May 22, 2023 • 42 mins
Our Heroes finally start to... question Octavius Trigg. What will they discover of Gerard's plans are even each other?
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Hello and welcome to Attackers of Opportunity. This is your DM Michael. I'm
sitting around a virtual table with someof my friends and where about to place
some D and d D. I'mexcited for kind of the next wave and
next adventure for all of you all. It's been a long time in building
to this point, and there's alot of things out in the world now
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that you all have heard about thatthere are issues and now you can truly
go out and quest beyond the worldsof just a country or two and into
the greater world. I'm scared fearchange. I'm just personally happy that all
of you finally decided to get thefull DLC download package so that now we
can explore more of the world.What we finished, all the side quests,
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this video a well some of them. Yeah, you know, after
like three years of a game beingout, typically they'd just like make it
an automatic download. So I'm herefor it. Is the part of the
game where you look at the mapand suddenly a big chunk goes that wasn't
there are exactly. Most recently inthe adventure, however, you're at the
funeral for burial Silver Thrust and we'reattacked by a handful of creatures. You
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follow them back to their base onthe root cause of these stone blight beings,
and you fought a avatar of oneof the dark lords. And as
you all battled it and finally laidit low, Vallach was infused with this
energy, this burning, these lightningbolts jumping out to him, in this
knowledge appearing suddenly in his mind onthese visions of the world around a view
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of a mountaintop, the view ofa sunken perhaps octagonal temple with reliefs on
the wall, and some sort ofovergrown cracks set of walls, with some
sort of almost large bipedal frog monsterwith sharp teeth leaning out from a crack
in the wall, with a largeblue body laid bear at its feet.
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And in those flashes you Valk atleast understood other things that were happening in
the world. You all returned backto the silver Thrust estate. You joined
in the last few hours of revelryof the life celebration for burial silver Thrust
and the family there. You wereinvited to stay at their estate. And
you all wake up the next morning, some of you, perhaps a little
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hungover others of you coming out ofa very nice bit of buzz from the
night before. Breakfast is prepared forall of you. There's eggs, there's
bacon, there's breakfast tacos, there'sbowls of fruit that are brought out to
you. All they do bring outone platter and it almost sort of is
in the shape of a snake thatkind of winds back and forth on the
platter, covered in a thick,dark sauce. But it looks like someone
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took a knife to the kind oftop if a snake had a spine,
the top line of the snake,opening it out so that the material of
the snake, because it's not anactual snake, I'll give you that,
as it's opened all up, creatingthis almost soft, neat interiors for all
of you to taste if you sodesire, again covered in this kind of
thick black sauce. But all thefood is presented to all of you.
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It is the morning of a brandnew day. You all are fully arrested.
You have all of your hit points, all of your spelled slots,
all of your everything once again,and in the final moments of the presentation
of this kind of flayed snake dish. One of the guards outside steps and
he goes. Just so you remember, we do have this slue skinned fellow
we've been keeping for you. He'sa route. Should we give him bread
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and water? I's been like twodays we have given him anything. It
should be something we're doing. Seemedto be affected by the fact that he
hasn't taught any nutrients in a fewdays. Well, every time he almost
comes back to consciousness, you knockhim out again. So I don't know
if we have an answer to that. Terribly sorry. I mean, you
don't give him water and maybe somesnacks. Perhaps we should be the ones
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to bring him food and drink sothat he's more open to talking. Yeah,
yes, so probably movie. Sowe're going to get him for the
listeners at home, Heather in myhead? What the opposite direction in the
head tilt? During that noise youseem so excited. I was like,
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well, they must have a goodreport. Move, just cease torture.
I know he doesn't want to talkto me. I probably doesn't want to
talk to either. I wouldn't trustthem to get Dorian think you might want
to talk to you. Perhaps perhapslet's fly him with some decent fan and
maybe some wine. Yes, youhave enough extra food here where you are
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easily able to prepare him a plateout of the food that has been brought
to you there some wine. There'senough materials to make you know amamosa or
sangria type as well, or youcould just have just a standard glass of
wine in there. If you ask, they could even bring you a glass
of ale or meat as well,so you all can get whatever, whatever
food, whatever provisions you'd like toto try to apply this guy with.
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And one of the guards will showyou down the hall, down a floor
so that you're granted, it's allin a giant cave city anyway, but
you are underground. E've been fromthe rest of the structure where this entity
is. And they bring you intoa room where at least Dickie has been
before, because he's the one that'sbeen casting the antidetection spells on this guy
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anyway, So Dorian at least isbrought in to the chamber. Anyone else
that'd like to come, you're morethan welcome. And Octavious Trigg is currently
unconscious on the ground, still tiedup when you enter, all right after
you well, let's sit to himup. All right, With just a
little bit of maneuvering, you're ableto kind of bring his body up.
His legs are tied together, hishands are tied together, his arms are
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tied together. You roll him up. His head is still lull a little
bit in an unconscious state. Hisarms are we'll say, they're tied behind
him. So you kind of rollhim up in sort of sitting position,
and he's hunched over, laying sortof limp over his legs, not full
flexibility, just kind of limped hungover. Does anyone have any smelling salse Craft?
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Yeah, looks at Moonbeam. Seethat how I was making it all
flowery before. Yeah, we're goingopposite with that. It's gonna be harsh.
Okay, roll me a nature check, yeah, okay, yeah.
Yeah. You create the spell,and it's it's a bit noxious. It's
sort of like if you know howrotten eggs have sort of almost the sulfury
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smell. It's like you've gone youhit rotten egg point and then went two
more days, and that's the smellyou create for this guy's nose. And
there's a sudden as he jolts backto a bit of consciousness. And sees
Dorian and at least moonbeam in thechamber. Hello. Oh oh, yes,
let's let's get that out of that. You untie the gag from his
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mouth? Yes, are you goingto kill me today? Or what we
kill? Oh? We could giveyou breakfast? Well, I would certainly
appreciate it. Last meal. Yes, well, it's the burst meal of
the rest of your life. Howabout that? Yea, that was pretty
good. That was good for thatfunerality? Have one. He sort of
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rolls his eyes for a moment andthen looks at you, looks at the
plate and gestures with his arm withhis shoulders, with his arms tied up
behind him, clearly indicating that hecannot feed himself. Maychand start feeding him?
Excellent solution to that problem that Idid not exactly foresee. So yeah,
alright, your machand is able tofeed the occasional bite to him.
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It's able to pick up a forkeven and feed it off the fork.
Do you resist the allure of going? Here comes the tutube train? Here
comes a YouTube train that all dependsdoes he readily eat? He does readily
eat? Yes, then I won'tdo that. But if he had,
like mmmm, then I would havedefinitely got your humming in for a landing.
Here we are open up. Butno, no, if he eats,
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it's fine, it's fine. He'lltake several bites and go, well,
this is actually rather taste. Thankyou, you're very welcome. Something
to drink. Indeed, if youhave a glass of wine, i'd appreciate.
Machan brings the glass over to him. He takes a sip. He
takes first like he's trying to maintainthe coral. But at this point it's
been almost four or five days sincehe last ate or drank, which is
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when you guys tied him up inthe first place. So he like tries
to maintain the coral, but wantsthat first sip of wine and a little
bit of fluid hits his system.He leans further in towards the cup and
tries to drink in more clearly he'sbeen a bit dehydrated, all right,
slow down, so down taking thenose. Dorian will pull it away and
do like a you know, theswish, not the legs. I would
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hate to insult our guests and thechoice of mediocre wise, well, I
mean, technically you are a prisoner. You're not going to get the finest
of wines. But it is serviceable. Serviceable. Yes, all right,
then, so let's just get thisout of the way. We have no
intention of killing you. Well,I have failed in my mission by now,
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and if a team has not beensent to procure me, that means
you've hidden me somewhere that prevents magicalsight. So yes, at this point
that almost certainly my life is forfeit, even should I return home, so
first meal, the rest of myrather short life. As they say,
really they would kill you over this. I have failed my mission. I
know this is very confusing for me. If we fail at something, then
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you know, we pull ourselves backtogether and we try again. We don't
kill people who bail. Well,that's idiotic, Greta. I am making
an assumption here. You all seemedcompared to destroy the spell mantle of Gerard.
You almost certainly have had enough time. I've been conscious enough to assume
that at least a few days havegone by lead me to believe that you've
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destroyed now the artifact that I wassent to obtain. Of course I have
failed, Yes, yes, indeed, like spectacularly, you've definitely failed.
Then at best I could hope isthat my death would be similarly spectacular.
Why with the death, Why areyou so focused on death? Maybe had
nothing to live on? Go onliving? If you were part of an
organization end you fail that the taskwould not your superiors weak the wrath on
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you? No, maybe, likenow, Dorian, what have we done
wrong? How could we have donethis? Better? Learn from this and
move on in your life. Thatjust sounds like a toxic work system.
