Hi i'm Olma, Flynn, March, Ceallach, Shraya and i'm your DM Ethan welcome to Venture Forth
hi i'm kellock omar flynn and i'm your dm ethan welcome to
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venture forth
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previously you all had ventured down from high atop the mountains where a temple to the old gods recited
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you guys filled these necklaces with sacred water and said goodbye to your new friend seeker
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as you guys headed down the mountain you guys encountered a cyclops and his pet mountain goats these massive creatures
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that immediately trampled you before you were able to defeat them but not before a wild magic surge went
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off from oma creating a fog cloud billowing out you guys ended up making your way
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down the rest of the mountain and into a a small little town where you guys
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gave your horses over to a stable hand and walked over to the town's temple
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a sort of general temple for the new gods where you guys hoped to find
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someone who could remove this curse from flynn and remove these horns as as you
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had seen the previous night flynn was taken over and you guys hadn't
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even realized it so with that
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you guys walked into the temple you guys saw a another companion who you would come across on the road
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a gnome who had a curious little copper band over the top of his head
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and as he recognized you and walked over to you and gave you some strange answers
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he melted into goop on the floor leaving only a pile of what seems to be
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this clay-like substance and the copper band over his head
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you guys look forward as this happens and see the old dwarven man who he was speaking
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with in the temple look over and say what the are you guys doing
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what the was that i don't we
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we don't have the slightest idea sir did you do something to him
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i didn't do anything i was just speaking with him
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what the did you do um yeah i don't think you should talk like that in a temple he seems to have had
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some kind of attack that has left him and i'm gonna kneel
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down to the scoop can i
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is it what is it um
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make a nature check for me
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uh 11 11 it looks like clay clay looks like like
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watery clay yeah i'm going to uh
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dip a finger in and and scoop up a bit of it
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and just show it to the store and you're like
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i don't know any person that can do this to
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a gnome um do you was he made of clay
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i don't know he just came in and started speaking with me gross
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watch was he speaking to you about he was speaking to me about you know
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different magic things and he walks over and from the corner he grabs a little
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mop that was sort of up in the corner and he goes on now i gotta clean this up and he walks over to you guys and he
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sort of starts mopping at it i'm gonna take a little glass vial out of my bag and just put some of the clay in there
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um before he mops that up can i grab the copper thing that was around his head
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yeah for sure oh um does it what does it look like
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it looks like a thin copper band in a u-shape that would perfectly fit around
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the top of his head and sort of come down towards his temples there any writing or anything on it
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no there is not um can i put it on yes you can um as you put it on uh it's
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probably just about the same size for you but it's kind of an awkward fit it looks like it was custom fit to his head
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um it's a cold piece of metal i'm gonna put my hands
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up on it on uh and touch the u-shape on my head and say hello
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can anyone hear me
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knock knock i'm gonna do i did we recall where
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um he was looking when he was he was talking to some something we couldn't see right
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where was he looking he was sort of looking in a general space just beyond your shoulder
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i'm gonna look back over my shoulder
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there's nothing there oh how did you unload this man
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he seemed to know you as as you walked in um oh i don't we didn't really know
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him we just met him we were traveling in the same direction and we were both coming here um
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but we didn't know him know him oh no where's his bug surprise just been
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panting in shock this whole time i thought i had such a good read on him he seemed like what such a nice
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fellow trial where did his bug go i don't know hold on goodness is the bug all alone
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now i've been meaning to ask that bug a few questions um dm did did he disappear with the bug
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you guys don't see the bug you guys didn't see the bug as you approached we have to find him
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i don't even know this man what what what was the contact his bug's name is gary and we have to
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find him he's probably all alone but alma we have other matters that are uh pretty
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pressing right right but he's probably all alone in the
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world now sorry i don't mean to interject but could you just move your foot i got it
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there's a little bit of illness right here to um thank you do i see another
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mop or broom to help make a perception check all right
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man not good i rolled a two so
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probably no but your hands would be more than enough to scoop it up um
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as he's cleaning um i'll walk up and start
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pushing with my feet and like kind of using my feet as kind of
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um like a like i don't know like a way to put it all together and attempt to help him
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and i'll not pipe up hi
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i'm flynn fellow weave um by the way what what's your name hey freed hafe they call me hey free got
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it well again i'm flynn fellow weave and i'm uh and i'll look to uh kellik and
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i'll give him like a little smile and a little wink
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fun and i'm part of the agents of repair and i'll point to the group
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oh huh what all right nice to meet you i'll hold my hand out
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nice to meet you too and he reaches his hand out and as he does um you see like
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these he's an old dwarven man you can see these well weathered hands um and as he sort
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of shakes her hand firmly um the ornaments and the golden um
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um jewelry in his beard and in his hair sort of shakes and and jingles a little bit um as he firmly shakes your hand
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good to meet you i'll say that good to meet you too um oh well it doesn't seem like my feet
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are doing too much is there a way that you might have another room i can help you i can help you out
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hey there's a couple over in the corner i'll go over and grab one start helping him um okay excuse me mr
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hayfried yeah what can i do for um
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this is all really sudden um our friend my friend becoming clay um
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what did he want he was asking me about magic what about magic nothing quite in
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particular but just how i use it and sort of the things that come from it you use magic
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i used to oh you don't like to use it anymore
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i just don't practice anymore oh why i i sort of gave it up
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bad habits and all magic is a bad habit
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i was the way i was using it was bad habits oh things i don't want to be doing anymore
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oh okay okay um i see
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what sort of magic was he asking you about
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can you be any more specific i don't want to cry but no not at all he uh he came in and he was sort of asking me
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about how i learned how to do what i can do i just told him i you know
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years of reading and practice really um sort of came to me pretty well in my
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younger days but uh and then i told him you know the mind wears thin and i haven't been
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uh using it very much since and he was taking notes the entire time he seemed very astute i don't know exactly who he
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was but um that seemed to be sort of what he was doing this is just finding out how i use
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magic alma triad did he do the same with you did he ask you
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no no he didn't ask me at all about magic but i also didn't tell him that i could do it because i i can't i
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don't know anything about magic but what did he ask you or what did you talk about
