1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,660 Twelve-sided stories is for mature audiences and often deals with topics that may be difficult for some listeners. 2 00:00:06,660 --> 00:00:31,160 Discretion is advised. 3 00:00:36,660 --> 00:00:51,160 Come, brave the dark woods of folk horror with us in this vason actual play, The Hidden North. 4 00:00:51,160 --> 00:00:58,660 Remember, 12-sided stories are always story-heavy, rules light, and full of fright. 5 00:00:58,660 --> 00:01:04,660 Hello and welcome to The Hidden North, episode number 17. 6 00:01:04,660 --> 00:01:10,160 My name is Wes Otis. I am here with some amazing players. I'm going to start with Michelle. 7 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:16,660 Hey, I'm Michelle and I'm an amazing player. And I will be playing Greta, your local academic. 8 00:01:16,660 --> 00:01:20,160 Hi there. I'm Piper. I use they, them pronouns and I'm also an amazing player. 9 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:25,660 I am playing Elizabeth Purse who uses she, they pronouns and is the writer of the group. 10 00:01:25,660 --> 00:01:33,160 Hello, it's me, a magnificent player, Candice. You can find me here as Heldegard Brodson, the doctor. 11 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:35,660 Both of us use they, she pronouns. 12 00:01:35,660 --> 00:01:46,160 Hello, I'm Saint or Saint Spider and I have been playing Sieve who is our occultist and also our changeling. 13 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:48,660 And Saint, are you an amazing player? 14 00:01:48,660 --> 00:01:52,160 Oh, yes. Yes. I'll take that. 15 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:53,160 Hell yeah. 16 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:58,160 All right. Quick recap though. We went through so much in the last episode. 17 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:05,660 To catch you all up, the mountain outside of Obsulla is starting to stand up because it is a giant. 18 00:02:05,660 --> 00:02:08,160 Of course, we learned that in a past episode. 19 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:14,660 The people who were at Castle Gilencroix were killed by the fairy. 20 00:02:14,660 --> 00:02:17,160 The fae seem to be making a move. 21 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:23,160 You found out that the young man, Eric, is actually the son of the fairy king 22 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:39,160 and has been sent to the world to bring on the destruction of the humans who have been slowly stamping out Vason through horrible means started by Sister Ifca or Mother Superior, as we know her. 23 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:45,160 There was a large conversation. It's all way too much to recap because there was a lot of stuff. 24 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:49,660 So if you're listening, this is your first episode. You want to go back to episode one. 25 00:02:49,660 --> 00:02:54,160 Listen all the way through and this next part is going to make a lot more sense. 26 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:56,660 You all are standing in the kitchen. 27 00:02:56,660 --> 00:03:13,160 There has been a battle there between the fairies with the hummingbird beaks and Ralkyn the brownie and Alcott the butler and Hildegard was able to bring a stop to it. 28 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:27,660 Eric showed up. You all had a very long conversation about Vason, about his father, about how his father lost his violin, about how angry his father is at the human world and wanted to replace them all. 29 00:03:27,660 --> 00:03:31,160 He tried to do it with music. It wasn't going fast enough. 30 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:38,160 He could separate himself into several versions of himself and still he couldn't get rid of enough humans. 31 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:43,660 And Eric has said that both him and Mother Superior need to be dealt with. 32 00:03:43,660 --> 00:03:51,660 And that's where we're picking it up right after Greta had mentioned that she has the violin of the Fairy King. 33 00:03:51,660 --> 00:03:57,160 So Eric looks at you for a second, Greta, says, what? How did you come across it? 34 00:03:57,160 --> 00:04:11,660 Well, a long time ago, I ran into a Vason who I didn't know who he was, obviously, and he had asked me to recruit people for him and I refused. 