Runtpack Goes Down Under REUNION! pt. 2

The ultimate ending to the ultimate in-person reunion!

Episode Transcript

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All right, you guys, welcome back to run Pack goes plane
walking No. Because it's not.
Oh, all right, you guys, welcomeback to Run Pack Does AD and D
reunion special recorded live together The.
King Isaac's beautiful blue eyes.
Big, big. Beautiful balls.

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Heart he has those two. This is.
Part 2 of the. Final part of our reunion from
our first campaign run back goesdown Under.
Now let's get into it. Yeah.
Last time we checked in with ourbeloved adventurers, Finn the

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Haftrau had settled outside of Water Deep, working on his own
small business bookstore. It's not going particularly.
Well. Along with Mako the Teeth Ling.
Meanwhile, Echo the Changeling was working as a travelling
salesman. Perfin Store also selling other
changeling related services. But not sexual.

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Nothing sexy. Nothing sexy.
Specifically listed was turning into your boss so you could yell
at them. Nothing sexy.
Freya had become a local dignitary for the Lauren Drow
and Avendrow and was living withher husband Dantrag as well as
their son, their infant son Ricky, which stood for

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Frederick, which I remember Zingand Karma had settled down with
Dunzo. Sorry Karma.
The Herring gone had settled down with Dunzo the Dark Orc and
their adopted trouse on nails. They were all called back into
action when they received a mysterious package from the Worm
Smith, the draconic leader of Crackle Stew.

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She had sent them a message demanding they come to Crackle
Stew to help with an issue as a mutual friend had gone missing,
and also chunks of Stickleback, also known as Finn's younger
half brother. Our heroes met up with each
other after no small amount of sendings, and they met with

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Jeremiah by the human pirate captain and Finn's father figure
and Mazel Deareth on his ship, where they saw some other
familiar faces, including Rock Roach the Haftrau.
Yeah, Bloodhound's special friend, who mostly seemed
annoyed that Bloodhound wasn't having sex with them.

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Sorry, I'm saying Bloodhound. EE has two names.
It's Blood now and Echo. I don't know why Isaac did that
to us. Confusing.
OK, Oscar. Well.
My name was. Always echo.
Really. It's just.
Like. Rock Roach had been hired as
Jeremiah's page and gave a little functional breakdown.

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They found out some more detailsabout what happened to
Stickleback, that he had left Jeremiah's ship about a month
ago to find his warlock patron. We entered Grackle Snook after
three days sailing, and it was much cleaner before now that the
air elemental has been vanquished by us.
By vanquished I mean we put up to sleep for a long time.

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Eventually it's going to be a problem again.
And Gracos new of course being the town of the Deep Gnomes,
where the palace in air quotes the the head of government is.
It called the furnace where we met the keepers of the flame who
served the worm Smith herself and LED us to her.
She informed us that they've recently reintroduced an old

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favorite pastime in grackle Stew, the Embergrasp games,
where two fighters enter the ring in air quotes because it is
a floating mid air battleground.There's no ground, it's just in
the air. They're both wearing of girdles
of flying and they fight to remove each others girdles or
push each other into the extremely hot vent of a man.

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And she also informed us that Jeremiah had made a deal with a
keeper of flame to look after Stickleback while he was here in
Grackles Duke, and that that keeper had died five days ago
after the first Ember grass gameright outside the attendance
hall. This is where the three
tentacles of Stickleback as he is part with it.
Or was. Yeah, it was a parasite, but
it's better now. This is where the three

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tentacles were found that the Wormsmith of course mailed to
us. Kind of fucked.
Up It wasn't psyched about that.We also learned that the person
who discovered Stickleback my body, the body being only three
tentacles, was one of an enclaveof drow.
That we should go meet the drow in their booth at the game as
they know more than they let on but won't tell the worm Smith.

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She wants us to go undercover and not say that we are aware of
this mission and also informed us that there is a bounty on the
head of the killer. We also learned that the games
are continuing for a month and there is one every day and that
the drow enclave have a boot in the great light.
OK, this is a hard thing to say.And the great slate slag.
It's actually the great slate shelf slag.

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Slight shelf slag the. Great slag slate.
Slag shelf. That's actually what they
called. Me in high school.
Well, Britain slag. Not even for a woman.
What's shelf playing for? Well, the shelf because I was
holding all the slags. All right, that catches us up to

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now. Going to turn down the music
just a little. Now be borming.
Does that look like water to you?
Thank you. That was good.
All right, Thank you for that recap, Maisie.
Excellent work. Let's just get right back into
it you guys for this little multi shot.
I want to just sort of pick it right up where we left off in
the layer of the worm Smith. You just finished conversating

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with her, and as you recall the last words she spoke was more
sort of a request and somewhat of a command.
Telling you all to go to one of these visitor booths and
attendance hall and view the in progress games for a large group
of drow emissaries had seen the death of her keeper and now she
knows, or she strongly believes that they know something that

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they're not letting on. To do this though you all have
to go in inconspicuously, not bringing up your associations
with the Worm Smith as she believes they are all still
rather loyal to Menzo barons on their home city.
So with that being said, the Worm Smith still sits across
from you, her words finished. What would you guys like to do?
What house are these girl from ma'am?

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I would not dare. Busy myself for such unimportant
work. Please be gone.
Do you have any idea how we're meant to?
Like? Is there an excess where we
could take to their slag shelf? My keepers will inform you be
gone. To their names.
I'm sure they do now then, any other questions?
What are their names? I couldn't have.
Anything she knows. Recall once more I'm doing this

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as a. Favor for you.
Your friend Aries is nothing more than an outsider in my
city. I owe it to you all for what
you've done to help me, to at least give you a hint of his
location. And recall once more that if you
uncover some sort of plot, then perhaps we can arrange finances.
Can we have another hand? By now.

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But. She turns away and you notice
that a group of these white robed keepers of the flame make
their way back into the room without even being summoned.
They sort of approach you guys and make motions, sort of
escorting you out. I don't bow, but I leave.
As she commits, I bow. I thought she was watching Ricky
at home. That's the babysitter.

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Yeah, Yeah. Yeah.
That was very good of you to, you know.
Bow for you have a good sense ofduty.
These other scumbags are going to get nothing.
When we're done here, well, I have to keep it up as a
politician. Now I guess.
If I don't, then that might put,you know.
I mean, clearly not a lot of people meet with this lady, so

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it's very impressive that you managed.
To do that. That just cherated.
Beating up someone I. Think yeah.
Look, Andre, we have some history with her that you could
frown weren't really a part of, but there's bad blood.
Yeah. Could you explain that to me?
I What happened between you? She made us kill her, her heir.

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Well, she. Laid in.
The throne. And she hated it and so she hid
it under the city. And then I got out and she told
us we needed to go find her eggs.
So we did, and. And then she killed him to.
Killer. Yeah.
Echo in particular really got attached to Fred.
I mean, I did, too. We were down in that closet for,
like, long rest. So we kind of bonded.

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And then we brought the child back to her and she stepped on
the egg and killed it because she thought it was going to try
to compete for her. Throne, I suppose.
So she's a murderer? Yeah, no super murderer.
Also I don't get the vibe she's like the greatest leader either.
I mean, there's something wrong with being a murderer just to.
But she is a big she does have some power here.

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Yeah, I feel like, you know, maybe she's a bit evil, but
everyone in big positions of power, kind of.
Is you know. Phrase in politics.
Now not like least in frame, we're in a lot of power of.
Course, but this is sort of likethe leader of one of the biggest
cities in this whole place. Well, I personally love our
current leader of Water Deep. I think his positions are very
fair. I'm glad he was instated.

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All those years ago. Yeah, well.
Just just so many. Seats for the main campaign I
don't. Remember, I remember Atlas.
Something. See I have the last name like
Oval Hallo or something. He was like, I don't actually
think he married that legendary hero, but I think it was Atlas
Summer. Golf.

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Yeah, I heard they were more like a like a father figure.
I heard it was like father, son,sort of between those two.
Sock off? Is he like socking me off?
No. That's not funny.
It's a little funny. Knock those figs up.
It's a little funny, yeah. Hello my sort of fuzz that's.

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Backing you up man. I think we all agree.
You're just mad that Dan Drug wants to hang out with.
Me. OK, so I'm jealous.
OK, no, no, let's not. Can we not start thinking?
I'm a little jealous of how naturally Malko and Dan Drug get
along. I'm jealous how each and every
one of you get along deal with. It.
We. Like you too.

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You feel the other hand on your shoulder, karma of Dunzod sort
of leaning down to your ear and goes just don't, don't let them
bit you, all right? It's just reunion.
Everyone wants to see each other.
They're all excited to see you too, remember?
Yeah, I know. It's just things are tense.
I thought I could put the targetmaybe like on my back and I can
say like distract everyone. All right, so where are we
going? You guys are escorted out.

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Sorry, keep moving this damn table.
Yes, we got to find the. This Drought enclave, Hey you, I
want to sort of point to one of the Keepers of the Flame.
Yes, the individual with the white robe, it seems to be an
older human man with dark graying skin.
Not. Again, not again.
You're you're you're Jacronis, lady of the city over there.

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She. She.
And she were blessed with 1000 years of rage.
It doesn't. Seem like you guys get a lot of
rain down here. Should I make it rain for 14
days again straight? He'll do it, he'll do it.
It'll ruin your infrastructure. You ever wondered what happened
to Mitchell, Darris and everyonethat lived there?
They're doing it now. Anyways.

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Their asses. She told us you would know a
little bit more about this drought enclave if we were to be
dealing with. I can show you the entrance to
the slate slag shelf. Yeah, the slate slag shelf.
I actually heard they have a booth of the great Slate Slag
shelf. So yeah, the great Slag Shelf.
I'm. So sorry.

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Yeah, so I was wondering if you knew what drow families are
represented. I just we have bad blood with
most of them. Good blood with the whole host
are represented. And these are UDA drow we're
dealing with, you know, Menzo Baron's on, all right?
A whole host of representatives,OK.
And they're like that, yeah, really.
And it's just nice. It's not good for me.

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Well you'll notice she's Lauren Drow and they're like pretty
historically like not getting along with UDA drow and I'm 1/2
drow which means better off deadall.
Them. OK, if the lady gave you a
mission, you shot to complete it.
Could you, could you show us to the interest of this there great
slate flag shelf? It's a close follow me get.

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The piece of that How dare you you.
Guys are LED out of the great furnace back to the great stairs
that lead up to it. Heading down.
You pass under that. Cracked.
Crystal ball. I'm sorry.
You know. I'm done now.
I'm done do. It one more time, get it out of
your system. Every day.

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As you exit to this elder keeperof the flame, sort of start
scrambling and talking to you guys.
Just no apparent reason and you slowly start circling the
central furnace. Yes, the the Great Central
Furnace has been here for 1200 years.
It was built from fused stone and black and iron.

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And sort of points at different areas of it and goes.
Yes, this was built after the great calamity struck our town
and the air elemental entered. That horrible beast turned our
air yellow and South, but you'llnotice now the roaring flame is
lit once again atop. You point up and you see.
Sure enough, there's a white blue flame that sort of

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blowtorches out of the top of the furnace.
It's got a very subtle shriekingsound that comes from it, like
machinery around the furnace. As you guys circle it, you see
massive catwalks that spiral andcrisscross, populated by what
looks like engineers and artificers that are using tools
to tighten vents or adjust knobs.

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And many of them shout across the catwalks at each at each
other in a deep guttural voice. The Dwieger voice, the deep
gnomes shattered each other fromacross the catwalks in a deep
guttural tone. You'll see chains sort of the
size of like trees dangling fromcrane arms.
And there's sort of a distant hissing sound of a vent

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somewhere being loosed. The old man sort of continues.
Yes, we're working on repairs right now.
There is a well there's a lot toget right before we really get
into the Ember Grasper games. You see the heat on top because
quite enough to burn some instantly.
So there's a bit of pain before where they go.
Something. We're working on right now.
Our best engineers are on it. To make it more or less painful.

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Less so burns brighter, okay. Because that's so like, more
painful, faster I. Think the washer.
Makes that more painful in a faster sort of instantaneous.
More painful. So more painful, but.
Faster. Faster.
Wait, you just say less pain, but yeah.
Well, because they won't know what's happened.
But don't they know because they're fighting?

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They don't know what's happening.
It's quite. Holy shit.
Eventually, he stops at a narrowstairwell cut directly into what
looks like a slate wall up against the backside of
Gracklestuke. This is shortly behind the
furnace, at the very top of the line that marks the top of the
clamshell. This stairwell seems to be cut
directly into the stone and leads up a spiral ascent.

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It's cool in there and you couldfeel a sort of chilling blow
through. It's just up here, you'll find
him. The game should be going on
right now, so just make your wayin, say what you need.
Thank you. What was your name?
Yeah. Do you remember?
So growdy. Thank you SO.

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Growdy, nice to meet you. So growdy.
Swap his hand and you feel feel something pop in his hand.
He goes. Oh.
Got that back into place for you.
Oh, then enjoy the games. Yeah, thanks dude.
Yeah. Thanks dude, you could be a
little bit nicer. I love Karma's irreverent humor.

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This is me trying out of 10. All right, go talk to some
crowd. We want to do it like the old
days. Bray, do you want to own us?
Yeah, do you want to call? Me.
Yeah. I'll take out a piece of
parchment as as I'm accustomed to in a quill and walk behind
Freya to her right hand and takenotes as though I'm some sort of

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scribe or personal assistant. I'll also go ahead and pull my
scarf up to try to obscure the half trial visage.
I seem already have like somewhat of like professional
ish looking clothes for my job. I'll just turn into probably
someone that looks like a sibling of fins with ragged

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clothes, probably like some handcuffs. 1/2 drum.
Yeah. I turn into a dork similar to
the one problem I. Forgot how fucking immoral you
fucker girl. Everyone's got disguise.
Everybody's disguised. Cena, doesn't this make the new
campaign look so different? We're so good there.

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We're so good, this one. I don't.
Feel. Good do.
You know you're pretty good in this.
One, but I tagged along. Yeah, well, you also get pretty.
Hey, hey, I gotta remember who killed my character.
Was it that was Lena? That was Lena.
That was Lena. That.

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Wasn't me that was. Just made.
That it did make sense to be. Fair, one could argue, a good.
Person would kill Karma. He's a scourge.
You got to put him down at some point, man.
I think we should go up the stairs.
Now I like this idea, Freya. Can I be part of your entourage?

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Yes, I think you should. Me and Marco will be.
We'll get the dogs. Too and then.
When if you insist. Seems like Marco should do that
too if. Yeah, I look at Marco as he
takes off his shirt. You have to make it fit to look.
I'm. Really.
OK, I don't I don't feel the need to do that.

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Because it's like, you know, it's my male.
Yeah. Yeah, but I'm not going to be a
whore. Well, I mean, she's.
A bad dragon. It's sort of unbelievable she
wouldn't make you off. Marco sort of squints his eyes
at you. If I was a priestess, I.
Would make you a whole don't insult me all.
Right. Really.
Change. It's mean.

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It's a compliment. Yeah.
Like, you know, eye candy next to me.
Finn, you're really. Good with this?
No, I'm losing interest in this.I think my should stay fully
close. Thank you.
I already got my shirt off. Amtrak sort of weekly flexes.
Look at the dork. Of course you fall.
It's kind of arms crossed. Dan Trek, you can keep your

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shirt off. You can take your shirt off 2
guns out if you want it. Raises an eyebrow.
I don't think I will. OK, that's fine.
We can say the. Slothiest guy.
He has the confidence, OK. Well.
Marco has the cop. Marco's shirt is like all the
time. I think he's just not doing it
right now because you told him to.
Yeah, that's right. You got it.
I probably would have done it ifDan Trek did it.

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Dan Trek, can you ask your best friend?
But then Freya, then it'll be like 2 little voice looks you
got coming around with you and Isort of like being this of
attention. She does like being the center
of religion. He sort of hopes this chest out
and hats at it like a gorilla. You.
Do have our attention, bud. Okay, then you you've done like.

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Towards the front. OK, to walk towards the front,
Alfredo. Thank you.
Still a few steps. Behind Don't we like carry?
You or something? I miss carrying you on that big.
Like chair for you. Yeah, we used to have to carry
you on the fucking door all the time, like it was some sort of.
But did it work? It works.
It works it. Was like, we never had to do
that. I liked when I got to sit on the

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throat and do because that was your page.
All right. And you, would you fit it?
You're just so smart. I'm fit in the street.
And sister. Why do we keep running?
To old people, by the way. You see how fucking old that
last guy was? You think the long would take
him out? Who is the other?
Old person what? Did he make it there?
Huh. That's what I.

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Thought that's called. I've been calling a lot.
Oops. All right, so you guys begin
heading up. Oh yeah, Andrew goes first,
Freya you follow, and the rest of your kin bollock close
behind. Looking serpentile.
You ascend this spiral staircase.
You guys enter this quiet sort of cool corridor leading up as

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spiral staircases. The walls here are smooth slate,
and every once in a while there's an inset glimmering
looks like gemstone very dimly lighting the path.
You pass eventually under some arched stone that supports pipes
above you and the occasional drift of water.
The the higher you go, the less sound reaches you.

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That palm of the furnace sort ofdissipates, and the sound of
metalwork fades into just simplewater droppings.
Eventually the passageway opens into a long hallway.
After a lot of ascending, this hallway has carved niches along
the side, displaying what looks like trophies, as well as some
pretty professionally done portraits of what looks like

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athletes. You see old cracked girdles with
a bit of arcane energy flowing out of them, presented very
finely with what looks like somedeep gnome writing beneath it
identifying it. You see broken swords, what
looks like the skeletal remains of a construct melted mid match.

