hey nerds support venture forth over on our patreon and unlock exclusive bonus content now on to the show hi i'm flynn

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and i'm your dm ethan welcome to venture forth

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[Music]

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so [Music]

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previously you all had escaped a harrowing battle with the order of the red wolf

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after foiling their dastardly plan to open a portal to the plane of fire you

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all were able to be resurrected and finish the fight and close the portal yourselves capturing two of their agents

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in the process and sending them back to hayfried's void now in tow you all have five civilians

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with you who were also captured by the red wolf the order of the red wolf and are now traveling with them back to

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nestle valley where you hope to get them back to safety just this morning you all had sent

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shraya off after news of kailyn who is one of flynn's associates now in

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keyed as she might have some more information on someone who is possibly hunting members of the iron light

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collective with this news you all decided that shrai would be the fastest one to be able to get there collect the

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information and return to you so he set off over the bartok rise and out of your

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eye line and now leaves you all here in the cold morning air

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with the dakir ruins just down the hill and the bartok rise just above you

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the new day dawns what would you all like [Music]

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uh i'm gonna find myself a quiet corner and i'm going to um

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i'm going gonna sit beneath uh the biggest tree i can find we're sort of on this hillside right yes you are yeah covered in trees i'm gonna um

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uh sit um within the the embrace of any

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large roots i can uh and i'm going to close my eyes tightly and then open them and uh in the

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casting of sending uh look for the tether that will lead me to xavier

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okay and easy enough you're able to find it i will reach out grab that tether

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[Music] uh curl it around my hand and pull it to my heart

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and uh cast ascending

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savior it's kellog [Music]

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we need a favor can you travel yourself to saddle mount

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and open hayford's portal there [Music] it's uh

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to help a friend and very soon you hear back

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good to hear from you i can head over there today should be open

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in the next few hours hope all is well and home of my love

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unable to respond um like have a have a little smile to myself um

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i would have liked to hopefully woken up when zorcoll had woken up he actually took the last watch so he

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was up hours before um i would like to try and

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mimic his morning routine um but not make it early like take notes of like what he does

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he actually he all he woke all of you up um this morning he seemed like he was ready to

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go before you guys had even woke okay um

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i will just wake up then okay

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yeah i'm i'm just like hanging out we had said goodbye to shraya and and i'm just gonna sit around

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and kind of unpack and repack my bag okay i'll return around the corner um and look at this company how many uh uh

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we have four uh civilians with us there are five five

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[Music] i'll kind of stand uh

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presentationally probably time we at the royal dennis

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everyone able to to move on their own or uh the folks need assistance

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and uh you look to these these couple of dwarves and they all look to be standing on their own at this point um they sort

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of give you some nods that they're all ready to go um and and one of them steps forward uh the the dwarf who seemed to

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be the husband of of the dwarf who was previously slain um steps forward and

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says hey i think we're ready to go we were planning on heading back towards nestle valley is there anybody who has

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to go another direction you see the same dwarf look around i think all of us are from the same

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place i think we're all good to go there oh okay um i turned to um zork hall

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well i guess this is where we part um you're on your way back to attersfeld i was planning on going back to azersfeld

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yes um but in the company that you all presently hold and the fact that you

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just lost one of your members i am more than willing to provide extra security um at least heading south for a

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little bit before i have to split off oh okay um yeah that that that works um

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never mind then i guess we can go um are we gonna like how are we gonna keep everyone

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together are we getting again like what i'll look around is there like any like form of transportation that was left

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here but that these uh red wolf people used make a perception check for me

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because i figured some of them are like hurt i'm not even gonna look at my stats

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because it's so low two plus i think it's like a few numbers i don't know um looking around and

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looking back down at the ruins um you don't you didn't see anything uh does

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does anyone look like they can't walk no they all look like they're capable of walking i i i don't i don't know flynn i

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think we're just gonna have to walk okay i mean that's fine with me um we need to do anything else before we

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head out if anyone needs any help please alert us we're only strong as our most vulnerable

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so we'll take care of you thank you i appreciate that um yeah let's head out

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right yeah to nestle valley and then through the tunnels of westbury

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and then who knows i guess

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uh there's a lot to do yeah does anyone sometimes feel like

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there's so much to do that you don't know what to do next

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uh all the time how do you decide well usually

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i'm chasing you lot so whatever the next thing that's on

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fire is oh i don't have i can set something on fire if we should do that and then go towards

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it it's merely a figure of speech oh

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but we are often running towards something on fire did you see how it could be a little

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confusing the figure of speech i just just closed my eyes and and rub my temples

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in frustration yes i suppose it could be considered

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confusing regardless um

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i don't know the the void is open for us we have so many adversaries

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and they're all out in the wind now but uh we do have two all out in the wind yeah

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okay so we should go towards marstock place to start yeah and get some answers we have to expose

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some kind of vulnerability within this order of the red wolf we have to find a a weak spot yeah maybe we can check on

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kale i wonder what's gonna we're walking as i'm saying this i assume

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yes i wonder what's gonna happen to to to the one who who you used to report to

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you know the big lady and amazing and the other one from the hollow guard i wonder what's gonna happen to them if

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they miss kale again i mean corvin amberstone said that like they were gonna be in big trouble if they if

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they didn't easily they sent the tool from the holocaust right and they're gonna be in big trouble i

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think they did say artemisia was gonna be in trouble too varus and um what's the other but

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she was going to be in trouble too because they all report to her so they're they're they're in for some some

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some big trouble because because of us what does trouble look like for failure in the

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order well i mean for failing to capture one person

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one human at that repeatedly over and over again i don't know

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i mean are they overflowing with capable members because

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artemisia is about as powerful as beings i've never known so it's not like he's going to dispose

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of her well should we check on kale um

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i can uh flynn do you still have that um that key that device you pulled from the

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stone yeah i have it in my bag why just i think it's worth

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studying or we're bringing that out here for each okay discuss because that's

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a lack of a better word um a key to this whole problem

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well also doesn't i didn't didn't have work for the red wolf wouldn't i i can't

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remember he wasn't very high up he just said that he's worked with a lot of bad people and at one point he did some work for them was he supposed to be doing

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research or checking on stuff maybe he has information that we could ask him since the last time we talked to him

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about it also i'm kind of confused like there's the red wolf and the hollow guard and then there's vasronoth

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how are they all connected again also there's the banuk tribe now uh that seems to have aligned themselves with

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this in the shraya what it what was that

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yeah some some other name that we've also never heard of before and then it's something to do with the waste and then

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the history book i have okay so hollow guard was

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first right that's who that's and i'll look to oma that's what you dealt with kind of

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so when i yes i guess we can start from there when i worked for the hollow guard

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we were set after this man who ended up being kale's dad

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because he made keys and so the hollow guard was looking for keys now it kind of seems like the hollow guard was looking for keys

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for the red wolf so there was some mixture there um of

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people working for each other clearly like the uppers of the hollow guard do work for the red wolf and and i

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didn't know that at the time obviously and and kellick you came from somewhere that

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that also apparently works with a hollow work for the red wolf well

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it would appear despite me great pleasure admitting it

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and i sort of reflect on the sky above that artemisia is [Music]

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truly faithfully aligned with red wolf but that doesn't mean all of the

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temple from here is done so hey so unclear

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i was cast out for exposing her or trying to

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but they didn't know better it seems a little fishy to me so if i

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get this right it seems like the hollow guard was working for the red wolf like the red wolf is the bigger

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badder it seems like the red wolf is just like

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has all these arms uh-huh and they extend into all these other organizations to do their thing like the

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banuk tribe okay which that's where we found thaddeus was being shipped by

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the banuk drive so i mean when i encountered the tribe they were a neutral organization but not anymore

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no okay and then and there's the two twin drow yeah

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um acquiring you know other shady people and then who

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among the buried [Music] factions of this world is not in the

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pocket of this animal i can think of one

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[Music] we don't know anything about the iron like someone's trying to kill all okay

