walk up his arm.
It walks up your arm and it crawls into your
bag. Gross. He's an eager little fella. Now,
I do have one question. I mean, it is known that
things become more fluid as you approach the
center. Now, how long precisely do you think
this route we chart out for you will remain?
That is not your concern. Fair enough. Along
the way to Last Candle, you may encounter the
remains of other expeditions that we have sent.
These expeditions were likewise outfitted with
these beetles, and the one you have will notify
you when another is nearby. This is a secondary
objective to you. You will be paid a bonus for
their retrieval and any information about the...
fate of those expeditions um if those expeditions
are alive then you will you'll contact me and
he produces a small package from his robe uh
the final thing that he's going to slide across
this table to you for a while hopefully and he
says kind of gesturing to this package it's about
the size of like what's like half the size of
a shoe box a bread box i don't know don't say
that Did you say a can of soup? Like a big one.
A can of soup that's about half the size of a
shoebox. I can imagine that, weirdly enough.
That makes sense. Yeah, sure. Why not? It's that
size. And he says, inside of this package are
instructions and materials for contacting me.
You are to do so at any haven you reach to inform
me about the route you took as well as current
conditions. whether or not you have a beetle
to give to me. What are the beetles called? Is
this something that we know of in this world,
or are they mysterious? Hmm. The beetle network.
Because if it's mysterious, Booker's going to
ask. Who is the occult tag domain? I do. You've
discerned two, right? I do. Bailey would be the
guy I would assume might have a clue, so that's
good. These are not... And if you wanted to know
more, you could roll for it. But these are definitely
magical beetles of some sort. And you get the
feeling that they are all connected. Bailey gets
the feeling. Booker, you do not. You have no
fucking clue what this is. Okay, the booker's
just gonna ask, so what are these beetles? They
are extensions of my will. Fair enough. You just
a big pile of beetles under there? Yes. Fascinating.
Well, I believe that's all the information we
require. What do you think? He looks to his compatriots.
I think we got everything we need. I want to
ask the beetle man. Halo pipes up and says, When
will Albright be coming down? Master Albright
is very busy. I suspect you will not be meeting
him on this visit. But you said that yesterday.
Has he been busy this whole time? He is a very
busy man. Halo puts his hand to his chin like
he's thinking, I can't be busy every second,
right? He doesn't say anything else. Downfall
kind of walks a little closer to the table, places
a hand question mark on it. It's gloved, so you
can't really tell. It's wriggling. Ew. And he
says, as for your rewards, I have arranged, or
founder Albright has arranged, that you each
be given a stipend at each haven you reach. In
addition, he may, at his discretion, share with
you some of his great insight to assist in your
personal matters. I assume that these insights
for which the founder is famed are what you are
truly seeking here. And though it was premature,
by my judgment, I believe the founder may have
already shared some of this knowledge with your
demonic companion already. And it kind of gives
a gesture to Halo. And Ledger looks at him and
just raises an eyebrow. So that was Albrecht?
Downfall does not respond. What is Albright?
Why is Albright? Do you know if he was the one
who fixed my lamp? Who else? Well, I guess he
is nice after all. We had nothing to worry about.
I looked at my friends. The founder is a kind
and magnanimous man. I owe him a great deal.
And so will you. In time. Oh. Halo kind of thinks
he knows what that word means, so he doesn't
ask about it. Booker didn't like that. As a final
note, do not rush through the City of Glass.
It is a barbed and thorny thing. The faster you
move, the more it will react. Move carefully
and keep stock of your resources. Pick up any
odd jobs you may need in the havens you approach.
It is alive and it will demand your respect,
no doubt as your guide, Ledger, can attest to.
Ledger just smiles. I think we decided he has
a gold tooth, right? It flashes a little. He
has to. Yadda. I will leave everything else up
to the discretion of your guide. Depending on
how the city reacts, you will most likely end
up in Dirt Hole or Flitchburg next. Once you
have reached there... You may contact me. And
that will be all. Good luck. Oh, Dirt Hole? Why
do they call it that? I've always wanted to visit
Dirt Hole. Oh, boy. It's a pleasant place. Actually,
has Ledger ever been to Dirt Hole? I don't know
exactly how far in he's been. I know that he's
not been that far, but these first havens are
kind of generally on the periphery, right? Yeah,
I think you were more on the south side of the
city. Okay. During your work. This is as far
north as you've been. So you're not sure. But
you've heard of Dirt Hole in Flitchburg. Good
towns. Good towns. Mostly normal. Especially
if you love dirt. Yeah, I mean, you'd think that's
what would happen in Dirt Hole. That's more hole,
less dirt. Yeah. That is the nature of a hole,
is to be vacant of things. Downhole said all
that. He did. If it was full of dirt, it wouldn't
be a hole. This is the conversation. And there
are no such things as holes. Of course. We gotta
get out of here. Shoot down. Yeah, you are left
to your own devices. I think Ledger grabs any
uneaten bread and just kind of stuffs it in his
backpack and then walks out. Bailey quickly does
that too. He's a little ashamed. Halo just goes
to get his supplies and sit in the foyer in the
waiting area. Ready for the field trip. What
is your next order of business? I think before,
as we're all leaving, I think Bailey's going
to put his arms around everyone and bring them
in. And then he says, you guys know exactly what
just happened, right? What? We just met Albright.
