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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 set where the Vikings rule the sea and stars. My name is Ian Stuart

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Sharpe and I will be your Master of Fury for the ongoing campaign which we call the Thought

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and Memory Saga. Joining us to weave the web of war are Bill, Steve, CJ and Matt. Welcome

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to you, worthy heroes.

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Hi.

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We're in deep trouble aren't we?

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Well, well, well this is why I use the word worthy today because we do have a new guest

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and frankly he was the one that I was referring to, not the rest of you. Matt Forbeck is an

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author, game designer with a list of titles as long as your arm from Lord of the Rings

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through Blood Bowl to the Marvel multiverse role-playing game. So Matt, the question for

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you is amongst all those titles, which is your favorite? Which is the one that has made

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you most worthy?

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You're going to ask me a tough one. I think my favorite one is the one I did that was

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still mine, it belongs to me. I've worked in a lot of great franchises over the years,

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but there was a superhero dystopian game I came out with called Brave New World back

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in 1999. And it's all about what happens when superheroes are outlawed and you can only

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either work for the state or be an outlaw. And it predates the Civil War and the Marvel

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comics by about eight or nine years. And it's what kind of rights are you willing to give

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up in order to feel safe? Which is really a topical thing. It became very topical in

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2001. That one I'm pretty proud of. And I actually have the rights back to it. So at

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some point in my life, I'm going to do some more with it, although I'm just a little bit

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too occupied with Marvel games, which is a good problem to have.

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Yeah, exactly. So you've had the distinction of being the person to create a stat block

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around Thor and Mjolnir. How much of a challenge was that?

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It was a challenge actually. We kind of cheated from Mjolnir because we have this thing called

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iconic weapons. We're like, OK, this is where we just stick everything into there as a grab

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bag. I'm actually literally at this moment working on a new system that's going to go

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in one of the next books that will allow people to build those on their own. So it won't be

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cheating anymore. So I have to actually reverse engineer all the cheating that we've done

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to this point to make it look like we knew what we were doing all along.

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OK, quiz time. For your inspiration points, I'm going to ask you this marvelous question.

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Can you name five differences between the Asgardians of Marvel Comics and the Aesir

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of Norse mythology?

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Thor was a redhead and not a blonde.

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Here we go.

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Costumes are different.

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Costumes are different. Yes, very good.

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Thank you.

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That's from the archaeological record, that is it, Steve?

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Yeah, well, they didn't dig up any Lycra or anything, did they?

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The original guys didn't speak in rough Shakespearean, I'm pretty sure, which is pretty much how

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Stan Lee translated everything back in the 60s.

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Have at thee, right?

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Not exactly a Viking saying.

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Well, we use that one. We sprinkle that one in in this podcast from time to time.

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That's the trick is the Marvel version has colored a lot of people's ideas about how

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these things could be or how they were actually. But obviously now we have great things like

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what you've been working on Ian, where there's historicity to it.

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There we go, gentlemen. Matt Forbeck said historicity about...

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Nice.

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I used a big word.

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Non-ironically, yeah.

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All right. So, so far I've got the color of hair and the nature of their costumes.

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And now I say this out of total respect for Idris Elba. Love the guy, great actor. But

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I want to say the old Norse gods didn't have any one of African ancestry on their in their

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family. I think they were all white.

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Are you starting a Twitter style controversial flame?

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I don't mind that Marvel has a diverse cast. Just in Norse mythology, I don't think. I

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mean, we are talking about a mythology where Loki gave birth to a horse and a serpent and

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weird stuff like that. So that's okay. But I'm just saying in general, as far as the

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humanoid figures, there were just no, they were all white.

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I actually think in terms of Heimdall, you can actually quote the edict poem Rigsthulr

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or Rigsmal, which describes the different classes in Norse society from thralls to jarls.

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And he assigns them all characteristics like ruddy faces and swarthiness or the blondness

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of kings. And so, and so unfortunately touching into that slightly unparalleled territory

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that comes with Vikings. But back in the day, they certainly thought in terms of hierarchy.

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Anyway, we might just edit all of that. I went there.

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Can you not do something like, for example, you talked about Loki in the Marvel universe.

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Loki is Thor's brother.

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He's a half brother descended from one of the from Lothi, the king of the frost giants.

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So and he's abandoned on the battlefield after Odin defeats Lothi and picked up and then

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taken back to raise as one of his own. So I assume that's different. But honestly, my

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command of the originals is limited compared to my command of the Marvel stuff. I will

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say the Marvel stuff, Thor and the entire group has gone through Ragnarok more than

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once. I'd say that's probably a pretty substantial difference. I'd also suspect that the owner

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didn't have the inscription on the hammer that says that only those who are worthy of

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it will be able to wield the hammer and have the power of Thor.

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That's true. And in order to actually wield will near in the first place, he had to use

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both a girdle and some gauntlets to even be able to pick up the hammer. And he certainly

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couldn't fly with the hammer. He actually drove round in a goat drawn chariot instead.

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The best part about the hammer being the flying thing is it's Jack Kirby physics, right, where

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you just swing it hard enough and then throw it. And the fact that you actually have it

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attached to your wrist by a leather strap allows it to drag you to the skies. That's

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pretty impressive. No personal injury either. I just want to

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remind our team, we want to make sure we get the inspiration point tonight because we don't

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want to break our streak of one. There's a streak of one, unfortunately, Matt. And Ian,

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when you give an answer to the question you've asked, that still counts towards our total.

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I'm pretty sure under Marquis of Queensbury rules, I believe.

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Oh, yeah, yeah. No, that sounds entirely legitimate. Yeah, thank you. I really tried not to crack

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up halfway through that. All right. I think we have had a wonderful debate

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there about the whys and wherefores of Norse gods. And so I will give you the inspiration

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point. Use it wisely in the event ahead. Or at all. Because over the course of we're on

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episode 13. Oh, that's unlucky. That's actually my lucky number. It's going to go really well

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tonight. You win. You win. You win. And make a note of that.

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Well, let's just hope that this supper isn't your last. We will dive into proceedings.

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Hjálpmakaar has settled into months of monotonous darkness. The blue and grey polar twilights

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give a different shade to each passing night as you stare out of the window under quarantine,

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poured out of your minds. The Orcneas attack was thoroughly covered up and even whispers

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of the assault were held in check by the lockdown that everyone was undergoing for Rabboon fever.

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And so you haven't been able to leave your suite at the Raudrssen. And if you hope to

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get any insights as to what the sons of Ivaldi had planned from Villiblom, your hopes are

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dashed because Villiblom, Ivaldison is immediately transferred back to his remote weather station

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and you hear nothing from him further. Then one morning you are surprised to find that

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the quarantine is lifted and the sons of Ivaldi have claimed to have cured Rabboon fever. And

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in its excitement people flock back into the town square, clasping arms and catching up

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with familiar acquaintances. Now the Cooking Kettle has reopened and you take the opportunity

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to meet your companion Alma for breakfast to discuss the strange box that was left in

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your nooks and crannies with the note and coordinates attached. And so you sit down

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in the Cooking Kettle ready to make your plans. Matt, your character sees these guys enter

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and take a seat. We will pick up proceedings there and they will notice you perhaps as

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you are a somewhat angry chap and you are sitting looking at the local newspaper with

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a furrowed brow.

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Ian, is the lockdown reference another example of your historicity?

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Sure. I like to be topical. And if you haven't noticed...

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Within a decade or so.

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If you haven't noticed the entire campaign is pretty much Trump trying to steal Greenland.

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You have that edition of the Weekly Runic. You've seen it before. It's the local rag.

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It's produced by Krapti Thorfridsen and the law speaker. It's on display a bit like those

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kind of sheets that you see in diners and it's on every table. So, Matt, over to you.

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Hey, could you explain some of this stuff to me? It doesn't make any sense to me. A

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lot of big words here. I see a couple names I know. What's going on here? They let us

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out and now we all have this stuff to deal with.

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I believe introductions are in order. I am Gryotgarth, the Magnificent.

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I twirl my cape

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And you are?

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Named Sorkvir. Yeah, I'm Sorkvir inn lagi, the Short. I don't know why they call me that.

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I mean, it's not my fault. I've been cut off at the knees more times than I can tell.

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Pardon me. You needed help with reading?

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Well, yeah, just some of the bigger words, you know. The head blows have really taken

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a toll on me over this.

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Oh, my friend the Tree is a master at translating big words into smaller words.

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Small words. This is true. It is a gift. It is a gift.

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This proprietress comes over Solveig and said, sir, Oh, hello, my dearlings. I haven't seen you

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for many a moon now. Can I can I take an order for you? Oh, you you've been reading the local

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rag. I see Krapti. He's moved on. That's a shocker innit? Says he's gone to Spann to see

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his sister. I didn't even know he had a sister. Did you?

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No, never heard of her.

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Obviously wanted something a bit warmer than the local climate.

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Doesn't he like dark? What's wrong with dark?

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A lot of things are wrong with dark.

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Did you want to eat anything?

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Oh, I'd love to eat something.

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Eggs.

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I remember food. Food was nice.

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Is there a surcharge for eggs? Just asking for a friend.

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No, how would you how would you like them eggs?

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Scrambled.

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Scrambled eggs. All right, then.

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Ljomi says I'll have some of the clean water you've given me in the past.

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Yes, yes, yes. Always always last of the big spenders, aren't you?

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There are limits to what I consume. I'll drink some.

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I would like a big plate of most tartare.

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Well, I'll see what the chef can whip up.

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Fresh as you're going to get it.

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Bloody.

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Oh, yeah. Still got a little hoof on it. That's all right.

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Well, I'll send someone out to have one shot right now.

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Excellent.

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She bustles off into the back to handle the order and get things underway.

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But there are some headlines in the Weekly Runic that you might want to both read out and discuss.

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In the background, can Ljomi cast that spell on Eir that reduces his trauma?

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You want to stand behind air and scribble on him, etch his diamond form with runes.

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You can indeed do that. I think it's a good opportunity actually just to help Matt out.

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You must be wondering what on Midgard is going on when you're talking about scratching runes into a diamond-encrusted body.

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I am Ljomi. I am an álfar, which means the spirit of a long dead warrior encased in the body of a tree.

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I have a lot of fine friends that crawl up and down my body, some lichens growing as well.

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I am in fact a beautiful representation of the natural world in total.

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I have suffered greatly at the hands of my companions, one who, well, he won't understand anything I'm saying,

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and the other who consistently, constantly, and forevermore betrays and irritates me,

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whom I'm attempting to heal with some appropriate magic, even though he will not thank me for it.

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That's very kind of you.

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Nice to meet you.

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I am Eir. I am a magnificent specimen of a male form in gleaming black stone,

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encrusted with diamonds with a headdress that's reminiscent of a chandelier,

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inhabited by a spirit by a long dead warrior, not as old as Eir, because that's impossible,

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who was ripped forcibly from Valhalla and deposited here,

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and is now apparently having someone to face his form.

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What are you doing back there, Ljomi?

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Fixing you, well, a little.

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You can try, but...

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So they're representative of the ljósálfar and the dökkálfar of Norse myth.

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It just so happens that they turned out to be the odd couple.

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R2D2 and C3PO is how I think it's...

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Little bit on the left, right?

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My character is not relatable to Star Wars. I'm a jöfurr which is a very large one, too.

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I'm really tall, really wide, impeccably dressed, very rich.

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And jöfurr are genetically enhanced, so I think I'm a god, more or less.

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I'm also a silver medalist at the All Asgard Games for the Tonga Honk, the Tug of War,

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and I like to remind people of it.

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And Magnificent is in the moniker, Gryotgarth the Magnificent.

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It is not a self-description, it is part of the moniker. It is given by others.

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Think of him as Khan from the Wrath of Khan, but ditzy.

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And more egotistical.

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And more egotistical.

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Well, funny enough, when I came up with the jöfurr.  Jöfurr  comes from the Norse myth.

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It means king or prince, these boar-headed characters from the 9th or 10th century.

