The Unwritten Favor Part 2: The Goodbye

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Last session the agents of the
Syndicant identified 3 Oath

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Binder Borne plans burning
across Zebulon's wall map Black

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glass Causeway, Cinder Reach
Vault Frost line Watchtower.

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After deliberation they chose
Frost Line.

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Osisa urge restraint, and the
agents agreed reports would

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remain minimal until they
understood who or what was

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guiding these fractures in the
Shatter Peaks.

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The land turned against them.
A marrying drift warped snow

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into ground glass and bent light
into false paths.

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Savara and Zebulon faltered
under the strain.

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Mimi moved with lethal
confidence.

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Osisa read the distortion and
guided them through.

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At the base of the tower they
met Nick's Ember Coil, a pink

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haired artificer whose nerves
settled only after the ledger's

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were revealed.
The final ascent demanded

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intent.
The tower tested them, but the

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agents forced their way inside.
Within Frost Line, heat surged

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through a rupturing Syndicate
conduit.

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Ward.
Rains failed and burned like

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dying embers.
The structure felt wrong,

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overheated, alive.
Then footsteps echoed down the

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stairs.
Neros emerged, calm, unhurried.

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Amber light threaded his gaze as
the tower answered him.

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He spoke plainly.
Frost Line was not a weapon.

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It was a message built to fail.
And now, with the agents

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present, he intended to complete
its purpose.

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And then he spoke the name they
had avoided, Castella.

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With a casual gesture, she
appeared at his feet, bound and

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bloodied.
The room went still.

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Negotiation collapsed towards
violence.

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Mimi bared her claws and pleaded
for Castella's release.

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Zebulon surge forward, lightning
crackling as a duplicate snapped

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into place.
Osisa struck with prayer laced

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light.
Glaive advanced like an oncoming

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storm.
Nero's answered without effort.

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He extinguished Glaive's
guardian with a word.

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He bent the pulse of the tower
to his will.

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When pressed, he struck once
with final precision.

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Glaive fell lifeless.
Time itself seemed to yield as

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Nero's laid out his terms one
favor.

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In exchange for Castella's life,
Magistrate Elvis Corin of the

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Dominion would be forced to
deliver a full public

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confession.
Crimes laid bare, names erased,

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forced relocations, sentences
passed without trial.

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The testimony would be heard by
the victims, witnessed by the

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unwritten, and preserved only
long enough to be used.

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Fulfill this, and Castilla would
be freed from Nearest's mark.

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Refuse, and she would remain.
The agents agreed.

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Nero's vanished.
Moments later, Castilla lay at

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frost lines threshold, barely
alive in the snow.

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Orion, she whispered through the
pain, was safe.

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The agents carried her through a
brief Rd. encounter and sought

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refuge at the Whisper Fane.
From there they returned to

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Syndicate headquarters and
demanded Glaive's restoration.

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High Syndic relvain and the
healers refused.

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They named Glaive an
abomination.

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Resurrection was denied.
Mimi's Ledger burned with

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censure.
Trust revoked, resources

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stripped, rage nearly turned to
bloodshed until Castella

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steadied her with glaves body
claimed and the syndicates

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authority cracking, the agents
turned their attention to the

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Dominion High Administration
complex.

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Magistrate Corin waits there.
Another fracture in the truth,

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and this one must be forced.
Open stop write this story I

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don't need the allegory please
just tell me what's real.

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But nothing ever seemed to be
real.

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But she's some colors that don't
exist.

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Painting my painting
counterfeit.

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Bless every truth I knew just
starts to twist can from a calm

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in a world like this.
My tongue to the world's been

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dry.
We're my old like a sheep

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disguise.
I see the truth when I close my

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eyes.
The hardest part was a great

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goodbye.
I'm fake the ache can master

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pain.
I've been lost inside my name.

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All the mirrors look the same,
but I don't see my face face

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well stop.
I've been running every way lost

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the blast somewhere behind.
Maybe peace was just a.

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Welcome back Criticism to
another episode of Crit Happens

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We are back with another episode

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of Crit Happens.
Let's go ahead and say hello to

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our agents.
Say hello, agents.

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Hello.
Hello Adrian, we have got a

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record 8 players today so we are
going to have a lot of chaos and

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I am very excited.
We welcome back after a week

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gone.
Savara, welcome back.

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Welcome back.
We are also welcoming back first

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time in a couple weeks.
Jean Harkham, Welcome back, my

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friend.
Yeah, I'm very jealous.

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And I'm sure he'd be just fine
if I said this.

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He went to a show at the Grand
Theatre a few weeks ago where

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Stevo was at the Grand Theatre,
and he got to take Stevo to Taco

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Bell.
And if that's not a life story,

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I I don't know what is.
I was.

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Kind of crazy about that.
I would literally drop anything

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to, if Stevo came to me, he's
like, hey, you want to go to

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Taco Bell?
Yeah, I want to go to Taco Bell.

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It's crazy because like, I was,
I was just like persistent, you

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know, I was like, I really get
my crunch signed by Stevo.

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Yeah, I'm on crutches right now.
And so I ran into his.

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I believe it's his girlfriend,
Coral.

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And she's like, yeah, I just
wait out here.

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He's taking a shower or
whatever.

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And he comes out, he's like, oh,
he's gone because I was hiding

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like from the cold, you know
what I mean?

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I was like, I'm not fucking
gone.

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I like hobbled out there.
He's like, hey, let's get on the

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bus where it's warm, man.
Like, so I got on his bus.

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So we're just chatting for like
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I'm like, all right, I'm going
to take off.

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He's like, hey, matter of fact,
you want to give me a, give us a

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ride to Taco Bell?
I was like, yeah, yeah.

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What do you mean?
That's not even a question.

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Get in the vehicle.
We're going.

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He is super down to earth,
though.

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He, yeah.
Like when it comes to like

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talking about life or whatever,
he's, he's very, yeah, very

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kind, yeah.
So yeah, everybody here at CRIT

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Happens, me especially, very
jealous of you.

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And so.
Yeah.

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And we also welcome in a brand
new player today, her name, I'm

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sorry, their name is Veronica.
You can go ahead and say hello,

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Veronica, welcome to Crit
Happens.

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I am glad to friendly join.
Yeah, yeah, we are very excited

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to have you.
So yes, we will have you

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introduce your character just a
little bit later, Veronica.

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So today we've got Harkum,
Kazdea, Mini Osisa, Savara,

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Zebulon, and we also introducing
a new character as well, played

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by Jesse after Glaive's
unfortunate demise last week.

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Why don't we start real quick
and we'll have Jesse go ahead

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and give us kind of a little bit
of a rundown.

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Your character's name, what can
we expect?

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And you know, you can leave out
as much as you want.

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Sure.
So I'm playing a female Riftkin,

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which is a home brew race.
Oh yeah.

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Her name is Slip.
Her call sign is the Seam

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Walker.
She's a monk primarily, that has

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a habit of not being where she's
supposed to be and on the flip

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side, being exactly where she
shouldn't be.

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Oh boy.
We'll leave it.

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We'll leave it mostly mostly
with that.

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I love that.
And I'll be honest, you know,

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I've, I've played DND outside of
crit happens many times with

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Jesse.
He's, you know, he is part of my

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family.
And you've played a monk before

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and it's absolutely disgusting
every time you play a monk.

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So I'm very looking forward to
that.

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Yeah, she's got she's got some
tricks up her sleeve.

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Yeah, yeah.
We'll we'll say that so.

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She doesn't have sleeves, but
she doesn't have.

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Sleeves.
There's tricks there.

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Absolutely.
All right, so let's go on and

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continue on with Part 2 of the
Unwritten favor.

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So last we left our party, as
you heard in the recap and

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again, want to give a quick
shout out to Valky Nicks on

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Instagram and Twitter for the
amazing job she did on our recap

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today.
And I think moving forward we

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will be working with Valky Nicks
in regards to that because it

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was amazing and I loved it.
And props to you Valkyrie Nixon,

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if you are listening.
Thank you so much.

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So we will again last left our
party just having been told that

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Glaive, as far as Syndicate is
concerned, cannot be revived or

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resurrected.
He is an abomination.

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He is half elf, half machine and
something that should not be,

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should not even exist.
So we last left our party with

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that Mimi had gone.
I'm just going to say ape shit

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on a few different people and
her Ledger has been restricted

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as she receives A censure.
So we'll whoops, we'll explain

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what that means in just a just a
few minutes, but we will start

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with the party now.
We also have introduced kind of

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a new mechanic here as well.
Party has spent the better part

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of a week really planning how
they are going to be completing

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this quote UN quote favor for
Neros.

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And as far as the party is, as
far as I've been informed by the

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party, they do have a plan to
attempt one last resurrection

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enclave.
We'll get to that in a moment

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and then they'll proceed to the
action belt to detain Elvis

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Koran and bring him to neuros
his location.

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So we will go forward with that
plan and the consequences that

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may come with that choice.
We'll see what happens.

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So we will begin back.
And Savara, go ahead and take an

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inspiration for my DM tax.
Appreciate that.

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Let's start with the party
having returned to the Whisper

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Fang.
It's been about about 24 hours

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since the events at Syndicate
headquarters where Glaive was

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labeled an abomination, and I
will let you all go from there.

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Cesar.
Yes.

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I think, I think we should lay
him to sleep well.

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I don't know if we could bring
him back fully.

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It's beyond my powers if we.
Want to try?

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I know a few people outside of
the syndicate who might be able

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to help us.
But they might corrupt his soul.

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I don't, I don't trust it.
Let's just, let's just let him

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to rest and let him sleep
eternally.

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I'm going to go to my room.
I'll be back.

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Mimi's going to head up the
stairs.

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OK.
And what are the reps?

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Kazan's going to follow Mimi.
OK.

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And I guess I'd be trying to
nonchalantly get the group

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together and discuss like what
are the next steps here?

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I still think we need Glaive
back but probably can't handle

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that job myself.
I hope you get glaive back.

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OK, is there anybody else that
would assist with a possible

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resurrection of Glaive other
than currently Zebulon and

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Savara?
I might, but I would want to

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ask.
I think Harcum.

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I'd want to ask Harcum, since he
knew Glaive better than the rest

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of us did, what he would think
Glaive's wishes would be.

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Probably.
Glaive was all about completing

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what he was asked of him.
Before we move forward with

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that, Harkin, go ahead and give
me an insight check, please.

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Insight check.
Let me find my 20.

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Scroll of the day.
Inside, inside, inside.

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That's 1818.
Yeah.

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So you, you have a very good
handle on what Glave would have

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wanted.
So go ahead.

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I would, I would think that he
would, you know, he was always

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about like what needed to be
done, what was asked of him,

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because he was part of the
Syndicate, you know, that's, he

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was what, three years old?
So a better part of what he

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knew, I would assume would be
the Syndicate.

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For what I knew of him.
I didn't know much of him

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though.
We weren't always together

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before what I knew.
He just wanted to finish the

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mission.
And the way he I see it, the

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mission is not quite finished.
So Arkham has always been like

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an object of the soul, you know?
So I would I would safer whoever

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was closest to him outside of
combat would have a better

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understanding than me.
I just know he was always

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mission driven.
Mimi obviously has formed an

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attachment to him, but I'm
unsure what what we can do.

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It's beyond my powers and I I
worry about what would happen if

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we try to bring him back.
I don't know much about bringing

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anything back when I'm hurt, I
just have an ale and some Stew

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when I feel better so.
Yeah, it's only.

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Easy.
I'll, I'll talk to.

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I would say let the let the
people more in tune with their

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with themselves because I'm not
all that touchy on these kinds

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of subjects.
Not harvest, which is not

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touchy.
Zebulon and Savara, what do you

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think?
I know if I went out like that I

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would want someone to try to
bring me back.

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And as I said before, his his
mission really wasn't over.

