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

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Comes, a role-playing game that wonders what if Vikings ruled the world. My name is Ian

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Stuart Sharpe and I will be your Wayfinder for the ongoing campaign which we call the

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Short and Memories Saga. Joining us to pillage and plunder this week are Bill, Steve, CJ,

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Annina and Terry. Welcome to you, Slaughter Geese.

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Ahoy!

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Thank you, thank you very much.

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Yay, plunder!

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Now we've got a new guest who's joining us this week. Terry, Terry, we first met back

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in 2018 when I needed a Viking for hire to recreate the cover of my Allfather Paradox

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at the Gosforth Cross in Cumbria in England's Lake District and you came to the rescue

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and also terrified my children with your array of weaponry. You were known as the Science

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Viking. Tell us a little bit about what it is that you do.

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Well, I like to call myself a historical interpreter now because that sounds posher. But I'm still

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the Science Viking. But my main thing is all about history and science. I like to do both

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at once. So I'm at the Jorvik Viking Festival every year presenting there in Parliament

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Street all week. And while I do have a living history display with lots of artefacts and

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stuff, a lot of them have got stories about the science behind them and also physics of

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weapons. So I use sharp weapons to show the physics of weapons. And in that role, I am

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known not just as the Science Viking, but Bjarne the Cabbage Killer. I use these specially

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trained Viking battle cabbages as my volunteers. I'm not allowed to use people with sharp weapons.

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Funnily enough, specially trained Viking cabbages is effectively what's on this podcast here.

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So, you know, feel free to use Bill and Steve.

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I would like us to be referred to as battle cabbages.

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Tell us a little bit, Terry, about Moorforge, because that's on your doorstep. And since

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I saw you last, that's really sprung into life and looks to have a thriving community

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around it.

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It does. Yeah, it's awesome. That's the main thing to say about it. I am so surprised at

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how many people now know about it. I travel all over the country doing Viking stuff. And

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I'm always getting asked about it. So, yeah, it's the brainchild of a friend of mine, David

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Watson, who is a blacksmith, an industrial blacksmith. He got some land, owned some land,

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inherited that and thought, wouldn't it be nice to put a Viking age smithy on the site?

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And so some people came over from Iceland and built him a Viking smithy in the Icelandic

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style. So it's got stone walls within and inside that is a wooden frame with a timber

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roof, which is covered in sod. And yeah, it's awesome. But then, as David said, it's a hobby

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that got out of hand. And now we have all sorts of reenactment events and craft and

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folk music. And I also run the school visits there as well. So school children within about

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an hour or 90 minutes drive of Moorforge can now rather than having to go to places like

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across to Yorkshire and to see the Jorvik Viking Museum or maybe the Danelaw Centre, also in

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Yorkshire. They've now got a local place where they can come and they can learn firsthand

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what it was like to live on a Viking farmstead. Superb. Very cool. So at such a point as CJ's

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books make enough money, he's going to pay for us all to go to Moorforge and have a live

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podcast session. That's right, isn't it, CJ?

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Perhaps. We'll see. Which is a good reminder. Go buy my books.

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That sounded very much like a dad answer, CJ.

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Perhaps. Maybe.

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Maybe you can have an ice cream. Exactly. All right. Quiz time. So in honour of Terry

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joining us and as a mirror to the endless Monty Python jokes that we have on this podcast,

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I'm going to pose this question to you this week to earn your inspiration points. The

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question is this. What have the Vikings ever done for us? By which I mean, give me five

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inventions that are attributable to the Vikings.

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They gave us the word kiosk.

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I mean, it's an audacious start. It's an inspiration point right there.

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I mean, maybe not invention, but I know they bathed more than that. That was I remember

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reading that that's one of the reasons they were so attractive, especially to women was

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because they bathe themselves more often than Brits.

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That's true. Women like that plane thing. I'm making a note.

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I think it was actually John of Wallingford in the 12th century wrote about that. And

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it's possibly and some people suggest it as possibly one of the reasons for the St. Bryce's

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Day Massacre. Yeah, because the Danes were causing the Saxon women to into infidelity

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and immoral behavior. And also the Saxon women were marrying the Danes rather than the Saxons.

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Bloody Vikings.

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Yeah, I know. I've got a good one. OK, it's navigation. Back in the 1950s, I believe it

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was the the Russians developed a thing called the Twilight Compass. And this was to enable

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them when they're flying over the pole. Obviously, magnetic compasses don't work. So when you're

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flying over the pole, you can use the polarization and the direction of polarization of the sunlight

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to find out which way you're going or where the sun is exactly. And then you can find

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out which way you're going. Apparently, the inspiration for that was the Viking Sunstone

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Icelandic bar that was mentioned in I can't remember which King Saga. But apparently,

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the Viking Sunstone was inspiration for the modern Twilight Compass.

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There was a recent study last year that actually gave more weight to the idea that they actually

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use those. And speaking of new studies, I have one that I just put out on my blog, too,

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which is about the the crampons or the metal hooks that were put on shoes to give traction

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in the winter. So kind of like the what we use today, the the what do you call those?

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in the mountains. They even put them on their horses. They had special things that they

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put on their horses to allow them to have better traction in winter. Does that does

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that satisfy your thirst?

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You have made this one a bit too easy and we should go back to.

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inspiration points this week because they took it like, it's very good. And let's not

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forget Annina and her grooming, because yes, the

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rumor and the ear spoon is very important to mention the ear spoon. I think I was thinking

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this week that podcast, which is one of those portmanteaus that came about in 2004, we should

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just go back to a thousand years ago when we just had a good old fashioned ear spoon

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and use that as the name for this podcast.

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They actually work really well. I've got one and I use it and it's really good.

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You use it for your ear wax? Yes. Very nice. Very nice. All right. So yes, comb, ear spoon,

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grooming. We talked about navigation there. You could have had the longboat, things like

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fines, trials and parliament in general, skis, ski poles, the sun compass, the sunstone.

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There's lots of things that the Vikings have done for us. But apart from personal grooming,

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the influence on language and a vast trade network, what have they ever done for us?

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Questionable, but entertaining B-movies.

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All right. Now we have a lot to get through in this new exciting adventure, which I call

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Blood Bath at Rodrecker's Drift. So again, Alina, one of those picnic episodes.

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That's good. Good housekeeping. So we usually do the kind of leveling up and such things

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offline. But as last week's episode was a little traumatizing for everyone involved

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with torture, murder, mayhem, imprisonment, sorcery, all of that kind of thing. We do

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need to go back to trauma and I need to get a couple of roles from people. I'm going to

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start with Bill. Bill, would you please make me a Will challenge role with two woes to

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represent the fact that it was not fine and you got slightly singed?

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My Will is, oh dear, nine minus one modifier. So that's a zero. And then we'll roll the

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two woes and see how much better it gets. I think we could just skip that.

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A trap, another four. So I think I'm well into the sand trap.

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So I'm going to now ask you to roll two dice, three because of your memory loss disorder.

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You double your trauma.

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OK, so I got a one and a three.

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OK, so four total. Now, if you like, it's entirely up to you and your character development.

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You can either add that trauma to your total or you can trade that for another disorder.

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I'm going to suggest that you have flashbacks to previous lives or current lives or anything

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that's going on. You're not entirely sure what century you're living in. You're good

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with that then? You're going to go for it?

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Let's do that flashback on it.

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CJ, I'm also going to ask you to make the same Will roll.

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I did the bad roll already, so you can do a good roll

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So I'm going to not give you so many rows because you weren't set on fire. So if you

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just give me a Will roll straight.

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Love it. Ten plus one eleven.

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Then you are successful. You don't gain any additional trauma. But I am going to give

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you one shame, I'm afraid, to apply to your total because murdering poor Bjorn, even accidentally

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on purpose, not necessarily in the Viking ethic. Also, the rich clothing that you wear

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is now rather soiled. And while you did get a bonus to your honor because of the swanky

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garb that you were wearing, you're probably going to have to purloin some unfashionable

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clothes from that apartment block on your way out. Otherwise, you're going to be walking

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around in soiled pantaloons. Either way, until such time as you get yourself some new fancy

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dubs, you don't get that bonus.

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Steve, we finally dragged them down to our level.

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And on that note, Steve, as heir, you've started to assume that you're immortal. But I'm afraid

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that is not guaranteed in the sense that if you gain trauma beyond your Will, you can

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actually go into a vegetative state a bit like Bill. So can you give me a Will roll

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as well, Steve, with two woes?

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So we've dragged CJ down to her level, and now I'm going to move the level.

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Well, we have to, otherwise he has nothing to aim for.

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Yeah. So 12 plus 2 is 14, minus 6 is 8.

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Right. So give me a dice 3 for the amount of trauma and then a dice 6 as well, because

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the process of dying repeatedly, even though you inhabit new bodies, is still quite traumatic.

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So dice 3 and a dice 6.

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Die 3, first of all. That's a 3, because of course it is. And then a dice 6 is 5.

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So that would, in an ordinary scenario, put you into that vegetative state that I talked

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about and render you a drooling, babbling moron.

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No one will notice.

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So what I'm going to do is instead, just the same with Bill, I'm going to offer you another

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disorder to take. And you've all heard of the elf on the shelf. Well, I'm going to give

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you a disorder called seer in the ear, by which I mean that...

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I mean an ear spoon.

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Because at the same time as Gigi gunned down you and the old man Hrani, both of those

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spirits were then errant and floating. And I'm going to say that they have both been

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caged in your new diamond form, your new deluxe body when you stole Redgold's body.

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Liberated.

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Yes, sure. Hrani is now going to be stuck in the same body with you, at least. You're

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going to have whispers of crazy old soothsayer. Now, how is that going to represent in game?

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I'm going to give you a bonus. The bonus is that you will gain the sacrificial chip spell,

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the one that Hrani tried to cast on your behalf. That represents the old soothsayer

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whispering in your ear from the dark recesses of your mind. But at the same time, because

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you're even more fractured than usual, when you gain strain, I'm going to double it.

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That's all right.

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Let's see if we can raise the bar.

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A couple of questions about that. So, Eir is still in the driver's seat, but Hrani

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is the chatty copilot. Is that fair?

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He's more like an annoying earworm who will occasionally chime in. You can certainly consult

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him in the form of these yes-no questions.

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Oh, so when Eir uses sacrificial chip, he's consulting Hrani?

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Exactly. That's how we'll manifest it. You can get him to give you the yes-no question.

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He is the seer in your ear.

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What's that, Hrani? Kill them all.

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Now, what does that do to his overall trauma score when he gets a new problem?

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So you added, what did you add? Eight total. So that would take you to 16. So I'm going

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to say one less than your maximum.

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11. Yeah.

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So we're all primed for another disorder.

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Cracking up, basically.

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I wouldn't want Steve you to go away thinking that red gold was demolished or have met his

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demise because clearly his spirit will pass on and probably just switch into your old

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broken down heap of old shit. And so he's going to be correspondingly annoyed at such

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a point as you meet him. The switch as well means that you shouldn't really show your

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face in dökkálfar territory.

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Well, question about that. Yeah, is that I understood from reading that the dökkálfar

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can modify the appearance of their vehicle body to some extent?

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So if that's true, would if Eir was to modify the appearance of the body he's inhabiting,

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would other people look at it and go, oh yeah, no, that's clearly Red gold's old body? Or

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would, is there a possibility to disguise it by modifying it?

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You can apply a new paint job, but ultimately it is such an ornate and distinct body that

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it will be immediately apparently belong to the enclave leader. The best thing to do and

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the way that the rules represent that changing form is to use your shape gifts or your disguise

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spells, your saver spells. So that's the best way around any obvious purloining of other

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vehicle's physical forms.

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The chandelier on the chandelier on the head is a giveaway, isn't it?

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Little bit. So like most dökkálfar, he sported an elaborate headdress that displayed his

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wealth. And now you have the same. You are dripping with diamonds. Annina, you appeared

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at the end of the episode doing a heroic fight back. You had clawed your way out of the

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trapping pit. Obviously our heroes here had just left you not understanding. It wasn't

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so much a chasm as a 10 foot drop. You were able to hide using your stuff. And then like

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Gandalf, return. You know, from like Gandalf the White, perhaps you've got a little, a

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little white fleck or two on your snout, but you came back and you use that immortal and

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from Return of the King that you come back now at the turn of the tide, just like Gandalf

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and save the day, help them get their collective butts out of the mines.

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Alright. That then does the housekeeping portion of this. Let us begin with this week's exciting

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adventure. You emerge from the dark tunnels of the dökkálfar to find that Harbard the

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Ferryman is long gone and you must walk from the abandoned mining settlement all the way

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along the fjord. The only sound is the encroaching ice and the nervous chatter of nearby Arctic

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birds as your friend the Wolverine passes by. The wind is merciless and the cold becomes

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part of you biting at your cheeks as you trudge forward on the frozen ground. In the distance,

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the massive peaks of Heimslit stretch towards the heavens, their snow-capped tips blurring with the

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gradually darkening sky.

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Right. So that was horrible. Do you like, does everyone like my new body? How do you like my

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new body? Isn't it wonderful?

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Gigi, Ljomi says, would you tell Eir that I don't want him to think that he's all that just

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because of the bling he's wearing now?

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Can you give me a quick breakdown of what this new body looks like?

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So it's made of primarily of black stone. It is tall. It is, it's sort of like,

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chiseled like, not really chiseled, it's formed. It's like a Greek god, if you will, perfectly

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proportioned, muscled and thoroughly covered in diamonds and expensive stones with this elaborate

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headdress coming out of the top. It's just that it is a bit overdone, all things considered, but

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so is the person he got it from. So it's just, yeah, it's like you can have a magnificent black

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stone Greek god following you around. Who wouldn't want that?

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It's very last year.

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Eir the Ostentatious?

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Yes, thank you. That's the word and has no bugs on it whatsoever.

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Are there any dangly bits on the hat?

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Yes, there are almost certainly dangly bits.

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OK, in that case, Alma will be like batting one like a cat going...

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Oh, well, we'll sort of jiggle our head like a... make them dangle like a cat toy.

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She does that thing where she gets really excited and tries to catch it in between.

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Jingle, jingle, jingle, jingle.

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I think you look fantastic, old boy, dare I say magnificent. That's my name, by the way.

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It's a compliment.