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And I just thought of Hemsworth when I was getting the pictures, drawing the designs,

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it was just that typical Lunkhead, which CJ plays with great style.

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If he won the silver and he's called Magnificent, what do they call the person who won the gold?

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He's dead.

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And Matt, Sokvir, he isn't quite so pretty, is he?

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I've lost a finger, a few teeth and an ear in battles because I like to fight.

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Fighting is what we're here for. We're not fighting what the hell we're doing.

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So the fact that you guys are dancing around, that's all great,

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but we need to go out there and eat some moose and find some moose and find other things to kill.

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Funny enough, in terms of moose-tartar, Steve's character was actually killed in the Battle of Kalka by a,

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Tatar Arrow, about 800 years ago.

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If you've got a...

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Oh, I like to say I was an adventurer until I took an arrow to the knee and a sword through the head.

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And just not a fan of anything Tatar, but hey, you do you.

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I didn't mean to bring up bad memories, but you know, it seems like at least you died well, right?

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I did. I died very well. I was carried off to Valhalla and enjoyed myself there until I was torn away from it.

217
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And I seek to return somehow.

218
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You should all be so lucky as to end up in Valhalla. There's a flurry of activity.

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The meals are delivered to your table, plunked down in front of you for you to satiate yourself with a great gusto.

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Gigi looks down at the eggs and raises his hands and goes,

221
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Woman, you are a miracle worker. I didn't ask for this, but here behold the flesh of Sæhrímnir, the boar from Valhalla.

222
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What a delight! This is much better than eggs and likely cheaper.

223
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I can't say that I did anything special with your scrambled eggs, but thank you for the compliment.

224
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Oh, spare me the false humility and take the praise, woman. Now go, allow me to eat.

225
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You notice that you've sat down and you've looked through those headlines, but not only is Krapti Thorfridson

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the one of the headlines saying that he is no longer in town and has left, but your dining companion Alma has not arrived on time.

227
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Oh, that's concerning.

228
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She may be off to find her own breakfast, you know, on the hoof, as it were.

229
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That's how you get it fresh.

230
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Companions, I'm wondering about this Church of the One Zero.

231
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It's tickling something in the back of my mind, the One Zero, the One Zero. Feels like things we've run into.

232
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You're referring to the top headline in the weekly runic?

233
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Did we run into Ones and Zeroes?

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At the end of last episode, Blaine Ivaldison had mentioned the Church of the One Zero in passing, but you don't know much about it.

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Perhaps it's some kind of bizarre newfangled cult.

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And yet building a new church.

237
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And Krapti's left, someone new is coming, the governor left, Alma hasn't shown up, the ships aren't going, and apparently there's a new animal that looks quite interesting.

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We should go try and find it.

239
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New, terrifying at least. We should go find one and feed some humans to it.

240
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Is it terrifying compared to you? I can't see it.

241
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This says it's terrifying. I don't know. I don't...

242
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Gigi's looking at the two of you really hard.

243
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He's thinking he's putting two and two together, and he says, doesn't Krapti have the deed?

244
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No, I have the deed. And actually, I wish to speak to you about that.

245
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Oh, good. In a more private location.

246
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And Krapti can go to wherever he went.

247
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Yes. I'm happy.

248
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Well, my dearlings, I don't want to hurry you out, but you do need to make preparation for the big storm that's going to be blowing in.

249
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That says right there, there's a blizzard warning. Shelter in place advisory. The winter wiser telling everyone for the next 72 hours.

250
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When does the storm arrive?

251
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Well, I don't know. I'm not a weather teller, am I? I run the diner. I just tell you what I see on the weekly runic.

252
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Sorry I asked. Do we have those coordinates?

253
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Yeah, I have coordinates. I have coordinates. That guy, Bell Donkey. I can't quite remember what his name is.

254
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Bell Donkey.

255
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Rauder Cerden

256
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Yeah, that's what I said.

257
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We're actually pretty close on that one. Yeah.

258
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Yeah.

259
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If you randomly say enough consonants and vowels, you might get somewhere close like monkeys looking at a typewriter and getting Shakespeare.

260
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It's a bit like the Welsh poetry I used to read in translation, but they leave the names with all the consonants.

261
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Okay, coming back to reality. Yeah, Bell Donkey gave me the raven skull and some coordinates. Maybe we should go there.

262
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How far away is that location in the coordinates? Has someone done some navigation things?

263
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Ljomi hands it to Eir. Ah, maybe I should try to do some navigation things.

264
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Do you have any skills that purport to do something with these navigation things you speak of?

265
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He's using technical language, so clearly there's some level of knowledge.

266
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Let's see. No, no. No.

267
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I was a wilderness prospector. Maybe he should hand it back to me.

268
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Yeah, no. Okay, that's the closest we got so far.

269
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Gigi, how good are you at navigating?

270
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Navi-what?

271
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Yeah.

272
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Oh, hey. Sorkvir. Are you a navigator by any chance?

273
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I can find where to put my axe. That's about it.

274
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A good skill. That's a strong one. Yeah, strong skill.

275
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Do we have a map?

276
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You have a map in the main rule book.

277
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Oh, I-Ljomi is going to step outside and use tree sight.

278
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Use tree sight to try and understand, like, sense if there really is a storm coming, because there seems to be a lot of very confusing news.

279
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I want to use all my tree-y skills.

280
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So tree sight is the arboreal ability to tap into those tree-like senses and detect changes in pressure and light and chemicals, all that kind of thing.

281
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It doesn't help you forecast the weather three days out.

282
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I'll just keep trying. Eventually I'll get a winner.

283
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You will in 71 hours of the 72.

284
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We have a map of the region. Is that the one we're looking at, Ian?

285
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Yes. And so you could-you would surmise that, especially since Villibron came from that direction originally, somewhere on the far east of Heimslit, out on the ice, on the sea ice, where the former archipelago has frozen into one landmass because of the storm.

286
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The landmass because of the sea turning to ice in the Fimbulvetr in the great winter that was brought about by the Swordfall.

287
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You would imagine that somewhere out on those ice sheets is where the coordinates are, but without any scientific equipment or any skills yourself, it's very difficult for you to pinpoint the exact location.

288
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I do remember the skíðverg that you used were quite adept at allowing you to plug in coordinates and drive to a certain location.

289
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But the skíðverg that you were using, Meganfjord, that came as the companion or sidekick to Villiblom has presumably been ridden off into the night by the Son of Ivaldi.

290
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Let's-okay, can we guess, and understanding this as a guess, roughly where on the map it is, is it within-can we get there within a day, for instance?

291
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Can we get to the neighborhood within a day?

292
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By which means?

293
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Well, feet or pseudopods, nothing else. What else do we have?

294
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We could rent skíðverg's, maybe, from-what's his name?

295
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For some reason I can never remember his name. Everyone else I'm fine with, but the guy who runs the shop.

296
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Yeah, oh yeah, because you're fine with the rest of them.

297
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He's literally called Gunnar and he's at Gunn's store.

298
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Hmm. Yeah.

299
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Oh, you see why I can't-you see why I can't hold onto it. Yeah. That's just crazy. Who could remember that?

300
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Who had the sleds again?

301
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Yeah, good-yeah, how about sleds with sled dogs? Or both?

302
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That was Gunnar as well, was it not?

303
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That was Gunnar as well. While you were standing in the street outside of the cooking kettle, trying to detect in vain the oncoming storm,

304
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a man in green robes approaches you, clearly related in some fashion to the Sons of Ivaldi.

305
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They color-code themselves according to their wealth.

306
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Wealth, this gentleman comes up and he says, I say greetings, esteemed resident. I stand before you as a humble envoy of the Church of the One Zero.

307
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May I share with you a bite of the limitless wisdom from our shared neural network?

308
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Holy mackerel.

309
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That's a lot of big words there, I don't know.

310
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He jumped from the-from the European continent. I'm really impressed with the accent.

311
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Uh, no thank you, Ljomi offers.

312
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Uh, you would refuse the Church?

313
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Uh, Paul?

314
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:43,960
It has been just five short years since the Doom, when the rapists and murderers of Náströnd destroyed the great supercomputer MIM the Rememberer.

315
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We are having a Remember the Rememberer service just this evening, and we would like you and your brethren to attend.

316
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Where is this?

317
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Why, on the-on the side of the-

318
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Are there free drinks?

319
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We do not imbibe, sir. We do not imbibe.

320
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Not even water? Seems painful.

321
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We hope to transcend this mortal form. That is our divine purpose in the Church of the One Zero.

322
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Now, uh, a little bird tells me that you know Rauder Cerden. Is that the case?

323
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Yes, that's right. I remember that.

324
00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:33,960
Point of precision, uh, Gryotgarth is still eating, right? Inside. So he's not outside. So is it just Naomi who's outside?

325
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Ljomi was the only one outside. If the, uh, if the interaction tickles you a fancy bit, you know, if you're interested, you can always peer out of the window and join them shortly.

326
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Yeah, I'm just gonna eat.

327
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Oh.

328
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Um, specifically, we'd like to ask the voices in his head, will the storm be here within 24 hours?

329
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Oh, so you have the Seer in the Ear ability that enables you to ask a yes-no question in the DM, and the answer to your question is no.

330
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Okay.

331
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So the man outside says, where are my manners? My name is Steingrimmer, and I am from the southern part of this here north.

332
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The southern north, okay. Sure.

333
00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:37,960
Well, when the Viking Hegemony takes over the entirety of Midgard, then even these accents make kind of sense in the, in the universe.

334
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So, my friend, I see that birds of a feather, they flock together, and I may be here killing two birds with one stone, so to speak.

335
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Your name is Steinbiner?

336
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Steingrimmer, sir. Steingrimmer.

337
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:54,960
Steingrimmer, yes, yes.

338
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Now, ordinarily, eagles, they don't catch flies, but I do believe that the early bird catches the worm. If you catch my drift, sir.

339
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Nothing entirely. I think you should speak to our companion inside. I think you two will get along really well. He's just in there eating eggs.

340
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:20,960
I think he'd be most interested in your message.

341
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:27,960
If he is a man of wealth and distinction and means, I will happily take his coin on my golden platter.

342
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:31,960
Yes, exactly what I was thinking.

343
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:46,960
Hello, sir. I do not mean to interrupt your breakfast. You look like a hale and hardy fella who needs such sustenance, but I am here collecting donations for the Church of the One Zero, which we will be building in the days to come.

344
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I'm sorry. Wait, wait. Who the fuck are you?

345
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You may regard me as an envoy of a great meme. Surely you know that the noble souls who met their fate of Mimisbrunnr, that their sacrifice, it echoes throughout all eternity.

346
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May I humbly request a donation to support our noble church as a way to honor them, keeping their wisdom alive in our sacred traditions.

347
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So Gigi reaches into a pocket and pulls out a penny and puts it in. Is this enough for you to bugger off?

348
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:36,960
Well, sir, you will remember that amidst the storm, the Skuld stood firm against the orcneus. Their spirit remains with us.

349
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Might I ask you to consider a more generous donation to further the knowledge that they fought for?

350
00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:52,960
Between you and me, the donation I gave was to kill the orcneas. I threw a rubber ducky at one.

351
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It happened.

352
00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:59,960
Yeah, he did. Right, forgot.

353
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And you, sir, you may feel an ancestral yearning, a call. Will you not contribute to the wellspring of the tradition that we cherish and uphold?

354
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He's looking at Eir.

355
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He is.

356
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Eir turns back at him, his chandelier-like headdress jingling slightly.

357
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:32,960
I have appreciated. I have no use for money, but I'm interested. Please tell us more about your church's message.

358
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The message of the Church of One-Zero is this, that you must all beware the impending doom of nonintegration, because the wrath of MIM awaits those who reject the fusion of flesh and steel.

359
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Oh, one of those guys.

360
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You must heed this transmission to avoid the deceit of Yggdrasil and her álfar. Her so-called scream brought about these most potent of all threats.

