S2 Ep1: On The Rise

[00:00:30] Speaker A: Hi, I'm Gavin Cash. I'll be playing Clint Brazas. [00:00:34] Speaker B: Hello, I am Gary and I'll be playing Oliver Bright. [00:00:40] Speaker C: Hello, I am guest star Stavigant. I'll be playing Lucas Gwynn. [00:00:46] Speaker D: Hello there. I am Alarig and I'll be playing. [00:00:48] Speaker E: Dulgrim, Rick and it And I'm bloodied porcelain. I will be your storyteller for the evening. Good evening, players. Hello, welcome back. At the end of last season, the band of Coda, Chris, Oliver and Sarah went to something of a Moot court where they presented their arguments to the gods, to a council of gods. As to why Stefan, the child of Loki, but scion of none, should be spared, why his many, many crimes, the lives he was responsible for taking, did not merit him being put to death. It was, in the end, a flip of a coin that decided Stefan's fate. They had managed to convince almost exactly half and the god of luck flipped his coin and decided to spare Stefan's life. In the months that have followed, people have had a chance for some downtime. While Stefan went to prison, the Scions checked in on him occasionally. Some of them, anyway. Sarah gave up her practice as a public defender and went to take responsibility for her part in earning his stay of execution and has been attending to him in Loki's cavern, holding the bowl that prevents the venom of the serpent from dripping into his eyes every single moment that he's strapped to the stone. Oliver returned to his life as an academic, though not as a teacher. He went back to school and became once more a student, pursuing, I believe, his PhD. Chris rejoined his band, got his band back together. They went on something of a flurry of recording and writing over in Greece, sponsored by his mother, Artemis. She ensured that they were given the space to do their writing and do their recording, and the sales of his album have done so well that they are now on a world tour. One can assume that as a Scion, chris has not gotten to completely drop out of his responsibilities and his promises to the gods. But his pantheon is finding ways for him to meet his commitments, even though he can't be with the band that he was a part of when he survived the attack of the Fenris Wolves. Coda also returned to school, but also dove headfirst into a number of other things that we will talk about when she has returned. Needless to say, she is incredibly busy and is not able to join her bandmates again just yet. They know that they will be seeing her probably within a few days. We begin season two with Oliver Bright having been contacted by one of the Crows of the Morrigan with a letter informing him that he is expected in anvil flint has received the same notice as has Lucas. It seems that the labors you all the band agreed to last season begin today dulgrim, you know that these scions of the tuaha are gathering in Anvil. Do you wish to greet them at the borders of your property? [00:06:30] Speaker D: Of course. It's the duty of the mayor to greet the science. It has been some time since I've seen you. Oliver ogba's son. [00:06:51] Speaker B: Right back at you. It's good to see you again, Dolgrim. [00:06:59] Speaker D: You two are unknown to me, but that shall not remain. [00:07:06] Speaker C: Well, I'm pretty new to all of this myself, so that's not terribly surprising. I'm Lucas, by the way. Good to meet the both of you. [00:07:18] Speaker A: Nice to meet you mean, I'm not the brand new to this, but it's been a long time since I've heard anything about this place, to be honest. I'm Clint. Nice to meet you all. [00:07:33] Speaker D: Nice to meet you both. Lucas Clint. I am Dulgrim Rigginson, the mayor of Anvil. Here, come. There is food and drink and warm beds should you need them. [00:07:51] Speaker C: That sounds pretty good to me. [00:07:54] Speaker A: I wanted to turn down a warm. [00:07:57] Speaker B: Uh, neither am I. The heating in my apartment's not working right now. So I'll take it. [00:08:05] Speaker E: As you all walk into town, it is worth noting to those for whom this is a first appearance in Anvil, getting here is a little weird. You followed a road up to a certain point where you were told you needed to turn, but trying to do so, you both sort of just stopped your cars and stared, because where you're supposed to turn, at least at first, looked like a thick tree line. But weird, weirder things have happened, and after a moment, the image in front of you sort of shifted and shimmered and fell away, revealing a path that cut through the trees and is remarkably well kept, well enough for your vehicles to pass safely as you come into Anvil. The town is picturesque, to say the least. Let me find you've. Got it. Looks like almost something off of off of a postcard, but not quite normal enough with a touch of the weird to it. From what you can tell, you can't necessarily tell how many people live here. It it almost seems empty as you walk up. The buildings are like quintessential colonial style. Wooden columns surround small porches. Thrust style doors lead into foyer halls. As you walk up to the building that Dolgrim is leading you into, you realize that the columns have small carvings, knotwork and agum um, where you would normally expect to see things like gargoyles. You see busts of beautiful, almost elphin looking people. You see trees carved into some of the columns, and some of the columns even spread out at the bottom like tree roots that sink into the porches of these places but somehow blend perfectly and don't make anything bow or bubble at all. You can feel the magic in this place, Oliver, most of all, but all of you really can feel the magic. [00:11:48] Speaker A: Y'all ever seen something so pretty. [00:11:54] Speaker B: No. Last time I was here, I stayed at a different house. So this feels more homey, I guess. [00:12:05] Speaker C: Not my time of traveling. These are some sights, all right. [00:12:13] Speaker E: This particular. Oh, I apologize. Go ahead. [00:12:17] Speaker D: Glad you'll find it to be to your liking. [00:12:21] Speaker A: Yeah, that's real pretty. But it's a little quiet. Where is everyone? [00:12:28] Speaker D: They'll be here a little while. They're still working and well how much do you know about my kind, Clint? [00:12:43] Speaker A: I can't say it's terribly much, but I'm always open to learn more. [00:12:50] Speaker D: I'll put it simple to you, then. Doors have a bane, which is the sun. We turn to stone. [00:13:06] Speaker A: I guess that puts you between a rock and a hard place, don't it? [00:13:14] Speaker D: Good thing we enjoy smashing rocks. [00:13:24] Speaker A: Sounds like a good pastime. [00:13:29] Speaker E: As you all step into this building, not only does it feel homey, it feels like it was crafted for you. Maybe not specifically you, but those inclined towards your pantheon. You can tell that this place is decorated to fit members of the Irish pantheon. There are books lining the walls in heavy leather. Some of them are clearly in Irish. Some of them have agum on the spines. Some of them are in English. Oliver, you notice right off that there are a number of famous Irish writers here, but also some that you've never heard of. There are tapestries depicting scenes from Irish myth and legend. And as you all walk through the foyer and into a large sitting room with a huge stone fireplace, it feels rustic, a little less polished than everything else, but still somehow incredibly homey like it was meant to be. Here there is a tall perch, bird perch. And sitting on top of it is a single black crow, one of the biggest anyone, except maybe Clint, has probably ever seen. Hey. [00:15:34] Speaker A: What are you doing in here? [00:15:38] Speaker C: Dang. The birds eat around here. [00:15:45] Speaker E: Bird sort of snaps its beak a little bit and tilts its head one way and then tilts its head the other, like it's looking at you through both eyes. But it has to turn its head to do so. [00:16:03] Speaker A: It's nice to meet you, little guy. Clint will approach. Do you have anything for us? [00:16:17] Speaker E: The crow watches you and Clint. You get the distinct feeling that you are being judged. [00:16:25] Speaker A: Clint puffs up a little bit at that sensation, straightening his back shoulders out. [00:16:32] Speaker B: Don't get too close. I was robbed by one before. [00:16:37] Speaker A: Well, that's probably because you had something shiny up. [00:16:40] Speaker C: Was it that, um, relatively lint. [00:16:47] Speaker E: Is your bird with? [00:16:49] Speaker A: Uh I would say so, yeah, I'd say. Ian is on his shoulder. [00:16:54] Speaker E: Ian kind of looks over at Oliver and makes a little, like, you know, the chittering noises that crows make, except that it sounds distinctly like it might be laughing when Oliver talks about being robbed by one. [00:17:11] Speaker A: Ian, was that you? [00:17:15] Speaker E: Ian kind of moves his wings in the closest thing you imagine a crow can get to a shrug. Like, maybe not. [00:17:28] Speaker A: I thought I told you not to do that unless you were going to share. Come on. [00:17:44] Speaker C: Will slowly approach me. He's going to kind of, not quite tuck himself behind Clint, but just so happen to be standing a little bit more behind him than anybody else. [00:18:04] Speaker E: The bird sort of snaps its beak a couple of times and tilts its head one way and tilts its head the other. This is Ian. And then looks over at Clint as Clint kind of chastises him for stealing, and then looks over at Oliver and then kind of croaks out payment. [00:18:28] Speaker B: What is this payment? Oh, it says payment. Never mind. I misunderstood. Yes, in the defense of the avian creature that stole my money, it needed payment to do something for me. [00:18:47] Speaker A: Oh, so it wasn't no robbery. [00:18:49] Speaker B: No, just extortion. [00:18:55] Speaker A: Birds aren't quite that mean, but. [00:18:59] Speaker E: They. [00:18:59] Speaker A: Do expect something in exchange for their hard work. Same as you or me. [00:19:06] Speaker B: I suppose. So. [00:19:07] Speaker E: Ian hops off of Clint's shoulder and onto the perch nearby, settles next to the slightly larger crow, and the two sort of, like, tilt their heads next to each other, tap beaks a couple of times. They're, like, snapping their beaks back and back and forth, and they're making those little noises in the back of their throats. And you get the feeling that they're talking, but not entirely sure what's being said. [00:19:43] Speaker A: Clint will try to understand them. Just try to listen in and pay attention with a little animal. [00:19:51] Speaker E: Hmm. You do have that, don't you? [00:19:55] Speaker A: I sure do. [00:19:57] Speaker E: All right. Give me perception. An animal ken. [00:20:04] Speaker A: Can do that would be one success. [00:20:18] Speaker E: You catch snippets here and there. It's not that you don't speak the language, is that they're talking quietly and very, very fast. And you get the feeling that you get the feeling that they're almost speaking in code to one another. Like they've got a shorthand. They don't have to make full sentences to understand each other. That sort of thing. And you've seen this before. Birds that know each other exceptionally well can sometimes do this. Though only the special ones, normal crows you've never seen be able to do this. You can always understand them right off. And then after a moment, the two again sort of, like, tilt their heads against each other. Ian sort of puffs up and looks as close to proud as you've ever seen a bird look. And then hops off the perch and back to your shoulder. [00:21:29] Speaker A: Well, what did he say, Ian? Was he sharing some secrets with you or just staring at us with judging eyes? [00:21:41] Speaker E: And as if an answer to your question, you watch as the bird hops off of the perch and in mid air elongates and shifts and turns into a woman. A woman that all of you have met before, except that Oliver and Lucas. You've never seen her with red hair before she was telling him. Good job on protecting you. [00:22:29] Speaker A: Hi, mom. Yeah, Ian's doing a great job. [00:22:39] Speaker E: I know. Oliver Bright. [00:22:45] Speaker B: Morgan. [00:22:48] Speaker E: Been some time. Your case is still intact? [00:22:54] Speaker B: It is. I've been doing my part to keep up with it. [00:23:03] Speaker E: She looks over at Dulgrim and gives him a respectful nod of her head. [00:23:10] Speaker D: Mayor Connor to Morgan. How do you do? [00:23:21] Speaker E: Well enough, I suppose. They've been sent to give them their first labor. Would you mind leaving me alone with them? [00:23:34] Speaker D: If any of you need bacon, eggs, other various food items, there's a kitchen not far away, and he will exit. [00:23:48] Speaker B: Right. [00:23:48] Speaker A: Thank you, dolgrim. [00:23:50] Speaker B: Yes. Thank you, Goldgrim. And Morgan, before we begin, if you could just alleviate some confusion I have. Why have these two been dragged into the stuff I and my friends have done? That burden shouldn't have to rest on them. [00:24:13] Speaker E: Your friends have become hard to get a hold of and have committed themselves elsewhere. Lint is my son. He'll go where I tell him to. I have a vested interest in what's coming for you, and that it goes well. So I have entrusted one of mine to help see it through. [00:24:41] Speaker B: I see. And as for him and I point to Lucas, he kind of waves. [00:24:48] Speaker E: Lucas was sent by his father. Also has a vested interest, considering he's supposed to adopt the Wayward boy once this is all over. [00:25:01] Speaker B: All right, then. I suppose that is a good enough explanation for me. However, I am still sorry for my part for forcing you two into this. [00:25:14] Speaker A: Oh, no need to be sorry. [00:25:16] Speaker C: Hey, I'm just happy to be here and help, you know? [00:25:21] Speaker B: We'll see how long that lasts. [00:25:25] Speaker E: All scions of the tuahadi Dianen must display courage and bravery. These two have work to do to do. That. [00:25:43] Speaker B: Right. [00:25:45] Speaker A: We're going to make you proud. [00:25:49] Speaker E: She does not acknowledge Clint. [00:25:53] Speaker B: I just kind of glance at him. [00:26:03] Speaker A: What? Aren't you confident we we're going to handle these things? We've been called to the task, haven't we? [00:26:13] Speaker C: We sure have. [00:26:15] Speaker B: That's we have. And I suppose we should get into it. So this labor you've been sent to. [00:26:30] Speaker E: Tell us of it first sit. [00:26:35] Speaker A: Yes, ma'am. [00:26:38] Speaker B: I'll take a seat. [00:26:42] Speaker E: Yes. [00:26:42] Speaker C: Lucas will go ahead and sit himself down. [00:26:46] Speaker E: The Morrigan will sit herself across from you and cross one leg over the other and kind of eye you all. I am sending you to a place that is not a place to retrieve an item of great importance and power. [00:27:24] Speaker A: How do we get to a place that ain't a place? [00:27:29] Speaker E: You are traveling to a Magmel. You will retrieve the Dragon stone once you are there and bring it back. Claim it for your pantheon and return it to me. [00:27:52] Speaker B: The fact that that sounds simple implies to me that it's not going to be very simple. [00:27:58] Speaker E: It's a labor. Nothing is ever simple in a labor, Mr. Bright. That is what I would have thought that you of all people would have read heracles'trials. [00:28:10] Speaker B: Oh, I have. [00:28:13] Speaker E: Good. [00:28:16] Speaker C: I don't suppose we happen to know what this dragonstone looks like, do we? [00:28:24] Speaker E: You will know it when you see it. It is she'll kind of hold her hands out to like a little bit beyond how long? Probably like a football and a half in length. It's about yee long. Vaguely circular. [00:28:55] Speaker A: Is it being protected by a dragon? [00:29:01] Speaker E: Hope not. That would certainly make things interesting for you. Though I'm not sure you're ready for a dragon. [00:29:15] Speaker B: Is there anything we can expect that you can tell us? [00:29:20] Speaker E: It will not be easy. You will not be safe. [00:29:28] Speaker B: Wonderful. [00:29:32] Speaker E: But as with most things, your mind is just as good a weapon as anything your hands could hold. [00:29:57] Speaker B: So. [00:30:00] Speaker E: There is no time limit on this. Though I suggest you accomplish it as quickly as you can. Else Miss Massacoy will come and be given the next labor to do on her own. [00:30:18] Speaker B: Ah. [00:30:22] Speaker C: We wouldn't want that. Well, in that case, when do we start? [00:30:29] Speaker E: Now. [00:30:33] Speaker A: Well, now's as good a time as any. [00:30:36] Speaker E: I suggest you speak to the dwarfs. I am not allowed to give you any more information. But they are old and wise. [00:30:48] Speaker B: And they'll know how we can get to this place. That's not a place. You called it what? [00:30:54] Speaker E: Magmel. The plane of joy. [00:31:00] Speaker A: Oh, that just sounds lovely. [00:31:05] Speaker E: She gives you a look and there is the feeling that she might be smiling. But her face does not change. It's a little unsettling. [00:31:21] Speaker A: Surely the plane of joy is going to be a pleasant trip. [00:31:26] Speaker C: Yeah, right. [00:31:27] Speaker E: It's on the it used to be. [00:31:31] Speaker A: Oh no. It used to be. [00:31:33] Speaker B: There it is. [00:31:35] Speaker E: And she stands. She makes her way over to Clint. And Clint for a moment you think she's about to reach out and touch or cup your face. And then at the last second her hand diverts just slightly and strokes along Ian's back. [00:31:55] Speaker A: Clint leans into the touch he expects to receive and holds stock still as soon as she's touching Ian. [00:32:02] Speaker B: Instead I cringe a bit. [00:32:08] Speaker C: There's just this subtle bit of pain on Lucas's expression. [00:32:17] Speaker E: Take care of him. And it's not clear if she's talking to you or the bird. And then she turns for the door. [00:32:24] Speaker A: Yes ma'am. I'll do my best. [00:32:35] Speaker E: She heads for the doorway. And you guys watch as she steps out onto the porch. And she stops in like a pool of light from the front porch lights because it is nighttime and there's a moment as you guys are watching I would like everybody to make me perception Awareness. Except for Oliver. [00:33:08] Speaker C: Perception awareness. [00:33:10] Speaker B: Okay. [00:33:11] Speaker C: How do they stroll? [00:33:15] Speaker E: Roll. [00:33:21] Speaker A: That'S. No successes from Clint? [00:33:23] Speaker E: No successes. Clint is. Do you have any epic dots? [00:33:28] Speaker A: Nope. Not in this one. [00:33:29] Speaker E: Of course not. [00:33:30] Speaker B: Perception awareness. [00:33:32] Speaker C: Any penalty for not having skills? [00:33:36] Speaker E: Yeah, you don't get to use your epics. [00:33:40] Speaker C: Okay. [00:33:47] Speaker A: Y'All watch. She's going to do something. [00:33:52] Speaker E: All right? Cool. So Oliver and Lucas see this. Clint does not. Clint is convinced that she's about to do something cool. And then he blinks at the wrong moment. And as he blinks, you guys watch. You swear as like a bolt of lightning hits in the background. Which is weird because there's no storm, but a bolt of lightning hits in the background. And in that flash, her form flickers. And for a moment, you swear she is standing there. You can't even tell if she's dressed because she is covered head to toe in blood. And then she looks like she's in her coat again. And then the coat kind of spreads in a gust of wind. Looks like raven's wings. Almost looks like raven's wings. And then she is a bird and flies off. [00:34:52] Speaker B: Well, you were certainly right. Knife peck Clinton on the shoulder. [00:34:56] Speaker A: Yeah, the way she turns into a bird is real cool. [00:35:00] Speaker