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we're not talking about right now maybe he owns the iron light we don't know anything this strata peryana yeah

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the shraya piriana estrada peryana strada like try it bubba

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strata up above don't know cosmos that's called strata

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i think so i just like turned around

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and i'll look up as well um okay hey what's this guy called

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it is called the sky you nailed it the first track i think you're wrong gaelic it's called the sky

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all right okay so i understand that and then

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then fossil hold on this starts with fast for nothing yeah right but i don't know anything about him yeah

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i can't really say it starting humanoid with holes where his eyes should be

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really that's terrifying we know that or that was at least the description given to us i said

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do you think she actually saw him though it could have been an avatar and do they have their own organization

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or is it just like the red wolf is is trying to be partners with the boss boston author

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i know we're calling them the red wolf but they're really the cult of the red wolf what they would tell us they were but

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they're right we should really be respectable i just think precision is helpful in

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this discussion and we're considering all the names right so it starts with the outcast the order

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of the redwood serves who may be the outcast who may or may not be a son or a doc no am i wrong i thought they

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searched corvin amberstone carbon amber stone is the right hand of the redwoods

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and the rebels who we don't we thought that we found the carps in the in the tomb of the house we put the crown back

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on them okay do we think that's boston author that

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in death as in life i serve the outcome oh okay that makes sense i remember that yeah okay also important to note the red

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wolf is the father of the fallen storm and the son who

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i don't know how archery downward factors into all of this but okay that's a name i haven't heard in many years

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yeah i'm getting a little bit lost but i think i understand you and me both i really i mean it's a

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bunch of a bunch of baddies i spend a lot of time looking at how tanks connect to one another and even i'm struggling

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with somebody yeah they're they're far out so the cult of the red wolf

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the order of the red wolf support the outcast who is vasranath

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correct okay so corbin amber stone is kind of leading

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corbin amber zone is kind of leading the order of the word wolf it seems he is their uh de facto leader okay that means

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well put on them yeah i know words and how do the crystals come from real

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ones too um the crystals i think

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were something that kale's army did maybe

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dale's army yeah caleb is a is like a commander in the army or like whatever like a big lieutenant guy okay and he

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was being chased by the order of the red wolf and

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they trapped them in prison crystals what what what was what army was he with

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the caldorian army okay yeah but he's human hail is a general of

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the countdown yeah like a big big guy big guy up in there so i wonder if he's uh derelict from

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duty well he also there was some business about a spy like his dad was talking to

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um your person or we thought they would maybe they had a spy on the other side remember and then like when we were in the tunnel or

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not in the tunnel but when we were in at ourselves the first time and we went through that that house the bombed out house and we

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found that there was probably a spy because you know that's where we got the sigil and that's

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yes but so so kale had some art kills dad which is brahm um he had some kind of

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spy maybe they had some guy in addersfeld or cold crest that they were talking to

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um but there were some you had some letters we had some letters between carol and braum that were like don't

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trust this person anymore or something like that about harmony huh um did you assume they were about

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artemisia or were they actually about artemisia i'm gonna pull out the notes if i do i still have the letters

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um yes you would if you didn't get rid of them so i'm gonna like stick my arm in my bag and i had just been like

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clearing out my bag and putting everything back in so i kind of remember i put all the papers i like rolled them all up together um and i'm gonna like

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rifle through them um do i see artemisia's name on any of them in the letters that were between

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um yes you do you see her name specifically as she's doing this i'm just going to snatch a dandelion off of

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the path as we're walking and just blow the little puffs off of it um when he does this can

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i see that happen yeah do um do you seem happy

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or having fun [Music] uh

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make an inside chat i'm just trying to understand inside

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yeah i'm just trying to read if this is like enjoyable i don't know another really real low roll it's like

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four plus something hard to tell uh i i seem just the from the morning

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[Music] maybe a little bit um

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you've seen me now kind of like fall into a state where i'm i'm passive and this is i'm in that same

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kind of place where it's like there's a little bit of distance in the way that i'm regarding everyone only you pull out

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the the document and as you're flipping through it you do find the exact document that you were looking for and you do see that that artemisia's name is

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specifically mentioned uh in that document okay so so artemisia was already talking to brom way back when do

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you think do you think she was pretending um or or do you think she oh he always knew

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she was after the keys she was pretending

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and she's an incredible performer

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artemisia was the bright hope

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she was a new dawn for the temple of the mirror after one of the darkest

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mosques when did she take over um

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ten years ago okay so during the war so she could have been a spy the whole

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time maybe she actually works maybe she was always with the cult of order order

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of the red wolf and she just tried to make it

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make her way up but why would she do that i'm just twisting the the stem of the

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dandelion in my fingers i'm kind of just like focusing on it really intently

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i don't know artemisia used the power of amir to strike us down

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that's horrible it was worse than i imagined do you have

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any way to talk to your god zachary yeah maybe he knows

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about what about the old gods and and turning

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maybe the old gods just want power any way they can so they're willing to align with the order of a red wall well why

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don't you just why don't you just ask the old god can't you still talk to them

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would you want to after almost after actually dying because of power from them well it's not

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like they did it i talked to them all the time

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but i've never heard back from vermeer

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there might be something to it oh no if the old gods are [Music]

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dissipating uh if they're suffering then they

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might turn to a power like the outcast to try and maintain

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an edge yeah i don't know but where

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are they getting their power from who the

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outcasts um well they're connected to archbay right so no that's the red wolf

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i don't really know if we can answer it or if i'm even looking for an answer just worrisome well are they getting it

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from the new gods the world began with gods

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and the gods existed in contrast to

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north and miss and perhaps that nothingness

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was the outcast that's terrifying

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i'm and i i'd flick the stem of the dandelion away

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grasp and it's straws what these are powers beyond our

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comprehension yeah okay let's skip the gods for now because we don't know anything about

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that let's talk about the waste a little bit right and how um the waste and the dirkier ruins were

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kind of similar at one point like and maybe the waste is growing yeah didn't you get that from your history yeah in the book and i'll i'll go and i'll pull

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the book out um of my bag as we're strolling and yeah and this um it was saying that it

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was a city a before so like where everything looked like to meet

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um can i say that then yeah oh i'll entertain the book going to flip it open dm and i

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want to see the title of the book is the tragedy of the loss yes what is the loss can i find that

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information like what the book's thesis is um yeah so just flipping through the first couple pages um it sort of gives a brief

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overview of what the what the book is going to be talking about and you discern that the loss

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was the event that took place that made the waste

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that turned the city that was at the center and everything around it

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as well as a couple of other cities that were there at the time into sand that now is the waste um can i

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find the the in this description can i find the name of of this the original city this uh

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city of the uh the center city of this whole world yeah for sure so that that center city

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where all of the the um borders of the lands come together and meet in this central um

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sort of religious as well as geographical center of the world um you

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see it is called primordia the city of primordial what

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interesting strikes me that the name of this book writes the tragedy of the loss

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the thing that was lost the city primordia the beginning of

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elbow i um

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[Music] i don't know does the whole world uh

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become the waste at the end of all this is that what it's destined for oh

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does it say it's growing i i don't think and i'm just kind of like

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they're just like shuffling there are some um like rough sketches which is what you what you

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actually can see the geography from there are some rough sketches of the waist and um from what you read on this

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first couple pages it was like it was an event that happened that created this this massive desert and um

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from what flynn knows the amount of time that this book was written it was written a long long time

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ago um and the the drawings and the sketches that are in there the waist looks just about the same as

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it does today maybe some of the borders have shifted a little bit compared to the map that you guys have um

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but looks about the same size not from the conclusion of this

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historians well that's good does it say how does it say exactly how it happened [Music]

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yeah uh what was the event or like what caused the event i guess um yes so you in order to discern that you

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would probably have to read through um most of the book probably a couple hours um

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but uh is that something that you that you want to do on this journey south is uh start flipping through this book i i