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well i asked him if he knew anybody who could um who could um
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remove things from somebody we know
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he just seemed to be in a rush when i talked to him and he didn't he needed to get somewhere very quickly
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and uh i didn't have time to i
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miss gary and i'm gonna go out the door um and i'm gonna look around and see if i
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can spot this bug anywhere all right um um either make a nature or
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perception check for me
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uh 19 okay um as you go out of this temple um you sort of look often just
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around the corner of the temple you can see a leather strap sort of jutting out and as you walk around the corner you
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can see right there on the ground um a little harness the same harness that looked like it was
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strapped to the back of gary um that the gnome was riding on top of just laying there on the ground um from that you can
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see little foot prints in the dirt um of like a little rhino beetle
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foot scattering off into the grass and you sort of see where it's going in and
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the grass becomes pretty tall and you fly up and you can just see off in the distance the in the planes of the grass
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like a little part and you can see just where this where this bug is making its way through the grass you can see it sort of swerving
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back and forth i'm gonna rush back in i found gary
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who is gary i have no idea what is happening who is that is this his his uh his i i suppose he's
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called a mount or a he was riding on him is this bug that and uh
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i will i must go get him
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all right you rush over to gary and uh you meet him in the tall grass ah
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i am going to feel my feathers into the ground i'm gonna dip my head toward the earth touch my
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forehead to the earth touch my hand to my forehead and then lay a hand on gary
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as i as i say to gary
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where are you headed now little beast friend i'm going home home
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i thought your charge was to serve your master it was and then he left
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now i'm going home where is home
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that way ah acid brilliant home indeed uh
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how long were you with your master um probably a day a single day
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oh gary yeah gary kerry gary harry i need to ask
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it's very important okay did your master ever do
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anything or or conjure anything or create anything that
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seemed very out of the ordinary um
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no did you how far did you travel with him
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see the mountains over there yeah hey yeah that's that's about it i see i see
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well gary i will never forget you and uh i'm gonna take off a little um
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okay i'm gonna take off a little like leather band with a little bead hanging from it
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can i tie this around one of your my legs is the wrong word but those
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appendages you can remember me by okay i've never seen a beast quite like
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you okay if we run into you again but i hope we do i fasten this little
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leather band with the bead around it around its little uh uh whatever bug legs are called i have no
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idea what they're called uh and tie it and uh i bid you ado gary
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may your life be the best kind of life that
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a bug of your stature could live and then uh with that i bid him adieu and and go back and rejoin
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the group okay bye goodbye and he sort of continues waddling off
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into the grass as you make your way back to the group he's a bug oh my
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god it's a book named gary is that yeah he's this cute little bug um and he's
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he's a big bug um and the gnome was riding on i said little or bad and his name is gary
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um are you making this up why would i make that up because it sounds silly as i bust through the door
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i say it appears gary was a uh friendship of convenience rather than
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some long-standing long-standing partnership oh
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poor gary yes well he seems like he's on his way to bigger and better things
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oh okay well good i'm glad he didn't turn into clay yes yes he said he's headed home
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what is it okay great um anyway um so ernest
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that ernest is um the play ma'am ernest said that he was tracking down um
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and writing about people who do all sorts of great things like magical
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things so it seems like he's been like studying magic a little bit about how people can do it which is pretty
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interesting um especially for a person that can turn into a puddle
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a poodle a puddle a puddle a puddle a bottle not a poodle
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right uh yeah uh this is all very fascinating hey freed
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is there a a practitioner here of uh uh healing arts
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within the temple here you're looking at him that makes sense but
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you don't do magic anymore yeah well i mean i can get you sort of patched up
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if you want but i see we have a
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more a more dire need then a simple patch nope
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you know where the closest place we could find someone to
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address you know a uh i'll i'll tug on calyx robe
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to pull him down to my level yes yes yes pardon us for a second ernest already
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told me he told me the closest person that we had to go to and it's also an oak
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inspire not here our nostalgia that we couldn't
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and what are we doing what kind of curse is it that you said
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it's uh and you can see at this point like he starts to smile a little bit like he's he's intrigued at the word
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curse well it's uh a bit of a knick-knack he picked up uh
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it's just a it's a small thing but uh it would take some some some proper care to undo it's um
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he got a it's sort of a children's toy that uh he became very taken with you can kind of adjust her over to flynn as
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he's managing the broom that's too big for him the mob
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he's quite that the chipper of the fella so he got the small uh toy from a shop
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and it turned out uh to contain the soul of a very old ghost that now uh puts
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strange things in his dreams strange food substances uh all trash streams and
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uh it's it's not you know dangerous but quite uh almost my face is just
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so confused i'm gonna have you make sure she's very very confused by this whole
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story let's see what he's about as a 23.
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he rolled high he did not roll that high um oh the thing is i haven't seen a curse in
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a few years i'd like to check it out if you have a moment
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what what's your interest in kind of my thing back in the day getting rid of them or giving them
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no a little bit of both told you bad habits and all um can i look him up and down and see if
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there's any symbols of wolves
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either perception or investigation 15
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uh 15 really no wolves um just sort of some simple simple um uh like leather clothes um
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like some leather armor here and there um and then these wool clothes underneath but no
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no red even just no wolves
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well i think his particular reflection is a bit private uh so i wouldn't want to trouble him
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with it but uh i do have something you might find of interest uh and i'll pull the rubbing i took
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from the uh sword um the ghosty sword uh and say do you happen to know uh what
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this might translate to uh it was an another uh curse we encountered on the road i'm not off the top of my head but
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i can probably help you find out i'd i'd be very keen to
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all right that'd be ground well the thing is the place that i can find out
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is the same place that i can remove your friend's curse so if you want to just hit two birds
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with one stone i'm more than happy to help you all out get back in the game so to speak um
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put the broom against the wall um yeah maybe we start with the
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inscription first and see how that goes all right i want to just like look him up and down
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curiously um and i want to um
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i want to try to see if his eagerness is
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for like uh uh
