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Welcome to Vikings and Valkyries, an actual play podcast. We are playing When the Wolf

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Comes, an RPG where history as we know it has been put to the Viking sword. My name

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is Ian Stuart Sharpe and I will be your Smith of Battle for the campaign ahead, which we

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call the Thought and Memory Saga. Joining me to test whether plot armour is really a

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thing are Steve, Bill, Becky, Sam and CJ. Welcome to the Hall of the Slain.

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Thank you.

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Oh, thank you. Do we get a free cup of mead on entry?

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Now before we dive into this episode, I do want to share a little anecdote from the week.

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Now if you're listening to this, you might see alongside the recording there's a transcript

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that goes out with each and every show, which is auto-generated by a Dverg somewhere. Now

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each week we get to hear Bill make mincemeat of various characters' names, so I wanted

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to share with you what the machine thralls came up with for his character, Ljomi. The

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first is instead of Ljomi, they call him You-Know-Me. And the second one is The-Homie.

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You-Know-Me, The-Homie, Ljomi. Yeah, okay.

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And then my favourite is just the simple Naomi. Every fine wine needs a pairing, so it was

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good to see what the AI came up with for Eir. Any guesses as Steve?

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Error I suppose would be good.

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Claire.

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Claire maybe.

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Claire. Bill, you got it. And so instead of just Wood & Stone, our two friends here, you

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can refer to them as Naomi and Claire from now on. CJ, Grjotgoth came out 

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came out particularly easily actually, they mainly got it right. They didn't get the full

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Norse lettering.

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Even as the game spills into our reality, he still gets all the breaks. Like what the

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hell?

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That's plot armour and life armour.

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What the actual hell?

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Now bewildering as it is to me that no one spends them, I'm still going to offer you

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these chance to earn some inspiration points to spend in the adventure ahead. This week

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since you clearly have a date with destiny, we're going to tackle Viking Battles. And

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yes you thought you were here to play an RPG, but instead it's back to school. So let's

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start with an easy one. The first question is can you name a major battle involving Norsemen

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that took place in 1066?

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The Battle of Hastings, the Battle of Stamford Bridge and...

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Fulford, the Battle of Fulford. That was Harold Harada coming over trying to get York under

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his grip.

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Bill and Steve, you had those on the tip of your tongue, right?

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I wanted to give the young people a chance. The highly educated young people with a lot

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more knowledge of Norse history.

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Thank you sir, thank you. It's been a while since I've been complimented.

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Let's step a little bit further back in time. How about the year 845 AD?

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Oh sure.

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What happened in 845 AD, another Viking battle?

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1066 is so easy because it's the supposed end of the Viking Age, the historical Viking

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Age.

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I gave you that one as an easy end, as a layup. But 845...

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Oh wait, the Siege of Paris was in 845.

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The Siege of Paris, that's right.

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Well done. I was thinking of something else entirely.

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And then also that was... No wait, 843 was not... Also in 843, the Battle of Fontainebleau

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Montpuisat, in which the Frankish nobility was decimated. And that's partly what opened

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the door for the Vikings to arrive up the Seine was in 845. It was ill defended because

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the Frankish armies were busy fighting each other. And the Vikings knew this. And in fact,

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I just, I mean, I'm going to have to plug.

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Go for it, go for it CJ.

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Go for it.

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And the Kings of the Sea ends in 845 with the Siege of Paris. Hastings is allegedly there

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according to me. He wasn't actually. But so yeah, so that was an easy answer for me too,

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because it's my books.

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Again, I felt sorry for you about giving you all of the Old Norse phrases. So this week

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I thought we'd give you something that was much more up your alley so to speak. And we're

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going to step back further still now into the midst of legend and lore. What battle

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allegedly took place in 770 AD.

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Come on you guys know this. I know.

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Not the battle of Brandenburg.

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I can see it in your eyes.

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No, no, that's not, no, that's later actually. That's after Alfred. So no, that's not it.

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No, 770. I mean, 770 technically predates the, the invention of the keel. So the so-called

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Vikings wouldn't have been able to leave home in earnest at that point. It's a very famous

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mythic battle between Harald Wartooth and Sigurd Hring. And at some point a penny is

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going to drop in Bill's brain.

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Yeah, it was starting to. I could hear something tinkling around up there. That's where I died.

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That's where Ljomi, your homie, you know me, died before I became the Woodman.

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The battle of Bravellir.

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Yeah, I was just about to say.

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In that battle there were apparently 40,000 dead. And well, you, you make that noise Bill,

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but I think as a military tactician involved in that battle, you were partly responsible.

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Well I died very early. I pretty much the first axe that was thrown in our direction.

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I was out. I also want to call out CJ a little bit because in previous episodes, anytime

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we've suggested he might know the answer to some bit of Norse scholarship and he's gone,

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no, no, no, not really. And yet tonight you're pulling all this stuff out of nowhere apparently.

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Well he's pulling it all out of his, out of his well researched.

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And I'm not just deflecting Ian's attack on me, onto you. Although I am doing that. But

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I'm not just.

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I did specify my expertise is in the, I went into the Frankish empire, the campaigns, the

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dates, the, the real history. But once you get into mythology, I do fall off a little

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Well, 770 AD is an auspicious date. And just be a little bit careful with Bill if he does

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try and interest you in any of his tactics. You've seen how they work.

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I'm getting much better at archery. That's what I want to, that's what I want to really

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stress.

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There's only two out of three so I can't give you any more inspiration points there,

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I'm afraid.

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Let's start proceedings.

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As a quick recap, you have volunteered to help remedy the hijacked signal at a fuel

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station. The handiwork of a disgruntled musician seeking vengeance for poor reviews. The sounds

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of Svartar Sunnadagr have been on every radio in town since. On your arrival at the weather

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station Magnus Ljosfoot, a technician at the Firefox Institute, marched towards the control

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room only to disappear in a kaleidoscope of colour. And that is where we now open the

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scene as we find all of you staring at this horrifying situation. You all have various

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forms of second sight or tree sight, the ability to peer into other realms. Some of you were

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discerning tricks of the light or flitting shadows. There was something out there in

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the fog. The only person who was able to fully perceive the horrors that lie ahead was the

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dökkálfar and perhaps it was something to do with his staggeringly high trauma score. But

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the kind of mental discord, the fractured mind of the dökkálf was able to see these

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entities that were lurking in the weather station and it caused him to gain an extra

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trauma. So Steve, just to note you are on trauma eight.

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Not double digits here.

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No, no, just give me time. Give me time.

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Oh, okay. Wow. Well done, sir.

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And I mean, you call it trauma, Eir calls it Monday.

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All right. Well, let's see. Ljomi remembers that we met the aging rock star who had some

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singing, had this weird singing tune that he was playing over and over again through

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this station. And there was some suggestion of, I want to say almost angelic forces or

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something like that. Some hint of something coming from beyond. Anyone else have that

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memory or have I had some dreams in between sessions?

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The depressed rock star had not only decided to mix up music from different times entirely,

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but also send it out on a particular frequency, which was 1111. Four ones, I believe.

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Right.

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Let's go back to Krapti again to refresh your memory. Krapti Thorfridsson, the law speaker.

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He had asked you to investigate something.

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We are investigating the Northern Lights that are not Northern Lights. And Gigi remembers

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that but he remembers nothing from the rock star because he's still a little offended

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that he did not recall the silver medal that he had won in the Tonka Honk.

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You are investigating the Northern Lights. This red scar in the sky has been lurking

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above your heads ever since the very first episode when Bjarne Bjarnissoen made you clap

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wildly in its general direction so as not to offend the spirits. It's come up in various

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different forms. It's still there despite it being broad daylight with the sun in the

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sky in this in the middle of this arctic summer. You should not be able to see this atmospheric

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disturbance but you can very vividly and it looms large above full station and the various

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antenna that beam off their signals into Midgard beyond.

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And we're still standing on the beach. Is that where we ended?

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No, we went into the compound.

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And it blew up.

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You are standing on the...

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Well, it didn't blow up. A guy marvelously disappeared into an unsuspecting, well, an

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undetectable vortex of light and colour.

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It's always the engineers.

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And Magnus marched in.

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After Fulk had told him that violence surely laid ahead because the spirits had told him.

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That's very true. He ignored your warning but perhaps it was because he didn't have

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the blessing of second sight and he paid the price for it. You can all be a lot more circumspect

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because you are aware that there is something there between you and the resolution of your

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task, which is working out the connection between the Northern Lights and at the very

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least shutting down that signal.

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Gryotgarth draws his pistol.

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Brynn will turn to him and she'll say, if you've seen what I have seen flickering

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almost between these buildings, I do not think our bullets will do any damage to them. They're

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there but they're not there. It's very strange.

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So then Gryotgarth puts his pistol away and draws his sword.

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Steve, you are the person who's seen most of these entities. Have you got any questions?

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I'll give you one broad comment that as Magnus did walk forward, he seemed oblivious to these

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half-glypsed forms and the distorted faces that loomed out of the fog. And because you

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have spent time in Valhalla drinking mead with the Einhajar, these creatures to your

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mind are also warriors. They are creatures from the afterlife, just not your afterlife.

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Oh, that's an interesting insight. Okay.

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For the time being, they appear to have retreated into the mist and are now again unseen. Perhaps

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it was Magnus marching straight towards that control room door and brought their fury towards

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him.

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Ljomi leans in close to Eir and says, Atrocity, if you can speak to them, I suggest using

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large words.

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I mean, that makes sense. Ian, at the end of last episode when Eir was confronted by

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the visions of the spirit world, I thought we finished up by you saying that he was maybe

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not totally incapacitated, but mentally, I guess, bewildered at best.

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You have the frightened condition.

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Oh, scared shitless is also a condition. Okay.

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You are scared shitless for eight rounds.

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Eight rounds. Okay. Eir would try to convey just the spirit world is here and it's angry

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and it's coming from that control center.

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Ljomi leans in close to Gigi and says, Gothpot, perhaps you should draw both your pistol and

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your sword and stand in front of me.

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Fabulous idea.

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Gigi pulls his pistol.

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If you're going into battle, it is possible for me to bless your weapon to work against

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a haunt.

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Oh, I can do that too.

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That sounds like just the thing.

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I have biting charms. What do you have?

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My charms also will bite.

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Poetically put.

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You are both proficient in Galdarcraft, the spell song of the alfar. There is a second

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technician. His name is Heimric. He is aghast at the loss of his long-term friend. There's

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a kind of a storage shed over to the north west. He hightails it there, just running

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full pelt and slams the door behind it. There is some kind of wooden bar because you hear

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something thud down afterwards. A man of few words, he says nothing from the other

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side of that.

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Coward!

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Though you have to acknowledge the certain tactic of it.

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Yeah. It's straightforward. It's decisive and probably ineffective. So Magnus made it

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to the door of the control room and tried to unlock it using a keypad or some sort of

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device like that.

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Yes, he knew the code.

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He made it all the way there. So we could probably get closer. This is probably not

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something Eir would be saying to me now that I think about it. He'd be advising the opposite.

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I think a logical step would be for one of us to slowly and steadily approach the door.

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And if those who can see these shadowy beings would let us know if they seem agitated the

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closer we get. Because if they react to him approaching the door so quickly, if we're

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very cautious, we may be able to get close enough to unlock it. I do have a rune of unlocking,

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but it requires me to put the rune on the door to unlock the door.

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Falk swallows very hard. And unfortunately, Gigi is a jofurr. They are honor bound and

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he says,

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I'll do it!

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Falk wipes his forehead.

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So Gigi starts stepping forward, little by little. How small of steps should I be taking?

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Like this? Or like this?

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Ian, is my second sight still up or has too much time passed?

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Half your usual pace, Gigi. Half your usual pace. And wait for Falk  to let you

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know if the shadows get closer or have yet to appear.

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Advance on it as if you were approaching an isbjorn. This has worked very well for us as

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a party in the past.

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Sam, I'm aware of your question in the background there. You were asking about second sight

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and how long it would last. I think the duration is one minute, so it will start to fade. And

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as it does so, the spectral images that you could detect in the fog receding back to whence

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they came, you're welcome to cast it again in order to bring them back into sharp relief.

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And if you remember, I described them to you. They weren't technically the Landvaettir. They

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weren't spirits of this land. They were alien things drawn from elsewhere that seemed to

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be in discord with the very environment. They seemed redolent of fear and betrayal, as if

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snatched from somewhere before their time.

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I would tell everyone that the creatures were of unknown origins, seemingly from some sort

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of other world, and that they definitely had sinister intentions, but have also seemed

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to back away some.

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As Gryotgarth gets closer, what does he... does he see anything?

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As you come past the Boathouse door, it does have some glass windows, frosted window panes,

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and you can see someone has scrawled on that window pane as if they were counting down

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the days in prison. There's lots of like ones, as if someone is scrawling. So, yeah, one,

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one, one, one.

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Are they tally marks, or are they four ones?

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Or are they claw marks?

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It's a good question. It's impossible to distinguish. They are in groups of four.

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Then a full tally would have a line through, representing five.

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Either someone was counting down in here, or they had a very anxious Chihuahua clawing

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at the window.

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There could be a crate behind the window, too.

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We don't know.

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With a Chihuahua.

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With a Chihuahua.

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We're finally bringing the full intelligence of the group to bear on the ground.

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Were Chihuahuas invented in this universe, or did they come up with something else?

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Or did they sensibly not?

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Gigi, you are close enough to that Boathouse to look inside, if you so choose. You can

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smell from this close proximity. The whole place reeks of this strong aroma of coffee

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and cigarettes. It's very pungent, and it's exuding from this.

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Gods, it smells like a French café!

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Bryn is puzzled but curious, and so she will approach steadily and cautiously to make sure

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she's not triggering any strange events.

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Falk would pull out his rifle in order to cover both of them from afar.

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Ljomi is attempting to push Air a little bit closer so he'll be able to use his power,

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but without much effect. There has been the sound of slight snapping twigs, perhaps.

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And I think Eir has regained some of his wits.

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We will let the frightened condition recede so that you may move forward with some kind

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of alacrity, looking through the window of this.

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Difficult to make out everything, because some of it is under tarpaulin and cloth, but

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there is an old rowboat. There looks to be a defunct dverg sitting there in some empty

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equipment crates.

