Ashes of Divinity EP 1 The Day of Sky and Sand

WEBVTT 00:01:13.920 --> 00:01:16.400 Greetings, earthbound travelers, and welcome. 00:01:16.719 --> 00:01:20.400 It is Sunday night, and it's a new campaign here at Will of the Dice. 00:01:20.960 --> 00:01:24.640 Behold, we present the ashes of Divinity. 00:01:25.280 --> 00:01:27.200 I am your Dungeon Master, Tyr the DM. 00:01:27.280 --> 00:01:27.920 I'm the world's okay. 00:01:28.719 --> 00:01:30.239 I even have a t-shirt to prove it. 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:36.560 I will be guiding all of these wonderful people through my homebrew world of Runith Kesha, 37 years in the making. 00:01:36.879 --> 00:01:40.320 But before we get into that, we've got some housekeeping introductions. 00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:43.200 First and foremost, we are for mature audiences. 00:01:43.359 --> 00:01:46.159 Viewer-listener discretion is advised. 00:01:48.159 --> 00:01:50.240 Alice, hit us with that. 00:01:50.560 --> 00:01:51.200 Hi, everyone. 00:01:51.280 --> 00:01:55.280 We at Will of the Dice do not condone the use of nicotine products such as cigarette cigars and vaping. 00:01:55.359 --> 00:01:58.159 Though some of us may be users of such products, do as we say, not as we do. 00:01:58.240 --> 00:02:02.000 Nicotine is a harmful and addictive substance, and we want all of you out there to be happy and healthy. 00:02:02.159 --> 00:02:06.880 If you are looking to quit or trying to quit, there are resources out there, and we support you in that endeavor. 00:02:08.080 --> 00:02:08.879 Locke. 00:02:10.159 --> 00:02:11.120 Greetings, gamers. 00:02:11.199 --> 00:02:22.000 I'm Locke Clark, and I'm going to take a moment and talk to you about first, our musicians, those wonderful and talented people who've provided music for us and given us permission to use their songs in our show. 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:28.159 They make the highs feel higher and the lows feel lower and everything just feel more inclusive and draw you deeper into the story. 00:02:28.479 --> 00:02:42.800 And tonight, those musicians are Michael Gelfie, Kevin McLeod, Jeff Farber, Twitter Gar, our very own Patrick Taylor, and introducing our new theme song artist, our very own Ames. 00:02:42.879 --> 00:02:43.599 Give it a praise. 00:02:46.719 --> 00:02:49.280 Also, we'd like to take a moment and thank our partners in this endeavor. 00:02:49.439 --> 00:02:51.680 First up is Red Panda Dice and Delights. 00:02:51.920 --> 00:02:55.039 Find makers of quality dice for all your dicey needs when you buy Red Panda Dice. 00:02:55.439 --> 00:03:07.200 They come with cute little red panda faces right there on the 20 side of the D20 and the 6 side of the D6 so that when you roll that critical damage or you get that max, I mean you roll that critical hit or you get that max damage. 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:08.479 That's the way that phrase works. 00:03:08.960 --> 00:03:13.599 You can see a cute little red panda face staring back up at you going, you've got them, you got them right in the spleen. 00:03:14.080 --> 00:03:15.360 Who doesn't want that? 00:03:16.240 --> 00:03:19.520 Also, you can get your very own plushie. 00:03:20.159 --> 00:03:21.200 This little guy's wearing a hoodie. 00:03:21.280 --> 00:03:22.240 That hoodie has a pocket. 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:23.599 You can put shit in that pocket. 00:03:23.680 --> 00:03:24.800 I'm not going to tell you what to put in there. 00:03:24.960 --> 00:03:25.520 Why? 00:03:26.319 --> 00:03:27.599 Because I'm not your mom. 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:33.360 So to get your very own dice or plushie, head over to redpandadice.com and let them know Tyr sends you. 00:03:33.680 --> 00:03:37.200 Also, we'd like to thank our other partner in this endeavor, Stalwart Makery. 00:03:37.280 --> 00:03:44.400 Starwart Makery makes fine-quality wooden gaming accessories like dice trays, like the ones that Tyr and Ames are holding up in Vanna Whiting for you. 00:03:44.640 --> 00:03:46.960 They are spokesmanling their hearts out, folks. 00:03:47.439 --> 00:03:58.800 Get your very own dice tray or custom DM screen, like the one Tyr has that you can see at Akaticon and marvel at and fawn over and covet for your very own. 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:01.680 Head over to Stalwart Makery and check out what they've got. 00:04:01.840 --> 00:04:12.560 And while you're cruising the internet, if you like their website, check out our website, willodice.com, where you can get cool shirts and things with our characters' faces on them. 00:04:12.640 --> 00:04:19.519 And that's how you show the cast who you love the best by who sells the most shirts with their characters' faces on them. 00:04:20.639 --> 00:04:25.040 I'm winning because I have like three, four character faces over there. 00:04:26.800 --> 00:04:27.280 Go me. 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:33.840 Anyway, yeah, so go check out willodice.com and get yourself some merch based on our characters. 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:35.600 Awesome. 00:04:35.840 --> 00:04:37.600 Now, we have some new folks here. 00:04:37.920 --> 00:04:40.319 We have some awesome folks here. 00:04:40.879 --> 00:04:46.720 And one of them, you have heard me talk about on Cast Guidance, them and their husband's shop, Cat Bat. 00:04:46.959 --> 00:04:53.600 I'm going to hand you over to Casey to tell us about Cat Bat and welcome them to the chaos that is Will of the Dice. 00:04:55.199 --> 00:04:59.840 Here, so Cat Bat, my husband, and I, Chris, we 00:05:01.160 --> 00:05:07.399 We try to aim to make it to where art and games come together, and we encourage you to get into it. 00:05:07.720 --> 00:05:13.079 So, our main product is a thing where you're trying to get into DD Pathfinder. 00:05:13.319 --> 00:05:23.079 It includes some things that Chris is currently holding up, like a journal and a calligraphy pen, as well as dice and all the stuff you need, except your character sheet, because we don't want to tie you down. 00:05:23.399 --> 00:05:25.319 We are currently working on some projects. 00:05:25.480 --> 00:05:28.199 We've got a new board game coming out soon. 00:05:29.319 --> 00:05:31.959 And then we also have a tarot deck that'll be out soon. 00:05:32.279 --> 00:05:34.279 So, keep in touch with that. 00:05:35.800 --> 00:05:40.360 I am excited about the tarot deck as I am a tarot connoisseur. 00:05:41.160 --> 00:05:42.600 All right, that's done. 00:05:42.920 --> 00:05:46.360 Now, we begin the important part of the introductions. 00:05:47.319 --> 00:05:50.199 Oh, yay, and I won that lottery because I'm at the end of the alphabet. 00:05:50.920 --> 00:05:52.519 Hi, everybody. 00:05:52.840 --> 00:05:58.199 This is Christina, and tonight I will be Vayra, and more to come about that later. 00:05:58.680 --> 00:06:00.920 You can find me on Blue Sky at Devil Kisses. 00:06:02.199 --> 00:06:07.879 Hi, Yes, this is Aines, and tonight I'm playing Oz'zariah, and you can find me on Twitter: Blue Sky and Moonbeam as Lolly G. 00:06:07.960 --> 00:06:08.680 Fifo. 00:06:12.040 --> 00:06:13.240 So, this is Chris. 00:06:13.800 --> 00:06:15.480 My wife talked earlier with Catbat. 00:06:15.560 --> 00:06:18.759 So, on the other half of that, I will be playing Opus. 00:06:19.240 --> 00:06:22.680 You'll get some more interesting information on that soon. 00:06:24.120 --> 00:06:27.159 Both the character and myself is a Heve. 00:06:28.759 --> 00:06:32.680 You can find me on Facebook with Catbat and my name. 00:06:34.920 --> 00:06:35.639 I'm Casey. 00:06:35.720 --> 00:06:39.800 As I mentioned earlier, I'm going to be playing a tiny tabaxi named Nyx. 00:06:40.519 --> 00:06:45.639 She goes by she/her, although sometimes she might be spunky, and you might just call it it. 00:06:46.840 --> 00:06:51.319 But yeah, hi, I'm Blue. 00:06:52.199 --> 00:06:52.759 He, she. 00:06:53.399 --> 00:06:55.879 I'll be playing Lumine and Monhaleda. 00:06:56.040 --> 00:06:59.399 You can find me at website pending. 00:07:01.560 --> 00:07:02.279 Hi, everyone. 00:07:02.360 --> 00:07:05.000 I'm Alice, and tonight I will be playing Lenore. 00:07:05.480 --> 00:07:07.800 I am a she-her, and Lenore is a she-vey. 00:07:07.960 --> 00:07:13.080 And you can find me on Twitter, Tumblr, and Blue Sky, and Instagram at Captain Cuppy Cake. 00:07:14.039 --> 00:07:15.080 Greetings, gamers! 00:07:15.159 --> 00:07:16.360 I'm still Lot Clark. 00:07:16.439 --> 00:07:17.319 You didn't forget, did you? 00:07:17.720 --> 00:07:19.240 It was just a minute ago when I said it. 00:07:19.720 --> 00:07:22.759 Tonight, I, ahead, will be playing Kagen Thord. 00:07:23.319 --> 00:07:29.319 Kagen is a he him just like me, and you can find me all over the social medias at Locke Unruly. 00:07:29.480 --> 00:07:31.159 That's Locke with an H. 00:07:32.120 --> 00:07:38.439 I said at the beginning of this, I am Tear the DM, and you can find me on Blue Sky and Moonbeam as Tear the DM. 00:07:39.240 --> 00:07:44.439 All right, the last and most important part: tonight's safe word is Rosebud. 00:07:44.680 --> 00:07:49.399 If for whatever reason occurs that you need the scene to stop, use the safe word. 00:07:49.480 --> 00:07:53.319 We will go straight to break, discuss the situation, return if we can. 00:07:53.639 --> 00:07:54.920 If we can't, we can't. 00:07:55.240 --> 00:07:59.720 I want my players to be happy and healthy as I torment the hell out of their characters. 00:08:00.039 --> 00:08:04.200 With that being said, any last requests? 00:08:04.519 --> 00:08:05.800 Not the face! 00:08:06.680 --> 00:08:08.759 Alrighty, buddy, you got it. 00:08:09.399 --> 00:08:10.920 I hate it when he does that. 00:08:12.920 --> 00:08:14.680 No, that's not the right response. 00:08:15.000 --> 00:08:15.800 So convivial. 00:08:15.879 --> 00:08:16.920 We don't like it. 00:08:18.759 --> 00:08:19.399 All right. 00:08:21.879 --> 00:08:25.639 So this is a new campaign, and we begin. 00:08:25.960 --> 00:08:29.399 The year is, honestly, no one remembers. 00:08:29.720 --> 00:08:32.680 Since the cataclysm, time is no longer a construct. 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:41.319 The great wheels of sun and moon shattered in the sky, leaving only a dim, flickering light that never shifts, never wanes. 00:08:41.960 --> 00:08:46.600 There are no calendars, no clocks, no seasons, only the moment. 00:08:46.920 --> 00:08:48.840 And the moment is cruel. 00:08:49.159 --> 00:08:52.120 People no longer track minutes, hours, months, or years. 00:08:52.440 --> 00:08:56.039 They only know the breath they take now and the pain they carry with it. 00:08:56.360 --> 00:08:59.240 They call this place home, but it is no longer a world. 00:08:59.399 --> 00:09:03.559 It is a wound, a broken scar of what was once divine. 00:09:04.200 --> 00:09:10.920 It was said that once long ago, or perhaps it was only yesterday, the gods walked among mortals. 00:09:11.240 --> 00:09:17.960 They sang the song of creation, held back the tides of entropy, and bound the stars in orderly dance. 00:09:18.600 --> 00:09:20.680 But then the cataclysm came. 00:09:21.000 --> 00:09:22.200 The sky cracked. 00:09:22.519 --> 00:09:23.960 The seas turned black. 00:09:24.279 --> 00:09:26.600 Mountains wept molten blood. 00:09:26.920 --> 00:09:30.600 And the gods, the gods fell. 00:09:31.240 --> 00:09:32.360 No one knows how. 00:09:32.680 --> 00:09:34.039 No one knows why. 00:09:34.360 --> 00:09:35.559 No temples remain. 00:09:35.639 --> 00:09:36.920 No prayers are answered. 00:09:37.240 --> 00:09:41.000 Only hushed stories told by firelight, warnings to children. 00:09:42.279 --> 00:09:43.960 The gods grew prideful. 00:09:44.279 --> 00:09:45.879 The gods lost their way. 00:09:46.200 --> 00:09:47.879 Now they suffer like us. 00:09:48.840 --> 00:09:52.600 And you, you are just like everyone else. 00:09:52.920 --> 00:10:00.200 You wake up cold, hungry, covered in ash and dust in the ruined outskirts of a dead city called Anvilhold. 00:10:02.240 --> 00:10:06.320 The stone towers here reach like broken fingers towards a silent sky. 00:10:06.639 --> 00:10:09.600 They are etched in old runs no one can read. 00:10:09.919 --> 00:10:12.240 You have no name for who you once were. 00:10:12.559 --> 00:10:14.399 No past that makes sense. 00:10:14.720 --> 00:10:17.919 But something inside you feels wrong. 00:10:18.879 --> 00:10:20.320 Too large for your skin. 00:10:20.639 --> 00:10:23.600 Heavy like a forgotten oath pressing down on your chest. 00:10:24.159 --> 00:10:25.679 You dream of impossible things. 00:10:25.919 --> 00:10:28.320 You hear whispers in your very blood. 00:10:28.639 --> 00:10:33.679 They feel power stir raw and strange like a storm beneath you. 00:10:34.000 --> 00:10:35.519 And you are not alone. 00:10:36.399 --> 00:10:39.440 Others wake near you, scattered throughout the rubble. 00:10:39.759 --> 00:10:43.919 Each of you different, but bound by the same strange ache in your soul. 00:10:44.240 --> 00:10:47.840 You know their faces, though you swear you've never seen them before. 00:10:48.159 --> 00:10:51.360 You know their voices, though they speak for the first time. 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:53.759 The world wants you dead. 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:56.240 Something ancient hunts you. 00:10:56.559 --> 00:10:59.840 And deep within the broken places of this world, something calls to you. 00:11:00.159 --> 00:11:02.559 Not your name, but your true name. 00:11:02.879 --> 00:11:08.080 Whatever you were before, whatever you lost, it's time to find it again. 00:11:08.960 --> 00:11:12.399 Welcome to the ashes of divinity. 00:11:15.279 --> 00:11:16.240 Kagen. 00:11:18.080 --> 00:11:18.639 Yes. 00:11:19.519 --> 00:11:28.720 You wake in the pile of rubble, your memory gone, covered in dust and ash, as you see a dark, bleeding sky above you. 00:11:29.360 --> 00:11:34.320 Please introduce your character and tell us how you're doing at the moment. 00:11:39.039 --> 00:11:46.960 Kagen rises up out of the ashes, sort of shaking off the dirt and brushing it from himself as he looks around. 00:11:47.200 --> 00:11:50.639 Kagen is six foot three. 00:11:52.159 --> 00:11:53.840 He is a turtle. 00:11:55.279 --> 00:12:00.639 He has a very spiky shell on his back. 00:12:03.120 --> 00:12:08.000 His skin is blending very nicely with the ashes. 00:12:08.080 --> 00:12:19.519 He is a mottled gray and black turtle with some faint red spotting on his limbs. 00:12:23.279 --> 00:12:25.680 He looks around the area. 00:12:26.879 --> 00:12:30.000 I feel like he's already scarred in some places. 