35 00:04:11,660 --> 00:04:13,660 And he paid a visit to my home. 36 00:04:13,660 --> 00:04:20,660 And after surviving that visit and getting him out of my home, his violin was left on my bed. 37 00:04:20,660 --> 00:04:23,660 I didn't know what to do with it. 38 00:04:23,660 --> 00:04:25,160 So I've kept it. 39 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:27,660 Well, that changes some things. 40 00:04:27,660 --> 00:04:35,660 A personal item of that nature might be able to, at the very least, push him out of this realm. 41 00:04:35,660 --> 00:04:38,660 It might also be able to help us. 42 00:04:38,660 --> 00:04:48,660 We need to go to the library and try to find some kind of ritual to put a stop to all this before the mountain steps on this city. 43 00:04:48,660 --> 00:05:03,660 Elizabeth steps forward, rifling through her bag and pulls out her notebook, the various leaflets of paper, flitting about as she opens it, and pulls out a partially filled sheet of music. 44 00:05:03,660 --> 00:05:12,660 If we need something to play, I know two of the parts, but the third is not with me currently. 45 00:05:12,660 --> 00:05:15,660 I don't know if playing something like this might help. 46 00:05:15,660 --> 00:05:23,660 Sieve stares at the paper from where she's standing in the group and just kind of weakly gestures toward Elizabeth. 47 00:05:23,660 --> 00:05:25,660 Can I look at that? Can I see that? 48 00:05:25,660 --> 00:05:30,660 Elizabeth doesn't let it go, but will turn it to you. 49 00:05:30,660 --> 00:05:37,660 Sieve is looking at the notes and something is prickling in the back of her head. 50 00:05:37,660 --> 00:05:45,660 She ruffles through her own vast pockets that really should not be holding anything that is not very sturdy. 51 00:05:45,660 --> 00:05:50,660 And there's this really crumpled, folded square paper. 52 00:05:50,660 --> 00:05:59,660 And as she unwraps it, she's just very deliberately undoing each fold and displays another piece of sheet music. 53 00:05:59,660 --> 00:06:03,660 But the title is that of my mother. 54 00:06:03,660 --> 00:06:10,660 When I look at Elizabeth's paper and compare mine, that I recognize or can remember from my own experience. 55 00:06:10,660 --> 00:06:16,660 Well, the thing that you notice right off the bat is the songs are very, very similar. 56 00:06:16,660 --> 00:06:20,660 There's only a few variations between the two. 57 00:06:20,660 --> 00:06:23,660 Can you give me a learning role? 58 00:06:23,660 --> 00:06:26,660 Actually, if anybody wants to give me a learning role, they can. 59 00:06:26,660 --> 00:06:28,660 So learning and logic. 60 00:06:28,660 --> 00:06:30,660 Nothing for Elizabeth. 61 00:06:30,660 --> 00:06:32,660 Success. Success. 62 00:06:32,660 --> 00:06:34,660 OK, success. OK. 63 00:06:34,660 --> 00:06:37,660 When you really look at these things, they're spells. 64 00:06:37,660 --> 00:06:40,660 They're more ritual than they are music. 65 00:06:40,660 --> 00:06:45,660 There are some strange notations that humans just don't use that are part of the song. 66 00:06:45,660 --> 00:06:53,660 Basically, to use more modern terms, the DNA of the person trapped in the song is in the notation. 67 00:06:53,660 --> 00:07:01,660 And so the spell is turning them into a different energy that gets placed on the paper. 68 00:07:01,660 --> 00:07:14,660 If you take the same instrument and play the song, you might be able to release that energy and reincorporate that person. 69 00:07:14,660 --> 00:07:16,660 But you have to have the full song. 70 00:07:16,660 --> 00:07:19,660 So you have the full song. Now you have the violin. 71 00:07:19,660 --> 00:07:21,660 You could probably bring your mother back. 72 00:07:21,660 --> 00:07:27,660 For Elizabeth's partner, Cassandra, they would have to find the rest of that song. 73 00:07:27,660 --> 00:07:34,660 OK, I'll impart that as well as I can to Elizabeth and Hildegard. 74 00:07:34,660 --> 00:07:42,660 I look toward Eric and just kind of shake my hand and say, OK, we have some something, some music, some instrument. 75 00:07:42,660 --> 00:07:47,660 But what what type of music would we need to stop this? 76 00:07:47,660 --> 00:07:54,660 Well, we would need a ritual and maybe a new song, something that has to do with time, 77 00:07:54,660 --> 00:07:57,660 something to undo everything that's happened. 78 00:07:57,660 --> 00:08:04,660 We need to call the two of them, both Mother Superior and my father, to a place. 