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There is also, just in the corner of your eyes, there's a flicker of movement. You

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can also hear some rather jaunty accordion music.

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Gryotgarth is going to open the door, swing it open, and take two steps back, kind of

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pure in. Falk has head to the side and look.

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Hello?

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What's the status of your second sight there, Sam? Are you recasting it?

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No, because it only lasts a minute. I feel like I should save it.

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Then I will describe to each of you what you see in the room, because again you perceive

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different things. Without the ability to call on your second sight and peer into the spirit

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realm, you see nothing.

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CJ and Becky, again you see that. Just these little movements, these fleeting shadows.

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Still the Omi sees, again, there's not an illusion here. There's nothing hidden. There's

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nothing invisible, but there is something nagging at the edge of your... You have a

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broad variety of sensors. You can detect chemical imbalances. You can detect changes in the

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photosphere, but here there's something that you can't quite place your branches on. Steve,

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you see something in complete crystal clarity. In the centre of the room, staring back at

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you, is a man dressed in a strange uniform.

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Strange in what way?

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Strange in that it's not anything that you recognise from imperial uniforms, for example.

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The people who fought in the Jotun War, the various people at the Noatun launch sites,

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even the bodyguards of Finnbogi Asbjornssen. This is a style that you haven't seen at all.

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The man standing here is wearing a kind of light blue uniform. He puts up his fists when

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he sees you and he begins to hurl what must be insults or taunts, but in a language you

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really don't recognise.

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Yeah, I'm used to that. Question, is he giving off heat?

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He's not. Your ability to see in the infrared spectrum, you see no heat signature. And to

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be clear, Falk sees nothing in this spot. The rest of you see at best a distorted trembling

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of the air, a brief shape. There's nothing of substance. It's only air that sees this

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manifestation.

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Well, he will try to communicate. He's just sort of in a, probably a shaky voice. I see

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a man. He has his fists up as if he's ready to fight and he's screaming insults at me.

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That person I really knew. Does anyone else see him?

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Bryn will just shake her head.

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Nothing.

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Oh, good.

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The uniformed soldier rolls up his sleeves and walks towards you. He's got his dukes

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up. He's adopted a boxing stance and he strides up towards you.

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He says something, something along the lines of, get over there. That's the phonetic sound

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of which it makes no resemblance to Norse or any of the others.

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Has he come outside? I'm not going in. Has he come outside?

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He is looking fixedly at you and following you.

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So if I back up.

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It's almost as if he doesn't see the others.

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Okay, I will back up. Does he come outside?

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He continues to follow you and again, he sounds like he's saying something like, La Vache,

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Zut Alors!

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He seems agitated about something. Okay. Does he react in any way to gestures or motions

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from air?

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Only in a pugilistic fashion as he walks towards you, aiming to bop you on your stony nose.

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I will point at him and tell the group he's coming right at me. I think he means to hit

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me and I'll point at the spot on the ground where he is. He's right there. Is he leaving

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footprints?

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He's leaving nothing that any of your companions can detect. There is the overpowering stench

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of that tobacco. There is the slightly haunting discordant accordion that echoes through the

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fog, but they can see nothing.

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I think the French might be invading.

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I was just thinking, I was thinking I should look around for a cow loaded on a catapult.

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Fetchez  la vaiche.

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Fetchez la la vaiche

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Yeah, all I can do is just tell everyone he's right there. He's coming towards me. I think

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he's going to take a swing at me. Does no one else see this?

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I can't see him, but I can use second sight, but I only have one more use of it until we

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rest.

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I'm not sure that seeing him would do anything.

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Eir is not going to swing first. He'll probably regret it.

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So Gryotgarth is going to move up to the location where Eir has pointed to the ground where this

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supposed figure is. He's just going to start swinging his sword.

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Attaboy.

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That's the spirit.

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We'll find him.

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The spirit quite literally is.

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Come out of hiding you cow-eyed. He's right there.

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You again, you can see like this, this kind of whispering darkness, this distortion in

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the air, almost like it's a heat shimmer. So I will allow you to make an attack roll,

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but you will do so with three woes.

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Whoa.

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A three?

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12 minus five is seven.

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As is so often the case when your intrepid band enters into combat, you swipe and thrust

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at the air and anyone who was looking would imagine that you were engaged in some kind

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of training practice.

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And Ljomi would like to cast biting charms on his sword. On Gigi's sword.

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Didn't someone already cast something on Gigi's sword?

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We talked about it.

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Am I imagining that?

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Okay.

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I imagine the line.

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I would like to start chanting the Sun Song so that I can give someone a bonus to their

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next roll. I can give them two wheels every round that I keep singing it. And so I will

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give that to Gigi as I begin playing my drum and chanting an ancient war tune.

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Very good. So now Gigi, you are supported by two practitioners of Galdar craft, Galdar

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men who stand there and sing in your general direction, sing ancient songs that fire your

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steel and gird your loins and next time you will be able to roll with hopefully more success.

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Becky did you want to do anything particular?

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I'm presuming now we're taking fast turns and that we've moved into combat.

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Well Brynn, as she quite rightly pointed out, she doesn't think swords or guns are going

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to hit this thing. She was hoping to look into the room, but now it's looking like Gigi

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is doing some kind of war practice routine but with music.

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There's a lovely duet going on.

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As a new player to the game, I'm going to give you a little hint and a tip. One of your

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professions as a scientist from the Firefox Institute, it's Comparative Orlog and Wyrd

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or lay being the law of fate, weird being the tug of destiny. And it may well be that

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you can use your guest counselor ability to help CJ strike this creature because you have

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a feeling, it's your instinct that there is something going on that is drawing these spirits.

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Once again, like I said, they're not from the afterlife that you know, but they're from

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an afterlife. You've got enough scientific nous and ability to detect these things that

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you can also grant wheels to CJ as he thrusts and parries into what seems to be the air.

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That is what Brynn would like to do. She would like to take a scientific approach to this.

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She herself will not start flinging her seax around and lay there and start possibly chopping

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people's fingers off by accident. She would like to bear in mind what Air said about the

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guy's uniform that obviously seems to be a human type creature. Therefore, kind of like,

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okay, that's the height of Eir, that's the height of a potential human. Kind of like

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methodically try and get estimation about where CJ should strike and she'll almost

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be like the coach saying, no, box left, no, box right, kick low, kind of thing.

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With all five of us in action, we have a chance of hitting a target. Nice.

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Steve, what did you want to do? What does Eir want to do in this environment where this

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being...

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Okay, question is that I have the Gand spell, Gand fly, which targets a creature or object.

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Does this count as a creature?

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It does. Your Gand fly would work.

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But do I want to take the first shot?

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Sure.

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CJ's already taking a swing at it.

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Air's not going to take the... Oh, but it hasn't actually taken a swing at me yet. Has

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it reacted to the sword swinging in any way?

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As far as you can see, it's dimly aware of CJ, but it's focused on you.

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Can I focus on what it's saying and try to make sense of it?

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It's clear that it's mouthing the same words over and over.

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Right. He's trying to communicate something specific.

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They're kind of exclamations, exclamations of shock and awe and surprise. And that's

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what it is, what the creature's continually mouthing on repeat, like a broken record.

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If there's repetition in what he's saying, is there any repetition in his movements?

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His movements are...

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Like he's on a loop?

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Not quite. They're jerky and erratic, if he were on film, as if he'd skipped a couple

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of frames.

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He's of time and outer place.

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Yeah. No, I don't want to... I'm not going to swing first.

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Are you going to take any...

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I'm going to go full dodge.

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Eir will concentrate on dodging to the best of his rather sad ability.

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He swings a haymaker in your direction, catching you on the chin for four damage.

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Oh boy. Well, I mean, I meant what I said. Let him swing first, four damage.

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Can you also make a will challenge off me?

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Probably not. But no, we'll give it a go.

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Oh God. Did you learn to roll from Gigi?

402
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That would be... Yeah, that would be four.

403
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:59,960
Okay, you need to add two trauma to your...

404
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Double digits.

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Double digits, everyone. I told you.

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And just to explain the rules here in advance, what is your total will score? It's 11, right?

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It is.

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When your trauma equals your will, you will suffer shell shock and you will not just be frightened,

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you will go into... It could be a range of things from hysterical blindness to maniacal laughter.

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A range of different things could happen to you. And you're very much on the verge of that mental breakdown.

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I thought I'm supposed to be playing a character.

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You're just channeling yourself.

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It's not just myself.

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Well, okay, I said I was going to let him swing first. He did. Now we're going to give him the gandfly.

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Okay, so it says you send a destructive pulse towards the target. I'm guessing sort of like a shockwave sort of thing.

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It says it takes one die six damage. There's no mention of a roll to hit sort of thing.

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No, it's an automatic hit. Such is the strength of Gand.

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Gand is this understanding of the primal forces through which the world was formed.

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And you're able to control the elements, manipulate root particles and sister particles to hurl projectiles or seize the wind.

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It was once the preserve of Finnar, the Finns, the sorcerers of old.

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But you have turned it into a science.

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Fantastic. And I mean, yeah, and even I can't miss.

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Which is the whole appeal.

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So that way...

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So do roll for damage.

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I rolled a six for damage on a one die six.

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Your spectral missile slams into the uniformed creature and it's clearly invisibly hurt,

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staggering back, falling to one knee, wiping its brow.

429
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And again, you hear it say, Merde!

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Yeah, I hear you, buddy.

431
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OK, my body language is just don't make me do that again.

432
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I'll even say that out loud, although he won't understand me.

433
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Let's see what everyone else does, see what happens.

434
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OK, CJ, if you wanted to take a fast turn this time, you are supported by the guest council from Brynn,

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the sun song from Folk and you're supported by biting charms from Ljomi.

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So make a roll.

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And if it fails, then you are willing.

438
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You are welcome to spend that inspiration.

439
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All right, here we go.

440
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Give me something good.

441
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Good luck.

442
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Oh, inspiration time, isn't it?

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I'm holding my head.

444
00:40:05,720 --> 00:40:07,560
Are you searching for inspiration?

445
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:09,320
You have two wheels you can use.

446
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:10,440
I'm searching.

447
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:14,040
I'm searching.

448
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:16,600
He's got three wheels which cancel out the three woes.

449
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:19,920
So it's just a straight roll, but I will take the inspiration.

450
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:21,120
Brilliant use of that.

451
00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:22,280
Nicely done.

452
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:24,120
Inspired.

453
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:25,640
First ever use of that.

454
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:26,840
Yeah.

455
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:33,320
You are inspired by the gods, partly because you think you are one of them.

456
00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:35,640
Please do make your damage roll.

457
00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:37,400
It's like six.

458
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:39,160
Oh, wow.

459
00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:40,280
Woo hoo.

460
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:41,960
Nice.

461
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:43,080
Oh, yeah.

462
00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:45,800
First good roll in three ways.

463
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:47,560
Well done.

464
00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:54,840
This time you smite the soldier with your sword.

465
00:40:54,840 --> 00:41:02,600
And although he seems somewhat insubstantial, your blow still manages to connect.

466
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:04,040
Take that.

467
00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:04,520
Ha.

468
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:06,520
I imagine that me and Bill are just in the corner.

469
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:07,960
Dun dun dun dun.

470
00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:09,800
Dun dun dun dun dun.

471
00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:10,440
Yes.

472
00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:14,360
Dun dun dun dun.

473
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:17,960
And I do want you to remember, Sam, you do have your winnowing drums.

474
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:18,760
Yeah.

475
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:19,720
You're your own rhythm section.

476
00:41:19,720 --> 00:41:24,360
You also have effectively played the tambourine.

477
00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:29,080
Everyone continuing just with their support of CJ and his heroics.

478
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:38,440
Brynn would like to look to Eir, and does he look very visibly hurt in a major way?

479
00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:42,840
Or have you just got a minor scratch or something?

480
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:44,600
Like...

481
00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:46,040
Me or the soldier?

482
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:46,760
You air.

483
00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:48,360
You.

484
00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:49,960
For air, the damage is on the inside.

485
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:52,360
You did take some physical damage, though, Steve, as well.

486
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:53,240
Mm-hmm.

487
00:41:53,240 --> 00:41:53,720
Yeah.

488
00:41:53,720 --> 00:41:54,040
Yep.

489
00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:54,680
Oh, I did.

490
00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:55,400
Oh, I'm sorry.

491
00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:56,040
You're right.

492
00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:58,200
Just wondering if she used to give you a plaster or not.

493
00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:02,360
Ha ha ha.

494
00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:03,400
Sure.

495
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:03,960
A little.

496
00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:05,880
Well, being made of stone, a little.

497
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:07,640
If you have some cement, that would be handy.

498
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:18,840
The soldier dusts himself off, straightens his uniform, pulls up the lapels, adjusts his

499
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:26,920
peak cap, and then assumes his boxing stance again and strikes a blow aiming for your chin.

500
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:31,000
He fails, and the blow glances wide.

501
00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:34,360
So we go to the next round.

502
00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:40,840
And if you take fast turns, you may again gust another gandfly or take a sword blow

503
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:43,800
or continue to proceed as you wish.

504
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:46,040
Well, I'm just going to keep tambourining, man.

505
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:48,600
Yeah, we're going to we got a jam going.

506
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:49,080
I'm going to try.

507
00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:50,200
So we're going to keep it going.

508
00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:51,800
Yeah.

509
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:59,800
So Gigi hit it with a sword, a physical object made of steel, right?

510
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:01,960
Correct.

511
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:05,240
So in that case, a lead shot might work.

512
00:43:05,240 --> 00:43:11,640
I have gandball, which lets me launch a lead shot at the target, although I have to roll to hit.

513
00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:16,680
So let me see, so there'd be a wits with one wheel.

514
00:43:19,720 --> 00:43:23,720
I'm going to cancel out that wheel, though, because it is a horrifying creature.

515
00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:25,480
There's a balance house.

516
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:27,000
But I'm an atrocity, aren't I?

517
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:29,080
So are of the French.

518
00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:32,280
Fair.

519
00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:41,560
I rolled a six, so I would like to use inspiration and try that again.

520
00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:45,320
You can use that inspiration point.

521
00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:46,360
You're burning through them.

522
00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:51,240
We're still rolling with the same effectiveness.