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You also pass the occasional what looks like plaque on the
wall demonstrating who in the old history of the city won
these games over the previous years.
Most of the dates are hundreds and hundreds of years ago.
It seems that this is the first time in recent history that they
are going back at it. So with that you guys walk to
the end of the corridor and eventually hit a thick doorway

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that seems to be half a jar. On the other side of it you hear
what sounds like a crowd roaringgently and the sound of a
distant furnace passing through the great double oak doors into
the sound of a crowd. You step into the slate slag
shells, a bolted multi chamber observatory carved directly into
the natural shelf up against thebackside of Blindenstone.

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I'm. Sorry, I think it's called the
Great Slate Slag shell also. Australian.
Crackles too. Up crackles.
Crackles too. I'll start heading through the
great wooden doors, following the sound of the crowd.
You stepped into the great slateslag shelf, a vaulted multi
chambered observatory carved directly into the natural shelf

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at the backside of Grackless Duke.
The floors here are tiled with what looks like the same slate
rock flecked with what looks like bits of gold, though you're
not sure it's real. There are ornate columns built
into the walls and center. You guys recognize this as
evidence of this being a very old building.
They didn't quite have good building techniques to have the
whole structure stay up without any columns, so instead there

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are these frequent symmetrical columns throughout it.
There are multiple chambers connected to this large central
walkway that you walk down. To your left you find seem to be
the general servants corridors and chambers.
There are kitchens and bathroomsand what sounds like distant
music. Perhaps there's leisure rooms as
well. And to your right as you walk

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in, there are many doors that lead out into observation decks.
I put you in the mind it's sort of like a sports game when you
go to the the VIP section and you get.
To walk by all those. Doors get our own box.
So there are all these little boxes up against the wall.
Many of them have their doors wide open and you can hear small
groups cheering and chanting within each one.
Poking your head sort of around one of the doors, you notice

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that each of these little rooms.Have.
Huge viewing ports on one end, thick glass that looks to be
sort of black in color, rimmed in a brass.
They jut out from the wall like ice sockets.
Very rounded and outstretched, many of the individuals in each
of these little boxes presses their face up against this fish
eye, almost staring out at. Now what you see is the top of

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the furnace. Far below you, the great furnace
of grackle Stew jets out a bubbling fire.
This flame seems for akin to a Bunsen burner, a blowtorch
blowing directly up. The furnace howls.
Now you guys can hear the sound of it much better.
It's sort of like a dull screeching in the vast flame
column. Jetting skyward seems to obscure

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anything beneath it. Additionally, you see games in
action 2 figures sort of hovering about 10 or 20 feet
above the very tip of the flame would look to be a wow man and a
young deep gnome man. The two of them are circling
each other, flying on what lookslike nothing.
After a second they both run at each other and fly toward each
other, slamming into one anotherand lock mid air in a vicious

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grapple. You see sputtering trails of red
hot sparks as they spiral and jerk at each other, pulling and
pushing each combatant trying tosort of pin the other down or
push them into the flame. Grasping up looks like a giant
red belt around each of their chests, tight tight with what
looks like a few knots and belt buckles.
Everyone once in a while like murderous updraft from the
furnace shoots up and one of thecombatants just narrowly dodges

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out of the way of it. Flying to the side, one fighter
that drow elbows the other mid chest and slams them downward,
pushing them into the flame onlyto be pulled back in another
moment as the deep gnome spins and pulls in another direction.
All around them you see other individuals flying referees in
what looks like still poised stationary poses.

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Watching as well, you also see what looks like a pair of
armoured coaches barking strategy through long metallic
horns from opposite sides of thegreat furnace.
Yet another figure seemed to be dressed in ceremonial chainmail,
has a huge notepad and quail, and seems to be jotting down
notes while watching. And this is what you guys see.
They allow coaching. All right, Finn, get in there.

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You got this, champ. Wait, do you want to coach me or
am I supposed to start coaching them?
No, I'm, I'm coaching you. OK.
So I wouldn't mention Jeremiah in the ring.
OK, I don't know if I'm about that.
What if I'm thinking about it? Then you can use a smoke.
In my ears, a little trail of smoke comes up.

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Sometimes I forget that you could all have a visual
representation of my emotional state.
At any. Point.
In time. You kind of wear it on your
face. Too.
Yeah. Well, I I like.
I'm very. Conscious, leaving my face Good.
No, you can't. Oh God, what is that?
I mean an open door. Is that your face?

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I don't which it doesn't not normally look like it's all
scrunched up again. Oh, never mind.
You're back. OK, yeah.
All right. So we need to find someone who
doesn't hate us. Afraid.
Have you been working with any Unidrow lately?
No. Maybe just, you know.
The Avidrow, Gosh it, I just thought maybe you'd have
connections now. All of a sudden, a servant

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materializes in front of you guys, seemingly running from
behind a nearby corner. A short Dwigger man.
Is there a battle? Was there a battle on this
episode? This music changed.
I think it's OK, we're going to edit in our own music movies in
this fits. The man speaks quietly and
deeply to you. I bow to my lady.

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Good. Transition.
What's wrong with your face? Come on, speak.
Ma'am. Would you like me to speak for
you? I.
Know you hate feeling with service Sir.
My lady is here to observe the competition with all the other
drought. She would have a glass of red

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wine filled at the top. And the other trow.
Yes, they said their. Booth is full.
Oh, they must have been countingher among them already.
Oh, the deception check. Uh huh.
I. Will it's a 29.
Oh, OK. He squids his eyes and goes.
Right. What's your name then?
As we check the guest list, you're.
Not asking my name. You're asking my lady's name,

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Correct? Correct.
All right, the Jarrow gave you aguest list.
That's right. Well, she might not be listed as
she's the personal private friend of In Hopes batting
Mazzolor, Battalia Mazzolor. I see her one second.
The figure pulls out a dusty clipboard from behind their coat

(29:06):
and juts a finger on it. Sort of drawing down, looking at
names that you guys can't see. Sir, I might cut in if you're
familiar with Battalia. She is not unaccustomed to bring
in private friends off the bookswhere her mother might not find
out about them. If you catch my meaning.
Look for spacious. Chick, you guys remember what
happened for the last guy that made the lady wait.

(29:30):
I'm getting impatient. This one's a third team, but.
I started trying to family full body.
Yeah, I think Carmen just helpedme.
I'm not gonna roll a intimidation chick.
Oh yeah. My my lady, please.
Have mercy on him. He's he's just he's from
Gonogram. Sorry, Crackles do he's.

(29:51):
Not from you. Hurry up your negotiation.
Excuse me. Yes, ma'am.
Like this is just. Would just be kind.
Of a drive. Sir, if you could let her in,
things don't go well. For me, when you don't let.
Her in hold down my scarf and throw my show my thousands of
lashing scars as I'm gonna have the water come out.

(30:13):
If you could just make. Are you questioning the ladies
judgment? Are you saying she shouldn't
have beat you? It's not what I was implying at
all. I'm just informing him of our
ladies prowess and directness and assertiveness and means to
get her we. Have to spend more time here,

(30:34):
sorry man. Sorry, Sorry, my lady.
Sorry. I'm so sorry.
Go. Away my lady.
Should I kill this guy or what? I don't want to.
Get in trouble. Again, the figure seems a bit
unconvinced, but noting the little clipboard in front of him
and goes. Yes, yes.
Well, it doesn't look like we. Have here.
I'm putting Mazelor in attendance but I don't see

(30:57):
telly. Is that some sort of sibling?
It's a stutter on my part. Excuse me, coming out of
deception, I'm. Working with him on that it's
really not going night great. As you can tell, I'm still
telling you if you wanna, if you, if you're looking for a
position, I'm actually replacingthis one too.
So can. You watch this guy go.
Our greatest apology, Elias. 24.Deceptions.

(31:22):
Fuck. Anthrax over steps forward and
like UPS his chest and goes. Sure, get in.
There back home. Therefore, what do you feel?
You know what I mean? I raised my head.
Oh excuse me lady, you said I was next in line for your page
if this one dies. Remind my lessers while they are

(31:43):
there if. I don't get in there now.
Yes, yes, yes, of course, of course.
Please follow me. Please.
I bow in certain way. Thank you, lady.
Someone's getting. Punished lady.
Give the tweaker man like Frighten takes a.

(32:05):
Moment and then. He sees very quickly.
Moves in front of you Freya to sort of block your path and
speaks quickly. Alright, before you go in there,
I just like to check with this Mash a law.
In the room to see if they know you.
So please give me a name. And if I got the OK, you're
invited, Brack. My fine lady's name is Delphinia
Jakobsen, a close personal friend of Batang, who he will

(32:27):
because your. Name is.
Oh my gosh. Shut up, whore.
I don't like this game anymore. The figure looks at you and the
twigger gnaws and goes. Right.
Just NIA Jacobsen, Right? Yes, that's my lady's name.
Well, Miss Jacobsen, would you like to come with me?
The lady will go. With him nowhere.

(32:49):
Without me. The figure looks at the pretty
large group of you, looks at you.
Karma sort of gnaws and goes right just a moment and dashes
off behind me, deeper into the corridor.
We gotta we. Gotta get a fucking out of here.
We gotta run everyone change your.
Appearance. If we were relying on bating,
letting us in could. We just acted normal, now we

(33:16):
gotta keep. This one makes sense.
See, sometimes I feel like we don't really think.
I think. I think, I think a lot.
I actually think just now we thought much too hard.
A moment later you all hear a loud and a horn blast.

(33:38):
As you sort of glance at one of the nearby windows you see one
of the figures has seen disappeared into the flames of
the games. It looks like the drow fighter
had been nested, leaving this young, deep, no man a bit
bloodied and battered with his red girdle half slung off a
large Terran. It's floating haphazardly above

(33:59):
the flames, one hand raised. You all hear a bit of an
applause from some rooms, a sortof despondent yells from others,
and only a few more moments go by before the champion of this
little round disappears off, flying up into what looks like a
rafters, and two more make theirway down.
A new set of coaches joins and the referees remain as they set

(34:19):
up. Once again, the figure returns
the servant man and. Goes yes, yes, yes.
All right, I've got to go ahead.Please be on your way and do
forgive the security, I'm sure you understand it.
Anything to protect my Lady's well-being is welcome, though
you were a bit, shall I say, irreverent at times by
addressing her directly, and you'd be best to remember
yourself. OK, let's go.

(34:40):
Before you go, the good Mr. Maslow wanted me to inform you.
Well, he's looking. Forward to a repayment that you
owe him repayment. Now.
All right, take the boy. And push Dan track forward he.
Chuck steps forward and sort of covers himself meekly.
No, he's my favorite. He has to stay.

(35:01):
Only a favorite. He's your favorite.
Yeah, there's. Nothing I love more than I can
be. Yeah.
Guess you should have been putting more work into it, huh
my lady? Ioffer myself as.
Tribute. The amount of paint on your arm
is giving the bird. Thanks.

(35:23):
All right, I I got my. Lean.
Forward. All right, you guys step
forward. It's several booths down.
You pass about 10 before you finally reach one of the larger
rooms off to the side. The doors closed on this one,
and there looks to be two drow males, armed and guarding it.
The two see you all approach andgive you a nod, expecting you,
and one of them goes and opens the door slowly.

(35:44):
When the fighters finished theirfight and one of them went into
the flame, you said that the winner ascended upwards.
Look like like where did they ascend upwards?
Can you perception don't get them?
I'm about to let go of my. Cannonballs and follow up to the
ceiling invisible. How these mutations?

(36:06):
You. Forgot.
Oh, how good. They are they.
Might some drool off? Knowing my lady.
This a bit, there's a lot of bugs in this in 23 I can try.
To warn them off. For you with the 23 karma you.
Take a second to poke your head in one of the other rooms,
gazing up out of the fisheye black of glass, and do see there
seems to be a platform suspendedby chains hundreds of feet above

(36:30):
the competition grounds. It looks to be purposely out of
sight, but what you can see fromdown here is there look to be a
number of competitors up there that looks to be some small
table set out with what looks like some food and beverage as
well. There are perhaps a few people
that don't look like competitors.
They're wearing regal clothes, perhaps distant nobles that are
visiting who got a space, a seateven better than these box

(36:52):
seats. You see a couple of these
coaches and referees up there aswell.
It's a pretty large platform. All right, guys, you're gonna
should. Be sending the Bunny up he's.
Talking about yourself in 3rd. Person now Marco speaks.
Up before you go Karma. Are you sure it'll be safe?
I mean you know this could be dangerous and doing a solo
mission like this without a communication method could be

(37:12):
scared. I have message.
Let let's ask Mateen. For.
What? What's going on before you take
any brash action? I don't know if I can stand
that. Ma'am.
But wait, what's sure? Not sure about that one.
Do you have any fun at home? Do I have?

(37:33):
Fun. At home, yes.
Not, not. When I not where I get to float
up to the ceiling, it's kind. Of been a while since.
I've that now and that explains things.
I've been. Telling you.
Karma. You can float more if you want,
you know you don't have to hide it.
I don't think it's the floating he.
Misses. I think it's the risk, no?

(37:56):
I think it's the floating I haveto go ahead.
You know. Fine, fine, fine.
We'll we'll strategize first. I think he should Fucking Gray.
Oh. Dude, you should do.
It let me let me talk to my close.
Personal friend machine, what doyou owe that we should do?
I know what. We owe him.
We. I don't know if it's oh.
I guess I. Did say dope?

(38:17):
Video. That's the one who?
Then it's probably holiday. For the bookstore, I.
Don't want to get any gold there, OK.
So it's OK, we can make money. Betting here.
That is true I. Don't I?
I just sort of. Gambled all my money away on an
order of books that were just strong, so it's a sure thing.

(38:42):
I want to push into the drought.To be.
Sorry. Of course.
The great Slate. Chefs, fuck the great slate.
Slate. Slate.
The great Slate Slack. Shelf.
I gotta get that going. All in love you.
Push it first. And you notice.
A faster than you're used to seeing, a blade is thrown out in
front of you, not to attack you,but just to block your way as

(39:03):
one of the male drought guards gives you a look, nods back to
Freya and goes hey, whip him. Very good my lady.
Looks like I'm getting a paint job.
Sooner than I expected, but thenI like it.

(39:24):
Fix this. How am I lucky?
Thank you my. Lady.
Just. Like the good old day.
Excuse me, Sir A. Sword is men.
Pulled away and she's quickly mylady after.
You I go in front. Very good thing.

(39:46):
Shut up, whore. Walk away and say I did.
Yeah, you'd say. Be louder or.
I'm so glad you didn't. Cop out of that one.
I thought you were. Leaning away from a little.

(40:06):
I got a little. Scared, but I like it.
You got all of it. OK, so you push through first.
Freya follow quickly by the restof your group into this box.
This specific box is filled witha drow.
This is going to sound completely unimportant, but what
is your marching order? Me first.

(40:26):
I'll be second. Soundtrack is going to be third.
Because he's my 4th. I'll be last.
I'll be. 2nd to last. Walking inside by side with tons
on yeah and tons on you. Said behind tons on standing
next to. OK.
You guys sort of pushing? Together.
So you look like a dark fork, right?
Yes. I feel like this is a very

(40:50):
risky. This guy so because.
You're so much smaller than trap, OK?
The second. I'm in this.
Room I'm scanning for my lost friend.
Love, lust must lust. My my my.
My long lust. Long lost.
Lost my lung. I think.

(41:11):
I found. You a.
Lot. Yeah.
What was it? To you.
Yeah. You know when you've had a
Really. Bad relationship like me and
Oscar and out of it, but you sort of miss the feeling of
someone controlling your life and also using you sexually and
you meet someone that you feel would be really good at that

(41:32):
cricket. I can't say that.
I can't. I can't say.
That I've. You know.
You don't do your. Thing.
And. Genuinely crack.
The door. Even I just have a.
Long comment. So.
As you guys walk. In you notice that this room has
been sort of done up in a drought style.

(41:53):
The walls here are draped in deep Violet silk embroidered
with spider silk that seems to glow silver.
The light in here is low and cool.
About a dozen or so dancing lights sort of hover about 5
feet up, casting down a shadowless cool light.
The air here also carries the scent of wine, Reds and purples

(42:15):
and whites. Your classics purple.
Inside. There.
Seems to be a pretty big room here, fitting about 40 drow
emissaries. All are seem to be clad in stiff
ceremonial garb or. Over your clothes.
Priest's clothes you see layeredcloaks and all in different
shades of black, a few purples as well, and silver jewelry

(42:37):
seems to be in right now. Most of these individuals have
lavish silver necklaces, circlets, and bracers as well.
The people in this room seem to speak pretty softly, where
there's a bit of raucous after and excitement in other rooms.
Here there's a sort of quiet whisper where in the room?
It's still pretty loud considering there's 40 or so
people in here, but between eachof you guys you can't really
hear distant conversations, onlythe few nearby as well.

(42:59):
Music plays in this room, soft and faint.
From a corner you notice there is a drown musician here, a
young man holding what looks like some sort of large low
pipe. You look around a little bit
first, trying to make note of anything.
Give me a perception. Yeah, baby, can I ask?
Some oh I. Figured that was all of us. 16
if. The website.
Loads. 17. My perception sucks, this man.

