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Fast move, the sons of Mim, and fate catches

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fire. Loud blows Heimdall, the horn is aloft.

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In fear quake all who on the hel roads are. Yggdrasil

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shakes and shivers on high. To the head of Mimir

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does Odin give heed. Welcome to episode 17 of

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the Vikings and Valkyries podcast. Venturing

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into the well of fate are Kaitlin, Steve, Bill,

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CJ and Taylor. Welcome to you, Wave Runners.

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Hi. Hi. Now we have a new guest aboard the Falkyr

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today, Kaitlin Felix, who has just published

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her new book, Ran's Daughters, which is... hot

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off the press. Kaitlin, welcome to you. How exciting

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is it to publish that debut? Thank you for having

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me. It's great to be here. I am very excited

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to have Ran's Daughters out. It took me almost

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four years to write, so it's nice to finally

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have it out in the world and in readers' hands.

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Four years, that's craftsmanship. Well, I hope

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so. No, your first one always takes longer. My

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first one probably took four or five years because

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you just... Question yourself and wonder and

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go back and forth and and then you finally get

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an editor and then the editor just goes This

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is crap. We write the whole thing and so you

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can go through this whole process and then and

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then that still happens I mean the latest one

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that I put out took me about that one took longer,

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right? And then even then I gave it to the editor

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and he said this is crap We write the whole thing

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and so it took another six months to cobble it

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together so it would be passable and make the

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editor happy because that's what's important

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in life a happy editor and uh and this last one

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that i put in front of the editor he sat back

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and said this is crap try again so I mean we're

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here we are here we are at the beginning i think

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it's a feat of heroism to even finish a book

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in the first place let alone have to rewrite

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it and rewrite it and rewrite it so well done

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in terms of your editor friend of the podcast

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Josh Gillingham was your editor and he he submitted

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one short story to his Althingi anthology and

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then Ran's Daughter is the sequel what's it

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been like working with Josh yes oh he's great

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he's an amazing editor and friend working with

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him is so easy and so fun and he makes the whole

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process so much simpler than than working on

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my own i would say like he was my partner throughout

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all of Ran's daughters actually and i would

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say yay Josh very good and everyone here would

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say yay josh as well but they threw him off a

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building when he came on to this look there were

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gotta keep people humble he had it coming there

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were circumstances there's a large black thing

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how's the reception for Ran's Daughters you've

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got some good buzz some good reviews Yes, I got

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some great reviews so far from Alex from the

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Spells and Spaceships blog and Becky, who was

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also on the podcast. She's a good friend as well.

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She read it. She read an ARC and adored it. She

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read it in, I think, two days, which shocked

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me. You know, you spend four years writing a

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book and then it takes two days to read and you're

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like, well, OK, I call that a success. Super.

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We are building a little bit of Viking camaraderie

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here with our network of Viking aficionados across

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the world. I couldn't help noticing, Kaitlin,

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on your website, you describe yourself as a creator

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of catastrophe. Does that mean that you're going

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to be adding to the chaos that ensues on the

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podcast? I certainly hope so. I wouldn't be doing

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my job if I didn't add to the chaos. Fantastic.

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Seeing new and exciting ways for everything to

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go. hopelessly wrong is one of the joys of tuning

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in today we are playing the first part of the

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well of fate adventure and as usual I'm going

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to ask you a question to earn an inspiration

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point Bill's already started massaging his temples

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is that a psychic channel that you have to Steve

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is that what you're i know i'm trying to explode

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your head with my mind yeah that's what i'm doing

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Very scanners. All right, the question I have

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for you is this. Can you name each of the Níu Heimar

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of Norse mythology, the nine homeworlds? I just

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did this exercise with my son in the car over

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the weekend. Oh, as one does. So let's start

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from the top. Good parenting. Asgard. Midgard.

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That's us, yep. Vanaheim. Jotunheim. Niflheim.

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Niflheim. Muspelheim. Helheim. Svartalfheim.

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Alfheim. Alfheim, sure. There we go. What are

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we at? That's nine. It was going to be really

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embarrassing if you didn't get them all after

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that big talk about going through them all. I

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think there is one more. I think there is one

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more. Nidavellir. Yes, yes, yes. I am going to

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point out to you, though, that it's a little

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bit of a trick question because no single source

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provides a list of which worlds comprise the

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nine, while various different sources talk about

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the Níu Heimar. It's only when mythologists

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kind of crib and grab from various different

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sources that they compile a tentative reconstruction.

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So there's no formal list. However, that said,

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Inspiration Point is earned. Do remember to spend

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that. We will start with this week's adventure.

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The adventure begins... As the Falkr has tunneled

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between realities, the Raven's Nest crackles

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with biological noise, reaching out to the spirits

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with symphonies and songs, and then you arrive

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at your destination in a flurry of blue strobing

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light. To add to your ongoing problems, the ship

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immediately goes dark, losing all power. Out

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of the blackness, you hear a voice, the Orcneas

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who yells, You fools, what have you done? Father

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will be very angry. Not a clue, but you're still

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going to die. So we can pick up combat and you

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may take a fast turn or a slow turn. We did leave

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things in the middle of a battle with the Orcneas

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leader on the Falkr. You had dealt with explosive

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decompression. and traveling through time so

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there may well be some traumatic effect for that

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but let's finish off the fight first i i think

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I would like to do some healing I'd like to heal

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some people who needs healing raise whatever

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hands you still have i think i could use them

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you're in the raven's nest with Ragny okay so

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you can decide to i don't know put on a siren

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and uh whirl like an tree ambulance into the

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general area i think that's what i'll do like

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uh since i can heal people i might as well do

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that at least once before the campaign is finished

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yeah episode 17. yes what did you do with bill

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i i didn't want to i didn't want to act too quickly

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and use it before it was really needed but i

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feel like it might be so yes i'm gonna move this

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turn i'm gonna ask you to just wing your way

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towards the rest of the group and we'll actually

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let you cast the spell on the next excellent

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um on my turn can i go ahead and use my new steadfast

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ability because i believe i'm still frightened

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from the orcneas you can so you have leveled

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up at the end of that last adventure and part

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of your new Level 8 gifts is the steadfast ability

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that you've chosen, so make that will roll again

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to see whether you can remove the frightened

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trait. Which dice do I trust? This one. Bad choice.

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No, that is a 2. You are still afflicted by fear,

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but the microgravity has now been replaced with

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normal gravity, so you at least stop. pirouetting

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in mid air and plant yourself firmly on the floor

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of the room steve you were last seen rapidly

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approaching a table that had stopped the leak

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of air out into the literally a leak of air out

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into the vacuum of space um the table had blocked

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that and you would have been towards it but now

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again with the restoration of normal gravity,

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you'd probably just fall heavy and leaden to

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your feet. Eir's pretty convinced that if we've

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arrived somewhere, chances are things are going

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to get weird and worse. So I think his first

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thought is going to be to sort of fortify himself

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mentally against whatever happens next. So he's

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going to use the brand new ability Mind Fortress

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that he just got. in the hopes of not losing

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it immediately. I'm going to make fun of the

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creature. Mocking taunts. Oh, I see. Something

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more constructive. Not just... And now that I've

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leveled up, I have an extra perk where it gives

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me a weal on my attack. So Gigi's going to look

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at it and point and say, Are you rotten from

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the inside out, or is that just your personality?

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That will be your triggered action, and Mocking

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Taunts is upgraded to cutting insults, and you

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also have layered on top of that as level 8 flighting

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ability, so you will now be conducting rapid

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wars of insults with anyone that you confront.

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Because I always shoot after I say something,

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right? So he is, as we discussed this meta, he

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is actively shooting the creature. With a semi

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-automatic burst. Aim and fire. And the sound

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effect. Eight. That is uncanny accuracy and your

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shot splinter the mead hall table that was just

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above Steve's head sending the ornately carved

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leg to wallop him on the head. Hey. Kaitlin,

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you are taking over the role of the ship's security

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officer. You take the path of the Gest, a kind

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of ninja of the north, a spy. What will your

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crewmate see as Gyda enters the frame? So, Gyda

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is pretty nondescript. She is average height,

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dull brown hair, doesn't look particularly athletic,

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but can surprise you, and she's stern -faced.

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isn't particularly intimidating, but has a personality

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that will scald your hide. And so she comes on

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saying, Freya's tits, what the hell is going

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on? What does she wish to do now? She doesn't

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boast necessarily big guns, but she does have

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two of them. Yes, she has two pistols, and she's

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pretty adept with them. So does she use them

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on the shapeshifter or the Orcneas? By all means,

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if you want to do that, then give me a roll.

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You will be using the dual wield attack with

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two weapons. So you need to give me a roll with,

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considering your various martial abilities, I

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think it's just going to be with one woe. So

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tell me what you get. I get a one. On brand.

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Yeah. Not particularly accurate. Come on, Gyda.

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Whoa. I meant whoa, not woo. Dang. Yeah, well,

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you know, Freya's tits indeed. You also jump

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into combat and blast wide both of your pistol

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shots echoing through the corridors of the Falkr.

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The Orcneas simply tosses back its head and laughs

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a full throated and many throated. cry, and then

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it turns its attention on its chief tormentor,

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Gigi, and rushes out for 13 damage as its claws

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and tentacles rip through your silken finery

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and leave you bloody and brutalized. Luckily,

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though, at the top of the next round, here comes

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Ljomi. with the first healing spell of 17 episodes.

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Oh, it's going to be glorious. What one are you

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going for? Well, that's the thing I've been staring

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at and trying to decide. And who takes the most

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damage? Is it Captain or is it Gigi? I mean,

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there's so many choices. Gigi took six damage

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from an explosion to his eyebrows as the dragon

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gun went off last episode, and then that last

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damage may well take him above what Kol took,

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I think, 16 damage from the dread helm. Wait a

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minute. What are the totals? You've got 17? I'm

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17. Gigi's like 19. Okay. All right. It's a good

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thing we have such a helpful and generous GM

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here. I've got this healing herbs thing. Does

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that do a nice area? In fact, it sounds like

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it should do an area. And no, I didn't spend

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a lot of time reviewing it before we started.

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You're reading it for the first time, aren't

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you? No, not the first time. The first time in

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a long while, perhaps. The first time where it's

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every word, not just every other word. I can

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heal up to three creatures with that one. Each

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time the target heals damage, both. Yes. See,

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that's more preventative. That's like you give

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people a medicine pouch full of those healing

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herbs prior to them taking damage, and then...

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They should have let me know they were planning

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to get hurt. All right. I will use Leech Hands

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on Gigi. I can only do the one, right? Yeah.

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You know, I'm going to suggest go big or go home,

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hit him with some everlasting wounds, which heals

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all damage, as opposed to three. Okay, I didn't

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remember that one. Is that one of the new ones?

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I feel like the mask is slipping just a little

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bit, and my persona of perfect preparation. See,

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Kaitlin, this lets you a little bit of insight

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into the podcast. You come as a novice, as an

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initiate, and you've still got as much skill

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as Bill. Yeah. I'm getting that headache again,

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Ian. Right there. Yeah, I'm going to cast that

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one. What you just mentioned, the heal everything.

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I was going to say, Leech Hand sounds uncomfortable,

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and Gigi is just not in a position to receive

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that right now. Everlasting runes. Yes, that's

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the one. As I said. With the great skill of an

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alpha healer, you attend to your comrade's wounds

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and he is restored to full health. Excellent.

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I feel vindicated and fulfilled. Kaitlin, let's

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give you another go with those pistols. Let's

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see if you can do a little bit better with an

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insult and a roll. I'm going to let you roll

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it with just a straight D20 because you do get

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the benefit of hearing Gigi's cutting insults.

00:16:23.799 --> 00:16:28.100
Okay, I think I get a 16. That's so much better.

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Now roll, if you would, your damage, which is

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going to be... Three dice, six, and then add

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six for the two pistols. Twenty -one. Nice. Nice.

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You target both your pistols at the creature's

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skull and blast away. Both pistols find their

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mark and the creature careens backwards with

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a heavy thump hitting into the bulkhead. It's

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not... Quite dead, but it's certainly getting

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there. CJ, what would you like to know? So Gigi

00:17:04.859 --> 00:17:08.460
sees that it's wounded, and he gasps. And he

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says, he says, that's my kill! And he takes out

00:17:12.140 --> 00:17:14.420
his machine gun, or it's already out, and he

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shoots again, this time with everything the gun's

00:17:18.220 --> 00:17:19.880
got, because he wants to kill this thing. So

00:17:19.880 --> 00:17:22.630
he's rushing toward it, shooting. Do I need to

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roll again for a fully automatic strike? It makes

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a slight roll to see whether it takes half damage,

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which it will do, so it limps and crawls out

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of the way of the full force of your onslaught,

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but it will take half the damage. And are you

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going to all log this? I am indeed, and so that

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means I have a lot of dice to roll. 21 total.

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Okay, that will be 10. And as it takes the half

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damage, the creature is splattered and splayed

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all over the bulkhead. It just crashed into its

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blood and guts, falls to the floor with a drop.

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And then Gigi says, stand back, stand back. And

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he's going to run up to the thing. He's going

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to reach into its chest cavity and pull out its

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heart. And he's going to say, I want that iron

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sides. ability and then he's gonna say he knows

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he needs to eat it so he's gonna just take a

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nice big fat chunk out of it but then go oh oh

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god that's awful but he keeps trying to eat it

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how much do i need to eat to get this And then

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he manages to take maybe like a couple more bites

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and then throws it down and says, I'm sorry you

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all had to see that. It was necessary. He just

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says, were you raised by trolls? No, I just know

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that I can absorb its ability to have the iron

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sides if I eat its heart. It's something I read

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in a book once. I'm a jofurr. I don't have

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a job. I just know things. For Norse myth fans

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out there, it was in fact Loki who ate a witch's

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heart. He ate the thought stone of Volva that

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had been roasted on a Lindenwood fire, and that

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enabled him to sire the various monsters that

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he did. In CJ's case, perhaps he won't sprout

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a wolf and a serpent, but he has imbued himself

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with... the iron sides ability which will come

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in useful when he's attacked by his foes the

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enemy the long feared nemesis who has haunted

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your tracks for the past few episodes has been

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summarily executed has been dispensed with and

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you can bask in the glory of your victory however

00:20:01.660 --> 00:20:05.539
we're going to do some more roles for just various

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traumatic things Are those three Sons of Ivaldi

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guys gone? Or aren't they still there? You know,

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they are. But their minds have been broken by

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the experience that you're about to try and deal

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with. Basically, in the deep Ginnungagap, missions

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are high stakes and everything from sleep deprivation,

00:20:32.529 --> 00:20:35.490
confined environments, deadly radiation, and

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the possibility of a fatal misstep put you in

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danger of this severe emotional distress and

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so in the rule book we talk about these examples

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of the psychological perils of the void a minor

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one being being boarded by an assault party a

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moderate one being explosive decompression a

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severe one being embarking on a hell ride and

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a major one being a whole breach and all four

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of those you suffered in one episode. So, I'm

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going to ask you all, with the exception of Kaitlin

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because she's brand new, but can I get four will

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rolls from you all? One with one will, one standard,

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one with a woe, and one with two woes. Is Eir's

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ancestral wisdom still alive? Yes, you devious

00:21:25.180 --> 00:21:30.099
dark elf are you. You are immune to the trauma.

