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Naglfar is loose. Over the sea from the north there sails a ship with the people of Hel.

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At the helm stands Loki. After the wolf do wild men follow, and with them the brother

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of Byleist goes.

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Welcome to Episode 14 of the Vikings and Valkyries podcast. Joining us to sail the ship of the

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dead are Bill, Steve, CJ, Jay and Evan. Welcome to you, Nailfarers.

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Hi, how are you?

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We have a new recruit to the ranks today, Evan, who is yet another Hopkins. So Evan,

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the question I have for you is what is it like growing up in a family where your uncle

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tries to murder you like Richard III?

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Yeah, it's definitely not easy from a young age. Fighting for scraps, making sure that

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this guy isn't kind of around your back. You know, yeah, growing up as a Hopkins is always

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great. There's a certain je ne sais quoi around what we do as a people and really looking

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forward to putting that on display today.

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Very good. Bill in the background is wielding all kinds of weaponry. So that's an interesting

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commentary. I wanted to just take a moment to look at the name Hopkins. Have any of you

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various Hopkins on this call got an idea of the origin of the name Hopkins?

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That's fascinating.

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I've been told it's Welsh, but I don't know.

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Well then prepare to be amazed because I've done my research. It's actually from Hobb kin.

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So hin obviously being Kith and Kin family, but Hobb being the short form of Robert in

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the Middle Ages. And Robert itself has Old Norse origins. It comes from that first part,

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Rob comes from the Old Norse name Hróðr being translated as glorious or famed. So your name

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basically means Kin of glory.

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Wow. So we each get an inspiration point for that.

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Not quite yet. I wanted to make sure that everyone knew we were in a lustrous company.

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A few famous Hopkins for you. There's Matthew Hopkins, the 17th century witch finder general.

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My favorite.

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The poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins.

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Margaret, are you grieving over Golden Grove and leaving? I know Gerard Manley very well.

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Well, look at that. That's Sir Anthony Hopkins, who obviously played Odin. So you are related

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to the All Father.

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And then of course, Bonnie Tyler, who is still holding out for a hero. Bonnie Tyler's was

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born and maiden name was Gaynor Hopkins.

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I did not know that.

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Gaynor. What a handle.

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So feel free to hum holding out for a hero as over the course of this podcast, because

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you certainly need one.

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As a historian, I would like to contest this honorable, you know, this interpretation of

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what the name means. Because if Bob is a is a colloquialization of Robert, then it seems

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to me that rather than being these illustrious people, they have a distant ancestor that

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happened to be that happened to be perhaps a servant or just had a buddy named Robert.

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And then when asked, what's your last name?

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Robert, my friend, my kin. Oh, OK. So Hopkins. OK, good.

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They are glory adjacent. There we go. Well put.

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Well, we're just awful.

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That's strong language, CJ, from someone whose character almost won the tug of war.

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Yes. OK. Well, point well taken.

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All right. Well, a chance for the Hopkins to live up to their illustrious ancestors in the adventure to come.

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Now we are playing the second half of the Ship of the Dead adventure. And so my question

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to you for the second part is this. This is for your inspiration points. In the Norse

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text, Gylfaginning, the gods warn about burying the dead with untrimmed nails. Why is that?

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So that they can't dig their way out of the grave.

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Yes. Yes. Yes. I think they wanted them to look tidy.

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Yeah. You know, you always want to go into the afterlife feeling clean. So maybe just clean up.

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You want to look your best, right? First impressions.

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Yeah, they wanted the nails for something. Why don't you carry on that thread, Steve?

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You're on something. Pull out that piece of thread and see where you get to.

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Well, we know that the we were told, I don't remember by whom, that the ship we were looking for was called

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Nail Farer or Nail Biter. Maybe it was a fever dream on my part, but I thought there was something about a ship made out of toenails.

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Steve, I'm going to give you a round of applause and I'm going to let you know that in that Norse text, I mentioned

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a character named High, which is an avatar of Odin, states that that ship, the Nail Farer, is made of dead people's nails.

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And so it's worth taking care lest anyone die with untrimmed nails, since such a person contributes to the ship,

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which gods and men wish would take a long time to finish. The Nail Farer is the ship that heralds Ragnarok.

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So if you don't trim your nails, you bring about the end of the world.

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Oh, gosh, that sounds like that ship would have quite the thick hide.

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All right. So that was part one. So I'm going to give you half the inspiration point.

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The second one is this is so we've done the mythological. Let's do the historical.

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The famous Norwegian Viking ship, the Oseberg ship, which was built in AD 820 or thereabouts and then buried in a grave mound

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several years later and then excavated in 1904. Can you name me five things found in the burial chamber within?

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Coin, mead, lodestone.

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None of those three things were found, partly because the tomb had been robbed by grave robbers

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and all the obviously valuable things had been purloined.

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So the Oseberg specifically had a body in it of a woman who was in her fifties thought to be Asa from the Ynglinga saga.

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The connection is tenuous, although it does date to around the right time, the eight thirties or so.

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So they found her body and then that of a servant, a couple of animals.

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There's also a carriage gets built kind of like a four post bed. And then there's also the prowl that has the actually this is one of the the evidences that we have for Viking hairstyles.

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There's a wood carving of a man with with long hair that gives us an idea of, you know, well, maybe they were long hair.

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So is that enough? Did I give you enough? I think you got the point.

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I'll give you the point. But the only thing that you missed was that was the so-called Buddha bucket,

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which I always find interesting personally because they found a bucket with an ornate carving of the Buddha on the side, which shows just how far they traveled.

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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I have a picture of it.

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That's cool. Yeah, that's really fun.

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Well, we don't know if they traveled that far, but they at least had trade connections with people who went that far.

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They traded with someone who had gone that far.

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So what we've got there then is we've is between Steve and CJ.

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They've got the inspiration points and the Hopkins boys.

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We know nothing. Yet to get on the scoreboard.

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The Hopkins in general.

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Just give it a little time. A little some creative answers.

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They were about creativity, not accuracy, more fact. Factual.

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So pressure makes diamonds, fellas. Pressure makes diamonds.

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So in my defense, the digging out of the grave thing was something that I saw recently about like vampires and trying to dig their way out of the grave and that whole thing.

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And since the lady ended up being Swedish, do I get the other half point for Steve?

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Sure. You've got the full inspiration point this week.

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And I was tempted to give Bill a bonus for quoting Gerald Manley Hopkins, but that's far too pretentious.

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So no. Wow. Yeah. Keep the point.

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Let's kick off this week's thrilling adventure.

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So we start on the frozen sea ice.

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Several days travel outside of Hjálpmakaar at the coordinates given to you by the Rune Master, Raudr Cerden.

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And I'm going to say that naming Raudr Cerdem, not Valdonki.

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Sounds like Valdonki to me. Valdonki it is, yes.

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The wind is howling and you are buffeted with snow and ice.

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A derelict ship emerges from the snow flurries partially enveloped by the icy wastes.

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The weak lights of your equipment can barely penetrate the storm, but you make out the stenciled name Falkr.

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It creates an ominous silhouette against the stark terrain like an enormous piece of driftwood cast onto a frozen shore.

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Above you, the scar in the sky continues to pulse with surreal beauty across the vast black canvas of space,

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a ribbon of radiant energy that bathes you in an otherworldly glow of pinks, blues and purples.

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It shimmers and undulates with a life of its own like a serpent twisting amidst the stars.

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It is little wonder that people mistook it for the Northern Lights.

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Now, Jay and Evan, you stand in the shadow of this derelict ship

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and then out of the gloom you see three strangers stagger out of this endless white abyss, each with a thousand yard stare,

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figures who have cheated death and escaped the freezing jaws of the brutal blizzard.

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Why, hello and welcome to the ship. I am Gravebreaker and this...

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Snow Thunder, how do you do?

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Greetings! I am Grjotgarth, the Magnificent.

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You may have heard of me, I won the silver medal in the All Asgard Games for Toga honk.

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My friend called me Gigi for short. And these two are a tree and a rock.

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Greetings.

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I would like to act like I'm at rest, but, uh, far from it, um, what are you doing here and, uh, why should we entertain you?

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Ljomi says, be careful with the diamond-encrusted one. He is not to be trusted.

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And Ljomi turns to Gigi and says, furious Starkad flies forth into the Danes, killing warriors all around him.

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And kind of looks off into the distance.

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Be careful with the tree, he is in fact batshit insane.

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You're made of diamonds?

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No, no, no, that's just a figure of speech.

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Eir will, uh, he waves his hands a moment, traces some runes in the air,

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and assumes his more normal form of a completely nondescript human.

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So, so just to be clear there, then, Steve, you are using a spell slot and casting Glamour Sight and, uh, changing your form?

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Absolutely, yes, I am. I'm returning to my normal form. I am a nondescript human.

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He is not as he seems.

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So just to be clear, have these three gotten into this ship?

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Jay and Evan, your characters, Snow Thunder, and Gravebreaker, are looking down at these three new arrivals.

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You stand in the kind of loading bay. This is a, this is a ship that is made of ironwood.

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It is a bio ship. It's not steel. It's not got bomb bay doors.

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It has a pore, a kind of hollow that acts as an entranceway.

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And you are poised in that entranceway, having just found this ship and hoping to claim it for yourself.

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And they stand outside.

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Okay.

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Well, Snow Thunder, you a man of war. Do you think we trust them?

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Listen, the one that is not made of diamonds may enter. The other two, I'm not so sure.

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I believe you mean me. Thank you, Snow Plunder.

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Okay.

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And Nave Beaker.

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You know, I-

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Well come and well met. The enemy rises over the hill.

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We cannot let these guys in.

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Get my axe, Snow Thunder. We cannot let them in.

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This talking tree would make good firewood, don't you think?

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You may not, sir. Here's my tree. And he's quite useful.

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Do you own this, what may be called a vessel?

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Technically, yes.

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Define technically.

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We are here in the doorway, right? It's finders keepers.

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Losers weepers.

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You who are versed in law, what does it say about a Jarl arriving and taking salvage rights?

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Good thing about not being able to read. Ain't no laws.

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What would be the custom for a Jarl, claiming salvage rights on all and everything he surveys?

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With honor plus seven.

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It's not like Ozymandias surveying the Lone and Level Sands. He doesn't just get to claim everything he gazes upon.

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It probably is the case that if these two junkers and salvagers have arrived there first, they've effectively planted their flag, so to speak.

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That said, Evan, can you give me an awareness roll, please?

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Nice 20, and a dice six.

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That's nine.

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And you also have an awareness modifier on your count, which is probably a plus three, so that should make it a 12 total, right?

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Looks like it, yeah.

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Something strange happens, because out in the blizzard beyond, out the corner of your eye, instead of where you would see normal shadows, you see a strange caribou-type creature.

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And then with a blink of an eye, you look round to focus on it, and it's gone.

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Whoa. Was that an elk? Caribou? Possibly a reindeer?

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Did it walk on two feet or four?

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You get the impression that it was standing upright.

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Upright? That is no elk that I have seen.

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I believe I know what it is. It's a large, dangerous creature that will kill us all unless we stow away in the ship.

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Let's make these negotiations quick, shall we? I'm a very rich man. If you partner with me, I will make it worth your while.

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See, we are already rich. We've already got money. What about manual labor? If you come in, can you possibly help us strip parts from the ship so that we can leave with these? You'd better hurry, the time is ticking.

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Yes, yes, very strong, as I said. Silver medalist.

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Okay, come on in. Get in here then. Get in.

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Go ahead and get your butts in.

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Get your ass in here.

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But, the deal is you must work.

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Evan, I'm going to ask you, there's something unnerving about seeing this creature, so I'm going to ask you to make a will roll this time.

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A one.

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Wow. Perfect. Critical fail. Nice. It carries on with the tradition, Evan. We roll badly here.

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Good.

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There is an unnerving sensation that comes over you that this creature with red eyes is looking deep into your spirit. I'm going to give you one trauma and you will have the frightened condition for the next minute or so as you wander through the ship.

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You are trembling and shaking, unnerved by the spectral apparition of the creature beyond.

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Oh, you guys, you guys see that? Holy shit.

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Hey, come on, man. Hold it together, man.

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That thing is terrifying. All those years in the woods. Bring it back. Bring it back, man. Feel it.

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I slap Gravebreaker in the face and say, get it together, baby.

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No.

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You're right. You're right. We've got to do it for our families.

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Yes.

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Is he laughing at us?

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No, he gets nervous.

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It's a stress response.

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All right, so we enter the ship. Yes.

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So let me give you a brief description because you're going to have to guide yourselves through the interior of the vessel.

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Some of you do have a floor plan by which you can navigate, but this first place that you are in here is the equipment lock, which stores the power supply. There's an assembly of gap suits, gap suits being the equivalent of space suits in this universe.

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The gap, the Ginnungagap being the name for space or the yawning void.

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The room is also the kind of extravehicular pour. So normally it's pressurized and depressurized, enabling gapfarers to venture into the void.

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Now here it is inert and remains open to the icy waste outside.

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Can you all, though, give me an awareness roll with two woes to see whether you spot anything as you clamber aboard?

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Yeah, nine minus six.

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Fourteen minus five, so nine.

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Thirteen total.

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OK, well, ironically, Ayr, it's you who notices a message scratched onto one of the gap suit helmet visors as you clamber aboard. You see words etched into the glass that say, sometimes dead is better.

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They're not wrong.

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You mentioned one of the other people sort of acted strangely when we boarded the ship. Do any of the rest of us feel strange?

209
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Well, me specifically, but no.

210
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Gravebreaker was the only one looking out over your shoulders at the creature behind us, the only one that spotted the creature and so therefore was the only one that got that trauma.

211
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OK, so that was from seeing the other creature, not from boarding the ship. Although this scratched on the space suit visor is not a great start.

212
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Feel free to give yourself a trauma.

213
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I mean, it goes with I have quite a collection.

214
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So, yeah, that sort of sets the creepiness meter to like one or two. I will show this to CJ and just go, look, my girl, this seems a strange thing to...

215
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Is it carved on the inside or the outside, by the way?

216
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On the outside.