What, you think that the pile of beetles is Albright?
No, no, no, my friend. And he points to your
sleeve. That's Albright. You think Albright is
the beetle that was part of the beetle man? This
beetle specifically is Albright. He's watching
us. He's coming with us. He's going to test us.
I don't think he's big enough to... Hold on a
sec. I don't think he's big enough to fix my
lantern. Look, I pull out my lantern and it was
fixed. You think a bug can't fix that? It's too
heavy. The parts. Albright is a magical man.
He can do a lot of things, alright? Maybe he's
a really strong bug. Huh. Just be careful what
you say around that thing, okay? That's all I'm
saying. We have to protect him. Ledger, you have
to keep him protected. Oh, he's in safe company
here. And Ledger taps the side of his bag. don't
tap it as the bonus we get from them it can squish
i'm sure we're all just having this i imagine
we're having a conversation as we're like walking
out of the place yeah yeah just be careful just
be careful i'm just saying okay but this ends
up and what turns around yeah i guess you should
add someone should add i guess it's ledger who
adds it um downfall is beetle it's an occult
occult d 6, I think, as well as before. But it's
niche. It's going to be hard to sell if you try
to do so. Add Albright? Yes. Who knows? Bailey
will be calling it Albright now. I must study
it. Can we just make this next session you studying
a beetle? Yes, please. See how strong it is?
Make it do weights? What's the power level of
this beetle? You don't have your scanner. Damn
it. Okay, where are you heading now? So you're
at, as I've said, the manor's at the top of a
very big hill, an old town. Are you still on
the Calamity map? Am I still have you there?
Yeah, we're here. Good, good. You should be here
for now. I think we gotta go into town, and I
know that, like, supplies are kind of abstracted
behind, like, the supply stress track, but I
imagine, like, we gotta go and, like, pick up
some stuff up before we leave kind of thing.
Yeah. Yeah, why not? Right? Mm -hmm. Sure, you
go into town. You see there's some smoke in the
distance where the library is. And you also see
that there's a big crowd around the inn, which
is near the supply wagon, luckily. And as you
go down, no doubt curious, you see that there
is a corpse strung up outside of the inn. The
corpse of Ticker Grey, whose neck radiates black
-purple tendrils of entropic doom. We can call
it. Oh. What does that look like? Like, just
a black tentacle? You know, like in, like, isn't
it like a tentacle? Like veins, almost? Kind
of radiating out from the back of his neck. Okay.
Yucky. That's gross. I think when Ledger sees
this, all of the spring goes out of his step
and his face becomes ashen and his fists clench.
This is probably the only time you've ever seen
him really upset. He was looking at this, and
they're walking closer to it, everybody. I think
a hand is going to fly to the pouch on his belt
where the void shard, or whatever it's called,
just to see if it's still there. Is it still
there, or has it vanished? It's still there.
Son of a bitch. Bailey gets in close to you,
I think, and he says, I thought you let him go!
What the hell is this? I did. Someone else killed
him? But he doesn't say anything. He's still
staring. This man is too still. Like the ones
that I saw earlier. He doesn't want to say the
ones that I made into too still people earlier
when I was first born. But he's scared. He doesn't
like this. Yeah, that man is dead. Very dead.
He's worse than dead. Ledger, you feel the back
of your neck begin to heat up. And you see in
the crowd, there's one person who is not looking
at the corpse, but is instead turned and looking
directly at you, which is a woman in a dark green
jumpsuit and a pair of spectacles who's just
staring. I think Ledger stares back. One hand
goes kind of involuntarily to the back of his
neck where the shard is just to hold it as it
heats up. He just stares at her, and it's a hateful
stare. She jerks her head in the direction of,
kind of to her side, and starts walking towards
a house. And you see her enter it, and then leave
the door open behind her. I think Ledger looks
to his friends and says, I gotta go take care
of something. Take care of what? Where are you
going? I don't think he answers. I think he walks
away. All by yourself? All by himself? Yeah,
we're following him. Just, I guess, stay a little
bit behind. Let her walk in. I don't think he's
going to forbid his companions from following
him, even if that was maybe implicit. Are they
following you in, or are they waiting outside?
I don't know. I think Bailey is crossing his
arms, but he's... Yeah, he's just hanging by
the door. He's like, watch as you get in, and
he gets very close to the door, but he just crosses
his arms and waits outside. Halo doesn't hear
the part about stay a little bit behind and just
jogs up right behind Ledger. Okay. Ledger, so
you're following Ledger in, Halo? Yes. Okay.
Ledger, as you enter with Halo and whoever else
may be trailing behind you, you see that there's
a nondescript building that is sparsely furnished.
It is... Almost certainly one of the Institute's
safe houses. And that woman is in here just alone.
There's like a table with like a lamp on it.