Yes, perhaps that's why we're somore magically advanced than all of you.
Yes, clearly by your spectacular failure, you're so much more advanced, and
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that you needed instruments to actually worktoward what you were trying to do,
which again you have failed out.So how advanced are you really? It
just looks at you and rolls hiseyes for a moment. Oh, I
see he's trying to anger us,to get us to kill him. Oh,
oh, buddy, No, that'snot let's try that. I almost
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hate saying it, but talking thingsout is the best way of learning from
our mistakes and moving forward becoming betterpeople. How strange you see? If
I were to return to my bossa failure, he would ask me,
what did you do wrong? Whatwere the failus? What were the lessons
you could learn from this? Andthen he'd executed? Why would he take
the time to bother so that thenext one would be able to learn from
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my mistakes? Like the next oneshould just leave at that point? Like,
what benefit do you have out ofthis status status to be a lieutenant
to the council? Oh that muchcloser to dying for doing something else wrong
reward for having served so long andso perfectly up until then. Wow,
what a horrible life you've led.I'm so sorry. A life dedicated to
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a goal for the betterment of oursociety. Your society kills people both for
one mistake valid points, a mistakeof this magnitude, but it couldn't be
helped. You really had no chance. Wait, I would like to know
where do you think you went wrongand where do you think you could have
done better? Tell me, Well, the pen this is for the moment,
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the moment that you that you werein the room talking to me,
separated from your enemies. I shouldhave immediately had all of my men attack
you, kill you first, thusdepriving your friends of your assets in battle.
Thus, then I'll throw my warriorsout into the hall to assault you
owl as well while I retreated toprepared. The second and third and fourth
waves are to then completely destroy andperhaps even level the citadel as it stood,
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bring the stone down around your heads. So what I'm taking from this
is I'm the most important member ofthe group. You are the most vulnerable
member of the group. Same thing. There'll be no living with him,
now, you see, not aproblem I'm going to have. Oh well,
that sounds like a challenge. Isay we keep him. Oh I've
always wanted a pet. Yeah.Let me ask you one question. If
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we were to set you free somewhere, what would you do? Come back
to my superiors, get myself used. It would be my duty a queen
in country. I see, Isee, Well that just sounds stupid.
So I think we should leave youtied up for a while. We don't
have a queen, but all right, oh right, what do you have?
Then? We are led by councilsof the most powerful magic users in
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the last and the necromanswer lord apparently, so oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
oh yes, it seems that yes, yeah, just wait till he
turns on you. Yeah, ifyou think you were going to be dead
before you won't just be dead.You'll be dead in part of his army.
Oh yes, so you will keepon living sort of, but not
nowhere that anyone cares or give youany kind of regardful. It seems like
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zombie for this one. Good ormaybe one of those machines. Oh yes,
yes, sight check when you say, like one of those machines rolling,
insight, fucking jack fuck yeah,all of us. Twenty two.
Yeah, I'll give it to everybodywho's in the room. All right,
he was really solid. I thinkI actually have to roll him a deception
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to natural twenty twenty. What's thetotal number? Then twenty? Okay,
Darian not very insightful and rolling,So I don't think I'm going to beat
and I'm not never mind fourteen byokay made what was yours? Didn't roll
it because here's a joke specifically forChris. Friend of mine just messaged me
to say, I think I'm goingto sign up for some Neil delivery service.
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So I was like, wait,hold on, I have to all
right, it was insight insight,that's twelve. Okay, I'll give Valak
with an eighteen. You feel thathe there's a tightening of his spine when
she says, like one of thosemachines, you notice that there is a
reaction, But an eighteen you can'tquite put together what the reaction it's like,
what it could possibly mean for akrit and a twenty two. He
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very much responds to that, hiseyes widened ever so slightly, his nose,
his nostrils flared just a little bit, his gills on his neck ripple
for just the fraction of a second, and he suddenly, like YouTube get
a vibe like he's somehow terrified inthat moment that maybe you know something that
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you should not there it is,yes, yes, by all accounts of
what you've just said, I wouldbe better off of you all killed me
now rather than returning to my homeland. Go ahead right here, and he
like lifts his chin up, exposinghis neck easy enough for a slasher a
knife to go into and Maige handslaps him on the side of the face
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a little tickle back, head down, smack in the face. O man,
I'm I'm gonna roll the rechection.See what his reaction is to be
tickled. I don't think that atorture type he's ever experienced. Yeah,
soft for on the gills. He'slike, now you face the platinum ring,
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roll me a sleight of hand.T Yeah, yeah, I'm proud
of this. Hold on. Igotta get the right the right die for
this hand. Oh it's a nineteenon the die shit and he had a
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thirteen on his constitution saving throw totry to resist a tickle reaction. So
so yeah, he offers his throat. The mage hands smacks him, his
head goes down a little bit,maybe sneaks around behind him, starts tickling
up the side, and he's liketwitching back and forth, trying to get
his sides away from Mabe's fingers asshe goes and tickles him, and it's
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like almost he's probably almost like sationsof pain, like he doesn't want to
laugh out, like this is aninvoluntary torture of reaction and sensation as he's
been tickled. Keep going for asecond, and I'll just because I'm behind
him a whisper in his ear,if you tell us what we what we
want to know, I'll stop.What You're not going to die? Can
go on? This can go onfor hours, I've seen it. He
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continues to try to jerk side toside for at least a few moments longer.
That's right. Five, What isit exactly that you wish to know
everything? Everything about the machines andeverything you promised to tell us before we
took you down? Everything? Everystart tickling everything? Perhaps may should start
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doing the tickle again? Just pokeon me. I just before I say
anymore, want you to un andunderstand that I tell you this. And
not only am I doomed to die, but torturous death of my soul for
eternity beyond is my fate well already. But no, if you just kill
me now, I just die.If I return, I die. Plus
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if I tell you this and Ijust found out that I've told you all
of this, and I am evercaptured by the Council of cinis Ma,
I am beyond damned. Well abouttwo points there. One, you've already
offered to give us all this informationin the first place in a trade,
so they would assume you've already toldus. And two that sounds like a
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you problem. Or you can hangout with us. You will look back
on this moment years from now andlaugh. When we became fast friends.
We could just protect you you ortickle you on your choice. The odds
are one that Gerard will be successfulin his quest to the people of Cinisma
will be the only survivors. Threego ahead, man, You all protecting
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me like this will only last solong. Don't be such a downy baby.
Will win upside down. How's thelittle fish doing? The little fish
to go do it? Yes?How about you wait until right before dar
takes over the world and then killyourself. You fight the good fight till
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then. Yes. He again putsup a as much of a struggle as
he can for quite a while andthen goes all, it's fine, I'll
tell you what your grandparents are.Does that cause Mave to stop? Since
I don't know whose grandparents he's talkingabout? He in the previous discussion,
before you guys had taken him prisoner, he had said to Mave, oh
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you daughter club of Flame. Yes, I could tell you where your grandparents
are. Then yeah, I'll stop. But with the response of somewhere in
the ocean the drowned stages ago,if that is what you have been told,
you have been lied to, mydear. They still sit in their
home ruling over the flawless Grotto clan. Wait, did you just say ruling
whore you unaware of your Mave's ancestry. Excuse me, I don't believe it's
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your place to say, so wecan stop that line of questioning. No,
no, no, we're going tocontinue this line of questioning. But
hell, are you talking about yourmother, clever flame? Her parents rulers
of the flower of the flower scratoclatNo seafarers store you from No, no,
no, her parents were seafarers andthat's how that's how they met and
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they fell in love, and thenshe had me and she died in childbirth.
They were long gone, some seafaringcrash or something. I don't know.
I didn't really get detailed. Therewere grandparents that ever met, didn't
really care about it. No,No, there was no ruling of anything.
There was just just fishing. You'resaying, Mave is royalty. No
we're not, we're not. He'sconflicted in his eyes flick a bit too,
Mave, and Adoran really tries toflick to me, who's probably still
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behind him, ready to tiggle again. Well, no, I think as
soon as you started talking, Icame at least around to face him,
because it's a lot of are youlying to me? Looks. He looks
at you. It says, thebest of our information is that your father
is your father, but your motherwas a princess. Then your information is
clearly very wrong. I'm no longerafraid of you and your group because clearly
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have no idea what you're talking about? Is it wrong? Really? I
mean, didn't you hear the sidequest? What did you're writing down your
weird dreams? Again? Don't sayweird, some say prophetic, some same
matter. Just for the sake ofargument, where does this clan reside in
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the world and the shattered aisles themajority of the Bacsi live. You say
that they were met folks? Werethey were? They? Really? Well,
it doesn't make sense any other way. There's no really. If if
I'm some kind of ruler princess thing, then why why am I not there?