217
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A strange artifact indeed.

218
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Perhaps some of these spacefarers were not, were not greatly optimistic.

219
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Or perhaps already dead, such as our Orcneas friends. Dead and alive again, and dead again.

220
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Yeah, I can relate.

221
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Let me give you a little bit of a description of the vessel itself from the inside. So the interior of this derelict, like I said, resembles a living tree.

222
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The walls and vaulted ceilings are made of ironwood and all of the passageways are kind of organic shapes and structures.

223
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The Norse shipwrights use a range of chemical treatments, heat and pressure, and they make this ironwood stronger than steel. It's a kind of miracle material that is used for these vessels.

224
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The ceilings here are about 10 feet high throughout the ship, although there are a lot of damaged areas that are caked in ice.

225
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And there are tendrils of sap that kind of drip down through any damaged areas.

226
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Are these surfaces on the floor, just for instance, covered in blood and gore?

227
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They are not.

228
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Okay, just thought I'd check.

229
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The ceiling is lit by this slightly orange glow, the result of genetically engineered bioluminescence. So it's very, it's not impossible for you to see. It's a kind of low light.

230
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And as you go through, you're going to be passing through doors that are effectively membranes. They're smart gating membranes that open and close, depending on changes in temperature or magnetic fields.

231
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They're like pores or hollows. They're natural symmetrical cavities in the wood. And as you approach each individual room, then this pore will open for you to pass through.

232
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And it does obviously make Ljomi feel at home. It's like walking around his innards.

233
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Relative of yours?

234
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Yggdrasil, made flesh, made ship, made whole.

235
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I'm going to whisper to grave breaker and say, come, let us do our task. And I would like to poke my head through the door leading into the ship.

236
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The path from this extravehicular pore, this equipment lock, takes you through, you can see on the other side, a kind of workshop area. Obviously ships like this that participate in any significant amount of fighting or traveling require constant repairs.

237
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And maintaining something like the Falkr is a colossal undertaking involving dozens of Wrights, Smiths and Shapers. In the room beyond, you see a forge, an anvil, a vice, a variety of tools.

238
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There's a carpenter's station and the walls are lined with work benches, laboratory equipment.

239
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Most of it is covered with dust and debris. On the far side, you do see several faded photographs pasted to the walls, which look like snapshots of Imperial soldiers at work and play, the kind of things that you'd put up on your desk at work.

240
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What are those nude men doing on the wall over there? So, jarl, tell me what brings you three strange people to the ship?

241
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We are trying to solve a mystery.

242
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What mystery?

243
00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:42,480
A mystery that so far is still none of your business. And since you decided not to partner with me, then it's very much none of your fucking business.

244
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Hmm. Hmm.

245
00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:51,480
Say, uh, Gravebreaker, what do we do to old boys like him back home, huh?

246
00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:58,480
Well, pardon me, I was thinking about the grotesque things that we would do to, uh...

247
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Absolutely grotesque.

248
00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:09,480
Grotesque things to men of his stature back at home. And, uh, I don't think you'd like to know what we'd do. I don't think you could handle it.

249
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I'm not afraid of you. We just took down an entire army of undead orcneas that came back to life the more we slaughtered them. And we still won.

250
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I take my rifle and I, uh, just kind of lick the tip and I say, uh, you better watch yourself, boy. And then I'm going to move into the, uh, into the ship.

251
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Menn, can you make the ship go, Ljomi asks?

252
00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:38,480
Uh, it seems we're not partners and it seems we're not, uh, sharing much information at this point.

253
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So unless you can, uh, give me some kind of olive branch fucking tree, um, then, you know, we could, uh, work something out maybe.

254
00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:51,480
I mean, hmm, yes.

255
00:24:51,480 --> 00:25:01,480
I'm going to give you, going to give you three locations as you peruse this workshop. I'll give you a number of destinations that you can think about going towards.

256
00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:15,480
To the north, there is a doorway to the northwest. Another doorway to the south. There is a third doorway.

257
00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:24,480
So Gigi is going to walk over to Error and he's going to reach into the illusion that's making him an nondescript person and feel around.

258
00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:26,480
This is going to be very intrusive. I'm sorry, Steve.

259
00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:27,480
Oh, hello.

260
00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:38,480
And he's going to pluck, he's going to pluck a diamond from the rock and then he's going to move over to the two new people and say, that's not a diamond.

261
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:46,480
Listen, I told you I'm very, very rich. And if you partner with me, I will make it worth your while. You think you have money?

262
00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:54,480
Wait until you see what we have in store. Here's your olive branch. And then I give it to them.

263
00:25:54,480 --> 00:26:04,480
Mmm, Snow Thunder. We have not seen diamonds like this before from our homeland. We must, we must agree. We must take this.

264
00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:19,480
Only in our wet dreams did we imagine such diamonds. I think we shall accept, accept your offer. And Mr. Ljomi, no, Mr. Eir, Mr. Eir.

265
00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:20,480
Hello.

266
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:25,480
Did you produce this diamond out of your anus? Where did this appear from?

267
00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:27,480
He's a shapeshifter. Don't trust him.

268
00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:30,480
I produced it from my pocket.

269
00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:34,480
Ah, much more civilized. Okay.

270
00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:35,480
He's the gift that keeps on giving.

271
00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:38,480
As any ordinary person would do. Yeah.

272
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:40,480
Appreciate it.

273
00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:48,480
Could I take a keen look around the room? I'm looking for anything, you know, I might like.

274
00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:51,480
I already like the pictures on the wall, but anything else I might like.

275
00:26:51,480 --> 00:27:04,480
You can help yourself to any of the tools that are around, but this is a very practical room. Like I said, for smiths and shapers, it's the equivalent of the engineering department.

276
00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:05,480
Okay.

277
00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:09,480
I, Eir, would like to look for more disturbing messages scratched on things.

278
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:11,480
See anything?

279
00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:25,480
Nothing scratched here in this room, despite your best efforts. Apart from those photos, shiny, happy, friendly people going about their lives in the Imperial forces.

280
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:34,480
You said that there were tools in this room. Do you think there was a, there would, there would maybe be a tool that I could get a couple more diamonds off of Eir?

281
00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:44,480
Good idea. We've got one. We've got one. One may be enough. One may suffice for now.

282
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:58,480
There is movement to the north in the, in the room. There is kind of a scrabbling and a crash as if someone has moved and knocked something over.

283
00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:08,480
Okay. Listen, listen here, Ljomi. You asked me a question earlier. You said, could we get the ship working?

284
00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:09,480
Yeah.

285
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:25,480
You help us out. We help you out. Okay. We might know a thing or two about how the ship works. So let's, let's make sure the ship is clear of any bad boys and maybe we can figure something out.

286
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:33,480
Yes. This sounds like a very good plan. I'll wait here and, and you make sure that there are no bad people.

287
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:36,480
And the most excellent plan.

288
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:39,480
I must prepare.

289
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:57,480
Yeah. It means the bugs. Eir would like to just, you know, when, when either Snowbreaker orGraveThunder says that we, Eir would like to, what's the equivalent of an insight check to sort of, are they bluffing when they say they know a thing or two about ships?

290
00:28:57,480 --> 00:28:59,480
How would I go about getting a feel for that?

291
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:01,480
You could ask the seer in your ear.

292
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:23,480
Hi, good. I can ask if this is in my head. Yes, that's the spirit. Oh, voices in my head. Well, the one in particular. Oh, voice in my head. Do either of these two have, do they have the knowledge we need to get this ship into space?

293
00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:28,480
Hrani, the spirit of the murdered seer, says yes.

294
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:32,480
Excellent. Also, crap.

295
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:34,480
Okay. Thank you, Prani.

296
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:37,480
The noise we heard, which direction did it come from?

297
00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:39,480
The north.

298
00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:42,480
And it wasn't murder, it was that worst manslaughter.

299
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:58,480
Well, look, grave breaker and I can pretty much take care of anything. So why don't we just take, take a look ahead here and you little boys can call, follow up right behind us. But if you.

300
00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:02,480
This is how we like to work with men. This is excellent.

301
00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:10,480
You know, snow thunder, I'll follow you. But if it's, but if it's a two legged reindeer again, then I'm out, man. I am out.

302
00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:16,480
And I slap them and I say, come on, baby, pull yourself together, baby.

303
00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:18,480
You're right. You're right.

304
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:20,480
Okay.

305
00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:26,480
Well, if neither of you has the balls to go, I will. So she's going to walk off toward the noise.

306
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:28,480
And I go quick, follow them.

307
00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:42,480
You step from the workshop into what looks like crew quarters fitted with six bunks. Each of the beds has a small foot locker at the end. And you may enter that room and look around.

308
00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:53,480
You see a brief flurry of movement and there is something clearly there lurking between the bunk beds.

309
00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:56,480
So she points his flashlight at it.

310
00:30:56,480 --> 00:31:09,480
Okay. Then pointing your flashlight at you see a hunched cowering figure, its hair tangled and matted and a kind of wilt of flower petals wilted around its face.

311
00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:17,480
The creature attempts to bolt, dashing between the beds and upturning one of the lockers in a bid to escape.

312
00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:20,480
Alfkin. Wait.

313
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:22,480
Tree touched. Wait.

314
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:25,480
Oh, you recognize it? You recognize it, Ljomie?

315
00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:29,480
Is relative to one of the Alfkin people.

316
00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:31,480
They are close to my kind.

317
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:33,480
Should I shoot him?

318
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:36,480
No, no, they're fine.

319
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:38,480
Are they?

320
00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:41,480
Furious Starkad, stay thy hand.

321
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:52,480
At the sound of your alfar voice, the creature stops and you do indeed see that it is a wane, one of the three touched people.

322
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:58,480
And it cowers down again in the torch beam and it says,

323
00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:07,480
Alfar Light One, moves with whisper soft, dancing heart, beauties to form.

324
00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:09,480
You are most welcome.

325
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:12,480
Friends or allies?

326
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:20,480
Most. Be careful of the one. He's a shapeshifter. His form is not to be trusted.

327
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:28,480
And these two, Grunt Barker and Slipwonder, I do not know.

328
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:33,480
The large man seems fine. Trust me.

329
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:41,480
Ijiraq, shadow beast, hides in blurs. Moves man, same form. Misty eyes you look, you see nothing.

330
00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:46,480
Yes, we saw a glimpse of this. Do you hunt it?

331
00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:58,480
Aye, adzabo. Moves quick like wind's whisper, hides and waits. You no see it, see you cold heart.

332
00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:07,480
So wait a second, is this a little bunch of leaves telling us that that thing is hunting us right now? Or what? What's he really getting at?

333
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:10,480
Yes, that is what he's saying. It hunts.

334
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:13,480
Did anyone close the sphincter?

335
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:17,480
You're the ones who claim to know how to work with shit.

336
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:19,480
I don't have any.

337
00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:21,480
Okay, that's...

338
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:26,480
Yes, good realization no one closed the door to the outside.

339
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:28,480
Okay, someone's got to go back.

340
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:31,480
Should I run back and make sure it's closed?

341
00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:35,480
Let me come with you. I don't want you to be alone.

342
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:38,480
Perhaps we should not travel apart. I shall join.

343
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:41,480
Okay, let's all go close the thing.

344
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:43,480
And Ljomi will follow them.

345
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:48,480
Okay, so you're stepping back out of that room.

346
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:51,480
So did you want to carry on your searching or are you going with them?

347
00:33:51,480 --> 00:34:00,480
No, I will carry on my search using, you know, normalize as well as thermal sensors.

348
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:07,480
If I see any large alien eggs on the floor, I will not look in them. I just want to point that out ahead of time.

349
00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:11,480
All right, and Ljomi, are you staying with Eir and the Wane Hunter?

350
00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:17,480
I'm going to stay with Eir and keep an eye on Eir and with the Wane Hunter

351
00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:21,480
because it's nice to see a friendly face and a leafy face.

352
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:27,480
Let's just do two things then. First of all, we're going to start with Eir, Ljomi and the Wane.

353
00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:33,480
Eir, give me an awareness challenge roll.

354
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:34,480
Happily.

355
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:37,480
With three weals.

356
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:42,480
Oh, that's worth a try. That is really a nine.

357
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:48,480
Now, I do want to remind you, since you haven't used it for a while or ever, that you do have the hip flask.

358
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:54,480
It gives you derring do and enables you to re-roll.

359
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:58,480
My problem is I'm always trying to save it for, no, no, save it when it's important.

360
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:02,480
And so I end up using it. So you know what? Yes, I will go ahead and use it.

361
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:07,480
So roll the same, just the same again. Nothing fancy, right?

362
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:11,480
It enables you to remake a challenge roll that you failed.

363
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:15,480
Ordinarily, the rules say that you can't do that. Once you've failed, you've failed.

364
00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:21,480
But with this derring do gift through the cigarette case of the spectral soldier,

365
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:26,480
I imagine you lighting a ghostly cigarette and having another go.

366
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:29,480
Oh, I like that. Light a ghostly cigarette, contemplate it for a moment,

367
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:33,480
and then we're going to look around again with new eyes. Same roll?

368
00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:35,480
Yep. Give me a weal, though.

369
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:39,480
So that adds up to 14.

370
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:47,480
This time around, nonchalantly dangling the cigarette from your diamond-encrusted blackstone lips,

371
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:54,480
you find underneath one of the bed covers, you find a Bible,

372
00:35:54,480 --> 00:36:01,480
and then sifting through the Bible, you see a note scrawled on the inside cover.

373
00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:03,480
And this is what it says. It says,

374
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:09,480
There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand.

375
00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:14,480
I begged you. I begged you to save me. And you did nothing.

376
00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:19,480
I'm sure it's fine.

377
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:24,480
I feel that deep, yeah. What language is it written in?

378
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:28,480
In Noor, the common tongue.

379
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:37,480
Would it be normal for an Imperial ship crew member to have a Bible or to belong to someone else?

380
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:45,480
The worship of the White Christ is minimal in this universe.

381
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:52,480
It's a kind of marginalized sect that was almost eradicated as a mainstay belief,

382
00:36:52,480 --> 00:37:03,480
but was then kind of resurrected by some outcasts who fought on the opposing side in the Jotunn war.