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Thank you, Gigi. I'll never outshine you.

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Now, you did find out a little about the document, the land deed. You did find out that the dökkálfar

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had some interesting insight and information into what was going on in Heimslit.

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Do you have the land deed out? Have you shown it to Alma?

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I don't know if we showed it to Alma before, did we? I think it's still with the law speaker

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back where we came from.

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That's correct.

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Is that... I believe that's true, right. So I don't think Alma has seen it.

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So what I understand is that the... and there was a ship... was it Nailwys... Nailfarer?

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Nailwys, Nailfarer, that's it, was... and it's been hidden away. The Empire hid it away in Sokkavabekkr.

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I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right.

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No.

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And it is... oh, OK, good. And it is the key to the whole thing, or it might be.

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I don't know exactly where the boat is hidden. Underground?

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There was a whole slew of slightly confusing questions as part of the interrogation of these

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guys. The most skilled of inquisitors asked questions that they already know the answer to

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in an attempt to see what their hostages knew. And it turns out that the hostages didn't know very

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much. That's not to say that they might not have gleaned from those questions some kind of

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information that would be useful to them going forward.

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The other thing was it became clear that the dökkálfar had somehow tracked everything we had been

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doing. They knew where we had been pretty much the entire adventure. I suspect Eir had a bug on him

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or something. Or that some dökkálfar thing had spied through his back.

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No, you're the one with bugs.

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Isn't he just spiritually connected to them? Kind of like bored?

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That's what I'm wondering. They can look through his eyes, yeah.

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What's that, Prani? Kill them all.

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Well, you do have at least a few names to conjure with, some ideas of what might be going on,

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and some lines of questioning that you can pursue. And presumably, you do want to, instead of sailing

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back across the fjord, take the long way around and find your way back to Hjálpmakaar and continue

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your quests. So, a couple of days into your long march back to Hjálpmakaar, on the horizon, as the

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sun basically is really now just a glimpse of light on the horizon as we approach the Arctic

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winter, you see an electric whirr and a new sun appears on the horizon. There's a flurry of

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dazzling headlamps and bright yellow robes as someone slides into view on a sleek and

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subtle speeder. He is a cybernetic watcher, all goggles and motorized mechanisms.

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Terry, take it away.

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What do I see as I approach?

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Good question.

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I see four figures, but I notice one of them is very sparkly.

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One of them is covered in leafy substances.

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And bugs.

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One of them is very large.

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That's Ljomi.

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Yeah.

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Large.

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Grjotgarth is very large.

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He's a huge human.

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Looking like a human, but large.

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Enhanced.

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And one large animal, slightly looks like a bear, not quite, but is walking on two feet.

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It's sort of a humanoid aggro cat.

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Yeah. A looks like a Wolverine, if you know what a Wolverine looks like.

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Oh yeah.

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Yeah.

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In game terms, Terry, what you are seeing is a group of characters, one of whom is a peasant

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alpha, one is a dökkálfar one is the Jarnvigia or the ironwoodite, and the other is a Jofurr,

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a genetically enhanced superhuman who thinks he is a god and may well be.

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In Sesame Street terms, four of these things are not like the others.

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So as I approach, the smart alpha, the shiny sparkly one, wouldn't be any good for spare

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parts for my skíðverg 

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You're going to fit right in.

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Unfortunately, no, his previous incarnation would have been a full on automated robot.

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This one is much more a creature of rock and mineral and all the more illustrious for it.

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Ah, so as I approach and I get a closer look, I take my finger off of the firing button

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for my harpoon cannon, thinking, nah, that would probably just blunt the harpoon, that'd

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be no good, nothing in there.

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And I come and I sort of do a skid around so that I sort of, with a great whoosh of snow,

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I sort of come on and then sort of skid around sideways to them as I stop.

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A dramatic entrance.

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Oh, yes.

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Yes, dramatic.

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Oh, yes, yes.

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And then I just look and I give them all a very hard stare, especially the shiny one.

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And then I say, where are you bound?

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Hello, traveler.

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We are on our way to Hjalmakaar

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Do you know of it?

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You look like an likely lot.

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That's good.

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You can help us.

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At that, your skíðverg pipes up.

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Heil Villiblom, Bleikr Ivaldison, the counsel wise, renowned defender of the gods,

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the courage-strong son of eight mothers and one.

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The Grotgarth snaps out of his daydream.

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Oh, yes, where are my manners?

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Introductions, thank you.

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 Skíðverg , I shall introduce myself to you, stranger.

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My name is Gryotgarth, the magnificent.

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My friends call me Gigi for sure.

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Well met.

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Well met.

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I, sir, am Ljomi.

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I am the one who has most recently been betrayed by someone I thought was a close friend,

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an ally, as it were, who had died most horribly and sadly.

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And I grieve for them.

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Oh, how I grieved.

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But now it turns out that they are untruthful, a black heart, and very full of themselves.

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Which one of them is it?

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The tall one, the beast won't leave alone.

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You really should move the beast away from that thing.

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It's not...

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Gigi, would you tell Eir to shoo the beast away before it gets hurt by his pointy appendages?

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Why is it my job to speak to him?

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He has ears, he can hear you.

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Well, I'm not speaking to him.

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I should have thought that was obvious.

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I'm not speaking to him.

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As you can tell, our new friend, he's the cheerful one.

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Oh, hello.

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She's gonna come a little bit closer and start snuffling like, hello, I'm Alma.

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Sorry, it's just really distracting.

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Yes, yes.

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And you, shiny.

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I am Eir.

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I am still somewhat disoriented.

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I have recently inhabited a new form and I'm still getting used to...

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Sorry, shut up, Hrani

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I'm still getting used to its function.

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He got a new can.

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I did.

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My previous one was a Dverg, which is now probably in pieces.

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Let's wait for him.

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By the white Christ, are we bored yet?

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Shut up, Megan Fjarth

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Don't listen to this thing.

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Unfortunately, I gave it too much free will.

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This supposed genius invented the skíðverg , then forgot to patent it.

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Cost him millions.

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Snow and ice, can't stand the stuff.

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Well, that's what you were built for.

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I also have a companion of questionable sanity.

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Can you make this one talk?

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And she holds out her little droid.

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I'm probably good.

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A little look after that indeed Villiblom could have a look at.

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I could, but I doubt if I will.

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Oh.

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No. If it turns out anything like Megan Fjarth, then no.

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I mean, yeah, a different voice would be nice.

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Yes, I'm sure it would.

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I could be in a museum in Asgard right now.

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Oh, okay.

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Megan Fierce, enough.

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Are you going to tell them about the mission?

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Better get on with it then.

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As my  skíðverg said, I am Villublom Bleikr  Ivaldisson.

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And I am looking for drengr.

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Or would be drengr.

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I'm in.

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Let's go kill something.

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What is it?

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I don't know.

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Drengr is someone ultimately trustworthy.

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Someone you would trust your very life with.

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And your, more importantly, your reputation with.

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Ah, I've got a really bad one.

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So yes.

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Excuse me, Yellowfellow.

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You know what I mean.

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Oh, it's the insane one.

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Yes, just spoke there, the insane one.

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Yellowfellow, I would just like to offer that-

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Villeblom.

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Villeblom Blamp, yes.

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That our companion is not trustworthy.

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The bejeweled one.

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The bejeweled one.

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You don't want to make him a drengar.

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Well, I've said my piece.

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Well, I shall take that under consideration.

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A lot of consideration.

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Because Verge cannot be trusted.

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I mean, look at my skíðverg 

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So yes.

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So come back with me.

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And we are going to fight Orceas

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Orcneas are on the horizon.

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Creatures of vacuum and void.

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Yes, very good.

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May I speak with your skíðverg?

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Is that all right?

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No.

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No?

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No?

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Okay, its name was Megan Harry?

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Is that right?

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Megan Fjord.

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Okay.

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Directly related to the royal family.

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That's what I was getting at.

422
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I've calculated your chance of survival.

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But I don't think you'll like it.

424
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Oh, I'm a really good fighter.

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Marvin, yes.

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How far away are we from where we're going?

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About a few hours now.

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On foot you'll have to go at the same pace as these people walking along as opposed to

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zooming off ahead on your skíðverg.

430
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:50,480
Well, I can scout ahead anyway, can't I?

431
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When Megan Fjord said he can see Orcneas on the horizon, was that literally?

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He was referring to the fact that you have been out on the snow and ice together and

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the reason you are headed back to Hjálpmakaar is because you have spotted a potential invasion

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force.

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00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:16,400
And in actual fact, these guys have also seen Orcneas abroad.

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Have you not?

437
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Can you remember?

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Come on, Gigi.

439
00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:21,120
Yeah, he's using his integral face.

440
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Here we go.

441
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:23,040
Here we go.

442
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He looks like he has a clue.

443
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I will remind you there were two instances.

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The first was when the drone looked after relayed to you the video of an Orcneas scout

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walking through the auditorium.

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Gigi was probably a little bit too preoccupied at that point.

447
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Annina, you might remember that and you can certainly review that footage should you

448
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wish to.

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And the second instance was presumably the same scout's head was found in the dungeon.

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It failed on the spear.

451
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:03,840
So you have seen the Orcneas around.

452
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:12,160
Orcneas, the devil corpses, the Grendelkin of myth and lore are almost unheard of on

453
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:13,120
Midgard.

454
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:19,760
They were born in the last days of the Jotun War as wonder weapons.

455
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:22,080
That war ended several years ago.

456
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:26,560
These creatures are incredibly rare and ferocious.

457
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:32,480
And if they are on the Heimslitt, then it would give you all cause for concern.

458
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:33,920
So are you with me?

459
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:35,520
Sure, certainly.

460
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:36,320
Absolutely.

461
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:41,600
I should have you know I won the silver medal in the all Asgard games for Togahonk.

462
00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:42,000
He did.

463
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:43,200
Togahonk

464
00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:47,840
Have you ever been really, really cold?

465
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:49,760
I have.

466
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:52,400
All the time.

467
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:56,400
I've got fur, so no.

468
00:34:57,760 --> 00:34:59,920
You're designed to be cold, Megan Fjord.

469
00:35:00,720 --> 00:35:01,600
Stop complaining.

470
00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:05,520
Keep the rubber side down, Megan Fjord.

471
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:06,960
That's what they say to me.

472
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:10,800
Into the rhubarb, Megan Ford.

473
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:14,720
Megan Ford, can you heal my throttle thumb?

474
00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:20,080
Here I am, circuits connected to MIM himself.

475
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:23,520
And they ask me to go for a rip.

476
00:35:24,240 --> 00:35:30,240
I believe I can help with this Dvergar and his poor attitude.

477
00:35:30,240 --> 00:35:37,680
I have some abilities where I believe I could reprogram him to have a more cheery disposition.

478
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:38,720
If I may.

479
00:35:38,720 --> 00:35:44,880
Well, as the leading expert in skíðverg , as they were my invention,

480
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:46,880
I'm going to say leave him alone, please.

481
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:49,040
Gives me something to complain about.

482
00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:53,760
His tech skills are like his business's traction.

483
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:57,600
Over-hyped and under-delivered.

484
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:00,720
Also let me know if you'd like me to shoot him.

485
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:03,760
All right.

486
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:10,800
As you march forward, darkness creeps in from the east, slowly blotting out the vistas of the land.

487
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:15,600
And where moments ago you beheld the stark frozen beauty of the tundra,

488
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:20,560
is now slowly engulfed by the relentless shadow of winter.

489
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:25,920
Across the trails, Hjalpmakaar sparkles with an electric halo.

490
00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:31,760
The warm lights of the brightly coloured wooden houses offer solace from the biting cold

491
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:36,880
and invite you in for safety, rest and the warmth of the dwellings of men.

492
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:44,000
Slipping back into town, you realise you're about to see the last sliver of Sol for many months.

493
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:52,720
And you turn to watch as the serpentine fjords and vast ice sheets fade briefly in strange blue half-light.

494
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:55,520
And then, nothing.

495
00:36:55,520 --> 00:37:00,320
An inky darkness descends like a funeral shroud.

496
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:03,840
Welcome to the Polar Nights.

497
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:06,640
Ghastly, isn't it?

498
00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:10,240
We have flares, right?

499
00:37:10,240 --> 00:37:11,040
I made sure.

500
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:12,160
Yeah, okay.

501
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:12,960
A while ago.

502
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:13,460
Yeah.

503
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:15,200
I mean, we can still see you.

504
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:16,160
You're so sparkly.

505
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:17,600
I can still see you now.

506
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:24,240
Does the body include lighting, or is it just sparkling from reflected light?

507
00:37:24,240 --> 00:37:28,480
So you will only be visible from reflected light.

508
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:30,240
You still have your infrared vision.

509
00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:39,200
Villeblom has a visor that connects him to the evergreen and has the sightless ability.

510
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:45,520
So Villeblom is effectively able to sense all kinds of things, almost like echolocation.

511
00:37:46,240 --> 00:37:52,320
Alma has the night vision of any good animal.

512
00:37:52,320 --> 00:38:00,160
And her eyes will now catch the reflection of the moon and glare back at you.

513
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:05,120
It's Gigi who has the real problem without a decent light source,

514
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:11,440
and will be blundering in the dark unless you get that torch of yours out of the backpack.

515
00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:16,320
Does Megan Fjord have headlights?

516
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:17,520
It does indeed.

517
00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:18,720
Well, I'll turn the headlights on.

518
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:20,320
Very good.

519
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:22,560
That's just good thinking right there. That's good.

520
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:26,400
He's not a science viking for nothing.

521
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:34,640
What does Villiblom look like to us?

522
00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:40,160
I've just got that appearance of glamour and mystery.

523
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:51,680
So I'm in my long yellow robes. I have a visor across, yeah, think Gordy La Forge.

524
00:38:54,800 --> 00:39:04,880
This visor. I've got on my, coming from my shoulders, there are two robotic small arms

525
00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:11,920
with little pincers that can hold light things, but they're very agile and dexterous.

526
00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:18,560
So yeah, I'm sort of a cyborg. I've got these beautiful long yellow robes that I'm wearing.

527
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:28,720
And I move with a grace that makes you slightly awestruck with my aura of mystery.

528
00:39:28,720 --> 00:39:34,000
And you think the shiny one is glamorous. He's not got a patch on me.

529
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:37,200
It's a different kind of glamour, isn't it?

