Hi i'm Olma, Flynn, March, Ceallach, Shraya and i'm your DM Ethan welcome to Venture Forth

uh either earth walkers i'm trying glenn and i'm your dm ethan welcome to venture

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forth [Music]

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previously after miraculously escaping the prison in oak inspire you guys were able to make your way back to

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uh the void of hayfree you guys were able to make it back to his little sanctum and once you guys made it back with your

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um ex-prisoners in tow you began debriefing them and sort of figuring out

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why they were imprisoned in oak inspire um you guys had talked to zeta who said

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that she was actually met by uh ernest and after he had melted and given her a

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little bit of advice to visit the dakir ruins um she took a little vacation down there and when she came back to oak

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inspire she was arrested for unknown purposes then you guys began to speak with xavier

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and after a conversation with oma had described how he was tracing back

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her lineage and trying to find out where her magic came from when he was also apprehended

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and then you guys spoke with actually shraya spoke with tito for a couple moments and found that

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the tribe that shrai had come from was in dire conflict with dwarves in the

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north and were teetering on conflict if it had not broken already but as soon as you guys had all sort of

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come to these conclusions all of a sudden zeta her eyes went bloodshot her head was

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thrown back she began to float up off of the platform and in tandem with the

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sheep demon creature began to to chant from these this deep guttural chant and

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as she is floating up into the air and mimicking the chance of this demon what do you guys want to do

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uh can i tell looking at zeta as i was just talking to her like if

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this what this is an involuntary thing that's come over her um make either an arcana or a medicine check okay

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[Music] 26. 26. she was in the middle of her

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in the middle of her sentence you did not see any sort of um like waving of her hands she obviously

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didn't say anything verbally that would um prompt this it seems involuntary and do i notice

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that um sheep tiefling is has has is does it seem like it is being put upon

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her by this other creature that could possibly be the case i mean this

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this um the sheep creature does seem to be doing this more voluntarily

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okay um i'm just gonna uh she's floating up into the air she is beginning to float i am gonna try to

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wrap my arms around her waist and pull her to the ground while like uh shouting to to uh hopefully over the

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sound of their collected voices uh to hayfried put that thing to sleep

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and you see immediately hayfreed like jumps up from where he was sitting with uh timmy and begins

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motioning his hand to bring the the platform with the cage down to the main platform level it's

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gonna take a couple seconds though as the platforms don't move super quickly um you jump up onto zeta

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continues floating oh come on as if your weight has nothing to do with with her um would i be somewhat close from the

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platform i'm at could i like start running towards keller and zeta yeah yeah definitely i'm so seeing this and hearing

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and understanding what is being screamed out or yelled out i'll start running towards uh kellogg as he's screaming and

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i'll um drop my stuff uh on on the platform and just run and reach my uh

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fingers or i'll try and how how high are they up in this at this point um

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they are just floating to about four feet like her at the bottom of her feet are about four feet above if i could i'd like to reach up and jump and grab on to

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zeta's foot and try and get climb up to her forehead okay um make an acrobatics check for me

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i think that so that should be not a problem

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oh not a problem that's natural it's funny natural yeah okay uh so i'll definitely get up to her

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forehead and i'll reach my hand into my uh little pouch on my side with uh some silver dust and i will start rubbing

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into my fingers and i will kind of whistle out a tone and hold it as my abduration symbol glows and i will swipe

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my fingers across her forehead and cast protection from evil and good okay all right um

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what does that mean it gives her some kind of a boon it's like an advantage on yeah like i think it's like for saves or

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charms uh so protections you have disadvantage or creatures that just they can't be

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charmed uh by abbreviations celestials elementals

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faith fiends and undead so as soon as you swipe this across her forehead you kellik and zeta all drop to the

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ground like ragdolls

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are you okay is the other creature still chanting the chanting slows and he becomes quiet

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once more as zeta is now curled up in a fetal position on the ground i immediately busy myself with taking care

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of zeta i want to make sure she's uninjured from the fall i want to assess like i'm like looking at her pupils

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to see if they're dilated i'm i want to make sure that everything is functional in her i

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stand up and look over the edge of the platform that i'm on the higher platform

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is she possessed dm does she look possessed

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um [Music] yes from what you saw yeah there was there definitely seemed to be some sort

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of extra thing controlling her as i'm looking at her and like holding her

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uh not any longer what i think that was some kind of effort

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yeah the uh my my abstraction symbol and the silver dust on her ford is still glowing

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in tandem as i'm holding on concentration but is it inside of her like flynn

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uh can i tell make an inside check for me how close is

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the platform with the demon on it um at this point hayfried has just brought it down it is now connected to

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the main platform natural one natural one we don't know no way to tell um as hayfreed walks up i'm assuming

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he's going up to do something to the cage yeah he's walking up and currently he he's going up and he's

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waving his hands through the air and wherever he waves his hand for just a brief moment after it moves there's like

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a a golden sigil there and it seems as though like as he's waving his hands over it he is checking that all of the

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sigils are still in place um as he's doing that i'll walk up right next to the cage or as close as i can get to and

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i'll look up at this demon and just stare at it very uh

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stoically with like no emotion and just you may serve the outcast

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but we will never serve [Music]

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and he looks at you and the rest of you hear voc

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and flynn you understand this to mean that doesn't seem to be true does it

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as flynn i am going to let you uh add infernal to your list of

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lists of known languages to me does it sound like a different language or does it sound like he's speaking common no it sounds like a different language but you

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understand exactly what he's saying and he said what again it would not seem to be that way

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i'm just i don't say anything i just stare at him okay i just turn away

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uh as i as he is doing that as he approaches the uh that's on a different platform correct yes

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uh so instinctively without remembering the physics of this

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place uh i'm going to put one hand on tito as i'm going to leap and

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try to get over to flynn as fast as i can okay uh you're like flying over you know

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platforms try to try to fly across okay for sure um this time you feel um like as you jump off it's

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almost like an absence of air but then as soon as you spread your wings you feel like this um artificial influx of

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air beneath your wings that takes you up and glides you over wow okay cool uh

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as i uh like do almost do like a rolling land or just sliding land into

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flynn um i uh touch i i touched the peak the tip of

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the staff and crystal to my forehead as as a uh pink silver light uh traces from

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the staff down through my hand as i touch uh flynn and i'm uh gonna cast uh

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resistance on him okay blend you and now have existence what was that

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you can't be too careful with beings like this and i look over his shoulder at the at the like

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gnashing behind the bars yeah and i'll look to hayford how's his spell doing does it look like it's being

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successful um it it doesn't look like he's casting new spells it's like he's checking

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he's checking his old ones yeah and you don't see him stopping at any point you sort of see him gliding over and it

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seems like everything is is still in place savior

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yeah can you help um i i i don't know what that was

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um i can i can try okay have you ever heard of the outcast

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um no yeah i haven't yeah we don't really know what it is or

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who it is but it's pretty bad do we need another sheep as i'm dabbing zadis no

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as i'm dabbing zayda's uh uh temples and her forehead with a with a rag to uh help the

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profuse sweating uh is she conscious or she yes um she is at this point conscious uh

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and there's like yeah a sort of a cold sweat going on a little bit of shivers um but nothing i'm carefully avoiding

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flynn's silver powder but i am trying to just like make her comfortable what did you find

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what did you find at the ruins i didn't find anything there there wasn't anything your life is in danger you must

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tell me why make either a persuasion or intimidation check

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whatever you're going for here there it is that advantage because yeah

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she's pretty scared oh god blessed me two and then 18.