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Still isn't over.
OK, so why don't we leave

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Zebulon, Savara and Harkum?
Osisa, were you going up to see

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Mimi?
Is that what I understood

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correct?
Yeah, I, you know, when when

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Kezdea first followed her up, I
kind of like looking, nodding

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like.
Yeah, like I'll be up in a

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second kind of thing.
Yeah, OK, understood.

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So yeah, we'll currently leave
Zebulon, Savara and Harkum.

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We will follow Osisa, Castea and
Mimi currently located.

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Mimi currently located in her
room, Kasdea just getting to her

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door with Osisa following kind
of behind just a bit.

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I think Kasdea would knock on
the door.

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Mimi will in the door like a
little crack and go.

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Hey, Mimi.
I understand.

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I understand how you're feeling.
However, the party seems to

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think, at best, that Glaive
comes home and home is not where

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you place him.
Does that make sense?

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Yeah, I guess it makes sense.
Tell me why you're against this

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all of the sudden.
I mean, I don't know, Do we die?

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Is it right for us to come back,
or do we come back as something

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else?
I can't answer that I have not

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died however slave is not like.
Hey guys recommend.

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Oh Sisa yes please opens up the
door.

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I hope I'm not interrupting.
No, look, I, I, I can tell you

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what's right here.
I, I just know that Zebulon and

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Harcombe seem to think this
would be a good idea, and

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Savara's on board.
But I know you have thoughts on

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this, and I don't want you to
feel like we're making a choice

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without your taking your your
feelings into consideration.

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Both Osisa and Kezdea, can you
give me an animal handling check

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please?
Yep, I got a 17.

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OK.
I got a 21. 21 OK Mimi, you can

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reduce your tracker by two.
Pull up my tracker.

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If I remember correctly, Mimi,
you your tracker was at segment

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7, so I think that would put you
down to 5.

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Yep.
So let's say you are currently

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down to five.
You're still pretty heated about

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the events at the Syndicate
headquarters, but not so nearly

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as feral, I guess we'll call it,
Or primal, but you're still

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pretty uncomfortable with what
happened.

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Just don't like sent to the kid
something something doesn't feel

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right, something my senses might
be off.

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I have no idea what is going on
currently, but I know one

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thing's for sure and that they.
Aren't.

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Being truthful.
Who isn't?

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The syndicate, I mean, they do.
I think they don't tell us the

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truth because they want to help
protect us and protect our

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safety and the safety of others.
But like, at what cost?

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00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:06,320
It's my question.
How long until the lies pile up

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so big that they suffocate us?
I just.

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OK.
Do you want to try to get him?

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I do want Glave back.
I do want him to be back upon

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this material plane.
But we need to balance it.

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I don't know.
It just feels like natural.

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Whatever, let's just do this
fucking thing, Come on.

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Maybe he's going to stand up and
get downstairs towards Zebulon

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and Savara to join in.
Castea and Osisa go ahead and

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give me an insight check please.
Yep, I got a 16 + 11.

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Nothing plus nothing.
I got a 16.

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Patty, you said 11, right?
Yep.

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OK, 'cause they you get the
feeling that Mimi, correct me if

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I'm reading this wrong, but
Mimi's not necessarily being

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totally truthful about how she's
feeling about now.

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This kind of 180 from not one to
resurrect Glaive to now wants to

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resurrect Glaive.
She's almost put up like a mask

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all of a sudden.
Yeah, I'd say that'd be pretty

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accurate.
Yeah.

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So we're just going to approach
Debbie Lawn and just go.

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All right, Zeb.
Hello, Portos.

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Let's get this shit done.
'Cause they is going to kind of

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look at Osisa, shake her head
and then head down the stairs.

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00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:04,400
This is just going to quietly
follow away.

330
00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:11,520
Well, she changed her mind.
OK, Yeah, I'm.

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Going to begin preparing A
teleportation circle.

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00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:28,160
And as you are beginning to
start that in walks a a female

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kind of unknown to you a bit.
She, she doesn't look like, I

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00:25:35,120 --> 00:25:38,360
mean, everybody can go ahead and
give me a, let's do a group

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00:25:38,360 --> 00:25:43,720
check for a, we'll say insight,
insight.

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00:25:56,880 --> 00:26:07,680
Yeah, 13. 1417 I got an AT20.
Yeah, you did.

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00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:18,600
Yeah, my God is 17.
OK, so you all know that this

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female customer, as we'll call
her right now, is kind of

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unknown to all of you as far as
who she is.

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00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:34,720
She's very muscular.
Her muscles are almost dense in

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a way that feels like impossible
for her frame, but she looks

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perfectly ordinary until she
moves and you notice the she's

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kind of walking into the bar.
You won't notice like a faint,

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almost like an after image when
they turn, pupils splitting

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briefly, like prisms.
And she will walk up to the bar

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and she will ask to speak to the
owner of the establishment.

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00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:20,440
I knew I should have hired some
staff.

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00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:23,520
Nebulon I.
Don't have anyone to say that

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I'm busy.
Nebulon, I'm going to stand

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directly behind you and you're
going to walk as one.

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00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:35,440
I don't like this.
I get the feeling like you're a

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00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:36,880
little bigger.
Than I am but.

353
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:39,600
For sure.
Hark, Harkin looks at Harkin,

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00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:42,000
looks at it like, aren't you?
Aren't you a stout one?

355
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:45,320
Where's the dude with the weird
face?

356
00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:48,760
Yeah, I'm going to walk behind
the bar and just say, what can I

357
00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:52,000
get you?
Maybe he's going to sit on the

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like on the top of the bar next
to the person and just watch.

359
00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:08,640
So you're you're that Zeb
person?

360
00:28:11,120 --> 00:28:14,440
That's me.
All right, That's who I'm

361
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:16,200
looking for.
I think I heard you're in charge

362
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:19,840
here.
That is correct.

363
00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:22,280
I am the proprietor of this fine
establishment.

364
00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:23,960
What can I get you started?
With.

365
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:28,480
No, sorry, I I meant in charge
of this.

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00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:32,000
And she kind of just kind of
gestures to other people around

367
00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:36,000
you.
Right, Zebulon's in charge.

368
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:40,080
Of the customers, what are we
talking about?

369
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:43,080
Yeah.
Can we get you something to

370
00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:44,880
drink or do you want something
to eat?

371
00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:47,320
I mean, I serve a pretty good.
They're looking for the.

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00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:54,440
Party oh OK, I'll.
Think we've assigned a formal

373
00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:58,360
party leader?
Oh well, which one?

374
00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:03,200
Have you decided that it was a
good idea to stop liking the

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00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:07,440
Syndicate?
That'd be me.

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00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:11,360
That'd be my fault.
What about all the conversations

377
00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:14,640
that I just listened to where it
was definitely not just you, I

378
00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:18,960
mean.
We have some mixed feelings of

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00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:21,000
the whole.
I'm pretty sure it's kind of a

380
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,520
mixed pot of like, I don't know
when, man, fuck these people and

381
00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:29,600
they're OK.
So yeah.

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00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:36,680
Kasde is going to kind of like
Kasde is going to kind of walk

383
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:40,120
over and look at this new person
and go and who are you to

384
00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:44,120
question us?
Well, I'm slip.

385
00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:49,120
People call me Seam Walker when
they're both trying to be polite

386
00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:52,080
about the fact that I don't
always stay where I should be or

387
00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:56,240
where the world puts me.
You might not have heard of us,

388
00:29:56,240 --> 00:29:59,400
but I'm a Rifkin.
Basically, that means that I

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00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:01,960
learned early that reality has
its soft spots.

390
00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:06,840
Doors aren't doors.
Distance is a suggestion.

391
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:13,240
Things get loud a lot, but I
don't have to dodge a slip.

392
00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:16,840
So you're saying that you're
you're always where you're not

393
00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:19,560
supposed to be?
Preferably.

394
00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:22,120
So you're not supposed to be
here?

395
00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:25,160
Why are we talking Park?
And park.

396
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:33,080
There's a person of chance.
And then we decide.

397
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:37,320
Well, if you're not going to buy
me a ale, I don't got any words

398
00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:39,240
for you.
OK, our.

399
00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:43,280
Girl as he as he puts his empty
drink horn on the on the bar

400
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:47,040
well.
Sure, I'll buy you a drink.

401
00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:50,800
Is everyone or?
Person.

402
00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:56,440
I'll take one water for the
short weirdo over here.

403
00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:58,120
Oh.
I said a ale.

404
00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:03,560
Oh, OK, don't call him short.
First off, maybe he's going to

405
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:06,480
stand up and just brush yourself
off and go.

406
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:09,400
OK, So what truly brings you
here?

407
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:13,440
Shifter or rift shifter, I
guess.

408
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:17,400
I don't precisely know why
you're here or who you are, but

409
00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:19,240
you have wandered into our tab
room.

410
00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:21,440
You have called my teammate
short.

411
00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:27,040
Am I wrong?
I prefer stubby.

412
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:33,840
Sorry, Duffy, but if you're
wondering what I want from this

413
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:38,760
group, I suppose it's simple.
I think we have a vested

414
00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:46,600
interest in our, we'll call it
curiosity of the syndicate, you

415
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:49,160
might say questioning.
I have to.

416
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:51,040
Experience.
I need you to come be diplomatic

417
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:53,560
before I punch him in the face
and maybe he's going to back up.

418
00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:59,160
But ultimately, I think we share
a similar goal.

419
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:02,480
So I suppose I'll say I want you
alive for right now.

420
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:06,520
Oh, for right now.
Oh shit, not another person like

421
00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:08,840
this man.
I'd like you pointed at the

422
00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:12,520
right targets though, and I want
you to understand one rule about

423
00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:16,000
me.
If if you try to reach through

424
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:20,960
my hand, I won't disappear, but
don't expect it to be there.

425
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:26,440
OK, so like, what are we
supposed to do in a situation

426
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:28,880
where like, you need us to catch
you if we're jumping?

427
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:30,760
That's how what?
The fuck are we?

428
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:32,400
Supposed to do let you fall in
the face.

429
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:36,680
I've never needed a baby call
before.

430
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:42,320
OK, Osisa, what do you think?
Cassadea, Zebulon.

431
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:43,280
Savara.
Harkum.

432
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:47,960
Osisa's just watching this in
the background and like

433
00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:49,400
facepalming.
Like why?

434
00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:53,840
Why are we doing my has?
They is going to kind of look,

435
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:58,360
slip up and down, then look at
me, Migo, whatever, turn her on

436
00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:00,120
and walk through the corner.
She's going to pull out her

437
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:01,880
Ledger and she's going to write
something down.

438
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:07,040
Savara.
I'm just like looking at her

439
00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:11,160
honestly.
Savara blink.

440
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:12,920
Savara blink.
What?

441
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:23,120
What?
Hi Muscles, I don't care, but I

442
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:27,640
I take out my hammer and I start
like kind of cleaning them down

443
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:29,880
the.
Belong, Spencer.

444
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:33,960
I think if they wanted to cause
trouble, we'd know it already.

445
00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:38,800
Yeah, if if you wish everybody
can give me an an insight check

446
00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:44,520
on on slip Mimi.
Mimi, let me have you make it

447
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:50,040
with disadvantage because it
feels like you are.

448
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:56,400
You made-up your mind already.
I mean, yeah, I am uncomfy, that

449
00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:58,520
is true.
I got an 18.

450
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:02,360
Debbie, if you want to look at
your messages.

451
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:15,679
So I heard 1819. 13. 13 OK.
Can I get a ale please, Zebulon?

452
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:20,760
Here's a a light beer coming
right up.

453
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:24,719
OK.
So with everybody's insight

454
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:30,159
chicks, yeah, I mean, you get
the you get the the feeling that

455
00:34:30,159 --> 00:34:37,360
Slip isn't it is both
trustworthy and untrustworthy at

456
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:41,400
the same time.
Trustworthy in the ways that

457
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:46,920
would benefit the party.
Untrustworthy in the way that

458
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:54,120
may also benefit the party, but
also may not.