(43:24):
Should have downloaded my character.
She blister on my fucking. Wack y'all like you on?
It's getting so big. I heard a 16.
From Karma 723, don't. Get in there.
Do you like? My guy, what do you get I?
Don't know I can roam. But I know I have a crazy
modified Yeah, you have a personso.
Did you just cast the spell? No, I.

(43:46):
Miss rolling dice in person. That's so good, I'm.
So I'm. Sorry, we'll start with karma.
Then as a 16 karma, you notice sort of the most obvious thing
in this room and you can sort ofpick apart some details of it.
At the center of the box, a tall, what looks like
middle-aged drow female priestess stands watching out of

(44:07):
the glass. One hand of her seems to be
clinched tightly on a white bonecane.
Her expression is cold and her knuckles are sort of white.
On the cane beside her, a younger male drow pieces
restlessly muttering sharp curses to what looks like the
deceased competitor who just passed.
Yeah, fucking fool. How dare he go in there?

(44:28):
And make a fool of himself and another great lady because
because his family. Because his line and you start
paying attention. To Karma and you notice that
throughout the room there seems to be sort of an air of
upsetness. It seems like their competitor
had recently perished in the game, and likely that was a big
blow to the group 25. The holy shit really good.
Then you noticed this as. Well, you also noticed looking

(44:51):
around being sort of the same height as a lot of these people,
it's hard to see over people's heads a little taller.
A little. Taller, not human, I mean.
I'm 5. Sevens.
Pretty tall. But you did roll.
High enough that you. Did spot betting Mazzolor across
the way, standing but a few paces away from this unusually
tall matriarch, the priestess inthe center of the room failing.

(45:13):
Over. You start moseying.
On over you notice this as well echo you see petting here you
look around you see a lot more drought.
You also notice that there seem to be a lot of small side deals
happening here. Some droughts seem to be passing
very sleight of hand proficient gold coins between one another,
doing side bets on this, enjoying the games and what ways

(45:35):
they can. At some point you watch as a
decanter of wine sort of tips over on a distant table,
smacking onto the ground, and it's spill out onto the what
looks like silk carpet on the floor, a blooming blot of red
that no one seems to have walk over to the the.
Bottle you approach the bottle. Finally, Freya, you look around
yourself. You spot the Ting.

(45:56):
You spot Echo making their way over toward this sort of
forgotten decanter spot. Additionally, you spot someone
else in this room you recognize sort of poised in the far corner
of the room, making looks like idle chitchat with a few of the
drow. Here is an old friend of yours
you haven't seen in a long time.This was you and Bao's old
companion. Oh my God.

(46:22):
He's dressed very. Fine.
Dressed in what? Looks like royal silks of some
sort of important Buddha draw house.
Didn't we tell him to speak? Into meso.
Arizona. He thought it was a death
mission and. He sits idly by and chats.
With him, he doesn't seem to notice you enter the room.
It's been a long time since you've talked with him, but he
seems to be too incredible for himself.

(46:43):
He's got fine jewelry, what looks like a little group of
friends. That shocks you for a moment.
Yeah. That's right.
I'm trying and drink sort of stands.
Up on his tippy toes, I thought Nim was fucking dead.

(47:05):
Why is she here? I thought we sent.
Them, I thought. You sent them off.
Somewhere because we kind of didn't like him, but I'm pretty
sure and I think he's here now, but.
I maybe we should probably go talk to.
Him. Yeah, it would be the nice
thing. To do that trick looks down.
And sees he's still shirtless. Yeah, you, you can put it back
on, wouldn't it? Be weird to put it.

(47:28):
Back on now though, because that's the one in the room.
Somebody walk in with it all so they're like.
What are they going to think of me?
OK, then just leave it all. Just just walk like one step
behind me and it'll look right. Yeah, that's just me.
All right, I'll. Follow you you.
Want to make your way over? It cool your approach Finn,
we'll start with you. You approach Batang.
You notice Mako sort of creeps up behind you and stands behind

(47:49):
you. So listen, I give him a little.
Fist. Bump.
Classic fist bump gives you a nod.
I don't. I don't do.
We're a great term. I sort of like, come up to
Batang and lean on the bar next to him.
Hey, what? What how are you doing?
Let's get. I'm Finn now, by the way.
I mean, I'm back to being Finn. I mean, last time we saw each

(48:10):
other, it was sort of weird because you're pretending to be
Battalion and I was pretending to be Delphinia and well, I
mean, that is my real. Name but I.
Don't use it often, but I had toto get into Menzo Baron's lot.
Do you Remember Me? His head winks.
To the side, a perfect 90° tilt towards you as you see the Ting
gaze upon you with what looks like malice at first.

(48:30):
It's. The Ting Mazzolor is the oldest
child of the Mazzolor family, the third highest ranked family
in Menzo, Baronzon. Now, right now he wears what are
sort of thin optics with a sort of reflective surface on top and
a combed back sort of puffy white hair.

(48:50):
It works on him. His mouth is curled.
Up and he seems to have the mostdeepened cheekbones that could
cut glass with anyone and his mouth is cursed as he looks at
you. He opens his mouth, and you.
See. A word, almost escape, and then
he stops, turns to the priestessin the center of the room, leans
toward, speaks a few quiet words.

(49:12):
The woman looks at him confused,and then nods and looks at you.
Hello. Hi, I'm Finn, friend of a team
all temperate, full up and down look.
Yeah, scoping you out. Yeah, the woman.
Averts her gaze. And seems to care no more
batting marches towards you. He grabs you and pulls you off
the bar, out of your nonchalant position, grasping at your My

(49:33):
shoulders are shaking. Grasping at your.
At your coat and your scarf and sort of hello reaches you up a
little bit with surprising force.
Did Finnie? Jacobson.
Sort of, yeah. I mean, it's Finn Burns more
often now, but it's amazing, wonderful for you to show.
Your face here, goodness. Welcome, welcome.

(49:55):
And he plans 2 kisses. On either cheek.
OK, now then come. With me yes, let's go this way
and our hand is thrown around your.
Shoulder and you're kind of pulled aside to one of the far
corners, far away from this priestess.
Yes, Sir. Yes, Sir.
Now then. How have you been?
Keeping yourselves. So bad I've opened a.
Bookstore outside of Water Deep,it's doing really well.

(50:16):
There's a lot of holes in the ceiling, but we're patching them
up. My brothers missing.
He flashes a sharp smile. Isn't that unfortunate?
Now you. And I have a bit of just needs
to discuss before. We catch up.
On old times, don't we? What sort of business?
Well, the very simple. And practical business of you
putting my entire city to sleep.Oh well, OK.
It was the whole. Underdark and we also saved your

(50:37):
entire city. I get that right.
But then, so Baronzon has been in what?
I imagine is the worst economical decline in its
history. Well, but is that more because.
Everyone went to sleep. Or is that more because the
giant What was it by you? Was it the hundreds of
priestesses? Slaughtered in their slumber,
Matriarchs downed by prominent and, well, quite dangerous young

(51:00):
brutes if the city looking to break a name for themselves.
Do you know the damages? You caused.
You couldn't. Have gone around.
Waking a few of the. Important folks up.
You just had to March out of thetown like nothing mattered.
No, we were asleep for quite. A while and you know can I just
say it seems the Mazelor family came out pretty well.
I hear your third most powerful now.
Yes, that's right. But.

(51:21):
Unfortunately, I've been overruled as the.
High Priest. I see, that's a damn.
Shame. Something I owe very.
Personally, to your misgivings, how is that?
Remember the first time we met when you were like outcast
'cause you were like a man and they wanted you to?
Be a woman, and I was. Like, oh, I was also.
Outcast for that exact same reason for my people.
And now it's like you sort of blame me that you were

(51:43):
outcasting. And Remember, Remember that time
before we both went back to Benzo Baron's on?
When you promised me you weren'tgonna pretend to be a woman and
throw away your identity? And I promised you the same.
Then we I met there and we were both pretending to be women.
But now we're. Back.
We're back, right? I mean, seems like you're doing
well for yourself. I'm doing great.
I'm doing great. No problems at all.

(52:04):
And OK. Let's go of.
Your coat sleeves and your sort of crutch of your neck
straightens out to the lapels ofyour coat and then sort of Pats
off some dust and gives you a sharp smile.
Yes, Sir, however. Could I forget?
Delphinia. Well, Finn.
Weird that. You're.
This right now, yes it would be.Wouldn't it looks around and

(52:26):
looks back at you? Oh.
It would be foolish. For you to think otherwise, yes,
it would be foolish for. Me to think otherwise the
Delphinia that. I knew was so.
Smart. They would have caught anything
immediately instead of wasting my time.
Yes, yes she would have. Hey, do you want to take me?
Somewhere private like old divesalso reach an arm of ritual.

(52:47):
Wow. I'm sure.
There's bad crew. I know just.
The place. OK, great.
Grabs you and leads you. OK, take a look back at.
My going mouth, I'm sorry, horrified look.
Or I'm playing Finn extra. Slutty because Aura was.

(53:07):
Bag of Sam. You missed it.
You. Missed a little.
You are LED over to a. Distant other corner of the
room. During this whole time, the rest
of you guys are pretty obviouslyable to see this happening and
seeing you are pushed hard, shoved into one of the private
bathroom stalls and thing falls you quickly in shine.
You wear a lock, we're not actually going to have sex.

(53:31):
Right. I don't really want to do that
with you per SE at this point inmy life.
Not a problem with you, just more of an alternate engagement
on my part. Echo.
You approach the decanter still still dripping.
OK, I want to go up to it and. Start cleaning it up sort of
lean. Down and.
Like. Pick up the rug, it sort of
soaks through with this red sortof pull out a rag in your pocket

(53:54):
and start drying it off. It doesn't seem to be working
very well and people seem to kind of bump into you from side
to side. Even see someone what looks like
a older male trow who taps you on the back of the shoulder and
goes excuse me Sir, you. Don't need to be doing.
That just leave it alone. I don't know who stealed this, I
don't quite care there either, but this is.
Java's servants, you're a guest here.

(54:16):
Please stand up. Oh, really?
Come on, look up you. Stand up.
The older. Man looks at you and then looks
at you really closely. I look back as close as bigger
smiles. Gives you a wink.
Guys good sink and walks back into the room.

(54:36):
I have a bit of business to attend.
You, but I'll. Come and find you soon, all
right? Nice.
To see you another wing and thensort.
Of disappears into the crab, you're left alone with the still
sort of bleeding floor. So thread give me a slight of
antics. My God, a character with that,

(54:57):
it's beautiful. So.
Real. It's an 18.
Okay, you. Clean up the mess pretty
thoroughly. Only a bit of red splotches are
left after a few minutes. This guy.
Kind of like investigator. Like smell this wine to see if
there's any deeper. Meaning.
As to why this was filled, give me an inside.

(55:18):
Check. 21 Smell it. It doesn't.
Spell particularly sweet or bitter.
It doesn't smell expensive and sort of look at it it was 1/2
full glass. By all means, it shouldn't have
been spilled. You don't get any indication
from this that it was special. Honestly, it just seemed to have
been a moment of chaos at this party.
Well, more for. Me, I guess.

(55:40):
To get up and. Start walking to my lady.
Get the rag, orange it out. Right in the mouth.
Nasty. All right, you make your way
over. Freya.
You walk across the room, Anthrax sort of scuttling at
your heels, until you approach Nim.

(56:01):
Nim notices you about a second before you arrive, and his eyes
go wide with shock. Then he tries to quickly contain
himself because he seems to be surrounded by some close
acquaintances of the UDA Drau and sort of looks back and forth
to them and laughs about something and then looks at you
and has this really frightened look.
Finger point. Then sort of looks back and

(56:24):
forth. At this point Dan track sort of
reaches for your shoulder and leans over one side and goes The
lady wants to. See you.
Present yourself. Thank you.
He's going to think you're in Region Nim immediately.
Recognizes Dan Treg. As a reminder, Nim is a younger
drow male, about the same age asFreya and Dan Treg, with sort of

(56:45):
short cropped black hair with a bit of products put in it to
make it a big spiky on the front.
So much sicker. Than I remember.
You've got sort of a small. Head and a shorter frame, about
the same height as Dantrag, but much more frail.
Dantrag is being more of a farm boy, has a bit of a more
muscular frame. This gentleman looks like a the
lavish life, the aristocratic life has been suiting him quite

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well. He whispers a quiet word to his
friends on either side, which sound to be excuses and
apologies for walking away, and then slowly exits their circle
to approach you closer. Freya smiles and goes.
Hey, excuse me, miss. You seem to be confused.
Mistake me for something else. You're probably looking for a
friend, right? No, I'm not.
Mistaking at all, actually. Who's your patron?

(57:30):
Your priestess? Priestess.
Yes, well, it's nice that you asked that, because I was going
to ask you the same thing while you're here at this party.
Sort of an unusual situation, isn't it?
Yes. Well, this is for business.
So, well, sure, that's why I'm here.
So you're going to tell me now or am I going to have to call
someone to figure it out? I said.

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I'm on business. Like what else is good to tell
you? I work for the real.
Room. Family.
Am I a member? Of the house.
I go on errands for them, I jointheir royalty on away trips, and
today I find myself here, deep in their system and rather
confused as why I'm seeing a friendly face.

(58:12):
Or should I stretch that, just aface at all?
What are you doing here? You sent me away, told me that
the great intelligent minds of our people needed me for a
private mission. And I get no word, no message,
not a peep. I imagine I'm needed for years
and yet nothing I remain. There.
Four years. For you, I am there for four

(58:33):
years and not a word. Finally, I end up ingratiating
myself. I rise through the ranks.
I'm given my own room, my own bed, my own wife.
What? You.
Given a wife and. That part.
In it. Oh, I did.
Just reminder, getting somethingreal.
Rim is the house we destroyed tofree Sophie and the other

(58:55):
changeling. It's true, we have been on hard.
Times lately, but quite lucky for a man willing to go high and
station. He's a bit of Freya.
What the fuck are you doing here?
He sort of gets in your face. I'm here to find a friend.
Well, you haven't found one. Yet.
Yeah, that. Much is clear.
Now I'll ask again before. I walk over to this fine

(59:17):
priestess in the center and inform of a traitor in our
midst. What are you doing here?
Listen. Molly is.
What we did was. Very wrong, very wrong.
What is this your sluts now? Sandra, I see you back there.
I'm not. Going.

(59:39):
To tell them about my kids. She's going to let him.
Believe the Android do sluts. Now I think if I tell.
Him. He's my husband.
He's just gonna really rub salt in a wound I worked my ass off
for. Our people, I did everything.
I sacrificed my connection to nature just so that they would

(01:00:00):
trust me more. I gave away every earthly
possession I had, so they had nothing against me.
I buried myself so deep in men'sO'baron's on culture, but I'm
not even sure I'm a Laurent Trout anymore.
Our people forsake me. They gave me nothing.
They should be on this mission watch as a joke unless something
far worse has happened. Something I've considered every
night I was. Here by you did, did you not

(01:00:21):
remember? That the, you know, the town
fell asleep for a really long time, but you know, the whole
under dark and that that was kind of, I played no part in
that. It's me.
Why? Why was I said to menzo barons?
OK, but you? Were sent for that and we do
need that information. I did not help with that.
No, the stuff that we did. Was different, but was also for

(01:00:43):
the same group. I'm still undercover.
Why not a word? Why not the people?
It's not a single letter from any of the others.
The acts of soldier after this Idon't know.
What to tell you? Not a word from our.
Goddess, did you pray? Yes.
Every night. Then you know who did respond?
Queen of Spiders on the. First attempt she is.

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Quick to pick up. Why would you want someone that?
Picks you up when you're weak. Weak Freya.
I was despondent. I was forsaken.
I was practically banished by myown people.
So many sleep this nights. I thought they didn't want me
anymore. The elders considered me
unimportant and sent me out. It happens.

(01:01:28):
Well. Damn A.
Civilization. Like that if I couldn't rise.
Through the ranks as a Lauren Drow then I'll do it just fine
as a dude a drow be. In this dude need to have a
beer. Say.
Fucking back story, I don't needyou or your.
People at all. In fact, I'm very much
considering you an enemy at thispoint.

(01:01:49):
You've no idea the plans that I have here.
You've no idea the plans my my the people of mental parents on
have here. Do they all know where you were?
Oh my God, that. Is.
Ice cold, you see an. Inkling of fear come over him
and he sort of retracts a bit, removing his face from being

(01:02:09):
married. Just away from yours.
Friends in high places. Now, of course, they don't know
what. I am.
But I imagine they'll trust me far more than they'll trust the.
Likes of you. Even though you do have the
right genetics. Fuck, you need zero woman.
Yeah, I. Know.

(01:02:29):
I've spent years proving myself.To them, killed for them, yeah,
but you'd never had to with. Us.
No, I didn't, but at. Least I rose with them.
At least I was given individuality just as quickly.
Trust. Me, I can make it happen.
Friends in high. Places.

(01:02:50):
The. Conversation heats up a bit.
More you hear the last few linesecho, sort of leaning down,
still cleaning up the mess on the floor.
You get a free snapping out thisperson in front.
Of it take a. Little swing when you get

(01:03:11):
advantage, who's helping you? Dan Track good.
Danny. Danny.
Yeah, what she said. Yeah, you got Yeah, I think dog.
Because I was a 2. Yeah, fucking.
Bob. Oh my God, that's honey there's.
People the hard shell. Of Nim cracks in a moment as you

(01:03:34):
see your words land as daggers on him.
Takes a step back and he can tell your threat is real.
You do have friends in high places and all of a sudden he
opens his mouth and goes Well, of course.
You're not really an enemy. With just it's been a long time
since I've seen you as all. You'd understand my upsetness.
No, I understand you're upset. And again, I apologize and I
would we'd have a word within Lee Stray about this and with

(01:03:56):
the elders, this forgive my outbursts.
I'm just. I'm upset about.
Taking a lot of. Kids and you know when that
we're now like we're now converging to societies and
that's. Just between us.
I don't really like it here, notas much as.
The law and. Row.