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You have become as resolute as the diamonds of

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which you are made of. Steve, if you're going

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to start learning game mechanics, I don't know

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what to do. We know. Okay, Taylor, let's start

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with you then. I have 15, 6, 12, and 6. You can

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use your Wisdom of the Ages. I think you've got

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one of those left in order to change that to

00:21:55.690 --> 00:21:59.269
a wits roll and use your wits modifier. If you

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can get one of those rolls above 10 with the

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wits as opposed to the will modifier, then that

00:22:05.930 --> 00:22:08.529
may help you otherwise. That makes it an 11.

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Taylor, if you wouldn't mind adding 2 trauma

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to your total. Perfect. Well, yeah, I have with

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some of the ages as well, right? So we may need

00:22:20.680 --> 00:22:23.519
to make use of that. The one with no woes or

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wheels was a nine. The one woe was a 15. Two

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woes was a 10. And the one with one wheel was

00:22:30.680 --> 00:22:35.420
a seven. There's a weird inverse correlation

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going on. So you're going to add, because yours

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doubles up with your memory loss, you're going

00:22:42.339 --> 00:22:44.799
to add four trauma, which brings you to a total

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of... Six, I believe. Can I use the wisdom of

00:22:48.059 --> 00:22:52.000
the ages, though, to do a modifier on something?

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I wasn't paying attention when Taylor finished.

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I wasn't paying attention. End of sentence. What

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was the closest? Who said that? I had a 15 and

00:23:05.180 --> 00:23:07.700
a 10, and then I had a 9. The original roll was

00:23:07.700 --> 00:23:10.910
a 9, with no weals or woes. Fine. Then you can

00:23:10.910 --> 00:23:12.730
make that one into a success. So you're only

00:23:12.730 --> 00:23:15.150
taking two trauma, so your trauma total is now

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four. Yep. That actually agrees with the number

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I have. That's amazing. Yes, that's because I

00:23:20.970 --> 00:23:22.809
looked at your character sheet earlier. Good

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thinking. Technical question. Since Gigi cannot

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be frightened, you can still gain trauma. I've

00:23:31.289 --> 00:23:33.609
told you, Taylor, I have some players like him,

00:23:33.670 --> 00:23:41.339
right? I have him. And Ian has me. So it is a

00:23:41.339 --> 00:23:46.319
full circle. The simple fact is that whilst you

00:23:46.319 --> 00:23:48.880
can gain the trauma, you don't then gain the

00:23:48.880 --> 00:23:52.660
frightened condition on top of it. Okay. So my

00:23:52.660 --> 00:23:56.880
rolls were the lowest was 12. That was my first

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one. The second one was 18. Third one was negative

00:24:02.700 --> 00:24:09.910
one. And the last one was 13. Okay, so not the

00:24:09.910 --> 00:24:12.890
end of the world, considering you embarked on

00:24:12.890 --> 00:24:15.369
a hell ride. You're just going to add one trauma

00:24:15.369 --> 00:24:19.769
to your total, which is relatively low anyway,

00:24:19.890 --> 00:24:22.690
considering you took a couple of nervous ticks.

00:24:23.630 --> 00:24:28.450
Ragny, however, has suffered immense anxiety

00:24:28.450 --> 00:24:32.750
as your pilot. She now suffers from headaches,

00:24:32.950 --> 00:24:36.910
cramps, and amnesia. She is fatigued and will...

00:24:37.119 --> 00:24:40.940
needs to go to the sickbay for some time. She

00:24:40.940 --> 00:24:44.259
may well recover. I'll be rolling a die -six

00:24:44.259 --> 00:24:47.119
at the end of every hour to see whether she recovers.

00:24:47.160 --> 00:24:51.519
She is in no fit state to fly the ship. Kaitlin,

00:24:51.680 --> 00:24:55.880
people in the crew may well be wondering where

00:24:55.880 --> 00:24:59.819
the Falkr has appeared, and I'm going to put

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it to you that you are best placed to now look

00:25:03.319 --> 00:25:08.759
out of a hollow. You are docked in a huge hangar.

00:25:08.779 --> 00:25:11.660
You are no longer in the gap, but you are in

00:25:11.660 --> 00:25:14.119
some kind of structure. Now, the walls themselves

00:25:14.119 --> 00:25:18.099
look almost like a nest of spiders. They twitch

00:25:18.099 --> 00:25:23.720
with energy and excitement. They are clearly

00:25:23.720 --> 00:25:29.619
part of a living, breathing vessel as well. Very

00:25:29.619 --> 00:25:34.529
similar to the Falcon. You... looking outside,

00:25:34.990 --> 00:25:39.950
have been to this location before. You recognize

00:25:39.950 --> 00:25:45.849
that you are at a place called Mímisbrunnr.

00:25:46.950 --> 00:25:52.809
So Gyda looks out and turns to the others. Her

00:25:52.809 --> 00:25:58.150
face is unreadable. And she says, I recognize

00:25:58.150 --> 00:26:01.990
this place, but it's impossible. What are we

00:26:01.990 --> 00:26:05.740
doing here? Mimisbrunnr's top secret. This

00:26:05.740 --> 00:26:08.000
planet and this ring are impossible. They were

00:26:08.000 --> 00:26:11.339
both totally destroyed five years ago. How can

00:26:11.339 --> 00:26:18.140
this be? Oh, good. We're in danger. I will leave

00:26:18.140 --> 00:26:21.519
it to you as to how to proceed from here. You

00:26:21.519 --> 00:26:26.420
can peer over Gida's shoulder and come to the

00:26:26.420 --> 00:26:31.930
same conclusion yourself. Mimisbrunnr is a colossal

00:26:31.930 --> 00:26:36.029
orbital station built on a mind -boggling scale.

00:26:36.130 --> 00:26:41.930
It acts as a ring around the planet below, stretching

00:26:41.930 --> 00:26:46.329
over the horizon and beyond. Are we aware at

00:26:46.329 --> 00:26:48.170
this point that we've gone back in time, or did

00:26:48.170 --> 00:26:50.589
we just roll for that trauma and now we still

00:26:50.589 --> 00:26:55.329
need to figure out that we're back in time? Ragny,

00:26:55.329 --> 00:27:01.289
at least, and Eir. were both aware using the

00:27:01.289 --> 00:27:03.490
thought memory drive to travel on the hel roads

00:27:03.490 --> 00:27:07.410
you know they perceive this flood of reverse

00:27:07.410 --> 00:27:12.549
time there's also the very simple notion that

00:27:12.549 --> 00:27:17.829
you are on an orbital station that was destroyed

00:27:17.829 --> 00:27:22.210
very very publicly very visibly during the sword

00:27:22.210 --> 00:27:25.990
fall which was a catastrophe for the whole empire

00:27:25.990 --> 00:27:31.190
this place was as Kaitlin said a secret facility

00:27:31.190 --> 00:27:34.849
it was the cross between pearl harbor and area

00:27:34.849 --> 00:27:40.170
51 all of the great minds were involved in the

00:27:40.170 --> 00:27:44.369
war effort here the skull themselves a mysterious

00:27:44.369 --> 00:27:49.859
order of astrophysicists and inventors were locked

00:27:49.859 --> 00:27:54.259
in here and they were contributing to the war

00:27:54.259 --> 00:27:58.720
effort with their magnificent inventions, one

00:27:58.720 --> 00:28:00.859
of which was the thought and memory drive, which

00:28:00.859 --> 00:28:05.279
they then empowered the fleet with. Can Kol

00:28:05.279 --> 00:28:08.200
look through either that window or one of another

00:28:08.200 --> 00:28:12.539
ones to see if I can spot Surtalogi? Surtalogi

00:28:12.539 --> 00:28:18.279
would be the red star, the host star that sits

00:28:18.279 --> 00:28:22.920
at the heart of this planetary system. You can't

00:28:22.920 --> 00:28:25.440
see it from your vantage point within the Falkr,

00:28:25.500 --> 00:28:29.200
but you could certainly enter into the hangar

00:28:29.200 --> 00:28:32.420
beyond and see whether you could spy it outside

00:28:32.420 --> 00:28:35.359
of the orbital station. Yeah, I'd love to try

00:28:35.359 --> 00:28:40.059
that. That'll be a kind of confirming fact. Eir's

00:28:40.059 --> 00:28:43.920
cynicism is keeping him safe at the moment. He'd

00:28:43.920 --> 00:28:45.700
roll his eyes if he could, but he can't. And

00:28:45.700 --> 00:28:48.759
he's just, well, this is typical. Can someone

00:28:48.759 --> 00:28:52.880
find out what day it is? It's going to be soon,

00:28:53.039 --> 00:28:55.759
isn't it? Is there a way to find out the current

00:28:55.759 --> 00:29:00.000
date and time? There are people meandering around

00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:04.579
the hangar, loading other ships, going about

00:29:04.579 --> 00:29:07.839
their business. The hangar isn't entirely empty.

00:29:08.359 --> 00:29:12.200
Just by way of explaining what Kol is looking

00:29:12.200 --> 00:29:17.660
for here. The orbital ring sits above the dual

00:29:17.660 --> 00:29:22.160
world of Niflheim -Muspelheim. It was granted

00:29:22.160 --> 00:29:26.319
two titles plucked from ancient tales, partly

00:29:26.319 --> 00:29:30.220
because one side is sun -scorched and the other

00:29:30.220 --> 00:29:34.180
is completely dark. It's tidally locked. And

00:29:34.180 --> 00:29:37.380
this orbital ring fortress that's tethered to

00:29:37.380 --> 00:29:42.299
the world below is built all around this planet.

00:29:42.970 --> 00:29:45.910
is the ring kind of like on the dividing line

00:29:45.910 --> 00:29:47.690
between hot and cold essentially so it's somewhat

00:29:47.690 --> 00:29:50.990
neutral and somewhat stable yeah it's above the

00:29:50.990 --> 00:29:55.250
terminator line which is the border between the

00:29:55.250 --> 00:29:59.369
frozen waste on one side and the seething embers

00:29:59.369 --> 00:30:02.829
of the other side but it's high above so it's

00:30:02.829 --> 00:30:06.829
not impacted by the atmosphere the planet below

00:30:06.829 --> 00:30:11.539
is not particularly habitable one and if you

00:30:11.539 --> 00:30:14.640
recall your imperial history that's why they

00:30:14.640 --> 00:30:19.039
built the prison Nastrond there for high security

00:30:19.039 --> 00:30:23.140
high risk criminals because there was nowhere

00:30:23.140 --> 00:30:27.460
to run if you fled into the flames you would

00:30:27.460 --> 00:30:32.859
be burned alive if you left to head into the

00:30:32.859 --> 00:30:37.289
frozen atmosphere of niflheim then you would

00:30:37.289 --> 00:30:42.509
freeze to death but in the middle in that terminator

00:30:42.509 --> 00:30:46.930
zone is a rich elemental realm that is conducive

00:30:46.930 --> 00:30:50.069
to life it's a kind of ring of perpetual dawn

00:30:50.069 --> 00:30:54.750
where the oldest of forest thrive the spider

00:30:54.750 --> 00:30:58.369
-like ironwood the mímameiðr and it's here that

00:30:58.369 --> 00:31:03.299
the wise hypothesize that life originated They

00:31:03.299 --> 00:31:07.680
hypothesize that Yggdrasil itself, or at least

00:31:07.680 --> 00:31:11.759
the physical manifestation of the arboreal consciousness,

00:31:12.059 --> 00:31:16.119
is on that world below. So we've landed at a

00:31:16.119 --> 00:31:19.819
secure, secret military facility. How are they

00:31:19.819 --> 00:31:22.539
reacting to a ship landing without permission?

00:31:22.839 --> 00:31:26.140
Are they getting excited outside? The interesting

00:31:26.140 --> 00:31:30.920
thing is no one has noticed in the slightest.

00:31:31.819 --> 00:31:35.859
People are busying around as if you are not there.

00:31:36.380 --> 00:31:39.019
And one of the things that you in particular

00:31:39.019 --> 00:31:44.599
notice, Eir, is you have a familiarity with things

00:31:44.599 --> 00:31:47.119
that are out of phase and out of existence in

00:31:47.119 --> 00:31:49.700
that you've been carrying around the ghostly

00:31:49.700 --> 00:31:52.759
soldier cigarette case for some time. You notice

00:31:52.759 --> 00:31:57.440
that in the same way as that was slightly insubstantial

00:31:57.440 --> 00:32:02.220
and weirdly non -corporeal. You are now, too.

00:32:02.700 --> 00:32:07.460
Oh. Oh. We're here and we're not here. Okay,

00:32:07.519 --> 00:32:11.480
Eir will try to share this with the others, saying

00:32:11.480 --> 00:32:16.420
that we may not entirely be here. But I expect

00:32:16.420 --> 00:32:19.559
if we're still here when the sword fall happens,

00:32:19.700 --> 00:32:23.900
we won't enjoy ourselves. Any suggestions? Naomi

00:32:23.900 --> 00:32:30.279
says, you should go see the Great Tree. We should

00:32:30.279 --> 00:32:33.119
go. We must go. So as Kaitlin has said, this place,

00:32:33.140 --> 00:32:36.220
this orbital facility, was kept entirely secret

00:32:36.220 --> 00:32:38.299
during the war because they didn't want it to

00:32:38.299 --> 00:32:41.920
be a target for Jötnar reprisals. And as you

00:32:41.920 --> 00:32:46.059
have talked about there, in your time, this whole

00:32:46.059 --> 00:32:49.720
place was a space -borne ruin. The Skuld were

00:32:49.720 --> 00:32:53.339
eliminated and the entire planet was destroyed

00:32:53.339 --> 00:32:57.680
in a massive supernova that took this Mímisbrunnr

00:32:57.680 --> 00:33:02.450
orbital fortress. with it. You have no idea of

00:33:02.450 --> 00:33:06.170
when that's going to occur, but you have clearly

00:33:06.170 --> 00:33:09.269
gone back in time to a period where it did exist.

00:33:09.849 --> 00:33:13.490
I suppose Gyda looks at the others kind of incredulously,

00:33:13.690 --> 00:33:18.190
saying, does it matter when the sword fall happens?

00:33:18.269 --> 00:33:22.049
We need to get the hell off this place. We need

00:33:22.049 --> 00:33:26.529
to get out of here right now. One true tree lies

00:33:26.529 --> 00:33:30.059
below. A quick reminder that both your pilot

00:33:30.059 --> 00:33:36.140
is exhausted and suffering from the challenge

00:33:36.140 --> 00:33:38.559
of traveling back in time. She is in the sick

00:33:38.559 --> 00:33:42.980
bay. And in addition, the entire ship has powered

00:33:42.980 --> 00:33:47.380
down. Can Kol walk over and just tap the panel

00:33:47.380 --> 00:33:51.059
to see if there is power available or if we've

00:33:51.059 --> 00:33:53.339
entered some kind of like EMP state where the

00:33:53.339 --> 00:33:57.890
entire ship is blacked out? Mm -hmm. Very similar

00:33:57.890 --> 00:34:02.069
to that in the sense that because you are out

00:34:02.069 --> 00:34:05.950
of phase with existence, the normal things like

00:34:05.950 --> 00:34:09.409
the flow of electrons for electricity or the

00:34:09.409 --> 00:34:12.869
biomechanics of the ship are all disrupted. Okay.