459
00:34:54,120 --> 00:35:00,360
In a sense.
Pretty much another

460
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:05,800
troublemaker.
I like Troublemaker, all right.

461
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:10,920
Welcome aboard.
I guess I'm glad to be here.

462
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:16,480
Anyway, we were on the way out.
I'm going.

463
00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:19,920
To return to setting up that
teleportation circle.

464
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:26,200
Where are we going?
Give me just a second here and

465
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:31,080
she'll pull a piece of charcoal
and draw a line down each of her

466
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:32,560
forearms.
Just a straight line.

467
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:38,080
OK, I'm ready.
We're heading to the still cold.

468
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:42,040
My dark humor just kicked in.
I got to stop.

469
00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:52,440
Zebulon, I am going to have you
make me a, I'm going to call it

470
00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:57,960
a history check for you to
effectively recall exactly where

471
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:02,840
the still cold, the location
you're going to in the still

472
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:07,840
cold is located.
OK, I think it's like one of two

473
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:09,640
teleportation circles that I
know.

474
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:14,120
Oh, that's right.
You did leave that teleportation

475
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:16,960
circle there.
I tell you what, go ahead and

476
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:20,080
give it that check to be with
advantage then, because you do

477
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:23,680
have that circle there all.
Right.

478
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:27,640
Oh yeah. 19 and 17 not bad.
Oh yeah, yeah.

479
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:34,640
You know exactly where it is.
All right, kids, get in the bus.

480
00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:38,360
All right.
That was a Miss Frizzle

481
00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:43,160
reference anyways.
Squeeze eight of us into a 10

482
00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:45,160
foot circle.
Yep.

483
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:50,440
Ethically.
Harkum slams his beard, puts it

484
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:54,160
on the on the bar and kind of
like, squeezes in between

485
00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:56,600
people's legs, you know,
underneath their arms.

486
00:36:56,600 --> 00:37:01,880
Because he's like 2 foot 11.
I mean, you can like climb onto

487
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:03,840
my back if you want, I don't
give a fuck.

488
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:09,320
He just rides you in the battle.
Yeah, Tessa Day and I have done

489
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:10,360
that before.
Actually.

490
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:11,360
It was pretty epic.
I.

491
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:18,920
Told you he was short.
Hey, Dubby.

492
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:26,320
All right, so you all will.
Blue Skidoo over to the Silent

493
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:29,080
Vale Monastery via teleportation
circle.

494
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:33,520
The teleportation circle
completes without sound.

495
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:38,320
Light folds inward, cold
replaces motion.

496
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:44,840
Stone rests beneath your feet.
Not frost, not ice, but more of

497
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:49,960
a work stone, which old and
patient.

498
00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:54,120
The circle beneath you is carved
hot, shallow, it's runes worn

499
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:56,320
smooth by repetition rather than
age.

500
00:37:57,480 --> 00:38:03,600
No glow lingers, no heat fades.
The magic ends cleanly, as if it

501
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:07,240
was never meant to be noticed.
The air is thin and still.

502
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:12,200
Each breath feels measured,
counted and accepted.

503
00:38:13,240 --> 00:38:16,800
You stand within an open
cloister of pale stone.

504
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:21,080
Snow gathers at the edge of the
courtyard but never crosses the

505
00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:23,920
inner ring.
The wind moves above the

506
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:26,040
monastery walls, never through
them.

507
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:31,560
Sound dies early here.
Footsteps almost feel intrusive.

508
00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:34,240
Black candles line the
perimeter.

509
00:38:34,240 --> 00:38:40,240
None are burning high, but their
flames are small and unwavering,

510
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:43,200
waxes dripping inward, never
outward.

511
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:47,120
Beyond the courtyard rise the
monastery halls.

512
00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:52,040
Tall, narrow window slits reveal
darkness rather than light.

513
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:55,800
Bells hang from stone arches,
motionless.

514
00:38:55,800 --> 00:39:01,320
No rope can reach them.
Everybody give me we'll do

515
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:03,440
another insight check here
please.

516
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:08,560
Do I still have disadvantage?
No.

517
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:12,640
You said that you're we're
essentially where we're at is

518
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:16,840
made of stone, correct?
That is correct.

519
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:18,920
Yeah.
It's it's, it's very well made

520
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:23,320
of stone.
So can I use my stone cutting

521
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:34,920
action this tremor sense?
So that's more of an, that's

522
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:40,120
more of a history check that
would be more related to like

523
00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:43,480
the origin of stonework, not
necessarily.

524
00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:45,800
No, it says.
It says as a bonus action drain

525
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:49,160
tremor sense with a range of 60
feet for 10 minutes.

526
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:52,000
You must be touching a natural
or stonework surface.

527
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:53,440
You're right, I apologize, I
was.

528
00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:55,120
I was looking at the 2014
version.

529
00:39:56,240 --> 00:39:59,080
Yeah, in tremor sense, you must
be a stone surface.

530
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:00,320
The stone can be actually
working.

531
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:10,880
You suppose action and tremor
sense would get you.

532
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:20,680
Let's see here you can
automatically pinpoint the

533
00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:23,040
location of anything that is in
contact with the ground.

534
00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:27,160
So.
Yeah, I mean effectively with

535
00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:31,720
your tremor sense, you know the
location pretty much of every,

536
00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:38,400
every member of the monastery
within the Silent Vale

537
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:41,920
Monastery.
Everybody else, go ahead and

538
00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:53,880
give me an insight check please.
5. 12/4. 1918. 15.

539
00:40:55,600 --> 00:41:00,080
If if we were rolling I had a 20
anyway, so net.

540
00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:11,480
OK, So what you all can get the
sense of is that you're you are

541
00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:14,880
expected.
From the far end of the

542
00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:18,680
cloister, almost a single figure
awaits.

543
00:41:19,720 --> 00:41:22,320
He does not approach, and he
does not signal.

544
00:41:23,240 --> 00:41:27,120
The silence is beginning to
deepen, as if the place itself

545
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:31,560
is leaning in closer to listen
to a conversation that may or

546
00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:38,560
may not happen.
OK, so we're in another creepy

547
00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:43,280
cult space, right?
Yep.

548
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:49,120
I've been here before though,
and made a good deal with them

549
00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:52,520
before.
So yeah, I'm going to put on the

550
00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:55,280
cracked porcelain mask that they
gave me the last time I was here

551
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:58,120
and step forward at the front of
the pack.

552
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:03,520
I'm going to follow closely
behind you, club at the ready.

553
00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:14,480
So Zebulon, as you approach this
single figure, this single

554
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:23,480
figure is familiar to you, and
you know this to be Aelfis Vero.

555
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:32,640
And he is.
He stands alone at the edge of

556
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:35,520
the ritual hall.
There are no guards that follow

557
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:39,800
him because none are needed.
He is tall and spare.

558
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:44,120
Years of cold have pulled the
warmth from his skin.

559
00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:48,720
His robes hang in clean layers
of white and ash, stitched

560
00:42:48,720 --> 00:42:52,080
without ornament.
They do not move unless he does.

561
00:42:52,240 --> 00:42:58,040
His eyes are Gray and unfocused,
not blind but more looking

562
00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:00,880
inward.
They never linger on faces.

563
00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:05,680
They wave presents.
His hands are bare.

564
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:11,040
The left palm blares a bears a
black candle brand, carved deep

565
00:43:11,240 --> 00:43:16,280
and healed almost wrong.
The scar is still smoldering

566
00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:19,680
faintly, as if heat remembers
where it once lived.

567
00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:24,760
The air is no longer I'm sorry.
The air grows even more quiet

568
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:28,600
when he speaks, not softer, but
quieter.

569
00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:32,000
Flame brassieres dim without
command.

570
00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:35,120
Sound feels almost intrusive
here.

571
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:38,920
He he doesn't greet you.
He acknowledges you.

572
00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:42,800
Every word that he says is good
would be deliberate.

573
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:46,640
Nothing is wasted.
This is a man who has refused

574
00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:49,760
gods and has answered with
silence.

575
00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:59,880
Damn, where do I sign up?
And he it Mimi, are you saying

576
00:43:59,880 --> 00:44:02,960
that out loud?
No.

577
00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:08,720
Hell no.
Thanks for the clarification.

578
00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:12,720
So as.
I guess I would step forward and

579
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:16,640
more or less pull Glaive out of
my bag of holding.

580
00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:21,280
Say I brought something of a.
An artifact that we need

581
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:23,320
restored is.
There anything?

582
00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:28,120
What is that?
There's our fallen friend Glaive

583
00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:29,560
Slip.
I do apologize.

584
00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:32,080
That is the purpose of our
travel here.

585
00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:36,400
We have lost somebody who's dear
to us and we wish to regain him.

586
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:45,400
I mean, so OK.
And he he looks down at Glaive

587
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:51,640
and kind of kneels down half on
one knee and kind of hovers his

588
00:44:51,640 --> 00:45:01,880
hand over Glaive.
And he takes a moment, closes

589
00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:11,600
his eyes, and then you feel
almost a A rush of still and

590
00:45:11,600 --> 00:45:18,200
cold, and he looks up at you.
Zebulon.

591
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:25,320
And he goes.
The one you name Glaive is not

592
00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:34,960
dead.
He he persists, almost bound

593
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:39,960
that state is and he as he's
saying this, he's kind of

594
00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:45,480
recoiling his hand.
That state is forbidden.

595
00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:55,800
Here he is an echo nailed to
iron the veil.

596
00:45:55,800 --> 00:45:56,800
How do?
We free him.

597
00:46:00,520 --> 00:46:04,720
The veil does not unmake such
things.

598
00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:19,320
Steel remembers nothing, Flesh
remembers too much.

599
00:46:20,240 --> 00:46:28,600
He, he holds both.
However, I I will not light the

600
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:33,640
flame for the purpose of
resurrection on Him.

601
00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:41,200
And you set him free.
You set his echo free back into

602
00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:43,360
the veil.
It let him return like he

603
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:45,840
doesn't have to come back and
stand up.

604
00:46:45,840 --> 00:46:50,800
I just, I just want him to be
free of this plane doesn't

605
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:53,520
deserve to be kept here.
Mimi, give me a persuasion

606
00:46:53,520 --> 00:47:02,400
check.
OK, I need to open my tablet,

607
00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:16,960
iPad kid activated.
I got an 1870 + 1 boom.

608
00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:28,440
He yeah, he Alfis looks at you,
Mimi, and kind of gestures to

609
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:30,760
you to come forward towards
Glaive.

610
00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:38,720
I'll step forward towards glave.
And he kind of looks up at you

611
00:47:38,720 --> 00:47:45,920
and my child.
Please everyone, take a, take a

612
00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:50,440
knee, kneel.
And I'll kneel.

613
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:58,680
He places both of his hands over
Glave and he he closes his eyes

614
00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:10,320
and his hands begin to turn a
bluish purple as he begins to

615
00:48:13,200 --> 00:48:17,400
almost silently to himself,
begin a a ritual.

616
00:48:20,120 --> 00:48:25,680
And he'll turn his hands over
and look up at you, Mimi.

617
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:28,600
And he won't say anything, but
he's almost gesturing with his

618
00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:32,760
hands to take his hands.
I'll take his hands.

619
00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:42,000
So as you take his hands, you
feel this surge of powerful

620
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:53,240
arcane essence and Alefis begins
to whisper to himself words that

621
00:48:53,240 --> 00:49:01,560
you can't understand.
But as as the words are being

622
00:49:01,560 --> 00:49:08,560
said, you almost hear them
echoing in your head and you

623
00:49:08,560 --> 00:49:22,350
almost find yourself give me a
give me an insight check. 16.

624
00:49:22,950 --> 00:49:29,520
You are chanting the the words
along with him and they're

625
00:49:30,160 --> 00:49:31,960
they're exactly what he's
saying.

