Last time, on the Empire Initiative.
The crew decided on a daring plan to rescue Zola Honeycutt using a teleportation circle
hidden directly beneath the gallows.
During the night, Zavari dawned a disguise and joined the priests who administered last
rites to the condemned.
The following day, with their preparations made, the crew awaited the grim procession.
Once on stage, Zavari cloaked the gallows in darkness and disappeared below with Zola
in hand.
However, having failed to activate the circle, Reign had little choice but to accept the help
of Asmodeus for a second chance.
As the spell took shape, a guard dropped down to thwart them, but, acting quickly, Dark
knocked him aside and they narrowly escaped with their quarry.
This is Episode 4, Dark dealings.
Dari was
to dafürtoo fade.
So as you guys teleport in, you want to teleport to like the main lobby of Castle Wren.
And like as soon as you like to land, there's like a couple of people you know in the lobby
kind of deep you know movie from one area to the next.
But uh, Pinnoth walking or ass walking through, could you go shh.
Subscribe?
Um, so there's some people here?
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no!
I mean what do you mean who's that, who are you?
are here, they are really intensely in love with that.
male
or female
what about this is still
a girl
that Strandead
Well add it to the list.
Yeah, so yeah.
I'm just gonna...
Um, where'd she come from?
Is she a looks at dark?
Uh...
Ohio?
Okay, okay.
Well anyway, yeah.
There's some homegrown paladins.
They're up in the meeting room with Evan.
Okay.
And like a Diffel-Mack guy?
What's the Diffel-Mack's name?
Uh, I didn't catch his name,
but he did announce himself.
He was kind of like...
White hair.
No, okay.
I should probably go up there and talk to them.
Yes, we probably should.
I will turn to Zola.
Can you untie me?
Yes.
I'll untie her.
And tell her, um,
Willoughby sent us to Retrieve you.
Uh...
Good.
That bastard's finally been useful for something.
And she's kind of like rubbing a roper on her wrists.
You know, I didn't think for a second
that I would hang.
Good.
Just kidding. I was pretty sure I was done for.
Well, please, um,
Recuperate, we have
two drinks.
Oops, me.
I've been in...
She like smacks you.
It's a marry weasel.
One of the people that like hits you when you laugh.
She weases a little.
That shit hurts.
But please, um,
take care of yourself.
Oh, can you do...
I'll do the shackles.
Yeah.
I can move.
Well, Eldridge blasts.
Shit.
Yeah.
But yeah, but they're still around my ankles.
You're a brisk way shit.
But you're either that or hanged.
Well,
that's ridiculous.
That's ridiculous.
Well, how are my people?
Are you guys too busy to talk?
You saved me and you can't even just
inform me on what's going on.
Um...
Tell me your names.
Besides, I'm a ham crusader.
What does that even mean?
I'm sure.
I'm a king dart.
King?
Or lord or whatever.
Alright.
I can dig it.
It's hard to describe exactly
who and what we are.
Suffice it to say that
our goals
somewhat aligned with the goals
of the clock,
which is why we were interested
in helping rescue you.
You might also be pleased
to know that we have
Lord Saxon in the FedDar prisoner.
No, you can't go see him.
Can I get him in the nuts?
Let's get in line.
Maybe.
There is a waitlist.
And I'm at the top of the fucking list.
Uh...
At the top of the list.
I'm second.
Speaking of Edmund, we should probably go upstairs
and talk to him. There's much to discuss.
I'm a professional, but you need not
to be so evil.
Okay, not you.
I was going to say, I mean...
Information is always good.
You guys are like...
Client's of ours?
Is that what it is?
And you got a working thing
to rescue me?
Um...
No, I'm just going to go in. This is great.
We've been working with Eula.
Eula?
Eula? Is that what she's
going by these days?
She's had a baby, right?
Yeah.
Okay, yeah, I know who you're talking about.
We...
Yeah.
You, uh, Pippenot? Poppin' off?
Poppin' off? Yeah, yeah.
That's the name she's using right now.
Yeah, we, uh...
I met because she was trying to
turn my children into
indentured servants of sorts.
Well, then...
Um...
We couldn't possibly admit it.
Kind of a rocky start, but we're getting better.
She was a misunderstanding.
That's exactly the one she chose.
We do employ
children, but we don't
forcibly employ children.
Well, it seemed a little sketchy
to talk to their dad.
Fair enough.
You know, I'm not a parent myself,
so I guess I really...
That's outside of, you know,
my area of expertise.
Well, I feel, excuse me, there's some power
in that video to talk to.
Please make yourself at home. Fair enough.
And then I will need access to, um,
a different way of talking when you have time.
But I'll just...
Can I get something to eat or something?
There's a cafeteria.
A cafeteria? You guys really have everything, huh?
The dining hall, which has been converted
into a cafeteria.
Oh.
Okay.
I need to go talk to Ed and clearly.
So you guys are going up
in the meeting room with Edman
into the paladins, the diplomat.
Yeah.
I got some diplomating to do.
I will go.
Human form, of course.
Through my wave.
Yeah.
I assume this is a...
the whole party. Are you bringing Razzle X?
Um...