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all right uh that is a um twenty [Music] five five

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five four twenty four twenty four um twenty five she's like in her shivering she sort of

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grabs for the her temples says i got there and

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i was looking around the ruins and at first there wasn't anything

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and then i decided to sleep there for the night because there was no other place and in

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the middle of the night a man came up to me and he saw me and we just we just had a conversation

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about um you know my faith and everything and um

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i don't know he sort of he he did something

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um i don't it felt a lot like what just happened

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um and next thing i knew i was um a piece of paper in front of me

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and words i couldn't understand i was signing at the bottom

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what and the next thing i knew he disappeared and

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[Music] i i don't know where he went but i slept for the rest of the night

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and then in the morning there were i don't know maybe

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20 to 25 people who came to the ruins um they were all wearing red cloaks

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um and

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i don't i don't know what they were doing i left i left i got scared i went back home

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and when i got home i was arrested i'm sorry i don't know what is going on that was terrifying describe this man to

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me this man whose paper you signed he's wearing all black

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um and looked human

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but his his eyes there was nothing there it's like he didn't have eyes

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and did he tell you how to regard him not what to refer to him as [Music]

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he said he was an outcast

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and what did you sign girl i don't know i couldn't read what was on the paper then why did you sign i don't know

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i couldn't stop do you still have it the paper yeah no it disappeared with

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damn the man she may have packed with the outcast do the do the new cards

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work for the outcast that's quite the jump my god

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she said she said she said that he asked about her faith and then he had her sign it what did he ask you about your faith

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[Music] yes if i was willing to

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renounce the new gods and i told him no and next thing i knew i was signing

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this paper i i didn't want to he sensed your curiosity

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he sensed the nature of your experimentation and the

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absence of filthy the old ones [Music]

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well [Music] there's no doubt about it in my mind

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you have a dark mark upon you i don't know a power in the universe that can

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help you with that did you speak to earnest

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to any point after this occasion i i haven't seen him since

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he first spoke to me he sent you to the ruins

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he did did he know this would happen he didn't and

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it wasn't even he didn't tell me to go

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he just gave me a suggestion that i might find answers there and it was my curiosity i followed he gave

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us the suggestion to come and find you

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oh no but i never told him that flynn was possessed

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i just said we needed help [Music] with a curse that was cast on you

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and then he told us to go to zeta oh no

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do you think he works for the outcast [Music] seems odd

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he might that's what did he ask hey free did he tell you to go to the ruins

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no um he just was asking me questions about your faith

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it wasn't even about no it was about my power and

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how i can cast magic it was it didn't have anything to do with faith oh but then he found out that you could you

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learned it and then he wasn't interested hmm pretty much does the outcast need magic from

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gods [Music] is the outcast looking for magic from

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gods when we spoke to the sheep

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the well what the sheep used to be we spoke to it in flynn's

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form it said that the outcasts it said that

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they there was always more chaos to be had as long as there were gods in the sky

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the outcast exists to oppose the gods

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so is this about a distribution of power

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the new gods dethrone the old gods but that's not good enough for the outcast [Music]

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not when it could all belong to him

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you better be careful caleb if they find out about you he might come

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for you why because you get your magic from a god

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sodo all practitioners of divine art exactly but you're getting very powerful

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that'd be fine ernest follows magic and the power

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the powers exudes wherever it's resides no matter which trails or paths

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you must trod to get there is earnest the neutral party and all this just discovering magical music

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it kind of seems like he's sending people these places could be coincidence

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we don't know enough hey freed yeah do you know of these

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ruins that i care ruins um i know uh

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actually relatively recent um probably

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right about the time that right about the time that the new gods took power um there was

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a town there and i don't i can't tell you exactly what

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happened but um there was a large battle that took place

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pretty much decimated the entire thing um and then i know not long after that the

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the new gods took over not unlike the nearby temple as far as the skill of the battle the

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nature of it so are they ruins or are they a new temple

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you know as far as i know right now just ruins no one else has gone to uh

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gone to collect on the land but what it sounds like these uh

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these people in you know red cloaks doesn't seem like that's going to be

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that way for long do you know anything about these people

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with the red cloaks why they might be there um like i said i haven't been

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affiliated with them in some time i don't know their immediate plans um but i can tell you whatever it is

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can't be good especially on a site with such calamity

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i'm still holding zeta um you ever caught

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my my whole my whole demeanor to her is shifting to softer

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do you recall the nature of your contract

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the conditions of your agreement i

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i don't i don't remember anything specific i just

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the last thing the man said to me before he disappeared was that i would be called upon

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i don't know what that meant i didn't know what it entailed but

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he said i would be needed what about just now did you hear anything that you

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feel what sort of purpose they had for you in this very chamber well um

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right now i uh it was like i was i was taken somewhere

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else um it's a dark room my room is as a kid

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yeah um i was there and my bed was in the corner i haven't been there in years but

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there was this this shadowy figure with these long limbs

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he didn't say anything but he reached out for me and before he could touch me

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you guys brought me back uh i grimaced yeah yeah zeta

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yeah do you know if there's anything different about your appearance after you got back from the ruins

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i haven't noticed anything no

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no shifts to your horns or no nothing

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i haven't been able to tell no and what of your connection to lathiel

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you still hear her music no

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oh and you can see a tear start to go down her face i wipe the tear

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oh um could i just while they're

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talking could i just look at her forehead do i see other horns new horns poking out from her hairline or

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um i'm gonna have you make a medicine check for me sure i'll just like i'm not gonna

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approach or touch her head or anything i'm just going to like look and kind of see if i can see anything

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medicine that is uh 13 13

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um no from the time that you met her to now

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doesn't appear that anything has changed on her physical person do i remember how instant i got i obtained my horns

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yeah it was pretty immediate they started growing immediately okay

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should she stay here oh that's up to hayfried how many

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no i do not want to keep her and that thing in the same place yeah not here do

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you especially not with that [ __ ] going over there any points to the red dragon

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um do you think we could do the same thing we did to flynn to her

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[ __ ] i mean we could try i no promises though i don't want to do that again well what

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are we supposed to do with her perhaps the connection she may have

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to these dark beings perhaps we could utilize that to see if we can

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find them she could come with us through and she might have some information

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or remember places i don't really think she can spy i mean

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because sh when when when when whatever happens takes over she just like goes back into

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her mind better do that that better to do that around us at the ruins

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than in a village that we leave her in well she could be a threat to innocents

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yeah so we're just we're just gonna tie her up all the time it was one matter when it was flynn when it was someone

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we'd depend on that we we couldn't be safe but

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we may be the safest hands for her at this point i will also say um

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flynn your transformation was due to a possession

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that might be the reason that there was a physical transformation she just entered into an agreement with this

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thing right you don't think she's possessed maybe she gave him access i gave him

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access i'm just thinking what i'm seeing here it seems to be different flynn didn't enter a direct

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contract with this being he was taken over by someone she entered into a direct agreement

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right it's not the same she opened the door boy

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okay well we should get out of here yeah i'd say so i don't want her in here any

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longer than she has to be understandable was there something wrong with your spell how was it able to get out how was

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it able to cast i don't know the only explanation i would say is there's some sort of

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well there's a connection between the two um might have surpassed the the spells that

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i had in place i had only expected there to be one of this sort of creature in here at a time

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i didn't put guards in place to uh right right keep that signal from getting out maybe

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we should just go to the tethers lie beneath the others it can be hard to untangle

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sorry animal go ahead maybe we should just go to the temple for a little bit and sleep and and rest and and and

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try to figure out what to do next surely word of our exploits in the capital

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couldn't have reached this place that quickly right or should we be concerned about keeping

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our uh public view to a minimum more um can we

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stay in here i don't think we should stay in here with her she can't stand she has to be separated

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from you all are more than welcome but she cannot and i won't leave her

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um then we sleep outside

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yeah um why don't you guys go i'll stay in here um maybe

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maybe hayfried can help me figure out this book and then i can get some disguises for us

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[Music] yeah i have a few questions too but i'll go out and sleep outside uh

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i'm fine if it's just me if you you all have your studies here i i respect that

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maybe me and shraya um yeah i could come out for a watch too

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perhaps we could establish some sort of camp outside the city walls you'll have to forgive my own

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paranoia but after seeing my brethren locked up in a place like that i

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cannot let that befall any of us or i am myself i too could use some fresh

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air but um zeta

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do you have any inkling as to why why he picked you

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i don't not so i knew i would tell you some fragment of the conversation that

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she had that's the thing i i can't remember uh do i believe her make an inside check

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23. 23. uh she seems to be believing what she's telling you

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how do you feel about traveling with us for a spell but we sort out the nature of your

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contract i i don't know if it would be safer to stay in one place or to go with you so i

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i guess i'm left with no choice well unless you want us to take you back to all conspire and i thank you stay

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with us prefer if we didn't do that what if she just stayed in the temple by herself hey free could keep an eye on

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her you just got a lot of responsibilities

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yeah i'm juggling quite a bit at the moment hey you've already what you must have done some pretty

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messed up stuff in your life hey fred because you're making it up what about if you helped

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i'd be able to do that i don't know how much help i'm not an expert in possessions

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do anything bad xavier is also he's also one convent escaped convict at this point

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[Music] i think taking her with us is the best idea with us where

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the ruins wanna go to the ruins they said there were like 25 people there all in red clothes that's where we're gonna

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get answers do we want answers that's the first indication of

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[Music] any kind of base camp for these people these

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this order of the red wolf but are we ready for that

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i don't know well we postponed it and i looked to xavier for him

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now he's safe i think it's time to get back on track unless he

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sees it in his own uh degrees of desire to help us

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we could use as many allies as we could have you don't think there's value to going back to addersfeld and talking to

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melloroo first relaying all this information and maybe getting help i really don't know if i

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want to like bother her um she asked us to keep an eye on the crystals and now we have like so much