00:34:13.349 --> 00:34:16.170
I'd like to see if I can crank open, manually

00:34:16.170 --> 00:34:19.530
crank open the door to see if I can walk out

00:34:19.530 --> 00:34:23.130
into the hangar. You may. That's easily achievable.

00:34:23.449 --> 00:34:25.599
Because I know how to use the door? Unlike these

00:34:25.599 --> 00:34:31.280
guys. Hey, it's complicated. The first thing

00:34:31.280 --> 00:34:35.260
that you see as you enter out into the hangar

00:34:35.260 --> 00:34:41.059
is a strangely familiar face. Although, Taylor,

00:34:41.139 --> 00:34:43.219
you went around in the episode, you were still

00:34:43.219 --> 00:34:47.159
familiar with the Rune Master, Raudr Cerdan.

00:34:47.239 --> 00:34:51.699
Raudr Cerdan is walking through the hangar. He

00:34:51.699 --> 00:34:54.460
looks slightly more chiseled than when you met

00:34:54.460 --> 00:34:57.980
him last, but he's unmistakably the same person.

00:34:58.119 --> 00:35:01.980
He looks like he is striding towards a ship of

00:35:01.980 --> 00:35:04.800
his own that he is about to get aboard. I suppose

00:35:04.800 --> 00:35:07.760
I would hail him. Hail, friend! Oi, over here!

00:35:08.039 --> 00:35:10.960
Cerden doesn't stop to greet you, or indeed

00:35:10.960 --> 00:35:14.659
acknowledge you in any way. So we're clearly...

00:35:15.280 --> 00:35:19.079
Is there anybody closer to me? Just like a hangar

00:35:19.079 --> 00:35:21.300
worker? See that I could just go over and try

00:35:21.300 --> 00:35:23.360
to tap their shoulder or something like that?

00:35:23.780 --> 00:35:28.000
There is any number of people here going about

00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:31.980
their work, and you can try and tap them on the

00:35:31.980 --> 00:35:35.519
shoulder, but you don't manage to attract their

00:35:35.519 --> 00:35:40.179
attention. So I'll walk back onto the ship to

00:35:40.179 --> 00:35:43.420
the others. It seems being out of sync has caused

00:35:43.420 --> 00:35:47.000
a... Fascinating conundrum for us. We seem to

00:35:47.000 --> 00:35:50.500
be able to observe this world, but not interact

00:35:50.500 --> 00:35:53.460
with it in any meaningful capacity, like fading

00:35:53.460 --> 00:35:57.559
echoes in a canyon. We are here, but not here.

00:35:57.639 --> 00:36:01.019
We are merely observers, it seems. I'm not sure

00:36:01.019 --> 00:36:03.579
what we'll be able to accomplish, but we might

00:36:03.579 --> 00:36:06.119
be able to learn something. If we could find

00:36:06.119 --> 00:36:11.019
someone who's heavily traumatized, they may be

00:36:11.019 --> 00:36:13.039
able to see us. That was our experience in the

00:36:13.039 --> 00:36:16.840
past. Or we could traumatize someone. I'm sure

00:36:16.840 --> 00:36:20.679
we can come up with something. It's a good summation

00:36:20.679 --> 00:36:24.719
of the situation there, Steve. You're right in

00:36:24.719 --> 00:36:28.500
that you are unseen. You aren't ghosts, so you

00:36:28.500 --> 00:36:31.099
can't pass through walls or phase through ceilings

00:36:31.099 --> 00:36:32.920
or anything like that, and neither can you manipulate

00:36:32.920 --> 00:36:35.820
objects. You are out of phase with the current

00:36:35.820 --> 00:36:38.980
timeline and can only bear witness to events.

00:36:39.219 --> 00:36:42.619
The Skuld, the people who inhabit this space

00:36:42.619 --> 00:36:46.980
station. simply busy around you like ants, oblivious

00:36:46.980 --> 00:36:52.980
to your presence. Cerden himself steps aboard

00:36:52.980 --> 00:36:56.940
his ship. You can see the outbound vessel's name

00:36:56.940 --> 00:37:01.699
is the Wave Runner. He takes one last long look

00:37:01.699 --> 00:37:04.500
over his shoulder. He heaves a heartfelt sigh,

00:37:04.699 --> 00:37:07.639
and then the doors close and the ship prepares

00:37:07.639 --> 00:37:10.719
to leave the station. I'm still curious whether

00:37:10.719 --> 00:37:14.559
we have days or hours or minutes. Okay, you didn't

00:37:14.559 --> 00:37:16.920
pass through the floor, so I'm guessing that

00:37:16.920 --> 00:37:20.360
walls and doors will still affect us. Correct.

00:37:20.420 --> 00:37:23.840
But security devices probably won't see us. We

00:37:23.840 --> 00:37:27.239
could go through a door that's open and not be

00:37:27.239 --> 00:37:30.880
stopped. We could look around. Just for clarification,

00:37:31.119 --> 00:37:34.739
when I tapped that NPC, was I able to feel them?

00:37:34.840 --> 00:37:39.099
They just didn't react? Or was it like... It

00:37:39.099 --> 00:37:40.679
wasn't like I passed through their shoulder or

00:37:40.679 --> 00:37:42.460
anything like that, right? There was something

00:37:42.460 --> 00:37:46.099
solid. Correct. You aren't ghosts. You can't

00:37:46.099 --> 00:37:49.639
manipulate objects. And you couldn't have hauled

00:37:49.639 --> 00:37:53.420
him and thrown him over. But there was a resistance.

00:37:53.579 --> 00:37:57.880
There was a sponginess to him. There was a physical

00:37:57.880 --> 00:38:01.239
presence there. As a reminder, this station was

00:38:01.239 --> 00:38:06.079
built around MIM. MIM, the rememberer, the great

00:38:06.079 --> 00:38:11.880
supercomputer that was. the heart of the Empire

00:38:11.880 --> 00:38:14.800
and all of its calculations that have been built

00:38:14.800 --> 00:38:19.519
for the purposes of defeating the Jotun in the

00:38:19.519 --> 00:38:23.440
cataclysmic world -spanning war was housed at

00:38:23.440 --> 00:38:26.320
Mímisbrunnr. I think we should go interact with

00:38:26.320 --> 00:38:30.760
the computer. Yeah, would it see us? It might

00:38:30.760 --> 00:38:34.039
be, because it's very quantum and multi -reality.

00:38:35.699 --> 00:38:40.210
Yeah. We could traumatize it. Yeah, if it doesn't

00:38:40.210 --> 00:38:43.829
go well, she can machine gun it. If the rumors

00:38:43.829 --> 00:38:47.329
of its capabilities are true, then it already

00:38:47.329 --> 00:38:50.989
knows we're here. Oh, very good. You could also

00:38:50.989 --> 00:38:56.429
eat a piece of it. Oh, I would love to. I think

00:38:56.429 --> 00:38:59.190
at this point, Gyda rolls her eyes and strides

00:38:59.190 --> 00:39:02.110
forward and says, I'm an expert at computers.

00:39:03.039 --> 00:39:05.360
If we're all done just conversing around here,

00:39:05.519 --> 00:39:08.260
I'm going to go find this computer and talk to

00:39:08.260 --> 00:39:11.900
it. And she strides off. I want to see this.

00:39:12.000 --> 00:39:14.860
I like this man. We don't even have to encourage

00:39:14.860 --> 00:39:20.679
it to get in front of us. You glance into the

00:39:20.679 --> 00:39:24.159
hangar beyond. Above the hangar, Kaitlin, is

00:39:24.159 --> 00:39:29.360
an observation lounge. And you see very clearly

00:39:29.360 --> 00:39:32.300
as you stride forward leading the way that...

00:39:32.750 --> 00:39:35.789
a group of Varangians, their chests decorated

00:39:35.789 --> 00:39:39.969
with an array of medals, almost as shiny as Gigi's

00:39:39.969 --> 00:39:43.429
Polar Star, march into the observation lounge

00:39:43.429 --> 00:39:47.710
and immediately stand to attention. You are witness

00:39:47.710 --> 00:39:52.610
to some kind of military inspection. They aren't

00:39:52.610 --> 00:39:56.210
in your way but you can investigate further or

00:39:56.210 --> 00:39:59.530
you can just ignore them and try and find your

00:39:59.530 --> 00:40:03.699
way through. the labyrinthine station to the

00:40:03.699 --> 00:40:08.079
supercomputer's hooding chambers. Ljomi is following

00:40:08.079 --> 00:40:10.739
the bold one at a bit of a discreet distance.

00:40:11.079 --> 00:40:14.440
I'm curious who the big shot is. I think Gyda
00:40:14.440 --> 00:40:18.300
has the stalker ability. And it's a triggered

00:40:18.300 --> 00:40:22.880
action to hide? Is that the right move? I think

00:40:22.880 --> 00:40:26.340
Gyda is contemplating. We're basically invisible

00:40:26.340 --> 00:40:29.530
as not being on the same plane. right now so

00:40:29.530 --> 00:40:33.809
i don't think we trigger any detection she wouldn't

00:40:33.809 --> 00:40:38.170
be seen anyway i believe so i think Gyda might

00:40:38.170 --> 00:40:42.570
just stand to the side and observe this inspection

00:40:42.570 --> 00:40:48.210
to see what she can learn joining this group

00:40:48.210 --> 00:40:53.210
of military heroes with their medallion chests

00:40:53.210 --> 00:40:59.469
are a group of cowled men, each of whom is babbling

00:40:59.469 --> 00:41:04.269
animatedly at a well -dressed young woman. She

00:41:04.269 --> 00:41:09.489
is wearing an ornate headdress that rivals airs.

00:41:09.510 --> 00:41:14.989
She drips with a kind of regal bearing. If anyone

00:41:14.989 --> 00:41:17.869
wants to make me a witch challenge role, you

00:41:17.869 --> 00:41:21.449
may recognize this character from the pictures

00:41:21.449 --> 00:41:25.269
of her that are... placed in most civic institutions

00:41:25.269 --> 00:41:28.789
around the implant? Sure. What's that? Oops.

00:41:29.170 --> 00:41:35.289
Oh, look! 21. 24. That's always too bad. How

00:41:35.289 --> 00:41:38.969
did we all roll so well? I'm the one that doesn't

00:41:38.969 --> 00:41:41.269
matter as much, right? Yeah, because no one's

00:41:41.269 --> 00:41:43.630
going to die. Yeah, there's no consequences.

00:41:44.670 --> 00:41:47.780
So we all recognize the Empress. You will recognize

00:41:47.780 --> 00:41:51.500
the Empress Trumba, who is clearly here to watch

00:41:51.500 --> 00:41:54.880
a demonstration of thought and memory drive,

00:41:54.980 --> 00:41:57.920
because one of the other figures with her, alongside

00:41:57.920 --> 00:42:03.599
her, is Marshal Thunder Mannerheim, who is taking

00:42:03.599 --> 00:42:07.920
her along the line and explaining to her how

00:42:07.920 --> 00:42:11.519
thought and memory drive works. If the Varangians

00:42:11.519 --> 00:42:15.989
are veterans... as well as the Marshal you mentioned,

00:42:16.269 --> 00:42:18.650
wouldn't they be more likely to be carrying some

00:42:18.650 --> 00:42:21.570
trauma and thus a little more likely to see us?

00:42:22.530 --> 00:42:27.309
Or is air extrapolating too much? It's a reasonable

00:42:27.309 --> 00:42:31.929
hypothesis, but what tends to happen in the high

00:42:31.929 --> 00:42:34.110
-ranking groups of the military is that they

00:42:34.110 --> 00:42:39.769
take various drugs in order to deal with their

00:42:39.769 --> 00:42:42.650
potential problems. There's a whole bunch of

00:42:42.650 --> 00:42:45.929
correctional therapy and drugs that keep the

00:42:45.929 --> 00:42:51.070
Norse warrior in line. Yes, alcohol is tremendous

00:42:51.070 --> 00:42:56.489
in helping with PTSD or shell shock. As an IV

00:42:56.489 --> 00:43:00.869
of mead. In the case of the Empire, it's a little

00:43:00.869 --> 00:43:03.710
bit more grotesque, especially as regards the

00:43:03.710 --> 00:43:08.449
skull. They do give them all kinds of... correctional

00:43:08.449 --> 00:43:12.550
treatments and chemical castrations to stop them

00:43:12.550 --> 00:43:16.789
wandering into let's say the non -north realm

00:43:16.789 --> 00:43:20.190
the empire isn't a particularly forgiving place

00:43:20.190 --> 00:43:22.929
well she's spitting to see the emperor and he

00:43:22.929 --> 00:43:28.269
says isn't that what i said empress you said

00:43:28.269 --> 00:43:33.590
emperor emperor oh wow close enough for you And

00:43:33.590 --> 00:43:36.449
Gigi doesn't care. And he says, if I wasn't invisible,

00:43:36.769 --> 00:43:39.230
I'd have half a mind to go over there and introduce

00:43:39.230 --> 00:43:46.570
myself. One of the party does appear to look

00:43:46.570 --> 00:43:49.349
towards you as if perhaps he's smelling something.

00:43:49.409 --> 00:43:53.170
He's pausing. He gets a sense that there's something

00:43:53.170 --> 00:44:00.210
out there. You recognize a familiar face. There's

00:44:00.210 --> 00:44:05.050
a precog here. a skull with mental powers, wearing

00:44:05.050 --> 00:44:11.269
a green hood, clearly a son of Ivaldi, looking

00:44:11.269 --> 00:44:14.210
very familiar. Although you've seen him in his

00:44:14.210 --> 00:44:17.750
white garb before, this is none other than Bangsi

00:44:17.750 --> 00:44:24.130
Ivaldison. But from the past. It's past Bangsi.

00:44:25.230 --> 00:44:27.989
One of the ways in which the Sons of Ivaldi identify

00:44:27.989 --> 00:44:31.250
themselves is by their bank balance, which corresponds

00:44:31.250 --> 00:44:35.710
to the color of robes that they wear. If he's

00:44:35.710 --> 00:44:39.050
wearing green robes, then he is considerably

00:44:39.050 --> 00:44:41.650
poorer than the person that you know in the present.

00:44:43.409 --> 00:44:48.369
So they're explaining to the Empress how thought

00:44:48.369 --> 00:44:51.670
and memory drive works? Correct, although the

00:44:51.670 --> 00:44:55.239
sounds that they make are imitations of speech.

00:44:55.320 --> 00:44:57.639
They sound as if they're speaking underwater.

00:44:57.880 --> 00:45:02.500
There's a distortion and an echo to them. Gigi,

00:45:02.539 --> 00:45:04.699
again, with your high honour and your sense enemies,

00:45:04.980 --> 00:45:07.940
In the same way as that you saw that Ragny

00:45:07.940 --> 00:45:11.760
was accompanied by a swan -like fylgjur, you see

00:45:11.760 --> 00:45:17.139
that Bangsi is shadowed by two slathering wolves.