00:12:30.159 --> 00:12:33.519 Like he looks well worn and haggard. 00:12:33.840 --> 00:12:43.120 Whether that's from what has befallen this place or what happened to him previous to that, it's unclear. 00:12:44.319 --> 00:12:59.519 But he looks around, seeing others rising nearby and lets out a sigh and will move to whoever's closest to them and outstretch a hand. 00:12:59.840 --> 00:13:01.200 Come, give me your hand. 00:13:01.360 --> 00:13:02.559 I help you up. 00:13:06.319 --> 00:13:06.799 Awesome. 00:13:06.960 --> 00:13:09.279 So the dice have determined what order you go in. 00:13:09.519 --> 00:13:11.600 Just so you know, I rolled before we started. 00:13:11.840 --> 00:13:13.120 Nyx here next. 00:13:14.319 --> 00:13:15.440 Oh, hey, Meal. 00:13:17.120 --> 00:13:18.240 Where are we? 00:13:18.559 --> 00:13:20.960 And I'll try to like ruffle off a little dust. 00:13:21.039 --> 00:13:24.159 I might get a little bit on Kagen. 00:13:25.440 --> 00:13:28.080 And I'll grab his hand and be like, Meow. 00:13:31.200 --> 00:13:31.920 Oh, sorry. 00:13:32.240 --> 00:13:34.879 I am a three-foot-tall Tavaxi. 00:13:35.120 --> 00:13:41.600 I look closest to like an Oriental style cat, which is the cats that have really large ears. 00:13:42.319 --> 00:13:48.799 I am all black, except for I have one tobine on each hand that is a different color. 00:13:50.319 --> 00:13:53.440 And I have bright gold eyes. 00:13:53.759 --> 00:13:56.720 And I am, for all intents and purposes, a child. 00:13:56.960 --> 00:14:00.080 I'm about like 14, 15, somewhere around there. 00:14:00.799 --> 00:14:02.799 As much as I can remember, at least. 00:14:03.120 --> 00:14:05.600 I just feel very childlike. 00:14:06.799 --> 00:14:10.240 I do focus on healing from what I can remember. 00:14:10.480 --> 00:14:12.319 And that is a passion of mine. 00:14:12.639 --> 00:14:17.360 So I have like priest garb on. 00:14:18.319 --> 00:14:19.120 So yeah. 00:14:21.840 --> 00:14:22.559 Little one. 00:14:22.720 --> 00:14:23.840 Yes, be careful. 00:14:24.000 --> 00:14:30.000 I do not know where we are, but this place, it seems desolate. 00:14:32.720 --> 00:14:33.840 Seems like it, Meow. 00:14:35.360 --> 00:14:36.319 Are there other people? 00:14:36.559 --> 00:14:37.920 Is that someone buried, Meow? 00:14:40.319 --> 00:14:41.920 And I'll push to the next person. 00:14:43.360 --> 00:14:43.920 There are others. 00:14:44.079 --> 00:14:44.879 Let us help them. 00:14:45.039 --> 00:14:47.759 Then I'll move down the line to the next person. 00:14:50.319 --> 00:14:50.960 You muted Tier. 00:14:51.200 --> 00:14:51.519 Tier 1. 00:14:52.799 --> 00:14:53.120 Yep. 00:14:53.200 --> 00:14:53.920 It's starting off. 00:14:54.240 --> 00:14:55.680 I always mute and forget to unmute. 00:14:55.840 --> 00:15:00.400 Lumine, please introduce your character and step into the fray. 00:15:04.039 --> 00:15:10.679 The next one to crawl from the rubble is a human perhaps standing out amongst other forms here. 00:15:11.320 --> 00:15:15.799 She looks pretty young, late teens, maybe early 20s. 00:15:17.159 --> 00:15:24.919 Long dark hair, pulled back in a ponytail, with a curious blue streak going along her bangs and through her hair. 00:15:25.799 --> 00:15:33.000 She's crawling, falling out of the rubble, scraping at the ground, going, No, no, no, no, this can. 00:15:33.799 --> 00:15:35.480 And she looks up. 00:15:36.440 --> 00:15:37.480 What happened? 00:15:38.120 --> 00:15:39.080 Where are we? 00:15:40.440 --> 00:15:41.559 I do not know. 00:15:42.840 --> 00:15:43.639 Sure, Meow. 00:15:43.960 --> 00:15:45.399 We just found you, Meal. 00:15:47.879 --> 00:15:48.759 I don't. 00:15:49.080 --> 00:15:49.720 I don't. 00:15:50.360 --> 00:15:53.240 But she'll take the help up and go to stand. 00:15:55.799 --> 00:15:59.080 Nyx will look around and try to see if she sees anyone else. 00:15:59.320 --> 00:15:59.960 Does she? 00:16:00.840 --> 00:16:02.519 Make an investigation check. 00:16:02.840 --> 00:16:03.879 Oh, gosh. 00:16:04.840 --> 00:16:06.600 First roll of the campaign. 00:16:10.360 --> 00:16:11.320 Investigation. 00:16:12.600 --> 00:16:13.159 Five. 00:16:15.559 --> 00:16:20.919 Yes, you do, because they're thrown in and out of the rubble, and it's easy to see the people. 00:16:21.720 --> 00:16:25.080 You do see a pair of feet belonging to Vayra. 00:16:25.480 --> 00:16:25.960 Vayra. 00:16:26.759 --> 00:16:27.240 Vayra. 00:16:27.559 --> 00:16:29.639 Well, you can't look at the feet. 00:16:34.039 --> 00:16:43.240 And so you see lavender feet, like where the toes kind of curl in as she tries to move herself out. 00:16:44.440 --> 00:16:56.519 Vayra is a female elven appearance, five foot two on the slender side, lavender skin, silver hair. 00:16:57.159 --> 00:17:03.320 And when she looks you in the face, you realize that her irises aren't a color you've seen before. 00:17:03.480 --> 00:17:05.640 They remind you of like an opal. 00:17:09.160 --> 00:17:09.880 Sorry, Miel. 00:17:10.039 --> 00:17:11.880 I was trying to make sure you were alive, Meal. 00:17:15.079 --> 00:17:15.880 Alive? 00:17:18.200 --> 00:17:19.799 Is that what this. 00:17:20.279 --> 00:17:21.079 Oh, yes. 00:17:21.880 --> 00:17:22.360 Of course. 00:17:22.759 --> 00:17:23.400 Alive. 00:17:23.640 --> 00:17:24.200 Sure. 00:17:24.839 --> 00:17:25.799 And you. 00:17:26.599 --> 00:17:29.720 Oh, there's a bunch of you, and she'll pull herself up. 00:17:30.440 --> 00:17:30.920 Are we. 00:17:32.039 --> 00:17:34.759 And she's going to start looking around to see what's around. 00:17:36.360 --> 00:17:36.680 Okay. 00:17:36.920 --> 00:17:38.039 So you want to see what's around. 00:17:38.200 --> 00:17:39.880 Give me a perception check. 00:17:44.200 --> 00:17:44.839 16. 00:17:46.039 --> 00:18:02.039 Amongst the rubble, the stone and dust, the ash, the embers that are slowly falling almost like snow from the heavens, you see that there are body parts sticking out from different places in the rubble. 00:18:02.920 --> 00:18:04.440 Some of them alive. 00:18:05.400 --> 00:18:13.160 You notice that you are surrounded by twelve spires, like trees or giants reaching towards the heaven. 00:18:13.480 --> 00:18:18.599 They are carved in intricate runes that you cannot decipher. 00:18:18.920 --> 00:18:24.119 But as you look at them, they will shift from silver to gold and then back again. 00:18:25.559 --> 00:18:30.920 You see an individual next to you, Vayra. 00:18:33.079 --> 00:18:33.880 Lenore. 00:18:35.160 --> 00:18:36.039 You're up. 00:18:37.480 --> 00:18:47.160 So laying in the ground next to Vayra is a very, very dusty-looking figure curled up on her side. 00:18:49.960 --> 00:18:51.400 She might need a little help up. 00:18:51.960 --> 00:18:57.319 Yeah, noticing the figure next to her. 00:18:57.720 --> 00:19:15.160 Vayra is going to gently, delicately, like tap to try to get their attention, but also not sure if this being likes to be touched, so is kind of doing that tentative, like, um, um, hello? 00:19:15.559 --> 00:19:17.400 Do you need assistance? 00:19:21.799 --> 00:19:23.639 What happened? 00:19:24.920 --> 00:19:53.720 And sitting up a little weakly is a Harangon female appearance in black leathers with red detailing, mostly black fur with little bits like on her muzzle and on her ears and paws and going down her neck to her chest are orange and deep espresso brown eyes. 00:19:58.519 --> 00:20:01.799 Oh, oh dear, you are lovely. 00:20:02.360 --> 00:20:02.599 Um 00:20:04.960 --> 00:20:10.799 I don't know what happened, but I think there might be others who need help. 00:20:12.480 --> 00:20:17.920 Somebody was going to try to help Lenore, like, herself, like, get the rest of the way up and help Lenore up. 00:20:18.799 --> 00:20:20.079 Look for others. 00:20:20.400 --> 00:20:24.480 Ju looks up the help, and now she stands at about 5-8. 00:20:30.799 --> 00:20:31.359 Alright. 00:20:34.799 --> 00:20:36.559 Opus, you're next. 00:20:37.519 --> 00:20:38.160 Yes, go ahead. 00:20:38.319 --> 00:20:38.880 Go ahead, Locke. 00:20:39.039 --> 00:20:54.240 I was going to say that now that we've got a few people up and moving, I'm just going to start moving off from the main group to other bodies and moving rubble off of people and looking for anyone else that's not right where we were. 00:20:54.880 --> 00:20:56.960 Alright, you mean we can see bodies? 00:20:57.519 --> 00:20:57.759 Yeah. 00:21:02.720 --> 00:21:05.440 That is a 17 plus zero. 00:21:05.680 --> 00:21:06.400 My interrogation. 00:21:07.039 --> 00:21:08.640 My investigation's great. 00:21:09.599 --> 00:21:10.720 Okay, 17. 00:21:10.960 --> 00:21:17.440 You discover 12 more people, not in the immediate vicinity where you are, that are alive. 00:21:18.400 --> 00:21:20.559 They too have no memories. 00:21:21.200 --> 00:21:24.000 They are very, very, very distraught. 00:21:24.319 --> 00:21:28.880 The ash and dust becoming tear-streaked as some of them weep. 00:21:29.200 --> 00:21:36.319 Not only for the pain that they are feeling, but from just the sheer magnitude of confusion that presses down on them. 00:21:39.440 --> 00:21:42.559 Opus, you awake under a small pile of rubble. 00:21:43.119 --> 00:21:48.000 Not enough to constrain you, but enough to be disconcerting. 00:21:55.279 --> 00:21:56.799 This doesn't add up. 00:21:59.759 --> 00:22:00.880 He gets up. 00:22:02.799 --> 00:22:11.519 This is about two and a tiny bit foot tall, kabold, stark green. 00:22:12.000 --> 00:22:15.039 Currently, he does not have much on. 00:22:15.279 --> 00:22:20.720 It's basically a very basic drawstring pant, and that's it. 00:22:22.400 --> 00:22:45.680 Covered in ash, it kind of hides a little bit of it, but the spines that run up and down from the top of his head all the way down his back, even to his tail, has a darker green tint, but this brightness pierces in and even shows through his eyes, which are very, very noticeable. 00:22:48.319 --> 00:22:53.599 So he stands up, brushes stuff away, and this. 00:22:54.880 --> 00:22:55.519 People? 00:22:57.119 --> 00:22:58.559 Were people talking? 00:23:00.400 --> 00:23:03.920 You, you, you, you, come here, come here. 00:23:05.279 --> 00:23:07.119 Whoever is closest. 00:23:08.000 --> 00:23:08.880 That's up to you. 00:23:11.360 --> 00:23:12.480 Could I be closest? 00:23:13.440 --> 00:23:13.920 Go ahead. 00:23:14.160 --> 00:23:14.559 Sure. 00:23:15.119 --> 00:23:15.360 You! 00:23:15.839 --> 00:23:18.240 Meow, you're so much smaller to me, Meow! 00:23:19.599 --> 00:23:20.799 Excuse me! 00:23:21.759 --> 00:23:22.400 No, I'm not! 00:23:23.039 --> 00:23:31.599 And he looks around, and he looks, and there's a pebble next to him, like, you know, maybe four foot or four inches tall. 00:23:31.920 --> 00:23:33.039 He says, that right there! 00:23:33.440 --> 00:23:34.480 See, that's small. 00:23:35.039 --> 00:23:52.799 And fine, the cat, cat, you, you, points at the tallest one in the vicinity, which, uh, I believe 6'2, was that Kagen, or would that be Lumine? 00:23:52.960 --> 00:23:54.240 Kagen was 6'3, yeah. 00:23:54.559 --> 00:23:55.440 Kagen, okay. 00:23:55.759 --> 00:23:59.519 Um, so he would have pointed towards you and said, Excuse me! 00:23:59.839 --> 00:24:00.799 Excuse me! 00:24:01.360 --> 00:24:02.720 What's happening here? 00:24:03.360 --> 00:24:05.039 Oh, I do not know. 00:24:05.279 --> 00:24:07.680 This is um we woke up. 00:24:08.400 --> 00:24:11.279 Something horrific seems to have happened. 00:24:11.920 --> 00:24:15.200 Uh calamity, I think is word. 00:24:16.960 --> 00:24:19.200 We are searching for survivors. 00:24:19.519 --> 00:24:21.279 You, you are a survivor. 00:24:21.440 --> 00:24:23.119 Be joyful for this. 00:24:24.079 --> 00:24:25.920 Uh, joyful for what? 00:24:26.160 --> 00:24:26.319 I. 00:24:26.559 --> 00:24:26.639 I. 00:24:27.119 --> 00:24:28.480 Nothing makes sense. 00:24:28.799 --> 00:24:29.519 Nothing adds up. 00:24:30.400 --> 00:24:32.960 I pick up an arm from the dead. 00:24:33.119 --> 00:24:35.519 Yeah, that was a dead body, and I'm like, you're not him? 00:24:37.200 --> 00:24:38.880 No, of course not. 00:24:39.200 --> 00:24:40.799 Why do you have an arm? 00:24:41.759 --> 00:24:42.799 It was in rubble. 00:24:42.880 --> 00:24:45.279 I'm looking for survivors, as I said. 00:24:45.599 --> 00:24:46.559 Petensions. 00:24:47.759 --> 00:24:48.079 Okay. 00:24:48.720 --> 00:24:48.960 Um. 00:24:55.200 --> 00:24:56.720 I missed the last thing you said, Opus. 00:24:57.840 --> 00:24:59.119 Oh, I just, uh. 00:24:59.759 --> 00:25:01.360 I said, what else did you find? 00:25:03.279 --> 00:25:03.440 Uh. 00:25:07.960 --> 00:25:09.160 I found seven so far. 00:25:09.319 --> 00:25:11.000 Seven people besides your group. 00:25:11.160 --> 00:25:11.400 Yes. 00:25:12.039 --> 00:25:12.279 What? 00:25:12.359 --> 00:25:12.519 No. 00:25:12.680 --> 00:25:18.519 And the the the the spires, but are they silver or gold? 00:25:18.839 --> 00:25:20.440 I think that's what they're called. 00:25:21.720 --> 00:25:22.359 Lenore's. 00:25:24.680 --> 00:25:30.119 Lenore's going to lean over to Vayra because she's the only one she's really interacted with. 00:25:30.440 --> 00:25:30.839 And go. 00:25:31.480 --> 00:25:36.359 Did that cat say meow like it was at the end of a sentence? 00:25:37.880 --> 00:25:47.720 Yeah, um, I'm not sure if uh it she not sure uh if they're aware or not. 00:25:47.880 --> 00:25:49.640 Maybe we shouldn't bring it up. 00:25:50.599 --> 00:25:51.640 Fair enough. 00:25:57.960 --> 00:25:59.640 And one remains. 00:26:00.920 --> 00:26:06.039 Oddly, the dust and rubble seem not to find purchase on Oz'zariah. 00:26:07.240 --> 00:26:10.759 But as you rise, Oz'zariah, please introduce yourself. 00:26:13.000 --> 00:26:22.759 Um, she's gonna stand up, and what you see is a very tall, pale, and lean astral elf. 00:26:22.920 --> 00:26:29.079 She has uh pearly white skin that does seem to every now and then it seems to glow. 00:26:29.240 --> 00:26:31.400 It's not constant, it has a luminescence to it. 00:26:31.640 --> 00:26:34.440 She has very pale, long blonde hair. 00:26:35.160 --> 00:26:38.119 It's that blonde just before it's white. 00:26:38.440 --> 00:26:43.319 So there's just that slight touch of gold to it. 00:26:43.559 --> 00:26:46.359 Again, in certain lights, it stands out more than others. 00:26:46.440 --> 00:26:48.519 She has very vibrant teal eyes. 00:26:48.839 --> 00:27:05.559 And at the moment, she's wearing just a pale blue, very finely made day dress that, of course, has some has nails looking a little bit worse for wear since we're in the rubble. 00:27:05.640 --> 00:27:10.359 And she's just gonna kind of look around slightly confused. 