383
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:07,480
Many of the Jotnar tended towards Christianity.

384
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:13,480
Bit of a long shot, but I don't suppose the scratching matches the scratching on the visor?

385
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:20,480
It would be impossible without some kind of understanding of calligraphy or handwriting expertise.

386
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:22,480
Worth a try.

387
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:28,480
The Wane Hunter taps you on the shoulder, Ljomi, and he says,

388
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:37,480
Story weaver, watch for the ship, ship alive. Woodheart branches veins.

389
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:39,480
Yes, I sense that much.

390
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:41,480
Is the ship healthy?

391
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:49,480
Yggdrasil's child breathes in cosmos, breathes out life, carries heart in star sea.

392
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:51,480
It's healthy.

393
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:52,480
Thank you.

394
00:37:52,480 --> 00:38:04,480
We'll just move to the other three who have wandered back through the workshop to the extravehicular pour and can attempt to close it.

395
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:12,480
Do you want to give me any one of you a wits roll in order to do so?

396
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:14,480
With any woes?

397
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:16,480
Grothgurt, you want to go for it?

398
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:23,480
No woes, this is just an attempt to work out how you can close that door.

399
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:26,480
I rolled a three plus two.

400
00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:27,480
Five.

401
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:30,480
You can't close a door!

402
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:34,480
I'm a god, this is below me.

403
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:38,480
Sure, okay, let me give it a try.

404
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:54,480
As you reach forward, Jay, there is a sudden loud blaring klaxon and a cold mechanical tone begins to ominously echo through the dimly lit corridors.

405
00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:59,480
Detonation in T minus five minutes.

406
00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:05,480
And I won't do the eeee eeee eeee eeee eeee, but imagine that now.

407
00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:07,480
That's the sound you're not doing?

408
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:09,480
I just want to understand.

409
00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:11,480
Does anybody hear that?

410
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:14,480
Oh, yeah, that's definitely not good.

411
00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:17,480
Should we get out of here?

412
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:19,480
Is there a way we could turn it off?

413
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:23,480
I guess we better try and turn it off.

414
00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:25,480
Is the door closed?

415
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:27,480
The door is not closed.

416
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:29,480
I know.

417
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:43,480
The Wayne Hunter back in the other room, obviously hearing this very discordant, jarring siren, taps you, Ljomi, on the shoulder and says,

418
00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:46,480
Ship knows, Ijiraq on board!

419
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:49,480
Goes big boom! Big boom!

420
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:52,480
As Yggdrasil shivers,

421
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:58,480
Yggdrasil looks at no one in particular and says, Visna, cling tight to the banner.

422
00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:02,480
He grabs you by your shoulders and says,

423
00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:08,480
Lifes well ends, mother tree falls, star path closed!

424
00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:11,480
Yes, I know.

425
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:17,480
He appears to be dragging you into the interior of the ship.

426
00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:19,480
I'll go with him.

427
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:21,480
Remember to look at the egg pods.

428
00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:26,480
Can we do something at this point? Are we still with them?

429
00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:32,480
You are probably 50 yards apart in a different room.

430
00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:35,480
Those three are in the crew quarters.

431
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:38,480
You went back through the workshop to the extra vehicle at port,

432
00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:46,480
with all hearing the klaxon and the countdown is ominously continuing.

433
00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:50,480
Who has the Raven Head skull?

434
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:52,480
I do.

435
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:58,480
We're kind of covered if it all goes boom.

436
00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:01,480
Once per adventure.

437
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:06,480
Within 10 yards of where I'm standing.

438
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:10,480
Separate recordings are not separate adventures?

439
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:14,480
This is part two of the same adventure.

440
00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:20,480
Once per adventure. So we've already won the go back in time and try it again.

441
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:27,480
I think that Pile of Leaves might know something about how we can find this bomb

442
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:33,480
to potentially stop this detonation, but this door is still open,

443
00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:37,480
so I think we might just have to leave the door open and go find this Pile of Leaves.

444
00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:46,480
I'm going to ask you all, because this is quite a distressing situation, to make a will challenge roll for me,

445
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:52,480
because there clearly is this death knell warning of an explosive end,

446
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:59,480
and you have no way of knowing whether the ship will detonate, and I think you win it.

447
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:02,480
I got a 4 minus 1.

448
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:04,480
Got 17 total.

449
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:09,480
Bill, I'm going to give you trauma for this situation,

450
00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:16,480
and because you have your flashbacks that you have been so skillfully weaving into the narrative,

451
00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:21,480
then you actually take two trauma and you are slowed.

452
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:26,480
So as a slowed person, you can only take a slow turn, your speed is halved,

453
00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:29,480
and you cannot benefit to increase this to speed.

454
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:35,480
Such is the drawbacks of thinking you are actually in the middle of the Battle of Bravellir .

455
00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:37,480
Yes, I can see how that works.

456
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:45,480
CJ, you pass, so you shrug off the effects as if it were, and that buzzing about your head.

457
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:47,480
Steve, what did you get?

458
00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:48,480
I rolled a 7.

459
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:50,480
You're useless.

460
00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:55,480
Please add a trauma and then immediately fall asleep.

461
00:42:55,480 --> 00:43:02,480
Luckily, you are in the crew quarters and there is a lovely eiderdown quilt for you to tuck yourself in under.

462
00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:06,480
I will fall asleep praying that I wake up in Valhalla.

463
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:09,480
Evan and Jay, do you want to give me your rolls?

464
00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:11,480
17.

465
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:12,480
And I had 18.

466
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:15,480
Look at you two, made of sterner stuff.

467
00:43:15,480 --> 00:43:19,480
The three gentlemen who are in the extra-vehicular pour,

468
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:28,480
you must make the decision about whether you charge back into the Falkr, the bio ship,

469
00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:33,480
or whether you rush outside.

470
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:39,480
I mean, look, we don't got much time, but we don't want this thing to blow up, do we?

471
00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:42,480
Preferably not.

472
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:47,480
I mean, there's no way at all that we can turn off this countdown and survive in the ship.

473
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:51,480
Well, I think there is. I say we go in, we use our skills with explosives.

474
00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:55,480
We're highly skilled with explosives.

475
00:43:55,480 --> 00:44:00,480
So why don't we get in there and try and turn this thing off?

476
00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:11,480
Talking of explosives, there is an eruption back in that workshop that stands between you and Eir and Ljomi.

477
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:19,480
Fire floods that space, the whole place raps in flames.

478
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:22,480
Oh, shit!

479
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:26,480
What are we going to do now? Looks like we can't go back to them.

480
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:30,480
Are we waiting outside now?

481
00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:33,480
I guess it's getting hot in here.

482
00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:36,480
Do you know the way to the bridge?

483
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:41,480
Oh, I do have a map on my little machine here.

484
00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:46,480
The bridge.

485
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:49,480
Um, ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba.

486
00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:52,480
Take your time, there's no rush.

487
00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:55,480
It's loading, it's loading.

488
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:58,480
Um, the bridge.

489
00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:03,480
What are you doing on there? Windows 98?

490
00:45:03,480 --> 00:45:07,040
Detonation in T minus three minutes.

491
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:12,040
Okay, the bridge. What would the bridge be called in a Falkr?

492
00:45:12,040 --> 00:45:16,040
Is it? Would it be called? I'm asking Dungeon Master.

493
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:21,440
The bridge would be called the Raven's Nest.

494
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:27,440
The bridge deck or the Raven's Nest is where on these Norse vessels,

495
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:32,440
especially since the Raven or Crow was an essential part of the Viking navigation equipment,

496
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:38,440
we used to send them ahead of ships to determine where the closest land lay.

497
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:44,440
And in the same way as we have a crow's nest and board ships, they have a Raven's Nest.

498
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:48,440
Can we get through the fire?

499
00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:54,440
You can give me all a sleight roll in order to see whether you can get through it without taking any damage.

500
00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:59,440
Okay guys, we got to get through that fire to get to the Raven's Nest.

501
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:02,440
So give me those rolls in the background.

502
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:10,440
Bill, the Wane Hunter, obviously distressed that you are going incredibly slowly,

503
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:14,440
having failed your roll, says to you,

504
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:19,440
I go now, Light One. Find help. I go now.

505
00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:24,440
He taps you on the shoulder, pushes you into a little hollow,

506
00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:32,440
and then heads himself through one of them, the pores into the recesses of the ship.

507
00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:35,440
Alright, what did you roll there, gentlemen?

508
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:38,440
Nothing good. Six.

509
00:46:38,440 --> 00:46:40,440
Eighteen total.

510
00:46:40,440 --> 00:46:52,440
So Evan and Jay, I'm going to both give you 11 damage from the intense flames as you try and rush through them.

511
00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:54,440
Okay.

512
00:46:54,440 --> 00:47:08,440
Gigi, you, despite your heft and your bulk, you vault with great skill and avoid any of the inferno around you.

513
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:14,440
Detonation in T-minus one minute and counting.

514
00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:17,440
Ee, ee, ee, ee.

515
00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:21,440
So we're just bolting for the Raven's Nest.

516
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:23,440
Yeah, follow me, follow me.

517
00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:24,440
Run.

518
00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:25,440
I'm running.

519
00:47:25,440 --> 00:47:34,440
You rush through the cruise quarters past the insensitive form of the dökkálfar 

520
00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:37,440
who lies propped up on one of the beds,

521
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:48,440
and you rush almost blundering into the form of your friendly neighborhood alfar

522
00:47:48,440 --> 00:47:56,440
who is slowly meandering in his dressed out form in front of you.

523
00:47:56,440 --> 00:48:03,440
Strangely though, at that very moment, the Klaxon stops the siren's end,

524
00:48:03,440 --> 00:48:08,440
and the self-destruct sequence has obviously been shut down.

525
00:48:08,440 --> 00:48:11,440
Ah, pile of leaves. Where's the pile of leaves?

526
00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:14,440
Yes, Snow thunder. Yes, what is your question?

527
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:16,440
Anyone see the pile of leaves?

528
00:48:16,440 --> 00:48:18,440
I am the pile of leaves.

529
00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:21,440
But isn't there another pile of leaves wandering around here?

530
00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:22,440
You mean the alfkin?

531
00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:23,440
Yes.

532
00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:24,440
He shall return.

533
00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:30,440
But do you think he was the cause of this alarm turning off?

534
00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:31,440
It seems unlikely.

535
00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:32,440
It seems unlikely.

536
00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:34,440
So that means we're not alone?

537
00:48:34,440 --> 00:48:39,440
Perhaps the time ran out and there's simply no explosives.

538
00:48:39,440 --> 00:48:41,440
Grjotgarth makes an excellent point.

539
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:42,440
Oh.

540
00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:45,440
Although that one part of the ship did explode, so...

541
00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:47,440
Yeah, that was weird, wasn't it?

542
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:50,440
Why did it... why was there a fire over there?

543
00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:53,440
Is the fire still raging down there?

544
00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:54,440
It is not.

545
00:48:54,440 --> 00:48:56,440
It is not?

546
00:48:56,440 --> 00:48:57,440
Okay.

547
00:48:57,440 --> 00:49:00,440
I would like to examine everyone, he only says,

548
00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:04,440
to make sure there is no rabboon fever amongst us,

549
00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:05,440
as everyone had their shot.

550
00:49:05,440 --> 00:49:07,440
Rabboon fever?

551
00:49:07,440 --> 00:49:10,440
Rabboon fever. Please, be serious.

552
00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:11,440
I think I've had my shots, yeah.

553
00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:18,440
And nonetheless, Snow Thunder, come closer, let me use some of this equipment to check that you are in fact clean.

554
00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:23,440
And Gravebreaker, if you'll form a line behind him, and Grothgard behind him as well,

555
00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:26,440
we'd better just make sure everyone's quite healthy.

556
00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:29,440
You don't need to check me, I'm genetically enhanced.

557
00:49:29,440 --> 00:49:33,440
Well, you know, it would be a good test for my equipment.

558
00:49:33,440 --> 00:49:42,440
Ljomi is a healer, although when you say equipment, whilst you do have stuff in your medicine bag,

559
00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:47,440
to the immediate south, that door from the workshop, is a sickbay.

560
00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:54,440
We'll go to the sickbay, and I'll check you all for the fever and for any other illnesses.

561
00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:59,440
No, no, no, I don't need it. I don't actually believe in vaccines.

562
00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:10,440
Also, my body is kind of superior, so I don't think I need any whatever you're going to give me. I don't need it.

563
00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:14,440
You do have 11 points of damage that he might be able to help you out with, entirely up to you?

564
00:50:14,440 --> 00:50:17,440
Yeah, it's just that, it's just what, you can't take a bit of damage.

565
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:23,440
Boys these days can't take a bit of damage. So I'm a tough guy.

566
00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:26,440
It'll be a good test for the equipment. Come along.

567
00:50:26,440 --> 00:50:29,440
Come on, come on, come on, great breaker.

568
00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:34,440
Grothgard, it would be a blessing to my equipment.

569
00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:37,440
I'll be able to use it to test you.

570
00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:39,440
Do your worst.

571
00:50:39,440 --> 00:50:40,440
Okay, test us.

572
00:50:40,440 --> 00:50:41,440
Come along, men.

573
00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:49,440
Like I said, on the other side of the workshop, the sickbay, the pore, opens to a kind of room

574
00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:56,440
that's dominated by a blood-stained operating table that squats in the middle of the room,

575
00:50:56,440 --> 00:51:00,440
and there's a whole set of steel mortuary drawers.

576
00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:05,440
The floor itself is strewn with hypodermic needles and forgotten blood samples,

577
00:51:05,440 --> 00:51:18,440
and then there's a large mirror on the far wall, and as you enter, you can see that the mirror is daubed with some true Norse words.

578
00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:24,440
Gigi, did you want to translate them for anyone, or Eir? Did anyone wake up Eir?

579
00:51:24,440 --> 00:51:28,440
No, he called the top bunk and he just went to bed.

580
00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:30,440
It's been a long journey.