626
00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:36,240
You don't know what it means but
you almost find yourself like

627
00:49:37,720 --> 00:49:42,400
uncontrollably chanting along
with him and speaking the ritual

628
00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:44,840
along with him.
And as you 2 are speaking this

629
00:49:44,840 --> 00:49:57,560
ritual together, you see almost
white essence kind of lifting

630
00:49:57,560 --> 00:50:04,560
off of Glaive and it's lifting
towards both of yours, your

631
00:50:04,560 --> 00:50:08,320
hands.
And as it reaches your hands,

632
00:50:10,360 --> 00:50:12,680
Mimi, you yourself, nobody else
hears this.

633
00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:18,440
You yourself here in the voice
of Glaive.

634
00:50:19,960 --> 00:50:26,440
Just say thank you Mimi, I can
be free.

635
00:50:27,880 --> 00:50:35,680
And the essence then leaves the
hands and begins to float up and

636
00:50:35,680 --> 00:50:39,960
will disappear into the foggy
afternoon sky.

637
00:50:43,560 --> 00:50:49,520
And Aelfis will release your
hands, Mimi, and put his hands

638
00:50:50,520 --> 00:51:00,280
over Glaive one last time.
And your wish has been granted.

639
00:51:02,640 --> 00:51:10,200
He is free.
I know he meant quite a lot to

640
00:51:10,200 --> 00:51:21,280
you, my child, but you may go
forward knowing that he died

641
00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:30,040
protecting those close to him.
And he will.

642
00:51:30,720 --> 00:51:36,080
Stand up, Zebulon.
He'll look at you and he'll go.

643
00:51:38,600 --> 00:51:55,720
No, I know that Glaive meant a
lot to all of you, but it's time

644
00:51:55,720 --> 00:52:02,560
to move on.
It's time to go knowing that he

645
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:12,320
will be there for you all,
whether you can see him or not.

646
00:52:13,280 --> 00:52:19,240
He is there.
And Zebulon, he'll look at you

647
00:52:19,240 --> 00:52:23,560
again, knowing you the most,
even though you have on the

648
00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:27,400
cracked mask, He, he knows
exactly who he gave it to.

649
00:52:29,120 --> 00:52:32,160
He goes.
Sebulon, my child.

650
00:52:35,240 --> 00:52:44,760
Neros will consume memory and
everything.

651
00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:55,880
You are all for Elios's last
hope to stop him.

652
00:53:01,210 --> 00:53:08,010
So with that being said,
everyone must be at their best.

653
00:53:09,210 --> 00:53:10,810
And he'll look back at you,
Mimi.

654
00:53:11,090 --> 00:53:18,490
Because as he was grasping your
hands, he felt the primal

655
00:53:18,490 --> 00:53:21,570
instinct still kind of raging
inside you.

656
00:53:24,250 --> 00:53:33,480
And he'll put out his hand.
My child, your Ledger please.

657
00:53:36,880 --> 00:53:40,320
I'll hand him my Ledger.
And as you put the Ledger in his

658
00:53:40,320 --> 00:53:43,840
left hand, he'll put the right
hand on top of the censure mark

659
00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:54,280
and you will all of you will
feel almost a shockwave of a

660
00:53:54,320 --> 00:54:00,720
bolt of energy.
And as he removes his hands that

661
00:54:01,040 --> 00:54:09,520
that black centre page is gone.
I have spoken with High Syndic

662
00:54:09,520 --> 00:54:13,960
Relvain.
You are all under immense

663
00:54:13,960 --> 00:54:20,360
pressure.
That does not mean that you are

664
00:54:23,600 --> 00:54:28,920
untrustworthy.
And then he'll look over at Slip

665
00:54:33,600 --> 00:54:36,160
my child.
Your name please?

666
00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:50,360
Hi, I'm Slip.
I know you are new, this group

667
00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:58,720
of this band of misfits and
adventurers.

668
00:55:02,880 --> 00:55:08,960
It may not seem like it right
now, but they are trustworthy.

669
00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:17,520
And Mimi, he will hand you back
your Ledger.

670
00:55:21,400 --> 00:55:22,040
I'll take it.
And.

671
00:55:23,200 --> 00:55:32,800
Say thank you.
And he will say there is one

672
00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:36,240
other I know that can be of some
help to you.

673
00:55:40,600 --> 00:55:54,120
She goes by the name Joanna.
She's just a few hours travel

674
00:55:54,840 --> 00:56:00,320
from here between the borders of
the Ashen Belt and the still

675
00:56:00,320 --> 00:56:07,680
cold, and he will kind of give
you a a map of sorts to her

676
00:56:07,680 --> 00:56:14,880
location.
She may seem untrustworthy, but

677
00:56:14,880 --> 00:56:23,640
I know for a fact she is not.
I have sent word to High Syndic

678
00:56:23,640 --> 00:56:32,360
rel Vein and the curator.
She will join and assist you

679
00:56:34,240 --> 00:56:43,440
under one condition.
Neros must be stopped, otherwise

680
00:56:43,440 --> 00:56:47,720
we sacrifice everything we know
in Verelios.

681
00:56:51,240 --> 00:57:03,800
And with that, he will wave his
hand and create a rune of sorts,

682
00:57:04,680 --> 00:57:11,120
and he will then take both hands
and effectively blast it to all

683
00:57:11,120 --> 00:57:16,280
of you and all of you until the
end of next session.

684
00:57:18,720 --> 00:57:25,520
We'll have effectively a
permanent bless that you will be

685
00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:27,560
able to use until the end of
next session.

686
00:57:31,160 --> 00:57:41,320
My children, please seek out
Joanna, complete your mission,

687
00:57:42,520 --> 00:57:51,320
then stop near us and he will
turn and face away from you, and

688
00:57:51,320 --> 00:57:57,960
he will disappear into the
monastery.

689
00:58:00,440 --> 00:58:03,520
And with that, we are going to
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00:58:03,520 --> 00:58:05,760
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01:00:26,040 --> 01:00:28,440
continue on with tonight's
session.

728
01:00:28,760 --> 01:00:33,080
After just releasing the soul
from Glaive's body, the ritual

729
01:00:33,080 --> 01:00:36,760
ends kind of without spectacle.
No surge, no resistance.

730
01:00:37,200 --> 01:00:40,520
The quiet flame does not flare.
There's only absence.

731
01:00:40,520 --> 01:00:50,240
Glaive has been released now as
you have been told or have been

732
01:00:50,240 --> 01:00:55,040
given information to.
There is somebody that the

733
01:00:55,400 --> 01:01:01,440
Silent Veil believes can assist
you in your adventures and

734
01:01:01,480 --> 01:01:08,960
mission to stop Neros.
So again, you've been given a

735
01:01:08,960 --> 01:01:13,400
map of the last known location
of this target, I guess we'll

736
01:01:13,400 --> 01:01:16,160
call them.
So what would you like to do

737
01:01:16,160 --> 01:01:22,000
from there?
Mimi all.

738
01:01:24,520 --> 01:01:30,600
Right, go ahead.
Did Max just scream her name?

739
01:01:30,720 --> 01:01:33,120
Nah, I'm just going to stay
quiet.

740
01:01:33,360 --> 01:01:39,640
Y'all.
Mimi, I love it.

741
01:01:40,240 --> 01:01:43,280
I'm.
Gonna so slip's gonna like nudge

742
01:01:43,280 --> 01:01:46,720
Zebulon this time and say who is
that guy?

743
01:01:49,560 --> 01:01:53,320
He was one of the higher ups in
the Silent Veil monks.

744
01:01:54,280 --> 01:01:56,160
Yeah, Silent Veil.
I know them.

745
01:01:56,680 --> 01:02:03,000
I know them Now he's now.
Now she'll she'll nudge Cass Day

746
01:02:03,000 --> 01:02:08,680
and say I don't know them.
Good for you Cassia is going to

747
01:02:08,680 --> 01:02:12,800
walk up to me and just kind of
take her hand and look up at her

748
01:02:12,800 --> 01:02:19,160
and just nod she's.
Going to nod back.

749
01:02:21,240 --> 01:02:22,400
Well, I guess.
Oz.

750
01:02:22,560 --> 01:02:24,280
She's still staring at a space.
When's her go?

751
01:02:25,120 --> 01:02:34,600
So what I will say is that
because of the ritual, we'll

752
01:02:34,600 --> 01:02:44,040
call it you, we are going to set
your tracker at 0.

753
01:02:44,240 --> 01:02:53,080
This was a very intense and
almost stress and anxiety

754
01:02:53,080 --> 01:02:56,360
reducing moment for you,
especially Mimi.

755
01:02:56,920 --> 01:02:58,200
Cathartic.
Yeah, cathartic.

756
01:02:58,200 --> 01:02:59,240
Thank you.
That's the word I was looking

757
01:02:59,280 --> 01:03:02,280
for.
And so, yeah, you will.

758
01:03:02,480 --> 01:03:06,360
You will be at the most piece
that you've.

759
01:03:06,360 --> 01:03:13,800
You are so composed that you
will you almost look like a

760
01:03:13,800 --> 01:03:16,320
completely different person than
you did 24 hours ago.

761
01:03:24,010 --> 01:03:25,570
All right.
US cat or.

762
01:03:30,210 --> 01:03:37,050
That's pretty funny, dude.
Ah, all right.

763
01:03:38,240 --> 01:03:46,080
So before before we leave, it
takes out a hand axe and he

764
01:03:46,080 --> 01:03:48,560
because he has like braids in
his hair, he cuts off one of the

765
01:03:48,560 --> 01:03:52,560
braids and pulls out a flyer
that Glade gave him at the

766
01:03:52,560 --> 01:03:57,520
beginning trying to recruit and
kind of wraps the flyer in the

767
01:03:57,520 --> 01:04:00,560
braid and sticks it in his hand.
Says his mission is over.

768
01:04:00,560 --> 01:04:04,320
He walks away.
Yeah.

769
01:04:04,320 --> 01:04:07,880
So as long as.
He's going to, oh, go ahead.

770
01:04:07,880 --> 01:04:09,880
Sorry.
Yeah, I was going to say, as all

771
01:04:09,880 --> 01:04:18,400
of you begin to turn and leave,
you do see Harkum complete that

772
01:04:18,400 --> 01:04:25,280
and lay that on top of the body
of Glaive and almost have a just

773
01:04:25,280 --> 01:04:35,320
a moment to himself and Patty.
Osisa, were you going to do

774
01:04:35,320 --> 01:04:38,520
something as well?
Yeah, yeah.

775
01:04:40,640 --> 01:04:46,080
So I just grabbed onto my amulet
of Shantaya and bowed my head in

776
01:04:46,080 --> 01:04:51,640
a quick quiet prayer for for
Clave soul and and to watch over

777
01:04:51,640 --> 01:04:55,520
him.
And then, you know, take a deep

778
01:04:55,520 --> 01:05:00,120
breath and walk away.
So as Harkum and those he said

779
01:05:00,120 --> 01:05:02,920
kind of say their last goodbyes
to Glave as the rest of you

780
01:05:02,920 --> 01:05:06,520
have, they will turn and join
the party as well.

781
01:05:08,000 --> 01:05:12,840
As you begin to leave the
monastery and head towards this

782
01:05:12,880 --> 01:05:18,400
unknown adventurous last known
location.

783
01:05:18,400 --> 01:05:24,360
And as you begin to turn away,
the air begins to ease just a

784
01:05:24,480 --> 01:05:26,760
just a bit.
Each step carries less weight

785
01:05:26,760 --> 01:05:30,200
than the one before.
The veil, although with you,

786
01:05:30,520 --> 01:05:35,360
does not follow.
Cold returns as you depart the

787
01:05:35,360 --> 01:05:38,200
inner grounds.
Wind reasserts itself beyond the

788
01:05:38,200 --> 01:05:42,400
walls, snow resumes its slow
advance, and the silent veil

789
01:05:42,400 --> 01:05:48,360
recedes behind you, unchanged.
Travel north has ended.