00:27:11.000 --> 00:27:16.039 Um excuse me, where are we? 00:27:17.880 --> 00:27:24.200 And furthermore, who who am I and who are all of you? 00:27:32.759 --> 00:27:35.400 So none of us know who we are. 00:27:36.680 --> 00:27:41.000 Lenore blinks and stares down at the ground a little bit. 00:27:43.000 --> 00:27:48.279 I had not thought of that until now. 00:27:49.559 --> 00:27:51.720 And she looks very concerned. 00:27:52.440 --> 00:27:55.160 I'm pretty sure we're people people. 00:27:55.559 --> 00:27:57.000 I'm pretty sure we're people. 00:27:58.599 --> 00:27:59.799 So we don't know what happened. 00:27:59.960 --> 00:28:01.319 We don't know who we are. 00:28:01.640 --> 00:28:02.839 What's going on? 00:28:04.360 --> 00:28:05.640 We're definitely people. 00:28:05.880 --> 00:28:06.680 Yes, it's okay. 00:28:06.839 --> 00:28:07.559 We're people. 00:28:09.799 --> 00:28:10.519 People, Meow. 00:28:11.559 --> 00:28:13.720 What is important is we are survivors. 00:28:13.880 --> 00:28:14.599 We have lived. 00:28:14.839 --> 00:28:15.640 Others have not. 00:28:15.880 --> 00:28:19.480 We need to continue to survive. 00:28:19.799 --> 00:28:23.319 Yes, this is imperative. 00:28:23.640 --> 00:28:28.119 We must find supplies and shelters and things. 00:28:28.440 --> 00:28:30.440 I think this is how it's done. 00:28:31.799 --> 00:28:36.759 Yeah, maybe round up anyone who's still alive. 00:28:37.240 --> 00:28:40.680 And this doesn't look like a good place to be. 00:28:40.920 --> 00:28:42.680 We probably do need shelter. 00:28:43.559 --> 00:28:45.160 But what if it happens again? 00:28:46.680 --> 00:28:48.200 What if what happens again? 00:28:48.759 --> 00:28:49.880 Yeah, what happened, Meow? 00:28:50.200 --> 00:28:50.519 Do you know? 00:28:50.839 --> 00:28:51.960 Whatever this is. 00:28:53.400 --> 00:28:54.920 All this destruction of. 00:29:00.279 --> 00:29:01.319 Yes, yes, Poppet. 00:29:01.799 --> 00:29:13.480 As we can see, there's much suffering here, but our friend here, um, I'm sorry, she's going to kind of hold a hand out towards Kagen. 00:29:13.880 --> 00:29:16.200 Um, I'm not sure who you are. 00:29:16.519 --> 00:29:21.240 Or, um, Torto, correct? 00:29:22.599 --> 00:29:24.680 Um, I look down at my skin. 00:29:25.079 --> 00:29:27.000 That seemed to be the case, Jay. 00:29:28.440 --> 00:29:28.759 Okay. 00:29:29.160 --> 00:29:36.039 Um, I think they're I think they're correct, and and maybe we need to focus on um shelter. 00:29:36.360 --> 00:29:47.799 She's gonna be like looking around at everything, and and um, maybe one of these others amongst all this rubble, maybe one of them know what's going on here. 00:29:50.360 --> 00:29:53.160 Okay, okay, let's let's do that. 00:30:00.440 --> 00:30:01.639 You're muted. 00:30:02.279 --> 00:30:02.920 I caught it. 00:30:03.079 --> 00:30:04.840 Uh, I would say, since getting up. 00:30:08.480 --> 00:30:18.480 Opus would be kind of filtering through the rock that he found as well as anything else he can find in the area. 00:30:20.640 --> 00:30:29.279 Is it ash explicitly, or is there any kind of natural, you know, fungus, flora, fauna? 00:30:33.359 --> 00:30:35.839 Make an investigation check. 00:30:44.240 --> 00:30:45.359 That is a 19. 00:30:47.200 --> 00:30:53.680 So you are surrounded by ash and rubble. 00:30:55.519 --> 00:31:04.799 You look out in the dim light that is afforded from the darkness of the sky and beyond these spires. 00:31:05.119 --> 00:31:14.960 To your east, you see a giant mountain rising and can barely glimpse snow on the tops. 00:31:15.839 --> 00:31:31.839 Looking out to the west, you see remnants of tall grass that somehow survived this apocalyptic cataclysm that you're sure has transpired. 00:31:34.640 --> 00:31:46.480 You get a feeling that this is not something that happened in a very specific area, but is widespread. 00:31:50.319 --> 00:32:03.680 And as you dig through the ash, you will come to the remnants of more of that tall grass, the jasmine and the lavender, just compacted and burnt. 00:32:10.640 --> 00:32:11.519 I might be able to. 00:32:12.000 --> 00:32:12.960 I'm going to use this. 00:32:13.279 --> 00:32:19.440 I'm going to kind of gather as much as my hands can hold and just kind of like hold it as I'm hobbling through. 00:32:19.680 --> 00:32:23.279 Almost as if I've found, you know, the best stuff ever. 00:32:23.599 --> 00:32:24.240 All right. 00:32:28.160 --> 00:32:37.039 Lenore's going to put herself in the effort of unveiling live and dead people and parts. 00:32:38.559 --> 00:32:42.799 And Lumine will help once she's found her strength, which is pretty fast. 00:32:44.000 --> 00:32:44.240 Yeah. 00:32:45.039 --> 00:32:49.440 Vayra will realize quickly that she's not physically very strong. 00:32:50.160 --> 00:33:03.200 So we'll try to help calm people down once the others have found them and try to get people working on tasks to distract themselves and to be productive instead of like having a mass breakdown everywhere. 00:33:03.839 --> 00:33:04.319 All right. 00:33:06.640 --> 00:33:11.920 As you unearth people, you find the same. 00:33:12.079 --> 00:33:14.799 They are bloodied and bruised, the ones that are living. 00:33:14.960 --> 00:33:23.759 Some of them, their wounds are superficial, others are life-threatening. 00:33:25.599 --> 00:33:30.960 All of them, to a T cannot remember who they are or where they're from. 00:33:32.240 --> 00:33:33.759 Except for one. 00:33:34.720 --> 00:33:49.279 You dislodge rubble from around a human female in their mid-40s wearing now burnt and tattered military clothing. 00:33:49.839 --> 00:33:54.640 Even with the amnesia, you can spot that this is a person in command. 00:33:58.079 --> 00:33:59.279 It happened. 00:33:59.599 --> 00:34:01.599 I'll be damned it happened. 00:34:03.039 --> 00:34:04.480 What happened, Puppet? 00:34:07.680 --> 00:34:10.320 They will turn their eyes skyward. 00:34:11.199 --> 00:34:13.360 They all fell. 00:34:18.000 --> 00:34:18.159 Who? 00:34:20.880 --> 00:34:24.960 The deities that have mocked us for so long. 00:34:26.480 --> 00:34:31.599 There was one that claimed to take vengeance upon them and said that they would cast them down. 00:34:32.480 --> 00:34:36.559 I cannot remember his name, but I will never forget his face. 00:34:37.199 --> 00:34:38.960 He must have done it. 00:34:48.559 --> 00:34:56.239 This is as good a theory of what has befallen us as any I have heard. 00:34:58.480 --> 00:35:00.320 It's the first one I have. 00:35:02.239 --> 00:35:04.159 But why can you remember? 00:35:07.159 --> 00:35:07.800 You cannot? 00:35:09.400 --> 00:35:09.719 No. 00:35:10.920 --> 00:35:11.320 Some. 00:35:13.800 --> 00:35:16.679 I understand that we are talking. 00:35:17.320 --> 00:35:19.079 And that we are people. 00:35:20.679 --> 00:35:21.000 But. 00:35:23.000 --> 00:35:23.320 No. 00:35:26.840 --> 00:35:32.840 I vaguely think I know at least some of you. 00:35:34.039 --> 00:35:36.199 But I don't even know who I am. 00:35:36.840 --> 00:35:39.719 So how am I supposed to remember what happened? 00:35:40.599 --> 00:35:42.760 Yes, you are all familiar. 00:35:43.079 --> 00:35:44.440 Strangely so. 00:35:45.960 --> 00:35:47.159 Uh, yes, yes. 00:35:47.320 --> 00:35:48.920 Uh, excuse me, excuse me. 00:35:49.239 --> 00:35:58.360 And uh, Opus will kind of be waving at, like, you know, about two feet, two and a half feet, uh, to this human female. 00:35:59.159 --> 00:35:59.960 What's your name? 00:36:00.119 --> 00:36:02.119 What what's your name, though? 00:36:03.079 --> 00:36:04.039 I'm Althra. 00:36:04.360 --> 00:36:05.400 Althra Vog. 00:36:06.599 --> 00:36:09.719 Uh, I and he's gonna kind of look around and be. 00:36:10.519 --> 00:36:15.000 I how can you can you write it down? 00:36:15.639 --> 00:36:16.679 Can I have it? 00:36:17.800 --> 00:36:18.119 I don't know. 00:36:18.280 --> 00:36:20.199 I'm not giving them anything to write with. 00:36:20.840 --> 00:36:25.239 Uh are you Faye? 00:36:25.880 --> 00:36:27.480 Oh, is that rude to ask? 00:36:28.119 --> 00:36:30.840 I don't think you're supposed to take someone's name. 00:36:32.119 --> 00:36:36.599 I mean, I understand if you don't have one of your own, but I don't think you're supposed to take theirs. 00:36:37.559 --> 00:36:38.840 Well, it's not mine. 00:36:39.800 --> 00:36:41.159 You said, Can I have it? 00:36:41.480 --> 00:36:58.679 Yeah, you're gonna see, like, he'll kind of sit down, you know, on the ground, looking very confused and concerned with his own actions, and just, well, but I didn't I just I wanted and he's not talking to anyone at this point. 00:36:58.920 --> 00:37:00.280 He's talking to himself. 00:37:00.599 --> 00:37:08.280 You know, that weirdly sounds familiar, is it a thing to Faye and their wait? 00:37:09.079 --> 00:37:10.679 Where did that come from? 00:37:11.239 --> 00:37:19.320 And she's gonna just grab her head, and you'll see her hands are shaking as she's trying to figure out, like, where the things she's saying are coming from. 00:37:19.960 --> 00:37:20.679 Wait, I. 00:37:24.519 --> 00:37:25.159 Althra. 00:37:25.639 --> 00:37:26.280 Jesus. 00:37:26.920 --> 00:37:28.280 Duh, this is his name. 00:37:29.159 --> 00:37:29.960 Althra say. 00:37:32.679 --> 00:37:34.920 The deities have fallen. 00:37:36.840 --> 00:37:37.960 I know deity. 00:37:38.119 --> 00:37:39.800 I remember deity. 00:37:40.679 --> 00:37:42.039 But I don't remember. 00:37:43.960 --> 00:37:45.000 Any deity. 00:37:46.519 --> 00:37:46.920 Do you. 00:37:49.000 --> 00:37:49.239 Remember? 00:37:49.639 --> 00:37:49.880 No. 00:37:50.199 --> 00:37:52.760 No, I remember. 00:37:53.239 --> 00:37:59.159 It's like looking at an illustration that is being erased as you study it. 00:37:59.800 --> 00:38:03.400 I remember the man that said he would cast the gods down. 00:38:05.000 --> 00:38:08.840 I remember thinking, wow, what a lunatic. 00:38:09.800 --> 00:38:15.239 And then I woke up here, and I'm afraid I'm going to forget more. 00:38:19.480 --> 00:38:20.440 Write it down? 00:38:21.000 --> 00:38:21.559 No name. 00:38:21.880 --> 00:38:22.360 It's okay. 00:38:22.519 --> 00:38:23.719 Write it down. 00:38:24.360 --> 00:38:26.280 Draw it in the sand if you must. 00:38:27.239 --> 00:38:27.719 Yes. 00:38:30.760 --> 00:38:35.000 Actually, so, Meow, I think cookies might be deities, Meow. 00:38:37.239 --> 00:38:37.960 Cookies? 00:38:39.079 --> 00:38:39.960 Yes, Meow? 00:38:42.599 --> 00:38:44.039 This does not seem right. 00:38:47.239 --> 00:38:48.519 Cook cookies? 00:38:50.440 --> 00:38:50.840 Food. 00:38:51.159 --> 00:38:53.239 Do you guys know what a cookie is, Meow? 00:38:55.719 --> 00:38:59.559 Good often with smaller treats inside them? 00:39:00.440 --> 00:39:03.239 They're very important, Meow, so they must be deities, Meow. 00:39:09.239 --> 00:39:10.599 You mean like biscuit? 00:39:10.840 --> 00:39:11.480 Yes. 00:39:15.320 --> 00:39:17.719 It's like the dough, Meow. 00:39:18.440 --> 00:39:19.880 So maybe Meow. 00:39:28.039 --> 00:39:29.000 These are not cookies! 00:39:29.239 --> 00:39:31.880 And I'm gonna like sift up the stuff that I've been gathering. 00:39:32.119 --> 00:39:33.400 The pieces of foliage and stuff. 00:39:33.639 --> 00:39:34.119 Cookies. 00:39:34.199 --> 00:39:35.400 These aren't cookies. 00:39:37.480 --> 00:39:39.079 Yeah, you have to bake them, Meow. 00:39:40.360 --> 00:39:41.800 Well, I okay. 00:39:42.599 --> 00:39:44.599 They look pretty baked to me. 00:39:45.559 --> 00:40:05.000 No, no, deities were powerful beings who presided over aspect of world or nature or thing. 00:40:06.119 --> 00:40:06.760 So cookies were. 00:40:09.039 --> 00:40:11.519 They have their own sphere of influence. 00:40:11.840 --> 00:40:17.119 Uh, da, yeah, you, um you still sound you're describing a cookie, Meow. 00:40:17.840 --> 00:40:18.559 Kingdom? 00:40:18.880 --> 00:40:20.000 No, not the right word. 00:40:20.239 --> 00:40:24.800 Uh, I say domain, but I say it in deep speech. 00:40:29.920 --> 00:40:32.719 What on earth was that? 00:40:35.760 --> 00:40:36.960 Is not translated. 00:40:37.039 --> 00:40:42.239 Uh, did you break your and she points to like your throat? 00:40:48.159 --> 00:40:49.119 I am not broken. 00:40:49.280 --> 00:40:53.039 No, it is, um, I apparently speak more than one thing. 00:40:57.280 --> 00:41:00.159 Regardless, um, I think he's correct. 00:41:00.400 --> 00:45:07.920 Um, I find a uh I try and find like a stick Opus hands you like the the firmest thing that he had found that's you know still kind of burnt I hand it to to Alfra um anything remember that is important that feels like is slipping right in dirt when we find paper we we we we copy they will take the implement from you Kagen place the tip of it into the ash and begin to try to draw they will sit there making just one large circle in the ash and then we'll look up can you tell me who am I that feels right you are soldier commander feels right the man do you remember the man what man she doesn't remember the man things are fading I I think we I think we need to find some place to call safe for now agreed um let's there's there's what like a couple dozen of us now yeah yeah and there are remnants of buildings some mostly standing some completely obliterated like Anvil Hold was a canton so it was a canton proper and then a thousand suburban are uh rural areas out from it but the canton proper is where you would find yourself and there are a few buildings that are intact they're just gonna head to the one that looks most sturdy okay um let's let's go this way you had mentioned that there were twelve spires around are they is the same does it look the same inside the twelve spires and out of the twelve spires like does it look like okay okay um you said the twelve spires have runes on them yes and that they're shifting they shift color from silver to gold okay the runes are they different on each spire or are they the same they are the same how are identicals how close are they to like are is it surrounding a large area or is it yes it is surrounding what would have been the canton proper are we close to anyone or like where's the how far is the nearest one the nearest one is about 300 yards uh opus would uh as as Vayra was going towards you know the the potential shelter 00:45:10.760 --> 00:45:25.079 Opus would go, go on, go on, and he's gonna sort of saunter, but then go quicker and quicker towards the closest spire. 00:45:25.719 --> 00:45:33.400 Okay, when we woke up, did we have any of the stuff that we are supposed to start with, or are we just bear? 00:45:33.960 --> 00:45:34.760 You're bear. 00:45:35.320 --> 00:45:41.320 Okay, Nyx will just kind of follow behind and stare at the tiny little lizard. 00:45:48.840 --> 00:45:50.760 I'll try to set a perimeter. 