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more information yeah that's true don't you think she should know that there's a cult of the red wolf and the outcast

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that's like big drama disaster well i guess and i'll uh look to have you you said you had

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some kind of way to maybe get there and back really fast um yeah i mean i've got another

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teleportation circle in addersfeld i just don't know it's it might be a risk for us to try

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and use it without knowing the state of the is there anyone savior actually puts his finger up and he says actually um

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tonight i would be able to just i would just be me i would be able to take myself over there and

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fix it for you i i mean teleportation takes a lot out of me i might not be able to do it too

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often but at least for tonight i'd be able to get you that one teleportation circle if you

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want um yeah that'd be great if that's okay with everyone let's get our cobalts in a row um

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xavier do you have a place that you can go what what's in the future for you here

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um well i mean i haven't really had too much of a home

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in my life um i sort of been living on the road but

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[Music] you know into in i would think for me

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probably the safest place would be on dale or again boulder where people aren't looking for me

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let's assume you don't want to come along we pursue these loose ends i just rub my

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head and i um i i help zada to her feet i think it'd be helpful if xavier kept

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looking into my family from

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for mattersfeld or or or from somewhere over the

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[Music] over the border no obviously there are

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people who don't want me finding out that information so there might be some value there

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yeah in me finding uh pulling on those threads even further as long as you're careful

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i don't know how many more of those we can pull off yeah yes please be careful uh

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we don't want you falling into the wrong hands and i uh nodded him i turn over to flynn i say

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are we sure that melloroo would take kindly to this information i

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she seems rather gruff and also does the iron

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excuse me does your order uh really have interest in these types of

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presences and energies in the world i do they have a stance

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um yeah i mean beat the monsters up

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save the people uh and if this is causing problems to

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the citizens of this world it's the order's job to protect them

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ah well then by all means we should help them in that so yeah i know she's not the kindest

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person i don't think i've ever seen her smile but um i'm sure she'll want to know this information and

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i'm sure you know i know that she's gruff and tough and off-putting to a lot of people but

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i think she does want what's best for the world didn't our friend kale say

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something about there being members of this order and

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all organizations that's the concern i have with the uh

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iron light meloru she seems an upright

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uh woman to me but if that information were to escape her in some way then or if

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you know if they get on to us yeah our pursuit of them well maybe we just tell her that then maybe we just tell her she

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can't tell anyone else or at least just keep the doors closed when we tell her

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are you saying that there might be members of the your order that that may have ties

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to this red cloaked organization as well

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i mean i don't think there would be there's a there's a process there's training there it doesn't you just don't

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walk off the street and and become a sentinel like i'm still not a sentinel so it takes a while i don't i don't know

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how someone could easily just infiltrate it but well but it could be like

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could be like what happened to zeta she was already in the temple and and then she signed a contract or it

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could have been what happened to me or it could have been what happened to you so some of these people

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as we've been going to see may genuinely believe in the cause of this outcast

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yeah and if the belief is strong enough there's nothing you can't do

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hey freed a savior do either of you know kelly

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theta do either of you all of you is there a way to tell us someone's possessed tell if

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they're a demon tell if this outcast is taking control

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embarrassingly i didn't even find it when she walked straight through one of my teleportation circles well you weren't you weren't dealing with other

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stuff yeah but still that should be something i can catch um like an item or like a spell that we

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can scroll anything that we can use when we go somewhere to like test to see if someone's

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under the control of this there were archaic practices in the temple of

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amir what i don't know that any of them were ever proven to be true or not if

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yet inflection of pain on someone they'll admit to just about anything

36:34

true or false right not pain though not torture

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maybe we can develop something maybe we can work on it well i know that the spell that i cast on you and i point

36:47

to zeta kind of puts a buffer between certain

36:53

creatures there's got to be a way to tell if a creature's inside [Music]

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but if you guys don't know like i mean maybe melroutes

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um i mean another reason to go to hattersfield might be because they have answers i mean

37:10

i'll pull my bestiary out i mean i've been taking notes on everything or mostly everything we've run into um

37:16

and that's what everyone does that's what sentinels do and i just started they may have more

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information there are things you can do to

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know the nature of a creature but what troubles me is

37:34

that zeda hair wasn't possessed really until the moment right

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she wasn't carrying this thing with her right it's like i said it's

37:46

deeper beneath the fabric yeah in her case it may not work but it might be worth having on this side

37:52

well maybe we should go to addersfeld tonight so that we can be safe no one would be searching for us over

37:59

there and and then in the morning we can decide whether or not we need to

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come back and go to the tokyo ruins

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or talk to melloru and get some help i'm pretty beat i'm

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could we sleep here and then go because i think and i'll look to xavier you need time to go there and fix the or

38:23

check the portal right i can get myself there just fine um

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i mean i have a map i might not be precise in my location but once i find it i'd be able to repair it and uh i

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would just be able to take the circle back here theoretically i mean should we rest and go in the morning

38:40

perhaps we could stay at the the farm that omar and i discovered on the outskirts of town they seemed to be

38:48

kind people yeah or or we could stay by that big tree that i found

38:54

flying by yeah anything that's kind of close because whenever you know well that big

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tree had like a big clearing and and it seemed like it was kind of protected because it had like high grass around it

39:06

yeah that could work that's farther away from the general population

39:12

would be my preference yeah yes yeah we can camp out there

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and then in the morning we'll come back here and we'll go to addersfeld and talk to mello-roo and we'll just try

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we'll just try yeah

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xavier do your thing with that portal and uh i suppose the rest of us will head out

39:39

but come back cause if i don't see you in the morning then then then i'm gonna be really mad at you

39:45

[Music] deal and uh he walks over uh

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to sort of an open area in in the middle of this this central platform um

39:56

and from uh what he grabbed the the components that he got from kellik and

40:02

his medical supplies um begins putting the the last couple pieces out on the ground um and looks over at shraya

40:12

yes would i just i'm sorry just one more i'm gonna ask a little bit more politely

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this time because before we were sort of in a situation and i couldn't really ask but this time

40:23

may i have one of your feathers oh yes absolutely uh uh let me see if i can i'm

40:30

gonna like go through just one you're not particularly fond of i'll reach over and find like uh like one that's kind of

40:36

hanging loose that's almost ready to shed anyway just right here perfect thank you and he puts it down and um begins muttering his

40:44

incantation and uh all of a sudden just like that blinks out of existence so cool

40:51

wow that's a matrix even in here i'm gonna walk over to timmy uh

40:57

before we ski that i was like timmy uh uh

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a word of advice as you continue your life here uh don't slink away from

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from these wonders that you may encounter here uh

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in order to be of service in the best way is i know you aspire to be uh

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just know that uh the magic may lie just beyond the veil

41:29

of of what's most comfortable to you reach for it don't shy away

41:35

and i like give him a little pat on the shoulder and uh and walk back toward tito

41:41

where you guys headed um let's go to that big tree

41:47

yeah um are we taking zeta with us by the way yes okay

41:52

i'll uh i'll meet you guys there uh all right yeah i just have some

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questions for avery know where it is i looked around i have a ball

42:06

all right then the rest of you guys uh head out of the void passing through that um

42:12

goopy gelatin sort of membrane calm down it's okay don't take my hand

42:19

as you guys are uh oh yeah you know full on freaks out but once he gets to the other side he sort of shudders and uh

42:26

you guys are greeted by the interior of hayfried's home his physical home um in elbor and you guys

42:34

look outside it is night time and head over to the tree flynn you are staying

42:40

behind what are you doing hey uh so

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like don't get mad um but i looked at the last five pages

42:52

but like i don't understand why you told me not to i didn't do anything i couldn't even understand it oh good okay

42:58

good good wait what why why are you saying it like that

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um nothing it just if you were gonna look at them

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which like kind of makes me proud that you did oh yeah even though i told you not to um

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i just it's good that you can't understand them okay i don't know that uh those would be

43:22

good for you um yeah um okay well can you show me something i can't

43:28

understand [Music] um yeah i can start teaching you

43:34

good luck yeah i mean i so i've seen um some of my party members use like fire

43:40

and stuff and like i can do it on my sword which is kind of cool um but i want to be able to do it like

43:48

more all right and i've seen some stuff in my book but like i'm curious to see i don't know if

43:54

there's anything you know or there's a book i could have maybe another book i mean [ __ ] i could give you all the books in this place um

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but from what you said about those last five pages you wouldn't be able to understand anything yeah i get it okay i'm not there yet

44:07

i mean i can stop to teach you the language okay yeah okay how much time you have all night

44:14

all right um hey timmy come over here sleep a little bit jesus christ

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the glutton for

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very first thing i'm gonna have you do um so there is uh there's three books up on uh