79 00:08:04,660 --> 00:08:10,660 Obviously, Kessel-Gilling-Kreutz is a focal point for both of them. 80 00:08:10,660 --> 00:08:13,660 And if we're going to save all of you, we have to save all of you. 81 00:08:13,660 --> 00:08:17,660 If you die during it, it might free Mother Superior. 82 00:08:17,660 --> 00:08:21,660 And that would be just as bad as what my father is doing. 83 00:08:21,660 --> 00:08:25,660 Who knows how twisted her mind is at this point. 84 00:08:25,660 --> 00:08:32,660 But we have to do the ritual, call my father, come up with a new song that we think we can use. 85 00:08:32,660 --> 00:08:35,660 We might be able to find something in the library. 86 00:08:35,660 --> 00:08:37,660 We might be able to talk to Sister Lucy. 87 00:08:37,660 --> 00:08:48,660 We might be able to talk to the church and see if we can come to an understanding or an agreement so that the fighting can stop. 88 00:08:48,660 --> 00:08:50,660 The church isn't going anywhere. 89 00:08:50,660 --> 00:08:54,660 And if we're not going anywhere, we have to make peace, I guess. 90 00:08:54,660 --> 00:08:56,660 My money's on the library. 91 00:08:56,660 --> 00:08:58,660 I bet you there's a book in there. 92 00:08:58,660 --> 00:09:07,660 I was going to ask, would it be fair to say that in bringing our luggage that Elizabeth also brought their violin with them? 93 00:09:07,660 --> 00:09:10,660 Because your father gave it to you? Absolutely. Yeah. 94 00:09:10,660 --> 00:09:11,660 Awesome. 95 00:09:11,660 --> 00:09:14,660 I think we could find something in the library. 96 00:09:14,660 --> 00:09:24,660 I think if it's time magic, if we want to play a song or write a song with time magic, we could do something maybe in around the two of us play. 97 00:09:24,660 --> 00:09:25,660 Yes. 98 00:09:25,660 --> 00:09:29,660 Suddenly right there is the neck that you've all met before. 99 00:09:29,660 --> 00:09:31,660 Fairies are flying around his head. 100 00:09:31,660 --> 00:09:36,660 He is right behind his son and he goes, this is going nowhere. 101 00:09:36,660 --> 00:09:38,660 This city is going to stop. 102 00:09:38,660 --> 00:09:39,660 It's going to end. 103 00:09:39,660 --> 00:09:40,660 Told you I cursed you. 104 00:09:40,660 --> 00:09:42,660 Told you you'd lead me to them. 105 00:09:42,660 --> 00:09:46,660 Looking at Greta, I told you now you have and now I'm going to kill you all. 106 00:09:46,660 --> 00:09:48,660 You son of a bitch. 107 00:09:48,660 --> 00:09:53,660 And he snaps Eric's neck right in front of you. 108 00:09:53,660 --> 00:09:55,660 Everybody do a fear check. 109 00:09:55,660 --> 00:09:59,660 Oh, this neck is going down. 110 00:09:59,660 --> 00:10:02,660 Bastard. 111 00:10:02,660 --> 00:10:04,660 I have two successes. 112 00:10:04,660 --> 00:10:06,660 Oh, great. That's awesome. 113 00:10:06,660 --> 00:10:20,660 And Hildegard sees this and kind of backs up in the opposite direction of the kind of impending fairy king that's walking in and tries to back up next to a window and pulls out their sunstone and speaks into it. 114 00:10:20,660 --> 00:10:25,660 You said if I ever needed you that you would be here now would be a very good time. 115 00:10:25,660 --> 00:10:26,660 Please. 116 00:10:26,660 --> 00:10:41,660 All right. So you speak the name and the sun has been blocked out by the giant that has stood and started to slowly walk across the darkened forest towards the city. 117 00:10:41,660 --> 00:10:59,660 And there's a new ray of sunlight that beams down in a different area than the sun would be and kind of parts the clouds and for the first time since fall the ground in some areas starts to be seen as snow melts away. 118 00:10:59,660 --> 00:11:17,660 Alswin appears in the room with looks at you for a moment and looks at the king for a moment and says I've been listening. King I think that we need to talk about this before it goes too far. 119 00:11:17,660 --> 00:11:23,660 And the fairy king says I don't care what spirits have to say in this matter. 120 00:11:23,660 --> 00:11:35,660 I've made my decision and our people are acting and Alswin goes your people will not honor you once you are gone for doing this and you know it. 121 00:11:35,660 --> 00:11:42,660 And he says I'm fighting for the people who aren't here anymore and lunges towards her. 122 00:11:42,660 --> 00:11:48,660 She says to you as she starts to fight him get out. You won't win this fight. 123 00:11:48,660 --> 00:11:49,660 What do you all do? 124 00:11:49,660 --> 00:11:53,660 Elizabeth is going to make a break for it as lunging happens. 