I'll say he's really already in there with Edman.
Oh, no offense.
The batteries keeping my arm still narrowed by a total of...
Oh, shit, that's right.
He's supposed to be down there. So that's where he would be.
So then I guess Taze would have to be in there
with Edman.
He's as fast as I could. Guys, I'm sorry.
Thanks, uh...
So much? Yeah, we just...
Can and Rain had to pick me up.
She, like, it's like about to piss her pants
after that experience.
It was rough, yeah.
When she started feeling the warmth,
she was like, God damn, I gotta pee.
Um...
Oh, I hope Asmodius knows
that the feeling of his presence
just makes me want to pee.
That's all. Not in, like, a good way.
Or, oh, God, you should...
You should...
That's what I think of him as piss.
Okay.
Be careful, he might get a visit.
Go piss, girl. Oh, my God.
Okay, I'm done. No more piss talk.
Yeah. Yeah, we're not dungeons
and daddies.
Love you guys. Yeah, just kidding, Mel.
I still thought the piss jokes were funny.
Okay, we'll move on.
We'll move on.
Um...
So you guys are entering the
meeting room, which is
a little small for this number of people.
Like, you guys, you know,
usually don't have four guests
in this room.
So, when you, like, walk in,
Edmund is, like,
sitting at the end of the table
with... tastes like kind of standing
behind him. He's sitting in a darts seat,
if that makes sense.
Um, and then there...
It's like they just, like, sat down.
Like, they're just starting,
like, an actual meeting.
Um...
And there are
three
Paladins wearing
Omer Mora Regalia,
um, which what is
Omer Mora Paladin armor looks like.
Expensive.
Um,
um,
Zavari,
you recognize two of them.
Oh. Um,
Zamari doesn't, but Zavari does.
Like,
the oldest
and highest ranking Paladin there,
Arto's Galvander,
um,
he's a very tall, very
strong-looking man
with really intense
scarring on his face.
And he has, like,
got his helmet on
currently.
And you also recognize
Eleanor Liu.
He was a just stern
looking, um,
woman with, like,
like,
dark,
not like,
like, very, she's like a super tan.
And she also
has, like, a, like,
a butch buzz cut.
And a
tattoo above her eyebrow.
Of, like, some
Elvin script.
Okay.
Um, and then you don't recognize
the other Paladin.
Um,
but he is, um,
roughly like Eleanor as age, they're both, like, kind of younger.
And, uh,
he's got a black hair.
Um, and it's kind of, it's kind of, like,
a little long. So it's kind of, like,
he's got his helmet on as well,
but you can tell his hair's a little long because, like,
kind of showing around his face.
Mm-hmm.
Whereas Eleanor has her helmet off.
And, uh,
yeah, and then you see
the diplomat who
is also standing on the other side of the table.
Mm-hmm.
His name is Dominic.
Dominic Ethelred.
He's the, he's an envoy of Umbermore.
And he is, like,
super well put together.
Very, very,
like,
he's wearing, like, a,
like, a very nicely tailored
suit with all of, like,
the accoutrements, a little, like,
cufflinks, the little extra buttons,
um, you know,
a perfectly folded
neckerchief in everything,
you know, and
his hair is
croffed.
Um, and it is,
um, he has
like a,
he has, like,
like a golden brown hair.
Um, and his eyebrow,
you can tell his eyebrows look like laminated.
Oh my god.
You know, they're doing brow laminations.
You recognize
him too.
You know, you know Dominic.
He's effeminate. He's kind of stuffy.
But, oh well,
you know, not that guy.
I mean, he's a, he's a diplomatic
envoy, so he's at least somewhat
personable.
And, uh, you guys, so you,
this is, so that's what you guys walk into.
And Edmund stands up and he goes,
timing.
Um, and they all sort of turn and they look
and, uh,
Dominic, he immediately kind of goes,
and he kind of scares everybody.
He's a bari.
What a pleasure. I didn't know you'd be here tonight.
Oh,
confidant.
He's like, oh, overly friendly.
And then, and you kind of look at him and he's like,
oh, wow.
My lady, hello.
You look well. Thank you.
It's been a long time.
It has. I didn't know that you would
be here.
Yeah, nobody sent
word ahead of you.
Well, I was,
we were told it was an emergency.
Yeah, uh, you had sent
a message to Lord Zaris, correct?
And
we started, you know, kind of preparing
for it, doing our research
and whatnot. Yeah, I'm
trying to spell the, spell the beans
around the kid, but, you know,
and, um,
but then we got a message from Edmund
directly.
Fuck.
And at that point,
Lord Zaris and Count
Reimu had decided that
it was about most importance to
arrive as soon as possible.
Lord Zaris still had the sigil,
so we just celebrate writing.
Correct.
Yeah.
We just remember, Ed,
your family service.
Thank you so much.
Now, please.
Move your presents over there.
What do I say?
Of course. Well, now that we are all
here, I'd like to introduce myself.
Um,
I am Dominic.
Essel Redd.
I am
Dave Rain.
And we want a good sir.
Good.
He does not flinch at all. He's just like, he doesn't look disgusted. Most people look disgusted when you do that.
Wet.
Does not react to the wetness.