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the the far shelf over there you're gonna have to slide over a ladder to go up and get them um blue covers on all of

44:36

them and the symbol is going to look like and he yanks you over flam shows the the cover of the book um

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they're all gonna look like this um there's gonna be uh there's gonna be well there's gonna be seven volumes up

44:47

there um could you just grab the first three and bring them to me wait there's seven all right yeah we'll get there

44:53

okay and to me runs over jogs over to the thing pulls the ladder over grabs the books comes back over timmy don't

45:00

summon any islands this time and he looks at you yeah and he places the books down in

45:06

front of you very slowly um and then hey freed flips open volume one

45:13

of this book uh as over the next how long are you going to be staying in

45:18

here he's going to teach you as long as you're going to stay oh i'm staying all night i'm just

45:23

staying up all night but i'll stay up all night oh boy okay mark down one point of exhaustion

45:29

i mean well can he stay up all night like he's he he's okay yeah awesome then yeah i mean i was just gonna ask a few

45:35

questions but if he offers to teach me mm-hmm okay you are staying up all night mark

45:41

down one point of exhaustion i am going to have you make um an intelligence check

45:48

all right uh that is seventeen seventeen give me all right um

45:55

you get through a majority of this first volume um this book that he brought down

46:01

it's got the same symbol on the front it is abduration magic um but it is

46:07

the translation of hayfried's documents into what you would be familiar with so

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heyfree's got all these notes going through this book and line by line he is starting to teach you how to translate

46:20

his notes and his documentation um into what you know from your iron light

46:27

training so he takes you through the first couple of chapters and he teaches you um sort of how to transfer it over

46:34

and what those sweet translations would be okay um he teaches you that

46:40

in his style of of wizardry um you see on the first couple pages there's a very very

46:46

simple like levitation spell and one of the spell components is an orange peel okay and you need that

46:52

orange peel in order to to cast this as one of the components and he teaches you how to um

46:59

uh do that as more of an iron light style with your tattoos in hand um

47:04

translate the component of an orange peel into hand symbols that you would be able to use cool

47:11

um and he does that for a couple of other uh uh components he he does that for um like tea leaves he does that for

47:18

a shard of glass and he starts teaching you a couple of these um components and how to transfer

47:24

them into hand motions cool wow um

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this is a lot yeah there's quite a bit um

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and i'll flip to the back last five pages to understand them more

47:41

um looking over them you

47:46

you understand about a quarter of the first page okay okay you're you're picking out more of each

47:53

of the symbols you're you're yeah you're discovering more so you're about a quarter of the way through the first page

47:59

all right so can i like kind of cast these spells now

48:04

no you are i just learned how to translate it understand the translation you don't understand what pieces go

48:09

together um you don't fully understand what needs to happen for the the entire spell okay

48:15

it's like you're learning the alphabet you don't know how to form the words yet but you're learning each of the individual letters okay

48:21

um and what time is it at this point after i'm kind of understanding how translation works and understanding all this um it's

48:27

probably gonna be light outside by the time you're done with this

48:32

all right uh man

48:39

there's so much yeah this is only

48:44

one book um there's seven

48:49

well there's and he gestures over to the entire platform filled with books

48:56

and you understand all of them yeah so this is how i get powerful

49:02

this is a way to do it yeah okay

49:08

um do you have anything like you have a book i could take to practice

49:13

uh so i know this one's have duration do you have one for like a vacation yeah sure um timmy hey timmy and you see at this

49:21

point timmy is yeah he's got his he's got his head resting on his hand he's full on asleep at this table

49:27

hey jimmy um yeah yeah i'm just sorry yeah

49:32

so um there's another shelf sort of on the other side of the books that you got um it is you're gonna have to take the

49:37

latter over there again there's gonna be a couple of green books um it's gonna look a little bit similar um but i want you to get uh just grab the first one

49:45

for me and timmy runs over grabs the book comes back puts it down uh and it seems to be

49:51

a very similar introductory volume to evocation magic

49:56

[Music] wow this you'd be able to review on your own some of the symbols

50:02

are going to translate um some of them aren't but i'm sure if you work on it and if you keep looking through through

50:07

the context clues and everything you'll be able to um figure it out on your own you won't necessarily need me for this

50:12

uh-huh um but you're gonna have to work on it okay well thank you um

50:19

yeah i mean we got a lot of stuff to do but yeah i'll practice

50:24

all right um thank you of course

50:29

um yeah and once you're finished with that book come back and i'll teach you some other things i still have some stuff apparently and the other one i still

50:35

need to get but yeah we'll be back all right all right i'm gonna go see if i can catch up to the group

50:41

all right and the rest of you you head out to uh

50:47

you went out to the tree is there one more thing um i'm just curious if i were to be able to maybe get there before they wake up and kind of do like a do

50:54

like a last watch maybe i don't know what time it would be no okay no you if you were up all night no

50:59

problem um is there anything you guys are going out sort of camping by this tree is there

51:04

anything you guys want to do before you actually crash for the night um yeah yeah um

51:10

i i want to make a fire okay easy enough uh-huh

51:17

um and sit and um i want to pull out

51:23

my book on distractions potions for distractions and i just want to spend like an hour or two looking

51:30

through it to kind of see like what i would need for them and like pick a cool

51:35

one that seems fun and helpful yeah so um you're looking

51:43

through this book and one in particular catches your eye uh it is a

51:49

potion that um uses pretty basic ingredients ingredients that you don't currently have but that you would be able to

51:56

pretty easily acquire either at a shop or just going around to find them um and

52:01

what it entails it's it starts out as like this um this bubbly green

52:07

liquid but as soon as it is exposed to the air around it it immediately bursts into a

52:14

gaseous form um and would be able to uh once

52:19

someone breathes it in they would see their worst fears

52:27

and so you know just a worst fear what are you terrified of you now know

52:32

the uh the components and the steps that it would take to create this potion

52:38

[Music] yeah um is there a body of water near enough

52:43

to where we are like a stream like a creek even there is actually um

52:48

like uh just beyond sort of in the direction of where that farm was that they got the sheep yeah um just beyond

52:54

that there is irrigating right yeah a little bit of a creek that leads into a

53:00

larger man-made pond um that then is part of the irrigation but yes there is a

53:06

natural creek that feeds into this larger body of water cool i i want to go there and wash my roads okay you know

53:13

just go through the process clean my robes i'll even clean the to the extent that i can i don't really know how to treat this coat and then i'll place them

53:20

down uh in on grass so they don't get dirty again uh with the intent to hang them on the a

53:27

tree branch when i get back to the tree um and i will just uh once again hold

53:32

the the the three-ringed symbol that i've been keeping in my pocket

53:38

now these days um and i'll look up at this the night sky

53:45

what kind of night is it are there stars in the sky it is slightly cloudy

53:51

um but not enough to cover up all of the stars no

53:58

word that you were as bright as you once were

54:05

but all these illusions [Music]

54:11

all these lights that should shine clearly but were muddied by

54:17

[Music] desire and greed

54:24

and a struggle for power [Music] the stars in the sky don't

54:30

[Music] try to feed off the light of one another

54:36

and yet here we are amidst a squabble [Music]

54:42

between all you that look down upon us

54:47

[Music] and i lower my eyes to the the earth around me

54:54

and i look down at my my palm that the symbol is resting within and i i take the symbol out of

55:00

kind of where it has sort of naturally fit into the scar on my hand and i flex the the skin that is still

55:09

as raw as the day it was burned [Music] but hugh

55:17

you don't even know what you're fighting for

55:24

if you did you you would you would point more firmly

55:32

[Music] instead yet

55:38

you point me into a fog

55:45

and leave it to me to decide how i'll execute [Music] all that needs to be done

55:51

[Music] i thought

56:00

when you took over you were you had an idea of what needed to be

56:05

done but here i am in the place where they sing your songs

56:12

and still they impale an inmate

56:17

as he attempts to escape when there's four walls

56:22

and a very stern chewing out on the other side of that

56:28

initial escape it's as if fenra got carried away

56:35

that's all you do with your new power is just take the worst attributes of what was

56:44

[Music] are you here for freedom and truth

56:49

these lofty concepts then why do these people

56:55

pin each other to waltz that captain in the dev

57:01

he didn't care what was true or what freedom meant

57:08

he served someone other than you and nearly killed alma

57:14

that is the extent of your servants that is what comes with such hazy directions such