00:45:18.409 --> 00:45:20.989
Is that underwater effect that you were describing

00:45:20.989 --> 00:45:23.530
consistent with what we would have heard the

00:45:23.530 --> 00:45:27.150
NPCs in the hangar sound like? Or is this feeling

00:45:27.150 --> 00:45:33.590
like it's very specific to this moment? All of

00:45:33.590 --> 00:45:38.570
the people that you've heard speak sounds indistinct.

00:45:38.889 --> 00:45:42.489
Okay. So I think I have good news for our group.

00:45:43.730 --> 00:45:48.010
If you'll hear it. But it sounds to me as if

00:45:48.010 --> 00:45:52.210
thought and memory drive are new. And the first

00:45:52.210 --> 00:45:57.730
successful test was in 1962. The star that's

00:45:57.730 --> 00:46:01.190
that way, a little bit too close for comfort,

00:46:01.250 --> 00:46:05.030
didn't blow up until 1968. So I think we have

00:46:05.030 --> 00:46:09.630
time to escape. Six years, to be precise. But

00:46:09.630 --> 00:46:12.789
potentially. I could be wrong. By the way, that

00:46:12.789 --> 00:46:17.579
guy's back. Isn't modern time five years after

00:46:17.579 --> 00:46:20.539
the supernova, after the doom? So if we're six

00:46:20.539 --> 00:46:22.960
years away from the doom, we're 11 from modern

00:46:22.960 --> 00:46:30.059
time. Yeah, present day is 1973. Yep. Vintage.

00:46:30.780 --> 00:46:34.059
And Gyda said it was five years ago, according

00:46:34.059 --> 00:46:37.619
to her reckoning. Gyda being an intelligence

00:46:37.619 --> 00:46:42.559
officer is probably a better source of accuracy.

00:46:43.400 --> 00:46:49.860
Then Gigi, no, he said ominously. Yeah, it's

00:46:49.860 --> 00:46:52.599
the probably that got caught in my brain as it

00:46:52.599 --> 00:47:00.239
went between the ears. I doubt we have that much

00:47:00.239 --> 00:47:05.219
time. For one thing, I don't know if the living

00:47:05.219 --> 00:47:08.239
among you can eat the food that's out of phase.

00:47:09.380 --> 00:47:12.349
You know, problems like that. I like the way

00:47:12.349 --> 00:47:13.849
you think, Steve, because last week you were

00:47:13.849 --> 00:47:15.449
just talking about you've never made a sandwich

00:47:15.449 --> 00:47:17.110
and refusing to go in the mess hall, and now

00:47:17.110 --> 00:47:19.110
you're thinking about everyone's culinary requirements.

00:47:20.250 --> 00:47:22.090
I'm just thinking about everyone else dying and

00:47:22.090 --> 00:47:25.369
leaving me here. It's growing, but not in a healthy

00:47:25.369 --> 00:47:30.769
tree -like way. Thank God for that. Kaitlin,

00:47:30.909 --> 00:47:32.750
give me an awareness roll, if you would, please.

00:47:33.469 --> 00:47:37.130
Twelve. Out of the corner of your eye, you're...

00:47:37.550 --> 00:47:41.769
keenly honed senses notice that there is someone

00:47:41.769 --> 00:47:47.469
who is staring right at you and mouthing wildly,

00:47:47.750 --> 00:47:51.909
looking panicked and sweaty. No sooner do your

00:47:51.909 --> 00:47:57.000
eyes lock that he turns. gathers his robes around

00:47:57.000 --> 00:48:01.199
him, the robes of a skulled acolyte, and he begins

00:48:01.199 --> 00:48:05.880
to sprint. No one else notices him because they're

00:48:05.880 --> 00:48:09.380
wrapped up in the presentation and they're too

00:48:09.380 --> 00:48:13.099
disciplined and focused on the Empress to cause

00:48:13.099 --> 00:48:17.960
a disturbance, but this one character flees the

00:48:17.960 --> 00:48:23.239
hangar. At this point, Gyda just takes off after

00:48:23.239 --> 00:48:28.539
him. Says, oi, shit licker! Stop! What does everyone

00:48:28.539 --> 00:48:31.579
else want to do? Gyda has launched into pursuit.

00:48:31.980 --> 00:48:35.840
I'm following her. I'll go after my crew. Can

00:48:35.840 --> 00:48:39.099
I cast charm on them? Are they short range? They

00:48:39.099 --> 00:48:42.360
are not. They have a 20 yard head start and they've

00:48:42.360 --> 00:48:46.179
already sprinted so they're now 30 yards and

00:48:46.179 --> 00:48:48.980
beyond. Alright, everyone chase the crazy person.

00:48:49.239 --> 00:48:55.869
We should follow. Splitting up is bad. Yes. He

00:48:55.869 --> 00:49:01.010
does already, because she took after him. Is

00:49:01.010 --> 00:49:05.469
she gaining on him, or is she... Let's make a

00:49:05.469 --> 00:49:09.570
roll to see. Because normally, when chases occur,

00:49:09.829 --> 00:49:12.449
the creature with the fastest speed scores win.

00:49:12.750 --> 00:49:16.570
But in these kind of chase situations, we're

00:49:16.570 --> 00:49:18.989
going to use some dice rolls to see what events

00:49:18.989 --> 00:49:24.280
take place. So, give me a... sleight roll with

00:49:24.280 --> 00:49:28.960
one weal to see whether you make a gain on him.

00:49:30.000 --> 00:49:33.719
Is this all of us or is this just... This is

00:49:33.719 --> 00:49:36.920
going to be everybody. I've got a six. That is

00:49:36.920 --> 00:49:41.940
not the best of starts for Gyda as she stumbles

00:49:41.940 --> 00:49:45.119
heading out of the hangar door trying to pace

00:49:45.119 --> 00:49:49.300
him down the corridor. Perhaps it's because the

00:49:49.300 --> 00:49:53.659
place is hauntingly familiar. but you see the

00:49:53.659 --> 00:49:57.460
skuld in question. Puts a distance between you

00:49:57.460 --> 00:50:05.300
and him. I got a 16. Same here. 16. No combat

00:50:05.300 --> 00:50:08.980
involved, so nice high rolls. Alfs are good

00:50:08.980 --> 00:50:13.320
runners, apparently. Okay, the two of you stride

00:50:13.320 --> 00:50:18.000
purposefully, your mighty majestic tree -like

00:50:18.000 --> 00:50:22.559
limbs covering it. the ground with grace style

00:50:22.559 --> 00:50:29.280
and speed steve got a 17 i think 15 for Gigi well

00:50:29.280 --> 00:50:34.059
then you all begin to close the gap between the

00:50:34.059 --> 00:50:38.460
fleeing Skuld his robes trailing in his wake

00:50:38.460 --> 00:50:42.420
like fluttering shadows as you proceed into this

00:50:42.420 --> 00:50:47.079
next section of the orbital space station you

00:50:47.079 --> 00:50:50.860
find it much more congested Perhaps it's because

00:50:50.860 --> 00:50:54.820
of some milling crowds who are standing around

00:50:54.820 --> 00:50:58.199
some ongoing construction at the edge of the

00:50:58.199 --> 00:51:01.380
ring. It's difficult to make your way through,

00:51:01.460 --> 00:51:03.840
so give me another roll, but this time with one

00:51:03.840 --> 00:51:07.000
woe each. That's for everybody. With the woe,

00:51:07.000 --> 00:51:12.460
Gigi got 11. Gyda got 12. Ljomi got 8. Negative

00:51:12.460 --> 00:51:17.900
3. I turned the wrong way. Or held down some

00:51:17.900 --> 00:51:23.659
stairs or something. Taylor? Seven. There is

00:51:23.659 --> 00:51:28.480
a pilot where air falls into the construction,

00:51:28.820 --> 00:51:33.460
knocking over a cart that was full of tools,

00:51:33.599 --> 00:51:36.940
spinning a mock that falls in front of the two

00:51:36.940 --> 00:51:41.960
of you and slows you both down, whereas Gigi

00:51:41.960 --> 00:51:46.369
and Gyda... are still in the chase you're passing

00:51:46.369 --> 00:51:50.190
through warrens of engineering labs energy plants

00:51:50.190 --> 00:51:54.690
ironwood workshops esoteric libraries there are

00:51:54.690 --> 00:51:59.590
all kinds of strange buildings that are etched

00:51:59.590 --> 00:52:03.829
into this orbital ring station and again it twitches

00:52:03.829 --> 00:52:07.849
with energy like it is a nest of spiders the

00:52:07.849 --> 00:52:12.210
walls themselves are alive because it is this

00:52:12.619 --> 00:52:16.619
cerebral cortex of a whole ecosystem did the

00:52:16.619 --> 00:52:19.860
crowd seem aware of the chase that's happening

00:52:19.860 --> 00:52:23.719
both the our target and us and things like the

00:52:23.719 --> 00:52:30.059
cart being knocked over they are aware of like

00:52:30.059 --> 00:52:35.639
a kind of rush of air or A strange smell, a kind

00:52:35.639 --> 00:52:39.840
of bracken smell in the case of Alfar. They all

00:52:39.840 --> 00:52:42.719
look slightly perturbed and concerned when a

00:52:42.719 --> 00:52:47.099
mop spirals into the air, but they just assume

00:52:47.099 --> 00:52:49.639
that someone has accidentally bumped into the

00:52:49.639 --> 00:52:54.400
car. All of these, Skuld are followed around

00:52:54.400 --> 00:53:00.519
by short, truncated bots. Some of the very first

00:53:00.519 --> 00:53:05.380
antiquated dverg were built on this station. And

00:53:05.380 --> 00:53:07.559
while technology has come a long way in the past

00:53:07.559 --> 00:53:11.179
few years, the very first servitor models are

00:53:11.179 --> 00:53:15.559
in action, beeping and twirling their way after

00:53:15.559 --> 00:53:19.769
their mathematician masters. All right, give

00:53:19.769 --> 00:53:22.570
me another roll to see whether you can catch

00:53:22.570 --> 00:53:25.010
them. There are only two of you in contention

00:53:25.010 --> 00:53:28.969
here, Gyda and Gigi. The rest of you have fallen

00:53:28.969 --> 00:53:34.070
too far behind. The man in front is sweaty and

00:53:34.070 --> 00:53:36.969
starting to look exhausted. He is not used to

00:53:36.969 --> 00:53:40.929
running. He is a scientist, mathematician. He's

00:53:40.929 --> 00:53:44.730
slightly corpulent and the pair of you are much

00:53:44.730 --> 00:53:46.909
more athletic and may well catch him this round.

00:53:47.630 --> 00:53:53.349
Straight roll. 19. 11. Nice. Both of you are

00:53:53.349 --> 00:53:56.690
able to launch yourselves at him and rugby tackle

00:53:56.690 --> 00:54:02.110
him to the ground. Gigi is considerably bigger,

00:54:02.230 --> 00:54:05.150
so thuds into the back of his knees and sends

00:54:05.150 --> 00:54:11.090
him toppling, whereas Gyda takes him with a shoulder

00:54:11.090 --> 00:54:14.860
charge into the small of his back. And the three

00:54:14.860 --> 00:54:18.119
of you all topple on the floor. You can be joined

00:54:18.119 --> 00:54:21.260
by the rest of your group as they close the gap.

00:54:21.559 --> 00:54:27.099
And you can interrogate or talk to this person

00:54:27.099 --> 00:54:30.199
who is still cowled, still hiding under his hood,

00:54:30.280 --> 00:54:35.579
and is huffing and puffing with concern. Well

00:54:35.579 --> 00:54:39.119
done. You as well. I think at this point, Gyda

00:54:39.119 --> 00:54:44.659
hauls this figure up. by his collar and says,

00:54:44.780 --> 00:54:48.519
you dumb -headed shit -licking fool, what are

00:54:48.519 --> 00:54:51.219
you doing? Tell me what you know or I'll rip

00:54:51.219 --> 00:55:02.719
your gut rope out of your gullet. Really? It's

00:55:02.719 --> 00:55:08.380
like being beaten over the head with a foreign

00:55:08.380 --> 00:55:21.849
dictionary. Is this similar to the other, like,

00:55:21.889 --> 00:55:24.409
garbled nature we've already heard, or is this

00:55:24.409 --> 00:55:28.530
a different form of garbled? He's kind of rambling,

00:55:28.570 --> 00:55:33.150
making these incoherent bubbling noises. It's

00:55:33.150 --> 00:55:35.969
not the underwater... No, it's more character

00:55:35.969 --> 00:55:41.389
accent work, I think. Right, yeah. Is it... Is

00:55:41.389 --> 00:55:44.469
it another language? Because Gyda has the ability

00:55:44.469 --> 00:55:48.730
to understand all languages. Nice. Very good.

00:55:49.230 --> 00:55:55.070
It's merely incoherent rambling, but in the Noor

00:55:55.070 --> 00:55:58.969
tongue. What's clear to you, Kaitlin, is that

00:55:58.969 --> 00:56:02.869
this man is not playing with a full deck of cards.

00:56:04.489 --> 00:56:07.489
Well, he fits right in with us then. Yeah, neither

00:56:07.489 --> 00:56:11.070
are we. It's a simpleton. I can say that. It's

00:56:11.070 --> 00:56:17.710
the 1970s. What you're saying to us is useless,

00:56:18.090 --> 00:56:25.329
Gita says. Why did you run? Just over the Flingding

00:56:25.329 --> 00:56:30.030
Garden or behind the haberdashery. At this point,

00:56:30.050 --> 00:56:36.570
Gyda is fed up and looks to the others. The head

00:56:36.570 --> 00:56:40.619
came completely detached. Offer him some cider.

00:56:42.460 --> 00:56:49.559
We felt like we'd been watched. So he sends us.

00:56:50.019 --> 00:56:56.079
And his eyes cross and he says, I remember Mischief

00:56:56.079 --> 00:57:00.199
Mim. Mim, do you hear that? Maybe he can lead

00:57:00.199 --> 00:57:05.500
us to Mim. Mim? Mim? Mim? Min, don't take us.

00:57:06.590 --> 00:57:10.070
Face like a mad raboon and an ass to match.