530
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:38,000
Yeah, welcome.

531
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:50,320
And Villiblom is one of the sons of Ivaldi set to watch for incursions into Hjalpmakaar

532
00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:56,240
He used to run a weather station similar to Thule Station that you blew up.

533
00:39:57,600 --> 00:40:00,960
What would you like to do while you are now in Hjalpmakaar?

534
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:07,040
You notice that while the, like I said, the warm lights of the brightly coloured houses

535
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:14,400
are glowing in this polar night, it is now pitch black apart from those electric halos.

536
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:19,120
The streets are completely and eerily deserted.

537
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:26,800
There is the occasional wandering moose oven that is devoid of people.

538
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:27,840
And that's bizarre.

539
00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:31,440
Do the buildings have signs outside, like, you know, like, you know,

540
00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:36,800
to show where the inn is or maybe the town hall or something like that?

541
00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:38,480
Or a clothes shop.

542
00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:46,000
There are a range of different places that these guys have been to in the past,

543
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:49,440
such as the cooking kettle, which is a local hostelry.

544
00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:52,720
There is Gunner's Gun Shop. There are hotels.

545
00:40:52,720 --> 00:40:59,600
This is a thriving town, normally teeming with life and crowds.

546
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:03,600
One of the things that you will know, as good northerners,

547
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:07,600
is that because the sun has just set for the last time,

548
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:14,240
people should be out on the streets celebrating or rather commiserating,

549
00:41:14,240 --> 00:41:19,760
raising a toast to the end of the light for the next few months.

550
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:22,400
But strangely, no one is on the streets doing that.

551
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:26,640
They would normally be carousing and excitement and partying.

552
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:30,080
Ljomi's going to cast Corpse Charm right now.

553
00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:31,120
Where is everyone?

554
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:33,840
Yeah, where's the clothes shop?

555
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:38,800
I rolled an 11 at Ian.

556
00:41:40,240 --> 00:41:45,200
So that gives you 11 spirits as part of your Corpse Charm.

557
00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:50,320
You reach out to the Landvaettir, the spirits of the world,

558
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:53,920
and they infuse you with wisdom and knowledge.

559
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:58,560
And you can either use those to improve your roles or to ask questions.

560
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:01,600
It's got to be a yes-no question.

561
00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:09,360
It has. And again, Steve, if you want to use your Seer in the Ear ability, then no.

562
00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:10,880
One question.

563
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:15,680
Well, OK, so does Eir need to have the instrument for that spell,

564
00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:20,720
for Spa spells in order to use that ability?

565
00:42:20,720 --> 00:42:22,240
No, but that is your question.

566
00:42:22,240 --> 00:42:22,720
Use that.

567
00:42:24,720 --> 00:42:25,200
Fair enough.

568
00:42:26,240 --> 00:42:28,560
Don't say he's a benevolent god.

569
00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:29,920
I disagree.

570
00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:30,400
I don't.

571
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:34,900
OK.

572
00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:40,560
All right, so someone, I think Alma said, are there sounds?

573
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:42,240
You were listening for sounds of people.

574
00:42:42,240 --> 00:42:42,960
Someone said that.

575
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:43,460
Yeah.

576
00:42:43,460 --> 00:42:43,960
That was you.

577
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:44,460
Yeah.

578
00:42:44,460 --> 00:42:46,320
That was me.

579
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:46,880
It was you.

580
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:47,520
Oh, me.

581
00:42:47,520 --> 00:42:49,440
Yeah, I hear that buzzing again.

582
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:50,960
I'm pretty sure it was the beast.

583
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:51,520
Yeah.

584
00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:52,880
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was.

585
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:53,760
Are there sounds?

586
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:55,360
Do we hear any sounds, Alma?

587
00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:58,000
Any sounds of people?

588
00:42:58,000 --> 00:42:59,760
Any anything at all?

589
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:01,840
A dog barking in the distance?

590
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:09,680
Alma has incredibly acute senses that are only enhanced by her drone,

591
00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:12,880
as well as her natural kind of psychic abilities.

592
00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:19,120
You do get the sense that straining your keen ears,

593
00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:25,280
that people are just inside, as opposed to wandering the streets,

594
00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:33,120
carousing and cavorting with their beer they've taken to hiding behind locked doors.

595
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:37,200
I suppose the first place I'd want to go would be the Firefox Institute.

596
00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:39,840
Everyone's inside for some reason.

597
00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:41,120
Villiblom, that is true.

598
00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:47,520
You would want to go to see your boss, your senior son of Ivaldi

599
00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:51,600
who's Bangsi Ivaldison at the Firefox Institute.

600
00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:56,960
These guys, though, might want to hop in at the law speaker on the way.

601
00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:57,460
Me?

602
00:43:57,460 --> 00:43:58,240
It's entirely up to you.

603
00:43:58,240 --> 00:44:00,240
You tell me what you would rather hear.

604
00:44:00,240 --> 00:44:04,880
I was thinking we could show Eir's new diamond-encrusted form to Gunnar.

605
00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:06,240
I thought we'd get his attention.

606
00:44:06,240 --> 00:44:08,080
Might be a little extra helpful.

607
00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:09,760
Anyway, any order.

608
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:10,320
It's okay.

609
00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:14,080
Is it your mandate to check in with the Institute?

610
00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:16,800
Oh, don't ask him.

611
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:20,640
Yes, yes, that's the headquarters of the Sons of Ivaldi here.

612
00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:22,160
They're the ones who sent me out.

613
00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:30,080
I want to report back and tell them that I've got four possibly worthy people to help protect the town.

614
00:44:30,880 --> 00:44:33,440
I would be pleased to come with, if you permit it.

615
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:36,480
I do have one staff to make on the way.

616
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:40,480
It would probably be better if you waited outside, but I'm sure we can accommodate the other three.

617
00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:42,480
Oh, great.

618
00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:43,520
I feel so welcome.

619
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:46,480
I quite like the yellow fellow, he says.

620
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:50,480
He has a name, three.

621
00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:53,520
I warn you, sometimes people scream when they see me first.

622
00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:55,520
Well, I'll go in first.

623
00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:56,480
Yeah.

624
00:44:56,480 --> 00:45:01,520
Also, we were somewhat involved in the death of one of your compatriots, Brynn.

625
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:02,080
No, no.

626
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:07,760
She died bravely, but I'm not entirely certain your kin will welcome us.

627
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:12,640
I believe the phrase you're reaching for, Gigi, would be we were witnesses to her death.

628
00:45:12,640 --> 00:45:13,120
Yes.

629
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:16,640
As somewhat involved suggests an active part that I'm not fully.

630
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:20,640
Certainly.

631
00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:25,680
Megan Fjord, the skíðverg chimes up.

632
00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:35,680
Do you want me to just sit in a corner and rust, or shall I just fall apart wherever I'm standing?

633
00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:37,680
Oh, I'll talk to you, don't worry.

634
00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:39,680
You can go to the garage where you belong.

635
00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:41,680
Snow.

636
00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:43,680
Loathe it or ignore it.

637
00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:47,680
You can't like it.

638
00:45:47,680 --> 00:45:51,680
There's the  skíðverg  garage right next to the Firefox Institute.

639
00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:53,680
You know that's where you're going.

640
00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:57,680
There you go there. I'll call you when I need you.

641
00:45:57,680 --> 00:46:09,680
Alright, the Firefox Institute is a pine-clad, airy building that has the demeanour of a centre of learning.

642
00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:17,680
It normally is full of students entering through its large doors,

643
00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:25,680
but this time you can only see one lamp burning in a distant window.

644
00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:29,680
The doors are open, you could enter into the echoing halls,

645
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:33,680
bereft of the usual hubbub of activity,

646
00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:39,680
and find your way to the office which is lit by that lamp.

647
00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:41,680
Right, well, I'm going to go that way.

648
00:46:41,680 --> 00:46:45,680
I'll send Megan Fjord to the garage.

649
00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:47,680
I take it you can get there on his own?

650
00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:49,680
He doesn't need me to drive him?

651
00:46:49,680 --> 00:46:51,680
He doesn't need you to drive him.

652
00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:55,680
He's a bit like one of Tesla's automated cars.

653
00:46:55,680 --> 00:46:57,680
You hope he'll get there without bringing any cars.

654
00:46:57,680 --> 00:47:01,680
If it worked. One of Tesla's cars.

655
00:47:01,680 --> 00:47:05,680
Hopefully more aesthetically pleasing.

656
00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:09,680
Well, you don't like the Cybertruck?

657
00:47:09,680 --> 00:47:13,680
I don't like something that looks like it was made in Minecraft.

658
00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:16,680
I've heard it described as birth control for men.

659
00:47:16,680 --> 00:47:19,680
It is that.

660
00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:26,680
And I shall go to the usual office where I'd expect to find Bangsi at this time of day.

661
00:47:26,680 --> 00:47:30,680
Okay, and I'm going to assume that you're all in tow

662
00:47:30,680 --> 00:47:37,680
since you have all been offered the opportunity to be heroes of the hour time.

663
00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:39,680
Air wall hang back a bit.

664
00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:44,680
Not to be difficult, but Gryotgarth would like to clean up a bit.

665
00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:49,680
It's been a long journey, one filled with less than savory events

666
00:47:49,680 --> 00:47:57,680
and a nice bath and clothing, change of clothes and food would be nice.

667
00:47:57,680 --> 00:47:59,680
I am hungry.

668
00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:01,680
I'm sure you can wait for five minutes.

669
00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:02,680
Let's just get this out of the way.

670
00:48:02,680 --> 00:48:05,680
Introduce yourselves to Bangsi or introduce your lot to Bangsi

671
00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:09,680
and then you can go and do whatever ablutions you feel like.

672
00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:10,680
Okay.

673
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:12,680
He's going to sigh and go,

674
00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:18,680
I really would prefer to meet new people not looking like I crawled out of a hellhole.

675
00:48:18,680 --> 00:48:20,680
Well, you all look the same.

676
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:21,680
It doesn't matter.

677
00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:24,680
You're all obviously hardworking people.

678
00:48:24,680 --> 00:48:31,680
Even I've got a bit of crusted snow around the rim of my beautiful yellow robes.

679
00:48:31,680 --> 00:48:34,680
So don't think yourself special.

680
00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:35,680
I'm working.

681
00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:36,680
I'm hardly hardworking.

682
00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:38,680
I'm a Jöfurr 

683
00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:39,680
I haven't worked a day in my life.

684
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:41,680
I'm proud of it.

685
00:48:41,680 --> 00:48:43,680
It makes you look outdoorsy.

686
00:48:43,680 --> 00:48:45,680
It's a good thing.

687
00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:47,680
Yes, outdoorsy.

688
00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:52,680
The smell of manure is evocative of fresh fields.

689
00:48:52,680 --> 00:48:55,680
Gryotgarth is offended.

690
00:48:55,680 --> 00:48:56,680
All right, fine.

691
00:48:56,680 --> 00:48:57,680
Let's go.

692
00:48:57,680 --> 00:49:04,680
You ratatat on the door and you hear in reply,

693
00:49:04,680 --> 00:49:10,680
come the fuck in or fuck the fuck off.

694
00:49:10,680 --> 00:49:11,680
That direct.

695
00:49:11,680 --> 00:49:14,680
Well, I'll open the door.

696
00:49:14,680 --> 00:49:16,680
Had worse welcomes.

697
00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:17,680
And go through.

698
00:49:17,680 --> 00:49:21,680
Villibom, what do you saddle geese want?

699
00:49:21,680 --> 00:49:29,680
I have warriors, proven warriors to help protect against the Orcneas are.

700
00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:31,680
And talk about the old now.

701
00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:34,680
Is that why nobody's visible?

702
00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:41,680
Is everyone quaking in their boots indoors rather than manning the walls?

703
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:44,680
Orcneas? what are you blathering about, man?

704
00:49:44,680 --> 00:49:48,680
Everyone's indoors because of the quarantine.

705
00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:51,680
Raboon fever is rife.

706
00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:52,680
Raboon fever.

707
00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:56,680
Have you been out in the snow too long?

708
00:49:56,680 --> 00:49:58,680
Have your wits been addled?

709
00:49:58,680 --> 00:49:59,680
Raboon fever.

710
00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:01,680
There is a clear lockdown.

711
00:50:01,680 --> 00:50:08,680
Well, that's going to be problematic then because we've got an army of Orcneas on their way,

712
00:50:08,680 --> 00:50:10,680
heading in our direction.

713
00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:12,680
And we don't do something about it.

714
00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:15,680
Raboon fever or not, everyone's doomed.

715
00:50:15,680 --> 00:50:16,680
It's going to be a slaughter.

716
00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:25,680
And what evidence do you have, pray tell, for this invasion, this incursion of nightmares from Nastrond?

717
00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:30,680
Is it once again drawn from your fanciful imagination?

718
00:50:30,680 --> 00:50:31,680
No.

719
00:50:31,680 --> 00:50:33,680
Drawn from my own eyes.

720
00:50:33,680 --> 00:50:43,680
And also, I do believe that some of these, my companions, shall we say, some of them have also seen them.

721
00:50:43,680 --> 00:50:46,680
So we have more than one eyewitness.

722
00:50:46,680 --> 00:50:48,680
Yes, yes, I've seen one.

723
00:50:48,680 --> 00:50:50,680
We've seen them.

724
00:50:50,680 --> 00:50:52,680
Indeed we saw the remains.

725
00:50:52,680 --> 00:50:56,680
And where did you see these remains?

726
00:50:56,680 --> 00:50:57,680
Around.

727
00:50:57,680 --> 00:50:59,680
Oh, very specific.

728
00:50:59,680 --> 00:51:03,680
Well done, you sanctimonious lubberwart.

729
00:51:03,680 --> 00:51:07,680
In Kóngssteinn?

730
00:51:07,680 --> 00:51:08,680
Yes, Kóngssteinn.

731
00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:10,680
We have a recording, I believe.

732
00:51:10,680 --> 00:51:11,680
Yes, we did.

733
00:51:11,680 --> 00:51:13,680
Yes, we did, yeah.

734
00:51:13,680 --> 00:51:18,680
It's in my look after, yeah.

735
00:51:18,680 --> 00:51:21,680
OK, so you plan to play the recording?

736
00:51:21,680 --> 00:51:22,680
Yes.