581
00:51:30,440 --> 00:51:32,440
It's been delightfully quiet.

582
00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:36,440
Let sleeping rocks lie. In true Norse it says,

583
00:51:36,440 --> 00:51:42,440
Hel sa munttu enum sma viniminum, which translates as,

584
00:51:42,440 --> 00:51:46,440
Say hello to my little friend.

585
00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:51,440
Don't let the mess bother anyone. It's been a very busy time.

586
00:51:51,440 --> 00:51:55,440
There's been quite a lot of fever and other things that needed to be dealt with,

587
00:51:55,440 --> 00:52:00,440
so if someone could just hop up on the table there in the middle, we'll begin the examinations.

588
00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:03,440
It doesn't look clean to me.

589
00:52:03,440 --> 00:52:13,440
It also looks like this is some kind of biological manufacturing site where they were assembling Orcneas potentially.

590
00:52:13,440 --> 00:52:18,440
Body parts, blood, it's just suspect to me.

591
00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:24,440
They see now you're being fanciful. I'm concerned, Grofgaard, that you're running a fever.

592
00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:31,440
Possibly the explanation. If you could just hop up on the table here, have a proper look.

593
00:52:31,440 --> 00:52:37,440
Start with the other two. I'm going to examine the room with my flashlight.

594
00:52:37,440 --> 00:52:41,440
All right, then Gravebreaker, why don't you get up on the table?

595
00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:48,440
Make it quick. I'm going to go to the crow's nest very shortly.

596
00:52:48,440 --> 00:52:51,440
Snowthunder, you wish to go first? That's fine.

597
00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:59,440
You know, Snowthunder, as I go first, why don't you go ahead and see if you can get to the crow's nest?

598
00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:02,440
Why don't you go ahead as I just, you know...

599
00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:05,440
I don't think I need what this guy's selling. I don't think I need it.

600
00:53:05,440 --> 00:53:08,440
And we got our own thing to do, so I'm going to go ahead.

601
00:53:08,440 --> 00:53:11,440
Snowthunder, you should let me heal you.

602
00:53:11,440 --> 00:53:20,440
You go ahead. I will get in the chair first. I will take the gaze of Ljomi

603
00:53:20,440 --> 00:53:26,440
And as he's looking at me, Snowthunder sneaks off in the back.

604
00:53:26,440 --> 00:53:27,440
Yes.

605
00:53:27,440 --> 00:53:34,440
You climb on and straddle the examination table.

606
00:53:34,440 --> 00:53:41,440
And then there is a hum as a thermal sensor begins to scan you.

607
00:53:41,440 --> 00:53:49,440
And you notice that a cloud of medical nanites, these minuscule surgeons,

608
00:53:49,440 --> 00:53:53,440
25 times smaller than the width of a human hair,

609
00:53:53,440 --> 00:54:00,440
they begin to swirl like a cloud of tiny starlings.

610
00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:10,440
And then they zoom into your burns and begin to attach themselves to the flesh.

611
00:54:10,440 --> 00:54:13,440
The problem is that they're not trying to heal the flesh.

612
00:54:13,440 --> 00:54:17,440
They're actually continuing some cellular disruption.

613
00:54:17,440 --> 00:54:24,440
And you yell in agony as you take nine more damage.

614
00:54:24,440 --> 00:54:30,440
No! Snowthunder, run! Run!

615
00:54:30,440 --> 00:54:37,440
The nanites are swarming all over your burns and dissolving your limbs.

616
00:54:37,440 --> 00:54:39,440
Try and stay still.

617
00:54:39,440 --> 00:54:44,440
I can't. I'm losing my... Snowthunder!

618
00:54:44,440 --> 00:54:47,440
What did I just hear? I heard something back there.

619
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:53,440
Is there nothing I can do to dissuade you? Please, I need my limbs.

620
00:54:53,440 --> 00:54:59,440
Jay, are you going to return to help your shrieking comrade back in the sick bay?

621
00:54:59,440 --> 00:55:03,440
The medical malfunction is obviously causing him problems.

622
00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:05,440
Yeah, so I heard there's an issue.

623
00:55:05,440 --> 00:55:12,440
So I look back and I have my rifle trained on Ljomi and I say, let him out of it.

624
00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:16,440
It will just be another moment more. Come on back and let me do the testing.

625
00:55:16,440 --> 00:55:17,440
Fire.

626
00:55:17,440 --> 00:55:18,440
At?

627
00:55:18,440 --> 00:55:20,440
At Ljomi.

628
00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:24,440
You're shooting...

629
00:55:24,440 --> 00:55:27,440
You're shooting your father.

630
00:55:27,440 --> 00:55:29,440
Just to be clear.

631
00:55:29,440 --> 00:55:33,440
This is a very Luke and Darth moment, anyway.

632
00:55:33,440 --> 00:55:36,440
This is long awaited.

633
00:55:36,440 --> 00:55:39,440
Why are you doing this to me?

634
00:55:39,440 --> 00:55:41,440
It's to heal you. It'll be fine.

635
00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:45,440
It's not healing me. My limbs! They're gone!

636
00:55:45,440 --> 00:55:51,440
It'll be fine, I promise you. We need to test for the fevers.

637
00:55:51,440 --> 00:55:56,440
Could be other fevers. I don't think it could ever all matter if my limbs were gone.

638
00:55:56,440 --> 00:56:03,440
Oh, so I aim and I shoot. You think it's at Ljomi, but it's actually at the machine itself.

639
00:56:03,440 --> 00:56:07,440
Okay, so you're trying to hit the medical nanites.

640
00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:08,440
Yes.

641
00:56:08,440 --> 00:56:11,440
Okay, give me a sleight roll then, as if to hit.

642
00:56:11,440 --> 00:56:15,440
So I have four plus two, so six.

643
00:56:15,440 --> 00:56:19,440
And weapon attack wheel. I have one.

644
00:56:19,440 --> 00:56:26,440
Oh, God. So I have plus three, so that's nine.

645
00:56:26,440 --> 00:56:33,440
Okay, your rifle bullet fires wide, shattering the mirror, which has that message on it.

646
00:56:33,440 --> 00:56:39,440
Say hello to my little friend, and glass spirals into the room.

647
00:56:39,440 --> 00:56:41,440
Gravebreaker!

648
00:56:41,440 --> 00:56:48,440
Evan, the medical nanites continue to dismember you. Can you take another seven damage, please?

649
00:56:48,440 --> 00:56:52,440
Oh, this isn't good. This isn't good.

650
00:56:52,440 --> 00:56:56,440
I believe that Gravebreaker will be over in a moment.

651
00:56:56,440 --> 00:57:05,440
Is there anything I can do to get the nanites out, or since I don't have any limbs, am I just kind of sitting there getting dismembered?

652
00:57:05,440 --> 00:57:13,440
You're just getting dismembered. So Gigi is going to see this whole thing, kind of in shock, and goes, Ljomi, have you lost your bloody mind?

653
00:57:13,440 --> 00:57:16,440
Grothgard, come here for some testing, please.

654
00:57:16,440 --> 00:57:19,440
He's going to carve bind runes on Ljomi.

655
00:57:19,440 --> 00:57:22,440
Okay, to stop him moving anyway.

656
00:57:22,440 --> 00:57:25,440
Stop him moving at least for a minute.

657
00:57:25,440 --> 00:57:35,440
Bind runes is all about creating a pentagram of runes to prevent someone from moving it, and it does potentially pin him to the spot.

658
00:57:35,440 --> 00:57:40,440
If he chooses to move out of that environment, he will take damage.

659
00:57:40,440 --> 00:57:44,440
Wait a second. Starting to piece what's going on here.

660
00:57:44,440 --> 00:57:53,440
I'm going to keep him in place, and then try and wrestle the machine from him that's removing the limbs of our new friend, and see if I can't reverse it.

661
00:57:53,440 --> 00:57:56,440
Now, now, let's have a lot less fuss, please.

662
00:57:56,440 --> 00:58:03,440
Grothgard, I think they're cursed. The bag of rocks is asleep in the other room. This guy's doing weird shit.

663
00:58:03,440 --> 00:58:05,440
Please help me. Please.

664
00:58:05,440 --> 00:58:09,440
Something's wrong. We need to figure it out. Let's help your friend first.

665
00:58:09,440 --> 00:58:24,440
Evan, give me a will roll with two woes. Having your flesh corroded by these medical nanobots is not a pleasant experience, and it may well give you more trauma.

666
00:58:24,440 --> 00:58:28,440
Oh, no. Okay. That's a 21 ?

667
00:58:28,440 --> 00:58:31,440
No, subtract from 21.

668
00:58:31,440 --> 00:58:33,440
You've got 18.

669
00:58:33,440 --> 00:58:42,440
You shake off the intense nausea that comes with this horrifying situation.

670
00:58:42,440 --> 00:58:51,440
Gigi, you're unable to, even if you grab the machine from, let me, this is a scanner that it's attached to the sick bay itself.

671
00:58:51,440 --> 00:59:01,440
There's nothing that Ljomi has that is causing this. The room itself has issued for these medical nanites.

672
00:59:01,440 --> 00:59:09,440
Oh my God. This would be much easier if everyone would just calm down. I will get to each of you.

673
00:59:09,440 --> 00:59:11,440
There's nothing you can do.

674
00:59:11,440 --> 00:59:14,440
Can I do a trap sense?

675
00:59:14,440 --> 00:59:15,440
You can.

676
00:59:15,440 --> 00:59:25,440
Okay. So search for and resist traps with one weal. So D20 and one wheel. Wow. So I got five.

677
00:59:25,440 --> 00:59:30,440
You are unable to fix this particular conundrum.

678
00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:34,440
Did you give me a wits roll?

679
00:59:34,440 --> 00:59:38,440
Yay. 17 plus 2. 19.

680
00:59:38,440 --> 00:59:40,440
Woo, I'm rolling good today.

681
00:59:40,440 --> 00:59:55,440
It occurs to you that in this world of riddles and clever kennings that the message on the mirror may well have something to do with your predicament.

682
00:59:55,440 --> 01:00:11,440
Say hello to my little friend. So then I lean into the machine and say in true Norse, hello. And it immediately powers down.

683
01:00:11,440 --> 01:00:15,440
Oh, thank you so much.

684
01:00:15,440 --> 01:00:18,440
That is going to slow everything down. I'm not pleased.

685
01:00:18,440 --> 01:00:21,440
But Gravebreaker, your limbs.

686
01:00:21,440 --> 01:00:23,440
Someone must carry me.

687
01:00:23,440 --> 01:00:25,440
Is he limbless still?

688
01:00:25,440 --> 01:00:28,440
How much damage have you taken total now, Evan?

689
01:00:28,440 --> 01:00:34,440
Down to nine overall health. I've taken 27 damage.

690
01:00:34,440 --> 01:00:58,440
Fairly brutal, but not quite as brutal as this because as you stand looking at the alfar, it smashes a branch straight into Snow Thunder's skull.

691
01:00:58,440 --> 01:01:14,440
You take 10 damage and all the more horrifyingly, Ljomi merges and melds and blends into an exact replica of you, Snow Thunder.

692
01:01:14,440 --> 01:01:20,440
The tree is no more, but instead there are two exact replicas of yourself standing there.

693
01:01:20,440 --> 01:01:29,440
That's a fairly horrifying situation and you please roll a will challenge roll with two woes..

694
01:01:29,440 --> 01:01:34,440
Okay.

695
01:01:34,440 --> 01:01:39,440
Okay. 19 minus six. 13.

696
01:01:39,440 --> 01:01:57,440
Despite the fact that you are gazing fearfully into eyes that look exactly the same as yours, reflecting back at you, your doppelganger is smiling as given you that quick and deadly blow.

697
01:01:57,440 --> 01:02:06,440
Don't take any trauma, but the creature in a voice very similar to your own says,

698
01:02:06,440 --> 01:02:24,440
Here in this stolen ship, I stand an abomination born of the war is wind's blood to ice heart to stone orcneas as I am known heroes you see me yet.

699
01:02:24,440 --> 01:02:26,440
What do you truly perceive?

700
01:02:26,440 --> 01:02:47,440
And then it bolts from the room, passing through the bind rooms as if they were not there and scurries straight into the workshop, scattering tools and implements everywhere as it bolts across the work ventures.

701
01:02:47,440 --> 01:02:51,440
Oh my God. Do I have a hole in my head?

702
01:02:51,440 --> 01:02:57,440
You have a hefty branch sized cleft in your skull.

703
01:02:57,440 --> 01:03:03,440
Then the creature transformed into a lightness of you and fled.

704
01:03:03,440 --> 01:03:11,440
Rothgar, should we perhaps wake up the guy that's not made of diamonds? Could he help?

705
01:03:11,440 --> 01:03:23,440
Yes, and we should find Ljomi since that wasn't him and I'm going to venture a guess that that is the creature that's been hunting us because of course it is.

706
01:03:23,440 --> 01:03:29,440
Ah, shit. What have we got ourselves into, Gravebreaker?

707
01:03:29,440 --> 01:03:39,440
How are you alive? You have a branch sticking straight through your head. May I look at it? I'm fascinated.

708
01:03:39,440 --> 01:03:48,440
Yes, please. I think if I lean back a bit I can kind of walk straight. It's like a balancing act.

709
01:03:48,440 --> 01:03:52,440
I'm going to cast Analgesics on him and hope that that does something.

710
01:03:52,440 --> 01:03:54,440
It does.

711
01:03:54,440 --> 01:04:00,440
So they can get 1 by 6 damage per rank of spell expended.

712
01:04:00,440 --> 01:04:03,440
Sweet. How high of a spell can I cast?

713
01:04:03,440 --> 01:04:11,440
You've got level 3 these days but do you want to trade a level 3 spell to heal up these rivals to your claim?

714
01:04:11,440 --> 01:04:18,440
I mean with that terrible thing running around, putting branches in people's heads, yes.

715
01:04:18,440 --> 01:04:20,440
I need them well.

716
01:04:20,440 --> 01:04:23,440
Let's revive the meat bags.

717
01:04:23,440 --> 01:04:32,440
Let's start with the 2. Let's save the 3 for later because I may have to shoot some things and I would like to have my Orlog at top rank.