125 00:11:53,660 --> 00:12:01,660 Elizabeth is going to kind of dart out of the kitchen and is sprinting skirt hiked up all the way up to her room to grab the violin. 126 00:12:01,660 --> 00:12:02,660 Okay. 127 00:12:02,660 --> 00:12:03,660 Sieve what are you going to do? 128 00:12:03,660 --> 00:12:13,660 Sieve will also be making a break for it and will be going straight to the library and just hoping that that door is unlocked. 129 00:12:13,660 --> 00:12:19,660 Okay. I'm going to say that the door is unlocked and probably just wide open because it's been kind of chaos. 130 00:12:19,660 --> 00:12:21,660 That's how Ralkon got out. 131 00:12:21,660 --> 00:12:22,660 So yeah the doors open. 132 00:12:22,660 --> 00:12:24,660 Greta what are you doing? 133 00:12:24,660 --> 00:12:30,660 I also am running to my room to grab his violin and a box of matches. 134 00:12:30,660 --> 00:12:34,660 Okay. And Hildegard you are right next to them all. 135 00:12:34,660 --> 00:12:35,660 What do you want to do? 136 00:12:35,660 --> 00:12:47,660 You also notice that Alcott is in shock and Ralkon is getting back up on the sparrow and flying back towards the library as well. 137 00:12:47,660 --> 00:12:48,660 What do you want to do? 138 00:12:48,660 --> 00:13:01,660 Hildegard kind of fireman carries Alcott but on her way out she breaks the glass vial that has her smelling salts in it and casts it like over it or like the back of the fairy king to hopefully weaken him. 139 00:13:01,660 --> 00:13:03,660 Okay. Cool. Yeah. 140 00:13:03,660 --> 00:13:07,660 As I know fairies are like she understands the fairies are not great with salt. 141 00:13:07,660 --> 00:13:11,660 So she tries to kind of give that edge to Alswin. 142 00:13:11,660 --> 00:13:19,660 What's a funny side note Greta used salt in her episode to keep him at bay and an iron poker. 143 00:13:19,660 --> 00:13:20,660 So that's a good callback. 144 00:13:20,660 --> 00:13:21,660 Hell yeah. 145 00:13:21,660 --> 00:13:33,660 You all break see you run into the library and you start to use your occult knowledge to look up music and occult and how it all kind of mixes together. 146 00:13:33,660 --> 00:13:35,660 Raleigh is helping you. 147 00:13:35,660 --> 00:13:37,660 He's like a librarian anyway. 148 00:13:37,660 --> 00:13:41,660 He's kind of like here's this section with this kind of stuff. 149 00:13:41,660 --> 00:13:42,660 This is over here. 150 00:13:42,660 --> 00:13:44,660 You start looking through that. 151 00:13:44,660 --> 00:13:53,660 Can you give me a learning role and I'm going to give you an extra three dice because you have a background on this and Raleigh is helping you. 152 00:13:53,660 --> 00:13:54,660 All right. 153 00:13:54,660 --> 00:13:55,660 Here we go. 154 00:13:55,660 --> 00:13:56,660 Yes. 155 00:13:56,660 --> 00:13:57,660 Okay. 156 00:13:57,660 --> 00:13:58,660 I was sorry. 157 00:13:58,660 --> 00:13:59,660 The pause. 158 00:13:59,660 --> 00:14:01,660 The pause was because I was scared. 159 00:14:01,660 --> 00:14:03,660 But yes we have one success. 160 00:14:03,660 --> 00:14:04,660 Excellent. 161 00:14:04,660 --> 00:14:05,660 All right. 162 00:14:05,660 --> 00:14:08,660 So you find a piece of music. 163 00:14:08,660 --> 00:14:13,660 There is no composer on it but it has the same notations your music does. 164 00:14:13,660 --> 00:14:19,660 What's strange is you can tell it wasn't written by a basin just in the way that it's been presented. 165 00:14:19,660 --> 00:14:21,660 You start to scour it. 166 00:14:21,660 --> 00:14:23,660 Let me jump over to Piper. 167 00:14:23,660 --> 00:14:29,660 Elizabeth you fly up the stairs and Lucy is right on your heels. 168 00:14:29,660 --> 00:14:32,660 And she's all like what's what can we do? 169 00:14:32,660 --> 00:14:33,660 What else? 170 00:14:33,660 --> 00:14:34,660 What can we do? 171 00:14:34,660 --> 00:14:35,660 I don't. 172 00:14:35,660 --> 00:14:38,660 How do I make this situation work? 173 00:14:38,660 --> 00:14:39,660 What do I know? 174 00:14:39,660 --> 00:14:41,660 I know this is it's quite a lot. 175 00:14:41,660 --> 00:14:49,660 It's also quite a lot for me to run and talk and try to figure out exactly what you can do to help. 176 00:14:49,660 --> 00:14:52,660 You're good at cleaning and such. 177 00:14:52,660 --> 00:14:57,660 Why can't you do the opposite and make things just very messy? 178 00:14:57,660 --> 00:14:59,660 Maybe in that room? 179 00:14:59,660 --> 00:15:00,660 You can touch things right? 180 00:15:00,660 --> 00:15:02,660 Yeah I can touch things. 