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is is more um educational or
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malicious make an insight check if anyone else wants to he's talking to the whole group so if anyone else wants
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to help out yes please do because um that was a well it was a 10 for me
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but earl real low all right uh mine is a 26.
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jeez let's go with that one um oma you don't really get a good read on
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this guy um kellik uh you can read this dude like a book
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um he's he's just like eager to jump back into it like he um you can tell like there's
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not really a malicious intent um you can tell that he was totally genuine about
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like the bad habits thing um and it doesn't really seem like he wants anything malicious he just sort of wants
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a little bit of like something to do um and as you look around this temple here um
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this is like just such a small town temple like
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brooming up this dude who turned to clay is probably the most eventful thing that's happened to him in years and he's
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just really itching for something to do hello why don't you take us uh to your
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uh to this place and uh we'll uh maybe start with the inscription and
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then if you can help us we'd love to be rid of this problem
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all right you'll like uh you can follow me and uh he leaves the temple
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and as you guys follow him um it's a super small town so you guys only have to walk for a minute or two before um
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you get to this uh little quiet old house um sort of in in the little almost
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if there's a suburban area to this town it's almost even too small for that but you can see a couple of houses lined up
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um and he opens up the door and on the outside it's simple but on the
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inside you can see all of the like support beams in this house
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and all of the um sort of corners everything has been intricately carved
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in with these dwarven symbols and all of this like dwarven artwork
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just everywhere paintings up on the wall um tapestries hanging and all of these
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pillars are carved in with these these dwarven art
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and as you guys walk in with him um he goes
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over to this wall and he says now have you all just
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stepped back for a moment and he walks over the wall he places his
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two hands on the wall and the wall sort of sinks in
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and the wall separates and sort of the the the panels of the wall that he had pushed in um sort of
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merge in with the rest of the wall there and what is revealed is a shelf
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a shelf full of different items of different sizes some of them are like a little wooden carving some of them are
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made of metal some of them are made of crystals and you can see a couple of plants in there as well
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you can see some staffs and some wands and he
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looks over and he says now we're going to be going to a place to do
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this i place i haven't been in quite some time but uh
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you can only go there if you're willing so you'll like to come with me
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where are we going much pleased here me and hayford
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it's uh sort of a place that's well it's not really a place but
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kind of everywhere and nowhere it's one of those places um you actually i kind of i spotted on uh
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he points over to flynn spotted on uh on your hip uh that little bag you got right there i
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got one of those but it's it's well it's it's more it's more than that
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um and he reaches up and he pulls down um a little like a little wooden
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chip almost like a game piece um and it's this little rectangle and it's
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got um two of its corners are rounded off almost like almost like a door
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um almost like a vertical door and he said uh well bill would like to come with me and he
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tosses this little game piece on the ground and it scatters across the wood and after a second
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the wood folds out into two and then that doubles and folds down to two and then that folds out and doubles
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into two until it creates this line on the floor and then it doubles upward and doubles upward and doubles upward again
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creating this much larger door and there is a door in the middle of the
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room whoa wow yeah i want to go you guys want to go
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um wait are we able to come back right here when we want to come back because i don't
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want to leave penelope yeah uh you can come back here you can actually you can
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leave to a couple of different places really yeah there's a couple of different exits
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oh well that's so cool well i told you bad habits and all and
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he goes over and he grabs the uh door handle and with a little click he opens it and
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you can see it opens into this like black goopy void i'm gonna
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reach over and grab kelly's hand uh weird i'm gonna go up and
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touch the goopy void with my finger okay and um as you do it's like
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it's kind of actually kind of similar to what you had experienced
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in your own head a little bit different as that one was like a solid
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sort of waving surface this is more just like jello um and as you as you move your finger
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down a little bit of the goop comes off onto your finger and it kind of stays there for a second
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before plopping back off and floating back and rejoining the void
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i'll put my finger back and i'll kind of think of that other void and how it's
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similar to this one as hesitantly take a step back
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um where exactly is this taking us
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sort of a little pocket dimension my my pocket dimension
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okay i understand that this takes a great amount of trust so if you won't mind and
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he walks up and he jumps right through the portal and you can see it it sort of goops around him and sort of absorbs his
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body but then after a moment you can't see him at all uh i'll go
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first and then i'll come back if it's fine
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that's not right okay
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yeah i think we should just go i think we should all go together because what if
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you can't come back at least we'll all be together well see
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when i'm when i'm in there and i'll touch my head
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this reminds me of it this doorway
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is similar to that one so when you go in your head maybe you got another dimension in your head i
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don't know but i don't very much like being in there yes i am also very
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less inclined to walk through a channel than a what seems to be a shrine of
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dwarven artifices and secret chambers i don't but we'll all be together
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well and yes other places exist outside of the place that we
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spend our time like that's not unheard of you know
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i pull a lot of what i do from another place it's not so different from from this and
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maybe not so different from what's in your head than a sword on its own is not
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a tool for evil it's a tool for violence that can be wielded by uh people who are heroic like yourself
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and people who are dastardly like our foes you're right you're right
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and take a deep breath need to be brave also we'll be with you flynn yes we're
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not with you when we're in your head true okay i never want to be with you in your head flynn
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never well i'm ready all right let's do this together
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what about you shraya guys
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i go last are you gonna stay here
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no no if we leave without you oh no why would you think that
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cause you're jittery yeah yeah i'm slowly becoming more and more shaken
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your eyes are doing that a thing where one gets a little bit smaller than
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the other and then they kind of switch back and forth someone perhaps
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poke their head in and take a look i feel like at this point try it's all or nothing
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so why don't we uh let's hold hands i've already got all my hair
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i um i hold my hand out for shraya okay
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oh my and out grab try his hand well lincoln
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and you all jump in and it truly does feel like this goopy jello existence um
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as it's like passing across your skin it feels like it feels like this sort of wet