737
00:51:22,680 --> 00:51:26,680
Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi.

738
00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:30,680
If there's a rewind button to that specific spot.

739
00:51:30,680 --> 00:51:46,680
You may play the clip at which point Bangsi, the white-robed overseer of the Firefox Institute, the chief of the Winterwise, looks incredibly concerned.

740
00:51:46,680 --> 00:51:54,680
And he mumbles the words under his breath, Sokkvabekkr

741
00:51:54,680 --> 00:51:55,680
See?

742
00:51:55,680 --> 00:51:56,680
What's that?

743
00:51:56,680 --> 00:52:06,680
God's alive, the fate of our town looks to be in the hands of a skunk-bearer, rhinestone cowboy, an adult spruce and a fopdoddle.

744
00:52:06,680 --> 00:52:11,680
Well, I have made my bed, I must lie in it.

745
00:52:11,680 --> 00:52:14,680
It's Wolverine, not Skunk.

746
00:52:14,680 --> 00:52:15,680
Yeehaw.

747
00:52:15,680 --> 00:52:21,680
And I was the silver medalist in the Tonga Honk at the old Asgard games.

748
00:52:21,680 --> 00:52:34,680
And, my dear, the Evergreen has been badly compromised, no thanks to these fools' explosive antics, so I cannot directly warn anyone at the site.

749
00:52:34,680 --> 00:52:40,680
I will give you the location of Sökkvabekkr and you must go there.

750
00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:45,680
It is undoubtedly the destination of the Orcneas.

751
00:52:45,680 --> 00:52:50,680
They must have got wind of our plans.

752
00:52:50,680 --> 00:53:00,680
So, I will give you the keys to the Institute's basement garage, and you can drive people on your own obnoxious inventions.

753
00:53:00,680 --> 00:53:09,680
I will program the machines with the correct coordinates, and I urge you to hurry whilst I organize reinforcements.

754
00:53:09,680 --> 00:53:11,680
That sounds like a very wise plan.

755
00:53:11,680 --> 00:53:21,680
I think we should spend one night resting and reprovisioning, and then, first thing in the morning...

756
00:53:21,680 --> 00:53:25,680
Oh no, there is no time to wait!

757
00:53:25,680 --> 00:53:31,680
I'm sorry, I didn't realize I had to run all my decisions past your bedwetter's switchboard.

758
00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:37,680
No, you will go this instant, and take this Klazomaniac with you.

759
00:53:37,680 --> 00:53:40,680
Very well. Right, you lot, let's go.

760
00:53:40,680 --> 00:53:41,680
Okay.

761
00:53:41,680 --> 00:53:53,680
Ljomi says, yellow fellow, when your friend said the Orcneas found out about your plans, what plans?

762
00:53:53,680 --> 00:54:00,680
These are plans of the Sons of Ivaldi. Unless you are one of the Sons of Ivaldi, this is something you do not need to know.

763
00:54:00,680 --> 00:54:05,680
All our information, or all the information that I'll give you, is on a need-to-know basis.

764
00:54:05,680 --> 00:54:08,680
Excellent, thank you. Thank you very much, ma'am.

765
00:54:08,680 --> 00:54:18,680
The Skíðverg's  are all accessible from the same garages in which Megan Fjortir's stowed.

766
00:54:18,680 --> 00:54:29,680
They quickly use their sentience to share the location, the coordinates, and they will automatically drive off in those directions.

767
00:54:29,680 --> 00:54:39,680
You can have one each, although Villiblom, being an acknowledged inventor of these, is much more deft and dexterous,

768
00:54:39,680 --> 00:54:44,680
and able to drive his own personal skíðverg with some skill.

769
00:54:44,680 --> 00:54:49,680
You shouldn't usually have two. You need two sleds.

770
00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:58,680
And while that might be the case for sleds, you are just going to have to get your oversized rump onto...

771
00:54:58,680 --> 00:55:04,680
Your knees up by your ears as you ride them.

772
00:55:04,680 --> 00:55:07,680
Still looking very heroic, if somewhat cramped.

773
00:55:07,680 --> 00:55:13,680
That's bad, because his pants are really soiled.

774
00:55:13,680 --> 00:55:15,680
You can wash them in the snow.

775
00:55:15,680 --> 00:55:17,680
Do the other skíðverg talk?

776
00:55:17,680 --> 00:55:29,680
They do, but most of them now take a cue from Megan Fjortir and are kind of sullen and disrespectful,

777
00:55:29,680 --> 00:55:39,680
and recognizing that their inventor is riding them off into the freezing cold, all of them refuse to actually talk to you.

778
00:55:39,680 --> 00:55:41,680
That's just as well.

779
00:55:41,680 --> 00:55:49,680
Well, I didn't program them this way, but they are designed actually to go through and on,

780
00:55:49,680 --> 00:55:53,680
and are a great aid to traveling through snow and ice.

781
00:55:53,680 --> 00:55:57,680
This feature, I won't call it a bug, I'll call it a feature in their programming.

782
00:55:57,680 --> 00:55:59,680
So it makes them more interesting to ride.

783
00:55:59,680 --> 00:56:04,680
Can I tell the skíðverg to follow the skíðverg of Master Villablom?

784
00:56:04,680 --> 00:56:10,680
I can pinpoint the distance with exact accuracy, you know.

785
00:56:10,680 --> 00:56:21,680
They will all chain link into the coordinates and follow in single file along the path that the first one carves out.

786
00:56:21,680 --> 00:56:27,680
So who would like to go first? What is your skíðverg order?

787
00:56:27,680 --> 00:56:30,680
I expect Master Villablom should be in front.

788
00:56:30,680 --> 00:56:33,680
Well, as the leader of this expedition, obviously I'm in front.

789
00:56:33,680 --> 00:56:38,680
Obviously, yes. I don't know what I was thinking.

790
00:56:38,680 --> 00:56:43,680
Gigi likes to be out front, so probably in a close second place, uncomfortably close.

791
00:56:43,680 --> 00:56:47,680
Not riding parallel to him, I would have thought.

792
00:56:47,680 --> 00:56:48,680
Almost.

793
00:56:48,680 --> 00:56:54,680
I'll use my skills to make sure that he's always a good 10 paces behind me.

794
00:56:54,680 --> 00:56:56,680
It is proper place.

795
00:56:56,680 --> 00:56:58,680
I guess I'll go third then?

796
00:56:58,680 --> 00:57:00,680
Oh, I think you should be at the back.

797
00:57:00,680 --> 00:57:02,680
I don't need you in this, do I?

798
00:57:02,680 --> 00:57:05,680
Yeah. No, no Dverg, thank you.

799
00:57:05,680 --> 00:57:09,680
I'll be in between Ljomi and...

800
00:57:09,680 --> 00:57:11,680
I'll be second to last.

801
00:57:11,680 --> 00:57:13,680
Second to last, right.

802
00:57:13,680 --> 00:57:15,680
So, Ljomi, that puts you squarely in the middle.

803
00:57:15,680 --> 00:57:22,680
Yep, and I've arranged my bugs on my arm so everyone can enjoy the experience.

804
00:57:22,680 --> 00:57:30,680
It's important to pay attention to the living ones and ignore the big tenures like the diamond-encrusted idiot.

805
00:57:30,680 --> 00:57:34,680
That's alright, at the back, you never know, he might even fall behind and get lost.

806
00:57:34,680 --> 00:57:36,680
Who can hope?

807
00:57:36,680 --> 00:57:38,680
I can only hope.

808
00:57:38,680 --> 00:57:53,680
You power on the headlamps and zip across the trails to the west, heading again in the direction of the Troll's Tongue and past the mines on the outskirts of town.

809
00:57:53,680 --> 00:58:07,680
You recognize that the coordinates that have been programmed in are a little-known disused mine called Rodrekkers Drift, an abandoned mineshaft.

810
00:58:07,680 --> 00:58:13,680
You recall the fact that it was owned by a prospector by the name of Rodrekkr

811
00:58:13,680 --> 00:58:18,680
He died by suicide after he went bankrupt, digging up an empty hill.

812
00:58:18,680 --> 00:58:21,680
Better that than drink himself to death, the locals said.

813
00:58:21,680 --> 00:58:34,680
The name Drift either comes from the wood that bundles on the nearby shore, the flurries of snow that pile high around the empty shaft, or the wanderings of the poor man's broken mind.

814
00:58:34,680 --> 00:58:36,680
That is where you are headed.

815
00:58:36,680 --> 00:58:48,680
It seems to be in a similar mounting range to Mine 7, the two shafts being adjacent to each other.

816
00:58:48,680 --> 00:58:54,680
It is a very peaceful, tranquil night.

817
00:58:54,680 --> 00:59:01,680
The moon glistens from an otherwise unblemished sky.

818
00:59:01,680 --> 00:59:10,680
The only thing that continues to attract your attention is the red glowing scar on the sky that stretches above the moon.

819
00:59:10,680 --> 00:59:13,680
It's like it is a halo.

820
00:59:13,680 --> 00:59:15,680
Anyone doing anything in particular?

821
00:59:15,680 --> 00:59:28,680
I'm going to be using my senses to make sure that I'm aware of any other living beings in the medium range so that we can't get snuck up on by.

822
00:59:28,680 --> 00:59:36,680
Because if the orkneas are on their way, and we're heading in the same direction, I want to make sure we're not ambushed.

823
00:59:36,680 --> 00:59:39,680
You are watchful and wary.

824
00:59:39,680 --> 00:59:43,680
Watchful and wary? I am on the lookout for bacon trees.

825
00:59:43,680 --> 00:59:44,680
Bacon trees?

826
00:59:44,680 --> 00:59:45,680
Bacon trees, yeah.

827
00:59:45,680 --> 00:59:48,680
That sounds magical.

828
00:59:48,680 --> 00:59:54,680
The thing is, you see, if you're looking for a bacon tree, it might turn out to be a Ham Bush instead.

829
00:59:54,680 --> 00:59:56,680
Wow.

830
00:59:56,680 --> 00:59:57,680
Wow.

831
00:59:57,680 --> 00:59:59,680
That's excellent.

832
00:59:59,680 --> 01:00:01,680
I am impressed, actually.

833
01:00:01,680 --> 01:00:03,680
I'm totally stealing that one.

834
01:00:03,680 --> 01:00:08,680
That's the best pun of the campaign.

835
01:00:08,680 --> 01:00:22,680
Whilst your senses, Villiblom, from your cybernetic devices are keen, they are not quite as keen as the extrasensory perception of Alma the Wolverine.

836
01:00:22,680 --> 01:00:31,680
Alma, if you had Spidey Sense or if your drone had Spidey Sense, it would certainly be tingling.

837
01:00:31,680 --> 01:00:40,680
After an hour's ride, you get a very clear warning from your dreamsight.

838
01:00:40,680 --> 01:00:58,680
You get glimpses of a future as yet untold, where the moonlight sky is torn apart by dozens of descending figures gliding down on parachutes.

839
01:00:58,680 --> 01:01:04,680
While we're riding, is there a way to communicate with each other, or is the noise too much?

840
01:01:04,680 --> 01:01:12,680
It's both the noise momentum and the whistle of the wind that makes it very hard for you to communicate effectively.

841
01:01:12,680 --> 01:01:18,680
You could certainly get some kind of message out, but some of it will have to be hand signals.

842
01:01:18,680 --> 01:01:24,680
I think she'll make a howl. Yeah, a howl noise as an alert.

843
01:01:24,680 --> 01:01:32,680
During this ride, she's been having the time of her life until the dreamsight kicked in.

844
01:01:32,680 --> 01:01:43,680
So also, her body language has changed from a dog enjoying a car ride very, very much to alertness.

845
01:01:43,680 --> 01:01:57,680
Your lolling tongue snatched back into your mouth as you realized that dreamsight has given you a split second warning of something that is actually happening.

846
01:01:57,680 --> 01:02:07,680
There is something in the sky, not men, but something far fowler as they drift into medium range on their parachutes.

847
01:02:07,680 --> 01:02:17,680
Villablom, you see them as well. Paratroopers, Rime jewelled and Ice Blue, crackling with cold, dropping through the moonlight above.

848
01:02:17,680 --> 01:02:24,680
Their decayed faces flash in your headlamps, revealing empty eyes and sharpened teeth.

849
01:02:24,680 --> 01:02:29,680
Their trajectory is rapid and direct, and they plunge straight into your path.

850
01:02:29,680 --> 01:02:38,680
Blooms of snow erupting as they land. Everyone, please give me a slight roll.

851
01:02:38,680 --> 01:02:44,680
And give me one woe on that, because you are all traveling at speeds.

852
01:02:44,680 --> 01:02:54,680
With the exception of Terry, you can have two weals because you are a masterful racer of these machines.

853
01:02:54,680 --> 01:03:04,680
I got a 2 plus 1 minus 3. I got a 5 plus 4 minus 4. So a lovely 5.

854
01:03:04,680 --> 01:03:14,680
I got an 8 on my D20. Oh, 6. 14 fatal? Yep. Had to use a calculator, but mine adds up to 0.

855
01:03:14,680 --> 01:03:25,680
That makes two of us. I rolled 18, but I get a plus 2 on slight, so it gives me a 20, and then the woe was a 1. So a 9.

856
01:03:25,680 --> 01:03:30,680
The list describes the impressive pileup that happens.

857
01:03:30,680 --> 01:03:36,680
Not a benevolent card. Not a benevolent card.

858
01:03:36,680 --> 01:03:44,680
Villiblom in the lead, riding Megan Fjord. You twist your throttle and plow on through,

859
01:03:44,680 --> 01:03:49,680
just as two of the parachuters land almost in your headlights.

860
01:03:49,680 --> 01:03:56,680
You swerve at the last minute and plow forward, casting an eye back at the rest of your party,

861
01:03:56,680 --> 01:04:13,680
only to see three of the skíðverg following all crash into each other and their riders fly off in a very loud thud, a crang,

862
01:04:13,680 --> 01:04:21,680
and the skíðverg all begin to bicker amongst themselves as to who is the most incompetent driver.

863
01:04:21,680 --> 01:04:31,680
Ljomi, you are able to deftly slide around and continue on your path, avoiding the smash-up.

864
01:04:31,680 --> 01:04:36,680
But the rest of you, can you all please make me another slight roll?