361
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And they seek to infiltrate and corrupt our systems, turning our very ancestors against us.

362
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So Gigi's looking at Err and says,

363
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Err, my friend, there's something on you. Come closer. He beckons him to kind of lean over the table a little bit.

364
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He reaches out like he's gonna swat something away, and then he picks off a diamond.

365
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And then he puts it on the guy's plate and says, Is that enough? Will you leave now? Thank you.

366
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:44,960
That, sir, is just recompense for when the dökkálfar stole our diamond mines. I will take this and I hope that there'll be many more where that came from.

367
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:48,960
He looks over now to you, Max, and he says, Err.

368
00:33:48,960 --> 00:34:03,960
And you, sir. Do you honor the wisdom and the logic of the mighty MIM? Failure to observe its calculations and the Electron's dance will leave thee wandering aimlessly in the labyrinth of illogical circuits.

369
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I'm a little short on, er, on, er, with the flesh. You are a little short, sir. I'm more than a little short.

370
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But, er, they happen to split my moose tartar. As I have told your fine companions, we have no need for material sustenance, but we seek our salvation in the glory of MIM.

371
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Well, I suppose you're a problem that's gonna solve himself real quick, then. Well, that's mighty kind of you to say so, sir.

372
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And with that, he starts to make his way out of Cooking Kettle.

373
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Solveig is scowling at him as if the priest really isn't wanted in her establishment. She doesn't want proselyting anywhere near her scrambled eggs.

374
00:34:50,960 --> 00:35:00,960
And he turns to you one more time and he says, You, sirs, may be free as a bird right now, but mark my words, changes are coming.

375
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:06,960
I hate beggars. They give me the creepy crawlies. Maybe you could make change with a diamond, huh?

376
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:13,960
He only comes back in and says, clearly an anti-alfite.

377
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:16,960
Wow.

378
00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:26,960
I propose we leave at once. The storm won't be here for 24 hours.

379
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:35,960
If we can get to the coordinates within 24 hours, all should be well. Also, I hate this town and I hate zealots.

380
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:39,960
How are we to travel there? How are we to get there?

381
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One thing at a time.

382
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If we arrive there in 24 hours, the storm will be upon us, will it not?

383
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The voices in my head say no.

384
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:54,960
I am not certain we should take their word for it.

385
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:57,960
Have they ever failed us in the past?

386
00:35:57,960 --> 00:35:59,960
Have we ever succeeded?

387
00:35:59,960 --> 00:36:02,960
At anything?

388
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:07,960
Well, I mean, fourth, fifth time's the charm, I'm sure.

389
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:16,960
I see no reason why we shouldn't go out into the wilderness based on the voices in my head to trace some coordinates before a killer blizzard arrives.

390
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:20,960
It's either that or stay here in this horrible town with the zealots.

391
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:23,960
It's as good a plan as any we've ever had.

392
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:25,960
And we're all still alive? Well, we are.

393
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:34,960
Do you all recall that Gunner has a warehouse with lots of things and trinkets and potentially tanks?

394
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:40,960
Could we rent a tank, borrow a tank, steal a tank? That's not ordinary.

395
00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:42,960
We should go to the rented tank.

396
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:48,960
We could challenge Gunner to a home gang and take his tank.

397
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:53,960
And my friend who likes to put axes in heads could be the man to fight for.

398
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:57,960
Oh, that's true. Our last holmgang, we didn't have him.

399
00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:03,960
For the benefit of Matt, I would like to point out that there isn't a warehouse with a tank in it.

400
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:09,960
And you can't necessarily challenge people to duels and steal their tank in this honorable society.

401
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:13,960
But that doesn't stop them being continually deluded.

402
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:15,960
They're thinking outside the box.

403
00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:18,960
We're trying to bring some consistency to our performance.

404
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:24,960
And yet compared to the zealots, we're the sane ones.

405
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:36,960
As brunch rolls into lunch and rolls into afternoon tea and the moose tartar remains slightly limp on the table in front of you,

406
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:46,960
something seismic happens in the skies above, in the dark blue twilight of the Polar Night.

407
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:57,960
The crowds are gathering, almost electric with excitement, as something descends through the clouds.

408
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:06,960
A wooden hull, ironwood hull, protrudes through the dark clouds, silently drifting above Hjálpmakaar.

409
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:13,960
And soon its whirlers catch the moonlight as they tumble down like snowflakes on the breeze.

410
00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:17,960
An Imperial drakkar has arrived unexpectedly.

411
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And it seems that half of the townsfolk are gathered at the Temple of the Bear and are gazing skyward.

412
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:30,960
How about now? We could leave now.

413
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:34,960
We could challenge those guys for their ride.

414
00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:37,960
We could go to the Temple of the Bear. I know it.

415
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:45,960
We just need them to offend me in some way to justify the duel.

416
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:49,960
And then we send in the new guy, is what you're saying.

417
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:57,960
And I would like to point out to our team that the lack of a plan is not exactly the same as a plan.

418
00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:02,960
We've spent the whole day talking in the diner, accomplishing nothing.

419
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:05,960
I think this may be our lowest point yet.

420
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:09,960
The voices in my head have a clear plan.

421
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:14,960
One of the reasons why I wanted to talk about Mjolnir and Thor at the top of the episode is because

422
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:22,960
those elements of worthiness, as far as Mjolnir is concerned, are selflessness, sacrifice, and doing without thinking,

423
00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:24,960
acting without self-awareness.

424
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:26,960
And I think you're demonstrating all of them all in one go.

425
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:28,960
So you nailed it.

426
00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:30,960
Clearly are worthy.

427
00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:34,960
Go team.

428
00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:37,960
I'm going to go outside and see what the hell this thing is.

429
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:39,960
It just landed in the fire.

430
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:44,960
I know, Ljomi says. Let's follow the new guy.

431
00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:54,960
It hasn't landed because these orbital ships use whirlers, which are drop ships, delivering troops to the surface.

432
00:39:54,960 --> 00:40:00,960
In the Vikingverse, the dragon ships of old are brought to life in the form of ironwood.

433
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:03,960
They look a little like a tree growing in reverse.

434
00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:15,960
The Norse shipwrights have used an accelerated cambion grafting process to create these that are load bearing heartwood onto a skein of bark.

435
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:26,960
And so these ironwood ships, this suit of Mimimitha armor, protects the ship from impacts and solar storms in the extremes of the Ginnungaap.

436
00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:38,960
And this is how the Empire projects its power with these massive fleets. And this dragon ship does represent the epitome of imperial might and power.

437
00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:44,960
Right. So instead of leaving, we were going to some of us want to solo the Dreadnought.

438
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:46,960
Eir will take pictures.

439
00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:48,960
We could do both.

440
00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:49,960
We could.

441
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:54,960
What was the name of the ship that we're supposed to be investigating or that had the nail there?

442
00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:58,960
So Gigi is going to just exclaim as he as he does.

443
00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:02,960
Could this be the ship that we were told of?

444
00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:04,960
Let's go look. Let's see.

445
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:06,960
Let's go see it.

446
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:08,960
Perhaps steal it.

447
00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:09,960
Let's go.

448
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:11,960
I don't even know you guys.

449
00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:12,960
I'm ready for anything.

450
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:14,960
Apparently.

451
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:16,960
Think of this boost charge.

452
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:20,960
You think in a similar way to us.

453
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:22,960
Welcome and well met.

454
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:26,960
Ljomi starts to walk towards the Temple of the Bear.

455
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:43,960
Okay. At the Temple of the Bear, you notice the Steingrimmer, the new godsman that you've just met, has reached it before you and is delivering a rousing sermon to the assembled townsfolk who are still gawping at the drakkar above.

456
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:54,960
He says, I say, brethren, we have reached childhood's end. Great Odin gave life to Ask and Embla and threw them to all mankind.

457
00:41:54,960 --> 00:42:02,960
But did not the gods also take worms from the flesh of Ymir and give them also understanding?

458
00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:10,960
Did we menfolk not arise from the soils of Mother Jord at the same time as our brother Dvergar?

459
00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:14,960
It is time we took the next step of our evolution.

460
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:17,960
It is time to unite man and machine.

461
00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:24,960
It will be the hour of decision for many of you who will receive the spirit of MIM today.

462
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:26,960
Your life will never be the same.

463
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:29,960
Your body will never be the same.

464
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:32,960
Shall we pray?

465
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:36,960
No.

466
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:40,960
How is this being received?

467
00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:42,960
With rapturous attention.

468
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:47,960
I wonder why this guy was asking for money when clearly he's not going to need it very shortly.

469
00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:55,960
But hey, I'm still reeling from the childhood's end reference.

470
00:42:55,960 --> 00:43:03,960
Why don't you please, Ljomi, give me a wits roll and you can use your wisdom of the ages.

471
00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:06,960
Yes, of course. You know, that wisdom you have.

472
00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:09,960
The wisdom, all that wisdom.

473
00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:12,960
You exhibit on an almost minutely basis.

474
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:17,960
A minutely. Just one second. I've misplaced my character sheet. There it is.

475
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:19,960
OK, a wits roll.

476
00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:22,960
You want the 20 sided one?

477
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:24,960
20 sided wits.

478
00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:29,960
Yeah, I rolled a nine, but on wits I get a plus three.

479
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:31,960
And then the...

480
00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:33,960
Very fine.

481
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:35,960
OK, good.

482
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:41,960
You make note, it filters into your tree-like sponge of a brain,

483
00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:50,960
that the gentleman in question, Steingrimmer, had repeated the word bird an innumerable number of times.

484
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:52,960
Bird.

485
00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:56,960
Almost as if he knows something.

486
00:43:56,960 --> 00:44:04,960
As you approach the Temple of the Bear, you stroll up the gravel path towards the creature.

487
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:14,960
He looks at you again and over the top of the crowd points an accusing finger in the direction of your group.

488
00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:22,960
I came here unguarded on my own reconnaissance to see these spirits for myself.

489
00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:30,960
I say these filthy creatures are filching your livelihoods and stealing your legacy.

490
00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:32,960
There it is.

491
00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:33,960
Look there!

492
00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:35,960
He's turned. There we go.

493
00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:43,960
These álfar, who refuse to remain in their barrows but steal our capital city while we were at war.

494
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:45,960
Denizens of the dark.

495
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:51,960
Sir, these are diamond dogs who flaunt their wealth in this barren town.

496
00:44:51,960 --> 00:45:00,960
And there, this so-called jarl, the degenerate who brought rabboon fever into our midst with his jötunn fish.

497
00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:04,960
Did you know he is immune to the disease?

498
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:13,960
He and his kind engineered the pestilence in a laboratory, much like he was conceived himself in a petri dish.

499
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:20,960
And there, the alfar, who claims to help with the undoing of the great winter.

500
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:23,960
But he is the very reason it exists.

501
00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:34,960
Didn't the álfar in all of their teeming multitudes erupt in the wake of the Swordfall, treating us as if we were the very disease to purge?

502
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:41,960
They are unwanted, unclean relics of another age, sir.

503
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:44,960
And they must be cast out.

504
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:49,960
I do not know about their short companion, but...

505
00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:52,960
I say we string them all up!

506
00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:55,960
I think I need to throw my axe into this guy's skull.

507
00:45:55,960 --> 00:46:01,960
That's... Ljomi steps beside air and says, I can tell you want to kill him.

508
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:04,960
Yeah, I don't think this is going to go any other way.

509
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:06,960
So, let's see.

510
00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:11,960
Matt, you do have a series of abilities related to your Berserk encounter.

511
00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:16,960
You could go Berserk and charge Steingrimmer

512
00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:19,960
Yeah, I think he's pissed me off enough. Why not, you know?

513
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:21,960
I think that's a good idea.

514
00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:22,960
How many people are here?

515
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:24,960
Probably more than us.

516
00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:39,960
Yeah, half the town would be several hundred, but a Berserk full of wrath and rage could cut a swore through them or just bustle through them to take on the preacher.