718
01:04:32,440 --> 01:04:39,440
So let's do 2. So that's what, 2d6? Can I do both?

719
01:04:39,440 --> 01:04:42,440
Kind of a package deal because you heal us both.

720
01:04:42,440 --> 01:04:44,440
You can do both.

721
01:04:44,440 --> 01:04:48,440
9 points healing. Does that remove the branch from his head?

722
01:04:48,440 --> 01:05:00,440
I imagine the branch is a bit like the T3000 when it just stabbed the fluid iron appendage and then withdrew it. It was just in tree form.

723
01:05:00,440 --> 01:05:02,440
So I'm just plugging the hole.

724
01:05:02,440 --> 01:05:03,440
Yeah.

725
01:05:03,440 --> 01:05:05,440
Ah, yes. Okay. This makes sense now.

726
01:05:05,440 --> 01:05:06,440
So 9 back.

727
01:05:06,440 --> 01:05:09,440
How many fingers am I holding up?

728
01:05:09,440 --> 01:05:11,440
5.

729
01:05:11,440 --> 01:05:15,440
That's cruel task, the other one.

730
01:05:15,440 --> 01:05:17,440
So we're both healed 9?

731
01:05:17,440 --> 01:05:18,440
Correct.

732
01:05:18,440 --> 01:05:19,440
Is that the case?

733
01:05:19,440 --> 01:05:21,440
Sounds good. Does anyone want to wake up Eir?

734
01:05:21,440 --> 01:05:29,440
Yeah, let's please wake this guy up. Actually, let me go wake him up. Let me go wake him up, okay? I'll be right back.

735
01:05:29,440 --> 01:05:31,440
Well, Evan has no legs.

736
01:05:31,440 --> 01:05:33,440
Someone's gonna have to carry him.

737
01:05:33,440 --> 01:05:38,440
Okay. Could you carry Gravebreaker?

738
01:05:38,440 --> 01:05:56,440
I could. I could. Also, remember, this is a ship that was run by Orcneas. I wonder if this room has anything that we could use to replace his legs. Perhaps mechanical, biological, fantastical, magical?

739
01:05:56,440 --> 01:05:57,440
Yes.

740
01:05:57,440 --> 01:05:59,440
I don't know.

741
01:05:59,440 --> 01:06:04,440
Can I use my keen sense to look for some replacement limbs?

742
01:06:04,440 --> 01:06:05,440
This does look...

743
01:06:05,440 --> 01:06:12,440
Look around the room for something that may aid? Locking stick? Maybe a wheelchair?

744
01:06:12,440 --> 01:06:26,440
You know, I think that that's a reasonable request. You can... there will be a wheelchair in a sick bay, and so they can lock you in that and wheel you out if you so wish.

745
01:06:26,440 --> 01:06:28,440
Okay, let's go wake up the diamond.

746
01:06:28,440 --> 01:06:34,440
At least the benefit of being cauterized by medical nanites is there's no bleeding.

747
01:06:34,440 --> 01:06:43,440
So Gigi then spots a harness in the corner of the room and says, wait, I have an idea. It's much quicker than the wheelchair.

748
01:06:43,440 --> 01:07:01,440
He gets Stormbreaker, right? Harnesses him up and throws him on his back. Gravebreaker, sorry. Gravebreaker, and he harnesses him to his back so that he's facing backward, right? And then says, cover my rear!

749
01:07:01,440 --> 01:07:05,440
So kind of like a Voldemort situation.

750
01:07:05,440 --> 01:07:14,440
I guess C3PO. Empire Strikes Back, there we go. I don't know, I think of C3PO. Because remember, you're frightened.

751
01:07:14,440 --> 01:07:17,440
I don't know!

752
01:07:17,440 --> 01:07:22,440
Oh, this is great! This is great, and I really...

753
01:07:22,440 --> 01:07:25,440
Alright, so let's go wake up this diamond boy.

754
01:07:25,440 --> 01:07:28,440
Are you still with us?

755
01:07:28,440 --> 01:07:32,440
I'm sorry, I'm making dinner. What was that?

756
01:07:32,440 --> 01:07:35,440
Very good.

757
01:07:35,440 --> 01:07:37,440
Waking you up, Eir

758
01:07:37,440 --> 01:07:47,440
They have decided to wake you up at this moment, having been maimed in sick bay by a shapeshifting Eldritch beast from beyond.

759
01:07:47,440 --> 01:07:49,440
So what does Eir see when he wakes up?

760
01:07:49,440 --> 01:07:51,440
The smiling face of Gigi.

761
01:07:51,440 --> 01:07:52,440
Oh.

762
01:07:52,440 --> 01:07:59,440
He was carrying Gravebreaker, who is now limbless, having been eviscerated by medical nanites.

763
01:07:59,440 --> 01:08:07,440
Aer, my frequently sombulent friend, now would be a fantastic time for you to return to the world of the waking.

764
01:08:07,440 --> 01:08:08,440
What did I miss?

765
01:08:08,440 --> 01:08:10,440
Everything. Nothing really.

766
01:08:10,440 --> 01:08:12,440
My limbs!

767
01:08:12,440 --> 01:08:14,440
What happened to your backpack?

768
01:08:14,440 --> 01:08:15,440
Ljomi.

769
01:08:15,440 --> 01:08:23,440
Your friend Ljomi over there decided to eat off my limbs with his nanites, so we're not really on speaking terms at the moment.

770
01:08:23,440 --> 01:08:25,440
I knew it.

771
01:08:25,440 --> 01:08:34,440
It was a shapeshifter in the form of Ljomi. We need to find Ljomi as well. He is somewhere. Potentially dead, captured, burned. We don't know.

772
01:08:34,440 --> 01:08:38,440
Hopefully he also got his limbs eaten off.

773
01:08:38,440 --> 01:08:41,440
Yes, but his grow back.

774
01:08:41,440 --> 01:08:48,440
Lucky, lucky man. Mine do not. So, looks like I'm stuck on your back.

775
01:08:48,440 --> 01:08:56,440
Well, shall we go up to the Raven's Nest, go see what's going on up there?

776
01:08:56,440 --> 01:08:58,440
That sounds like a plan.

777
01:08:58,440 --> 01:09:05,440
So you will be proceeding from the crew quarters to the north through a mess hall.

778
01:09:05,440 --> 01:09:12,440
And that's where you'll be headed next if you carry on using your schematic to head towards the Raven's Nest.

779
01:09:12,440 --> 01:09:18,440
This mess hall is kind of main recreation area for the enlisted men.

780
01:09:18,440 --> 01:09:29,440
It has grand and gold glimmering post weaponry on the walls, kind of ornate axes as opposed to military hardware or guns.

781
01:09:29,440 --> 01:09:33,440
It's stained by years of drinking rituals on either side.

782
01:09:33,440 --> 01:09:42,440
There are platforms that provide seats for the off duty crew and a high seat reserved for the captain at the end of the hall.

783
01:09:42,440 --> 01:09:49,440
A prominent door on the opposite side leads on towards the Raven's Nest.

784
01:09:49,440 --> 01:09:52,440
Eir will hang back and search.

785
01:09:52,440 --> 01:09:56,440
No, nothing in this mead hall.

786
01:09:56,440 --> 01:10:07,440
Next room is again heading directly north through one of the pores that hollows in this tree.

787
01:10:07,440 --> 01:10:09,440
It looks like a ready room.

788
01:10:09,440 --> 01:10:16,440
There's lots of armchair seats, fold up table tops, perhaps used for crew briefings.

789
01:10:16,440 --> 01:10:18,440
There's an upturned coffee urn.

790
01:10:18,440 --> 01:10:24,440
There's a broken popcorn machine, a loudspeaker and a whiteboard.

791
01:10:24,440 --> 01:10:29,440
And the whiteboard contains presumably a list of crew members.

792
01:10:29,440 --> 01:10:32,440
All of them are violently crossed out.

793
01:10:32,440 --> 01:10:41,440
And then scrolled below those names is some handwriting that says, I am he as you are me.

794
01:10:41,440 --> 01:10:43,440
Oh shit.

795
01:10:43,440 --> 01:10:47,440
He's posing as one of us again, because of course.

796
01:10:47,440 --> 01:10:48,440
Who is?

797
01:10:48,440 --> 01:10:57,440
Oh, yes, the creature that's been hunting us is shape shifting into the image of our friends and trying to murder us.

798
01:10:57,440 --> 01:11:03,440
Eir just kind of laughs nervously and looks from person to person.

799
01:11:03,440 --> 01:11:06,440
So one of you or me.

800
01:11:06,440 --> 01:11:07,440
Maybe.

801
01:11:07,440 --> 01:11:09,440
Oh, last we saw him.

802
01:11:09,440 --> 01:11:10,440
He looked like that one.

803
01:11:10,440 --> 01:11:12,440
He points at Jason.

804
01:11:12,440 --> 01:11:14,440
Is it that one?

805
01:11:14,440 --> 01:11:20,440
Oh, I mean, I mean, it looked like me.

806
01:11:20,440 --> 01:11:21,440
It punched me.

807
01:11:21,440 --> 01:11:22,440
It punched me in the head.

808
01:11:22,440 --> 01:11:23,440
Look, well, there used to be a hole here.

809
01:11:23,440 --> 01:11:24,440
It was healed.

810
01:11:24,440 --> 01:11:30,440
But I can prove I can prove that I'm me grave breaker.

811
01:11:30,440 --> 01:11:34,440
You know, ask me a question that only I would be able to answer.

812
01:11:34,440 --> 01:11:35,440
Hmm.

813
01:11:35,440 --> 01:11:37,440
What was my mother's maiden name?

814
01:11:37,440 --> 01:11:38,440
What?

815
01:11:38,440 --> 01:11:39,440
Give me another one.

816
01:11:39,440 --> 01:11:45,440
We might be in trouble, guys.

817
01:11:45,440 --> 01:11:47,440
I don't know if this is snow thunder.

818
01:11:47,440 --> 01:11:50,440
Snow thunder would have known that like the back of his hand.

819
01:11:50,440 --> 01:11:52,440
Your mother's maiden name.

820
01:11:52,440 --> 01:11:57,440
But do you really want me to reveal your bank information in front of these people?

821
01:11:57,440 --> 01:11:58,440
Yes, yes.

822
01:11:58,440 --> 01:11:59,440
OK, OK, OK.

823
01:11:59,440 --> 01:12:03,440
Your mother's maiden name is.

824
01:12:03,440 --> 01:12:09,440
He nailed it, he nailed it, that's it, that's it.

825
01:12:09,440 --> 01:12:11,440
Yeah, so we're good.

826
01:12:11,440 --> 01:12:20,440
There is a room to the left and a room to the right of this ready room that you can stick your head in if you wish to look.

827
01:12:20,440 --> 01:12:23,440
I would love to poke my head through the room to the left.

828
01:12:23,440 --> 01:12:25,440
All he's got to poke in.

829
01:12:25,440 --> 01:12:26,440
Yeah, that's all I got.

830
01:12:26,440 --> 01:12:32,440
But I guess I need Gigi to agree to walk me in to take a peek.

831
01:12:32,440 --> 01:12:36,440
Just back up to the doorway.

832
01:12:36,440 --> 01:12:40,440
OK, you can you can take a peek from your moving pedestal.

833
01:12:40,440 --> 01:12:44,440
It looks like again some more quarters, perhaps for the skipper.

834
01:12:44,440 --> 01:12:46,440
They are spartan and clean.

835
01:12:46,440 --> 01:12:59,440
There is a locker and there's some look like someone has burnt something in the locker because there was a pile of ashes as well as some fragments of cardboard and paper.

836
01:12:59,440 --> 01:13:06,440
Can we search through the cardboard and paper and see if we can make sense of what's written on any of it?

837
01:13:06,440 --> 01:13:19,440
Yes, it looks like it is a criminal record, a folder containing the details of an inmate with a few scrawled notes of their offenses that have been burned.

838
01:13:19,440 --> 01:13:25,440
The only legible word is Mordvargr, which means murderer.

839
01:13:25,440 --> 01:13:39,440
On the mugshot, the person there, you can't really see the face, but you can see that they are wearing an orange jumpsuit emblazoned with the legend Nastrond.

840
01:13:39,440 --> 01:13:43,440
Guys, do you think this could be our shape shifter here?

841
01:13:43,440 --> 01:13:52,440
Could be. So perhaps it wasn't the mythical beast of whatever the name of that beast was that was in the newspaper.

842
01:13:52,440 --> 01:14:06,440
Perhaps it was this. The figure in the medical room did say that it was Orcneas and not the other whatever the name of that mythical beast creature is.

843
01:14:06,440 --> 01:14:15,440
So perhaps it is guarding the ship because it was here first and claimed salvage rights and whatnot.

844
01:14:15,440 --> 01:14:21,440
Was there not a little leaf guy running around? There was, right?

845
01:14:21,440 --> 01:14:24,440
That could have been him.

846
01:14:24,440 --> 01:14:27,440
He could have...

847
01:14:27,440 --> 01:14:29,440
We haven't seen him in a while.

848
01:14:29,440 --> 01:14:47,440
The loudspeaker in the other room clicks into life with a whine and then you hear over this loud haler an echoing voice that tumbles out along the corridors.

849
01:14:47,440 --> 01:14:55,440
Speak, noble, glorious Jarl, who fancies himself a god amongst men.

850
01:14:55,440 --> 01:15:02,440
What will you be when your sacred flames are doused, when your hearth is but ashes?

851
01:15:02,440 --> 01:15:11,440
Will your bravery echo through the ages or fade as whispers in the wind, forgotten as swiftly as it fled?

852
01:15:11,440 --> 01:15:14,440
Now he's just trying to provoke me.

853
01:15:14,440 --> 01:15:17,440
Don't let him.

854
01:15:17,440 --> 01:15:18,440
Kind of monologuing.

855
01:15:18,440 --> 01:15:20,440
I've already been provoked!

856
01:15:20,440 --> 01:15:22,440
He's just going to pull his sword out.