523
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:54,280
Six episodes in.

524
00:43:54,280 --> 00:44:07,080
So you also feel the touch of the gods on your shoulder and your gand shot hits home thudding into the soldier.

525
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:08,680
What's your damage?

526
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:13,960
One to six plus extra damage equal to your power, which is.

527
00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:15,560
So your power is one.

528
00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:17,960
Okay, so one die, six.

529
00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:20,680
That's a four plus one is five.

530
00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:22,680
The lead shot hurtles towards him.

531
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:25,480
In Old Norse, it's called Trollskud.

532
00:44:25,480 --> 00:44:29,080
It hits him squarely between the eyes.

533
00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:30,840
How's it looking?

534
00:44:30,840 --> 00:44:31,640
Eir?

535
00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:33,080
Rough?

536
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:48,600
The soldier is clearly on its last legs, breathing heavily, looking haggard and forlorn and wincing with every movement as it tries to strike a blowback.

537
00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:53,080
One more good hit should do it.

538
00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:53,720
Twenty.

539
00:44:53,720 --> 00:44:54,840
Oh, what?

540
00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:58,520
I almost haven't done the spell on you now, but never mind.

541
00:45:03,480 --> 00:45:04,200
All right.

542
00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:05,160
And roll your damage.

543
00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:05,660
Two.

544
00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:14,760
I have a runic ability that is really good for when you roll a twenty, but I thought the chances of it happening are like how, how, how, how, how low or how.

545
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:19,960
Your sword thrust is not quite so effective.

546
00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:27,160
Eir, you see him go down on his knees, roll over and lie still.

547
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:29,880
That finished him.

548
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:30,380
He's down.

549
00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:39,000
I'll draw in the snow around him so that everyone can see he's right here, like a chalk outline at a murder's well.

550
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:40,360
I mean, we do, we do.

551
00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:54,600
Were anyone to attempt to prod that space that you've clearly demarcated, you'd feel a kind of resistance in the air, but again, nothing solid, nothing substantial.

552
00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:55,400
Very interesting.

553
00:45:56,520 --> 00:46:04,760
Falk will walk over and bow his head and say, cattle die and kinsmen die, and so one dies themselves.

554
00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:10,600
But one thing now that never dies, the fame of a dead man's deeds.

555
00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:12,280
He's a deep cove.

556
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:16,200
He's, he's, he's brought out the classics again.

557
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:26,840
The fallen soldier, the unknown soldier is just lying there.

558
00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:30,200
There is no, there is no breath escaping from him.

559
00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:33,960
There is no light flying into the heavens.

560
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:39,560
There is, there is nothing apart from this spectral pull on the tongue.

561
00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:42,280
Yeah, does prodding it with a stick have any effect?

562
00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:43,000
Like, does it move?

563
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:44,040
Does anything happen?

564
00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:45,080
I'm wondering.

565
00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:48,200
Part of me wants to immediately lose its pockets, but.

566
00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:51,240
For you, it does.

567
00:46:52,520 --> 00:46:55,080
You were effectively kicking a corpse.

568
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:58,360
There is something, there is something solid.

569
00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:02,920
There is something robust and resistant to your force.

570
00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:05,480
You could, if you liked, rifle through its pockets.

571
00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:13,800
There is something real and tangible for you and perhaps all the more so because of your distressed mental state.

572
00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:16,440
It's lucky for us you're so fragile.

573
00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:18,840
What an asset.

574
00:47:19,480 --> 00:47:28,440
Eir will just go through, just look through its pockets, examine its, and examine any insignia it has.

575
00:47:29,320 --> 00:47:31,320
Any equipment it might be carrying.

576
00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:32,120
Good idea.

577
00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:32,920
That sort of thing.

578
00:47:32,920 --> 00:47:33,400
Just.

579
00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:43,240
There are some pieces of paper, maybe typed orders that are scrunched up in its pockets.

580
00:47:44,920 --> 00:47:47,800
Is there blood on Grotgarth's sword?

581
00:47:49,240 --> 00:47:49,800
Oh.

582
00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:51,400
Oh.

583
00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:54,920
There is no, there is no substance of any kind.

584
00:47:54,920 --> 00:48:00,440
There is no ectoplasm, there is no blood, there is no trachea.

585
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:04,440
There is no trace that you have impaled someone with.

586
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:15,160
So if I take the crumpled up, the typed orders on a piece of paper and I take them out of the body's pocket and hold them up, does it remain substantial?

587
00:48:15,160 --> 00:48:17,160
If I drop it on the ground, can anyone see it?

588
00:48:18,920 --> 00:48:23,160
You are the only person who can see any of these objects.

589
00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:25,880
That's bizarre.

590
00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:26,360
Okay.

591
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:34,360
I'll take the orders and one of the lapel, like I guess is it a pin or something or is it embroidered?

592
00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:38,360
The insignia on the lapel.

593
00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:40,360
Yeah, it's brocade.

594
00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:44,360
Okay, so I can't take it without damaging the uniform and I'm not going to do that.

595
00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:52,360
No, you could remove the jacket and wear it if you chose to do so.

596
00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:54,360
Wear an insubstantial jacket.

597
00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:58,360
I think that would make a strange sort of sense.

598
00:48:58,360 --> 00:49:06,360
I was just mentioning Emperor's new clothes because he effectively wore things he thought he could see but no one else could.

599
00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:08,360
But this time they're real.

600
00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:10,360
Uh-huh.

601
00:49:10,360 --> 00:49:14,360
This time it's real, I mean it this time.

602
00:49:14,360 --> 00:49:18,360
Just don't take off the rest of your clothes and parade around naked.

603
00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:22,360
Aren't I technically naked all the time?

604
00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:23,360
Sort of.

605
00:49:23,360 --> 00:49:27,360
It's entirely up to you and the PG rating of this podcast.

606
00:49:27,360 --> 00:49:34,360
Bryn is going to stand up from the snow and roughly turn around and then enter the boathouse.

607
00:49:34,360 --> 00:49:39,360
She wants to know more about what was in there to have made the marks, the scratchings.

608
00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:46,360
Can I transfer my two weals onto her since I'm still, Sunsong is up for a full minute?

609
00:49:46,360 --> 00:49:55,360
The spell song is like a psalm. It's an incantation that can range anywhere from the high pitch to the rhythmic.

610
00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:58,360
But they are generally all pleasing to the ear.

611
00:49:58,360 --> 00:50:01,360
I do need to follow her with my drum.

612
00:50:01,360 --> 00:50:04,360
Singing this. Exactly.

613
00:50:04,360 --> 00:50:07,360
And give me an awareness roll, Becky, please, if you would.

614
00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:10,360
What do you know? That was a natural 20.

615
00:50:10,360 --> 00:50:16,360
Two wheels plus four makes it 24.

616
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:21,360
The sons and daughters of Ivaldi are known as the Watchers for a reason.

617
00:50:21,360 --> 00:50:25,360
They have a very high awareness.

618
00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:30,360
And as you scan them, it becomes immediately apparent to you that the rowboat is not seaworthy.

619
00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:34,360
There is, however, a seat locker on the rowboat.

620
00:50:34,360 --> 00:50:38,360
And within that are three sticks of dynamite.

621
00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:45,360
Perhaps someone used it to go fishing, fishing with extreme prejudice.

622
00:50:45,360 --> 00:50:52,360
The diverge in the corner is old, is antiquated.

623
00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:57,360
It doesn't look like it can be rebooted.

624
00:50:57,360 --> 00:51:02,360
But there is a key that is dangling on the end of its nasal sensor.

625
00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:04,360
I would like to take the key.

626
00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:13,360
I would, if I may, yeah, I would, Eir would like to first he will put on his lovely new insubstantial jacket.

627
00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:15,360
It's real to him, OK?

628
00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:24,360
And yeah, and then he will follow Brynn into the, into the boathouse, because I want to see, does he see anything that no one else sees?

629
00:51:24,360 --> 00:51:27,360
You do not.

630
00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:33,360
There is nothing hidden from you that your senses would otherwise detect.

631
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:42,360
CJ, just behind you, though, as you stand at the doorway, or they went there a moment ago, you could have sworn.

632
00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:53,360
But now there are some rather elegant white lilies that have been laid in the doorway.

633
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:55,360
Hmm.

634
00:51:55,360 --> 00:51:58,360
I'm going to watch your face.

635
00:51:58,360 --> 00:52:06,360
Just on the floor, they're just on the, is that something Gigi would even notice?

636
00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:09,360
I drew your attention to them because they are so elegant.

637
00:52:09,360 --> 00:52:14,360
They remind you of the kind of bouquet that you would have been gifted when you stood on the podium.

638
00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:16,360
Ah.

639
00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:18,360
But they're clearly a floral tribute.

640
00:52:18,360 --> 00:52:20,360
They're clearly a wreath of some sort.

641
00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:28,360
So, Gryotgarth will draw everyone's attention to the lilies and say, has anyone else noticed we've received flowers?

642
00:52:28,360 --> 00:52:32,360
Do we also see the flowers when they're pointed out?

643
00:52:32,360 --> 00:52:40,360
Everyone sees the flowers, although you notice their petals begin to curl and wither.

644
00:52:40,360 --> 00:52:51,360
And within the space of 30 seconds, the icy breeze that glides over the tundra rustles those petals and they begin to drift apart.

645
00:52:51,360 --> 00:53:01,360
And the whole bouquet very quickly turns from fresh to putrid, brittle and disintegrates.

646
00:53:01,360 --> 00:53:09,360
Intriguing. They were not there when we first approached or opened this door.

647
00:53:09,360 --> 00:53:11,360
Is the body still outside?

648
00:53:11,360 --> 00:53:13,360
The body is still outside.

649
00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:26,360
It could be connected with the demise of whatever spirit's thing, person, creature.

650
00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:28,360
Do they have any cultural significance?

651
00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:33,360
It's a Christian symbol, right?

652
00:53:33,360 --> 00:53:43,360
Would lilies even exist anywhere on this planet? Because Gigi would have won on Asgard.

653
00:53:43,360 --> 00:53:49,360
So, would they be totally out of place?

654
00:53:49,360 --> 00:53:53,360
Yes, this podcast has transformed into Gardeners Question Time.

655
00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:55,360
Religious gardening.

656
00:53:55,360 --> 00:54:01,360
Well, if you ask if chihuahuas agree, I think it's perfectly sensible to ask if lilies agree.

657
00:54:01,360 --> 00:54:03,360
Yeah, the chihuahua people agree.

658
00:54:03,360 --> 00:54:06,360
It's all starting to make sense.

659
00:54:06,360 --> 00:54:07,360
Yes.

660
00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:09,360
It is, yeah.

661
00:54:09,360 --> 00:54:20,360
Falk, you glanced down and you noticed that your own elegant clothing has been bizarrely replaced.

662
00:54:20,360 --> 00:54:28,360
You're actually now clothed in some kind of mud-spattered khaki uniform and you're wearing a steel helmet.

663
00:54:28,360 --> 00:54:33,360
For Falk's sake, I step a little closer to examine.

664
00:54:33,360 --> 00:54:36,360
Can you make a will challenge roll for me, please?

665
00:54:36,360 --> 00:54:38,360
Yeah, I step further away.

666
00:54:38,360 --> 00:54:47,360
I rolled a nine and I have plus one will, so ten.

667
00:54:47,360 --> 00:54:56,360
If your resolve is somewhat shaken, you are unnerved by the appearance of this strange and unnatural clothing.

668
00:54:56,360 --> 00:55:02,360
Within a few moments, it too has vanished and left you back in your normal clothing.

669
00:55:02,360 --> 00:55:09,360
I will exit the boathouse immediately and go back outside.

670
00:55:09,360 --> 00:55:11,360
It's safer out here.

671
00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:14,360
You can almost feel where the steel helmet was too tight.

672
00:55:14,360 --> 00:55:23,360
Yeah, I start trying to comb my fingers through my beard to get it back to the right fullness.

673
00:55:23,360 --> 00:55:30,360
Ljomi steps into the boathouse checking around with tree sight because you know how well trees can see.

674
00:55:30,360 --> 00:55:36,360
So just to be clear, everyone else has gone into the boathouse, they've all scoped it out,

675
00:55:36,360 --> 00:55:41,360
and then just almost like a kind of coda as a period of full stop, you go in just to pick people up.

676
00:55:41,360 --> 00:55:42,360
That's correct.

677
00:55:42,360 --> 00:55:44,360
Brynn's still in there. She hasn't actually left yet.

678
00:55:44,360 --> 00:55:45,360
Good.

679
00:55:45,360 --> 00:55:46,360
Yeah.

680
00:55:46,360 --> 00:55:53,360
Okay, you detect nothing that anyone else has not already seen.

681
00:55:53,360 --> 00:55:59,360
The three sticks of dynamite do call out to you just because you're aware of the incendiary nature of them,

682
00:55:59,360 --> 00:56:04,360
and you wouldn't like to go up like a Canadian forest in the summer.

683
00:56:04,360 --> 00:56:08,360
A Canadian fir tree, yes.

684
00:56:08,360 --> 00:56:10,360
Okay.

685
00:56:10,360 --> 00:56:17,360
All right, I'll step back out again. I'll go stand a little farther away than Eir is standing. His instincts are good.

686
00:56:17,360 --> 00:56:19,360
Brynn is looking down at this key.

687
00:56:19,360 --> 00:56:25,360
Now, is it like a typical kind of like paddle key, or is it a card type key?

688
00:56:25,360 --> 00:56:30,360
How classic or modern are we going with this key?

689
00:56:30,360 --> 00:56:37,360
It would be a kind of key code similar to the one that Magnus made well up possessing.

690
00:56:37,360 --> 00:56:46,360
She's going to double check the space to see if there's nothing in the room that this key code would have technically, theoretically possibly unlocked

691
00:56:46,360 --> 00:56:53,360
before she starts thinking, could this be for the door over there?

692
00:56:53,360 --> 00:56:59,360
Yeah, the boathouse is almost like a secondary storage area. It hasn't been used for quite some time.

693
00:56:59,360 --> 00:57:04,360
Perhaps the Dverg was some kind of local servitor or janitor.

694
00:57:04,360 --> 00:57:13,360
It may well have used the key code itself in order to access the buildings before such time as its battery life ran out with it powered down.