My good sir, um, may I presume that you are Lord Dart?
That's correct.
I had a feeling that might be you. Well, it is lovely to meet you. I am
Dominic Eslred Convoy of Umbermoor, um, and I am accompanied today by uh, some of Umbermoor's finest paladins.
Can we, please, you are able to join us so quickly?
Yes, we pride ourselves in being timely. Um, he will gesture to the paladins and the paladin that
Zivari recognizes the older one who goes Bartos Gallivander at your service, my lords and ladies.
Um, Eleonora. Eleonora, Eleonora the new rank five.
And the new guy that you don't recognize is Warren Darger.
Uh, it is a pleasure to see you in person, ladies Zivari, and he's blushing.
Registrate and smash back and forth like all the paladins down.
They would know. They would know. They would know honestly.
Yeah, I know for a pleasant reason. There are important matters to discuss.
Indeed, just on it. I agree. I agree.
Let us, let us discuss, let us leave, crunch, love each other.
Well, now that the lord of Castle Red is here, do you want to lead us in the meeting?
Well, let me start by telling you why we called you here.
Sure. I assure you we have done our research.
Then you know well is our goal to put Edmund back on the throne as it were, a vatigar.
Yes, which we are in agreement with fully. 100% as that is the plan. We do have a plan,
if I may, please. We will escort Edmund back to vatigar, announce that Edmund,
the true heir has returned. Lord Saxon, I have been told, is going to be tried for his crimes.
And we have an executive order from the emperor to reinstate Edmund.
So essentially we'll just bring him home and make sure that he's safe. We will install
some of our own people to work with Edmund while he rebuilds his team to be a trustworthy one,
to which we will go back home and hopefully vatigar will be able to stand on his own.
Yeah, it's our aim to see that the transition of power goes as peacefully and as smoothly as possible.
We fully agree. We fully agree. And actually, Lord Zahra himself, themselves, excuse me,
but I insist it a part. As much fun as it has been, in a gentle way of putting this
clearing obstacles out of Edmund's way, there are many other pressing matters that the
kingdom of Andrum require my attention. So we'd like to see this done not only peacefully,
but in a timely fashion. Oh, for any other worse. We are nothing if not efficient.
Um, please, if you have any questions,
know what Dodd's input is my input. But I like everyone to be heard. That's all I'm saying.
I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think the time has come. I'd like to hear Edmund's opinion.
And it's like, yeah, you guys really, that's it. We're done. I can, I just wait. Is that what
you're saying? Um, if I recall correctly, this would also guarantee our alliance.
When you say our, you mean you and Edmund? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I get you that eat and everything.
Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. I'll get you guys good paperwork. And presumably if the Umbermoors
are friendly with Bedagar, then the Umbermoors will be friendly to us, especially since
given everything Zavari is our compatriot. So it's a win, win, win for everybody. Well, uh,
not small questions. Other than like, what exactly did the Umbermoors get out of this? Like,
I'm glad that they're helping us. Why are they helping? I mean, when Zaris was here,
I introduced him to Edmund and knew that eventually Edmund would need allies.
What better ally than the Umbermoors? Well, I just, I find it unusual that the Emperor
slapped his seal of approval on this when he was also the one who slapped his seal of approval
on Lord Saxton. I don't think he slapped his approval on Lord Saxton. I think he's actually
just took it until he had confirmation that Edmund was alive. Um, Dominic will explain that
like, you know, I, he's like, I didn't speak with the Emperor, but no one was aware that
until recently until Lady Zavari and Informus, no one was aware that Saxton was the one who
orchestrated it. So through the eyes of the law, Saxton had taken over lawfully. And then he was
requesting, you know, aid for, but then he was proven to be a usurper. What he was doing. But
I mean, with Edmund here as proof, right? He's being, so now it's like, so now Saxton is going
to stand trial for his crimes, you know, so ultimately that means Edmund is the rightful
ruler and the Emperor wants us to be peaceful, wants us to work together. Does that mean
so given Edmund's approval of us and the Umbermore's approval of us that we no longer have beef with
the Emperor? And did we ever? I mean, I'm happy to be defined as that I'm trying to restore the
kingdom of Andorra, but he doesn't know at the moment does not hurt him. So I am the DM. Are you
as God on the Emperor's radar? Is that what you're asking? Yeah. As an end. Yeah. It's kind of unclear.
The Emperor would probably kind of know about you based on like your connection to Zavari,
right? But it's not like you're actively opposing him like I wouldn't be open, like maybe a little
bit here and there, but not making enough noise to like really like the Emperor's I have you Kenway
is after you. Saxon was after you. But what I'm doing now kind of makes me look good in the Emperor's
eyes to a certain degree because I'm restoring a guy who was a novel lady surge. Yeah. And you've
kept him safe this whole time. And like the Umbermores are a powerful house and I'm in good
with them. And the Umbermores have like he closes connections to Emperor Dain of like all the other
memories. Right. That's all. The Umbermores actually accounting for it.
How about just trying to clarify. Oh yeah, of course. Of course. Absolutely. So yeah, I mean like
kind of the little sevens of fun people were doing for me. Absolutely everything you guys were doing.