00:45:51.079 --> 00:46:01.400 And Lumine would go to find something study that could be a makeshift weapon and try and check out the building like outside the building that I was going to. 00:46:02.039 --> 00:46:02.440 All right. 00:46:02.599 --> 00:46:04.440 Give me an investigation check, Lumine. 00:46:05.239 --> 00:46:05.559 Okay. 00:46:09.880 --> 00:46:11.480 Let's click the one, right? 00:46:12.679 --> 00:46:13.239 Yep. 00:46:13.800 --> 00:46:14.039 Yeah. 00:46:17.800 --> 00:46:18.280 Yay. 00:46:24.199 --> 00:46:25.480 It's going to be a 12. 00:46:26.760 --> 00:46:30.199 You find the remnants of a table leg. 00:46:30.440 --> 00:46:33.400 It is very large and club-like. 00:46:34.039 --> 00:46:40.119 Something that you could feel like this feels good. 00:46:40.760 --> 00:46:43.400 This is something familiar. 00:46:46.920 --> 00:46:52.119 He kind of taps it in offhand and like, yeah, this will do. 00:46:59.079 --> 00:47:11.239 Lenore is just going to, until she gets tired, keep going further and further out from where they woke up, trying to unearth people parts and such. 00:47:14.360 --> 00:47:18.760 Yeah, I think you're taking that. 00:47:18.920 --> 00:47:20.840 And is any dead bodies? 00:47:21.480 --> 00:47:26.679 He's like dragging them all to a single area and laying them out like in lines. 00:47:33.079 --> 00:47:37.559 As I'm following the tiny kobold, I am going to be like, where are you going, y'all? 00:47:42.360 --> 00:47:43.400 Don't know if I would have. 00:47:43.960 --> 00:47:45.239 I don't know if Opus would have heard that. 00:47:45.639 --> 00:47:51.159 Were you trying to keep up basically, like right behind? 00:47:51.480 --> 00:47:52.280 Okay, never mind. 00:47:52.440 --> 00:47:53.000 Probably woke up. 00:47:53.079 --> 00:47:58.199 I'm not getting the idea of looking down on something because I don't usually get to. 00:48:03.159 --> 00:48:04.360 Why follow? 00:48:05.000 --> 00:48:07.079 Cat, go, go. 00:48:08.039 --> 00:48:19.000 And he's just kind of shoot a little bit, but then, you know, continue going at this point, you know, kind of running at the goal of that spire. 00:48:22.760 --> 00:48:24.840 Let's keep following from behind. 00:48:32.119 --> 00:48:37.559 Investigation will be made, but nothing new found. 00:48:40.039 --> 00:48:45.000 The first night will be that of survival in its purest form. 00:48:45.639 --> 00:48:49.559 And survive, you shall. 00:48:50.039 --> 00:48:56.679 Each night becoming a new day, though there is no passage of sun to mark. 00:48:59.159 --> 00:49:07.079 And time will march on, even if it is not a recognized construct amongst the people anymore. 00:49:09.639 --> 00:49:14.840 Eight summers will come and go as the seasons remain. 00:49:17.320 --> 00:49:20.760 Some of you will remain and will hold. 00:49:21.320 --> 00:49:27.639 Others will take to the Al Harafa desert kingdom. 00:49:28.280 --> 00:49:31.000 Some maybe just journey. 00:49:35.159 --> 00:49:46.920 But each year you will find yourself back here at this place of awakening as you celebrate the day of Guy and Sand. 00:49:49.720 --> 00:49:53.960 And when we get back from our first break, that's where we'll begin. 00:49:54.280 --> 00:49:58.360 We're going to take 10 minutes, get our beverages of choice of our snickety snacks, and we'll be right back. 00:49:58.519 --> 00:49:59.880 Don't go anywhere. 01:08:44.439 --> 01:08:45.880 Greetings and welcome back. 01:08:46.039 --> 01:08:51.239 Our break took a little longer than expected. 01:08:51.399 --> 01:08:54.359 My new people, and I got some milk because milk does a tear good. 01:08:55.239 --> 01:09:02.600 When last we left, the party had awoken in rubble and ash, not remembering who they were or where they were. 01:09:03.880 --> 01:09:09.720 They uncovered some living and some not so living individuals. 01:09:10.359 --> 01:09:17.399 They found shelter, and then I, as the dungeon master, took the liberty to bump us forward and time a little bit. 01:09:19.880 --> 01:09:20.840 So, yeah. 01:09:21.640 --> 01:09:30.600 Um, song was that directed towards me, okay. 01:09:30.840 --> 01:09:32.600 No, that was just but in general. 01:09:33.880 --> 01:09:49.800 Okay, um, this is where our story continues: the beginning of our tale, as it were, and this is where we determine: have you been forsaken to the will of the dice? 01:09:51.640 --> 01:09:59.239 It is time now for the Holy of Holies, the day of sand and sky. 01:10:05.239 --> 01:10:06.199 One moment, please. 01:10:06.279 --> 01:10:07.479 Take us to break, Ames. 01:10:08.119 --> 01:10:08.359 Okay. 01:10:50.960 --> 01:10:51.520 And we're back. 01:10:51.680 --> 01:10:54.319 Sorry, had to adjust something real quick. 01:10:54.640 --> 01:11:06.319 As I was saying, the day has come for the day of sky and sand, that holy day that reminds you of where you woke and the prosperity that you have found. 01:11:07.840 --> 01:11:18.000 It is the joining of two entities, much like an Oreo, since we were talking about cookies before. 01:11:22.079 --> 01:11:25.039 Is held once a cycle or a year? 01:11:25.760 --> 01:11:28.000 They don't call them years anymore. 01:11:28.319 --> 01:11:44.000 It is to commemorate the ancient pact of peace forged eight years ago between Anvilhold, the fortress of stone and fire, and Al Hafara, an oasis city of wind, sand, and memory. 01:11:46.800 --> 01:12:14.239 The people are beginning to awake and step into the quote-unquote streets of what is now the fortress city of Anvilhold, once a rural canton, now a walled and gated place of safety to keep out the scavengers and the monsters that now roam free upon the world. 01:12:16.720 --> 01:12:24.159 This is a place of shelter, a place of strength. 01:12:25.439 --> 01:12:30.079 It is, for some of you, home. 01:12:32.479 --> 01:12:34.239 For others, a destination. 01:12:34.399 --> 01:12:58.000 As you travel across the sea of solace, the grand desert that lies between Anvilhold and the mountains, it's a treacherous journey, so the entourage is well armed and well aware of their surroundings. 01:12:59.279 --> 01:13:05.680 People begin to show up and begin to make merry, as it is a day of merriment. 01:13:10.079 --> 01:13:30.239 We're going to start not in Anvilhold, but at the edge of the sea of solace, as a sand skiff comes to a halt, Nyx, you can see the gated walled city in the distance. 01:13:30.479 --> 01:13:44.880 It is several, several miles away, but you remember it fondly from the last day of sky and sand and how exciting it is to be included in this year's festivities. 01:13:45.199 --> 01:13:46.319 What do you do? 01:13:47.199 --> 01:13:48.640 Is everyone around me? 01:13:49.840 --> 01:13:50.960 No, these people are. 01:13:51.520 --> 01:13:52.640 No, these people aren't. 01:13:53.680 --> 01:13:58.479 Okay, so I will just out loud be like, oh, man, they have the post cookies. 01:13:58.560 --> 01:13:59.760 It's so exciting meal. 01:14:04.000 --> 01:14:14.159 One of the guards will give a chuckle, checking over their gear and holding tight to their spear as they look around. 01:14:14.479 --> 01:14:16.560 They do have good cookies. 01:14:18.159 --> 01:14:23.680 Nyx will look over and her eyes will just widen a bit and just get super excited and just jitter. 01:14:26.880 --> 01:14:36.640 As you are standing there, you will see a familiar face coming from the north. 01:14:39.520 --> 01:14:47.039 They are still the visage of battle, as it were. 01:14:47.840 --> 01:14:56.800 Their shell gleaming, their spikes rehoned, a backpack and two sacks, one in each hand. 01:14:57.439 --> 01:15:00.640 You will see Kagen coming down the way. 01:15:02.800 --> 01:15:03.119 Oh! 01:15:04.399 --> 01:15:05.760 Greetings, travelers! 01:15:06.000 --> 01:15:08.319 Oh, tiny little cat person! 01:15:09.600 --> 01:15:10.399 Welcome back! 01:15:10.560 --> 01:15:12.239 It is good to see you again. 01:15:19.800 --> 01:15:21.319 You are here for ceremony. 01:15:21.800 --> 01:15:22.439 Duh? 01:15:24.359 --> 01:15:24.760 Meow. 01:15:27.000 --> 01:15:28.039 Wonderful. 01:15:29.800 --> 01:15:32.760 It is looking to be a good celebration this year. 01:15:33.000 --> 01:15:40.119 I have been out gathering things, making community nicer. 01:15:42.039 --> 01:15:43.319 Have you healed anyone, Meow? 01:15:45.960 --> 01:15:52.039 No, no, that is not quite in my purview. 01:15:52.920 --> 01:15:54.279 I'll teach you later, Meow. 01:15:55.800 --> 01:15:57.000 You see what I did? 01:15:57.319 --> 01:15:59.880 Purview is cat thing, yes? 01:16:01.399 --> 01:16:02.680 Uh, maybe, Meow. 01:16:02.920 --> 01:16:04.439 What part of it, Meow? 01:16:05.560 --> 01:16:06.600 Purview? 01:16:06.760 --> 01:16:11.640 See this noise kitty make like Neeks. 01:16:13.960 --> 01:16:15.159 Oh, I'll try it. 01:16:15.239 --> 01:16:19.560 Burr, Meow, her, meow like that, Meow. 01:16:22.680 --> 01:16:23.720 Sure, good enough. 01:16:25.399 --> 01:16:27.640 She looked very satisfied with herself. 01:16:31.239 --> 01:16:35.960 I have to make deliveries, but I hope to see you during the festival. 01:16:43.800 --> 01:16:45.800 Do we see anyone else familiar? 01:16:45.960 --> 01:16:50.359 Is there just Kagen so far? 01:16:52.199 --> 01:16:54.520 Kagen, are you going to go off on your own? 01:16:54.600 --> 01:16:55.800 Are you going to travel with them? 01:16:56.439 --> 01:16:58.600 I'll walk with them back into Anvil Hold. 01:16:58.680 --> 01:16:58.840 Sure. 01:16:58.920 --> 01:17:13.159 I'll stick around long enough to they welcome another blade, as it were, because you never know what can be found in the wilds inside the walls. 01:17:13.479 --> 01:17:23.640 The festivities are beginning to slowly come into place, making ready for the different rites that will be performed. 01:17:24.840 --> 01:17:36.920 We find a small laboratory: beakers and buns and burners and tubes of swirly gases and liquids. 01:17:37.239 --> 01:17:39.079 What's Opus up to? 01:17:44.199 --> 01:17:47.880 Opus is sitting in his laboratory. 01:17:48.439 --> 01:17:53.960 He has recently come back trying to get ready for the festivities. 01:17:54.600 --> 01:18:00.039 Came back from scavenging and getting a whole bunch of different reagents. 01:18:02.359 --> 01:18:07.239 Additionally, he is actually working with partners this time. 01:18:08.439 --> 01:18:12.760 So you kind of like from the outside. 01:18:13.319 --> 01:18:25.479 So as he steps out of his laboratory, there is a rope that seems to be animated coming from him almost as if it's snake-like. 01:18:26.680 --> 01:18:30.600 And Opus goes, Ropus, can you hand me that? 01:18:31.000 --> 01:18:33.720 I forgot to grab the beaker. 01:18:33.880 --> 01:18:35.399 No, no, no, that one. 01:18:36.039 --> 01:18:39.399 And you see the rope kind of almost have a mind of its own, it seems. 01:18:39.560 --> 01:18:43.560 Go in and grab the beaker that he was missing. 01:18:45.159 --> 01:18:53.960 Additionally, as he kind of walks through, he also says, Minkus, where is Minkus? 01:18:55.239 --> 01:19:08.039 And around the corner from the lab, you see and hear a lot of creaking and grinding, and you see a tiny little chest with legs walking next to him. 01:19:08.760 --> 01:19:09.720 Oh, there you are. 01:19:10.279 --> 01:19:10.840 Let's get going. 01:19:11.479 --> 01:19:12.760 We've gathered all of this. 01:19:13.640 --> 01:19:15.079 We gotta meet people. 01:19:18.520 --> 01:19:19.479 Awesome. 01:19:20.119 --> 01:19:30.680 As you begin making your way across town, people nodding, some waving. 01:19:32.600 --> 01:19:35.159 You are very well known amongst these people. 01:19:36.039 --> 01:19:41.640 Your elixirs are very, very famous in this anvil hold. 01:19:44.199 --> 01:19:55.720 You will actually be stopped by a half-orc that you know to be Lilith Greywater, the owner of Bruising Bones, the tavern that has come around. 01:19:57.079 --> 01:19:59.239 They don't serve alcohol there. 01:19:59.479 --> 01:20:04.279 That's reserved for another place of business that we'll get to shortly. 01:20:05.880 --> 01:20:09.399 But they will stop you. 01:20:10.359 --> 01:20:14.920 The Bruising Bones is Equal Parts Pub Apothecary. 01:20:16.399 --> 01:20:17.760 An information market. 01:20:18.079 --> 01:20:19.199 Oh, oh, Opus. 01:20:20.399 --> 01:20:24.560 Do you have the headache medicine that I was asking for? 01:20:25.840 --> 01:20:26.319 You sure? 01:20:26.479 --> 01:20:26.800 Yes. 01:20:27.520 --> 01:20:27.840 Yes. 01:20:28.000 --> 01:20:28.239 Hold on. 01:20:28.560 --> 01:20:29.039 Minkus. 01:20:29.840 --> 01:20:30.319 Where did Minus? 01:20:30.479 --> 01:20:31.199 Whoa, there you are. 01:20:31.279 --> 01:20:31.840 Sorry. 01:20:32.159 --> 01:20:39.520 And to get kind of the frame, Minkus is around like a two-foot chest kind of looking thing. 01:20:39.760 --> 01:20:43.199 So it's about as tall as Opus himself. 01:20:43.760 --> 01:20:45.039 But he goes, oh, there you are. 01:20:45.760 --> 01:20:46.479 Open up. 01:20:47.039 --> 01:20:54.560 And Minkus kind of brings a little bit of his chest, the top of the chest up, and he opens it up. 01:20:55.199 --> 01:20:58.159 Opus roots into it a little bit. 01:20:58.239 --> 01:21:00.800 You hear a lot of tinks, a lot of things hitting each other. 01:21:00.960 --> 01:21:02.000 Oh, there they are. 01:21:04.159 --> 01:21:05.359 Lilith, right? 01:21:06.159 --> 01:21:07.199 Here you go. 01:21:08.159 --> 01:21:08.560 Thank you. 01:21:08.720 --> 01:21:11.600 And they will hand you a small bag of silver coins. 01:21:12.239 --> 01:21:19.439 This is very popular among certain types of clients. 01:21:20.239 --> 01:21:22.960 She will laugh, giving a wink. 01:21:23.920 --> 01:21:26.159 We look forward to the festivities. 01:21:28.079 --> 01:21:28.800 Yes, yes. 01:21:29.760 --> 01:21:30.319 Me too. 01:21:32.239 --> 01:21:34.000 Lots of trades to be had. 01:21:34.560 --> 01:21:37.520 And he kind of tosses the silver into Minkus. 01:21:37.920 --> 01:21:40.720 You hear the and it closes. 01:21:41.359 --> 01:21:48.399 And they will nod and head back to their establishment, leaving you to do whatever it is that you set out to do. 01:21:51.119 --> 01:21:51.840 Let's go. 01:21:52.159 --> 01:22:02.399 And once again, Opus is talking to his little companions and goes off towards the market further into the city. 01:22:03.600 --> 01:22:10.880 As you approach the market, Opus, you feel a brush against your ear. 01:22:12.640 --> 01:22:14.159 Like breath. 01:22:15.680 --> 01:22:17.359 And you hear a whisper. 01:22:18.239 --> 01:22:21.760 Look for me behind the roses. 01:22:24.800 --> 01:22:25.439 Roses? 01:22:25.920 --> 01:22:27.520 I do kind of need some roses. 01:22:29.279 --> 01:22:31.279 I assume I don't see anybody? 01:22:31.600 --> 01:22:33.359 No, there's no one to be seen. 01:22:36.000 --> 01:22:38.880 Ropus, don't touch me. 01:22:39.680 --> 01:22:41.199 Don't trick me. 01:22:46.239 --> 01:22:48.560 Ropus looks very offended. 