857
01:15:22,440 --> 01:15:25,440
I bet you he's in the raven's nest.

858
01:15:25,440 --> 01:15:27,440
Forward men, go!

859
01:15:27,440 --> 01:15:28,440
Let's move.

860
01:15:28,440 --> 01:15:29,440
Charge us forward.

861
01:15:29,440 --> 01:15:32,440
Snow thunder, you know what we always say.

862
01:15:32,440 --> 01:15:36,440
Finders keepers, losers weepers, baby.

863
01:15:36,440 --> 01:15:37,440
Let's go.

864
01:15:37,440 --> 01:15:38,440
Let's go.

865
01:15:38,440 --> 01:15:44,440
The loud hailer jerks to life one more time and says,

866
01:15:44,440 --> 01:15:48,440
I am carved of a god's gruesome fancy.

867
01:15:48,440 --> 01:15:57,440
I am the embodiment of slaughter, a testament to regicide, the echoes of the fallen echo in my marrow.

868
01:15:57,440 --> 01:16:03,440
I am destruction, the end of Mimir, the unmaker of worlds.

869
01:16:03,440 --> 01:16:11,440
I am Orcneas, and by my blood and bone, by sinew and scream, I shall be remembered.

870
01:16:11,440 --> 01:16:14,440
Can you say the same?

871
01:16:14,440 --> 01:16:16,440
I already forget your name, darling.

872
01:16:16,440 --> 01:16:19,440
So who was that?

873
01:16:19,440 --> 01:16:22,440
Make an awareness check, everybody, please.

874
01:16:22,440 --> 01:16:26,440
Oh, darn it.

875
01:16:26,440 --> 01:16:27,440
Four.

876
01:16:27,440 --> 01:16:29,440
That's more like it.

877
01:16:29,440 --> 01:16:30,440
Four.

878
01:16:30,440 --> 01:16:31,440
Five.

879
01:16:31,440 --> 01:16:32,440
Oh, no.

880
01:16:32,440 --> 01:16:33,440
Four.

881
01:16:33,440 --> 01:16:34,440
I had four plus three.

882
01:16:34,440 --> 01:16:35,440
I had an awareness plus three.

883
01:16:35,440 --> 01:16:36,440
So I have an awareness plus three.

884
01:16:36,440 --> 01:16:37,440
So seven I have.

885
01:16:37,440 --> 01:16:38,440
Oh, eight.

886
01:16:38,440 --> 01:16:39,440
Yeah.

887
01:16:39,440 --> 01:16:49,440
Follow that up with a will check with three woes.

888
01:16:49,440 --> 01:16:50,440
Eir rolled 24.

889
01:16:50,440 --> 01:16:52,440
Does that help?

890
01:16:52,440 --> 01:16:55,440
You get to see the impending doom.

891
01:16:55,440 --> 01:16:57,440
Oh, so that's not helping.

892
01:16:57,440 --> 01:16:58,440
Okay.

893
01:16:58,440 --> 01:16:59,440
As it unfurls.

894
01:16:59,440 --> 01:17:00,440
So I got 14.

895
01:17:00,440 --> 01:17:01,440
Oh, good.

896
01:17:01,440 --> 01:17:02,440
I ended up with five.

897
01:17:02,440 --> 01:17:03,440
I got four.

898
01:17:03,440 --> 01:17:14,440
Above you, hidden by Seidr spells lurking, contorted and hanging to the ceiling is a dark

899
01:17:14,440 --> 01:17:18,440
and sinister form that flips between the shadows.

900
01:17:18,440 --> 01:17:26,440
It bends over, looking through its legs, tugging its earlobes and contorting its form.

901
01:17:26,440 --> 01:17:35,440
And then it begins to scratch runic symbols onto the hull, then bloods them with a red

902
01:17:35,440 --> 01:17:37,440
dripping claw.

903
01:17:37,440 --> 01:17:47,440
It reveals the dread runes, a fear helm as once worn by Fafnir to afright mankind.

904
01:17:47,440 --> 01:17:53,440
And you immediately drop to your knees.

905
01:17:53,440 --> 01:17:55,440
Is this guy wearing any pants?

906
01:17:55,440 --> 01:17:56,440
Well, he had a jumpsuit.

907
01:17:56,440 --> 01:17:59,440
Because he's looking at us through his legs.

908
01:17:59,440 --> 01:18:00,440
Yeah.

909
01:18:00,440 --> 01:18:01,440
Pulling his earlobes.

910
01:18:01,440 --> 01:18:07,440
Savor spells in the Norse tradition are often cast by means of contortion.

911
01:18:07,440 --> 01:18:09,440
They call it magical mooning.

912
01:18:09,440 --> 01:18:11,440
So, you know, you're on the right line.

913
01:18:11,440 --> 01:18:12,440
My God.

914
01:18:12,440 --> 01:18:15,440
I don't see it something.

915
01:18:15,440 --> 01:18:22,440
CJ and Evan, you fall prone under the fearful impact of the dread helm.

916
01:18:22,440 --> 01:18:26,440
And you are frightened for one minute.

917
01:18:26,440 --> 01:18:31,440
You cannot stand up whilst frightened in this way.

918
01:18:31,440 --> 01:18:35,440
Well, he couldn't stand up anyway.

919
01:18:35,440 --> 01:18:37,440
He just had to point it out as high.

920
01:18:37,440 --> 01:18:38,440
That's good.

921
01:18:38,440 --> 01:18:44,440
CJ has basically been dumbed, toppled backwards and is now smothering you.

922
01:18:44,440 --> 01:18:45,440
Oh, no.

923
01:18:45,440 --> 01:18:48,440
You've fallen down.

924
01:18:48,440 --> 01:18:51,440
CJ!

925
01:18:51,440 --> 01:18:54,440
Would my steadfast gift help me overturn that rule?

926
01:18:54,440 --> 01:18:59,440
It can help you remove the frightened condition.

927
01:18:59,440 --> 01:19:01,440
You can use a triggered action to make a will challenge roll.

928
01:19:01,440 --> 01:19:05,440
So you can remove the affliction if you make that will challenge roll.

929
01:19:05,440 --> 01:19:07,440
14 plus 2.

930
01:19:07,440 --> 01:19:10,440
You shrug off the effects of the spell.

931
01:19:10,440 --> 01:19:14,440
That doesn't mean that Evan is any less immune.

932
01:19:14,440 --> 01:19:17,440
So he is still frightened and gibbering on the back of you.

933
01:19:17,440 --> 01:19:24,440
Grjotgarth looks at this thing and says, aha, another self-proclaimed doombringer.

934
01:19:24,440 --> 01:19:28,440
Slaughterborn, harbinger of world, blah, blah, blah.

935
01:19:28,440 --> 01:19:32,440
Do you all get the same dramatic monologue from the same handbook?

936
01:19:32,440 --> 01:19:39,440
I feel like this is the same speech I've heard the last three adventures.

937
01:19:39,440 --> 01:19:43,440
I also say where I come from, they all bleed the same.

938
01:19:43,440 --> 01:19:47,440
I train my rifle right onto the moonage.

939
01:19:47,440 --> 01:19:49,440
Feel free to make a shot.

940
01:19:49,440 --> 01:19:50,440
Roll a sleight roll.

941
01:19:50,440 --> 01:19:52,440
Yes, please.

942
01:19:52,440 --> 01:19:54,440
5 plus 2.

943
01:19:54,440 --> 01:19:55,440
7.

944
01:19:55,440 --> 01:20:08,440
Your aim is off today and your shot fires into the shadows and ricochets around the room without hitting the faceless creature beyond.

945
01:20:08,440 --> 01:20:10,440
Hey, do you want to do the thing, CJ?

946
01:20:10,440 --> 01:20:11,440
Do you want to do the thing?

947
01:20:11,440 --> 01:20:12,440
I can see the target.

948
01:20:12,440 --> 01:20:13,440
You can.

949
01:20:13,440 --> 01:20:14,440
Bullseye right there.

950
01:20:14,440 --> 01:20:16,440
It's heavily obscured.

951
01:20:16,440 --> 01:20:17,440
Oh, OK.

952
01:20:17,440 --> 01:20:20,440
So in that case, I should.

953
01:20:20,440 --> 01:20:21,440
Yes. OK.

954
01:20:21,440 --> 01:20:27,440
I'm going to use a action and then the with wise counsel do the triggered action.

955
01:20:27,440 --> 01:20:28,440
So two spells.

956
01:20:28,440 --> 01:20:37,440
I'm going to if I'm reading this right, I'm going to use GANDFLY twice because I don't have to roll to hit.

957
01:20:37,440 --> 01:20:46,440
So if it's concealed or obscured or hiding behind something, then yeah, so that's one basic damage each time.

958
01:20:46,440 --> 01:20:52,440
Then it must make a might challenge roll, becoming fatigued for one minute on a failure.

959
01:20:52,440 --> 01:20:59,440
And I think that my would my deep minded cause it to resist it with one roll?

960
01:20:59,440 --> 01:21:08,440
If only it wasn't significant sorcerer in its own right able to count to that will counter weave.

961
01:21:08,440 --> 01:21:10,440
Now, that's probably a problem.

962
01:21:10,440 --> 01:21:19,440
Both of your lead balls fly towards it and appear to have impacted it in the dark.

963
01:21:19,440 --> 01:21:20,440
What do we got here?

964
01:21:20,440 --> 01:21:22,440
Two and five makes seven.

965
01:21:22,440 --> 01:21:25,440
Did it did it notice that?

966
01:21:25,440 --> 01:21:33,440
Apparently, because it turns a baleful eye towards you and laughs before saying,

967
01:21:33,440 --> 01:21:41,440
What of you doughty dökkálfar who clings to wealth as if it could shield you from the inextricable truth?

968
01:21:41,440 --> 01:21:51,440
Will you be remembered as a mighty magician, valiant and tenacious, or will time erode you to rubble and dust?

969
01:21:51,440 --> 01:21:52,440
Probably.

970
01:21:52,440 --> 01:21:53,440
CJ, what do you fancy doing?

971
01:21:53,440 --> 01:21:58,440
I'm going to do a fast turn and I'm going to aim my storm shooter at it.

972
01:21:58,440 --> 01:22:03,440
Gigi is going to say, you know how they say you don't need another hole in your head?

973
01:22:03,440 --> 01:22:05,440
Well, I think you do.

974
01:22:05,440 --> 01:22:08,440
And then that's great.

975
01:22:08,440 --> 01:22:14,440
So I shoot and then because I have Orlog, I can cast it at level three.

976
01:22:14,440 --> 01:22:16,440
And then it's a haunt.

977
01:22:16,440 --> 01:22:17,440
So I get the extra one.

978
01:22:17,440 --> 01:22:18,440
Right. Yep.

979
01:22:18,440 --> 01:22:19,440
All right.

980
01:22:19,440 --> 01:22:21,440
Let's do this roll for damage.

981
01:22:21,440 --> 01:22:24,440
Well, that was a lot better.

982
01:22:24,440 --> 01:22:26,440
Seventeen total.

983
01:22:26,440 --> 01:22:27,440
Nice.

984
01:22:27,440 --> 01:22:32,440
A cascade of bullets as a burst of fire towards the ceiling.

985
01:22:32,440 --> 01:22:37,440
And ordinarily, you might shred an opponent with your fuselage.

986
01:22:37,440 --> 01:22:44,440
But this creature appears to shrug it off as if it has iron sides.

987
01:22:44,440 --> 01:22:51,440
The bullets plink and plonk and disappear, spent and broken.

988
01:22:51,440 --> 01:22:59,440
So then Gigi is going to turn around, show his back to the thing so that Gravebreaker can take his shot.

989
01:22:59,440 --> 01:23:00,440
Gravebreaker.

990
01:23:00,440 --> 01:23:03,440
I know you're frightened, but shoot the thing.

991
01:23:03,440 --> 01:23:06,440
But he's got no arms, but Gravebreaker.

992
01:23:06,440 --> 01:23:12,440
Maybe you can do the reveal weakness that we learned back home.

993
01:23:12,440 --> 01:23:15,440
Yes, and that I shall.

994
01:23:15,440 --> 01:23:20,440
I will target the creature and use my reveal weakness.

995
01:23:20,440 --> 01:23:27,440
OK, so reveal weakness by trying to spot the flaws in the creature's defense strategy.

996
01:23:27,440 --> 01:23:32,440
You can give your companions one wheel on their next rolls.

997
01:23:32,440 --> 01:23:36,440
However, it now takes a slow turn.

998
01:23:36,440 --> 01:23:43,440
And the first thing it does is once again unleash some saver.

999
01:23:43,440 --> 01:23:54,440
It gives you a troll like glance and it casts its head thrust back between its legs.

1000
01:23:54,440 --> 01:24:02,440
Look in its eyes is ugly and it exposes its nether regions as it chants its hideous curse.

1001
01:24:02,440 --> 01:24:11,440
If you can all please give me a slight roll with five woes.

1002
01:24:11,440 --> 01:24:14,440
So just minus six essentially. All of us?

1003
01:24:14,440 --> 01:24:16,440
All of you in the room.

1004
01:24:16,440 --> 01:24:18,440
Five? Five woes?

1005
01:24:18,440 --> 01:24:23,440
So I got 18 and then the highest from my woes was a five, so total of 13.

1006
01:24:23,440 --> 01:24:27,440
I might not be too bothered by his wiggly-widdlies.

1007
01:24:27,440 --> 01:24:33,440
Who I'm definitely traumatized by looking into his one-eyed trouser snake.

1008
01:24:33,440 --> 01:24:35,440
I'm not doing well.

1009
01:24:35,440 --> 01:24:39,440
I rolled a four.

1010
01:24:39,440 --> 01:24:41,440
Ah, rookie numbers.

1011
01:24:41,440 --> 01:24:42,440
Yeah.

1012
01:24:42,440 --> 01:24:44,440
Negative four.

1013
01:24:44,440 --> 01:24:46,440
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.

1014
01:24:46,440 --> 01:24:56,440
So I got 17 minus six plus two so 19, so 13.