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sloshiness but um almost immediately after you guys come out onto the other side and your feet
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hit stone below you um there's a little stone pathway there right in front of
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you you all look around and the first thing you notice is
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the empty void of this place complete darkness
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and emptiness all around you except for these platforms
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these stone platforms only about a foot thick and different sizes
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are floating endlessly in this void you can see that there's probably 20 or
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30 of them that are circling this center that you guys are standing on right now
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the uh the platform that you guys are currently on is about 20 feet by 20 feet
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and you can see these platforms rotating around you nothing connecting them
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you can see on one of them looks to be tables and papers stacked high you can
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see on another one potions and and brewing components and shelves with
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different plants and and material components you can see on one much larger one
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that's rotating off to your left a massive cage that's holding a sleeping red dragon
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what and you guys can barely even keep track
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of all these platforms as they're rotating around you hey you guys finally made it through i
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wasn't thinking you guys were gonna come i was about to head back out wow
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i thought you said you used to do magic oh yeah this is the first time i've done
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anything like this is that a dragon yeah yeah that is
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should we be quiet isn't gonna wake up no he's not getting out of there he's been in there for a while he's not gonna
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hit the dragon and you're closet dimension goopy void yes sir
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yes sir how i have so many questions
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i told you bad habits this is a bit more than a bad habit avery um i'm sorry
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maybe this is a silly question but if you haven't come in here in a while
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who feeds the dragon the dragon doesn't need to be fed that's the beauty of this place oh
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what you're even you you're not breathing air right now you're just sort of
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you can still breathe being sustained in this place yeah come to think of it i was kind of hungry before we entered this place yeah you're not now are you
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no i'm not now weird yeah what do those potions do up there
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now what's on those papers over there oh okay uh lots of things what's that okay okay flynn let's focus
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oh right sorry this is cool how did you i was like keep looking
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around did you make this place oh yes well it it started a lot smaller
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than this it started with this actually this platform that you're standing on right now and uh kind of grew from there
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pretty proud of this place yeah i haven't been here it's been years it's an achievement uh
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why don't take this the wrong way but
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why would you ever leave if you don't need to
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be fed and you have all your trinkets and your studies and
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uh company and i wave a hand at the dragon trust me the company here is not very
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good as far as dragons go not very chatty
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but i got in with a rough crowd
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and fortunately for me some friends some family and
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my mother sort of came to me and told me that i was going down the wrong path
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not only hurting other people but myself as well and uh over some time i
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sort of stopped doing all the things that i was doing with the people i was doing it with you see
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uh hello oh where can you help us uh translate this text
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oh yeah all right and he raises his hand up to the uh to the platforms
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and as he does he he sort of um uh raises up his hand all of his fingers
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spread out and he waves his hand through the air and almost like he's
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controlling these things with his mind you can see the platforms that were in a perfect rotation around this center
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platform now begin to sort of waver and move in their rotation and you can see one of the platforms perfectly follows
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his hand as it comes down and is placed right in front of you there is still a gap
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between the two as he walks forward and steps off of this platform into the
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void but just before he falls his foot is caught by a piece of stone that appears beneath it
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and as he takes another step and another step in another step a bridge forms a stone bridge forms between these two
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platforms yeah just follow me and he sort of stomps his foot down and
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he goes this this ain't going anywhere so more than safe i'm just like
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in awe and how awesome all this is and just all this magic that's going on and
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i'll start walking up how do you how do you do how did how do you learn this
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how'd you do this well most of this uh
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i said to admit most of the magic in here but most people would consider unsavory
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um but a lot of those effects have been negated just by you all standing here i i can
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tell you some of those effects have been negated and i call out and you can come here
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anytime you like yeah pretty much oh
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refuge um try can you fly i haven't tried yet i'm almost afraid to
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in this place i'm i'm curious
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well i'm gonna see if i can beat him to the platform that he's walking towards yeah
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horatio um as you do you sort of take a couple steps to take off and you start flapping
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your wings and as soon as you get up off of the ground um everyone else sees a
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rune appear just above shraya this golden rune floating in space
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as it slams down and try you feel the effects of gravity
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push on you tenfold and sort of slams you back down into the ground it hurts a little bit you don't take any
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damage but you feel this thing push you back onto the ground and you hear
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yeah it's i like i said unsavory magic uh usually wouldn't let other people in
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here so i i apologize oh no that's strange i
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almost quite liked that experience sorry you okay yes i'm all right there was a little bit
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jarring but that unsavory presence that he keeps
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mentioning is seems to bind this place together it seems to
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create its own sense of laws and and rules of
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its own reality i want to meditate on this further not right now but uh
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further um i want to look around as we're walking over to this thing can
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i see any signs of other life of like
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clothing or any kind of anything that can indicate
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to me like what used to go on in this place for sure um make a perception check
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eleven eleven um you don't see anything alive in here besides the dragon um you do see
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as one of the platforms um passes by you you see these humanoid figures
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but they are all encased in stone
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you can also see since you mentioned clothing you can also see on another platform that passes by
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several suits of armor um that look like different makes from different eras from
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different nations probably did any of them look like our uh ghosty fighty boys
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um i'm uh no i'm not even gonna have you make a check for that yes one of them does um
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one of them you immediately catch another of the red scarves
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that was around the neck of the ghosty fighty boy
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do they all look like they're the same they're made for the same person um no they don't uh you can see a couple
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of different like stands there that are holding up the armors in place um you can see one that
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probably would have fit march very well um you can see one that is a little bit smaller more akin to someone flynn's
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size and just about everything in between wow as i make it to the
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the final platform in this across this bridge uh very
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nervously uh can i make a spooky vibes check
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yes jack i'm going to assist him
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go for it uh okay that is a 14. it's just it's just wisdom
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modifier right yeah just wisdom okay 17. 17 nice oh so spooky
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oh so spooky yeah you're picking up some spooks
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around here um but uh like nothing is coming at you it's more like the spookiness is more