B: That part. [00:35:02] Speaker C: WOWY. [00:35:03] Speaker B: Right? So I'm going to rub my hands together for stars. Welcome to the team. We used to call ourselves Beige and Confused, but that I don't think applies anymore. So we'll workshop a different name if necessary, before we move on and go figure out how to get where we're going from the dwarves. I have a very, very important question for the two of you. [00:35:28] Speaker A: All right. [00:35:30] Speaker B: How do you feel about audiobooks? [00:35:35] Speaker C: Oh, audiobooks. Love them. [00:35:39] Speaker A: See, it kind of depends on the genre for me, but I'll listen to whatever you put on. [00:35:44] Speaker B: I'm going to put one hand on each of their shoulders. Fellows, I think we're going to get along just fine. [00:35:50] Speaker C: Roach of time. [00:35:54] Speaker A: Clint is all smiles. [00:35:57] Speaker B: All right, let's go see if we can find Dolgrim or some other dwarfs. [00:36:01] Speaker C: Or breakfast or that definitely breakfast. [00:36:07] Speaker A: Said there was a kitchen around here somewhere. [00:36:11] Speaker B: Yeah, I hate to admit it, but I'm only going to because Coda's not here. Last thing I had for breakfast was two days ago, and it was toaster strudels that were expired. [00:36:22] Speaker A: Well, how do you feel about eggs and bacon? He said they got a bunch of it here. [00:36:26] Speaker B: That sounds phenomenal. [00:36:33] Speaker A: All right, breakfast first. Or talk to the dwarves and learn what we got to do. [00:36:39] Speaker B: The responsible thing to do would be talk to the dwarves. [00:36:43] Speaker C: But we're going to get breakfast first, right? [00:36:46] Speaker D: You can do both if you'd like, pilgrim. [00:36:49] Speaker E: Hello. [00:36:52] Speaker D: The doorway, it is still open. [00:36:56] Speaker A: You know, I didn't actually. [00:37:02] Speaker B: Sure town. So I suppose you can go anywhere you wish. [00:37:08] Speaker D: It's just saying goodbye, that's all. [00:37:13] Speaker C: Breakfast and a briefing, though. Sounds good to me. [00:37:19] Speaker B: It's to the kitchen, where we can eat and talk about finding this place that's not a place. [00:37:28] Speaker A: The plane of joy. [00:37:30] Speaker B: Yes. [00:37:31] Speaker D: The what now? [00:37:33] Speaker B: We need to go to the plane of joy to grab a dragonstone and bring it back. [00:37:39] Speaker C: Malmeg, I think. Did I say that right? [00:37:42] Speaker A: I think so. [00:37:43] Speaker D: Mogmel oh, yeah. [00:37:45] Speaker C: That so close. [00:37:49] Speaker D: Your task is to go to Mugmel and find the dragonstone? [00:37:54] Speaker A: That's what we're supposed to do. [00:37:59] Speaker D: They never make it easy. [00:38:04] Speaker B: So do you have any idea how to get there? [00:38:09] Speaker D: The myths say you have to travel west from Ireland. How far? Which direction west? Never says. [00:38:26] Speaker B: So we're going to Ireland? [00:38:34] Speaker D: The plane of joy, as is right now, is under Manan Makleir's control. There is a daughter of his out that way. He probably can start. [00:38:53] Speaker B: All right. And is there any other details about him that we should know? [00:39:02] Speaker D: Well, he's the god of the sea. [00:39:07] Speaker A: Does he got a favorite? [00:39:08] Speaker E: You also know that he ferries the dead. [00:39:18] Speaker A: Does he have a favorite color? If we're going to meet him, we might as well be presentable. [00:39:25] Speaker D: I would imagine blue, but I have not talked with him in quite some time. His daughter, Claudia. Claudia lynch runs a bar in Ireland and I believe Kane County. Betty would know better. Apologies. [00:39:58] Speaker B: That's quite all right. You've still given us something to go off of. Worst case scenario, I can read some of the books here and see what else I can find. [00:40:08] Speaker A: Yeah. Sounds like we got to go talk to mamanon and his daughter. [00:40:14] Speaker D: Monan Macle. [00:40:18] Speaker A: Yeah, that's what I said. Right. [00:40:20] Speaker C: Yeah. Anyways, yeah, we should get moving. [00:40:27] Speaker D: Practice the name. The reason I ask this is because it is his full name. It is his title. You screw that up, it is an insult. [00:40:44] Speaker A: We don't want to do that. Thank you for letting us. [00:40:46] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah, that's good to know ahead of time. [00:40:53] Speaker A: Speaking of Betty, are we going to meet her as well? Are we going to have the pleasure? [00:40:59] Speaker D: That woman goes where she pleases. Happily, might I add. [00:41:07] Speaker E: He's not wrong. [00:41:10] Speaker B: There you are, Betty. I was about to say would be disappointing not to see you before we leave. [00:41:14] Speaker E: Well, I was given to understand that you were going to stay for breakfast. Well, for breakfast. For dinner. And then nobody came to the kitchen. She's looking at dolgrum. Were you keeping them busy? I can hear their stomachs from across the house. [00:41:31] Speaker D: It was not my. [00:41:35] Speaker E: Mm hmm. [00:41:37] Speaker D: When the Morgan tells you to leave the room, you leave. [00:41:43] Speaker E: And how long has she been gone? And you've been standing here talking when you could have come across the house to talk to them in the kitchen so that I could feed them. Oliver, you are wasting away. [00:41:57] Speaker B: I know. I'm not getting enough calories, especially with my new workout routine. That's not important. What's important is I am very hungry, and I'm very appreciative of what you're offering. [00:42:10] Speaker E: Well, come on. [00:42:13] Speaker B: I'm going to the kitchen. [00:42:15] Speaker E: Clint and Lucas, the woman that you see is shorter than Dolgram, a little bit more round. She has a pretty cheerful face, but it is currently set in a very no nonsense kind of motherly look. And she's got her hands on her hips as she looks up at the three of you. And despite the fact that she is significantly shorter than all of you, somehow you feel small in front of the mom energy that this woman gives off. [00:42:55] Speaker A: Well, if we're heading to the kitchen, I'm not going to turn that down. Let's go before we get Dolgrim in more trouble. [00:43:04] Speaker C: Yeah, I hear the sound of food that needs eaten. [00:43:08] Speaker A: Me too. [00:43:13] Speaker E: You too? And she's looking at dolgrim. Come on. You haven't eaten since lunch. [00:43:18] Speaker D: Yes, my dear. I love you too. [00:43:26] Speaker E: And she sort of makes her way through the house into a rather large and very well appointed kitchen. There was more than enough space for everybody to sit at this island bar. The countertops are butcher block, and they're the best taken care of butcher block that you've ever seen. They are obviously kept oiled and clean. You get the feeling that they may very well come in here and sand them down every so often to get rid of all the scratches, maybe every couple of years, or they just totally replace them. One of the two. And there's already food cooking a little bit. It looks like Betty stopped in the middle of what she was doing when you all didn't show up as she expected you to. [00:44:23] Speaker A: Oh, ma'am, it smells amazing in here. What are you making? [00:44:28] Speaker E: Well, I heard something about people wanting bacon and eggs, and I thought I'd also start waffles. [00:44:38] Speaker A: Well, we're going to be here for a while. I'm ready to dig in. [00:44:43] Speaker D: Shame the maple syrup is from the state next. [00:44:51] Speaker B: Huh? Fancy. [00:44:59] Speaker E: You guys spend a few minutes getting settled. Betty starts or continues cooking, starts putting out food. Oliver gets the first plate. It's mostly just sliced fruit, but his stomach is growling so loudly at this point that she's like, I've got to get something in this guy, or he's just going to keel over. [00:45:24] Speaker B: I gratefully. Take it. Try to wait respectfully for, like, maybe a minute, and then it's just I'm just shoveling fruit into my mouth. [00:45:32] Speaker D: Dolgrim is shaking his head at you, like, don't wait. Do not wait. [00:45:40] Speaker E: And she sets out mugs of coffee and then kind of glances over at Dolgrum and gets an impish little smile on her face and produces a bottle of whiskey from within her apron and adds a little bit of whiskey to each of the mugs of coffee. [00:46:03] Speaker D: I'll actually need it. The Morgan and the other Irish gods and their wisdom have tasked them with dragonstone and Magmel. [00:46:17] Speaker E: Well, isn't that interesting? What do you all plan to do about it? [00:46:30] Speaker B: Well, it seems we need to get to Ireland first to get there, and then well, the Morgan wasn't exactly very insightful about what we'll find there. But we won't be safe, is what she told us. [00:46:52] Speaker E: I dare say no. [00:46:56] Speaker A: And then we go look for a funny looking rock and bring it back. It seems pretty straightforward to me. [00:47:10] Speaker B: And that's our first mistake. We are scions. If it seems straightforward, it's not. [00:47:16] Speaker E: Nothing ever is. [00:47:20] Speaker C: I'm sure we'll manage. Probably. [00:47:25] Speaker D: As far as I know, none of you have even heard of Mogmel before, so no. [00:47:32] Speaker A: But y'all are saying that it's the plane of joy. I can't help but think it's going to be a fine time. [00:47:40] Speaker D: The history of Magmel is a convoluted mess. It was part of the underworld. [00:47:52] Speaker A: A. [00:47:53] Speaker D: Literal place where the Irish ghosts of the dead would gather and be happy. Fields of green verdant, joy, laughter. Then of course, Titan spawn had to fuck that up. [00:48:14] Speaker B: Naturally. So it's sort of like the Irish afterlife underworld? [00:48:20] Speaker D: It used to be, yes. [00:48:24] Speaker E: It's not anymore. It's a terra incognita now. [00:48:28] Speaker B: Do the dead not go there anymore? [00:48:31] Speaker E: No. [00:48:33] Speaker B: Where do they go instead? [00:48:49] Speaker E: Which is split up into multiple places. And Tierna Ogue is also split up into multiple places. A Cosmology lesson is not what you came here for. But no, magma is not connected to the Irish underworld anymore. It had to be cut off when the Femorians invaded. The only way to protect the dead. [00:49:13] Speaker B: Sorry, my curiosity got the better of me. [00:49:17] Speaker A: Well, I'm also sort of curious, too. Is there a new nice place set up for them, or is that something that they're missing out on now? [00:49:26] Speaker E: It's not as nice, but it's not awful. I mean, we've never been there, of course, but think of the difference. It's. The difference between Magmel is springtime eternal Spring and tyrannomarv is eternal autumn. [00:49:55] Speaker C: Yeah, I guess that isn't too bad. [00:50:04] Speaker E: And my understanding is that it's where the unseely she are. They have a court called the Veiled Court, and there's twelve tribes, and the tribes are all in different places. [00:50:30] Speaker D: And to be honest, for all we know, there's still Femorians there as well. [00:50:35] Speaker E: In Magmel? [00:50:37] Speaker B: Yes. [00:50:38] Speaker E: They wouldn't be in the Underworld. No monon. And the Morrigan would never tolerate it. [00:50:46] Speaker A: No. [00:50:48] Speaker B: What about this dragon stone? What is it? What makes it so important? [00:50:59] Speaker E: Well, I don't know a lot. Our pantheon was sort of late to the party. What I know is that it was left behind after the battle between the Irish, the Welsh and some of the Norse, which was after they kicked the Femorians out the first time. [00:51:25] Speaker D: A century of kicking those Femorians out, might I add. [00:51:36] Speaker E: But it's been there ever since. And the Toaha have, for whatever reason, never gone to get it themselves. But it looks like they finally picked their champions. [00:51:52] Speaker A: Well, we're going to make sure it gets done easy as. [00:51:56] Speaker C: So, real quick, just to clarify, when you say Eternal Springtime, does that mean like, flowers and trees in full bloom? [00:52:09] Speaker E: That's my understanding, yes. [00:52:14] Speaker C: My Allergies are going to hate this. [00:52:20] Speaker E: You might want to take some claritin. [00:52:24] Speaker B: I think I have some satchel, actually. [00:52:27] Speaker A: You know, I hear if you eat some of. The local honey. It usually helps with allergies. [00:52:32] Speaker C: Yeah, we're gonna have to stop by the CVS before we start heading west from Ireland. [00:52:37] Speaker B: Ireland has CVS. [00:52:39] Speaker D: I'm not sure it does. [00:52:41] Speaker C: And any drugstore will do as long as I can get some astapro or something. [00:52:48] Speaker E: You told them about his daughter, right? [00:52:53] Speaker D: Claudia lynch? [00:52:55] Speaker B: Yes. She runs a bar. [00:52:58] Speaker E: Sweet girl runs a bar in County Claire. [00:53:02] Speaker D: That's what I was missing. [00:53:04] Speaker E: Not far from the cliffs of Moore, actually. So if you haven't seen those. [00:53:17] Speaker A: I'm down to see some sights on the way out there. I ain't never been. [00:53:23] Speaker B: We were told it's not a time limit, so if we can scrape some time together for it, then I'd be willing. [00:53:31] Speaker C: Road trip. [00:53:35] Speaker D: I think at this point, it's now. [00:53:37] Speaker E: A boat trip or plane. [00:53:42] Speaker B: I figured we'd fly there first and then have to travel. [00:53:48] Speaker E: The good news is that you're traveling by air into Irish space, and one of you shall look over at Clint as a parent that's sort of in charge of the air over Ireland, at least a little bit. [00:54:11] Speaker B: As in the air itself or like the local airlines? Because I was going to ask. Last time we went on an adventure, we were sort of given a good amount of cash to work with. And right now I'm effectively flat broke, considering I don't exactly have a job anymore. [00:54:32] Speaker E: Is that why you're so hungry? [00:54:34] Speaker B: Yes. I tutor every now and then for local kids and then also the occasional silent parent that just shows up in my apartment unannounced and without using the door. But it keeps the rent together. But other than that, I don't have a lot of spending cash. [00:54:55] Speaker E: Betty sort of sighs a little bit and shakes her head. Oliver, your father is one of the Irish gods of learning. I'm sure if you told him that you just wanted to go back to school, he'd sponsor. [00:55:10] Speaker B: Oh, yes, but I'm working on my PhD now, and I sort of want to finish that first. [00:55:17] Speaker A: So you're already back in school, right? [00:55:21] Speaker E: So you tell him that that's what's happening, and I'm sure he'd be happy to help, but we can spare some spending money in the meantime. [00:55:37] Speaker B: I don't mean to put you out. It was just a question, since the last time, we sort of had just cash fall in our lap, and it was very surprising. [00:55:45] Speaker E: Oh, nonsense. It's not like we use a lot of money here anyway, so what we have tends to have very little purpose. And she'll sort of walk over to where you guys see a heavy, like, granny purse sitting on a table in the corner. And she pulls it out and comes over and for a minute, she's pulling out what you realize are handfuls of precious gems and just sort of piling them up on the counter like they're just in her way to get to what she actually wants in her purse. [00:56:29] Speaker A: Oh, shiny. Don't do it. Don't do it. [00:56:35] Speaker B: Ian, I was about to say, look out for your bird. [00:56:38] Speaker E: Ian absolutely. Hops down on the counter and nudges one of them with his beak. And she kind of chuckles and shakes her head and pushes over a little emerald that isn't so small that it'll choke him, but isn't so big that he can't hold it. There you go. [00:56:59] Speaker A: Oh, Ian. I knew you'd knew. Consent. Good job, little guy. [00:57:06] Speaker E: Um and then she pulls out a wallet and kind of thumbs through it and pulls out a stack of bills, which she hands to Oliver. That should be enough. [00:57:19] Speaker B: Once again, I cannot thank you enough for this. You are far too kind and good to us. [00:57:27] Speaker E: Call your father. [00:57:30] Speaker B: I will think about it. [00:57:34] Speaker E: Don't think about it. Do it. Because if you are doing labors, you are going to be jet setting, and I'm not going to fund every trip, even if it is just milk money. Oliver, you look down at the stack of money in your hand. Her version of milk money is a few thousand dollars. [00:57:58] Speaker B: I choke a little bit, but I try to mask it. [00:58:06] Speaker E: And then she sort of, like, uses her arm to scoop all of the stems back into the granny purse. [00:58:15] Speaker D: You know, Betty, he is a teacher. I'm not sure he's ever handled that much money in cash. [00:58:23] Speaker B: Not. [00:58:26] Speaker E: Well. He's also flying internationally, and it's going to cost at least $1,000 to get there. And it's not like we're hurting for cash, dear. [00:58:38] Speaker D: Oh, no, I understand. [00:58:41] Speaker E: Just saying, how many scions show up with paper money thinking that it's going to do us any good? [00:58:48] Speaker D: Far too many. See if we can also find some of the euros we'll need that while they're over in Ireland. [00:58:57] Speaker E: That's a good point. [00:58:59] Speaker A: I do like a good Euro. [00:59:01] Speaker B: I'm still just looking down, leafing through the stack of bills. Betty, what type of milk are you buying? [00:59:09] Speaker E: We don't buy our milk deer. [00:59:14] Speaker B: Righteous. [00:59:25] Speaker E: She comes out with another handful of bills, which you can tell are a mixture of British notes and euros as well. [00:59:39] Speaker A: Clint looks a little disappointed and as if he may have misinterpreted the meaning behind Euro. [00:59:49] Speaker D: If you actually want some Euro meat and Tatsuki sauce, we can get you some from the decathian house. But later. [01:00:00] Speaker A: Yeah, later. I mean, if we're going on a road trip, we might need some snacks on the way, right? [01:00:06] Speaker C: We definitely need snacks. [01:00:08] Speaker D: I would not advise sending an entire spit of roasted salted and spiced lamb with you. It doesn't keep well on plane rides. [01:00:22] Speaker E: As you are talking. Betty puts out what actually ends up being a full Irish breakfast with a side of waffles for each of you. Oliver, this is probably more food than you've had in a couple of weeks. [01:00:41] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm sort of processing it all right now. [01:00:46] Speaker A: Y'all got any hot sauce? [01:00:51] Speaker E: Sure. She'll kind of root around in one of the cabinets and pull out a hot sauce. Or pull out a bottle of hot sauce and slide it over. [01:01:00] Speaker A: All right. Thank you. [01:01:04] Speaker B: In any case, seems like we have sort of an idea on how we're getting where we're going. What we're going to do once we get there is another story, but we're going to need to get tickets for a plane, all that. We're going to need to get to an airport, so that's probably a tomorrow problem. So tonight we are tuatha, which means I think we need to celebrate before a big sort of journey. Does that sound right? [01:01:38] Speaker E: It would be traditional, but I'm a little surprised that you're the one suggesting it. Yes. [01:01:46] Speaker B: Coda's not here, so I figured someone needed to step up. [01:01:50] Speaker A: I couldn't be more proud. Yeah. It's time to party. [01:01:54] Speaker C: Yeah. You know what? Let's kick it off. Right. [01:01:59] Speaker E: Well, dear, do we throw them the. [01:02:03] Speaker D: Irish party, the Cathyan party, or the Dwarven party? [01:02:08] Speaker C: Dwarven. [01:02:11] Speaker B: They are going to agree with Betty. But if Dwarven party is really what we want to do, we could do a different theme, I guess. [01:02:19] Speaker E: Sure that even you could handle the Dwarven party. [01:02:24] Speaker A: I'm willing to give it a shot. [01:02:27] Speaker C: I'm pretty sure I could take it. [01:02:30] Speaker B: Oh, no. [01:02:32] Speaker A: If Lucas can handle it, you can handle it. Oliver, come on now. [01:02:35] Speaker B: That's the thing. I'm not sure if he can handle it. I think he's just saying that. [01:02:40] Speaker A: No, look at that confidence. He's got this you look over at. [01:02:44] Speaker C: This stick thin man who is still working on, like a quarter of his plate. [01:02:52] Speaker D: All right, boys, bring up the tune. [01:02:55] Speaker B: If I somehow out drink him, you realize what that means, right? [01:03:02] Speaker A: What does it mean? [01:03:04] Speaker B: It means that, well, I out drank someone is what it means. That shouldn't be able to happen. [01:03:13] Speaker A: We got to practice. That's a skill you can work on. [01:03:18] Speaker B: I suppose. [01:03:21] Speaker A: Look, if we're going to be partying together for a while, we got to build that tolerance. [01:03:28] Speaker B: I just said for the night. Where for a while come from? [01:03:34] Speaker A: Well, I don't think we're going to go and get this rock in just a day. It's going to be a couple of days. And every day is an adventure, so why not celebrate? [01:03:44] Speaker C: I like that style of thinking. [01:03:47] Speaker E: All right. [01:03:48] Speaker B: Do you see the logic in it? [01:03:51] Speaker E: Okay, so you all eat your breakfast for dinner while Dolgrim wanders off to give people the rest of the night off. There is a celebration. Scions are demanding libations and a proper send off for what it promises to be a truly heroic burden of a task. I would like each of you to give me three constitution and fortitude rolls. If you have the epic staminas that allow you to shrug off poisons and things like that, this is the time to tell me. [01:04:53] Speaker B: I do not. [01:04:55] Speaker A: I've got one that it looks like I'm doing just fine the whole time. [01:05:04] Speaker C: I don't think I have any. [01:05:08] Speaker E: Oh, boy. [01:05:09] Speaker B: This is going to be three of these checks. [01:05:14] Speaker E: Three Stamina and Fortitude. [01:05:18] Speaker A: The first one and Epic counts as auto one success. [01:05:22] Speaker E: Epic counts as an auto success. [01:05:24] Speaker C: Yes. [01:05:25] Speaker B: My first one has one success. My second one has four successes. [01:05:32] Speaker E: Jesus. [01:05:33] Speaker B: Third one has three successes. I started off rough, but I picked it up. [01:05:40] Speaker C: All right, I'm going to roll, guys. I can't wait for you guys to see my Massive Days pool. [01:05:47] Speaker E: Oh, no. Yeah, I just looked at your sheep. You are well, that's one. Okay. [01:05:59] Speaker B: Two. [01:06:05] Speaker D: Rolling of five. There you go. [01:06:10] Speaker A: All right, so that would normally be just one, but I've got Epic Stamina three. So that'd be three successes. [01:06:18] Speaker E: You have Epic Stamina Three. Or you have Epic Stamina Two. [01:06:21] Speaker A: Epic stamina three. [01:06:23] Speaker E: So it's four. [01:06:24] Speaker A: Oh, four successes. Thank you. [01:06:26] Speaker E: Yes. You have one for each Epic dot. [01:06:29] Speaker A: So that's additive. It's not replacing. [01:06:33] Speaker E: Correct. [01:06:34] Speaker A: Awesome. In that case, the second one is one, two, three. That'd be six PP. [01:06:40] Speaker C: Remind me, is five successes exceptional in this system? [01:06:45] Speaker E: It varies. It depends on what you're drinking. [01:06:50] Speaker A: And that'd be another six. [01:06:54] Speaker E: All right, so here's how the party goes. [01:07:02] Speaker D: All right, boys, bring out the barrels. [01:07:07] Speaker E: Dogram has. So it turns out that in this village, there's probably at least a thousand dwarves who live here, but they don't all show up. 100, maybe 200 show up and they roll out a lot of very large barrels. And it takes Oliver a moment because Oliver has had drinks shoved into each hand. So you're a little distracted, Oliver, as you try to figure out how to double fist two separate drinks. But after a minute, you manage to do the math. 756 gallons is how many gallons total are between all of these barrels. Um, Oliver, it's rough at first. It takes some getting used to. You're not used to drinking at all, let alone this much all at once. But as the night goes on, you start to learn a few things. At least one of the dwarves coaches you on how to chug and breathe through your nose at the same time. So that's helpful. Betty keeps putting food in front of you in between drinks so that there is always something in your stomach to soak up some of the alcohol. Don't get me wrong, you are very drunk after a few hours, but you are not so drunk that you are like can't function. Lucas, you kind of don't remember much after the first 2 hours. What the rest of you do remember about Lucas at the party, however, is that Lucas likes to dance. Lucas, could you please make me a I am let's go with Dex and Dex and athletics and then make me a charisma and art role. [01:10:01] Speaker B: Let's go. [01:10:01] Speaker A: You can do it. You got this. [01:10:07] Speaker C: Okay, first one, I'll be with two additional successes from Epic decks. Okay, what was the second rule? [01:10:27] Speaker E: Charisman art. Plus your epics. [01:10:58] Speaker C: Yes. Let's see here. That would be two additional successes on top of what I rolled. [01:11:04] Speaker E: So a four and a five or a four and a four. [01:11:13] Speaker C: All right. [01:11:15] Speaker E: Hold on. Yeah. No, four and a five. Okay, cool. So Lucas doesn't really remember this, but Oliver and Clint, especially Clint because are you're managing to go one for one with Dolgrim himself? You and Dolgrim have become drinking buddies, and he is teaching you Dwarven drinking songs and you are teaching him weird fusions between Irish drinking songs and Texas Twang country stuff. You're like, I know an Irish drinking song. And then, like, 30 seconds in, you kind of forget most of it. And so it becomes this weird fusion of a random country song that you've heard that's all about drinking and what you remember of the Irish drinking song. And it becomes this weird amalgamation. And you think you may have just created a new genre of music, but while this is happening, you guys are watching Lucas. Lucas, as it turns out, is a very capable Irish step dancer. He looks like he belongs in River Dance because the dwarves are singing and stomping their feet and clapping out a rhythm, and he is keeping up. He is weirdly. I don't want to say graceful because in Irish step dance, one of the rules is that you keep your hands at your sides and your upper body is very rigid and it's just your leg. So it's graceful, but it's a weird kind of graceful, and it's a little bit impressive. And then at some point, there becomes, like it's clear that he's unsteady on his feet and he kind of doesn't want to dance anymore. But he's also not being allowed to stop entertaining. So he transitions to singing. And it turns out that Lucas knows a lot of drinking songs from a few different places in the world. He sings an Irish drinking song. He sings a really bad off key rendition of Fuck You, I'm Drunk. He drinks something or he's he sings something that might be in German or it might just be that he's so drunk that he's slurring everything that he says and just sounds vaguely angry about it. [01:14:10] Speaker C: I like to think that between some of the lines, he's like, double waterfalling. Some of his. [01:14:18] Speaker E: Yeah, absolutely. The whole time he's still drinking. He continues to drink through the whole fucking thing. [01:14:26] Speaker B: I'll stumble my way over to Clint and Dolgrim and just be like, my God, he's pretty good. [01:14:35] Speaker A: I've never seen anything quite like it. [01:14:37] Speaker B: No, it's impressive. Really? Yeah. [01:14:43] Speaker D: Songbird? [01:14:44] Speaker B: Yeah. A quick question. Should I make a phone call? [01:14:50] Speaker A: I mean, if you're drunk and you got a phone, you should use it. [01:14:57] Speaker D: Who are you calling? [01:14:58] Speaker B: Just a friend. [01:15:01] Speaker A: Not for long. [01:15:05] Speaker D: What kind of friend? [01:15:08] Speaker B: At the farm. [01:15:11] Speaker D: You don't live on a farm. [01:15:13] Speaker B: No, but I've been to one. [01:15:15] Speaker A: No, wait, hold on. Is it an no, no. Oh, you're good then? Yeah, go. [01:15:21] Speaker D: Right. [01:15:21] Speaker B: Oh, thanks. I'm going to pat Quinn on the shoulder and then stumble out onto the porch, pull out my phone and call Damon. [01:15:28] Speaker E: Okay. Are you calling Damon or are you calling your friend who lives with Damon? [01:15:35] Speaker B: Friend that lives with Damon. But I don't think she has a phone. [01:15:40] Speaker E: No, she does. [01:15:41] Speaker B: Oh, then I call that number. [01:15:46] Speaker C: Oh, no. [01:15:50] Speaker E: It takes a minute. And when the phone picks up, you hear the sound of, like, hands or something kind of rubbing up against the phone. Like it's clear that she's, like, fumbling with it. You can hear it kind of like, get dropped for a minute and then cursing in Greek. And in the background you can hear like, the rustle of leaves. And you probably won't remember this until morning, but in the morning you're going to remember that you called her in the middle of the night and she sleeps as a tree. So you called her and she had to shift out of tree form to answer because you're kind of the only person who calls her. Hello? [01:16:48] Speaker B: Sarope? [01:16:49] Speaker C: Hey. [01:16:50] Speaker B: What's going on? [01:16:53] Speaker E: Oliver? Yeah, hi. Are you okay? It's really loud there. [01:17:01] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:17:03] Speaker A: You should invite him to come out with us. [01:17:06] Speaker B: I don't think she'd be able to make it. Sorry. I'm at Anvil and we're getting ready to go to a labor skull. [01:17:20] Speaker E: Tell Dolgram I said hi. [01:17:22] Speaker C: I guess dolgrim as Robo says. [01:17:25] Speaker B: Hi. [01:17:26] Speaker D: Wait, that's who you're calling? [01:17:28] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:17:32] Speaker D: I need to send her some beer. [01:17:35] Speaker B: Right. So sorry. Yeah, I just want to see what was up. [01:17:47] Speaker E: Nothing. I guess. It's kind of like three in the morning. [01:17:55] Speaker B: Did I wake you up? [01:17:57] Speaker E: Well, I mean, I'm a tree, so not always not asleep in the strictest sense. [01:18:06] Speaker B: I'm sorry. I should have thought about that. [01:18:09] Speaker E: No. Okay. It's nice to hear you having fun. You're usually so stressed out when you call. [01:18:17] Speaker B: Between you and me, I still am. It's just it's kind of like compartmentalized right now. And honestly, it helps a lot. I should do this all the time. [01:18:29] Speaker E: Maybe not all the time. [01:18:35] Speaker A: Here's your drink. [01:18:37] Speaker B: Just leave it on the counter. I'll grab. [01:18:44] Speaker E: Know if you need something to help you relax. I could talk to Damon. Coda gets pretty regular. [01:18:55] Speaker B: That might that might be a good idea. Yeah. [01:19:03] Speaker E: So you have to do a labor? [01:19:08] Speaker B: Yeah, we need to go to a place that's not a place and get a rock. That's a football, but it's. [01:19:20] Speaker E: Not. Oh, like a terra incognita. Yeah, that yeah, I'm from one of those. [01:19:29] Speaker B: Right. Because you're a dryad. Yeah. That's awesome. Yeah, we're going to a place called Magmel. [01:19:44] Speaker E: I don't know about that place. [01:19:46] Speaker B: Yeah, it used to be great. It used to be, but now not really anymore and kind of sounds like a sad deal. I wish we could fix it, but I don't think we can. I think we're just trying to get the rock. [01:20:00] Speaker E: Oliver. You're a Scion. Your job is to fix things that can't be. [01:20:07] Speaker B: You know, other scions. [01:20:08] Speaker E: Maybe, but it's no, no, you're just as much a scion as any of them. The scions are born to do the impossible. [01:20:21] Speaker B: Yeah, if you want to fix it. [01:20:23] Speaker E: Then you can fix it. [01:20:27] Speaker B: Really? [01:20:30] Speaker E: Yeah. Maybe not right now because you have other labors to do, but you could go back once you know how to get to a terra incognita, most of them you can get back. There aren't usually super strict rules about how to get to like, it has to be on a special day under the right phase of the moon. Like, that stuff only happens in movies. [01:20:55] Speaker B: Yeah. We need to go to Ireland for this. [01:21:01] Speaker E: You get to go to your homeland. [01:21:03] Speaker B: And and, you know, I asked Olgama about this once, and that's where he met my mom, so that's interesting. [01:21:12] Speaker E: Oh, maybe you could meet your mom. [01:21:17] Speaker B: Maybe. I think she's, like, an archaeologist or something. [01:21:22] Speaker E: That sounds cool. [01:21:24] Speaker B: Yeah. Am I bothering you right now? [01:21:27] Speaker E: No. [01:21:29] Speaker B: Okay. Just making sure. [01:21:31] Speaker E: So is like are Coda and them going with you? [01:21:35] Speaker B: No, Coda's doing something. Sarah's in a cave, stopping poison from doing poison things. And Chris, he's doing a world tour, and his band is doing really good. I listened to a few of their new songs. It's actually really good. [01:21:55] Speaker E: So are you going alone? [01:21:57] Speaker B: No, I got two other guys. They're also two author. They're really great, actually. I asked them how they felt about audiobooks, and they said they liked them, and that meant a lot. [01:22:11] Speaker E: Well, then obviously they're great guys. [01:22:14] Speaker B: Yeah, that's what I was thinking. [01:22:18] Speaker E: Well, I'm sure you guys are going to have fun, and you'll have lots of time to listen to audiobooks. On the plane or the boat? Are you taking a boat or a plane? [01:22:25] Speaker B: I think we're taking a plane. [01:22:28] Speaker E: Okay. [01:22:29] Speaker B: Should we take a boat instead? What's the pros and cons? [01:22:33] Speaker E: Well, I mean, it really kind of depends on the gods that you're associated with and how much risk you want. Planes are shorter, so the amount of time that you could get attacked is smaller, but also the attacks that could happen could be more serious. [01:22:51] Speaker B: Yeah. One of the guys that's with me, his mother is the Morrigan, my aunt's, and she controls the air, so that should be groovy for us. [01:23:03] Speaker E: Yeah. Then you should be okay. [01:23:06] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:23:08] Speaker E: We generally give the advice to Dodocafion Scions, that if you're gonna do a if you're gonna do a favor for hera, maybe don't fly in a plane because Zeus is god of the air and he might get in the that's really, really smart. [01:23:30] Speaker B: You're really smart. [01:23:33] Speaker E: Well, no, pretty sure you're the smart one. Well, was there anything that you needed from me before you go? [01:23:45] Speaker B: No, I just kind of wanted to talk. That's it, really. [01:23:53] Speaker E: Well, I'm glad to hear from you. [01:23:56] Speaker B: Yeah, thanks. That means a lot. I won't hold you up any longer. You can go back to doing tree things. [01:24:06] Speaker E: Yeah, I should probably get back under the sunlamps. We're working on aerating the fields because it's fall and we can't really plant right now, but we have to keep the soil good. So it's going to be really busy day tomorrow. [01:24:28] Speaker B: Yeah, best of luck to that. So I know you'll do great. [01:24:34] Speaker E: I'll do my best. You guys be safe. Okay? [01:24:39] Speaker B: All right. Thank you. You're really pretty. Bye. And I hang up hey, way to. [01:24:45] Speaker A: Go for the high five. [01:24:48] Speaker C: On the tail end of that. He's just going to hear, hey, Lucas, look what I can do as Lucas. No, Lucas will say, hey, Oliver, look what I can do as lucas is going to attempt a cartwheel while double bearing two steins in each hand. [01:25:11] Speaker B: Watching this, I go for the high five, but I just completely missed because I'm too focused on this now. [01:25:18] Speaker E: Dex Athletics, and this sounds like a one die stunt, so I will give you an extra die. [01:25:24] Speaker C: Okay, so I'm rolling with two dies. Is that right? [01:25:30] Speaker B: BP? [01:25:31] Speaker C: I'm only rolling two dice for the athletics. Oh, my bad. [01:25:36] Speaker E: You get an extra one extra die. [01:25:38] Speaker C: One extra die. Okay, that sounds amazing. Okay. Death of Flags. Okay, so six. Seven in this case. [01:25:45] Speaker E: All right? It's roll, not R. Oh, shit. [01:26:03] Speaker B: Fuck. Those are the only ones, but they're the important ones. [01:26:07] Speaker E: That's six total. Yeah, it works. Oliver, it is the weirdest and most impressive thing you have ever seen a drunk man do, because he cartwheels. But he manages to shift the steins in his hand at the perfect angle at the right moment at the last minute, so that they're almost like little round hand stilts. So instead of his hands touching the ground, it's the steins. And then he stands up and manages to do it all without spilling a drop. [01:26:43] Speaker B: Oh, my God. I'm going to grab the drink that was left for me on the counter. I'm just going to clink glasses in. Wow. [01:26:51] Speaker C: Yeah. Hey, heck, girl, she was a treat, right? I got the perfect riz line for you. You should tell her this. [01:27:00] Speaker B: I'm sorry, the what? [01:27:02] Speaker C: Hey, girl, are you a conifer? Because you're looking pretty spruce. [01:27:11] Speaker B: Okay, I'm already 90% sure I'm going to wake up in the morning and regret what I just did out there, so that I'm going to choose to forget. [01:27:20] Speaker C: No, you should definitely remember that's my most important message to you while I'm still conscious. I'm not going to remember any of this. But you got to remember that. You got to remember that one thing. [01:27:33] Speaker B: Sure. But before you pass out, one more question. What in the world is riz? [01:27:42] Speaker C: That's a good question. [01:27:45] Speaker B: No, I'm asking for and it is. [01:27:48] Speaker E: At that time that Lucas sways on his feet. His eyes roll back at his head, and he collapses into the nearest chair, and he is out. [01:27:56] Speaker B: I'll try to catch him and lower him gently and be like, Clit. I think we should get him to a bed. [01:28:01] Speaker A: Yeah, well, maybe in a couple hours. [01:28:05] Speaker C: It's a little bit of Ale foam trailing out of one core of his mouth. [01:28:11] Speaker E: The most delightfully Irish thing to have ever happened at one of my tables. And I'm so proud of all three of you. [01:28:22] Speaker D: I've got a gift for you, too, that I made myself. You shouldn't have put a bottle into Oliver's hands. It's a dragon's belly brandy. [01:28:38] Speaker A: Are you sure he can handle that? [01:28:41] Speaker D: If he only has an ounce at a time? Yeah. Right now, if you want to. [01:28:48] Speaker A: Might as well have a nightcap if you plan on sleeping. [01:28:51] Speaker B: No, I'll save it for later. We still got the whole trip ahead of us. Might need a little bit of libations at a later point, so I'll hold on to it. [01:29:03] Speaker D: Be careful. It's stronger than you think it is. [01:29:06] Speaker B: Is it flammable? [01:29:09] Speaker D: Anything over if 80 proof is flammable, so yes. [01:29:14] Speaker B: All right. [01:29:17] Speaker D: Where's