Why did I grow up on theseas? Why why am I not
a princess? I would believe thatwould go to the motivations of your father.
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I can tell you what it was. I cannot tell you what was
in the hout of people. Thereare so many thoughts that are running through
her head that I can't express incharacter, because she wouldn't be saying them
out loud. But a lot ofit is that everything that's led up to
this is a yeah. But dadalways wanted me to be like a pirate
princess. Oh my god, isthat what he actually like? He did
want me to be a princess,but just in a different way. I
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didn't ever want to rule anything.Oh god, I have to go talk
to my dad. Oh god,he thinks I'm dead. Oh god.
And so that's what's going through herbrain. What you see is may have
just slowly, like take a fewsteps back from this guy right into Dorian.
Yeah. Just something that may alsooccur to you is back at the
wedding that was happening in Tavahia,you pulled out absolutely perfect, flawless manners
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to deal with the uppercross. Youwould have been trained in how to do
that growing up. Why would yourfather have spent the time and energy to
train you in things like that?Well, and up until that point,
like that may not have even occurredto her yet, specifically, because she's
she's a rogue. She's trained tobe a lot of things. So she's
trained in swordplay's, she's trained inarchery, she's trained in many different languages.
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She's mate trained, and like,eat the fork that's on the far
thing at first, don't eat untilsomebody sits down, Like it's there's a
lot of kind of stealth and trickerythings that can be attributed to that kind
of behavior and knowledge, and that'show she's always written it off in the
first place. But the wheels arewritturning, but there, she'll get there,
she'll get there. Cool. Soat this point she has bumped into
Dorian with with Octavia still just kindof looking at you with a head,
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and you can see calculation running intohis mind, like, oh, I
have just found a crack in thisgroup's armor. And you can see him
trying to spin wheels in his ownhead. But I leave the moment of
Maven Dorian to you. Well,she bumps, but she doesn't move.
He'll like move to like Hatcher incase, just like like a studying Oh
hey, I'm right here. Youcan't see it. But because she's like
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you can feel that she's shaking messageto Mave so no one else can hear
this. Let him get to you. We'll deal with this later. Let
him get to me. Apparently I'ma fucking princess. Later, let's focus
on him. But I promise we'llfigure this out. She takes a deep
breath load and like breaths out,takes those two steps back forward, kind
of clause out for tickling. Allright, so full of useless knowledge?
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Or what else do you have?Yes? Please continue, or else she'll
start on your feet. Made crinklesher nose a little bit. He looks
back at Dorian like really, andthen goes back. Everyone knows that the
tickle torture is worse on the feet. His head moves around and he looks
over at Moonbeam and says, well, I'd also said in before you took
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me prisoner that there may be waysof the debts that you have accumulated getting
you out of some of those debts, always to trade favors for other,
probably far less onerous temptations on yourside. But I don't suppose you'd be
interested in that. I don't thinkyou can. There are often two ways
in which people can earn favors oraccrue debts. Either you ask a fade
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for some sort of service, oryou ask for information. Perhaps I could
provide you information that you could tradeto get favors from others, and then
trade the favors that you are owedto those that you owe to get yourself
out of the equation. Don't domaths either way. This is the point
where you talk and tell us allthe information. If starts taking off a
shoe, yes, I hear theback of the knee isn't very good either.
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I have heard that. Well,my information is that you owe I
believe it is three favors. Youowe three favors to Hays from the Prince
of Fools, and one of thosehe traded to the lady Veronastra to send
you here in the first place.If you, I don't know, I
able to provide a rassam with informationthat you have discovered on your journey,
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perhaps I could cover those other favorsof yours. For example, Oh,
I don't know. If you happento have traveled to a dark world full
of shadows and knew the name ofa creature who sided there, the very
name of that creature would almost certainlybe of value narratively. Just to remind
people, because it's been a while. At one point you were partying at
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the citadel with the elves. Bothyou and maybe I think had gotten a
little drunk. You were riding onMay's shoulder. May have tried to stealth
away from the party. She rolleda krit and her armor of shadows basically
ripped her out of the fabric ofreality, and you, because you were
attached to her at time, intoa realm full of shadows. There was
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an entity that you all encountered thereand said that when the world was so
desperate and about to be destroyed,that if you were to say his name,
he could perhaps merge his realm withthe primeterial plane to preserve it nice.
Do we remember what that name was? Actually? In the I realized
that I gave you this name aone episode, and then in another recording
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later on, I changed his nameaccidentally. But his name Nige, well
as he my brain is saying aschariot, And that's not the right word
you said it earlier, Yeah,avatar or champion, champion. That's why
my brain was saying chariot. Okay, you don't have enough information about him
to ascertain that. But he offered, he offered to merge his realm with
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the primeterial plane if things got desperateand it looked like the world was going
to be destroyed. Wow twice interestingand Dorian eyes Moon being like curious how
you found that information? A littleaccusatory, like is not looking it doesn't
matter, he'll shooting that. Lookat you, it's like, hey,
you fall from just because Drove cameand talked to us, does that mean
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we're not already interested in all ofyou? When someone disappears and then reappears
moments later in a slightly different location, one begins to form conjectures that you
do have eyes everywhere, we haveenough eyes and connections. As for you,
little Dicky, I believe I've alreadygiving you information about your grandfather,
maximistic Us. Yes, he gotaround the biggest bard energy I've ever heard.
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He was the max. I meanwe could have imagined that, right,
look at me obviously, Well,yes, look at minimism fact,
the fact that Jason was almost quiteliterally his uncle. I mean that,
and he killed him. I meanI'm sure that would not cause any issues
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at all, that I killed him. But you all killed Jason, did
you not? Well? Yes,I don't see how the group effort.
Yes, my grandpapa won't to knowbecause I believe he's dead. I don't
know. I just found out mynenot so yeah. Oh yes, maybe
he's a princess. Yes, thattraps we could have tea. Oh,
Dorian, I'm not seeing anything darkabout my past, my passage, just
a raba. Do you snap withglitter when he Oh, yes, I
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do it around the world and backhim. Oh, I thought it would
be in z formation for Zison.Boom boom, boom boom. He gets
more fabulous every episode. Thank you. I'm super hoping for glitter Beard by
the end of All Day. Yeah. Yes, glitter mutton shops. Yeah
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yeah, glitter chops. You're forglitter shops. Anyway, we're going to
fight some glitter monster. Thanks,and then he turns, looks at Valk
and goes one thing we never wereable to ascertain. So, val emissary
of peace and Row and all thatwe have heard of you, why did
you never return to your father andyour brothers? They were all quite so
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sad thinking that you had died outin the world. I'm sorry, Cold,
You've got something coming behind you withlike a TV or something sounded like
Ellie Ellie's on TV. I didn'tsee. Velis very sad and head away.
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Okay, So he kind of looksaround and kind of cranes his head
back around to the side a littlebit and looks at Dory and goes,
well, am I going to belet free? Or if I just keep
talking? Are you all just goingto hold the threat of continuing continuing torture
over my head? I mean,I intend to let you free, but
you have to give us all theinformation. Wait, we're letting him go
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free. I thought he was goingto be our power. I mean,
he's more than welcome to accompany usand be protected by us. Don't forget
you could teleport at any moment.Oh, we're not worried about him disappearing
with us well, because the offeris that we will protect him, But
if he wants to be away fromus, then he doesn't have that protection,
and I would rather him not betortured for all eternity, or at
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least his soul. Obviously, I'mjust saying, what if you teleport away
with one or two of us asprices to make it to make it up
to them? I think he needmore than two to make up for us.
The mistake, wasn't it. Now? If I tell you what I
know of Gerrard's plans, will youuntie me and let me go at that
torture. If it is the lastthing you tell us, it is indeed
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intended to be the last thing thatI tell you. Yes, yes,
but it's not the last thing thatwe want to know, So we'll ask
that last All right? What elsedo you wish to know? Them?
Everything about those machines? Those arebunny eers, you mean the automata,
Yes, particularly how to free theirsouls. If you already know that much,
then there's souls of senti beings,sometimes slaves, sometimes troublemakers, are
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sometimes out rebels. They're souls aresort of poured into a syphonic blender of
sorts, and bits and pieces ofsouls are then put out into the automata
too, and to empower them andensure that they perform you to perform their
tasks. So, if we wereto free the bit of soul that is
taking over the current automata, willit kind of magnetize back to another free
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part of its own soul that isnot a soul what we theorize. We
think that when there is enough soulthat is able to get out of the
magical locks. That is why wehave some of these automata rebels that live
just outside the borders of sinner smileand cause extra trouble for us. So
I believe it'd be more of aif a piece of the soul were freed.
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Either the automata would just shut downand stop functioning entirety, and the
soul would go off to whatever nebulastate with the gods that the souls exist
in all that it would begin toregain enough of itself through memories or some
other ephemeral quality in that they regaina fraction of consciousness and learn their own
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new life from there. So howdo we break the spell that's blocking math?