01:22:49.199 --> 01:22:50.479 Does a hmm. 01:22:51.119 --> 01:22:53.840 And then you set about your way. 01:22:55.199 --> 01:23:02.159 As you begin to enter the market, we pan to the wall where guards stand. 01:23:02.800 --> 01:23:10.560 One figure there, gently brushing their weight back and forth between their feet. 01:23:11.119 --> 01:23:13.760 They are well armored and well armed. 01:23:14.079 --> 01:23:19.760 Their weapons of exquisite make, except for a table leg hung on their back. 01:23:20.800 --> 01:23:25.439 Lumine, what are you up to here on the wall? 01:23:26.720 --> 01:23:28.159 Oh boy, on the wall. 01:23:29.039 --> 01:23:35.920 She's helping out with making sure everyone feels safe with the festivities. 01:23:36.239 --> 01:23:43.760 She's putting a little extra effort to relieve some guards, let them take a few more breaks, that kind of thing. 01:23:49.439 --> 01:23:56.319 You will be approached by Authra, who is now warden, chief of the guard of Anvilhold. 01:23:57.279 --> 01:24:00.399 Lumine, a pleasure to see you. 01:24:00.720 --> 01:24:02.880 I see you're on the wall again. 01:24:04.319 --> 01:24:05.199 Aren't I always? 01:24:06.479 --> 01:24:07.039 Go Gucky. 01:24:07.359 --> 01:24:09.920 One day you'll just have to break down and join us. 01:24:11.119 --> 01:24:13.359 No, no, I don't look good in the uniform. 01:24:16.079 --> 01:24:17.600 Oh, I doubt that. 01:24:18.560 --> 01:24:22.319 Have you seen anything disturbing? 01:24:23.279 --> 01:24:24.560 Nothing too important, man. 01:24:25.520 --> 01:24:26.079 Excellent. 01:24:26.239 --> 01:24:27.279 Excellent. 01:24:27.600 --> 01:24:29.680 Well, thank you for being here. 01:24:29.840 --> 01:24:31.840 We can't wait for the festivities. 01:24:33.039 --> 01:24:34.159 Neither can I. 01:24:34.479 --> 01:24:37.920 It's one of the few joys that I know of. 01:24:41.439 --> 01:24:54.960 Yeah, they are far and few between these years, but door days or whatever we call them now, I don't know how to refer to it, so I just sort of try not to think about it. 01:24:55.119 --> 01:24:58.319 It feels like I'm just in one long dream. 01:25:00.159 --> 01:25:00.960 It's okay, friends. 01:25:01.119 --> 01:25:03.119 She reaches out to pat her shoulder. 01:25:03.439 --> 01:25:04.319 We'll find our way. 01:25:04.560 --> 01:25:05.199 We always do. 01:25:06.000 --> 01:25:08.560 She smiles, puts a hand on yours. 01:25:09.439 --> 01:25:14.399 And as they turn to leave, you will feel a brush against your ear. 01:25:14.720 --> 01:25:15.840 The warmth of breath. 01:25:18.119 --> 01:25:20.760 Look for me behind the roses. 01:25:22.279 --> 01:25:29.159 And she'll, like, honed voya senses, immediately turn around and naturally see nothing. 01:25:35.560 --> 01:25:36.039 Kagen? 01:25:36.359 --> 01:25:39.159 We go now to Oz'zariah. 01:25:41.319 --> 01:25:48.439 Oz'zariah, you are there in your makeshift monastery. 01:25:49.960 --> 01:26:02.600 You have a visitor that has come for daily tea and to argue with you as you have become accustomed to Brother Simlin, the keeper of the Ashen Archives. 01:26:05.479 --> 01:26:14.600 They are best described as paranoid, soft-spoken, and a love of scrolls and birds. 01:26:15.239 --> 01:26:16.920 No, no, no, you are wrong. 01:26:17.079 --> 01:26:17.720 You are wrong. 01:26:17.880 --> 01:26:28.600 Suffering is not something that can be channeled for divine or, well, we don't have divine anymore, so I guess general benefit of people. 01:26:28.920 --> 01:26:31.479 Suffering is suffering, and it's bad. 01:26:35.159 --> 01:26:37.079 Just gonna blink a little bit. 01:26:41.560 --> 01:26:42.920 How can you be so sure? 01:26:43.159 --> 01:26:46.920 It's one of the few things in life that we all experience. 01:26:47.560 --> 01:27:07.239 And what I am proposing is a way that I can alleviate your suffering and give myself more key that almost borderlines on heresy and sedition. 01:27:07.399 --> 01:27:11.000 That makes you sound like you're some kind of god or something. 01:27:12.600 --> 01:27:18.359 It's no different than a healer taking away somebody's pain, and we don't bat an eye about that. 01:27:19.000 --> 01:27:23.000 Well, that's because they have learned to use the natural energies that flow. 01:27:23.319 --> 01:27:30.199 You are talking about bringing someone's pain into you and channeling it into something beneficial. 01:27:30.520 --> 01:27:31.960 It's poppycock. 01:27:33.159 --> 01:27:33.880 Hmm. 01:27:36.439 --> 01:27:37.479 I don't think so. 01:27:37.800 --> 01:27:41.079 Um, tell me, is there something that bothers you? 01:27:41.239 --> 01:27:43.720 Do you have a memory that you suffer from? 01:27:46.279 --> 01:27:48.119 If I did, I would love it. 01:27:48.760 --> 01:27:51.720 I would embrace it like a warm friend. 01:27:52.039 --> 01:27:55.479 I don't remember anything except from the awakening. 01:27:57.079 --> 01:27:59.560 But how about that? 01:28:00.199 --> 01:28:02.680 That causes you suffering, correct? 01:28:03.640 --> 01:28:05.880 It causes me anxiety. 01:28:06.840 --> 01:28:09.399 And it's a reminder to be humble. 01:28:10.039 --> 01:28:13.079 Yes, and I'm not unhumble. 01:28:13.319 --> 01:28:16.359 What I'm proposing is no different than a healer. 01:28:17.000 --> 01:28:30.279 So you have some kind of suffering, and I can take that small bit of suffering from you and use it as a form of defense. 01:28:31.479 --> 01:28:33.800 But it alleviates you in the process. 01:28:34.760 --> 01:28:36.840 And you want to call it heresy? 01:28:38.760 --> 01:28:41.640 I call it lunacy. 01:28:41.960 --> 01:28:44.359 You're stark raving mad. 01:28:45.960 --> 01:28:52.920 There will be a series of bells that ring, interrupting your conversation for a moment. 01:28:53.239 --> 01:28:53.800 He will. 01:28:54.439 --> 01:28:56.920 Ah, damn it, it's time to get back to it. 01:28:57.239 --> 01:29:01.319 He will finish his tea, stand up, give you a big hug. 01:29:01.640 --> 01:29:03.079 I do love our conversations. 01:29:03.239 --> 01:29:04.359 You know that, right? 01:29:05.319 --> 01:29:05.800 I know. 01:29:06.359 --> 01:29:08.680 One day I'll get to show you what I mean. 01:29:10.279 --> 01:29:12.039 I can't wait for that day. 01:29:14.600 --> 01:29:16.680 And he will go running off. 01:29:17.880 --> 01:29:23.079 There alone in your monastery, you will hear a voice echo through the emptiness. 01:29:23.720 --> 01:29:26.920 Look for me behind the roses. 01:29:30.920 --> 01:29:32.199 She'll look around. 01:29:35.640 --> 01:29:36.600 Nobody there. 01:29:37.399 --> 01:29:38.199 Nobody there. 01:29:39.800 --> 01:29:43.560 She'll just kind of look around and just make that humming sound like, hmm. 01:29:45.159 --> 01:29:46.279 Interesting. 01:29:51.479 --> 01:29:52.199 Vayra? 01:29:54.920 --> 01:29:57.640 Is Vayra at their place of employment? 01:29:57.960 --> 01:29:58.600 Yes. 01:29:59.560 --> 01:30:01.079 The drunken badger. 01:30:01.319 --> 01:30:03.319 The SCA people will get that one. 01:30:09.000 --> 01:30:10.279 You are there. 01:30:10.760 --> 01:30:16.359 There is only one person in the drunken badger, and that is. 01:30:20.479 --> 01:30:29.920 The dwarf known as Master Coli, they are blind, but they are the master blacksmith of this place. 01:30:31.119 --> 01:30:33.680 They run what is known as the Emberdeep Forge. 01:30:36.239 --> 01:30:42.079 It is said that they lost their eyes by staring into the burning of the cataclysm. 01:30:48.079 --> 01:30:51.039 I need to wet my whistle before I go back, Vayra. 01:30:53.520 --> 01:30:54.560 Your usual. 01:30:55.760 --> 01:30:58.079 No, I need something stronger for today. 01:30:59.039 --> 01:30:59.920 Oh, you want something stronger? 01:31:00.640 --> 01:31:02.880 Really punch me in the pecker. 01:31:03.840 --> 01:31:05.119 Oh, I. 01:31:06.159 --> 01:31:07.840 This isn't that kind of establishment. 01:31:08.000 --> 01:31:10.960 I keep telling you that, but I'll get something else. 01:31:11.119 --> 01:31:12.880 I don't want to be punched in the pecker. 01:31:12.960 --> 01:31:14.479 I want something that will hit me. 01:31:14.800 --> 01:31:16.800 That will be something strong. 01:31:17.039 --> 01:31:18.159 Damn it, Vayra. 01:31:19.680 --> 01:31:20.239 You know me. 01:31:20.399 --> 01:31:21.520 I don't kink shame. 01:31:24.239 --> 01:31:28.640 She'll start willing, putting a drink together for him. 01:31:30.880 --> 01:31:32.640 So this is the eighth one. 01:31:35.439 --> 01:31:37.359 No, I've only think you've had six today. 01:31:37.600 --> 01:31:38.800 I would cut you off at eight. 01:31:39.359 --> 01:31:40.960 No, no, no. 01:31:41.680 --> 01:31:43.680 This is the eighth ceremony. 01:31:46.880 --> 01:32:00.239 And she puts down her tools of the trade and is thankful that he can't see her because she started like shaking so much she's almost vibrating. 01:32:03.119 --> 01:32:07.439 Oh, yes, it's it's that day, isn't it? 01:32:08.399 --> 01:32:08.640 Yeah. 01:32:09.119 --> 01:32:11.119 And then she giggles and picks up the drink. 01:32:11.359 --> 01:32:12.800 Anyways, this one's pretty strong. 01:32:12.880 --> 01:32:15.199 I hope you like it and hands it to him. 01:32:15.520 --> 01:32:18.399 He will take a big draw from it. 01:32:20.319 --> 01:32:22.479 Now that's a punch in the pecker. 01:32:24.640 --> 01:32:26.319 All right, that's what I'm calling it. 01:32:26.640 --> 01:32:28.640 That's going to be our drink this year. 01:32:29.920 --> 01:32:31.439 I can't wait. 01:32:32.079 --> 01:32:33.920 Working on something special. 01:32:34.880 --> 01:32:36.159 It's going to be good. 01:32:38.640 --> 01:32:40.159 I can't wait. 01:32:41.119 --> 01:32:48.159 He will finish the drink, pick up his staff and stand, finding his bearings. 01:32:49.119 --> 01:32:51.439 I can hear the metal singing from here. 01:32:51.760 --> 01:32:53.439 It will be grand. 01:32:54.079 --> 01:32:55.359 Thank you, Vayra. 01:32:57.920 --> 01:32:58.880 Anytime. 01:32:59.439 --> 01:32:59.920 And always. 01:33:01.680 --> 01:33:06.640 Two small bars of gold on the table. 01:33:07.600 --> 01:33:11.119 And with his cane, find his way out. 01:33:13.279 --> 01:33:17.520 She'll pick up the gold and she'll put it in the tilt like it's a chore. 01:33:17.680 --> 01:33:28.800 Like she's not even registering that the gold should have any kind of meaning or, you know, like the concept of currency to her, like, she understands it logically. 01:33:28.960 --> 01:33:30.720 It doesn't mean anything to her. 01:33:35.119 --> 01:33:37.119 And then we go to Lenore. 01:33:39.359 --> 01:33:40.720 What's Lenore doing? 01:33:43.199 --> 01:34:01.199 Well, if she's not helping a caravan on its way to Anvilhold for the celebration, then she's probably trying to help somebody with decorations, and it's weirdly just not going right. 01:34:02.079 --> 01:34:07.119 The strings are normally fine, but as soon as she tries to string them up, they'll just snap in half. 01:34:08.720 --> 01:34:11.279 She has no idea what's going on with that. 01:34:11.600 --> 01:34:13.920 But she's trying to be so helpful. 01:34:14.880 --> 01:34:19.920 You are indeed trying to be helpful, Lenore, and it is appreciated. 01:34:21.520 --> 01:34:30.560 However, there will be a notable look of relief when the young street rat Grit runs up to you. 01:34:30.880 --> 01:34:32.880 Lenore, we can see him. 01:34:33.119 --> 01:34:34.880 You gotta go bring him in. 01:34:35.439 --> 01:34:38.640 The caravan is here from Al-Hafara. 01:34:41.199 --> 01:34:43.680 Oh, is it that time already? 01:34:44.319 --> 01:34:44.640 Yeah. 01:34:47.840 --> 01:34:54.800 She'll give a polite bow and smile to the people she was not so much helping. 01:34:57.359 --> 01:35:07.760 And a gesture for Grit to lead on, as if he's kind of in charge, but he's really not. 01:35:09.199 --> 01:35:11.439 And lead on, he will. 01:35:12.720 --> 01:35:17.039 You will make good time as you know this land. 01:35:17.600 --> 01:35:17.840 And. 01:35:19.720 --> 01:35:24.039 Probably because of the excitement of the day, a little less cautious than normal. 01:35:24.359 --> 01:35:28.680 But you will meet the caravan and see Nyx and Kagen. 01:35:42.119 --> 01:35:43.960 I trust your travels were well. 01:35:46.119 --> 01:35:48.119 There is a severe lack of cookies, Meow. 01:35:48.279 --> 01:35:49.800 I can't wait to get some here, Meow. 01:35:52.920 --> 01:35:56.840 My travels have been, I hold up the two bags, productive. 01:35:57.079 --> 01:35:59.479 I think our friends in town will be happy. 01:36:02.359 --> 01:36:02.840 Very good. 01:36:02.920 --> 01:36:04.520 Let's sketch you through the gates. 01:36:06.680 --> 01:36:09.640 Grit will come running up to you, Kagen. 01:36:09.800 --> 01:36:10.359 Did you get it? 01:36:10.439 --> 01:36:11.319 Did you get it? 01:36:12.279 --> 01:36:12.760 I did. 01:36:12.920 --> 01:36:14.520 It was not easy. 01:36:15.159 --> 01:36:22.680 I open one of the satchels and dig inside till I find what I'm looking for deep at the bottom of the pack. 01:36:22.760 --> 01:36:36.199 And I pull out a leather bag that is cinched very tightly with multiple ties. 01:36:37.000 --> 01:36:44.279 It is somewhere between the size of a softball and a cantaloupe made of thick leather. 01:36:45.560 --> 01:36:51.880 It is pure and nearly perfectly white as requested. 01:36:52.760 --> 01:36:54.680 I saw the drawing in a book. 01:36:54.760 --> 01:36:56.760 I'm going to make one of them. 01:36:59.960 --> 01:37:01.560 And goes running off. 01:37:02.359 --> 01:37:05.079 I look forward to seeing what you craft. 01:37:05.399 --> 01:37:07.720 Glory to you if you succeed. 01:37:09.640 --> 01:37:16.359 Lenore's just gonna shoot Kagen a look of like, what the fuck did you just do? 01:37:17.880 --> 01:37:20.439 I sort of shrug. 01:37:21.960 --> 01:37:23.720 I get what I am asked to find. 01:37:23.960 --> 01:37:25.640 I'm good at finding things. 01:37:26.840 --> 01:37:28.680 But how are things progressing in town? 01:37:28.760 --> 01:37:32.600 I have been gone for probably too long this time. 01:37:33.880 --> 01:37:36.199 I got almost all the way to Mountain. 01:37:39.000 --> 01:37:40.760 How have things been in town, dear? 01:37:42.199 --> 01:37:43.479 Things have been calm. 01:37:43.800 --> 01:37:44.840 Things have been quiet. 01:37:45.079 --> 01:37:48.520 Things have been dull, even. 01:37:49.479 --> 01:37:51.800 Which most people welcome. 01:37:53.079 --> 01:37:54.760 Most, Vayra will say. 01:37:54.920 --> 01:37:55.720 Not all. 01:37:57.640 --> 01:37:59.640 It's been rather tranquil. 01:38:01.399 --> 01:38:02.520 Tranquil. 01:38:03.159 --> 01:38:03.720 Yes. 01:38:04.279 --> 01:38:07.159 It is a good word for this place. 01:38:08.039 --> 01:38:11.319 Perhaps this is why I don't stay so long, huh? 01:38:15.800 --> 01:38:18.119 But I have gifts for peoples. 