Betty? I need to give that woman a big hug and a kiss because she's amazing. [01:29:24] Speaker B: She really is. [01:29:29] Speaker A: You tuck her in extra well for us. [01:29:36] Speaker D: I might do even more than that. Maybe, but not for you guys. [01:29:40] Speaker B: At. [01:29:43] Speaker E: Um dolgram you wander away from the Scions and you find Betty going shot for shot for your manager, the dwarf that kind of oversees all the forges and keeping them burning? He's a big man. He's like, even big for a dwarf, and he's, like, twice her size. And she's shot for shot with him. And they do this line of shots, and then at the end, both of their elbows hit the table, and they start arm wrestling because it's a dwarf party and it's Betty, and she's not to be outdone by anyone, man, woman, or God. And there's a moment where it's clear that they are almost evenly matched. And then she leans in and she whispers something to him, and he kind of hesitates. Um, and the moment he hesitates, and it looks like he's he's shocked by whatever came out of her mouth, she slams his hand home and then throws her arms up, and she cheers. And everybody around her cheers, and she kind of turns, and she goes, Love, I won. [01:31:08] Speaker D: I saw that. And he'll pick her up and embrace her. [01:31:17] Speaker E: Do the boys have enough to eat? [01:31:20] Speaker D: Certainly hope so. If you put more in their bellies, they're going to explode. [01:31:26] Speaker C: They are twitching in the corner. [01:31:29] Speaker E: Speaking of which one's a good dancer? [01:31:34] Speaker D: Which one? [01:31:36] Speaker E: The one who danced. [01:31:40] Speaker D: Oliver did some dancing, too. To be fair, he was dancing while he was on the phone, but. [01:31:48] Speaker B: She. [01:31:48] Speaker E: Looks a little confused, but she sort of shrugs. [01:31:51] Speaker B: I also look confused. [01:31:52] Speaker D: He was talking with the girl. [01:31:59] Speaker E: And she sort of throws her arm around Dolgrim's shoulders and leans over towards Oliver. And what girl might that be? [01:32:09] Speaker B: It's not like just a friend from a farm who's a Dryhead who you. [01:32:16] Speaker E: Just happen to have to call at this hour. [01:32:20] Speaker B: Yeah, you call your friends. That's what you do. You check in, see how they do. [01:32:24] Speaker E: Not at three in the morning while you're at a party, you don't. [01:32:28] Speaker B: Well, I'm very intoxicated, so the existence of time is pretty negligible right now. [01:32:36] Speaker A: Wait a second, oliver, what'd you say before you hung up? [01:32:42] Speaker B: I said bye. [01:32:44] Speaker A: No, I was a little bit before that. [01:32:47] Speaker B: I said you'll do great tomorrow. [01:32:51] Speaker A: Yeah, it sounds about right. [01:32:57] Speaker E: What did he say? [01:33:00] Speaker B: I'm going to go use the bathroom. And I walk away in a direction that's not towards the bathrooms. [01:33:06] Speaker D: She's pretty. [01:33:07] Speaker A: Yeah, that's what I thought. I heard too. [01:33:14] Speaker E: That's so cute for him. Here I was worrying he was never going to find anybody. Well, husband, darling wife, I'm ready for bed. I am old. [01:33:41] Speaker D: Shall I carry then, my love? [01:33:46] Speaker E: You'd better. [01:33:48] Speaker D: Yes, ma'am. And he will lift her up and not sprint, but quickly make his way off towards their house. [01:34:00] Speaker E: And Betty sort of looks back over his shoulder at Clint, who is the only one who has not either fleeed the scene or passed out and just sort of waves with a big shitty grin on her face. You get the feeling she's not nearly as drunk as she was pretending she was. [01:34:19] Speaker A: Clint waves back and then looks around for the next person to drink with or arm wrestle. [01:34:25] Speaker E: You are surrounded by dwarves. There is a line that is ready and willing to arm wrestle and drink. [01:34:32] Speaker A: Happy to go. [01:34:36] Speaker E: With a scion of the tuahadidan because you all are just as legendary about drinking as they are. So I will give Clint and Oliver each a few moments to describe how they wrap up their evening and then we'll go from there. How do you spend the rest of the party, Oliver? [01:35:00] Speaker B: Well, after I flee the scene looking for the bathroom and unable to find the bathroom, I eventually find my way back to that bookshelf full of Irish literature and just drunkenly pull one off the shelf and start flipping through it. I have increased reading speed knacks, so I get through them very quickly. I just keep grabbing book after book off the shelf and eventually that's where I just fall asleep just on the floor by a bookshelf, surrounded by like, open tomes. [01:35:32] Speaker E: I love that. Are you looking for anything in particular or are you just reading for entertainment? [01:35:36] Speaker B: No, just reading. [01:35:38] Speaker E: Okay. Clint. [01:35:42] Speaker A: Clint, feeling that Riz might be some more of a local term, starts asking about the dwarves and trying to see if he can't learn some Dwarven riz while drinking and partying and holding hands and or arm wrestling, depending on how drunk he gets at that certain. Point. [01:36:01] Speaker E: Well, none of the dwarves know what riz means. [01:36:05] Speaker A: They're all as confused as him. [01:36:06] Speaker E: Then you get introduced to a few who have names that sound vaguely like there might be riz in them, like riz might be a part of a name. People just kind of assume that you're, like, looking for a person, and they start randomly introducing you to various dwarves and about oh, goodness. It's probably about 04:35 a.m.. You end up at a sitting on a bench with a dwarven woman who proceeds to try to teach you how to sing in old norse. It doesn't go well, but she seems incredibly amused, and you're 99% certain she's flirting with you the whole time. [01:37:07] Speaker A: Of course, Clint would not be so subtle and flirt back as he's singing and doing his best to put the. [01:37:16] Speaker E: Words together and completely butchering her language. [01:37:20] Speaker A: Exactly 100%. [01:37:24] Speaker E: And you end up kind of passing out on a bench outside of one of the many buildings. [01:37:32] Speaker D: Beautiful. [01:37:36] Speaker E: All right. In the morning, because you have the highest in epic stamina, clint is the first one to wake up. I am looking at all of your stuff. Yeah, you have self healing and stuff like that. You're fine. You wake up early. Lucas is just a puddle of person who is passed out in a chair in the backyard. [01:38:16] Speaker A: Well, does he have a blanket on him? [01:38:20] Speaker E: It looks like one of the dwarves may have, at some point, taken off, like, their blacksmithing apron and tossed it over him like a blanket, which is hilarious, because he's very tall. So while it is wide enough to cover his upper body, all of his legs are just splayed out. With nothing to cover them. [01:38:41] Speaker A: Clint will go over and kick one of the exposed feet. Come on. We got work to do. Sprouse. Yeah, and cones, too, but we're not worried about trees and plants. We got to find a rock. [01:39:00] Speaker E: Lucas, your head hurts. Your eyes don't want to open. You are a hot mess. You don't remember anything past the first hour of the party. [01:39:17] Speaker C: Why is everything painted in painted pain? What god has cursed me with agony this day? [01:39:35] Speaker A: I ain't a god, but maybe in time. Come on. We got to get up and get going. What are you, lazy? [01:39:41] Speaker C: Mercy, please. I'll take whatever burden. Just take away this pain. [01:39:48] Speaker A: All right, close your eyes. Don't worry about it. Clint will go to scoop him up and throw him over his shoulder. [01:39:57] Speaker C: Rushing to my head. [01:40:01] Speaker B: My eyeballs are going to explode. [01:40:04] Speaker A: It'll be fine. Just hold your breath for a little bit. Maybe if the blood rushes enough, you'll pass back out, and I won't have to fight you to keep carrying you. Come on. [01:40:18] Speaker C: He's already limp. [01:40:25] Speaker E: It takes a little bit. But eventually, Clint, you find your way back to the Irish house, to the building where you met with your mother the day before, and you find Oliver in a little like, library nook area off of the foyer. And he is passed out and sleeping like a baby, using a stack of books as like a pillow. And has his hand his arms are wrapped around like multiple, rather large, heavy tomes, like they are like a child's comfort animal. [01:41:06] Speaker A: Well, I ain't going to disrespect the books, but let's go ahead and put our friend down in a chair next to Oliver. That way we can get them both comfy and wake up at the same time. [01:41:19] Speaker E: Okay, how are you going to wake them up? [01:41:25] Speaker A: Well, Clint looks between the two and kind of strokes at his cheeks and chin. Kind of thinks it through for a minute. Well, I know the smell of bacon usually gets me moving, so let's head on over to the kitchen, make him some breakfast. If nothing else, I'll splash him with some water on the way back in. [01:41:46] Speaker E: All right, make me a let's do guess. Wits and craft. [01:42:08] Speaker A: All right. That is no success. [01:42:19] Speaker E: Okay, cool. [01:42:22] Speaker A: Scramble up these eggs here. Get some bacon going. Oh, I forgot. I got to go and get some juice for some oranges. [01:42:31] Speaker E: Yeah, you get stuff started and then ADHD kicks in. You're like, oh, right, I should get some whiskey so that they can have an Irish coffee and have hair of the dog and that'll help with the hangover. [01:42:47] Speaker B: Can I wake up to the smell of. [01:42:55] Speaker E: Say that we'll say that. Oliver. Oliver. You don't wake up to the smell of burning. You wake up to the smell of the smoke alarm. Because this is a place with huge forges and furnaces going on underneath of all the buildings. So they need to know if there's fire, like now. [01:43:16] Speaker B: Yeah. I'm shocked away immediately, like stone to my feet. Get an idea of what's going on, make my way to the kitchen and be like I'll pull it off and try to air out the room. Clint. [01:43:34] Speaker A: Clint stumbles back into the room from some other location. [01:43:37] Speaker B: Yeah, you started a. [01:43:43] Speaker E: You the eggs and bacon that you put on the stove, Clint, are black. [01:43:49] Speaker B: I was going to dump them into the trash. Coffee. [01:43:55] Speaker A: Yeah, maybe I should have started with that. Sorry about that's all. [01:44:01] Speaker B: Just if anything, I needed it. [01:44:04] Speaker E: Clint, you are standing in one of the doorways into the kitchen and Oliver is in the kitchen and has grabbed an oven mitt to grab this heavy cast iron pan that you have managed to char food to and has pulled it off of the burner of the stove before it can get any worse. Though you're not entirely sure if that's possible no. Until you hear the familiar rumble of a masculine voice behind in the doorway that Oliver clearly came through. [01:44:49] Speaker D: Oh, no. What have you done? [01:44:53] Speaker A: It's going to be okay. I promise. I'll fix it. We just need to add some salt and pepper to the food. Yeah. And then just salt. [01:45:04] Speaker B: I turn the skillet, like, upside down and just shake it. It's stuck. [01:45:11] Speaker A: We can scrape it off. [01:45:16] Speaker B: If you want to eat it. [01:45:17] Speaker D: You can set it down. [01:45:20] Speaker B: I'll do. [01:45:21] Speaker D: So, back away. [01:45:24] Speaker B: Three steps back. [01:45:28] Speaker D: Clint? [01:45:30] Speaker A: Yes, sir. [01:45:31] Speaker D: How good are you at running? [01:45:33] Speaker A: Well, I should get started. I'm not that great. Let me go ahead and do some stretching. I'll see y'all in about two minutes. [01:45:41] Speaker D: We'll meet you at I'm not sure my wife's going to let that go easily. [01:45:50] Speaker A: Now, what if I offered to stay and clean it for a minute? [01:45:53] Speaker D: She's probably not going to let you touch it again. [01:45:59] Speaker A: Well, it's been nice living with you all. It's a great time. I think I'm going to go before I go and get murdered. [01:46:07] Speaker D: She's right behind you. [01:46:08] Speaker A: Shit. Sorry. Ma'am, there may have been a mistake, and that was my fault. [01:46:19] Speaker E: I'd say so. [01:46:23] Speaker A: To explain the situation, I had started the eggs and bacon as a way to encourage my friends to wake up. And then, realizing that I also need to have a drink to go with it, I went out to find some brandy or whiskey or something, just to give him a little hair of the dog. And I may have gotten distracted. [01:46:42] Speaker B: In his defense, they did wake me up. [01:46:49] Speaker E: Bruce, it is going to take days to get the smell of smoke out of all the tapestries and hours to fix my good cast iron. So, I'm going to get started. You should go. Clint, when you look at this woman, she looks like she is torn between wanting to kill somebody and wanting to cry as she looks at her good. [01:47:34] Speaker A: Ma'am, I'm very, very sorry. If there's anything I can do to make it up to you when we come back, please do not hesitate and I will do my best. [01:47:52] Speaker E: Thank you. [01:47:53] Speaker A: Of course. I'm going to leave now before I get yelled at. [01:48:00] Speaker B: And I am right behind you. And on my way out to follow him, I'm going to sneak a mug of coffee and go get Lucas. [01:48:11] Speaker E: Lucas was in the hallway, watching all of this unfold. [01:48:14] Speaker B: Okay. Wait. [01:48:15] Speaker C: Was he actually awake at this point? [01:48:17] Speaker E: You're still drunk, but you're awake? It's kind of hard to sleep through. The fire alarm going off. Smoke alarm. [01:48:27] Speaker C: Why is it so loud? [01:48:31] Speaker B: Don't worry about Lucas. Let's just get on the road. We have a flight to catch. [01:48:36] Speaker C: Why does everything smell bad, too? [01:48:40] Speaker B: That's a long story. [01:48:41] Speaker C: I've stepped into a world of pain. [01:48:45] Speaker B: I'm sure you did. [01:48:46] Speaker C: Are you already there? [01:48:48] Speaker B: No. [01:48:54] Speaker D: You haven't even left Anvil yet, Lucas, as Dolgrim shuts the door behind him to leave Betty to her labors. [01:49:03] Speaker A: You got to stop sneaking up on us like that, Dolgram. I am going to lose it in my pants, I swear. [01:49:11] Speaker D: I would think that three Zions of the Irish gods would have better spatial perception than this. [01:49:19] Speaker B: I'm half blind. [01:49:24] Speaker A: Yeah, he's half blind. [01:49:26] Speaker D: I'm not exactly silent when I walk. [01:49:30] Speaker A: Well, we were talking. We were a little distracted. It'll be okay. [01:49:37] Speaker D: Regardless, there is a IHOP or another pancake joint not far from here if you need to actually go get some food. The money that she gave you should be more than enough for that. Plus the plane tickets. Do you all need anything else? [01:50:00] Speaker B: No, Dobram. Thank you. [01:50:02] Speaker E: All right. [01:50:04] Speaker D: Remember, Clare County, not Crane County. Like I was saying, claudia Lynch County. [01:50:13] Speaker B: Claire got it. Claudia lynch. Mona. Mana. [01:50:19] Speaker E: Safe. [01:50:19] Speaker A: Macle yeah, let's make sure I get that right. It's not mega, man. Lock, lear. What was? [01:50:25] Speaker B: No. Mana. Mana moklear. [01:50:28] Speaker D: No. M A, like my last name. Reagan's. [01:50:38] Speaker C: Son. [01:50:38] Speaker D: Two N's. First name has an M. So M-A-N-A-N-N-A-N. Monanon. [01:50:51] Speaker A: Monanon. And then the last part. [01:50:54] Speaker D: Maklier. Two words. M-A-C-L-I-R-I got the second part right. [01:51:02] Speaker B: First part that I got tripped up on. Let's get you to somewhere you can lay down. Backseat of a car. And then, I hope yeah. Also, while we're on the topic, I'm going to put my arms around both gentlemen. What happens in the Tuatha house stays inside the Tuotha house. Clear? [01:51:33] Speaker A: So we're not going to talk about the phone call? [01:51:35] Speaker D: No phone call was done outside the Tuatha house. [01:51:39] Speaker B: It was on the porch. I'm counting that. [01:51:42] Speaker A: We're not going to talk about the radical, the Acrobatics. [01:51:47] Speaker B: We don't talk about that. We don't talk about the phone call. We don't talk about you nearly burning the house down. [01:51:52] Speaker A: Well, if we don't talk about that, that's fine with me. Yeah. [01:51:55] Speaker B: There we go. Everyone's getting something out of this. [01:51:59] Speaker C: There was a line that I said that night so important. [01:52:03] Speaker B: You don't need to worry about that. [01:52:07] Speaker C: It feels really important. Can somebody help me remember? [01:52:13] Speaker B: You know what I think will help you remember? A nice plate of bacon and eggs that aren't burnt and a very large cup of coffee. [01:52:22] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, you're right. That does sound really good. [01:52:29] Speaker E: Well, okay. [01:52:30] Speaker D: Drive safe, boys. [01:52:33] Speaker E: You all pile into a car. The dwarves assure you that they will make sure that the other rentals get back to the nearest rental place. No problem. And you all head out of town, leaving Anvil and Dolgrim and the damage you did to Betty's. Good. Pans in the rear view. [01:52:58] Speaker D: It'll be okay, Betty. We can salvage the pans. It'll be okay. [01:53:05] Speaker E: Thank you. Dolcom after a quick stop to get breakfast, you all, while you are there, put in your purchases. For tickets, I assume? [01:53:24] Speaker B: Yes. [01:53:26] Speaker E: Excellent. Your flight will leave in the evening. Is there anything that any of you want to do before we time? Skip? [01:53:37] Speaker A: Well, every airport's got a bar, right? [01:53:41] Speaker B: Yes. Let's not do that. I think a better use of our time would maybe get supplies that we can come up with that we might need. [01:53:51] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, that'd be we don't know. [01:53:53] Speaker B: What it might be like there, how long we might end up there. We might want to grab some rations. Maybe like MREs or just general food and snacks. We can eat while there. That's not you guys are about to. [01:54:11] Speaker E: Get onto a flight. You can't typically bring a lot of food and stuff unless you buy it in the airport. [01:54:19] Speaker B: I just remembered we're going to get on a flight where we can't bring food with us. I'm still hungover. [01:54:25] Speaker A: It's okay. They got a McDonald's out there, right? [01:54:28] Speaker E: Oh boy. [01:54:29] Speaker B: I have no idea. Still. We can probably buy some bags, get some carry on luggage. That's not food. Maybe some basic survival equipment that could be useful. Rope, flashlights, things like that. [01:54:48] Speaker C: Does bacon count as survival equipment? [01:54:51] Speaker B: That would count as food, which we will get after the flights. [01:54:55] Speaker C: Food is necessary for survival, yes. [01:54:58] Speaker B: It's just going to be a lot hard to get onto the plane. [01:55:00] Speaker A: Can you equip bacon? Can you put it on? [01:55:05] Speaker B: What do you mean by that? [01:55:07] Speaker C: Duct tape. I think that could be manageable. [01:55:10] Speaker A: We're talking about duct tape, survival equipment and bacon ain't exactly something you put on normally. I'm just pointing that out, that's all. [01:55:20] Speaker C: You should talk to one of the gods about that. Seems like an oversight. [01:55:25] Speaker B: Wearing bacon. [01:55:28] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:55:31] Speaker B: How about you just eat the bacon that's in front of you right now and try to sober up a bit. [01:55:35] Speaker