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sort of flip through this book defiance if i can find a quick answer for flynn and i just um i look up for midnight

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i i think i'll need some time with this um if you don't mind yeah

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um but maybe uh maybe if we uh stop at nestle valley

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okay speaking of um and i i stir the book for now

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when they left nasa valley they were they just summoned the cult pikes to

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come and deal with the nautics yeah yeah um hope everything's all right there well

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we're gonna go see [Music] also uh

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westbury didn't we get a letter

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in the iron light uh about a problem that westbrook was having oh did we i'll uh dig through my bag and

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uh pull up them all right yeah okay i got it um all right

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let's look at some ears open assistant uh a flynn you gotta speak up i don't

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know what you're saying or just summarize right right i'm speed reading okay it's uh there's beasts from

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somewhere not from here um that's scary and people are missing

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their family members [Music]

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i roll originally from there yes interdimensional creatures coming out

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kidnappings in westbury we might have the answer to this one too they were they were gonna use these people to yeah

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summon more monsters were you guys kidnapped from westbury all of you

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yes yeah most of us uh in our sleep from what we were just saying okay so that's solved so you can get a

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check mark on your blue ribbon for that one zarco yes

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um do you think flynn has reached his like silly status or whatever says the the to

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get the thingy with the silly okay but to get the like like the badge of honor or whatever you want to call it

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if because i mean he did save your life do you have trophies with you oh yeah

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and i'll go in the bag and i'll pull out the arm uh or the hand of the knot they also got notes that have been signed off

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even if even if you had not it pains me to say but i would be willing to personally vouch for your

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your uh you would yeah well you saved me i think i owe you one wait wait i didn't hear you what'd

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you say say that again we are not moving as fast as we need to be to get to uh

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to get to nestle valley by night time so i think we should start to move quicker okay but okay one question do we have to

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like go back to addersfeld or can they just like send him whatever he needs to have to be like full fully fledged no he

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needs to be there yeah it's kind of a thing we have certain um

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not only rituals but uh things that items like this and he pats his um

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he pats his pauldron on the shoulder um things that imbue with magical abilities

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that uh are not sent through the mail okay flynn are you

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gonna be less of a pan in the ass if we get this done for you i'm not a penis you're a pain in the ass you're a pain

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in the ass [Laughter] i'm with little girl

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so so feeling are you going to be less like i'm not powerful enough and i homemade

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if we do this thing for you you're mean are you going to answer the question are

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you going to can you rephrase it nicely yeah are you going to admit it that was pretty right i mean you're mean but jeez

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okay don't push your luck i'm on i'm on your side for this you're gonna be better are you gonna be better and not like

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work yourself to the bones so that you're exhausted all the time if we do this thing for you um

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no promises why well there's people hunting us now that are apparently like

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us no no i understand that but i'm just saying like this whole thing has been like i gotta do this to become a sentinel i gotta do this to become a sentinel so once you're a sentinel

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like will that be it are you just gonna like be cool there is much more independence

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i will say that yeah it must be nice yes look at him you haven't been making a

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lot of decisions independently already so i mean

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so i'm just trying to say i would really like my ultimate i'm just observing this amusement i'm just just

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watching this like a carnival so like once you get the pauldron yeah and you're a sentinel and apparently people

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are going to be trying to kill you um you're going to be fixing to get better so i can defend

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myself against the people trying to kill me yes right but you're not going to be like i got to do this so we got to go back to addis pod and i got to do this

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and then i got to go back to addersfeld and i gotta do this and i don't know if you've been listening well we've got a lot to do yes yeah okay

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here yes once i get this it'll give me some more independence and but i mean there are

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there are not rules but there's like things that sentinels are a task to do like some people zorko was tasked to do

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this red wolf's nonsense can't can't you just get tasked to do it circle can't you just tell well melloroo that flynn

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was helping you and that flynn is gonna take points yes um i am only stationed that that is failed and taking orders

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from melloroo continually um because i choose to do so at this moment okay and

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zorko's eyes kind of linger on flynn for a moment longer but um i wink because i

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heard everything this sort of shakes his head um theoretically uh once you leave

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battersfield this last time you don't need to go back uh as i'm sure

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you know um with victor it could be years until you return

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if you would like i'm only stationed there because i choose to be

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okay yeah so we'll have a little bit of free weight it we waited take care of this

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of course after we figure out what's going on with people trying to kill us me

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uh yeah well we can help you do that we were already doing that i mean that's why i left i'm not saying let's not do that i'm just saying like are you going

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to be less like i gotta listen to meluru every second of every day

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well i mean she's the boss so it sounds like you're saying yes to just say yes yes thank you

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i nod serenely like a father and uh i i will slowly stroll away from

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that conversation trying to distance myself from this mean little girl

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i'm not being mean and i will saddle up uh next to zorkol and

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um it's being of power um what have you found and i'll pull out my

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sentinel book and my bestiary as we're walking kind of just like flip through pages and show him some stuff that i've seen

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do you want to like take notes um

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probably not at this moment and he reaches his right hand up to sort of scratch at his face and as he's coming

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back down he signs to you with a couple flurries of his fingers uh the words fall back and he is slow starts his pace

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turn the slow i'll uh i'll notice that i'll block it and i'll uh slowly kind of

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like let myself drop to the back of the pack and in a way that like we're going to flank the the civilians

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so we have the back covered and uh so the two center but us two will be in the back and then

34:57

they can be in the front covering okay as we walk past len you're walking so slow flynn i know you've got short legs

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but come on i'm going to go to the back with more cone we can watch from the the rear to make sure no one from the back

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gets lost or falls or gets attacked this is like a typical thing that we learn in

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ireland okay okay bye and i'll walk to the back of zorgo okay um do i

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hear anything weird going on like do i see anything out of place like i'll look take a quick look around when he says

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he's gonna like circle the civilians perception check [Music]

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seven you don't see anything weird but i mean it makes sense to have some

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fighters in the back just to like the the civilians who

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are not trained in uh any sort of combat [Music]

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um and he goes and he looks at the the book that you pulled out

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um the beast area or the uh the spell the spell list of spells from oh he first he

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he grabs the beast okay um and he starts flipping through uh the notes that you've taken on the

36:11

monsters leaving down and he uh he passes by the page of the cyclops and you see his eyes kind of raise and and a

36:18

little bit depressed awesome um and he uh he puts it down and gives it

36:23

back to you and he says um if if you don't mind we can uh next time

36:29

we are stopped uh we could trade notes i'd love to take down what you have taken down and

36:35

you can uh have some of what i've taken down each other right yes um

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this morning before everyone woke up i went back down to the ruins um

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and i i don't know exactly what this is but and he takes out a small piece of

36:59

parchment um and he says i just this was written all over um the

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the central pillar that the key was put into um and it was also inlaid at the bottom

37:12

of the the pillars that everyone was strapped to um i don't know what this is though and he hands you a piece of paper

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okay and you unroll it and you can see very clearly um

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and what you can now read as a infernal you see

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um four lines written out there um in a very similar way to uh

37:37

how you guys had actually etched the infernal previously and it says what has come to pass shall come again

37:45

the seeds we sow have been for naught our only path forward is to expand

37:50

beyond the end is the beginning end is the beginning they say out loud

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[Music] what do you think all this means

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i don't know i cannot even read it um oh um i just heard you say the ending again

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that's the thing i can kind of do now i guess i had a

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uh thing in like a demon or some devil or something in me in my head

38:23

um like takes a step back it's it's fine now i mean it's without i think

38:29

it's in a cage um where we're going you can see it it's pretty weird

38:35

very dark unless you read uh whatever language this is yeah i i guess i mean i

38:42

can understand it now i mean i'd call that useful

38:51

so uh what did the full thing say well while this conversation's been going on dm can i have been

38:56

uh reading the the oh for sure yeah um uh yeah there is going to be a

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a slight slight um not quite disadvantage because you are traveling while reading it but you will