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coming from the endless void around you more than the individual platforms
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themselves uh i have a quick question about my ability to comprehend the diversity
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of these beings uh do as i look around
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do i have a sense that these are like just wildly disparate
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beings from like all parts of the world or is it more just foreign to me
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um a lot of them are foreign probably leading into the fact that they are from
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all over the world gotcha hey freed uh
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why did you used to do to people here
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oh yeah that's kind of a well tricky question
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um i i used to you know
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i i had to
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i had to get people to talk and a lot of the times that's not
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something easily done unsavory i'm ashamed of it
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i i still haven't made peace with it but
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and you did this for this rough crowd of yours a few different rough crowds
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when he says that he's ashamed of it and he's dealing with it um
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could i take a look and kind of see if it seems like he really is genuinely um
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hurt yeah make an insight check i don't think i'm good at those but i'll
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do it anyway uh 12. 12. it seems genuine
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you can sort of see as he's saying that he uh isn't looking at any one of you in particular he's sort of looking down at
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the ground spacing out you can sort of see a little bit of shame on his face
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well we all fall off the path sometimes huh so i felt pretty hard no reason
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you shouldn't have a uh time to help people
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and i i pointedly look over at alma as i'm saying this
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because you're quite capable i mean look at what you've done here
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you can apply those powers for uh for good for helping folks you know
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then that's a good thing i tried that for a while always seemed to just go worse
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well you're gonna help us and it's gonna go fine
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well so uh join me and yeah wipes a tear away and uh
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he walks over to the next platform and uh you can see on this platform um
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the platform in front of you is the platform that flynn you had seen earlier with papers just stacked impossibly high
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like these papers are not at all obeying the laws of gravity um and he um reaches over towards a
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bookshelf on the other side of the platform and he's about 15 feet away from it but as he reaches up a book
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floats off of the shelf and just floats its way over towards his hand as it meets his hand um those really high
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stacked papers um are there any that i could reach and maybe try and pull out of the stack
47:52
um yeah while he's doing that with the book i'm just like in awe with this i'm like oh
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what's on here i'm going to go up and try and pull a piece of paper from the stack preferably from the bottom because i can't get at the top
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okay as you reach over towards the stack of papers the um the entire pile like lifts and
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each paper sort of like slightly hovers and floats off of the top of one another
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almost creating like this um what's the instrument the accordion
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almost like an accordion exactly um almost like an accordion these papers float up off of each other as
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it it expands right towards the one that you're reaching for and you can perfectly grab one without this entire
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stack i'll grab it if i can and i'll take a look at it yeah
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okay um make an insight check or not an insight i'm sorry intelligent sure two eyes
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intelligence that's just a straight intelligence role straight intelligence uh it's a ten
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can i make anything from this heads or tails of it you can't read the language you can't make out what the drawings are
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uh you can't even tell what this thing was written with it is just so impossibly out of your league um
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that no hope of reading this thing i i think that
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because of that i'm just even more enraptured just like
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how much there is to learn about magic and about
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all of this and i'll just stare at it and just wondering if i'm
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ever going to be able to be as powerful enough to understand what this piece of paper says and if i can
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i would like to fold it up and put it in my pocket okay yeah you certainly can if i can i'd
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like to hide it from the guide okay make a slide of hand check
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come on can i roll high once this session
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no how's an eight do you get it in your pocket you don't have anyone soldering right i was really
50:01
hoping it wouldn't fall and it kind of it kind of crinkled as you were folding it up they're rattling
50:09
wow that's book is floating that's so cool as i put the paper
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all right um so uh the uh
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the stack just goes right back into place as you fold this thing in your pocket it sort of gently floats back down um into
50:28
its pile um hayfreed is flipping through this book and he's looking at your etching
50:36
and he sort of compares the first letter of the etching from his notebook
50:42
and he compares it back and forth because ah all right infernal i know
50:47
what we're dealing with here all right and he puts the book back on the shelf
50:52
and he says ah just give me one give me one moment and he sort of thinks to himself
50:59
take your time ah that's right that's right and he reaches his hand up
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and another platform moves down right next to this one and he sort of
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does a quick little light jog over as once again the bridge the stone bridge makes its way over to the other one um
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step by step as he moves over and he goes over and you can see that there are wardrobes lining this platform and like
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coat racks and coat stands um as he runs over and he opens up one of these wardrobes and you can see they're just
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filled to the brim with different colored cloaks and different colored capes and he sifts through them
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found you takes down one and puts it on it is a red
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cloak with little tufts of fur on the shoulders
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and a wolf insignia on the back and he runs over and
51:57
he looks at the inscription he says if you don't mind i just need a little bit of assistance on reading this
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and as he reads it you can see his eyes begin to glow red a little bit
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all right so this says let me see
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those who seek this weapons might shall forever quench their bloodlust in
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eternal combat freaky where'd you guys find this
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it was in a a quarry and a little uh opening in the woods coming down the
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mountain wow
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there was a blade it was attached to but uh we left it there oh good that's uh powerful words
52:48
especially in infernal i mean this will bond you for
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eons it seems uh davious and as he takes his eyes from the paper you can see his eyes recede
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that glowing red he sort of takes off the red cloak and goes and puts it back in the
53:05
wardrobe closes the wardrobe walks back over waves his hand as the
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platform joins the others in the rotation around my face is just
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completely horrified like everything like my eyes are wide my mouth is is
53:24
like hanging open um and i just can't stop looking at the
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wardrobe um um
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um yeah it was pretty cool a lot of them helped me do different things
53:41
like that one i can read infernal without where did you happen upon why why does it look like a wolf
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that's i mean i told you bad crowds i used to run with right but uh anyways you guys want to help get
53:57
this uh demon out or not i uh i mean i think we're on a pretty good roll here i i we might as well just get this thing
54:03
going um you used to be part of a bad crowd
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that wore red robes like that oh yeah total hated all of them right
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i move my hand along my staff and uh clutch it the crystal glow's a little bit pink i'd like to druid craft
54:24
a slow rumble of thunder in the distance just very faint uh if i may as i say these next words
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that crowd you used to run with you still maintain any
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connection to them no no i hated all of them
54:44
they were terrible there i was all chaos all the time it's like you couldn't even sleep without
54:50
someone setting something on fire you'll have to excuse us
54:56
we've had some run-ins with this crowd yours oh none of them please ah oh you made it out of life
55:04
you speak truth we're to your mind telling us a bit
55:10
about what their names are uh lots of chaos really
55:15
um i mean orders will come down from on high to take uh
55:22
different strategic positions and just cause chaos and uh take certain uh
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certain locations but uh i was only there for a couple weeks
55:33
couldn't really handle it and what is on high who do they serve oh uh
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usually straight from the top there's a a man named corvin amber stone um he uh