C: Oh, bacon. And he's going to start shoveling it into his mouth. Just crunch. [01:55:41] Speaker B: Crunch. Yeah. [01:55:45] Speaker A: There you go. Dig in. That'll help you some. [01:55:49] Speaker B: I say we grab some. Just general carry on bags. Having bags with less would be good. So bags as I basically pull out a notebook and start writing things down. Duct tape always useful. [01:56:06] Speaker A: And we could probably use some sticks if we're going to be camping. That way we can set up tents. [01:56:12] Speaker B: Probably don't need to buy sticks. We can probably just find those. Okay, but still a good idea. Rope. Never know what you might need rope for. Flashlights again, we don't know what's going to be like there. Maybe all the light has been snuffed out and we're flying blind batteries for those flashlights. [01:56:36] Speaker A: Have you done this before? [01:56:39] Speaker B: Similar things, but last time we went into a cave where time got a little bit funky. So this is a different situation. [01:56:49] Speaker C: Do you guys always plan for this stuff? [01:56:54] Speaker B: Well, not always. Sometimes we get things just sort of sprung on us and we kind of have to act in the moment. But when we can plan, I prefer to try to be prepared. Speaking of which, how long have YouTube been science, just out of curiosity? [01:57:13] Speaker C: About like year, maybe? [01:57:17] Speaker A: Yeah, that sounds about right. A year, year and a half or so. [01:57:22] Speaker B: Right. Okay. So about the same time for all three of us. Yeah. Any other supplies? [01:57:35] Speaker A: Well, if we've got the flashlights, the batteries the rope and duct tape. And duct tape, which, now that I. [01:57:42] Speaker B: Have all these written out altogether, we should probably put these in separate bags that aren't together so we don't look like we're going to potentially commit a crime in a different nation. No, see, that one, I don't think we can fit that into a carry on. Two, that will really make it look like we are grave robbing in a different nation. [01:58:05] Speaker C: See, we get one of those collapsible ones that has, like, the swivel head. [01:58:11] Speaker B: If you want to get a shovel, you can, but whatever happens because of that is on you. [01:58:16] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm going to get a shovel. It's going to be great. [01:58:19] Speaker B: Write down shovel. [01:58:21] Speaker E: Hey, Oliver, where is your stone? [01:58:28] Speaker B: I think I wear it around as a cord around my neck. [01:58:33] Speaker E: Okay. [01:58:35] Speaker B: Which I'm assuming the entire time I've been around these two, it's been singing. [01:58:42] Speaker E: Yeah. So you have been a little caught up in the moment, but now that you're, like, sitting at breakfast in a perfectly normal establishment surrounded by normal people, you realize that there is song music of some sort coming from Oliver's like chest, but not like he's humming. [01:59:08] Speaker A: Oliver, if you got bluetooth headphones, I think you left them on. [01:59:12] Speaker B: Oh, no, that's my rock. [01:59:16] Speaker A: You're into rock? [01:59:18] Speaker B: No, it's a literal. [01:59:20] Speaker C: Also like to rock. [01:59:21] Speaker A: That's so cool. [01:59:22] Speaker B: That's great. It's a magic stone that lets me know when other individuals of our pantheon are nearby. So it's registering you two right now. It also lets me do some other helpful things. [01:59:40] Speaker A: So is it bluetooth or is it WiFi? [01:59:43] Speaker B: No, it's magic. [01:59:44] Speaker A: Oh, fancy. [01:59:46] Speaker B: Wow. [01:59:48] Speaker C: It's got Internet, right? [01:59:51] Speaker B: No, not exactly. But what it does let me do is sort of help, I guess, inspire you a little bit more. So in the thought process capacity. If you're doing anything that's intensive on your minds, it kind of allows me to help with that. [02:00:13] Speaker A: I'm always appreciative of encouragement. I appreciate that. [02:00:17] Speaker B: You are welcome back to our list. [02:00:20] Speaker A: Yeah, we might need to bring some clothes along if we're going to be gone for an extended period. I don't know about you all, but I don't like to get all crusty and dirty. [02:00:34] Speaker B: Yeah. All right. Spare changes of clothes. Very good, actually. [02:00:40] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:00:41] Speaker A: I'm going to need some food. [02:00:43] Speaker B: We'll get the food once we're there. [02:00:47] Speaker A: Not the eggs and bacon sort of thing. I'm talking about seeds and nuts and some dried fruits, too. And I'm not talking about just trail mix. I'm talking about for Ian here. And he gestures up to the raven that he's brought into the restaurant with. [02:01:01] Speaker B: I see. Right. Okay. [02:01:03] Speaker C: If we got to do any jumping or anything like that, don't you guys worry. I got that completely covered. And he's going to hold up one of his gaudy ass kicks. They look like Jordans, but you're not sure. And the coloration is just like this god awful, very in your face shiny copper, and then just like this awful matte purple. That just does not go very well with the color at all. And there's something off about the quote unquote Jordan logo, but you can't quite put your finger on it. [02:01:50] Speaker A: Lucas, are them? Some of them, yeezys. [02:01:55] Speaker C: I think they're called J's. [02:01:59] Speaker B: Okay. My students made fun of me all the time for not understanding the modern lingo, but yeezys, j's. You're just saying words now. [02:02:08] Speaker C: Kicks, they're the coolest. [02:02:11] Speaker B: Kicks is a thing you do. That is a verb. There's not a noun, which are shoes. [02:02:19] Speaker A: Oh, come on now, Oliver. Surely you understand that language changes over time. [02:02:25] Speaker B: I'm very aware of the evolving nature of linguistics. I'm a big advocate for that. But in this case, I'm especially confused. [02:02:35] Speaker A: Well, just slip on your Yeezys and let's get at it. You'll get it on the way. It's okay. [02:02:39] Speaker C: Yeah, just baby steps, man. And your new Kicks, it is a very good thing. [02:02:45] Speaker B: Coda is not here. All right, anything else for the list before we go to the store? Things that we can get here and take with us that we don't have to buy on the other side? [02:02:57] Speaker A: I can't think of much else, to be honest. [02:03:02] Speaker B: All right, in that case, we have. [02:03:04] Speaker C: I mentioned a shovel, right? [02:03:06] Speaker B: Yes. Written down. But that's going to be on you. You're going to need to buy that and take care of it and hope it doesn't get stopped. [02:03:13] Speaker C: I'm going to take very good care of it. [02:03:15] Speaker B: Okay, that's good. I also have my Satchel, which just has all my academic stuff in, including my laptop, so if we need that over there, that's great. We have that. [02:03:28] Speaker A: I got a jacket. [02:03:30] Speaker B: You do have a jacket. Good job, right? Okay. I think if we think of anything else while we're at the store, we'll grab it. If it's actually something worth having. I don't want you two to see some giant teddy bear and think we need to have that, because we don't. We just need essentials. [02:03:51] Speaker A: Wait, they sell giant teddy bears here, do they? [02:03:54] Speaker B: This is an IHOP, so no, but at, like, a box store, maybe. [02:04:00] Speaker A: Think we'll be okay? [02:04:01] Speaker C: Yeah, no, totally. I am very frugal with my money. [02:04:07] Speaker A: I mean, with the kicks like them, that's for sure. [02:04:12] Speaker B: I am also going to need a small thing of paint. I didn't end up using it last time, but this time I might. [02:04:20] Speaker A: What are you planning on using paint for? [02:04:22] Speaker B: Oh, you never know if you need to mark something or leave a trail. [02:04:26] Speaker C: Okay, see, that sounds very sus. [02:04:30] Speaker B: Well, we don't know what might be like there. It might be some kind of confusing landscape that brings us around in circles that we can mark an object or like a rock or a tree. [02:04:38] Speaker C: We'll know that be vandalism. Can we do that in those places? [02:04:45] Speaker B: Well, it's an abandoned realm of the underworld, so I don't think they're too concerned about vandalism laws. [02:04:54] Speaker C: I mean, hey, it's your paint, your skin. [02:04:58] Speaker A: Maybe we could do with some glow sticks or something, just in case. [02:05:02] Speaker B: Honestly, not a bad idea. [02:05:06] Speaker A: Just in case we end up underwater or something. [02:05:09] Speaker C: Or at a rave. [02:05:11] Speaker A: Or at a rave. Yes. [02:05:12] Speaker B: Don't think there's going to be many raves in this location. [02:05:20] Speaker C: Rave in the grave, dude, the rave. [02:05:23] Speaker A: Is wherever you make it. [02:05:25] Speaker C: Exactly. [02:05:26] Speaker B: If we find a rave in Magmel, I will eat my jacket. [02:05:31] Speaker C: I'm going to hold you to that. [02:05:34] Speaker E: I really am. [02:05:35] Speaker A: Note better write down fork and knife on that list there, friend. [02:05:40] Speaker C: Tack on another GEOS fucker. [02:05:43] Speaker B: I not going to write down fork and knife because this list is already suspicious enough and I don't know how they'll react to a pair of silverware. [02:05:58] Speaker C: I'll tell you what, I'll get the fork and knife. I'll add that onto my shovel list. [02:06:03] Speaker A: Because what is a shovel if not just a really big spoon? [02:06:07] Speaker C: A comically large. [02:06:09] Speaker A: Exactly. [02:06:10] Speaker C: Exactly. [02:06:14] Speaker E: I can't get over that. No matter what Oliver does, every group that he ends up in, he's the adult. Y'all are going to a place where you know there are going to be things that are going to try and kill you. I don't know. I need nuts and fruit. [02:06:40] Speaker A: I got to keep Ian fed. [02:06:42] Speaker B: I'm also going to write down first aid kit, by the way. [02:06:44] Speaker A: Oh, that's a real good know, dude smart about that. [02:06:50] Speaker E: Yeah, I know. That might be the first time I've ever heard Oliver acknowledge his own brilliance. [02:06:58] Speaker B: Oliver too caught up in the opposite of brilliance from these other two. [02:07:03] Speaker A: Has anyone ever complimented you, Oliver? [02:07:06] Speaker B: I gotta close my eyes and sigh a few times. [02:07:11] Speaker A: Well, let me be yet another person. [02:07:14] Speaker C: Because you okay, man? Are you a conifer? Because you're looking spruce. [02:07:23] Speaker B: Oh, he remembered it finally. [02:07:27] Speaker C: I just came up with that. Just now? [02:07:30] Speaker B: Last night. [02:07:31] Speaker C: What? No, I didn't. [02:07:34] Speaker B: Okay, then enlighten me. Why would you say that to someone? [02:07:38] Speaker C: Oh, because we were talking about compliments. I just came up with that one. [02:07:41] Speaker B: How is that a compliment? [02:07:43] Speaker C: Do you not know what spruce is? Man, you got to catch up on your words. You're a professor or something. [02:07:48] Speaker B: I know what spruce means. [02:07:50] Speaker C: Nah, man, you got to catch up. [02:07:52] Speaker B: It's just why would you tell someone if they're a conifer? [02:07:57] Speaker C: That's a good question. She's kind of like squints as he gets lost in his bacon, and you just kind of see him go full head empty, no thoughts, into his bacon as he starts munching again. [02:08:12] Speaker A: Okay, well, you know, speaking of trees, maybe we ought to make like, one and leaf. [02:08:20] Speaker B: Well, we should pay for the meal first, but yes. [02:08:24] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, you got that handled right? She gave you all the money? [02:08:27] Speaker B: Yes, I have all the money. Thank the gods and the north. [02:08:34] Speaker E: As amusing as this scene is, we've got to move water. We're never going to get anything. [02:08:41] Speaker B: The next 2 hours is the three of us in a diner. That's it. [02:08:44] Speaker E: You guys are just going to spend all night riffing off each other? And as beautiful as that is, we do have things that we have to accomplish. [02:08:52] Speaker C: No way. [02:08:53] Speaker E: So we're going to skip forward. You guys go to the store. You can purchase most of what you want. There's no way you're going to fit it all into carry ons. But you can have a couple of checked bags that you can tuck things into. You've each got your own tickets and you register your bag separately, so it's a little less sus if you spread out the really weird shit between the three of you. [02:09:21] Speaker C: That's what the plan? [02:09:22] Speaker B: I literally do that. I go, okay, you're going to take the rope, I'll take the duct tape, and then I just spread out. And then once we get there, we're going to go inside at ten minute increments so we don't look like we're together. That way no one will think we are doing some sort of illicit activity. [02:09:37] Speaker C: Have you killed before? [02:09:39] Speaker A: What? [02:09:40] Speaker B: I'm getting quite close. [02:09:46] Speaker A: That was quite the question. [02:09:48] Speaker C: It just sounds like you've done this before, man. [02:09:51] Speaker B: No, I just normally help assist friends in killing giant, massive wolves, but that's a different story. [02:09:58] Speaker A: I got to say, if this is your first time at leadership, you are doing an excellent job. [02:10:03] Speaker B: You keep saying these things. It's already bad enough when random scions show up at my house or my apartment and say, hey, you're the guy who used Hamlet to distract a wolf. Good job, man. And I don't need to keep hearing it. [02:10:19] Speaker E: I would like Clint lucas, you don't have to roll for this. I would like Clint to roll wits and integrity. All right, remember to roll D ten S, not D six S this time. [02:10:37] Speaker B: Indeed. [02:10:39] Speaker A: I promise I'll do it right this time. [02:10:43] Speaker E: Just saying. If you ever want to succeed at something, you've got to remember to roll the right dice. [02:10:49] Speaker A: Does make it a little bit easier that way. All right, that's one. Two successes. [02:10:55] Speaker E: Yeah, now that he brings up distracting a wolf with Hamlet. You've heard that story? [02:11:03] Speaker A: Wait. Oliver. That was you? [02:11:06] Speaker B: Oh, no. Did I say was? [02:11:11] Speaker E: He was part of the band that figured out they were the first scions to survive one of the fenris wolf attacks that were intended to what's the word? Force them to go through their awakening before they'd had their visitation. You were lucky. Your mom got to you and you had like a proper visitation like a normal scion does. But you know, both you and Lucas have heard the stories about fenris wolves tracking down scions before they'd ever had their visitation. Before anybody was supposed to be able to know who they were or what they were, forcing them to go through an awakening. So that their icker activated and then killing them so that they could eat their hearts. Oliver, if what he just said is true, was part of the first group where they oh, yeah, it's you. [02:12:21] Speaker C: You're the guy. [02:12:22] Speaker A: Yeah. Lucas I think we're sitting next to royalty. [02:12:25] Speaker B: No, technically the royalty part is true, but that's a lineage thing. [02:12:29] Speaker C: Not hey, see, man, that is legendary. Dude. [02:12:37] Speaker E: Technically. Oliver, you know that they're both also considered royalty. Like, that's kind of the whole thing with the tour with the everybody is royalty. [02:12:47] Speaker B: So are you two actually. [02:12:51] Speaker A: Well, yeah, but I mean, you're displaying it. You're putting it out there. You're doing the hard work. Look at you. [02:12:57] Speaker B: I'm wearing beige specifically so I don't stand out. [02:13:01] Speaker A: And you're doing a great job of it. [02:13:04] Speaker C: Hey, you know what? You should wear olive. I don't know why, but I feel like it would really fit you right about now. [02:13:11] Speaker B: We need to get to the airport. [02:13:13] Speaker A: Yeah, let's go. [02:13:14] Speaker E: Yeah. You all get to the airport, you get onto a plane. I had things planned for in the air, but we're not now not going to do that because there's not time. You guys manage to make it to Ireland. It's a long flight. Lucas you finally start to get sober by the time you're on the plane, that's when the hangover starts. [02:13:47] Speaker C: Oh, no. [02:13:50] Speaker E: But thankfully, it's not like you can go anywhere. So you are given a couple bottles of hair of the dog, one of the little travel bottles, and you pass back out again. [02:14:03] Speaker C: Excellent. All according to Keikaku, while we're at. [02:14:07] Speaker B: The store, I also bought a pair of headphones and I am listening to an audiobook for the whole flight. [02:14:13] Speaker A: Hey, Oliver. Never mind. He's busy. This guy's already asleep. I guess I'm going to be carrying him around for a little bit. [02:14:23] Speaker B: Evergreen. [02:14:28] Speaker E: So you guys land in Ireland, you are able to rent a car and you head out from See. I think you would have landed I need a map. Hold on. [02:14:50] Speaker B: Dublin. [02:14:54] Speaker E: Yes. You would have landed probably in Dublin and you have to drive across the width of Ireland. Weirdly. Doesn't take you as long as you would think. Like Clint, you kind of settle yourself in. And you're prepared for this to be a long ass trip because you're from Texas and it takes like two days to get across Texas. [02:15:18] Speaker B: Oh, yes, it does. [02:15:22] Speaker E: But you guys managed to make it across Ireland in basically a day. You have to split, like the driving, because legs get cramped and things like that. But you manage to make it. And you pull up outside of a pub, the name of which Betty sent you in a text message, which she realized that you guys had left without asking what the name of the place was called. [02:15:49] Speaker B: Just though it's a bar in County Claire. [02:15:51] Speaker A: Yeah. We can ask around, right? [02:15:54] Speaker E: Yeah, because there aren't a million fucking bars. In Ireland. Yeah. [02:15:59] Speaker A: If we drink all of them, surely we'll find the right oh, good idea. [02:16:05] Speaker E: No, that's not your labor. She sends you the name of a pub. It's funny enough, the Cliffs of Moore pub. It is a small whitewashed building with a bright red door. It's one of those very kind of small old fashioned like you can tell it was built a long time ago kind of buildings. This is not a recent thing. One of those places that looks like it's probably been passed down from family to family, like there's Ivy kind of growing up on one side of the thing. It looks like something out of a picture book. Quintessential Irish pub. There is music coming from inside. It's not crazy loud or anything, but you can tell just standing outside that there is probably a live band inside. [02:17:09] Speaker B: One detail I'd like to say that for our drive over, I put in the audiobook and it is Gulliver's Travels. [02:17:16] Speaker E: Of course. [02:17:16] Speaker A: It is awesome. [02:17:17] Speaker E: I love it. [02:17:18] Speaker C: On the way over, Lucas is alphabetically sorting each and every allergy medicine he has picked up from the drugstores along the way. [02:17:29] Speaker E: Oh, man. [02:17:30] Speaker B: I also presume we picked up food, like trail. [02:17:37] Speaker E: Were you were in Dublin, so you were in a major city. You were able to find basically everything you wanted. People looked at you a little funny, but you kind of, like, waved them off and said that you were going on a big hiking and camping trip. And they were just like, oh, okay. Um inside there is it's not