(01:04:17):
I mean, they're a bit crazy here.
They can't be. I just.
I wanted you to. Respect me and invite me back, I
just, I imagine. So many nights what I might.
Say to you, if I saw you again every night was another that
I've received no word. And I thought, truly, that you
were supposed to be the one to cast me out.
The elders asked you, didn't they?
They said. For you to be the one to send me

(01:04:38):
away when we got back. They had assigned me into
another position and quite, I mean, it's not what I wanted to
do really. So I'm still kind of working out
that kink that. Doesn't answer my question.
We use in my life. Go on prayer by the.
Way I don't. Like my?
Jog, Yeah. We also have nice things.

(01:05:03):
Sit up. I'm.
Sorry, I didn't mean to threatenyou.
Please don't. How about this?
You owe me this. Much.
It looks like you're pleading. I will.
Give you meeting time. At a meeting place.
Right at the end of this, OK, looks at you.
He seems trusting. Promise you won't disappear

(01:05:24):
again. Yikes, we're gonna do.
You plan on disappearing again? Do you plan on disappearing
again? No.
I think. I'm look afterwards OK after a
whole. Little, little thing.
One more thing, Fred. This is just for my own
satisfaction, to be honest with me.
Did you even a little bit regretsending me out?
Yeah, I really do. Now I.

(01:05:44):
Mean. It's just not a fucking bit, you
bag. Squirms bag?
No, I don't. Feel bad.
I mean, I can't. Imagine the fear you must have
gone through being and, you know, being here.
And yeah, it's, I mean, it's notthe way that Elise Stray wants
us to treat each other. I keep up this act just for this

(01:06:07):
bit. Yes, of.
Course and I do. As well, thank you, that means a
lot for her. Breathes in deeply and sighs and
goes right well, I suppose if I was back as friends I owe you a
piece of information. Come with I go sort of walks
off. Into the corner.
Back in the bathroom, let's fucking go the.
Door is locked, take a. Standing, arms crossed, sort of
blocking it. It's very dimly lit.

(01:06:29):
In here Obsidian. Walls and it was just a cover.
I didn't. Really mean it like a black
chamber, but. Not on the chamber, but speak
carpeting. What's going on?
There. You're really mad at me, Do I?
No, I'm not mad at you. Thank.
God, I consider us really. Good friends.
I feel like a lot of our conversations are really
important to me in my understanding.
Imagine down. Fin, you'll notice you're in a

(01:06:52):
room entirely comprised of your enemies.
Yes, entirely comprised of my superiors, my accomplices, and
my acquaintances. It is a very touchy situation
for you to go bringing up such things in public, right?
Sorry about that. I guess I just thought since you
were bating again I was confused.

(01:07:12):
I mean, when we were outside. I asked.
For a tell. You That's right, A.
Lot of changes in three. Years.
So I guess that just made. Me think that things had got a
lot better and I was like, maybeyou're in vision of power, maybe
you're the high priest now you're fucking up gender roles
and making a brave attempt at. It I almost had it, you know,
but that sleep spell did really did take everything away from
me. Sorry about that, but hey.

(01:07:33):
Forever's a long time. You got what, 500 years left?
Suppose so. I think you're going to come out
of this one. On top, if there's anything I
can do as a local bookstore owner, funny enough you ask I.
Do have something that you couldhelp me with?
It is true, Finn. I could.
There's quite close allies, in fact.
I much appreciate our time together.
And now, then, you'll notice thepriestess who stands in the

(01:07:54):
center of the room. She's right.
She is the one who has more or less ruined my position in the
Mazzolor family. You see, I was asleep for a long
time, longer still than you. While I was gone, the good
people of the Maslow family saw fit to have another child.
I see. So she stands out there now.

(01:08:17):
She's so tall. Already they just she's a punch.
Do you mean tall? Already she's.
Four years old. Four years?
Do you know how long the sleep spell lasted?
Sorry I'm so fucking dumb. Sometimes, but I forgot I was
asleep for like 35 years. Sorry everything.
Sorry, I'm really smart. Usually I'm just getting
flustered using all our glasses.We talk to each other.
Barely going to make 35 years ormore.

(01:08:38):
Of course, she's still young. Barely an infant compared to
myself, or any drought for that matter, She pushed through quite
quickly, given spider venom and chemicals and training faster
than anyone ever. The Maslow family desperately
wanted a priestess. A real 1.
Not me, you see. And there she is out there, my
little sister, all grown up in the blink of an eye.

(01:08:59):
And I wasn't even there for Thisguy's going to kill his sister.
I would like to kill her. If she were to perhaps perish.
Accidentally or otherwise, if itwas your head, no one would
suspect me. It would return me to my station
and I could pursue my dream of becoming the high priest as
betting. Can you tell me like a few?

(01:09:19):
Evil things she's done. Tell me, feel better about this.
Evil things happen. Heinous things, she.
Keeps servants in her. Quarters just a flog.
She has a several Our male is ather, at her beck and call for
target practice. She goes out into the woods.
Around menzo barons on with no other purpose than to.
Bring the local orphans and ditch them.

(01:09:44):
And you wouldn't do. That stuff.
But take here's the thing. I'm not going to lie, when I met
you, you did own that merman andthat was kind of tough.
But I feel like we've been past.That, and you've grown as a
person. I've grown as a person, we've
grown together, and maybe you'veseen a little bit more about the
value of other races through me and my friends.
That's right, Finn and luckily. With Menzo Burns on being much
more, let's say outreachy, it's been a lot easier to meet other

(01:10:06):
people and sort of stifle this old fashioned traditional way of
thinking they have there. Now.
Of course, when I am home, thereare some unfortunate things I
have to tend to, but it is forced upon me.
You're you're, you're. A product of my.
Situation. Inside.
I get. It.
No, I. I won't say I'm a Saint of.
Course, Finn, But I could do much more good as the high

(01:10:29):
priest. If she were to disappear, I
would owe you quite a bit. More so than I already do.
Well, consider it a favour. You put me to sleep.
And I suppose in that time she came to life.
Yes. No, I.
Get that? Can can I ask you for a favour
and response? Of course.
What can I do? My brother went missing.
Here a few days ago I heard the drought on the on on.

(01:10:52):
You have to try harder. Don't embarrass.
Yourself. It's just the 2.
Of US straw assembly. Found his tentacles severed on
the ground after one of the games recently were pretty there
was just his lips again. Do you?
Remember little tickle back. Yes, I do, in fact.
I remember. This event quite well.
I wasn't at the forefront of theparty as they arrived, but I

(01:11:15):
heard enough to understand what I told you.
You might not like. Go ahead.
Shoot Echo. What would you like?
To do sing for yeah and then also having an uncomfortable
conversation. I'll take my swig and.
Start. Walking through the crowd as a
small servant boy, I essentiallyjust want to try to listen in on

(01:11:37):
anyone's conversation just around the room, Yeah.
OK, I would like a perception check please, that one.
OK, you know the wine. Hits you a little harder than
you expected. You're you're.
All of a sudden a little intoxicated.
It's, you know, I don't know howlong it's been since that's been
a norm for Echo, but all of a sudden it hits you and you're

(01:11:59):
like, it's kind of fun. And they're walking around
listening. And then all of a sudden you're
looking out the window and you see the two people fighting
these two men, early men this time what looks like an ogre or
some sort of half a large. Figure Wrestling.
With something that looks like aminotaur floating in the air
with large girdles wrapped around their waist.
They wrench and pull at each other and you're watching it.

(01:12:19):
It's fucking cool. And you thought like this is
this is so? Cool.
Freya. Nim pulls you into the corner
right just between the two of us.
The Real Rim family has a bit ofa plot for today.
Tell me more. Now listen, this is just

(01:12:40):
between. Us as friends and because you've
really convinced me that you care for me and that you're
going to put in a good word. Essentially what happens is if
enough of the real Rim boys failto succeed in the in the Grasper
games, IE die, lose their life, etcetera.
There is a. Minor plot to sabotage the games

(01:13:03):
all together and do a rather permanent damage to the building
like a. Bomb.
Not quite, it's a bit more. Magical than.
In fact, it's quite ingenious. It's sort.
Of what it is, you see, the realroom family has been struck on
hard times and with this droughtemissary thing that we're all

(01:13:26):
doing well, the real Rooms thinkthat perhaps by pulling a fast
one on the other competitors here and on the entirety of
Brackle Stew, they might earn a leg up in Minzo Baronzon.
You see, many of the great matriarchs of Minzo Baronzon are
the tradition. In their values.
They would rather die than Siemens.
O'barrons are partner with any outside nation, so House Real

(01:13:48):
Rim thinks by sabotaging grackles Stew they might earn a
leg up with the great mistressesof Mens.
And now, of course, they wouldn't do this until they
started losing. Here's the thing.
They've been losing all day. There's only one more
competitor. Left. 1.
Scrawniest so you don't have. Face.

(01:14:09):
Not just all, I mean, unless. Somehow there was a way to
figure out who that competition was to pay them off or place in
a version of our own. But it's too late for that, I'm
sure. I think you're going to work.
Something out, Look for Echo regardless, I'd be warned.
Right stay far away from that pit or those flying people or

(01:14:30):
that great suspended structure right above them where they keep
all of the competitors just safety is from a friend to a yes
quiet Oh I. Will try to keep that from
happening. Sounds like karma work to me.
Good. And of course.
You didn't hear this from me, Infact, I feel a bit nervous even
speaking to you about it anymore.
I I think my acquaintances mightbe missing me.

(01:14:51):
I'm sure you understand Freya, Imust return.
But it was nice seeing you, and it gives you sort of a smile.
You notice Dan Trek is just burning daggers into the back of
your skull. You whisper something.
Him turns around to leave. Oh, we hate that.
Guy, why did you promise to helphim?
You know how much more? Fucking Jackass he was I.

(01:15:11):
Know he was a Jackass. He doesn't seem like that.
Right now we had a crush on you,he.
Did I had to fight him? I'm really glad he left.
We just. Have to get them back to, you
know, Uptown. I don't want him.
Back to the town because. He's going to be all like Raya
you saved. Me.
Let's hang out for dinner. Raya, you saved me.
Let's go back to your room. Going to tell him that we're

(01:15:33):
married. And that we have a kid, he's
gone up a sleaze bag. I don't know.
If that would stop him. You can't get.
I'm not going to do. Anything.
Of course you're. Not but.
If he does, I want to be here. He does.
I'll put my foot. Down I'll have.
The oh wow, maybe I'll talk to his mom.
You are a very strong independent.
Woman in politics, I trust you, but just.

(01:15:56):
Before we leave, we need to write him a note and give it to
him, telling him where to meet. I can do that, right?
I mean. Dan Try gives you a big.
Farmer smile and he sort of reaches around his body to try
to find a quill, just touching his pair chest again.
I feel a bit exposed. I have this sudden, I said
don't. Worry.

(01:16:18):
Don't, don't, Don't worry about it.
I look for echo, go look. Finn back in the bathroom.
But, Ting explains, right as I was saying, this brother of
yours, well, it sort of happens irregularly.
Not the kind of thing that you ever, really ever see happening

(01:16:40):
accidentally, but sometimes folks are pulled off the streets
to join these games. Not that it's entirely.
Against their. Will you?
See, once they arrive here, they're given their rules and
regulations and usually payment,and after all that they usually
go in on their own position. They don't.
They're usually killed. And when?

(01:17:02):
Your friend I. Suppose was being washed off by
a keeper of the flame. Now, you see that sort of an
oxymoronic thing here in Grackelstoog.
It's like buying a really expensive lock for your lock
box. Makes it seem like something
valuable is inside. If one of the Worm Smith's own
personal attendants is looking after someone, they might be

(01:17:23):
very important. He's really not.
I mean. He used to me, but word is they
found him. Found three strange glowing
grasping tentacles growing out of them.
Said that won't work. Crushed the three of them off in
the. Street leaving them with the
dead keeper and brought him away.
Now, of course I didn't know about this at the time, but I
did know when I saw him play thegames, he played the games.

(01:17:45):
That's. Right and.
He lost. Elaborate.
Right now, yes. Well, your.
Acquaintance Stickleback went out there bravely and my sweet
sort of darling. Younger brother scrambled.
And. Scratched and bit a few times
and it took to beat a much larger, more brutish man who
very easily smacked him on the head hard what looks like knock
him out and he went plummeting into the flames No now here's

(01:18:09):
where things get a bit interesting you see I saw him
learn white to cinders to shredsto smolders, but a few of my.
Acquaintances in the. Watching Booth here, those with
more arcane inclinations informed me no, he did not burn
up. He passed right through it at
the end of the furnace. No, I don't believe that for a
second. May I be the first to say I'm

(01:18:30):
sorry? I believe your brother is.
I don't. He's not.
I Would I. Would know if he was.
Mom would tell me. Or Luthernia maybe.
He's not dead. You're mistaken.
He went through the furnace concerning white hot.
Flames meant to kill instantly, yes, somehow went right through
it. Fuck is he capable of?
That he did. I know he did I.
Don't know how he did but. If he can do it, I can do it.
I need to get out there. How did you get out there?

(01:18:52):
I don't know what your plan is. The furnace.
Doesn't shut off for anyone unless somehow you're able to
oust the flames. Look at you.
Look at him. You don't mean it, am I?
He's a. Capital.
Crime to burn out the furnace and crackles too.
Well, my fucking younger brother's in there, dude.
I know you want to kill your younger sister, but I love my
younger brother. He's he's good.
Well, I wanted to kill him for alittle while, but we're really

(01:19:15):
close now and listen. I don't doubt it.
I want. To see you succeed, I just.
I saw him burn up with my own eyes.
I I know I'm not a much of the arcane nature, but what were
these friends of yours? Who?
Who informed you that he had clipped through the flame?
I'll introduce you to one, but. No more speak of my sister or
any of this plot. Yes, just business once we leave

(01:19:36):
this, yes, I was still sure how.Kill your sister, but it's it's
on the back burner. One thing at a time.
Finn, you don't have to do it today or tomorrow, just
something in the future that is the person in the future.
Do you really have no means? No, I could.
Well, I could be to. Poison a book or a driver?
Of a reason. So I have to do everything.
Myself in putting reaches into acoat pocket and pulling out a

(01:19:59):
small vial of a black liquid. He passes it to you and goes.
It is ridiculous that I have to.Give this to you.
Take it this. Mean a horse do it poison I'm
assuming but is this like make her cough and choke to death or
is it yes make it? Quick, make it deficient, make
it an accident. I'll likely.
Have to raise. High.
Hills after it is done. She is fresh and blood after

(01:20:21):
all, but just. Know it's performative.
Can you do it? Yes.
And then a big smile comes over his face and the optics sort of
come off as he reaches up and puts them on top of his hair and
goes, you see? And I owe you quite a again.
She's like, this was just a cover I'm not actually
interested in. Well, I well.
What does your? Sister like.

(01:20:41):
Like she likes. She likes flogging.
She likes torturing, she likes why she likes spiders, she likes
loathe, and she likes watching these games.
She especially likes taking champions back to her chambers.
Pieces sliding. Together.
I have a plan but seeing it's. Perfect, right?

(01:21:04):
Once we exit. This room, we won't be able to
speak about it anymore. So just do you need my help in
it at all or should I? Shall I take a back seat?
How does someone enlist as a champion?
Oh goodness, Finn. What?
On God's earth are you thinking of on loath?
Simple. Me and one of my.
Friends enlist. They beat me.
I fall through the flames. They go back to her quarter

(01:21:28):
slippers and poison. Oh fuck.
How? How?
Slutty is she? Because.
I'm immune to poison. I can just put this in my mouth.
Oh, but Jake. I have a fucking great idea.
OK, this will be. Even faster than the other one.
We go out there, you pretend to be really into me.
She wants to take me away because I'm desirable and she
wants you to be unhappy. I've got the poison in my cheek
the whole time where she kisses me.

(01:21:50):
I. Spit it in her mouth.
Oh fuck, I said. Her poison?
Yeah, a bit burnt. Well, I guess it's a poison.
It's a poison. Yes, it's a poison.
It's a poison melt. Yeah.
No, since I'm all I'm. All water.
I don't I don't get poison right?
So this. Plan sounds excellent, just
performative though, right? Of course, it's just before I'm.

(01:22:11):
Taking house I'm a business. Right, off we go.
And he? Slams the door open behind.
I take off my vest and scarf. And put him in my bag.
Excellent. You think about.
Your horrible plan. This isn't a horrible plan.
It's. Gonna spit.
It on him. OK, so we have 3.

(01:22:32):
Tasks we need to make sure rail room doesn't lose again.
One, we need to kill the chinks to perfect.
Yep 3. And one of us needs to get.
Through the fire, the furnace tofind where's to go back.
When we do, we can do that. If you die, if you like, lose if
I flip through, Yeah, so. I'm gonna poison this lady, then
immediately enlist. What if I poison?
Her OK? How are you gonna poison her?