A dull red light. And she says, I need to speak
with you alone. Send out the demon and anyone
else who may be trailing behind you. Hooker's
outside. Keep polite. All right, Halo, go on
the porch. I'll be on in a minute. Okay. Hooker's
outside. Great. Ledger. Yeah. Have you and your
partner made any progress in locating the Maw
apparatus? We are setting out today. I will not
expect us to make any progress in that regard
until we get into it. Hmm. I see. I should warn
you before we get into the meat of our conversation
that Booker Page, though we have purchased his
assistance, still works for the demon Parkeleon.
Be sure that you're using him, not the other
way around, yes? That will not be a problem.
Has Booker told you he's helping you? No, but
I think... No, Booker. Ledger, even if Ledger
finds this a little bit surprising, he... Is
not willing to give this lady anything. Great,
great. Now, what went wrong with Tick? I did
not realize that this mission was such a time
crunch. He gave me the slip. Got out in the gray.
I couldn't catch him. He was better than me.
I thought I would have a second crack at him
today. I figured he'd circle back around for
supplies or something. Maybe I'd be able to pick
up his trailer as we set out, but obviously,
that opportunity was not afforded to me. Hmm.
I see. So you didn't let him go. There wasn't
a conflict of interest. Why would I care a damn
for some son of a bitch with the same powers
as me? She reaches into her jumpsuit and pulls
out a tiny metallic device, and then the screams
come out of it. And you hear Ticker's voice say,
let me go. I promise you, he did. Please, I'll
work for you again. I'll do anything. Just don't
use the spike. Please. Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Stop! And then she stops the sounds coming out
of the device and puts it back in her jumpsuit.
Didn't they ever tell you that when you torture
someone, they'll just tell you whatever it is
they think you want to hear? Hmm. I've never
heard that. No. I've seen it. He smiles, but
there's no humor in it. The gold tooth does not
sparkle. No. Mood tooth. Mood tooth. Well, that's
good. After all, you've done so many worse things
for us, and you're above that level of unprofessionalism,
I'm sure. Certainly. We'll be needing the void
nail back. She opens her palm. Ledger takes it
out of the pouch. And I think that probably for
like three seconds, he considers slamming it
point first down into her palm. But then he just
gently places it and maybe pulls his hand back
a little bit quickly. She wraps it around in
a little purple cloth and stows it away in a
box. And then she goes to a metal locker in the
back of the room and picks up a big strong box,
kind of half the size of a person, and places
it on the table. And she says, we don't like
to have our experienced deadwalkers do this kind
of work, but unfortunately, our faith in you
has been shaken. So we're going to need you to
prove your loyalty to us. This device, when deployed,
is going to allow us to make more nice deadwalkers
like you. It has to be put up in the gray. There's
instructions in the box. It's all very simple.
Have it set up in the next 24 hours, will you?
I think Ledger stares at her for a good moment.
And then he's like, you know, I never did get
a solid answer. Why? Why do this? What is it
that makes us so special? Clearly, you don't
need us to kill people. And he jerks a thumb
towards where the corpse is trestled up in town.
She smiles at you. You're just good workers.
That's all. I see. He, I guess he, he's not like
super strong. How heavy is it? It's not that
heavy. It's just bulky. Okay. Well, he picks
it up or takes it. Great. Well, we'll be keeping
tabs on you. Just keep working. Good old ledger.
Yeah. I wish I could say it's been a pleasure
and he turns around to leave without saying anything
else. And Ledger, don't forget that you're so
close to your retirement. Let's not do anything
to sabotage that, okay? He smiles, and this one's
a little more vicious, and maybe the tooth does
sparkle. And he's like, there's nothing else
on my mind. And she lets you go. Was anyone eavesdropping
on that? I imagine all three of you, like, one
over the other, listening, ear pressed up against
the door. Yeah. Even Halo, who has no ears and
was just doing it to copy the other two. That's
exactly what I was thinking. You know him so
well. Yeah, if anyone wanted to be able to hear
some of that, that's fine. I'm not going to make
you roll for it. That's between you all. Ledger
comes out with a big box. Oh, you got a present.
What's in it? Nothing good, and I will be rid
of it soon. I have one more quick errand to run
before we leave town. Can you handle the supplies?
Yeah, I can handle the supplies. Just be quick
about it. Yeah, give me 20 minutes. All right.
Ledger goes off to, I'm sure, do one of his funny
rituals to go into the gray. Yeah. Which will
require a roll, but we'll get to you in a second.
Booker, Bailey, and Halo, you have been tasked
with getting supplies. I don't know if you want
to... Get anything in particular besides just
like narratively you're gathering supplies. You
can buy equipment. It is a thing you can do if
you're missing anything. Like, I don't know what
you need. The main types of supplies are delve
supplies, which are for doing delve stuff, which
is just like exploring. We're going to get to
that in a second. There are kill supplies, which
are weapons. A lot of you started with those
already, like a blunderbuss. And there are mend
equipment, which is for healing, and I think
you have some of those too. But if you want anything
more in particular, let me know and we can have
a scene. Otherwise, we can just get to Ledger's
funny adventure. Yeah, I have nothing. I was
just going to get general supplies. I didn't
know what that entailed, so that's what I'm focusing
on. Yeah, if anything, delve or mend I think
would be useful, but that can wait. Sure, I mean,
we can do it now. We'll cut back to Ledger. I
don't want it to be all Ledger for the next 30
minutes. Sure. What do you want to buy, specifically?