01:38:20.680 --> 01:38:27.720 Speaking of gifts for peoples, the entire party will hear bells begin to chime. 01:38:27.960 --> 01:38:32.439 People will begin to hoot and holler and raise their voices in celebration. 01:38:33.079 --> 01:38:46.920 A lot of the partygoers, as it were, have small handbells that are ringing to welcome the emissaries from Al-Hafara into the Canton proper, the city proper. 01:38:48.279 --> 01:38:55.720 Nyx, the smell of cookies is instantly in your nostrils as you cross the threshold. 01:38:56.039 --> 01:39:06.680 And you see, not more than 300 feet from you, a vendor set up with a various array of sweets to be had. 01:39:09.800 --> 01:39:13.720 Am I behind Kagen and Lenore? 01:39:14.199 --> 01:39:14.760 Yes. 01:39:16.039 --> 01:39:19.560 I will rashly push them aside and be like, Excuse me, Meow. 01:39:19.800 --> 01:39:21.079 I see cookies, Meow. 01:39:22.039 --> 01:39:25.159 And I will run straight towards the nearest cookie place. 01:39:26.439 --> 01:39:26.680 Oh. 01:39:27.560 --> 01:39:29.159 You come to Bly Street. 01:39:30.680 --> 01:39:31.479 Please, Meow. 01:39:31.960 --> 01:39:34.279 I would like lots of cookies, Meow. 01:39:35.239 --> 01:39:36.439 Lots of cookies. 01:39:36.600 --> 01:39:37.239 Yes, yes. 01:39:37.800 --> 01:39:43.159 They will pull out a box and put a dozen cookies in and hand it to you. 01:39:44.119 --> 01:39:46.359 Is for celebration. 01:39:47.640 --> 01:39:50.520 Shall I hell you, Meow, and I'll start digging in my pack. 01:39:53.720 --> 01:39:54.359 House. 01:39:56.439 --> 01:39:57.560 Are you cut out? 01:39:58.199 --> 01:39:59.319 On house. 01:40:00.520 --> 01:40:01.880 No, you don't have to do that, Meow. 01:40:02.279 --> 01:40:03.399 I got money, Meow. 01:40:04.119 --> 01:40:05.319 No, no, I need to. 01:40:05.560 --> 01:40:07.079 And I need to tell you. 01:40:07.720 --> 01:40:09.880 The world goes silent around you. 01:40:10.119 --> 01:40:13.640 This calamity, instant just boom. 01:40:15.159 --> 01:40:18.279 And you will hear a voice, though his mouth does not move. 01:40:20.319 --> 01:40:26.800 For me behind the roses, does this voice sound anything close in tone to Kagen? 01:40:28.000 --> 01:40:28.319 No. 01:40:29.279 --> 01:40:29.600 Okay. 01:40:30.239 --> 01:40:34.720 Then you'll see her ears just go down and kind of like look around. 01:40:36.239 --> 01:40:38.159 The sound will rush back. 01:40:38.800 --> 01:40:51.359 The sweet purveyor taking his table and moving over to the next side of the street as children begin to gather around with their coin and their bells. 01:40:52.399 --> 01:40:58.319 I will hesitantly just grab the cookies and like put them in my pack and walk back. 01:41:04.880 --> 01:41:11.039 As you're walking back, Lenore, the inside of your forearm will begin to itch under your bracer. 01:41:12.319 --> 01:41:19.600 She'll grip at her bracer, trying not to scratch because scratching at the leather does nothing to actually at least. 01:41:19.920 --> 01:41:22.640 Oh, it is a bad itch. 01:41:23.520 --> 01:41:24.720 She is gripping it hard. 01:41:25.359 --> 01:41:28.319 If she didn't have fur on her knuckles, it'd be white. 01:41:32.479 --> 01:41:34.000 It begins to burn. 01:41:35.840 --> 01:41:40.880 She will try to excuse herself from the caravan. 01:41:41.520 --> 01:41:48.800 Find somewhere a little less populated to try to almost literally rip her bracer off. 01:41:49.680 --> 01:42:00.159 As you rip it off, you see there is a patch of fur missing and scratched into the skin. 01:42:01.760 --> 01:42:04.079 Look for me behind the roses. 01:42:09.439 --> 01:42:15.359 And as you utter that, you will see your fur begin to regrow in those patches. 01:42:18.479 --> 01:42:19.119 Huh. 01:42:22.319 --> 01:42:22.960 Odd. 01:42:23.840 --> 01:42:31.520 And just go back to the caravan while putting her bracer back on, trying to be as nonchalant as possible. 01:42:35.600 --> 01:42:37.279 Give me a deception check. 01:42:37.920 --> 01:42:38.239 Okay. 01:42:39.439 --> 01:42:41.199 So we'll see how well this goes. 01:42:41.359 --> 01:42:44.000 Deception is not her strong suit. 01:42:48.479 --> 01:42:49.840 That is a 13. 01:42:55.520 --> 01:42:57.119 I'll make a note of that. 01:42:59.199 --> 01:43:00.239 Can I get a chance at noticing? 01:43:01.600 --> 01:43:02.479 Yeah, go ahead. 01:43:02.800 --> 01:43:04.239 I can insight check. 01:43:08.640 --> 01:43:12.239 6 plus 6 is 12, so I'm guessing no, because you got a 13, right? 01:43:12.960 --> 01:43:14.479 Yep, she got a 13. 01:43:16.079 --> 01:43:16.880 I am distracted. 01:43:17.039 --> 01:43:27.119 I am looking for one of the other two people I need to find, knowing that Loth is probably at the tavern. 01:43:28.079 --> 01:43:31.199 Yes, Lilith is at the Brewin Bones. 01:43:31.840 --> 01:43:36.000 And if you know Althra, they'll be somewhere near the wall. 01:43:41.920 --> 01:43:43.920 I'm going to go to the tavern first. 01:43:44.880 --> 01:43:48.880 I excuse myself from Nyx and Lenore. 01:43:49.199 --> 01:43:53.520 If you'll pardon me, I must see to my customers. 01:43:59.199 --> 01:44:00.720 And I head for the tavern. 01:44:03.279 --> 01:44:11.520 As you head for the tavern, you feel a sharp pain in your left buttock. 01:44:14.079 --> 01:44:16.399 As if someone had stabbed you. 01:44:21.760 --> 01:44:22.720 Nice bullshit. 01:44:28.000 --> 01:44:37.680 I rubbed the scar that is there, but I don't know where it came from because I woke up with it eight cycles ago. 01:44:39.920 --> 01:44:48.880 And when you touch the scar, you will hear in your own voice, look for me behind the roses. 01:44:49.199 --> 01:44:51.520 I can't do your accent right, so forgive me. 01:44:53.119 --> 01:44:53.359 Yeah. 01:44:55.199 --> 01:44:58.000 You hear your voice say, look for me behind the roses. 01:45:00.560 --> 01:45:03.920 This is the weirdest form of talking to myself I have ever heard. 01:45:08.880 --> 01:45:09.279 You will. 01:45:10.239 --> 01:45:11.920 I sort of shake it off. 01:45:15.119 --> 01:45:17.600 Taking it off, you will arrive at the brew and bone. 01:45:21.000 --> 01:45:22.680 I walk in and look for Lilith. 01:45:23.880 --> 01:45:28.520 They are there setting up small bottles that they had got from Opus earlier. 01:45:28.840 --> 01:45:30.439 The headache medicine. 01:45:31.079 --> 01:45:31.800 Lilith! 01:45:36.439 --> 01:45:37.159 Greetings. 01:45:37.399 --> 01:45:40.359 I have found things you might be interested in. 01:45:40.600 --> 01:45:47.640 They are not museum pieces by any stretch, but these. 01:45:48.920 --> 01:45:50.840 It will brighten walls. 01:45:53.720 --> 01:45:54.600 Okay, show me. 01:45:54.760 --> 01:45:55.399 Show me, show me. 01:45:57.560 --> 01:46:03.880 I go into my backpack and I pull out a scroll case, a rather long one, and I uncap one in and I pull out. 01:46:04.199 --> 01:46:16.359 And the first thing I unroll is probably about 20 by 15 inches or so piece of artwork. 01:46:20.920 --> 01:46:24.039 Painted on canvas. 01:46:24.680 --> 01:46:31.319 It is a niad done in the style of a pin-up. 01:46:32.760 --> 01:46:35.720 So it is a river spirit stretched out. 01:46:35.800 --> 01:46:39.880 It's very classily done, but still somewhat provocative. 01:46:42.039 --> 01:46:42.359 Okay. 01:46:43.880 --> 01:46:47.319 And then I unroll the other one, which is far larger. 01:46:48.600 --> 01:46:57.479 It seems to be painted on fabric, a dark and fuzzy fabric, perhaps a black velvet. 01:46:59.479 --> 01:47:06.119 And it is six familiars playing three dragon ante. 01:47:08.119 --> 01:47:15.000 There is a tressum, an imp, a creeping claw, an octopus, a raven, and a frog. 01:47:15.319 --> 01:47:19.239 And the octopus is very obviously cheating in the picture. 01:47:19.880 --> 01:47:21.000 Very cool. 01:47:21.960 --> 01:47:25.319 Lilith is very interested in the river spirit. 01:47:27.159 --> 01:47:29.159 Oh, oh, Sharon will love that. 01:47:29.319 --> 01:47:31.319 Sharon being their wife. 01:47:32.760 --> 01:47:35.319 And then laughs, a heavy laugh. 01:47:35.479 --> 01:47:40.199 Their half-orth strength smacking you in the side of your arm. 01:47:41.560 --> 01:47:43.079 I'll take both of them. 01:47:44.279 --> 01:47:46.199 Oh, wonderful, wonderful. 01:47:46.439 --> 01:47:48.199 I am happy to brighten this place. 01:47:48.439 --> 01:47:49.000 Yes? 01:47:50.760 --> 01:47:56.279 We call it two gold. 01:47:58.119 --> 01:48:04.199 They will walk behind the bar, hand you two gold, and take possession of the art. 01:48:08.119 --> 01:48:09.640 These pleasure. 01:48:10.279 --> 01:48:13.319 And if you have further need, let me know. 01:48:13.479 --> 01:48:15.399 I will keep an eye out, though, as I am. 01:48:16.359 --> 01:48:19.560 After festival, I will head back out in a different direction. 01:48:25.319 --> 01:48:30.439 The town suddenly falls silent. 01:48:30.760 --> 01:48:33.800 There is three long bells. 01:48:45.000 --> 01:48:50.359 It is time for the rites of this day to begin. 01:48:55.079 --> 01:48:59.319 The town will begin to gather together. 01:49:00.600 --> 01:49:05.479 They are not separated on sides like Al-Harafa on one side and Willhold on the other. 01:49:05.560 --> 01:49:08.520 No, they intermingle and interjoin. 01:49:12.359 --> 01:49:24.760 A elderly man dressed in beautiful blue robes, his long silver hair accenting against the fabric, his steps slow and measured. 01:49:25.079 --> 01:49:29.800 His pale eyes hold a wisdom beyond comprehension. 01:49:30.439 --> 01:49:32.840 It is the high priest of Willhold. 01:49:34.119 --> 01:49:39.800 They just call him Sir, because he never recovered his name. 01:49:42.680 --> 01:49:45.560 He will move to the center. 01:49:46.840 --> 01:49:51.960 Two gentlemen will help him climb the steps of the podium to the platform. 01:49:54.359 --> 01:49:59.640 He will raise his hands and turn, looking at everybody. 01:50:00.920 --> 01:50:06.359 His voice obviously loudened by magic. 01:50:07.000 --> 01:50:09.960 Let ash remember the stars. 01:50:10.600 --> 01:50:13.319 Let stone bow to the wind. 01:50:13.960 --> 01:50:17.560 Let blood be shared and peace be bound. 01:50:20.039 --> 01:50:20.840 The sky represents. 01:50:22.159 --> 01:50:29.359 Represents Al-Harafa, the people, the breath of the wind, the story sung in the starlight. 01:50:30.560 --> 01:50:36.399 The sand represents the ash of cataclysm and the enduring spirit of both bodies. 01:50:37.039 --> 01:50:44.000 And stone represents Willhold enduring strength, legacy, and fire-forged will of survival. 01:50:46.159 --> 01:50:50.479 Once more, he will say, Let ash remember the stars. 01:50:50.800 --> 01:50:52.880 Let stone bow to the wind. 01:50:53.199 --> 01:50:56.159 Let bud be shared and peace be bound. 01:51:00.239 --> 01:51:04.319 Some members of the crowd will repeat what he says as they feel moved to. 01:51:04.479 --> 01:51:07.039 It is not an obligation of the ceremony. 01:51:07.199 --> 01:51:11.439 It is simply a movement of the spirit, if you will. 01:51:16.479 --> 01:51:22.159 Soon we will begin the nightfall vigil. 01:51:25.279 --> 01:51:32.239 We will ten sky candles up to remember the stars we once had. 01:51:34.399 --> 01:51:38.319 We will hold ourselves in silence to honor those lost. 01:51:40.479 --> 01:51:53.520 And we will send those chosen into the vault to lay the sacrament to the stone of remembrance. 01:51:54.159 --> 01:52:02.319 No, the stone of remembrance is basically the giant memorial for all the people that died during the cataclysm. 01:52:02.960 --> 01:52:10.399 There are no names, there are no depictions or arts or ruins. 01:52:10.720 --> 01:52:23.199 There's just a large stone still covered in ash and blood to announce those that will bring forth the customs. 01:52:26.319 --> 01:52:30.239 Master Kolai, will you do us the favor? 01:52:31.760 --> 01:52:37.920 You will see a squat dwarf, his eyes, where his eyes once were just black. 01:52:39.439 --> 01:52:45.920 His stick before him as he makes his way to the stairs, pushes away someone that tries to help him. 01:52:46.239 --> 01:52:47.680 I can do it myself. 01:52:49.520 --> 01:53:02.720 And he will humble himself, or hobble himself, rather, as there's nothing humble about Master Colai, to the platform, his voice booming not by magic, but by sheer will. 01:53:05.840 --> 01:53:07.359 We drew lots. 01:53:08.319 --> 01:53:10.239 Each slot had a name. 01:53:10.560 --> 01:53:12.239 Each name, someone here. 01:53:13.840 --> 01:53:18.159 The first of that, Oz'zariah. 01:53:23.600 --> 01:53:26.560 Yeah, Oz'zariah will step forward. 01:53:29.680 --> 01:53:33.680 You are one of the few to handle the memorial. 01:53:34.000 --> 01:53:35.279 Are you willing? 01:53:36.880 --> 01:53:37.920 But of course. 01:53:43.359 --> 01:53:45.680 We have one from across the sand. 01:53:46.880 --> 01:53:48.960 Our beloved healer, Nyx. 01:53:50.479 --> 01:53:54.720 Her ears will perk up and she'll be like, oh, I'll try meow. 01:53:56.560 --> 01:53:57.760 Excellent. 01:54:01.199 --> 01:54:04.000 Someone that really knows how to punch in the pecker, Vayra. 01:54:09.359 --> 01:54:10.800 You're muted, Vayra. 01:54:13.680 --> 01:54:14.159 Sorry. 01:54:14.399 --> 01:54:15.760 Oh, oh, oh, sure. 01:54:17.119 --> 01:54:17.439 Okay. 01:54:21.520 --> 01:54:22.880 Huntress Lenore. 01:54:25.119 --> 01:54:30.800 And she will give a bow with as much reverence as possible. 01:54:33.680 --> 01:54:37.920 I don't know your friends' names, Opus, but they're welcome to come along too. 01:54:39.840 --> 01:54:43.760 Oh, oh, uh, so, so, Ropus and Minkus. 01:54:44.079 --> 01:54:49.760 Uh, well, I, I, I guess, I, I, I hope there's something I get, though. 01:54:50.079 --> 01:54:56.079 And he's just kind of talking to himself, but kind of, you know, going towards the front of the crowd. 01:54:59.840 --> 01:55:03.760 We didn't know if you'd be here or not, Kagen, but you're one of them. 01:55:04.640 --> 01:55:10.800 No, I would not miss ceremony, and I will be happy and honored to participate. 01:55:14.720 --> 01:55:18.319 Lumine, you're the last. 01:55:23.159 --> 01:55:30.920 Forward, but not before setting down a child she had given a boost on her shoulders, puts them down and moves to the front of the crowd. 01:55:31.239 --> 01:55:32.279 I would be honored. 01:55:32.600 --> 01:55:34.600 And Chelsea gives a bow. 01:55:37.159 --> 01:55:44.840 The old man will move to the edge of the platform, waving his hands over you in blessing. 01:55:47.239 --> 01:55:58.279 Stewards dressed in white will bring to you bottles of drink, items of tobacco, items of coal and fire. 01:56:00.439 --> 01:56:02.279 We will open the vault now. 01:56:05.399 --> 01:56:10.760 There is in the center of town what looks like to be once a well. 01:56:12.359 --> 01:56:28.039 A beautiful, for lack of a better word, angel, though not your typical celestial style, rising up in wonderful marble. 