790
01:05:48,840 --> 01:05:55,040
Travel South now begins.
Ice begins to fracture into

791
01:05:55,040 --> 01:05:59,240
stone.
White begins to give way to ash.

792
01:06:00,960 --> 01:06:04,960
The border between the still
cold and the Ashen Belt is not

793
01:06:04,960 --> 01:06:09,840
marked by walls or banners.
It's marked by breath.

794
01:06:10,480 --> 01:06:15,280
Frost leaves the air.
Heat answers in return.

795
01:06:16,400 --> 01:06:21,720
Snow begins to thin into steam
along blackened rock.

796
01:06:22,480 --> 01:06:28,480
The ground here remembers fire
and as and I assume Zebulon,

797
01:06:28,480 --> 01:06:30,200
you'd be kind of leading the
charge.

798
01:06:30,200 --> 01:06:35,720
Is that correct?
I'm not like the best

799
01:06:35,720 --> 01:06:39,120
outdoorsman here, I don't think.
Sure, who would want to?

800
01:06:39,120 --> 01:06:40,960
Is anybody?
Else good at survival or.

801
01:06:43,480 --> 01:06:47,120
Mummy Savara.
I'm I'm good at survival too,

802
01:06:47,120 --> 01:06:49,800
so.
What's happening to sorrow?

803
01:06:52,240 --> 01:06:53,480
You want to.
You're leaving the pack.

804
01:06:54,200 --> 01:06:56,040
Sure.
Fuck yeah.

805
01:06:56,280 --> 01:06:58,840
Sure, with Harkins.
The Harkins got survival.

806
01:06:59,560 --> 01:07:02,720
I got +5 to survival.
Yeah, me too are.

807
01:07:04,480 --> 01:07:08,200
You in the front.
All right, So I mean you 2 can

808
01:07:08,200 --> 01:07:10,440
kind of work in tandem here.
So if you both want to give me a

809
01:07:10,440 --> 01:07:16,800
quick survival check.
All right, Yeah, I do have

810
01:07:16,800 --> 01:07:21,560
proficiency in survival, so.
Remember the thing I said about

811
01:07:21,560 --> 01:07:22,640
me rolling that?
So great.

812
01:07:23,040 --> 01:07:28,640
How about a 10?
What a 19?

813
01:07:28,800 --> 01:07:32,800
That'll do it.
So as you are both work together

814
01:07:32,800 --> 01:07:43,320
in tandem, leading the party to
this location, you encounter a a

815
01:07:43,320 --> 01:07:49,320
lone figure waiting near a
broken Obsidian rise where

816
01:07:49,320 --> 01:07:54,720
frozen earth is beginning to
meet scorched stone cloaked

817
01:07:54,720 --> 01:08:00,840
against both climates.
Almost still and deliberate.

818
01:08:04,120 --> 01:08:11,240
They don't signal your arrival,
but they don't hide it either.

819
01:08:11,240 --> 01:08:16,200
She's they're almost watching
the line between regions as if

820
01:08:16,200 --> 01:08:20,200
measuring it.
And when they turn to look at

821
01:08:20,200 --> 01:08:25,520
you, their eyes kind of track
you one by one, counting who

822
01:08:25,520 --> 01:08:33,640
arrives and counting who didn't.
And we will welcome Veronica's

823
01:08:33,640 --> 01:08:39,880
character to the table.
Her character's name is Joanna.

824
01:08:39,920 --> 01:08:43,080
So if you want to introduce your
character real quick and welcome

825
01:08:43,080 --> 01:08:45,359
aboard.
Yay.

826
01:08:49,680 --> 01:08:54,560
So Johanna is a the dark high
rogue.

827
01:08:57,120 --> 01:09:01,560
She has been wandering for a
little bit and she kind of looks

828
01:09:01,560 --> 01:09:04,720
like it.
She has a black cloak that she

829
01:09:04,720 --> 01:09:09,000
always has on while travelling.
The hood's up kind of hiding her

830
01:09:09,000 --> 01:09:13,439
black hair, white stripes.
If you want to know what her

831
01:09:13,439 --> 01:09:16,279
eyes look like, look up a
picture of a Philippine

832
01:09:16,279 --> 01:09:19,960
tarssier.
Don't ask me to pronounce that

833
01:09:20,439 --> 01:09:29,319
it's a little monkey because of
what she is inherently.

834
01:09:29,319 --> 01:09:37,000
Her skin is like kind of this
medium shade of Gray, some

835
01:09:37,160 --> 01:09:39,479
darker areas where there might
be veins.

836
01:09:41,040 --> 01:09:45,000
And she's.
She's quiet and she's watchful.

837
01:09:46,640 --> 01:09:53,680
Yeah, there's a sword on her
hip, a staff on her back, and

838
01:09:53,880 --> 01:09:57,920
that's about all that can really
be seen from underneath her

839
01:09:57,920 --> 01:09:58,520
cloak.
Sure.

840
01:10:02,960 --> 01:10:03,880
So.
Right.

841
01:10:04,640 --> 01:10:18,400
So so as she again be kind of
tracks you 1 by 1 again kind of

842
01:10:18,400 --> 01:10:24,920
measuring who's arriving.
And she almost has this look on

843
01:10:24,920 --> 01:10:31,960
her face that says good.
No warmth, no judgement, only

844
01:10:31,960 --> 01:10:37,640
confirmation.
Neros is moving.

845
01:10:39,640 --> 01:10:44,360
The wind is shifting.
Ash begins to lift somewhere

846
01:10:44,360 --> 01:10:49,640
deeper in the Ashen Belt.
Fire is almost answering the

847
01:10:49,640 --> 01:10:59,560
call, and the favour continues.
So from there, your next mission

848
01:10:59,560 --> 01:11:04,840
would be to arrive at the
location of the Dominion High

849
01:11:07,560 --> 01:11:12,640
Administration Complex where you
know Elvin Korth to be located

850
01:11:12,640 --> 01:11:16,880
at.
Now I am going to charge you,

851
01:11:16,920 --> 01:11:18,200
Veronica.
This will be new to you.

852
01:11:18,280 --> 01:11:21,760
I am going to be charging you
guys a travel encounter.

853
01:11:22,240 --> 01:11:30,080
So with you being the most new
person to the campaign, why

854
01:11:30,080 --> 01:11:34,200
don't you go ahead Veronica,
roll me AD 20 please.

855
01:11:36,280 --> 01:11:40,680
Oh fuck up.
I'm joking, I don't.

856
01:11:41,200 --> 01:11:42,960
Know I I blame you.
Let's do.

857
01:11:44,320 --> 01:11:46,600
Roll the two.
All right, so.

858
01:11:46,600 --> 01:11:49,520
Oh.
Shit guys, I should never open

859
01:11:49,840 --> 01:12:02,080
my job ever again.
So with A2, as you are

860
01:12:02,080 --> 01:12:06,840
travelling together and we will
do a little bit more

861
01:12:06,840 --> 01:12:10,680
introduction within each other
in just a bit, But as you are

862
01:12:10,680 --> 01:12:26,000
all beginning to interact with
Joanna and an obelisk almost

863
01:12:26,000 --> 01:12:30,360
appears to be standing half
buried in ash and frost.

864
01:12:31,480 --> 01:12:38,800
It's narrow Blackstone seamless.
No markings announced ownership

865
01:12:38,960 --> 01:12:49,400
quite yet, but the geometry
almost seems familiar with this.

866
01:12:52,000 --> 01:12:58,160
Anybody who would wish to do so?
I'm going to have one player do

867
01:12:58,160 --> 01:13:02,440
this.
I'm going to need an Arcana

868
01:13:02,440 --> 01:13:05,960
check.
I'm sorry, let me rephrase that.

869
01:13:06,080 --> 01:13:13,680
I'm going to make this a check
of any one of the five Arcana.

870
01:13:14,240 --> 01:13:20,720
Sorry, Arcana, Religion,
Investigation, Stealth or

871
01:13:20,720 --> 01:13:24,680
Survival all.
Right.

872
01:13:24,680 --> 01:13:26,200
Who's that?
Just the.

873
01:13:26,800 --> 01:13:28,680
Best I.
Have.

874
01:13:28,960 --> 01:13:30,920
A big stealth stat.
Oh.

875
01:13:32,960 --> 01:13:36,040
My.
God I got a + 11 stealth too.

876
01:13:36,520 --> 01:13:38,960
I have a + 7 with proficiency
so.

877
01:13:40,600 --> 01:13:44,840
It's 11 roll.
I've also got so much stuff that

878
01:13:44,840 --> 01:13:47,960
like empowers stealth that can
be invisible at will.

879
01:13:48,600 --> 01:13:55,680
Yeah, Zeb, it's probably you.
OK, so go ahead and Zeb, give me

880
01:13:55,680 --> 01:14:01,040
a stealth roll.
Can you be invisible and does it

881
01:14:01,040 --> 01:14:05,120
get advantage?
I'm going to say no because the

882
01:14:05,440 --> 01:14:08,360
the object itself isn't
necessarily.

883
01:14:11,840 --> 01:14:16,640
Pause Cassadee House plus 12.
Back it up.

884
01:14:18,360 --> 01:14:21,480
Well, we're all the 28.
OK.

885
01:14:21,640 --> 01:14:22,840
That's great.
That's Christ.

886
01:14:23,480 --> 01:14:26,080
It's going there.
That works.

887
01:14:27,000 --> 01:14:33,280
So with a freaking 28, you kind
of move in towards the the

888
01:14:33,280 --> 01:14:36,120
stone.
There's no signal, no flourish.

889
01:14:36,560 --> 01:14:40,720
You kind of study the obelisk
almost without looking at it

890
01:14:40,720 --> 01:14:44,400
directly.
Each movement you make is

891
01:14:44,400 --> 01:14:47,960
deliberate, weight placed,
nothing dragged.

892
01:14:48,880 --> 01:14:51,520
The detection radius of this
obelisk is there.

893
01:14:53,120 --> 01:14:56,400
It's almost designed to catch
certainty and not caution, but

894
01:14:56,400 --> 01:14:59,360
you never give it either.
Almost.

895
01:14:59,360 --> 01:15:03,960
That'd be you guide the path for
the party with very small

896
01:15:03,960 --> 01:15:06,960
motions.
Pause here, wider step over

897
01:15:06,960 --> 01:15:08,720
there.
The party's following in your

898
01:15:08,720 --> 01:15:12,880
wake, feet landing almost where
yours were already.

899
01:15:14,600 --> 01:15:17,760
The obelisk does not stir.
No warmth, no pulse.

900
01:15:18,640 --> 01:15:23,000
When you clear the far edge, the
pressure almost seems to fade in

901
01:15:23,000 --> 01:15:27,240
the sense of being measured in
watch slips away.

902
01:15:28,120 --> 01:15:32,400
Behind you the stone stands
completely unchanged, almost

903
01:15:32,400 --> 01:15:35,280
unaware that you had crossed its
path.

904
01:15:36,000 --> 01:15:39,360
And for now, this route will
stay clean.

905
01:15:39,680 --> 01:15:43,560
So very good job Zebulon saved
us an encounter.

906
01:15:44,640 --> 01:15:54,120
All right.
So from there you are about, I

907
01:15:54,120 --> 01:16:00,800
will say 2-3 hours journey from
where you know the Dominion High

908
01:16:00,800 --> 01:16:08,600
administration complex to be.
We press on.

909
01:16:10,320 --> 01:16:11,680
What are we doing when we get
there?

910
01:16:13,360 --> 01:16:18,040
Pause.
I think investigating I guess.

911
01:16:19,400 --> 01:16:21,200
Yeah, I guess.
Getting the lay of the land to.

912
01:16:21,240 --> 01:16:25,160
Start.
Yeah, we are, we are, we are we

913
01:16:25,160 --> 01:16:28,080
being a little rats or are we
Norman the castle?