Whatever the equivalent of a first aid kit is.
I want to have one of those. Halo does have one
of those. If you want your own, though, that
can be arranged, but you guys do have one. We
have... I was going to ask what the equivalent
for mending mind stress is, because that's the
only kind that I have, and I will be probably
accumulating small portions of it as we play
because of one of my gun abilities let's do with
that you can buy you can buy things like that
ambient oh yeah fucking weed dude no that's not
that's not the one um who's paying for this is
my my question well didn't we get a stipend or
was that not is that the first haven you already
got paid your first stipend when you when you
got here if you guys ledger would have given
you this uh Because he might have thrown you
the bag with his shit in it. He's got D6 Cursed
Puppet Teeth, D6 Puppet Arms, and D6 Sealing
Supplies still. So we have three D6s available,
Cursed Haven and Occult, respectively. But I
don't think the tags are important for this.
I think just the number is and it not being niche
or dangerous. I guess, what would be a Delve
Supply then? Just thinking of other things we
might need to then. Like a fine rope? You're
assuming to have like... generic ass rope um
but if you want so to get into the rules when
you're in a delve you do deal damage to it like
it was an opponent and by default you do d4 but
if you want to do more damage with like a fine
rope um where appropriate then you want to be
like i want to get a d6 delve rope if i can that
makes sense i want to use some tallies to get
that sure um you can so The way buying and selling
works is you can exchange your tallies, like
you're proposing. How many do you have? I have,
I just put D8, so I don't quite know. That is
it. D8 is the amount. So D8 is how much this
rope would cost for a D6 cool rope. But you can
also take that directly under your supply stress
if you want to keep the resource. It's up to
you. So it would be like either give up a 1d8
resource or take 1d8 supply stress. Ooh, I'll
do this stress. Okay. Cause I think you have,
you have supplies armor, right? Uh, I don't know
if I picked up those abilities, but I know that.
Then I'm gonna roll 1d8. You take five supplies
stress. Okay. Um, and you get a nice rope. I'm
gonna make sure every fallout test in a second,
but. What is the cool material this rope is made
out of that makes it better than just a normal
rope? It'd be fucked up to use those veins out
of that guy. How about... It's made out of...
I don't know. What's a tooth -related thing?
I'm not going to say floss, but I'm thinking
what would be cool around the haven. I want it
to be local. Like woven enamel strands? Yeah,
maybe it's woven enamel strands. It's pretty
sick. No one knows really how they do it. Enamel
weave, sure. Enamel rope. Tooth rope, if you
want. It's a D6 delve item. And if Booker's really
hungry, it'll work. Eat it like nerds rope. I
love a nerds rope. Hey, he's eating our rope!
It is a D6 delve equipment. It's not a resource.
Alright, make a fallout check. There you go.
You take a minor fallout. Delightful. Yeah, I
think when you... I'm going to give you the Fallout
broken. It's an immediate, so you don't even
need to write it down. It's just going to take
effect. When you're going through your money
as you're paying for this, you realize that some
of the tallies that you received, some of them
are fake. That sucks. So it gets downgraded to
a D6 instead of a D8. Okay. Broken Fallout. So
that's all you have to do is just downgrade those
tallies to a D6. Okay. Did anyone else have stuff
they needed to buy? Or shall we switch over?
I think I'm good. I have money, but I don't want
to buy anything. Yeah, I think a delve item is
the only real thing you're missing. Okay. Okay.
Ledger, where have you decided to begin your
ritual? I feel like he, in the interest of being
pretty quick, he just went behind. a building.
So it's like a place that's like out of sight
from the main roads, but it's not really hidden
because he doesn't really care to hide what he's
doing. Um, so like on this little map, I, my
eyes keep being drawn to the post office. I don't
know if that's anywhere nearby where we were,
but it's just like a big building. Uh, he goes
behind into like a little used alleyway and he
probably starts it off by like scuffing, uh,
um, decent circle, uh, in the, what I imagine
is like the dirt. kind of dusty dirt floor out
here. And, um, then, you know, starts the usual
stuff talking, talking to his death. Um, he's
got maybe like a, a stick of incense stuck in
the middle and he's like carving little runes,
uh, maybe with like a bullet that he pulled out
of his pocket, just like little shapes and muttering
to himself and saying little prayers and grabbing
his different necklaces and everything. Awesome.
Probably, probably similar to last time. Uh,
okay. Roll me your enter the gray. I think it's,
what is it, Del Desolate? Yeah. Del Desolate.
Come on, game, please don't screw me now. Critical
success! I'll take it. You're not really dealing
any stress, but it works. You go in without a
hitch. No one ambushes you this time. You appear
in the empty... It happens. You appear in the
empty expanse of the gray. There's like a ghostly
apparition of the post office here that's...