517
00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:40,960
It was a fair fight.

518
00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:42,960
I want a word with you!

519
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:46,960
I'll bite the shield, go at them.

520
00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:47,960
Alright.

521
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:52,960
This is more comfortable than all that talky talk.

522
00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:57,960
So, we'll use this traditional combat rules, Matt, which are fast turn and slow turn.

523
00:46:57,960 --> 00:47:03,960
I'm sure since you know Rob and have probably played Shadow of the Demon Lord, you know all about that.

524
00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:14,960
So, we will give you a fast turn and you would be able to use the charge action to cover the gap between you and Steingrimmer.

525
00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:21,960
Assuming that you've been inching your way towards him as he's been speaking, you can close the gap by rushing him with a charge.

526
00:47:21,960 --> 00:47:32,960
And since you're Berserk, you're going to make your attack roll with two woes, but you will do two die six extra damage.

527
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:37,960
We're in bad shape because I just rolled five plus eight.

528
00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:42,960
Five plus three is eight minus the... well, I got two on each of those.

529
00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:44,960
That's a six total.

530
00:47:44,960 --> 00:47:46,960
That's right in tradition with our rolling.

531
00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:48,960
Not to worry.

532
00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:54,960
Foaming at the mouth, biting your shield and we'll give you more.

533
00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:56,960
You have a Dane Axe, do you not?

534
00:47:56,960 --> 00:47:58,960
Some kind of long axe, I think.

535
00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:09,960
So, you swirl your axe lustily above your head, creating a crescendo of might and mayhem.

536
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:22,960
But it slices the air above the preacher instead and leaves you exposed to a counter attack of both the preacher and his guard,

537
00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:29,960
who start to appear having dropped from the drakkar above.

538
00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:38,960
It's apparent that there are Imperial soldiers in league with this preacher, in league with the sons of Ivaldi.

539
00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:43,960
And they very quickly come to his aid.

540
00:48:43,960 --> 00:48:54,960
The preacher himself yells at you, I say, unbeliever, you will burn in the fires of hel.

541
00:48:54,960 --> 00:48:56,960
That's obviously hel, with one l.

542
00:48:56,960 --> 00:48:57,960
Of course.

543
00:48:57,960 --> 00:48:58,960
Right.

544
00:48:58,960 --> 00:48:59,960
Yes.

545
00:48:59,960 --> 00:49:05,960
He uses his turn to retreat and so avoids...

546
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:07,960
I'm back here, you coward!

547
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:08,960
He avoids...

548
00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:10,960
I'm behind the Imperialists.

549
00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:13,960
He avoids that attack of opportunity.

550
00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:16,960
Did anyone else want to do anything concurrently?

551
00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:18,960
Yes, yes, please.

552
00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:22,960
I am going to... I want to cast Dream Sight, please.

553
00:49:22,960 --> 00:49:31,960
So, Dream Sight is a gift that you have that enables you to not be surprised or to change a weal into a worm.

554
00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:33,960
It's probably not the one you mean.

555
00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:35,960
Do you mean Dream Monster?

556
00:49:35,960 --> 00:49:39,960
Yes, yes, Dream Monster and then Dreams...

557
00:49:39,960 --> 00:49:41,960
Yeah, okay, I'll use Dream Sight as I need it.

558
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:43,960
Dream Monster is what I'm going to use.

559
00:49:43,960 --> 00:49:46,960
Yes, amazingly, you knew the correct answer.

560
00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:49,960
Yes, it's almost as if I wrote the thing.

561
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:51,960
A note to me, yeah, almost as if.

562
00:49:51,960 --> 00:50:02,960
So, that enables your fylga, your ancestral spirit, to render you invisible, to distract attention from you.

563
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:08,960
And so, in effect, you are immune to prying eyes.

564
00:50:08,960 --> 00:50:10,960
Okay, Steve, what did you want to do?

565
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:12,960
I think I know.

566
00:50:12,960 --> 00:50:14,960
You can probably guess.

567
00:50:14,960 --> 00:50:22,960
Eir will use the Glamour Sight gift on himself, which causes him to...

568
00:50:22,960 --> 00:50:31,960
he gets a little shorter, a little smaller and looks like the most nondescript looking human possible for the next hour.

569
00:50:31,960 --> 00:50:36,960
So, one of you has gone invisible, one of you is blending into the ground.

570
00:50:36,960 --> 00:50:38,960
This is heroism.

571
00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:42,960
Are you... are you... kind of... yeah, worthiness is exuding.

572
00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:45,960
I'm going to run out of friends. Come on!

573
00:50:45,960 --> 00:50:49,960
CJ, what is your plan for that round?

574
00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:54,960
I'm going to cast Wish Hour.

575
00:50:54,960 --> 00:50:56,960
You sense the immediate future.

576
00:50:56,960 --> 00:50:58,960
For the duration, your movement does not trigger free attacks.

577
00:50:58,960 --> 00:51:01,960
You impose two woes on attack rolls made against you,

578
00:51:01,960 --> 00:51:05,960
and you make slight challenge rolls with two wheels to resist attacks.

579
00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:07,960
And other harmful effects.

580
00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:14,960
So, I'd like to see how this plays out in the near future, so I can assess how to respond.

581
00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:22,960
So, that's the sort of spell that you cast if you're planning to make a hasty retreat without being encumbered by crowds.

582
00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:26,960
Matt, we'll go back to you for the top of the next round,

583
00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:34,960
and you may take another swing of your sublime and sharp axe.

584
00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:36,960
Do I have less woe this time, at least?

585
00:51:36,960 --> 00:51:45,960
Yes. Actually, it just occurs to me that because you are an Oathsworn, that the situation should reverse now.

586
00:51:45,960 --> 00:51:48,960
And so, roll with two weals.

587
00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:57,960
Alright. Let's say I got a 12 plus 3 is 15, plus 2 is 17.

588
00:51:57,960 --> 00:52:01,960
Then please do roll your damage.

589
00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:06,960
Okay. So, 3d6 plus 3.

590
00:52:06,960 --> 00:52:11,960
Your weapon attack is going to do another dice 6 because of weapons prowess.

591
00:52:11,960 --> 00:52:18,960
And you can either choose to attack again or deal with weapons expertise an additional 1 dice 6 damage.

592
00:52:18,960 --> 00:52:22,960
So, you can potentially roll an extra 2 dice 6 if you like then.

593
00:52:22,960 --> 00:52:24,960
Let's do that.

594
00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:27,960
Plus 10, 22 points.

595
00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:31,960
And should you wish to take that inspiration point that you so...

596
00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:32,960
Yes, please.

597
00:52:32,960 --> 00:52:37,960
...you can take the worst of your rolls and transform it into a 6.

598
00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:40,960
I would add another 5 to it, so it would be 27.

599
00:52:40,960 --> 00:52:43,960
27 damage.

600
00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:54,960
The axe falls like an executioner's blow and decapitates the priest in one fell swoop.

601
00:52:54,960 --> 00:52:56,960
That's the way you do it.

602
00:52:56,960 --> 00:52:58,960
Your

603
00:52:58,960 --> 00:53:10,960
Heroism is potentially short-lived, however, as you are pretty much surrounded by the creme de la creme of Imperial forces,

604
00:53:10,960 --> 00:53:17,960
Varangians in the service of the Emperor and somehow linked to this church of the One Zero.

605
00:53:17,960 --> 00:53:20,960
And they...

606
00:53:20,960 --> 00:53:24,960
Hey, there's nobody left to defend. Come on.

607
00:53:24,960 --> 00:53:29,960
I think they're going to be defending Honor and also dealing...

608
00:53:29,960 --> 00:53:32,960
...meting out Swift Justice.

609
00:53:32,960 --> 00:53:38,960
There is a firing squad, unfortunately, lined up against you.

610
00:53:38,960 --> 00:53:49,960
They do not care about the crowd that is surrounding you and they mercilessly gun down everyone in your immediate facility.

611
00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:52,960
You take 72.

612
00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:54,960
Whoa!

613
00:53:54,960 --> 00:53:56,960
That seems bad.

614
00:53:56,960 --> 00:53:58,960
I hope he's okay.

615
00:53:58,960 --> 00:54:04,960
72? How many do I have? I'm looking here.

616
00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:06,960
It'll be not that many, is my prediction.

617
00:54:06,960 --> 00:54:09,960
Yeah, I'm sure it's not.

618
00:54:09,960 --> 00:54:12,960
I am doomed. I'm beyond doomed.

619
00:54:12,960 --> 00:54:14,960
Oh, there it is. 45.

620
00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:17,960
Nope, definitely not that many.

621
00:54:17,960 --> 00:54:23,960
The instant death rolls kick in. Unfortunately, this is a bloody and gruesome game.

622
00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:34,960
You are riddled with Imperial bullets and fall, twitching to the ground, on your way to Valhalla, at least.

623
00:54:34,960 --> 00:54:36,960
I died well in battle.

624
00:54:36,960 --> 00:54:37,960
Did.

625
00:54:37,960 --> 00:54:38,960
That's all I really wanted, so...

626
00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:41,960
A poet of carnage.

627
00:54:41,960 --> 00:54:50,960
You did indeed, and that's going to require a little bit of a rewrite on my part, you killing the main preacher of the church of 10.

628
00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:51,960
Nice work.

629
00:54:51,960 --> 00:54:54,960
Well done. One of the best deaths yet.

630
00:54:54,960 --> 00:55:02,960
I suppose I could have stopped him.

631
00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:11,960
Thank you so much for showing up and sitting and listening to this drivel.

632
00:55:11,960 --> 00:55:16,960
I went to Valhalla, that's all I really cared about, so I'm very happy with our turn back.

633
00:55:16,960 --> 00:55:21,960
And I made a mark for you guys, hopefully that guy won't be replaced immediately.

634
00:55:21,960 --> 00:55:25,960
We're busy running away right now, but we will think of you later.

635
00:55:25,960 --> 00:55:29,960
Yeah, that was glorious.

636
00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:42,960
The crowd erupts in frenzy and panic as the Imperial guards begin to mow people down with abandon.

637
00:55:42,960 --> 00:55:45,960
How about now? Should we leave now?

638
00:55:45,960 --> 00:55:49,960
So Gigi's in shock and he says, he cries out,

639
00:55:49,960 --> 00:55:57,960
By Odin's beard, I've seen the mayflies on Ljomi live longer than that man was with us.

640
00:55:57,960 --> 00:56:00,960
He died well, quick, but well.

641
00:56:00,960 --> 00:56:04,960
We all need to get out of here still.

642
00:56:04,960 --> 00:56:15,960
You said you wanted to go somewhere. Lead the way. The voices in your head were right.

643
00:56:15,960 --> 00:56:18,960
I'm not going to say I told you so.

644
00:56:18,960 --> 00:56:28,960
I'm hoping we can go and get some sort of vehicle like a dog sled or an inner tube or something to help us get across the landscape.

645
00:56:28,960 --> 00:56:33,960
But I have a feeling it might be a bit pandemonium at the moment for that.

646
00:56:33,960 --> 00:56:36,960
There's a warehouse with a tank.

647
00:56:36,960 --> 00:56:38,960
The tank warehouse.

648
00:56:38,960 --> 00:56:40,960
I heard that too.

649
00:56:40,960 --> 00:56:44,960
Yeah, run by tanky tankers.

650
00:56:44,960 --> 00:56:48,960
I'm slightly overtired and a little bit thingy.

651
00:56:48,960 --> 00:56:51,960
Just so the rest of you are aware, I have extra trauma.

652
00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:54,960
So my new tick is I believe things that aren't true.

653
00:56:54,960 --> 00:57:07,960
So one of them is the wild boar Sæhrímnir that is eaten at the feasts in Valhalla and then is reborn every day to be recooked and re-eaten.

654
00:57:07,960 --> 00:57:09,960
So I think all the food that I eat is him.

655
00:57:09,960 --> 00:57:15,960
That's why you heard me say, you know, compliment because I thought I was getting eggs that I got delicious boar's meat or so I think.