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he was sort of leading the whole thing but he i'll tell you he was the biggest dick of them all
55:52
he was trying to there was something in the middle of where the middle of the waste something like
55:58
that um he was trying to find i've heard of the waste i'm sorry a
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storm yeah yeah
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storm in the desert something like that
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but yeah i'll tell you the order was the yes about the worst i cuz before them
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there was let's see i was with the band of as duran before that
56:27
and then what sort of got me started out was uh uh elena's cloak and they were sort of
56:34
like sort of a just a local thing and then you sort of upgrade and then you upgrade and then you upgrade and
56:40
then sooner gateway yeah sort of yeah and then before you know it you're you
56:45
know setting the whole town's on fire oh right right
56:50
but corbin's been dead for a long time so how old are you
56:57
a few hundred but now colvin was still very much alive when
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when did you guys meet him oh he never met him oh luckily we saw his
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we saw his tomb when
57:17
last i heard he's still kicking well that makes sense
57:23
that's why it's empty what maybe it was always empty
57:31
oh gosh different carving stone it's not a
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common name i couldn't imagine i never encountered
57:43
when did you take orders from him oh this was
57:50
about 75 years ago you know if their quest to find this
57:58
terrible storm is still active would they ever give up on a kind of aim like this oh no no that was kind of their
58:05
thing you strike me as a man who not only collects
58:11
knowledge of the world but based on your i just look around and point at the air
58:18
entrapments and
58:23
everything that seems to flow to you without any effort at all you also strike me of a man of many
58:28
secrets if we were to try
58:34
to go toe-to-toe with this organization as terrible and terrifying as they may be
58:42
where could we find them well you just about find them everywhere
58:49
they've got people in places that you would not believe
58:56
you go home to your family chances are someone sitting around that table is part of them
59:07
i believe you wise if you ever in your time working with
59:13
them have run-ins with an organization known as the hollow guard oh yeah we worked with them all the time
59:22
you've been around for a long time you you don't by any chance you've never heard of somebody named
59:28
abram drum wind have you i'm drum wind yeah
59:34
i mean it rings a bell i don't remember exactly who off the top of my head
59:39
i mean this is kind of a your own dimension
59:44
you you never heard about things keys that he created maybe
59:51
not used to other no i mean not really okay i've met i think i've met abram
59:59
i don't know if his last name was drumwind that's okay it's okay that's that's what happens
1:00:04
when these things is the mind starts to start to waver when you don't use it for
1:00:10
a while so you super super hate this whole group right like everybody
1:00:18
who has to do with the red wolf you you hate them all right so if you ever were to find
1:00:23
one what would you do what would i do let me see
1:00:30
and he sort of thinks to himself and as he's thinking another
1:00:36
like these these stones form out of the void
1:00:41
and these stones all coalesce and they come together into another platform
1:00:47
and he creates and apparates this new platform just above you guys
1:00:52
now what would i do and you can see on this platform a cage begins to appear materializing out of
1:00:59
thin air now i could think of some things oh wow
1:01:07
um maybe we could help you out well i i
1:01:14
i've been looking for trouble i try and stay quiet
1:01:19
i don't go hunting people down anymore brings up bad memories oh well you might not have to hunt anyone down
1:01:26
yeah you've found trouble what do you mean are you familiar with uh
1:01:32
crystals being used to hold the souls of troublemaker yeah used to be one of my
1:01:38
old tricks i don't doubt
1:01:44
uh i l i looked at the group for like tacit approval does that is anybody shaking
1:01:50
their head wildly or giving me a look of no i'm i'm giving you eyes of
1:01:55
yep i look at flynn directly
1:02:01
um flynn is just in awe at the magic and kind of looks over to you and like um
1:02:08
why are you looking at me like that i roll my eyes i just i just
1:02:14
i express extreme frustration in just a small moment with a clutched hand like a a crinkled fist uh
1:02:24
well uh we by mistake
1:02:30
uh broke such a crystal and it contained we thank
1:02:36
some member of this cult this group devoted to this red wolf
1:02:42
and that creature resides
1:02:48
in the form of a small friend here and in realization of hearing that i'll
1:02:54
remove my wrappings around my forehead realizing what kellic was trying to tell me and i'll start removing them and
1:03:00
revealing the horns on my forehead fun halflings usually don't have horns
1:03:08
my mom always said i was unique yeah well he's our relatively newborn
1:03:16
yeah they don't look like a part of you but i think i can help
1:03:23
you can yeah yeah usually i will say usually any sort of
1:03:29
curse or possession doesn't come with any physical changes so this thing is pretty deep bonded with
1:03:36
you might be difficult perhaps you could just
1:03:42
suppress it or if if you can't remove it uh we'll take what we can get ah suppression is
1:03:49
a non-starter it'll come back or at least give us an understanding of
1:03:56
what it is who they are you are a threat to your entire group
1:04:02
and to everything around you i say we get this thing out of you as soon as possible
1:04:08
agree well it wasn't the way i wanted to be a threat but oh yeah
1:04:13
you are a walking disaster i'll tell you that and he waves his hand through the air i
1:04:18
i nod he waves his hand through the air as he
1:04:24
sort of picks one of these platforms out of the bunch floats it down next to you as the um
1:04:32
platform with the the cloaks and everything the bridge between the two disintegrates into nothing and the the
1:04:38
the bridge the platform with the wardrobes goes back up and joins the rest as the
1:04:43
um new platform takes its place and you can see on this new platform
1:04:50
a massive um sigil on the ground this
1:04:55
circular runic thing engravings into the stone itself you can
1:05:02
see tables surrounding it with potions and different plants and you can see
1:05:08
these candelabras that are in each of the corners holding at least five or six
1:05:13
candles each all of them are just dripping with wax and he says hey follow me
1:05:22
all of us yeah i say all of you uh i touch flynn on the shoulder and i
1:05:27
say i know i didn't enter this place with this in mind whatever he does
1:05:34
trust let go just be if he does anything weird i'll say this
1:05:40
to shraya kind of hushed keep an eye on him my eyes are ever
1:05:45
watchful in protecting you small one give a little smile and i'll
1:05:52
look to hate free um would it be helpful if
1:05:58
i cast some magic on myself to help
1:06:04
ward against this type of evil while you do the spell uh depends some spells might interfere
1:06:11
with what i'm about to do what are you gonna do to yourself well i have a way to kind of ward away
1:06:19
and protect myself from evil and good um it doesn't last very long
1:06:25
but i've seen it help in some cases do you think it'll help with this
1:06:32
i'm going to say no because because
1:06:38
we need to separate this thing from your being your soul and this protecting your outer self
1:06:47
it might impede what we're trying to do when plenty of separated
1:06:54
where will it go what's to stop it from just hopping into another body
1:07:01
well that's another piece of the puzzle is we need another body for this to go into
1:07:08
we can't just take it away and have nowhere for it to go it'll go into one of us
1:07:15
we need something for it to go into you have another body for it to go into
1:07:21
i don't i took out all the bodies years ago i have no more bodies in here
1:07:26
that's disturbing moving on i know i'm sorry so can it go go into a shell maybe or
1:07:34
another crystal ah i don't know if
1:07:40
putting it into a crystal without the proper things which i don't know if i have here
1:07:47
is risky it's it's more likely to not infect anyone else if it goes
1:07:52
into another vessel all it needs to be is something with a heartbeat and something about
1:07:59
our size so what are you suggesting it has to be
1:08:04
alive gary
1:08:10
who's gary gary's probably miles from here by now whoever here is who it was my attempted
1:08:17
a joke i i don't understand what you're suggesting then because you brought us over here to this platform but then you
1:08:23
said it has to go into another vessel so what what are you suggesting what about uh
1:08:29
machine consciousness and i sort of look over at
1:08:36
uh the little lump where thaddeus rests needs a heartbeat
1:08:44
you still didn't answer my question i'm saying this is the way we're gonna do it
1:08:51
i have most of what i need right here the only major thing i'm missing is another vessel
1:09:00
so we have to find you someone to put that monster in
1:09:05
theoretically it could go into i don't know i've seen a couple sheep
1:09:11
around town okay
1:09:17
and there's no way to just fight it when it comes out it i mean it's a spirit that's not
1:09:25
really they have to latch on to something and it's going to try desperately
1:09:31
to latch onto anything and there's nothing we can do about that i don't mean to be rude or
1:09:38
ask for any kind of request that might be going too far
1:09:43
i know i can't fly do i have permission to practice my own
1:09:49
magic in this place yeah go for it
1:09:56
uh and uh i
1:10:01
raise my staff up into the air um and i hold it to my chest
1:10:07
as the staff seems to like meld into my body and my body starts to turn
1:10:13
starts to glow in the cracks and crevices of my skin uh pinkish purple as this
1:10:19
uh ball of light emerges from my hands and
1:10:25
starts to make this form uh in front of me as the
1:10:32
outer edges of it start to congeal and form into
1:10:38
what looks like a sheep as i cast contra animals
1:10:44
okay you mentioned it and i probably scratched my breath
1:10:51
you mentioned a sheep i i thought that maybe maybe that was your preference
1:10:58
now uh the only thing is a strange question is that a real shape
1:11:04
like is that gonna go away anytime soon
1:11:09
well it's it's actually uh
1:11:16
well it's not an actual sheep but
1:11:24
as as long as it is not killed in any sort of way
1:11:31
it will not disappear
1:11:36
like forever yes you just birthed a
1:11:42
sheep well it's the place i'm drawing this magic from is
1:11:47
uh is not actually bear any resemblance to the actual animal world of this plane
1:11:54
but i it does technically have a heartbeat
1:12:01
yeah my work guys i i don't know if i want to pass this burden on to something else
1:12:08
well i don't know what our options are then
1:12:13
it's so beyond me well wasn't it mentioned that we could if we had the right tools we could put it in
1:12:20
another crystal um i was just going to say um it only though the duration is only an hour
1:12:26
though yes that's true so of the spell
1:12:33
so it says you summon fae spirits though so i'm assuming it means that the face
1:12:39
spirits go back to the fae i think my thing was more just like so i
1:12:45
guess like dm like would this be considered a um creature or not
1:12:53
if it disappears after any sort of time it's not gonna work needs to be an actual thing bonded to this plane of
1:13:00
existence right
1:13:07
otherwise it's like putting two different sides of a magnet together they're just gonna
1:13:13
repel each other if we do this it'll manifest probably this same way that it has
1:13:19
within most likely right can you and then what will we do with
1:13:26
the creator that we've put this on well i can i can simply just
1:13:31
draw it back into the void where it came from but we're not going to be using a real
1:13:36
shape it's not going to work it's got to be something real i just made a nifty cage over there