57:21

ambiguity truly i like you

57:28

in the brief interaction we've had something about your heart reads is true

57:33

to me reads is well intended but you bloodied the high mountain

57:41

with the guts of other well-intended beings

57:46

and now i have to sift through it all invading a prison free and

57:52

people are dangerous

57:57

how do we measure all the good we do i can't solve the mistakes

58:04

[Music] thank you for the opportunity

58:10

i will repair this world even if you do not know how

58:15

[Music] and i pick up my stuff and return to the tree

58:24

all right uh during this time i'm going to have uh

58:30

not swaddled is the wrong term but just like taking a moment with uh with tito

58:35

um how is he looking right now um he actually as you guys went outside

58:40

he stuck pretty close to you but he began to fly around and sort of doing circles

58:46

up in the air um but once he landed and saw that you were all making camp um seems to be sort of

58:52

calming down a little bit i like the motion for him to like go up into the highest branches of the tree with me

58:58

okay and he does and he does uh i hold him close uh

59:05

and i am going to reach my staff between both of our foreheads

59:11

and uh i'm going to call to the energy that i experienced in the temple where i

59:18

saw like a mere copy of myself and i'm gonna say the first half of this

59:23

in druidic and the second half of this in rn which is the language of the airplane

59:29

and i'm going to say um

59:36

combined energies of this world give me insight

59:41

insight into what wakes beyond these shores and i'm gonna try to tap into um both

59:48

tito's mind uh and uh the energies that pulse through the

59:54

world okay i'm gonna try to um make either a religion or an arcana

1:00:01

check what is gonna be better

1:00:06

or a nature check if you want to yeah go crazy

1:00:11

uh arcana what was the other one nature arcana or religion

1:00:20

okay uh that's gonna be a ten for which one

1:00:25

for uh for that religion check for religion um okay you uh

1:00:31

you place your forehead to the crystal and you have no trouble tapping into

1:00:38

the forces beyond and you sort of go into this meditative state and just as you feel yourself sort of receding back

1:00:45

into um into opening your mind and having all of your thoughts cleared

1:00:51

you're distracted and sort of pulled back by tito he's he is not going along with you as much um you

1:00:58

can see he's trying but his effort is keeping you from from going into that meditative place um but as you are are

1:01:06

trying and attempting to do this um the branches of the tree almost sort of

1:01:12

circle around the both of you and create this sort of half cocoon around the both of you just

1:01:18

very slightly very subtly but you're not quite able to get there to uh to that spiritual place okay

1:01:25

uh i i lean my head back and i look back into his eyes and uh speak in in the tribe's language

1:01:34

[Applause] let's take our rest here tonight as as i

1:01:41

noticed the sort of like comforting uh shape and form the tree is now taken

1:01:46

okay and he says try try to sleep try try to sleep

1:01:53

as he slowly sort of falls asleep um when kellet gets back to the tree i'm

1:02:01

gonna tilt my head towards zeta because

1:02:07

we got to hire up so i'm going to kind of i discreetly while i'm hanging my rope

1:02:13

up on the branch um sort of like lightly shake my

1:02:18

head i'll approach i don't think we need to do all that [Music]

1:02:25

she doesn't have something living inside her it's but they can come at any time

1:02:30

well she was called upon by the

1:02:39

[Music] i suppose i think until she knows what

1:02:45

her contract actually said we should just assume that the person can call upon her or

1:02:50

whenever i suppose that's safest it doesn't sit right with me though

1:02:57

it's one thing to tie flynn up when he's you know insisting

1:03:03

that we do just that but it's another do you think we can just tie our hands together then

1:03:09

uh yeah you can't use them that's all more humane

1:03:14

[Music] i think she'll understand like you know if she doesn't then she's

1:03:20

not well then we're gonna have to set some new terms

1:03:29

this is awful

1:03:34

the outcast outcast from what

1:03:41

i don't know i never thought of it that way i always thought of it more like not part of the in-crowd not necessarily

1:03:48

like cast out the stories

1:03:54

that go back and they don't have enough detail to really

1:04:03

know what it could be is creators from different planes

1:04:10

fighting over lands with no eyes oh yes yes

1:04:16

holds for eyes pretty creepy i guess

1:04:22

i quickly just pour it doesn't have to be that scary you

1:04:28

know i mean he's still kind of creepy well i'm not creepy no this this face

1:04:35

is a little bit creepy and i can i like poke my finger in his eye socket where

1:04:40

where there's just ash i i don't allow you to

1:04:46

will it hurt though you know like will i feel your eye or will i just feel ash

1:04:51

you you would uh as your finger approached you would you would get flecks of dust on your on your

1:04:58

finger gross it's not gross

1:05:05

you don't get to tell me what i think is gross it's not gross it's fine it's a little gross yeah there's girls for

1:05:11

things that doesn't keep this from being gross [Music]

1:05:16

it's not a matter of perspective i guess anyway

1:05:24

might be something to figure out what he was outcast from unless he's just not part of the in

1:05:31

crowd what does that mean omar i don't know like

1:05:37

like he's not friends with the people

1:05:44

that he lived around back in the way back days like he was cast out from them no like maybe he just was never part of

1:05:50

them i feel like we're splitting hairs here home well i guess we just don't know anything

1:05:56

yet that kind of casting out makes one committed to chaos unless he was always committed to chaos

1:06:03

and that's what made him different from everyone else um could be so

1:06:11

like maybe he calls himself the outcast because he's like i'm different

1:06:17

um maybe it kind of makes you think like you can just come up with a name and like tell

1:06:23

enough people about your name and make up like songs about your name and then like eventually in in a thousand years maybe

1:06:29

there'll be some cool like drama around you like like you could call me like [Music]

1:06:35

an agent of repair i guess but what if i just wanted to be something solo

1:06:41

okay if you were something solo what would you be on

1:06:48

well we already have the outcast who's an agent of chaos and i really feel like i could be that

1:06:54

like don't you think why would you want that to be your monitor i don't want it to be but it's kind of like a spooky

1:06:59

cool like you don't want to mess with me [Music] yes but that's not worth that much

1:07:05

ultimately you get a lot more out of people trusting you than fearing you

1:07:11

that's true i don't want to be feared right so maybe a name that reflects your your

1:07:17

power and your your gravitas and you know your courage

1:07:23

but also your your kindness your generosity um

1:07:29

maybe it should just be oma and then we could just have songs to oma i guess a lot rhymes with it

1:07:37

or maybe not thinking the ah could rhyme with things but on my it's hard to rhyme

1:07:44

well we could make up new words too don't be devil alma

1:07:50

she'll put you in a coma that's all i got

1:07:56

but that's more the fear thing than that it's more the fear thing yeah yeah all right

1:08:02

let's think of something okay hey santa

1:08:12

i'm gonna do this as comfortably as possible but i think it's best for us to make it so you can't kill us in our

1:08:17

sleep yeah no i get it appreciate it and she puts both of her hands out in

1:08:23

front of her and i will i will tie them uh tightly but gingerly okay

1:08:31

um i'll take first watch i was kind of reading my book i thought maybe i would take first of all all right

1:08:37

that's fine and then i'll go to sleep i'm jealous of you on your your books i should have

1:08:42

checked one out well you were kind of in a room really specific i don't think you could have checked anything out from that room

1:08:49

that's true i mean i did steal a map you could look it over my other book i have two

1:08:54

what's the other book it's on disguises uh uh yeah i suppose i'll take a look

1:09:01

it's not really that interesting to me oh well you don't have to take a look i'm sorry i no i i

1:09:09

appreciate it no i will take it i will look at it i promise i think flynn has like a history book if you want to go

1:09:14

borrow his book that does sound nice okay great will you but no it

1:09:21

i don't want you to look at my book anymore i might review i'd take back my own may i please look at this book on

1:09:27

disguises you may thank you on your watch go to sleep

1:09:34

[Music]

1:09:44

[Music] yeah can you take third watch

1:09:50

sure and i uh as soon as as soon as i hear that i then shut the little you know curtain of

1:09:57

like twigs and branches and leaves trees yeah okay okay just wake him up when you're

1:10:02

done no okay sure all right oma uh i'm gonna have you make a perception jack for me

1:10:11

[Music] ten a ten okay what are you doing during your watch just reading i'm reading okay

1:10:19

um you're listening yeah you're kind of keeping an ear out um every once while

1:10:24

you you sort of realize how into the book you are and oh i

1:10:30

forgot to keep watching you you start listening again but uh your watch comes to a close

1:10:36

as nothing around you seems to be happening um is that all you're doing yeah that's all

1:10:43

i'm doing okay next up kelly quicks up

1:10:48

hmm oh how's your brief having the middle watch is kind of terrible

1:10:54

yeah have fun thanks i put my head down i put my head

1:10:59

down on calyx like lap in front of the fire so i'm using his left leg

1:11:05

all right i put some some blankets underneath her head and just try and pat it more all right