695
00:57:13,360 --> 00:57:17,360
So at least we can now get in, perhaps, the main building.

696
00:57:17,360 --> 00:57:25,360
Potentially. That is a very good hypothesis, and I will endeavor to find out first. I must study these markings.

697
00:57:25,360 --> 00:57:31,360
Now, were they on the window pane or on the wall around the window, or just a wall in the space?

698
00:57:31,360 --> 00:57:41,360
On the window pane. On the window pane and there would be akin to you using your finger on a window full of condensation.

699
00:57:41,360 --> 00:57:42,360
And would you go in one, two?

700
00:57:42,360 --> 00:57:55,360
These mark the left not by any of us and certainly not by this old mechanical thing.

701
00:57:55,360 --> 00:58:12,360
And yet we fought something, well, Gigi fought and defeated, so to speak, and to my keep him on it, something that isn't corporeal yet seemed to be corporeal to air.

702
00:58:12,360 --> 00:58:22,360
Brynn, do you have a device that would tap into the frequency of 1111 while we're here?

703
00:58:22,360 --> 00:58:36,360
Not on me personally. We could have indeed acquired one from the Institute, which is what I was hoping to do, but they pointed out that this station is not working correctly because of the same reason.

704
00:58:36,360 --> 00:58:45,360
So it's all tied up. Perhaps if we get into the station itself, there might be something in there that we can use.

705
00:58:45,360 --> 00:58:54,360
I believe Gigi is correct. We need to find out if this passcode is for that door and let's hope we don't beat the same fate as Magnus.

706
00:58:54,360 --> 00:58:58,360
That's a good plan.

707
00:58:58,360 --> 00:59:07,360
But the nearest building to you would be the main control room, the observation deck on top. You would have to go round it.

708
00:59:07,360 --> 00:59:11,360
You can give it a wide berth, but you would have to go round it to get to the other two buildings.

709
00:59:11,360 --> 00:59:20,360
One thing you do notice is that the tobacco smell and the accordion music have stopped.

710
00:59:20,360 --> 00:59:26,360
So the main room is the control room and the other one is a meteorologist room?

711
00:59:26,360 --> 00:59:29,360
A meteorology laboratory.

712
00:59:29,360 --> 00:59:31,360
It's a separate building, right?

713
00:59:31,360 --> 00:59:41,360
It's a separate building. So the meteorological laboratory is immediately to the north. You can see it through the fog.

714
00:59:41,360 --> 00:59:48,360
And when you would know, again, being a scientist is the sort of place where you would conduct experiments.

715
00:59:48,360 --> 00:59:57,360
It's a weather proof enclosure with everything from data loggers, batteries to recharge things.

716
00:59:57,360 --> 01:00:05,360
It's that meteorological mast with a solar panel. The solar panel is not getting much power because of the fog,

717
01:00:05,360 --> 01:00:11,360
but it is designed to conduct experiments and enable field operatives to do that work.

718
01:00:11,360 --> 01:00:17,360
Do we explore some more of the buildings or shall we proceed straight to the control tower?

719
01:00:17,360 --> 01:00:19,360
Control tower!

720
01:00:19,360 --> 01:00:26,360
Very well then. I suppose it avoids meeting any more invisible creatures.

721
01:00:26,360 --> 01:00:28,360
Let us...

722
01:00:28,360 --> 01:00:30,360
Do you want to give me a mark?

723
01:00:30,360 --> 01:00:34,360
We will go first because she has got the code.

724
01:00:34,360 --> 01:00:42,360
I think Gigi, again, being honor bound is going to want to lead the pack.

725
01:00:42,360 --> 01:00:44,360
You know, he is a god.

726
01:00:44,360 --> 01:00:48,360
She will let him walk in front, but she will not be very far behind.

727
01:00:48,360 --> 01:00:54,360
I suppose the critical question is who is bringing up the rear?

728
01:00:54,360 --> 01:00:56,360
Tell me, Dibs.

729
01:00:56,360 --> 01:00:58,360
I'm just in front of him.

730
01:00:58,360 --> 01:01:03,360
I guess I'm in the middle then.

731
01:01:03,360 --> 01:01:05,360
Wait a minute.

732
01:01:05,360 --> 01:01:11,360
I think you accidentally caught Dibs on being last. Did you, Steve? Is that what you were doing?

733
01:01:11,360 --> 01:01:13,360
It wasn't the plan, but...

734
01:01:13,360 --> 01:01:15,360
It's where you ended up.

735
01:01:15,360 --> 01:01:23,360
If Eir is the only one who can see these insubstantial things, okay, sure. He'll stay at the back.

736
01:01:23,360 --> 01:01:25,360
It will be useful when they attack you from behind.

737
01:01:25,360 --> 01:01:27,360
And he won't...

738
01:01:27,360 --> 01:01:34,360
Yeah, and when they attack from the front, Eir... No one will know anything about it because Eir won't be able to warn them.

739
01:01:34,360 --> 01:01:36,360
But he will see from behind.

740
01:01:36,360 --> 01:01:42,360
I will absolutely see myself getting murdered from behind.

741
01:01:42,360 --> 01:01:45,360
Err, can you make me a might challenge?

742
01:01:45,360 --> 01:01:47,360
Probably not.

743
01:01:47,360 --> 01:01:49,360
Okay, Steve, let's do it.

744
01:01:49,360 --> 01:01:51,360
Err, one, two, three...

745
01:01:51,360 --> 01:01:53,360
Might, you said, huh?

746
01:01:53,360 --> 01:01:55,360
Might.

747
01:01:55,360 --> 01:01:57,360
We got this.

748
01:01:57,360 --> 01:01:59,360
Fantastic. This is exceptional.

749
01:01:59,360 --> 01:02:01,360
I rolled a zero.

750
01:02:01,360 --> 01:02:03,360
One minus one.

751
01:02:03,360 --> 01:02:07,360
I think...

752
01:02:07,360 --> 01:02:11,360
As far as I know, we haven't burned through all the inspiration yet. What do you think?

753
01:02:11,360 --> 01:02:15,360
Use what is left, yeah.

754
01:02:15,360 --> 01:02:18,360
Okay, inspiration it is.

755
01:02:18,360 --> 01:02:21,360
And here we come across a salient lesson.

756
01:02:21,360 --> 01:02:30,360
Spend ye the inspiration points too early, and they are no longer of use to save you in moments of peril.

757
01:02:30,360 --> 01:02:38,360
You are engulfed by a numerous yellow cloud of suffocating gas.

758
01:02:38,360 --> 01:02:45,360
And you take seven damage.

759
01:02:45,360 --> 01:02:48,360
I also want you to add...

760
01:02:48,360 --> 01:02:53,360
What sort of damage? I'm immune to disease and poison, right? It's neither of those things?

761
01:02:53,360 --> 01:02:58,360
Do you know that's entirely a reasonable rebuttal?

762
01:02:58,360 --> 01:03:04,360
Because you don't breathe, so you can't be affected by a greenish-yellow cloud of suffocating gas.

763
01:03:04,360 --> 01:03:12,360
So you can ignore the damage, but I do want you to make a will challenge.

764
01:03:12,360 --> 01:03:14,360
Well, better than the last one.

765
01:03:14,360 --> 01:03:17,360
Wow. This is a twenty-sided die, right?

766
01:03:17,360 --> 01:03:20,360
A total of six.

767
01:03:20,360 --> 01:03:29,360
So while you are immune to the acrid fumes that begin to billow around you as if materialized from somewhere,

768
01:03:29,360 --> 01:03:35,360
they don't go into your lungs, you don't have any, they don't seep into your pores,

769
01:03:35,360 --> 01:03:39,360
they don't burn your eyes because of your stony skin,

770
01:03:39,360 --> 01:03:48,360
but nevertheless the memory of suffocating causes you to have one extra trauma.

771
01:03:48,360 --> 01:03:52,360
I think that has tipped you over Eir.

772
01:03:52,360 --> 01:03:54,360
No, let's go for triple digits.

773
01:03:54,360 --> 01:03:56,360
That's not your day.

774
01:03:56,360 --> 01:03:59,360
That's the threshold.

775
01:03:59,360 --> 01:04:01,360
Oh, he's just gone nuts.

776
01:04:01,360 --> 01:04:05,360
He hasn't tipped over or he has gone nuts?

777
01:04:05,360 --> 01:04:10,360
He will, Eir will say gas out loud if he can.

778
01:04:10,360 --> 01:04:13,360
Let everyone interpret that as they wish.

779
01:04:13,360 --> 01:04:19,360
Do we see anything when, or is there any sound component?

780
01:04:19,360 --> 01:04:28,360
There's not. Perhaps it's a phantasm, perhaps it's a figment of his rather vivid imagination,

781
01:04:28,360 --> 01:04:35,360
but now you do have this heightened sense of danger, air, your natural flight or fight response,

782
01:04:35,360 --> 01:04:43,360
your flight or fight response has kicked in and I'm going to ask you to roll a D20.

783
01:04:43,360 --> 01:04:45,360
Just D20, nothing fancy.

784
01:04:45,360 --> 01:04:48,360
Straight D20 and I will tell you.

785
01:04:48,360 --> 01:04:50,360
Stand by for failure.

786
01:04:50,360 --> 01:04:53,360
Oh!

787
01:04:53,360 --> 01:04:56,360
Nineteen.

788
01:04:56,360 --> 01:04:58,360
Couldn't have rolled that last time.

789
01:04:58,360 --> 01:04:59,360
Nope.

790
01:04:59,360 --> 01:05:05,360
Rather than suffer anything from tremors to panic to indecision or confusion,

791
01:05:05,360 --> 01:05:09,360
you actually become hypervigilant.

792
01:05:09,360 --> 01:05:12,360
You are completely alert.

793
01:05:12,360 --> 01:05:17,360
Perhaps you don't have a surge of stress hormones released into your bloodstream

794
01:05:17,360 --> 01:05:25,360
because you don't have any blood, but your senses are all very much focused on this otherworldly attack

795
01:05:25,360 --> 01:05:30,360
and you may reduce your trauma total by 1 by 6 plus your will modifier.

796
01:05:30,360 --> 01:05:33,360
Oh, well, that's well...

797
01:05:33,360 --> 01:05:40,360
There are a few rolls in which you get to overcome Shellshock quite so easily,

798
01:05:40,360 --> 01:05:43,360
but you manage to fluke one of them.

799
01:05:43,360 --> 01:05:45,360
1 by 6 plus 1 you said.

800
01:05:45,360 --> 01:05:50,360
Total 4. So that'll reduce by 4 to 7.

801
01:05:50,360 --> 01:05:52,360
That's a turnaround for the books.

802
01:05:52,360 --> 01:05:54,360
What a great time to get his shit together.

803
01:05:54,360 --> 01:05:57,360
Yeah.

804
01:05:57,360 --> 01:06:02,360
Okay, he will... Air will immediately alert whoever's... well, everyone else.

805
01:06:02,360 --> 01:06:06,360
Poison gas? There's gas everywhere. It's come out of nowhere.

806
01:06:06,360 --> 01:06:09,360
And yet, it's okay.

807
01:06:09,360 --> 01:06:13,360
For me, for me it's okay.

808
01:06:13,360 --> 01:06:19,360
Yeah, I'm okay with this. It's gonna be fine. The rest of you, we'll see.

809
01:06:19,360 --> 01:06:28,360
You can continue to sidle up to the door. I presume you are approaching carefully and cautiously.

810
01:06:28,360 --> 01:06:29,360
Wait!

811
01:06:29,360 --> 01:06:34,360
Gigi's gonna reach down and grab a... is it... can he... are there any rocks around him?

812
01:06:34,360 --> 01:06:36,360
Is there snow?

813
01:06:36,360 --> 01:06:40,360
Well, there's Steve.

814
01:06:40,360 --> 01:06:45,360
No, but like pebbles, rocks, something he can pick up and just throw.

815
01:06:45,360 --> 01:06:48,360
I'm sure you'll be able to find something.

816
01:06:48,360 --> 01:06:50,360
Is there snow at our feet?

817
01:06:50,360 --> 01:06:55,360
Yeah, you can grab a clod of earth and snow and hurl it and...

818
01:06:55,360 --> 01:07:04,360
Yeah, he's gonna make a snowball, a brown snowball, and then launch it at the door to make sure... to see what happens.

819
01:07:04,360 --> 01:07:14,360
Just to make sure there's not some kind of invisible barrier that's going to vaporize them, like what happened to poor Magnus, who was...

820
01:07:14,360 --> 01:07:16,360
He just vanished.

821
01:07:16,360 --> 01:07:18,360
His body just got consumed in light.

822
01:07:18,360 --> 01:07:20,360
He just vanished.

823
01:07:20,360 --> 01:07:21,360
Mm-hmm.

824
01:07:21,360 --> 01:07:26,360
Yeah, so throw... yep, up the door. What happens?

825
01:07:26,360 --> 01:07:34,360
When you throw your clod of snowy frozen earth, it thumps into the side of the building.

826
01:07:34,360 --> 01:07:38,360
It reverberates on the window.

827
01:07:38,360 --> 01:07:45,360
You kind of remind yourself of when you hurled the shot put back at the old Asgard games.

828
01:07:45,360 --> 01:07:49,360
It's a hefty blow, but nothing happens.

829
01:07:49,360 --> 01:07:53,360
Still, good precaution, just in case.

830
01:07:53,360 --> 01:07:57,360
A rudimentary method, but I... I...

831
01:07:57,360 --> 01:07:58,360
Kaleidoscopes?

832
01:07:58,360 --> 01:08:02,360
...took marks for its theory and basis.

833
01:08:02,360 --> 01:08:09,360
And Bryn will try and get around Grjotgarth and try and get to the passcode box.

834
01:08:09,360 --> 01:08:16,360
Okay, so you're aiming for... you're going to type... use the key code...

835
01:08:16,360 --> 01:08:17,360
Yep.

836
01:08:17,360 --> 01:08:18,360
...and plug it into the door.

837
01:08:18,360 --> 01:08:21,360
Yes, please.

838
01:08:21,360 --> 01:08:25,360
Mm-hmm.

839
01:08:25,360 --> 01:08:26,360
Here it comes.