00:57:10.730 --> 00:57:15.389
Do we need a carrot? Or a stick. Or just a stick,

00:57:15.429 --> 00:57:20.110
yeah. I hope you have been there. It's really

00:57:20.110 --> 00:57:27.309
quite, quite beautiful. Show us. They beat their

00:57:27.309 --> 00:57:30.389
burrows in ironwood? Gyda looks at the others and

00:57:30.389 --> 00:57:33.429
says, I'm going to rip this guy's head off. Somebody

00:57:33.429 --> 00:57:41.400
ask him nicely, because I'm not going to. I don't

00:57:41.400 --> 00:57:47.599
have the codes. The numbers are in my head. Perhaps

00:57:47.599 --> 00:57:50.900
his brain was scrambled in the thought and memory

00:57:50.900 --> 00:57:54.639
drive that, you know, like what happened to our

00:57:54.639 --> 00:58:02.760
friends, the two who died before, you know, that

00:58:02.760 --> 00:58:10.570
him. Gigi names contagious it's like the Oscars

00:58:10.570 --> 00:58:17.110
in memoriam but we just forget who they are they

00:58:17.110 --> 00:58:20.750
were helpful but just brain was scrambled because

00:58:20.750 --> 00:58:24.630
uh well this sounds this looks like it could

00:58:24.630 --> 00:58:28.309
be that i want to walk up and see again like

00:58:28.309 --> 00:58:31.909
first physical touch to see if did they does

00:58:31.909 --> 00:58:34.869
this person feel like they are like us on the

00:58:34.869 --> 00:58:38.449
same plane of existence as us versus the cast

00:58:38.449 --> 00:58:41.610
that we are interacting with. Is there an easy

00:58:41.610 --> 00:58:44.570
way to tell? He feels exactly the same as everything

00:58:44.570 --> 00:58:49.889
else, but the bridge between realities is, as

00:58:49.889 --> 00:58:54.190
Steve had correctly guessed, ameliorated by the

00:58:54.190 --> 00:58:58.329
fact that he is completely crazy. He's also driven

00:58:58.329 --> 00:59:02.030
slightly more insane because people of this era

00:59:02.030 --> 00:59:09.460
have not. seen many, if any, alpha in their tree

00:59:09.460 --> 00:59:15.000
-like form. The scream that came about as part

00:59:15.000 --> 00:59:17.800
of the sword fall was where the alfar erupted

00:59:17.800 --> 00:59:21.300
in general, with the possible exception of King

00:59:21.300 --> 00:59:23.039
Kol, who's been around a little bit longer.

00:59:23.280 --> 00:59:26.599
But the alfar are not a common or garden sight

00:59:26.800 --> 00:59:29.940
So he's the Area 51 tinfoil hat guy in his universe

00:59:29.940 --> 00:59:33.159
right now, seeing us, but they can't see us.

00:59:33.579 --> 00:59:37.000
Yeah, yeah. You see, does no one else think it's

00:59:37.000 --> 00:59:39.980
strange a simpleton would have been in the audience

00:59:39.980 --> 00:59:43.219
of the Empress? He must be important in some

00:59:43.219 --> 00:59:46.300
fashion. Perhaps he's her long -lost brother

00:59:46.300 --> 00:59:48.780
who's a simpleton. They had to hide him for royal

00:59:48.780 --> 00:59:50.739
reasons, you know, like they did in England at

00:59:50.739 --> 00:59:54.380
one time. Behind an iron mask. Gyda sighs heavily

00:59:54.380 --> 00:59:57.559
and she looks around and she says, can anybody

00:59:57.559 --> 01:00:03.730
charm him? Would that help him speak sense? It

01:00:03.730 --> 01:00:05.949
would change his disposition. I don't know if

01:00:05.949 --> 01:00:09.730
it would change his vocabulary, but I can try.

01:00:10.050 --> 01:00:15.550
I didn't hear anything. I was afraid I was taking

01:00:15.550 --> 01:00:19.110
my medication. He seems quite friendly already.

01:00:19.510 --> 01:00:22.510
I haven't introduced myself. Hello, good sir.

01:00:22.610 --> 01:00:26.329
I am Griotgarth the Magnificent. My friends call

01:00:26.329 --> 01:00:31.099
me Gigi for short. Are you with Meistari Bockfell?

01:00:31.260 --> 01:00:35.880
I cannot give you the codes. We are not with...

01:00:35.880 --> 01:00:39.440
Well, wait, wait. I learned from Ghostbusters.

01:00:39.599 --> 01:00:42.860
If they ask if you're a god, say yes. Yes, we

01:00:42.860 --> 01:00:51.900
are with him. Then, are you... Nastrond Prison

01:00:51.900 --> 01:00:55.900
Complex, they've infiltrated it? They have. Who

01:00:55.900 --> 01:01:03.650
has infiltrated it? are they people like us or

01:01:03.650 --> 01:01:15.349
people like them and i point to like them Nastrond

01:01:15.349 --> 01:01:21.849
the prison was home to the most undesirable criminals

01:01:21.849 --> 01:01:27.809
of the empire and Orcneas, if I remember correctly.

01:01:28.110 --> 01:01:33.969
I am very concerned. There's a great deal of

01:01:33.969 --> 01:01:37.170
coincidences that have been coming into our timeline

01:01:37.170 --> 01:01:41.250
before we jumped through the rift to arrive here.

01:01:41.449 --> 01:01:44.670
If the prison is where it seems we are being

01:01:44.670 --> 01:01:47.690
led to, and the manner of creatures that are

01:01:47.690 --> 01:01:50.829
kept in that prison are as dangerous as the tales

01:01:50.829 --> 01:01:54.440
say, We just saw something that could easily

01:01:54.440 --> 01:01:57.059
have come from a prison such as that on our very

01:01:57.059 --> 01:02:01.099
ship. Did the Falkr come from the prison? Not

01:02:01.099 --> 01:02:03.820
the Falkr, but... One of the things that you

01:02:03.820 --> 01:02:06.739
found in the captain's ready room was an orange

01:02:06.739 --> 01:02:08.940
jumpsuit that was emblazoned with the legend

01:02:08.940 --> 01:02:13.099
Nastrond. I'm sure that means nothing. And the

01:02:13.099 --> 01:02:16.880
shapeshifter claimed to be Orcneas, right? And

01:02:16.880 --> 01:02:21.940
the shapeshifter had burnt his prison file. Uh

01:02:21.940 --> 01:02:26.599
-huh. Well, I think the answers we seek might

01:02:26.599 --> 01:02:29.599
be in the prison below. Whatever caused this

01:02:29.599 --> 01:02:32.780
rift and sent these relics and characters of

01:02:32.780 --> 01:02:35.460
the past into our present timeline are likely

01:02:35.460 --> 01:02:41.880
down there. Wait a minute. If the ship is from

01:02:41.880 --> 01:02:45.639
the past, why is it phased like us? Because it's

01:02:45.639 --> 01:02:47.599
already here somewhere? Because it's already

01:02:47.599 --> 01:02:50.820
here. It's a copy, essentially. It's a redundant

01:02:50.820 --> 01:02:53.539
copy of itself at this point. But if it came

01:02:53.539 --> 01:02:58.099
from here to our time and we stole it and brought

01:02:58.099 --> 01:03:00.719
it back, shouldn't it be normal? No, but maybe

01:03:00.719 --> 01:03:04.059
it's still here. There's two of them here. I

01:03:04.059 --> 01:03:07.059
love the confidence with which we're all saying

01:03:07.059 --> 01:03:10.260
these things, but we do not actually know. We

01:03:10.260 --> 01:03:14.239
need them to be true. But if the Orcneas stole

01:03:14.239 --> 01:03:16.239
the ship and took it to the future, and we killed

01:03:16.239 --> 01:03:18.639
the Orcneas and took it back to the past, wouldn't

01:03:18.639 --> 01:03:20.719
it be the same ship? So did we just return it?

01:03:20.980 --> 01:03:23.179
Unless we were on a point in the timeline before

01:03:23.179 --> 01:03:28.400
the Orcneas stole the ship. Which we must be,

01:03:28.480 --> 01:03:30.980
because they haven't tested the drive yet. They're

01:03:30.980 --> 01:03:33.619
about to show the drive for the first time. Oh,

01:03:33.639 --> 01:03:35.800
but we got a heavy hint from our DM saying that

01:03:35.800 --> 01:03:38.239
Kaitlin's intuition that it's only been five

01:03:38.239 --> 01:03:40.719
years and not eleven. would then negate that

01:03:40.719 --> 01:03:44.000
because the test was 10 years ago. So to sum

01:03:44.000 --> 01:03:48.519
up, in total, we know nothing. Par for the course.

01:03:49.300 --> 01:03:51.679
You have effectively summarized the plot to Back

01:03:51.679 --> 01:03:57.880
to the Future several times. Yes. Did the prisoners

01:03:57.880 --> 01:04:01.079
become Orcneas? Or were they already Orcneas?

01:04:01.780 --> 01:04:06.000
That seems like... So the Orcneas that we fought...

01:04:06.489 --> 01:04:08.590
If they had come from the past, wouldn't they

01:04:08.590 --> 01:04:12.190
have been phased like we're phased now? So then

01:04:12.190 --> 01:04:14.389
technically wouldn't they be not from the past,

01:04:14.469 --> 01:04:17.110
but they somehow got a hold of the ship between

01:04:17.110 --> 01:04:19.230
the time it was presumed destroyed and then the

01:04:19.230 --> 01:04:20.989
time we met them. And then we went to the past

01:04:20.989 --> 01:04:23.949
to go find them before they're created. Unless

01:04:23.949 --> 01:04:27.809
our two ships theory in the past is correct.

01:04:28.710 --> 01:04:32.070
This is why you all got trauma. I think all of

01:04:32.070 --> 01:04:35.510
our answers might be answered if we find MiM.

01:04:36.580 --> 01:04:39.820
Yeah. Which one of us is Biff? That's what I

01:04:39.820 --> 01:04:44.940
wanted. GG. Yeah. Kaitlin, how did you want to

01:04:44.940 --> 01:04:50.059
go about finding Mim amidst this labyrinth of

01:04:50.059 --> 01:04:54.059
transit shuttles on the Ring Fortress? It really

01:04:54.059 --> 01:05:00.099
is a world -spanning facility. It's not necessarily

01:05:00.099 --> 01:05:04.750
going to be easy to find your way through. top

01:05:04.750 --> 01:05:08.230
secret tunnels to wherever the supercomputer

01:05:08.230 --> 01:05:10.989
that's the heart of Imperial thought is going

01:05:10.989 --> 01:05:14.949
to reside. I still maintain that we should charm

01:05:14.949 --> 01:05:19.409
our erstwhile prisoner to see if he might be

01:05:19.409 --> 01:05:23.769
willing to give up some of his nonsensical secrets

01:05:23.769 --> 01:05:28.409
because he reacted when we repeated to him Mim..

01:05:28.610 --> 01:05:33.130
Okay. We ask him very nicely. Eir will attempt

01:05:33.130 --> 01:05:35.710
to charm him. We'll attempt to cast Evil Eye

01:05:35.710 --> 01:05:38.369
on him. Are you going to do anything to make

01:05:38.369 --> 01:05:42.570
it more potent? Yeah, well, okay, so I've got

01:05:42.570 --> 01:05:47.070
Deep -Minded running, and I've got Ancestral.

01:05:47.070 --> 01:05:49.550
I've got, like, three buffs running at the moment

01:05:49.550 --> 01:05:55.309
here. I think I get two weals as it is. That

01:05:55.309 --> 01:06:00.070
is all very true, and Kaitlin can also make a...

01:06:00.639 --> 01:06:04.480
Master of Diplomacy roll. Yeah, we'll use a boon

01:06:04.480 --> 01:06:06.719
in order to roll twice and take the best run.

01:06:07.300 --> 01:06:10.900
Okay. Because it seems important. Plus we have

01:06:10.900 --> 01:06:13.079
an inspiration point just in case this all goes

01:06:13.079 --> 01:06:17.920
south. I also have the Informer ability, which

01:06:17.920 --> 01:06:21.300
means that I can do a wits attack roll against

01:06:21.300 --> 01:06:25.300
a charmed creature to compel them. Nineteen.

01:06:25.679 --> 01:06:29.579
Steve, using your save as spells, you... can

01:06:29.579 --> 01:06:34.840
charm the Skuld Apprentice. So he now has the

01:06:34.840 --> 01:06:39.880
Charmed state, which would enable, Kaitlin, your

01:06:39.880 --> 01:06:45.000
spy -like Gest to use the Informer ability and

01:06:45.000 --> 01:06:49.980
compel the Charmed Skuld to do exactly what

01:06:49.980 --> 01:06:53.500
you want. So feel free to do so. Okay. Lead us

01:06:53.500 --> 01:07:05.780
to Mim. But he does begin to skip the light fandango

01:07:05.780 --> 01:07:11.559
and lead you onto a shuttle and beckon you in.

01:07:11.760 --> 01:07:17.440
He bows flamboyantly as if he is awestruck by

01:07:17.440 --> 01:07:21.139
your serene majesty. Is the shuttle called Galileo?

01:07:22.079 --> 01:07:27.340
It's not. It's a simple transit. shuttle uh which

01:07:27.340 --> 01:07:31.900
you can jump on he will take you to station stops

01:07:31.900 --> 01:07:35.460
and then he will urge you to get out with it

01:07:35.460 --> 01:07:39.659
again a flourish of his hands and a little dance

01:07:39.659 --> 01:07:45.940
Gyda finds this very irritating now this transit

01:07:45.940 --> 01:07:50.940
shuttle has led you to a data well most of the

01:07:50.940 --> 01:07:55.340
skuld even its programmers interface with Mim

01:07:55.949 --> 01:07:59.630
through visors and rarely visit this area so

01:07:59.630 --> 01:08:05.570
this whole section is abandoned the apprentice

01:08:05.570 --> 01:08:10.289
his name is Jan since you asked him he falls

01:08:10.289 --> 01:08:15.710
prostate on the floor and begins to genuflect

01:08:15.710 --> 01:08:19.149
begins to humble himself and scrape across the

01:08:19.149 --> 01:08:23.149
floor he doesn't want to go any further and he

01:08:23.149 --> 01:08:27.199
looks like he is almost paralyzed by awe and

01:08:27.199 --> 01:08:30.460
fear. What do we do with this dung licker? Gyda

01:08:30.460 --> 01:08:33.779
asks the others. Leave him here. He'll still

01:08:33.779 --> 01:08:36.100
be here when we get back, right? He has brought

01:08:36.100 --> 01:08:40.279
you to an area that brings to mind a stark art

01:08:40.279 --> 01:08:44.020
gallery. The space is open, expansive, minimalist

01:08:44.020 --> 01:08:49.300
in design, yet at the same time a marvel of technology

01:08:49.300 --> 01:08:53.720
and engineering. The walls are sleek, matte ironwood.

01:08:54.140 --> 01:08:58.380
with nine chambers illuminated by a diffused

01:08:58.380 --> 01:09:04.659
eerie blue light. The central room has a lone

01:09:04.659 --> 01:09:12.039
plaque. The lone plaque says this. Outside, I

01:09:12.039 --> 01:09:16.920
sat by myself when you came, terror of the gods,

01:09:17.180 --> 01:09:24.510
and gazed into my eye. So that is the... sole

01:09:24.510 --> 01:09:31.050
solitary sentence inscribed on this plaque. As

01:09:31.050 --> 01:09:35.550
you look at each of the other rooms that ring

01:09:35.550 --> 01:09:41.149
this central room, each of them has a single

01:09:41.149 --> 01:09:47.989
gold etched rune and next to the rune is a similar

01:09:47.989 --> 01:09:56.119
poem or clue or verse. It's up to you to deduce

01:09:56.119 --> 01:10:00.079
how to unlock whatever riddle this is there is

01:10:00.079 --> 01:10:06.859
no sign of a computer in this data well. Eir will

01:10:06.859 --> 01:10:12.319
go to the first room and sit by himself and look

01:10:12.319 --> 01:10:16.340
at the black or ruin on the wall and contemplate

01:10:16.340 --> 01:10:23.930
so the first room in sequence has the is on the

01:10:23.930 --> 01:10:28.829
side, which is similar to our Latin letter I.