Well, if you were to clearlydestroy them, that would break the
arcane luck in which their souls heldsoul fragment, I should say, just
to be specific, yes, yes, you broke up people's souls and put
them into automaton's guard it if youwish for. I don't know of a
way to do much more than that. You did mention that there are rebels
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and the right outside your border.That must be frightening his lips personal a
little bit like damn. I wasn'tsupposed to say that, yes, there
are a handful of rabble rousers thathave gone just over the border, and
they occasionally will launching with an attack, and they will claim that they are
there to free some of their fellowsin arms just because they are in Watton.
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It is a bit more trouble thanit's worth, honestly to go into
a neighboring sovereign state and just eradicatethem entirely. So so they're not in
Ewan or rocos they're in Watton.Yes, that is what I just said.
Get the wax out of your ears, man, I'm just making sure
covering all my bases. I hearthat. I do hear the two like
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grinding the basis almost as much asthat a dickie does not show where that
meant. But no, I doyou resting brushes ear? We like to
bat on both sides of the ball. You know what I mean? I
don't. Best of all information isthe Dorian doesn't like to bat both sides.
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Oh nope, you lost me.I'm just by this batting. It's
a thing we do. It Zigsainvolves dugouts, gopher balls rounding bases.
But we have batting enough in Tavaya. But it's for cushioning on a seat,
are definitely giving each other such Ohyeah, I'm just like there's face
palming, there's we do quite abit of paddling. Yes, maybe that's
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the same thing. No bating theball. You would think all of the
horse that he has absolutely frequented.You'd have a little more understanding of anything.
Correct, Now it's talking really,what is this talk of horse to
do with? No? No,I said, what is? Yes?
All those horses you've been riding?Oh I thought you said holes? Right?
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Horses that sense? Yes? Wherewere we I'm not sure? But
figuring out how to free souls fromautomatons? Yes, yes, let's get
back on track. It sounds likethey've been blended, and thus you can't
strong disagree. You absolutely can't.Oh okay, well if we do them
all, then they can all worktogether. They already do. We can
deal with that bit later. Ithink I think it's something that we should
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be able to learn how to freethem, so every time we come upon
some of them, we can freethem immediately. So follow a question,
what exactly is the process to gettinga soul out of a body and putting
it into an automaton thing? Onoccasion, we've had to perform significant repairs
to one of the automata, andwith that we have had to temporarily remove
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the arcane locks. Now, whilethe basic magical theory of how to create
the arcane locks is similar, eachwizard themselves pass it with their own individual
flare or magical thumb print. Almostso, while I could certainly teach perhaps
one or more of view some ofthe bass, you would then also have
to get near them. You'd haveto perform sense of magical rituals around them
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to just destroy the arcane lock.It's probably much more to your benefit to
just destroy them. Yeah, that'snot an option. So the ones that
have broken through, though, hasbeen clear how they did that. Yeah,
what you're prevailing theory on that,Well, there are a couple of
theories, one of which, ohboy, I'm talking quite a lot.
I do wish there was a glassof wine or something, and magehand will
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bring you the wine cup he takesanother sip of it, because well,
the prevailing magical theories is really oftwo schools. One that either something was
defective in the arcane lock, onewho was cast, thus allowing for the
energy of the soul to easily erodethe lock over time, or that just
the souls themselves are poted or powerfulenough that given time, they will erode
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the lock regardless, and that theautomata that he regained some sembilance of sentience,
although that are just old question.The one that I know how old
was he? He's been a piratemost of your life. But I never
got like an age or anything fromhim. He didn't super like Captain Cade
of the Pirates, so there probablywasn't a whole lot of information that you
(36:58):
had about him, unless you wereable to talk to one of his crew
or even find him sometime in thefuture. Interesting and with that, I
believe I have owned at least myarms being untied so that I may feat
myself. Yes, major hand willbring you a piece of bacon. I
mean, you could still cast sailswith your hands. Mate, Stop giving
them ideas a little dicky. I'mjust gonna know that we know what he
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knows, so he should not doit. Is it's true, don't take
us for fools out of character.I mean, it is sort of the
first duty of anyone who's been capturedto try to break out of their capture.
So I mean and he's in herefor day is so hey, I
keep him bacon, Yes, andwhine in my head is definitely sangria.
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So we can keep saying but Isee fruit. We can put some problems
there. Yes, we're all sayingfruits today. I mean that's that's sort
of the pieces that I had forall of you. If we go to
its left of Torard's plans and all. Since you all have destroyed his spell
matters, he'll have to build anew one, and under his deal with
my people, they will be providinghim the materials with which to do that,
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which he could just have built onehimself. He built it originally thought
we thought obtaining it from you wouldbe perhaps a lower price than paying him
to build a new one for himself. Cheap skate. So he's just sitting
in Cinis Mark making plans to builda new artifact, yes, and also
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trying to track us down because we'vepissed him off royally. Oh oh,
yes, he's quite adamant about allof you being terrible, horrible, no
good, very bad entities that havefoiled his pans overly good, that's true.
He did run away with his tailtype between his legs. As it
were, doesn't come fat that.He is definitely talking about how scared he
is of all of us, andhe thought you could take us. I
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wouldn't exactly say scared. He's moreannoyed than him, far more annoyed and
wrathful. Yeah, scared, scaredis what he should be. Sure that
means the same thing, all right, Yes, I mean if you're trying
to amass an army and your argumentis, oh, no, these people
thwarted me, I'm so angry,the answer is, I'm actually scared because
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these are the ones who who thwartedme the first time around. My understanding
is that you are the ones whothwarted him the second time around. Again,
before being specific, no, us, we're alive the first time around,
so not really the dig you wantedit to be. Yes, we're
young in via, I wint gethim Octavias and go, I know what
you made it? All right?At any rate, So, if if
Gerard is working to rebuild everything fromscratch again, what is it that he
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needs this time around? Since we'vedestroyed some of his original artifacts, well,
he had four of them, sohe had to replace his spell mental
It seemed to be an artifact thatprotected him from the harmful hearts, oh
the magical energies that he would beharnessing for his rituals. So he needs
to recreate his magical protection artifacts.Yes, you have any idea about how
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long that will take? Will ifwe assume the level of magical proficiency that
he told us he had, itwould easily take him a year perhaps to
if we assume that he did notreveal all of his cars, probably less
than a year, perhaps much lessa year, A bit more time than
the rest of us thought, right, right, Yes, what's on his
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list? So that we can stopit? I must admit I was not
given the inventory of all of theitems that he needed to create it,
So I imagine it. It's agreat deal of ritual practice. It is
a material to create the spell mantleitself that he has to obtain. Now
grated he would have the based onthe information that he gave to the Council
of Cinisma, he would have notquite the full participation of the Council of
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Cinisma that would get him all ofthe materials that could that he could possibly
need. So it's much more anelement of time to gather than the scarcity
of which you'd be able to,you know, I mean unless you were
able to, you know, killevery black dragon in the world or something
and burn their bodies to the pointwhere new part of their scales would be
useful. Again, I mean,unless you do something like that, I
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doubt you could stop it. Isee, so he needs black dragons.
Yes, what I mean? Iwas asked to obtain information on where black
dragons were. That's how I knowthat, PIZZI, I don't know beyond
that. Where are his eyes?Ghost? His eyes go over to?
Maybe he goes? I know whereone is? And was that the one
that you shared with the whole crewor you just learned about it? No,
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it was in my report, allright? Talk Well, I mean
it's a friend of yours. Youshow you want me to say, kind
of ours? Is a black ismoonbeam? I wish? Oh? No,
she's already a dragon. She's likea wither. You've seen me.
Have you talked with your older brotherof late, the one you call you
you treat sort of like a brother. You're not lently related. We all
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talked to him recently. Why,I mean, it's not my secret.