840
01:08:26,360 --> 01:08:28,360
We're going to need another Timmy.

841
01:08:28,360 --> 01:08:35,360
Slight pause.

842
01:08:35,360 --> 01:08:44,360
As you touch the door, you suddenly see a kind of endless vista.

843
01:08:44,360 --> 01:08:52,360
It's as if you are being reflected in mirrors, one after the other, after the other, stretching on into infinity.

844
01:08:52,360 --> 01:08:57,360
And then something beyond the door reaches out.

845
01:08:57,360 --> 01:09:00,360
It's tearing through reality's veil.

846
01:09:00,360 --> 01:09:08,360
There's a jagged form, a glitch in existence, and you can feel these shards of pain searing into your mind.

847
01:09:08,360 --> 01:09:17,360
It's like listening to a symphony of dissonance.

848
01:09:17,360 --> 01:09:19,360
He's rolling dice. He's doing something.

849
01:09:19,360 --> 01:09:24,360
I'm going to give you...

850
01:09:24,360 --> 01:09:25,360
Tell me something.

851
01:09:25,360 --> 01:09:30,360
15 damage.

852
01:09:30,360 --> 01:09:36,360
Yeah, yeah, that'll do it. That'll do it, boys.

853
01:09:36,360 --> 01:09:41,360
Left me with a minus two.

854
01:09:41,360 --> 01:09:47,360
Okay, so in this game, that doesn't necessarily wipe you out.

855
01:09:47,360 --> 01:09:53,360
It just means that you have been incapacitated, and you're going to give me a fate roll.

856
01:09:53,360 --> 01:09:59,360
I want to use Yggdrasil's gift to try and stabilize her.

857
01:09:59,360 --> 01:10:04,360
I know you do, but you have to do that after she's made her roll.

858
01:10:04,360 --> 01:10:06,360
Okay, here we go.

859
01:10:06,360 --> 01:10:10,360
He's like the wooden red cross.

860
01:10:10,360 --> 01:10:13,360
Oh, well that could have been a fate roll, actually.

861
01:10:13,360 --> 01:10:20,360
It became a one, I'm afraid, guys. I'm looking at the beautiful wolf dice.

862
01:10:20,360 --> 01:10:27,360
Do I get spared because I have your dice in?

863
01:10:27,360 --> 01:10:40,360
Unfortunately, a one is probably the worst thing you could have rolled in this instance, because you die.

864
01:10:40,360 --> 01:10:58,360
You are ripped from existence. Your body disintegrates into its component atoms, and your consciousness blows into the Tundra.

865
01:10:58,360 --> 01:11:05,360
Bryn Blar Ivaldisdottir, has ceased to exist.

866
01:11:05,360 --> 01:11:07,360
Bryn, we hardly knew ye.

867
01:11:07,360 --> 01:11:10,360
I somehow feel responsible.

868
01:11:10,360 --> 01:11:13,360
I should have done things differently, but I thought, well...

869
01:11:13,360 --> 01:11:15,360
Is the door open?

870
01:11:15,360 --> 01:11:19,360
Did he drop the key? Would have that disintegrate as well.

871
01:11:19,360 --> 01:11:22,360
The door is not open.

872
01:11:22,360 --> 01:11:33,360
Simply the act of reaching for the door caused whatever is lurking within to reach out, reach through the door.

873
01:11:33,360 --> 01:11:41,360
Whatever reached out was mesmerizing. It glistened with all the colours of the rainbow as if reality had fractured around it.

874
01:11:41,360 --> 01:11:51,360
And what Becky saw was the standing between two mirrors in an infinite reproduction of her own image before she became an echo of that image.

875
01:11:51,360 --> 01:11:58,360
I'd like to say the last thing you all hear from Bryn is just the silent word of interesting.

876
01:11:58,360 --> 01:12:01,360
And then she just goes.

877
01:12:01,360 --> 01:12:03,360
And then she pops out of existence.

878
01:12:03,360 --> 01:12:06,360
One eyebrow raising slightly.

879
01:12:06,360 --> 01:12:12,360
Do we hear anything or just see this kaleidoscope again?

880
01:12:12,360 --> 01:12:15,360
Oh, good question.

881
01:12:15,360 --> 01:12:40,360
There is the faint and distant hum of the frequency that you recognise. The frequency 1111. It's as if the alfar song that was attached to this hijacked frequency has channeled something into this room.

882
01:12:40,360 --> 01:12:51,360
It's as if a beam of intense information has plucked something from the ionosphere and brought it directly into this control room.

883
01:12:51,360 --> 01:13:01,360
Certain is that which is sought from the runes that the gods so great have made and the master poet painted of the race of gods. Silence is safest and best.

884
01:13:01,360 --> 01:13:11,360
The only nods. Speak plain normal man. I'm a skald too. I don't try that.

885
01:13:11,360 --> 01:13:20,360
The only nods. Slightly and turns to Eir and says we should acquire another man.

886
01:13:20,360 --> 01:13:29,360
Very useful. Yeah, we we we stand the risk of going through a few more focus going to begin moving backwards.

887
01:13:29,360 --> 01:13:35,360
Excellent choice away from the building and back down the stairs.

888
01:13:35,360 --> 01:13:46,360
Do we have the key? The key card? The key is lying bereft on the floor as if just dropped as if discarded.

889
01:13:46,360 --> 01:13:55,360
We need either a stick or a volunteer. Either will be fine. I think we may have used up our last volunteer.

890
01:13:55,360 --> 01:14:01,360
I'm here. What about Heimric?

891
01:14:01,360 --> 01:14:08,360
There's a reason why Heimric went straight to the shed and barricaded himself in to keep himself safe until he's needed.

892
01:14:08,360 --> 01:14:11,360
I understand you're keeping him so well.

893
01:14:11,360 --> 01:14:15,360
We're going to get him out. Should should we very sensible.

894
01:14:15,360 --> 01:14:19,360
We go and interrogate him. He might know what's going on.

895
01:14:19,360 --> 01:14:26,360
Oh, just a thought. I mean, no one's left. No one's left from the Institute.

896
01:14:26,360 --> 01:14:30,360
I'm not from the Institute. I don't know what the Institute does here.

897
01:14:30,360 --> 01:14:34,360
Frankly, I don't remember what I'm supposed to be doing here.

898
01:14:34,360 --> 01:14:38,360
They're going to be upset when we don't bring back their side. Well, I won't.

899
01:14:38,360 --> 01:14:41,360
It looks suspicious.

900
01:14:41,360 --> 01:14:57,360
Is there like a long piece of metal or something that I or some brave person could reach out and sort of try and drag the key card closer to us?

901
01:14:57,360 --> 01:15:09,360
You could go back to the boathouse, fashion something from one of the empty equipment crates and return within short order to to drag it with a kind of wooden plank or stick.

902
01:15:09,360 --> 01:15:14,360
Falk will hand you a crowbar.

903
01:15:14,360 --> 01:15:17,360
I was hoping for something a lot longer.

904
01:15:17,360 --> 01:15:26,360
The idea being to fashion something to hold the key card and deposit it in the slot while a long way away.

905
01:15:26,360 --> 01:15:35,360
That would require some kind of pincers or prehensile tools that you don't have.

906
01:15:35,360 --> 01:15:41,360
Or just stick with a slot cut in it.

907
01:15:41,360 --> 01:15:46,360
I just thought from the guidance from the inspiration.

908
01:15:46,360 --> 01:15:48,360
What are you thinking?

909
01:15:48,360 --> 01:15:59,360
I'm thinking there was that dynamite. Now, I don't want to touch it, but there was dynamite and you might be able to use that in some fashion.

910
01:15:59,360 --> 01:16:09,360
The important thing is it should be you and not Gigi because I don't think he is brave enough for this particular task.

911
01:16:09,360 --> 01:16:10,360
I beg your pardon.

912
01:16:10,360 --> 01:16:13,360
I do apologize.

913
01:16:13,360 --> 01:16:16,360
By all means, it should be Gigi.

914
01:16:16,360 --> 01:16:25,360
Although I must say, I think Falk and his military training is much better suited to handle the dynamite.

915
01:16:25,360 --> 01:16:30,360
Falk is probably 20 feet away at this point.

916
01:16:30,360 --> 01:16:32,360
And he could still hit me.

917
01:16:32,360 --> 01:16:40,360
Falk's tactics are the same as Eir's. He is just a lot quieter about it.

918
01:16:40,360 --> 01:16:54,360
While you are standing debating your next course of action, Eir acting as an early warning system because you still have enough trauma to be able to detect these manifestations.

919
01:16:54,360 --> 01:17:02,360
You see two figures approaching from the direction of the laboratory.

920
01:17:02,360 --> 01:17:12,360
One is a mustachioed soldier. He has a fixed bayonet of determination in his eyes and he is charging towards you.

921
01:17:12,360 --> 01:17:14,360
There's another man.

922
01:17:14,360 --> 01:17:15,360
Wonderful.

923
01:17:15,360 --> 01:17:19,360
He is darting in and out of cover.

924
01:17:19,360 --> 01:17:24,360
He carries a bowie knife.

925
01:17:24,360 --> 01:17:33,360
Eir will immediately point at the two of them and announce in a loud clear voice, two miscreants with weapons are headed towards us.

926
01:17:33,360 --> 01:17:42,360
Ljomi, can you give me a slight challenge roll please?

927
01:17:42,360 --> 01:17:48,360
A 12 plus 1 is 13. Not a 1, not a 2, not a 3.

928
01:17:48,360 --> 01:18:02,360
You are suddenly forced to fall as an invader of mud and iron erupts from nearby an explosion that almost took your boots off.

929
01:18:02,360 --> 01:18:05,360
That's fine. That's okay. Okay.

930
01:18:05,360 --> 01:18:08,360
Alright, this guy is charging at us.

931
01:18:08,360 --> 01:18:13,360
We have some weapons.

932
01:18:13,360 --> 01:18:23,360
Two guys charging. A mustachioed bayonet wielding soldier. They're wearing uniforms again.

933
01:18:23,360 --> 01:18:30,360
Not light blue but various shades of dun.

934
01:18:30,360 --> 01:18:33,360
Is the insignia the same as on my uniform?

935
01:18:33,360 --> 01:18:34,360
No.

936
01:18:34,360 --> 01:18:37,360
Well, there's your problem.

937
01:18:37,360 --> 01:18:40,360
They might see me and think that I'm the other team.

938
01:18:40,360 --> 01:18:48,360
Yeah, that was a really good idea.

939
01:18:48,360 --> 01:18:57,360
I will try to launch a gand ball at the nearest one. The one with the bayonet, I presume, who's charging.

940
01:18:57,360 --> 01:18:59,360
Okay, you can make your roll.

941
01:18:59,360 --> 01:19:00,360
Yeah.

942
01:19:00,360 --> 01:19:02,360
This is your last one of those.

943
01:19:02,360 --> 01:19:04,360
After this, you'll be flawless.

944
01:19:04,360 --> 01:19:11,360
Yep. Yep. So that's a wits with one weal. Are there any woes?

945
01:19:11,360 --> 01:19:15,360
Yep. All cancelled out because, again, these are horrifying creatures.

946
01:19:15,360 --> 01:19:28,360
And whilst you have overcome the horrified trait with that early roll, or as at least you've been released from its effects, you still roll with one woe against horrifying creatures.

947
01:19:28,360 --> 01:19:35,360
These creatures are horrifying because they clearly do not belong on Midgard.

948
01:19:35,360 --> 01:19:39,360
Total roll is a ten.

949
01:19:39,360 --> 01:19:42,360
That is enough to roll your damage.

950
01:19:42,360 --> 01:19:43,360
Oh, fantastic.

951
01:19:43,360 --> 01:19:52,360
The lead shot whistles from your palm and flies straight towards the soldier, hitting him in the kneecap.

952
01:19:52,360 --> 01:19:55,360
Oh, it just grazed him. Just one.

953
01:19:55,360 --> 01:19:58,360
Oh, plus one for my powers. That makes two.

954
01:19:58,360 --> 01:20:10,360
Okay. The mustachioed gentleman quickly regathers his momentum and velocity and continues to rush towards you, yelling out,

955
01:20:10,360 --> 01:20:14,360
Zero hour, boys, I'm going to take out the squareheads.

956
01:20:14,360 --> 01:20:16,360
And he repeats it over and over.

957
01:20:16,360 --> 01:20:19,360
Zero hour, boys, I'm going to take out the squareheads.

958
01:20:19,360 --> 01:20:22,360
What's going on?

959
01:20:22,360 --> 01:20:26,360
Would I have made it back to the boathouse at this point?

960
01:20:26,360 --> 01:20:33,360
If you were tracking back towards the boathouse, then yes, you can be there in with...

961
01:20:33,360 --> 01:20:34,360
He's fucked off.

962
01:20:34,360 --> 01:20:36,360
He's got sense.

963
01:20:36,360 --> 01:20:38,360
Burst into the boathouse.

964
01:20:38,360 --> 01:20:39,360
He's buggered off.

965
01:20:39,360 --> 01:20:41,360
You can shut the door behind you if you wish.

966
01:20:41,360 --> 01:20:49,360
The boathouse is empty. Its previous guardian denizen has been disposed of.

967
01:20:49,360 --> 01:20:51,360
No smell of tobacco?

968
01:20:51,360 --> 01:20:53,360
No smell of tobacco.

969
01:20:53,360 --> 01:20:56,360
Okay, I'm going to run for the boat and grab the dynamite.

970
01:20:56,360 --> 01:21:02,360
Okay, there are three sticks of dynamite sat in that boat locker.

971
01:21:02,360 --> 01:21:05,360
All right. I'll grab all three.

972
01:21:05,360 --> 01:21:07,360
Okay.

973
01:21:07,360 --> 01:21:09,360
Okay, I have a plan.

974
01:21:09,360 --> 01:21:10,360
Do tell.

975
01:21:10,360 --> 01:21:13,360
Doesn't happen often.

976
01:21:13,360 --> 01:21:24,360
I'm going to try... they're going to cast Evil Eye on the other Screaming Lunatic and see if I can charm it.

977
01:21:24,360 --> 01:21:26,360
You're going to have to get quite close to do that.

978
01:21:26,360 --> 01:21:27,360
Are you willing to risk that?