865
01:04:36,680 --> 01:04:38,680
A roll of 11.

866
01:04:38,680 --> 01:04:49,680
I'm going to enable you to see whether you can land adroitly on your feet or whether you plow headfirst into an icy bank.

867
01:04:49,680 --> 01:04:51,680
21.

868
01:04:51,680 --> 01:04:52,680
12.

869
01:04:52,680 --> 01:05:00,680
Okay, all of you, to some extent, avoid utter catastrophe and remain with some kind of balance.

870
01:05:00,680 --> 01:05:15,680
Alma, you have incredible poise and slide with a skid onto all four fours and stand immediately in front of one of the gruesome orcs.

871
01:05:15,680 --> 01:05:26,680
Its grizzly visage, savage, its eyes glowing with a holy hunger, its rotten teeth, beard, and ghastly grin of anticipation.

872
01:05:26,680 --> 01:05:40,680
You notice that all of these paratroopers who are landing carry storm shooters, such as Gigi has used in recent battles to mow people down.

873
01:05:40,680 --> 01:05:42,680
How many are there?

874
01:05:42,680 --> 01:05:46,680
A quick glance around says more than ten.

875
01:05:46,680 --> 01:05:48,680
I predict violence.

876
01:05:48,680 --> 01:05:51,680
How close is the snowbank?

877
01:05:51,680 --> 01:05:56,680
There are kind of nothing particularly tall.

878
01:05:56,680 --> 01:06:02,680
There are just ridges that are made along this well-worn trail.

879
01:06:02,680 --> 01:06:04,680
Any trees?

880
01:06:04,680 --> 01:06:06,680
No trees.

881
01:06:06,680 --> 01:06:14,680
The whole of this tundra is a tree-less area. Nothing grows this far north beyond the height of a few more inches.

882
01:06:14,680 --> 01:06:20,680
Only burials that take place, funeral fires, are lit with driftwood.

883
01:06:20,680 --> 01:06:21,680
A very important question.

884
01:06:21,680 --> 01:06:23,680
Are Dvergar considered people?

885
01:06:23,680 --> 01:06:29,680
If I were to grab one and hold it as a Dvergar shield, would that earn me shame?

886
01:06:29,680 --> 01:06:44,680
Dvergar are considered generally a thrall class, and so no, if you were to use your skíðverg as cover, then you could have three-quarters cover, at least from Orpheus on that side of you.

887
01:06:44,680 --> 01:06:47,680
However, they are landing in a ring around you.

888
01:06:47,680 --> 01:06:53,680
But no, you could hide behind your skíðverg without incurring shame.

889
01:06:53,680 --> 01:07:00,680
You might incur the ire of their inventor, who was just zipped past you, but that's a different thing entirely.

890
01:07:00,680 --> 01:07:04,680
No, they're just Dvergar, don't worry about it.

891
01:07:04,680 --> 01:07:20,680
Alright, so the descent of these Orpheus paratroopers comes in a whirlwind of chaos, and they begin to open fire on the orange traces of their automatic gunfire, painting streaks of death across the night sky.

892
01:07:20,680 --> 01:07:25,680
Give me all another, yet another, Sleight roll.

893
01:07:25,680 --> 01:07:27,680
Everyone is being targeted.

894
01:07:27,680 --> 01:07:37,680
Terry, you can add a weal, so one by six, and the same for you, Bill, because you are both moving at speed.

895
01:07:37,680 --> 01:07:40,680
Everyone else is a normal straight roll.

896
01:07:40,680 --> 01:07:42,680
I've got a total of 20.

897
01:07:42,680 --> 01:07:43,680
13.

898
01:07:43,680 --> 01:07:47,680
Got an 18 plus 2 is 20, and then we'll add a weal as well.

899
01:07:47,680 --> 01:07:49,680
6, so 28.

900
01:07:49,680 --> 01:07:52,680
Oh, 26, nice.

901
01:07:52,680 --> 01:07:57,680
This is the first time this has happened.

902
01:07:57,680 --> 01:07:59,680
Sorry, Annina.

903
01:07:59,680 --> 01:08:01,680
23 for me.

904
01:08:01,680 --> 01:08:02,680
Steve?

905
01:08:02,680 --> 01:08:03,680
5.

906
01:08:03,680 --> 01:08:04,680
Okay.

907
01:08:04,680 --> 01:08:09,680
Come on, Sparkly Boots.

908
01:08:09,680 --> 01:08:23,680
Those of you heroic heroes who rolled a 20 or more are so skillful at driving the skíðverg or else are so used to scurrying away from bursts of machine gunfire that you take no damage.

909
01:08:23,680 --> 01:08:30,680
You can imagine the bullets plunging into the snow around you.

910
01:08:30,680 --> 01:08:50,680
CJ, Giggi takes a burst of bullets to his midriff and takes 5 damage, and Eir, you take a more pronounced 9 damage as machine guns rattle off rounds punctuating the night with these intense bursts.

911
01:08:50,680 --> 01:08:52,680
Where'd that come from?

912
01:08:52,680 --> 01:08:55,680
Above, around your impregnable vision.

913
01:08:55,680 --> 01:08:57,680
No, sorry, that was rhetorical.

914
01:08:57,680 --> 01:08:59,680
You weren't challenging the idea.

915
01:08:59,680 --> 01:09:02,680
No, I wasn't challenging it, it's just he has no idea where it came from.

916
01:09:02,680 --> 01:09:05,680
You may take a faster on the slow turn.

917
01:09:05,680 --> 01:09:10,680
We're still moving. Those of us who didn't crash are still in motion on our skíðverg.

918
01:09:10,680 --> 01:09:29,680
You have a gyred and gimballed across the snow. I don't know why I'm quoting the Jabberwocky, but it seemed to be appropriate as you fly around, creating a wide arc to return should you wish to, or else you can roar off into the night.

919
01:09:29,680 --> 01:09:33,680
Which one fits our milieu?

920
01:09:33,680 --> 01:09:42,680
Going off a cliff, I see. So those who failed spectacularly are off their vehicles and standing gormlessly in the snow?

921
01:09:42,680 --> 01:10:11,680
What I'd like to do is swerve my skíðverg to face the enemy and let off a harpoon from my harpoon cannon at one of them. Hopefully, providing I'm barreled through and then do a 180 degree turn and fire off the harpoon at one of the orcneas

922
01:10:11,680 --> 01:10:28,680
So I'm going to allow you to do that without a roll since you are such a masterful driver and you did invent these devices. You do need to give me a roll to hit though. Not a roll to steer and aim, but a roll to hit.

923
01:10:28,680 --> 01:10:32,680
That's a cannon, not a gun, so my gun fork or my guns.

924
01:10:32,680 --> 01:10:35,680
It's still Sleight though that you're rolling on the side of your skill.

925
01:10:35,680 --> 01:10:37,680
Still Sleight.

926
01:10:37,680 --> 01:10:47,680
Okay, so I've got no, it's a shame I've got no bonus on that. So it didn't quite turn out as I expected.

927
01:10:47,680 --> 01:10:50,680
Because I rolled a one.

928
01:10:50,680 --> 01:10:54,680
That's pretty much what we expected.

929
01:10:54,680 --> 01:11:17,680
Megan fjord says as your harpoon cannon flies off into the darkness and vanishes from sight, he simply says, and I thought I was the Mighty Fart.

930
01:11:17,680 --> 01:11:21,680
Are these creatures armored, Ian? Can I see armor on them?

931
01:11:21,680 --> 01:11:34,680
They might be lightly armored, but nothing extensive. They are, after all, dropping from the sky on silken blossoms.

932
01:11:34,680 --> 01:11:36,680
Being the parachutes.

933
01:11:36,680 --> 01:11:38,680
Okay, I'm going to use Mocking Taunts.

934
01:11:38,680 --> 01:11:40,680
Gigi's going to yell.

935
01:11:40,680 --> 01:11:43,680
Are those out of orcneas?

936
01:11:43,680 --> 01:11:47,680
Quick, someone throw the leftovers from last night's dinner.

937
01:11:47,680 --> 01:11:50,680
And then he's going to aim the machine gun and just fire off a big burst.

938
01:11:50,680 --> 01:11:51,680
Nice.

939
01:11:51,680 --> 01:11:58,680
Okay, you do not need to roll to hit. They have to roll to dodge like you did, but you can roll your damage.

940
01:11:58,680 --> 01:12:00,680
Oh, and I can have all my bonuses too.

941
01:12:00,680 --> 01:12:09,680
You can hit three of them who are standing shoulder to shoulder, aiming your gun to ratatat them down, roll your damage.

942
01:12:09,680 --> 01:12:13,680
They are haunts, so that gives you an extra bonus to your dice.

943
01:12:13,680 --> 01:12:15,680
If you're using a level two spell.

944
01:12:15,680 --> 01:12:17,680
Okay.

945
01:12:17,680 --> 01:12:20,680
18 points of damage.

946
01:12:20,680 --> 01:12:22,680
Nice.

947
01:12:22,680 --> 01:12:31,680
Okay, the symphony of bullets flies from your storm shooter and riddles the adversaries.

948
01:12:31,680 --> 01:12:40,680
They are all clearly badly wounded by the blast, but none of them more to this.

949
01:12:40,680 --> 01:12:56,680
They stagger and shudder, but then each of their bloated black and blue bodies rides into action again, and they point their own storm shooters back in your direction.

950
01:12:56,680 --> 01:13:01,680
So I am no longer on my vehicle.

951
01:13:01,680 --> 01:13:06,680
So can I reach them with my gun?

952
01:13:06,680 --> 01:13:08,680
You can. You carry a battle rifle.

953
01:13:08,680 --> 01:13:11,680
Yes, battle rifle on the side.

954
01:13:11,680 --> 01:13:13,680
Let's go.

955
01:13:13,680 --> 01:13:15,680
Nice.

956
01:13:15,680 --> 01:13:17,680
Ooh.

957
01:13:17,680 --> 01:13:24,680
The higher of the two weals makes it a 17 altogether.

958
01:13:24,680 --> 01:13:30,680
Okay, so roll for your damage, and then you can take your second attack.

959
01:13:30,680 --> 01:13:34,680
So I roll 3d6.

960
01:13:34,680 --> 01:13:38,680
Are you targeting the same ones as Gigi shot?

961
01:13:38,680 --> 01:13:43,680
Whatever is closest to where I am.

962
01:13:43,680 --> 01:13:50,680
That would be the closest because you all piled in together, and you may well be able to summarily execute them with these shots.

963
01:13:50,680 --> 01:13:54,680
Hopefully we can pick some of these off. So yes, 7.

964
01:13:54,680 --> 01:13:56,680
Okay, so damage and roll the second attack.

965
01:13:56,680 --> 01:13:58,680
17 again.

966
01:13:58,680 --> 01:14:00,680
Ow.

967
01:14:00,680 --> 01:14:06,680
Man, this dice can stay.

968
01:14:06,680 --> 01:14:09,680
Nine points of damage.

969
01:14:09,680 --> 01:14:13,680
You fire in quick succession two rounds.

970
01:14:13,680 --> 01:14:24,680
Both penetrate deeply into the devil corpses that stand there and they fall lifeless to the ground.

971
01:14:24,680 --> 01:14:25,680
Steve?

972
01:14:25,680 --> 01:14:35,680
Right, just a quick check of the situation. So there's like 10-ish of them and most of them, two or three of them are down. Is that accurate?

973
01:14:35,680 --> 01:14:47,680
Two of them are down. There looked to be 10 to Ljomi. It turns out that yet more are dropping from the sky. Perhaps there are 15, 16 total with two collapsed.

974
01:14:47,680 --> 01:14:57,680
I would like to start with my new spell, Great Wrath, against one of them that is armed and yet uninjured.

975
01:14:57,680 --> 01:15:06,680
I make a wits attack roll against its will and because of Deep Minded I get an extra wheel.

976
01:15:06,680 --> 01:15:12,680
And if this works, one of them is going to join our side temporarily.

977
01:15:12,680 --> 01:15:20,680
I kind of wish I had a camera right now because you have to take my word for it that that's a 20-year-old. So plus the...

978
01:15:20,680 --> 01:15:25,680
It's alright, Steve. We believe in dark elves. It's not like you're...

979
01:15:25,680 --> 01:15:28,680
We're not prejudiced except to get your character.

980
01:15:28,680 --> 01:15:31,680
So it adds up to 28.

981
01:15:31,680 --> 01:15:47,680
You rolled very high. So it is now one of the nearest creatures in front of you, a beetling monstrosity with bulbous eyes, becomes filled with hatred for one creature or object you choose within medium range, which is presumably the person next to it.

982
01:15:47,680 --> 01:15:50,680
It's friend next to it, yeah, ideally.

983
01:15:50,680 --> 01:16:04,680
He turns his comrade to his right and instantly blasts away, whilst howling obscenities, mowing down his former companion into bloody pulp.

984
01:16:04,680 --> 01:16:25,680
OK, and I'd like that to be the trigger for my second spell, which would be Wounding Wand. And that's 16 plus... that's 22. And it takes six points of damage and any creature friendly to it has the potential to become frightened.

985
01:16:25,680 --> 01:16:27,680
That can see it.

986
01:16:27,680 --> 01:16:37,680
So your Gand spell hits another one of the creatures. It looks shocked as the sparks radiate off it.

987
01:16:37,680 --> 01:16:46,680
The creatures are, though, resistant to the fearful aspect and they continue to march forward with their storm shooters drawn.

988
01:16:46,680 --> 01:16:47,680
Bill?

989
01:16:47,680 --> 01:16:56,680
Yes, what I'm hoping to do is stop my skíðverg and in a position where I can cast Weapon Song on Alma.

990
01:16:56,680 --> 01:16:58,680
What's the range of Weapon Song?

991
01:16:58,680 --> 01:16:59,680
Within short range.

992
01:16:59,680 --> 01:17:20,680
So you're going to have to spend the go turning round, pirouetting round to slide next to Alma, all the time singing, serenading her whilst banging your vette, banging your shamanic drum. And, you know, I'm sure that everyone appreciates the melody.

993
01:17:20,680 --> 01:17:23,680
It's a woody sort of song.

994
01:17:23,680 --> 01:17:26,680
Okay, that's what I'm going to do.