1015
01:24:56,440 --> 01:25:03,440
Okay, the two of you who failed the rolls drop anything that you were holding in your case,

1016
01:25:03,440 --> 01:25:10,440
Eir, that includes your spell casting implements that has dropped to the floor and slid away from you.

1017
01:25:10,440 --> 01:25:12,440
And you rolled a negative four.

1018
01:25:12,440 --> 01:25:13,440
Oh yeah.

1019
01:25:13,440 --> 01:25:24,440
You also fall flat on your arse and are prone for the next round unable to cast any spells.

1020
01:25:24,440 --> 01:25:34,440
The creature then scuttles across the ceiling and disappears from view.

1021
01:25:34,440 --> 01:25:36,440
I say you boys aren't used to that, huh?

1022
01:25:36,440 --> 01:25:38,440
Where I come from, that's how we say hello.

1023
01:25:38,440 --> 01:25:42,440
Anyway, should we look around?

1024
01:25:42,440 --> 01:25:43,440
You guys okay?

1025
01:25:43,440 --> 01:25:46,440
I'm going to cast Wish Hour.

1026
01:25:46,440 --> 01:25:51,440
That way, because this creature is still kind of around, it says you sense the immediate future.

1027
01:25:51,440 --> 01:25:54,440
For the duration of your movement does not trigger free attacks.

1028
01:25:54,440 --> 01:26:01,440
You impose two woes and attack rolls made against you and you make sleight challenge rolls with two weals to resist attacks and other harmful effects.

1029
01:26:01,440 --> 01:26:09,440
Okay, so for the next little while, you have some resistance to these spells.

1030
01:26:09,440 --> 01:26:13,440
Did you want to continue along the path to the raven's nest?

1031
01:26:13,440 --> 01:26:15,440
You will be relatively close now.

1032
01:26:15,440 --> 01:26:16,440
I think so.

1033
01:26:16,440 --> 01:26:17,440
Shall we?

1034
01:26:17,440 --> 01:26:18,440
Shall we move forward to the ravens?

1035
01:26:18,440 --> 01:26:19,440
Yes.

1036
01:26:19,440 --> 01:26:20,440
Okay.

1037
01:26:20,440 --> 01:26:24,440
That was weird, but let's keep going.

1038
01:26:24,440 --> 01:26:25,440
All right.

1039
01:26:25,440 --> 01:26:30,440
The ravens nest is effectively the bridge.

1040
01:26:30,440 --> 01:26:40,440
It's a room with a raised platform from where a steersman or skipper can con the vessel and control movements of the ship, giving orders to the crew.

1041
01:26:40,440 --> 01:26:48,440
On that raised platform, you see the slumbering form of the unconscious álfar Ljomi.

1042
01:26:48,440 --> 01:26:59,440
The room is otherwise empty, apart from two sleek black flight visors that rest delicately on hooks near the entrance.

1043
01:26:59,440 --> 01:27:05,440
They are a bit like virtual reality headsets used to power the thought and memory drive.

1044
01:27:05,440 --> 01:27:07,440
Wait, stay back.

1045
01:27:07,440 --> 01:27:09,440
We don't know if that's Ljomi.

1046
01:27:09,440 --> 01:27:12,440
It could be the thing.

1047
01:27:12,440 --> 01:27:15,440
Oh my God.

1048
01:27:15,440 --> 01:27:18,440
I didn't count the rings.

1049
01:27:18,440 --> 01:27:20,440
We should test it.

1050
01:27:20,440 --> 01:27:21,440
How do we test it?

1051
01:27:21,440 --> 01:27:24,440
You know him best.

1052
01:27:24,440 --> 01:27:27,440
Maybe you can ask him a question that only he would know.

1053
01:27:27,440 --> 01:27:28,440
But he's unconscious.

1054
01:27:28,440 --> 01:27:29,440
Poke him.

1055
01:27:29,440 --> 01:27:34,440
What about your trap sense, Snowthunder?

1056
01:27:34,440 --> 01:27:35,440
My trap sense?

1057
01:27:35,440 --> 01:27:37,440
Yes, you're right.

1058
01:27:37,440 --> 01:27:39,440
See if there's a trap of course.

1059
01:27:39,440 --> 01:27:41,440
Why don't I do that?

1060
01:27:41,440 --> 01:27:47,440
Do my little trap sense in the little room here.

1061
01:27:47,440 --> 01:27:48,440
Raven's Nest.

1062
01:27:48,440 --> 01:27:49,440
Can I do that?

1063
01:27:49,440 --> 01:27:50,440
You can.

1064
01:27:50,440 --> 01:27:51,440
Give me a roll.

1065
01:27:51,440 --> 01:27:56,440
The awareness roll with one weal.

1066
01:27:56,440 --> 01:27:57,440
Okay.

1067
01:27:57,440 --> 01:27:58,440
Oh yeah.

1068
01:27:58,440 --> 01:28:00,440
13 plus three plus.

1069
01:28:00,440 --> 01:28:01,440
Okay.

1070
01:28:01,440 --> 01:28:02,440
So we did good.

1071
01:28:02,440 --> 01:28:05,440
We got 19.

1072
01:28:05,440 --> 01:28:15,440
You creep around the room checking the panels and the hardware for any traps.

1073
01:28:15,440 --> 01:28:25,440
You don't find anything, but you do glide your hand over some strange runes that have been carved there.

1074
01:28:25,440 --> 01:28:30,440
Can you give me a will challenge with three woes?

1075
01:28:30,440 --> 01:28:34,440
So I got, okay, I got eight.

1076
01:28:34,440 --> 01:28:41,440
The rest of you see your companion freeze and look dazed.

1077
01:28:41,440 --> 01:28:51,440
He begins to drool as he has uncovered these bewildering runes, subliminal signals that melt his mind.

1078
01:28:51,440 --> 01:28:57,440
For the next minute, Jay, you are going to be unable to take any actions.

1079
01:28:57,440 --> 01:28:58,440
You can move.

1080
01:28:58,440 --> 01:29:00,440
You can stagger around.

1081
01:29:00,440 --> 01:29:01,440
I got to stagger.

1082
01:29:01,440 --> 01:29:04,440
Your tongue lolling out of your head.

1083
01:29:04,440 --> 01:29:05,440
You are dazed.

1084
01:29:05,440 --> 01:29:06,440
I love that.

1085
01:29:06,440 --> 01:29:07,440
I'm going to do that.

1086
01:29:07,440 --> 01:29:14,440
As someone who knows Runar, would I be able to counter it?

1087
01:29:14,440 --> 01:29:20,440
No, but Ljomi does have some dispel magic abilities.

1088
01:29:20,440 --> 01:29:23,440
If that is indeed Ljomi.

1089
01:29:23,440 --> 01:29:26,440
Or do we just let him drool for a minute?

1090
01:29:26,440 --> 01:29:28,440
True.

1091
01:29:28,440 --> 01:29:29,440
He's quiet.

1092
01:29:29,440 --> 01:29:31,440
Just a minute.

1093
01:29:31,440 --> 01:29:35,440
Okay, let's just savor the peace.

1094
01:29:35,440 --> 01:29:46,440
Well, your mind may well be made up for you for again appearing from its helm of concealment.

1095
01:29:46,440 --> 01:29:57,440
This faceless creature lunges at Jay, its teeth gnashing, whip-like appendages threshing with a mind of their own.

1096
01:29:57,440 --> 01:30:04,440
As they tear through his leather armor and through his flesh indiscriminately.

1097
01:30:04,440 --> 01:30:09,440
Jay, you're going to take a nice round 15 damage.

1098
01:30:09,440 --> 01:30:12,440
Oh, God.

1099
01:30:12,440 --> 01:30:22,440
The creature in front of you hugs on him, teeth emerging from grotesque mouths, snapping savagely at you all within reach.

1100
01:30:22,440 --> 01:30:30,440
Simultaneously, these sinewy appendages acting like ravenous serpents lash out in a frenzy.

1101
01:30:30,440 --> 01:30:35,440
Gigi is going to draw a bear paw and attack.

1102
01:30:35,440 --> 01:30:42,440
You lumber forward with Gravebreaker still gibbering on your shoulders.

1103
01:30:42,440 --> 01:30:45,440
It causes you to be slightly off balance.

1104
01:30:45,440 --> 01:30:51,440
I'm going to make you roll with one woe as you swipe the heirloom sword.

1105
01:30:51,440 --> 01:30:55,440
Ooh, 17 minus one.

1106
01:30:55,440 --> 01:30:57,440
I'm going well today.

1107
01:30:57,440 --> 01:31:11,440
Then the mighty bear paw, a thousand years of Viking history, flies into the neck of the beast or one of its many necks as it has now.

1108
01:31:11,440 --> 01:31:15,440
A raft of protuberances and sinewy appendages.

1109
01:31:15,440 --> 01:31:21,440
It clanks as if it has just met steel.

1110
01:31:21,440 --> 01:31:26,440
Can Gigi just do a sawing motion real quick?

1111
01:31:26,440 --> 01:31:29,440
Try and inflict extra damage?

1112
01:31:29,440 --> 01:31:37,440
The creature's grotesque jaws begin to chomp violently on Snow Thunder.

1113
01:31:37,440 --> 01:31:42,440
Eir will try to retrieve his spellcasting implements wherever they went.

1114
01:31:42,440 --> 01:31:48,440
Okay, you may do so, but Jay, you're going to take another 14 damage.

1115
01:31:48,440 --> 01:31:52,440
Are you kidding?

1116
01:31:52,440 --> 01:32:05,440
You have this whip-like beast rending at you with terrifying speed, a whir of razor teeth and elongated limbs.

1117
01:32:05,440 --> 01:32:07,440
Do I have any last words or am I just dead?

1118
01:32:07,440 --> 01:32:09,440
Has your damage surpassed your health?

1119
01:32:09,440 --> 01:32:11,440
Yeah.

1120
01:32:11,440 --> 01:32:16,440
Then make a fate roll, please, which is a die six.

1121
01:32:16,440 --> 01:32:17,440
Okay.

1122
01:32:17,440 --> 01:32:19,440
Ooh, six.

1123
01:32:19,440 --> 01:32:25,440
On a six, you lapse into unconsciousness for the next round.

1124
01:32:25,440 --> 01:32:28,440
You will awaken next round with Gods smiling on you.

1125
01:32:28,440 --> 01:32:34,440
The Norns clearly have seen some kind of future for you.

1126
01:32:34,440 --> 01:32:43,440
You will wake up next round with one health, presuming that you won't be snapped into savage

1127
01:32:43,440 --> 01:32:46,440
and the creature that's writhing around on top of you.

1128
01:32:46,440 --> 01:32:47,440
And he's not wearing pants.

1129
01:32:47,440 --> 01:32:51,440
That's the brutal part.

1130
01:32:51,440 --> 01:32:58,440
You may enter into the room if you wish at this next top of the round.

1131
01:32:58,440 --> 01:33:07,440
The first chance he has, he will absolutely cast cast. He's going to cast Wounding Wand at the nasty creature.

1132
01:33:07,440 --> 01:33:09,440
Okay.

1133
01:33:09,440 --> 01:33:14,440
Which attack versus the targets might you have the empowered spell ability to cause it?

1134
01:33:14,440 --> 01:33:16,440
If you take a strain, excellent.

1135
01:33:16,440 --> 01:33:18,440
You know what? That's an excellent idea.

1136
01:33:18,440 --> 01:33:21,440
Yes, we're took. Let's totally do that.

1137
01:33:21,440 --> 01:33:24,440
We will empower it. So we get two weals.

1138
01:33:24,440 --> 01:33:28,440
Is that over and above the deep minded?

1139
01:33:28,440 --> 01:33:29,440
It is.

1140
01:33:29,440 --> 01:33:30,440
Okay.

1141
01:33:30,440 --> 01:33:33,440
Bill, perhaps you should just snore quietly in the background since no one's waking you up.

1142
01:33:33,440 --> 01:33:46,440
It's fairly obvious that Bill is the real Ljomi now because the creature is just ripping Jay limb to limb.

1143
01:33:46,440 --> 01:33:52,440
Okay. And really? So that's eight. Ten. Ten exactly.

1144
01:33:52,440 --> 01:34:02,440
That is not enough to penetrate the sorceress defenses and the counterweave of this faceless creature.

1145
01:34:02,440 --> 01:34:05,440
I will do exactly all of that again.

1146
01:34:05,440 --> 01:34:14,440
Okay. So that is really nine. Yeah, it's all gone.

1147
01:34:14,440 --> 01:34:19,440
Can you give me a will roll with four woes because you got four strains.

1148
01:34:19,440 --> 01:34:22,440
We are killing it here. We are at that is negative three.

1149
01:34:22,440 --> 01:34:28,440
So add yet another trauma. Explode with the strain.

1150
01:34:28,440 --> 01:34:31,440
And if you wouldn't mind slumping into a corner as your narcolepsy.

1151
01:34:31,440 --> 01:34:34,440
I wouldn't mind at all. It's just it's the thing I do.

1152
01:34:34,440 --> 01:34:37,440
Also make sleepy sounds, Steve.

1153
01:34:37,440 --> 01:34:40,440
Oh, sure. Yeah. Okay.

1154
01:34:40,440 --> 01:34:44,440
The ink still shivers.

1155
01:34:44,440 --> 01:34:48,440
Valhalla.

1156
01:34:48,440 --> 01:34:53,440
So at the top of the round, if you want to make a fast turn, CJ and have another swing.

1157
01:34:53,440 --> 01:35:06,440
Or if you've got any other cunning plans, Evan, by the same token, I know that you hitched to CJ's back without any limbs is a little bit of a challenging or playing scenario.

1158
01:35:06,440 --> 01:35:09,440
But feel free to shout words of encouragement.

1159
01:35:09,440 --> 01:35:22,440
Go get them. Go take them out. And, you know, maybe if you, you know, if you turn the right way, maybe I can do like a energy burst or something, you know, from the back half.

1160
01:35:22,440 --> 01:35:28,440
So Gigi is going to how close am I to this thing? I'm really close, right?

1161
01:35:28,440 --> 01:35:30,440
You're within you're within sword thrust range.