39:11

still be able to get quite a bit done once alma and flynn started bickering i probably would have just okay okay this

39:16

is fine i'm just gonna like keep my ears open but i'll start reading i look over at kellick and he's reading and i look back at flynn and zorcolin they're just

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like chatting and i just them kicking a rock as we walk um and like

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murmuring to myself all right um so it says

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what has come to pass shall come again the seeds we sow

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have been for naught our only path

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forward is to expand beyond

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the end is the beginning that's the last part

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um so maybe

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i can bring this to the team if that's all right they're kind of i don't know how much you trust them so i i wanted to give

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this to you and you can you can decide okay don't tell him this but i trust him with my life

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[ __ ] okay then yeah so as i'm kicking around

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to myself and like my head is bobbing as i'm like having an argument basically with myself in my head just like

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with flynn in my head almost arguing even when she's alone

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[Laughter] why do you think i'm so good at it

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uh yeah um yeah they're

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they mean a lot okay then uh feel free to do what this information what you will

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okay i'll see if they know anything um yeah

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really cool to be hanging out mm-hmm why did

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why did you bully me [Music] oh [ __ ] i didn't think i'd be getting

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that question um like i was just trying to do my best and like i know i didn't really fit in but

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like what i know i'm not as tall as you and i know i'm not as strong

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or not smart but i tried

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and is i uh trying will only get you so far um

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i did not believe you belonged there now i am proven incorrect

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good and we keep proving your own okay

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saved your life and as i walk away hey guys um i

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i immediately feel like you shake myself out of my i'm what i'm still still wrapped in the book i found a or well

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zarkov gave me this paper and it's in like the weird language but i can read it so i guess it's like before anyway um

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[Music] yeah i look at it and it looks like the

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carvings that we got from the from the cave exactly yeah the the same symbology not the exact same like lettering but um

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very clearly the same symbology okay oh yeah that was all over the cave yeah you know like uh

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in death is in life we will serve the outcast spooky yeah i mean this one's just like that you want to read it oh okay yeah read it

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okay so uh it says what has come to pass shall pass crap hold on that's that's wrong

42:48

are you sure you can read it what has come to pass shall come again

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the seas we sow have been for naught our only path forward is to expand

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beyond the end is the beginning oh i mean that makes sense

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i mean they're getting keys to go to other planes yeah is that the expansion apparently zorco found this all over the

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ruins all this this scribbles all over the ruins do you think the scribbles were there like after the ruins were

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ruins or before the ruins were ruined it has come to pass come again

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like like were they freshly scribbled through it on the ruins oh look at the paper does it look like it has been

43:31

newly formed or written um looking at them the letters themselves look pretty

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distinctive um you'd think if they were there for a while there would be like one some uh wearing on the edges and

43:43

everything but all the lines look pretty um straight i mean this looks pretty new or ish though what came to pass

43:51

that they're trying to make come again um well the ruins became a ruins because of some reason right i i hold the book

43:57

up when i tap it yeah i keep reading the loss yeah i think that's what's coming again

44:04

according to their deranged because why wouldn't they just do that in the waste then yeah i mean that's what they're trying to do

44:10

but it's already a waste maybe they're trying to make it bigger like you said those are two different cities though

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the dakir ruiz are different than the waste unless the same thing happened in both places there's something in that book about the decay ruins but we're not

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far from the waste the seeds we sow have been for naught

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maybe something went wrong the seeds we sow present tense

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yeah like they've been trying to sew chaos but it hasn't been working i mean it seems kind of like it's working

44:40

expand beyond yeah with the planes yeah like they're all going to other planes i mean that was that one that one makes the most

44:45

sense out of all of them yeah i mean that one makes the most sense how does allowmen a creature

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spew in magma through a gate into this world

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help anyone well the end is the beginning so like kill me and then i'll start again and i don't know isn't that

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like all all like orders and cults and things they're like kill me so i can like

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are you experienced in this yeah um no i don't know any cults off the

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top of my head unless you count the new gods well i haven't really been with any

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cults but like we did die and come back so do you feel any different

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what do you mean like after dying and coming back like my end was the beginning yeah do you feel like a newborn baby

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i i look at her i i scowl at her and take offense no i no do your knees feel any better no

45:42

they don't feel any better alma thank you for asking so you don't feel like

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it's a beginning no and i don't think that's what they meant can't you just ask your god to fix

45:53

your knees he's not done i just

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oh and i'll just ask them to end the war while i'm at it right yeah that'd be good seems really helpful

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i'll just you know cast ascending spell well actually i mean the war is between the old gods and

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the new gods and like their followers so like i can see why you know yeah for them to end it so if you like the new

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gods does that mean that you're like or what caldor is doing to promote them

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[Music] um i think it's a little bit more complex than that flynn well i just

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would like an answer no of course not hey

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the killing being done is uh repulsive to me but um

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i don't know why in truth you say i like the new cards but i

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that is the extent of my relationship i have a sort of um

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uh tenuous friendship with sakura and i just like look at the center of my palm with the scar

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but my relationship with vermeer was like

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totally different i loved her

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zachariel to me is like um [Music] uh

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maybe closer to your relationship with uh larue

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uh person with power whose aims i think i understand and respect but i

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don't like the way he's going about what he's doing yeah

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but he similarly then gives me the power to

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make my own changes to this world and the old gods didn't

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or the temple didn't i sort of shrug um

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it's not as simple as that i served from here for 30 years more

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and the new gods took her out

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killed her like i can't remember what happened why why are the new gods gone now her power flows through artemisia to

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smite us and the war persists because

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the old gods refused to loosen their grasp of angel and gentle there

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so [Music]

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i don't know i don't know how i feel about it i mean i don't know i never really

48:55

talked about any gods before now me either so isn't it fair to say

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that just because you lived in a place that supports the new old gods and kellik has a new god i mean

49:08

why does that really affect us i think people should get to listen to whatever god they want to listen to and like why why why do we

49:16

have to have a big war because of it you know yeah i mean i think so too i think you should be able to

49:21

worship whoever you want but when one person worshipping a god tries to force it on someone else

49:28

and is killing in the name of that god that's not okay but that's happening in both directions when did when did that

49:35

happen in both directions at cold crest they attacked an outpost if they didn't

49:41

attack it but outposts exist for the reason to continue war outposts exist to protect

49:51

and if a new god follower is attacking someone that doesn't believe that's wrong

49:59

i'm i don't really have any problems with the new gods i just have the problems with the people that are following them not all of them i like but

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a lot of them are doing some bad things and i think the bad things are happening because of a country though not because

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of like those those the army is the army of kaldor they're not the army of the new god when

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the tomb of the red wolf was cracked shadows spilled across the timberland

50:26

and afflicted a mighty curse upon the people of shraya's

50:32

little commune the old gods abandoned those people

50:40

they never showed them the ways to create their own power they

50:46

those people relied on the power of the gods to protect them and when that power disappeared they were

50:52

helpless like little children [Music]

50:58

the new gods aim to change that and

51:05

they're content to do it through bloodshed [Music]

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that seems to be the only way anything gets done around here in this land

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even in our efforts they've had to cut down

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mortals [Music] men and women

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and i don't know how how big does that scale become

51:34

when you're trying to change the whole world

51:40

i just don't think killing innocent people because they don't follow the same god you do is okay

51:50

even if the aim is to give those people the means to their own

51:55

salvation let them follow who they want that's what they purport they

52:02

zachary believes in giving people a choice [Music]

52:08

but he doesn't think that the people of andell again but there have that choice

52:14

and for a decade of my life i

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took that choice away from people

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[Music] i guess i just like become like cloistered like i just like my my vision

52:37

just like leans down and i sort of stopped making eye contact i'll um

52:42

i'll go towards the side of the road are there still dandelions i'd like to pick one up

52:49

and just walk back over to cowlick um just

52:54

i i miss you said your head was kind of like closer to your pointed down i will kind of put the dandelion like in his in his