914
01:16:31,200 --> 01:16:36,080
Is this like a town where, yeah,
common folk are just out and

915
01:16:36,080 --> 01:16:39,040
about, or are we going to like a
military complex sort of thing?

916
01:16:39,040 --> 01:16:41,800
Where the fuck are we?
Yeah, you're you're effectively

917
01:16:41,800 --> 01:16:46,960
going to the I I hesitate to
call it the headquarters of the

918
01:16:46,960 --> 01:16:50,040
Dominion of Fall Reach, but
that's pretty much what it is.

919
01:16:53,440 --> 01:16:55,640
So.
Then yeah, we would slow down

920
01:16:55,640 --> 01:16:57,960
and approach with stealth
caution for.

921
01:16:57,960 --> 01:17:00,600
Sure.
Or we could approach with

922
01:17:00,600 --> 01:17:03,680
confidence maybe, like we'd like
to speak to your Sergeant or

923
01:17:03,680 --> 01:17:07,640
something, but it depends you.
Want to sneak in?

924
01:17:07,640 --> 01:17:08,560
I like that approach.
Or.

925
01:17:11,200 --> 01:17:13,760
Do you want to strut up and
strut our shit?

926
01:17:15,920 --> 01:17:17,560
I think strutting our shit would
be a bad idea.

927
01:17:19,120 --> 01:17:21,640
OK, Elsie said.
You want to sneak in then, not.

928
01:17:21,960 --> 01:17:23,400
Like a with.
Your chained armor.

929
01:17:30,600 --> 01:17:34,360
OK, I I, I, I.
I was.

930
01:17:34,360 --> 01:17:37,840
I was with the confidence vote,
but that's just me.

931
01:17:39,200 --> 01:17:43,560
Well, I mean, we haven't any
previous chat, the stuff about

932
01:17:43,560 --> 01:17:47,680
how heavily guarded the tower
that inn is in, I don't know if

933
01:17:47,680 --> 01:17:49,640
the rest of the area is that
guarded.

934
01:17:49,640 --> 01:17:53,320
So if we go around and now see
that we're syndicate demanding,

935
01:17:53,440 --> 01:17:55,280
demanding to talk to leadership,
I think we might get a lot of

936
01:17:55,280 --> 01:18:00,400
negative attention, OK.
Yeah, OK, OK, cool, cool, cool.

937
01:18:00,400 --> 01:18:02,480
So you say you blew the charge,
then let's roll.

938
01:18:04,720 --> 01:18:08,160
I'm not that sneaky.
Well, what if they want us to

939
01:18:08,160 --> 01:18:10,320
do?
Fucking write him a letter and

940
01:18:10,320 --> 01:18:16,080
send it up.
Well, let's let's scoop out an.

941
01:18:16,240 --> 01:18:20,440
Official deal on it.
I forgot what the plan was guys.

942
01:18:25,840 --> 01:18:28,680
OK, let's go.
OK, so I'm understanding the

943
01:18:28,680 --> 01:18:32,160
party is selecting the option to
get the lay of the land and do a

944
01:18:32,160 --> 01:18:39,600
little bit of investigation
before we we go balls to the

945
01:18:39,600 --> 01:18:41,280
walls in there, correct.
OK.

946
01:18:42,120 --> 01:18:48,520
That's my vote, yes.
So 1 by 1 I will ask you how you

947
01:18:48,520 --> 01:18:53,680
would like to do this and how
you will be completing your

948
01:18:53,680 --> 01:18:56,320
check.
This will be a group check, but

949
01:18:56,320 --> 01:18:59,280
done individually, which I
promise makes much more sense in

950
01:18:59,280 --> 01:19:03,640
my head than you think it does.
So we will be doing one of the

951
01:19:03,640 --> 01:19:05,760
five checks that I have just put
in chat.

952
01:19:05,760 --> 01:19:08,960
Stealth, Perception,
Investigation, Arcana, or

953
01:19:08,960 --> 01:19:11,640
Insight.
I will go one by one through

954
01:19:11,640 --> 01:19:16,880
each character.
You'll tell me which check you

955
01:19:16,880 --> 01:19:20,760
will be making and how you will
be making that, how your

956
01:19:20,760 --> 01:19:24,360
character will be expressing
that check by the by their

957
01:19:24,360 --> 01:19:28,960
actions.
So we will start with Zebulon.

958
01:19:32,040 --> 01:19:34,480
Go ahead and pick a check and
kind of describe how you do

959
01:19:34,480 --> 01:19:38,640
that.
So absolutely going with stealth

960
01:19:39,840 --> 01:19:41,520
because again, I've got the huge
numbers for that.

961
01:19:41,760 --> 01:19:46,200
I also have invisibility that I
could apply to more than one of

962
01:19:46,200 --> 01:19:51,400
us, so if somebody else needs a
boost for stealth.

963
01:19:52,400 --> 01:19:54,680
Rogues or wait, where am I
Osisa?

964
01:19:59,120 --> 01:20:02,640
In addition to that, I've got a
handful of control spells, like

965
01:20:02,640 --> 01:20:04,920
suggestion.
If we run into somebody, I can

966
01:20:05,640 --> 01:20:08,080
tell them to go away, Jedi Mind
Trick style.

967
01:20:10,920 --> 01:20:12,360
So yeah, that's what we're
starting with.

968
01:20:12,360 --> 01:20:15,040
OK, go ahead and give me a
stealth check.

969
01:20:16,800 --> 01:20:22,880
I rolled A1 so I got a 12.
I can re roll a failed check

970
01:20:23,960 --> 01:20:25,480
either.
I think I've got like a

971
01:20:25,480 --> 01:20:28,160
syndicate boon that lets me re
roll a correct?

972
01:20:28,200 --> 01:20:31,560
Yeah, you still have that boon,
so you can burn it and I would

973
01:20:31,640 --> 01:20:33,840
maybe suggest.
Doing that, try that one again.

974
01:20:36,040 --> 01:20:41,200
This time I got a 19.
Perfect.

975
01:20:42,000 --> 01:20:44,320
All right.
And then I also understand that

976
01:20:44,320 --> 01:20:49,760
you are applying to your, you're
applying invisibility to

977
01:20:49,760 --> 01:20:56,120
yourself and OSISA, correct?
Yeah, I could apply it to up to

978
01:20:56,120 --> 01:20:59,240
like three other people without
dipping into important spell

979
01:20:59,240 --> 01:21:00,240
slots.
Oh, sure.

980
01:21:00,880 --> 01:21:07,640
Do you want to do it on anybody
else or just Osisa?

981
01:21:10,680 --> 01:21:15,400
Whoever needs it, essentially.
I mean we could only use our

982
01:21:15,400 --> 01:21:20,640
ledgers as I.
Say, I thought our ledgers had

983
01:21:20,640 --> 01:21:31,930
something that could help us.
With invisibility.

984
01:21:34,410 --> 01:21:39,090
There's there's some stuff.
We must take a quick pause to

985
01:21:39,090 --> 01:21:43,330
say hello to our official
mascot, Miss Mabel, who is on

986
01:21:43,330 --> 01:21:47,450
Discord.
Hello Miss Mabel, we are doing

987
01:21:47,970 --> 01:21:52,360
we are doing the big bad stuff.
So everybody's going to get a +

988
01:21:52,360 --> 01:21:56,080
1 to their role because you are
the best girl.

989
01:21:58,200 --> 01:21:59,120
Let's go.
Yeah.

990
01:21:59,720 --> 01:22:02,160
Also my role.
Wait before does it?

991
01:22:02,280 --> 01:22:04,760
Come a 30. 20 Animal Break.
Is a 3020.

992
01:22:06,360 --> 01:22:12,000
Had a boy.
Also, the question about the

993
01:22:12,000 --> 01:22:14,840
Oath binder's Ledger, you do
have one charge of visibility.

994
01:22:15,880 --> 01:22:19,040
Maybe.
So are you going to use Zebulon?

995
01:22:19,040 --> 01:22:23,040
Are you still going to stick to
using your my?

996
01:22:23,800 --> 01:22:24,720
Dog is.
Going to take.

997
01:22:25,000 --> 01:22:30,080
That cat power or no, should we
all use our ledgers?

998
01:22:34,240 --> 01:22:38,920
Yes, again, I can apply it to
three people without much cost.

999
01:22:39,640 --> 01:22:42,400
I mean, because if then if I
can't, I would, I would choose

1000
01:22:42,400 --> 01:22:47,000
to use that and then have my
Ledger available for use later,

1001
01:22:47,120 --> 01:22:48,320
yeah.
Yeah, OK.

1002
01:22:51,960 --> 01:22:53,840
Absolutely.
Still an option?

1003
01:22:54,040 --> 01:22:57,200
OK.
So I've heard so far just OC

1004
01:22:57,200 --> 01:22:59,320
stuff for invisibility.
Are we doing anybody else?

1005
01:22:59,440 --> 01:23:03,520
I would add me on under
Zebulons.

1006
01:23:06,000 --> 01:23:07,720
Right and.
Then one more person I think

1007
01:23:07,720 --> 01:23:09,320
should use it so that you still
have it.

1008
01:23:10,200 --> 01:23:13,440
Who is the least healthy?
Me.

1009
01:23:13,440 --> 01:23:16,440
It might be you.
I have a + 7.

1010
01:23:16,880 --> 01:23:19,760
That yeah, it's guys put me.
Under there.

1011
01:23:20,560 --> 01:23:22,360
Maybe what you got?
All right.

1012
01:23:23,520 --> 01:23:24,960
My stealth.
Do you want to know what my

1013
01:23:24,960 --> 01:23:26,720
stealth stat is?
Guys, Are you ready?

1014
01:23:27,080 --> 01:23:32,120
That's it.
Oh, so I need to put our tablet.

1015
01:23:32,640 --> 01:23:34,120
Oh plus 7?
Never mind.

1016
01:23:34,880 --> 01:23:35,360
Yeah.
OK.

1017
01:23:35,440 --> 01:23:36,840
So you're right there with hard.
All right.

1018
01:23:42,040 --> 01:23:43,640
No, but I will take the
invisibility.

1019
01:23:43,640 --> 01:23:46,400
I'll take the free invisibility.
Hello, it's not a bad idea.

1020
01:23:46,880 --> 01:23:49,720
Hello why am I helping?
Does anybody else have under A7?

1021
01:23:49,720 --> 01:23:53,760
Why am I helping?
Does anybody else have under A7

1022
01:23:53,760 --> 01:23:57,560
and stuff?
No.

1023
01:23:58,440 --> 01:24:00,800
OK, then that's where we're
going.

1024
01:24:02,040 --> 01:24:03,680
OK.
All right.

1025
01:24:03,680 --> 01:24:07,200
So Cisa, Savara and Mimi on top
of Zebulon will have

1026
01:24:07,200 --> 01:24:10,800
invisibility on them.
So Zebulon will return to you

1027
01:24:10,800 --> 01:24:14,640
with your role.
Next we will go to Savara.

1028
01:24:14,640 --> 01:24:17,360
You can go ahead and tell me
which check you'll be making,

1029
01:24:17,360 --> 01:24:21,560
how you'll be doing that.
So I'm doing perception.

1030
01:24:23,160 --> 01:24:28,320
I like I'm a center kind of like
information gathering, right?

1031
01:24:28,320 --> 01:24:31,040
Like we're just kind of walking
around at first just to see.

1032
01:24:31,680 --> 01:24:32,680
Yeah, we're still.
Yeah.

1033
01:24:33,520 --> 01:24:37,440
So I am going to do it once
invisible and I'm going to be

1034
01:24:37,440 --> 01:24:40,040
looking around looking for like
entry points and seeing how many

1035
01:24:40,040 --> 01:24:45,880
people just I mean, one using my
background in in military and

1036
01:24:45,960 --> 01:24:49,720
whatnot, just looking for guards
and and things and places that I

1037
01:24:49,720 --> 01:24:54,320
know would be strategically
advantageous, if that makes

1038
01:24:54,320 --> 01:24:55,960
sense.
You got your.