01:10:29.210 --> 01:10:34.010
And the poem underneath the plaque in the otherwise

01:10:34.010 --> 01:10:39.970
empty room says this. Ice is bark of rivers and

01:10:39.970 --> 01:10:43.470
roof of the wave and destruction of the doomed.

01:10:44.270 --> 01:10:51.590
Okay. Maybe someone try one of the other rooms?

01:10:52.649 --> 01:10:56.270
Yeah, Kol, go up to the second door. Less a

01:10:56.270 --> 01:11:00.250
door, more kind of adjoining chambers, but the

01:11:00.250 --> 01:11:07.189
second has a rune that is similar to our letter

01:11:07.189 --> 01:11:11.989
B. It is the Bjarkan rune, and the inscription

01:11:11.989 --> 01:11:15.670
next to it says Leafy Twig and Little Tree and

01:11:15.670 --> 01:11:20.470
Fresh Young Shrub. There are nine runes surrounding

01:11:20.470 --> 01:11:26.689
a central Chamber? Was that right? Correct. So

01:11:26.689 --> 01:11:28.829
Gyda goes into the central chamber and looks

01:11:28.829 --> 01:11:32.689
around. Can she see into all of the nine other

01:11:32.689 --> 01:11:39.649
chambers? You can. She studies the floor. Perhaps

01:11:39.649 --> 01:11:44.229
there are markings or gaps in the floor to indicate

01:11:44.229 --> 01:11:50.189
that something might rise from below. Again,

01:11:50.210 --> 01:11:55.130
it's this sheer ironwood. It has the feel of

01:11:55.130 --> 01:11:57.850
marble, so there are kind of ripples and indentations

01:11:57.850 --> 01:12:01.869
in it, but there is nothing mechanical here,

01:12:01.949 --> 01:12:05.470
nothing that's going to necessarily rise up.

01:12:06.010 --> 01:12:11.029
The surfaces are sheer and feels like a bank

01:12:11.029 --> 01:12:13.909
vault. I guess we better get the rest of the

01:12:13.909 --> 01:12:22.850
poems. Okay, well, the third is almost an X,

01:12:23.109 --> 01:12:28.250
but it is the Ar rune, A -R. And the poem to the

01:12:28.250 --> 01:12:31.529
side of it says, Boon to men and good summer

01:12:31.529 --> 01:12:35.310
and thriving crops. Excuse me, sir. No one told

01:12:35.310 --> 01:12:38.270
me there was going to be a test. I'm going to

01:12:38.270 --> 01:12:39.770
remind you of a couple of things that you have

01:12:39.770 --> 01:12:42.210
in your arsenal. There are a range of spells

01:12:42.210 --> 01:12:44.369
that you have to summon spirits to ask yes or

01:12:44.369 --> 01:12:49.170
no questions. There are seers in the ear, and

01:12:49.170 --> 01:12:52.930
Kaitlin has... Udal Right, which will enable

01:12:52.930 --> 01:12:56.770
her to ask a yes -no question as well. You're

01:12:56.770 --> 01:13:01.550
not yet sure what to ask. Yes. These seem like

01:13:01.550 --> 01:13:04.210
they're describing biomes. Yeah, that's what

01:13:04.210 --> 01:13:07.989
I was thinking, too. Oh, wait. Nine rooms? Nine

01:13:07.989 --> 01:13:15.109
worlds, nine rooms. There's ice, there's trees,

01:13:15.229 --> 01:13:18.350
there's maybe sun or rain. I wasn't quite sure

01:13:18.350 --> 01:13:21.010
what number three was saying. All right, let's

01:13:21.010 --> 01:13:24.210
get the next poem. Following round then, you

01:13:24.210 --> 01:13:30.109
have the Sol rune, which looks a bit like a

01:13:30.109 --> 01:13:33.510
lightning bolt. And the poem is shield of the

01:13:33.510 --> 01:13:37.409
clouds and shining ray and destroyer of ice.

01:13:37.970 --> 01:13:41.210
I'll just continue and read them all to you.

01:13:41.250 --> 01:13:44.890
You have something that looks a bit like an asterisk

01:13:44.890 --> 01:13:50.220
that comes with the... Poem, cold rain and shower

01:13:50.220 --> 01:13:54.520
of sleet and sickness of serpents. It's the Hagal

01:13:54.520 --> 01:14:00.899
rune. There is the bay rune, which looks a bit

01:14:00.899 --> 01:14:06.920
like an F to the modern eye. Poem, source of discord

01:14:06.920 --> 01:14:11.060
amongst kinsmen and fire of the sea and path

01:14:11.060 --> 01:14:16.979
of the serpent. There is the thurs rune. which

01:14:16.979 --> 01:14:23.300
is kind of a semi -circle shape. The poem is

01:14:23.300 --> 01:14:27.180
Torture of Women and Cliff Dweller and Husband

01:14:27.180 --> 01:14:35.979
of a Giantess. The trident, which is the Madr 

01:14:35.979 --> 01:14:41.199
rune, says the light of man and augmentation

01:14:41.199 --> 01:14:46.989
of the earth and adorner of ships. And then the

01:14:46.989 --> 01:14:52.449
last room has the rune, the Oss rune, and a poem,

01:14:52.670 --> 01:14:58.010
Aged Gaultr, and Prince of Asgard, and Lord of

01:14:58.010 --> 01:15:00.710
Valhalla. Well, I think it's pretty obvious,

01:15:00.729 --> 01:15:02.409
but I don't want to give it away to the rest

01:15:02.409 --> 01:15:05.550
of you. Oh, okay, thanks. Those of you listening

01:15:05.550 --> 01:15:08.810
at home, I am pulling out my hair. I do have

01:15:08.810 --> 01:15:11.229
a question, but I don't know if I want to use

01:15:11.229 --> 01:15:15.310
my Udal Right on that. The question I want to

01:15:15.310 --> 01:15:21.689
ask is if we need to use a combination or if

01:15:21.689 --> 01:15:25.489
it's only one rune to access me. Has to be a

01:15:25.489 --> 01:15:29.529
yes -no question for that, right? Okay. These

01:15:29.529 --> 01:15:33.310
runes, are they like buttons we can push or something

01:15:33.310 --> 01:15:37.510
goes on it or fits in it? How does it look like

01:15:37.510 --> 01:15:39.510
one might interact with these runes? Or are they

01:15:39.510 --> 01:15:43.520
just informative? Simply informational. They

01:15:43.520 --> 01:15:49.140
are etched in gold into the wall. It's like they

01:15:49.140 --> 01:15:53.939
are indicating and somehow linked to the poem.

01:15:54.319 --> 01:15:56.939
So there's no doors, right? They're just open

01:15:56.939 --> 01:16:01.300
chambers into each room. Can I walk into the

01:16:01.300 --> 01:16:03.779
first one and just see what's inside of it? You

01:16:03.779 --> 01:16:06.020
can. You can walk through all of them. Again,

01:16:06.220 --> 01:16:09.899
think of it like a bank vault or an art gallery.

01:16:10.060 --> 01:16:13.729
You'll be walking through. the rooms in an art

01:16:13.729 --> 01:16:15.989
gallery and you'll be looking at the walls and

01:16:15.989 --> 01:16:17.869
you'll be seeing the paintings in this case you

01:16:17.869 --> 01:16:24.090
see in each individual room a gold etched rune

01:16:24.090 --> 01:16:27.729
and a poem and then you move on to the next room

01:16:27.729 --> 01:16:30.409
got it well if it's a single one it might be

01:16:30.409 --> 01:16:33.149
something to do with the asterisk in which the

01:16:33.149 --> 01:16:37.189
poem sounded like snow or ice because the computer

01:16:37.189 --> 01:16:40.069
is going to be kept very cold we also have the

01:16:40.069 --> 01:16:43.850
dual worlds below us so fire and ice. Oh, that's

01:16:43.850 --> 01:16:49.770
true. Yeah. And again, you have the central motif

01:16:49.770 --> 01:16:53.590
that said, outside I sat by myself when you came,

01:16:53.789 --> 01:16:58.449
terror of the gods, and gazed into my eye. That

01:16:58.449 --> 01:17:04.710
feels like Odin, I mean, right? Sitting outside

01:17:04.710 --> 01:17:09.510
makes me think of sunlight gazing into the sun.

01:17:10.119 --> 01:17:12.960
Could that be the search -a -star? If we have

01:17:12.960 --> 01:17:15.960
nine rooms and we're thinking it's the nine worlds,

01:17:16.199 --> 01:17:19.619
what's the tenth item in this? It's either a

01:17:19.619 --> 01:17:23.000
drizzle or it's the star. So if I'm not mistaken,

01:17:23.039 --> 01:17:26.539
the two worlds or the planet below split into

01:17:26.539 --> 01:17:31.000
two, and then the association is Muspelheim on

01:17:31.000 --> 01:17:34.739
one side, the fire, Niflheim on the other, the

01:17:34.739 --> 01:17:39.880
cold ice, everything. And then the star is called

01:17:39.880 --> 01:17:46.699
Surtr. Surtr is the ruler of Muspelheim. But

01:17:46.699 --> 01:17:49.460
isn't it the star of the whole system? That's

01:17:49.460 --> 01:17:51.720
correct. It is the star of the whole system.

01:17:51.760 --> 01:17:55.600
Don't get yourself twisted up in the nomenclature

01:17:55.600 --> 01:18:01.439
of this particular system. The Skuld have actually

01:18:01.439 --> 01:18:04.939
got eight exoplanets under their control. And

01:18:04.939 --> 01:18:09.439
they've just kind of had to force fit mythology

01:18:09.439 --> 01:18:14.060
around them. And so Muspelheim and Niflheim kind

01:18:14.060 --> 01:18:16.960
of got mixed together because it is the primordial

01:18:16.960 --> 01:18:19.659
suit, the birthing place of... Right, because

01:18:19.659 --> 01:18:22.340
as well as the hot and the cold, it has the strip

01:18:22.340 --> 01:18:27.720
of growth, life. Correct. But like most religious

01:18:27.720 --> 01:18:32.680
groups, they took myth and legend and just forced

01:18:32.680 --> 01:18:36.699
it into fact to suit their own ends. You bastards.

01:18:37.449 --> 01:18:39.470
i mean arguably isn't that how they would have

01:18:39.470 --> 01:18:42.109
made the puzzle then too is forcing all this

01:18:42.109 --> 01:18:45.670
play by the rules and see the world from their

01:18:45.670 --> 01:18:50.810
point of view that's brilliant follow it through

01:18:50.810 --> 01:18:53.149
i mean i see where you're going but uh you know

01:18:53.149 --> 01:18:56.329
just follow it through is there a console in

01:18:56.329 --> 01:18:58.510
the middle where we can like put a rune or we

01:18:58.510 --> 01:19:02.449
can push a button there is not however Bill is

01:19:02.449 --> 01:19:05.750
correct in that. Again, if you tease the thread

01:19:05.750 --> 01:19:09.170
of which you started to test, looking at it from

01:19:09.170 --> 01:19:12.270
their point of view, then you may well be on

01:19:12.270 --> 01:19:16.729
to the solution to the puzzle. Okay, Gigi, go

01:19:16.729 --> 01:19:20.050
for it. Yay. It's feeling like who's on first.

01:19:20.189 --> 01:19:22.729
I really wanted to say, but I don't even know

01:19:22.729 --> 01:19:26.569
what I'm talking about. Could a person sit in

01:19:26.569 --> 01:19:29.210
the middle facing one of, you know, the chosen

01:19:29.210 --> 01:19:32.539
room? Is that how it might work? That would be

01:19:32.539 --> 01:19:37.340
a yes -no question. No, no, of course not. It

01:19:37.340 --> 01:19:40.479
would be. Collectively, how many yes -no questions

01:19:40.479 --> 01:19:45.899
can we ask? How many does everybody have? I don't

01:19:45.899 --> 01:19:48.460
think I have one. I don't think I have one either.

01:19:49.840 --> 01:19:52.960
Kaitlin, you have one? How many times can you

01:19:52.960 --> 01:19:57.399
cast it? I don't know. I don't know how many

01:19:57.399 --> 01:20:00.579
times. Kaitlin, I think you've got at least two.

01:20:01.480 --> 01:20:05.819
Bill, if you used your... Yeah, see, Steve's

01:20:05.819 --> 01:20:08.380
got them too. Bill, you've got... Yours is determined

01:20:08.380 --> 01:20:10.880
by the number of dice that you roll for Corpse

01:20:10.880 --> 01:20:14.819
Charm. Oh, it's just looking at that one. Spirit

01:20:14.819 --> 01:20:18.039
to make a roll for... Oh, yes, I can spend three

01:20:18.039 --> 01:20:22.880
spirits, yes. So potentially, I could have four

01:20:22.880 --> 01:20:26.619
questions. Yes, I guess it's eight total. Well,

01:20:26.680 --> 01:20:28.939
okay. That's eight questions in their nine rooms.

01:20:29.609 --> 01:20:35.510
Is it this one? Is it this one? Let's make it

01:20:35.510 --> 01:20:39.989
Boolean, baby. So we need to be really strategic

01:20:39.989 --> 01:20:43.189
about the questions we do ask. But I may not

01:20:43.189 --> 01:20:45.149
get four, so why don't I figure out how many

01:20:45.149 --> 01:20:49.989
spirits first, and then we can... It lasts a

01:20:49.989 --> 01:20:52.810
while, does it, Ian? Yeah, until you complete

01:20:52.810 --> 01:20:56.939
a rest, or you expend the last spirit. I'm going

01:20:56.939 --> 01:20:59.520
to roll 2d6, and let's find out how many questions

01:20:59.520 --> 01:21:01.500
we've got. You do that. And then, Steve, I think

01:21:01.500 --> 01:21:04.979
you're fairly safe to ask your question. I've

01:21:04.979 --> 01:21:08.020
got nine. So it gives nine spirits, which gives

01:21:08.020 --> 01:21:10.779
me... It's three per you, so that's three questions.

01:21:11.220 --> 01:21:14.220
We do want to solve this puzzle before Niflheim

01:21:14.220 --> 01:21:17.399
freezes over. I thought we had years. I'm not

01:21:17.399 --> 01:21:26.529
sure. Okay, so... So, Gyda was talking about

01:21:26.529 --> 01:21:31.210
doing this strategically, and I agree. So, Eir

01:21:31.210 --> 01:21:35.250
is proposing, he isn't, he's proposing, asking

01:21:35.250 --> 01:21:38.869
the question, is this done by a single person?

01:21:39.869 --> 01:21:47.149
Yes. Okay. There we go. It is a single person

01:21:47.149 --> 01:21:51.390
that does it. Outside, I sat by myself. Mm -hmm.

01:21:54.760 --> 01:21:58.300
It's so easy once you know how. Kaitlin and CJ,

01:21:58.460 --> 01:22:02.680
you may well know the old Norse practice of utiseti.