And you get to unboxing your funny box. It is
a telescoping tripod that's about three feet
when undeployed. At the top of it is a large
antenna terminating in sort of like a spherical
orrery. You know, like one of those models of
the fucking celestial spheres or whatever. Yeah,
yeah. Yeah. And it contains a number of arcane
and technological implements which make no sense
to you at all. The instructions within are fairly
simple. All you do is set it up somewhere flat
in the gray, insert the included power cell at
the base of the tripod, then you make a small
incision on each of your fingertips, and then
you place your fingers on the contact plate on
the side of the tripod. I think he stares at
it for a good long time, but then he looks at
his death, who I imagine is not exactly thrilled
at the prospect of what... they're about to do
and he's like i'm sorry baby i cannot flake twice
or we will be in horrible trouble now i swear
to you that they will answer for this for everything
they've done to us and everyone like us not today
but soon and then i think he uh plugs the power
cell in and gets ready to cut his fingers all
right you cut your fingers You put them on the
contact plate. The tripod extends upwards and
the sphere at the top comes alive as the strange
items within it start to move about. It grows
very, it glows very brightly. And then in the
center, a dark spot kind of forms and then collapses
in on itself. And your skin begins to feel very
itchy. And there's a burst of a horrible, horrible
energy. And your senses scream out. as you feel
your body as it truly is, which is a rotted husk
animated by an unnatural blend of technology
and occult magics. And in this moment, you can't
feel your death near you at all. You are terribly
alone, and death rushes to greet you. Not death
as in your partner, but death as in the end.
Not the perfect constructed death of the afterlife
you came from, but one of dissolution, of oblivion,
and one without any resolution. Could you make
me an Endure technology roll, please? Did I take
Endure? I talked about it. I did! I can Endure!
This is going to be an Endure -heavy game. Good.
I love to Endure. That's my favorite thing, is
when my characters suffer horribly. Let's see
if we can get away. Success at a cost! Success
at a cost. Okay. That is a partial success. So
here comes the bill. Oh, not too bad. Okay, not
bad at all. A four on a 1d10. And that is going
to be Echo Stress. Oh, boy. I'm probably going
to get... What's the threshold for major fallout?
I want to say it's seven. Oh, fuck. I'm at eight.
The deep cravings are back. But roll it. Roll
me that fallout test. Minor fallout. Okay. Minor
fallout. Let's... See what to inflict on you
here. Echo fallout minor. I like the guy on this
picture who's throwing up little worms. Right?
You throw up worms. Fuck it. That's an interesting
one. I love hearing Colin peruse these as he's
looking at sandwiches. One of these is just you
get a funny little guy who follows you around.
That doesn't seem like a negative at all. It
can get upgraded though. An upgraded little guy.
Yeah. You know, you know, I think I know what
it is. I think I know what it is here. You here,
like after this, after this burst kind of rolls
through you, you feel another presence near you.
And at first you think that it's your death who
has come back. But it's not, there's like a,
a hunger in the back of your mind it's like you're
that strange appetite you had before but it is
distinctly not your hunger something else is
hungry for you something is it's not even hunting
you it knows it's going to get you one day it's
just waiting waiting till it's it's ready to
take a nice bite out of you and you're gonna
get the ravening call damn which can be upgraded
to ravening beast which is where a terrible beast
is going to try to eat you I'd win. Let's get
it down on there. After a few tense moments,
your death does return. You are no longer alone.
She is understandably quite upset at what you
have done. And there's your something, your unredeemable.
Is that the beat? Yes, a truly reprehensible
act. Yes, you have sold out your people in the
afterlife yet again. Okay, you're done. You may
leave as you please. I think he, so when he loses
his death, when he can't feel her around, he
probably starts to, like, run away. And, like,
kind of blindly, because I imagine there's some
pretty heavy feedback from experiencing this.
And he's just, like, full, gross, moldy corpse
mode, stumbling through the gray, bumping around
things. And then he feels the beast, and then
he runs away from that. And then, um, I think
he... You know, he's like running frantically
through the gray version of the town. And then
I'm pretty sure he can exit the gray as long
as he's by himself. Yes. Exiting the gray is
simple. So I think he probably pours out like
right around when he finds his death. He pours
back out into the real world, maybe into like
a populated area and just kind of like falls
over on the ground. And he's all sweaty and he
throws up into the dirt. And kind of like forces
himself to his feet and looks around, maybe wipes
his mouth with the back of his coat sleeve. And
then he goes to find his friends. Does Ledger
look worse? I think he looks worse. What do you
mean, like unnaturally worse or just like he's
having a sad day? Like a bad day. Yeah, yeah,
no, he's like he's sweaty and pale and maybe
sunken eyed. He doesn't have any of his usual
nonchalant fear, I think. Looks like you just
watched someone die. It was worse than that.
He spits in the dirt. What does that mean? You
keep saying that. He looks at Booker and says,
Do you really find it hard to believe that there's
worse things than death in this world and beyond
it? No. But I simply wish to know which of these
fates you're referencing. Seems relevant. It's
my own. And then I think he starts walking away.
Helpful. Don't mind him. I want Halo to whisper
to Bailey, Ledger looked like that the last time
that he met me. What do you mean? Or I guess,
the first time. His face looked exactly like
that. In pain? Weary? Disgruntled? What do you
mean? I still don't know what emotion it is.