979
01:21:27,360 --> 01:21:31,360
It says short range. How long range is short range?

980
01:21:31,360 --> 01:21:33,360
Five yards.

981
01:21:33,360 --> 01:21:36,360
Well, seeing as they're charging me, I expect they'll be in short range soon.

982
01:21:36,360 --> 01:21:41,360
Okay. So what you might do then is use a triggered action so that when he enters your range...

983
01:21:41,360 --> 01:21:42,360
Perfect.

984
01:21:42,360 --> 01:21:49,360
...you cast a spell. You can actually do so with one wheel because you've prepared it.

985
01:21:49,360 --> 01:21:52,360
So give me your best roll.

986
01:21:52,360 --> 01:21:58,360
Okay, so that is a wits with one... well, I get two weal. One because of the dynamite.

987
01:21:58,360 --> 01:22:01,360
Again, because it's horrifying, so it's just going to be with one weal.

988
01:22:01,360 --> 01:22:04,360
So it's one. Okay.

989
01:22:04,360 --> 01:22:07,360
So that's wits.

990
01:22:07,360 --> 01:22:11,360
Oh, hello. 18 plus 2 is 20.

991
01:22:11,360 --> 01:22:26,360
Well, your sorceress seidr enables you to reach beyond the barriers of this realm into the mind of this strange being and,

992
01:22:26,360 --> 01:22:32,360
no longer hostile, it looks at you and says,

993
01:22:32,360 --> 01:22:39,360
What a cock-up! Stretch your bearers at the double! What a cock-up! Stretch your bearers at the double!

994
01:22:39,360 --> 01:22:41,360
And it keeps on repeating that.

995
01:22:41,360 --> 01:22:45,360
Okay, yeah. Air will announce to the team. I've charmed that one. They can't see it.

996
01:22:45,360 --> 01:22:53,360
I'll charmed that one. And the other one points at Eir and the other Eir at nothing in the other direction and is still charging.

997
01:22:53,360 --> 01:23:05,360
The other one has a bowie knife and is flitting between the buildings, skulking in cover as if you're trying to approach undetected.

998
01:23:05,360 --> 01:23:11,360
And certainly, while you can see him, he is undetected as far as all of the others are concerned.

999
01:23:11,360 --> 01:23:21,360
Then air will keep up a running narrative of where he is. Behind that building, behind the barrel, behind that strange tree person, you know, that sort of thing.

1000
01:23:21,360 --> 01:23:23,360
To what effect? What is everyone else doing?

1001
01:23:23,360 --> 01:23:30,360
Oh, we've got dynamite now, for Falk's sake. I'm just going to keep hitting that joke until I get a bigger laugh.

1002
01:23:30,360 --> 01:23:31,360
Yeah, yeah.

1003
01:23:31,360 --> 01:23:34,360
You're really filking that one.

1004
01:23:34,360 --> 01:23:36,360
Oh, oh.

1005
01:23:36,360 --> 01:23:38,360
Nice.

1006
01:23:38,360 --> 01:23:44,360
Yeah, Falk comes running back up with three sticks of dynamite.

1007
01:23:44,360 --> 01:23:46,360
No way for this to go wrong.

1008
01:23:46,360 --> 01:23:50,360
Okay. What is the intent with dynamite?

1009
01:23:50,360 --> 01:24:00,360
Before they showed up, my plan was to put it on the keypad and try to open the door the old fashioned way.

1010
01:24:00,360 --> 01:24:04,360
Through.

1011
01:24:04,360 --> 01:24:14,360
There's a Michael Caine film where he says you weren't supposed to run the bloody doors off.

1012
01:24:14,360 --> 01:24:19,360
Are these buildings up on stilts or up on posts?

1013
01:24:19,360 --> 01:24:24,360
It's raised somewhat, yes, and there are steps and the steps go to the main door and then they continue up to the interface.

1014
01:24:24,360 --> 01:24:28,360
Perhaps we could just blow up the antenna.

1015
01:24:28,360 --> 01:24:30,360
Yeah, yeah.

1016
01:24:30,360 --> 01:24:32,360
The whole building.

1017
01:24:32,360 --> 01:24:34,360
Blow up the thing that's sitting on the ceiling.

1018
01:24:34,360 --> 01:24:36,360
Oh, okay.

1019
01:24:36,360 --> 01:24:44,360
I'm worried. I'm getting a sense of spirits from beyond in the other world that not everyone thinks might.

1020
01:24:44,360 --> 01:24:49,360
Those departed friends might not all think this an excellent plan.

1021
01:24:49,360 --> 01:24:59,360
Falk, that if you go anywhere near the keypad, it doesn't matter whether you have a key card or not, you're going to get caught. That's my concern.

1022
01:24:59,360 --> 01:25:03,360
Oh, well, then I definitely won't do that.

1023
01:25:03,360 --> 01:25:06,360
I think start lobbying.

1024
01:25:06,360 --> 01:25:16,360
From the area of the main control room, you hear a loud static burst.

1025
01:25:16,360 --> 01:25:30,360
It's as if tuning between frequencies and you can detect all of your names just in the crackle and hiss of the overpowering signal.

1026
01:25:30,360 --> 01:25:35,360
And then you also hear, the Lord is my shepherd.

1027
01:25:35,360 --> 01:25:40,360
I shall not want the Lord is my shepherd.

1028
01:25:40,360 --> 01:25:51,360
I shall not want pretty soon they're going to ask for money.

1029
01:25:51,360 --> 01:25:56,360
Does everyone here? Does it sound like a Gregorian chant?

1030
01:25:56,360 --> 01:26:14,360
It sounds like a psalm or a prayer, but just kind of poorly modulated frequency, a static signal. It's not clear.

1031
01:26:14,360 --> 01:26:26,360
So, Falk, are you going to try to throw the dynamite at the door and we will take defensive positions over here?

1032
01:26:26,360 --> 01:26:33,360
Is there a door knob? Or like, how does the door open other than the keypad?

1033
01:26:33,360 --> 01:26:35,360
Yep.

1034
01:26:35,360 --> 01:26:37,360
And then your twister, your twisted handle.

1035
01:26:37,360 --> 01:26:45,360
I would put a stick of dynamite in the twisted handle, light it and run.

1036
01:26:45,360 --> 01:26:49,360
You're going to have to get really close.

1037
01:26:49,360 --> 01:26:54,360
Probably should get a stick with a crack in it so I can set the dynamite.

1038
01:26:54,360 --> 01:27:13,360
Okay, as you can creep up the stairs, the dynamite in hand with some kind of lighter ready to light it, but Eir, you'll be able to warn him now because immediately at his back is the creeping, prowling soldier with the bowing knife poised as if to assassinate you from behind.

1039
01:27:13,360 --> 01:27:30,360
You, Falk, don't see anything. Behind you? You get the hair's bristle on the back of your neck because you are attuned to the spirits, but it's only if you brought forth and unveiled your second sight that you would be able to turn and see this unknown assailant.

1040
01:27:30,360 --> 01:27:35,360
I will definitely use my second sight.

1041
01:27:35,360 --> 01:27:58,360
You whip round and see for a brief moment this soldier, his knife ready to stab at you. He is clean shaven, he is a young man, his eyes are haunted and glazed, and he is trying to stab his knife into your guts.

1042
01:27:58,360 --> 01:28:03,360
I would like to move out of the way.

1043
01:28:03,360 --> 01:28:12,360
Okay, you will be able to do that next round. We'll enter into some form of combat here.

1044
01:28:12,360 --> 01:28:22,360
You've been alerted just in time. He is coming up the stairs, he's slightly below you. You have the high ground.

1045
01:28:22,360 --> 01:28:34,360
Everyone else is, I'm going to say, down at ground level, keeping well away from the door. You may take fast turns if you wish to deal with it.

1046
01:28:34,360 --> 01:28:56,360
The charmed soldier is again just mouthing words standing next to him, as he has put his rifle with a bayonet down and has sat down on the ground, mouthing about stretcher bows.

1047
01:28:56,360 --> 01:29:01,360
So can Gigi see the boon knife guy?

1048
01:29:01,360 --> 01:29:12,360
Again, only insofar as you know that there's something there, there's a disturbance, but you can't make out anything tangible.

1049
01:29:12,360 --> 01:29:20,360
Only air can see this soldier in its full form.

1050
01:29:20,360 --> 01:29:31,360
Folk can detect an outline and see glimpses of its distorted, disheveled face.

1051
01:29:31,360 --> 01:29:56,360
I'm going to say, acting on some intuition based on the idea that Grjotgarth has felled one shadow figure already, and seeing this wisp coming toward his comrade, he is going to pull his gun, cast sharp runes on a bullet, and take a shot.

1052
01:29:56,360 --> 01:30:02,360
Okay, the spell will be your action this round. You can take the shot next round.

1053
01:30:02,360 --> 01:30:09,360
Ljomi, what's Bill doing? Chitter-chattering with his children?

1054
01:30:09,360 --> 01:30:20,360
Can I... no, I already used... no, I used biting charms. I can use weapon song on Gigi's pistol as well. Let's beef him up.

1055
01:30:20,360 --> 01:30:28,360
You can, for next round? So you're going to give him some extra oomph?

1056
01:30:28,360 --> 01:30:33,360
Alright, well then let's go in... oh, Eir, what did you want to do?

1057
01:30:33,360 --> 01:31:02,360
Well, yeah, two things. With one hand, he's going to point at the assassin and keep up his commentary, you know, he's on the bottom stair or he's three feet away from you or that sort of thing. With his other hand, he's going to bend over and pick up that bayonet rifle that the other insubstantial soldier put down. You said he put it down on the ground. Can Eir pick it up?

1058
01:31:02,360 --> 01:31:12,360
You can. He doesn't bat an eyelid or even look up at you querulously, such is the power of your evil eye.

1059
01:31:12,360 --> 01:31:22,360
That's not that evil. He will pick up the rifle and... he is... I mean, he knows how to use a rifle, like, I mean, in theory.

1060
01:31:22,360 --> 01:31:24,360
Yep, give me a sleight roll.

1061
01:31:24,360 --> 01:31:34,360
Yeah, oh yeah, this is going to be fine. Okay, so sleight with one woe. Alright, roll is...

1062
01:31:34,360 --> 01:31:36,360
Steve, you're fired.

1063
01:31:36,360 --> 01:31:38,360
No, I'm rolling the other one too.

1064
01:31:38,360 --> 01:31:40,360
Oh, no, that's it, you're canned.

1065
01:31:40,360 --> 01:31:47,360
So my total roll is a zero. Yeah, so that's great. Yeah, with the woe.

1066
01:31:47,360 --> 01:31:57,360
Okay, the bullet ricochets off the building, narrowly missing Falk, causing him to duck and curse at your...

1067
01:31:57,360 --> 01:32:02,360
Wait, would he? Does he have any idea that a rifle just went off?

1068
01:32:02,360 --> 01:32:03,360
I don't know.

1069
01:32:03,360 --> 01:32:05,360
I have spirit sight.

1070
01:32:05,360 --> 01:32:08,360
Or would he? It's a spirit gun firing a spirit bullet, sort of.

1071
01:32:08,360 --> 01:32:10,360
And he's got second sight and...

1072
01:32:10,360 --> 01:32:11,360
Oh, yeah.

1073
01:32:11,360 --> 01:32:17,360
Second sight and obviously a decent hunch that you're terrible with this thing.

1074
01:32:17,360 --> 01:32:18,360
Fair.

1075
01:32:18,360 --> 01:32:25,360
Alright, let's go to the top of the next round and you can all take your fast tens and proceed with the actions that you...

1076
01:32:25,360 --> 01:32:30,360
I'm going to shoot an arrow.

1077
01:32:30,360 --> 01:32:34,360
Is reloading an action, or is it part of the firing?

1078
01:32:34,360 --> 01:32:41,360
It is an action for that type of gun because it's a one round mechanism.

1079
01:32:41,360 --> 01:32:48,360
Bill, if you want to launch an arrow, let fly a volley.

1080
01:32:48,360 --> 01:32:51,360
We're going to take a valuable time watching you shoot off into the stratosphere.

1081
01:32:51,360 --> 01:32:58,360
18 plus 1, so 19. 19.

1082
01:32:58,360 --> 01:33:08,360
Okay, but you need to have, please, three woes because you can barely see this thing.

1083
01:33:08,360 --> 01:33:10,360
It is heavily obscured.

1084
01:33:10,360 --> 01:33:13,360
14.

1085
01:33:13,360 --> 01:33:17,360
Bizarrely, you hit, so roll your damage.

1086
01:33:17,360 --> 01:33:19,360
I knew that.

1087
01:33:19,360 --> 01:33:22,360
That is a first time for everything.

1088
01:33:22,360 --> 01:33:25,360
I rolled a 5.

1089
01:33:25,360 --> 01:33:34,360
Splendid. The arrow strikes true, striking the young soldier in the middle of his back.

1090
01:33:34,360 --> 01:33:43,360
He recoils in pain, looking bloodied in front of you folk if you want to take whatever swipe you were doing.

1091
01:33:43,360 --> 01:33:47,360
Is he too close to shoot with my battle rifle?

1092
01:33:47,360 --> 01:33:56,360
You can use your rifle butt to smack him in the face. That would be the most sensible thing to do at this rate.

1093
01:33:56,360 --> 01:34:01,360
I also have a question. I have mocking taunt, which is a triggered action.

1094
01:34:01,360 --> 01:34:07,360
That's true. You can use your triggered action now, and this is a good one for CJ to remember as well.

1095
01:34:07,360 --> 01:34:16,360
You can use your biting and sophisticated wit to insult this person or lampoon him in some way as you strike him.

1096
01:34:16,360 --> 01:34:20,360
I think then he gets woes on the user.

1097
01:34:20,360 --> 01:34:26,360
I try to use the same term that that other guy was saying about being a real cockup.

1098
01:34:26,360 --> 01:34:30,360
In hopes that he understands it.

1099
01:34:30,360 --> 01:34:33,360
Nice.

1100
01:34:33,360 --> 01:34:39,360
Rolling to attack, I got an 8 on the die.

1101
01:34:39,360 --> 01:34:43,360
Would this be might for attacking with the butt?