01:22:02.939 --> 01:22:07.180
Oh, yeah. Which was sitting out. The volva, the

01:22:07.180 --> 01:22:11.659
priestesses, would sit and commune with the spirits

01:22:11.659 --> 01:22:16.800
in remote places, often on hilltops, burial mounds,

01:22:16.800 --> 01:22:19.859
or graveyards, or, you know, in this case, just

01:22:19.859 --> 01:22:27.239
next to Steve. Fair. I'm sensing that we've been

01:22:27.239 --> 01:22:29.220
tipped off that the rules of this puzzle are

01:22:29.220 --> 01:22:32.319
on the first poem and it feels like there was

01:22:32.319 --> 01:22:37.760
a gentle aggressive hint in fact yeah gg has

01:22:37.760 --> 01:22:43.039
an idea save us he's going to walk out of the

01:22:43.039 --> 01:22:48.039
room to just out into the hallway that we came

01:22:48.039 --> 01:22:50.199
through just just walk right out to where the

01:22:50.199 --> 01:22:53.520
doorway is okay And then he's going to search

01:22:53.520 --> 01:22:55.859
the walls for something that might look like

01:22:55.859 --> 01:23:00.420
an eye. Or something that might, some kind of

01:23:00.420 --> 01:23:06.720
button, or just some thing. Okay, you can do

01:23:06.720 --> 01:23:09.479
that for a few rounds, but ultimately your search

01:23:09.479 --> 01:23:14.140
is fruitless. Well, you know. Could outside be

01:23:14.140 --> 01:23:17.720
referencing the outer chamber that the nine are

01:23:17.720 --> 01:23:21.789
attached to? And one person, so we should have

01:23:21.789 --> 01:23:24.890
one person try and do it, I guess. Okay, what

01:23:24.890 --> 01:23:27.909
other questions can we ask and make us look like

01:23:27.909 --> 01:23:30.630
we know what we're doing? And I'm asking other

01:23:30.630 --> 01:23:33.170
people to provide the questions that I will then

01:23:33.170 --> 01:23:37.470
ask. Oh, I'm still thinking about the first poem.

01:23:38.369 --> 01:23:41.810
Sitting outside makes me think of the sun. One

01:23:41.810 --> 01:23:49.319
of the runes was the S, the sun rune. Maybe we

01:23:49.319 --> 01:23:54.220
need to investigate that one. Okay. I'm wondering

01:23:54.220 --> 01:23:58.659
what question to ask. Is it this one? Well, we

01:23:58.659 --> 01:24:02.699
could. It would be wiser, though, with limited

01:24:02.699 --> 01:24:05.979
questions to ask something that eliminates 50

01:24:05.979 --> 01:24:08.819
% of whatever variable we're trying to figure

01:24:08.819 --> 01:24:11.779
out. So we're taking big chunks of possibility

01:24:11.779 --> 01:24:14.739
out of the equation before we focus on a single.

01:24:15.380 --> 01:24:18.189
Well, I mean, logically, you're right. But you've

01:24:18.189 --> 01:24:22.890
been with us for a few turns now. You know that's

01:24:22.890 --> 01:24:26.229
really not how we roll. Someday I'll learn. We

01:24:26.229 --> 01:24:30.409
can try it that way. But what do we ask? I'm

01:24:30.409 --> 01:24:34.170
trying to think. We could ask if it's a room

01:24:34.170 --> 01:24:36.609
with a fire motif. And then if it's a yes, then

01:24:36.609 --> 01:24:38.489
we just focus on the ones with a fire motif.

01:24:38.630 --> 01:24:40.710
If it's a no, then we focus on the ones with

01:24:40.710 --> 01:24:44.250
an ice motif. And there's your 50 % of the rooms.

01:24:44.310 --> 01:24:47.170
Are they all split evenly, though, into ice and

01:24:47.170 --> 01:24:50.960
fire? This side of the room. Because there was

01:24:50.960 --> 01:24:54.579
at least one that felt like it. The second one

01:24:54.579 --> 01:24:56.979
was... Is it the left side or the right side

01:24:56.979 --> 01:24:59.500
of the room? Is it the left side of the room?

01:24:59.520 --> 01:25:03.420
Yes, no. But an odd number of rooms. There should

01:25:03.420 --> 01:25:06.500
be one dead center then. Remind me to never go

01:25:06.500 --> 01:25:10.199
to an escape room with you lot. Let me give you

01:25:10.199 --> 01:25:14.960
a little... My opening monologue mentioned a

01:25:14.960 --> 01:25:20.069
particular deity. And his friend. I really gotta

01:25:20.069 --> 01:25:23.170
start listening. I'll read it to you again. Fast

01:25:23.170 --> 01:25:25.310
move, the sons of Mim, and fate catches fire.

01:25:25.470 --> 01:25:28.130
Loud blows Heimdall, the horn is aloft. In fear

01:25:28.130 --> 01:25:31.010
quake all those who on the hell roads are. Ydd

01:25:31.010 --> 01:25:33.430
drasil, shakes, and shivers on high to the

01:25:33.430 --> 01:25:37.010
head of Mimir. Does Odin give heed Heimdall,

01:25:37.109 --> 01:25:42.189
Odin. Well then, if we're thinking of Odin and

01:25:42.189 --> 01:25:46.670
an eye, where did he lose an eye? Mimir's well.

01:25:47.210 --> 01:25:50.170
Where's Mimir's Well? At the base of Yggdrasil?

01:25:50.489 --> 01:25:53.489
Where we are, maybe. Maybe this is in a way.

01:25:53.609 --> 01:25:56.850
No, it's in one of the... I think it's in Niflheim.

01:25:57.689 --> 01:26:01.489
Because it's at the base of the tree. Nidhogg

01:26:01.489 --> 01:26:04.430
is there too, the serpent that gnaws at the roots

01:26:04.430 --> 01:26:06.869
of the tree. So you would have... So Mimir's

01:26:06.869 --> 01:26:08.470
Well would be somewhere down there. So Niflheim.

01:26:08.829 --> 01:26:11.430
Niflheim's got to be... If that's... I mean,

01:26:11.430 --> 01:26:13.840
if we want to go that way. It's just one of you

01:26:13.840 --> 01:26:15.479
is going to have to repeat this in your character's

01:26:15.479 --> 01:26:18.180
voice because Gigi is not capable of this kind

01:26:18.180 --> 01:26:22.300
of extrapolation. While we're talking about the

01:26:22.300 --> 01:26:25.319
kind of extrapolation that Gigi is capable of,

01:26:25.720 --> 01:26:31.180
what have you got around your neck? Gigi. It's

01:26:31.180 --> 01:26:34.079
none of your business. Yes, that's none of our

01:26:34.079 --> 01:26:38.439
business piece. That's the freaking thing, you

01:26:38.439 --> 01:26:43.090
big lump. That's going to be the answer. So Gigi's

01:26:43.090 --> 01:26:45.970
standing outside and he has the key to this whole

01:26:45.970 --> 01:26:53.149
thing? Brilliant. What a pro! That's the most

01:26:53.149 --> 01:26:57.729
on -brand thing ever. Gigi has a thing we're

01:26:57.729 --> 01:26:59.689
not supposed to know about, but is a piece of

01:26:59.689 --> 01:27:05.069
the robot that was destroyed early on that he's

01:27:05.069 --> 01:27:07.529
hiding. It's actually a piece of the computer.

01:27:07.810 --> 01:27:09.289
Does it happen to be the eye of the computer?

01:27:10.909 --> 01:27:15.529
No. Could be its tongue. It's a computer chip

01:27:15.529 --> 01:27:19.829
called the God's Tongue. Yeah. We don't know

01:27:19.829 --> 01:27:22.149
what to do with it anyway. Does it have any kind

01:27:22.149 --> 01:27:28.069
of marking on it, CJ? Yes. It has a rune. It

01:27:28.069 --> 01:27:30.590
does. I remember Ed's character had a rune on

01:27:30.590 --> 01:27:33.130
its tongue. Is this where we beat Gigi to death?

01:27:34.609 --> 01:27:43.970
I mean, you're welcome to try. So, in the myth,

01:27:44.369 --> 01:27:50.369
Odin sacrifices an eye for wisdom. So if we want

01:27:50.369 --> 01:27:54.409
to speak to Mim, what do we need to sacrifice?

01:27:54.989 --> 01:28:04.109
Gigi. Did you just say Gigi? Yep. Quick, then

01:28:04.109 --> 01:28:10.479
shoot him! He's the eye of our group. He's always

01:28:10.479 --> 01:28:15.260
saying I. Yeah. Yep, you can't spell Gigi without

01:28:15.260 --> 01:28:22.039
I. Oh, another way of saying you are wise is

01:28:22.039 --> 01:28:27.399
that you have the sight. So if Odin was wise,

01:28:27.500 --> 01:28:31.779
he wanted to see, so he sacrificed his eye. So

01:28:31.779 --> 01:28:35.359
if we want to speak to Mim, what do we need to

01:28:35.359 --> 01:28:40.479
sacrifice? My tongue. So how do we roleplay this?

01:28:40.579 --> 01:28:42.500
Because Gigi's too stupid to figure this out.

01:28:42.600 --> 01:28:44.220
So he's going to walk back into the room. He's

01:28:44.220 --> 01:28:46.260
wearing a necklace with the God's tongue on it.

01:28:46.539 --> 01:28:53.720
I mean, you can all see it. With the Oss rune

01:28:53.720 --> 01:28:58.060
on it. With the Oss rune on it, yes. Which of

01:28:58.060 --> 01:29:00.600
the rooms had Oss? Did any of them have the Oss

01:29:00.600 --> 01:29:04.970
rune? the one that was linked to the poem, Aged

01:29:04.970 --> 01:29:09.109
Gautr and Prince of Asgard and Lord of Valhalla.

01:29:09.250 --> 01:29:13.590
Oh yes, number nine. Who would also be known

01:29:13.590 --> 01:29:17.909
as the Terror of the Gods. So Gigi's going to

01:29:17.909 --> 01:29:23.729
walk up to that rune and say, I could swear I

01:29:23.729 --> 01:29:37.949
have seen that somewhere. It's uncanny. Wait,

01:29:38.090 --> 01:29:40.649
wait, wait. I think I know. And he's going to

01:29:40.649 --> 01:29:42.250
reach in. He's going to pull out the gun and

01:29:42.250 --> 01:29:47.149
say, it's this. And Gyda says, you have the wits

01:29:47.149 --> 01:29:59.220
of a drowned sheep. But I haven't. The correct

01:29:59.220 --> 01:30:05.800
response to that is bah. So how do we make it

01:30:05.800 --> 01:30:11.220
work? I have the key. A key. Can we investigate

01:30:11.220 --> 01:30:14.079
for any kind of slot or any kind of thing? Can

01:30:14.079 --> 01:30:17.899
we touch it against it? Touch the symbol to the

01:30:17.899 --> 01:30:21.020
symbol. Well, that's how I came to possession

01:30:21.020 --> 01:30:25.180
of it. He's going to touch it to the road. So

01:30:25.180 --> 01:30:30.119
remember this is a very Norse world and have

01:30:30.119 --> 01:30:35.359
a think about what Kaitlin advised you. Odin

01:30:35.359 --> 01:30:38.720
sacrificed himself for knowledge. Use the rune

01:30:38.720 --> 01:30:40.979
to gouge your own eye out. I think that's where

01:30:40.979 --> 01:30:43.039
we're going with this. Yeah, I think you should

01:30:43.039 --> 01:30:46.479
try that. Tongue, tongue, you need a tongue.

01:30:46.539 --> 01:30:49.079
Oh, and you have to do it by yourself. Why are

01:30:49.079 --> 01:30:56.210
you all looking at me? You need my tongue. I

01:30:56.210 --> 01:30:58.850
need my tongue. You're the biggest and strongest

01:30:58.850 --> 01:31:02.590
and bravest. Truly, you must know this. I am

01:31:02.590 --> 01:31:06.829
not cutting out my tongue off of your hunches.

01:31:07.010 --> 01:31:11.090
I don't have a tongue. We need more. I need more

01:31:11.090 --> 01:31:13.590
concrete. I think a great yes or no question

01:31:13.590 --> 01:31:16.750
would be, do we need to cut out a tongue? I'll

01:31:16.750 --> 01:31:25.960
ask for the wine. Yes. Yes, you do. Kol will

01:31:25.960 --> 01:31:29.880
volunteer. Do you even really have one? That's

01:31:29.880 --> 01:31:32.319
a good question. Tongue -like device. One of

01:31:32.319 --> 01:31:34.800
the things that Gigi might have to penetrate

01:31:34.800 --> 01:31:37.359
into his skull is he has been referred to as

01:31:37.359 --> 01:31:42.020
the God Tongue over many episodes. Oh my god.

01:31:42.819 --> 01:31:46.520
Yes, what he's holding in his hand is the God

01:31:46.520 --> 01:31:48.520
Tongue. Right, so we just have to sacrifice that.

01:31:48.819 --> 01:31:54.779
We don't know how. Do we need to kill Gigi? Gigi's

01:31:54.779 --> 01:31:58.380
gonna grab it and he's gonna... Try and snap

01:31:58.380 --> 01:32:01.340
it in half. We have more yes or no questions.

01:32:01.340 --> 01:32:07.020
We can confirm what we're doing. He's just like...

01:32:07.020 --> 01:32:13.479
Yes, no. Is this suicidal? No, wait. No, I'm

01:32:13.479 --> 01:32:20.800
not gonna ask that. Yes, no. TPK? I wish I had

01:32:20.800 --> 01:32:23.380
a prop that I could use to, like, you know...

01:32:23.609 --> 01:32:29.409
This is a machine age, a gene age. This is a

01:32:29.409 --> 01:32:32.270
place where the sons of Ivaldi have augmented

01:32:32.270 --> 01:32:36.369
themselves with all kinds of technological graphs.

01:32:36.569 --> 01:32:40.329
This is an age where the Jofurr are genetically

01:32:40.329 --> 01:32:45.270
enhanced. The fact that this tongue that you

01:32:45.270 --> 01:32:49.770
have is potentially a piece of meme, as was identified

01:32:49.770 --> 01:32:53.140
by Alma in a previous episode. It doesn't mean

01:32:53.140 --> 01:32:56.039
that you wouldn't be able to graft it onto yourself.

01:32:56.560 --> 01:32:59.960
Especially if you had someone who was adept in

01:32:59.960 --> 01:33:05.579
the healing arts. So I could easily graft it

01:33:05.579 --> 01:33:08.579
onto someone. What does that mean exactly, graft

01:33:08.579 --> 01:33:13.140
it? Get it to grow right into your flesh. It

01:33:13.140 --> 01:33:15.739
means applying a local anesthetic. You carefully

01:33:15.739 --> 01:33:19.340
sever your own tongue. A gruesome, but... necessary

01:33:19.340 --> 01:33:21.880
process that you might meet with your usual steely

01:33:21.880 --> 01:33:25.699
resolve as a giant's bane and then this perfectly

01:33:25.699 --> 01:33:29.859
engineered robotic counterpart will be inserted

01:33:29.859 --> 01:33:32.500
attached to your nerves and blood supply and

01:33:32.500 --> 01:33:36.479
then you will be able to speak with the tongue

01:33:36.479 --> 01:33:41.619
of the gods it is a magnificent tongue Gigi think

01:33:41.619 --> 01:33:45.520
about it that way does it have to go there can

01:33:45.520 --> 01:33:51.710
we attach it to his forehead or something Odin

01:33:51.710 --> 01:33:54.630
sacrifices eye. Heimdall sacrifices hearing.