Are you saying that you don't know? Oh? You don't know. I'm
stuck on older brother. Hold on, you met him, we'll talk about
letter. Oh you're older brother.What's this next level of I don't fucking
know. You're just sitting on withsuch joy. Reminder, I have the
class here. Yes, Captain Blackfacethe first former first officer, your father
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Cadence of Water and then hangs outwith a total dragon. Yes. Thank
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Hello and welcome to Attackers of Opportunity. This is your DM Michael. I'm
sitting around a virtual table with someof my friends and where about to place
some D and d D. I'mexcited for kind of the next wave and
next adventure for all of you all. It's been a long time in building
to this point, and there's alot of things out in the world now
(00:41):
that you all have heard about thatthere are issues and now you can truly
go out and quest beyond the worldsof just a country or two and into
the greater world. I'm scared fearchange. I'm just personally happy that all
of you finally decided to get thefull DLC download package so that now we
can explore more of the world.What we finished, all the side quests,
(01:03):
this video a well some of them. Yeah, you know, after
like three years of a game beingout, typically they'd just like make it
an automatic download. So I'm herefor it. Is the part of the
game where you look at the mapand suddenly a big chunk goes that wasn't
there are exactly. Most recently inthe adventure, however, you're at the
funeral for burial Silver Thrust and we'reattacked by a handful of creatures. You
(01:26):
follow them back to their base onthe root cause of these stone blight beings,
and you fought a avatar of oneof the dark lords. And as
you all battled it and finally laidit low, Vallach was infused with this
energy, this burning, these lightningbolts jumping out to him, in this
knowledge appearing suddenly in his mind onthese visions of the world around a view
(01:49):
of a mountaintop, the view ofa sunken perhaps octagonal temple with reliefs on
the wall, and some sort ofovergrown cracks set of walls, with some
sort of almost large bipedal frog monsterwith sharp teeth leaning out from a crack
in the wall, with a largeblue body laid bear at its feet.
(02:13):
And in those flashes you Valk atleast understood other things that were happening in
the world. You all returned backto the silver Thrust estate. You joined
in the last few hours of revelryof the life celebration for burial silver Thrust
and the family there. You wereinvited to stay at their estate. And
you all wake up the next morning, some of you, perhaps a little
(02:35):
hungover others of you coming out ofa very nice bit of buzz from the
night before. Breakfast is prepared forall of you. There's eggs, there's
bacon, there's breakfast tacos, there'sbowls of fruit that are brought out to
you. All they do bring outone platter and it almost sort of is
in the shape of a snake thatkind of winds back and forth on the
platter, covered in a thick,dark sauce. But it looks like someone
(03:00):
took a knife to the kind oftop if a snake had a spine,
the top line of the snake,opening it out so that the material of
the snake, because it's not anactual snake, I'll give you that,
as it's opened all up, creatingthis almost soft, neat interiors for all
of you to taste if you sodesire, again covered in this kind of
thick black sauce. But all thefood is presented to all of you.
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It is the morning of a brandnew day. You all are fully arrested.
You have all of your hit points, all of your spelled slots,
all of your everything once again,and in the final moments of the presentation
of this kind of flayed snake dish. One of the guards outside steps and
he goes. Just so you remember, we do have this slue skinned fellow
we've been keeping for you. He'sa route. Should we give him bread
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and water? I's been like twodays we have given him anything. It
should be something we're doing. Seemedto be affected by the fact that he
hasn't taught any nutrients in a fewdays. Well, every time he almost
comes back to consciousness, you knockhim out again. So I don't know
if we have an answer to that. Terribly sorry. I mean, you
don't give him water and maybe somesnacks. Perhaps we should be the ones
(04:08):
to bring him food and drink sothat he's more open to talking. Yeah,
yes, so probably movie. Sowe're going to get him for the
listeners at home, Heather in myhead? What the opposite direction in the
head tilt? During that noise youseem so excited. I was like,
(04:30):
well, they must have a goodreport. Move, just cease torture.
I know he doesn't want to talkto me. I probably doesn't want to
talk to either. I wouldn't trustthem to get Dorian think you might want
to talk to you. Perhaps perhapslet's fly him with some decent fan and
maybe some wine. Yes, youhave enough extra food here where you are
(04:56):
easily able to prepare him a plateout of the food that has been brought
to you there some wine. There'senough materials to make you know amamosa or
sangria type as well, or youcould just have just a standard glass of
wine in there. If you ask, they could even bring you a glass
of ale or meat as well,so you all can get whatever, whatever
food, whatever provisions you'd like toto try to apply this guy with.
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And one of the guards will showyou down the hall, down a floor
so that you're granted, it's allin a giant cave city anyway, but
you are underground. E've been fromthe rest of the structure where this entity
is. And they bring you intoa room where at least Dickie has been
before, because he's the one that'sbeen casting the antidetection spells on this guy
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anyway, So Dorian at least isbrought in to the chamber. Anyone else
that'd like to come, you're morethan welcome. And Octavious Trigg is currently
unconscious on the ground, still tiedup when you enter, all right after
you well, let's sit to himup. All right, With just a
little bit of maneuvering, you're ableto kind of bring his body up.
His legs are tied together, hishands are tied together, his arms are
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tied together. You roll him up. His head is still lull a little
bit in an unconscious state. Hisarms are we'll say, they're tied behind
him. So you kind of rollhim up in sort of sitting position,
and he's hunched over, laying sortof limp over his legs, not full
flexibility, just kind of limped hungover. Does anyone have any smelling salse Craft?
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Yeah, looks at Moonbeam. Seethat how I was making it all
flowery before. Yeah, we're goingopposite with that. It's gonna be harsh.
Okay, roll me a nature check, yeah, okay, yeah.
Yeah. You create the spell,and it's it's a bit noxious. It's
sort of like if you know howrotten eggs have sort of almost the sulfury
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smell. It's like you've gone youhit rotten egg point and then went two
more days, and that's the smellyou create for this guy's nose. And
there's a sudden as he jolts backto a bit of consciousness. And sees
Dorian and at least moonbeam in thechamber. Hello. Oh oh, yes,
let's let's get that out of that. You untie the gag from his
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mouth? Yes, are you goingto kill me today? Or what we
kill? Oh? We could giveyou breakfast? Well, I would certainly
appreciate it. Last meal. Yes, well, it's the burst meal of
the rest of your life. Howabout that? Yea, that was pretty
good. That was good for thatfunerality? Have one. He sort of
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rolls his eyes for a moment andthen looks at you, looks at the
plate and gestures with his arm withhis shoulders, with his arms tied up
behind him, clearly indicating that hecannot feed himself. Maychand start feeding him?
Excellent solution to that problem that Idid not exactly foresee. So yeah,
alright, your machand is able tofeed the occasional bite to him.
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It's able to pick up a forkeven and feed it off the fork.
Do you resist the allure of going? Here comes the tutube train? Here
comes a YouTube train that all dependsdoes he readily eat? He does readily
eat? Yes, then I won'tdo that. But if he had,
like mmmm, then I would havedefinitely got your humming in for a landing.
Here we are open up. Butno, no, if he eats,
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it's fine, it's fine. He'lltake several bites and go, well,
this is actually rather taste. Thankyou, you're very welcome. Something
to drink. Indeed, if youhave a glass of wine, i'd appreciate.
Machan brings the glass over to him. He takes a sip. He
takes first like he's trying to maintainthe coral. But at this point it's
been almost four or five days sincehe last ate or drank, which is
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when you guys tied him up inthe first place. So he like tries
to maintain the coral, but wantsthat first sip of wine and a little
bit of fluid hits his system.He leans further in towards the cup and
tries to drink in more clearly he'sbeen a bit dehydrated, all right,
slow down, so down taking thenose. Dorian will pull it away and
do like a you know, theswish, not the legs. I would
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hate to insult our guests and thechoice of mediocre wise, well, I
mean, technically you are a prisoner. You're not going to get the finest
of wines. But it is serviceable. Serviceable. Yes, all right,
then, so let's just get thisout of the way. We have no
intention of killing you. Well,I have failed in my mission by now,
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and if a team has not beensent to procure me, that means
you've hidden me somewhere that prevents magicalsight. So yes, at this point
that almost certainly my life is forfeit, even should I return home, so
first meal, the rest of myrather short life. As they say,
really they would kill you over this. I have failed my mission. I
know this is very confusing for me. If we fail at something, then
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you know, we pull ourselves backtogether and we try again. We don't
kill people who bail. Well,that's idiotic, Greta. I am making
an assumption here. You all seemedcompared to destroy the spell mantle of Gerard.
You almost certainly have had enough time. I've been conscious enough to assume
that at least a few days havegone by lead me to believe that you've
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destroyed now the artifact that I wassent to obtain. Of course I have
failed, Yes, yes, indeed, like spectacularly, you've definitely failed.
Then at best I could hope isthat my death would be similarly spectacular.
Why with the death, Why areyou so focused on death? Maybe had
nothing to live on? Go onliving? If you were part of an
organization end you fail that the taskwould not your superiors weak the wrath on
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you? No, maybe, likenow, Dorian, what have we done
wrong? How could we have donethis? Better? Learn from this and
move on in your life. Thatjust sounds like a toxic work system.
Yes, perhaps that's why we're somore magically advanced than all of you.