181 00:15:02,660 --> 00:15:03,660 Okay. 182 00:15:03,660 --> 00:15:05,660 Oh oh. 183 00:15:05,660 --> 00:15:07,660 Use. 184 00:15:07,660 --> 00:15:13,660 So to get downstairs really fast you know how you know to go through the various tunnels right? 185 00:15:13,660 --> 00:15:18,660 Well yeah but now that I know that I can touch things and go through walls I can just do that. 186 00:15:18,660 --> 00:15:19,660 Okay true. 187 00:15:19,660 --> 00:15:23,660 Just there's a ghost I believe it's called like a poltergeist. 188 00:15:23,660 --> 00:15:26,660 Just start throwing things. 189 00:15:26,660 --> 00:15:30,660 Okay my mother wouldn't like that but she's long dead so let's do it. 190 00:15:30,660 --> 00:15:32,660 Jesus will forgive you it's fine. 191 00:15:32,660 --> 00:15:37,660 She runs into a room and starts to grab up stuff to throw. 192 00:15:37,660 --> 00:15:39,660 Alright so you get into your Jesus will forgive you. 193 00:15:39,660 --> 00:15:42,660 I'm leaving that in. 194 00:15:42,660 --> 00:15:43,660 Good. 195 00:15:43,660 --> 00:15:46,660 You get in your room and you grab your violin. 196 00:15:46,660 --> 00:15:50,660 Greta where are you running or where were you going to go with the violins? 197 00:15:50,660 --> 00:15:53,660 To the library that's where I was going to go. 198 00:15:53,660 --> 00:15:59,660 I think Elizabeth was just going to go back to the kitchen but seeing Greta turn and start heading to the library kind of turn some looks at her. 199 00:15:59,660 --> 00:16:02,660 Where are you going? 200 00:16:02,660 --> 00:16:03,660 Library. 201 00:16:03,660 --> 00:16:04,660 Why? 202 00:16:04,660 --> 00:16:06,660 To see if we can get a spell. 203 00:16:06,660 --> 00:16:11,660 Okay I thought I was just going to try and improvise alright we are always better okay. 204 00:16:11,660 --> 00:16:14,660 Yeah we can't we can't physically beat this guy. 205 00:16:14,660 --> 00:16:15,660 No we can't. 206 00:16:15,660 --> 00:16:16,660 Alright you lead on. 207 00:16:16,660 --> 00:16:19,660 Hildegard you were heading towards the library. 208 00:16:19,660 --> 00:16:27,660 Yeah that's where she immediately thinks to take Algot so he can kind of get a breather in and hopefully figure out what our next steps are now that there's a distraction. 209 00:16:27,660 --> 00:16:35,660 So if you are now in the library you're all around this table and there's this piece of music that Siva's found. 210 00:16:35,660 --> 00:16:39,660 In order to do this we need to do a role for it. 211 00:16:39,660 --> 00:16:45,660 So I want to give you a couple of different options because I know you all have strengths and weaknesses in different things. 212 00:16:45,660 --> 00:16:53,660 You can make an investigation role, a learning role, or an observation role, or even inspiration. 213 00:16:53,660 --> 00:16:58,660 So learning, investigation, inspiration, or observation. 214 00:16:58,660 --> 00:17:08,660 You can do any of those and you're going to get plus three bonus because you're all working together to figure out this piece of music in this ritual. 215 00:17:08,660 --> 00:17:11,660 The more successes you get the better. 216 00:17:11,660 --> 00:17:18,660 I think Elizabeth is just so angry at the fact that it was the very thing who took away her beloved. 217 00:17:18,660 --> 00:17:23,660 That she can't focus on the music and is just constantly looking to the door and just wants to leave. 218 00:17:23,660 --> 00:17:26,660 I got no successes. 219 00:17:26,660 --> 00:17:28,660 I got three successes. 220 00:17:28,660 --> 00:17:29,660 Okay. 221 00:17:29,660 --> 00:17:30,660 I got two successes. 222 00:17:30,660 --> 00:17:34,660 Excellent. So that's five altogether. Hildegard. 223 00:17:34,660 --> 00:17:35,660 Oh no. 224 00:17:35,660 --> 00:17:36,660 One success. 225 00:17:36,660 --> 00:17:38,660 Still that's better. 226 00:17:38,660 --> 00:17:40,660 That's something. That's six successes. 227 00:17:40,660 --> 00:17:41,660 I'm very proud. 228 00:17:41,660 --> 00:17:42,660 That's pretty good. 229 00:17:42,660 --> 00:17:43,660 I'm very very proud. 230 00:17:43,660 --> 00:17:44,660 Yes. 231 00:17:44,660 --> 00:17:51,660 And I will roll for Ralkin who is helping you out. See if he gets any success. 232 00:17:51,660 --> 00:17:52,660 Thank you, Ralkin. 233 00:17:52,660 --> 00:17:53,660 Oh. 234 00:17:53,660 --> 00:17:54,660 What? 235 00:17:54,660 --> 00:17:55,660 All sixes. 236 00:17:55,660 --> 00:17:57,660 I rolled four sixes. 