He might not be like too happy about it, but like you guys are like small fries to him.
Like, we're not just a rattan tag adventurers. Once we've settled this, that means we can get
back to the stuff we were doing. So what's the powerful brands back in the set? You know,
it's a dominant like yeah, I mean, I don't. I'm not really like Ruder and Solter or anything,
but we just thought it best if we take over from here. Like you guys have done. Let's face it,
you guys have done the hard part, right? So well, that'll sound funky brusher to me.
As long as he's so allowed and I'm a well, I mean, that's up to Edmond. I can only add make
you change that. Okay. I mean, it shouldn't get problem. We'll have the paladins. I'm gonna,
and we're gonna summon even more people than the murder. Do you know Leslie?
Dominic? Are you asking Dominic if he knows Leslie? Yeah. Leslie, the paladin? Yeah, of course.
Yeah, everybody knows Leslie. You should tell them they're great tonight.
Okay, sure. He clocks you. He clocks you 100%. He's like, all right, I'll tell her. I'll tell her.
Don't worry, honey. Oh, it's okay. I'm sure Zara says we'll work on our next date.
It's gonna just like push us away. Cool. So he's like at last 13. She's like, what are you doing now?
Good to know. I guess the only thing I really need to know now is,
and now I need to talk to the clock lady again, because this is a settled matter.
Yeah, we're good here. Go team. Okay. Next one is next score.
You know, thanks as well. Maybe someday the future will collaborate with
better car. I mean, yeah, sure. Whatever. I mean, yeah, I really want to like focus on like
schools and infrastructure and healthcare and stuff. Speaking of all that stuff,
we're gonna release Lord's accident into your custody.
Okay, you want us to put them on trial? Yeah, sure. That's the business of vettigar. Yeah, you're right.
Yeah, sure. Yeah, that's fine. I'll just have to write a letter and I can I can arrange for
transport as well. Like prison, prison or transport. Well, you guys are very agreeable. I heard mixed things.
Well, we've been a mixed company. That is something that I can relate to.
Uh, damn right. Well, Dominic gets is it like Sir Dominic or just Dominic? Dominic,
Apple Red, envoy of umberman. But you don't have to say the whole thing. It's not,
there's not an honorific for being an envoy. He's just a different person. Okay. He works for the family.
Ladies of Ari, are you well? Very. Your mother asked me to ask you that sincerely.
Please tell my mother that I am fine. Okay, thank you. Ladies of Ari and you'll bow.
Um, great. No, she has bangs. They rain. Lord dark. I just want to extend on behalf of
umbermore. I want to extend our gratitude. You have kept ladies of Ari safe. She is
clearly safe and a good company here. She's doing well. And I know we know that she cannot
return home right now. So we are just glad that she is in your charge and that you are caring
well for her. And, uh, you know, thank you. Thank you. You, when you do visit umbermore,
you will be, you will be treated as such as heroes because that's what you are. Thank you.
Okay. Well, thank you for your assistance. And, uh, she's pretty brave. She makes it easy,
but difficult at the same time, you know, which is, which is a fun little mix.
What's going on? Ladies of Ari's of each. She is. Everyone's like.
Um, a small amount of decorum.
Saxon here's it.
Oh, great.
Oh, Ari, try that. It's a arm swing slipping out the door. She has this as to take her.
Okay. Thanks, John. Like job kiddo.
Yeah. Brain. It definitely does like us. Like, it's like, where'd she go? There's like,
as she sees her like arm swimming through the door and like definitely gives her a head start,
but she knows she needs it, but we'll like follow her and give her space to do the thing that will
be there. We're going to the dungeon. Hey, I'm back. So I feel like one of the most obvious ones,
I don't even need to read any lyrics. I feel is I'm confident that I'm insecure. Lawrence.
Um, yeah, that's that's pretty self-expanded. It's a great song. You should definitely listen to it.
Number two is showdown by Marty Grimes and with Bradley Deniston and BJR NCK. I don't know how to
say that, but that's it. That's that's what it says. Um, it's actually the opening credit song of
Canon Busters. Oh, yeah. On Netflix and it is an amazing song. And it definitely there's definitely
like one it's the epitome of my like Rachel Voss bait of songs. Like there's claps, there's call and
response, there's a sultry alto, there's horns, there's rap, there's just that's just like,
a bunch of stuff that I enjoy all into one. And the lyrics just are very rain. I feel like the whole
one the whole song is just really applicable to rain and us as a crew that for like, we got places
to go things to do people to see and we got to get it done right away. So if you were the crew,
guess we a team thicker than thieves and we all trying to help find a way. And then like there's
more but like the chorus starts like so we won't fall until gravity is gone until we've been on
this road too long so long. I'll play in with fire. Like it's it's so rain. The third one is very
difficult for me to choose. Because the last time I chose this ice chose my chick bad because
it was her like, I'll stick with that one. So my chick bad, ludicrous and humanized.
Because it's her warm up song for access. Well,
see those are her top three play songs on her playlist.