Yes, clearly by your spectacular failure, you're so much more advanced, and
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that you needed instruments to actually worktoward what you were trying to do,
which again you have failed out.So how advanced are you really? It
just looks at you and rolls hiseyes for a moment. Oh, I
see he's trying to anger us,to get us to kill him. Oh,
oh, buddy, No, that'snot let's try that. I almost
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hate saying it, but talking thingsout is the best way of learning from
our mistakes and moving forward becoming betterpeople. How strange you see? If
I were to return to my bossa failure, he would ask me,
what did you do wrong? Whatwere the failus? What were the lessons
you could learn from this? Andthen he'd executed? Why would he take
the time to bother so that thenext one would be able to learn from
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my mistakes? Like the next oneshould just leave at that point? Like,
what benefit do you have out ofthis status status to be a lieutenant
to the council? Oh that muchcloser to dying for doing something else wrong
reward for having served so long andso perfectly up until then. Wow,
what a horrible life you've led.I'm so sorry. A life dedicated to
(11:54):
a goal for the betterment of oursociety. Your society kills people both for
one mistake valid points, a mistakeof this magnitude, but it couldn't be
helped. You really had no chance. Wait, I would like to know
where do you think you went wrongand where do you think you could have
done better? Tell me, Well, the pen this is for the moment,
(12:18):
the moment that you that you werein the room talking to me,
separated from your enemies. I shouldhave immediately had all of my men attack
you, kill you first, thusdepriving your friends of your assets in battle.
Thus, then I'll throw my warriorsout into the hall to assault you
owl as well while I retreated toprepared. The second and third and fourth
waves are to then completely destroy andperhaps even level the citadel as it stood,
(12:43):
bring the stone down around your heads. So what I'm taking from this
is I'm the most important member ofthe group. You are the most vulnerable
member of the group. Same thing. There'll be no living with him,
now, you see, not aproblem I'm going to have. Oh well,
that sounds like a challenge. Isay we keep him. Oh I've
always wanted a pet. Yeah.Let me ask you one question. If
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we were to set you free somewhere, what would you do? Come back
to my superiors, get myself used. It would be my duty a queen
in country. I see, Isee, Well that just sounds stupid.
So I think we should leave youtied up for a while. We don't
have a queen, but all right, oh right, what do you have?
Then? We are led by councilsof the most powerful magic users in
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the last and the necromanswer lord apparently, so oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
oh yes, it seems that yes, yeah, just wait till he
turns on you. Yeah, ifyou think you were going to be dead
before you won't just be dead.You'll be dead in part of his army.
Oh yes, so you will keepon living sort of, but not
nowhere that anyone cares or give youany kind of regardful. It seems like
(13:50):
zombie for this one. Good ormaybe one of those machines. Oh yes,
yes, sight check when you say, like one of those machines rolling,
insight, fucking jack fuck yeah,all of us. Twenty two.
Yeah, I'll give it to everybodywho's in the room. All right,
he was really solid. I thinkI actually have to roll him a deception
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to natural twenty twenty. What's thetotal number? Then twenty? Okay,
Darian not very insightful and rolling,So I don't think I'm going to beat
and I'm not never mind fourteen byokay made what was yours? Didn't roll
it because here's a joke specifically forChris. Friend of mine just messaged me
to say, I think I'm goingto sign up for some Neil delivery service.
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So I was like, wait,hold on, I have to all
right, it was insight insight,that's twelve. Okay, I'll give Valak
with an eighteen. You feel thathe there's a tightening of his spine when
she says, like one of thosemachines, you notice that there is a
reaction, But an eighteen you can'tquite put together what the reaction it's like,
what it could possibly mean for akrit and a twenty two. He
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very much responds to that, hiseyes widened ever so slightly, his nose,
his nostrils flared just a little bit, his gills on his neck ripple
for just the fraction of a second, and he suddenly, like YouTube get
a vibe like he's somehow terrified inthat moment that maybe you know something that
(15:22):
you should not there it is,yes, yes, by all accounts of
what you've just said, I wouldbe better off of you all killed me
now rather than returning to my homeland. Go ahead right here, and he
like lifts his chin up, exposinghis neck easy enough for a slasher a
knife to go into and Maige handslaps him on the side of the face
(15:46):
a little tickle back, head down, smack in the face. O man,
I'm I'm gonna roll the rechection.See what his reaction is to be
tickled. I don't think that atorture type he's ever experienced. Yeah,
soft for on the gills. He'slike, now you face the platinum ring,
(16:11):
roll me a sleight of hand.T Yeah, yeah, I'm proud
of this. Hold on. Igotta get the right the right die for
this hand. Oh it's a nineteenon the die shit and he had a
(16:33):
thirteen on his constitution saving throw totry to resist a tickle reaction. So
so yeah, he offers his throat. The mage hands smacks him, his
head goes down a little bit,maybe sneaks around behind him, starts tickling
up the side, and he's liketwitching back and forth, trying to get
his sides away from Mabe's fingers asshe goes and tickles him, and it's
(16:57):
like almost he's probably almost like sationsof pain, like he doesn't want to
laugh out, like this is aninvoluntary torture of reaction and sensation as he's
been tickled. Keep going for asecond, and I'll just because I'm behind
him a whisper in his ear,if you tell us what we what we
want to know, I'll stop.What You're not going to die? Can
go on? This can go onfor hours, I've seen it. He
(17:22):
continues to try to jerk side toside for at least a few moments longer.
That's right. Five, What isit exactly that you wish to know
everything? Everything about the machines andeverything you promised to tell us before we
took you down? Everything? Everystart tickling everything? Perhaps may should start
(17:51):
doing the tickle again? Just pokeon me. I just before I say
anymore, want you to un andunderstand that I tell you this. And
not only am I doomed to die, but torturous death of my soul for
eternity beyond is my fate well already. But no, if you just kill
me now, I just die.If I return, I die. Plus
(18:12):
if I tell you this and Ijust found out that I've told you all
of this, and I am evercaptured by the Council of cinis Ma,
I am beyond damned. Well abouttwo points there. One, you've already
offered to give us all this informationin the first place in a trade,
so they would assume you've already toldus. And two that sounds like a
(18:33):
you problem. Or you can hangout with us. You will look back
on this moment years from now andlaugh. When we became fast friends.
We could just protect you you ortickle you on your choice. The odds
are one that Gerard will be successfulin his quest to the people of Cinisma
will be the only survivors. Threego ahead, man, You all protecting
(18:59):
me like this will only last solong. Don't be such a downy baby.
Will win upside down. How's thelittle fish doing? The little fish
to go do it? Yes?How about you wait until right before dar
takes over the world and then killyourself. You fight the good fight till
(19:21):
then. Yes. He again putsup a as much of a struggle as
he can for quite a while andthen goes all, it's fine, I'll
tell you what your grandparents are.Does that cause Mave to stop? Since
I don't know whose grandparents he's talkingabout? He in the previous discussion,
before you guys had taken him prisoner, he had said to Mave, oh
(19:41):
you daughter club of Flame. Yes, I could tell you where your grandparents
are. Then yeah, I'll stop. But with the response of somewhere in
the ocean the drowned stages ago,if that is what you have been told,
you have been lied to, mydear. They still sit in their
home ruling over the flawless Grotto clan. Wait, did you just say ruling
whore you unaware of your Mave's ancestry. Excuse me, I don't believe it's
(20:06):
your place to say, so wecan stop that line of questioning. No,
no, no, we're going tocontinue this line of questioning. But
hell, are you talking about yourmother, clever flame? Her parents rulers
of the flower of the flower scratoclatNo seafarers store you from No, no,
no, her parents were seafarers andthat's how that's how they met and
(20:29):
they fell in love, and thenshe had me and she died in childbirth.
They were long gone, some seafaringcrash or something. I don't know.
I didn't really get detailed. Therewere grandparents that ever met, didn't
really care about it. No,No, there was no ruling of anything.
There was just just fishing. You'resaying, Mave is royalty. No
we're not, we're not. He'sconflicted in his eyes flick a bit too,
Mave, and Adoran really tries toflick to me, who's probably still
(20:52):
behind him, ready to tiggle again. Well, no, I think as
soon as you started talking, Icame at least around to face him,
because it's a lot of are youlying to me? Looks. He looks
at you. It says, thebest of our information is that your father
is your father, but your motherwas a princess. Then your information is
clearly very wrong. I'm no longerafraid of you and your group because clearly
(21:14):
have no idea what you're talking about? Is it wrong? Really? I
mean, didn't you hear the sidequest? What did you're writing down your
weird dreams? Again? Don't sayweird, some say prophetic, some same
matter. Just for the sake ofargument, where does this clan reside in
(21:37):
the world and the shattered aisles themajority of the Bacsi live. You say
that they were met folks? Werethey were? They? Really? Well,
it doesn't make sense any other way. There's no really. If if
I'm some kind of ruler princess thing, then why why am I not there?
Why did I grow up on theseas? Why why am I not
a princess? I would believe thatwould go to the motivations of your father.