1039
01:24:55,960 --> 01:24:58,200
Boots of Elvin kind too, so you
could get up close.

1040
01:24:58,200 --> 01:25:01,040
As long as you don't touch them,
they probably won't know you're

1041
01:25:01,040 --> 01:25:04,640
there.
OK, Savara, go ahead and give me

1042
01:25:04,640 --> 01:25:06,440
perception roll with advantage,
please.

1043
01:25:08,640 --> 01:25:14,720
OK, I've already rolled one.
Let's do it again 24.

1044
01:25:18,800 --> 01:25:22,040
All right, we'll come back to
you in just a moment, Slip.

1045
01:25:27,200 --> 01:25:37,880
I'm rolling one of those things.
Yes, one of those 5. 21 and.

1046
01:25:38,640 --> 01:25:41,040
What are you doing?
Oh, stealth.

1047
01:25:41,160 --> 01:25:44,480
Stealth.
OK, you wrote a 21.

1048
01:25:44,480 --> 01:25:45,440
I'm.
Sorry, I wrote a sleight of

1049
01:25:45,440 --> 01:25:46,000
hand.
Hold on.

1050
01:25:46,240 --> 01:25:47,360
It's the same thing.
It's the same box.

1051
01:25:47,680 --> 01:25:48,680
Yeah.
Anyone.

1052
01:25:49,360 --> 01:25:51,720
You said 21, correct?
Yeah.

1053
01:25:51,960 --> 01:25:54,480
OK, What exactly is your
character doing with stealth?

1054
01:25:56,880 --> 01:26:03,640
Whatever Zebulon did, he seems
sneaky, and that's what Slip

1055
01:26:03,640 --> 01:26:09,800
will do.
All right, then we will go to

1056
01:26:10,240 --> 01:26:12,600
OSISA.
What would you select and how

1057
01:26:12,600 --> 01:26:17,840
would you be doing?
That I would be picking Arcana

1058
01:26:22,160 --> 01:26:28,280
and I'd be looking for like
identifying magic spells or you

1059
01:26:28,280 --> 01:26:30,400
know, protections that they have
upwards and whatnot.

1060
01:26:31,040 --> 01:26:34,160
Well, as well as lore and
history of those type of things.

1061
01:26:36,400 --> 01:26:38,840
Along obviously with the
invisibility I've got going on.

1062
01:26:39,200 --> 01:26:40,800
So Yep.
So you can go ahead and give me

1063
01:26:40,800 --> 01:26:42,880
an Arcana role with advantage
please.

1064
01:26:46,960 --> 01:26:50,560
With advantage, yes.
Are you sure?

1065
01:26:52,720 --> 01:26:54,200
Never mind, I'll just take it.
Invisible.

1066
01:26:54,560 --> 01:26:56,560
We've got time to get a good
look.

1067
01:26:56,640 --> 01:27:03,360
Just say 40. 30. 030 Jesus
Christ, I was like, how on God's

1068
01:27:03,360 --> 01:27:09,840
green earth did you roll a 40?
Yeah, I got a + 9 on Arcana and

1069
01:27:09,840 --> 01:27:11,200
then plus one for the good dog
go.

1070
01:27:11,640 --> 01:27:16,720
Yeah, so.
All right, all right.

1071
01:27:16,720 --> 01:27:20,640
We will come back to you.
Mimi, what will you be doing and

1072
01:27:20,640 --> 01:27:34,640
how would you accomplish that?
I Oh my God, brain.

1073
01:27:35,160 --> 01:27:46,240
Work.
So I am going to use myself a

1074
01:27:46,920 --> 01:27:56,920
kind of like scope out as we,
we're looking for entrances, but

1075
01:27:56,920 --> 01:28:00,560
I want to scope out exits and
points of weakness.

1076
01:28:01,960 --> 01:28:06,840
Like if we were to try to, you
know, schmooze our way in, it

1077
01:28:07,120 --> 01:28:09,360
would be the weakest target as a
predator.

1078
01:28:10,040 --> 01:28:15,400
That's what I'm looking for.
Beautiful.

1079
01:28:16,080 --> 01:28:19,120
All right, go ahead and give me
a stealth check with advantage,

1080
01:28:19,120 --> 01:28:22,760
please.
All right.

1081
01:28:28,400 --> 01:28:40,760
Right, that is a. 25 OH.
All right, Castea.

1082
01:28:45,120 --> 01:28:52,120
Yeah, I think I'm going to be
doing stealth because I'd be

1083
01:28:52,120 --> 01:28:55,800
stupid to not.
I think Kazaa's going to be

1084
01:28:55,800 --> 01:28:59,880
sneaking around in the shadows,
just watching people, watching

1085
01:28:59,880 --> 01:29:04,120
their movements, watching for
like kind of like Savar, what

1086
01:29:04,200 --> 01:29:06,400
what Savar is doing, watching
for entry points.

1087
01:29:08,680 --> 01:29:11,320
So.
OK, go ahead and give me a

1088
01:29:11,320 --> 01:29:15,680
stealth stealth roll, please.
OK.

1089
01:29:22,480 --> 01:29:28,080
I got an AT20 again with a plus
one that's 21 plus my stealth

1090
01:29:28,080 --> 01:29:31,720
that's 33.
What?

1091
01:29:32,760 --> 01:29:38,160
You heard me 33, and if you need
a photo of that 20 I can send it

1092
01:29:38,160 --> 01:29:38,640
to you, OK?
Oh damn.

1093
01:29:41,800 --> 01:29:44,280
Thank you.
Thanks for hearing me.

1094
01:29:44,560 --> 01:29:47,560
We'll come back to you hot.
Hot.

1095
01:29:48,080 --> 01:29:52,000
All right, Johanna, let's have
your first check of the

1096
01:29:52,040 --> 01:29:53,560
campaign.
What will you be doing?

1097
01:29:55,160 --> 01:30:00,080
Go Johanna.
Johanna's gonna also be doing

1098
01:30:00,080 --> 01:30:06,400
stealth and she's in the silent.
Gonna be listening for maybe

1099
01:30:07,200 --> 01:30:12,240
anything unfamiliar or other
voices outside of the groups

1100
01:30:12,880 --> 01:30:17,000
along with looking along the
edges for cracks or paths a

1101
01:30:17,000 --> 01:30:21,880
little less taken that might be
able to get us in or around a

1102
01:30:22,800 --> 01:30:29,760
little quieter.
OK, go ahead and give me a stuff

1103
01:30:29,760 --> 01:30:31,920
check please.
OK.

1104
01:30:33,640 --> 01:30:36,840
Drum roll. 25 add.
A girl.

1105
01:30:36,840 --> 01:30:42,280
All right, all right, Roll 5.
All right, we'll come back to

1106
01:30:42,320 --> 01:30:50,560
you, Harkham.
Well I am going to have to do

1107
01:30:50,560 --> 01:30:57,480
stealth because everything else
is +0, but I would like to use

1108
01:30:58,960 --> 01:31:05,640
the daily charge for the
invisibility from the Ledger and

1109
01:31:05,640 --> 01:31:09,560
also I would like to use my
tremor sense.

1110
01:31:09,840 --> 01:31:12,600
I'm assuming that we're on like
stone of some sort.

1111
01:31:19,280 --> 01:31:26,440
Yeah, I would say you are.
So what I will say is I will

1112
01:31:26,440 --> 01:31:33,160
give you advantage on the
stealth and any check that you

1113
01:31:33,160 --> 01:31:37,560
will have that is regarding any
sort of investigation or

1114
01:31:37,560 --> 01:31:41,880
perception in reference to
locating specific individuals

1115
01:31:42,880 --> 01:31:46,280
and their current whereabouts in
the complex, you will have

1116
01:31:46,280 --> 01:31:48,000
advantage on.
So if you want to just write

1117
01:31:48,000 --> 01:31:52,480
that down and if I forget, just
remind me, OK.

1118
01:31:52,800 --> 01:31:57,120
But yes, so how would your
character be using stealth?

1119
01:31:59,480 --> 01:32:02,960
So he'd be kind of like, you
know, since he can feel movement

1120
01:32:03,000 --> 01:32:08,040
in non movement through the
stone structures, you know, So

1121
01:32:08,040 --> 01:32:11,000
he'd be like trying to sense
like weak spots in like the

1122
01:32:11,000 --> 01:32:14,720
walls or like where like there's
passages and things like that

1123
01:32:15,480 --> 01:32:21,480
kind of sticking to where he
knows there's no movement and

1124
01:32:21,480 --> 01:32:30,160
there's no living entities.
So I'm going to actually charge

1125
01:32:30,160 --> 01:32:33,480
you an investigation check for
that because that's more you're

1126
01:32:33,480 --> 01:32:37,840
looking, you're investigating
areas that would be able to be

1127
01:32:39,080 --> 01:32:44,320
used as an exit strategy or some
form of maybe an entrance

1128
01:32:44,320 --> 01:32:48,680
strategy or keeping quiet places
you would know that aren't being

1129
01:32:48,680 --> 01:32:50,160
used so well.
So yeah, I'm going to have you

1130
01:32:50,160 --> 01:32:52,560
give me actually an
investigation check.

1131
01:32:53,960 --> 01:32:56,080
OK.
Would that be with or without

1132
01:32:56,080 --> 01:32:57,520
advantage?
Yeah, you'll have advantage on

1133
01:32:57,520 --> 01:32:57,920
that.
Yep.

1134
01:32:58,600 --> 01:33:01,800
OK.
And to be 100% honest with you

1135
01:33:03,840 --> 01:33:09,160
as kind of Adm, you know, nudge,
I don't know if necessarily the

1136
01:33:09,160 --> 01:33:13,280
invisibility charge is necessary
because you have an advantage of

1137
01:33:13,280 --> 01:33:15,800
the tremor sense, but that's up
to you.

1138
01:33:15,840 --> 01:33:18,240
If you, if you want to be
invisible during this first

1139
01:33:18,240 --> 01:33:19,880
portion, that's that's
completely up to you.

1140
01:33:20,200 --> 01:33:22,520
I just want to, I don't want to
see everybody burn their

1141
01:33:22,520 --> 01:33:24,520
invisibility.
I won't right away.

1142
01:33:24,520 --> 01:33:27,960
I won't use it then though.
I'll I will, I will.

1143
01:33:28,160 --> 01:33:33,960
I roll the 15 and a 19 with the
plus one that's a 3020 is a 30.

1144
01:33:33,960 --> 01:33:43,120
20 All right, tremor sense you
roll the 3020.

1145
01:33:45,200 --> 01:33:56,080
All right, so with all of your
checks in Jesus Christ, you guys

1146
01:33:57,720 --> 01:34:03,560
nailed this one.
All right, so Zebulon, you will

1147
01:34:04,160 --> 01:34:08,320
almost fade first invisibility
settles clean, No shimmer, no

1148
01:34:08,320 --> 01:34:10,240
distortion.
You are moving with the

1149
01:34:10,240 --> 01:34:14,320
discipline of someone who knows
the cost of being seen.

1150
01:34:15,040 --> 01:34:19,360
You begin tracing patrol routes
by absence and not presence.

1151
01:34:19,560 --> 01:34:23,960
Guards step where they always
have, never early, never late.

1152
01:34:23,960 --> 01:34:28,280
You're mapping gaps measured
almost to the heartbeat.

1153
01:34:28,720 --> 01:34:35,440
You're marking where eyes never
seem to linger, and you signal

1154
01:34:36,080 --> 01:34:43,640
silently which paths are open.
Savara with Perception, 24 with

1155
01:34:43,640 --> 01:34:47,240
advantage.
You're not so much watching

1156
01:34:47,240 --> 01:34:49,640
guards, you're watching
patterns.