01:33:55.390 --> 01:33:58.210
Honor plus nine. Gigi's going for it. All right,

01:33:58.350 --> 01:34:02.829
all right. I will cut out my own tongue. Well,

01:34:02.869 --> 01:34:05.550
we'll put some anesthetic on so that it's not,

01:34:05.590 --> 01:34:08.949
we don't want you to hurt unnecessarily or bleed

01:34:08.949 --> 01:34:14.350
exceedingly. I need none of it. Honor compels

01:34:14.350 --> 01:34:18.529
me. I will feel the pain. And then... And who's

01:34:18.529 --> 01:34:22.329
grafting it into my mouth? I'll place it into

01:34:22.329 --> 01:34:24.329
your mouth once you've removed the other one

01:34:24.329 --> 01:34:27.810
and encourage its growth. All right, Gigi's going

01:34:27.810 --> 01:34:33.010
to kind of... Ah, it still tastes like oxtail

01:34:33.010 --> 01:34:43.489
pie. Hold on, does anyone have mead? If our listener

01:34:43.489 --> 01:34:49.029
is of an easy disposition... Then please shut

01:34:49.029 --> 01:34:51.369
off the podcast now and resume in five seconds.

01:34:52.350 --> 01:35:00.670
Listener discretion advised. Ah! Ljomi quickly

01:35:00.670 --> 01:35:05.189
places the god's tongue in his mouth at the location

01:35:05.189 --> 01:35:08.390
where he's removed his own tongue. Right way

01:35:08.390 --> 01:35:11.470
around. Right way around, yes. I was tempted,

01:35:11.590 --> 01:35:16.170
but no. The ironwood muscle attaches itself.

01:35:16.640 --> 01:35:22.000
quickly to your robust and heroic jawline. And

01:35:22.000 --> 01:35:24.699
at first you stumble over your words, which is

01:35:24.699 --> 01:35:27.460
a stark contrast to your usual eloquence, but

01:35:27.460 --> 01:35:32.359
soon it is flapping around your cheeks quickly

01:35:32.359 --> 01:35:37.399
and freely, and you do feel that you have the

01:35:37.399 --> 01:35:44.260
eloquence of Kvasir. He's speaking in tongues.

01:35:45.930 --> 01:35:49.890
At that moment, the edifice around you, the wall,

01:35:50.189 --> 01:35:56.090
becomes transparent and you are face to face

01:35:56.090 --> 01:36:02.149
with a huge head. There's no other way to describe

01:36:02.149 --> 01:36:06.829
it. It is three times the size of Gigi. It encompasses

01:36:06.829 --> 01:36:13.229
the entire wall. It is clearly digital. perhaps

01:36:13.229 --> 01:36:19.250
like the head in The Wizard of Oz, but the tongue

01:36:19.250 --> 01:36:22.430
has enabled you to speak to the supercomputer

01:36:22.430 --> 01:36:27.529
Min directly. Standing with the Oss rune on your

01:36:27.529 --> 01:36:32.770
tongue in the correct room has opened the ability

01:36:32.770 --> 01:36:37.229
for you to interface with this computer. Unfortunately...

01:36:38.409 --> 01:36:42.090
It's for you and for you alone to be able to

01:36:42.090 --> 01:36:44.750
converse with it. Anyone else is going to have

01:36:44.750 --> 01:36:49.949
to relay messages through you. This should be

01:36:49.949 --> 01:36:52.829
fun. Okay, we solved the puzzle. Now what do

01:36:52.829 --> 01:36:55.770
we want to ask the big computer? Who created

01:36:55.770 --> 01:37:01.489
the rift? I'm going to suggest that it introduces

01:37:01.489 --> 01:37:04.250
itself when you introduce to it. Two, because

01:37:04.250 --> 01:37:08.949
this is, after all, sentience that is multidimensional

01:37:08.949 --> 01:37:12.010
and able to peer across all of time and space

01:37:12.010 --> 01:37:14.630
and just jumping straight in with a four -word

01:37:14.630 --> 01:37:17.949
question. It's probably a bit rude. Oh, yes,

01:37:18.130 --> 01:37:21.569
my manners. I'm Griotgath the Magnificent. My

01:37:21.569 --> 01:37:24.989
friends call me Gigi for short. You may call

01:37:24.989 --> 01:37:30.119
me Gigi. Greetings, Jarl of Lade. whose kinsmen

01:37:30.119 --> 01:37:33.220
claim descent from the divine lineage of Saeming,

01:37:33.380 --> 01:37:37.899
son of Odin. Greetings, Einar the Thrice Fallen,

01:37:38.000 --> 01:37:42.060
slain by Zev, Noyan of the Holy Martial Emperor.

01:37:43.000 --> 01:37:47.020
Greetings, Ragnvald the Wise Counselor, slain

01:37:47.020 --> 01:37:52.560
by Ubi in East Gotland. Greetings, Coel Hen, who

01:37:52.560 --> 01:37:55.500
was mighty when the Romans ruled, whose liegemen

01:37:55.500 --> 01:37:59.890
and lustrous rings lie in Mirkwood. and greetings,

01:38:00.170 --> 01:38:03.729
Gyda the Grim, bloody head daughter of Ran.

01:38:04.609 --> 01:38:08.609
Ask your questions, black swans. You are no doubt

01:38:08.609 --> 01:38:11.390
curious why I brought you here, but be quick,

01:38:11.430 --> 01:38:15.609
as I will be destroyed in 71 hours and 32 minutes.

01:38:17.810 --> 01:38:22.850
71 hours. That takes care of my first question.

01:38:25.289 --> 01:38:29.479
I knew it wasn't five years. How many questions

01:38:29.479 --> 01:38:32.819
may we ask? As many as we'd like in 71 hours?

01:38:32.979 --> 01:38:36.140
Am I to understand that correctly? That is correct.

01:38:36.260 --> 01:38:38.920
The cause of the destruction is being birthed

01:38:38.920 --> 01:38:42.180
in the prison complex on the planet below. I

01:38:42.180 --> 01:38:45.079
summoned you here to witness the treason and

01:38:45.079 --> 01:38:49.060
to take your rokstuler, or in the common parlance

01:38:49.060 --> 01:38:53.399
of today, your judgment seats. Gigi looks back

01:38:53.399 --> 01:39:00.090
and says, Ooh, we were summoned! Not just summoned,

01:39:00.149 --> 01:39:04.130
but invited. How do you imagine that you received

01:39:04.130 --> 01:39:08.029
the God Tongue? Admittedly, I have been compromised

01:39:08.029 --> 01:39:12.029
by an unknown entity. My vision is occluded.

01:39:12.449 --> 01:39:17.649
Gyda looks somewhat panicked. Aha. What do we

01:39:17.649 --> 01:39:23.210
need to do, you could ask that? We are... If

01:39:23.210 --> 01:39:26.270
I'm to understand correctly, we are here to witness...

01:39:26.890 --> 01:39:29.310
what's happening on the planet below, because

01:39:29.310 --> 01:39:33.350
Mim has lost its ability to see. It would like

01:39:33.350 --> 01:39:36.109
us to witness, and so the question would be,

01:39:36.149 --> 01:39:40.590
to what end? You cannot stop this doom, but the

01:39:40.590 --> 01:39:43.489
information you discover here may forestall the

01:39:43.489 --> 01:39:46.949
next in your own time. Does it know what form

01:39:46.949 --> 01:39:50.329
our doom and our timeline will take? The Hrafn haus,

01:39:50.590 --> 01:39:53.529
the Skull of Muninn, was stripped from the Allfather

01:39:53.529 --> 01:39:56.729
in a terrible experiment. The resulting thought

01:39:56.729 --> 01:39:59.869
-to -memory drive is a threat to all existence.

01:40:00.149 --> 01:40:02.670
The Ravens must be returned to the Allfather,

01:40:02.869 --> 01:40:05.270
or the boundaries between past, present, and

01:40:05.270 --> 01:40:10.630
future will collapse. We have one of them. Where

01:40:10.630 --> 01:40:15.029
is the other Ravenskull? The other Ravenskull

01:40:15.029 --> 01:40:19.310
is with the Sons of Ivaldi in your own time in

01:40:19.310 --> 01:40:24.289
Sökkvabekkr. Sok's for who? I control all of the

01:40:24.289 --> 01:40:27.069
station's power. I shall return control of your

01:40:27.069 --> 01:40:29.170
ship to you when I am satisfied that you have

01:40:29.170 --> 01:40:31.449
proof of the treachery and you will bring the

01:40:31.449 --> 01:40:35.029
perpetrators to justice. Do we need to go to

01:40:35.029 --> 01:40:37.649
the planet? Is that what it's asking us to do?

01:40:38.310 --> 01:40:42.550
Do we need to go down to it? You must deal with

01:40:42.550 --> 01:40:45.689
the situation unfolding on the planet and take

01:40:45.689 --> 01:40:48.789
that information back to the powers that may

01:40:48.789 --> 01:40:52.670
be in your own timeline to deal with the treachery.

01:40:52.750 --> 01:40:56.899
You are Black Swans. You exhibit a systematic

01:40:56.899 --> 01:41:00.119
lack of predictability and embody the limitations

01:41:00.119 --> 01:41:03.779
of knowledge. You disrupt and defy the deterministic

01:41:03.779 --> 01:41:06.539
nature of the weave and embody the true spirit

01:41:06.539 --> 01:41:10.640
of randomness and unforeseen disruption. You

01:41:10.640 --> 01:41:14.979
are deviant programs, black swans. I think it

01:41:14.979 --> 01:41:19.979
likes us. Since we are only marginally able to

01:41:19.979 --> 01:41:23.479
interact in this world or this timeline, how

01:41:23.479 --> 01:41:29.229
can we... obtain proof other than word of mouth

01:41:29.229 --> 01:41:31.949
is there something is there a way to record or

01:41:31.949 --> 01:41:36.649
to yeah a Norseman's word is his bond is it not

01:41:36.649 --> 01:41:39.390
the traditional pattern of Norse heroes that

01:41:39.390 --> 01:41:42.210
dominate the landscape strong brave living for

01:41:42.210 --> 01:41:46.229
the glory of battle you diverge drastically from

01:41:46.229 --> 01:41:49.449
this traditional script running an entirely different

01:41:49.449 --> 01:41:52.390
set of parameters Choosing ineptitude, chaos,

01:41:52.449 --> 01:41:55.770
and anarchy, you defy the Norns and prognosticated

01:41:55.770 --> 01:41:59.409
outcomes. Because you as black swans are innately

01:41:59.409 --> 01:42:02.710
unpredictable and harbor the potential to recalibrate

01:42:02.710 --> 01:42:06.090
the dynamics of the existing system, I am sure

01:42:06.090 --> 01:42:09.050
you will find a way. At this point, Gyda is looking

01:42:09.050 --> 01:42:12.770
more and more panicked. And she says to the others,

01:42:12.850 --> 01:42:17.590
we have 71 hours. We need to get out of here.

01:42:18.350 --> 01:42:22.090
Right the hell now. I don't care what this supercomputer

01:42:22.090 --> 01:42:26.390
wants. The doom is coming and we need to not

01:42:26.390 --> 01:42:31.789
be here. A doom is coming. One. One which we

01:42:31.789 --> 01:42:35.390
cannot stop. But the second one we can if we

01:42:35.390 --> 01:42:39.829
take a little bit of risk and bear witness to

01:42:39.829 --> 01:42:43.390
what happens on the planet. From here, our ship,

01:42:43.390 --> 01:42:48.130
as long as it can fly, we can do things. The

01:42:48.130 --> 01:42:50.869
other men will believe, Gigi. They always seem

01:42:50.869 --> 01:42:54.189
to believe him, whatever he says. There is a

01:42:54.189 --> 01:42:58.850
reason why I delivered unto you the land deed

01:42:58.850 --> 01:43:01.689
that gives you ownership of the archipelago.

01:43:02.470 --> 01:43:07.909
You think you gave it to us? I believe I had

01:43:07.909 --> 01:43:12.229
to inflatulate someone and blow him up to get

01:43:12.229 --> 01:43:15.590
that deed. That was my deed. All right, all right.

01:43:16.810 --> 01:43:20.359
Indeed, Jarl of Lade, that is correct. However,

01:43:20.520 --> 01:43:24.300
was it not the beneficence of Mim that delivered

01:43:24.300 --> 01:43:28.119
unto you the flares of your salvation? It always

01:43:28.119 --> 01:43:32.840
comes down to flares. Always the flares. Did

01:43:32.840 --> 01:43:35.920
it say that the computer controls when we can

01:43:35.920 --> 01:43:41.439
leave? It did. So if we want to leave right now,

01:43:41.619 --> 01:43:45.520
we have to play its game right now. I think you've

01:43:45.520 --> 01:43:48.800
been playing its game all along. It certainly

01:43:48.800 --> 01:43:51.880
seems to think so. Yeah, but our incompetence

01:43:51.880 --> 01:43:54.619
is our strength. We've learned that. And that's

01:43:54.619 --> 01:43:58.720
reassuring. Our black swan -edness. Oh, that,

01:43:58.859 --> 01:44:04.819
yeah. Gyda says, fuck this. Gigi, can you ask

01:44:04.819 --> 01:44:07.939
the computer if I can leave? I don't want to

01:44:07.939 --> 01:44:11.439
be part of this black swan nonsense. Can she

01:44:11.439 --> 01:44:16.479
leave by herself? Give her a small vessel? If

01:44:16.479 --> 01:44:19.920
Gida the Grim has the ability to do the Fykir's

01:44:19.920 --> 01:44:23.939
Bidding, then she may indeed leave. I do indeed

01:44:23.939 --> 01:44:28.060
have Fylkir's bidding, and I can ask for a favor.

01:44:28.899 --> 01:44:31.899
Do I need to roll for that? No, no, it's one

01:44:31.899 --> 01:44:34.460
of your traits. You can ask the GM at any time

01:44:34.460 --> 01:44:39.619
for something that, for example, a... Escape

01:44:39.619 --> 01:44:43.380
shuttle access to funds, anything like that.

01:44:43.460 --> 01:44:49.340
Once per adventure, you as a guest can use that

01:44:49.340 --> 01:44:51.819
ability to extricate yourself from the situation.

01:44:51.979 --> 01:44:54.359
If that's what you choose to do now, then you

01:44:54.359 --> 01:44:57.880
can leave the black goslings and let them go

01:44:57.880 --> 01:45:01.479
about their business. Before I do that, I want

01:45:01.479 --> 01:45:04.840
to say to the others, don't be fools or raven

01:45:04.840 --> 01:45:08.300
bait. You should leave. I'm not dying today.

01:45:09.149 --> 01:45:12.310
None of you need to die either. But if you won't

01:45:12.310 --> 01:45:15.670
come with me, then I'm getting out of here. What

01:45:15.670 --> 01:45:19.210
did she mean, don't be fools? I find this man

01:45:19.210 --> 01:45:32.819
confusing. The Vikings and Valkyries podcast

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