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view [Music] i'll take it so we

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we help them we help

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help them understand how people understand

53:20

everyone you have

53:26

i like every better term of foot in both camps you have a lot of knowledge about both sides you can

53:32

spread that knowledge and maybe maybe make help people understand so we don't have to fight so they don't have

53:38

to fight so so cal door can stop attacking and so the old god followers can

53:44

make a better choice you went to bed the other night but but kellie and i were talking about

53:51

all we really need is for people to understand the old gods are dead and done well and that there's no hope so

54:00

maybe not leap with that though okay well but like that they're dead so

54:06

but that one we don't need them the lady is using the power still so they're not quite dead i don't think

54:13

yeah but they're losing power they might be something else entirely

54:18

do you think the outcast is one of the gods

54:24

older new i think he's to use them

54:31

a word of disorder that he's beyond beyond the gods do you think he is the outcast

54:38

do you think the old gods went to the outcast for power

54:45

and that that's their edge they're trying to use him to get power to fight the new gods

54:51

maybe the outcast do you think he was one of the gods and i don't know that was outcast from being a god

54:58

maybe he's a new god that was out there he is the outcast because he was outcast from the new gods or the old from the

55:03

old guys yeah one of them i mean we all we talked about nothing not inside being outside in the end

55:10

the in crowd are the old gods that makes a lot of sense actually but i well because it's a little bit

55:17

like a cuddle in this very precise argument what didn't make sense to me

55:22

so until we know otherwise maybe we just lead with that yeah i mean it could

55:28

since it's been there for a while i don't know how long ago the new gods got here but it seems like the outcast has been

55:33

around for a long long time it might make sense that the outcast is an old god that was outcast for being an old

55:38

god maybe that's how the new god started maybe the new gods are the outcast no i don't think that no

55:44

because they're i mean they're older than i am but they're not that old okay watch the new gods

55:51

yeah well i mean yeah they're the war's only been going

55:57

yeah the war's only been going on for like 30 years i mean it takes a while to make a god i would assume

56:02

maybe they didn't get the team set up until now my understanding was that they dethroned

56:07

the old gods that they yeah found a way i i don't know

56:13

i'm hungry don't you think so here's the thing though don't you think because because

56:19

kelly i always forget her name it's so weird yeah because maybe frida is that easier

56:26

friday no that's not any easier

56:31

okay that's not i'm over right now i know i'm just going to call her artemisia but if i forget it i'm just

56:36

going to ask her [Music]

56:42

yeah i think flynn's right i think um um

56:47

no what i was gonna say stop into stop distracting me i was gonna say

56:53

that if artemisia is using is is part of

56:59

the order of the red wolf and supports the outcast but is using powers

57:04

from an old god wouldn't it stand to reason that the old gods have supported

57:09

the outcast and that the outcast was outcast from the old gods not from the new unless there's some way to combine

57:15

the powers when i found artemisia she was doing some kind of dark ritual and maybe she found a way to

57:23

i don't know uh combine the our connection to the mirror

57:29

i think we have a lot of theories we just need answers and we have two people to extract those

57:36

answers from oh that's right and they reside in a dungeon of a practiced torturer is it

57:42

weird is it probably bad that they're with the demon do you think they're already stoned

57:48

no can you reach out to hayfrieder just how does that work well i can i think does it fit to his

57:54

goopy void that's a good question i don't um [Music] well

57:59

uh um we'll figure it out eventually just uh

58:06

have hope caleb well given the options

58:13

i think hope is really the only choice i have i'm gonna turn to look at everyone

58:19

behind us how are you all holding up we're good yeah yeah steady pace little tired but i

58:26

think we'll make it uh speaking of how at this point yeah ho how long have we been walking

58:31

um at this point it's been a couple hours um probably about midday so we should probably stop and take a

58:38

break do we know how long until we get there um you know how long it took you to get

58:44

from nestle valley to the dakir ruins and it took you a better part of a day okay so um and you are traveling at a

58:50

slightly slower speed just with a larger group now um so but today you did leave a little bit

58:56

earlier so you're probably going to get there night time okay yeah

59:01

do you guys want to take a midday break i'm so hungry yes okay i'm still observing this um

59:08

dandelion may my end be the beginning

59:13

and i blow the little seeds off of it to go sprout

59:18

other dandelions or call we're gonna take a break

59:24

okay um you wanna just right here yeah that's fine you wanna look at it you wanna look

59:29

at the books yeah we can sit down cool all right and i'll go over to zorco and

59:35

pull out my uh pcra first and kind of like exchange and see if he's got any monsters and notes of monsters that i've

59:41

yet to meet or see okay and i'm gonna try to like look for berries and stuff

59:46

outside i'm gonna uh read the tragedy of the lost i'm gonna look for things that we

59:52

can feed the people all right um so he has three detailed

59:57

accounts of monsters that you do not have okay um you flip to the first one

1:00:03

and um you can see that well first and foremost um

1:00:08

he's a pretty good artist like he has has he scheduled these things um he's got some pretty good detail um

1:00:15

so the first page that you flip to

1:00:22

it has a uh an image there a drawing of a almost

1:00:28

lizard-like creature that has eight legs and it looks it

1:00:33

looks stocky and it looks muscular and uh you can see on the front it's got these rows

1:00:40

of razer razor sharp teeth and like a snakes uh forked tongue

1:00:45

out of the front um you can see these eyes that even though it is a charcoal drawing you can see um they almost look

1:00:52

like they're glowing and um some dark spikes that go along the back

1:00:58

of the head um and down the spine into the tail and you can see that he's labeled this

1:01:03

as a basilisk so you can read his notes you see uh you

1:01:11

can see different weak points that he has a detailed out you can see how difficult it is to uh have combat with

1:01:17

this thing how long it usually takes in battle as well as some other notes the next one that you see

1:01:24

that you have not taken down um this creature

1:01:31

just it looks like a giant snake skeleton like it doesn't have any flesh on it it

1:01:37

doesn't have any musculature it is just bones and uh you can see

1:01:43

it comes into the skull head of a snake but the bottom jaw is like

1:01:49

in two pieces it's like ripped in half and you can see that this one is labeled as a bone naga what

1:01:57

and you get all the information on that as well cool um lastly there's another i hope we

1:02:03

never see the last one yeah um the last one you see um is

1:02:08

the most terrifying of the bunch um you see a humanoid figure standing there

1:02:14

hunched over long arms draping down the front um long what looks like wet draping hair coming

1:02:22

over the face um you can see it drenched in uh not only this this

1:02:28

almost like goopy liquid um but also uh seaweed just dripping off of it um as

1:02:35

you see it labeled as a sea hag rose

1:02:40

and so you add all of those to your notes you know how detailed accounts on a sea hag bone naga and basilisk

1:02:47

[Music] whoa what is that and i'll point to the

1:02:54

picture of the hack that you described um something that you should pray that you never come

1:03:00

across it was unpleasant to settle it looks unpleasant did it smell unpleasant too

1:03:07

yes you know i'm finding that a lot of these things just smell just don't smell very good no not at all

1:03:14

what about this one and i'll point to the uh the bone naga like where did you fight that

1:03:19

uh that was uh sort of up north i went sort of by it's next to aramore um

1:03:25

there's a place where um uh river sort of intersects with the summer still

1:03:31

mountains huh and i uh i fought it at the base of the mountains

1:03:36

which one of these and i'll point to the book in general which one of these are the hardest for you to fight

1:03:42

the basilisk uh provided its own set of challenges that i did not enjoy

1:03:48

like what uh it starts to turn you to stone what

1:03:54

yes okay as i frequently write that circle it star it

1:04:00

okay good to know um well have you seen any of this stuff

1:04:05

that i've seen and i'll like hold him i'll give him my book um and he he immediately flips uh first

1:04:11

thing flips to the page with the cyclops yeah and uh begins yeah writing that down um oh do you want to see the uh you