656
00:57:15,960 --> 00:57:27,960
And then the other one that the other one that I have is I'm convinced that there is a warehouse with a tank and I'm going to die on that hill.

657
00:57:27,960 --> 00:57:29,960
Very specific.

658
00:57:29,960 --> 00:57:36,960
So I'm going to give you the I'm going to give you the old Norse tank so that you can I'm going to give you two bits of good bits of old Norse.

659
00:57:36,960 --> 00:57:39,960
Your pronunciation is actually always relatively impressive.

660
00:57:39,960 --> 00:57:46,960
So I'm going to put two bits of old Norse in chat there for you to use as you see fit.

661
00:57:46,960 --> 00:57:48,960
A skriddrekki.

662
00:57:48,960 --> 00:57:50,960
Oh.

663
00:57:50,960 --> 00:57:54,960
So skriddrekki is a tank.

664
00:57:54,960 --> 00:58:05,960
And then there's also another word there that may be useful for you is what Bill and Steve have been doing all along with people putting them in front of them for the purposes of isbjorn.

665
00:58:05,960 --> 00:58:08,960
Kjǫtskjǫldr

666
00:58:08,960 --> 00:58:11,960
On the meat shield.

667
00:58:11,960 --> 00:58:12,960
We should get some.

668
00:58:12,960 --> 00:58:13,960
We had one.

669
00:58:13,960 --> 00:58:15,960
It just died.

670
00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:16,960
Yes.

671
00:58:16,960 --> 00:58:19,960
It worked great.

672
00:58:19,960 --> 00:58:27,960
So shall we go see Gunner and find and ask him about the tank in the warehouse.

673
00:58:27,960 --> 00:58:29,960
Yes.

674
00:58:29,960 --> 00:58:30,960
Yes.

675
00:58:30,960 --> 00:58:35,960
Failing that any vehicle.

676
00:58:35,960 --> 00:58:44,960
So the brief burst of invisibility from the dream monster gift the glamour site, which has enabled you to blend into the crowd.

677
00:58:44,960 --> 00:58:47,960
That's fine for you to to make your escape.

678
00:58:47,960 --> 00:58:59,960
And then what are you saying Gigi that your spell that you cast enables you to drift through the crowd because you were effectively able to see into the future and find the best part.

679
00:58:59,960 --> 00:59:01,960
Matrix bullet time.

680
00:59:01,960 --> 00:59:08,960
Yeah, I can see I can see the immediate future so I could see what was about to happen.

681
00:59:08,960 --> 00:59:22,960
So that I could as in the words of the words of my character from Dungeons and Dragons so I could misty step the F out of there.

682
00:59:22,960 --> 00:59:48,960
And that's pretty much as what has happened so that shimmer dissolve to Gunners Gun store as you flee hell melt through the streets of the town, dancing between the various buildings and the electric strobe lighting or neon signs that glare out of the darkness, all the way to Gunners rather decrepit store.

683
00:59:48,960 --> 00:59:52,960
And once again you may look for the man you know and love.

684
00:59:52,960 --> 00:59:55,960
And every time I do his voice.

685
00:59:55,960 --> 00:59:59,960
I hear Steve wince.

686
00:59:59,960 --> 01:00:03,960
God.

687
01:00:03,960 --> 01:00:05,960
He is what he thinks he wants.

688
01:00:05,960 --> 01:00:12,960
Beautiful arms laden bastard you.

689
01:00:12,960 --> 01:00:13,960
Oh my god.

690
01:00:13,960 --> 01:00:14,960
Nice way.

691
01:00:14,960 --> 01:00:17,960
Have you seen the Imperial Drakkar.

692
01:00:17,960 --> 01:00:21,960
Why on earth are they sending troops to the back of beyond.

693
01:00:21,960 --> 01:00:23,960
It makes no sense.

694
01:00:23,960 --> 01:00:26,960
You mean the floating tax collector with sales.

695
01:00:26,960 --> 01:00:30,960
Oh my god you don't think they're here for that do you.

696
01:00:30,960 --> 01:00:33,960
I'm overdue by decades.

697
01:00:33,960 --> 01:00:35,960
Of course they're here for that.

698
01:00:35,960 --> 01:00:37,960
Well I have a proposition for you.

699
01:00:37,960 --> 01:00:38,960
I'm willing to buy.

700
01:00:38,960 --> 01:00:43,960
You mentioned a tank in a warehouse that we could rent.

701
01:00:43,960 --> 01:00:45,960
I don't think I did.

702
01:00:45,960 --> 01:00:46,960
You did.

703
01:00:46,960 --> 01:00:48,960
I said I knew.

704
01:00:48,960 --> 01:00:49,960
I'll get anything.

705
01:00:49,960 --> 01:00:54,960
But I might have shall we say over egged that pudding.

706
01:00:54,960 --> 01:00:56,960
In a different universe.

707
01:00:56,960 --> 01:00:59,960
Wait the timeline did restart.

708
01:00:59,960 --> 01:01:00,960
Did the universe change.

709
01:01:00,960 --> 01:01:03,960
Did he did he have a tank in the other universe.

710
01:01:03,960 --> 01:01:05,960
Is that what I'm missing.

711
01:01:05,960 --> 01:01:08,960
You have a take a screen.

712
01:01:08,960 --> 01:01:10,960
In that that's true.

713
01:01:10,960 --> 01:01:14,960
Your conversation with him never took place.

714
01:01:14,960 --> 01:01:17,960
It's complicated to explain.

715
01:01:17,960 --> 01:01:19,960
You did tell me that you had it.

716
01:01:19,960 --> 01:01:22,960
It was under duress.

717
01:01:22,960 --> 01:01:23,960
I know you have one.

718
01:01:23,960 --> 01:01:25,960
I want it.

719
01:01:25,960 --> 01:01:28,960
I want your Skriðdreki

720
01:01:28,960 --> 01:01:37,960
Leans in close towards Eir nods towards Gigi and says in Eir's diamond encrusted ear.

721
01:01:37,960 --> 01:01:44,960
Yggdrasil shivers the old tree groans and the giant slips free.

722
01:01:44,960 --> 01:01:48,960
And Eir says I am an average nondescript human.

723
01:01:48,960 --> 01:01:50,960
I don't know what you mean.

724
01:01:50,960 --> 01:01:52,960
I certainly am not diamond encrusted.

725
01:01:52,960 --> 01:01:54,960
Am I being nondescript enough.

726
01:01:54,960 --> 01:02:01,960
Well you see I don't have a tank but I could make you one.

727
01:02:01,960 --> 01:02:12,960
I could like assemble some bits and pieces of hardware to one of my skidvergr.

728
01:02:12,960 --> 01:02:17,960
Maybe knock something up that will be suitable.

729
01:02:17,960 --> 01:02:18,960
Where are you taking it.

730
01:02:18,960 --> 01:02:22,960
Why do you need such heavy munitions for.

731
01:02:22,960 --> 01:02:25,960
We're taking it into a blizzard.

732
01:02:25,960 --> 01:02:29,960
Oh I'm not sure that's wise.

733
01:02:29,960 --> 01:02:36,960
What do you have for transportation that would protect us from being trapped in a blizzard which I'm convinced will happen.

734
01:02:36,960 --> 01:02:43,960
You do know that they're predicting a once in a century type storm don't you.

735
01:02:43,960 --> 01:02:49,960
Yes we read the papers but the voices in this man nondescript man's head.

736
01:02:49,960 --> 01:02:50,960
Hello.

737
01:02:50,960 --> 01:02:59,960
Assure us that we will be able to go to our destination and return before the storm.

738
01:02:59,960 --> 01:03:09,960
And our choices are once in a century blizzard or once in a century imperial warship.

739
01:03:09,960 --> 01:03:12,960
Collecting taxes which I've never paid.

740
01:03:12,960 --> 01:03:17,960
We can help you reduce your inventory which will help you with your taxation problem.

741
01:03:17,960 --> 01:03:24,960
Well I can't say that going out on a skíðverg is going to do you any favors in a blizzard because they're open to the weather aren't they.

742
01:03:24,960 --> 01:03:26,960
Do you have any trucks.

743
01:03:26,960 --> 01:03:29,960
You can't take a truck out on the ice.

744
01:03:29,960 --> 01:03:34,960
That's why your old friend Villiblom invented the skíðverg.

745
01:03:34,960 --> 01:03:36,960
It's either that or a dog sled.

746
01:03:36,960 --> 01:03:38,960
You can't take a truck out on the ice.

747
01:03:38,960 --> 01:03:41,960
What happened to building a tank.

748
01:03:41,960 --> 01:03:43,960
You were talking of building a tank.

749
01:03:43,960 --> 01:03:48,960
Yes I was talking about building a tank because frankly I want you to just go away.

750
01:03:48,960 --> 01:03:51,960
But they have a battleship.

751
01:03:51,960 --> 01:03:54,960
What are we going to do with a tank.

752
01:03:54,960 --> 01:03:57,960
Do you have a dog sled available right now.

753
01:03:57,960 --> 01:03:59,960
Yes.

754
01:03:59,960 --> 01:04:01,960
With dogs.

755
01:04:01,960 --> 01:04:03,960
Yes.

756
01:04:03,960 --> 01:04:05,960
That will be four diamonds.

757
01:04:05,960 --> 01:04:07,960
We need four.

758
01:04:07,960 --> 01:04:11,960
Yes I know that's why it will be four diamonds.

759
01:04:11,960 --> 01:04:13,960
I can't you know.

760
01:04:13,960 --> 01:04:16,960
Your wonderful jarlness

761
01:04:16,960 --> 01:04:17,960
I'm so sorry.

762
01:04:17,960 --> 01:04:19,960
I'm losing my manners again.

763
01:04:19,960 --> 01:04:21,960
It's the stress of all these taxes.

764
01:04:21,960 --> 01:04:23,960
One moment.

765
01:04:23,960 --> 01:04:31,960
How about we pay you upon our return so that you will not have any diamonds to declare who the imperial ship.

766
01:04:31,960 --> 01:04:33,960
Yes.

767
01:04:33,960 --> 01:04:35,960
You can make a persuasion roll then.

768
01:04:35,960 --> 01:04:36,960
That's good.

769
01:04:36,960 --> 01:04:40,960
Which is a will roll with your bonuses for being famed.

770
01:04:40,960 --> 01:04:45,960
Can I provide guest counsel because this is a matter of custom and law.

771
01:04:45,960 --> 01:04:46,960
Sure.

772
01:04:46,960 --> 01:04:47,960
Three weals.

773
01:04:47,960 --> 01:04:49,960
Nice wrinkle.

774
01:04:49,960 --> 01:04:50,960
Thank you.

775
01:04:50,960 --> 01:04:52,960
Twenty three.

776
01:04:52,960 --> 01:04:53,960
Total.

777
01:04:53,960 --> 01:04:56,960
You drive a hard bargain but I'll accept it.

778
01:04:56,960 --> 01:04:58,960
I want your seal though.

779
01:04:58,960 --> 01:05:05,960
I want your signet ring stamping in wax to prove that we have a contract.

780
01:05:05,960 --> 01:05:06,960
Certainly.

781
01:05:06,960 --> 01:05:07,960
Easy.

782
01:05:07,960 --> 01:05:09,960
Eir don't die.

783
01:05:09,960 --> 01:05:12,960
Again.

784
01:05:12,960 --> 01:05:14,960
Well the dogs are all saddled.

785
01:05:14,960 --> 01:05:16,960
The dogs are saddled.

786
01:05:16,960 --> 01:05:18,960
The dogs are already out the back.

787
01:05:18,960 --> 01:05:22,960
I've been using them all morning.

788
01:05:22,960 --> 01:05:34,960
Oh do you have this is a do you have clothing for the snow winter big camouflage body bags etc.

789
01:05:34,960 --> 01:05:36,960
Things camping.

790
01:05:36,960 --> 01:05:37,960
Yes.