For Zavari. Her musical playlist is like a diary entry for her. She usually relates to it
in some way rather good or bad. I think her third most listened to song is Cobra by Megan
the Stallion but the remix. And I will share a line because I can. The line that she relates to
the most in the song is breaking down and I had the whole world watching but the worst part is
really who watched me. Every night I cried I almost died and nobody close tried to stop it.
Calling to you dad. And the next line says as long as everybody's getting paid right
right. Everything will be okay right now. No. And I'll let you guys think about that one.
Daddy didn't get paid. Daddy does the paying. No. The whole thing is the worst.
The next song that I think is probably gosh. Number two is oh gosh. Probably
The Bolter by Taylor Swift and the line that she relates to in that song is
splendidly selfish, charmingly helpless, excellent fun till you get to know her.
That she runs like it's a race and like thinking about her like yeah.
In the regard when she ran away and has been keep doing that ever since. And I think
her number one song at the moment. This is really hard. I think her top listen to song
right now is probably everything I wanted by Billie Eilish. And I'm not. I'm only saying this
because I think it's what was I made for still. But I'm going with something different this time.
And the lyrics I feel like she relate to is I had a dream. I got everything I wanted.
Not what you'd think. And if I'm being honest, it might have been a nightmare to anyone who might
care. I think that she she was like I hear that. That's the Vari playlist. That's why I'm like I've
been bumping this all day. I'm in a terrible mood. Want me to go? Awesome.
So one of them I think would be I think it was the first song I told you guys was Darts like
theme song, which is Lily Pad on your doorstep by Don't Stop or We'll Die. Which I think the
I don't even need to read all of the lyrics. I think just the line I've been trying to fuck
that frog all summer pretty much sums it up. And then my second one is just called Mountain
Banjo by Rhiannon Giddens, which some people would probably recognize as being one of the like
you're writing around on your horse songs in Red Dead 2.
Like Banjo. DART loves Banjo. So seemed appropriate. And then the last one is
is going to date me horribly. It's called To Try For The Sun by Donovan.
Which is some real old folk music. I love it. Oh yeah. For those of our listeners who are enjoying
folk pop music in the 1970s, that one's for you. Yep, we have a little something for everybody.
Zaris, you know that character? Yeah, I don't want to do Zaris though for a very specific reason.
Valid taste, but you don't listen to the music that I think tastes would listen to. I know,
like I was thinking I was like, God, what, hosier or some shit. I love hosier. Don't bring him into
this. Look, I'm not. I don't think he's it's bad. I just don't know the names of the songs.
That's about I do have a taste playlist. Numbers Val, her favorite song is that song
from rent that's all the number five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes.
Don't get me started. How do you measure that's that's Numbers Val's favorite song.
Calling all musical and or theater kids. I just wear up. I just outed Numbers Val
as a theater kid. Yeah. And you know, explains why she's so theatrical with it.
Valentina. That's Valentina. Yeah, it is.
Yeah.
It's OK. We love it.
It's OK. I will give Tases. I think his top listen to song is Francesca by hosier.
Yeah, of course. There it is.
You goddamn right. The word is there it is. And that's who's whose favorite song is there it is.
In the wall tour. And what do it is. Oh, my God.
You guys are out of your mind. Walt or his favorite song is the Tootsie Rolls.
Let me see that.
Tootsie Rolls.
Well, she goes to the dungeons and reentails are
dark. You're with music with Edmond. What do you do?
Because I want to tell Edmond that, you know, this is where we're going to be parting ways
at least for a little while. But I'm proud of all the progress he's made.
And that I expect to hear good things the next time we run into each other.
I think he's got some good gold in mind. And I have set him up for success as much as I possibly can.
Dark. More dark. Thanks. And then he just grabs you and like brings you into a big tight hug.
Can you do a good little hug here? Yeah, I guess.
You are kind of like a mean dad to me. You've come a long way since you were a slave.
She was ever a slave. I think it's just a cast.
Ever. You know, they're war orcs. You know, they'll make a huge distinction.
I like as soon as Darti's a kid, he's like, that must be a fucking slave. I gotta free them.
A fucking liberation, bitch. Thanks. I know what you mean. It's okay. It's all right.
And then he stops for a second. He takes like a big exhale and he goes,
it'll be my first time seeing my own life come by family.
It'll also be the first time you're seeing your home with your new family.
You, oh, I wish I had that thing. You follow the bear. You're a bear. Oh, I just left my hand
on his shoulder and I'm like, you're ready. I hope so. I'm going to my mom. And he starts a tear
up. I think I need to go sit down. Lay down, maybe. Put my headphones in. Listen, this is amusing.
Read one of the many books on leadership I've given you. Yeah. It's on my TBR.
The TBR is never ending. I miss the laws. Thanks, Darti, for everything. And I'm sure we'll work
together again sometime soon. I'll write you. Okay. You've got my Duke's little meds couch number.
Yeah. My D-mail. D-mail. Yes. I have your D-mail.
Okay, that's kind of catchy. Maybe that'll catch on.
Sorry, sent me some D-mail. I hear that echo throughout the entire cat.
This is a thing for like four seconds. I'm going to wait then, sooner than that. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. I did. I will take credit for that. But yeah, so he's going to go cry in his room
because it's been a rough one. His sweet non-cage room. Yeah. Maybe his last cry in his room.