(22:00):
I can tell you what it was. I cannot tell you what was
in the hout of people. Thereare so many thoughts that are running through
her head that I can't express incharacter, because she wouldn't be saying them
out loud. But a lot ofit is that everything that's led up to
this is a yeah. But dadalways wanted me to be like a pirate
princess. Oh my god, isthat what he actually like? He did
want me to be a princess,but just in a different way. I
(22:21):
didn't ever want to rule anything.Oh god, I have to go talk
to my dad. Oh god,he thinks I'm dead. Oh god.
And so that's what's going through herbrain. What you see is may have
just slowly, like take a fewsteps back from this guy right into Dorian.
Yeah. Just something that may alsooccur to you is back at the
wedding that was happening in Tavahia,you pulled out absolutely perfect, flawless manners
(22:45):
to deal with the uppercross. Youwould have been trained in how to do
that growing up. Why would yourfather have spent the time and energy to
train you in things like that?Well, and up until that point,
like that may not have even occurredto her yet, specifically, because she's
she's a rogue. She's trained tobe a lot of things. So she's
trained in swordplay's, she's trained inarchery, she's trained in many different languages.
(23:06):
She's mate trained, and like,eat the fork that's on the far
thing at first, don't eat untilsomebody sits down, Like it's there's a
lot of kind of stealth and trickerythings that can be attributed to that kind
of behavior and knowledge, and that'show she's always written it off in the
first place. But the wheels arewritturning, but there, she'll get there,
she'll get there. Cool. Soat this point she has bumped into
Dorian with with Octavia still just kindof looking at you with a head,
(23:32):
and you can see calculation running intohis mind, like, oh, I
have just found a crack in thisgroup's armor. And you can see him
trying to spin wheels in his ownhead. But I leave the moment of
Maven Dorian to you. Well,she bumps, but she doesn't move.
He'll like move to like Hatcher incase, just like like a studying Oh
hey, I'm right here. Youcan't see it. But because she's like
(23:53):
you can feel that she's shaking messageto Mave so no one else can hear
this. Let him get to you. We'll deal with this later. Let
him get to me. Apparently I'ma fucking princess. Later, let's focus
on him. But I promise we'llfigure this out. She takes a deep
breath load and like breaths out,takes those two steps back forward, kind
of clause out for tickling. Allright, so full of useless knowledge?
(24:15):
Or what else do you have?Yes? Please continue, or else she'll
start on your feet. Made crinklesher nose a little bit. He looks
back at Dorian like really, andthen goes back. Everyone knows that the
tickle torture is worse on the feet. His head moves around and he looks
over at Moonbeam and says, well, I'd also said in before you took
(24:36):
me prisoner that there may be waysof the debts that you have accumulated getting
you out of some of those debts, always to trade favors for other,
probably far less onerous temptations on yourside. But I don't suppose you'd be
interested in that. I don't thinkyou can. There are often two ways
in which people can earn favors oraccrue debts. Either you ask a fade
(25:00):
for some sort of service, oryou ask for information. Perhaps I could
provide you information that you could tradeto get favors from others, and then
trade the favors that you are owedto those that you owe to get yourself
out of the equation. Don't domaths either way. This is the point
where you talk and tell us allthe information. If starts taking off a
shoe, yes, I hear theback of the knee isn't very good either.
(25:23):
I have heard that. Well,my information is that you owe I
believe it is three favors. Youowe three favors to Hays from the Prince
of Fools, and one of thosehe traded to the lady Veronastra to send
you here in the first place.If you, I don't know, I
able to provide a rassam with informationthat you have discovered on your journey,
(25:47):
perhaps I could cover those other favorsof yours. For example, Oh,
I don't know. If you happento have traveled to a dark world full
of shadows and knew the name ofa creature who sided there, the very
name of that creature would almost certainlybe of value narratively. Just to remind
people, because it's been a while. At one point you were partying at
(26:11):
the citadel with the elves. Bothyou and maybe I think had gotten a
little drunk. You were riding onMay's shoulder. May have tried to stealth
away from the party. She rolleda krit and her armor of shadows basically
ripped her out of the fabric ofreality, and you, because you were
attached to her at time, intoa realm full of shadows. There was
(26:32):
an entity that you all encountered thereand said that when the world was so
desperate and about to be destroyed,that if you were to say his name,
he could perhaps merge his realm withthe primeterial plane to preserve it nice.
Do we remember what that name was? Actually? In the I realized
that I gave you this name aone episode, and then in another recording
(26:52):
later on, I changed his nameaccidentally. But his name Nige, well
as he my brain is saying aschariot, And that's not the right word
you said it earlier, Yeah,avatar or champion, champion. That's why
my brain was saying chariot. Okay, you don't have enough information about him
to ascertain that. But he offered, he offered to merge his realm with
(27:14):
the primeterial plane if things got desperateand it looked like the world was going
to be destroyed. Wow twice interestingand Dorian eyes Moon being like curious how
you found that information? A littleaccusatory, like is not looking it doesn't
matter, he'll shooting that. Lookat you, it's like, hey,
you fall from just because Drove cameand talked to us, does that mean
(27:37):
we're not already interested in all ofyou? When someone disappears and then reappears
moments later in a slightly different location, one begins to form conjectures that you
do have eyes everywhere, we haveenough eyes and connections. As for you,
little Dicky, I believe I've alreadygiving you information about your grandfather,
maximistic Us. Yes, he gotaround the biggest bard energy I've ever heard.
(28:04):
He was the max. I meanwe could have imagined that, right,
look at me obviously, Well,yes, look at minimism fact,
the fact that Jason was almost quiteliterally his uncle. I mean that,
and he killed him. I meanI'm sure that would not cause any issues
(28:25):
at all, that I killed him. But you all killed Jason, did
you not? Well? Yes,I don't see how the group effort.
Yes, my grandpapa won't to knowbecause I believe he's dead. I don't
know. I just found out mynenot so yeah. Oh yes, maybe
he's a princess. Yes, thattraps we could have tea. Oh,
Dorian, I'm not seeing anything darkabout my past, my passage, just
a raba. Do you snap withglitter when he Oh, yes, I
(28:48):
do it around the world and backhim. Oh, I thought it would
be in z formation for Zison.Boom boom, boom boom. He gets
more fabulous every episode. Thank you. I'm super hoping for glitter Beard by
the end of All Day. Yeah. Yes, glitter mutton shops. Yeah
(29:08):
yeah, glitter chops. You're forglitter shops. Anyway, we're going to
fight some glitter monster. Thanks,and then he turns, looks at Valk
and goes one thing we never wereable to ascertain. So, val emissary
of peace and Row and all thatwe have heard of you, why did
you never return to your father andyour brothers? They were all quite so
(29:30):
sad thinking that you had died outin the world. I'm sorry, Cold,
You've got something coming behind you withlike a TV or something sounded like
Ellie Ellie's on TV. I didn'tsee. Velis very sad and head away.
(29:52):
Okay, So he kind of looksaround and kind of cranes his head
back around to the side a littlebit and looks at Dory and goes,
well, am I going to belet free? Or if I just keep
talking? Are you all just goingto hold the threat of continuing continuing torture
over my head? I mean,I intend to let you free, but
you have to give us all theinformation. Wait, we're letting him go
(30:15):
free. I thought he was goingto be our power. I mean,
he's more than welcome to accompany usand be protected by us. Don't forget
you could teleport at any moment.Oh, we're not worried about him disappearing
with us well, because the offeris that we will protect him, But
if he wants to be away fromus, then he doesn't have that protection,
and I would rather him not betortured for all eternity, or at
(30:36):
least his soul. Obviously, I'mjust saying, what if you teleport away
with one or two of us asprices to make it to make it up
to them? I think he needmore than two to make up for us.
The mistake, wasn't it. Now? If I tell you what I
know of Gerrard's plans, will youuntie me and let me go at that
torture. If it is the lastthing you tell us, it is indeed
(30:57):
intended to be the last thing thatI tell you. Yes, yes,
but it's not the last thing thatwe want to know, So we'll ask
that last All right? What elsedo you wish to know? Them?
Everything about those machines? Those arebunny eers, you mean the automata,
Yes, particularly how to free theirsouls. If you already know that much,
then there's souls of senti beings,sometimes slaves, sometimes troublemakers, are
(31:23):
sometimes out rebels. They're souls aresort of poured into a syphonic blender of
sorts, and bits and pieces ofsouls are then put out into the automata
too, and to empower them andensure that they perform you to perform their
tasks. So, if we wereto free the bit of soul that is
taking over the current automata, willit kind of magnetize back to another free
(31:47):
part of its own soul that isnot a soul what we theorize. We
think that when there is enough soulthat is able to get out of the
magical locks. That is why wehave some of these automata rebels that live
just outside the borders of sinner smileand cause extra trouble for us. So
I believe it'd be more of aif a piece of the soul were freed.