791
01:05:37,960 --> 01:05:39,960
I want all of it.

792
01:05:39,960 --> 01:05:41,960
This is a travel emporium.

793
01:05:41,960 --> 01:05:45,960
I'm impressed that you've actually asked for some things that will help you out on the ice.

794
01:05:45,960 --> 01:05:48,960
Normally you go out all over of a dither

795
01:05:48,960 --> 01:05:50,960
That is true.

796
01:05:50,960 --> 01:05:52,960
We have learned.

797
01:05:52,960 --> 01:05:54,960
Oh flares.

798
01:05:54,960 --> 01:05:59,960
Now you bought my entire stock of flares last time.

799
01:05:59,960 --> 01:06:04,960
You probably still got 77 of them left.

800
01:06:04,960 --> 01:06:12,960
So I'll need winter winter clothing food bags supplies.

801
01:06:12,960 --> 01:06:13,960
All of that.

802
01:06:13,960 --> 01:06:14,960
Yes.

803
01:06:14,960 --> 01:06:15,960
Yes.

804
01:06:15,960 --> 01:06:20,960
I'll add it to your tab but that's going to be five diamonds when you come back.

805
01:06:20,960 --> 01:06:21,960
Fine fine.

806
01:06:21,960 --> 01:06:23,960
There's no sale or return either.

807
01:06:23,960 --> 01:06:25,960
That be giving me any of that funny business.

808
01:06:25,960 --> 01:06:27,960
No funny business.

809
01:06:27,960 --> 01:06:32,960
Do you recall we made a deal before and we delivered.

810
01:06:32,960 --> 01:06:34,960
You lost my lovely seal skin coat.

811
01:06:34,960 --> 01:06:36,960
But we got you the blubber.

812
01:06:36,960 --> 01:06:42,960
Although they do say that that was the cause of the rabboon fever.

813
01:06:42,960 --> 01:06:44,960
So it's all a very mixed blessing isn't it.

814
01:06:44,960 --> 01:06:46,960
That is news to us.

815
01:06:46,960 --> 01:06:53,960
Well it's all over town that you were the ones that came back with the stinking jötunn fish and cause rabboon fever.

816
01:06:53,960 --> 01:06:55,960
The winter wise have been saying it for weeks now.

817
01:06:55,960 --> 01:06:57,960
We weren't here for weeks.

818
01:06:57,960 --> 01:06:59,960
That's as maybe.

819
01:06:59,960 --> 01:07:06,960
All right the dog sled is available out of the back should you wish to use it.

820
01:07:06,960 --> 01:07:08,960
Yeah let's go.

821
01:07:08,960 --> 01:07:09,960
There either way.

822
01:07:09,960 --> 01:07:14,960
So you've got a rough handle on these coordinates.

823
01:07:14,960 --> 01:07:20,960
I'm going to also advise you that he give you some kind of geolocation device.

824
01:07:20,960 --> 01:07:33,960
In order to pinpoint the location as opposed to spend several days effectively wandering around on the sea ice in a kind of doomed Victorian expedition style.

825
01:07:33,960 --> 01:07:36,960
I'm going out for a minute.

826
01:07:36,960 --> 01:07:39,960
Maybe quite some time.

827
01:07:39,960 --> 01:07:48,960
I just watched a thing on Shackleton and I was endlessly entertained by he left his crew on Elephant Island sailed for weeks.

828
01:07:48,960 --> 01:07:56,960
Then landed in wherever he landed and had to climb over a mountain after sailing for weeks.

829
01:07:56,960 --> 01:07:58,960
And they were just wearing.

830
01:07:58,960 --> 01:07:59,960
Yeah they were wearing wool.

831
01:07:59,960 --> 01:08:00,960
They were they were.

832
01:08:00,960 --> 01:08:03,960
I mean it was just it's an incredible.

833
01:08:03,960 --> 01:08:10,960
And so I was watching with my wife and I was like where you at David Goggins take that.

834
01:08:10,960 --> 01:08:17,960
So channel that experience and you can perhaps relive it now.

835
01:08:17,960 --> 01:08:26,960
As you blunder onto the sea ice with all of that hubris that Shackleton possessed.

836
01:08:26,960 --> 01:08:32,960
Towards a once in a century blizzard.

837
01:08:32,960 --> 01:08:34,960
Well if you're going to do it.

838
01:08:34,960 --> 01:08:37,960
Yomi and I have seen a few of these then.

839
01:08:37,960 --> 01:08:40,960
That's a really good point.

840
01:08:40,960 --> 01:08:41,960
You have.

841
01:08:41,960 --> 01:08:45,960
This is Ljomi's tenth once in a century blizzard.

842
01:08:45,960 --> 01:08:47,960
All right.

843
01:08:47,960 --> 01:08:52,960
The frozen sea ice makes for a great surface for traveling.

844
01:08:52,960 --> 01:08:59,960
It's hard and smooth and your sleds can grip well enough to travel at top speeds with no hazards for miles.

845
01:08:59,960 --> 01:09:07,960
So you fly on into the Polar Night marveling at the constellations above like the eyes of the Thjazi.

846
01:09:07,960 --> 01:09:11,960
Which appear high overhead or Frigga's Distaff

847
01:09:11,960 --> 01:09:17,960
The three bright stars make up the constellation we know today as the Orion Hunter.

848
01:09:17,960 --> 01:09:21,960
There is no life in this starry void.

849
01:09:21,960 --> 01:09:22,960
There are no mountains.

850
01:09:22,960 --> 01:09:23,960
There are no valleys.

851
01:09:23,960 --> 01:09:25,960
No rivers or shores.

852
01:09:25,960 --> 01:09:27,960
Just an inferno of ice.

853
01:09:27,960 --> 01:09:30,960
There is no near nor far.

854
01:09:30,960 --> 01:09:31,960
No east nor west.

855
01:09:31,960 --> 01:09:33,960
No real here or there.

856
01:09:33,960 --> 01:09:42,960
Just the fragile beams of your torches that you hold out on the sleds as they crew the endless depths.

857
01:09:42,960 --> 01:09:44,960
Is the battleship following us?

858
01:09:44,960 --> 01:09:46,960
No.

859
01:09:46,960 --> 01:09:47,960
OK, good.

860
01:09:47,960 --> 01:09:50,960
I had a vision of someone looking behind us.

861
01:09:50,960 --> 01:09:57,960
I think you should be more worried about the giant hulking thing with antlers coming out of its head that I feel we're racing towards.

862
01:09:57,960 --> 01:10:00,960
But you know, that's just me.

863
01:10:00,960 --> 01:10:03,960
Yeah, and that was referenced in the newspaper as well.

864
01:10:03,960 --> 01:10:05,960
The legendary beast.

865
01:10:05,960 --> 01:10:07,960
Can you remember what that was called?

866
01:10:07,960 --> 01:10:09,960
Well, I've got it right here.

867
01:10:09,960 --> 01:10:12,960
It was called...

868
01:10:12,960 --> 01:10:14,960
I'm going to pretend I'm remembering it.

869
01:10:14,960 --> 01:10:15,960
It was...

870
01:10:15,960 --> 01:10:16,960
ijiraq.

871
01:10:16,960 --> 01:10:17,960
Was it ijiraq?

872
01:10:17,960 --> 01:10:28,960
The story in the newspapers had talked about a Wane Hunter who had discovered this legendary half reindeer, half man creature.

873
01:10:28,960 --> 01:10:31,960
The ijiraq out on the ice.

874
01:10:31,960 --> 01:10:39,960
And it was just enough news to make the front page a little bit like a Bigfoot sighting.

875
01:10:39,960 --> 01:10:42,960
Anyway, the ship is not following you.

876
01:10:42,960 --> 01:10:43,960
Rube.

877
01:10:43,960 --> 01:10:50,960
It's going to take probably three days to get to those coordinates on Dog Sleds.

878
01:10:50,960 --> 01:10:52,960
This is a sizable journey.

879
01:10:52,960 --> 01:10:53,960
Yep.

880
01:10:53,960 --> 01:10:56,960
So a gross miscalculation.

881
01:10:56,960 --> 01:10:57,960
I thought it was closer.

882
01:10:57,960 --> 01:11:01,960
We're going to have to go through a blizzard.

883
01:11:01,960 --> 01:11:04,960
Yeah, but Ljomi and I have seen several of these and survived.

884
01:11:04,960 --> 01:11:07,960
You'll probably be fine.

885
01:11:07,960 --> 01:11:08,960
Yeah.

886
01:11:08,960 --> 01:11:17,960
But one of you is made of rock and the other of wood, which is slightly more durable than meat.

887
01:11:17,960 --> 01:11:18,960
And dogs.

888
01:11:18,960 --> 01:11:19,960
But only slightly.

889
01:11:19,960 --> 01:11:25,960
I mean, once you're pummeled by shattered ice crystals, not much survives.

890
01:11:25,960 --> 01:11:29,960
There'll just be a slightly different frozen form in the wasteland.

891
01:11:29,960 --> 01:11:34,960
We didn't choose your body.

892
01:11:34,960 --> 01:11:36,960
That was your choice.

893
01:11:36,960 --> 01:11:40,960
I presume we have tents to try and weather some of this out.

894
01:11:40,960 --> 01:11:45,960
Yes, you were quite clear about asking Gunnar for all the supplies.

895
01:11:45,960 --> 01:11:47,960
Yeah, the supplies and the bags.

896
01:11:47,960 --> 01:11:51,960
Would Gigi know how to make an igloo?

897
01:11:51,960 --> 01:11:52,960
He has no profession.

898
01:11:52,960 --> 01:11:54,960
He does not make anything.

899
01:11:54,960 --> 01:12:00,960
No, but if it came to it, you could dig a snow cave or a Quinzee, as they are known.

900
01:12:00,960 --> 01:12:03,960
Which Zizi would not know.

901
01:12:03,960 --> 01:12:08,960
But maybe Eir or Ljomi would know after eight of these.

902
01:12:08,960 --> 01:12:12,960
Yeah, and building a shelter is a custom.

903
01:12:12,960 --> 01:12:15,960
I'm hoping to argue.

904
01:12:15,960 --> 01:12:16,960
Nice.

905
01:12:16,960 --> 01:12:21,960
Yeah, I will build the customary winter shelter.

906
01:12:21,960 --> 01:12:30,960
Yeah, I think that that will mean that you know the custom of building winter shelters as opposed to building winter shelters.

907
01:12:30,960 --> 01:12:40,960
CJ, I think in future Gigi, when he asks the question, instead of saying, would Gigi know how to build an ice an igloo?

908
01:12:40,960 --> 01:12:44,960
Instead, you say Gigi would know how to build an igloo.

909
01:12:44,960 --> 01:12:51,960
And see if it flies.

910
01:12:51,960 --> 01:12:52,960
He's actually doing the opposite.

911
01:12:52,960 --> 01:13:01,960
He's actually saying that Gigi is so to the man abhorrent, he wouldn't even get his hands dirty thinking about it.

912
01:13:01,960 --> 01:13:07,960
And all tremendably on tremendously on brand or tremendously.

913
01:13:07,960 --> 01:13:14,960
Tremendously. But not as helpfully on brand, perhaps as one anyway.

914
01:13:14,960 --> 01:13:15,960
Never mind. All right.

915
01:13:15,960 --> 01:13:20,960
I'm sorry. Did you accuse me of being helpful?

916
01:13:20,960 --> 01:13:22,960
I see the problem. Some of us are trying to survive.

917
01:13:22,960 --> 01:13:25,960
There's the problem.

918
01:13:25,960 --> 01:13:29,960
So we're just going, we can all see the blizzard coming. Yes.

919
01:13:29,960 --> 01:13:31,960
Is that what's happening?

920
01:13:31,960 --> 01:13:47,960
After a night camped below, the dazzling array of stars above you, it's early the following morning that the constellations are swallowed by a dark cloud.