237 00:17:57,660 --> 00:17:58,660 Oh wow. 238 00:17:58,660 --> 00:17:59,660 Yeah. 239 00:17:59,660 --> 00:18:01,660 Out of six dice. 240 00:18:01,660 --> 00:18:05,660 That's where all my sixes went, Wes. Those are all my sixes that I sent to you. 241 00:18:05,660 --> 00:18:06,660 Yeah. 242 00:18:06,660 --> 00:18:07,660 From the past. 243 00:18:07,660 --> 00:18:11,660 I just literally rolled four sixes. It's ridiculous. 244 00:18:11,660 --> 00:18:12,660 So where does that put us? 245 00:18:12,660 --> 00:18:13,660 That's ten. 246 00:18:13,660 --> 00:18:16,660 Ten all to get ten successes. Okay. Cool. 247 00:18:16,660 --> 00:18:25,660 Siv, you see that Elizabeth is upset, but you've figured out what you need to do and you can tell them their part. 248 00:18:25,660 --> 00:18:28,660 Okay. Well, you see these markings here. 249 00:18:28,660 --> 00:18:35,660 It's just like when Siv pulls out her sheet music, starts making some connections like this symbol matches that one. 250 00:18:35,660 --> 00:18:40,660 I think this would mean that you'd play this note this way, at least on the violin. 251 00:18:40,660 --> 00:18:47,660 And if you and I, and she looks at Elizabeth, can focus and do this, I think this is the best way. 252 00:18:47,660 --> 00:18:52,660 Okay. After this, we're going to get the ones we love back. 253 00:18:52,660 --> 00:18:54,660 Yeah. Maybe a good drink. 254 00:18:54,660 --> 00:18:56,660 Hey, that will be nice. 255 00:18:56,660 --> 00:18:59,660 What are you going to kill this fairy king? 256 00:18:59,660 --> 00:19:06,660 You all start playing this and I'm not going to make you roll because we have ten successes, but it's not going to be that easy. 257 00:19:06,660 --> 00:19:07,660 So don't smile yet. 258 00:19:07,660 --> 00:19:11,660 The music starts to permeate throughout the castle. 259 00:19:11,660 --> 00:19:19,660 There is this vibration that is happening even between the bricks and the mortar of the castle itself. 260 00:19:19,660 --> 00:19:29,660 And you suddenly hear the fairy king running towards the library door and Ralkin goes to Greta and Hildegard. 261 00:19:29,660 --> 00:19:31,660 Get the door. Quick. Shut it. 262 00:19:31,660 --> 00:19:33,660 Hildegard immediately moves. 263 00:19:33,660 --> 00:19:34,660 Yeah, me too. 264 00:19:34,660 --> 00:19:40,660 The fairy king is at the door banging on it, trying to get through before the piece ends. 265 00:19:40,660 --> 00:19:42,660 I need you to make a force roll. 266 00:19:42,660 --> 00:19:45,660 Oh, God. 267 00:19:45,660 --> 00:19:48,660 I've been waiting for this moment all my life. 268 00:19:48,660 --> 00:19:51,660 Hildegard's helping. 269 00:19:51,660 --> 00:19:55,660 Okay. I got one success. 270 00:19:55,660 --> 00:19:57,660 Good. 271 00:19:57,660 --> 00:20:01,660 And then, sorry, I'm trying to count on my dice. I get a bunch. 272 00:20:01,660 --> 00:20:04,660 Nice. 273 00:20:04,660 --> 00:20:05,660 I thought you'd like this. 274 00:20:05,660 --> 00:20:07,660 Yeah. 275 00:20:07,660 --> 00:20:11,660 Go big lady. 276 00:20:11,660 --> 00:20:15,660 Oh, one of them just like got stacked on top of the other. 277 00:20:15,660 --> 00:20:20,660 Oh, boy. I got three successes. 278 00:20:20,660 --> 00:20:21,660 Yeah. 279 00:20:21,660 --> 00:20:23,660 Hot dog. 280 00:20:23,660 --> 00:20:27,660 Hildegard in the house. 281 00:20:27,660 --> 00:20:35,660 So you all are holding the door and he's just slamming his body against it as he's trying to enter the room. 282 00:20:35,660 --> 00:20:45,660 But you can tell that the magic from the song is starting to weaken him in a way that he wasn't counting on. 283 00:20:45,660 --> 00:20:53,660 And then you hear the sound of Alska outside as well slamming into him and then fighting again. 284 00:20:53,660 --> 00:20:59,660 And then suddenly the song ends and there's just silence. 285 00:20:59,660 --> 00:21:07,660 And then a few seconds after that silence, you hear the mountain giant walking. 286 00:21:07,660 --> 00:21:10,660 Running to the, there's a window running to it. 287 00:21:10,660 --> 00:21:12,660 Yeah, that's what I would do. 288 00:21:12,660 --> 00:21:13,660 Yeah. 289 00:21:13,660 --> 00:21:14,660 Look out the windows of the library. 290 00:21:14,660 --> 00:21:15,660 Immediately. 291 00:21:15,660 --> 00:21:21,660 You watch as the mountain giant goes back to its spot and goes to sleep. 292 00:21:21,660 --> 00:21:28,660 Ralkyn, I know you have a little like way to get outside the library and peek through your little hole in the wall. 293 00:21:28,660 --> 00:21:31,660 Any chance you could just give us a look-see? 294 00:21:31,660 --> 00:21:34,660 You want me to go see if they're still fighting outside? 