1:04:19

want to see a necklace and i'll go to my bag and i'll pull the necklace out because keller gave it to me i believe

1:04:24

um it was wearing this

1:04:29

oh nice yeah um he continues to flip through

1:04:34

um he flips to the page with the hook horrors and he just like looks at it for a second looks at his book and it's you

1:04:41

can see he's like comparing his notes to your notes um continues to flip and uh

1:04:48

he stops at the fire giant as well oh that's another

1:04:56

one that he takes down um and the rest of them he uh he doesn't take as much time with he just sort of

1:05:02

just down the basic notes but those are the two that he sort of takes some time really sees you know what's dangerous

1:05:09

about this what do i avoid and and all that good stuff

1:05:14

kellick i'm gonna have you roll an intelligence check for me oh here we go

1:05:20

do well i now i'm using it i'm just gonna die that's somewhat reliable natural 20 yes

1:05:27

for everything for a total and straight intelligence right this is 23. okay that natural 20 is going to get so

1:05:33

perfect man let's go okay so the tragedy of the loss read us the

1:05:40

whole [ __ ] book yeah i'm not gonna it's a big book so i'm not gonna go word for word but i'll

1:05:46

give you i'll give you uh this summary and some some detailed points um

1:05:52

so the book starts out as uh there was the city of primordia it also details in

1:05:58

some of the other cities that were around primordia at the time that are now engulfed by the waste but

1:06:05

reading through it doesn't seem that these particular the the surrounding cities don't seem to play a huge part and are not focused too much in the

1:06:11

narrative got it um but then the book recounts a uh a time when in primordia there was

1:06:20

a singular temple to the old gods um that reached far into

1:06:25

the sky um right in the middle of primordia it was made of this this white marble

1:06:32

and it was said that upon approaching primordia you were able to see this temple from miles away day or night

1:06:41

um and it was it was this sort of beacon to the old gods

1:06:46

you also read that there was nearly constant worship done in this

1:06:52

temple people from all over the world would make this a destination to come to um

1:06:59

even non-religious people would come just to see and to to witness um this place

1:07:07

it also accounts um the the city itself not just the temple

1:07:12

but um the city of primordia which was is described as just as beautiful um

1:07:18

gardens just about everywhere each building seemingly incorporated into nature

1:07:24

itself and and flowers constantly in bloom um

1:07:30

food readily available there seemed to be a very loose system

1:07:35

of commerce where there was more than plenty for everyone so there was no need for

1:07:41

um stealing there was no need for uh there was no like coveting what your neighbor had because

1:07:48

you yourself had access to it um and and even even

1:07:53

systems of money were only existing there as a remnant of the outside world

1:08:01

beyond the city itself you read further and the temple at the center seemed to be a place

1:08:08

where the old gods actually visited physically

1:08:14

went physically appeared in their forms you could approach

1:08:21

vermeer let's say you could shake vermeer's hand let's say

1:08:26

you could just for example have a conversation with a tear um you read that il durya was was much

1:08:34

more distant didn't come to the temple as often but all of the old gods regularly made physical appearances

1:08:40

there just at that information i just like stop reading for a moment and like

1:08:47

put like put my my face in my hands and like sort of like bend into the spine of the

1:08:54

book from where i'm seated and then just like for a couple moments and then i'll become aware that it's

1:09:00

possible for somebody to be seeing me in the state and i just i just get back to reading

1:09:06

um and then you see um several different accounts there there

1:09:13

seems to be a couple of different sets of notes at this point in the book um you start to

1:09:19

get the sense that details are now in this point in the book

1:09:24

starting to become a little bit more sparse um you see a couple different sets of notes from different people

1:09:31

seems like stuff that was gathered um about this and you see a couple of different

1:09:38

slightly varying accounts of um a a small group of people who showed up

1:09:46

one day to worship the old gods um and with the natural 20 you

1:09:53

find that they all wore red cloaks

1:09:59

who did these these different accounts these no the um the group that came one day to worship the old gods

1:10:06

okay um that that seems to be a fact that

1:10:12

is similar throughout all of the accounts is some of the physical descriptions of these people varies in a couple of them

1:10:18

but all of them very distinctly say this group wore red cloaks

1:10:25

um you see that they there was one of the group that was sort

1:10:31

of heralded as not necessarily not necessarily the leader but

1:10:37

seems to be regarded as a chosen one um someone a little bit more special uh

1:10:43

than the rest of them that they all held in in a certain regard

1:10:48

this person in all of the accounts is regarded to as the storm

1:10:58

all of the accounts then get into even less detail um and and fewer of them are written in

1:11:04

the book as the event of the loss seems to begin

1:11:13

the accounts say that this storm um

1:11:18

who was an individual one day went to the temple and unleashed a great display of raw magical power

1:11:26

that even in the presence of this magical temple to the old gods that was

1:11:32

already imbued with magic um the accounts say that they have never witnessed anything like

1:11:38

this and as the storm unleashed their power

1:11:44

everything around them began to vaporize and turn to sand

1:11:50

there was nothing that could be done it seems um

1:11:56

you can you can read that there were a couple of clerics there the different gods that tried to band together to

1:12:02

um to destroy the storm that was destroying the uh the temple but nothing seemed to

1:12:08

work and for days even possibly expanding into weeks

1:12:17

this storm continued to unleash their raw magical power turning everything

1:12:23

miles and miles and miles around into sand everything people buildings trees

1:12:29

disintegrated into sand [Music] the book then accounts a group of

1:12:36

of what is described as adventurers a group of heroes was assembled from all the different

1:12:45

um countries from cal door on del gambol dear and even fraywood

1:12:51

and these band of heroes got together and all went into the waste

1:12:58

never to be seen again but days after they entered the waste the

1:13:04

waste stopped expanding it was assumed within this book and it

1:13:09

is the author's opinion that the heroes were victorious in in completing their mission

1:13:14

although either died from who died in their victory or uh

1:13:21

dispersed into the wind to live their lives out once more

1:13:26

are there descriptions of the physical appearance of any of these either heroes or of the storm himself

1:13:33

themselves the storm is described as a young woman young woman

1:13:41

and what about the heroes anything at all um yes so there were uh there were two

1:13:48

heroes from gamble deer both elven um there was

1:13:54

one hero from ondale human there were three from kaldur

1:14:01

who are all dwarven and there was uh one hero from freywood

1:14:07

and their appearance is described as as sort of

1:14:12

half animal half human uh it's sort of a vague description you don't exactly get

1:14:19

details but it does seem that they were like sort of walking the line between um some sort of uh

1:14:26

humanoid and a beastly creature no drow

1:14:33

um do i know anything about the freywood in terms of their populace because each of these other ones it seems to reflect

1:14:39

where they're from but i don't are they um beast like out there yeah there's um

1:14:45

it is truly the wildest of wilds in in fraywood um you know that

1:14:52

civilization if you could even call it that is very sparse it's more like individual segmented tribes that that

1:15:00

very similar to actually the uh the commune in uh in the shadows

1:15:05

um yeah sort of that sort of uh commune sort of thing but a lot of the people

1:15:11

there um do hold nature in such a regard that druidic magic is very popular there

1:15:26

oh and i just kind of like lean back where i'm uh seated to just like fall on my back and

1:15:33

and close my eyes do i have time um in the within the

1:15:39

short rest of cast sending or would that that reading consumed oh that reading would take i figured it would take

1:15:45

all of the reading that you did while walking as well as everything in the short rest okay and that's fine by me

1:16:00

guys i found some berries is anyone hungry

1:16:05

not in the slightest see a couple of the dwarves raise their hand yeah yeah here you go

1:16:11

kellie do you still have any of that bread what did schreya do with his crate i don't know i don't have it

1:16:17

i don't think we grabbed it did we leave it in the in the nestle valley

1:16:23

shrug yeah that's a nice to watch

1:16:28

um do you saw that bread i will look in my bag and dig around oh

1:16:35

um i'll hold up some bread and i will hand out some bread and some

1:16:41

berries to all of the doors okay they seem content with uh bread and

1:16:46

berries awesome i will also enjoy some bread and berries as well okay

1:16:53

we're not far now from nasa valley and then it's a pretty straight shot to westbury yeah