1:11:13

um i'm gonna have you make a perception check for me okay

1:11:21

uh 16 a um okay

1:11:27

you are sitting there you're looking around i have her book open her book open you were reading

1:11:32

um not really though sort of kind of sort of kind of um why would you put on

1:11:38

a mustache but every so often you look up into the

1:11:44

sky and you sort of catch some of the stars and you catch the moon sort of off

1:11:49

near the horizon um but you notice the

1:11:54

sparse clouds that you saw earlier more clouds are beginning to roll in

1:12:01

not storm yet but clouds are starting to get thicker do i

1:12:07

hear any thunder or anything like that you do not okay no just the clouds starting to get thicker and do the

1:12:13

clouds have a face the clouds every you look up and you

1:12:19

could kinda maybe make out a face but then the cloud continues to move and it doesn't really you just see shapes in

1:12:24

the clouds okay i i make a a faux menacing fist at the

1:12:29

clouds okay don't come near my camp i've got a book about disguises

1:12:38

[Music] you also notice um that zeta

1:12:44

fast asleep still in her binds um just like twitching in her sleep

1:12:50

um yeah just like subtle muscle twitches great

1:12:57

um

1:13:02

okay does it look like because i've done some medical work does it look like an

1:13:08

uh could i differentiate between something that was

1:13:14

you know um what's the word i'm looking for like habitual or something that was more like

1:13:19

an illness i guess yeah make a medicine check

1:13:24

[Music] 25 25. you've seen this plenty of times

1:13:31

before um when soldiers have come back and

1:13:39

something dramatic has happened um [Music] a lot of the times there's restless

1:13:44

sleep there's involuntary movements in the muscles um as you sleep uh but that's that seems to be what it

1:13:51

what it looks like um i will as gently as possible lift almost head and and cushion it and put

1:13:58

it on the ground and i will just spend a few moments um

1:14:04

uh making sure basically tucking zeta in just trying to make her as comfortable

1:14:09

as possible on this like unlucky uh floor of the earth

1:14:16

and i will hum a little bit all right then as your watch comes to a close

1:14:22

you fall back asleep try you wake up in this little tree cocoon

1:14:28

uh with tito still sleeping there what would you like to do i'd like to uh clear the

1:14:34

uh tree uh do a quick uh flying sweep around the camp

1:14:40

and make sure that uh we're not being approached at all um

1:14:46

and i have other things i'd like to do after that okay uh first though i'm gonna have

1:14:51

you make a perception check sure sure

1:14:57

that's probably going to be rather high [Laughter]

1:15:05

[Music] 23 23 um you wake up and you wake up to a

1:15:12

slight breeze that kind of makes you shiver just a little bit um

1:15:18

but as you fly up into the sky you start doing your circles um you don't see

1:15:23

anything on the ground moving towards the group you don't see anything that would be suspicious um but

1:15:29

when you do look up at the sky you do notice the clouds beginning to get thicker and thicker

1:15:35

and sort of as you look down beyond this sort of this mountain range that you guys had traveled

1:15:41

previously you begin to hear some thunder off in the distance

1:15:47

some thunder in the southern direction towards the i look closer toward that and then i do

1:15:54

a 180 and i look the other way uh is there is there any activity what what appears to be any is there any

1:16:01

activity about the forest uh or is that um no actually the skies above the

1:16:06

forest seem to be a little bit more clear but then as you start to look in the other direction it seems like the storm is coming from that southern

1:16:12

direction from the mountain range from yes beyond the mountain range can i make out any uh

1:16:19

sounds beyond just rumblings make a perception check [Music]

1:16:26

perception yes okay 22 22. um you do hear

1:16:34

these claps of thunder and every once in a while you'll see a

1:16:40

little spark of lightning way off in the distance

1:16:45

and then after a couple minutes you start to hear the thunder and there's no lightning

1:16:52

every once while it'll accompany the lightning but every couple minutes there's a clap of

1:16:58

thunder that very clearly does not have lightning associated with it

1:17:06

i fight the urge to fly toward the mountains and go back to my cocoon for the end of my

1:17:12

watch okay all right and then as um

1:17:18

the sun comes up over the horizon it just is able to catch your guys's faces uh before the storm clouds completely

1:17:25

roll in as you all wake up in the morning um did we finish a long rest you

1:17:31

finished a long rest yeah um before i head out

1:17:37

um for my training yes uh i'll be packing my things um

1:17:42

[Music] hey fred um i understood it

1:17:50

the book that's good no yeah no

1:17:55

it i don't like motion towards the demon oh

1:18:01

[ __ ] should i be worried i don't know

1:18:06

i mean do you hear it like in your head close my eyes

1:18:12

think about it do i hear anything no

1:18:19

no no nothing there didn't say anything

1:18:24

to you i mean it said something that we've read before

1:18:30

[Music] um and then you know it just said that

1:18:37

[Music] that he thinks that i'm part of it

1:18:42

i already am or something well i can tell you that everything that

1:18:48

there was inside of you from when we did our little you know thing right

1:18:53

that's all gone um i don't know might just have

1:19:00

something extra you can understand um was i speaking

1:19:06

ethernal when i talked to the demon when i went up to the cage it was a common

1:19:11

because i didn't i stayed i thought i was speaking common but i don't know if you intended to speak common then you spoke common um so i don't know if i can

1:19:17

speak infernal i just know that i can understand it correct okay um

1:19:22

yeah i guess we'll just see

1:19:28

if you start hearing anything in your head i'd say that that's reason for concern right um but until then it might

1:19:34

just be remnant of what happened if anything maybe it'll be helpful

1:19:40

especially if we go to these ruins maybe being able to speak no it's i don't know if i can speak it but at

1:19:46

least understand it maybe that'll help and do i have um do i

1:19:52

have or does i think oma might have still taken that etching

1:19:57

that you originally showed me i'm pretty sure she has it i think she was pretty adamant about keeping it

1:20:02

i mean if she's still got that have her pull that out see if you can read it yeah

1:20:08

oh speaking of which i probably should go find them i did not intend to stay up this late

1:20:14

but it was worth it so yeah we got through a lot yeah

1:20:19

well if i hear any voices then i'll pat my little pouch on the side of my hip with the

1:20:24

silver dust in it i'll uh at least have this to

1:20:30

attempt to thwart it off [Music]

1:20:35

my intention would have been to have us all get back to

1:20:40

the um to hayford's home and the goopy void

1:20:46

in the morning when when xavier gets back okay um actually just at the end of

1:20:53

your conversation um you do hear a little [Music]

1:20:59

and all of a sudden the teleportation circle in hayfried's void begins to glow and operating there you see xavier um

1:21:06

and right as that happens you turn around i'm going oh my gosh well i said we'd be back in

1:21:12

the morning i know i just have to be so rough about it [Music] i'm sorry all right

1:21:21

um how was it it's fixed uh and as he sort of walks down into the center platform

1:21:27

um you can see half of his clothes are completely charged just

1:21:32

like completely charred he looks fine he looks a little bit injured um but completely charred and

1:21:39

after a couple seconds you see a little scorpion sort of climb up onto his shoulder and he looks over and he sort

1:21:45

of brushes it off it falls off and it drifts off into the void and into the blackness left right

1:21:52

center you're telling me are you okay yeah i will be

1:21:58

good you want to come back with us to addersfeld not particularly where are you going to

1:22:04

go uh i i don't know um i mean i guess hattersfeld as good a

1:22:09

place as any but we don't have to go through that thing i just went through i would be so

1:22:15

happy is there another way to get there are we gonna be in danger going through the portal

1:22:21

no i think we're good i'm just coming back i'll take care of the magic next time

1:22:27

okay okay

1:22:34

um yeah if you guys want to go to addersfeld portal's open okay you just want to stay here until we get back

1:22:40

um yeah and as he walks he's sort of limping a little bit um

1:22:46

and he's like yeah can i just like to take a couple minutes yeah i mean i kind of would too but we can't we

1:22:52

gotta move okay well um [Music]

1:22:58

you can't stay in calgary for too long because people are looking for you um just a point

1:23:04

this isn't caldor yeah i was going to say this no i know that this isn't but like you

1:23:09

can't leave here yeah you're going to be stuck inside i mean i can meet up with you guys in

1:23:14

addersfeld i just i just need a couple minutes um if you need i i pull out

1:23:20

alma's disguise book there's uh there's this uh wondrous uh uh section here about how

1:23:26

you can use horse hair and paste so give yourself a mustache

1:23:31

and you know they'd never recognize you [Music] intriguing offer

1:23:37

um i will try it well in my book and i snatched it out of his hand i was enjoying that

1:23:46

all right off the irs lead the way it's been some time okay so

1:23:54

there's um there's a tavern called the deep drowl inn and um let's meet up there there's a big