1:13:43
my work it's worked for this guy over here i don't know how many years
1:13:50
um speaking of that dragon's alive you want to put a red wolf
1:13:57
cultist into the body of a red dragon i mean he's in a cage
1:14:05
is that a bad idea i mean what if he ever gets out
1:14:11
i'd rather be a sheep that got out of the cage i guess i don't know i don't want to
1:14:18
imagine being in a cage forever
1:14:26
i don't want you to be in a cage forever though right but i don't want to and i also don't want you to have a creepy
1:14:31
little thing in your head that comes out every once in a while it was really creepy talking to you when you weren't
1:14:37
you i know also what's the difference between putting
1:14:42
one person's soul in another person's body and killing the second person killing the
1:14:48
second creature whatever mortal we put this burden on is
1:14:56
we're taking its life yeah and i don't i don't want to do that
1:15:03
even if it's a sheep even if it's a sheep you had me burn the
1:15:11
shreds of rabbits the other day and i was happy to do it because
1:15:17
it occurred to me that all the creatures deserve respite
1:15:24
if if that's what i'm able to give okay but you said earlier that that as long as you're keeping yourself
1:15:31
safe that that's the most important thing and flynn is gonna be taken over by this thing and
1:15:38
we're all in danger because of it so i don't understand why this is even a conversation flynn is in danger all of
1:15:44
us are in danger because of what's possessing him and i don't wanna die
1:15:50
if it's a sheep that's gonna be taken over by this possession that's gonna then live in a cage
1:15:55
that's better than flynn having to stay here in a cage forever isn't it
1:16:02
isn't it is that the alternative that i stay here
1:16:10
i don't see how you could be allowed back out is there any way to kill it while it's
1:16:15
inside of them i mean how attached are you to the halfling
1:16:24
oh can you just give us an understanding
1:16:30
you have a spell that does that all right i mean what's more understanding do you want
1:16:36
who they are why it's there maybe a way to
1:16:41
combat it maybe you know some stuff on and i'll
1:16:47
point to the stacks and stacks of papers there's got to be an answer in there i mean you want to give flynn you eat
1:16:54
animals what's the difference
1:16:59
what's the difference look me in the eyes and tell me what is different you eat animals to live okay this is
1:17:06
using an animal to save your life i don't see the difference
1:17:12
i don't want it being locked knocked in a cage forever you don't want an animal being
1:17:17
locked in a cage forever then free that dragon right now huh
1:17:24
you kill beasts all the time and give them to your stupid stupid friends just so that you can earn more badges what
1:17:31
what so that you can become a sentinel who cares but you won't get rid of this monster inside of you look at those
1:17:38
stupid heads in your bag those heads were what
1:17:44
hurting people you don't know that you don't know that for sure did you see
1:17:51
them hurt anybody they were in a cave all alone there were reports of it
1:17:58
says who my collective who yeah oh my god alma
1:18:04
calm yourself girl we're discussing this right
1:18:11
i cross my arms she's not wrong that
1:18:19
displacing this burden isn't much different than the other necessary
1:18:24
sacrifices we make we have to make the hard choices here it's there is something that unsettles
1:18:31
me about displacing the burden and i think that's where we relate then i think
1:18:39
because i'm me right now how can we know that i know that
1:18:45
i don't know that listen alma calm down he's inside of you talking and he doesn't want to leave you and that's why
1:18:51
you want i'm gonna lift my hand up i'm gonna tap it the uh ab duration sigil is
1:18:56
gonna come up i'm gonna tap tap tap down my foot and stomp a thunder wave in a
1:19:01
different direction so it doesn't hurt anyone but to cause a loud echoing boom
1:19:07
enough this is my burden and if you don't want to be a part of me
1:19:14
a part of this group because of me i'll leave this has nothing to do with that
1:19:20
i'm trying to help you and get rid of this thing inside of you and i'm not gonna put that on someone else something
1:19:26
else it's not someone it's an animal that you eat all the time when i eat an animal it doesn't live forever in a cage
1:19:32
it goes on its spirit goes on to somewhere else but if we lock something in a cage it'll be there
1:19:38
forever stuck there conscious thinking and then and then gets trapped in its
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own mind and then comes back and his body gets taken i'm not doing that to something else
1:19:51
not happening well then i don't think i can travel with you anymore if you're dangerous to
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us you need to stay here we've been traveling with him up until
1:20:01
this point and i do tend to agree that all of the beings on this earth are owed a life
1:20:08
but they choose not a life that has been thrust upon them alma
1:20:14
not all one of us here is not a danger to the others
1:20:19
and i speak for you on that matter as well so don't pretend that we don't take
1:20:25
certain risks for each other this is an unnecessary risk an
1:20:31
unnecessary risk like the one we took when we went to the prison to spring your friend xavier but we did that
1:20:38
because we trust each other we take risks to help each other why can you not
1:20:43
see this as helping sometimes we have to make hard decisions i understand that ulma but we have to make these decisions
1:20:50
together how can you trust flynn is making the decision as himself
1:20:56
look me in the eyes were you not scared when you thought you were talking to him and it wasn't him
1:21:02
were you not terrified of course so what is that happening right now and none of
1:21:08
us know anything you trusted me and i appreciate that
1:21:14
and you went along with me but i don't have a painter living inside of me
1:21:21
and he does and we can fix this and it's my fault that is even inside of
1:21:28
him and you won't even let me fix it
1:21:39
didn't he have some kind of some kind of catchphrase some kind of code word
1:21:47
isn't there some way to test this i don't trust it that thing knows his mind i told him i
1:21:53
didn't trust it to start with hey fruit yeah
1:22:00
can you pull it out can you get it to talk to us
1:22:06
if we put flat in your cage yeah we could uh i mean i could sort of induce
1:22:14
a uh takeover that's what you're asking for i want to speak to this thing
1:22:21
yes perhaps let it tell us
1:22:26
where it wants to be if it could
1:22:32
all right it's gonna be fun and he waves his hand and the platform with the cage comes
1:22:38
down the bridge forms and you all walk over and it is a
1:22:45
single 10 10 foot by 10 foot cage in the center of this platform here
1:22:51
as he walks up the cage magically opens by itself a little door on the front of it
1:22:58
right if you make your way in i'll um
1:23:04
take my backpack off with the weapons um take my arrows off take my
1:23:10
souvenir bag off hand it all to kellek
1:23:21
i hope this helps it's our best shot at some kind of clarity
1:23:28
no no uh
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look to alma i appreciate that you care
1:23:44
i don't trust anything you say until you don't have horns
1:23:50
pancake bumblebee whatever monster
1:23:55
i'm gonna walk into the cage all right now um i'm just gonna need you to can you just
1:24:02
sit down and just relax as much as you can possibly relax
1:24:08
i'll sit down cross my legs all right
1:24:14
close your eyes and as you close your eyes you can hear
1:24:22
in the back of your mind
1:24:29
as this knocking on the door gets louder and louder
1:24:34
and you can hear it get louder and even louder and even louder and as you open your eyes as the sound almost
1:24:41
becomes unbearable you are now locked in this circular stone room
1:24:48
everyone else sees flynn's eyes open up and they're completely black
1:24:56
all right he's got the floor hello there
1:25:01
and flynn opens his mouth and you guys hear vass rule not ear
1:25:08
what what does it what does that mean hey oh give me one second
1:25:15
he runs over he brings the cloak thing back down he runs over he gets his cloak back on and he runs back
1:25:21
and uh i'm sorry i missed that one he said vasro nothing
1:25:30
that means basically he serves the outcast
1:25:36
but it's like it's kind of a weird use of the word outcast it's like it's not an adjective it's it's a noun
1:25:44
like a person or a group of people pastor on earth means outcast means the outcast yeah
1:25:54
and like anybody looking at us who's kind of like connecting dogs in his head
1:26:02
right people not being who they are anymore
1:26:08
right i serve the outcast which one of it
1:26:14
alma which which one of the headstones served the outcast
1:26:20
all of them they all do yeah they all serve the outcome and the
1:26:26
outcast is about runners
1:26:35
i look to uh flynn what do you want
1:26:43
what do you want from this world iraq finn does
1:26:50
i like urgently look over here
1:26:55
i said he wants chaos it's sort of the general thing of
1:27:00
the order of the red wolf is just sort of general chaos but he also said that he wants to kill all of us so
1:27:07
i was a little cherry on top i expected that much what more chaos do you want
1:27:14
the world's at war people die for no reason all the time
1:27:24
uh he says there's always more chaos to be had as long as there are gods in the sky
1:27:32
and what is your true form
1:27:42
um he wants to show you but i don't really think that that's a good idea
1:27:53
would that hurt then i'd say most likely i don't even think i don't even think that's a question
1:28:01
then we don't want to do it would it be possible to remove him before
1:28:06
he assumed this true form do you have something to put him in oh
1:28:12
we need something to put him in i would venture to say
1:28:19
that his true form is the the essence of it is lost the moment he was discarded from his his physical
1:28:26
form and putting the crystal i would say that that's his his true form so
1:28:32
i would say whatever we put him in is going to be as close as he can get
1:28:38
where is this phosphoronothius
1:28:46
um he told you to go yourself
1:28:52
ah
1:28:58
how could you talk like flynn before and not now
1:29:08
um he was saying that he had to uh use a common tongue to try and
1:29:15
get closer to you but then flynn came back
1:29:20
see
1:29:26
and he sort of used the comment when he said common tongue he sort of said it was some disgust so i i assume
1:29:33
he's not gonna yes yes well we can't all be as prestigious as
1:29:39
people devoted to chaos for no reason what's in the wastes
1:29:45
what's the storm in the waste walkmark
1:29:54
um he said that there's there's something out there that they're looking for
1:30:00
he said he said salvation i think it's probably the closest
1:30:07
infernal doesn't really have a word for salvation but it's the closest
1:30:14
salvation from what from chaos
1:30:22
i said salvation through chaos
1:30:37
and what if we could reunite you with your compatriots
1:30:45
perhaps we could help you find your home your true home
1:30:55
um he said he has no interest but maybe that might bring us to them
1:31:02
what if we believed you and i'll uh approach this cage
1:31:09
uh i'll get up to like six inches from the from the bars
1:31:18
but if i were to say
1:31:23
i understand you're probably right
1:31:29
what truer law is there to this world than chaos the gods can't help anyone
1:31:37
new world and faith's only value
1:31:43
is to put down others
1:31:50
what if chaos is salvation where should i go
1:31:56
to
1:32:09
a storm in the waste that what i told you earlier
1:32:17
what if we took you there would you be nice
1:32:25
would you let flynn have the reigns
1:32:35
and you see sort of a smile creep across flynn's face
1:32:41
as he nods slowly in the affirmative
1:32:47
i'll look up um at kellek as he says that and as he nods and i'll squint my eyes
1:32:54
well it's up to you do you believe this
1:32:59
agent of chaos to be telling the truth
1:33:05
perhaps another question is does he believe us
1:33:10
uh i'm going to pull down the curtain and cast
1:33:18
um zone of truth okay oh i remember this guy
1:33:24
i don't have to believe him uh i believe that's a charisma saving
1:33:29
through okay it's gonna be a 25.