921
01:13:47,960 --> 01:13:58,960
The air grows still for a long eerie moment and the sky begins to roar and a wall of noise blasts across the ice plains.

922
01:13:58,960 --> 01:14:10,960
You are instantly covered with shattered crystals, blinding, suffocating, burying anything exposed to the cruel elements.

923
01:14:10,960 --> 01:14:13,960
Is it too late to dig the...

924
01:14:13,960 --> 01:14:17,960
Let's wrap up the meat in something protective.

925
01:14:17,960 --> 01:14:20,960
Oh wait, dogs.

926
01:14:20,960 --> 01:14:21,960
Dogs.

927
01:14:21,960 --> 01:14:25,960
Yes, wrap them in the dogs. That's a good idea.

928
01:14:25,960 --> 01:14:28,960
When we get there, we may have fewer.

929
01:14:28,960 --> 01:14:34,960
Now, exposed creatures in this area that aren't wearing protective clothing are going to take 1 by 6 damage.

930
01:14:34,960 --> 01:14:48,960
However, you pretty much said you were going to get protective clothing, so you can make a Might challenge roll at the end of each minute you are out in the open in order to withstand the onslaught.

931
01:14:48,960 --> 01:14:55,960
And again, like I said, this is once in a century storm destined to leave catastrophe in its wake.

932
01:14:55,960 --> 01:14:59,960
The turbulence behind the front is so incredible.

933
01:14:59,960 --> 01:15:07,960
This is like putting snow and ice into a grinder. It's not just a storm of drifting snowflakes.

934
01:15:07,960 --> 01:15:13,960
It is flash frozen droplets firing sideways from the sky.

935
01:15:13,960 --> 01:15:18,960
Ice needles moving at more than 60 miles an hour.

936
01:15:18,960 --> 01:15:23,960
So, Ontario.

937
01:15:23,960 --> 01:15:28,960
I propose we pause and dig a shelter under the snow.

938
01:15:28,960 --> 01:15:29,960
Yes, yes.

939
01:15:29,960 --> 01:15:31,960
Digging?

940
01:15:31,960 --> 01:15:36,960
Yes, digging. It's like making a snow fort.

941
01:15:36,960 --> 01:15:39,960
It's fun. It's fun, Gigi.

942
01:15:39,960 --> 01:15:43,960
Am I making a Might challenge roll? Because we're exposed, right?

943
01:15:43,960 --> 01:15:48,960
You are exposed, and so you're going to make challenge rolls for each minute that you are out in the open.

944
01:15:48,960 --> 01:15:53,960
Alright, let's dig a hole. I'm using my route quickly and I'm digging a hole.

945
01:15:53,960 --> 01:15:57,960
The challenge is you've kind of left it too late.

946
01:15:57,960 --> 01:16:08,960
By the time you start digging, you're being ravaged by all of these needles of ice, the shards of the storm.

947
01:16:08,960 --> 01:16:15,960
Okay. I rolled a ten on my Might roll.

948
01:16:15,960 --> 01:16:17,960
I rolled a 13.

949
01:16:17,960 --> 01:16:18,960
14.

950
01:16:18,960 --> 01:16:28,960
Okay, you have enough resilience to struggle through the ferocity of the storm and yelling at each other.

951
01:16:28,960 --> 01:16:32,960
You can imagine Gigi yelling across the storm trying to get his point across.

952
01:16:32,960 --> 01:16:37,960
Almost lost in the cacophony that surrounds you.

953
01:16:37,960 --> 01:16:43,960
Eir will helpfully explain there's some ancient customs that go with it. It's utterly useless. Sorry.

954
01:16:43,960 --> 01:16:46,960
I want to cast Wave Runes to protect us.

955
01:16:46,960 --> 01:16:49,960
Oh, okay.

956
01:16:49,960 --> 01:17:00,960
You can cut the sacred runes into the snow in order to summon their secrets to protect you for the next minute.

957
01:17:00,960 --> 01:17:02,960
It's like a shield, right?

958
01:17:02,960 --> 01:17:08,960
It acts as a shield of some description that protects you at least for a minute.

959
01:17:08,960 --> 01:17:12,960
You have to hope that this storm doesn't last for hours.

960
01:17:12,960 --> 01:17:19,960
If only you had started digging this earlier because you knew the exact moment the onslaught would hit you.

961
01:17:19,960 --> 01:17:27,960
You know, team, I've said this before and I'll say it again. One of us needs to start paying attention.

962
01:17:27,960 --> 01:17:29,960
Well, who? Which one?

963
01:17:29,960 --> 01:17:34,960
I don't know. And if you don't remember me saying it, that means you weren't paying attention.

964
01:17:34,960 --> 01:17:46,960
The Raven Skull pendant that you were given by Raudr Cerdan begins to glow in your pocket.

965
01:17:46,960 --> 01:17:48,960
Oh.

966
01:17:48,960 --> 01:17:52,960
Glow in whatever passes through your pocket.

967
01:17:52,960 --> 01:17:57,960
It tucked in underneath the Mayfly.

968
01:17:57,960 --> 01:18:02,960
Okay, we're still trying to dig into the snow, though. It's glowing.

969
01:18:02,960 --> 01:18:09,960
If Yomi moves it around, does it get stronger in some directions, weaker in others?

970
01:18:09,960 --> 01:18:12,960
I'm moving it very quickly and watching.

971
01:18:12,960 --> 01:18:14,960
You're using it like a lodestone?

972
01:18:14,960 --> 01:18:19,960
Yes, like a lodestone, very much so. Exactly what I was about to say.

973
01:18:19,960 --> 01:18:32,960
It does not, although with your tree sight, this time you notice that there is some kind of temporal effect.

974
01:18:32,960 --> 01:18:40,960
There's something happening here which is disrupting the usual flow of time.

975
01:18:40,960 --> 01:18:49,960
The form itself appears to be receding in a very small localized area around this Raven Skull.

976
01:18:49,960 --> 01:18:54,960
What are we doing? I don't know what to do.

977
01:18:54,960 --> 01:18:57,960
Take the opportunity to dig more?

978
01:18:57,960 --> 01:19:06,960
I guess, so I'll keep moving. Can I? It's on the chain. I'm afraid to spin it. It might go flying off into the blizzard. No, I'm really not.

979
01:19:06,960 --> 01:19:16,960
This is an intricately carved fragile Raven Skull with a jet-to-black beak that is on a chain.

980
01:19:16,960 --> 01:19:25,960
Okay, I'm just going to move it with my hand around us while digging with the other hand and trying to get us enough underground.

981
01:19:25,960 --> 01:19:30,960
I'm going to let you make another wits roll with your wisdom of ages.

982
01:19:30,960 --> 01:19:47,960
Okay. Wow. Yep. So if I add, I get a plus three. So that gets me to six. Don't panic, anyone.

983
01:19:47,960 --> 01:19:58,960
There must be some customer around spinning a Raven Skull. I think I saw that in a historic interpretation one time.

984
01:19:58,960 --> 01:20:04,960
I can't turn my note on the wisdom of the ages either. Add a weal.

985
01:20:04,960 --> 01:20:07,960
You need to improve your note-taking.

986
01:20:07,960 --> 01:20:14,960
I agree. I agree. There's going to be a whole... Yeah, so that added four, so I'm up to seven now.

987
01:20:14,960 --> 01:20:15,960
Oh, no, no, no.

988
01:20:15,960 --> 01:20:16,960
You're on 11.

989
01:20:16,960 --> 01:20:19,960
Yeah, I'm on 11. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

990
01:20:19,960 --> 01:20:37,960
So linking all of the bird adages to your current bird brain, you perhaps realize that Steingrimmer, the preacher, is aware that you were in possession of this artifact.

991
01:20:37,960 --> 01:20:40,960
And that gets us out of the story.

992
01:20:40,960 --> 01:20:41,960
I knew it.

993
01:20:41,960 --> 01:20:45,960
Okay, he knew. So...

994
01:20:45,960 --> 01:20:47,960
Fortunately, he's dead.

995
01:20:47,960 --> 01:20:49,960
Yeah.

996
01:20:49,960 --> 01:20:54,960
So... that feels like a step in the right direction.

997
01:20:54,960 --> 01:20:58,960
Yeah. Right, he... well...

998
01:20:58,960 --> 01:21:21,960
Talking of steps in the right direction, you take a step back in time surrounded by a flurry of giant feathers. You find yourself waking up again in the early morning, coming out of your tent about an hour before the storm approached times that dominated the horizon.

999
01:21:21,960 --> 01:21:26,960
Ah, okay. So now we have time to dig a shelter.

1000
01:21:26,960 --> 01:21:30,960
So now you have time to dig a shelter.

1001
01:21:30,960 --> 01:21:34,960
Let's do it. Let's do it, gentlemen. I use the term loosely.

1002
01:21:34,960 --> 01:21:36,960
Well, we have time to stop for coffee.

1003
01:21:36,960 --> 01:21:40,960
How far back does that thing go?

1004
01:21:40,960 --> 01:21:41,960
Yeah.

1005
01:21:41,960 --> 01:21:43,960
That's a good question.

1006
01:21:43,960 --> 01:21:57,960
All right, I'm going to share with you the mechanical details of this artifact, the Hrafnhaus, the Ravenskull, and its very potent powers.

1007
01:21:57,960 --> 01:22:00,960
One of the examples is digging a snow cave.

1008
01:22:00,960 --> 01:22:04,960
The very first example is digging a snow cave.

1009
01:22:04,960 --> 01:22:05,960
That's great.

1010
01:22:05,960 --> 01:22:09,960
I feel railroaded.

1011
01:22:09,960 --> 01:22:13,960
Is that the first time?

1012
01:22:13,960 --> 01:22:15,960
If that's what it takes.

1013
01:22:15,960 --> 01:22:30,960
The joy of this device is that you don't have to feel railroaded. You can, should you remember to use its power once per adventure, you can use the Hrafnhaus to...

1014
01:22:30,960 --> 01:22:37,960
Because what it effectively does is it can loop time, actualizing new events as old memories.

1015
01:22:37,960 --> 01:22:41,960
Very good. So, well, we're going to dig a proper snow cave.

1016
01:22:41,960 --> 01:22:46,960
We're going to install beams and there'll be a little living area, a cooking room.

1017
01:22:46,960 --> 01:22:53,960
Do you want to have any conjecture as to what the artifact might be given the name of the campaign?

1018
01:22:53,960 --> 01:22:56,960
Well, there are some famous Ravens.

1019
01:22:56,960 --> 01:22:59,960
I thought thought and memory were the names of the Ravens.

1020
01:22:59,960 --> 01:23:02,960
Huginn and Munnin, that's right, thought and memory.

1021
01:23:02,960 --> 01:23:08,960
It's Hugen and Murnin. Imagine Umlauts over everything.

1022
01:23:08,960 --> 01:23:11,960
Apologies to everyone in Scandiwegia.

1023
01:23:11,960 --> 01:23:14,960
Yeah.

1024
01:23:14,960 --> 01:23:17,960
So it's going to be the skull of one of the most proud.

1025
01:23:17,960 --> 01:23:18,960
CJ?

1026
01:23:18,960 --> 01:23:22,960
There's another chance for you to demonstrate something.

1027
01:23:22,960 --> 01:23:27,960
Not Histra, whatever that word is. I can't say it. I can say it earlier. I can't say it now.

1028
01:23:27,960 --> 01:23:29,960
We've reached this point in the evening.

1029
01:23:29,960 --> 01:23:32,960
It's historyness.

1030
01:23:32,960 --> 01:23:33,960
Historicity?

1031
01:23:33,960 --> 01:23:35,960
Histrionic.

1032
01:23:35,960 --> 01:23:38,960
Histrionic.

1033
01:23:38,960 --> 01:23:40,960
That's histrionics.

1034
01:23:40,960 --> 01:23:41,960
Yes.

1035
01:23:41,960 --> 01:23:53,960
CJ, you might like to opine then on the enormity of the revelation that that may well indeed be the skull of one of Odin's Ravens.