1:24:01

fireplace and um it's kind of nice inside so so we'll meet you there yeah okay

1:24:08

that sounds perfect great all right and i will see you guys later yeah

1:24:14

sounds good all right you can get in the

1:24:19

teleportation circle and through the portal yes okay don't

1:24:25

don't move too much ditto so you guys apparate um into this this

1:24:31

uh brand new space um as you guys look around it's a very small room just

1:24:38

barely able to contain this portal but sort of similar in design to the room in

1:24:44

oak inspire with the teleportation circle um stone walls all around you can actually see a couple of metal pipes

1:24:50

coming from the ceiling and going back up and you see a door right in front of you

1:24:55

as you guys go and open the door there's a staircase that leads up and uh in a

1:25:02

very similar way to what you guys had seen in oak inspire uh just a very small

1:25:07

little um house if you could you could even call it that um more of

1:25:14

along the lines of a storage shed whereas the one in oak and spire was like sort of like a wooden shed this one

1:25:19

seems to actually be built into the street of of buildings um but you guys

1:25:24

step outside and immediately look around and recognize where you are as the bakery

1:25:30

that you guys had been in previously is only a couple of doors down whoa um

1:25:35

really quick as i i'll look back at the room that we just came out of are there three levers yes there are okay great

1:25:41

good to know great good good great you can use the same we'll find out

1:25:47

all right man he owns a lot of property do you think he has a little house like

1:25:52

this on every circle maybe i mean he's got to disguise it somehow right guess so but it's

1:25:59

subterranean so do you need the house at home i don't know probably a lot of hidden

1:26:05

things in these uh look around in like buildings

1:26:13

well i guess we should go find melloroo if she'll entertain having us yes sure

1:26:20

well and i packed the bag of pat the bag of holding i've got a present for her

1:26:26

uh before we head uh that way no but still a solid i'm gonna head over to the little fish

1:26:32

stand and see if there's anything yeah anyone there okay um is anyone else

1:26:37

going with yeah it's all right i'm gonna do some

1:26:42

shopping too um all right so you make your way uh over to

1:26:48

um his little fish shop uh his little shack there and as you guys walk up you see a little

1:26:56

old james hunched over the counter um sort of counting out some silver pieces

1:27:01

and he's got his eyes completely down towards what he's doing we see his daughter anywhere you do not is it no

1:27:09

james scientation oh oh hello hi jay oh it's so good to see

1:27:16

you all same how have you been oh i've been good things have been good all right

1:27:22

y'all got healed oh yeah yeah i tremendously

1:27:28

healed uh still a little bit of hip issues but um

1:27:33

i'm fine how is it so hard to hear that how's the fishing going i remember when we left it it

1:27:39

you were having problems but now i think it's better right oh uh business has been great incredible i haven't been

1:27:45

able to go out onto the boat um lately but um luckily my my daughter's been

1:27:51

helping me out and going out under the river and bringing back as many fish as possible

1:27:57

so how have you guys been great yeah you know uneventful

1:28:04

just wandering you look great um where's your where's your friend

1:28:10

who mar yes she went to find her sister

1:28:17

oh i hope she found her me too

1:28:22

yeah hope she's okay are you guys hungry yeah famished i've got um we've got a fresh

1:28:30

selection from this morning perfect i will say uh just speaking for myself i have limited

1:28:37

uh the word funds right now i can spot you really yeah oh oh no no it it's it's on

1:28:45

me no it's that's fine you're friends oh james and he he sort of walks back and grabs a

1:28:51

couple of fish off the hook uh well he's walking back and looking uh for getting a fish uh do i see a

1:28:57

portrait or drawing anywhere on the wall make a perception check sure i don't

1:29:03

know if it was that good or anything maybe it's in his house

1:29:09

and this is a disadvantage because it's the billy jack oh yeah

1:29:14

guys magic and stuff get used to rolling a disadvantage i guess uh what'd you say was perception perception

1:29:20

[Music] 16 16. um not that hard to spot in a

1:29:25

little wooden frame hung up on the wall right next to another uh

1:29:34

better don't you dare better drawn photo of his daughter it seems a little bit

1:29:39

more like sure it wasn't a spur of the moment i don't even care um but there's there's your photo of of james right

1:29:46

next to another drawn photo of his daughter oh wow is that your daughter and i'll point to this yeah yes

1:29:52

she pretty oh she's beautiful she's uh she's out on the river right now love love the drawing it's really well really

1:29:58

well done not as good as yours though i appreciate it thank you i shake my head and then i lean in a

1:30:06

little closer how's tangs in the city these days oh you know um

1:30:12

soldiers coming through uh helping business though eh but it's it's uh

1:30:19

i don't know any more buildings burning down

1:30:24

there was one um but i i from what i heard that was just an accident um

1:30:31

luckily on the other side of the city nowhere close what uh news from the warfront does the outpost congress still stand

1:30:39

i i believe so um i last i heard there was uh an attempted

1:30:45

invasion but oh really yeah fortunately um they were able to push back the troops

1:30:54

you're good for them yes brave soldiers yeah the bravest

1:31:02

i half-heartedly sort of nod he finishes putting the fish in a couple

1:31:07

of bags and hands him over to you i'm gonna um surfaciously put two gold pieces on

1:31:13

the table for him okay make a stealth check yeah or uh [Music]

1:31:19

hey [Music] 17

1:31:27

he does not see it he uh he can't see that great as it is

1:31:33

but you you slide it right in yeah he'll find them eventually he will we don't i don't even see it i don't think

1:31:39

um is there anything i can do for you i mean obviously now you have

1:31:44

a meal but anything else while you're here uh would you like to come in for a drink um

1:31:52

well i know we have some stuff we probably can't oh maybe it's no worries

1:31:59

yeah that would sound amazing yeah yeah we'd love to catch up awesome see you later tonight

1:32:06

all right maybe your daughter oh yeah she will be back by then great

1:32:12

see you soon i'll see you soon bye james bye james glad always a

1:32:17

pleasure are these fish something that we can eat while we walk is it like a fish stick you've got a couple of raw fish in bags

1:32:24

yeah oh great schreier splitting the fishy two with the cheeto

1:32:30

guess what's right across the stall from the patty's pastry yeah yeah yeah patty's

1:32:35

face i was thinking about picking some of those up on the way back for him um yeah you guys want to sit down and i

1:32:40

don't know we have to kill them right i'm not eating another one of those thanks but you don't have to eat a

1:32:45

pastry you can get something else all right i have other more yeah maybe we just get it to go and we

1:32:51

just we just walk okay but well i could use some food yeah

1:32:56

let's do it i want to get like a sandwich patty

1:33:02

oh flynn hi your favorite customer is back yes you are how are you i'm

1:33:08

tired um a lot of studying last night but hungry that's great yeah you have to

1:33:13

expand your mind in all these different ways definitely but you need fuel to do that

1:33:18

you know why we're here already huh yeah well lemon pastries four

1:33:24

four okay coming right up all right um can i have a sandwich of some kind yeah

1:33:29

maybe with like cheese on it some like veggies

1:33:36

i could definitely do that yeah that'd be great okay give me one moment would you like one too i'll have one of those

1:33:41

sure two sandwiches four pastries and for you in the corner you just see

1:33:46

shreya and cheeto mao it down

1:33:52

i can i can do a coffee that'd be great um and no tomatoes on that sandwich it'll upset me stomach no you could put

1:33:57

his tomatoes on my sandwich okay please no tomatoes double tomatoes um she's the best and she uh first thing she does she

1:34:04

reaches down from behind the counter and pulls up a huge tray of lemon pastries puts four out on the on the plate um

1:34:11

grabs a cup of coffee and then goes back into the back room and after a couple minutes comes out with two sandwiches

1:34:17

one with no tomatoes one with double tomatoes what's the damage uh for this total is going to be

1:34:24

four silver pieces you got it i pulled a gold piece out put on the table oh thank you i missed you oh it's so sweet

1:34:31

all right well we're going to eat out there um if anything you know let us know how is

1:34:37

how's it going out here we haven't been here in a while it's it's going pretty good yeah it's going pretty good yeah business is up um

1:34:44

and uh you know the lemon pastry is doing well as usual yeah okay well it's good to hear yeah we tried some i swear

1:34:51

and then here not the same no not good no not as good

1:34:56

no i'm sure well i'll let you get back to it and we'll be back around this area later tonight hopefully so

1:35:03

can't wait to see you again yeah all right and i'll head out and uh bring all the food and

1:35:09

take it out okay now you're all sitting with a large i think i'm gonna walk and eat oh