295 00:21:34,660 --> 00:21:35,660 Yeah. 296 00:21:35,660 --> 00:21:36,660 Okay. 297 00:21:36,660 --> 00:21:37,660 Safely. 298 00:21:37,660 --> 00:21:40,660 Safely. Just peek and run back. 299 00:21:40,660 --> 00:21:42,660 I am not a coward. 300 00:21:42,660 --> 00:21:45,660 He gets up and he goes through his little door. 301 00:21:45,660 --> 00:21:49,660 Aye, he's dead. She's not doing too well herself. 302 00:21:49,660 --> 00:21:51,660 Okay, so I guess we open the door. 303 00:21:51,660 --> 00:21:52,660 Okay. 304 00:21:52,660 --> 00:21:55,660 Yeah. As cautiously as possible. 305 00:21:55,660 --> 00:22:01,660 The fairy king is laid out and not moving or breathing. 306 00:22:01,660 --> 00:22:07,660 He's deceased. The spell did some massive damage to him. 307 00:22:07,660 --> 00:22:10,660 Elswyn is lying next to him. 308 00:22:10,660 --> 00:22:16,660 Her body is quickly turning into oak and her eyes are barely open. 309 00:22:16,660 --> 00:22:18,660 Hildegard, what do you want to do? 310 00:22:18,660 --> 00:22:21,660 I think I run to her side if I can. 311 00:22:21,660 --> 00:22:27,660 And I think like I put the Sun Stone, like I take the Sun Stone off and I press it to the tree. 312 00:22:27,660 --> 00:22:31,660 Obviously my one, you know, favor is gone. 313 00:22:31,660 --> 00:22:41,660 And while I want to keep it as a memory of what happened and who I am, if taking this into herself can help in some way, that's what I'd want to give back. 314 00:22:41,660 --> 00:22:46,660 And I think Hildegard just sort of like stands with her as she's going through this process. 315 00:22:46,660 --> 00:22:48,660 Asks once if there's anything she can do to help. 316 00:22:48,660 --> 00:22:52,660 And if there's nothing, she just kind of waits with her so she's not alone. 317 00:22:52,660 --> 00:22:57,660 She says, sometimes you can't save everyone. 318 00:22:57,660 --> 00:23:01,660 You know that. The amount of magic that I lost was too much. 319 00:23:01,660 --> 00:23:07,660 But I give you this last gift and know that you are always loved by us. 320 00:23:07,660 --> 00:23:13,660 Then she turns completely into wood and the Sun Stone absorbs into your hand. 321 00:23:13,660 --> 00:23:22,660 And when you look at the palm of your hand and the back of your hand, there is the shape of the Sun Stone there all the way through. 322 00:23:22,660 --> 00:23:30,660 Every time you look at it, it reminds you of your childhood and the past and where you've been and how far you've come. 323 00:23:30,660 --> 00:23:34,660 But she is no longer with you. She's moved on. 324 00:23:34,660 --> 00:23:49,660 I think Hildegard sits under the tree and like hearing like the kind of innate silence around from all of the destruction kind of falling into this this kind of holding pattern, I think speaks out loud once again, like she did as a child. 325 00:23:49,660 --> 00:23:54,660 If any of you are listening, there is a new tree for you to take refuge in. 326 00:23:54,660 --> 00:24:02,660 It has been a long time since you have been able to feel safe, but I will be here to make sure that you are for as long as I can. 327 00:24:02,660 --> 00:24:11,660 Okay, there's no response at that moment, but you do feel like you've done something now that the tree is in the middle of this huge hallway. 328 00:24:11,660 --> 00:24:15,660 But most of the Gilling Kreutz has been taken down. 329 00:24:15,660 --> 00:24:29,660 So it's just a ruin at this point. And Sister Lucy comes up behind you all and goes, we need to clean this up, but we need to do it with everybody, not just us. I need sleep. 330 00:24:29,660 --> 00:24:43,660 Lucy goes over and puts her hand out as if to pat Lucy on the shoulder, you know, supportively and kind of glances back to the rest of the party and just says, I think you've earned that rest. 331 00:24:43,660 --> 00:24:45,660 We can take over from here. 332 00:24:45,660 --> 00:25:00,660 The first thing that you all do is you take Lucy back to the church where Mother Superior has found where the graveyard is. And due to the melting from the sunstone, the church is able to do the properites. 333 00:25:00,660 --> 00:25:06,660 And they have a service for her and you see her fade away. She says thank you to all of you. 334 00:25:06,660 --> 00:25:20,660 You get a sense that Mother Superior is gone and the clocks have stopped. There is no more clock. Everything in the future is the future. Everything in the past is the past. There's no more loop. It's been broken. 