1157
01:34:50,080 --> 01:34:52,960
Traffic that's moving without or
moving with purpose.

1158
01:34:52,960 --> 01:34:55,680
Administrators entering through
the east tier.

1159
01:34:56,360 --> 01:35:00,840
Armed purse, Armed personnel
cycle from the lower annex of

1160
01:35:00,840 --> 01:35:03,840
the complex.
Spellcasters seem to almost

1161
01:35:03,840 --> 01:35:10,760
avoid the main doors entirely,
and you also identify with your

1162
01:35:10,760 --> 01:35:17,480
24 specific choke points where
corridors narrow and ceilings

1163
01:35:17,600 --> 01:35:21,520
are almost lower, almost like a
kill zone built for containment,

1164
01:35:21,520 --> 01:35:26,480
not defense.
Guards overlap sight lines at

1165
01:35:26,480 --> 01:35:30,520
three key junctions.
None are overlapping.

1166
01:35:31,320 --> 01:35:37,160
This place expects almost
intrusion, and it expects order

1167
01:35:37,960 --> 01:35:40,240
slip.
With your 21 stealth roll,

1168
01:35:40,640 --> 01:35:42,400
you're kind of following
Zebulon's shoulders.

1169
01:35:42,440 --> 01:35:44,800
You're almost mirroring his
movement without almost without

1170
01:35:44,800 --> 01:35:48,480
copying it.
Where Zeblon's moving clean you,

1171
01:35:48,640 --> 01:35:51,520
you adapt.
You're watching reflections and

1172
01:35:51,520 --> 01:35:54,200
polished stones.
You confirm the blind spots that

1173
01:35:54,200 --> 01:35:57,680
Zebulon finds.
No one notices the absence of

1174
01:35:57,680 --> 01:36:01,520
noise.
Osisa with your goddamn 30.

1175
01:36:01,520 --> 01:36:08,600
In Arcana you can absolutely
feel wards before you even see

1176
01:36:08,600 --> 01:36:11,240
them.
They're layered, not heavy, not

1177
01:36:11,240 --> 01:36:15,800
crude, but spells.
Spell origin Tracers bind to the

1178
01:36:15,800 --> 01:36:18,000
floors and the wall, but not the
air.

1179
01:36:19,080 --> 01:36:21,520
Casting here would leave a
signature.

1180
01:36:21,680 --> 01:36:24,240
Every spell is remembered in
these wards.

1181
01:36:25,400 --> 01:36:30,720
You also identify suppression
glyphs tuned to teleportation

1182
01:36:30,720 --> 01:36:35,560
and almost Planer breach.
There's no full null zones, but

1183
01:36:35,560 --> 01:36:43,000
instead more delay zones, enough
to trap and almost to isolate.

1184
01:36:43,520 --> 01:36:47,200
This is more administrative
magic, Precise, patient and

1185
01:36:47,200 --> 01:36:51,560
controlled Mimi with your 25
stealth roll with your

1186
01:36:51,560 --> 01:36:54,800
advantage, you're moving
directly towards the exits.

1187
01:36:55,160 --> 01:36:58,080
You're testing doors almost
without touching them.

1188
01:36:58,680 --> 01:37:01,880
You're counting steps between
corners, measuring how long it

1189
01:37:01,880 --> 01:37:04,360
takes for guards to pass and not
return.

1190
01:37:05,400 --> 01:37:10,360
You find 2 viable escape routes,
one that is vertical, one that's

1191
01:37:10,360 --> 01:37:14,240
through a service corridor used
by scribes and never directly

1192
01:37:14,240 --> 01:37:17,920
guarded.
The fastest exit is not the

1193
01:37:17,920 --> 01:37:20,320
safest.
The safest exit you think is

1194
01:37:20,320 --> 01:37:25,280
almost slow Tasdea with your
natural 2033 in total.

1195
01:37:25,280 --> 01:37:28,240
Go to hell.
You disappear completely.

1196
01:37:29,200 --> 01:37:33,400
People are moving past you,
close too close, but none react.

1197
01:37:33,840 --> 01:37:38,040
You're studying faces who enters
tense, who enters relieved, who

1198
01:37:38,040 --> 01:37:41,000
never leaves at all.
You're marking the individuals

1199
01:37:41,000 --> 01:37:44,520
who carry the authority without
Insignia.

1200
01:37:45,480 --> 01:37:48,840
You assist Savara, confirming
rotations.

1201
01:37:48,840 --> 01:37:52,920
No deviation, no fatigue.
Dominion discipline seems to

1202
01:37:52,920 --> 01:37:58,480
always hold.
Joanna 25 and stealth you're

1203
01:37:58,480 --> 01:38:00,440
working the edges of the
complex.

1204
01:38:00,440 --> 01:38:03,520
You're listening more than you
look.

1205
01:38:03,880 --> 01:38:08,040
You're hearing hearing whispered
orders carried through stone

1206
01:38:08,040 --> 01:38:11,360
channels, identifying accents
that don't belong to local

1207
01:38:11,360 --> 01:38:16,040
staff.
She find or you find almost like

1208
01:38:16,040 --> 01:38:18,800
narrow service gaps in between
the structures.

1209
01:38:19,320 --> 01:38:23,400
Old build seems enough for entry
and even maybe for escape.

1210
01:38:24,200 --> 01:38:29,280
You flag down 1 route.
In particular use the you flag 1

1211
01:38:29,280 --> 01:38:32,120
route that's used only during
shift change.

1212
01:38:32,640 --> 01:38:37,000
This complex has scars and they
were never truly sealed.

1213
01:38:38,280 --> 01:38:40,840
Harkum with your investigation.
Is a dirty 20.

1214
01:38:41,000 --> 01:38:46,040
You kneel and stone speaks to
you.

1215
01:38:46,720 --> 01:38:50,520
Footfalls are almost echoing
through the through the floor.

1216
01:38:52,600 --> 01:38:56,880
Heavy where soldiers move, light
where administrators move.

1217
01:38:57,280 --> 01:39:01,720
Silence beneath The West Wing.
Too clean, no living movement,

1218
01:39:01,720 --> 01:39:04,280
no heat, no vibration
whatsoever.

1219
01:39:04,840 --> 01:39:09,480
You find hidden sub levels by
almost just by absence alone.

1220
01:39:09,920 --> 01:39:13,080
Old passages that were sealed
but still hollow.

1221
01:39:15,280 --> 01:39:20,600
This is a space where the
Dominion do not walk.

1222
01:39:21,680 --> 01:39:26,320
So as a group result this was a
complete success.

1223
01:39:26,320 --> 01:39:31,720
You have a full functional map,
patrol, timing, ward structure,

1224
01:39:32,040 --> 01:39:37,080
entry points, exit routes.
The Dominion has not noticed

1225
01:39:38,000 --> 01:39:41,360
yet.
You are standing at the edge of

1226
01:39:41,440 --> 01:39:44,600
action with knowledge in your
hand.

1227
01:39:45,240 --> 01:39:52,960
The next move is your choice.
And with that we are going to

1228
01:39:52,960 --> 01:39:58,360
say goodnight and stop there on
this episode of Crit Happens.

1229
01:40:00,280 --> 01:40:03,760
Very nice, everyone, Very, very
nice.

1230
01:40:04,600 --> 01:40:07,520
Whoa, wait.
Any chance we could get all that

1231
01:40:07,680 --> 01:40:10,400
in chat?
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

1232
01:40:10,480 --> 01:40:11,600
I will.
I'll get all that.

1233
01:40:11,600 --> 01:40:13,360
Yep, Yep, I'll get all that for
you guys.

1234
01:40:13,400 --> 01:40:16,200
So you guys?
Yeah, I was like trying to take

1235
01:40:16,200 --> 01:40:17,760
notes.
I'm like, Oh my God.

1236
01:40:17,760 --> 01:40:19,560
He.
Started on my part and they

1237
01:40:19,560 --> 01:40:20,320
went.
Oh.

1238
01:40:20,760 --> 01:40:22,400
Oh, oh, oh.
Crap.

1239
01:40:22,520 --> 01:40:26,640
It was absolutely finding a gift
while you said my sexy.

1240
01:40:28,040 --> 01:40:33,800
Yeah, it started.
With I'm not when you when you

1241
01:40:33,800 --> 01:40:37,600
guys got Zebulon roll, I also
got a Nat 20.

1242
01:40:37,600 --> 01:40:44,600
At that moment I would have had
32 and I was just laughing and I

1243
01:40:44,600 --> 01:40:48,320
sent Katie a message says yeah,
I rolled a Nat 20 on that, which

1244
01:40:48,320 --> 01:40:50,520
is the reason that when I rolled
another Nat 20 just started

1245
01:40:50,520 --> 01:40:54,400
laughing.
I started to sweat when he said

1246
01:40:55,040 --> 01:40:57,360
investigation.
I was like, Oh my God.

1247
01:41:00,040 --> 01:41:01,720
Yeah, the whole.
List, except for stealth was.

1248
01:41:01,760 --> 01:41:06,840
Either -1 or 0 for me.
Yeah, my whole list is 0.

1249
01:41:09,760 --> 01:41:13,280
Except for self today and I
don't any plus anything to

1250
01:41:13,280 --> 01:41:18,120
insight.
I knew I wanted a perception

1251
01:41:18,200 --> 01:41:21,160
anyways, so I didn't.
Oh again.

1252
01:41:22,400 --> 01:41:23,640
Well.
There's something you have done

1253
01:41:23,640 --> 01:41:24,760
with that.
Mathematics.

1254
01:41:24,760 --> 01:41:27,480
I would have loved that.
I have a + 10 to athletics.

1255
01:41:28,960 --> 01:41:30,320
OK.
How's your talk?

1256
01:41:30,560 --> 01:41:33,400
I'm here.
I have more efficiency on like

1257
01:41:33,400 --> 01:41:36,400
Insight and Perception as well.
Stealth is just higher.

1258
01:41:36,400 --> 01:41:39,600
Yeah, yeah, yeah 'cause I have.
What is it?

1259
01:41:43,000 --> 01:41:49,280
I have +8 to Perception, plus 9
to Investigation and plus 8 to

1260
01:41:49,280 --> 01:41:51,160
Acrobatics.
Heck yeah.

1261
01:41:51,240 --> 01:41:53,360
So.
Well, let's stop echoing.

1262
01:41:53,360 --> 01:41:59,240
To be honest, I can make a giant
fish or in the wall and you can

1263
01:41:59,240 --> 01:42:03,200
just go.
Let's talk about that on that 20

1264
01:42:03,200 --> 01:42:04,880
and on wine.
But for now, we are going to say

1265
01:42:04,880 --> 01:42:07,720
goodbye here on Crit Happens.
Thank you so much for listening

1266
01:42:07,720 --> 01:42:11,080
here from everybody here at the
P3 Podcast Network.

1267
01:42:11,120 --> 01:42:13,880
I am Spencer Hart and we will
see you next time.

1268
01:42:13,880 --> 01:42:16,760
Bye.
Bye.

1269
01:42:17,560 --> 01:42:27,520
Bye.
But she's in colors that don't

1270
01:42:27,520 --> 01:42:31,400
exist, painting my painting
counterfeit this every truth I

1271
01:42:31,400 --> 01:42:35,200
knew just starts to twist can
from a calm in a world like

1272
01:42:35,400 --> 01:42:36,960
this.
I've been my tongue till the

1273
01:42:37,160 --> 01:42:40,800
words went dry Where my old
black achieved disguise.

1274
01:42:40,920 --> 01:42:43,440
I see the truth when I close my
eyes.

1275
01:42:43,440 --> 01:42:47,200
The hardest part was a great
goodbye and fake the ache and

1276
01:42:47,480 --> 01:42:50,360
master pain.
I've been lost inside my name,

1277
01:42:50,360 --> 01:42:51,920
all the mirrors.