1:16:58

once people are done eating probably good to get to move on yeah it sounds good and then um

1:17:05

out of your shot of um zorko or i will say to kellik more um harshly

1:17:12

so uh so i did some uh trading of notes with recall on his book

1:17:17

you know how like write stuff down about monsters we fight he saw some some cool stuff but there's this moment

1:17:23

that i saw when he was looking at my book he like looked kind of impressed at some of the stuff

1:17:29

that we thought so [Music] that's good then yeah very glad for yeah so he bought this

1:17:35

like one thing that was like it turns you just don't the stone

1:17:42

how crazy is that well um

1:17:48

but you've seen a bunch of people turn to stone and hey fred's uh little bubble

1:17:53

yeah maybe he knows more about this or maybe that thing i take a closer look

1:18:02

maybe go with me here huh to create an anti-venom

1:18:09

often we use some portices and and some of the venom itself to to treat poisons

1:18:15

okay if this thing turns a purple stone maybe

1:18:20

the same principle can be applied maybe to help with hair freaks

1:18:26

um well i can pass well i mean this oracle said this was the most

1:18:32

dangerous thing he's fought but maybe we can try and go to where he fought it and get one or get

1:18:37

its blood i don't even know what we would need but maybe we can capture one i mean it depends on how it does it i suppose

1:18:43

but we could use the coin maybe to send one to hay feed into a cage and you can just study yeah yeah

1:18:49

and maybe fix his friends but he has friends no decidedly not his friends okay

1:18:57

but i don't know if a man like hayfreed can even distinguish between friends and enemies anymore yeah well

1:19:05

yeah you think he's got all um anything up there he's been

1:19:12

surprisingly cognizant for a matter of seeing so many horrors yeah right

1:19:18

so [Music] i hope so

1:19:23

he's been an incredible help to us yeah and i think we've helped him just a bit

1:19:29

at least i gave him a new lease on all this

1:19:36

yeah i mean maybe this could be a way of saying thank you i've uh ever since i saw those statues

1:19:46

it made me think of graveyards uh but templars of mere keep they um

1:19:53

when you're a person of high status uh often um

1:19:59

a ritual is done so that your remains can be preserved in a statue it's supposed to be a thing of dignity

1:20:07

your material remains stay here and your soul is sent to the heavens um

1:20:13

but hey freed's graveyard is souls are still there

1:20:19

in those statues is that what he said no i'm making an inference i mean

1:20:25

hopefully they are because if they're the enemies that means there are enemies and if we can turn them out all the way i think they may have been his enemies

1:20:32

when he was a servant of the red wolf so that would make them our friends well then we definitely should get them

1:20:37

loosely but i think either way if we get them out and they're our enemies then we can ask them questions enemy our

1:20:43

friend flynn that's not a fate we should wish on anyone true and hey fred knows that

1:20:50

maybe we should ask circle we fought this thing maybe we can try and get one on our way

1:20:55

to wherever we're going at some point i don't know but i mean i nod my head

1:21:00

yeah it might be helpful i mean especially if they have information on the red wolf or on phosphoronoth or

1:21:06

the outcast or olive guard any of it we need information right now we need answers right now we just have theories

1:21:12

so if there's ways to get more answers that might be a good one and also it strikes me we we have a debt to pay

1:21:19

afried yeah and i think relieving him of this burden

1:21:25

would mean a lot to him just from the list that i know of the dwarf let's do it

1:21:32

all right all right let's put it on the list yeah i'll add it to the list

1:21:37

don't tell elmo though because it seems like she's kind of frazzled with all this stuff we're dealing with already i think we should tell alma she doesn't like to be left out of the stream i just

1:21:43

never know with her like i don't know how you deal with her you do it so well like i always buy

1:21:49

heads well you just kind of let her run her cars you know she's she's only got so

1:21:54

much energy that's a good point i never thought about the long haul and for what it's worth

1:22:01

she's uh got a good head on her shoulders yeah despite the temperament yeah he has some

1:22:07

good points sometimes sometimes they're just won't mean yeah um

1:22:14

hard to argue with that that's true all right i'll add it to the list and maybe we'll run into one monday i don't

1:22:21

know um but yeah yeah he's done a lot and i'll uh reach down and uh pick up the hand crossbow

1:22:27

off my hip [Music] how cool is this i'll aim it at a tree and shoot it

1:22:33

what it's fine but there's just there's people around here climbing away from i know but i gotta practice with this

1:22:38

thing too i was thinking about using this instead of the bow i think it's cool it's cooler right

1:22:44

it's like well giving the ball off to shreya well yeah i can't really do anything right now because i'm afraid if i do anything

1:22:51

it'll take the bow away or something so but i think in the future this might be kind of cool like

1:22:57

when i shoot it again at the tree yes that's it's very cool thing yeah and i'll

1:23:03

spin it in my finger and try and do a

1:23:08

[Music]

1:23:19

looks pretty cool all right i think everyone's done eating

1:23:26

yes i'm gonna get out of here nestle valley westbury hayford

1:23:31

right let's go let's go everyone all right everyone can take the benefits of a

1:23:36

short rest if you would like as you uh continue moving on south to

1:23:42

nestle valley is there it's it's a pretty straight shot at this point um is there anything that many of you want to do

1:23:50

before you get there um i'd like to cast sending if i can do that while we're walking yeah yeah of

1:23:55

course i'm going to see if i can find kale drum winds tether

1:24:00

grab it twist around my hand pull it to my heart

1:24:09

it's kellic did you make it out all right i fear for you and your family

1:24:20

we managed to pack most of our things we're headed off to westridge hopefully

1:24:26

we can be lost in the crowds there all right take satisfaction in this

1:24:31

answer what did you find in the book pick up anything good

1:24:39

not too much really

1:24:45

how does how did you find this book then it was it was at the uh

1:24:50

the library we were back in i know but what made you well i went to look for

1:24:55

like spells and like magic stuff and i just came across it and i was like huh this may be

1:25:03

one of the most important items in our collection of information here i'm glad i grabbed it i i uh

1:25:11

it has a tale of a city called primordia okay that was this central place this

1:25:16

convergence of all the nations right center of elbow right

1:25:21

place where people lived happily a utopia and um

1:25:27

no nationalism no combative allegiance is just a

1:25:32

place where people are taken care of by the gods directly even

1:25:38

within it there's a temple a towering temple that you could go to to speak to the gods

1:25:45

personally the way you were describing earlier a way i've never had with amir

1:25:53

and my my veneer cracks a little bit um

1:25:59

and the uh the wastes began

1:26:06

when a group of red-cloaked figures

1:26:11

appeared and savaged the temple with a

1:26:18

great arcane eruption a thing that saundered the temple

1:26:25

and ruled the waste as if from nothing you think it was them

1:26:33

do you think it was the red wolf red cloaks it's better than a bit on the nose but i

1:26:39

yeah straining to find another candidate oh you said there's some kind of arcane

1:26:45

magic how'd they do that i don't know but it was performed by a young woman

1:26:50

they called the storm beware the coming storm fallen star

1:26:56

isn't that doesn't maybe she's coming back how did they stop it

1:27:04

it's vague but some team are heroes was formed by

1:27:10

the various nations elbor and these people ventured into the waste and

1:27:18

well this guy and i just tap on the uh the author's name at the front of the book

1:27:23

he seems to think that they stopped the spreading of the waste okay and that's either they died in the

1:27:30

attempt or they went their separate ways but it strikes me that if you stop something so cataclysmic you're gonna

1:27:36

want some credit for it so i suspect they're either dead or still there or

1:27:43

maybe they turn to stone too it's the options for that are

1:27:48

yeah limitless honestly i don't know i [Music]