1102
01:34:43,360 --> 01:34:47,360
It would be might.

1103
01:34:47,360 --> 01:34:57,360
Unfortunately, he blocks the blow, but he does flash a look of rage at you.

1104
01:34:57,360 --> 01:35:01,360
Clearly your insult has connected in some way.

1105
01:35:01,360 --> 01:35:03,360
CJ.

1106
01:35:03,360 --> 01:35:06,360
I think he's going to shoot him.

1107
01:35:06,360 --> 01:35:09,360
You do have the benefit of the weapon song.

1108
01:35:09,360 --> 01:35:12,360
That gives me a wheel.

1109
01:35:12,360 --> 01:35:18,360
Because it's still indistinct, you have to do so with one or two.

1110
01:35:18,360 --> 01:35:21,360
I'm just trying to get this thing warm up.

1111
01:35:21,360 --> 01:35:28,360
Good idea. Maybe the microwave.

1112
01:35:28,360 --> 01:35:31,360
20!

1113
01:35:31,360 --> 01:35:35,360
So you rolled 20s or 1s, basically.

1114
01:35:35,360 --> 01:35:38,360
I feel like that's...

1115
01:35:38,360 --> 01:35:42,360
He's just flipping a coin.

1116
01:35:42,360 --> 01:35:47,360
So the sharp runes that I cast gives an extra 2d6 damage in this case, correct?

1117
01:35:47,360 --> 01:35:50,360
Yeah.

1118
01:35:50,360 --> 01:35:54,360
So 11 damage.

1119
01:35:54,360 --> 01:35:56,360
Nice.

1120
01:35:56,360 --> 01:36:03,360
Mince Tim, indeed your runic pistol shoots a bullet that goes straight through the base of his neck.

1121
01:36:03,360 --> 01:36:10,360
It snaps back and the body slides down, tumbling down the stairs in front of you and out of sight.

1122
01:36:10,360 --> 01:36:17,360
Alright, I will light the dynamite and roll it towards the door and then run.

1123
01:36:17,360 --> 01:36:19,360
What kind of fuse you set?

1124
01:36:19,360 --> 01:36:24,360
I'd say probably about 20 seconds.

1125
01:36:24,360 --> 01:36:28,360
Alright, gives you plenty of time to clatter and clamber down the stairs.

1126
01:36:28,360 --> 01:36:34,360
The dynamite rolls towards the foot of the steel door and then...

1127
01:36:34,360 --> 01:36:41,360
There is a massive explosion.

1128
01:36:41,360 --> 01:36:48,360
The door wraps off its hinges and topples to the ground.

1129
01:36:48,360 --> 01:36:55,360
You still have two sticks of dynamite left and now that smell of cordite that you could tell,

1130
01:36:55,360 --> 01:37:05,360
that spectral smell is infused with a very real and visceral smell of burning fire and exploded dynamite.

1131
01:37:05,360 --> 01:37:11,360
Again, this static voice comes out to you, you echo in from the room.

1132
01:37:11,360 --> 01:37:16,360
It's clearer now and you hear it say,

1133
01:37:16,360 --> 01:37:26,360
Yay, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.

1134
01:37:26,360 --> 01:37:32,360
It just keeps on repeating like that.

1135
01:37:32,360 --> 01:37:34,360
I have a plan.

1136
01:37:34,360 --> 01:37:36,360
Do share.

1137
01:37:36,360 --> 01:37:37,360
Is it coming?

1138
01:37:37,360 --> 01:37:39,360
Okay.

1139
01:37:39,360 --> 01:37:42,360
Put a tail on it and call it a weasel.

1140
01:37:42,360 --> 01:37:49,360
I'm thinking, okay, what if we give the dynamite,

1141
01:37:49,360 --> 01:37:56,360
because we've got a charmed, mostly substantial soldier sitting on the ground here,

1142
01:37:56,360 --> 01:38:01,360
if it turns out that he will follow simple commands,

1143
01:38:01,360 --> 01:38:05,360
how about we give him the rest of the dynamite and send him into the building?

1144
01:38:05,360 --> 01:38:08,360
That's a fabulous idea.

1145
01:38:08,360 --> 01:38:09,360
Do it now.

1146
01:38:09,360 --> 01:38:11,360
That's not a horrible idea, but I love it.

1147
01:38:11,360 --> 01:38:19,360
Does this charmed soldier, do they respond to, like, if I beckon them to come closer or point for them to stand in a certain place?

1148
01:38:19,360 --> 01:38:23,360
So it's going to be very difficult to get your point across. You can certainly try.

1149
01:38:23,360 --> 01:38:29,360
Like if I just do a beckoning motion as he starts walking towards me?

1150
01:38:29,360 --> 01:38:33,360
No, he's very non-committal.

1151
01:38:33,360 --> 01:38:35,360
It's almost as if he's got shell shock.

1152
01:38:35,360 --> 01:38:41,360
It's almost as if he has been ripped from existence himself.

1153
01:38:41,360 --> 01:38:43,360
He's seen stuff.

1154
01:38:43,360 --> 01:38:46,360
Yeah, he's been in the trenches.

1155
01:38:46,360 --> 01:38:53,360
Hi. I kind of want to sit down with him and just, you know, hey, man, and I know what it's like.

1156
01:38:53,360 --> 01:38:56,360
We could just throw the dynamite in through the open door.

1157
01:38:56,360 --> 01:39:01,360
That's what I was going to have Gigi suggest is, wait, I used to throw the javelin.

1158
01:39:01,360 --> 01:39:04,360
Dynamite must be quite similar.

1159
01:39:04,360 --> 01:39:05,360
What luck.

1160
01:39:05,360 --> 01:39:07,360
I'll hand you a stick of dynamite.

1161
01:39:07,360 --> 01:39:13,360
Light the dynamite. We should count to five. No more, no less.

1162
01:39:13,360 --> 01:39:22,360
Standing in the doorway, the newly opened, the newly rent asunder doorway is this.

1163
01:39:22,360 --> 01:39:24,360
You'd say angelic.

1164
01:39:24,360 --> 01:39:25,360
A woman.

1165
01:39:25,360 --> 01:39:35,360
Loose flowing garments, hair of burning gold, looking fairer than the sun.

1166
01:39:35,360 --> 01:39:38,360
Almost godlike is her mind.

1167
01:39:38,360 --> 01:39:39,360
Is she?

1168
01:39:39,360 --> 01:39:41,360
It's like everyone else is seeing this.

1169
01:39:41,360 --> 01:39:42,360
Do we all see it?

1170
01:39:42,360 --> 01:39:44,360
Everyone is seeing it.

1171
01:39:44,360 --> 01:39:51,360
You're gazing on this, this shining shape of which the prophets did tell.

1172
01:39:51,360 --> 01:39:55,360
She's inside the building, like in the hole that the dynamite made.

1173
01:39:55,360 --> 01:39:56,360
Falk hands.

1174
01:39:56,360 --> 01:39:57,360
Can you catch?

1175
01:39:57,360 --> 01:40:05,360
Falk's going to hand you a stick of dynamite, Gigi.

1176
01:40:05,360 --> 01:40:11,360
The catch.

1177
01:40:11,360 --> 01:40:22,360
Bill, you noticed that this figure has an echo to it, an echo of times past.

1178
01:40:22,360 --> 01:40:28,360
Perhaps it is the centre of this phenomenon, something that has brought these

1179
01:40:28,360 --> 01:40:35,360
host of phantasmal heroes from a different age to your land.

1180
01:40:35,360 --> 01:40:48,360
It sparkles and glistens, reflecting both the sun and the red streaks, the scar on the sky.

1181
01:40:48,360 --> 01:40:54,360
Should we try talking to it?

1182
01:40:54,360 --> 01:41:02,360
You get a sense of looking at it, Leomi, that, like I said, it's mesmerising, it's glistening

1183
01:41:02,360 --> 01:41:07,360
with the colours of the rainbow, reality appears to fracture around it.

1184
01:41:07,360 --> 01:41:15,360
Looking at it as you begin to talk, you feel like you're standing between two mirrors.

1185
01:41:15,360 --> 01:41:24,360
Again, just like poor Brynn, you see echoes of futures that may never be.

1186
01:41:24,360 --> 01:41:26,360
It'll be fine.

1187
01:41:26,360 --> 01:41:28,360
I don't know, I want to talk to it.

1188
01:41:28,360 --> 01:41:30,360
I have no idea what to say.

1189
01:41:30,360 --> 01:41:36,360
Like, zero, my brain's gone empty.

1190
01:41:36,360 --> 01:41:46,360
Okay, Leomi says, where cometh thou, traveller?

1191
01:41:46,360 --> 01:41:53,360
I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.

1192
01:41:53,360 --> 01:41:58,360
Gigi, why don't you throw a snowball and see if it catches that?

1193
01:41:58,360 --> 01:42:02,360
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not walk.

1194
01:42:02,360 --> 01:42:15,360
I respond by saying that Freyr is not a shepherd, he's more of a horse guy.

1195
01:42:15,360 --> 01:42:28,360
The being is now striding out of the control room with purposeful steps, each one towards you.

1196
01:42:28,360 --> 01:42:30,360
You who?

1197
01:42:30,360 --> 01:42:32,360
You as the collective.

1198
01:42:32,360 --> 01:42:41,360
Sam is closest because Sam is standing on the foot of the stairs where he tossed up the dynamite.

1199
01:42:41,360 --> 01:42:44,360
Oh, in that case, Falk will move back.

1200
01:42:44,360 --> 01:42:49,360
It matches you with speed.

1201
01:42:49,360 --> 01:42:50,360
Doorways clear.

1202
01:42:50,360 --> 01:42:57,360
It's moving with unnerving rapidity.

1203
01:42:57,360 --> 01:43:08,360
I'm going to start doing an enthralling performance to see if I can get this thing to be less aware and stop moving.

1204
01:43:08,360 --> 01:43:14,360
I also feel like her constantly quoting scripture is a bit of a challenge.

1205
01:43:14,360 --> 01:43:26,360
I think I'll begin, as much as Gigi doesn't enjoy me quoting Odin's words, I will begin reciting verse from the Habamal to stop this crazy angel lady.

1206
01:43:26,360 --> 01:43:29,360
That's interesting.

1207
01:43:29,360 --> 01:43:32,360
This is like a flight ting.

1208
01:43:32,360 --> 01:43:36,360
You are going to have a battle of wits, a war of words.

1209
01:43:36,360 --> 01:43:46,360
You are going to tussle with this being from beyond by using the best of the Skaldic furs.

1210
01:43:46,360 --> 01:43:48,360
Skaldic rap battles of history!

1211
01:43:48,360 --> 01:43:53,360
That's right, yo yo yo!

1212
01:43:53,360 --> 01:43:57,360
Alright, so, what?

1213
01:43:57,360 --> 01:44:01,360
A creature can use it, it says I just do it, do I need to make it roll?

1214
01:44:01,360 --> 01:44:05,360
A creature can use its action to make a will challenge?

1215
01:44:05,360 --> 01:44:07,360
I can do it.

1216
01:44:07,360 --> 01:44:17,360
You start reciting your epic, Eddaic verse and hoping that you can distract it or lull it or...

1217
01:44:17,360 --> 01:44:20,360
I don't know, perhaps you'll end up in fear.

1218
01:44:20,360 --> 01:44:23,360
I know which one I'm betting on.

1219
01:44:23,360 --> 01:44:29,360
Yeah.

1220
01:44:29,360 --> 01:44:46,360
So it advances towards you, glowing with incandescent light and reaches out what look like healing hands and places them very firmly on your shoulder.

1221
01:44:46,360 --> 01:44:52,360
Can I dodge as I perform?

1222
01:44:52,360 --> 01:45:02,360
I think she's caught you mid-sentence and your voice instantly seizes up.

1223
01:45:02,360 --> 01:45:14,360
Your vocal cords are wrenched, you feel suddenly suffocated and silent and then through the fog of this mask you're wearing,

1224
01:45:14,360 --> 01:45:22,360
you're suddenly in a wasteland chewed up by bombs and decorated by bodies.

1225
01:45:22,360 --> 01:45:32,360
All around you are the screams and cries of fallen soldiers drowning in the relentless thunder of guns and an artillery.

1226
01:45:32,360 --> 01:45:41,360
It's like you're back on Jotunai and you can taste the fear and you know that death works with every step.

1227
01:45:41,360 --> 01:45:55,360
The rest of you, you notice that Falk is no longer in your vicinity, having been ripped from the world of Midgar and transported to an entirely other realm.

1228
01:45:55,360 --> 01:46:11,360
This being that straddles the timelines has used its hands of time ability, the Cronul Shift ability and has taken Falk the Fair into the dimension from which it came.

1229
01:46:11,360 --> 01:46:19,360
It happens to be the Great War environment of our Earth, of our timeline as opposed to the Viking First Timeline.

1230
01:46:19,360 --> 01:46:27,360
Falk, you get the chance to participate in the Great War of 1914 to 1918 as a Viking Scallypher.

1231
01:46:27,360 --> 01:46:31,360
Wow. Alright. I salute you. Oh yeah.

1232
01:46:31,360 --> 01:46:39,360
Not quite dead, but I think the old poem, CJ, you'll probably know it, D'Ossiette de Coromest, Pro Battre Mori.

1233
01:46:39,360 --> 01:46:42,360
We need more men. I wonder if my gaulder still works.

1234
01:46:42,360 --> 01:46:49,360
Look around for Brynn.

1235
01:46:49,360 --> 01:47:00,360
So for the rest of us that are still around this being, is she moving? Is she setting her sights on anyone else?

1236
01:47:00,360 --> 01:47:14,360
There is again that kind of shimmering, kaleidoscopic burst of colour when it recedes. Falk is gone, leaving only two sticks of dynamite.

1237
01:47:14,360 --> 01:47:16,360
And not the lady.

1238
01:47:16,360 --> 01:47:20,360
And an open door. And an open door that beckons.

1239
01:47:20,360 --> 01:47:35,360
So I have a suggestion. One, I will throw the dynamite into the building, thereby definitively destroying it, and two, we're going to run like hell.

1240
01:47:35,360 --> 01:47:37,360
I support this plan.

1241
01:47:37,360 --> 01:47:39,360
I support this plan.