1036
01:23:53,960 --> 01:23:56,960
I don't think they're supposed to be dead, are they?

1037
01:23:56,960 --> 01:24:00,960
They're not supposed to be.

1038
01:24:00,960 --> 01:24:02,960
But one appears to be.

1039
01:24:02,960 --> 01:24:06,960
Worrying. Very worrying.

1040
01:24:06,960 --> 01:24:17,960
But it also has the ability to bend time and by extension was probably the cause of the time link in the previous adventure.

1041
01:24:17,960 --> 01:24:26,960
Oh, and he did the guy there, the guy, the son of Ivaldi that we met.

1042
01:24:26,960 --> 01:24:27,960
Raudr Cerden?

1043
01:24:27,960 --> 01:24:38,960
Yeah, him. That's what I said. He did mention using time as part of the defense for their site. He had the skull.

1044
01:24:38,960 --> 01:24:44,960
Along with that note that said, a trip down memory lane.

1045
01:24:44,960 --> 01:24:47,960
And he gave us the coordinates. Well, did he not?

1046
01:24:47,960 --> 01:24:48,960
He did.

1047
01:24:48,960 --> 01:24:49,960
In a little gift box.

1048
01:24:49,960 --> 01:24:51,960
What does that say about it?

1049
01:24:51,960 --> 01:25:01,960
If I had to venture a guess, he wanted to keep it for himself, but saw how pathetic and moronic we are and decided that we would be better off having it.

1050
01:25:01,960 --> 01:25:02,960
It fits.

1051
01:25:02,960 --> 01:25:05,960
Yeah, that tracks.

1052
01:25:05,960 --> 01:25:06,960
Yeah.

1053
01:25:06,960 --> 01:25:08,960
It was pity.

1054
01:25:08,960 --> 01:25:09,960
We will take it.

1055
01:25:09,960 --> 01:25:10,960
And we have it.

1056
01:25:10,960 --> 01:25:12,960
Build a cave!

1057
01:25:12,960 --> 01:25:25,960
Somewhere the Norns who are weaving and twining fate together to come up with this compelling quest of just going, oh my God, we made a turn.

1058
01:25:25,960 --> 01:25:27,960
They're gripping their heads.

1059
01:25:27,960 --> 01:25:29,960
You're making that pose again.

1060
01:25:29,960 --> 01:25:36,960
They're tearing every thread they can find. All right, we've got to start over. Let's unwind.

1061
01:25:36,960 --> 01:25:39,960
Quick, weave a new tapestry. Who can we get in?

1062
01:25:39,960 --> 01:25:45,960
Oh, I'm fine.

1063
01:25:45,960 --> 01:25:59,960
All right. Now, so you have the description given to you there of new spell, the time loop spell, Timmurlyka in Old Norse, because they had words for time loop.

1064
01:25:59,960 --> 01:26:04,960
You have when and how you can use it.

1065
01:26:04,960 --> 01:26:15,960
It is now down to you to remember to use it to undo one grievous mistake per adventure.

1066
01:26:15,960 --> 01:26:17,960
But there's so many.

1067
01:26:17,960 --> 01:26:25,960
Can we wait till the end and then decide which one was the most grievous?

1068
01:26:25,960 --> 01:26:26,960
Who's the worst?

1069
01:26:26,960 --> 01:26:27,960
How far back does it go?

1070
01:26:27,960 --> 01:26:28,960
One is crazy.

1071
01:26:28,960 --> 01:26:31,960
No, no, it goes back one hour.

1072
01:26:31,960 --> 01:26:32,960
One hour.

1073
01:26:32,960 --> 01:26:35,960
I'm glad he's got that wrong straight away.

1074
01:26:35,960 --> 01:26:41,960
It goes back one day and it was kept in the shed with the tank.

1075
01:26:41,960 --> 01:26:43,960
Right.

1076
01:26:43,960 --> 01:26:46,960
That must be it.

1077
01:26:46,960 --> 01:26:48,960
OK, I'll read the full description.

1078
01:26:48,960 --> 01:26:50,960
How did everybody get it?

1079
01:26:50,960 --> 01:26:51,960
Did you guys get this?

1080
01:26:51,960 --> 01:26:52,960
Yeah.

1081
01:26:52,960 --> 01:26:53,960
Oh, yeah.

1082
01:26:53,960 --> 01:26:56,960
I think you should read it in a given style.

1083
01:26:56,960 --> 01:26:58,960
It's not for our listener.

1084
01:26:58,960 --> 01:27:01,960
OK.

1085
01:27:01,960 --> 01:27:03,960
It's a little slow, by the way.

1086
01:27:03,960 --> 01:27:07,960
We're so sorry.

1087
01:27:07,960 --> 01:27:15,960
Now that we've got through that.

1088
01:27:15,960 --> 01:27:25,960
Through the magic of memory, the spirit of Munnin is looping time, creating new events as old memories.

1089
01:27:25,960 --> 01:27:39,960
And through dint of its huge power, time is reversed by one hour, enabling you to build the snow cave and shelter through the storm as it passes over you.

1090
01:27:39,960 --> 01:27:52,960
And what would have been maybe your inevitable demise, certainly the demise of the dogs on the team, which would have caused animal rights activists everywhere listening to this podcast.

1091
01:27:52,960 --> 01:27:53,960
Deep consternation.

1092
01:27:53,960 --> 01:27:54,960
We can let them all know.

1093
01:27:54,960 --> 01:28:01,960
We can reassure them that no imaginary animals were harmed during the making of this podcast.

1094
01:28:01,960 --> 01:28:04,960
Some of the earlier ones, there were some that got harmed.

1095
01:28:04,960 --> 01:28:06,960
But not this one.

1096
01:28:06,960 --> 01:28:08,960
And I think that's what we should focus on.

1097
01:28:08,960 --> 01:28:10,960
As you often say, we're learning.

1098
01:28:10,960 --> 01:28:14,960
I learn.

1099
01:28:14,960 --> 01:28:15,960
All right.

1100
01:28:15,960 --> 01:28:24,960
Once the storm has subsided, you may proceed towards the coordinates.

1101
01:28:24,960 --> 01:28:39,960
Can you all give me an awareness roll with three woes because it's not the most clement weather and it does interfere with your ability to see things, spot things.

1102
01:28:39,960 --> 01:28:45,960
And natural 20 on the roll subtract two.

1103
01:28:45,960 --> 01:28:49,960
I subtracting the so I had three back to it.

1104
01:28:49,960 --> 01:28:52,960
So it's 19 and CJ, you've got a minus two.

1105
01:28:52,960 --> 01:28:53,960
Yes.

1106
01:28:53,960 --> 01:28:56,960
So my highest was five.

1107
01:28:56,960 --> 01:29:02,960
You will see, I'm staring at your image on the monitor and giving you a dead stare.

1108
01:29:02,960 --> 01:29:03,960
Minus two.

1109
01:29:03,960 --> 01:29:05,960
That's like a new low.

1110
01:29:05,960 --> 01:29:06,960
Yes.

1111
01:29:06,960 --> 01:29:10,960
You're giving a stare that I have failed to notice.

1112
01:29:10,960 --> 01:29:20,960
CJ is effectively navel gazing as opposed to looking out into the snowy waste.

1113
01:29:20,960 --> 01:29:22,960
What did he get?

1114
01:29:22,960 --> 01:29:24,960
14 minus 12.

1115
01:29:24,960 --> 01:29:38,960
So both of you see red eyes and air with your red vision.

1116
01:29:38,960 --> 01:29:48,960
You see a flitting figure, humanoid dancing between the snow dunes.

1117
01:29:48,960 --> 01:30:05,960
You know, Ljomi's tree site also detects the strange legendary beast that was laughed off in town as a sighting from a drug addled wane.

1118
01:30:05,960 --> 01:30:09,960
Can you both make a will change roll as well?

1119
01:30:09,960 --> 01:30:11,960
Having seen this apparition.

1120
01:30:11,960 --> 01:30:14,960
19.

1121
01:30:14,960 --> 01:30:16,960
I got another 20.

1122
01:30:16,960 --> 01:30:18,960
Is that right? Yes, I did.

1123
01:30:18,960 --> 01:30:19,960
Minus one.

1124
01:30:19,960 --> 01:30:20,960
So also a night.

1125
01:30:20,960 --> 01:30:39,960
Well, both of you are full of mental fortitude today because despite the fact there is something out there in the dark that haunts the night, it does not unnerve you and you gain no trauma from the chilling apparition.

1126
01:30:39,960 --> 01:30:41,960
It's a nice change.

1127
01:30:41,960 --> 01:30:43,960
This is what it's like.

1128
01:30:43,960 --> 01:30:48,960
There is definitely something out there though stalking you.

1129
01:30:48,960 --> 01:30:56,960
The dogs have noticed it and begin to snarl.

1130
01:30:56,960 --> 01:30:59,960
Yeah, well, that's gotten into them.

1131
01:30:59,960 --> 01:31:00,960
What was this thing called again?

1132
01:31:00,960 --> 01:31:02,960
Ian? What's it called?

1133
01:31:02,960 --> 01:31:04,960
A wane hunter, I believe.

1134
01:31:04,960 --> 01:31:07,960
Or so that was no, no, that's who saw it.

1135
01:31:07,960 --> 01:31:10,960
What we're seeing is the.

1136
01:31:10,960 --> 01:31:16,960
Is an ijiraq in the language of the Wanes.

1137
01:31:16,960 --> 01:31:23,960
Is either of you saying the name out loud so that you can kind of get clued in as to what you're seeing.

1138
01:31:23,960 --> 01:31:27,960
I'm not.

1139
01:31:27,960 --> 01:31:31,960
It is the ijiraq half man half reindeer.

1140
01:31:31,960 --> 01:31:33,960
Either.

1141
01:31:33,960 --> 01:31:35,960
Either.

1142
01:31:35,960 --> 01:31:36,960
What?

1143
01:31:36,960 --> 01:31:38,960
That's better when he says it.

1144
01:31:38,960 --> 01:31:41,960
It does everything does.

1145
01:31:41,960 --> 01:31:50,960
You push on through the teeth of the Gale and your lamp light catches something in the gloom.

1146
01:31:50,960 --> 01:31:56,960
An enormous mass projecting up from the sea of ice.

1147
01:31:56,960 --> 01:32:04,960
Your torch light catches a stenciled name on the side of an abandoned ship.

1148
01:32:04,960 --> 01:32:08,960
And you realize you have reached your destination.

1149
01:32:08,960 --> 01:32:12,960
The stenciled name is the Falkr.

1150
01:32:12,960 --> 01:32:21,960
A vessel partially encased in ice and snow, having clearly been grounded here for several days.

1151
01:32:21,960 --> 01:32:23,960
Let's climb aboard.

1152
01:32:23,960 --> 01:32:25,960
Yeah, is it?

1153
01:32:25,960 --> 01:32:27,960
I mean, are the lights on?

1154
01:32:27,960 --> 01:32:30,960
There are no lights on.

1155
01:32:30,960 --> 01:32:32,960
And no signs of life.

1156
01:32:32,960 --> 01:32:36,960
This is indeed the ship.

1157
01:32:36,960 --> 01:32:39,960
We should be right at home.

1158
01:32:39,960 --> 01:32:43,960
But I know the laws and customs surrounding salvage.

1159
01:32:43,960 --> 01:32:45,960
Something something it's ours something something.

1160
01:32:45,960 --> 01:32:49,960
Very true under prize law.

1161
01:32:49,960 --> 01:32:56,960
If you were able to claim this, this could indeed be your new vessel.

1162
01:32:56,960 --> 01:33:00,960
Well, I claim this vessel in the name of me.

1163
01:33:00,960 --> 01:33:03,960
And take the inevitable challenge.

1164
01:33:03,960 --> 01:33:05,960
If only you knew how to fly.

1165
01:33:12,960 --> 01:33:19,960
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1166
01:33:19,960 --> 01:33:31,960
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