1:35:15

okay walking in where are you guys headed oh we're walking and eating i think so

1:35:20

yeah yeah i think so i mean unless you want to sit and eat no we don't have to uh it's up to you guys yeah maybe you

1:35:26

should give a pastry to zeta yeah so i'll uh i'll oh yeah i would have gotten five uh

1:35:33

okay with her there i don't need one i know but i got everyone one so i got everyone a pastry well tito two

1:35:39

then six patriots all right take take another silver out of here uh yeah i'll do two

1:35:44

gold i'll give it a couple so oh that's right whatever the cost would have been i'll just give her a decent amount so i'll go i'll take two gold out um and

1:35:50

i'll walk over to everyone i'm like here you want pastry i got everyone a pastry kellek

1:35:57

no i don't you don't want it it's fine okay it's not for me i'm not hungry uh i've got my sandwich here oh right

1:36:04

right right right okay i'll keep it for you later then alma yeah okay here you go and then i'll go

1:36:10

over to the stride and cheetah finish your sandwich first fine fine perhaps

1:36:16

later okay tito tito is right going to town on this fish i okay i'll

1:36:22

hold on yours as well um every time kelly's back is turned i lick some of the lemon

1:36:28

um while i'm still eating my sandwich i love it uh and i'll be spending my coffee chowing on a lemon pastry trying

1:36:35

to wake up and be more presentable before i walk into my boss's office all right

1:36:40

the lemon pastry on your shirt yeah just like tired baggy eyes

1:36:46

all right um so you guys eventually walk around and make it towards the iron light castle

1:36:54

um yeah flynn so you would know uh you walk up and you put your hand on the little indentation uh once again just as

1:37:01

before your hand's a little bit smaller than the outline of the hand that's on there uh but the gate does open and you

1:37:08

are greeted once again with the halls of the iron light castle ah let's take a deep breath in

1:37:15

just fill my lungs and i miss that smell

1:37:20

all right guys let's get the smell of dust yeah i just scrunch up my nose all right well you know you guys didn't it

1:37:26

smells like bodies sweaty yeah right because from you from it's so much cleaner and better huh well

1:37:32

i don't miss this notes where i come from

1:37:37

hey i miss you long time no see i know how are you i'm great i'm tired actually

1:37:44

you look tired yeah and i take a big gulp of the rest of the coffee

1:37:49

oh how are things things are great things are i'll tell you things are going real well

1:37:55

yeah yeah how is mallory right now i mean pissed off as always great

1:38:03

great um well so we're coming back because we got some information um

1:38:08

is she available right now um i mean i can go and check for you okay you want yeah sure i mean we'll

1:38:14

just wait here in the in in there yeah just yo make yourself comfortable sure and uh yeah i'll be right back oh wait

1:38:20

wait yeah have you seen kaylin she's been through

1:38:26

[Music] is she okay

1:38:33

um what happened maybe this is a conversation for what happened [Music]

1:38:41

she uh is not she's sort of questioning why why she's here um

1:38:48

apparently she saw some [ __ ] and uh wasn't sitting too well

1:38:53

where is she now i actually don't know um she took a little bit of time off

1:39:00

she's not here at the moment she just showed up and left

1:39:05

yeah and miliroo let her yeah are they getting along

1:39:11

not at the moment um [Music] yeah i know melloroo was kind of

1:39:17

disappointed well [Music] i don't all right well i guess go check on her

1:39:23

and then i gotta figure out a way is there a way we can make sure she's okay

1:39:29

i can try and find out where she is yeah yeah if you could and just let me know all right well

1:39:35

we'll stay out here for now let us know if less pissed off than normal all right

1:39:41

i'll be right back all right um and as this this lumbering red dragonborn uh begins walking away and

1:39:49

almost like having to hunch down to get through some of these hallways um you guys are

1:39:55

left in in the hallway of the iron light castle i elbow flynn hey ow what do you think he knows

1:40:02

faraday [Music] i don't think they all know each other why not well it's like

1:40:09

you don't think they're from the same place i mean try and knew the only other birdman we saw yeah that's true

1:40:16

well they're different colors though i guess he's different colors too maybe we should ask him maybe he knows

1:40:22

her is that weird to ask like it might be a weird task yeah oh is it weird to ask i don't know

1:40:30

maybe he'll have more information on i don't know i don't know where they come from i don't know what part of do i

1:40:35

know what part of the world make a history chapter okay can i join him on that yeah cuz i don't know like maybe

1:40:42

growing up working here i mean maybe i've asked him i don't know natural one awesome crushing it

1:40:48

six though it's actually six six uh you haven't come across enough dragonborn in your day in order to uh

1:40:55

know where they yeah originate yeah i'm no help with that no shreya you wouldn't even need to roll

1:41:00

you do not know yeah i don't think i've ever seen a dragon born before like before faraday and

1:41:06

chat yeah maybe we can ask when he gets back what was that all about

1:41:13

huh caitlyn i think her name was yeah it's

1:41:18

she's also training it's like me for a second i thought you were doing some kind of weird spin on my name and i was

1:41:24

like this is strange why would you no no she's just you know she we're both trying to become

1:41:29

sentinels you know she's one of the people i train with and you know she kind of got me through a lot you know i

1:41:36

mean it wasn't i look around the halls and hold my hand up like

1:41:42

you know being being different here is a little difficult so is she different

1:41:48

or just not like me she fits in here well at least i thought she did

1:41:54

she fits in here really well i said something about she thought she didn't belong here

1:42:02

um well i guess she saw something that made her feel like she doesn't want to be a part of this

1:42:07

but i mean that's from what i heard i mean we've seen things i wonder if she's just doing it

1:42:15

by herself maybe she needs friends like you guys maybe she

1:42:21

[Music] maybe she needs me like

1:42:27

everyone needs you flynn that's that's right maybe melloroo no thank you where

1:42:32

she has uh the last circumstances you know this already

1:42:38

but uh something about the iron lights created indiscriminately killing monsters

1:42:45

doesn't sit right with me maybe she saw something

1:42:50

that challenged that notion i mean it's not just all monsters i mean we ran into you know the village at the shadow

1:42:56

timberlands and there were people that were hurting there you know it could have been something like that um

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i don't know like i wish i could just talk to her but i guess she's gone maybe malaru

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knows where she went she's probably hiding something [Music] maybe she saw

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[Music] the outcast

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that would be pretty spooky yeah i wouldn't put it we can't be the only ones who came into contact

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with them i'd be pretty convenient if all problems stemmed from the outcast and we couldn't does so chaos yeah

1:43:34

well she's in a meeting right now but um

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hey that's what i'm good at she's just finishing up if you want to go over there teach me yeah i mean okay

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you've already had a lesson i tried to how long were you here

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all right you're ready right teach me that's [ __ ]

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i did try and teach you oh you did a great job don't yeah you're still alive yeah

1:44:02

apparently i did something right yeah i mean barely there's a close call a couple times oh it's good to know hey i

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make my way through it though you get knocked down you get back up or you have a friend who gets you back

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up and i like elbow kellick yeah awesome i i help a little you know it's mostly him i i just i just

1:44:20

give the illusion of helping him thank you anyway you said she's in a meeting she's

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just finishing up okay go read it when our whole group here and i motioned

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everyone i'll be welcome to have an audience with her or no i do remember her saying that she may

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not want to talk i mean try you're great but tito and i will stand guard outside the

1:44:43

door perfect can the rest of us come no

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oh boy um well okay at least at least this one needs to come and i point to um

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zeta oh yeah she she's part of the problem

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the reason we're here to see if she can just wait outside i'll go and talk to her alone and then i can go back to the best yeah you're going by yourself first

1:45:07

okay and then you can see from there you know how she is sounds good you guys just hang out here i'll be right down

1:45:12

the hall no worries okay and i'll start walking with chat do we see the people leaving that we're in the meeting with her no

1:45:18

okay you do not um then i'll start walking down the home um and once i'm kind of like just me and chat am i in

1:45:23

trouble no okay i never know with her

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yeah that's kind of her thing true it's been a while all right

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all right i'll see you in a bit okay good luck um and as you walk in you open the door

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and uh you see meluru sitting there at her desk and right across the desk you

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see another chair um you see just the back of the figure uh you see large

1:45:52

muscley oh no you see a little bit of green on the back of their neck uh-huh yeah

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and as zorkhal stands up and turns around you see the brown pauldron are you kidding me

1:46:08

are you kidding me as he turns around sees you and smirks that is where we're gonna end

1:46:13

this episode this [ __ ] guy let me do it man i mean we've been doing a ton of

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stuff not here um we're like saving the word worlds or

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call okay also you might be too you don't know but that is where we're gonna call it so thank

1:46:32

you all so much for listening and we can't wait to see you again next week bye nerds

1:46:38

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