1162
01:35:30,440 --> 01:35:47,440
It is in the process of stabbing violently the unconscious form of snow thunder, just pummeling him and blood and gore is spattering all over you as this creature effectively devours him.

1163
01:35:47,440 --> 01:35:50,440
So I'm like real close. Bearpaw didn't do the trick.

1164
01:35:50,440 --> 01:36:00,440
So I'm so Gigi is going to reach into his holster and pull out his pistol and push it into where this thing is.

1165
01:36:00,440 --> 01:36:06,440
And you know, where its mouth is and just try to shoot it point blank in the mouth.

1166
01:36:06,440 --> 01:36:11,440
OK, you got this. And I'm going to roll the hit. Do I have a weal?

1167
01:36:11,440 --> 01:36:18,440
Do I have a well, I'm going to give you a weal just for that for the execution style shot.

1168
01:36:18,440 --> 01:36:21,440
See if I can get it to like take some damage.

1169
01:36:21,440 --> 01:36:28,440
It would be a start. Oh, I don't need the weal. I got Nat 20. Oh, yeah.

1170
01:36:28,440 --> 01:36:30,440
All right. Nice.

1171
01:36:30,440 --> 01:36:48,440
Challengingly, though, for you and somewhat depressingly again is able to trigger its iron sides ability and your bullet ricochets off harmlessly while it continues the process of eating for snow thunder.

1172
01:36:48,440 --> 01:37:09,440
Again, the orcneas are known as the eaters of the dead, the devourers. And right before your eyes, it continues to feast on for Jay. And he never wakes up from his unconscious state.

1173
01:37:09,440 --> 01:37:20,440
Evan, can you give me a trauma role at this point? Because seeing your comrade and partner being devoured before your eyes isn't exactly fun.

1174
01:37:20,440 --> 01:37:25,440
And I've been asked to do it with three woes because it's an extreme trauma event.

1175
01:37:25,440 --> 01:37:28,440
Oof. One .

1176
01:37:28,440 --> 01:37:36,440
I'm going to give you pretty impressive six trauma there from watching all of that.

1177
01:37:36,440 --> 01:37:45,440
And now at nine. One more and you will have a mental breakdown.

1178
01:37:45,440 --> 01:37:48,440
Snow thunder.

1179
01:37:48,440 --> 01:38:07,440
Yeah, as is his habit has gone into a sorceress sleep. Ljomi is lying supine on a couch, having been perhaps drugged or even certainly kept for a reason, kept alive for a reason.

1180
01:38:07,440 --> 01:38:13,440
And so Gigi is you versus the fitness.

1181
01:38:13,440 --> 01:38:21,440
That's fine. I just looked up iron sides in the book and it's a spell and he's going to run out of spell slots. So I'm just going to keep shooting them.

1182
01:38:21,440 --> 01:38:27,440
That's nice. He's eventually going to wear it. We just got to wear him down.

1183
01:38:27,440 --> 01:38:33,440
All about the grind. So whose turn is it? Is it the beast? The monsters turn? Is it my turn?

1184
01:38:33,440 --> 01:38:48,440
He's had his turn to, unfortunately, eat. Poor Jay, who now gurgles his last. You do notice that it is resurgent, having feasted on the body.

1185
01:38:48,440 --> 01:38:52,440
It's necrotic cells burst with life.

1186
01:38:52,440 --> 01:38:54,440
I'm going to machine gun at point blank range.

1187
01:38:54,440 --> 01:39:03,440
You switch out your pistol for your storm shooter and blast away.

1188
01:39:03,440 --> 01:39:06,440
Since I'm doing a burst, I don't have to roll, right?

1189
01:39:06,440 --> 01:39:10,440
Correct. But it gets a sleight roll to avoid.

1190
01:39:10,440 --> 01:39:21,440
And then since I'm just trying to break down its ability until it runs out of spell slots, I'm not going to invoke any additional anything.

1191
01:39:21,440 --> 01:39:24,440
So I think I only get three right. Six.

1192
01:39:24,440 --> 01:39:31,440
You pepper the creature again. The bullets ricochet off as it uses its iron size ability to withstand the damage.

1193
01:39:31,440 --> 01:39:35,440
But you are right. You are clearly winding it down.

1194
01:39:35,440 --> 01:39:46,440
And it is a glimmer of concern passes through the grotesque eyes that stare at you.

1195
01:39:46,440 --> 01:39:58,440
And it says, the Norns who weave fate will tell tales of the devastation I sowed, the cataclysm I wreaked.

1196
01:39:58,440 --> 01:40:08,440
Jokes on you, you bastard. I have plot armor.

1197
01:40:08,440 --> 01:40:17,440
The very best armor. It then does look at you.

1198
01:40:17,440 --> 01:40:21,440
And a grin plays around its many mouths.

1199
01:40:21,440 --> 01:40:29,440
And it says, measure your worth, heroes, against the pallid specter of oblivion.

1200
01:40:29,440 --> 01:40:36,440
Fight, bleed, strive. Let your deeds be your testament, lest you be forgotten.

1201
01:40:36,440 --> 01:40:49,440
For I am Orcneus and I rage eternal. I was made by the father of monsters and my laughter will echo through the nine worlds.

1202
01:40:49,440 --> 01:41:07,440
And then it sprints, scuttering away on these elongated crab-like limbs, leaving a trail of blood and guts as it leaves the raver's nest and vanishes into the ship.

1203
01:41:07,440 --> 01:41:16,440
Well, Gigi is honor bound, so he's going to take off his harness and say, so sorry, I have to leave you here because I'm going to go kick the ship out of that thing.

1204
01:41:16,440 --> 01:41:28,440
That's fair. Can someone else pick me up? Someone have, you know.

1205
01:41:28,440 --> 01:41:39,440
Oh, he's still sleeping, so I guess I'm only talking to Ljomi.

1206
01:41:39,440 --> 01:41:44,440
So before Gigi goes anywhere, he's going to go try and wake up Eir.

1207
01:41:44,440 --> 01:41:51,440
I'll just kick him as you go by. Yeah. Just kind of a shake, like, wake up, my somnolent friend, wake up. Is he out?

1208
01:41:51,440 --> 01:41:59,440
Is there a wake up? You can wake him up. He just needs a swift kick to the midriff and he'll be fine.

1209
01:41:59,440 --> 01:42:06,440
Ljomi likewise could take a Jay-style slap to the face to get him.

1210
01:42:06,440 --> 01:42:14,440
He's going to go over there and shake him a little bit. I'll take care of it. You chase your target.

1211
01:42:14,440 --> 01:42:18,440
I'll need the bag of flares, please.

1212
01:42:18,440 --> 01:42:36,440
Ah, Gersgurgrungur, sure, sure. You know, I had the loveliest dream. You were there and oh, Err was there also. Yes, the flares here, the flares. I'm going to go try and get back into my dream.

1213
01:42:36,440 --> 01:42:40,440
What would you like to do next?

1214
01:42:40,440 --> 01:42:57,440
I'm going to use the internal ship scanners to detect motion. I'm also going to point out that despite the fact that Jay and Evan had the schematic of the ship, you failed to go into the armory.

1215
01:42:57,440 --> 01:43:05,440
Well, why didn't they point that out then? I mean, I mean, sounds like a them problem.

1216
01:43:05,440 --> 01:43:11,440
I think they were trying to fit in with my group.

1217
01:43:11,440 --> 01:43:37,440
Anyway, my point to you is this. If you scan the ship from this command center, from this Raven's Nest, you can tell that there are no other life signs on board outside of the Raven's Nest. Whatever it would detect, motion or movement, it would detect this creature.

1218
01:43:37,440 --> 01:43:41,440
It is no longer on your vessel.

1219
01:43:41,440 --> 01:43:52,440
Okay, so Gigi's going to scan the ship and take a look and see nothing and say, that's odd. It's almost as if it's left.

1220
01:43:52,440 --> 01:43:55,440
But I don't think it has.

1221
01:43:55,440 --> 01:43:58,440
I have, I think I have something.

1222
01:43:58,440 --> 01:44:00,440
Didn't I cast Wish Hour already?

1223
01:44:00,440 --> 01:44:01,440
You did.

1224
01:44:01,440 --> 01:44:07,440
It's expired, right? Can I cast it again? I'm out of spells.

1225
01:44:07,440 --> 01:44:11,440
There are some people with things like Corpse Charm.

1226
01:44:11,440 --> 01:44:16,440
Who would that be?

1227
01:44:16,440 --> 01:44:19,440
I've been asleep.

1228
01:44:19,440 --> 01:44:39,440
I have Corpse Charm. You call out to your ancestors and 2d6 spirits move into your body for the duration. Whenever you make an attack roll or challenge roll, you can expend a spirit to make the roll with one wheel. I can also use an action to spend three spirits and ask the GM one question that can be answered yes or no.

1229
01:44:39,440 --> 01:44:42,440
Make it so. Cast it and we shall see.

1230
01:44:42,440 --> 01:44:44,440
Has it left the ship, I guess.

1231
01:44:44,440 --> 01:44:49,440
Has the creature left our ship?

1232
01:44:49,440 --> 01:44:58,440
The spirits of the land speak to you and they say yes, it has left the ship.

1233
01:44:58,440 --> 01:45:01,440
Well, thank you, Gerasithrini. So we are clear.

1234
01:45:01,440 --> 01:45:09,440
I was rather looking forward to fighting that thing one on one. Mono a Mono.

1235
01:45:09,440 --> 01:45:16,440
I've been looking at the wounded man and I think we should plant him.

1236
01:45:16,440 --> 01:45:20,440
Either take me with you or put me out of my misery.

1237
01:45:20,440 --> 01:45:47,440
You are in the unenviable position of possessing a ship that utilizes thought and memory drive, which therefore requires two pilots. One of your potential pilots is a bloody pulp in the corner and the other is a limbless paraplegic who is on the verge of a mental breakdown.

1238
01:45:47,440 --> 01:45:54,440
Grave breaker, join me. Will you to pilot this thing and get it off the ground before you're broken by a grave?

1239
01:45:54,440 --> 01:45:59,440
Yes, please swing me back on your back and let's make haste.

1240
01:45:59,440 --> 01:46:04,440
Did the creature close the door when it left?

1241
01:46:04,440 --> 01:46:07,440
It will be relevant as we go into space.

1242
01:46:07,440 --> 01:46:09,440
Vent atmosphere.

1243
01:46:09,440 --> 01:46:16,440
We could close it from here with our thoughts and memories.

1244
01:46:16,440 --> 01:46:19,440
Can we use the Raven Skull to help with the ship piloting or anything?

1245
01:46:19,440 --> 01:46:23,440
I mean, it's related.

1246
01:46:23,440 --> 01:46:28,440
You're really nervous about Gigi piloting, aren't you?

1247
01:46:28,440 --> 01:46:30,440
Oh, I'm looking forward to this.

1248
01:46:30,440 --> 01:46:35,440
I mean, he's got all the confidence you could ever want.

1249
01:46:35,440 --> 01:46:38,440
The Raven Skull, is it not somehow useful?

1250
01:46:38,440 --> 01:46:47,440
The Raven Skull will indeed give wheels to anyone who seeks to pilot the Falkr using thought and memory drive.

1251
01:46:47,440 --> 01:46:55,440
There is a commotion outside, though, as all of your sled dogs are clearly reacting to something.

1252
01:46:55,440 --> 01:46:58,440
How quickly can we leave? How about now?

1253
01:46:58,440 --> 01:47:00,440
Now!

1254
01:47:00,440 --> 01:47:04,440
Now would be great.

1255
01:47:04,440 --> 01:47:08,440
The mighty heroes run away.

1256
01:47:08,440 --> 01:47:15,440
Do we put one of those visors on our immobile friend here?

1257
01:47:15,440 --> 01:47:22,440
Yes. One visor on Gravebreaker, one visor on me.

1258
01:47:22,440 --> 01:47:26,440
Go for it. There's no way for this to fail.

1259
01:47:26,440 --> 01:47:36,440
Evan, I'm going to ask you to make a will roll with five woes.

1260
01:47:36,440 --> 01:47:39,440
OK. Eight.

1261
01:47:39,440 --> 01:47:45,440
So the way that thought and memory drive works is this.

1262
01:47:45,440 --> 01:47:48,440
It's a kind of superposition.

1263
01:47:48,440 --> 01:47:58,440
It enables two navigators to move ships vast distances, assuming that one of them can accurately visualise the destination.

1264
01:47:58,440 --> 01:48:02,440
It becomes the memory to be accessed.

1265
01:48:02,440 --> 01:48:08,440
And so donning the flight visor, you can activate the thought and memory drive.

1266
01:48:08,440 --> 01:48:12,440
It does require some specialist training.

1267
01:48:12,440 --> 01:48:24,440
And in your mental state, you are neither skilled enough nor have the mental fortitude to be able to pilot the vessel.

1268
01:48:24,440 --> 01:48:34,440
And unfortunately, the last of your mind dissipates and you sink into a kind of vegetative state,

1269
01:48:34,440 --> 01:48:46,440
just sitting there drooling in the pilot's chair, your mind broken into shards.

1270
01:48:46,440 --> 01:48:48,440
Is it supposed to do that?

1271
01:48:48,440 --> 01:48:53,440
Well, I mean, one of them survived. It feels like it.

1272
01:48:53,440 --> 01:48:55,440
One out of two is bad.

1273
01:48:55,440 --> 01:48:57,440
Well, not bad at all.

1274
01:48:57,440 --> 01:49:00,440
OK, half out of two.

1275
01:49:00,440 --> 01:49:02,440
Yeah, I understand.

1276
01:49:02,440 --> 01:49:04,440
I think he's dead.

1277
01:49:04,440 --> 01:49:11,440
The Falkr remains marooned on the ice, unable to be piloted.

1278
01:49:11,440 --> 01:49:20,440
And the dogs run even more loudly, even more wildly out on the ice.

1279
01:49:20,440 --> 01:49:22,440
Well, shit.

1280
01:49:22,440 --> 01:49:38,440
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1281
01:49:38,440 --> 01:49:52,440
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