Turn me around. I'm going to try to miscast him. It's really quaint.
He put a lot of work into it. Yeah. I'll definitely try to see if we can get more workers your way
to fix up these walls and everything. We're all moving on. We got to make sure that the
churchy thing gets fully, what do you call it, sanctified or consecrated.
But with Thomas the Ghost 800 sessions ago. Yeah, you did.
So we didn't have to promise that. We're not keeping.
And they trust you because why they haven't gone mad yet. Am I a cleric? I can't do that.
You're a cleric now. Yeah, you were before, but yeah, you should do it now. I guess you're
right. Oh wait, do you have a ceremony? You have to have a ceremony or like a scroll for it.
Oh no. Lucy and his ceremony.
Yeah, but you could probably like commission a scroll of ceremony and then do it.
But yeah. So that's my last act. The informal head of Castle Ren
and I commissioned the reconsecrating of the church so that the ghosts that we ran into
9000 sessions ago can finally be put to rest and we can move on.
Yeah, I mean the castle is yours. So yeah, we're gonna like go do other stuff.
For now, yeah, yeah. I assume you'll come back.
Presumably. It's your home for a husband and you have the deed to it.
Yeah, but I'm like lords of the Lord of all kinds of stuff.
You're the Lord of Grievousburg. I shouldn't have idol of my kids. How funny would that be?
You could. Baby knights. Squires. Oh yeah. Yeah, they got all these squires.
Okay, so down in the dungeon.
You go down there to kick him in his email.
Thanks. On the way down to the dungeon, I'm gonna grab just like a tray of soup.
I'm gonna take it with me. Okay.
Um, he's like ladies of all reason. He's been vigilant. He has like not even seemingly not
moved from the spot that he was in. I need to speak with the person.
You go ahead. He's sleeping. Perfect. Thank you. She will. He's just gonna sound like that.
Oh yeah. Yeah, he's not leaving. Oh yeah, no, she's trying to make it leave. She understands that.
She will go in with a plate of food and set it down. And I'm gonna throw loose pieces of like
cheese. He's changed up like. He's changed up like this. Probably.
Bread eagle chains suspended in the air. She is going to change her appearance to be human.
She knows that he is a human supremacist and he's probably a misogynist. So she's gonna be a guy.
It's a human guy. And she is um, before she wakes him up, she's gonna turn her ass lax.
Be like the things I tell him aren't gonna be the truth. I just need to get some information out of
him. Okay. You do not have to explain yourself to me. Not unless you betray. Thank you so much.
So then yeah, she'll go over and wake him up and like, you know, have like a sandwich. Like
you should probably eat Lord sastry. His eyes are kind of blurry on our focus. Who are you?
Someone will. You should eat here's some water right first. Okay. He takes a bite.
Would you like for me to drink your water first too? Yes. Drink some of the water.
Yeah.
This is like fucking ragnously. As soon as like you put it in your mouth, he's like,
Jesus Christ. Yeah.
It's not like, I mean, I mean, I don't, did you guys instruct Razzlex's part of him? I don't think so.
So he's probably on the edit something. Probably not. But not. Yeah. Considering soup. I take it
as all the two body breaks a day. As he eats, she is talking a little tone. She's like, you're
in a very precarious situation. I'm sure you understand that.
You know, kill me. I don't know why they haven't done it.
These are the types of believe in justice. They claim to put you on trial for your crimes.
My idea was you're a justice. Of course. I would not commit any crimes.
Of course. But you know, unfortunately, you have made yourself some enemies in your time.
Yeah, but we all, very true. More water. Water.
How'd you get out here? Why are they letting you talk to me? Special privileges.
Make a deception trip with a baby. 15 plus eight.
15 plus eight is the best one. I mean, yeah, that's pretty fucking good.
Well, what do you suggest that I do? I think you could use a parking less situation.
Are you a lawyer? Of course, could be better than one.
What are you going to break me out of here or something?
It's not outside of the realm of possibility.
With that guard stand in there? Trust me.
Res lives does not react at all. Trust me. It's not a problem.
But like I said, you have made some powerful enemies. I need an idea of exactly what I would
be getting myself into if I break you out. I've heard that the Kenways are too fond of you.
No.
I hear you're not too fond of Kenways.
Why would I be? Fair.
I hear that you are interested in seeing them gone. Is that true?
What are you getting out of this?
I had a friend, the master of Ravens. Did he work for you?
Master of Ravens? Yeah, Raven tattoos, Monk.
Very skilled with combat.
Maybe. What was his name?
I don't know if somebody would know the name.
You wouldn't know. But I'll have him make a history check. Continue to describe him.
He had like a death gauge and he seemed as bald.
Yeah. Yeah. Orally sweaty, probably.
Crush him, though. Right.
Sorry, right.
I know that his last mission was to come here, actually.
Was who?
I get it. Not Saxon, because this is Saxon.
But Peloton.
Oh. Oh.
Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that kind of works for me. Why?
I don't know if I think Peloton wanted some extra backup, other than just the soldiers
and the other knights. And he still fucking failed.
Oh, useless.