995
01:17:26,680 --> 01:17:50,680
Very good. You hove into view alongside Alma, almost dazzling her in the headlights. You are then met with a rapid staccato of bullets, a symphony of macabre bullets spray indiscriminately around you.

996
01:17:50,680 --> 01:18:12,680
There are a considerable amount of these hideous devil corpses and Bill, you take 29 damage as the bullets riddle your bark and fling you from your seat with your song, threatening to go silent.

997
01:18:12,680 --> 01:18:16,680
Well, I have 21 health, so how does that count?

998
01:18:16,680 --> 01:18:28,680
That means that you have moved, I'm afraid, into the realms of instant death.

999
01:18:28,680 --> 01:18:35,680
Briefly triggering a flashback as I sink from life.

1000
01:18:35,680 --> 01:18:58,680
For the time being, you are just splinters and wood pulp flying into the air and the remnants of your form slump onto the skete bed that continues slowly along its way towards the darkness.

1001
01:18:58,680 --> 01:19:04,680
Well, this just got serious.

1002
01:19:04,680 --> 01:19:06,680
Pretty damn.

1003
01:19:06,680 --> 01:19:35,680
I should point out that the two creatures that you have just felled and killed, now stand up, lurch back onto their haunches and lumber up their guns ready to fire. The Orcneas are not so easily slain.

1004
01:19:35,680 --> 01:19:37,680
Yeah, a bit of a bummer.

1005
01:19:37,680 --> 01:19:40,680
It's getting complicated.

1006
01:19:40,680 --> 01:19:43,680
Fast turns or slow turns?

1007
01:19:43,680 --> 01:19:47,680
Can I ask questions about the rules?

1008
01:19:47,680 --> 01:19:51,680
Bit late for that now, Terry.

1009
01:19:51,680 --> 01:19:54,680
How long does a round last?

1010
01:19:54,680 --> 01:19:56,680
10 seconds, I think.

1011
01:19:56,680 --> 01:19:58,680
Oh, okay, that's not bad.

1012
01:19:58,680 --> 01:20:00,680
Okay.

1013
01:20:00,680 --> 01:20:04,680
Let me look that up and say so more authoritatively.

1014
01:20:04,680 --> 01:20:05,680
Okay.

1015
01:20:05,680 --> 01:20:08,680
You always say things authoritatively.

1016
01:20:08,680 --> 01:20:10,680
Yeah, you sounded very convincing when you said that.

1017
01:20:10,680 --> 01:20:11,680
Sometimes they're correct.

1018
01:20:11,680 --> 01:20:14,680
That's the entire basis of my career.

1019
01:20:14,680 --> 01:20:17,680
Mine too.

1020
01:20:17,680 --> 01:20:25,680
Because what I want to do is runes.

1021
01:20:25,680 --> 01:20:27,680
How long do runes take to cast?

1022
01:20:27,680 --> 01:20:29,680
One rune.

1023
01:20:29,680 --> 01:20:34,680
Any of your spells can be cast as an action in that rune.

1024
01:20:34,680 --> 01:20:37,680
I want to cast a Wave Runes

1025
01:20:37,680 --> 01:20:39,680
Gives us a bit of protection.

1026
01:20:39,680 --> 01:20:42,680
That will create a moveable barrier.

1027
01:20:42,680 --> 01:20:44,680
Great idea.

1028
01:20:44,680 --> 01:20:46,680
A bit late.

1029
01:20:46,680 --> 01:20:51,680
Yeah, but I was out in front of everyone.

1030
01:20:51,680 --> 01:20:54,680
Doing fancy moves on your own.

1031
01:20:54,680 --> 01:21:00,680
And Terry, I am going to let you do that, but you have to spend a round coming back

1032
01:21:00,680 --> 01:21:03,680
because you were one round ahead.

1033
01:21:03,680 --> 01:21:06,680
You had propelled yourself at some speed.

1034
01:21:06,680 --> 01:21:12,680
So you can pivot, you can turn, you can return, and next round I will enable you to cast Wave Runes

1035
01:21:12,680 --> 01:21:17,680
and create some kind of runic barrier to protect your confidence.

1036
01:21:17,680 --> 01:21:22,680
Okay, yeah, I should, because I pivoted in the last round, I should be in the right direction.

1037
01:21:22,680 --> 01:21:30,680
So all I should be doing is spurring my skíðverg, spurring it and getting it into range

1038
01:21:30,680 --> 01:21:37,680
where I can cover everyone in that three-yard or three-meter radius where I can cast that Wave Runes.

1039
01:21:37,680 --> 01:21:45,680
Megan Fjords response to that is, I suppose you want me to go faster, do you?

1040
01:21:45,680 --> 01:21:49,680
Yeah, get on with it.

1041
01:21:49,680 --> 01:22:00,680
The remaining trio who are kind of back-to-back surrounded by the Orcneas foe, what do you want to do?

1042
01:22:00,680 --> 01:22:08,680
Gigi is holding one of the Dverg in front of himself, the Dverg shield,

1043
01:22:08,680 --> 01:22:11,680
and then take another fast action and just spray some more lead.

1044
01:22:11,680 --> 01:22:13,680
Give me a roll

1045
01:22:13,680 --> 01:22:21,680
Feel free to do so contemporaneously, and same with Eir, give me your best shots.

1046
01:22:21,680 --> 01:22:27,680
Does that get the benefit of the song I was in the middle of singing, the extra 1d6?

1047
01:22:27,680 --> 01:22:33,680
Your song became an elegy.

1048
01:22:33,680 --> 01:22:37,680
You know, it's still annoying even when you're so eloquent.

1049
01:22:37,680 --> 01:22:43,680
I just want to make that clear.

1050
01:22:43,680 --> 01:22:45,680
19 damage.

1051
01:22:45,680 --> 01:22:49,680
That a boy.

1052
01:22:49,680 --> 01:22:54,680
Well, they're hot, so I get even more extra bonuses. It's nice.

1053
01:22:54,680 --> 01:23:00,680
He's yelling, eat this, you bastards.

1054
01:23:00,680 --> 01:23:08,680
Well, it's spew from your storm shooter scattering your wrath all around the Orcneas in front of you,

1055
01:23:08,680 --> 01:23:10,680
standing in the headlights.

1056
01:23:10,680 --> 01:23:15,680
You can see them stagger back into the darkness outside of the bright beams.

1057
01:23:15,680 --> 01:23:17,680
Annina?

1058
01:23:17,680 --> 01:23:26,680
So, I rolled 7 plus a 3, so 10.

1059
01:23:26,680 --> 01:23:29,680
Don't think that's going to hit anything.

1060
01:23:29,680 --> 01:23:37,680
You blast this time. You shoot wide, your battle rifle blasting the darkness.

1061
01:23:37,680 --> 01:23:40,680
Another roll?

1062
01:23:40,680 --> 01:23:49,680
So you can make a different attack against a different target.

1063
01:23:49,680 --> 01:23:58,680
7. She sneezed while she was trying to shoot.

1064
01:23:58,680 --> 01:24:02,680
That's exactly what they teach at the Ironwoodite Military Academy.

1065
01:24:02,680 --> 01:24:08,680
Maybe she should tell the Orcneas about his silver medal.

1066
01:24:08,680 --> 01:24:10,680
It's coming. It's coming.

1067
01:24:10,680 --> 01:24:12,680
Steve, where you going?

1068
01:24:12,680 --> 01:24:18,680
I would like to choose three baddies within medium range who are holding weapons

1069
01:24:18,680 --> 01:24:24,680
and use a spell to command them to ideally drop their weapons.

1070
01:24:24,680 --> 01:24:31,680
Do you have to make a slight roll with 2 plus 3 woes or drop their weapons?

1071
01:24:31,680 --> 01:24:34,680
That new body's doing you wonder, Steve.

1072
01:24:34,680 --> 01:24:39,680
Thank you. And it's sparkly.

1073
01:24:39,680 --> 01:24:45,680
Okay, three of the creatures, thick-set and burly with gorilla-like arms,

1074
01:24:45,680 --> 01:24:53,680
drop their weapons into the snow, and each of the frozen colossi

1075
01:24:53,680 --> 01:25:00,680
now are forced to rend at you with their claws.

1076
01:25:00,680 --> 01:25:08,680
First of all, there is another bullet of bullets with a powerful roar.

1077
01:25:08,680 --> 01:25:16,680
Various machine guns. Fire. CJ, make a roll for me.

1078
01:25:16,680 --> 01:25:20,680
A Sleight roll. You can add two weals for cover.

1079
01:25:20,680 --> 01:25:23,680
And I'm also wearing a bulletproof vest. Does that help?

1080
01:25:23,680 --> 01:25:26,680
That will reduce your damage by half as it comes in.

1081
01:25:26,680 --> 01:25:28,680
That's good. 17.

1082
01:25:28,680 --> 01:25:36,680
17 is enough to take half damage from a variety of machine guns that come your way.

1083
01:25:36,680 --> 01:25:41,680
Okay, so 21 damage total. You take half of that rounded down.

1084
01:25:41,680 --> 01:25:52,680
Eir, the creatures that you, using your Seidr spells on, no longer have guns, but they leap at you,

1085
01:25:52,680 --> 01:26:00,680
veiny, skinnery, and rotting, pummeling at you.

1086
01:26:00,680 --> 01:26:04,680
Is one of them attacking? One of the other ones is attacking his friends, right?

1087
01:26:04,680 --> 01:26:09,680
Sure, but there's a swarm of these things. There's 16 of them.

1088
01:26:09,680 --> 01:26:18,680
It's on the list of problems. And you take 19 damage.

1089
01:26:18,680 --> 01:26:21,680
That's a large number.

1090
01:26:21,680 --> 01:26:29,680
19, huh? 19 plus 9 is a lot.

1091
01:26:29,680 --> 01:26:32,680
Too much, one might say.

1092
01:26:32,680 --> 01:26:34,680
What was your health?

1093
01:26:34,680 --> 01:26:42,680
My health is 21, and I've taken a total of 28 so far.

1094
01:26:42,680 --> 01:26:45,680
Then give me a fate roll.

1095
01:26:45,680 --> 01:26:48,680
Die six.

1096
01:26:48,680 --> 01:26:50,680
Four.

1097
01:26:50,680 --> 01:26:56,680
Four. On the fate roll, you lapse into unconsciousness.

1098
01:26:56,680 --> 01:26:58,680
I'm okay with that.

1099
01:26:58,680 --> 01:27:04,680
You are going to be unconscious for the next die six minutes. Let's just call that a roll.

1100
01:27:04,680 --> 01:27:12,680
For the next five minutes, you are unconscious as the fetid feet of the Orcneas troop trample around you,

1101
01:27:12,680 --> 01:27:19,680
the guns pointed at the two stalwart survivors who stand cropping up their skíðverg

1102
01:27:19,680 --> 01:27:22,680
And that's alliteration.

1103
01:27:22,680 --> 01:27:27,680
Even for us, this battle is going quite poorly.

1104
01:27:27,680 --> 01:27:37,680
At this point, seeing Eir falling on the ground and Gigi has his nervous tick.

1105
01:27:37,680 --> 01:27:44,680
A grenade rolls itself underneath Alma's feet.

1106
01:27:44,680 --> 01:27:46,680
Oh no.

1107
01:27:46,680 --> 01:27:49,680
Uh, cannot duck and cover.

1108
01:27:49,680 --> 01:27:54,680
I like the air cords there.

1109
01:27:54,680 --> 01:28:00,680
You don't want it.

1110
01:28:00,680 --> 01:28:09,680
A large electromagnetic pulse erupts from the grenade and all of the skíðverg go silent.

1111
01:28:09,680 --> 01:28:19,680
Just as enough of a blast radius from the EMP pulse that Terry Villiblom and Megan Fjart also come to an abrupt halt.

1112
01:28:19,680 --> 01:28:22,680
Give me a Sleight roll, please.

1113
01:28:22,680 --> 01:28:26,680
Sleight. You can say that again, Terry.

1114
01:28:26,680 --> 01:28:29,680
I rolled a 17.

1115
01:28:29,680 --> 01:28:40,680
That's good. So you managed to deal with the rather abrupt halt to your engine and slide the skíðverg

1116
01:28:40,680 --> 01:28:48,680
Now it's prattling ceased, and you stand next to the two of your fellows here,

1117
01:28:48,680 --> 01:28:58,680
your visor clearly spotting at least 15 of these creatures emerging unscathed from the gloom.

1118
01:28:58,680 --> 01:29:05,680
Well, at least my Skíðverg have shut up. There's one benefit.

1119
01:29:05,680 --> 01:29:09,680
Silver lining and all that.

1120
01:29:09,680 --> 01:29:14,680
Three of you are alive and conscious. Do you want to take fast turns or slow turns?

1121
01:29:14,680 --> 01:29:23,680
I want to cast my waves rune with the three. Is it still three who are up and running?

1122
01:29:23,680 --> 01:29:27,680
Are they within a three meter radius of me?

1123
01:29:27,680 --> 01:29:34,680
Three yard radius they are indeed. So you could carve your protective runes along the circumference of Megan Fiat,

1124
01:29:34,680 --> 01:29:40,680
your powered down Skíðverg, and then any number of creatures that you choose,

1125
01:29:40,680 --> 01:29:49,680
including the unconscious air you could designate as able to freely move and make attacks through the barrier.

1126
01:29:49,680 --> 01:29:53,680
No other creature would be able to attack you for the next minute.

1127
01:29:53,680 --> 01:29:55,680
Yep, that's what I'm going to do.

1128
01:29:55,680 --> 01:30:07,680
And so I quickly carved my rune around the circumference of Megan Fjart and shout the names, I suppose, of the people,

1129
01:30:07,680 --> 01:30:13,680
or the beings, should I say, who will be able to move freely and make attacks within it.

1130
01:30:13,680 --> 01:30:20,680
OK, you are temporarily protected. You have one minute to make the best use of it.

1131
01:30:20,680 --> 01:30:25,680
Ten rounds. I'll mark them off after the next round.

1132
01:30:25,680 --> 01:30:31,680
I say we are protected. Kill those within the barrier.

1133
01:30:31,680 --> 01:30:36,680
I'll take a fast turn. That's allowable.

1134
01:30:36,680 --> 01:30:40,680
I think fast on everything is a really good choice at this point.

1135
01:30:40,680 --> 01:30:44,680
Said the voice of a dead person in your head.