1:33:36
got a snap block yeah yeah
1:33:42
all right
1:33:50
well what choice we have alma what do you mean we got sitting in a cage now so we can go get you a sheep if you're so
1:33:56
desperate to do things your way yeah that's what i would prefer
1:34:02
we've been working so hard to try and get rid of this thing and save him and now we're just gonna what leave it in
1:34:08
him i don't understand i just don't get it all right um
1:34:14
you don't have to be an about it try yes water's hot
1:34:20
i was just thinking i could probably find an actual and as i say actual uh my
1:34:25
staff flicks out and the the formerly the formerly mass that was holding the sheep kind of like puffs
1:34:32
vanishes into a puff with a meh and
1:34:38
as as i finished the word actual actual uh being
1:34:45
if i had enough time i could probably coax one to come through here
1:34:52
i don't know how much time we have to be in this place or how long
1:34:58
it would tolerate guests well he wanted us to go get something and
1:35:03
come back i don't think that's out of the question right heyford um i'm fine with it you all right if we leave then here yeah
1:35:10
or this yeah well i mean all right and he sort of tries to pull
1:35:16
you off to the side because i don't i don't know how powerful this thing is
1:35:22
i mean i'm holding a dragon so i mean i think that's kind of the bar that we're gonna set
1:35:28
if he's any more powerful than that there's a chance that he could get out but i mean then he's trapped in here i
1:35:34
would just say yes a tentative yes we're fine
1:35:41
but yeah
1:35:46
well how hard is it to find an animal uh one of us can stay here with you so make sure things don't go awry
1:35:52
this town has got like seven farms in it you can you can find something it could be a blue jay
1:35:58
it could be nothing it's got to be bigger than that it's got the the physical has to contain
1:36:04
the sort of the strain of this possession i'd say your friend over there i mean
1:36:10
like no offense to him because we're sort of the same stature but that's probably pushing the limits of
1:36:16
what uh right i'm surprised he's anywhere yeah so i'd say anything
1:36:23
his eyes are larger well shia alma
1:36:29
why don't you go out find a creature that's
1:36:35
your content to push this upon
1:36:40
i'll stay here pay for it and look after flynn i don't think it's a matter of being
1:36:45
content to do that to an animal it it it's just
1:36:51
sure it's it's practical
1:36:56
we shall find a willing host animal or otherwise and i sort of
1:37:02
scoff as i said if you bring back something that doesn't qualify i'm gonna be very upset
1:37:08
so just be sure all right i'll be sure
1:37:17
okay how do we get out of here
1:37:23
um if you just if you just come with me
1:37:28
um okay and he walks back across the platforms to the original platform that you guys were standing at you see that
1:37:34
this wooden door is still there as he reaches and opens it up and it
1:37:39
opens up into another inky void as he steps back through
1:37:46
who is going with him i am i'll follow right behind her i don't like this part
1:37:53
okay as you guys step out um your your air uh air fills your lungs once again
1:37:59
as you realize you weren't actually really even breathing air in there um so weird and you guys walk out into
1:38:06
his house who in your eyes open
1:38:12
seeing this room around you and you see a shadowy figure in the corner looming over you
1:38:19
what would you like to do i never know i never know
1:38:28
um it's a room there's the figure and you said it is there any other objects in the room you said was there a table is
1:38:35
there there's just a table in the middle of the room just as there was at the iron light castle um and what is this
1:38:41
figure doing just standing there busy
1:38:46
as as he's standing there for the first time you sort of feel like this low vibrational rumble
1:38:55
like this deep almost base fill your chest it's just very low and
1:39:00
very subtle but it's almost like a vibration in this room um and the positioning of us uh
1:39:07
within the table where is every where is everything so as you appear in this room you are on the far side of the room away
1:39:14
from the door he is on the opposite side of the table from you you guys are supposed to
1:39:19
standing there with a table in between and the door just beyond him um i don't know if i did this before but
1:39:25
can i look at the table are there drawers um you're looking at the table it just looks like a simple wooden table no
1:39:31
drawers anything okay
1:39:36
um and i'm unaware of what was happening outside you could see
1:39:43
it was muffled you couldn't really hear so you could see um kelly olma and trius standing there
1:39:49
you could see the cage um but you couldn't really pay attention to the conversation and i'm kind of seeing that outside the doorway
1:39:56
on the other side of this yeah so i'm getting glimpses behind this theme in this form
1:40:01
um i don't know
1:40:10
and every time i attack it um
1:40:18
can i try and just reach out and touch it i'll go around the table i'll just like try and touch this
1:40:23
being this form i know my attacks go through but maybe if it like i'll do that i'll just like reach out and try and touch the form
1:40:29
okay um you reach out and you try and touch it it does not move it lets you do
1:40:34
this and as soon as you move your fingers into its space your fingers the temperature drops about 30 degrees
1:40:41
as you move your hand into its space feels like a very cold cold shadow
1:40:48
um i'll keep it there and like just keep keep it in there i don't know move it around
1:40:54
is it looking does it look at me or is it just smoke do i see a face
1:41:00
you see the form of a head up at the top of it and you see these very long
1:41:06
stretched out arms and limbs and it's almost like it's got this hunch back and it is looking directly down at you and
1:41:12
as you look up you spot these two pinpoints of white where eyes would be
1:41:18
and it is glaring right at you but it doesn't seem to move even when i put my hand on it and it it doesn't it only
1:41:25
moved to it like its head to track you around the room as you move towards it
1:41:39
uh do i have any knickknacks i can throw at this
1:41:48
does it look like the smoke is going to a certain location no it's just sort of
1:41:55
coalesced into this this sickly form
1:42:03
after a few moments of touching it just realizing it's not moving
1:42:09
are you gonna say anything this time
1:42:19
how do you feel about making a deal
1:42:29
what kind of deal a deal that would benefit us both
1:42:39
i'm listening
1:42:45
i take your body i will give you a new one
1:42:51
better than before you will have abilities that you have never even imagined
1:43:00
you will be better in every way
1:43:08
why wouldn't you just take that body and give me mine
1:43:15
i have bonded too closely to this one
1:43:20
my pact has been made with this one i have made a deal i cannot go back on
1:43:33
what deal
1:43:39
for my soul i was given abilities
1:43:46
beyond what i could have ever imagined
1:43:52
a deal with vasrono
1:44:01
who's that he is the only one who will truly help
1:44:09
us he brings salvation
1:44:17
he brings
1:44:30
what happens if they try and pull you out
1:44:35
of my body
1:44:40
you see your friends out there and as you look past you can see them
1:44:45
still in conversation as at this point they have not left yet
1:44:51
i will kill them all i promise you
1:45:07
and i promise i'll stop you
1:45:14
no deal and i'll walk through him through it
1:45:21
out the door okay um i'm gonna have you make a charisma
1:45:27
saving throw for me
1:45:37
13. you look at this thing you walk right through him and you press up against this
1:45:43
gel exterior to the door and you force and you push and this creature
1:45:49
the smoke watches you as you pass through the door
1:45:55
and kalec you see flynn come back into his body
1:46:01
and flynn you see just off in the distance oma and shraya leaving
1:46:07
this empty void calex standing there right outside your cage
1:46:13
and you hear in the back of your mind once again
1:46:21
and that is where we're gonna end this session we're
1:46:29
i don't like it at all all right that's where we're going to call it uh thank you all so much for
1:46:36
listening spooky episode and we can't wait to see y'all again next week bye nerds
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