all that crowded. There's probably like, I don't know, a dozen, maybe 20 people inside. And it could be that that's a band or but they don't look terribly uniform and they're kind of like just kind of haphazardly settled into a general area in the corner. So they could also just be people who randomly decided to have a jam session. They've got like, a tin whistle and someone's got a guitar. What if's got a little hand drum and they're singing it's in Irish so you're not sure what the song is, but it is an Irish sounds like an Irish folk song. And there is a young woman with long, wild, curly red hair who is tending bar and she is in the middle of gently chastising a wisened looking old man about something or other. You don't really catch the full length of it, but she's I think it might be time for you to get home to your wife. Look at the mess you're making of my bar. Gone with you. You're done. And he's pleading with her, trying to get her not to cut him off for the evening. [02:19:34] Speaker B: I will step up. How about a deal, fella? I'll buy you your last round, but after that you should probably get going. [02:19:47] Speaker E: The old man kind of turns and he sways on his bar stool and Clint has to reach out and grab his shoulder to keep him from falling. [02:19:57] Speaker A: Careful there, old feller. [02:20:00] Speaker E: He needs to go home or his wife's going to come in here. And the next time she said the next time she'd come in here, it wouldn't be a shoe she ended up throwing at somebody. It would be a pan. And I'm not interested in breaking anything. [02:20:12] Speaker B: Just one more drink, a vodka soda, something like that. [02:20:19] Speaker E: She sort of gives you a look, and you could tell that she kind of thinks that you're just troublemaking Americans now. But eventually she shrugs and she's like, fine. And she turns and starts to make up a quote, unquote, vodka soda. It's definitely just soda water. [02:20:44] Speaker B: I nod. [02:20:47] Speaker A: There you go, feller. Come on now. Have a nice last drink and we'll get you out of here. [02:20:51] Speaker C: There you go. [02:20:56] Speaker A: Look, we'll even have one too. Here, get me something too. I'll drink with. [02:21:02] Speaker E: Um, she kind of like, eyes you up and down, Clint, and then she actually gives you, like, a real drink. [02:21:11] Speaker A: You mind paying her? [02:21:13] Speaker B: No, I got it. Is my singing stone getting anything from her? [02:21:19] Speaker E: Oh, yeah. I mean, it's always singing because you've got Clinton Lucas around, but you learn to read the tones enough to know that it's just a tiny bit louder, and she kind of gives your shirt a weird look. Think you might have left your bluetooth on. [02:21:42] Speaker B: Do that sometimes, by the way, and I'm saying this as I'm basically paying. Do you know anyone by the name of Claudia Lynch, perhaps? [02:21:51] Speaker E: I know a Cordelia Lynch. [02:21:58] Speaker B: Well, we were just looking for because we need some help in some matters that she may know of. [02:22:09] Speaker E: What kind of matters would those be? [02:22:12] Speaker B: Well, we need to get to a certain location that is run by her father to do a sort of we'll call it a business operation, I guess. [02:22:30] Speaker E: Family business. Then. [02:22:33] Speaker B: Yes. [02:22:36] Speaker E: She'll nod a little bit. She puts three pints on the bar in front of the three of you and then points at an empty table in the corner. Go sit over there. I'll come see you when I'm able. I'm cordelia, by the way. [02:22:53] Speaker B: Thank you very much, cordelia also. I gathered as much from the bluetooth. I'll take my pint and go sit over there. [02:23:04] Speaker C: I figured she was a Cordelia. I thought he just kind of nods as he sips at his pint and. [02:23:11] Speaker B: Heads over to the I thought Pilgrim said Claudia. [02:23:14] Speaker A: That was so did I. [02:23:19] Speaker C: Sometimes people are wrong. [02:23:20] Speaker B: Yeah. [02:23:24] Speaker A: All right, well, let's just have a nice sip and wait for a spell. [02:23:28] Speaker B: And this is the only one we are having tonight. [02:23:33] Speaker C: No way. [02:23:34] Speaker A: Fine. [02:23:35] Speaker B: You, I'm surprised aren't still hungover, so the fact that you still want to drink is honestly surprising to me. [02:23:43] Speaker A: I mean, I get thirsty. [02:23:44] Speaker B: Yeah. [02:23:46] Speaker C: Kind of something to wash all the dry throat down. [02:23:51] Speaker B: I really don't want to play babysitter tomorrow if you two are still wasted and or hungover. So just please issue some temperance tonight and have a few. That's fine. Just please, come on. For my heart. [02:24:06] Speaker A: That sounds like approval to me. We can have a few. [02:24:09] Speaker C: That's what I like to hear. [02:24:12] Speaker B: Also, I'm paying for you, so I can cut you off whenever I want. [02:24:17] Speaker A: You bring up a very excellent point. [02:24:20] Speaker C: Very wise, he says as he knocks the drink back. [02:24:28] Speaker E: You all hang out for the evening. It takes a hot minute. You realize that while she's not the only person who works here, she's very clearly the owner and the only bartender. And about towards the end of the night, one of the other older gentlemen sort of half crawls over the bar to try to start pulling Pints himself to, quote unquote, help. And she has to chase him away with a broom. And eventually people start to filter out. And the last group out the door is a group of these four older men, including the one that you guys tried to get to leave by buying him his last drink when he first showed up. Seems like they're regulars and they're here every day, and it's always the four of them, and she always has to kick them out together. But once they're gone, she locks the door behind them and kind of blows an errant red curl out of her face and folds her arms and walks over. All right, so what did MIDA say that you were supposed to be doing? [02:25:56] Speaker B: Well, it wasn't exactly your dad. We just need to get to Magmel. We've been sent on a labor. [02:26:09] Speaker A: We got to go and get a special rock. [02:26:11] Speaker B: We need to go get a special rock. [02:26:13] Speaker C: Big rock. [02:26:15] Speaker B: It's pretty big. [02:26:17] Speaker E: You're being sent to MacMeth? [02:26:21] Speaker A: Yes. [02:26:22] Speaker B: DBR. [02:26:23] Speaker E: Hefetch a rock. [02:26:27] Speaker C: I bet you it's a very cool rock. [02:26:31] Speaker E: You do know there's femarians there? [02:26:38] Speaker A: We figured we were due for a workout. [02:26:43] Speaker E: And is that the type of workout you usually get? [02:26:47] Speaker A: Well, no, usually I go over to the 24 Hours Fitness down the street from where I live, but this will do. [02:26:55] Speaker C: Oh, really? I'm more of a CrossFit. [02:26:57] Speaker A: Well, Clint looks a little disturbed at CrossFit. [02:27:05] Speaker B: Ignore them. The rock we're supposed to get is called the Dragonstone, and we're aware that there are some dangers in the realm of joy now, and we know that your father is the one that rules over it. So we were also told that you might be able to help us get there, and if there's any other additional knowledge you may know, that would also be very appreciated. [02:27:29] Speaker E: Well, for additional knowledge, I'll tell you that the femorians have magic, and they're really fuck off strong. They're giants, so they're ugly as sin. They're not very nice. They hate us. So if it were me, I'd be trying to sneak around to get the rock that you need rather than trying to fight them. But you might not be able to avoid it depending on where it is or what exactly it is. [02:28:04] Speaker B: Right. That's helpful. [02:28:09] Speaker A: I'm going to lay it out there before we get surprised by this. I'm not exactly the kind of person that's good at sneaking. I'm a little bit bulky and noisy. But if we have to, I can try my best. [02:28:30] Speaker B: In theory. Aid, it's just it might bite me in the butt later on. [02:28:36] Speaker C: No, it's fine, guys. I can just jump over anyone trying. [02:28:42] Speaker B: To look at us. [02:28:43] Speaker C: We got this. [02:28:46] Speaker B: You know what? [02:28:47] Speaker A: With you along, I feel confident as can be. We got this. You're right. [02:28:51] Speaker C: He just finger guns. Snap his finger. Finger guns. [02:28:55] Speaker B: I look at Cordelia with so much pain in my eyes. [02:29:03] Speaker E: She mostly looks confused back at you. Like, Where the fuck did you get these guys? All right, well, I can tell you. Show you how to get there. Are any of you afraid of heights? [02:29:22] Speaker A: No, I'm afraid of being too low. [02:29:29] Speaker E: Well, really built like a tree, so that's not terribly surprising. [02:29:37] Speaker A: I'm really bad at limbo. [02:29:40] Speaker E: But made to be climbed, I suspect. [02:29:43] Speaker A: Yeah, that's more accurate. To be honest, folks kind of look at me like I'm some sort of jungle gym and help flex his arms a little bit and do some posing as he kind of cues in on. [02:29:54] Speaker C: Her compliment about getting there. [02:30:02] Speaker E: I said I'd show you. Do you want to go at night? I could take you now if that's what you want. [02:30:11] Speaker A: Oh, that's quite the offer, ma'am. [02:30:14] Speaker C: Yeah. Stealth insertion, like in the movies. [02:30:17] Speaker B: We've been on the road for a while and in the air for a while today. Starting fresh in the morning would probably be a better idea. [02:30:24] Speaker E: What? I have a spare room upstairs. [02:30:30] Speaker B: That's very kind of you. I was expecting to get a hotel room, but if you're willing to let us crash there that's much I mean. [02:30:38] Speaker E: If you wanted to pay the exorbitant tourist rates, that's fine. [02:30:42] Speaker C: Yeah. [02:30:42] Speaker A: No, wait. Is it your bedroom, ma'am? [02:30:46] Speaker E: No, I said I have a spare room. [02:30:48] Speaker A: A spare room. All right. Enough beds for all of us, right? [02:30:56] Speaker E: No, I have enough space between the bed and the floor. And a sofa. [02:31:01] Speaker C: Dibs on the bed? [02:31:04] Speaker B: Well, after respect, dibs, yes. [02:31:09] Speaker A: That's the rules. All right, I'll take the floor. [02:31:16] Speaker E: All right. But first, she sort of tosses a couple of rags at Lucas, at Oliver, and pushes a broom handle into Clint's hands. You have to help me close up. [02:31:32] Speaker B: That's fair enough. Earn our keep. [02:31:35] Speaker C: Sounds good to me. Hey, court dealer. By the way, do you happen to be a conifer? [02:31:42] Speaker B: No. [02:31:43] Speaker E: What? [02:31:45] Speaker B: Don't answer. Act like you didn't hear. Please. [02:31:47] Speaker C: You're looking pretty spruce. [02:31:51] Speaker B: And he said it? [02:31:53] Speaker E: He certainly did. And she just sort of turns away. [02:32:02] Speaker C: Never get a gith. [02:32:08] Speaker A: I don't think she understood it. Maybe you got to try it again. Better next time. [02:32:12] Speaker C: Yeah, maybe you should say it louder. [02:32:14] Speaker A: Yeah, a little bit louder. [02:32:16] Speaker B: Yeah. That's not how understanding works. If someone didn't get it the first time, just elevating your volume won't suddenly give them an epiphany. [02:32:24] Speaker C: Maybe I should break it down in a long and winding speech about oh. [02:32:28] Speaker B: I'm sure she would really appreciate that. Yes. [02:32:33] Speaker C: She looks like a tree person. [02:32:34] Speaker E: I'm just going to stand there jabbering. Are you going to help me. [02:32:40] Speaker B: On it? [02:32:43] Speaker E: You guys probably spend a good half hour, 45 minutes sweeping and wiping down tables and taking trays of dishes from the tables back into the kitchen. Clint very quickly gets put on dishes duty. [02:33:02] Speaker A: Yep, just like every other time. [02:33:10] Speaker E: And when you kind of, like, half cringe at the idea that you're again, going to have to do dishes, because this seems to be the task that you get given everywhere you go, she just sort of pats your shoulder and says, no woman ever shot a man that was doing dishes. [02:33:26] Speaker A: Oh, no. I don't mind being in the kitchen. Helps me be closer to them folks. I like getting cozy and rubbing elbows with the finest of the cooks out there, or bartenders, as it happens to be. [02:33:42] Speaker C: But she might shoot you if you. [02:33:45] Speaker B: Burn the pan again. [02:33:46] Speaker A: No, you said. [02:33:52] Speaker C: Do you like, dodges out of the way as you go to SWAT him, and he just goes cackling off with the broom. [02:33:57] Speaker B: I throw my towel at him. We just had a deal. [02:34:07] Speaker E: Oh, my God. I love you three. Okay, you guys, close up for the night. Turns out that the top of the building, like the second floor, is a small flat with two very small bedrooms. Cordelia pulls out blankets and what pillows she has, and people can set up on the couch, the spare bedroom. The bed in there is a double, so in theory, two people could sleep in it. [02:34:47] Speaker A: All right, Lucas, you were talking about riz yesterday, right? Let's see if this works again. [02:34:53] Speaker B: What even is that? [02:34:55] Speaker A: Oliver, watch and learn. This is very important. As you socialize and get familiar with other folks, you got to learn how to talk to them and how to schmooze them. All right, now? [02:35:07] Speaker B: Yeah. All right, I'll take notes. [02:35:09] Speaker A: Clinton knocks on the door to Claudia's room. [02:35:14] Speaker E: Cordelia's room. [02:35:15] Speaker A: Cordelia's room. [02:35:16] Speaker E: Thank you. She will answer the door. [02:35:20] Speaker A: I'm sorry, Miss Cordelia. It's a little tight quarters in there and they're just snoring up a was, you know? Hoping I could maybe bunk with you tonight. [02:35:34] Speaker E: Charisma and presence, please. [02:35:38] Speaker C: Oh, my God. [02:35:40] Speaker E: Let me look at your what is your appearance, Nick? [02:35:49] Speaker A: Doing fine. No, that is stamina. So I've got lasting impression. Doing fine. And an inescapable vision. [02:36:00] Speaker E: Okay. Yeah. So just charisma and appearance. I'm taking into account not charisma and appearance. Charisma and presence. I'm taking into account your appearance. Score. [02:36:11] Speaker A: Cool. [02:36:11] Speaker E: Because you do have epic appearance, which means you're very pretty. [02:36:19] Speaker A: Presence. Okay, wrong channel. [02:36:29] Speaker E: Well, didn't work anyway. [02:36:35] Speaker A: There we go. [02:36:36] Speaker E: That's. [02:36:40] Speaker A: And then whatever you want to count from the epic appearance. [02:36:48] Speaker E: You guys watch as Cordelia does another one of those, like, long head to toe and back to head, looks again, and then without a word, reaches out, grabs a fistful of the front of Clint's shirt, and tugs him into the room. And the door shuts. [02:37:14] Speaker B: I didn't think that would actually work. [02:37:20] Speaker C: See right there? That's riz. [02:37:24] Speaker B: Ah, I get it now. [02:37:27] Speaker E: Yeah. [02:37:29] Speaker B: I'm going to take the couch. [02:37:35] Speaker E: I'm going to take the couch. Which, as it turns out, is an advisable choice because Lucas, as you are trying to fall asleep, you hear, thunk, thunk, thunk for a while. [02:37:49] Speaker A: We got that epic stamina, baby. [02:37:51] Speaker E: Yeah. [02:37:53] Speaker B: My headphones in and play my audiobook, and I'm going to turn it up real out. [02:38:00] Speaker C: Lucas just stares up at the ceiling the whole time trying to fall asleep. We should find a bigger shovel. [02:38:16] Speaker E: All right. Morning rolls around. Cordelia and Clint are up before you two. They are cooking. Cordelia is watching Clint like a hawk because she did pay attention to the commentary about ruining a pan. But she is teaching him how to make boxy, which, if you don't know what boxy is, boxy are potato. It is it is an Irish staple. And she is coaching him through how to make boxing. [02:39:01] Speaker A: Clint doesn't visually take time to process and memorize things very often, but he is trying his hardest right now to make sure he memorizes every step of how to make a box dance. [02:39:16] Speaker E: It's worth noting that it's not difficult, so I'm not going to make you roll for it. They're very simple, and they turn out pretty fucking good. And once you guys have eaten and everybody has coffee in their belly, she tucks a bundle into probably Clint's bag, because Clint is obviously the strong one, so she doesn't feel about adding to the weight of the load that he has to carry. Jesus Christ. That's not what I meant. But you can smell as she tucks it into the bag that it's more like fresh, hot food. [02:40:13] Speaker A: Thank you, Miss Cordella. We'll truly be appreciating you every step of the way. [02:40:19] Speaker E: Well, I should hope so. And she kind of gives a little grin. You guys load up into your rental car and she drives you out to the Cliffs of Moore. And I don't know, I assume you guys have seen pictures of the Cliffs of Moore. It's a breathtaking site, but there's not a whole lot out there. It's literally just cliffs that are very steep and drop off into the sea. Right? Absolutely beautiful verdant rolling green at the tops. There's, like the mossy grass that grows up along the little divots in the sides of the cliffs. And it's a really far fall, even for a scion. Like, you might survive, but you'd be hurting. Even Clint, with all of his epic stamina, would struggle with how hard or how much it would hurt hitting the water at the bottom. And that's if you manage to hit water and not rock. Very windy here. [02:41:47] Speaker A: What I was kind of expecting more. It's just kind of rocks and water. [02:41:54] Speaker E: It's beautiful, though. I think I agree. [02:41:59] Speaker C: Yeah, it is. [02:42:02] Speaker E: All right, well, now you have to jump off of it. [02:42:05] Speaker A: All right, here we go. [02:42:06] Speaker E: Hold on, hold on. [02:42:12] Speaker C: Think about it. Lucas comes to a skidding stop at the very edge, like, with his fucking suitcase and toe. [02:42:23] Speaker E: There's a very specific get. Whack jobs. [02:42:28] Speaker B: You should have fled with that. [02:42:29] Speaker C: Oh, man. I was gonna, like, do a flip. [02:42:32] Speaker B: It's hard enough for me to rein them in as is. When you tell them to jump off things, they will do it. They don't need the friend to jump off first. They'll just do it. [02:42:40] Speaker C: Fucking Lucas moment. She says that. [02:42:47] Speaker E: She leads you guys up to you could see her focusing, her vision and kind of inwardly counting, and she walks along the edges of the cliff until she reaches a very specific point. And it's kind of at, like, the top of one of the little hills that one of the cliffs makes. And she gets to that spot, and then she stops, and she turns to face the sea, and she just sort of nods and looks back at you. This is the place. You stand right here. You walk straight, straight off the cliff. [02:43:34] Speaker A: Are we going to fall down when we step off? [02:43:41] Speaker E: That's part of the test, isn't it? Are you brave enough to try? [02:43:45] Speaker C: Lucas just goes straight walking off the edge. [02:43:48] Speaker A: Damn it. I wanted to be first. [02:43:52] Speaker B: Oh, you can be second if you want. [02:43:53] Speaker A: All right, that works. Plentiful. [02:43:56] Speaker E: All right, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on. Jesus, guys. Lucas, I need you to roll your dots in. [02:44:06] Speaker C: Courage can do. [02:44:15] Speaker E: I will need that from all three of you by the oliver. [02:44:25] Speaker B: Yep. [02:44:27] Speaker E: Buddy. [02:44:28] Speaker B: Yep. [02:44:29] Speaker E: As a reminder, you can spend willpower. [02:44:33] Speaker B: That's a good point. How does that not work? [02:44:45] Speaker A: That's a good question. [02:44:47] Speaker C: Oh, Jesus. [02:44:51] Speaker A: Oh, dear. [02:44:52] Speaker C: Remind me how willpower works. [02:44:59] Speaker E: Hold on, hold on. I'm getting you links. [02:45:04] Speaker C: No. [02:45:06] Speaker B: Yes. [02:45:06] Speaker E: Copy. Got to drop this in general. That links to a cheat sheet. It has most stuff in it doesn't have willpower usage. AW, damn. Hold on. [02:45:27] Speaker B: I'm pretty sure it's either to let you reroll three or add three. I could be wrong. [02:45:31] Speaker E: I'm pretty sure it lets you it doesn't let you add three. I think it just lets you take an auto success because people rolled before they knew that. I will allow you to add if you spend a willpower, I will allow you to add an auto success to your role. [02:45:51] Speaker C: I'll go ahead and do that. [02:45:52] Speaker E: Okay. Mark off a willpower. [02:45:58] Speaker B: I watch them just careen over the edge, and I just look back, and I'm, like, wiping the sweat off my palms, like, with my legs, and then I just close my eyes and walk off. And I will be spending a willpower. [02:46:15] Speaker E: Okay. Oh, all right. So here's what's yes, normally you would announce that you're spending willpower before you roll, but they sort of rushed to it before I could tell them what willpower did. So I'm allowing it. One time. Lucas, you charge off the edge. And it's funny because you were, like, dead on, full of conviction until you look down and there's a moment, just as your second foot leaves the top of the cliff, that you realize you think you're like, oh, no, I'm going to die. And you are screaming as you tumble onto a field of wildflowers and the cliffs are gone. You don't fall far. It's like less than a foot. [02:47:36] Speaker C: Oh, my allergies. Oh, this is so much worse. [02:47:42] Speaker E: Clint, you are fine. You cringe just a little bit, like you're bracing yourself, and you stumble a tiny bit on the other side, but you manage to catch yourself before you fall. Fall. [02:47:55] Speaker A: Whoa. Okay. All right. [02:48:01] Speaker E: Oliver. [02:48:03] Speaker B: I am screaming like a little girl. [02:48:05] Speaker E: Oh, yeah. You close your eyes and step off the edge. And you are screaming like a child as you stumble. And because your eyes are closed, you can't catch yourself. So you also go tumbling and tumble directly into Lucas, who is just arms and legs a kimbo, because he wasn't like because he went tumbling. [02:48:35] Speaker B: Are we alive? [02:48:37] Speaker A: I think so. Both of y'all? [02:48:39] Speaker C: Okay, no. [02:48:42] Speaker A: Anything broken? [02:48:43] Speaker B: I've had myself done, actually, I think. Oh, sorry. Lucas and I'll stand up from on top of him. Well, either we are fine or we just died because we are technically in the underworld. [02:48:58] Speaker E: Lucas, you are already sneezing. [02:49:04] Speaker C: I don't have the will to go on. [02:49:08] Speaker E: Me. But as you all look around, it is rolling flowering fields as far as the eye can see. The air here smells like honey and wildflowers and summer sunshine. It is the perfect day. [02:49:37] Speaker B: Take my phone out and take some pictures. [02:49:41] Speaker A: Oh, that'll work. [02:49:44] Speaker B: Well, I'm not sending them to anyone. We don't have service. But I can still use the camera. [02:49:49] Speaker E: You absolutely do have service. [02:49:51] Speaker B: Oh, we have service everywhere. [02:49:54] Speaker E: As long as you are in the right time. [02:49:58] Speaker C: Lucas stares at the sheer horizon of flowers and sees not the beauty, but the horror of these pollen creators. [02:50:12] Speaker E: Hey, Lucas, you know what's worse than all the flowers? What? Are those giant fuck off trees in the distance. [02:50:20] Speaker C: He just crumples into the ground. [02:50:24] Speaker B: Doing that's just going to get you closer to the flowers. [02:50:27] Speaker A: I mean, yeah, you're like right up against the grass, right? [02:50:32] Speaker B: Brushing your nose right now as we speak. [02:50:34] Speaker C: I can't go on, guys. I'll cover the rear. [02:50:38] Speaker A: All right, I'll drag you. That's fine. [02:50:40] Speaker C: No. [02:50:43] Speaker E: Dragged through the flower. [02:50:45] Speaker C: You can't make me. [02:50:47] Speaker E: So much for tiptoe through the fucking tulips. [02:50:50] Speaker B: Well, they're doing that. I'm going to pull out the tomba stories, and I would like to cast Ariadne's thread targeting the dragonstone. [02:51:05] Speaker E: Is there a role associated with it? [02:51:07] Speaker B: Yes, but it dictates how long it lasts. [02:51:10] Speaker E: Okay, make your roll. [02:51:12] Speaker B: Yes. Oop, one success. So it'll last for two days, but I can spend some stuff to extend it if needed. [02:51:26] Speaker E: Excellent. [02:51:27] Speaker B: Yeah, I can spend more legend Point to extend it for a further. [02:51:32] Speaker E: Excellent. Excellent. Okay, Ariane's thread extends off into the distance. [02:51:41] Speaker B: Right? We need to go this way. [02:51:46] Speaker E: You guys watch as Oliver pulls out a really big, heavy looking book that is covered in at least Clint to you. It almost looks like the stuff that's on the pages is constantly moving. [02:52:00] Speaker A: How are you able to read that thing? [02:52:03] Speaker B: Oh, it's one of my birthrights your mom made, actually. [02:52:08] Speaker A: Normally when someone says that, it almost feels like an insult, but coming from you, I believe. [02:52:16] Speaker B: No, but she actually did make it. [02:52:19] Speaker C: Yeah, your mom made it. [02:52:26] Speaker A: Oliver, you've taught before, right? You know how people can be. [02:52:32] Speaker B: Oh, this is a your mom joke sort of meant I meant literally. It was actually created with your mom, and OGMA also helped, and it was. [02:52:45] Speaker A: Given you got to stop hitting me with your mom. You're going to make me chuckle too much. For real, though. That's interesting. Can I look at it? [02:53:00] Speaker B: Sure, but I don't know if you'll get any use out of it. And I'll just kind of hold to him. [02:53:06] Speaker A: Yeah, I'll just look at it while you lead the way, that's all. [02:53:11] Speaker C: Does it say how far we got to go? [02:53:14] Speaker B: Not exactly. It just kind of points in the right direction, which I think is just sort of the most direct route, so it could lead us straight through a bunch of magic giants that we're told about. So let's keep an eye out for those. [02:53:31] Speaker C: All right, man he digs into his bag and looks at his dinky little fold out shovel, and he's looking at, all these fields ain't going to be big enough for all these flowers. He puts it back into his bag, and then he starts pulling out a frankly comically large shovel that seems to have, like, an almost crystalline head to it, very silvery metal with a frankly long pole to it that should not be able to fit into this bag. And he casually begins to use it as a walking stick as he just goes on ahead and begins to forge a path. [02:54:18] Speaker B: Where did you get that? Where did that come from? [02:54:24] Speaker A: He pulled it out of his bag, didn't you see? [02:54:27] Speaker B: I saw that. But you did not buy that at the store. I'm very aware of that. [02:54:33] Speaker C: Found it. It's not wrong. I found it in the bag. It was there. [02:54:43] Speaker B: You made me buy you a shovel when you had that the entire time. Whoa. [02:54:49] Speaker C: Okay. Different shovels for different folks, you know, each tell you how the saying goes, a purpose. [02:54:57] Speaker A: It's all right. I can dig it. [02:55:00] Speaker B: I need you to not encourage him. [02:55:03] Speaker C: This is going to be a great trip. [02:55:08] Speaker B: Would you pop at least one Ibuprofen? [02:55:11] Speaker C: Hold on, let me just knock back one of my astrophros. He's going to uncap the whole thing and just dump the contents into both of his nostrils and then sneeze again. That's okay. I'll live for the sake of my band. [02:55:27] Speaker B: I'm going to keep leaving the way. [02:55:30] Speaker A: Appreciate it. Yeah, you do that. [02:55:34] Speaker E: This is amazing. I love everything about this group. I just want to have you guys randomly talk all the time. Okay, you all set off following the thread that Oliver produced, or I should say that Oliver can see and nobody else can, I would like everybody to give me wits and survival, please. It's your best dipole ever, Clint. [02:56:32] Speaker B: I got four. [02:56:35] Speaker C: Hey, nice. I got three total. [02:56:37] Speaker A: I got six. [02:56:39] Speaker E: Clint's on fire tonight. I don't know what to tell you guys. When he remembers to roll d ten s. He's a monster. Okay, you guys walk for quite a while. Between the three of you, you are able to avoid a few things. You are able to avoid what turn out to be what look an awful lot like creature dens of some sort. You're not sure what kind of creatures would live there, but they've got the markings. They got that kind of, like, musky animal smell coming from them. There's paw prints and claw marks here and there. Outside manage to give them a wide berth so that you're not fighting something you maybe shouldn't. [02:57:38] Speaker A: Hey, Ian, you mind getting up there and seeing if there's anything that you can see? That way you can let us know before we run into it? [02:57:46] Speaker E: Sure. [02:57:47] Speaker A: Thanks. What are you going to well, I brought a whole bag of seeds for us, but let's see. I got a couple more coins in my pocket that I shined up yesterday. [02:58:08] Speaker E: Do you have any nickels? [02:58:14] Speaker A: Well, I'm out of nickels, but I got a couple of shiny dimes, and they're the 1971, so they're actually mostly silver, too. Here you go. And he'll offer them up. [02:58:31] Speaker E: He takes one of the dimes and he kind of, like, tucks it under his wing. And he does this all the time. There's no way that this little bird is carrying every coin you have ever given him, but he always puts them under his wing and you never see them again. [02:58:48] Speaker A: And Clinton never questions it. [02:58:53] Speaker E: And he takes off of your shoulder and up into the air. During that little exchange, what did Lucas and Oliver hear and see? [02:59:05] Speaker A: So Clint chirps in a high pitched tone and gives a little whistle at the end. So anytime he's communicating, he's actively chirping and whistling to the raven that hangs out with him. And then he hands up the dime. Dime is taken, stored under a wing, and flies off. And then Clint looks to them. Yeah, you guys got friends too, right? [02:59:33] Speaker C: Man, that's so majestic. He does that way more gracefully than I talk to dogs. Usually when I do that with dogs, I just walk up to a dog, I'm like, hey, what's up, dog? [02:59:49] Speaker B: Were these special dogs who got from being a Scion or were they just regular dogs? [02:59:54] Speaker C: Oh, no, they're just regular fucking dogs, man. [02:59:56] Speaker A: You sure they weren't SUP dogs? [02:59:59] Speaker C: Oh, hey, you know what? You might be right about that. I didn't think about that one. [03:00:05] Speaker B: A what? [03:00:07] Speaker C: Yeah, SUP dog. [03:00:10] Speaker B: What? SUP dog? [03:00:11] Speaker C: I don't know, dog. What's up with you? [03:00:14] Speaker A: Gotta believe. [03:00:16] Speaker C: Clap hands with Clint. [03:00:21] Speaker A: Is all there for it. [03:00:23] Speaker E: I can't with you people. Oh, my God. Okay. All right, so here's my question. Are you all attempting to avoid the notice of anything big and angry that might be? [03:00:41] Speaker B: I'm trying. [03:00:42] Speaker C: I'm going to say yes. [03:00:44] Speaker A: Yeah, might as well. [03:00:46] Speaker E: All right, decks and stealth, please. [03:00:51] Speaker A: Here we go. [03:00:53] Speaker B: Quick question. Does it look like either one of them really need help with this? [03:01:00] Speaker E: You get the feeling Clint's not great at being stealthy? He also warned you as a reminder, Clint, you can spend a willpower for an auto success if you would like to. [03:01:09] Speaker A: Clint doesn't need no auto successes. [03:01:11] Speaker B: Oh, no, Dexten. [03:01:13] Speaker E: Stealth. Right. [03:01:17] Speaker A: Nice. [03:01:18] Speaker E: Actually really doesn't need auto successes. Goddamn. Three successes for stealth. [03:01:29] Speaker B: Yes. I have some epic decks. [03:01:32] Speaker E: Okay, so we have stabby. What's your total? [03:01:39] Speaker C: I believe that's four successes. [03:01:41] Speaker E: Four from Stabby, four from no. How many from Clint? [03:01:47] Speaker A: Just two from Clint, two from Clint. [03:01:51] Speaker E: And three from Oliver. Correct? [03:01:54] Speaker B: Yes, correct. [03:01:55] Speaker E: Okay. Not bad, my boys. Not bad. It goes surprisingly smoothly at first. For the first few hours, things go really, really well. You guys manage to avoid being seen by the first few batches of Fomorians. The femorians, by the way, are these massive hulking giants. Like, you all have seen giants before, but you've seen different types. Like, I think Oliver with his band got to see a fire giant. Guys. I think you also saw at least hints of frost giants, maybe. I don't remember. But this is a femorian. Femorians are huge. They almost look like if somebody took if somebody took, like orcs from Lord of the Rings but made them really fuck off big. They look like elves that somebody warped into something twisted and wrong. They have long kind of knobby but still very strong hands and fingers. They've got pointed ears. Their skin is kind of mottled greenish gray in different shades and it's all splotchy. And you can almost smell them just as easily as you can see them. At times they're gross. [03:03:47] Speaker C: Question actually, is Lucas able to smell him with his current allergy onset? [03:03:53] Speaker E: Yes. [03:03:54] Speaker C: Holy shit. [03:03:55] Speaker B: That bad. [03:03:57] Speaker A: That's some strong stink. [03:03:58] Speaker E: Actually, Lucas, it's less that you can smell it and more that you could taste it. Kind of smell that's so much worse. [03:04:08] Speaker C: You guys see Lucas and his eyes are almost kind of shriveled inwards and he's just oh, you seem so macking his lips the whole time with just pain in his expression. [03:04:26] Speaker A: Clint doesn't look hurt or like put off by the smell, other than just annoyance that it's really gross. [03:04:39] Speaker B: I wonder if we could replicate it. They wouldn't notice us as easily. They would just think we're one of them and ignore us. [03:04:47] Speaker C: I'm going to be real with you. I don't think I could wear any of that chanel. [03:04:55] Speaker A: I mean, I could if we had to, but I really don't want to. [03:04:59] Speaker B: Well, neither do I. I'm just thinking I'll keep mulling it over, see what we can do about that, but might be a way we can use that to our advantage, but just not get seen by them. [03:05:16] Speaker E: And as if Oliver had told the world his plans, fate seems to last. Because as soon as he says we just have to not get seen by them. [03:05:33] Speaker C: No. [03:05:35] Speaker E: Another wave of stench comes over you. But it is more intense than the last one. And as Lucas gags, you all turn because a shadow falls over you from behind. [03:05:56] Speaker C: Lucas slowly pans around. [03:05:59] Speaker E: There is a massive, ugly, stinking femorian standing over you holding a massive club. [03:06:11] Speaker A: All right, just like I showed you all back at the bar. You all ready? [03:06:18] Speaker C: Hey, are you a conifer? Because you're looking real spurs. [03:06:24] Speaker E: I need everybody to roll me your joint battle, please. [03:06:29] Speaker B: Oh, boy. [03:06:32] Speaker A: So proud of you. [03:06:39] Speaker B: For join bow. It's one D ten plus the join bow. [03:06:42] Speaker E: Right. [03:06:44] Speaker B: Might think of someone else. [03:06:50] Speaker E: I'm sorry. Seeing memes just roll your dice. Also, the link that I put up is a thing. [03:07:00] Speaker B: I was actually just going to check. [03:07:06] Speaker A: Oh, I did the wrong thing. [03:07:09] Speaker E: Yeah, it's your wits plus your awareness, plus your auto wits. Or epic wits. Auto successes. [03:07:15] Speaker B: Yes. [03:07:20] Speaker E: All. [03:07:22] Speaker A: There we go. That is three successes online. [03:07:26] Speaker B: I will get some auto successes in here. [03:07:34] Speaker C: Okay, well, that's two successes in total. [03:07:39] Speaker B: I have six successes. [03:07:41] Speaker E: Damn. Oliver. Oliver, somehow, despite being the one who is half blind, is also the fastest in terms of reaction. So normally this system uses a combat wheel, an action wheel, and you count off ticks. And that's what your speed and stuff is. I don't like that. We're not doing that. We're just going to go in order of who rolled highest. Oliver, you get to go first. [03:08:19] Speaker B: All right. I'm going to do something potentially stupid. Put my hands up. Wait. How about we negotiate this? I have something that could be offered to you if you would just let us go through like a toll, you could say. How's that sound? I really hope you may understand what I'm saying. [03:08:43] Speaker E: You it. Roll me. Manipulation and go. Manipulation and command. [03:09:06] Speaker B: Okay, I'm pretty good at that. [03:09:08] Speaker E: To try it. Try and at least get his attention going. To be able to stop him from fighting altogether, but you can delay him. [03:09:16] Speaker B: As I'm saying this, I'm also bringing out the dragon's belly brandy and just kind of showing him the label. [03:09:25] Speaker E: Okay. Just as a side note, this dude looks kind of dumbly at the label. You're not sure if he can read that's. [03:09:35] Speaker B: Great. Two successes. [03:09:40] Speaker E: Okay. Not bad. Not bad. He seems more confused than convinced, but he's at least not immediately swinging at you again. You get the feeling you're not going to be able to stave off combat altogether, but you have slowed him down. You have his attention and you have the knack that lets you speak all languages, correct? [03:10:18] Speaker B: Yes, I get it from my monocle. [03:10:22] Speaker E: Yes. He mutters, and it's a little hard to understand, but not because there's anything wrong with your ability as so much as his mouth seems to struggle to make words in the strictest sense. And he mutters something about you smelling like tuahadidan. All right. [03:10:57] Speaker B: Because we killed some and got the blood on us so we smell like them. [03:11:02] Speaker E: We're not your turn is done, dear. Clint. Is it Clint or Stabby? That's next. [03:11:17] Speaker C: Probably Clint. [03:11:18] Speaker E: Yeah, that's three Clint. What would you like to do? Oliver has its attention. [03:11:26] Speaker A: Yeah. Following Oliver's lead, Clint will also step up and clear his throat and pull the toothpick out of his mouth and kind of just wave it around as he starts talking. Hey, big felder up there. We're just trying to get through. We promise we don't mean you no harm. We're just trying to do you mind leaving us be? As we walk past. [03:11:50] Speaker E: You are waving around your toothpick. [03:11:53] Speaker A: Yeah, just waving it know, keeping it close at hand as he's talking. [03:11:58] Speaker E: Okay. Well, he's already kind of distracted by Oliver. I can have you roll again, but it's not going to get you a lot unless you want to do something. [03:12:11] Speaker A: Seeing that it's not going to really get us a lot. Maybe picking up that a fight is inevitable. [03:12:16] Speaker E: Yeah, exactly. You get the feeling that he's not