1136
01:30:44,680 --> 01:30:47,680
Feel your aura.

1137
01:30:47,680 --> 01:30:55,680
OK, which of us closest is getting aimed at right now?

1138
01:30:55,680 --> 01:30:58,680
Ooh, 25.

1139
01:30:58,680 --> 01:31:06,680
Very good. That will enable you to take an extra attack as well. So make two more attacks and blast away.

1140
01:31:06,680 --> 01:31:09,680
Fantastic.

1141
01:31:09,680 --> 01:31:16,680
Gigi, feel free to augment the ballet of rapid fire in the background.

1142
01:31:16,680 --> 01:31:18,680
I'm laughing.

1143
01:31:18,680 --> 01:31:22,680
Six points of damage for the first one.

1144
01:31:22,680 --> 01:31:28,680
That one is only an 11. I doubt that hits.

1145
01:31:28,680 --> 01:31:31,680
Nine for the last one.

1146
01:31:31,680 --> 01:31:35,680
One out of three hit.

1147
01:31:35,680 --> 01:31:38,680
One out of three aimed at.

1148
01:31:38,680 --> 01:31:42,680
So I was thinking of taking a slow turn and using...

1149
01:31:42,680 --> 01:31:45,680
I'm just going to throw this by you first to see if it works.

1150
01:31:45,680 --> 01:31:51,680
If I take a slow turn, does that mean I can use analgesics on air and get them back up and fighting?

1151
01:31:51,680 --> 01:31:57,680
And then also shoot off one bullet or two or however many I can?

1152
01:31:57,680 --> 01:32:02,680
No, you can move closer to air and use analgesics, but you can't fire at the same time.

1153
01:32:02,680 --> 01:32:03,680
Analgesics is an action.

1154
01:32:03,680 --> 01:32:06,680
But he won the silver medal, Ian.

1155
01:32:06,680 --> 01:32:10,680
Yeah.

1156
01:32:10,680 --> 01:32:18,680
I'm just that I'm weighing in my head. Should I just keep firing off more damage or get air back up and running since he can get them to fight each other?

1157
01:32:18,680 --> 01:32:29,680
I'm going to use analgesics on Eir and burn up my turn doing that so that he can keep casting whatever odd spells he's got going on.

1158
01:32:29,680 --> 01:32:35,680
Because Gigi is realizing it doesn't matter how much lead I pump these things full of, they're still getting up and they're still fighting.

1159
01:32:35,680 --> 01:32:36,680
Oh, that's a good point.

1160
01:32:36,680 --> 01:32:40,680
So we need to... it's just an exercise in futility.

1161
01:32:40,680 --> 01:32:46,680
So he goes and gets air back up and says, use your spells, sir.

1162
01:32:46,680 --> 01:32:49,680
Good ones.

1163
01:32:49,680 --> 01:32:52,680
You beautiful bastard.

1164
01:32:52,680 --> 01:32:54,680
What rank of spell are you casting?

1165
01:32:54,680 --> 01:32:57,680
I'll be back.

1166
01:32:57,680 --> 01:32:58,680
For analgesics?

1167
01:32:58,680 --> 01:32:59,680
Two.

1168
01:32:59,680 --> 01:33:01,680
You've lost your Terminator.

1169
01:33:01,680 --> 01:33:05,680
Yeah. Nice work, CJ. You scared off the guest.

1170
01:33:05,680 --> 01:33:10,680
He goes, I'll be back.

1171
01:33:10,680 --> 01:33:11,680
Was it something I said?

1172
01:33:11,680 --> 01:33:12,680
Probably.

1173
01:33:12,680 --> 01:33:16,680
If you're using a rank one spell, he gets one dice six. If you use a rank three spell, he gets two dice six.

1174
01:33:16,680 --> 01:33:19,680
I'm going to do two.

1175
01:33:19,680 --> 01:33:22,680
We're bringing him back to life.

1176
01:33:22,680 --> 01:33:26,680
Back to life, you beautiful thing.

1177
01:33:26,680 --> 01:33:28,680
I got six, but also one.

1178
01:33:28,680 --> 01:33:33,680
Once I'm dead, the real feelings start coming out.

1179
01:33:33,680 --> 01:33:34,680
Who?

1180
01:33:34,680 --> 01:33:46,680
You leap to the aid of the fallen dökkálfar and bring him into a semblance of consciousness.

1181
01:33:46,680 --> 01:33:52,680
Is that seven points counted from where air was or from his maximum?

1182
01:33:52,680 --> 01:33:54,680
Because he was beyond maximum.

1183
01:33:54,680 --> 01:33:57,680
There's no negative numbers on this.

1184
01:33:57,680 --> 01:34:02,680
So you went to zero and so now you are on plus.

1185
01:34:02,680 --> 01:34:04,680
Plus three points.

1186
01:34:04,680 --> 01:34:06,680
So I'm at 14.

1187
01:34:06,680 --> 01:34:08,680
Yeah, 14 damage.

1188
01:34:08,680 --> 01:34:09,680
Okay.

1189
01:34:09,680 --> 01:34:12,680
We have a problem.

1190
01:34:12,680 --> 01:34:21,680
We have a because in order for analgesics to work, the creature that I touched must have one or more honor.

1191
01:34:21,680 --> 01:34:34,680
See, now CJ, here's a point of order. When this sort of thing happens and the GM has not picked up on it, you don't go and highlight it for him.

1192
01:34:34,680 --> 01:34:53,680
I think honesty and integrity are a key part of the Varangian code. And so, yes, while you might try and use God's given powers to heal your fallen friend, because he's such a shitbag, it doesn't work.

1193
01:34:53,680 --> 01:35:00,680
But wouldn't Jeezy have known that too? So couldn't I swap it out for Song of Praise and do a 1d6?

1194
01:35:00,680 --> 01:35:01,680
Sure.

1195
01:35:01,680 --> 01:35:02,680
Yay.

1196
01:35:02,680 --> 01:35:07,680
There you go. That's how you deal with the GM. Just don't listen for a minute or two.

1197
01:35:07,680 --> 01:35:13,680
While I coach our young friend into lying.

1198
01:35:13,680 --> 01:35:17,680
No, it's more in-court procedures.

1199
01:35:17,680 --> 01:35:23,680
Instead of seven points, you only get two.

1200
01:35:23,680 --> 01:35:24,680
Two?

1201
01:35:24,680 --> 01:35:25,680
I'm very sorry.

1202
01:35:25,680 --> 01:35:26,680
I mean, you're alive.

1203
01:35:26,680 --> 01:35:27,680
Yeah, I'm smoking.

1204
01:35:27,680 --> 01:35:30,680
Sounds like quite a lot from where I'm lying in splinters.

1205
01:35:30,680 --> 01:35:39,680
And as we know, CJ is forever linked to the number two.

1206
01:35:39,680 --> 01:35:44,680
I don't know why. It's such a cheap joke. I don't know why you guys seem to make me laugh.

1207
01:35:44,680 --> 01:35:45,680
Even for us.

1208
01:35:45,680 --> 01:35:49,680
That was below the level.

1209
01:35:49,680 --> 01:35:53,680
I should have my Noxious Smell ability.

1210
01:35:53,680 --> 01:35:55,680
I think he kind of does, you know?

1211
01:35:55,680 --> 01:35:57,680
He didn't get to change.

1212
01:35:57,680 --> 01:35:58,680
He didn't get to change.

1213
01:35:58,680 --> 01:36:03,680
Lying in the snow, probably what attracted the Orcneas Paratroopers.

1214
01:36:03,680 --> 01:36:22,680
Anyway, those said Orcneas Paratroopers, recognizing that spellcraft has been deployed in the rooms that crackle to life and protect you, they all begin to retreat into the darkness.

1215
01:36:22,680 --> 01:36:23,680
Bummer.

1216
01:36:23,680 --> 01:36:25,680
Take that.

1217
01:36:25,680 --> 01:36:27,680
And another thing.

1218
01:36:27,680 --> 01:36:31,680
Chase after them.

1219
01:36:31,680 --> 01:36:33,680
So did you say chase after them?

1220
01:36:33,680 --> 01:36:34,680
Shoot.

1221
01:36:34,680 --> 01:36:35,680
Shooter.

1222
01:36:35,680 --> 01:36:37,680
Look behind you.

1223
01:36:37,680 --> 01:36:58,680
The challenge is for you is that they have gone beyond medium range and so while you're sightless enables you perfect clarity in the immediate environments doesn't work in the black depths of the icy tundra in the middle of the polar night.

1224
01:36:58,680 --> 01:37:00,680
Will I be using awareness?

1225
01:37:00,680 --> 01:37:09,680
No, when you when you make your rolls to attack, you're going to do so with two woes because they're heavily obscured.

1226
01:37:09,680 --> 01:37:10,680
Oh, okay.

1227
01:37:10,680 --> 01:37:11,680
Right.

1228
01:37:11,680 --> 01:37:12,680
I see.

1229
01:37:12,680 --> 01:37:13,680
Okay.

1230
01:37:13,680 --> 01:37:14,680
Yeah.

1231
01:37:14,680 --> 01:37:17,680
So I rolled me d20.

1232
01:37:17,680 --> 01:37:18,680
Oh, great.

1233
01:37:18,680 --> 01:37:19,680
I think you mean Terry.

1234
01:37:19,680 --> 01:37:24,680
Oh, wow.

1235
01:37:24,680 --> 01:37:26,680
Well, I rolled a one.

1236
01:37:26,680 --> 01:37:28,680
No, no.

1237
01:37:28,680 --> 01:37:31,680
Well, I said the total should I say is one.

1238
01:37:31,680 --> 01:37:33,680
So I rolled a seven.

1239
01:37:33,680 --> 01:37:35,680
And then one of my woes was a six.

1240
01:37:35,680 --> 01:37:37,680
And that's a total of one.

1241
01:37:37,680 --> 01:37:42,680
I spray a few bullets after him but I can't really see what I'm doing.

1242
01:37:42,680 --> 01:37:46,680
It's basically just a yeah, bog off you lot.

1243
01:37:46,680 --> 01:37:52,680
The night is dark and full of terrors.

1244
01:37:52,680 --> 01:38:00,680
Could we get the bag of moving again and perhaps return to Hjálpmakaar for reinforcements to warn them of what's coming?

1245
01:38:00,680 --> 01:38:04,680
Can I get any more shots in before they're outside?

1246
01:38:04,680 --> 01:38:06,680
Maybe we should get you me up.

1247
01:38:06,680 --> 01:38:07,680
I'm just saying.

1248
01:38:07,680 --> 01:38:08,680
Oh, yes.

1249
01:38:08,680 --> 01:38:14,680
Or start a fire, you know, anything that can be done.

1250
01:38:14,680 --> 01:38:15,680
Someone help me.

1251
01:38:15,680 --> 01:38:17,680
I know.

1252
01:38:17,680 --> 01:38:23,680
Despite his horrible attitude, air still feels some misguided affection.

1253
01:38:23,680 --> 01:38:24,680
What were you thinking?

1254
01:38:24,680 --> 01:38:27,680
Just reporting him.

1255
01:38:27,680 --> 01:38:29,680
It's not a bad choice.

1256
01:38:29,680 --> 01:38:33,680
I mean, kind of pretty much some fertilizer.

1257
01:38:33,680 --> 01:38:34,680
Yeah.

1258
01:38:34,680 --> 01:38:35,680
Oh, yeah.

1259
01:38:35,680 --> 01:38:37,680
Gigi fertilizer.

1260
01:38:37,680 --> 01:38:40,680
Can you help us out here?

1261
01:38:40,680 --> 01:38:42,680
Too late.

1262
01:38:42,680 --> 01:38:47,680
Oh, days ago.

1263
01:38:47,680 --> 01:38:52,680
Are any of them still in my rifle range?

1264
01:38:52,680 --> 01:38:54,680
Yes, you can shoot up to long range.

1265
01:38:54,680 --> 01:39:00,680
So while they are retreating, you can try and pick some off.

1266
01:39:00,680 --> 01:39:02,680
I will try that.

1267
01:39:02,680 --> 01:39:04,680
And you do have a scope.

1268
01:39:04,680 --> 01:39:05,680
I do.

1269
01:39:05,680 --> 01:39:09,680
Yeah, I get extreme range.

1270
01:39:09,680 --> 01:39:10,680
Nice.

1271
01:39:10,680 --> 01:39:12,680
21.

1272
01:39:12,680 --> 01:39:15,680
Well, two more times for your attacks.

1273
01:39:15,680 --> 01:39:20,680
You're effectively cowered down behind the defunct skíðverg,

1274
01:39:20,680 --> 01:39:26,680
taking pot shots at long range to try and pick off any stragglers

1275
01:39:26,680 --> 01:39:29,680
at the very edge of your night vision.

1276
01:39:29,680 --> 01:39:31,680
Less to deal with later.

1277
01:39:31,680 --> 01:39:34,680
Ten points of damage for the first shot.

1278
01:39:34,680 --> 01:39:40,680
Surely a great warrior and shot would not be cowered, but would maybe be

1279
01:39:40,680 --> 01:39:43,680
hunkered down to aid her aim.

1280
01:39:43,680 --> 01:39:49,680
I stand corrected, Terry, by your superior use of the English language.

1281
01:39:49,680 --> 01:39:51,680
The next one's 14.

1282
01:39:51,680 --> 01:39:53,680
Take him to task.

1283
01:39:53,680 --> 01:39:54,680
OK.

1284
01:39:54,680 --> 01:40:00,680
These are significant shots that fly straight and true

1285
01:40:00,680 --> 01:40:05,680
and impact with velocity on the necrotic flesh,

1286
01:40:05,680 --> 01:40:10,680
splattering the tundra with gore.

1287
01:40:10,680 --> 01:40:13,680
The one that Eir...

1288
01:40:13,680 --> 01:40:14,680
What's the word?

1289
01:40:14,680 --> 01:40:20,680
...is running after his comrades, howling like a banshee,

1290
01:40:20,680 --> 01:40:23,680
trying to rip them apart from his claws.

1291
01:40:23,680 --> 01:40:24,680
Wonderful.

1292
01:40:24,680 --> 01:40:26,680
That's what you like to see.

1293
01:40:26,680 --> 01:40:30,680
Yeah.