1242
01:47:39,360 --> 01:47:47,360
And back to the boat. And back to the law speaker to explain what happened here.

1243
01:47:47,360 --> 01:47:50,360
Are we in agreement? Should I do it?

1244
01:47:50,360 --> 01:47:51,360
Yes.

1245
01:47:51,360 --> 01:47:52,360
Alright, so Gigi?

1246
01:47:52,360 --> 01:48:03,360
I'm going to require two slight rolls. One to snatch the dynamite off the ground. The next to launch it effectively.

1247
01:48:03,360 --> 01:48:07,360
This is the time for the double twenty.

1248
01:48:07,360 --> 01:48:08,360
And also to light it.

1249
01:48:08,360 --> 01:48:10,360
Oh, don't help them.

1250
01:48:10,360 --> 01:48:13,360
There will be a round delay here.

1251
01:48:13,360 --> 01:48:17,360
I think it should be lighting and throwing, perhaps, and not the picking up.

1252
01:48:17,360 --> 01:48:19,360
That's more like it. Yep. Yep.

1253
01:48:19,360 --> 01:48:26,360
Is Gigi drunk? He's just been back there drinking. I've been hiding me.

1254
01:48:26,360 --> 01:48:29,360
Just throw the unlit dynamite. That would be a classic.

1255
01:48:29,360 --> 01:48:33,360
Okay, we're going to throw a lamp dynamite. So you want two slight rolls.

1256
01:48:33,360 --> 01:48:34,360
Slight roll one.

1257
01:48:34,360 --> 01:48:36,360
Do we have any inspiration?

1258
01:48:36,360 --> 01:48:40,360
I'm pretty sure it was a twenty. I can see it reflected in your bookcase there.

1259
01:48:40,360 --> 01:48:41,360
Yeah, I can see it from here.

1260
01:48:41,360 --> 01:48:48,360
I can see how you could mistake it for a twenty, but it is in fact a two.

1261
01:48:48,360 --> 01:48:51,360
Plus one. Plus one. That gives me a three.

1262
01:48:51,360 --> 01:48:58,360
So Gigi attempts to pick up the dynamite and the result is?

1263
01:48:58,360 --> 01:49:12,360
You slide in front as if doing a diving tackle in front of the Angelic Herald and that's where your slide ends immediately in front of her.

1264
01:49:12,360 --> 01:49:17,360
I will dare will try to distract the Angelic Herald.

1265
01:49:17,360 --> 01:49:19,360
Okay, Leone, what you do?

1266
01:49:19,360 --> 01:49:22,360
Praying. Okay.

1267
01:49:22,360 --> 01:49:24,360
To what?

1268
01:49:24,360 --> 01:49:29,360
To the gods of the dice, obviously. That's where our allegiance needs to go.

1269
01:49:29,360 --> 01:49:39,360
Okay, I've used that. I think I'm going to keep moving back. I'm going to pull what's colloquially known as an air.

1270
01:49:39,360 --> 01:49:47,360
I'm going to pull an air and continue to move away from where the dynamite is.

1271
01:49:47,360 --> 01:50:07,360
The attempt to distract the Herald, the discontinuity, the break in time, only draws her ire directly at you, air, and she takes her palm and presses it heavily onto your head and you take...

1272
01:50:07,360 --> 01:50:11,360
Oh my word.

1273
01:50:11,360 --> 01:50:15,360
You really soak up a lot of damage. I mean, I've got to give you that.

1274
01:50:15,360 --> 01:50:19,360
I did. 12? Okay.

1275
01:50:19,360 --> 01:50:22,360
I'm... yes.

1276
01:50:22,360 --> 01:50:30,360
Your body begins to quiver and crumble as the stone begins to disintegrate.

1277
01:50:30,360 --> 01:50:36,360
Just make the throw. Fate roll? Fate roll? Die six? Or die what? Die...

1278
01:50:36,360 --> 01:50:39,360
Stop saying the word die. People might get confused.

1279
01:50:39,360 --> 01:50:42,360
No, they won't. What should I be rolling?

1280
01:50:42,360 --> 01:50:45,360
Die six. Die six.

1281
01:50:45,360 --> 01:50:48,360
It's your moment.

1282
01:50:48,360 --> 01:50:51,360
Three.

1283
01:50:51,360 --> 01:51:05,360
So you fall unconscious. So you will die in four minutes. Your statue is still rigid and upright, but it's starting to crumble away.

1284
01:51:05,360 --> 01:51:09,360
Are we into the next round at this point?

1285
01:51:09,360 --> 01:51:12,360
Alright. Come on, Gigi.

1286
01:51:12,360 --> 01:51:18,360
I'm going to... I suppose... I'm on the ground, right?

1287
01:51:18,360 --> 01:51:23,360
You are. You're immediately in front of...

1288
01:51:23,360 --> 01:51:24,360
Alright.

1289
01:51:24,360 --> 01:51:32,360
The Herald has just stepped over you in order to dispense with the annoying gnat that was...

1290
01:51:32,360 --> 01:51:40,360
So she's passed me so I could ostensibly pick up the dynamite and launch it at the radio tower or the building, right?

1291
01:51:40,360 --> 01:51:41,360
Could I still do it?

1292
01:51:41,360 --> 01:51:43,360
Time for a Hail Mary.

1293
01:51:43,360 --> 01:51:47,360
Alright, I'm going to launch it. So I need another...

1294
01:51:47,360 --> 01:51:50,360
When you say it, are you kind of double-fisting these dynamite stones?

1295
01:51:50,360 --> 01:51:57,360
Yes. And Gigi believes he is ambidextrous.

1296
01:51:57,360 --> 01:52:03,360
The die roll will determine whether he is actually or not.

1297
01:52:03,360 --> 01:52:06,360
I'm going to warm it up again.

1298
01:52:06,360 --> 01:52:09,360
There we go.

1299
01:52:09,360 --> 01:52:11,360
Why?

1300
01:52:11,360 --> 01:52:14,360
I feel like it went really well. So it was an 18, was it?

1301
01:52:14,360 --> 01:52:17,360
Yeah. That sounds great.

1302
01:52:17,360 --> 01:52:19,360
He just yelled it out.

1303
01:52:19,360 --> 01:52:21,360
It's a three plus one.

1304
01:52:21,360 --> 01:52:26,360
The important thing is he's not telegraphing the results.

1305
01:52:26,360 --> 01:52:30,360
He's not ambidextrous, he's nanodextrous.

1306
01:52:30,360 --> 01:52:37,360
Good. The sticks of dynamite, you hurl them with great force.

1307
01:52:37,360 --> 01:52:43,360
They bounce off the frame and land six feet away from you.

1308
01:52:43,360 --> 01:52:55,360
They have a 20 second fuse so you have one round before they blow you and the stony body of your friend to pieces.

1309
01:52:55,360 --> 01:52:58,360
How did you win a medal for throwing things?

1310
01:52:58,360 --> 01:53:02,360
He was pulling on a rope. He wasn't throwing things.

1311
01:53:02,360 --> 01:53:04,360
Throwing wasn't his thing.

1312
01:53:04,360 --> 01:53:08,360
Sorry, a bit of tone slipped in there. I was a little dismissive.

1313
01:53:08,360 --> 01:53:13,360
I'm going to stabilize the statue.

1314
01:53:13,360 --> 01:53:21,360
Just to be clear, if you go and stabilize the statue, you will be standing next to two fizzing sticks of dynamite that will blow up.

1315
01:53:21,360 --> 01:53:25,360
If I don't, then he blows up.

1316
01:53:25,360 --> 01:53:28,360
I'll be fine.

1317
01:53:28,360 --> 01:53:32,360
How many minutes does he last in his current state? Not very long, right?

1318
01:53:32,360 --> 01:53:35,360
20 seconds, guys.

1319
01:53:35,360 --> 01:53:37,360
20 seconds, yeah.

1320
01:53:37,360 --> 01:53:44,360
How can I not stabilize him? I've been waiting to use this gift for the whole game.

1321
01:53:44,360 --> 01:53:48,360
Grab the dynamite and throw it.

1322
01:53:48,360 --> 01:53:52,360
Oh, jeez, I never would have thought of that. That's an action plan.

1323
01:53:52,360 --> 01:53:55,360
I'm a tree, not a fighter.

1324
01:53:55,360 --> 01:53:58,360
All right, well, I'm going to...

1325
01:53:58,360 --> 01:54:02,360
Is the dynamite lit?

1326
01:54:02,360 --> 01:54:14,360
The dynamite is lying in the tundra. If it goes off, it's going to detonate and take out you, the Herald, the Doc Alpha, and Gigi.

1327
01:54:14,360 --> 01:54:16,360
You're all within its blast radius.

1328
01:54:16,360 --> 01:54:22,360
I watched how Gigi did his ambidextrous thing.

1329
01:54:22,360 --> 01:54:26,360
So I'm going to instead scoop up both sticks in one...

1330
01:54:26,360 --> 01:54:29,360
You know, I have long fingers, like I'm a tree.

1331
01:54:29,360 --> 01:54:43,360
I'm going to need two slight rolls, both with woes, because you have to circumnavigate this Herald, who is busy crumbling your friend's skull.

1332
01:54:43,360 --> 01:54:46,360
Is it potentially a dangerous move?

1333
01:54:46,360 --> 01:54:50,360
I'm going for it. I can't not do it. It's my moment. Instead of just running away.

1334
01:54:50,360 --> 01:54:57,360
So slight, I get a plus one on, so I'll roll the rolls one at a time.

1335
01:54:57,360 --> 01:55:04,360
All right, so on the first one, I rolled an eight, and then taking the highest of the woes, I subtract a four.

1336
01:55:04,360 --> 01:55:08,360
So I got a four altogether.

1337
01:55:08,360 --> 01:55:15,360
I didn't even add in the woes for it being a horrifying fracture.

1338
01:55:15,360 --> 01:55:19,360
You should have made a real roll and it could have been six woes.

1339
01:55:19,360 --> 01:55:24,360
Let's just say you don't quite know what it is.

1340
01:55:24,360 --> 01:55:26,360
Yeah.

1341
01:55:26,360 --> 01:55:28,360
Gigi, Gigi, what do you want to do?

1342
01:55:28,360 --> 01:55:31,360
Okay. How far are they away?

1343
01:55:31,360 --> 01:55:43,360
Your options are basically scramble to safety out of the blast radius or desperately leap into the fray of things, and it may well just go off in your face.

1344
01:55:43,360 --> 01:55:45,360
Come on, redeem yourself.

1345
01:55:45,360 --> 01:55:49,360
This is Gigi. Honor bound. It's a chance at redemption.

1346
01:55:49,360 --> 01:56:00,360
Okay, Grjotgoth is going for the dynamite for one last heroic throw at the door.

1347
01:56:00,360 --> 01:56:03,360
We're going to die.

1348
01:56:03,360 --> 01:56:05,360
Yeah, it's been an honor.

1349
01:56:05,360 --> 01:56:11,360
Well, I won't say I'm privileged, but it's been interesting.

1350
01:56:11,360 --> 01:56:15,360
19 plus two. 21.

1351
01:56:15,360 --> 01:56:18,360
Plus four woes.

1352
01:56:18,360 --> 01:56:22,360
Five was the highest, so 14.

1353
01:56:22,360 --> 01:56:41,360
In this desperate game of tumble and catch as you slide between people's legs, trying to scrabble up the dynamite and toss it back towards the control room, you heft the two sticks and they land in the doorway and roll into the control room.

1354
01:56:41,360 --> 01:56:45,360
Then there is a colossal boom.

1355
01:56:45,360 --> 01:56:57,360
And the entire structure shakes, sparks fly from whatever control room you distant, whatever was beaming the signal up into the ionosphere.

1356
01:56:57,360 --> 01:57:12,360
There is a burst of energy and terrible winks out of existence, leaving you standing alone on the sullen tundra.

1357
01:57:12,360 --> 01:57:15,360
I have a sunburn. Holy crap.

1358
01:57:15,360 --> 01:57:17,360
Yeah.

1359
01:57:17,360 --> 01:57:24,360
I should have said duck for cover, but I didn't have time.

1360
01:57:24,360 --> 01:57:29,360
Oh my God, it was literally exhausting.

1361
01:57:29,360 --> 01:57:45,360
Heimlich comes out of the shed at this point and says, oh yeah, you're gone and done it now. That's thousands of crowns of Imperial property.

1362
01:57:45,360 --> 01:57:48,360
And he buries his head in his hands.

1363
01:57:48,360 --> 01:57:51,360
But you're not dead, are you?

1364
01:57:51,360 --> 01:57:57,360
Is, uh, Guilherme looks up into the sky. Is the red slash still there or is it fading?

1365
01:57:57,360 --> 01:57:59,360
Is it improved in any way?

1366
01:57:59,360 --> 01:58:06,360
Nope. The red scar in the sky is glowing as ever.

1367
01:58:06,360 --> 01:58:09,360
Oh, disappointed.

1368
01:58:09,360 --> 01:58:13,360
We're not dead. I mean, most of us are.

1369
01:58:13,360 --> 01:58:17,360
No, no, most of us are still alive.

1370
01:58:17,360 --> 01:58:28,360
Well, yes, but, um, see, the dark elf are bound to their bodies by something called the dark giddet.

1371
01:58:28,360 --> 01:58:33,360
And if they become incapacitated, there it is, and it begins to fail.

1372
01:58:33,360 --> 01:58:36,360
So Steve has the minutes pass.

1373
01:58:36,360 --> 01:58:48,360
You feel your spirit leaving your crumbling stone form to drift across the tundra as if you were a roving eye.

1374
01:58:48,360 --> 01:58:54,360
And then all of a sudden you rush into the boathouse to startle awake in a new form.

1375
01:58:54,360 --> 01:59:02,360
You realize you were in the body of the antiquated Dverg, which now animates at your command.

1376
01:59:02,360 --> 01:59:12,360
Unable to actually die or leave this mortal realm, you now possess this broken down piece of old crap.

1377
01:59:12,360 --> 01:59:14,360
Well, fuck.

1378
01:59:14,360 --> 01:59:17,360
I believe it's pronounced F-O-L-K.

1379
01:59:17,360 --> 01:59:33,360
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1380
01:59:33,360 --> 01:59:47,360
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