I just know that the first time he saw me, he
looked like that. Well, let's make sure he doesn't
wear that face all the time. We got a job to
do, okay? So it's a bad face. It's a real bad
face. He writes in his journal. Don't write that.
Can I buy something before we leave? Yes, what
did you hope to buy? I want to buy a bottle of
Strong Spirits D6 Mind Mend item, and I would
trade my D6 Cursed Puppeteeth for it if I understand
the system correctly. Okay, so here's where I
have some confusions about the system. So as
far as I can tell, purchasing equipment is not...
A simple matter of switching between the same
dice. At least from what I can tell. So I charged
Brian for a D6 delve item. I charged him a D8
equivalent of stress. Or a D8 item. Oh, so it's
like a step higher. I don't know. Let me read
this to you. Buying and selling equipment. To
buy items, the GM decides on a cost involved.
D4 for a minor purchase, D8 for moderate, and
D12 for really expensive or exotic materials.
And that's about all the guidance you get on
it. Because I remember there was something where,
like, you can buy good equipment, but it will
cost more. Most equipment is of standard quality,
blah, blah, blah. Yeah, it doesn't really say
anything. It says if it's good, good is like
a tag, then increase the cost of it by one dice
size. But it doesn't say what the base cost is.
I assume it's not equal because I feel like a
D6 gun is a lot more useful than a D6 resource.
But I'm not sure. I'm really not sure. So that's
what I'm going with right now. We're going to
do D8 for basic gear. That's D6. Can I do two
D6s then? Without having to roll stress? Okay,
I'll sell him the puppet teeth and the puppet
arms. Okay, you do this. I will not charge you
since you're giving up two pieces of equipment.
You get it. What is it? Is this the spirits?
Yeah, it's just like a bottle of fine alcohol
of some kind. Something strong. I don't know.
Drinking mold. Drink and mold? Drink and mold.
It's been stuck in my head ever since I started
this game. Sure. Peepaw is drink and mold. What?
Peepaw is drink and mold. It's a popular brand.
I like to think that it's like an old, like it's
a fine old vintage. Maybe it was minted in like
the city of the tree or something. So it's like
a nice old, but it's not good, but it's old.
Yeah, but it's barrel aged drinking mold. It's
snobbish. Yeah. Okay. You have drinking mold.
Cool. My follow -up rules question that you might
not know the answer to, how do I use it? You
have to use mend. It's a mend role. Of course.
Mend plus domain. Oh, fuck. So I can't... Sorry,
buddy. I can't restore the stress from my ailing
mind unless I know how to fucking darn a pair
of socks. When attempting to remove stress, the
active player makes a check using the mend skill
and the domain most relevant to the injury. Successful
action removes de -forced stress. Yeah, I guess
you have to, like, have some, like, cognitive
behavioral therapy training in order to properly
use this drinking mold. I love this. So you need
Bailey to, like, be your therapist while you
drink this mold. Yes. This mold is really strong.
This mold is shrooms. Whoa. So I gotta pour it
down my throat. So then, does this mold just
increase the stress recovered from D4 to D6,
basically? I think it just, yeah. Yeah, it does.
Okay. Then maybe I will have him take a swig
of the bottle as we walk away, but I won't try
to mend myself with it yet. Okay. Sounds good
to me. Do you want to head into the City of Glass,
sir? I think we're ready. I think you are. I
think so, too. I love that Ledger is microdosing
while going in. It would be great. You set out
eastward, trusting in the City of Glass to guide
you to your destination and your guide to be
able to read its signs. The terrain outside of
Calamity is fairly tame. It is a desolate wasteland
of dead trees, which seem to have grown into
each other. Many of them form... recognizable
shapes. Some of them are archways. Others are
groups of dancing humans. A particularly large
group of trees is a massive hand with fingers
pressed into the earth. And the farther you go
in, the more dense the trees become. Before long,
you find yourself completely within the interlocking
limbs of the trees, which form a hive -like canopy
above you. Let me switch you to a new picture.
Ooh. This marks the beginning of your first delve,
which is a specific mode of play in this game,
Heart the City Beneath. I kind of mentioned it
earlier before, but it represents everything
that is happening between two landmarks. In this
case, between Calamity and whatever town you
end up arriving at. Flitchburg, Dirt Hole, third
option, who knows. In a delve, you're kind of
chipping away at it as if it was an enemy with
health. And once you... have reduced the health
of the delft zero you arrive at your destination
it's sort of a like a mini game but not really
but it sort of is um i'm gonna throw a mega game
sure why not um do you have any questions about
this mode of play it's not really any different
from what we usually do but on my end i handle
it slightly differently um i guess my question
would be are we basically similar to you know
any like forged in the dark type system are we
able to like sort of try and pick our approach
like come up with an idea of like here's how
i would use a hunt to progress the delve or here's
how i would use first roll yeah discern or like
do you tell us what we roll uh i mean as with
anything in a an rpg how you approach it is up
to you. For example, let's say there's an invincible
gargoyle in front of you. How do you want to
deal with it? And then that will determine what
you roll, is how you're dealing with it. There's
no engagement roll like Blades in the Dark. But
if you want to describe how you are trying to
proceed through this before I throw anything
at you, that's totally cool with me too. Yeah,
we just roleplay until we decide what we want
to do. Okay, sure. I like that a lot. That's
cool. I mean, maybe I'm... Maybe I'm biased,
but I wonder if what kind of domain is this place
in as we leave? It is a desolate wild. Oh, baby.