(01:22:53):
Me and Patink's plan right now is pretty full the new.
For level 10 I got a new feed. The feed I chose was a poisoner.
What does that let you do make? Poison we have.
The poison. Yeah, Patink gave us poison to
melt her inside to melter. Our.
Working. Plan.
Is Patink flows with me? Yeah.

(01:23:13):
In front of her so that she wants me.
So I don't mean to poison. I hold the poison in my mouth.
And then when she kisses me, I spit it into her mouth.
So how are you gonna get her to?Kiss.
So why not just? Put it in her wine.
She. Will fall for this well.
There is proof. Why wouldn't?
She Why wouldn't she fall for that?
If you drink it, I'll put. It in my wine and then she can

(01:23:34):
I'll sexually feed her wine. We have a better plan.
Nothing can be better. All right.
You guys are all. Back in the same room, what
would you like to do? Dunzod is poking around the bar
looking for a wine, Mako is sortof aimlessly walking about, and
Dantrec seems to be beelining itfor Mako.

(01:23:56):
Freya. You find Echo looking out the
window watching one of the games.
Echo I need your help lady outcomes in.
These games are so awesome. Let's go find Finn.
Alright, do you? Wanna sip of this?
Show you a wet rag but. But did you say?

(01:24:16):
That, and did you take some fromthe magical?
Wine that falls down by itself. I like it.
Feel like it. I mean, it tastes.
Like wine, but it's sort of drenched and warm.
It's fine, just a bit of unsophisticated.
Do you wanna see the flies? Let's go find Finn.
Yes, my lady. You guys.

(01:24:38):
Turn over and you. See.
Finn exiting the bathroom. What?
Pulling the Ting along the ting's.
Pulling me. I'll see your friends.
You. Guys want to go see OK I
approach him. I'm whispering and protecting,
OK? I'll wait not.
Now. Not now, Lady Freya, we have
important. Business to attend to.
I think I have some information.She's Lady Atkinson.

(01:25:03):
Who the fuck? Are you informative?
I'm. Sorry priest, I've.
Been down get. Ready for a meeting I.
Whipped. Sorry my.
Lady. All the droughts sort of turn
to. Watch you give you a look, go
back to their business. The thing pulls you out into the
sort of nearby the centre Dyess Finn, and sort of leans in close

(01:25:27):
and whispers. All right, I'm really not sure
if this plan is. Going to work, but I suppose
I'll say it's really breathy 10.Can I get a glass of Oh, let us?
Get let me get us 2 glasses of wine right?
So now I'll just look like. A fool standing here alone.
I have the perfect. Line.

(01:25:47):
I'll. Sort of Swoop 2.
Glasses of wine off. I assume there's some people
walking around with trays. Yes, you.
Approach and slip some off some trays.
Yes, I will slip the. Poison into my glass.
You place the vial. And hands between.
The unpoisoned glass team looks at and gives you wide.
Eyes. This is a good vintage, right?

(01:26:07):
Of course, Yes, this is. Only the best vintage for the
most handsome priests. Jump my hand and.
Sort of hold the side of his face.
Right now you're just. Taking.
My messed up. You can tell him something.
This really the best you have? Your eyes.
Are so pretty behind. What do these eyes look like

(01:26:29):
behind his glasses? I feel like last campaign we
never saw him without them. Not really, you didn't.
Yeah, roll a history check you can remember.
Oh, don't even. Fucking.
Worry. Oh yeah, it's a. 28.
Mind. My God.
Mind. You know the thickness of the
limbler rings. You know cancel pills,
obviously. Obviously you'll leave like a

(01:26:51):
tendon shot. All that down.
It's all important, man, very important.
You see, or rather you recall, soft red eyes.
You have the. Most.
Beautiful eyes under your sunglasses and it's so cute how
you hide them from everyone. Don't.
Be. Embarrassed.
From you. To make a big deal this.

(01:27:16):
Excellent echo as you. Are pouring drink into Freyas
mouth. You feel a sort of tap on your
shoulder as you turn around and see the same sort of elderly
male drow that you saw earlier who looked at you really
seriously. Identical picture of.
Wine and look to the one spill gestures out to you and gives
you complete wine. Thank you.

(01:27:37):
Why don't you take? It all right thank you Grab me
grab is this. Gonna fix him, we look.
Down it's a deep. Reddish purple wine leaning.
On purple on the. Be down a bit?
I don't think so. You were choking.
On that shit it. Slides.

(01:27:58):
Down. Warm and scooty.
It's like the figure gives you asmile.
I. Use my telepathy feet and speak
into this. Person's.
Mind. Hi, is this Sophie or a
different old rail room friend or Fisher dad?

(01:28:19):
Dad, I guess there's no response.
In your head, right? No.
Not yet, not quite. Does that mean you're not my?
Dad yet? Fuck, I'll give you a hint
brother, reach out my hand. For us to do our handshake, my

(01:28:40):
hand just reached out. For you.
And you connect and you do a swing freaking mango.
So you. Can just like.
Oh true. Let's do a.
Freaky handshake right around each other.
This figure, the older male drought, gives you another smile
and goes, I'm on business right now, but are you doing here also

(01:29:00):
on business? Absolutely on business together.
Sure, maybe on. Business Alliance is quite Tell
me how I've been. Lately been keeping up with
pretty good we. Got a really good shop going.
It's really well off financiallyreally and.
Everything's just. Feeling all right?
You're not overwhelmed by those feelings of discrepancy like

(01:29:20):
before? I've been doing pretty all.
Right for myself, I'd say. And the figure Miles and.
Goes just not often you get to see your own clone in person.
It's. Good to see you.
Brother, it's so good to see youbleeding.
Hand, how have you been? There's more talk, right?
Business only. All right.
What do you think? Questions only.

(01:29:42):
What are you here to do? Oh.
Let's see, right? Now we're drinking wine.
That's the big task, right? Now I think I see and it appears
you're a bit. Useless to me, I'm sorry.
Drinking wine in high places. Sort of disappears behind the
crowd. Dashing off in another
direction, you're sort of left alone for a moment.

(01:30:04):
You're a quiet voice. Behind you.
Oh, who is that echo? I'm sorry, I don't know who to
follow around. Sorry.
I sort of took your voice a little bit.
I'm sorry. I like you baby, it sounds like
to you. No, I tried to make.
It slow. Who?
Who was that? Oh, that was.
That was my brother. That was your brother?
Yeah. Well, obviously sort of creepy

(01:30:26):
and evil. I know.
He said he's on business. Yeah.
I thought he worked for, like, that crazy lady with the purple.
Yeah. I want to look around for.
You need like help with that should be.
Like off a bomb in this room, yeah.
There could be a bomb. In here.
But should we set one off? You know, clear around.
That's not a bad idea. You want to help me look for.

(01:30:47):
Purple clothes and Danny, I mean, pretty much everyone in
this room is wearing a little purple.
Look around. I guess you're right.
Look around. There are probably.
At least 12 or 13 people in herewearing purple and probably more
who have secret purple. It's a great place to blend in.
This is a little. More difficult than I imagine,
Danny. You look over at where.
That elderly work or the elderlydrow man went and you don't see

(01:31:10):
him anymore. He's not in the room.
He must have shifted. Seems difficult.
It seems a bit difficult, Danny.Oh, I've got a great idea,
Danny. I reach into my bag.
Because obviously it's not on anymore.
I reach into my bag and get a bracelet and get a piece of
silver and tap on it. But it's one year.
Tap, tap, tap, tap, tap tap Have.

(01:31:33):
You done this in years like. It's just me enjoying a glass of
wine. Can't fuck.
This bitch been Eaters. All right, Danny, I've got.
Some hot news. She's drinking wine right now.
I thought we killed that bit, I.I really.
Thought I wished we did. Danny, it gives you a look.

(01:31:55):
This might be out of my pay grade.
That's all right. Just help me look around.
Yeah, all right. It gives you help.
Go ahead and roll AI guess an inside check, right?
OK, while you're doing that, Finn, what are you doing?
I've fatigues hip. Your role, by the way, for for.
Performance earlier. I don't remember.

(01:32:18):
I can say, well, I want to put ahand on fatigue hip turn it
like, you know, the opposite side of me, like sort of when
you get around at the 12. You sort of start sneaking.
It around and then you feel likehug of behind you as Mako seems
to be trying to grab your attention.
Hey dude, what come here what are you doing?
Hey, I'm just what? Are you?
What are you doing? It's.
He raises his voice a little bit.

(01:32:39):
Come here, I I win there. Talk.
OK, yeah, let's. Ding my I want to grab a Ding's
hand and sit, but I slobber a little too much on it and I'll
be horrified. I'll.
Be back, my sweet. Angel man, I'm.
Gonna go. I go, I go.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
It's part of the. Plan we have to kill this.
There's a lot of shit. Going on right now.

(01:32:59):
Right, there's a lot. Of shit going on right now.
Where's? Stickleback.
I don't know. OK, OK, team said that
stickleback was. Taken and made to compete in the
Games and it looked like he diedin the fire, but then he like
clipped through the fire. And so one of us needs to go be
a competitor and clip through the fire.
And I think maybe that should beme 'cause I could put it out
with slow down. OK, yes.
Be a competitor. Go through.
The fire. Yeah.
Yeah. Alone we should.

(01:33:20):
Go all together. How can we go all together?
I don't know. You.
You. Said you could put it out maybe.
But I mean OK, I do also. Have the fly spell, but I don't
know if I could get all of us atonce.
I could get three people. OK, I mean that seems.
Like a pretty good amount you could get yourself.
And like karma, Karma's a bruiser.
Yeah, karma's, but karma could fly.
Float too, right? Fuck.
Yeah, Karma's gonna grab like echo and OK.

(01:33:41):
So. Me, echo and fry.
A family karma float floats and you could like pull.
Karma with you? Yeah, Karma with me.
Me and Dan. Trey can stay back with Dunzod
and we'll pull down the Fort here.
Now listen, OK? Is killing this lady really the
best? Idea.
Right now for the plan. If you killer, won't this whole
place erupt in chaos? Shit assassination.
OK, you're right. You're right.
Fuck, fuck, come on, Finn plan. You're the planner.

(01:34:02):
Sorry, I know I'm the planner, it's just.
My brother's. Gone and but Ting's all handsy
and you're very handsy, Vin, I'msorry.
I'm sorry, yes. This is part of a plan to help
but Ting. Sure.
Great. Nice.
We should figure out what's gonna happen after hell breaks
loose if you do this. Am I around?
Yeah. Also, I get I have some
information for you. What's the information?

(01:34:22):
OK, wait. Team Team power grab Carpus
money years out of the crowd Dragon drama.
Gets dragged in. Hey, wait, stop it.
Get. Echo too.
What'd you get on your own? Oh. 22 OK, you're looking.
Around. You're scanning, you see
someone, you're pretty sure thatperson is a changeling, and then
someone grabs your shirt and pulls you to the side.

(01:34:43):
She's gonna flog you again, all right?
Here's what I found out, Ching says that stickleback.
Stickleback. My.
Face goes stone cold. I start looking her.
Who's here? What gleeful focus.
Hattie. I smell her.
Who's they? Focus smell her on.
Bloodhounds with the. Love of God, OK?
OK, OK everyone shut the fuck. Up.

(01:35:03):
I'll kill Hattie after. We find Sickleback, kill her OK.
OK, focus. I already did.
It's a. Treat, I get to do it again.
OK, everyone focuses. Here's what I found out.
Stickleback was captured, forcedto commit in the games he lost
Wimpy as he fell down. In the fire petting.
Said that some arcanist he knew thought that stickleback didn't

(01:35:25):
really burn up even though it looked like that everyone like
maybe it was some sort of did you talk to that optimist?
Why are you looking? At me if this is your fucking.
Fucking. Shitty ass girlfriend again,
you're fired. Why I can make you so much money
with the books. I swear I never haven't sold a

(01:35:47):
single one yet. But once you get pictures in
there, I can sell them like bread.
OK, Freya. What?
Did you learn? So.
The house. Will room the one that you you
know we killed the lot of peopleit was almost so we.
Didn't. Actually, we.
You learned that one? I don't remember that.

(01:36:09):
I guess DARE truck was. Faded to die unless we killed
everyone. That's real.
Sounds right to me, yeah. That sounds right to me.
Too. Alright, I have my.
Business partner. Anyways, anyways.
I'm do you. Remember Nim?
Oh yeah, fuck that guy. He's dead here and he's.
In house with Rim. You fuck that girl and we're

(01:36:31):
going to die here. I have to meet him.
Afterwards, because he was really mad at me and I said some
things and now he's not mad at me, but now we have to help him,
you know, become free, right? Seems like an.
Issue for later, but seems like a hair problem.
It's just like this piece of. Information.
You're going to love. If House will, the room loses

(01:36:53):
and you know the next block going up there if they die yeah
they're going to set off a bomb a.
Theoretically. Magical bomb.
It's all coming together. I can cast fly on three people,
car back and float. I can catch fly on all of you
guys. I fight again in in the thing.
Then when house rail room doesn't set off the block the
bomb because he's their boy, I fall into the fire, put it out

(01:37:15):
and I'll have cut me up real good.
Fire up, then I go in, you guys descend in, we find Stickleback,
we fly out the city. That's a great video.
How? Are.
You going to let Nim? Win.
Oh yeah, I just won't fucking fight back that.
Or I'll be concentrating. On the flash belt anyway, I got
a great. Idea if we offer a ring?
If you put this one. On you'll explode in the flames.

(01:37:41):
I can't believe we finally. Have a purse?
OK, open it on. Open it on so I think I'll cast
how long they're going to see us.
Go in the home, like how long doyou think it's going to take to
find stickle bags? Do it real stealthy like.
Our sneaky blow down sneaky, sorry echo sneaky we have.
I have. Invisibility.

(01:38:02):
And we also have passed without trace.
Yeah, yeah, we also got a bag. So we really just need one
person. Oh yeah.
That is. Very.
Intelligent. All right, What's the fan we?
Need to get nib I I. What's this whole thing you
were? Doing with peting.
Earlier too, is that got a feeling?
Oh. I gotta kill Peting's fucking.

(01:38:22):
Sister I. Promises to.
People. I can kill Peting's sister.
Another. Child, I'll go.
OK, you guys get Nib. I'll go break the bad news to
peting, all right? What if?
What if? I mean, I'm not well, I'm doing
a little bit in the other plan, but what if I were to to think
you can just. Wait till it gets to go back you
for this frail. Put me in, I'll go in.
Oh God, I've already got a flat.You're just really not putting

(01:38:45):
state. You're fucking kid.
It's not about. Putting it's about her.
I look at her who's. Circulating around her looks
like several. Younger men, do they look jacked
or do they look? Slender Jack.
All right, Dave here put me. In.
This. Wine is poison.
Don't. Tricky this one.
This one that I'm holding. It's.
Glass, right? This is very, very.

(01:39:06):
Nice look at me in the eyes. Dan Trek, don't drink it.
You're going to bring it. To her and then look, just coach
her mentally. Mentally telepath with her.
I'm not fucking telepath. You guys are all flying, right,
so. I'm not, and so I can help Dan
Trek. OK, but you guys care for I'll?
Help them be careful. OK, don't die of.
Course not. I've got you know.

(01:39:27):
I've got things I want to do. I don't want to go to jail, OK?
Don't. Yeah, you guys stay.
Safe go to jail. I've got things I want to do.
OK, OK, got life plans, man. But I'd.
Love to hear about that. Later.
OK, OK. Just stay focused.
Don't die. Yeah, OK.
Here we go. We'll hear you the.
Wine, you see. No, you should let Danny.
Hold it. No.
That's a good shot. Why do you?
Want to hold the wine? Yeah, tell Finn that that's.

(01:39:49):
Racism. Look, listen, you have to pay.
Close attention Frederick still needs his father.
I'm not going to die. I know, but you better not drink
it. Because if you drink it, you're
gonna die. Yeah, all right, Marco can.
OK, be careful man, He takes. It from you and.
Goes we'll take care of this. Good.
I'll go talk to Batin. You guys go find them.
Figure it out. OK.

(01:40:10):
Talk to him. All flirt you like.
God venture do that clearly. It's kind of your type.
You go. Tell him I don't want.
To I supposed to tell him? That you're going to go.
Flirt with him. It's not about him.
It's called Wing. Man, man.
No, but the point. Was that you would.
Flirt with him and so it would make her jealous if she would be
exported to your plan. Just keep up.
Naturally, we're. Going to talk about this later.

(01:40:31):
OK, great, great. Good skin.
Please don't lose bookstore. OK, Be safe, Marco.
Didn't try be smart, eat salutesstill.
Shirtless, remember? Be suspicious of anyone drinking
wine. Doesn't seem like Marco should
take off his. Shirt now for real this time
gives you a. Non, I'll keep.
A look at Alright. I think I saw someone over, I

(01:40:53):
think I did. Do I kind of get dragged out?
I mean, everybody, it's alright,I can find them again.
All right, What do you guys wantto do?
A. Distractor with the gun show OK
be. Safe you guys.
How are we going to go get him? Yeah, get him, get him, Go get
him. You approach him.
Grab him, pull him. Any what?
What's going on? Oh, goodness.
This entire group. God, I saw you for one day.

(01:41:15):
You know I want to kick my ass, Evans.
Yes. Listen, do you?
Think you could be the? Person going in for Wheeler room
like a string or two? Yes, one.
Problem. I don't know how to get up there
or two strings I'm. One of them.
Like I want to be sexual you. Need to get me up there too is.
What I mean, you're not going togo up.