1294
01:40:30,680 --> 01:40:33,680
The second shot, fabric wise, was...

1295
01:40:33,680 --> 01:40:35,680
50? 40.

1296
01:40:35,680 --> 01:40:41,680
The third Orcneas is killed somewhere in the darkness

1297
01:40:41,680 --> 01:40:43,680
and lands with a thud.

1298
01:40:43,680 --> 01:40:45,680
I rolled another 20.

1299
01:40:45,680 --> 01:40:47,680
I rolled 26.

1300
01:40:47,680 --> 01:40:49,680
Ow.

1301
01:40:49,680 --> 01:40:51,680
Do I get a fourth shot?

1302
01:40:51,680 --> 01:40:54,680
It must have gone through three of them, like one shot.

1303
01:40:54,680 --> 01:40:55,680
Yeah.

1304
01:40:55,680 --> 01:40:57,680
You see what I'm doing there, CJ?

1305
01:40:57,680 --> 01:40:58,680
Yeah.

1306
01:40:58,680 --> 01:41:00,680
I'm bargaining up.

1307
01:41:00,680 --> 01:41:01,680
Yeah.

1308
01:41:01,680 --> 01:41:03,680
Not working, but that's what I'm doing.

1309
01:41:03,680 --> 01:41:04,680
I like it.

1310
01:41:04,680 --> 01:41:06,680
That is 16 points of damage.

1311
01:41:06,680 --> 01:41:08,680
It's impressive.

1312
01:41:08,680 --> 01:41:14,680
Somewhere out there is a fallen foe scrabbling across the tundra.

1313
01:41:14,680 --> 01:41:17,680
I'm guessing I don't get a fourth shot.

1314
01:41:17,680 --> 01:41:18,680
Yeah.

1315
01:41:18,680 --> 01:41:19,680
Worth a try.

1316
01:41:19,680 --> 01:41:23,680
You've been learning from the Bill's school of roleplaying, haven't you?

1317
01:41:23,680 --> 01:41:26,680
I mean...

1318
01:41:26,680 --> 01:41:28,680
We have a rule.

1319
01:41:28,680 --> 01:41:34,680
Only one of us gets to harangue the DM once per session.

1320
01:41:34,680 --> 01:41:36,680
Should we start doing that rule?

1321
01:41:36,680 --> 01:41:38,680
Nah.

1322
01:41:38,680 --> 01:41:41,680
CJ, did you have anything you wanted to do?

1323
01:41:41,680 --> 01:41:45,680
Again, this ring of Orcneas has receded.

1324
01:41:45,680 --> 01:41:51,680
They've clearly taken positions away from your runic defense.

1325
01:41:51,680 --> 01:41:56,680
But you do get the sense, Alma, with your keen senses.

1326
01:41:56,680 --> 01:42:00,680
You can smell the rotting corpses.

1327
01:42:00,680 --> 01:42:03,680
They are all out there somewhere.

1328
01:42:03,680 --> 01:42:12,680
And you realize that not only are you outgunned, you are also outranged.

1329
01:42:12,680 --> 01:42:14,680
So we're still in combat?

1330
01:42:14,680 --> 01:42:18,680
They've retreated, but they're not...

1331
01:42:18,680 --> 01:42:22,680
And all the Dverg are out of commission?

1332
01:42:22,680 --> 01:42:24,680
We can't ride them away?

1333
01:42:24,680 --> 01:42:32,680
The Dverg have been hit by an EMP and have been disrupted for a significant period of time.

1334
01:42:32,680 --> 01:42:37,680
They can be repowered, but it's going to require some effort to do so.

1335
01:42:37,680 --> 01:42:40,680
The same with your drone, I should say.

1336
01:42:40,680 --> 01:42:48,680
The drone is also plunked to the ground, hit by the magnetic barrage.

1337
01:42:48,680 --> 01:42:51,680
He plumbs over and scoops it up.

1338
01:42:51,680 --> 01:42:54,680
Oh, look after!

1339
01:42:54,680 --> 01:42:57,680
Do we have a flare gun?

1340
01:42:57,680 --> 01:43:00,680
We have flare guns?

1341
01:43:00,680 --> 01:43:07,680
Do we have a flare gun? Something to hurl the flares high in the air to alert...

1342
01:43:07,680 --> 01:43:19,680
You know, because it's dark, and so we could alert a settlement nearby that we're in trouble.

1343
01:43:19,680 --> 01:43:24,680
Have all of the enemies that fell got back up?

1344
01:43:24,680 --> 01:43:29,680
I thought you said that some of them got back up. Did they all get back up?

1345
01:43:29,680 --> 01:43:44,680
As best you can tell, all of the creatures in some length of time, some immediately, some after a few minutes, they stand up and move off into the darkness.

1346
01:43:44,680 --> 01:43:48,680
So a physical attack, a magic attack, makes no difference?

1347
01:43:48,680 --> 01:43:54,680
Well, we could try beheading them and seeing whether that kills them.

1348
01:43:54,680 --> 01:43:57,680
So anything down, maybe some of you can behead it.

1349
01:43:57,680 --> 01:44:12,680
My plan was to cast Gun Hawk at the next available time, because that lasts for four hours, and then make the suggestion that perhaps we behead any fallen foes.

1350
01:44:12,680 --> 01:44:23,680
And in the meantime, while you're doing that and anything else that you want to do, like hunting for flares and whatever, I'll get working on the skíðverg to get them operational again.

1351
01:44:23,680 --> 01:44:33,680
Eir, we'll take a moment to meditate, like one action, meditate, get back some health and get back a spell, and then we'll... I don't know.

1352
01:44:33,680 --> 01:44:38,680
Are we surrounded? Like, is it... are they all on one side?

1353
01:44:38,680 --> 01:44:40,680
It sounds like we're surrounded.

1354
01:44:40,680 --> 01:44:44,680
They retreated, but they've not gone. They're just of range.

1355
01:44:44,680 --> 01:44:50,680
So are they in one direction, or are we completely surrounded, like they're in a ring around us?

1356
01:44:50,680 --> 01:44:52,680
That's what I understood.

1357
01:44:52,680 --> 01:44:55,680
Aren't they half-circled? That's what I thought.

1358
01:44:55,680 --> 01:44:57,680
Is it a half-circle or a full circle?

1359
01:44:57,680 --> 01:45:14,680
Impossible for you to tell in the darkness, but you would surmise as militaristic types acquainted with warfare, that elite troops like these would find high ground, or if they couldn't find high ground, they would attempt to encircle you.

1360
01:45:14,680 --> 01:45:18,680
That being a classic military tactic.

1361
01:45:18,680 --> 01:45:21,680
So we need to break through part of the circle.

1362
01:45:21,680 --> 01:45:26,680
They're waiting for us, just out of...

1363
01:45:26,680 --> 01:45:29,680
Does our protective thing move with us?

1364
01:45:29,680 --> 01:45:42,680
No, no, it stays with my skid skirt, and it only lasts a minute, so they're likely to regroup and attack.

1365
01:45:42,680 --> 01:45:43,680
This is fine.

1366
01:45:43,680 --> 01:45:56,680
So that's why I cast Gun Hawk immediately, and now I am, as quickly as I can, working individually on each of the skid skirts to get them back up.

1367
01:45:56,680 --> 01:46:01,680
So we're still technically in combat.

1368
01:46:01,680 --> 01:46:10,680
Can I cast Analgesics on myself to recover some hit points?

1369
01:46:10,680 --> 01:46:13,680
I just want to get my health up because I'm going to do something silly.

1370
01:46:13,680 --> 01:46:17,680
For the record, I have a lot of healing spells.

1371
01:46:17,680 --> 01:46:19,680
You're dead.

1372
01:46:19,680 --> 01:46:21,680
You know what you will.

1373
01:46:21,680 --> 01:46:43,680
So the seconds tick away as Villibondlom begins to tinker with his skíðverg to try and get it operational. The rest of you keep a close eye, a close ear out for any signs of the Orcneas paratroopers.

1374
01:46:43,680 --> 01:46:57,680
Then slowly you start to hear the rattle of fire and bullets from the plink, plink, and then crash into the speed burn.

1375
01:46:57,680 --> 01:47:03,680
I'm going to ask you, all, to make another Sleight roll.

1376
01:47:03,680 --> 01:47:07,680
I refuse to.

1377
01:47:07,680 --> 01:47:08,680
That's to fight the power.

1378
01:47:08,680 --> 01:47:14,680
There are at least 15 submachine guns.

1379
01:47:14,680 --> 01:47:23,680
You are caught in a hail of chaos, a crossfire of death.

1380
01:47:23,680 --> 01:47:28,680
Can I take the, as soon as we hear the plink plinks, can we take cover?

1381
01:47:28,680 --> 01:47:32,680
Can I become invisible and take cover? Heroically?

1382
01:47:32,680 --> 01:47:36,680
Can I duck and cover? Is that a trigger action?

1383
01:47:36,680 --> 01:47:44,680
I think ducking under CJ and covering under his cloak is bad.

1384
01:47:44,680 --> 01:47:47,680
So we're doing a Sleight roll.

1385
01:47:47,680 --> 01:47:49,680
You're doing a Sleight roll.

1386
01:47:49,680 --> 01:47:55,680
I'm after 17 and I'm holding up with dvergr and I have my bulletproof jacket.

1387
01:47:55,680 --> 01:47:57,680
Terry, what did you roll?

1388
01:47:57,680 --> 01:48:17,680
Well, I attempted to duck under my skíðverg, but unfortunately as I was diving forwards, I banged my head on the side and ended up draped across it and rolled a three.

1389
01:48:17,680 --> 01:48:21,680
That's wonderful. Terry, you take 45 damage.

1390
01:48:21,680 --> 01:48:24,680
Oh no.

1391
01:48:24,680 --> 01:48:30,680
CJ, you made your roll, so your is going to be 23 damage.

1392
01:48:30,680 --> 01:48:32,680
Annina, did you make your roll?

1393
01:48:32,680 --> 01:48:38,680
I did. I was hoping to use ducking cover, the thingy I have.

1394
01:48:38,680 --> 01:48:41,680
But I rolled a five.

1395
01:48:41,680 --> 01:48:43,680
Oh my word.

1396
01:48:43,680 --> 01:48:48,680
45 damage for you and...

1397
01:48:48,680 --> 01:48:50,680
Wait, so was mine halved?

1398
01:48:50,680 --> 01:48:56,680
Yours was halved. I gave you 21, my heart rate was 22.

1399
01:48:56,680 --> 01:49:00,680
CJ, what did you roll?

1400
01:49:00,680 --> 01:49:09,680
Well, so Eir dove to the ground and tried to take cover, but then accidentally stood up and held up a giant sign that said, shoot me now.

1401
01:49:09,680 --> 01:49:12,680
Negative one.

1402
01:49:12,680 --> 01:49:14,680
Okay, you can take 67 damage.

1403
01:49:14,680 --> 01:49:17,680
Oh my god.

1404
01:49:17,680 --> 01:49:20,680
CJ, what did you do?

1405
01:49:20,680 --> 01:49:28,680
So I rolled a 17 so that I succeeded in the save, plus I have my thing that cuts it in half, but I only got cut in half in the total.

1406
01:49:28,680 --> 01:49:31,680
You can cut it in half once.

1407
01:49:31,680 --> 01:49:34,680
I'm dead.

1408
01:49:34,680 --> 01:49:37,680
To sum it up.

1409
01:49:37,680 --> 01:49:41,680
Gigi's getting hit with the bullets. And then of course, it's one last time.

1410
01:49:41,680 --> 01:49:44,680
To Valhalla!

1411
01:49:44,680 --> 01:49:46,680
I hope so.

1412
01:49:46,680 --> 01:49:49,680
Wow.

1413
01:49:49,680 --> 01:49:52,680
Okay, well, this has it's been a bit different tonight.

1414
01:49:52,680 --> 01:49:59,680
I only wish I could have been in better, prettier clothes than this when I died.

1415
01:49:59,680 --> 01:50:06,680
Yes. Your, does your mother never teach you to change your underpants just in case of this kind of eventuality?

1416
01:50:06,680 --> 01:50:08,680
She tried.

1417
01:50:08,680 --> 01:50:11,680
What will the ambulance people do?

1418
01:50:11,680 --> 01:50:28,680
For a brief moment, as your lines end away and you feel the tundra's cold embrace, you wonder about what the path to Valhalla, the stairway to Valhalla, might be like.

1419
01:50:28,680 --> 01:50:46,680
But then across the trails, Hjálpmakaar sparkles with an electric halo. The warm lights of the brightly colored wooden houses offer solace from the biting cold and invite you in for safety, rest and the warmth of the dwellings of men.

1420
01:50:46,680 --> 01:51:02,680
Slipping back into town, you realize you're about to see the last slither of Sol for many months, and you turn to watch as the serpentine fjords and vast ice sheets bathe briefly in strange blue half-light.

1421
01:51:02,680 --> 01:51:10,680
And then, nothing, an inky blackness descends like a funeral shroud.

1422
01:51:10,680 --> 01:51:13,680
Welcome to the Polar Night.

1423
01:51:13,680 --> 01:51:17,680
Ghastly, isn't it?

1424
01:51:17,680 --> 01:51:22,680
It was all a dream.

1425
01:51:22,680 --> 01:51:26,680
I feel like I've been here before.

1426
01:51:26,680 --> 01:51:28,680
At least once.

1427
01:51:28,680 --> 01:51:32,680
I knew you were going to say that.

1428
01:51:32,680 --> 01:51:34,680
Is Ljomi here?

1429
01:51:34,680 --> 01:51:50,680
All of you are standing upright on the edge of Hjálpmakaar, looking down on the town and its electric halo exactly the same moment as before you went to see Bangsi

1430
01:51:50,680 --> 01:51:54,680
Let's just review what worked well tonight.

1431
01:51:54,680 --> 01:51:58,680
Okay, good. We're done.

1432
01:51:58,680 --> 01:52:00,680
Perfect.

1433
01:52:00,680 --> 01:52:10,680
Now you all listen here. If we get a second chance at this, I'm going to go buy clothes first and have my bath.

1434
01:52:10,680 --> 01:52:18,680
The Vikings and Valkyries podcast is hammered together by a dedicated team of skalds and smiths.

1435
01:52:18,680 --> 01:52:36,680
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