I love it when the domain is desolate. Can I
do a desolate delve just to like start us off
with like just like good old basic navigation?
Sure. I want to know like how easy this is on
a mechanical level. I think that's a secret.
Are we allowed to know the difficulty of our
delve? Well, depending on the roll, it'll decide.
I don't think you get to know. No secret reveals.
This will give us some hints. The game is pretty
consistent about tiering things in dice size,
so I think that D12 would be a hard one. This
is a tier one of the heart, the City of Glass.
Cool. Yeah, so can I just roll delve desolate
to just have... Ledger's like, he's walking up
ahead, he's sipping his mold, he's reading the
signs. He's still sipping it? He's still sipping
his mold? Just a couple sips. And then he probably
puts it away for later. Yeah, so is this risky?
No. No, this is a standard roll. Cool. Let's
go. Merrily we roll along. Delve desolately.
Failure on three dice? Well, fuck me. That happened
last time I tried to delve desolate too, I think.
Bad guide. So... Here's my thinking. Drink and
mold. Peapod drink and mold. So here's what my
thinking is. Again, the system doesn't give explicit
guidance on this. I'm not going to make each
of you roll Delve Desolate, because that seems
absurd. But since Ledger is leading you and is
ultimately responsible for your fate, Any stress
I deal, I'm going to deal to all of you where
appropriate. Yeah. Looks unfair. What the fuck?
Yes, it's fair. I just said what the fuck. I
know. But it's fair. It's still a what the fuck.
I was going to do that even if it was fair. Don't
worry. Okay. Well, that's cool. We all get a
what the fuck. To start out, ouch. You take four
on a 1d4 supply stress, all of you. Oh, my supplies.
Oh, yeah. My supply stress cleared after I took
that fallout, right? Yes. Yes. So, you are all...
Your resources are partially exhausted. Now make
a Fallout roll. Please? All of us? All of you.
I dropped my ball. Help! I dropped my ball! No!
Not your ball! No Fallout. Except for Halo. Thank
God. I'm glad you didn't all get Fallout. That
would have sucked. Yeah, and I haven't got one
yet, so it's about time for Halo to get one.
Okay, Halo, you're going to get a minor supplies
fallout, which is half rations. So this works
a little differently because, Halo, you don't
necessarily eat. You don't actually really know
what you eat. Maybe that's part of the problem.
I feel like he does get hungry, sometimes really
ravenously hungry, and eating. helps take the
edge off of that so that he doesn't feel like
he doesn't really know what it is he just knows
it's discomfort yeah so so the fault you get
is really full you get yeah i get it it's especially
bad now um you were very aware of it maybe unusually
so um so this fallout half rations is that you're
running low on food asterisk when you remove
stress roll two dice and pick the lowest of the
two another party member can remove this fallout
by marking d6 stress to supplies Okay. Despite
your best efforts, the city has indeed shifted.
The way through these trees is very indistinct
for you, Ledger. And it takes a while. I would
say you've already lost a couple of days through
this first part. And as you go deeper in here,
the trees are becoming a lot less cooperative
to you. They're starting to rise from the ground.
turning your usually easy footing into these
uncertain wood cobbles. And even worse, the roots
seem to be kind of moving you upwards, like up
this wooden slope, and eventually you find yourselves
30 feet in the air, and you can barely make out
the sky far above you. The wooden ground in front
of you, like this far up, is patchy. Even a small
slip could mean falling like a human plinko ball
into the darkened wooden branches beneath you.
You could try to press on here, or you could
try to double back and try to find somewhere
with surer footing. Or you could try something
else entirely. What do you all do? We have a
good rope. You do have a good rope, but you have
to find a way to use it. A couple of smart guys
like us. Big brainiacs. I think that Ledger's
irritation at how poorly things are going has
kind of finally started to override the... the
numb shock of before and he as they get up on
this cliff he turns back to the party and he's
just like son of a bitch i don't know how the
fuck we ended up so high in the sky we gotta
find a way down from here it ain't safe unless
you're all fancy climbing not me could we use
the rope to like rappel down that's what i'm
thinking like is there anything we could anchor
it to here yeah just this shit all around you
yeah it's like solid tree wood but there's like
No branches to it. Not branches, but no leaves.
We're smart. We'll figure it out. Solid wood.
How do we use this enamel rope, Colin? Whoever's
using it, I'm guessing it kind of sounds like
you're delving again. There's probably another
delved desolate roll. You may want to hand it
to Ledger since he has that skill. Or you could
aid. Yeah, give me a help. Give me a friggin'
hand if I'm going to be rolling this because
apparently three dice is not enough for me to
pass a test. I'll help you. It's a D6 enamel
rope. Treat it well. So does that mean that if
we succeed on this test, we will gain D6 damage
to the... You don't gain D6 damage, but you deal
D6 instead of D4. Yeah, yeah. Sorry, that's what
I mean. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. Okay, cool.