1:27:54

i've often dreamt of a place called the high mountain where

1:28:00

stories have always been told legends of that's where the gods sit that's their precipice where they look down on us and

1:28:06

take care of us and all these things and that's when they were usurped that they were pushed off lack of a better word from

1:28:13

the high mountain i wonder how connected that is from this tower

1:28:18

if they're not you know um alternate translations what's a tower if not a mountain

1:28:25

of man-made stone and

1:28:31

i don't know it's just a thought but like it's very interesting

1:28:38

yeah this is a lot of answers and then also a lot of questions that seems to be the way of

1:28:44

these things oh and i do wonder

1:28:50

if the heroes were not successful because the seeds of the red wolf have

1:28:57

failed according to your little prophecy on that parchment yours right

1:29:03

so maybe the heroes didn't succeed but the waste also halted on its own

1:29:12

maybe they stopped to do something else now they're coming back finish it i don't know

1:29:20

it's hard to see was it were they trying to keep it going and then

1:29:27

what was what were they trying to do take out the whole world that seems to be the

1:29:33

effort couldn't find anything in the book that suggested the aim of this fallen storm

1:29:40

character well in the book she's referred to as the storm so maybe there's another

1:29:46

version of her fallen storm sounds pretty good to me

1:29:55

so for structuring our hierarchy yeah we have archday we have the outcast

1:30:02

archmag redwood storm

1:30:08

who's the archbishop again father of the redwood god whose body we found in tomb

1:30:15

should be dead right but maybe isn't

1:30:21

i just kind of i just kind of like turned my palms up to the sky i just just dropped my shoulders yeah

1:30:29

at least we're getting something put together here to start i mean maybe once we get to nestle valley we can take a break get some rest

1:30:37

and then we should come up with [Music] what

1:30:42

questions we can ask the yeah if people be captured yeah

1:30:48

we need to be smart because they are not going to be forthcoming yeah it's true

1:30:56

i'm disappointed in myself for how little i was able to extract from

1:31:02

your little um tormentor right

1:31:08

don't beat yourself up of course not we're doing good

1:31:13

you know i look at that dwarves that are traveling with and especially at the um

1:31:22

woman whose throat was cut or doing as much could be expected

1:31:29

real hours no kidding [Music]

1:31:35

for a bit as we make our way [Music] okay

1:31:41

and as you all continue your way south the sun sets over the mountains

1:31:50

and just off in the distance you can see nestle valley once more

1:31:56

so as you approach um how are you how are you all approaching nestle valley

1:32:03

it is uh at this point night time and seems to be pretty dark i mean just from

1:32:09

the way we came um as we get closer can we see if there's a commotion going on does it seem like i want to know if are things returning to

1:32:16

business as usual or the cold pike is that what they're called are they yeah that kind of stuff what what's the vibe i'll have you make a

1:32:22

perception for me can i assist sure are any of you from the village here

1:32:30

like do any of you have homes here or all of you are all of you from the other side of the mountain

1:32:36

and you see some of them sort of look at each other no we're all from the other side we're also all from westbury oh okay i don't

1:32:43

know what time the tunnel goes back through so we might need to sleep here tonight

1:32:50

okay i guess we'll find out what time the tunnel train thingy

1:32:56

um if if we need to we can i mean it's better than being dead yeah

1:33:02

definitely better than being dead that's a 12 on perception and eight for

1:33:08

me um blind looks sort of like how you don't seem like a

1:33:14

dragon in this guy um kellic you just you just notice how

1:33:21

quiet it is in the morning you got there there was a bunch of commotion um people getting to work now that it's

1:33:27

night time um you're not seeing anyone running around like you had during the

1:33:32

day just seems very quiet okay can we make our way towards the tunnel and see if there might be any

1:33:38

train to take yes you can um as you actually walk into nestle valley uh you

1:33:44

walk by the foothills that um that the house that you guys had had

1:33:49

entered was on um you can see a couple of those houses just on the interior you could just see a little bit of like a

1:33:55

flicker of of fire just to keep light um within these houses and you pass down

1:34:02

the road that passes the houses and you get to nestle valley proper and

1:34:08

all of these these buildings these machines of mining and industry are all

1:34:14

completely silent you do not hear anyone here as you walk towards

1:34:20

the entrance to the mountain where the the rail car is you pass by the massive mine that you

1:34:27

guys had had entered into and you don't see anyone there it seems

1:34:32

that all of the elevators are are up at their top positions but you do see

1:34:38

right next to one of the elevators a pile of about 12 bodies

1:34:43

[Music]

1:34:49

as you walk a little bit closer you can see very distinctly nothing bodies that are

1:34:55

very much dead seem to be just heaped on top of one another uh you can see several of them

1:35:00

have um like slash and stab wounds a couple of them have been burned to a crisp

1:35:06

um and a couple of them seem to like have part of their skulls dented in um

1:35:11

but a pile of about 12 nautical bodies as you approach the the actual tunnel

1:35:17

towards um the inside of the mountain you can see the same two

1:35:23

rail systems that go through um you see that one of them completely empty

1:35:28

the other one has a rail cart on it very similar to the one that you had seen before with the uh

1:35:34

with a little push lever to get it going before we move on from these bodies yeah i would

1:35:39

like to if nobody interrupts me to disintegrate them

1:35:45

okay and i'll just set to work as quickly as possible but i don't want to

1:35:50

send them on all right um you get through about five you get through six

1:35:57

and then all of a sudden you're you're about halfway up one of the legs of one of them and you can see the eye begins

1:36:03

to twitch and its muscles begin to twitch as it reaches up and swipes at you with its

1:36:09

claw um i am gonna just make it oh no

1:36:15

as it just seems to be this this grant movement does an 18 hit

1:36:21

in 18 hits yeah uh-oh it's gonna be six points of flashing damage ah

1:36:28

it seems to be about halfway disintegrated up one of its legs um hey look i'll give you the first move what

1:36:34

would you like to do yeah i'm just gonna continue on doing my thing next cool

1:36:40

and uh it's got to make a wisdom save okay wisdom safe

1:36:46

i mean 11 that's going to be an 11. yeah that fails okay how much damage is that 2d 12.

1:36:56

uh it's 9 points of necrotic damage as the rest of it torso

1:37:03

arms everything up to the head disintegrates into ash gross you okay

1:37:09

yeah i'm all right still the worst for this sucker that was close

1:37:16

maybe next time i'll stand next to you as i move up to when i stand next to him as he continues i'm assuming

1:37:22

and as you continue on um the rest of the bodies easy enough

1:37:27

um on on the second to last one you get about halfway up the chest and you could just see the eye twitch just a little

1:37:34

bit but before long the rest of the bodies have completely disintegrated into ash and

1:37:40

as soon as you finish there seems to be almost a slight gust of air that comes up from

1:37:47

the mine itself and sort of takes away these ashes and disperses them into the air

1:37:58

and might not be uh nice to unhealthy but yeah next time i'll hold my breath yeah

1:38:04

this is a bit beautiful though don't you think yeah anyway

1:38:11

i don't know it's um taken with it the dust aye as opposed to stone

1:38:20

stone and stars these things they rail against each other

1:38:26

the ashes they they're free

1:38:34

blow away in the wind yeah

1:38:39

and i'll i'll lead us uh toward the rail system okay

1:38:47

sounds like someone knocking on your shield oh look at my shield

1:38:54

okay and as you look down and look on the inside the inside is sort of this um

1:39:00

this metal that has a certain sheen to it you can see it almost start to liquify what

1:39:07

and move and warp and all of a sudden it solidifies again except in the reflection you do not see

1:39:13

your face no you see the face of timmy what what

1:39:19

timmy hey flynn how um hatred showed me how to do this i don't

1:39:25

know how long it's gonna last but i was just outside um

1:39:31

there are some people looking for you oh crap and that's where we're gonna end this episode

1:39:38

who could it possibly be um that is where we're gonna call it right there

1:39:43

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