(32:08):
Either the automata would just shut downand stop functioning entirety, and the
soul would go off to whatever nebulastate with the gods that the souls exist
in all that it would begin toregain enough of itself through memories or some
other ephemeral quality in that they regaina fraction of consciousness and learn their own
(32:30):
new life from there. So howdo we break the spell that's blocking math?
Well, if you were to clearlydestroy them, that would break the
arcane luck in which their souls heldsoul fragment, I should say, just
to be specific, yes, yes, you broke up people's souls and put
them into automaton's guard it if youwish for. I don't know of a
way to do much more than that. You did mention that there are rebels
(32:54):
and the right outside your border.That must be frightening his lips personal a
little bit like damn. I wasn'tsupposed to say that, yes, there
are a handful of rabble rousers thathave gone just over the border, and
they occasionally will launching with an attack, and they will claim that they are
there to free some of their fellowsin arms just because they are in Watton.
(33:16):
It is a bit more trouble thanit's worth, honestly to go into
a neighboring sovereign state and just eradicatethem entirely. So so they're not in
Ewan or rocos they're in Watton.Yes, that is what I just said.
Get the wax out of your ears, man, I'm just making sure
covering all my bases. I hearthat. I do hear the two like
(33:37):
grinding the basis almost as much asthat a dickie does not show where that
meant. But no, I doyou resting brushes ear? We like to
bat on both sides of the ball. You know what I mean? I
don't. Best of all information isthe Dorian doesn't like to bat both sides.
(33:58):
Oh nope, you lost me.I'm just by this batting. It's
a thing we do. It Zigsainvolves dugouts, gopher balls rounding bases.
But we have batting enough in Tavaya. But it's for cushioning on a seat,
are definitely giving each other such Ohyeah, I'm just like there's face
palming, there's we do quite abit of paddling. Yes, maybe that's
(34:21):
the same thing. No bating theball. You would think all of the
horse that he has absolutely frequented.You'd have a little more understanding of anything.
Correct, Now it's talking really,what is this talk of horse to
do with? No? No,I said, what is? Yes?
All those horses you've been riding?Oh I thought you said holes? Right?
(34:45):
Horses that sense? Yes? Wherewere we I'm not sure? But
figuring out how to free souls fromautomatons? Yes, yes, let's get
back on track. It sounds likethey've been blended, and thus you can't
strong disagree. You absolutely can't.Oh okay, well if we do them
all, then they can all worktogether. They already do. We can
deal with that bit later. Ithink I think it's something that we should
(35:07):
be able to learn how to freethem, so every time we come upon
some of them, we can freethem immediately. So follow a question,
what exactly is the process to gettinga soul out of a body and putting
it into an automaton thing? Onoccasion, we've had to perform significant repairs
to one of the automata, andwith that we have had to temporarily remove
(35:28):
the arcane locks. Now, whilethe basic magical theory of how to create
the arcane locks is similar, eachwizard themselves pass it with their own individual
flare or magical thumb print. Almostso, while I could certainly teach perhaps
one or more of view some ofthe bass, you would then also have
to get near them. You'd haveto perform sense of magical rituals around them
(35:52):
to just destroy the arcane lock.It's probably much more to your benefit to
just destroy them. Yeah, that'snot an option. So the ones that
have broken through, though, hasbeen clear how they did that. Yeah,
what you're prevailing theory on that,Well, there are a couple of
theories, one of which, ohboy, I'm talking quite a lot.
I do wish there was a glassof wine or something, and magehand will
(36:12):
bring you the wine cup he takesanother sip of it, because well,
the prevailing magical theories is really oftwo schools. One that either something was
defective in the arcane lock, onewho was cast, thus allowing for the
energy of the soul to easily erodethe lock over time, or that just
the souls themselves are poted or powerfulenough that given time, they will erode
(36:36):
the lock regardless, and that theautomata that he regained some sembilance of sentience,
although that are just old question.The one that I know how old
was he? He's been a piratemost of your life. But I never
got like an age or anything fromhim. He didn't super like Captain Cade
of the Pirates, so there probablywasn't a whole lot of information that you
(36:58):
had about him, unless you wereable to talk to one of his crew
or even find him sometime in thefuture. Interesting and with that, I
believe I have owned at least myarms being untied so that I may feat
myself. Yes, major hand willbring you a piece of bacon. I
mean, you could still cast sailswith your hands. Mate, Stop giving
them ideas a little dicky. I'mjust gonna know that we know what he
(37:22):
knows, so he should not doit. Is it's true, don't take
us for fools out of character.I mean, it is sort of the
first duty of anyone who's been capturedto try to break out of their capture.
So I mean and he's in herefor day is so hey, I
keep him bacon, Yes, andwhine in my head is definitely sangria.
(37:43):
So we can keep saying but Isee fruit. We can put some problems
there. Yes, we're all sayingfruits today. I mean that's that's sort
of the pieces that I had forall of you. If we go to
its left of Torard's plans and all. Since you all have destroyed his spell
matters, he'll have to build anew one, and under his deal with
my people, they will be providinghim the materials with which to do that,
(38:07):
which he could just have built onehimself. He built it originally thought
we thought obtaining it from you wouldbe perhaps a lower price than paying him
to build a new one for himself. Cheap skate. So he's just sitting
in Cinis Mark making plans to builda new artifact, yes, and also
(38:28):
trying to track us down because we'vepissed him off royally. Oh oh,
yes, he's quite adamant about allof you being terrible, horrible, no
good, very bad entities that havefoiled his pans overly good, that's true.
He did run away with his tailtype between his legs. As it
were, doesn't come fat that.He is definitely talking about how scared he
is of all of us, andhe thought you could take us. I
(38:51):
wouldn't exactly say scared. He's moreannoyed than him, far more annoyed and
wrathful. Yeah, scared, scaredis what he should be. Sure that
means the same thing, all right, Yes, I mean if you're trying
to amass an army and your argumentis, oh, no, these people
thwarted me, I'm so angry,the answer is, I'm actually scared because
(39:13):
these are the ones who who thwartedme the first time around. My understanding
is that you are the ones whothwarted him the second time around. Again,
before being specific, no, us, we're alive the first time around,
so not really the dig you wantedit to be. Yes, we're
young in via, I wint gethim Octavias and go, I know what
you made it? All right?At any rate, So, if if
Gerard is working to rebuild everything fromscratch again, what is it that he
(39:37):
needs this time around? Since we'vedestroyed some of his original artifacts, well,
he had four of them, sohe had to replace his spell mental
It seemed to be an artifact thatprotected him from the harmful hearts, oh
the magical energies that he would beharnessing for his rituals. So he needs
to recreate his magical protection artifacts.Yes, you have any idea about how
(39:59):
long that will take? Will ifwe assume the level of magical proficiency that
he told us he had, itwould easily take him a year perhaps to
if we assume that he did notreveal all of his cars, probably less
than a year, perhaps much lessa year, A bit more time than
the rest of us thought, right, right, Yes, what's on his
(40:19):
list? So that we can stopit? I must admit I was not
given the inventory of all of theitems that he needed to create it,
So I imagine it. It's agreat deal of ritual practice. It is
a material to create the spell mantleitself that he has to obtain. Now
grated he would have the based onthe information that he gave to the Council
of Cinisma, he would have notquite the full participation of the Council of
(40:43):
Cinisma that would get him all ofthe materials that could that he could possibly
need. So it's much more anelement of time to gather than the scarcity
of which you'd be able to,you know, I mean unless you were
able to, you know, killevery black dragon in the world or something
and burn their bodies to the pointwhere new part of their scales would be
useful. Again, I mean,unless you do something like that, I
(41:06):
doubt you could stop it. Isee, so he needs black dragons.
Yes, what I mean? Iwas asked to obtain information on where black
dragons were. That's how I knowthat, PIZZI, I don't know beyond
that. Where are his eyes?Ghost? His eyes go over to?
Maybe he goes? I know whereone is? And was that the one
that you shared with the whole crewor you just learned about it? No,
(41:29):
it was in my report, allright? Talk Well, I mean
it's a friend of yours. Youshow you want me to say, kind
of ours? Is a black ismoonbeam? I wish? Oh? No,
she's already a dragon. She's likea wither. You've seen me.
Have you talked with your older brotherof late, the one you call you
you treat sort of like a brother. You're not lently related. We all
(41:49):
talked to him recently. Why,I mean, it's not my secret.
Are you saying that you don't know? Oh? You don't know. I'm
stuck on older brother. Hold on, you met him, we'll talk about
letter. Oh you're older brother.What's this next level of I don't fucking
know. You're just sitting on withsuch joy. Reminder, I have the
class here. Yes, Captain Blackfacethe first former first officer, your father
(42:15):
Cadence of Water and then hangs outwith a total dragon. Yes. Thank
you for listening to Attackers of Opportunity. We really enjoyed making this podcast.
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