So I'm going to... Ledger's like, all right,
booker anchor around that trunk there. I'm going
to try and rappel down and y 'all can follow
me in. I'm rolling with plus one die now. Good
luck. Come on, baby. Please give it to me. A
critical success. It's feast or fucking famine.
And look at that. One, five, five, ten. So if
I didn't have that extra eight, I would have
fucking failed again. Okay. Roll me, I guess,
that D8 for your stress die. Holy shit. Here
comes a one. Five. Oh, five. Not bad. Good, good.
Mark this against the... Okay. You make really
good progress down to the ground. You find a
way to undo the rope so you don't have to lose
it forever. Oh, hell yeah. Equipment isn't consumable,
generally speaking. So I say you find a way to
unsecure it safely and put it back in your inventory.
It is growing dark in the woods down here. Um,
you're not entirely sure if it's because you're
so low down, you can't see the sun anymore, but
it is probably nighttime. You feel sleepy. Um,
where, where do you make camp? What do you look
for in a good camp? Probably something naturally
sheltered. Uh, maybe, I mean, I know that there
really is there, there's like no path at all,
right? We're just kind of in this like tangle
of trees. Yeah. Nothing, uh, that you would call
a solid path right now. Maybe when you started
out, there was one, but there definitely isn't
now. yeah so just maybe like some kind of clearing
maybe like a not like a cave but like if these
like crazy bramble of trees forms any sort of
like natural enclosure just some place that seems
defensible yeah for sure you find like a almost
like a half dome of these tangled black roots
that looks fairly decent provided the trees don't
strangle you they haven't been moving have they
no that'd be that'd be ridiculous That's insane.
Halo, you're insane. You've seen things, man.
I think Ledger's gonna just, like, grab, like,
a... I imagine... So, based on this picture,
but also kind of just my impression of it, this
wood seems very dry to me. It is very dry. Is
that accurate? Cool. So, he's gonna grab just,
like, a few handfuls of really dry sticks, and
he's probably gonna, like, make, like, a tiny
little campfire with one of the matches from
his... little snuff box, and then he's gonna
roll one of his awful cigarettes and slump up
against a tree with his bottle of mold. And he's
gonna say, I'm beat. We should rest here a little
while. Warm your bones by the fire. Halo, you
got bones in there? Yeah, how long have we been
walking for? How long has it been? Three days,
I would say. This probably isn't our first camp.
No, it's not your first camp, but this is the
first one resuming. I was going to say, we've
been walking for three straight days. We're very
hardy. Anyways. He has teeth, so maybe he does
have bones. I don't know. Yeah, but that doesn't
mean you know what it is. I don't know. I feel
like I guess it's up to Ledger the first time
that he actually like caught. side of halo because
in the comic it looks like he's he's formed in
it but when he is still bright there's a second
or like a couple seconds before he becomes oh
god i can't look at this this is the sun to where
you do actually see a glowing skeletal light
shape inside of him so he does have a lot of
human skeleton but it is a structure in there
so you see that right before he hits Max, right?
I will say in the end, because if I would say
in the interest of having Ledger not recant what
he said, he didn't see that. So he's not sure
if you have a little light skeleton in there
or not. Right. Anyways, Hela just says, I don't
know. Great. Bailey turns around and goes to
bed. Who's keeping watch, if anyone? I mean,
probably in shifts is the normal way to do it.
Ledger would not be willing to stay up all night.
Who's keeping first watch, I suppose? I think
Ledger would be like, I'll take first watch.
I'd like to have a couple of smokes and take
the edge of the day off. Y 'all get some sleep.
I'll wake somebody up in a couple hours. All
righty. He takes great care to undo his backpack
and unpack everything and unroll the sleeping
bag. Order. And then he turns into a little caterpillar
and falls straight to sleep. Wonderful. So two
things I should mention before your watch begins.
The wood you gathered does not burn. It is extremely
resistant to fire. But depending on how much...
Since you said you gathered twigs, so I'll give
you the benefit of the doubt. After a little
bit of trying and heating up one of these twigs,
eventually it explodes. Like a small bomb. Like
a firecracker. There's something inside the core
of this wood, which is very volatile, that it
took a while to get to, but once it got there,
man, did that thing cook off. I had to put out
his cigarette. I was going to chew on one of
those. Now, the second thing is, Bailey, while
you're falling asleep, What is the very upsetting
thing you notice about where you've taken shelter?
Up to you. Me? Noticing of this area? Mm -hmm.
Noticing that the woods above us seem to be circling
in around us, closing us off from the sky. Good,
good. Ledger, after a few hours with your companions
all asleep, your senses are jolted as in the
distance there is a huge bright flash of light
and then the thunderous sound of an explosion.
The woods rumble as if agitated by the disturbance,
and as your companions awake, you start to hear
the sound of screaming in the distance.