01:56:29.319 --> 01:56:40.920 The stewards will move and in unison will push away the stone statue, showing a set of stairs going down. 01:56:41.880 --> 01:56:46.680 Each one will light a torch and offer it as you walk past them. 01:56:50.840 --> 01:56:52.199 Take a torch. 01:56:54.439 --> 01:56:54.680 Yep. 01:56:54.840 --> 01:56:56.279 Opus kind of walks forward. 01:56:57.640 --> 01:56:58.199 I don't need that. 01:56:59.399 --> 01:57:06.119 And reaches in Minkus and taps at this piece of gold and it gives off a nice bright light. 01:57:09.479 --> 01:57:09.880 Sorry. 01:57:10.199 --> 01:57:13.960 Nyx is going to reach into her bag and pull out a candle. 01:57:14.279 --> 01:57:20.920 It's going to be a candle of the deep, and she'll just push it up against the torch to light it and be like, Thinky, meow. 01:57:27.159 --> 01:57:35.720 As candle flicker and torch wave, something stirs beneath your feet. 01:57:37.319 --> 01:57:43.560 At first, it's a whisper, barely a sound at all, like a breath drawn in stone. 01:57:45.479 --> 01:57:49.720 Then the ground for you and you alone trembles. 01:57:50.680 --> 01:57:59.159 The mouth of the memorial begins to glow a soft, pale glow. 01:58:01.000 --> 01:58:08.279 The air around you goes cold, not with the chill of death, but with the stillness of forgotten memory. 01:58:09.880 --> 01:58:15.880 You find yourselves compelled to walk even amongst this terrifying ordeal. 01:58:17.159 --> 01:58:26.439 You see, as you begin down the steps, the walls are carved with the same spiraling runes on the spires of the day of the awakening. 01:58:28.039 --> 01:58:33.640 Silver one moment, gold the next, the languid ancient, sacred. 01:58:34.199 --> 01:58:37.000 And somehow you feel it knows you. 01:58:38.279 --> 01:58:49.159 At the base of the stair, the passageway opens into a round room where the large stone sits in the middle, covered in blood and ash. 01:58:50.439 --> 01:58:53.159 And I need everyone to make a perception check. 01:59:09.079 --> 01:59:11.000 All right, we'll start with the bottom. 01:59:11.239 --> 01:59:13.560 Vayra 10. 01:59:18.119 --> 01:59:19.159 Oz'zariah. 01:59:19.479 --> 01:59:20.359 23. 01:59:22.279 --> 01:59:23.159 Opus? 01:59:23.800 --> 01:59:24.600 19. 01:59:26.840 --> 01:59:27.319 Nyx? 01:59:28.119 --> 01:59:28.840 21. 01:59:31.079 --> 01:59:31.800 Lumine? 01:59:32.600 --> 01:59:33.000 10. 01:59:35.560 --> 01:59:36.119 Lenore? 01:59:36.840 --> 01:59:37.720 24. 01:59:39.960 --> 01:59:42.119 And Kagen? 01:59:42.760 --> 01:59:43.560 Also 21. 01:59:43.720 --> 01:59:44.600 Blackjack. 01:59:46.760 --> 01:59:47.800 No hookers. 01:59:49.640 --> 01:59:50.359 Oz'zariah? 01:59:50.600 --> 01:59:51.319 Not yet. 01:59:52.600 --> 01:59:53.319 Nyx? 01:59:54.520 --> 01:59:55.239 Lenore? 01:59:59.479 --> 02:00:01.560 Your blood will run cold. 02:00:04.119 --> 02:00:12.279 We're staring past the memorial, past this effigy to the day of the awakening. 02:00:12.600 --> 02:00:21.800 You see the back wall of the round room and embossed in tile, a beautiful mosaic of roses. 02:00:25.119 --> 02:00:26.560 Did I not see that? 02:00:27.520 --> 02:00:28.239 You got a 21? 02:00:28.399 --> 02:00:29.119 Yeah, you see it too. 02:00:29.199 --> 02:00:29.439 Sorry. 02:00:29.760 --> 02:00:30.000 Okay. 02:00:30.319 --> 02:00:32.000 Can't read my own handwriting. 02:00:32.319 --> 02:00:33.359 No worries. 02:00:41.920 --> 02:00:43.680 Behind the roses. 02:00:45.119 --> 02:00:47.119 Oz'zariah says that out loud. 02:00:47.760 --> 02:00:48.239 I'm sorry. 02:00:49.680 --> 02:00:50.239 Yes. 02:00:51.920 --> 02:00:53.680 Were you talking to me earlier, meow? 02:00:54.239 --> 02:00:55.760 Behind the roses. 02:00:58.239 --> 02:01:00.479 What are you all talking about? 02:01:03.920 --> 02:01:05.680 Do you not see the wall? 02:01:06.640 --> 02:01:07.680 I see a wall. 02:01:11.680 --> 02:01:12.319 Roses? 02:01:12.720 --> 02:01:13.760 I probably have some. 02:01:14.000 --> 02:01:14.880 Why roses? 02:01:15.199 --> 02:01:17.119 Why is everyone wanting roses? 02:01:20.560 --> 02:01:22.960 Someone was sending me a message earlier, meow. 02:01:26.960 --> 02:01:28.960 Seems we all see the message. 02:01:29.600 --> 02:01:31.119 I heard these two. 02:01:32.560 --> 02:01:32.960 What was it? 02:01:34.159 --> 02:01:36.880 Did you hear it in your own voice? 02:01:37.760 --> 02:01:38.640 Did we? 02:01:44.399 --> 02:01:44.880 I'm sorry. 02:01:45.039 --> 02:01:47.359 Only Kagen heard it in his voice. 02:01:49.279 --> 02:01:51.920 What voice did it sound like to Nyx? 02:01:52.800 --> 02:01:55.359 To Nyx, it sounded like the cookie salesman. 02:01:55.680 --> 02:01:56.000 Oh. 02:01:56.960 --> 02:02:01.520 Um, no, meow, it sounded like she's a guy, meow. 02:02:06.000 --> 02:02:07.199 What are you. 02:02:08.800 --> 02:02:11.520 I have not given any of you a punch in the packer. 02:02:11.600 --> 02:02:13.119 What are you talking about? 02:02:14.079 --> 02:02:16.319 Thankfully, no, I would have to punch you back. 02:02:16.960 --> 02:02:17.920 Excuse me! 02:02:19.119 --> 02:02:20.079 It's this freaker! 02:02:20.720 --> 02:02:22.079 It's the drink this year! 02:02:25.439 --> 02:02:30.960 I was going to say, since I don't have one, that would have been difficult either way. 02:02:32.159 --> 02:02:35.359 But no, it appears all of us got the message. 02:02:36.000 --> 02:02:40.560 Look for someone behind the roses and the wall there. 02:02:43.840 --> 02:02:45.199 It is mosaic. 02:02:45.600 --> 02:02:55.600 Mosaic of roses, and I don't know about you, but I haven't seen any other roses around and behold. 02:02:56.399 --> 02:02:58.560 They were just confused. 02:02:59.199 --> 02:03:11.680 Opus would be a finally like reaching into his pound and found one, and there's a flask, a clear flask with a couple dried flowers of kind of this, almost looking like a corpse rose. 02:03:12.000 --> 02:03:13.600 I was like, uh, roses. 02:03:13.920 --> 02:03:15.600 So, here, I guess. 02:03:16.079 --> 02:03:17.520 Who wants roses? 02:03:17.840 --> 02:03:18.399 Everyone? 02:03:18.640 --> 02:03:19.840 I don't have enough. 02:03:21.039 --> 02:03:23.359 I'm sorry, I have to chime in here. 02:03:23.680 --> 02:03:27.119 You all heard no. 02:03:27.600 --> 02:03:29.439 Look for me behind the roses. 02:03:30.079 --> 02:03:31.760 Did you not hear? 02:03:33.039 --> 02:03:34.079 I didn't smell it, meow. 02:03:35.279 --> 02:03:40.239 But I got the message etched into my arm. 02:03:43.039 --> 02:03:46.960 I, um, I felt pain in old scar. 02:03:47.840 --> 02:03:54.880 When I touched scar, I heard my voice say, Look for me behind roses. 02:03:57.039 --> 02:03:58.720 Thank cookies what happened, meow. 02:04:04.239 --> 02:04:05.680 Do you know what these means? 02:04:09.760 --> 02:04:11.600 We are chosen ones. 02:04:14.720 --> 02:04:15.520 Chosen? 02:04:16.479 --> 02:04:16.880 Yes! 02:04:17.199 --> 02:04:18.079 Chosen ones! 02:04:18.399 --> 02:04:20.640 Like in stories, you know, great adventure. 02:04:20.880 --> 02:04:25.760 We are chosen to do something epic. 02:04:27.039 --> 02:04:28.960 We've already been chosen. 02:04:30.239 --> 02:04:32.640 We survived the calamity, after all. 02:04:34.079 --> 02:04:36.079 Yes, but so did lots of others. 02:04:36.319 --> 02:04:39.279 But we have heard message now. 02:04:39.439 --> 02:04:41.359 We are chosen among chosen. 02:04:41.680 --> 02:04:44.319 We are very special, very fortunate. 02:04:46.640 --> 02:04:48.640 So, you all are chosen. 02:04:49.279 --> 02:04:50.479 Why am I here? 02:04:51.920 --> 02:04:52.399 Lottery. 02:04:56.239 --> 02:05:01.760 Vayra, as you ask why am I here, you feel a hand on your shoulder. 02:05:02.640 --> 02:05:05.039 You're here to look behind the roses. 02:05:07.520 --> 02:05:12.159 She's gonna like not move her head, just glance her eyes towards her shoulder. 02:05:12.800 --> 02:05:14.319 You don't see a hand. 02:05:19.039 --> 02:05:20.399 We do not see any roses. 02:05:20.720 --> 02:05:21.119 We don't. 02:05:21.279 --> 02:05:21.600 We don't. 02:05:21.680 --> 02:05:22.000 We don't. 02:05:22.159 --> 02:05:23.600 We are called Vayra, though, right? 02:05:25.399 --> 02:05:26.039 We are. 02:05:27.000 --> 02:05:28.760 We do not see any roses. 02:05:29.800 --> 02:05:30.199 Who are they? 02:05:31.560 --> 02:05:32.439 Dear, they're lovely. 02:05:33.239 --> 02:05:34.760 She's talking to herself. 02:05:37.720 --> 02:05:40.039 I believe what is called processing. 02:05:42.279 --> 02:05:45.479 She'll look up when Lenore says she wants them to show them to me. 02:05:47.000 --> 02:05:49.319 Did you hear the voice? 02:05:50.359 --> 02:05:51.880 No, what voice? 02:05:54.600 --> 02:05:55.800 It touched me. 02:05:57.319 --> 02:05:59.640 I don't remember giving it consent to touch me. 02:06:00.279 --> 02:06:02.039 Did I tell it it could touch me? 02:06:02.920 --> 02:06:04.279 I don't think you did. 02:06:04.439 --> 02:06:11.720 I didn't give anyone permission to touch me when it would that phrase was etched into my arm. 02:06:12.680 --> 02:06:13.880 So it is not a good thing. 02:06:14.199 --> 02:06:15.720 Do I want to see the roses then? 02:06:15.960 --> 02:06:17.720 I mean, Opus has roses. 02:06:18.039 --> 02:06:19.560 Those are nice roses. 02:06:21.880 --> 02:06:25.079 While they're right here, we're going to hit pause. 02:06:25.720 --> 02:06:33.399 Take our last break, and we'll be back in 10 to see is there anything behind the roses? 02:17:06.840 --> 02:17:07.399 Return. 02:17:07.559 --> 02:17:14.520 Thank you so much for hanging out where we took our break at our snickety snacks, our beverages of choice, and handled our business. 02:17:14.840 --> 02:17:18.040 We return now to as Oz'zariah was saying. 02:17:20.520 --> 02:17:43.559 While Vayra's having their light, their light, their existential crisis, and Lenore is basically handling that, Oz'zariah is going to walk towards the mural and the wall, and she's just going to start kind of looking around to see if there's a door, whatever, handle, something giving an investigation check. 02:17:43.719 --> 02:17:46.360 You said it's the back wall of the room, correct? 02:17:46.920 --> 02:17:47.799 Yes, yes. 02:17:48.440 --> 02:17:48.920 All right. 02:17:49.239 --> 02:17:50.600 Investigation checked. 02:17:50.680 --> 02:17:51.639 Let's see. 02:17:52.280 --> 02:17:57.879 New character, who this 18 plus 3 21. 02:18:01.079 --> 02:18:16.120 You notice that one of the roses, the center of the concentric circles that create the beautiful flower, seem to protrude from the wall. 02:18:17.399 --> 02:18:19.319 She's going to look a little closer at that. 02:18:21.719 --> 02:18:28.920 I know you're in the middle of a crisis right now, but I think this may be a trigger for a door. 02:18:32.440 --> 02:18:33.399 Interesting. 02:18:35.239 --> 02:18:36.360 You're muted. 02:18:39.559 --> 02:18:40.520 Opus didn't say anything. 02:18:40.600 --> 02:18:41.719 Don't worry about it. 02:18:43.399 --> 02:18:51.239 We should at least put our offerings by the memorial first before we touch the mural. 02:18:51.879 --> 02:18:53.479 Probably for the best. 02:18:54.440 --> 02:18:55.000 Agreed. 02:18:55.079 --> 02:18:56.520 We don't need a hands full. 02:19:00.360 --> 02:19:17.079 Lenore will approach the memorial, set whatever offering she was handed in front of it, and kneel down, give appropriate reverence for the memory of those who have been lost. 02:19:21.879 --> 02:19:27.879 You'll see Nyx reach into her bag and grab a single cookie out of the 12 that she was given. 02:19:28.200 --> 02:19:32.520 Sniff a little bit, but then she'll like give it as an offering. 02:19:36.680 --> 02:19:48.920 Lumine will set her offerings down and just kind of place her fist over her chest and tuck her head, and she's saying a silent prayer to whatever that might be out there. 02:20:01.479 --> 02:20:11.399 Vayra's just going to kind of watch everybody else and then, like, okay, put down whatever the offering is and just kind of follow them. 02:20:16.840 --> 02:20:18.280 I think Opus would. 02:20:18.600 --> 02:20:19.079 Oh, good. 02:20:20.280 --> 02:20:21.239 Opus would have. 02:20:22.120 --> 02:20:25.079 He's not holding any of the stuff he was given. 02:20:28.159 --> 02:20:34.319 He sort of was given it at the top and said, you know, thank you, and then put it away in his pack. 02:20:34.639 --> 02:20:46.159 So he looks around and goes, I mean, he kind of does like a revering bow, but that's it. 02:20:50.319 --> 02:21:00.239 Kagen sets down whatever he was handed and takes off his very conical style hat. 02:21:01.600 --> 02:21:14.239 Sort of a it's a like a dot one, like a like the very Cambodian style hat. 02:21:16.239 --> 02:21:33.440 And then reaches into one of the satchels that he's gotten and pulls out a rolled bit of fabric that he spreads out that that seems to be some sort of old flag, a pennant that he found somewhere. 02:21:33.600 --> 02:21:50.239 He doesn't know what culture or temple or kingdom this might have belonged to, but he sets it down and whispers something in deep speech before stepping away and putting his hat back on. 02:22:00.959 --> 02:22:01.520 You muted too. 02:22:03.600 --> 02:22:04.719 Who's next? 02:22:07.920 --> 02:22:12.879 Oh, Oz'zariah, without much fanfare, will lay down the offering she was given. 02:22:13.840 --> 02:22:17.440 You know, stand there for a moment with head bowed before stepping back. 02:22:24.719 --> 02:22:28.159 So, the mural, you saw something? 02:22:29.760 --> 02:22:39.920 Yes, this one here seems to have a well, for lack of a better word, it looks like a button or maybe a trigger for a door or something. 02:22:40.159 --> 02:23:31.680 I don't he'll point to it where we do the punch it in the pecker meow possibly, but uh, Ropus, uh, hit that and Ropus goes toward the button and tries to press it and presses there's a sound of whirling gears and several clicks before the sound of stone as the passage opens. 02:23:32.959 --> 02:23:39.760 A vast chamber lies before you and possibly old, untouched by ash or time. 02:23:40.399 --> 02:23:47.920 Stone pillars shaped like wind-carved spires stretch towards a ceiling, filled with liquid starlight. 02:23:48.559 --> 02:24:00.079 The lights shift and pulse, casting a soft radiance glow over a crystal-encased heart that beats once every few minutes, slow and sorrowful. 02:24:01.680 --> 02:24:05.040 Seven thrones ring the heart, great and terrible. 02:24:05.200 --> 02:24:10.639 One glows faintly, one is shattered, all are silent. 02:24:11.840 --> 02:24:16.079 Statues line the wall, half worn by grief or time. 02:24:16.719 --> 02:24:22.319 Their faces are smooth away, their hands reaching, weeping or bearing blades. 