(01:41:35):
There, I'll take the fall, I'll take the dive and win for real
room. Get me right where I want to be.
Problem is I don't know. How to?
Fly. What do you mean they'll put the
girdle on? You, yeah, but it's they're all
up. There.
Oh well. But it is a.
Shuttled up there, that's. Sort of.
Try forcing people not. To just join.
In on a When do the shuttle? How?
Much weight do. You need to be weighed down in

(01:41:56):
the. 20 LB Almost there all day.This is bigger than £20.
I'd rather not. Hold on to.
Him to like be angry because youcould find one of our drought.
Sorceresses here, whatever she would be.
Very confused as to. Why I'm going up there.
Well, tell her you're about to fucking get.
The bag for us. Room, room, Bring home the big
bucks. Just.
But just not very. Sportsman.

(01:42:16):
Like. Knowing it's, you know, I'm
taking the fall. OK?
No, no. No.
The building. Isn't very sportsman like not
but I can't stop that can. I look at me, you don't mean to
say. You'll take the fall.
Here's what we do. I pretend I'm drunk and pick a
fight with you. Look at me.
Look at me. Anyone knows.
You could be and I'm drunk. Pick a fight with you, you say.
I'll see you in the ring for house real room and I say house
real room, stupid. Let's go talk about the ring.

(01:42:40):
Make the. Scene over here with me OK I.
Take these doubling steps and I say, asshole, what are you doing
over there? Stupid fucking aristocratic you
lead to in front of a. Very old crossy looking drought
woman sitting seated in a chair wearing traditional priestess
robes and within her eyesight hesort of pushes back and goes I 1
of it. Huh?
This how they make boys in house.
Real room. Sure do.

(01:43:01):
Big and strong. Yeah, you can tell me something
about it. I can chew.
You and all those. Other spit you out.
After. As.
You say that. The woman.
Stands up out of her chair. I'm going to kick your ass, she
holds. Her hand out, she hold it like
this Charisma saving throw. You're going to die 10. 10.

(01:43:27):
It's a. It's a 10.
I love this plan. So.
Good, that would evolve. You guys got to find.
A way to get up. There.
Oh fuck I. Was supposed to cast fly on you.
I leave. I have.
Those. Those cell spell rings, it's OK,
I'll just. You're immediately.

(01:43:48):
Unovercome with you carry him, God damn it.
You're immediately overcome withthe.
Feeling of hopelessness. Nothing changes.
And fear the word stuff. Coming out of your mouth is the
woman casts a spell on you and the soul rooms returns to watch
and she goes You dare you dare say these words in front of me?

(01:44:09):
Can I speak? It kind of comes out stuttering
and sort of frightened. Yes, sorry.
I I. Just I kneel, you drop too many.
Yeah. Now then, what should we do?
With you. Throw you in the cells, take you
home with us. 1/2 drought. Disgusting.
The old woman narrows. Her very crinkly eyes and you
see at this point Nim sort of straightens up and goes it means

(01:44:31):
we should have him compete in the games.
Look at look at this creature and quite an easy win for house
real room. But don't you think?
Let me prove myself to you, Madam.
No, no, wait. I haven't seen your performance.
Check you're. Rolling with advantage.
Because he is. Helping you, What do you guys
want to do while this is happening?
I guess I turn into a. Fucking bird.

(01:44:56):
You see Mako and Dan Shrek. Fall into a corner, start
planning something out. Karma.
Dunzod kind of comes up and goes.
Karma. I feel sort of out of my element
here. There's a lot going on right now
and I don't know how it can help.
I want to make sure you're safe,though.
What? What's going on?
Can I, can I help? Yeah, I'm not really.
Sure, I can help either. It seems like a lot of other
people are kind of creating conflicts.

(01:45:17):
Yeah, and because that's not you, man.
And. Making things weird, I know.
That it's been a while. I'm kind of just.
Here trying to do. Damage control, I would say
you're the. Sanest person in the group right
now. Carmen turns to.
That's the nicest thing anyone said to be all day, but until we

(01:45:43):
could. Figure out what's going on with
them. I think you should damage
control. That's a good idea.
What do you want to do? How do you want to help if
flying is? Involved.
I don't know if I could do that.Fear of heights.
I'm not very interested, but I can help here.
I'm not sure how yet. Perhaps like keep old d'antre
out of trouble. He's nice, right?

(01:46:03):
Yeah, he's nice. Do.
You have anything I could do? It gives.
You a sort of worrying but authentic smile.
I don't know. I feel like no one's.
Actually like looking for a stickle back.
Yes, there's a lot of flirting and.
Like fighting? Yeah, weirdly.
Like the same. Time Sorry, I'm trying to

(01:46:24):
genuinely think I don't know howDunzlot can help either That's
all right, that's all right. Let me just.
Take a back seat. I'll be here.
All right for you. All right for you.
Stay. Safe with the voice I will.
Yeah, the voice that. Sounds good.
He gives you a nod and a smile and he sort of Pats your
shoulder, which you will give him a pat 20. 2 that's.
Pretty good. She considers this for a moment,
and then her hand closes, the magic ending and the

(01:46:46):
hopelessness fading, leaving behind just a small pit.
Fear in your chest. Yes, I think we can make this do
right. I'll send you both of
immediately. You'll perform next.
Do try to not disappoint me, half breed.
I don't care for that nomenclature, ma'am.
Right, well, I don't care to see.
You living much longer? Hopefully my apprentice Nim will

(01:47:08):
show you. Certainly not I'll.
Fight to a better end right off you go.
And she claps her hands, and both you and Nim slowly begin
floating. How far is the plan starting?
And gives you a. Sort of nervous look and goes
I'm really in this deep now I. Really hope you weren't lying
when? You said you were going to.

(01:47:28):
Throw it because if you kick my ass, I'm.
Really going to die And do you, do you fight?
With a knife, right? Yeah, we're going to be wearing
our belts. Don't break my belt.
Take that knife, but just here, drag it.
Across to here take. Your gash as you can.
I'm fucking die, OK? Do you understand me?
I'm just, I'm going to make it look like a fight.
I'm a great performer. Especially with a knife.

(01:47:49):
It's called Blade Song. See, my people do.
It's like sword dancing. Classic.
Yeah. It'll look good.
It'll look good. I need you to get AS.
Big A gas as possible, don't fuck this up for me.
And your acquaintances. How about Freya?
What? What are they doing?
Don't worry about that. Look at me.
What the fuck is that? It is right on top of the.
Furnace right above the fire. You're going to cut me open all

(01:48:10):
the way? Understand.
Oh. Yes, OK.
And the two. Of you have been floating.
Toward the giant glass Dome. You notice that the Dome quickly
shimmers as you go by it and kind of pass it, passing by and
through as if it is a theory forbut to move again, floating up
and up and up toward this large platform suspended by 4 giant
metal chains from the ceiling. You notice each chain seems to

(01:48:32):
have one link in it that's perfectly gold glitters in the
light. After a few minutes you get
there and arrive in what looks like sort of like a little
Olympic village. There is about 100 or so people
up here, different competitors and challengers and referees and
coaches and note takers as well a few announcers and what looks

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to be engineers who replace and refine equipment that's broken
during the matches you're brought up and you can tell the
people up there already can tellyou're supposed to be arriving.
A few, what look like administrators of this whole
process grab you and quickly usher you and NIB into small
tents, black tents, who sort of goes dark for a few minutes and
things are thrown on you and things are stripped off of you.

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Your, your robe is taken from you as well.
Your sword is pulled from you. Do you allow that to happen?
Am I not allowed to use that in the?
Fight because this something is shot in your.
Hand. It's a small iron dagger, simple
and unmagical. What are you gonna do with my
sword? The world gives it back to you
if you. Survive.
If I die, can I will it to? Someone sure poting Mazzolor
Understood. Do you have any?
Other like obvious magical itemson you.

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I have like some. Magic rings I'm wearing, but I
wouldn't say they're obvious. I wouldn't say so either.
I. Have my my.
Purse which they could have my satchel, yeah, there's satchel
is taken as well. Also to poting Mazzolor.
Understood. Understand because.
Darkness still envelops you and eventually something is strapped
sort of around your waist. I'll stuff my scarf.
In the satchel or something is wrapped around your.

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Waist it glows red and you continue to fly.
A few moments go by Frank. What would you like to do?
Turn it. Into a bird?
Yes, an eagle. I don't want to do it in front
of. Everybody.
You can do it in the corner if you'd like.
Yeah, yeah, you sort of. Hideaway, there's enough.
People in here. To make it happen, yeah,
probably just just. An eagle.
I don't persee myself battling just yet, so I don't want to do

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anything too big. Well, if you were a big thing,
you could kill. I think it's still.
Well, in that movie it's pretty fucking heavy.
Eagles thoughts? How?
But. Then I have to sneak in.
How the fuck am I gonna sneak inas a big ass fucking Pelican?
Oh, Echo could go in the. Bag of holding and you could
carry it as an eagle. Oh true.
Or even something smaller like aright.
So you guys wanna shove? Echo in the bag of holding I'm.

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Echo and I wanna be in the. Bag of holding, but if I do
something small like a. Like a little like a like those
little city birds, the little tiny ones just has to be able to
carry a bag of I mean. I think those little tiny buds.
Could be yeah St. pitching but like maybe.
Like a crow. Is stealthy or left dirty St.
pitching? I'll do a crow, no.
I just burped into my. Lap.

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It's actually pretty quiet. You want to.
Do a crow, yeah. You wild shape into a crow echo
jumps into the bag of folding besides you, and you are left
with a small bag in front of you.
Karma. Across the room you see a bird
in a bag sort of fly off. What do you want to do if the
plane seems to be an action? OK, Yeah.
Yeah, I'll go ahead and cast invisibility, OK.

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And then try to like. Get.
Under the platform that I guess our face is going to fight on.
Sorry, Finn. And who is that?
You just start. Floating up and.
Trying to be stealthy, not revealing away?
Sure. Yeah, it's invisibility.
It's not much of an issue. Give me a stealth check though.
Nevertheless, I think you get advantage on this when you're

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invisible 20. 5. 25. Wow, you disappear.
Karma. You let loose a few of the
cannonballs you keep in your big50 pockets, and you begin
floating off the ground, a mutation that you have that
forces you to float up and up forever.
The only thing keeping you down are weighted objects, so with
the cannonballs loose, you've begin floating up in the air.

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You've practiced this a lot overthe last few years, so you can
pretty actually get down how much weight you need to remove
before you just slowly float up.Pass through the window as if
it's ethereal and you see a birdto go flying by you at the same
time holding a small bag of holding behind you.
Dunzod waves you off and you hear them yell something out to
you, but as you pass the window karma you can't hear Reset.
Float out Freya. You fly out toward the platform.

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Yes, and just as you arrive, thin brightness hits you once
again as you find yourself back out in sort of the main Arena
Stage, a huge burning blast of fire coming off at you from
beneath you, sort of shoved out of the platform to float down
slowly. You see Nim on the other side,
also armed now with an iron dagger, looking at you

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frantically. You see he's a bit afraid,
perhaps in a bit over his head as the very real, very bright,
and you can feel the heat from here.
Burning column of fire from the main furnace is beneath you.
You hear a few horns around you.Like going out and.
After a few moments, you see oneof these sort of referees, one

(01:53:06):
of the administrators of this sort of approach.
The two of you bring you in close and speak some quiet words
to you and them. All right, I want to fair fight
here. I want to fair.
Fight or I will see. Nothing dirty, no spells.
Right. If I see a spell, you're out.
If I didn't see anything sort ofnasty, you are out.
All right, Just grab the belt. You can cut the Ben off they go
down. You understand?
That is the only thing that's keeping you up right now.
You understand? Understand.
All right, I want to keep it clean.
I want to see it Nice. All right.

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Money's riding on this. Keep it good.
No funny business. Yes.
Sir. And.
Figure rushes. Back pokey motherfucker.
OK, motherfucker, I. Don't want to go at him with my
dagger, but actually First off, I'll activate Blade Song just,
you know, for some flourish the.Three of the other.
Of you guys with Echo maybe sortof freaking out of the bag of
folding, see if Finn beginning engaging in this sort of flying

(01:53:50):
floating battle. I'm slashing.
I'm making a show of. It I'm kicking, I'm screaming.
Nim really strikes. Out at you.
No hiding from. It's actually sort of going for
you. Can I get a performance check
from you? A very critical performance
check as several dozen eyes watch you both from these view
and view booths, which you now see from the outside, A bunch of
little sort of bubble windows inthe slate wall.

(01:54:12):
The slate slag, Isn't it helping?
Yes. Nim is.
Helping. Having been in on it, amazing,
they're about the same. 18 That's cool.
That's very bad. Yes, you make it look.
Believable. If anything, it just looks like
you're perhaps not a very good fighter.
Perfect, but you slash out and miss a couple times, and maybe
once it looks like you missed onpurpose.
But quickly after Nim shoves a dagger into your shoulder and

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that's what looks real. As you sort of cough out and
take 8 slashing damage, water begins pouring out.
OK, I'm making sure I'm over. The forward right, he looks at
you again and gives you sort of.A smile, the water dushing down
with just the small wound. It seems to sort of.
You look, it goes all right, make one more pass.

(01:54:53):
You have to make it look real. All right, get me a little bit.
Okay, I come. And I want to try to slash and
see my dagger into the shoulder of his non dominant hand pulls a
hit. Because he is helping you.
I'm just. Gonna go short.
Modifier. It's the same as that girl, you
hit the blade. Strikes true, slamming into the
shoulder. It screeches out in red.

(01:55:14):
Blood oozes dropping down with your water.
Upset now, you reaches towards you and makes a wild slash in
your chest. Give me one more.
Performance. Check OK without help or.
With help OK 25 it is quick. And.
Fast, and you actually don't even need to move that much for
it to hit you strong in the center.
You sort of just go shocked in the face and grit your teeth as
the blade sinks deep into the top of your shoulder at the

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crook of your neck and is drawn down to the opposite hip,
practically slicing you open. This is a total of 29 slashing
damage. As you cut open, the blade cuts
deeper and deeper and deeper, and in his rage you see it slice
up against the right red gurgle on your body.

(01:55:57):
It pulls close and slices. Deep through it, the damage
enough to slice it clean in halfwatered bursts.
Out of your body. And you can get fallen I fall.
Does it look like it's putting out the fire?
I can hardly go limp. Does blood on the ring do
anything? That goes ring well, you haven't
died. Yet I mean I.
Thought it faked. You have to activate it with a
bonus action. Fuck, can I activate?

(01:56:17):
It with the bonus. Action.
Right now. You guys all watching?
Fall water gushing. Out and then just explode into a
blast not even near the. Fire.
Not even near the fire. In.
Terms of feet. Above it, there's always an
explosion the. Crowd all, sort of.
Goes quiet Nim. Looks down and like looks really

(01:56:38):
horrified 'cause you're just fucking died.
I thought you. Would you know like?
Struggle if the fire then when you touch like the.
Lick of the flames. Yeah, everyone.
Looks. Around, the ref looks
bewildered. What the fuck just happened but
after a few? Moments here all.
Winners from the House. Real rim.
Nim man gets thrown. Up and you hear some distant

(01:57:01):
quiet clapping from the observation booths, and you go.
Falling water. Continues to gush out of you,
now sort of hidden in an illusion that lasts a few
seconds. You have you're so much water
coming out of you. Can you give me AD 100, please?
Oh. We've had 20,000 ads for you.
Oh cut a four. Oh, Oh my.

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God so low. Something.
Very evil comes. Up.
It's randomized. It's randomized.
Don't worry, you'll die before you hit the.
Ground. I.
Have a fire loose? Is your body going to reappear?
After the loosen the glitch lit and before you go down explosion

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happens my. Body falls out of the explosion.
Well, you turned invisible for a.
Minute. Oh oh fuck, I didn't know that.
OK, that's much. Better I just wanted the body
goes out too. You got a 4 right?
Yeah, that's a four does. It do that the big yeah all.

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Right, this is great. Is it?
On a four. Spliced open as much as you are
an explosion, a big. Fish.
School. Of Murphle pouring.
Out 9 in total. All come pouring.

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Out of your chest, they all go screaming and squelching and
aquatic as they go falling down,falling out of your endless
ocean inside of your body. They all burn up instantly on
the flames, and their bodies sort of explode out in the mulch
of water, nine of them instantlydead.
Now these are not covered by. An election.

(01:58:53):
Illusion 9 Mermaids like. 30 people low where you exploded
burn up so you disappeared. And yeah, these 9 merfols like
to the. Crowd all comes Razor.
There's no. Way they're gifts in.
Them the. Merfols sort of spawn in beneath
you and disappear. In.

(01:59:16):
In. The Tavern stories to come, they
might. Say that you were banished to
another plane in addition to thebarfolk.
Appearing a huge burst of smoke does Lynn.
Still wind it. Was gonna be a cuted.
For sure. White blue smoke.
Bursts out of Finn's ears as yougo plummeting down the water,

(01:59:36):
spreading more and more and more.
And the fire goes out. You all see this from your
vision. It just looks like the merfolk
sort of put it out with their wet body.
They all slammed into it in the fire just goes out.
Finn, you go sailing. Down, down, past the flames.

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Do you guys want to follow? Yeah.
You go sailing. After.
Karma, you intelligently drop a few more cannonballs and float
down completely. Invisible.
Finn, you fall through. Freya, you fall through.
Just as you're making your way, Karma is the last in line.
You hear a great roar of people.Oh.