The Monk, he did some other jobs. Very impressive. I remember he had some dealings up in Dalarath
with the Kenways. Do you remember that?
Peloton's?
The Monk.
A deal?
Dealings.
Dealings?
Yeah.
I don't know what you mean.
Well, I heard that he attacked the royal family there. And if that's true, under your call,
that's fine. I just need to make sure what I'm getting myself involved with, with freeing you.
Well, what are you with the Kenways?
No.
All right. Well, I mean, no, I didn't hire him to do that. And I've heard about the attack. I
didn't know he was behind, or that he was a part of this, but I didn't hire him for that.
He was a mercenary, but he was recommended to us by the Emperor.
Oh, pretty cool. The Emperor, okay.
Or like, you know, the Emperor's advisors. I mean, you know, I've never actually talked directly
to him. Okay. She keeps feeding him, quelling the anger in her stomach. She was, had some plans
if he was behind it, but since he's not, she will not have to hurt him.
And Rain, how, how far away were you when you were tailing this situation? Are you like at the
top of the stairs listening? Yeah, I'm at like, you know, outside the door or like top of the stairs,
just like listening to me and her action. I do want to start like making my way and
being just like, I and Rosalind, just like, I don't, I'm not like sneaking on her. I just,
no, I don't want to sneak on her. I was working on this trust. Why am I so looking? But do you
think Zavari can hear you? I don't, if she does, I don't think she cares. Really? But you're not
sneaking then, Zavari could probably hear you. Yeah. So yeah. I come in, her eyes probably
sees me, I'm just like sitting, I'm not doing anything. Like, because they're right. I'm just
no questions. You go. Like, I'm just here. Keep doing. You, she will at least let
Saxon finish his food in case for whatever reason the scare comes to come back down here.
Saxon looks at rain and says, you're the one with the really harsh fists, aren't you?
That what I'm known for now, I guess. Yeah. He kind of like turns his head. There's like a
fucking big, you know, swollen spot for more punch in. You're the one with the really thick skull.
The only reason why I'm allowing this to happen, whoever you are, is because you deserve to eat.
You need your strength before tomorrow, because you're not ready for what tomorrow breaks.
What do you mean? You can stew on that as long as you have the hopes of just hanging there.
Oh my God, one of those motivational posters that says, hang in there, but it's just Saxon.
Rain draws it, but it's a stick. There's a beam to the episode tonight.
Oh, hanging, hanging around, hanging around, hanging around.
Yeah, you could be threatening him to behave, but it's just like a poster outside of the sun.
You can't reach. Yeah, so, just, just so there's some motivation for you. Looks at you with content.
Even now, he's still fucking pissy and angry and racist. We can bring you some water from,
um, you know, those very dwarves, aren't you? Whoa. Did you say that all out?
Where's that slippery little frog? He's everywhere and nowhere at the same time.
That was my, that was a real slimer. That's hard.
E R. That's when I slowly just pop up from behind his shoulders. The whole time. There's a secret
entrance that only you know. It's a cute herd. He's calling you a slimer with a hard E R.
And they called Rain dirty. So he did say that out loud? Yeah.
Because I've already pointed to him. I thought you were my friend.
I lied. I'm sorry. Anyway, Undermoor will be here to hang you soon. Just thought you should know.
I thought I was getting a trial. You're definitely gonna be found guilty.
I will see about that. I had a representation of the title to it.
E R. I'm gonna call to the stand that one weird dude that we helped escape from the
star chamber. Oh, yeah. Do you remember him? Oh, God. Yeah. Oh, gay guys, though. They survived.
Wow. They should come live in the house already.
They should be here. I'm just ripping from the record.
Oh, my God. You gotta regain it. He doesn't throw the gays layers.
But yeah, those gay guys, they survived because you got the AP help done get out of there.
Oh, sorry. He's gonna leave after that. Keep off my back. You're nasty. You're projecting
my drain leaves. See the heat off of R. You basically she's
I'm just gonna let you be pissed because you are rightfully pissed.
Rathlegs, it's it's hard to believe someone can be so unpleasant.
Thank you for the meanest thing you ever heard of.
Yeah, very, very unpleasant. We've already just gotten real.
I mean, more negativity being spewed from this one.
Indeed. I have been stuffing my ears with cotton.
Stuff is not really really real.
I think I understand what you're saying.
And then before I please you, I'm a little bit physics.
Like a night night tension thing like, you know, night to night.
We got a lot in common. No, just ring me.
In the morning, more, you know, if you guys are, you know,
fine with advancing the clock or whatever, you know, in the morning, more,
ever more people will arrive. Not
I'm from here. You have to talk to Zola.
She's drinking in the morning, just like, you know, breakfast with her.
She could have been like sleeping now that she was like sleeping.
Yeah. Yeah, she probably slept for a while. But yeah, you talked to her in the morning.
I guess I just wanted a reassurance from her that we can count on them in the future for
not necessarily to be direct allies per se, but that they'll work with us
in providing us with information and being like a reliable friend.
Oh, yeah. For sure. I mean, yeah, I viewed she's like, yeah, I was wondering when I got the chance
to talk to you. Am I able to am I able to send a message to my people yet?