02:24:22.559 --> 02:24:25.920 You recognize none of them, and yet all of them. 02:24:27.200 --> 02:24:31.760 The silence here is thick, alive, not oppressive, but expectant. 02:24:32.079 --> 02:24:36.399 Like the breath before a word or a song waiting for its final note. 02:24:37.040 --> 02:24:40.239 Somewhere is in your chest, something stirs. 02:24:41.120 --> 02:24:42.319 This is no rune. 02:24:42.879 --> 02:24:44.319 This is no tomb. 02:24:44.959 --> 02:24:47.360 This is memory buried in stone. 02:24:47.680 --> 02:24:50.000 A promise waiting to be remembered. 02:24:50.319 --> 02:24:54.559 A temple built not for gods, but for what they left behind. 02:24:57.760 --> 02:24:58.879 This is lovely. 02:25:00.399 --> 02:25:02.639 By the fallen, have we been here before? 02:25:05.120 --> 02:25:07.280 It's something about this place. 02:25:08.239 --> 02:25:12.559 I feel like I remember it, but I don't. 02:25:19.600 --> 02:25:25.200 Did you say there was one crystal heart in the middle beating or seven? 02:25:25.360 --> 02:25:25.920 Okay, one. 02:25:26.239 --> 02:25:27.920 One crystal heart, seven silver. 02:25:29.239 --> 02:25:33.719 Thrones and one of the seven thrones is broken. 02:25:34.360 --> 02:25:38.040 One is broken, one is faintly glowing, and all are silent. 02:25:41.479 --> 02:25:44.680 I want to look at the statues behind the thrones. 02:25:45.319 --> 02:25:55.479 Okay, like can I glean anything about the individuals depicted in the statues? 02:25:56.120 --> 02:25:58.040 Make an investigation check. 02:26:01.799 --> 02:26:03.079 That is a seven. 02:26:04.920 --> 02:26:06.440 They're statues. 02:26:08.440 --> 02:26:10.520 Oz is just gonna kind of go ahead. 02:26:10.600 --> 02:26:11.000 Sorry. 02:26:11.319 --> 02:26:12.360 No, you go ahead. 02:26:12.680 --> 02:26:41.879 Azariah is gonna step in and basically just slowly walk from each throne, just kind of like looking at each one and trying to see if there's any of them that like she's drawn to since you said we felt something like kind of stir you're muted. 02:26:42.120 --> 02:26:42.920 Make an investigation check. 02:26:43.319 --> 02:26:43.639 No, you're not. 02:26:43.879 --> 02:26:44.680 There you are. 02:26:48.440 --> 02:26:49.079 All right. 02:26:50.440 --> 02:26:55.159 Next, tell that she is trying to analyze these things, look for something. 02:26:56.440 --> 02:26:56.680 Yeah. 02:26:57.559 --> 02:27:01.559 Okay, she's gonna go up and touch her and be like, I can help me out. 02:27:01.959 --> 02:27:03.719 And I'll cast guidance. 02:27:06.520 --> 02:27:07.479 Thank you. 02:27:07.799 --> 02:27:12.120 Um, that is the 23. 02:27:17.239 --> 02:27:19.239 What are you looking for exactly? 02:27:19.559 --> 02:27:20.920 She's close to exactly. 02:27:22.200 --> 02:27:29.719 Basically, you said we felt something like there was something that kind of pulled or like something in us stirred, like we recognize this. 02:27:29.879 --> 02:27:39.799 She's trying to see if it's a particular statue, particular throne that speaks to like her individually. 02:27:39.959 --> 02:27:45.879 She's trying to see if like each one of these somehow is there's seven of us and there's seven of these. 02:27:46.040 --> 02:27:50.920 So she's trying to see if it's like one of these is meant for each one of us. 02:27:51.799 --> 02:27:52.040 Okay. 02:27:52.680 --> 02:27:53.319 Kind of thing. 02:27:54.360 --> 02:28:02.920 As you make your round starting at the glowing throne, passing each one, you feel indifferent. 02:28:04.520 --> 02:28:15.719 As you look at each statue, measuring and weighing its movement, its motion, what it's meant to depict, you feel indifferent. 02:28:17.000 --> 02:28:24.840 Backing up to get a better look, you draw close to the heart and feel something within you stir once more. 02:28:29.319 --> 02:28:38.040 I she's gonna turn towards the she's like gonna actually turn and face the heart in the center of the room. 02:28:38.360 --> 02:28:44.040 Um, I'm not sure what the thrones mean. 02:28:44.360 --> 02:29:13.319 Um they stir nothing, no memory, no pull, but this I'm not sure what, but drawn to it Lenore's going to go to the glowing one. 02:29:14.120 --> 02:29:31.399 Sure, magic's not her forte, but she wants to check out, like, see if she can figure out why this one throne is glowing because that's a little weird, but pretty okay. 02:29:31.639 --> 02:29:36.280 Make a check investigation, yep. 02:29:40.120 --> 02:29:41.879 Uh, that would be a five. 02:29:43.079 --> 02:29:45.879 He's very pretty, it's very pretty. 02:29:47.479 --> 02:29:50.520 It's a throne, and it's very pretty. 02:29:52.120 --> 02:29:59.079 So, um, while they were doing that, they were just kind of shaking her head, no, no, no, the whole time. 02:30:01.000 --> 02:30:07.239 But after Oz'zariah mentions filling the draw to the heart, she's gonna reach for it. 02:30:08.760 --> 02:30:12.680 Okay, can she touch it? 02:30:13.000 --> 02:30:18.760 Yeah, yeah, anything happening allow me to explain. 02:30:19.639 --> 02:30:27.159 Your hand hovers over the crystal, drawn by something deeper than thought, like gravity. 02:30:27.799 --> 02:30:28.600 The surface is. 02:30:30.159 --> 02:30:38.559 Mood unbelievably so and cold, so cold it burns the moment your fingers brush against it. 02:30:38.879 --> 02:30:40.719 The temple exhales. 02:30:42.319 --> 02:30:43.920 The light in the chamber dims. 02:30:44.079 --> 02:30:51.280 The distant pulsing of the guard heart stutters and then beats once. 02:30:51.440 --> 02:30:53.440 A sound like thunder underwater. 02:30:53.520 --> 02:30:55.360 A flash memory behind your eyes. 02:30:55.600 --> 02:30:58.959 And then, Vayra, you are falling. 02:30:59.280 --> 02:31:01.600 Not through space, but into something. 02:31:02.799 --> 02:31:03.920 A memory. 02:31:04.239 --> 02:31:08.239 A memory that isn't yours, but feels too familiar to be false. 02:31:09.520 --> 02:31:10.959 You see the world. 02:31:11.840 --> 02:31:15.360 More importantly, you see the world before the cataclysm. 02:31:15.680 --> 02:31:26.000 Skies blue and endless, mountains unscarred, cities of gold and bone rising into the clouds, and in the center of it all, a figure made of starlight and breath. 02:31:26.319 --> 02:31:29.840 Neither man nor woman, neither God nor beast. 02:31:30.479 --> 02:31:35.280 You know their name, but when you try to speak it, your tongue will not allow it. 02:31:35.920 --> 02:31:37.760 They reach towards you. 02:31:38.159 --> 02:31:39.440 You reach back. 02:31:40.079 --> 02:31:41.360 The heart beats again. 02:31:43.280 --> 02:31:46.479 You feel it now, not with your hand, but with your soul. 02:31:46.799 --> 02:31:50.239 There's a pressure behind your eyes, a fire in your lungs. 02:31:50.399 --> 02:31:55.440 Words, ancient, formless, rush into you like wind into a hollow vessel. 02:31:56.079 --> 02:32:00.399 You feel seen, not claimed, but seen. 02:32:01.040 --> 02:32:05.360 Then a scream, not a pain, but a betrayal. 02:32:05.680 --> 02:32:07.440 The vision shatters. 02:32:08.000 --> 02:32:13.280 Your knees hit stone, the room spins, the histral cart glows faintly now. 02:32:13.600 --> 02:32:20.239 Not just red, but shot through with gold and blue like veins or lightning over a sea. 02:32:20.559 --> 02:32:23.680 And you realize it remembers you. 02:32:24.319 --> 02:32:25.520 It knows you. 02:32:26.319 --> 02:32:29.520 And now, so does something else. 02:32:30.479 --> 02:32:31.840 Something old. 02:32:32.479 --> 02:32:33.840 Something watchful. 02:32:34.479 --> 02:32:38.559 Something that has been waiting eight years for your return. 02:32:42.799 --> 02:32:53.840 As we would, since Oz'zariah was standing right there, Oz'zariah was standing at the crystal heart, would they have seen Vayra hit their knees? 02:32:54.479 --> 02:32:54.879 Yes. 02:32:55.440 --> 02:33:09.440 At that moment, Oz'zariah would have tried to turn and grab her, and at the same time, part of their arm, part of their wrist brushes against that heart while she's trying to grab for Vayra. 02:33:12.959 --> 02:33:14.479 The heart beats. 02:33:15.360 --> 02:33:19.600 You are standing among fire, hell, fire, and brimstone. 02:33:19.920 --> 02:33:22.719 You're watching the world crumble around you. 02:33:23.040 --> 02:33:42.319 You watch as a figure cloaked in shadow and blood, darkness, those things of despite and hatred stand over the star-crafted creature, driving a dagger deep into its heart, and it explodes. 02:33:42.959 --> 02:33:45.120 The skies growing dim. 02:33:46.000 --> 02:33:49.440 The world falling into cataclysm. 02:33:50.719 --> 02:33:53.120 The creature turns to look at you. 02:33:54.000 --> 02:33:57.280 You see burning eyes of hatred locked to yours. 02:33:58.239 --> 02:33:59.760 You hear laughter. 02:34:02.000 --> 02:34:05.600 Laughter that brings pain to your very flesh. 02:34:06.239 --> 02:34:08.559 You feel yourself hit the ground with Vayra. 02:34:09.840 --> 02:34:17.360 And you know that something beyond space and time knows you are here. 02:34:22.000 --> 02:34:27.760 Since Nyx was very close to Oz'zariah because she had to do the guidance, she's going to be like, oh my gosh, meow, are you guys okay, meow? 02:34:28.079 --> 02:34:31.440 And she'll just kind of have her arms out, like, what's happening, Meow? 02:34:32.639 --> 02:34:38.000 As a reaction, you guys are all going to see a radiant aura surround Vayra. 02:34:39.600 --> 02:34:40.799 Oh, Shimui. 02:34:41.440 --> 02:34:47.840 So it's like a purpley-pink, shimmery aura that surrounds her for a little bit as she's falling to her knees. 02:34:49.440 --> 02:34:50.799 Oh, that's pretty too. 02:34:51.440 --> 02:34:52.079 Wait. 02:34:52.399 --> 02:34:53.040 Huh? 02:34:57.280 --> 02:35:02.719 Lenore is going to approach the two that are on their knees because this is interesting. 02:35:03.360 --> 02:35:03.600 Yeah. 02:35:06.879 --> 02:35:08.000 What's what's what? 02:35:08.719 --> 02:35:09.520 I got something for that. 02:35:09.600 --> 02:35:09.920 Hold on. 02:35:10.239 --> 02:35:10.719 Minkus. 02:35:11.520 --> 02:35:12.879 Where is oh, hi, Minkus. 02:35:13.120 --> 02:35:14.319 And digs through Minkus. 02:35:14.479 --> 02:35:16.399 You hear clinks and clanks and all that. 02:35:16.719 --> 02:35:24.479 It comes out with a couple flasks filled with swirling red liquid and says, oh, come, come here, come here. 02:35:24.799 --> 02:35:29.840 And tries to sort of get closer to both. 02:35:31.479 --> 02:35:42.600 Um, Vayra and Oz'zariah, but also to, like, you know, scooch Nyx to the side as she's, you know, trying to help as well. 02:35:47.079 --> 02:35:48.200 What was this? 02:35:48.760 --> 02:35:50.920 Um, you saw something, Jesus. 02:35:57.559 --> 02:35:59.399 I don't think it's mine, though. 02:35:59.719 --> 02:36:01.000 She's gonna look at Oz'zariah. 02:36:02.600 --> 02:36:09.719 Oh, I'm not sure, but it was a memory of something, and I do believe something knows where we are now. 02:36:10.360 --> 02:36:11.959 Oh, it definitely knows. 02:36:14.440 --> 02:36:20.280 Drink this something is coming. 02:36:23.000 --> 02:36:23.959 Possibly. 02:36:24.280 --> 02:36:29.479 Um, Vayra, did you see a creature? 02:36:30.440 --> 02:36:33.719 She's gonna chug what Opus gave her first. 02:36:34.600 --> 02:36:39.719 Um, star and light, but not yet. 02:36:41.319 --> 02:36:46.440 She's gonna just stop and look Oz'zariah directly in the eye. 02:36:46.760 --> 02:36:51.239 It knows we're here, yes, dear. 02:36:51.559 --> 02:37:06.600 Um, that yeah, and Oz'zariah is going to describe the creature with the burning eyes and everything that locked eyes with them to every, you know, out loud for everybody. 02:37:06.920 --> 02:37:15.639 Um, I don't know if the rest of you need to touch it or not. 02:37:16.280 --> 02:37:19.319 Um, I'll leave that up. 02:37:21.159 --> 02:37:25.079 I slammed my hand down on it so fast. 02:37:26.840 --> 02:37:35.879 And I said I didn't mind, so I'm gonna go probably exact same time as him as you both touch it. 02:37:36.040 --> 02:37:37.239 The heart beats. 02:37:44.200 --> 02:37:59.719 You both see a creature clad in black, shadow writhing around them as if coming to their command on the remnants of a rotting, disgusting horse with fire at its hooves riding. 02:38:00.360 --> 02:38:09.719 The vision pulls back, and you see this streak of fire coming from deep, deep into the flatlands, headed towards Willhold. 02:38:18.280 --> 02:38:21.079 Tear, do I know which direction the flatlands are from here? 02:38:21.719 --> 02:38:23.239 They are east. 02:38:23.559 --> 02:38:24.280 No, west. 02:38:24.520 --> 02:38:25.319 Sorry. 02:38:28.360 --> 02:38:30.120 Rides on shadows. 02:38:31.079 --> 02:38:31.719 Go ahead, sir. 02:38:32.280 --> 02:38:33.399 No, you're totally fine. 02:38:33.799 --> 02:38:38.120 Nyx's ears is going to go back and just be like, I regret that meow. 02:38:38.680 --> 02:38:40.440 And kind of shake a little bit. 02:38:42.120 --> 02:38:43.959 Rider in shadows. 02:38:44.600 --> 02:38:49.879 The fetid horse coming from west. 02:38:53.479 --> 02:38:54.520 On fire? 02:38:57.000 --> 02:38:59.799 They won't be coming for very long if they're on fire. 02:39:02.680 --> 02:39:03.399 They'll just go. 02:39:03.719 --> 02:39:08.600 Nyx's a little shake and say, rot death, so much death mel. 02:39:12.520 --> 02:39:14.680 And then you hear it, the cracking of crystal. 02:39:18.200 --> 02:39:19.159 A final beat. 02:39:23.319 --> 02:39:25.479 The crystal bursts. 02:39:26.120 --> 02:39:29.239 The glowing throne dims. 02:39:31.799 --> 02:39:33.639 And there can be no doubt. 02:39:35.559 --> 02:39:41.239 Something that knows you beyond knowing you is now approaching. 02:39:41.879 --> 02:39:42.840 But why? 02:39:44.440 --> 02:39:48.680 Hey, we'll find out next session because this is where we're coming to an end for the evening. 02:39:49.000 --> 02:39:50.040 You bastard. 02:39:53.959 --> 02:39:55.719 I thank you all so much for playing at my table. 02:39:55.799 --> 02:39:56.840 I hope you've had fun. 02:39:57.159 --> 02:39:59.479 To our audience members, thank you so much for being here. 02:39:59.639 --> 02:40:00.840 I hope you've enjoyed it. 02:40:01.319 --> 02:40:07.239 We're going to take a few moments now to remind you who we are, where we can be found, and then we're getting the hell up out of here. 02:40:09.719 --> 02:40:11.799 Hey, everybody, this is Christina. 02:40:12.040 --> 02:40:15.639 I had the pleasure of voicing Vayra today. 02:40:16.360 --> 02:40:18.520 Only slightly fractured sorceress. 02:40:19.639 --> 02:40:22.600 And you can find me on Blue Sky at Deadly Kisses. 02:40:23.239 --> 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