smart enough to negotiate? [03:12:24] Speaker A: I think we're going to have to resort to aggressive negotiations. And Clint extends his toothpick into a long spear and do we want to go ahead and start off? Yeah, we'll toss it. It's going to take on the form of a Pylum. So it's stretched out and the end has kind of flattened thinned out some. A nice long throwing spear. And he will go ahead and give it a toss. [03:12:56] Speaker E: Excellent. [03:13:00] Speaker A: Dice pool. Okay. [03:13:06] Speaker E: Wow. [03:13:10] Speaker A: There we go. That's one, two. [03:13:14] Speaker E: How many epics? [03:13:16] Speaker A: And just one from the epic because the way it's set up right. The auto successes are epic strength, epic decks divided by two. [03:13:26] Speaker E: Yes. [03:13:27] Speaker A: So just one. So this would be a total of three successes. [03:13:33] Speaker E: Okay. [03:13:39] Speaker A: We call this a yeet. [03:13:41] Speaker E: We call this a yeet. [03:13:44] Speaker B: Learning so much terminology. Thank you. [03:13:46] Speaker A: Yeah, no problem. I figured. [03:13:48] Speaker C: Yeah. We're catching up to date, bro. [03:13:56] Speaker E: And then looking at the thing. [03:13:59] Speaker B: Do you get any bonus from being distracted by me? [03:14:03] Speaker E: Yes, I am taking that into account. [03:14:05] Speaker B: Coolio. [03:14:10] Speaker E: Where is it? [03:14:17] Speaker A: I guess this is where you choose between the defense options. [03:14:22] Speaker E: Yeah. Okay, so I need you to roll your damage plus one. You have one extra over his DV. [03:14:38] Speaker A: All right. And that is the damage from the weapon in addition to that one. [03:14:43] Speaker E: All right, damage bonus from the weapon plus either your decks or strength. If it's a melee throne attack or perception and decks for marksmanship. [03:14:57] Speaker A: For throne, does it matter which is stronger for strength or decks? Does it matter? I mean, they're the same for me. [03:15:04] Speaker E: It doesn't super matter. Just pick whatever. [03:15:07] Speaker C: The higher is cool. [03:15:09] Speaker A: We'll go with strength and it is a piercing damage. Does that matter on this role or is that for the defense? [03:15:16] Speaker E: Then it doesn't matter. For this particular enemy. [03:15:26] Speaker A: It it's a whopping nothing. [03:15:38] Speaker E: So you let off and let this thing fly and it hits him, but it turns out that what you aimed at, you thought was a shoulder. It's more of a boil. [03:15:57] Speaker A: I think it popped. [03:15:59] Speaker E: So you hit it and it pops and it's gross and the smell gets so much worse. [03:16:06] Speaker A: Oh, I regret everything. [03:16:11] Speaker E: All right, Lucas, what would you like to do? [03:16:17] Speaker C: Okay, well, after that lovely display, lucas is going to watch everything that's going on and between his sneezing and now the gagging that has begun to set in, she's going to be like, don't worry guys, I got this. He's going to hold aloft his comically large shovel, but he's not going in for your traditional spear throw. He is two handing this thing like a great axe and he trips on himself as he goes to full send it towards this fucking monstrosity. [03:16:59] Speaker E: Okay, cool. [03:17:05] Speaker C: All right, I'm assuming it's going to be melee, thready, throne, dex or strength. Can do. Quick question, does accuracy have any effect on my role or no, you add. [03:17:24] Speaker E: That to the end of your role. [03:17:27] Speaker B: Got you. [03:17:44] Speaker E: Okay, how many epics do you have? [03:17:47] Speaker C: I have two epics. [03:17:49] Speaker E: So that's five total. Not bad. Not bad. Versus his DV, so that you have two. So you're going to roll your damage do. So roll your decks and your strength. Oh, and you have extra dice. You have two extra dice. [03:18:33] Speaker C: Okay, good. [03:18:38] Speaker E: Apologies, it's been hot minute since I've run combat in the system. Last time I did this was the last time we played. [03:18:44] Speaker B: Last time we did a lot of combat. No, boy. [03:18:51] Speaker E: Yeah, that's not good. [03:18:53] Speaker C: No. [03:18:54] Speaker E: Okay, what's the accuracy on your weapon? [03:18:59] Speaker C: Seven. [03:19:02] Speaker E: Cool. [03:19:04] Speaker C: I hope that helps. [03:19:10] Speaker E: Your accuracy on your weapon is seven. [03:19:15] Speaker C: Let me double check. [03:19:17] Speaker E: I think that might be like what the total for rolling is supposed to be for it. Yeah, I think they wrote that wrong. This is what we get for me just saying, oh, just take this thing out of the book and not looking at it closer. It's fine. Okay. [03:19:48] Speaker C: Classic. [03:19:50] Speaker E: Because it's just all of the misses. Do you have any Epics? [03:19:55] Speaker C: I do have two Epics for decks. [03:19:59] Speaker E: Okay, that's not awful cool. You do hit him so that's something he takes damage. It doesn't look like it's very much, though. And he just sort of lets out this long, kind of angry, mindless roar. And we are back at the top of the round. [03:20:36] Speaker B: Oliver so, yeah, I see these two just go into Whiff City, essentially, and just sigh and fix my monocle. All right, so here's how we're going to do this. I need both of you to target his knees to get him on the ground so we can get him lower, to hit more vital spots easier. How's that sound? And that's me using my blessing of bravery. So they both get additional point of willpower and two temporary points of valor. [03:21:04] Speaker E: Nice. I like it. I'm also going to try to bonuses. [03:21:13] Speaker B: Yes, I am a support man. I put the bottle back away as well and take a few steps back, get to a more defensive position so that I'm not targeted while I'm trying to aid these two. [03:21:26] Speaker E: Okay. As a reminder, you guys can tap a willpower to incorporate extra dice from your virtues. [03:21:37] Speaker A: Okay. [03:21:38] Speaker E: Provided that your virtue matches what you are doing. Or is it Legend? [03:21:45] Speaker B: I think it might be willpower, because that would make sense for me to give them a willpower and then two points of valor. [03:21:51] Speaker E: Yeah, no, that makes sense. That makes sense. So you guys could use courage. You could use valor as you just got so you can channel your virtues. And if you do something particularly cool, if you describe it in a really cool, flashy way, you have the potential to get even more dice because those are stunts. [03:22:19] Speaker A: Understood. [03:22:23] Speaker E: So I know the first round was a little clunky, a little slow. It's been a hot minute. Sorry. Oliver has beefed you guys up and moved back out of the way so that he's not in the direct line of harm. It is the giant's turn because he is no longer distracted. [03:22:42] Speaker C: Sorry, quick reminder. [03:22:42] Speaker B: How were we beefed? You got a point of willpower and two temporary points of valor, which is a virtue. Yeah, for virtues. [03:22:54] Speaker E: You basically get two temporary points in in an extra virtue. Okay. Rolling behind the screen so that I could make this quick. Not necessarily painless, but quick. All right, so he takes a swing. [03:23:25] Speaker A: At OOH, clint will try and oh, he doesn't have his spear at the moment because it's in that open boil. He'll raise up his arms and try and kind of parry it away. [03:23:39] Speaker E: It's fine. He didn't roll well. You have a high enough DV even when you're unarmed, so you're fine. You're good. But he takes a swing at you and you sort of like, put your arms up and lean back at the same time and for just a moment. Clint is weirdly graceful for such a big man. [03:24:05] Speaker A: It's not weird at all. [03:24:09] Speaker E: You're the guy who keeps saying that he's not stealthy. [03:24:13] Speaker A: Well, he's not stealthy. He's just, you know, he's big and beefy, but graceful in a different way as he puts on display. Hopefully soon. [03:24:24] Speaker E: Hopefully. [03:24:25] Speaker B: Hopefully. [03:24:26] Speaker E: Okay. That means it is Clint's turn. [03:24:32] Speaker A: Here we go. Here's where that hope comes in. Clint's going to will that spear back into his hand. That way, since we're in point blank range, he's going to focus the point and use it as a hasta rather than a spear or a throwing weapon. And he's going to go after the knee just as Oliver instructed. [03:24:56] Speaker E: Okay. Trusted in the smart guy. I like it. [03:24:59] Speaker A: Yep. He follows directions real well. So Clint kind of lowers himself and jabs right at the joint where he assumes the knee is, but he's not sure because it is a let's see. [03:25:11] Speaker E: Would you like to channel a virtue? [03:25:15] Speaker A: I certainly would. I will be channeling courage. [03:25:19] Speaker E: Hey, spend a willpower and mark off one of your courage dice. [03:25:25] Speaker A: Roger dodger. All right, I've got that updated. So I get to use all of the points of courage or just one? [03:25:36] Speaker E: All of them. [03:25:37] Speaker A: Okay, cool. [03:25:39] Speaker E: Just that. Next time you try to do this, you will be down by one. [03:25:44] Speaker A: Got you. That makes sense. Okay, so that's that, and then we add that, and then accuracy is also added. All right, this should be pretty good. [03:26:02] Speaker E: Holy shit. Let's see. That's 2345 plus. [03:26:09] Speaker A: What if it's epic decks and epic string together? That'd be just a plus one. [03:26:15] Speaker E: Well, this is your to hit. [03:26:17] Speaker A: Oh, if it's to hit, then it's both of them, right? It's two. [03:26:23] Speaker E: Okay. All right, here we go now. Jesus. I need you to roll your damage. This is a hosta, so you have plus three, and this is lethal. So roll your damage with plus three added to it. [03:26:46] Speaker A: All right, so what is the additional for the damage because of the successes, if any? [03:26:54] Speaker E: Yeah, I just had it in my brain. Hold on. Sorry. [03:26:58] Speaker A: No problem. [03:26:58] Speaker B: It was there. [03:27:02] Speaker E: His DV is really low. How much did you have total? [03:27:09] Speaker B: Seven? [03:27:09] Speaker A: Yeah, it was seven four. All right, so 40 on top of the damage from the weapon and your. [03:27:19] Speaker E: Hold on an epic. [03:27:21] Speaker A: Decks and strength. [03:27:23] Speaker B: Right. [03:27:24] Speaker E: Damage bonuses from the weapon, plus either decks and strength. Yeah, plus decks and strength. [03:27:33] Speaker A: I need to add more then. [03:27:34] Speaker E: Okay. And then the plus four. [03:27:41] Speaker A: All right. Plus four will be after that. Okay, cool. That's a lot of damage. [03:27:54] Speaker E: Where are you rolling? [03:27:56] Speaker A: I'm having to type it all out and then make sure I put the roll command in there right. Or else it'll break. All right. [03:28:12] Speaker E: 2468, 910, plus your epics. No, you don't do you not get epics I don't I don't think you. [03:28:22] Speaker A: Get epics on the damage. [03:28:23] Speaker E: That's still a lot. 2468, 910. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you sion crime. Okay, let's see. He gets to soak some of that. So he gets to soak five. So that's 12345. Cool. All right. He's still standing, but you fucked him up real. So describe to me what this looks like for sure. [03:29:06] Speaker A: Clint having some amount of experience in training with the various forms his weapon can take. Kind of brings himself down low, surprisingly cat like, aims his spear upwards and then leaps with it in his hand so that he can put his full force behind it. As soon as he connects with a joint, kind of hangs there for a second, wiggles it in the air, pulls it free, and lands back down at the feet. [03:29:34] Speaker E: All right, so you nail him in the knee and he lets out a howl. It's this unearthly noise. It's loud. You never knew that a noise could have a smell. And he sort of topples on that one knee and falls, landing pretty hard on it as you take it out from under him. [03:30:05] Speaker B: Great job, Lucas. Get the other. [03:30:09] Speaker E: All right, Lucas. [03:30:11] Speaker C: All right. [03:30:12] Speaker A: Thanks, Boz. [03:30:14] Speaker C: Am I able to recall my shovel. [03:30:17] Speaker B: Right away, or is that going to. [03:30:18] Speaker C: Be a separate thing on another turn? [03:30:20] Speaker E: You can recall it? It's fine. Not that far away. [03:30:24] Speaker C: So the shovel comes flying back to him, the shaft reaching in his hand, and he is going to go for another wild swing and throw it towards the other joint. [03:30:40] Speaker E: All right, go for it. [03:30:42] Speaker C: We're going to hurt this time around. [03:30:44] Speaker E: I will give you two extra dice for this being a pretty fucking cool stunt that you were playing off of. And if you would like to channel a virtue, you can, but you have to spend willpower to do so. [03:31:03] Speaker C: You know what? I will actually mark that off. [03:31:13] Speaker A: Can do it. [03:31:14] Speaker C: Do I need to pick the virtue ahead of time or yes. [03:31:18] Speaker E: It has to work with what you're trying to do. So courage, valor, that sort of thing. [03:31:25] Speaker C: I will go ahead and use my temporary valor as you kind of see this wild swing turn into something that's more practiced. Rideful dancing through the air as he's prepping his swing before he finally goes for a graceful throw, charging towards the enemy all the while. [03:31:51] Speaker E: Okay. [03:31:58] Speaker C: Oh, that was with two additional dice, you said. Right on top of my Role. Okay. [03:32:03] Speaker E: And from your valor so you have four total extra dice. [03:32:08] Speaker C: Yeah. Okay, excellent. [03:32:26] Speaker E: How many epics? [03:32:27] Speaker C: Two epics. [03:32:29] Speaker A: Nice. [03:32:30] Speaker E: Seven. Pretty damn good. All right, so that leaves you with four extra. So you're going to roll your this is a melee attack. Yes. [03:32:51] Speaker B: Throne. [03:32:52] Speaker E: Throne. So roll your decks, plus your strength, plus your accuracy, which I'm telling you, just roll your seven plus four. Let's just do that because I'm pretty sure that that's how that math works out, and I will look at it between sessions and figure out I'm sorry. White wolf fucked up. Seven additional seven dice, plus four. [03:33:28] Speaker B: Okay. [03:33:28] Speaker C: Strength, decks, accuracy. [03:33:35] Speaker E: No damage. We're doing damage now. [03:33:41] Speaker A: Sorry. [03:33:41] Speaker E: Go ahead and walk me through that one more time. [03:33:43] Speaker C: My brain is fizzling, so it's strength. [03:33:46] Speaker A: Decks and then the damage value, and then the additional four D ten from going over there. [03:33:51] Speaker E: So you should be rolling five for strength and decks. Five total between the two of them, plus five for your damage. That's on your weapon plus four. So 14 dice total. [03:34:11] Speaker A: That's really good. Nice. [03:34:14] Speaker E: Damn. [03:34:15] Speaker C: Holy shit. [03:34:17] Speaker E: Two, four. [03:34:19] Speaker A: I got nine. [03:34:20] Speaker B: I think that's nine. [03:34:20] Speaker E: Yeah, it's very good. Yeah, nine. Damn. 123-45-6789. He is just barely standing, just barely. Like, you take out that second knee and he falls to it. It crumples under him just the way the first one did, and he's on hands and knees, and his head comes up and looks at Oliver, and he is this guy. This guy's got nothing left in the tank. And you can tell. [03:35:08] Speaker B: Yeah, gaze just shrug. Looked. Clint just chop the head off. And I am going to use warmaster sight to do a command roll. But spend let's go two points of legends to increase that pool by that much. [03:35:23] Speaker E: Okay, what does warmaster site do? [03:35:28] Speaker B: Basically, whenever I do a combat oriented command roll, I can spend a number of points of Legend up to my Legend score to increase the pool by that much. [03:35:42] Speaker E: Okay, but what are you trying to do for Clint? Is what I'm asking. Like, you're giving him an order? Sure, but are you trying to give him bonuses? What are you trying to do? [03:35:52] Speaker B: Yeah, that's what was the idea for the command roll. Give him a bonus to go for the head. [03:35:57] Speaker E: All right, cool. Make a roll. [03:35:59] Speaker B: All right, so am I rolling just raw command, or am I adding an attribute to it? [03:36:09] Speaker E: Oh, I'm sorry. It told you what to roll, wouldn't it? Yeah, we're going to make that. Let's make it intelligence and command. [03:36:23] Speaker B: I like that. Three, five, plus some epics. So seven. [03:36:41] Speaker A: Nice. [03:36:41] Speaker E: Oh, very good. All right, Clint, you get an additional three dice on your next roll. [03:36:50] Speaker A: I will happily take that. Thank you. [03:36:53] Speaker B: Initiate. [03:36:58] Speaker E: Pretty sure that's what I did last. [03:37:00] Speaker B: Season was I just as well you took the hat. [03:37:02] Speaker E: I cut the totals in half. [03:37:04] Speaker B: Yeah, that sounded right. [03:37:06] Speaker E: All right, he's going to attempt to hit somebody, but he is at, like, negative four or something crazy. Okay. Damn. All right, Clint, what's your DV. [03:37:34] Speaker A: With the spear in hand? Let me get to the right tab. Perry DV with a melee weapon in hand would be five DV. [03:37:51] Speaker E: He manages to hit you but doesn't do any damage. Like, it just sort of like, knocks you back, like a step. He sort of swings at you and catches you broadside across the chest and you step back a little bit. You're more worried about the fact that your shirt may smell now. [03:38:14] Speaker A: Gross. Good thing I suggested a change of clothes. [03:38:19] Speaker E: All right, I believe that makes it your turn. [03:38:22] Speaker A: All right. Clint, with the command in mind, the gopher the head, even though he doesn't have a chopping weapon, he sees that there's a neck. He thinks it's either that or in a mouth. And he once again gets low, readys his weapon and thrusts forth. All right, let's do it with our hosta one more time. [03:38:49] Speaker E: Do you want to channel anything? [03:38:51] Speaker A: Yeah, we'll channel the valor that we picked up. [03:38:54] Speaker E: All right. Spend the willpower, spend one of the valor. [03:39:02] Speaker B: I'll give you a lot of extra dice. [03:39:05] Speaker A: Yeah, there's quite a bit. All right, so that's five extra total. Yes. Two from the valor, three from the command, and then accuracy the dice pool right there. All right, here we go. Now that I actually have it all written down, now I can copy paste 234567 successes. [03:39:42] Speaker E: Yeah, I'm not going to make you roll damage. [03:39:45] Speaker B: That's the third 7th success in a. [03:39:46] Speaker E: Row for the so Clint kind of bends his knees slightly after getting hit and squares his shoulders and brings his hosta up and then brings it up and over. And it's this incredibly graceful and slightly terrifying arc because Lucas is standing right there. And if Clint didn't aim carefully, there's every chance that this could hit Lucas as easily as it could hit this giant because of how big the target that he has to hit is. And he has to hit it at just the right angle. And Oliver, it's a thing of fucking beauty when this thing buries in this giant's neck and passes clean through it like a hot knife through butter. And the whole body topples forward, and it's so heavy and it hits the ground so hard that the ground shakes beneath your feet and the head rolls a couple of feet and lands at Oliver's feet, eyes glassy and blank, staring up at you. And that, gentlemen, is where we are going to stop for the evening. [03:41:06] Speaker C: Fucking yeah. [03:41:10] Speaker E: Thank you for joining us, everybody. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we have.