Yeah. Okay. Excellent. So as soon as they get this message, she starts like writing out
something to you as soon as they get this message, they should be sending you the intel that they had.
There's something I was hoping I'm guessing they had some kind of intel. That's why you did this.
Yeah. And there's also something.
Use your group's particular set of skills and tracking down.
Okay. I'm looking for a particular fork.
Bring blood harvester. Yeah. And I'm also looking for
I don't have the exact details, but we're looking for like, not even a set per se, but
magical swords typically found in churches.
I think is what we were after at one point somewhere in this campaign before we started
building a castle. Right. Because you have one and you have one. Yeah. Yeah. We found them both in
churches. She has all of them. I don't know all of them. I think she has some other ones at least.
What do ladies? So ladies, you don't know how many she has. Okay. But you, you do know
I think I told you guys they're not all swords and that Lord Kenway has one. He has the
Oh, a binding. I think is what it's called. Yeah. So they're not all sorts. It's just mostly
for members. Kenway wants your sword.
We're just looking for information on a couple of people. Yeah. No, I think you were told there
are six in total. Although some people say there are seven. If you combine them together,
it's a ultimate seven. Then we're looking for information on Bryn Blood Arista, Lady Serial,
and Kenway. It's much more information as we can get. Okay. Fair enough. I assume that they're
working on something for you. But I'll find out here in just a minute. Until if you allow her,
she'll use your diplomats perhaps to send messages. And you know, you get she gets a
response really quickly. Because it's like, Hey, I'm safe. I'm done. They're like, Oh my god,
we heard we know we've heard about what happened. Nobody nobody nobody from the clock witnessed it
because we were all staying far away to you know, not compromise anything. But we everyone heard
what happened. And nobody knows what the fuck who did it or how it's fucking crazy over here.
Not gonna lie. That was the most fucking legendary escape ever. They're going to call
you so the only pillables all of the invincible. That's cute. But she will give you the information
that they have been able to dig up about blood harvester brain. Because you did already tell
us about it. And they said, Well, we'll give you what we have if you help us and we obviously like
help you more. This is like forging a line. And so I mean, this is the leader of the clock. And
she's like, Hey, you know, you guys take my fucking line. So like, as long as you know, we're cool,
like we're cool. One of these days, we're going to start taking credit for stuff we do. Well,
don't know eventually she will tell our people know. Yeah, the clock will know. The clock already
does know because they hired you, you know. Anyway, so this is what she will tell you.
Their tribe is called the vote cooler. The O G K U U R. That's the trend. Blood harvester of red
is the chief in not much is known about them. It is extremely difficult to approach them,
at least for normal folks. They have taken over some ruins in the great world. The great load
is the jungle above all rest. And they have built a tower there. And blood harvester is on.
It is a relatively large settlement with civilians. Like not all the orcs there are
like fires, there are women and children, there are families there. It's like I said,
really, it's like a small city. They have some they said like unusual beasts that no one has
ever seen before. They're sort of like, they're sort of like perth or size dog dragons.
And they can like cloak themselves, they can like turn invisible.
They've been disrupting the load. So a load is like a magical forest, basically.
So this was the great load is a magical jungle. And like they have been disrupting the magic
there in the ecosystem of the jungle was not happy with them seeing there. And there have been reports
of corrupted orcs that explode and bleed acid blood. Whoa. What's that sign?
Yeah. And Joe value they have like a big they're pretty sure they know like,
like, relatively the area in which the ruins reside. It's not like super deep into the load.
But it's kind of like, in and to the left, or to, you know, the West. So
to the left. Yes. So that's what she, you know, that's what they were able to dig up about it.
And then for your guys is, you know, FYI, traveling to all rats, or traveling up there to that area
is going to take about three weeks. Because you have to travel through the black forest on your way.
And that is that in and of itself takes a long time. But that also if you're going at like
regular traveling pace, and you're not like rushing it. If you rush it, you do run the risk of like
exhausting your horses. And I think it's probably safe like, oh, if you did double time, you couldn't
realistically do double time like every day for two weeks. Yeah. So I would say you can probably
shave off like four days. If you hustle, although there's probably actual forest.
So you would have a really big bottom for distance travel. Yeah, it's pretty far. It's further than
black bottom, further than towards, it's all the way north. Yeah. So think about what you guys
want to bring. Think about what, you know, should we have an appointment with the magic shop?
Okay, the same thing I did in one of those houses. And yes, see what they got. It's always nice to
check in with the magic shop. Yeah. So you can take me to the magic shop.
You can contact the curator, Sue Mack Toll. Yeah. Get that taken care of.
Thank you for listening to Roll Fourth. This has been the Empire Initiative featuring
Samaria Hawkins as Lady Zavari slash Lady Litria, Ryan Musgrove as King Dart of the Hopkins,
Rachel Voss as Rain Vossgrove and a wonderful MD, Shanakantu. We know our audio is in need of
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I was like, I don't know if I ever told you guys that. Yeah, I told Samaria that. Like I do have
I have plans for it to be level 20 or close to level 20. I'm not 100% sure.
Oh, five four or five years of play. Let's go. But also we gotta go. Bye. Bye.