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My God, she's fucking dead. You hear shouting from the.
Drow box booth as it seems like the woman who was standing on
the diets just moments ago was collapsed.
And that's all you see before you.
Disappear, but yes. They did it.
They did. It they did.
They fucking did it. Shocking did she collapsed into.

(02:00:50):
A. You just don't see her anymore.
They fucking didn't. They're about to get.
Arrested. You guys all go sailing down.
Now, beneath the flames, into the furnace itself as you do so.
Does anyone want to do anything specific?
Right. OK, I'm holding my.
A fly spell to cast before I hitthe ground.

(02:01:13):
OK, you fall pretty fast. Obviously, probably before.
As soon as. I'm through the fire.
I would go ahead and pop off a family like a fly on anyone
else. They're all I don't.
See blow down. I don't know about these other
in the bag. In the bag arm is invisible, I
don't see. Blood out in fry as a bird so
she's got the falling thing cover, but you could do it just
in case. I.

(02:01:33):
Ran out of one. I'm not gonna run out of shape.
Yeah, I'll fly. I wanna know.
Longer. OK, I cast fly.
What do I see? OK, you cast fly and begin.
Descending. It is dark down here.
Without the flame, there's very little to see.
You have dark fish with there. I do.
I'm half drill but. Yeah.
Sorry, everything I. Move in a way that causes.
Acne. First thought about you were

(02:01:54):
like. Prepping for how you would act
Ohh. God.
OK, so you descend. Now into the furnace.
Water continues sort of pouring around you now, and Finn, you're
still bleeding profusely with water still gushing out of you.
This the avalanche of water still pouring into this thing,
and that sound alone is pretty fucking loud.

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With the flame gone now, you sort of descend into this
chimney. The air around here is thick
with metals, iron mostly, and copper, the very ingots that are
smelted in this furnace. There's also the chemical sting
of some sort of cooling agent orslag made down here.
You pass. You pass by.

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Equipment. Industrial equipment, hanging
Crucible suspended by massive gear driven arms, sort of frozen
admin rotation. You see one of them frozen
halfway down, pouring, lined with a cooling mass of what
looks like iron that was once pouring down into a small ingot
press. There are also more catwalks in
here, vertical climbing shafts and what look like small metal

(02:03:01):
divots in the walls where someone might be able to stand,
sort of bad living conditions, but there are no people in here
because normally it's filled with flame.
There are massive valves protruding from the walls, bits
of what looks like fireproof paneling on some of the plates
on the walls. And as you near the bottom, the
walls sort of begin to change. Black iron of the walls give way

(02:03:21):
to melted stone. I'll be an after effect of this
great furnace, the heat sink at the very bottom.
This stone seems to be sort of natural in a way, running like a
river that's been solidified, and as you finally reach the
bottom, you realize that you were significantly deeper than
the top of the building underground.
Now you land on a wide stone base, like a platform scorched

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black. Around you is ankle deep water
now still dripping from above and from you Finn.
And you see carved into the floor inside of the black and
around the walls are massive sigils.
You look around and you see a hundreds of feet you've
descended and around you low groaning sounds echo from the
industrial room. There's a small chamber here and

(02:04:04):
you look around and see there seems to even be a few rooms
down here that should never havebeen accessible considering the
flames that would normally be inhere.
What do you guys actually do? It's you.
It's. Twice if it's you.
OK, it's. Bloodhound with you mine.
Is karma. With you, right?

(02:04:25):
Shit, where's karma? I'm there.
Right, you are here. You're.
I might tap you on. The right side of the shoulder
from your left side I. Look to my right side, I don't
see. Anything.
I look to my left side, I still don't see anything.
Well, it's about the thing whereyou're gushing.
So much water that it's like gushing around a shape.
Now can you keep? It in your body.
Sorry, I'm just, I'm hurt so. Bad.

(02:04:47):
I tried to like pull. My my skin right together.
Yeah, maybe the bird will heal. You hey can.
You heal me like that. I.
Think you got highly that lets you.
Have a boy. I think you're right.
But I don't remember. Was it the staff?
Look it up, do you say? To come up now, are we on the
ground? On the ground, God.

(02:05:07):
Damn it look like. That anymore?
Well, you never. OK, well, you never had
chocolate. Had to keep up with a.
Song. I mean, he does have a.
Things or they do have a things classic.
Devious. Notes on my computer.

(02:05:30):
Oh fan, you're kind of like. It over there.
Sorry. Oh God, she's can you hear?
Me. You can hear me, can you, man?
I've seen you do it before. Feeling.
I really just thought the bird was.
Going. The bird's a bird.
All right, which one do you want?
Like a. Verbal thing or do you want?
Like to feel it or do you want? To like, feel.
It for like a long time. I don't.

(02:05:51):
Fucking I guess I want to. Feel it, but not for a long
time. OK, I reach out.
I care one too. For.
Three, it's OK that that seals. The water, I believe.
That does seal the water. You're no longer bursting.
All of a sudden, you. Guys hear a distant crash.

(02:06:13):
In the water and a. It's my word tentacles.
Walk. Of somebody walking.
Far away. OK, I'm gonna find him.
That has to be him. I.
Start running towards it, Finn runs off into the dark and they
have a game. With people which I.
Should I like look at like an elvid or like look like I don't
know yourself? It's tickleback.
It's tickleback. Maybe a drought.
I don't know. I'm gonna run.
I keep running. But I do have perception.

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Or investigation check. Perception check. 2121.
You see? A figure shorter with short hair
running off in the distance downa chamber.
They seem to be clutching something to be their chest.
I'll fly toward that. Flying.
I think your flying speed is actually just the same as this
individual's movement speed, so you don't exactly catch up on

(02:06:55):
them, but you keep close. PG Odo.
So you guys? Go all running off and Freya
goes flying. You're still a bird.
Yeah, I love You're fast becauseI'm lighting.
Oh, true. OK, so you begin slowly.
Catching it as oh does that. Mean no, I'm not.
I'm. Faster than every person you're
gonna start. Swimming at. 30. 5 Is there

(02:07:18):
water anywhere? No, it's.
A spontaneous water. You're in a truck, you're in a 2
foot puddle. Turn into a small.
Creature Goblin Goblin. This one's really fast.
I go so it's. Like.
Faster. The swimmer, The back.
Swimmer professional speed. Boat actually.

(02:07:40):
Echo. Swims as.
Fast as Finn. Runs, yeah.
It's like a fast do your hands. Move.
Dude. Oh.
My. God are they?
Going like in. Circles.
You guys. All I want to know what you
look. Like when you're swimming that
fast. That's your boat, that's your

(02:08:04):
boat. Glad we did that for so long.
Well. I'm running.
I'm swimming behind. You.
Begin running and your swim. God I hate that you could swim
and and. You go flying.
Off. You guys are using all the

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different modes of transportation, swim, speed, far
the climb. Can be far, we can fly.
You guys go running. After this figure.
Deep in Crackle Stew, underneaththe furnace, you guys run into
some tunnels. These are the World Stone

(02:08:44):
tunnels, which are familiar to many of you.
Some of you guys have been here before, in fact, all of you, but
Fred had been here before. These are the same tunnels that
you found Fred in. The same.
Tunnels. You unearthed his small egg as
well the many captors that he had.
This is also where sweet Bone. Among many other things.

(02:09:07):
This is where you found Rupert. Oh shit.
Wonder what that guy's up to? Is this for a Fails as a?
Name. Give me your.
Name this. Is also where a joke you was.
Killed. So many things happened.
A lot of things happened in these tunnels.
You guys been running through the?
Tunnels. For many of you, you sort of
recognize them. They're different now.
Before they were a bit chaotic in terms of their structure.

(02:09:30):
The tunnels were loosely connected.
There were plants and fungus growing out of the walls and
there was a res down here. There is still Fay Res down
here, all over the place, thick.And pink.
It chokes your lungs as you breathe.
It in and it smells sweet. Like raspberries, it does smell
and taste quickly go away though, as you're stuck in this
thick cloud of Fay res. It lights the area a little bit

(02:09:52):
low light as you guys all begin running and eventually you sort
of catch up to this figure. You get a better look at them.
They are shorter and have looks like short cropped hair and
they're clutching something to their chest, sort of what Freya
saw earlier. Brown hair.
You can't see the color. It's still dark.
Stick over, stick over. Get back here.
You yell out and you hear a. Voice wrong.
Wait. Fuck.
Are you doing down here? And the person stops and.

(02:10:14):
Suddenly spins around as you guys all catch up.
At some point you had to stop swimming Echo because you.
Got out of the water. That started and so then you
started to come on the wall sideways.
And Freya, you catch up as a. Bird.
Pretty soon after Finn you arrive, and Karma goes running

(02:10:34):
after as well, Cannonballs sort of reacquired on the ground,
catching up. Now you see Stickleback, your
brother turned away, looking fine, healthy, wearing normal
whack. What the fuck are you doing?
You see? He's clutching something to his.
Chest you little. Fucking bitch.

(02:10:56):
Explain. OK, OK, All right.
You see Stickleback? Now, for those who don't
remember, Stickleback is a sort of short.
Well, he's not short because he's exactly my height.
Height to thin. Outro with sort of paleish white
complexion, downturned eyes, very sad eyes, and sort of a.
Close. To dirty white hair.

(02:11:17):
Oh, his hair is white now, yes. It is.
Was it white? Last time I saw him.
You've seen him once since. He revealed that his patron is
talking to him more and since then his hair has turned white.
Oh, I always thought your hair. Was naturally white and you died
of brown. What the fuck are you doing now?
Oh. Hey.
Bro, hey you. Guys, you didn't.
What are you doing here? The go back speaks up.
You get a better look now. He seems to be clutching a long

(02:11:40):
sort of leather tube in his hands like a scroll.
He's a fucking. Scroll stick with not the
beginning what I thought. You were dead.
I got your tentacle in the mail.They all, they all.
Did I was like I was attacked inthe?
Street, but it was all accordingto planned.
They said I'm working good here right?
You guys need to stop freaking out about me all the time.
This was all planned. I went down the fire on purpose
because I needed to come down here.

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I saw this in my dreams. I needed to come here.
Why did you need to come? Here.
Well, I what are you doing to mypatron?
Didn't. Jeremiah tell you that's the
reason I came here. Who is your patron?
I don't know. That's why I came down here.
I got a message. Like a voice.
In my head but it. Wasn't words, it was pictures.
And I saw coming down here through the.
Fire. And down here and finding this
and he holds up the leather sortof scroll and and using it,

(02:12:22):
using it to do what? I'm not sure.
I can't fucking read. It it's not an.
Almond. OK, hand it over, I can read.
Any language pass it over and looks.
Upset. I know where I'm supposed to
cast it 2 just sort of on the ground that somewhere down here
I already found it a few times. Listen, this is someone going
according to plan. You guys know you need to worry
about me. You have to go to question about

(02:12:43):
this. You playing when I?
Got a piece of you in the mail? I thought you'd be dead.
I know the. Tentacles are sort of scary, but
I mean, you know, it's scary. When they're catch you, I I
didn't mean for you guys to. Get involved.
All right? I don't know why anyone sent
that to you. The the whole thing was planned.
I planned this. You plan to be smart about it
all. Right, you guys.
Always think I get in trouble, but this one I I'm still in
control of it now. I am still lost down here and I

(02:13:06):
was really getting close to starving.
OK, I don't feed him. I'm going.
To read this, you guys have anything?
Considering casting magic stone at a rat you guys didn't by.
The way hey Karma. Hey, buddy.
Yeah, you could have told one ofus could have told anyone.
You know you're in my dream. Too.
Oh. Good.

(02:13:28):
Yeah. What happened to your dream bud?
Well, you you cast this. Spell with me, it's important.
I don't know why. I start reading this spell.
Well, if it can't be helpful, I just.
Take the scrolls flat here, a little bit away.
Bricky's doing really good. You should meet him.

(02:13:48):
Yeah, that sounds good. I'd like that.
From a little far away. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to
stress you guys out. I'm really quite independent
now. I'm thinking about sort of
gestures up and goes, you know, I know I've.
Been caught in. Trouble before, but I've been
yeah, I've been good on this one.
I don't think so. I.
Mean so you know it's been a stealth operation.
You know no one's known. Yet.
But I got captured on purpose, Igot sent over here on purpose,
and I lost on Yeah, well, the worms I can cast.

(02:14:10):
Spells. Now I cast gaseous form.
You guys know that? One, that's a big one.
I can cast that now. I cast it to sneak by the fire.
Let me read this. Shut up bro, you.
Pick up the spell scroll. And flip it open.
Can you read any language? Yeah dude, that was my worn 1.
Right, this is written. In deepspeak, it is a spell
scroll of True Polymorph. This is a very.
Powerful spell. First triple back and I kind of.

(02:14:31):
Become one. No, no we don't.
Cast it on us. You just.
Need to help me cast it. Who are you cast on?
I don't. Know it's just like the floor.
OK, take me to the floor. Sure, sure do.
You want. To roll an arcana check for what
this bill does Yeah, Sticklebacktips you 29 my.
Rules are in Bergen. This is Bergen.
Eric Stickleback takes you through the tunnels.
Past the feyres, past the plants, and past some of the

(02:14:53):
more familiar places around here, you find a large tree with
a hollowed area in the center, aroom with mirrors on the walls,
the cage. Eventually you pass by.
Tunnel with a huge acid splash on the walls and floors.
I don't know who. That is random changes.

(02:15:14):
And eventually stickleback. Stops actually just one
passageway over from the acid splash and sort of a nondescript
room with it. Looks like a few fire bolt
explosions in the wall here, butnothing else.
It's just an empty corridor, sayfor the bit of natural light
given by the favorites that floats around the room.
So here's the other things to go.
Back If you're going to cast a spell, it's going to get caught
up over as it knows what's goingto go.

(02:15:35):
I know, I know, I know. That part is.
Scary. I was really afraid to do that,
but I think that's why Karma casts it with me.
We sort of share the load in case it's something really
scary. OK, OK, so.
I want to check out the floor. Could I have any indication of
what their cattle give me? A perception?
Check you guys all can't here. Also, what was your Archon?
Oh my Archon was 29 OK. You, I mean, you could just
fucking. Look up this bill if you want.
I mean, I think I know. True Polymorphic?

(02:15:56):
Do we all roll a Perception? Check if you'd like.
So basically. True Polymorph.
You could choose a creature or an object that you can see, and
you transform it into something.You can transform it, say into
an object or a creature. The transformation lasts
supposedly just for up to one hour.
Shape changers aren't affected by this spell and.
If you. Concentrate on this spell for

(02:16:18):
the full duration. Would you recall all spell
scrolls last for the full duration?
The transformation is permanent.Unwilling creatures can make
saving throughs against this. And basically there are so few
rules about turning something like challenge rating levels,
you know it has to be equal to their challenge rating.
If it's a person or if you transform an object into a
creature, there is like friendliness involved.

(02:16:39):
That's actually it. If the spell becomes permanent,
you know, no longer or friendly to the creature or it's no
longer forced. OK, my was an 18. 18 You look
around, you look at the. Floor.
You look at the ground, what'd you get?
I also got an 18. Well.
You're looking around. And pointing things out together
and you're like, I wanna help. Oh, I should look at have.
You seen before, now sticky is standing weirdly close.
To karma, could I get advantage from?

(02:17:00):
Dantrec. Dantrec.
Fuck. That's right.
He's. Going to jail?
Going to jail, He's just killed someone. 18 is good. 18.
You look around, you determine that yes, the scorch marks on
the wall are from Fire Bolt. And in fact, you can even sort
of tell that the Fay Res has been activated here a few times.
It Jags and juts in different directions sort of sporadically,

(02:17:23):
indicating that it's been activated within the last 20-30
years. We do this, yeah.
Tang history check if I remember.
This earlier, could I also do that you look.
Around the floor stickleback. Points out a specific spot on
the floor. He points so perfectly and
pointedly that he knows exactly the spot.
If you look at it, it's just stone with the 18 perception you
see, nothing more. Would you go with history check?
I'm doing it with blood. You said it was a true.

(02:17:45):
Polymorph spell. Yeah, that's amazing.
OK, wait, So I think if I know what it is, I can read it,
right? Yeah, but not.
Yet, buddy. Well, wait.
OK, so karma. Karma.
Come here today. Yeah.
What's up? Stick of I grabs you karma and
sort of. Pulls you over to the one
specific spot on the ground thathe's looking at and goes, all
right, so we're going to just doit right here.
OK. I'll read the words, but you
sort of, like, hold my hand and think about it really hard.

(02:18:07):
Yeah. So then we'll bear the force
together. Listen, this in the dream.
I promise. I just need to listen.
Guys, I just want to talk to my.Patron All right, let me just
take a moment here. You guys have cared about me for
so much and I finally wanted an independent moment, you know, to
go find someone and and this patron.
Is totally different. From this whole illicit thing
that's in my head, the mind flares that's done and gone.
Remember, we found the brain andwe got rid of it.

(02:18:28):
And I'm, I'm better from that. But this person or God or
whatever that gives me spells. I want to know them, you know,
and I, I got this vision to comehere and I feel like I should do
it. What was your history, Jack 31?
I know. Who those patriots?
This. Was the.
Exact. Room and the exact spot in the
exact corridor where you said the name.

(02:18:50):
His patron is drove. Wait.
He grabs you, Karma. OK, I don't want.
To get. It's just like, I don't even
know what we're doing, Karma. It's just.
The floor, right? You look down, it truly is just
the floor. You think?
I mean, I suppose there's a bit of dust on the floor.
I had to go back to the. Scroll.