335 00:25:20,660 --> 00:25:29,660 You know that there's still fairies out there. You know that there'll be a new king or queen. Maybe there'll be a council. Who knows? A president of some sort. 336 00:25:29,660 --> 00:25:33,660 Because the fairies have to move forward as well as the humans in some way. 337 00:25:33,660 --> 00:25:44,660 But the idea of making Gillingcroix a center of learning for the supernatural comes into focus. 338 00:25:44,660 --> 00:26:03,660 And you are able to sway the townspeople and even some of the nuns to understand that the balance in the area has to be kept in order to maintain peace so that masses of people and fairies aren't killed. 339 00:26:03,660 --> 00:26:17,660 At some point, Sieve and Elizabeth will be able to play their songs and figure out how to bring back their mother and their partner and are made whole by that. 340 00:26:17,660 --> 00:26:24,660 I'd imagine that Greta as an academic would be a teacher. At Gillingcroix would be my guess. 341 00:26:24,660 --> 00:26:41,660 And I bet Hildegard would continue on as a doctor who happens to own the first pub in Upsala and uses it as a way to talk to people who don't have the site. 342 00:26:41,660 --> 00:26:47,660 Because the unfortunate part is a spell to make everybody have the site is going to take many years to figure out. 343 00:26:47,660 --> 00:26:54,660 And so that's kind of the overall goal of Castle Gillingcroix in the society. How's that sound to everybody? 344 00:26:54,660 --> 00:27:01,660 Sounds good. Of course, massive redesign of the castle, making the tree a center of a courtyard. 345 00:27:01,660 --> 00:27:05,660 Elizabeth writing an iron door on the library. 346 00:27:05,660 --> 00:27:11,660 And we're raising chickens. So many chickens. 347 00:27:11,660 --> 00:27:18,660 The chickens are not for chicks. Exactly. Not the babies. Not the baby chickens. 348 00:27:18,660 --> 00:27:23,660 Well, I think that that's a great place to end it. I think it was a good story. 349 00:27:23,660 --> 00:27:29,660 I think that it came together really well and great ending for a pretty cool tale. 350 00:27:29,660 --> 00:27:37,660 So thank you all so much for being a part of it. OK, so let's find out where all of you are at. 351 00:27:37,660 --> 00:27:44,660 Let's start with Piper. Hello, everyone. I've been Piper playing Elizabeth Perce, the writer. 352 00:27:44,660 --> 00:27:54,660 You can find me over on Twitter at Madi Matihe. That's M-A-T-T-Y-M-A-T-E-E-H-E-E or over on Twitch at Matihe. 353 00:27:54,660 --> 00:28:02,660 Any other games that I play, anything like that, you can either find me on Twitter or in the 12 Sided Story Discord. 354 00:28:02,660 --> 00:28:09,660 Thank you for having me and have a lovely rest of your night or day, whatever time you listen to this. 355 00:28:09,660 --> 00:28:17,660 Hello, everyone. My name is Candice Magnificent. You can find me at the Candice Marie on Twitter and Blue Sky or at Candice Magnificent everywhere else. 356 00:28:17,660 --> 00:28:26,660 You can see more of my work in Bloom and Blight, a podcast, as well as frequencies and in the upcoming video game Monaco 2. Thank you. 357 00:28:26,660 --> 00:28:36,660 Hello, I'm St. Spider and I have been playing Sieve. Thank you very much for listening to our lovely story. 358 00:28:36,660 --> 00:28:48,660 And if you're curious or want to interact, you can find me on the 12 Sided Discord under the same name and in the lovely and vast back catalog as well. 359 00:28:48,660 --> 00:28:53,660 Hey, you can find me on the socials at Mishulu. 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We are winding things down at 12 Sided. 365 00:29:26,660 --> 00:29:33,660 We will still be putting out some Patreon exclusive stuff on the main feed to create an archive. 366 00:29:33,660 --> 00:29:39,660 And every once in a while we may come back and actually do a brand new show. 367 00:29:39,660 --> 00:29:46,660 So you'll see new things pop up from the Patreon for the next literally couple of years. 368 00:29:46,660 --> 00:29:53,660 Thank you so much for listening, whether you've just started with this or you started with us six years ago. 369 00:29:53,660 --> 00:30:00,660 We appreciate you being here. And we have a new show called Almanac of Ancient Evil. 370 00:30:00,660 --> 00:30:07,660 It is a cosmic horror actual play podcast. 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