(02:19:11):
There's my pull up my astral telescope.
Look at the floor spot you look down.
There is a single speck. That is glowing.
Speck, look at there the shifts.Sort of rainbow.
And then that joke it was. OK, Carmen, you ready?
Isaac. Did a limp.
Yeah, sure, man. He I kind of killed him, so he

(02:19:33):
might be mad at me. You know they gonna be mad.
We also did a lot of things he. Wanted us to do.
What are you guys talking about?Well.
We killed Drunky. And then we fulfilled everything
he was trying to do to save the other thing.
Can I just talk to my? My Petron, please.
You know what? Yeah, buddy, you deserve this.
OK, All right. You ready?
Karma Hold my. Hand I'm your ass is coming back
to the real. Hard for this I like to put on

(02:19:53):
the. Jerky hat.
The actual. 1. The one with real 1 and.
Then turn into rocking. All right, Stickleback.
Begins casting a spell, speakingin a deep voice that you don't
recognize from him. You're.

(02:20:13):
Doing great bro. Thanks.
Thanks man. He continues.
Like this for a few minutes. The casting time is 5 minutes
and he continues. What would you guys like to do
during this time I'm focusing up?
OK. I like to.
Start drawing on. The ground counter clockwise
circle starting at the the starting point is where

(02:20:36):
stickleback is I'm. Bending my shirt and.
Just you're. Bending it, I'm bending it.
I mean, it was slashed open for my shouldered way up I've been.
Sort of letting it all hang. Arma you hold.
Stickleback's hand as the two ofyou cast the spell. 5 minutes
goes by. Nothing's just happened at
first. Then this little speck of dust
that you watch the telescope echo begins to rise into the

(02:20:59):
air, almost picked up by a wind.As dust often does, it hangs
weightless for a few seconds, and then the spell hit.
A ripple sort of emanates outside of the speck, as if it
is moved by space. The speck begins to twitch and
then spin, growing larger, faster, and then you see bands
of rippling energy appearing outside of it, folding in on

(02:21:20):
itself, spinning. The air grows thick with the
smell of burning meat, and then you hear a whistling sound, high
pitched and sort of discordant. Like a kettle boiling and.
Then a snap and a pop, a flash of light appears out in front of
all of you, and there's a personstanding there, you see.
Him Strokey. Just as you remembered him once.

(02:21:42):
A speck, now a. Deep Gnome crouched on the
ground with his knees sort of splayed out, wild Gray white
hair whipping in every directionas if he was just stopped
suddenly from an incredible momentum.
His eyes, as he looks around, are purely Milky white.
He looks. Around and he makes icons.
In each of you, as if he can seeyou.
His grin stretches out too far across his face, and too many

(02:22:06):
teeth are seen. He made all the breaths.
And then begins cackling. All right, so go.
Back to that that helps you, he turns.
To Karma. No.
And then to stick left. Thank you.
Thank you casters. Jokey is a no sort of pirouettes

(02:22:29):
in. Place arms outstretched, and you
still see sort of loose ripples around him, as if space around
him is still sort of pip. It's patching itself back
together, sort of turns around, looks at each one of you, then
looks at Echo. I smelled it straight.
You wore it like I wasn't dead. He sort of skips over to you.

(02:22:52):
Each of his foot falls, ripples into the ground a little bit,
and he stops right in front of you and he squints at you with
those Milky white eyes. And then an exaggerated smile
comes over his face and he snatches the hat off your head,
puts it on, holds his hands to his chest and goes, oh, I'm with
memories you loved. It dearly, thank you.
Whoa whoa. Bit of hair in here for later.

(02:23:17):
With a flurry. She sort of jams it on his head,
shoving it deep, hiding all the white hair, and it's sort of a
skew off to the side a little bit.
Just the way you remember. He throws both his arms wide and
goes. Right then, off I go.
Thank you again. And he has to vibrate.
Hey, one more thing. Jerky 1.
More thing you see, colorful lines begin.
To emanate my brother's coming back to the old world.
With me, next time you need to do something, lay it out

(02:23:38):
clearly. We'll figure it out together.
See a spiral begin spinning. And placed behind the colors,
dancing. Look, I'm a big fan of your
work. Stick them back, need to stay
home for a little while. It spins and spins.
Counterclockwise and begins laughing.
Thank you, thank you too. Next guy and with the final a

(02:23:59):
bright. Flash of light and.
He's gone, you see, all that's left is like carved spiral in
the ground. Very similar to the 1E made SO.
We just did a bad. Thing.
I don't think so. Yes.
Rupert. Rupert.
Wasn't evil. Rupert wasn't.
Very loving, except for except towards unconscious people.

(02:24:23):
I look at my hands. Karma.
Can you give me AD one? 100, please.
For favorites, yeah. No 0 and 0.
Did he actually get 20? You're.
Fucking with me. I got 2.
Zeros. And 00 and. 0.
Oh my fucking God. Connor, I'm gonna kill the party

(02:24:45):
again. No.
Do you know? What 100 is Oh, that's 100.
Instead of zero. Yeah, that's huge.
I was just saying we you should.We could use a wish spell.
You rolled it, Sharma. You rolled 100 so as.
As we informed you. Before this is shared between

(02:25:05):
you and stickleback passed. It at the.
Same time, so I let you roll it,but you and stickleback.
Faced. The brunt together this was on
purpose Stickleback chose this in case ended up being something
dangerous so that at least it wouldn't kill anyone my.
God so. The two of you will get to share
as the after effects of this True Polymorph spell waves out.

(02:25:28):
Droki disappears and all of a sudden your mind goes blank.
Karma as you just see endlessness and you feel like
you can grab anything you want. You reach out of hand and you
look down and your hand is shackled to someone else's.
You look over and you see sticklebacks as well, him
reaching out for something else.Oh my gosh, just to go back,

(02:25:51):
let's think about. This What do you want?
What do you want? Listen, if I just go.
For my thing and you go for yours.
Maybe we'll get both. Yes, you see the two of them.
Looking at each other and. Talking.
They're stars in their eyes. What the fuck is going on?
I know we can. Get both or.

(02:26:12):
What's something we can do together?
Chat, we are gagged. Nickelback, I really.
Know what I want, much less whatyou want?
How about we talk about nobleness?
What do you want? Chat We've never gotten a.
Wish Bell. I don't know.
I don't know. Probably powers.
I thought we did there. Was AI feel like?
That's a bad wish, not. During No Wish.

(02:26:34):
Oh, and your wish was mine. Your wish was going to be noble.
Oh yeah, it was going to be really noble.
Yeah. I wanted to go back in time and
make. My life better.
Is that noble for? You or for wait.
Wait, you're going to make? Your life better.

(02:26:56):
Like how? Like walk mine, just mine.
Walk me through this. I'm just going to go back in
time. And make it better.
I don't. Know what yet?
But that's just. What came to mind?
So what you want to be a? You want to be a chronomancer.
This is losing your mind. Listen.
Listen. I think it's some more.
Karma. You wish for what you want.

(02:27:16):
I wish for what I want and they'll.
Both happen. Right.
This is a great idea. This is a great idea.
No, listen, you wish for what I want.
I wish they they won't combine right?
It'll just be different. The effect continues.
Shining, but you feel it waning look, can we both at.
Least wish for the Colonel Nancything.
Do you want to go back? Where do you want to go?

(02:27:36):
I don't know, maybe kill a? Few less people, maybe kill a
few people a bit harder, but karma you have someone waiting.
For you, that's hard, right? What will he do here waiting for
you all these years? I'll be gone for like. 5 seconds
and then I'll just like come back.
Isn't that how chronomancy works?
We're only going back. I don't want to come back.
Why would you, of course. Not why would you not want the

(02:27:58):
power to be able to come back? This is the point of
conversation. Why can't we just wish to be
able? To travel time in general, it
begins fading. What do you mean?
That's scary now? Because I don't want to be able
to travel time. Oh, karma.
I don't know what I want. Karma.
He starts getting stressed out. Karma choice.
Oh my God. Oh my God.
I don't know which one I want more.

(02:28:19):
I don't. Want to lose?
Him, but I also want. Him Karma, what do you want to
do? What do you wish more than
anything else in the world? This is such a good question.
God, I'm trying to think, how doI?
Possibly combine this with sticklebacks?
What do? What do you want more than?

(02:28:39):
Anything else in the world, you set power that's like an evil.
Thing. Yeah, I didn't.
Mean it. I was kidding.
What do you mean? Maybe like friends.
Friends. But look around.
It sounds like you already have.Everything you wish.
For what do you really? Want karma?
I'm freaking out. I think.

(02:29:01):
Maisie's freaking out though. We could get him back here.
Afterwards we could. Look.
Stay. Go.
Back. I just I want some friends, if
that makes sense. If you getting to go back in
time is what gets me that, then that is my wish too.
OK, I'm going to do it like this.

(02:29:23):
You ready? Yeah, we wish.
Gets a lot of friends and stickleback.
Also goes back in time and there's a flash of light and
that's where we're going to end.Oh my.
Fucking God, you guys, you guys.Stickleback has entered the
other campaign is. Stickleback.

(02:29:43):
Stickleback's father. Is the Berg so if he's going
back to fix his life, I'm sure couldn't.
See you. I'm I'm tires killing them on
site. I'm gagged.
It's so fucking. Glad.
Thank you. This one.
Shot is now in cannon. Park Cannon the main campaign.
Thank you everyone for joining. Me tonight, let's do some quick,

(02:30:06):
let's do an epilogue really quick here.
So after this happens, so Mocko and Dantrek do not go to jail.
In the end, you. Do eventually find them?
Karma. For whatever reason, you do find
a bunch of friends, but they're all really old people who swear
they remember you from the past.But they.

(02:30:27):
Really care. About you and these like these
group of like 10 or 20 old people are just like infatuated
with you. They love hanging out with you.
They want to play games with youand it's something that's weird.
About it this isn't. Quite what you wished for, But
then did Stickleback get what hewished for?
Sounds excited about it though. He.
Enjoys having the old folks overbecause he likes cooking for

(02:30:48):
them. Yeah, I think.
I think Karma shrugs. I think Karma is happy with old,
old people. Just as.
Much they love him the. Games end quickly after there's
an assassination attempt and sorry, a real.
Assassination. You're right Freya, you are not

(02:31:09):
able to see Nim again. He disappears, he does not meet
you. Additionally, Echo you never see
any evidence the rest of that day.
No bleeding, no bleeding, head bleeding and no hatty well that
that's OK. And.
Finally. Stickleback has disappeared.
Spirals a new deep. Incorrigible depression, Karma

(02:31:32):
tells you. Some bullshit about how
Stickleback like said like he's going to miss you and he was
gonna help. I think so like.
Trying. To be comforting, but she was
gonna live a normal. Life after this shit in the
coming months. Finn shuts down the bookstore
indefinitely. So sad.

(02:31:54):
Get reactive. We're not done.
OK, sorry. Kill.
Of course I'm killing myself. Do you feel OK?
Insane. Sorry.
Dan Freg is very. Excited and him seems to
disappear. He seems to sort of be happy
that he's gone but doesn't qualify on anything about it.
Dude, that goes kind of evil. I'm not evil, I just really want

(02:32:16):
Frey. You know, we tried to find him
after. With me and Marco, we couldn't
find him. Did you find any information?
Like if it was killed. No, no, he's alive.
He just went. Back to Minzo Barons, we'll have
to go save him. It's like an adventure.
We could. Go on an adventure together.
He knows too much. So that we can go kill him too.
Either way, we try to save them first if you.

(02:32:38):
Can't be saved between We're gonna kill them.
We bring little Ricky. Sticky Ricky, Sticky things.
So he's gonna. Be we're gonna have a babysitter
for him in school. Let's go rescue.
Him. Rescue or kill Name Dickie
Rookie. Yeah, Karma, you make.
A lot of friends with these old folks who seem to come by who
seem to remember you from a lifethat you don't remember and

(02:32:59):
that's pretty excited about her.Do they Remember Me from?
Like the same like like do they have this?
Is it the same life that they Remember Me from?
Or is it like a bunch of like random facts?
They don't have the same life. They all of their stories add
up, but it's nothing you ever did that seems excited about it.
In fact, after a while, he begins pivoting to old folk
care. He enjoys hanging out with kids
as well. But you guys have so many old

(02:33:20):
folks coming by. Together we can stop.
Seeing nearly abuse but. Echo.
Eventually, Rock Coach does beg you to come join the ship.
Yeah, and work with her. You have enough time with both
working at the bookstore sellingbooks to come say hi everyone.

(02:33:40):
We're. Selling books on the high seas.
Stickleback disappear 72 hours later, probably right in the
midst of the real hit of the spiral of depression.
Oh yeah, I'm doing some. Fucked up shit to Jeremiah as
well. He reappears back.
On Jeremiah ship. And talks about it like nothing
happened. What the fuck?
I hit him again. Hey dude, what the fuck?

(02:34:02):
What you left, Curry? Said you were gone.
It worked, I think. Does your?
Life feel different now well. I got to, you know, see a lot
of. Right, things done.
So even though this world I think is the same, like it
didn't change the past, I feel better about it.
OK, you were coming. Back to the overworld with me.
Yeah, two years sentence. At least not a sentence.
This was what I wanted to do. I wanted to make friends and I

(02:34:22):
thought you were. Gone forever, I said.
You were gone forever. I.
Said you said to me, let's just hang out.
Come on. Let's go back.
I'll check out the. School rock trick.
I. Hope he covers a rock.
Rock, dude. Jeez.
OK, I hug him. You hug him.
Yeah, I hit. Him, you hit him, he tries to
hit you back in his league, I catch it, I hit him again.
I'm. Getting a bruise?
He's excited to see you and you notice Jeremiah is especially

(02:34:43):
excited to see him. Jeremiah let's on a little too
much that he cared a lot and wasreally scared.
You just undid. Like 2 years of me and
Jeremiah's recovery journey. You know, I think I I know that
was sort of scary at. The end there.
The wish thing maybe got away from me, but it worked.
God, I thought, forever. I don't know if it worked.
Permanently. It seems like maybe things are
still sort of the same here. But I'm happy.

(02:35:05):
I always have to, And I'm especially happy now back here
with you. Oh, I'm glad you're happy.
Do you? Want to work up a bookstore?
You mean together we can? Fix up the roof to the guest
room like a or two so you could sleep in our till then.
Is it all right that I still? Have the warlock patron.
I actually I feel more connectednow, drunk.
Are you OK guys? A.
Little crazy what he says to do.But for a second pair of.

(02:35:25):
Ears, but drunk. OK, Patron.
Yeah, he pulls you in for another.
Hug and. Then tries to punch you again.
I I'm so tired and I punch him all.
Back harder in the ear bunch, Carter.
Bunch. Carter in the year, finally.
Carter, Carter over. The next few months.
You start having a lot more dreams about spirals.

(02:35:46):
Somehow, as part of casting the spell, you.
Suddenly feel a lot closer to dropping.
Connected perhaps? By.
I jump on the opportunity and start and start praying to him.
I'm sorry I killed you. I won't do it again and some

(02:36:06):
missed you already. You think it might just be in
your head, but you. Sometimes you feel like you feel
responses, forgiveness, acceptance, excitement, madness.
Just a little bit. Of madness.
And at the very end. Excitement for the future?
Fuck yeah. OK.
And that. Is where?
We'll end the reaction in one shot.
Thank you guys. For.
Coming with me. Fucking crazy.

(02:36:28):
If you roll double zeros. That's not, that's insane.
That was a really good end. Oh my God.
Stickleback. He's.
The. Glue.
He's the. Glue.
That son of a bitch. Can't.
Fucking escape him I wanted. Him to dodge.
Fuck you. Fuck you fuck.
You, my brother. Oh my God, it'll be so.
Hard to not have Oro treat him like his darling baby brother.

(02:36:50):
Oh wait. But to Oro he would be sort of a
nephew. OK, it's all working out.
Oh. My God, itchy.
Sticky stick Meister, stick it around.
We can't have a stickleback. And.
Malagus. I do, brother, you're.
Pepper hairs. Too shitty warlock.
Brother. Oh my God, Mason.
This is excellent. Dude, that ending was fucking.

(02:37:13):
That was great. That was all.
Carter. Great roles, man, that was a lot
of fun. Carter I got.
That. 100. Percent, that was the.
Best role anyone's ever rolled in this entire any of the times
we've played B&D. Past, present, future, sure it
will top that in the fucking results of it.
Also, I hope you fucking know Karma's coming back to us.

(02:37:34):
I'm immortal. I tried to kill Karma this
episode and now he's he's here forever.
That's fucking higher and. Karma are going to.
Hate each other. Oh my God.
Oh my God. Oh my God.
Dude, I'm going to try to kill. 100%.

(02:37:55):
Good thing echo it doesn't. Transcend, he's doing 100%
killer OK all. Right.
You can take us out. Yeah.
So. Again.
Because this is a very, very special episode and we are
recording live together from themiddle of nowhere I'm.
An undisclosed. Location about.
Selling us and no WI. Fi.
There will be no poll. This week, I'm sorry to break

(02:38:16):
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That's one. Way did you know you can comment
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Yeah, you can do that. Now, but.
I look at every comment and I like them.
I like I hate the like button. Also I enjoy the spark.

(02:38:36):
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That's R slash run back. It's an awesome place to go talk
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I've been informed we've been AO3 haven't challenging ideas my

(02:39:40):
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(02:40:01):
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Most importantly, we need to howl.
I agree. Lastly and most.
Importantly, don't forget to listen next Monday for the next
installment. All right.